The Sun. — London, England, 1870-05-04 00:00:00

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( t r .,. e Association. nent are ! I , and sever to_ D. Coleridge nent with Ulu vel solely 0 0 Tes this inf o m-row of/ 131 '1, ,he copyrlea 1 as Was and t•adical," e of his beg `OMEN. ed Le a djourn Society o . a She sa l :hould striae ,e physiciatoo. bold seek to it Blig ht of null se io of gre at • to ) f a class loctor, Wo„ e gs only. f o r 11 adapteci..e, t of niediquor most 1 _„ c 1 s tandard ram as for would iOO, o n of dawn of II Edinb ul lof n the w i kl al profee and sag r be taugh. o r aid eer t ee; hatever 04 t they ' l 4 O 3uliar fi tli a ,wn se s) 9 „ r I aim at, i s c :9ol promptly 1 DGE' E ve rting t 4 )8 r ail) 1 345 0 t 5 min P ast p ast P)2 ruin t 8 win q t 8 30 La!" P a st s 9 min THE MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLoCK. The Stock Market to-day exhibited syMptoms of improvement ; this, with the 'brightness of the weather, gave things a cheerful tone, and Consols improved on the quotations of yesterday. The im provement extended to the Foreign Market, and we have to report another rise in 1865 and 1869 Turkish Loans. In Railway Shares a fall to the extent of three-quarters had occurred in Caledonians on its becoming known the directors proposed to issue an additional £1,350,000 in shares of £lO and £7. The demand for discount is active in the open, aud on 'Change there is much demand for money for the settlement account. Consols are now at 938 4 4 38 for money; ditto, account, 948 ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 92f I * 8 ; New Three per Cents., 928 s 8 ; ditto Annuit es, 1885, 11 1-16 ; Bank of England Stock, 41 per cent., 233 5. Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 21 per cent., par 5 prem. ; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, prem. India Stock, 10f per cent., April, 1874, 209 f 9 ; ditto 5 per cent., July, 1880, 1131 s ; ditto 4 per cent., Oct., 1888, 100* 1*; ditto Enfaced Paper 5 per cent., 1872, 103 f ; ditto 5} per cent., 1879, 109/ 101. In the Foreign Market Argentine Six per Cents. are now 911 to 921 ; Brazilian Five per Cents. (1865), 8 9* to 898 ; Egyptian (1868), 80* to 80} ; Italian Five per Cents. (1861), 55 15-16 to 56 1-16; Mexican Three per Cents., 14/ to 15 ; Peruvian Five per Cents. (1865), 871 to 871 ; Spanish New Three per Cents. (1867), 28 9-16 to 28 11-16- ; Turkish Fire per Cents. (1865), 481 to 48i ; ditto Six per Cents. ( 1 865), 72* to 721. English Railway - Shares are quiet, and the move 'ltems are very trifling. Great Eastern is better, at 42f to 421 ; Great Northern (A) Stock at 126 f to 127 ; ditto Ordinary, 120} to 121} ; Caledonian, 7 3 to 73f ; Midland, 126 to 1261 ; Lancashire and "Yorkshire, 1291 to 1304 ; Great Western, 71/to 721 ; South Western, 90 to 92 ; London and Brighton, 451 to 451 ; South Eastern, 771 to 77/ ; Metropolitan, 76/ to 77 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 52 to 52f ; and North British, 36 to 36f. In Bank Shares London and Westminster have improved 61 to 62 ; Agra (A) is quoted at 10} to 11 ; Alliance, 12f to 13f ; Anglo-Austrian, 14 to 16 prem. ; Chartered Mercantile, 31} to 32} ; Consoli dated, 41 to 4}; Imperial Ottoman, 38 to 4i prem. ; London and County, 49 to 50 ; London Joint Stock, 3 4 to 34 ; and Union of London, 32f to 38f. American Five-Twenty Bonds are 881 to 881: the Ten-Forties, 851 to 861 ; and Erie Shares, 181 to 19. Telegraph Shares are very quiet, and prices gene rally are without change. Anglo-American is marked at 161 to 17i- ; British Indian, 91- to 9* ; China Sub marine, 2 to 14 dis. ; Falmouth, 9 3-16 to 9 5-16 ; French Cable, 151 to 161; and Construction and Maintenance, 361 to 36/. In Continental Railway Shares Lornbardo-Vene tian is 151 to 15i, and Great Luxembourg 131 to 131. The New Egyptian Loan is 1 I prem. The Scrip of the Japanese Loan is 4 die. The cause of the Japanese Railway Loan being at a discount is attributed partly to the rumour lately received by telegram of the American Consul at Jeddo having been murdered, and partly to the fact that an instalment of 15 per cent. becomes payable to-day, which may have caused a pressure of sales on the part of weak holders. Ti e J. N. Fleming, from Otago, New Zealand, has brought £28,600. The Manchester markets this week have opened Without any return of animation. The private advices from Brazil by the present mail repeat the statement that there is no expecta tion of any proposal being brought forward for a f oreign loan. The importations of wheat into the United King dom during the first quarter of the present year h ave been 7,474,615 cwt., showing an increase of about 6 per cent. on the corresponding period of last Year, and a decrease of about 12 per cent. from the fi rst quarter of 1868. The advices from Manchester announce the stop page of Messrs. William Marshall and Co., manufac turers, Todmorden, but their liabilities do not exceed ab out £lO,OOO. r, An extraordinary meeting of the Submarine 41 egraph Company is called for the 10th instant, W hen resolutions will be submitted for authorising t he company to lay down a new line of tele l'al)hic communication between England and France, 111 accordance with the Convention entered into wi th the Frenei Government on the 2d day of ' Ja nuary, 1859 ; also for authorising an applica tionto the President of the Board of Trade that th e capital of the undertaking shall be further lbereased to any sum not exceeding 2.400,000 ; also for aut h or i s i ng , i n th e even t o f suc h i ncrease b ei 'lg sanctioned, the issue of the further amount „, £73,225 stock, in addition to the present paid- I ? capital of £300,000 ; also to authorise the treet °r S to allot to Mr. Algernon Borthwick, one , f ;', t he Gerants of the Societe Carmichael et Cie., "ue sum of £3,000, being part of the issue of the said £73,225, and to be paid for him at the rate £lO O cash for £lOO stock, in consideration of 'oPortant services rendered to the company, both di F rance an] England ; also to authorise the e ctors to apply the money received frinn the issue ° the said £73,225 stoc k, i n th e fi rs t p l ace , f or t h e b st of the new line of telegraphic communication r: tw een England and France, and to apply the rl' ul ,aiuder t o p a y o ff th e ex i s ti ng D e b en t ure B on ds Preferenc e St o ck of th e com p an y as f ar as th e iv, 4 ine will extend. ti rt ile allotment letters of the Thetis Marine In rt,anoe Company (Li m ited) ha v e b ee n p os t e d. railwa y ordinary meeting of the E as t ern Be nga l . 411 way Company will be held on the 25th inst. BRITISH FENDS—TWO O'CLOCK. 3 .13 ,C-4,VERNMENT rust.s. .1; ee nt.Cousols a l „,, c o fur Ai.,(,out.t 9l i 921 N;,, , lat. Re 111 c, .1 .... ° .. 921-ii v ' Pee Ueut ...•• , - o j 1 , 04 Lie. , iel „ cut. all. 1• ,... ..., ... A '• ° nor Oen Janice.li3 oitie, 30 yr sth Jan., 1t80.... ....''"‘"':,.(lTT,...AiF;6tvk it'''.l'.',::lir.,ir'tle.:Jttii.i - I',- t i :g ri - 1, 1111 ' 8: —• • : Ipl-arl-51.6pm ' iolu .- 1-.!ii,•,. 41,000, 21 p. Ut• i. 3) - 1 4:100, 4.:20t. , & £5OO , k, ,F , -• A glauil Stock , 4i pOr Ut: . i . li . .. i:: . e‘,. -, openin4,:, l lß 4 per Cont.o Bonds 'r -Colonial thunnun — I tidi . 01 AN ki 3 vElvottNT 8 ECURITI E,. . __ 1 9 a. Rtock 104 , April 1874 209 Dc. „.... ! . er Gout.., r)v). uoniu g , for Account 1131 I 130 ° Per Cent. July, 1.880 100 i 1 , .. 4 per Cent. Oct. 188 5 i i ) , • _Enlaced l'atan 4 pf,r(l.llt-• 4*••"...... 103— • .') per Cent. Jun 1872 •••• a-'" "' 3 0 ' '; 1 .1 P9r (1,,t. May 187 i, ' 4-' -.,.,' th'2' Cent. a , Rup. P Y. — . 1872,.,......... 109 101 , ..• 1882-- — i, -Do, (I.Q. Ang. 187 a ••• D • Deb. 5 Per (3ont , - rill n llon4 4 Per Cent., . 1.. Incler .£1.1101) ' FOREIGN FUNDS—TWO O'CLOCK. in .c 000 ..... ...... 1 1., ! • . 0 t(ulitlrle Repubhe, 6 per (lent .10 Ac,....ra ........................ -.— ..... 4,4 lltriv.ii 11 atIFI f. pc , : cent .. Pic ' : 1859 .............. .... ra.li.ilisti 5 Per ectit I - 1 3 ' l'i Por Oslo,. 1852 O. h O. do 18i8 . •••• QU 1 .86 .) . ': .... •••• 0 IM:4 .... ... 0 . 0 1,•?r• ' Celit., 1.P5G:0 ................. ... • . ................... ...... , 15 • onus Ayres ti per Cent- ... 13 0 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Oent — 891 1 THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 4, 1870. SH AR B LIST. PERFECT ARCHITECTURE. RAILWAYS-ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. The proceedings at the inquest on the man killed in the recent accident at Bldckfriars Bridge appear to have been highly satisfactory to all concerned—unless, indeed, to the unfortunate man's family, and such inquisitive persons as would like to know why the arch gave way. There was an enthusiastic boncurrence on tye part of all the witnesses that no arch ever was built of so perfect a description in every respect as this which broke in two and killed the man. Mr. T. Walker, the contractor's manager, declared the arch to be " perfect and entire ;" the bricks were not defective, the work had been well done ; more time had been allowed for this arch than for any of the others. The witness admitted that the arch had been rather unequally weighted, and perhaps this had caused the accident. Mr. Baker, the engineer's chief assistant ; would not admit this, however. Even if the arch had been overweighted ott brie side, it would not have come down as it did without warning ; the work Wad very solid, and "done in an admirable manner;" the mortar quite good, the arch not of an unusal span. As to the cause of the accident, he ascribed it to a " combi nation of unfortunate circumstances ;" and what those circumstances Were we fail to gather from the report. On the contrary, everything is pronounced per fect. The verdict of the jury is also remarkable: It was "Accidental death," with a remark that a little more care should be taken in the loading of the arches, but that everything had been done in this instance that could have been wished. The jury would have been more logical had they added a caution against building arches in too per fect a manner—that is at least the drift of the evidence. We can only hope that when the Metropolitan Railway is finished it will not be found to have too much of this kind of perfection about it.—Pall Mall Gazette. Closing Business Paid. Nauls. Quotations. done. St Bristol and Exeter , 100 78 80 80 St Caledonian 100 731 741 73.1. St Cambrian lOO 15 20 20 Cornwall all 21 31 St Dublin and Belfast Junction 100 . . . . St Dun, Prth, and Aber. Jnnc 100 70 72 • 20 East London all 4 6 20 DO 20 Do St Glasgow and S.Western 100 116 117 St Great Eastern lOO 42 421 421 1 1 St Do East Anglian, No. 2 100 61 7* St Great North of Scotland 100 15 16 St Great Northei a 100 121 122 121 St Do A lOO 126 127 1261 St Do B lOO 126 128 St Gt. So. and West (Ireland) 100 98 100 St Great Western Consolid 100 71 711 72 St Do South Wales 100 68 70 St Do West Midland—Oxford 100 44 45 St Do do Newport-100 86 38 St Lancashire and Yorkshire 100 130 131 1294 St Loud, Bright'n, and S.Coast 100 43 431 St Loud, Chatham, and Dover 100 144 154 16 St Do Metrop Extension A 100 9 11 St London and North Western 100 126 f 1271 1271 1 St Loudon and South Western 100 881 89 St Manch, Shef, and Lincolnsh 100 51 51 521 St Do New. issued at £5O dis 30 St Metropolitan lOO 791 80 77 St Do Preferred... lOO ... ... St Do Deferred 100 10 Do Redeemable all . 4 14 10 St Metropolitan District 100 37 38 371 f St Midland lOO 124 k 125 126 k i St Do Birmingham and Derbyloo 92 94 96 St North British. • ....100 34 35 St Do Edin, Perth, and Dunde.loo 13 15 St North Eastern—Berwick —.lOO 126* 1271 1851 St Do Leeds 100 89* 90* 89 St Do York... St Do Stockton and Darlingta 100 178 180 St North Loudon lOO 120 122 10 Do New, 1868 6l If I i St North Staffordshire 100 59 61 St North and So. West. Junct 100 102 105 St Rhymney lOO 52 54 St Shropshire Union 100 62 63 St South Devon 100 46 48 The rumour that Mr. Darcy Irvine, or Castle Irvine, had been fired at through the window of his resi dence, is confirmed, and it is now reported that both Mr. Irvine and his butler had a narrow escape. The police are scouring the district, but up to the present time no arrest has been made, The matches between the Cambria and the Sappho ; the English and American yachts ; will cont. mence on the 10th inst. Three races are to be sailed, the two first sixty miles to windward ; and the third ()ter a triangular course. The weavers of Bury have determined that a re= quest shall be made simultaneously by the weavers of Bury ; Blackburn, and East Lancashire for an increase equal to the amount taken off their wages last year, which was promised on the revival of trade. A circular to this effect has been sent to each eniployer: M. de Malarce, a French political economist, is at present in England on a scientific mission, being charged by the French Government to study certain questions of an economical nature, especially the institutions tending to an inaprovenient in industrial production by the prac tical edheation Of women of various classes of society. St South Eastern 100 761 771 771 St Do Preferred ...100 1091 1101 1111 12 St Do Deferred... lOO 41 411 444 I St Staines, Wok'ham, Jt Wok'g. all 121 131 St Taff Vale 10 Do 0 6 3 6 St Waterford and Cent. Ireland 100 10 Waterloo and Whitehall A telegkam from St. Petersburg to the. Temps announces that an insurrection of the Kirgliisei had broken out on the shores of the Caspian Sea. The insur.: gents have taken the fort Alexandre,in one of the bays of the Eastern coast, and made thirty-eight prisoners. Toops have b een sen t f rom th e wes t ern (Caucasian) ore: The strike of the Glasgow joiners has virtually terminated in a kind of drawn battle. While most of the Masters yielded to the demands the men; some nineteeri shops continued to work ten hours—the nine hours' move went having, in these cases, been unsuccessful. Yester day, however, the joiners in the employment of Mr. prassey, contractor for the Union Railway—fifteen in number—have struck work, in consequence of being kefused the nine hours' system and the advance of a half. penny per hour. The Dublin Freeman denounces "Lothair " as the most immoral production of the day. LONGEVITY IN THE COUNTY COURTS. - The county courts have recently afforded two curious instances of extreme age in litigants, coupled with extraordinary vigour. At the Selby Court, on the 16th instant, an action was brought by a dentist against an old lady of 78 for a set of teeth. She appeared in person, and we are told " the vivacity of the defendant greatly enlivened the proceedings." Curiously enough; at the same court, on the 28th ult., a female plaintiff conducted her own case s although she had attained the venerable age of 104. We are not surprised to hear that ' • she was accommodated with a chair whilst stating her case," which, we are happy to say, she gained.—Law Times. The cost of the National Uallery, exclusive of trio sum expended in the purchase of pictures, has been during the last five years as follows :—For the year ending 81st March, 1866, £5,523195. 7421. • 1867, £ 5,736 15s. 2d. , 1868, £ 5,386 B.s. ld. ; 1869, £5,310 2s. Bd. ; 1870, £7,565 4s. 7d. This last sum includes £2,008 Os. for the purchase of the library of the late Sir Charles Eastlake. Joseph Green Wilson, who was yesterday com mitted for trial at Wem for shooting his father with two balls from a revolver, had an interview with his father-- the first that had taken place since the lamentable occur rence. It was most affecting ; especially on the part of the father, almost the only words which escaped the son being, I did not do it father; it will be known some day who did." The members of the International Working Men's Association resident in London are, it is stated, about to call a general meeting of that body in the course of the present week, for the purpose of protesting against the insinuations which have been made to the effect that there was complicity amongst some of the London mem bers of the Association with respect to the plot to assas sinate the Emperor of the French. The Uologne oTazette says that a Californian savant named Hanley has created a great agitation in San Fran cisco by pointing out in a recent work that there were Chinese in the country a thousand years before the , Spaniards. Several German papers have thereupon re marked that as long as live-and-twenty years ago Pro fessor Neumann, of Munich, produced proofs from Chinese sources of the discovery of America by that people. Earlier still, Desguignes affirmed that Chinese books spoke of a land in the east which can have been no other than America. Abraham Crossley, an earthenware manufacturer, at Hunslett Hall, was yesterday summoned before the Leeds stipendiary magistrate, at the instance of Mr. Lickards, sub-inspector of factories, charged with having employed boys between the ages of thirteen and eighteen during prohibited hours, It was proved that on the even ings of the 6th and 7th ult. four boys were kept at work by the defendant between six and eight o'clock, and on a previous occasion until eleven o'clock at night. The in formations were twelve in number, and the minimum penalty in each case was imposed, the total being £l6, in addition to costs. We have reason to understand that the report which appears in a naval contemporary that Captain the Hon. F. A. C. Foley will take the place of First Lord's Secretary, is untrue. He will have command of the Indus, guardship of Reserve at Devonport, at present held by Captain W. S. Luard, C. 8., who takes the place of the Hon. A. A. Cochrane, the latter, having attained his flagrank, giving up the post of superintendent of Sheerness Dockyard. Captain Stanhope, serving as flag captain, and in command of the Ocean in China, has received by telegraph the offer of the appointment of First Lord's Secreary. Should he refuse it—which is improbable, as he has been absent from England for nearly four years —rumour says it will be offered to Captain Tryon, C.B.—Glebe Poor. CORBET.—Mr. B. Corbet, the editor of the Mark Lane Express, was present at the dinner of the Farmer's Club, which took place at the Salisbury Hotel last night, and read a paper in which he advocated the adoption of the Lincolnshire tenant-right agreement throughout the country. In the dis cussion which followed there was much of per sonaltK. Mr. Smyth wanted Mr. Corbet to toll them ow they could grow corn at ss. a bushel, and be have loyally towards their Queen and Constitution. Mr. S. Sidney though they ought to receive Mr. Corbet as a prodigal son, and kill the fatte.l calf for him, as it was the first time he had ever heard a paper read by him in which there was not an ill-natured remark about some body. The discussion lasted a considerable time, and was every now and then enlivened by some attack upon Mr. Corbet. A SUPPOSED FENIAN CENTRE.—OWCn MgDonald, an Irishman, supposed to be a Fenian Centre, has been brought up on remand, before-the Bishop Auckland magistrates, charged with treason felony. The prisoner, and three other men, were apprehended for the share the share they had taken in a rather serious breach of the peace. On two of the men were found six-chambered re volvers, dartially loaded ; while M`Donald himself was armed with a couple of the same weapons. From these and other circumstances the police were induced to search McDonald's house, where they found a copy of rules belonging to the Irish Republican Brotherhood cer tain other documents, some revolvers, and ammunitio n . The bench did not feel justified in committing the prisoner on the charge of treason-felony, but bound him over in the sum of £5O and two sureties of £25 each, to be of good behaviour for six months. His three companions were also bound over for the same time in similar recog nizances. The documents and arms were ordered to be detained by the police. ADVERMEMENT. 1-- Consumption, and all nervous bilious, stomach, ant liver complaints in every stage are only aggravated and acc3lerated by drugs of every description, but perfectly curable by Du BARRY'S health-restoring Revalenta Arabic°. Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had been considered hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), cough. asthma, consumption, habitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric derangements, haemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, ner vousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throat, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleepless /less, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness even in pregnancy or at sea, sink ing fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach, and between the shoulders, &c. We quote a few: -The Pope's health restored by Du Barry's Food. Cure No 68,413 -"Berne, July 21, 1866. The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every meal It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly."—From the "Gazette du Midi," July 25. Cure No. 46,270.—Mr. James Roberts, timber merchant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness. Cure N 0.1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. "Fifty years' indescrib able agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, con stipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Jolly " Important Caution.—Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. In tins, at is 10; Ilb 2s 9d; 2 lb 4a 6d; 51b 11.5.; 121 b 22s 24 lbs 4 s.— Also Du BARRY'S REVALENTA. A RABICA CHOCOLATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups at 2s, for 24 cups at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at6s, for 288 cups at 30s, for 576 cups at 555 —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 55s tins are sent free of carriage in England on receipt of Post Office Order. — BALMY Du BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London; and all Grocers and Chemists. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. COMMERCIAL TREATIES. The Times remarks that the triumph of Free Trade never appeared more firmly established than it was throughout the debate of Tuesday night. Mr. Birley had scarcely begun his speech when he made it plain that his own sentiments on the subject are harmless and even praiseworthy. The point he desired to impress upon the House was that the import duties into France still re mained so high as to rest r i c t our expor t a ti ons t o our neigh bours, and to pretent any trade whatever in some com modities. Every one can agree in this statement, and a Select Committee is not wanted to prove its truth. Whether as a practical consequence of it we should be zealous in season and out of season in lecturing the French Government upon the propriety of still further reducing their import duties, or whether we should quietly wait till the French nation learn that such a course would be to their advantage, is a matter on which opinions may differ, but this doubt is not likely to be eluddated by a Select Committee. The truth, how ever, remains clear that Mr. Birley does not wish us in any way to retrace our path s and we are happy to free his name from a misapprehension he bioUght upon himself. More than this ; it may be said th a t o f a ll w h o had a kind word to say in favour of the motion—and they were but seven speakers out of a score who took part in the debate--four only appeared as Protectionists, and the wildest of these four protested, to the amusement of the House, that he was not speaking against Free Trade. It was thus made evident that the policy of commercial free dom stands more firmly than ever. It has even acquired a mystical authority. Those who cannot understand the arguments in its favour pay homage to its name, and re pudiate the suggestion that they are disbelievers. Free Trade is like the Circulation of the Blood, the Newtonian Theory of the Solar System; the geological proof of the Antiquity of the World ; very many educated men would probably fail if they attempted to demonstrate these theories even in the quietness of the family circle, but all accept them as part of the inherited science of humanity. The Standard says that in discussing the Treaty of Commerce with France on Tuesday night, the House of Commons wandered so far away from the question at issue as to make the result of the smallest possible value to the country, The question, as raised in the terms of Mr. Birley's motion, was simply one of the appointment of a select committee to inquire into the operation of the treaty of 1860: Unfortunately the debate was suffered to fall away into A general review of our commercial policy, and into discussion upon the elementary principles of free trade. Had it been confined within the limits of Mr. Birley's Motion it is impossible to see how the Government could have re fused the inquiry which was asked for. We certainly did not Maker the treaty with France solely for the sake of the consumers, for If we had we should have insisted upon ab solute free trade on eith6r side ; whereas the author of the treaty himself has told us that lie thought less of free trade when he made it than of the political relationS between the two countries. C ... ,1 la il ti per Cent. "e. 44 per Cent.. Do. 3 par Cent., Do. 7 per Cent., 1866 .. rto. 6 per cent. 1867 '; lo.ohian, 6 per Cent. Damian 3 per Cent., 1825.. C v im , 6 por Cent. Dane inn Principalities, 7 ler Cent B9 1 Do Account - Do 8 per Cent., 1867 - Ecuador New Censolidated, 1 per Cern ... - E cyytian, 7 per Cent.... .... .. 83} %, ' , cerise] ISRIIe 'i0...£50( Bonds ..... ... . ...... Do. 1864 ••• - 2 - 8 - Do. Account . - • Do. 4500 Bonds Do. Al 90 muds . ... . Do. 7 per Cent., 1868 Do. Accent', - Do..£lot: Bonds - Government Railway Debentures preen 5 per Cent., 1824 5, ex Coups... ..... .. - Do. Coupons ... - Guatemala 6 per Cent .. - Honduras Gov Rail. Los n., 10 p. Ct., all pd._ - Do.£loo - Itaiian 5 per Cert., 1866 , -- Do. Account ... - Do Maremmano. Railway._ •- •lexicaL 3 per Cent , ......... .. ...,.. - Ditto for Account ... Do. '1864 - Do 6 Dor Cent. Anglo-French... - hi , nteyidr, , an 6 per Cent.- - , e crish lmperia, 5 par Cent V 0 ki' (3ranada .„.... 25 4} Do 3 per Cen - Do. Defer•ed Do Land Warrants (Hectares) - Peruvian 5 per Cent. 1865 Do Account ••• - Do 44 per Cent, ,g.TI: I- etrren) ...-- ... ...- - Do 44 per Cent.. 1862 - Port-rgueserlper Ct., 1853,'6, 7, 9,'60,'2.'''... 334 4 Do. do. 1867 - Do. do. Scrip, £2O paid - Rissian 5 e er Cent., 1822, £ St .. ... - Do 44 per Cent 1860 - D, 44 per Cent., 1860 - DI 3 per Cent., 1859 - Dr 5 per Cent., 1862 .......... . ... ..., Dc knglo-Dutch, 1864, £lOO Bondi 93 Do du. £B4 15s. d 0..... - Do., 1860, £lOO Bonds 93 Do. do £B4 15s. do. . 9O Do Nicolas Railway 6B -ardiniau • b per Cent - 'Spanish 3 per Ceu Do. Account - Do. 1867 Do. Account - Do. New Deforr :a .. - Do. Passive - Do. Com. Cert. of Coup. not funded - Do. Account - Swedish Provincial Mortgage Loan - Do Government, 1864 Do do, 1868 Turkish 6 per Cent . 0 . Account Do 6 per Cent. 1858 D. Account Do £IOC Bonds Do 6 per Cent., 1862 Do. Account • ''. £lOO Bonds Do. 5 per cent. 1865 , Do. Account. , Do 6 per Cent., 1863 Do Account Di 4 per Cent., Guaranteed.. Do do, Scrip Venezuela 3 per Cont. Do 6 per Cent. 1864 Di 6 per Cent.,1862 Dividends on the above payable in London. Austrian C par Cent Ex 10 Florins ...... - Belgian, 44 per cent., Ex. 25f. ... .• Dutch 24 per Cent. Ex. 12 Guil - Do. 4 por Cent. Certificates ..... - French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. - Italian 5 per Cent. 1851, Ex. 25f Do Account - 86 68 f 741 48i I ........ 72i TWO O'CLOCK. Consols, Money Do. Account, Juno 1 POLICE INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Mr. Henry Follett, butcher, of No. 8, Great Col lege-street, Camden-town ; Mr. William Stapleton, gentleman, of No. 22, Brecknock-crescent ; and Mrs. Mica Stapleton, of the same address, were charged, before Mr. Tyrwhitt, with being drunk and disorderly in Leicester-square. From the evidence it appeared that on the previous night the prisoners went to the Alhambra and were refused admission, as they were not sober, and on getting outside they be haved in such a disorderly manner that Police-con stables Squire and Cox were compelled to take them to the station, Mrs. Stapleton using very bad lan guage. The prisoners said they were very sorry for what had occurred, but they had taken too much to drink. Mr. Tyrwhitt fined the two mate prisoners 205., or seven days each, and the female prisoner— who had made use of bad language-405., or a month. WESTMINSTER. A respectable-looking poor woman, who stated that she had a large family, solicited the ma gistrate's assistance and advice under the following circumstances :—Applicant said that in 1868 her husband borrowed a small sum of money from a loan society, held at the Commercial, in the King's road, Chelsea. She had paid the loan as well as she was able, and had returned more than she had re ceived, and now an application was made in writing for a sum of money which she was perfectly unable to pay. Her husband's brother had been the secu rity, and the application spoken of was made to him. Mr. Arnold—You say the amount of the loan was £2. How much have you paid ? Applicant—l had £2, and I have paid altogether £2 45., but that is not enough. I was to pay £2 10s. for the £2, so that I owe 65., and that's all. Mr. Arnold—What is, the sum now demanded of you? Applicant-195., to be paid between this and the 6th of May. When I have sent sums of money less have been put down. Mr. Arnold—That, I suppose, was claimed for fines for non-payment, as I see a rule respecting them. I cannot tell you what to do. You had better speak to a solicitor on the subject. • THA RTES. Hubert Lee, aged 23, and Samuel Buckley, 29, two notorious thieves and burglars, were brought before Mr. Lushington, charged under the Habitual Crimi nals Act, clause 9, with being in a place waiting for an opportunity to commit a felony. The magistrate said the prisoners were persons of bad character, they were loitering about the neighbourhood of Alie street from 1 until 2 in the morning without any lawful excuse, and one of them was seen at the'very door where the safe was brought out. Buckley was seen at that particular door. He convicted the pri soners, and . sentenced them to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour fur three calendar months. A HARD CASE, IF TRUE. A case of wrongful conviction is just now causing a great stir in Trowbridge. A poor half-witted man named William Britton was convicted of stealing two ducks the other day, and sentenced to twenty-one days' imprison ment. Although he protested his innocence, the magis trates, Messrs. W. R. Brown and W. Fowler, placed im plicit faith in the uncorroborated statement of a new policeman, Thomas Carter. A day or two afterwards the persons who had really committed the theft turned up, and were sentenced to six weeks' hard labour. The erring magistrates have memorialised the Secretary of State to release Britton, but Mr. Bruce declines to interfere. THE ADMIRALTY INQUIRY AT CROMER' Some weeks ago we gave - a detailed account of an inquiry instituted by the Admiralty into the conduct of a Coastguardsman, named Daniels, at Cromer, Norfolk, in the matter of the stranding of the Spanish brig Faro Devigo, at Cromer beach. It will be remembered that Daniels behaved in a very insulting man ner to the Spanish Vice-Consul, Mr. ICeston, of Yarmouth, and refused to allow the Vice- Consul to go‘on board. During the inquiry certain facts of a very ugly complexion also came out about Lieutenant Hurrell, an officer of the Coast Guards, Cromer. The result of the inquiry, which was conducted by Captain Forsyth, of Hull, is, that Daniels and Hurrell have been removed at an hour's notice to Lincolnshire main station. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.-(THIS DAY.) Sales probably 8,000 bales. &iarket quiet. MISCELLANEOUS. 10 Anglo-Mexican Mint 25 Australian Agricultural 2o+ 16 17 25 Austn Mort Land and Fin, L 5 Id pr 10 Baugparah Tea Estate, Lim all 3 5 10 Berlin Water Works, Lim 5 Bombay Gas, Limited all 5 5+ 5 Ditto, New 4 pr +pm 50 British American Land 20 British Indian Tea, Limited all 2+ 3i 27 Canada Company all 78 80 20 Ceylon Company, Liniited lO 4 3d 20 Ditto, A shares .. 5 2 ld 25 City of London Real Prop, LlO 7 6d 30 City of Milan Improvment L all 4 5 50 City Offices, Limited 50 Colonial, Limited 2O ld pr 50 Commercial Union (Asso) 10 Com of African March, L 20 Continental Union Gas, L 25 Copp Miners of England, Prof 7+ per cent all 5 7 100 Corp of London Bonds, 1877, 4/ per cent all 100 Ditto, 1879, 4 1 par cent 100 Ditto, 1882, 4i per cent 10 Credit Fonc o England, L all 2+ 31 50 Credit Fonc of Mauritius, L 10 2+ lid St Crystal Palace St Do, Preference lOO 94 99 St Do, 6 per cent Perp Debentloo 108 113 50 E India Land Credit & Fin L 7 5 4d 32 Ebbw Vale 27+ 10f 10d 100 Egypt 9 p et Viceroy's Loan gun by Egyptian Gov all 100+ 101+ 1011 24 20 Egyptian Com and Trading L 4113 3 English and Austr Copper, L 15 Eng and Foreign Credit 7 4 3d 10 European Gas al 17 18 10 Do, new... 6 Fairbairn Engineering 5 ld p 20 Fore-street Warehouse, L 13 3f 4kp , 100 Foreign and Col Gov Trust and Loan 6 per et Bonds all 97 96 951 10 Gen Credit and Discount, L 7+ I id 15 General Steam Navigation l4 29 31 50 Home and Col Marine Ins, L 5 ld p 20 Hudson's Bay (Governor and Co. of Adventurers of Eng trading into) all 12 121 50 Imperial Continental Gas 43/ 134 136 50 India Rub, Tolg Works, L 45 49 50 10 International Finan Soc, L 5 lf lid 20 Italian Irrigation Canal, Cav all 41- 100 Ditto, 6 per cut Bonds, red all 1870 50 Land Securities, Limited 5 2 Id 25 London African Trading lO 50 Loud Financial Assoc, Lim 3O 18 17d 4 Lond Gen Omnibus, Limd 50 Lond & Glasg Engin, Limd 25 18 16d 20 London and Prov Marine 2 par ip 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 3+ 4+ 25 National Discount Co, Lim llf 11/ 10 National Steamship, Limd all 131 111 1 Nerbudda Coal & In, Ld 6s 6d f ii 10 New Consolidated Dis Ld 5 New Quebrada, Limited 4112 41 4'd 25 N Zealand Ln & Mere, &c . 25 N Zealand Trust & In, Ld 5 10 North Assam Tea, Limited 7 7 5d 10 Do, B Will -d St N British Austral, Limited...loo 60 70 50 N British & Mercan lnsnce... Gi 23 23+ 25 Ocean Marine insurance 5 15 16p 5 Oriental Gas, Limited 5 Do, New 10 Otago & South Invest, Ld 2 fd fp 5 Ottoman Gas, Limited all 2 2+ St. Peel Riv Lnd & Min, Lim lOO 31 33 50 Peninslr & Orient)]. Steam all 43 45 50 Do., New, 1867 lO ;.3) . 24d 50 Rhymney Iron 15 Do, New all 8 4 81 25 Rio Janeiro City Im., Lmtd all 191 20-} 20 Rio Janeiro Gas, Limited 100 Royal Mail Steam 6O 52 54 St. Scot Aus Invest, Limited lOO 20 Societe General de l'Empire Ottoman 8 21 3/ 25 South Australian Land 20 Tel Construe & Maintenance (lim and redaced) all 36 361 361 20 Thames & Mers Mn Ins, b 2 21 2fp St. Tobacco (Ital 6p c Loan) all 86 88 10 Trustand Agency of Austra lasia, (Limited) 20 Tr &LnCoof Up Canada 5 * fp 50 Union Marine Liverpool, Ld 5 6 61p 20 Union Steam Ship, Ld 15 United Dis Corpora, Lmtd 6 2 ld 20 Univer Mar (Ins), Lmtd 5 4f slp 10 Upper Assam Tea, Lmtd all 1 1 30 Van Diemen's Land 100 Viceroy of Egypt Mort Ln all 851 86; 841 50 Warrant Finance, Limited 12 8 6d 50 WI & P Steam, Limited Canada Government, 6 p c, Jan nil LI a/ ,Lo, t-cm 1V t/ Do, 3 p c, Feb and Aug lOO Do, 6 p c, Mar and Sept 100 Do, 5 p c, Jan and July lOO , Do, 5 p c, inscribed stock lOO Do, 5 p c, Dominion of, 1903 - 100 C of Good Hope, 6 p c, Dec, 1873 100 Do, 6 p c, April and Oct, 1890- 1900 [oo Do, 6 p c, April and Oct, 1880-90 100 Do, 6p c, Jan and July, 1891 lOO Do, 5 p c, April 15 and Oct 15, 1900 100 Ceylon, Nov, 1878, 6 p c 100 Do, 1872 100 110, 1882 and 1883 100 Mauritius, 6 p c, 1873, Jan & July 100 Do, 1878, Jan and July 100 Do, 1882, May 15 and Nov 15 100 D 0,1895-6, Feb and Aug 100 Natal Gov 6 p c, April & Oct 100 Do, 6 p c, May and Nov 100 New Brunswick Gov 6 p c, Jan and July 100 N. S. Wales Gov 5 pc, 1871 to 1876, Jan and July lOO Do, 5 p c, 1888 to 1896, Jan and July 100 Do, 5 p c, red by ann draws, front 1867 to 1875 166 Do, 2 per c, annual draws, 1872 to 1898 100 New Zealand 6 p c, 1891 100 Do, 5 p c 100 Do, Jan, April, July, Oct 100 Do., 6 pc, 1891, Mar and Septloo Do, p ct, 1891, June and Dec 100 Nova Scotia Gov, 6 p c sterling, 1875, Jan and hily — lOO Do, 1886 lOO Queensland 6 per et, 1882-85, Jan an d J u l' ? 100 Do, 1891, Jan and July 100 S Australian Government, 6 p c, 1869-77 lOO Do, 1878-92 100 Do, 1893-1908 100 Tasmanian, - 6 p c, 1895, Jan and and July 100 Do, 6 p c red, 1893 to 1897 lOO Victoria Govt, 6 p c, Jan and July, 1891 lOO Do, April and Oct, 1883-5 lOO Do, 5 p c, Jan. and Ju1y,1894 100 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. 104 1051 102 103 1051 106 i 94i 95i 94 96 95} 96} 103 105 111 113 109 111 1024 1034 109 111 103 105 112 114 102 104 106 108 107 109 . 111 113 106 108 1064 107 109 104 105 100* 101* 102 103 103 100 1011 1001 1011 107 109 97 98 971 981 964 108 110. 107 109 1021 1031 104 104 109 110: 109/ 108/ 1091 110 111 108 110 108 110 113 114 ' 110 i 111} 1101 103 104 1031 THE GAME LAWS. Ou the tenth of September last, says the Daily Hews, Colonel Nelvdegate i Major Newdegate, and the Rev. Mr. Harman wi'd Mit shooting, and a bird was winged by one of the parts and fell upon Colonel Newdegate's land. Here it was picked up by one Rae, a bargeman, who was thereupon Charged with larceny at the Derby Quarter Sessions, and con= victed. It was found that the bird was alive when picked up by the prisoner, and that he took it fraudu lently, and with intent to deprive the owner of it. The question has now been re-heard as a Crown case reserved, and the conviction has been quashed: The judges have, we are glad to say, ruled that no larceily liras committed. A partridge is ferce naturce, and a§ such is not property—nor does it become property simply be= cause it has been winged. A poacher is a poacher merely, and not a thief ; and the conviction of a poacher for lar ceny cannot be sustained. Country squires have a strange logic of their own, Game are, they would have us be lieve, ferce naturce, and yet private property. As ferce naturce they can eat the green wheat of farmers, and ruin the gardens of cottagers, and against them no action lies, nor against their owner, as thy have no owner. And yet now the Derbyshire county justices want us td believe that game is private property, and that to take it is larceny. Such law is absurdly illo gical. Rae no doubt broke the Game Laws, but to brand him as a thief was a very uncalled for piece of injustice. If country gentlemen wish poaching to become a theft, they Must make game, whether alive or dead. private property, and so attach to its owner duties as well as privileges. THE CONSPIRACY IN FRANCE. The Times thinks the alleged conspiracy against the life of the Emperor Napoleon is, undeniably, a serious matter, whatever view one may feel tempted to take of it. The most striking circumstance connected with the incident is its opportuneness, as calculated to serve the interests of the exalted personage the plot was intended to injure. The news of the Emperors's narrow escape from Republican revolvers or Orsini shells, at this crisis, is, it is reckoned, worth half-a-million affirmative votes to the men in power, and the violent partisans who grudge them this godsend are unwilling to attribute the fortunate coincidence to mere chance, and spew little hesitation in charging the Government with having obtained this advantage either by the fabrication of a totally imaginary plot or by the exaggeration of a merely trumpery one. For our own part, we have no hesitation in acquitting the Imperial Government of any deliberate deception in this matter, and we must take it for granted that it has been suffi ciently on its guard against the indiscreet zeal or un scrupulous officiousness of its subordinate agents. If we allow ourselves any allusion to these einis= ter surmises, it is not, we repeat, because we attach the slightest weight to them in themselves, but simply because we think in cases of this nature it is the duty of an honest Government to remove every cause of even unreasonable suspicion. If the Govern ment has not been too hasty in its conclusions, if it has not suffered itself to be vainly disquieted by rash avowals, false denunciations, and deceptive appearances, we are compelled to the conclusion that some uncommonly atrocious attempt was contemplated; that a vast as well as a deep conspiracy has been detected, that some of its threads at least, and some of the chief actors in it, are in the Government's hands. It is a matter of great concern for the honour of that Govern ment, for the welfare of France, and for the true interests of her Sovereign and his dynasty, that such a conspiracy should not be allowed to " vanish into thin air ;" that the guilt of any persons implicated in it should be aspromptly and as satisfactorily established as may be found practicable, and that the punishment should be not only adequate to the enormity of the offence, but also to the distrust and uneasiness and demo ralization it has created, to the discredit it has enabled the of ungenerous adversaries to throw upon the Government. THE FUTURE KING OF SPAIN. The Post observes that if we examine the list of possible candidates from whom the Spaniards have to select their King, we find them reduced to three—Marshal Espartero, the Prince of the Asturias, and the Duke de Montpensier. Other candidates have been suggested, but can scarcely be considered as seriously put forw ar d. E s p a rtero's elevation to the Throne would be a measure of a scarcely more permanent character than the Regency ; and as the Marshal has no son to succeed him, the same dilemma in which the Spanish nation now finds itself could not fail, in the natural course of things, to occur again very shortly. The candidature of the Prince of the Asturias presents an objection quite apart from the youth of the candidate. It would only be the Restoration under another name. The prince may be removed from the influence of his mother and placed under guardians, to be educated i n Liberal and Constitutional principles, but it is not likely that the in fluence of Queen Isabella could be entirely excluded. Be sides, his election, although it might certainly be effected by the favour of Prim, would prove anything but accept able to a large body of the people of Spain. The Repub licans would be exasperated, and a section of the Progres sists would be discontented, although they might possibly defer to the wishes of their Chief. The Unionists are, to a man, Montpensierists. On the whole, therefore, the election of the Duke de Montpensier may be thought to be the most rational and natural solution of the ques tion. The Duke is a Spaniard, if not by birth, by choice and in feeling, and is popular both with the army and with a large section of the nation. He is of mature age, and is thoroughly acquainted with the customs and feel ings of the people of his adopted country ; and he has given proofs of being possessed of qualities which would go for to endear a sovereign to the Spaniards. THE GREEK MASSACRE. The Telegraph declares that the whole truth must be elicited with respect to the Greek massacre. It is not merely a question of satisfying legal forms, of hanging the villains already caught, and chasing the others until every one is captured or knocked upon the head. This terrible tragedy, enacted upon the very soil which makes Greece proud and historical, is a disgrace to her ' as well as a scandal to Europe ; and the time has come, with so bloody a business, when the whole truth must be known about this hideous institution of brigandage. And assuredly the Go veriunent which has salved its ridiculous amour propre with the blood of English men can scarcely be trusted to make such an investiga tion alone. It must be so conducted that witnesses will not be afraid to tell all they know ; nor can the investiga tion be complete or satisfactory, unless the outraged jus tice of England and of the Protecting Powers be present at the scene, side by side with that degraded Themis who is native to the Attic soil. The dead are past help ; and there is no question of money, for these villains never lived to touch it. What is demanded is, first, that the facts of the crime should be thoroughly , exposed ; next, that the infamous band should not be left unpunished ; and, finally, that the system of brigandage thus bloodily revived shall be henceforward extirpated to its deepest tap-roots by whatever agency is necessary. It is too monstrous that the loveliest and most memorable spas of earth should be made a place of robbery and murder, and that a Government which exists by the force of foreign sanction and support alone, should repay the Powers which sustain it by making them vir tually responsible for the criminal results of its own im potence or corruption. We have still to receive details which must harrow every heart and awake afresh in the minds of the relatives of the dead the anguish of the first tidings. There need be no fear that public feel ing will be lulled to any indifference when the story thus grows more deadly and dark in every succeeding chapter of the official record. • SUICIDE IN A WORKHOUSE.— A. man named Driscoll committed suicide in a singularly horrible manner in a Southwark Workhouse. He was discovered lying on a bed in the men's ward, with the lower part of his stomach cut across, and hacked open in a frightful manner. The unhappy man had first thrust a knife into his stomach, and then dragged the weapon across from one side to the other. Every effort was made to save the poor man's life, but he sunk from exhaustion and expired. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING. THIS DAY. (Br ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS. W.O. PRINCE OF WALES'S STAKES. Toison d'Or. , Bertha Bradgate NEWMARKET MEETING.—YEsTERDAT. SWEEPSTAKES OF £3OO. Ladoga HANDICAP PLATE. W.O. Stephanotis Reindeer Cocoa Nut Seven ran. PLATE OF £lOO. Rosicrucian Star and Garter 2 Bouquetiere 3 Three ran. COFFEE-ROOM STAKES. Gertrude Pander() 2 Columbine f 3 Four ran. TWO THOUSAND. MACGREGOR NORAIAXBY 2 KINGCRAFP 3 Won by five lengths. Ten ran. WINNERS OF THE TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES SINCE 1840, 1840 Crucifix 1841 Ralph 1842 - Meteor 1843 Cotherstone 1844 Ugly Buck 1845 Idas 1846 Sir Tn. Sykes 1847 Conyngham 1848 Flatcatcher 1849 Nunnykirk 1850 Pitsford 1851 Hermandez 1852 Stockwell 1853 W. Australian 1854 Hermit 1855 Lord of the Isles SWEEPSTAKE 1866 Fazzoletto 1857 Vedette 1853 Fitz-Roland 1859 Promised Land 1860 Wizard 1861 Diophantus 1862 Marquis 1863 Macaroni 1864 General Peel 1865 Gladiateur 1866 Lord Lyon 1867 Vauban 1868 Moslem and Formosa ran a dead heat 1869 Pretender 1870 Macgregor OF 10 SOUS. Grillado c Roedeer Little Pi incess Eigh 1. 2 J t ran. iVEEPSTAKES. HANDICAP S. Tibthorpe Cocoa Nut Panopticoa 3 Five ran. PLATE OF 50 SOVS. Lacydes c Cauldron .. 3 Romance Seven ran• LATEST BETTING ON irtlE COURSE, THE DERBY. 7to 4 ttgst Macgregor (taken) 8 to 1 agst S.nnshine (taken) LONDON GAZETTE—L-4st Evening, FORE LGN-OFFICE, APRIL 25. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Hubert Edward Henry Jerningham, Esq., now Attaché to her Ma— jesty's Embassy at Constantinople, to be a Third Secretary in Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service. The Queen has been pleased to approve of M. Lacathon do la Forest as Consul-General at Calcutta for his Majesty the. Emperor of the French. _ MAY 2. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Johanu Friedrich August Kelling as Consul at Nelson, II ow Zealand, for the North German Confederation. The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Don Augustin Rodriguez as Consul in Glasgow for Spain. WHITEHALL, APRIL O. The Q,ueen has been pleased to direct Letters Patent to bo passed under the Great Seal granting the dignity of a Knight, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto John Morphett, Esq., President of the Legislative Council of the Colony of South Australia. The Queen has also been pleased to direct Letters Patent to be passed tinder the Groat Seal granting the dignity of a Knight of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto George Strickland Kingstort,Esq., Speaker of the House of Assembly of the Colony of South Australia. WAR OFFICE, PALL-MALL, MAY 3. Corps of Royal Engineers—Lieut.-General Henry Servaute to be Colonel-Commandant, vice B. S. Stehelin, deceased. Commissariat Department—The Queen has been pleased to direct that the name of Deputy-Assistant Commissary- General James Hall be removed from the Army List. BREVET. Lieut.-Colonel James Robert Mann, Royal Engineers, having served the qualifying period in his present rank, to be Colonel, under the provisions of the Royal Warrant of 3d February, 1'66. The following promotions to take place consequent on the death, on the 19th April, 1870, of Lieutenant-General and Colonel-Commandant Benjamin Spicer Stehelin, Royal Engineers, viz. : Major-General Edward Frome, Royal Engineers, to be Lieutenant-General. Colonel Sir Henry James, Royal Engineers, to be Major- General. Major Thomas Teulon, half-pay, late 35th Foot, to bo Lieutenant-Colonel. Captain George Edmund Lusbington Walker, Royal Engineers, to be Major. ADMIRALTY, MAY 2. In accordance with the provisions of her Majesty's order in Council of the 22d February, 1870, the following officers have been replaced on the Retired List:—Rear-Admiral Sir William Saltonstall Wiseman, Bart., K.C.8., from Ist April, 1870 ; Rear-Admiral J. B. Dickson, from the 29th April, 1870; Captain James Simpson, from the 19th April, 1870 Lieutenants—Charles Hutton Wilkinson, Robert Ross, Con rad Augustus Watts, Charles Summers Harford, Edward Fletcher, Edward Savile Richards, Charles Folliott Cox, Cecil George Savile Foljambe, from the 2d May, 1870; and Lieutenants Charles Hutton Wilkinson, Conrad Augustus Watts, and Charles Folliott Cox have been allowed to assume the rank of Retired Commander, from the 2d May, 1870. COURSE OF EXCHANGE. Amsterdam ... Short ... 11 171 ... 11 18 Do Rotterdam — ... 12 0 ... 12 0 Antwerp — ... 25 42 ... 25 IT Brussels llamburgh — ... 13 10 ... 13 10 Paris Ditto Marseilles Frankfort-on-the-Main — ... - 1201 ... 121 Vienna — ... 12 621 ... 12 67, Trieste ... ... 12 _62f ... 12_6 .1 Petersburg Copenhagen Berlin Madrid.. ... Cadiz 28} - ... 28i 9 23 ... 9 27 6 '27 ... 6 271 48-1 ... 4 9i 49 ... 491 4' Leghorn Milan — ... 26 421 .., 26 47 Genoa — ... 26 42 .., 26 47: Nap 1 e s Palermo — ... 26 42f ... 26 47: .. Messina Lisbon 90 days... 521 ..,. 521 Oporto — ... 521 ... 521 With regard to the proposal to throw open West minster Abbey to the public all the year round, it is stated that it would cost from £6OO to £BOO a year ; and this is the great difficulty, for the present, in the way of the extension of the free access for many years provided to the nave and transept, and now on Mondays to the Royal chapels. The Dublin Gazette contains a notice placing under the second part of the Peace Preservation Act—that which requires special proclamation—the counties of Mayo, Meath, and Westmeath, and those portions of the counties of Sligo, Longford, Cavan, Roscommon, and Kings County, placed under the general provisions of the new Act last week. The clerks in the War Office, says the Globe, are not retiring from the public service as rapidly as the authorities could desire. Forty-seven gentlemen--viz., fifteen on the Ist, seventeen on the 2nd, and fifteen on. the 3rd class--have, however, expressed their intention to accept superannuation in the event of the contemplated changes being carried out. The report of Mr. Bright's retirement from the Cabinet is again revived. A Catholic journal now gives currency to it. It says :—" Two months ago the right , hon. gentleman wrote to Mr. Gladstone tendering his resignation of office, but was induced, at the earnest request of the Premier, to remain, so to speak, a sleeping partner of the firm for some time kniger.” Lac..