The Sun. — London, England, 1866-06-23 00:00:00

1 -ONEYMARKEi AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. TWELVE O'CLOCK. It is scarcely less than a holiday in the City, so far as relates to monetary, commercial, and Stock Exchage affairs. The inquiries for discounts are limited in all quarters, Bank included. The attendance in all departments is below what might be considered a Saturday minimum, and few have seemed disposed to work "at any price." So there is nothing at all of importance to report with regard to all the subjects to which reference is made iu this column. A short time ago we had almost too much to report, and now upon the prin ciple of the vis inertiz scarcely anything can be said with regard to business. The share movement during the past week has been on an extensive scale, consequent upon large arrivals from America. The imports have amounted to about £1,976,597, while the exports have been to the extent of £767,317, chiefly remittances to the Continent through private sources. Two o'CLocr. According to Reuter's telegrams this morning, the French Rentes were 63f. 10c. Firm and inani mate. The week, so far as Stock Exchange affairs are concerned, has closed very favourably. All the principal Securities, viz., the Funds, the chief of the Foreign Bonds, Railways, Finance, anAliseellane ous are higher. Consols closed at 861 1 for money, and 86k f for the account. The New Threes and R e d uce d Annuities are quoted at 85 1 ; Exchequer Bills for June, 3s. dis. ; India 5 per Cents., 1031 ; and ditto Bonds, ss. dis. to ss. prem. In the Foreign Stock Market there has been an improvement, and prices show an upward ten dency. Turkish 5 per Cents. are 281 ; Mexican, 141 1 ; ditto New, 11/ 12 ; Greek, 10/ 11; Spanish Passive, 191 ; the Certificates, 141 ; Ita lian, 39 / ; ditto New, 49 51 ; and the - Brazilian Scrip, 54/ dis. United States 5-20 Bonds are 651 k ; Erie Shares, 41/ ; and Illinois, 76 1. The transactions in the Railway Share Market have been on a very moderate scale, but prices generally have shown an upward movement. Great Northern and Lancashire and Yorkshire have each improved 1 ; Great Northern A Stock and North Western each ; Great Eastern ; Great Western South and Eastern each 1 ; Metropolitan 11 ; and Midland 1/. The Foreign and Colonial lines remain without material variation, with the exception of Lombardo- Venetian, which have improved 1 and Great Western of Canada I. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are very quiet. Alliance have advanced to 20 ; Chartered Mercan tile of India, London, and China to 321 ; Consoli dated Bank to 3/ 41 ; and Oriental Bank Corporation to 35} 36; Union of London are steady at 44/ 45/ ; General Credit and Finance are quoted 21 dis. ; Credit Foncier and Mollifier of England, 2 14 die.; London Financial, 17 dis. ; and National Discount Company, 6* prem. The appointmentinent of Mr. IL H. Cannan as voluntary liquidator of the Agra and Mastermau's Bank (Limited) has this day been confirmed by Vice-Chancellor Page Wood. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. GcVERNMENT FUNDS. 8 per Cont. Consols ... .. ...................... 86 1 - I Do. Account, July 10 . ..................... 861 8 per Cent. Reduced ........................... 86 New 3 per Cent .. .. ..... . . .................. 85i f New 2i per Cent. Jan. 1894 .................. Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 . . ...... .. A nnu ities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan. 18 . 80 Do. for 30 yrs,exp ire sth AprilABBs... Po (Red Sea Telegraph) , Aug., 1908... March. June. Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 per Cent...... Do. £5OOl ... ...... . ............ D o £lOO and £2OO ...... Bank of England Stock, 5 per Cent ...... Do Account .................................... GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Indian Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874... Shut Do. Account .. . .............................. Do. 5 per Cent. July,' 1870 ............... 103 i 1888 ............... Do. 4 Per Cent., Oct_ Do. Certificates Do. Enlaced Paper 4 per Cent - Do. sper Cent., Jan. 1872 — Do. 5i per Cent., May 1879.1866. Do. Deb., 4 per Cent., Aug. Do. Bonds, £l,OOO — Do. under £l,OOO — FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent., £l5 pd pm Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent Do. 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 1863 Do. 1865 . — Do Account 7Ol 69} Do. Scri p , £55 Paid 5 4 dis Buenos Apes 6 per Cent — Do £lOO Bonds ...................... — Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) uhilian 6 per Cent ........................... 4} per Cent — Do. 6 Per Cent Do Scrip, £5O p a id Pm olombian 6 per Cent. — Cuba, 6 per Cent. — banish 3 per Cent., 1825 — Danubian Principalities — Do. Account licinador New Conholidated, 1 per Cent — Do., Provisional Land Warrant — Do Deferred Fsgyptian 7 per Cent Do., Second Issue ... .... D 0 £lOO Bonds Do. 1864 — Do £lOO Bonds 7B Do. Government Railway Debentures 761 80. £6O paid ' r eek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons Do. Account Do. Coupons 'Do. Account nat I , emala 5 per Cent. l ' e llan 5 per Cent 1865 Do Account me Do. Mare m mana Railway Z (l ean 3 per Cent "0. Account Do 1864 .. A I D ° per Cent. Anglo-French — I, o nt!lividean 6 per Cent., £ 3O paid o Imperial_ 5 per Cent li r Land W arra nts (Hectares) ZGranada ................. pe 2 per Cent 2 1 vian 5 per Cent., 1865 Do. Account 1 11 ;° 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) Do .41 per Cent., 1862 oo Account DO 3 per Cent., 1853 . ."° 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, Do: Account 44▪ 11 8810,11 5 per Cent., 1822, .£ St 11 per Cent. 1850 "0 41 per Cent., 1860 Do 3 per Cent. 185 9 Do 5 per Cent. 1862 791 , h Do 5 per Cent. 1864 ardinian 5 per Cent ▪ Do. Account 'Danish 3 per Cent Do Account Do New Deferred Do Account D o Passive Do Account l 'Anish Cert. of Coup not funded E 31 " 0 Account ;?dish 4 per Cent. T D 0 .44 pe r Cent. 1864 Pdail 6 per Cent. 1854 D ° Account ° 6 per Cent. 1858 ....... . . D Account £„ 1 00 Bonds h ° 0 per Oent. 1862 ........................ Do Account D 0 £lOO Bonds B: 6 per Cent.,1863 ...... . I) 5 per Cent., 1865, paid up Scrip — _ Account 2 71 1 81 V eu ° ' 4 per Cent. Guaranteed ,„fzuela 3 p er C en t titto account ° 6 Per Cent., 1862 Dividends on the above payable in London. 11. 1 * 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f — • • Account 1313/)118°13 for mono TWO O'CLOCK. 1 0. Account y 41 ''TiTE SPECIAL JURYMEN FINED. —Yesterday , k itit _ a s eheve_nsation case before the High Bailiff of West atte 10 special jurymen were fined £lO each for non bitollaance. Th e fi nes w ill b e p a id to the. Metropolitan di r ll et Railway towards the legal expenses of the case, as ted by th e L an d s Cl auses A c t. T HE LATE MR. JONAS WEBS.—The statue to erech e m emory of this eminent breeder of sheep h as j ust been s 114 ill the market-place at Cambridge. The likeness is taeacialirable one, one of Baron Marochetti's best efforts. 48 placed on the pedestal at an early hour on Thursday , 11 , 0. 11in gi in the presence of the Mayor of Cambridge (Mr. tale a L l s l T u o rr x ell) and other members of the committee. ELECTION ComurrrEE.—Yesterday was ilrett say n amed for the inquiry into the petition of Mr. Of pi e - i a galust the return of Mr. Campbell for the borough they ten. The committee have boon selected, but as Of ,L 3 Were tot sworn in consequence of the adjournmentd unt Uouse of Commons, the inquiry has been postpone heat Week. SHARE MARKETS . —This Day. Share! Railways. Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Canibrian ••••• Cork and 8and0n...... Dublin & Belfast June. Dun„Perth, & Ab.Junc. fLLondon, bcrip Certi. Do. Glasgow & S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. stk. Do. E. Angl. st. No. 2 Great North of Scotland Great Northern Do. A stock • . Do. B stock Do. New. Is. at 25 pm Gt S. and W. of Ireland Gt. Western -Original' Do. S. Val. Rail gua. Do. South Wales Do. W. Mid.—Oxford Do. Newport Do. Hereford— Lancashire & Yorkshire Landonjnd Blackwall Lon., Litlg,h., & S Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Do. Metrop. Ex. A' Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western Man., Sher., & Lincoln Metropolitan Do. New 8V iii 120 127 55 6 , 13 15 4 6 el 70 70 72 --d 112 11 1 30 87 6 7 121 122 130 13i LO 51 34 31 - ,-- 12) 122 91 9 3 24 25 114 116 91 92 58 60 126 127 2 2i 1 /' 85 87 Do. Extension. Metropolitan District. Do. do. do. Do. and St. John'aW'd ididland Do. £9 Share 1.2 123 14 11. 93 al5 Do, Birmin.. & Derby Hid Kent North British Do. Ed., Pth., & Dun. Nth. Eastern—kierwicie Do. (i.N•E purchase Do. Leeds Do. York Do. Carlisle ... Po. Stook. & Darling. 55 57 4 20 107 109 Do. do. 1860-61 North London Do. do. 1854 TOO: aO. 1865 N orth Staffordshire N. (fi_S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot. N. E Aber. stock i l Do. Scot, Mid. stack Shropshire Union South Devon ;Oiith Eastern itaines, Wok., & Wok Taff Vale Do. C Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny Waterloo & Whiteha West Cornwall PUSS. ORDINARY MARES AND STOCKS. 301 7 51i 1 2 1201 1154 lei 91,___ 60 59j 128 1 i 8W 73 i 69 I Cl os i ng Bunin ess Paid : I Price. done. 12 } 1 20) 130. I 1231; 1 1 BILITIb 11 Atlantic & St• Lawrence Bom.,Baroda, AZ Cen•ln. gu. 5 per cent... Do. F glares . . Buffalo & Lake Huron Do. Preference B uff., Bran t, & GoderiC h 6 p.c. 1872-3- 1 .. •—• • Calcutta & B. E., lim 'at :e Town SD Dock, gu Demerara, 7 p.c. per. rr East. Ben gal, gu., 5 do East Iv dian, gu. 5 p.o. Do. J Extension rand Trunk ot Canada Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds 1 charge 6 p.O Do. Ist t'ref. Bonds Do. do deferred .. • • De. 2d Pr, f. Bonds Du. do. deterred ..• • Do. 'd Pref. stock Do. do. deferred ...• De. 4th Pret. stock Do. do. deterred • t. India Pen. gua. sp.e. t'o. Gun. 5 per cent Do. New gua. 5 p. o Gl t. South oi India gua. 5 per cent D 41 per cent Do treat Wc R. of Canada.. Da. New Do. 6 p. c. Bds. pay. 1873 Do. 5i do. pay. 1877-8.. Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.o Do. 41 do Do. 43 do Do. Fifth 14;xtensio 3lelb. Cor. 6 p. C. n Bnds. Mel. & }Judson's Bay N. 111. C'da, 6pc let pi. bs Scinde Do. Delhi Do. do ...... ... Do. Puniaub Do. Indus St. Flo "' COLONIAL GO VER: IllitlYl-11—%olumbla. 6 per cent., Dec.3l, 1872. Can.Gov.6 p.c.Ja..lz July . ..... Do. 6 p. 0.. Feb. B:Aug.. D. 5 p. o. Mar. & Sept 00. p. c. Jan. .16 July Do. 5 p. c. Inscribed 8k Cape Ur. Hope, 6 p.c. 1873 Do.AplotOct .1890-1910 Do. do; Do. Jan.&Jul, 1890-91 Do. 5 per cent. y, 15 April and 15 Oct., . Ceylon, Nov. 1863, 6 p. D o . 1878, do.. llauritius, 6 P. - 0, 4873, Jan. and July ...... Do. 1.478 ........... Jo. 1882, Slay 25, Nov. Do. 1895, Feb. & AuV. • Natal tiov. 6 per cent.. N. 8.G0v. 6 p.c. Ja.&J ul) N. S.W. Gov. r., 186 t. Do. 5 p.c. 18;1 to 1871 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 189. New Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 5 per cent...• •• • Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. c. sterling, 1875........ ‘„,lueensland Gov. 6 p. c. S. Aus.Gov. 6 p,o 1868-t. Do. 1878 & upwards.. Vio,Gov. 6 p.c. a &July Do. do, April & Oct.. BRITIS IT MI. Cam. ConsoL (Enid, lim Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated Devon G. Cons. (Tavist Drake walls .. , East Bassett (Illogan).• East Caradon East earn Brea Nast Grenville East Gunnislake East Lovell .. . . . E. W'l Russell (Tavistk Gara.& StAubyn(G wen. G re at Laxey, limited Grea t South Tolgus Great Wheal Busy G. Wheal Vor (llelstma Grenville Elerod's Foot Elingston Downs slargaret (Tiny Lelant I •llarke Valley sleVl.sy Ilsdefoulro. ••••• N0rth...... ... North Roskear N.Wh'l Bassett(lllogan North Wheal Crotty United...... • • Providence llny Lelant S. Caradon (St. (leer) South Coudurrow S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan Stray Park . ........... Tin Crof t . Vigra and Clogan, West Bassett (Mogan .. W. Caradon (Liskeard West C hi rer ton . West Seton...." Wheal Bassett fillogan Wheal Buller (Bedruth Wheal Mary Ann (Men Wheal Seton Wheal Trelawney (Lis 2.1.0 291 2.14. G 31 2.14.0 &&G 3.9.0 10.8.6 t 1 27 29 350 375 1 5 20 9 1 1 3 5 1 2 7 074 7 2 1 125 135 80 85 121 2 7 i 3 170 18) 11 13 17j 18 PREFERENCE BLURBS. OtAiestern, Wt. Midland, Oxford Ist guaranteed stock. i 164 North Eastern, West Hartlepool Harbour and Rail.. 70 i (4reat Northern, 4i per cent.. rd. at 10 per cent. pm., 9 9 North Eastern, Cons. pref., 4 y per cent., DAto 41 per cent., rd., 931 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOWE& London and Blackwall, 41t per cent. stk.. London, Brighton, la., 4i per cent. 1858, 90 London, Brighton, &c., new 41 per cent., 1863, 90 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Birkenhead, 87 • Great Western, West Mid., Hereford, 101 Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock,lsi West London, Class B, 231 FORMA' RAILWAYS. Dutch Rhenish, 16 great Luxembourg, 111 San Paulo. lim., gpa. 6 per cent., 14 South Austrian aAd Lombardo Venetian, 11 FOREIGN !ALNICO. Cape Copper, lim.. 91 Chontales Gold and Silver Mining, 3/ Frontino and Bolivia Gold, lim., St. John del Key, ,49 BANKS.. Agra and Masterman's, lim., 45 5 Alliance, lim.. 20 Aturlo Austrian, 41 1 Bank ot Queensland , li m, 6 Chartered Bank of India. A ustralia. and China. 13 121 Chartered Helot India. London. and China, 3243 Consolidated Bank, Dm., 4 3/ 41 Hindustan, China, and Japan, 11m.;45 Imperial Ottoman, 74 Ditto, new. 61 Lard Mortgage Bank of India, lim., 31 London and Brazilian (11m.), 39 8/ Ditto. new, 6 London Chartered Bank of Australia. 20/ 1 Lon ion and County. 67 6 7 ondon and South-Western, lim.. 15 Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, lim., 124 131 Midland Bank, lim. ' 17 Nat i ona l Provincial of England. Ditto, 2d and 3d issue, 41 1 Oriental Bator Corporation. 36 55 Provincial Banking Corporation, Um., 34 Union of Australia, 4 43 11 a U n ion of„ London. 45 MISCELLANEOM Anglo-American Telegraph, 92 1 Atlantic Telegraph, 8 per cent. gua., 3 1 Aus t ra lian Agricultund, 15 Berlin Water Works, lim., 8 Ceylon CompanY, 8 City O ffi ces, Dm, 24 1 14 Commerc ial Union, Insur ance, Credit fel:meter and M o bilier ot Englan d, 3 5 1 Ebbw Vale, 01 Egyptian Com. and Trading, litn., 2 4 iim Gen. Credit and Finance oi London, ..13 5 Home and C ,lonial A ssurance , Hudson's Bay. 161 International Financial Society, Um. •21 2 Italian Irrigation (Canal Cav our . 31 .3 London Financial Association, li •m 25 any Lnndon General Omnibus Comp, Hui, Flltwall Freehold Land and Dock. Dircount orapany. 114 it Peninsula and Oriental Stearn, t)6 8 7 Ditto, new. 411 5 Quebrada Land, Rail, and Mining, lfm4 24 Boyal Mail Steam, 10) • '; hames and Mersey Marine, Insurance, lim, 4 bi Warrant Finance lim., 2 59 71 105 107 35 • So 10 11 p 120 122 1 2p 1 2p 72 74 108 112 148 150 65 67 45 48 63 63 8 9 142 145 2 3 100 103 52 54 lESSIONS. 62 54 101 102 id IP 4 41 8 76 80 58 60 100 102 100 102 1( , 2 103 18 20 85 87 58 G 2 55 0 53 65 48 52 40 15 31 41 24 26 23 25 107 tO9 I go 101 91 93 14t 13 5i 3 4 91 93 83 d 3 - ii 101 102 91' 83 SO 88 82 98, 10'0 93 '7) 1 6 97 99 S HOUR 15 97 92 15 92 95 78 80 78 8 0 99 101 102 101 112 101 102 104 86 8) ILO 102 10 1 7 102 104 103 105 101 103 104 106 99 100 91 94 92 9 , 90 95 86 88 94 95 74 76 98 99 96 100 104 106 ITEMS. IC2 104 6 7 7 9 443 460 i 14 i 16 8 9 1 2} gi di 7 3 34 21 22 I 18 18 * 21 - 11 2 37 39 41 6 4 6 a Nd 35 45 2 4 THE SUE, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENIISG, JUNE 23, 1866. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.---This Day. THAMES. A VIOLENT CHARACTER.—ATTEMPT TO DROWN A CON STABLE.—WiIIiam Onion, a tall, strong, and powerful fel low, was charged with violently assaulting WM. Brown, a police constable, No. 82 H. Tho prisoner is a most desperate and ferocious fellow. David, a police-sergeant No 3 11, said Onion had been convicted eight times for assaults on the police, and once for beating and disabling a publican, for which he was sentenced to four months' imprisonment and hard labour. On Friday afternoon the prisoner was intoxicated in the London Dock. He was reeling about ou one of the bridges, and Brown requested him to leave the Dock, and to be careful of himself and not fall in the water. The pri soner immediately attacked tho policeman, and said ho would put him in the water. Ho made use of the most foul language and threats, and after striking the constable on the head he endeavoured to force him back into the dock. He had nearly succeeded, when the con stable drew his truncheon from his pocket and knocked him down, and if he had not done so he would have been drowned. The prisoner continued his violence all the way to the station-house. Inspector Ellis, of the London Dock police, said the pri soner was a perfect fury when drunk. Mr. Paget committed the prisoner for trial. MARKETS.---Thus Day. COVENT GARDEN. Large supplies . of vegetables are on sale, whilst the sup plies of fruit have increased considerably. A fair average business is passing in most qualities, as follows : Fiturr—Pine apples, 8s to 10s; grapes, 3s Od to Gs ; cherries, Os 6d to is Gd per lb ; apples, 3s Od to 4s Od ; gooseberries, 2s 6d to 3s Gd per half sieve ; oranges, Gs to 12s; lemons, 4s Od. to 8s per 100; strawberries, is to 2s per punnet. VEGETABLES—Summer cabbages, lOcr.to is 9d; cauli flowers, is 6d to 3s ; horseradish , 9d to is 6d per doz heads ; greens, 2s Gd to 3s Od; turnips, 2s Od to 3s Od ' • carrots, 4s Od to 5s Od • t urn ip radishes, Gd to Os 8d; spring onions, 9d to is dd per dozen bunches ; rhubarb, 4d to 9d per bundle ; asparagus, 2s Od to 4s Od per bundle ' • old onions, Os Od to Os Od per half sieve ; seakale, Os Od to Os Od; mushrooms, Od to Os Od per punnet ; cucumbers, 4d to is Od each ; cos lettuces, 8d to is Od per score ; new potatoes, 2d to 6d per lb; peas, is 3d to 1s 6d per half sieve. Railway and Other Companies. UALEDONIAN. A Wharncliffe meeting of this company was held on Tuesday, in Glasgow, Jr. D. Ainslie in the chair. The CHAIRMAN said the first bill be had to stibmit was for amalgamation of the Scottish North-Eastern Railway Company with the Caledonian Railway Company. It had been very strongly opposed by the North British Railway Company. The direc tors of the Caledonian believed that the proposed amalgamation would prove equally beneficial to the public and to the companies interested. They were willing to give every reasonable facility to the North British and all _pther companies carrying traffic over their lines. A formal resolution approving the bill was agreed to. The next bill was for enabling the Caledonian Company to make certain branch railways in the counties of Lanark, R,enfrew,and Mid-Lothian (the Wishaw Branches Bill). On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, seconded by Mr. J. WILSON, the bill was approved ; and the meeting was adjourned to Tuesday, the 26th inst. EAST INDIAN. The report of the directors states that the only unfinished works of importance on the main line were the bridge over the Jumna at Delhi, and the station arrangements in that city, and those were progress ing satisfactorily. The works on the Jubbulpore line, under contract to Messrs. Warring, Brothers, and Hunt, were proceeding to the entire satisfaction of the board. The permanent way and works on the opened line had been thoroughly well maintained, partly by contract and partly by the company's own officers, at a cost of 9d. per train mile. The work ing expenses for the half year ended the 31st of December last were 46.69 per cent., against 5F96 per cent. in the corresponding half of 1864. The total number of passengers carried during the past half year was 2,066,299, of which 1,833,999 were third class, 174,777 intermediate class, 41,866 . . second class, and 15,657 first class. The increase • in the total number of passengers was 114,673, as compared with the corresponding half of last year. The total number of passengers carried during the year 1865 had been 4,249,618, against 4,015,718 in 1864, showing an increase of 233,900, the aver age mileage opened in 1864 being 1,059 and in 1865 1,127 miles. The tonnage in goods and minerals had been in 1865, 683,290 tons against 607,350 tons in 1864. The gross receipts for the half year ended the 31st of December last had been £852,766 against £620,428 in the corresponding half of 1864, showing an increase of £232,338. The gross receipts for the year 1865 had been £1,678,944 against £1,272,576 in 1864 showing an increase of £406,368. The net traffic receipts since the opening of the line had been as follows :—From Aug. 15, 1854, to Dec. 31, 1862, to £1,123,426; for 1863 to £439,964, for 1864 to £625,895; for 1865 to £928,751: total, £3,117,036. The gross receipts for the first 18 weeks in 1865 were £621,954 ; ditto for 1866, £799,059: showing an increase of £177,105. The board attributed this fact mainly to improved man agement in the use of the stock, which was the na tural result of experience. They were of opinion that the locomotive and rolling stock they had already sent out was quite ample to carry the traffic which had offered. In order to strengthen the management in India the board had thought right to associate Mr. C. Stephenson, late deputy agent, and Mr. S. Power, their chief engineer in Bengal, with Mr. Palmer, and those gentlemen now formed the Board of Agency. The capital account to Dec. 31, 1865, showed that £24,017,534 had been re ceived, and £21,219,181 expended, leaving a balance of £2,798,353. The revenue account for the half year ending Dec. 31 showed that £852,766 had been received, and £398,099, or 46.69 per cent. ex pended, leaving a balance of £454,667. The Imbecile. Thursday, in accordance with annual custom, the sub scribers to Plwlswood, the Asylum for Idiots, situate a short drive from the Redidll junction of the London and Brighton Railway, were invited to witness and participate in a summer fete for the amusement of the inmates. It was, however, the attendance of visitors in largo numbers, and the special preparations incident thereto, rather than the actual amusements, which constituted the fete. Inquiring visitors were distinctly told, "What you see is as nearly as possible part and parcel of our ordinary life, for in recrea tion we find a moral stimulus to good, our only punishment being the deprivation of pleasure." While the events of the day afforded gratification they derived their solid interest from the indications they afforded of the work which tho institution is doing and of the spirit in which it is done. The late Prince Consort laid the first stone of the build- ing at Earlswood in 1853, and opened it in 1856. Iti;i; tended for the reception of idiotic children, under the ago of 16,. a fundamental rule being that the number of those who are supported by the payments of their friends shall not exceed the number of those whose parents or friend; although not paupers, aro too poor to pay for them. Of the latter GO were elected last year, and 30 more cn the day of the annual meeting in April. This made the total number of inmates 446, of whom nearly 300 aro males, and to, the inmates are to be added 120 officers, attendants, and servants. The proportion between the elected and the pay ing patients shows that the institution is not only half, but fully two-thirds a charity; and the numbers of the two classes correspond with the items that relate to them in the statement of income and expenditure. The parents or friends of pupils, who pay varying rates proportioned to their moans, contributed £B,OOO last year ; the annual and life subscription; the donations, legacies, and profits of gardens and farm brought up the income to £22,000. The expenditure allowed £4,000 to be carried to capital account, but that only represents the amount of life payments that have been received. The great fact which the board desire to impress upon the public is that the asylum is now full, while applications for admission con tinue to be made at the rate of 500 a year. Under these circumstance; what it is proposed to do is simply to double the institution by degree; without incurring debt, and therefore in proportion to the sum contributed ; and this it is proposed to accomplish by erecting a parallel wing , with a northern aspect, and with an Italian facade corre sponding to that which, facing the south, commands the flower garden, the slope, and the extensive lawn or plea sure ground on which the fete of yesterday took place. It commenced at one o'clock, with games of cricket, croquet, Aunt Sally, Red, White, and Blue, football, and a Punch and Judy show manipulated by one of the inmates. In two hours these were followed by racing and jumping matches for prizes, and a peculiarity of the contest was that boys of the same trades and girls of the same classes ran in the same races. The resident physician and superintend ent, Dr. Down, acted as starter by striking a gong. Mr. Alderman Abbiss, one of the board of manageftient, was con sidered to be the winning-post, and the races were most ex citing from the eager wildness with which some of the com petitors ran. The winners generally displayed unbounded delight when the prize was put into their hands. The classi fication of the competitors co:responded with that of the patients employed in industrial occupation; and it appears that there are 13 carpenters, 15 shoemakers, 80 mat-wear:ra and helpers in mat shops, a basketmaker, 28 tailors, 16 who labour.on the farm and in the gardens, a pluraber, and a baker, while 26 of the males aro employe' in household work and Bin the laundry. Of 31 fer.ales 2 are assistant nurses, 2 repair clothes, 9 are tithe: wise engaged in needle work, and 21 in household w',,rk. With regard to school, there is a whole time syst'om for the younger children and a half-time for the majority, one-half the day being spent in school and the other half in work. It may be conve niently added bore that in regard to food and clothing, the institution is as nearly as possible self-dependent ; almost everything required is produced or made on the spot by the co-operation with the patients of their attendants, who aro elected in double capacities, and this utilisation of the staff extends to entertainments, even to discovering who among the female domestics possess good voices, training them to sing in the weekly concerts. Several tents of various sizes, of excellent materials, tasteful design, and good make, afforded special accommodation on Thursday ; even these were home made, under the superintendance of the steward, a man whose love of his work developes every kind of use fulness to the delight of inmates and officers, and the eco nomical administration of funds. There were " wheels of fortune," by means of which the surplus stock of past bazaars was parflY disposed '6l. A largo refreshment tent was pretty well filled all afternoon. Tho inmates had their ton on the lawn, the boys in one company and the girls in another. After tea the chiwal union of the establishment, :onsisting of inmates and attendants, sang some of- their glees from an orchestra raised on the slope, and then the Earlswood " troupe," similarly constituted, gave " negro melodies." The band of the Coldstream Guards played near Ole refreshment tent during the afternoon. The ascent of a fire balloon was reserved for the darkness of evening. All the patients were under admirable control, and the arrangements of the day were carried out by the ordinary staff of the establishment, assisted by a few of the board. Authority is maintained by combined firmness and kindness, and it could be seen that the patients re spected rather than feared their attendants. No punish ment is allowed, and indeed the servants are liable to dismissal for any resort to violence. No strait waistcoat, chain, or strap is kept ou the premises with a view to sub jecting au inmate to restraint. But it is not many years since a boy was conveyed to the institution by two police men manacled in such a way as to bo powerless, and when he was set at liberty and led off through the garden by an attendant the officers ! were equally alarmed and surprised that their worst fears were not realised. We mention this circumstance to suggest the contrast between the restraint and neglect from which imbeciles too often suffer while in charge of their friends with the happy freedom and thorough supervision which they enjoy in Earlswood Asylum, one of the largest, if not the largest, of its class in Europe, and one the history and conduct of which has excited continental interest. The industrial parts of the building were closed on Thursday, but dining-rooms and dormitories were open. The establishment has just been visited by Messrs. Forster and Nairne, Commissioners in Lunacy, and they have made a most satisfactory entry in the visitors' book. We quote one fact which that entry records. Of those cases discharged during the year, six had been treated with such success as to enable the children to do something in future for their own support ; and there was one case of a youth who had received so much benefit from his treatment that at the time of his discharge he was considered to be both self reliant and self-supporting. The cases of many individual inmates aro interesting. There is one man who has an ac curate knowledge of dates and events in ancient and modern history, how obtained is a mystery. Thera is another whose drawings sell at high prices, and who has made perhaps the most complete model of a ship that was ever constructed, which he exhibits with justifiable pride, and attempts to describe with great volubility, although scarcely able to utter a word which a stranger can understand. There aro no " show" days at the asylum ; it is always in the same condition, and open to inspection ; and Dr. Down will be happy at any time to receive visitors, or Mr. Nicho las, the secretary, to afford information, at the office in the Poultry. 00IIRSE OF sxolit Evening. Amsterdam — Short. 11 14 11 15 Ditto 3 Months. 11 18} 11 19 Rotterdam Antwerp — 25 47 25 55 Brussels Hamburg — 13 8 l3 9 Paris . Short 25 10 25 20 Ditto 3 Months. 25 35 25 47} Marseilles Frankfort on the Maine 117} 118} Vienna — 14 0 14 50 Trieste — 14 0 14 50 Petersburgn . - 241 24/ Berlin ... Madrid — 44 45 Cadiz Leghorn Milan _ _ _ _ _ _ Genoa — 80 0 80 50 Naples — 80 80 80 0 DESTRUCTIVE FIRES.—On Thursday evening a fire occurred on the premises of Mr. G. Morrison, a picture frame maker, at 50, Now Compton-street, St. Giles's, destroying in a short time a building of four floors used as workshops, and extending to some of the adjoin ing property, to which, however, it did comparatively little damage. Next to Mr. Morrison, the principal sufferer was Mr. Mann, a gilt metal worker. The Metropolitan Fire Brigade turned out on receiving the alarm about 9 o'clock, and rendered what aid they could in the emergency. The cause of the fire is at present unknown. Some of th 9 pro perty was insured in the Phoenix and County offices, and some of it was uninsured. On Wednesday night, about 10 o'clock, a house of six rooms, in the occupation of Mr. Hay ward, furniture broker, at 8, Whitmore-road, Iloxton, caught fire, and was almost wholly destroyed. An ad joining house, occupied by Mr. J. T. Bullock, being also scorched in front, and the furniture damaged by hasty removal. THE TRAFFIC WITH THE CONTINENT.—The follow ing is a copy of a telegram received from M. Rennar, gene ral manager, Rhenish Railway, Cologne, by Mr. J. S. Forbes, general manager, London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, Victoria Station :—" The communication to Ha nover, Hamburg, Berlin, St. Petersburg, and Breslau is not interrupted." The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint the Hon. Charles Augustus Murray, 0.8., now her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Saxony, to be her Majesty's Envoy Ex traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Denmark. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint Sir Augustus Berkeley Paget, K.C.8., now her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Denmark, to be her Majesty's Envoy Extra ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Portugal. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint John Savile Lumley, Esq., now secretary to her Majesty's Em bassy at St. Petersburg, to be her Majesty's Envoy Ei traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Saxony. • • Maw_ POULTRY. Goslings, bs Od to 7s 6d; geese, Os Od to Os Od; ducks, Os Od to Os Od ; ducklings, 2s 6d to 4s Od ; tame rabbits, is 3d to 2s Od; wild do, Os Od to Os Od; pigeons, 6d to 10d each ; Surrey fowls, lOs to 14s; do.chickens, 6s to 10s; barn door fowls, 4s Od to 8s; Guinea fowls, Os to Os per couple. English eggs, 7s 6d to 8s ; French do., Gs to 7s Od per 100. Fresh butter, is Od to is 2d per lb. BILLINGSGATE. Salmon, Os Od per lb; soles, is to 2s 6d per pair; cod, 2s Od to lOs ; brill, 3s Od to 7s Od ; mullets Os to Os ; doreys, 2s 6d to lOs each ; .turbot, 5s to 17s 6d each ; whitings, 3s to 9s ; haddocks, 4s to 12s per dozen ; fresh herrings, 8s to 12s per 120; mackerel, 40s to'sos per 120. NEWPORT. Por 81b. by the carcase. Beef 36 4d to 5s Od I Mutton 4s 2d to 5s 10d Veal 4s Od to 5s 4d I Pork Lamb, Gs 4d to 7s 6d. • 'WHITECHAPEL. Per 81b. by the carcase. Beef as Gd to 5s Od I Mutton ... 4s 4d to Gs Od Veal 4s O Lomb, 8d 1 Gs 8d tors Bd. BREAD. The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from 6d. to 80. ; of household ditto, Gil. to 7p. per 4lbs. loaf. HIDES AND SKINS. Market hides, 56 . to 64lbs, 21d to 21d ; 6 t 2 lbs, 21d to 3d ; 72 to 801 bs, 3 d to 3 f d ; 80 to 881b5. 4 , 3d o 7 to Bid ; 8 to 961b5., 31d to 4d; 96 to 1041b5., Od. to Od. Horse hides, Os to 19scalf skins (light), 2s to 4s ; full, Gs Gd ; polled sheep, Os Od to Os Od; haa-brods, Os Od to Os Od downs, Os Od to Os Od; lambs, 3s to 4s 9d; shearlings, is 7d to is 9d. lIAY. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £4 Os to £5 108 ; cloven £5 Os to £6 12s Od ; and straw, £1 18s to £2 4s per load. Trade steady. CumnanLAND.--Aloadow hay, £4 Os to £sl2s Od; cloven £5 Os to £6 lOs Od; and straw, £2 Os to £2 5s per load. A good demand. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £4 Os to £slos; clover, £5 Os to £6 las Od; and straw, £1 18s to £2 4s per load. Trade firm. Liverpool Cotton Market—(This Day.) The market opens strong at to advance. Sales probably 15,000 bales. - The Late Inquiry at Jamaica. The Report of the Jamaica Commissioners and the despatch of Mr. Cardwell are now before the public, and, in our opinion, they tend to exculpate Governor Eyre on an important point on which he is condemned. The position in which the Governor was placed at the outbreak of the rebellion is minutely described, and the Commissioners consider him to be entitled to praise for his prompt, judicious, and energetic action. As a proof of the forbearance with which he acted, instances are recited it which he resisted atJempts of other officials to extend the jurisdiction of martial law ; and they commend his calmness and self-command in the panic and in de clining the aid of the Governor of Cuba. Both the Colonial Secretary. and the Commis sioners condemned most strongly the excessive severity with which martial law was administered, and it is on this point that Governor Eyre is cen sured. Mr. Cardwell undertakes to explain the object of martial law, and it is a pity that he did not proceed further and explain what martial law is. It is very easy for us to sit down at home, with a sheet of 'paper before us, and theorise on the proceedings of men compelled to act in grave emer gencies; but there are few of us can tell until we are tried how we would act ourselves. Indeed, the same man will not always act in the same way when the circumstances which call for action are precisely similar. The main point, however, is this —it is the naval and military authorities who convened those courts, and carried out their sen tences, who are responsible for the atrocities they are said to have committed, and not the Governor. The declaration . of martial law in a district means the suspension of all law there, and the substitution of the will of the officer commanding the troops. On that officer, so long as absolute power remains in his hands, rests also the responsibility. The officer on whom this duty must devolve is nominated by the Horse Guards, not by the Governor. It is in that officer's power to hang, shoot, or pardon men at his pitasure without any form of trial whatever. Most forms of trial under martial law are a mere farce. it must 1:le clearly understood that martial law does not mean military law ; military, as well as civil law, being suspended under its operation. If the nation decrees that in times of revolt such a system should be permitted to be in force in a district, it should decree also that those who administer it should be responsible for the use they make of their power. A civil Governor, away from the spot, can exercise very little control. Theoretically he may be supposed to do so, but practically he cannot. He may suspend the law, but he cannot control its working while it is in force. The late Lord Canning earned a high [and just meed of praise for his humane conduct during the Indian Mutiny ; yet, we ventute to assert, that there are scarcely any instances on re cord where martial law was administered with more terrible severity than under his rule in India. His lordship did everything he couli to stop the executions, and mitigate the horrors of these punish ments, but his efforts were of scarcely any avail, and he simply gained for himself the titles of " Clemency Canning" and " White Pandy." The case of Mr. Gordon is altogether another affair, and one for whose cruelty and illegality Mr. Eyre may be highly to blame. But for the ordi nary administration of martial law we contend that the officer commanding the troops, and not the Governor, is responsible ; and we wish to see the principle laid down and adhered to, that those who act, and are alone capable of action—with these extraordinary powers in their hands—should be wholly responsible for their administration, and not permitted for a moment to escape the penalty of cruelty by a nation —ignorant on the subject— hallooing on the wrong scent. A Governor's responsibility consists in proclaim ing martial law, not in the administration of it. He is responsible also for its continuance, and Governor Eyre may have been justly censured for permitting it to be continued in Jamaica beyond a necessary period; but this is an error of judgment, not a charge of cruelty. Even in this the chief respon sibility rests with the officer in command, whose duty it is to report to and advise the officer admi nistering the G o vernment.—Anglo-Anterican Times. Her Majesty's screw troopships Tamar and Megyera are both hourly expected at Spithead, on their return to England from rounds of foreign troop service. SMYRNA AND CASSABA. The traffic receipts on this company's lines amounted for the week ending May 27 to £982, in cluding £245 for merchandise ; and the receipts for the week ending the 3d inst. amounted to £1,034, including £316 for merchandise. The length of line opened for passenger traffic was 61 miles, and for goods traffic 40 miles. Railway Traffic Returns for tho Week. Bllles Opened. Receipt , Railways. 1866. 18e5. 18C6 180 Z 3 Belfast and N. Counties 9ll 911 2,071 2.030 Belfast and County Down 49 49 660 . 606 Blyth and Tyne Brecon and Merthyr Bristol and Exeter l2ll 1211 7,182 (.826 Caledonian, Scottish Central 417/ 408 27.293 35,8 6 Cambrian 342 1 : 1 : 3 06 Coctermouth K & I'enrlth .. 311 311 Cockermouth and Workin Cork and Bandon 2O 20 Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6l fll 32i 326 623 671 Cork and Youghal Cornwall 654 656 2,210 1.952 Deeside l7 17 403 i 50 Do Extension Dublin & Belfast J unction.... 63 63 1,382 1.40 t Dublin and Drogheda 73 75 1,747 1.930 Dablin and Meath Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd lO6 106 3,172 3,538 Forth and Cl) de Junction Furness, Lto 5O 5) 3,916 2.572 Glasgow & South-Western Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.,&E.linion Great Northern 422 401 33,973 36,483 Great North of Scotland Do Branches 42 41 1,281 1,310 (IL Northn. & Wes tn. (Irel.) B2l . 711 . 818 982 'lLSouthn. & Westn.(lrind.) 3B7f - 3876 8.614 1.839 Great Western 1292 1280 75,347 74.1.5 Hull & Lionises Highland Irish North-Western 145 145 1,782 1,755 Lancashire & Yorkshire 4OB 403 46.365 42 34) Limerick and Ennis... 241 241 )75 212 Limerick and Foynes 261 261 141 98 Llaneliy 461 461 843 795 Llynvi Valley London & North-Western London & South-Western Lond. Brighton, &B. Coast 2931 2871 21,765 21,327 Loudon, Chatham, & Dover; f 135/ j 1271 11.334 10.796 all Metropolitan .Extension 1 121 111 2,931 2,650 Do. Kent Coast Lon., Tilbury, & Southend 11an.,Slicilleld, & Lincolnsh Rauch. S.J un.& Altrincham 9l 41 1,441 1,403 Haryport and Carlisle 2B 28 1,670 1,416 Metropolitan 4l 83 4.026 2,809 Midland (incl. N.-Western) 6774 6631 50,509 41,680 Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind 2601 2604 6,029 6,458 3lonmouthsh. Rail. & Canal II 44 2.925 2,824 North British, Edin., Perth and Dundee N-Eastern and Stock. & DarL 12071 11711 71,471 68,808 North London ll 9 4.732 4,5 8 North Staffordshire 258 258 8,551 7.564 Pembroke and Tenby lll 111 140 126 Rhymney_ 193 191 1,250 929 Scottish North-Eastern ll3 138 6,480 6,557 Somerset and DorscE 66 66 1,238 932 South .Devon South-Eastern 315 348 24,88) 24.698 Taff Vale 6l 61 6,650 6,617 Ulster lOii 105 i 2,436 2..439 Vale of Clwyd. Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 405 413 Waterford and Limerick 77 77 1,197 1,3 5 4 W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt lO 10 877 63J FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. Austrian B2B 828 4 1 ,212 31,374 Bahia and San Francisco 0, 4 2 3 1 6. 6 3 0 2 : B e lgian Eastern J unction 284 264 353 410 Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 306 306 10 , 3 59452,66: 28,06156.87289 Detroit and Milwaukic Dutch Rhenish Eastern of Franc* ....... Eastern Bengal East Indian Grand Trunk of Canada 1377 1377 23,978 23,615 Great Central of Belgium. - • 285 2 , 5 Great Indian Peninsula 6964 590 4 / ,220 21,989 Great Luxembourg 134 134 5,628 5.159 Great Southern of India Great Western of Canada 345 315 12,157 11.491 Madras Madrid, Sara,gossa &Allcant 778 713 20,214 19,4(1 Northern of Canada . •••• •• • - vk 94 2 . 5 98 2 , 283 Northern of France 761 724 19,314 60 '74 Norwegian Trunk 481 41 i , 1,0511 *gii" Ottoman Paris, Lyons. & Mediterrn 2006 20 . 7 Paris and Orleans lB2l ' • a tt n o F ranc . i s co ..& o - 7 10 1 . i ' 7 1 1 45 8 14 8 1 3 11 . 7 :9 7 1 3 9 2 2 5 0 1 C 2 9 1 3 1: 1 0 9 0 3 2 7 0 1 253 45 2,718 318 Southern o 1 France 9l'o e. E 4124 58, 1 .72 SR S D i en. i t diP h .eeuaniij Austrian , dab .k c .. . 1798 16 48 •-••3 33,834 24.155 Victoria I 251 251 1 .757 10,422 Welland 25 25 CO 505 West & N-Wn. of France _ _ ► ARMY RECRUITING.—The Royal Commissioners on Army Recruiting reassembled at the War -office yester day, and it was arranged that there should be an adjourn ment until Tuesday next, when they intend to assemble at the camp at Aldershot to take any supplementary evidence that may be considered necessary. A NEW COLONY.—A Bill before the House of Commons provideS that the Straits Settlements—that is to say, the island of Singapore, Prince of Wales's Island, and Malacca—shall, at a time to be fixed by order in Council, cease to be part of India ; and her Majesty in Council may establish laws and constitute courts for the government of these settlements. This transfer from the Indian to the Home Administration is made at the desire of the merchants in the settlements. It will not entail any charge on the finances of this country—the settlements will be self-sup porting. Sir Herculesltobinson was instructed by the late Duke of Newcastle to report upon the subject of this' change, and the report, which was made two years ago, recommends that the throe settlements be incorporated into one Crown colony, under ono goyernor, with an Exe cutive Council, and that for all le g i s l ative purposes there as in C e yl on an d Hong embers nominated by th e , nt composed, o lie c enjoinedto V i s it P oll i ng an d Malacca for a'certain portion of every year. Should d o ° , b()f the ao n g e a o governor council, ul Sonthern Immigration. While the officials at Washington are puzzling their brains upon the subject of " reconstruction," it is gratifying to observe that the citizens of the States lately in rebellion are engaged, with no little degree of energy, in devising means and ways to develop° the agricultural resources of their section, and revive, as speedily as possible, their former prosperity. Adopting the theory that voluntary servitude, so far as the blacks are concerned, is not the speediest means of recuperation, thereappears to be a genera l di spos i t i on onof the the part planters to encourage the whiteintroductiono v f isedof labour from E urope, and already we are advised the organisation of Immigration Societies in most of the Southern States, similar to those which have existed for many years in the North. Whether or not the assumption that negro labour cannot be rendered as profitable in their new relation as in the old we shall riot stop to argue, believing that in either case the necessity exists for urgent efforts to increase the white population of the South by opening the way for an industrious and enter prising class of emigrants. That the proposed enterprise will be favourably entertained on this side of the Atlantic we have not the slightest doubt, as the abolishment of slavery has obliterated the prejudices existing in the minds of Europeans against the Southern States ; and if the necessary inducements are offered it will not be long before the tide of immigration will be partially diverted from the North to the land of cotton, sugar, and tobacco. The South not only requires labour : she requires citizens ; and, therefore, it is highly important that in inaugurating her immigration policy she should exercise a certain degree of care in the selection of what, in the course of time, will constitute an impor tant element of her society. The working classes of England and Scotland will perhaps o ff er th e most desirable material, taking this view of the case, of any portion of Europe, inasmuch as they speak the same language, and would readily assimi late with the people among whom they would be thrown. Possessing in an eminent degree the energy, industry, and intelligence requisite for the proper development of the resources of a country not surpassed in the world for fertility of soil and salubrity of climate, there seems to be a natural reason for the Southern States in future receiving a liberal share of the surplus population of Great Britain. The United States Treasury. The following report of the United States' Secretary of the Treasury will be found of interest under present cir cumstances :—" The sales of gold belonging to the United States during the month of May, made by the Assistant Treasurer of New York under general authorily given him by the Treasury Department, amounted to the sum of $35,440,000. The rates at which gold was sold was as follows : —526,635,000 at 130/ ; $6,350,000 at 1301 • $50,000 at 1301 ; $2 , 000 , 0 00 at 131; $345,000 at 131i. ' These constitute all the sales made by the Treasury De partment since the month of February last. The Secre tary says that the coin received into the Treasury has been permitted for some time past to accumulate, to bo held for the purpose of facilitating a return to specie payment, or to be disposed of in any emergency which might render the disposition of it necessary for the protection of the national credit, or for the prevention of a depreciation of the national currency to such an extent as would affeckin juriously the interests of the country, and especially the interests of the labouring classes. Ile says that it has been his purpose, either by holding or selling, to keep the mar ket steady until the industry of the country, diverted by the war from its legitimate character, should be brought again into full productive activity, and thus prepare the way for a permanent resumption. In the exercise of the discretion conferred upon him, Mr. Van Dyck has found it necessary for many months past to make few sales, and had it not been for the demand which arose in the latter part of February, based upon apprehended political com plications, and not upon commercial necessities, and the existing and unexpected financial crisis in Europe, the gold in the Treasury would have been permitted to ac cumulate up to the present time. The demand in February was met by the sale of £15,000,000 at a premium between 37 and 38 per cent., at which the rate gradually declined to 211 per cent., but again advanced to near 30 per cent., beyond which point it was not deemed advisable that it should go ; and as there was little coratnercial demand, no sales by the Government were necessary until un favourable financial intelligence was receivad from Europo. Tho receipt of the latter caused au active demand, but it was not without a heavy depletion of the Tremury. The disastrous news by the Cuba caused the demand to assume a more serious character. This news reached New York late in the afternoon, but before the Stock Board had closed. It was then too late to obtain instructions from this Department, and sales were resolutely continued, amid unparalleled excitement. Had there been time for Mr. Van Dyck to advise me in regard to the news brought over by the Cuba, and to receive my instructions, the probability is that sales would have been suspended before so large an amount of coin had been disposed of ; but in the light of facts since developed I concur in the opinion expressed by Mr. Van Dyck, that a suspension of sales before the demand had been fully supplied would have added to the . excitement, and resulted in a panic which would have produced a serious and extensive disaster." The Secretary says that he received the intelligence of the unexpected heavy sales with regret, but he had since be come satisfied that the action of the Assistant-Treasurer and his agent was not only, under the circumstances, courageous, but judicious. This opinion, as he is advised, is entertained by most of the soundest merchants and bankers of New York. The correctness or incorrectness of it can be better determined when the effect of the sales and the heavy shipments of coin upon the English market and the reactive influence thereof upon our own shall be fully ascertained." A bust of the late Mr. Cobden, executed by Mr. Thomas Woolmer, and said to be a very perfect likeness, is about to be placed in Westminster Ab bey. The petition for the Dean's permission was signed by Disraeli and Gladstone, Dickens and Tennyson, besides many of the leading men of the country. THE FORESHORE QUESTION.—The judges of the Socond Division at Edinburgh on Thursday laid down an important principle as to tho lateral boundaries of proper ties on the seashore. It has been the rule for 50 years, as first suggested by Lord Meadowbank, that, when it becomes necessary to divide the foreshore between two adjoining properties on a tidal river or estuary, that must be done neither by extending their land boundary in a straight line nor by taking the nearest line to the low water mark, but by dropping a perpendicular from the termination of the land boundary upon a lino representing the average direction of the firth or narrow sea at low water. It has now been fixed not only that this principle does not apply to the open sea—which indeed was self-evident—but that it is not applicable to a march on the shore of a bay where one bank is not substantially parallel with the other. This case, which will be a leading - authority on similar questions, fixes that in the open sea the march onthe fore shore is to be formed by drawing a perpendicular from the termination of the land march to a line representing the average direction of tho coast. It will, however, depend on the circumstances of each case, and will often be a quesion merely of degree, whether the one principle or the other is to be applied.—Scotsman. PARLIAMENTARY REFORM —On Thursday even ing a meeting was held at the Free Library, Nor wich, to take into considtration the present critical condi tion of Parliamentary affairs —Mr. C. J. Ba.nting presided. On the motion of Mr. Alderman Tillatt, seconded by Mr. Morgan, the following resolution was adopted unani mously :—" That the Norwich Political Union beg to ex press to the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone their heartfelt gratitude f)r the measure of reform introduced by him, and earnestly hope that the Government will persevere in their efforts to carry the franchise clauses in their integ rit y, and, if nec essary , appea l t o th e country, being su re that the great mass of the people are fully prepared to support them." REFORM MEETING IN meeting of the electors a n d non-electorsevening o f am relation to the present state Tl3l' ilt Hughes, M.P., in the chair— , hairnrin said the meeting beth was held at the Horns T in avern, Kennington—Mr. T. of the reform question. The c • ly believed to be one of the best this which he conscientious had been called iu support. of the present Government, country had possessed for some time. Their Reform Bill was a very moderate measure, but it was an h onest mea sure,and the blame of its defeat rested not with th e Oppo- Sitiol so much as with men belonging to the Liberal party, who had betrayed all the promises they bad made at the hustings. (Cheers.) Mr. E. Rogers moved a resolution to the effect that the Government having been frustrated in its endeavours to pass a Reform Bill by the treachery of professed Liberals, the meeting called upon the Govern ment to advise her Majesty to dissolve Parliament. The Rev. Mr. Doxart seconded the resolution, which was car ried amidst great cheering. Mr. John Richardson, com mon councilman, then moved a resolution, thanking Mr. Hughes for the honest and consistent support he had given to the Reform Bill in Parliament. Mr. Selway seconded the resolution, which was also carried. On Saturday last the Argyleshire mountains were covered with snow. 1 1 1 D EDITION. SUN OFFICE, 6 o'CLock. RUSSIA. Prince Gortschakoff, letters state, has addressed to the agents of Russia in foreign countries a cir cular relative to the present affairs in Germany. This document is said to announce that Russia is resolved not to take any part in the events of which Europe is at present the theatre. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. VICTORIA CLUB BETTING—Tfus DAY. NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE. 2to 1 agst Primate (taken) 3to 1 agst Miss Haworth (taken) sto las Red Earl (taken) 12 to 1 agst Missile (taken) 12 to 1 agst Lady Durham (taken) 14 to 1 agst Honesty (taken) Caithness scratehe3. Germany and America. England and America are united to the German Fatherland by closer ties than those of the common brotherhood of the human race. The vast com mercial, intercourse which this century has deve loped has drawn them together in a more than ordinary community of interests. But, above and beyond these, there is a close affinity of race —a cousinship of these three great nations—and much that is common in the genius, and thoughts, and feelings of the peoples. England and Germany were cousins from time immemorial. Americans are principally of Saxon blood, but the German element in the race has been reinforced in the United States by the immigration and commingling of millions of our cousins from the old German Fatherland. In this great crisis of the destiny of the world, we cannot think of these affinities with out strong emotion. How much that is great and good in the world do we owe to Germany and to England, and how vast are our expectations for the future of the United States ! In America a great crisis has just gone by—in Germany a great crisis has just begun. And these crises are not so unlike as the superficial might suppose. Omitting for the present the Italian question, which is an unfortu nate outside complication, the present struggle in Germany has many points of similarity to that which .has happily closed in America. Prussia has defied law and justice for unholy ends, as did the Southern States fer the barbarous institution of Slavery. In doing this the rulers have gone contrary to the wishes of - the people as did the Southern leaders. But the German war will make the Prussians prac tically unanimous, as the American war did the t p h e e o y p le can of seethe S e e no o o u t t h h e . r courseT h e y have drag n fight ght th g e e i d r in— way out. The American war was a rebellion of several States against the constitution and common law of the nation—the German wards no less the rebellion of a mighty offender, against the laws which bound him to the German nation. It is very true that the organic laws of the German Confederation are very imperfect, and that the American is a much closer union ; but, nevertheless, there are definite laws having their foundations in the strictest justice, and these laws have been defied by Prussia. The Southern leaders not only defied the laws, but they seized Federal property—they took forcible posses sion of Federal forts—they overran neighbouring states with military forces before the Federal Go vernment had time to act, and the Prussians in Germany have, in all these respects, followed pre cisely in their footsteps. Prussian, like Southern audacity, has secured vast advantages at the very commencement of the war—it remains to be seen whether the parallel of final defeat will hold equally true. In this respect we cannot venture a predic tion. The outside complications are so numerous that a general war seems inevitable. As the cir cumstances vary, our hopes, and fears, and sym pathies must, in some degree, change, but as far as the present is an internal German war, our sym pathies are, and must necessarily continue to be, wholly on the side of Federal law and justice.— Anglo-Americ an Times. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. This Day. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. 1 PORTSMOUTH, Saturday Morning. The American double-ttuTeted ship Miantonomoh, Cap tain Beaumont, accompanied by a paddle steamer, has arrived at Spithead from Queenstown. GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning. Arrived, June 23.—Perseverance, from Now York; James Shepherd, from Shanghai. DEAL, Saturday Morning. Passed, June 22.—13e110na, screw steamer, from New York, for London. Passed, June 23.—International, for Canaries ; Venus for Sierra Leone; Clyde for Madras—all from London. Sailed—Album, for Shanghai. AMERICAN SHIVPING. Quebec, June s.—Arrived—Fieetwing, Bruce, from Greenock. The Quebec is ashore at Griffin Cove, Gaspe, and full of water. New York, June s.—Per Cuba (s.s.).—Teutonia (s.s.), from Hamburg, here on the 2d; Hermann (s.s.), from Bremen, and Marathon (s.s.), from Liverpool, both on the 3d ; City of London (s.s.), from Liverpool, and United Kingdom (s.s.), from Glasgow, both on the 4th; Nova Scotian (s.s.), from Liverpool, at Father Point; Propontis, (s.s.), from Liverpool, via Boston, at Philadelphia; Florida, (s.s.), from Liverpool, at New Orleans, on the 4th. New York, June, 9.—PerCity of London (s.s.)—Arrived —Ville do Paris, from Havre, and Delaware, from Liver pool, both on the sth ; Africa, from Liverpool, at Boston ; Carolina, from Liverpool • Nova Scotia, from Liverpool, at Quebec, on the 7th; Cella, from London, and Erin, from Liverpool, both on the Bth; Baltic (s.s.), from Bremen •, Hibernia, from Glasgow, on the 9th. The barque Woodward, or Woodlands, from Liverpool, for Galveston, ashore near Galveston. The shin Neptune, from Baltimore for Amsterdam, ashore at the mouth of Patapsco river. Quebec, June Bth.--Per St. David.—Arrived: Peter Maxwell, Norwood, Kelvin Venskabet, and St. Devenick, all from Liverpool. Augusta, St. Lawrence, Scotia, Virginia, and Radcliffe, all from the Clyde. Her Majesty's ships Duncan, and Wolverine, both arrived hero on the 9th instant. VESSELS LOADING IN LONDON FOR AMERICAN PORTS. FOY Boston—Jane King, Prospero, and Ellen. For Halifax (N.S.) —Unionist, Audax, and First Fruit. For Newfoundland—Harrier. For New York—C. A. Farwell, Atalanta, Villa Franca, and Rhine. For Quebec and Mon treal - St. Lawrence, and Ottawa. For Philadelphia Jupiter. VESSELS LOADING IN LIVERPOOL FOR AMERICAN PORTS Solid, and Queen Victoria. Forßath—Crescent Cit y and For Baltimore (v i a Cardiff) —David Stewart, Theobald, Clara Ann. For Boston—S. Morton, Levanter, Denis Borten, and J. B. Duffries. For City Point (Vir.)—W. H. Bigelow. For Galveston—Navasota and Hannibal. For Halifax (N.S) —Pallas, Celeste, Endymion, and Michael. For Mobile—Sea Gem. For Boston and Halifax—Cuba (s.) For Montreal (via N ew p ort)—Ma y Dundas, Zimi, a nd. Cordelia. For Montreal and Quebec—Damascus (s.) For New Orleans—Abbotsford, Mauldsie, Squa.ndo, Fire Jeremiahaenr Governor a Queen (s.) and Emily. For New Yerk (via Glasgow)— EAmleeprapold (s.) For FHoribepriiniiiaa, Philadelphia — Chieftain, Win. City of Montreal, Chancellor, E ) ti ,o g v l Carolus Magnus, City of Limerick (s.), Columbia Emeral d , R F a a t n li n bo ies ne s , a C r i ra ty be o e f , M ee a bo nch ur e g st , e a r nd (s G . Chieftain, ' Sunrise, Virginia ( a s . n ) , d L ) 'a AlexanderTg d h o o n m i s° F t o r Picton (N.S.) via Newport— Cabot. For • Packet, Lady Russell, Juno, Bellcarri c Quebec—B ombay Wellington. For San Francisco—t alista, Haws, and Hilton Castle, Calabar, Bogota,Sharpshooter, anga, Fort George, Aldebaran, and Kati. For Savannah—Catherine. Mystery, St. John's ji.B.)-11 a.vannah —Catherine. For Burmah. uron, William Fenwick, March, and The paddle frivate Terrible, Ca t C head, to land omm Cr I V.C•, has • a n e p i a n r t t o 0 Portsmouth aarmament, a m t e l n ar t b , our, from Spit expo coal and o'her stores preparatory to aancdcctiPufn;iiit'gh teihietinr.eat Eastern on the Atlantic Telegraph _ ODD NAMES.—Presently we were aware of two female figures a-head of us , the fi g ures evidently of two young and well-shaped Creole ladies. Before whichtop picked up and found they belonged la Senorita Trinidad Smith. Not being used to Spanish nomenclature, Trinity struck mo as a curious Christian name, but my friend told me it was nothing to what I should meet with. Thus Dolores, or Fangs, is 'a most favourite baptismal appellation ev en Dolores Fuertes, Strong Pang 8, is not uncommon. These strange Christian appellations sometimes yield a curious sense when added to certain proper names. 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