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

to 1(1 1 1 A R T AND QOAIME.RCIAL INTZI.LIOBNOB, CITY, Two o'CLoor. 'rag stock markets are tilt, chiefly upon the absence (,)f busi ness. T he Funds are a further k per cen t. &wer, and what changes have taken place in the Eng lish securities are adverse. Foreign stocks and like. ;:aiysefreil t l ther lower. In American, Erie, which yester -3 per cent., have recovered 11. Otherwise this department is also lower. The Discount Market remains firm, and the rate for the best bills is 1k to 1R- per cent. Consol s are flat, and show a further fall of at 94 to 941 for money, and 941 to 941 for September ; New and Reduced Three per Cents, 94,1 to 94f ; India Pi /0 per Cents. unaltered,' at 1141 to 1151 ; Bank St ock, 247 to 249 ; Exchequer Bills, 143 to 183 nre tn. Foreign.. Stocks are very quiet, and rather lower. ", io xicin are 151 to 15i Greek, 13 to 13i ; New id gnash, 33i,- to 337 ; Italian, 521 to 53 ; Turkish, ; .Brazilian 77i to 78 ; Peruvian, 7 9 to Egyptian (1864), ' 85 to 86 ; Viceroy's Seven P e r (lent., 72 to 72k ; and the Nine per Cents., 91 91k. The Honduras Loan has rallied to 83. C' Tr Indian Peninsular Railway New Four per bebsoture Stock is 96± to 96.1. 40 American S ecur iti es , U n ited States 5-20 Bonds " 1: a 11 lower, at 701 to 711 • Erie Shares show a l 'e , asery of li, at 38 to 40 ; while Illinois are worse, 91 i to 923 . Colonial Government Securities are steady. Canada Sag Per Cent. 103 to 105 ; Mauritius Six per Cent., loa t - to 105 ; N ew S ou th W a l es Five per Cent., 99 rs -c) 101 1 New Zealand. Six per Cent., 110 to 1 12 ; Ncleensiand Six per Cent., 105 to 106; Victoria Six Per Cent., 113 to 115. Atlantic an d G rea t Western Railway Debentures a. ` l3 f4 to 401 • and the Consolidated Mortgage Bonds t tt 4 0i to 41. ~I .' "glish Railway Shares are in little request, and rites are scarcely altered. Caledonian is 1 lower, at .7 ` t t e o r n i7B Midland, 1, at 107 to 1071 ; and Great it if r t stern a fu r th er , at 39 to 39k ; while Great I better, at 50k to 51. The following are auotatioas :—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 130 i to °ll South Eastern, 771 to 772 ; London and North wkktaa), 110 to 117 ; Great Northern, 106. to 1071 ; e Ao 104 k to 105.- ; London, Brighton, and South `"e a t, 54 to 54 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin colnshire, 431 to - 431 ; Metropolitan, 1171 to 1172 ; Von Chatham a n d D o ver, 201 to 20k. „ oreigti Railways are quiet. Lombardo-Venetian ' 3 marked at 153 to 16, 1 i ; and Great Luxemboure, 1 2 7 g to 131. Bank Shares are very quiet. The following are the cot ations :—Agra (A), ilk to 12 ; 10i tquotations° dis. ; A ng l o -A us t r i an , 7 t o 7k prem. ; Char t„e•Ted- Mer cant il e, 28k t o 29k ; C onso lid a t e d, 4ft to ; Imperial, 17 to 18 ; Imperial Ottoman, 2 to 1 ; London and County, 52 to 53 ; London and 4\; , tminster 68 to 69. ex div.; ditto, New, 48k to :q..; Oriental, 44 to 45 ; London Joint-Stock, - 32i 0 -M ex div. ; Union of London, 35 to 36 ex div. .t In e Foreig n Mi n i ng Sh ares St. J o h n d e l Rey is g etter, at 20 to 21 ; Port Philip steady, at 14 t ; Chontales, 21 to 2a ; Ro3sa Grande, 5-16 it; prem. n,, lli, cellaneous Securities are dull. Anglo- merican 7.e graph, 21/ t o 21* ; Atl an tic TelegraphB per ' t ' , 3 1:3-16 to 3 15-16 ; Atlantic and Great i _ e l atern Mo r t gage B on d s , 4(:1 ; to 41k ; Hudson's Bay, %to ; L on d on General Omnibus, 12 to 2. biddings for 1'200,000 in bias on Calcutta anti Vi l adras were held yesterday afternoon at the Ban k o f pgland. Th e amounts a ll otte d were to C a l cu tt a r 7 ,200, and to Madras £22,800. The minimum piece c was fixed as before is 10:0 on both Presiden ce, and tend ers a t i s 10:4d will receive about 91 per I :,t,a those ab ove w ill b e a ll otte d i n f u ll. t r the interi m di v id en d o f t h e Ci ty o f L on d o n "very Company annu m• is at the rate of 7 per cent. per A first di v id end of 2s 7d in the pound is i n course o ir Payment to the creditors of the separate estate of 1: t • M. Peto, of 2 s 21 on the separate estate of E. etts, and of is 10d on the estate of Peto and s v A f ourth dividend of is in the pound is announced 13 4 , the liq u id ators o f the Bi rm i ng h am B an ki ng Com -17, making 17s paid. L a - the report of the 'Worcester City and County at th e Company announces a dividend and bonus e rate of 15 per cent. per annum. The liquidators of the Imperial Mercantile Credit Assoc iation a have announced that they are prepared to i e : e the promissory notes due on December 30 next, ' 3 5 per c en t. interest. At atnt . of directors of the 'Lancashire and meeting York s hi re R a i lway Company held yester d ay, i t was decided to recommend to the proprietors, at their next ieeting, to d ec l are a di v id en d f or t h e h a lf year at t h e to of 6 per cent. per annum, less income-tax. b, lucluding the withd rawa l yes t er d ay o f £98,000 i n 'r gold for Paris, the bullion operations at the Batilf t,~; the p a st week have resulted in .£200,000 being ben out. r The B r i s t o l an d E xe t er R a il wa y di v id en d is at the e at° of 31 per cent. per annum, leaving £709 to be t e e d r If: w.trd. Ylie half-yearly meeting of the London and North- Iv Railway has been called for the 21st inst., th e transaction of the ordinary business of the Up my s lle ordina r y genera l meet i ng o f t h e Sit ti ng b ourne 2',0'1„ Sheerness Railway has been convened for the 11 inst., for the purpose of receiving the directors' reporttl and statement of accounts. Itail 6 h alf - yearly meeting of the Great Northern An extraordinary has been called for the 22nd inst. ja.s.c. extraordinary general meeting of the Mortgage thlnk of India has been called for the 14th inst., for k ee l t ) . ur Pose of confi rm i ng th e reso lutions passed at the Tllng on the 30th J u l y . T ele e ' ordinary general meeting of the British Electric inst. ph Company has been called for the 21st il s 4 r Tv -li t he edirectors lst o . f the Berlin Water Works Company f,s- e,CUllVened the half-yearly meeting of shareholders The oountfollowing is the report of the London and Prop r iY Rink :—" The directors, in submitting to the y ear eters the balance-sheet of the bank for the half to re ee dili p o' the 30th of June last, have the pleasure sutra , that, after paying all charges, and interest to fel d e T e rs) and making provision for bad and doubt hrs sh„,, the net profits amount to .£72,165 12s 6d. sa )ei added to £7,810 16 s 2d, b ro ught forward sk i B,llle l ast account, p ro d uce s a total of £79,976 Per , They have declared the usual dividend of 6 Yea, Eli s e with a bonus of 2 per cent. for the half seri_ Fee of income-tax (equal to 16 per cent. per a r ,e l ), which will absorb £75 884 5s 4d, and leave lesa"nue2.._as 4d to be carried forward to the profit and icLw account. The dividend and bonus (together or at sPer share) will bo payable at the head office, guy of the branches, on and after Monday, the k l " t *" aathr,,,rB. Bischoffsheim and Goldschmidt, under the kits " t y of the seri mi French Government, opened their of 1 868 on lists for the French Three per Cent. Loan 11 , this morning, and they will close on Wed the h -Lnext, the 12th inst. It may be repeated that ritt a X e t 4 ee of issue is 691 per cent., with coupon d upes from the Ist July, and that with the allow e lost & 11 _ loan will return 4i per cent. The first Xio ' l laent, 0 „ per cent., that is to say, for every Dityilleh,4,soofr. nominal capital, £3 or 75fr., and the on allotment, including the deposit, 10 I to ei % The remaining payments are divided i r k' th e ' t i e ell monthly instalments, . extending P ar i s, 21st September to the 21st Fbruary, 1870, ir,o dz,__S if paid in London they must be paid theeho6_ previously to these dates ; and Messrs. e i tala teti u t el el and Goldschmidt intimate that the first Ti erli ng, will be received by them at 25fr. per £1 tat, t an cl the others at the exchange of the day. rtielln,_ansount subscribed to the Loan and the pro tu the ate reduction of applications will be published .544_ iiteur by the French Government ; and 43 1.3' 1141SChai h • th„Deasibi e, s elm and Goldschmidt will, as soon 1 0 ' am eu , a , issue to their subscribers a statement of ea o fr. t te 4 to be returned to them. For amounts of vepitai) (3,333 fr. 33c., or £133 6s 8d nominal _tea ; gee French Govermnent Scrip will be deli "'ewe Ber r Waller amounts the agents will issue their or ßed P) and no commission of any kind. will be 13111. VISIT FUNDS—TAY° O'CLOCK. a ( lovt i , a )5;bA„, N ,tENT FUNDS. „‘-'elkt. Consols Ne er for A ccount, Sept. lio"wr,kjent. Reduced lie w '4 l Per Cent 941 1- h Do. d . Per Cent. Jan. 1894 — ' l / 4 4 tkulti e l s 'er Cent. J an. 187 3.. Do. f or 31 ) vrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 — 412ted SeYal : ll 4,r ir :p s h t i l , l l p g ri , l 19 8 0 8 R: --- xd .1),:Iller I3ills, £1,00 . 11 2 1 - 1 0 . t - l'm , per b o £5OO • 1:1 ' 03 .k of E £l.OO & £2OO b o. . ngt•tul. Stock, 41 pu• Cent — '1 , Account ............. : tad. "bIAN .1 A % tc, ,_ -OVERNMENT SFCURTTIES. bo. 0 c'ri.loi per Cent., Aprill874 Do. 5 1)64 1ng, for AccouLt — 1) Per (Jent..f 1 'BB ) 13 °. 1 P e =' Cent Oct. , ' ( . lBBB o. t toa'c'etecittie,E: . 5 13 ° Per Pr 4 Pet:Cent 0 . 54 p®r Cent., an. 1872 1:, ~, , , p r Cent., May 1879 " 1)0er Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872 _ 13D do. 1877 — ‘; 1 .,°. 1 21 ' "(31, 5 d° . 1882 — ,e. to m . Per C ent., Aug. 1873 D o. 0 r , (1 4, ',,9,9r Cent., £l,000 .41 , UOO .. . 28 pm .4.1.).8 . o ttp,,_ _ . 4 A4 i ltille it, 1,(-41`T. FUNDS —TWO CLOCK. 4 44 is Pu•le, 6 per t:en... °r ls) 0 per Cent, 1859 63 lbt gust 5• _ . i Louise , Osborne ses, ith loard the e Fria" oon after or Cher' ook lease , rdaY) 'IA 31 both by )rated at on t he a great 3e annu al Ys bean' rest, may finishing e the las t technica l wha t i$ tally , lilies 13 e , sane" co of at, the pla n mders, as cy WO l - 111 tick are as se befor e bowaver, reat sieg° , r t of the r ges, but hese featg too pre- " at places hole for e° , 37 was DO. • be €l°l3° - Brazilian 5 per Cent — Do. 41 por Cent., 1852 7O Do. do. 18:58.... Do. do., 1860 Do. do., 1863 66t- 6 Do. 5 per Cent., 1865 — Do Ac,roun+ BuenosAyres 6 per Cent...... Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) Cuba, 6por Cent. Cadian 6 per Cent — Do. 41 per C3ut — Do. 6 per Cent., B — Do., 1867 Do., 7 per Cent., 1866 — Do., Scrip £32 paid C . rubian, 6 per Cent. D ,nist , 3 per Cent., 1825 D , nut ian Principalities, par Cent Do 8 per Cent., 1867 — olonador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Egyptian, 7 por Cent — Do. S,cond Issue •• •.• D •. £5OO Bonds Do. 1106 Bonds Do. 186 t Do. Account Do. £s.w Bonds B6k Do. .£lOO Bonds .••. • Goyerntrent Railway Debentures 941 3; Greet 5 per Cent., 1824 - 5, ex Coups. DO. Account Do. Coupons Do. Acc)unt Giateinala 5 per Cent Honduras Gov. Rail. Loan., 10p. Ct., £25 p 83 It iiian 5 per Cert., 1865' Account . Do Maremmana Bail way 51-licat. 3 per Cent Ditto for Account Dn. 1864 Do 6 per Cont. Anglo-French 31 ontevitbalu 6 per Cent. Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent Now Granada — Do 3 per Cen — Do. Deferred - Do Land Warrants (Hectares) Peruvian 5 per Cent. 1865 Do Account ., 79f 8f Do 4i per Cent. (Uribarren) .... Do 44 per Cent.. 1862 • — Do Account Portuguese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, '7, '9,'60,'2.'S 88k Do. do. 1867 — Do. do. Sci ip, 420 paid — Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St — Do 4} per Cent. 1850 ~. ___ Do 4i per Cent., 1860 Do 3 per Cent., 1859 Do 5 per Cent., 186 Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1864, £lOO Bonds., Do. do. £B4 15s. d0..._ Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds 93i I Do. do £B4 15s. do BB2 Do Nicolas Railway 661 } Sar tiniau b per Cent — Spanish 3 per Con . Do. Are/Ant Do. 1867 Do. Account Do• New Deferrea Do. Account Do. Passive Do. Aces ant Do. Coin. Cert. of Coup. not funded Do. Account Swedish Provincial Mortgage Loan Do Government, 1864 Do do, 1868 Do do, Scrip Tuniish 6 per Cent. Do Account Do 6 por Cent. 1858 -- Do Account Do £lOO Bonds Do 6 per Cent., 1862 Do Aceou u t Do £10( Bonds Do. 1863 Do 5 per Gent., 1865 Do Account Do 6 per Cent., 1865 6Ol 1 por Cent., G uaran t ee d Venezuela, 3 per Cent. llt Do 6 per Cent., 1862 Do 6 per Cent. 1864 Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates Divideuas on the above payable in London. Austrian a per Cent. Ex 10 Florins Ex. 25f Belgian, 41 per oent., - Dutch 24 per Cont. Ex. 12 Guil s7i Do ACcOunt French Rentos, 3 per Cent., Ex. 2M. Itaßah 5 per Cont. 1851, E. 25i. Do. Account 521 yr* 011L(JOK. Consols, Money 94 i r Do. Account, Sept. 8 RAILIVAY INTELLIGENCE. MIDLAND. The directors of this company have decided on recommending the proprietors to declare a dividend on the ordinary stock for the half-year ending the 30th of June last at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum. G REAT NORTHERN. The directors of this company have determined, with the concurrence of the auditors, to recommend to the proprietors at the general meeting on the 22d inst. to declare a dividend for the half-year ending the 30th of June last, at the rate of £4 ss. per cent. per annum on the original stock of the company, giving for the half-year £2 2s. Gd. per cent. to the original stock, £3 per cent. to the B stock, and £1 ss. per cent. to the A stock. BALA AND DOLGELLY. This company's line was opened for traffic yester day. It was to have been opened on Saturday, but the Government inspector having insisted on some improvements, these were attended to by the con tractor as speedily as possible, and the lino was opened for traffic on their completion. It is urged in favour of the construction of a railroad from St. Louis to Texas that between the Nueces and the Rio Grande rivers there are a million head of horned cattle, and ten thousand head of horses and mules. The trade of Sauatonio with Mexico amounts to $8,000,000 annually. It would take a railroad fifty years to carry all the cattle in Western Texas to St. Louis. The cattle in that country are being killed for their hides alone. Such a railroad, it is stated, would not only make St. Louis the stock market of America, but would develope the finest copper, coal, and silver mines. The Government Commissioners accepted another 40-mile section of the Union Pacific Railroad on Saturday, July 11, making 685 miles now officially completed. All but about two or three miles of the second track between the city and Albany—a section be tween Chester and Middlefield—has been laid. A little more grading remains to be done, but the double track will be ready for trains the entire dis tance before October 1. A marble tablet is about to be erected at the house where Admiral Caracciolo (the liberal Admi ral who was executed by order of Lord Nelson in the early part of this century) lived at Str. Mergel lina, and on it is to be an inscription explaining the injustice he met with at the hands of the Admiral —an act which, in fact, will always be a stain on the memory of the conqueror at Trafalgar. The Peace Society has addressed a memorial to Lord Stanley, praying that he would employ the friendly offices of Great Britain with a view to ter minate the disastrous war which has so long raged between the Empire of Brazil and the Republic of Paraguay. His lordship, in his reply, gave evidence of the fact that he has already offered his mediation to the contending parties, but without success. THE CONTRACT CORPORATION.—Yesterday, at the Rolle' Chambers, the winding up matter of the Con tract Corporation was fully discussed in reference to an application made for the payment of a further dividend of I.s. in the pound to the creditors, making 4s. A large sum was reserved on account of Barnard's Bank, and it was stated that it would take about £35,000 to pay I.s. in the pound. The Chief Clerk (Mr. Church) sanctioned the dividend. Mr. Kemp, the official liquidator, attended the meeting. THE ROCHDALE TRAGEDY. —The farmer White oak, who about a week ago murdered two of his children at Burnedge, near Rochdale, and then attempted to com mit _suicide by cutting his throat, died on Tuesday, in great suffering, from the self-inflicted wound. It was deemed necessary to remove him to the workhouse, but, apparently thinking he was to be taken to prison, he re sisted violently, and it is not improbable that the excite ment caused by the removal accelerated his death. DISGRACEFUL RAPACITY.- —About ten days ago two gentlemen, Mi.jor Morgan and Mr. Tweedie, were drowned off Millport, Firth of Clyde, by the upsetting of a small boat. Though every effort was made to recover the bodies, it was not till Monday evening last that any success attended the dragging. On that evening two fisher men found the body of Mr. Tweedie, which, however, they refused to give up unless the deceased's father gave them £lOO. Mr. Tweedie, though perfectly willing to give a handsome reward for the recovery of his son's body, de murred to such an extortionate demand, but the fishermen were inexorable, and refused to bring the body on shore till their demands were complied with. Ultimately the police had to interfere, and on threatening to take the boatmen into custody for unlawfully detaining the body, it was reluctantly given up. Great indignation was ex pressed at the conduct of the finders, the more especially that Mr. Tweedie had offered a munificent reward for the finding of the body. PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Northern, 41 per oent. rd. at .0 per cent. pm., 07' LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Notting lam and Grantham R. and C, 941 rottigiGN IC Ai LWA rt*. Buenos Ayres, Great Southern, lint, gua. 7 per cent., 151 ban raulo, lien., gua. 6 per cent., 171 FORICIOI4 allzi/C;•.; Anglo Brazilirn Gold, # ant redro, N rth .uel Rey. 2 tit. John del Rey. lira , 14 VI United Mexican, DOCKS Freehold Land and Dock, 33 Australasia, 531 chartered liana of India, A.ustralla. and China, 191 Chartered der. o' India, London. and China, 20 English. scotch, and Au stralian Chartered, 10f i m p e ri a l Ottoman, 11 10 fr London Chartered liana of Australia, 231 I ondon and 11 estmlnater. cti National rrOVincial of islnglaud, Ditto. e.d. and R 1 issue, 391 Union of Australia, 4:f j MISCELLANXOUS: Anglo American Telegraph, 211 Atlantic Telegraph, Ditto, is por cent , 74 80 Berlin Water Works, Commercial Union. Insurance. 5 7-16 r.l4yptiau 9 per Cent., Viceroy Loan„gua.., 01 Fore-street Warehouse, lim., 12 London Financial Association, Um., 7/, Reuter's Telegram,c l Royal Mail Steam, 63 Scottish Australian Investment, Um.. 110 Telegraph Construct. aid Maintenance, 151 A FRUITFUL TIME.—The second quarter of the present year is the first time that 200,000 children have been born alive in England and Wales in a quarter of a year. The exact number reached 202,892-2,230 a day, a minute, if we might divide a child. The marriages in 1867 had been fewer than in either of the three pre ceding years, but in 1864, 1835, and 18J6 they had, been unusually numerous. The death rate in the second quarter of the year 1868 being lower than in the spring quarter of any year since the national civil registration began, the extraordinary result is presented of no less than 14 of the 40 cuttaties of England having twice as many births as deaths—viz., Rent, Berkshire, Hertford shire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Somerset, Staf fordshire, Worcestershire, Lincolnshire, and Durham. The same may be said, too, of South Wales, taken as a whole. r l'/1E ADMIRALTY INSPECTION.—We learn that Mr. Curry will be prevented from accompanying his col leagues in the approaching visitation to the dockyards, as his medical advisers consider it necessary to the more com plete restoration of his health that he should spend some time at one of the spas in Germany. We understand it is his intention to visit the dockyards privately later in the year. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.--THIS DAY. MAR LB OROUGH-STRE . STREET OUTIZAGE.—George Patterson, a shoe maker, of No. 50, Cleveland street, was charged before Mr. Knox with assauliing Mrs. Emma Bed ford and Mrs. Emma Weakley, mother and daugh ter, residing at No. 5, St. inn's-court, Soho. Mrs. Bedford said that at a quarter to one that morning she was walking along the Tottenham court-road, accompanied by her daughter, on the way home from Ca m d en -t ow n, where they had been to see some friends, when the prisoner and two other young men came up to them, and the prisoner wade a very insulting remark to her daughter. She told the prisoner that he had no right to speak to them as they were respectble women, upon which the prisoner pulled her daughter about in a most improper manner, tore her chess, and as she (witness) a blow in the t emp l e an d ki c ked her on the side; was expostulating with him, he gave her and had a constable not come up she did not know what would have been done. Mrs. Emma Wvakly, daughter of th 3 previous witness, gave similar evidence, and also stated that the prisoner struck her. Police constable Cook, 96 E, said that hearing screams in the T ot t en h am - cour t-road he went to the spot, awl saw the prisoner pushing the first witness against th e s h u tt er , a nd she gave the pri soner in charge for assaulting her by striking her in the eye. At that time the witness's dress was torn, as it now appeared. In his defence, the prisoner said he was walking along the road when some remark was made to the females, upon which they seized him by the hair of his head, one on each side, mistaking him for another person. Mr. Knox said he believed the story told by the females and not that told by the prisoner. He thought it very unlikely that two respectable women —a mother and daughter, would go up to a young man and attack him without any cause. lie con sidered the prisoner's conduct perfectly heinous. Women were entitled to the protection of the law ; for such ruffianly conduct he should commit the prisoner for two months' with hard labour. THE SUN LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AtTGITST 6, 1868. SHARE LIST. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. I ; Paid Railways, B , IISLOi and Eaeter ;Caledonian I ‘.;,, briau Cork and Barmen -- Cornwall Dublin & Beßata June , Dun„Perth, & Ab.Juue ' l&.London, borip Cart 82 Of 72;1 78 2U 30 7si 71 3 ; 4 75 77 70 72 Do. Glasgow t S. Western Great Eastern .. 95 97 29j 40 5 9 15 6 106 IG7 10t ,i 6 123 126 391 1 Do. E. Aug]. No. 2 lircat North of Scotland Great Northern Do. A. stock • • • Do. B e. vet; Do. New, is. at 25 pat, tit S, and V. ul lrelann' t. Webtera -Original Du. 6. V4l. hail. gua. Do. South Wales .... Do. W. Alid.—Oxford 97 98 c 3 3 :8 3. Do. Newi.ort. Do. Laucarstitris4 Yorksitm. ILJntiou and Blackwait 'Lon., Brigh.,& S.Coasl I•on., Chat., and Dover Do. Metrop. Ex. A.. Lou. & ort.ll 'Wester'. Lon. 4 South Westeru Mau., Shel., Lincoln .vtetropolitan... . 13 !31 5} 55 24 VI 1161 117 91 93 131 14 117 11 a 113 113 Do. 'Extension...... Do. New Attrupolitan Dlbtriet Do. do. do. 77 So Do. and st. John es NV d Midiand 107} IU7I Do. Z.) Share Do, Birmio.. & Derby Aid Bent . North British Do. Ed. ' Pth., di Dun Nth. Easternierwick Do. Li.Lsi•E purchas , Do. Leeds Do. York Do. Carlisle ...... 100 110 100 100 100 8.13.9 100 100 100 74 76 36 38 1041 105 i 58 6 , ' v 4 96 133 131 131 133 - 119 121 Do. Stock. tic Darling. Do. do. 1860-61 North London do. 1664 5 .. Do. do. 1866 North Staffordshire • N. St S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot. N. E Aber. stock uo. Scot, Ilia. at ack Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern Staines, Wok., , Wok Call Vale Do. C . V ale of death 11 12 58 60 07 WO 100 iOO 100 all 10u Waterford & Kilkenny Watexitio & Whitetia.f 57 58 45 17 78t 771 11 12 1423 1.32 106} 101 l i 501 zOi 1161 431 1171 i 1041 4 771 k Clo6lag 1 linsinegn , Price. , choke. lo:i i BRITISH rossE& . A.ttlintto.t St. lAwrenoe ;tow., Baroda, gu. 6 per pent.... Do. le Bliares ufihto sz Lake Huron Do. Preference itud.,Brant,&Groderich 6 p.c. Calcutta & 6. E., lint al-e. gtla 6 per cent Deniers:a, i p.c. pef. p .I.ast Bengal, gu., 5 de. East lodtau, gu. 5 p.c. Do. Leh res.... .rand 1r Can.fd% )0. Equip. Mort, Bond: 1 caarge 0 p.c Do. hit Pref. Bonds Do. do deferred Do. 2d Pref. Bonus Do. do. delerred Do. 3d Pref. tOIA Do. do. deferred Do. 4th Prei. stook Do. do. decerred t. Pen. gus. o. New 3 per cent gua. 5 p. o•.' t. south of India gua. 5 per ccrt D.. 4£ per cent Lo _ Etat Wue. of Canada.. Do. New • •)o. 6 p.O Bus. pay. 1z57:.i :10. 51 dv. pay. 1577-8.. itadras, gua. 5 p.o Do. 41 do Do. ia do Do. Fifth Exteusioi llelb. Cor 6 p. C. Bnda del. Ilobsop's Bay N. 'MC' da, 6pc let •)ildect .5 p.0 5 acinde ..•• • I Do. Delhi Do. do wa Do. runjaub.... Do. Indus St. Flo, wo too 100 all 100 100 100 1100 2 100 lOU ISIONS. 56 58 103 104 i Iv 3 4 6 7 68 71 62 67 101 103 ,06 1 9 1 :61 l7a 7i 62 .5J 52 38 40 26 28 i 9 20 1471 1e8,! 16 2pi 14. 24 105 107 99 101 - I 141 141, 99 101 91 93 1061 1(,74 100 10z 95 97 83 1151 100$4 I‘2l I(3k 1011 IC2. 1011 1024 WESTMINSTER. TIIE HONEST ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE. — William Yates, a young man, was charged with assaulting Elizabeth Gales. Complainant, a policeman's wife, said that she and her husband are minding a house in Bucking ham Palace-road, Pimlico. She went out yester day evening with a plate to get some butter, when defendant came up and placed one arm round her neck and the other round her waist. She imme diately struck him in the face with the plate, when he gave her a violent blow on the shoulder with his fist, George Gale, the husband, said he saw his wife assailed as dezcribed. He went up and took him into custody. . Defeudaut—l put my hand upon her shoulder and merely said, "My dear, how are you ?" Mr. Arnold—And what business had you to do so, sir ? _ _ Defendant—lt did not do her any harm. Mr. Arnold—Didn't do her any h arm . Sh e i s as much entitled to protection as the wife or daughter of a nobleman. How would a lady feel if a man to whom she was a perfect stranger came up audio conducted himself? Defendant—See what a blow she has given me on the face. Mr. Arnold—And served you perfectly right. Defendant—l could hardly stand for the blow she gave me. Mr. Arr.old—And which was well merited ; but for that I might feel disposed to commit you with out a fine. You will pay 503., or be committed for a month. THAMES. DARING BURGLARY.—Patrick Cummings, aged 24 years, was brought before Mr. Benson charged with breaking into the premises of Messrs. Kirk aldy & Co., High-street, stealing therefrom 3601b5. of tallow. After some evidence had been given the prisoner was remanded. THE LAST HALF CENTURY. It is in the three momentous matters of light, locomotion, and communication that the progress effected in this generation contrasts most surpris ingly with the aggregate of the progress effected in all previous generations put together since the earliest dawn of authentic history. The lamps and torches which illuminated Belshazzat's feast were probably just as brilliant, and framed out of nearly the same materials, as those which shone upon the splendid fetes of Versailles when Marie Antoinette presided over them, or those of the Tuileries during the Imperial magnificence of the First Napoleon. Pine wood, oil, and perhaps wax, lighted the banquet halls of the wealthiest nobles alike in the 18th century before Christ and in the 18th century after Christ. . There was little difference except in finish of work manship and elegance of design—little, if any, ad vance, we mean, in the illtu.ninating power, or in the source whence that power was drawn—between the lamps used in th e d ays o f the Pyramids, the days of the Coliseu m , an d t h e d a ys of Kensington Palace. Fifty y ears ago, that is, we burnt the same articles, and got about the same amount of light from them, a s we did 5,000 years ago. Now we use gas of which each burner is equal to fifteen or twenty candles ; and when we wish for more can have recourse to the electric light or analogous inventions, which are 50-fold more bril liant and far-reaching than even the best gas. The streets of cities, which from the days of Pharaoh to those of Voltaire were dim and gloomy, even where not wholly unlighted, now blaze every where (except in London) with something of the brilliancy of moonlight. In a word, all the ad vance that has been made in these respects has been made since many of us were children. We remember light as it was in the days of Solomon, we see it as Drummond and Faraday have made it. The same thing may be said of locomotion. Nimrod and Noah travelled just in the same way, and just at the same rate, as Thomas Assheton Smith and Mr. Coke of Norfolk. The chariots of the Olympic games went just as fast as the chariots that conveyed our nobles to the Derby, "in our hot youth, when George 111. was King." When Abraham wanted to send a message to Lot he despatched a man on horseback, who gal loped twelve miles an hour. When our fathers wanted to send a message to their nephews they could do no better and go no quicker. When we were young, if we wished to travel from London to Edinburgh, we thought ourselves lucky if we could average eight miles an boar—just as Robert Bruce might have done. Now, in our old age, we feel ourselves aggrieved if we do not average 40 miles. Everything that has been done in this line since the world began—everything , perhaps, that the capa cities of matter and the conditions of the human frame will ever allow to be done, has been done since we were boys. The same at sea. Probably when the wind was favourable, Ulysses, who was a bold and skilful navigator, sailed as fast as a Dutch merchantman of the year 1800, nearly as fast at times as an American yacht or clipper of our fathers' day. Now, we steam 12 and 15 wiles an hour with wonderful regularity, whether wind and tide be favourable or not—nor is it likely we shall ever be able to go much faster. But the progress in the means of communication is the most remarkable of all. In this respect Mr. Pitt was no better off than Pericles or Agamemnon. If Ruth had wished to write to Naomi, or David to send a word of love to Jonathan when he was a hundred miles away, they could not possibly have done it under 12 hours. Nor could we to our friends 30 years ago. In 1837 the humblest citizen of Great Britain can smd a message, not 100 miles, but 1,000 in 12 tnieutes.—Spectator. MADAME TUSSAUD'S. —The life-size portrait models of Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth have been enriched by dresses of the most costly and elaborately embroidered d ascription, copied from authentic paintings of the period. In the present day the ladies' costumes, in point of elegance and richness, are as nothing to those of the Elizabethau age. THE LORD MAYOR ELECT OF DUBLIN. (From the Freeman's journal.) The selection of the Lord Alayor of Dublin for the ensuing year is not a question of " com pact" or of " promise"--a question of sectarian bigotry, or of civic liberality, ; nor yet one of personal merit, or individual favouritism. A far higher and more important issue has been raised, and, ;tom being a merely personal or even a muni cipal question, the Dublin Mayoralty for 1869 has assumed the proportion of a national and imperial question. Mr. Mackey is personally a very eligible candidate, but he is not the only man in the Council who is worthy to fill the office of Chief Magistrate. Mr. Mackey has troops of personal friends who would be glad to pay him a com pliment; but while men have a perfect right to be generous with that which is their own, they have no right, acting in a representative capacity, to barter the rights and liberties of a people, that they may make momentary cllaracter with their enemies for a mock liberality which has no real ex istence. The organs of the Ascandancy•faction as sert that there was a " compact" to elect a Con servative this year. There was no such compact— there was no such undertaking—no such promise made by the Liberal party, or on their behalf. There may have been some individual promises made to Mr. Mackey or to Conservative leaders ; but the Liberal party, as a party, made no such promise, and Mr. Mackey's acceptance as a Con servative was the result of the accident that no other candidate came forward, and was not even suggested to be the realization of a previous party arrangement. This being so, bow does the matter stand now ? Simply this : When—in an hour of generous weakness, forgetful of their duty to their country; . to their principles; . and to the great question upon which the fate of this • Empire hangs—the Catholic and Liberal members accepted Mr. Mackey they did not dream that their supreme forgetfulness of the crisis would be used by their enemies to prove to Europe and the world that Catholic Ireland for got her history—that the leading Catholics of Dub lin were traitors to their race, their creed, their nationality, and had with one consent " bowed their knees to Baal," and cursed the proffered boon of religious equality as a matter which the vulgar might prize, bat which the rising Catholics of the metropolis despised and abhorred as the mere food of " sacerdotal confederates." The Catholics who voted for an Ascendancy candidate did not foresee the use that would be made of their soft-headed conduct. They see it now. Their liberality was called treachery to their party. Their generosity was proclaimed to be a protest against what Mr. Mackey calls a " sacerdotal confederacy," and to be the answer of Ireland to Mr. Gladstone's Church resolutions.' This new issue has been raised -- raised by the Church Defence Association and its organs—accepted in self-congratulatory silence by Mr. Mackey—proclaimed in every Wang° Lodge in Dubli❑—and the " Catholics" who sustained Church Ascendancy toasted it amid rounds of Kentish fire at the nightly orgies of the faction. It is with this new issue, and not with alleged compacts or the promises of individuals—or so called breached of pledged worth—that the Catho- lic public have to deal, and on this issue Catholic Corporators will have to vote on Monday next. Did any Catholic vote for Mr. Mackey as the first and most presentible member of the Church De fence Society ? If he did, of course he will repeat his vote on Monday, and thus proclaim his own adhesion to the Church Defence Association and to its principles. Did any Catholic vote for Mr. Mackey as one of .e committee who denounced to the empire as a "sacerdotal confederacy" the cardinal, the bishops, and the clergy of Ireland, who humbly crave the English Legislature to give the same civil rights and religious freedom to Catholics as Protestants enjoy ?. If he did—he will no doubt have the manly con sistency to proceed to the City Hall on Monday and flaunt in the face of the country the banner on which " Sacerdotal Confederacy" is inscribed, and by his vote proclaim w ith Air. Mackey that the Popish religion is " pregnant with disorder and mis chief to our social organisatiou—utterly opposed to British laws and to civilisation." Did any Catholic vote for Mr. Mackey as a pro test against the policy of religious equality, dises tablishment, and disendowolent, as proposed by Mr. Gladstone in the name of the English nation as an act of tardy justice due to the Irish race and to the Catholic people ? If he did, it will be his duty to avow this his " protest "—to justify and enforce it before his fellow-citizens on Monday. But if, as we contend, no Liberal iProtestant and no Catholic voted for Mr. Mackey upon these several grounds, or on any of them —if this degrading interpretation was put on the over-generous act of the Catholic representa tives of Dublin in order that the ,chains of Ascendancy might be rivetted with greater tight ness and permanency—if Catholics were first betrayed into au act of political forgiveness, and if their kindness was used to brand them as slaves, traitors, and knaves—then every Catholic into whose heart the iron of slavery has not burned —every Catholic who respects himself, who looks to a bright future of equality for his children and prosperity for this old land—will vindicate himself, his race, and his nation from the insulting inter pretation put on his weakness by the men whose iron hoof is still upon us, and who seek to per petuate the Ascendant Church as the badge of con pest —the recipient of the enforced tribute paid by slaves. Each man must take his side on Monday—with those who would " civilise" Ireland out of Catho licity, or with those who, by disestablishing the Church of the conqueror, would leave the faith of the native Irish "free." MARKE7 S-7 HIS DAY. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. . _ ------- - There was a full supply of stock on offer again to-day : but the condition was very indifferent, which tended to in crease the already dull state of the trade. Of beasts there wero 1,080, including 20 foreign, and they mot a slow sale, at late rates. Of sheep and lambs 20,530 came to hand, 2,630 being foreign. Sales of both progressed heavily, prices favour ing buyers. There is a better inquiry for veal, and prime qualities made rather better prices. 603 calves were at market, 322 being foreign. _ _ There were 50 pigs on salo, of which 25 were English fed. Sales were made at late rates. Quotations : —B.cf, 3s to 5s 2d ; mutton, 3s to 4s 10d veal, 38 to 5s ; pork, 3s to 4s 6d ; lamb, 4s 4d to 5s per stone per Blbs sinkiug the offal. COLONIAL AND FOREIGN PRODUCE. Sugar—The demand is still very moderate, but rates are not quotably lower, either floating or on the spot. Coffee.—The auctions are again upon a liberal scale, but there is a fair demand at yesterday's decline, and if any thing the tone is steadier. Tea—The auctions were resumed this morning, and aro progressing with a fair spirit, at quite the opening prices. COTTON. LIN - Enron, Aug. 6.—Sales probably 8,000 bales. Market quiet and uuchangod. FREEDOM OF THE CITY OF EDINBURGII.—At a meeting of the Town Council of Edinburgh, held on Tues day, the Lord Provost moved, " That iu respect of the brilliant and successful services of Lieut.-General Lord Napier of Magdala, as Commander-in-Chief of the Expedi tion to Abyssinia, the freedom of the city be conferred on his lordship." Bailie Skinner seconded the motion, which was unanimously agreed to. Mr. Stott than moved, "That the freedom of the city ba conferred on Sir James Y. Simp son, of Strachaven, M.D., D.C.L., Professor of Midwifery in the University of .E li❑burgh, wausa numerous and va:ie,l contributions to medical scieuci and to literature, and I;articularly whose distinguished discoveries and appliances for the alleviation of human suffering have set ved to main tain and extend the reputation of the city and its medical school, and entitle him to the respect and gratitude of his fellow citizens." Mr. Cousin seconded the motion. Mr. Howden oppJsed the motion on the ground that Sir James had already declined to accept the honour, aid that the proposal was calculated to convoy a reflection against the four curators who opposed that gentleman's election to the principalship of the University. The Lord Provost and Mr. Stott explained that Sir James had not declined this honour, but had merely ref used to accept an invitation to a banquet. After some further conversation the motion was agreed to, Mr. Uowden and Mr. Cattanach dissenting. `.;OLuSIAL GOVERN AINNT SECURIIIII:6. 8 British Columbia, 6 per , a : n e s . : (3 t 7 . 0 , ; 1 4. 8 6 7 p c . . 0. . J . 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 - 03 — lO5 Do. 6p. a. Feb. & Aug 1,0 *O2 11'3, 2 17 : A e55E : 11 1 .... . 11 3/ 0e (1. 1. QOOPYCeat inscribe da.n. i l B o c jb u l l eu li k o 3 j l. 1 1 1 1 11: 0 0 :0 0 0 0°D 1 1 1 190 :1 u ? i l l 1 1 1 99 :1 r 9 Do. Jan.&july, 1801 ; 100 108 lto D eoa.1050:1:5 N0v. 0ct., r0ct. 81 1 79 5 80, 0A 6 11 0 00 1 , 0 10 0 98 1001 y Do. 1872, do 100 103 107 —slauritiva, 6 p. 0, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1878 .. lOO 106 168 0. 11839852' May 5 1 Ed A N ug o . v l lOOOO 11 '; 8 - • •8 • ' v 'iov. er .s per cent ) 100, N. 8.G0v.6 p.o.J uly 100 99 10 N. S.W. Do. 5 p.c. 1871 1 ' to e" 1 1E 86 70 " 100 100 9 9 9 8 109 9 ) Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1896 100 98 10: 94 New Zealand, 6p. cent 100 - Do. 5 per cent • 100 971 904 Nova Scotia Oov. 6p. c sterling, 1875 l9O 101 eO3 ;Queensland Gov. 6p. e ' 100 ik.:s 106 S. Aus.Gov. 6p,c. 186 J 77 100 Do. 1878 it upwards_ 1, 0 110 111 Via Gov. 6 p.c. la.& July 100 I - Do. do, Aprll St Oct lOO 1112 114 114 BRITISH MINES. - .Cam. Conned. Gold, lint. 1 Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated 334 1 2 Devon G. Cons. (Tavlst 1 420 430 Drake walls 24 I Last Bassett (Illogen) 334 10 12 —. East Caradon 2.14,e 3 4 East Carn 13r"a 33 East Grenville East Gunnislake East Lovell 3.0.0 8 9 1.. WI Russell (Tavistk 12 15.6 1 : r m.& StAubyu(G wen. 72 2 4 4 Great Lacey, limited.. all 16 17 Great South Tolgus.... 1.4.0 - - Great Wheal 14.9.6 I-. Wheal Vor (Uelst..o 40 15 16 Grnville l)4 11 llerod's Foot .... 8.10.0 38 40 dingston Downs 5.10.6 21 24 Margaret (Uny Lelant 13.17.6 6 8 slaike Valley 4.10.6 7 74 4 tlwyndy iron Ore, lim• 3.7.0 24 13 :4e".v Seton . ....... I 591 60 70 North Raskear . '54.17.0 5 '1 N.Wh Bassett(lllogan North Wheal Crotty Prosper United...... 8.11.0 2 24 Providence ; Coy Lelatit 1 1.6.7 20 23 S. Caradon (St. Cleer) 330 South Condurrow 3.18.4 4 I Fran. (Mogan 18.18.9 111 191 Stray Park . 44.0.8 4 6 in Crott V 14 15 .. Vigra and Clogan, lim ali West Bassett (Illog - an W. Caradon (Liskeard 284 10 12 .. West Chiverton lO 6) 62 West 5et0n.....„ Wheal Bassett ( Mogan 51 62 6 7 .... Wheal Buller (Redruth 22 15 4 6 .... Wheal Mary Ann (Men. 8 20 22 Wheal Seton Wheal Trelawney (Lis. 6.17.0 8 10 1024 3 1021 THE IVEIV DOCK AT BOULOGNE, The floating dock at Boulogne has been open to all descriptions of shipping, if towed by the steam tug attached to it, since the Ist inst. It had pre viously been entered by several vessels, cspeciilly by the English steamer Garrison, from - Archangel, which entered it on the 11th of July, and dis charged 5,474 quarters of oats in five days; and the restriction obliging the aid of a tug will no longer be obligatory in a few weeks' time, when the channel leading to the lock-gates has been deepened to its full width. It will take some months before the accessories of the dock are com pletely finished, and it is possible that the public inauguration, at which the presence of the Emperor is fully expected, may be delayed to that extent ; but as the dock is now virtually opened fur ship ping it seems the right moment to notice a great work which will exercise a very considerable in fluence on the progress and prosperity of the port of Boulogne, and which is of material import ance viewed in relation to the international traffic of which Boulogne is the chief port. The floating deck at Boulogne was co:nmenced in the year 1859, and has thus been nine years in course of comple tion. The total cost has been a little under £300,000, but would have been much more had not the whole of the space it occupies on the west side of Bou logne harbour, at Capecure, been already in the possession of the French Government, so that there was no land to purchase ; while, as it partly occu pies the site of the old semicircular basin, there was, to that extent, less excavation required. Had the funds been granted more freely it could easily have been finished in half the time. Such an establishment had become of the utmost ne cessity in the port of Boulogne, which is not only one of the most important of the trad ing ports of France, but has for many years occu pied the principal place is the international trade between France and England, which, since the in troduction of a more liberal commercial system in France, has acquired such vast proportions. While, on account of the mail service, Calais divides the passenger traffic with Boulogne, the great bulk of the goods traffic is concentrated at. Boulogne, and a few figures will give some idea of its extent. In 1867 the number of vessels that entered Boulogne was 2,346, and their tonnage 384,131 tons. The tonnage weight of imported goods was 195,302, and the number of passengers arriving or departing by sea 152,931. The Customs' dues were £164,986, while at Calais they amounted only to £31,116. In the same year the movement of passengers at the Boulogne Railway station was 323,183, and of goods 388,782 tons ; and the total receipts at the railway stations were £169,524; at Dunkirk they were £123,748 ; and at Calais £11.4,583. The movement of bullion at Boulogne was £12,523,488, and at Calais £708,940. These figures more or less represent the trade occupying the lines of steamers between London and Boulogne, and Folkestone and Boulogne, but there are other ele ments of trade at Boulogne. In 1867 the imports of coal from England were 98,818 tons. There is a large Baltic timber trade, and there were belonging to Boulogne 156 boats employed in the fisheri.s, of an aggregate tonnage of 6,635 tons. Moreover, the position of Boulogne, its facility of access, the rise of the tide, which exceeds that at Dunkirk by over three feet, and its frequent use as a port of refuse in bad weather, all combine to make a float ing dock, easily accessible, and permitting large vessels always to remain afloat, a matter of the first necessity. Until now ships have had to take the mud at low water. The basin now opened for shipping occupies a superficies of more than 17 acres, with a quay wall frontage of 3,600 ft., and a superficial quay space of over 240,000 square feet for the stowage of goods. It is of irregular shape, and about 1,300 ft. in greatest length, and 630 ft. in greatest breadth. It is excavated to a uniform depth of ' about 30ft. below high water spring tides, and is intended to contain a depth of from 20ft. to 25ft. of water. It is entered directly from the Channel between the piers of Boulogne harbour, making ingress and egress easily at all times, through a lock with two sets of gates, so con structed as to admit the largest vessels, but gene rally intended to act as a half-tide basin, and to accommodate several vessels of medium tonnage at a time. The lock, or half-tide basin, is 32ft. in length and 68ft. in breadth, with a depth over the rill of the gates of 29ft. at high water spring ties, and 23ft. at high water neap tides. It is evident, therefore, that if the harbour and external channel were sufficiently deepened, so as to be in harmony with the entrance to the dock, it would be always accessible to the largest trading vessels. But this is not the case, and the facility of entering it is measured not by its own depth, but by that of the channel leading to it over the bar of Boulogne harbour. This is stated by the most recent measurements to be about 24i ft. at high water spring tides, and 19ft. at high water neap tides. From these figures about 3ft. must be deducted for the fall of the waves, the allowance to be made for not following the exact channel and other causes ; and, finally, the maritime autho rities of Boulogne declare the harbour to be easily accessible under all circumstances to vessels draw ing 21ift. water at high water spring tides and 16ft. at high water neap tides. Consequently a vessel drawing 16 feet to 16 feet 6 inches may be sure to enter the bassin-à-fluts any day that it may present itself at the entrance of the port, and this measures at present the facilities extended to commerce and the navigation of the channel by the new dock just opened at Boulogne. As it is, vessels of this size have to wait several days before they can enter the harbour of Dunkirk if they happen to present themselves before it at neap tide, so that even at this moment the opening of the new dock at Boulogne marks an important im- provement in the facilities presented to navigation by the harbours on the north coast of France. Rails in connection with the station of the Chemin de fer du Nord run along the margin of the bassin, enabling vessels to discharge direct into the railway waggons without transshipment, and it is intended before the close of the year to provide cranes and all the most improved appliances to facilitate the loading and unloading of vessels. THE ABBEY MILLS PUMPING STATION. During the present week the vestrymen of the various districts of the metropolis have been invited by the Metropolitan Board of Works to inspect the new pumping mills at Abbey Mills, on the banks of the Thames. In order that the several boards might have a good opportunity of seeing these splendid works in operation, it was arranged that on the first four days of this week a party of the vestrymen should be asked down to the Mills. On Monday and Tuesday the members of the Eastern and Northern boards visited the new works, and yesterday the representatives of Fulham, Kensington, Paddington, Chelsea, 11IaryIebone, St. Pancras, Hampstead, and Lewis ham were present. Four steamers were chartered for the purpose, and these left Westminster-bridge at noon, calling at sonic of the intermediate piers on their way down the-river to North Woolwich. The trip ou the Thames was for the purpose of enabling those who had been invited to view the progress which has been mad) with the Thames Embankment. At North Woolwich the party, which numbered some 700 or 800, was conveyed bj special train to the Mills. A full description of these works having been given in the accmut of the formal opening of them by Sir John Tawaites last week, it is only nec,!.sSary to say that those who inspected the buildings and engines yesterday, and ou the two other days, wars greatly pleased with the admirable manner in which they have been executed. Each party has been entertained at luncheon. To-day the representatives of the Soatheru districts will visit the works, and this will complete the inspec tion. Influential members of the Board have been present each day. Mr. ChamLers, M.P., and Mr. William Newton, candidate for the Tuwer Hamlets, were present. All receive with satisfaction the announcement, that in consequence of the 11 , 3duction in Duty, Horniman s Pure Teas are sold Bd. per pound Cheaper. 2,500 Authorised Agents—Confectioners in London and Chemists, &e., in the provinces—supply Horniman's Tea only in Pclckcts. THE MALTA AND ALEXANDRIA. CAB; (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) MALTA, August 3. This telegraph cable was repaired yesterday afternoon, and the communication is now re established. PROGRAMME OF LEWES AUGUST MEETING. • FRIDAY, Aug. 7. The Queen's Plate of 103 gs. ; three year olds Bst 51b, four 9st 71b, five and upwards 95 1 .. 12:b. Two mites. A Sweepstakes of 5 .ova each, with 50 aided, for two and three year olds ; two year olds 71b, three 9st 91b ; mares and geldings allowed 31b. Half a mile. The Borough Members' Plato of 50 sous; two year olds ist, three Bst 71b, four 9st 71b, five and upwards 9st I.olb. T.Y.C. The Castle Plate of 50 socs ; two year olds 6st 71b, three Bst 91b, four 9.,t 191 b, five and upwards 9st 121 b ; mares and geldings allowed 31b. One mile. The Priory Stakes of 15 SOWS each, 5 ft, with 100 added, for two par olds; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b; winners of 100 sovs, 31b, of two such stakes or of 500 at any one time 71b extra ; maidens which have sun three times allowed 51b; the second to save his stake ; T.Y.O. (about 5 fur); 3G subs. 1? by Plum Pudding out of Lozenge's dam, The Lad of Scotland, Clifford, Saraband, Van Tromp, br o by Vedette out of Blanca Capella, Queen Esther, The Baroness, Cicada, Achilles, Master Whiffl,r, ch f Yellow Rose, Pladda, Festive, Benefactor, Blairbuie, Consul, Amazene, Melody, Martyrdom, Sovereign, 'Tambour, Shoebury, Ca radoc, Antics, Glen Stuart, Lady Par, Chilliauwallah, Elector, Messenger, Ethu4, Border Knight, Envelope, Musk, Nanny Thormanby, Night Hag. The De Warrenne Handicap of 10 soya each, h ft, and / only (to the fund) if declared by two p.m. on Aug 4 with 100 added; any winner aftar July 29 (at 5 p.m.) 71b ex tra. T.Y.C. (about 5 fur). Age st lb, 4 8 121 Ago st lb ... 4 7 5 Bombastes Tibthorpo Leonie ... Indian Star ... 4 8 10 ...3 810 ... b 8 b Freemason Reindeer ... Foresight Kettle holder Carlotta Hermitage ... Vestminster Lionel Witless ... A 7 5 -.4 7 3 ...3 7 1 ...2 7 / ...3 612 ...2 6 9 ...3 6 5 6 5 Python ... Victress ... ...4 8 5 ...4 8 3 Wolsey ... Lily ... Problem ... ... 5 8 1 ...3 712 ... 4 7 17 Haymaker ....3 7 0 A Ikurs3ry Handicap Plata of 100 sovs for two year olds; the winner to be sold for 100 toys (about 5 furlongs). The Welter Cup (Handicap), value 70 sous, by subscrip tion of 5 save each, 2 it (to the fund), with 50 ad led ; gentleman riders ; one mile and a half ; 26 subs. Purveyor 3 yrs, Chippenham 5, Cannon Ball 4, Alder shot 3, Silonus 4, Chiron 3, Dunrobin 4, Catiliva 4, Rabbit Trap 4, Miss Gladiateur 3, Anthony 8, Leases 4, Z6ioo aged, Chivalry 3, Toy 3, Venom 4, Pevansey 4, Shamrock 3, Sweet Boy 4, Miss Gratwicka 3, Merry Andrew 3, Maesllwch 3, Violent 5, Vortigern 3, Ambi tions 4, Makeshift colt 3. SATLSD.iY• The Town Plate (Handicap) of 50 sovs ; half a mile. A Scurry Handicap of 10 Boys each, h ft; gentlemen riders ; others 71b extra ; T.Y.C. The Juvenile Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 40 added, for two year olds ; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b ; T.Y.C. A I'l6o of 50 sovs; two year olds Gst 41b, three Bst 101 b, four 9st 121 b, five and upwards lOst 21b ; mares and geldings allowed 31b ; ona mile and a half. The Sussex Stakes of 25 SJVS each, 10 ft, for two year olds; colts, Bst 181 b; fillies, Bst 71b. Uutdeds allowed 31b, bo:h 61b. T.Y.O. Oandidat:., Quell Esther (31b), Glentilt (31b), Nutbreaker, Lure, Border Knight (31b), Pa.-twain; ityah worth, Stronghold, Tne Maze (31o), Lyttlauu (El b) (31b). The County Cup, value 200 says, by steaseriptieu of 20 sovs each, h ft., with 100 added ; two year olds 7st, three Bst 91b, four Ost 41b, five and upwards 9st 71b; mares awl gel lings allowed 31b; any previous whaler of 200 SJVS 51b, of 500 sovs at any one time 101 b extra ; maiden two years allowed 31b, three 71b, four and up wards 141 b. T.Y.O. 11 subs. King Victor 4 yrs, Acaster 2, Vestminster 2, Leonie 3, Abstinence 2, Sampson 3, Fleetwing 2, Lavender 2, Ri golbuche filly 2, Saladin 2, Wulsey 5. The Railway Nursery.Srakes (handicap) of 10 soya each, 5 ft, with 50 added. T.Y.C. Pontus, Soffinka, King Richard, Lure, Lady Dar, Chris tine, Whichilsea, Minster Chimes, Lyttlotou, Louise, Al bania, Lampoon, Crown Princess, Scout, Antias, Troy, Trade Wind, Prince Paul, Baroness, Saladin, The Rajah, Vestmiuster, c by Kettledrum —lmparatrice, Kellogg, c by Master Feuton—Chaperone, Arlington, Islam, R ittletray, Po►npsii, Rosecleer. The Lewes Grand Handicap of 15 sovs each, 10 ft, and 3 only (to tho fund) if declared by two p.m. on Aug. 4, with 200 added ; winners of a handicap value 200 soya after July 29 (at five p.m.) 71b, of two such stakes or of 500 soya at any one time 101 b extra; the winner of the Goodwood Cup 101 b, and the second iu that race 51b extra, any other winner 31b extra ; the so.cond to receive 25 soya out of the stakes; two miles. Age st lb Mandrake ... 4 8 12 Dal by 8 7 Romping Girl 4 8 1 Irish Queen f 4 8 1 Python ... 4 7 7 Emigration ... i 7 5 Bandmaster ... 4 7 1 Birdseeler ... 3 7 0 Lord Paliwrston ... 3 6 11 Age et lb Thorndyke 3 6 11) Vixen g ... 4 6 9 Aiusley ... 4 6 9 Cecil ... 3 6 9 leap 6 7 Vortigera 3 6 5 Choral ... 3 6 5 Lady Blanche f ... 3 6 3 RACllsai FIXTURES FOR 1868. AUGUST. Wolverhampton ll I Dover Stockton Plymouth Windsor August l3 Great Yarmouth Eghtun l7 Darby Summer Hastings York August Oxford Bridgewater and West Tunbridge I Somerset .. 2O Margate 3l SEPTEMBER. Baden Warwick September ... 1 Monmouth ..... l7 Abingdon 3 Manchester I Leicester Doncaster September 8 Walsall I Brecon l4 Edinburgh Richmond Hampton Autumn l5 Royal Caledonian Hunt Kelso 1 and Western M OCTOBER. Bedford 1 I Sudbury and Ealing ... 15 Bromley Autumn Newmarket 2d October 5 I Harrow Lanark ... 8 I Worcester Autumn 27 Chelmsford Autumn ... 13 j Lincoln Autumn 2 Cheltenham l3 I NOVEMBER. Liverpool 3 I Leamington l7 Shrewsbury 9 STEEPLECHASES. OCTOBER. Bromley 1 Ealing DECEMBER. St. Albans Ki ng sb u ry 8 The Price of Gold. The quotation of gold at Paris is about at par, and the short exchange on London is 2&t. 120. per £1 sterling On eaniparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3 104 d. per ()muse for standard gold, it appears that gold is nearly 2-10ths per cent. dearer in Paris than in Lon don. The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight was on the last date about liol per cent. At this rate there is a profit on the importation •f gold from the United z_states. Ax ORANGE RIOT.--The old houses were supplied on every story with long iron balconies, and upon one of these wo took up our position. From the point at which we stood, we could sweep with our oyes the whole street, terminating iu a square at either end ; and here it was we saw the Carnival at Nantes in all its glory, under a storm of oranges, which came from right and left of us. Orange women, with huge basketsful of their popular stock, were pressing to and fro in the throng, selling their oranges by the dozen at a time, while the air was thick with the too juicy fruit as it sped to and from the balco • vies. It was an equal warfare between man and man ; the strongest arm and truest eye were sure of the victory. Oa the balconies on either side of the street might be seen groups of jauntily dressed gentlemen, each with his stock of oranges ; and when any peculiarly amusing masquers passed in the line of vehicles, these would open the battle by pouring down on them fruity hail. Then would ensue a most vigorous retort, the carriage of the attacked party stopping and delaying the whole procession until they had " had it out." Now, the ridi culJusly long proboscis of some Carnival Achilles is whisked off and sent flying yards away ; now, a monkish beard is shaven close and clean, and its loosened hairs fall in a shower over the people round about. Some times the combatants, with their stubborn Celtic blood, are goaded to a momentary warmth on either side; then the oranges fly thick and fast and at haphazard, and are thrown, in the blindness of sudden choler furiously into the crowd at large ; where, mayhap, they yield their fragrance on the person of an unotTentfing priest, as in long gown and broad-brimmed hat he hastens nervously along ; or attack sums pompous old coach man, in wig and livery, who, as ho is soberly con ducting his master's carriage through the throng, receives an orange plump in the eye, or, More he knows it, finds his gold-banded hat missing from its horsehair pinnacle. But these orange battles were not confined to manly com batants; there were AutazJnian jousts, which threw the others far into the sh ide. Now and then a squad of gen darmes would rush in upon a party of combatants, and wall loud voices and much g_ , sticulation seek to end the fray—fur this orange pelting is against the law—but then the opponents of those thus interfered with would pour down a resistless volley upon the agents of order, who would thereon ignominiously retreat. No one was safe from the juicy missiles, which fled to and fro as far as the eye could see on either side ; and the screaming, and laughing, and howling, and " sacrre-bleu"-ing could be heard echoing everywhere through the narrow streets of the usually drowsy old . town.- Dickens's "All the Year , Round." ihare 100 Ai 57i 1031 1081 1 7a 8 l(7) 105}