The Sun. — London, England, 1868-05-14 00:00:00

Chris terday the Palace which assical 311ence f Mr. closed 'tided ; Df the ch has mbers silent ravura s very gested would ,ion of :n the Dy be idols. !miner I a de e fol itiens, signor Roki jesty's ►r. It I con e sub- larisou Aoven, w ell lacille. 3 re of all singers on for must would ,niello" were to the incoin - ar un- idious ; there- er ele- E what of the take" [ben's. e haVe niuent !edini3O arring; Liversal :-down ich we of St. D sous• sisoN, The nearly known held it ,nst all hequer called, off last ; reach ill and routers gonist, Ld kept endous tted ill al says 1, Per' oulder , rarely' 3d Sent iiscoul ,ast did insp ire ,y were ;ir ovia ;ake, 1 5 noulea t y friend ° dow n Roocn' Dn, and no ll ►f their spirito7 cal the ,±* over -3t yea r. exuber: blow ill a g tha t medi ed ' 3g rau ; 65. n was re- .MO N BY MARKET AND 00111AERCIAL INTILLIGEI\TCI, CITY, Two o'CLocK. The Bank directors have made no change in the rate of .discount, and the money market is conse quently unaltered, at 2 per cent and upwards, with large supplies* ,As regards the Stock Market, the tone is some- What heavy. The rise of per cent. which has taken place in the Funds during the past week h asinduced realisations, and a replapse of has caused a dull t one to perva d e t h e mar k et genera ll y. gyptian Government subscriptions are once more offered, and the improvement of yesterday is lost. }Lane railways are dull, and in some instances the decline established last evening has been followed by afutther rel a p se. H u d son ' s B ay s h ares are exception ally Jinn, upon recent purchases, resulting in a scarcity of stock. Consols are d ull, at 941 : to 94 for delivery, ann 52 f to 92 7 g ex div. for account, being a relapse of T his fall i s accounted for b y specu l ators realising. , I . \re o ‘ ll and Reduced Thre e p e r Cents. it,. lower, at 92:1. 92 ; India 5 per Cents. steady, at 1151 to 116 k ; auk Stock, 245 to 247 ; Exchequer Bills, 8s to 14s prem. The variations in the Foreign Stock Market are neither numerous nor important, but the tone is dull and drooping. Chilian (1866) are better, at 102 to 104, but the 1867 bonds show no change, at 95 to 97. Egyptian Government Bonds are very Hat The 1864 4 " is quoted 80 to 80k, and the Railway Debentures 89i to 9 0 - i. The Viceroy's bonds show no change, t he 7 er Cents being 711 to 72, an te 9 per Cents. .90 to 91. Mexican Stock is 15? ! to 161 2 Greek, 13 to 13.7. New Spanish, 353 to 352 ; Italian (1661), 48 to 4N- ; and Turkish (1865), 34 to 344. In American Securities, United States 5-20 Bonds are quiet at 70;1 to 70z ; Erie Shares and Illinois are each f lower, being quoted at 945 to 95, and 455 to 46 respectively. Lombardo-Venetian Railway shares are I worse, at 1-4 T-076 to 14 ; Great Luxemburg unaltered at 10i to 1„ Among home railways Great Northern (A) are alwer, and Midland and London and North Western South Eastern, Brighton, and Metropolitan are firmer. The quotations current are :—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1 . 2 7 to 128 ; Midland 106 to 1(4'4 South .n. as t ern, 74't to 742- ; London and North Western 1142 toLIIS ; Great Northern, 102 to 103 ; ditto to 96 ; Great Eastern, 332 to 34 ; Great Western, 531 - to 53.2 ; Brighton, 535 to 54 ; Sh effield, 424 to 43 ; Metropolitan, 1111 to 112 ; C ' Lled °nian, 74 to 742 ; and Chatham, lA to 182. Finance Shares are dull, at previous prices. Credit Poncier is quoted at 2 to 3 ; General Credit, to 2 dis. ; International Finance, 21 to 15 dis. Bank Shares are again in little request, prices are pwrie,tinilo.ut a single variation. Agra (A), to 105 ; Alliance, 13 to 12 dis. ; Anglo-Austrian, 4: 1 ,- to 5 ; London and County, 52 to 53 ; London 1 -_ , 11 " Westminster, 70 to 71 ; Oriental, 4q to 42.4 ; ,ondon Joint Stock, 35 to 36 ; Imperial, 18 to 1 . 9 ; imperial Ot toman, to 2 preen. ; Union of London, 34 to 35. p~ln Foreign Mining Shares Chontales are f lower, at t° . St. John del Rey steady, at 18 to ; or N t Phillip, 14 to Q. In Miscellaneous Securities Hudson's Bay Shares are firm at yesterd a y' s a d vance , a t 155 t o 152 ; A ng lo- American Telegraph steady, at 23 3-16 to 23 5-16 ; .i c k ) . i t i l l annibus3, ti e Telegraph, 5 3-16 to 5 5-16. London General 1.-& to 2k ; Fore-street Warehouse, 2 to 11 la st Year Discount, 101 s to 11. The Londo n an d North- Western Railway traffic re turn show s t hi s week an i ncrease of £5,150 over Year ; the Great Northern a d e cre ase o f £1,969 and the-Great Eastern an increas e o f £1,226. Including the withdr a w a l 7e st e rd a y o f 10,000 t?vereigns for Ceylon, the bullion operations at the Bank for the week now closed resulted in the with drawal of £144,000. ‘. The M ediator has arrived from Port Phillip with 43 L000 in Australian gold. Th e report of the English Bank of Rio de Janeiro gives th e net profits for the year at £56,740, but in coainsoquence of the loss incurred by the depreciation the Brazilian curre n cy, no di v id en d i s recom ended a T he North G erman Ll oy d S team S hi pp i ng Corn f p I.I Y will divide a t th e ra t e o f 20 per cen t. per annum or 1867. p The traffic receipts of the Bahia and San Francisco a n i waY Compa n y for the week ending April 4 , show T 1 increase of £312, and the receipts of the Madras ' w a3 7 Company for the week ending March 14, an l e n a - ; „ess e of 0E914, as compared with the corresponding 'r -r iods of 1867. At the a nnua l mee ti ng of the European Assurance bast 3'e;ir's tY, held yesterday, the following results of the business was declared :—The premiums on : new life and guarantee policies issued during the tear amounted to £40,271 lOs ; the fire premiums on of nets buainess for three-quarters of a year (this branch kr„s•insiness having been discontinued in September ~") amount to £14,993 lls ; total premiums on 7ile business of the year, £55,205 is ; the gross L'.3l(oent received in premiums during the year was p.4 ) , 3,25 0 5s ; the life, tire, and guarantee claims t;a .' : during the year were, including bonus additions, r 8,()5 1 15s 11d. The progress of the society's en,iiin revenue continues satisfactory, it having 4 e A rie ll in 1867 the s u ns of £363,250 as against ) ,143 in 1866. fra i r ne following remarks upon the bullion market are R C ) Messrs. Mocatta and Goldsmidln the d o s e nce of large arrivals of silver there has been little 1 , 0 n,g for th e l ast few weeks. There is now little or h4eitiand for India, and the Continental Exchanges do`vmg advanced, the tendency of prices is decidedly at `la s ll o„,.' a rd..The French M ex i can p ac k e t just arrived -N azaire brings a bout 51,300,000 on English ac -40,t, and furthe r amounts are s h ort l y expecte d, so th a t of f o unt the M ex i can dollars will have to b e d i spose d f ro i t a decline. The quantities of gold lately received I ; lAu stralia and America have been large, and tillretnber considerable sums are nearly due. hitherto )ce b ul k of the gold has been sent to France, but the forth an g e having risen, it is probable that much of the Xl4(;ng, arrivals will be taken to the Bank. th e , t O OO in sovereigns were despatched to Brazil by I inl directors of the Chontales Gold and Silver 114: 1 ' 1 g . Company, Limited, have received advices from been telt, dated 6th April :—The steam-engine had wern ni.;cessfully removed to San Domingo, the stamps ex o : in a forward state of erection, and were fully aq i ,: e ted to be in a working condition early in May, ) 11 , ( 1 1 r eduction of the ores at the tipper mines will be i n e ,' independent of water power. Every effort is a tm n made to wink the mines to the best advantage p,,weconon-,y. The staff has been reduced. Captain The l an d six officials have left the mines for England. Th e lalth of the establishment is exceedingly good. oq uo :l s r.Y season has set ia. Gold remitted, 191 0 °LOCK. ~ 11110.11ZIGN Trrips—TW 3 kiurrEttxxENT k't•Nns. 94/ 1 i l'tF Cent. Consols 93 2; 4,14 f 4 3 o or Account,June 921 1. N ew Cent. Reduced 93 21 l l ._ "r 3 per Cent '. h lv 23, per Cent. Jan. 1894 A -°' 6 Per Cent. J an. 1873 12Itities, 80 rs expire sth Jay-, 1 - 8 - 80 • 8 12 9-16 DO (Re y Y rsi, e' xpire t)llAA.iPigr.,,l Pm Ex o e Sea Tel€4rap 1 , r. ',Kilter Bills, £l,OOO, 2 per et - -.Jo, ii ,. 1) 0 £5OO 1908 18 _— ...) 3 , h 1,.. €lOO & £2OO , . ~,, I," of E ngland Stock, 41-por Cent tf 'Jo- Account I .1-MIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. 41)110a..00k, 10} p e r Cont., AprillB74 °▪ 5 .kccou t 13 per Cent. July, 1880 13%1 per Cent., Oct. 1888 00. Certificates - 15/ 1) 0 0 . rdaced Paper 4 per Cent 103 i t o • " per Cent., Jan. 1872 e o ' N - Per Cent., May 1879 _. Per Cent., R Deb. 18,2 up. D o . 1877 do. D o D,, h • do. 1882 — DO— b • -ob., 5 Per Cent., Aug. 1873 Pm - Bonds, 5 per Cent., £l,OOO Pm o'llo,2ler £l.OOO 1144 rtlitlalilaittil 1111 e:Prni'il'lSClscl:np6teTpr LreCrileCnDet .16:11-85T: . CY C.- --77.11:. _ x d D°. li Per Ceut., 1852 110. ▪ 40 1 18.58.... 1)0 do. 1860 11 , ; . • , do.: 1863 Itjj, ' Per Cent. 1865 enur,Aceouut ..•' . ............... „ *134 - 3 7 s c . i;;;;.&;at ) -- it , ,: t -Pr Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent., ...... 0,111: Per Cent. D a all 6 Per Cent 1 4 ,1 - . -per Cent ... ... . Du,'__ . ~\•:, t , per Cent., . B .... 961 e ~. 1867 103 I),' ,‘, Per 'Cent., 1866 _ 0, , '' . ' l. lP 532 paid .. uf,, 6 pe, cont ad D ,ii:, ll . 3 Plr Cent:: 1825 D 0 ''al, Priticiptiliti(.s, i I,or Cent _ 71 rr,,, t , Per Cent. IM7 ''")r N tilY (' I' '. t 1 1 per Cell'• 4yki,,, , onso i(..i ec , _ ,n. 1,.! i per bent 1.) „ ~.,0,,,1 Issue .. ... _ b a4l llondß ". il()C Londl h o. ' , 1,5,-,4 h be, 80i 1 - ..). . 4. .. • Account Do °l ' l l Itond. ___ ,_ • 4100 B onds (.31.U.e;)°,4rnatet, lil:;;;; ... .... i..,;,r,-;.u..rZ.: 9ll 1 n c : r. 8 P%• Cent.' 182'115. ex Coups — bu-1) 4`'eQ uilt .. 1 ... : ............... , - e; u°''Pon7 ................................... . G,14.4 Account ............................ 1 3004 n ' al a F , per Cent .. --' 141 urUGov.l4:l. Loan 10p. et, X 25 P u 44 6 1 ) 0 C . •- " r mt., 4 60 , i . Do, Account ~ — Do. Ilaremmana Raiway &lexic tr. 3 per Cont — Ditto for Account Do. 1864 l5-1 De 6 per Cont. Anglo-French Aontevideau 6 per Cent .. — Nloorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada — , Do 3 per Cen — Do. Deferred Do Laud Warrants (Hectares) Peruvian 5 per Cent. 1865 B3 Do Account .. 83 Do 4i per Cent. (Uribarron) Do 4-4- per Cent., 1562 - - Do Account Portuguese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, '7, '9,'60,'2,'1i Do. do., 167 404 Do. do., Scrip, £2O paid — Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ Si B4l Do 41 per Cent. 1850 Do 41 per Cent., 1860 Do 3 per Cent., 1859 Do 5 per Cent., 1.:62 Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1861, £lOO Bondt... D o . do. £Bl 15s. d0..._ De., 1866, £lOO Bonds Do. Cl) £B4 15s. do Do Nicolas Railway 63i 4 31- ' sArdluitin, a por Ceut Spanish 3 per Cen . — Do Account Do New Deferrea — Do Account Do Passive — Do Account Do (Inna. Cert. of Coul . not funded Do Account Turkish 6 per Cent. — Do Account Do 6 per Cont. 1858 — Du Account ••• • Do £lOO Bonds — Do 6 per Cent., 1862 — Do Account Du £IOC Bonds 641 1 Do. 1863 — Do 5 per Cent., 1865 — • Do Account Do 6 per Cent., 1865 5 84 D., I per Cent., Guaranteed Venezuela, 3 per Cent. — Do 6 per Cent., 1862 Do 6 per Cent. 1864 Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates Divideuus on the above payable in London. Belgian, 44 per cent., Ex. 25f. Dutch 21 per Cent. Ex. 12 Gull, — Do Account. — French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. — Austrian a per Cent. Ex 10 Florins 1 biliah 5 per Cent. 1831, E - .: - . 25f. — Do. Account - 484 TWO O'CLOCK. Consols, 3loney 94} -: Do. Account, 4th June „ 92i 3 POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-THIS DAY. lIARLBOIOUGII-S' I 'III ; JET• ROBBERY AT A MANUFACTURING JEWELLER'S. — James Pridham, in the employ of Messrs. Sheriff and Gilmer, manufacturing goldsmiths and jewel lers, of No. 34, Great Marlborough-street, as a polisher, was charged before Mr. Knox with steal ing two sets of sleeve studs of the value of £5, and also with having in his possession three billiard balls, supposed to be stolen. Mr. Alfred Sheriff said the prisoner was in the employ of the firm as a polisher. The prisoner left his work o❑ Saturday week, and did not return till the following Tuesday, and from something which had transpired a suspicion arose that he was robbing them, and on looking amongst the articles the prisoner had to polish two sets of sleeve studs of the value of £5 were missed. The matter was then placed iu the hands of Dawson, a plain clothes officer attached to the C division, who found that the prisoner had pledged the studs in Holborn. In answer to Mr. Knox, the prosecutor said that the prisoner had been in his employ for thirteen months, and that he had a good written character with him. An assistant to Mr. Harding, pawnbroker, of No. 113, Holborn, said that on the sth May the two sets of sleeve studs were pledged with another assist ant, and on the 7th May the prisoner came and had a further adavnce of ss. on them. On the 9th inst. be (witness) gave information respecting the stud s in the Police List, and gave information at the Bow-street police station, and in consequence Mr. Sheriff came and identified them as his property. The prisoner subsequently came and offered three billiard balls in pledge, and on his (witness) asking him if he had not pledged some studs, he at first denied it, but afterwards admitted that he had, and a constable was then sent for and he was given into custody. Police constable Littlefield, IGS F, said that on :aking the prisoner into custody, h. said he bought :he billiard balls of a man at Debenhatn's Rooms. Dawson asked that the prisoner might be re manded, to give the police an opportunity of mak ing inquiries respecting the billiard balls, mention ing that the prisoner had been previously con sicted. Mr. Knox remanded the prisoner. SHAMEFUL CONDITION OF A HORSE—AN ARTFUL TRlCK.—Charles Roberts, a carman, living in York place, Banner-street, St. Luke's, was charged by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, with cruelty to a horse by working it in a totally unfit condition. Simeon Sell, an officer of the above Society, saw the prisoner drivieg a horse attached to a van laden with iron in Regent-street, and after going a short distance the horse fell down quite exhausted, and en the officer examining it he found it to have several bad and discharging wounds, and over one of the wounds was dexterously placed, with the view of screening it from observation, a piece of some other animal's skin, and the horse was other wise in a totally unfit condition for work. The prisoner told the officer that his master knew all about it. The case was adjourned that the prisoner's master might be summoned. THANIES. A MEactFuL DECISION. —William Boyne, a sea man belonging to the Earl Percy steamship, trading between London and Newcastle, was brought be fore Mr. Paget charged with smuggling 7lbs. and Goz. of tobacco and cigars. Inspector Major, of the Thames Police, stated that yesterday morning he went on board the Earl Percy and saw the prisoner, who was alongside his berth, and asked him if he had any tobacco and cigars liable to duty. The prisoner handed to him five sticks of negrohead tobacco weighing Goz. He asked the prisoner if he had any more, to which he ep“yes," hereis a p arce l w hi c h a man ' on board the Orion e gave me to carry on shore, and handed to him a bundle which consisted of several packages of tobacco weighing Gibs., and two packages con taining a pound of cigars ; in all, with the negro head, 71bs. 60z., which he seized. Mr. Paget—Ls the Orion a steamship? Inspector Major—Yes, sir. Mr. Paget—Was the tobacco concealed ? Inspector Major—No, sir. Mr. Paget—l don's think the offence is complete. He might have intended to pay the duty. You would ;take the tobacco to the Custom-house, of course ? Inspector Major—Yes, sir. DRUNK AND MURDEROUS.—SamaeI Murphy, a n Irish carter, aged 50 years, was charged with stab bing his wife Mary, last night, with a pair of Bela bors. The prisoner was very drunk last night in his house, No. 62, Limehousc, Causeway, and he quar relled with and made an attack on his wife, stab bing her on the neck with a pair of scissors, and inflicting a frightful wound. She was taken to the Laudon Hospital, and the house surgeon of that valuable institution now stated the woman could not attend, and was not out of danger. The prisoner was remanded for a week. A case of alleged clerical neglect was investigated at Exeter yesterday. For several Sundays there had been no service in the Church of St. John and St. George, which parishes arc united, and contain near 1,500 inhabitants. A dozen had latterly been the average attendance at the pariah church. The bell was tolled on Sunday morning, and at tea o'clock the sexton was informed by the rector's son that there would be no service that day, as his father was ill and could not leave his home. Consequently the doors were closed. The same evening the senior warden of St. George's saw the rector behind the door in the South -Western Hotel, "in his slippers." It was stated at the meeting that the rector was an excellent singer of " The Cock-tailed Pig." A deputation of the parishioners Was appointed to represent the case to the bishop of the diocese. All receive with satisfaction tha announcement, that in consequence of the Reduction iu Duty, Hornintan's Pure Teas a.le sold O. per pound Cheaper. 2,500 Authorised Agents—Confectioners in London and Chemists in the vroyia4e—,supply Horniman's Tea only in Packets. THE SUN, LUNDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 14, 1868. Paid. Closing Business Prise. I dine. 82 ii 4 74j ;41, 20 . 30 3 4 75 77 7s' 72 102 10/ 3t 31 1 7 8 15 8 102 i 1031 97 9S 122 141 P 4 5 S 534 L 5 57 3u 85 3u 33 - 128 12q 63i 51 I 181 liik 1151 1161 110 '4l 143 1113 li2 le4 ies 7 8., log 10i1 77 79 33i 34 1(2 103 684 5 . a 1.4 95 130 134 1;:(1 132 116 118 11 114 57 69 LUG ICS 57 2 44 *d 732 741 d 10 143 145 5:1 I 127 i 53f I 1151 i Sa. 42 111} loft f ESTATES IN BANKItUPTCY. The costliness of the present bankruptcy machinery is CO universally known that new illustrations of the fact are almost unnecessary. But one balance-sheet published in the Grocer certainly deserves attention. The estate was that of a grocer in Manchester, who failed with debts to the amount of £4OO. When his estate and effects were sold by the trustee, they realised £6BlBs. sd. How these assets were distributed can only be gathered from the attorney's bill : Auctioneer's commission - £6 16 0 Clerk's railway fares 0 13 0 Clerk two days Railway fares of auctioneer, on valua tion and sale Rent paid to save distress 9 0 0 1 1 0 Possession fee 1 1 0 Man in possession thirteen days, and . railway fares Man's law charges 4 14 1 Man's accountants' charges Law charges on deed Ditto stamps and agency charges on regis tering deed and obtaining signatures 10 0 0 Ditto on dividend and correspondence 6 6 2 Available fur dividend (or 3d. in the £) 5 12 8 £6B 18 5 7'llE BRITISH MUSEUM. The number of persons who visited the British Museum in 1867 was 445,036, a larger number than in any other year since the Exhibition year, 1862. If we add the 1.03,469 visits of readers to the read ing room, and also the admissions to the print room, coin-room, &c., and to the galleries of sculp ture for the purposes of study, the total becomes 556,317. It is estimated that 1,256,860 volumes were consulted in the reading-room, or 4,304 per day for the 292 days on which the room was open ; and as the average number of readers was 354 a day, the number of books consulted averaged over 12 books for each reader per day. Among the noteworthy acquisitions of the department in the year is a collection of nearly 200 volumes of Spanish plays and poetry, mostly of the s'itecuth 4nd seventeenth centuries, presented to the Museum by Mr. Chorley. Among the additions in the de partment of maps is a Japanese map of Japan, made by the Japanese Government, and presented by the Deputies of the Tycoon to Mr. Kingdon, by whom it was presented to the Museum. Many valuable acquisitions have been obtained in the department of manuscripts in the year, and prepara tions have been made for commencing a general catalogue of all collections in classes of subjects. Ihe acquisitions in all the departments have been numerous and important. The department of coins and medals has secured some ancient and some mediaeval coins, and has not omitted to obtain more modern specimens that may become scarce —a gold coin (22 pesos) of Maximilian, late Em peror of Mexico ; a £3 gold piece of George IV., A.D 1824 ; a silver coin struck at Luckuow, by the rebels, in 1857 ; a complete set of notes of the paper currency of the United States during the Civil War. 10,587 persons visited the Blacas collection of gems in 1867. Professor Owen reports 81,228 additions. in 1867 to the department of zoology, 9,156 to that of geology, and 813 to that of mineralogy. The department of prints and drawings enumerates among its acquisitions in the year a perfect set of the Royal Academy Cata logues from 1769 to 1849, illustrated with upwards of 2,000 prints and etchings, presented by Mr. Anderdon ; also a full-length portrait of Queen Elizabeth in State dress, by William Rogers, a contemporary artist, no other impression of which is known to exist; and many other engravings and drawings of great interest. The vote for the Bri tish Museum this session is to £99,380, an increase of £3,934, the item for retired advances being trans . ferred to another part of the Civil Service esti mates. Half the vote is for salaries ; a fourth, £24,305, for purchases and acquisitions; the resi due for bookbinding, printing catalogues, furniture repairs, and incidental expenses. SHARE; LIST. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. I 1 Railways. :eter 'Caledonian t; at mbrian Cork and Bandon...—. Corn wall Dublin & Belfast J una I Dun „ Perth, & A b. J unc E.London, scrip Certi 1 DO. Glasgow & S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. stk. Do. E. Angl. st. No. 2 Great North of Scotland' Great Northern Do. A stock .. Do. B stock Do. New, is. at 25 pin Gt 8, and W. of Ireland We.tern Du. S. Vol. Rail. gue. Do. South Wales Do. W. Aild.—Oxion, Do. Newport Do. liereford Lancashire & Yorke:lll,r London and Blaekvraii Lou., Brigh., S Coast l•on., Chat., and Loyei Do. Metrup. Ex. A Lon. & North IN ester, Lon. & South Wester, Man., Shef., ,Sz Itetrop_olitan..... Do. New Do. Extenisiou Iletrupolitan District. Do. du. 40. Do. and St. John'ell 't rlidiand Do. £9 share Do, dirroin.. & Darir j did Kent . . North Brittah Uo. Ed., l'th., & Duu N th. Eastern—Berwict Do. ti.N•E Do. Leeds ..... Do. York 'Do. Carlisle Do. Stock. & Darling. Do. do. 1860-61 forth London Do. do. 186 i 5 . Do. do. 1866 North Staffordshire S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot. N. E Aber. stook uo. Scot, Mid. stack Shropshire Union South Devon south Eastern Staines, Wok., at Wok _ruff Vaie Do. 0 .. ale of Ne:lth Waterlord & Kilkenny! Waterloo & IVliitcha 11 ~rent Cornwall COLONIAL GOYERNMEN SECUIIITII6S. ißritish Columbia, 6 per Dent., Deu.31,1672.... 100 j ''Can.Go7.o p.o.J a. & uly ' • 1877-84 Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug. 1 , .,0 98 100' - , D 0.5 P. C. Mar. u Sept 100 iS 160 Do. sp. c. Jan. & July' too 86 88 91 Do. sp. e. Inserioed si 100 I 85 rS7 Cape G.llope, 6 p.c. 1870 100 104 100 Do.Apl.&001.1a0-190v 100 too 110 Do. do 1890-9 u 100 107 109 00. J an.&July, 100 106 108 Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and 15 Uct., 1900 lOO 08 100 Ceylon, Nov. 1876,6 p. 100 110 111 Do. 1872, do lOO 105 107 Mauritius, 6p. o, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1878 ... lOO 106 iOB Do. 1882, May Ib, Nov. it, 100 107 fov Do. 1895, Feb. & Aug lOO 106 1)8 Natal ( lov. 6 per cent lOO -- N.B.Gov.6p.c.Ja.&July 100 99 10 1011 N. S.W. Gov.s p-c.,186t. 100 0) 101 Do. 5 p.c. 183 to 18701 100 98 90 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1806; 100 95$ 96$ 941 New Zealand, 6p. cent 100 - Do. 5 per cent.... Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. o sterling, 1875 l9O 102 104 1011 Queensland Gov. 6p. c lOO 103 105 .Aus.Gov. 6 p,c.1808-9 100 Do. 1878 & upwards lO 110 111 Vic,(lov. 6 p:o. Ja.& July 100 - Do. do. April & Oot lOO 1111 112 ts 1101 1 BRITISH rossEssioNs. 10'.) , Atlantio&St.Lawrenoe all 64 46 st Bom.,Baroda,&Cen.ln. 100 1024 1094 106 gu. 6 per cent.. 10 Do. Y shares l6 I it. eO4 Buffalo & Lake Huron all 8 4 10 Do. Preference 100 Butf.,Brant,&Goderich 1 8 p.c. 1872-3-1 lOO dB 71 st Calcutta &S. E., Urn lOO at Jape Town & Dock, gu lOO 18 52 00 Demerara, 7 p.c. per. pi all 69 102 at 4;ast Bengal, gu., 6du 100 t 044 165$ at East Indian, gu. 6 p.o. 100 109 116 1111 1 40 Do. J Extension at ;rand Trunkot Canada 100 151 161 100 Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds I charge 6 p.c all 72 62 100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds all 43 15 100 Do. do deferred all 100 Do. 3d Pref. Bonds all 33 35 100 Du. do. deterred all 100 Do. 3d Pref. stock all 27 29 100 Do. do. deferred - 100 Do. 4th Prat. stook 100 Do. do. deterred st dt. India Pen. gua. sp.u lOO 109 110 1 3 'O. Gus. 5 per cent lB 14 2 11 20 Do. New gua. 6p. o 6 14 2 ( t. South 01 tuella gum. 5 per cent 6t 43 per cent too VI 06 at 201 'relit Wes. 01 Causd.s all 164 161 . 111 304 Do. New .. 00 00. 6 p.O .134 m. pay. 1673 all- 98 100 OC 'o. 5$ do. pay. 1877-s.. all 91 9s at Madras, gnu. 5 p.o 100 100 Ms 1141 st Do. 4t do too 03 at Do. 4$ do lOO 19 91 11 Do. Filth Exteoslui 5 et Iteib. Cur Cp. 0. (Inds lOO 50 .11e1. & liobsou.'s esay_ all at N.lll.C'da.6pc Ist ba leo S 3 65 at OUCIC IthitiCnd, g.5 1 ).0 :00 102 103 Z , ollitie 106 10.1 1021 at Do. Delhi 20 Do. do si.l 2 t 191 et , Do. Punjaub.... ; 100 101 102 st I Do.lnifus St. Flo t t 9 I 100 a? 89 111111'1511 61.1.N.1213. Cousol. 6 old, liar. i 'Cliiverton I • Clifford Amalgamated. 30 54 6; Devon G. Cons. alma. 1 44u 46) Urake w ails 2.1.0 4 East Bastiett (illugan) 204 10 12 hact Caradon L14.0 4 mast Cara 13rt.a 3l 2 24 4.0 t Grenville G limns . t h.;a:44t I ,ove tl 3.0.0 8 9 —1!;. W'l Russell (Tavlsil 11.7.6 11 2 4 o . am.ez StAuhyn(G wen, .16 4 5 Great 1,...key, limited all 164 174 Great South Tolguis 1.4.0 Great Wheel 14.9.5 G. Wheal Vor (lielst..o to 18 19 Grenville Herod . ' Foot 6,10,e 38 4 ingston Downs 5.10.6 24 21 .I.argaret (Uny Lelani 13.17.6 6 8 4 ..14,rke Valley._ 1.10.e 6 64 I.wyndy Iron Ore, lint 31 21 1 / S Lou - • 66 1 65 7 m ) iorth toskear Bassett(lilogau i. 1.1 North Wheel Crotty Prosper (Jnited. It'ruvidence,UnyLdan t I ).b.; 25 27 i 5. Caradon (St. Cleer) l4 :ON 400 14outh CondurrOw 8.2.0 4 1 -15. Wheal Fran. (Mogan 18.14.8 374 424 I Stray Park , 34.16.6 4 6 fin Croft S. 14 15 7igra and Clogan, lim all West Itaseett allog an Y. Caradon (.I...iskeard 1 t 11 .2 i West Chiyerton ll 64 66 virest Seton Wheal Bassett /Mogan 61 75 80 Whcal Bader (itedruth 16 16 1) , Wheal Mary Ann (Men.' 8 21 23 Wheat Solon 'Wheal Trelawnev (I.ls 1 5.17. 0 6 8 FOREIGN RAILWAY r. Antrezrp and Rotterdam, (7. vat Luxembourg, tOI Recite and San Francisco, lira., gua. 7 per cent., 10 San Paulo, Ittn., gua. 6 per cent., 171 south Austria]) ►nd Lombardo Venetian, 141 OIC kluN St IN Nb. Don Pedro. N rlh Del :ley, 2 3-10 pm Rom Grande, St. John del Itey, llm, l7a BANKS. Agra, Um., A, 10 1 Anglo Egyptian, lim., 11 1 Australasia, 54 Chartered der. of India, London. and China, 271 City, 121 Consolidated, Um., 41 s.oudon and County, 521 London Joint Stock, 351 London and 11 eatminster, 701 Ditto, Scrip, 47 Oriental Bank Corporation, 421 Union of London, 3al MISCELLANICIDUB, Anglo American Telegraph, 231 Atlantic Telegraph, 574 Berlin Water Works, 14 City of lioecow Gas, Aim., 4 1 e Credit Funnier of England, inn., 2 15-16 Ebbw Vale, la Egyptian 9 per Cent., Viceroy Loan, gua.by Egypt. Otri., 90f uasou's Bay. 151 / Ocean Marine Insurance), 191 l'elegrapli Construct. and Maintenance, lie Viceroy of Egypt (Mortgage) Loan, 72 SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day. (BY TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning. Arrived, May 13.—Whydah, from Barbados ; St. George, from Guernsey ; Jena, from Grenada ; Sea Breeze, from Mauritius; Nourmahl, from Sydney; George, from Guern sey; Scottish Chief, from Guernsey; Proteus, from Jamaica ; Mediator, from Melbourne ; Eastern Star, from Singapore ; Luistauia, from Sines ; Thames, from Culotnbo ; Christian Rankin, from Colombo; St. Leonard's, from Adelaide; Blanche, steamer ; from Dunkirk ; Marie, steamer, from Stettin; Baron Osy, steamer, from Antwerp; Kenilworth, from t_i;;doug ; Constance, from Stettin ; Aurora, fro m Sisal ; Octavio, from Kurrachee. Arrived, May 14—Ranger, steamer, from Rotterdam. Sailed - Pioneer, for Havre ; Rhine, steamer, for Bou logne. DEAL, Thursday Morning. Passed. —Ann Mills, of Sundcrland, from ti.e west, for London ; Princess Dagmar, from Colombo, for London ; Muscovado, schooner, from Demerara, for Hamburg. Passed, May 13.—Glenbrook, from Jamaica, for London; Royal Berkshire, from New York, for Londou ; Seine et Tamise, screw steamer, from Paris, for London. Passed (in tow)—Rinaldo, from Calcutta, for London. Anchored—York, from London, for Madras. A barque is on shore on the Goodwin Sands. Assistance is with her. Nothing further is known et present. THE INDIAN BULB. One of the greatest pests to be met with in any country is the bore. Lilo the flea and the bug, the species in its varieties is found in every region, from Sweden to Australia. The bore of society is known wherever he goes by the inroads he makes on conversation, by the unsatisfactory feeling of dulness which he always produces, and by his own careless indifference to the ravages he causes. Per haps the last trait in this portrait is the one by which the bores of all ages and countries may be defined. They are quite unable to perceive that their company is not relished. This definition in cludes• both the talkative and the silent or lazy bore. The former is perhaps the most annoying; the latter the most interesting. The noisy bore always makes his real character known by his chatter ing, just as some little birds let their nests be dis covered by their chirping inside. Young men are sometimes imposed upon by him, taking him for a great man; he is often egotistical, and overpowers them by the account of his wonderful exploits. But let this kind of bore beware when he meets a man of the world who can sound his depths or rather his shallows ; the bore is oftentimes unwittingly drawn out in order to be identified and proclaimed as such. Solomon in his wise experience of hu manity appears to have encountered this variety, and adopted this criterion of judgment. Ileuce the proverb, " When he that is a fool talketh by the way, his wit faileth him, and he saith to every man that he is a foo'." He cannot help letting the cat out of the big. Some philosophers have said that to look wise is often the only thing requisite to being esteemed as such ; this may be a useful caution to the noisy bore, but we believe with Solotnoa that he is gene rally incapable of such self-restraint. In India he is generally found at the mess-table. He inflicts the same old stories every guest night, and what is still more nauseous he is fond of airing his weak and foolish politics before men of calm thought. He delights in a kind of antithesis which puts his opinion at variance with everybody else. He puts down all science by what he calls " common sense," or " standing to reason." Having no antecedents creditable to him, he is fond of telling what he would do in case of an emergency ; just as bad bargains in the Civil Service excuse their want of diligence and capacity by pretending to a latent ability which can only be developed by circumstances. All this class come under Solomon's category of men who insist on making their own stupidity matter of common notoriety. The silent or lazy bore differs from the one just described, in being a private rather than a public nuisance. In mixed companies and gene ral societies he cf ten gets on very well. There are so many people anxious to talk that a listener re ceives a great deal of gratitude, and thus it fre ineptly happens that the silent, and, it may be, very ignorant, man becomes the arbitrator iu con versation. Both parties are talking at him, and hence he is for the time placed upon a pinnacle, and settles which of them is right. As we said before, it is in small companies that the silent bore shows his real nature. He may be at the same camp with another officer in the jungle. His tame and com monplace nature has no powers of amusement ; like a snail, he is a mere pulp with no vigorous develop ment of nerve. He is still more trying as a guest, in a private house, especially in India ; he always overstays his time; he never takes a hint that he ought to be going. He is too stupid to talk, too lazy to play billiards, and he makes no return in amusement for the hospitality he receives. He is only induced to quit by the host making a feiut of going to the districts, or pretending that other people are coming to stay with him. Then the ob stinate bore begins to see that his room is more de sired than his company. So tormenting is his be haviour that we have often heard him described by Evangelical ladies as a " cross," a " trial," or " thorn In the flesh." The bore ought to be sent to some social Coventry, or purgatory, or reforma tory, and kept there until he has changed his man ners, and rendered himself fit for the ordinary in tercourse of life.—Bombay Gazette. Reviewing the state of Ireland and the prospects of the harvest, the lr:sh Times says that if the season con tinues as favourable as at present there is every reason to believe the crops will be not only abundant, but early. A WARNING.—Paper currency is established by law in Brazil, the United States, Austria, Turkey, Italy, and Russia. In Brazil it is at 50 per cent. discount, in the United States at 40, in Turkey at 20, in Italy at 15, and in Russia at 12.—Pall-Mall Gazette. 'ADVERTISEMENT.] Consumption, and all nervous, bilious, stomach and liver complaints in every stage are only aggravated and accelerated by drugs of every. description, but perfectly curable by Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had been considered hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthma, con sumption, habitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric derange ments, haemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, in fluenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, impu titles, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms; nausea and sickness, even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach, and between the shoulders, &c We otiose a few.—The Pope's health restored by Du Barry's Food. Cure No 68,413.—"R0me, July '2l, 1866.—The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It has pro luced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly." From the "Gazette du Midi,' July 15 Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, timber mer chant, of Flimley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness.— Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. "Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness and vomiting.—MariaJoly.' linportantCaution.—Be ware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. In tins at Is. lid.; 1 lb., 2s 9d.; 2 lbs., 4s. 61,; 5 lbs. lls. ; 121b5., 226.; 21 lbs., 405.—8/O:MY Do BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street,London; also Fortnum and Mason, 182, Piccadilly, and at 61, Gracechurch-street; 4,oheapside; 63, 150, and 298, Oxtyrd-stroet 330, titrand • And 1 gTocere and 014rniptqa THE ASHTON RIOTS. A number of the rioters were brought before the magis trates on Wednesday at Ashton, the bench being occupied with the examination of prisoners the whole day. Eight Irishmen were first brought up, including Flynn, the lender. One was discharged, and seven were committed to the sessions for trial. Their cases concluded, fifteen Englishmen were charged with attacklisg St. Ann's Chapel. Although the court sat until two o'clock, a decision had not been arrived at. At Stalyhridge seven men were charged with rioting, os whom two were discharged and five committed for trial. An inquest has been held on Mary Bradbury. No wounds or bruises were found upon her, and a verdict of " Died from fright" was returned. Ibbetson, who was injured, is progressing favourably, and so also is Sergeant Woodley, of the Volunteer corns. who was shot. Two volumes of memoirs of Lord Byron, by the Marchioness de Boissy, have appeared in Paris. The wheat crop in the South of England is look ing very promising. It is estimated that it, will yield three sacks an acre more than last year's crop. A serious disturbance has taken place at Heeley. The English and French navvies employed on the railway works there, while assisting to empty an eighteen-gallon cask of beer to which they had been treated by an old comrade, came into collision, and several on both sides were considerably injured. Four of the combatants are in custody. • The men on strike in the South Staffordshire iron trade are reluctant to accept the defeat which but too certainly awaits them. Their cause from the first has been a hopeless one. They entered upon the contest when trade was unusually dull ; they bad no funds, and public opinion was strongly opposed to such a step. Secessions from their ranks are of daily occurrence, and men are fast resuming work at the " drop." At a meeting of the Liverpool Town Council it was stated that the surplus income would amount to upwards of £6,000, and out of that amount it was resolved to pay is. a week towards the keep of each boy committed by the borough magistrates to the refuge and night asylum for homeless and destitute boys, one of the most useful and well-managed local charities. men engaged in the pit E XPLOSI ON IN A WELSH COLLIERY. —A terrible at the Techon ate Colliery,p t l o i i explosion o time 1 nn o ee c a c r u e :Lc escaped 1 d pa en o de n n y W . e d A n u e s the d a y morning except four, who were overcome with the afterdamp. The dead body of one of these has been recovered, but the other thr ee men remain in the pit,andnohop p e aisi/yentertained of their being rescued alive.—Cambria with nineteen accom plices, brigand chief Manzi, who captured our countryman, Mr. Moens , and a Swiss gentleman, Mr. WtheenbnaerrO t o plices, all of whom are t o be tried on eighteen counts. For the defence some of the best advo cates in Naples have been secured, and th e victims of t heir outrages have the n e x Saturday r n d g ay from last, the together tw0 330,000f., was placed at mortification of knowing that they themselves have sup plied these fellows with the means of defence. The following essay, from the pen of a negro boy 10 years old, was sent from Barbadoes to the editor of Aunt Judy's Magazine. It is worthy of reproduction : " The Life of Pr:nee Albert.—Prince Albert was born in Gernainney in Europe and was the Concert of Queen Victoria and a Cage E. He was Cellebrated as a Father and errected a Mossoleeum at Kenzington London for the grate Mr. Coal, ware you may Learn art and sighence and Buy ginger Beer and bath Buns which is a grate Blessing to the subjex of Her grashions Madjisty. He left a newmerous proginney 'which are Praid for in the Stab lished Church and are all Princes and princesses. Monuments are errected everyware to this lb-inimitable prince and his Biogriffey was written by the loyal Queen of England." BARBARITY IN THE WORKSHOP.--The Antwerp journals mention an act of barbarous cruelty committed in . workshop of that city. One of the men lately engaged was Stokketsel, aged 18, and his companions demanded from him to stand treat, as is usual on such occasions. He either could not or would ne,t comply, and they proceeded to grossly maltreat him. " Let us crucify him," said one; and thereupon the unfortunate youn g man was b o und hand and foot to an iron cross, and subject e d t o ex treme ill-usage. He went home to dinner, and alth oug h h e did not wish to return to his work, the entreaties of his mother induced him to do so. In the evening he was obliged to go to bed in great suffering, and he has since died in the hospital. The other workmen have been arrested. FORGED ANTIQUITIES.—TIIO surreptitious trade introduced by the man known as Jack " Flint," it appears, is being carried on on the Yorkshire `Molds by nal:norms imitators. Last week Mr. Charles Hartley, cf Mahon, succeeded in tracing an d exposing a wholesale vendor of spurious arrow-heads o f fli nt, w h o had various connections along the line of rail way across th e Weld. The forged flints are sold to farm servants, and by them disposed of to unwary collectors. News is also to hand that " Flint Jack" himself (who hati just been released after a year's imprisonment in Bedford gaol) is also at work at his old trade of deception, and has been driving a lucrative trade at Northampton, so much eo that one of the local papers ands it requisite to give a caution against the purchase of all "flint arrows and stone celts." A Maidstone paper takes the trouble to announce that " there is no foundation whatever" for the rumour that Mr. Charles Stewart gardy would ecoatest the second seat for East Kent at the general election. The rumour in question must have been confined to Maidstone, for no one outside that borough had heard anything about it. Mr. Hardy has been mentioned as a Conservative candidate for Greenwich, but certainly not for East Kent. The gentleman in question is a son of the Home Secretary. An active movement against Mr. Gladstone is going on in South Lancashire. Circulars soliciting subscriptions for contesting the right hon. gentleman's seat have, ac cording to the Daily .KetcB, been issued, bearing the signa ture of a near relatiVe of the Earl of Derby. Our contemporary, so far from believing Mr. Gladstone's seat to be in danger, sounds a call to arms, and advises corm of the Liberal party, not merely e purposes. It suggests g th P a n t d a for n suitable ex(leerftei l no . sn i i n sv e co r n a b l ut colleague o ea l l g e pg a ar g er u st e s i v s should be selected, with whom Mr. Gladstone might be enabled to fight the coming battle. The Daily News takes up the question which the Times has been asking u for Past, namely, as to when a dissolution under the new registers. The former points out that unless the general election could col take place in the early da y s of O ctober, it would be scarcely worth while for Parli ament to alter the provision in year's lastd t aice severalplae Place days un Reform Act creating the new constituencies from the Ist January next. Supposing the election to come off in November, there could not be time for a busi ness session before Christmas. Consequently, the present Government would meet the new Parliament for the first time in February, just the same as if the elections were actually in January. Not till then could the Liberal party, assuming them to be in a majority, take action to regain the Treasury benches, and supposing them to be successful, there would necessarily follow all the delay consequent on forming a new Government. This would make it impos sible for Mr. Gladstone to prepare and bring forward any new measures with a chance of passing them during the session of 1869. Thus not only the present, but next year, would be wholly wasted. Besides, a general election in October would be far preferable to one in the short days and amid the snowstorms of November and January. EXETER-HALL.--" Judas Meccabins" will be per formed for the last time this season on Wednesday next, by the National Choral Society, under the direction of Mr. G. W. Martin. The band and chorus will number 700 performers. MISSING SHIPS.—The Kelvin, which sailed from Alexandria for the United Kingdom on thelsth of Novem ber ; the Muscatel, from Montreal for Glasgow on the 17th of November; the Orion, from Cardiff for Malta on the 9th of December; and the Belle of the Mersey, from Lagos, Africa, for Liverpool, on the 17th of November, have not incoQ been hoard cf. 412ARKETS.—(this Day.) COLONIAL AND FOREIGN PRODUCE. St:GAL—The market is firm, with slight supplies and proportionately small transactions on the spot. Floating cargoes are unclaimed and tending against buyers. Cuba Muscovado, 25s 6d to 25s 9d per cwt. COME.—Prices are steady, and the demand moderately good. TEA.—There is not much passing in China teas, but prices are firm. RICE is dull of sale. Saltpetre is'held for full terms, at which but little is passing. Hemp is flat. Clean St. Petersburg, £ 7to .£37 lOs on the spot, £;3 10s to £ll forward. Oms.—Linseed is steady at 33s 3d to 33s 6d ; English brown rape at S4s to 31s 31 on the spot. METALS.—Copper firm. Wallaroo, £93 to. £B3 10s; Chili bar, £77 lOs ; spelter,conimou Sib,rian, £2O ; Straits tin, £93 10s cash; quiet markets all round. METROPOLITAN OA trLE. The supplies to-day were light, aul the trade firm. Of beasts there were GO, including 49 from abroad. Beef met a good demand, and the extreme of late ratts was paid. Of sheep and lambs the number on sale was 10,310, the proportiOu of foreign being 91). The mutton trade was good, with full prices. Lamb sold slowly, at very late quotations. The veal trade was quiet, and rates easier. From abroad 270 calves arrived, aad the total supply was 400. Pork sold steady at late quotations. Current prices: —Beef, 38 4ito 58 ; mutton, 3s to 4s 8d ; veal, 3s 43 to 5s 4d ; pork, 3s to 4s 6d ; lamb, os 105 to 7s 25 per stone of Blbs, sinking the offal. HAY AND STRAW. The markets are not heavily supplied, but there is quite enough, and the trade is dull. Prices cannot be quoted lower; they aro, however, supported with diffi culty. This is more especially the caie as regards straw. We report quotations:—Meadow Lay, 60s to 83s ; clover, 40s to 102 s; straw, 27s to 325. TALLOW. The market on the spot is steady at 43s 9d, for Juno quiet at 43s 6d, and for last three months dull at 43s 8d per cw•t. COTTON. LIVERPOOL, May R.—Sales probably 10,000 bales. Mar ko t elightly firmer and improving. UNIVERSITY INTELLIG ENCE. CAMBRIDGE, May 13. Graces will be submitted to the Senate at the Congregation on Wednesday, May 20, to accept Mr. Whitworth's offer of the three Exhibitions of £2.3 for one year, and to place the disposal of them in the hands of the Vice-Chancellor. In the event of these Graces being approved by the Senate the Vice-Chancellor will receive applications f rom members of the University in stat u p up ill ar i , who may be disposed to become candidates for the Exhibitions on and until the 31st instant. Such applications must be sent by the tutors of the can didates, and be accompanied with certificates of good moral character, and testimonials of proficiency from their tutors or some University professor. At the same Congregation Graces will be sub mitted to the Senate : 1. For confirming the scheme for the classical tripos examination, as amended by the Syndicate last Term. 2. For confirming the scheme for a law and his tory tripos. . 3. For confirming the report of the Syndicate as to the admission of non-collegiate students to the University. This will be offered to the Senate in two parts, of which the first relates only to the necessary alteration of the statute, and the other to the rules under which such students may be ad nii The Professor of Music gives notice to candidates for the degrees of Mus.D. and Mus.B., that he will hold an examination on Friday, the 29th inst., at 10 o'clock a.m. Each candidate is requested to send in his name and the name of his co:lege, to gether with the exercise required by the statutes, to the Professor, care of Messrs..Deighton, Bell, and Co., not later than the 22d inst. The Pra3lectors of the several colleges are re quested to send the names of candidates for the special examination is law to the Senior Examiner (Mr. E. C. Clark, 79, Trumpington-street) on or before Monday, the Toth of May, specifying tilos,: who wish to be examined in Hindoo and Mahome dan law. Also to send the names of candidates for the special examination in natural science to the Senior Examiner (Professor liumphry), on or be fore the same day, specifying the subject in which each desires to be examined. The Vice-Chancellor has appointed the Rev. W. G. Clark, M.A., the public orator, to be the Lady Margaret' Preacher for the year ensuing. Mr. William Rann Kennedy, B.A. (First Classic, 1866), has this day been elected a Fellow of Pem broke College. A NOBLE DEED. During a dark and stormy night the schooner William Barker, of Whitby, while attempting some time ago to enter the harbour of that port struck the east pier, causing her to drive heavily on the rocks behind the pier, south of the harbour. Im mediately the perilous position of the vessel was seen the rocket apparatus was brought into use, .as neither lifeboat at Whitby could, in conse quence of the heavy sea then running, approach the rocks; but just as the hawser was being got on board the vessel, a heavy sea struck her, which drove her round a projecting point of rock out of sight, . thus rendering it impossible to fire for the second time a rocket on board. At this juncture it was found that the only means left to save the unhappy crew was by descending a cliff on to a narrow ledge of rock nearly 300 feet above the sea. This w as safely accomplished, with much difficulty and risk, by Mr. IV. T. Quigley, chief officer of the C oastguard, J . Di xon , an d eight other men, who had a hawser attached to them, and which was used in turn as a lo,vering line. At length, and after considerable difficulty, owing to the darkness of the night and the preci pitous cliff, the crew of three men were hauled up in a very exhausted state, the master having had his leg broken. The vessel shortly after wards went to pieces, and there is no doubt that, in the absence of the prompt and courageous ser vices of the c fficers and men above referred to, the shipwrecked crew must have perished. The Na tional Lifeboat Institution has presented to Mr. Quigley its silver medal, accompanied by a copy of its vote inscribed on vellum, and a handsome re ward has been given by the institution, the resi dents of the locality, and others, t) the nine men who assisted him. The Daily News maintains that the reason why Christianity does not exercise more influence over work ing men is that they so seldom get a sight of it. If one of their number goes to a church or chapel, he hears read ings from a book which propounds a scheme of life as settled in its principles as any which a Rothschild or a Goethe could have proposed to himself ; ho hears of a kind of men who are happy in doing the will of God, to have cast the burden of life on Him, and' confess themselves strangers and pilgrims here, and have a treasure laid up in heaven, counting all earthly possessions and delights dross for the excellency of the compensations they have found in relations of the highest blessedness, and which are to outlast sense and time. The reading done, the visitor may hear the whole congregation take up the same sentiments transmuted into the glowing language of a hymn. Perhaps he is touched by the sublimity of the ideas, and desires to know more of this new and nobler life. But to whom is he to turn ? Where are the men who live it? Can they be found, got at, spoken to, and made to speak intelligently of its springs, its progress and its issue? In nineteen cases out of twenty the expo- . riment would be a failure, and a man of common discern ment would soon come to understa,nd that those who had raised his hopes could render him little help. They had been saying that which ,it was held to be proper to say, but all in a figure, or in a conventional language, which it was well understood was not to be carried be yond the doors of the sacred building. Pilgrims as they were, their tents were as solid as other man's houses. If they " nought a country," it was one they would gladly not see for a long while to come. It is this discovery of the unreality of religious profession which weighs lika lead on the hearts even of the most susceptible, and, more than anything else, hinders the spread of religion. THE CASE OF CRUELTY TO A CHILD AT MARGATE. —We understand that Mrs. Loma , who was conrictei at the January Dover quarter sJssions for cruelty to her child, Agnes Lomax, and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment, has since given birth to a child. The child, however, died, and Mrs. Lomax has since become insane, and has been sent to a lunatic asylum. —MaiMone Journal. SPO.3.TING INTELLIGENCE—This Day. VICTORIA CLUB BETTING.—THIs DAT. DERBY. 5 to 2 agst Lady Elizabeth (off. —3 to 1 wanted) 6to 1 agst Rosicrucian (taken to £100) 14 to 1 agst Blue Gown (taken) 40 to 1 agst Green Sleeve (taken) 500 to 10 agst Pace (taken) 100 J to 20 agst See Saw (offered—take 1.000 to 10) RACING FIXTURES FOR 1868. MAY. Bath Croydon Ist S utnru e r ... 21 Epsom S utraner Newark 2l Paris JUNE West Drayton . 1 Croydon 2d Summer .•• 3 Manchester 3 Ascot 8 winner lievcrley, Hull, and 9 I East Biding lO Windsor Summer Newton llatepton 18 Newca6tle Bibury Ulub Stockbridge Alexandra Park JULY. Chelmsford Worcoster Sunmo Kingsbury and litmdou 6 Radcliffe Carlisle - 7 Newmarket July 7 Hungerford Pontefract Down Royal Corp l4 I Reading Spilsby Liverpool July AL ...... 10 Odihain .... 16 Statuford ..... 16 lluutiugdou 2l Nuttiughtun July Chesterfield 23 Kautoford 23 Southamptuu SudlYury and &ling Goodwood .... 2B AUGUST. Deauville Leek Brighton Brighton Club 6 1 Son - borough ~.. 24 Lowes Summer Wolverhampton ll 1 Great Yarmouth .....,.. 25 Stockton Plymouth Windsor August l3 Ipswich Egha.m l7 Lichfield Hastings York August Oxford IMPERIAL PARLIAMENX HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TEsTERDAY. The SPEAKER took tho Chair at 12 o'clock. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES (11.12.TR1C SYSTEM) BILL. Mr. E WART moved the second reading of this bill, the object of which was to legalise the metric system in weights and measures. The hon. member referred to the bills that had bawl introduced and considered in former sessions of Parliament, and said that whenever inquiry had been made relative to the desirability of adopting an uni form system of weights and measures for cummercial-pur poses, the unanimous opinion was invariably in favour of the metric system of decimals and subdivisions. It had been urged that the great inconvenience which would result from any extensive change in.the present system of weights and measures was a sufficient reason not to adopt the metric system, but he thought such an objection was not sufficient. A slight inconvenience no doubt would for a short time take place, but the groat result would be au enormous extension of the trade of this country. The metric system was in full force in upwards of 20 countries, where it gave universal satisfaction. Mr. GRAVES seconded the motion. He was one who was fully convinced of the absurdity of the present plan of weights and measures in use in England, and the simplicity and beauty of the metric system. It would be a matter of tho greatest importance to this country with respect to the extension of its commerce if one uniform system was adopted. Tba system was now in full operation in various countries, ace it worked with an ease and clearness that spoke highly f u , its favour. It had been adopted by the Govurn tuent of France in their various official de partments, and America was • now only 'waiting for this country to make the change, in order that that great and extensiv) country might follow our example. Mr. B. HOPE opposed the motion. H► e said the house was now asked to adopt a plan of weights and measures, called the metric system, without a clear description and definition having been given to the house as to what the system really was. The bill proposed to abolish a system which everybody clearly understood, and to substitute in its place one of a complicated Bytom of deci mals. It was, he did not deny, one for facilitating calculation, but applied to the purposes of eve►yday life of the poor man, he would be baffled and more deceived than he was at present. It might be all very well for the merchant princes of Liverpool and other great towns w h o could afford to keep clerks to attend to their accounts, but to make it penal for a poor man because he did ned., know the value of a decigramme was going too far. He moved that the bill be read a second time that day six months. Mr. P. URQUHART supported the second reading of the bill. lir. CAVE agreed that it would not forcibly alter the system of weights and measures. Although the change from the old system to that of the new could not be made suddenly and at once, yet he did not soa how a double standard could work ill during the time the other was in process, becoming familiar to the public at large. Before any final change was decided upon a great deal of thought and consideration would bz required, and therefore he shoul I not feel dispos3d to give his as sent to tht second reading of the bill upon the understand ing that it would not go into committee until a spacial report had been made, which of course could not be during the present session. Mr. M. GIBSON having spoken iu favour of the adop-. tion of the metric system, . _ The house divided, when there appeared — Fur the second reading Against it Majority —452 OXFORD AND OAMURIDGE UNIVERSITY BILL. Mr. COLERIDGE moved the second reading of this bill, the object of which was to place Dissenters and all persons professing the Christian faith on the same footing as members of the Church of England in regard to fellow. ships and educational benefits of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The hon. member entered into a lengthened argument to show the justice of his proposal, which could not but be of benefit to all classes of her Majesty's subjects, as well as to further the influence and heighten the respect in which the ancient universities were at present held. Mr. WALPOLE, as an amendment, moved that the bill be read a second time that day six months. The colleges had always been in connection with the Church of Eng land, and a greater blow could nut be given to them than to pass the bill brought forward by the hon. and learned gentleman. Mr. IVI.NTERBOT TOM said the alteration in the pre- sent bill proposed iu the Act of Uniformity was merely an act of justice to Dissenters, and nothing more. Ho hoped the House would give the bill a second reading.; Sir W. I.IEATIICOTE strongly condemned the bill. Mr. HUBBARD also opposed the bill, the passing of which would be prejudicial to the established faith of the country, Mr. POWELL was speaking in opposition to the bill at a quarter to six, at which hour the debate ceased in ac cordance with the standing order. The Jurors' Affirmation (Scotland) Bill was read a second time. The Customs and income Tax Bill passed through com mittee, and was reported without amendments. THE IRISH CHURCH. Mr. GLADSTONE moved for leave to introduce a bill to prevent for a limited time appointments to the Church of Ireland, and to restrain for the same period the proceedings of the Ecclesiastical Com missioners. for Ireland. (Cheers.) Mr. NEWDEGATE and Col. KNox rose together, the latter gave way, and the hon. member for Warwickshire said I feel it my duty to object to the right hon. member bringing in a bill at this particular hour, especially as it is one of the nature referred to in her Majesty's answer to the address of the house. The SPEAKER, said, if the hon. member objects the right hon. gentleman must, by the rules of the, house, apply fur leave to-morrow. The house then adjourned. Foreign lail racket List. MAILS DUE. &wanlia, and New Zealand, via Bonthamptos.....May 23. Ditto, via Marseilles Ditto, via Panama ....... ........ —.May 2). Small, Buenos Lyres, awl Monte Video ..........June 4. Ditto, by French packet .... . ....... Mt) , 2 Uspe Verde, by Brasil packet ....... . ..... June 4. ,:spe of Good Elope. Aiseenalon, and St. Lielens....June 12. Ohba*, Penang. and Singapore. via 130 '" hamP"1—Alay 23. Ditto, via Marseilles........ ...... . ..• • May 13. Faikland Islands ...... June I. May M. I bral t ar, via Southampton .......... May 30 India, via Southampton .• ••• -•• • • •••• . May 2S Ditto, via Mansell es ...... .•... Malta, tl:gypt, ....... .• • .•.... nay 16. and Natal, via Ditto, Alarsellies May Southampton . . .. .. . .. .............. • • • Intl I, May 18 Citaipem.l,4ll Hope, ..'elvtonadia r count` .• • • Do, bi pf to ship to Oporto Ditto • -tto to Lisbon !Waited States, anada, California, &e., by British p acacet Ditto,. by 1. tilted States packet Ditto ditto New York. Ditto ditto New York) Ditto dittk (Baltimore) 111 - Ay 16 Ditto, by Canadian packet . • .........M y 15. West Coast pi Air!Ls, Madeira, and Teneriffe ......m a y 17 , West Indies and Pazitio (exoept..slexiso and Balla- mas) Cuba and Mexico May 29. Lisha.nae, via New Y May 20. Bermuda. Vta ....... „ „ „ Juin 9. ... .mm.. ~~ TS. Share! at Bt a.,.