The Sun. — London, England, 1870-05-09 00:00:00

AFFECTION. I a congratulatory is recently fired at, mewhat noticeable f Kells had lately DIV, unaccustomed. ;uished as the seat some mon umen ts n their old towers, at the town was ni ,dually and silently every town in the quiet, unobserved tired a most mien. non with the entire f ordinary law. At orce of police Old if the town Were ny visible enemy; .evtired the sair or punish out ra", hole surface of the sere was no ' re st that had led that neighbour' • * The opl e pe e wa y of living. rom their WO, 'hen in the towos ng their bread; zingum their bread 'e moral, upr i g ht, a state of miser)? shed and discon• iies they becaMe spirit which •03 beginning to Fel atrage, they C OO 4 t these men 0 homes, not on l 7 6s human being, >y the treatinen,: L 3 the reach of a': t to bear on M oral any man in 110 had been tr eateLl ld not have been vou ld have b ees were. The la q O opportunity o. criminal, no one TEA. Iterated with the 'ely did the P lc , mced that seriow, oods and nude -Jommissioners °L) 'science h a s o crlish )stituting )eor ;wive the aPI. tle blue and a haul black tea ; t )e feared, , 13 11 :1; which e „i e latter Pr a o .u o ia c r become a reo business ; an d oa l s rely unconsc,le to s. They wri', l , e r y doubt whe'' to y provisions if this reallY.„"; up the praetll' ; Inland rov e l Vil them, as it e , a great inter ters add that th having dePa rt / n ph r aseology.„ ; , in their statute t in the state Nothing o. e; subject araon?. of them -Gentlemen , , e while we h a 'be eason, I shal l i s 10 . • question : • by or vice versa , eh the weight, su s t ?—Your nae ty ttely had a C ' er vously the Pe o ,; i i • The deteetto,t It appears ti wharves in the habit of Pe i a to be reirtev ime were P_„. tterly, in u s '; Sweepings, ll3 ings were eul;:ils erable quant i ' a ready nu'X o is. 4d- Pk • l e Inland Iteven 4 following reV' e i r might atSd..rer F, pine and ;nt of sand. Lents of tea -leal r 1, and 1 0 ' 0 P il e ) . t is. 4d. per d, en, bits .4 Wee ' 3rvations of fist that in the r se ° powe r to re v ' e , sumption, D o .e absurd er e cases vP It to t is diffieu ild be a prv' t if adulteration le- m anur..cl .e d .iverely pun s a little le Office, orL a n st =fort, is DO" • at is distill, ctltof ne Secretary , hall be enforcl. a dead Isttu tbe ations but say, trill'. ii„ ry doc bo , t , 3 the fact t ,De u ce gave of / b. ice does not ao where i t to but 0 11 3: 0 0 d emo nstrav i o Le intending Jur urther tocileos• ou t except l r „ A the let t . e t i; 'er meritorlou ; illegal ri ce 3 CirCUIIIS L9 ',I3 O n o n i a tery is 'ipe Lt to deter"' ,0 notion, and e i s s e ipirical &tor n d ;8 of illStiCo he EniPe r io, ig hotel at ha s of Sived ez i the le 16th ° Prussia 11 , of the al i w' e lj e as mr,g, as w te n ded O ci b io e ng coUV A S „ e n de t• is NI. - 1 - 4 ,_v - ," of rst nunwe"tsit ains an ,ac c° ,,v4 : p o litical 1 1 tw it It is publi9'. )er cover. t he , e 71 s ap f c the defeato.,', it, whol it of the progr, e _ ss tbe i nqu ire innol nstitutien° alike was +heir. Bent for Y• ult. s a fr• al Gen e- ( 1 lay- A r stO° i s un do - l i v e, thing,Y ° n el u till The -Dx e ": gr eSSllaSi g l e to central o tment In tions. SSE [ETY TO es ra cti . se sl • ,- -r n lw hoW s hops the bird ch hecha fat a i ed the ligh t A ' r ic in tter u ••blind' t h a t this bur n ii b era teil t he in wire, there `g An d t these • t ) proteo awe -b e n sow' ow ls vent tau l , e i ird are le in iser one it a. to be dle t u o Vrqdusa s ing the p •e° ree of l in t he ambers I°l. -ee of sinne Or n ts • • 1 sew n • l ls elm prev l iiy ing n g ve ace s that c onfers the e , 1 :hiefs of .t ro the Minis° THE MONEY MARKET AND 0 :11)1ERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CI ry, Two O'CLOCK. 'Tie busi ness on the S toc k E xc h ange t o -d ay was fi rm . I n the f ore i x n mark e t Sp an i s h we re better, and we have also to notice an improvement In Turkish. Railway shares are 4 ' 1 ' 3 4, and Telegraphs very depressed. (le nsels are now at 94 to 931 ; ditto for account, 943 ; Th . ' e e Per Cents. Reduced, 92+ I ; Now 3 per Cent., 92+1 ditto; 3 + per Cent., 1001; ditto Annuities, 1885, 11 1-16 India Stock, 104- per cent., April, 1874, —; ditto 5 per b t., July, 1880, 114 ; ditto 4 per cent., Oct., 18a8, 1013 100 : ditto Enfaced Paper 4 per cent., 92+ 1; ditto 5 per cent., 1872, 103+ ; Metropolitan Board of Works, 33 por cent. Stock, 941. In the Foreign Market Spanish 1867 Bonds aro 291 to 29 4; ',ltalian is 561 ito 564 ; Turkish Fives, 483 to 493. 5 111 e Br az ili an Bonds are quoted 89?; to 90; Egyptian (1864), 9 t° 90 ; ditto (1868), 803 to 801; Peruvian, 863 to 861; Or v• • _ - • N e i - itehsk, 85 to 801 ; colas, 671 to 683; Moscow, 863 t° , 86 i; and Charkof, 85 to 854-,. In English Railway Shares, Great Eastern, 42 to 4 . 23; : -It eat. Western, 711 to - 72; London and North Western, 116 3 to 127; London, Chatham, and Dover, 153 to 153; ealetionian, 731 to 74 ; Great Nerthern (A), 129 to 129+; Lauvashire and Yorkshire, 129 to 1293 ; Loudon and 13ri.81itou, 45 to 453; Metropolitan, 75 to 753; Midland, 1253 to 126; and South Eastern, 77 to 773. American Five-Twenty Bonds are 883 to 883; the Ten urtY Bonds, 851 to 86; Erie Shares, 181 to 181. Tho Scrip of the New Egyptian Loan is quiet at 3 to Prem. Tlic Japan Customs Loan is quoted 4 to 5 dis. 411 0 0 -Am. , rican Telegraph Shares are 17 to 17; ; British cO u(li an, !o 8i ; China Submarine, 4to 2 dis. ; Falmouth, t° • ' Piench Cable, 151 to 1 1 3; and Construction, 31 t 3, a , '3. " Miscel'aneous Shares General Credit are fto prem. ; e lhlernation a l Financial, 1 9-16 to 1 7-16 die.; Hudson's Bay t:t ` )l nNny ; 12 t o 13; Lo n d o n G e neral Omnibus Company, 21 2 1 - National Discount, 11f to 1li; Peninsular and dental Steam, 43 to 45 ; and Royal Mail Steam, 50 to 52 " div. Ihe corn market opens firm for all kinds of grain. For wheat is more money asked. Barley the turn dearer 1 ,..; (* a1 , s and p eas m a i nta i n th e ex t reme o f l as t wee k' s a d vance. Cu ts', with liberal supplies taken off hand firmly at last rates It has 'been announced that the proposal for altering the railway tax from 5 per cent. on passenger traffic to 1 per cent. on gross traffic will be abandoned by the Chancellor of t he Exchequer, instead of any modification being at -1111'1,A The great passenger lines will, therefore, for the Pieent year be disappointed of the rel;ef on which they had reek ened, but the matter in some altered form is expected to constiotte a feature of the next Budget. first call of 25 per cent. is payable on the shares of the etherlands Steamship Company on the 14th inst. This represents £2l 3s. Pd. on each share of ..£Bl 15s. and 410 11 s. 101-d, on each share of£42 7s. Gd. The l e t ters of allotment f or shares i n the San Paulci Gas 0( "Puy have been posted. „The Vaster of the Bulls has confirmed the appointment of Thomas Kennedy as official liquidator of the Albert and 4411,1 r Average Associations. An extraordinary meeting of the Guernsey Water Com- P4 nY (Limited), will be held on the 17th inst. for the pur- Pso of altering the articles of association. 1h " Cape Copper Company announce a further dividend 0 48, per share from the profit of 18138, thus closing the 4eeounts for that year. creditors of the Sphynx Club are requested to sent in e Pat ticulars of their claims to Mr. H. Yates, of Liverpool, the liquidator, by the Ist of Juno. I he directors of the Miners Mining Company (Limited) 'lave declared an interim dividend of £5 per share from the protit s of the last quarter. the Frankfort advices state that at the Berlin Bourse, on 4 1 ') " instant, the following communication from the idermen of the Merchants (analogous to an English Ch., , 'neer of Commerce) was posted up: - "It having come , k no w ledg e th a t a y e t l arger exp l ora ti on o f our mar ets is contemplated in America and England by the sale ° y r unsound A mer i can b on d s, as has h i therto been :e ease, to the detriment of th e pudic, we are thereby in deed to put th e commu n ity on th e i r guar d aga i nst the pur e"so of American bonds, and particularly of American rail - aY mortgage bonds, if they are not guaranteed by the Go verument of the United , tates. Notice has been given at the Battle tim e to brokers that they shouldabstain from dealing in stlei) bonds, and that no quotation will be all O w ed h ence f or th." 6 ti. - lepJrted that the communication thus referred to came "oin the . North German Consul at New York. A measure of the kind had been expected for some time, but would P ei 4)b ably still h ave b een d e l aye d b y t h e ted i ousness of offi „al form a li t i es ‘4e market $100,00,000 of Northern Pacific Railway bonds. BRITISH FUNDS-TWO O'CLOCK GiV EItNAIENT lUNDS. tp. Cent. C.:ousels ....... „, 14 31 3 lit " for Account 94} kiior Cent. 11 0 luom , -., 3w 1 N,,, 4 3 Per Cent 11 0 4 h per Cent. JAM. 189_4 ..... 1001 A „ y Der Con Jut. 18/3 ",''LiON, 30 yrs, aspire sth Jen., 1880 — i ' ) . '' l or 3kt yrs, expire sth April .881 L . (~ (Ited Se : , Televaph). Aug., .90P — 0 ) '''"ltz - r Rine, £l,OOO, 21p. Ct. — 1;,,,1,•.C200 dc £5O 1. l' - ,1 0:11u1 Stook. 4i per Co l n ... , 4 : 0 1 . openin g 1 1' 1 3 411 4 per Cent. Bonds ' rCelonial Cranium ft.id• "''AN ,4 JvRmENT SECURITIEs. l a ';t:)ek 10i per Cent., April 1874 — c. Os . b dolling, for Account — b• a ~e r • 1 nt luly It:80 o. 4 t ,ti .* . r ... 114 n i Po - Cent. Oct. 188 e I) •• 5 El:l . :teed ['a l e, 4 ppr 0. - mt.. . ... [icr Cer t., Jan. 1872 ...• -,.... ••• ;, 1031 ''' per e•-•.- t M•ty 1879 ..) 04 -' - 1 • • , _,) •• • 4 I" . Cent., Cup. DB2. 18,.. : D , do 16' ... * — 1) O. do. 1882 — ,'"•• 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 m ...., '''o.4 .1 per Cont., £l,OOO ..... ...„ — pm .. ' iol, n • 44:1,0p0 ).:::,,,,i(F:plitiFb:ll:3:,•l6 per Cons TWO O'CLOCK._ ,I2I •-i e , •• - •,,,,, 4, 1 • ,r,...., IL,„ ( i s 5 per cent _ l' - Du, 1859 _ ' 141 11;.,, .r, per Cent ,-..' q r•or (lent. 181,2 • ),, 40 LB ,y I,'"• an, 186 . "" • n isfiS 891 90 1.• • •• ... () 5 ••er (' •lit . 1865 r 1 .., /1..., n,. . ~ ~. ‘yr i f'fi ti per ( f 7 ..... ~", ,,r 0 ~,t . .„ e., . 4 ..mr (, eni. i... 1.)•• ••rt ~. i 4 , 4" C ..ur Uer* 1,9. ll per Cont.— ••• •••••• ~'1 .1 .,,,• ', 4) . 7 •,••••r C.' cut ~ 1 .... ... 3 u• (*) per ce-t. 1867 1 : 1 , : :; '0 ', Cent.,1825 _ , ~ ‘ . h • ~ • om. a. , itr, t . I " I'/ i av i palities, 7 j;r Cca 0,, ~ ~. • o.nit ....... _ i,],.,,1' 1.1- Cent., 186/ L' ';l:,:ji,r,,N7,7,r(iotlio!il .. tloa, 1 I: 1 1': 1::" ::: '.•,,thlAi iSt3ll, J„ 45',1. 1301.118 ' .• '.. ... •.... 891 18 4 •;; ..• •• Account 891 ..,"• 1 -...tal li•••11s: -'• 9l+ 1 , IT,; r•s)t 1 ' - . 80i I D, , • 1...1 ......... • i , • a _ ."• A Per C OOL, 1868 .••••• .. ~1 111 T • ,IL,'• till,; lioll,'S •• • •••• --- 991 100 (1.O7",'''11111;•ni I(,lwav i)eb.lTltUres • ' fji . I 1, , ," Per Cc nt., 1824 5 , PS Coups... ..... •• _ (4,), ''''ol,.-;1f _ 1..:( p,•(•,,!:tla a pe r Cent ~ ) 831 ' '' 11,, n4c,,,,,, p '1 I , ..n 10 p. Ct..ai , Pt— 851 /•) ( .. c ., ,, tat . ~4 •, ••• It, ; "30 .............. 3 ' . ' , "' s) th,: Cert., 181 In _ 0: • ..y.:conut 1 '.1...! Ntlyernmana Raiiwa ) 561 ___ 6,':',-,. 3 for Cent •••• iqo kr Account _ It,-, 1864 n o , • ••• 4,., ~.:::.1,It::::: per t.'.(n34. . ~. ... .. IL 1, 1 ~., ' ! , •t- ~ A,,t , it Hoe-Fronel ~.. ....... . \,''-11, iftvoorik: 5 ,--: ( %ent •• ..... ' "• -.. 251 (1.;i.• " i ,-,,..00 .............................. _ 'i):4l".. . 7 ......... ••• ............ ~,, , . rAt ............ ••• ••••• ... :.1"1 Warr:int s (Efeet:tinm) ••.• P.. • Qt!A .4. 0 , ,'"' :' 1 . rent. 1865 ........ ... •• • t:: ,„,, ... ••• - I.::: t::::::1%.,:::. 18 . .... ............ ... -I- 3 s„ ' ''''''`.... por (it .. 1853 '6 7 9 ' , ;('.••/. ••• ' 31,, , 0 ,.... ' , 1k1), . ...... P 1) "• , 1,,. Serif, .£2l) plii , l. ....... i, . ,, -) ~r cent_ IX.'•: -t: 8' •• ••• --- 1, '" 1 '•1. ,, r 0 IPro - . .. • 9 °i n; ~ cent ...• ..... ....... ••••••• .1.... it..1.1.e.2.t. IBt;tt ........... ••• • i), ~ Par Cont., 1859 ........... ~,,, .-, ' , or C rnt., 1862 ... ....... ••• .••• litglo-Dutelt, 1 864, Xlo° 1303"1 f"),, ( . 1.,„ £B4 15a. do. ... ~ o• IB6c ClOll Bends ........... .. . 921 I), ' dr) £B4 liis. do. ..... ... li• .-... tt .. :). ‘7,(.01:4 Railway .......................... . 68 - 1 ' . ll .,altCent ....................... .. 1'4111,113 per Con ti 9-1 Do. Aect.unt - Do. 1867 Do. Account Do. New Deferroo 2 9 1. Do. Passive Do. Corn. Ccrt. of Cont.. not funded .. Do. Account S wedish Provincial Mortgage Loan -- Do Government, 1864 Do dc, 1868 Turkish 6 is:r Cent Do Account .. no 6 laer Cent. 185 s Account. Do ElOr Bonds Do 6 per Cont., 1862 Do. Account..., 4100 Bonds 73; 4i Do. :5 percent. 1865... Do. Account Do 6 per Cent., 1865 ............... 72i I Do Account Dpor Cent., Guarantee 6........ ......... = Do do, Scrip Venezuela 3 per Cent. - Do 6 per Cent. 18414 D, 6 per nent.,lg62 . Dividends on the above payable in London. Atnitrtsn a par Cent Ex 10 Florin,. Belgian. 44 per cent., Ex. 25f. Dutch i per (`•ett'.•. Ex. 12 Go, Do. 4 njr Cent. Certificate French lientea,. 3 ner Cont.. E. ...... ttsiliab 5 per Cent. 1831, F. :fsi Do Account O. mso's, money Do. Account, Juno 1 TWO 0 'CLOCK ()3i 4 94 LAW INTELLIGENCE-THIS DAY. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 9. 1870 SHAR LLsT. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. RAILWAYS-ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. THE PLEBISCITE. The Times observes that we have as yet hardly any Statement of Sunday's vote to enable us to form an esti mate as to its final result. In Paris, of course, the " Noes" have, as it seems, obtained a majority. But the vote of the Departments will lead to a far different conclusion. Per those who have watched events since it was first an nounced that the new linperial Constitution was to be submitted to the test of a Plebiscite, there could, indeed, be no difficulty in anticipating the probable results of • this popular experiment. - Almost all men who could be supposed to entertain an opinion on the subject had given it free utterance. All parties and fractions of parties had put forth their manifestoes, and we were well acquainted with the mate rial and moral agencies at work on the mass—that inert mass destitute of any impulse of its own, yet giving what ever impulse it may receive the momentum of its over whelming weight. It was, therefore, very essental that a fresh stimulus should be supplied to the torpid mass, and this was most opportunely supplied by the plot against the life of the Emperor. Whatever the real truth concerning that plot may eventually prove to be,* it was certain the Government would make .the best of the advantage it gave them ; and if the result of the plebiscite, no motter how obtained, is to save France from a revolution, the Government will be de clared•by an immense majority to have "deserved well of their country." Their triumph, however, must, even in their own estimation, be somewhat qualified by their con sciousness of the means by which the end was attained. But it is open to the Emperor's- Government to prove that their wish to insure victory was by no means influenced by any intention to abuse it. By a steady advance towards free institutions, by a repudia tion of discretionary powers—above all things, by a genuine appeal to the people in a Parliamentary election based on a fair electoral system—the Government may recover lost ground, revive public confidence, and usher in that new era of combined liberty and security which had been an nounced upon the accession of the January Ministry. They will by such measures not only establish the Empire on a surer basis than the Plebiscite affords, but they will place it above the necessity of any such objectionable ex periment for the future. ROLLS COURT. The Master of the Rolls delivered judgment in the case of Smith, Knight, and CO. (Pipon's claim). The company had issued a debenture by Smith, one of the partners of the firm, and they attempted to make it a set-off agairpt a creditor. His lordship said that the court could not sanction anything so closely approaching to a fraud, and decided ac cordingly. His Honour also gave judgment to-day in the case of Cottrell v. Barker. Testator had left an annuity, and the party who had the reversionary in terest of it on the decease of the tenant for life sold his interest. Ile subsequently filed a bill to have the bargai❑ set aside on the ground that he did not reoeive.the value of the reversion. His lordship said the agreement was quite valid, and that the plaintiff must pay the costs. POLICE INTELLIGENCE-o'ms DAY.) MAALBOROUGH-STREET. Bridget Delany, a young woman, was charged be fore Mr. Tyrwhitt with violently assaulting an elderly female named Margaret M‘Natnara, residing in Smith's-court, Great Windmill-street. The com plainant said that on Saturday evening she was walking along Pulteney-street, when the prisoner, without any provocation whatever, abuse I her and threw a handful of mud in her face. She took no notice of the prisoner and went away, and while going up the court where she resided a little time afterwards the prisoner came behind hef, knocked her down, blackened her eye, and threw some little articles of grocery she had been purchasing about the place. The only answer the prisoner made to the charge was that she had been drinking. She was committed for two mmths with hard labour. THAMES. Frederick R9bson, aged 23, was charg2d, before Mr. Lushington, with being drunk and unable to take care of a horse and cart he was driving, or attempting to drive, on Saturday evening. Mr. Lushington asked where the horse and cart had been placed? Police-sergeant 116 K replied lo the Green yard.- Mr. Lushington said the fees would amount to 15s. It was a very dangerous proceeding for a man to be driving a horse and trap along a crowded thoroughfare like the Mile-cud-road on a Saturd..y evening. He fined the prisoner 35., which he paid. WESTMINSTE R James Heddicar, a militiaman in Vie Ist Royal Surrey, wa; charge 1 with embezzling sums a•nou :t -ing to £5 Os 2id., the moneys of his master, Mr. T. Morris, of the Aquatic Stores, Commercial-road, Chelsea. 'fheprisoner had been potman to Mr. Morris for some time, and it was his duty to account at the end of the day for beer supplied to Messrs. Morris's yard, ant to other customers, and to account at the end of the week for the gross amount. He had not accounted for 6s. received from John Hall, at. that yard, Bd. from a mln named Mitchell, besides . 20 other sums. The evidence was insufficient, and the prisoner was discharged. Canadian advices to the 20th ult. state that not withstanding the threatened Fenian raid there was not the faintest indication of a movement along the whole fron tier. The Toronto Globe says that it was impossible to discover any sufficient cause for the real or affected alarm of the Government. -THE CUSTOMS PARLlAMENT.—Telegraphic ac counts from Berlin have reported the deliberations of the Customs Parliament. The majority of the members of Parliament consented to the diminution of taxes which was proposed, but they refused to compensate for those reductions by allowing any increase of other articles. By a majority of 124, it was decided that the duty on coffee should not be increased, and this in spite of the efforts of the ministers, Camphausen and Del bruck. In all probability the entire scheme of the change in the customs tariffs will be abandoned, because the Go vernment wish to preserve the equilibrium of the Budget, and will only consent to the reduction of some taxes on con dition that others are increased. This has been the result of the three sessions of the Customs Parliament, a demand for increase of taxation on the part of the Government, and a refusal on the part of the deputies. Count Bis marck has hitherto had no reason to congratulate himself upon the creation of this Parliament, whereby he hoped to secure a powerful auxiliary towards German unity. THE WRECK OF THE STEAMER SADO.—The official inquiry into the wreck of this steamer, which struck on the Rosevear ledge of rocks, about a mile and three-quarters from the Bishop's Lighthouse, Scilly Islands, on the ruornin ,, of the 20th of April, while on a voyage from Oporto to Liverpool—a dense fog prevailing at the time—was concluded on Friday, at the Greenwich Police-court, before Mr. Patteson, magistrate, and captains Hunter and Hight, nautical assessors. The judg ment given in the case contained the following passages : The density of the fog is amply verified by the fact of the vessel running ashore where she did, without either the Bishop's-rock light or the St. Agnes light having been seen, although the former was about one mile and a half and the latter about three miles from them. The Court, therefore, on a careful review of all the circumstances, feel that they cannot pass over with impunity the utter disregard of the rules laid down for the navigating of steam vessels in foggy weather, and the omission to use the lead ; but, in consideration of the very high character borne by Captain Hoodless, his evident respectability, his general vigilance and attention to all matters connected with his duties, and also to the fact that he was deprived of the services of his chief mate through illness, are in clined to act as leniently as they can consistently with their duty, and therefore adjudge that his certificate be suspended for the space of three calendar months from this date. AN EQUIVOCAL COMPLIMENT.-Dr. Durnford left the Rectory, Middleton, on Thursday morning, for Chichester. A large number of the inhabitants assem bled at the railway station to witness his departure. On the line of railway at Middleton and Middleton Junction stations fog signals were placed to honour his departure. A. CHILD WORRIED TO DEATH BY A. DONKEY. — A little boy of six years of age, named Andrew Hawkins, met a terrible death a few days since at a place called Knockadoo, near Baitinglas. The child was in the habit of playing in a plantation, where a small donkey used to graze. On the day of the child's death he strayed further into the plantation and remained longer away than usual, and his grandmother went in search of him, when she found the poor little fellow quite dead, having been killed and horribly mutilated by the ferocious little ani mal, which was standing over him like any beast of prey, reeking in blood, which besmeared his mouth and legs. The child's body was reduced almost to the condition of a mummy. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOW:S e —Dr. George Macdonald is, we hear, preparing to make a venture in dramatic poetry.—An Italian theatrical paper has discovered that 2,155 lyrical productions bear, directly or indirectly, the names of women for titles, Lido alone coming in for forty-nine such honours.—We understand that at the Gaiety Theatre an attempt is about to be made to familiarise modern audiences with some of the works of the old dramatists. The firsf venture will be a play of Vanbrugh's.—Mr. Fechter has begun hi s season of a month, in New York at a French theatre. His full list of characters will be represented in the course of the month. He opened in the "Lady of Lyons," supported ), Miss Leclerq as Pauline. A fine company has been Neoured.— The Orchestra, Closing Business Paid. Name. Quotations, done. St Bristol and Exeter lOO 78 80 80 St Caledonian • lOO 731 741 731 1 St Cambrian lOO 15 20 20 Cornwall -ill 22 . 31 St Dublin and Belfast Juuctiou 100 St Dun, Prtb, and Aber. Jnuc 1011 70 72 20. East London till 4 6 20 Do 20 Do St Glasgow and S.Western 100 116 117 St Great EaStern lOO 42 421 421 1 St Do East Anglian, N 0.2 100 61 71 St Great North of Scotland 100 13 16 St Great Northern 100 121 122 1211 St Do A 100 126 127 1261. St Do B . 100 126 128 St Gt. So. and West (Irelarid)...loo 98 100 St Great Western - Consolid...loo 71 711 72 St Do South WaleS 100 68 70 St Do West Midland—Oxford 100 44 45 St Do do Newport 100 36 38 St Lancashire and Yorkshire 100 130 131 1291 Si Lond, Bright'n, and S.Coast 100 43 . 431 St Lond, Chatham, and Dover 100 141 15 1 15 St Do Metrop Extension A 100 9 11 St London and North Western 100 1261 1271 1271 1 - St Loudon and South Western-100 881 891 St Manch, Shef, and Lincolnsh.loo 51 511 521 St Do New. issued at £5O dis 30 .., St Metropolitan St Do Preferred... lOO St Do Deferred 100 10 Do Redeemable 1,11 9/ 10/ 10 St Metropolitan District 100 37 38 371 1 St Midland lOO 1241 125 1262 4 1 St Do Birmingham and Derbyloo 92 94 96 •St North British. lOO 34 35 St Do Edin, Perth, and Dunde 100 13 15 St North Eastern—Berwick lOO 1261 1271 1331 St Do Leeds 100 891 90} 89 St Do York St Do Stockton and Darlingts 100 178 .180 • North London lOO 120 122 10 Do New,•lB6B ll. St North Staffordshire 100 59 61 St North and So. \Vest. Juuct 100 102 105 St. Rhymney lOO 52 54 •St Shropshire Union 100 62 •63 St South Devon ;00 46 48 St - South Eastern 100 764 77 1 771 1 St Do Preferred • .100 104 1101 111/ 12 St Do Deferred lOO 41 411 441 1 St Staines, Wok'ham, Wok'g. all 122 131.2 .2 St Taff Vale 10 Do C 6 3 6 St Waterford and Cont. Ireland 100 ••• ••• 10 Waterloo and Whitehall MISCELLANEOUS. 10 Anglo-Mexican Mint 25 Australian Agricultural 2Ol 16 17 25 Austn Mort Laud and Fin, L 5 4d pr 10 Baugparah Tea Estate, Lint all 3 5 10 Berlin Water Works, Lim 5 Bombay Gas, Limited all 5 54 5 Ditto, New 4 pr 4 put 50 British American Land 20 British Indian Tea, Limited all 21 34 27. 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If we may believe Lord Granville himself, Mr. Monsell, and all their friends, there never was such a feat of diplomacy so fortunately accomplished. The skill of each of the parties to the triangular arrangement has been only equalled by its zeal for the cause of peace and Imperial integrity. If we hesitate to join in the chorus of congratulations which Lord Granville's diplo mrcy has evoked it is because we utterly fail to discover either the quarter whence the praises are due, or the matter on account of which we are to be grateful. What is the nature of the achievement for which Lord Granville seeks credit, and which Mr. Monsell calls upon us loudly to admire ? We are told that a " pacific " solution of the Red River difficulty has been arrived at —that an arrangement has been made between the Canadian Government and the " Red River delegates," by which the territory is to be admitted into the Dominion on the same terms as all the other provinces —and that the expedition which is to be sent to Fort Garry is to be one of peace. For how much of this result are we to congratulate Lord Granville ? What is there, in fact, in the situation, to congratulate anyone about, unless it be Louis Riel, the filibuster chief of Fort Garry ? The latest telegrams from Canada prove to us the folly of reckoning upon a peaceful settlement of the Red River difficulty so long as Louis Riel is, at large and in au thority. The Provisional Government at Fort Garry, we are told, " are busy swearing in officials and drawing up the Constitution, without any apparent reference to the negociations at Ottawa." In the absence of any informa tion as to how it is proposed to abate this Louis Riel, whether he is to be recognised as the first Governor of Manetoda, or whether he is to be hanged as we should hang any other ruffian who takes the life of a loyal British subject, it is well that we should at least postpone our congratulations to Lord Granville upon his spirited and dexterous management of the Red River difficulty. THE GREEK MASSACRE. The Daily News refers to Mr. Erskine's dispatches, and says that the one consolation that remains to us in these distressing circumstances is the noble bearing of our countrymen in the endurance of bitter trials and the too certain prospect of death. The letters of Mr. Herbert and Mr. Vyner, and the diary of Mr. Lloyd, contain the materials of a story of more than Roman magnanimity. How touching is the last entry in Mr. Lloyd's note-book, writen within two or three hours of his tragical death. " Troops " he notes, " are in force ; danger impending ; love to J. and Erskine in worst case ; " and then the self-possession and endurance of his high spirit appears in- one more line, " Fine view of mountains in Eubcea." Had the captives fallen into the hands of men, and not into tie paws of tigers, their noble characters would have saved them. Henceforth the false glow which romance has sought to throw around brigand life must disappear. The fugitive chiefs had nothing to gain by murdering our countrymen—nothing to lose by releasing them in their flight : in killing•thein they indulged the lust of revenge born of disappointed guilty fears, and perhaps also obeyed the professional instinct which teaches that their occupa tion would be gone if it were once found that captives taken by brigands could be delivered by force. If the Greek Government permits, or is permitted to allow, the existence of brigandage after this signal . disaster, every memory rwho holds of mr. a .Herbert and his s companions will ransom w t feel the ofthe fate will plead most powerfully for the concession of his extremest demands. But brigandage must not be tole rated for another year, for another month. Before the system numbers one more victim it must be rooted out ; and the Government which is not equal to this task con fesses itself thereby utterly unworthy of the name. A PUBLIC BENEFACTOR. The Telegraph declares that in Edinburgh last week there died a man who was the greatest conqueror in human history. He did not fight with battalions against battalions, his weapons were not cruel and deadly, and his foe was no guiltless people or helpless country, whose beauty and fertility were made its crimes. He waged his glorious war against our common enemy—his compas sionate heart and his capacious brain were his arsenal and armoury, and his triumyhs, instead of being bought by weeping and anguish, have stayed floods of, tears, and prevented a world of agon3r. Therefore it is that while we would have buried him like a king if he had only won victories in war, and while we would have filled, in that case, the public: journals with eulogies of his greatness and catalogues of his styles and titles, we now lay James Simpson to rest like a private citizen of some respectability, and cursorily mention his decease in a paragraph as an incident of the' week's news. 'We are instructed that " the last enemy " which shall be destroyed is death, albeit as yet that splendid promise is incompre hensible. But death had an ally, bitter, mysterious, and merciless, which seemed equ all y invincible, and lent death half its horrors, and cast upon life itself the shadow of an infinite fear. Pain stalked through the world with authority, apparently for ever and ever, to rack - our nerves and torture our senses—there were times, it seemed, when all who live must be delivered over to its tyranny. Then, after all those years, the hour came and the man : James Simpson was one of the foremost pi neers in giving to chloroform its widest and most essential apilication. The gain has been priceless, and at that one pitiful word from science, pain, the despot, was dead. Now he is dead—the brilliant Scotch doctor, with the large head which held such a glorious brain, and the lion like locks which covered it. It .is part of the mystery of things that he was killed by angina pectoris—the "breast- pang," w hi c h is, perhaps, the very keene s t agon y th a t can be borne by mortal man, at least during its paroxysms. Nevertheless, on his death-bed his own beneficent anaesthetic greatly assuaged his sufferings, realising that Eastern legend which says that the good deeds of a man gather round him in the shape of angels, and make hi s dissolution easy, THE REVISION OF THE BIBLE. The Post thinks the two Houses of Convocation have been more thyn usually practical in their present session. They have discussed two great questions—the proposed new Lectionary and the revision of the Bible. Of the expediency of such a revision there C 441 hardly two °pi, pions in the minds of those who are familiar with the original languastes of both Testaments. No one doubts that the English version is the noblest one extant, For fidelity of rendering, for felicity of diction, and magnificence of rhythm, it has never been exceeded. But it does not follow that it may not be greatly improved by the removal of some acknowledged blots. It is not creditable to English scholarship nor to theology that admitted errors should be allowed to go uncorrected. It is only against errors that any effort is to be made Nobody wishes to see an absolute re-transla! don. No one desires to be rid of the grand old periods which h ave rung so i mpress i vg l y i n t h e ears o f Englishmen for centuries. I would be a positive loss and mischief if any portion of the English version not actually incorrect in its rendering were to be altered. Only faulty parts are to be amended, and Convocation has done wisely in resolving to call in the- highest scholarship that can be found with on t re f erence t o the conntry qr the creed of the scholar. By this means it will secure for the new version an acceptance with all classes of Christians which could be obtained in no other way. It will not then be the version of a party, or be open to suspicion of any kind, but being the pro- duct of the highest scholarship of the age it will have claims upon the respect of the world which none will bq able to gainsay. It will be many years before the task is done, and many more before the new version will have found its way to the homes and affections of the people but when it will have done so the Christian Church wilt be in possession of a treasure past all price, INDIA.-RUBBER DEADENING SOUND.—We once visited a factory where some forty or fifty coppersmiths were at work in a shop above our heads; but what was remarkable scarcely a sound of their noisy hammering could be heard. On going upstairs we saw the explana tion. Each leg of every bench rested on a cushion inadq of indiarubber cuttings. This completely deadened the .• • . sound.— Citainben's Journal, ()LOSE OF TIM CUSTOMS PAILLIAMENT, -- Th e Prussian Government sustained a defeat in the Customs. Parliament on the question of increasing the duty on, Coffee, which so exasperated the Finance minister, Camphausen that on leaving the I quse, he said aloud in the hearing of Some of theeputies, "We must get rid, as speedily as -possible of a Par liament which does not understand it s mission." ThiS threat was almost immediately afterwards put goeutitat THE MURDERS IN GREECE. • OFFICIAL AMOUNT 01 THE MASSACRE. At length we have full details, in efii2ial despatehe. from Mr. Erskine, the English ambassador at Athens, of the massacre in Greece. The previous voluminous cor respondence which has been published has described only the capture by the brigands, and the negotiatiom which took place previously to the murders, whilst there was hope of the safe recovery of the prisoners. The first despatch published in this fifth batch of letters is dated April 27, and is concerned only with telegraphic errors. The second is dated April 28, and describes the funeral of the victims. In this letter Mr. Erskine says:—" His Hellenic Majesty has since called on Mrs. Lloyd to expi css the grief with which he had learnt her bereavement, and nothing can exceed the kindness and sympathy he has shewn to all who are affected by this terrible event. From what his Majesty said, both to me and to Mrs. Lloyd, I infer that it is his Majesty's intention to provide amply for the family of the late Mr. Lloyd, and 1 am satisfied that it may safely be left to his Majesty to deteriniie in what way this intention inay most satisfactorily be carried into effect." The third dispatch from Mr. Erskine is accompanied by numerous enclosures. It also is dated April loth. Mr. Erskine says :—" No satisfactory evidence has yet been produced as to the immediate cause of the collision with the trouns. The only living witnesses of what occurred at Sy) nenon on the afternoon of the 21st instant are a "Dragoman Alexander and the five brigands who are _e-. under examination, and whose depositions, or a surin—Ary of them, I shall forward to yoUr Lordship hue after. Nor' ant I aware of the existence of any testimony by an eye-witness as to the circumstances under Which the captives were murdered, with the exception of Colonel Theagenis' report sent herewith. - Mr. Herbert and Mr. Lloyd were found lying dead, about twenty yards apart, near and on this side oi Dilessi ; that is to say, almost exactly on the line of boundary between Attica and Bceotia, five or six miles from Oropos. Both gentlemen had been stabbed repeatedly in the back, and Mr. Her bert had received cuts from a sabre or yataghan about the head and arm, besides three gunshot wounds through the body. Mr. Lloyd, in addition to three wounds in the back, was shot behind the neck, and must have died in stantaneously. Little or nothii ° , is yet known as t o th e last moments of Mr. Vyner and Count de Boyl, beyond the fact that their bodies were discovered some way be yond Dilessi, on the way to Sclijmitari. Mr. Vyner was shot through the heart, and must have died instantly. I infer that he was killed by the brigands, as a pistol ball, which caused his death, dropped frwu his clothes on board the Cockatrice, and is now in the possession of Mr. Watson. It is hardly conceivable that the troops were sufficiently close to use their pistols." The first en closure with this despatch is dated April 21, the day of tin nurders. it is from Mr. Erskine to Mr. Herbert, am) till discusses the chance of the brigands accepting j ~ ; runs as the Greek Government coud be induced I . The idea of a special court of assize at Oropos tc ./ the brigauds is, says Mr. Erskine, altoge ther on! _ae question. " There remains, therefore, the t exile in a British vessel, and although I have nut a word on the subject from Lord Clarendon, 1 authorise you and Noel to propose to them to embark immediately on board the 'Cockatrice,' Commander I'rowse, now here. The ransom would be on - board, and would be given at once into their custody. I would give them a paper in .the most authentic form in which it can be drawn up, pledging the honour of the British Government to their being conveyed safely to Malta (or wherever else they may select, but I cannot think of any country that would receive them), whence they would be at liberty to go with their ill gotten wealth wherever they pleased. I need hardly tell you that they would be disarmed, but you need say nothing of this. Very possibly 1 may be disavowed and blamed for this, but there is no time to discuss the matter with Lord Clarendon and shew him the urgency of the case, and I must take my chance. We are even thinking of sending the Cockatrice'. to-Morrow with the ransom, and perhaps it might tempt Tako, .if you took him on board and let hint see it, leaving your companions to answer for the realisation of our promises." Then follow extracts from the notebook of Mr. Lloyd, one of the victims. There is nothing par ticularly noticeable in the extracts, save that the robbers seem to have amused themselves pretty liberally with music and dancing. The captives got hard fare, and the lodging seems to have been of the most indifferent kind. There is also a letter from Mr. Vyner to Lord Muncaster written apparently early on the morning of the murders. Mr. Vyner says :—" Tell Mr. Erskine 1 only wrote it be cause 1 thought that, coming from a private source, it might do good, and not from any want of con fidence in him, to whom lam deeply grateful. Would it be possible to prevent the soldiers molesting us in Attica or some line drawn a little further north? as I have the • faintest of hopes that, their progress being arrested north, and being forced to remaie here, they might come to our terms sooner. They have a horror of prison—mistrusting the Greek Government; but they have a full trust in the English Government, and put more trust in Erskine's pass than anything else. They urge that a Court should be sent here. is this an evasion of law?" The next enclosure is a letter from Mr. Noel to Mr. Erskine, dated April 22. It is written from Chalchis, and relates the dismal intelligence of the murder. " The sad news, of which you are fully acquainted, reached us at twelve o'clock last night. The death of the captives was certain, as I. previously wrote, the moment the troops came into collision with the brigands. Before leaving yesterday morning the two brigand chiefs promised me to accept the proposition of being conveyed away in an - English man-of-war if their other propositions failed. This adds to the sadness of the case ; for had the Government suspended all hostilities for only a few days longer, everything would have been arranged satisfac torily. I was with the captives up to seven o'clock yesterday morning, and had the Nomarch, whose note I enclose, been snore active, I might have been back in time to prevent the collision with the troops. As soon as I-returned from Oropos yesterday my boat was arrested and boatmen threatened with being fined by the Telones, because I had departed last Tuesday without his leave. If you require any further particulars on this melancholy subject I shall be glad to supply them." l'ollowing this is a repert from Colonel Theag6nis, whom the Greek Government had sent to treat with the brigands. He describes the whole affair :—" This morning, in obedience to the orders of the Go vernment, I betook myself to the village of Dilessi, with the object of arriving at - an understanding with Captain Apostolides and Liacopoulos on the measures which we must take to surround the vil lage of Oropos. To that end, and with the advice of Captain Apostolides, I told Captain Liacopoulos to advance with the armed force under his orders. We were in hopes of being able to surround Oropos before the departure of the brigands; fcr we be lieved that they would attempt their departure during the night. But, contrary to our expectation, the brigands set themselves to prepare for their departure about two o'clock in the afternoon. As soon as I was informed of this by a man whom I had sent on pur pose, I countermanded my former despatch to Captain Liacopoulos, the circumstances being changed, and re quested him to post his soldiers in the neighbourhood of Sycamino where the brigands intended to pass. In the meantime I and Captain Apostolides with all the force we had with us marched towards Orapoa, But on the way we were informed by some villagers of Sycamino that the brigands of Oropos' had just been seen news their village, after having traversed the RiverAsopos, and in consequence of that information we were o bli ge d to change our plan, and likewise go towards Syc am i no , with the intention ofi surrounding the brigands. Never , timeless the river Asopos had so swollen in consequence of the late rains, that even the horsemen could hardly get across it. This delay allowed the brigands to gain ground in flying towards 'Alessi. The soldiers pursued without, however, arriving at an engagement, on account of the distance which separated them ; only a few musket shots were fired at intervals by the robbers, In passing Syca. mino the brigands carried off with them several villagers ; theyalso compelled their unhappy prisoners to accompany them on foot. It appears that their plan was to place themselves in shelter, whilst exposing their captives to the fire of the soldiers. But the villagers soon escaped, and only the captives remained with the marauders. As they approached Dilessi, and as the prisoners, worn out by fatigue, could not follow them, the brigands first killed the two Secretaries of Legation, and thn the other two Englishmen. Exasperated by this massacre, the soldiers opened fire, and killed the chief, Christo Arvaniti, and six other brigands, besides wounding another, who was made prisoner, "There is reason to believe that others have fallen ; but a minute search for their bodies has not yet been made, In any case the band of the Arvanitei has Seriously suffered, having lost its chief, and the most distinguished of its partisans," Colonel Th6a,g6.nia adds ; Whilst the brigands appeared in souse way tranquil and hopeful at Oropos, the appearance of the steamer seems to have excited their fears and suspi cions, which hastened their departure at an unexpected hour and caused our plan of surrounding Qropos to fail." Added is a report of Dr, bolton on the bodies. Mr. Herbert and Mr, Loyd were wounded in several places, by swords and gunshets. Mr. Vyner was shot through the heart, and must have died instantly. Count lioyj was wounded by shot in two places. It would appear that the above information still leaves some explanation needed in respect of the actual cause Which led to the attempt to surround the brigands, THE LOST DIAMOND.—It has been generally to the Manchester Royal Exchange that any consideaed a point of h onour and of duty an -10 .112*st the subscribers sum of money or other valuabk property f oun d w i t hi n the precincts of the Ill;xelhmge should be at once delivered to the master of the room, in order that he might en deavour to find the owners, and property to a very considerable amount has beeu thus restored to its owners. It seems, 1 14yty ___ I OA VA' all men do not view their obliptions to the saute light • About a fo r t igl the Excha.nge had the mis fortunefrom a ring which he wore, and to e ar w a a su a b ia sat to as the stone was valued at £lOO a very anxious search was made for it. As the loser had washed his hands in the lavatory on the day when the gem was missed, he very naturally suspected that the loss had taken place there, and in addition t o a care f u l exam i nst i on o the room the discharge pipes from the basins were opened up, but nothing c ou ld he found. The loser then thought it necessary to offer a reward of for the recovery of the diamond, and then another subscriber, whose sense of honour had, no doubt, been moved by the public an nouncement of the loss, promptly produced the stone, and " sacked " the £2O. The I\ . lasti:r of the room, im pressed by the peculiar sense of honour displayed by the finder, thought itexpedient to institute an inquiry into his antecedents in the small matter of paying subscrip tions to the rooni, the result of which was a demand for the immediate payment of arrears of subscriptions for three years, with the intimation that, if not so paid, an action would be brought too-recever the amount. The subscriber ; nil doubt, by the same sense of honour I,vlAlch Tad prompted him to restore the diamond, promptly complied with the demand " and paid his nine gltuteits.",—Mancliester alfgrai44, SPORTING IN'T'EL LaGENCF. THE LONUCHAMPS RACES. PARIS, May 8, Evaning. Tho Longehamos races were run to-day, with the follow iug results:— _ _ _ Prix do Jona. Othello Cremiere... Elierstein. Prix de Bagatelle. Evoho.., Nelusko L'Aspirant 3 Poule D'Essal, sweepstakes of 40 sovs, with 400 sovs added ; for three-year-old colts and fillies; the second to receive 80 sovs. Distance, 1,600 metres. Valois Lachelette Net value of the stakes, £1,600. Douziente Prix Bknuial. Cerclagne .... Trompette .... Villero Robert Handicap MassinissEt.. Suzanne Madlle. de 6t. Igny THE CHEE. The contest for the Chester day. The following is the pi 3TER CUP. T Cup comes off on Wednes robable list of starters : age st.lb. age st.lb. Formosa ............5....8 12 Phoebus ..............5....6 12 I Lord Hawthorn .... 4....7 10 . Ch6rie................4.... 610 . Thorwaldsen ..... 4....7 10 Wild Flower ........4....6 6 Good Hope ........ 4....7 10 Sabinus ... . Cecil ................5....7 5 Miss Sheppard ........3....6 3 Locksley ............6....7 4 Zapolya ..............4....6 2 Starter ..............4....7 4 Vintner..3....5 l2 Paul Jones ..........5....7 2 *Recorder ..........3....5 10 * Ventn0r....4....7 1 Newsman ............3....5 7 Cap-a-Pie ............5....6 12 Muster ..............3....5 7 Realite ..............6....6 12 These marked * are doubtful runners. Bell's Life says that " before the flag falls some startling changes may be expected with regard to the betting on the time-honoured cup, a race that bids fair to be of far greater interest than has been the case during the last ten years." The course is stated to be in good going order, and a great many horses are "-under orders for the meeting on the hill-side." The field for the coming the forty-seventh Chester Cup is likely to be a good one. When the weights 'were published Formosa was very generally looked upon as having a fair chance, as (says Bell's Life) if not a mare of remarkable stamina, she can still stay fairly well, and besides a good turn of speed is framed to get round the rather awkward Chester course. The same authority says that the demonstration that took place in favdur of her stable companion, Sabinus, immediately after his startling victories in the City and Suburban and Metropolitan had the effect of driving the daughter; of Buccaneer to the right-about, and despite occasional semi-revivals in the market, she has never yet reached the short price that at one time she seemed very likely-to attain. Whether she is still destined to figure amongst the front rank of favourites is at present doubtful, seeing what genuine support has during the past few days been bestowed upon Sabinus. "This brother to Vespasian, as all the world knows, accomplished his two Epsom victories-in such hollow style that the ' Moog ' was at once pronounbed a certainty for him. To the horror of those who looked upon him as good enough to win a Derby, he succumbed igno miniously in the Newmarket Handicap, and the excuse:at once urged in extenuation of his defeat: was that lie had, done no work between Epsom and the day of his running. The present state of the market would imply that he is now all right again, and many good judges are most s'tfn guine of his suceess on a course that to our fancy is not particularly well adapted to his peculiarities. Sabinus will, it is understood, be ridden by Rowell, who steered him to victory on the Surrey downs." Bell's'Life's final choice is thus given :—"lt may bi-k -mitted that with everything smooth and ship-shapeln regard to money matters, Starter and the best of Thomas Dawson's lot will probably have our final vote, and nexe s to them we like Sabinus and Cherie." " Harkaway's " opinion in Land and Water is that Starter will be first, Cherie second, and Sabinus third. ' "Augur," in the Sporting Life, gives the choice 'to " two undoubted stayers," Starter and Sabinus, -and ex pects Paul Jones to run well. The Field says that they most esteem the Starter and W. H. Scott's elected. The Sportsman's final choice is either Muster or l'Aul Jones. - The Sporting Gazette hears that Colonel Towneley in tends to give up breeding, and the whole of his extensive stud, including the stallions, Kettledrum, King of Trumps, and Breadalbane, will be brought to the hammer at Fair field in the York August week. DEATH Or A CELEBRATED RACING SIRE.—The Sportiitg Gazette announces the death of the celebrated I:wino. sire Stockwell, whose success at the stud obtained for him the title of " Emperor of Stallions." The cause of death was inflammation of the inner coating of the intestines.. Stockwell was taken ill on Tuesday last, and died on Thursday, having baffled the skill of Mr. Ellis, the eminent veterinary surgeon of Liverpool, who assisted by Griffiths, Mr. Naylor's stud eroom, did all that was possible to say,* the horse's life. With a view of having his skeleton stt up hereafter, Stockwell has been buried in lime in Hootoo. Park. CUT BErEING.—Tars DAY. CHESTER CUP. 3 to 1 agst Sabinus (taken) 11 to 2 agst Muster (taken and offered) 10 to 2 agst Cherie (taken) 10 to 1 agst Wild Flower (offered—take 11 to'1) 100 to 8 agst Bonny Swell (offered--100 to 7 taken f) 100 to 6 agst Miss Sheppard (taken) 20 to 1 agst Cecil. (takes and offered) 20 to 1 agst Paul Jones (taken and offered) 20 to 1 agst Vestrninster (taken and offered) 100 to 3 agst Good Hope (offered) 1000 to 15 agst Dalby (of f ered) DERBY. sto 4 agst Macgregor (taken and wanted) SPAIN. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) The following appeared in our Third Edition of Satur- day : NADRID, May 6, Evening. In to-day's sitting of the Cortes Senor Ardana; urged the House promptly to consider the question of the election of a Sovereign, and to decide between the two candidates, the Duke de Montpensier and Marshal Espartero. General Prim replied that everybody was desirous of terminating the provisional state of things, but up to the present his efforts to give a King to Spain had been fruitless. He believed it necessa►y that the Cortes should accomplish its constitutional mission before s-pztrating, but he did not know if the political edifice could be completed as desired by Senor Ardanaz. General Prim also declared that he would not oppose any solution, and repeated that he did not wish to be beaten upon the Monarchial question. He declared the rectitude of his intentions and the absence of all personal ambition. Ile pro mised that the question should be submitted to the Cartes before that body separated. IMLY. RoME, May Gth. The Spanish Legitimist journal, the Eco de Roma, publishes an address of the Spanish Bishops to the Regent Serrano, dated April 26th, in which they explain the reasons why they cannot take the oath to the Constitution, and protest to the Cortes against the Bill of Senor Montero Rios, The Duke and Duchess of Modena, and the Count and Countess of Girgenti left yesterday for France and Austria, FLORENCE, May 7. The Diritto announces that M. Cernushi, the Italian banker, who was recently expelled front Franc?, has arrived at Milan. LIVERPOOL COTTON iIIARKET.-(THIS DAY.) Sales probably 10,000 bales. Illarket firm. The polling at Mallow commenced this morning. At half-past ulna tho folowing return was issued:— Waters (L), 67 ; Knox (C), 49. Captain Shaw's official report of fires issued this morning is a long one, and contains entries of 14 fires, to which the brigade was called between 11 o'clock on Satur day morning and midnight on Sunday. The body of Mr. Herbert, one of the victims of the Greek massacre, will be landed at Southampton from the Delta, due at that port with the Australian mail on Friday next. The body will be conveyed from Southampton to Ilighelere, the seat of the Earl of Caruarvon. CRICKET. The London season will commence to-day, at Lord's Ground. The opening match, according to the Cricket Calendar, is one between the Right and Left-Handed Players, which, though formerly an annual contest, has not been played for more than forty years. ¶Lhe Right-Handers are an extraordinarily powerful batting team ; the Left are equally strong in bowling. The following is the list of players :—Right.—Messrs. W. Gilbert Grace and C. F. Buller, Daft, Carpenter, Hayward, Smith, Jupp, Hea,rn,, Price,- A. Shaw, Bid dulph. Left.—Rylott, Howitt, Wootton, West, Willaher, Lillywhite, Emmett, J. C. Shaw, Killick, Griffith, and Martin,