The Sun. — London, England, 1870-01-04 00:00:00

MONEY NIARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. crry, Two o'CLocK. There has been almost a general advance in the price of British and Foreign Securities to-day in consequence of the favourable opinion formed of the new French Ministry. The Rentes have gone up over 1 per cent., and such a circumstance could not but produce a corresponding improvement on the English Stock Exchange, and on all sides a feel ing of satisfaction prevails. Consols have improved on the closing prices of yesterday, and the same favourable result has extended to the Foreign mar ket. In Railway shares the business is rapidly im proving ; and for Telegraph, Bank, and miscellane ous shares quotations are in most instances better. The rate of discount demanded in open market to-day was a shade below 24 per cent. for first-class bills at three months. Consols are now at 924 to 924 for money; ditto, for Account, 921 1 ; Three per Cent. Re duced, 924 ; New Three per Cents, 924 1 ; Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, March, par ; June, dis 1 prem. ; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, March, prem. ; June, prem ; Bank of England Stock, 4 4 per Cent., 237. India Stock, 104 per Cent., April, 1874, shut ; ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1111 4 ; ditto 4 per Cent., Oct., 1888, 1001 4 1 ; ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent., 92. In the Foreign Market prices have advanced. Turkish Five per Cents. are 4 higher, at 47 to 471, and Italian 1, to 554 ex div. Spanish (1867) are 4 better at 264 ex div., and 1869 Bonds have also risen that much to 55 to 254 ex div. The Egyp tian market is a little stronger; the 1868 Bonds, at 811 ; and the Viceroy's Loan, at 85. Argentine are 871 to 88 ex div. ; Peruvian, 82 to 824 ex all ; Brazilian, 884 to 894; Mexican, 134 to 131 ; and l i Portuguese, 331 to 331 ex div. American Five-Twenties are 874 to 874, being 4 higher ; the Ten-Forties are 831 to 841 ; Erie 174 to 181 ; and Illinois 1024 to 1034. In the Railway Market there is an advance. Great Western, 59 to 594 ; London and North Western, Midland, and South Eastern 4 each higher, viz., at 124 to 1244, 1234 124, and 784 to 781 ; Great Northern are lower, 1094 to 1101 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 4, 1274 to 128 ; Metro politan, 814 to 811 ; and Caledonian, 76 to 761 ; Great Eastern, 384 to 38+; Great Northern (A), 111 to 1114 ; and London, Chatham, and Dover, 154 to 154. Lombardo-Venetian have improved to 214. Great Luxemburg is 134 to 134. Telegraph Construction and Maintenance are 4 higher, 334 to 34; Anglo-American, 194 to 19/ ; French Cable, 161 to 161 ; and Atlantic Eight per Cents., 21 to 24. In Bank Shares Imperial Ottoman are .1 higher, 24 to 21 prem. ; Agra (A) is quoted at 11 to 114 ; Alliance, 14 to 131 ; Anglo- Austrian, 14 to 16 prem. ; London Joint Stock, 31 to 32 ; Union of London, 374 to 381; and London and County, 49 to 50. In Miscellaneous Securities Hudson's Bay are 12 to 121 ex div. ; National Discount, 111 to 11i ; General Credit, II to I dis. ; and International Finance, 2i to 1j dis. The sum of £24,000 in gold was taken from the Bank yesterday. The Deutschland, from New York, has brought £61,400. The Avoca has left Melbourne for Galle with £28,000. The Neva, for the West Indies, has taken £25,000 in gold. A limited amount of Mexican dollars has been disposed of at 59d. per ounce, showing no altera tion. Tenders have been invited by the six associated Australian Banks for £1,518,400 Five per Cent. Debentures of the colony of Victoria, being the re mainder of the loan for £2,107,000, authorised by the Victorian Parliament in 1868, for the exten sion of railways, and secured upon the consolidated revenues of the colony, redeemable on the Ist of January, 1894. The interest is to date from the lst inst., and to be payable half-yearly at the London and Westminster Bank and the London and Joint- Stock Bank. The tenders, with a deposit of 5 per cent., are to be sent in to the London and West minster Bank on Tuesday next, and the debentures will be allotted to the highest bid lens ; but no ten der will be accepted at less than £lOO 10s. for every £lOO of debentures. The entire amount must be paid up on the 31st inst., when the debentures will be delivered. The whole of this loan was paid up for the tender on the 9th of March last, but only £588,600 was then taken at the minimum price, which on that occasion was £lOO, or I per cent. lower than at present, and the remainder waswith drawn to await the receipt of fresh instructions from the Victorian Government. The Committee of the Stock Exchange have re solved that the shares of the Erie Railway stamped by the Erie Shareholders' Protection Committee are to be quoted and marked on the official lists. It may be assumed that the practical effect of this will be that all dealings will take place exclusively in shares so stamped, and all holders of Erie shares should therefore at once send their certificates in to the committee at their offices, 60, Threadneedle street. Do. 6 per cent. 1867 lornbian, 6 per Cent. '— Danish, 3 per Cent., 1825 Datmian Principalities, 7 per Cent B9 Do. Account - .. — Do 8 per Cent., 1867 92} Ecuador Now Consolidated, 1 per Cent. Egyptian, 7 per Cent.... B4} Do Second Issue Do. £5Ol. Bonds B6 Do. 1864 Do. Account Do. £6OO Bonds De. AlO6 Bends 92 Do. 7 per Cent., 1368 ..,... Do. £lOO Bonds ..... 82 Government Railway Debentures ..... 98i 9 8 reek 5 per Cent., 1824 5, ex Coups — Do. Coupons , . Guatemala:s per Cent .. PiondurasGov Rail.Loan.,lop..Ct.,all pd Do. Acchant Its dan 5 per Cent., 1865 — .10. Account . . Do Maremmana Railway — A ezicat. 3 per Cent Ditto for Account Dn. 1864 — Do 8 per Cont. Anglo-French — ioutevidcan G per Cent. . — No cristi imperial 5 per Cent ;'ew Granada l7i 18} Do 3 per Con — Do. Deferred Do Laud Warrants (Hectares) Porwriau 5 per Cont. 1E65 Do Account .. 82: i 3 Do 41 per Cent. (Ul2)arren) Do 4} per Cent., 1862 -. — Do Account — Do 6 per Cent.,1862 — Portuguese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, 7,'9,'60,'2.': , 34i Do. do. 1867 — Do. do. Scrip, £2O paid 3 Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, X St Do 44 per Cent 1850 - Do 4} par Cent., 1860 Do 3Per Cent., 1859 Do 5 per Cent., 1862 ..•86 51 6 Do do, Scrip — Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1864, £lOO Bonds 9l} Do. do. £B4 15s. do. .•- Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds 9l Do. do £B4 15s. do — De Nioolas Railway 6i Sardinian bpr Cent — Spanitt 3 per lima Do. Account Do. 1867 Do. Account Do. New Deferred — Do. Passive _ . _ — Do. Com. Cert. of Coup. not funded — Do. Account tzwedish Provincial Mortgage Loan Do Government, 1864 Do do, 1868 Turkish 6 per Cent Do Account Do 6 per Cent. 1858 Do Account Do .ClOO Bonds Dividends on the above payable in Loadoi. Austrian a per Cent. Ex 10 Florins — Belgian, 44 per cent., Ex. 25f. Dutch 24 per Lieut. Ex. 12 Guil„ Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates French 'Lentos, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. — !Wink sper Cent. 1861, Ex. 25f Do Account s6i CLOSING PRICES. Jonsole, Money Do. Account, Jan. 6 92f i xd POLICE IN7ELLIGENCE.-7his Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. EXTENSIVE ROBBERT.—William Clayton, a young man, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with steal ing a Brussels carpet and a quantity of oilcloth, the property of Mr. James Dingley, picture-dealer, Wardour-strect, Soho. It appears that during the past two years Mr. Dingley has been most extensively robbed, he hav ing missed property of various descriptions, to the amount of £5OO or £6OO, and a short time ago he charged a young man in his employ, named Roberts, and a man named Burgess, previously in the police, with robbing him, and Burgess was convicted, but Roberts was allowed to turn witness for the prose cution. From information subsequently obtained by Mr. Dingley, he communicated with Inspector Pay, of the detective police, who discovered that the prisoner Clayton, whom Mr. Dingley had warned some time previously off his premises, had been dealing with a Brussels carpet and oilcloth, part of the stolen property, and he was then taken into custody. Inspector Pay asked for a remand, which was granted. THAMES. AN UNNATURAL MOTHER.—Sarah Belchambers, a widow, was brought before Mr. Lushington, charged with running away and leaving six children chargeable to the Poplar Union. Mr. W. B. Foster, relieving officer, said the pri soner was in the workhouse with her children and left on the 6th of October, since which time he had not seen her until she was in custody yesterday. The prisoner, in her defence, denied that she had deserted her children. She had made repeated in quiries after them. She had been to Napping ‘Vorkhouse and to Forest-gate School to see the children, and meant to take them out of the house and relieve the union of them when she obtained a situation. _ _ Mr. Lushington said the prisoner should have remained iu the workhouse with the children until she had the means of supporting them. _ _ The prisoner said that she was left a widow four years ago with six children, the eldest then twelve years of age. Mr. Foster said the prisoner was living in a state of adultery with a man, and was quite indifferent as to the state of her children. _ Mr. Lushington was afraid the prisoner was de ficient in affection for her children. He sentenced her to 14 days' imprisonment and hard labour. SAVAGE ASSAULT.—BREAIUNG A MAN'S LEG,— John Shaughnessy, an engineer, aged 26 years, of 101, Lucas-street, St. George-in-the-East, was charged with violently assaulting William Lead better, a young man, in Rateliff-highway. In the course of a quarrel between the two men the pri soner was guilty of great brutality, and kicked Leadbetter with so much force as to break hie leg. The injured man could not appear, and it was stated that he was in the London Hospital, and it would be at least three weeks before he could be permitted to leave and give evidence. Mr. Lushington said he could not remand a pri soner for three weeks, and must remand him for one week. He would take good bail for the prisoner to attend this day three weeks. WESTMINSTER. SWISS NOTIONS AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES. — Louis Gustave Drez, a Swiss, was placed at the bar charged with unlawfully obtaining a pair of boots under false pretences. Mr. James Valler, bootmaker, Wallow-street, Pimlico, said that a few days ago the prisoner came to his shop, and representing that he bad been sent by a Mr. Forster obtained a pair of boots in his name. Then the next morning prosecutor met Mr. Forster, who told him that the boots had been fraudulently obtained, and he subsequently obtained a warrant against the accused, but had ro desire now to press the charge, as Mr. Forster bad ex pressed his willingness to pay for the boots which prisoner had obtained. In reply to Mr. W. D. Smyth, prosecutor said he had some time ago taken prisoner to Mr. Forster's and paid for a pair of boots for him. Mr. Forster said he had not given the prisoner any authority to obtain the boots, which were the subject of the present prosecution. Mr. Smyth, on behalf of the prisoner, urged that having been once taken to the shop by Mr. Forster his client, finding his boots worn out, thought there would be no impropriety on his going there for a second pair. Mr. Selfe thought it a very odd notion. He had othersfals falsely represented he that he had been sent by M r. Forster. According to the view urged , if the p risoner had one pairlikoefd.boots given him he was to obtain Mr. Forster having again stated that he would pay for the boots, and Mr. Valler having expressed a wish to withdraw, prisoner was discharged. BREAKrAST.—ErPs's COCOA.—GRATEFUL AND Ce.M FORTING,—The very agreeable character of this preparation has rendered it a general favourite. The ' Civil Service Gazette' re marks; —"e singular success which Mr. Epps attained by his preparation of cocoa has never been surpassed by Pearnl:riheentalist. By a thorough knowledge of the natural 411an:rynisecexvich govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful application of the fine properties of well-selected cocoa, Mr Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a deli cately flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doc tors' bills." Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sold only in tin-lined packets, labelled . 4 '4=13 Errs and Co., Houton padnochoralits, London.', RAILWAYS.—PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. With Dividends contingent on the Profits of each separate year Berger Spence and Co.'a weekly report says " The transactions in chemicals reported since our circular of the 27th ult. have been very moderate, chiefly owing to the holidays and the objection displayed by consumers to hold any stocks at the close of the year ; the orders given out having been mainly for delivery during the early part of the current month. Some small contracts have been booked for caustic soda and bleaching powder, but in soda ash and other alkalies very little has been done. In minerals there is no change of conse quence. The metal market has been affected by the broken week, and very little business has been done. No change was made in the price of ma nufactured iron at the preliminary meeting lately held in Birmingham." A petition for the winding up of the Paraguassu Steam Tramway Company (Limited) is to be heard before the Master of the Rolla on the 15th Jan. A petition for the winding up of the Danderwen Slate Company (Limited) is to be heard before Vice -Chancellor Stuart on the 14th inst. The Equity and Law Life Assurance Society announce a dividend of Bs. 6d. per share. as pert itti teoo,ve Rota ßßlTlSH NAcmocEensos :0 FUNDS—CLOSING In.:tTNJDaias..6 92} 4 921 f t.P er L Reduced 92* N l' : ; 3 2 } Per per eCeelintt. Jan. 1894 Do. 5 0 per —e4 .1%11.1873 Annuities, 30 Yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 — Do, for 30 yre, expire sth April 1885 — Do (Red Sea Telefsraph), Aug., 1908 — Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 24 p . Ct. March D.D. 3 do. June 1 De £lOO, £2001,1z .£5OO — Bank of England Stock, 44 per Cent , Do. opening ' & nada per Cent. Bonds at er - Colonial Ommum -.. INDIAN dOVERNMENT SECURITIZe ladi•t tock, 101 per Cent., April 18 74... shut De. Opening, for Account 209 Do. o per Cent. July, 1880 De 4 pe r C ent. Oct. 188 A Do. Enf ace d P ape , 4 per C Au t..,.... 92 Do. 5 per Cert., Jan. 1872 ......w — 2 . Do. 54 p er C ent. May 1879 Da..'s per Cent., Rup. De 4. 1872 — De do 15" ...,•• •'' De, do. 1882 -- DC. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 ~ — Do , Bonds. 4 per Coat., £l,OOO ......... Do. under . .£l,ooo — Pm Pin FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES Amentino Republic, 6 per Cent .. A ui Do. ccount 87 1 9 1 BtriaAn Bonds 5 per cent Do. 1859 — Brazilian 5 per Cent — Do. 41 per Cent. 1852 — Do. do 1858....• 75 Do. lB6O — Do. do., 1863 — Do. 5 per cent., 1865 — De. k Account . .. en Ayres Account...... Cent. Cuba Do 2 per Cent. per Cent (Deferred 3 per Cent 2; , 6 Oallian 6 per Cent — Do. 41 per C en t ..., — • Do. 3 per Cent , — , Do. 7 per Cout.,-.l§§i , lO2 ~r~. Jan. 3. ral High : grounds walked aNC - r lan. 3. tion dur- 1081. 1131. 113. 115 f. 109 i. 1311. 211. 25jc. 301 c. - ,:orn, old Jan. 3. ssued his ie United howing a 00, being currency ous cities it at the be cele- her Ma- the truth ement in Jan. 3. A to in- ►nctioned )asseu ger ran. 4. no foun- Ls the in- for the .ain some Tan. 3. business of the , none of -ening. ['his step that the to per- !rown of MAILS. ran. 2. steamer uthamp )n of the e, cargo, bampton [pion on Ling ono 'an. 4. Gironde -0. She tnt of an o with a seat of ran. 4. inounces ;ter and king the :rated to wished re them afidence ier cor- markct 840 - 56 60 333 - 45 35 261 [hi and passed of the nary. s of the n Lon- railway a half- Taviga bruary. erected acture of gained is to ba ning. past I past 2 past 3 past 3 past 4 past p4ot 6 rnE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4, 1870. JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Closing Share NAME. Paid. Price 10 Agra Limited, A all 11 111 111 IO Do B lO 44 5/ 50 Albion l5 10 8 00 Alliance, Limited 20 Anglo Austrian 20 Anglo-Egyptian, lim all 22 2 2 0 20 Anglo-Hungarian 8 If 21 20 Anglo-Italian 1866, limited 10 5 4 40 Australasian 20 Bank of British Columbia all 12 13 20 Do issued at 2 pm.— , 5 5 4 25 Bank of Egypt 20 Bank of Otago, lim. 25 Bank of South Australia.— all 30 82 50 Bank of Victoria, Australia 25 37 39 10 Bank of New Zealand all 141 161 50 British North American 20 Chartered of India, Austra lia, end China all 26 Chartered Mere. of India, I London, and China all 20 City lO 100 Colonial 25 10 Consolidated, lira. 4 60 Delhi and London, lint 50 East Loudon, lim b 20 English and American, lim 10 20 English Bank of Rio de Ja neiro. lim lO 20 English, Scottish, and Aus • tralian Chartered 4.. all 161 101 281 Honc , Kong and Shanghai Bank Corporation all 36 38 281 Do new lll 4 5 100 Imperial, lim 2O 15 16 20 Imperial Ottoman lO 21 24 121 I 25 lonian all 19 22 25 Do new 5 6 3 Lnd Mortgage of India, lint 4 34 34 i 100 Do ip. c. Debs.lB64, 30 all 76 76 b 0 100 London Bank! of Alexice and South America, lim. 20 6 4 100 London and Brazilian, lint. 45 35 l.'l 20 Do new 71 h 41 100 London & River Plate, lint. 40 11 13 25 Do new 10 11 21 1 20 London Chart. of Australia all 254 241 20 London and County 2O 421 5 0 1 494 SO Do new, iss at 20 p.m, 16 pd ll London Joint Stock London and South African al 100 London &S.-Western, lim, 20 13 11 50 London & Venezuela, lim l2l __. ..• 100 London and Westrainster 2O 671 881 5 . 91 100 Do Scrip, les at 10 pm 2O 100 Merchant, lim 25 61 84 10 Metropolitan, lira all I li 7 4 00 Midland, lim.. , 5 National of Australia 25 National of Liverpool, Bra l5 Bd 1p 00 National Provinc. of Eng'd 42 ... ... done 17 18 31 32 10 II 101 1 41 i I 41 21 14 pr 1p .111 - 321 al ... • 42 ... ... 10 Do 50 National.. ... 20 New South Wales all 41 43 20 North-Western 7l ... ... 25 Oriental Bank Corporation all 41 42 50 Provinc. Bank. Corpo., Bin lO 6 } 5i 80 Provincial of Ireland 25 90 92 10 Do new, all ... ... 104 Stand. of Brit. S. Africa, Bin 25 14 13 100 Do issued at 6 pin lO 8 6 25 Union of Australia all 48 41 100 Union of Ireland, lira 50 Union of London l5 37 38 TELEGRAPH COMPANIES. Tr liiiTo-Ainerican Tel., lim an 19 2) 191 1 10 Anglo Mediter Te1.,1im.... le 171 1$ 19, 20 lit st Atlantic Telegraph lO 13 16 st Do. 8 per cent. st B. and I. Magnetic Tel., lim lOO 178 183 st Electric (It Inter. Telegraph 100 260 265 10 Do. New 8 12 13p 25 Indo-European Tel., lim all 23 2 i 5 Lond. Provincial Tel. lim all 21 31 1 Do. Prefer. 10 per cent all 1 I p 10 Mediterra. Eaten. Tel., lim. all 6 61 2.5 Reuter's Telegram all 78 60 20 Societe Transatlant., lim all 14 17 161 1 it Submarine Telegraph .. 1 Do. Scrip..... . . 5 U. Kingdom Tel. Co., lim all 7 41 5 Do. 10 per cent. Pref all (1 51 ...—..... MISCELLANEOUS. 10 Aiiii7Ciexican Mint all 141 144 25 Australian Agricultural 25 Australian Mort. Land and Finance, lim 10 Baugarah Tea Estates, lim 8 3d 10 Berlin Water Works, lim all 111 141 114 10 Do. New all —-- 100 Bolckow Vaughan, lim. 5 Bombay Gas, lim 5 Do. Now 4 11 Id 50 British American Land 44 15 17 20 British Indian Tea, lim all 21 81 20 British Ship Owners 7l 29 Canada Company all 64 06 10 Canadian Loan and InTest intent, lim 2l 20 Ceylon Company, lim 20 Do. A shares 10 City Discount, lim 6 25 City of London Real Pro perty, lim 9 51 4 30 City of Milan Improv. lim. all 5 6 25 City of Moscow Gas, lim all 50 City Offices, lim 25 23 22 SO Colonial, lim. Do. 30 Commercial llnion (Assur) S - pr 1 10 Company of African Mer chants, lira 20 Continental Union Gas, lim all 25 $7 24 25 Copper Miners of England, prof. 71 per cent. •• •• 31 • 21ct 3 'A Bank of France. _PARIS, Dec. 30. The following is the return of the Bank of France for the week ending to-day, together with the cor responding figures of the previous account : SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times remarks that the Official Journal of the French Empire has printed the names of M. Emile 011ivier's colleagues in the new Cabinet—an array of names well calculated to reward the patience of these who, like ourselves, have been for many weeks looking forward to its publication. The Emperor, indeed, has earned a right to keep some friends about him by consent ing with so good a grace to welcome as his advisers men who have been till this day his declared adversaries. Count Daru, the newly - appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs, although he bears an illustrious name, associated with the days of the First Empire, has been conspicuous since the coup dVtat among the most consistent onemies of the Second. It is bard to see how the reconciliation between the Founder of "Per sonal Rule" and the champions of sound Liberal princi ples could be more sincere or complete. In the very first exercise of his prerogative as a Constitutional Sovereign the Emperor waives his authority so far as to accept a Cabinet from the construction of which he deemed it ad visable to remain entirely aloof. We do not see what better proofs he could give of his confidence in his sub jects, or how he could place himself more unconditionally in their hands. There is, indeed, in all this the ackuow ment of a radical change; there are symptoms of the 4 . weariness of the traveller worn out by the length of his way and the weight of his burden." But the Emperor neither intends nor has it in his power to abdicate. He is thinking of his son, whom any untoward event may call to the inheritance of a power to which his own strength and dexterity have not been more than equal. The share of that power which, in his new compact with his subjects, he reserves to himself, might, perhaps, without uneasiness he bequeathed to a minor. A nation which can be trusted with the formation of its own Ministry is so far emancipated as to be able to conduct its own affairs, and a self-governing nation may and will easily submit to a sovereign reigning and not ruling. - - - The Daily News declares that the Tipperary scandal has not been repeated in Longford. Mr. Greville-Nugent, the son and heir of one of the new Gladstone peers, has been returned by an enormous majority over Mr. John Martin, once editor of the Irish Felon, and himself in 1848 a poli tical convict. Mr. Martin, though he could once claim the honourable title which he gave to his newspaper has no longer any right to it. He is at large, as free as any other of her Majesty's subjects. His election would in no sense back the demand of the agitators for the release of the Fenian convicts. It would have none of the merits of a practical joke. The sense of fun had something to do _ _ with the choice of O'Donovan Rossa. But there is nothing funny about Mr. Martin. He is a Presbyterian and a landowner, and in these particulars had no advantage over his rival, who is a landowner and a member of the Church of England. The electors of Longford, having had the matter clearly placed before them, have declared that they prefer the Saxon yoke to the cause for which O'Connell died. The vast major.ty of those who have voted at all, have voted for the British officer, and against the "Irish felon." There are in the present House of Commons men, active, useful, and respected, who have stood on the same platform with O'Connell, and have been tenants of her Majesty's gaols as political prisoners. But when Mr. Martin's claims to a seat in Parliament are based upon the past, it is impossible to let bygones be bygones. Mr. Greville-Nugent's personal fitness to repre sent Longford is better understood in Longford than in London, But be has hereditary claims to favourable con sideration. His father, whose elevation to the peerage has created the vacancy which the sonhas now been called on to fill, is one of the few Protestant landlords who ad vocated religious equality when Liberal statesmen looked askance at it, and who favoured legal security of tenure when to mention the phrase, except to denounce it, was to incur the reproach of aiming at revolution and cou fiscation. The Pall Mall Gazette, in discussing the admission of working men to Parliament, observes that the prevailing . opinion is that capacity for legislation comes, like reading and writing, by nature, or as an inevitable result of the possession of so many thousands a year. When a man holds himself to have a strong claim to assist in making laws because he has been a successful soap boiler or has a large number of railroad shares, it would seem hypercritical to urge that working men are, as a general rule, insufficiently educated, and not deeply enough versed in political studies. All that can be remarked upon this head is of a more general application. It is really desirable, para doxical as the assertion appears, that men who have to decide intricate questions of policy, and to reduce it chaotic system of laws to something like order and har monious action, should possess trained intellects and have received a thorough education. Little as these conditions are regarded in practice, we should not quite lose sight o them in theory. And it is certainly not a positive recom mendation to a man that he has passed the greater part of his life in stitching coats or hammering iron. If, in deed, he has surmounted those disadvantages, ho has shewn very unusual powers, which deserve encouragement; but the fact, taken by itself, does not constitute a positive recommendation. A really able and honest working man might, indeed, be able to preserve his independence, to command the respect of all parties, and to enforce a due consideration of the views of his class. All that we say is that a man coming in the name of the working classes, with an exacting constituency behind him insisting upon his making a noise at any price, with every party willing to make a cat's paw of him for their own particular objects, with the little experience of the class among which he is placed, will be in a position requiring unusual tact and strength of mind. Many working men who possess genuine influence with their fellows would exert it far more effectually from without than within the sacred precincts. They would there be infinitely less liable to suspicion or to temptation, and would obtain almost as wide a hearing. An epitaph by tho Times has, says the Standard, long ceased to have any ethical or commercial value. Always imbued with an extravagant share of the one quality pro verbially be!onging to this species of composition, _the epitaphs of the Times have come to be neither a truthfu memorial to the dead nor a useful lesson to the living, They are generally a compliment when they are intended for a reproach, and an insult when they are written as flattery. Very often they have a trick of being antedated, for it is the humour of the once leading journal to affect that its enemies are dead when their further living becomes unpleasant to itself. It too often "comes to bury Cvsar, not to praise him "—when Cxsar, perhaps, is still in vigorous existence. The decease of the Morning Herald has been the latest subject for the exercise of this peculiar talent in our contemporary. With a composure really remarkable under the circumstances, the Times traces the decline of the Morning Herald to a too zealous adherence to the cause of its party. This too consistent journal fell, we are told, a martyr to its immovability. No one, certainly, will ever write in the Times epitaph, whenever that melancholy duty has to be discharged by a surviving world, that it died "because it stuck too long and too narrowly to the same old work" meaning by" same old work "the consistent advocacy of one set of principles. No one believes that the Times will expire, as the Morning Herald did, of an over scrupulous and rigid adherence to the spirit of any one party. Yet if we are to measure the decline of a party by the accidents of journalism, then it is certainly not the Tory party alone which has to lament a loss of influence. If there have been changes in the ranks on one side, there have been changes also on the other ; and the sneer that Toryism is not what it was, is sufficiently met by the retort that Liberalism is not what it was. Where is now the party which the Times itself so long supported—the party of Lord Palmerston ? Is it not more honest, at least, to die for one's party, than to live by the killing of many parties? The Telegraph thinks that, in considering the question of competitive examinations, it must be clearly borne in mind that the Civil Service is not one department, but comprises many, and that there is great variety in the work. It would be impossible to establish one kind of competition for twenty or thirty different departments. For instance, French is imperatively required in the Foreign Office, and arithmetic not at all, while no language is demanded for entrance to the Revenue Offices, but the competition in arithmetic is severe. It would seem, there fore, impracticable to establish any one entrance or com petition test for the whole Civil Service, or to decree that the best man in that one test may enter any office he selects. That would " never do." Besides, to make com petition fair it should take place at several local centres, lest London, or Dublin, or Edinburgh lads should have an undue advantage. For instance, if we take all the subjects on which candidates are tested, from penmanship up to Greek or the higher mathematics, we could make a list that might form the programme of a series of local standard examinations conducted in at least every borough of the United Kingdom. From this list, in the cases that we have imagined, Ministers might choose three or more candidates for a limited com petition as each vacancy occurred, and thus gradually the best men would obtain the vacant posts—the defeated men still retaining the original local certificate, which would probably be useful in obtaining Bank of England and private clerkships. It willbe seen that this plan would retain all the advantages of the present system, and abolish its only disadvantage—its preference of political nominees over young men without friends. But while we might substitute perfect freedom of competition for those privi leges of competition which are now obtained through political influence, we must take care that, in levelling all class and family distinctions, we do not injure special departments of the service requiring peculiar qualifications and gifts. Of course it is a good thing to extirpate corrupt patronage, but, after all, the raison d'etre of the Civil Ser vice is that the civil service of the country should be effectually and suitably performed. Clerkships are clerkships, and not prizes for the learning, virtue, or piety of wonderfully crammed or vairaculoualy ofqoulating boys. SHARE LIS7. Aft Y iEtA KAiti AND STOC K ++• Paid. Closing Business Prim done. st Bi ist il and Exeter ...... 100 74 76 st Caledonisa ......•..• 100 761 77 761 1 st Cambrian 20 Cornwall...—. ... . ... at Dublin & Be/fast Juno lOO at Dun„Yerth, & Ab. June OO 70 72 2.1 East London all 8 7 23 Do 15 20 Do 10 at Glasgow &S. Western lOO 105 107 at Great Eastern . ' lOO 381 38 1 39 8 / at Do. E. Angl. 'No. Z lOO 61 71 at Groat North of Scotland lOO 15 16 at Great Northern lOO 110 Itl 1111 101 at Du. A stook et Do. B stock lOO 127 129 at CitS, and W. 01 Ireland lOO 08 100 at (it. Western -Original lOO 661 061 891 1 3 't Do. South Wales llO 60 61 at Do. W. Mid.—Oxiord lOO 34 6 it Do. t: ewport lOO 32 31 at Lancashire 41; Yorkshire lOO i2B; 271 1281 8 at Lou., Lirigh.,& S.Coat lOO 401 471 47/ 1 Do Scrip at I•on., Chat., and Dover lOO 15 151 at Do. Metrop. Ex. A lOO 11 13 at Lou. & North Western lOO 1211 221 1241 1 4 at Lon. A South Western llO 9.: 1.4 93 Alan., Shei., & Lincoln lOO 53 531 at Metropolitan at Do Extension .. 0 Do. New rd .. at Metropolitan District. all 30 52 341 10 Metrop. St. John's \\ cod at Ihuimud at I'o dirmin. A Dqr by at IsiJr di British . ...... at II . Ed., rth., A Eu» ll9 at Nor Easteru—Berwiok lOO 20 D G. N.E purohause 16.13.1 - at 1) Leeds lOO 79 8) 04 at D °York lOO 1181 1191 1251 6 st D °Carlisle .. . at 1) °Stock. & Darling 1(0 158 Ito 108 at North London 10 Do New 1868 at North Staffordshire...... 100 61 63 at North anti S. W. Junction 100 99 101 10 Do Now £lO shares 7 • at Rl , : f mney at Shropshire Union lOO 591 601 at South Devon'.. at South Eastern lOO 771 774 781 at Staines, Wok'ham, & Wok all 13 14 st Tall Vale Do. C•• Waterford & Kilkenny lOO 10 Waterloo & Whitehail 6 AZIIWILy b, 12U !224 1271 8 71 ItAILWAYS-PREFERENCE SHAKES AND )3TOOKI, 87 89 at Bristol and Exeter 4 p.cent. 100 st Caledonian Qra., No. 2 llO at Do. Scot. N.E., 41 per cent llO at Do. Aberdeen, gua 6 p.c lOO at Do. du. 7 per cent lOO st Do. do. Ordinary lOO at Do. Midland at Do. Dundee and Arbroath 11l 20 Cornwall, o per cent gua all stg Dundee, Perth, and Aber deen Junction lOl at Do. Ist Class preference lOO at Glas. & S.W. gua. 5 per ct llll at Gt. Eastern, E.G Ex. No.l 100 st Do de No. 2 100 at - Do do 6 per cent 100 at Do East Anglian A s p. c. 101 at Do do B 6 do. 11l st Do do C 7 de. 100 at Do do No. 1, 5 p.c. 100 at Do E. Union 4 p.c. gua. 100 st Do Norfolk 5 p.c. Ex. 1846 100 at Do do 5 p.c.Way.Val.lB47 100 at Great Northern, 5 per cent 100 at Do 5 p.c., rd at 10 p. c. pm. 100 Do 41 do do do 100 st Do 5 do at sp.c. pm lOO st Do Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax, 6 per cent lOO at Gt. Nrth of Scotland, let pf 100 st Great South. and Western (Ireland) 4 per cent lOO at, Gt.West.—Orig.&Jnt.-Rent chg., per guar.() p.c lOO Do. Orig. (B. & H. Ex). 5 p.c lOO Do do 44 per cent. 1850 lOO Do do 4 do do Do do b per cent. redem lOO Do do Birmingham gua lOO do pref lOO Do do Do do C hes g ter ua lOO Do do do 8 per cent lOO Do do do 5 do 104 Do South Wales, gua. 4 p.c. 100 Do do 41 p.c lOO at Do do 41 1850 lOO at Do do 5 at Do West Mid. Oxford Ist g. 100 it Do do 2d gua. 100 at Do Newport, Ist g. 5 p.c. 100 at Do do 25 do 100 st Do gua. 51 per cent. 1863 100 00 Lancaster & Carlisle 41 p.c. all et Lancash. & Yorksh. 6 p.c. 100 1 3 133 at Do Barnsley, £5 3s IVd p.c. 100 B s t t D p o o sti London & Brighton, 5 P.C guaranteed, No 1 lOO 6 4 1 r (Blackburn(4stiL2ae ra j i r h) ) lOO 13 8 0 8 1 1 . 00 05 do do lel at Do 5 do No. 4 lOO at! Dopo 6 5 per cent. gue, No. 2. 100 m at Do 7 per cent ..... ...... ( I \s/ 85 .k.. 9 . & (.).1 ) ) 100 „, 100 s ax t tt D DL o 6 oona4on, per cent lOO ddCoohatham, &Dove; Ai London and IL W., C. and Nuneaton 5 per cent lOO 110 112 et Do Bedford & Cambiidge lOO st Do Shrewsb'y & W elehp'l lO/ at London and S W. 7 p,c late 3d shares, lOO 145 150 a Do (Portsm. perp ens 2s6d) all a Mau., Shef., & Lincln. 6 p.c. 100 ... Do a Do 31 per cent lOO 04 66 1 Do redeem. 6 per cent 5 st Mid. Consolidated, 6p. e lOO 130 135 s Do Bristol& Birm., 6p. c.. 10J 1.3 1:35 a Do 44 per cent. redeem los 98 100 a Do 41 per cent. irredeem lOO 98 10J Do Leicester & 1 p.c 100 89 81 90/ st North British, 5 p.c. No. 1 lOO st Do E. &G.4p.c. S. & D lOO at Do N. 8., N 0.2, 5 per cen.t 100 st Do Border Union, 51 p.c lOO at N.-Eastern—Cons. 4 p.c : 100 87 89 st Do 41 per cent. redeem lOO 97 99 st Do (.4- N.E. 4 per cent., lOO 17 Do Lerwick capital Do York, H. &S. purchase lO 10 101 Do Stcktn & Drliug. A. 5 p.c lOB 107 10) at Do W, Hartlepool H. and R 100 8.1 88 20 North Stallordshire 10s S. Devon Annuities, I,s all 9 10 10e Do Tavistock Anne., 10s all 81 VI 10s Do Fixed 41 per cent all 8 81 1p.6. S. hest. (Read. Arms., 1.0.6) l all 22 23 at Do 41 percent at Do Fixed 41 per cent lOO at Taff Vale No.l lOO 154 158 at Waterford & Kilkenny, 6pc 100 „. 73 82 96 98 106 108 95 100 90 92 SO 82 97 92 68 72 S 5 90 95 100 116 116 113 115 8b 93 100 all Boa at Do pp Caledonian oo 4p4tep 4 o ni PrsSireseadsga:::::4llm.BBa6:29.. at Do Scot. Cen. min. 7 p c. 100 O 65 at Great Eastern 4 1 1 x 15ed a p iopdf e , r el.,:i c 4rs6 e ir3 n pev. a t . C. 1 :1 0 000 0 000 at Do 00 aa s t t t Great Dpoo t Boston \v eN West ., e , o w w a Northern, 5. 5 at Do Permanent 5 per cent. 100 at t t Great c 100 et Do Joint perpe. 5 p c,1865 100 S 3 . S;2 . st Do do 6p c irred., 1433 100 110 112 20 Do Vale N oath perp. 5p c all st Kent Coast, 6 per cent, B._ pm • • 5 Lane. and Yerk New 41 per cent till July, 1871 2 I ip at Loud., Brig &e., 41 pc, 1858 100 at Do do 4 do, 1860 100 Z. at Do do 41 do, 1861 100 • st Do do 4i do, 1863 100 ••• st Do do 5 do, 1865 100 at Do No. 6 5 do, 1866 100 ... 83 at Do No. 7 sdo a at t Lo pp u o d o , m C e h t a t o . po , &c.,. 0 68 , 6 66 p p y c c e 1 11 0 00 0 ,0 .•. at Loudon& N Western,S p c 100 103 110 st Loudon S. S. Western, .11 p c 100 3 , 5 10 Mau. chef. & Lin., pc, 1865 all 9 91 91 at Metroporinku 5 per cent lOO Do 102 at Midland, it 5 per cent pref lOO 107 109 st B 5 do 100 107 109 13 Do 5p c opt. to co'. to Ord. Stk., Sept. 1, 1869 all 201 215 18 Do lucoilv. New Shares all 19 1 94 22 Do 5p c con. into Old Stk., Aug. 31,187 . 2 Bl 11 21p at Worth British, E. and G No. 1, 5 per coat at Do £lO guaranteed, 1861 100 Do E ,P., &Dun., 2d, 4pc 100 at Do E. &G , No. 2, 5 p.c ... 100 at Do N. 8.. 5 per cent, 1862 100 at G., N 0.3, 5 p.c 101 ... at Do E. &G., (Ordiry) 41 p 100 at North Eastern, 41 per cent 100 99 1;0 101 at Do Stock. & Dart., D ... 100 113 115 at North London, 41, per cent (Max. 5 per cent) at North Staffordshire 5p c lOO st South Eastern, 41 pc, 1859 100 at Do 5 do 1861 100 . at— ..po sdo (Ch. Cross) 1863 100 •• •.. at Do 5 do, 1364 at Vict , St. & Pimlico, 41 pc 100 ••• •.. 77 80 87 90 86 88 83 88 BAIL WAYS.-LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS] at Birkenhead lOO 91 93 00 Do. 41 per cent. Prefer all 93 100 at Buckinghamshire at Chester and Holyhead lOO Si i 6 at Do. 51 per cent. at Do. 5 do. 100 11C 112 at Clydesdale, guaranteed lOO ..„ at Colchester Stear Valley at East Lincoln, gua. 6p. c lO9 132 131 20 Gloster and Dean Forest all ..„ s Gt. Easn., Newrn., &c., 5 p.c 100 a Do. E. U. Harwich, 4 p.c 100 at Do.do.Woodbrg.Ex., do 1011 fit Gt. West, W. tEd., Heref 100 97 99 100} be null and Selby all 110 112 st Lancaster and Carlisle lOO 217 222 at London and Blackwall too 9 ,, 05 95 at Do. 41 per cent lOO st London, Chat., &c., 4.1 p c lOO at Do. Com. Fund, 5 do 100 st London and Greenwich at Do. do Preference lOO at London, Tilbury, & South 100 at Lowestoft, gv.a 4 per cent lOO at Do. - 6 do 100 51 Ma all at Dlidland, Bradford, Pref lOO , 10 Mid Kent Cray Llr.e) be Northern& East., 5 percent all 53 56 50 Do. do. 6 do. all at N. Eastern —Hartlep00l at N.West. A perp. pref, 5p c. 100 107 109 st B minimum 11 p.c lOO at Nutting. &Cranth R.& C lOO 91 93 25 Preston and Wyre. all 44 46 Royston, Hitch., and Shop. 100 132 134 st Shrewsbury and Hereford 100 132 334 10 De do 8 2 Zi p a S, Yorksh. and River Dun 100 117 99 1021 1 D 4 per cent gua... 10 70 80 5 do ... all 98 100 at Vict. Station and Pimlico... 101 et West Cornwall 20 West London, Class A all 13 14 20 Do do B all ... 20 D o do C all at Weymouth and Portland lOO at Wilts and Somerset 62 64 DOCKS. st East and Wag India lO5 1.:4 1?6 London and St. Katherine lOO 51 53 100 D oDeb. stock, 4 per cent Mills:tall Freehold Land 10) 28 31 st Dock st Soidkampton lje 22 76 ei surrey Goramercisa I ~,,, 83 85 79 81 92 94 93 4 DEBTOR. Dec. 30. Dec. 23. fr. c. fr. c. Capital of the Bank 182,500,000 182,500,000 Profits in addition to Capital (Art. 8, Law, June 9, 1857) 7,044,776 02 7,044,776 02 Reserve of the Bank and its branches 22,105,750 14 22,105,750 14 Reserve of landed pro perty 4,000,0 00 4,000,000 Notes in circulation Banknotes to order and receipts payable at sight 46,271,819 62 Treasury account cur rent credit3r -10,725,935 42 281458,259 57 Current accounts, Paris 374 167.210 13 361,360,028 85 Do. branch banks 43,650,081 Dividends payable 791,076 Discounts and sundry interests Rediscounted the last six mouths Surplus of receipts not distributed Sundries 45,881,189 53 210,725,935 42 374,167,210 13 46,001,1 19 -- 10,991,393 - 428,095 54 1,305,522 15 6,09,613 89 8,827,320 79 Total CREDITOR. Dec. 2 3 . Dec. 30. c. fr. c. Cash in hand and in fr. Branch banks Commercial bills over- 696 14 1,217,125,675 13 260,931 37 due 23 counted, Commercialnobt yet dueillsdis- 089 19 35 5 ,546,451 35 310, 082, 292 Do. branch banks 287,275 ,214 ,125,580 Advances on depoSit of bullion 22,577,300 22,457,800 Do. branch banks 1,725,900 1,699,880 - - Do. on S French Public Securities 22,410,100 22,642,700 Do. by branch banks 9,00,900 9,051,800 Do. on railway shares and debentures - 39,380,1 1 ,,0 32,946,170 Do. branch banks Do. on Credit Fernier ' Bonds - 1 , 131 , 800 Do. branches Do. to the State (Con 18l' ion, June 10, 60 000,000 --. 60,000,000 Goverment Stock re- ' serve 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14 Do. disposable Routes Immobalisees (Law, Juno 2, 1857) v' ' o 000 000 100,000,000 - Hotel and furniture of the Bank and landed property branches ... ,894 Expenses of manage ment 2948,103 50 Sundries 9,055,892 - 9,048 897 - 2,554,010 93 9,995,002 42 Certified by the Senator-Governor of the Bank Total of Fran Co. (Signed) RoULAND . The Bank Returns. i h The Bankers' Magazine furnish es the returns of th e s i r culation of the public and joint-stock banks n England and Wales for the four weeks ending the 4th of Dec. These returns, combined w ith the circula tion of the Scotch and Irish banks for the same Period, and the average cir culation of the Bank of England for th e f our wee k s en ded the Ist of Dec. (the nearest date furnished by their returns), will give the following results of the circulation of notes in the United Ring d em when compared with the previous month : Noy. 6, Dec' 4, 188 0 . 1869. Increase.lDecrease. — 9 - 4 ---_. 5- 03,957 0 ,913,269 ,418, Private Banks 56,333 Bank of England 2 2 3 , , 59 t4 j 12 2 3 :7 18 5 1 I:7 1V i .._ 1 1 7 : 5 3 9 3:7 T Joint-stock Banks 2,4 28,072 2,3 8,739 --____. - Total —.— ,459 2 8,301,848 948.411 scotland in England. 29, 2- 8 I 4,87 1 . 3 8 6 ,287,458 416,140 Ireland 7,381 ,180 7 ,354,163 27,017 140 . 976,828 United Kingdom. 41, Ande o , as 186 month ending the sth of D £363,505 in the circulation of notes in England, and an increase of £105,946 in the circulation of the United Kingdom. On comparing the above . With the fixed issues of the compared with rtehteurns show a decrease of several banks the following 15 the state of the circulation: — The English private banks are below their fixed issue ••• ••• £1,290,907 The English joint-stock banks are below their fixed issue ••• •.. 369,901 Total below fixed issue in England ... £1:660,808 The Scotch banks are above their fixed issue... 2 538,187 The Irish banks are above their fixed issue ... 992,669 The average stock of bullion held by the Bank of Eng land in both departments during the month endingilst of Nov. was £18,413, 206 , being a decroale of £388,284, as compared with the previous month, and a decrease of £71,692 when compared with the same period last year. The following are the amounts of specie keld by the Scotch and Irish banks during the mouth ending the 6th of Nov.:— Gold and silver held by the Scotch banks ... £3,179,767 Gold and silver held by the Irish banks ... 2,744,884 £5,924,651 being an increase of X 518,118 as compared with the pre vious return, and an, increase of £321,393 When compared with tie corropondiAg perloa /at yes. 105 147 93 10J 97 99 111 113 6+3 72 PARIS CORRESPONDENCE. MONMAY. The. list of the new Ministry has given, as you may sup pose,Vrery general satisfaction. The difficulties which beset .. I- he path of M. 011ivier have, by some means or another, been removed, and the long hoped-for combination of the Right and Left Centres is actually accomplished. Just when the public disappoint ment and anxiety were culminating, and we were threatented with a Cabinet so mediocre and unsatisfactory that there could be little hope or expectation of its per manenee;,came the welcome intelligence that the new ministersowere not to be chosen exclusively from one party and that the most reactionary. The Journal des Dads, in felicitating M. 011ivier on the concurrence of MM. Buffet and Daru, considers that his majority in the Cham ber is now secure. The Constitutitonnel thinks that nothing remains of the Empire, and Parliamentary Government is fully established with all the guarantees of the most advanced countries. By the alli ance between Parliamentary Government and liberty with universal suffrage, France regains the position she took in 1789, while the Imperial Government is stronger than ever for the protection of order. The Liberte says that the new Ministry effaces the line of demarcation between the Right Centre and the Left Centre, and is the best that could have been formed. Its true title should be, according to M. de Girardin, "The Cabinet of the 12th July.' The Pat d'ie, of course, rejoices, and affirms that the first expression of the public gratitude is due to the Emperor for the sincerity and courage with which he has accepted the parliamentary regime. Other journals speak the same language of satis faction and encouragement. So far as the leading journa lists are concerned, M. 011ivier will have a fair trial. Almost the only malcontent is the Slide, which finds matter for discontent in that very fusion of parties which gratifies most other politicians. The two Centres cannot, says the writer, have united with out one side making concessions. Which has yielded ? The members of the Left Centre cannot, as much from in terest as from honour, have agreed to enter the Cabinet with out the dissolution of the Chamber being guaranteed and the prompt convocation of the electors, which may accordingly be looked for as the only consideration of importance in the matter. The forthcoming elections will be to the Empire what the elections of 1827 were to the Restoration —they will place it between a Favre-Picard and a Rouher- Polignae Ministry. The Paris correspondent of the Incleyendance Belye gives currency to an awkward rumour. The Emperor, it is said, in receiving the Deputies on Sunday appeared careworn and even suffering. Ho said a few words, which we must bope were misunderstood, to the effect that he did not intend to surrender altogether his personal power, but only to share it with the Corps Legislatif. The events of the last few days seem to contradict this story. We must hope that the old play of Imperial vacillation and uncertainty, giving with one hand and with holding with the other, will not be enacted over again at this momentous crisis. M. de Forcade La Roquette has left Paris for the Lot-4. Garonne to see after his candidature. According to the accounts that have been received, the election of the late Minister of the Interior is not doubtful. Troppmann has received several visits from the Abbe Croyes, the chaplain of La Roquette, and has held long conferences with him. Until recently he has slept well and eaten with a good appetite. He complains of being obliged to wear a strait waistcoat. He begs the governor to have him executed with the least possible delay. He still declares that he has accomplices; but to denounce them now would, he says, be useless, and would only create fresh trouble. He is anxious to spare them on account of their families. Upon the re-assembling of the Corps Legislatif, three vice-presidents will have to be appointed, on account of the acceptance of office by MM. de Talhouet, Chevandier do Valdrome, and Daru. M. Jerome David is now left the first vice-president. The new vice-presidents are supposed to be M. Brisson-Billault, who previously obtained 104 votes, and MM. Bournat and Martel. These last deputies are now secretaries, and their places must be filled by new corners. The protest which Troppmann has presented to the Minister of Justice will be sent immediately to the Court of Cassation. It is thought likely that the Criminal Chamber of the Court will examine into the case during the week. M. Bozerain has undertaken the defence of the appeal. The Constitutionnel remarks that the official list of the new Ministry has not yet been received, but that ono thing is certain, namely, that the Emperor will remain firm in his resolve to act the part of a constitutional sovereign. He has accorded to M. 011ivier the permission to form a Cabinet in conformity with the parliamentary situation, and M. 011ivier has nothing to do but to con sult that situation. The importance of this fact is so great that only a secondary interest can attach itself to personal subjects connected with the Ministry. A sure proof of the change that has taken place in politic - d. affairs is afforded by the circum stance that the leader of the majority in the Chamber has been charged with the duty of forming a responsible Ministry. The Constitutionnel believes that Franco is in a fair way of realising the most favourable schemes of pro gress, and that she is already in advance of other European nations on account of her adoption of universal suffrage. The Liberte declares that of the Ministry of the 31st of December there only remains M. Emile 011ivier, whom the Emperor has appointed Keeper of the Seals. M. Magna has stipulated that ho will not remain Finance Minister unless MM. Buffet, Daru, Segris, and de Tal hou'cit may join him in the new Cabinet. Meanwhile the last-named gentlemen have said that they cannot take office with 31. Magne. It is said that some of the difficulties which M. 011ivier has encountered have arisen from the objections that the Emperor has raised; but this the Constitutionnel emphati cally denies, affirming that the Emperor has given every possible facility to M. 011ivier, and has respected all his wishes. The cause of the duration of the crisis is that seven or eight of the chiefs of the two centres to which M. 011ivier addressed himself refused to join him. But they appear likely to reconsider that refusal to-day. It is therefore in correct for the Temps to declare that the Emperor was with great difficulty persuaded to accept one member of the Left Centre. The _Francais, which is believed to be the organ of 31. Buffet, the head of the Left Centre, has an article on the Ministerial crisis, in which it states that M. 011ivier, knowing from previous conversations that the chief members of the Right Centre, and notably MM. Segris and de Talhouiit, were resolved to make their entrance into the Cabinet subordinate to that of members of the Left Centre, asked M. Buffet to assist him in vanquishing their scruples, informing him at the same time that there was no question of calling any member of the Left Centre to office at the moment. 31. Buffet agreed, and begged these politicians to enter the Cabinet without him, but they refused. M. 011ivier then, accompanied by DI. de Talhouet, went to M. Buffet and offered him a port folio. M. Buffet, on hearing that M. Darn was not to receive a similar offer, refused. The France says that the Ministry of the Fine Arts will be shortly suppressed, and that the Prefecture of Police will have the surveillance of the ordinary theatres. The Imperial ones will be directed by a committee, with Vis count de Laferriere as chief. According to the Presse, M. Casimir Feder has pre.. sented himself as a candidate for the Fourth Ciscumscrip tion of the Isere, left vacant by the annulling of M. Marion's election. Several journals state that M. Armand, Chef de Cabinet to the Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne, has been made Minister Plenipotentiary. Troppmann is no longer at the Conciergerie. He wa s transferred on Friday last to La Roquette. At first he was much depressed, but after a night's rest he seemed to take courage, and asked for his breakfast, exclaiming while they brought it, " I shall soon undo all this." He intends to appeal to the Court of Cassation, and has had an inter view with his counsel, 31. Lachaud, after which he seemed to gather confidence, and regained his old assurance of manner, contrasting strongly with the dejected attitude which he has assumed since the last sitting of the court. The journeymen bakers of Marseilles have struck work. They want an increase of wages which shall give them in all sf. 50c. per day. If their employers do not agree, they intend to set up in business for themselves, and sell bread at an intermediate price between that of the bakers of the town and the general boulanaerie. THE FAREWELL TO CHARLES MATTHEWS. The complimentary benefit to Mr. Charles Matthews to-day at Covent Garden, prior to his departure for Australia, has resulted in a great success. Every seat in the theatre was filled, and the performances, up to the time of our going to press, bad produced the greatest enthusiasm. All the old favourites received a warm reception, but on Mr. Charles Matthews making his appearance as Manager Puff in the " Critic" the applause was tremendous. A more successful, hearty, and genial leave-taking it would be impossible to imagine. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. DEMERARA. The traffic receipts on this company's line for the fortnight ending the 27th of November last amounted to $6,772 82c., and for the correspond ing fortnight in 1868 to $6,397 90c., showing an increase of ion 920, SPORTING INTELLIGENCE— ;his Das FINCHLEY RACES.-THIS DAY. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) PINCHLEY PLATE. Basquine . Wedding Peal Owen Swift 3 Seven ran. CITY BE'rrING.—THIS DAY. WATERLOO (COURSING) CUP. sto 1 agst Lord Lurgan's nomination (taken) 100 to 6 agst Mr Brocklebank's nom. (taken) . 20 to 1 agst Mr Blanshard's nom. (taken) 20 to 1 agst Mr Bland's nom. (taken) 25 to 1 agst Dr Richardson's nom. (taken) LIVERPOOL GRAND NATIONAL. 500 to 30 agst The Lamb (taken) 250 to 10 agst Tathwell (taken) 500 to 15 agst Pearl Diver (taken) 500 to 15 agst Globule (taken) TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. 4to 1 agst Kingcraft (taken and offered) 9to 2 agst Sunshine offered (5 to 1 taken) 100 to 12 agst Camel (offered) 10 to 1 agst Astolfo (taken) 5(0 to 15 agst Bay Rosebud (takue) DERBY. 1000 to 1 agst Chancelier (takr n) TATTERSALL'S—Last Evening. WATERLOO CUP. sto 1 agst Lord Lurgan's nomination (tak.au) LIVERPOOL GRAND NATIONAL. 1000 to 35 agst The Colonel (taken) 500 to 15 agst Fertullagh (taken) TWO THOUSAND. 450 to 100 agst Sunshine (taken) 500 to 40 agst Sunlight (taken) DERBY. 13 to 1 agst Camel (taken) 18 to 1 agst Bridgwater (taken) 1000 to 30 agst Katherine Logie c (taken) 1000 to 25 agst Alaric (taken) 500 to 10 agst Astrolabe (taken) 500 to 10 agst Exciseman (taken) Skirmish gets the Stakes for the disputed Race at Bromley. RACING FIXTURES-1870. FEBRUARY. Lincoln l5, 16 I Derby .. '22, 23 Harrow 17, 18 Nswton .... 25, 2G -- - -- MARCH. Nottingham... 1, 2 I West Somerset l6, 17 Liverpool B, 9, 10 I Warwick 22, 23, 2 t Pontefract 14, 15 I Epsom 29, 30 Cambridgeshire l4, 15 l Bromley 31 and April 1. _ APRIL. Northampton 5, 6 Newmarket Craven 18 to 22 West Drayton 7, 8 I Abergavenny 21, 22 Thirsk 7, 8 i Lewes Kingsbury lB, 19 1 Croydon. 28, 29 Durham lB, 19 1 MAY. Newmarket Ist 5p....2 to 5 I Harpenden 20, 21 Chester. lO, to 13 I Bath 24, 2S Winchester lO, 11 1 Stamford 26, 27 Salisbury l2, 13 ] Croydon 26, 27 York 17, 18 1 Epsom 31 to June 3 Doncaster 19, 20 JUNE. Croydon 8, 9 Manchester 8,9, 10 Ascot 14 to 17 'Windsor 2l, 22 Newton 22, 23 Hampton 23, 24 Bibury Club 29 Stockbridge...3o, and JPly 1. ULY. Newmarket 6 to 8 Nottingham 12, 13 Chelmsford l2, 13 Reading 12, 13 AIII Brighton 2 3 Bnghton Club 4 Lewes ............5, 6 Egham 9, 10 Windsor ll, 12 Bromley l6, 17 West Drayton H, 15 Huntingdon 19, 20 I Kingsbury 2l, 24 Goodwood 26, 29 3UST. Stockton l7 to 19 Oxford 18, 19 York 23 to 25 Plymouth Derby 3O, 31 I Weymouth 30, 31 SEPTEMBER. Warwick 6 7 I Richmond 20, 2t Abingdon 8, 9 I Western Meet (A yr) 21 to 23 Doncaster 13 to 16 I Efendon 22, 23 Hampton 20, 21 I Newmarkot let Oct. 27 to 80 OCTOBER. Bedford 4, 5 I Newmarket 2n( 0ct..10 to 14 Leicester Bromley G, 7 I Newmarket H0t'n...24 to 29 NOVEMBER. Liverpool 8 to 11 I Shrewsbury 14 to 18 STEEPLECHASE FIXTURES-1870. FEBRUARY. Birmingham 8, 9 Harrow Derby 10, 11 1 Newton 25, 2G MARCH. _ _ _ Liverpool 8,9, 10[13romley 31 and April 1. West Somerset 16, 17 Cheltenham.. 31 and April I. Warwick 22 to 24 ! APRIL. Aldershot 7; - 8 - liiegsbory lB, 19 LONGFORD ELECTION. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) The contest going on with great excitement. All quiet up to the present, but a disturbance is morn than likely. Greville's return is certain. As far as is known at present he has polled four votes for every one given for Martin. 8 i o T n e h d e largest s de a t n a d c h m m e e n n t b o e f o nging officers, t 0 0 0 n t - h c e o mmi s- Royal Artillery which has left Woolwich for India this season has been placed under orders to leave the garrison to-morrow morning. The draught will comprise Capt. E. G. Battiscombe and 70 non-com missioned officers and men to fill up vacancies in the 18th Brigade, Royal Artillery, at Kurrachee, Bom bay; Capt. C. H. Pickering and 93 non-commissioned officers and men to join the 19th Brigade, Royal Artillery, at Peshawur; Lieut, J. T. Tyzack and 35 non-commissioned officers and men for the 20th Brigade, Royal Artillery, at Kamptee, Madras ; Capt. G. Candy and 24 non-commissioned offices a and men to join the 22d Brigade at Morar, Bengal ; Lieut. W. F. Nelson and 28 non-commissioned officers and men for the 23d Brigade, Royal Artil lery, at Secunderabad, Madras ; Capt. G. 0. Rybot and non-commissioned officers and men for the 24th Brigade, Royal Artillery, at Mean Meer, Ben gal ; also one sergeant and one gunner to join B Battery, 9th Brigade, Royal Artillery. The troops, which number six officers and 263 non-commissioned officers and men, will be accompanied by 21 women and 32 children, and will leave the Arsenal station of the North Kent Railway by special train at 8.45 a.m. for Portsmouth, where they will embark on board the Indian troopship Crocodile, Capt. G. W. Watson, for conveyance to Alexandria, en route fox Bombay. BUDGET OF MISCELLANEOUS.—Mark Twairi's paper says, "Buflalo is to have cheap gas—George Francis Train is coming ;" and Buffalo bad, for Train did go, no reported by telegraph.—Not content with a young Ameri• can chief Admiral, the Japanese have placed their law forces under the command of a New York Colonel of Vo lunteers.—A crusty old bachelor says he thinks it • woman, and not her wrongs, that ought to bo redresser —lowa has over 200 newspapers and periodicals, 16 beir dailies.—Only about 1,000 fighting men of the Apache I diens are left. Gen. Ord says the race is fast dying out. Wisconsin, which now has six Congressmen, expects have nine under the now apportionment. —They are to ing in New Jersey of removing the State Capital fr Trenton to Newark.—They are now making billiard b oxt of India rubber in New Haven. LADTIRTII3IIIII3Y. 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