The Sun. — London, England, 1867-06-20 00:00:00

NON - E - Y - MARKE AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. At the weekly court of the directors of the Bank ° f England this morning no alteration was made in the minimum rate of discount, which still re- I nains at 2i per cent. In the general market, the inquiry for accommodation is moderate, short-dated brit class commercial paper being readily negotiated at 2 i per cent. At the bullion office of the Bank of England there were no gold operations of importance yester day. The City of Paris has brought about 1190,000 t a specie, and the Delta with gold from Australia via Alexandria, 26 packages, value not known. The finit instalment becomes payable to-day on the New Russian Orel Vitebsk Railway Loan. A call of £5 per share also becomes due to-day on the shares of the City Offices Company, amount ing to £lOO,OOO. The biddings for bills on India took place to-day at the Bank of England. The amounts allotted Were —t o Calcutta 15,60,000r5. (£156,000), to Madras 140,000 (£14,000), and to Bombay 9 ) 95 ,000 (£99,500). The minimum price was fixed at 1 8. 11d. on all the Presidencies. Tenders on Calcutta and Madras will receive about 7 per cent. and those above in full. Tenders on Bombay at and above the minimum will receive in full. The official liquidator of the Joint Stoak Dis count has notified the payment of a further dividend of 1 8. in the Found on the 24th instant. The directors of the English and Swedish Bank ill liquidation have notified that on and after the 4th July the first instalment of £lO per share out °f the assets of the company will be paid on pro duction of the share certificate. A circular has been issued by the Defence Asso ciation. of Overend, Gurney, and Co., protesting gainst the call of £lO per share, and requesting a further contribution for the purpose of establishing decision to that effect. Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures r emain steady at 31 33 ; but the Consolidated Mortga ge Bonds have declined k , to 25k 26k. The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up this day, are in round figures as under :- 1867. 1866. Great Western . 83,153 7 8 , 729 North Western 4- 4- ". ..:.132,637 121,264 , b B outh W estern 34,927 29, 707 "ghton. 26,984 21,7 65 kidland *** ... 61,271 50 , 509 south Eastern ... •• ••• 30,069 29,879 • Northern 35,082 33,973 La ncashire and Yorkshire... 07,019 46,366 Bri stol and Exeter... 7,697 7,182 North Eastern ... 4 . 4 . 4 . 78,535 74,471 M a nehester Sheffield, and Lincoln 27,307 20,098 tr eat Eastern ... 39,224 34,22 7 L ondon, ctha and Dover 14,735 11,393 Metropolitan m' ••• ••• •.. 5,044 4,025 `,; 118,4 g0w and South-Western - 11,490 10,837 .I.` ll :° , tt Southern and Western of Ireland... 10,218 8,613 idland and Great Western of Ireland ... 5,954 6,028 These *turns, when compared with those of the e lrePpondieg period of last year, consequent upon th e influx of passenger tra ffi c caused by the Whit :till holidays, are of an exceedingly favourable cha racter. Ott the Great Western there is an increase O f £4,424 ; on the North Western, of £11,373 ; I T the So u th-Western, of £5,220 ; on the i ghton, of £5,219 ; on the Midland, of xr , 10 ,762 ;on the South-Eastern, of £5,190 ;on t he Great Northern, of £1,109 ; on the Lancashire and Yorkshire, of £20,650 ; on the Bristol and Exeter, of £515 ; on the North-Eastern, of £4,064 ; On the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, of £7,2 09 ; n the Great Eastern, of 14,997 ; on the London, Chatham, and Dover, of £3,342 ; on the Metro politan, of £1,019 ; on the Glasgow and Sout h 1),„ b: e etern, of £653 ; and on the Great Southern a nd "'eaten' of Ireland of £1,605. Two O'CLOCK. Owing to an extreme degree of quietude the 4.srket for the British Funds is not particularly bll° Yant, but it is nevertheless very firm. There 18 a reluctance to speculate, and investors are shy P„ °W ing to an impression that many new and sound leets will be brought forward after the Midsum "ler holidays. Consols are lower than they were at t he close of official hours yesterday afternoon, -0 w being 941 1 for transfer, and 941 for the acc ount. T ransactions have taken place in the o ther secu rities as follows :—Three per Cen t. Reduced, Q3l , Z I 1 ; New Three per Cent. 93 1 1 ; Two and a Half, 1896, 761. Excheq uer ; I ' lB l £5OO, 19s, Do. £lOO and £2 O O, 27 s 198 ; Bank of England Stock, - 253 ; Indian 1091 1084, the latter quotation showing fiat- Enfaced Paper 51 per Cents., 1081 j ; and 1,00 0 5 per Cent. Bonds, 55 60. The Foreign Market has not been very lively, b ut t Italian have risen 1, Greek 1, Spanish Passive all ' t he Certificates Turkish 1, Chilian Scrip 1, l at cl Russian Scrip per cents. Annexed are the clt est prices :—ltalian, 521 1 ; Greek, 151 ; Mexi ill' 1 61 17 ; Spanish Passive, 241 1 ; Certificates, se i 15 • , Turkish 5 per Cents., 331 341 ; Chilian q , 11 1 ) , 11 ; and Russian, 1 1 prem. 1 14 .( he operations in the Railway Share Market pri t e been very restricted, and in several instances ces are a shade flatter. Great Eastern, Metro '3) and South Eastern have each receded 1, Metro kid, t, and North Western 1 ; while Great ~,hern A Stock has improved 1, and Brighton /. Foreign and Colonial lines in most cases b;PPort previous values, South Austrian and Lom b:le-Venetian b e i ng dealt in at 151, Great loletliburg at 111 Great Western of Canada at East Indian at 1101 and Groat Indian IliasUlar at 1114 112. ' l nk shares are dull, and without material e„,: ll ge in value. London and Westminster, how l:, have receded to 1061 ; Chartered of India, 4 1 , 11 . 4 cm and China, have improved to 331 ; and 1 1 ., a . ilee remain steady at 161. Itseellaneous and Finance Shares continue in erate request. Atlantic Telegraph 8 per Cents. 1, 1 11 1 ,,g firm at 90 91 ; Hudson's Company are steady at ; National Discount at 131 ; and Peninsular "`u Oriental Steam flat, at 461 I. MINING MARKET. THURSDAY AFTERNOON. t T here has been a moderate amount of business i ta tsacted in this market to-day. The shares chiefly Illitlired for have been Great Retallick, Prince of ttr a l es, Grenville, Chontales, and Buller. Annexed ( ) e , the latest prices : `hive Moor 551 eli 4 tales Gold ta ftf ° , ll Amalgamate 7 8 a *Basset l6 17 net Carado 1: - ` t Lovell. n fast kst Ix,Fus sell 4,, ~ heal Grenville 2 2f q po kt L axe Ata r i tatalrick Ata r i `, heal Vor 181 19f ,te Vail ... galley 4 North Crofty North Treskerby 1 1 Prince of Wales 613 Od 66s 0 Providence Mines 29 30 West Chiverton 65 68 West Pr. of Wales lOs 15s Wheal Basset Whealßuller 24 26 Wheal Chiverton 6/ Wheal Crebor... lOs 12s 6d Wheal Grenville 24s 26s Od Wheal Seton ll5 120 BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. 8 442-t, .. 1 , 51 , • .RNM ENT F UNDS . I), tj "ut. Consols f a pe • Account, J u ly 10 kew r Pemt• Reduced 931 f i i 4,,,.. -„ Per Cent 93 i I ly n per Cent. Jan. 1894 76i 4 44 - per Cent. Jan. 1873 — D°• ities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 — 4 ° (Red Sea Telegraph), Au,., 1908 — June. March. n'ecitier Bills, £l,OOO D o £5OO l9 ti ak 80. £lOO & £2OO 27 pm 23 19 24 i°f .England Stock. 51 per Cent 1 4(1, -lI I 4 IN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. )3 . o 3.llS toCk i 101 per Cent., April 1874 Shut bo• Account 1),-; 5 , Per Cent. J u ly, 1880 14* , per C ent., O ct. 1 8 88 bo• Ce rtificates — D. E ffaced Paper 4 per Cent — ° •t i ; ! Per Cent., Jan. 1872 I:),' • - ,,i per Cent., May 1879 lOBl i no: ,y.,eb., per Cent., Aug. 1873 I) • ' , wads, 5 per Cent., £l,000 °•lloder £l,OOO ArD,JOBEIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. 41,47,"'.'ine Republic, 6 per Cent tlt 1411 B onds, 5 per Lima, 1839 4 244 , SI N . „II 0 per Cent '1 Per Cent., 1852-58-60 o Do b 5 • 1863 bo Accountent., 1865 — „ " no 11 2 Ayres 6 per Cent — per Cent, (Deferred 3 per Vent ) .... Cailian 6 per Cent Do. 41 per Cent — 00. 6 por Cent A . Do. „ B Do. „ 1867 Do. „ Scrip, £4O paid — pm Colombian, 6 per Cont. lubs., 6 per Cent. Danistb.3 ner Cent., 1825 — Do. 5 per Cent., 1864 .. Danubian Principaliti 3s, 7 per Cent Do. Do. 8 „ 1867 Do. Do. Scrip, £5O paid 5 dis E luador Now Consolidated, 1 per Cent — , egyptian 7 por Cent Do. Second Issue Do. .£lo9' Bonds 00. Do. 1861 BOl ,go. £lOO Bonds B2l / 2 Do GoyeirtMent Railway Debentures Bl 4 Greek 5 per Cents., ..‘4.1-5, ex Coupons Do. Account Do. Coupons Do. Account Guatem tla 5 per Cent. .. — lta:ian 5 psr Cert 18C5 Do, Account • — Do. Mareminana Railway — M ‘xiear. 3 per Cent — Ditto for Account Do. 1864 — Do 6 por Cent. Anglo-French — Siontevidcan C por Cent. . — Iloorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada — Do 3 per Con — Do. Deferral Do Land Warrants (Hectares) Peruvian 5 per Cent 1865 Do Account 69 70 Do 44 per Cent., 1865 Do 41 per Cent. (Uribarren) Do 41 per Cent., 1862 Do Account Portaguoso 3 per Ct., 1858, '6, '7, '9,'60,'2,'3 431 1 Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St — Do 4} per Cont. 1850 Do 41 per Cent., 1860 Do 3 p3l Cent., 1859 — Do 5 or Cont., 1862 874 4 7 i i Do. 5 per Cent., 1864 — Do. Anglo-Dutch 1866 B7 4 I Do. do £6O paid — pm Sardinian 5 per Cent Spanish 3 per Cent — Do Account .. - 3 l 3l Do New Detailed — Do. Account Do Passive — Do Account 241 4 Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded Do Account S modish 4 per Cent. — 'Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 — Do. Account Do 6 per Cont. 1858 — Do. Account Do £lOO Bonds Do 6 per Cent. 1862 Do Account 6Ol Do £lOO Bonds Do. 1863 Do. 5 per Cent 1865 - Do. Account, June 28 Do. 6 per Cent., 1865 Do. 4 per Cont. Guaranteed Venezuela, 3 per Cent Do. Account Do. 6 per Cent., 1862 Do. 6 per Cent. 1864 Dividends on the above payable in Louuon. Austrtsn o per Cent. Ex, 10 Florins ... Belgian, , 44 per cent.,_Ex. '2sf. ..- Dutch 2). per Cent. Ex. 12 Guil, — Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates .... French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 2M. — Italian 3 per Cent. 1831, Ex. 25f. — Do. Account s2} THREE O'CLOCK, zd Consols, Money 941 Do. Account, July 10 SHARD MARKETS.—This Day. ORDINARY /HARKS AND STOCKS. i cl o sing 1 Business Railways. I Paid-i Prise. I dome. 'Bristol anu Exeter .... Caledonian ..... Cambrian Cork and 8and0n...... Cornwall Dublin & Belfast June. Dun„Perth,& Ab.Jime. E.London, bcrip Certi. Do. Glasgow & S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. stk. Do. E. Angl. st. N 0.2 Great North of Scotland Great Northern Do. A Do. B stock Do. New, is. at 25 pm Gt S. and W. of Ireland Gt. Western -Original; Do. S. Val. Rail. gua.l Do. South Wales I Do. W. Slid.—Oxford Do. Newport Do. Hereford Lancashire .k Yorkshire Landon and Blackwall, Lon., Brigh.,& 8 Coast, Lon., Chat., and Dover' Do. Aletrop. Ex. A 1 Lon. & North Western! [Lon. & South Western' Man., Sher., & Linooli Metropolitan..... I Du. New Do. Exteusion Nietrupolitan Dirtrict 80 82 112 114 35 16 0 5 65 68 70 72 3t 33 • 7 110 118 1; 5 116 I) I 13 46 47 !Jo. do. Do. and St. John's IS' d Mid and Do. £9 Share Do, tiirrnio.. Derb3 'lid Kent North British ...... Do. Ed., Pth., & Dun, E astern Berwiel. Do. G.N'E purchase Do. Le 31:1 s ..... Do. York Do. Carlisle . . ... . Do. Stock. & Darling Do. do. 1860-61....,,.. . North London Do. do. 1864 8 • Do. do. 1866 .. North Staffordshire ** N. &S. W. Junction . . Scottish Central Soot. N. E Aber. stock i)o. Scot, Mid. stwk Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern Staines, Wok., & Wok fall Vale Do. C Vale of Neath W a terford & K i lkenny Waterloo & Whlteha West C0rnwa11......., 4SI 68 7 &I 25 30 28 32 129 13) 57 84 18 20 it 17 1143 111 80 62 47 4. 126 127 - 11 113 t 9 115 1,7 81 E 6 31 35 104 105 62 63 95 98 34 35 air 9s' 113 116 I lin 68 70 114 118 57 58 18 60 18 69 9 10 140 754 2 4 34, BRITISH -;o1 s iou Atiantio&st.Lawrenoc a l l 66 is Born., Baroda, Cen.ln. St gu. 5 per cent... too 103 1 ( 4 1 03 1 W Do. F shares lO ip 4„ 20/ Buffalo & Lake Huron all 4 44 10 Do. Preference ..... . all 5 6 Butf.,Brant, Goderich 100 6 p.c. 1872-3-4..„ lto at Calcutta &b. E., lim., too st al e Town lz Dock, gu. 100 50 55 00 Demerara, 7 p.c. per. pi all 99 101 st EAst. Bengal, gu., sdo 100 103 IG4 101/ at East Indian, gu. 5 p.c. 100 110 111 1101 1 1 20 Do. J Extension „. 15 a t Grand Trunkof Caned.* 100 17 18 100 Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds 1 charge 6 p.c all 85 88 100 Do. Ist fret Bonds— all 55 57 100 Do. do deferred 100 De. 2d Pref. Bonds all 54 40 100 Du. do. deferred ..• • all 100 Do. 3cl Pref. stock all 35 37 100 Do. do. deferred ...• all 100 Do. 4th Pref. stook„ all 20 2.2 WO Do. do. deterred all st t. India Pen. gua. sp.c 100 11t 112 1111 12 •i 3 •o. Gua. 5 per cent lB 2 AO D O . New g ull ' 5 P•°• • 6 Y at lit. South of India gua. 5 per cent at D. 41 per cent tou VI 93 st Do 20/ Great Wes. of Canada all 111 15, 141 / 20/ Do. New ...... all It 121 100 Do. 6p. o 13(.8. pay. 1873 all 96 17 100 Do. 54 du. pay. 1 677-8 all 83 e 7 10 Indian Branch, limited 3 I id at Madras, gua. 5 p.o iou 100 102 13/ at Do. 41 do st Do. 49 do lOO 85 90 29 Do. Fifth Extension 5 et Itelb. Cor. 6p. c. Bnds. 100 10 Mel. & Hudson's Bay... all 51/ it N.Rl•C'da,6pcletpf.los, , 100 82 85 at Scinde . lOO 97 99 it Do. Delhi 20 Do. do ..1 .1 1 10 1 at Do. Puni sub— E.. 100 97 98 102/ at Do•lndus St.Flot 100 iltKrERMI`i CM /SMARMS. Great Western. West Midland, Newport perp. 6 per cent. opt. titt '6 ~ 1,6 8 North Eastern, York, H. and Selby purchase, :0 1 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Midland A and A XS p c, 103 i DOCKF.. Southampton, 71 BANES; Alliance, lim.. 161 Australasia. 681 Bank of tjtago, lim., 6 Chartered Bank of India. Australia, and China. 201 1 Chartered 4er. of India, London, and China, 331 21 Consolidated, Bin., 5 English. Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 171 Imperial Ottoman, Dm., PI London and County, 60 Ditto, new, 26 London Joint Stock, 44 London and South African, 12 London and South-Western, lim.. 181 L o ndon and estminster, 1071 61 Midland Bank, lim.. 19i Oriental Bank Corporation," 43 l Union of Loudon, 41i MISCELLANICOUB. Anglo-American Telegraph, 18/ 19 Agio-Mexican Mint, 141 Atlantic felegrapti, 62 501 Dit . o, 8 per cent., 90 11 90 A us t ra lian Mort. Land and Finance, lim., 4} Berlin Water Works, Bin., 121 ueyion Company, 91 City Discount, km, City Offices, aim., 91 Colonial, 101 Commercial Union. Insuranoe, 41 Credit Foncier of Englann, 11w., 3 j I Ebbw Vale, 111 1 14 Fore-street Warehouse, lim., 131 Gen. Credit and Discount, lim.. 6 61 Hudson's Bay, 16 15} Imperial,Land Company of Marseilles, lim., II InternationallFi nan cial society, lirn.. 3 5-16 Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour), 4f Land Securities, 11m., 21 London kienerai Omnibus Company, Urn, 2 15-18 Freehold l ll , 6l I ; et i no ir t ; eib a tuj l l l oiaaneaeirriidvo, Land and Dock, 511 National c O ld l i na l I al p pt : r5 I l ot pev y aie ,i . 143 to itio ii Jauciro laas, Z 4 Share) *0 et et 100 THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 20,. 1867. L AW INTELLIGENOE—This Day. HOUSE OF LORDS. YELVERTON, OTHERWISE LONGWORTH, AND YELVERTON. This long-pending case, which has so long oc cupied public attention, was put down for rehearing this morning, but, in consequence of the indisposi tion of Mrs. Yelverton, was postponed for a week. man, a corporal.in the Ist battalion of the Grena dier Guards, quartered in the Tower of London, vas brought up, on remand, bofore Mr. Paget, charged with stealing £145 in Bank of England notes and two gold rings, the property and monies of Capt. IL M. C. Legb, of the same regiment, who now attended for the first time. The prosecutor stated that on the morning of Tuesday, the 11th of the present month, he placed a small pocket-book, containing two £5O and nine 15-notes and two gold rings in a drawer in his dressing•room. He missed the notes and rings the 3ame night between 11 and 12 o'clock. The drawer and the door of the room were not locked. i\lr. J armyolml'illaiigtn agents, ts a , rton, clerk to Messrs. Cox and Co., identified two £5O notes which he rail to Captain Legh on the 27th of last month. Mr. Henry Etubledon, steward of the Guards Club, Pall Mall, said that six £5 notes produced were a portion of ten he paid to Captain Legh in change of a £5O note. Mr. Richard Adyo Burley, a clerk in the Bank of England, produced two cancelled notes for £5O each, and six cancelled notes for £5 each, all paid into the Bank on the 12th of June. Jacob Posner, a Jew outfitter, of No. 22, White chapel-road, received one of the £5O notes and three of the £5 notes from the prisoner on the 12th June, and obtained £65 in gold for thorn at the Bank. The prisoner endorsed the notes " Gordon Ca meron," and said he had won a good deal of money on the Derby race at Epsom. He gave the whole of the gold to the prisoner, who paid him £5 13s. for clothes he purchased, and took them away. On the previous day, June 11, the prisoner paid him 30s. for two shirts and a waistcoat he purchased. The prisoner cross-examined Posner, who denied that he bad received £2O of him to take care of. The prisoner insisted that be had deposited £2O with Posner, which the Jew stoutly denied. Mr. Alfred Knight, watchmaker and jeweller, of No. 83, High-street, NVhitechapel, sold a lever watch, gold chain, locket, and ring, to the prisoner on the 12th of June, for which the prisoner ten dered in payment three £5 notes, and after deduct ing £l2 65., the price of the goods, retained £2 14s. The prisoner endorsed the notes " Cameron Gor don," and said he came from Yorkshire, and won £2OO at Epsom on the Derby day. In answer to Mr. Paget, Posner and Knight said the prisoner was in his soldier's uniform when he came to their shops and made purchases. Geo. Clarke, detective sergeant, said he accosted the prisoner on Monday last in the Tower, and on letting him know the charge, he said he did not steal but was guilty of passing the notes ; and that he had found one £5O note, six £5 notes, two rings, and a cigar case under a stone near the Tower ditch, He found 10a. Sd. on the prisoner. He ascertained that the day after Captain Legh missed his notes and rings the prisoner invested £3O in a savings bank. Mr. Paget—Two 150 notes which have been identified were paid into the Bank of England on the same day. One was paid to Posner, while the other was passed by the prisoner. Clarke—The second £5O note was indorsed " Webb." I have my suspicions where it was passed. The whole of this evidence having been read by Mr. Harm, the second clerk, the prisoner was called upon for his defence, and after receiving the usual caution ho said, "No defence, not till my trial." Mr. Paget committed the prisoner to Newgate for trial, and said—lt's an unfortunate piece of care lessness for a gentleman to put £145 and two gold rings in a drawer that was unlocked, and in a room the door of which was unfastened. I cannot too strongly reprobate the system which enabled a private soldier in uniform . to obtain change for a £5O note and three L 5 notes, all stolen, at an outfitter's shop, without any in quiries being made. It is perfectly monstrous. l'H lit 1) EDITION . SUN OFFICE, 7 o'GLocE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Sittings at Nisi Prius before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn and a Special Jury.) ACTON V. THE MIDLAND RAILWAY COMPANY. Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., was counsel for the plain tiff, and the Solicitor-General for the defendants. The action was brought to recover compensation for injuries arising out of a collision on the Not tingham and Birmingham line. The defendants merely pleaded that the plaintiff had accepted £3l 10s. as compensation for the injuries he had sus tained. It appeared that the plaintiff was travelling from Nottingham to Birmingham, on the 16th March, 1863, when the collision took place. He was under the care of Dr. Robertson, the company's doctor at Nottingham, for a fortnight, and was persuaded by him to accept the £3l 10. s. in full compensation, and to give a receipt for the same. The plaintiff afterwards became gradually worse, and was com pelled to give up asituationwhich he held as foreman to take another as relieving officer of the union at Nottingham. The duties of this situation also, though comparatively light, he was incompetent to fulfil, and was obliged to appoint a deputy. Finding that his health was so seriously affected he applied in March, 1866, to the company to give him such compensation as the circumstances of his case warranted, but was informed that his claim could not be enter tained, as the company acted on the principle that when a party accepted a given sum in full compen sation he was not entitled to any more. The medical evidence was to the effect that the injuries ,of the plaintiff were of a nature that rendered it doubtful whether he would ever recover. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, and assessed the damages at £1,500. COURT OF DIVORCE. (Before the Right Hon. Sir J. P. Wilde.) INWOOD V. INWOOD, BARNES, AND BASFORD. This was a suit instituted to procure a dissolu tion of marriage on the ground of the wife's adultery. It appeared that the parties were married at St. Barnabas, St. Luke's, Middlesex, in Sept., 1843. The husband was a builder, and had after his mar riage lived with an uncle until 1856, when the petitioner was obliged to go and manage a sister's farm about 14 miles from London, and left his wife and five children in London. During the time he was away it appeared that the alleged adultery was committed. John Inwood said that he was the uncle of the petitioner, and they had lived in his house. He be came bankrupt during the railway mania, but he still continued to live with them. They removed to Birmingham, and the petitioner used to come to see his wife once a week. He allowed her money suffi cient for her use. In 1857 he was suddenly called to hear rumours about his niece and one of the co respondents. She protested her innocence, and he be lieved it, but she afterwards confessed that she was guilty. Her husband forgave her, and they went to lire in another house. He still lived with them, but her conduct became so bad that he was obliged to take separate lodgings. She would be out till 12 and 1 o'clock, and did not seem to care for any thing. On one occasion he saw Barnes in a private room with her. She often had what she called "female friends" to tea. After he had left her three or four days she brought her son to him and the key of the house, and went to live with Mrs. Bragg. He called a day or two after and found her crying, because she was afraid of Barnes's wife. She said she was truly sorry that she ever left her home, and begged him to take care of her little boy. He sent her up a few shillings occasionally when she begged very hard. He went down to Liverpool, and saw Mrs. Inwood in the presence of Mrs. Galloway, and saw the co-respondent Basford in town. He said that " was all right, but that he did not know that she was a married woman." Mrs. Bragg, Mrs. Galloway, and others gave con firmatory evidence. It was urged on behalf of the co-respondent Bas ford that he was not aware that she was a married woman, and therefore trusted to be excused from the costs. The Court granted a decree nisi, with costs against Barnes. LOFTUS V. LOFTUS. This was a petition on the part of Lord Loftus for restitution of conjugal rights. Mr. Coleridge applied for a postponement of the case on the ground of the absence of a material witness. The case was accordingly postponed for a week. SULLY V. SULLY AND ANOTHER. This was a petition presented by the husband, praying for dissolution of marriage on the ground of adultery. It appeared that the respondent some time after marriage gave way to habits of imtemperance, and eventually so conducted herself as to lead to the institution of the present suit. His lordship granted a decree nisi. POLICE INTELLIGEACE.—This Day. WARLBOROUGII-STREET. EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF WANTON DAMAGE. —John Clare, described as a jewel case maker, of 9, George-street, Laugharn-street, and Elizabeth Clare, his wife, were charged, before Mr. Knox with wantonly damaging some panes of glass, the property of Mr. George Lines, printer, of No. 2, Middleton-buildings, and also some panes of glass at other houses in the same place. Mr. Lines stated that several panes of glass in his windows had been cut during the past two or three nights, and some of the windows in other houses near him. Mr. Chas. Sheppard, of No. 11, Middleton-build ings, said that in consequence of several windows in the place being cut lately, he sat up last night to watch, with the view of detecting the person doing it. He saw the male prisoner, who was accom panied by his wife, first cut th e w i ndow of the previous witness's house, then th e window of the next house, and just as he was going to cut the window of the third house he caught hold of him, and told him that he would have him locked up, upon which be ran away. He then gave the prisoner and his wife into custody. The female prisoner took a ring from her husband, and had an opportunity of getting rid of it. The male prisoner was extremely anxious for him not to press the charge. The male prisoner said therewas only one window cut, but the witness stated that he saw him delibe rately cut three. The male prisoner said that when caught by and struggling with the last witness, he had his go ld watch stolen. Mr. Knox said it served the prisoner right, and he would like to know what business the prisoner had to destroy persons property as he had done. • The IN itness said that on Monday night four windows were cut, some of the glass nearly through, no doubt by a diamond ring the male prisoner was wearing, and last night he distinctly saw the pri soner do it. The male prisoner said he was very sorry, and was willing to make compensation. It was a fool hardy case he would admit. In answer to Mr. Knox the prisoner said he was a jewel-case maker. Mr. Knox said the female prisoner did not appear to have taken an active part in the matter, and as there was not enough to convict her, she would be discharged. Police-constable llolder, 161 E, proved taking the prisoners into custody. Nothing was found on the male prisoner with which a window could be cut. Mr. Knox said that no doubt that was got rid of. He would not ruin the prisoner by sending him to prison without the option of paying a fine. He should order him to pay 3s. for the damage, and a fine of £5 or a month. THAMES. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY BY A SOLDIER IN THE OWER ,--Charles Stewart, aged 19, a very tall The Belgian Reception. Yesterday his Grace the Duke of Devonshire waited personally on the executive of the Belgian Committee, and gave a special invitation to the BA gians to an entertainment with the Derbyshire Volunteers at his scat at Chatsworth. His grace was cordially thanked, but the utter impossibility was explained to him of the Belgian visitors being able to accept any country visits, or indeed any not organised by the reception committee, in conse quence of the brief period of their stay in this coun try. This same circumstance will, it is understood, also prevent their at one time contemplated visit to the naval review at Portsmouth, it being found necessary, in consequence of the variety of local entertainments offered, to adhere in the main to the originally proposed programme, the only changes in it being that the Belgians will arrive a day earlier —Thursday, the 11th, instead of Friday, the 12th July—and that the visit to Miss Burdett Coutts's will take place, not on Tuesday, the 16th, but on Friday, the 19th, for which evening the grand concert at the Agricultural Hall is announced. These alterations will enable the committee to ac cept on behalf of the visitors the conversazione which has been tendered at the South Kensington Museum by the Lords of the Council of Educa tion. With regard to the ball at the Agricultural Hall ou the night of Wednesday, the 17th, an invitation has been forwarded to the Sultan in the name of the committee by Colonel Loyd Lindsay. Subscriptions are still coming in, and amongst them is a first instalment of £5O from the Victoria Rifles and other corps ; but there are several which assume a very high position from whom no response has been heard. Amongst these are the South and West Middlesex, the 2d Administrative Battalion of Middlesex (Highgate and Hampstead), the 20th Middlesex, &c. Amongst prominent individual cases of exertion in behalf of the fund, it may be mentioned that Lieutenant and Hon. Quartermaster Walker has collected personally over 100 guineas for the fund. The Malignant Fever in Ireland. - ~- An epidemic disease of a novel character appeared in the person of a healthy medical student, 18 years of age, on the 18th of March, 1866. The only notable features of the case were rapid prostration, and the appearance of purple or almost black spots on and under the skin. Death resulted in about 26 hours from the first symptom. He resided in a most healthy situation in Dublin, and there was nothing whatever to account for the origin of the attack. Three cases quite similar occurred iri the following May ; and during August a fourth, in Cook-street, where the cholera committed the greatest ravages, and while that epidemic was at its height. Since January, however, 57 fatal cases have occurred in the city of Dublin ; but, the patients surviving longer than at the outset of the epidemic, there is time for the de velopment of the nervous symptoms, such as head ache, stiffness of the neck, and increased sensitive ness of the surface, which indicate the identity of the malady with the epidemic of cerebro-spinal arachnitis which prevailed in the South Dublin and Bray Workhouses in 1846. The disease described by American authorities, and that which Dr. San derson investigated in West Prussia by order of the Privy Council in 1856, were similar to the former now prevailing is ction of the blood, Irish more o r u a t p b i r d e l a y k f ; a t b a u l the th e de malady str u which is the result of a nervous lesion, at once extin guishing life. One child succumbed in five hours, but the average duration of fatal cases is 24 hours. Persons under 20 years of age have been, with three or four exceptions, the victims ; but those living under good sanitary conditions do not seem to be exempt, for a young nobleman, three students, and several child ren in respectable families, have been attacked. That the disease is due to promoting causes similar to those which induce cholera would appear from the fact that while seven of the districts which suf fered from that pestilence last year have produced cases of this black fever, it has appeared in no dis trict which was exempt from the cholera epidemic. Three persons from one house in a characteristic cholera-haunt near Dublin have suffered ; and two cases of great virulence lately occurred one after the other in a cabin near Clondalkin, which could not be equalled for unwholesomeness. Investigations intoihe circumstances of the other cases have in duced Dr. Mapother, the medical officer of health for Dublin, to regard the disease as non-communi cable—a point which was determined for the Prus sian outbreak by our Government commisAoner.— :Lancet, SPORTING INTELLIGENCE-This- Xity-. STOCKBRIDGE RACES—Tins DAY (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) UXBRIDGE PLATE. The Uxbridge Plate :(Handicap) of 50 sovs, added to a Handicap of 10 sovs each, h ft ; winners of any ban aim') value 100 sovs after Juno 11 (at ten a.m.) 71b c Ora.; Bush in ; 22 subs. Alruna Pantaloon Lady Hester • 1 .- 2 Nr 6 Four ran. SWEEPSTAKES OF 200 SOVS. Athena Corinue TROY STAKES. The Troy Stakes of 50 goys each, h ft, for two-year .olds ; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b ; unt►neds allowed 31b;; Bush in ; 42 subs. Lady Elizabeth St. Ronan Rubican Four ran. STOCKBRIDGE CUP. The Stockbridge Cup, value 300 sovs, by subscription of 10 sovs each, the surplus to be divided between the second and third. • Lord Lyon .d. 1 Ostreger ,... 2 Mameluke Seven ran. GENTLEMEN'S DERBY. The Gentlemen's Derby (Handicap) of 10 sovs each, 2 ft (to the fund), with 100 added ; winners of any handicap after June 14 (at 10 a.m.) blb, of two or more 71b ex tra ; gentlemen riders only ; two miles. Lucifer Black Prince 2 Harpenden . 3 Four ran. M 0 TTISFONT STAKES. The Mottisfont Stakes of 15 soya each, 10ft, with 100 added, for two year olds ; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b ; winners 51b, twice or more 71b extra ; T.Y.C. ; 34 subs. Leonia 1 Faun 2 Birdseeker Eight ran. SWEEPSTAKES OF 5 SOVS. A Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each, with 50 added ; for two year-olds 7st 71b, three Bst 111 b, four 9st 21b, five and upwards 9st 51b; mares and geldings allowed 31b; the winner to be sold for 200 sovs; if entered for 100 sovs allowed 71b, 60 141 b ; half a mile. Paris Lillie Spitfire Six ran. HASTINGS PLATE. The Hastings Plate of 100 sovs, added to a Handicap of 5 sovs each, 2 ft (to the fund); winners of a handicap after . . . . Juno 11 (at ten a.m.) 51b, of two 71b extra; half a mile. Historian Wild Moor 2 Pericles Six ran. LATEST BETTING ON THE COURSE. NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE. 3 to 1 agst Fervacques (taken) sto 1 agst Lady Vane (taken) 6to 1 agst Vixen c (taken) 11 to 1 agst War (taken) 15 to 1 agst Mirella (taken) DERBY. 16 to 1 agst Lady Elizabeth (taken) 20 to 1 agst Athena (taken) 25 to 1 agst Mameluke (taken) 30 to 1 agst St. Ronan (taken) 1000 to 15 agst Rubican (taken) THE CUMBERLAND LTE. sous, fur horses, &c., of [cap Sweepstakes of 10 sous save his stake, and the win- I expenses. Age st lb Lord Hastings ... 3 6 7 Annie Laurie c01t... 3 6 5 Shamrock ... 4 6 4 Helen ... ... 5 6 4 Master Butterfly ... 3 6 2 Fair Wind... ... 3 6 0 Prince of Darkness 4 6 0 Violet ... ... 3 6 0 lona ... 3 5 12 The Black Knight 3 5 10 Fan... ... 3 5 9 Rel-t.ub ... 3 5 9 Rabbit Trap ... 3 5 9 Vau Brunt... ... 3 5 7 3312;1 1171 1161 461 4 129 i 57 1 V 1 7 1 A I Ili 15i 115 481 1271 61 1 2 6 89 9l 116 k 18 Ibi 34i i 04i ACCEPTANCES FOR The Cumberland Plato of all ages, added to a Hand each, 5 ft; the aecond to ner to pay 10 sovs towards Age st lb John Da7ig 6 812 The Beadle ... 6 8 0 Empress of India 6 7 9 Bertie 4 7 7 War 4 7 6 Three per Cent 4 7 2 Fitzroy ... ... 4 7 2 Devotion ... 4 7 0 King Hal ... 4 6 12 Hawkswell 4 6 10 ... 4 6 10 Crown Prince ... 4 6 8 Duchess of Well- ingtoa ... ... 4 6 8 HORSES STRUCK our OF THEIR ENGAGE MENTS. June 15, at 1.15 p.m., Lady Ravensworth and Janet Rawcliffe, out of the Ninth Biennial at Stockbridge. June 15, at 1.15 p.m., Beanstalk, Manuolla, and Lady Ravensworth, out of Newcastle engagements. June 15, at 2.50 p.m., Merry Monarch, Haymarket, Ambition, and Van dyke, out of all races at Odiham to date. Juno 17, at 9 a.m. The Rock and Dunrobin, out of Stockbridge engagements. June 17, at 9 a.m., all Mr. R. Ten Broeck's horses, out of Bibury and Stockbridge engagements. June.l7, pt 9 a.m. Pas de Charge, Colenso, and Alarmist, out of Odi ham handicaps. June 17, at 9 a.m., all Captain Christie's horses, out of Odiham, Bibury, and Stock bridge engagen.ents. June 17, at 9 a.m., Trombone, by Rattlebone (died June 16th), out of all engagements. June 17, at 11.30 a.m., all Mr. Pryor's horses, out of Stockbridge engagements. Juno 17, at 11.55 a.m., all Lord Coventry's horses, out of Bibury and Stock bridge engagements. June 17, at 1 p.m. Usurper and Queen of Scotland, out of Bibury and Stock bridge engagements. Juno 17, at 1 p.m., all Mr. Hodgman's horses, out of Odiham, BibUry, and Stock bridge engagements. June 17, at 1.22 p.m., Huntsman, out of Hastings Plate, Stockbridge. June 17, at 1.22 p.m., Caithness, out of Worcester Cup. June 17, at 3.19 p.m., Mirella and filly by Malcolm, out of Manoeuvre, out of the Beaufort handicap at Stockbridge. June 17, at 5.30 p.m., Monarch of the Glen, out of Stockbridge Cup. Juno 18, at 9 a.m., The Wild Wind, out of the Eighth Biennial at Stockbridge. June 18, at 9 a.m., Van Brunt and Gulnare, out of Newcastle engagements. June 18, at 10.5 a.m., Master Willie, out of the Goodwood Cup. June 18, at 3.13 p.m., all Lord ;Stamford's horses, out of Bibury and Stockbridge engagements. June 20, at 9 a.m., Bracken, out of Newcastle Handicap. June 20, at 2 a.m., East Lynne, out of Newcastle Cup. CoLouns OF RIDERS.—Mr. Joseph, Purple, orange stars. Tinc HATELocs Turf Agency's Representative can 1. seen daily in Talbot-court, Gracechurch-street, from Eleven till Three. N.B.—lf you want a good foreign cigar call at the Havelock Cigar Stores, 10, Walworth road, three doors from the Elephant and Castle. MR. GEO. WEBB executes commissions, by letter only, at his residence, 125, Queen's-crescent, Haverstock-hill, and has lists posted daily at the City Arches ; also through his Agent, Mr. F. Butler, near Meux's Brewery. No connexion with any other person using the same name. NOTES FItoM TRAINING QUARTERS. THIS DAY. NEWMARKET. We had, as usual, a large number of horses busily exercising on the Lime Kilns this morning, but the majority of them were in slow work. It is not likely we shall have anything for the Northumber land Plate next week now that Trombone is "gone under," for Rama and Archimedes are both in dulging, and have been ever since Ascot, the first named probably having done the most. Yesterday he got into long work, and to-day movpd faster, but his weight is too much for the Goodwood Stakes, and they will want Blinkhoolie for that. The latter-mentioned animal receives strict atten tion from the brothers Bloss, and to-day he had a nice mile and a half gallop, as also did Red Shoes, another Sussex candidate. Lytham, too, had a long steady spin, going exceedingly well. Guy of Warwick sweated. Roquefort and Primrose followed Sealskin a mile and three quarters ; and D'Estournal accom panied Leybourne, Corsair, and Ravioli a mile and a quarter. Lothario led Suffolk, Restitution, and North Marston over a mile ; and Tourmalin took Ilippia a steady gallop. Thalassius and Leap Year were eased, but The Peer did a mile and a half. Leases and Barrington galloped a mile and three quarters. Brisk is in good work again, and Lord Stamford's two-year-olds are all getting very for ward in condition. The Rake cantered twice, and then Musician took him a nice steady mile gallop, but The Hermit merely trotted. MALTON. War has received one of John Scott's most care ful preparations, and though he is a slow horse he i 8 a game one, and, being favourably handicapped, is certain to get a place for the Northumberland Plate. He had a splendid two mile and a quarter gallop with Westwick this morning. Taraban gal loped a mile and a half by himself, and Skirmisher a couple of miles. Southminster gave the Viscount a rattling mile and a quarter spin, the pair being followed by the Spy, Merry and Wise, Dr. Syntax, and Thankful. The Viscount is not quite ripe, but will doubtless make his debut at Newcastle next week. Shepherd's and Peck's horses were all in slow work. FINDON. As William Goater and a lot of our horses are at Stockbridge, very little is stirring, but we may state that Pakrita and the Vixen colt are in nice steady work for the Goodwood Stakes. This morn ing they cantered freely, and wound up with a mile and three-quarters' gallop at half speed. Master Willie is to come on here from the Hamp shire meetings. MIDDLE HA M. Fervacques goes like a lion, pulling nearly all through the two miles' gallop, and his 'action is superb. Lady Vane moves equally as well, and never looked better, being in splendid condition. The two have reduced the Northumberland Plate race of next Tuesday to a match. Her Lady ship went two miles and a quarter by herself to-day, pulling up as fresh as a kitten. Mandrake and Har rogate did mile and a half work with the Priest and the Prelate. Tynedale exercised with Rococo and the Czar, and is to be got ready for the Goodwood Stakes and Cup. Honestish had a steady mile and three quarters gallop by himself, as Fitzroy is at Beverley, and Honesty walking. Romping Girl galloped a mile and a quarter. The several two year-olds were in mile work, and are getting fit. We fear, however, they are all moderate. RICHMOND. Plaudit was out again this morning, in the home paddocks, but merely walked about. Strathconan has got into work again, following Empress of India a mile and a half at half speed. Newland and Violet galloped a couple of miles at three parts speed, and the former, who is wonderfully improved and is getting into fine condition, will be the best from here for the Northumberland Plate, well as Hawkswell is doing, for Moldavia will be out of his distance, and there is not class enough about Violet or the Miss Boswell filly. The latter and Moldavia are at Beverley. Hawkswell galloped two miles this morning and went first class. Chelsea is still indulging. Ohnar went over a couple of miles, and Bumblekite did a mile and a half. Imperator took Geant des Batailles a mile at three parts speed. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS-THIS EVENING. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. RITUALISTIC PRACTICES COMMISSION. Earl RUSSELL asked Lord Shaftesbury with regard to this commission whether he had been asked to serve upon it. The Earl of SFIAFTESBURY said that holding, as he did, extreme opinions, he thoughtthat it was not advisable that ha should belong to it, nor did he consider that auy one holding such opinions should serve upon it. The Earl of DERBY said that he considered that there ought to be persons of all opinons to investigate into matters connected with ritualistic principles, and that every peculiar class of views ought to be represented. Ile thought that the noble earl opposite had carried the point too far. _ . . The Earl of SHAFTESBURY said that it was wrong to say that he had any object in opposing any member of the commission except on the ground that he thought some of them took extreme views and were extreme men; •he had not the names of the members of the commission before him, but as the commission had been appointed, it did not much matter. _ . . The Bishop of OXFORD said that he protested against being called an extreme man in mOters of religion. He had followed in the wake of Richatd Hooper, a man who had fallen, but who had maintained his position despite all that. He belonged to the middle portion of the Church of Eugland, and had always been most moderate in his views, and the consequence of this had been that these prac tices seam .ly existed in the diocese of Oxford. After a few remarks from Earl GRANVILLE and the Earl of DERRY the subject- dropped. BUNIIILL FIELDS BURIAL GROUN D. This bill was committed. METROPOLITAN POLICE BILL. This bill was read a third time. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES. The Ea - 1 of LICHFIELD moved that returns should be supplied relative to the number of paupers in the work houses who had been members of friendly societies which hal been dissolved and broken up, and the number of societies which had been registered in the counties of England and Ireland from June, 1793, to May 31, 1867, and the number of societies which had been dissolved and broken up. Lord PORTMAN said that he would suggest to his noble friend that he should alter the date of his request for these returns. It would be better to take them from the year 1823, when they were first instituted by Act of Parliament, and when the registrars were first appointed. He thought that he could not get full and adequate in formation on the subject or obtain a set of rules which would be operative in the matter. The Earl of DEVON was understood to say that it would be the duty of the Poor Law Board to furnish those returns and they would doubtless furnish the noble lord with the information required. The motion for the returns was then a g reed to. THE HOUSE OF LORDS. Lord LYVEDEN moved for a return of the attendance of the lords in the house, and the business done during the session. [ LEFT SITTING:I HOUSE OF COMMONS—This EVENING. The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. ROYAL COMMISSION. The Speaker, with a number of members, in accordance with the summons of the Black Rod, attended at the bar of the House of Peers to hear the royal assent given to seve ral public and private bills. Mr. D. GRIFFITHS called the attention of the Speaker to the fact that the seat usually occupied by himself, and which he had taken that day in usual the way, had been occupied by another hon. member. The SPEAKER inform he ed ai th w g h en ie t h let s n u rt e n h t n h i a a t u t e h r e s should be referred. Sergeant-at-Arms was t officer ° to n. Mr. BRIGHT said t he circumstance he presu med occu• red Owing to the limited accoutmodaton afforded to had members by the lim ited size of the house, which did not afford sitting accommodation to more than 400 members. He believed there was not another legislative chamber in the world where the accommodation provided for members was so disgraceful NIGHT as that in the POACHING House of Commons. Mr. TAYLOR asked the Secretary of State for the Dome Department whether his attention had been called to the statement published in the public papers by the Rev. Richard Payne concerning the conviction of Henr Fulford and Mark Welstead by the Salisbury bench of magistrates for alleged poaching on the 26th of March last. Mr. HARDY said, after consideration, ho had come to the conclusion that the identity of the man had not been sufficiently made out by the keepers, and he had felt it his duty to order the only one of the persons detained in custodyj be discharged. Ho did not think any blame, however, rested on the magistrates, who were compelled to deal with the case according to the evidence. ABSENCE OF THE LORD ADVOCATE. Mr. BAXTER asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if it was the intention of Her Majesty's Government to propose the appointment of an Under Secretary of State to take charge of scotch business in the House of Commons. Mn HARDY said he did not think that such an ap pointment was necessary, although he regretted the absence of the Lord Advocate from the house. The Scotch business was not in arrear, as the hon. member for Peeblesshire had devoted himself to the business with great zeal. ASSISTANCE TO SHIPS AT SEA. Mr. LUSK asked the First Lord of the Admiralty if his attention had been directed to .a report in the Sydney (N.S.W.) newspapers that an English ship, the Ethiopian, 840 tons register, o wned by Messrs. George Thompson, junior, and Co., of Aberdeen, was seen dis masted and in distress on the Bth day of March last, four miles outside the Sydney Heads, and un able to make the harbour, and that though the attention of the commanders of her Majesty's steamers Falcon, Esk, and Challenger then lying in the port of Sydney was called to the circumstance, this unmanagable and helpless vessel was allowed to drift to sea without their offering assistance; and that five days afterwards she was rescued by the French man of war Marceau, Captain Galache, and gallantly, and without fee or reward, brought into Sydney Harbour in safety; and, if such statement be true, whether the con duct of her Majesty's officers was not contrary to the tenor of their instructions received from the Board of Admiralty. Mr. CORRY said no official information on the subject had been received at the Admirlillty. He had seen the secretary of the Commander of the Challenger, and he re presented that no such comunication had been received on board that ship during the time she was at Sydney. He had, however, taken steps to obtain further information. _ Sir S. NORTHUOTE said he hoped to lay the paper on the table in a very few days. THE I CANDIA. Mr. D. GRIFFITH W ask A e R d th N e Secretary of State for Fo reign Affairs wh e th er it was true that Oniar Pacha, havi ng been defeated at Horselion in Candia, had burnt all the villages that had not been defended by the insurgents, and murdered the inhabitants, and that the Consuls had reported these atrocities to their respective Governments ; and, whether means could be found during the approaching visit of the Sultan to Europe, to obtain the cessation of a shocking to h uma nity, so long, and producing results so Lord STANLEY said ho had received no official in formation of the defeat of Omar Pacha ; the only intelli gence received was that which had come by telegram from Athens. With respect to the burning of villages ho was afraid it would turn out true, as there/was much ill-feeling on both sides. With respect to procuring a cessation of hostilities, of course it was much to be de sired, but it was a matter easier said than done. H e ( ha not think that the approaching visit of the Suite,* to this country would be the proper time to lecture or importune him on the matter. (Bear, hear.) THE BtRAIINGII.I.II RIOTS. Mr. HORSMAN asked the Secretary for War if his at tention had bJen drawn to a paragraph in the Times rein tive to the employment of the Volunteers tp suppress ate disturbance, and whether he could inform the house of the regulations under which the commanding offiet.,r acted, and whether he thought it a proper employment • of the Volunteers? Sir J. PAKINGTON said he had not had his attention, drawn to the matter, and therefore he would ask the hoe. member to repeat his question on another opportunity. His own individual opinion was that it was a proper occasion for the employment of the volunteers. THE MEETINGS IN THE PARKS BILL. In reply to Mr. NEATE, Mr. HARDY said with respect to the bill before asking the house to read it a second time he intended to introduce certain amendments which would modify many of its pro visions. Ample notice would be given when it was pr o .. posed to go on with the bill. THE REFORM BILL—THE BOUNDARY COMITIS SIONERS. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he was in a position to communicate the names of the Boun dary Commissioners, they were as follows : Vis count Eversley, Mr. Walton, formerly a member of the house ; Mr. Bramst, n, also a former member of the house; Sir John Duckworth, the hon. mem ber for Kilmarnock (Mr. E. P. Bouverie); the Recorder and Lord Penrhyn. (Hear, hear.) He would take that opportunity of saying that he proposed to strike, out clause 24 out of the bill. REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL. The house went into committee on the bill. Clauses from 25 to 28 were agreed to. On clause 29 being proposed, which related to 'voting papers, r. TORRENS moved the omission of the clause. [LEFT SPEAKING.] BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, June 20. The return of the Bank of France for the week ending to-day shows the following changes com pared with that of last week : INCREASE. Cash 6,800,000 fr. Treasury balance ,.1,170,000fr. ECREASE. Bills receivable 6,100,000fr. Advances Notes . Private accounts 3,660,000fr. Bank of England Returns.—This Evening. An Account, pursuant to t : cap. 32, for the week ending he Act 7th and Bth Victor ia, Wednesday, June 19, 1867. DAUB DE' 'ARTMENT. Notes issued ..../335,710,870 Governmt. DobLXII,OIS,IOO Other Securities 3,984,900 Gold Coin and Bullion Silver Bullion £35,710,870 DANKIXG D: X 35,710,870 Proprietors' Capi tal £1 4 1553,000 Rest Public Deposits (including Ex, ' chequer, Sav ings' Banks, Commissioners of National _ Debt, and Div Accounts) :....• 10,506,891 Other Deposits... 16,987,972 Seven Day and o ther bills 421,309 .C 45,585,762 I Ancient Arithmetic. PAY IN THE ARMY. Colonel W. STUART lifted the Secretary of State for War the cause of the delay in issuing tho extra pay voted by Parliament for tho Army in April last ; and whether he could inform the house at what date the increased pay will be issued. Sir J. PAKINGTON said he bad stated on a former occasion that the increase pay of the army would come into effect immediately on the completion and issuing of the royal warrant, which he hoped would be done in a few days. LIMITED LIABILITY. Mr. GOSCHEN asked the Vice-President of the Board of Trade whether it was the intention of her Majesty's Go vernment to introduce a bill to amend the law of limited liability during this session ? Mr. CAVE said a bill was being drawn up on the sub ect. FAMINE IN ORISSA. Mr. SMOLLETT asked the Secretary of State for India if he was now ready to lay upon the table of the house the correspendence connected with the loss of life through famine in Orissa, promised to be piodueed im mediately after the last Easter holidays TARTME.NT, Governmt. Seen ritiee(including Dead Weight Annuity) : ...£12,886,314 Other Securities 18,316,348 Notes 13,011,200 Gold and Silver Coin ... 1,171,900 £45,585,762 There is not now a village school in any part of the civilised world where arithmetic is not taught with all its intricacies; and any boy ten years old who could not master his four rules would ba con sidered an irretrievable dance. It was not so a dozen centuries ago, when arithmetic was quite as abstruse a science as the Integral Calculus is now. And strange to say, at present the cleverest school boy could make nothing of the arithmetic of bygone days, and it requires one of the first mathematicians of the age, such as M. Chasles undoubtedly is, to un ravel the mystery. In a paper communicated to the Academy of Sciences that gentleman en deavours to trace the history of arithmetic from the time of Boethius to the tenth century. The " Geometry" of the latter writer is the only ancient work extant which treats of the Abacus of the Romans. That system consisted of nine figures assuming a tenfold value for every place they occupied from right to left, as in our present system, only the nought was marked by a blank. M. Chasles has taken great pains to find out some later work which might have derived its information from some earlier source than the work of Boethius, which neither explains the rule of division nor fractions, and has at length hit upon a MS. of Abbo, who in the tenth century was abbot of Fleury, and taught arithmetic to his monks. This is what the worthy churchman says in his preface : " As some time ago I was explaining the ' Calculus' of Victorius to my brethren, they begged me to write a commentary upon it, in which I might give the necessary explanations so as to remove all difficulties. . . . From my earliest youth I have always grieved at seeing the liberal arts neglected and left to but a few persons who made people pay dear for their lessons" (how our village masters' mouths must water on reading this 1) " I will strike the most ignorant minds," continues the abbot, " and build them a bridge of introduction to arithmetic Victorius teaches how to make multiplications and divisions of numbers without making mistakes, both in questions relating to the sciences connected with numbers, such as arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy, and in questions relating to weights and measures." Ile concludes his work with the following verse in monkish Latin : _ _ . - - " IE4 Abbas Abaci doctor dat se Abbo quieti." (Here the Abbot Abbo, teacher of the Abacus, gives himself up to repose.) But M. Chasles tells us that the learned abbot talks of all possible things —philosophy, rhetoric, grammar, philology, dia lectics, astronomy, physics, &c., before he gets to the Abacus, and at lengths explains digital arith metic, or the art of expressing numbers by the fingers, in which he lay down the following rules :-- "If you multiply a single figure by tens, each finger must stand for 10, and each joint for 100. If you multiply tens by tens, then each finger stands for 100, and each joint for 1,000." It is announced that the Atlantic Cable of 1866 has been successfully repaired. The ship Chiltern sailed from Greenwich on the sth inst., with an experienced staff from the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Com pany, and in 13 days after she left the repair was accom plished, the injury proving to be at the precise place in dicated by the electricians testing from Valeutia, viz., two miles and a half from the station at Heart's Content. THE SITTINGS OF THE CHANCERY COURTS. —The whole of the Chanuery Courts will rise for the long vaca tion on or before the 9th of August next. SUCCESSION DUTY IN IRELAND.—In the seven financial years ending March 31, 1867, succession duty under the act of 1853 was charged in Ireland on £23,573,798, the amount of property charged averaging £3,367,685 a year. In the year ending March 31, 1867, the amount was £3,604611. In that year £25,193 was charged as duty, at 1 per cent., on succession by lineal issue or lineal ancestry to property amounting to £4519,633 ; £27,965 was charged as duty, at 3 per cent., on succession brothers or sisters or their de scendants to property amounting to L 932,179 ; £2,310, at 5 per cent., on succession by uncles or aunts, or their descendants to p ro p erty amount i ng to ..£16,015 ; £1,933 at 6 per cent., o n success i on by b ro thers sisters or th e th p e r ir ed e descendants ceseortep o re f pe th r e ty el e grandfatheramounting or grandmotherahodf £7,4s7,etlvee or a 1 e O t r a p n e g r e c r e e n cent., on successioneod to lop b et u t ya 31 amountingrb between to - d w i s e t e a a n th hus band There is no duty on succession bsuaclictsasniodn wife. The 430,000,000 a year, and tho ue £600,000 a pox, hT thehe amount iyheie tu o it property toedivtK Qiie chargedgddlietthy is e aewbh,ietutiht U '