The Sun. — London, England, 1865-05-30 00:00:00

TIONEir MARKET AY I! CODDIERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The Market continues in an easy condition. An abundance of capital at the command of the brokers, and only a small demand for it, increase the desire ° f discounters to negotiate short-dated paper at 31 and 31 per cent. About £lOO,OOO in bar gold and 110,000 sove -I.elgns were taken into the Bank yesterday. The committee of the Stock Exchange have or dered the shares of the Trinidad Petroleum Corn 'any (Limited) to be quoted in the official list. At the second ordinary general meeting to-day of the sh are h olders of the Brazilian and Portuguese Bank, the report showed a net profit of £27,283 ss. ?d., but in consequence of heavy losses by the late '*/innercial crisis the directors were unable to re e°llnriend any di v id en d. The subscriptions for the 30,000 certificates, re- L ese nting £1,212,000 A Stock of the Metropolitan Ca.vellsion Railway's of the. Lo n don, Chatham, and e r Company, excee d 124,000 cer tificates, or a earl Y U,000,000 stock. Among these there are iPPlications for the fully paid up certificates largely T il h e xcess of th e w h o l e num b er o f th e p resen t issue. ti e r esult of this announcemen t w as that the cer th.ates, as well as the paid-up shares, were firmer I . n s Morning. AC ilai neas in the Foreign and Colonial Produce arkets, during the last few days, has been very i k. Tea h as b een neg l ec t e d, w hil e on ly li m ited transac tions have taken place in sugar, coffee, and coc oa, at ab out l ate rates. I n tallow there has been se , a 'very limited business reported for both pre e" 4' an and forwa r d delivery, without any material ge in value. Two O'CLOCK. At the Pari s B ourse, thi s morn i ng , accor di ng t o Renter's telegram, the 3 per Cent. Rentes were 67f. 25 e. a ,, Con sols continue very firm at 911 1 for money, It u at 8941 for the account. The New Threes and Li ed ckee d Annuities are 89 1; do. Annuities, 18 8 5 , I; Exchequer Bills, ls. fo ss. prem. ; India 5 Per Cents., 10641 ; and Bonds, 16s. to 20s. prem. % A general decided improvement has taken place in e ,.. P °reign Market, and business is rather active. l 6 per Cents. (1862), are 731 741; ditto 23 118 , e1i d 6 5) . 481 49 ; Mexican, 241 1; ditto New, c ; Greek, 20 ; Spanish Passive, 311 ; ditto e o ticates, 161 1 ; Italian, 651 ; and Confederate an, 7 9. ti Busi ness in the R a il wa y Sh are Market has con i4E:ed moderately ac ti ve , an d p r i ces h av e in several Gr anew exhibited more firmness. Great Eastern, los e at West ern, and Midland have eac h i mprove d • ; and Caledonian, Manchester, Sheffield, and ~,,'e ° l ll, and So u th E as t ern eac h ss. J-ne Foreign and Colonial lines remain without chan ge i of impo r t ance . da nk and Aliscellaneous Shares have been quiet, a „." d irk several instances are a shade flatter. English 24oriptentsati Steamo. ekhave declined to 121 ; Merchant Bank ; Alliance Bank to 291 ; and Peninsular and 0 to 811. Dublin Connecting Trunk p e w aY Company's shares are quoted 3 31 prem. ; Il wian Railway, 221 prem. ; Lion Brewery Com -3- prem. ; Ottoman Company, 1 11 prem. ; iTelial Ottoman 5 per Cent. Loan, 21 11 dis. n tis siall Ironwork s , 7 8 prem. ; N or th ern A ssam a, A Sh ares, 1 prem. ; ditto B, 11 prem. ; Dover Metropolitan Extension Lo n d on , Ch a th am , an d Certificates, 48 41 prem. ; ditto fully paid, prem. BRIT IS II FUNDS —On O'CLOCK. i GOVERNMENT FUNDS. : Der Cent. Consols .......... .. 8 911 i. l i II Do. Account, June 6 ....................... Btli New Per Cent. Reduced •`‘.,,,ew 3 per Cent B9 .1 . • gieW 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894_ . D 0.5 per Cent. Jan. 18i 3 Atkunities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan. 1880 Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April;lBBs l4} 1908 — 1 , 33 0 (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug', lpm Bich (Red Bills, £l,OOO, 4 per Cent D o f.„500 ~ Do, £loo£2oo ' ab 'k of England Stock, an s d i 1)0 Account per Cent 2401 4 0 , - / . lAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Do Stock, 101 per Cent., .nuo Account Au ß p lri ln E l s B .74 1061 "il ° ' 5 Per Cent. July, 1870 .11-'O. Account -7 .° ' 4 Per Cent., Oct. 1888 I,'°. Certificates - 1- 1 0 * t nfaced Paper 4 per Cent _ D ° D°• 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 - 11 ° °I Per Cent., May 1879 _ -°' 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 D 16 20 b°-130ads, £l,OOO 19 o.llnder £l,OOO tr i1_. :,, ,., ,, . i.ari F ORElGN tons,sper Fr ent DS - E(4411 5 per Cent —ONE O'C_LOCIC. -°' 4- } Per Cent 1852-58-60 )34 Do. -7 1863 7 1 „ °6 -, Ayres 6 per Cent Chili,' Per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) _— )30-11 per Cent em ' 4 l Per Cent eil,babian 6 per Cent. jj a, c , , 6 Per Cent. D— boy Per Cent, 1864 D at,,,,. i, r iP, £O5 paid Do Per Cent., 1825 — b • 1 per Cent., 1863 a t ° ,,',s Per Cent., 1773-77, £25 paid — 81 -"all Princivalities I', b° 46 6 Paid - 1:11 4or /sz • ,i 1 per Cent — ~.1),„ , ew Consolidate., • 4,Krr;;4l.ovisional Land Warrant '" a ll 7 per Cent hcs-, Second Issue *-3 4100 Bonds 1) I) °' 1864 931 1- . 1, ° , 100 Bonds 931 (iree-k'e,riP) £56 paid DBOO AuceoPeuurtCents., 1824-5, ex Coupons _— D o ; 9, °ll Pons (lilae,,,_ecount , 'L, onla 5 per Cent. tb n • • "° 9 and 1850 'II 5 a Railway) Dti, I ., 6 per Cent Diarem dig o 2 .. .. . ....... . .............. 1 02' -c "P, .£57 . 1 paid 244 1.1 1°44 3 Per Cent. 24 , • °. Account D o 23 1 : D F, 1864 % .1.1 6 0 vi,DN' Cent, Anglo-French — 4.1.0iite!..,,i1ch Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c IfooriZiTean 6„per Cent., £3O pa i d — k— lic-6;l4lPerial 5 per Cent il, ~. laada — 13" i. 4 Per Cent — Per: alld Warrants (Hectares) D0D1411,41 Per Cent. Doie“l.), 445 paid,paid in Bonds — dis _,Per Cent. (Uribarren) 80 o if Per Cent,, 1862 170,1-tin.,eferred D ° — b o " eS e 3 Per Cent., 1833 A ccount 3 Per 0 '7, '9, '6O '62, ' 3 , 48 - 1 i I), A . Cent. 1856, ' Itiiks.'ceoluit . , ....... . ... ........ b o lan 5 Per Cent., 1822, X St., D 1 per Cent, 1850 D o ° 3 160 D o 5 Per Cent., 1859 90* 1 to Per Cent., 1862 931 4 di 1864 „ Do llia A 11 5 Per Cent • — Patii • s h' e 3 ecunt D o An Perteent .. 481 I b e x,.-coun ................... b ' A ew Deferred — ID o count Ei3° laessive a4°l_,_ count .-1 - 1' .., I ) °a Cert. of Coup not funded k 0 .A,_ -Ivedishswut .................................... D o. 4 1 4 Per Cent. torki ~.1. Per Cent. 1864 Dot r4,e ° ° Per Cent. 1858 b o t-eeount, Do A Per Cent. 1862 Do' ec oont bo 4100 on 731 41 D o GPer Cent. 1863 1001 Vett, llaranteed, 4 per Cent ' - zoo. ~ D o A 'A ° Per Cent. _ D 0 : --ecount 171 Do. Cent, 1864 j3O Account b o i 6 Per Cent.,1864 • IPer Cent — tu,b.„ lvidends on the above payable in London. tel. :-44 7 5 Per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins , D 4 N 41 D u ll 2, Per cent., Ex. 25L — b o T Per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil — 14641'par Cent. Certificates — ItAceDo A ntes, 3 per Cent. Do n count Per 0 011 t ., ii6l . x. iEi. 4. ecoulit ' ' _ TWO O'CLOCK. 00 Osol s N ........................... - d '"°. Acco-a at .. 89 t x Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. kark ____.______ - et opens very steady at advancing prices. L'ks, 15)000 or 2 0,000 bales. - ----.J uTar. e of Lords e drive at- f Brabant rland with a Countess )use in the House. Ld gave an mes's, last rince and tt.-Colonel ttended by Coble Duke party. A oyal High- Wales, st rived from Dek. id D uchess ; and their bridge and )xpressly to resence on dined with House pre- rnd Prince 400 of the reign Mini ous guests. conducted ichess wel gallery was the gallery Tropriated Le duke and I Tinney's , as usual, ioice music vular, and supper was the stable ing was re- is residence from Slane Dr Gosford take place St. James's- aye arrived )me Court• 3sembly to- Park-lane, Ivor, South t. George'g Enna last Ind Princess and Maclaine nchester, the rchioness of P. Viscount •d and Lady cord Hough kightley, and at dinner the Duchess way and the e Freke, Sir Campbell (of I. Scott and ['he mortal brought to 'riday morn funeral took the deceased ;ending elle ham Hall to ing coacher+ . Hamilton there of the untese) ; t he r. Victor It• e, M.D. 011 1 the fernitlY , E. A. Lane , iterior of the its wag t 0 ho gentry, "isr the amiab le excess, an d 30/11ed to fee l riend in the in the fa l l the audibl e The fvner la ur and Sons, very 1011 g Ire. Rosele g ugh the suc -0 'he Soldie r tee on Satti r di Camer a ' ght or Of!: en from 01' eek g the W follOW S i v e turd 4 "doi Th llll ), cl ' pub ot 12,2 88 t ,„/It-off total ;to 12, (3181 'eral s Jere a hie coloa [Log a , o f the 7 is il,g rec °ll( a going out Iles. SLIARE MARKETS—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. P a id . Closing I )3nsiness Price. done. Share! Railways. 13.14 st st st 50 20 10 10 Do.BUo IMidiand _ _ . & Derby Mid. Gt. W.. Ireland Do. I shares ►1 id Kent North British Do. Ed., Pth ,"& Dun Nth. Eastern - Berwick Do. G.N•E purchase Do. Leeds Do. York Do. Carlisle Po. Stock. & Darling. De. do. 1855-58 Do. do. 18G0-61 North London Do. New Do. do. 1884 North Staffordshire N. & S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot. N. E . Aber. stock Do. Scot, Mid. stack Shrews & Welchpool Shropshire Union South Devon South E 'stern Staines, Wok., & Wok Taff Vale Do. C Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall NV. Hart lepool Har.& K Do. A irredeemable Do. A redeemable Wol., & Str. Val Blyth and Tyne Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall Do. A {A: gets no div ' till6p.c.p.an.has Do. B been paid to B Dublin & Belfast June. Dun,.Perth, & A b.Junc. Edinburgh & Glasgow Glasgow & S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. stk. Do. E. Angl. st. No. 2 Great North of Scotland Great Northern Do. A stock Do. New, is. at 25 pn GtS, and W. of Ireland Gt. Weste n -Original . S. Val. Rail gua. Do. South Wales Do. W. Mid.—Oxford Do. Newport Do. Hereford Lancashire &Yorkshire London and Blackwali. Lon., Brig - h., & S Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover, Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western Man., Shet., & Lincoln Maryport and Carlisle Do. shares Metropolitan. Do. New BRITISH POSSE, Atlantic & St. Lawrence, Born., Baroda, Cen.ln. gu. 5 per cent.. Do. t' shares Buffalo & Lake Huron Do. Preference Buff.,Brant, & Goderich 6 p.c. bds. Au, - ;. 1, 872 Do. do. July 1, 1873 Do. do. June 1,1574 Calcutta & S. E. Pm a e Town & Dock, gu Demers. a, 7 p.c. per. pt East. Bengal, gu., 5 do East Indian, gu. 5 p.c. Do. J Extension Grand Trunk of Canada Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds 1 charge 6 p.c Do. Ist Pref. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. 2d Prcf. Bonds Do. do. deterred Do. 3d Pref. stock Do. do. deferred Do. 4th Prof. stock . Do. do. deterred 1 Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c Po. Gua. 5 per cent Do. New gua. 5 p. c 1 Gt. South of India aim , gua. 5 per cent D ‘. 4f per cent Do Great Wes. of Canada Da. New .. ,• Do. 6 p. c. Bds. pay. 1873 Do. 5i do. pay. 1877-8 Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.c Do. 41 do Do. 4; do Do. Filth Extension Melb. Cor. 6 p. c. Bnds. SIeL & Hudson's Bay New Brunswick & Can Class A and B Y. Itl.C'da, pc Ist pt.bds Scinde .. Do. Delhi Do. do ts' Do. Punjaub } Do.lndus St. Flo all ,10J 100 {lOO 2 100 100 COLONIAL GO VERNMEN British Columbia, 6 per cent„ Dec. 31, 1672 Can.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.dz July 1877-84 Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Aug Do. 5 p. c. Mar. & Sept 00. 5 p. c. Jan. dz July Do. 5 p e. inscribed sk Capo G.Hope, 6 p.c. 1873 Do. April & Oct. 1880-4 Do. do: 1690-1 Do. Jan. & July, 1891 Cey 1878 lon, Nov. 1868, d p o , 6 .. c Do. . Mauritius, 6 p. 0, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1878 Do. 1882, Mayls, Nov. t Natal qov. 6 per cent N. B. Gov. 6 p.c. J a. &J uly N. S.W. Gov. 5 p •0.,1866 Do. 5 p.c. 18;1 to 1876 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1892 New Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 6 per cent.... ..• Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. c sterling, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6 p. c 8. Aus.Gov. 6 p,ci 1868-9 Do. 1878 & upwards Vic,Gov. 6 p.c.7a & July Do. do, a pril & Oct BRIT II Cam. Coosa. Gold; Um Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated Devon G. Cons. (Tavist .Drakewalls East Bassett (Illogan) East Caradon • ast Cam Brea East Grenville East Loved E. Russell (Tavistk Gam.& StAubyn(Gwen. Great L 2rey, limited Great South Tolgus G. Wheal Vor (Helst. , e Grenville Herod's Foot •••• Elingston Downs Margaret (Uny Lelant Marke Valley tlwyndy Iron Ore, lim Nangiles New Se ton North Downs North Roskear N.Wh' I Bassett (Mogan North Wheal Crotty Prosper United Providence Uny Lelant S. Caradon (St. Cleer) S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan Stray Park . Tin Croft West Bassett (Mogan W. Caradon (Liskeard West Chiverton West Seton Wheal Bassett 'lllogan Wheal Buller (Redrutb W heft , Ludo At Wheal Mary Ann (Men Wheal Seton Wheal Trelawney (Lis. Wheal Uni0n.......... 94 96 131 132 6i 6 62 66 16 17 91 93 106 I!'7 46 47 6/ 74 131 132 148 149 128 :32 86 VR 73} 231 63 65 50 52 15 48 103 1 04 121 k 122} 88 90 105 107 39 11 1221 123 98 99 6t 6: 139 140 2i. 30 1341 135 104 116 5t 65 zft 15 IC9 110 6SI 68 101 101,1 363 9741 91 101 i) 116 115 1 Up 78 79 11} 11t 142 146 53 55 60 61 59 61 85 85} 84 9) 156 159 3 4 p 106 108 47 49 79 81 1301 1354 69 P :SSIONS. 54 6 6 102 103 pr ip 4 4 , ri 91, 9g )01 75 80 99 101 101 103 103 104 } il) 18 19 P 3 86 61 63 54 56 55 57 47 4s) 45 43 43 45 25 27 24 t 6 103 101 Par bP 10) 102 10} 101 704 100 84 86 i 83 84 i Idi 1016 1026 93 95 89 91 65 67 82 84 100& 101} 100 1014 d 4d 1031 1014 94 97 IC4I 4 1 154 18f T SECU 94 96 93 95 93 85 82 84 8: 84 104 107 105 107 106 108 107 109 101 103 106 108 103 105 105 107 104 106 102 104 93 96 100 102 93 95 91 93 104 106 88 90 96 99 103 105 106 108 108 109 INES. 7 7i 29i SO 600 610 iItEIeEItENCE SHAKES. Great Eastern, E• Counties Ex., No. 1, 107 Great Northern, 41 per cent., red. at 10 per cent. pm., 1021 - BAND B. Agra and Masterman's, lim., 114 Ditto, new,•s7 Alliance , um. I. 29; Australasia, 69; Ditto, new, 68; Bank of Queensland, 11m, 20( Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 24 Cityllo9 Consolidated Bank, lim., 10; Eng ish Joint Stock, lim., 124 Hindustan, china, and Japan (11m.), 18 Ditto, issued at 2 pm., Ditto, new, 84 Imperial Ottoman, 16 European Bank, lim.. 4; London and County, 754 London and VI estminster, 96 5; Merchant Bank, lim., 244 Union of London, 53 MISCELLANEOUS. Ceylon Company, 11; Credit Foncier and Mobilier of England, 84 Ebbw Vale, 9; Egyptian Com. and Trading, Um., 3 21 & Gen. Credit and Finance of London, Hm., 51 1 Hudson's:Bay, 154 Imperial Mercantile Credit Asso., lim., International Financial society, lim.. 6 National Discount Company, lira., 154 Peninsula and Oriental Steam. 811 South African Mortgage and Investment, lim., 2; Trinidad Petroleum, lim., 31 Foreign Mail Packet List. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton June 18. Ditto, via Marseilles June 12. Brazil and Cape Verde. by British patuet June 5. Ditto, by French packet . June 22. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena ;tine 22. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. Jane 2, Ditto, via Marseilles May 27. Faikland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton. May 27. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton June 2. Ditto, via Marseilles..... ...... •• .. •• • • May 27. India (Bombay), via Southampton.. May 27. Ditto, via Marseilles June 5. Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via MarseiVe 3 • . June 5. Newfoundland June 7. Portugal ......June 5. Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon... United States and British North America, by Bri tish packet ... June 1 Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ton......... , Ditto via Cork Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry June 2. West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe June 10. West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba, and Mexico May 29. tC3 21 3} ITIES. 1081 9 18.18.91 30.17.6 13 15 4 2 1- 21 8i 32 :!5 510 520 171 22 13 15 17 18 76 8 1 9 6 12 726 7/, 185 195 99 95 24 25 11 13 1 2021 2071 18 20 THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 30, 1865. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. Legislative Encouragement to Fraudulent Dealings with the Public Money. (From the Economist.) The accusations made against the Lord Chancellor have as yet had no effect on that great functionary, and probably will not have. Nothing is likely to be proved against him inconsistent with his continuing to hold the Great Seal. But there is good reason to hope that the revelations of subordinate matters consequent on those accusations may insure a very great reform in public money matters. Nothing can be safer than the honesty of English officials on the high road. The great sums that are received by all important departments, by the Customs, or the Excise, or the Stamps and Taxes, aro entirely beyond question. But there are a great number of by-ways to the English Exche quer. There are many out-of-the-way recipients of the public money for occasional charges and incidental fees, who are under no check, who are subject to no audit, who are often in arrear, who do just as they like. Mr. Edmunds, who is now so notorious, was one of these. His mode of dealing with the public money is now on record by official investigation, and out of his own mouth, and, therefore, it is easy to speak of it correctly, and duo to the public to describe what it was. Mr. Edmunds was Clerk of the Patents,—that is, not only to the patents for inventions, which, in common conversation, are exclusively so called, but also to what the law calls patents—that is, the special licences which are preliminary both to the duties and the profits of the principal offices under the Crown. There are very considerable sums annually paid for these licences, as is natural, since a great number of the best places in the State cannot be obtained without them. Mr. Edmunds duly received these moneys, but did not pay them. over. He placed them in a bank account which is thus described in the evidence of Mr. Greenwood, the solicitor to the Treasury, who inquired into the matter, and thus caused the entire disturbance : " Lord Chelmsford—What is the title of the book ? Leonard Edmunds, Esq., Patent-office Account.' The address is, ' 121, Regent-street,' altered afterwards to 21, Berkeley-square.' This is the pass-book, headed Patent office Account, Leonard Edmunds, Esq., with Messrs. Coutts and Co.,' and this that I hold in my hand is a transcript of what was handed to me by Mr. Leonard Ed munds. " Earl of Derby—lt begins, I see, in November, 1833 ? Yes, that is the first entry. "And is continued down to when ?—lt continues down to April 27, 1864. In the first page there are three draughts to private account of £lB7 odd, £lBO odd, and £lOO, and in the next page, To your account, £l4B Os.' "' To your private account, £229 lls. ?'—Yes, there is that entry ; and then in 1835, To your account, £loo.' " To yourself, £so,' that is in 1836 ; and then on August 3, To your private account, £99 7s. 6d.' March 7, 1837, To your private account, £loo,' and in December, To your account, £150,' and then afterwards to bearer, £5O, and so forth. I said we should desire to have an account of those moneys. It had been stated by Mr. Edmunds that the moneys which had been paid in to Messrs. Coutts' consisted of public moneys, and then, it appearing that a number of these sums had, as far as we could judge from the way the pass-book was made up, been paid to the private account, we desired to know for what reason they wero transferred to the private account. "Lord Taunton—Do you mean transferred from the public account with Messrs. Coutts to Mr. Edmunds's pri vate account with Messrs. Coutts ?—I have never seen Mr. Edmunds's private account at all ; but it is entered here, To your private account:' "Were these transfers from the public account kept by Mr. Edmunds to his private account ? Is that what you mean by transferred ?—I cannot tell. I have no materials except these. "Earl of Derby—Did you examine Mr. Edmunds with this pass-book in your hands, and sail his attention to these payments specially, and ask him to account for them ? 7 --Yes, every one of them. " Did he give you no account of them ?—None." That is to say, Mr. Edmunds paid the public money to an account at a private bank, and drew on it for his own benefit. We boldly say that this circumstance of itself ought, under proper management of the national TreasUry, to be a valid reason and a certain cause of immediate dismissal. A man ought not to remain a day in the public service who even began such a practice, much less a person like Mr. Edmunds who continued the bad custom more than 30 years. It has been gravely argued that at first at least Edmunds put back the money.—that the transfer of his "private accounts" were in the nature of mistake; were somewhat abnormal,—and other weak defences. But under a tolerable system of national finance it would be impossible that such defences should be made. They are a worse condemnation of our present system than the offences they are offered to palliate. They show on the part of those who make them a lax notion of the manner in which public money ought to be dealt with,—more dangerous than specific misconduct. Even if Mr. Edmunds had never been in arrears with his accounts, we should have considered the system faulty, though we should not have blamed him. Indeed, we do not now blame him for what he did. You have no right to tempt a man with untold gold. You have no right to autho rise a public servant for many years to mix up public moneys with his own moneys, and then to bo surprised if he cannot distinguish them. The final difficulty of making the distinction was very great. Mr. Edmunds himself tells us : "In July last I employed Mr. Hooper, a professional skilled accountant, to assist me in making out the accounts for the whole 31 years, which accounts had never before been rendered or audited in any shape. I worked with Mr. Hooper for some weeks upon these accounts. The book con taining the accounts of receipts of fees and distribution of the same, commencing in 1833 and ending in 1846, has been lost or mislaid by Mr. Ruscoe, the chief clerk, who had the custody of the books of the office; that book has disap peared, and no reasonable account is given of its disappear ance. However, it is gone from the custody of Mr. Ruscoe, who had the custody of the books." This singular statement is a part, not of the accusation, but of the defence. Mr. Edmunds, who for 30 years and more has received a certain part of the public income, ad mits he has never during all that time rendered any ac count of it, and says he cannot be sure of what he has re ceived and what he ought to pay, because of the loss of an account-book relating wholly to transactions now more than 20 years past. _ • Nor is this the end. It sounds like a jest, but it is a literal fact, that 13 years ago Mr. Edmunds ceased altogether to pay over this branch of the public revenue. Before that he hadpaid over uncertain sums at uncertain intervals, brit after that time he ceased to pay over at all. The dia logue between him and the Solicitor to the Treasury would be ludicrous if the matter were not so grave : "Mr. Greenwood —Since August 9, 1852, I do not find that there hasbeen any payment to the Exchequer, although there are very large balances; are you in a paition to tell us why you have not paid any accounts into the Exchequer ? Mr Edmunds--Not at present. Will you allow me a rea sonable time, and I will put in an account of the whole matter? Mr. Greenwood—These are questions not to be answered by accounts. No, I am aware of that. Mr. Greenwood—lt is a remarkable fact that throughout you pay considerable sums to the Exchequer, and that in August, 1852, that is more than 12 years ago, you seem to have ceased to make any payment to the Exchequer, al though large balances Ar e i n vonr h an ds. I went to know whether you eau explain that F . 'Edmilnds-1 cannot reasonable." sonabl v The practice of receiving the people's money without pay ing it over or accounting for it is, undoubtedly, difficult of L , reasonable explanation." It naturally occurred to the Committee of tho House of Lords, and it must occur to our readers, to ask how such gross misconduct should be possible. They inquired whose duty it was to call such an offender as Mr. Edmunds to ac count ; they evidently expected to find, as they ought to find, some specific functionary charged nith watching Mr. Edmunds, and seeing that he paid the money over rightly. They find that there is no such functionary. The law, as explained by the authorised expositors, is not only one in a defective state, but in what, to those who aro not familiar with it, who hear it fee the first time, is an incredible state. The Act under which Mr. Edmunds was appointed pro scribes that the "fees and emoluments" received by him " shall be accounted for once in every three months, com mencing in the first instance from the date of such appoint ment respectively, and shall be paid by the said officers re spectively into the receipt of his Majesty's Exchequer, and be carried to and made part of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Groat Britain and Ireland; and the account of the party so paying such fees shall be verified by his oath, which oath any one of the Masters in Ordinary of the High Court of Chancery is hereby required and au thorised to administer." It would strike a person new to the study of English in stitutions that the Chancellor of the Exchequer—the head of the Exchequer—was the person responsible for its busi ness. But this is an error. It would be much truer to say that the Chancellor of the Exchequer was the enemy of the Exchequer; he is the head of the Treasury, and there is an entire series of defensive enactments intended to protect the Exchequer from the Treasury. The true head of the Ex chequer is the "Controller," and he is so far from being an officer under the Treasury, that he is the person to resist the Treasury. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is the per son who spends the public money ; the " Controller" is the person who prevents its being spent improperly ; his busi ness is to see that no money not duly authorized by Par liament should ever be expended. Popularly the Exche quer and the Treasury are looked upon as one thing, but they are two things, and even twohostile things ; the Trea sury is a paying machine ; the Exchequer is a receiving machine strictly, and out of abundant caution fenced against the paying machine. It would be exaggerating to say that in practical life the Exchequer is an office hostile to the Treasury, but it is strictly true to say that it is an office most jealous of the Treasury. To explain the almost inconceivable mode in which this separation of offices works, we must give the very words in the official statement, for we are afraid otherwise it will not be believed. Mr. Gladstone, with Mr. Hamilton and Mr. Arbuthnot, two principal permanent officers of the Trea my, were examined by the Committee, and answered thus : "Lord Chelmsford—When the money is spoken of as having been paid into_ the Exchequer, which is the depart ment of the Exchequer into which the money would be paid ?—The Exchequer is an entirely distinct and indepen dent office, and has no connexion whatever with the Trea sury, except such as rests upon law or known usage. The Exchequer is not a department of the Treasury, nor is it an office subordinateto the Treasury. There are certain fixed relations between the Exchequer and the Treasury ; b u t beyond those the Exchequer is entirely independent and separate. "(To Mr. Arbuthnot).—The word Exchequer' is a mys terious word ; can you help us to understand it ?—I think I can explain it. According to the old usage every pay ment of revenue was made at the office of the Exchequer, which is termed in acts of Parliament the receipt of the Exchequer, and was brought to account at the Exchequer; but in course of time the Bank of England became the bankers of the Exchequer, and people tendering money had to go to the Exchequer to get a receivable order from the Controller-General for the Bank to receive it, in order that it might be carried to the proper account ; but legally and nominally the money is still paid into the receipt of the Exchequer as it was before. " Had, then, the Controller-General any check at all on the payment of money ? Did he know what ought to be paid ?—He had no check, exempt from the affidavit of the person tendering the money. "It appears that Mr. Edmunds offered an affidavit to the Exchequer, and that they would not receive it.—He had to swar the affidavit before a Master in Chancery. "Earl of Derby—He said he wanted to make the affidavit before them, and they said it was no part of their business to take kffidavits.—l think the act prescribes that the oath was to be taken before a Master in Chancery. "Lord Chelmsford—After a certain time there was no Master in Chancery; the office was abolished. Can you give us any notion at all what sort of check there would be upon the receipts of Mr. Edmunds and the money to be paid over by him to the Exchequer ?—I think it is one of the mys teries of the Court of Chancery." So the law controlling Mr. Edmunds worked thus—The Controller of the Exchequer said, " I can't interfere ; I am an officer to receive money, but not an officer to induce persons to pay money. I have no compulsory powers vested in me ; I can prevent money going out, but I can not interfere to make it come in." The Treasury say, "We cannot interfere. We are not named in the act. The money is to be paid into the Exchequer. the Exchequer is over the way ;' we have no authority to interfere there, and if we did, an interference would be much disliked, and not at all attended to." The Master in Chancery had the best defence of all ; he said, " I cannot interfere, be cause I am abolished." It is painful to think that in the 19th century we should be gravely discussing for an important object such miser able technicalities. It passes patience that there should be two great finance departments, each with power to counteract the other, but neither with power to stop actual malversation ; both industrious, rigid, and virtuous, but both pertnitting a petty clerk to withhold accounts and appropriate money for years. What is a financial organisa tion fit for if it does not even attempt to check the most frequent, easy, and probably of financial offences ? This is only, however, one out of very many such cases, and when we consider how English institutions have often originated, the continuance of such cases is very natural. We allowed our institutions to struggle up ; we did not create them, but let them grow. The whole structure of our law courts is the history of the gradual expansion of certain germs which showed themselves capable of ex panding, but which were in their origin very different from what they afterwards became. As long as they did not cost anything, or come to the Treasury for any money, they were permitted to enlarge their functions almost as they liked. Take the case of the Court of Exchequer, which is so closely connected with the old offwe of the Exchequer that has been mentioned. This court was originally a court for deciding revenue cases, in which the Crown was interested and no others; it is now a court authorised to decide all cases. By the monstrous and almost incredible fiction that the plaintiff in every case is rendered liable to pay a debt to the Crown because the defendant would not pay him, the Court of Exchequer extended its originally restricted jurisdiction to an almost universal civil jurisdiction. The motive for so doing was to increase its income ; every body about it was paid, not by salaries, but by fees, and the more suits increased, the more fees augmented. A very great number of separate pecuniary entities have thus grown up in the interstices of English institutions, which claim to have separate interests, separate rights, separate moneys apart from the nation. Nothing can, of course, be more absurd. All the necessary expenses of a department—of a law department as much as any other—ought to be defrayed from the national Treasury, and all moneys received by the department ought to be paid into the national Treasury. This might seem a truism, but it is a truth on which it has as yet been found impossible to act. The lawyers steadily maintain that the Treasury is not to be trusted with their moneys, that the Executive Government is not to be trusted. What, then, it may be asked, do the lawyers do with their money ? And the answer is, perhaps, the most amusing part of all. They invest it in the securities of the Executive Government ; they buy Exchequer Bills and Consols. Having first proved that the Government can not be trusted, they immediately proceed to trust it im plicitly. Tho alternative is plain. On the one hand, if the English nation cannot be trusted, Consols are a name not for a reliable income, but for an unreliable promise, and then it is absurd to buy them ; on the other hand, if the English nation is trustworthy, it is absurd, in its own courts and offices, not to trust it, but to buy into its securities one against the other, raising the price against each other, and wasting the public money in useless fees to unnecessary brokers. In fact, the custody of money is a pleasant thing, and many lawyers and many other people do not like to give it up. The proper remedies are two—first, that all persons per mitted to receive money should be bound to pay it over without delay to the Exchequer at the Bank of England ; and that the Treasury should be bound to see it is paid. Secondly, that as few persons as possible should be per mitted to receive money, all minor charges, all fees, all but the great productive branches of the public money, should be paid, not in money, but in stamps. Nobody will misuse these, and their custody is not so pleasant that people will cling to it at the risk of any absurdity. Persons who have not attended to the subject think that such abuses as those could not stand for a day; but, in fact, the most influential people in England have been trying to alter them for years, but have failed. Tho pre sent Chancellor says :-- "I believe that the root of the mischief lies in this Act of Parliament, and not only in this Act of Parliament, but in a rather wide-spread system under which there are vast sums of money in this country in various categories for which the public would be ultimately responsible, and with regard to which, if they disappeared, the Housa of Com mons would be called upon for a vote for their replacement, and with regard to which, nevertheless, the Treasury has no power whatever. "Chairman—Will you state some of the instances to which you refer ?—I may mention the Chancery funds, to begin with ; the Suitors' Funds. "Did you not once attempt to deal with that fund?— The Cabinet, at my instance, and the instance also, if I re member right, of the Lord Chancellor, who was then At torney-General, advised the Crown to issue a commission for the purpose of inquiring into the condition of that fund with a view to a change, and the commission has reported. They reported after a long inquiry, but no measures have been token upon the subject of that report, and the commis sion has not touched the question in its report whether the control, as far as custody is concerned, should or shouldnot be given to any department of the Executive Government over those moneys. " Is there any jealousy of the Treasury with regard to interference with any of those branch funds ?—lf I were asked my own private opinion, I should say undoubtedly there is very great jealousy of the Treasury whenever it shows an inclination to interfere. It would not be difficult to show, from reports of discussions in the House of Com mons, the jealousy of the Treasury ; which, perhaps, not unnaturally arises when it endeavours to . got into its hands and under its control money which is not there now." In fact, if you talk to the parties interested, they say— "Ah ! Gladstone has been trying for years to get hold of our moneys, but he has not got hold of them yet. We have beaten him, and we hope we may beat him. When he goes away perhaps wo may get a quieter man. JOSIAH WEDGWOOD AT COURT.—A most charm ing anecdote has come down to our day in relation to ono of Mr. Wedgwood's visits at Court. Ho was sum moned to St. James's, and, on arriving at the appointed hour on a sunny spring or summer's morning, was ushered into the royal presence. The Queen stood with her ladies beneath an unshaded window, and here it was that Mr. Wedgwood advancing made his obeisance, and, displaying the ware he had brought, answered the royal questions. But as her Majesty thus stood examining some exquisite specimen of the art, which years of ceaseless toil and un repining obscurity had brought to this perfection, the sun's power increased, and its rays, falling on her free, caused her obvious annoyance. The possible etiquette was to have mentioned the matter to one of the unobser vant ladies in attendance, who in turn would have sum moned a page or royal footman. But Mr. Wedgwood thought only of removing the intruding glare, and that speedily. He simply walked straight to the window, and pulled down the blind. The Queen, aware in an instant of the relief and its cause, looked up from the object she was regarding, and, inclining her head, smiled her thanks. "Ladies," she said, addressing her attendants, "Mr. Wedgwood it; you see, already an accomplished courtier." It was courtesy, however, learnt in the school of nature —the offspring of a manly and generous respect for woman —and he would have shown it as much to a peasant as to the Queen, who was his foremost patron.—The Shilling Magazine. FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER LEA.-- On Sunday evening a gentleman was rowing in an out rigger on the River Lea, when, by a false stroke of the oar, the vessel was upset near Lea-bridge, and 10 minutes elapsed before the deceased was got out.' He was then found to be dead. MARLBOROUGH-STREET A BRUTAL HUSBAND.—John Gleason, a bootmaker, was brought before Mr. Tyrwhitt, on a warrant, by Gordon, 33 C, charged with assaulting his wife, Mary Gleason. The complainant, a respectable-looking woman, said— The prisoner is my husband. I have been away from him for three years, supporting my children by my work. On Sunday fortnight he came to my mother's while I was there, he being half-tipsy at the time. I, left the place to avoid him, and he afterwards went to my home, 71, Wells street—poor as it is—broke open the door, and took pos session of the place. He then ordered me out, and beat me, and said if I did not go out he would break my neck, and if I brought any ono in to protect me he would kill them. I have not had a penny from him for three years, and he spends his time in drunkenness and lives on prostitution. He tries his utmost to turn me out of the little bit of bread I earn. Prisoner—l found her with a man, and she left my home. The Wife—lt is false. lam now sleeping on the floor, and my youngest,child is elsewhere in consequence. Ido not wish to harm my husband. All I wish for is protec tion. Wm. Gordon, 33 C—l apprehended the prisoner, whom I have known for three years, yesterday. He has fre quently been convicted of felony, and for passing counter feit coin. I know him to be a dangerous character, and the constant associate of thieves, and Mr. Stokes, boot maker, of Coventry-street, is in attendance to-day to prefer a charge of felony against him. Mr Tyrwhitt—The prisoner is a cruel and cowardly fellow, and I shill commit him for two months with hard labour. THAMES. NEXT Dom NEIGHBOURS.—WiIIiam George Saxton, a man about 30 years of age, was brought before Mr. Paget charged with assaulting Emma Turner, the wife of a fish monger and fried fish vendor, carrying on business at No. 19, Wellington-place, near the Maid and Magpie, Stepney. Mr. Gomm, clerk to Mr. Hodgson, solicitor, opened the case for the prosecution as one of aggravated assault upon the wife of a respectable tradesman, and without any pro vocation. The prisoner entered Mr. Turner's shop last night at a quarter before eleven o'clock in a very excited state, and accused Mrs. Tanner of saying something to his detriment. He challenged her husband to come out and fight, and on his refusal he struck her twice on the breast, and knocked her down. The prisoner also hit her on the jaw, and put her to considerable pain and inconvenience. She had been suffering from illness and was an out-patient of the London Hospital, and the outrage of last night had been productive of serious effects. Mrs. Turner confirmed the statement of her professional adviser, and, on boing asked the cause of this, she said she really did not know. Mr. Paget was certain the complainant was keeping something back. Was it possible a man would go into 'a shop at 11 o'clock at night without any provocation, and attack a woman as the defendant was represented to have done ? Witnesses were called for the prosecution, who were not quite agreed as to the facts, except there was a row in the complainant's shop, and that the prisoner hit Mr. and Mrs. Turner. The prisoner, in defence, said he lived with his widowed mother next door to the complainant, whose husband had practised a deception on his (the prisoner's) mother, and endeavoured to get possession of the house No. 20, to pre vent any one else carrying on the trade of a fishmonger. He defeated Turner's project, and had ever since been insulted and annoyed, and his mother had been threatened by Turner, his wife, and family. He wept last night to his next door neighbour for explanation, and was assailed with filthy language and abuse. He was also roughly used by Turner, his wife, and family, and in defending himself Mrs. Turner fell down. Witnesses were called, who said all the violence and abuse was on the side of the Turners. Mr. Paget said here were two next door neighbours quarrelling, and it was endeavoured to be made out that an aggravated assault was committed upon an invalid woman. There was a row, and violence on both sides. The com plainant and her witnesses gave varied statements ; the de fendant and his witnesses gave other statements. There was not much regard to truth on either side. He would advise the parties not to go near each other again. One party or the other ought at least to leave Wellington-place. He dismissed the case, and in doing so he was sure the absence of Mr. Turner from the court convinced him he was doing right. WESTMINSTER. BEGINNING BETIMES.—George Bancroft, a ragged, dimi nutive vagrant, without shoes or stockings, was placed in the felon's dock before Mr. Arnold. Magistrate—What is the age of this child ? Prisoner—Seven years. Magistrate—Prosecutor, surely you are not going to press this ? Prosecutor—l leave it entirely to you. Magistrate—The charge against this child, seven years old, is " stealing a bundle of radishes, value one penny." Prosecutor—But he is an old offender. Magistrate—He cannot be a very old offender at seven years of age. Police constable Tatham, 139 B—This is the third time the prisoner has been brought into the station in a week —twice for felony, and once for annoying a lady at tho Oratory, Brompton. Prosecutor—And this is the third time he has robbed me in a couple of days. Magistrate—Go on with the charge. John Crow, the prosecutor, said that yesterday evening the prisoner came to his shop, stole the radishes, and made off. He came back in an hour's time, when he succeeded in taking him. He said if he had had shoes on he would have walked into him (kicked his shines.) Tatham said that prisoner was a most troublesome boy and notorious offender, although so young. His mother was a notorious old drunkard, who had been again and again informed of the prisoner's misconduct. The mother said her son would never do anything wrong any more ; he had promised her. _ _ Magistrate (to the mother)—Now, listen to me, I shall discharge your boy on your entering into recognizance of £2 for his good behaviour for 6 months. Remember, if he in any way offends you will have to pay the £2, or will be sent to prison. 1 he Serious Charge against a Beerhouse Keeper. WINDSOR, May 29. This case, the particulars of which we have before given, when the prisoner, Wm. Adolphus Robarts, was remanded in consequence of the dangerous state of the girl from being precipitated from an upstairs window into the street, was resumed this day at the Town-hall. The magistrates on the bench were Wm. Harris, Esq. (Mayor), and W. Hanson, Esq. ; and there were also pre sent Mr. West, from the office of Messrs. Shaen and Roscoe, solicitors to the Society for the Protection of Women and Children, and Mr. Levy, chief officer of the society, 24, Cecil street, Strand. Mr. West stated that although theunfortunate girlmight be said to be in a fair way of recovering from the effects of solserious a fall, she was not out of danger (he handed in a certificate from Mr. Btitwell, house-surgeon at the Infir mary. to that effect), and he consequently asked for a fur ther remand for another week in order to see the resnit. Edward Dowsett, of (lurch-lane. Windsor, stated that on Tuesday, the 23d inst., at a quarter before seven - o'clock in the morning, he heard the girl's voice, calling out inpri sonor's house as if in painful distress. He directed his wife's attention to it, and afterwards went about his work. In about 15 minutes after that time the girl was brought into his shop in a state of insensibility, with no clothes on but her chemise, where he saw the prisoner bathing her fore head with water. Witness brought down a counterpane and pillow, and the girl was taken to the infirmary, Emily Maria Dunton, the mother of the girl, and wife of William Dunton, living at Iver-heath, near Uxbridge, said the girl was her daughter, that she was 12 years of age on the 26th of July last, and had been in the service of the prisoner. She never gave prisoner permission to chastise her daughter. Mr. flumridge, clerk to Mr. Voules, solicitor to the de fendant, asked for the prisoner to be admitted on bail. This was opposed by Mr. West on the part of the prose cution, on the ground that the girl was not yet out of danger. If she did the prisoner would be guilty of man slaughter, and if she recovered still the case was of so serious a nature that he hoped the magistrates would send it for trial at the sessions. I kThe magistrates, after a short consultation, remanded the prisoner for another week, and declined to accept bail. COLLISION ON THE EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY.—On Saturday night a collision occurred at the Milngavie Junction of the Helensburgh line between two trains which were proceeding to Glasgow. At 8 o!clock the train conveying the Glasgow Abstainers' Union excur sionists from Milngavie was nearing the min line just at the time the Helensburgh train, duo at Glasgow at 8 o'clock, was coming up. The drivers, as well as a number of the passengers, saw that a collision was inevitable, and the former, as quickly as possible, reversed their engines, and turned on the breaks, while the latter orepared themselves for the shock. Presently all was confusion. The song which a number of the excursionists had raised was sud denly brought to a close—passengers were violently preci pitated against each other—ladies screamed or fainted, and the greatest consternation prevailed, which was increased on finding that the carriage doors were locked. The only mode of egress was by the windows, which was availed of by many wfth the greatest alacrity. The excitement con tinued until it was ascertained that no one was seriously injured. A quantity of rails were displaced and torn up, and several carriages were damaged. The down train was detained about half an hour, but succeeded ultimately in getting forward, minus a couple of carriage footboards. The people, who by this time were getting drenched with rain, which began to fall very heavily when the collision took place, betook themselves to the carriages, there to exercise their patience till 10 o'clock, when a train arrived to convey them to Glasgow, where they were set down safely at 11. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF COIVIIVIONS—Tms DAY. The SPEAKER took the chair at twelve o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following bills were read a third time and passed : Cheshire Lines Transfer, Chesterfield, Newbold, and Dunstone Road ; and Saint Philip and Jacob's Parish (Bristol). REFEREES ON PRIVATE BILLS. Colonel WILSON PATTEN moved that the following committee be appointed to inquire into the operation of the Court of Referees on private bills :—Col. Wilson Patten, Mr. Dodson, Mr. Milner Gibson, Mr. Lowe, Mr. Edward Pleydell Bouverie, Lord Robert Cecil, Lord Stanley, Mr. Ingham, Mr. Scholefield, Mr. Woodd, Mr. Bonham Carter, Mr. Ennis, Mr. Thompson, Mr. G. Hardy, and Sir John Shblley.—Five to be the quorum. The motion was agreed to. GLASGOW AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY BILL, Sir C. FERGUSON moved that the filled-up bill de posited in the Private Bill-office, as proposed to be amended, and submitted to the committee on group 22 of railway bills, be referred to the examiners of petitions for private bills, with instruction to examine and report whether the standing orders of the house have been complied with in relation to the bill so amended and proposed to be sub mitted to the committee ; and that all petitions complain ing of non-compliance with the standing orders, in rela tion to the said amended bill, be referred to the examiners, with instructions to hear parties and their agents and wit nesses thereupon. Mr. DODSON opposed the motion, which, after a short discussion, was withdrawn. ROMAN CATHOLIC OATHS BILL.—(THE ADJOURNED DEBATE.) On the motion for the house going into committee on this bill, _ _ Mr. NEWDEGATE, as an amendment, moved that the house go into committee that day six months. He was of opinion that the bill now under discussion was the first attempt that had been made to disturb the compact entered into in the year 1829. There had been two committees, it was true, to consider the oaths taken by the members of the house, yet, although all the other oaths had been con sidered, the Roman Catholic oath had never been touched. (Hear, hear.) There had been, therefore, no inquiry into the substance of the oath, or the manner in which it was now proposed to alter it. The Government had asked the house to go into committee on this bill, and yet there was not on the notice paper one single word to lead the house to imagine the alterations proposed. The Home Secretary had stated that he was not prepared to go the whole length proposed by the bill, and that being the case, he thought he might have had the grace and favour to announce the exact distance he was prepared to go. As that course had not been adopted, he felt it his duty to do all he possibly could to prevent the bill becoming the law of the land. He was a staunch Protestant. by conviction, and as such he wished to resist that which he considered schismatic, heretical, and corrupt, and he took the course ho did because there was a feeling and an earnest desire on the part of Roman Catholics in that country to "subdue an Imperial people," as was said by Dr. Manning, the successor of Cardinal Wiseman, to the domination of the Church of Rome. The house had removed nearly every obstacle in the way of, religious freedom, but he thought it too much to ask the house to set aside one which only went the length of making it compulsory that the consti tution of the country should be respected. (Hear, hear.) Mr. TREHEARNE seconded the motion. Mr. GREGORY said he could not understand the de termined opposition which was given to the present bill, which, he contended, was one merely of common decency to the Roman Catholics. He could not believe that it was thought that there was any fear of her most gracious Ma jesty being deposed and substituted by the Pope. The Roman Catholics were not the great and terrible destroyers they had been represented. Who, he would ask, brought the head of Mary, Queen of Scots, to the block? The Protestants. Who did as much for Charles I. ? The Puri tans of England Who deposed James I.? The Protestants. He altogether denied that the Roman Catholics were so completely under the foot of the Vatican as had been repre sented, because some of the most important services ever rendered to the Sovereign of this country had been per formed by persons holding that belief. When the great Spanish Armada set sail it carried aloft, and in their midst, a banner blest by the Pope. Now, he would ask, who was the person conspicuous in the defeat of that great fleet? Why, Lord Howard of Effingham, a Roman Catholic ; and, again, who at that particular time afforded the most important assistance a subject could give a sovereign ? why, Lord Montague, a Roman Catholic. (Hear, hear.) A tissue of obstacles had been related to the house with a view of impeding the mea sure, but he believed the result would be that which was but an act of justice would receive the sanction and sup port of the majority of that house. Sir J. PAKINGTON said the object of the bill was vir tually to repeal one of the arrangements entered into with the Roman Catholics in 1829, and the bringing it forward at that particular timo he regarded with imminent danger, because it might tend to revive that angry feeling between Roman Catholics and Protestants which he so greatly de precated. (LEFT SPEAKING ) SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day. LONDON, May 30.—Wind this day at noon—South- Westerly; moderate breeze and fine weather, but rather cloudy. Pm., May 28.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Walker Hall, from Trinidad. PORTSMOUTH, May 29.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Her Majesty's ship Charybdis, from Vancouver's Island ; Don Quixote, screw steamer, from London, and proceeded for Havannah. BRISTOL, May 28.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Cardigan shire, from Barbadoes; Fominica, from Havannah ; Vic toria, from Odessa. PLYMOUTH, May 29..—Wind W.S.W.—ArriYed—Eliza both, from London for Calcutta. Sailed—Young Australia, for Moreton Bay. CLYDE, May 28.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Express, from Demerara. BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH. GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning. Arrived, May 30—Juno, from Hobart Town ; Haabet, from Ranea. DEAL, Tuesday Morning. Passed—Maori, from New Zealand ; Cinderella, from Sydney—both for London. The Price of Gold. The quotation of gold at Paris is about 1 per mllle pm., and the short exchange on London is 25.20 per Ll sterling. On comparing these rates with the-English Mint price of £3 17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is at about the same price in London and Paris. The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at 80 days' sight is about 249 per cent., and the premium on gold 127 per cent. At these rates there is a small profit on the importation of go'd from the United States. By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 425 per mark and the short exchange on London is 13.0 per £1 Standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, about 10ths per cent. dearer inndon than in Hamburg. BRUTAL ASSAULT ON THE REV. A. D. WAGNER.— The borough magistrates of Brighton were occupied a long time yesterday in hearing a charge preferred against three men named James Hersee, Henry Chatfield, and William Braizier, -sweeps, of having assaulted the Rev. Arthur Douglas Wagner, perpetual curate of St. Paul's, Brighton, and Sir Thomas Barrett Lennard. The court was crowded to suffocation, those present including persons moving in all ranks of society. Mr. Somers Clarke appeared on the part of the prosecution, and Mr. Bury Hutchinson, of Lon don, defended. Mr. Somers Clarke, in opening the case, briefly alluded, or rather hinted, at recent proceedings with which Mr. Wagner's name has been connected, and said there could be no doubt that to cause persons in the pri soners' rank of life to act as they had done there must be some inching cause, into which, however, he would not enter, and referred to it not in order to aggravate the case against them, but to excuse them, it being Mr. Wagner's desire not to punish but to prevent a recurrence of what had taken place. (The rev. gentleman has been once or twice previously molested in the public streets, but always de clined to give his assailants into custody.) From the evi dence produced in the case yesterday, it appeared that the Rev. Arthur Wagner was proceeding up North-street, about half-past 5 o'clock on Sunday afternoon, when the prisoners and some of their friends shouted and hooted at him ; and Braizier came across the road to him. He caught hold of the rev. gentleman's arms, and saying " Here's a gentleman wants to speak to you t'other side," began to pull him across the road. Mr. Wagner shook himself free, and swung his walking-stick round, catching Braizier on the leg, who immediately knocked him do*n. The disturbance attracted the attention of Sir Thomas Lennard, who was walking up the street, and Sir Thomas seeing Hersee leave his com panions to make a kick at Mr. Wagner went to the latter's assistance, not because he was acquainted with him, but from his English love of fair play. Sir Thomas Len nard struck Hersee to keep him off, and Hersee turned his "attention" to the hon. baronet, but got the worst of it, and, finding he could not "touch" Sir Thomas, again assailed Mr. Wagner, who had been knocked down one or twice again by Braizier. As Sir Thomas was walking away guarding Mr. Wagner from the attacks made upon him Braizier seized Sir Thomas from behind, and getting his head in "chancery," Hersee again turned upon Sir Thomas and struck him severe blows on the face, the left side of which was dreadfully swollen and contused, and a long deep gash was inflicted under the eye. The hon. baronet got himself free, and with the assistance of a policeman and the bystanders, several of whomwerenoitlbv collected round, Braizier and Hersee were secured,. ed but with great difficulty, the legs of the latter having to be hi t c w o a r s d shteor here prevent him Chatfieldhim from was It ive part, for in the general row neither Mr. Wagner nor Sir Thomas Lennard could s p eak to this prisoner taking part in the assault ; but other witnesses spoke to Chatfield inciting the mob to attempt a rescue, and pulling one or two away w ho we: assisting in ca rr yi ng Hersee to the police station. At ate close of the case Mr. Clark, on behalf of Mr. Wagner, again asked th e b enc h not to punish the men , but to bind them over in order to prevent a recurrence, but he refused to have the charge taken under the act which specially protects clergymen in going or returning from their duties, preferring to have it treated summarily as one of common assault. The magistrates, in giving their decision, said the assault was a most gross and unwarrantable attack on a person inoffen sively walking in the street, and to prevent a recurrence of it they should visit it with the fullest penalty they could summarily. They should therefore sentence Braizier and Hersee to two months' hard labour each, and fine Chatfield 20s. and costs, in default of payment to be committed for a month. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, TATTERSALLS'-LAST EVENING. The Monday before the Derby has been proverbially known for the extraordinary excitement it creates at Tat tersalls' both in respect of the numbers that assemble there and the amount of betting which takes place on the grand event. A feeling of uneasiness and restlessness takes possession of society in general for days before, and it is even recorded of a certain naughty parson of enlarged sporting propensities who determined to anticipate the national furore by a day, wickedly paraphrased a certain. " lesson" thus :—" First Sunday before the Derby !" We will not go so far as to vouch for the truth of the anecdote; but, whether true or not, thousands are ever ready to ac cept it. A casual visitor to the metropolis who might have strayed to-day towards Knightsbridge could not fail to observe that the angle formed by the junction of the Knightsbridge and Brompton roads was the theatre of some wonderful operations, and that the thousands who gathered there from every quarter were engaged in a pur suit in which lukewarmness is a thing unknown. Wo cannot recollect having seen so large an assemblage on any previous anniversary, but the importance of the transactions within the betting sanctuary were not in keeping with the imposing state of things without the pale. What with rumours of further scratchings," fa vourites about to be "knocked out," outsiders taking their places, and the thousand and one " shaves" which are constantly flying about, to the distress of anxious backers, the "yard division" were kept in a perpetual ferment. The first blow their hopes received was the scratching of Chattanooga, an announcement which was greeted with a perfect euroclydon of groans and epithets, which the most comprehensible vocabulary would fail to interpret truly. Turn we now to the inner house. An influx of Parisian speculators had a very decided effect upon the market, and that they came for the express purpose of giving their unqualified support to Gladiateur was soon evident, as the French horse speedily had the call, and after 9 to 2 had been taken to several hundred pounds, he kept oscillating between that price and 4 to 1 throughout the afternoon, the latter odds having been taken kindly. Still there was no disputing the fact that Breadalbane had a more extended circle of admirers, and although a noble lord once laid 550 to 100, it was pronounced a mere fancy bet, and the taker of odds was voted decidedly on the right, side of the hedge. Since the appearance of the Mallon " crack" on Epsom Downs he has ingratiated him self completely in public favour, and no reports of other candidates, however flattering, will stall them off from in vesting on their pet horse. Ho was in such request to-day that after 5 to 1 had been laid several times, he advanced half a point, and at the finish layers declined to operate on more liberal terms. Archimedes was seldom mentioned, but Wild Charley was in great request, for after 10 to 1 had been laid to money, there was a fresh spurt in his favour, and he left off at 9to 1 taken to £lOO. Christmas Carol and Longdown were each firm at their quoted pricaa ; but Oppressor declined to 100 to 7 (offered). When the room and court-yard were nearly cleared we saw 1000 to 60 laid ; but then the reputed supporters of Oppressor had taken their departure. The remainder of the quotations and the tone of the market will be fully indicated by th% subjoined list of CLOSING PRICES. DERBY. 4to 1 agst Count F. do Lagrange's Gladiateur (taken) 9 to 2 agst Mr. H. Chaplin's Breadalbane (taken and offered) Bto 1 agst Lord Stamford's Archimedes (offered) 9to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Wild Charley (taken and offered) 11 to 1 agst Mr. T. Wadlow's Christmas Carol (taken) 12 to 1 agst Mr. Spencer's Longdown (taken) 100 to 7 agst Mr. Maenzie's Oppressor (offered-100 to 6 wanted) 25 to 1 agst Lord Westmoreland's Brahma (offered-30 to 1 taken freely) 40 to 1 agst Mr. Chaplin's Broomielaw (taken) 40 to 1 agst Lord Durham's Ariel (taken) 40 to 1 agst Marquis of Hastings' Kangaroo (taken) 40 to 1 agst Baron Rothschild's Zephyr (offered-45 to 1 taken freely) 66 to 1 agst Sir J. Hawley's Bedminster (taken and offered) 66 to 1 agst Mr. Watt's Olmar (taken and offered) 1000 to 10 agst Count Batthyany's King Charming (taken and offered) 1000 to 10 agst Mr. W. IL Robinson's Eltham (taken and offered) 1000 to 10 agst Mr. Merry's Zambesi (offered) 1000 to 10 agst Mr. Haig's Roderick Random (taken and offered) PLACE BETTING. 800 even on Gladiateur being 1,2, or 3 (taken) 500 to '4OO agst Breadalbane being 1,2, or 3 (taken) 400 to 200 agst Wild Charley being 1,2, or 3 (taken) 900 to 300 agst Longdown being 1,2, or 3 (taken) 700 to 200 agst Oppressor being 1,2, or 3 (taken) 700 to 100 agst Brahma being 1,2, or 3 (taken) 750 to 100 agst Broomielaw being 1,2, or 3 (taken) 500 to 50 agst Zephyr being 1,2, or 3 (taken) 250 to 25 agst Zambesi being 1,2, or 3 (taken) 500 to 30 agst King Charming being 1,2, or 3 (taken) 1000 to 50 agst Roderick Random being 1,2, or 3 (taken) 1000 to 40 agst Eltham being 1,2, or 3 (taken) Chattanooga was struck out of the Derby between six and seven p.m. May 28. .ADVERTISEMENT.) RACING TIMES OFFICE, 286, Strand, London, W.C.--Mr. THOMAS TEMPLE, the Proprietor of the "Racing Times," begs to inform the Sporting Public that he has commenced Business for the . Season, and will execute Commissions on all Races to any amount. Winnings guaranteed. P. 0. Orders to be made payable at Strand Post-office, and cheques crossed London and Westminster Bank (Templo bar Branch). THE FATAL ACCIDENT TO CAPT. NEWBERRY. The inquiry into the circumstances attending the death of Capt. Newberry was resumed yesterday by Dr. Lankester, at St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington. By the report of the first day's inquiry, it was shown that Capt. Newberry was, on the 15th, passing by a wall at Padding ton belonging to the Great Western Railway Company, and the ground behind which was in the occupation of the Lilleshall Coal Company, when the parapet wall suddenly broke, and a heap of coals of about 40 tons fell over, bury ing the deceased beneath, and that from the injuries he then received death ensued. Mr. Rutter, a contractor, now stated that on the 13th his attention was called to the dan gerous condition of the wall by a cabman, andhe informed the Great Western Company's servants. Wm. Thompson, the foreman of the carpenters for the railway company, said he received the information with respect to the wall, and he, with Mr. James, the general engineer, went and inspected the place. He found that the parapet wall, the bottom of which was about nine feet above the pavement, was bulged out, and for the extent of about 80 feet there was a pile of coal resting against it. He and Mr. James came to the conclusion that the coals should be imme diately removed, and they went to the office of the Lille shall Company, where they saw the clerk to Mr. Scott, the manager, to whom a message was given that the wall was in a dangerous condition, and that the coals must be re moved. In further examination the witness said that the wall was never intended to bear any weight. Mr. Arthur James, the engineer referred to by the last witness, spoke ae to viewing the wall on the 13th, and giving instructions to Mr. Scott's clerk that the coals were to be immediately re moved. He added he told the clerk he should hold the Lilleshall Company responsible if this were not done. He said that he cautioned the company two years ago not to stack their coals against the wall. Evidence was then given by Mr. Hyde, the superintendent of the yard, for the rail way comdany, and by his foreman, that the coals were heaped against tho wall, and not "built up." Mr. Scott, the manager of the Lilleshall Coal Company, stated that ho had given instructions to his men that the coals wore to be " bonded "—i.e., built up by themselves—and he considered that the railway company's superintendent, Mr. Hyde, properly.y. would h . a ve li c e om ow pi n ai e n d ed to hhadavtinhge receivedstacking a ne n t ]. e s sbeenage from n o Mr. James, through the clerk ; but in this message he said there was no word that any danger to the wall was appre hended. The message was that Mr. James had called a n d was very angry at the coals being stac k ed against the wall, and that he required them to be removed immediately. Witness thought so little of danger to the wall that he wont under it directly after receiving the message, and also on Monday. H e gave orders that the coal should be removed gradually, and that the work of doing so should commence on Tuesday. The clerk, who had to be sent for, was sworn and stated that Mr. James, when he came on the 13th, ap peared very angry and said, "We must have th ose coa l s removed or we shall have the wall down." Witness did not take the words to imply any danger, and he passed and repassed under tho wall, and went under it so late as about an hour before the accident. He could swear that he did not understand Mr. James to mean that there was any danger, and he did not report any words signifying danger to Mr. Scott. Other evidence was taken, and the inquiry was adjourned until to-day. THE FATAL ACCIDENT TO CAPTAIN NEWBERY.— This morning Dr. Lankester continued the enquiry, adjourned from yesterday, into the circumstances touching the death of Captain Newbery, who was killed by the falling of a wall of the Lilleshall Coal Company. After some further evidence had been given the juryreturned the following verdict:—" That the deceased met his death from accidental causes." THE EASTERN FISHERIES.—The spring herring voyage may now be said to have terminated on the eastern coast. Some of the Lowestoft boats are proceeding to fish for herrings in the Irish Channel. The catches of mackerel made by the Great Yarmouth boats have been small during the last few days. Prices have varied —according to qua lity and the time at which the fish were brought into the harbour—from 325. to 465. per 100 (132) fish. Lieut.-General Sir George Buller, who takes over the Portsmouth command on the Ist of July, has named Major R. M'Kenzie, of the Royal Artillery, and Captain Sydney Carr Glyn, of the Ist battalion, Rifle Brigade, to be his aides-de-camp.—Anny and Navy Gazette. 100 100 100 100 1; 0 190 100 100 1 0 100 100 II M 2.1.0 30 2.14.8 3.4.0 2.7.0 2.13.6 9.10.8 60 all 1.1.0 7.8.3 8.13 4.18.0 9i 4.3.0 321 3.10.6 2.8.0 7.L6 10.6.7 47i 16 3.12.8 581 461 7 1301 1223 I 123 i 4 1 i 101 I 101, 7i i