The Sun. — London, England, 1868-05-11 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTBLLitißtlelt, CITY, Two O'CLOCK. The Stock Markets keep steady in the absence o f any disturbing occurrences, but there is so little business going forward that quotations do not ad vance. The downward tendency of the corn mar ket, which is further illustrated by a reduction of taking sthis morning, and th e l arge arr i va l s of gold place, are two c ir cums t a nces which exercise a favourable influence. The telegram reporting the ultimate abandonment of the Egyptian loan caused a t fi rst a li tt l e st i r, b ut i t h as a l mos t sub sided now. Railways are unsettled, owing to the aPProaching settlement indicating that in consequence of large quantities of stock being locked up, loans of particul ar d escriptions will not' be got without difficulty. The Discount Market is again easier, and dis counters are readily working at 2 per cent. and upwards. The supply is full, and the large arrivals now taking place encourage the opinion that the honey on offer will still further increase. The corn market is dull, and is lower. Consols are steady, at Saturday's close, at 94 to 94/ for money and 94- to 92:1 ex div. for account ; Now . and Reduced 'Three per Cents., 92i to 92 ; Ind 'a Five per Cents., llo:t to 1161 ; Bank Stock. 214 to 216 ; Exchequer Bills, lOs to 15s prem. The reported abandonment of the efforts of the Viceroy of E rypt to raise a new foreign loan had a favourable effect. upon prices at the opening, but the ion l y advance which has been supported is of tt in Viceroy's 7 per Cents , which are now quoted 71,} to 71g. The 9 per Cents. a re 8 9 . to 90 ; the 1564 Loan. 78 to 79 ; and the feature. Railway e .De h b ill en in tures, 88!;- to 89k. There is no other (1866), are 101 to 102 ; ditto (1867 ), 95 to 96 ; Mexican, 15k- to 151 • Greek, 13 to 134 ; New Spanish, 35g to 35 ; Italian, 48i to 48g ; and Turkish, 1865, 343. to 34. The Honduras Loan is par to 1 prem. The Spanish Colonial Eight per Cent. Loan, fully paid up, is 91 to 91,i ; and the Scrip, 2 to 1A- dis. In American securities United States Five-twenty Bonds are steady,. at 701 - to 701 ; Erie Shares are lower, at 45 to 46 ; while Illinois are better, at 95 to 96, Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures are 2Eq to 29 ; and the Consolidated Mortgage Bonds, 32 to 32k. English Railway shares are not quite so firm, but the variations in prices are very trifling. South Eastern, at 74 to 74i ; Great Western, 53;1 to 53i ; London, Brighton, and South Coast, 53 to 531- ; and Metropolitan, 112 to 112 k, being in each case a decline of ; b u t G reat Eastern is k better, at 33 1 to 34 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire is quoted at 1272 to 1281 ; Midland, 1071 to 107 k ; London and North Western, 1151 to 115 i ; Great Northern, 102,- to 103 ; ditto (A), 96i to 97i ; Manchester Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 43fr to 44 ; Metropolitan, 112 to 114. In Foreign Railways, Lombardo-Venetian is quoted at 141 to 144 ex di v. ; G reat Luxemburg, 10k to 1 10 } lank Shares are very quiet, and prices are without change. Agra (A shares) is quoted at 9 i to 10fr ; Alliance, 13 to 12 dis. ; Anglo-Aus trian, ‘A. to 5 prem. ; Chartered Mercantile, 28 to 29 ; Consolidated, to 42 ; Imperial, 18 to 19 ; 0.2 Imperial Ot toman, Co 2 prem. ; London and County, to Ori 53 ; London and Westminster, 69k to 70i- ; ental, 42 to 43 ex div. ; London Joint-Stock, 35 to i,,6 ; and Union of London, 34 to 35. oreign Mining Shares are little inquired for. St. ' 1 11 1) del Heys remain at 18k to 19k ; Port Philip, ; Chontales, 4. to 22. Miscellaneous Securities are steady. Anglo-Ameri elan Telegraph 8 per Cent. is quiet, at 23i to 23g ; atlan tic T e l egraph 8 per Cent., 5 3-16ths to 5 5-16 ths ; Hudson's Bay, 14k to 15i ; London Gene ral Omnibus lk to 24 ; National Discount, 10ir I,‘lersey,lols ; Ocean Marine, 14 to 15 prem. ; Thames and to 5 ; Universal, k dis. to Is prem. A. circular has been issued to the shareholders of the S outh Eastern Railway Company, inviting their sup- Port for a short line of railway to connect Boulogne A St• Omer. Rr, bout £20,000 i n b ar go ld wa s taken from the atik on Saturday. The Hermann has arrived from New York with specie f or France and Bremen. The steamer leav i ng gatiolert on Sat ur d ay f or E uro pe, took £145,000 in The BPec. Syria has arrived with £2,785 in specie from T he .£1 16,000 -Iltidr ia) and the True Briton has brought in gold f r om Melbourne. 0 , the Master of the Rolls has ordered the payment , s ! 'rea,,further di v i dend o f 2 s 6 d i n th e p oun d t o the t,litors of th e H um b er I ronwor k s C o mpany. belho fortnightly settlement in the Stock Exchange to - morrow and closes on Thursday. for e total b u lli on i mporte d i nto t h e U n i te d Ki ng d om the weekending the 6th inst. amounted to X3I 5,319, u_na . the total exported to £579,324, showing a balance itg:,lln st this country of £264,005. 111. -1-;,he following mining calls have been made :—Wheal Wheal £1 103 • Pendeen Consols Mine, Gs per share ; Mines, S.parnon, 33 per share ; Pedu-au-drea . United U ni " , 6 s per share ; Rosewall Hill, 5s per share ; and _ted Mexican. 23 6d. per share. tThe traffic receipts of the Cape Railway, for the en th of March, show an increase of £690, as 111 Pared with the corresponding period of 1867. DIUTISIEI FUNDS.—TWO OVLOCK. e GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 911 4 u Per Cent. Consols 921 a Ditto for Account, Juno 4 921 I „per Cent. Reduced 921 I t e ''' 3 per Cent 'low 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 1)° 0 an 1873 , . . per ent..; • `"-Illiuties, 80 Trs, expire sth Jan., 1880. 120. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 — 1 1 ., lio (Red Sea Televaph), Aug., 1908 _.- -""ectuer Bills, £l,OOO, 2 per Ct 1) °. 500 b Do. £lOO & £2OO — 'lLik of England Stock 4f per Cent — 4i Do. Ac count 215 , INDIAN GOVERNMENT SEC r lT il ß l i B T 7 uis le. idia tock, 10f per Cent., Ap 1 2% Account 115 i uo. 5 per Gent. July, 1880 Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 D 0• Certificates _ r),,, o . Enlaced Pap j e a r n 4 .l p B e 7 r 2 Cent 1 - , ,0. 5 per Cont., D 1879 &ie. perer Cent., 1877 — Do. do. 1882 &Po 5 Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872 Do. do. Aug. 1873 — D... Deb. 5 per Cent., £l,OOO - Pm Pm Po. Bonds, 5 per Cent., ' ) e• under 41.000 'kr . nuitine FOREIGN FUN DS—TWO CLOCK. Repulic, 6 per Cent••• . :: 11.4 >tr. i?,11 Bonds, 5 xcl raealian per Cent _ t h )° ' q per Cent., 1852 per Cent. 18.)9 D ° IV- do , 1858.... 0. d 0. ,. 180 . do 1863 75- 1 „°. per ' Cent, 1865 76 51 B 'Jo Account _ 6408 Ayres 6 per Cent 0 e 41.)5),,.: 2 6 p p e e r r C e e e n n t t . (Deferred 3 per Cent ) —..._ 71 ~48 . r. 6 per Cent 00 .4 f per Cent _ RUp 6 per Cent B e 1867 .' ... -- 95i 1011 2j °*, 7 Per Cent 1866 1),, , . 7 . 7 1 . -.... 0, , '1 Scrip £32 paid , ''.eablan, 6 per Cent. ;;,'l,Bll, 3 p,r Cent., 1825 D 4., nubian P rincipalities, 7 per Cent 77 6 e n ° 8 per Cent , 1867 h; 11 ., 44 „0r New o. onsolidated, 1 per Cent — UO•"P"a,,, 7 per Cent 77 D Second issue •• •• , • '5OO P.ond s 1-10..4106 Bonds _ o. 1864 79f Do • n • Account ,o• 45 m lio n i s 791 8 6 1 ue• -£lOO Bonds • 1141. 801 7?i 81 n ( lor - vr °lntnimat Railway Debenture; ..... B_9 j IV! Lper Cent., 1824-5, ex Coups • il. --,-ount , DO. l'ouPons , % Account ult., l il t:, Irli t:i u r : A r aies i c apGoou crniete/c.tr.l C t i . l . e .:1 1 ,t 8 o 6 8: 5 i;„ 10p . Ct „ £25 p — 1 51 ti,,,.,.4,trereniana Itaiway ....cat. 3 - ~ per Cent •uitto for Account 1 ., e, _ D g ' 1864 _ Ito tlt _Per Cont. Anglo-Prench t locef/ 1(1411 1, 6 r t. _ • N e 4, im p e rials per Cent Dohlr a _ " 3 Pei' nen _ 1,• ptifor':.6..l 110 r , ............. _ p eril ..-4and Warrants (I:lectures) o t 'at 5 'Cr Cent 1865 _ pn",ecoun.t ... . ' .. ............... •• 832 pso' . 1t Per 0.. u . t . :(7.1r - iba “ ;ren) "' I . y. i Per Cent.. n 62 • I,,rtu Account • 96 •. . ......... . , 1 - " e6o 3 p e t : ( ;2:181;3, '6 '7 '9' 60 ,'2. i' Jo , ri 1) 0 . 'lO, 1 , 67 — ,isi ai ; 5 60 Scrip, £2O paid ll ue 1 Y 7 nt.,...18zz, ..c, bi. ll n 41, Per (int. Beo 1) 0 3%,..Per o,,nt• 1860 j)°O.5AiZ: C e e t' a u t t ..: : 1 1 8% 535 • • ••• 1)0.-'nglo-Dutcb, 1861, rlOO Bonds.. 8 7 b o i „ do. £Bl 15s. do. .• — B6: 13 0 :' "u 67 4100 bonds g D°l\ iicol a i t ' ) £Bl 15.5. do —6li plZ4liitihiano 63Plita3t7 — 13,,•%.. Per eo n . bo - Is/ec,pre'llit _ 37 i 1::10 A c eferrou I), '': s o . Unt ... —On iie:_ve••• Do ch" ria C t Cert. of Coup, not funded , — Do Account Turkish 6 per Cent. 1)o Account Do 6 per Cent 18:)6 D ) AcCouut. Do .£lOO Bonds Do 6 per Cent., 1852 Do Account, Do £IOC Bonds Do. 1863 Do 5 per Cent., 1865 Do Account Do 6 per Cent., 1865 sBi D. 1 per Cent., Guaranteed Venezuela, 3 per Cent. Do 6 per Cont., 1862 Do 6 per Cent. 1864 Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ..... — Dividends on the above payable in London , n, 41 per cent., Ex. 25f. 811 G2f 11 2} _ Dutch 2* per Cent. Ex. 12 Guil.. — D., Account French Rentes, 3 per Cent., ET. 251. A.ustrisn o per Cent. E x 10 Fl or i ns Italian 5 per Cont. 1811, E. zsf. Do. Account 4Bl TM) O'CLOCK Consols, Money 94 t` Do. Account, 4th June 921 POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-THIS DAY. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A COURAGEOUS SERVANT GlRL.—William Sin clair, a rough-looking young man, who refused his address, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with stealing at No. 91, Newman-street, Oxford-street, a black leather bag, containing valuable papers, &c., the property of a gentlema❑ lodging in the house, and also with violently assaulting Elizabeth 11.'Farlan, a young woman, servant to Mrs. Jane Allen, landlady of the house. Elizabeth M'Farlan said—Oa Saturday night, about 11 o'clock, on returning from fetching the supper beer, my mistress, Mrs. Allen, called me into the parlour, and we found that a black bag belonging to a gentleman, who occupied tho par lour, but who was then out of town, had been re moved from the sofa where it was always kept. Directly afterwards my mistress kicked against the bag, which was on the floor, and on looking about the room we found the prisoner under a table. The prisoner then got up and made towards the street door, and struck me with the beer jug, which I had placed on the table, and as he was coming towards me to strike me again I knocked him down, fell upon him, and thus held him down. We rolled about the passage and struggled hard together, I screaming all the time. My mistress went upstairs and screamed " Murder" out of the window. We continued struggling together for some time, the prisoner telling me he would mur der me if I did not get up. I got up at the sane time that the prisoner did, and he then made for the street-door, seizing a brass candlestick, and on my attempting to seize hold of him again he struck me a blow on the head with the candlestick, cutting my head and bending the candlestick, and as the prisoner got out of the door I called out to stop him, and a young man knocked him down, and he was afterwards taken into custody. The Prisoner—l went to the wrong house it ap pears. (Laughter.) The Rev. Thomas Berney said—The bag pro duced as my property and containing valuable papers, and also a pair of boots, were always kept on the sofa. Robert Anderson, a young man, residing at Camden-passage, Islington-green, a French polisher, said—l was going along Newman-street on Satur day evening when I heard screams and tussling in the passage of Nc. 91, followed directly afterwards by screams of " Murder" from th e first floor win dow. Presently the street door o p e ned , and some one from the inside said, on m y pushing the door, "Don't open it, or ho will get away." The pri soner then came out, as he was doing Bo beating the young woman back, and I knocked him down and held him down till a constable came, and he was then taken into custody. Paul Burgess, 10 ER, said--I took the prisoner into custody, and on the way he threw away a key which had been filed so as to open latch doors. Mr. Tyrwhitt (to the witness Anderson)—ln what condition was the young woman when you saw her ? Witness—She was bleeding from the head, and her hair was all about her face. At the request of the polies the prisoner was remanded. ) pold, Bea n tho Iched Lt the v CE. ice in h her 11© in Ai the wa ter ;very , Six le ship 3sing, ylight enant ed by jesty% , ges of 'with ;en ced build- vas ; ship- The atrial whir is eadth, 5 tone )urinal ler by Capt• Ports troops id 3 3 a it, and :CTS :--' )ointed Mrs. Clark osal in 3khar t, Broad- isravi -311 and ~, and ificerg, ) in the N. A. Alex n 0 100 P re pai d l to an d ith th e ,moaze• 3tguard )f cOra. E-Cora t w ith th, and w as ton Iv in f o rtiv v ere s e ; ands °:, just 0- at test r tribe ° ' c oal' Y le 013°16 at the rear , 0 vlassel ;stied ill extent tO ent ti ricieC itish c°° : r I,ll° -e p a Ort° f o r - for 'burg t : 066, Ki 7. dom ng r iso fo theli °r i P 3uoa it t ° si a v e go ,00 gii ma yor g of on t here of be c ity 0 they 110 W herei o lll 40 . t • ANSiItP t rtirit i g t_ o f t 1 1 e g CO' to f to 0 ~ce f i r th ot i Jo , he to e r. , iu 04 of 500' THANIES. STEALING PAVING STONE.—John ll.)bs - )n, aged 30 years, a carman, of No. 5, Love-lane, Shadwell, and Matthew George Sharpley, 32, cowke.per, of the Model Dairy Farm, Wnitehurn-street, Brum ley, were brought before Mr. Benson, charged, the first with stealing, and the other with receiving, knowing to be stolen, 3G feet of paving stone, the property of Mr. George West, paviour, of No. 91, Cannon-street-road. Mr. Gomm, clerk to Mr. Holpon, solicitor, de fended Sharpley. It appeared that Mr. West had been paving a new thoroughfare called Woobnore-street, Stepney, where a good deal of Yorkshire stone was lying about. He had missed large quantities of it. Hob son was in the employ of the prosecutor, and it was proved by a young man named Yelling, of No. 1, Blackthorn-street, Bromley, that he had seen the prisoner go into Sharpley's yard with a cart-load of stone on Tuesday last ; there was another man with him. On Saturday, the prosecutor, accompanied by a police-constable named Joseph Ssrgent, No. 322 A R, went to Sharpley's premises, where they discovered 36 feet of Yorkshire stone, valued at 225., which Mr. West believe 1 to be hi s property. It was only a small portion of the stone missing. Sharpley said he did not know how the stone came into his premises, and that he was not at home when it arrived. Mr. Gomm said, in the defence of Sharpley, that there was no evidence against him, that he was not present when the paving material arrived in his yard, that it was not proved that he ordered it to be brought there, or that he had ever paid for it. Mr. Benson—The property was in his cow-yard. He has been here recently ? Mr. Gomm —Yes, as a prosecutor. Mr. Benson—l recollect he was here as a prose cutor. I will take his own recognizance to appear here on Thursday. Hobson is remanded. SHIPPING INTELLEGENOE—This Day. (BY FALMOUTH,TEL 1. ) Monday, 10.15 a.m. A bark-rigged steamer, supposed to be the Tasmania, is now passing this port to the eastward. _ _ GRAVESEND, Monday Morning. Arrived, May 10 —John C. Munro, from Foo-chow-Foo ; Aurora, from Memol ; Cissy, from Nelson ; Mary and Ann, from Dinan. Arrived, May 11.—Sree Singapore, from Singapore ; Fyenoord, steamer, from Rotterdam ; Orion, steamer, from Antwerp ; Pioneer, steamer, from Havre ; Doa Pedro, steamer, from St. Michael's ; Soino, steamer, from Boulogue. Sailed.—Concordia, steamer, for Boulogne. DEAL, Monday Morning. Passed, in tow—St. Marnock, from Calcutta ; Lammer inuir, from Bangkok—both for London. Passed—Hellenis, screw steamer, from Alexandria for London ; Ouangondy, from London for Quebec; Biafra of Teignmouth, from the west for tho north. Sailed—Nearly the whole of the outward bound, to the westward. FIRE IN MANCHESTER. —Yesterday afternoon a fire broke out on the premises of Messrs. Shaw, Jardine, and Co. in Butler-street. The fire was caused by the friction of machinery in the blowing-room, and it was not extinguished until the building and contents had been damaged to the extent of £3OO or .C4OO. PETROLEUM AS A FUEL FOR LOCOMOTIVES.--Oa April 21st, in Boston, Massachusetts, a number of gentle men, largely interested in the utilizing of fuel upon loco motive engines, were invited by Colonel Henry It. Foote to witness Lis apparatus adapted for this specific purpose. The party was mostly composed of railroad engineers. The experiment was made upon a stationary boiler of the locomotive typ., in one of the largest machine shops in the city. From the time that the fire was first kindled steam was generated at the rate of two pounds per minute, and in 20 minutes the engine was working under a pressure of sixty pounds of steam and blowing off. Tho simple and expeditious process of making and extinguishing the fire was exhibited to the engineers, eliciting their greatest admiration. The fire produced was pronounced to be the must perfect over witnessed by these practical men, and was far more intense than anything they had ever wit nessed before. This exhibition wis simply illustrative of the fire that is shortly to be kindled under the boiler of a locomotive en the Fitchburg - Railroad.—Wall-street Journal, THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 11, 1868. SHARE LIST. DEATH OF LORD BROUGHAM. We .have the painful duty of announcing the death of Lord Brougham, which took place at his teat at Cannes, in the south of France, suddenly, on Thursday night. The venerable peer, who would have reached his 90th year on his next birthday, had been in the en joyment of excellent health, and was in the habit of taking carriage airings every day since the flue weather set in, and even did so on Thursday after noon. lie returned at his usual dinner hour, - and retired to rest between eight and nine o'clock. When he retired he is stated to have been in his usual health and spirits. As Was customary, some pf the domestics before retiring went into his apart ment, and to their astonishment found him dead i❑ his bed. The answer to inquiries made late on Saturday night at his town residence, 21, Berkeley square, was that the telegram which had been re ceived from Lord Brougham's brother, who was staying with him at Cannes, stated him to have " died in his sleep." The following summary of the deceased noble man's long and distinguished career is from " Men of the 'lime :" Brougham and Vaux, Lord,' Henry Brougham, &c., was the eldest son of the late henry Brougham, Esq., of Scales llall, Cumberland, and Brougham Hall, Westmoreland, by Eleanor, daughter of the Rev - . James Syrne, maternal niece of the historian Robertson, and was born in St. Andrew's-square, Edinburgh, September 19, 1779. Ile received the first seeds of his education at the High School, Edinburgh, under Mr. Luke Fraser, and afterwards . under Dr. Adam, author of the celebrated treatise on "Roman Antiquities ;" and from the High School he passed, in due course of time, to the University of Edinburgh, where he was a pupil of Dugald Stewart, Black, Robinson, and several other well-known professors. It was by his aptness for mathematical and physical science that he first made himself distinguished, his earliest pub lished production being a paper on the refraction and reflection of light, which was printed in the " Transactions of the Royal Society for 1798." This he followed up by another paper on the same subject, published in the succeeding year in the " Transac tier's," and by a third paper printed in the same place in 1798, entitled " General Theorems, being chiefly Porisms in the higher Geometry." Still the early bent of his taste was for the bar, and ac cordingly, after- a lengthened tour in Prussia and Holland (in which he was accompanied by the late Lord Stuart de Rothesay), he was admitted an advocate of the Scottish bar in 1800. Residing at Edinburgh, he took a prominent part in the de bates of the Speculative Society of that metropolis, and was one of the chief writers in the Edinburgh Review while that periodical was still in its in fancy. Even down to the year 1828 he con tinued to write regularly for its pages, and his pen, up to that time, had been the most frequent and the most versatile of all that were e m pl o yed upon it. In 1803, when only 24 years of a g e, he published his "Inquiry into the C o l on i a l P o li cy of the European Powers," in two. vols, Bvo., a work of vast research, and of great breadth and compre hensiveness of view for a young man. In 1804 Mr. Brougham determined to exchange the Scottish for the English bar, and with this view took up his residence in London. In the year 1808 he was called to the bar at Lincoln's luu, and entered upon practice as a barrister in the King's Bench on the Northern Circuit. The first occasion which made his eloquence familiar to the ears of the British public was his advocacy of the cause of the t merchants of Liverpool, London, and M anc h es t er , who complained of the injury done to th e i r t ra d e b y the operation of the famous Orders in C ounc il, b y which the Government thought to retalate on the decrees of Napoleon. Though unsuc c e ss f u l i n ob taining the repeal of the noxious ord ers , h e a dd e d pocket boh inth considerably to his reputation as a n a d voca t e, an d was returned e to Parliament roug as e g e of soon afterwardsslawtie D rd u , k r e e a of ur ed f o s Cleveland, then Earl of Darlington. lie made his first s p eec h i n th e memberp atrona for the eaoie House of Commons on Nlarch 5, 1810, in the de bate on Mr. Whitbread's motion of censure on the Earl of Chatham, for privately transmitting to the King his narrative of the expedition to the Scheldt. The speech was good and even eloquent, but in gave little promise of the forensic efforts of Mr. Brougham during the next few years, when the House of Commons became conscious that in his presence it possessed an orator such as hid not - - sat within the walls of St. Stephen's since the days of Burke, Pitt, and Fox. Of all his contemporaries Canning was the: on l y one who cou ld i n any d egree contend with hire on equal terms. It would be impossible, within the space of this notice, to give anything like a complete account of the poli tical career of Mr. Brougham whilst he held a seat in the House of Commons. It will be sufficient to say that, after the close of the war in 1815, the attention of the Go vernmen t and the people alike was turned to domestic affairs an d matters o f internal regul a ti on ; and that to the di scuss i on o f these subjects Mr. Brougham brought a well-in formed and versatile mind, an enlightened philan thropy, liberal opinions, and a burning zeal against tyranny, wrong, a n d oppression. Ilis efforts on behalf of the ab o li t i on of flogging i n t h e army, t h e repeal of Cath o li c di sabilities, reform i n t h e govern ment of India, the spread of education, the improve ment of prison manaaement, the abolition of slavery, law reform, and the independence of the public Press, will never be forgotten by a grateful people. Mr. Brougham remained out of Parlia ment from 1812 to 1816, when he was returne d f or the since-disfra nc hi sed borough o f Wi nc hil sea b y the influence of his old friend and patron the Earl of Darlington, and he c o n tinued to represent that constituency until ear l y i n 1830, w h e n he resigned his seat, and w as i mmediately electe d mem b er f or Knaresborough. During this time he spoke much and often on the reduction of taxation, the repeal of the property-tax, and other kindred subjects, and in 1818 obtained a Parliamentary committee for inquiry into abuses connected with the educational foundations of the United King dom, the first commencement of the movement in favour of popular education. During 1820 and the followi ng year h e was mainly en gaged professionally in Westminster Hall as Attorney-General to her Majesty Queen Caroline, whose cause he advocated successfully against George IV., with something more than the zeal of a common advocate, and, his eloiuence had a wonderful effect in securing on her behalf, as a woman and a wife, the sympathy of the British people. In 1825 Mr. Brougham was elected Lord Rector of Glasgow University, as a mark of appre ciation of his zeal iu the cause of education, and of his foundation of mechanics' institutes in con junction with the late Dr. Birkbeck. In 1827 he laid the foundation of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, of which he was also the first president. The first publication of this society discourse " On the Objects, Advantages of Science." Iu the month cf Au, being Mr. Brougham r w l as eas A u l r r e . s ß , ro a t n ig d hads of York, an d i n th a t capa city the satisfactioungusoti being chosen to re the acknowledged c h amp i on o f th e c present ity te c t a h m e e county cause of Parliamentary Reform. A day had been actually appointed for his motion on the subject, when the Duke of Wellington sent in his resigna tion to the King, and Earl Grey was appointed Premier in his place. O wing to a combination of circumstances, the nation was much surprised to learn from the Gazette a few days afterwards that the Chancellorship the new Ad m i n i s t rat i on h a d been i to Mr. Brou g h am, who was at the entruste same time raised to the peerage as Lord Brougham and Vaux. From November, 1830, to November, 1834, Lord Brougham was thoroughly identified with the policy pursued by Lord Grey, and after wards by his successor, the late Lord Melbourne ; and the defence and support of the Reform Bill in the Upper house devolved almost entirely on the hands of his lordship, who has thus summed up the series of measures carried into effect dur ing these few brief years :—" The abolition of of the e ave i ri ast in all our colo n i es ; t h e open i ng India trade, and the. destruction of monopoly ; the amend m e n t o f the erei the Company's vast improvements in the whole t a law ; municipal jurisprudence, both as regards law and equity ; the settlement of the Bank Charter ; the total reform of the Scotch Municipal Corporations; the entire alteration of the poor laws ; and an ample commencement made in reforming the Irish Church, by the abolition of ten bishoprics." Ilia speeches in the House of Lords during these eventful years form a large proportion of the entire collection, as published in Hansard. In November, 1834, Sir Robert Peel assumed the reins of Govern . - ment, and Lord Brougham resigned office with his colleagues. The Whig Ministry of Lord Mel• bourne, however, returned to power in the following April, but Lord Brougham was not reappointed to the C hancellorship. - The reason of his exclusion must be left for the future biographer and historian to tell. Since that time his lordship has continued to hold an independent position in the Upper House, freely criticising the measures of Whig and Tory Governments alike, but paying constant and careful attention to the leg al business of the house as one of the " law lords." In 1848 his lordship, who had previously purchased an es - ate at Cannes, in the south of France, proposed to the newly-established French Republic to be naturalised as a citizen in that country ; but, in re ply to his application, he was informed by M. Marras that his wish could be carried out only by his ceasing to be au English peer. During the period which has elapsed since his release from the. duties of the Senate and the forum Lord Brougham has contributed largely to the list of modern publi cations. In 1838 he published the collected edition of his speeches, with notes and introductions, and a discourse on the eloquence of the ancients. He has also edited " Paley's Natural Theology," and writ ten "Dissertations on Subjects of - Science connected with Natural Theology." In 1839 appeared the first of his " Historic Sketches of Statesmen who flourished in the Reign of George III.," a work which he completed in 1813, and .tw o yeari later published his " Lives of Men of Art and Science" belonging to the same period. He also edited the speech. of Demosthenes de Corona. A new and complete edition of Lord Brougham's works, in cluding his "Political Philosophy," as yet incom plete, and other political and mathematical treatises, has recently been published under his own superin tendence, by Messrs. Griffin and Co., of Glasgow. After the passing of the Reform Bill, and since his retirement from official life, Lord Brougham has exerted his energies in working out his .favourite schenie of law amendment, and in the establish ments of courts in which cheap justice might be dealt out to the middle and lower classes. So early, indeed, as in the month of June, 1830, he intro duced into the House of Commons, a measure, " the declared object of which," in the words of a contemporary memoir, " was to bring justice home to every man's door at all times of the year by the establishment of local courts. By this bill the law of arbitration was to be extended, the general local jurisdiction established, and courts of reconcile ment were to be introduced." This measure, some what modified, is now seen in full operation in the county courts, established about twelve years since. A succession of other bills for the. reform of pro ceedings in bankruptcy were afterwards introduced by Lord Brougham, who, from his first entrance into the Upper House, "has laboured for the im provement of the law with a zeal approaching to enthusiasm." lu 1850 Lord Brougham resumed his scientific researches, and communicated to the Royal Society a paper of " Experiments and Ob servations on the Properties of Light," which he followed up by further papers on the same subject in 1852 and 1853, in which he proves the principle upon which Newton established his theory of light to be inconclusive. In 1855 he published, in con junction with E. J. Routh, Esq., an " Analytical View of Newton's Principia." He has since given to the world a paper on the " Integral Calculus," and has contributed further articles on Light to the Transactions of the Enstitute.of France, of which body he was a member, and before whom he recently spoke in French on that subject. • In 1819 Lord Brougham married Mary Anne, widow of John Spalding, Esq., and eldest daughter of Thomas Eden, Esq., DepUty Auditor of Green wich Hospital (brother of the late Lord Auckland and Henley), by whom he had an only daughter, who died young, Nov. 30, 1839. In 1860 he ob tained a free patent of peerage, with remainder to his brother, Mr. William Brougham, and his issue male. CRD/NARY SHARES AND STOCKS. 1 I Closing Business q I raid. Price. ire: Railways. se. dens. - at 'tilitt . oi anoExet-er .... Jou 82 al , at Caledoman - . 100 711 7 1 1' 71/ 1 at )anwrian - jork and Bandon - - - *0 iJornw.all. .. all 3 4 at Dublin & Belfast June. 100 75 77 at Jun„rerth, AL Ab.J uric. iOO 79 72 - :;.London, scrip Cacti, all - -' Do. 100 - - d at :ilasgow AS. Western 100 102 101 at Great Eastern, Ord. stk. 100 31 314 31 31 at Do. E. Angl. st. N 0.2 100 7 8 st Great Northof Scotland, 100 15 ,6 st Great Northern 1 , 100 1021 1034 at Do. A stock ..! 100 97 93 971 et Do. 11 siva at Do. New, Is. at 25 pm 100 - - at fit S, and W. of Ireland 100 0-1 96 st 'Gt. Western -Original 100 511 55 , 5 3 1 I at Do. 6. Val. Rail. gua. 100 - - at Do. South Wales at Do. W. Mid.-Oxtore 100 3.) 35 at Do. Newport lOO 30 53 31 at. Do. tiereford lOO - - at Lancashtre A Yorashin too 128 1284 , 1271 S at ILJudou arid Blackwati 100 • - - 1 at Lon., Brigh.,4 S Coast 10v 53 3 54 i ;'. 2 1. it at II•on., Chat., and Dover 100 18i 1011 at Do. Alctrop. Ex. A lou - - at Lou. A, North 1V eater, 100 1151 ilO4 1:4 1 st Lou. 4 South Westert. 100 90 92 VI at Man., She)., A Lincoln 100 44} 14, at aletropoiltan.... et . Do. New - - at Du. Extcualon aii 101 105 at i Iletropolitan District all 76 So ( 10 Do. do. NO. 10 - 10 Do. and Bt. John's W ',I 0 - - st Olidlaud 1 100 109 1094 107 1 1 - Do. .ti'.l Snare I 7 - - at Do, Ifiriniu.. A Derb) 100 77 7J - Aid Rent . . ail - - at North Britian at Do. Ed., l'th., & Dun. 100 - - at Nth. Eastern-Berwick 100 102 104 1021 25 Do. ti. ..N A 6 purring.: !6.1.3.4 - - at Do. Leeds ..... at Do. York lOO 04 95 at Do. Carlisle .. 109 130 134 it Do. Stook. & Darling, ail Du 13 2 13 2 25 Do. do. 1860-61 IS - -- p , at North London at Do. do. 1864 5 . . lO - - - Do. do. 1886 . lO 11 114 10 North Staffordshire . at N. &S. W. Junction at Scottish Central - -- - Soot. N. L , Aber. stuck 1.00 - - - 00. Scot, Mid. staok - - - Shropattire Union at South Devon lOO 44 Ili at .outs: Eastern . lOO 731 714 20 Staines, Wok., A Wok ail 9 10 at Tail' Vale 10 Do. C .. - - - '0 gie o; Neatit - - - Waterford A Kilkenny 100 - 10 Waterloo A Whitelta li 6 - - Nest Cornwall --- COLONIA.L GO Y.ERNMENT SECCIiITII66. - Briti•Ali Columbia, 6 per' I cent., Dei3.3l, 1872 lOO - - Uan.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.A JJuly 1877-61 Do. 6p. c. Feb. A Aug 1t . ,0 93 11)0 lug 11 -- i Do. sp. o. Mar. A Sept, 100 08 100 - 1/0. sp. c. Jau. A July, 100 86 88 91 - 'Do. sp. c. luscrioed a 100 b 5 67 - Cape U.llope, 0 p.c.1873: luo lu4 108 - Do.Apl.&Uct 1800-19001 100 109 11J MI - Do. do 1680-9 u 100 107 109 - Do. Jan.&July, 1800-91 100 106 108 - Do. 5 per cent. 15 April , ana 15 Oct., 1900 lOO 68 ,00 - Ceylon, Nov. 1878, 6 p., 100 11) 11l - Do. 1872, do lOO 103 107 - Ilauritius, 6p. o, 1873, Jan. awl July - Do. 1.878 . 100 106 teb - 'O. 1884, Mayls, Nov.:6 100 107 pi., - Do. 1895, Feb. A Aug.. 100 106 08 - -Natal 'b e. o per cent- 100 - - - - N.B.Gov.6p.c.Ja.AJ uly 100 99 10 - N. S.W. Grov.s w0.,1860 100 9.1 101 - Do. 5 p.c. 1871 to 1876 100 08 99 - Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1696 100 954 964 91 - .New Zealand, 6p. cent - 100 - - - Do. 5 percent.... .... 100 974 084 - Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. o. sterling, 1875 - Queensland Gov. 6p '. 0 0 0 C. 11010 1 1 1?3 2 4 105 4 - .8. A na. Gov. 6 p,0.1868-9 100 - - - Do. 1878 & upwards.. 100 110 11l - Vio,tiov. ES p.c.JAALJuIy 100 - - - Do. do. April A Uot.., 100 1114 112 y 1101 1 BRITISH YOSSESSIONS. st.Lawreuor all 54 48 llora.,Baroda.4lCen.ln. WO 1021 1031 ' gu. 5 per cent 10 Do. F shares l6 f 4p .:06 Buffalo .t Lake Huron all 3 4 10 Do. Frelerence 00 Burt.,Brant, & Goderich 6 p.c. 100 68 71 it Calcutta &S. E., lim too - - st ~a, e Town Duck, gu lOO 18 62 00 Demerara, 7 p.c. per. pr all 99 102 it r;ast Bengal, gu., sdo 100 :04i IGSo 51 avast Indian, gu. 5 p.c. 100 109 Ill) 1114 tO Do. J Extension - ,rand rrunkot Canada 100 151 164 uo Do. Equip. Mort, Bondi. 1 charge 6 p.c all 78 82 ,0 0 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds all 43 45 101 100 Do. do deferred ..., all - 100 Dr. 2d Prt.t. Bonds all 33 33 100 Do. do. deterred all 100 Do. 3d Pref. stook—. all 27 22 100 Do. do. deferred - - POO Do. Bth Pre!. stock lOU Do. do. deterred - it t 1 n 1 Yen. gua. sp.c. 100 109 110 1094 1 3 o. Grua. 5 per cent lB 1 4 2 C 0 00. New gua. S p.c 6 1 4 2 1 .; t„ South of India gea. 5 per cunt at D... 41 per cent lov Of 96 at DO !,01 ,Ivat FV ee. 01 Canada all 1 6 1 1 6 i lit 404 Do. New all - •- • 00 Jo. 4 p.:l itt e. pay. 187,1; ail 98 100 00 io. 54 do. pay. Ith:7-8_ all It 9, lat Hadrte, gua~b p.O O 10z 1 ( 41 I at Dv . 42 do • • 1 aro w 1 100 V 3 15 091 it Do. 11 Do. Filth B.lxten.ion 5 d elb. Cur 6 p. c. Buda., 1 00 50 ale'. llobsoE's Bay.. ; all ft N.lll.C'da.6pcist pl.bs j lOU 83 85 at Oude &11.1iiik'nd,g.6 p.O 100 In 103 t . 4 i at Do. Delhi j 20 Do. do at Do. Puniaub lOO 101 102 .'t Do. Indus St. WWI '" 100 87 8 1311.1T1SEE MINES. Cam. Conaol. Gold, Um. 1 Chiverton 61iflerd Amalgamated 3O 54 64 Oevon G. Cone. cravist 1 440 460 orakewalla 2.1.0 4 4 East Bassett (Illog,an) 294 10 12 East Caradon 2.14m 4 5 - East Cam lir,a 34 2 24 Nast Grenville . East Gunuislake .. 8.3. t. 4 East Loveil. , 3.9. e 8 9 E. W'l Russell (Tavistk 11.7.6 14 2 4 43t1.1.& StA übynkti wen. 66 4 5 ireat Laxey, limited.. all 164 174 17 Great South Tolgus.... .irc•at Wheal 14.9.6 Wheal Vor 40 18 19 11erod's Foot 8.1.0.0 38 40 ilingaton Downs 5.10.6 24 24 ,largaret (Coy Lelant,lll.l - i.ll 6 8 arke Valley. 1.10.6 6 64 :iwyndy Iron Ore, limi 34 24 1 t 8 ton .. 511 4 60 70 , iorth :oak ear I 484 5 7 4. Wh Basaett(lllogan 1.4.0 North Wheal Grotty 2.13.0 2 3 Prosper 8.11.0 2 2.4 eruvidenee,l.JuyLelant 1 1.6.7. 25 27 S. Camden (St. Cleer) 14 380 400 South Condurrow 3.2.0 —s. Wheal Fran. (Mogan 18.18.9 374 424 Stray Park . 35.16.6 4 6 ['in Croft 9 14 16 7igra and Clo t ,•*an, Hai all West f4assett(llloon l, 1 14 Caradon (Liskeard It 1.1 i 2 Neel.Chiverton ll 64 66 West Seton 174 195 195 Wheal Bassett 'Mogan 54 75 80 Wheal Buller (Redruthi 16 16 14 Wheal Mary Ann (Rend 8 21 23 Wheal Seton - , Trelawnev (1.14 1 5.17.0 6 8 ritIGIBILICNCZ tituktipth London and S.-Western 44 per cm. AND STOCKS t., 90 I IVES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Chester and Holyhead, Ditto, 5 p r cent., 113 hull and Selby, 1 Midland, Bradford Pref., . FORNIGN HAILWAYr. Great Luxembourg. 10 1 San Paulo. Ilan., gua. 6 per cent.. 171 Bluth AUtitrial. .ed Lombardo Venetian, 141 FOK.KLUN MINXB. Cape Copper. lim., 1; Chollales Gold and Silver Mining, lim., 24 Am Pedro, N rih Del i:cy, 2 1 16 pm Port Philip, It St. John del Key, lira, 19i l' United Mexican, lim., if BANES. Imperial Ottoman, 1( 2 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 241 London Joint Stock., 35} Standard of British South Africa, lim., It Union of Australia, 43 Agra. iim., A, Ditto, B, 4 All►ance, lin, l2i Anglo Egyptian, lim., 19} Bank of utago, Um., 41 Chartered nier. of India, London, and China, 27} Consolidated, lim., London and County, 52} London and iti estininster, 70 Ditto. Scrip, 47i Metropolitan Dank. lint.. 7i National Provincial 01 ii;i4:ianii.:l33 Ditto, 1 and •3d issua, 39 New South Wales, 1.34 Oriental CorporAtion, 12 Union of Lon &n, MISCELLANEOUB. Atlantic Telegraph, 574 Ditto, tt p r cunt , 107 a Ceylon Coruparty, Ditai, A shares, 21 City of Alo,cow Gas, lint., 5 City °thous, lira., bi egyptian it per Cent.. Iriceroy Loan, gua,by Egypt. Gov., 90/ Gen. Credit an'i Discount, trm., 5 riudson's Bay, t 5 International Financial Society, lim., 3 National :Jisconnt ,oinpany, 1 / Ocean Narine Insuraner:), 191 Vereg.rapli Construct. and Maiateaance, Iti United Discount Corporation, lim., 4i Viceroy of Egypt (slurtgage) Loan, 71 4 a PLvmouni, May 10.—The Star of the East, Cap tain Smith, from the Cape of Good Hope, with general cargo, for London, lauded hero yesterday the Rev. T• Godfrey, wife and child. In the entrance to the Channel they passed the Oriental, from Bahia, dismastod. The Heather Bell, Capt. Owen, from Algoa Bay for London, was off Plymouth on Thursday, and the brig Trial, of Guernsey, from Cardiff for Stettin, passed up on Friday. THE MUSICAL MAGAZINES. llmiovEit SQUARE, this month, is a very attrac tive number. It opens with a very well-written piece by Sidney Smith, entitled " Evening Rest," which is followed by a very beautiful ballad by Blumenthal, called "Love, the Pilgrim." Ignace Gibson contributes another excellent composition, " Spring Breezes," and a melodious song by J. L. Hatton, "It is the golden spring time," completes the collection for May. The whole of the music is quite equal to any that has hitherto been published in this very favourite monthly, and is well calcu lated to sustain the reputation the magazine has secured under the excellent guidance of its accom plished editor, Mr. Lindsey Sloper. BOND STREET is as sparkling and joyous as ever. Mr. Charles Coote gives us another of his exhilara ting waltzes, entitled "The Azella." Mr. Charles Blamphin adds another beautiful melody eutiaed " Nellie," and Mr. Robert Coote gives us a very characteristic set of quadrilles called " The Marionettes," which will most certainly become a great favourite. Mr. H. Clifton contributes a new song, entitled, " The Way to be Happy," which is as good as any of the many popular melodies he has hitherto composed. The magazine is alto gether one of very great excellence, and of such a varied kind that it cannot fail to pleas;; and call forth approbation from a very large class of patrons it has, by its entertaining power, pernmently se cured. EXETER HALL will, by its collection of sacred music, this month add to its already well-acquired reputation. The music consists of a sacred song by Randeggar " There's Rest in Heaven ;" a piano forte piece, by Callcott ; a new hymn of praise, by Macfarren ; a sacred duet, " Rest Yonder," by Smart; anti a very beautiful piece for the harmo nium. All is as good as can be, and the current number must tend to increase the estimation in which the magazine is now generally held. Messrs. Cocks, of New Burlington-street, have just issued a second edition of the Appendix to Hamilton's Modern Instructor for the pianoforte, by F. West, which contains some of the most cele brated pieces, so simply yet he,atifally arranged that it must become a book of general use for all students of the instrument. It is worthy the most extensive patronage, which it is certain to command. Messrs. Davidson, of Regent-street, have just published six new songs, composed by Miss Amy Coyne. The airs are exceedingly melodious, and speak highly in favour of the talent of the young composer. 'We can recommend them as the pret tiest collection of ballads we have seen for a very long time. Messrs. Metzler's, of Great Marlborough-street, latest issue comprises a number of new songs by Gounod, Arthur Sullivan, and Mr. G. B. Allen. The first composer gives a very sweet song entitled " The Fairy Voyage," and a sacred composition called " Earth is no Resting Place." Mr. Allen has chosen some words written by Longfellow, called " The Children's Hour," for a musical setting, and a very pretty ballad it is. "In the Summer long ago" Mr. A. Sullivan has given us a ballad that will certainly become a universal favourite. Messrs. Duff and Stewart, of Oxford-street, have just published some compositions of Mr. W. V. Wallace, which, whilst being very attractive pieces, are by no means difficult of accomplishment by a moderately advanced musician. The " Danse Cos saque," "Air Russe," and " Caprice Heroique," are each and all worthy a place itf the portfolio of every person of taste, as they cannot fail to elicit high commendation when performed with the at tention they deserve. THE GRESHAM LECTURES.—We are requested to state that the Gresham Lectures, at Gresham College, Basinghall-street, will in future be delivered in Latin at 6 and in English at 7 o'clock in the evening, instead of at 12 and 1 in the day, as heretofore. _THE .EAIRAORDINARY OU2RAGE IN ?HE CI7T. At the Mansion-house, this morning the two boys, Arthur Forester Smith, 13, and Victor A. Smith, 12, were brought before the Lord Mayor, in charge of Sergeant Moss, the detective officer, for further examination upon . the charge of feloniously wounding Mary Ann Nunn, with intent to murder her. Alderman Sir R. Carden and Al derman Causton were on the bench during the proceedings. It will be recollected that at the last examination it was proved that the prosecutrix was the ;house keeper of the premises No. _2, Catherine-court, Seethilig-lane. - The prisoners were connected with the • prosecutrix by marriage, and it appeared that they had secreted themselves in the cellar, no doubt for the purpose of commiting a robbery in the house, and while they were actually engaged in breaking open a box in the room of the prosecutrix, and from which they took a sum of about £2, th' prosecutrix - came into the room. The two young ruffians immediately commenced a most brutal attack upon the unfortunate woman, and beat her upon the head with a mallet, inflicting such in juries thereby that for some days her life was despaired of. She is now, however, happily out of danger, and it is expected that she will recover. The prisoners when they were placed at the bar seemed to have lost a good deal of the hardihood which characterised them at the first examination. Inspector Tillcock handed in a certificate from Guy's Hospital, which was to the effect that the proseeutrix was progressing favourably, but was not in a condition to attend the court at present to give her evidence. Ile asked for a remand for a week. The prisoners, who said nothing, were accord ingly remanded for a week. MARKETS.—(This Day.) CORN. The general character of the wheat trade is dull, with prices favouring buyers, but without pressure to sell. Spring corn is relatively firm. The country markets are in many cases is lower on the week for wheat. At Mark-lane to-day the attendance was moderate, and the trade dull, the fine weather having some influence. English wheat was light supply, but saleable only at about ls. lower. The offers for foreign wheat were at the same reduction, and where business was done it was at this decline, but transactions were small. Flour was in fair supply, and the turn lower for country markets. Malt a dull sale. Barley sold slowly, but was relatively well hold. Beans rather easier. Peas in limited demand. Oats firm, with a fair inquiry, and quite late rates paid. Seeds dull. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. The supply of fat stock was larger this morning- than last week, but accounts from Newgato and Leadenhall showing the markets well cleared, the tone was not so dull as it might otherwise have been, and prices for choice qualities were in some cases firmer. The supply of beasts included 193 from Scotland, none from Ireland, 2,115 from various pastures of England, and 1,290 from the Continent. The beef trade was firm for choice English, but inferior and foreign was dull of sale and lower. Of sheep and lambs the supplies included 6,690 from abroad. The mutton trade was irregular, choice qualities of sheep firm; inferior depressed. Lamb sold at previous quota tions. The number of foreign calves at market was 146. The general demand was flat and quotations depressed. Pork met a steady sale at tho quotations. Ten pigs i.rrived from the Continent. Total at market : beasts, 3,600 ; sheep and lambs, 29,890 calves, 154 ; pigs, 290. Quotations (per stone of 81bs sinking the offal) : Beef, 3s 4(1 - to 5s 2d ; mutton, 3s to 4s 8d ; veal, 3s 4d to 5s 4d; pork, 3s to 4s Gd ; lamb, 6s to 7s 4(1. PROVISIONS. Butter —The tendency of prices is still seasonably downwards, and the market this morning was dull. Best Friesland, 100 s. _ . Baccu sold iu retail quantity at about late rat,:s. No quotable change in the cheese trade. WOOL. The colonial wool sales commence on Thursday next, and the market as usual for the moment kept somewhat in abeyance, but the tone is on the whole firm. TALLOW. The market is st4ady at 435 61 on the spot. Stock 22,472 calks, against 22,024_ casks last year ; deliveries, 774 casks, agaiust 711 casks last year; arrivals, 32 casks, against 658 casks last ytar. COTTON. • LIVERPOOL, May I.l.—Sales pr)bably 7,000 bales. Mar ket Lit, with downward tendmacy. TILE WAR IN PARAG The news from the River Plate and the Brazils, by the Royal Mail steamer Seine, is highly inte resting, as it proves that the w a r in Paraguay is far from ended, notwithstanding Brazil tries every means to make her European creditors believe the contrary. The passage of Malaita by the Brazilian irouclads, told to the world as the greatest of naval victories, has been as yet of no service to the Allies, as their ships cannot move for want of coal and atutnunition, and an oil American blockade runner has been engaged to run the gauntlet of Hutnaita, and take coal at the rate of £3O per ton to the ironclads at Tayi. Marshal Lopez has concentrated his lines and taken every thing valuable from Curupaity, destroying the places with fire, and leaving only the naked spot where once Curupaity stood to the Allies, who sing another victory, proclaiming the c tpture of Curu paity. llumaita was left with a garrison of about 5,000 to 6,000 men, provisioned for a long siege, and able to hinder, if not stop, the navigation of the river. Marshal Lopez himself and the bulk of his army are fortified on the Tehicuari with all the heavy artillery taken from Curupaity. All this was done under the very eyes of the Allies, who were unable to check his movements. On the 2(1 of March the Allies made a reconnaissance, which has cost them many lives, and then only they learned that Lopez had changed his base of action. As the number as well as the resources of the Paraguayan army are entirely unknown to the Allies, it is very difficult for them to calculate or plan an attack in a country of which they know nothing, but of which Lopez knows every inch, supported by a patriotic popula tion. The expenses of the war are daily getting heavier, and Brazil, notwithstanding every effort to meet her engagements, will not be able to do so much longer if this war should, as appears certain, last for some six or eight more months. The Argentine Confederation never presented a sadder aspect of anarchy than at this moment. The very moment the Government troops left Rosario (on the 24th of March) the revolution broke out again. At Cor rientes General Caseras, a Gaucho, had thrown some of the best citizens into prison, and others were forced into his private escort as common soldiers. These arbitrary measures were done to secure the election of one or the other candidates for the Presidency. By the last account we see that General Urquiza has come out pub licly as a candidate for the Presidency, and as he is the richest and most influential person in the whole Confederation there is little doubt as to his success. The election of Urquiza is tantamount to immediate peace with Paraguay, and the dissolu tion of the alliance. Brazil, knowing this, makes every effort to have Dr. Elisalve, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of General Mitre, elected. Elisave is in the hands of Brazil, through interest and family connection. At Montevideo things have settled down in an uncomfortable quietude, and the outbreak of new disorders is hourly expected. The Government is accused of many acts of unjustifiable barbarities against the members of the opposite political party. At Rio the papers begin to ridicule already their allies, calling them " Suisse," and their generals and officers as so many hirelings ; and whatever was done in Paraguay was only achieved by the brave Brazilian army and navy, which, as every one knows, consists only of liberated slaves. Emigration makes very slow progress in Brazil, as the treatment the immigrants receives disheartens them. - ---- - - STEEPLECHASES. OCTOBER. Bromley DECEMBEII. St. Albans .............. 4... 1 , Ealing 26 KiuSsbuq. ............... i , . $ I . SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Da'. VICTORIA CLUB BETTING.-THIS DAY. GREAT NORTHERN HANDICAP. 5 to 2 apt Blinkhoolie (taken and offered) 4to 1 agst Beauty (taken) 6to 1 agst Fortunio (taken) 7to 1 agst Westwick (taken and offered) 10 to 1 agst Geant des Battailes (offered) 100 to 8 agst Honesty (taken) 1000 to 40 agst Beanstalk (taken) DERBY. 3to 1 agst Lady Elizabeth (offered) 9to 1 agst Speculum (taken) 1000 to 10 agst Betrayal (taken) SPORTING NOTES. The York Meeting commences to-morrow, and the Zetland. Stakes will be productive of some speculation if Sister to Hermit, Fitzwilliara (the colt by Blair Athol out of Jest), and De Vere are found among the starters. The last-named has a 71b. penalty, which will not stop him if he strips in his Epsom form, and after him I prefer Sister to Hermit. The Great Northern Handicap is gene rally affected by the Chester Cup running, and this " thee the race of Wednesday last has settled the pre tensions of more than one candidate for the Knaves mire honours. Paul Jones is not a likely starter. Furtunio, though reported to have been successful in his trial, I will not have because his party are always making mistakes, and I cannot believe in Regalia or Chelsea. Public form makes the latter vastly inferior to Geant des Batailles, who split Moslem and Blueskin at Croxtou Park, while Mr. Crawford's horse was a long way ahead of Chelsea for the Two Thousand Guineas. On the running with*Blueskin it must be a near thing between Blinkhoolie and Lord Zet land's colt. Westwick has underwent a good pre paration ; and, to be. ; brief, I must vote for West wick and Beauty, and if an outsider wins it will be Ploughboy. Sister to Hermit is the best performer of those iu the Knavesmire Plate, and in the event of her being kept for her two-year-oli engagement, there will be a chance for Sphynx and Charnwood, while Helen seems bound to win the Union limit Plate, the only remaining event complete on the first day. On the second, E lkburgh is sure to run well for the Loaders borough Cup; and for the Flying Dutchman's Han dicap Regalia will show much better than she will for the Great Northern Handicap, although I can not have her to beat Corporal and Python. The Tallyho Stakes looks like another good thing for Helen, and the running for this event and the Hunters' race, set for Tuesday, will no doubt throw some light un two similar events to be brought to decision at Doncaster on Thursday and Friday. The first has a large entry, including Eloise, Marks man, Verdi, the filly by Dundee out of Rambling Katie, Comus, Esnaeralda, Primrose, Castanet, Advertisement, and East Lynn ; and without know ing anything of the intentions of owners, I award the prize to the Rambling Katie filly or Coinua ; and the other one above alluded to (the Great Yorkshire St. Leger) I give to Scarriugton. The Hopeful Stakes and Betting-room Stakes will both be affected by what takes place at York ; and the Trial Stakes will hardly bring out Uncas, in addition to whom three only are nominated. The Spring Handicap weights have been raised to Bst 121 b., and the one at the head of the list—Rococo—cannot beat Beauty, 3 yrs, Bst 31b., if the latter does not incur a penalty for winning at York. Russian Bear (who ought to have won at Ches ter) and Milton are my choice of the lot weighted for the Londesborough Plate. At Winchester on Tuesday the Third Biennial for three-year-olds will be settled, and the pick of the thirty-three left are Europa, Herald, Lord Palmer ston, Cock of the Walk, Boreas, Witchcraft, Ly mington, The Demon, and Lictor, of whom Europa proved successful last year. She has been dead amiss (like the other " good things " disposed of at Ascot) ever since she left the possession of the Duke of Beaufort, and if she shows on this occasion will probably succumb to Witchcraft and Lymington, both of whom recently distinguished themselves at Newmarket. Of those handicapped for the Win cheater N ursery, I fancy Leoncillo and Brother to Union Jack ; and Flower Girl must be my choice of the public lot in the Fourth Biennial. The Hampshire Stakes has Paul Jones at the head of affairs, and he will not run. Douro is very mode rate, and his stable companion, Prince Regent, will probably be reserved for Salisbury. The pair I fancy most are Vultigern and Demon, and I must decline to meddle with the other handicaps put forth, while the Grange Park and Winchester Foal. Stakes are best left to those who see the first day's running. The Derby Trial Stakes is a weight for age race, over a mile and a half, among the eight nominated being Knight of the Garter, Lozenge, Mariner, Lyming ton, Lictor, and Philosopher. If he starts the Knight will win, despite his defeat by Lozenge at Newmarket, and in the absence of Capt. Macbell's horse, it will be as well to stand Philosopher. The Salisbury events will follow those at Winchester, and the principal two-year-old races—the Salis bury Stakes and the Wilton Park Stakes—both read at the mercy of Brigantine. Of the handicaps, only the Wiltshire Stakes merits attention at pre sent, and for this I take the best of the Fyfield lot —Whalebone or the Young Melbourne Mare - as the most likely to supply the winner. A FRESII MAN. RACING FIXTI RES FOR 1868. Y. Wiachester York Spring Bromyard . Doncaster Spring Salisbury Bath JUNE West Drayton 1 Newton Croydon 2d S anunor ... 3 Hampton Manchester 3 Newcastle 23 Ascot Suunnor 9 1 Bibury Club 23 Beverley, Hull, and 1 Stockbridge East Biding lO Alexandra, Park 3O I Windsor Summer JULY. Chelmsford 2 Worcester Summer Kingsbury and Hendon 6 *Radcliffe Carlisle 76 I Newmarket July Huugerford Pontefract Down Royal Corp l4 1 Reading Spil s by Liverpool July M. Odihaua l6 Stamford Huntingdon 2l Nottingham July Chesterfield 23 Knutsford 23 Southampton Sudbury and Ealing Goodwood t... 28 AUGUST. Daauvillo 1 I Bridgewater and West Leek .. 3 I Brighton Brighton Club Loves Summer Wolverhampton ll Stockton Plymouth Windsor August l3 bot nerset .. 2O Dover Scarborough 24. Canterbury Great Yarmouth 25 Derby Summer Weymouth Ipswich 27 Eghani v 17 I Eiehfield Hastings York August Oxford SEPTEMBER. Baden -... 1 Hendon l7 I Warwick September ... 1 Monmouth . 17 Abingdon 3 Manchester lB Leicester Doncaster September 8 I Walsall 23 Brecon l4 Edinburgh Richmond Hampton Autumn l5 Royal Caledonian 'Lint Kelso l;,. and Western AL OCTOBER. Bedford 1 Sudbury and Eal in g ... 15 I Bromley Autumn Newmarket 2d October 5 I H a rrow • 27 Lanark .., 8 Worcester Autumn-..... 27 Chelmsford Autumn Clleltenham ............... 13 I NOVEMBER. -•- Liverpool .................. 3 Lomniogton l7 Sliniwebury ............... 9 I LEGISLATIVE ANNUNCIATOR. —Dr. A. W. Hall, of Nov York cit y , has invented_au apparatus f u r t a ki ng the votes in Legislative bodies. It is fixed upon the Clerk's desk, and from it a wire leads to the desk of each member. When the "yeas" are to vote, the Clerks slip into the apparatus a piece of paper containing the names of the members is the proper order, and having the word " yea" printed at its head. Upon the calling of the vote each member actuates his wire, and a puncture is hereby made at the end of his name. The "nays" are recorded in the same manner. Any number of slips may be placed in the box, and all punctured at the same time. Each of these is a complete record of the vote. The ap paratus is all contained in a cuss about fold feet long by one foot in width. r )uise, also gun• fitted