The Sun. — London, England, 1870-01-03 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL I NTELL IGE NCE. CITY, Two o'CLocx. Busiucss was resumed to-day on the Stock Ex shange with a very animated spirit. The Govern ment Securities are firm, and holders refused busi ness except at improved rates. In Foreign Stocks the quotations generally are higher, and the same favourable report has to be made with respect to Bank and Telegraph shares. The rate of discount demanded in open market to-day was a shade below 3 per cent. for first-class bills at three months. Consols are now at 921 1 to 921 for money; ditto, for Ac.;ount, ; 'Three per Cent. Re duced, 92 1 ; New Tree per Cents, 921 21 ; Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, March, 1 dis. ; June, 4to 5 prem. ; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, March, prem. ; June, 14 prem ; Bank of England Stock, 41 per Cent., 237 5 64. India Stock, 104 per Cent., April, 1874, 209 ; ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1111 12 ; ditto 4 per Cent., Oct., 1888, 1001 1 ; ditto Eufaced Paper, 4 4 per Cent., —; ditto Bonds £l,OOO, 25 prem. The principal Foreign Stocks have advanced. Argentine are quoted 86 to 86i ; Egyptian (1864), 90 to 91 ; ditto (1860, 80/ to 814 ; Viceroy's Loan, 84 to 844 ; Brazilian, 871 to 881; Italian, 54 to 544 ex div. ; Peruvian, 81 to 814 ex all ; Spanish, 261 to 261 ; Turkish Five per Cents., 451 to 461 ; ditto Six per Cents., 661 to 661 ex div. American Five-Twenty Bonds are 861 to 86/; Erie Shares, 17 to 174 ; and Illinois 101 to 102. Telegraph Construction and Maintenance are at 321 to 33 ; Anglo-American, 191 to 191 ; French Cable, 17 to 174 ; and Atlantic Eight per Cents., 24 to 24. In Bank Shares Imperial Ottoman is 21 to 2f prem. ; London and. South African, 9 to 10 ; Union of London, 37 to 38 ; Anglo-A.ustrian, 13 to 15 prem. ; and Consolidated, 4 1-16 to 4 3-16. In Railway Shares Caledonan are I better, viz., 761 to 77 ; Midland, 123 to 1231 ; London and Brighton, 461 to 471 ; Great Eastern, 38i to 381 ; Great Northern (A), 109 to 110 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 127 k to 128 ; London, Chatham, and Dover, 15 to 15i ; London and South Western, 92 to 94 ; Metropolitan, 811 to 81/ ; North Eas tern (Berwick), 126 to 1261; and South Eastern, 781 to 78f. At Mark-lane this morning the attendance was moderate and the inquiry dull, but the supplies on the stands being moderate, there was no pressure of sales, and quotations were not materially altered. English wheat was in scanty supply, and partly rather out of condition. Good dry samples sold slowly at last Monday's rates. Inferior were easier. Foreign sold the turn in favour of buyers as re spects Russian. Other imports stood as before. Flour difficult to sell except at easier rates. A withdrawal of £12,000 in bar gold for the Continent has taken place at the bullion office of the Bank. The Chnbria, from New York, has arrived with £8,055. The dividend to be paid by the Bank of France for the second half of 1869 will be 56f. as com pared with 45f. in the corresponding period of 1868. Mr. Samuel Lovelock, the official liquidator of the Kumaon and Oude Plantation Company (Li mited), has announced a return of 7s. Id. per share on all shares on which the calls made have been paid in full. It is stated that interest to creditors of the late Birmingham Banking Company will be paid on the 24th inst., and that formal notice to each creditor will shortly be issued. The Council of the Statistical Society have in vited a conference in relation to the recent circular of the Board of Trade, with a view to improve ments and simplifications of the Customs return of imports and exports, at the Cannon-street Hotel, on Thursday next. Letters f rom M ex i co , v i a H avann ah, state that a co unterfeiting and forging establishment has just been discovered in that city, after years of effectual workice.., iu the creation of all classes of national obligations, st:imps, bonds, &c., " which prove so perfect that no one can tell the genuine from the false." The discovery, it is said, was accidental, and not from any official astuteness on the part of the police. The parties were taken in the act of work and emission, and proved to be Germans, the names of their pretended firm being Colise, Bece ril, and Hefner. BRITISH FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES. GOVERNMENT rtiNDS. 3 per Cent. Consols Ditto for Account, Jan. 6 - 3 per Cent. Reduced 92 1 New 3 per Cent Now 21 per Cont. Jan. 1891 Do. 5 per Con J5u.1873 linnuitieft, SO vrs, expire sth Jan., llibti. Do. for 30 yrs, expire 50 April 1885 — Do (Red Sea Televaph), Aug., 19115, Excbcqu-r Rills, £l,OOO, 2} p. Ct. March Da. 3 do. June 4 5 pm Ds £l.OO, .£200 1 & £5OO 1 4 pin Bank of England Stock, 4} per Cent D. opening — Canada 4 per Cent. Bonds — ater-Colonial 0 innium INDIAN dOVERNMENT SECURITLIM lidi t stock,lo4 per Cent., April 1879... 209 for opening Do. Opening, for Account — _ Da. 0 per Cent. July, 1880 De 4 per Cent. Oct. 1888 Do. Enfaced Pape. 4 per Cent..,... — Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 .,.. — Do. 5i per Cent. May 1879 — Da P6 T Cent., Rup. Dir. 1872.. De do M 1...— De. Do. D. m-, R do. 1882 — Do" . Boucle, 4 . per Cont., Aug. 1873 - Per Cent., Xl,OOO ... 25 Pna Do. under £l,000 FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Ar g e ntine Republic, 6 pe r C en t — Do. Account Austrian Bonds 5 per cent D o. Brazilian 5 per CentlBs9 — Do. 41 per Cent. 1852 — Do. do 1858.... Do. au 1860 Do. d o . , 1863 — Do. 5 per Cant., 186 b — Dc. Account -tunes Ayres 6 per Cent. Cab D 6 o 2 per er Cent. (Deferred 3 per Ce n t.) e., Cent. Callan 6 p per Cent — Do. 4fr per Cent Do. 3 per Cent., Do. 7 por Cont., 1866 Do. 6 er cent. 1867 0 locabia p 961 I n, 6 per Cent. Danish, 3 per Cent., 182 5........, — bminbian Principalities, 7 par Cant B7l 1 ?, 0 . Account .. • E 8 Per Cent, 1867 9ll e ll Q 9r New C onso li dated, 1 per Cent ? ) 4 ,F a tt rt, 7 per Cent B5 eeed las D0..450(.. e. 130 e Do. u •.• lads 85 4} 1864 — Do. Do. £ 5OO Bonds AccountA ccount Do. 4101 B onds .. .... Do. 7 p er C ent., 1 . 9ll 868 .. "".' Do. £ lO O Bonds Bll Government Railw a y Debentures ....• 971 1 8 1 Cire€,,lr 5 per Coat., 1824 5, ex Coups. — 'LK% Coupan e . Guatemala:s per Cent . — Honduras Gov Rail. Loan., 10 p.,Ct., all pd Do. Account — Italian 5 per Cent., 1865 — ... Do. Account .. Do Mareramana Railway ._.. hi exica t 3 per Cent Ditto for Account Do. 1864 — Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French • e iontevideau 6 per Cent. •. Ma crish imperial 5 rer Cent New Granada Do 8 p er O en - Do. Deferred ........... Do Land Warra.nts . (Hectare's) Peruyian 5 per Cent. 1865 Do Account .. 811 i Do 4i per Cent. (150 , arren) Do 41 per Cent.. 1862 - Do Account Do 6 per Cent.,1862 — Porte guess 3 per Ct., 1853 , ' 6, 7,'9,'60,'2.': Do. do. 1867 — RDo. d c ,, Scrip, £2O pabi -•-• Do. 5 e ar Cent., 1822, £ ;Si Do 41 per Cent 1850 - Do 4ir per Cent., 1860 Do 3"per Cent., 1859 Do 5 per Cent., 1862 Do do, Scrip — Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1864, £lOO Bolide., 911 1 Do. do. £B4 15s. do — n., 1866, £ l OO Bonds — 8:1)11i-4°o:11i Nicolas Railwaydo £B4 15s. do _ Gil 1- er Cent iS panish3 per p Cen . fit, 4 'ec. 31. 'al High grounds walked IV 0. 'an. 1. ,ion dur- 1081. 113 f. 113. 1151. 109 f. 131 g. 21 . 8. 25fc. 30ic. :orn,old lan. 3. rra, from ling with and de- I well. 5 a.m. .om New rowhead ?,e. 13. isolently apology LS. !z. 28. steamer and the istralian sch and an. 2. Massilia S on the iampton an. 3. ishes the ruction. usehold. separa. of the 7 of the rks. re been markt t 840 - 56 60 333 - 45 35 261 General Depot approve It Col it.-Col. giment, by the seen in or Law build- Adini recting Master river, Dr Law x' e orge, itguard asin at officers to the >, 6, to itherto lade at to the E. B. ;borne, Tice as t Act, 3ridge, r Hod ter, to master filbert, f com , 1869, ample gen on rected ,cture of gained is to be jug. )ast 1 mist 2 past 3 past 3 past 4 oast 5 mast 5 Do. Account • Do. 1867 Do. Account Do. New Deferred — Do. Passive — Do. Com. Cert. of Coup. not funded — Do. Ac .count Swedish Provincial Mortgage Loan — Do Government, 1861 Do do, 1868 Turkish 6 per Cent •i. .46, • - Do Account Do 6 pfq. Cent. 185fi — Do Account Do .£lOO Bonds — Do G per Cent., 1862 Do. Account 69; n o £lOO Bonds 7ok . _ __ DO. 5 percent. 1865 Do Account Do 6 per Cent., 1865 Do. Account. I D 1 per Cent., Guaranteed Venezuela 3 per Cent. Do 6 per Cent. 1364 Dividends on the above puyaule in Luarloi. A.astrisu a per Cent. Ex 10 Florins Belzian, 4i per cent., Ex. 251. Dutch 2 per Cont. Ex. 12 Gail,. Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates French Rentes, 3 per Cent., .Ex. 251. I Wien b per Cent. 1851, El.. 25f Do Account s6i CLOSING PRICES. Jonsols, Money xd Do. Account, Jan. 6 ll2i id FidENDLY SOCIETIES AND MEDICAL FEES. A singular agitation, which in its results is likely to have an important influence on friendly societies throughout the kingdom with respect to the medi cal fees paid for attendance on their members, has just been brought to a conclusion at Preston. A few weeks ago the gentlemen composing the Medi cal Society in that town resolved to raise the rate of remuneration for attendance upon the members of sick and friendly societies from 2s. to 3s. per head per year. This resolution created an im mediate antagonism, and several meetings of deputies from the various clubs have since been held, whereat the proposed increased fee was warmly discussed and resisted. It was stated that many of the members, being in three or four societies, paid as much as Gs. and Bs. per year to doctors and that, taking the average, ss. 6d. per year was paid, instead of 25., as had been repre sented by a writer in the Lancet. The desirability of forming a " medical union" was discussed, and at length agreed to ; but the members of the various lodges of the Independent Order of Oddfellows, Manchester Unity, numbering about 2,500, seceded from the general body, and resolved to appoint their own medical officer. The other friendly societies, comprising the Druids of the Preston and Kirkham districts, the Foresters, Ancient Shepherds, Free Gardeners, Mechanics, Sons of Temperance, Pain ters, Joiners, Smiths, and Rechabites, numbering altogether nearly 3,000 members, have gone a step further and formed as " Amalgamated Friendly Sicieties' Benevolent Dispensary," have taken premises for a " medical hall " in the principal street of the town, and have appointed their me dical officer and staff of attendants. On Tbursday evening, also, the protno:ers of this " medical union" issued their prospectus, from which it ap pears that any member of the above-mentioned friendly societies will be entitled to first-class medical treatment and proper nieclici:tes for him self and wife on payment of Id. per week ; wife and child, Id. ; wife and three children, lid. ; wife and five children, 2d. ; wife and seven children, 24d. ; and -id. per week per child more than seven children and under 16 years of age. The general public will also be admitted on payment of weekly contributions id. each in excess of those above specified. It is the intention of the union, if suc cessful, Of which there is no doubt among the in-em bers, to erect a " medical hall," and negotiations have already been entered into fur the purchase of a plot of land in the very centre of the town for that purpose. TfIE FOOT AND MOUTH D ISEASE.—There has been a serious outbreak of foot and mout disease among the stock of a Mr. Ilingston, of Kingsbridge, Deyon. The oc currence has caused much apprehension in the district, and prompt measures have been taken to guard against the spread of the disease. A fresh outbreak of this malady has occurred in Dorset, three more farms being proclaimed by the local authorities under the Contagious Diso:tses (Ani- mall) Act. Mr. Strickland, cattle dealer of Wareham, bought a few days ago a drove of Irish beasts at Thistol, and they were taken to the Isle cf Purbeck. Symptoms of the disease appeared, and the beasts were examined by the county inspector, Mr. Norris, who found them to be suffering severely. The whole drove of 50 aro affected. NEWSPAPER STA3IPS.-- An Inland Revenue return recently issued shows that in the financial year 1868-69 26,908,115 impressed newspaper stamps were issued for newspapers intended for transmission by post, producing a revenue of £115,988. Railways maintain a strong com petition for this traffic, and this source of revenue is decreasing. In the year 1867-68 the number of impressed stamps required was 27,892,769; in 1866-67, 27.863,572; in 1865-66, 28,590,673. _ FLOODS.—The sudden melting of the snow on the hills of North and East Yorkshire caused an overflow of the whole of the North Ridi.ig rivers on Saturday. Sheep have been drowned in the Rye. There was every indication on Saturday night of a very high flood. The remains of the late Mr. Thomas Creswick, R.A., were to-day deposited in All Souls' Cemetery, Kensal-green. The funeral was of the most unostenta tious character. DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.—On Saturday, about noon, a distressing accident occurred in Breck-road, Liverdool. A crowd of children had collected to watch the antics of a drunken man, when the horse in a farmer's cart, which was standing while the driver was absent, took fright and dashed through the crowd. No less than eight little children were more or less seriously in jared, and in two cases it is feared that their injuries will be fatal. THE DISTRICT BANKRUPTCY COURTS.—In the Birmingham Court on Friday, at the final sitting, Mr. Motteram, of the Oxford Circuit, presented in the name of the Bar, an address to Mr. Commissioner Sanders, who has presided over the court for a period of 11 years. Mr. Griffin also read an address on behalf of the solicitors. The Commissioner expressed his sense of " pride and pleasure at their appreciation of his poor services," and in a fewgenial sentences bid the p.ofession" farewell." Special Commissioner Wells, in his report, esti mates the whole expenses caused by the war down to June 30, 1869, at $4,171,914,498. With contingent ex penses, Mr. Wells makes the total $9,000,000,0 00 , " enough, says the Evening Post, to build ninety Darien ship Canals, or a hundred Pacific Railroads, or nine times as much as would double track every railroad in the United States." After giving the details, the Commis sioner continues :—" This was the cost of the destruction of slavery—the cost of compromise—the cost of the un faithfulness of those who founded this nation to the idea by which the nation lives. What does it measure ? It is aubtantially a thousand millions a year for nine years; or, at the wages of five hundred dollars a year, the labour of two millions of men exerted continuously during the whole of that period. It is five times as much as the slave property of the country was ever worth. It is a sum which, at interest, would yield to the end of time twice as much as the annual slave product of the South in its host estate." The Juno, 6, screw corvette transport, Capt. E. liardinge, has completed her outfit and coaling at Portsmouth, and been berthed alongside the dock yard, pending orders for further service. The Teazer, 4, composite-built screw gunvessol, Commander Bloomfield, is nearly 'complete in the repairs to her machinery at Portsmouth, and awaits her final orders for sailing on a term of foreign ser vice. It is understood that she will proceed to China, and make her passage out, via Alexandria, through the Suez Canal. The Crocodile, Indian relief screw troopship, Capt. Watson, will embark at Portsmouth, on Wednesday, draughts from various regiments to join service companies in India, and sail on the 6th for Malta and Alexandria. The Himalaya, screw troopship, Captain S. B. Piers, is under orders to embark at Portsmouth on the Bth inst a nt, and sail on the following day for Alexandria, calli n g in at Queenstown, to take on board the 17th R eg i men t, a ll the troops being for India by the overland route between Alexandria t v u a i r d eial S inet u e b :' Greenwich ythe dea thospital Mr. p e j e a s t i n o e n s o L f a l m 2 b s er a t, ve b s a r s , been awarded to Mr. John Giles, superannuated boatswain. The boys' training ship Boscawen, stationed at Portland, Commander James Grant, and the paddle steamer Dasher, stationed at the Channel Islands, Commander Frankl in, were paid out of commission, pro forma, on Dec. 31, 1869, and re commissioned again with the same officers and crew on New Year's. day. E SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 3, 1870. .511.41:k LISI. .01 4 6 Kiil6 D ctiAP rs: 1 .1117611 i. et B. iet :1 ~;;•. E:xeter et l)4.leglUtilatt SL Can:Dron 2;./ Cornwall it Dublin & l•lellait June IOU et Duu,.l'erth.ez Ab.J nue .;uo 2) East 74 76 70 76i 77 764 1 15 20 2 3 70 72 5 7 £9 ,•0 • Do 10 ' 1 611, ..t.:0W &5. Western 10 , 2 1 0 5 107 ,t Great. Eastern . Do. E. Augl. Nu. 61 71 urcat Non hot Scotlaud lOO to is st G feat 17, ()nouns lOO 110 lil liO4 at Du. A stock et Do. B stock IOC 121 Izu st UtS, aui W. 01 Ireland lOO 18 100 at li t. ltiestern i‘e. 661 561 t. Do. South Wales l9O CO 61 at Do. W. 31.141.—0a10rt1 lOO 3% 36 st Do. Nev.l.ort tOO 32 t at Lancashire& Yorkithiro lOO 1261 271 at Lou., tirigh.,4 S.Coast lOO 461 47/ 47) Do Scrip at 1 on.,;itat., and Dover li./0 15 151 t Do. Metrup. Ex. A lOO 11 Is st Lun. &':iortit Wtsterii lOO 1011 2:1 I'lll 1 4 at Lon. South Western lOO 9t 14 931 3 Man., net., & Lincoln lOO 03 631 at Metropolitan . lOO 63 431 61) et Du Extensiou Do. New rd et Metropolitan Dietrizt. all 30 62; 10 Metrop. St. Joan's NI cod 6 at Miutaud at Ii 0, Sirloin. a UatUs lOO 87 6v 61 at Nardi Brittau . ..... 100 341 151 at U .. & Dun lO9 st Nor ,10estern—Berwick lOO 25 D, G. N.P. purohase 16.12.1 at D , Leeds. lOO 79 80 301 at .110 York lOO 118/ 11tf1 1,4 at D oCarli:de at D °Stock. & Darling ICO 158 160 166 at . North Loulou 10 Do New ISO at North Staffordshire lOO 61 63 at North ant 6. W. Junction lOU 9.1 101 10 Do New £lO shares 7 et 1.11‘, - ymney at 6hropshire Union lOO 591 eO4 et South Devon' -at South Eastern lOO 771 771 76/ at Staines, Wok'ham, & Wok all, 13 st Vale lOO 164 158 -- Do. C .. 6 Waterford di iiiiktuny— ICU 10 Waterloo & Whiteha.l 6 1211 ►221 1261 f i RAILWAYS-PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOOKS,._ Bt Bristol and Exeter 4 p.cent. 100 87 89 et Caledonian Qre., Nu. 2 lOO ... et Do. Sent. N.E., 44 per ceut lOO et Do. Aberdeen, gua 6 p.c lOO et Do. do. 7 per cent lOO et Do. do. Ordinary lOO 73 82 st Do. Midland st Do. Duudue and Arbroath 100 20 Cornwall, o per eeut gua all sti Dundee, Perth, and Aber deen Junction lOO to; 107 st Do. Ist Class preference at (Ass. & S.W. gua. 5 por et lOO st (-it. Eastern, E.O Ex. No.l 10* 913 lOJ at Do d• N 0.2 100 97 90 at Do do 6 per cent 100 HS 113 at Do East Anglian A 5 p. c. 100 at Do do k; 6 do. 100 at Do du 0 7 do. 1(40 st Do do No. 1, 5 p.c. 100 ": et Du E. Union 4 p.c. gua. 100 " tlB 72 at Do Norfolk 5 p.c. Ex. 1.646 100 at Do du &p.c. Way.Val.lB47 100 at Great Northern, 5 per cent 100 st Du 5 p.c., rd at 10 p. c. pin. 100 Do 41 do de do 100 at Do 5 do at sp. c. pro lOO st Do Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax, G per cent lOO at Gt. Nrth of Scotland, let IA 100 at Great South. and Western ••• .•• (Ireland) 4 per cant lOO 93 98 St Gt.West.—Orig.6.:Jnt.-itent dig., per glut.s p.c lOO 106 ICS Do. Urig. (B. a 11.1:x). 5 p.c lOO 95 lea Do do 4; per cent. 100 90 t 2 Do do 4 du do Dv do i• per cent. rodent lOO t , 7 Do du Birmingham gee too Go 72 Do do do pref ll O..„ Do do Chester guit lOl t)5 J Do do do 8 per cont lOO Do do do 5 do 104 95 101, D u South Wales, gua. 4 p.c. 100 Do do 41 p.c lOO ..• st Do do 41 1650.- 100 at Du do 5 st Do \\rust Mid. Oxford let. 100 11616 Ils at Do du da. 100 at Do Newport, Ist g. 5 p.c. 100 1,6 86 St Do do 20 du 100 .„ st Du gua. 51 per cent. 1663 100 00 Lancaster 5; Carlisle 41 p.c. ail st Lanett:di. & Yorksh. 6 p.c. 100 st Do Barnsley, .65 Os 100 p.c. 100 at Do G p.c. (East Lancashire) 100 st Do 41 (Blackburn purch). 100 at London 5: Bri'ighto N n. 5 p.c 100 at Do DDDOOOk; 5 6 5 r a per ut ectndato.ogou du oj.. 1 lOOOOO6 at st Do 7 per cent lOO at Do 6 do (W.L. A U.l') 108 at Do 4 do 150.1 lOO at Loudon, Chatham, & Dover 5 per cent llO at, L on d o n and 1;. W., C, a nd Nuneaton 5 per coat— 100 st Do Bedford & Cambridge.- ice tit Du Shrewsb'y lee at Loudon and 6 W. 7 p,c late 3d shares, lOO 145 150 a 'Do (Portem.perp ens 2560) Mau., Shef., A Line'''. G p.c lOO Do a Do 31 per cent lOO 64 66 1 Do redeem. 6 per cent 5 at Slid. Consolidated ,Gp. c lOO 130 135 a Du Bristol 5: Bind., 6p. c lOO 1.3 135 a Do 4 per cent. redeem lOO ys 100 a Do 41 per cent. irrodeem lOO o. 100 a Du Leicester con,4 p.c 100 5) 81 at North British, 5 p.c. No.l.- 100 „. ,„ at Do &A G. 4p.c.5.5: D lO at Do N. 8., Nu. 2, 5 per cen.t lOO „, „„ at Do Border Union, 51 p.c lOO st N.-Eastern —Coos. 4 p.c lOO SI S 4 at Du 41 per cent. redeem__ 100 97 99 st Do N.E. 4 per cent., lOO 17 Du Lerwick capital Du York, 11.6. , S. purchase. 10 10 101 Du Stektu Drling. A 5 p.c. 100 107 100 at Do W, Hartlepool li. and It 100 so SS 20 North Staffordshire 10s S. Devon Annuities, I,s all 9 10 1 3 130 130 135 93 100 ...,.. 10s Do Tavistuck Anus. , 10e all 81 tlf 10s Do Fixed 41 per cent all 8 8 1 1i0.6. S. East. (dead. Anus., 1.0.6) all 22 '2.1 st Do 41 percent lOO ••• ••• st Do Fixed 41 per cent lOO ... ... st Taff Vale No.l lOO 154 118 st Watertord &Kilkenny, 6pc 100 .. .. RAILWAYS.-PREFERENCE SLIARES AND STOCKS. With Dividends contingent on the Profits of each separate year at °Cadmium 41 p c gaa. at Du Scot. Ceu. min. 7 p c lOO at Do 44 p all at Do 4p c eon. issued at 80 6.5 et Great Eastern 41 por cont. 100 at Do 5 do, 1862 lOO st Do New 5 do, 1863 100 et Do do 5 du, 1864 lOO st Great Northern, 5p c irred. 100 t Do Permanent 5 per cent. 100 at Do Boston & Sleaf d, 44 pc 100 at Great West., W. Midi., 5 p c 100 St Do Joint porpe. 5 p c,1865 WO 88 qG st Do do 6p c irred., 11:66 103 110 112 20 Do Vale Neath perp. 5p c all at Kent Coast, 6 per cent, 1t... 100 Lauc. and York New 44 p er cent till July, 1871 2 st Loud., Brig &e., 41 pc, 1858 100 it * Do du 4 do, 1860 100 it Do do 41 do, 1861 wo it D o do 44 do, 1863 100 i t Do do b do, 1865 100 st Do No. G b do, 1866 100 at Do No. 7 sdo st Loud , Chat., &c., '2d, 6 p.c at Do Metrop. Ex., B 6 p.c 106 Do do C 6 p.c at London& N Western, 5p c 100 108 110 it London &S. Western, 41 p c 100 v 3 95 10 Man. Shef. & Lin., 5 pc, 1865 all v 91 at Metropolitan 5 per cent lOl 100 102 at Midland, it 5 per cent pref lOO 107 109 at Do B 5 do 100 107 109 18 Do bp c opt. to co'. to Ord. Stk., Sept. 1, 1869 all 201 211 18 Do Inconv. New Shares all 19 lot 22 Do 5p c con. into Old Stk., Aug. 31, 1872 Bl et North British, E. and U No. 1, 5 per cent 77 by 87 1)0 83 88 83 86 1p •, ..., If 2fp ... ... s t Do .£lO guaranteed, 1861 100 Do E ,P., & Dun., 2d, 4pc 100 et Do E. & (3, N 0.2, 5 p.c lOO at Do N. 8.. 5 per cent, 1862 100 at Do K & G., N 0.3, 5 p.c 100 at Do E. & G., (Ordiry) 41 pci 100 at North Eastern, 41 per cent 100 90 Ito tit Do Stock. & Darl., D 100 113 115 st North London, 41, per cent (➢lax. 5 per cent) st North Staffordshire 5p c lOO at South Eastern, 41 pc, 1859 100 at Do 5 do 1061 100 at Do sdo (Ch. Cross) 1863 100 at Do 5 do, 1564 at Victoria St.& Pimlico, 41 pc 100 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Closing Beim Sharp NAME. Paid. Price don to Agra Limited, A all 11 111 111 2 10 Do B lO 41 54 50 Albion l5 15 8 00 Alliance, Limited 2'J Anglo Austrian 20 Anglo-Egyptian, lim all SI 224 p 20 Anglo-Hungarian 8 11 21 20 Anglo-Italian 1866, limited 10 5 4 40 Australasian 20 Bank of British Columbia all 11 13 20 Do issued at 2 pm._ , 5 5 4 95 Bank of Egypt 20 Bank of Otago, lim. 25 Bank of South Australia all 30 32 50 Bank of Victoria, Australia 25 87 89 10 Bank of Now Zealand all 154 164 60 British North American 20 Chartered of India, Austra lia, and China all 17 18 26 Chartered Marc. of India, London, and China all 20 City lO 100 Colopial 25 10 Consolidated, lint. 50 Delhi and London, Una 26 50 East London, lim 10 English and Ant..trican,lim 10 20 English Bank of Rio de Ja neiro. lira lO 20 English, acottish, and Aus tralian Chartered u all 181 16/ 31 82 10 11 1 43 I 2 14 pr 1p 261 Hong Kong and Shanghai . . liu u k Corponaian all Ili 28 28 I Do new ll} 4 4 WO Imperial, line 20 Imperial Ottoman lO 2k z.l 121 e 26 lonian all 19 22 26 Do now 6 6 II Lnd Mortgage of India, lira 4 100 Do 6p. c. Debs.lBs4, 30 all 76 100 London Bank' of Mexico and South America, lira. 29 4 4 100 London and Brazilian, lim. 45 35 Z 0 20 Do new 71 5 41 100 London &River Plate, lira. 40 11 13 25 Do new 10 11 2 p 20 London Chart. of Australia all 231 20 20 London and County 2O 091 511 60 Do new, his at 20 p.m, 16 pd ll ... ... London Joint Stock 3ll 521 81 3 1 3 1 I 76 SO London and South African al 100 Loudon &S.-Western, lira, 20 13 11 50 London & Venezuela, lira 121 100 London and Westminster 20 574 484 100 Do Scrip, isa at 10 pm 100 Merchant, lira 25 6i 44 10 Metropolitau, lira all 74 7f 00 Midland, lira 2# 14 1 b National of Australia 25 National of Liverpool, liin. 15 ad 1p 00 National I'rovinc. of Eng'd 42 ... 10 Do . 42 ... ... 41 50 National. 20 Now South Wales all 41 43 20 North-Western 25 Oriental Bank Corporation all 41 42 60 Provinc. Bank. Corpo., lira lO 6f 54 Si 80 Provincial of Ireland 24 90 92 10 Do new.. all 100 Stand. of Brit. S. Africa, lira 25 100 Do issued at 6 pm. 10 25 Union of Australia all 100 Union of Ireland, lint 50 Union of London 14 13 8 6 46 4; 37 33 88 7i TELEGRAPH COMPANIKS. l Anglo-American fa, lira aii — Liii 191 %0 14 10 Anglo Mediter Tel., 1im.... le 171 IS 181 120 at Atlantic Telegraph lO 13 Irs at Do. 8 per cent. at B. and I. Magnetic Tel., lim l6O 175 IS3 at Electric 6: Inter. Telegraph 155 260 265 10 Do. New 8 12 13p 215 Indo-European Tel., Jim— all 28 2* 24 5 Loud. Provincial Tel. lim all 2i 31 1 Do. Prefer. 10 per cent all 1 i p 10 Mediterra. Exten. Tel., Um. all 6 61 25 Reuter's Telegram all 78 85 20 Societe Transatlant., lint all 161 17 161 i f at Submarine Telegraph 1 Do. Scrip all If If 5 13. Kingdom Tel. Co., lim all 7 74 5 Do. 10 per cent. Pref all i f 51 - MISCELLANEOUS. 10 Angio-Mexican Mint all 141 14i 25 Australian Agricultural 25 Australian Murk Laud and Finance, lim. 10 Baugara.h Tea Estates, lim 10 Berlin Water Works, lint all 10 Do. Now all 100 Bolekow Vaughan, lint. 5 Bombay G,ss, link 5 Do. New 4 50 British American Laud 4l 20 British Indian Tea, lim. 20 British Ship Owners 7l 29 Canada Company all o ii'i s lat cow Gas, lint.., all 10 Canadian Loan and Inv,st ment,lim 24 20 Ceylon Company, lint. 20 Do. A shares 25 City of Lond a o i n na l p la r a u t v. 5 10 City Discount, lint Pro perty, all b 9 25 23 22 50 Colonial, lint. Do. 3 5 2 0 50 City CCii Ittyye r O oot ff : Offices, lint 224 50 Commercial' 'Union (Assur) 6 10 Company of African Mer chants, lim. 20 Continental Union tilts, lint all 25 27 25 Copper Miners of England, prof. 74 per cent, i id 3 .5,1 111 14i 13 I 5 5 51 b 1-14 11 bcl 15 17 •:1 31 64 t 6 TA 3 `hd bi 4 b 6 pr • * 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 : DEBTOR. Dec. 30. fr. c. 182,500,000 Dec. 23. 182,500,000 Capital of the Bank Profits in addition to Capital (Art. 8, Law, Juno 9, 1857) Reserve of the Bank and its branches Reserve of lauded pro perty 4,000,000 4,000,000 Notes in circulation 1,398,557,8 00 1,318,369,150 Banknotes to orderand receipts payable at sight — Treasury account cur rent creditor Current accounts, Paris Do. branch bauks Dividends payable Discounts and sundry interests Rediscounted the last six months Surplus of receipts not distributed Sundries 7,041,776 02 7,014,776 0: 22,10,5,750 14 22,105,750 1 45,881,189 53 46,271,819 62 210,725,935 42 231458,259 57 374,167,210 13 361,360,028 85 46,061,1 19 - 43,650,081 - 1U,991,393 - 791,076 - 428,095 54 96,425,516 67 1,305,522 15 991,660 38 6,639,613 89 8,827,320 79 Total Dec. 30. Cash in hand and in02,3uz1:15,.2432.4 82 2,267,012,477 04 fr. c. fr. c. Branch banks Commercial bills over dueC o e m eu m e e t r e c d i , ft e b t i y l s e t due 310,082,030 Do. branch banks 287, Advances on deposit of bullion Do. branch banks 207852:208149 _l9 3 2 3 0 5 2 , , 5 1 4 2 6 5 , , 4 0;10 ,_35 Do. on French Public Securities Do. by branch banks Do. on railway shares and debentures Do. branch banks Do. on Credit Fender Bonds Do. branches Do. to the State (Con vention, June 10, 1857) Government Stock re- 227,6 9 23 260,931 37 22,577,300 - 22,457,800 1 6:19 880 1,725,900 - ~ 22 410,1 00 - 9:089,900 - 39,095, 8 9 0 -- 32 , 986,20 - 1,118,200 - 1127,900 - 60, 000,000 - 22,642,700 9,051,800 60,000,000 39,380,1 W 32,916,170 1,131,800 1,299,000 serve Do. disposable Routes Immobalisees (Law, June 2, 1857) 1C0,000,000 -- flotel and furniture of the Bank and landed propel ty branches Expenses of manage ment 2 6 4 7 8 3, i- ,25 3 03 5 6 ° Sundries 12 980,750 14 • 12 , 980 , 750 14 80,595,187 21 80,595,187 21 9, 05,892 - 100,000,000 9,048 89' 2,554,010 93 9,995,002 42 Total Certified by th e Senator-Governor of the Bank of FraLce. (Signed) R OULAND, The Bank Returns. The Bankers' Magazine furnishes the returns of the ch. culation of the public and joint-stock banks in England and Wales for the four weeks ending the 4th of Dm These returns, combined with the circulation of the Scotch and Irish banks for the saw period, and the average cir culation of the Bank of England for the four weeks ended tho Ist of Dee. (the nearest date furnished by their returns), will giTe the following results of the circulation •f notes in tho United Singdom when compared with the proyious month : 23,940123,181m0 I 1759,757 Bank of England... 11 ,9471- Y. 0 , 1 Dec 4, 1 1 80 g. 1 80. IncreaseiDecrease. I-- Private Banks 2 ,88 5 .44 ' 2,751,71 s 133,721 Joint-stock Banks 2,425,072 2,3 8,739 46,333 Total in Eng,land 29,251, 4 59 28,301,648 --948,411 Scotland 4,871,3 8 6 ,287,458 416,110 Ireland 7,381,18 01 7,344,10 27,017 ____=.!----__ --1----- ___ _ United Kingdom. 27,017 , 1-- ; 976,823 416,140 SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC ;01TRNALS, The Times observes that the past year will, in the annab , of English journalism, be memorable for the death in rapid succession of two newspapers, each of which had in it• own day filled a prominent space in the public mind. The Star fell with autumn's falling leaf, and on Friday the Herald died with the dying year. It is a significant fact that the two papers whose decease we are dis cussing represented each the extremest side of party Journalism. Thorough - going party Journal ism of any kind is ono of the most eccentric and unaccountable of civilised institutions. A party journal, so called, appears to consider itself bound as a matter of course, to approve whatever emanates from one set of politicians, and equally to disapprove whatever emanates from another. Before Mr. Gladstone has opened his lips, be it in Parliament or at at a Mansion House dinner, one journal knows that he will utter the language of an all but-inspired wisdom ; another, that his speech will reek with prejudice, cant, and sophistry. Nothing that Mr. Gladstone could possibly say would in the slightest degree affect in either case the fore gone conclusion. There must be a certain class of readers who like to feel before they take up a paper that, be the subject or the result what it may, they are sure to find this politician lauded to the skies, and that as vigorously abused. We cannot pretend to understand their mental condition, but we are compelled by the logic of facts to believe in its existence. That it is, however, gradually becoming more scarce we are inclined to infer from the disappearance of two journals which were conspicuous in pandering to it. Their disappearance cannot be ascribed to want of ability or enterprise. Still lees can it be explained by any diminution in the demand for journalism. The modern tend ency is all the other way. An old journal, properly managed, has such immeasurable advantages over a new one, which has a hard, up-hill battle to fight in merely making itself known that its miscarriage is a fact full of significance. We believe that in both the instances under discussion the defeat was due chiefly to a bigoted adherence to the spirit of party in its faultiest form. Though enough of this spirit is still left to secure a certain amount of represen tation in the press, we are not sorry to infer, from the failure of its two staunchest representatives, that it is surely, if slowly, on the decline. The Conservative party, says the Daily .21rews, is still in search of a leader in the House of Lords. The first duty of the leader, when he may be appointed, will be to search for his party. The army is at present without a general; a ,nd the nomination of a general may .disperse the army. The new choice of Paris has yet to bo made; and more than three divinities compete for the golden apple. Since the Tory leadership of the House of Commons is a settled point, so long as Mr. Disraeli chooses to retain it, and the House of Commons is the governing assembly of the nation, the discussions about Lord Cairns's successor in the Upper Chamber may seem to some persons to possess personol and social rather than political interest. The present Lord Derby's reputation as a statesman is at least equal to that of Lord SaliThury. It is of longer standing, and it is not, for .the purpose of leadership, impaired by a too vehement indivi• duality, or the recollection of a rupture with hls party. The difficulty in the way of Lord Derby is of an entirely different kind. A Conservative leader must above all things be a Conservative. A party chief ought at any rate to be a party man. Lord Derby iY fend of avowing that he is very little of a party man ; and there are whispers to the effect that he is not much of a Conservative. There is a Knowsley mystery as well a 3 an Asian mystery. The situation is an embarrassing ono for the moment. But Mr. Disraeli has overcome greater difficulties than those which now challenge his ingenuity The very best arrangement cannot much strengthen, and the very worst cannot seriously weaken, the Conservative party, nor affect the course of rublic events. The subject rouses only a faint speculative curiosity outside the limits in which Tadpole and Taper rule. The Standard is glad to find that the three societies the Workmen's Emigration, the National Emigration Ai, and the British and Colonial—have agreed to join their forces in a combined movement, "to urge upon the Home Government the consideration of a national emigration policy in co-operation with the Governments of the colonies." It would be a thousand pities if these various associations, having all the same object, should fall out with one another, or that anything should occur to mar theirharmonious working. With what consistency can they who call out for State control in education contend that the State should have nothing to do with emigration? The State already professes to deal with pauperism; and how can it deal so well with it as when it has the aid of the colonies ? The State is supposed to superintend the national defences; and what defences can England have to equal in value the alliance of her own colonies ? To tell us that it is no business of the State to look after the growth of the colonies and their population, is to deny the governing faculty, to argue against the duty of Government. The duty of the State begins only when the conflict between labour and capital leaves a certain number who fall out of the struggle to become a burden upon the general community. The State has a right to deal and a call to deal in the matter from the moment the public are called upon to help those who are poor. As to " flooding the colonies with paupers," the proper answer to that is, that there should not be any paupers—at least any that are able to work. Too much importance has been attached to the susceptibilities of the colonies on the score of pauper immigrants. It will be the duty of the Government to overcome, by tact and prudence, whatever prejudices may have grown up on this subjeet, and to remove all the obstacles which those pre judices present. The Pall Mall tiazette considers that a true national I economist, who feared no persons and truckled to no par ties, might well procure for us as great a reduction of taxa tion as oven Mr. Bright has ever demanded. But it is of the last importance that we should understand what is and what is not true national economy. There is serious danger that the penny scraping which the present Government has introduced, as a means of arriving at an apparent surplus, may do us more damage than the most lavish outlay in useless but at least harmless superfluities. The nation ought to be a good master; and a, good master does not, even when he desires to contract his outlay, dismiss his men suddenly in a period of general difficulty, and heedless of their situation or their prospects. Still less does he dismiss the poorest, while at the same time he gives good berths to his own personal acquaintance and companions. Least of all does he deserve the name of a good master if he lets his overseer do such things chiefly that he may shew a prosperous balance sheet, and strengthen himself by getting favour with in fluential people. Now this is our charge against the Government—thaii upon humble helpless folk they have imposed the virtue of economy in a way so rough and so precipitate as almost to amount to oppression; and that they have done so to procure a fleeting popularity with the tax-payers, and above all to make things pleasant for them selves in Parliament. Perhaps it is one of the incon veniences of parliamentary government that Ministers come to think too much of the House of Commons and too little of the nation. The triumph of reduced estimates and of a clever budget is immediate ; the efficiency of the public service and the contentment of the nation is too remote. It will help all parties to come to a better conclusion if they will try to think a little more distinctly what will be said in the country as well as in committee of the whole House ; and what next year, three years, or five years hence the constituencies will say of the methods of economy they are putting in practice now, and the spirit that inspires them, and the real object they have in view. The Post thinks that the Revenue Returns which have just been published, though they exhibit a serious dimi nution in the inoome of the State, afford at the same time the most conclusive proof of the soundness of the present financial and commercial condition of the country. In a word, the curious phenomenon which so often mani fested itself when Mr. Gladstone ruled at the Exchequer has again appeared under the Chan cellorship of Mr. Lowe; and the Revenue returns have once more shown that when taxes are reduced the trade of the country, relieved of a portion of the burden imposed upon it, responds more readily and more generously to those demands which it still continues necessary to make. This recuperative power has been termed " elasticity ;" but, by whatever name it may be known, it is only necessary to compare the present Customs and Inland Revenue duties with those which existed nine years ago, to be struck with the extraordinary magnitude of the revenue now, notwithstanding the large remissions which have been made. It is true some of the provisions of the late budget have only come into operation during the past quarter, and therefore the net returns of the three quarters cannot be accepted as a basis on which to estimate the final result of Mr Lowe's fiscal changes ; but, nevertheless, sufficient appears to justify the conclusion that on the whole tho loss to the revenue incident on the repeal of scant; taxes and the remission of others will be considerably less than was expected. The shop wherein Madame Rachel located her emporium of appliances for making people beautiful for ever, after a period of neglect during which it has doubt less been a prey to the spirits of departed wits and beau ties, has entered upon a new phase of ami§tence as a grog& Ti4eY. 110 112 BAIL WAYS.-LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS) st a-haul:toad 13 . - 100 91 93 00 Do. 4t per cent. Prefer all vs 104 st Buckinghamshire at Chester and Holyhead lOO if i 6 st Do. 51 per cent. I A Do. 5 do. at Clydesdale, guaranteed lOO ... ... at Colchester Stear Valley , lOO _ ... at East Lincoln, gua. 6p. c lOO 132 133 211 Gloster and Dean Forest all ... ... a Gt. Easa., Newm., &c., 5 p.c 100 ... ... B Do. E. U. Harwich, 4 p.c 109 ... .. st Do. do. Woodbrg. Ex., do 100 .. .. tit Gt. West, W. Mid., Hera 100 97 SO be Hull and Selby all 110 112 at Lancaster and Carlisle lOO 217 222 st Loudon and Blackwall lOO 93 3,-, st Do. 41 per cent lOO st Eondon,,,Fund,Coat.,... &c., 4 1 P. c. 100 . L' . St Do. om. 5 do 160 . ... s t London and Greenwich at Do. do Preference lOO st Loudon, Tilbury, & South 100 83 86 st ITh westoft, gua 4 percent lOO 79 81 st Do. d' 6 do 51 Mauch., Bi._ Ma all ••• 4,0 .• ... at Midland, Braitord, Prof lOO 92 94 10 Mid Kent Cray Liza) 50 Northern& East.,s percent all 53 a 55 10 Do. do. 6 du. all .” ... st N. Eastern—Hartlep00l ...- st N.Wcst. A perp. pref, 5p c. 100 IU7 • 109 st Do B minimum 1/ p.c lOO ..• ... et Notting. &ll rauth R. &C lOO in 93 25 P:cstou and %V yre Royston, Hitch., and Shop lO6 132 134 t Shrewsbury and Hereford 106 132 134 10 De do 8 2 21 p ~ S. Yorksh. and River Dun 100 97 99 D 4 per cent gua 10; 7t 30 5 do at Viet. Station and Pimlico lvy . _ at West Cornwall 20 West Loudon, Class A all 13 14 20 Do do B all _ _ 20 Do do C all ... ... st Weymouth and Portland lOO ,„ .. st Wilts and Somerset DOCKS. et East and We.3'„lndia lOO I'4 Loudon and St. Katherine 100 L 1 63 621 D ()Deb. stock, 4 per cent tllillwall Freehold Land st Dock VP t 8 31 at Southampton lje 72 7 et Surrey Couatueroial . 11' 112 41,503,967 40,913,269' And as compared with the month ending the sth of Deo., 1868, the above returns show a decrease of £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 flied issues of the several banks the following is the state of the circulation: — The English private banks are below their timed issue ... £1,290,907 The English joint-stook banks aro below their fixed issue 369,90 Total below fixed issue in England ... 0£1660,808 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 endingllst of Nov was £t8,443,206, being a decrease 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 specio held by tho Scotch awl Irish banks during the month 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 £518,118 as compared with the pre vioun return, and an increase of £321,393 when compared with tho corresponding period last year. EMIGRATION FROM THE MERSEY. The annual return of emigration from the Mersey was completed on Saturday by the Government emigration sgent at Liverpool. It appears from this rcturn that the total number of emigrants of all classes during the year was 172,731, a larger number than any since the year 1852, when the total emigration was 229,099. In that rear, however, a large proportion of the emigrants were Irish. In the past year, however, the proportions of ither nationalities sailing for the United States in ships under the Act (who alone aro classified) were as follows : inglish, 57,320; Scotch, 7,231; Irish, 20,056 ; and foreigners, 44,775. It is only fair to remark that now fan more Irish emigrants embark at 'their own ports than for merly. But even allowing for that, the proportionate fall. rug off in Irish emigration to the States is very great. The tsturns for Canada for the year shew the followingpropor :ions :—English, 10,946 ; Scotch, 12 ; Irish, 350 ; ana .oreigners, 12,954. To Victoria the proportions were :—Eng ' .lsh, 945 ; Scotch, 125 ; Irish, 179 ; Foreigners, 47. The total emigration, including the proportion, of " short ".ships , or those not sailing under the provisions of the Act, was —to the United States, 144,926; to Canada, 24,354; to Victoria, 2,474 ; to New South Wales 3 ; New Zealand' 3 ; West Indies, 115 ; South America, 1,235 ; Africa, 379 ; China, 20 ; East Indies, 121; British Columbia, 21; New Brunswick, 45; and Newfoundland, 8. The total emigra • tion of 1869 was 43,394 in excess of that of 1868. TRADES' CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION. On Saturday a delegate meeting of the various indus tries represented by the Leeds Trade Council was held in the Mechanics' Institute, Leeds, for the purpose of discuss ing the rival education schemes of tb e Union and the League. Mr. E. C. Denton, a decided adherent of the League, was in the chair. Mr. David Hurin (engineer) said the chief ob stacle to education was the great war going on between the different sects of religion,—sects which could not throw aside their prejudices. He called upon the working-men to take their part in directing the national education move ment by assisting the Government to establish a compulsory system of education. Mr. Thomas Brook (brushmaker) argued that it was possible to have a religious, but, at the same time, an unsectarian system of education. Mr. G. Miller (cloth-dresser) was afraid that a system called and actually being compulsory would lose its influence, because Englishmen did not like compulsion. Ile advocated the Bible as the only sure standard for education, and he was glad to find that the League did not propose to give up altogether the Sacred Volume.—Mr. Allen Barraclough (cabinetmaker) said he had all his life been a secularist, a Republican, and a Radical, and he denounced the clergy and ministers of religion very strongly, saying that they had always endeavoured to keep the people in the dark The only objection he had to the League was that they had taken ministers of religion into their ranks, as he was sure that they meant to deceive; for, wherever there was theology, tyranny and ignorance always existed.—Mr. Pickles (engineer) said ho represented a num ber of men who were opposed to the League because it would introduce police supervision, and that would be no better than a spy system. After reading the speech made by Mr. Baines, M.P., at the Union Conference in Leeds, ho could come to no other conclusion than that the scheme of the Union was the best. For his own part, he thought they were overratingthe education question, because it was well known that the most scholastic and enlightened nations had been the most sunken in profligacy and debauchery, and they were told that the students at Harrow, for in stance, had to pay foes for cockfighting and fisticuffs. There must be moral culture, but he and his friends, in their view of the prospects of education, had the utmost con fidence in the Right Hon. W. E. Forster, M.P., and the Government. Mr. Lishman (cloth-dresser) sup ported the League, and shewed that the denominational system, after having had fair play, had decidedly failed. Mr. J. Dixon (miner) said he loved denominationalism, but he approved the League, because it would go lower down into the dregs of society. The miners' children went to Sunday schools, because their parents were a Bible-loving people, but it was only by compul sion that they could be got to attend the day schools. But no compulsory system would answer unless religion was found as a personal sentiment operating in the mind of the teacher.—Mr. J. Roberts (mechanic) shewed that in Prussia and elsewhere, where education was compulsory, there was no repugnance to compulsion ; and in England that pressure would only be applied to those parents who would not do their duty without it. The discussion was continued in an enlightened and temperate spirit for two or three hours, and at its close, on the motion of Mr. Shortland (mason), it was resolved:—" That in the opinion of this conference any system of national education should be free, unsectarian, and compulsory ; and the delegates present pledge themselves to support any measure embody ing the above three principles." The Alliance lVeek•ly News says that Archdeacon Sandford is recovering from Lis recent severe illness, and that his friends are urging the Premier to appoint him to the vacant see of Manchester. The Cunard and Inman Steam Companies having refused to carry the American mails at the reduced rates, the United States Government have contracted with other steamers o carry the Wednesday and Saturday mails. The report is emphatically discredited " that the Treasury authorities contemplate taking the Welsh fa sting girl's case into their hands, and instructing counsel to con duct the prosecution.' There is no ground whatever for the statement. The subscription list of the National Education League includes no fewer than 17 subscriptions of £l,OOO each, twelve of which have been subset ibed in Birmingham ; and twelve of £lOO each, five of which come from the same town. MORE QUlNlNE.—According to the Pioneer of Allahabad, a new variety of chinchona, yielding a larger percentage of quinine than any species yet analysed, has boon discovered by Mr. Broughton, the Quinologist to the Madras Government. It has been raised from seeds collected in the Loxa district of the Andes. Mn. DALWAY.—At a meeting of eleven Orange lodges, held at Lame, county Antrim, on Saturday, reso lutions were passed protesting against the conduct of the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland in expelling Mr. Dalway, M.P., for supporting Sir Shafto Adair at the late county Antrim election, and expressing confidence in Mr. Dalway as a true Orangeman. THE LIMERICK CATASTEOPRE.—At the inquest on the bodies of the persons killed by the fall of houses in Limerick, several of the jury said they should petition the Lord-Lieutenant to send down a Government inspector to examine the whole city. The jury then found that the catastrophe was casual, accidental, by misfortune, and not otherwise, but that "the Corporation ought to direct their surveyor to inspect certain houses in this city said to be in a state dangerous to human life." THE REPORTED STOPPAGE OF THE METROPOLI TAN MAIN DRAINAGE.—The statement published by the Architect respecting the stoppage of the Metropolitan Main Drainage Works is both inaccurate and exaggerated. No accident of importance has taken place at Barking, and so far as that section of the works is concerned the Metropolitan Main Drainage is all right, and in good working order. Through excessive working, consequent upon the late heavy rains, a fracture has occurred in an air -chamber, and a partial stoppage of the pumping was the result. A. SINGULAR, DOCUMENT.—The .Rhenish Gazette publishes the following curious certificate, given in 1709, by tho magistrate of Aleut :—" We attest that the execu tioner of Tocklenbourg, one named Joert Henri Stolheart, brother-in-law of the executioner Dalgermann, has decapi tated exceedingly well, and to my peculiar satisfaction, one named Henri Schuerkamp ; and that even when his brother was syndic, the above-named Stolheart very gen teelly hung one named Koetler. He is therefore quite expert at such functions." AN Inisn POLICE SESSION.—The proceedings at the Kanturk presentment sessions on Friday would give a very unfavourable impression of the state of society in that part of Ireland. There was a formidable list of applications for compensation for malicious injuries— chiefly burning of agricultural produce during the months of September and November, and a large sum was levied off the barony for the purpose. The claims in respect of the fires in one night alone, the 20th of November, amounted to about £1,500 ; and there was no doubt that the destruction of property in each of these cases was malicious, though it was almost impossible to assign a cause for the outrages. THE OUTRAGE AT EwELL.—lnformation has been sent to Mr. Carter, the coroner for East Surrey, that George Spooner, the proprietor of the house which ITug gett attempted to blow up, had died from the injuries ho had received. Spooner, it will be remembered, alarmed at Mrs. Richardson's cries, left his bed-room and met the assassin on the stairs pursuing her. A struggle ensued in which Spooner forced Huggett downstairs into the kitchen, and was close to him when he threw the gun powder upon the fire. Since the occurrence on the 22nd ult., ➢lr. George Robinson Baines, surgeon at Ewell has attended the unfortunate man, who, however never rallied. The proceedings at the inquest will be merely of a formal nature, as ITuggett's admission that be had stolen the powder and had thrown it upon the fire through jea lousy, rendered it unnecessary to tako Spoonor's deposi tion Tho evidence taken last week will, therefore, simply bo reed over, ntl the verdict in the Me Altered. THIRD EDm 9N. SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK. TAT TERSALL'S—Th's Evening. WATERLOO CUP. sto 1 agst Lord Lurgan's nomination (taken) LIVERPOOL GRAND NATIONAL. 1000 to 35 agst The Colon& (taken) SCO to 15 agst Fertullagh (takes) 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) 5(0 to 10 a3st Astrolate (tahen) 500 to 10 agst Exci4eman (taken) Skirmish gets the Stakes for tho disputed R:leo at Bromley. CItY BETTING.—TiIts DAY. WATERLOO (COURSING) CUP. sto 1 agst Lord Lurgan's nomination (taken) 100 to 6 agst Mr Brocklebark's nom. (taken). 20 to 1 agst Mr Blaushard nom. (taken) 20 to 1 agst Mr Bland's nom. (taken) 25 to 1 agat Dr Richardson's nom. (taken) LIVERPOOL GRAND NATIONAL 500 to 30 agst The Lamb (taken) 250 to 10 agst Tathwell (taken) 500 to 15 agat Pearl Diver (taken) 500 to 15 agst Globule (taken) TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. 4to 1 agst Kingcraft (taken and offered) 9 to 2 agat Sunshine offered (5 to 1 takes) 100 to 12 agat Camol (offered) 10 to 1 agst Astolfo (taken) 500 to 15 agst Bay Rosalind (takue) DERBY. 1000 to 1 agst Chancelier (taken) RACING FIXTURES-1870. FEBRUARY. 15, 16 I Derby .. 22, 23 Harrow 17, 18 I Nswtou 25, 26 MARCH. Nottingham . l, '2 I West Somerset l6, 17 Liverpool B, 9, 10 I Warwick V, 23, 24 Pontefract 14, 15 1 Epsom 29, 80 Cambridgeshire l4, 15 I Bromley 31 and April 1 APRIL. Northampton 5, 6 I Newmarket Craven 18 to 22 West Drayton 7, 8 I Abergavonny 21, 22 Thirsk 7, 8 1 Lewes .. 9 6, 2/ Kingsbury lB, 19 1 Croydon. 28, 2,1 Durham lB, 19 I LOIVGFORD ELECTION.—(TMs Day.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) The contest going on with great excitement. All quiet up to the present, but a disturbance is more 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. POLICE I.V7ELLIC;ENGW.—IIeis Day. MARLDOI►OUGII-STREET. A GOTERNMENT CLERK CHARGED WITH ASSAULTING A CONSTABLE.— Jam( s Robinson, describing himself as an Admiralty clerk, was charged before Mr. Tyr whitt with being drunk and disorderly and assaulting Police-constable Fish, 42 C R. The constable said that on Saturday night, about nino o'clock, ho was on duty in Leicester-square, and seeing a crowd of persons assembled at the door of the Hotel de Provence, he went up to ascertain the cause, and found the prisoner, who was drunk, trying to force his way into the hotel, and the waiters trying to keep him our. As a great disturbance was being caused he requested the prisoner to go away, but instead of doing so ho struck him in the eye. Two other conFtables having been fetched by a gentleman, the prisoner was talon to the station, where he abused the police and called them scoundrels. The prisoner Faid ho deeply regretted what had co curred, and would like to compensate the constable. Mr. Tyrwhitt said he was not permitted to allow such a thing, unfortunate constables not being suffered to receive anything, although be thought that would -often be the best way of settling such cases. The prisoner would have to pay a line of 40s. or a mouth. THAMES. A GANG OF YOUNG TIIIEVLS.—Thomas Macarthy, aged 15 years, Ed wart Buckley, 13, Thomas Moore, 15, Thomas Lanigan, 15, Henry Chandler, 15, and James Sands, 14, were charged with stealing a clock valued at ss. from the shop of Mr. John Goldberg, and Joseph Rosenthal, 30, a clothes dealer in Rosemary-lane, was charged with felo niously receiving the clock, he well knowing it to be stolen. The robbery of the clock, and the sale of it to Rosenthal, was clearly made out. It also appeared that Rosenthal gave 2s. for it, which Mr. Charles Young, soli citor for Rosenthal, said was a fair plies, and he elicited from the prosecutor that ho gave 3s. for the clock iu ques tion and another. _ The Magistrate said that Rosenthal was a clothes deAler, and no explanation was given why he was dealing in clocks. Mr. Young—He deals in anything and everything, and drives a bargain when he can. Police-constable Dunaway, a detective, said he arrested three of the young thieves in the pit of the Pavilion Theatre, and the others elsewhere. Lanigan said he went into the shop and took the clock and gave it to Moore who handed it to Buckley, and he covered it over with his coat. Chandler said he was piesent when the clock was sold, but he had none of the money. Sands said, "Yes, you did ; you had 31" Chandler said, " No, only 2d., and and that you owed me." A witness, who saw the boys sharing the money, said two of them only had a ld. each. The clock was found in Rosenthal's shop (produced and identified). The prisoners were remanded, and bail was taken for Rosenthal. WESTMINSTER. OUTRAGE BY A LANDLORD UPON A POOR TENANT. Thomas May, landlord •f the house, 17, Avery. farm-rowl Pimlico, was charged with an outrage upon hie tenant, Samuel Briggs. Complainant said he had lodged in the defendant's house three months. Being a poor man with a wife and tliree children they occupied a kitchen only, at 3s. 6d. per week. At a little before eleven on Saturday night defendant came down drunk, and knocking at the door demanded his three weeks' rent, at the same time declaring that if not paid in. an hour he would take everything in the room. Shortly before 12 o'clock, after complainant and his children were in bed, defendant came down again and broke the door open. Complainant's wife sent out for a policeman. De fendant pushed the clothes off the bed, and one of the , children, alarmed, ran into the street. Defendant then. called to his wife for a bed key to take the bedstead down. with. The policeman told complainant to put defendant out of the room, and on his only placing his hand upon him for that purpose defendant pulled the sleeve oat of hid coat. Defendant struck at complainant's wife. Police-detective Ladbrook, of the B division, proved. the latter part of this statement. Cries of "murder" and "police" proceeded from the house two or three times per week caused by defendant's drunkenness and violence. le was drunk on Saturday night, and, after he had been. removed from the kitchen, struck witness. Defendant said complainant owed him rent, and bad also had to leave othor places. He should like to know whoa complainant was going to pay him? Complainant said he was out of work, unfortunately. Defendant denied any attempt to commit assaults. Mr. Selfe said that his conduct in getting drunk and conducting himself in this way was very improper, and fined him 20s. or 14 days. MAILS FOR THE UNITED STATES.—To prevent misconception, it is considered desirable to give notice that no alteration has taken place in the days for de spatching mails from this country to the United States, or in the lines of steamers by which the mails will be con- vexed. WORCESTER CATHEDRAL BELLS.—The new peat of bells for Worcester Cathedral, which has just been cas at a cost of some £3,000, raise& by public subscription through the exertions of the Rev. R. Cattley, one of the minor canons of the cathedral, having last week been, raised to their destination in the tower of the cathedral, the first peal was rung on Saturday last to welcome the New Year. The bells (12 in number) are very musical, but the first; bell being out of tune with the rest of the peal will require tuning, or the peal will have to be confined to an octave. A clock is shortly to be placed in the tower of the cathe dral to keep st ict Greenwich time. THE EASTERN FISHERIES.—The total quantity of herrings landed at Lowestoft during the past season wsm 6,912 lasts, or 91,238,400 fish. Largo as this q uantity will' seem, it was 250 lasts, or 3,300, 000 fish loss tha n iu 18 This falling off was compensated for, however, by the somewhat higher prices which prevailed during the PA" 'eacon. BREAKFAsT.—EPPS'S COCOA.—GRATEFUL 111. M. CO FORTI NG.—The very agreeable charact er of this prep lb lb rendered it a general favourite. The 'Civil Service O 225! creCOI marks:—" The singular succes s which Mr. Epps .+Clo—r-24 homoeopa thi c preparation of cocoa ha s never bee;.---11-6n. ,14 any experimentalist. By a thorough knowlcd.rssingp laws which govern tho operations of digeldatal . * and by a careful application of the fine propeTi i r m. „, • cocoa, Mr Epps bes provided our breakfast , l,,,7 cately flavoured beverage which s• tors' bills." Made simply I ,t lie , 7. 4 only iu tin-lined packets, l& l, pathic Chemists, Loudon." • • • • 'airs. I