The Sun. — London, England, 1865-07-04 00:00:00

ONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The discount market has presented a much easier appearance to-day, and as the brokers have a large supply of capital at their command, bills of a very short date, and of a superior character, have been negatived at 2 1 1 per cent. About £65,000 in gold was taken into the Bank yesterday. Two o'CLocs. . _ At the Paris Bourse this morning, according to Reuter's telegram, the 3 per Cent. Rentes were 67f. 17c. Firm. The English Funds have been steadily main tained, although very little business has been nego ciated. Consols for money and the 6th inst. are 90,-;:- 1, and for August 901 1. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 891 1 ; the 21 per Cents., 1894, 711 ; Exchequer Bills, ls. to 4s. prem. ; India 5 per Cents., 1041 1 ; ditto 4 per Cents., 991. In the Foreign Market there is not much anima tion, but prices are well supported. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 701 711 ; do. Consolidds, 491 1 ; Mexican, 231 24 ; do. New, 221 231; Greek, 201 21 ; Spanish Passive, 30 301; do. Certificates, 141 15 ; Italian, 631 64 ; and Confederate Loan, 8 10. The operations in the Railway Share Market have been moderately active, and prices have shown an upward tendency. Brighton have advanced 155., Metropolitan 108., and Midland, and South Eastern each 55.; while Great Northern and Great Western have each declined 10s. The Foreign and Colonial lines generally remain at former rates. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are quiet, and exhibit no material alteration. Subjoined are the current quotations of some of the principal new undertakings :—New Issue of 50,000 Preference Shares of £5 each of the Atlantic Telegraph Company, pm. ; Downs Docks Shares, 1 pm. ; Grange Town Iron, 1 2 pm. ; Albert Bridge, 1 11 pm. ; Russian Ironworks, 8 10 pm. ; London Bridge Land, 1 1 pm. ; Northern Assam Tea, par pm. ; Chubwa Tea, 1 1 pm. ; British India and Trust Agency, 1f 2 pm ; London Quays and Warehowes, par pm ; London, Windsor, and Greenwich Hotels, 2 pm. ; West London Freehold Ground Rent Association, 1 2 pm. ; Belgrave Mansions, par pm. ; Peruvian Rail ways, 3 3i pm. ; Lion Brewery, 11 2 pm. ; Blake ley Ordnance, 31 4 pm. ; London Merchants, 4 f dis. ; Gowhatty Tea, 1 pm. ; Austin Consoli dated Silver Mines, 11 pm. ; Dalbeattie and Kirk connel Granite, 1i 2 pm. ; East London Railway Scrip, 1 pm. ; London and Mediterranean Bank, 3 3i pm. ; Barned's Bank, 11 11 pm. ; Hop and Malt Exchange and Warehouse, 1f 1-,T pm. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 Per Cont. Consols Do. Account, June 6 9Ol f, a per Cent. Reduced B9l I 3 New per Cent' B9l New 2f Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1894 7ll per Cent. Jan. 1873 — Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 Do. for 30 yrs, exp i re s t h April, 1885 — Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 — Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 & 3f per Cent 4 1 Do. £5OO a Do. £lOO and £2OO ! 3 Bank of England Stock, 51 per Cent 248 50 Do Account INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Indian Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 shut Do. Account Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1870 Do. 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 Do. Account Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 Do. Certificates Do. Enlaced Paper 4 per Cent Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 Do. 51- per Cent., May 1879 — Do. Bonds, £l,OOO — Do. unde r £l,OOO FOREICN FUNDS —ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent — Brazilian 5 per Cent — Do. 41- per Cent., 1852-58-60 Do. 1863 Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent — Do I per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) 35 Chilian 6 per Cent r Cent — Colombian 6 per Cent. — Cuba, 6 per Cent. Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 — Do. 4 per Cent., 1863 — Do. 5 per Cent., 1773-77, £25 paid — Danubian Principalities , Do £B6 paid Evader New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — -uO -, Provisional Land Warrant — Egyptian 7 per Cent 97 -D o., Second Issue 9B Do £lOO Bonds 97; Do. 1864 94 1 Do £lOO Bonds' — Creek 5 per Cents, 1824-5, ex Coupons Do Account 2Ol Do. Coupons Do. Account Guatemala 5 per Cent. — Do. 1839 and 1850 Italian 5 per Cent (Maremmana, Railway) Do 1865 Do Scrip, £67} paid —dig Do 5 per Cent., 1864 Do. Scrip, £55 paid llexican 3 per Cent. Do. Account Do 1864 DO 6 per Cent. Anglo-French Do French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20e Montevidean 6 per Cent., £3O paid Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent . New Granada Do 2 per Cent — Do Deferred Do Land Warrants (Hectares) Peruvian 41 per Cent. Do Scrip, £45 paid, paid in Bonds — dis Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) — Do 4i per Cent., 1862 Do. Account Yo Isguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Do Account rDo 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, Do Account 471 liussian 5 por Cent., 1822, £ St., Do 4 per Cent, 1850 Do 1860 Do 3 per Cent., 1859 Do 5 per Cent., 1862 Do 1864 Sardinian 5 per Cent — Do. Account Spanish 3 per Cent — Do Account — Do New Deferred — Do Account — Do Passive Do Account 294 30 Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded — Do Account 144 1 Swedish 4 per Cent. Do. 41 per Cent. 1864 Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 Do Account 941 2 Do 6 per Cent. 1858 Do Account 72t 31, Do. 11 per Cent Do 6 per Cent. 1862 — Do Account 74 701 1 Do £lOO Bonds 7ll 4 Do 5 per Cent. 1865 Do Scrip, £2O paid Do Guaranteed, 4 per Cent lOll 21 Venezuela 3 per Cent. Do. 6 per Cent, 1862 — Do. Account Do 6 per Cent., 1864 — Dividends on the above payable in London. Austrian, 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins Belgian, 41 per cent., Ex. 25f. Dutch 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil — Do. 4 _per Cent. Certificates — French Renter 4/ per Cent. Do. Account' Italian 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f. Do. Account C onsols TWO O'CLOCK. 901 Do. Au g. / 90i I Do. Acco nt Settlement 9O/ Li verpool Cotton Market—This Day. Market steady, but unchanged in prices. probably, 8,000 or 10,000 bales. Sales, THE CRIJELTREATMENITOFAYOTJNG WOMAN Al' WINDSOR.--Yesterday, at the General Quarter Sessions for the borough of Windsor, held at the Town ban, before Mr. Recorder Skinner, William Adolphus Robarts, the landlord of the Prince of Wales Tavern, Church -street, Windsor, was brought up for trial on the charge of seriously injuring a young woman named Ade laide Dante, his barmaid. The circumstances of the case have been so fully reported from time to time that it is unnecessary to repeat them. After a patient hearing of both sides, the prisoner was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment. The Africain informs us that the Emperor of the French has authorised General Desvaux to wear a White plume in his hat, an honour reserved to Marshals of France and generals of division who have had chief com mand of a corps-d'arniee. Three generals only, in France enjoy this privilege ; Count de Palikao, General Martim- Prey, and General Desvaux. This last is Deputy-Cover nor -General of Algeria. Zr. 7ineesi 3 went led by , nwich I the Alfred Major ngton )eech- e, at- 'inner jesty : ;e, his eimar k, th 6 and laren- Vis- her mess the low, gs of 3 St. BEARE MARKETS—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Share! Railways. I p aid./ Closing I Business Price. done. ir., 01., & Str. Val Blyth and Tyne Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall .... • Do. A A g ets no div, Do. B till6p.c.p.an.has been paid to B Dublin & Belfast Junc. Dun,.Perth, & A b.Junc. Edinburgh & Glasgow Glasgow & S. Wcstern Great Eastern, Ord. s tk. Do. E. Angl. st. No. 2 Great North of Scotland Great Northern Do. A stock Do. B o Do. New, ts. at 25 pm Gt S, and W. of Ireland Gt. Weste n I) . S. Val. Rail gua. Do. South Wales Do. W. Mid.— Oxford Do. Newpoi t Do. Ile! eford Lane 'shire & Yorkshire London and Blackwali Lon., Brigh., & S Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western Man., Shef., & Lincoln Maryport and Carlisle Do. shares Metropolitan.... Do. New Midland 0 97 1321 133, 97 6 bi 61 Do, Birmin & Derby Mid. Gt. W., Ireland Do. shares Mid Kent North British Do. Ed., Pth Dun Nth. Eastern - Berwick ' Do. G.N'E purchase Do. Leeds Do. York Do. Carlisle ...... Do. Stock. & Darling. De. do. 185548 Do. do. 1860-61 North London Do. New Do. do. 1884 North Staffordshire N. dr S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot. N. E Aber. stock Do. Scot,Mid.st.)olc.7 Shrews As Welchpool Shropshire Union South Devon south Eastern Staines, Wok., dr Wok Taff Vale Do. C Vale of Neath Waterford Az Kilkenny West Cornwall W.Hartlepool Har.&R Do. A irredeemable Do. A. redeemable BRITISH P Atlantic & St. Lawrence, Born., Baroda, A 4 Cen.ln. gu. 5 per cent.. Do. F shares Buffalo ,t Lake Huron Do ['reference BulT.,Brant, & Goderich 6 p.c. bds. Aug. 1, 872 Do. do. July 1, 1873 Do. do. June 1, 1874 Calcutta & B. E., lim e Town & Dock, gu. Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p; 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 Pref. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. 3d Pref. stock Do. do. deferred Do. 4th Pref. stock Do. do. deterred Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c Co. Gua. 5 per cent Do. New gua. 5 p. c G t. South of India (lim , gua. 5 per cent D . 41 per cent Do Great Wes. of Canada Do. New .. Do. 6 p. c. lids. pay. 1873 Do. 54 do. pay. 1877-8 Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.c Do. 4, do Do. 4i do Do. Filth Extension Melb. Cor. 6 p. c. Buds. Mel. & Hudson's Bay New Brunswick & Can Class A and B v. Rl.C'da, pc Ist pf.bds Scindc ...... Do. Delhi Do. do Do. Puniaub ; Do.lndus St Flo,. 62 f 6 18 17 90 92 108 I'B 48i 49), 7 8 130 132 145 140 128 ;32 F 6 Sg CS ES 64 66 46 18 15 48 105 106 122 1221 91 94 107 108 40} Pi 1231 324 98i 99i 61 61 144 143i 1 35 31p, 139} 135 104 106 53 54 Z4i 25. 1121 112 k 69 736 104 105 37 38 - - p 94 104 pl 121 123 1} tip 79 8L 11i 12 145 250 51• 56 61 63 - 56 as 651 651 9 10 156 159 3 4p IC4 106 47 42 8) 82 iSIONS. 57 50 101 102 pr ip 4} 41 9, 98 99 70 75 100 102 102 103 104 103 j iP 19 14 E 8 90 65 66 55 60 57} 59a 50 52 45 44 43 45 25 21 25i t6a 102 103 102 103 12 12i 8&, 81'1 88 90 81 Z 4 1 i d 10(1 1011 93 95 88 90 68 68 3 5 82 64 99 100 99 ICO 99 100 93 96 13.14 Bt at Bt 50 20 10 10 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. British Columbia, 6 per cent., Dec. 31, 1872. 100 Can.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.& July 1877-84 Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug lOO 97 99 D sp. c. Mar. & Sept 10) 97 $9 1)0. sp. c. Jan. & July 100 83 85 84 Do. 6 p Inearibed ek 100 85 47 Cape G.Hope, 6 p.c. 1873 100 101 103 Do. April & Oct. 1880-1 100 105 107 Do. do: 1890-1 100 105 107 Do. Jan. & July, 1891 lOO 108 110 Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p.c 100 102 104 Do. 1878, do. 100 107 109 109 84 Mauritius, 6p. c, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1 0 78 Do. 188?, Mayls, N0v.16 103 105 107 Natal qov. 6 per cent lOO 102 104 N. B.Gov. 6 p.c.Ja.&.l uly 100 97 99 N. S.W. Gov. 5 ire., 1806 00 100 102 Do. 5 p.c. 18 Ito 1876 100 94 96 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1892 100 92 94 New Zealand, 6p. cent 100 101 103 904 1 Do. 6 per cent.... Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c sterling, 1875 l9O 97 100 Queensland Gov. 6p. c lOO 103 a 104 S. Aus.Gov. 6 p,c 1868-9 100 - - Do. 1878 & upwards l, 0 107 109 Vic,Gov. 6 p.c. Ja & July 100 - - Do. do, A pril & Oct lOO 1091 1104 110 BRITISH MINES. 2 Cain:: Consoi.G old, lim 1 Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated — 25 27 Devon G. Cons. (Tavlst 1 595 605 , Drake walls 2.1.0 4 1 East Bassett (Illogan) 3O 15 18 East Caradon 2.14.6 124 134 as t Carn Brea 3 . 3.0 6 61 East Grenville 2.7.0 2/ 2 East Love.l 2.13.6 10 11 E. WI ltussell (Tavistk 9.10.6 3/ Gam.& StAubyn(Gwes. 604 2 4 4 Gr,at L ocey, limited all 20 21 Great South Tolgus 1.1.0 14 21 G. Wheal Vor tHelst i 4O 304 314 Grenville 7.8.3 24 3 Herod's Foot 8.13 41 43 Hingston Downs 4.18,0 2 1 3 Margaret (Uny Lelant 94 26 3 Marke Valley 4.3.0 51 5f 4 31wyndy iron Ore, lim 24 24 16 Nangiles 19 16 18 New Se ton North Downs 3 - - North Roskear N.Wh'l Bassettallogan 3.10.6 4 I North Wheal Crotty -- Prosper United 7.1.6 24 3 Pr..vidence Uny Lelant 10.6.7 32 55 S. Caradon (St. Cleer) l4 490 500 S.Wheal Fran. (Illogan 18.18.9 15 20 Stray Park Tin Croft 9 16f 171 • West Bassett (Mogan W. Caradon (Llskeard 9 8 104 West Chiverton ll 75 81 West Seton. 474 180 190 Wheal Bassett 'Mogan 51 81 85 Wheal Buller (Redruth 10 15 20 ‘Vhea Ludoott 3.12.8 Wheal Mary Ann (Men 8 11 13 Wheal Seton -- Wheal Trelawney (Lis 7 16) 174 Wheal Union 4 I'ILEFEREIN lE SHARES. Gt. Western, Wt. Midland, Oxford 2d guaranteed stock. 119/ PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. North British (Edin., Perth, and Dundee) 4 per cent., Ditto, 5 per cent. pf., 1862, 102 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San Francisco tli.n.) gua. 7 per oent., 14 Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidin), 9} BANS& lim.. Australasia, 76:i0 Bank of Egypt,: 32 Chartered Aler. of India, London, and China, 48 4 31 Colonial, lim., 4ei Consolidated Bank, lim. , loi English Joint Stock, lim., English, Scotch, and Austratian Chartered, 201 European Bank, 1im ., 121 Imperial Ottoman, 16 14 Land Mortgage Bank of India, lim., 43 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 21 London and County, 77 London Joint Stock, tot London and W estminster, gg Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, lim., 151 Oriental Balm Corporation, 52/ Union of London, 55f MISCELLANEOIIB. Atlantic Telegraph, 8 per cent. gua., 5 Ceylon Company, 91 Contract corporation, 31 Credit Foncier and Mobilier of England, Si i Crystal Palace. 391 Fore-street Warehouse, lim., 101 Gen. Credit and linanze of London, Ilm., Home and C ,lonial Assurance, Hudson's Bay, 154 Imperial Mercantile Credit A sso., Um., 74 Joint Stock Discount, 11m., 9 Land Securities, lim , 44 4 London Financial Association,!lim., 221 hi wall Iron Works, 5} National Discount Company, lira., 16 Ocean Marine Insurance), 24 Oriental Inland Steam, 2 Penin-ula and Oriental Steam, 741 51 Rhymney Iron, Ditto, new, 23} Royal Mail Steam, 110 The Price of Gold. The quotation of gold at Paris is about 1 per milk pm., and the short exchange on London is 25.17 i per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3 17$. 100. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is abou' 1-IGth per cent. dearer in Paris than in London. The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at 80 days' sight is about 110} 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 marl and the short exchange on London is 13.61 per £1 stcrlin, . Standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, about 3-10ths per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg. 100 100 100 100 100 OSSE, THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 4, 1865. LAW INTELLIGENCE- This Dap• COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.) IN RE THOMAS ARMSTRONG GOUGH.—AN OFFICER IN 'no ARMY. This bankrupt was formerly a lieutenant in the Ist Dra goon Guards, and to-day ho came up for the order of dis charge. Upon his statement of accounts he files the follow ing items:—Received by the sale of my commission, £1,000; deducted by order of the colonel for my regimental debts, £146 ; deducted to pay the passage of my succeeding officer to India, £94 ; paid by order of my colonel to Cornet Lloyd, King's Dragoon Guard; £234 ; to Lieut. Reeves of the same regiment, £l2B ; and to Quartermaster Wrasbury, £55. The balance of £72 has been handed to the official assignee. The total debts aro £2,317, and the deficiency, £2,245. Amongst the creditors are the following officers, for whose debts the bankrupt says he has received "no consideration" :—Gen. Freeman, Madras Army; Major Jago, 74th llighlanders; Capt. Nolan, 17th Lancers ; Capt. Beresford, Madras Staff Corps; Lieut. Knight, Native Infantry ; and Lieut. Lawder, 14th Regiment Native In fantry. The case had not concluded when our report left, but it was understood that no opposition would be offered to the order of discharge. POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A GENTLEMAN CHARGED WITH ASSAULTING A CON STABLE.—Mr. Thomas Worsick, gentleman, staying at Evans's Hotel, Covent-garden, was charged before Mr. Knox, with being drunk and behaving in a disorderly manner, and also assaulting police-constable Yeo, 316 A. Yoo said that on the previous night he saw the defendant, who was drunk, in the Haymarket in company with two or three females. The defendant was making a great noise, and he requested him to go away. The defendant went a short distance and tried, but unsuccessfully, to get admitted to a night-house, and then returned to the women. On his again telling him that he must leave the place he re fused to do so, said he had been boxing for four years, and did not care a - for him, at the same time aiming a blow at his head with a stick, but his helmet prevented his head being injured. The defendant (smiling) said he was "screwed," having been out dining, and taken•too much wine. Mr. Knox said a person like the defendant ought not to appear in a police court, and fined him 20s. or seven days mprisonment. ROBBING A LICENSED VICTUALLER.—BASE INGRATITUDE. —John Crosby, an elderly man, was charged before Mr. Knox with stealing a .£5 note, the property of Mr. George Keppin, of the White Lion Tavern, St. Alban's-place. Mr. Keppin—l attend to prosecute the prisoner for rob bing me under very aggravating circumstances. Some time ago the prisoner was knocking about getting a very pre carious living by holding horses, &c. I gave him a job to clean some pots, being without a potboy, and a person in my employ suggesting that I should take the poor old fellow into my employ instead of having another boy, I did so, giving him ss. a week, board and lodging and clothes. I went to the annual trade dinner in May, and while I was gone the prisoner had a £5 note given to him to get changed by a person I left iu charge of my business, and he never re turned with the note or the change. In addition to this he obtained a hygrometer from a friend, stating that he had been sent by me for it, which was not the case. Mr. Wm. Wykes, of No. 5, Blakesley Cottages, Cam berwell—On the 17th May, Mr. Keppin entrusted me with the care of his house, and 1 gave the prisoner a £5 note belonging to Mr. Keppin, to got changed for the use of the house. The prisoner never returned. The prisoner, who put no questions to the witnesses, and made no answer to the charge, was remanded. THAMES. HORRIBLE BRUTALITY.—Bridget Nicholls, aged 25, and carrying an infant 18 months' old in her arms, was brought before Mr. Partridge charged with violently assaulting Ann Shea, of 18, White Hart-place, Poplar. The complainant, who was in acute pain, and who lives in an Irish colony, sometimes called Garden-place and sometimes White Hart-place, stated that she had a quarrel with her countrywoman Nicholls last night. The prisoner abused her, and called her very foul names. She went out to get out of the way, and on her return with a bundle of wood, the prisoner abused her again, and after striking her with her fist, threw her down, seized her left arm and bit a large piece out of it. The poor woman's arm was enveloped in surgical bandages, and after giving her evi dence she threw herself on the floor of the court, groaning fearfully. _ _ _ Catherine Coghlan, another Irishwoman, said—l saw Biddy Nicholls pull her hair out of her head and take a mouthful out of her arm, and make a second bite, and would have taken a second mouthful if it had not been fur me dragging hor away. John Bradley stated that he found the complainant in a frightful state of suffering, with the flesh torn from her arm, and the muscles moving. The prisoner was very desperate, It occupied the united strength of three con stables to carry her to the station house. The prisoner said I will murder the old— when I get at her again. In answer to questions by Mr. Partridge, the witness said—l did look for the piece of flesh. It was seen in the room. The prisoner was seen to pick it up, and it is be lieved she swallowed it. The prisoner burst out into a long, loud, and fiery decla mation in her defence, and imputing to the complainant that she was intoxicated and committed the first assault. She had many witnesses, but Nicholls and Coghlan were such desperate characters that the witnesses were afraid to attend the court. Mr. Partridge said this was a most horrible and dis gusting case. The prisoner was a perfect savage and had committed an atrocious assault on tho complainant. The only provocation he could discover was, that the com plainant refused to drink with tho prisoner and give her gin. He sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned for four months, and kept to hard labour, and he ordered that her child be taken from her and delivered to its father. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. HOUSE OF COMMONS—JULY 3. LEEDS' BANKRUPTCY COURT, &c. Motion made and question proposed, " That the evidence taken before the committee of this house, on the Leeds Bankruptcy Court, discloses that great facility exists for obtaining public appointments by corrupt means ; and that such evidence, and also that taken before the committee of the House of Lords in the case of Leonard Edmunds, and laid before this house, shows a laxity of practice and want of caution, on the part of the Lord Chancellor, in sanc tioning the granting of retiring pensions to public officers over whose heads grave charges aro impending, and in filling up the vacancies made by the retirement of such officers, whereby great encouragement had been given to corrupt practices ; and that such laxity and want of cau tion, even in the absence of any improp3r motive, aro, in the opinion of this house, highly reprehensible, and calcu lated to throw discredit on the administration of the high offices of state. Amendment proposed, to leave out from the first word " That" to the end of the question, in order to add the words " This house, having considered the re port of the select committee on the Leeds Bankruptcy Court, and the evidence taken by it, agrees with the com mittee in the opinion that the facts which are established acquit the Lord Chancellor from all charge in the matters to which it refers, except that of haste and want of cau tion in granting a pension to Mr. Wilde, but this house is of opinion : that some further cheek should be placed by law upon the grant of pensions to the holders of legal offices," instead thereof. Question, "That the words pro posed to be left out stand part of the question," put, and negatived. Question proposed, " That those words be there added." Debate arising, motion made and question put, " That the debate be now adjourned." The house divided—Ayes, 163 ; Noes, 177. AYES-163. Acland, T. D. Foster; W. 0. Packe, Col. Andover, Lord Fortescue F. D. Padmore, R. Angerstein, W. Fortescue, C. S. Paget, Lord A. Ashley, Lord Gibson, T. M. Paget, Lord C. Athlumney, Lord Gladstone, W. E. Palmer, Sir It. Ayrton, A. S. Glyn, G. C. Palmerston, Vint. Aytoun, R. S. Glyn, G. G. Peel, Sir It. Baines, E. Goldsmid, Sir F. Pinney, Col. Baring, 11. B. Goachen, G. J. Ponsonby, A. Baring, Sir F. Gower, G. W. L. Portman, W. H. B. Baring, T. G. Gregory, W. H. Poiter, T. B. Beamish, F. B. Grenfell, C. Powell, J. J. Beaumont, W. B. Grenfell, H. R. Price, R. G. Berkeley, Col. Grey, Sir G. Proby, Lord Berkeley, C. P. F. Grosvenor,Lordßd. Ramsden, Sir J. W. Biddulph, Col. Gurney, S. Robartes, T. J. A. Blencowe, J. G. Hadfield, G. Robertson, H. Bouverie, P. P. 11 audley, J. Roebuck, J. A. Brassey, T. Hankey, T. Rothschild,Baron M Bruce, Lord C. Hartington,Marquis Russell, Sir W. Bruce, Lord E. A. Herve 3, Lord A. St. Aubyn, J. Bruce, 11. A. Hayter, Sir W. Salomons,Atderman Buller, Sir A. W. Henderson, J. Scott, Sir W. Bury, Viscount Hodgkiiason, G. Scrope, G. P. Butler, C. S. Hodgson, K. Seymour, Daub) Buxton, C. Holland, .E. Seymour, A. Caird, J. lliorsmk.n, E. Smith, J. A. Calthorpe, F. H. Howard, Lord E. G. Smith, J. B. Cardwell, E. Ingham, R. Smith, M. T. Castlerosse, Vist. Jervoise, Sir J. Stacpoole, W. Cavendish, Lord G. Johnstone, Sir J. Stuart, Col. C. Cheetham, J. Ring, P. J. L. Tite, W. Childers, H. C. E. Kingscote, Col. Tracy, C. R. D. Churchill, Lord A. Kinnaird, A. F. Trelawny, Sir J. B. Clive, G. Knatchbull-Ilugess Verney, Sir 11. Colebrooke, Sir T.E. Layard, A. H. Vernon, H. F. Collier, Sir R. P. Lawrence, J. C. Villiers, C. P. Cowper, W. F. Lawson, W. Vivian, H. H. Crawford, R. W. Lefevre, G. J. S. Vyner, It A. Waldegrave-Leslie Watkin, E. W. D C r a o v s e s y l e , y u , .Si r F. Lew ,l, 0c k i e s : J I I . . Davie, Sir IL R F. Lysley, W. J. Weguelin, T. 2d. Davie, Col. F. Mackinnon, W.(Ly.) Western, S. Denman, G. Mackinnon,W. A. Whalley, G. H. Dodson, J. G. M`Mahon, P. Whitbread, S. Doulton, F. Marjoribanks, D. C. Wickham, H. W. Duff, M. E. Marshall, W. Wiunington, Sir T Dundas, F. Matheson, A. Wood, Sir C. Dundas, Sir D. Merry, J. Woods, 11. Dunkcllin, Lord Mills, J. It. Wrightson, W. B. Enfield, Viscount Mitchell, T. A. Wyvill, M. Ewart, W. Moncreiff, J. Fermoy, Lord Idonsell, W. Fitzwilliam, C. W. Moore, C. Foley, H. W. Morris, W. Forster, C. Neate, C. TELLERS. Brand, IL White, L. NOES-177. Adderley, C. B. Gray, Lieut.-Col. O'Neill, E. 1 Adeane, H. J. Grey deWilton,Lord Packe, C. W. Archdall, Capt.3l.E. Griffith, C. 1). Pakington, Sir J. Baring, T. Hamilton, Lord C. Palk, Sir L. Barrow, W. H. Hardy, G. Papillon, P. 0. Barttelot, Col. Hardy, J. Parker, Major W. Bateson, Sir T. Hartopp, E. B. Peel, Gen. Bathurst, A. A. Harvey, it. B. Peel, J. Bathurst, Coi. H. Henley, J. Pennant, Col. Bentinck, G. C. Hennessy-, J. P. Percy, Earl Benyon, R. Henniker, Lord I'eto, Sir M. Beresford, W. Hesketh, Sir T. Pevensey, Viscouni Berestord, D. Heygate, Sir F. Phillips, G. L. Booth, Sir R. G. Holtord, R. S. Powell, F. S. Bouverie, E. P. Hood, Sir A, Pugh, D. Bovill, W. Hopwood, J. T. Repton, G. W. J. Bowyer, Sir G. Howes, E. Ridley, Sir M. W. Bramston, T. W. Ilurnoerston, P. S. ' Rolt, J. Bremridge, R. Humphery, W. Rose, W. A. Bruce, Sir H. Ingestre, Viscount Rowley, It. T. Bulkeley, Sir R. Jo life, Sir W. Scholerie,d, W. Burghley, Lord Jolliffe, 11. Selater-Booth, G. ButlerJohnstone,ll. Jones, D. Selwyn, C. J. Cairns, Sir H. Kerrison, Sir E. Smith, Abel Cartwright, Col. Knatchbull, W. Smith, Augustus Clifford, Col. Knight, F. Somerset, Col. E. Clive, Capt. G. W. Knightley, Sir R. Stanhope, J. B. Collins, T. Kuox Col Stanhope, Lord Copeland, Ald. Knox, Major W . S. Stanley, Lord Corry, H. L. Langton, W. G. Stirling, W. Courtney, Lord Leeke, Sir H. Stuart, Lt.-Col. W. Cranbourne, Vist. Legh, Major C. Sturt, H. G. Cubitt, G. Legh, W. J. Sturt, Lt.-Col. N. Curzon, Viscount Lennox, Lord G. G. Surtees, H. E. Dalkeith, Earl of Lennox, Lord 11. U. /Sykes, Col. W. 11. Dawson, It. I'. ' Lennox, C. Thynne, Lord E. Dering, Sir E. Liddell, H. G. Thynne, Lord H. Dick, F. Lowther, Col. Tollemache, F. J. Disraeli, B. Lowther, Captain Tomline, G. Du Cane, C. Lyall, G. Tref usis, C. H. R. Duke, Sir J. Lygon, F. Treherne, M. Duneombe, A. Mainwaring, T. Trevor, Lord A. Du Pre, C. G. Matins, It. Trollope, Sir J. Eaton, W. H. Manners, Lord J. Turner, C. Egerton, Sir P. Miles, Sir W. Vance, J. Egerton, A. F. Miller, T. J. Vansittart, W. Egerton, E. C. Mills, A.. Verner, E. W. Egerton, W. Mittord, W. T. Vyse, Cot. Elphinstone, Sir J. Montagu, Lord R. Walker, J. R. Fane, Col. Montgomery, Sir G. Walpole, S. H. Farquhar, Sir M. Morgan, 0. Walsh, Sir J. B. Fellowes, E. Morgan, Major Watlington, J. Floyer. J. Mowbray, J. 11. Whitmore, U. Forester, Gen. Murray, W. Williams, Col. Franklyn, G. W. Nicol, IV. Wyndham, H. Gard, It. S. Noei, G. J. Wyndham, I'. Gilpin, Colonel North, Col. Wynn, C. W. W. Graham, Lord W. North, F. TELLERS. Greenall, G. Northcote, Sir S. H. Hunt, G. W. Greene, J. O'Ferrall, M. Paull, H. THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY, MEETING THIS DAY. The quarterly meeting took place this day at the offices, Norfolk-street, Strand. The Secretary (Mr. Gruneisen) having read the advertisement convening the meeting, Viscount Ranelagh, the chairman, peesented the following report of the executive committee ; The executive committee of the Conservative Land Society, in submitting their 51st report to the members for the three first quarters of the financial year which will end on Sept. 30 next, have much pleasure in appending the following returns : Qrs. ending Shar es in Shares Total progress. Complete. Shares. Receipts. --- £ s. d. Dec. 24, 1864 .... 262 15 277 19,229 V 8 March 25, 18e5 .. 297 60 357 16,249 5 0 June 24, 1865.... 216 64 493 18,552 18 8 ---- Three quarters ending IA itl summer,lB6s .. 988 139 1,127 53,831 13 4 Totals to Sept 30, 1864 16,723 4,5( 1 5 21,223 782,389 13 10 --- - Grand totals to Illidsummer,ll6s 17,711 4,644 22,"55 836,221 7 2 The receipts for the first three quarters of the present financial year, compared with the corresponding poriod of the past year, as also the receipts for the present over tho last quarter, show an increase. The total sale of land to Midsummer, 1865, ,s ••• •-• ... £309,005 3 10 The total withdrawals since the formation of the society (Sept., 1852) to Midsum mer, 1865, are ... ... £251,564 17 8 The returns of the register of rights aro as follows : Completed. Drawn. Seniority. Total. 5,667 3,305 1,758 10,730 Deduct rights unexereised on estates, &c.— B,lkl Unexercised rights 2,576 The last share number on the register of seniority (date of membership) is No. 15,575. The last share issuod up to Midsummer, 1865, is No. 22,355. The sale of the Sunnyside estate, Sandown, Isle of Wight, which was allotted on the 6th of April, and the allotment of the Roehampton and Tottenham (Seven Sis tels) estates on the same day, have been quite successful. There now remain but few plots on tho Sandown and Tottenham properties to be disposed of. The Wood Green estate (No. 2) is also progressing satisfactorily. Tenders for the roads and drainage on the Sandown and Wood Green estates have been accepted, and the works will be completed as soon as possible. The new road on the Roehampton estate will be ready in the autumn, by which time it is expected that the remaining works on the Bat terseagilt-leanlaete' Government naval yard will be finished. The removales estate, eNo materials. 2 P ( o (Plough-lane), the at Deal having been sufficiently advanced, the committee have commenced the allotment of the land by offering a portion in 96 building plots, with frontages to the sea (the Prince of Wales's-terrace) and to the Walmer-road, and with frontages also to tho projected streets to be called Sondes, Stanley, and Clanwilliam Roads. In laying out this first portion of the estates, special attention has been paid to secure a good sea view in the cross streets. The preliminary allotment began at Deal on Wednesday, June 7, after a public meeting in the Town Hall, at which Viscount Ranelagh, the chairman, Col. Brownlow Knox, M.P., and Col. A. Meyrick, were present as a deputation from the board, to explain the society's system of selling land. The executive committee have entered into a satis factory arrangement with the town commissioners of Deal, whereby a complete system of drainage will bo secured, and the town itself, when the entire works of the town aro completed, will be materially improved by Eno openings to the sea, and by the extension of the approaches to the main streets of the town. Of the development of Deal no doubt can be entertained. A more splendid esplanade frontage, commanding, as it does, a view of the shipping in the Downs and of the French coasts, is not to be found, independently of Deal being ono of the most salubrious of sea-side localities. The formation of new docks, the recent opening of that magnificent work—the iron pier—the rail way to be constructed between Dover and Deal, and the proposal for a more direct railway communication with the metropolis, are all undertakings indicative of the future I progress of Deal, and the Conservative Land Society has supplied the great want of the town—that of freehold building land in plots for the erection of villas and houses, as also hotels and boarding and lodging houses, the limited number of which has hitherto prevented that amount of accommodation that the yearly increasing popularity of the place required. In the Lady-day report, the executive committee referred to two properties in Cheshire and Cornwall which had been secured for tho society, and they have now the pleasure to announce to the shareholders that the allotment thereof will be prodeeded with as early as possible. The land in Cheshire is at the new ferry just oponed, opposite to Liverpool, and close to the projected tunnel under the Mersey, with a frontage in the Chester-road, and very near the Bebbington station on the Birkenhead and Chester Railway. To those familiar with Liverpool, it is scarcely necessary to add that a large proportion of the inhabitants migrate after business hours to the suburbs to their private residences, and that the Cheshire side of the Mersey is particularly sought after by classes of the community for villas and houses. The estate in Cornwall is placed at the thriving town of St. Austell, close to the port of Charleston, St. Austell Bay, which may be deemed the Isle of Wight of the Cornish coast. A fourth acquisition of land has been made at Putney, near the Cedars-terrace, one of the earliest purchases for the society. The present property is close to Wandsworth lane, with frontages to the Upper Richmond-road, leading to the Putney station. The vicinity of the estate to Wimbledon• common, Putney-heath, Roehampton, and Richmond-park, will render the plots valuable for building, and no time will be lost in preparing for the allotment. • The executive committee have fixed Wednesday, the 19th of July next, for the final allotment of the Woodhouse estate, Wanstead, owing to the recent demand for the por tion originally offered, of which but few plots now remain on hand. The executive committee have, in conclusion, to congra tulate the shareholders that the general sale of land and the financial returns have been so satisfactory. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—The debate of last night will be memo rable in. Parliamentary history. Not often has it fallen to the lot of the House of Commons to sit in judgment on the conduct and character of one so highly placed, and to deliver a decision carrying with it such momentous consequences. The charges against Lord Melville at the beginiug of this century, and those relating to the administration of the army by the Duke of York, are the only similar inquiries in which the Legislature of this country has been engaged during the memory of living men. No wonder, then, that the last hours of an expiring Parliament should be filled with a kind of spasmodic vitality. The candle has for a moment flared up in the socket before it is extinguished. The excite ment of yesterday was as great as if the fate of the Government or the Parliament depended on the issue of the debate, as if resignation or dissolution was the alternative that must follow the vote of the house. Members, recalled from the country or de tained in town by the urgent remonstrances of their party, attended the house last night to witness or take part in one of the most important debates of the Parliament. On whichever side they might be, whatever vote their conscience or their party ties might induce them to give, there could, we p resume, be only one feeling in their minds—that of regret that they should be called upon to decide in such a cause. The discredit of a Lord Chancellor is a reproach to the nation at large. The office repre sents, to the popular intelligence, all that is most elevated in dignity and power. The First Officer of State, the President of the House of Lords, the Keeper of the Queen's Conscience, the head of the judicial system of the country, the nominator of Judges, great and small, the largest dispenser of Church patronage, is a man raised so incomparably above his fello ws that no failing of his can be un important, and to prove him a delinquent is to brand the country through one of its most con spicuous representatives. The result of the debate is that a grave vote of censure has been passed on the Lord Chancellor. The amendment of Mr. Bou verie, which, except on one point, hardly differed from that of Mr. Hunt, was carried without a divi sion, and the most exalted person in the Govern ment is reproved by a vote originating with one of its own supporters. The debate which preceded this grave decision was not in any way remarkable. The Lord Chancellor was feebly attacked, and very weakly defended. Mr. Hunt's speech was by no means impressive. He is entitled to the credit of comparative fairness, for though he showed no inclination to spare the Chancellor, he did not in dulge in the vituperation which marred the effect of Mr. Longfield's harangue the other night. But, on the other hand, he failed to give his hearers an adequate impression of the case. Fortunately for those members who sought only to pronounce an impartial judg ment the materials were abundant in the report of the evidence which had been placed in their hands. Even the copious quotations of Mr. Hunt do not give a fair notion of this extraordinary volume, which may be perused with interest in future times as a disclosure of official life in England in 1865. But it would be difficult for the most unskilful ad vocate to fail of success with so overpowering a case. The history of the events in which the Lord Chan cellor is the central figure ' while Messrs. Bethell and Welch and Harding a n d Wilde and Miller stand conspicuous in their several ways, came out again last night with undiminished freshness. We see Mr. Welch and Mr. Bethell as old acquaintances, and their friendship thickening as the former sees a chance of obtaining a place in his country's service. We find Mr. Bethell pressing his friend's claims on the Chancellor, and it becomes the clearer the more we consider it that Mr. Welch was chosen out of the long list of applicants because he was the friend of the son of him who disposed of the place, and for no other cause. Then we follow Mr. Welch during the autumn of last year and the early spring of the present, continuing his loans or gifts to Mr. Bethell, and the result is an impression that each benevolence was timed with regard to the probability of obtaining this or that appointment. But why should we follow out the miserable history? Mr. Wilde and his certifi cate, on which the gentleman who obtained it made jocular remarks, the officiousness of Mr. Miller and his virtuous' rebukes to the Chancellor for too great severity towards a prodigal son, the intrigues of the whole party to get Mr. R. Bethell back again into the public service, disclose a state of things that we should hardly have believed to exist in the lowest walks of official life. It has been the misfortune of the Chancellor to be surrounded personally and offi cially by a set of people who are among the least favourable specimens of English society the public has for many years had the opportunity of contem plating. It is strange that Lord Wesbury, with that zeal for the public service which he assumed, did not think it necessary to look more closely into the mo-• tives of these people. It is the defence made for him by his friends—but the only defence which, after much consideration, they have thought tenable— that he was imposed upon by his relatives and subor dinates. This is, no doubt, true, but that such an imposition could obtain credence argues a want of energy and public spirit which is of itself culpable in a public man. This is the view taken by the House of Commons. In a house extremely large, considering that it was within three days of a dis solution, the Government was beaten on the motion for an adjournment, and was obliged to accept Mr. Bouverie's resolution. That of the Lord Advocate was very properly rejected. That learned person would have had the house abstain from censuring Lord Westbury by name, but pass a re solution which would be a stigma not only on this ` particular Chancellor, but on the office itself. By making the grant of a pension by a Lord Cbancel lor incomplete without the confirmation of the 'Erea- Bury the house would have affirmed that, as a rule, the men who rise to the highest lay dignity in the country are unfit to perform the duties which have been for generations intrusted to them. Surely, if a man is not competent to pension a registrar he is not competent to make judges and to appoint cler gymen to livings ? The abuse of minor patronage was serious in the case of Lord Westbury chiefly because it threw doubt on the way in which the more important trusts would be administered, and to take away the small opportunities for misconduct and leave the greater was a proposal as little con sistent with good sense as can well be conceived. Mr. Bouverie's resolution was much more in accord ance with the feelings of the house. It is notorious that the Liberal members displayed no alacrity for this debate. The prospect of going to the hustings as the defenders or apologists of such transactions as have been revealed within the last few days had no attractions for the supporters of the Government. It is, indeed, rather surprising that so large a num ber should have been found at their posts at all. At any rate, when Mr. Bouverie proposed his amend ment, which, while acquitting the Chancellor of any knowledge of the corrupt practices connected with Mr. Welch's appointment, adopt the language of Mr. Hunt's resolution with respect to pensioning of Messrs Edmunds and Wilde, it was of no avail for the Government to attempt to change the current of feeling. Mr. Bouverie's amendment was put as a substantive resolution, and carried without a divi sion. Whoever may have considered that we have been unduly severe on the Lord Chancellor will do well to consider the terms of the resolution which has thus been adopted by a full House, and say if it does not justify any strictures that we may have made. No task could be more distasteful to any person of ordinary feeling than that of pointing out the demerits of a man of the highest ability and who had rendered great public services, to Which we have been always prompt to render justice", but the circumstances of this case left us no alternative EVES TMINS TER. DARING ROBBERY IN A HANSOM CAB.—Jas. Taller, a young man, was charged with stealing a gold ring from the person of Mr. Brampton, 155, Cambridge-street, Pimlico, clerk iu a merchant's office, under very daring cir cumstances. The prosecutor stated that, on Sunday afternoon he and his wife went to spend the evening at a friend's house in Chelsea. They returned home between 10 and 11 o'clock, and engaged a cab near Cheyne-walk. While they were going along in the cab the prisoner suddenly placed his hand in front of his wife, who was asleep and who was much alarmed. He gave prosecutor a violent blow on his cheek and again jumped off the cab, and ran away. Pro secutor fond that he had lost his scarf from the finding he had lost his pin, and seeing the prisoner running on the pavement, got out of the cab and found the prisoner call out " Stop thief !" Prisoner was overtaken and given into custody. Prosecutor—No, sir. I was much hurt by the prisoner when he struck me in his attempt to take my ring from me. I am told it is a common practice for thieves to make a similar attack on persons who are going along in cabs. The wife of the prosecutor said that he was asleep at the time of the assault, and was therefore not able to recognise the prisoner. Prosecutor observed that he never lost sight of him from he time he jumped off the cab till he was taken. A constable stated that the prisoner was the associate of thieves. The prisoner was remanded. MARKETS—This Day. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—OId meadow hay, £5 Os to £5 8s Od ; new, £4 lOs to £5 lOs ; old clover, £5 Os to £7 Os Od ; new, £5 to £5 15s; and straw, £1 8s to £1 12s per load. Trade very firm, supply small. CUMBERLAND.—OId meadow hay, £5 Os to £6 10s ; new, £4 lOs to £5 lOs ; old clover, £5 5s to £7 7s Od ; new, £5 to £6 ; and straw, £1 8s to £1 16s per load. A goo d de mand. WILITECHAPEL—OId meadow hay, £5 Os to £6 8s ; now, £4 lOs to £5 lOs ; old clover, £5 Os to £7 Os Od ; now, .1.) to £5 15s ; and straw, £1 N to £1124 per load. A. firm trade. COLONIAL. TEL—Business during the last few days has been very inactive, the trade having deferred their operations until to-day, when about 40,518 packages of China will be offered, only a few of which are at reserved prices. SUGAR.--The market has remained dull, although prices generally are steadily maintained. In the refined depart ment there is no material alteration to report as regards prices. COFFEE.—The demand for superior descriptions of colo nial has been steady, while full rates have been current. moderato amount of business has been done, and late prices are generally well maintained. TALLOW.—The market has continued moderately active, and quotations for both present and forward delivery are well supported, P.Y.C. on the spot boing 41s. 9d., and last three months, 425. 9d. to 435. per cwt. Letters from Lorient give an account of an ac cident which has just taken place at Gavres, while proving a breech-loading cannon. An explosion took place, by which General Frebault, Director of Artillery at the Ministry of Marine ; Colonel Del saux ; an inferior officer ; and some artillerymen were wounded. The General, fortunately, was but slightly injured, the Colonel more severely, and tho others merely receiving some burns from the gun powder. AM. Krantz, formerly chief engineer of the Grand Central Railway, and now engineer in chief of the department of the Ardeche, has been appointed director of the works of the Universal Exhibition of 867. J 31., 68} 7 8 1 Z (5 121 1 1071 8} 404 1231 4 31 934 1431 4 1t 135 j 112 k 7o k 104 k 8 5 1 1 1 103 f Ft 1031 21 31 The decision of the House of Commons will, we feel sure, have a good effect on 0117. cial morality. It is natural that men in high office, h;_owing the igno rance and carelessness of the world in general with respect to their proceedings, should fancy that there is no chance of jobs and intrigues coming to light. They may be to a great extent in the right, but the tone of the House last night will show them that if once they are detected they have but little to hope from the forbearance of Parliament. HERALD.—The members of the House of Com mons have good cause to complain of Lord West bury. It is bad enough in any session to be compelled to sit late on a July night, by a debate from which no one can, with any show of decency, be absent, but it is especially vexatious to be so kept when every one knows that he ought to be down among the free and independent, wooing the sweet voices of those whom he hopes will once more be his con stituents. But for the objurgations which hon. mem bers may for this reason bestow upon him my Lord of Westbury has one satisfaction. By the very fact of causing such a debate as that which took place last night, he may rest assured that he has attained one great object of every successful lawyer's ambition. He has made himself faMous, and will bequeath to his heirs a name which the world will not willingly let die. It is true the distinction will not be of the most enviable character. It will in some measure resemble that of the iconoclastic sol dier who fired the Temple. If an immortality some what of this kind has been Lord Wesbury's aim, he may be congratulated on having gained it. The name of Richard, First Baron Westbury, will assuredly be embalmed in the pages of the Humes and Macaulays, the Rapins and the Hallarns of a future day. But not as a successful lawyer, nor as a great law refor mer, will his lordship be best known and longest re membered. His chief passport to immortality will be derived from the circumstance that after 30 years of Reformed Parliaments, in the year of grace 1865, at the close of the session, while the writs for anew Parliament were in preparation, while the exist ence of the expiring House of Commmons could be counted by hours, and those hours could be ex pressed by a couple of figures, the popular branch of the Legislature was occupied with a debate re flecting on the conduct and involving the character of our highest legal dignitary. We are not about to go through the history of the Leeds bankruptcy scandals. Mr. Hunt introduced his motion with a carefully prepared resume of the principal facts brought out before the select committee. Those of our readers who have not already mastered the sub ject may refresh their memory and gratify their curiosity by consulting our Parliamentary report. They may •there read once more how Messrs. Ayr ton and Harding conducted their inquiry ; how Mr. Miller wrote recommending retirement, and suggesting a medical certificate ; how, about the same time, Mr. Bethell was bargaining with Mr. Welch an negotieeing with Mr. Harding ; how the Chancellor gave the first good thing he had to dis pose of to the man who had fee'd his son ; how in February last there were fresh vacancies and fresh jobbing ; how appointments were engrossed before they were made, and cancelled from a dread of pub lic indignation ; how, whenever there was a place to be given away, a host of jobbers and a mass of job bing hung round the present occupant of the Wool sack. Over all these facts the honourable member who moved the resolution went with judicious calm ness and moderation. The Government met the case in a way that proved the truth of the allega tions against their officer. As in the case of Denmark they carefully avoided the main issue. They strove to win a verdict of acquittal by covertly insinuating that the Government, and not the Chan cellor, was on trial, and they, in effect, asked the house not to censure the one lest they should damage or discredit the other. This was the burden of the Lord Advocate's tediousness, of Mr. Denman's wearisomeness, of the shilly-shallying with which every member on the Ministerial side approached the discussion of the question. On the other side, the appeal was to the broad facts, which have now been proved over and over again. They made it apparent that the question was much more than a party one—that the ermine had blen sullied by him who should have been most solicitous to keep it pure, and the fountain of justice had suffered pollution through the neglect of the man specially charged with its conservation. It was felt in the house, as it has long been felt in the country, that the conduct of the Lord Chancellor was utterly indefensible. The indications of this feeling were so decided that the Government shrunk from trusting to a parliamentary division for the Chancellor's vindication. Accordingly they bent before the storm they could not face, and after opposing with all their might the motion of Mr. Hunt, they thankfully accepted the scarcely less damaging amendment of Mr. Bouverie. The differ rence between the two was scarcely worth fighting for. The motion impliedly, the amendment expressly, acquits the Lord Chancellor of personal corruption, but both motion and amendment distinctly affirm that corruption has been practised, and the Chan cellor's proceedings have been lax and incautious to a degree which tended to throw discredit on the administration of the high offices of State. Severe as is the censure these words convey, it becomes still more cutting from the fact that it was moved by an hon. member who prefaced it with the avowal that though he had great confidence in the Government, he had none at all in the Lord Chan cellor. The prevalence of this feeling in the house was unmistakeably shown in the progress of the de bate, as a member of the select committee rose to announce his intention of supporting Mr. Bouverie. On the Treasury bench it was seen that a Fabian policy was the only one that could give Lord West bury a chance. A little more delay, a little more time to consider, a little more scattering of the members, and:the scale might yet be turned. But the house would not have it so. The motion for adjournment, though pressel by Lord Palmerston himself, was rejected by 177 to 163 • the failure of the Lord Advocate's attempt at whitewashing was as total as his speech when introducing it was tedious,"and, thankful for small mercies, the Go vernment accepted the qualified condemnation of ' Mr. Bouverie as being a little less severe in terms and damaging in effect than that of Mr. Hunt.. Thus, the Parliament's last act has been a judicial one. By its unanimous acceptance of a severe and well-merited censure on the Lord Chancellor it has recorded its disapproval of the doubtful dealing with places and pensions of which the noble and learned lord has been more than sus- petted, and of which he stands now less than half acquitted. But though he has been absolved from the gravest of the charges against him, enough has been said in the debate and recorded in the journals of the house to render his continued tenure of office impossible. By making his cause their own the Government vainly tried to carry off their dead. They hoped that by the exercise of Government influence, and unsparing use of the. Treasury whip, they would succeed in getting a small majority in their favour. In this they have been disappointed, but not the less are they bound to accept last night's defeat as the emphatic expression of the disapproval with which the house regards the manner in which Lord Westbury has dealt with his patronage, and that in which the Government has thought proper to excuse and endorse the proceedings of one who is now confessed to have brought discredit on the office he fills, the Ministry to which he belongs, and the country which he has so unfaithfully served. SHIPPING INTELLIGENOELThis day 41- LONDON, July 4.—Wind this day at noon—South- Westerly; moderate breeze, and fine weather. SOUTHAMPTON, July 3.—Wlnd S.E.—Sailed—Atrato, steamer, for the West Indies. QUEENSTOWN, July 3.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Africa, steamer, from Boston. PLYMOUTH, June 3.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—llenreich, from Ichaboe. Sailed—Cap Rouge, for Quebec. FALMOUTH, July 2.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Trafalgar, from Santa Cruz. OFF SCILLY, July 3.—Wind S.S.E. - Arrived—Rora neys, from Liverpool for Rio do Janeiro, with the master sick. CLYDE, July 3.—Wind S. W.--Arrived—Florence, from Maeeio ; Carl Johann, from Havannah ; St. George, from Montreal. OFF FALMOUTH, July 2.—Wind S.—Arrived—Meppel, from Buenos Ayres for Rotterdam. NEWPORT, July 3.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived—Alette, from Yarmouth for St. Thomas ; Queen of the Deep, from Liverpool for Bombay ; Success, from Antwerp for the East Indies. EY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH. GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning. Arrived, July 3.—Wave Queen, from Trinidad; Robert, from Leghorn; Johannes, from Norders Schluise ; Ara baston, from Bathurst ; Rose, from St. Vincent ; Carl Tottie, from Quebec; Visitor, from Tarragona; Diana, from Nangaski ; Ocean, from Jamaica. DEAL, Tuesday Morning. No arrivals. THE ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE. —This being the fourth of July, the anniversary of American Independence will be celebrated by the Ameri cans resident in London with more than usual rejoicing. The New York liners and other American ships lying in the London, East India, and neighbouring docks, were gaily decked out this morning in the brightest of bunting. The national flag was hoisted at the American Consulate, at the corner of Fenchurch-street, and most of the large American establishments at the east-end of the town exhibited the stars and stripes. Amongst the Americans the day is kept a strict holiday, and this evening there is to be a dinner at St. James's Hall in commemoration of the event, and it will be attended by the American Minister and Consul and other influential Americans. The captain's of the American ships lying in London also dine together. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. NEWMARKET RACES—THIS DAY. Sweepstakes of 25 Sovs.—Fleurette,Acrostie,.Gluetyllis, and Ozone, are here. Sweepstakes of 50 Sous.—Crytheia, Cordelia, and Con vent, are here. Handicap Sweepstakes.--Qui Vivo, Bst 101 b ; Chapel Royal, Bst 21b ; Acrostic, 7st 131 b ; Henbane, 7st 131 b ; Kinghorn, 7st 101 b ; Stoic, ist 101 b ; Lady Sophia, 7st llb ; and Viper, 7st 11b, are here. Plate of 50 Sovs.—Wild Thyme, Gemma, General Leo, Knight of Whistle, Lytham, Qui Vive, Duchess of New castle, Danish Rose, Sprite's dam colt, Lalla Rookh, Heir at Law, Blackthorn, Pupil, Puebla, Gauntlet, Kinghorn, Suspicion, and *Lady of Coverham, are here. July Stakes.—Mount Palatine, Maid of Masham colt, The Raven, Student, Robin Hood (by Wild Dayrell), Con servative, Wolsey, Leyburn, Sealskin, and Freedom, aro Sweepstakes, Selling. Rejection, Viper, Arderricca, Gazna, and Musketeer, are here. .£5O Plate.—Ethel, Mortlake, Creslow, Jessie, Knight of Whistle, Musketeer, Lady of Coverham, and Mirage, are here. CARLISLE RACES.-THIS DAY. Corby Castle Stakes.—Nothing More, Honesty, Barefoot, and Merrythought are here. Cumberland Plate. —Brindisi, Helen, Miss Pickle- Hopper, Macbeth, Elastic, Madame Tagliafico, Harry. Brailsforcl, Strong Beer, Zenobia, and Curtain Lecture, are hero. Grand Stand Handicap—Gayous, Nothing More, Eola, King Maker, The Tyke, and Yarrow, are here. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, TATTERSALLS'—LAST EVENING. JULY STAKES. 6to 4 agst Student (offered, take 7to 4) 2to 1 agst Robin Hood (offered) GOODWOOD STAKES. Bto 1 agst Claremont (taken freely) 15 to 1 agst Scheldt (taken) 16 to 1 agst Moose (taken freely) 20 to 1 agst Baldwin (taken) 20 to 1 agst Friday (offered) 33 to 1 agst Guide (taken) 50 to 1 agst Hopper (offered) GOODWOOD CUP. 3to 1 agst Fille de l'Air (taken) 6to 1 agst Eltham (taken freely) DERBY. 100 to 8 agst Student (taken) 20 to 1 agst Auguste (taken) 20 to 1 agst Janitor (taken and offered) $3 to 1 agst Blue Riband (taken) 50 to 1 agst Dalesman (taken) 50 to 1 agst Robin Hood (taken) Stoppage of Messrs, Bell and Co. The stoppage has been reported of Messrs. John T. Bell and Co., East India merchants, of 2, Billiter square, with liabilities amounting to £380,000, of which £BO,OOO are covered by acceptances against consignments. The annexed circular has been issued to the creditors. 2, Billiter-square, July 3. Sir,—We deeply regret to inform you that, owing to the failure of their native broker, our Bombay firm has been compelled temporarily to suspend its payments. The above painful intelligence has only just reached us, and has necessarily led to our own suspension, but from the knowledge we possess of our broker's property and posi tion, we feel persuaded his embarrassments are only tem porary, and therefore trust the liabilities our Bombay firm is now under on his account will shortly be liquidated, and that no eventual loss will arise to any of our creditors. In the meantime, we have placed our affairs in the hands of Messrs. Coleman, Turquand, Younge, and Co., the accountants, who will communicate with you as soon as possible with reference thereto. Relying for the present on your forbearance.—We are, sir, yours, &c., JOHN T. BELL and Co. Railway Traffic Returns for the Week, Niles Opened. Receipts. Railways. 1865. Belfast and N, Counties 136 Belfast and County Down 49 Blyth and Tyne 2B Bristol and Exeter l2ll Caledonian 2Bll Cambrian 9l Cockermouth K & Penrlth Cockermouth and Workin 9 Cork and Bandon 2O Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 321 Cornwall 6si Deeside , 17 Dublin & Belfast J unction 63 Dublin and Drogheda 75 Dublin and Meath Dub. & Wicklow and Wexid lO7l Furness, &c 5O Glasgow & South-Western 198 Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.,&E.Union Great Northern 404 Great North of Scotland 99 Gt. Northn. & Westn. (lrel.) 7ll Gt.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 3871 Great Western l2BO Hull & Hornsea Inverness & Aberdeen Juno. 1171 Inverness & Perth Jun,tion 1191 Irish North-Western 145 Kent Coast 27 Lancashire & Yorkshire 403 Limerick and Emits.. 241 Limerick and Foynes 261 Llanelly 461 Llynvi Valley London & North-Western London and Blackwall 5l London & South-Western Loud. Brighton, &S. Coast 272 London, Chatham, & Dover 721 Do. Metropolitan Extension 11/ Lon., Tilbury, & Southend .. 421 & Lincolnsh 21.11 Blanch. S.Jun.& Al trin cham pi a ßl si ie a ct r rl y p a no p o do r u t tiaannnodiCarlisleN.-Western).. . wes tern).. 66 1 1 usi bli oo d nimi l k an ioan d u G tdh t s .W h. R es ai tn i. . o 4 f Ir. Canal Ind 2 447 62 11 North British, Edin., Perth and Dundee N-Eastern and Stock. & DarL 1110 North London 9 North Staffordshire 258 lthymney l9l Scottish Central Scottish North-Eastern l3B Somerset and Dorset 66 South Devon South-Eastem 3OB Taff Vale 57 Ulster lO5l Vale of C1wyd....,,.., lO Waterford and Kilkenny 3l Waterford and Limerick 77 West Cornwall 271 W.Hartlepool Harbr.&Rail 521 Whaven,Cleator,& Egrmnt lO Whitehaven J unction l3 Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.Austrian 828 828 Bahia and San Francisco Belgian Eastern J unction 261 261 Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 306 1851 Detroit and Milwaukie lB9 185 Dutch Rhenish lOBl 1181 Eastern of France 1176 1428 Eastern Bengal East Indian . Grand Trunk of Canada 1177 1,135 Great Central of Belgium 295 272 Great Indian Peninsula 520 5531 121 k 2 lj 1865 1864. 2,063 1.760 9,9 754 91t 6. 198 663 885 711 387 i 123 a 1171 1191 145 403 24 20 20i 12521 61 4541 267 i 7:9 10i 421 21;9 841 262 711 5831 1095 258 191 1131 138 75i 303 105} 10 6,250 7,349 20,167 19,559 1,909 1.45,4 390 362 336 285 130 1,7.5 1.E42. 470 363 1,495 1.372 1,170 18 6 262 2)1 4,334 2,405 3,311 3.141 9,819 8,6v1 33,329 31,1'60 86.473 33,004 2,977 2.998 751 74S 10,417 9.123 74,3 8 73,10 153 1,686 1,403 1,816 1,6 2 1,952 1.932 2,44 2,020 45,057 43.015 224 266 102 )!9 918 824 431 369 121,497 117,7u0 2,113 2,079 30,802 26,776 22,257 21,411 7,2,1 8.:375 2,8,0 1,8 5 2,192 2, 25 19,651 18,749 1,.00 1,429 1,399 1.636 2,938 2,231 49,605 47,410 5,415 5,311 1,563 1,832 2,410 2,697 22,773 21,755 65, 17 61,756 3,518 3,382 8,292 8.699 1,065 1,100 5,797 BASS 5,474 5,221 930 697 4.435 3,968 25,271 23.537 5,577 5,219 2,341 2 211 22t 209 452 350 1,427 1,196 1,058 1,0.2 4,333 4.572 629 781 57i 1002 909 1,017 30,127 29,748 354 354 5,142 2,320 8,768 4,4,7 6,4 5 6,695 75,917 63,7, 7 2, 64 1,44 J 27,6.2 2%039 26 567 23,115 7,120 21,471 16,4;8 SWINIIIING.—Last evening the Marylebone Swim ming Baths was crowded (almost inconveniently) by the members of the Carlton Swimming Club and their friends. A match was on the Lapis for a silver cup and the captaincy of the club, and to give greater éclat to the match it was under the management of Mr. Gurr, the champion swimmer, and who in the morning so successfully contested 'a match for £5O on the Serpentine. Several gentlemen competed, and were started at eight o'clock precisely, the distance being 300 yards. Mr. Hetherington took the lead, kept it, and won easily by some 10 yards. Mr. Bird se cond, and Mr. Holland third. Mr. Hetherington, who appears about 17, and who, we learn, is but a young be ginner, possesses all the elements of a first-class swimmer and from the way in which he won this match bids fair to ecome the finest swimmer of his day. M. Albert Geoffroy-Saint Hilaire has been ap pointed Director of the Garden of Acclimatisation, in place of M. Rufz de Lavison, resigned. The Commission of the Caisse des Retraites for the Aged has sent to the Empress, as patroness, a report on the proceedings of the institution during the year 1864. The account given is favourable. At the theatre of the Chatelet two nights back, as a young man was hastily proceeding to his place in the front of the first amphitheatre, he lost his balance and toppled over, falling into the orchestra at a spot where fortunately no person was sitting. He was taken up insensible, and his state necessi tated his removal to the hospital. Hopes are en tertained of his recovery. An important circular affecting the interests of the public has been issued by the United Kingdom Electric Telegraph Company. It announces that the uniform shilli ng ra t e not h av i ng proved remune rative, it has become necessary to increase the charge. The company was established in Novem ber, 1860, and the shareholders patiently remained without any dividend for upwards of four years, in order to give the shilling rate a trial, and afford it ample time for its development. The maximum tariff is now fixed at 2s. for all England, Wales, and Scotland. The terms are to be, for 100 miles and under Is. ; 200 miles and under, Is. Gd. ; and over 200 miles, 2s, thus securing Lancashire and York shire an eighteenpenny telegraphic communication -with London and Glasgow and other important districts.; here. 1864. Y 3. acted . per- of the I the over, pton. y the rs of visit, jesty iting wit • the A to Dun- dies by e of lies' two ince two ;on esty of lect the her ison ugh 20i 10 100 i 100 100 all 103 100 {lOO 2 100 100 121 12 101 i 100 j 11! 100} 102* k