The Sun. — London, England, 1870-02-19 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. As usual on Saturday business was very restricted on 'Changa. Consols were a shade lower than yes terday. In the Foreign market, however, prices were the turn higher. In Banking, Telegraph, and Miscellaneous shares prices remain almost un changed. Consols are now at 921 for money ; ditto, for Account, 921 ; Three per Cent. Re duced, ; New Thee per Cents, 93 21 a ; Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, March, 2 to 3 dis. ; June, prem. ; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and 1500, March, prem. ; June, —; Bank of England Stock, 41 per Cent., 2 0 42. India Stock, 10i per Cent., April, 1874, 209 ; ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, —; - ditto 4 per Cent., Oct., 1888, 101 1004 ; ditto Enfaced Paper, 5 per Cent., 1872, 103:1. In the Foreign Market Egyptians (1868), are 771 to 774 ; Viceroy's Seven per Cents., 811 ; to 824 ; Italian, 54a to 54 , 1; Mexican, 134 to 13 i i. ; Peruvian, 784 to 794 ; Russian (1866), 91 to 92 ; Orel-Vitebsa, 854 to 854 ; Nicholas, 671 to 6 81 ; Moscow, 83 to 834 ; Charkof, 841 to 84; ; Spanish, 274 to 274 ; Turkish Five per Cents., 444 to 41E; and the Six per Cents., 674 to 684 ; the New Turkish Loan is 14 to 111 prem. ; New Russian, 34 to 31 prem. ; and New Chilian, 4 to 1 prem. In the Railway Market the quotations are : Caledonian, 77 to 774 ; Great Eastern, 381 to 384 ; Great Northern, 117 to 118 ; ditto (A), 117! to 1181 ; Great Western, 63 to 634 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1284 to 1281 ; London and Brighton, 124 to 43 ex div. ; London, Chatham, and Dover, 15 to 154 ; London and North Western, 124 to 1244 ; London and South Western, 93 to 94 ; Metropolitan, 764 to 778 ; and Midland, 1234 to 124. American Five-Twenties are 881 to 881; Ten- Forties, 84 to 841 ; Erie, 21 to 211 ; and Illinois, 110 to 111. Great Luxemburg is 13k to 14 ; and Lombardo- Venetian, 191 to 20. In Telegraph Shares Construction and Main tenance are quoted 431 to 43} ; Hooper's Works, to -I prem. ; Anglo-American, 17i to 17k ex div. ; British Indian Submarine, 14k to 144 ; China Submarine, 1 dis. to par ; and Falmouth, 2i to 21 ; prem. In Bank Shares Alliance are 121 to 131 ; Anglo- Austrian, 15 to 17 prem.; Chartered Mercantile, 32 to 33,; Imperial Ottoman, 3 to 31 prem.; Lon don and Westminster, 60 to 61 ; and London Joint Stock, 321 to 331. In Miscellaneous Shares Credit Foncier are 2-k to 3 ; General Credit, I to 4- dis. ; International Financial, 2 to 11 dis. ex div. ; Berlin Waterworks, 15 to 151 ; Hudson's Bay Company, 121 to 121 ; London General Omnibus Company, 2 13-16 to 2 15-16 ; National Discount, 111 to 111; Peninsu lar and Oriental Steam, 46 to 47 ; and Royal Mail Steam, 551 to 561. Positive advices from Constantinople totally deny the recent statement in the Levant Herald, to the effect that the Turkish Government had just contracted a fresh loan for six months with some Galata bankers for £500,000, in order to pay for the Egyptian ironclads. There has been no such operation, and the ironclads, it is said, will be paid for by available funds. A new establishment, called the International Bank, has just been founded at Hamburg, with a nominal capital of £1,500,000, in shares to bearer, of which £500,000 is paid up. Some of the prin cipal firms of the place are connected with it, and an agency is to be opened in London. It is stated that the Land and Sea Telegraph Construction Company have purchased the free hold premises, of about seven acres, near 131ackwall, known, as the Thames Plate Glaas Company's Works, together with the extensive range of buildings, steam-engines, boilers, and shafting erected thereon, for £70,000, being considerably less than half of the sum expended on them. A prospectus has been issued of the New Albert Life Assurance Company (Limited), to carry out the terms of reconstruction of the Albert Company agreed to at a meeting of policy-holders and share holders on the Bth ult. A prospectus has been issued of the Rhine Mining Company, with a capital of £30,000, in shares of £2 (of which £17,460 has been sub scribed), to acquire and work tome mineral ground for lead and copper, near Bonn, in Rhenish Prussia. The Order of the Rose has been conferred by the Emperor of Brazil on Captain Mangles, as chairman of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Coin- pany, which established the first steam commu nication between Europe and Brazil and the River Plate. According to the Liverpool Journal of Commerce advices from Austria report the failure of a cloth establishment at Oberlutendorf with debts for nearly £40,000. The same paper mentions the following failures reported from New York :—M. Nussabaum, dry goods; S. Rosenthal, leather trade ; Surbury and Co., cigar and tobacco merchants ; Smith and Epp, roofers ; and T. H. Morrel, in the book trade. At the meeting of the National Steamship Com pany (Limited), held at Liverpool, a dividend Was declared at the rate of 10 per, cent. per annum. An extraordinary meeting of the Zealani Rail way Company will be held on the 30th of March. It has been resolved to wind up the London and Leeds Water Repellent and Cloth Finishing Com pany (Limited). The half-yearly meeting of the Ottoman Railway Company will be held on the 31st of March. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. GOVERNMENT YUNDS. 6 Per Cent. Consols Ditto for Account 924 3 per Cent. Ito _Weed 924 dew i per Uent Ncrir 21 per Cont. Jan. 1894 Do. 5 per Cen J an. 187 3 &unuitios, Su yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880. Do. for SU yrs, expire sth April 1885 — Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 — Exchequ-,r Bills, £l,OOO, 24 p. Ct. March Do. 21 do. June Bank .£lOO, £2OO £5OO D ank of England Stock, 44 per Cent Da. opening Canada 4 per Cent. Bonds Inter-Colonial Cranium INDIAN dOVERNMENT BECUILITIrb. 4 4044 Stock, 104 per Cent., April 1874 209 Do. Opening, for Account — Do. o par Cent. July, 1880 Do 4 per Cent. Oct. 1888. lOl 1004 Do. Enfaced Bap,. 4 per CAut.. ... — Do. 5 per Cert., Jan. 1872 „„,, 1034 Do. 54 per ()ant. May 1879 — Da 5 per Cent., Ru p p. Data. 1872.. Do d 1817 Do. do. 1882 1)0. Deb., 5 per Qeut., Aug. 3,873 Do. Bonds, 4 per Cont., .£1,060' •, _ Do. under £l,OOO PLA FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. I rgentine Republic, 6 per Cent Do Account Austrian Bonds 5 per cent Do. 1859 62 Brazilian 5 per Cent O. 44 per Cent. 1852 Do. do 1858....• — lie. 00 180 — Do. do. 1863 7B 0 0. 5 per Cont., 1865 881 91 • b Do• Account z .coos Ayres 6 per Cent. Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) —__ ntrba, 6 por Cent. o,ttlian 6 per Cent — ''o. 4 Per Cent..., O . 7 per Cont., 1866 , 1 )0. 6 per coat. 1867 9 84 s., lo.nbian, 6 por Cent. b aolsn 3 per Cent., 1825 Danubian Principalities, 7 per Cent — Do Account Do 8 per C en t., 1867 p . - cuador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent E ptian, 7 por Cont... _ be ‘. ~cOLIC, .. I ,sfille .., , Do . 4500 Bonds De, 1864 •L'o. £ 6 OO Bonds ccount tht• 4100 Bonds 93 D o e•• uo • 7 per Cent. 1868 ..... o. Account • 4100 .Bonds ..... 7-1.14 overnment Railway Debentures 9Bi Cir eet 'Per cent., 1824 5, ex Coups. — Do. Coupons Guatemala 5 per Cent .. Honduras Gov Rail. Loan., 10 p.. Ct., all pd Do. Acc • uut ltd,iau 5 pr.. Cent., 1865 Do. Account Do Ihremmana Railway UoxicaL 3 per Cent Ditto for Account Do. 1864 Do 6 per Cont. Anglo-French Itontevid-hin 6 per Cent. Mocrish imperial 5 rex Cent New Granada 22i Do 3 per Cen 4Ol - Do. Deferred Do Laud Warrants (Hectares) Peruvian 5 per Cent. 1865 Do Account 794 Do 41 per Cent. (Ur:harren) Do 41 per Cent.. 1862 Do 6 per Cent.,1862 Por t:iguese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, 7, 9,'60,'2.': Do. do. 1867. Do. do. Scrip, £2i.) pail — R issitin 5 i .er Cent. 1822, .£ St Do 41 per Cent 1:850 Do 11 per Ccnt., 1860 Do 3 per Cent., 1859 Do 5 per Cent., 1862 Do. Auglo-Dutch, 1861, £lOO Boodt. 911 Do. du. £Bl 15s. do. Do.. 1866, £lOO Bonds 9l d Do. do £Bl 15s. do - 1)o Nicolas liailway Sardinian 5 per Cent Spanish 3 per Cen . Do. Acc , Junt Do. 1867 Do. Account Do. New Deferred Do. Passive Do. Corn. Cert. of Coup. not funded 27y Do. Account vredish Provincial Mortgage Loan Do Government, 1864 Do do, 1868 Turkish 6 per Cent ......... . Do Account Do 6 per Cent. 1858 Do Account Do £lOO Boßds — Do 6 per Cent., 1862 Do. Account 1)o £lOO Bonds 7of Do. 5 per cent. 1865 Do Account Do 6 per Cent., 1865 — Do. Account DJ 1 per Cent., Guaranteed — Do do, Scrip — Venezuela 3 per Cent. ll Do 6 per Cent. 1864 Dividends on the above payable in Loadot. Austrian o per Cent , Ex 10 Florins Belgian, 44 per cent., Ex. 25f. Dutch 21 per Cent. Ex. 12 Gail — Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates .... French Rontes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. — 'Winn 5 per Cent. 1851, Ex. 25f — Do Account 541 CLOSING PRICES. Oonsols, Money Do. Account, March 9 924 xd ~~~;~: b. 18. sl High- Princess mat two r before ove out NOB ). 17. British ►ugh in- be read State to owns of ias been te that nand of najuatO argentS, superior b. 18. on dur- 1081. 115. 114 f. 113 f. 112 f. 143. 26k. 241 c. 30c. orn, old id Co.'s for the ie Ist of ,ngland, e Conti- Septem- Mid- ;ht per b. 18. Miguel towards pose to ies have oney in market 385 - 54 85 321 - 45 20 2G 50 ANT. )sed by tan ris- mmedi- on the t of in. i decla- t was of tanding aeffablo 3cusers. f whore tumult, lergetie jrattan memor- ntenceo irresis- depra- Ler lan- Sheriff ) objec ade. It Ltitry--- ns—the bigoted 3 court oward ! wishes Y doing :ecute." urance, ild spit mean led for me ap rse the tnd his iketches NIES'S Id at St. s Royal i Toes stead of ounced. is Royal about to ; of the 0 Levee int Fre- ler Ma 3cretary L Carlos )üblic of of 31r• istol for Am-, of •oom of Dffice of eds. Marcus inty of Henry Bailiff LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART. Prom the Athervezaa we take following interesting items of News :--The title of Mr. Dickens's new serial is to be " The Mystery of Edwin Drood."—An Anthropological Society is in course of formation at Vienna.—The University of Vienna has decided to open its medi cal lectures and confer medical diplomas on women.— Every good thing, after its kind, has its reward. The little musical farce of " Box and Cox," by Messrs. Bur nand and A. S. Sullivan, is " running " at the Gallery of Illustration, and will run so long as people last who care for neat dialogue, odd fund, and very pretty music.— Honours are falling thick upon M. Strauss, of bal de l'opera fame. His orchestra has just presented him with a cross of honour in diamonds. The Orchestra states that a German clergyman, Herr Kaim of Biberich, is about to bring out several unpub lished compositions of Haydn written upon half a dozen French proverbs while the master was staying at the monastery of Ochsenhausen near Biberich, and offered as a compliment to the monks of that retreat. — Mrs. Howard Paul appears to have created an extraordi nary impression in New York by her playing of the " Grande Duchesse "in French. Her accent is reported as perfect, and her manner thoroughly ladylike ; in fact, she " rehabilitates " the wilful German sovereign with the unaccustomed garment of decency and grace.— We hear from Milan good reports of a young English prima donna, who appears under the name of Elisa Savelli, and who in a new opera by Petrella, has succeeded in securing the suffrages of her audience. She is accredited with a sympathetic and vibrating soprano voice of good compass. In " Norma" she has played Adalgisa to the Norma of Senora Dezorzi : both ladies bringing down the house in the duet " Deh conte."— The Order of Merit sent by the Emperor of Russia to Mdme. _Adelina, Patti is described as a medal, surrounded by thirty-four large solitaires, surrounded by the Imperial crown in diamonds, and mounted in a magnificent diamond bracelet. The medal itself is of gold ; on one side is the portrait of the Emperor, and on the other are engraved the words " The Emperor of Russia wishing to give Mdme. Adelina, Patti a proof of his high favour and of his esteem for her incomparable talent, has conferred upon her the title of First Singer to the Court." This mark of favour is the more gratifying as it was given spontane ously, prompted only by the good feeling of the Emperor. Madame Patti has already sung twenty-four consecutive times in the opera, besides in four concerts ; and, in spite of the extreme cold, she is, as her admirers will be glad to learn, in excellent health. Nature has the following notes :—The Rev. Charles Pritchard, of St. John's College, Cambridge, has been elected to the Savilian Professorshop of Astronomy, as successor of the late Professor Donkin.—The number of candidates for election as members of the Royal Institution may, we hope, be taken as a fair indica tion of the daily increasing interest taken in scientific matters. The number elected last year was forty seven. The number of candidates proposed during the first six weeks of the present year is forty-two. We hear that the eminent geographer liiepert is about to proceed to the Holy Land, and spend some time there, for the purpose of personally determining geographical positions. He has the advantage over our university explorers, recently sent out, in being a skilful and experienced geodetist, and of acquaintance with the country obtained during a former sojourn of several years. —A committee has been appointed to inquire into the education of naval officers, consisting of Rear-Admiral Shadwell, C. 8., President ; Captain W. H. Richards, R.N., Hydrographer, Captain A. A. Wood, RN., Director of N aval Ordnance, the Rev. Dr. Woolley, admiralty Director of Education, the Rev. A. Barry, D.D., Principal of King's College, S. P. Butler, Esq., barrister-at-law, Richard Saintbill, Esq., R.N. Secretary. The Graphic states :—Mr. Benedict has nearly finished his oratorio of " St. Peter," which is to be produced at the next Birmingham Festival.—The Royal Dramatic College have hung out " signals of distress." A meeting of the council has been held to consider the best way of raising means to enable them to pay regularly the pen sions of the residents of the college, and to meet other expenses. It has been decided to hold several morning and special performances, with a view of raising extra funds. Mr. B. Webster, Miss Oliver, Mr. Chatterton, Mr. Abrahams, Mrs. C. Pitt, and others have placed their houses at the disposal of the council.—Messrs. Tinsley Brothers will issue immediately a book of unusual literary interest, entitled " Memories of My Time." Tho author, a gentleman well known on the newspaper press, gives his personal reminiscenses of eminent men, including the late Douglas Jerrold, W. M. Thackeray, Leigh Hunt, Sheridan Knowles, Thomas Hood, Charles Kemble, Peter Cunningham, Vincent Wallace, E. H. Bally, R.A.. Sir Joseph Paxton Albert Smith, Angus Reach, John- Leach, and W. C. Macready. The book will' be in one handsome volume, and will contain many interesting anecdotes, not only of the every slay life of men who have passed away, but also sayings and doings of popular characters still living.—Several changes have taken place in the theatrical world. Mr. George Honey has accepted an engagement with Mr. Montague, who has at length decided to call his new theatre, building in the Strand, " The Bijou." The public are to lose their old favourite at the Haymarket; Mr. Compton, who goes to Manchester. We hear that Mr. Toole has purchased the exclusive right of Mr. Byron to play his " Uncle Dick's Darling," which he will take with him in the provinces when his engagement at the Gaiety ends. Mr. and Mrs. Rousby hgve presented to Mr. John Ryder a handsome silver snuff-box, in acknowledgment of his services as stage-manager in producing the new play " 'Twixt Axe and Crown." A morning performance will take place early in March, at the Queen's Theatre, for the benefit of the General Theatrical. Fund. The Prince of Wales takes the chair at the aunroachiaag annual festival. NA - V AL AN D MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. The Army and Nary Gazette says that in no case will the reductions which it is the intention of the Govern. ment to effect fall more heavily upon individuals than will the abolition of djpOt battalions upon those comman ding officers appointed prior to the 15th of December, 18,6. Than this treatment it would be almost impossible to imagine anything more unjust. Upon acceptance of the appointment each officer received a positive assurance that the position would be permanent, and a great majority, after serving their country in various quarters of the globe, wishing to settle down quietly at home, paid large sums, varying from £1,.000 to £2,000 to obtain them, under an expectation of retaining the same until removed by promotion, or until such a time as they might think lit to retire by sale or accept half-pay. Now, nofens miens, the latter alternative is forced upon them without any satisfactory equivalent. The Army and Nary Gazette says that after the com mencement of the next financial year the regulations, cost of lieutenancies in the cavalry and infantry of the Lino will be reduced to £450. It appears by the Broad Brrow that the reduction of secowl majors will only take pt;ace in cavalry regiments, infantry battalions still retaining both majors. According to the Monitcur, reductions are also taking llace on the other side of the channel, though not to a arge extent when compared with the magnitude of the French army. Ten thousand men are to be disbanded, it says, and the saving thus obtained will amount to ten million francs. The Temps remarks that this is undoubtedly something, but that public opinion xp,3cted more. If, moreover, other journals are to be believed," it add s , " the effect even of this measure will be lessened by General Le Bceuf's alleged intention to reduce i l l Ij o iloe todalry.i order ea s t a rsr m t soe;m:ehxjahititei then, ,shti the liie f eer i i i eE i n l gr o ue i r i cp g ot accordedi vee s iinaets tittiliuleaa figure situation, the eeNN ,hor ifec(i s hu4 o e l o4 ( No li or i ogy • s o. , t have 400,000 men under arms ?" The Lancet says the health of Mr. Bright has undergone a slight improvement. He is, however, still suffering from symptoms of nervous depression. There is, nevertheless, every reason to hope that physical and mental repose will restore his health. W e are glad to learn, FflyS the Globe, that the Archbishop of Canterbury continues to make satisfactory progress, and that there is every prospect of his speedy recovery. His Grace's physicians, however, order thorough rest from his public duties for a short-tine longe4 .THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 19 1870. &HARE LIST. JOINT-STOCK BANKS.. TOWN TALK. (From the Western Mail of this Morning.) FRIDAY EVENING. qtDINARY SkiAiticS AND BTOCKB. Railways. rat , Oloaing own. Hs - Prise. da. s. st Bust )l and Exeter ...... 100 78 80 81 8 1 1 st Caledonian --...... 100 761 77 77; .51 Cambrian 20 Cornwa11. . at Dublin & Belfast June lOO - - at Dun„Perth, & Ab. June 5OO 70 72 2) East London all 4 6 20 Do 15 - - 2) Do 10 - - .t Glaagow &S. Western lOO 107 109 at Great Eastern ..* 'OO 37: 371 381 st Do. E. Angl. No. 2.... 100 61 71 6: at Urcat North ot Scotland.. 100 la 16 it Great Northern ... 100 1171 iiB 117 at Do. A 5t0ck...... lOO 116 119 117/ et Do, B a took lOO 127 122 at (itS. and W. of Ireland lOO 1.3 100 at (it. Western -Original IGO 631 G 0; 631 I. Do. South Wales lOO 64 68 at Do. W. Mid.-Oalord lOO 20 42 at Do. Newport at Lancashire& Yorxahir , lOO 128 1211 1231 st Lon., Brigh.,;:. S.Coast lOO 44 441 43 - Do Scrip .... •.. - - at Lon., Chat., and Dover lv, 15 151 t Do. Metrop. ix. A lOO II 13 t Lou. .t North Western lOl la: .241 1 411 t Lou. aSouth Western ICO 93 i 4 a 1 I Man., Shel., .t; Lincoln tut 111 52 :0; at Metrin olltau . • lOO 78; 81 's 71 at 1)o Extensi.m .. O Do. Nevi rd • • - - at Ma.ropolitan Dlstrit t. ..ii 35 .36 10 Slctrop. it. John's 51 ,•.•-o I 10 - - st Mi,iaud at I 9 :iirmin. A Dart); at NA* di British ..... at Li .. Ed., I'th., is, Dun lO2 - - at Nor .2astern-Berwica lOO 127 123 25 D G. :LE purchisee 16.11.4 - - at D - Leeds. ...... ..• - st I) u York ioo 12'1 211 at D oCarlisle ...• • lOO - - at 1) oStoce. & Darling lOO 167 1(9 st North Lou ton 10 Do New 1868 at North Staffordshire lOO 01 63 at North awl A. W. Junction 100 SIJ 101 10 Do Now £lO shares 7 .•• •• at Rl , : f mney at 15hropshire Union lOO 591 601 at South Devon'.. at South Eastern lOO 75; 764 77 at Staines, Wok - 'ham, & Wok all:, 13 14 st Tali Vale lOO 154 158 -- Do. C .. • - - W;:teriord & ICU - 10 Waterluo & Whiteha.l.. 6 EtAILWAYS—PREFEIIIsINCE SIIAIMS AND STOCKS. st Bristol and Exeter 4 p.cent. 100 87 89 st Caledonian Qrs., No. 2 lOO ... st Do. Scot. N.E., 46 per cent lOO ... at Do. Aberdeen, gua 6 p.c lOO ... at Do. do. 7 per cent lOO ... st Do. do. Ordinary lOO 76 82 st Do. Midland at Do. Dundee and Arbroath 100 20 Cornwall, 5 per cent gua all ..„ at Dundee, Perth, and Aber deen Junction lOO 105 107 at 1.00. Ist Class preference lOO st Glas. & S.W. gua. 5 per ct lOO ... at (-it. Eastern, E.O Ex. No.l 100 98 100 at Do do N 0.2 100 97 99 1)1 at Do do 6 per cent 100 110 113 at Do East Anglian A 5 p. c. 100 at Do do -B 6 de. 100 ... at Do do C 7 do. WEI st Do do No. 1, 5 p.c. 100 ... at Do E. Union 4 p.c. gua. 100 63 72 st Do Norfolk 5 p.c.Ex.1846 100 st Do do 5 p.c.Way.Val.lB47 100 ••• ••• at Great Nor thorn, 5 per cent 10J st Do 5 p.c., rd at 10 p. c. pm. 100 Do 46 do do do 100 at Do 5 do at sp. c. pin. 100 ••• •.. at Do Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax, 6 per cent lOO st Gt. Nrth of Scotland, Ist pf 100 at Great South. and Western (Ireland) 4 per cent lOO 98 98 at t.West.—Orig.&Jnt.-Itent chg., per gua. 5 p.c lOO 106 108 Do. Orig. (B. &H. Ex). 5 p.c lOO 95 100 Do do 4. per cent. 1850 lOO 90 92 Do do 4 do do Do do 5 per cent. redem lOO 97 99 Do do Birmingham gua lOO 68 72 Do do do pref lOO Do do Chester gua, l`,o 85 9J Do do do 8 per cent lOO Do do do 5 do 100 •.. Du South Wales, gua. 4 p.c. 100 Do do 46 p.c lOO ..„ at Do do 46 1850 lOO st Do do 5 st Do Wesalid. Oxford Ist g. 100 116 118 at Do do 2d gua. 100 119 121 st Do Newport, Ist g. 5 p.c. 100 96 98 at Do do 2d do 100 ... 1 . 00 11 O a s t t O LDLaoannceagasustha 5&I -3 per Lancaster at Do Barnsley, £ 5 Os 100 p. c . 100 ... ••• at Do 6 p.c. (East Lancashire) 100 130 135 & a u e r r k l iessehl cent. t4. 6 11P8 p.c. 6 c 3 100 1 3 13* at Do 41 (Blackburn purch). 100 98 100 et, Loudon & Brighton, sp. c guaranteed, No 1 lOO ... •.. st Da 5 per cent. gua Nu. 2 lOO at Do 6 do do lOO ... at Do 5 do No. 4 lOO ••• at Do 7 per cent lOO • ••• at Do 6 do (W.E. & C.P ) lOU st Da 4 do 1850 lOO st London, Chatham, & Dover 5 per cent lOO •,. st London and N W., C. and Nuneaton 5 per cent lOO 110 11 at Do Bedford & Cambridge lOO st Do Shrevrsb'y & Welchp'l lO6 st London and S W. 7 p,c late 3d shares, lOO 145 150 a Do (Portsm.perp ans 2s6d) all ... ••• e Mau., Shef., &Lilian. 6 p.c. 100 ... Do a Do 31 per cent lOO 64 66 1 Do redeem. 6 per cent. 5 st Mid. Consolidated ,6 p. e... 100 130 165 s Do Bristol& Birm., 6p. c lOO li3 135 s Do 41 per cont. redeem lO6 b 8 100 s Do 41 per cent. irrcdecm lOO 18 Joi a Do Leicester & Il'ehu,4 p.c 100 &J 91 at North British, 5 p.c. Nu. 1 lOO ... at Do E. &G.4p.c. S. & D too at Do N. 8., N 0.2, 5 per cen.t.. 100 ... at Do Border Union, 5 1 p.c lOO at N.-Eastern—Cons. 100 87 88 st Do 45 per cent. redeem._ 100 97 09 st Do U N.E. 4 per cent., lOO ••• 17 Do Lerwick capital 8.13.4. Do York, IL &S. purchase. 10 10 101 ilu Stcktu & Drling : A 5 p.c. 100 107 108 at Do W,Llartlepool 'Land It lOU 86 88 891 20 North Staffordshire 10s S. Devon Annuities, I,a all 0 10 lOs Do Tavistoek Anus., 10s all 81 91 10s Do Fixed 41 per cent all 8 84 1 0.6. S. East. (Read. Anus., 1.0.6) all 22 23 at Do 41 per celitt lOO ... ... at Do Fixed 41 per cent lOO ... ... at Taff Vale No.l lOO 154 153 at Waterford & Kilkenny, 6pe 100 .. .. RAILWAYS.—PREFERENCE SHAKES AND STOCKS. With Dividends contingent on the Profits of each separate yea -------- et Caledonian 41 p e gua. 100 st Do Scot. Can. ruin. 7p C IOU st Do 41 p irredeem all et Do 4p c con.. issued at 80 65 st Great Eastern 41 per cont. 100 at Do 5 do, 1862 lOB at Do New 5 do, 1863.- 100 et Du do 5 do, 1864 lOO at Great Northern, 5p c irred. 100 st Do Permanent 5 per cent. 100 it Do Boston &Sleafd, 4; pc 100 st GreatWest.,W Midi., 5p c 100 it Do Joint pupa. 5 p c,1863 100 st Do do 6p c irred., 1836 100 20 Du Vale Neath perp. 5p c all at Kent Coast, 6 per cent, B lOO 5 Lane. and York New 41 per cent till July, 1871 2 st Loud., Brig &c., 41 pc, 1858 100 at Do do 4 do, 1860 100 at Do do 41 do, 1861 leo st Do do 41 do, 1863 100 st Do do do, 1865 100 at Do No. 6 5 do, 1866 100 st Do No. 7 sdo st Loud , Chat., &e., 2d, 6 p.c at Do Metrop. Ex., B 6 p.c Do do C p.c st London& N Western, 5p c 100 at London &S. Western, 41 p e 100 10 Man. Shef. &Lin., 5 pe, 1865 all st Metropolitan 5 per cent lOO at Midland, it. 5 per cent pref lOO a t Do B 5 do 100 18 Do 5p c opt. to cony. to Ord. Stk., Sept. 1, 1869 all 18 Do InconT. New Shares all 22 Do 5p c con. into Old Stk., Aug. 31, 1872 Bj at North British, E. and 61 No. 1, 5 per cent ... 100 at Do £lO guaranteed, 1861 100 Do E ,P., & Dun., 2d, 4pc 100 at Do E. &G , No. 2, 5 p.c st Do N. 8.. 5 per cent, 1862 100 at Do E. & G., N 0.3, 5 p.c st Do E. & G., (Ordiry) 41 p c 100 at North Eastern, 41 per cent 100 st Do Stock. & Darl., D at North London, 41, per cent (Max. 5 per cent) st North Staffordshire 5p e lOO at South Eastern, 41 pc, 1859 100 st Do 6 do 1861 100 st Do sdo (Ch. Cross) 1863 100 st Do 5 do, 1864 at Victoria St. & Pimlico, 41 pc 100 77 SU 87 100 83 88 83 86 108 110 93 95 V 91 109 102 107 109 107 109 201 211 19 191 11 21p 94 166 1021 113 115 103 105 RAILWAYS.-LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS at Birkenhead lOO 93 95 00 Do. 11 per cent. Prefer.., all 98 100 st Buckinghamshire at Chester and Holyhead lOO 54; st Do. 5/ per cent. st Do. 5 do. 100 110 14 et Clydesdale, guaranteed lOO ... st Colchester Stour Valley st East Lincoln, gua. 6p. c lOO 132 134 20 Gloster and Dean Forest all ... B Gt. Easn., Newm., &c., 5 p.c 100 ... 14 Do. E. U. Harwich, 4 p.c 100 st Do. do. Woodbrg.Ex., do 100 at Gt. West, W. Mid., Heref 100 97 99 so Hull and Selby all 110 112 st Lancaster and Carlisle lOO 217 222 st London and Blackwall lOO 92 95 941 st Do. 41 per cent lOO at London, Chat., &c., 41 p. c. 100 st Do. Corn. Fund, 5 do 100 at London and Greenwich st Do. do Preference lOO ... st London, Tilbury, & Seuth 100 83 85 st Lowestoft, gua 4 per cent... 100 79 81 st Do. 4 - 6 do ... 100 51 Manch.,.D.— Ma all at Midland, Braltord, Pref lOO 92 91 10 Mid Kent Cray Lk:a) .... all ... 50 Northeruk East., 5 per cc,nt all 53 b 6 55 50 Do. do. 6 do. all st N. Eastern—Hartlepool ... 100 st N.West. A perp. prof, 5p c. 100 107 109 st Do B minimum 11 p.c lOO t Notting. & Grauth R. St C... 100 91 93 25 Preston and Wyre. all 41 46 Royston, Hitch., and Shep. 100 132 131 st Shrewsbury and Hereford 100 132 134 10 Ds) do s 2 21 p s S. Yorksh. and River Dun 100 100 105 4 per cent gua... 10i 73 30 • 5 do ... all 98 100 st Viet. Station and Pimlico... 100 st West Cornwall 20 West London, Class A all 13 14 20 Do do B all 20 Do do 0 all st Weymouth and Portland lOO st Wilts and Somerset DOCKS. st East and West London and St. Katherine 100 49 51 100 D oDeb. stock, 4 per cent . all „. ... Millwall Froohold Land st Dock lO9 SO 33 st Southampton I Jo 72 75' et surrey Geparnoglia lett 113 1111 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Canada Government, 6 p c, Jan and July ,1877-84 100 104 1051 1051 1 Do, 6 p c, Feb and Aug lOO 102 103 - Do, 6 p c, Mar and Sept 100 1051 106/ Do, 5 p c, Jan and Ju l y lOO 94 1 95i 95 Do, 5 p c, inscribed stock lOO.. 94 96 Do, 5 p c, Dominion of, 1803 - 100 95} 961 C of Good Hope, 6 p c, Dec, 18/3 100 103 155 Do, 6 p c, April and Oct, 1890- 1900 100 111 113 Do, 6 p c, April and O ct, 1880-90 100 109 111 Do 6 p c, Jan and July, 1891 l.OO _ Do, 5 p c, April 15 and Oct 15, 1900 100 102} 1031 Ceylon, Nov, 1878, 6 p c 100 109 111. Do, 1872 100 103 105 Do, 1882 and 1883 100 112 114 Mauritius, 6 li c, 1873, Jan & July 100 102 104 Do, 1878, Jan and July 100 106 108 1071 Do, 1882, May 15 and Nov 15 100 107 109 T. ) 0 , 1 8 9 5 - 6 , Feb and Aug 100 111 113 Natal Gov 6 p c, April & Oct 100 108 110 Do, 6 p c, May and Nov 100 107 109 New Brunswick Gov 6 p c, Jan and July 100 104 105 N. S. Wales Gov 5 p c, 1871 to 1876, Jan and July lOO 1001 1011 Do, 5 p c, 1888 to 1896 , Jan and July 100 101 102 1011 1 Do, 5 p c, red by ann draws, from 1867 to 1875 100 100 101 Do, 2 per c, annual draws, 1872 to 1898 100 1001 1011 New Zealand 6 p c, 1891 100 107 109 Do,spc 100 97 98 97f Do, Jai), April, July, Oct 100 971 981 97 I Do., 6 p c, 1891, Mar and Septloo 108 110 Do, p ct, 1891, June and Dec 100 107 109 Nova Scotia Gov, 6 p c sterling, 1875, Jan and July lOO 1021 1031 Do, 1886 lOO 1011 105} Queensland 6 per ct, 1882-85, Jan and July 1 00 1081 1091 1081 Do, 1891, Jan and July S Australian Government , 6 p c, loo 108 109 1 1 1869-77 lOO Do, 1878-92 100 Do, 1893-1908 100 110 111 Tasmanian, 6 p c, 1895, Jan and and July 100 108 110 Do, 6 p c red, 1893 to 1897 lOO 108 110 Victoria Govt, 6 p c, Jan and July, 1891 lOO 113 114 Do, April and Oct 100 1131 1141 j .1)o, 5 p c, J. and Ju1y,,,,1111,100 191/ 102/ 104 The appearance of the House of Commons on Tuesday evening at five o'clock, when Mr. Glad stone rose to bring forward the great question of the session, was, as it always is upon these histori cal occasions, magnificent. Two of the foremost chiefs of Parliament were missing; that was the main regret of everyone, on both sides of the House, on taking a survey of the whole of that grand assem blage. One looked in vain for the leader of the Opposition and for the President of the Board of Trade. Otherwise, both parties were completely represented. The strangers' gallery was crammed; so, too, were the Spe ikec's gallery, the ladies' grille fronted ditto, and the long side-galleries allotted among others to those members who can find no accommodation in the body of the house. The peers mustered in considerable force immediately in float of the Speaker, in two long lines directly over the cloak--having in their midst three of the Princes, to wit, the l)uke of Cambridge, Prince Chi iitian, and Prince Teck : the latter, now growing his beard, hardly recognisable between the bald-headed Prince Christian and the yet more bald headed Commander-in -Chief. The Prime Minister was in splendid voice to begin with. Everyone was attention, and he had wonderful go, and verve, and animation at the commencement. Bat gradually, after he had been speaking for two hours together, when at last he gut into the matter of fact details of the proposed Bill, the master-rheto rician became dull and wearisome, and his listeners had a dawning consciousness that they had had pretty nearly enough of it. Another hour brought him to the last word of his peroration. Whether Ireland will be satisfied with the measure that is now the question. The granting of loans to occupiers desiring to become pur chasers, in point of fact, constitutes the very core of the heart of the Government proposition. The scheme is incomplete, and is expressly put forward as incomplete, as a skeleton to be clothed with flesh, as au outline to be filled up and shaded in, iu com mittee. The Irish members were dumb; many of them were absent. Mr. Hardy, in the absence of his chief, the member for Bucks, intimated the magnanimous determination of the Conservative party to deal fairly with the project adventured upon by the Govenrment. Since the present Ad ministration was formed one has heard nothing whatever, one could hear nothing whatever, of "factious opposition," a phrase familiar enough to parliamentary ears in our past experience. The happiest portion of the Premier's three hours' speech was that in which, while numbering ap the various remedial measures vouchsafed to Ireland by the Im perial Government during the last ninety or a hun dred years, he showed, with terrible lucidity, the force and truth of which there was no gainsaying, that not a boon was granted but had a sting in it, irritating or rather maddening the people of Ireland in lieu of exciting their loyalty and gratitude. His incidental expression of sympathy for the French Emperor as a Constitutional sovereign was another hit, and was received with ringing cheers by the House of Commons. The Colonial policy of her Majesty's Govern ment Lord Carnarvon has certainly lost no time in bringing formally under the consideration of Par liament. Listening to his elaborate criticism of that policy on Monday evening, I could not but feel that the speech delivered by the noble earl was, in very few respects, worthy either of the subject itself or of his own reputation. It was dull and tame, being listened to with scarcely a cheer. Lord Cairns yawned wearily, time and again, during its delivery. Earls Kimberley and De Grey and Ripon exchanged smiles almost of derision at points deemed by them, evidently, points of weakness. Lord Salisbury fidgetted with an air of impatience ; so, too, for that matter, did Lord Granville. Only towards the very close of his address did the speaker warm into anything like earnestness. The Secretary of State's reply—though, as a matter of course, regarded by the Ti►ues as perfectly conclusive and unanswer able —was, to my mind, a mere parrying of two or three unskilful lunges, for which, moreover, that cool and dexterous swordsman was perfectly well prepared beforehand. It was, in the phrase of the fencing gallery, a mere bloodless passage of arms. It tvas a mere skirmish before that deadlier encoun ter, for which, later on in the Parliamentary cam paign, the rival hosts of Government and Opposi tion are manifestly preparing. The failing health of our leading statesmen is particularly regretable at the very commencement of a parliamentary session that is certain to be more than ordinarily laborious. Mr. Bright's illness has precluded him from putting in an appearance at all on the opening of the Legislature. It debarred him from leaving London, in the first instance ; from going even to suburban Norwood afterwards; and constrained him, through fear of a long rail way journey, to prefer Brighton sea breezes to the more bracing air of far-off Scotland. Scarcely has the House of Commons realised the necessity for the absence of the President of the Board of Trade, when the Home Secretary is also threatened with the withdrawal from the Treasury Bench by indisposition. Mr. Bruce has been, happily, invalided only partially by what Lord Granville had to apologise for, on the first night of the ses sion, as " a very disagreeable but uninteresting ail ment"—meaning a severe cold. Mr. Disraeli's political banquet had, moreover, to be postponed unavoidably from Wednesday last, simply by rea son of the sharp attack of bronchitis from which the right honourable gentleman had, for some days previously, been suffering. Lord Cairns, again, shortly flits off to Mentone until after Easter, when his services to the party, as leader iu the Lords, may be once more put into requisition. Accident has, no less than disease, been dealing rather sharply of late with our officials. Caution on the part of Mr. Gladstone may enable him to husband his physical resources during the session ; but all the care in the world could not have saved the Attorney-General, Sir Robert Collier, from being shot in the leg by some Mr. Winkle of a sporting companion ; or have guarded Sir John Coleridge, the Solicitor-General, from being nearly driven over by a drunken cart-driver. Charles Lever, her Majesty's Consul-General at Trieste, the " Harry Lorrequer" of the Dublin University Magazine, the " Cornelius O'Dowd" of Blackwood's Magazine, the blithest of Irish story tellers, the most slap-dash and helter-skelter of our serial novelists, seems to have brought a swarm about his ears by touching with his pen-point the system (or institution, as it might really be called by this time) of Cook's Excursionists. Lord Cla rendon has been addressed upon the subject by Mr. Cook himself. Lord Clarendon has even re sponded to Mr. Cook by saying that he will com municate with Mr. Lever upon the matter referred to—namely, one of the " O'Dowd Papers" in Ebony. The simple fact in regard to the whole imbroglio appears to me to be this, that there is the mistake of cross-purposes all round. Mr. Lever, for a humourist, wrote for once just a wee bit too gravely, and even caus tically. Mr. Cook underlined the indiscretion (to say the worst of it) of the brilliant and genial essayist by taking his airy badinage all through au serieux. The Secretary of State has failed to re cognise the exceptional and out-of-the-way inci dent of a practical joke exciting an outburst of indignation—et viola tout ! I can only look for ward to the rich and racy fun with which Mr. Lever will serio-comically make the amende honor able under his pseudonym of O'Dowd in Blackwood. Looking to the street improvements made re spectively in Paris and London, one can, in one sense, but not in another, say with Sterne, that they manage these things better in France. We escape their municipal debts, but we are without their imperial transformations. Middle Row, 1101- born, has long since gone. The block of buildings at King-street, Whitehall, is doomed. So likewise, in the fulness of time, is the yet more hideous block of building, forming the southern side of Holywell street, Strand—wedged tightly in between St. Clement Danes and St. Mary-le-Strand. Mean while, both those two last blocks, the block in Westminster, and the block in the Strand, remain triumphantly as eye-aoroo, IlQincryo thew ; And two of the noblest thoroughfares in London will in stantly become, by the simple fact of their clear ance out of the way, transformed, or rather ex panded, into two of the noblest thoroughfares in all Europe. Fortunately for us, perhaps, our Eng lish lEdiles are less daring than those of our neigh bours across the Channel. The magnificent auda ' city of the changes adventured upon in Paris by the ex-autocrat llaussmann, " regardless of expense," is long since perfectly well known, and very thoroughly appreciated. But it is not, by any means, so well known that Baron Hauss mann's successor from Marseilles has, in carry ing out his improvements in that grandest of all the French outports, overbuilt Marseilles to an extent equivalent to a deficiency of 40,000 inhabitants. Strolling recently down the gigantic Rue Imperiale there, I found but one out of every thirty or forty houses in any way occupied. Oae little detail in the way of street improvements it might be worth while a loptin; from our friend.; the Parisians. I refer to the sightly and often picturesque kioska placed here and there along the boulevards for the sale of tit?, public newspapers. Something better, surely, than the tag-rag aed• bob-tail—often shoeless always more or less dirty and mud-stained—who pester the foot-passengers with the ha'penny Echo, the p2nny Globe, or the twopenny Pall Gazette. Bishop Cllathorne's letter to the Times the other morning was certainly suggestive of the small amount of credit to be attached just now to the most conscientious and painstaking of the Roman correspondents. The ecumenical Council being held, as it is, with closed doors, it stands to reason that everything said or written,whispered orshouted, vaguely hinted or explicitly and most emphatically proclaimed, must be, and necessarily is, after all, the merest, idlest guesswork. At Rome the impression is that the labours of the Council will be completed by midsummer. Until, then, it will surely be wise to forego, as much as may be in any way pos sible, the fantastic luxury of this same frivolous guesswork (.1 the 7 ivies', the Telegraph's, and even the Standard's correspondents. The last men tioned, as a rule, is incomparably the best of them all, as the first-mentioned is unquestionably the worst, the wildest in its guesses, and the least re- liable in its information. At the private view of the spring pictures in the Old Bond-street Gallery on this day week, where upwards of 400 paintings and drawings of very variable merit and demerit have been brought to gether, I was charmed with a very clever effect of " Fading Light" (19), by G. H. Boughton, and fairly surprised into admiration by the world of grotesque humour thrown into the wonderfully ela borate illustration of a passage in " Reynard, the Fox" (304), by 11. Bright. The passage selected is the one relating to the advent among the frogs of the new king they have rashly prayed for in suc cession to King Log—to wit, the terrible stork, King Adebaer. In the extraordinary and fantastic humour squandered upon this picture by an artist whose name is altogether strange to me I recognise a work that, in the old time, would not have been been unworthy even of the genius of George Cruik shank. The picture ought to be at once engraved, and would for certain secure to itself an immense popularity. Looking in, immediately afterwards, on Friday last, at the private view of the Society of Female Artists, I there found nearly 500 contri butions (473) hanging upon the walls of the Con duit-street (9) Gallery. The place of honour is awarded to the (214) " St. Hubert's Stag," of Rosa Bonheur, whose sister has also added to the attractions of the exhibition (371) a very animated and life-like group of poultry. Miss Bouvier sends three graceful com positions, one of them especially charming (48), " Come with me," a sketch of three children. G. Bowers, familiar to the readers of Punch, contri butes a Hunting Scene worthy of John Leech ; Miss Lane, a most admirable portrait of her father, the Academy Associate ; and Miss B. cock, a deli cately-pencilled head of a nun, entitled " Wander ing Thoughts." It was indicative of the intense love for sport and the profound interest in games of skill mani fested by the Prince of Wales, that his Royal Highness, in company with L . )rd Caring Lon and others, remained the other night until two o'clock in the morning among the spectators of the memorable Billiard Match played out, in the St. James's Hall, Piccadilly, between the late champion, "Jack" Roberts, and William Cook the younger, the now recognised and indisputable chnupion of that great game, here, in England. The Heir Ap parent can, as we all know, ride as well to hounds as any red-coated lover of a seat on the pig-skin in the three kingdoms ; but we now learn that his Royal lii,ghness can find no weariness in watching, during a long series of hours, the fluctuations of a game at billiards, where the players were well matched in dexterity and in science as they were anything but well matched in the length, and, con sequently, in the scope of their experience. Mr. Roberts has, for upwards of twenty years, held his own against all corners as wielder of the cue, whereas twenty years ago the stripling, by whom he has now been, not ingloriously defeated, was yet unborn. Mr. Kentfield, of Brighton—world fa mous as Jonathan—has never yet been conquered by either, simply because ho has never come into competition with one or the other. Touching upon literary matters, I may mention that a new poem by Philip James Bailey, the author of " Festus," will appear in the next number, for March, of the Gentleman's Magazine. It is written in blank verse, and will be entitled " The Mystery of Life." As illustrative of the liberality of the great American publishing houses, it is worth recording that very recently one of our most accom plished magazine writers, Airs. Cross, instead of re ceiving the stipulated sum in return for a contribu tion of hers to one of the New York monthlies, had forwarded to her, from the proprietor of the maga zine, exactly double the amount. Mr. Tainsh's new three-volumed novel, " One Maiden Only," has just come into my hands as I write. It is gracefully in scribed to his wife, whom he speaks of as " a dear gift from God." In next Saturday's Athenzunt there will be announced, for the first time, the name of Mr. Dickens's new serial story, now almost immediately forthcoming. It is a curious fact in connection with the " Life of Chatterton,' , just published by the Messrs. Macmillan, exactly a century after the " Marvellous Boy's " suicide in 1770, that it is the ninth biography of that won derful stripling that has made its appearance. Besides the anonymous life prefixed to the Cam bridge edition in 18-12, there have issued from the press at different times the sketches of that brief career penned by Thomas Tyrwhitt, Dr. George Gregory, John Davis, the Rev. Sir Herbert Croft, John Dix, George Pryce, David Masson, and now Daniel Wilson. Notwithstanding all these labours, the "Life of Chatterton" has yet to be written in a manner worthy of the young poet's genius and misfortunes. After listening to Mr. Gladstone's three hours' speech on the Irish Land Question in the House of Commons, on Tuesday evening, I attended at Mr. Dickens's two hours' readings in the St. James's Hall, Piccadilly. The audience Nuts larger, more sympathetic, and more enthusiastic than ever. The stalls applauded like a gallery ; and, very probably heartened to new effort by the sensitive apprecia tion following his every look and his every syllable, the great novelist fairly surpassed himself. For this his selections for Tuesday night's readings cer tainly afforded him the opportunity, for they were wondet fully various. First of all there was the tender and delicate humour of the children's love story told by the "Blots at the Holly-Tree Inn." Afterwards there was the terrible murder scene from " Oliver Twist," with those wondrous imper sonations in rapid succession (at moments it almost seemed simultaneously), of Noah Claypole and poor Nancy, of Fagin the Jew, and of Sikes the housebreaker. As an exquisite relief after this harrowing piece of tragic acting—•a pourtrayal of crime and character in every way quite excep tional—the audience enjoyed, with roars of de light, perhaps the most intensely laughter-moving of all the humorous creations of Charles Dickens's genius, the inimitable monthly Nurse, of Kings , gate-street, liolbora—the immortal Mo. • Gamp, of " Martin Chuzzlewit." Altogether, Tuesday evening was, to me, one of very memor able enjoyment. Formerly, in Theodore' Hook's time, the John Bull indulged the gossipmongers of London with Court and fashionable rumours, flavoured with sar casm and spiced with wit. Latterly the Owl, with out spice and without flavour, without wit and without sarcasm, has from time to time given cur rency to reports of this and of that family alliance, affiancing, or betrothal—call it how you please. Since I wrote to you last, Toni Hood, the editor of Fun and of the Latest News, has not only ven tured into the same cloud-land, but, in doing so, has soared high into the social empyrean—an nouncing in a rather roundabout way the pro bable marriage, one of these days; of her 'Majesty the Queen and his Highness the Prince Scowler burg-Glucksburg. Nobody I have yet spoken with, in regard to this gravely enunciated ru moor, gives it the slightest credence. Only a little whil: previously, it may be remembered, a similar rumour was set forth as to the probable marriage of " the E trl of Derby and the Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury." The Thames, d tring two or three lays this week, has been a sight to sce. The navigation was en tirely stopped—the current an archipelago of lee islands flecked and heaped over with snow—toe whole river view (meaning no pun, but simply au artistic allusion) a veritable Branwhite. LA IV LVTELLIGENCE.—This Day, THE MORDAUNT CASE. This morning Sergeant Ballautine asked his lord ship if he would allow hint to read a letter which he addressed to his solicitor, showing that it was expressly his desire that the Prince of Wales should not be subpoenaed, Lord Penzance said this was not necessary. Sergeant Ballantine—After I had heard the evi dence of Sir James Simpson on the sanity of Lady Mordaunt, I desired that the medical men who had been in attendance on Lady Mordaunt in her con finement should see her, and they having done so are not in a position to contradict the evidence of the former witnesses on the point. But the ques tion was whether she was sane at th 3 time of the citation, and for such time afterwards as to be able to give instructions to her solicitors. Lord Penzance—lt seems from the advice which Sir Charles Mordaunt has received, he is not in a position to prove to the jury that she is now in a sound state of mind. Sergeant Ballantine—l wish to put to the jury the substantial question whether, from the 13th of April to a reasonable time Lady Mordaunt was in a position to give instructions to her solicitor. Lord Penzance said another question which would at some time have to be raised, would be as to the state of mind of Lady Mordaunt at the time of her confinement. That of course would have consi derable bearing on her subsequent state of mind. Dr. Deane said that the admissions of Lady Mordaunt, said to have been made in a sound state of mind, would at once weigh in the other suit. It was impossible now to obtain one word of ex planation from Lady Mordaunt. Lord Penzance recommended the learned counsel to think the matter over befur the time for him to address his charge to the jury. The case of Saurin v. Starr and Kennedy is now understood to be finally settled, on the following terms, viz.: The £3OO dowry to be returned (which is tantamount to a verdict for the defendant); each side to pay their own costs ; the suit in Chan cery to be set aside, each party also to pay their own costs ; all papers which have passed in the suit to be returned to the respective parties; and all imputations on both sides to be with drawn. POLICE IN7ELLIGENCE—This Day. THAMES. MURDEROUS ASSAULT ON A WOMAN.—Thomrs Lalor, alias Lawlor, a very strong and powerful young man, labourer, was brought up on remand before Mr. Pager, charged with assaulting and wounding Elizi.beth Small, in a public-house in Poplar, four weeks ago. In the course of a quarrel the prisoner knocked down the woman and kicked her while she was down in a savage manner, and with great force. Tue injuries brought on acute inflammation of the bowels, under which she has been suffering ever since. Mr. Matthew Brownfield, surgeon, East India Dock-road, Poplar, said the woman he had been attending was now out of danger, and had been so for the last two days, but she could not be re moved from her home at present. Mr. Paget remanded the prisoner for another week. STEALING A TRUCK.—David Harwood, aged 42 years, was charged before Mr. Paget with stealing a truck from the premises of Mr. John Byers, of Belinda-street, Bromley. The truck was missed a few days ago. The prisoner afterwards sold the wheels, axles, and springs of the truck to Mr. Henry Thomas, of No. 14, Caroline-street, for 20s. Mr. Thomas offered them for sale to Mr. John 11111, a wheelwright, of Bower-street, Commercial-road, who identified them as the same he had made for the prosecutor. The prisoner said in his defence that he bought the truck and appurtenances of a man named Jerry, in Muddy-lane, Stepney. Mr. Paget—Wbo is Jerry ? The Prisoner—l don't know his name ; he is called Jerry. 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Loudon, and China aS 32 33 31 20 City 100 Colonial 25 41 43 10 Consolidated, lint. 50 Delhi and London, lint 50 East London, Hai 5 20 English and Anio-ican, Urn 10 20 English Bank of Rio de Ja noiro. tint lO 1 :111) 11 20 English, Scottish, and Ass • traliau Chartered . all 1;1 184 171 281 Iloug Kong and Shanghai Bank Corporation aU 37 :- 9 281 Do new lll 41 51 100 Imperial, lira 20 Imperial Ottoman lO 24 3 zb lonian all 2) 12 25 Do new 5 6 3 Lnd Mortgage of India, lint 4 31 31 100 Do 5 p. c. Debs.lB6l, 30 all 7G 76 80 83 100 London Bank of Mexico and South America, lim. 20 5 1 11 100 London and Brazilian, lint. 45 35 ;.'9 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 '2l/ 20 London and County 2O 491 601 481 50 Do new, iss at 20 p.m, 16 pd ll London Joint Stock London and South African al 100 London &S.-Western, Urn, 20 50 London & Venezuela, lint— 121 ... 100 London and Westminster 2O 60 61 100 Do Scrip, iss at 10 pm 2O 100 Merchant, lim 25 10 Metropolitan, lint all 00 Midland, lint 2O 5 National of Australia 25 National of Liverpool, lint. 15 00 National Provinc. of Eng'd 42 10 Do . 42 50 National. 3O 20 Now South Wales all 20 North-Western 7l 25 Oriental Bank Corporation all 50 Provinc. Bank. Corpo., lim lO 30 Provincial of Ireland 25 10 Do new. all 100 Stand. of Brit. S. Africa, lint 25 100 Do issued at 6pm lO 25 Union of Australia all 100 Union of Ireland, lim 50 Union of London 31 32L 13 11 G} 44 71 71 •• •• 3d 1p 41 43 6O 1 43 41 441 61 51 2i 85 87 14 14 8 6 46 48 TELEGRAPII COMPANI ES. /0 Anglo-American Tei., lim siii - 19} 19f 17f 10 Anglo Mediter Tel., 1im.... 10 2uf 21 at Atlantic Telegraph lO 14 16 a t Do. 8 per cent. at B. and I. Magnetic Tel., lim lOO 180 170 at Electric & Inter. Telegraph 100 262 267 12 Up 23 25 a 4 10 Do. New 8 25 Indo-European Tel., lim all 5 Lond. Provincial Tel. lim all 1 Do. Prefer. 10 per cent all 10 Mediterra. Exten. Tel., lim. _ 25 Reuter's Telegram all 121 20 Societe Transatlant., lim all 17 181 17 et Submarine Telegraph 1 Do. Scrip all 11 11 5 U. Kingdom Tel. Co., lira all 7 8 5 Do. 10 per cent. Pref all 11 ti V 10 To Anglo-Mexicali Mint 25 Australian Agricultural 2Ol 16 17 25 Austn Mort Land and Fin, L 5 1d pr 10 Baugparah Tea Estate, Lim all 3 5 10 Berlin Water Works, ,ini 5 Bombay Gas, Limited all 5 5 5 Ditto, Now 4 pr Ipm 50 British American Land 20 British Indian Tea, Limited all 21 31 27 Canada Company all 64 63 20 Ceylon Company, Limited lO 4 3d 20 Ditto, A shares 5 2 ld 25 City of London Real Prop, LlO 7 6d 30 City of Milan Iniprovment L all 4 5 50 City Offices, Limited 50 Colonial, Limited 2O ld pr 191 50 Commercial Union (Asso) 10 Corn of African Merch, L 20 Continental Union Gas, L - . 25 Copper Miners of England, Pref 71 per cent all 5 7 100 Corp of London Bonds, 1877, 41 per cent all 100 Ditto, 1879, 41 par cent 100 Ditto, 1882, 41 per cent 10 Credit Fonc of England, L all 21 31 50 Credit Fonc of Mauritius, L 10 21 14d St Crystal Palace lOO 20 22 St Do, Preference lOO 93 98 St Do, 6 per cent Perp Debentloo 106 111 50 E India Land Credit & Fin L 7 5 4d 32 Ebbw Vale 271 101 01d 100 Egypt 9 p ct Viceroy's Loan gua by Egyptian Gov all 974 984 981 71 20 Egyptian Com and Trading L 4113 3 English and Austr Copper, L 24 1 15 Eng and Foreign Credit 74 4 34 10 Ear3pean Gas all 17 18 10 Do, new..._ 5 4 4/ 6 Fairbairn Engineering 5 ld p 20 Fore-street Warehouse, L 13 34 41p 100 Foreign and Col Gov Trust and Loan 6 per ct Bands all 97 99 Gen Credit and Discount, L 71 1 41 71 General Steam Navigation l4 20 30 /101114 and Col Marino Ins, L 5 1,1 p Hudson's Bay (Governor and Co. of Adventurers of Eng trading into) 111 12 121 12 1 50 Imperial Continental Gas 434 131 136 50 India Rub, Telg Works, L 45 57 59 s'l 10 International Finan Soc, L 5 14 14d 31 20 Italian Irrigatou Canal, Cav all 41-, 41 100 Ditto, 6 per cnt Bonds, red all 1870 50 Laud Securities, Limited 5 2 ld 25 London African Trading lO 50 Loud Financial Assoc, Lim 3O 18 17d 111 4 Load Gen Omnibus, Limd 50 Lond & Glasg Engin, Limd 25 18 16d 20 London and Prov Marine 2 par 4p 24 St Madras Irrig & Canal, guar 100 spc by India Gov lOO 103 105 50 Merchant Shipping, Limtd all 32 37 10 Natal Land and Col Co, Lim all 31 41 25 National Discount Co, Lim 5 114 11/ 10 National Steamship, Limd all 134 14- 1 Nerbudda Coal & In, Ld 6s 6d 1 4 (0 New Consolidated Dis Ld 4 5 New Quebrada, Limited 4/12 41 41d 15 N Zealand Ln & Merc, &c ••• 25 N Zealand Trust & In, Ld 5 14 lip 10 North Assam Tea, Limited 7 7 bit 10 Do, B all d St N British Austral, Li m ited 100 60 7 0 50 N British & Mercan lusnce 61'23 235 25 Ocean Marine insurance 5 15 16p 19 5 Oriental Gas, Limited 5 Do, New 10 Otago & South Invest, Ld 2 1 , 1 ip 2 5 Ottoman Gas, Limited all 2 2f St. Peel Riv Lnd & Min Lim lOO 31 33 50 Peninslr & Oriental Stettin all 45 47 50 Do., New, 1867 lO 31 2/d 50 Rhymney Iron 15 Do, New till 84 8- 1 25 Rio Janeiro City Im. Lmtd all 191 205 20 Rio Janeiro Gas, Limited all 294 34 100 Royal Mail Steam 6O 52 51 St. Scot Aus Invest, Limited lOO 20 Societe General de l'Empire Ottoman 8 21 34 25 South Australian Land - 20 Tel Construe & Maintenance (lira and reduced) 20 Thames & Mers Mn Ins, L 2 24 24p St. Tobacco (Ital 6p c Loan) all 86 88 87 4 10 Trustand Agency of Austra lasia, (Limited) 20 Tr &LnCoof Up Canada 5 d t - P 50 Union Marine Liverpool, Ld 5 6 6 51 , 20 Union Steam Ship, Ld 15 United Dis Corpora, Lmtd 6 2 ld 20 Univer Mar (Ins), Lmtd 5 4 2 5 11 , 10 Upper Assam Tea, Lmtd all i 1 30 Van Diemen's Land ... 28} 7 9 100 Viceroy of Egypt Mort Ln. all 801 814 814 24 50 Warrant Finance, Limited 12 8 6d 50 WI & P Steam, Limited ... 20 4 3d