The Sun. — London, England, 1870-04-23 00:00:00

the more bile and ble at a ends and to us, ill a carica- , namely, •E s, Trice of litera -1 into the ould a 7, vernwent ears ago, by boldly base, at a estimable k u owU Long the )r auy art rdiaus of rom ag them compara- imbage's 'series and e for to- r any re- i - A ng ma d e ND. itral Asia km article ;hat Eng ainst the :—" Eng ive with that she eminds us careful!" . .e not in may put 3e her it necessary i secured s cheaper and to the back great War pursue a, India, for greatly and this ce for the is on this end were reparable. advice, the state annot too tly sink in 'dens, but ity. The hemselves often re- RT. nt to the =fist of a economy. niversity. ig in from cessful ati is the first a recently icertained , ne of the prison for ions have :ripts was 3, Camilla vith some discover) , 'e written she wrote express uscripts -- [es FannY anecdotes t Kew.- - ,o make a tuber hovf 1855 with larked his ill be glad to appear aeli's neW naturallY al charae ipon pry?' ero is said is a person. his late ivalry has ?presented isuses his faults 01 id to haNle ring for Ins s evolution , instakingi may real). (of Bonn) aor Sybel 3 time back h pleasure volumes► A the first We maY m of Mr. ace of the BrUSSeIS LI powerf ul her arrival 'igan and able public g paid tha ;ham gun esol ved to e proposed aptain of efton, Wa s the eldest tt Escric/i", ing ➢lax . City gall Luantity of rised throe Lr beakers , leinen Sa t ,he Earl of nent of 3 Idea grant :empt co of the has visited diguipa" of ipanied b 1 ffenbach'S a rehearsal 'aril on 0° Shaw this ❑ed in the ~ oe ) duri" rem' o.f 011 btls i t is abou t sad of Dir. s arriv el d 1,0 84 °is he Fbring uncle' Limn w ill not L Theatre aliss LilY with lais e ffhen /Oh' front, s ° ass cattle ight gutl z Y s aell hed u 7 a nd en aguish the Li . morn ing thoug4 s he in has Well THE MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two O'CLOCK On 'Change to-day there was not much business P a ssing, and although the price of Consols rather improved, those of most of the Continental Securi ties declined—Turkish to the extent of j. In Rail- W ays there has been little change. American Bonds r emain almost unchanged in price, and for Telegraph S hares the demand is trifling. There is rather an acti ve demand for money, but it is not to be had nader 3 per cent. Consols are now at 94/ to 941 for money ; ditto, ;count, —; Three per Cent. Reduced, 921 1 ; ,w Three per Cents., 921 ; Bank of England ' t t° 4l c, 41 per cent., 235. Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 21 per cent., par 5 prem. ; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, prem. India Stock, 10/ per cent., April, 1874, 2101 ; 1114 ° 5 per cent., July, 1880, —; ditto 4 per e t eil t., Oct., 1888, 1 001 1; ditto Enlaced Paper u Per cent., 1872, 1031. 9 In the Foreign Market Argentine Sixes are quoted 1 1 to 921 ; Brazilian Five per Cents., 1865, 891 to 8 1 k 0 i Egyptian Seven per Cents., 1868, 8 14 to ; Italian Five per Cents., 1861, 554 to 561 ; Me xican Three per Cents., 14/ lo 15 ; Peruvian Three Cents., 1865, 871 to 871 ; Spanish New e per Cents., 1867, 281 to 28f ; Turkish Five per e4 ts., 1865, 471 to 474 ; ditto Six per Cents. 1865 , Xl 4 to 72; . In the Railway Share Market London and North "estern are 1271 to 1281 ; Lancashire and York shirei 130 to 131; Metropolitan, 771 to 781 ; North 13t ish, 36 to 361 ; Midland, 1261 to 127 ; Great ester n , 711 to 72 ; London and South Western, 9l i to 924 ; L on do n and Brighton, 454 to 461; Cale (l°4l44, 7.31 to 731; Great Eastern, 411 to 411; feat Northern, 121 to 122 ; ditto A Stock, 127 to ic ; Berwick, 1341 to 1351; Leeds, 891 to 901 ; gad York, 132 to 1321. American Five-Twenty Bonds are . 884 to 881; 4 ' 4 -Forty B on ds, 85/ to 861 ; Illinois, 112 to 113 ; "d Erie Shares, 194 to 20. L ombardo-Venetian are 161 to 161; Great 44nxenaburg, 13/ to 134. r i & nglo-American Cable and French Shares are B 1 to 174 and 151 to 151 respectively ; China tlb nlarine, 1/ to 11 dis.; and Construction and Mai ntenance, 364 to 374. 14 111 Bank Shares Anglo-Austrian are 14 to 1 6 Pre en. ; Alliance, 121 to 131 ; Chartered Mercantile oi t ; ) 314 to 321; Imperial Ottoman, 13} to 14 ; London and County, 49 to 50 ; London gad Westminster, 60 to 61 ; Oriental Corporation, „., t° 4 5 ; and Union of London, 361 to 374. 11 ; 1 ' 4 steamer Venezuelan, on which 30 guineas Preen him has been paid, was spoken with on the 16 instant, off Bermuda, and required no assist ance. The Poonah has arrived from Alexandria with the l iar portion of the Calcutta, China, and Austra b,allnlails, and £406,092 in gold, the whole of which dem and to be sent into the Bank, there being no for the Continent. B r he steam er C e ylon took out to-day £30,000 in ' ec le for Bombay. It t t seems to be expected that the greater part of t h' h e n ew Egyptian loan will be taken in Paris, and Priee, it may be assumed, has been fixed at a poi nt calcul a ted by the contractors as likely to prove, li, th such explanations as may be afforded in the pro spectus, attractive to the French public. qp ille4 re. J. H. Schroder and Co. notify the re demption on the 2d May of the entire amount out atlclillg of Bonds of the Four-and-a-Half per 4t • Peruvian Government Loan of 1862, toge ther With th e cou p on d u e I s t July, subject to a dis to6tint of 1 per cent. per annum for the unexpired till Ist July. The Peruvian Government i 4 - " 0 g disposable funds here, is desirous of employ togtheln at once, and hence is able to offer this boon t h e holders. Il le May i n t eres t is payable on the Ist prox., at the li ational Provincial Bank, on the certificates of the levad a F ree h o ld P r operti e s Trust. til The, Grand Tru n k of Canada railway traffic re for the week ending the 16th inst., shows a decr ease of £1,300, compared with the corresponding p tc 'd of last year. A e;' t the special meeting of the Midland Railway p:'PanY, to be held on the 4th of May, it is pro d to borrow on mortgage the sum of £666,000. t he creation and issue of five per cent. deben ture sto c k, aj he report of the directors of the Prudential Assur 10;eouipany states that the new annual premiums et a . ; " D 'e year 1869 amounted to £102,323, and the a e ; 1118 paid to £86,594. The Assurance Fund 4 %0 °4 , 14 Shows an improvement of £41,358. The , dil i nterest on the shares, at the rate of 5 per cent., A te Payable on and after the 25th inst. k a call of per share is payable on the 2 d of T e l °4 the shares of the British Indian Extension A :g r aPh Company (Limited). ati special meeting of the Manchester, .Buxton, , s °e k) and Midlands Junction Railway Company Th 'e held on the 4th of May. c on „e report of the British Australian Telegraph kla v Pail Y (Limited), to be presented on the 2 d of cote states th at sat i s f ac t ory terms have been agreed co te b etween the Netherlands Government and the iiaZ a nY for permission to land the cables on the ov er "'of Java, and for the transmission of messages iaj am tl le Government Telegraphic system in that eo late an arrangement by which the contingency titt lie l4 Plated in the prospectus, of having to con tw 4 ll entirely submarine communication .be- Then S ingapore and Australia, will be avoided. gr ao , c/r der for th e ca bl e h as b e en given to the Tele . th e " Construction and Maintenance Company, and Itec o L lita of £60,000 has been paid to them in th e B ; 4a nce With the c o n tract. The manufacture of by th ill g a Pnre-Batavia section has been commenced is con tractors, and the cable will leave England It li t g i tiS t next. ha a e colonial p ro d uce mar k e t s this w eek business day, b u bat Partly interfered with by the Easter holi itept th llt . the consumers having for some time past 11 41 _ n. stocks moderate, awaiting the result of the 6e t e ) a better demand is anticipated. BRITISII FUNDS , Cov. . h ~ , • -RNMENT ruNDs. 941 -}, r 3 vent Console —CLOSING- PRICES. bit _ to for Account 92} i 1\113,,e (414 t. Re 'need 92i I tie `v 4 per (Jew, 1 3' 2it Per Cent. Jan. 1894 4 °. 6 per Len Jan. 1873 1880.... 4Onities, 80 yrs, expire sth J a n' , 5 U .... S o. for 30 yrm, expire sth April 188 , . _ Z ° (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1( "' ;°4,llzr Bills, Xl,OOO, 21 p. lit e -",, zluo, £20,.. & £so l ' 0 1 1, of England b Stock, 4 } per Cent ~,1 4. , ' opening ................................... _ 1 ' B4l 4 per Cent Bonds nte-Colonial 0 . , hitt , rarnum , 4 4di a R AN ,73VERNMENT bECURITIM. Do. °Lock! 101 per Cent., April 1874 2lO/ DO. Peniug, for Account — 1 :1 2. 0 Per uent. July, Is'Bo 1001 i. u' 1,1,0• r: Cent. Oct. 188 F. -,„ '. Liafaced Papoi 4 per Cent.. ....••• • D.,• )• 5 Per Cert., Jan. 1872 .... ...... ... .. . 103 )• 5 i p,)r I_l(,w. Ray 1879 _ o - • • • o• ',per ()out., Rup. Da':. 18i 2..... D to) do 1 8' — ..• .. „Do. do. 1882 '. eb., 5 per Cont., A up . 1873 °'ll.l° B onds, 4 per C'ent., -£l,OOO tinder .£l.OOO ......................... ,s. A /FOREIGN FU NDS —CLOSING PRIC L E .4,,rf:hiit:ttlianioetslotue li d : 3. h . 1 .5 1 c. .1.) 61 . )e Cent ) Aee'olut .. . ' ........................ cent kr, • • 1)0. 1859 .............. .... ....... en'per Cent 't Per Cent. 1852 ..................... do 1858....; Do. at, 1860 — Do. do., 1863 — Do. 5 per Cent., 1865 Oc, Account .. • ••• 00000000 B-,enos Ayres 6 per Cent.... ••• • — Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent. C Adieu 6 per Cent no. 4} per Cent...—. ...... ... Do. 3 per Cent., Do. 7 per Cent., 1866 Po. 6 per coot. 1867 ) lo:tibisn, 6 per Cent. nankn 3 pgAr Cent., 1825 C tba, 6 per Cent. Lts,u..limi Principalities, 7 ker Cent B9 Do Account Do 8 per Cent., 1867 961 5 Ecuador New Consolidated, 1 per Vent ... E;yrtian, 7 per Cent — ,c " , ecopd Issue Do. £5Ol, Bonds B4l Do. 1864 Do. Account Do. •C::00 Bonds Do. £lO6 minis •.• • Do. 7 per Cent., 1868 .• .• Do. Account Do. £lOO Bones ••• • • ••• Government Railwav Debentures . Greetr 5 per Cont., 1824 5, ex Coups — Do. Coupons ... Guatemala 6 per Cent .. — . Plonduras Gov Rail. Loan., 10 p. Ct., all pd m 84 Do. AccAnnt Italian 5 per Cent., 1865 — Do. Account . -- Do Maremmana Railway... ... dexican 3 per Cent i l4/ Ditto for Account — Do. 1864 — Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French .-- 31 niteridean 6 per Cent — Alctorish Imperial 5 per Cent Vow Granada ... •..., 26/ 6 Do 3 per Cen Do. Defer;ad Do Land Warrants (Hectares) Peruvian 5 per Cent. 1865 Do Account — Do 4i per Cent. (IhNirren) Do 44 per Cent.. 1862 . — Portsguese 3 per Ot., 1853, '6, 7, 9,'60,'2.':.,, Do. do. 1867,. — Do. do. Scrip, £2O paid — Rissian 5 r am. Cent., 1822, £ St .. — Do 44 per Cent 1850 Do 44 per Cent., 1860 D 3 3 per Cont., 1859 Do 5 per Cent~ 1862 Do inglo-Dutch, 1864, £lOO Bomb 924 Do- do. £B4 15s. d0.....d0...... ho., 1866, £lOO Bonds Do. do £B4 15s. do — Do Nicolas Railway 7O 4 Sardinian 5 per Cent — Spanish 3 per Con . — Do. Account Do. 1867 Do. Account Do. New Deferred — Do. Passive — • Do. Corn. Cert. of Coup. not funded — Do. Account Swedish Provincial Mortgage Loan Do Government, 1864 — Do do, 1868 Turkish 6 per Cent Oa Account Do 6 per Cent. 1858 684 Do Account Do £lOO Bonds •• •.• •• Do 6 per Cent., 1862 Do. Account...., no £lOO Bonds • Do. 5 per cent. 1865 474 8 Do. Account Do 6 per Cent., 1865 724 Do Account Do 4 per Cent., Guaranteed lOO4 Do do, Scrip — Venezuela 3 per Cent. — D i 6 per Cent. 1864 Do 6 per 0ent.,1862 ................. .... Dividends on the above payable in London. Austrian o per Cent Ex 10 Florins Belgian. 44 per cent., Ex. 25f. ........ Dutch 2i per (lent. Ex. 12 Gail 57 Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ..... French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ez. 25f. - .. Italian 5 per Cent. 1851, Es. 25f 554 i 6 Do Account - CLOSING PRICES. Consols, Moneyl Do. Account, May 4 944 4 LAW INTELLIGENCE-THIS DAY. DIVORCE COURT. THE MORDAUNT CASE. This celebrated case was again mentioned in the Divorce Court this morning. Dr. Deane, Q. 0., who represents Sir Thomas Moncreiffe, the father and guardian of Lady Mor daunt, said on Thursday last his lordship mentioned the case of " Mordaunt v. Mordaunt." It appeared that the solicitor for the respondent had not, through an oversight, lodged his case, and be 'Or. Deane) asked that this might be allowed to be done. This morning, however, he was told it would be highly dangerous to Lady Mordaunt's case to have it argued on Wednesday, and also a great personal inconve nience on the other side. Dr. Spinks, for Sir Charles Mordaunt, replied that he had not received any instructions. Lord Penzance said he could not accede to the application, and the case will now, in all probability, be heard before the Court on Wednesday next, upon the legal points raised in the first instance by Dr. Deane as to whether Lady Mordaunt can be called upon to plead, and whether her insanity is a bar to this being done. POLICE INTELLIGENCE-(Tim DAY). MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Four young men, named Dennis Harrington, Michael Donovan, George Cousins, and James Mahony, were charged, before Mr. Knox, as sus pected persons. It appeared that the ponce saw the prisoners and another man in White Lion-street late at night following a gentleman, and afterward sur rounding a lady and gentleman, and as soon as they made their appearance the prisoners ran away, but were pursued and taken into custody, the officers knowing three of them to be. companions of thieves. Harrington was discharged, but the others were sent to prison for three months' hard labour each. THAMES. A sturdy, well-fed, healthy-looking man, who gave the name of William Smith, aged 48 years, was brought before Mr. Paget, charged with obtaining admission to the casual ward of the Poplar Union, as a destitute pauper, under false pretences. The superintendent of the casual ward said the prisoner came there last night with an order from the police for his admission, and he had his supper, and was shown into the sleeping ward. He began to search the casuals, when a movement on the part of the prisoner aroused his suspicions, and he reached one of his boots, in which he discovered 4d. in coppers, and in the other a very handsome ivory and silk purse, with a half sovereign in the middle compart ment, and two florins, one at each end of the purse. The prisoner carried a bag. It was well stored with bread, pieces of beef, mutton, and pork, and bits of cloth. Mr. Paget said it was a gross imposition for a man to go into a casual ward for the utterly des titute with 14s. 4d. and a large bag full of good food in his possession. He remanded the prisoner for a week. The London correspondent of a Western paper states without qualification that Mr. Bright has actually resigned office. A. correspondent informs the Church Times that in a church at 'York, on Monday in Holy Week, the second lesson was read by a lady. The Countess of Leicester died last evening at 5 p.m., at Holkham Hall, Norfolk, after an illness of several weeks duration. The deceased countess was married in 1843. and has borne issue to the ear]. w e ( Lancet are sorry to find that the immunity from small-pox which Ireland has for a considerable time enjoyed has at last been broken, and that some cases of this malady have occurred in Belfast. The Porto has ordered the prohibition, on and after the lit of May next, of the manufacture, purchase, or sale of saltpetre in any part of the empire under penalty of confiscation. The Hanoverian Tagehlatt mentions that several legionaries of the ex-King of Hanover have accepted the pardon promised by the Prussian Government; to all who ejceptionally conydromised. A town's meeting held at Lowestoft has adopted a petition to Parliament, praying that one of the seats vacant by the disfranchisement of Beverley and Bridg water, may be allotted to Lowestoft. Lord Clanearty presided last evening at the dinner of the Royal Dublin Society. The speakers commented severely on the inability of Irishmen pf all classes to unitit ROAM/ gO9d, THE SUN, LONDON. SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 23, 1870. SHARE LIST. AUTION BY THE PROPRIETORS OF " ONCE A WEEK." RAILWAYS-ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. FRIDAY. Closing Business Paid. Name. Quotations. done. St Bristol and Exeter lOO 77 79 St Caledonian 1.00 751 76 731 4 St Cambrian lOO 15 20 20 Cornwall all 21 31 St Dublin and Belfast Junction 100 . . . . St Dun, Prth, and Aber. Jnnc 100 7 . 0 72 20 East London all 4 6 20 Do 20 1)o St Glasgow and S.Western 100 111 113 St Great Eastern lOO 371 394 411 1 St Do East Anglian, No. `2 100 61 74 St Great North of Scotland 100 13 16 St Great Northern 100 119 120 121/ 1 St Do A 100 126 127 124 71 St Do 8...., lOO 126 1 - 28 St Gt. So. and West (Ireland) 100 98 100 St Great . Western Consolid 100 71 ' 711 72 14 St Do South Wales 100 68 70 St Do West Midland—Oxford 100 44 45 St Do do Newport 100 36 38 St Lancashire and Yorkshire 100 1254 1274 St Loud, Briglit'n, and S.Coast 100 43 434 46 St Lond, Chatham, and Dover 100 141 154 164 St Do Metrop Extension A 100 9 11. St London and North Western 100 1261 1274 128 St Loudon and South Western 101 f 881 89 1 921 St Mauch, Shef, and Lincolnsh 10 0 51 51 1 St Do New, issued at £5O dis 3O .... ... 314 St Metropolitan lOO 791 80 771 St Do Preferred... lOO ... ... St Do Deferred 100 ... ... 10 Do Redeemable • all 94 104 10 St Metropolitan District 100 37 38 384 St Midland lOO 1244 125 1264 4 St Do Birmingham and Derbyloo 92 94 St North British. lOO 34 35 36 St Do Edin, Perth, and Dunde 100 13 15 St North Eastern—Berwick lOO 1264 1271 135/ 6 St Do Leeds 100 89f 904 901 St Do York St Do Stockton and Darlingts 100 178 180 1821 St North Loudon 100 120 122 10 Do New, 1868 6l 14 1 4 St North Staffordshire 100 59 61 614 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 46 St South Eastern 100 76 77 1 784 St Do Preferred ...100 1091 114 St Do Deferred 100 41 414 St Staines, Wok'ham, Jr Wok'g. all 121 134 St Taff Vale 10 Do C 6 3 6 St Waterford and Cent. Ireland 100 ... ... 10 Waterloo and Whitehall At the Nisi Prius sittings of the Court of Exchequer to-day, before Baron Channell and a Middlesex jury, Messrs. Bradbury and Evans, the well-known publishers of Bouverie-street, brought an action against a Mr. Streeter under the following circumstances :—ln the beginning of last year the defendant, who is engaged in an extensive way of business in the jewellery trade, his name being more especiallyknown in connection with his 18-carat gold manufactured jewellery, called upon the plaintiffs and wished them to insert his advertisements on the wrapper of the monthly part of Once a Week, one of the periodicals of which they were publishers. It was agreed that the advertisements should be so inserted for six months, ninety pounds being the sum to be paid to the plaintiffs. The advertisement duly appeared on a richly-illuminated wrapper of Once a Week, but at the expiration of the six months Mr. Streeter failed to pay the sum he agreed to give for the insertion of his advertisement, his defence for not doing so being the neglect of the plaintiffs to pub lish in the periodical, simultaneously with the appearance of the advertisement, a translation of Victor Hugo's novel, "L' Homme qui rit," but such a contract was denied by Mr. Quain, Q.C., on the part of Messrs. Brad bury. A sum of £5O had been paid into Court, and the residue of the £9O was the sum now sought to be re covered. ACTION FO.II LIBEL AGAINST A COMIC PAPER. FRIDAY. The, case of Allsop v. M`Gowan and another, was heard before Mr. Justice Wines and a jury, in the Court of Common Pleas (nisi prius) to-day. It was an action for libel, which arose in the following manner : The plaintiff, a solicitor, living at Brunswick House, Bromley, gave a beggar into custody in February last on a charge of attempted burglary. The beggar told the magistrate that the plaintiff had hounded a large mastiff on to him, which had bitten and torn him, and the criminal charge against him falling to the ground, he was discharged. Upon the facts then elicited, the Will o' the Wisp, a comic paper published in London, com mented severely, holding up plaintiff's conduct with res p ec t to the dog in a most odious light although there was no evidence in support of the charge, an d plaintiff himself denied it. The defendant, Mrs. M`Gowan, was shewn to be the proprietor of the paper ; but the evidence connecting Banks, the printer (the other defendant), with the proprietorship was not very clear. Counsel on both sides waived their right to address the jury, and after his lordship had summed up the case the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for £5O against Mrs. McGowan, and found for the defendant in the case of Banks. MISCELLANEOUS. 10 Anglo-Mexican Mint 25 Australian Agricultural 204 16 17 25 Austn Mort Land and Fin, L 5 4 d pr 10 Baugparah Tea Estate, Lim all 3 5 10 Berlin Water Works, Lim 5 Bombay Gas, Limited all 5 5f 5 Ditto, New 4 pr 4pm 50 British American Land 20 British Indian Tea, Limited all 24 34 27 Canada Company all 78 80 20 Ceylon Company, Limited lO 4 3d 20 Ditto, A shares 25 City of London Real Prop, LlO 7 6d 30 City of Milan Iniprovment L all 4 5 50 City Offices, Limited 50 Colonial, Limited 2O ld pr 50 Commercial Union (Asso) 10 Com of African Merch, L 3 2f 1.-fd 20 Continental Union Gas, L 25 Copper Miners of lingland, Pref 74 per cent all 5 7 100 Corp of London Bonds, 1877, 44 per cent all 100 Ditto, 1879, 44 per cent 100 Ditto, 1882, 4i per cent 10 Credit Fonc o England, L all 24 34 50 Credit Fonc of Mauritius, L 10 24 ild St Crystal Palace lOO 20 22 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 274 104 10d 100 Egypt 9 p ct Viceroy's Loan gun by Egyptian Gov all 1004 1014 101 20 Egyptian Com and Trading L4/13 3 English and Austr Copper, L 21 15 Eng and .Foreign Credit 7l 4 1 ad 10 Earopean Gas all 17 18 10 Do, new 6 Fairbairn Engineering 5 ld p 20 Fore-street Warehouse, L 13 34 44p 100 Foreign and Col Gov Trust and Loan 6 per et Bonds all 97 96 10 Gen Credit and Discount, L 74 4 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) .111 12 124 50 Imperial Continental Gas 434 134 136 50 India Rub, Telg Works, L 45 57 59 10 International Finan Soc, L 5 14 14d 20 Italian Irrigation Canal, Cav all 44 44 100 Ditto, 6 per cnt Bonds, red all 1870 50 Land Securities, Limited 5 2 14 25 London African Trading lO 50 Loud Financial Assoc, Lim 3O 18 17d 11 4 Loud Gen Omnibus, Limd all 21 24 50 Loud & Glasg Engin, Limd 25 18 Did 20 London and Prov Marine 2 par 4p 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 34 44 25 National Discount Co, Lim 5 114 114 10 National Steamship, Limd all 134 14f 1 Nerbudda Coal & In, Ld 6s 64 (0 New Consolidated Dis Ld 5 New Quebrada, Limited 4112 44 4fd 15 N Zealand Ln & Marc, Ste ~ 24 1 fp 25 N Zealand Trust & In, Ld 5 14 lfp 10 North Assam Tea, Limited 7 7 bd 10 Do, B all - d St N British Austral, Limited 100 60 70 50 N British & Mercan lusnce 64 23 234 25 Ocean Marine insurance 5 15 16p 5 Oriental Gas, Limited all 8/ 9 5 Do, New 10 Otago Sr South Invest, Ld 2 fd 4p 5 Ottoman Gas, Limited all 2 24 St. Peel Riv Lnd & Min, Lim lOO 31 33 50 Peninslr & Oriental Steam all 43 45 424 50 Do., New, 1867 lO ;,.3 . 1 244 50 Rhymney Iron 15 Do, New all 8, 84 25 Rio Janeiro City Im., Lmtd all 191 20. 20 Rio Janeiro Gas, Limited all 294 30 100 Royal Mail Steam 6O 52 54 St. Scot Aus Invest, Limited lOO 20 Societe General de I'Empire Ottoman 8 24 34 25 South Australian Land 20 Tel Construe & Maintenance (lim and redaced) all 36 361 37 20 Thames & Mers Mn Ins, L.- 2 24 24p St. Tobacco (Ital 6p c Loan) all 86 88 10 Trust and Agency of Austra lasia, (Limited) 20 Tr &LnCoof Up Canada 5 * 4p 50 Union Marine Liverpool, Ld 5 6 64p 20 Union Steam Ship, Ld 15 United Dis Corpora, Lmtd 6 2 14 20 Univer Mar (Ins), Lmtd 5 44 54p 10 Upper Assam Tea, Lmtd all 4 1 30 Van Diemen's Land 100 Viceroy of Egypt Mort Ln all 854 864 844 50 Warrant Finance, Limited 12 8 6d 50 WI & P Steam, Limited COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Canada Government, 6 p c, Jan and July ,1877-84 100 104 1051 106 Do, 6p c, Feb and Aug lOO 102 103 Do, 6p c, Mar and Sept 100 1051 104 Do, 5p c, Jau and July lOO 94-1 951 97 Do, 5p c, inscribed stock lOO 94 96 IDo, 5p c, Dominion of, 1903 _lOO 951 961 951 Cof Good Hope, 6p c, Dec, 1873 100 103 105 Do, 6 p c, April and Oct, 1890- 1900 100 111 113 Do, 6p c, April and Oct, 1880-90.100 109 111 Do, 6p c, Jan and July, 1891 lOO Do, 5 p c, April 15 and Oct 15, 1900 100 1021 103 1 ___ _ . Ceylon, Nov, 1878, 6 p c 100 109 111. Do, 1872 lOO 103 105 Do, 1882 and 1883 100 112 114 Mauritius, 6p c, 1873, Jan & July 100 102 104 Do, 1878, Jan and July 100 106 108 Do, 1882, May 15 and Nov 15 100 107 109 D 0,1895-6, Feb and Aug 100 111 113 Natal Gov 6p c, April & Oct 100 108 110 Do, 6p c, May and Nov 100 107 109 New Brunswick Gov 6 p c, Jan and July 100 104 105 N. S. Wales Gov 5 p c, 1871 to 1876, Jan and July lOO 1001 1011 Do, 5 p c, 1888 to 1896, Jan and July Do, 5 p c, red by ann draws, front 1867 to 1875 let; 100 101/ Do, 2 per c, annual draws, 1872 to 1898 100 1001 1011 New Zealand 6p c, 1891 100 107 109 Do, 5p c lOO 97 98 Do, Jan, April, July, Oct 100 971 981 97; Do., 6p c, 1891, Mar and Septloo 108 110 Do, p ct, 1891, Juno and Dec 100 107 109 Nova Scotia Goy, 6 p c sterling, 1875, Jan and July lOO 1021 1031 Do, 1886 Queensland 6 per ct, 1882-85, Jan and July... 100 1081 1091 Do, 1891, Jan and July 100 1081 109/ S Australian Government, 6 p c, 1869-77 lOO Do, 1878-92 100 Do, 1893-1908 100 110 111 Tasmanian, 6 p c, 1895, Jan and and July 100 108 110 Do, 6p c red, 1893 to 1897 lOO 108 110 Victoria Govt, 6 p c, Jan and July, 1891 lOO 113 114 Do, April and Oct, 1883-5 lOO 1131 114/ 110 Do, 5p c, Jan. and Ju1y,1894,,,100 1011 1021 102 THE ACTION FOR LIBEL AGAINST " MORNING POST." FRIDAY. To-day in the Court of Common Pleas, before Mr. Justice Wines and a jury, the case Picard v. Broad bridge was heard. This was an action for libel brought against the proprietor of. the /horning Post by Mr. Francis Picard, public accountant, 39, St. James's-street, Piccadilly. Mr. O'Malley, Q.C., and Mr. Francis appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Chas. Pollock and Mr. Ashley for the defendant.—The Case, as opened by the counsel for the plaintiff, was that in the latter part of 1869, several letters appeared in the Morning Post, concerning the circulars of money lenders. On the 9th of December, one of the correspondents enclosed a copy of a circular issued by plaintiff, in which he offered his professional services to gentlemen in difficulties. This letter was inserted under the heading of "The Nuisance of Money Lenders," and the correspondent characterised the plaintiff's circular as "the most unblushing of its class." The plaintiff, it was stated, had never been a money lender in his life, but had been of great use to many per sons in difficulties in arranging their affairs. On seeing the letter, he, through his solicitor, applied for the name of the writer ; but the defendant refused it, and therefore took upon himself the responsibility of the writing. On the 15th of Dec. defendant put in the paper what he now pleaded as an apology, but which, the learned council urged, the jury should consider an aggravation of the libel, and a most impudent and insulting paragraph. They headed it " Money-Lenders," and merely said they had been assured by the plaintiff that he was not a money lender. There was not a word of retractation but it was really a reiteration of the slander. The papers of this country had a great power—that of blasting a man's reputation, and an editor ought to make careful inquiry before making a serious charge against a man by name. Mr. Picard had not asked for pecuniary recompense, but for a retractation and apology, and even now made the same offer ; but if that should be refused, then he must appeal to the jury to mark their sense of the conduct of the defendant. Papers thought they could sometimes carry those things with a very high hand, but he (the learned counsel) was happy to say that between the character of the individual and the power of the journal there intervened the authority of the jury.—The plaintiff was called, and denied that he was or had ever been a money-lender.— After formal proof of the libel, counsel for the defence addressed the jury, urging that a full and ample apology had been tendered in the columns of the paper, and there was no ground for characterising that apology as either impudent or insulting. His lordship, in whether Summing the up ' leftit htoad defendant whether there was an evidence of malice. th ac e ted jurr airly to 2 andsay The jury, after consulting for a few minutes returned a verdict for the defendant. His Lordship said he should have been very much surprised if they had found any other verdict. THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS. FRIDAY. The adjourned meeting of the fellows and members of this college was held to day, at the institution, Lincoln's- Inn Fields, for the purpose of discussing and considering the present position of the college with respect to probable legislation, and the formation of a single examining board for each division of the United Kingdom. E. Cock, Esq., F.R.C.S., president of the college, in the chair. Mr. HoLuEs, who opened the proceedings, said that neither the motion nor the amendment made at the pre vious meeting at all coincided with the opinions of the majority of the members present. The motion, as pro posed, pointed to put the formation of the licensing board entirely in the hands of some department of the Govern ment. He believed the members at that meeting had not the slightest idea of abro,,atinr, their functions, and putting themselves in the hands of the Government. Mr. GANT moved an amendment, which was a direct negative, and taking both into considera tion, if the motion was put he should hold up his h a nd against it. But it was a different thing when they asked them to leave the matter in the hands of the existing corporations. That was so strong tht.t he could not go with him. If the amendment should be negatived, he should propose one to the effect that examiners in licensing boards should be elected in part by the Royal College of Surgeons. Mr. HEATH said the meeting that day was in a different position to the last. Since then the President of Council had brought in his bill, and there was no more represen tation in it than in the former bill, but the interests of the several corporations were carefully taken care of. He went in favour of the State being the governing body. Mr. GISAINE contended that as the State spent a great deal of money in the cause, they had a right to expect to have persons to study their interest. If universities were self-supporting, like that college, they would not allow any interference. He hoped they would never do as France did in its worst days and forget that self-govern ment is part of the arrangement of the country. What would lawyers or clergymen say if the Government wished to examine who should enter the professions. Mr. BAXTER LANGLEY was of opinion that State licenses for practice should be regarded as the minimum qualifica tion, and that the governing bodies should be elected by members, of the corporations, who would have regard to th e gradations of rank of those whom they appointed. Mr. J. M. CLARKE should not vote for either the motion or the amendment, but would urge them not to put them selves into the hands of the enemy, but keep to a repre sentative system. Mr. ROGEnS HARRISON said he should adhere to the amendment he proposed at the former meeting, that the word "not" be left out of the resolution. Mr. GANT also adhered to his motion, which was, " That the members of th e Examining Licensing Board should not be left in the hands of the existing corpo rations." The President put the amendment to the meeting, when it was lost. MR. HOLMES then proposed an amendment to the effect that the examiners should be elected wholly, or in part, by the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Mr. CARR seconded the amendment, which was carried, and on being put as a substantive motion was carried also. THE ESAIOND WILL CASE. The termination of the Esmond will case in the Dublin Court of Probate has been already announced. Mr. Macdonogh, Q.C. (on the part of the plaintiff), applied for a decree to admit the will to proof, and said ho was happy to say that all further litigation in the matter had been put an end to, and all parties had entered into a consent of the 20th April, 1870, whereby the plaintiff should have immediate grant of probate and the defences should be withdrawn, and that all oppo sition to the plaintiff should be waived. The defendants should have their costs out of the assets, and they may retain the chattels bequeathed to them by the original draftwill, the heirlooms to go to Lord Granard, with the house furniture and pictures, at the valuation already made. Judge Warren said he was glad the case had termi nated in such a satisfactory manner_ THE CASE OF MR. LAFITTE.—The case of Charles Lafitte and Co. (Limited) has again come before the Court of Appeal on the question whether the official liquidator should be allowed to cross-examine M. Lafitte, banker, of Paris. M. Lafitte stated that he knew the prospectus of the company stated they were to pay him £150,000 for the purchase of his banking business, though he had agreed to accept £90 , 000. Permission to cross-examine wVi OECD. • - • THE WEEKLY PRESS. THE LIBERAL MAJORITY. Assuming it to be a good thing, observes the Satu:rclay Pcview, that the Liberal party should exhibit a consider able variety in its composition, we acknowledge that these varying elements should only express and develope themselves within moderate limits. But there is no, reason at present to fear any exxcess of Liberal opposi tion. There is nothing like a split in the Liberal party, nor anything approaching to the beginning of a split. The Conservatives announce that they are waiting for such a split, and are keeping quiet till it occurs. Every Liberal party splits up, therefore this Liberal party will split up, is their simple logic. But there is no ground whatever for thinking that this Liberal party is going to split up now. And there are many good grounds for thinking that it will keep together. In the first place, the constituencies would abhor a split, and hold the ten-or of refusing re-election over the heads of those who might begin to thwart their wishes. In the next place, the Ministry is in thorough harmony with the Liberal party. Excep tion may, of course, be taken to this or that portion of the conduct of the Ministry. The Chancellor has shewn un expected weakness in his Appellate Jurisdiction Bill, and. Mr. Gladstone has, we trust only for a time, allowed him self to be puzzled o u t of th e boon he meant to confer on the Irish tenants. But these are very small matters if we take the whole relations of the Government and the party. There is no assignable ground of difference between them and their supporters ; and therefore the Liberal opposi tion they have to encountor is of a very mild sort, and has no root of bitterness in it. And, lastly, there is this peculiar weakness in the Liberal opposition at present, that there is no one to lead it. The Ministry has been constructed on so wide a basis that there is no Liberal of anything like eminence, or promise of eminence, outside of it. All sections of the party are represented in the Ministry, and all the conspicuously able politicians of the party are provided with places. There are many men of good practicable ability on the Liberal side not in office, and there are the usual number of lawyers pushing on for their appropriate promotion in rotation, but there is no one outside the Ministry of whom his admirers would say at once that he ought to be in it. There is nothing there fore at present for Liberals to fear in the recent dissensions of the party ; and such opposition as theirs is has certainly not transgressed the boundary of healthy independence, even if it reached it. THE CONSEQUENCES OF REJECTING THE IRISH LAND BILL. The Spectator declares that if Liberals give way to this kind of despondency, things will soon be in an inextricable mess. We hear it said on every side—in the country, where Mr. Gladstone is loved, as often as in London, where he is rather esteemed—that the session must be a failure ' • that what with its own bigness, and the over plus of talk, and the cumbrousness of Parliamentary forms, and the silent dislike of Liberal squires to any interference with property, this Irish Land Bill can never become law; that if passed at all, it will be passed in a shape which will make it nearly useless. The despondent remark is circulated by . those who detest the bill, caught up by those who only aetest the Government, repeated and exaggerated by those who do not understand the measure, and dread all they do not understand, until it infects the whole party, and the possibility of giving up the bill, or whittling it down to inefficiency, is openly. discussed. The faintheartedness is not, perhaps, unna tural, for Parliament never took holiday more wearied. more perplexed, or less satisfied with itself ; but we wish the croakers would tell us what they think will happen if their prophecies prove correct. In the first place, how if the bill dies either of poison or of atrophy, is her Majesty's Government to be carried on? It is quite impossible for Mr. Gladstone, conciliatory and even yielding as he tries to be in the matter, fearful as he is of his own earnestness lest it should betray him into dictation, to allow his bill to be either rejected or spoiled, and yet remain respon sible for the administration of Ireland. He would be a traitor to constitutional government if he did. He was taunted last week with arrogance for saying that if Mr. Fowler's amendment were carried he must withdraw the bill, told with flippant superciliousness that his Govern ment presented itself in "a chronic attitude of resig nation • " but he was only arrogant if it is arrogance to state a patent truth in the simplest possible way. What else could Mr. Gladstone do but resign ? He is pledged up to his lips, pledged to England and Scotland, as well as to Ireland, to pass a measure large enough and satisfactory enough to terminate the agrarian war which for the last half-century has been raging in the sister island ; he has prepared such a measure, he has obtained for it the approval of the people, and is he now to with draw or smother it, to tell Ireland that he can do nothing for her master grievance, and England and Scotland that he does not care? Ireland is just now halting and divided, willing to wait, half-inclined to hope, but we do not hesitate to say that within a month of the withdrawal of the bill, more especially if it is talked out—for that will add to the injury the aggravation of scorn—every cry in Ireland will be drowned in a single shout for repeal, a shout in which landlords, who know that the worst that can happen to them is fixity, may yet be induced to join. THE GLADSTONE AMENDMENTS. We are still, remarks the John Bull, without the amend ment in the Education Bill which the Premier and Mr. Forster promised to lay on the table before the recess. On the other hand, the Government have shaken the con fidence so generously accorded to Mr. Forster by political opponents, and must expect their new proposals to be re ceived with no small degree of suspicion. In this position Mr. Gladstone will be reduced to the humiliation of throwing himself on second or third rate men, like Mr. Mundella, who will push forward with characteristic con fidence to propose their tertium quid. This. is already understood to take the shape of the "time Conscience Clause," so vaguely, and, we must think, ignorantly in dicated by Mr. Gladstone. Our consolation is, that if any Education Bill struggles through the Lower House under such "leading," the Lords will be in a position to restore the principles adopted without a division at the second reading, and, after improving the details, return it to the Commons a much better measure than it has ever yet been. After all, Mr. Gladstone—thanks to the Libe rals—has a good chance of getting none of his omnibuses through Temple Bar this session. The solitary passage of that rude unregistered cab—the Irish Church Bill—for which he is indebted to Conservative forbearance, bids fair to be the only great measure of the most popular Minister, and the largest majority which the present generation is acquainted with. Yet as we have said elsewhere, the Land and Education Bills may both be carried, if the Government prefer principle to party. THE REDUCTION OF THE NATIONAL DEBT. The Economist, in discussing the position of our Debt, says that it would be useless to look far ahead or form a large programme, or regulate matters on the expectation of a treat and exceptional calamity, which a struggle for existence would be. It is enough if we make sure that, one year with another, according to current contingencies, we are not going down in the world, but are better able than the year before to meet all our expenses. Now for this purpose our system does provide a considerable mar gin. Since IS6O we have reduced the debt about £30,000,000, notwithstanding an Abyssinian war. We could now pay for three more " Abyssinias " without be coming more indebted than we were in 1660, That is the Jesuit of ten years' saving. At the current rate, more over, we are paying off about twelve millions every two years. We could certainly meet the borrowing necessary for another Crimean war out of our accumulations since it closed ; and as wars are in modern days, we may con sider ourselves tolerably prepared. All this may not be enough, but it is a good deal, and if we go beyond, the object should be well defined. A second consideration is, that the remission of taxes is still in reality a great benefit to the country. We ought to be very certain that in refusing to reduce postage rates, or the income tax, or the small taxes which Mr. Lowe has just got quit of, or the sugar duties, we get fall value for the sacrifice we impose. If a g re at natio n al position is desirable, so also is the present welfare of the masses of the community. At a time when the whole tendency of legislation and the progress of industry is to raise the standard of living among the masses, we should be careful to omit nothing which will make the end more sure. There is this also to be said in favour of remitting taxation. It is a mode of adding to our reserve, when the frame at least of the taxes is retained. We have all that taxation to reimpose when an emergency comes. The only practical conclusion to arrive at is that we can not very wisely alter the principle of our system. Th ere is no great object to be gained. Our pos i tion as it is im proves every day; we meet all our contingencies and have something over ; we are in advance of almost all our neighbours and greatly in advance of most of them ; by reducing taxation, as well as increasing our reserve, we obtain immediate benefit, and stimulate t he growth of the national resources. Perhaps it would be wise to en large our margin a little ; we are inclined to think it w le di o ff u e l r d en b c e e i wise, n th ef power o we rsltioght re duceincrease x would u t rfl N a v k e e s h l i o t u t deprecate for many reasons any material postponement of other objects to the reduction of the debt. PEACE IN TIPPERARY.—The returns to Govern meat for sin g t lhee casew ee k of e o n u d t i r n a g g e the o r lB c t r il n o e f n Ap t i e n n s t t 2 a r n e t p s o h ic w e e d l i u s t d r i i n c g t of a s C i t l on d m o e e s l n a n o d f esurr ounding e g n h ei t g r h u r b o a u l r hdoi divisions, besides a large civic population.—Clonmel Chronicle. MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL GOSSIP.—The Orchestra' says Mdlle. Nilsson leaves Paris for London on the 3rd of May.—Madame Patti sings for charity at the concert arranged by the Princess de Beauveau, at the Hot e l d e Ville, on the 2 5 th, and will be in London on the 6th of m a y.—We understand Miss Herbert will shortly assume the title-rale of Frou-frou" at St. James's Theatre, vice Mdlle. Beatrice.--The report of Mr. Webster having leased the Adelphi and Princess's Theatres to Mr. Bouci cault is untrue; Mr. Webster has n_t intention of le as i ng either theatre to Mr. Bcueicault. — The Musical Standard says that Madame Pauline Lucca has, at the instance of the Duke of Saxe - Coburg, visited Gotha, to appear at the Court Theatre in the Mignon" of Ambroise Thomas. The invitation of the Duk e was accompan i e d b y a gold , medal and cross of merit."—The Choir says a concert on a magnificent scale has just been given under the patron. age of the Emperor at St. Petersburg, at which the exe cutants numbered 1,130, including a choir of one, hundred voices from the Imperi a l c h aue l . —A r i s t ocra ti c composers are coming to the front on the continent. To the names of the Countess de Grandval and the Baroness do Maistre must now be added that of the Comtesse Perriere-Pilte, whose first opera was performed at her hotel last week by some of the chief artistes in Paris. The work entitled ". La Dryade " w as li s t ene d to by a distinguished THIRD EDITION. The Third Edition of The Sun of last Evening was published iu time for delivery in town at 7.15 p.m. SUN OFFICE, 6 o'CLocx. S TELLIGENCE, GUY 13EIT1NG.-THIS DAY. TWO THO USAND.: 5 to 2 agst Kingcraft (offered—take 550 to 200) 6 to 1 agst King o' Scots (offered) 7 to 1 agst Macgregor (offered) 15 to 2 agst Stanley (taken) 9to 1 agst Prince of Wales (taken and offered) 100 to 6 agst Hawthornden (taken) 20 to 1 agst Akterope (offered) 25 to 1 agst Alexander (offered) 25 to 1 agst Astolfo (offered) 40 to 1 agst Champion (offered) 1000 to 10 agst Sunshine (taken and offered) CHESTER CUP. sto 1 apt Sabinus (taken and offered) 9 to 1 apt Glenfalloch (offered) 10 to 1 nit Siderolite (offered—take 100 to 8) 9to 1 agst Cherie and Starter coupled (taken) THE DERBY. Bto 1 agst Sunshine (offered) 9to 1 agst Kingcraft (offered) 18 to 1 agst Camel (taken and offered) 30 to 1 agst Sunlight (taken) 40 to 1 agst Prince of Wales (taken) 1000 to 20 agst Normanby (offered) FLAT RACING FIXTURES. APRIL. Abergavenny 21, 22 Cardiff 26, 27 Eastbourne 22 Croydon 26, 29 Newmarket lat S 2to 6 Wye 19 Edinburgh 7 Doncaster l9, 20 Chester ... lO to 13 Harpenden 20, 21 Winchester 10, 11 Bath 24, 2i Salisbury 12, 13 Stamford ... 26, 27 Chelmsford 17, 18 Croydon 36, 27 York 17, 18 Epsom 31 to Jun• 3 COURSE OF EXCHANGE. Amsterdam, Short Short 11 18 11 181 46......1ba GeV ~... • Do . 3Ms ... 12 0+ ... 12 1 Rotterdam — ... 12 0 ... 12 1 Antwerp — ... 25 42+ ... 25 47+ Brussels Hamburgh — ... 13 10 1 ... 13 11 Paris Ditto Marseilles Frankfort-on-the-Main... ... 1201 ... 121+ Vienna — ... 12 621 ... 12 67+ Trieste ... ... 12 62+ ... 12 67+ Petersburg Copenhagen — ~ 9 23 ... 9 27 Berlin Madrid.. Cadiz — ... 49 ... 491 Leghorn Sailan — ... 26 32f .., 26 37f Genotl. -• ... 26 32} ..„ 26 37 Naples Palermo — ... 26 32f ... 26 37 Messina Lisbon 90 days... 52 ... 521 Oporto ... 52 ... 52} TIIE MONKWEARMOUTII COLLIERY STRIKE. The miners evicted by the owners of these collieries have determiucd on holding daily meetings away from the colliery. Great quietude is said to prevail at the colliery, and there is no likelihood of any disturbance. A quantity of ladies' wearing apparel was found on the banks of the Thames, near Windsor, on Friday morning. In the evening the body of a woman named Woods, aged 23, was found at some distance from the place where the clothes were discovered. TIIE RUMOURED FENIAN PLOT. The frustration of a supposed Fenian plot at Newcastle, as already announced by telegraph, is thus referred to in Thursday evening's edition of the Northern Daily Er press : —The movements of the Fenian sympathisers in this dis trict have aroused the suspicions of the authorities, who have been on the alert of for some time ; and their suspicions are confirmed by the arrival in Newcastle of a quantity of firearms, addressed to the keeper of a public-house in the lower part of the town, who is supposed to have Fenian proclivities. The police, we understand, have seized the consignment, which came from Birmingham, and of the despatch of which, no doubt, there was some information. About 200 rifles were found among the articles seized, and orders have been issued for the police authorities to keep a strict watch upon • the proceedings of the discontented Irish in this district. There is every reason to fear that some movement either in Newcastle or elsewhere has been contemplated, but the activity of the police may frustrate the designs of the mis guided men. The Liverpool papers state that on Thursday forenoon a quantity of powder vas discovered in a pit in the Borough-road, Birkenhead, under circumstances which have given rise in the neighbourhood to a considerable amount of gossip. It appears that some boys, while playing in the road, observed two men of foreign appearance throw a number of small bags into the pit, and then hurriedly take their departure, as if afraid to be seen. As the bags immediately sank, the curiosity of the lads was excited, and they began to "fish" the bags out of the water. About thirty bags were discovered, and to' their astonishment each contained about 11b. of gun powder. Several of the bags were taken to the police office, but no clue to the persons who threw the powder into the pit has been obtained. Some persons have associated the affair with Fenianism. It is certainly extraordinary that such a quantity of powder should be thrown away in the manner stated. The petition praying for the remission of the sentence of five years' penal servitude, passed upon John Crow, of Gateshead, for the murder of his wife, has been un availing. The rumour announced in some Gateshead papers, and in the London press, that Sir William Hutt, M.P., was likely to be raised to the peerage, is untrue. The Gateshead Observer, the liberal paper, which discredited it in the first place, now denies it upon authority. The hon. gentleman stated in public at the last election, that he had refused the honour of being elevated to the Upper House. Dr. Unger, one of the first botanists in Gernianv, was found a few days ago dead in his bed at Gratz (Austria). An examination of the body showed that he had been strangled, but the motive of the crime remains a mystery. A drawer containing some papers of value was found open, but nothing had been abstracted. The Law limes Is surprised at the EconomisCit suggestion that Sir Roundell Palmer's support should be purchased by the Government. Seldom has a more in sulting suggestion been adventured. Sir Roundell Palmer is deliberately recommended as a man whose opposition should be, and might be, bought off. Does the Economist. sume that Sir R. Palmer's opposition to portions of the Irish Land Bill is not honest? Bondholders of the San Domingo Loan and others interested in that Republic will do well (the Financier says) not to attach implicit credence to the statements transmitted from New York and Philadelphia, to the effect that the question of the annexation of San Doming.° to the United States has been practically decided in the negative. According to some of the private telegrams, there is still a strong prospect of the measure being decided upon. THE EARL OF WINCHELSEA.—The Earl of Winchelsea's affairs have been again before the Court of Exchequer. • The question was whether certain goods seized at the suit of Mr. Calisher, at Eastwell Park, Kent, the seat of the . , Earl of Winchelsea, were the property of his lordship or, of the Duk e o f Ri c h mon d an d M r. T urner, trustees of the.: Winchilsea estates. The case was tried last term, a ver dict being returned for theplaintiffs. Mr. Manisty, Q.C., now moved for a new trial on the ground of misdirection. He contended that the deeds conveying the goods were' void, being a mere contrivance to protect the property. A rulenisi was granted. THE TABLET AND THE RITUALISTS.—The Tablet; has an article on conversions not altogether flattering to the Ritualists. At first sight, it says, them seem to' profess all Catholic doctrine, and it is truly shocking because em au r sei a t in ouishtarodf tocombmeliuenvieonthwieythcatnhekoenepe t C o h u s e r e ch t Wall which will certainly en dorse it most willingly. The' out of it in good faith. Here is an admission for Exeter w Tablet, hotgever, finds there is one fundamental truths hich the Ritualists do no t p erceive, and that is the ' authority of the Church. It therefore exonerates them from the charge of insinserity, and thinks they are doing good service by mixing with the masses, removing their traditional prejudices, and paving the way for the national' adoption of the Catholic faith. A. shocking accident lids occurred in Essex-street, Hoxton, owing to the falling of a house, by which one man was killed, and a girl so seriously injured that it is feared she cannot survive. Several men were employed in pulling down fifty houses that had been condemned by the local authorities, when a wall suddenly fell outward upon the pavement, killing one of the workmen. Some of the bricks fell upon the girl who was passing, breaking several of her ribs, and inflicting other injuries. A. letter from Rome in the Cologne Gazette mentions tnat two converted French Jews, the brothers Leman, who are now at Rome, lately succeeded in obtain.' ing the signatures of 50G bishops to a postulat um, entreat ing the Council to address an earnest invitation to the unfortunate people of Israel, calling on them to recognise at length in Jesus Christ the Messiah they have so long vainly expected. The brothers have been permitted to present the document to the Pope, who has promised W ley it before the Council.