The Sun. — London, England, 1868-08-27 00:00:00

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CITY, Two o'CLocK. nou The Stock M ar k e t s are tolerably well sustained, Egh a partial reaction has taken place in one or two Foreign descriptions. Business, except in connection with the settlement i continues upon the smallest pos sible scale. There s no demand for the Funds, but, snpported by the present ascendancy of peace feeling nn the Continent over the firmness of the Paris Bourse, they have regained the slight decline which took place yesterday. Railways are dull upon the traffics, but lithigehrte,s closeduction, in price es t a bli s h e d s h ort l y b e f ore l ast have exte n d e d t o some ot h er li nes, w hil e the case of Lancashire and Yorkshire, there is a slight improvement. The accounts from different parts of the country of the improvement produced 11 !)on the later crops within the last fortnight, are exceedingly favourable. The discount market is steady and unaltered. Rates for the best bills continue at 11 to per cent., with very limited transactions. Cools ar e s t ea d y, at 94 to 94 i for money, and 94 911 for the B t h S ep t em b er. N ew an d R e d uce d Three per Cents., 941 to 914 ; India Five per Cents., 1141 to 115 ; Bank Stock, 244 to 246 ; Exchequer Bills, 16s to 20s prem. hWith the exception of Italian, which is / lower, at i to 511, Foreign Sto c k s are w ith out par ti cu l ar c, ch ange, and th e dealings are extremely limited. S panish Th ree per Cents. is * worse, at 34i to 341 ; c l ,e cil t e s., Mexican is * b e tt er , at 14* to 15 * ; T ur ki s h -r ive per C en t s., 38 * to 391 ; Danubian S e ven per 75 to 77 ; Brazilian, 70 to 77} ; Portuguese, , 37 z to 381 ; Egyptian, 82k to 84 ; Viceroy of E gypt Loan, 731 r to 74. English Railway Shares are rather dull, but prices tare not much altered. London and South Western is l ower, at 88 t o 90 ; G rea t N or th ern (A) , an d anchester, Sheffield, and Linconshire, each, at ~,„I ° 3 l . to 104 and 421 t o 43/ respec ti ve l y ; an d G reat Western *, at 49 to 49 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire iBk better, at 129 k to 130 ; Midland, 107* to 107 i ; South Eastern, 75i to 76 ; Great Northern, 106 to 107 ; Great E as t ern, 36a to 36,. ; London and North Western, 116 Ito 116 k ; Metropolitan, 110/ to 1101 ; Caledonian, 76 to 76i ; London, Chatham, and Dover, 18 i to 19. American Securities are without change. United States 5-20 Bonds are inquired for at 71k to 711 ; Erie Shares, 32 to 33 ; Illinois, 91 to 92. Finance Shares are little dealt in. Credit Foncier 18 a Shade firmer at 21 to 3 ; General Credit 2/ to ; International Finance, 1* to 1g dis ; London i r o n re c i e g , n 23 A t i o inl 2 ilg 2dis. Shares are without feature. St. u ,'nlin del Rey remain at 19k to 20k ; Rossa Grande, a' to prem. • Port Phillip, 3to it. Colonial Government Bonds are quiet at the follow ing prices :---Canada Six per Cents., 103 to 105'; do. i ve per C en t s ., 90 to 92. ; M aur i t i us Si x per Cents., 10 3 to 105 ; New South Wales Five per Cents., 99 to 101 ; New Zealand Six p er C ents. , 110 to 11 2 ; Queensland Six per Cents., 105 to 106 ; Victoria Six Per Cents., 113 to 115 ; do., 114 to 115. Lank Sh ares are steady. Imperial is rather dull, at 16fr to 17i ; Agra (A), llts to 12 ; to 10i di s . ; A ng l o -A ustr i an, 6k to 7 pre ; Chpreenartered Mercantile, 28 to 29 ; Consolidated, 411 anlmperial Ottoman, to p rem . ; L on d on " 001 . County, 50 to 51 ; London and W es t m i ns t er , ' B i to 67i ; ditto New, 54 to 541- ; Oriental, 44 to don' 4s Londo n J o i n t S toc k , 32 to 33 ; U n i on of Lon -34k to 35i. ahlnMiseellaneous Securities the dealin g s a r e li m it e d, ed the on l y change is a decline of * in Hudson's , which i s quote d 15 to 15 * ; Anglo-American tiegraph 211 to 21g ; Atlantic Telegraph, Eight r Cent. , 3 1 to 4 ; Fore-Street ' Warehouse dis. .1 2 prem. ; and National Discount., 11f to 111. Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures h ave further advanced to 382 to 38/, and the Con solidated Mortgage Bonds to 39/ to 391. Great Indian Peninsular Railway New Four per Cent. D e b enture Stock is 95i to 96k, and the Con aoldated Mortga ge B on d s 391 t o 391. The Hondura s L oan i s s t ea d y at 82f to 83k. BBar Gold to th e va l ue o f £ 39,000 was sent into the ~nk Yesterday, ma ki ng s i nce t h e d ate o f the last urn .£86,000. The Maria Theresa dollars b roug ht b y th e P era, atneuntina to about £250,000, have been disp ose d o f at 541 d, being the same price as that obtained for the quantity sold last week. re mittan ce B ar i ng Brothers and Co. have received a from the Custom House at Carthagena of 471 - 0 ; and al so a remittance from Bogota of £3,650, n account of the New Granada dividends. The Co general meeting of the M erc h an t B an ki ng for th r upany has b een convene d f or t h e 10 t h S eptem b er, e t he h 'purpose o declar June in 3l) lasg an t interim dividend for alf Year ending . The traffic receipts of the Madras Railway, for the week ending July 11, show an increase of £872 as ennipared with the corresponding period of 1867. T he Turki s h G overnment h ave j ust paid the S '"Yrna and Cassaba Rail wa y C ompany . £ 9,575 gua rantee for the year 1867. The ordinary general meeting of the Surrey Com "dereial Dock Company has been convened for the 17th September. t The ordi nary genera l meet i ng of the Bedford Pan 2liiiicon Company will be held on th e 3 r d September Wh en , en a dividend will be declared. v,The ordi nary general meeting of the Carnarvon and 4 _ l anberri s R a il way w i ll b e held on the 18th of Sep tiehnTher, for the transaction of the ordinary business of e company, The ordinary general meeting of the Anglo-Ameri etah Telegraph Company is called for the 7th of Sep ae„nlber; mean w hil e th e di rectors h ave issued their 19rt in ant i c i pat i on, i n which they propose to pay th ul vidend of lOs per share, free of income tax, for R~e three m ont h s en di ng 31st of July. The receipts a' l ling to th e A ng l o -A mer i can and Atlantic Tele- Ph from the cables from Ist May to 31st July have t e ? r aged .£496 lOs per day, one o f th e ca bl es on l y ' A n g Occupied f rom f our t o s i x h ours per day. d,,1, 1 official intim a t ion was yester d ay received in , u uclii of the calling in for cancellation of 1,000,000 the 11l the Seven per Cent. Construction Bonds of of t iunis Central Railroad Company. The numbers 4iv the Bonds called in are from 3,001 to 4,000 inclu collie, of 1,000 dols. each. They will be paid off at the o ct llanY's offices, in America, on and after the Ist i nt °° er, at the rate of 120 per cent. and accrued crest ; after that date all interest will cease. ors The following are some of the rates of continuations c harged at the railway settlement in the Stock Ex n',"nge Yesterday : , si e d oni t, an •• • • •• • • • -even to back. "Just ern ...2s to 3s contango, closing 3s to 43. °real, Northern ... to contango. Ll e:j e li d c :s * .... —l-16 back to 1.16 contango, closing 1.16 to 3•16 contango. 16 do., closing i to t. ° n and North W• estern even to do., closing even to 14 ifr 61 t Western back. 1-16 to 3-16 do., closing .4, and ••• ••• Met ro ••• ...* to I contan go . Pctlita n • ...f to 0 d o ., c l os i ng 5-16 t o 7.16 'overa contango. ••• to I contan g o, c l os i ng 5.16 t er . to 7-16 contango. ta t , ...even. N leffi nq North Midland...even. eta s North n British 1.16 to 3.16 contango. ot em -- daaan ... ...en to 1-16 (4,444 ' t e stern of Canada...6dve to 9d contangocontango. till, 1: rook of Canada ...9d to is 3d do. to a ••• to do, BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. a UOVERNMENT FUNDS. Per C ent. Consols a Bitto for A ccoun t , S ep t . 8 14er Cent. Reduced 941 1 I 1 1 Il e * 3 p er Cent 94 fi 1 D o t . Per Cent. Jan. 1894 3, "• per Cent. Jan. 1873 for'ltuitie 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 — E te• 0 yrs, expire sth April 1885 — x ° ated Sea Tele6raph), Aug., 1908 2-0 pm ii'lleqUer Bills, £l,OOO, 2 per Ct 121 ° 0 ' £5OO " ~I : £lOO Sr £2OO — if 246 fj,,‘.°Af England Stock, 4 per Cent etil•• 4.ccount I d a 4 per Cent. Bonds — imi‘zitA.N dOVERNMENT SECURITIES 1) 0 4 ,-, t c'elc, 10i per Cent., April 1874 ... D°. ` - ',Pening, for Account — 1,), - *," Per Cent. July, 1880 L I ' ' Per Cent., Oct. 1888 ~,e. Certificates — D O , ' Enfaced Yale.. 4 per Cent 94 j b 0 Per Cont., Jan. 1872 Do . `.4 Per Cent., May 1879 0 Doer Cont., Rup. Deb. 1872 lo3f , do. 1877 T ., D o ....,,,, t) ,• do. 1882 — bo - t,`" ° *l 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 b o ' '-'ends, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO • under £l.OOO -3,r.,,P68E1.G.N FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Atilt-`4.tine Iteprb!le 6 per Cent ... . lif4fil?.4 Bonds 5 Per Cent. 1859 ( 1 1 : 4 4r1 5 Per ' Cent — D o 4, per Cent., 1852 — 1)o•' do 18 38 72 , . .._. O. , do., 18•;" b o , Co., 1863 — „ . per Cent , 1865 tt ..,e0 Aceount . 77 14 2° 9 8 4 Yres 6 per Cent. C 1T 1., 4 %Per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cont ) —Cu uli' "Per Cent. „ ittl 6 per Cent .. & 'l ) °,:li Per Cent ************** 4° IN; ° Per Cont., B — iss 1867 0 7 . be: ' F,,t' f 'r Cent., 1866 — o , i, r:;,'' c riP £32 1:1.kii.k1,,,,, per Cent. ° "1 ° Per Ceut 18 45 m . 7 ftltet Danubian Principalities, par Cent Do 8 per Cent., 1867 — louador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Egyptian, 7 per Cent — Do. Second Issue Do. £5OO Bonds Do. 1106 Bonds B6/ 6 Do. 1864 Do. Account Do. Lout Bonds — Do. .£lOO Bonds ..... 871 English Scrip, 1868 — Do do. £l5 pd 1 dis Government Railway Debentures .... 95 Greek 5 per Cent., 1824 5, ex Coups — Do. Account ... Do. Coupons . • Do. Account G tatotnala 5 per Cent .. — Honduras Gov. Rail. Loan., 10 p. Ct., £25 p It iiian 5 1 e- Cert., 1865 — .)o. Account . — Do Maremmana Railway — N.l ,, xicar. 3 per Cent — Ditto for Account Dn. 1864 — Do 6 per Cont. Anglo-French 22 ooutevidvan C per Cent. .. — Uoorish Imperial 5 per Cent 'gew Granada l5/ Do 3 per Con - Do. Defer'ed Do Laud Warrants (Hectares) - Portprian 5 per Cent. 1b65 Do Account .. 79 1 Do 41 per Cent. (liril.arren) Do 44 per Cent.. 1162 -. — 'Do Account — Po-taguese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, 7,'9,'60,'2.'3 38 1 Do. do. 1P67 3B 1 Do. do. Sc ip, £2O pail R tssian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ SL Do 41 per Cent , 1850 De 41 per Cent., 1860 Do 3 per Cent., 1859 Do 5 per Cent., 1862 ... 89 81 Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1864, £lOO 80nd5..., Do. do. £B4 15s. d 0.... Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds 931 1 Do. do £B4 los. do — Po Nicolas Railway 67 64 Sar linittio o pt•r Cent — Spanish 3 per Cen . — Do. Account — Do. 1867 1 Do. Account Do• New Deferred — Do. Account Do. Com. Cert. of Coup. not funded Swedish Provincial Mortgage Loan — Do Government, 1864 Do do, 1868 Do do, Scrip — Turkish 6 per Cent. ...._w Do Account Do 6 per Cent. 1858 671 Do Account ... Do £lOO Bonds — Do 6 per Cent., 1862 66 Do Account Do XIV' Bonds 671 1 Do. 1863 — Do 5 per 'lent., 1865 D i Account 391 9 Do 6 per Cent., 1865 621 11 Do 4 por Cent., Guaranteed Dividends on the above payable in London. Austrian o per Cent. Ex 10 Florins .., Belgian, 41 per cent., Ex. 2;f. Dutch 21 per Cent. Ex. 12 Gull , . — .., Do Ac - cOunt French 'lentos, 3 per Cent., Ex. 2M. Italian 5 per Cont. 1851, E. 2si. Do. Account sli i CLOSING PRICES. Consuls, Money 94 Do. Account, Sopt. 8 94 POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-THIS DAY. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. THE LAST OF MR. FINLEN AND HIS LANDLORD.— Rosekelly, one of the warrant officers of the court, this morning informed Mr. Knox that, in accord ance with the ejectment warrant placed in his hands, he went on Monday to No. 9, Prince's-row, where he found Finlen and his three children lying on an old mattress almost in a state of nudity. lie left word that if Finlen did not get out by 10 o'clock the next morning he should eject him. Accordingly the next morning he went to the place and found Finlen, a man lodger, and three children, muddled up to gether on the mattress. One of the children had on a very old and ragged coat, but no trousers, the second part of a pair of trousers, and the third had not a vestige of clothing on. lie found in the room besides the old mattress a frying-pan and a dish, which had been converted into chamber utensils. Fiulen ordered the children to leave, and they did so, and went to a neighbour's house, but not being taken in they were subse quently taken to St. James's Workhouse and left there, but last night they were taken away by sore pressure. Mr. Knox said there was no actual desertion of the children, and he had no doubt the parochial authorities would not have given the children up to any person unless they were fully s dist:led as to their right to do so. There was now an end of the matter. THAMES. A DISPUTED RlGHT.—Dennis O'Connell, de scribed as a foreman of No. 3, Thames-place, Em mett-street, Lirnehouse, was charged with wilfully damaging a padlock, value GI, the property of Mr. John Lormanton, a piermaster, at Batson's-wharf, West Ferry-road, Poplar. Mr. Charles Nott, of 37, Joseph-street, Burdett road, clerk and foreman to the prosecutor, produced a broken padlock, and was proceeding to state the circumstances under which it was destroyed, when Mr. Pelham, solicitor, interposed, and, on behalf of the prisoner, admitted the breaking of the pad lock. The question involved a right of way over a wharf, called the Times-wharf, and the prisoner had acted under the direction of his employers, and would break a padlock every time one was put on the same gate. The lease (holding one up) con veyed a right of way. Mr. Benson said that he had no jurisdiction to try the question of a right of way. The Acts of Parliament expressly ousted him of the power of trying a case of this kind. The parties had better go to the county court if the right of way of the prisoner's master over the Times-wharf was dis puted. He discharged the prisoner. NEGLECTING TO MAINTAIN A WlFE. —William Harris, a journeyman baker, aged 21 years, was brought before Mr. Benson charged with "running away" and leaving his wife chargeable to the Poplar Union. Mr. James Speaklay, relieving officer, said the prisoner's ,wife and child had been chargeable to the union for several weeks, and that the expenses incurred amounted to £1 123. Sarah Holt said the prisoner was her sister's husband, and that the prisoner, who was a cruel man, gave his wife ss. per week only for several weeks in succession, although he was earning good wages. After that he was in the practice of giving his wife 3d. at night, and demanding it of her again next morning. After the middle of June he was seen no more, and he spent all his earnicgs on himself. Mr. Benson said a wife had a right to share in the fortunes of her husband, whether he was rich or poor. He sentenced the prisoner to be impri soned and kept to hard labour for 21 days. WESTMINSTER. AN UNNATURAL BROTHER.—WiIIiam Adolphus Robarts, a man about 30 years of age, was charged on a warrant with using threatening language of and concerning Maria Elizabeth Buck, whereby she apprehended bodily danger. Mr. William Motman, secretary of the Society for the Protection of Women and Children, watched the case, and produced two letters which were written by the prisoner from Whitecross-street prison to Mrs. Buck, his rister, and also his mother, who resided at 4, Ames-place, St. Paulton's-square, Chelsea; their contents were of the most filthy nature, and they 'contained the most violent threats towards the prosecutrix if she did not send him money. Their contents are entirely unfit for publication. The prisoner made a rambling defence, in which he attempted to justify his conduct, and said he had been provoked to write the letters, which were in reply to similar ones received from his sister. He accused her of immorality, said she kept a dis orderly house, and was not with her husband ; she had been an inmate of Hanwell, and had robbed him of all he had. Giles, 287 B, the warrant officer, proved that the prisoner used violent language when apprehended. Mr. Selfe said this sort of thing was not to be put up with, and ordered him to find a surety in £5O to keep the peace for three months._ He was locked up in default. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 27, 1868. 7HE RESTORA7ION OF WESTMINSTER CIMPIER-HOUSE. The restoration of this most beautiful adjunct to the grand old Abbey of St. Peter's may more pro perly be called a resuscitation than a restoration. It is not being rebuilt, or even, in the strict sense of the term, being renovated—a word which is dreaded by all true antiquarians and archaeologists ; it is simply being restored to the condition in which it existed more than five centuries ago, but without any modern necessary alteration or improvement whatever. It is only being cleaned, strengthened, and revealed in all its beauty, and the Vandalisms which have hitherto, in the way of stairs and shelves and blocked-up windows, desecrated its exquisite proportions, are being removed for good and all. The cost of what may be called literally cleaning and strengthening it will be in all about 4 :30,000, and there are few even of the most economical members of Parliament or their con,tituents who will grudge this sum. The great mass of the rents of the old Abbots of IVestrniester goes now to the Crown—that is to say, to the country, and it is not unfair that the country generally should bear the expense of maintaining in all its ancient integrity even the smallest vestige of the great Abbey, which is without its equal, either for antiquity or historical associations, in the world. The Chapter-house was once one of its most beautiful accessories. It is larger, but ou almost the same plan and style as the celebrated Chapter-houses of Wells and Salisbury. The latter is known among all architects here and abroad for its beauty ; but that at Westminster, though finer, had been little seen and still less known. Iu fact, till now it has never been much regarded, and it was not till it threatened to crumble into ruins that efforts were made to keep it from literally falling in a heap. Yet there was much even in its associations, apart from its rare architectural beauty, to justify its preservation. It was, at the latest, built in the reign of Henry 111. , and in it the House of Commons used to meet in 1377, and continued is meet till they were moved over the way to St. Stephen's Chapel, now St. Stephen's Hall, in the crypt under which, at its building, Chaucer was clerk of the works. In the Chapter house, also, was kept the Doomsday Book, with the original wills of Richard 11., Henry V., Henry VII., Henry VIII., the Golden Bull of Clement VII., giving the title of Defender of the Faith to Henry VIII. for his treatise against Luther and the Reformation, and the treaty of perpetual peace signed on the Field of the Cloth of Gold between. Henry VIII. and Francis 1., the exquisite gold seal to which, six inches in diameter, is said to be the work of Cellini. But " Tempts edax rerum," and the old historic Chapter-house came to be disused, and in process of time to be dismantled and almost destroyed. It was and still is octagon in shape, with eight large and lofty traceried windows in the richest Gothic style. The thrust of its light roof was held by a peculiar bracing of three stout wrought•iron rods, each nearly two inches in dia meter, passing round the walls above the tapering windows, and being joined in a most peculiar man ner by iron rings. These were removed during some ill-advised and most antique improvements, and at once the roof began to thrust the walls out wards, and flying buttresses had to be built to re tain them. There is no record as to the time when these buttresses were built, and all differ much as to periods, and vary in strength from 9ft. to 18f t. thick, the last having apparently been built up as late as 200 years ago. After this, in spite of its exquisite tempera paintings and carvings, its rich tracery, and brilliant windows, it sank into neglect, and became at last a mere storehouse for Govern ment records, and this was almost the ruin of one of the noblest structures connected with the Abbey. The Westminster Chapter-house, like that at Salisbury, may be described as a gigantic octagon lantern, about 64ft. in diameter and 64ft. high, with a rich groined roof, meeting in the centre, as at Salisbury and Wells, on a clustered pillar of black Purbeck marble. Such a building, of course, did not suit the requirements of a great Record office, so the windows were broken out and bricked up, an upper story was made by a common deal floor let into the walls, and the paintings and carved groined arches were hidden in by presses to hold the books. Only one good came of this change, which is that the encaustic pavement was boarded over, and thus there remains to us one of the finest examples of medi2eval tiling that exists in England. That this is the original pavement is evident from the recurrence of the arms of Henry 111. Its colouring is superb, and its flowing patterns are burnt in with a delicacy and brightness which would do credit to Minton even now. Among the patterns are little figures of kings and queens, saints, ecclesiastics, and minstrels. This preservation, however, is all we have to thank the Record-office of those times for, and we should perhaps have not had even that but for the fact that boarding was warmer to the feet than tiles. In all other matters it was mis used with neglect, which one would hardly think even the most untaught clowns woald have been guilty of. For the sake of gaining a few inches for the wooden shelves, all the exquisite carving of the capitals of the black marble columns was hacked away —even the groining of the arches above them, all gilded, coloured, and beautifully carved like the " diaper" patterns of the Alhambra Palace, was, in most cases, chiselled out to make room for a beam or a wooden shelf. Some good, however, was effected even by this, for the shelves protected the paintings on the walls, though not entirely, for a doorway was cut through one of the best, just as in Italy a doorway was cut in one of Domenicbino's great frescoes of the Last Supper. The paintings in the Chapter-house are evidently the work of an Italian artist, and are in a tolerable state of preservation, thanks to the shelves which were in front of them. In some parts the colours are wonderfully brilliant, and the heads are painted with groat force and cha racter. In one bay, evidently reserved as a seat for the Abbot, the groinings of the arches are beau tifully coloured and gilded, but these, like the others, have been hacked and hewn and chiselled and defaced to make room for shelves. Here, and on other portions of the carvings and walls, are ample re mains of colour and gilding. Some of the caps of the columns, both here and elsewhere, are simply moulded, but all are graceful. It will be very easy to restore these columns and groined arches 1 1 to their original condition. Art critics are pro verbially hard to please, however, and it is con tended that to restore these mutilated walls is to falsify history and sophisticate art. As well might one complain of mending a rare old Wedgwood vase, or repairing a rent in a painting of one of the old masters. Much interest attaches to the once double portal at the top of the steps of the vesti bule which connects the Chapter-house with the Cloisters. The pillar dividing this portal has dis appeared, as also its head, which once enclosed in a large centre quatrefoil a figure of Our Saviour. A confirmation of this last fact is furnished by an antique record, which directs the monks on entering the Chapter-house to bow to such a statue. In the wall space to the right and left of this door head are figures of saints and angels, which, strange to say, have escaped both the Puri tans and the keepers of the records. The bronze wings of the angel Gabriel, however, have been carried off, though the removal of a vast mass of whitewash has brought to light many figures which it at once concealed while it protected them. After all these devastations the Chapter-house soon began to yield to what might have been its fate. The but tresses gave way, and the side wall sank to the south. The outer walls bowed out in an alarming manner, some as much as nearly ten inches from the perpendicular, while the central column, of black Purbeck marble, with its clustered shafts, was not only bent aside, but even twisted. The place too became too small for the records of which it was full, and they were at last removed. Still, even lightened of this weight on its walls, the structure continued to yield, and at last, to save it from ultimate ruin, Mr. Gilbert Scott was called in. Mr. Scott is about the most conservative architect in his profession. He neither renovates nor re stores, in the architectural sense of the words, dut only replaces, and even that only as far as is possible consistent with the strength and durabi lity of the structure. With the Chapter-house it was a difficult, thing, for the buttresses were lite rally rotten, and were so built around that it was difficult to get at many of them, for all the stone, which was of a soft kind, was so decayed that more than three inches of the material was eaten into, and the foundations too had given way to some extent under them, so that new buttresses were ab solutely necessary. These were erected by raising the modern roof of the Chapter-house, and then substituting for the old buttresses new ones in Chilmark stone from the Wiltshire quarries. This stone is peculiarly hard, but it has not yet been tried much in that hardest of all ordeals, the atmo sphere of London. A very ingenious specimen of cross-centring scaffold takes the inward thrust of these flying buttresses till the groined roof is finished, and will rest upon the centre cluster of marble columns. These columns have been sadly misused, and, though finely polished, were during the time of their degradation as a It :cord office painted black. They were bound round with copper wire at the capitals and bases as the tall shaft began to bend and twist in olden times, but beyond this nothing was done to repair the fabric which they mainly upheld. The restoration of these columns to their proper position will be one of the most difficult works in all the building. For the rest, every atom of the stone in the old structure has been used again in the new. It has simply been "redressed" in the interior, and in the exter nal buttresses a harder stone has been substituted for that which was found to be decayed. Beyond this no alterations have been attempted. The groiued roof over the centre will be the same as that which covered the House of Commons nearly 500 years ago. Above this will rise a pointed roof of iron, cased with lead. The main ribs of this are so tied in with cross braces that there is no thrust upon the walls below, which have only to bear its weight. The windows are to be filled in with coloured glass, and enough has fortu nately remained of the old lights—that is, of portions of them—to show how they were once filled with grisaille, ruby, blue, and other colours. The style of the period on the spot is known. It consists of a sort of mosaic of grisaille, with small coloured pieces at rather wide intervals. Thera is an example of the style in the Jerusalem Chamber, and, curiously enough, a portion of a window of the required date situated in the apsidal chapel of the Abbey, but built in by Henry Vll.'s chapel, was recently discovered. Altogether the restoration of the Chap ter-house to its pristine beauty will cost some £30,000 ; but, as we have said, there are few who will grudge this for the preservation of a build ing which is not much younger and scarcely less historic than the venerable minster itself, to which it will now add new glories. Beneath the Chapter house is a crypt which is little known or seldom mentioned even in the most ancient or modern his tories of archwology. This crypt is about 30ft. square aad some 12ft. high. It has no windows to it, and the walls in some parts round it are as much as 15 feet thick. This is, perhaps, the only part connected with the Abbey which has any thing like vaulting under it. The ceiling of this crypt has a plain groined roof, the arches of which meet in the centre on a splendid column of black Purbeck marble, about Bft. high and sonic 41t. in diameter. This crypt, however, like the fabric it supports, has met with cruel misusage. The great marble column has actually been cut into gaps, so that little more than a shell of it remains, in some parts not more than five or six inches thick. These were used as safes for the most precious of the records deposited there. All these chasms will now be filled up, and the pillar put in a fair posi tion to do its duty in supporting one of the most ancient and most beautiful portions of the famous Abbey of Westminster. LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOVER RAit- WAY COMPANY. HALF YEARLY MEETING.—(THIS DAY,) The ordinary half-yearly meeting of the share holders in this company was held to-day, at the offices of the company, Victoria Station ; J. Hilliard, Esq., in the chair. The report having been taken as read, The CHAIRMAN rose to move the reception and adoption of the report and accounts, and explained the various items in the revenue accounts of the company. He then proceeded to refer to the proposal to raise the new A Stock, which he said would be a very wise proceeding to consent to. The payment of the interest was quite a certainty, because they had an increase of income of £70,000 to p.ty interest on the stock, which would amount to about £36,000. It would have been a great assistance had the direc tors received the consent of the mortgagees, because the creditors woul I readily take the new stock. It was, however, thought that it would not be right to issue it until the form of consent sent to the shareholders had been returned, and he must sty that the directors would not use the consent unless they got a large majority. He then proceeded to notice wl-at he said was called an increase of fares, and said the tone the public hat adopted was most unreasonable. If the company found they were running trains at less than they could afford he contended they had a right to raise them. The public, he admitted, had the right to object to such a proceeding, but that was all, and he did not think for a moment it was to be ad vanced that because the company had been running at too low fares the company had no right to increase them. He did not say that public opi nion and feeling were altogether to be overlooked, because if they refused to use the railway the share- holders would be the sufferers ; but what he did say was that the public had no right to call upon the directors to run trains at unremunerative rates. (Hear, hear.) The accommodation they afforded to the public was in every way most con venient, but hitherto the fares charged had been found to be unremunerative, and he thought the directors in the course they bad adopted had acted entirely for the benefit of the shareholders, because it was but reasonable that they should look for some return for the large amount they had in vested in the undertaking. (Hear, hear.) It was quite a commercial question, and the directors were watching closely the revenues, and if they found the fares now adopted did not pay they would at once take the matter into their consideration. He contended that in what had been done au equalisa tion of fares had been made, and nothing more ; and if the directors had not taken the course they had they would have neglected the interests of the shareholders. With reference to the letters that had appeared in the newspapers on the subject, he should not say further than that he had received a great many, most of which told the directors their third class were too good. (Oh, oh.) He must say he was very much of that opinion. He did think their accommodation to certain parties had been too good, and that they had in a great mea sure spoilt the public. The directors were taking the most active steps to get the priority question settled, and he might conclude by saying that the property was in a sound and good condition. Mr. WARTER seconded the motion, and said that whatever had been the waste and extravagance twelve millions of money had been spent on their railway, and the fares hitherto charged did'ut pro duce sufficient to pay interest. The conduct of the public was most unreasonable in objecting to the directors endeavouring to get enough to pay interest on the capital laid out for the debenture-holders. Mr. HITCHCOCK said the fares hitherto charged by the directors was not shoe-leather price, and be was surprised that there should have been such au outcry when the directors attempted to remedy the matter. He thought the directors would be weak to give way at the present moment. He felt certain that after a little while the matter would settle down—(hear, hear)—and quiet would soon come about. The letters only came from a few grumblers, who would grumble at anything, and if left alone the dissatisfaction would soon die out. With respect to the omnibuses running in compe tition that would also die out, and wh2u the public wa , ,tel a good ride they woull come back to them. (Hear, hear.) He thought the directors had only done justice to the shareholders in raising their fares—(hear, hear)—ant the talk about their charges b2in3. increased 100 per cent., was all nons2nse. (I ear, hear.) The secret was their pre sent fares were not too high, but they had formerly been too low. (Hear, hear.) Mr. BILLINGS said it was a matter of the highest importance to all concerned that there should be no dispute about railway fares. He was not for high fares, because the time for levying them had passed, but he thought the new arrangement with respect to certain classes was most unjust. The ordinary admission and railway tickets to the Crystal Palace remained at the old figure, but the fare charged to the holders of season tickets had been greatly in creased. Such a proceeding was most unfair, and would be attended with great loss to the Crystal Palace Company. He had in his own case given up attending the Saturday concerts in consequence of the high fare now charged, and many others had done the same, so both companies lost revenue. He thought the arrangement at present in existence with respect to workmen's trains required revision, as it was a great hardship that one set of workmen should travel cheaply, and another class of work men be charged very high for the same accommoda tion. (Hear, hear.) The omnibuses on the road to the Elephant and Castle were benefiting by the policy of the directors, because they were all filled, while the railway trains were empty. He thought that the sooner the directors made a retrograde movement the better. (Hear, bear.) Of course it was the duty of the directors to use all their exer tions to procure a dividend for the shareholders, but the question was, Was the late increase of fares the right way to do it? (Hear, hear.) A SHAREHOLDER defended the conduct of the directors with respect to the increase of fares, and said he did not see why railway directors should be treated worse than the baker or the butcher. When either of those trades increased their prices their customers paid it without making the absurd objec tion they raised against the fares now charged. (Oh, oh.) Another SHAREHOLDER said the increase came with peculiar hardship upon those who bad built their residences a little way out of town, relying upon the fares on the railway remaining stationary. (Hear, hear.) The CHAIRMAN said . he was gratified to find that all were disposed to debate the fares as reasonable men. The present was not the time to take fright at high words—(hear, hear) —they had done but what they felt their duty. With respect to the workmen's trains he thought they were a great convenience, but whether some better arrangement could not be made was a matter for consideration. With respect to the omnibus competition on short distances, that would always continue, as they could take up and set down passengers at any point required. He might say that the directors were watching closely the result of the present equalisation of fares, and if it resulted in a loss to the company fresh arrangements would at once be made, but until a result was arrived at the directors felt they were acting in the right direction. After some further discussion relative to the general position of the company, the report was adopted and the meeting adjourned. RED TAPE.—There is an old story of red tape from Russia. In the year 1830, the Emperor Nicholas, looking over the accounts of his household, found an entry something like this: —To tallow, for the cure of her Majesty's cold, ton roubles. Ho was puzzled, know ing that the Empress was in perfect health. But on pursuing his inquiries he found the same charge re peated day after day for years and years. Ho demanded an explanation, and discovered that in the year 1790 the Empress Catherine had had a severe cold ; that the physician advised her to apply melted tallow to her Majesty's nasal organ ; that there was none in the palace ; that it had to be procured for her ; and that ever since that date—for more than half a century—there was every day entered in the accounts of the Imperial household a charge for tallow to be applied tq the imperial pose.-- Once a IRO. A FARMER KILLED BY A BOAR. At Swavesey, in Cambridgeshire, on Tuesday last, ➢lr. James Williams, a native of that place, wet his death under melancholy and, taken in rela tion to foregone, somewhat singular circumstances. Williams, who was at the period of his death about 66 years of age, carried on the combined businesss of farmer, hay factor, and butcher, and was in the habit of attending Cambridge market in these c.ipa cities. On Tuesday afternoon a Lumber of swine escaped from a yard to which he intended to confine them, one of them a boar. Deceased rushed to turn them back, whe❑ the boar suldenly attacked him, threw him down and gored him. The animal tore open the thigh of deceased, severing the main arte ries thereabouts, and inflicted other injuries. A man near at hand hastened to Mr. Williarni's assist ance, and raised him on his knee ; but, according to his statement, Mr. Williams breathed only once, and then died. An inquest was held yeeerday afternoon, beforo Mr. Barlow, coroner for the county, and, the above facts being proved, a verdict in accordance with them was returned. To regret at Mr Williams's untimely end much excitement is added from the fact that he is the same man who so providentially recovered from a murderous attack made upon him on the 26th of December last. Williams on that day was on his way home in his hay cart from Cam bridge to Swavesey when he was attacked, evidently by some person who had been riding with him, robbed, and left for dead. With its master in this state the.horse found its way into S wavesey, and there Williams was extricated. It was found that Williams had been robbed of the proceeds of some hay he had sold in Cambridge (about five pounds' worth), his pockets being turned inside out : but, what was worse, his skull was fractured in two places, in one so extensively that the covering of the brain might be seen. In a state of insen sibility, hovering as it were on the confines of life and death, Williams lingered for many weeks, and then, to the surprise even of his medical attendants, a good constitution carried him through. He be gan to mend, and eventually mended so well and recovered so entirely that he was able to prosecute his assailant to conviction at the next March assizes. During Williams's illness the most untiring and unremitting exertims had been made by the police under Mr. Deputy Chief Constable Stretten, and the result was the apprehension of one Robert Low, a pensioner, about 67 years of age. Wil liams could only swear to the attire of his assailant, but did swear particularly not only to the presence of some odd buttons, but one, a most remarkable one, upon Low's jacket. This fact excited much attention at the time amongst the medical faculty as bearing upon the question of the im pression made upon the mind and memory of a man subjected to attacks such as that made upon Williams. Williams could recollect nothing but the peculiarities of the jacket, but added that " these had been before his mind night and day ever since." He deszribed them before he saw Low's jacket, and on the latter being produced at a sitting before the magistrates at once exclaimed, " That's the one." The police, however, had dis covered other damaging circumstances which left no doubt of Low's guilt, and he was sentenced to penal servitude for life by Mr. Baron Bramwell. That the old gentleman who had escaped with his life from such an attack made upon him as that of Low's should at last fall a victim to an accident by the attack of a boar has excited deep commisera tion for his large family. There can be little doubt, however, that Low's dastardly attack had really a deep effect in undermining Williams's strength both of mind and body, and 53 prevented his effectually warding off the assault of the boar. The latter has since been destroyel. A committee, consisting of Lord Doneraile, Lord Fermoy, and other gentlemen, has been formed to carry on the movement in favour of what is called a "Cork Derby." The project of establishing this race has met with general favour in Ireland, and an offer has been made of a suitable four-mile course at Mallow, with one mile and a quarter "as straight and smooth as a piece of glass." THE HERRING FISHERY ON THE YORKSHIRE COAST. —The herring fishery on this coast has been very produc tive during the last few days. Three special trains of those fish arrived in London this morning from Scar borough, Whitby, Filey, &c. ; large consignments also arrive at the provincial markets. The fishery is likely to continue good as long as the weather remains favourable, as the fishennon report the "schools" being immense and the quality superior. THIRD EDITION• SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLoox. NQTICE. The Third Edition of " The Sun" of last Evening, con taining the Latest Betting, and Races at Canterbury and liaby, was published in time for delivery in town at 7.15 p.m. _ Aug. 2, at 9 a.m., Lucifer and Belle of Warwick, out of Cautel:bury ngagements. Au! r. 24, a t 9 a.m., Kidd erm i nster, out of the Trades men's ' llandf..eap at Derby. Aug;24., At 9 a.m., Success, out of the Warwick Cup. Aug 1,424, at 9 g i a.ra., Zeloo, out of Weymouth engage ments. Anwast 24, at 2.25 p.m., Kettleholder, out of all handi caps to date. Auuust 24, at 4.35 p.m., Glenmore, out of Abingdon, Canterbury, and Margate engagements. August 25, at 9 a.m., Goodwood, out of the Warwick Cap. August l's, at 9 a.m., Acorn and Lampoon, out of all ha udElaps f or which the weights have appeared. Aug. 25, Jit 9 a.m., Gulnare, out of Abingdon engage ments- Aug . 25, at 9 a.m., Lady Ilighthorn, out of the Port Moado , w Plate at Oxf,rd. AuB- 25, at It Sea Breeze, out of tho Stratton AudievlNursory at Oxiord. Aug. '23, at 2.30 lYni. , Hop Leaf ; out of Yarmouth en gap -netts. nt 1.30 p.m., Dick Turpin, out of all engage ments iu 1868. Aug. 2U, at 9 a.m., Cape of Good flop an I Camillo, out of I.)Jac.tstJe OF RIDZIC3.—U r J. S. B 1 bud, whit.) and sky bi da ss tiu iteket, cap taw same,. d T a. PLEC.I.IiE FklitrEir Liar.—The forfeits; of the fol , - b w i as -torsos hair,' pl—Birl of Passago, Kiug Arthur, Lady Blanche, Mirdnal tu, Unliterine (2 soya), Su - Wad.% u, SpJt, Sutton, Tuna Sayors, Win and Pay. ILL3IIiOND.—The L.)'lowing nomination for the Mom bars' Plate was accidentally omitted by the Clerk of tho Cour.e in the list sent for last Calendar, viz., Mr. Snow den's b c Man of Ross, 4 yrs. STLIKESLEY.—Seampstm has baen disqualified for the Hunters' Stakes on tha ground that h 9 had been liable to pay racehorse duty, and the race has been awarded to Phi losopher, the horse wh'ch came in second. E. Chaplin, Esq„ is the 11JW Steward at York, in place of the Duke of 13eaafort, wk.) retires by rotation. OXFORD RACES—Tins DAT. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) MEMBERS' PLATE. The County Members' Plate of 30 sovs, added to a Han dicap of 3 sovs each ; winners of any handicap after August 20 (at 10 a.m.), 71b extra; three quarters of a mile, straight ; 13 subs. Sister to Vedette Highland Mary Vani • 3 Seven ram, HANDICAP PLATE. A Handicap of 5 sovs each, with 50 added ; the winner to be sold for 50 sovs; winners of any handicap after Aug. 20, at ten a.m., flb extra. Half a mile straight. 19 subs. Heather Bell 1 Paris Brontia 3 Four ran. OXFORDSHIRE STAKES. The Oxfordshire Stakes (Handicap) of 15 soya each, 10 ft, and 5 only if declared, with 100 added; winners of any handicap after Aug. 13 (at ten a.m.) 51b, of two 71b extra; the second to save his stake; two miles; 21 subs, 12 of whom declared. Virginia Creeper ...... 1 Child of the Islands 2 Papillon Five ran. SELLING PLATE. The Selling Plate of 50 soya; two year olds 7st 31b, three 9st 11b, four 9st 121 b, five 10st, six and aged lOst 21b; mares and geldings allowed 31b ; the winner to be sold for 150 soya ; if entered for 100 sovs allowed 71b, 75 101 b, 50 141 b, 30 211 b ; half a mile, straight. Filirfax Paris Kemal 3 Eight ran. PRINCE OF WALES'S STAKES. The Prince of Wales's Stakes of 10 soya each, h ft, with 50 added, for two year olds; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b; winners of a st Lica of the value of 50 soya 31b, of two fifties, or a stake of 100 sovs 51b, 200 71b extra ; starters twice without winning allowed 31b, thrice 51b. Ha'f a mile straight. 11 subs. Luna Canteen 2 PORT MEADOW PLATE. Tho Port 313adow Plate (llinclie.ap) of 100 SOTS; any winn3r after Aug. 20 (at t3n a.m.) Olb extra; fire fur longs, straight. Marshal Yey • •• Squire Miss Hayes 3 Nino ran. FREENIEN'S PLATE. Tho Freemen's Plate of 30 says, adelnl to a Handicap of 3 sws each ; wiauers of auy hAndi,:ap after Augast 20 (at 10 a.m.), 71b ext:a; o'lo Mild straight ; 13 subs. Sister to V.lette S ugarstick . Cawdor 3 Six inn. VICTORIA CLUB BET riNG-THIS DAT. ST LEGER. 5 to 4 apt The Earl (offered—take 6 to 4) 4 to 1 agst King Alfred (offered) 13 to 2 agst Formosa (offered) 7to 1 agst Viscount (offered) 25 to 1 agst 'Typhoeus (offered) 100 J to 30 agst St. lt_man (offered) DERBY. 2000 to 100 agst Portsmouth (taken) Bank of England Returns, An Account, pursuant to t: cap. 32, for the week ending ISSUE DEP ;he Act 7th and Bth Victoria, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 1868. P 4.IITILENT. Notes issued ....X34,617,335 Governmt. Debt.Xll,ols,loo Other Securities.. 3,94900 Gold Coin and Bullion 8 il ver Bullion £34,617,335 BANKING D. at,617,335 'ARTMENT. !ropriotors' Capi- tal £t4,553,000 Rest Public Deposits (including Ex chequer, Sav ings' Banks, Commissioners of National Debt, and Div. Accounts Other Deposits.. 19,838,830 seven Days and other Bills 502,933 Govarnmt. Semi rities(ineluding Dead Weight Annuity) .... £13,790,181 Other Securities 15,507,07 d Notes 10,6'31,765 Gold and Silver Coin ... 1,156,766 £41,2 )5,680 1 £41,205,680 a Foam, Chief Cashier. THE CASE OF MADAME RACHEL. Notice has been given that to-morrow Mr. Davis, of Russell-court, Covent-garden, glass and china warehouseman, and Mr. Thomas Preston Stack, of New Church-street, Edgeware-road, wholesale and retail boot manufacturer, will attend before the presiding Judge at Chambers (Mr. Jus tice Willes) to justify as bail, each in the sum of £5OO, for the appearance of Madame R tchel at the September sittings of the Central Criminal Court. MARICE 7 S-7111 S D4l. METROPOLITAN CATTLE. There As a fair supply of stock for this day's market, and a steady trado ruled. Of beasts there was a full supply, the number being 1,880, but Blond ►y's rates were supported, and a fair clear ance made. Of sheep and lambs there were 13,150, and for both the demand ruled steady at late rates. HAY. The markets are quiet, with moderate supplies, and prices somewhat irregular. Meadow hay, .£4 to £3 15s ; clover, £1 10s to -V lOs ; straw, 30s to 38s per load. SPORTING INTEL LIGENCE—This Day. WARWICK SEPT. The Shorts Handicap of 5 for all ages; a winner of the publication of the wei carry 71b extra; five furlol Ago st lb Monarch of Glen... 5 8 10 Amour Proprd 4 8 7 Mistletoe 5 8 6 Nitiv to ... ... 3 8 4 [radian Star ... 5 8 2 Lily 3 8 0 Yearlfeat her ... 3 7 12 Goolfellow ... 4 7 10 'EMBER MEETING. sovs each, 3 ft, with 25 added, any handicap subsequent to ights (Aug. 27, at 10 a.m.) to ug (16 subs). Ulphus Ziica ... ... !dui.% ... Ba.S ion Jl ►rshal Noy IVout!wr Da:cot ... Ass st lb ... 5 7 5 G 7 3 ... 3 7 3 ~ 4 7 2 ~ 3 7 0 ~5 7 0 ~3 6 -3 6 5 The Woodcote Nursery Handicap of 5 sovs each, 2 ft to the fund, with 50 sovs added ; a winner after the weights are published (Aug. 27, at 10 a.m.) to carry 71b extra ; the winner to bo sold by anction after the race for 100 sous, and any surplus over the selling price to be di vided between the fund and the second horse ; five fur longs. 24 subs. Light Cloud itogula... Aotias ... st lb 8 10 ... 8 5 ... 8 3 Monsieur Louis Yanina... Glen Stuart ... st lb ... l; 10 ...6 9 ... 6 9 Becky Sharpe f. ... 8 0 Adolphus Hinton... ... 7 7 Bird's Eye Sister to Veda ... 7 6 Hymen Venetia (h ... 7 5 Engravar Esher ... 7 4 Yellow Hose ... 6 7 Charon... ... 7 4 Baden 6 5 Blackbird c 7 0 Prevention f 6 3 Mathilde ... 612 Una ... 6 0 Barcelona 6 10 Slowman ... 6 0 The County Handicap of 5 soya each, 2 ft to the fund, with 100 soya added ; the winner of the Leamington Stakes to carry 101 b, and the second in that race 31b extra ; the winner of any other handicap after the de claration of the weights (Aug. 27, at 10 a.m.) to carry 51b extra; one mile ; 33 subs. ... 6 9 ... 6 7 ... 6 7 ...6 7 Age st lb ... 5 9 5 Vespasian ... Age st lb Warrior .. a G 9 Vortigem 3 6 8 Tremble ... ...4 6 8 Chivalry ... 3 6 7 Milton ... ...3 6 7 Mayflower—, ... 4 6 6 Lily ... 3 6 6 Whalebone ... 5 6 3 Prince Regent ... 3 6 2 Citroa ... 3 6 0 Ligurian ... 3 6 0 Tribune ... 5 5 13 Kettleholder ... 3 5 12 Alicia ... 4 5 11 Hermitage... ... 3 5 7 Papillon ... ~. 3 5 7 Sileilus ... Lord Ronald ... 4 8 7 ... 6 8 5 Master Willie ... 4 712 Christmas Carol ... 6 7 11 Vau Amburgh 4 7 11 Actrea V ... 5 7 10 Professor Anderson 5 7 9 Edinburgh... ... 6 7 5 Python ... ...4 7 3 Seringapatam ... 4 7 0 Naivete .. ... 3 612 Amour Propre ... 4 612 Moonbeam 4 6 10 Victress 4 6 10 Clemente 3 6 10 Bandmaster ... 4 6 9 The Nursery Handicap of 5 soya each, 2 ft to the fund, with 80 added, for two years old; a winner subsequent to the publication of the weights (Aug. 27, at 10 a.m.) to carry slb extra. Three quarters of a mile. 32 subs. St lb Miss Nellie ... Light Cloud Crown Princess Veutnor Itegula ~. Antias ... St lb ... 8 10 ... 8 4 ... 8 3 ... 8 0 ... 8 0 ... 7 10 Venetia (It b) 6 12 Mathilde ... 6 12 Esher ... ... 6 11 Chaperon c01t... ... 6 10 King of the Rovers ... 6 10 Monsieur Louis ... 6 10 Arlington ... Becky Sharpe f La Belle Helene Dunbar ••• April Morn ... Remus ••• Islam ... ... ... 7 10 ... 7 7 ... 7 3 ~. 7 3 ... 7 2 ... 7 0 ... 7 0 Pompeii 6 9 Alias (late Arlington) 6 7 Bird's Eye ... ... 6 7 Cawnpore 6 7 Ampleforth 6 4 Engraver ... ... 6 4 Jolly Tar 6 4 Threatener ... ... 7 G Rosecleer 6 4 Christine 7 0 Prevention filly 6 3 Rattletrap ... 612 Hunter... ... ... 512 The Warwick Cup, value 200 sovs, by subscription of 10 sovs each, 75 added by the Race Committee, and the surplus, if any, to be paid to the winner; three year olds 7st 41b, four Bst 71b, five Bst 131 b, six and aged 9st llb ; mares allowed 41b, and geldings 71b ; the winner of any Derby, Oaks, Doncaster St. Leger, Ascot, Good wood, or Donoaster Oups, in 1867-68, to carry 71b, or any two of the above-mentioned races, 101 b extra; winner of any weight for age race worth £2OO for two miles, to carry 41b extra ; maiden three yr olds at the time of starting allowed 71b, four and upwards, 121 b horses having started three times and not won in 1868 ; allowed 51b in addition to other a ll owances; t h e owner of the second horse to receive 25 sovs out of the stakes ; if walked over for the committee will not give the 75 sovs. Gentlemen taking a nomination in this stake, and not starting, to be subject to the payment of 3 s vs, which will be given to the third horse, if three horses start; two miles and a half. 19 subs. The Spy, 3 yts, Succesq, 6 yrs (pays ft), Baeswing, 5 yrs, Paul Jones, 3 yrs (pays ft), Julius, 4 yrs, Tabouret, 3 yrs, Wiliam, 3 yr. 4, Strattieouan, 5 yrs, Lotd Palmerston, 3 yrs, Speculum, 3 yrs, Vortigern, 3 yrs, Fortunio, 4 yrs, Ilium, 3 yrs, Tertullus, 4 yrs, Guodwou I, 4 yrs (pays ft.), Cbarnwood, 3 yrs, Achievement, 4 yrs, Irish Queea filly, 4 yrs, and Dalby, aged. ACCEPTANCES. The Leamington St.tkes of 25 sovs each, 15 ft, and 5 only if declared, with 100 ad•lei. Two Mile Course. 42 subs, 28 of whom pay 5 sovs each. Yrs st lb Yrs st lb Irish Queen f ... 4 812 Vortigern 3 7 9 Tertullus ... 4 8 5 Clomence ... 3 7 7 King of the Fairies 4 8 2 Whalebone 5 7 5 D:staff 8 2 Tribune 5 7 3 Bandmaster ... 4 8 1 Casso Tete ... 3 6 12 Python ... ... 4 712 Papillon ... 3 612 Moose ... ... a 7 II Ligurian ... 3 612 The Welter Cup, value 100 sovs, the rest in specie, by subscription of 15 sovs each, 10 ft, and 5 only if declared. o ne mile. 21 subs, Bof whom pay 5 sovs each. Yrs st lb Silent's ... ... 4 11 8 Lord Ronald 6 11 5 Irish Queen f ... 4 11 2 Master Willie .. 4 11 0 Dick Turpin ... 4 10 10 Professor Anderson 5 10 10 Python (inc 51b ex) 4 10 9 Midwife ... 4 10 0 Yrs st lb Skirmish ... 6 10 0 Armourer 4 9 12 President Lincoln .. 3 9 7 Contempt „. ... 3 9 6 Whalebone ~. 5 9 0 Weather Isle 3 8 12 Benefactress 3 8 12 Balvie 3 8 10 DONCASTER SEPTEMBR MEETING. TUESDAY, Sept. 8. The Great Yorkshire Handicap of 25 sovs each, 15 ft, and 5 only if declared by noon on Tuesday, the Ist of September, and with 200 sovs added; the winner of a handicap value 300 toys after the publication of the weights (Aug. 21, at 10 a.m.) to carry 71b ; of any other handicap 41b extra; the second horse to receive 50 soya out of the stakes and the third to save his stakes. St. Leger Course. 64 subs. The forfeits to be declared at noon, the Ist of September. Age st 1131 Age lb The Palmer ... 9 0 Mariner ... fl 7st 0 Mandrake ... ... 4 812 Blacklock ... 3 7 0 Achievement 8 12 The Spy ... 3 6 12 Tynedale ~. 4 8 11 Clairon ... 3 6 12 Taraban ... 4 8 4 king of the Fairies 4 6 10 Westwiek ... 5 8 4 Tympanum 3 6 10 Hippia ... 4 8 4 War ... 5 6 10 Dalesman 5 8 3 Thalia . ... 5 6 8 Maid of Masham c. 4 8 3 Wild Briar ... 5 6 7 Silenus 4 8 2 1 Fakir 4 6 7 Auguste...... 4 8 1 Ruric ... 3 G 6 Knight Errant ... 4 8 0 Minster 13011 ... 4 6 5 Miss Sarah c ... 4 7 10IRedcap ... a 6 4 Fairwind 4 7 8 Nyanza 3 6 1 Romping Girl 4 7 6 La Belle Jeanne ... 3 6 0 Caithness ... 5 7 6 Bessie Dixon ... 3 6 0 Christmas Carol ... 6 7 6 Rel Tub ... 3 6 0 Fervacques 4 7 5 Deceit 4 6 0 The Corsair ... 5 7 4 Papillon ... 3 6 0 Ackworth ... a 7 4 Miss Osborne ... 3 5 12 Paul Jones ... 3 7 2 Seisura ... 3 5 12 Mercury ... 3 7 2 Happy Thought ... 3 5 12 Chelsea ... ... 3 7 2 Ajax ... ... 3 511 Cap-a-Pie ... ... 3 7 2 Cotytto ... 3 510 Tabouret ... 3 7 1 Warrington 3 5 7 Stephen Langton... 4 7 1 The Laird... 3 5 7 Birdseeker .. 3 7 1 Gomera... ... 6 pi Blueskin ... 3 7 0 Emigration 5 pd Etoile Filante ... 5 7 0 Thorndyke 3 pd Mr. H. V. Wilkinson and Mr. Robson are subscribers, but did not name. THURSDAY, Sept. 10. The Badminton Handicap of 20 sous each, 10 ft, and 3 only if declared at the same time as the Great Yorkshire Handicap, with 100 added ; the winner of the Leam ington Stakes or the Great Yorkshire Handicap to carry 71b, of both of those stakes 101 b, or of any other race after Aug. 21, at 10 a.m., 41b extra. The owner of the second to save his stake. One mile. 35 subs. The Palmer Agest lb ... 4 9 3 Age at lb Mariner ...3 6 11 Mercury ... ... 3 6 10 Chelsea ... 3 6 10 Sweet Anne ... 5 6 10 Lady Henrietta ... 3 6 7 Fakir ... ... 4 6 7 Minster Bell ... 4 6 7 R,el Tub ... 4 6 3 Donaldbain ... 3 6 2 Stella ... ... 3 6 0 Sunstroke ... ... 3 5 12 Ritualist ... 3 5 12 El, Belle Jeanne ... 3 5 10 Warrington ... 3 5 8 Cotytto ... 3 5 7 The Returned ... 3 5 7 Papillon ... 3 5 7 Laneret 5 8 11 Lozenge 6 8 6 Silenus ... 4 8 4 Grimstou 3 8 4 Obarnwood ... 3 8 2 Knight Errant ... 4 8 1 Taraban ... 4 8 0 Bombastes ... 4 7 13 Orion 3 7 12 Van Amburgh 4 7 9 Jasper ... 4 7 4 Dick Turpiu ... 4 7 3 Grey Stocking ... 5 7 3 See-Saw ... 3 7 2 The Parson ... 3 7 0 Blacklock 3 7 0 Olairon 3 6 12 HORSES STRUCK OUT OF THEIR ENGAGE- MENTS. Aug. 11, at 6.30 p.m., Lady Margaret, out of the Bromley Bummer Handicap. Aug. 20, at 3.10 p.m., Hop Loaf, out of the Ladies' Plate at Tunbridge. Aug. 21, at 0.45 p.m., Panl Jones, out of the Warwick Cup. Aug. 24, at 9 a.m., Salliet and Goojerat out oi Oxford engagements. Aug. 24, at 9 a.m., Bombastes, out of Derby engage ments. Aug. 24, at 9 a.m., Chiron, out of Lichfield engage- Mtohtfi. COTTON. LIVERPOOL, Aug. 27.—Sales probably 15,000 bales. Market hold firmly. LORD NAPIER OF MAGDALA.--Lord Napier arrived at Hughonden manor on Monday evening, on a visit t ) the Premier. Ho was mot at the Wycombe station by the High Sheriff, the Mayor and Corporation of Wy combe, and a party of about 50 gentlemen on horseback, headed by Mr. G. 11. Hussey and ;Ir. Thomas Coates, churchwardens, who escorted him to tha residence of the Premier. At the entrance to the estate the parishioners had erected a triumphal arch of evergreens, decorated with flags ; and the words " Welcome to Hughenden" were worked in moss on a white ground by the wife of the vicar and other ladies of the parish. GREAT ROBBERY OF JEWELLERY.--NLINCTIESTER, Wednesday Night.—A traveller of Messrs. Schwabe, jewellers, London, on reaching Liverpool on Saturday night, found one of three bones missing which contained jewellery worth £2,000. The boxes were placed in the luggage van at the Victctria-Sta.tion, Manchester. Detec tives an is vest of the thieves. - ._well 4.9