The Sun. — London, England, 1868-05-26 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, CITY, Two O'CLOCK. The prospect of a splendid harvest ail over Europe, the efforts of the present Government to insure peace by bringing about a disarmament, with the extraor iinary character of the flow of gold to the Bank, Sod the absence of apprehension concerning home politics, have combined to encourage an animated business in both English and foreign Government Se mrities. The advance in Consols during the past !ortnight is 1 per cent., the present price being 95/ to )5g for delivery. The chief feature in foreign stocks 8 th e demand for Turkish. In shares there is no im orovenient, and the preparations for the settlement, hieli concludes on Friday, form the principal busi ness in progress. Discount is very quiet, at l to 11 per cent. Consols show a further improvement of k, being lealt in at 9lk to 0-1:4- for money, and 932- to 93k for IL:soma ; New and Reduced Three per Cents., 932 to 9 3 7 Five per Cents. are steady at 116 to 116 ; Bank Stock, 247 to 219 ; and Exchequer Bills, 55 to lOs prem. Among foreign Government securities Turkish are per cent. better than the advanced price of last evelling, the present quotation being 37. New n patiish, Italian, and the Pasha Loan are firmer. rhe quotations are :—Mexican, 151- to 16 ; Greek, 131 to 13.1 ; New Spanish, 361 to 365 ; Italian, 51 to 511 ; Egyptian (1864), 81 to 82 ; Viceroy's Seven Per Cents., 721 to 721 ; and the Nine per Cents.. 861 to 871 ex div. American Securities are well supported. United States 5-20 Bonds are better, at 714 to 711. Erie shares unaltered, at 45i to 46. Illinois inquired for at 954 to 96. English railways are dull, at a decline of k per cent., but are otherwise without feature. Lan cashire and Yorkshire are 123 to 1281- ; Midland, 1062 10 71 ; South Eastern, 761 to 761 . London and North Western, 115 to 115 2 ; Great korthern, 102 to 10:3 ; ditto A, 96/ to 971 ; Great Eastern, 33/ to 3 1; Great Western, 522 to 531 ; Brighton, 51 I to 51 1 ; Sheffield, 422 to 431 ; Metropolitan, 111 to 1121 ; Caledonian, 741 to 751 ; and Chatham, 19 to 191. In Foreign Railway Shares, Great Luxembourg is higher, at 115 to 11ft ; Lombardo-Venetian steady, at 141 to 15. Bank shares are steady at yesterday's quotations. Agra (A) is marked at 10 to 10i ; Alliance, 13 to 12 ; A";; 10 -Austrian, 42 to 51 ; Chartered Mercantile, 27 to 28; Consolidated, 4i to 41 ; Imperial, 18 to 19 ; Imperial Ottoman, / to 1 prem.; London and County, 52 to 53 ; London and Westminster, 71 to 72 ; Oriental, 42 to 43; London Joint Stock, 35 to 36 ; Union of London, 35 to 36. Foreign mining shares are dull. St. John del Rey is -A worse, at 171 to 184 ; Port Philip Mining, to 1 1 ; Chontales, 11 to 2. In Miscellaneous Securities Hudson's Bay shares are better, at 15;1 to 15k, while Anglo-American Telegraph is k lower, at 22,i- to 227 ; Atlantic Tele graph Eight per Cent. a shade flatter, at 5 to 51 ; Pore -street Warehouse, 2 to 1 dis. ; London General Omnibus, lk to 2. The failure is reported from Manchester of Messrs. Nichols and Monk, manufacturers, of Halshaw Moor. Their liabilities are said to be small. The New York has arrived from New York with £ 6 1,250 in specie, and the China with £90,000. Liar gold, amounting to £76,000, was sent into the Lank yesterday. A Russian Loan of £1,200,000 was negotiated in Amsterdam on Friday last. It is understood that a Turkish Loan of £5,000,000 has been arranged at Paris with the Societe Generale. It Will b e a Si x per C ent. S toc k at 68, re d eema b le i n en or twelve years. It is not proposed to appeal to this market. A remittance of £16,675 has been received on ac count of New Granada dividends. The Syndicate of the Agents de Change of Paris have, it is stated, informed the Finance Minister of the imperial government, that if the Austrian legislature persists with the proposed tax on Austrian securities, all Austrian stocks, without exception, will cease to be dealt in or quoted on the Paris Bourse. The reso lution was notified simultaneously to the Austrian minister in Paris, Prince Metternich. The report of the London and Brazilian Bank, for the half-year ending December, gives the net profits at £ 9 ,922 Gs 11d, but the whole of this sum, as well as the amount carried forward from the last account, and £ 8 ,354 15s 4d from the reserve, has been appropriated to meet losses on unpaid remittances. The reserve fund now stands at £11,645 4s Bd. The accounts of the London Chartered Bank °f Australia for the year 1867 to be submitted to the meeting of the sth June show a net balance of £51,096 Os 3d, out of which the directors lecoininend a dividend for the half-year at the rate of 8 per cent, per annum, free of income tax, leaving £ 11 ,096 9s 3,1 to be carried forward. Letters from France state that the temperature throughout the country last week was exceedingly favourable to vegetation ; and that, if complaints of Nma of rai n i n t h e sout h b e excepte d , th ere was on l y o r ne opinion as the promising appearance of the grow ing crops. An a v erage f a ll o f lf. t o 2f. per hectolitre lia r ~ been est a bli s h e d a t a ll th e pr i nc i pa l mar k e t s b e l ow Lae prices of the preceding week ; while large arrivals con tinue t o b e reported at Marseilles, to sell which 1, 1 :e hold ers h ad to make considerable concess i ons. The journal L' Ecol e A rieole expresses, however, ',°tlle doubt s w h et h er t h e re d uce d pr i ces w ill n ot be followed by a reaction, as they have been Ca used chiefly by f ore i gn arr i va l s , w hi c h are not likely t o continue upon a sufficient scale to prevent a r eaction. At Marseilles on Saturday only one cargo arrived. The South Eastern Railway traffic return shows this week an increase of £638 over last year. The traffi c of the Cape Railway for the month of March was £5,030, against £4,244 in Marchlast year. The following, in reference to the London Colonial Wool sales, is from the Leeds 21f ercury :—" The monetary question is one of serious moment, for the total amount required to lift the two great sales of colonial wool will touch between nine and ten millions of money, to be added to which there is the English clip, German fairs, &c., &c., so that an abundance of money, and a low rate of interest, will have an im portant effect on the value of wool during the anxious months of harvest, on the fruitful production of which so much will this year depend. The general state of the woollen trade can scarcely be quoted brisk, and any variation from its present condition would tell most seriously on the price of the raw material, the growth of which is now ample, even for a good, sound. and prosperous trade." At the fifty-fourth annual meeting of the Scottish Widows' Fund Life Assurance Society, held at Edin burgh on the 22nd instant, it was reported that assur ances had been effected in 1867 for sums amounting to £ 8 11,411, y i e ldi ng a prem i um revenue o f .£27,595, that 222, members had died during the year, giving rise to Claims for £337,281, and that £169,876 had been addedl to the realised fund, which at 31st December ,un amounted to £4,541,871. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. tiOVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 Per Cent. Cons o l s 951 1- .. Cent. Cons o l s Account, Juno 4 I,llPer Cent. Reduced 93 II " 3 per C en t T ,'Pr 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 ."°• 5 per Cont. Jan. 1873 ~nnuitie s , 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 — DO. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 l2 9-16 -L.lelioqu n o (Rod Sea Televaph), Aug., 1908 — Ea Bills, £l,OOO, 2 per Ot 9 12 pm Do. £5OO Do. £lOO & £2OO B ank of England Stock. 41per Cent 249 7 1)0 . Account 1„ ~. INDIAN G OVERNMENT S ECURITIES. mrt litock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 ... 2161 18 40 . Acco un t O. per C on t.., u l y , 1880 ,-, 4 per Ce n t., O c t. 1888 uo• Certificates — PO. Enlaced Paper 4 per Cent B9l I °. 5 per Cent Jan. 1872 1- I . " ° ' N - per Cent., May 1879 lO9 —0 0 Per Cont., Rap. Bob. 1872 lO2l Do. do. 1877 — , Do. do. 1882 — "••• Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 o. Bonds, 5 per Cent., £l,000 Do. - under .£1.000 O :O S REIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. r . oiii 4 . , ntine Ropulic, 6 per Cent... B_ tuitnan I3onds, 5 per Cent. 1859 ru• • xd por Cent D 3. 4 k per Cent., 1852 — °• do., 1858..... .. De.bO• d 0. , ., 1860 — D o 1863 — do., I) • 5 per Cent., 1865 — B. -0 Account ".„."08 Ayres 6 per Cent — (0 . 1.. 4 - y fit, , ,i Cent. a 2 n6 p 6p e ei r ,rere ntn . (Deferred ', O O . 41 per Cent — v." ' 6 Per Cont., B — ,'"°•3 1867 t °, 7 Per ,Cent., 1866 — 0 ,i, ° '',criP £32 paid N„. °ll -mku, % 6 per Cent. D ~;"9 11 3 pmr Cent., 1825.. ~ ,D''lbiall Principaities, i per Cent 721 OB Pc'r lu Cent., 1867 .............. ..... 79 k '..fad°r New Consolidated, 1 . pct. Oen'. 13 i) 0 4qYPtian! per 7 Vent ... ..., etond is sue • ••• • " J -!,/,-). £4lO Bond s — Do. o. 4100 Boilds B2 80 1861 — Do zo. 45: Bonds D ' — . 0. £lOO Bonds Gov o — . • ••• G r ,,., ,Lornaut Railway Debentures .... 92 j u- 0 Per Cent., 1824-5, ex Coups. 0. Account . . 13* ~c ~~°.~.~~ TLE, May 23. ming, attended Majesty again ianied by Prig- ~.•, Arthur went Prince of Den' )use yesterdaf Lnd Princess of afterwards, ac" Denmark. rs. Forrester, e Vols. Hurst Hamilton. She in first m oment scene of the find ourselves slope down to are in a little Pasant expedi" hurries across nn. The two is their habit )p her in tho ;ranquil water, •t, ernbittered mains behind. roduced to us )ut we under able tempera,- tion in which 1 elegant, her d regards her like the ugly rsen's famous thoughts that s if she could her—nay, she ugly !" jioc sing incident to Olive, and brightness of the tranquil rds," we shall L has occasion loorny mood. love awakens tenderly de r joy is at the :;ording to the Olympus, she ,rt, to her old e of all her happy ; I do iad any more roman hastily md later on, he metaphor) ider and wise ;t endeavours ;solate. The rerienced by bed in this glimpse of of " iI tr before the Lit emotions. in a deeper which, in all a stranger. the heroine's followed her is inclined to Pry. 'We d 3 ) is ; but we has d isap her husband aged should ►tion, and it Mace, have e other por e career and ingularly re- Ated that a who can $0 nforce noble ges passages are neither orded. The 'Mon, how rhen the de- ULTVICIL hich is now Morton, of hrown open tour of her ght festival clemency of the opening in made its ls, and pro and trains ge number nducted by he colossal descriptive charmingly, e audience, , g, " Home, The Mule st the co- Ica, and T. carry away were bril when the . ►rm to Herr might have display of of the lake, The cour sed a most nten every ,feel certain Great pre 'tide, when ery painted [. Morgan, We tinder d the gar" the county Ind Mont- ho practise mutually, a ns between occurrence• denham, a n technical being ad" red, in •the upon Mr. I him that of court." the ground :its Honour live long mid." Mr• howing n° moved to out fear of trough the from LW' .gal know e bench Or ds himself' Antment to r my leg al educating twelve er i m putes t 4 ), things 111 Do. Coupons Do. Account Guatemala 5 per Cent .. — Honduras Gov. Rail. Loan., 10p. Ct., £25 p Italian 5 per Cent., 1865 — Do, Account •.. — Do. Maremmana Raiway 59 21 Iloxican 3 per Cent — Ditto for Account Do. 1864 — Do 6 per Cont. Anglo-French — llontevideau 6 per Cent. . — kloorish Imperial 5 per Cent Now Granada l4l Do 3 per Con , — Do. Deferred Do Laud Warrants (Hectares) Peruvian 5 per Cent. 1865 Do Account .. 84 4 Do 41 per Cent. (Uribarren) - Do 41 per Cent., 1162 • Do Account Port.4o-nese 3 per Ct., 195:3, '6, '7, '9,'6(1,'2,': 41),1 i Do. do., 167 lOl Do. do., Scrip, £2O paid — au ;sian 5 per Cent., 1.61:2, ..t: sl Bll Do 4/ per Cent. 1850 - - Do 4 per Cent., 18C0 Do is per Cent., 1859 Do 5 per Cent., 1 , 412 , 811 t Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1861, .1:100 Bond.. 87'-- Do. do. £B4 Lis. (10... -- Do., 1866, £lOll Bonds B7l 8 Do. d-) £B4 15s. do — Do Nicolas Railway 6ll a Sa,,dinian, 0 per Cont — Sp iniBll is per Cen . 174 4 Do A cct_. unt 1)o New D. fcrreo — • Do Account Do Passive — 1)o Ace, ant Do C,,in. Cert. of Coup. not funded Do Account • — Tar :ich 6 per Cont. — Do Account Do 6 per Cent. 1858 — Do Account Do £lOO Bonds — Do 6 per Cent, 1862 — Do Account Do £lOO Bonds 651 Do. 1863 — Do 5 per Cent., 1865 — Do Account Do 6 per Cent., 1865 6 04 iiii Do 1 per Cont., Guaranteed - Venezuela, 3,per Cent — Do 6 per Cent., 1862 Do 6 per Cent. 1864 Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ..... — Dividends on the above payanle in Londo... Belgian, 44 per cent., Ex. 25f. Dutch 24 per Cont. Ex. 12 Guil, — Do Account — French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. — Austrian o par Cent. Ex. 10 Florins "Witt', 5 per Cent. 1811, E. 251 — Do. Account 5ll j 4 4 CLOSING PRICES. Consols, Money 951 Do. Account, 4th June EXECU7IOV OF BARRETT. TUESDAY, May 26. This morning the Fenian convict, Michael Barrett, expiated his great crime on the scaffold in front of the gaol of Newgate, in the presence of a vast con course of people. The crowd was, to a large extent, composed of a better class of persons than usually assemble at executions there, and the prevailing behaviour was in accordance. A large open space was kept by the police in front of the scaffold, so that the crowd at first sight did not appear s o great as it really was. The convict retired to rest last evening about 10 o'clock, but' passed a some what restless night. At 6 this morning he rose, dressed himself, and engaged in prayer. Shortly afterwards he was joined by the Rev. James Hussey, from the Roman Catholic Chapel, Moor fields, by whom he has been attended since his conviction, and who remained with him to the last. It is understood that in the course of the morning he received the last Sacrament of the Church from his priest. All along, according to Mr. Hussey, he had borne himself with great fortitude, and given much satisfaction by the pains he had taken to prepare himself for his end, and the docile and affectionate manner in which he re ceived the consolation of religion. He died with out making any confession, so far as the public are concerned. What took place between him and his priest in reference to the crime may never be divulged. All that is known is,- that he gave "immense satisfaction" to the clergyman who at tended him in his last moments, to use that gentle man's own expression. A course altogether unusual was adopted by the authorities, iu one respect, in the arrangements immediately preceding the execution. Instead of being conducted to the press-room to be pinioned, the convict was pinioned in his cell in the presence of the Under-Sheriffs, and thence conducted by a way entirely private and unusual to the scaffold. This he mounted with a firm step, accompanied by his priest and attended by the executioner. The moment he appeared upon the drop a kind of cheer broke from the crowd, which swayed about with the wildest excitement. The preparations were soon made, and to the last moment the Rev. Mr. Hussey continued to utter words of consolation to the doomed man, whose responses were indicated by the motions of the lips, concealed though the mouth was by the cap which had been drawn over the features. The drop at length fell, and piercing shrieks from women in the crowd rent the air for a moment, and that indescribable hum peculiar to such occasions broke upon the ear. The convict, who had great muscular strength, appeared to die slowly. It is a noteworthy circumstance thit after his conviction he was never heard by those in attend ance upon him to Jeny his guilt. Whenever . he re ferred to the crime he always said he was convicted on insufficient evidence, and that he was not guilty of murder. MARKETS. —(? his Day.) COLONIAL AND FOREIGN PRODUCE. • Sugar.— The market is quiet, and rates ruling firm, al though supplies are not pressed. Imports of West Indian are at the moment large. Coffee is in steady requast, and for good eoloury :quali ties of Ceylon full terms are obtained. Tea.— The market is quiet, but steady. Rico continues dull of sale, the fine weather continuing to Lavo no effect. NAVAL AND MILITARY IN7ELLIG.ENCE The first battalion Coldstream Guards, now quar tered at the Sheet-street Infantry Barracks, Wind sor, have just been inspected by Gen. Hamilton, commanding the division of Guards. The regi ment, ten companies strong, marched under the command of Col. Fielding, Lieut.-Col. Wigram, Lieut.-Col. Burnell, and Capt. and Adjt. the Hon. F. A. Wellesley to the Long Walk, near Froginore Lodge gates, where the troops were put through their manual and platoon exercises, the movements being performed to the satisfaction of the Inspect ing General. The 2d battalion of the 6th (Royal Ist Warwick shire) Regiment of Infantry, under the command of Lieut.-Col. John F. H. Elkington, consisting of 32 officers, 599 men, 68 soldiers' wives , and9s children, disembarked at Portsmouth dockyard yesterday from the hired steamships lona and Malvina, and proceeded by special train on the South-Western Railway to Alder,shot Camp. The lona and Malvina conveyed the regiment from Leith to Portsmouth in 39 hours. The local Pensioners and Reserve Force at Ports mouth, under the command of Lieut.-Col. Meehan, having completed their period of training for the present year, were yesterday paraded on Southsea common for review and inspection, the inspecting officer being Col. G. H. S. Willis, Assist.-Quarter master-General of the South-west District. The battalion having marched past the inspecting officer in slow and quick time, it was afterwards put through the manual and platoon exercises by Capt. De la Pere, the second in command, and subse quently through a number of field movements by Lieut.-Col. Meehan. At the termination of the in spection square was formed, and Col. Willis, ad dressing the officers and men of the battalion, said it would be his pleasing duty to report to the Secre tary of State for War and the Lieut.-General Com manding the district the high state of efficiency in which he had found the force. He was gratified to find that there had been no irregularities of any kind during the time of training, and that by steady, good conduct a good example had been set for the young soldiers in garrison to follow. The following appointment was made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Capt. A. F. R. do Horsey to the Hector, vice Bowyear, whose period of service has expired. COLONIAL GO VERNMELI T SECUR. 1T11;b. IBritisb Columbia, 6 per cent., Deo. 31, 1b72.... ICan.Gov.6 p.c.Ja..iz July , 1877-81 - Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Aug , Do. 5 p. c. Mar. & Sept, Uo. 5 p. 0. Jan. £ July, Do. 5 p. o. Inscribed skl ,Cape G.llope, 6 p. 0.18731 Do.Apl.aoot. 1590-11.1C0 Do. do 1880-91: Du. Jan,tJuly, 161:0-9. Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and 15 Vet., 1900 lon, Nov. 1878, 6 p. , Do. 1Y72, do nauritium, 6 p. o, Jan. and July Do. 11 , 78 . c. 188't, Mayl.s, Nov. Do. le.vs, let). a Aug vas al iior. i per cent i N. /S.(l ov.o p.c.Ja.&J nil N. S. W. Ciov. 5 vc., 180 , Do. 5 p.c. 1S:1 to 167 H Do. 5 p.c. 18h8 to 181.6' New Zealand, 0 p. cent Do. 5 per cent.... , Nova So....tia Gov. G p. 0 1 sterling, 1875 4ueensland Gov. 6 p. c , 8. Aus.GOY. 6 p,c. 188 S-9 Do. 1878 & upwards Vic,(lov. 6 p.c. Ja July Do. do, pril Ar. Oct 190 100 100 1( 0 100 100 104 105 102 101, 102 It 3 91 93 91 93 1(4 106 109 11t) 107 109 106 10 Os 100 110 11l 103 107 104 lu6 106 LOS 107 10, 101 Ithii 99 1U 9) 101 V 8 99 tosj 084 97i VBi 102 101 IQ3 115 110 111 1114 1121 BRITISIL .511N1G3. -- Cam. Consol. Gold, Rm. 1 Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated 3O 54 - N Devon G. Cons. (Taylst 1 440 400 Drake walls 2.1.0 1 1 East Bassett (illogan) 291 lu 12 East Caradon 2.11.t. 4 5 East Cara 13rPa 3l 2 21 East Grenville ..... 2.14.0 11 2 East Gunnislake .. 8.3.0 4 East Lovell 3.0.0 8 9 E. W'l Russell (Tavlstk 11.7.0 11 2 am.Sz StAuhyn(G wen. 06 4 5 lkireat Laxey, limited., all 161 171 'Great South Tolgus.... 1.1.0 Wheal Isasy..... 11.9.0 G. Wheal Vor (lielst. , o 40 15 17 Grenville lierod's Foot ..., 8.10.0 38 40 llingston Downs 5.10.6 24 2; gargaret (Uny Lelant 13.17.0 6 8 llarke Valley 4.10.6 6 61 dwyndy Iron Ore, lim 3.1 21 it New S ton . 56; 60 75 North toskear N. Wit Ilassett(lllogan 1.1.0 North Wheal Crotty 2.13.0 2 3 Prosper 8.11.0 2 21 Providence ,Uny Lelant 1 1.0.7 25 27 i S. Caradon (St. Ulcer) ll 380 900 South Condurrow 1.2.0 4 4 S. Wheal Fran. (Mogan 18.15.0 371 421 Stray Park '35.1f..6 4 6 Fin Croft..." Vigra and Clogan, iim all %Vest itassett (Illogan W. Caradon (Ltskeard 10 West Chiverton ll 61 06 West Seton Wheal Bassebt,'ilioganl 5a 75 80 IVhcal Buller (If edruth 22 :5 5 11 Wheal nary Auu (Alen ; ti 21 23 Wheal Seton 1 s'l 771 82/, Wheal Trelawuev ( I.is 1 5.17.0, 7 9 PREFitRENCE 8.1 ARES. Consolidated. 6 Der cent. stock. Y.REFIA,REIWE S.l ;onsolldated, 6 per oent. stook. tto, Bristol and Bina., 6 per cent.. tto, 44 per cent. ird., 944 Eastern (treading Amts. £1.0.6d). tto, 41 p r cent., 95 South 103 94 i 931 I I triEs LEASED AT FIXED RENTAL S. Buckinghamshire, 93 rotticioN•:tklLWA.YE. San Paulo, llm. , gua. 6 por cent., IF} P'()iCNIIGN MIN CH, Chontales Gold and Silver Mining, lim., 11 Don Pedro, DJ "nit Del Rey, 2 St. John del lLey,iliva , 18 a BAN.h S. Ang,lo Egyptian, lim.. 14 Anglo-Italian, lim., 4 , Australasia, 51j British North American. 5) Chartered Bank of India. Australia. and Wittig'. 171 Chartered kler. of India. London. and China, 27} 8 Consolidated, lirn., 4 9 -16 Enzlish. Scotch. and Australian Charte re d , in Imperial Ottoman. Ils 11 London and County, s'. I Ditto, new, 31103 London Joint Stock, 351 1 London and v% esttninster, 7 1 Ditto, Scrip, 481 National Provinciat of England, Ditto, ed and 3d issue, 39 Union of London, 35j I 3113CELLANEOUR. Anglo American Telegraph, 221 a Atlantic Telegraph, Ditto, 8 per cent , 1011 Berlin Water Works, 141 Bombay Gas, lim.. 43 Credit Fonder of England, lira., 2 15-15 Egyptian 9 per Cent.. Viceroy Loan, gua.by Egypt. Gov., 871 Electric and luternational Telegraph, 1621 le I:Judson's Bay, 153 International Financial Society,lirn., 31 Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavouri, 23 London General Omnibus Company, Um., 2 1-16 Madras Irrigation and Canal (guaranteed 5 per cent. by India Government), 1034 Ocean .v. arine Insuraner.), 19j eninstua and Oriental steam, 59 Royal Mail Steam. 65i Telegraph Construct. and Maintenance, 11j I Trust and Agency of Australasia, lira., 11 Viceroy of Egypt (Mortgage) Loan, 721 TfIE DISTRESSING SHIPWRECK IN MOUNT'S BAT. —Downing, the honorary secretary of the Penzance branch of the National Lifeboat Institution, writing from that town on Saturday, reports that a most fearful ship-. wreck occurred last night near Lamorna, between that Cove and the Logan Rock. The Garonne steamer from Bordeaux to Liverpool, Capt. Drew, with brandy and several passengers, struck in the dense darkness of the night on some rocks called the Bucks. In five minutes she went down. Her captain, mate, two stewards, twelve females, and four male passengers, were drowned. Her three boats saved seventeen of the crew and two passengers. She struck near midnight, and the first intelligence was brought to us by the landing of the boats at Penzance. Of course nothing could be done by our lifeboat, tho tragedy being over in less than ten minutes. The occurrence has cast quite a gloom over ow town. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVEN Busineas done. Ivo lOU all 100 100 1100 2 100 100 SIONS. 61 66 IC4 3 4 5 7 68 71 18 52 99 102 tO4i 1054 109 110 151 161 I:sk 1111 f 181 i 110$ 1 LAW INTELLIGENCE.-7.111S DAY. VICE CHANCELLOR'S COURT. (Before Vice Chancellor Giffard.) TIIF. EDMUNDS SCANDAL CASE . -ATTORNEY- GENERAL V. ED3I UNDS. The Attorney-General stated this was an infor mation, in which it was prayed that an account may be taken of all fees and moneys received by the de fendant, or any person on his behalf, as Clerk of the Patents, since the date of his appointment, and also of all moneys received by him from the Trea sury as expenses of the office. It was also prayed that in taking the accounts the defendant ought to ac count for all profits made by the purchase and re sole of certiin stamps, and that no deluctions for the parchments used should be made. The information having been received in its entirety, the answer of Mr. Edmunds was then read, iu which he contended that the Court of Chancery was the proper court in which the ques tion ought to be argued. The document concluded with a summary of the claims and allowances to which he (Mr. Edmunds) considered himself entitled. It was as follows Over payments to the Exchequer ou the 12.10 account for 1333 to 1814 inclusive, £2,837 7s. 10d. ; due on the gene ral account £299 ls. 101 ; for moneys paid in mis take were over £l3O 17s. 2d. ; ditto on the accounts with the Treasuay from 1852 to 1861, £6 Bs. 3d. ; amount of discount allowances on the sum of £183,222 15s. Gd. ; cash receipts and pay ments at 2i per cent., £4,580, making a total of £7,846 15s. ld. He also claimed to be paid proper interest on any balances which may be found due to him on taking such accounts as prayed for. Mr. Edmunds states that during 31 years he held the office he was responsible for the receipt of £1,600,000. It was also contended on the part of the defend ant that the purchase of stamps was a great benefit to the public, and that they were not bought out of the public monies, and that instead of a misap propriation on the part of !;he defendant, all the transactions now in question were right and proper. The case will last for some days. TILE COURT OF EXCHEQUER. LLOYD V. BURRUP AND ANOTHER. This was an action brought by the Rev. Mr. Lloyd, incumbent of St. Mark's, Kennington, against the defendants, who are the churchwardens of that parish. One of the defendants allowed judgment to go by default. Many of our readers have no doubt been aware that for some time past and since Mr. Lloyd's appointment a series of contentions have arisen be tween himself and the parishioners in consequence of his having introduced certain practices in the performance of public worship which arc repugnant to the feeling of the congregation, who are principally of tiie L was w t Church o b The stipend of the plaintiff the rents of the p ews , e paid party. from and any surplus that m i ght remain was to be em ployed towards the repairing, lighting, a n d main taining the church. The defendant and his col league had received different small sums, a portion of which he laid out in the repairing, &c., of the foundation, l ea ving a deficiency in the amount of the plaintiff's stipend. Ile contended that the whole of the amount duo to him should be paid before a farthing of it should be applied to any other purpose. Witnesses having been examined on both sides, the counsel for the defendant de murred to the pleadings,. and, after a long argu ment, a verdict was entered for the plaintiff on one count and the defendant on the other, with leave to move. Under these circumstances the point raised will come on for argument before the full court. POLICE INTELLIG EiVCE.-THIS DAl'. .MARLBOItO UG II- STREET. ASSAULT.—ALLEGED VIOLENCE OF THE POLICE. man, was charged with and Gray, with t n i n 53 gF F. Rook, pol_ c constablesY itlg l Brown said that on the previous afternoon he saw the prisoner ejected from the King's Arms, Moor-street, St. Martin's -lane, by the barium, and the prisoner then tried to re-enter the house, but was prevented. He told the prisoner to go away, but he refused, and a crowd of persons col lected, upon which the prisoner s yid, " You fool, the crowd are laughing at you." Finling he could not get rid of the prisoner he took him into cus tody, and on the way to the station he kicked hiin, threw him down, and then kicked him on the shoul der. With the assistance of three other constables the prisoner was got to the station, behaving with violence all the way. In answer to Mr. Knox, the constable said the prisoner was drunk. The prisoner said that he was standing at the corner of the street when the constable came up and told him to go away, and, because he did not, he took him into custody, and when the police took him into Compton -street they pulled him about and handled him roughly, and the people called out " Shame 1" and his arm seemed if it was broken. Gray said that he went to the assistance of the first witness, when the prisoner behaved very vio lently and struck him (Gray). Mr. Knox asked the prisoner whether he meant to persist in the statement he had made, and on his saying that he did, Mr. Knox said that he would not take upon himself to decide the case, but would send it before a jury. James Harvey, barman at the King's Arms, was then sent for, and he stated that he ejected the pri soner, who was drunk, from the house, because he made use of abusive and disgusting language to two females, and the prisoner afterwards, because he was not allo we d to re-enter, tr i e d to break a pane of glass. The constable then came up, and told the prisoner to go away, and as he would not the con stable took him away. In answer to the prisoner, all the witnesses stated that they did not hear any one cry out t( Shame." • The prisoner said that he . had witnesses, and Mr. Knox ordered theta to be called, but they did not answer. Mr. Knox committed the prisoner for trial, and stated that the prisoner would have an opportu nity of calling these or any witnesses he thought proper. -~~., WESTMINSTER looking f e ll ow, was charged with ly assaulting V IOLE NT ASSAULTS ON THE POLlCE.—Cornelius It io h n Large, sergeant, 24 G, and Constable Ja mes Groves, 160 G. S ergean t Large, 24 G, said, I was on d uty i s t h e King's-road last vulse,taruaffiaanullyti-ng John night, at the entrance to Cremorno Gardens, and had occasion to watch the prisoner, who was loitering about the cabs ; at 20 minutes to 1 two ladies came out and got into a cab ; the prisoner held the door open, and as the last one got in he put his ha nd o ver her pocket. I did not e the handten place, i told him not to come b ac k aga i n . About in the pocket a t a ll , so I caut i oned the prisoner, n utes past one I came b ack to the same men. I then told him to move away, or I should lock him up, and he immediately ran into the road and said, " Y ou ——, you can't lock me se andl and saw him up," and called me everythi ng h e cou ld l ay h i s tongue to. There were a great number of people about, and I took him into custody. As soon as I took him he gave me a severe blow in the chest, from which I feel the effects this morning. lie kicked me violently, and when Groves, 160, came to my assistance •he kicked and struck, and tried to kick him iu a dangerous part of his person. We were obliged to carry him to the station face downwards, he was so violent. Groves, 160 T 1 corroborated. Prisoner denied the charge of assault, and ex hibiting a black eye, said the police-constable had given it him. Mr. Arnold said both the assaults were unjusti fiable, and that on the constable oue of the most ruffianly description, trying to kick a man in a dan gerous part of his body. He sentenced him to 14 days' for the assault__ on the sergea n t, an d ono mouth for the assault oh Groves. SHARE LIST. Sharej I RallwAys. I Closing Paid. Prise. unu LYeter Caledonian ....... • • sambriati ;ark and 8and0n...... 'ern wall Jublln Ai Belfast June Dun„l'ertholt A b.J unc &London, scrip Oval , Do. Glasgow lt S. 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A proviso was moved for the purpose by the Lord Advocate, and accepted by Mr. Moncreiff on behalf of the Scotch Liberal members. It underwent some discussion, and was amended in one or two particulars ; and as ultimately agreed to it provides that no man shall vote who, within the preceding 12 months, has been exempted from payment of poor-rates on account of poverty, who has not, on the 20th ofluly, paid all the rates payable by him up to the preceding May 15, or who has been within the preceding 12 months in the receipt of parochial relief. Clause 3, which regulates the borough franchise, was then agreed to. Clause 4, the. county ownership franchise, was agreed to after a slight amendment, a proposal by Sit E. Cole brooke to restrict the franchise to persons occupying a residence within the county being rejected. in clause 5, tit, county occupation franchise was changed from £l2 rateable value to £l.l gross annual value, and the ratepay ing r quirements were amended so as to correspond with the alterations in the borough franchise clause. Cause 6, which provides that the third member given to Glasgow shall be elected on the "minority principle," was postponed, and clause 7 was agreed to. Oa Clause B—the first of the Redistribution Clauses—a motion ly Mr. Lowther to postpone this part of the bill led to a revival of the debate on Mr. Baxter's instruction. :n making it Mr. Lowther spoke very strongly against an increase i❑ the present monotonous Scotch representation, and advised the house before apportioning the members to ascertain how many it would have at its disposal. The motion for adjournment was supported by Sir L. Palk, Mr. Beresford Hope, Mr. C. Bruce, who objected to increasing the,number of Scotch members at the expense of England ; by Mr. Smollett, who insisted that the redis tribution schedules required to be remodelled ; by Colonel French, who advocated the consolidation of Scotch coun ties; by Mr. Hayter, Mr. H. Baillie, and Mr. Harvey. Mr. Baxter opposed postponement, and Mr. GLADSTONE strongly deprecated reviving a dis cussion already settled. Responding to urgent appeals from Mr. Sandford, Mr Baillie, and Mr. Moncreiff, Mr. DISRAELI explained the views of the Govern ment; premising that he could not consent to any post ponement, and urging the home to push on with the bill, so as to facilitate an early dissolution. The original plan of the Government contemplated giving Scotland seven members by an addition to the numbers of the house, but this substraction of seven from the English mem bers he pointed out made a difference of 14 on the bal ance between the two countries. Still ho was willing to abide by his original proposal to give seven Trombers to Scotland, and to adopt the principle of Mr. Baxter's in struction—disagreeable as it was to him—as far as was necessary for that purpose. These seven members he would thus dispose of. An additional member would ba given to the counties of Ayr, Aberdeen, and Lanark, and to the cities of Glasgow and Dundee. The four Scotch Universities would get two members batweon thorn, and a member would be obtained for a group of border boroughs by consolidating the counties of Peebles and Selkirk. Be yound this he urged the Committee seriously not to go, looking to the expediency of effecting a settlement in the shortest possible thine. Mr. GLADS TONE expressed his intention to support the more extended scheme of Mr. Baxter, and Mr. DRIGLIT took the same view, protesting against the idea of treating England and Scotland as two separate countries, and urging the Conservatives to permit their leader to settle the question on a liberal an'l lasting basis. Mr. WALPOLE held that the house was bound to ad here to the settlement of last year, of which ho contended an essential part was that no borough should be disfran chised, and that the just increase to the numbers of Scotch members should be made by an increase to the numbers of the house. Mr. BOUVERIE asked for some time to consider the new plan of the Government, which he admitted to b o superior to the first ; but the opinion of the committee was o strongly opposed to delay that ho did not press it, and after some further conversation, Mr. Lowther withdrew his motion for postponement. Mr. BAXTER then proposed his counter-scheme of re distribution by which he disposes of ten members. In its original form it gave an additional membor to the counties of Lanark, Ayr, Aberdeen, and Perth, to the cities of Edin burgh, Aberdeen, and Dundee, two additional members to Glasgow and one member to the four Universities. But after some conversation he agreed, on the suggestion of of Mr. G. Duff, to give two members to the Universities, and this change was effected at the expense of the county of Perth, which was deprived of its promised addition. There was a long conversation, turning more on the manner of putting the question than on its merits. Ulti mately the division was taken technically on the question whether Glasgow shall hive three members, as the Ge verament propose, or fjur, as Mr. Baxter's plan suggests and the result was a majority of 39 in favour of the Go vernment —261 to 222. Upon this, Mr. Disraeli rose and sugg• sted that, with a view to expedite the bill, the committee, after this decisive decision, should at once adopt the Government plan. Mr. Moucreiff, however, supported by Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Bouverie, objected to going on, and moved to re port progress; but a very strong indisposition was mani fested by the committee to pausing at this point, and Mr. Baxter intimated that after the vote just given ho would not persevere further with his plan. Teo new redistribu tion scheme of the Government, giving an additional mem ber each to Ayrshire, Lanarkshire, Aberdeenshire, Glas gow, and Dundee, and two of the Scotch Universities, was then embodied in clause 8. Mr. M'Laren and Colo nel Sykes made an unavailing effort to olstain an addi tional member for Edinburgh and Aberdeen, but received no encouragement to go to a division. The proposal to group the counties of Selkirkshire and Peebles-shire for the sake of a group of Border boroughs was postponed. Sir L. PALK next moved his proviso, that nothing in the bill shall reduce the representation of England and Ireland. He maiutained that there was a bargain last year that the English scheme of redistribution should bo dual, and he recommended that the ten seats obtained by Mr. Baxter's instruction should be given to E aglish coun ties and large towns. Dlr. DISRAELI, though sympathizing with Sir L. Palk's object, objected to the proviso on practical grounds, pointing out that it would reopen the Rig Hill bill. On a division the proviso was rejected by 262 to 95. Clause 8 was agreed to, and the further progress of the bill was adjourned until Thursday. The Electric Telegraphs Bill was fixed for Juno 9, at a morning sitting. Some other orders were forwarded a stage, and the house adjourned at 25 minutes after 1 o'clock. THE TRENCH DERBY. PARIS, Sunday. Prix de Dangu, 5,000 f, for horses of four years and upwards; entree 300 f., h ft, half the entries to the second ; distance 4,000 metres ; value £230; four starters. Comte de Lagrange's Auguste, first ; Comte de Lagrange's Montgoubert, second. Gto 4on Auguste ;3to 1 agst Normaudie. Prix de L'Oise, 2,000 f, for horses of three years and up wards ; entree 59f ; each horse may be claimed for 3,000 f ; distance 2,400 metres ; value £9l ; five starters. M. de la Charme's Succursale, first ; M. Lunel's Cromwell, second. 2 to 1 agst Colere ; 4 to 1 agst Succursale ; 4 to 1 agst emu weft Prix de l'Empereur, handicap, 2,000 f, given by the Emperor, for horses of thr.?,e years and up. wards; entree 50f ; forfeit 25f if declared 23d May ; distance 2,100 metres; value £149 ; fifteen starters. Major Fridolin's Gdophobe, first ; M. A. Fould's Milton H., second ; 4 to 1 agst Dictateur, 7 to 1 agst Turenne, Bto 1 agst Turco. Prix du Jockey Club (Derby), 23,000 f, for three-year-old colts and fillies ; entree, I,ooof ; forfeit 600 f, or 200 f if declared 21st May; 2,000 f to the second; distance 2,400 metres ; value £2,580 ; nine starters. M. Schickler's Suzerain, first; Comte de La grange's Gondolier, second; Due de Fitz-James' Pietro, third. Betting-6 to 4 agst Gouvernail, 2 to 1 agst the winner, 5 to 1 agst Pietro. The race was never in doubt. The Duke of Hamilton's horse cut up so early in the race that there is nothing to say about him ; he died, and made no sign. They were a pretty bad lot, too. We had a dead heat, which was won by Succursale; and then the Prix des Etampes, 2,0001., for horses of three years and upwards ; entree 100 f. ; half forfeit, the entries to the second ; each horse may be claimed for 20,003 f. ; distance 2,000 metres ; value £BO ; seven starters. Comte de Lagrange's Ariel, first ; M. Cartier's Rochefort, second. They betted 6 to 4 agst Vendome; but—there was really no betting, and then betting France rushed off to England. MARINE DISASTERS.—Accordiug to the Bureau Veritas of Paris the number of vessels reported as totally lost during the month of April was 202, including 93 English, 27 American, 19 French, 15 German, 9 Nor wegian, 6 D utch, and 33 bearing various other flags. The number of total losses during the first four months of the present year was 883, which, as compared with the cor responding period of 1867, shows a diminution of 284 lu the list of such di,asters. PATENT OFFICE MUSEUM, SOUTH KENSINGTON.— Number of visitors for the week ending May 23, 2,396 ; total number since the opening of the museum free daily (]flay 12,1858), 1000,541. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS—(Tuts EVENING.) The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack at five o'clock. VOTE OF THANKS TO SIR ROBERT NAPIER. The Earl of MALMESBURY announced to the house that the vote of thanks to Sir Robert Napier, for the ser vices rendered by him in Abyssinia, would be postponed until after the Whitsuntide holidays, in consequence of no official despatches having been received. CONSECRATION OF CHURCHYARDS AND RELIGIOUS SITES BILL. On this bill being committed, Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY moved as an amend ment to one of the clauses that the clergy of various de nominations should at a fixed time be allowed to come into the churchyard to perform the burial service appsr tabling to their denominations. TheThishopof OXFORD entirely object Id to this; ho thought it would be highly inexpedient that the clergy of the other denominations should be Wlowed at a fix,4l thou to come into the churchyard and perform a service. Thurefore he trusted that their lordships would not enter tainhis noble friend's amendment. Tic bill was then viss.: - 1. t lima rh committoc. AItT IZ ANS AND LABOUltiilltS' DWELLINGS BILL Lord CHELMSFORD moved the second reading of this 1)11, and said that it was with great pleasure that he to ved it. The eva which it wai in:tigat.) was daily and daily increasing. It was calculated to confer happiness upon a very large number of the ininib!tamts of our tarp towns. S.veral bills ou the subLyci had been introduced, but although read a secrutl tim none of them had passed, although the last one passed without a division. One of course of the objectors to this bill would come from those who owned a large portion of these buildings, but he would refer their lordships to some of the statistics referring to these localities. In one statement was to be found the particulars of fifty-seven persons who had been sleeping, eating, and living in the same tenement. and when one unhappy sufferer died the corpse was left there, while his wife and family were sent to the wcrkhouse. It was for the well being of the country that these horrible and not sin gular condition of the dwellings of the labouring classes should be ameliorated. Ile knew that it was a painful recapitulation, but it was beyond doubt necessary that the very worst phases should be fully exposed. He would refer to three great towns, Manchester, Liverpool, and London. In them the overcrowding was so great that it was found that 56 adult daughters slept iu the same beds as their parents ; and in another that iu 99 instances adult sons slept in the same z oom as their mothers and sisters, and in 37 instances in the same bed. In one most notorious instance in the same room two sons slept with the mother, and the husband, wife, and daughter in the same bed. In one street (Lord-street) in Manchester through this over crowding there were 200 cases of typhus fever in nine months. In 89 houses there were 3,050 persons. (LEFT SPEAKING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS—THIS EVENING. The SPEAKER took the Chair at 4 o'clock. NEW WRIT. On the motion of Col. TAYLOR a new writ was ordered to issue for Dublin in the room of Sir B. Guinness. BURIAL CERTIFICATE§: Mr. TAYLOR asked the Secretary of State for tho Home Department whether his attention had been called to the following passage in a charge to the Grand Jury at Liverpool in March last by Mr. Justice Mellor : "In conclusion the learned judge referred to frauds recently practised upon burial societies, and said that in many cares he feared that the registration of death was a mere farce. In one of these cases, he said, the doctor had given a certificate of death without being aware that the person was dead, and if such was the usual practice, and he was told it was, the soouor it was changed the better." Mr. HARDY said his notice had not been called to the matter until the motion had been placed upon the paper, but he made inquiry into the subject, and ho found that it arose in consequence of two persons making declarations in the presence of the registrar, and also bringing with them the certificates of two medical man who had for merly attended the two persons represented as being dead, but who were then alive. The making a false declaration before the registrar was punishable with penal servitude; but he had received no complaint that such fals e certifi cates had been used, as far as Loudon was concerned, but he had received such au intimation from Manchester. He did not think that any new system could be adopted withouta reconstruction of the Registration Act ; but he thought if proper vigilance was used the dangerous practice could be put a stop to. THE IRISH REFORM BILL. In reply to Sir C. O'LOGEIL EN, The Earl of MAYO said it was proposed to proceod with the Irish Reform Bill on Thursday fortnight, when it would stand as the first order of the day. THE OUTRAGE IN JAPAN. Colonel SYKES asked the Secretary of State for Fo reign Affairs what truth there was in the statement in the China newspapers that our ambassador in Japan, on a first visit of ceremony to the Mi kado or Emperor of Japan at Kioto, accom panied by a European escort, was attacked by Japanese and twelve of the escort wounded: And, whether twelve of the crew of a boat belonging to the French ship of war Dupleix were assassinated on landing on the estate of Prince Tose, near Osaka, and what effect these outrages had on the relations between the British and French Governments with that of the Emperor of Japan. Lord STANLEY said it was quite true that Sir Harry Parkes and his retinue were attacked by some Japanese fanatics on his way to pay a visit to the Mekado, and several of the party were wounded. The Japanese autho rities had done everything that could be desired in the matter, and had gone so fer as to say that, in the event of any permanent injury resulting to any of the persons iu jured compensation would be made them. (Hear.)No thing had taken Vac° which wool I affect the gold relations which now existed between this country and Japan. With resp..ct to the murder of seine of the crew of the French vessel named, that had alse been amicably arranged. The Mikado was anxiou , , he believed, to cultivate the relations of friendly nations, and had expressed his willingness to adopt all the treaties entered into with the Tycoon. (Hear, hear.) MAILS TO THE CAPE. Mr. CANDLISH askel the Secretary to the Treasury if any contract had been effected with the Union Steam Shipping Company for th e conve y ance o f a n iutermediato monthly mail between England and tie) Cape of Goad He pe. Mr. BOOTH said a contract had been entered into with the Union Steam Shipping. Company for the conveyance of au intermediate monthly mail between this country and the Cape. After the contract had been completed another offer was made, but that was not nearly as favourable as that entered into with the Union Company. THE GENERAL ELECTION. Mr. SA.NDFORD asked the First Lord of the Trea sury whether her Majesty's Government intended to bring forward any measure, and, if any, what measure, for the purpose of shortening the p er i o d w hi c h , un d e r the exist ing law, must intervene before a general election can take place under the provisions of the Reform Act passed in the late session of Parliament? Mr. DISRAELI said the subject was under the con sideration of Government, but the difficulties in the way were greater than was at first supposed. He, however, busted that the difficulties would be surmounted, and in a few days he would be able to make a communication to the house. Mr. GLADSTONE asked when it was likely the views of the Government would be m.tde on the subject to the house. Ho thought that if a select committee wai appointed to look into the matter it would facilitate the business. AUSTRALIA. Sir R. PALMER asked the Under Secretary of St de for tho Colonies whether ho would lay upon the table of the house the despatches from the Governor of Victoria brought by the last mail. Mr. ADDERLEY said the despatches would be laid on the table in the course of the week. THE WHITSUNTIDE HOLIDAYS. In answer to an 110 S. MEMBER, Mr. DISRAELI said he proposed to move that the house at its rising on Friday adjourn over until the fol lowing Thursday. ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION. ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE.—THE Mr. DISRA.ELI, in moving that the house at its rising adjourn until Thursday, said that it would be recollected that he had placed a notice on the paper to move a vote of thanks to Sir Robert Napier on Friday next, he at the time supposing that certain despatches had been lost. However, within the last 48 hours information had been received which led hint to believe that those despatches were in existence, and would soon be in the hands of the Government, and, under such circumstances, feeling it would be well that all tho information possible should be in the hands of members, he should therefore postpone moving the vote of thanks until after the Whitsuntide holidays. (Hear, hear.) The mo ion was then agreed to. THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE. Mr. LABOUCHERE moved that, in the opinion of this house, all sums required to defray the expenses of the diplomatic service ought ti. be annually voted by Parlia ment, and that estimates of all such sinus ought to be sub mitted in a form that would. admit of their effectual supervision and control by that hot's.). The boa. member referred to a number of cases in which pensions wore now paid, although the recipients were not beyond renderiue• further service to the country. He also condemned the system of sending expensive missions abroad fur the in vesting certain persons with the Order of the Garter, which he thought could vary well be done by the am bassadors resident at the places. It was very pleasant, no doubt, to the noblemen selected to go out on such business, but it was not so to the tax payers. (Hear, hear.) He also thought the system of agencies, as at present carded out at the Foreign-offiee, wa3 highly objectionable, and ought to be abolished. Lord STANLEY said some of the recipients of pen sions alluded to by the bun. gentleman had retired as long as thirty years ago, but he was not responsible for more than three of the pensions alluded to. The greatest en deavour was made at the Foreign-office to keep down the expenditure, but he could not consent to the cutting down the salaries of those who had left the country on the un derstanding that a certain sum would be paid for their services. The rule was to place at tho disposal of the Fo reign office a lump sum of £lBO,OOO, with the understand ing that there was not to be any further money voted for diplomatic service. If the expenditure of that sum was questioned, it was open to bring the whole subject under the consideration of the house. He must oppose the mo tion of the hon. gentleman opposite. Mr. CHILDERS regretted that tho noble lord had thought it his duty to oppose the motion of the hon. mem ber for Middlesex. He thought that there was much iu the present system that might be-altered with advantage to all parties, and therefore he had hoped that a different course would have been adopted. I LEFT SITTING.] LuNDON GAZETTE-THIS EVENING. At the Court at Balmoral, gay 23, 1868, the Queen, as Sovereign of the Most Noble Order of the G ar ter, bath been graciously pleased by letters patent under her Royal Sign Manual and the Groat Seal of the Order, bearing date this day, to dispense with all the statutes and regulations usually observed in regard to Installation, and to givo and grant unto John Winston, Duke of Marl borough, Knight of the said M ost Noble Order and duly invested with the Ensigns thereof, full power and authority to exercise all rights and privileges belonging to a Knight Companion of tho said Most Noble Order of the Garter, in as full and amyle a Manner as if ho had been formally installed, any decree, rule, or usage to the contrary not witlutanctius. THIRD EDITION. SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK. NOTICE. The Third Edition of " The Sun" of last Evening, con taining the Latest Betting at Tattersall's, &c., and Arrivals at Epsom, was published in time for delivery in town at 7.15 p.m. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE —This Day. EPSOM RACES- THrs DAY. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) CRAVEN STAKES. King Alfrod I Sileuus.. Four ran. \Von easily. 11011 ro lc STAKES. E,hor Luvello Adam:ltalica, o fi t 'Thirteen ran. WOODCOTE STAKES. Belladruin Flower Girl.. Crueilisioa f • Nineteen ran. RO US STAKES. King Victor Lord Ronald 1 Palmer... 3 Twelve ran. BETTING ON THE COURSE. DERBY. sto 4on the field (offered) 100 to 15 agst Blue Gown (taken) 100 to 8 agst Paul Jones (taken) 100 to 8 agst Orion (taken) 100 to 7 agst Rosicrucian (taken) 100 to 6 agst Suffolk (taken) 28 to 1 agst Speculum (taken) 50 to 1 agst The Earl (taken) 50 to 1 agst Cap-a-Pie (taken) 1000 to 15 agst King Alfred (taken) The above are the only telegrams received up to;tho time of going to press. RACING FIXTURES FOR 1868. MAY. Epsom Summer JUNE West Drayton 1 I Newton Croydon 2d Summer ... 3 Hampton ... lB Manchester 3 Newcastle 23 Ascot Summer 9 Bibury Club 23 I Beverley, Hull, and Stockbridge East Riding lO I Alexandra Park 3O Windsor Summer JULY. Chelmsford Worcester Summer Kingsbury and Hendon 6 Radcliffe Carlisle Newmarket July 7 Hungerford Pontefract Down Royal Corp....— l4 Reading Spilsby 1 Liverpool July M. Odiham l6 'Stamford Huntingdon 2l. Nottingham July Chesterfield 23 Knutsford 23 Southampton Sudbury and Ealing Goodwood AUG Deauville Lock ' 3 Brighton Brighton Club 6 Lewes Summer Wolverhampton ll Stockton Plymouth Windsor August l3 Egham l7 Ilastings York August Oxford Bridgewater and West Somerset .. 2O Dover Scarborough 24 Canterbury Great Yarmouth 25 Derby Summer Weymouth Ipswich 27 Lichfield Tunbridge Margate dl. OCT Bedford 1 Bromley Autum❑ Newmarket 2d October 5 Lanark 8 Chelmsford Autumn Cheltenham l3 SEPT Baden Warwick September Abingdon 3 Leicester Doncaster September 8 Brecon l4 Richmond Hampton Autumn l5 Kelso NOVI Liverpool 3 Shre wabury 9 IBER. Sudbury and Ealing ... 15 Newmarket Houghton 17 Harrow .. 27 Worcester Autumn. 27 Liucoln Autumn 2O MBER. Hendon l7 Monmouth .. Manchester lB Newmarket Ist October 22 Walsall 23 Edinburgh West Drayton 23 Royal Caledonian Hunt i and Western M iMBER. I Leamington l7 6 rEEYLECHASES. OCTOBER. Broraley 1 Ealing DECEMBER. St. Albans Kiugs bury 8 1 AQUATICS. SCULLEItS' RACE FOR £5O. Yesterday afternoon Edward Collins and Wm. Crabb both lauds►nen, and members of some of the Ha►uinersmitla tradesmen's clubs, rowed from Putney to Mortlake for £25 a side, in outriggers. John Phelps, of Fulham, was re feree; William Biffen umpire for Crabb, and E. May for Collins. The latter won the choice of station, and was the favourite on board Citizen 6 (Captain Beael►ey), which accompanied the race with a chosen few. Collins took the lead, rowing very fast, and at the Bishop's Creek had drawn clear of his man, taking his water shortly afterwards. He increased his lead to Dung Wharf, where Crabb came up, but fell away again to Rose Bank; hero Crabb again collared him, and a desperate race ensued past the Crab Tree and the Soap House to Hammersmith Bridge, where there was scarcely half a length between them. Crabb continued to near his man rapidly, and op posite Murphy's boat-yard, at Chiswick, they fouled. On starting again Crabb ha,dall the best of it, and held a good lead to the end. The referee, on being appealed to, de clared the foul against Collins, and awarded Crabb the stakes. Foreign Mail Pack et List. MAILS DUE. &Australia and New Zealand, via Bouthamptost.....May 23. Ditto, via Ditto, via Panama liay 2J. limit, 'Samos Ayres, and Monte Vitioo Jun* 4. Ditto, by French paokat . . Juno 2: Cape. Vorda, by Brazil paoiret Jape of i.kood Liopo. Asoonston, and St. lielena June t 2. Penang, and Singapore, via douthainpton June 6. Ditto, via Itaratilles .. •••••June 11. Fait.laud. Isiah:is oilbraitur, via Southampton ladia,via Southampton ..... . ••• Ditto, vi.t. Hardetl.es lalta, rleap t, 3.. May 3). Ditto, Alarseilles May --. Slauritius, Cape of Goo.' Ilope, and Natal, via Southampton _ _ DUO, - Alarseiiies June 18 SewfoandlAnd ..... ......Juue 3 eortugal Ditto, by p le ship to Oporto Ditto c;tto to Lisbon United States, t anada, California, &c., by British packet . May 23 Ditto, by L cited States packet Ditto ditto 'New York) Ditto ditto 'New York) DM) dittt (Baltimore) Ditto, by Canadian packet , m a y 29, West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffd June .1 %Vest Indies and Paific (except blexioo and Baha- COURSE OF .EXCHANGE—This Evening. Amsterdam Short ... 11 17! ... 11 18} Ditto Rotterdam — ... 11 19 ... 12 Antwerp — ... 25 37 ... 25 421 Brnssels .... ~.- llatuhurgia ..•• • • ... 13 91 ... 13 10k Paris Short ... 25 15 ••• 25 25 Ditto 3 Ms. ... 2 i 32} ... 25 37} Marseilles — ... 25 821. ... 25 40 Frankfort-on-the-Main ... ... 120f_ • • 120 f Vienna — ... 11 8 ,, .... 11 u 0 Trieste - ••• 11 go ll' 90 Petersburg — ••• 32 ... an 6 2! ..• 6 27} Berlin ••• ••• 48/ •.• 48} Madrid — ••• Cadiz .1 • 27 70 ... 27 00 Leghorn — _ .. 27 70 ... 27 70 Milan... Genoa _ ... 27 70 ... 27 70 27 70 ... 27 70 Naples ............ ••• -• _ _ _„ _ _ Palermo ................ ... 27 70 ... 27 70 ............ ••• 27 70 ... 27 70 Lisbon ............... 51 , Li Oporto ............ ...• 511 'L W. Mossman, Rector of West Tor rinTritioenn, Levi;colnshire, has established in his parish a << congregation of the Venerable Bede, to ob serve the holy rule of St. Benedict," and has issued the following proposal :—" I want help very, very much, to assist a poor student and candidate for holy orders in passing through Oxford. To show how very strongly I feel about this I will promise that if any Catholic friends will help me in this matter I will make out a list of their names, and that so long as I live, and so long as the congrega tion of the Venerable Bede remains in existence, there shall be an offering of the Holy Eucharist weekly specially for their benefit, whether they be living or departed," rST. 6., I 10 iOO