The Sun. — London, England, 1870-04-06 00:00:00

tution.' wed by CIIAS. ere au- URE. :SDAY. Agricul. square, council, hat they ad pram- ) accom• D obtain ag and county which not ad- lister in of the he idea It took 2i per r y, and our of did not They t of the Claren hat wag Arast to ne, they A such ember of he Colli ns steps ;ing. the cow mence of RussoN, iairmail, he dea- rs which Central. 3 subject ijourned 3 bill did it on the kierefore, d by the ple been very' 3rnment, m i g ht q• bad 5 so con doubtful After a resolu ildren at a resolu ld be best every we ought of atten e child ) n, and ar of the :that the e should r a certi . Thing at L " - ews as to truction• at and 8 rried. Le discus• n of this e is di s : amount. d its mence of Unneces he over• the ques- of this rougho.ut the in• on rea l nount of and its held real id would Taxation was the lhambere ;ion theY could be he °caw although ;he soil• he con ;ly local, )ayrnents ill ; con justices, Rego -244,815 ; 239,6 37 ; proceed -226,999 ; iture not ceipte 1 11 amount; imounteu pen diture the head ent, that uncertala din the Led on ,ver and pensatil )on as sPerl With ;, o mission enure'; insert ion rs t e ms 01' that the Titing for ,and tho use 5 l'it's usiness. JESDA - resumed Goscheol Ommitt e Writ fOt iiVisiOn [nation. practic," 1. Loncw m of 1, 0 10- ) g4o,Livv . a paper t he l ' upon e ; es forth 3 Wh i S lll s 8 ag o b, £l2, ' e Thor"- e servi C l he ileac:' THE HONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocx. The business to-day on the Stock Exchange, although not of an extensive description, was, with respect to prices, an improvement on that of yester day. Consols improved and have a firm ap pearance. - In the Foreign market Turkish advanced, but Spanish and Italian receded. For American Securities the market was firm, with the exception of a trifling decline in Virginia Bonds. In railways the changes were unimportant, and for banking and miscellaneous shares we have no alteration to make from yesterday's prices. For discount best class bills can now be done at 2*. Consols are now at 932 118 for money ; ditto, account, 932 ; Three per Cent. Reduced, Hi 2 ; New Three per Cents., 918 2 ; Bank of England Stock, 41 per cent., 235 ex div. India Stock, 10i per cent., April, 1874, —; ditto 5 per cent., July, 1880, —; ditto 4 per cent., Oct., 1888, 1001 ditto Enfaced Paper 5 i per cent., —; Corporation of London, 41 per cent., 1882, 1021. In the Foreign Market Turkish Fives are 47 to 474 ; the Sixes (1867), 70 'to 70f ; Spanish, 28f to 281 ; Charkof, 824 to 83+ ; Moscow, 84f to 85 ; r icolas, 69 to 69f ; Orel, 87 to 87f ; Portuguese 324 to 331 ; Peruvian, 84 to 84f ; Egyptian (1864), 90 to 91 ; ditto (1868), 804 to 81 ; Viceroy's Seven per Cents., 844 to 854 ; ditto Nine per Cents, 100 k to 101; and Brazilian, 88 to 88f. In the Railway Market Great Northern (A) shares are quoted 122 to 122 k ; Midland, 125 to 125 f ; Metropolitan, 771 to 77/ ; Great Eastern, 381- to 381; London and North Western, 124; to 124/ ; Great Western, 69 to 69i ; South Western, 88 to 89 ; London and Brighton, 44/ to 45 ; South Eastern, 754 to 76e ; and North British, 34/ to 341. American Five-Twenty Bonds are 91 to 911 ; Ten-Forty Bonds, 864 to 871 ; and Erie Shares are 21 to 211. Anglo-American Telegraph Shares are 17f to 17i; French Cable, 15f to 151 ; British Indian Submarine, 91 to 91 ex div. ; China Submarine, 1f to 11 dis. ; Falmouth, 91 to 91 ; and Anglo-Mediterranean, 17j to 171; Construction and Maintenance, 371 to 38. Lombardo-Venetian is 184 to 19 ; and Great Luxemburg 13} to 13k. In Miscellaneous Shares the only alteration from yesterday is in Hudson's Bay Shares, which are now quoted 12i to 121, an improvement of The Manchester markets this week have opened with a further improvement of tone. The distress among the small traders in the various manufacturing districts, of which the failures of the past few months have afforded constant indi cations, seems still to be strongly felt. It is stated that in the number of bills which matured on Monday (the 4th of the month) the instances of default were more than usually numerous. Messrs, J. H. Schroder and Co. have invited sub scriptions for £450,000 8 per cent. gold bonds of the State of Alabama at 94i (or 93i reckoning allow ances), payable in instalments . extending to the 15th of June. The list is to close on Saturday for London and on Monday for the country. The existing direct debt of Alabama is only about £875,000, and as she meets her obligations with punctuality, and contrived to surmount honour ably all the financial . difficulties occasioned by the war, her securities are regarded on this side with out disfavour. The present issue represents the sub scription of the State to the Alabama and Chatta nooga Railway, which is to form a link in the long line of communication between New York and New Orleans. It is understood that a deputation representing the leading interests in the colonial trade is about to be formed to wait upon Lord llartington in rela tion to the recent injurious measure of the Post Office with regard to the transmission of printed matter. The report of the Grand Trunk of Canada Rail way, to be presented on the 14th inst., shows a balance sufficient to enable the payment of the interest (£67,737) on the Ist Preference Bondi, and to leave £1,618 to be carried forward. La Pampa, the second of an Italian line of large passenger steamers to perform a monthly service between Genoa and Buenos Ayres, was launched yesterday from the yard of Messrs. Dudgeon, at Cubitt Town, on the Thames. According to the . last advices from San Francisco the trade between California and Japan was daily assuming more important proportions. The bark Benefactress bad just arrived from Yokohama in 26 days, one of the quickest passages ever made, and brought 11,000 packages of Japanese tea, which were at once forwarded to New York by the Pacific Railroad. It appears that the exports of wheat from the United Statts during the past year amounted to 4 ,290,000 qrs., valued at about £8,500,000, against 1 ,616,000 qrs. in 1868, valued at about £3,900,000. The exports of cotton were 722,618,9291 b., valued at about £37,000,000, against 786,600,7761 b. in 1868, valued at about £32,500,000, the decrease in quantity during the year having been much more than met by the increase in price. •At the meeting of the British Empire Mutual Life Assurance the new policies of the year were stated at 601, assuring £192,211, and yielding in new premiums £6,072. The total income was £102,238, and the accumulated fund is £448,659. BRITISH FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 8 per Cent. Consols Ditto for Account 931 8 per. Cent. Reduced it3w 3 per Cent ..... .... 91i 2 New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 Do. 5 per Oen Jan. 1873 Alnuities, 80 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 — Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 188i' — Do (Red Sea Telegraph). Aug., 1900 , tzchogn:,r Pills .£1 000, 21 Ct , 7 P : • . pm 2 do. June... Do £lOO, XaTO & .C5OO — Bank of England Stock, 4i per Cent De. opening — C tnada 4 per Cent. Bonds — Inter-Colonial Omnium — INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Italia Stock 104 per Cent., April 1874 De. opening, for Account — Do. o pur Cent. July, 11 80 Do. 1 per Cent. Oct. 1888 D ). Enfaced Pape' 4 per Cant — D ), 5 per Cert., Jan. 1872 ...... ...... D ). 54 per Cent. May 1879 solo ” - Do. 5 per Cent., Rup. Dal:. 1872 — Da do 18'"".... — • Do. do. 1882 — 0 .. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 ..... Uo. Bonds, 4 per Cont., £l,OOO Do. under £l.OOO — pm FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. i Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent ue Account . Austrian Bonds 5 per cent Do. 1859 ... . Brazilian 5 per Cent D° . 4 4 per Cent. 1852 D °. do 1888.- 1) 0 . uo 1860 Do. do. , 1863 — 13° . 5 per Cent , 1865 De. Account . id .enos Ayres 6 per Cent. .. ... Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent — 01 1 . )% 6 per Cent. 0 I Han 6 per Cent ..... Do. 4i per Cent...,.... ....... ... Da. 3 per Cent~ Do. 7 per Cent.,. 1866 Do. 6 per cent. 1867 0 locul.nan, 6 per Cent. Da list), 3 per Cent., 1825 •• Da lu bian Principalities, 7 I.er Cent — Do Account Do 8 per Cent., 1867 Ecuador New C;onsolidSed, 1 per Cent „ — E yptiau, 7 per Cant ••• • ••• £) o Secoad Issue — D0..£50C Bonds — Do. 1864 Do. Account Da. £5OO Bonds • Do. AlOO rson3s 9ll 2 Do. 7 per Cent., 1868 Do. Account Do. £lOO Bones • • ••• Government Itailwav Debentures Greek spor Cent., 1824 5, ex Coups — . Do. Coupons Gai.temala 5 per Cent .. — rionduras Gov Rail. Los n., 10 p. Ct., all pd ... 84 1 Do. Ace. out Itaiian 5 pe7 Cent., 1865 ,)o. Account . Do Maremmana Baileys) .... - - 1 exican 3 per Cent: ••• Ditto for Account Do. 1864 - Do g per Cent. Auglo-Frencb... M IlteNidqau 6 per Cent. — doorish Imperial 5 per Cent Vow Granada 25 ••• Do 3 per Can 4Ol Do. Deferred Do Land Warrants (Hectares) .. Peruvian 5 per Cont. 1865 Do Account — Do 4} per Cent. (UL:'-barren) ..... ... Do 41 per Cent.. 1862 Portsguese 3 per Ct., 1853,'6, 7, 9,'60,'2. ; ... 33 Do. do. 1867 — Do. do. Scrip, £2O pail — Russian 5 . ear Cent., 1822, £ St • Do 44 per Cent 1850 Do 41 per Cent., 1860 Da 3 per Cent., 1859 Do 5 per Cent., 1862 ........... ... •••••••• 87 64 Dc Inglo-Dutch, 1864, £lOO Bondy 92 Do. do. £B4 15s. do — Do., 186 G, £lOO Bonds 9ll 4 Do. do £B4 15s. do — Do Nicolas Railway 691 Sardinian 5 per Cent. Spanish 3 per Gen . Do. Account Do. 1867 Do. Account Do. New Deferree Do. Passive., - 2 Bl 2Bl 1 Do. Com. Cert. of Coup. not funded — Do. Account Swedish Provincial Mortgage Loan Do Government, 1864 Do do, 1868 Turkish 6 per Cent Do Account Do 6 per Cent. 1858 Da Account Do £lOO Bonds ... Do 6 per Cent., 1862 Do. Account.. Do £lOO Bonds 72 3 Do. 5 per cent. 1865 47/ 7 Do. Account Do 6 por Cent., 1866 7Ol . . Do Account Da 4 per Cent., Guaranteed............ Do do, Scrip — Venezuela 3 per Cent. — Do 6 per Cent. 1864 - — Do 6 per Cent.,1862 — Dividends on the above payable in London. Austrian o per Cent Ex 10 Florins Belgian 41 per cent., Ex. 25f. Dutch 21 per Cent. Ex. 12 Guil — Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates French Itentes, 3 per Cent., E. 25f. Italian 5 per ent. 1861, Ex. :Zsf Do Account — CLOSING PRICES. Consols, Money n3l I Do. Account, April 7 93i CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) Joseph Nelson Warner, a well-dressed your g man, 25 years of age, pleaded guilty to a charge of steal ing a sum of £124, belonging to his employers, Messrs. Robarts, Lubbock, and Co. He was one of the collecting clerks of the bank, awl on the 17th Jan. absconded, taking with him a sum of £124, part of a very much larger sum which he bad collected on the day in question. His lordship sentenced the prisoner to 18 months' hard labour. William Hall, 23, and Robert Cherry, 21, were indicted for a highway robbery with violence on Eliza Chapman. The prosecutzix was on her way to Roupell-street, Lambeth, on the evening of the 24th March ; she alighted from an omnibus, an 3, seeing the prisoner Hall, asked the way to Roupell-street. On her way she met Cherry, who gave her a violent blow on the chest, an I took her watch and chain. Hall, who bad not used any violence, was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment. Cherry was sentenced to receive 20 strokes with the cat, and be imprisoned for 18 months. POLICE INTELLIGENCE-THIS DAY). MARLBOROUGH-STREET. John Edmund Ayres, about ten years of age, was charged,. before Mr. Tyrwhitt, with stealing some money from a boy of about a similar age, named William Hodge, both boys being inmates of that useful institution the Newport M irket Industrial School. Mr. Knight, the master tailor at the school, said the prisoner was only admitted to the school a few days, and yesterday morning he got up before the other boys, and stole some money belonging to a little companion who was about leaving the school. The magistrate remanded the prisoner for a week to ascertain whether he could be got into a refor matory. THAMES. John Richards and John Clements, lightermen, were brought before Mr. Lushington charged with committing a serious robbery on the Thames. Mr. Charles Young, solicitor, on behalf of the Steam t g and Lighterage Company (Limited), said that a man in the employ of the prosecutors took in seven casks of beer at Dowgate-wharf, City. They were all in good condition. The tug-boat containing the beer was navigated to the Londonderry-wharf, Wapping, and in the absence of the lighterman in charge of the boat was boarded, two of the casks broached, and three quarters of a barrel of beer taken from each. The company's lighterman discovered the casks were leaking on his return. Suspicion fell upon the prisoners, who were on another barge called the St. John, and upon Mr. William Thomas going on board he found the prisoners asleep and helplessly drunk. In a coal locker there was a tin can contain ing beer. The,prisoners were remanded for a week. WESTMINSTER. Walter Lang, a ruffianly-looking fellow, of the true pugilistic type, was charged with the following savage assaults upon the police :—Police-constable Salisbury, 328 B, said that he was on duty last night in Stockbridge-terrace, Pimlico, when he saw de fendant fighting with another man. He parted them, and the other man went away, but prisoner refused to go, and commenced using such shocking language that witness was compelled to take him into custody. Whereupon he became still more violent, threw him self upon the ground, kicked and blt the witness, who had to call in assistance, and it required no less than five constables to get him to the station. During his attack upon witness he tried to kick him in a tender part of his person. He was committed for two months with hard labour. Sir Francis Crossley has sent to the Hon. Arthur Kinnaird, the treasurer of the London Missionary Society, an amount of stock which will yield £1,200 yearly to that society. The quarrel between Mr. G. H. Moore, M.P., and Mr. Bolster, President of the Limerick and Clare Farmers' Club, still rages. Mr. Bolster has publish d Ws reply to Mr. Moore's letter. He recommends t member for Mayo not to run a muck through the ra of honest, reasonabl9 men. THE MORTLAKE CHURCH RATE.—The Mortlake Church rate case has been again before the Consistory Court, on the question whether the evidence on the hearing was to be before the judge or before an ex aminer. The churchwardens of Mortlake began this suit two years ago, and the sum in dispute was only £2 ss. 10d. rue defendant, a parishioner , resisted the claim on the ground of inequality in the assessment.—Sir Travers ground of inequality in the assessment.—Sir Travers Twiss observed that the expense of the hearing would be considerable, whether the evidence was taken orally or before an examiner. The Registrar thought that it would be very much better to make an arrangement, and Mr. Crosse, for the defend ant, said there was no principle involved, and if the pro eeedings went on the expense would be very large. In the Tamworth Church-rate case, the Churchwardens had to pay 22,000, and could not enforce a rate. The first day of Minty Term was appointed for proceeding with the case, the 'Court advising the parties to consider the matter first. If the case went on an examiner wouglake the . SHARE LI.)T. RAILWAYS-ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Closing Business Paid. Name. Quotations. done. St Bristol and Exeter lOO 77 •79 St Caledonian 100 771 78 781 1 St Cambrian lOO 15 20 20 Cornwall all 21 31 St Dublin and Belfast Junction 100 . . . . St Dun, Prth, and Aber. Jnnc 100 70 72 • 20 East London. all 4 6 20 Do . 20 Do St Glasgow and S.Western 100 111 113 St Great Eastern lOO 371 38 3.94 4 St Do East Anglian, No. 2 100 61 71 St Great North of Scotland 100 13 16 St Great Northern 100 114 115 1161 1 St Do A 100 119 1191 1221 1 St Do B. . lOO 126 128 St Gt. So. and West (Ireland) 100 98 100 St Great Western— Consolid 100 684 694 691 1 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 1251 1274 St Lond, Bright'n, and S.Coast 100 43 431 45 44 St Lond, Chatham, and Dover 100 1 4 1 15 4 15 1 St Do Metrop Extension A 100 9 11 St London and North Western 100 1234 1231 1241 4 St Loudon and South Western 100 881 891 881 ~ St Mauch, Shef, and Lincolnsh 100 51 514 52 St Do New. issued at £5O dis 3O . ... St Metropolitan 1:00 791 80 774 St Do Preferred... lOO ... ... St Do Deferred 100 10 Do Redeemable 94 104 St Metropolitan District 100 37 38 381 8 St Midland lOO 1244 125 1254 ' St Do Birmingham and Derbyloo 92 91 941 St North British. lOO 31 35 St Do Edin, Perth, and Dunde 100 13 15 St North Eastern—Berwick —lOO 1264 1274 135 1 St Do Leeds 100 MI 85 4 894 90 St Do York St Do Stockton and Darlingta 100 178 180 1801 St North London • 100 116 118 10 Do New, 1868 St North Staffordshire 180 59 61 St North and So. West. Junct 100 102 105 St Rhymney ...100 52 54 St Shropshire Union 100 62 63 St South Devon 100 46 48 St South Eastern 100 744 751 76 St Do Preferred . lOO 1091 1101 1101 St Do Deferred 100 41 41t 421 St Staines, Wok'ham, & Wok'g. all 121 131 St Taff Vale 10 Do C 6 3 6 St Waterford and Cent. Ireland 100 ... ... 10 Waterloo and Whitehall MISCELLANEOUS. 10 Anglo-Mexican Mint 25 Australian Agricultural 2Ol 16 17 25 Austn Mort Land and Fin, L 5 4d pr 10 Baugparah Tea Estate, Lim all 3 5 10 Berlin Water Works, Lim 5 Bombay Gas, Limited all 5 5 5 Ditto, New 4 pr 4pm 50 British American Land 20 British Indian Tea, Limited all 24 31 27 Canada Company all 78 80 78 20 Ceylon Company, Limited lO 4 3d 20 Ditto, A shares 25 City of London Real Prop, LlO 7 6d • 30 City of Milan Improvment L all 4 5 50 City Offices, Limited 50 Colonial, Limited 2O Li pr 50 Commercial Union (Asso) 5 14 24p 64 10 Com of African Merch, L 20 Continental Union Gas, L 25 Copper Miners of Bngland, Pref 71 per cent all 5 7 100 Corp of London Bonds, 1877, 44 per cent all 100 Ditto, 1879, 4 1 , par cent 100 Ditto, 1882, 4 per cent 10 Credit Fonc of England, L all 24 34 50 Credit Fonc of Mauritius, L 10 24 lid St Crystal Palace St Do, Preference lOO 94 99 St Do, 6 per cent Perp Debentloo 108 113 50 E India Land Credit & Fin L 7 5 4d 32 Ebbw Vale 274 104 10d 100 Egypt 9 p ct Viceroy's Loan gua by Egyptian Gov all 1004 1014 1004 20 Egyptian Com and Trading L4l 13 3 English and Austr Copper, L 15 Eng and Foreign Credit 7 4 3d 10 European Gas .. al 17 18 10 Do, new... 6 Fairbairn Engineering 5 ld p 20 Fore-street Warehouse, L 13 34 44p 100 Foreign and Col Gov Trust and Loan 6 per ct Bonds all 97 96 10 Gen Credit and Discount, L 74 A Id 74 15 General Steam Navigation l4 29 8 31 50 Home and Col Marine Ins, L 5 ld p 20 Hudson's Bay (Governor and Co. of Adventurers of Eng trading into) all 12 121 50 Imperial Continental Gas 434 134 136 50 India Rub, Telg Works, L 45 57 59 524 10 International Finan Soc, L 5 14 lid 20 Italian Irrigation Canal, Cav all 44 44 100 Ditto, 6 per cut Bonds, red all 1870 50 Land Securities, Limited 5 '2 ld 25 London African Trading lO 50 Lond Financial Assoc. Lim 3O 18 17d 4 Lond Gen Omnibus, Limd 50 Lond & Glasg Engin, Limd 25 18 16d 20 London and Prov Marine St Madras Irrig & Canal, guar 100 spc by India Gov lOO 103 105 50 Merchant Shipping, Limtd all 32 37 10 Natal Land and Col Co., Lim all 31 44 25 National Discount Co, Lim 5 111 111 10 National Steamship, Limd all 134 14i 1 Nerbudda Coal & In, Ld 6s 6d 4 1 1 10 New Consolidated Dis Ld 5 New Quebrada, Limited 4112 44 41d 25 N Zealand Ln & Merc, &c 24 f• 4p 25 N Zealand Trust & In, Ld 5 14 lfp 10 North Assam Tea, Limited 7 7 5d 10 Do, B all —d St N British Austral, Limited 100 60 70 50 N British & Mercan lusnce 64 23 234 274 25 Ocean Marino insurance 5 15 16p 5 Oriental Gas, Limited till 8 1 , 9 5 Do, New 10 Otago & South Invest, Ld 2 id 1p 5 Ottoman Gas, Limited all 2 24 St. Peel Riv Lnd & Min, Lim lOO 31 33 50 Peninslr & Oriental Steam all 43 45 50 Do., New, 1867 lO :3) . 21d 64 50 Rhymney Iron 15 Do, New .11 8, 84 25 Rio Janeiro City Itn., Lmtd all 191 204 20 Rio Janeiro Gas, Limited 100 Royal Mail Steam 6O 52 54 St. Scot Aus Invest, Limited lOO 20 Societe General de l'Empire Ottoman 8 24 34 25 South Australian Land 20 Tel Construe & Maintenance (lim and redaced) all 36 361 364 20 Thames & Mers Mu Ins, L 2 24 24p St. Tobacco (Ital 6p c Loan) all 86 85 10 Trustand Agency of Austra lasia, (Limited) 4 lp 20 Tr &LnCoof Up Canada 5 / 1p 50 Union Marine Liverpool, Ld 5 6 64p 20 Union Steam Ship, Ld 15 United Dis Corpora, Lmtd 6 2 ld 20 Culver 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 50 Warrant Finance, Limited 12 8 6d 50 WI & P Steam, Limited 20 4 3d COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Canada Government, 6 pc, Jan and July ,1877-84 100 104 1051 1051 Do, 6p c, Feb and Aug lOO 102 103 1021 Do, 6p c, Mar and Sept 100 1051 1061 Do, 5p c, Jan and July . .... lOO 94 95* Do, 5p c, inscribed stock lOO 94 96 ]Do, 5p c, Dominion of, 1903 lOO 95i 96k Cof Good Mope, 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 100 102+ 1031 Ceylon, Nov,- 1878, 6p c 100 109 111 Do, 1872 100 103 105 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 1011 N. S. Wales Gov 5 p c, 1871 to 1876, Jan and July lOO 100+ 101} Do, 5 p c, 1888 to 1896, Jan and July 100 101 102 101 Do, 5 p c, red by ann draws, from 1867 to 1875 100 100 101+ Do, 2 per c, annual draws, 1872 to 1898 lOO 100+ 1011 New Zealand 6p c, 1891 100 107 109 Do, 5p c lOO 97 98 Do, Jan, April, July, Oct 100 971 981 Do., 6p c, 1891, Mar and Septloo 108 110 Do, p ct, 1891, June and Dec 100 107 109 Nova Scotia Gov, 6 p c sterling, 1875, Jan and July lOO 1021 103+ 1031 Do, 1886 100 1041 105} Queensland 6 per ct, 1882-85, Jan and July 1 00 1081 109} Do, 1891, Jan and July 100 108+ 1091 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/ Do, ip c, Jan. and Ju1y,1894.,,100 101+ 102+ THIRD EDITION. The Third Edition of The Sun of last Evening was published in thus for delivery in town at 7.15 p.m. After some further discussion, IMPERIAL PARLIAMEN 11. JURIES BILL. HOUSE OF COMMONS—THIS DAY. The Speaker took the chair at a quarter past twelve o'clock. CHINA. Sir W. LAwsoN moved an address for copy or extracts of correspondence with English missionary societies or missionaries on inland residence in China. The motion was agreed to. MONASTIC INSTITUTIONS. Sir T. BAZLEY presented a petition from Manchester Praying for the discharge of the order for the appoint ment of a select committee to inquire into these insti tutions. Similar petitions were presented by Mr. Hadfield, Mr. C. Forster, and other hon members. SITES OF PLACES OF WORSHIP BILL. Mr. 0. MORGAN, in moving the second reading of this bill, referred to the attempts that had been made to legis late on the subject many years ago, but without success. In 1848 a bill had been brought in, but it did not receive the sanction of Parliament, and since that time cases of hardship had occurred by the opera tion of the present law. That this bill was not regarded as an interference with the rights of private property, he instanced the attenuated state of the House, and the entire absence of the hon. members, who usually occupied the front Opposition bench. The absence of hon. members might be attributed to another cause, which now was looked upon as a national event, and which took place that day.. Yet he thought he was fully justified in coming to the conclusion that this bill was not regarded with so much alarm as some persons were inclined to think. The hon. gentleman then proceeded to quote cases of extreme hardship that had occurred through the want of a bill like that now be fore the House, and then taking, as he said, a case that might occur, he selected the Marquis of Bute, a nobleman of great wealth, who owned the greater part of the town of Cardiff. Supposing, he said, the immense wealth of that nobleman were to pass into the hands of a bigoted Roman Catholic it was possible for the person to say that the town of Cardiff should not have one single place for Protestant worship or for a Protestant school ; and he (Mr. Morgan) did not think that such a state of things was right. The bill that he had the honour to submit to the House had two principles, one of which extended to places of worship, and the other to schools, and he had been asked to cut out that portion of it which related to places of worship, and confine its operations to schools, but he could not assent to such a proposition. Having denied that his bill interfered with the rights of private property, or that it could be called a dissenting bill, he proceeded to state its provisions. The process to be pursued if the bill became law would be to present a memorial to the Inclosure Commissioners, a body created under a modern Act of Parliament, and composed of lawyers competent to deal with questions of property and tenure of land. The memorial must state that no eligible or convenient site could be obtained without that step, and it must be signed by at least one hundred persons. The bill empowered the Commissioners to institute a local inquiry into the circumstances, and on ;being satisfied that they were correctly stated, to put in force the provisions of the Lands Clauses Act, the valuation of land to be taken to be made by a justice of the peace. The bill as it stood gave every reasonable safe guard to private property, and if the House should be induced to give it its sanction it would seldom, if ever, require to be put in force. After the landowners had con sented to ha:ve their land cut up by railways, and their houses made uninhabitable, they could not • conscientiously raise any obstacle to the passing of the bill he had brought under the consideration of the House. He could not give a greater or more telling instance of the inequality of the manner in which property was taken for railways than by asking those who travelled either to Liverpool or Manchester by railway to notice the coun try as they passed along, and they would find that the palaces of the bishop, the deer park of the noble men, and the mansions of the wealthy, were all very in geniously avoided, whilst the cottages of the poor were trampled down with remorsless indifference. He admitted that the present demand for the bill was now little more than a whisper, but in his county at least, if they rejected the measure he felt certain it would deepen into a fierce and fanatical cry. Mr. G. GREGORY moved that the bill be read a second time this day six months, on the ground that the bill was an interference with the rights of property, and that it was altogether uncalled for. Mr. H. RICHARDS regretted that any necessity should exist for such a measure. He acknowledged that many Conservative landlords, in the matter of sites for chapels and schools were disposed to act not only in a fair and just, but in a liberal and generous manner towards their non-conformist neighbours. He believed, too, that many of the difficulties complained of, arose not from want of will on the part of the landowner, but from want of legal powers. There was, however, a minority of landowners, who acted in a different spirit. The hon. gentleman talked about interference with the rights of property, but he (Mr. Richards) asked whether it was right that the population of a district should be left in hopeless and eternal ignorance, in obedience to the caprice of some narrow-minded bigot. Under the law as it at present existed it might happen that an intolerant landowner might come into the possession of a vast extent of property, and might utterly proscribe every form of religion but his own, a species of religious persecution, which had been discarded by every state in Europe. Mr. HARDY thought that no case had been made out for a compulsory sytem. He thought that public opinion would remove the objections complained of, and he did not think that Parliament should legislate in such a matter, because a few, and there were only a few, as the last speaker confessed, refused sites for chapels. Mr. BRUCE, on the part of the Government, assented to the second reading. With regard to the most important part of the bill, namely, the proposal to give compulsory power to obtain sites for chapels, he thought a very strong case should be made out before such a great change should be made in the law. The gentleman who intro. duced the bill seemed to rest his case upon the fact that chapels being places of public utility, it was the duty of the State to compel landowners to furnish sites. But chapels were not the only places of public utility, and lig mentioned hospitals as an instance. Mr. S. HILL spoke against the measure because he did not think sufficient evidence had been given to the House to justify them in assenting to the second reading. Mr. HENLEY objected to the compulsory principle of the bill. Mr. HINDE PALMER said that when he gave his sanction to the bill he considered that the compulsory principle was attended with sufficient safeguard against its impro• per exercise. The Enclosure Commissioners would doubless refuse to give their sanction to the exercise of compulsory powers in any case which they might deem substantially an annoyance to landowners. He was pre pared to give his adhesion to the principle of the bill to the fullest extent. He considered that there was a mple necessity for the measure. The only thing was to surround the compulsory clauses with proper safeguards against their being enforced in a manner which would annoy the landed proprietors. Mr. LIDDELL thought before they were asked to assent to such an unjustifiable principle they should be told whether it were intended to press the compulsory clauses in committee. He considered that the bill was an attack upon the rights of property. Sir JOHN FANNER protested against the representations which had been made from time to time by the hon. member for Merthyr as to the acts and conduct of certain Welsh landowners. Lord JOHN MANNERS having addressed the House very briefly, Mr. lIORSMAN denied that there were any such rights of property as were contended for on the other side of the House. There were no such things as the rights of pro perty, except such as were created by the law, and what the law had created it might alter, restrict, and enlarge. The great principle was the good of the community. He thought the House had forgotten the peculiar and excep tional condition of Wales. It was worse than Ireland, in that respect. The landlords were all of one Church, and the population of another. Although they might as churchmen, regret that so large a proportion of the people of Wales were not of the established church, yet he felt it was impossible to forget the obligations which all Christians were und,er to the diF . T_enters, Hon, gentlemen seemed to xasunderstand - the prindipic of the bill. 2ne fact stood thus, that a body of dissenters would have to go to a landowner, and tell him that they had failed to obtain land elsewhere by agreement, and if the proprietor to whom they applied, chose to say he would give them another piece of land, there was an end to the compulsory SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK. I powers. The amendment was withdrawn, and the bill road a second timA , and the committee fixed for the 15th of June. Viscount ENFIELD moved the second reading of this bill, the object of which was to alter tho qualification of special and common jurors and remunerating both, the format re ceiving one guinea, and the latter 10s., a day. The bill was read a second time, and referred to a select committee. SUMMARY CONVICTION BILL. Mr. U. DENMAN moved the second reading of this bill, the object of which was to enable magistrates to discharge per sons on a first conviction of trivial cases upon making repara tion to the parties injured. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL objected to the bill, as it seemed to be one to enable magistrates to commit a crime by com pounding a felony. The motion for the second reading was not pressed, and the bill was withdrawn. GAME LAWS (SCOTLAND) BILL. The motion for the second reading of this bill was fixed for the 11th of April. LODGERS' GOODS PROTECTION. Mr. SHERIDAN brought in a bill to protect the goods of lodgers against executions upon the property of the land lord. The bill was read a first time. The house then adjourned. FRANCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) PARIS, April 6. The Committee of the Senate are actively engaged in examining the Senatus Consultum, and will pro bably vote it without discussion. It is reported that the question of the succession of the Prince Imperial will form one of the bases of the Plebiscitum, and that the Council of State will be abolished. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, April 6. The two factions of the Left and the extreme Left party have determined to present an address to the Emperor prior to the close of the Reichsrath. Herr Brestel, the Minister of Finance, has de clined decidedly to re-enter the Cabinet. THE FRENCH FUNDS. According to Reuter's telegrams the French Rentes to-day were quoted 74f. 07c. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.-(THIS DAY. Sales probably 12,000 bales. Market firm. OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE BOAT RACE. (THIS DAY.) PUTNEY, Wednesday. A dense fog banging over the river put us in mind of a February instead of an April morning on our early visit here, but the weather promises to brighten up at the cheerful presence of the genial sun, who is now coming out in all his glory to cheer the two crews at their respective hotels, awaiting anxiously the coming strife, and being scrutinised by those who thus early have come to Putney to take posses sion of every eminence and available coign of van t tge ground whence can be gathered a glimpse of the competition as they race past. Both crews are well, and betting is 5 to 4 on Ox ford. From the tendency to back Cambridge we doubt not but that Cambridge will be slight favou rites before the stars, or the speculations will be at evens. Mr. Lord, of the Thames Conservancy, has been busy since five this morning attending to the duties consequent upon keeping a clear course, and at half past two he will effectually barricade Putney-bridge, so that no craft passes after that. Only two steamers will accompany the press and umpire, and he former will bring down the colours of the winner immediately after the race. We are glad that the Conservancy have remained firm, and in spite of the abuse they have received only suffered these two steamers to follow. The public will be grateful for the change in time, if they bear in mind the terrible scenes of past boat races, ten or twelve steamers colliding, and dense masses of excited humanity on board them in imminent peril. Mr. J. W. Chitty, of Exeter College, will be the umpire ; Mr. E. Searle, the eminent boat-builder, starter; and John Phelps the waterman, judge at Mortlake. The honourable decoration of the " blue riband" of the Thames has given rise to many a gallant struggle on its broad expansive bosom, but none has created more thrilling interest, from a variety of causes, than that which it is now our business to record. The frequent and continued Euc c ess e s of Oxford hai been met this year with more than the usual endeavour to change the fortune of the day, and there were indica tions in the course of the selection and early train ing of the crew which ha 1 given the friends of the Cantabs more sanguine expectations of triumph than of lite years. From the beginning of the prac tice, replete with its usual self-abnegation, laborious journeys were rowed under more than usually trying circumstances, but all was borne bravely and for gotten in the ardour and excitement of youth and the earnest desire to represent their University with credit, and, if possible, retrieve lost laurels. In this preliminary stage the Cam bridge crew gave more promise of steady progress with less changes of hands than the Oxonians, and the predilection in their favour and speculation on their prospect of success were con siderably enhanced by the Light Blue division bringing to Loudon, a fortnight ago, a "team" possessing the characteristics of such appearances of health and strength as entirely eclipsed that of any crew which has shown at Putney for the last three or four years. This great race now annually inaugurates the rowing season of t i he metropolis, which for the purposes of sport extends itself to Putney. This was the twenty-seventh contest, spread over a period of something like forty years. It will be seen by this that erstwhile it was not as now an annual, but since it has been of yearly occurrence it has grown into an all-absorbing subject of excitement, and speculation is anticipated with anxiety, and received with pleasure and delight by the denizens of this great city, who cherish the sport as one thoroughly identified with this our sea-girt isle. Thousands of persons of all grades, from the proudest noble to the poorest artiz9.n—to say nothing of many of " the fairest portion of this fair creation" —have, during the past fortnight, flocked to Putney to view the rowing practice of the rival candidates for fame. Speculation was rife as to the result ; but the uniform success which had smiled upon the exertions of Oxford ever since 1860 pro duced a strong feeling in their favour—the achieve ments of the past could not be overlooked, and an impression seemed to exist in the minds of many that they were unconquerable. Following this course of reasoning, Oxford was backed at odds varying from b to 7 to 4, although it would be hard to say that there was any such superiority displayed in the rowing that would justify so marked a preference. Mr. F. Wellan, who has of late years so signally distitagnished himself as an oarsman, was what is termed the Oxford " coach," Mr. G. Morrison, formerly of Oxford, performing the same office for the Cautabs. Both were most zealous in the dis charge of their duty, and deserve the best thanks of those for whom they so warmly iutere3ted them selves. The following were the crews : OXFORD. st lb 1. R. W. Mirehonse, University ll 2. A. G. Lewis, University 3. I'. S. Baker, Queen's 4. T. E. Edwards-Moss, Baliol 5. F. G. Payne, St. John's 6. S. W. Woodhouse, University _ _ _ 7. W. D. Benson. Baliol 8. S. D. DarlYshire, Baliol T. H. Hall, Corpus, cox CAMBRIDGE. 1L 12 1111 7 8 st. lb. 1. C. El. L. Randolph, 3d Trinity l9 11 2. J, H. Ridley, Jesus 3. J. W. Dale, St. John's 4. R. A. Spencer, 3d Trinity 5. W. H. Lowe, Christ's 6. E. Phelps, Sidney l2 4 7.. T. F. Strachan, Trinity Hall 8. J. H. D. Galilee, St John's l2 1 H. E. Gordon, Ist Trinity, cox 7 12 By the above weights it will be seen that, exclu sive of coxswains, which are necessarily omitted in the computations of working hands, Cambridge wcre only a few pounds heavier than Oxford. A good start was effected at 13 minutes past five, and both crews dashed off at great speed. After a very exciting race, victory this year fell to the CAMBRIDGE boat, which arrived at the winning post at 5.35, one boat's length in advance of OX FORD. The time occupied in rowing the distance was L 9 minutes 22 seconds, being, nearly three minutes Less than the race occupied last year. SPORTING I.NTELLIGENCE-IHI3 DAY. NORTHAMPTON MEETING.-TIIIS DAY (Br ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) RACING PRATE. Tibthorpe Flash Pompano .. Seventeen ran. ST. LIZ HANDICAP. Idus Miss Dayrell 2 Robespierre N ine ran. LAWN STAKES. Chibisa 1 Seringapatam April Morn Six ran. QUEEN'S PLATE. Fusco 1 Free Trade 2 Compromise e. 3 Seven ran. EARL SPENCER'S PLATE. Bosworth Amaranth colt St. George 3 Twenty-seven ran. ALTHORP PARK STARES. Simplon 1 Mount Pleasant King of Clubs Four ra►n. TOWN PLATE. Conrad Queen of the Valley Chibisa Eight ran. FLAT RACIN AP. i'r FIXTURES. ,IL. Croxton Park 1 Northampton 5, 6 West Drayton 7, 8 Thirsk 7, 8 Liverpool Hunt 9 Durham ... 18, 19 Lichfield .. lB, 19 Knighton 19, 20 Newmarket C 18 to 22 Catterick Bridge 21, 22 Abergavenny 21, 22 Eastbourne 22 Cardiff 26, 27 Croydon '2B, 29 • AY. - - Newmarket Ist S 2 to 6 Edinburgh 7 Chester . lO to 13 Winchester 10, 11 Salisbury 12, 13 C lielmsford 17, 18 York ' 17, 18 'Wye 19 Doncaster l9, 20 Ifarpenden 2O, 21 Bath 24, 25 Stamford 26, 27 Croydon 26, 27 Epsom 31 to Juno 3 WINNERS OF THE GREAT N PRTHADIPTONSIIIRE STAKES. 1819 Fernhill, 4 yrs, 6st. Elb. 1850 Priestess, 4yrs,6st.lolb. 1831 Valentine, 4 yrs, 6st. 1861 Danae, 4 yrs, 6st. 91b. 1862 Stampedo, 5 yrs, est. 21b. 1863 Fairwater, 5 yrs, Bst. 111 b. . . 1852 Poodle, 3 yrs, 4st. 51b. 1853 Defiance, 3 yrs, sst. 101 b. 1864 Dollar, 4 yrs, 7st. 91b. 1865 Scamander, 5 yrs, 7st. 131 b. 1834 Jacqueline, 4 yrs, 6st, 81b. 1855 Hungerford, a., 7st. 81b. 1866 John Davis, 5 yrs, 9st. 1867 Miss Havelock, 4 yrs, 131 b. 1856 Siding, 4 yrs, 6st. 61b. 1857 St. Giles, 3 yrs, 6st. 41b. 1858 Borderer, 4 yrs, 7st. 41b. 1859 Bevis, 3 yrs, 4st. 111 b. 1860 Simple Simon, 3 yrs, sst. 91b. Gst. 71b. 1868 Mariner, 3yrs, sst. 111 b. 1869 Marquis of Carabas, 4 yrs, Gst. 71b. 1870 Midsummer, 4 yrs, Bst. 31b. THE MARQUIS OF BUTE. —We ( Cardif and Merthyr (.guardian) have the best authority for stating that the rumour in circulation a short time ago, to the effect that the Marquis of Bute was going in his yacht to visit Australia and New Zealand, has no foundation in fact. His lordship, we are assured, will be in England at the end of May or the beginning of June. A. LUNATIC AT LARGE.—John Sladen was charged at Clerkenwell with being a dangerous lunatic at large. He attended a lecture given by Mr. Bradlaugh, and upon seeing that gentleman afterwards he said he should like to kill the Queen. Mr. Cooke said the man should be de tained until his friends were communicated with. He was removed from the court with great difficulty, saying that he would have Mr. Bradlaugh to defend him. The public will learn with surprise that the First Commissioner of Works, who had, as has been already stated, applied to Mr. Barry for the surrender of the vast mass of drawings in his possession, the bulk of which were the late Sir Charles Barry's property, and are left to Mr. Barry as his heir, has not only declined to enter into the merits of the case, but has threatened legal proceedings against Mr. Barry. The importance of this matter to all professional men can hardly be exaggerated. The cor respondence botween Mr. Ayrton and Mr. Barry will shortly be issued as a parliamentary paper.—The Architect. A PLEASANT RESIDENCE.—Dr. Thorne, medical inspector of the Board of Health, has made a startling report upon the sanitary condition of the borough of Penryn. He says that stagnant pools and decomposing refuse are to be found everywhere in the streets. The streams running through the town are open sewers ; the slaughterhouses are confined and undrained; there are no water-closets ; the river is offensive and revolting, and, as a consequence, destitution and death are prevalent. Ho adds that the suburb, in the parish of Budock, is, if possi ble, more filthy than the municipal portion of the town. A NEW POSTAL CONTROVERSY.—The contra, versy into which the Post Office has got with certain foreign and colonial news agencies is not very creditable to the department. They have announced somewhat suddenly a resolution to make four ounces the maximum weight of all single newspapers sent abroad or to the colonies, and to reduce the size of parcels to about a fourth of the present limit. The result is that loud and juevous complaints are raised—and we must say very stly—by those engaged in transmitting newspapers to the colonies. They have made contracts for supplying the trade at one rate of postal charge, and with a high maximum weight for the parcels ; and all at once they find the charge in many cases practically doubled, while they are involved in more expense by the multiplication of parcels. So sudden a change, even if the object were a good one, is inexcusable. The defence of the depart ment—that it was desirable to introduce uniforpity 7 ts no excuse for fining people in business is which is the necessary and always foreseeable effect of suddenly alter ing the conditions of trade. The case the worse fos the department that it had ample warning and still per , severed with the change. We doubt very much moreover whether the desire for uniformity in this case will not per manently be mischievous. The increase of postage is really very great on heavy newspapers for India and the East ; and doubly heavy when such newspapers are Nerd by Brindisi, Such an increase is decidedly in the wro direction at a tune whan the announcement is wade that the Government is to yield to Mr. Graves—a concession we are glad to notice—in the matter of inland post upon printed matter.—Econentist The carriages on the line of tramway from near Brixton Church to Kennington-gate will commence running on Saturday next. The company have ten carriages built on the American principle especially for this line of route. The Western Mail records the death of Mr. Evan Thomas, at St. Melions, on the 3rd inst. The deceased, who had nearly attained his 81st year, was engaged in thr battle of 'Waterloo as private in the Grenadier Guards. _ _ The Chancellor of the Exchequer, in his financial statement, will (according to the Birmingham Poat) make a considerable reduction in the poll-tax levied on railway companies. That tax is now charged at the rate of £5 in every £lOO earned, parliamentary trains included. The shops of Mr. Birts, jewellers, Green's-end, Woolwich, and Messrs. Urry and Philips, jewellers, Deptford, have within the past few days both been plundered by burglars boring holes through the steel shutters and plate-glass. In both of the instances the burglars got _off lindetectect -