The Sun. — London, England, 1870-02-11 00:00:00

)01601 1 louse ;Won. could I fact, ns he given ed as udged (3, and le and ember to the Tit for resent E Jere esaid." at the 30. In e hon. might 'Der for House , . 'course had a wrable tended s op [dad in tration ,in at tion, to %d the to the tt ho rvative of the orefore >lightly ho pre- Tort to ,ho cir- on the agreed sed in a import- fount penal f Com- h a cir- to do nteuded ,or had act be clearly election ised by ualifica- -as nono He was then it I clearly igiLle to con vic- ttaintod, autho f Smith out his of tho a House treason 3 throw- were to in con- 7 would. >olicitor ttainder, attached 2ployed. Lion that made Cy the law, ?ropriety r. S. Hill, 1. 10. France he cor- 10,000 - .4,776 02 5,750 14 0,000 - '3,450 - 8,224 97 5,018 76 12,864 04 ;8,490 - ;1,008 - 38,004 40 )5,522 15 .1,068 27 ;4,216 75 .3b. 10. Id 003 57 L 1,428 23 10,217 08 51,279 - 78,000 - 23,800 - 51,600 - 53,350 - - 51,050 - 36,500 - 47,600 - 100,000 - 180,750 14 95,187 21 00,000 - 179,852 - 64,911 25 , 32,461 97 :83,490 47 [LAND. een pub s i❑ taxes, JOO in the 00 in that •evenue of raised to NIONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. Consols are now at 921 to 921 for money ; ditto, for Account, 921 ; Three per Cent. Re duced, 921 3; New Tkree per Cents, 921 3 ; Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, March, par to 5 ; June, • prem; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, March, ▪ ; June, prem. ; Bank of England Stock, 44 per Cent., 240 2. India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, ; ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 114 j ; ditto 4 per Cent., Oct., 1888, 1001 1 ; ditto Enfaced Paper, b per Cent., 1872, ; ditto Bonds £l,OOO, 22 prem. In Foreign Securities the dealings are restricted. Argentine is 1 higher, at 86 to 861 ; Mexican 1, at 14 to 141 ; and Turkish (1865) also 1, at 431- to 431. Egyptian is quoted at 77 to 771 ; 541 to 541; Peruvian, 79 to 791. Russian stocks continue well supported ; Oriel is marked 85 to 86, and Charkof at 841 to 851 ; and Spanish, 27f to 271. In English Railways Great Northern (A) is not quite so firm, prices being 181 to 19. London and Brighton is 1- lower, at 431- to 44 ex div. ; while London and North Western is 1 higher, at 125 k to 1251. The following are the quotations :—Cale donian, 771 to 781; Great Eastern, 381 to 381 ; Great Northern, 117 to 118 ; Great Wes tern, 64 to 641 ; Lanca-shire and Yorkshire, 1281 to 1281 ; London, Chatham, and Dover, 14k to 151 ; London and South Western, 93 to 94 ; Metropolitan, 781 to 79 ; Midland, 1231 to 124 i ; North Eastern (Berwick), 127/ to 1281; and South Eastern, 771 to 78. United States Five Twenty Bonds are unaltered, 871 to 871 ; Erie Shares, 20 to 201 ; and Illinois, 113 to 114. In Telegraph Shares the only feature is a fall of in Construction and Maintenance, the price being 44 to 441 ; Anglo-American, 181 to 181 ; French Cable, 171 to 171 ; British Indian Submarine, 141 to 151. ; China Submarine, to prem. ; and Fal mouth, 3 to 31 prem. There were no gold operations at the Bank yes terday. The Bank of France return this week shows an increase of £64,000 in the stock of bullion. A telegram from Bombay announces the stoppage of Goculdas Liladhur and Co., cotton merchants, and states that the creditors have agreed to accept a private composition of four annas per rupee in cash. The failure is understood to be for a consi derable amount, and to have been caused by losses on cotton and on guaranteeing shipments of cot ton to England. The following relates to the Erie affair " Erie Shareholders' Pro' ection Commit tee, 60, Threadneedle-street, 8.C., Feb. 10. Sir, —My committee have this morning received a fur ther telegram from Messrs. L. von Hoffman and Co., of New York, as follows Transfer books officially cloyed, without reason.'—l remain, &c., W. A. MICHAEL, Secretary." It is understood that none of the notes stolen from Messrs. Barnett and Co. have been presented for payment. This is not surprising, in view of the extraordinary precautions taken, not only in the British Isles, but, through the assistance of the Foreign Office, over the whole of the Continent, as well as in America and every other commercial country. According to the Levant Herald, the arrange meats relative to the Roumelian Railway having been completed, its shares will in a few days be offered to the public of Constantinople by the agency Of the Imperial Ottoman Bank and Credit General Ottoman. It is also stated that the Government have, within the past few days, contracted a fresh loan with some Galata bankers for £500,000, at 10 per cent. per annum, against Treasury Bonds at SIX months' date, in order to meet the payments necessary to be made on taking over the ironclads ceded by the Viceroy. With regard to these ves sels it is added :—" The affair of the Egyptian ironclads has been so far settled that £420,000 his been remitted to Loudon through the Ottoman Bank in payment of the balance due to the builders. The Viceroy also claims immediate payment of the amount he has already advanced for the ships, or, in case of delay, has intimated that he will charge the Porte interest at the rate of 9 per cent. per annum." The arbitration case as to the wages to be paid to the ironworkers in the north of England from the Ist of January is to commence to-day at Dar lington, Mr. T. Hughes, M.P., being the arbitra tor. According to the Iron and Coal Trades Re view :--" It is to he hoped that whatever arrange ment is made now may be considered binding for the remainder of the year, as the fixing of wages for a definite period operates most favourably in obtain ing orders, and if such a bargain is not concluded the whole question may be re-opened in a compara tively short time." From the similarity of name it may be well to mention that the firms of Messrs. Speyer, Brothers, of London ; Philip Speyer and Co., of New York ; and L. Speyer and Ellissen, of Frankfort, are neither connected in business with nor related in any way to the Mr. Albert Speyers who figured as a leadi ng operator in New York at the time of the collapse of the Erie gold speculation. The traffic return of the Lancashire and York shire Railway for the week shows an increase of £ 531 ; in that of the Caledonian an increase of £ 1 )002 is shown. In the case of the North- Eastern the increase is £7,611. The North British exhibits an increase of £854. The Great Northern stands at an increase of £2,082. The proposed dividend on North London Rail way stock for the half-year is at the rate of 6} per cent. per annum, against 6 for the corres ponding period of 1868. A. petition for the winding-up of the Oriental Hotels Company (Limited) is to be heard before the Master of the Rolls on the 19th inst. The half-yearly meeting of the London and Suburban Land Building Company (Limited) is to be held on the 17th inst. lUS3. b. 3. Austrian Bonds 5 per cent .. — Do. 1859 — Brazilian 5 per Cont — 10. 41 per Cent. 1852 — Do. do 1858.... Do. no 1360 — Do. do., 1863 — l-9. 5 per Cent., 1865 0:'. Account .. 13 1, 2 1,10 Ayres 6 per Cent. Do 2 E ,, r Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) rklba, 6 pe., Gent. ( ,tlian 6 pet C en t — °)o. 44 per Cnut ... 761 Do. 3 per Oen. , Do. 7 par Cent., 1866 Do. 6 per cent. 137 97k to übutu, 6 per Gen: Danisn, 3 per Cent., 1.62 .... Danubian Principalities, 7 par Cent Do Account Do 8 per Cont., 1867 ~c uador New Cougolidated, 1 par Cent E4yitian, 7 per Cent.... di: 90(.7 , 3i1(1 Issue .., ......... ... .. — Do. .£SOG Bonds — Do. 1864 — Do. Account Do. £5OO Bondo - Do. £lOO Bon Is Do. 7 per Cent., 1868 ..- — Do. Account Do. £lOO Bonds Government Railway Debe au res Greet 5 per Cent.,1824 5, et Coups., — Do. Coupons , . Guttemala 5 per Cent .. PloudurasGov Rail.Loon.,lop.,Ct.,a4 pd Do. Account Italian 5 per Cent., 1665 •.. Do. Account . .. Do Maremmana Railway xlexican 3 per Cent ••. Ditto for Account .. Do. 1864 Do 6 per Cont. Anglo-French — dontevidoan 6 per Cent. .. — Ilocrish imperial 5 per Cent New Granada 2o} } Do 3 per Con 0 Do. Deferred Do Land Warrants (Hectares) Peruvian 5 per Cent. 1865 Do Account . .. 79} f Do 4/ per Cent. (Ui•barren) - Do 41 per Cent., 1862 --. — Do 6 per Cent.,1862 — Portsguese 3 per Ct.,1853,'6, 7, 9,'60,'2,'8 Do. do. 1867 — Do. do. Scrip, £2O paid — Rassian 5 ~ar Cent., 1822, £ St Do 44 per Cent . 1850 Do 41 per Cent., 1860 Do 3 per Cent., 1859 Do 5 per Cent., 1862 Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1864, £lOO Bondz., 914 Do. do. £B4 15s. do — Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds 9l Do. do £B4 los do — Do Nicolas Railway 67-1 81 Sardinian 5 per Cent 69 Spanish 3 per Oen . — Do. Account .... — Do. 1867 Do. Account Do. New Deferred — Do. Passive — Do. Com. Cert. of Coup. not funded — Do. Account Swedish Provincial Mortgage Loan — Do Government, 1864 — Do do, 1868 Turkish 6 per Cent Do Account Do 6 per Cent. 1858 — Do Account Do £lOO Bonds 7si Do 6 per Cent., 186'2 Do. Account 6Bl 91 Do £lOO Bonds — Do. 5 per cent. 1865 . Do Account Do 6 per Cent., 186 a — G 7 Do. Account Da 1 por Cent., Guaranteed - Do do, Scrip — Venezuela 3 per Cent. — Do 6 per Cent. 1864 — Dividends on the above payable in Loudon Austrian 9 per Gent' E s x 10 Florins E. 25f B e lgian, 44 per cent., _ .. _ .. .._ Dutch 2} per Cent. Ex. 12 Gail Do. 4 per Cont. Certificates — French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. — Italian 5 per Cent. 1831, Ex. '4sf — Do Account 54 I TWO O'ILOOK. Consols, Money Do. Account, March 9 92i i id POLICE IN7ELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH -STREET. CAUTION TO CARNIEN.—R. B. Horsford, a green grocer, of King-street, East Hammersmith, and Philip George, a man in his employ, appeared be fored Mr. Knox to answer the complaint of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty of Animals—the former causing a horse to be worked in an unfit state, and the latter for working it. From the evidence of Coote, messenger to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and Mr. Cherry, the Government Vete rinary Surgeon, it appeared that the animal in ques tion was a miserable pony, with old wounds freshly injured, and that it was scarcely able to walk. As the pony had been destroyed Mr. Knox ordered florsford to pay 7s. 61 and costs, and discharged Gcorge. THAMES. In Mincing-lane a moderate business has been transacted in the primary kinds of colonial pro duce at previous rates. In jute transactions have been rather large, ',and rates very firm. Cotton has been less active, but steady in price. The directors of the South Devon Railway Com pany have agreed to recommend a dividend of 3j per cent. The dividend last year was 2i. The following is the official return of the cheques and bills cleared in the Bankers' Clearing-house for the week ending Wednesday, Feb. 9 : Thursday £12,433,000 Friday Eaturday. • Manday., 10,266,000 Tuesday 11,568,000 Wednesday 10,529,000 DRUNK FITXDII-.4W0 O'OLOSIL UOTBRNMENT YUNDS. 3 per Cent. Consols Ditto for Account 921 B per Cent. Reduced 92- 3 New 3 per Cent New 2} per Cent. Jan. 1894 Do. 5 per Con .0 5n.1873 Annuities, 30 yrs, e xpire sth Jan., 1880 . Do. for 30 yrs, expire s th Ap ril 1885 — Do (Red Sea Telowaph), Aug., 1908 — Fiche it= Bills, £l,OOO, 21 p. Ct. March Do. '2l do. June Do £lOO, £2OO & .C5OO Bank of Engl a nd Stock, 41 per Cent , 240 2 Da. opening — Canada 4 per Cont. Bonds — I nter-Colonial Otnumm INDIAN dDVERNMENT BECIIRITIES in.ol. Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 — De. Opening, for Account — DJ. D per Cent. July, 1880 Do 4 per Cent. Oct. 1888 Do. Enfaced Pape. 4 per 0.1. a..... — Do. 5 por Cent., Jan. 1872 • — Do. 5} per Cent. May 1879 — Do 5 pet Cent., Rup. Dab. 1872., — De do 18" . ..7.,.,,,, — Do. do. 1882 — i.`o. Dab., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 )o Bonds. 4 per Cent., £l,OOO ' o .'lmlor £l.OOO POARIGH 111104-TWO O'OLOCK. Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent . bo Account MURDEROUS ASSAULT ON A WOMAN.—Thomas L dor, alias Naylor, alias Lawler, a tall and power ful young man, was brought before Mr. Paget on remand, charged with assaulting and wounding a woman named Elizabeth Small. The parties quarrelled in a public-house in Poplar. The woman, a person of bad character, used bad language to wards the prisoner, and he struck her and knocked her down, kicked her on the abdomen, inflicting grievous injuries, from which she is not expected to recover. Mr. Matthew Brownfield, surgeon, of the East India Dock-road, said the injured woman was suf fering under acute inflammation of the bowels, caused by the kicks of the prisoner, and was in con• siderable danger. There were no external marks of violence. The symptoms he described might exist . _ without any external marks. The Magistrate asked where the woman lived, and if she could give her evidence without danger ? Mr. Brownfield—At No. 13, Grove-street, Pop lar. It would add to the mischief if you was to attempt to take her depositions, and I advise that she shall be left undisturbed at present. I will let you knob, sir, when ;her deposition can be safely taken. Mr. Paget said he would act entirely on the directions of Mr. Brownfield, on whose discretion he could rely. He wished Mr. Brownfield to con tinue his attendance on the unfortunate woman, and remanded the prisoner for a week. EMBEZZLEMENT BY A SERVANT. —George Atkins, aged 23 years, was brought before ,Mr. Paget, charged with feloniously embezzling the sum of £4los. 2d. he had received for and on account of Mr. John Hickling, corn chandler and flour mer chant, of Osborn-street, Whitechapel, and Com mercial-road, St. George-in-the-East. George Foster, a police-constable, No. 207 H, said he had just taken the prisoner at the gate of the House of Correction, Coldbath-fields, where he had been imprisoned four months for embezzling monies belonging to his master, and he asked for a remand to summon a witness who paid him money. Since the prisoner had been in custody he said that he had received money of Mr. Briant, jun., son of a carman, and had spent it in Woolwich. Mr. Hickling said the prisoner ought to have ac counted to him, or his foreman, for a l l mone y he 474,177,000 received. Remanded for a week. WESTMINSTER. SCENE IN A WORKHOUSE.— William Coniston, an out-door pauper, working in the labour yard at St. Margaret's, Westminster, was charged with vio lent' assaulting William 11. Jones, another labourer, by striking him on the head with a quart can. Prosecutor said he was in the labour yard, and accidentally touched the prisoner on the arm, when he turned round, picked up a beer can, and dealt him a fearful blow on the head, causing it to bleed profusely. Defendant said that prosecutor was always knock ing the men about, and hit him on the face with his fist, whereon he swung the can round and dealt the prosecutor a blow. Mr. Thomas Waterman, labour master at the workhouse, said that the prisoner was an inoffen sive, well-conducted man, and the prosecutor the reverse; he had been often convicted. A witness corroborated defendant's story. Nr. Arnold said it was clearly not a case for punishment ; Jones seemed to have aggravated the iprisoner and struck the first blow. He discharged the prisoner. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 11, 1870. SHARE LISI. ::;,DINAILYAdI.'S AND STOCSB. Closing Fail. rrioe. ItillWaye. Business dine. at Blistil and Exeter...... 100 78 80 at Caledonian. ..... ......... 100 754 77 S Ca:aerials 2) Cornwall. all 21 3i Dublin ,ic Belfast June lco et Dtin„Perth,S; Ab.Juue.„ OOO 70 72 2 ) East London all 4 6 ,0 1)0 i 5 21 Do 10 st Glasgow st S. Western lO3 107 - 11.0 st Great Eastern .. st Do. E. Angi. No 2.. ICI . ; G- 74 st tircut North of ~...:cotlitu, l lOO 15 10 et Great Northern lOO 1114 1124 116 at Do. A stock...—. lOO la 112 et Do. il stock lOO 127 120 at GIS, and W. of Ireland lOO 48 100 at (it. Western —Original lOO 6:31 634 64 st Do. South WaleS IUO 6i 60 a; Do. W. Mid.—Oxford... 100 46 42 st Do. Newport lOO 3i :;6 et Laucashire a. ieritsnira lOO 128 1285 at Lon., lirigh.,3t S.Coast lOO 44 444 Do Scrip at 1.0 u., Chat., and Dover.. 10u 15 154 st Do. Metrop. Ex. A.... 1 60 11 14 st Lou. 3; Notch Western.. IOC) 1234 t 244 . st Lou. a South Western.. 100 V 3 84 Man., Shei., 3; Lincoln.. 1 100 - 114 52 dt Metropolitan .. •• • OO 784 784 Tat at Do Extension .. 6 Do. New rd. .• • all st Metropolitan District. ail 135 06 10 Metrop. at. John's NV s.od at Me isud st 1.: 9, dirtnin. 3s Derby st North British st Vo. Ed., I'th., at Dun lO6 at Nor Eastern—Bervvica lOO 127 128 25 D.,, G. N.IL purobase 16.13,1 at D Leeds ... ... •... 100 79 80 st D oYerk .........••••• 100 121 1214 1264 at D oCarlble .... • lOO st D oStock. & Darling HO 167 169 st North Loudon .. lOO 122 124 10 Do New 1868 at North Staffordshire .... , . at North ant' S. W. Junction 100 00 191 10 Do Now £lO shares 7 ... .. st R i mney fr at Shropshire Union lOO 694 604 at South Devon'.. at South Eastern lOO 764 76i st Staines, Wok'ham, 3.; Wok all 13 14 st Tart Vale lOO 154 158 -, Do. C Waterford & liDkenny lOO --- l 0 Waterloo & Whitehaa 6 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Closing Btisinetts Share NAME. Paid. Price done 10 Agra Limited, A all 111 in 111 12 10 DO 13 lO 41 5 50 Albion lb 10 8 00 Alliance. Limited 20 Anglo Austrian 20 Anglo-Egyptian, lint all 211 25 21; 20 Anglo-Hungarian 20 Anglo-Italian 1866, limited le 3 , 2 40 Australasian 20 Bank of British Columbia all 15 16 20 Do issued at 2 pn._ , 5 31 21 25 Bank of Egypt 20 Bank of Otago, lim. 25 Bank of South Australia all 3'21 331 50 Bank of Vietcria, Austial la 25 37 30 .10 Bank of New Zealand all 15 16 50 British North American 20 Chartered of India, Austra lia, and China all 181 19 25 Chartered Mere. of India, London, and China all 52 31 20 City lO 11 111 100 Colonial '2s 41 43 10 Consolidated, lim. 50 Delhi and Loudon, lint 50 East London, liin 20 English and American, lint 10 .• ••• 20 English Bank of 'Rio de Ja neiro. lim lO 1 ~11P 24 English, Scottish, and Aus. tralian Chartered ...... ,: all 171 181 281 Hon , Kong and Shanghai Bank Corporation all 37 9 281 Do new lll 41 51 100 Imperial, lira 2O 3 2 20 Imperial Ottoman lO 21 3 121 25 lonian all 2J 22 25 Do new 5 6 5 Lnd Mortgage of India, lint 4 31 3 1 100 Do ip. c. Debs.lB64, 30 all 76 76 80 100 London Bank of Mexico and South America, lim. 23 5 4 100 London and Brazilian, lim. 45 JA 7'.1 20 Do new 71 5 41 100 London &River Plate, lint. 40 11 13 25 Do new 10 11 2 p 20 London Chart. of Australia all 231 241 231 20 London and County 2O 491 501 501 50 Do new. iss at 20 p.m, 16 pd ll London Joint Stock London and South African al 100 Loudon &S.-Western, lint, '2O 13 11 50 London & Venezuela, Bin_ 121 ••• ••• 100 London and Westminster. 20 6J 61 100 Do Scrip, iss at 10 pm 2O 100 Merchant, lint 25 61 5 i 10 Metropolitan, lim all 71 71 00 Midland, 1im..... 2O 'ld 1 b National of Australia 25 National of Liverpool, lira l5 3d •1p 00 National Provinc. of Eng'd 42 ... ••• 10 Do , 30 National.. 3O 20 New South Wales all 41 13 20 North-Western 26 Oriental Bank Corporation all 48 41 50 Provinc. Bank. Corpo., Km. 10 61 51 30 Provincial of Ireland 25 85 87 10 Do new. all ... ... 100 Stand. of Brit. S. Africa, lint 25 14 1.1 100 Do issued at 6 pm. 10 8 6 25 Union of Australia all 46 43 46 100 Union of Ireland, lint 50 Union of Loudon ... 31i 32 15 351 361 TELEGRAPII COMPANIES. 10 AngiC)-American all 114 191 10 Anglo Medan* Tel., Ulu.— 10 201 21 211 at Atlantic Telegraph lO 14 10 et Do. S per cent. at B. and I. Magnetic Tel., lint lOO 182 40 at Electric & Inter. Telegraph 100 262 267 10 Do. New 8 12 13p 25 Indo-European Tel., Um— all 23 25 5 Lond. Provincial Tel. lint all :I 4 1 Do. Prefer. 10 per cent all 10 Mediterra. Exten. Tel., lint. all 25 Beuter's Telegram all 20 Societe Trausatlant., Um— all 17 181 17 at Submarine Telegraph 1 Do. Scrip all i If SU. Kingdom Tel. Co., lint all 7 g 5 Do. 10 per cent. Prof all 41 oi 9 10 MISCELLANEOUS. 10 Anglo-Mexican Mint 25 Australian Agricultural 204 16 17 Austn Mort Laud and Fin, L 5 5d pr 10 Baugparah Tea Estate, Lim all 4 5 10 Berlin Water Works, Lim 5 Bombay Gas, Limited all 5 54 5 Ditto, New 4 pr 4 pin 50 British American Land 20 British Indian Tea, Limited all 1 2 27 Canada Company all 63 65 20 Ceylon Company, Limited... 10 4 3d 20 Ditto, A shares 25 City of Loudon Real Prop, LlO 6 5d 30 City of Milan improvinent L all 4 5 50 City Offices, Limited 50 Colonial, Limited 2O 2d pr 50 Commercial Union (Asso) 10 Corn of African March, L 20 Continental Union Gas, L 25 Copper Miners of England, Pref 71 per cent all 5 7 100 Corp of London Bonds, 1877, 44 per cent all 100 Ditto, 1879, 4f p3r cent 100 Ditto, 1882, 41 per cent 10 Credit Folic of England, L all 24 24 3 50 Credit Fouc of Mauritius, L.. 10 24 14 St Crystal Palace St Do, Preference lOO 94 99 St Do, 6 per cent Perp Debentloo 105 110 50 E India Laud Credit & Fin L 7 5 4 32 Ebbw Vale 271 10 95 100 Egypt 9 p et Viceroy's Loan gua by Egyptian Gov 20 Egyptian Com and Trading L 4113 3 English and Austr Copper, L 21 1 4 15 Eng and Foreign Credit 7 54 41 10 Ear)pean Gas all 17 18 10 Do, new.— 5 4 41 6 Eairbairn Engineering 5 i 5 p 20 Fore-street Warehouse, L 13 34 44p 100 Foreign and Col Gov Trust and Leau 6 per et Bonds... all 93 97 974 10 Gen Credit and Discount, I, 74 4 45 15 General Steam Navigation... 14 20 30 50 Home and Col Marine Ins, L 5 1(1 p 20 Hudson's Bay (Governor and Co. of Adventurers of Eng trading into) .01 12 12} 50 Imperial Continental Gas.... 434 134 136 50 India Rub, Works, L... 45 57 59 654 10 International Fivan Soc, L... 5 14 lid 31 20 Italian Irrigatou Canal, Cav all 4 44 LOO Ditto, 6 per cut Bonds, red all 18;0 50 Land Securities, Limited 5 2 ld 25 London African Trading lO 50 Lond Financial Assoc, Lim 3O 18 17d 4 Lend Gen Omnibus, Limd all 24 2f 50 Lond & Glasg Engin, Limd 25 18 16 d 20 London and Prey Marine 2 par 5p 21 St Madras Irrig & Canal, guar 10 0 spc by India Gov lOO 103 105 50 Merchant Shipping, Limtd all 32 37 10 Natal Land and Col Co., Lim all • 34 41 25 National Discount Co, Lim 5 111 114 111 10 National Steamship Limd -. all 131 14. / - 1 Nerbudda Coal & In, Ld 10 New Consolidated Dis Ld 4 5 New Quebrada, Limited 4/1 224 4i 44e1 25 N Zealand Ln & Mere, &c 11) 25 N Zealand Trust & In, Ld 5 14 1 1P 10 North Assam Tea, Limited... all 7 5,1 10 Do, B all d St N British Austral, Limited 100 60 701 50 N British & Mercan lusnce 6l '23 235 25 Ocean Marine insurance 5 1 5 16 P 5 Oriental Gas, Limited 5 Do, New 10 Otago Sr South Invest, Ld 2 ,•, cc ii 4 P 5 Ottoman Gas, Limited 2 - zit St. Peel Riv Lnd & Min, Lim —lO O 31 3 3 50 Peninslr & Oriental Steam all 45 47 46 50 Do., New, 1867 lO 31• 2 id a ll 27 50 Rhymney Iron 15 Do, New all 8 . 81 " 25 20 R R i i o o J j a a n n e e i ir ro o G C a itz L i ra e L d r t . d all 11 100 Royal Mail Steam 1 2 94 2 3 :1 0 20 1 4 St. Scot Aus Invest, Limited lOO 20 Societe General de l'Enapire 8 24 34 Ottoman 25 South Australian Land ...... all ... 20 Tel Construe & Maintenance Um and reduced) ............ all 89( 39( 441 20 Thames & Mors Mn Ins, b... 2 21 2 IP St. Tobacco (Ital 6p c Loan)... all 86 88 10 Trustand Agency of Austra lasia, (Limited) ............ 1 1p 20 Tr Sr Ln Co of Up Canada... 5 * 11 3 50 Union Marine Liverpool, 14 5 6 GiP 20 Union Steam Ship, Ld . .... all 21 23 15 United Dis Corpora, Lmtd 6 2 ld 20 Uuiver Mar (Ins), Lmtd ...... 5 4 1 S IP 10 Upper Assam Tea, Lmtd all 1 1 30 Van Diemen's Land. ...... 281 7 9 100 Viceroy of Egypt Mort Ln. all 801 811 81 50 Warrant Finane,Limited 12 8 6d 50 W I P Steam, c Lim L it m ed ... 20 4 3d 4" SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times thinks there could, be no doubt of the deci sion of the House concerning O'Donovan Rossa, and yet the debate was as earnest and formal as if the majority had to be won by argument. There are a good many people who will rather take a pride in such a technical discussion. It exhibits the English as a severely law abiding people; it shews the historical and antiquarian spirit which prevades our institutions, and the intimate connection between the reign of Queen Victor h and time immemorial. The discussion turned principally er the necessity of attainder as a: disqualification. Om readers, even though unlearned in the law, may follow the arguments, and we think it will be their opinion that the reasoning of the Solicitor-General and of Sir Roundell Palmer was unanswerable. In this discussion we cannot but feel that there was a foregone conclusion, and that, whatever the legal arguments, the House knew how it must of necessity decide. It is always so in such cases. and this shews the futility of such dispuisitions. We find in the courts of law every day that the judges decide in favour of the party who has quite the worst of the technical argument, and base a substantially just decision on rather weak and shifty reasoning of their own. This is not necessary in the present case, for the supporters of the motion were, as far as we can judge, legally in the right; but, had the case of Mr. Moore and Mr. Matthews been far stronger, it would not the less have been the duty of the House of Commons to declare the election of O'Donovan Rosso. void. It is monstrous to suppose that any law or custom could ever give the right of retaining a nominal membership to a man who is unable to perform a single act appertaining :to membership, who is not a free agent, who cannot enter the House, who cannot communicate with the House or his constituents. The circumstance that he is debarred from fulfiiling the func tions of a representative, and will be so debarred for an indefinite term, which may extend over his whole natural life, forbids him to be accepted as a member, land the only question is whether the House shall expel him or declare his election void. The latter course seems the more obvious and just, and we cannot doubt that in taking it the House did in no way set its own Privilege above the Law. The Daily News remarks that the transfer of the tele graphs from the companies to the Post Offiee has not been aocomplished without some little difficulty and disap pointment. The curious accident of Monday night, by which the whole north and west of England was cut off from communication with the metropolis, was not the only difficulty which has accompanied the change. The telegraphs are put into the hands of the Govern ment in order , that they may be so fully manned that all emergencies shall be provided for. To attempt to work them with a minimum staff will be to lay up many disappointments in the future; it is essential to the satisfactory operation of the new system that the staff of officials should be kept permanently up to the maximum of the requirements of business. This will of course not be done if the telegraphs are to be worked solely for profit ; it must be done if they are to be worked for the public convenience. We have much confi dence in the wish of the department to justify the public con fidence by a very efficient administration of the system, and in the desire and ability of Mr. Scudamore to make the change universally fratisfactory. But the ablest admini strator will be fettered if he is expected to attain a double object. He cannot serve two masters—and if he is to serve the public efficiently ho must be allowed to put revenue in the second place. We, in the metropolis, have a local grievance to complain of, which looks like a too great desire for profit on the part of the Adminis tra tion. In carrying out the principle of uniformity of tariff the cost of our local messages has been doubled. Hitherto we have been able to send a despatch from most parts of London to places within the metropolitan area for sixpence—we are now charged a shilling. Nothing would be more useful to the thousands who every day pour into this City from the suburbs, than to be able to communicate with their homes by a quick, cheap, and certain medium. A sixpenny telegraph, worked as the Post Office could work it, would provide this cora lmunication for us ; and the public will never feel that they have got one-half of the convenience they expected from the transfer of the telegraphs to the department till the old tariff is restored along with greater speed and certainty than we have been able to reckon upon under the old system. ; The Bishop of Exeter, says the Standard, 'has withdrawn his contribution to " Essays and Reviews," and by this tardy but satisfactory concession to Church opinion, has spared Convocation a painful but inevitable duty. We do not care, under these circumstances, to insist upon the injury and damage which have been occasit nod by Dr. Temple's protracted obstinacy. While earnestly protesting against the appointment as a scandalous affront flung at the Church by Mr. Gladstone, ~ we have always given the Premier's nominee the f all est credit for being actuated by conscientious motives, and we have made every allowance for the delicate scrupulosity, carried to an excess as we think it was, which impelled him to keep back the avowal which he ha s now tendered. It is to be hoped that the step thus taken by the bishop, which is certainly equivalent to a repudia tion of complicity with the rest of the Essayists, will be accepted by the diocese of Exeter, and churchmen gene rally, as a full assurance that the new bishop has finally broken away from the harmful associations which disqualified him for the Episcopate, and which so fatally compromisd his prospects of usefulness. It is his duty, as he told the Upper House of Convocation, by his whole course of life, and by his work in the diocese to which he has been called, to justify his appointment, so far as strength and light are vouchsafed to him, and we are glad to believe that he enters upon his labours with the sincerest desire to dis charge that duty as well as in him lies. At the same time we must repeat that nothing short of some such declaration as that involved by the withdrawal of his essay would have warranted Convocation in keeping back its judgment upon the whole transaction. Not merely had he brought down upon himself, in common with his brother Essayists, the indignant protest of 12,000 of the clergy, and the censure of the whole body of the Episcopate, Convocation itself had condemned him in the most solemn and formal manner. If it had remained silent when he was thrust by the secular power into one of the Church's high places it would justly have been branded with the stigma of cowardice and imbecility. The Church Parliament, which is too indifferent or too timid to speak out boldly the mind of the Church at all hazards is a mere sham, and the sooner it is abolished the better. Dr. Temple, says the Pall Mall Gazette, has become the Bishop of Exeter. We have no doubt that we shall always be able to speak of the Bishop of Exeter as we have always spoken of Dr. Temple, in terms expressive of thorough respect for honesty, ability and energy. But we have a certain slight misgiving that even Dr. Temple's position will be more or less modified by his elevation to the episcopal bench. He feels the more attached to the army in which he is taking command, because they displayed a righteous though excessive ardour in attacking him when he really wont astray. Few boys are grateful to a schoolmaster for flogging them when they only deserved to be put in the corner, on the ground that at any rate they had been really naughty. This, however, seems to be Dr. Temple's frame of mind, and all that is left to us is to congratu late him on his Christian feeling, and on the ortho. doxy which is calculated to make him a mod& bishop and an ornament to the Church. It is possible, however, that the survivors among his fellow essayists may feel themselves a little hurt. They have kept together until now, in spite of good report and evil report ; but the time has at last arrived when Dr. Temple, is obliged to repudiate their company. There is, perhaps, no real cause for annoyance. The whole tone of Dr. Temple's utterances upon such subjects, in cluding his own essay, has always appeared to us to diverge very widely irom that of his colleagues. He may be quite justified in proclaiming that divergence at this moment in the most conspicuous way ' • and we hope that they will imitate his Christian spirit and for give what has a superficial resemblance to a desertion. Perhaps, however, we should be grateful that Government has had an opportunity of making an apparently bold ap pointment without doing the slightest harm, and that Dr. Temple gained his bishopric without previously making any unworthy concessions. The Telegraph declares that barricade building is among the lost arts. We do not acknowledge the contemptible obstructions erected on the Rue du Temple, the Rue St Maur, the Rue Oberkampf, and the Quai Valmy as genuine barricades. Although the telegrams speak vaguely regarding their strength, those barricades must have been puny indeed which could be stormed by a few sergents de title, with their rapiers like lark-spits. Depend npon it, the art of building barricades, in which the French were once amazingly proficient, is lost. Going no further back than the famous inteutes of the Rue Trans nonain and the Rue de la Tixeranderie, in Louis Philippe's time, we find records of barricades grand, imposing, and majestic. The barricading which followed the coup d'etat was as the mud pies of children when compared with the gigantic and commanding structures that had been seen during the Orleans regime, not only in Paris, but at Lyons, where thirty thousand troops were twice i compelled to deluge La Perruche and La Croix Rousse with blood, before the artists could be weaned from their beloved pursuit. Those were Homeric days, and the artists were cast in heroic mould. We fail to dis cern in the few crack-brained gazetteers who have been lately inciting to revolt the lowest scum and riffraff, the potissons and voyous, the saute-ruisseaux and claque-sous of Paris, any element which can claim to represent the people. Cavroche, indeed, the typical gamin in M. Hugo's " Miserables " may have been a representa tive of the unseemly vagabonds whiz” e recent diver sions have consisted in pulling down kiosquos, turn ing old ladies out of omnibuses, defying the police, and then running away ; but the original Gavroche would have been ashamed, we fancy, to associate with the pit:cis-plats on whom his mantle, or rather his ragged blouse, has fallen. He cried " Mort aux voleurs " and was the first to demand the executio n of those who made patriotism. a pretext for plundering. The times have signally altered since his day ; and we do not wonder that the majority of the paltry barricades built in February, 1870, were evacuated as soo n as the p olice appeared on the scene. ' Cervantes laughed Spain's chivalry away"; but M. Piotri and his agents from the Rue de Jerusalem are sufficient, we should say, to exorcise the Red Spectre of the Rochefort riots. RAILWAYS-PREFERENCE SHAKES AND STOCKS. st Bristol and Exeter 4 p.cent. 100 87 8,1 st Caledonian Qrs., No. 2 lOO at Du. Scot. N.E., 44 per cent lOO ... st Do. Aberdeen, gua 6 p.c l5O ... •., st Do. do. 7 per cent lOO ... ..• st Do. do. Ordinary lOO 78 82 st Do. Midland st Do. Daudae and Arbroath 100 20 Cornwall, b per cent gas,— all at Dundee, Perth, and Aber deen Junction lOO 105 107 st Ist Class preference lOO .•• ••• st Glas. & S.W. gua.s per et lOO .. . .• st (it. Eastern, E.O Ex. 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(Word Ist g lOO st Do do gua lOO st Do Newpori., 1s g. 5 p.c. 100 st Do do 20 do 100 st Do gua. 51 per cent. 1863 100 00 Lancaster & Garlislo 41 p.c. all st Laucash. & Yorksh. 6 p.c. DO at Du Barnsley, £5 3s sod p.e. 100 st Do 6 p.c. (East Lancashire) 100 st Do 41 (Blackburn parch). 100 at, Loudon & Brighton, 5 P.C gua,rantead, No 1 lOO at Do 5 per cent. gua No. 2 lOO st Do 6 do do lOO st Do 5 do No. 4 lOO 100 at Do 7 per con t st Do 6 do ( 1859 IOU & CA' ) 100 st Do 4 do 1839 10U at Loudon, Chatham, & Dover 5 per cent lOO at London and W., C. and Nuneaton 5 per cent lOO st Do Bedford & Cambridge lOO st Do Siarewsb'y & Welchp'l , 108 et London and S W. 7 p,e. late 3d shares, lOO a Do (Portsm. perp ans 2561) all Mau., She &Lineln. 6 p.c lOO Do s Do 31 per cent • lOO 64 66 1 Do redeem. 6 per cent. 5 ..„ st Mid. Consolidated ,6p. c lOO 13U 135 Do Bristol6;l3irm., 6p. c lOO li3 135 a Do 43 per tent. redeem too 18 100 a Du 41 per cent. irredeem lOO 98 10) 8 Du Leicester&U'clin,4 p.c 100 DJ 91 st North klritish, 5 p.c. No.l lOO st Do E. & 4p.e.S. & D lOO ,„ st Do N. 8., Nu. 2, 5 per cen.t.. 10U ..• st Do Border Union, 53 p.c lOO „, st astera—Cons. st Do 41 per cent. redeem IOJ 97 99 at Do G N.E. 4 per cent., lOO 17 Do Lerwick capital Do York, ii. &S. purchase lO 10 101 Do Stektu Drliug. A 5 p.c. 100 107 108 st Do W, Llartlepool 11. and it 100 06 88 20 North Staffordshire 108 J. Devon Annuities, lis all 1.0 10 108 Do Tavistuck Anns., 10s all 81 01 10s Do Fixed 41 per cent all 8 84 10.6. S. East. (Read. Auras., 1.0.6) all 22 23 st Do 41 per centt lOO st Do Fixed 41 per cent lOO ... at Taff Vale No.l lOO 154 158 et Waterford & Kilkenny, 6pc 100 .. 63 72 93 98 10G 1(.8 10,) 90 90 80 60 97 94 68 72 bZi ki 1 110 116 I'9 121 Vd 15 1 S 11b 130 135 98 100 RAILWAYS.-PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS With Dividends contingent on the Profits of each separate yea at Caledonian 41 p c gua. at Do Scot. Cen. min. 7p c lOO at Do 41 p irredeem all at Do 4p c con., issued at 80 65 at Groat Eastern 41 per cont. 100 at Do 5 do, 1862 lOO at Do New 5 do, 1803 lOO at Do do 5 do, 1864 lOO at Great Northern, 5p c irred. 100 at Do permanent 5 per cent. 100 at Do Boston & Sleafd, 41 pc 100 at Great West., W 5p c 100 at Do Joint i.erpe. pc, 1865 100 88 VG at Do do 6p c irred., 1866 100 115 120 20 Do Vale Neath perp. 5p c all at Kent Coast, 6 per cent, 8... 100 5 Lane. and York New 41 per cent till July, 1871 2 at Loud., Brig &c., 41 pc, 1858 100 at Do do 4 do, 1860 100 s t Do do 41 do, 1861 10 0 et Do do 41 do, 1863 100 at Do do b do, 1865 100 st Do No. 6 5 do, 1866 100 at Do No. 7 sdo st Lond , Chat., &c., 2d, 6 p.c at Do Metrop. Ex., C B 6 p.c Do do 6 p.O at Loudon& N Western, 5p c 100 108 110 st London &S. Western, 41 p e 100 93 05 18 Man. Shef. &Lin., 5 pc, 1865 all 9 01 at Metropolitan 5 per cent lOO 100 102 st Midland, A 5 per cent pref lOO 107 109 at Do B 5 do 100 107 109 13 Do 5p c opt. to cony. to Ord. Stk., Sept. 1, 1861 all 201 211 18 Do Inconv. New Shares all 19 19} 22 Do 5p c con. into Old Stk., Aug. 31, 1872 Bl st North British, E. an G No. 1, 5 per cent . d .. at Do £lO guaranteed, 1861 100 Do E ,P., &Dna, 241,4 pc 100 at Do E. & , No. 2, at Do N. 8.. 5 per cent, 1862 100 st Do E. & G., No. 3, 5 p.c ... 100 s t Do E. & (Ordiry) 41 p c 100 at North Eastern, 41 per cent 100 99 160 st Do Stock. & Darl., D ... 100 113 115 at North Loudon, 44, per cent (Max. 5 per cent) at North Staffordshire 5p c lOO at South Eastern, 41 c, 1859 100 st Do 5 p do 1861 100 ... at Do sdo (Ch. Cross) 1863 100 90 ••• st Do 5 do, 1864 at Victoria St. & Pimlico, 41 pc 100 77 8U 87 90 89 158 83 86 i 113 11 Up RAILWAYS. -LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS st Birkenhead lOO 94 95 00 Do. 41 por cent. Prefer.., all 98 100 at Buckinghamshire st Chester and Holyhead lOO 54; 6 at D. Oa per cent. at Do. 5 do. 100 116 112 st Clydesdale, guaranteed lOO at Colchester Stoar Valley st East Lincoln, gua. 6p. c lOO 132 131 20 Gloster and Dean Forest all Gt. Eass., Newm., &c., 5 p.c 100 a Do. E. U. Harwich, 4 p.c at Do. do. Woodbrg.Ex., do 100 „. at Gt. West ,W. Mid., Herd 100 97 99 N Hull and Selby all 110 112 at Lancaster and Carlisle lOO 217 222 at London and Blackwall lOO 93 95 st Do. 41 per cent lOO at London, Chat., &c., p. c lOO et Do. Com. Fund, 5 do 100 at Loudon and Greenwich at Do. do Preference lOO a t London, Tilbury, & South 100 st Lovrestoft,gua 4 percent lOO at Do. 6 do 51 Manch., Bt.— Ma ail at Midland, Bradford, Pref lOO . 10 Mid Kent Cray Li_~) 50 Northern& East.,s per cent all 60 Do. do. 6 do. all at N • Eastern —Hartlep00l st N. West. A perp. prof, 5p c lOO 107 . . 1:09 st Do B minimum 1/ p.c lOO at Notting. &Grituth. B.& C lOO 91 93 25 Preston and Wyre. all 44 46 Royston, Hitch., and Shop. 100 132 134 F A Shrewsbury and Hereford 100 132 134 0 D 3 do 2ip • S. Yorksh. and Rive: Dun 100 100 105 4 per cent gua... 10; 76 SO 5 do ... all 95 100 at Viet. Station ftud Pimlico... 100 st West Cornwall 20 West Loudon, Class A 20 Dodo B all 20 D o do C all e t 'Weymouth and Portland lOO st Wilts and Somerset 62 64 83 83 7.; 81 92 91 53 56 57 55 13 11 b 2 Si DOCKS. st East and We3'. Loudon and St. Katherine 100 01 A 100 D oDeb. stock, 4 per cent nul Ali Hymn Freehold Land 103 20 33 at Dock t Southampton l. ) 0 72 75 t Surrey Curanlorutai COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Canada Government, 6 p c, Jan and July , 1877-84 100 104 105 1051 Do, 6p c, Feb and Au g lOO 102 103 Do, 6p c, Mar and Sept lOO 105 106 Do, 5p c, Jan and July lOO .94 95 Do, 5p c, inscribed stock lOO 93 95 Do, 5p c, Dominion of, 1803 lOO 95 96 oof Good Hope, 6p c, Dec, 1873 100 103 105 Do, 6 p c, April and Oct, 1890- 1900 lOO 110 112 Do, 6p c, April and Oct, 1880-90.100 109 111 Do, 6p c, Jan and July, 1891 ...100 Do, 5 p c, April 15 and Oct 15, 1900 .................................100 102} 103} Ceylon, Nov, 1878. Gp c 100 109 111. Do, 1872 lOO Do, 1882 and 18 83 100 112 114 Mauritius, 6p c, 1873, Jan & July 100 102 104 Do, 1878, Jan and July 100 106 108 Do, 1882, May 15 and Nov 15 100 107 109 D0,1895-G, k'eb and . Aug 100 111 113 Natal Gov 6 p e , April & Oct 100 108 110 Do, 6p c, May and Nov 100 107 109 New Brunswick Gov 6 p c, Jan and 100 101 105 July N. S. Wales Go v 5 pc, 1871 to 1876, p Jan and July lOO 1001. 1011 Do, 5 c, 1888 to 1896, Jan and July 100 1011 1021 1011 Do, 5 p c, rod by ann draws, from 1867 to 1875.. 100 100 101 Do, 2 per c, annual draws, 1872 to 1898 100 101 102 New Zealand 6 p c , 1691 lOO 107 109 Do, 5p c 100 96/ 97/ Do, Jan, April, July, Oct 100 97 97 98 Do., 6p c, 1-91, Mar and Septloo 108 110 Do, p et, 1891, June and Dec 100 107 109 Nova Scotia Guy, 6 p c sterling, 1875, Jan and July lOO 1021 103} Do, 1686 lOO 10'1 105 Queensland 6 per et, 1882-85, Jan 100 1081 1091 109 and July Do, 1801, Jan and July 100 1081 100 S Australian Government, 6 p c,1001869-77 Do, 1878-9 9 lOO - Do, 1893-1908 100 110 111 Tasmanian, 6 p c, 1895, Jan and July _ lOO 108 110 Do, 6p c, red, 1893 to 189 i 100 108 110 Victoria Govt, 6 p c, Jan and July, 1891 lOO 1121 113/ Do, April and Oct 100 113 114 I Do, 5p c, Jan and July 100 101 102 110 112 145 iO THE EDUCATION OF THE BLIND. - - On Thursday a deputation, which represented twenty institutions for the benefit of the blind in Eng land, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, waited on Earl de Grey and Ripon. Lord President of the Privy Council, to present him with a memorial, which set forth:-- That though there are at present no fewer than 30,000 blind in the kingdom, and while the 'sighted children of the poor are to a great extent supplied with primary education at the expense of the State, no governmental aid whatever is afforded to the blind children of. the poor. The assistance rendered to blind children by various Insti tutions, supported by the contributions of the benevolent,. is altogether inadequate to meet the necessities of the case. If the same Governmental aid were given to schools for the education of blind children as is now afforded to ordinary National and other schools it would sup plement the efforts of the charitable, and greatly conduce to the proper education of blind children. The various Blind Schools, while being left free to adopt any improvement in apparatus and management which might appear desirable, should still be under the inspec tion of a special officer, appointed by the State for the purpose. The attainment of the means of livelihood, being in the case of the blind attended with extra ordinary difficulties, your memorialists humbly pray that the pecuniary benefits accorded to educational institutions may also be extended to esta blishments for industrial training. As an unusually large proportion of the blind are above the age of 21 years, the advantage of national aid should be extende d to adult educational and industrial schools. Seeing that those institu tions which afford regular employment to blind workpeople thereby to a great extent relieve the streets from vagrants, prevent the increase of the criminal classes, and keep the blind people, their wives and children from being burdens on the parochial rates, it is therefore humbly prayed that the shield of Governmental protection may be cast over such institutions, and that they may be furnished with similar pecuniary aid as is given to ordinary reformatories, and other similar establishments." Lord Houghton introduced the deputation, and amongst & large number of gentlemen present were Mr. M‘Laren, M.P., the Dean of Chichester, Mr. Beresford Hope, M.P., Mr. H. Woods, M.P., Mr. W. T. Mitford. Sir J. Hamilton, Bart., Admiral Ryder, Admiral Southeby, General J. Graham, Mr. W. D. Murphy, M.P. Mr. Maguire, M.P., Earl Manvers, Mr. Wheelhouse, 111. P., Lieutenant Colonel Macdonald, Sir. J. Anson, Bart., Mr. Hermon, M.P., Lieutenant Colonel Gray, M.P. Several of thole mentioned addressed his Lordship in support of the memorial, and pointed out that if the Government would help as prayed they would confer a very great blessing upon those who are unhappily deprived of sight. The LORD PRESIDENT asked a variety of questions as to the education which was may afforded to the blind, and the facilities or difficulties which were experienced in t eac hing. Mr. M`Laren gavo som e interesting particulars of the working of such institutions in Scotland. Earl DE GREY and RIPON , in replying to the memorial and the observations which had been addressed to him, assured the deputation that the representations which they had made should have his most careful con sideration, as he was sure they would that of his ' colleagues. It was needless for him to point out that there were many things connected with these Institutions, on behalf of which they appealed, well placed. Theirs is a totally different category from the elementary schools, which it was tue object of the parliamentary grant administe red by this department to aid. Their representations required the most serious consideration, as they involved questions which affected other institutions—for instance, those of the deaf and dumb, had been sanctioned by some of the speakers, and which might also put in a claim on like grounds. He need not tell them that their object had the utmost sympathy from himself and Mr. Forster (who was present), and that, as he had stated, the memorial should be most carefully considered,. —_•_=--_---- NEW CONVOCATITHON AND TESTAMENTTHE REVISION OF E . • In Convocation of the Southern Province on Thursday the bishops' meeting at 'Westminster discussed the very important subject of the revision of the New Testament. The Bishop of Winchester suggested a motion, strongly, i t rrecommending revision. In ()Ur present version, he said, there' re many i n accuracies viewed in the l light of the a lligence of the present day. Many persons who were not well versed in the matter exagge rated the importance of those difficulties which avowedly existed, and the duty of the Church as the teacher of the ' people was to see what was the real and true Word of God. Mere grammatical inaccuracies he would not deal with. He had the authority of the Archbishop of York to say that the Northern Province would act with the Southern Province in the matter, and the whole subject, after leaving the hands of Convocation, might be revised by a Royal Commission. He moved the appointment of a joint committee of the houses of Canterbury to consult with the Northern Province on the subject. The Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol seconded the resolution, and remarked that the volume Baron Tauchnitz had recently given to the world had greatly ' stimulated the need for such an expurgation or alteration as was now sug gested. He had had strong scruples against thinking about errors in our noble version of the Scriptures, but he had at length overcome those difficulties. He referred to the absence in the Alexandrian MS. of the early part of St. Matthew's Gospel, and in the Vatican M.S. of the B 1 istle to the Hebrews, and some of the pastoral epistles, as well as the Apocalypse, but in this new volume now given to the world these difficulties had been removed. He thought a revision might be made without any danger to any doc trine, and without exciting any exaggerated fears. He had had the honour of having a conversation with the cele brated critic Dr. Tregelles, ho had told him that in any critical inquiry into the Sinatic and other MSS. great care must be taken, inasmuch as those MSS. varied in their value at different times. The right rev. prelate gave some startling statements in reference to various readings of the New Testament, and said that although he did not wish to exaggerate their number, their importance was of the utmost moment in the present age of inquiry. The question thus raised led to a very animated dis cussion. In the end a resolution was carried approving , a revision of both Old and New Testament. - - -- . _ TIIE LOWER , HOUSE AND EDUCATION. The Lower House of Convocation discussed the subject of education on Thursday. Canon Hopkins moved a reso lution pointing out that notwithstanding all efforts made children still grew up without education, and it was necessary to change this; the system of education hitherto adopted by the sanction of Parlianicnt commonly known as " denominational," should still, in the main, be continued as against the system commonly known as " unsectarian" or "secular." Existing schools might, in many cases, be employed or adapted so as to provide a sufficient education for all children near them; if the principle could be recognised of perfect liberty of distinctive religious teaching com bined with perfect liberty of declining it. A. cordial understanding between the Goverement and the represen tatives of the National Church is most desirable. The will House therefore pray that the Upper House be pleased to take this subject into their consideration, and adopt such method as to their lordships may seem best to give expression to the unabated zeal and diligence of the clergy in this matter of education. The conscience clause, the rev. canon pointed out, was recognised in his motion. It was seconded by Canon Seymour, but opposed in the matter of the conscience clause, by Canon Gregory and Archdeacon Denison. The former told a story as illustrating his argument against the motion. "Some years ago, the incumbent of a parish in Wales asked for the assistance of the Government to build a school for 200 chil i dren. At first the Committee of Council informed him that he must accept a conscience clause. He at once agreed to do so; but after a time the committee wrote to him to say that as they understood there was a strong Dissenting interest in the parish they could not aid a school of such a size. They would, therefore, grant aid only for a school for 100 children, leaving room for a Dissenting school. What followed? The clergyman's school was built, and in it were to be found the children of all the leading Dissenters in whose interest the clergy man's scheme had been thus cut down." After a great deal of warm discussion, Archdeacon Denison suggested that the present motion being withdrawn, a committee should bo appointed to consider the question when the Government had explained their intentions. Canon Hopkins, with the concurrence of Canon Seymour, then withdrew his motion, and it was resolved that a com mittee should be appointed, in accordance with the sug gestion of Archdeacon Denison A. telegram from Castlebar, Ireland, says that the cattle of several gentlemen in that district have been maliciously maimed within the last few nights. There has been no arrest. CHANNING'S WORKS.—We learn, says the Pall Mall Gazette, that within a few weeks nearly 14,000 copies of a cheap edition of Channing's works have been subscribed for—a remarkable testimony to the popularity of his productions, sermol4 though they bo for the most part, considering that the author has been dead for a quarter of a century. CEYLON LEAENING.—AII official report by the Government Inspector of Schools in Ceylon contains some amusing examples of the learning (or ignorance) of the rising generation; for instance, one young man gravely says that " Milton was a poet who lived in the present century, and who has been very much esteemed by many people for being an excellent poet ;" another, in answer to a question about Lord Bacon, says, " Before Bacon the people of England were not so well acquainted with the subject (what subject he does not tell us), because this was the first person who taught people how to do it (what, again, he does not tell us) ;" a third shews a specimen of ignoratio elenchi and bad gramme; too, by gravely asserting that " the changes of monsoons and weather has (sic) recently taken place in the territorial extent of the Austrian Empire." But perhaps the most amusing blunder of all is to be found in the following explanation of the historical allusion in a well-known poem of Tennyson, where the " oak" is spoken of " Wherein the younger Charles abode, Till all the paths were dim, And far below the Roundhead rode, And hummed a surly hymn." This allusion refers to Milton. He was honoured by Eng • land and was dear to England as an oak tree was. He is said to have lived in the reign of young Charles, in an age when literature had not flourished much. He is said to have sung hymns in the Road to Roundhead! The first report of the British Indian Extension Telegraph Company (Limited) has been issued. It states that the order for the cable has been given to the Telegraph Construction Company ; that the sum of £40,000 has been paid to them, in ac cordance with the contract; and that there is every reason to believe the manufacture of the cable will be completed within the contract time. Lieut.-Colonel Glover, R.E., late Director Gene ral of Telegraphs in India, has been appointed managing director—an office which he also holds in the China Submarine Telegraph Company—and has been deputed to visit Ceylon and the Straits Settlements for the purpose of making ar rangements for the immediate commencement of work as soon as the cable may be successfully laid. 'I he failure is reported of Messrs. Goodbellere, Gaine, and Co., Birmingham. Their liabidties are estimated at between £20,000 and £25,000. It is stated that Lord Newry has been appointed chairman of the board of the Great Britain Life Unice. FRANCE (Ri:UTER'S TELEGRAMS.) PARIS, Feb. 10. According to reliable accounts only oie fatality occurred during the rc.c?nt troubles, and that wag the case of a boy who was ki:led by a bayone thrust on a barricade, from which upwards of 140 shots from revolvers had been fired. Not a single shot was fired by the soldiers and police. On the first night of the disturbances 165 persons were arrested, and 102 on the second. M. Gustave Flourens is reorted to have fled to Belgium. The Memorial I)iplomatique denies the statement that a note had been sent from the French Govern ment to the French Ambassador at Berlin in refer ence to the execution of t►►e treaty of Brazil. The Memorial says that the events, of which Bavaria is the theatre, might at any moment give rise to a position of of which might place France and Prussia at varauwe. The Gauluis says that yesterday morning a meet ing of 159 Hanoverian emigrants was held at Maus, at which Herr von Munchausen pregded, to discuss the point whether or not they should re enter Prussia, accepting the new state of affairs,-or emigrate to America or Algeria, the expenses of the journey being paid by the King of Hanover. Herr von Munchausen, in his speech, informed his compatriots that after the 15th of April the subvention granted by King George would cease, and he urged the refugees to reckon, after that date, only upon their own personal resources, and each to act according to his own private interests. ,PORTUGAL. LISBON, Feb. 8. The British fleet has returned from its cruise, having experienced bad weather. An accident oc curred on board the Agincourt, whereby several persons were badly hurt. PALESTINE TOURISTS. TURIN, 8.35 a.m., Feb. 10. Cook's Palestine tourists crossed Mont Cennis in five and a half hours. Splendid passage. THE UNIVERSITY SPORTS. The University athletic sports will take place WA the 17th, 18th, and 19th of the ensuing month. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. CARLISLE STEEPLECHASES. Owing to the continuance of frost the above Steeple+ chases have been postponed till Thursday next. CITY BE rn N G--YESTERDAY. WATERLOO CUP. 3 to 1 agst Lord Lurgau'e nomination (offered) 20 to 1 agst Col. Goodlake's nomination (taken) 40 to 1 agst Mr Hayward's nomination (taken) 300 to 6 agst Mr Neville's notn. (taken) LINCOLNSHIRE HANDICI,P. Gto 1 agst Royal Rake (offered) 10 to 1 agst Van Amburgh (offered) 100 to 9 sgst Queen of Hearts (offered) 100 to 9 agst Benbow (offered) 100 to 8 agst King Victor (offered) 20 to 1 ag4 Ben-An (taken and offered) LIVERPOOL GRAND NATIONAL. 11 to 1 agst The Colonel (taken and offered) 100 to 8 agst Doctor (taken) 13 to 1 agst Honolulu (offered) 100 to 7 agst Thallassius (offered) 1000 to 60 agst Q. C. (offered) 100 to 6 agst Tathwell (offered) 100 to 6 agst Lymington (offered) 20 to 1 agst Surney (taken) 25 to 1 agst Cristal (taken) 30 to 1 agst Cinna (taken and wanted) 33 to 1 agst Brick (offered—take 40 to 1) 40 to 1 agst Gardener (taken) 10 to 1 agst Mr Brayley's lot (offered) CITY AND SUBURBAN. 100 to 8 agst Sabinus (offered) 13 to 1 agst Walter (offered) 20 to 1 agst Blue Bell colt (taken) 20 to 1 agst Ashfield (wanted) 25 to :1 agst Miss Dayrell (taken) 1000 to 20 agst Captivator (offered) CHESTER CUP. 20 to 1 on the field (offered) TWO THOUSAND. 5 to 1 agst Sunshine (offered) 11 to 2 agst Kingcraft(offered) DERBY. 1000 to 70 agst Camel (twante , l) 1000 to 100 agst Bridgwater (taken) HORSES STRUCK OUT OF THEIR ENGAGE MENTS. Jan. 28, at 9 a.m., Fichu, out of the Lincolnshire Han• dicap. Jan.. 29, at 9 a.m., Portugal, out of the Lincolnshire Handicap. Feb. 1, at 11.15 a.m., Roving Maid, out of Birmingham engagements. Fab. 4, at 9 a.m. Portugal, out of the City Plate at Lincoln. Feb. 4, at 4 p.m., All Mr. T. V. Morgan's horses out of Birmingham engagements. Feb. 5, at 9 a.m., Steamboat, out of the Grand Annual S tocplichase at Birmingham. Feb. 7, at 9 a.m., Daisy, out of all engagements at Bir• miughars. Feb. 7, at 9 a.m , Goojerat, out of the Licensed Victual lers' Plate at Birmingham. Feb. 7, after 6 p.m, Stromboli, out of the Lincolnshire Han di oap. Feb. 9, at 5.20 p.m., Fnzee, out of Lincolnshire engage meats and Nottingham Spring Handicap. Feb. 10, at 9 a.m., Curio, out of Nottingham Spring Handicap. COLOURS or RIDERS.-Mr A. S. Briggs—Black, white cap ; Mr Marston—Grey body, blue sleeves and cap. RACING FIXTURES-1870. FEBRUARY. Lincoln 15 ' 16 I Derby .. ............ 2225 , 24 23 Harrow 17, 18 Newton . , MARCH. Nottingham... 1, 2 i West Somerset l6, li Liverpool B, 9, 10 I Warwick 22, 28, 24 Pontefract 14, 15 I Epsom 29, 3i Cambridgeshire l4, 15 I Bromley 01 and April Ili APRIL. Northampton 5, 6 I Newmarket Craven 18 is 21 West Drayton 7, 8 I Abergavenny 21, 22 Thirsk 7, 8 I Lewes .. 20, 21 Kingsbury lB, 13 I Croydon. 28, 21 Durham lB, 19 I .1 Aldersbot 7, 8 I MAY. Newmarket Ist 5p....2 to 5 I Harpenden ............... 20, 21 Chester. lO, to 13. I Bath 24, 2. 1 . Winchester lO, 11 I Stamford ................. 2ls .26, 27 Salisbury l 2, 13 Croydon .................. 26, Y or k 17, 18 ' Epsom 31 to June LI Doncaster 19,20 J 1 Croydon 8, 9 Manchester 8,9, 10 Ascut 14 to 17 Windsor 2 l, 22 `NE. Newton 22, 23 Hampton 23, 2A Bibury Club 27 Stockbridgem3o, and Jiily 1 JULY. Newmarket b to 8 I West Drayton ............ 14,19 Nottingham 12, 13 I Huntingdon-- .......... 19, 20 Ch e l ms f or d l 2, 13 I Kings bur y 3l, 21 Reading 11, 13 I Goodwood 26, 29 AUGUST. Brig I ht on 2, 3 Stocktil l7 to 19 Brighton Club 4 Oxford 18, 19 Lewes .. , ..5, 6 i York 23 to 2i Egham 9, 10 Plymouth Windsor ll, 12 Derby 3O, 31. Bromley l6, 17 Weymouth 30, 31. SEPTEMBER. Warwick 6, 7 I Richmond ....... . ....... ... 20, 21 Abingdon 8, 9 I Western Meet (Ayr) 21 to 21 Doncaster 13 to 16 1 Hendon . .. . . ... " ... ... 22, 23 Hampton 20, 21 I Newmarket Ist Oct... 27 to 33 OCTOBER. B e df or d 4, 5 I Newmarket 2n 0ct..10 te 14 Leicester 19 Bromley 6, 7 I Newmarket U0t'n...24 to NOVEMBER. Liverpool 8 to 11 I Shrews bur y . .......... 14 to 13 STEEPLECHASE FIXTURES -1870. FE BRUAR Y. Birmingham 8, 9 I Harrow Derby .....................10, 11 I Newton .................. 25, 2G MARCH. Liverpool ............... 8,9, 10 Bremley 31 and Ap ril t West Somerset ......... 16, 17 I Cheltenham 3l and April I. Warwick 22 to 24 ' tIL. Kingsllury ............. .. 18, 19 LIVERPOOL COTTON MARK ET.-(TIIIS DAY) Sales probably 10,000 bales. The market still veil luiet. During the past year 8,000 seamen ha deve been inmates of the Liverpool Sailors' Home, and have positeci £34,000 in the savings' bank. At the meeting of the iu stitution yesterday it was complained that " crimping' was again on the increase on the Mersey in consequence of the withdrawal of one of the four river police boats placed there four years ego for the purpose of its repres.. lion. A representation was ordered to be made to ate Board of Trade. ti a in a Inn- prac- stan - arson otcy, tting vould olony t not 3 but lgain to n the vhich m, in r, ha minds early ed to mat very- talon. vithin a St 01 8 -293 I