The Sun. — London, England, 1870-01-17 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocK. Tile business to-day, on 'Change, was very dull, Mid prices for Government Securities have de clined. In Foreign Securities the depression is much greater than in the British Funds, and Spanish Stock is rapidly falling. Iu Telegraph Shares the demand is far from active ; for Banking and Miscellaneous Shares the demand is almost select. Consols are now at 92f to 92i for money ; ditto, for Account, 92f ; Three per Cent. Re duced, ; New Three per Cents, 92f f s ; Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, March, ; June, "-- prew, ; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, March, June, par ; Bank of England Stock, 41 per Cent., 238. India Stock, 10} per Cent., April, 1874, —; ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 112 111 ; ditto 4 per Cent., Oct., 1888, 1001 ; ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent., ditto Bonds £l,OOO, 21 prem. The Foreign Market is dull to-day, and prices tie generally lower. Turkish Five per Cents. are 4 31 43k; the Six per Cents., 661 to 66; ; New Sc rip, to a prem ; Italian, 54f to 541 ; Egyptian, 1868 Bonds, 771 to 771; and the 1864 Loan, 91 to 92 ; Orel-Vitebsk Bonds, 83i to 84 ; Russian, (1866) Loan, 91 to 92 ; and Spanish Bonds, 27 to 271. In Railway Shares, prices also are lower. Cale donian are now, 76f to 761 ; Great Eastern, 371 to 878; Great Northern, 1108 to 1111; ditto (A), 114 to 112 ; Great Western, 601 to 611 ; Brighton, 45 to 451 ; London, Chatham, and Dover, 141 to 15 1 ; London and North Western, 1241 to 125 ; London and South Western, 92 to 91 ; Metro politan, 781 to 79 ; Midland, 1238 t 01241 ; and South Eastern, 77/ to 78/. American Five-Twenty Bonds are lower, at 8G; to 87 ; Ten-Forties, 841 to 85 ; Erie, 17} to 17 4 ; atd Illinois, 1071 to 1088. Lombardo-Venetian is quoted at 20/ to 208; and Great Luxemburg, 131 to 13/. French Telegragh Cable is quoted 181 to 1 811 being a fall of ; British Indian Submarine, and Falmouth are, the former 141 to to 141, the latter 4 to 4j prem. ; Anglo-American, 191 to 198; China Submarine, 1 to 1 prem. ; and Construction and Maintenance, 35/ to 35 8 . In Bank and Miscellaneous Shares prices are without change. No gold operations took place at the Bank on Saturday. The arrivals of gold and specie from abroad in clude 800 ounces of gold dust,value £3,200, by the steamer Athenian, from the West Coast of Africa ; a small parcel of specie, worth £525, by the Ga lileo, from Brazil and River Plate, and £9,500 by the steamer Massilia, from Alexandria, being toge ther a sum of £13,225. The telegrams from St. Petersburgh state that it is proposed to increase the military expenditure next year. The Secretary of State for India in Council has given notice that the Government of India have informed him by telegram that it is their intention to discharge the Five per Cent. Public Works Loau of 1854-55 on the 31st March next, and that the proprietors of that loan will be allowed to transfer their notes to a new loan bearing interest at the rate of 4i per cent. per annum, which is not to be paid off for 15 years. An influential committee of policyholders con nected with the Albert Office have for some time been engaged in maturing a scheme of r econstruction, which has for its object the pay ment in full of all the office's obligations. The plan is expected to be published in the course of a few days. It is announced that the share list of the Anglo- A.rgerptine Company (Limited) will close on Thurs day, the 20th inst. The directors of the United Land Company (Limited) declare a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annam for the five months ending 31st December. The directors of the Norwich Union Fire Office have declared a dividend for the past year of 116 per share. Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co. have invited applications for £BOO,OOO Five per Cent. Bonds of the City of Boston, with interest from the Ist inst., at the price of 87, payable in instalments extend ing to the 20th of June. A sinking fund of not less than one per cent. per annum, to be increased by the interest on the bonds redeemed, will be i a pplied annually to the redemption of this loan by the purchase of bonds at the current market rate when the price is below par ; but when the price is above par, the bonds to be redeemed will be determined by lot. Any balance which may not h ave been thus redeemed will be paid off on the Ist of July, 1899. The arrangement for a joint purse between the 4- nOO-American and French Cable Companies, W hich was suggested months ago, and which has flow been brought about, is regarded with satisfac tion as much in the interest of the commercial Public of Europe and America as those of the share holders. In undertakings of such magnitude the result of hostilities has almost invariably been fatal to the cause of progress, since, as has been shown in the instance of railways, the loss of large masses of capital creates for years a blind Prejudice against any class of investment upon Which i t may have fallen. The best thing for t he spread of ocean telegraphy will be that the early eurapanies should take a solid position and enjoy ample returns. The establishment of a tn°"l3olY is out of the question. Immediately u pon profits becoming unduly large the acuteness of speculators would devise means of competition which no combination could thwart. A compara tively high dividend is the natural reward of the risks of these enterprises, but if the directors and shareholders fail to devote every shilling of fair surplus to a constant reduction of charges and an increase of facilities, the value of their investments will soon be shaken. The Erie Shareholders' Protection Committee have summoned a meeting of the shareholders of the Erie Railway at the Cannon-Street Hotel on Friday next at 12. They intend to ask the share holders either to confirm the present committee or appoint another in their stead, and they will also lay before the meeting their views as to the steps to be taken. In the interests not only of the share holders of th e E r i e li ne, b ut o f a ll c l asses i nteres t e d in. Am erican Securities, a large attendance is de sirable. WUND , '•••TWO O'CLOCK. GOVERNMENT I''UNDB 3 par Cent. Consols .. DUNfor Account 923 Sper Cent. Reduced ............................... New 3 per Ce nt . Now 2i per Cen t. Jan. 1894 .............. 92% Do. 5 per Co n J an. 1873 — A nnu ities, 30 yrs, expire sthJan., ° Do. for 30 yrs, e x p ire sth April 1885 Do (Red Sea Televaph), Aug., 1908 : E xc h oquo r Bills, £l,OOO, 2% p. Ct.llarch 3 doDa.. June D o £lOO, VOO l & .£5OO par Pm Bank of England Stoc k, 4% per Cent Do. opening ................................... Canada per Cent. Bonds nter-Colonial Ommum INDIAN kiIVERNMENT India stock, 104 per Cent., April 1874... De. Opening, for Account ............••••' Do. a per Cent. July, 1880 ............... 112 111 Do 4 per Cent. Oct. 1888 • 1001 Do. Enfaced Pape, 4 per ...... Do. 5 per Cert., Jan. 1872 ,«•••••. -- Do. 5} per Cent. bl — ay 1879 '• I l'' DJ 5 per Cent., Rup.Da:c. 1872., -- Do do 18 .- 7....., — Do. do. 1882 — .th). Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1573 Do Bonde, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO Do. undor . .£l,ooo — 1011119$1 ITINDS—TIfO O'Ol.OOlT. Irgeutine Republic, 6 per Cent Au ;man bond:, 5 per cent Do. 1859 — Br Azilian 5 per Cent ..... ')o. li per Cent. 1852 — Do. do 1858 — Do. au 1860 Da. do., 1863 77 8 Do. 5 per Cent., 1865 De. Account ... ... 80/ Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent. Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) -- Ouba, 6 por Cent. OnWan 6 per Cent — ')o. 4i per Cent. — Do. 3 per Cent., — Do. 7 per Cent., 1866 .. Mt Do. 6 per cent. 1867 97* 0 lo , nnian, 6 per Cent. Danish, 3 per Cent., 1825 Danubian Principalities, 7 ler Cent — D - Account - Do. Account Do 8 per Cent., 1867 ~c uador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent E cyrtian, 7 per Cent...). oo Second Issue •• 00. .€5Ol, Bonds Do. 1864 Do. Account D. £5OO Bonds Do. Al UG Bon 33 Do. 7 per Cent., 1868 ~•..... — Do. £lOO Bonds Govenarutni Railway Debentures 971 Greek sper Cett.,1824 5, ex Coups lO - _ . Do. COUrCIIB . Gamtemala 5 per Cent . — Honduras Cloy Rail. Loan., 10 p.,Ct., all pd Do. Account Italian 5 per Cent., D 565 — )o. Account Do Maremmana Railway — Aexicaz 3 per Cent Ditto fcr Account Dn. 186 4 1 Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French — A ontevidean 6 per Cent. .. — liocrish Imperial 5 pax Cent New Granada l9} Do 3 per Con — Do. Deferred Co Land Warrants (Hectares) Peruvian 5 per Cent. 1865 Do Account 79i 80 DO 4} per Cent. (111:')arren) Do 44 per Cent., 1862 Do Account Do 6 per Cent.,1862 — Portsguese 3 per Ct.,1853, '6, 7,'9,'60,'2,' ' Do. do. 1867 — Do. do. Scrip, £2O paid — Russian 5 ver Cent., 1822, £ St Do 4i per Cent . 1850 Do 41 per Cent., 1860 Do 3 per Cent., 1859 Do 5 per Cent., 1862 Do do, Scrir -- Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1864, £lOO Bonds, 9ll Do. do. £B4 158. do. Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds — Do. do £B4 15s do — Do Nicolas Railway — Sardinian b per Cent — Spanish 3 per Cen . — Do. Accf,unt Do. 1867 Do. Account Do. New Deferred — Do. Passive — Do. Cora. 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 — Do 6 per Cent, 1862 Do. Account 661 Do £lOO Bonds — Do. 5 per cent. 1865 — Do Account Do 6 per Cent, 1860 — Do. Account i 661 I Do 4 por Cent., Guaranteed —' Venezuela 3 per Cent. — Do 6 per Cent. 1864 — Dividends on the above payable in Lou do , Austrian o per Cent. Ex 10 Florins Belgian, 41 per cent., Ex. 25f. Dutch 2i per Cent. Ex. 12 Gui'., — Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ..... — French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. Italian 5 per dent. 1831, Ex. 25f — Do Account 541 TWO O'CLOCK. Oonsols, Money Do. Account, Feb. 3 THE STRANGE CONFESSION OF MURDER. THIS DAY. To-day George Dyer, who it will be recollected accused himself of the murder of George Wilson in Australia many years ago, was placed before Mr. Vaughan for further examination. Mr. Inspector Hubbard said he had made in quiry, as directed, but he could not ascertain any thing additional to what had been stated. He had, however, telegraphed to Australia to know whether any intelligence could be obtained, and it would be a week before an answer could be received. Mr. Vaughan said in that case he should direct that the case be remanded for a week in order to ascertain whether the statement made by the pri soner would afford any clue to the discovery of the offence of which the prisoner had accused himself. The statement he had made must be taken in its totallity, and if it was to be taken on ona side, it must also be taken on the other, and according to that the crime would only amount to manslaughter, for he said he did not do, as he states to have done before the man Wilson bad drawn a knife to attack him. It appeared, therefore, that the manslaughter would nearly have been justified, because the blow, if given at all, was given in self-defence. He should direct that the prisoner should enter into his own sureties of £2OO and two sureties of £lOO each to attend at that court on this day week. POLICE INIELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH- STREET. BRUTAL ASSAULT BY A WOMAN. -- Elizabeth Hayes, the keeper of a baked potato tin at the corner of St. Martin's-lane, was charged with as saulting Emily Herbert, a young woman, living in Newport-street. The complainant said that she was having a dis pute with the prisoner's husband over a halfpenny when the prisoner came up and wanted to know what was the matter, and before she could tell her she knocked her down, her head being badly hurt and her clothes covered with blood. The prisoner said the complainant called her " a lagging --," because she assisted the police in putting one of her friends away. The complainant said she was afterwards taken to the Bow-street station, where her head was dressed, and a gentleman signed his name as a witness on her behalf, but he was not now in at tendance. She never made use of the expression towards the prisoner which she had alleged. Police-constable 324 E, said that on taking the prisoner into custody she said that the complainant hurt her head through falling, but the surgeon said the injury was done with some blunt instrument. Mr. Tyrwbitt fined the prisoner 40s. or a month. THAMES. A COOK COOKING FOR HIMSELF.—George Ed wards, aged 21 years, a cook, was charged with stealing flour and meat, the property of Mr. Thos. Robertson, eating house-keeper, of No. 65, High street, Nl'hitechapel. The prisoner had been for some time in the employ of the prosecutor, and he discharged him on Saturday, previous to which he called in I)amerell, a police-constable, 140 li, who opened the prisoner's box, and found three cakes. Two of them were plum cakes, the third contained a pound of good meat. Mr. Robertson bad been in the practice of making beef-steak puddings of the same sort of meat. The prisoner admitted that he made the cakes of his master's flour and meat. The three cakes contained 61bs. of flour. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and was sentenced ,o 21 days' imprisonment and hard labour. FUNERAL OF GEN. SIR DE LACY EVANS. THIS DAY. This day the mortal remains of this gallant and distinguished general were consigned to their last resting-place in Mensal-green Cemetery. A num ber of persons collected in front of the deceased's residence, the impression being that the funeral would be a military one, but such was not the case. The cortege consisted simply of a hearse and bii mourning coaches. Thu inscription engraved on the coffin plate was as follows :—" General Sir de Lacy E vans, G.C.8., D. C . L ., G ran d C ross of the Order o f St. Ferdinand and Charles of Spain, D.C.L. of Oxford, Colonel of her Majesty's 21st Foot. Was present at Alma, Inkerman, and Wa terloo. Born 7th October, 1787. Died 9th Janu ary, 1870." The funeral arrangements were under the direction of the Messrs. T. and W. Bauting, of St. James's-street. An enormous saving will be effected in plain, fancy, and eommareial stationery, by dealing with the manufacturers, Perkins and Gotto, who receive the papers direct from the mill, and cut. press, and finish it upon the premises, employing up ' wards of 150 hands. They undertake to supply the.public with large or small quantities at a trifling advance upon the cost. A s an example, a ream of 480 sheets of Note Paper for 2m. 500 En velopes for 2e. 3d. Samples and price list post free. Parkins and Giotto, manufacturing stationers, 24 and N Oxford-street, W. nu SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 17, MO. JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Busince dono Closing Share NAME. Paid. Price 10 Agra Limited, A all 11 111 10 Do B lO 4/ 51 50 Albion l5 10 8 00 Alliance, Limited 20 Anglo Austrian 20 Anglo-Egyptian, lim all 22 221 p 251 20 Anglo-Ilungarian 20 Anglo-Italian 1866, limited 10 5 4 40 Australasian 20 Bank of British Columbia all 12 23 20 Do issued at 2 pm.... , 5 4 25 Bank of Egypt 20 Bank of Otago, lim 25 Bank of South Australia., all 30 32 50 Bank of Victoria, Australia, 25 87 39 10 Bank of New Zealand all 151 101 50 British North American 20 Chartered of India, Austra lia, end China all 25 Chartered Mere. of India, London, and China all 20 City lO 100 Colonial 25 10 Consolidated, lim. 50 Delhi and London, lim ,„ 25 50 East London, lira 5 20 English and American, Um 10 20 English Bank of Rio de Ja- 17 18 31 32 10 11 111 1 41 i I 4 5-:0 ;2 - i it neiro. lim lO 20 English, Scottish, and Aus tralian Chartered y44 all 28k Bong Kong and Shanghai Bank Corporation all 28k Do new lit 100 Imperial, lim 2O 20 Imperial Ottoman lO 25 lonian all 25 Do new 5 pr 1p 161 ltil 26 38 4 5 15 16 211 2} 13 19 12 8 3 3: 3 1 76 80 Lnd Mortgage of India, Um 4 100 Do sp. c. Debs.lB64, 30 all 76 100 London Bank of Mexico and South America, lira. 20 100 London and Brazilian, Rm. 45 20 Do new 71 100 London Si River Plate, Rm. 40 25 Do new 10 20 London Chart. of Australia all 20 London and County 2O 60 Do new, iss at 20 p.m, 16 pd ll London Joint Stock London and South African al 100 London di S.-Wcstern, lira, 20 50 London & Venezuela, Lim_ 121 100 London and Westminster 2O 100 Do Scrip, iss at 10 pm 2O 100 Merchant, lira 25 10 Metropolitan, lira all 00 Midland, Um 2O 5 National of Australia 25 National of Liverpool, lira l5 00 National Provinc. of Eng'd 42 10 Do . 42 50 National. 3O 20 New South Wales all 20 North-Western 25 Oriental Bank Corporation all 41 42 50 Provinc. Bank. Corpo., Hui. 10 6i 51 81 30 Provincial of Ireland 25 9J 92 10 Do new. all ••• ••• 100 Stand. of Brit. S. Africa, lira 25 14 14 100 Do issued at 6pm lO 8 6 25 Union of Australia all 46 4; 100 Union of Ireland, lira 50 Union of London l5 5 4 35 Z 4 5 4} 11 13 11 2 p 231 241 491 501 501 311 321 341 13 U Ui 14 - i 00 be be 7e 7f 11 f i'd *lp 41 43 37 3 . ; TELEGRAPH COMPANIES. Ito Anglo-American Tei., lim all 19 2•j 10 Anglo Mediter Te1.,1im.... 10 17.1- 18 201 1 st Atlantic Telegraph lO 13 16 st Do. 8 per cent. lOO 40 45 st B. and I. Magnetic Tel., lira. 100 178 183 st Electric & Inter. Telegraph 100 260 26.5 10 Do. New 8 12 13p 25 Indo-European Tel., lim all 23 2 i 5 Lond. Provincial Tel. lim all 21 31 1 Do. Prefer. 10 per cent all i 1p 10 Mediterra. Exton. Tel., lim all 6 61 25 Reuter's Telegram all 73 80 20 Societe Transatlaut., lim all 161 17 st Submarine Telegraph 1 Do. Scrip all 11 11 5 U. Kingdom Tel. Co., lim all 7 71 5 Do. 10 per cent. Pref all a 1 53 MISCELLANEOUS. 10 Auglo-Mexican Mint all 111 14; 25 Australian Agricultural 25 Australian Mort. Land and Finance, lint. 10 Baugarah Tea Estates, lira 3 5d 10 Berlin Water Works, Hut all 111 141 10 Do. New all .00 Bolckow Vaughan, lint. 5 Bombay Gas, lim. 5 Do. New 4 11 id 50 British American Land 44 15 17 20 British I ndian Tea, lim. 20 British Ship Owners 7l 29 Canada Company all 10 Canadian Loan and Invest ment,lim 2i .. ..„ 20 Ceylon Company, Rm. lO 31 21d 20 Do. A shares 10 City Discount, lim 25 City of London Real Pro perty, lisp 9 51 4 30 City of Milan Improv. 11m. all 5 6 25 City of Moscow Gas, lint all 50 City Offices, lim 25 23 22 131 1 50 Colonial, Hui. Do. 50 Commercial Union (Assur) 5 10 Company of African Mer- G 4 b 6 pr i 51 - - - chants, lim. 20 Continental Union Gas, lim all 25 27 25 Copper Miners of England, pref. 71 per cent. Bank of France. rams, Jan. 6. The following is the return of the Bank of France for the week ending to-day, together with the cor responding figures of the previous account:-- Jan. 6. C ! 15 - z,tTiv,v,v - DEBTOR. Jan. 13. fr. •• Capital of the Banlc., L0.,,,,c,000 Profits in addition to Capital (Art. 8, Law, June 9, 1857) 7,044,776 02 7,044,776 02 Reserve of the Bank and its branches Reserve of landed pro perty 4,000,000 4,000,000 1 4 57 1 918 , : 277 2 403 1 506 , : 968 3 :03 3 27 6 2 7_6 1 Notes in circulation Banknotes to order and receipts payable at sight Treasury account cur rent creditor 1 44 7 301 5, : 8 , 463 1 618 6 668 , : 957 6 689 9 000 4_ 9_ 3 0 Current accounts, Paris 300,823,200 11 315,135,569 43 Do. branch banks Dividends payable Discounts and sundry interests Rediscounted the last six months Surplus of receipts not distributed Sundries 22,105,750 - 22,105,750 14 1,305,522 15 1,305,522 15 Total CREDITOR. Jan. 6. Jan. 13. Cash in hand and in fr. Branch banks Commercial bills over- due Commercial bills dis counted, not yet due 335,889,819 03 3 32 , 488 , 029 02 Do. branch banks 339,445,177 323,415,901 Advances on deposit of bullion 16,198, 700 , Do. branch banks 2,121,600 I Do. on French Public Securities 23,296,400 ), Do. by branch banks 9,286,750 -- I, Do. on railway shares and debentures Do. branch banks Do. on Credit Foncier Bonds Do. branches Do. to the State (Con _. vention, June 10, 60,000,000 1857) 6: 1 7 0 5 00 14 12,980,750 14 Government Stock re serve l O 2O, Do. disposable „ 0 9 0 80 Rentes Immobalisees (Law, June '2, 1857) 1C0,000,000 -- 100,000,000 Hotel and furniture of the Bank and landed property branches Expenses of manage ment 6,294 -- 14,373 60 Sundries 2,097,667 11 342,747 49 1h,971,800 - 2,440,200 -- 20,729,200 - 9,232,000 - 1,139,300 - 4172,200 - 40,210,4; , 0 - 33,702,800 - 9,068,243 - 1,163,500 - 1,172,200 - 9,069,184 - 25f the 2,690 61 , Certified by the Sen 2-----;' a 2 t 9 o l ; 7 Ban 2 k o Total . 1 G 22 0 , of FraL ce. 9;:r9nor2, 0 (Signed) ROULAND. The Bank Returns. Tho Bankers' .Magazinm furnishes the returns of the cir culation of the public and joint-stock banks in England and Wales for the four weeks ending the 4th of Dec. These returns, combined with the circulation of the Scotch and Irish banks for the same period, and the average cir culation of the Bank of England for the four weeks ended the Ist of Dec. (the nearest date furnished by their returns), will give the following results of the circulation of notes in the United Kingdom when compared with the previous month : Nov. 6, Deci 4, 1889. 1869. Increase. Decrease. Private k at o e f B E a n n g k lan s '' 2L11:19109 ~ 133,721 Joint-stock Banks 2,425,071 2,3 ,8,739 56,333 Total in England 29,251,459 28,301,648 948,411 Scotland 4,871 , 3 . 8' 6,287,468 418,140 keland 7,331,1801 7,354,163 27,017 United Kingdom 41,503,957' 4 0,913,269 ;116,110 976,823 And as compared with the month' ending the sth of Dec., 1868, the above returns show a decrease of £363,505 in the circulation of notes in England, and an increase of £105,946 in the circulation of the United Kingdom. On compar ing the above with the fixed issues of the several banks the following is the state of the circulation: — The English private banks are below their fixed issue ••• ••• £1,290,907 The English joiut-stock banks are below their axed issue ••• •.. 369,901 Total below fixed issue in England ... £1:660,8 08 The Scotch banks are above their fixed issue... 2 538,187 The Irish banks are above their fixed issue ... 992,669 The average stock of bullion held by the Bank of Eng land in both departments during the month ending Ist of Nov was £18,443,206, being a decrease of £388,284, as compared with the previous mouth, and a decrease of £71,692 when compared with the same period last year. The following are the amounts of specie hold by the Scotch and Irish banks during the month ending the 6th of N ov. _ Gold and silver held by the Scotch banks „. £3,776179 Gold and silver held by the Irish banks 2,744,884 £5,924,651 being an increase of £518,118 as compared with tho pre vious return, and an increase of £321,393 when compared with the corresponding period last year SHARE LIS7. IRDINARY 611A1 S AND STOCKS. raid. Closing deuceßusi a Price. at Mist nand Exeter ...... 10) 76 78 at Caledonian .... ... iOO 751 76 76: I at Cambrian 20 Cornwall. all 2 3 at Dublin & Belfast June lo° at Dun„ Perth, & Ab.Junc lOO 70 72 2) East London all 5 7 SO Do 15 -- 20 Do 10 st Glasgow &S. Western lOO 105 107 at, Great Eastern . ' IOO 3,1 38: 371 f at Do. E. Angl. No. 2 lOO 61 71 at lireat Northof Scotland lOO 15 16 at Great Northern lOO 110 111 1101 at Do. A stook.._.— lOO 1101 1111 1111 et Do, B stock lOO 121 129 et Gt S. and W. of Ireland lOO es 100 at Gt. Western —original lOO 061 56; 6 11 st Do. South Wales lc° 6.) 61 6 at Do. W. Mld.—Oxford lOO 31 40 at Do. Newport lOO 22 3t 24f at Lancashire & Yorkshire lOO 1261 1271 128 1 at Lon., Brigh.,& S.Coast lOO 461 471 44 / Do Scrip et Lon., Chat., and Dover lOO 15 151 11/ rt Do. Metrop. Ex. A lOO 11 13 at Lun. & North Western lOO 1211 , 221 1141 A Lon. & South Western lOO 02 04 931 4 Man., Shel., & Lincoln lOO 53 531 52f 4 at Metropolitan .. it Do Extensian .. 5 Do. New rd .. .. all at Metropolitan Dibtriet. all 30 32 10 Metrop. St. John's Wood 6 at Minims(' at DO, Birmin. & Darby lOO 87 Eis at North British ..... . lOO 341 351 at 0.. Ed., Pei.. & Dun lO6 st Nor h:astern—Berwick lOO 25 D_ G. N.E purohase 16 . 13 . 1 at D Leeds ....... 100 79 80 at I) °York . 100 1181 1191 1:5/ st D °Carlisle .... . lOO st 1) °Stock. & Darling... 100 158 ILO at North London .. lOO 119 ,21 10 Do New 18C 8 at North Staffordshire...... 100 61 63 6 f at North and S. W. Junction 100 99 10'. 10 Do New £lO shares 7 ... •• at Rl , :,.mney . lOO 53 65 at Shropshire Union lOO 591 601 st South Devon'.. at South Eastern lOO 77 1 77 at Staines, Wok'ham, & Wok all 13 4 18 at Tad Vale lOO 154 158 -- Do. C ... 6 - - Waterford & Kilkenny.. ICO 10 Waterloo & Whiteha•l.. 6 Railways 1211 122 i HALLWAYS-PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Et Bristol and Exeter 4 p.cent. 100 st Caledonian Qrs., No. 2 lOO at Do. Scot. N.E., 44 per cent lOO at Do. Aberdeen, gua 6 p.c lOO at Do. do. 7 per cent lOO at Do. do. Ordinary lOO at Do. Midland at Do. Dundee and Arbroath 100 20 Cornwall, o per cent gua all at Dundee, Perth, and Aber- 105 107 deen Junction lOO st Ist Class preference lOO at Glas. & S.W. gua. 5 per ct lOO at (it. Eastern, E.O Ex. No. 1 100 st Do do N 0.2 100 st Do do 6 per cent 100 at Do East Anglian A sp. c. 100 at Do do B 6 do. 100 at Do do C 7 do. 100 st Do do No. 1, 5 p.c. 100 et Do E. Union 4 p.c. gua. 100 at Do Norfolk 5 p.e.Ex.1846 100 st Do du 5 p.e.Way.Val.lB47 100 at Great Northern, 5 per cent 10) at Do 5 p.c., rd at 10 p. c. pm. 100 Do 41 do do do 100 at Do 5 do at sp. C. pin lOO st Do Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax, 6 per cent lOO at Gt. Nrth of Scotland, Ist pf 100 at Great South. and Western (Ireland) 4 per cent lOO at t.West.—Orig.&Jut.-Rent chg., per gua.s p.c lOO Do. Orig. (B. &H. Ex). 5 p.c lOO Do do 4) per cent. 1850 lOO Do do 4 do do Do do 5 per cent. rodent. 100 Do do Birmingham gua IUU Do do du pref lOO Do do Chester gaa, lOO Do do do 8 per cent. 100 Do do do 5 do 100 Do South Wales, gua. 4 p.c. 100 Do do 41 p.c lOO at Do do 4 1850— 100 st Do do 5 at Do West Slid. Oxford Ist g. 100 at Do do 2d gua. 100 at Do Newport, lstg. 5 p.c. 100 st Do do 2d do 100 at Do gua, 51 per cent. 1863 100 00 Lancaster & Carlisle 41 p.c. all at Lancash. & Yorksh. 6 p.c. 100 at Do Barnsley, £5 Os 10d p.c. 100 at Do 6 p.c. (East Lancashire) 100 at Do 41 (Blackburn porch). 100 at, London & Brighton, 5 P.C guaranteed, 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 at Do 7 per c0nt..... at Do 6 do (W.E. & 0.1 ) ) 100 at Da 4 do 1859 lOO at London, Chatham, & Dover 5 per cent lOO C. and at London and 1.1. W., Nuneaton 5 per cent lOO at Do Bedford &Cambridge.- 100 st Do Shrewsb'y & Welchp'l 1 0 ,3 _at London and S W. 7 p,c late 3d shares, lOO a Do (Portsin. peril ans 2s6d) all a Man., Slid., &Linda: 6 p.c. 100 a Do 'per cent — lt i d "1 . 4 a— -1 Do redeem. 6 percent 5 at Mid. Consolidated ,6p. c lOO 130 135 a Do Bristol& Birm., 6p. c lOO 1 .31 135 Do 41 per cent. redeem IOU 58 lOU a Do 4! per cent. irredeem lOO 96 1 , ),) Do Lticestcr &ifehn,4 p.c 100 80 91 at North British, 5 p.c. No. 1 lOO at Do E. &G.4p.c. S. & D toe at Do N. 8., N 0.2, 5 per con.t lOO at Do Border Union, 51 p.c lOO st N.-Eastern —Cons. 4 p.c lOO 87 85 st Do 41 per cent. redeem-- 100 97 99 st Do U N.E. 4 per cent., lOO „, 17 Do Lerwick capital Do York, H. Sr S. purchase lO 10 101 Do Stclau S: Drliug. A 5 p.c lOO 107 101 at Du W, Hartlepool 11. and R 100 88 88 20 North Staffordshire 103 13. Devon Annuities, 1 all 9 10 103 Do Tavistock Anna., 10s all 81 91 10s Do Fixed 41 per cent all 8 81 1 0.6. S. East. (Read. Arms., 1.0.6) all 22 23 at Do 41 per ceut lOO „„ at Do Fixed 41 per cent at Taff Vale No. l lOO 151 154 at Waterford & Eilkenny, 6pc 100 98 1)) 97 99 110 113 68 72 107 i 94 98 106 118 95 100 90 12 80 82 97 9../ 68 72. b 5 U 5 1% 116 116 113 115 96 98 1,3 13 130 135 93 IUO 110 11 145 150 RAILWAYS.-PREFERENOE SHARES AND STOOKS. With Dividends contingent on the Profits of each separate year st CSledonian 41 p c gua. st Do Scot. Ceu. min. 7p c lOO ..„ „,. st Do 41 p irredeem „• st Do 4p c con. issued at 80 65 , at Great Eastern 41 per cent 100 77 80 at Do 5 du, 1862 lOO 87 00 at Do New 5 do, 1863 lOO 81:1 88 st Do do 5 do, 1861 lOO 83 86 at Great Northern, 5p c irred. 100 at Do Permanent 5 per cent. 100 ••• at Do Boston &Stead, 41 pc 100 *** ••• at Great West., W. 5p c 100 7: st Do Joint perpe. 5 p c,1865 100 88 ;2 at Do do 6p c irred., 1866 100 110 112 20 Do Vale N eath perp. 5p e all at Kent Coast, 6 per cent, 8... 100 • • • 5 Lane. and York New 41 per c ent till July, 1 871 2 1p at Loud., p od Brig o 4 d, 41 P. 0 0 c, 1858 186 1 1 00 0 st Do do 41 do, 1861 100 ... 83 at Do do 44 do, 1863 100 gt, Do do b do, 1865 100 st Do No. 6 5 do, 1866 100 st Do No. 7 sdo at Lond , Chat., &c., 2d, 6 p.c at Do bletrop. Ea., B 6 p.c 100 Do c 11) C 6 p.c lOO et London & N Western, 5p c 100 108 110 at London &S. Western, 41 p o 100 C 3 95 10 Man. she. & Lin., 5 pc, 1865 all V 91 at Metropolitan 5 per cent lOO 100 102 at Midland, Lk 5 per cent pref lOO 107 109 110 at Do B 5 do 100 107 109 110 18 Do 5p c opt. to cony. to Ord. Stk., Sept. 1, 1869 all 201 211 18 Do Aug.onc con e . in to y. Nw Shares Old all 19 191 22 Do Stk., 5 p 31,1872 Bl 11 2/p at North British, E. and (1 No. 1, 5 per cent ... 100 at Do £lO guaranteed, 1861 100 Do E ,P., & Dun., 2d, 4pc 100 . o . at Do E. &G , No. 2, b p.c st Do N,8.. 5 per cent, 1862 100 at Do E. & G., N 0.3, 5 p.c ... 100 at Do E. & G., (Ordiry) 4/ p c 100 •• at North Eastern, 4/ per cent 100 IN 1 0 at Do Stock. & Darl., D ... 100 113 115 at North London, 41, per cent (Max. 5 per cent) at North Staffordshire 5p c lOO at South Eastern, 41 pc, 1859 100 st Do 5 do 1861 100 ". at Do sdo (Ch. Cross) 1863 100 at Do b do, 18 64 at Victoria St. &Pimlico, 41 pc 100 BAILSAYS.-LL.NES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS st Birkenhead lOO 91 93 00 Do. 41 per cent. Prefer.., all 98 100 at Buckinghamshire at Cheater and Holyhead lOO 54 i 6 at Do. 54 per cent. at Do. 5 do. st Clydesdale, guaranteed lOO ... ... at Colchester Steer Valley at East Lincoln, gua. 6 p . c lOO 137 131 N Gloster and Dean Forest all ... ... s Gt. Ease., Newm., &c., 5 p.c 100 ... ... s Do. E. U. Harwich, 4 p.c 100 ... ... st Do. do. Woodbrg.Ex., do 101 .. .. a Gt. West, W. Mid., Herd 100 97 99 50 Hull and Selby all 110 112 at Lancaster and Carlisle lOO 217 222 729 at London and Blackwall lOO 93 95 at Do. 41 per cent lOO ••• ••• at London, Chat., &c., 44 p. c lOO ... ... et Do. Com. Fund, sdo 100 ... ... st London and Greenwich st Do. do Preference lOO ... ... st London, Tilbury, & South 100 83 85 83 st Lotvcatoft,gua 4 per cent l.OO 79 81 at Do. .9. 6 do 51 blanch., 8tk..... Matlk all et Midland, Bradford, Prof lOO 10 Mid Kent Cray Lir.t.) 50 Northeruk East., 5 per cent all 53 96 90 Do. do. 6 do. all .. at N. Eastern--Hartlepool .. st N.West. A perp. prof, bp c lOO 107 109 st Do B minimum 14 p.c lOO at Notting. &Urauth 11.5; C lOO 91U;; 25 Preston and Wyre. all 44 46 St i e s : Y :bnry 1' iltacuild" and Shep. 100 132 134 .. Ilerciord 100 132 124 10 Do d 8 2 21p 8 S. Yorksh. and iiiver Dun 100 97 99 D 4 per cent gua lO ) 78 SO • A do at Viet. Station and Pimlico lOO . st West Cornwall 20 West Loudon, Class A all 13 14 20 Do do B all ••• ••• 20 Do do C all at Weymouth and Portland- lOO . . a t Wilts and Somerset 02 94 DOCKS. et East and Wesandla lOO 1?4 120 London and St. Katherine 100 51 53 100 D oDeb. stock, 4 per cent Ilillwall Freehold Land et Dock 10) 8 31 at Southampton ljo 72 75 at Surrey Commarcial JURISDICTION OF JUSTICES OVER TWIN. PIKE TRiTSTEES. On Saturday, in the Court of Queen's Bench, the question arose on a special case whether the Rate-in• Aid Act, justices can lay down any principle they think proper for getting the money to repair turnpike-roads. In the present case the trustees of the Brighton turnpike road appealed against the decision of the magistrates of Hove, near Brighton, whereby the parish of Preston had to pay to the trustees only in respect to their mileage. The appellants said the turnpike-road extended from Westminster to Brighton, a distance of thirty-four miles; and, according to this principle of levying the rates, the parish of Preston (where the traffic was very great, and consequently the roads would require a great. deal of repair) would only pay a very small sum, whereas in the country parishes (where the traffic was small and there was a great deal of mileage) the payment would be very large in proportion to the outlay, upon the roads. The court decided that the magistrates had full power to decide upon these matters ; and there fore their jurisdiction could not be upset. MARRYING FOR MONEY. About as extraordinary a case of " marrying for money" as we remember was investigated at Leicester on Friday. A roan named Louis Lenard, between fifty and sixty years of age, and an engineer by trade, was summoned to show cause why he should not contribute to the maintenance of his wife. It appeared from the evidence that about five or six years ago Lanard, wLo was at that time living with his mother, made the acquaintance of a "young" woman about 50 years of age, who had never been married, and who was reputed to have saved a decent sum of money. Lanard courted her for five years. On the 31st of May, 1868, she •' took him for better or for worse." After the performance of the ceremony the " happy couple" left the house to go to the home which Lanard said he had provided for her, and on the way he ventured some remark about her money, saying he should want some of it. He soon found out that his ideas as to the pos session of his bride were very disproportionate to the wealth she actually possessed, which amounted to the sum of £3 10s. Be thereupon left her, and returned to his mother's house, his wife going back to her lodgings. From that time the husband and wife never saw each other for ten months, when an ordinary salutation passed between them, and they next met at the police-court. Mr. Ilaxby contended that, as the marriage was not consummated by cohabition, his client was not liable; but in this he was overruled, and the magistrate made an order upon Lenard to contribute 4s. per week towards the support of the wife. IMPORTANT QUESTION UNDER THE VACCINATION ACT. On Saturday, in the Court of Queen's Bench, the ques tion arose, in the case of Allen v. Worthy, whether a per son having been once convicted under the Vaccination Act of 1867, for disobeying the vaccination order, is liable to be convicted a second time, or any numier of times there after. The complainant was summoned before'two Jus tices of the county of Huntingdon, at St. Neot's, on the 30th March, for disobeying the order of the justices, in not having a child, Eliza Allen, twelve years, old vaccinated, and lie was convicted of the offence. He was again convicted on the Bth of May, 1869 : and it is against this second con viction that the complainant now appealed, a special case being sent up by the magistrates for the opinion of the Court of Queen's Bench. On both occasions when the appellant was convicted there was a medical certificate given by Dr. W. J. Collins, stating that Eliza Allen was unfit to be vaccinated ; and it was contended on behalf of the appellant that this certificate was a sufficient answer to the summons. The magistrates did not accept this cer tificate, because, on examining it, they found it was the same certificate as had been used on the first order; and farther, that Dr. Collins being opposed to vaccination alto gether, had expressed an opinion that Eliza Allen would never be in a fit state for vaccination. They, however, relied on their power to convict any number of times until their order was obeyed. On the conclusion of the arguments the Lord Chief Justice delivered final judg ment. It was quite clear that the legislature intended to give additional powers to the officers appointed for the pur pose of ensuring vaccination, and enforcing the performance of that operation. The former Act only gave power up to the age of four months, but this Act extended it to four teen years. Though the Act of 1867 did not in express tams say that a person could be summoned and con victed from time to time, yet the Act was a remedial one, and they must give it a reme dial construction. It was quite idle to discuss the construction of the Acts of Parliament, because the question was agitating the public mind as to whether vac cination was a blessing or an evil ; for it was clear that the - - 1 " , •••••• nnn AVAIL the Pranrein MAYA of AT a Pr; nn.ti to the age of 14 years was of great public moment and importance; and the enactments were not to be void able on a man paying a penalty once. The conviction of the magistrates was, therefore, right; and judgment must be given for the respondents, upholding their decision.—Mr. Justice Mellor and Mr. Justice Hannen concurred. OPEN COMPETITION IN TIIE CIVIL SERVICE. The Economist believes it to be quite true that a pro posal to throw the Civil Service open to competition is before the Government, but its form has not been exactly comprehended by the public. The project, or rather the idea, for it is scarcely a project, now under consideration, is nothing less than a reform in the whole Civil Service—a reform'which would materially affect its entire organisation. The Treasury has for some time past been much impressed with the embarrassment which the existing arrangement of that service entails upon the State—embarrass ment that constantly impedes its action. Every department requires, in order to its perfect effi ciency, three classes of employes—one or at most two parlia mentary officers who act as links between it and the repre sentatives of the country, who direct its general policy, and who are changed with every change of Ministry; a certain number of capable men able to comprehend the Parliamentary chiefs, and carry out their wishes in all de tails; and a much greater number of subordinates to get through the enormous mass of desk work. Under the present system both these latter classes, different as their work is and their responsibilities are, are selected by the same means, are paid on the same principles, and are invested with a kind of freehold in their offices which makes reductions very difficult and additions very burdensome to the Exchequer. Young men of good education and fair position are tempted by a few prizes to enter a service where for years they are employed as mere clerks, where their attainments are thrown away, and where they become infected with a spirit at once of routine and of discontent. At the same time their claims aro so great that it is next to im possible to reduce their numbers or to intro duce outsiders into special appointments, or to pay the competent members salaries adequate to the work they were called upon to perform, salaries which in private occupation they would obtain. It has oc curred therefore, it is said, to Mr. Lowe to ask whether it might not be possible to introduce a sys tem more or less resembling the remarkable one which has grown up in India—to divide the Civil service into two parts. One, which would be the Civil Service, would be filled with men selected by open competition of the severest kind, would perform brain work only—would commence in posts of between £3OO and £5OO a year—and would be entitled, as in Prussia and India, to compensation whenever removed without specific charge. The other would consist of clerks only, who would be employed when wanted at the rates current in open mar ket—who would be as liable to dismissal as if employed in merchants' offices without either pension or compensa tion—and who might therefore be accepted without ex amination. If they could not do the work they would go, as they do in all private offices. The case of ill-treating pauper lunatics at Lan caster, the particulars of which we gave some time ago, has been dealt with by the magistrates, and one of the prisoners, the man Wood, is committed for trial for murder. CLERICAL MARRIAGES.—WhiIst parents of the superior classes allow their daughters to marryclergymen, in consideration of the value and attainableness of eccle siastical preferments, parents of the inferior classes are ambitious of clerical alliances for their girls, out of regard for the distinction which attaches, in the humbler of the middle grades, to a clergyman's wife. The amount of wealth that steadily flows to the clerical order through the action of this particular ambition is enormous. In our large cities this tendency of newly acquired riches is very ob servable. The prosperous tradesman or small merchant, who would regard his daughter's marriage with a thriving man of business as no affair for exults tion, and who would refuse his consent to her marriage with a struggling doctor unable to make a settlement upon her, is well pleased to give his only girl, with her fortune of ten or twenty thousand pounds, to a clerical incumbent whose private fortune would not furnish his bride's drawing-room, and whose professional income does not exceed an average curate's stipend. The girl, he argues, bac enough for herself and children; and, though she won't have a rich husband, she will be a rector's wife. Setting aside the fortunes made by our great bankers and merchant princes, I am disposed to think, that of the wealth realised and accumulated during the last two generations in this country by enterprise in commerce and the industrial arts, at least one-third has flowed to the clerical order through the wedding-ring— "Jeafferon'i 4 . 4 Ain( Vie Cler9o 87 8.4 86 78 82 PARIS CORRESPONDENCE. SrICDAY. The crime at Auteuil, and the prosecution of M. Rochefort have not yet lost any of their interest. Paris, which loves sensations, has now two at the same time, though it is true that the one depends partly on the other. The Government, we must hope, will be able to regain by their conduct of the trial the position which they have undoubtedly lost by their resolution to persist in the prosecution. The trial of Prince Pierre is, of course, a matter of absorbing interest. Nine witnesses were cited yesterday, among them Paschal Grousset and Ulric de Fonvielle. The Prince is still at the Conciergerie, where he receives numerous visits. He sustained, accord ing to the Public, a serious bruise on the left cheek from Victor Noir. The Prince was asked during his interroga tion how it was that he fired at the unarmed Victor Noir when he saw Fonvielle draw out the pistol. "Because," he answered, " I felt the outrage before I perceived the danger." The Prince does not appear to see any outrage in firing on an unarmed man. The Constitutionnel says that the Council of Ministers has unanimously pronounced in favour of pursuing the policy of prosecuting M. Rochefort. This accords with the reply given by M. 011ivier to M. K6ratry in the Chamber yesterday. He stated that the sub ject was still under the consideration of the Council of State, and he did not know whcn it would come on for discussion, but it would be brought forward as soon as possible. It is now thought likely that the discussion will commence on Monday. M. Keratry's proposal to adjourn the question for a week was defeated by a large majority. The Independance Beige thinks that the Ministry have already reaped evil conse quences by their persistepce in the prosecution of Roche fort. The press prosecutions are multiplying, and the 011ivier Ministry has entered upon the aggressive policy which it was hoped bad been entirely abandoned during the Forcade administration. In spite, however, of the, representations which have been made to them, the Government have made a Cabinet question of the prosecu tion. The Left Centre dispatched an emissary to M. 011ivier to induce him to adopt a more moderate policy, but the Minister refused to enter upon the subject at all. Many deputies have received threatening letters, warning them not to consent to the prosecution of Rochefort. It is also rumoured that the Government, on their part, made some communication to Emile de Girardin, for the purpose of temporising the attitude of the Liberte. The opponents of the authorisation to prosecute Rochefort point out that the latter will be tried before judgment is pronounced against the Prince Pierre Bona parte which will produce a deplorable effect, But a worse effect will be produced if unfortunately it should turn out that M. Rochefort was condemned to a heavy penalty, and the Prince only suffered a slight infliction. The Government will incur a great responsibility by pursuing their present policy. The Journal de Paris, which is supposed to be a Minis terial organ, declares that it will be a great mistake to make Rochefort's prosecution a Cabinet question, and that the friends of the Government should warn them The Siecle quotes a passage from M. 011ivier's speech at a public meeting last May, and argues that M. Rochefort is not liable to prosecution for his remarks in the Marseillaise. M. 011ivier said:—" With regard to the press, have I not always demanded for it more than Benjamin Constant, more even than the deputies of the Left? The jury is not sufficient for me. What I wish for human thought is complete immunity. I make a dis tinction between act and opinion. The former falls under the ban of the Penal Code ; the latter involves only the intellectual or moral responsibility of him who expresses it. Such is my theory." M. d'Oms, of the High Court of Justice, spent the greater part of yesterday in inspecting Prince Pierre's hotel at Auteuil. M. Grousset, as a writer in the Orarseillaise, has received a citation to appear before the Tribunal of First Instance, but he has refused to obey it, declaring that he will not recognise either that tribunal, or any Bonapartist jurisdic- Victor Noir is likely to gain a degree of celebrity by his death, which his life could hardly have brought him. In addition to having caused a bonterersenient of the whole city, and seriously imperilled the dynasty, he is to have a monument. M. Itaspail has sent a contribution of 50fr. The Ministry have refused permission to sell the portrait taken of him after death, at least if we are to accept the statement of M. Carjat, photographer, published in the Rappel. There is as, I have already told you, division in the camp of the Irreconcilables. The withdrawal of M. Gustave deal of comment. You have already had his version o the affair. Here is Rochefort's :—" There was on -Wednes day amongst the Democrats who attended the funeral of Victor Noir two opinions—some wanted to traverse Paris with the coffin. whilst the others were anxious to preserve to the manifestation its pacific character. As I was the only deputy present, the crowd consulted me; but when the crowd is determined to act, it never consults anyone. I was well aware that one hundred thousand men and all the cannons imaginable had been called into requisition. We were little, or not at all, armed, and found ourselves at Neuilly, that is to say, almost in the country, and obliged to besiege Paris to gain the strategical points on which a struggle could be engaged. Furthermore—and here is what renders more marked the difference between Flourens and me as to the course to be pursued in case that what Robespierre called the most holy of duties should become a necessity—the intentions of the day had been imprudently rumoured about the evening before in the . various meetings. A revolution is something unexpected, and if you inform your enemy that the next day at two you will blow out his brains, he will be sure to take proper precautions, and you will not succeed in doing anything of the sort." The Revell of the 12th of January expresses itself in the most extravagant terms, and declares that all is not over because the funeral of Victor Noir has been completed. The condemnation of Prince Bonaparte cannot absolve the past, of which he is a complete illustration. The evil must be eradicated in the root. Paris will not fail in per forming this duty and France waits for its execution. Under the pressing excitement of the last few days ordinary politics have been completely overlooked or for gotten, nevertheless the debates in the Senate have been of considerable importance. The discussion raised by M. de Maupas on the policy of the new Ministry was inte resting on two points. The analytical compte rendu becomes occasionally extremely oppressive to the journals, which are abliged to publish it in full whatever its interest. They have no power to publish one part with out another. Tho natural consequence is that one of the houses has to be sacrificed, and the Senate has the most reason to complain of being frequently omitted. The other question, which is prac tically interesting, is M. 011ivier's explanation concerning the mayors. The Minister of Justice made a very unwel come statement on this head. The Cabinet, he said, would not, in the promised measure of reform, go so far as the :election of the mayors by the municipal councils. Whatever the Cabinet may be, the country is quite prepared to go as far as this, and I doubt if anything short of it will satisfy the public. M. Ernie de Girardin has an article in the Liberti, de claring that if the attacks on the Emperor in the Mar seillaise are dangerous, the Procureur-G6neral is the greatest offender against the law, for by his prosecution of a deputy he has given it a degree of publicity it would never otherwise have attained. Uertain insinuations against Mr. Baxter, M.P., are explained by the Dundee Advertiser, which states that the son of the hon. gentleman will assist his father at the Ad iuiralty merely as an unpaid attaché. According to the North Wilts Herald, it is stated that Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice, the present member for Caine, will contest North Wilts in the Liberal interest at the next election. 'The Sheffield Telegraph says that rattening is again the recognised and tolerated custom of the town. It is not only done, but it is done promptly and almost openly as soon as a man omits to make his weekly payment to the trade secretary. The Duke of Cambridge has been again examined before Lord Northbrook's Committee with reference to the proposed transfer of his department to Pall-mall, and has likewise had several interviews with Mr. Cardwell on the subject. his Royal Highnesa's objections to the scheme are, tho Broad Arrow believes, as strong as ever. The Albert Memorial at Dublin was completed yesterday, by the placing of a E tvtue of the late Prince Consort on a pedestal forty feet from the ground. The figure is of stone, ten feet and a half in height, and the Prince is clothed in the robes of the Oruer of the Garter. At about seven o'clock last evening a serious collision occurred at the Tyne Dock Station, South Shields. A. passenger train from Newcastio ran into a coal train. Both engines and trucks were smashed, and the lino was blocked for two hours. The passengers were severely shaken, but no lives wore lost. A solicitor of Holywell, named Davies, has been charged with perjury. In an action against him for salary he swore that he had paid a £lO note to his clerk, which it appears he did not. The defence was that his statement was not material to the issue of the case. On this argument the charge was dismissed. S ORTLNG Hls Imo. CII BETIIN G. —THIS DAY. WATERLOO (COURSING) CUP. 4 to 1 agst Lord Lurgan's nomination (wanted? 100 to 6 agst Mr Brocklebank'anora. (taken) 100 to 6 agst Mr Skink's nomination (taken) 16 to 1 agst Mr Blanshard's nom. (taken) 20 to 1 agst Mr Bland's nom. (taken) 25 to 1 agst Dr Richardson's nom. (taken) 30 to 1 agst Lord Bunning's nomination (taken) LIVEIiPOOL GRAND NATIONAL. 1600 to 100 agst The Lamb (taken) 500 to 23 agst The Colonel (taken) 23 to 1 agst Q.C. (offered—take 28 to 1) 1000 to 30 agst Nuage (taken) 1000 to 30 agst David Copperfield (offered) 1000 to 35 -eget Schiedam (taken) 300 to 9 agst Doctor (taken) 500 to 15 agst Snowstorm (taken) 500 to 15 agst- Partullagh (taken) 200 to 6 agst Little Rogue (taken) 33 to 1 agst Lymington (offered— take 40 to 1) 200 to 5 agat Costa (taken) 40 to 1 nit Scipio (taken and offered) 40 to 1 agst Count Horn (offered) 40 to 1 agst Fan (offered) 1000 to 20 agst Roving Maid (taken) 250 to 5 agst Hariester (taken) 500 to 71 apt Summertime (taken) 1000 to 15 agst Tathwell (offered) 1000 to 10 agst Casse Tete (offered) TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. 4to 1 agst King Craft (offered) 9to 2 agst Sunshine offered (5 to 1 taken) Bto 1 agat Camel (offered) 9 to 1 agst Astolfo (offered) 1000 to 70 agst Sunlight (offered) 20 to 1 agst Normanby (taken) 25 to 1 agst Asterope (taken) 1000 to 30 agst Alaric (offered) 40 to 1 agst Macgregor (offered) 40 to 1 agst Bay Rosalind (offered—take 500 to 10) 1000 to 15 agst Kingcraft winning the Two Thou sand and Sunlight the Derby (taken) 1000 to 800 agst Mr. Merry's lot and Kingcraft coupled (offered) 7 to 4 agst any two (offered) DERBY. • 625 to 100 agst Sunshine (offered—take 7 to 1) 8 to 1 agst Kingcraft (offered) 14 to 1 agst Camel (offered) 200 to 11 agst Bridgewater (taken) 20 to 1 agst Astolfo (offered) 500 to 25 agst Sunlight (taken) 1000 to 28 agst Asterope (offered-40 to 1 taken) 40 to 1 agst Macgregor (taken and offered) 40 to 1 agst King of Scots (offered) 40 to 1. agst Alaric (taken to £5O), 200 to 5 agst Exciseman (wanted) 1000 to 10 Blue Stocking (offered) 5000 to 1000 Sir Joseph Hawley's lot bar on! (taken) HENRY BELL TIIE JOCKEY.—This well-known and respected jockey is now lying in a very dangerous state in Guy's Hospital. It will be remembered that Bell rode the celebrated horse Faugh-a-Ballagh, when he won the Great St. Leger, the Cesarewitch, and ran second for the Emperor's Gold Cup at Ascot, all in the same year. RACING FIXTURES-1870. FEBRUARY. Lincoln...—. -15, 16 I Derby .. 22, 28 Harrow 17, 1.8 I Nswton .... 25, 26 MARGIT. Notthvban 1, 2 1 West Somerset l3, 17 Liver puol B, 9, 10 1 Warwick 22, 23, 24 Pontefract 14, 15 I Epsom 29, 30 Cambridgeshire ......14, 15 I Bromley 31 and April 1 APRIL. __ . ...... Northampton s,6llNrew market Craven 18 to 22 West Drayton 7, 8 I Aborgavenny 21, 22 Thirst Kingsbury lB, 1) I Croydon. '2B, 29 Durham lB, 19 I MAY. Newmarket Ist 5p,...2 to 5 1 Harpenden 2O, 21 Chester. lO, to 13 1 Bath 24, 25 Winchester lO, 11 1 Stamford .26, 2's Salisbury l2, 13) Croydon 2 6, 27 York 17, 1 8 Epsom 31 to June 3 Doncaster 19, 20 I JUNE. Croydon 8, 9 Manchester 8,9, 10 Ascot 14 to 17 Windsor 2l, 22 Newton 22, 23 Hampton 23, 24 Bibury Club 29 Stockbridge.„3o, and JPly 1 JULY. Newmarket sto 8 WeSt Drayton 14, 15 I Nottingham 12 , 13 Huntingdon. l9, 20 Chelmsford l2, 13 I Kingsbury 2l, 22 Reading 12, 13 I Goodwood , 26, 29 AUGUST. Brighton 2, 3 I Stoat(' l7 to 19 Brighton Club 4 Oxford - 18, 19 Lewes . . . .5, 6 I York 23 to 25 Egham 9, 10 I Plymouth Wiud A sjy „11, 12 I Derby SO, 31 nn ei SEPTEMBER. Warwick 6, 7 I Richmond 20, 21 Abingdon 8, 9 I Western Meet (Ayr) 21 to 23 Doncaster 13 to 16 I Hendon 22, '23 Hampton 20, 21 I Newmarket lst Oct. 27 to 30 OCTOBER. Bedford 4, 5 I Newmarket 2n 0ct..10 to 14 Leicester Bromley 0, 7 I Newmarket H0t'n...114 to 29 NOVEMBER. Liverpool 8 to 11 I Shr ewsbur y 14 to 18 STEEPLECHASE FIXTURES-1870. FE BRUAR Y. Biriningham 8 , 9 1 Harrow .................. 17, 18 Derby 10, Nowten .................. 25, 26 MARCH. Liverpool 8,9, 10 8r0m1ey..,...81 and April West Somerset 16, 17 Cheltenham...Bl rid Aprn Warwick 22 to 24 RIL. Kingsbury lB, Ii AP. Aldershot 7,.8 THE WRECK IN CARDIGAN BAY. ABERSOCH, NORTH WALES, Jan. 15. The lifeboat Mabel Louise, belonging to the National Lifeboat Institution, and stationed at this place, has happily been the means of saving the thirteen men who were supposed to have been lost from the ship Kenilworth, of Liverpool, which has been totally wrecked on St. Patrick's Causeway. It appears that the Barmouth lifeboat Ellen, which also belongs to the Lifeboat Society, went out to the wrack in a tremendous sea and while the wind was blowing a gale from the westward. After a long struggle she got to it, anchored, and veered I alongside, when a communication was effected, and the shipwrecked crew commenced to lower th emse lves, one by one, into the sea, made fast by lines, and by these means eight of them were safely got into the lifeboat. By this time the gale had increased and the sea risen fearfully, when suddenly the rope connecting the lifeboat to the ship parted, the boat's cable had to be cut, she drifted to leeward, and all attempts at the time to get back to the wreck were unavail ing and the boat had to make for Peollheli,which was safely reached. A message was then sent to the Abersoch Lifeboat station some distance to wind ward, asking that that boat might also be sent out to the aid of those who had been left on board the wreck. PRICE OF GOLD. The quotation of gold at Paris Is about at par, any tae short exchange on Londo n is 251. 15c. per Al sterlin.:, c om paring these rates with the English Mint price oi ,n £3 Os. 100. per ounce for stand ard gold, it appears that gold at the above price is slightly dearer in Paris than in LJndon In the early days of Western emigration an in telligent Irishman, known as Pat Doogan, settled on the Kentucky side of the Ohio river, where he built a little dock and supplied steamboats with wood. The place was called Pat Doogau's Landing. It was soon shortened into "Pat Doogan's," then into "Padoogans," and finally to the euphonious name which now appears on all the maps, Paducah. A reliever for rudder chai ns has recently been invented in the United States. The relievers are con structed on the principles of t he c y linder and piston hav ing an india rubber or steel springs, on which the piston head rests. When the instrument is shackled on to out a chain and a strain is brought to bear, the piston draws in a s imilar way to the bar of a spring b a l a nce. When the sea strikes the rudder the shock is not communicated to the wheel, and the chains are at all times relieved from the effects of sudden jerks. The President of the United States has awarded a gold watch to Willia m Oxle y , master of the barque Fief worth, of Shields, in acknowledgment of the services ren dered by him on the 28th of August last wham the whaling sc h oo ner Susan N. Smith, of Boston, United St ates 35 0 f. America, Job P. Rounse ville, master, was in l N., longitude 10 W., capsized in a hurricane and became a total wreck. The captain's wife and their two childre , and all others on bo ard, except the captain and four sean men, were washed away and lost. The five survivors re mained on the wreck, the bo ws of which alone were above wa t e r, for eight days , without food, water, or covering. On the sth September, the Fletivorth, bound from Penanq for London, saw the wreck, bore down upon. her..!l of 11 1 rescued the five men from their perilous bituatvr, all them being wellnigh exbautsted and ready to perish, and Captain Rounsville delirious from mental . and physical suffering. The conduct of Captain Oxley Is reported la most generous. He gave the unfortunate seamen the best of his clothing, stores, and medicine, and presented Cap t.; Rounsville when be left the barque with money for hi_ immediate wants. The seamen of the shipwrecked !essel also declare that they received the devoted attention of the master, officers, and crew of the Pettvorttt, and that they were indebted to him for nursing, clothing, and re ' storation to life. N ~~: k 096 _