The Sun. — London, England, 1867-05-09 00:00:00

NONEk AND COMMERCIAL tNT ELLIGENCE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. No alteration of importance is this morning apparent in the general discount market. Joint stock bankers and bill brokers generally are ask - lug full terms for all the accommodation desired. Notwithstanding the occurrence of a few financial failures credit is well sustained, and there is no difficulty in obtaining financial assistance on the securities of respectable firms. At the meeting held to-day of the National Pro vincial Bank of England the 34th annual report of the directors was presented and adopted. The net profits for the year, 1866, after making ample allowance for bad and doubtful debts and 10 per cent. - bonus to officers, amounted to £283,57.4. The directors proposed a further bonus of 9 per cent. in July nev, making, with the former dividend and bonus already paid, 24 per cent. on the paid-up capital, free of income-tax, leaving £250,386 in vested in Government Securities. The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up to this day, are in round figures as under :- 1867. 1866. ... 76,337 74,953 ...128,819 121,042 ... 27,411 25,841 ... 24,111 19,677 ... 50,928 ,49,769 ... 26,328 22,437 ... 40,093 35,730 ... 46,200 45,160 Great Western North Western South Western Brighton Midland South Eastern Great Norther* Lancashire and Yorkshire -11r; ..iristol and Exeter... 7;458 6;776 North Eastern ... ... 68,159 71,027 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln ... 20,345 19,819 Great Eastern ... 36,607 31,569 London, Chatham, and Dover ... 11,431 9,681 Metropolitan ••• ••• ••• ••• 4,347 3,946 Midland and G re at W es t ern o f I re l an d ... 5,639 5,489 Glasgow and South-Western ... 11,731 11,326 These returns, when compared with those of the corresponding period of last year, are in most instances of an exceedingly favourable character. On,the Great Western there is an increase of £1,384; on the North Western, of £7,777; on the South Western, of £1,600 ; on the Brighton, of £4,434; on the Midland, of £1,164 ; on the South-Eastern, of £3,891; on the Great Northern, of £4,363 ; on the Lancashire and Yorkshire, of £1,040; and on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, of £526 ; while the North Eastern shows a decrease of £2,868. At the Bank of England yesterday there was an influx of 4,000 sovereigns from Brazil, and an efflux of £4,000 in American eagles. At the meeting held to-day of the shareholders of the Otago and Southland Investment Company a further dividend at the rate of 12 per cent. per an num, free of income-tax, which would be equivalent to 10 per cent. for the whole year, was agreed to. It is stated that Mr. Edmond Pullein, late of the firth of Messrs Harding, Pullein, Whinney, and Gibbons, and Mr. John Everett, of Allhallows chambers, Lombard-street, have entered into part nership for the purpose of carrying on business as accountants, but not in connection with Mr. Everett's existing business of money broker and bankers' agent, which will be carried on separately, as before, under the firm of Everett, Lucas, and Co. The new firm will be Pullein, Everett, and Co. Universal the thirty-thi r d annua l genera l meet i ng of the Lniversal Life Assurance Society held this day, John Farley Leith, Esq., in the chair, the results reported were that a profit of £202,973 is declared to have been realised. Four-fifths are set apart to Cuter into the average of future annual divisions of Profit, and the remainder is disposed of by an abate- Inent of 50 per cent., or one-half, on all premiums of this year upon participating policies of six years' standing, and by the division at 30th June of a bonus of £1 19s. per share (free of income-tax) to the proprietors, in addition to 10s. for interest at 3 1st December. The new policies issued by the Universal Life Assurance Society in the year 1866 Were stated to have been 278 in number, assuring n06,3[5, at an annual premium of £13,252. Th e Policies in force were for £2,621,999, and the accu niulated funds of the society were £804,990. Mr. James Joseph Mackenzie (formerly a partner in the firt h of Dent and Co., of China) w as e l ecte d a director in the place of Mr. Ellis IVatkin Cunliffe, deceased. The creditors of Overend, Gurney, and Co. (Limited) are much indebted to the indefatigable exertions, in Chancery, and in monetary and cotn tuercial circles, of Mr. Charles Oppenheim, Old 13read-street. His latest report upon the subject is the following circular : OVEILEND, GURNEY, AND CO. (LIMITED). To the Creditors of Overend, Gurney, and Co. (Limited). London, May 7, 1867. Gentlemen,--A s many o f the creditors may not have seen the public announcement of the call of £lO per share Which the Vice-Chancellor Malins has, upon my applica tion, directed the liquidators to make, and as I have had no opportunity of communicating with the creditors since the meeting of the 15th March last, I think it right now to state that immediately after that meeting I communica Led the resolution passed thereat to the liquidator; and, after R reasonable time had been allowed to elapse, I instructed Messrs. Ashurst, Morris, and Co., the solicitors conducting th e case on behalf of the creditors, to take the necessary proceedings to obtain the order of the Vice-Chancellor upon the subject. A summons was accordingly issued for the 18th of April, but on that day the solicitors for the Defence Asso ciation appeared, and stated they desired to oppose the summons, and asked that it might be adjourned to enable them to file evidence in opposition, and thereupon the Matter was decided to stand °Tor until the 2nd inst., when a further adjournment was applied for, upon the ground that their investigation had not been completed ; but the creditors' solicitors, under my instructions, pressed for a tleeision and the summons was accordingly adjourned to be heard before the Vice-Chancellor in person on the following day, when, after hearing all parties for a con siderable time, he directed the liquidators to make the call a sked for by me, on behalf of the creditors, and that it should be payable on the 25th of June next. No fresh statement of affairs has been issued by the liquidators since their report of February last, but I be lieve with the proceeds of the present call there will be sufficient to pay the larger part of the balances still due to the creditors by the end of the present year. The appeals to the House of Lords are still proceeding, and I have, under the advice of counsel, applied to the Judicial Committee for leave to appear and argue tho c ase by counsel for the creditors in oppositi on t o th ese aPPeals, and I expect to obt a i n such leave within the next few days, when I shall use every possible effort to get the 'natter disposed of, and also to prevent the liquidation being impeded by the pendency of such appeals. I am, yours obediently, CHARLES OPPENHEIM. Tho following circular announcing the suspension. of Messrs. Given,Watts, and Co., of New Orleans; of Watts, Crane and Co., of New York ; and W. C. Watts and Co., of Liverpool, has been issued:— "Brown's-buildings, Liverpool, May 8. "G entlemen,—We regret to state that we have been in formed by t e l egram by Messrs. Watt s , C rane, and Co., of ""' York, that in consequence of a lock up of capital caused by the recent inundations of a large portion of t h e sugar a n d co tt on l an d s o f L o uisiana an d Mi ss i ss i pp i , sy, as also Messrs. Given, Watts, and Co., of New Or `eans, have been compelled to suspend payment. " We have every reason to believe that this embarrass "lent will be but temporary, but in the meantime we con eider it our duty to the creditors of the independent firm of Messrs. W. C. Watts and Co. that we should also su spend paym en t. BWe call confidently state that the means of W. C. a tts and C o . are amp l e to meet all its inde b te d ness, d to enable us in a short time to resume business. " In th e meantime we are having an accurate statement Of our affairs drawn. p, which we will in a few days sub ntit to the inspection of our creditors. " We are, gentlemen, your obedient seevants, " W. C. WATTS AND CO." The advance in American securities on the Lon "o4 market, reported last week, ha s no t b een main tained owing to the rise in the premium on gold N ew' York (31 per cent.) as advised by telegraph. 7 : it ed States 5.20's h ave range d b etween 71 and tis '' Closing 71i to Illinois Central and E r i e v uar es have not mai n t a i ne d th e rece n t rapid ad ance, bein g l as t quo t e d 741 to 75 i , or 1 per cent. . i elwe r, and the l a tt er 40} t o 414-, nearly 3 pe r cen t. leder the price of last week. Atlantic and Great Western Debentures and 15.,c'esolidated Bonds are steady, but the Secti ona l ends have slightly given way. Two O'CLOCK. Th ere has b een rather more activity in the marketti for the English Funds, consequent upon the t „ .. • c)r e Peaceful aspect of political affairs on the Con ellt and a partial rev.val of trade, owing to the fine weather. Consols for money and the account on the 6th proximo have improved -I, the former being dealt in at 91i ; and the latter are also quoted 91i 4. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 89f 4 ; Annuities, 1880, 901 ; Ex chequer Bills, 225. prem. ; India 5 per Cents. are marked 1104 i ; and ditto Enfaced 5 per Cents., 1024. The Foreign Stock Market has been very buoy ant. Italian have advanced 11, to 50 1 ; Mexican /, to 16/ ; Greek 1, to 13+1 ; Spanish Passive 1, to 201 1 ; Certificates 1, to 131 1 ; Turkish per Cents -k, to 29/ s ; Russian Scrip 1, to 1 dis. to 1 dis. ; Chilian Scrip 1, to 41 31 dis. ; and Danu bian Scrip 11, to 6 4 dis. The Foreign and Colonial Lines remain without change of importance. South Austrian and Lom bardo-Venetian are dealt in at 144 ; Great Luxem bourg, at 8 15-16; East Indian, at 1081 a ; Great Indian Peninsula, at 1081 4 ; and Grand Trunk of Canada, are flat at 171. Bank shares remain very quiet, but generally maintain previous rates. Chartered Mercantile of India, London, and China, have improved 284 29; Oriental Bank Corporation, to 421 ; and Union of London to 391 I-. Miscellaneous And Finance Shares show little change of importance. - Atlantic Telegraph 8 per Cents. are dealt in at 95 ; Fore-street Warehouse at 121; London General Omnibus Co. at 3 ; and Viceroy of Egypt's Mortgage Loan at 701 1. American Securities are also buoyant. Illinois shares have advanced j, to 76 76 ; United States 5-20 Bonds -I, to 711 ; and Erie shares 1, to 4 42. Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures are firm at. 32 34, and the Consolidated Mortgage Bonds at 211 22. Considerable animation has prevailed in the Rail way Share Market, and, owing to the generally favourable character of the traffic receipts on most of the principal lines, a further improvement has taken place in values. Great Northern A stock has advanced 12 ; London, Chatham, and Dover, and Midland, each 1 ; Great Western, Brighton, and South-Eastern, each ; and Great Easters and North-Western, each I. MINING MARKET. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, There has been great activity to-day, and Prince of 'Vales, East Basset, Marke Valley, Providence, and East Russell are in good demand. Annexed are the latest prices:— Ohiverton Moor s} 51 Chontales Gold Clifford Amalgamate 4 5 East Basset 2O 22 East Cam Brea — East Caradon 4 52 East Lovell 9 91 East Russell East Wheal Grenville -- Great Laxey Great Retallick Great Wheal Vor... l7l 14 Marko Valley North Crofty North Rotalliek Prinoeof Wales 52s Od 5480(1 Providence Mines South Gondurrow ... ___ Tincroft West Ohiverton 66/ 68 West Beton Wheal Chiverton 6 6 Wheal Basset Wheal Seton l2O 125 BRITISH FUNDS—TWO O'CLOCK. fiIoVEENIKENT FUNDS. 3 per Ueut. Consols Do. Account,;June 6 9Ol 90 x d 8 per Cent. Reduced B9/ 1 New 3 per Cent B9l 1 it New 21 per Cont. Jan. 1894 Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 &nnuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan. ' 1880 Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885_ Do (Red Sea Televaph), Au g ., 1908 — r;xchequer Bills, £l,OOO, o and 1 per Ct 22 pm Do £5OO Do. £lOO Sc £2OO Bank of England Stock, 61 per Cent INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. [adieu Stock, 10i per Cent., April 1874 — Do. Account Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880 Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 Do. Certificates Do. Enlaced Paper 4 per Cent Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 Do. 51 per Cent., May 1879 Do. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 Do. Bonds, 5 per Cent., £l,OOO Do. under £l,000 FOREIGN FUNDS—TWO O'CLOCK. Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 irazilian 5 per Cent Do. 11 per Cent., 1852-58-60 go - . 1863 Do. 5 per Cent., 1865 Do Account Do. £lOO Bonds Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent Di 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) 0-dian 6 per Cent — Do. 41 per Cent — t)o. 6 per Cent A • . Do. „ B Do. , 7 1867 .. — ' Do. , Scrip, £2O paid 4 dis Col mbian, 6 per Cent. :Wm, 6 per Cent. Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 — Da. 5 per Cent., 1864 — D •nubian Principaliti 3F, 7 per Cent Do. Do. 8 e 1867 Do. Do. Scrip, £35 paid .dis E luador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — c gyptian 7 per Cent Bl+ Do. Second Issue Do. £lOO Bonds 00. Do. 1861 — Do. £lOO Bonds Bl 3 Do Government Railway Debentures BOl Greek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons Do. Account Do. Coupons Do. Account —. GWet:nate, 5 per Cent .. liiian 5 per Cert 1865 Do, Account ~ Do. Maremmana Railway xi,xical; 3 per Cent Ditto for Account Dn. 1864 .............. Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French Monte-ride:ln G per Cent. ......... .. %loorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada Do 3 per Oen Do. Deferrad Do Land .iarrants (Hectares) Pe -avian 5 per Cent 1865 . ; ............. ___ Do Account Do 41 per Cent., 1865 De 4i per Cent. (Uribarron) ............ Do 4i. per Cent., 1862 ............... .: Do Account Portuguese 8 per Ct., 1853, '6, 7, ' 9 '6o'2'3 Busman 5 per Cent., 1822, £ 5t....,. . .. .. , 87 Do 41 per Cent. 1850 ....... Do 4+ per Cent., 1860 Do 3 pat Cent., 1859 Do 5 per Cent., 1862 .......................... ............ 851 5 1 Do. 5 per Cent., 1861 .... 8 1 5. 4 dis D:). Anglo-Dutch, 1866 p 2 a . . i . . d . .........................:E . : . : Do. do. £6O .iardiniau 5 per Cent ........................ Spanish 3 per Cbnt ....., Do Account — Do New Detected Do. Account Do Passive Do Acca ant 2Ol i I. Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded — Do Account Turkish 6 per Cent. 1804 — Do. Account Do 6 per Cent. 1858 Do. Account . .,,• — Do £lOO Bonds — Do 6 per Cent. 1862 Do Account 52 Do £lOO Bonds 53 Do 6 per Cent., 1863 Do 5 per Cent., 1865 .. Do. Account Do. 6 per Cent., 1865 Do. 4 per Cent. Guaranteed Venezuela, 3 per Cent. — Divileues on the above payable in London. Austrian, 0 par Cent.; Ex. 10 Florins ... Belgian. 41 per cent., Ex. 25f. Dutch Z+ per (lent. Ex. 12 Guil, — Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates .... French Rentes, 3 per C ent., E x. 251. — Italian 3 per Cent. 1831, Ex. 2sf. Do. Account 491 1 I I 29 i Consols, Money TWO O'CLOCK. Do. Account THE LIBERAL PARTY AND MR. GLADSTONE. Public meetings of the Liberals at Bristol and Halifax were held on Tuesday evening, at which resolutions were adopted recognising the zeal, ability, and honesty with which Mr. Gladstone has advocated the Reform question ; and expressing unabated confidence iu him as the leader of the Liberal patty in Parliament. The speakers in each case were men of local position and influence. THE COMPOUND HOUSEHOLDER Q UESTION. The following resolution was passed at a meeting of the committee and members of the Birmingham Liberal Association, on Tuesday ; Mr. Alderman Hawkes in the chair. Moved by Mr. George Dixon, Mayor of Birming ham, seconded by Mr. Councillor Harris : " That this meeting regards the last proposal of the Government, with respect to compound householders, as only an evasion of the real objections to the bill, as putting objectionable restrictions upon the franchise which it professes to give ; and this meeting protests against the proposition to rescind the favourable clauses in Sir William Clay's Act, which facilitates the enrolment of £lO compound householders." A labourer named George Hunt was fined £5 last week by the magistrates of Melksham, iu Wilts, for taking a hare without a license. A keeper saw the hare in a trap with its logs broken, and watched it struggling in agony for four hours when Hunt came for it and was ap prehended. The magistrates severely censured the cruelty of thekeeper in not killing the hare and putting it out of its misery. 63& 3 BIIITISII POSSESSIONS. LOU A.tiantiodzSt.Lawrence all 67 60 st Bom.,Baroda,,teen.ln. 100 100 102 102 i " gu. 5 per cent 20 1/o. 10 shares lO id ip 105 Buffalo dr. Lake Huron all 4 45 10 Do. Preference all 7i N I (00 Butl.,Braat,daGoderich 6 p.c. i 872-3-1 lOO at Calcutta &S. E., Urn lOO at Jai e Town & Dock, gu 100 60 63 00 Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p. all 101 103 at East. Bengal, gu., sdo 100 101 11:3 st East lediau, gu. 5 p.c. 100 108 10J 1011 61.1 Do. J Extension 'l5 at ;rand Tr unkof Canadt 100 20 22 171 too Do. Equip. Mort. Bond 1 charge 6 p.c all 85 88 100 Do. tat era. Bonds all 5 7 100 Do. do deferred 100 De. 2d Prof. Bonds all 5 ' 4 51 100 Du. do. deferred 100 Do. 3(1 ?ref:stook.— all 37 40 100 Do. do. deferred 100 Do. 4th Pre'. stock 100 Do. do„, deterred at Gt. ludia I'en. gua. 6p.c lOO 108 It 9 1081 73 0. Gua. 5 per cent lB 6 1 I 10 Do. New gua. 6p. c.. 6 5 1c 72 at ult. South ot India gun. 5 per cent at D 45 per cent lov 91 03 at Do 105 •Ireat Wca. of Canada all 12i 135 205 D.. New ...... all .11 121 00 Do. 6p. 0 848. pay. 1873 ail f-8 92 OC ()co. 5; (10. pay. 1877-8 all 81 est 10 Indian Branch, limited 2 • 11 1 1 at Madras, gua. 5 p.c at Do. 41 do lOO 92 #4 at Do. 4i do lOO 85 . 90 29 Do. Fifth Extension 5 st Melb. Cor. 6p. c. Buds. 100 50 Mel. & Hudson's Bay all at N. Itl.C'da, 6pe Ist pt.bl 100 82 (5 st Soiride 100 97 90 st Do. Delhi i „Jiro 97 08 20 Do. do lO • 1 • t Do. Punjaub n .o 100 97 98 st Do.ltidua St.Flot z4l 100 COLOPTIAL YERNiktEN. British Columbia, 6 per oeut., Imo. 31, 1572.... Can.Gov.6 p.o.Ja.d& JJuly 1877-64 110. 6p. r. Feb. Aug 1).,. 5 p. e. Mar. tz Sept .le. 5 p. 0. Jan. t July Do. 5 p. o. InsoriUed Cape U. !lope, 6 p.e. 1873 Oct . 1690-19ue do 1v3 , ,-9:., Jo. J sxu. J uly. 1690-9, Do. 5 per Gout. 15 April, aert Out., 1900 Cle.7 lon, Nov. 1863, 6 p.• Do. IS7S, nu_ ilauritiue, 6 p. c, 1376, tau. and July Do. 1•47 S .0. 1882, Mayls, Nov. Do. P 405, FeO. dr Aug 417ril 'Tov. d per cent N. S. W. Gov. 5 p•c.,lde) Do. 5 p.c. 18:1 to 18Th Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1893 lew Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 5 per cent.... 'Nova Saitia Gov. 6 p. c sterling, 1875 queensland Gov. 6 p. e Aus.Gov. 6 p,o 1868-1; 1)o. 1878 & upwards Vio,Uov. 6 p.o. Ja &July Do. do, A pril &-Oot BRIT'S Cam. Cousol. cold, Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated devon G. Cons. (Tavist ✓rake4ralls East Bassett (Illogan) East Carr don d asa earn Brea East Grenville East Gunnislake Watit Love,l g. IV% Russell (Tavistk tiam.& StA übyil(G wen. 4 ,ircat L isey, limited.. !great south Tolgus.... treat Wheal dusy.... s. Wheal Vor tierod's Foot ••••, Hingston Downs Alargaret (Uny Lelaw %larks Vullev 4 riwyudy Iron Ore, lin: Scion North Roskear M.Wli'lßassett(lllog a n North Wheal Crotty Prosper Jvidenoe Unyl,elant i d. Caradon (St. Cleer) IS. Condurrow '6. Wheal Fran. ttllogau stray Park fin Croft 7igra and Clogan, lirn West Bassett (Mogan W. Caradon (Ltskeard West Chlrerton ....... West Seton. ... Wheal Bassett 'Mogan Wheal Buller (Redrutli Wheal Mary Aun (Alen Wheal Setou Wheal Trelawney (Lis T SECURITI/iLS. 99 10! US 100 100 102 83 90 t 7 L) 104 OS 107 itpl 106 1t.2 , DI .)3 tul 103 :t.,6 I 102 K 4 1C,3 103 106 t(l5 107 98 ItO 96 18 91 93 85 h 7 101 102 0 86 VG 98 il I p 3 106. 108 107 109 5 7 4 6 370 393 1 1i 18 20 5 6 3 34 2 3 4 Si 10 34 31 5 13 17 17 19 1i 11 3s 31 Sa 7 I 31 11 2t 35 45 11 13 41 5 2k 21 2d ea 310 330 3i 4i 12 14 it 14 9 .1 68 70 130 :40 65 ;0 23 25 11 13 105 115 10 12 smi 5.17.0 YttEFEKEN Cs. bitz, J , ly Great Eastern, E. Anglian, B stock 6 per cen Ditto, No. 1, 5 per ctnt , eli Great orthern, 5 per cent., Ditto, 5 per cent, redeemable at 5 per cent Manchester, 3tnctlield, and Lincoln, 6 ptr cent Ditto (..£6 , 6 Midland, Leicester and Ilitchin 4 per cent.. 85 LINES LWASED 6T VIXED itIINTALI3. Lciadon and Blackwall, 81 leOliE/GlsT BAAL WAYS. Great Luxembourg, 8 15- 1 6 Namur and Liege, gal. 6 per cent. pl., t6l ['aria, Lyons, and Mediterranean, .35 San Paulo. 6 per cent.. 6 South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 14/ FOILCEIGki 1111N11:13. Anglo• Brazilian Gold, limited, 15-16 Cape Copper, um., 71 Chontalets Gold and Silver alining. 3 Von Pedr., Nur 11 tie! Rey, 1 j 2 pm ierontino and ISoLivia cold, lim., 7-16 Port Philip, Yudannuiutana of South Australia, li r.. BAN A S. 11 - 2,1 ~ IC2 Australasia, 61f Bank of Egypt, 33k British North American, 51 k.;liartered tier. of India. London, and China, 29 81 Imperial Bank, lim., 19 Imperial Ottoman, lim., 8k i,ate.d Mortgage Bank of India, Jim., 12 ; London and !fiver nate, Ditto, issued at lj pm., Ditto, ditto, 11; London Chartered Bans of Australia, 22i Loudon and South African, i 13 Oriental flank CorporAtion, 12) Union of London, 3V; I aIioCELLANEOUb. Atlantic Telegraph, 564 Dit 0, 8 per cvnt., 95 Ceylon Company, Dit o, A shares, 3y i City offices, lira., 4; , . cofouial, zu r'oncler of Enzlan . 21 Fore-strtet 1% - arellouso, !nu., 14 Loudon Financial Asriociation. London GeutralUmnlOus Company, liui, 3 li •dras Irrgatlon and Canal (guarau to, d. 5 per cent. by In. dlan Government), 191 Eno de Jaheiro City Improvements, 9k Van Diemen's Laud, 7 Vloerov of Lgypt, Mort; age. Loan, 701 VALUE OF LAND NEAR LONDON.--The residence known as Branch-hill-lodge, at Hampstead, Middlesex. and 13a. 3r. 37p. of pasture and garden ground adjoining, were offered by auction by Mr. Samuel Kingston, of Spalding, Lincolnshire, at the Auction Mart, near the Bank of England, on Monday last, in one lot. After a spirited competition the lot was sold to a City wine mer chant for his own occupation at £20,050. The late owner and occupier purchased the estate 15 years ago for £lO,OOO EXTRAORDINARY BIRTHS.—On the 4th inst. the wife of Private Patrick Corbett, Military Train, stationed in Dublin, was delivered of four children, three girls and one ' boy. The mother and children are all doing well, THE SUN, LONG ON, THURSDAY EVBNifvo, MAY 9 1867. SHAM MARKETS.—This day. *re Railways. et aristol and Exeter at Caledonian St i4itibrlati .)ork and 8and0n...... tO Corn wall at Dublin & Belfast Junc 1 at Dun„ Perth, & A b..) unc - 10 London, acrip Certi, Lk). at illasgoW tS. Western! st Great Eastern, Ord. stk.; st Do. E. Angl. st. No 2! A Great North of Scotland; st Great Northern .1 st .A stock st Do. 13 stock Do. liew, is. at 25 pip! st fits, and W. of Ireland! st It. Western -Original' st Do. S. Val. hail gua.l at Do. South Wales ,! st Do. W. Mid. —Milord: at DO. Newport atl/O. 11 erelbrd st Lancashire & Yorks torc st IL.nidon and Blackly:di! at Eon., 8ri.11., A 4 S Coahil et Lon., utiat., and Dsivol st Do. Metrop. Ex. A 1 st Lon. & north W ester' st Lou. & South Western at Man., Simi., & .Lincoln st Metroolitan Do. New st Do. Extension 100 Metropolitan District Do. do. do. 10 Do. and at. John's W'o st Micliand 9 Do. .£9 Share at Do, Birmin.. & Derb 25 did Kent . st North British at Do. Ed., Pth., & DUN st Nth. Eastern— Ber wick 25 Do. G.N•E purchase '1 st Do. Leeds at Do. York st Do. Carlisle 25 Do. Stock. & Darling: 10 Do. So. 1860-61 at North London .. at Do. do. 1865 5 . st Do. JO. 1866 . st North Stitflordshire st N. &S. W. Junction 25 Scottish Central at Scot. N. E .ADer. stock 10 Do. Scot, Miu.stJck et Shropshire Union at South Devon st iouth E,stern . 20 itaines, Wok., & Wok at falf Vale 10 Do. C at Vale of ieath at Waterford & Kilkenny I 10 Waterloo & Whiteha at West Cornwall 1 lw 100 wo 100 all 10U 100 100 lOU all ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. POLICE INTELLIGEgCE.—Ths Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Mr. Ingham—Have the girls no father or mother? Applicant—Neither. Mr. Ingham —How long have they been orphans? Applicant —They are my owa sisters, and as I am a married woman, and have a little child of my own, I think it is only my duty to act the part of a mother by them. Our father was killed by accident two years ago, and our mother died three months ago in the Fever Hospital, so that they were left withmit father or mother. I have tried all I can to do my duty, but this girl is very awkward, and I can't keep her doing as I should like. I hope your worship will help me. The girl, who was present, was then shown to the magistrate. She was a hearty-looking girl, exceedingly neat and clean in her appearance. Mr. Ingham pointed out the kindness of her eldest sister to her, but the girl held down her head and made no reply. Mr. Ingham—The Industrial Schools Act gives me power to interfere in a case where the parents or guardians cannot control the child. I may certainly look upon you in the light of a guardian. Tell me, does your sister in any way associate with thieves or persons of bad character Applicant—This acquaintance, from whom I fear so• much, has, I understand, been convicted of felony, and that makes me the more anxious. Mr. Ingham—Are you a Protestant or Catholic ? Applicant—Catholic. Mr. Ingham—Go to your priest and inquire when there is a vacancy in •any one of the numerous schools of that religious persuasion, and I will immediately send your sister. Applicant—Thank your worship, I will go directly. THAMES. DARING AND INJURIOUS ROBBERY.—George Holmes and George Wadge, two well-known thieves, were dharged with stealing a box containing six gold watches, another gold watch, a gold chain, and a small gold ring, the pro perty of Mr. Phillip Kilby, awatchmaker. The prosecutor, a respectable and industrious man, has had the misfortune to lose an eye, and with the knowledge of this fact the prisoners appear to have acted. On the evening of Thurslay, the 2d of the present month, a young lady came into the shop and left a gold watch with Mrs. Dallas, the sister of the prosecutor, to b 3 repaired. She gave it to her brother, who put it down on a board alongside of him. Directly afterwards Nudge entered and said he wanted to sell a pin which he handed to the prosecutor. Holmes came ,in directly afterwards as if he was on business. At the same time Mr. Kelly went round the counter to examine the pin by means of a powerful magnifying glass. A box of gold watches, a lady's gold watch, gold chain, and a small gold chain, were then near the prosecutor, and on the blind side of him. One of the prisoners took advantage of this, while Mr. Kelly was examining- the pin, to go round the counter and remove the property. The prisoners directly left the shop, without waiting Mr. Kelly's opinion of the pin, which was is reality qa;te worthless. Mrs. Dallas was the first to miss the prop 3rty, and asked her brother who the prisoners were. Last night police-ser geant Freeston, No. 58 K, went to a beer-shop called the Fielding's Arms, Fieldgate-street, Whitechapol, and arrested the prisoners. Holmes made a determined resis tance before he was secured. BALI prisoners denied that they had - any hand in the robbery. • ••••-• In answer to the magistrate the prosecutor said he had no doubt that the property was stolen while he was look ing at the pin. The prisoners were remanded for a week. MARKETS.--This day. METROPOLITAN CATTLE. . . To-day's market was but moderately supplied with beasts. Prime breeds were in fair request, at Monday's currency; but inferior stock was vary dull, at late rates. The top figure was 4s. 81 par Bibs. Sheep were in fair average supply, and sluggish request., at previous cur rencies. The best Dowas and half-brads in the wool sold at from 5.3. 6d. to ss. Bd. per Bibs. Lambs 'waved off steadily, at from 7s. to Bs. per Bibs. The veal trade was inactive, nevertheless the quotations were supported. Pigs met a heavy sale, at the late decline in value. Per Bibs. to sink the offal. ' ci c o . • :1*.,34amb.... is 0 d to 8 od. adsd d d erse & inf. beasts... 3 0 3 4 Pme crs-wool sheep 4 10 5 4 t n s i. sheep. 3 2 3 0 Large hoga Second quality do ..3 6 3 10 Prime .31hdown d 0.5 6 5 8 Prime large oxen ..4 2 1 4 La ge coarse calves. 4 4 5 2 .3 0 3 6 8 6 4 4 8 8 I ;in ri a m ll e p s o na rk l e i r d s o 53 8 4 1 5 SCPeir S csl u oen c n.le k ad l n l q6 n d: g lial c it al Y ves, 21s to 23s ; and qua ter-old store pigs, 23s to 263 each. Head of stock on. sale. Total supply, Foreign supply. Beasts B9l I Beasts 212 " Cows 1 Caw 5......... •••• . . Sheep and 1amb5....., 8 810 ; Sheep and 1 ,mbs 2 OOO Calves 212 !Ca yes ... l9 , NO 199 Pigs lO MEAT. NEWGATE AND LE ADENIIALL.—These markets are but moderately supplied with meat, which mores off slowly, as follows:—Beef, 3s 2,1 to 48 4d ; mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 6d ; lamb, 6s Od to 6s 10d ; real, 4s 01 to 5s 4d; pork, 3s Od to is 4d per 81181 by the carcase. HAY. SMITHFIELD—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £1 ss; clover. £4 Os to Xi lOs Od; and straw, £2 to £2 Gs per load. A fair average supply. CUMBERLAND—MoacIow hay, £3 Os to £4 8s; clover, £4 Os to £5 lOs Od ; and straw, £2 to £2 6s per load. Trade inactive. WnrrEcHAPEL-111aadow hay, £3 to £4 5s Od ; clover, £4 Os to £5 108 Od ; and straw, £2 to £2 6s per load. Supply moderate. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET—This Day. Market unchanged. Sales probably 10,000 or 2,000 bales. STATE OF TRADE. BELFAST, May 7.—Flax.—Generally speaking the markets pt ts bane ee k b . een very sparingly supplied during h The fine quali t i es continue con tinue very active in demand, at firm ra t es. C oarse the and medium sorts are now in much better demand, with an upward tendency in prices. Yarns.—No improvement whatever in demand can be reported. Orders on English, Scotch, and foreign account have been very limited. Transactions f or th e h ome trade are only to meet present wants. S toc k s i n - Te l o l n e tinues dullness in de mand,to pre . vail in creasing. No change of importan ce i n pr i ces . Line as ns,brporwe,, ou p s o ly w reported, . Fine drills are the only class of pods for which a E fair demand exists. Handloom.— power-loom. for light linens for bleaching, which are in f a i r d emand at firm rates, no animation whateier e x i s t s i n t hi s de i 10. de partment. Holders would submit to Alight reduc tion in order to effect large sales. Bleached and finished Linens.—Home demand has not been ac tive. Continental demand has been without ani mation during the past as in the previous week. American trade continues dull ; a few orders, how ever, have been received. NOTTINGHAM, Bth.—The fine weatherof ti:e week having produced a good effect on the home trade of the hosiery business in London, the manufacturers here are hoping to experience the advantages of the improvement very day. American buyers are giv ing their orders sparingly, and other departments of the shipping trade are quiet. Yarns are steady. Employment is moderately active, but certain indi cations among the operatives induce the hope that they will avoid the mistakes of the American hands, who are injuring business by their indiscretion. In the lace manufactures the brilliant weather has given a decided impulse to the fancy trade, but for plain netts the demand is slow. - " '— • ' THE HYDE PARK OUTCASTS.—Tsvo dirty, miserable looking young women, named Mary Brown and Eliza Burgess, were charged before Mr. Knox with wandering abroad in Hyde Park, not having a fixed place of abode or visible means of subsistence. • Sergeant Win. Horsley, 707 A, said that at about three o'clock that morning he was on duty in Hyde Park, and saw the two prisoners lying on a seat fast asleep. He woko them up and asked-them why they were in the park after the gates were closed, when they said they had no place to go to and no ;nosey to get lodgings. Mr. Knox asked the sergeant whether he had seen the young women before. The sergeant said he had, and that they frequanted the park as prostitutes. • Mr. Kuox said it was what occurred every season as soon as the fine weather set in. • Inspector Butler said he had cantinned the young women before, but they had never been elitqged till Low. Mr. Knox, after remarking that the prisoners could not be worse off anywhere than starving about the park, com mitted them fora month . each. - WESTMINSTER. SISTERLY LOVE._A PATTERN TO HER BETTERS. A woman about 23 years of age, moving in the humblest walk of life, entreated the magistrate to assist her in saving her sister from ruin. Applicant said that she bad two sisters whom she took charge of with a view of bringing them up honestly. One was 13 and the other 10 years old, and the first of these had given her much pain and uneasiness. She got her a place where she could have done very well, but she only stopped a few days, and had got hold of a bad girl, who had taken her to the playhouse, and was fast leading her towards ruin. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.-.This Day. (Before Mr. Justice Blackburn). CHARGE OF ARSON. with the atmospheric air, but it appeared that the night on which the fire occurred was one of the very coldest of the late inclement winter, and it seemed that the effect of this exeess of cold was to drive the vapourback into the house, and by this means the flooring and the walls had been covered with it, and thus presented the appear ance of black paint that was observed by the witness. It appeared that almost immediately after the alarm of fire had been given the prisoner and his wife made their ap pearance from the back of the premises fully dressed, and the bed which they were supposed to have occupied was found ready for use, but no one seemed to have been in it. The prisoner at the time he was first seen was carrying a tin box, but the only thing that box appeared to have contained was the policy of insurance that had been effected with the company,and upon one of the officers of the company observing it was a bad job, and inquiring if he could give any explanation as to the cause of the fire, he said he was quite unable to do so. The fire seemed to have been ex- tinguished without much trouble, and upon the premises being examined afterwards a coil of rope was found at the top of the house which might have been used to enable any one to escape from the roof by means of it if he had foun d it necessary. A watch was also found in the cellar burned to such an extent as could not have been occasioned by such a fire as the one that occurred on the prisoner's promises, and two surveyors who examined the house after the fire expressed their opinion that the value of the salvage was not more than about £lOO, and that there could not have been more than £2OO worth of property upon the premises at the time the fire took place. The prisoner seemed to have subsequently represented that the smell of tar to which some of the witnesses had called his attention was occasioned by a quantity of oilcloth having been consumed, but there did not appear to have been any cinders or other refuse such as must have been discovered if an article of this descrip tion to any extent had been burned. There were a va riety of other minute facts brought forward in support of the prosecution, and among them was proof that shortly before the fire a board had been placed over the glass fanlight of the front door, which would have had. the effect of preventing any appearance of flame or fire being observed from the outside of the house. A number of witnesses were examined yesterday, but the case was adjourned until to-day. The evidence adduced this morning went to show that previous to the fire the prisoner purchased a quantity of jewellery, to the amount of £1.50, as an addition to his stock. Mr. baton, professor of chemistry at Charing-cross Hospital, Mr. Moore, and Mr. Crook, were examined to show that the deposit found on the walls, flioring, and other portions of the house, agreed with the appear ances that would 1.1) produced by the burning of a large quantity of oil cloth. Dr. (Mug was recalled. He said he had made ce fain experiments with oil cloth; and he could not nue iu the opinfOn - that the appearances were such as wont be produced by burning oil cloth. (The jury had not ruturnod a verdict whoa we went to press). THIRD COURT. It will be recollected that last session three persons (father, mother, and daughter) were found guilty of un lawfully inducing a lady to dispose of certain funded property. They were brought up this morning fcr judgment, when the Common Sergeant sentenced Emily Hastead to 1 year, and Susan Hastead, the mother, and John Hastead, the tether, the former to 6 mouths, and the latter 4 months' imprisonment. LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOVER, RAILWAY COMPANY. MEETING THIS DAY. A general meeting of the debenture holders of this company was held at the Lundon Tavern to day, for the purpose of adopting steps to prevent the further depreliation of the property of the com pany, already reduced 50 per cent. in value, and to consider the heads of the bills now before Par liament, and to provide the necessary expenses for carrying the most eligible of the bills. Mr. Scott was moved to the chair, but Mr. Hodgson said that as he represented the debenture holders and convened the meeting, :heinsisted that he was entitled to preside, and took the chair amidst some dissent. The CHAIRMAN, after some preliminary observa tions, said that the conduct pursued towards the debenture holders by the directors of the company was quite unjustifiable. The ques ti on ra i se d by the circumstances of. the company were applicable in principle, if not in degree, to all the other railways m the kingdom, for in the cases of these undertakings loans and debentures were re sorted to, after the committee had been ap pointed to protect the interests of the debenture holders. In October last a meeting was held, at which steps were taken to prevent the directors being relieved from their liability. He was sorry to say that on that occasion two gentlemen held up their hands against the views adopted by the majority of the meeting. Ultimately Lord Harris, the chairman, consented to allow the committee of the debenture holders to inspect the accounts, but, what with erasures, interpolations, and other alterations of the original record, it became a mass of inextricable confusion, and utterly unintelligible It appeared that over £7,000,000 had been ex pended. Only £300,000 had been spent in land, and the remainder of the money amounted with that sum to only about £200,000 ; and what he would ask was what had become of the remaining £5,000,000 ? He • condemned the bill pro moted by the directors, which proposed the suspension of the claims of the deben ture holders for five years, which he contended was confiscation, and would enable the directors to complete expensive works that would not be pro ductive at present. The bill of the debenture holders would vest the management of the affairs of the company for five years in a board, the majority of which were to be composed of de' en ture holders. He concluded a lung speech by moving a resolution to the effect that the bill pre sented by the debenture holders was entitled to the approval of the meeting." Mr. VANSITrART seconded the motion, and, after some discussion, it was agreed to. The proceeedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman. THE CIVIL SERVICE APPOINTMENTS. Mr. Frank Nutley, having been one of the first ten in a compe tition of thirty candidates, to be a clerk in the Post Office Savings Bank. Mr. John Henry Oliver, to be temporary clerk in the Board of Trade. Mr. William Windham Cutler, having been first iu a competition of three candi dates, to be temporary clerk in the Adjutant-General's Office. Mr. George Stephen Tovey, to be temporary clerk in the Board of Trade. Mr. Cornelius Hannan, to be assistant of excise. Mr. Edward Ballinger, having been one of the first two in a competition of five candidates, to be assistant surveyor of taxes. Messrs. Bertram William Seton and Stamford Raffles Thompson, having been the first two iu a competition of six candidates, to be • I temporary clerks kat, Post CAM The trial of Stephen Samuel Wales, who surrendered to an indictment charging him with wilfully setting fire to certain premises in his occupation in the Prince of Wales road, with a view of defrauding the Western Fire In surance Office, was resumed this morning. This case was postponed from the last session, and although the evidence extended to very considerable length the facts lay in a small compass. The prisoner occupied a .house situated 27, Prince of Wales'-crescent, llaverstock-hill, and he carried on there the business of a dealer in unredeemed pledges, jewellery, and articles of that description. At the close of last year he applied to the Western Insurance Company to effect an insurance for the awn of £),30 against fire upon his stock and furniture, and the surveyor of the company having examined the premises an I the stock appeared to have considered the amount wa , reasonable, and iu Novem ber a policy WAS effected for the amount munitioned. The tire thet was the stiLject of inquiry took place soon after j 12 o'clock at night ova the 21st January, and it appeared that very some after the :Jana had been given by the police, three of the Western fire brigade men, If tyney, Coots, and iCerrard, went to the place with a small hand-pump, and upon looking through the shutter of the back window they saw the fire was blazing under the counter, but it did not appear to be at all of the character of a serious conflagration, and the firemen broke open the door with the intention of endeavouring to extinguish the fire by means of the hand pump. As they were approaching the spot, however, there was a somewhat violent burst of fl tine and smoke, and at the same time the firemen noticed a strong smell of tar. It was afterward observed that the walls and flooring all over the house were covered with some sub stance that exhibited the appearance of black paint, and this was relied upon by the prosecution as being an important fact •in connection with the charge against the prisoner. It appeared that Dr. Odling and one or two other scientific gentlemen were consulted in refer ence to the matter, and the opinion they arrived at was that the burst of flame spoken to by the firemen was the result Of an explosion of an ingredient called tar oil, which is a very inflammable substance, and which when ignited would give forth a large quantity of vapour. • This vapour would under ordinary circumstances have moved readily 190 100 100 1 , 0 100 too Closing I Business Price. done. 7$ 80 108 108 40 16 4 6 66 6S 70 72 1(3 o•i 27 :.9 5 6 110 112 fi9 11 40 it k 4. 27 2.5 31) 122 122. 59 67 15 17 8 1 2 112 113 72 71 45 In 1.6 1 7 10.3 1(5 ti 9 tlO "i 8 80 33 35 4 18 10 112 39 Gi 9. 9•i 32 "3 7 8p 115 il3 1 tj, C 8 7u 112 10 0 57 14 id G 2 63 ti 4 91 lto .55 2 3/ Paid. 23; i 1 Oi 10 1111 12 4 57 01 7 5. 121 it y no i 9 10; 100 i 11 IMPERIAL PARLIAELENT HOUSE OF COMMONS—LAST EVENING. The SPEAKER took the chair at twelve &clock. HYPOTHEC ABOLITION (SCOTLAND) BILL. Mr. CARNEGIE moved the second reading of this bill, the object of which was to abolish the law of hypothec in Scotland. By the law as it at present existed the landlord had the most extensive powers. It enabled the landlord, immediately a tenant entered into the possession of a farm, to sequester the whole of his farming stock as a security for payment of the rent when due, and also even the power of fallowing the crops grown on the lauds, and seizing it to make by any defi ciency that might arise, thus infl . ctiug the hardship of calling upon the p., , rson who has once purchased it to pay for it again, to release it from the claim of the lart llord. fie concealed the time had now arrived when such a law should ha abolished, and therefore he hoped the house woe giva its as. , eut to the bill he had brought forward. Mr. H. 13AILLIE opposed the motion; he did not say that the law of hypothec did not require alteration, and at this moment there was a bill on tho labia of the house with thit obj-ct, and which was fou tiled on the report of the 'loyal Commissioa. lie therefore moved that th.:, bill 'O3 rcall a second time that day six months. BAX nu was of epinionthai: the sooner the sys tem of ltypothec, which was the remains of an old feudal law, was abolished the better. After a long discussion the house divided, when there appeared — For the second reading Against it Majority against --129 CHURCh RAPE ABOLITION BILL. The - ho.,,se went into committee on this bill. On clause 1 being read, Sir M. BEACH moved that the chairman report pro gress. The house divided, when their appeared— For the motion 212 Against it lO2 MajOrity The house then resumed. 140 CHURCH RATES REGULATION BILL. The motion for the second readiu;s of this bill was post poned. MUNICIPAL CORPORATION CHARITIES BILL. Mr. R. YOUNG moved that the second reading of this bill be postponed until the 19th of June. Lord GALIVEY moved as an amendment that the order for the second reading be discharged. After a short discussion the motion for postponement was agreed to. HYPOTHEC AMENDMENT BILL. On the motion for the second reading of this bill, Mr. CA.RNEGIE said after the discussion that had taken place on the former bill it was not his intention to offer any opposition to the second reading of the bill. The bill was then read a second time. SEA COAST FISHERIES (IRELAND) BILL. On the motion for going into committee on this bill, Mr. BLAKE moved that the bill be referred to a select committee. Major GA VIN opposed the motion, as the bill contained provisions of the most objectionable character, and un settled all the existinc , law on the subject. Mr. BLAKE said the bill did not relate to salmon fisheries, and ho was willing to insert any clause that might be suggested to secure existing rights. Lord NAAS asked that the further consideration of the bill be postponed for a week, at the expiration of which he would state the views of the Government as to whether the bill ought to be referred to a select committee. The suggestion of the noble lord was agreed to. EXECUTION OF DEEDS BILL. This bill passed through committee, and was reported with amendments. MIXED MARRIAGES (IRELAND) BILL. This bill was read a second time, and the committee fixed for the 28th of May. TESTS ABOLITION (OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE' NOTES FROM TRAINING QUARTERS. THIS DAY. STOCKBRIDGE. Vauban galloped nearly two miles this morning; d Lady Elizabeth over a mile. Seville was e,EL itering. BILL, This bill was considered as amended, and it was ar ranged that a full discussion should be taken on the mo tion for the third reading, which was fixed for this day fortnight. The other orders of the day having been disposed of the house adjourned. OVERLAND M &ILS• (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) GIBRALTAR, May 7. The Ceylon leaves at 7 p.m. for Southampton where she may be expected on the 12th inst. MALTA, May 8. _ _ The Delta, from Southampton, April 27th, arrived on the 6th at 9 a.m., and left at 6 p.m. for Alexandria. The Massilia, from Marseilles on the sth inst. arrived at 11 p.m. yesterday, and left at 5 a.m. to day for Alexandria. ►HIPPING INTELLIGENCE. - GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning. Arrived, May 9—Glenbrook, from Jamaica ; Ganger Rolat, from Terra Nova; Cattafield, from Table Bay; Hilkeline Gerherdine, and Hendrik and L bbo, from Nor den ; Priscilla, from Gothenburg ; Baron Osy, steamer, from Antwerp. • Sailed—Seine, steamer, for Boulogne. DEAL, Thursday Morning. -- Passed, May 9.—Quartus, for Cardiff ; Neptune, for New York—both from London ; Marion, from Sunderland, for Rio Grande. Passed in tow.—Talbot, from Littleton, for Loudon. THE FLOWERS IN lITDE-PARK.—One of the most brilliant displays of tulips that has been made in any of the public parks in _London is now to be seen in Hyde park. About 20,000 bulbs of every variety were supplied iu the early part of the year by Messrs. Gibbs, of Down street, Piccadilly, with a view of producing a scene of un rivalled beauty, and the result in bedding out such an enormous number of tulips has been the production of a mass of florid bloom perfectly enchanting. The spot selected in the park for this great display is from Stanhope gate to the Marble-arch; and persons visiting will not fail to admire the exquisite manner in which the colours have been blended. The same experiment, although on a smaller scale, has been tried by Mr. Broome at the Temple-gardens with the greatest success ; and celebrated as that locality is for its splendid show of chrysanthemums iu the autumn, it will now for the future become noted for its brilliant ad ditional spring exhibition of hyacinths and tulips. A RECOLLECTION OF MENDELSSOHN.—With all his strength, and health, and remarkable vigour, so cheerful, so fortunate in all his relations, and so ready to acknowledge his good fortune, Mendelssohn was often a prey to the fear of death. At the time of the per formance of " St. Paul" at Weiml, we were sitting toge ther after one of the rehearsals, in his room at the " Erb Prinz," and in answer to a remark of mine (I myself being a martyr to hypochondria), that I should not live to enjoy many of his later works, he said : "0, my dear fellow you'll long outlive ma." I was going to make a joke of the idea, when ho said, with the strongest emphasis:— "I shall not be old." But then, as if regretting the words, his countenance lighted up with a peculiarly happy ex pressicEl, an d began amain about the recent rehearsal, and praised particularly the readiness and cordiality with which he was met by all concerned. Ilow was it pos sible for me to toll that the man who was then sitting before me, comparatively young and in all the fulness of life, would in a very few years, fulfil his own prediction. I had bean in Leipzig in 184 G, and found him fresh and cheerful, and untiringly busy in every direction. At this time I had the pleasure of many intellectual and instructive conversations with him, one of which I have described at length in my "Fliegende Blatter fur Musik." Only a twelvemonth later, on the 7th of November, 1847, in his thirty-eighth year—six-and-twenty years after my first encounter with the bright and beautiful boy at Goethe's, thegreat musician was borne to his last home in the Pauliner Kircbe at Berlin.- Once a Week. • STEALING A RAT.—A street showman had trained a number of white rats which might be seen on the outer boulevards of Paris going through their performance of the taking of Sebastopol, the Russians and French being dis tinguished respectively by green and red collars. The most intelligent actor of the four-footed company was a large old rat named Barbaro, and a few days back he had just termi nated the combat before a numerous audience at Gros Caillou, by planting the tricoloured flag on the Malakoff tower, when, in the moment of victory, he was suddenly seized by a woman who bad witnessed the exhibition with great admiration, and who thrust him into her pocket and started off with her prize along the Rue St. Dominique. The proprietor, who had been going round with his hat, soon missed his premier sujet, and very naturally made inquiries from the parsons around. Having obtained some indications as to what had occurred, he rushed off after the WORMI), and having soon overtaken her demanded his property. She denied all knowledge of the matter, and it was only on a police agent coming up that she at last and very unwillingly gave the rat back to its owner. She was taken into custody. THE TAILORS' STRIKE.—The men have again notified to the masters' committee that they are still pre pared to close the strike if the committee will agree to refer the dispute to arbitration ; but are equally prepared to con tinue the struggle until their offer of arbitration is accepted or the time-log sent in conceded. Last evening a deputa tion from the central committee of the Tailors' Association waited upon the officers of the London Working Meu's Association, to request that body to call an aggregate moot ing of the London trades, that the case of the tailors might be fully and fairly laid before them. The request was at once complied with, and a special meeting of the com mittee of the Working Men's Association has been called to carry out the arrangement. As at present arranged, the meeting will take place in one of the large London halls next Wednesday evening. COAL ExPours.—Return of the quantity of coal exported from the port . of Grimsby, April, 1867 :—To Canada, 418 tons; Denmark, 2,916 tons; France, 4,786 tons; Hanseatic Towns, 1,358 tons: Holland, 495 tons; Moldavia and Wallachia, 297 tons; Norway, 821 tons; Prussia, 1,903 tons; Russia, 1,393 tons; Spain, 1,158 tons; Sweden, 106 tons-- total foreign, 13,702 tons ; coastwise, 1866—Foreign, /6,542 lona ; coastwise, 3,166 tijui 3,364 tons—grand total , 19,066 tons. Corres ponding - period, 19 1 70$ tons; decrease? 1 5 6 ; 642 tone. LAMBOURNE. Marksman and the Sunflower filly galloped a a )nile and threw quarters this morning, the colt 'paiLing over the filly all the way, and being in the, best ot humours. 11I0i1MOND. Tb ground hero is gettin!4 so hard that Lortmge, Bob Chatubcb.rs, Newlin:l, and' Plaudit have gone to to ht: trained. O.ir reporter has fol lowed th.;iu, an I will tologrAph front Thirek tc morro NE WMARKE T The training pounds here are getting somewhat hard. Indeed we want rain badly. Our Derby and Oak cracks though continue well. Miss Harriette took the Rake ❑early two miles this morn ing, and witlt them, as during the last two or three days, were Artesian and Sceur de Charite, but the favourite did not move with that freedom we have hitherto observed in him. 'We hear that he is to be run untried. Montgoubert led Dragon a mile and three-quarters clipping ; and Julius gal loped a mile and a-half, but the latter appears some what jady now. Hippia did a good mile and three quarters' gallop. (The following appeared in our li,te edition of yesterdAy) NEWMARKET. Target led The Hermit and Vespasian a mile, and three quarters at a good pace.; and Musician took The Rake about the same distance, Artesian and &ear de Charitd following them. Dragon did Over a mile and a half, and so did Julies. Sir Oliver cantered a mile twice, and then went a steady gallop of about a mile and a quarter. Leases galloped nearly two miles. The Rake goes very shaky just now, the hard ground affecting him. RICHMOND. Plaudit merely trotted and cantered this morn. ing, but Lozenge took Violet and Newland a mile and a half gallop. After pulling up at exercise yes.. terday Plaudit went straight home, but on the walr hit his leg ; still nothing serious will accrue from it. El Cid gave Bumblekite and lmperator a nice mile and half gallop. The ground is getting hard. MALTON. Grand Gross and Soulouque had a splendid mile and three-quarters gallop this day, and we have great faith that the former will get a place for the Derby. Westwick took Taraban nearly two miles. Wild Wind went a mile and a half alone. Skylark galloped a mile and three-quarters fast. South minster led the two-year-olds. STOCKBRIDGE. Ischia led Vauban two canters df about a mite each, and then a gallop of a mile and three-quar ters. Miss Havelock will give the Derby horse his final preparation. John Davis is in first-class work, and goes exceedingly free. He ought to be kept for Bath. Lord Ronald, Harpenden, Lady Elizabeth, and several others are under orders for Salisbury. Seville will go to Bath, though, for the present, she has been stopped, which is sin gular. LAMBOURNE. Marksman and the Sunflower filly bound along in first-class style, and the former does not show any temper here. To-day they had a couple of canters of a mile each, and subsequently took a gallop of a mile and three-quarters, which they did at fair speed. MIDDLEIIAM. Fervacques has got into good work again, he and Lexovieune went a couple of miles each this indruing. The Corporal, the Priest, and Mandrake did a mile and three-quarters gallop. Minster Bell went nearly two - mileei but steadily. - - ILSLEY. Lord Lyon took Achievement two nice canters of a mile each this morning, and then a mile and a half steady gallop. FYFIELD. Adam Bede was trotting only to-day ; but the Splitvote colt tin the Derby) did over a mile and a half, pretty fast. FINDON. Dwain Glyndwr is improving daily. This morn ing he galloped two miles beautifully, and will be more formidable in the Derby than he was over the Rowley mile in the First Spring week. NOTICE.—CHANCE OF ADDRESS.—JOHN STIR; late of Beaufort Buildings, Strand, returns his best thanks for the patronage he has received during the past year, and begs to inform his friends that he has removed to 25, IVel liugton-street, Strand, London, where commissions will be executed to any amount. Price Lists as usual. • T. and G. LEE, of the Wheatsheaf, Worship-street, Shoreditch; at Three King-court, LombArd-street ; and at One S wan-yard, Bishop3gate-street. W. llorxrxs undJoux AMBROSE (member of Tattersall's, Victoria, and other Clubs) Execute Commissions on all mem throughout the year. Address-33, OX.ENDEN STREET, HAYMARKET. Mr. GEORGE WEBB has lists posted on all forthcoming events daily from tea till two at the City Arches; also iu George -yard, and 'through his agent, Mr. Frank Butler, near Meua's Brewery. TUE HAVELOCK Turf Agency's Representative can be seen daily in Talbot-court, Gracechurch-street, from Eleven till Three. you want a good foreign cigar: call at the Havelock. ')igar Stores, 10, Walworth road, three doors from the Elephant and Castle. JOE NASH has a List at the Post in George-yard, Snow hill, and at the Back of the Arches, Farringdon-street. Joe Nash will be in the Ring at the Principal Meetings. J. N. has no representative out of London. but himsalf. Private address, No. 1, King Edward-street, Westminster-, road, London. TURF AGENCY OFFICE, 100, Jermyn-street, St. James's, London. - Mr. SYDNEY SMELL (.1101111)01* of Tattersall's) 7111 execute COAINIISSIONS (by letter only) on all the prin cipal races throughout the year, from £1 to any amount. Post-office orders m a d e p a y a bl e t o St. James's-street arid Piccadilly Westminster Batik. 5 per cent. charged upon all winnings. offices. Cheques to be crossed Lo ndon and Telegraphic messages cannot be attended to. Further particulars and prices, see The Sportsman, published every conneetiou Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. N.B.—No with the City of London Turf Agen c y , 5! b3th""leeti Newgate-street. RACING FIXTURES FOR 1867. Bath Harpenden Epsom JUNE. Ascot Summer 4 1 Beverley Wi n d so r Summer ...... 11 1 Stockbridge Manchester Summer ... 12 1 Chelmsford hummer Hampton .................. 13 N 2 WeaSti e ()damn ..................... 17 1 Ipsvrica Bilmry Club ............... 1S ! Worcestr Summer JULY - - Carlisle ' Newm ar k e t July 2 P ou tefraut 8 Readiug ............ 9 Liverpool J uly Meeting liungerford 16 AUGI Ripon Brighton • 6 Brighton Cluk , 8 Lzwes Down Royal (Anporatn Stamford R.t.deliff a Huntingdon Wintthester Southampton Jod wood ST. Dover .................. West Drayt ou ... .......... ............ k.3auterbury 13 Dm - by Egham Wolverhampton l3 Lichfield Stockton Ox fop! .. 15 Weymouth ~ pasting; York August SEPTEMBER. • 0 Richmond 3 I liondon 5 I Monmouth 'Nlanehestor Autumn.... Newmarket Ist October Hargate ............ Warwick Spring... Abingdon ............ Leicester .................. Doncaster ............... 10 Brecon ..................... 16 I O. NorthamptOu Aututnu. CTOßEß 1 INewmarket 2,1 October. Edinburgh ............... 2 1 Chalteuhaul Radford...... I Newmarket Houghton iOurpool 3ITEMBER. • .utt.tuan 5 Leamington Suet)areymbury 41102114 , „ I , 11 2 7 17 19 19 24 I MI. 2.1.0 294 2.11. t 34 3. 11.2.6 8.4 5 BSI 9 105 41