The Sun. — London, England, 1868-06-11 00:00:00

I 1................- XONE/ MA:74ET AND "0111kIERCIAL INTELLIGBNC3, CITY, Two O'CLOCK. The 6tock Markets are quiet as regards business, but the t one i s a s h a d e fi r mer than at yesterday's e' i ' ose the fine bright weather infusing cheerfulness. The Funds keep steady, the only feature being a .renewed demand for Exchequer Bills at 19s prem. foreign Stocks are firm ; Italian Bonds retain the recovery experienced late yesterday from the specu lative relapse which occurred upon the imposition of the income tax on all bondholders living at home or ab road. It is expected that the absence of any real objection on the part of bond fide holders will smooth t he Way for the Austrian measure. The justification of both countries is their exceptional position. Great Luxembourg Railway Shares are a fresh lower. Other securities are steady. Discounts remain very easy at 1f to 1 per cent. The English Funds are steady. Consols are quiet at last Light's close, at 95 to 951 for money, and 951 to 951 for account. New and Reduced Three per Cents., 94 to 95 ; Bank Stock, 247 to 249 ; India Five per Cents., 1141 to 115; Exche quer Bills, 15s to 19s prem., being an improvement of ls. Foreign Stocks are firm, but in absence of busi ness the variations are unimportant. Mexican, 16k to Turkish, Greek, at 14 to 14k ; New Spanish, 37/ to 38 ; 38k to 38 ; Italian (1861), 51k to 51i ; Portuguese, 40 to 40i ; Egyptian (1864), at 81i to V Egyptian Railway Debentures, 95± to 9 951 iceroy's 7 per Cent., 74 to 74i; and the per Cent., 88 to 89. In American Securities a moderate business is doing. United States 5-20 Bonds remain at 72 1 to 73 ; Illinois firm, at 101 to 101 i ; Erie Shares, 46 to 47. In English railways there is more inquiry for Great Eastern, which have risen to 36k, otherwise the Market, though steady, is not higher. Lancashire and Yorkshire are 129± to 129/ ; Midland, 106 k to 107± ; South Eastern, 76 to 76k ; London and North Vestern, 116 i to 117 ; ditto A, 95k to 96k ; Great Western, 53k to 54; Brighton, 52± to 52L Sheffield, 4 31 to 431 ; Met r opolitan, 1101 to 111; Caledonian, 74i to 75 ; and Chatham,2o?r to 21. In Foreign Railway Shares, Great Luxembourg °Pened without change, but have since become flat, and are now marked at 12i to 12k, being f lower. Lombardo-Venetian steady, at 14k to 15k. _ Bank Sh ares are s t ea dy a t yesterday's prices. The followin g are the quotations :—Agra (A), 11 to 11 ; Alliance ' 10} to 9i dis. ; Anglo-Austrian, 51 , to 51 prem. ;Chartered Mercantile, 29 to 30 ; Consoli dated, 4i to 41 ; Imperial, 18 to 19 ; Imperial Ottoman, 1k to 1i prem. • London and County, 52 t ‘ , o 53 • London and Westminster, 71± to 71/ ; 42k to 43k ; London Joint Stock, 34 to 35 ; Union of London, 34i to 35i. Foreign Mining Shares are in little request, and prices are unaltered. St. John del Rey remains at 184 to 19i ; Chontales, 11 to 2 ; Port Philip, 11 to_ l l ; Rossa Grande, 3-16 to 5-16. Miscellaneous Securities are without feature, and ltd dealings are rather restricted. Anglo - American Telegraph is quoted at 22i to 221 ex div. ; Atlan tic Telegraph 8 per Cent., 5 to 5 1-16 ; Hudson's Bay unaltered, at 16 5-16 to 16 7-16 ; London General Omnibus, 2 to 21. There were no bullion transactions at the Bank Yesterday. Since the date of the last return, the total sent in has been £184,000, against £53,000 with drawn for exportation, showing a balance in favour of the Bank of £131,000. £192,000 in specie have arrived from New York by the steamer City of London. The annual general meeting of the Dutch-Rhenish Railway has been called for the 30th inst. The ordinary general meeting of the Panama, New Zealand, and Australian Royal Mail Company has been convened for the 19th inst., to receive the report and statement of accounts. The following is from the report of the Ceylon Company to be presented to the meeting on the 16th inst. :--The net profit, including the sum brought forward from last year's account, after defraying all current expenses, amounts to £51,987 4s 7d, and the directors propose that a dividend, at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum on the paid-up capital, amounting to Ss on each Original, and 4s on each A. Share, be declared and made payable, free from incom e tax, on the 19th inst. ; this, with the interim dividend paid in December, and the interest on th e debent ures , w ill a b sor b £47,585 lOs 10d, and leave a balance of £4,401 13s 9d to he carried forward. 'The letters received from the Mauritius since the ctsasterorts hurricane which occurred in March last, ' show that injury done to property in that colony has be en much less than the accounts published in the newspapers would lead any one to suppose. Some of the buildings belonging to the company have been damaged, but the machinery has escaped injury, and there is every reason to believe that the good effects of the rain, which fell for some time after the hurricane ceased, will go far to compensate any qmnage sustained by the crops during its continuance. It is confidently expected that the total production of the coming season will considerably exceed that of the last. Vice Chancellor Malins has fixed the 20th instant for the appointment of an official liquidator of the Iron Ship-coating Company (limited)! Monday next, the 15th instant, is now officially announced for the opening of the Mont Cenis Rail- Way. In future there will only be three indigo sales a year, instead of four, as hitherto. The next quarterly sales of East India have been fixed for Monday. The traffic returns of the Bahia and San Francisco Railway Company for the week ending May 2, show an increase of £350 ; the Buenos Ayres and Great Southern Railway for the week ending April 24, an increase of £587 ; and the Madras Railway for the week ending April 11, an increase of £3,022, as com- Pared with the corresponding period of 1867 ; and the receipts of the Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway, for week ending April 18, shows a decrease of £1,076. The London and North Western traffic receipts for this week show an increase of £5,230, as compared with the corresponding week of 1867 ; and the Mid land an increase of £2,715 ; while the Great Northern shows a decrease of £3,983. Messrs. E. F. Satterthwaite's Circular states that `the London market for American securities has ? s een steady during the entire week. Government Bonds have been in demand, and the recent importa tions, chiefly from the Continent, have met with ready buyers ; 5-20's of 1866 are last quoted 721 to 0, and the 1865 issue 7n. to 71i. Business in the Per Cent. 10-40 Bonds is on the increase ; they leave off 69 to 69k, or one-half per cent. higher than t h is day week. The chief feature of the market haF been the continued demand for Illinois Central Shares at rates corresponding with the rapid advance in New , x °rk, as reported by telegraph ; they close firm at ; 0 1 to 101, being an improvement of $4 since our .last, and even at the enhanced price but little stock 13 offered f or sa l e . E r i es h ave b een neg l ec t e d, an d a t 1 6 to 46k, showing only a slight change. Atlantic a nd Great Western Consolidated Bonds, after touch trig 34, close somewhat weaker at 321 to 33k." Li The Pestarena United Gold Mining Company, flitted, have received a remittance of 6820z5. of ! °l l Recent amalgamating operations have been attended with an undue loss of mercury, and conse- Pent loss of gold. This has unfortunately affected t he return, but the managing director now telegraphs say that he believes he has now discovered the BRITISH TIINDM—TWO VOLOOK. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. ° Per Cent. Consols „ Ditto for Account, July 9 I, ‘ ' l Per Cent. Reduced 94 54 ° w 3 per Cent N ew., 24 per Cent. Jan. 1894 . , Do. 5 per Cent,. Jan. 1873 . 4- luuities, 80 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 — Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 — Do (Red Sea Televaph), Aug., 1908 — -Lizehoquer Bills, £l,OOO, 2 per Ct — Pn Do. £500 D O . £lOO & £2OO —7/ 13'/ Ik of England Stock, 4}per Cent — I ' o . Account INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. India stook, 104 per Cent., AprillB74 ... Do. Account ps uo. 5 per Cent. July, 1880 1 -,..). 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 " 0 . Certificates — Do. Enlaced Paper 4 per Cent — Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 ~,DO. 54 por Cent., May 1879 — LK , 5 per Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872 D . O. . do. 1877 lol} T ., Do. do. 1882 — '-',. fob., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 Do. Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO Do. under £l.OOO At , , . FORXIGN FUND 3 —TWO CLOCK._ ,enttne 1411)1111e, 6 per Cent... it 61 ,I tAci:A.ti Bonds, 5 por Cent. 1859 ttr • • 4 4111 an 5 por Cent D 41 per C e nt., 1852 - L.', O. do. 187,8 O. do. , 18 in — Do. do ., 1863 GG 1) ` ) . 5 por Cont., 1865 1 , 1)0 Aeco un ' ' enos lyres 8 per Cent — 1), ) 2 per Cont. (Deferred 3 per Cent ` 11 " ti 6per Cent. 4 ,,Llian 6 Cent — D O. 41 per Cent D. 6 per 1 CB6 e 7 nt., B — 1) o., 951 6 O bo., 7 per ,Cent., 1866 " 0 ., Scrip £32 paid tnbian, 6 per Cent. a nisn 3 p Cent., 1825......- .......... " apnbian Principalities, i Itr Cent — I D o 8 per C en t., 1867 — -"Iltdor Now Uonsolidated, 1 per Cent — xcl tare: , June 8. ng, accom- Le afternoon ky Princess tendance. ! OWL." Owl are the n Rule, her is, is about , has with n with the ded to the turn pension t act. It is r reach the Ltions shall 3ed by Mr. Parliament for receir -3 of Parlla n extension vanced last Oa the fol represents- rish Minis the further sea fisheries mission aro 3 have been bowing the income-- the sourced mission has Ira, in order subject of within the 'he commis the mileage Ked in Eng- tment of the ;ually aban ssed by the y tJ press it , which the )le to with- Lesday when Lilders, are,, than receive 1), together use, making he proposal have been 30, 1868. in some of in contem• consecrate diocese 0 )r. Colenso ised to bear pon this in° gret. And, isecration 11; overnniell t o influence to prevent kat if, after Majesty's holding A er Majesth Do, her Ma neir duty to Lntment.---1 HANDOS. 31, 1868. 3ellency the forward for eceived this e subject 0 1 r attention• known t° within your her - 513 " t his with 01 ive, leadiag nature re' copy is ea' honour to ecretary._ Natal." some of the ae marriao ce on the 2 7 ' 13 Una having 3 had come One hull rom eleven the pala ce Seven wer e .bmit to 1 111 her, 10 °5° getters frou l. ;the young L ee and 111 ' 4 he province beautiful' a years en. peror Tao of the elared, and f affairs.' sub-libry : Lalaud ° ted on th yards fr l2° et as a ma r " S ' found, h. la ev ery to exposure , ; hbourho uo ad the crop 1111° The fa illir3 : in Eas ter ; f t h is P r - 0 d, m ast ra b e whose utt--. 3erlih, ArL% lerable 003: w hich 11 1 ° , tunate sa's iho Pre .4" t x; n, w rote plied io s i te d in t" e lt i on of °I an te 3g anee re o f •fl discir * 4 B a belsb er , or inf °r t t cl r pro cee " me some ti b It his w 3tc he him, 59 eh al , hot oo oot Av 39 it a nd ac c ,4 °- e r the c .- ", e f e ainutes 4L. Egyptian, 7 per Gent — Do. Second Issue 79i D ~ £soo - Bonds Do. 4100 Bonds Bll 21 Do. 1864 Do. Account 80. 4510 Bonds B2 Do. 4100 Bonds ..... 831 21 Government Rail way Debentures . .., 95i 1, Greer 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex Coups — Do. Account Do. Coupons Do. Acc)unt Guatemala. 5 per Cent . — Honduras Gov. Rail. Loan., 10 p. Ct., £25 p It .i.tt, 0 per Cent., 1865 — Do, Account ~ 77 Do. Maremmana Raiway — Maxims 3 per Cent — Ditto for Account Do. 1864 — Do 6 per Cont. Anglo-French — Montevidoau 6 per Cont. . — Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada 354 Do 3 per Can — Do. Deforral Do Land Warrants (Hectares) Perarian 5 per Cent. 1865 -- Do Account .. 871 8 Do 41 per Cent. (Uribarren) Do 41 por Cent.. 1862 - Do Account Portuguese 3 per Ct., 1853,'6,'7, '9,'60,'2,%, 401 40 Do. do., 1567 — ...„ .. Do. do., Scrip, £2O paid — Russian 5 per Sent., 1822, £ St B6 51 Do 41 per Cent. 1850 Do 4 per Cent., 1860 Do 3 per Cent., 1859 Do 5 per Cent., 1862 Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1864, £lOO Bonds., 891 Do. do. £B4 15s. do. Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds B9l 81 91 Do. do £B4 15s. do — Do Nicolas Railway 641 1 1. Sardinian, 5 per Cent. — Spanish 3 per Gen . — Do Accbunt ... Do. 1867 Do Now Deferred — Do Account Do Passive — Do Account Do Corn. Cert. of Coup. not funded Do Account T ttrkish 6 per Cent. — Do Account Do 6 per Cont. 1858 — Do Account ... 63 1 Do £lOO Bonds — Do 6 per Cent, 1862 — Do Account Do £lOO Bonds 67 6 Do. 1863 — Do 5 per Cent., 1865 — Do Account 1 I 1 - 2 1 Do 6 per Cent., 1865 Do 4 per Cent., Guaranteod ......... 1031 Venezuela, 3 per Cent. Do 6 per Cent., 1862 Do 6 per Cent. 1864 Do. 4 per Cant. Certificates .......... Dividends on the above payable in London. Austrian o per Cent. Ex 10 Florins ... 4i per cent., Ex. 25f. .-- DuCchii far Clout. Ex. 12 Guil„ .......... Account French Rectos, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. Italitui 5 per Cent. 18.51 isf. Do. A count 5ll TWO O'CLOCK. Consols, Money ..................... 951 x d 95i I- xd Do. Account, July 9 ............•:•••• LAW INTELLIGENCE. —This Day. SHERIFFS' COURT. Before Mr. Under-Sheriff Burehell and a Jury. ivEmErtrIELD V. scum—LIBEL. This was an action in the Common Pleas for a libel published in a weekly newspaper called The Reporter. Judgment was allowed to go by default, and the only question was the amount of damages to be awarded. Mr. M'lntyre was counsel for the plaintiff, Mr. George M. Wetherfield, a solicitor, in partnership with Mr. Norton, in Gresham-street. The defen dant, Mr. James 1. Scott, appeared in person. The learned counsel stated the case, and read the libel, and called witnesses. The defendant conducted his own case, and called no evidence. There had been some legal matters, and the de fendant referred to them, and made remarks on him in his publications. Mr. M'lutyre asked the jury to provide damages as the justice of the case required. The defendant said the smallest coin vas suffi cient, and that the remarks were partially in " banter." The Under-Sheriff summed up, and the jury retired. They gave a verdict for 403. damages, and the Under-Sheriff gave a certificate for costs. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—(This Day, OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Baron Piggott.) THE ALLEGED FORGERIES ON THE LEEDS BANK. Thomas Edgeley surrendered to an indictment charging him with conspiring with others to de fraud the Leeds Bank to an amount exceeding £lOO,OOO. An application was again made for a postpone ment of the trial, on the ground of the illness of the defendant and the absence .of his leadin g counsel, Mr. Sergeant Ballanti ne . Mr. Baron Piggott refused to accede to the re quest, and the trial was ordered to proceed. Mr. Giffard, Q C., then stated the case at con siderable length, from which it appeared that the Leeds Bank stopped payment on the 19th of Sept., and on the inquiry consequent on its liquidation it was discovered amongst the assets that a large number of bills, which were alleged to be those of the Mordenpeck Forest Company, and which were signed by M. De Villars, who was sup posed to manage the affairs of the Forest Company. The bills that had accumulated up to the time the bank stopped amounted to over £lOO,OOO. On inquiry, it was found that neither the company nor the property were available, and that the alleged securities were actually worth no thing, and that the only person who composed the company of the Forest of Mordenpeck was the pri soner. Mr. Greenland, who, it will be recollected, was examined before thE) Lord Mayor, was now at Geneva, suffering from ill health, so he was not in attendance. The case is a very complicated one, and will last some days. (Before the Common Sergeant.) Thomas Lemaitre was indicted for feloniously cutting and wounding a woman named Blakeley. It appeared that a drunken row occurred outside a public-house in Ratcliff-highway, and that the prisoner was ono of the principal parties in the dis turbance. The woman, it was alleged, received the injuries, which were of a serious description, from the prisoner, and he was accordingly taken into custody. The jury found him guilty, and the learned judge sentenced him to six months' imprisonment. MARKETS-7 HIS DAY. ----+-- METROPOLITAN CATTLE. The trade to-day was dull with general depression. Of beasts there were 970, including 201 foreign, and lower rates have to be taken to effect sales, but the pressure to sell was not so general as to lower quotations. Of sheep and lambs 18,630 came to hand, inclusive of 2,470 from abroad. For both the trade was dull, and for lambs rates eel i,ainly lower. The number of calves on sale was 508, of which 320 were foreign. The trade was dull, with prices tending i n buyers favour. HAY AND STRAW. The accounts of the hay crop are unfavourable, and the quantity arriving at market much reduced. Prices are consequently advancing. At Smithfield and Whitechapel, the small plat:city up was cleared off briskly, at a fur ther advance of 2s to 3i per load. Straw was also in shorter supply and dearer. COLONIAL AND FOREIGN PRODUCE. Sugar.—The market is still depressed, and prices aro now 2s per cwt. from the late highest point for brown descriptions, and ls. for grocery. Refined sugars are also easier. Conunon English lumps quoted 455. Coffee—Native Ceylon is cheaper, good ordinary h av i ng been sold at 48s to 485 6d. Plantation kinds sell uneasily the lower qualities at easier rates. Tea—The sales of Indian tea progress heavily, at irre gular and lower prices. Rice, on the spot, is very dull, but business is doing in soft grain for distant arrival. Ba.sbica lOs on ship and lOs 6d. On the spot Dacca wain has been sold at 105 3d. COTTON MARKET. LivEnrooL, Juno 11.—Sides 8,000 tales. Market quiet, and unchanged. The Price of Gold. The quotation of gold at Paris is about at par, and t ie short exchange on London is 251. 170. per £1 sterling. Un oxiiparing these rates with the English Mint price ut £3 lis.lo4d. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is at about the same price in Paris and Loudon. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING-, JUNE 11, 1868. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.- 7 -7:II1S DAY. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. AN ITALIAN CHARGED WITH STABBING.— Pietro Stigniani, an Italian, was charged before Mr. Knox with stabbing Joseph Pepins, a waiter, living in Castle-street, Leicester-square, and he was also charged with two others named Emile Came Chiptiani and Albert Gardon with fighting to gether, Chipniani also being charged with assault ing Police-constable Bond, 228 C. The minor charge was first gone into, when Bond said—This morning at a quarter to one I was going up Princes-street, Leicester-square, when I saw prisoners and a number of others quarrelling. I told them to go away, acid they went a short distance and then began fighting, and on my again interfering Chipriani broke a stick over my head and caused the mark I have over my eye. I took him into custody and handed him over to a sergeant and went back and took the others who had been fighting. Stigniani, who had been fighting, was covered with blood. Mr. Frogett addressed the magistrate on the part of Gardon, and said that he (Gardou) was an injured person, having first been assaulted by Stigniani and Chipriani, and then assaulted by Chipriani. Mr. Knox said that he was disposed to send all cases of assaults on the constables to the Sessions. He agreed with Mr. Frogett that Gardon was an injured person, and should discharge him, but asked him to stay, as his evidence might be required. Mr. Sayer then opened the charge of stabbing against Stigniani. After some evidence had been given the prisoner was remanded. WESTMINSTER• SINGULAR APPLICATION BY A BLIND MAN.—A blind man, about the middle age, requested the magistrate to give him advice under the following circumstances. _ _ _ He said that about eight years ago he and 30 other men, bereft of vision, formed themselves into a society for their mutual advantage. Their subscription was three pence per week, from which they were enabled to afford assistance of six shillings per week in sick ness, and a sum of £5 on the death of a member. The object of applicant's visit to the. court was to inquire how an end would be put to the society, as it was useless to attempt to carry it on any longer owing to the great falling off of members, only nine at the present moment remaining in the society. Mr. Arnold suggested that it might be dissolved by mutual consent. Applicant said that there were seven who were of opinion that the best course would be to divide the capital and so break up the society, but there were three of a contra r y opinion, two who were mem bers, and the third, M r : E. P otter, a city missionary, iN n l l r u e e s h tal a i v n e s r t s e e r, to bre a ki ng the society who was the hon. sec retary. r up, and of course w ith onl y nine members it was e r e w e t a , s in vain to attempt to cArry it on any longer. Mr. Arnold said he could not help him, and re- I commended him to apply to Mr. Tidd Pratt. • THAMES. ir.pah:ilfseeshlfgalE e r N' g as- ed with unlawfully Geor THE OLD • s — a C f h a a r r ua l e e s r B o r f o n 6„ was in-the-E tst, 45, conspiring with others to steal two sovereigns from brought who before represented Anthony-street, S B Charles Wilkinson, a seaman, of 23, Buckle-street, Whitechapel. The prisoner, who looked as much unlike a farmer as can possibly be conceived, belongs to a gang of notorious magstnen who frequent the vicinity of Tower-hill and other places to plunder seamen and simpletons of their cash. The prosecutor was beset by one of these, and induced to enter a publichouse, when the prisoner soon presented hi mse lf, an d sa id he had a piece of laud on his farm which a railway company required for a new line. His lawyer told him to be very careful, and not to settle with the railway company hastily. He took his lawyer's advice, and had just received £l,BOO for his land through his lawyer, and he was determined to be very careful among strangers. He then inquired the time of day, and the prosecutor sail he had no watch. The prisoner said his watch was stopped, talked about the vastness of the great " toon " called " Lunnon, ,, and exhibited a pocket-book, i n which there appeared to be a great number of Bank of England notes, and s tid he believed that money m ade the gentleman, and he had become a gentleman now. The sailor objected to the proposition, and said other qualities were requisite to form a gentleman, and that a pauper might be a gentleman and the richest man in the kingdom a blackguard. The prisoner in sisted that money alone made a gentleman, and asked the sailor to show him what money he had, to which the sailor objected. Another man came in, and the prisoner asked him for the loan of three sovereigns. The man took three sovereigns from his pocket and gave them to the pri soner, who then said, " You see how con fiding this gentlem an is." The prisoner then related a story that, in spite of the admonitions of his lawyer, and the warning to be careful, he had suffered himself to be defrauded of £5. He then took the sailor " round the corner," leaving the others at the publichouse, at which the sailor was very much surprised, an d said, " Why, you might ran away with the £3 the gentleman has lent you," to which the prisoner said, " He knows I am a gentleman, a genuine - one, and has trusted me." The parties then returned to the public house, and the prisoner returned three sovereigns to the "confiding" man, and gave him another sovereign as a reward for the confidence he had placed in him. The prisoner then asked the sailor to lend him two sovereigns, to which he replied, " No, I cannot, I am not so rich as you." The prisoner then asked the sailor to show him his money, to which he objected for some time. At last, wearied out w ith the prisoner's impor tunities, he took two sovereigns from his pocket and the prisoner looked at them, and said, "Let me handle them ; don't be afraid." The sailor, taken off his guard, put them into the prisoner's hand, another man spoke to him, the prisoner and his two confederates were out of the house in an instant, but the sailor was not so easily to be done. He clung to the ;risoner while his two confederates were running away. One of them returned, and took a pocket-book from the prisoner. It contained all his notes and gold (no doubt sham). The prisoner said,to the sailor " Take back your money," and took some cash out of his pocket. The prosecutor continued to hold the rascal by the collar until a police-constable arrived, to whom the prisoner was consi gned. Mr. Paget remanded the prisoner for a week. " General Prim," says the Presse, "has arrived at Vichy, where he intends to pass some time, with the permission of the French Government." General Trochu is just now at Nancy, and was last week present in the Chapel of the Visitation at the ceremony of taking the veil by Mdlle. Adele Trochu, his niece. The remains of the late Marshal O'Donnell were t rans ferred on Monday to th e i r fi na l rest i ng - p l ace i s n u the ser i mausoleum subscription. The which has been raised by public were tOurv3 in a perfect state of preservation, save that there was some sli g ht discoloration of the right ti coffin w as opened that the re mains of the decea sed mi ght be identified ; they b eye, caused by the effervescence of the salts used in embalming the body. B3fore the coffin was sol dered down again the late Marshal's relations en closed therein four copies of the Gaceta, recording his four great victories. 1 The Rev. Orby Shipley, the editor of the won- known volume " The Church and the World," and one of the leaders of the Ritualist party in London, was married on Tuesday, at St. Alban's, Holborn, by the Rev. A. H. Mackonochie, to a daughter of the late Right lion. James Wilson, M.P., of the Economist. All receive with satisfaction the annottncemont, that in consequence of the Reduction in Duty, Horniinan's Pure Teas are sold Bd. per pound Cheaper. 2,500 Authorised Agents—Confectioners in London and Chemists in the provinoes—supply iiornitnan's Tea only in Packet:. NAVAL AND MILITARY IN7ELLIGENCE. The experimental iron-built `unarmoured twin screw gunvessel Staunch, 200 tons, 25-horse power, carrying one 12-ton 9-inch rifl3d muzzle-loading gun, was put through her official trial of speed over the measured mile in Stokes-bay, near Portsmouth, on Tuesday. Under the most favourable circum stances of weather, and at a draught of water of sft. 10in. forward, and 61t. 6in. aft, a speed of 7.653 knots were realised as the mean of six runs over the mile, the load on the safety valve being 251 b., and the mean revolutions of the engines 139. The tem perature on deck was 70, in the engine-room 76, in the stokehole-starboard side 103, port side 94 deg. The most efficient and interesting part of the trial of the Staunch, as a miniature fighting machine, was her performance in circling, thus exhibiting most satisfactorily the extreme facility with which twin screws working independently of each other can be made to manoeuvre the vessel as to the carriage of the gun, and train the latter rapidly upon any desired point. This gun-training power, however, as possessed by the Staunch, will be best understood by a reference to the subjoined figures of the time occupied in making the circles, and the conditions under which each circle was made :-No. 1 circle, both engines going ahead, and the rudder in use- To starboard, half circle, imin. 15sec. ; full circle, 2min. 35sec. To port, half circle, lmin. 16sec. ; full circle, 2min. 22sec. No. 2 circle, one engine going ahead and the other astern, the rudder in use -To starboard, half circle, lmin.; full circle, Imin. 47sec. To port, half circle, 56sec. ; full circle, Imin. 25sec. Nos. 1 and 2 circles were timed at starting with the vessel going at full speed. No. 3 circle, vessel started on the circle with both hull and engines previously motionless, port engine going ahead, starboard engine stopped, rudder in use- To starboard, half circle, lmiu. 36sec. ; full circle, 2min. 57sec. To port, half circle, lmin. 37sec. ; full circle, 2min. 53sec. No. 4 circle, vessel started on the circle as before, with both hull and engines previously motionless ; rudder fixed amidships ; starboard engine going ahead; port engine stopped. -Half circle, 2min. 9sec. ; full circle, 3min. 56sec. Port engine going ahead, starboard engine stopped Half circle, 2min. 9sec. ; full circle, 3min. 57sec. At the conclusion of the day's trials the Staunch returned to Portsmouth harbour, where, it is un derstood, she will be attached to the Excellent gun nery ship as an experimental tender. The Rapid, 5, screw (unarmoured wooden) sloop, .672 tons, 160-horse power, Commander Hon. F. L. Wood, sailed from Portsmouth on Tuesday evening for the Mediterranean. The Gladiator, 6, paddle, Capt. D'Alpin, will be paid out of commission at Portsmouth on the 16th inst. A very gallant act was performed by an officer serving on board this ship yesterday morning. At 3 a.m. one of the Marine Artillerymen belonging to the ship accidentally fell overboard from the vessel's bows, the tide running very strong at the time. Sub-Lieutenant Anson Schomberg, who was on deck on duty, saw the accident, and, imme diately jumping overboard aft.3r the man, had the satisfaction of reaching him and assisting him to float until both were got on board the ship again in safety. The new (composite-built) gunboat Elk, 2, 465 tons, 120-horse power, steamed out of Portsmouth harbour yesterd ty and made a satisfactory trial of her machinery preparatory to being reported reaJy for commission. The officers of the 49th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) R3giment dined together last evening at the St. James's Hotel, Piccadilly. THE VOLUNIEER REVIEW AT WINDSOR THE FOLLOWING IS THE OFFICIAL DETAIL OF CORPS PROCEEDING FROM KENSINGTON STATION. By Great Western line, local arrangement-18th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers, 150. At 12.45 p.m., 4th Middlesex Artillery Volunteers, 60 ; Ist Mid dlesex Engineers, 400. At 1 p.m., 2d Middlesex Rifle Volunteers, 601. SHARE LIbT. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Railways, Patel. • • t Yn ' ' - 'eter ..••, 'aledonian 't! tra brlan '.rk and Bandon.-- 'ornwall..... ......... üblin & Belfast June.' ir2 ti 3 744 75 '2O 30 3 4 75i 77 70 72 [Dun„Perth, & Ab. June. scrip Cvrti. Do. Glasgow S. Western Great Eastern, ord. ads. Do. E. Angl. at. No. z i(ircat North oh Scotland Great Northern Du. A stock • • 35i 36 7 8 15 6 103 1031 U 7 V 6 122 126 Do. B stuck Do. New, is. at 25 pm WS, and W. of Ireland tit. Western —Original • Do. 6. Val. Rail. gua. Do. South NVales 97 4S 63i 64 Do. W. Mid.—Oxford 65 57 3j 15 30 33 Do. Newport eo. Hereford. ,Lancashire Yorkshiru . ' London and illaukwall Lon., Brigh.,et S Coast Chat., and Dover Do. Metrop. Ex. A Lon. it North NVestcru Lon. et South Westcni Man., She'., Lineolu Metropolitan.-- Do. New 120 130 52 53 Dui 2/ 13 15 116 1161 v 2 fi 43, 14 OLP,' 11 Do. Extension...... NietropolLtau District. Do. do. do. tOti 107 80 85 Jo. and St. John's W'd 4,ll:and 1001 107, Do. kJ Share Do, Birmin.. & Darbl uid Kent . North British Do. Ed., Pth., & Dun 1.1 th. Eastern—Berwick Do. tx.N'E puroltast• Do. Leads Do. York Do. Carlisle ..... Do. Stook. & Darling. Do. do. 1860-61 North London Do. do. 1864 5 Do. do. 1866 . North Staffordshire N. & S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot. N. E , Aber. stock Do. Scot, Mid. stJok Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern Staines, Wok., & Wok Cuff Vale Do. C V ale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny Waterloo & Whitelia I ce:t Corn 100 all 100 100 100 16.13.4 100 100 100 all 75 77 331 34 103 104 58} 52 1 91 95 13) 134 04 134 103 2 1/tii 1(61 1031 Closing i Business prise. dene. ss ei 129} 9 zuf 1 11011 1102 ; - ---1) 118 119 it 57 59 107 1W 57 59 44 16 76 761 10 12 143 145 BRITISH. POSSESSIONS. no Atlantic& St.Lawrenee all 65 67 it Bom.,Baroda, Cen.ln. 100 105 106 106} gu. 5 per 06113. t... a 0 Do. 1 4 snares lB i ip 404 Buffalo & Lake Huron all 3 4 10 Do. Preference all 5 7 utt,Bran t, &Groderich .00 6 p.c. 100 68 71 at Calcutta & 14. K, lim (00 - - at jai.e Town & Dock, gu. 100 18 52 00 Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p. all 99 102 at East Bengal, gu., sdo 100 1046 1056 1(9 t East Indian, gu. 5 p.c. 100 109 Ilv 112 A Do. .1 Extension - - at ...rand Truntof Canada 100 151 166 161 ,00 Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds 1 charge i p.c alt 78 42 600 Do. let Pref. Bonds all 41 4 i 100 Do. do deferred - - 100 De. 2d Prd. Bonas all 33 3; 100 Du. do. deferred - Do. 3d Pref. stock.— all t 7 29 100 Do. do. deterred - 100 Du. 4th Prel. stock 100 Do. do. deterred - - at Pt. India Pen. da. sp.c. 100 10 9 11 9 lit 13 o. Gua. 5 per cent lB 14 2 e ., 40 Do. New gua. p. c 6 1 4 1 . st t. South of India pia. 5 per cent at 4f per cent lou 94 t 6 at Do . - 406 .rest Wes. of Canada all 14 184 lit 206 Do. New .. , - -- 00 00.6 p. o 146.5. pay. 187:,' all 98 100 00 Po. 56 do. pay. 1877-8.. all 91 94 at .ttadras, gout. 5 p.c 100 100 tat 1061 7} at Do. 41 do lOO 93 95 at Do. 46 do lOO 89 91 21 Do. filth Extension 5 - - st 31e1b. Cor. 6p. o. 13nds. 100 - - 50 Mel. & Hobson's /U37_l all - - at N.ltl.C'da,6pcistpf.bs , 1 00 83 5 5 at nude & g. 5 p.o' 100 106 107 at sofnde 100 10 4 1026 104 at Do. Delhi 20 Do. do . . 4,1 2 at Do. Punjaub.... o 100 104 104 at Do.lndus St.Elot b a 100 87 89 ~;ULUNIAL UOV11:11.1.01ENT SECURITIE6. IBritiab Columbia, 6 per) cent., Deo. 31, 1172.-1 100 - I Can.GoY.6 p.c.Ja.&July l 1877-84 - Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug IQO ,04 1015 DJ. sp. o. Mar. & Sept 10u 103 105 00. 6p. c. Jan. .sr July 100 93 05 944 31 Do. sp. e. lnseribcd s t 100 93 95 Cape G. Hope, 6 p.c. 187,s 10U 105 u 7 Jo.Apl.&001 1890-1900 100 108 1,9 Do. do 1880-90 100 106 108 Do. Jan.&July, 1800-0: 100 108 110 Do. 5 per ezut. 15 April and t 5 Oct., 1000 lOO 08 :00 Nov. 1878, 6 p lOO 1 8 110 Do. 1872, do lOO 105 107 - 'naurltius, op. 0, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1878 ... lOO 106 108 'o. 1882, Hay 15, Nov. L! 100 107 109 Do. 1895, Feb. & Aug lOO 106 IQ3 Natal 'Toy. 6 per cent lOO - N.8.G0v.6p.0.Ja.&. 1 ul) 100 99 10 N. S.W. Gov.s p•c.,186u 100 99 101 Do. 5 p.c. 18;1 to 1870 100 98 99 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1896 100 954 961 93/ 100 New Zealand, 6p. cent i 100 Do. 5 per cent.... 100 971 981 991 Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. o sterling, 1875 l9O 102 101 Queensland Gov. 6p. c. 100 193 105 8. Aus.Gov. 6 p.O. 1868-9 100 Do. 1878 & upwards lOO 110 111 6 p.o..ia.&July 100 - - Do. do, April & Got lOO 1111 1125 13.111T1Sti 311141/5. Cam. Comm'. Gold, lira. 1 Chiverton Clifford Amalgamate& 30 5/ 65 Devon G. Cons. (Tavlst. 1 440 460 Drake walls 2.1.0 1 East Bassett (Illogan) 291 10 12 East Caradon 2.14.0 4 5 --East Cara BrPa 3l 2 21 East Grenville . 2.14.0 1 1 2 East Gunnislake .. 8.3. t, 4 East Loved 3.9.0 8 9 8 E. W'l Russell (Tavistk 11.7.6 11 2 sam.B, StAubyn(Uwen. 66 4 5 ireat L.txey, limited all 161 171 3reat South Tolgus 1.4.0 tireat Wheal sasy.- 14.9.0 3r. Wheat Vor (llelstou Its 15 17 •irenville 9.0.6 14 14 tlerod's Foot 8.10.0 38 40 tlingston Downs 5.10.6 24 24 llargaret (Uny Lelant 13.17.6 6 8 Slarke Valley 4.10.0 6 64 Ylwyndy Iron Ore, 24 14 New S ton . ..... 561 60 70 North toskear N.Wh Bassett(lllogan 1.4.0 North Wheal Crotty 2.13.0 2 3 Prosper United 8.14.0 2 21 Providence kUny Lelant 1 1.6.7 25 27 S. Caradon (St. Cleer) l4 380 400 South Condurrow 3.2.0 1 1 S.Wheal Fran. (111ogan 18.18.9 371 424 Stray Park . 35.15.6 4 6 Tin Croft V 14 15 Vigra and Clogan, lim all - - West Bassett (Mogan 14 1 14 W. Caradon (Liekeard' 12 10 12 West Chiverton , 11 62 64 West Wheal Bassett 'Mogan 5/ 75 80 Wheal Buller (Aedruth 22 15 9 11 Wheal Mary Ann Men. 8 21 23 Wheal Seton Wheal Trelawney (Lis. 5.17.0 7 9 eftIiIFERENCE SAAR RS. Great Western, Orig. 41 per cent.. 81 Mid Consolidated, 6 per cent. stook, Ditto. Bristol and Birm., 6 pei• cent., Ditto, 41 per cent. ird., 9$ rII.IC.IrICHEINICIL aliAlißb AND STOCKS Midland A and B :65 per cent., 1051 L. EYES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Buckinghamshire, 92} FOREIGN RAIL WAlrt. Antwerp and Rotterdam, le; ; Bulgier. Eastern Junction, lb Lireat Luxembourg, ►2k FOREIGN MINES. Anglo.Brazilitn Gold, f Chontales Liol' and Silver Mining, lira., I; Port Phillip, If Rossa Grande, b St. John del Rey, lira-, 10 BANA S. Agra. lim.. A, Ditto, B, 8f Alliance, lim., 15 Anglo Egyptian, lim., IEI Anglo-Hungarian, 9f Australasia, 54 _ _ _ Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 19; City, 124 Consolidated, lira., 9; English, 6coich, anci - gustralian Chartered, 18 Imperial Ottoman, 11 Loudon Chartered Bang of Australia, 211 oudon and Couuty, 52i London Joint Stock, 34i London and 11 estininster, 711 MISCELLANEOUS; Atlantic Telegraph, • Ditto, ti per cent, 100 Berlin Water Works, 14 Ceylon Company, 7 1 Colonial, lira, ; Crystal Value, z6} L~;ypilau S! per Cent., Viceroy Loan, gua , 88. Electric and International relezraph, lien. Credit and DisCOulit, Liu.. 51 • Lludson'b Jay, lei IcalLm Irrigation k Canal Cavour), L , niton Cienerai Innrnbud Company, lim., Viceroy of Egypt (Mortgage) Loan, 744 A SKETCH IN THE llousE.—Ayrton's favourite vein is the softly sarcastical. He devours a victim like a boa constrictor, first licking him and covering him all over with rhetorical saliva, and then slowly accomplishing the act of deglutition. The committee, he said, were discussing and deciding a very important question in. the absence of her Majesty's Ministers. It was pleasant to us to remember that there was what was conventionally called a leader of the House, although he hinted it would be pleasanter if he were there to discharge his functions. The Opposition cheered, and some subirdinate ran off to find the Premier, and let him know what was going on. Before Ayrton sits down, and while he is still sarcastically adverting to the Premier's absence, that personage quietly enters the House from behind the Speaker's chair, and takes his seat amid Ministerial cheers.—The Gentleman's Magazine. FROII MOORGATE-STREET STATION. At 11.30, Ist London Rifle Volunteer Corps, 764. At 12, Ist Administrative Battalion Tower Hamlets Rifle Volunteers, 604. At 12.30, Hon. Artillery Company of. London, 266 ;_.lst London Enginea Volunteers, 249 ; and 31 London Rifle Volunteers (to be taken up at Farringdon-street), 383. At 1, 26th Middlesex Rift,: Volunteers, 600. At 1.30, Ist Tower Hamlets Rifle Volunteers, 504 ; and 6th Tower Hamlets Rifle Volunteers, 317. FROM BROAD-STREET AND KENTISII-TOWN. At 12.45. 2d Administrative Battalion Middlesex Rifle VolunteerS, 851. FROM PADDINGTON STATION. At 12.15, Ist Administrative Brigade Middlesex Artillery Volunteer Corps, 508 ; and 3d Middlesex Artillery Volunteers, 307. At 12.30, 4th Middle sex Rifle Volunteers, 548 ; and 9th 11Iiddlesex Rifle Volunteers, 235. At 1, 11th Middlesex Rifle Vo lunteers, 314; • and 29th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers, 285. At 1.45, 29th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers, 348 ; and 36th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers, 300. FROM WATERLOO STATION. At 12, 2d Middlesex Artillery Volunteer Corps, 250 ; and 2d London Rifle Volunteers, 300. At 12.15, Ist Surrey Rifle Volunteers, 231 ; and 19th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers, 300. At 12.3, 28th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers, 623. At 12.45, 37th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers, 500. At 1, 21st Mid dlesex Rifle Volunteers, 460 ; and 38th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers, 150. At 1.15, 4th Administrative Battalion Surrey Rifle Volunteers, 243; 39th Mid dlesex Rifle Volunteers, 250 ; and 46th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers, 209. At 1.30, 40th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers, 300 ; and 48th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers, 311. At 1.45, 15th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers, 372 ; and 23d Middlesex Rifle Volun teers, 225. FROM NINE-ELMS STATION. At 1 p m., Ist London Artillery Volunteer Corps, 110 ; and Ist Surrey Artillery Volunteers, 321. At 1.15 p.m., 19th Surrey Rifle Volunteers, 289 ; and 7th Surrey Rifle Volunteers, 319. FROM VICTORIA STATION. At 12, 22d Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps, 760 ; and 49th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers, 443. Country corps will make their own arrangements with the various railway companies for conveyance to Windsor. Officers' horses will be conveyed from Waterloo and Paddington stations on the 20th inst. between the hours of 6 and 10 a.m. POUL7'RY AND EGGS. The information given recently by Mr. Gqorge Manning before the Food Committee of the Society of Arts concerning poultry culture shows that as a flesh-forming food poultry meat is more nutritious than beef, but that it is less fattening. In a letter from Mr. Mechi, read at the same time, it was stated that it cost no more to raise a pound of poultry than a pound of meat, and that, even at the pre sent extravagant prices, there is an abundant de mand. Mr. Mechi also said that his poultry, about 300 birds, have free access to his corn fields at almost every period of the year. Mr. Manning gave the Custom House returns for 1866, as those for 1867 are not yet made up, by which it appears that 438,878,880 eggs were imported at an esti matedvalueof £1,183,630. The value of poultry im ported during the same year was £474,971. From this and from the fact that our own eggs main tained invariably higher prices, usually au excess of is. per 120, ho inferred that there is a de mand unsatisfied, and a profitable source of food neglected. The objection usually urged by the farmer that the poultry does not pay the producer, was answered by the fact that, although it costs no more in production than butcher's meat, it sells at 91 per pound lava weight, while the best beef and 'flatten at 4k I. per lb. live weight (yid. per stone of 81b. net weight.) The reasons why poultry does not pay in many farmyards are— 1. That no attention is paid to the choice and manage ment of stock. 2. That fool is irregularly and wastefully administered to it. 3. That no regard is had to the roosting, and particularly to the laying places of hens. 4. That the demand is restricted by the market system. 5. That farmers' wives have ceased to be hen wives. In the course of the discus sion mention was made of the French system, which is more systematic and economical than our own.— Land and Water. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(UsTERDAy.) The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Cork and Macroon (Direct) Railway Bill (Lords), and the Rathkeale and Newcastle Junction Railway Bill (Lords), were read a second time. THE REVENUE OFFICERS DISABILITIES RE MOVAL BILL. _ On the motion for the second reading of this bill, Mr. MONK (who presented several petitions from re venue officers in different parts of the United Kingdom) first commented on the appearance of the Ministerial and front Opposition betiches, which were at that time empty. The hon. member was about to address the house when the Opposition requested him to " move." lie immediately moved that the bill be read a second time. . —... This having been seconded, the motion was put from the chair, and was carried without a division amid con siderable cheering from the mombers on the Opposition side. THE MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY BILL. On the motion for the second reading of this bill, Mr. H. C. LOPES said he believed no measure had been brought Into the house in so plausible a manner as had this bill by the hon. and learned member for Reading. He thought the bill was of a very revolutionary character, and would throw discord and distrust between husbands and wives where harmony and concord now exist. The hon. and learned member for Reading had said that a bill similar to this had been in use in the United States, but he denied that there was a similarity between the cases of the two countries. He denied that there was any analogy between the law of settlement and the giving of unconditional control over the property by the woman immediately she married. He traced the liability of the husband under the existing law, and he contended there was nothing either unjust or unfair in it. The law had worked satisfactorily for very many years, and he appealed to the heads of families if thera was any necessity for the introduction of such a bill as this. He instanced the effect it would have on the upper and lower or industrial classes. Among the upper classes it would have no effect whatever, because a settlement would still ba made. Supposing, for instance, a woman is ex travagant, and her husband is deeply attached to her, the woman runs into debt, and according to this bill she is liable to be sued, and in case her husband does not pay the debt, she is liable to be sent to prison. Would a man, so deeply attached to his wife, allow his wife to be sent to prison ? Most decidedly not. He referred to the cases of Mrs. Lyon and Mrs. Borradaile ; he said in any similar cases in future great dissension would •exist among the relations of such people. Referring to the industrial classes he said very frequently the women were married without having anything in the world, and when they had to incur the expenses for the u3e of 'the household, did the hon. and learned member intend that the wife should be taken into custody? He concluded by moving that the bill be read a second time time that day six months. Mr. E. K. KARSLAKE opposed the bill for the same reasons as had been advanced by the hon. member (Mr. Lopes.) He criticised the various clauses of the bill, and showed that there was not the slightest necessity for some of them, and the others were quite inconsistent with the professed objects of the bill. Mr. HEADLA M supported the bill. Mr GOLDNEY admitted the law ought to be remedied, but he could not imagine there was the slightest necessity for carrying the law to such an extreme as was contem plated by this bill. The grave thing, he contended, was that it would establish an interest in the household entirely secarate from that of the husband. Mr. POLLARD-URQUHART instanced examples where husbands had laid their hands on the property of their wives, and had gono to the Continent and there squandered it, and he thought such a law demanded some alteration. After some further diselssion the house divided, when there appeared— ~ 123 ~ 123 The SPEAKER then gave his casting voto with the ayes. Mr. LEFEVRE then moved that the bill be referred to a select committee, which was agreed to. BURIALS (IRELAND) BILL. Ayes Noes The house then went into committee on this bill, the object of which was to enable Roman Catholics to be buried in any parochial burial grounds on due notice being given. A division took place upon the main proposal of the measure on the first clause, which was carried by 122 to 91. Another point that gave rise to some discussion was the giving notice to the police when a funeral opposed to the tenets of the Protestant religion was proposed to take place in the burial ground belonging to that Church. It was contended that no danger need be entertained as to collisions taking place when two funerals of different religions took place in the same ground at the same hour, the result of which was that amendments were not persisted in. Sir H. BRUCE then took a general objection to the bill on the ground that it allowed a Hindoo, or the follower.; of any peculiar creed, to p3rform certain rites in the burial ground of a Protestant church. The hon. mem ber was addressing the house at a quarter to six, at which hour the debate ceased in accordance with the standins orders. The Voters in Disfranchised Boroughs Bill passod through committee. Tie amendments on the Established Church (Ireland) Bill were ordered to be taken into consideration on Friday next. _ _ The other orders of the day were then disposed of and ,he house adjourned. 7HE BISHOP OF ON? ARIO ON 7HE IRISH CHURCH. The Bishop of Ontario writes to the Guardian : The general opinion held by calm-lookers on is that the Irish Church is doomed as an Establishment. The precedent will certainly be disastrous to all establishments, but I see no reason to infer that the Church will either perish or become impaired in usefulness. As a bishop of a church which has gone through the ordeal of disestablishment, I am inclined to believe that the Irish Church may flourish when separated from the State. The resolutions of Air. Gladstone will leave the Church in possession of all property, I suppose, that has been acquired by private benefaction, and of the glebe-houses and church edifices, and also will leave the clergy in possession of their incomes for life. Now, a precedent has been established in the dis endowment of the Canadian Church which may be usefully followed in Ireland. Instead of the clergy retaining their rent charges, &c., for the term of their natural life, let the State at once take possession of these revenues, and pay to the church a capital sum in commutation of the clergy life in terest. The income of bishops and clergy is, say, £500,000, which may be commuted, perhaps, fur 13 years' purchase, or at all events for 10 years' purchase. Thus the church will at once acquire £5,000,000 of endowment. The interest of this sum will not suffice to pay the present incumbents their full stipends, but now is the time .to show a spirit'of self-sacrifice ; and if the Irish clergy will follow the example of the Canadian clergy, all of whom, except one man, commuted their life annuities and threw their money into a common fund, they will earn the admiration of the world. Any deficiency in their stipends may surely be made up by the voluntary contributions of the landowners of Ireland, five-sixths of whom are Protestants, and would be supplemented by donations from the Eng lish branch of the Church. To sum up : the result would be that the Irish Church will find itself in possession of five million of pounds, all its churches and glebe-houses, Diocesan and Pro vincial Synods, and liberty. The further result will be increased life and missionary zeal, in conse quence of the necessity of falling back on the powers of the Church as a spiritual organisation, while the only apparent difference that the world will see between the Established and disestablished Church will be that four bishops will be excluded yearly from the House of Lords. I believe that not even will the dignity or social status of bishops and clergy be in the least degree diminished, while many advantages, which I need not mention, will accrue. Of course, I do not mean to defend the disestablish meat of the Irish Church, but merely to express my own Nil desperandum.' " LIE BLUSH OF A CUTTLE FlSH.—Under the influence of strong emotion the human face turns pale, or blushes ; in some individuals it even becomes blue. The cuttle fish dot -- ..s this, and more. Yielding to the impressions of the moment, it suddenly changes colour, passing through a variety of tints,.and only resum ing its familiar hue when the cause of the change has disappeared. It is, in fact, gifted with groat sensibility, which reacts immediately on its elastic tissues in a most extraordinary and unlooked-for way. Under the in fluence of passion man is born to blush ; but under no sort of excitement does he cover himself with pustules. The cuttle-fish not only changes colour, b ut throws out an eruption of little warts. "Observe," says D'Otbigny, "a poulpe in a pool of water. As it walks round its retreat, it is smooth and very pale. Attempt to seize it, it quickly assumes a deeper tint, and its body becomes covered on the instant with warts and hairs, which remain there until its confidence is entirely restored.—Dickens's " All the Year Round." SPOR,TING IN T.ELLI .ENCE.—This Day. ASCOT RACES-THIS DAY. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. £lOO PLATE. A Plate of 100 sovs, for maidens that never received 100 sows as second; throo year olds Bst 71b, four and up wards 9st 311: ; mares and geldings allowed 31b, maiden Arabs and Barbs 111 b those that have never won 50 sows 71b extra; the winner to ba sold for 300 sous; Swinley Course. Madame Wright Faker Furious 1 o 0 Five ran. SORATClLED.—Achievoment, out of Gold Cup and Alexandra Plate this day. PROGRAMME OF ASCOT HEATH RACES FRIDAY. The Wokingham Stakes' of 5 sous each, with 50 added for three year old 3 and upwards (handicap); winners after the declaration of the weights 71b extra ; last three quarters of the New Mile. A Plate of 100 sovs ; two year olds Gst 71b, three Bst 31b, four Bst 121 b, five and upwards 9st; mares and geldings allowed 31b; the winner to be sold for 100 sovs; if en tered for 200 sovs 71b extra ; half a mile. The Queen's Plate of 100 guineas; three year olds 7st 101 b, four 9st 71b, five lOst, six and aged lust 21b; to start at the New Mile starting post, go once round and in, being rather less than three miles. The Fifteenth Ascot Triennial Stakes of 10 sovs each, with 100 added, for three year olds ; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b ; maidens allowed 51b ; the second to receive a sum equal to 10 per cent. on the whole stake, and the third to save his stake. New Mile. 44 bubs. Picnic, Franchise (dead), Europa, c by Birdhill—lonica (wrong nom.), Sun Dial, Corporal, Merry and Wise, Hue and Cry, Blankney (dead), Grandee, Cymbal, Formose, Michael de Basco, Bauditto, Conde:lei:lde, Pearlfeather, Capitaine, Gondolier, Zamiel, Slanderer, Uncas, f by Mus covite—Grisi (dead), The Parson, Sunstroke, Phoebus, f by Lord of the Isles—Lady Lurewell, Lady Morgan, Nell Gwynn, Chanson (paid), Hatchmeut, Rouge Rose, Northerner, Restitution, Vale Royal, Blue Skin, Brother to Claverhouse, False Alarm,The Swell (dead), Helvellyn, Warrington, Queen of Beauty, Happy Thought, The Laird, and Laddie. The Alexandra Plate of 1,000 soya, added to a Sweep stakes of 25 sovs each, 15 ft ; four year olds lOst, five and upwards lOst 81b; mares and gelding allowed 41b; winners of the Epsom Derby, the Epsom Oaks, the Prince of Wales's Stakes at Ascot, the Doncaster St. Leger, the Ascot Doncaster, or Goodwood Cup subse quently to April, 1866, 51b, two or more of the above races 91b extra ; maiden four year olds at the time of starting allowed 71b, five and upwards 121 b ; the second to receive 200 soya and the third 100 out of the stakes ; to start at the New Mile Post, and go once round. About three miles. Ruy Blas, 4 yrs, Westwick, 5 yrs, War, 5 yrs, Taraban, 4 yrs, Lozenge, 6 yrs, Edenbridge b), 4 yrs, Patrician, 4 yrs, Miss Sarah c, 4 yrs, Maid of Masham c, 4 yrs, Lec turer, 5 yrs, Tynedale, 4 yrs, Trocadero, 4 yrs, Assine boine, 4 yrs, Achievement, 4 yrs, Friponnier, 4 yrs, Seal• skin, 5 yrs, D'Estournel, 4 yrs, and Romping Girl, 4 yrs. RACING FIXTI JU IMES FOR 1868. NE Ascot Summer 9 Beverley, Hull, and East !tiding lO Windsor Summer Newton II trupton .., lB Newcastle 23 Bibury Club 23 Stockbridge Alexaudro, Park JULY. Chelmsford Worcester Summer ... 2 Odiham Kingsbury and Hendon 6 Stamford Radcliffe Carlisle 7 Nottingham July Newmarket July 7 I Chesterfield 23 Huagerford Pontefract Down Royal C0rp....... 11 Sudbury and Ealing Reading I pil s by l4 AUGUST. Deauville Leek 3 Somerset .. 2O Brighton Brighton Club 6 1 Sc ar borough 2l Lewes Summer Wolverhampton ll I Great Yarmouth St o ckton Plymouth Windsor August l3 Ipswich 27 Egham l7 Lichfield Hastings York August Oxford SEPTEMBER. Baden Warwick September Abingdon 3 Manchester Leicester Doucaster September 8 Walsall I Brecon Richmond Hampton Autumn l5 Royal Caledonian Hunt Kelso IL• and Western II ' 3O OCTOBER. Bedford 1 I Sudbury and Ealing ... 15 Bromley Autumn Newmarket 2d October 5 : Harrow . 27 Lanark 8 I Worcester Autumn 27 Chelmsford Autuuiu ... 13 i Lincoln Autumu 29 Chulteuham l3 NOVEMBER. Liverpool 3 I Loamingtou l7 Shrewsbury 9 STEEPLECHASES. OCTOBER. Bromley DECEMBER. St. Albans Kingsbury B' SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day. (BY TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning. Arrived, June 10—Selina, from Genoa ; Charlotte Ann, from Dantzie ; Victor, steamer, from Brussels. Arrived, June 11—Matilda, from Antwerp ; Ellen Brown, from Colombo; Pietronella da Barr, from Ancient; Caro lina, from Memel ; Ringer, steamer, from Rotterdam ; Baron Oay, steamer, from Antwerp; Flecha, steamer, from Ghent; Panther, steamer, from Boulogne. Sailed, June 10.—Asshur, for Bushire. Sailed, June 11.—Blanche, steamer, for Dunkirk; John Bull, steamer, for Havre ; Cologne, steamer, for Boulogne ; May Queen, for Quebec ; Southern Cross, for Colombo ; Hatlaw, for Sidney; James Shepherd, for Shanghai ; Catharine, for Quebec; Bellona, for Frederickstadt ; West bury, for Brisbane ; Rostoff, steamer, for Byre, &c. ; Ger mania, steamer, for Hamburg. DEAL, Thursday Morning. Passed, June 10.—Aurora, screw steamer, from London, for Bordeaux. Passed, June 11.—Ankathor, from London, for Cardiff; Bucton Castle, from London, for Liverpool; Zephyr, of Dartmouth, from the West, for the North; Benvoirlich, from New York, hit. London; Mary Nixon, of Newcastle, screw steamer, from London, for the West ; Fern, of Ips wich, from London, for Swansea; Reullura, from Antigua, for London; Cornelius Grinnell, from New York, for Lon don; liarlaw, from London, for Sydney. Foreign ;Mail Packet Mete MAILS DUE. &nstralla and New Zealand. via Southampton Juno 21 Ditto, via Marseilles ...we •• • • •• .• June 15. Ditto, via Panama . ..... ........... ........ June Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video July 5. Ditto, by lerenon packet ..............June 22 Cape Yards. by Brazil packet Jail 5. Cape of Good dope. Ascension, and St. Helens June 12. Cams, Penang, ana Singapore, via Southampton June 20. Ditto, via Jiardellled Falkland lolanda Liibraltar, via oouttiampton Jane .3. India, via Southampton Ditto, via illarseiLes Malta, .gypt, .. June 11. Ditto, Marseilles....... June —. ?Latvians, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, vla tiouthampton Ditty, Alarsehies ~ June 18. N ewfoundla n a ...... . .Juno 17. Portugal .. July Ditto, by prt% t. te ship to Oporto ... Ditto ditto to Lisbon United States, Canada, California, &0., by British packet Ditto, by L iited States packet Ditto dittt (Baltimore) Ditto, by Canadian packet ... June 12.. West Indies and rs...litio ;except Mexico and Baha mas) Our readers will be very pleased to learn that Miss Russell, the far-famed prima donna of the Oxford, has recovered from her late severe indisposition, and will appear at the Alkambra on Monday next. ' MADAME TUSSADD'S.—Now that the excursion trains are continually running from almost every part of the country we strongly recommend to the notice of visi tors to the metropolis the desirability of looking in at Madame Tussaud's truly wonderful exhibition in Baker street. There. the sightseer cannot bo otherwise than gratified with the " thousand and one" interesting objects which everywhere meet the eye. Among the latest addi tions we may mention a life-size portrait model of the Prince of Wales, attired in the magniacent robes of the Order of St. l'atiick ; also figures of General Sir Robert Napier, the conqueror of Abyssinia ; the late King Theo. dore, &c. &c. FEMALE SCHOOL OF ART, QUEEN-SQUARE.-TllB committee of the above aro about to make their final ap— peal, undor the especial patronage of her Majesty and the Princess of Wales. The ladies will hold their court on the 25th and two following days. The White Lilies of the Prairie will be in attendance each day to receive all comers, and in the gardens of the Royal Botanic Society, Regent's-park. The Royal Academy has given a donation of £5O in furtherance of the object. The Goldsmiths' Company has done the same. The musical and other per. fortnances will be gratuitous. share