The Sun. — London, England, 1868-08-06 00:00:00

310NEi -MAREET7 AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, CITY, Two o'CLocc 'rue stock markets aro fiat, chieriy upon the absence of business. The Funds are a further k per cent. .lower, and what changes have taken place in the Eng lish securitie s are a d verse . Foreign stocks are like. 'wise rather lower. In American, Erie, which yester (l37 fell 3 per cent., have recovered Otherwise this department is also lower. The Discount Market remains firm, and the rate for the best bills is 1 to la per cent. Consols aro flat, and show a further fafl of at 94 to 941 for money, and 94k to 941 for September ; Five and Reduced Three per Cents, 94k to 94k ; India two per Cents. unaltered, at 1141 to 115 i ; Bank Stock, 247 to 249 ; Exchequer Bills, 14s to 183 Oren Foreign Stocks are very quiet, and rather lower. ~Tesictn are 15/ to 155 ; Greek, 13 to 135 ; New Spanish 3• 33h- to 331 ; Italian, 5.21 to 53 ; Turkish, " 34 to .3`3 :1 ; Brazilian, 775 to 78 ; Peruvian, 79 to 79; . ‘ 4 • Egyptian (1804), 85 to 86 ; Viceroy's Seven "" cent., 72 to 725 ; and the Nine per Cents., 91 n 9 15. The Honduras Loan has rallied 5 to 83. Great In,lian Peninsular Railway New Four per C' I )i. l o , :tturo Stock is 901 to 961. To American Securities, United States 5-20 Bonds are 3 a. lower, at 701 to 71/ ; Erie Shares show a 15 °i'ery of 15, at 36 to 40 ; while Illinois are 5 worse, 91 5 to sI (Jo lothar Government Securities are steady. Canada I per Cent. 103 to 105 ; Mauritius Six per Cent., 103 t o , 105_ ; New South Wales Five per Cent., 99 " (1 ° 101 ; New Zealand Six per Cent., 110 to 112 ; Queensland Six per Cent., 105 to 106; Victoria Six Per Cent. 113 to 115. _ Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures Ir 3 391 to 40± ; and the Consolidated Mortgage Bonds at 405 to 41. English Railway Shares aro in little request, and p r ices are scarcely altered. Caledonian is / lower, at to 78 ; Midland, 5, at 107 to 1075 ; and Great ~•,',stern a further 5, at 39 to 395 ; while Great ! i yeatern / better, at 505 to 51. Th following are ; 40 quotatio ns : —L a ncashire and Yorkshire, 1305 to 1 , 31 South Eastern, 771 to 772 ; London and North .rn, 1165 to 117 ; Great Northern, 1065 to 1075 ; tilt () A, 1045 to 1055 ; London, Brighton, and South e 'alt, 54 to 544 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin !olnsliire, 43/ to - 432 ; Metropolitan, 117/ to 1172 ; London Chatham and Dover, 20/ to 205. Foreign Railways are quiet. Lombardo-Venetian ' 8 Marked at 155 to 165 ; and Great Luxembourg, 12 7 , to 13k. Lank Shares are very quiet. The following are the rotations :—Agra (A), 115 to 12 ; 105 4 ° 9 4 dia.; An 10-Austrian 7 to 75 prem. ; Char tered Mercantile, 284 to 295 ; Consolidated, 4a to „,-; Imperial, 17 to 18 ; Imperial Ottoman, fto I V r e e t n• ; London and County, 52 to 53 ; London and „ itminster, 68 to 69 ex div.; ditto, New, 485 to 1 74 . ; °dental, 44 to 45 ; London Joint-Stock, 325 ° -,. 33 ex div. ; Union of London, 35 to 36 ex dir. In Foreign Mining Shares St. John del Rey is i b etter, at 20 to 21 ; Port Philip steady, at 1 5 ) t ; Chontales, 25 to 2i ; Rossa Grande, 5 - 16 , i- 16 prem. t -311 scellaneous Securities are dull. Anglo-A merican e le graph, 21k to 2U ; Atlantic Telegraph 8 per Western•, 3 13-16 to 3 15-16 ; Atlantic and Great Mortgage Bonds, 405 to 41 5 ; Hudson's Bay, ln 1 4 e 3 ; London General Omnibus, 12 to 2. 1. biddings for £200,000 in bills on Calcutta ana ' t iras were held yesterday afternoon at the Bank of n u i lia nci• The amounts allotted were to Calcutta x ~ 7 ,200, an d to M a d ras £22,800. The minimum evree was fi xe d as before,o is 105 d on both Presiden s, and tend ers a t l s 10 will receive about 94 per cee T;) those above will be allotted in full. treerY ao interim dividend of the City of London .. w Company is at the rate of 7 per cent. per unurn. A first di v id en d o f 2 s 7d i n the pound is in course o ir payment to the creditors of the separate estate of BS. M Peto, of 2s 2d on the separate estate of E. etts) and of is 10d on the estate of Peto and ae. t fourth di v id en d o f i s i n th e pound is announced b y ba tho liquidators of the Birmingham Banking Com ,n,Y, making 17s paid. report of the 'Worcester City and County a j l rig Company announces a dividend and bonus the rate of 15 per cent. per annum. ?be. liquidators - of the Imperial Mercantile Credit se dation have announced that they are prepared to lessthe p rom i ssory notes d ue on D ecem ber 30 next, 5 per cent. interest. 4 -t a meeting of directors of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company held yesterday, it was decided to recommend to the proprietors, at their next Ill ceting, to d ec l are a di v id en d f or the h a lf year at the r 42 of G per cent. per annum, less income-tax. I Including the w ithd rawa l yes t er d ay o f £98,000 i n uzir gold for Paris,_ the bullion operati ons at the Bank the past week have resulted in £200,000 being t aken out. The Bristol and Exeter Railway dividend is at the I ' 4o of 31 per cent. per annum, leaving £7OO to be c arried forw ar d. 11 , 111 0 half-yearly meeting of the London and North cstern Railway has been called for the 21st inst., o r t he transaction of the ordinary business of the odp thy. a j l ho ordinary general meeting of the Sit tingbourne 80 ,Sheerness R a il wa y h as b e en convened for the t .," inst., for the p ur p ose o f rec ei v ing the directors' Pzt and statement of accounts. itayc half - yearly meeting of the Great Northern A WaY has been called for the 22nd inst. e knit xtraordinary general meeting of the Mortgage th e of India h as b een ca ll e d f o r the 14th inst., for k ee P, u rpose of confi rm in g the resolutions passed at the _ang on th e 3 0t h J u l y. T ei n: ordinary genera l mee ti ng o f the British Electric iti at. '?“l 3ll Company has been called for the 21st haTh© directors of the Berlin Water Works Company e i nn livened the half-yearly meeting of shareholders etoe 18th inst. ne following is the report of the London . and p re ll , n r t .Y BAnk •.—" The directors, in submitting to the itetors the balance-sheet of the bank for the half o-ar en ding' the 30th of June last, have the pleasure to e4,tePort that, after paying all charges, and interest fto' t°lll ers, and making provision for bad anddoubt . - . ii t.debts, the net profits amount to £72,165 12s . 6d f,• 0 1 41111 , added to £7,810 16s 20, brought forward 63 t o n the last account, produces a total of £79, _ p er d• They have declared the usual dividend of Ye ar ce . with a bonus of 2 per cent. for the half ati e ' free of income-tax (equal to 1G per cent. per 4,0 11 ,-, 111 . ), which will absorb £75,884 5s 4d, and leave lo aa ' 2 33 40 to be carried forward to the profit and i nv account. Th e di v id en d an d b onus (together or r a t ' s Per shar e ) w ill b e paya bl e a t th e h e ad office, r/ th "3r of the bra nc h es , on an d a ft er Monday, the mt?) Ate B anth Br 3. Bischoffsheim and Goldschmidt, under the / 3 41 ) °ri tY Of the French Government, opened their of icjiPtiOn lists for the French Three per Cent. Loan a e3 e . 6 B this morning, and they will close on Wed the ` I Y next, the 12chinst. It may bo repeated that Atta e t ri c,° of issue is 69i p er cen t., w ith coupon ap e eci from t h e Ist July, and that with the allow ieyt a l the l oan will return 4i per cent. The first t1601111„nt, 3 per cen t., th at i s t o say , f or ever y Day b ,,„" r 2)500fr, nominal capital, £3 or 75fr., and the pen allotment, including the deposit, 10 itite e` "ent• The remaining payments are divided fro k m ghteen monthly instalments, extending il l I f) 21St September to the 21st February, 1870, two daysbut if paid in London they must be paid two previously to these dates ; and Messrs. 413 ai ° "heirn and Goldschmidt intimate that the first sted i t nent will be received by them at 25fr. per £1 Th e t ri g) and th e others at the exchange of the day. Dorti: ta l amount su b scr ib e d to the L oan an d t h e pro ip t h nate reduction of applications will be published aloniteu r b y the French G overnment ; an d :13pota,•,Bischoffsheim and G o ld sc hmidt will, as soon the a „, 33 ' le, issu e to their subscribers a statement o f lUorrlunt to b e returned to them. For amounts o f ea Pitrennte (3,333 f r. 33 c ., or £133 6s 80 nominal veto French Government Scrip will be deli nWa emaller amounts the agents will issue their vil ak : e c a r . il) ' and no commission of any kind will be (iOI3RITISII FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. a VER,I:AEXT FUNDS. 941 4 1 13! Oetit. Consuls 941 4 t , a Ditto for Account, Sopt. 8 94k 1 1 1 Z per Cent. Reduced 941 * 1,4 a per Cent _ i \ i ' lf 21 per Cent. Jan. 1891 Ann -°' 5 per C . 1873 D°,4410530 ''':",* dmi p;re sth Jnn., 1880 —. , for 30 y v rst r , s ex ls p x ire sth i April l, . 188 n 5 : xd tx,, t , k"'d S9:l. Teleuaph , . g i , iuu° pal rs-gociner B • Ils 41 000 2 per Ct .„, o. i , , 7 13 17 D o , £5OO 13 17 ~ 33 kw,. £lOO 1 j3°'' of Engli.nd Stock, 4i per Cent -7, . te,°°°°l ... ........................... . ..4,1•111-.....N ,ircaNmENT SECtiltlllEt, _215 ila. t '''e t e , ,, 10i per Cent., April 1874 ... ilo• Opening, for Account D ° ' 5 per 1) Coot. July, 1880 .% 4 Per Cent., Oct,. 1888 Do. Cartißcates Y a p ... .. , 9 - 1 1,0. Erifaced e, 4 per Cent '''. per Cent., Jan. 1872 D o D° • 4 per Cent., May 1879 — ° 6 par Cont., Rup, Deb. 1872 — Do, do. 1877 D o 13, +-N ' do. 1882 _ D"• i)eb 0 t Aug. 73 b, , ~ , per au ~ ,-,. ..... /I'. uends 4er Cent , £l,000 -.°*ll4eler4lP,ooo . . ..................... PRICES. A eiliIGN FUNDS —CLOSING 13m, -tgent'n,, ~ (1 414 t,„,... 1-- ,kepulic 6 per Cent -"4"3°134; 51per Cent,lo9 ~, 63 ITat. ,gust 5. Louise, Osborne sses, - with )oard the le Prin ce ,00n af ter 'or Cher' ook laCe - ...rday, 13. LIAM. both by brate" at e On t" a great ~ se annual Lys beau" ;rest, nial fi n ishing .e the la st , t e chnica l • what is ically. A lines is [e, Soule' tee of at the plait enders, a 3 Icy Wonla ack are a 3 use befo re however, treat sieg e xrt of the a - gest but iheso feats r too pre' al. " T tiO at pla ces bolo force s, Was n ot ) be d°ll° therefore, L ine trooP s to the dif y lo n g irj ; th e attae ms i lines b a ':, cree.- 'eater part was 13(4 grante d )eaplets iu the o we up neared ;hapPe ue s muc h tlB ---`' -. / d ' Brazilian 5 per Cent Do. 41 per Cent., 1852 7O Do. do., 1858....• 7Ol 70 Do. do., 1860 66i Do. do., 1863 66i 6 Do. 5 per Cent., 1865 Do Account 77} 6i 7} BuenosAyres 6 per Cent Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) Cuba, 6per Cent. Callum 6 per Cent — Do. 4} per Cant — Do. 6 per Cent., B — Do., 1867 Do., 7 por Cent., 1866 — Do.; scrip £32 paid 0 mbian, 6 per Cent. D tnisn 31 . ).r 'Cent., 1825 D iriubian Principalities, ler Cent Do 8 per Cent., 1867 — , n,uador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Egyptian, 7 per Cent — Do. Second Issue — D £5OO Bonds Do. £lO6 Bonds Do. 1864 Do. Account Do. £&;U Bonds.. Do. £lOO Bonds Government Railway Debentures 94} 3i Greek 5 per Cent., 182 f 5, ex Coups Do. Account Do. Coupons Do. Account • Gaatetnals. 5 per Cent .Honduras Gov. Rail. Loan., 10p. Ct., £25 p 83 It .inta 5 per (At. t., 1865 ;Th. Account . 85 86} Do Yaremmana Railway — 11.xicaL 3 per Cent - Ditto for Account Do. 1364 — Do 6 per Cont. Anglo-French — dontevidoan 6 per Cent. — .. II oorish Imperial 5 per Cent Now Granada • — Do 3 per Cen — Do. Deferred Do Land Warrants (Hectares) Peruvian 5 per Cent. 1865 Do Account .. 794 84 Do 44 per Cent. (Uribarren) ••• Do 44 per Cent., 1862 ... — Do Account Portuguese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, '7, '9, '6O, ,'2 '3 384 Do. do. 1567 — Do. do. Scrip, X2O paid Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St — Do 44 per Cent. 1850 Do 44 per Cent., 1860 Do 3 per Lent., 1859 Do 5 per Cent., 1862 Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1864, £lOO Bond E.., Do. do. £B4 15s. do — Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds 934 4 Do. do £B4 15s. do BB4 Do Nicolas Railway 664 4 Sar linian b per Cent — Spanish 3 per Cen . Do. Account Do. 1867 Do. Account Do. New Deferred Do‘ Account — Do. Passive Do. Account Do. Com. Cert. of Coup. not funded Do. Account Swedish Provincial Mortgage Loan — Do Government, 1864 Do do, 1868 Do do, Scrip — Tursish 6 per Cent. .... .. . — Do Account Do 6 per Cent. 1858 — Do Account Do £lOO Bonds Do 6 per Cent., 1862 Do Account Do £lOO Bonds 664 4 Do. 1863 Do 5 per Cent., 1865 Do Account Do 6 per Cent., 1865 6Ol i Do 4 por Cent., G uara nteed Venezuela, 3 per Cent. ll4 Do 6 per Cent., 1862 Do 6 per Cent. 1864 Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates .... Dividends on the above payable in London. Austrian 0 per Cent. Ei 10 Florins Belgian, 44 per cent., Ex. 25f. Dutch 24 per (lent. Ex. 12 Guil 574 Do Ac - cOunt French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. Minn 5 per Cent. 1831, Ex. 15f. Do. Account s2i CLOSING PRICES. Consols, Money • 93i 4 Do. Account, Sept. 8 RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. MIDLAND. The directors of this company have decided on recommending the proprietors to declare a dividend on the ordinary stock for the half-year ending the 30th of June last at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum. GREAT NORTHERN. The directors of this company have determined, with the concurrence of the auditors, to recommend to the proprietors at the general meeting on the 22d inst. to declare a dividend for the half-year ending the 30th of June last, at the rate of £4 ss. per cent. per annum on the original stock of the company, giving for the half-year £2 2s. 6d. per cent. to the original stock, £3 per cent. to the B stock, and £1 ss. per cent. to the A stock. BALA AND DOLGELLY. This company's line was opened for traffic yester day. It was to have been opened on Saturaay, nut the Government inspector having insisted on some improvements, these wero attended to by the con tractor as speedily as possible, and the line was opened for traffic on their completion. It is urged in favour of the construction of a railroad from St. Louis to Texas that between the Nueces and the Rio Grande rivers there are a million head of horned cattle, and ten thousand head of horses and mules. The trade of Savatonio with Mexico amounts to $8,000,000 annually. It would take a railroad fifty years to carry all the cattle in Western Texas to St. Louis. The cattle in that country are being killed for their hides alone. Such a railroad, it is stated, would not only make St. Louis the stock market of America, but would develope the finest copper, coal, and silver mines. The Government Commissioners accepted another 40-mile section of the Union Pacific Railroad on Saturday, July 11, making 683 miles now officially completed. All but about two or three miles of the second track between the city and Albany—a section be tween Chester and Middlefield—has been laid. A little more grading remains to be done, but the double track will be ready for trains the entire dis tance before October 1. A marble tablet is about to be erected at the house where Admiral Caracciolo (the liberal Admi ral who was executed by order of Lord Nelson in the early part of this century) lived at Str. Mergel lina, and on it is to be an inscription explaining the injustice he met with at the hands of the Admiral —an act which, in fact, will always be a stain on the memory of the conqueror at Trafalgar. The Peace Society has addressed a memorial to Lord Stanley, praying that he would employ the friendly offices of Great Britain with a view to ter minate the disastrous war which has so long raged between the Empire of Brazil and the Republic of Paraguay. His lordship, in his reply, gave evidence of the fact that he has already offered his mediation to the contending parties, but without success. THE CONTRACT CORPORATION.—Yesterday, at the Rolls' Chambers, the winding up matter of the Con tract Corporation was fully discussed in reference to an applicltion male for the payment of a further dividend of ls. in the pound to the creditors, making 4s. A large ' sum was roseivod on account of Barnard's Bank, and it was stated that it would take about £35,000 to pay Is. in the pound. The Chief Clerk (Mr. Church) :auctioned the dividend. Mr. Kemp, the official liquidator, attended the meeting. THE ROCHDALE TRAGEDY. —The farmer White oak, who•about a week ago murdered two of his children at Burnedge, near Rochdale, and then attempted to com mit suicide by cutting his throat, died on Tuesday, in great suffering, from the self-inflicted wound. It was deemed necessary to remove him to the workhouse, but, apparently thinking he was to be taken to prison, he re sisted violently, and it is not improbable that the excite ment caused by the removal ac.:,elexated his death. DISGRACEFUL RAPACITY.--About ten days ago two gentlemen, Mijor Morgan and Mr. Tweedie, were drowned off Millport, Firth of Clyde, by the upsetting of a small boat. Though every effort was made to recover the bodies, it was not till Monday evening last that any success attended the dragging. On that evening two fisher men found the body of Mr. Tweedie, which, however, they refu.sed to give up unless the deceased's father gave them £lOO. Mr. Tweedie, though perfectly willing to give a handsome reward for the recovery of his son's body, de murred to such an extortionate demand, but the fishermen were inexorable, and refused to bring the body on shorn till their demands were complied with. Ultimately the police had to interfere, and on threatening to take the boatmen into custody for unlawfully detaining the body, it was reluctantly given up. Great indignation was ex pressed at the conduct of the finders, the more especially that Mr. Tweedie had offered a munificent reward for the i finding of the body. THE SUN LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 6, 1868. SHARE LIST. Share i Railways. I • Bristol and gieter Caledonian ...me • • Cambrian Cork and 8and0n...... Cornwall Dublin & Beliast J unc. Dun„Perth, & Ab.Junc. lE.London, norip Corti. 82 i 4 77 78 20 80 3; 4 75 77 70 72 IJO. Glasgow & S. Western (Great Eastern .. ..... - 0 1 95 97 39i 40 9 9 15 6 106 107 100 ,U 5 Do. E. Angl. 0.4 Lircat North ot Scotland Great Northern Do. A stock • • Do. B st our. Do. New, is. at 25 prnl GtS, and W. of lrelancil t. Western —Original' Do. 6. VAL Rail. gua. Do. South Wales .... Do. W. Alid.—Oxfort. 97 18 63 55 kS 32 1)0. NeWport Do. Hereford Lauoashire & Yorks:arc ,Landon and Blackwell Lon., Brlgh.,& S. Coast ion., Chat., and Doves Do. Metrop. Ex. A Lun. & North Weeteri Lon. dt South Western Amt., Shet., & Lineoll 13'a .31 5i 55 2U 2O 1145 117 91 93 43 14 117 11 111 115 Do. 'Extension...—. Do. New trt..ll ol it an Ditstrici Do. du. do. 77 E 0 00. and St. John's NV Midland IC6I 1071! £‘,l Share Do, Birmin.. &Der b; aid Kent --- North British 100 'O 100 100 16.13.+ 7.5 77 25 27 Do. Ed., Yth., St Dun. Nth. Eastern—lierwia Do. 11..)1•E putohas Do. Leed Do. York Do. Car Do. Stook. & Darling. Do. do. 1860-61 North London Do. do. 180 5 ...... Do. do. 1866 North Staffordshire N. &S. W. Junction 1 Scottish Central Soot. N. E , Aber. stock iJo. Scot, Mid. st uck Shropshire Union South Devon south Eastern 3taines, Wok., Wok : Cad' Vale Do. C Vale of ?leash Waterford & Kilkenny Whlt.3lth 100 100 ICO all 100 ORDINARY 13HARIC8 AND STOCKS. MI I i i 1061 103 j i 4 50i 60 f I 51 zU4 i I 1161 92 431 i 117 i i 1 LO4i 4 771 I tied.' Closing Business ' i Price. done. 78 71 81 k 101 61 71 i BRITISH fOSSRS atlantic St. Lawrence Rom., Baroda, Cen.ln. gu. 5 per cent... Do. F shares Buffalo & Lake Huron Do. Preference Bull., Brant, & Goderiel -5 p.c. 1872-3-4 ... ()aloutta & B. E., lim.. Jape gut 6 per cent.... Demerara, 7 p.o. per. p. East Bengal, gu., 5 dc IGast Indian, gu. 5 p.o. Do. rand Trunkof Canad 4. Do. Equip. Mort, Bonde , 1 charge 6 p.c Do. Ist Pref. Bonds Do. do deferred De. 2d Pref. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. 3d Pref. stock— Do.- do. deferred Do. 4th Pref. stook . Do. do. deterred t 3 t. India Pen. gua. 6p.c. t. o. New 5 per cent Do. New gila. 5 p. o 'ti t. South of India gua. 5 per oent Do. 4f per cent Do - Ureat Wee. of Canada.. Do. New . • • Do. 8 p. o BL.s. pay. 1873 Do. 54 dv. pay. 1877-8.. Stadras, gua. 5 p.o Do. 42 do Do. 4i do Do. Filth Extension 11eib. Cor. 6 p. o. Bnds. 1 1 11 el. Hobson's Bay Itl.C'cla,6po Ist pt. WI 'Dude & Rhiik'nd, g. 5 p.o icinde • Do. Delhi 'Do. do t ai Do. P unj aub .• • • . 5 Do.lndus St.Flot WO too 100 all 100 100 105 57 59 93 95 133 134 131 133 119 /2i 11 12 58 50 107 109 57 69 45 17 76} 771 11 12 148 152 ,SIONB. 66 58 103 104 3 5 7 68 71 62 67 101 10 :06 IC7 17 1 8 16Z 17i 78 n 50 52 38 40 26 28 19 20 1076 1086 16 2 9 1i 2 p 105 107 99 101 Hi 14/1 99 101 91 93 1061 107.1 100 102 95 97 83 15 1056 1066 1021 1(36 1016 1026 1 P 1016 1026 108;/ 103} 102 y 3 102 k WESTMINSTER. THE HONEST ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE.--- William Yates, a young man, was charged with assaulting Elizabeth Gales. Complainant, a policeman's wife, said that she and her husband are minding a house in Bucking ham Palace-road, Pimlico. She went out yester day evening with a plate to get some butter, when defendant came up and placed one arm round her neck and the other round her waist. She imme diately struck him in the face with the plate, when he gave her a violent blow on the shoulder with his fist. George Gales, the husband, said he saw his wife assailed as described. He went up and took him into custody. I , My dear, how are you?" Mr. e id_d Defendant—l put my hand upon her shoulder an ' And what business had you to do and merely so, sir ? Defendant—lt did not do her any harm. Mr. Arnold—Didu't do her any harm. She is as much entitled to protection as the wife or daughter of a nobleman. How would a lady feel if a man to whom she was a perfect stranger came up and so conducted himself ? Defendant—See what a blow she has given me on the face. Mr. Arnold—And served you perfectly right. Defendant—l could hardly stand for the blow she gave me. Mr. Arnold—And which was well merited ; but for that I might feel disposed to commit you with out a fine. You will pay 505., or be committed for a month. THAMES. DARING BURGLARY.—Patrick Cummings, aged 24 years, was brought before Mr. Benson charged with breaking into the premises of Messrs. Kirk aldy & Co., High-street, stealing therefrom 3601b5. of tallow. After some evidence had been given the prisoner was remanded. THE LAST lIALF CEATU.RI'. It is in the three momentous matters of light, locomotion, and communication that the progress effected in this gen era ti on con t ras t s mos t surpris ingly with the aggregate of the progress effected in all previous generations put together since the earliest dawn of authentic history. The lamps and torches which illuminated Belshazzar's feast were probably just as brilliant, and framed out of nearly the same materials, as those which shone upon the splendid fetes of Versailles when Marie Antoinette presided over them, or those of the Tuileries during the Imperial magnificence of the First Napoleon. Pine wood, oil, andorliaps wax, lighted the banquet halls of the wealthi est no b les a lik e i n the 18th century before Christ and in the 18th century after Christ. There was little difference except in finish of work manship and ele gance of d es i gn —little, if any, ad vance, we mean, i n thetin powerillumi was na drawn—between the lamps used i n th e days o f the Pyramids, the days of the Coli seum, and t h e d a y s of Kensington Palace. Fifty years ago, illuminating the source whence that e wr inn that is, we burnt the same articles, and got about the same amount of light from them, as we did 5,000 years ago. Now we use gas of which each burner is equal to fifteen or twenty candles ; and when we wish for more can have recourse to the electric light or analogous inventions, which are 50-fold more bril liant and far-reachi ng than even the best gas. The streets of cities, which from the days of Pharaoh to those of Voltaire were dim and gloomy, even where not wholly unlighted, now blaze every where (except in London) with something of the brilliancy of moonlight. In a word, all the ad vance that has been made in these respects has been made since many of us were children. We remember light as it was in the days of Solomon, we see it as Drummond and Faraday have made it. The same thing may be said of locomotion. Nimrod and Noah travelled just in the same way, and just at the same rate, as Thomas Assheton Smith and Mr. Coke of Norfolk. The chariots of the Olympic games went just as fast as the chariots that conveyed our nobles to the Derby, "in our hot youth, when George 111. was King." When Abraham wanted to send a message to Lot he despatched a man on horseback, who gal loped twelve miles an hour. When our fathers wanted to send a message to their nephews they could do no better and go no quicker. When we were young, if we wished to travel from London to Edinburgh, we thought ourselves lucky if we could average eight miles an hour—just as Robert Bruce might have done. Now, in our old age, we feel ourselves aggrieved ii wo do not average 40 miles. Everything that has been done in this line since the world began—everything, perhaps, that the capa cities of matter and the conditions of the human frame will ever allow to be done, has been done since we were boys. The same at sea. Probably when the wind was favourable, Ulysses, who was a bold and skilful navigator, sailed as fast as a Dutch merchantman of the year 1800, nearly as fast at times as an American yacht or clipper of our fathers' day. Now, we steam 12 and 15 miles an hour with wonderful regularity, whether wind and tide be favourable or not—nor is it likely we shall ever be able to go much faster. But the progress in the means of communication is the most remarkable of all. In this respect Mr. Pitt was no better off than Pericles or Agamemnon. If Ruth had wished to write to Naomi, or David to send a word of love to Jonathan when he was a hundred miles away, they could not possibly have done it under 12 hours. Nor could we to our friends 30 years ago. In 1867 the humblest citizen of Great Britain can send a message, not 100 miles, but 1,000 in 12 minutes.—Spectator. MADAME TUSSAUD'S. —The life-size portrait models of Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth have been enriched by dresses of the most costly and elaborately embroidered description, copied from authentic paintings of fth of elegance ePeri oclln and tile present riciek richness, arepoint as nothing to those of the FiLiztkintilau age. THE LORD MAYOR ELECT OF DUBLIN. (From the Freeman's Journal.) The selection :of the Lord Mayor of Dublin for the ensuing year is not a question of " com pact" or of " promise"--a question of sectarian bigotry, or of civic liberality, ; nor yet one of personal merit, or individual favouritism. A far higher and more important issue has been raised, and, ,from being a merely personal or even a muni cipal question, the Dublin Mayoralty for 1869 has assumed the proportion of a national and imperial question. Mr. Mackey is personally a very .eligible candidate, but he is not the only man. in the Council who is worthy to fill the office of ChiJ Magistrate. Mr. Mackey h:is troops of personal friends who would be glad to pay him a com pliment ; but while men have a perfect right to be generous with that which is their own, they have no right, acting in a repr:sentative capacity, to barter the rights and liberties of a people, that they may make momentary character with their enemies for a mock liberality which has no real ex istence. The organs of the Ascendancy faction as sert that there was a " complet " to elect a Con servative this year. There was no such compact— there was no such undertaking—no such promise made by the Liberal party, or on their behalf. "There may have betn some individual promises made to Mr. Mackey or to Conservative leaders ; but the Liberal party, as a party, made no such promise, and Mr. -lackey's acceptance as a Con servative was the result of the accident that no other candidate came forward, and was not even suggested to be the realization of a previous party arrangement. This being so, how does the matter stand now ? Simply this : When—in an hour of generous weakness, forgetful of their duty to their country, to their principles, and to the great question upon which the fate of this Empire hangs—the Catholic and Liberal members accepted Mr. Mackey they did not dream that their supreme forgetfulness of the crisis would be used by their enemies to prove to Europe and the world that Catholic Ireland for got her history—that the leading Catholics of Dub lin were traitors to their race, their creed, their nationality, and had with one consent " bowed their knees to Baal," and cursed the proffered boon of religious equality as a matter which the vulgar might prize, but which the rising Catholics of the metropolis despised and abhorred as the mere food of " sacerdotal confederates." The Catholics who voted for an Ascendancy candidate did not foresee the use that would be made of their soft-headed conduct. They see it now. Their liberality was called treachery to their party. Their generosity was proclaimed to be a protest against what Mr. Mackey calls a " sacerdotal confederacy," and to be the answer of Ireland to Mr. Gladstone's Church resolutions. This new issue has been raised --raised by the Church Defence Association and its organs—accepted in self-congratulatory silence by Mr. Mackey—proclaimed in every Orange Lodge in Dublin—and the " Catholics" who sustained Church Ascendancy toasted it amid rounds of Kentish fire at the nightly orgies of the faction. It is with this new issue, and not with alleged compacts or the promises of individuals—or so called breached of pledged words—that the Catho lic public have to deal, and on this issue Catholic Corporators will have to vote on Monday next. Did any Catholic vote for Mr. Mackey as the first and most presentible member of the Church De- fence Society? If he did, of course he will repeat. his vote on Monday, and thus proclaim his own adhesion to the Church Defence Association and to its principles. Did any Catholic vote for Mr. Mackey as one of the committee who denounced to the empire as a "sacerdotal confederacy" the cardinal, the bishops, and the clergy of Ireland, who humbly crave the English Legislature to give the same civil rights and religious freedom to Catholics as Protestants enjoy ? If he did—be will no doubt have the manly con sistency to proceed to the City Hall on Monday and flaunt in the face of the country the banner ou which "Sacerdotal Confederacy" is inscribed, and by his vote proclaim with Mr. Mackey that the Popish religion is " pregnant with disorder and mis chief to our social organisation—utterly opposed to British laws and to civilisation." Did any Catholic vote for Mr. Mackey as a pro test against the policy of religious equality, dises tablishment, and disendowinent, as proposed by Mr. _ _ Gladstone in the name of the English nation as an act of tardy justice due to the Irish race and to the Catholic people ? If he did, it will be his duty to avow this his "protest "—to justify and enforce it before his fellow-citizens on Monday. But if, as we contend, no Liberal iProtestant and no Catholic voted for Mr. Mackey upon these several grounds, or on any of them —if this degrading interpretation was put on the over-generous act of the Catholic representa tives of Dublin in order that the ,chains of Ascendancy might be rivetted with greater tight ness and permanency—if Catholics were first betrayed into an act of political forgiveness, and if their kindness was used to brand them as slaves, traitors, and knaves—then every Catholic into whose heart the iron of slavery has not burned —every Catholic who respects himself, who looks to a bright future of equality for his children and prosperity for this old land—will vindicate himself, his race, and his nation from the insulting inter pretation put on his weakness by the men whose iron hoof is still upon us, and who seek to per petuate the Ascendant Church as the badge of con pest-=the recipient of the enforced tribute paid by slaves. Each man must take his side on Monday—with those who would " civilise" Ireland out of Catho licity, or with those who, by disestablishing the Church of the conqueror, would leave the faith of the native Irish " free." 111ARKE7S-7Hls DAY. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. There was a full supply of stock on offer again to-day : but the condition was very indifferent, which tended to in crease the alroady dull state of the trade. Of beasts there were 1,080, including 20 foreign, And they met a slow sale, at late rates. Of sheep and lambs 20,530 came to hand, 2,630 being foreign. Sales of both progressed heavily, prices favour ing buyers. There is a better inquiry for veal, and prime qualities made rather better prices. GO3 calves were at market, 322 being foreign. _ .. . Thera were 50 pigs on sale, of which 23 were English fed. Sales were made at late rates. Quotations :—B ef, 3s to 5s 2d ; mutton, 3s to 4s 10d veal, 3s to 5s ; pork, 3s to 4s 6d ; lamb, 4s 4d to 5s per stone per 81bs sinking the offal. COLONIAL AND FOREIGN PRODUCE. Sugar—The demand is still very moderate, but rates are not quotably lower, either floating or on the spot. Coffee.—The auctions are again upon a liberal scale, but there is a fair demand at yesterday's decline, and if any thing the tone is steadier. Tea—The auctions were resumed this morning, and are progressing with a fair spirit, at quite the opening prices. COTTON. LITERrooL, Aug. 6.—Sales probably 8,000 bales, Market quiet and uucbangod. FREEDOM OF TILE MITT OF EDINBURGH.—At a meeting of the Town Council of Edinburgh, held on Tues day, the Lord Provost moved, " That in respect of the brilliant and successful services of Lieut.-General Lord Napier of Magdala, as Commander-in-Chief of the Expedi tion to Abyssinia, the freedom of the city be conferred on his lot dship." Bailie Skinner seconded the motion, which was unanimously agreed to. Mr. Slott then moved, " That the freedom of the city ba conferred on Sir James Y. Simp son, of Strathaven, M.D., D.C.L., Professor of Midwifery in the University of Edinburgh, whose numerous and varied contributions to medical scionc) and to literature, and articularly w hose distinguished discoveries and appliances for the alleviation of human suffering have se: ved to main tain and extend the reputation of the city and its medical school, and entitle him to the respect and gratitude of his fellow citizens." Mr. Cousin seconded the motion. Mr. Howden opposed the motion on the ground that Sir James had already declined to accept the honour, and that the proposal was calculated to convey a reflection against the four curators who opposed that gentleman's election to the principalship of the University. The Lord Provost and Mr. Stott explained that Sir James had not declined this honour, but had merely refused to accept an invitation to a banquet. After some further conversation the 'notion was agreed-to, MA-ii9Virden Pattanach climating! COLONIAL GIOVERNMNNT SECUIcITIE6. 8 British Columbia, 6 per Cent.,1872..... ..... 100 Can.tiov.6 p.s.Ja.a J uly 1877-81 Do. 6g. 0. Feb. Sc Aug lOO 102 203 Do. sp. c. Mar. & Sept 100 101 106 Do. sp. o. Jan. a July 100 91 93 92 Do. sp. o. Inscribed sk 110 90 92 Cape Ilope. 6 p. 0.1873 100 102 101 0o.Apl.&Oot 1590-1900 100 111 113 Do. do 1880-90 1 100 107 109 Do. Jan.StJuly, 1891 Do. 5 per oent. 15 April and 15 Oct., 1900 lOO 08 100 Ceylon, Nov. 1875, 6 100 1(.8 110 Do. 1872, do lOO 105 107 Mauritius, 6 p. 0, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1878 ... lOO 106 108 do. 1882, May and Nov. 10u 106 11.8 Do. 1895, Feb. a Aug., 100 100 08 Natal Gov. 6 per cent lOO -- N.B.Gov.6p.c.Ja.aJulyl 100 99 10 N. S.W. Gay. 5 p•0.,186bi 100 92 101 Do. 5 p.c. 1871 to 1876: 100 98 90 D o. 5 P.O. 1888 to 1896 100 98 10. 91 New Zealand, 6p. cent 1 100 Do. 5 per cent lOO 971 981 lova Soutia Gov. 6p. a. sterling, 1875 lOO 101 203 - Zueensland Gov. 6p. e. 100 105 106 S.Aues.Gov. 6p.c.186. 771 100 Do. 1878 & upwards 1(0 110 111 VlO CI ov, Jsalyl 100 Do. do. April & Oot 1 100 112 114 114 BRITIIBI4 MINES. Cam. Consol. Gold, Lila 1 Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated. as& 1 2 Devon G. Cons. (Tavlst. 1 420 430 Drakewalls 2l 4 East Bassett (Illogau) 331 10 12 East Caradon 2.14.0 3 4 Nast Carn Brea 24 6 1 - ast Grenville 3.12 6 11 2 Nast Gunnislake . 1 I Nast Lovell 8.0.0 8 9 E. W'l Russell (Tavistk 12 15.6 1 StAubyn(G wen. 72 2 4 4 Great Laxey, limited all 16 17 .3 reat South Polgus 1.4.0 Great Wheal lsusy. 14.9.6 (1. Wheal Vor (11elst , tt 10 15 18 irenville lst 11 14 Ilerod's Foot 8.10.0 88 40 llingston Downs 5.10.E 21 21 Margaret (Uny Lelant 13.17.6 6 IS Mat ke Valley +.10.0 7 74 4 dwyndy Iron Ore, Hut 3.7.0 21 11 a elv Seton ..... I 591 60 70 North 1061 t ear N.Wh Bassettallogan 4.1. , North v'Theal Crotty .. 3.11 3 2 3 Prosper United........ 8.11.0 2 21 Pruvidence,UnyLelant 11.6.7 20 23 S. Caradon (St. Cleer).. 11 360 350 South Coudurrow :4 18 4 1 S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan 18. 18 .9 17 4 15 1 ltray Park 41.0.8 4 6 oln 71gra and Clogan, Rm all - - West Bassett (Iliogan 14 - W. Caradon (Ltskeard ',Si 10 ,2 West Chiyerton lO 6) 62 West Seton 471 190 200 Wheal Bassett !Mogan 61 62 67 Wheal Buller (Redruth 22 15 4 5 .._ Wheal Mary Ann (Men. 8 20 22 Wheal Seton Wheal Trelawney (Ida. 6.17.0 8 10 PREFERENCE S. Great Northern, 4 per cent. rd. at itIIES. ,0 per cent. pm., 97a L EVES LEASED AT FIXED EIs;NTAL 3. Notting lam and Grantham R. and C, 941 TOIUGIGN KALI, WA re. Buenos Ayres, Greet Southern, Urn., gua. 7 per cent, 151 San Paulo, liui., gua. 6 per cent., 171 FOttICIULI 11(6410.: Anglo Brazil/ D. Gold, ll)n Vcdru. Nr'rtli Del I:ey, 2 St. John del Rey, Hai , :0} United Mexican, lirn., BANAL. Agra, lirn., A, 114 Ditto, B, 9 Australasia, 531 4 Chartered Bank of India. Australia, and Minx, 19 Chartered ler. o' India, London, and China, 20 j East London, lien., 3i Engtish. Soo:ch. and Australian Chartered, isi Imperial Ottoman, ti 10i Laud Mortgage Bank of India, I im., London and River Plate, 43 L on don Chartered L:anit ot Australia, 231 1 • London and County, 52} London Joint Stock. 33 London and VI estiutnster, OEI 1 Ditto, Scrip, 4) National Provincial of England. 33 Ditto, , t,l and 3d issue, 391 9 Union of Australia, 4 I MISCELLANEOUIN Anglo American Telegraph, 2la Atlantic Telegraph, Ditto. 8 pJr cent , 781 E 0 Berlin Water Works, 15z Commercial Union. Insuranae, 5 7-16 Credit Foncier of England, Urn., 2 12-15 Egyptian 9 per Cent.. Viceroy Loan, gun., 01 90} Electric anti International Telegraph, Ditto, new, 17 Fore-street Warehouse, 1im.,_12 Gen. Credit and Discount, 1 , m., 5i London Financial Association, lim., 7i Peninsula and Oriental *team. 55 Renter's Telegram, 53, 1 Royal Mail Stearn, ID teottish Australian Investment, lim., 110 Telegraph Construct. and Maintenance, 151 Universal Marine (insurance), Um., Gi Viceroy of Egypt (➢lortgage) Loan, 721 A Fnurrrur. TlME.—l'he second quarter of the present year is the first time that 200,000 children have been born alive in England r.nd Wales in a quarter of a year. Thu exact numb.r: reached 202,892-2,230 a day, 1i a minute, if we might divide a child. The marriages iu 1867 had been fewer than in either of the three pre ceding years, bill in 1864, 1865, and 1866 they had been unusually numerous. The death-rate in the second quarter of the year 1868 being lower than in the spring quarter of any year since the national civil registration began, the extraordinary result is presented of no less than 14 of the 40 counties of England having twice as many births as deaths—viz., Kent, Berkshire, Hertford shire, Buckinghamshiro, Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Somerset, Staf fordshire, Worcestershire, Lincolnshire, and Durham. The came may In said, too, of South ?No, taken as a vellole. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-THIS DAY. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. STREET OUTRAGE.—George Patterson, a shoe maker, of No. 50, Cleveland-street, was charged before Mr. Knox with assaulting Mrs. Emma Bed ford and Mrs. Emma Weakley, mother and daugh ter, residing at No. 5 : St. Anu's-court, Soho. Mrs. Bedford said that at a quarter to one that morning she was walking along the Tottenham court-road, accompanied by her daughter, on the way home from Camden-town, where they bad been to see some friends, when the prisoner and two other young men came up to them, and the prisoner made a very insulting remark to her (laughter. She told the prisoner that he had no right to speak to them as they were respectble women, upon which the prisoner pulled 1 - 1;.;r daughter about in a most improper manner, tore her dress, and as she (witness) was expostulating with him, he gave her a blow in the temple and kicked her ou the side; and had a constable not come up she did not know what would have been done. Mrs. Emma Weakly, daughter of th 9 previous witness, gav'-:, similar evidence, and also stated that the prisoner struck her. Police constable Couk, 9G E, s Lid that. hearing screams in the Tottenham-court-road lie went to the spot, and saw the prisoner pushing the first witness against the shutter, and she gave the pri soner in charge for assaulting her by striking her in the eye. At that time the witness's dress was torn, as it now appeared. In his defence, the prisoner said he was walking along the road when some remark was made to the females, upon which they seized him by the hair of his head, one on each side, mistaking him for another person. Mr. Knox- said he believed the story told by the females and not that told by the prisoner. lie thought it very unlikely that two respectable women —a mother and daughter, would go up to a young man and attack him without any cause. Ile con sidered the prisoner's conduct perfectly heinous. Women were entitled to the protection of the law; for such ruffianly conduct he should commit the prisoner for two months' with hard labour. b7i 1031 4 THE NEW DOCK AT BOULOGNE. The floating dock at Boulogne has been open to all descriptions of shipping, if towed by the steam tug attached to it, since the Ist inst. It had pre viously been entered by several vessels, especially by the English steamer Garrison, from Archangel, which entered it on the 11th of July, and dis charged 5,474 quarters of oats in five days ; and the restriction obliging the aid of a tug will no longer be obligatory in a few weeks' time, when the channel leading to the lock-gates has been deepened to its full width. It will take some months before the accessories of the dock are com pletely finished, and it is possible that the public inauguration, at which thu, presence of the Emperor is fully expected, may be delayed to that extent ; but as the dock is now virtually opened for ship ping it seems the right moment to notice a great work which will exorcise a very cousi Icrable in iluence on the progress and prosperizy of the port of Boulogne, an I which is of in a2rial import ance viewed iu relation to the international traffic of which Eoulogne is the chief port. The floating ck at Boulogne was commenced in the year 1859, aid has thus been nine years in course of comple. tion. The total cost has been a little under £300,000, bat would have been much more had not the whole of the space it occupies on the west side of Bou logne harbour, at Capecure, been already in the possession of the French Government, so that there was no land to purchase ; while, as it partly occu pies the site of the old semicircular basin, there was, to that extent, less excavation required. Had the funds been granted more freely it could easily have been finished in half the time. Such au establishment had become of the utmost ne cessity in the port of Boulogne, which is not only one of the most important of the trad ing ports of France, but has for many years occu pied the principal place in the international trade between France and England, which, sinca the in troduction of a more liberal commercial system iu France, has acquired such vast proportions. While, on account of the mail service, Calais divides the passenger traffic with Boulogne, the great bulk of the goods traffic is concentrated at Boulogne, and a few figures will give some idea of its extent. In 1867 the number of vessels that entered Boulogne was 2,346, and their tonnage 384,131 tons. The tonnage weight of imported goods was 195,302, and the number of passengers arriving or departing by sea 152,931. The Customs' dues were £164,986, while at Calais they amounted only to £31,116. In the same year the movement of passengers at the Boulogne Railway station was 3 . 23,183, and of goods 388,782 tons ; and the total receipts at the railway stations were £169,524; at Dunkirk they were £123,748 ; and at Calais £114,583. The movement of bullion at Boulogne was £12,523,488, and at Calais £708,940. These figures more or less represent the trade occupying the lines of steamers between London and Boulogne, and Folkestone and Boulogne, but there are other ele ments of trade at Boulogne. In 18G7 the imports of coal from England were 98,848 tons. There is a large Baltic timber trade, and there were belonging to Boulogne 156 boats employed in the fisheries, of an aggregate tonnage of 6,635 tons. Moreover, the position of Boulogne, its facility of access, the rise of the tide, which exceeds that at Dunkirk by over three feet, and its frequent use as a port of refuse in bad weather, all combine to make a float ing dock, easily accessible, and permitting large vessels always to remain afloat, a matter of the first necessity. Until now ships have had to take the mud at low water. The basin now opened for shipping occupies a superficies of more than 17 acres, with a quay wall frontage of 3,600 ft., and a superficial quay space of over 240,000 square feet for the stowage of goods. It is of irregular shape, and about 1,300 ft. in greatest length, and 630 ft. in greatest breadth. It is excavated to a uniform depth of about 30ft. below high water spring tides, and is intended to contain a depth of from 20ft. to 25ft. of water. It is entered directly from the Channel between the piers of Boulogne harbour, making ingress and egress easily at all times, through a lock with two sets of gates, so con structed as to admit the largest vessels, but gene rally intended to act as a half-tide basin, and to accommodate several vessels of medium tonnage at a time. The lock, or half-tide basin, is 32ft. in length and 68ft. in breadth, with a depth over the cill of the gates of 29ft. at high water spring tides, and 23ft. at high water neap tides. It is evident, therefore, that if Cie harbour and external channel were sufficiently deepened, so as to be in harmony with the entrance to the dock, it would be always accessible to the largest trading vessels. But this is not the case, and the facility of entering it is measured not by its own depth, but by that of the channel leading to it over the bar of Boulogne harbour. This is stated by the most recent measurements to be about 24ift. at high water spring tides, and 19ft. at high water neap tides. From these figures about 3f t. must be deducted for the fall of the waves, the allowance to be made for not following the exact channel and other causes ; and, finally, the maritime autho- rifles of BoUlogne declare the harbour to be easily accessible under all circumstances to vessels draw ing 21ift. water at high water spring tides and 16ft. at high water neap tides. Consequently a vessel drawing 16 feet to 16 feet 6 inches may be sure to enter the bassin-a-fluts any day that it may present itself at the entrance of the port, and this measures at present the facilities extended to commerce and the navigation of the channel by the new dock just opene I at Boulogne. As it is, vessels of this size have to wait several days before they can enter the harbour of Dankirkif they happen to present themselves before it at neap tide, so that even at this moment the opening of the new dock at Boulogne marks an important im provement in the facilities presented to navigation by the harbours on the north coast of France. Rails in connection with the station of the Chemin de fer du Nord run along the margin of the bassin, enabling vessels to discharge direct into the railway waggons without transshipment, and it is intended before the close of the year to provide cranes and all the most improved appliances to facilitate the loading and unloading of vessels. THE ABBEY MILLS PUMPING STATION. During the present week the vestrymen of the various districts of the metropolis have been invited by the Metropolitan Board of Works to inspect the new pumping mills at Abbey Mills, on the banks of the Thames. In order that the several boards might have a good opportunity of seeing these splendid works in operation, it was arranged that on the first four days of this week a party of the vestrymen should be asked down to the Mills. On Monday and Tuesday the members of the Eastern and Northern boards visited the new works, and yesterday the representatives of Fulham, Kensington, Paddington, Chelsea, Marylebone, St. Pancras, Hampstead, and Lewis ham were present. Four steamers were chartered for the purpose, and these left Westminster-bridge at noon, calling at some of the intermediate piers on their way down the river to North Woolwich. The trip on the Thames was for the purpose of enabling those who had been invited to view the progress which has been mada with the Thames Embankment. At North Woolwich the party, which numbered some 700 or 800, was conveyed by special train to the Mills. A full description of these works having been given in the account of the formal opening of them by Sir John Tnwaites last week, it is only necessary to say that those who inspected the buildings and engines yesterday, and on the two other days, were greatly pleased with the admirable manner in which they have been executed. Each party has been entertained at luncheon. To-day the representatives of the So athern districts will visit the works, and this will complete the inspec tion. Influential members of the Board have been present each day. Mr. Chambers, M.P., and Mr. William Newton, candidate for the Tower Hamlets, were present. All receive with satisfaction Vie announcement, that in consequence of the Reduction in Duty, iforninzan s Pure Teas are sold Bd. per pound Cheaper. 2,500 Authorised Agents—Confectioners in London and Chemists, in the proytacot—oupply irf Packtu. THIRD EDITION. SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocs. NOTICE. The Third Edition of " The Sun" of last Brazing, con taining the Latest Betting and Races at Brighton, was published in time for delivery in town at 7.15 p.m. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day. BRIGHTON RIOES—THIs DAT. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) - TENTH BIENNIAL STAKES. The Tenth Brighton Club Biennial Stakes of 10 :Ova each, with s') added by the Club, fur thr!o year olds ; colts Bst 101 b, fillies B.it lib. T.Y.C. ; 12 subs. Matilda Sister to Veda 2 SWEEPSTAKES OF 5 SOY'S. A Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each, with 103 lolled; two year olds Get 1.011), three Bst 10ib, four 9st 51b, five and up wards 9st 71b ; tuares and geldings allowed 31b. T.Y.C. Sir Oliver La Belle Jeanne 2 Ciiftord BRIGHTON CLUB SFAKES. The Brighton Club Stakes (llAndicap) of 10 sovs end), It ft, with 50 added by the Club. Bristol mile. 11 subs. President Lincoln Maesllwch Chippenhain Six ran .3 NINTII BIENNIAL STAKES. The Ninth Brighton Club Biennial Stakes of 10 sous each, ith 50 added, for three year olds ; colts Bst I.olb, fillies Bst 71b ; winners before starting (matches excepted) once 51b, twice 81b extra; uutrieds allowed 31b. Bristol mile. 20 subs. Cock of the Walk Birdseeker . Lictor CLARET STAKES. The Clarot Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 50 added by the Club ; winners of any race after July 31 61b, of two or of the Brighton Stakes 101 b extra; to be ridden by members of the Club. T.Y.C. 16 subs. Ettrick • 1 John Leech 11 , ..indeer 3 PLATE OF 100 SOVS. A Plate of 100 soya, added to a Sweepstakes of 5 sous each, fur two year olds ; colts, Bst 71b, fillies, Bst 41b. T.Y.C. Lumley Dryad 2 Honeydew Seven ran. SWEEPSTAKES OF 5 SOVS. A Sweeps Takes of 5 sovs each, with 100 added ; three year olds Bst 71b, four 9st 51b, five, six, and aged 9st 91b. One mile. Peter Rabbit Trap Cork Jacket PROGRAMME OF LEWES AUGUST MEETING. FRIDAY, Aug. 7. The Queen's Plato of 100 gs. ; three year olds Bst 51b, four 9st 71b, five and upwards 9st 121 b. Two miles. A Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each, with 50 added, for two and three year olds ; two year olds 71b, three 9st 01b; mares and geldings allowed 31b. Half a mile. The Borough Members' Plate of 50 sovs ; two year olds 7st, three Bst 71b, four 9st 71b, five and upwards 9st 101 b. T.Y.C. The Castle Plate of 50 sovs ; two year olds 6st 71b, three Bst 91b, four 9st 191 b, five and upwards 9st 121 b ; mares and geldings allowed 31b. One mile. The Priory Stakes of 15 sovs each, 5 ft, with 100 added, for two year olds'; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b; winners of 100 sovs, 31b, of two such stakes or of 500 at any one time 71b extra; maidens which have sun three times allowed 51b; the second to save his stake; T.Y.C. (about 5 fur); 36 subs. by Plum Pudding out of Lozenge's dam, The Lad of Scotland, Clifford, Saraband, Van Tromp, br c by Vedette out of Blanca Capella, Queen Esther, The Baroness, Cicada, Achilles, Master Whiffler, ch f Yellow Rose, Pladda, Festive, Benefactor, Blairbuie, Consul, Amazons, Melody, Martyrdom, Sovereign, Tambour, Shoebury, Ca radoc, Antias, Glen Stuart, Lady Dar, Chilliauwallah, Elector, Messenger, Ethus, Border Knight, Envelope, Musk, Nanny Thormauby, Night Hag. The Dc Warrenne Handicap of 10 aovs each, h ft, and 1 only (to the fund) if declared by two p.m. on Aug 4 with 100 added; any winner after July 29 (at 5 p.m.) 71b ex tra. T.Y.C. (about 5 fur). Age st lb Bombastes ... 4 8 12 Tibtborpe ... 4 8 10 Leonid 3 8 10 Indian Star ... 5 8 5 Python ... 4 8 5 Victress ... 4 8 31 Wolsey 5 8 1 Lily ... 3 7 12 Problem ... 4 7 17 Haymaker ... 3 7 0 A Nursery Handicap Plate of 100 soya for two year olds; the winner to bo sold for 100 sovs (about 5 furlongs). The Welter Cup (Handicap), value 70 sovs, by subscrip tion of 5 soya oat's, 2 ft (to the fund), with 50 adied ; gentlemen rid rs ; one mile and a half ; 26 subs. Purveyor 3 yrs, Chipp3nham 5, Cannon Ball 4, Alder shot 3, Silenus 4, Clairon 3, Dunrobin 4, Catiline 4, Rabbit Trap 4, Miss Gladiateur 3, Anthony 8, Leases 4, Zeloo aged, Chivalry 3, Toy 3, Venom 4, Pevansey 4, Shamrock 3, Sweet Boy 4, Miss Gratwicke 3, Merry Andrew 3, Maesllwch 3, Violent 5, Vortigern 3, Ambi tions 4, Makeshift colt 3. Ft eemasott Reindeer ... Foresight ... Kettleholder Carlotta ... Hermitage Vestmiuster Lionel ... Witless Ago at lb ...4 7 5 ... a 7 5 ... 4 7 3 ...3 7 1 ...2 7 1 ...8 612 —2 6 9 —.3 6 5 ...2 6 5 SATURDAY. The Town Plate (Handicap) of 50 sovs; half a mile. A Scurry Handicap of 10 sovs each, h ft; gentlemen riders ; others 71b extra ; T.Y.C. The Juvenile Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 40 added, for two year olds ; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b ; T.Y.C. A Plate of 50 sovs ; two year olds Est 41b, three Bst 101 b, four 9st 121 b, five and upwards 10st 21b ; mares and geldings allowed 31b ; one mile and a half. The Sussex Stakes of 25 sovs each, 10 ft, for two year olds ; colts, Bst 101 b ; fillies, Bst 71b. Untrieds allowed 31b, both 61b. T.Y.C. Candidate, Queen Esther (31b), Ulentilt (31b), Lopez, Nutbreaker, Lure, Border Knight (31b), Parmosina, Ryoh worth, Stronghold, The Maze (310, Lyttleton (h b) (31b). The County Cup, value 200 sovs, by subscription of 20 sovs each, h ft., with 100 added; two year olds ist, three Bst 91b, four Oct 41b, five and upwards 9st 71b; mares and geldings allowed 31b; any previous winner of 200 sovs 51b, of 500 soya at any one time 101 b extra; maiden two years allowed 31b, three 71b, four and up wards 141 b. T.Y.C. 11 subs. King Victor 4 yrs, Acaster 2, Vestminster 2, Leonia 3, Abstinence 2, Sampson 3, Fleetwing 2, Lavender 2, Ri golboche filly 2, Saladin 2, Wolsey 5. The Railway Nursery Stakes (handicap) of 10 sovs each, 5 ft, with 50 added. T.Y.C. Pontus, Soffinka, King Richard, Lure, Lady Dsr, Chris tine, Winchilsea, Minster Chimes, Lyttleton, Louise, Al bania, Lampoon, Crown Princess, scout, Antias, Troy, Trade Wind, Prince Paul, Baroness, Saladin, The Rajah, Vestminster, c by Kettledrum —lmperatrice, Kellogg, c by Master Fenton—Chaperone, Arlington, Islam, Rattletray, Pompeii, Rosecleer. The Lewes Grand Handicap of 15 Boys each, 10 ft, and 3 only (to the fund) if declared by two p.m. on Aug. 4, with 200 added ; winners of a handicap value 200 soya after July 29 (at five p.m.) 71b, of two such stakes or of 500 soya at any one time 101 b extra; the winner of the Goodwood Cup bulb, and the second in that race 51b extra, any other winner Jib extra ; the second to receive 25 sovs out of the stskDs; two miles. Aga st lb'' Mandrake ... 4 8 12 Dalby ... ... a 8 Romping Girl ... 4 8 1 Irish Queen f ... 4 8 1 Python ... 4 7 7 Emigration ... 5 7 5 Baunalaster ... 4 7 1 Birdsoeker 3 7 0 Lord Palmerston 3 (i 11 Ago st lb Thorndyke ... 3 6 10 Vixen g ... 4 6 9 Aiusley 4 6 9 Cecil ... 3 6 9 Ite :cap a 6 7 Vortigorn 3 6 5 Choral ... 3 6 5 Lady Blaucho f 3 6 3 Bank of Eng: .and Returns, An Account, pursuant to tl cap. 32, for the week ending I IBSUE DEP he Act 7th and Bth Victoria, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 1868. 'ARTMENT. Notes issued ....£35,218,865 Govenunt. Debt.Xll,ols,loo Other Securities.. 8,984,900 Gold Coin and __ Bullion Silver Bullion £35,218,865 BANKING D £35,218,855 :PARTMEIVT. Goverumt. Seou -1 rities(ineluding Dead Weight_ Proprietors' Capi tal £14,533,000 Rest Public Deposits (including Ex chequer, Sav ings' Banks, Commissioners of National Debt. and Div. Accounts 3,379,081 Other Deposits 20,667,43 .1 Seven Days and other Annuity) .... £14,790,302 Other Securities 16,292,387 Notes 10,255,435 Gold and Silver Coin £42,491,298 Z 42,491,298 :0. FORM, Chief Cashier. TILE ADMIRALTY INSPECTION.—We learn that Mr. Corry will ba prevented from accompanying his col leagues in the approaching visitation to the dockyards, as his medical advisers consider it necessary to the more com plete restoration of his health that he should spend some time at one of the spas in Germany. We understand it is his intentiOn, to visit the dockyards privately later in the year. ~ 100 et; 20i 10 (, J 0 100 100 St et St 20 i 1"7118 IC7k 103}