The Sun. — London, England, 1868-11-13 00:00:00

hio 4 B MARIKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIEFL 1,1 CITY, Two O'CLOCK. Business on the Stock Exchange showed firmness, and prices were well maintained ; but in the foreign market Spanish improved I. The demand for dis count is not so active as was to be expected, the rate being 11- to 2. Consols are 911 j for money; ditto, for 'ac count, 941 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 92i j ; New Three per Cents, 921 s ; and the Bank of England Stock, 4 per Cent.. 246. India Stock, 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1141 ; ditto, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1888, 103. In the Foreign Market New Spanish Three per Cents. have risen nearly 1- to 341 31i. Mexican Bonds have improved I, to 16 161, and Turkish Five per Cents. of 1865 are fractionally higher, at 421 6. Egyptian Seven per Cents. of 1868 ramain firm at 71 4 ; Italian Five per Cents. at 56 ; Peruvian Five per Cents. of 1865 at 811 k ; but the Greek Bonds have given way to 12/ 13. The New Italian Scrip is lower, at 21 prem. ; the New Russian (Charkof-Azof) Railway is 1 lower, at 1/ to 11 prem. The Honduras Loan is at 90 91. American Securities are improving. Unnited States Bonds are firmer, the 5-20 Bonds being 744, 741, and the Bonds of 1885 73, 731, showing a rise of / in the latter, the 10-40 Bonds remain at 714, 4. Western Railway Consolidated Mortgage Bonds, 39 395, being better. Eries have receded 1 per cent., to 244 25 ; and Illinois Central, 96 964 In the Railway Share Market we have to report an improvement of 4 in Caledonians, Metropolitan Extension 4, Midland 5, Brighton 4, North Western 4, South Eastern 5. Great Northern are 4 lower, and ditto A 4, Shef field are also 4 The quotations are : Caledonian, 745, 5 ; Great Western, 505, 5; Great Eastern, 434 4:; Great Northern, 1045 5 ; ditto A, 1041 to 2; Lancashire, 128 to 4 ; Metropolitan, 1055 to ; ditto Extension, 1034 to 4/ ; Midland, 1131 I ; Sheffield, 474 8 ; Brighton, 501 ; North British, 324 4 ; North Western, 113 4 ; North Eastern, 994 1001 ; South Eastern, 794 4 ; and Chatham and Dover, 17 4. In banks we have no alteration to report, and the prices of miscellaneous shares remain sta tionary, with the exception of Anglo-American Telegraph shares, which had declined i t, the price now being 21i 22. The Atrato, from the West Indies, has brought £106,795, and the City of Boston, from New York £24,800. On Monday next the committee of the Stock Exchange will consider the application which has been made for a settling day and quotation for the Indian Tobacco Loan. The committee of the Cavour Canal Septennial bondholders have also formally appealed to the Stock Exchange against the settlement of the Loan. A reform appears to be immediately required in the practice now adoped with respect to such cases. Whenever a case of default on the part of a foreign Government is Made known the committee should at once delibe rately investigate it, and in the event of the griev ance being established, forthwith notify that until the wrong had been redressed no new loan should be allowed official recognition. Instead of this they wait till a loan has been brought out and fully subscribed and made the subject for several weeks of large transactions, and then form themselves into a Court to decide whether these transac tions shall be recognised—a large portion of their body being in most cases heavily interested in the result. The half-yearly coupons of the Egyptian Nine per Cent. Loan, due 22d inst., also the bonds drawn in October for redemption on the 22d inst., will be paid at par on and after that date at the Londo❑ agency of the Imperial Ottoman Bank, 4, Bank buildings, Lothbury. A telegram has been received of the departure from Panama, on the 23d ult., of the steamer Mataura, with the mails, passengers, &c., per the Royal Mail Steam-packet Company's steamer Neva, from Southampton, on the 2d of October. Arrange ments have been made which will insure the con tinued regular working of the mail service between Panama, New Zealand, and Sydney. A dividend of £1 10s. per share is to be paid by the Anglo-Egyptian Balking Company. Bills of exchange on the Government of Ceylon for 250,000r5. were disposed of yesterday by tender, at the offices of the Crown agents for the colonies. The minimum was fixed at is. Hid. per rupee, at and above which the whole amount was taken. We understand that four directors of the Na tional Bank—viz., Sir Joseph N. M‘lienna, Mr. Ilarvey Lewis, Mr. F. B. Renshaw, and Mr. Philip Vanderbyl, have resigned their seats at the board. The report of the Buenos Ayres Great Southern Railway Company (Limited) proposes a dividend 011 account of 12s. per share, equal to 6 per cent. per annum. The return from the Bank of England for the 176 0 k ended the 11th November gives the following results when compared with the previous week :- - Il est , uLlic deposits Other deposits 19,248,711 ... Increase .. 627,646 On the other side of the account : government securi ties £15,485,874 ... No change. ~,,O t her securities 16,317,065 Increase 588,774 N otes unemployed 9,203,810 ... Increase ... 383,235 The amount of notes in circulation is £23,936,315, , be ing a decrease of £577,055 ; and the stock of ° union in both departments is £19,358,850, showing a decrease of £llB,BBB when compared with the Preceding return. Subjoined is a comparison of the present position of the Bank of England and the prices of Consols a nd French Rentes with the corresponding week of l E* year : Ai Present. Same Weeklast Year. Bullion Reserve Notes in circulation 23,936,315 ... 24,149,650 Rate of discount Consols French Rentes BRITISH FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES. • GOVERNMENT FUNDS.: • Per Cent. Consols Ditto for Account, Dec 1, 94i LI per Cent. Reduced 9 21 1 Ne w 4 per Cent N. " 6 ! 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 80. ior 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 — t,," 0 (Red Sea Tele t „raph), Aug., 1908 — equer Bills, £l,OOO, 2 per Ct l9 P m o. .£5OO Do. Do, £lOO & £2OO — Pm li An of England Stock, 4 per Cent (~ 1) 0. accomet ial lada 4 per Cent. Bonds lit er - C•lonial Omnium INDI AN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Indi a tock, 10f per Cent., April 1874 — ~0 . Opening, for Account r ` -(1 '. 6 per Cent. July, 1880 `',,,°. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 "0. Certificates Do, Enfaced Pape, 4 per Cent ...., 1) , 0 . 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 5 i per Cent., May ' 3 5 per Cent., Rup. Deb. 9 1872 — d o. D 0.1877 — p it , Do. d o . 1882 14,11 ", ,, Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 .„ lO6l ," 0 - Bonds, 4 per Cent., .£l,OOO , JO. under £l,000 FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. 4r;entine Republic, 6 per Cent , 00 ., Scrip £45 aid Auitrian Bonds S per Cent. 1E59 te Do. 1859 63,1 _ Izilian 5 per Cent )3 4i per Cent., 1852 — Do. do. 185 E.— — . °O. do , 1860 do., 1863 — " 0 . 6 per Cent., 1865 , Uo Acco unt 7 71 z-.enos Ayres 6 p er C ent. . — De 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.‘,, 'Alba, ,6 per Cent 0 4ilian 6 per Cent —. ' Do. 4k per Cent — Uo. 6 per Cent., B — 43 ., 1867 `J3l.rabian 6 per Cent. ' I) • ' , t uish, 3 per Cent., 1825 DO a per Cent., 1567.. ~,,,,, 1 ••••• mm." 84 afizt Nov. 12. Princess of a (Princess )wn Prince Christian, ss of Wales TVORrfr. er thus de hich he had we spoken belonged to Lion's great a stitch in experience. and eneou [reds in the of millions th the more ie no more I can give ruth of my sador being ter at the -ery critical lications in wed in the eked in the :d. Finally, )ns were re ; the honour ,een greatly Cheers.) I tardly been ,o break out were about ely declared and Spain take pos altar—from obtains its 13 threaten aave called he loss of traditional Spain from oresaw that igle-handed• ;in Morocco 30U ntry, but French were a were en made a last ) was then at to induce k',ened to me, isted all our more, but I s an English will consent lain, and go the Sultan's arrangement s a delicate tld authorise ) telegraphic [lowed a re' lea word on on this e% - !d--" I trust I you either rder our e% - t night, uIY ErnbassY , r our arrival :,nee between 1, as we had ards, Franca ad a genera l I hays only iaister wrote erve, saying le services .1 thee I told me lie nce of Eng" urn to Eng' rrence of Sir ni the list of subsequentlf dllors agaius! Ist in the ee° - -- - Bu t 3estors. (Hear, hear•) la arriving/ then publicly 'he cause was Le in Centra l ley were at" ailed Nicara' by a British Mare is to la captain Peel , ;ed in favour IV ha t, ernment de ? wive with th e )f the Nicara and thereby ith us on thiis ings which 3. The diffi' the national I. My first had cause ci a raguans ; , a project aerica, which Pacific, and . mouth of 0 4 ught we we r° ;et hold of th e stead of going )th agree, if / 0 Lge to have l i, ;ar, hear.) when I reli l3 : l acknowledg e Muted the er between Beg nail degree went to 10 11 1 ; )n there. down in t ' ldier, and 1" ed to the case of •' 1 • 0 sore import% is impend'~ g ' we had ha d 0 he would baQ Crimean 1° (hear, hee'ry.o) r fairly obsef eo ) have sP ° o r Lug served Peel. He is die Turkish C ing to the c° , isonby's ' 33 of o f I the liou se lo r bted to me , ' for mest thani°, oo Thomson , t' for id menab er o tli s übs eV! ,0' 3g my 13 1 - 1) 0 In ,meroe °` t o' on of m° l°l3 o o o ,t advan ta fip . houses of .0 ay the ebio 3 l ,t 0 01 1 1 DevouP °l4 i 'P"t the bu but o pe nit a li v e, fte r ied shortly a nns. !7ouaclor New Con.iolidated,' 1 per Cent . TAgyptian, 7 per Cent 791 Do Second Issue — •• Do. £501.; Bonds — Do. 1864 — Do. Account 'Bl } £5OO Bonds Do. 4100 Bonds — English Scrip, 1868 741 f Do do. .£45 pd — din Government Railway Debentures ....• 97 Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex Coups — Do. Account Do. Coupons Do. Account G I:item:l.la 5 per Cent .. Honduras Gov. Rail. Loan., 10p. Ct., all pd 91 it, • izin 5 per Cert., 1865 - )o. Account ... — Do Maremmana Railway klexican 3 per Cent — Ditto for Account Do. 1861 — Do g per Cont. Anglo-French — AlontovidQtku 6 per Cent. .. — )l iorish Imperial 5 per Cent V. e , :v Gra"a,la l6} Dc. 3 p,- , ,r Cen — Do. Deferral do' )3 Laud Warrants (Hectares) - Peruvian 5 per Cent, 1865 Do Account •• Do 4} per Cent. (Uribarrou) Jo -Il i per Cent.. 1862 Do Account.. - - P ' - t,b . !,.lit?S't , 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, 7, '9,'60,'2,'S 381 Do. do. 1867 — Do. do. Scrip, £2O paid — 11, Issi:Lu i per Cont., 1802, X. St )U 4.1 per Cont. 1850 Do 41 per Cont., 1860 Do 3 per Cent., 1859 Do 5 por Cont., 1862 Do. Anglu-Datc b, 1864, £lOO Bondt.,„ 96i Do. du. £34 15s. d 0..., Do., 1866, .£lOO Bonds... Do. do £B4 15s. do — . t Po Nicolas Railway — Sar linian a pivr Gout — Spanish 3 per Con . Do. AceiJunt Do. 1867 Do. Account Do. New Deferrea Do. Account Do. Passive Do. Com. Cert. of Coup. not funded — Do. Account Swedish Provincial Mortgage Loan Do Government, 1864 Do do, 1868 Do de, Scrip Turi:sh 6 per Cent. Do Account Do 6 per Cent. 1858 Do Account Do £lOO Bonds Do 6 per Cent., 1862 Do Account -- )o £lot , Bonds 7O I Do 5 per C l em. , 1865 42 D Account Do 6 per Cent., 1865 Do I per Cent., Guaranteed Venezuela 3 per Cent. :Jo 6 per Cent. 1864 Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 Do. Acc.unt Do 6 per Cent., 1862 Dividends on the above payable in Lou,io, Austrian o per Cent. Ex 10 Florins Belgian, 41-, per cent., Ex. 25f. Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates .... Dutch z* per Cent. Ex. 12 Guil„ French lientes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. D, , Account — Itg.liaL 5 per Cent. 1831, E 2.. z5l. Do. Account 56 1. CLOSING PRICES. Consuls, Money 94i Do. Account, Doc. 1.......... .. 941- POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. CHARGE OF R U BBERY.—William Bennett, address refused, describing himself as a lithographic printer, was charged before Mr. D'Eyncourt with stealing a purse containing £24 and a watch and key, the property of Sarah Welfane, and also with threaten ing her life. After some contradictory evidence had been given, Mr. D'Eyncourt discharged the prisoner and ordered the property to be given up to the pro secutrix. THAMES. SINGULAR CASE OF SIIUGGLING.—WaIter Hawes, aged 21 years, a print,r, of No. 12, London-street, North-street, Bethnal-green, Mary Ann Atkins, of No. 3, Chapel-street, Spitalfields, prostitute, and Robert Burt, a seaman, of Rotherhithe, were brought before Mr. Benson charged with smug gling tobacco. Burt, in defence, said the tobacco he gave to his fried 'Foxes and that in his house was allowed him by the Custom-house officer. Mr. Benson—What officer? Burt—The Custom-house officer who cleared the ship each time she came from Stettin. I was allowed a half pound of tobacco on each occosim for my own us 3, and I saved it up and intended to consume part of it this winter. Mr. Benson could not believo the statement of Burt, and he did not think any Custom-house offi cer would allow seamen to take tobacco on shore until the duty was paid. Hawes was seen soon after midnight carrying a large bundle, and in com pany with a prostitute. He was not surprised that the suspicions of the constable were aroused. 'There was no proof that the duty was paid on the to bacco, and he must convict Hawes and Burt for carrying and conveying it within the meaning of the statute for the protection of the revenue. Ha fined Hawes £llos. 9d., the single value and duty of the tobacco taken from him, and Burt 18s. Bd., the single value and duty of the tobacco seized in his house. The woman must be discharged. The fines were paid. WESTMINSTER. SAVAGE ASSAULT BY IRISHWOMEN.—EIIen Ryan and Ellen Duront, two stalwart Irishwomen, were charged with assaulting Mr. Adolphus Rowella, a comedian, and Ryan with wilfully damaging his coat. It appears that yesterday evening the com plainant was walking by George-street, Chel sea, when the prisoner Durant ran up against him and knocked him into the road, using a filthy expression ; he came on to the pavement again, when Durant struck him twice in the face, and as he tried to get away, Ryan caught him by the coat and tore the arm out. Both were drunk, the police came, and Ryan went quietly to the station; Durant refused to go, got up a mob of 200 persons, and after Case, 142 B, had been half an hour trying to get the prisoner to the station, the stretcher had to be fetched, and she had to be carried. Both prisoners said the prosecutor called them Fenians, and then wanted to treat them. This was denied. Mr. Selfe said they had both been guilty of most outrageous conduct to an inoffensive passer by, and Durant had aggravated her offence by resisting the police, and causing a crowd to assemble. He sen senced Ryan to three weeks' and Durant to five weeks' hard labour. MARKE7 S-2HIS DAY. MARK-LANE. At Mark-lane this morning the attendance of the trade was only moderate. Tho supplies of English wheat were fair, those of foreign ample. English oats are still scarce, but Irish aro more plentiful, and oreign continues to arrive in quantities. The deman d for ad articles win very quiet. Wheat, both English and foreign met with a dull sale at Darely Monday's lowes rates. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The supply of dead meat is very large, with a moderate demand at the following rates :—Beef, 3s 2d to 4s 8d ; veal, 3s 8d to 45 8d ; mutton, 3s to 4s 6d ; largo pork. 35 4d to 4s 4d ; small ditto, 4s 2d to 4s Bd. The poultry trade is quiet, at firm rates. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. The inquiry is moderate, at former terms. English re gents, 60s to 120 s; ditto rocks, 505 to 80s: York re gents, 100 s to 170 s ; ditto rocks, 70s to 80s. ; Scotch re gents, 80s to 120 s ; Dunbars, 100 s to 140 s; French, 508 to 75s per ton. BOROUGH HOP. During the week the demand for all descriptions of new hops, both English and forrign, has been considerably more active. COLONIAL. There is no change in the market. Sugar is very quiet, and coffee shows lese activity than of late. COTTON. LITERPOOL, November 13.—Sales probably 10,000 bales. Market quiet and unchanged. - The Price of Gold. rite quotation of gold at Paris is about at par, and the short exchange on London is 25f. 150. per £1 sterling. Vn comparing these rates with the English Mint price of iia.loid. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that ie nearly 1•lOth p r ccnt, dearer in Pitria thin inLondOn, T.HE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 13, 1868. SHARE LIST. 41WINARY dtia.ttES AND STOCKS. Closing Business inare • Railways. Paid. price. dine. st Bristol and Exeter ...... 101 76 78 st Caledonian lOO -74 721 7if I st Cambrian 23 Cornwall all 3} 3i st Dublin & Belfast June... 100 77 i f st Dun„Perth, & A.b.Juno... iOO 76 72 2) East London, all 7 9: 15 - -- 20 21 Do Glasgow &S. Western 100 91 02 it Great Eastern .. it Do. E. Angl. No. 2 lOO 7, Bti at Great North of Scotland lOO 15 at Great Northern lOO 1044 IC Si it Do. A stock lOO 1.1034 104 103 s Do. B stock at Gt S, and W. of Ireland lOO 96 07 a. (t. Western —Original lOO 41 49; f et Do. South Wales lOO 68 s. Do. W. Alid.—Oxtori• No 25 28 et. Do. Newport lOO 28 32 et Lancashire& Yorkshire lOO 1271 12sf 1284 et Lon— S.Cotst 10.) c() ici 104 102 DJ Scrip .... et Lou., Ctia.t., and Dover too le; 17 Do. Aletrop. Ex. A tOe - at Lou. & Nortn Weaten lOO Id 1111 113 1 4 Lou. South 41 estern lOl b 7 Sir at & Lincoln lOO 471 474 0 Ai,tropolitan at Do &tonal )a .. 100 103 104 10 ✓ rd 10 10 1 101 st Me ••.•oolitali I ist:lo`. all 71 73 10 Metrop. :it. Jo; n's i 6 - st at uo, iiirrnin. w ii‘rby OO 7J t 1 at N CLIA .UJ 32 33 131 st & Dun — at or.. , ;a3t3rn --lierwitt to itol 20 Do. . at Do Leeds ....... 100 55, 16j at Do York at Do Carli,le .... • IOJ 148 112 at Do Stoc .& D rling 1 0 123 : 80 st North Lon lou .. 100 120 12i 10 Do eNt;• r 8 2 14 at North Staffordshire...... 100 57 59 st North and S.-W. Junction 100 102 104 10 Do New £lO shares 7 ... at Ithyniney at Shropshire Union lco .031 at South Devon at South Eastern lOO 771 78 791 20 itaines, Wok'ham, & Wok all It 18 at ' ale IOU 115 toe to Do. C .• at Waterford & Kilkenny lO ., 10 Waterloo & Whiteha 1 6 RAILWAYS-PREFERENCE SHARES AND gTOCX.S. at Bristol mid Exeter 4 p.cent. 100 66 SS at Caledonian Qrs., No. 2 lOO ... at Do. Scot. N.E., 41 per cent lOO at Do. Aberdeen, gua. 6 p.c lOO ... at Do. do. 7 per cut lOO at DO. do. Ordinary lO9 7 8 60 at Do. Midland at Do. Dundee and Arbroath l9O 20 Cornwall, 5 par cent. gua all ... at Dundee, Pertk, and Aber deen Junction lOO 105 lOT at Do. Ist Class preference lOO at Glas. d; S.W. gua. 5 per ct lOO at Gt. Eastern, E.C. Ex. No. 1 100 96 99 at Do do No. 2 100 ik) 97 at Do do 6 per cent 100 103 107 at Do East Anglian Asp. c. 100 97 101 st Do do B 6 do. 100 105 110 t Do do C 7 do. 100 lli 12$ at Do do No. 1, 5 p.c. 100 96 101 at Do E. Union 4p. c. gua. 100 66 40 st Do Norfolk 6 p.c. Ex. 16441 103 ... at Do do 6 p.c.Wa4.Val. 1847 100 at Great Northern, 5 per cent 10 at Do 5 p.c., rd at 10 p. c. pm. 100 ... at Do 4 y do do do 100 ... at Do 5 do at sp. c. pm. 100 ... at Do Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax, 6 per cent lOO ... at Gt. Nrtk of Scotland, Ist pf 100 ... at Great South. and Western (Ireland) 4 per cent lOO 98 17 st G t•West.—Orig.k Jnt.-Rent chg., per gua. 5 p.c lOO 100 102 et Do. Orig. (B. &H. Ex). 5 p.c lOO 95 100 st Do do 4, per cent. 1850 lOO 83 84 84 st Do do 4 do do et i, o do 5 per cent. redem lOO 93 04 et Do do Birmingham gua lOO 65 67 et Do do do pref lOO 110 118 et Do do Chester gua, lOO 78 80 st Do do do 8 per cent lOO 150 16$ at Do do do 5 do 100 91 10$ et Do South Wales, gua. 4 p.c. 100 ... at Do do 4,i p.c lOO Mt D 0 do 41 1859 lOO et Do do 5 at Do West Alid.-Oxford Ist g IOJ 11 114 at Do do 2d gua lOO 111 113 st Do Newport, Ist g. 5 p.c. 100 $8 92 at Do do 2d do 100 ••• ••. et Do gua. 54 per cent. 1863 100 ... 100 Lancaster & Carlisle 41 p.c. all ... et Laucash. & Yorksh. 6 p.c. 100 1 I 135 et Do Barnsley, 45 3s 10d p.c. 100 at Do 6 p.c. (East Lancashire) 100 130 135 at Do 44 (Blackburn purch). 100 97 Ile at London & Brighton, S P. c. . . guaranteed, — No. 1 lOO ... at Do 5 per cent. gua. No. '2 lOO at Do 6 do do lOO ... 118 at Do 6 de Na. 4 lOO ... at Do 7 per cent 1 0 at Do 6 do (W.E. & C.P.) 100 ... st Da 4 do 1839 at Loudon, Chatham, & Dover 6 per cent lOO at London and N.W., C. and Nuneaton 5 per cent lOO ... at Do Bedford &Cambridge lOO 88 90 at Do Shrewsb'y & Welelapl lOO 10 90 at London and 7 p,c , late 3d shares, lOO 140 145 25.60. Do (Portsm. perp ans. 2a6d) all at Man., Sher., & Lincln. 6 p.c. 100 ... 6 Do .t 6 all par Ipm st Do 34 per cent lOO GO 65 10 Do redeem. 6 por cent 5 ... at Mid. Consolidated., 6p. c lOO 130 135 at Do Bristol & Birm., 6p. c lOO 1 u 133 at Do 41 per cent. redeem lOO 95 s 7 at Do 41 per cent. irredeem lOO 93 t 5 st Du Leicester & Irchn, 4 p.c. 100 88 90 et North British, 5 p.c. No. 1 lOO ... at Do*E. &G.4p.c. S. & D lOO ... at Do N. 8., No. 2, b per con.t lOO st Do Border Union, Si p.c lOO ... st N.-Eastoru—Coos. 4 p.c lOO 85 87 at Do 44 per cent. redeem-- 100 90 95 at Do U.N.L. 4 par cent., lOO 17 Do Berwick capital 3.13.4. 23 Do York, H. &S. purchase lO 10 101 at Do Stektu & Drling. A. 5 p.c lOO 105 107 at Do W, Hartlepool A. and R lOO 86 83 671 20 North Staffordshire 100 .:••. Dovon Annuities, 1 s all 91 101 lOs Do Tayistock Anus., 10s all 910 las Do Fixed 41 per cent all 8 0 1.0.6. S. ,ast. (Read. inns., 1.0.6) all 22 23 at Do 41 percent lOO at Do Fixed 41 per cent lOO at Taff Vale No. 1 lOO 145 150 st Waterford & liilkeuny, 6pa 100 42 44 RAILWAYS _.PREFERENCE SUARES AND STOCKS. With DiTiclends contingent on the Profits of each separate year. at Caledonian 43 p c at •o Scot. Cen. min. 7p c lOO ••• st Do 41 p c redeem__ all ••• It Do 4p c con. issued at 80 65 • at Great Eastern 41 par cent. 100 74 73 at Do 6 do, 1362 lOO 88 1 at Do New S do, 1863 lOO 84 88 at Do do S do, 1864 lOO ... ••• at Great Northern, 5p c irred lOO ••• at Do Permanent 5 per cent 100 ••• at Do Boston & Sleafd, 41 pc 190 ... at Great West. W. NUR, 3p • 100 86 96 at Do Joint r.erpe. 5 p c,1865 100 83 87 at Do do 6p c irred., 1866 100 100 102 2) Do Vale Neath peril. s_p • all 191 201 at Kent Coast 6 per cent, B lOO ... S Lane. and York. New 44 per cent till July, 137 1 2 & 14 at Lond., Brig., &c., 41 pc, 1853 108 ... ..• at Do do 4 do, 1860 100 "' at Do do 41 do, 1861 108 ..• ••• at Do do 41 do, 1863 100 ... •.. 9 0 4 at Do do S do, 1865 10 0 ... at Do No. 6 5 do, 1666 100 ... ••• at Do No. 7 Sdo et Lend , Chat., &c., 2d, 6 p.o at Metrop. Ex., B 6 p. c Do do C 6 p.c . 100 . • at London &N. Western, 5p e 100 103 110 at London &S. Wester; 41 p e 100 90 93 10 Man. ohef. & Lin., S pc, 1865 all ... at Metropolitan 5 per cent lOO ... •• at Midland, A. per cent prof lOO 103 10.5 at Do B 5 do 100 103 106 11 Do Ord.p • op to cony. to tk. t. , Sept. 1, 1869 all 11 lb 19 22 Do oD I 6 nconY. Now Sh ares 11 LIP p • con. into Old Stk., Aug. 31, 1807 .... . at North British, E . and G., 81 11 1113 No. 1, 5 per cent lOO ... at Do £lO guaranteed 1861 100 at Do E., P., & Dun., 2d, 4pe 100 ... at Do h. & G., No. 2, . 100 ... By Do N. 8.. per cent, 1862 . 100 at Do E. & G., No. 3 , 5 p.e a t Do E. & G., (Ordiry) 41 poa 100 St 11 at North Eastern, 41 per cent 100 et Do Stock. & Darl., D 100 107 109 at North London, 41, per cent (Max. 5 per cent) at North Staffordshire Sp c lOO ... at South Eastern, 41 pe, 1859 100 ... s t Do 6 do 1861 100 ... at Do sdo (Ch. Cross) 1863 100 ... at Do do, 1864 100 ... at Victoria St. & Pimlico, 41 pe 100 ... RAILWAYS.-LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS st Birkenhead lOO 100 Do. 41 per cent. Prefer.., all 101 103 st Buckinghamshire at Chester and Holyhead lOO 63 66 it Do, it per cent. it Do. i do. st Clydesdale, guaranteed lOO st Colchester Stour Valley Igo ..• st East Lincoln, gua. 6p. c loo 1Y() 189 25 Gloater and Dean Forest all at Gt. Easn., Newm., &c., 5 p.c lOO • tit Do. E. 17. Harwich, 4 p.c lOO st Do. do. Woodbrg. Ex., do lOO 33 68 at Gt. West ,W. Mid., Heref lO3 95 97 SO Hull and Selby all 109 111 at Lancaster and Carlisle lOO 211 213 at London and Blackwall lOO 92 94 it Do. 4i per cent lOO st London, Chat., &c., 41 pc. 100 at Do. Com. Fund, 5 do. 100 st London and Greenwich it Do. do. Preference lOO st London, Tilbury, & South. 100 78 72 at Lowestoft, gua. 4 per cent lOO 73 82 at Do. do. 6 do. 61 Mauch., Buxto n , &M a tlk a ll ba ■t Midland, Bradford, Pref lOO 91 93 10 Mid-Kent (Cray Line) 50 Nortbern& Ea s t . , 5 p er cent a ll 32 65 60 Do, do. 6 do. all .., at N. Eastern—Hartlep00l at N. West. A perp. prof, ip. c. 100 107 109 at Do B minimum 11 p.c lOO st Notting. & Granth. R. &C lOO 91 931 'l5 Preston and W yre ... Royston, Hitch., and Shep. 100 130 132 st Shrewsbury and Hereford 100 130 132 10 Do do 1 2 p at S. Yorksh. and Riser Dun 100 $7 99.1 , at Do 4 per cent gua lO 79 81 at Do i do at ot t and Pimlico lOO 175 80 100 54 Class A all 13 14 2sceess.Sati London,on Cornwall B 20 Do 20 Do do C all 6,1 7 a u t tWeymouthWilts sand aPortland lOO ... nd Somerset DOCKS. et East and West India lOO 116 6 118 st London and St. Katherine lOO 65 57 111/ 100 Do Deb. stock, 4 per cent al ... Millwall Freehold Land st Dock lOO 37 3) 37 st Southampton lOO 71 Id at surrey Ccwaraercial lOO in • BANKS. Closigss Share. NAMA. P a il Price. B ann: j: ,dlO O Do Agra Limited, A all 111 12 1 B 50 Albion lo 4 el is 6 4 100 Alliance, Limited 20 Anglo-Austrian 20 Anglo-Egyptian, lint all 18 19 20 20 Anglo-Hungarian 20 Anglo-Italian 1366, limited 10 6 4 40 Australasian 20 Bank of British Columbia all 9 10 20 Do issued at 2pm ~., 6 ... 26 Bank of Egypt 20 Bank of Otago, lint. 25 Bank of South Australia all SO 32 60 Bank of Victoria, Australia 26 17 119 10 Bank of new Zealand all 17 19 29 British North American 20 Chartered of India, Austra lia, -nd China all 19 20 23 Chartered Mere. of India, London, and China all 25 29 20 City 190 Colonial 25 $7 974 10 Consolidated, lint. 4 1 1 SO Delhi and London, lint 59 East London, Aim 6 11 . i 20 English and American, lint 10 ... ... 20 English Bank of Rio do Ja neiro. lint lO 84 11 20 English, :. sottish, and Aus tralian Chartered iB4 Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Corporation all ... ... 281 Do new 4 1 100 Imperial, lint ....... 51 1 ...... 20 4 1 7 4 20 imperial Ottoman lO i 1 25 lonian all 25 27 26 Do new .. . ...... . ... . 20 Lnd Mortgage of India, lint 4 4 34 100 Do sp.c. De b 5.1864, 30 all 76 ip S 20 London Bank of North and South America, lint. 20 7 ‘ 100 London and Brazilian, lint. 46 30 25 20 Do slew 74 5 41 100 London &River Plate, lint. 40 1 4 25 Do new 10 4 1 20 London Chart. of Australia all f3f 244 60 London and County 2O 49 50 20 Do new, iss at 20 pm,l6 pa ll . . 60 London Joint 5t0ck........, 1 124 834 33 20 London and iiouth African al 12 13 100 London & S.-Western, lint, 20 ... ... 50 London & Venezuela, lint 124 100 London and Westminster 2O 661 661 64 3 100 Do Scrip, iss at 10 pm 2O 12 Sip 601 100 Merchant, lint 10 Metropolitan, lint all 6 7 100 Midland, Um 2O id pr 6 National of Australia 20 National of Liverpool, lint. 16 ". 100 National Provinc. of Eng'd 42 ... ... 10 Do ........ ...... t 0 National...... lO 64 66 20 New South Wales all 43 44 20 North-Western 25 Oriental Bank Corporation all 44 45 43 50 Provinc. Bank. Corpo., lint. 10 7 $ 100 Provincial of Ireland 25 S 9 91 10 Do new. all ... ... 100 Stand. of Brit. S. Africa, lint 25 13 11. 100 Do issued at 6 pm. 10 ... ... 25 Union of Australia all 47 48 100 Union of Ireland, lint ' 22 ... .., SO Union of London l 5 $34 sti 8 4 i COLONIAL UOVNItNAINNT SJCUUKLITIIGS• British Columbia, 6 per Do. 1895... .. ... • lOO - Can.(Jov.6 p.o.jan.T•Sz July 1877-84 Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug. • 100 104 106 Do. sp. o. Mar. Sept lOO lit 106 Do. sp. o. Jan. & July lOO 93 114". 041 Si Do. sp. c. Inscribed sk lOO 90 92 . Cape G. Hope, 6 p• 0 •187 3-• 10 0 102 104 Do.Apl.BrOot 1690-1900 lOO 111 113 Do. do 1880-9 8 lOO 107 109 Do. Jan.&July, 1891 Do. 5 per oent. 15 April and 15 Oct., 1900 ..... Ceylon, Nov. 1878, 6 p.c lOO 108 110 DO. 1872, do lOO 105 107 Mauritius, 6p. 0, 1873,- Jan. and July Do. 1878 .. . .. • Do. 1882, May and Nov lOO 106 108 Do. 1895, Feb. & Aue lOO 108 108 Melbourne Corporatn 1667-75, 6 per coil. • lOO N.8.G0v.6 p.o.Ja.6zJuly Natal 6 p or, Apl is Oct Do 6p c. 111. y & Nov lOO 106 1(8 N. S.W. 5 p•o., '7l to '76 lOO 99 101 102 Do. 5 p.o. 1888 to 1896 lOO 99 109 LlOll Do. 5 p.c. rd. '67 to '75 lOO 99 101 N.Zealand, 6p. ot. 1801 lOO • Do. 5 per cent... . DoJan, Apzl, Jul y, O• .t 100 97/ 1181 071 1 -- Do 6p c. Mar .1z bept '9l ;GO 108 110 Do ,hre & Deo , 1 , 91 •••• 1(0 009 111 - JDo Prov. 1 Auctld. 1 1 0 ..) hova Scotia 6p. o.Jan and Jnly, 1875 Do 1816.. Queeneln,d. 6p. c. 'B2 5 lOO 105 106 Do 1891 B. Austral. 6 p 0.1869 77 lOO _ Do 1878.92 lOO 108 110 Do 803 1903 Tasmanian ci pe, 1595 lOO 106 207 Do rti. 1893 to 189/. lOO 105 106 Victoria 6p.0. Ja.a July lOO —" Do. 1891 . • • Dp. 01 April 0 Oot. ! *. 100 THE CONTINENSAL TOUR OF THE PRINCE AND THE PRINCESS OF WALE% Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and the Princess of Wales, with some of their children, will leave Marlborough House next Tuesday, the 17th inst., for Copenhagen, on a visit to their Majesties the King and Queen of Denmark. Their Royal Highnesses and suite will, on quitting Marlborough House, drive to the Charing. cross terminus, and leave London by the 8.30 p.m. train on the South Eastern Railway for Dover, whence the Prince and Princess will cross to Calais, and proceed direct to Paris, where the royal party will arrive early on Wednesday morning, and drive to their hotel. The Prince and Princess will remain for a few days in the French capital, and are expected to visit their Majesties the Emperor and Empress of the French. At the expiration of their stay in Paris, their Royal Highnesses will proceed direct for Denmark, and it is anticipated that the journey to Copenhagen will occupy about three days. As the guests of their Majesties the King and Queen of Den mark, the Prince and Princess "of Wales will reside at Copenhagen for about a month, and upon the conclusion of their visit will set out for the south of Europe, travel ling through Germany, either to Venice or Trieste, when a British frigate will be in readiness to receive the illus trious travellers, and convey them to Alexandria, where they will land, and proceed by train to Cairo. Aftet a short stay at this city, during which it is anticipated that their Royal Highnesses will visit the Viceroy of Egypt, the Prince and Princess will make a trip up the waters of the Nile as far as the second cataract. Having accomplished this pilgrimage, their Royal Highnesses will return to Cairo, and not unlikely visit the King of Greece (brother of the Princess of Wales) at Athens. Their Royal Highnesses are expected to make a short stay at Athens, after which it is under stood that Naples, Rome, and Florence will be visited on the return journey to England. The Prince and Princess will be absent on their tour about three or four months. CORPORATION OF THE SONS OF THE CLERGY. The annual general meeting of the governors of this corporation was held on Thursday at Bloomsbury, when the Rev. Dr. Vivian, sen., treasurer, having taken the chair, and called attention in feeling terms to the lamented deaths of the president and vice-president (the late Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Cranworth) since the last court of governors in May, when both were present in good health, it was resolved unani mously, "That this court cannot record on the minutes the deaths of the president and vice-president without express ing deep regret for the loss which the corporation has thus sustained. The court feel it a melancholy duty gratefully to acknowledge the valuable services which these two eminent and excellent men 'rendered to this great charity during the respective periods they presided over it—services which were uniformly given with -much obliging readiness, and with the kindness and courtesy for which they were both remarkable." Archbishop Longley, as president also of the anniversary festival, gave much attention to its proceedings, and with dignified hospitality and urbanity annually entertained at his table the stewards of the festival, many of whom the more cheerfully undertook the office in consequence of the respect they felt for the character of the archbishop. The following noblemen and gentlemen, among others, were elected life governors, viz. :—The Earls of Chichester and Eldon, the Bishops of Worcester and Lichfield, Lord Rollo, Sir R. I. Murchison, Bart., K.C.8., Sir J. B. Karslake, Attorney-General, Archdeacon Ran dall, Revs. Professor Selwyn, D.D., Canon Blomfield, George Dowell, John Olive, Edward Payne, John Eger ton, A. C. Havilard, J. Lucy, G. B. Moore, Frederick Meade, G. A. Sainsbury, and W. J. Yonge ; Mr. Alderman Allen, late Lord Mayor, and Mr. Alderman Stone and Mr. M'Arthur, late sheriffs. The court unanimously elected Lord Chelmsford vice-president for the year ensuing, in the room of Lord Cranworth ; and the Rev. Dr. Vivian, Mr. Pownall, and Sir Thomas Tilson having been re elected treasurers for the ensuing year, the Earl of Harrowby, K.G., Lord Rollo, the Right Hon. Sir William Erle, the Rev. George Ainslie, Mr. Alderman Gibbons, and Messrs. Money Wigram and T. G. Sambrooke, were elected members of the Court of Assistants. Mr. Baker reported that during the last twelve months more than 1,300 applicants from various parts of England and Wales, clergymen and clergymen's widows, aged single daughters, and children, had been assisted by pensions and donations. Although the total amount thus distri buted was £13,138, yet the sum given to each applicant was small, and often afforded very inadequate relief. The corporation will distribute next month benefac tions to poor curates, and in the summer other more considerable benefactions are given away to poor clergy men with large families. The governors meet every month to consider pressing cases in every class of persons elivible for grants. A memorial has been transmitted to the Treasury from the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce, praying that the postage on circulars, small pamphlets, newspapers, and other printed matter not exceeding 2oz. in weight, might be reduced to id. PRIVATE BUSINESS IN PARLIAMENT.—The number of private bills which will come before Parliament during the forthcoming session will exceed 300. Amongst others there will be found, it is said, three direct lines to Brighton. The Liverpool Licensed V ictuallers' Association, :oused to action by the activity of the Permissive Bill advo cates, have been sounding the borough candidates as to their views on the liquor traffic. They do not appear, however, to be very well satisfied with the result, and have deter mined to subject the candidates to a further examination. " It is now confirmed," says the .Nord, " that the Isthmus of Suez Canal will be opened regularly on the Ist of October next The state of the works at the last visit had led to the supposition that the date might be advanced, but the board of directors bas preferred to adhere to the period already decided on, in order that the preparations may be complete." A new kind of gunpowder has been invented by ti Mr. Hahn. It consists of 367'5 parts of chlorate of potash, 168'3 of sulphuret of antimony, 18 parts of char coal, and 46 parts of spermacetti. This gunpowder can be conveyed without any danger of an explosion, provided the chlorate be added only at the moment of using it, in the proportion of 46 parts of that substance to 29 of the others. Mr. Mill stated at a meeting the other night that Mr. Gladstone was the best abused man in England. A wag thereupon called out that he bad heard Mr. Mill accused of forging an order for a theatre. Amid shouts of laughter Mr. Mill indignantly repudiaied the charge, and gave it as an additional proof that " the Tories would stick at nothing It must have been done, he said, by some ono of the same name. According to a contemporary, it was Mr. Mill's secre tary who brought the accusation. Several papers having circulated a report that Mr. Gladstone was a trustee for £200,000 for Roman Catholic purposes ; that his daughter had given £lO,OOO for the pro motion of Roman Catholic principles; and that his EOll was a confirmed Roman Catholic; a voter in Stalybridge has written to Mr. Gladstone on the subject, and received the following brief but characteristic reply :—" Three sheer falsehoods.—W. E. Gladstone, Nov. Bth, 1868." liar Majesty has granted a royal charter incor porating the " Faculty of Actuaries in Scotland." The practice of granting such chatters has of late years been discontinued, and the royal charter of incorporation has been granted in this instance as a special concession, for the encouragement and consolidation of the actuarial pro fession. The charter is dated September 21st, and was registered and sealed on the 15th October, and was granted in compliance with a petition presented to her Majesty by the members of the Faculty of Actuaries in Scotland, setting forth the importance of their profession. Mr. Smith applied to the Court of Queen's Bench yesterday, on behalf of certain burgesses of Tamworth, for a rule to show cause why a certiorari should not issue to bring up an order for the payment of £l5O out of the borough fund for the purpose of its being quashed. The order had been made for the payment of certain costs and charges in the defence of an action for trespass against the Mayor of Tamworth and others with reference to certain alleged cor porate property, which proceedings it was said were for the benefit of the borough. The learned counsel contended that the amount eould not be legally paid out of the borough fund; and as showing the character of the proceedings which the mayor countenanced, and that they were not for the benefit of the burgesses, be stated that a sum of £136 was spent in beer, brandy, dc., distributed by the parties who took part in the trespass. Rule gt at,ted. - ACTION OF WATER ON LEAD. —Professor Parkes, F.R.S., of Netley, calls attention to the fact that it has always been seen that the action or non-action of water on lead could not be entirely accounted for by the usual state ments on the subject, and lately Dr. Frankland has made a curious observation, which may throw light on the sub ject. He found that water which acted on lead lost this power after passing through a filter of animal charcoal. He discovered this to be owing to a minute quantity of phosphat , of lime passing into the water from the charcoal ; on com• paring two natural waters, that of the River Kent, which acts violently on lead, and that of the River Vyrnwy, which, though very soft, has no action on lead, he found that the latter water contained an appreciable amount of phosphate of lime, while none could be detected in the Kent water. This observation may probably explain much of the discrepancy of evidence in respect of the action glidiumta Quicad. ' MISCELLANEOUS. 10 Anglo-American Tel., lien. all 211 213 22 11 10 Auglo-Mediter. Tel., Aim 7 Od 1p 10 Anglo-Mexican Mint all 16 17 st Atlantic Telegraph lO 81 82 st Do. 8 per cent. 25 Australian Agricultural 25 Australian Mort. Land aid }lnane., Aim. 10 Baugarah Tea Estates, lien 9 7 scl 10 Berlin Water Works, lien all 14 141 10 Do. New I I *4 100 Bolckow Vaughan, Aim. 4 Bombay Gas, lien. Do. New 4 14 Of 5 ) British American Land 44 15 17 eb B. aid I. Magnetic Tel., lien. 100 163 168 20 British Indian Tea, lien all 24 31 20 British Ship Owners 74 29 Canada Company all 67 72 10 Canadian Loan and Invest ment, lien 24 24 144 20 Ceylon Company, lien. lO 2d 20 Do. A shares 10 City Discount, lien 6 44 51 25 City of London Real Pro perty, lien 8 44 244 SO City of Milan Improl. Aim all 5 19 25 City of Moscow Gas, lien all a a 50 City Offices, lien 26 I 22f 2144 60 Colonial, lien. Do. 50 Commercial Union (Assur) a p 1p 10 Company of African Mer chants, lien. ld 20 Continental Union Gas, lira. all 17 18 25 Copper Misers of England, pref 74 per cent. 190 Corporation of Londoa Bonds, 1877, 41 per cent. all 1034 1044 100 Do. 1879, 4 ; per cent. all 104 106 100 Do, 1882, 4f per cent. all 1034 1044 10 Credit Fon. of England, lien. all 24 21 SO Credit Fon.of Mauritius lien. 10 I 2 d st Crystal Palace lOO 23 25 it Do. Preference lOO 109 195 eb Do. 6p. c Perpetual Deb. 109 198 112 20 Darjeeling, lien. I 0 Eastern Assam, lien. 64 ... 60 East Indian Land Credit and Finance, lira, 20 East India Irriga. & Canal all 17 16 82 Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron, and Coal, lien. 100 Egyptian 9 per cent. V'roy. Gus. by Egypt. GoY all 944 95 04 1 20 Egyptian Com. k Tract. lien. 6 44 41d at Electric & Inter. Telegraph 100 225 230 10 Do. New 8 9 10p 8 Eng. & Austral. Copper, lien 21 4 15 English and Foreign Credit 7 a 4d 100 Eng. and Scot. itarine, lien. 6 ...d 10 Fedrbairn Engineering S 11 144 20 Fore-streetWarehouse,lim. 12 pr 1p 100 For. & Col. Got. Trust and _. _ -- - - - los.ngcrip,issued at 65 all 83 84 841 60 Gellivara, lim 10 General Credit & Dis., lint 7l x 45 15 General Steam Navigation 14 27 29 50 Horns & Col Marine In. lim, 5 45 85d 10 Hong Kong and Chiva Gas all ... ... 20 Hudson's Bay all 16 154 14 4 20 Imperial Land Co. of Mar seilles, lint. 25 Indo-European Tel., lim lO ... ... 20 Interna. Financial Soc. lim 6 11 14 20 Internet. Land Credit. lien 6 G 4d 50 Italian Land II 11 id 20 Italian Irri. (Canal Cavour) all '2 25 100 Do. 6 p. c. Bds., redeem. 1870, issued 20 all 43 51 80 Land Securities, lim i a; 20 25 London African Trading lO 7 64 25 Lon. & Caled. Marine, lint I ~. ...0 10 Loud lira, County Land and Building, 4 ... ...0 6 Loud. Provincial Tel. lint all 34 31 1 Do. Prefer. 10 per cent. all 4 4P 60 Loud. Financial Asso., lim. 30 23 22d 4 Lonel.Gen.Onanibus,Codira. all 14 2 21-16 60 Loud. and Glasg. Engineer and Iron Ship, lim 25 22 17d 20 Lend, & Provincial Marina 2 Id pr st Madras Irriga. & Caul. Gua. sp.c. by India Goy. 10 Mauritius Lau, redit, and Agency, him . .. 10 Mediterra. Exten. Tel., Um, all 4 41 80 Merchant Shipping, lint.... all 85 41 50 51illwall Iron Works, lim 124 ... 10 Natal Laud and Colonisa tion Co., lieu. 25 National Discount Co., lim. 6 114 12 12 25 National Prov. Marine, lim. 4 4 3d 10 National Steam Ship, lim, all 81 9 1 20 Nerbudda Coal & Iron, lim, $ 8 2d 10 New Consolidated Dis. Jim 8 11 Id 6 IN ew Quebrada, lim 4.4.0 4 1 ak 25 New Zealand Loan & Mer • cantile Agency,lim 24 5 IP 25 New Zealand Trust and Loan, lim 4 14 14 10 Northern Assam Tea, Urn. 5 7 1 10 Do. B st North Brit. Austral., lien l6O 88 42 El North Brit. & Kerma, Tn.., 64 161 171 23 Ocean Marine (Insurance) 6 14 18 60 Oriental Financial, lim ll ... „d 6 Oriental Gas, lim. 6 Do. New 10 Otago and Southland In vestment, lim 9 id iP ;'5 Ottoman Gas, lim all 1 5 25 10 Panama, New Zealand, and Australian R. Mail Una .all 24 4 i I Do do. it Peel R. Land & Minerldim 100 82 54 60 Peuinsu. & Oriental Steam all 51 83 641 60 Do. New 1867 25 Reuter's Telegram 24 80 85p 50 Ithymney Iron 14 Do. New 95 Rio de Janeiro City Im.dira. ill 135 191 20 Do. Gas, lira all 23 24 100 Royal Mail Steam 6O 62 64 42 it Scottish Lust. Invest, lim lOO 111 110 et Do. 6 p. c. Guar. Pref. 100 ... ... 20 Societe Fin. d'Egypte, lim. 10 7 6 5 1 20 Societe Gen.ds PErapire Ot, 8 8 4p 50 S. African Mort. & lay., Jim. 4 ... ... 25 South Australian Land it Submarine Telegraph 1 Do. Scrip all i 1/ 20 Telegraph Con. & Main.,lim all 151 161 20 Thames and Mersey Marine (Insurance), lint I 24 21 20 Trinidad Petroleum, Jim Bl ... ... 10 Trust I Agency of Aus.,lim 1 5 1p 10 Do do. do. all ... .., 20 Trust & Loan Co., U. Canada I id P 44 40 Union Marine L'pool, Um 5 4 44p 20 Union Steam Ship, lim all 22 44 16 United Discount Corp., lim 0 If 010 I U. Kingdom Tel. Co., lint all 41 64 $5 s Do. 10 per cent. Pref all 34 afp 20 Universal Marine(ln.), lim 5 1 14p 10, Upper Assam Tea, line all t 4 30 Van Dieman's Land 2Bl 7 $ L 00 Viceroy of Egypt, 7 per cent. (Mortgage) Loan—nail 74 741 751 80 Warrant Finance, lien l2 12 10d 50 West India and Pacifle Steam, lien 20 West London Wharves and Warehouses THE NOMINATIONS. Crn or Lormox.—Monday, November 16; poltmg us 2 the following day. MA.Nomaticn.—Monday, 16th ; polling on following day. BIRMINGHAM.—;Monday, 16th; polling on Tuesday. LAMBETH.—Monday, 16th; polling on 17th. HULL.—Monday, November 16 ; polling November 17. LEEDS.—Monday, 16th ; polling on 17th. BRADFORD.—Monday, 16th ; polling on 17th. LIVERPOOL.—Tuesday, the 17th ; polling on the 18th: EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE.—Tuesday, the 24th. NORTH RIDING OF YORKSHIRE.—Monday, the 23rd. EAST KENT.—Monday, the 16th ; polling on Thursday, the 19th. MID KENT.—Wednesday, the 18th. WEST KENT.—Friday, the 20th ; polling on Monday, the 23rd. WINDSOR. —Monday, the 16th ; polling on the 17th. BIRKENHEAD. —Monday, the 16th ; polling on the 17th. NITEsT WORCESTER.--Wednesday, the 18th. BEWDLEY. —Monday, the 16th ; polling on the 17th. KIDDERMINSTER. —Tuesday, the 17th ; polling on the 18th. CAMBRIDGE COUNTY.—Saturday, 21st; polling on Tues day, 24th. CAMBRIDGE BOROUGH.— Monday, 16th ; polling on Tues day, 17th. WORCESTER ClTY.—Monday, 16th ; polling on 17th. EAST WORCESTER. —Friday, 20th ; polling on 23rd. Duoimicii.—Monday, 16th ; polling on 17th. EXETER. —Monday, 16th ; polling on 17th. WEDNESBURT.—Monday, 16th ; polling on 17th. WEST STAFFORDSHIRE. —Saturday, 21st; polling on 24th. CARDIFF. —Tuesday, 17th ; pollingon 18th. MR. BBIGHT AT BIRMINGHAM. On Thursday Mr. Bright attended a ward meeting for the first time during this election. He was enthusi astically cheered. He asked them if they could point to a single thing that their opponents, the candidates of the other party, had done with a view of extending the franchise. Did they ever hold a public meeting—did they ever get up a petition ? But they got up a petition that every elector of the borough of Birmingham should only vote for two men instead of three ; and Mr. Newdegate himself, when he asked the House of Commons, in opposing that clause, who it was that asked for it, got up and said, if he recol lected rightly, that he had presented a petition from Birmingham, signed by 4,000 persons, asking the House of Commons to give one member to the minority. What must be the effrontery, then, of men—what must, to use a word that they knew a little more familiarly, what must be the courage and impudence of men who had all the years of their lifetime not only denied them the suffrage, but had vituperated and abused him in every form of the English language, and mainly because he asked that they should have the suffrage. And if they bad opposed the franchise for forty years, what assurance had they that they would in the future complete that parliamentary reform they now had? How could it be expected that they would disfranchise the small boroughs, and give the people the ballot ; for there were hundreds of thousands of men who now had no more freedom than if they were handcuffed or in the cells of a prison? By some unfortunate fatality or accident the Tories were nearly always in the wrong upon all great questions. They opposed the repeal of the corn laws, the taxes upon knowledge, and the French treaty. The object of that treaty was that the two nations should be linked together in a community of interests, and that a perpetual peace should be created between them. And what were their opinions in regard to peace within the limits of the United Kingdom? Why should Ireland be governed in such a way that an immense army was required to keep the people in subjection ? The govern. ment ought to be such, and might be such, that not a single soldier should be required in the kingdom to keep the people in subjection to the Crown or in loyalty to the law, and he believed that if Ireland were properly governed there would not be a single soldier required there any more than in Scotland. If Ireland were well treated Ireland would be content; but Ireland had been governed with great injustice, and he was sure that no policy tor Ireland—and of all policies no policy was about the worst of all—would not receive the sanction of the great constituency when it came to pronounce its great verdict on Tuesday next. Mr. Bright then referred to the slanders poured upon Mr. Gladstone and himself by the Tory party. No sooner was one dirty, malicious, lying scandal trodden under foot in the mire to which it belonged, than those ingenious gentle men, some of them professing to be highly Protestant and vastly pious, got up another story of the same sort. The instruments of their opponents, indeed, were quite willing to grope in dirty kennels and sewers to find some bit of dirt which they could throw at them. MR. STANSFIELD ON THE PERMISSIVy BILL. Mr. Stansfeld, on Wednesday, gave the electorst of Halifax his opinions on the'Permissive Bill. There were .three actual theories, and only three possible theories, with reference to legislation on the liquor traffic. One was the theory of free trade, another was the theory of absolute suppression, and the third was the theory of regulation and restriction. He need not detain them for a moment in considering the theory of free trade, because they would universally assent to the proposition that the principles of free trade did not apply to the question of the liquor traffic. The second theory was the theory of the United Kingdom Alliance. In their view the consumption of drinks which, if taken in excess, in toxicated, was something intrinsically and essentially inadmissible and bad. They looked upon the traffic in those drinks as a traffic utterly incapable of restrictive legislation. They regarded it, in fine, just as others regarded the institution of slavery, as something bad in principle and wicked even in its conception ; nay, in fact, to use their own language, " it was a traffic which repre sented hell, in the contest between heaven and hell in which they were engaged." But what was the meaning of the total suppression of the liquor traffic ? Many people imagined that it meant the closing of public-houses and beershops. It not only meant that, but a great deal more. It meant that no beer, wine, or spirit merchant Mould be allowed to sell, even for consumption in private houses, any beer, wines, or spirits. It meant that the brewer should cease to brew, that the distiller should cease to distil, and that the importer should cease to import, in order that the end of the United Kingdom Alliance should be attained, viz., that it should become a physical impossibility for any human being in these isles to drink too much, because it should be impossible for him to find anything to drink at all. They disregarded entirely all questions of interests involved, and the question of the hardships which a sudden and total suppression would heap upon the hun dreds and thousands of persons who were employed, directly or indirectly, in the industry connected with the traffic, and they also disregarded the rights of property atA the very large capital which was involved in it. With such a principle, and with such ultimate objects, he could not agree. He would not say that he had no sympathy with the promoters of the Alliance move went, because, as far as he was concerned, he knew of no individual sacrifice, whether of means or independence, that he himself would not willingly incur, if by such sacrifice be could banish intemperance from this land. But he held that the original conception of the men (whom he believed to be earnest in their cause) must be a dream. It must have been conceived in absolute ignorance of human nature, and of what human nature would submit to. He looked upon the Permissive Bill as simply a method by which the United Kingdom Alliance, true to its own principle and object, endeavoured to realise that principle and to realise that object. He had found that the Permissive Bill had recommended itself to the minds of many, upon the under. standing that it paid respect to the principle of local self. government. There never was a greater mistake or a greater delusion than that. He objected to the Per missive Bill, and he should not be a party to it, because he contended that it sinned against the principle of local self-government. It originated with people who were wedded to one object. On the other hand, whilst be did not believe in suppression, he believed in regulation. With respect to what might be called " merchant traffic "—he meant delivery for consumption at home—he did not think there should be any restriction ; but when they came to houses of public entertainment—because that was the true meaning of the word " public-house "—the case was utterly changed. He did not think that any sensible man would deny that the needless multiplication of these houses was a great temp• tation and a great abuse. He did not think anyone could deny, on the other hand, that excessive competition induced the owners and occupiers of those houses to devise attractions which were mischievous in the extreme. His object would be first to lessen the number of houses, and to weed out all save those which could and ought to be respectably conducted to a profit. He would desire to revise carefully the conditions and regulations under which licenses should be granted, suspended, or refused. Above all, he would seek to obtain solid guarantees of good conduct, and, in his opinion, the best guarantee for good conduct was a money guarantee. He was in favour of placing beerhouses, as well as public : houses, not only under police supervision, but magieterir control. Two trains on the Irish North-Western line hays) been brought to a stand, almost at the same moment, ottW piaaislonatga IgilitAliktatelakdDidnilii THIRD EDITION. SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocz. NOTIOB. The Third Edition of " The Sun" of last Evening, con taining the Shrewsbury Raoes, &c., was published in time for delivery in town at 7.15 p.m. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day. SHREWSBURY RACES—THIS DAT. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) HURDLE RACE. A Hurdle Race Handicap of 5 sovs each, 2 ft, with 50 added ; winners of a hurdle race after November 5 (at ten a.m.) 101 b, a second 51b extra; starters with out being placed in the Handicap Hurdle Race allowed 41b. One mile and three quarters, over six hurdles. Ada Tavistock Colonel 1 HAWKS TONE WELTER CUP. The Hawltstcne Welter Cup, value 200 soya (Handicap), by subscription of 15 sovs each, 10 ft ; winners of any handicap after October 30 (at eleven a.m.) 71b, if of 200 sovs 10Ib, or a second in such latter race 51b extra starters in the Wynnstay Welter or Column Handicap without Laving been placed allowed 41b. Gentleman riders ; professionals 61b extra. About one mile. Pirate Chief Redivivus La Belle Jeanne Seven ran. WHITEHALL STEEPLECHASE. The Whitehall Steeplechase Handicap of 10 sovs each, 8 ft, with 100 added ; winners of a handicap steeplechase after Nov. 5 (at ten a.m.) 101 b, a second 51b extra ; starters in the Autumn Steeplechase without being Placed allowed 41b ; about three miles. Guide LONGNER STEEPLECHASE. Th• Longner Steeplechase Handicap of 5 save each, 2 ft, with 50 added; winners of any handicap steeplechase after Nov. (at ten :a.m.) 101 b, or a second 51b extra ; about two miles and a quarter. Sea King Wild Huntsman Brighton 3 Nine ran. NURSERY PLATE OF 100 SOVS. A. Nursery Plate of 100 sovs (handicap) for two yr olds; winners after the declaration of the weights 71b extra; about one mile. Juanita Robespiere Storm King ....... „ Eleven ran. MATCH. King of the Rovers beat Paris. NURSERY PLATE OF 40 SOVS. A Nursery Plate of 40 sovs (handicap), for all ages; winners after the declaration of the weights, 71b extra ; the winner to be sold for 100 soya. About half a mile, straight. llippedamia f 460.. 4 44 1 Juanita Spider a PLATE OF 40 SOVS. A Plate of 40 sovs (handicap) for all ages ; winners after the declaration of the weights 71b extra. About half a mile straight. Problem Macduff 2 Zisca 3 Twelve ran. SWEEPSTAKES. A Sweepstakes of 5 cove each, with 25 added ; two year Molds 7st 61b, three Bst 121 b, four and upwards 9st 41b ; the winner to be sold for 80 sovs ; if for 50 allowed 71b, 20 141 b. About five fur., straight. • Out and Outer Ettrick Di Vernon 8 Four ran. WELTER HANDICAP. Welter Handicap of 5 cove each, with 30 added ; winners, after the declaration of the weights 71b extra; gentle man riders, professionals 5110laxtra ; the winner to be sold for 100 sovs. About three-quarters of a mile. Last Rose cf Summer Seringapatam Chapel Royal .. Seven :an. ST. ALBANS RACES—This DAY. WRITTINGSTALL PLATE. Black Princo Barumite Aco of Tru,rps Seven ran. MAIDEN HUNT CUP. Cautharides Caustic Greenback 3 Five ran. MIDLAND RAILWAY STEEPLECHASE. Flatcatchor 1 King of Spades 2 Love in a Mist LUTON STEEPLECHASE. Chance Clarina Black Prince . 3 Six ran. SELLING CHASE. Panther 6. 1 Farleigh 2 War Eagle .. 3 Eight ran. LUNDON GAZETTE-THIS EVENING. ADMIRALTY, Nov. 10. Royal Marine Light Infantry—Lieutenant Charles E. Servanto to b 3 Second Captain, vice Doraville, to half pay. The undermentioned Officers have been this day 'pro moted to the rank of Engineers in her Majesty's Fleet, with seniority of Nov. 3, 1868 : —Mr. John Hall (b) and Mr. George Gravestock. ADMIRALTY, Nov. 11. Commander George Lowcay Norcock has this day been retired with the rank of Captain, under the Orders in Council of Ist August, 1860, 9th July, 1864, and 24th March, 1866. BOURSE, Nov. 12.—Th closed as follows : ree o'clock.—The market Bank Shares 3230 Ital'an Loan — End of month — ' Mexican Loan Do. Bonds Spanish Threes Home Debt 33 Deferred — 's. Cash. Orleans ... 918 Northern ... l2Ol Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 675 Western Eastern • • 570 Sardinian Austrian 59 7 3 /4 Lombard 39 7 3 /4 North of Spain Bl 4i per Cent. End of month - 3 per Cent End of month 7l 95 Credit Mobilier End of month 306 25 Credit Foncier 1527 End of month — B.LILWA' Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. 3ustralia and New Zealand, via Southampton..... Deo. 5. Ditto, via IV Arsenics Ditto, via Pla..ama Nov 28. Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video Deo. 4. Ditto, by Frenoh packet Nev. 22. Cape Verds. by Brazil paotot ...... . Deo. 4. Cape of Good dupe. Ascension, and St. Helena .Nov. 11. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Nov. 21. Gibraltar. via Southampton india,via Southampton vitto, via Marseilles • •• Nov. 16. Halts, Egypt, &o. Deo. 4. Ditto, Marseilles... N0v.12 Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via Seuthams ton Ditto, Marseilles ~ Nov. 13. Newfoundland ...... ..... ...... • ...••• ..... ... •• • Nov 11 Portugal .... United States, lanada, California, &c., by British packet • Nov 13 Ditto, by Canadian packet .... ...... . ...... ...Nov 11 Ditto, by 1 lifted States packet Ditto ditt c (Baltimore) ....... ..• West Indies and Pacific (except Mexico and Baha- Nov 13 mac) •• ................ West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe ......N v. 17. F al kl a nd Islands ...... . ........... • Dec 4. .. Nov. 21a. Cuta and Mexico ............... Bahamas, via New I o rk . •• • . Doe. 2. Bermuda, via Halifax •• .. ....... CROYDON CATTLE MARKET.--There was a poor supply of really good stock at market yesterday, and the general average prices obtained were as follows, at per stone, and sinking the offal: —Beasts, 3st 10d to 45 Bd. Sheep, choice Southdown wethers, ss; secondary quali ties, 4s 4d ; and coarse sheep, 3s 10d to 4s. Fat calves 4s to 5s ; and choice qualities dearer. Pigs, 3s 10d tct 4s Bd. The course of exchange at New York on London for bill e at 60 days' sight was on the last date about I(9} per cent. At this rate there is no profit on the importation et gold, frem the tratlcd States.