The Sun. — London, England, 1867-07-10 00:00:00

RONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. TWELVE O'CLOCK. In the General Discount Market there continues to be a very limited inquiry for accommodation, and the supplies of capital on offer being augmented by the payment of the dividends at the Bank of England, quotations for the negotiations of first class commercial paper rule at about 2 per cent., While there are exceptional transactions at 11 per cent. In monetary circles it is generally expected that the Bank directors, at their weekly court to morrow, will make a further reduction in the minimum rate of discount. Gold to the amount of £3,000 was taken to the Bank of England yesterday. The report of the Peel River, Land, and Mineral Company states that the general condition of the whole of the live stock may be considered as having been satisfactory, and a dividend is proposed of 1 per cent. on £600,000, the consolidated stock of the company, payable on the 26th of July next, free of income tax. At the meeting held to-day of the Union Bank of London the report of the directors stated that the net profits of the bank for the six months end ing 30th June amounted to £221,479 4s. 7d., out which a dividend at the rate of 15 per cent. per annum was declared. Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures remain steady at 30 32, and the Consolidated Mortgage Bonds at 24i 24i. The traffic receipts on the Atlantic and Great Western Railway for the second week in June amounted to $102,394, against $123,524 in the corresponding period last year, showing a decrease of $21,130. With reference to the Buenos Ayres Great Southern Railway, we learn that the accounts pre sented to the Government for the working of this line during the quarter ending March 31, 1867, show the following results :—Total receipts, £22,433 12s. 2d. ; total disbursements, £12,076 19s. 2d. ; leaving a net balance of £10,076 ; and in their general report just issued on the different railways, the Great Southern is thus alluded to :—" In other words, the net proceeds for the first quarter of 1866 were about 24 per cent., and for the same period of 1867 were nearly 6 per cent. This not able increase i n th e proceeds of a railway within twelve months gives us well-grounded hopes that the Southern line, under its prudent and economical administration, will be able, within a few years hence, to return the sums now payable for balance of guarantee during the infancy of the enterprise." Two O'CLOCK. Increased firmness prevails in the English Stock Market, and a further advance has been established for mo ue — . J Consols have risen to 941 and for the August settlement -I, to 95 95g. The New Threes are 93; 44 ; Reduced Annuities, 93 1 4 ; New 2} per Cents., 77 ; Annuities, April, 188 5, 124 ; Exchequer Bills, 20s. to 21s. prem., for June ; Bank of England Stock, 254 256 ; India 5 Per Cents., 110 3 1 111 ; ditto Enfaced 5 per Cent. Debentures, 105. Foreign Stocks generally exhibit an advance. Spanish Passive have improved to 22i ; Cer tificates 1-, to 15 1 - . 1 1 16 ; Greek ,to 144 15 ; T ur ki s h 5 per Cents. to 314 I ; Italian to 484 49; ; Russian in es Scrip to 1 pre m . ; b ut Chili an Scrip con at par to i t prem. n asiness in the Railway Share Market has been exceedingly inactive, but the few dealings re ported show a slight advance in values. Man chester, Sheffield, and Lincoln have improved Great Western, Metropolitan, and South Eastern, each ; and North Western, ; while London and Brighton have declined The Foreign and Colonial lines show little varia tion. D utch Rhenish are mark e d 20 1 I, an d G rea t Luxembourg 101 11. S an Paolo have declined to Indian P 15 1, East Indian i mproved to 108, and Great eninsula to 1061. American Securities also have improved. Erie Shares are 44 4, an ad vance of ; Illinoi s , 80 an ade of and United St ates 5-20 Bonds, 73 a n advanc e o f 4 7 For Bank Shares there is scarcely any demand. London and Westminster, however, have advanced to 107. ; Union of Stock London t o 424 ; L on d on J o i nt remain at 434 444 ; and Imperial Ottoman have declined to 8. Miscellaneous and Finance Shares continue very dull. Atlantic Teleg per Cents., however, Mort rap 8 ha ve advanced t o 87i 89, and Vi ceroy of Egypt ' s Mortgage Loan to 67i ; P eninsular and Oriental Steam have receded to 404. MINING MARKET. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. y continues very quiet, a nd quotations are f or the moEtt part nominal. An nexed are the latest prices : Chivertoa Moor 5i 5 C hontales G o ld 4l 5 Cliffo rd Amalgamate 71 East Basset l9 21 8 East Caradon 1 East Lovell .... 5 5/ ...... 6i 7 East Wheal Grenville 2 2} Great Laxey lB 18i Great Retallick . great Wheal Vor... 17i 18 Marko Valley 4 5 North Crofty North Treskerby Prince of Wales 6256 d 65s Cd Providence Mines 28 30 South Condurrow 10s 12s 6d Tincroft West Chiverton West P. of Wales 12s 6d 15s Wheal Basset .... Wheal Bailer . Wheal Chivert.on Wheal Grenville 20s 22s 6d W heal Beton. ...... 110 1124 BRITISH FLUIDS —TWO O'CLOCE GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 8 per Own. Consols Do. Account, Aug. 8 95 B ,,per Cent. Red uce d 93} 4 New 3 per Cent 93t 4k New 2} per Cent. Jan. 1894 77 Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 — ADo ities, 30 yrs, ip . e sth Jan., 1880 Do. for 30 yrs, exepirl:sth April 1885 l2 130.(Ited Sea Televaph), Au w , 1908." June. _ .. - • March. - 20 pm Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO pm 22 pm Lfro . .£5OO ' 21 pm ~,, Do. k, .£200 — ~ 44 ault of En gland £l S o t o o 'k c 5 Lk!. Account / per Cent urni[Alt GovnaNlitENT BECITRITIMI. ludtau 'stock, 10/ per Cent., April 1874.. Dn• Account 110/ 11 Do. 6 per Cent. July, 1880 1 1; °. 4 Pet' Cent., Oct. 1888 .-s'o. Certificates un. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent — no.to- 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 °' -,•, 5 i Per Cent , M 1879 — 105 ""•2 5 Per • Cent a . y , Aug. 1873 Do. Bonds, 6 per Cent. , £l,000 Do. under .£l,OOO Pm ArgootinFiltElG, REIGN FUNDS—rwo O'CLOCK. -..plluilc, 6 per Cent ... Austrian Bonds, 5 per tient, 1859 — Brazilian 5 per Cent 1)0 . 1/- per Cent., 18 52..58_60 1863 _ 5 Per Cent.; 1865 P,O Account .. 75} .... " Jo. .., 0 ,„ „ . 75 ta .., y .nonds ....................... Zang Ayres 6 per Cent — o,, u ni o 2 per Cent. (Deferred 8 per Cent.) Do.an per Cent 4/ per Cent o. 6 cent A. .......... . Dn. per , B I)°' ' 1867 . t o. 17 ... - par (:), A . ~ Scrip, £4O paid r, oluiaan, 6 per Cent. 1,111311, 6/Der Cent. -a.„111811, ner Cent., 1825 , "a. 0 per COAL, 1864 1J itiubian, Principaliti 7 per Cent 67 _— „Dn• Do. 8 ,/ - 18 die , uo 1)0 -rd tumor New Con. solidate S d e , r l iP p ' et ° C o eTt i . d -- 4g7Ptiaa 7 per Cent ...,_ bo. Second issue D 0• XlOO Bolid e B3f • 4.20. no. 1864 • Do. .£lOO Bonds B3 2 f i 00 Goverrat t Railway Debentures Bli 1 .4r .. e ek 5 A Ceents. 1824:5, ex Coupon/ — , u . " 0 0.. Auocuinuts 4 . ... . _l4/ . ...... ?Qateinala 5 pet Vent '•• — t , i• r ~l a o o per Cent 1865 -'O, Account - .... . .1.)o. Alareannana Railway — 49r iettr. 3 per Cent Ditto for Accourt bn. 1864 — Portt, ..,. ~ gUe, a per Ct ,1853, '6, '7, '9,'60,'2,'3 40/ rasian 5 per Cent . 1822, .£ St D D o 4 per Cent. 1850 . 4 /), per Cent, 1860 - L'? P3I Cent., 1859 ..._. 86i 7i , o . 0 per Cent., 1862 ..r, • 5 per Cent, 1864 9oi '-''). Aglo-Dutch 1866 B7 riar,ll,l)°,. do £7O paid lpm span uit 5 per Cent sh 3 Le n t ,per .... 4-1,0 Accrinnt - Dl/0 Ite ~.. 'OO ............... 1 0 ''v ueteHed 210.f.Ilee'unt Do 448iIre ceetnit punish Corn. Cert. of Coup. Do Account Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 Do. Account Do 6 per Cent. 1858 Do. Account Do £lOO Bonds Do 6 per Cent. 1862 Do Account Do ..£lOO Bonds Do. 1863 Do. 5 per Cent, 1865 Do. Account, July Do. 6 per Cent., 1865 Do 1 per Cent. Guaranteed Venezuela, 3 per Cent. Do. Account Do. 6 per Cent., 1862 Do. 6 per Cent. 1864 Dividends on the above payable in Londoc. Aus!risu a pr Cent. Ex, 10 Florins B.3lgian, 4i per cent., Ex. 25f. Dutch 2* per 0. , (1t. Ex. 12 Guil, Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. Itllia]. 3 per Gent. 1831, Ex. 25i. Do. Account TWO O'CLOCK. Consols, Money 9li Do. Account, July 10 SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. LONDON, July 10.—Wind this day at noon—North- Easterly ; modorato breezo and fluo weather, but rather cloudy. LIVERPOOL, July 9. —Wind N.W.—Arrivod—Claudine, from Coquimbo ; Sivia, from Alexandria ; Joaquina, from Havanna. PLYMOUTH, July B.—Wind S.W.—Arrivod—Chanza, from Matanzas. PORTSMOUTH, July 9.—Wind N. W.-thrived—Her Majesty's ship Achilles, from the Westward; her Ma jesty's ship Bellerophon, from the Westward ; her Ma jesty's ship Liffey, from tho Westward ; her Majesty's ship Minotaur, from the Westward. OFF FALMOUTH, July 9.—Wind W.N.W.- Arrived— G. J. Jones, from Matanzas. (By Telegraph.) GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning. Arrived.—Wild Duck, from Wellington ; Florence, steamer, from Antwerp ; Ella Constance, steamer, from Gottenburg ; Mullet, steamer, from Dunkirk ; Tasso, steamer, from Riga; Holland, steamer, from Ostend; Nor mandie, steamer, from Dunkirk; Hastings, from Tuticorin ; Penelope, from Drobak; Waterloo, steam r, from Rotter dam. Sailed, July 9.—Fusilier, steamer, for Dunkirk and Boulogne. Sailed, July 10.—Souvenir, steamer, for Caen; Lord John Russell, steamer, for Dunkirk. DEAL, Wednesday Morning. Passed in tow, July 9.—Hastings, from Tuticorin, for London. Passed, July 9.—Helen, brig, from Payal, for Leith ; H.M. steamer Seamew, from Woolwich, for Portsmouth; Atlas, from Shields, for Bombay; James Shepherd, from London, for Shanghai. SHOCKING MURDE It. On Sunday morning a dreadful murder was com mitted at llowlais, which is part of the town of Merthyr Tydfil, in South Wales. A woman named Ann Murphy, who is between 60 and 70 years of age, and whose husband is employed under the Dowlais Iron Company as a watchman, keeps a private lodging-house, and among her lodgers for some time past were two single men named Saun ders Henderson, 38 years of age, and Thomas Watkins, 40. She had also a lodger named John Silk. It is said that for some time previous to Satur day night Henderson and Watkins had been on too familiar terms with their landlady, and, if not mutu ally suspicious of each other, it is tolerably certain that Watkins was suspicious of Henderson, and, in fact, jealous of him. On Saturday night Murphy, the husband of the landlady, who is an old man bordering on 70, was on night duty. Watkins and Henderson came in about 11 o'clock, and had supper together. Mrs. Murphy then went out and returned about 12 o'clock. She found that Watkins had gone upstairs, leaving Henderson apparently sleeping on the chair in which he sat. The old woman then went to bed—her bedroom being on the ground floor. About five minutes after she had been in bed Henderson went into the room and got into her bed. She rose up, and as she did so heard Watkins coming down stairs. She then got out of bed and was going out of her bedroom into the kitchen, when she met Watkins at the door with a poker in his hand. She was then stunned by a blow which he struck her on the head, but recovered in a few moments. Watkins passed on into the room, but the old woman did not hear either him or Henderson speak, and she also heard no blows. When Wat kins returned from the room he said nothing, but went and called a neighbour, a Mrs. Rees. He then went back to the house and called up the lodger Silk, to whom he said he " thought he had killed Saunders, or had done for him." Two or three persons went into the old woman's bedroom, where they found Henderson lying in a pool of blood on the floor by the side of the bed. The bed clothes and pillows were all spotted with blood, and blood was still flowing freely from wounds on Henderson's head. Henderson was quite dead. A policeman then came, and he took Watkins in custody on the charge of causing Henderson's death. Watkins said he had been charged him - self with being too free with the landlady, but he had caught the surgeon, came in just afterwards, and found that Henderson had his skull fractured very badly in two places, and lacerated and contused wounds besides. The poker was found under the grate with fresh blood stains on it, and it was bent in the form of a bow. It was straight a few hours before. Watkins was taken before the magistrates on Monday, and charged by Mr. Superintendent Wrenn with the wilful murder of Henderson. Wit nesses deposed to the facts which arc stated above, and the prisoner manifested the utmost indifference during the whole hearing. and the inju r i es w hi ch were found replyto the charge was that he n ever struck II e e n u d u e d r s u o un his w i with head poker,d must u s t have Seen cau se d b y his falling *if the bed. This, the surgeon said, was impossible. The prisoner was then committed for trial on the capital charge at the next assizes at Cardiff, to open on the 16th instant. On the 19th Mr. Henry Seymour will call the attention of the House of Commons to the long-continued imprisonment and ill-treatment of her Majesty's envoy and her Majesty's consul and other subjects of her Majesty by the King of Abyssinia, and to pray her Majesty that proper steps may be taken to procure the release of the prisoners by force of arms. A Moscow paper states that in 1853 the Russian army consisted of 580,000. At the present time it consists of 800,000 men. This number could be soon increased to 1,180,000, besides 300,000 irregular troops. The Czar has, therefore, a total military force of nearly 1,500,000 men. REPRESENTATION OF CIIELSEA.—Sir Hy. Ainslie Hoare, Bart., who will ask the suffrages of the electors of the proposed new borough of Chelsea at the next dissolu tion, has been an energetic and efficient supporter of the Liberal cause for many years. In his address he declares his confidence in Mr. Gladstone, as tho great Liberal Minister to whom England owes so much; he is stead fastly opposed to church rates, and will support the exten sion of public education and the removal of religious disabilities at the universities. DEATHS BY DROWNING AT STAINES.—On Satur day a party of seven or eight men (oxen' sionists in a van from London) took a boat at Egham Lock, and rowed or drifted down the stream as far as Staines Railway-bridge. At this point it would app"ar that the rudder became un shipped ; throe of them foolishly attempted to replace it, and in doingso capsized the boat. By the strenuous exertions of some gallant fellows on the bank most of thorn were rescued, but two of them found a watery grave. On the Saturday previous a similar accident took place near the same spot, by which one man was drowned. In both cases the men were in a state of partial, if not entire, intoxication ; in the lat ter so much so that the boatman at Staines would not let them a boat, so they proceeded to Eghatu Lock. ACCIDENT AT CAMBERWELL FAlR.—During the week a pleasure fair has been held in a large piece of pasture land leading from Southampton-street to Bruns wick-square, Camberwell. On Tuesday an immense num ber of persons visited the fair ; and in the evening a boy, named Joseph Ealing, was standing at the side of a round about worked by steam power, which was turning round at a rapid speed, when he fell amidst the works of the machine, and before it could be stopped, or the unfortu nate boy pulled out, his head was terribly mangled, the scalp being torn off, his jaw fractured, and his skull se verely injured. He was removed to St. Thomas's Hospital, but no hcpes,are given of his recovery. FALL OF A BRIDGE.--A telegram from Mar seilles reports that the brickwork bridge across the new Lours Lieutaud, in that city, fell ou Saturday afternoon, and that 20 workmen were either killed or injured. THE SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 10, 1867. SHARE MARKETS.—This Day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Railways. I Paid) I Bristol anti Exeter •• 'Caledonian Cambrian Cork and 8and0n...... Cornwall Dublin & Bellatst June Dun„l'ertlidt Ab.J two 6. London, scrip Certi ' Do. ,(Easgow 4k S. Western' Great Eastern, Ord. stk. Do. E. Angl. st. No. 2, (irz•at North ol Scotland i f , i'reat Northern DJ. A stock B cstock. Do. New, is. at 25 pin : t S, and W. or Ireland Western -Original; Do. S. Val. RAH guit.l 1)o. South Wales Do. W. Mid.—Oxior& Do. Newport 1!o. Hereford Lancashire& Yorkshire; !London and Blackwall; Lon„ lirigh., S Coast; Lon., Chat., and Dover; Do. Metrup. Lun. North Western Lon. At South Western; Man., Stmt., & Lincoln! Do. New Do. Extension.-- Iletropolitan District. Po. do. to. Do. and Si.john ; ell%"( 1 Alidiand Do. £9 Share Do, Biriniu...t Derby, Aild Kent ... , Tortli British Do. Ed., l'th. & Dun th. pastern — Berwick' Do. G.ii•E purchase Do. Leeds Do. York Du. Carlisle ..... Do. Stook. & D4rling. Do. do. 18'50-51 North Londou Do. do. ltiu4 5 . Do. do. 1866 . Aorth Stariordshire Y. & S. W. Junction Scottish Central Soot. N. E , Aber. stock" Do. Scot, Mid. stook Shropshire Union South Devon .-iouth Eastern Staines, Wok., .k Wok `Calf Vale Do, C Vale of Neath :Vaterlord Kilkenny Waterloo & Whitcha I •Vest Cornwall 79 H IC9 11 • 35 16 3 6 65 69 70 72 2;}261 5 7 Ili in 112 91 13 43 45 27 3 28 30 123 IA 53 5i 17 174, 17 113 114 76 78 451 46 124 12 5 --4 IC9 111 82 87 114 1;5 81 63 30 32 100 102 261} in i 114 I Closing I Business Price. done. 1 51 21- 31 '1 3i 13 751 45 12 a 1 3/1 100 k / I 60 G 2 92 01 33 81 8 9; 114 116 I liP 68 7o 116 118 55 67 47 49 611 6ii 9 - 16 . 143 IL2 21 34 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. British Columbia, 6 per cent., Deo. 31, 1572 Can.Gov.6 July 1877-84 Vo. 6 p. c. Feb. & Aug Do. 5 p.c. Mar. & Sept, Do. 5 p. c. Jan. & Julyl Do. 5 p. c. Inscribed sk Cape G. Hope, 6 p.c. 1873 Do.Apl. & Oct , 1890-1900 Do. do ISBO-90 Do. Jan.&July, 1890-91 Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and 15 Oct., 1900 Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p. s Do. 1878, do 51aurItius, 6 p. 0, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1878 Do. 188?, Mayls, Nov. 15 [..Do. 1895, Feb. & Aug Mat riov. 6 per cent N. 11.0 0v.6 p.c.J a.&J uly N. S. W. Gov. 5 p•c., 186 t, Do. 5 p.c. 18;1 to 1870' Do. 5 p.c. ISBB to 1895 New Zealand, ( p. cent Do. 5 per cent.... Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. C e ter ling , 1875 ,Queensland Gov. 6 p. c S. Aus.Gov. 6 p.c 1868-9 Do. 1878. E upwards Vio,tiov. 6 p.c. Ja & July Do. do, A pril & Oct Burnsu r Atlantic St.Lawrenoe Born., Barodaott Cen. In. gu. 5 per cent Do. F shares Buffalo St Lake Iluron Do. Preference Bubf.,Brant, & Goderich 6 p.c. 1872-3- Calcutta & S. E., lim I Jape Town & Dock, gu Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p! East. Bengal, gu., 5 do East Indian, gu. 5 p.o. Do. J Extension .; rand Trunk of Canada Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds 1 charge 6 p.c Do. Ist Pref. Bonds Do. do deferred ..• De. 2d Pref. Bonds Do. do. deterred Do. 3d Pref. stook. Do. do. deferred .. Do. 4th Pref. stook Do. do. deterred tit. India Pen. gua. sp.c .111 a. 5 per cent Do. New gfia. 5 p. c «t. South of ludia gua. 5 per cent D i.. 11 per cent Do .treat Wt a. of Canada Da. New..,.. Do. 6 p. c Baa. pay. 1873, Do. 54 do. pay. 1877-8 ' Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.o Do. 41 do Do. 4i do Do. Fifth Extension WM. Cor. 6 p. c. Bnds. 'Mel. ,1z Ilob3on's Bay.. N. 111.C' da,6po lat pf. be. Seinde . Do. Delhi.... 6 Do. do Do. Puniaub.... Do.lndus St.Flof 98 100 94 97 95 98 85 87 B 4 86 104 106 105 107 104 106 102 101 91 73 101 103 105 L. 7 102 104 103 105 103 (06 105 107 98 IGO 110 18 91 93 87 88 101 102 81 86 96 98 9l P 3 104 106 1054 101 SIONS. 56 58 100 101 P iP 4 44 5 6 63 71 :5 6i 99 101 100 IGI 107 108 17 18 80 85 L 3 55 90 45 35 37 ;9 21 103 103 te ICO 10, 92 94 14 114 95 47 85 87 la 100 102 1 93 P 5 P 9 91 83 85 100 101 97 98 1 98 99 BRITISII MINES. Cam. Consol. Gold, Um Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated Devon G. Cons. (Tavist Drake walls East Bassett East Caradon East Cana Brea East Grenville East Gunnislake .. East Lovell E. WV's Russell (Tavistk Garn.dc StAubyn(G wen. Great Laxey, Great South Tolgus Great Wheal Buoy G. Wheal Vor (Helst ,, e Grenville erod's Foot • Ilingston Downs ••• Allargaret (lJny Lelant 11 arke Va11ey.......... liwyndy Iron Ore, lim iew Sc ton 'North Roskear ........ N.Wit'l Bassett(lll oan North Wheal C ro tt y 'Prosper 'Pr,videnee ,Uny Les lau t '5. Caradon (St. Cleer)'.. 'South Condurrow ...... S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan stray Park . ........... Fin Cr0ft....,......... Vig,ra and Clogan, West Bassett (Mogan W. Caradon (Liskeard West Chi rer ton ....... ... . AVest Seton ...... • ..... Wheal Batiectt !Mogan [Wheal Buller (Redrutb Wheal Mary Ann (U m Wheal Seton .......... Wheal Trelawney 7 8 6 7 415 435 20 22 5 6 3 34 2 3 9 10 31 31 4 5 17 19 171 181 11 1i 34 3/ 2 d 7 9 3: 11 2/ 11 35 45 i 11 13 3j 4 2i 21 26 28 310 830 I li 4 44 32 14 16 9 II 68 70 130 140 65 70 23 25 11 13 105 115 10 12 584 5.i7,0 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern 4i per cent., Ditto, 5 per cent., 185!, 13 FOREIGN ItA,ILWATb. Central Argentine, Ili Luton - Ditto, 24 _ Great Luxembourg, 10i 11 San Paulo, Um., gua. 0 per cent., 151 FOItEIGN MINES, Don Pedro. Nor h Del Rey, 33 1 p Peatarena United Gold, lim., BANAb. Agra, lim., A, 2; Australasia. 65 Consolidated, lim., 6 Imperial Ottoman, Rm.. 8 , London Joint Stock, 43f 4} London and 11 estminater, 106) 71 National Provincial of England, 142 Ditto, -d and 3d Wile, 41 Provincial Banking Corporation, Um., 3; Union of London, 411 MISCELLANEOUS; Anglo-American Telegraph, Um., IEI Ati.intio Telegraph, Dit o, 8 per cent., 87j 9 Credit Yonder of Enziand. Tim,. 311 Gen. Credit and Discount, lint.. 6 International Financial zociety, Tim.. 3 1-16 London General Omnibus Company. Tim, 2 13-16 Peillwall Freehold Land and Dock, 41 Oriental Gas, Tim., ba rentasula and Oriental Steam, let Ditto, new, ISM, 40i Royal Mail Steam, 91 Tete:rapt' Construe. and Mainten., lim Dii to, it Thames and Mersey Marine, Insurance, Urn., 51 Viceroy of Egypt (Mortgage) Loan, 67i THE ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES ACT.--The select committee of the House of Commons to whom the bill in troduced by Mr. MacEvoy for the repeal of the Ecclesias tical Titles Act was referred, met yesterday. Present : Mr. MacEvoy (in the chair),Mr. Walpole, the Attorney- General for Ireland, the Judge-Advocate General, Lord Frederick Cavendish, Mr. Chichester Fortescue, Mr. Paull, and Mr. Bentinck. PERTII—TAY PEARL FISIIING.—D . uring the past two weeks, pearl fishing in the Tay iu the neighbourhood of Perth has been prosecuted with considerable success. On the Broxie waters, a short distance north to the con fluence of the Almond with the Tay, a diver has been en gaged in dredging the " &mile Hole," and has brought up to the surface some two or three cwt. of mussel shells each day, which have been opened on the spot. A very large number of pearls have been got by this means of fishing. The pearls, however, are generally of rather small size, but many of them very puro and of good marketable value. Diving is to be resorted to on other parts of the river ad jacent to Broxie ; but in the meantime the diver has gone to the Isla to operate upon its mussel beds, which ere re ported to be well euPPliel—Sokman• CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—This Day. OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Baron Bramwell.) THE TAILORS' STRIKE. This morning it was understood that the indict ments against the persons charged with intimidation arising out of the late Tailors' Strike would be pro ceeded with. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine y for the prosecution, and Mr. Coleridge for the defence. An application was made on behalf of the de fendants that the trial should be pstponed until the next session, on the ground that the learned counsel had had the brief so recently delivered to them that they were not fully acquainted with the facts of the Mr. Sergeant Ballantine said he had no objection to the postponement, provided the system of picket ing was given up by the defendants. The counsel for the defendant refused to give the desired undertaking-, as it was contended that it was not in opposition to the law. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine said under such circum stances he should object to the postponement of the trial. It was, however, ultimately arranged that the proposal of the learned Sergeant should be accepted, and the trial was accordingly postponed until the August session. TIIE FORGED RUSSIAN ROUBLE NOTES. Joseph Funkenstein was indicted with having in his possession some forged Russian rouble notes in his possession without lawful excuse. The evidence was of a lengthy and uninteresting nature, but it appeared that prisoner informed In spector Thompson that he had some forged Russian ruble notes in his possession, and he was accord ingly cautioned not to part with them. Notwith standing that the notes were put into circulation by the prisoner through the agency of other per sons. The defence was that instead of doing that, as had been attributed to him, he did precisely the contrary, and that the forged note upon which the prosecution was based was not one of the notes shown by the prisoner to Inspector Thompson, be cause after the caution that he had received from the police he destroyed the whole of the forged notes by tearing them up. lie strongly denied that he had given them to one of the witnesses to dis pose of, telling him he would easily get rid of it, as it was so good au imitation of the genuine notes of the Imperial Bank of Russia that detection was im possible. The jury returned a verdict of guilty. Mr. Baron Bramwell told the prisoner he should pass upon him the same sentence that had been passed on the last prisoners convicted of the same offence—viz., five years' penal servitude. THE ATTEMPTED MURDER AT BLICKHURST-HILL. Frederick Ale:_ander Watkins was indicted for maliciously attempting to kill and murder a young , om an named Matilda Griggs on the 23rd April last. pleaded appeared 11 o t f guilty. or h e prosecution, and, The p s r t i r s a o i n g e h r t having stated the case to the jury, said that although he was unable to place before them the young woman who had been so seriously injured, he thought that the confession the prisoner himself made to the police would be sufficient to enable them to arrive at a just verdict. The prisoner had been paying his attentions to the young woman, Matilda Griggs, and on the night of the 23d of April she left her mother's home quite well, and was not seen again until she was brought home covered with blood. Mrs. Sarah Griggs, mother the young woman, having repeated her evidence, which has been already published, was Cross-examined by Mr. Ribton. She said she had known the prisoner three years, and he had been for a couple of years on intimate terms with her daughter, and was to have been married to her. He treated her very affectionately. They used fre quently to walk out together. The prisoner lived in London, and he used to return to London frequently the same evening when he arrived in the afternoon. He had shown her a dagger about six months agd, which he said he carried toprotect him self from garrotters. She bad not seen her daughter since she had gone away with Mrs. Walker, the mother of the prisoner, in the last day of May. Baron Bramwell—Have you inquired after her? Witness—Yes. Mr. Ribton—And the police have made inquiry after her, also without success? Witness—Yes. Mr. Ribton—Don't you know that your daughter has, since her recovery, expressed a wish to marry the defendant ? I don't know whether the answer would be worth as evidence, my lord ? Baron Bramwell—No, it would not. The question was not entertained, and the wit ness left the box. Inspector Pattison, inspector of the Epping police, said the priso ner cam e to him on the morn ing of the 24th of April, and told him he had stabbed a young woman named Matilda Griggs, and the reason he had done it was because he loved her so, and some oue else had seen her. He de tained him in custody. Sergeant Fry said he took the prisoner to Lough ton, and on his way there he told him he walked to London after he had stabbed the young woman. w t o h nelau p , risoner said and found He also said he had t a ken poison. Ile w as directed to stab t b h c e d he to hadgoptlhaec ()a where ng the dagger produced with the sheath on it, just as ilthen appeared. The metal covering of the point oWe blade, which protruded about an inch beyond the sheath, was missing. lle afterwards received that covering from the surgeon. Ho found a piece of lead weighing about a pound and a piece of string. The prisoner said be struck the young woman twice with the lead, but it then came off the string. Prisoner also told him that he heard the girl hallooing, and he was about to go back, but as he thought she would not halloo long he did not return. The prisoner asked him (witness) whether he had ever felt jealous ? Mr. Home, surgeon, of Buckhurst-hill, described the nature of the wounds inflicted on the body of Matilda Griggs. The dagger and the piece of lead would produce the 15 wounds the young woman had sustained. The case was not concluded when we went to press. Mr. Ribton made an eloquent speech on behalf of the prisoner. • The jury returned a verdict of guilty of unlaw fully wounding, with intent, &C. Previous to passing sentence a letter was handed to the judge, which the prisoner had received from Miss Griggs. It stated •the writer's anxiety as to the result of the trial, that she consideied her absence would be best for both parties, that she loved him the same as ever, that she hoped he would got free, and that they should be happy united, never to part again, and that the past should be buried in oblivion." The learned judge said that he did not know but that ho ought to inflict upon him the extreme penalty of the law, but after a con sultation with the learned Recorder he had come to the determination of sentencing him to 20 years' penal servitude. The prisoner seemed perfectly unmoved by the result of the trial. NEW COURT. (Before the Recorder.) THE LASH. J ul cannot separate without draw- The grand jury this morning made the following presentment. attention of the court to the very nutnCTOus cases which have been brought before w hich are committed upon persons in g T t il h e e g s r e a r n i d ous thoroughfares of the City of Landon them of the violent assaults sometimes connected These violent assaults appear to i w n it t h he ro p b u b b e l r ie y, i n crege, and indicate a growing of the criminal dis position on the part portion of the their nature. would respectfully suggest year by year more savage population o n e p d eu i ill t a s tti s ho u en b suburbs. s b . e , c 0 rn e. jury Y on of the lash as the fittest an i d ,h o e u tr g a r g s e n o d us means that could be adopted for de terringpaunliisbhemrael natPPfolircathese atrocious offences, and the n os probable others from committing them. If the law does not already provide for the application of this punishment, the grand jury would ask that their suggestion be forwarded to the proper quarter, or, 1 at any rate, be placed on record as the expression of their opinion, based on the evidence produced before them. The offences were of the most cowardly character, and there is nothing from which the ruffian andi coward shrinks so much as from physical suffering, of which, though wholly insensible to it when inflicted upon others, he is keenly sensitive in his own person. THE YELVERTON CASE. (Continued from our first edition of yesterday.) On the reassembling of their lordships, Mrs. Yelverton again appeared at the bar. She said this unfortunate case had brought to light and developed the hideous proportions, the anoints lons state of the marriage laws of the three king doms. A purely civil contract in Scotland, it was a tyrannical, fanatical, religious one in Ireland, Had a man professed himself a Protestant by going to church and sacrilegiously receiving the 'Holy Sacrament for the first time in his life, he could then possess himself, with all the formalities and religious ceremonies prescribed by law, of the person and property of any Catholic lady his evil eye might have fallen upon, and then turn her adrift to ignominy, poverty, and shame by setting up his Protestantism, by setting up his religion, forsooth, as the cloak and shield of the vilest of crimes, the mockery of his God on His consecrated altar, the defiance of His laws in His very temple, the worse than murder of his helpless victim. She quite objected to the at tempt made by her learned friends on the op posite side to change the defender in this case-- to substitute Mrs. Forbes for Major Yelverton. They heard no more of his rights, of justice to be done him, he had ceased even to demand " the so latium" for the wound inflicted on his feelings in the shape of consecutive £5O penalties. This balm of Gilead was not applied, but their lordships were now asked to prescribe for Mrs. Forbes equally at the expense of the applicant. Major Yelverton in his action demanded much in the style of Dick Turpin, " Your honour or your purse." "If you say you are a wife, pay me with the last shilling you have, pay me or I can cast you into prison ; pay me, beCause I 'persuaded you that a Scotch marriage iu a private room was binding in. that. land ; p.iy me because yielding to your scrupulous nature,. I took you before a priest of the Most High, to sanc tion in the sight of Heaven • our union ; because with my own hand I took the helm and steered the frail bark which bore us over the.bright bay of Ros trevor to the lonely church of Kilowen. I declare now. ..I had no intention of marrying you. I in a Protestant now. I have taken the' Sacrament and. disclaim you," It required a bold heart to with stand this. It required the consciousness of truth not • to bow before such impend= ing ruin. But though all the fiends from heaven that fell had poured the threat in her ears she had not yielded; her cheek might have blushed and her woman's tonguemight have quailed, but the quivering lips would speak the truth until the solemn hour of death should lay them still. True that in that little parlour at Mrs. Gamble's there were none present to note the vow save the guardian angel who registered them in heaven ; still she challenged the defender in the presence of his Maker to deny that he took her for his wife, and such she humbly submitted was the law of Scotland. This dire struggle for mere, existence was spared her by the merciful consideration of their lordships, a refusing of the solatium, damages, and penalties, forming a portion of the action. Their lordships rendered this penalty to silence innocuous, it became nugatory and futile, for their lordships must be aware that it would be hopeless to put a woman to silence except by the ancient practice of the bridle, or the present singular method of just starving her to death. Having quoted the cases of the Townsend peerage and others, she said this was her argument that evidence now should be taken when in time, and not to commit to a future generation the legacy of a law suit to which they certainly were consenting parties. It had been argued to their lordships and cases had been cited to prove that they were striking at a regulai subsisting marriage ; now Mrs.• Forbes's marriage had not subsisted any more than the appellant's; they had alternated on from one to the other from 1861 to 1865. In 1857 Major Yel verton married Theresa Longworth, first according to the law of Scotland, as declared by the full Scotch Court, and again in Ireland in facie ecclesix, and here they had the first subsisting marriage, for whatever might have been the fluctuations and vicissitudes since the legal marriage was " Sewer prxszontur pro matrimonio, until a marriage was de clared void it was held to be legal. Then in 1858 they had the marriage of Major Yelverton to Mrs. Forbes, which, for the sake of argument merely, she would admit, cast a doubt upon the first, but it could not, under the circumstances, be re garded as a bona fide established marriage. The appellant went at length through the history of the marriage, and submitted that if Major Yelverton did not exchange marriage consent with Theresa . Yelverton in the parlour, of her respectable friend, Mrs. Gamble, would it not be the simplest thing in the world for him to swear he did not. .If the last great day of judgment were re vealed in all its, awful majesty upon appellant at that moment she would swear he did. If he did, she was persuaded their lordships would not allow', him to escape upon a mere technical pretext, a mere formality of the discretion of a court. They would uphold the honour and ei:iiiity of their house ; they would uphold truth and justice as the guiding stars of the laws of the British empire. It had been urged upon their lordships several times, and the question had been raised—What was to become of Mrs. For bes in case Major Yelverton deponed affirmatively ? She believed she could solve that problem. She had already stated that there was no fear for Major Yelverton of punishment for bigamy, but if there re mained the slightest doubt on his mind as to any danger from that source, he had it in his own power to secure himself most effectually against any attempt to inflict the punishment of bigamy upon him. Ile had only to reveal his hiding place, and accept the service of citation into the Divorce Court, or, if he objected to the jurisdiction of an English court, being an Irishinan, she would apply for a citation from their lordships, as represen tative peers of England, having jurisdiction over that kingdom. Then, freed from all marriage with the appellant, by this the only mode of dissolving the double marriage in different countries, he could then marry Mrs. Forbes, and give her the status, so earnestly pleaded for, without any risk of its being disputed by posterity. Then he might safely walk abroad in open day, " his lovely Thais by his side, for none but the brave deserve the fair." It might be that this process, to which she clung as bringing about the long wished for goal, -the end of this wearying strife, was but the frail plank which buoyed her up for a moment, only to sink beneath her, and leave her a prey to the boisterous waves of life, alone, unprotected. It might be that, instead of giving her the relief she sought, it was but the renewal of strife ; but her heart and soul were vowed to live or perish in the truth, and until it was recognised the light of heaven could but shiue for her, or the lap of earth cradle her in its sweetness, yet would she not argue against Heaven's decree, nor bate one jot of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer right onward. She had now ma le her last appeal to their lordships, but her prayer would ever be—" Judica me Deus, et discerno causam meam de gente non sancta : ab hotnine iniquo et doloso erue me." The appellant, apparently ovecwhelmed, then re-. tired. The Lord Chancellor said their lordships would take time to consider their judgment. COURSE OF EXOSANGE.—Last Eve )ing. Amsterdam Short. 11 171 11 181 Di tto 3 Months. 11 19} 12 0 Rotterdam Antwerp — 25 37 25 421 Brussels — 25 37 25 42 1 Hamburg '25 25 Paris . Short 25 15 Ditto 3 Months.2s 35 25 40 Marseilles -25 371 25 42 1 Frankfort on the Maine 120 120} Vienna — 12 80 1 12 85 12 80 12 85 Trieste 32 32i -- 1 Petersburgh Berlin Madrid _ 49 49i Cadiz 27 35 27 4 Leghorn Milan Genoa — 27 85 27 45 Naples — 27 35 27 45 Palermo 52i Messina ' 52 Lisbon 52 52k -- Oporto ___--a.m.•••••••• VIE NEW 11,11L1VAY BILL. A very numerously attended meeting of railway shark).- holders was held at the Loudon Tavern yesterday to consider the bill which has passed through the House of Commons. and is now before the 11Juso of Lords regarding the stock of bankrupt railway companies. Mr. Da LA HUNT, by whom the meeting was convened, presided,' denounced it as one of the grossest acts of confisca tion that was ever brought before Parliament. He contended that it was quite uncalled for, would benefit no class of shareholders, leave railway stock at the mercy of a lof harpies or wreckers, as they were callepd,arce and ruin hundreds of thousands. Seve ral addresses were delivered, and all' the speakers concurred in the imperative necessity of taking immediate steps to prevent the bill, which they described as having been strangled, passing into law until after more mature consideration than it had yet received. A resolution embodying these views was unanimously adopted and to wait on Lord Derby. Some persons are employed at Paris in collect ing the proclamations of Marshal Banine, in which he exercised the most cruel severities towards the Republican party, whilst it is intended to give a list of the persona shot by the Imperialists. ihare , SSESJ 2.1.0 204 2.11. e 31 2.11.0 8.3.6 3.0.0 11.2.6 3.2.0 18.18.9 35.15.6 89 i i i 1081 94 9 IMPERIAL PAB,LIAMENT HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THIS DAY. The Speaker took the chair at twenty minutes pasi twelve o'clock. The Lords' amendments to the Navan and King's-cour Railway Bill were considered, and agreed to. Tho Kilkonny Junction Railway (Abandonment of KU purcell Branch) Bill was ordered to be read a third time. Tho Rathkealo and Noweastlo Railway Junction Bill was read a second time. The Lords' amendmentslo the Great Eastern Railway Bill, as amended by the Commons' Committee to which they had Iron referred, were agreed to. SALE OP LIQUORS ON SUNDAY BILL. Mr. NE\VDEGA'I'E pre,:onted .a vory bulky petition from Birmingham against this bill, and iu doing so rc feired to the loss sustained by that boroumh in the death of Mr. Seholefield. EDUCATION OF THE POOR BILL. M. 11. A. BRUCE moved the second reading of this bill, and asserted that the previous efforts made in this directiOn had been insufficient. In this bill ho had acted on the principle that provision should be mado fur one sixth of the population, and at this rate there would be 1,200,000 children to provide for. The progress of popu lation was far in excess of the increase in the number of children attending national schools, and this showed the necessity of some action being taken. In the la go towns especially was it seen that education was not keep ing pace with the population. There were very few reliable statistics on this subject, but he would select thoso on which most reliance could be placed with re spect to a large centre of population. First, taking the metropolis, it appeared from information collected in the diocese of London that there were in that diocese a popu lation of 2,129,000. Supposing that one-sixth of the popu lation should be on the books of schools, the number would be 362,000. The returns, however, showed that on the books of Church schools thero were the names of 129,00, and on the books of non-Church schools 53,000, giving a total of 182,000. There were thus another 180,000 whose names ought to have been on tho books. From London he would go to Manchester. The population of Manchester and Salford in 1866 was 483,000. Applying his rule there ought to be 80,000 at school. The actual number was 55,000, but deelttctin,g 7,ooo'As belonging to the easier classes, there wero 34,000 who wore not at school. Some calculations had been made, which showed that out of 110 children 52 wore at work or school, and 58 neither at work nor school. Passing to the case of Birming ham, here again a most minute inquiry had been made, and it was found that between tho ages of five or ten the attendance at school was 46 per cent. of the children, and between the ages of 10 and 15 only 9,000 or nearly 29 per cont. Examinations had been made of the children working in the factories, and the ignorance was found to be vory great. With regard to Bristol, ho would quote a report of Jr. Stansfield, who stated that out of 890 young persons examined by him, 425 were totally ignorant. Lan ErEAKINGI. H OUSE OF LORDS—LAST EVENING. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his soat on the woolsack a five o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Carnarvon and Llanberis Railway Bill was read a third time. The Patriotic Fund Bill was read a second time. On the motion of the Earl of DEVON, the Galway Harbour (Composition of Debt) Bill was committed. THE FATE OF MAXIMILIAN. In ansvar to a question from Lord STRATFORD ]Y REDCLIFFE, The Earl of DERBY stated that they had received positive information that the unfortunate Maximilian had been shot on the 19th of June last. He was one amongst the first to deprecate so unnecessary, so barbarous, a murder as this. After a few remarks concerning the captives in Abyssinia the subject dropped. The Blackwater Bridge Bill was also committed. The Public Records (Ireland) Bill was passed. The report of the amendments on the War Department Stores Protection Bill was received. The Charitable Donations and Bequests Bill was read a third time. The Real Estate Charges Act Amendment Bill was read a second time. On tho motion of Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY the Railways (Guards and Passengers Communication) Bill was read a second time. Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY, having moved the second reading of the Railway (Guards' and Passengers Communication) Bill, The Duke of BUCKINGHAM raised objections to some portions of the bill, and recommended its reference to a Select Committee. This suggestion was resisted by Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY and by Lord CAIRNS, who remarked that a re ference to a Seleet.Committee would be tantamount to the loss of the bill for the present session—an event he should very much deplore. Ultimately the bill was read a second time and ordered to be referred to a select committee, upon the understand ing that evidence should be limited to the improvement of the measure, without opening the question of the particu lar mode of communication to be adopted. The sitting was closed at 20 minutes past six o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS—YESTERDAY. The SPEAKER took the chair at two o'clock, when, the house having resolved itself into committee, the further consideration of the bill for the amendment of the Repre sentation of the People was proceeded with. Mr. LOCKE moved the following clause :—" (Notice of rate in arrear to be given to voters.) Where any poor rate duo from any occupier in respect of any promises within a borough on the fifth day of January in any year shall remain unpaid on the first day of Juno following, the overseers whose duty it may bo to collect such rate shall, on or before the 20th of such mouth of June, give a notice thereof in the form set forth iu Schedule (X) to this act to every such occupier as would on payment of such rate be entitled to vote in the election of a member or members of Parliament for the borough in respect of his occupation of the said premisos ; the notice shall be deemed to be duly given if delivered to the occupier or left at his last or usual place of a bode, or with some person on the premises of which the rate is payable, or the notice may be sent b y the post, free of postage, oc the sum char g eable aspostage .for the same being first paid, directed to the occupier at his place of abode as described in the rate book ; any over seer who shall wilfully withhold such notice with intent to keep such occupier off the list or register of voters for the said borough shall bo doomed guilty of a breach of duty under the Registration Act." The clause was read a second time, and a variety of amendments were moved by Mr Hardy. A discussion followed, during which Mr. Gladstone thought the most convenient course was to adopt the amendments with the understanding that they would be open for discussion on the bringing up of the report. Mr. SCHREIBER said ho had an amendment to move, that for a second member for Cheltenham ; but, after the declaration which had been maeo on a previous occasion, that there were no means in the possession of Government of complying with the request, ho should withdraw the motion. Mr. W. COWPER moved that the borough of . Hertford should comprise the towns of Ware and Hoddesden. Mr. DIMSDALE spoke strongly in favour of the pro position, and said such an arrangement would be agree able to all parties. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that th e discussion of this question showed c learly that members were not a ware of the power of tho Boundary ouniiii tss ioners. They bad power to deal with s uch mat ters, and, if necessary, to enlarge the borough of Hertford ; they would recommend, and Parliament would take care that that recommendation was carried into effect. The clause was withdrawn. haCdaopntatihne pilaApeYr:rtholaldwdistlitidiprotown am:strieitltaarricdlaGuisuotothiltu r h y e to the borough of Wells. Mr. HARVEY LEWIS said, a ft e r the declaration of t h e er, h e should withdraw his Ch ance llor of the Ex che q u motion for the giving two additional members for Maryle- bone. Sir E. PEKING then moved the following clause That the county of Kent bo divided into threo divisions, each division returning two members. The proposition was negatived without a - division. Mr. CORRANCE gave notice that when the schedules were ta k e n into consi deration he should move that Lowes toft bo inserted instead of Stockholm. The announcement of the chairman (Mr. Dodson) that there were no further clauses to movo elicited a loud cheer, and the committee then proceeded to a con sideration of the schedules of the bill. Tho four original schedules having boon struck out of the bill, Tho CHANCELLOR, of the EXCHEQUER moved that the following boroughs return one member only in future PJrliaments:—Honiton, Thetford, V 40113, Evesham, Marl borough, Harwich, Richmond, Lymiugton, Chippenham, Bridport, Stamford, Chipping Wycombe, Poole, Andover, Leominster, Tewkesbury, Ludlow, Ripon, Huntingdon,. !guidon, Buckingham, Newport, (Isle of Wight), New Malsen, Tavistock, Lewes, Budmin, Great Marlow, Devizes, Hertford, Dorchester, Lichfield, Cockermontb, Bridg north, Guildford, Chichester, Windsor, Knaresborough, and Andover. The new schedule having been read a second time, and ordered to stand part of the bill, Schedule B, which enumerated the following new boroughs to return ono member each, viz., Darlington, Hartlepool, Stockton, Gravesend, Burnley,• Staleybridge, Wednesbury, Middle.:borongh, and Dewsbury, was agreed to on the understanding that Mr. Ayrtou's motion to strike out Darlington for the purpose of inserting "Sur rey, Wandsworth, Tooting, Streatham, St. Mary, Batter sea, Putney, and so much of the parish of Lambeth as was not included in the borough of Lambeth," should be taken on the bringing up of the report, as it was desirable that the bill should pass through committco that evening. (Hear, hear.) . The remaining schedules having boon agreed to, the bill passed through committee. The announcement was received with loud cheers from both sides of the house. At the evening sitting, Mr. M'KENNA called attention to the enormous and disproportionate increase of Irish taxation since 1841, as compared with the increase in Great Britain, and canvas , sing critically the chief budgets in that interval, he showed that while in Great Britain the taxation had increased be tween 1851 and 1861 at the rate of 3i. 3d. per head, in Ire land the increa:to amounted to 105.2t1. per head, end main tained that the imposition of new taxes unaCcnmpanied by any countervailing advantage lay at the root of much of the political discontent of Ireland. Tracing next th causes which impeded the national prosperity of that coun try, he argued that the almost simultaneous establishment, of free trade and the construction of the system of Conti nental railways, on such principles that agricultural pro duce could be carried on theta at a much lower rate than on the Irish railways, placed Ireland at a disadvantage in supplying the English markets. He concluded by moving a resolution (after urging that the Government should give some kind of guarantee to the Irish 'railways which .would enable them to reduce their traffic rates) expressing an opinion that this disproportionate increase of taxation requires the immediate attention of Parliament. The motion was seconded and supported by Mr. POL LARD-UItQUIIAUT and Gen. DUNNE, but Mr. MONSELL opposed it, insisting that whatever was done with the Irish railways, that question ought to be treated on its own merits. Controverting Mr. M'Kenna's arguments, ho assorted that the imposition of the income tax on Ireland was part of a fair and liberal arrangement, and as to free trade he showed that the land under culti vation and the price of agricultural produce had increased since that measure. lie advocated equality of taxation as the foundation for perfect religious equality—the want of which, and not taxation, was the cause of Irish dis content. Mr. Hunt, after requesting Mr. M'Kenna not to press his motion in the unavoidable absence of the Chancellor of, the Exchequer, remarked that the increase of taxation per head was generally accepted as a proof of increased pros perity or power to bear taxes, and pointed out the great increase that bad taken place in the article of spirits. At the same time considerable relief had been afforded under such heads as coffee, tea, sugar, and wine; the grants la, aid of local taxation, as well as the loans for public works had been much larger in Ireland than in England- -vot ing the figures in detail in each case—and the committee, moreover, which had considered this subject very minutely and carefully for two sessions, bad reported decidedly that there was no impost in Ireland which impeded the develop ment of any branch of industry, except the spirit duties, which were entirely exceptional in their character. After a digression by Mr. Whalley bn the subject of re ligious equality, provoked by some remarks of Mr. Men sel', the motion was suppoi Led by Lord Dunkellin, who replied that the increase of the spha duties did not imply increased prosperity, inasmuch as nearly all the distillers were ruined; by Sir F. Renate, who was in favour of some measure for the relief of the railways ; by Mr. Synan and Mr. Bruen ; and Mr. Hankey remarked that the interests of England and Ireland in this, as in other matters, were identical, as was proved by the report of the committee. The resolution was then withdrawn. Mr. BAZLEY obtained leave to bring h a bill to amend the Carriers Act. Bills wore brought in by Lord NAAS to amend the laws relating to the custody of dangerous lunatics in Ireland, and to the superannuation allowances of the Dublic police. The Banns of Alatrimonyßill passed through Committee, and the House adjourned at 10 minutes to 1 o'clock. LONDO GAZETTE.-LAST EVENING. FOREIGN OFFICE, JULY 6. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint the Right Hon. Lord Lyons, G.C.8., now her Majesty's Am bassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Sub lime Ottoman Porte, to be her Majesty's Ambassador Ex traordinary and Plenipotentiary to his Majesty the Em peror of the French. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint the Hon. Henry George Elliot, now her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to his Ma jesty the King of Italy, to be her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Sublime Otto man Porto. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint Sir Augustus Berkeley Paget, K.C.8., now her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary an d Minister Plenipotentiary to his Majesty the King of P or tugal, to be her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to his Ma jesty the King of Italy. WAR-OFFICE, PAIL-MALL, .TttLr 9. Royal Regiment of Artillery—Lieutenant Montague Willis Ommanney to be Second Captain, vice William O'Brien, deceased; Lieutenant Francis Foster Barham has been permitted to resign his commission ; Quartermaster- Sergeant Thomas Gibson to bo Quartermaster, vice William Cairns, retired upon half-pay. Tho following Gentlemen Cadets, from the Royal Military Academy, to be Lieutenants: —Walter W. M. Smith, Henry Crofton, Jienry Barron, Frederick C. Symonds, Frederick A: Yorke, - Frederick R. Ditmas, William P. Blandy, Henry B. Henan', Keppel Stephenson, William G. Knox, Edmund Buckle, Frederic H. Eardley- Wilmot, Edward B. Evans, George M. Stevens, Edward L. Bevir, Francis M. E. Vibart, Frederick Bigg, and Edward 0. Hay, and R. B. Maurine. Corps of Royal Engineers—Captain John Gordon Jervois to be Lieutenant-Colonel ; Second Captain Robert Grant to be Captain ; Lieutenant Charles Crawford to be Second Captain, vice Grant. The following Gentlemen Cadets, from the Royal i Mli tary Academy, to be Lieutenants, with temporary rank Felician do Wolski, Robert Barklie Charles Kensingtuni William Morris, Henry Denison, ' Walter James John Thurburn, William Johnstone, Matthew Gregson; Henry Settle. BREVET. Quartermaster William Cairns, retired half-pay, Royal Artillery (since deceased), to have the honorary rank of Captain. ADMIRALTY, JULY 8. Corps of Royal Marines—Colonel-Commandant Samuel Nettervillo Lowder, to bo Deputy Adjutant- General of the Corps, vice Major-General George Colt Langley, whose period of service on the Staff has expired. JULY 3. Joseph King Martyn, Esq., to be Retired Captain in her Majesty's Fleet, under Orderm Council be of St 26th June,ain 1867. 1 , a l e ntine George Roberts , Esq., to ff Cap tin hor Majesty's Fleet. The undermentioned officers have this day been pro moted to the rank of Staff Captain in her Majesty's Fleet, with the seniority of I st J ul y , 1867, viz. :—George Biddle A. - co me, Esq., William T. Wheeler, Esq., Cornelius T. Noddall, Esq., Ri c h a rd Stokes, Esq., William T. Main p rise, Esq., Henry Paul, Esq., John R. Aylen, Esq., Robert C. Esq., George J. Hodges, Esq., Frederick R. Sturdeo, Esq., Allen, Thomas C. Pullen, Esq., George H. K. Bowes, Esq., Francis H. May, Esq. RACING nrr. RES FOR 1867. JU: Lirorpool July Mooting 10 If un gorford Nottingham 16 Down Royal Cutporat a l7 Stamford LY uleliffo M Huntingdon 23 Winchester Southampton Goodwood ST. Dover Wog Drayton Plymouth 2 C a nterbury Derby Lichfield Yarmouth Weymouth ............... 28 Tunbridge ............... 29 Baden Baden ............ 31 AUGI Ripon Brighton .• 6 Brighton Cluu 8 Lewes Eg, ham . . . l3 Wolverhampton l3 Stockton Oxford .. ••• 15 Hastings York August SEPT. Margate Warwick Spring 3 Abingdon 5 Leicester Doncaster Brucon 'OCT(' :MBER. Richmond .................. 17 Hendon ..................... 19 Monmouth ............... 19 Mauchostor Autumn—. 20 Now-market Ist Octobur 24 Northampton Autumn 1 iinburgh Bedford Newmarket 2d October. 7 1 1513 Ne°liioark. CEllt°uhleut lloughtue NOV Liverpool Autumn ...... 5 hiltrewebury Autumn... 11 Leamington Hunt MR. GEO. Wynn executes commissions, by letter only, at his residence, 125, Queen's-crescent, Haverstock-hill, and has lists posted daily at the City Arches; also through his Agent, Mr. F. Butler, near Meux's Brewery. No connexion with any other person using the same name. COURSING. COURSING MEETINGS TO COME. SEPTEMBER. Name. Judge. Days of Running Brampton, Cumberland Mr. Warwick 00TOBER. Lncaster and Willoughby, Lincolnshire Mr. S afford p Ilis Royal Highness the Prince of Wales having, through General Sir W. Knollys, K. 0.13., expressed a wish that he and the Princess of Wales might inspect the grand prize of honour awarded by the International Jury of the Paris Exhibition to the National Lifeboat Institution, Mr. Lewis, the secretary of the Lifeboat Society, who had re ceived it at the hands of the Emperor of the French, had yesterday the honour of an audience of the Prince, sod of subtnittiug to him the medal The Prince expressed his satisfaction with it, and at once showed the medal to the P r incess of Wales, who was also much gratified with to it. Only three of these grand prizes h ave been awarded English exhibitors. The modal weighs about 12 ounces, and is it very fine specimen, indeed, of the numismatic art. The medal has been presented to the National Lifeboat Institution in acknowledgment of the perfection to which it has brought its self-righting lifeboats and equipment, and of the great services the society has rendered to ship wrecked sailors of all nat i o ns, of whom it has contributed THE REPRESEN TATION OF MERTIIYR.—Mr. Ed to the rescue of 17,000. ward M. Elderton, of the Temple, Loudon, has issued his a dd res s to the electors of the b orough of Me r t h y r. It id, thoroug hly Liberal in tone, and expresses Mr. Elderton's confidence of being returned tlt3 " one of tho first of the people's representatives." WU 81 i 20 3 / 4 10 too 1 st 20 et et 100 190 100 100 1(0 100 100 100 100 100 all 100 100 93 I 105