The Sun. — London, England, 1868-02-26 00:00:00

3 tte, In 'hilip ;st of cli f the e the most or" to .t tho with no no ro to 0 bend le felt lie hair, ought ;liould •n and of his -I can nirror, which ' coa t, awl ) ;self better, n yon• liately ondon ere b° out of aid, lrge os Jedd• [OVITS 5 return n g the he 6 11- 1 end' w hole Nano/ Cher' Is 130i' :0 tllO ElOev er h pro ounds' iso by illy the )sPeci irustaVe this :8-- Cb3 l I oilier oduce— d ;Oh Icst exa►nple as that feeble and inane nonentity Georgy Halliday, the mother of Charlotte, and who, after poor Tom Halliday has been murdered by Philip Sheldon, the hardzup surgeon-dentist, marries the wretch who has made her a widow to that very end ! Namely, that she should marry him and bring with her to him poor Tom Halliday's money, amounting to some sixteen or eighteen thousand pounds. Pos sessed of which sum, Philip Sheldon leaves the forceps to take up with the sharelist in his newly assumed capacity as a stockbroker. For a time the ill-gotten goods prosper but only for a time, and it is when the darkness of ruin is closing around him, that he endeavours to accomplish, and in effect, as we have said, all but accomplishes the most diabolical of all his crimes, the poisoning of his step daughter Charlotte, whose will in his wife's (her mother's) favour he has secured, and whose life he has contrived to ensure for some ten thousand P)uuds. How all these materials arc worked to gether into a novel of extraordinary interest, and the suspense awakened in the reader's mind by Which is often nothing less than enthralling, we leave Miss Braddon's work itself to d emonstrate. Enough for us—rather than at tempt here any matter of fact scanning of the gradual entangling, and the still more gradual d isentangling of the plot—enough for us if we direct the intending readers of Miss Braddon's new fiction to its pages, as to a story worthy of the hand to which we are already indebted for such ab sorbing tales of glamour and romance, as 40 Seen Him Once," or rather, we should say, as " Lady A thileY's Secret," as " Aurora Floyd," as " The Doctor's Wife," and as " Henry Dunbar"—a li s t t° Which may now be added, in deserved sequence, " Birds of Prey" and " Charlotte's Inheritance." • Cittlll4Y-T. HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Feb. 25. , 14 eQueen drove out this morning, accompanied by Prince Leopold. Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales drove out attended by the Countess De Grey. The Prince of Wales, attended by Lieut.-Col. „_lePpel, left M ar lb oroug h House on a visit to the Duke and ucli3 is of 133Aufort at B Lthninton. LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day, COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn.) BASER AND CHILDREN V. THE LONDON AND SOUTH- WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. This was an action brought by Mrs. Baker to recover damages against the London and South- Western Railway Company for the death of her husband and children's father, Mr. Richard Baker, resulting from an injury he had sustained in con-- Sequence of the alleged negligence of the company's guard in shutting the door of the carriage with Violence, by which one of the deceased's fingers be came jambed and lacerated. • • The defendant pleaded . not guilty, and a special plea that the deceased in his lifetime. agreed to ac cept £75 in full satisfaction of all claims upon the comp any. To that plea the plaintiffs replied• that the de ceased was induced to accept that sum by the pres sure and misrepresentation of the defendants' agents relative to his recovery. • Ur. Hawkins, Q.C., and the Hon. Mr. Tkesiger appeared as counsel for the plaintiffs ; Mr. Sergeant ilallantine, Mr. Giffard, Q.C., and Mr. Wood were counsel fur the defendants. The jury ga ve th e sum o f £2,300, t o be appor tioned between the widow and children. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. SINCLAIR V. LORD REDESDALE-LIBEL. This was an action instituted for certain libellous . imputations that had been thrown upon the cha racter of the plaintiff, who occupied the position of C hief engineer of the Great Eastern Railway, in a c orrespondence in which the noble lord had taken Dart. On the case being called on Mr. Huddleston said, ° II the part of the noble lord, he was quite prepared ° tender an apology to the plaintiff, which having , s n eell accepted, a verdict was taken fol Sinclair. amages, 40s. COURT OF DIVORCE. (Before the Right Hon. Sir J. P. Wilde and a Common Jury.) CHAPMAN V. CHAPMAN. This was a suit i ns tit u ted by th e w if e t o o bt a i n a Judicial separation, on the ground of the construc tive cruelty of the husband. tor. Spinks, Q.C., and Mr. Searle appeared for for ; and Dr. Swabey and Mr. Pritchard zor the defendant. hearing of this case took place on Sa turday, when it will be remembered that the Petitioner is the wife of a stonemason re alchng in Brighton, and that she alleged that through 418 violent temper she was continually in dread of h ome violent act being perpetrated by him towards f er • The 18th May, 1866,was the occasion on which last rupture occurred. On that day th e p e t i L ueer had been to a doctor for his advice, and had Bu , Wu him her knee. This excited his jealousy, lull -lough her sister had accompanied her and been present, and he was so violent that his wife went Ilext day to a lawyer, and afterwards went to her mother's house, and returned no more to the re ePpudent. This morning the respondent was examined, Whet he stated that his wife was of a bad temper. lie had not struck her at all, although he had con sented to be bound over to keep the peace. He had said that he was angry with her for showi ng her knee to the doctor, but he did no t ca ll her a common woman. On the day she W ent away she appeared to be on friendly terms "ith him, and it was agreed that she take lodgings la the country, and go and stay there for a few W 2 e ks• He had never ill-used the children. Ile flight have boxed Richard's ears, and said he would kill him, but, of course, he did not mean it. He did not driv e M ar th a away b y hi s v i o l ence, an d h e ' l 'd not remember his mother saying that he had. , I e Was then cross-examined by Dr. Spinks, but his ‘ e4/ti rnony was not much shaken. The ease was proceeding when we went to press, D- - _ "11. 4j ,,, °44 • By JULIA KAVANAGH, Author of C. 3 Vole.-.." This very charming, cleverly written. 4 ,, a ' ti i .,.. titeresting story pleases us best of all Miss Kavanagh's pro lit, 8 . She has already made her name and position in the ttr-eratil 'world, and Dora' should . considerably add to and 6 `uen. it. A more interesting heroine it is not possible to I th e g l i lle• We are certain every person who follows Dora through th e - , 3 7 t01 3 ,- of her trials and troubles, and sees how she bears fak e -. . t , tu 'ling every dull thing into good with her bright, happy her.o.,,,;(lban:arvuenre.rs, will feel better for knowing someth in g of j os . '" cLE S I ASTIC A.L AP P 0 I NTME NT . —Sir Robert theer Paillirnore has resigned the office of Chancellor of ap n ,, ; c 'efese of Oxford, and the Bishop of Worcester has 11 1 ; 3 -11t cl Mr. Maurice Charles Merttins Swaboy, D.C.L., PRESENTS to Sir Robert. p oe TO SUIT EVERY PURPOSE, TASTE, AND cia t . AT PARKINS AN]) GOTTO'S.—Photographic Albums ea 2Lee of 3,000 ; d espa t c h boxes, writing cases, dressing "'"e) tra. sta miL A -cuing bags, envelope cases, blotting books, ink bags " B kS, book slides, work boxes, tea caddies, hand 4.,;;511d reticules, card cases, purses, stationery cabinets, ease" bottles, albums for postage stamps, crests, ice.; cigar mou nts ard baskets, pocket books, electro-gilt and elegantly vice ed articles. Bibles, Prayer-books, and Church Ser. s, ceet . " every type. Parkins and Gotto, 25, Oxford• kid Thousands of the above articles, all perfeotly new fresh, consequent up' t a rapid sale.—(Aprr.) LAD <Low ni VEIt TISEMENT.] —Holloway's Pills.—lndigestion. 0 45 v tteh th ought has been bestowed, and what ponder- Whi ch n lrn ee written u p on thi s pl ague of every household, Durif.lB safely a n d cer t a i n l y di sperse d b y a course o f this 14 1)se Y El! soothing, and tonic medicine, without fear of re more h i p ,. acts directly on the stomach, liver, and bowels, 11,,,erve8. vessels, and glands, and so commands order es ell g- , ent the entire system, that harmony dwells between full h °l :gan and its offunctions ' Dyspepsia can now no longer e "egbear the public since Holloway's Pills are cas4l,3petent to subdue the most chronic and distressing I , B uffer e ° : inVaired digestion, and to restore the miserable - ("rof,„: to health, stterigth, and cheerfulness. Sold at end C c ir Eitablishment, New Oxford-street, Wo r i t e r all medicine vendors throughout the civilised MONET MARKET AND JOMMEROIAL INTELLIGENCE, CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. Inc fortnightly settlement commenced this morn ing, and is almost the only feature of interest. The accounts do not appear to be heavy, and the scarcity of /took is less than for some time past. As a proof of this, the backwardations current are few and very light, with a tendency to still further decline. Metro politan opened with backwardation ;it is now less than i t . The Funds are firm, and otherwise the markets are steady. • _ Discounts are in moderate request at lb to 11 per Gonsois are steady at yesterday's prices, 93 to 93* for money and account ; New and Reduced Three per . Cents., 9 . 4 003;4 ; India Five per Cents., 112 to 1121 ; Bank Stock, 24] to 251 ; India Five per Cents. 112 to 1124- ; Exchequer Bills, 12s to 17s prem. In Foreign Stocks Mexican, Greek, and Brazilian are firmer, and New Spanish are • flat. The prices are :—Mexican, 154- to .16*- . ; Greek, 121 to 13 ; New Spanish, 36 to 36k; Italian, (1861), 454 to 45. ; Portngnese, 391- to 40 ; Egyptian (18($4), 86 to BTh ; Viceroy's 7 per Cents., 732 to 741 ; and the 9 per Cents., 881 to 89. In American Securities United States' Five-Twenty Bonds arc steady at 71fr to 71:2 ; Eric Railroad is better, at 44 to 45, while Illinois have fallen at 87 to 88i. atilways are quiet, but steady. great Eastern and Midland are a shade firmer, but Great Northern, Great Western, Brighton, Chatham, and Metro politan aro a point lower. The quotations now current are :—Lancashire and • Yorkshire, 1281 to 129 ; Midland, 118 to 1181 ; South Eastern, 731 to 741 ; London and North Western, 1191 to 1191 ; Great Northern, 107 to 108 ; ditto A, 108 to 109 ; Great Eastern, 30 to 30-i ; Great Western, 45/ to 461 ; Brighton, 46 to 46:5 ; Shef field, 41A- to 42 ; Chatham, 18i to 19 ; Metropolitan, 114 to 113 ; and Caledonian, 85 to 85i. Bank shares are quiet. London and County are lower, at 52 to 53 ex div. ; and Union of London at 33i to 3411 ; Alliance,- 13i to 12k dis. ; Con solidaied, # prom. ex div.; London and West minster,_67i to 68i. • Miscellaneous securities are in little or no request, and prices generally are unaltered. Hudson's Bay is quoted at 14k to 14 ; London Gcnerb I-Omnibus, l to 21- - ; Anglo-American - Telegraph, 13i - to 191-. ex div.; Atlantic Telegraph Eight per Cents., 5 1-16 to 5 3-16. - The Board of Trade returns for the month and year ending the 31st December last were issued this morning. The exports of British and Irish produce and manufactures for December amounted to £13,252,593, comparing with £14,914,5611 in the same month of the previous yeiv, being a reduction of no less than £1,661,970. For the year 1867 the exports wore £181,183,971, agliinet £ 18 8,917,5203 in 1866, and £165,835,7.25, in 1865. So that we sold to foreign countries last vicar £7,733,565 less than in 1866. The real value of the imports is only brought down to November. The total for that mouth was £15,514,473, comparing with £17,841,738 for the same mon th i n 1866, and £19,010,403 in 1865. The quantities in bond at the end of the year showed a decrease as regards tea, tobacco, wine, sugar, and spirits, and an increase as regards cocoa, coffee, and fruit. Messrs. Simon and Abraham Oppenbeim, beads of the banEino. firm of Messrs. S. Oppenheim, jun., and Co., at' Cologne and elsewhere, have be en created hereditary barons of the Piussmn kingdom. This is the first example of gentlemen of th e Jewish persuasion having been raised to this diwiity in Prussia. The majority of the creditors of Overend, Giurney, and Co. have assented to the resolution pas;:ed at the meeting on the 3d inst. in reference to the acceptance of balance of claims in 4 per cent. pro missory notes, payable in six, twelve, and eighteen months. The harvest in California is promising an ini niense yield, and considerable anxiety is already being exhibited at the probable insufficiency in ton nage. There were no bullion operations at the . Bank Yesterday. The exchanges were much the samo, The Weser left Southampton for New York yester day with £30,000 in gold coin. The failure is announced of Messrs. Smith Barry, and Co., East Indi a merc h an t s , o f Lead en h a ll- street, Southampton, and Calcutta. The liabilities are esti mated at .C 60,000, and the assets here and in India are expected to realise 20s in the pound. The with drawal of capital on account of a deceased partner, mid excessive shipments last year are said to be the cause of the failure. The books are in the hands of 'Messrs. C. P. Kemp,. Cannon, Ford, and Co. Mr. George Mule Gray, the chief accountant of the Bank of England, entered upon the sixty-first year of his service yesterday. Some of, his colleagues took advantage of the occasion to present hint with a hand some silver epergne, in testimony of their personal respect for him. the following is Mr. Sam Menders weekly circular, Gated Manchester, Fob. 25 :—"Durinfr the latter part of the week just chred this mail 't assumed a quieter and somewhat irregular tone. This morning the depression had increased, but since noon there•is a better feeling with transactions on a free scale, chiefly re-sales at about five per cent. below producers prices, and on these terms such lots are rather pressed forward. The general tone of the market both for yarns and goods is fairly steady, and at the close of business the feeling is rather inclined to firmness." The following is an extract from Messrs. Layton and Co.'s tea circular : " The improved demand reported in our circular of the Bth inst. continued with more than ordinary excitement during the early part of the past fortnight, and a large business was done in the common to medium kinds of black tea at full to advancing prices ; recently, hoe ever, the market has assumed a less buoyant character, and at the close the home trade buy more sparingly at the higher limits required by importers. The demand for fine Monings for the Russian market has been renewed to some extent, about 3,000 chests having changed hands at from is lid to 2s 3d per lb. Fine Kaisows continue firm, but sales have been mostly effected in the useful qualities of third crop tea at from is 5d to is 7d per lb. Foochow dust and Fannings maintain the late advance. New district Congons from Canton, chiefly in boxes, have met a fair sale at quotations; those of old import, in half-chests, realized is 21d to is 3d per lb. Scented teas show no material alteration in prices ; large transactions have taken place in Canton Capers and Orange Pekoes, but Foochow qualities, except the finest, are difficult of sale and rather cheaper. The demand for green teas has been quiet, and further parcels of Ping Suey have found buyers at easier rates." The receipts of the Great Luxemburg Railway Company for the week ending the 23d inst. amount to £5,808 lOs ld ; being an increase of £707 15s 2d. To date the increase this year is no less than £2,596 16s 7d, the mileage being the same. The traffic receipts of the Illinois Railroad for darmary amounted to 1103,971 ; being £28,117 less than for the corresponding period of last year. The Grand Trunk Railw a y rece ipt s f or th e wee k ending the Bth instant amounted to £22,917, being an increase of £250. BRITISH FUNDS —TWO O'CLOCK. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 8 per ()enc. Consols Do. Account, March 5 3 per Cent. Reduced 93 Now 3 per Cent 93i New 2} per Cent. Jan. 1894 Do. 5 per Cont. Jan. 1873.. Annuities, 80 yrs, expire sth Jan. ' 188(. Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 — Do (Red Sea Tele6raph), Au 1908 — Exchequer Bills, £l,oot, 2 per Ce. Do £5OO — pm Do. £lOO & .£'2oo Bank of England Stock, 4/ per Cent — Do. Account INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. India Stock, 104 per Cent., April 1874 Do. Account - Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880 Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 Do. Certificates Do. Enlaced Paper 4 per Cent B7f Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 Do. 5f per Cent., May 1879 loB} Do 5 per Cent., Rap. Deb., 1872 — Do. do. 1877 — Do. do. 1882 lo3f Do. Deb., 5 per Cont., Aug. 1873 — Do. Bonds, 5 per Cont., £l,OOO Do. under £l,000 FOINION FUNDS—TWO CLOCK. Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent Au3trian Bonds, 5 per Cent,. 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent — Do. 4i per Cent., 1852 — Do. do., 1858....• — Do. do., 18•36 — Do. do., 1863 64} 5 Do. 5 per Cent., 1865 .. 74 i Do Account — Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) Cuba, 6 per Cent. C...ilian 6 per Cent — Do. 4f per Cent — Do. 6 per Cent., B • Do., 1867 Do., 7 per ,Cent., 1866 *— Do., Scrip £32 paid C )1, mbian, 6 per Cont. Danisn, 3 per Cent., 1825 Dmubian Principalities, 7 per Cent 7O Do 8 per Cent., 1867 — Equador Now ConLolidated, 1 per Cent — egyptian, 7 per Cent — ' Do. Second Issue — Do. £5OO Bonds Do. £IOC Bonds — Do. 1864 Do. £540 Bondp B7l Do. £lOO Bonds ~... 88-1 Government Railway Debentures .... 90f I Greek, 5 per Cont., 1824-5, ox Coups — Do. Account •.. - Dv. Coupono m .... THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 26, 1868, Do. Account Guatemala 5 per Cent .. — Honduras Gov. Rail. Loan., 10p. Ct., .£25 p Italian 5 per Cent., 1865 — Do, Account Do. Maremmana Raiway — Mexican 3 per Cent ... Ditto for Account Do. 1864 — Do 6 per Cont. Anglo-French Montevideau 6 per Cent. - .. — Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent Now Granada Do 3 per Ceni, Do. Deferred Do Land Warrants (Hectares) reravian 5 per Cent. 1865 Do Account — Do 4i per Cent. (Uribarren) Do 44 per Cent., 1862 Do Account Portuguese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, '7, '9,'60,'2,'8 391 Do. do., 1q67 ...39 Do. do., Scrip, £lO paid 4 pin R:lSSittu 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St B7 Do 4.1 per Cont. 1850 Do 4i per Cent., 1860 Do 3 per Cent., 1859 Do 5 per Cent., 1862 Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1861, £lOO Bonds — Do. do. £B4 15s. do. Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds... Do. do. £B4 15s. do — Sardinian, 5 per Cent — Spanish 3 por Cen . — Do Acc , ,unt , — Do New Deferroa — Tu kish 6 por Cent. 844 Do Account - Do 6 per Cent. 1858 .. 634 3 Do Account Do £lOO Bonds Do 6 per Cent., 1862 6l Do Account Do £lOO Bonds 63} 3 Do. 1863 — Do 5 per Cent., 1865 321 3 D.) Account Do 6 per Cent., 1865 531 4} Do 1 por Cent., Guaranteed -- -. Venezuela, 3 per Cent. Do 6 per Cont., 1862 Do 6 per Cent. 1864 .— Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates .... Dividends on the above payable in Londos. French Routes, 3 per Cent.. Ez. 2M. Austrtsa o per Cent. Ex 10 Florins Belgian, 4} per cent., Ex. 25f. Dutch 2* per Cent. Ex. 12 Gail — Do Account Italian 5 per Cent. 1851, Ex. 25f. — Do. Account - g.'WL) O'CLOCK. Consols, Money 931 I Do. Account, March .. 93-1 .1. SHARE LlST.—This Day. ORDINARY 611A - IiES AND STOCKS. Share) Railways. Paid. , Closing L Bu a e o l n n e e . as at Bristol ana Exeter .... ion 85 st Lialedonian 4OO 85 1 86 1 8 5 1 at Ja.rnbrian .•••• ;100 20 30 - Cork and Bandon...-. 20 bornwall all 3 at Dublin & Belfast June l OO 75 7 7 at Dun„Perth,&Ab.Juno lOO 7 0 72 100 ((.London, scrip Cent all - - Do. 100 - - d at Glasgow &S. Western 100 114 105 t Great Eastern, Ord.stk. 100 3 0 31 2 9 3 at Do. E. Angi. at. No. 2 100 01 71 at tircat North of Sootlant 100 1 5 . 0 at Great Northern.. ..... . 100 107 108 1081 73 at Do. A stock .. 100 109 110 109 at Do. B stock NO 124 128 at Do. ew, is. at 25 pip 10, - - et GtS. and W. of Irelatia 100 06, 93 61 GL Westem -Origins' , Ik,o 45! 16 16 53 it Du. t. DS . S S ° . I'l i t 04-5 4-7 Do. W. Mid.-Oxter , 1(0 25 st Do. Newport No 27 2) at Do. Hereford lOO - - st Lancashire& Yorkshiri, 100 ;28 128.1 129 1 •st London and Blackwali lop - - st Lon., ltrigll., c S Coast 100 40 161 461 I at l•on., Chat., and Dove, 10u 19 19, at Do. Metrop. Ex. A,. wo 12 15 at Lon. & North Wester,. 100 116; )121. Mg st. Lon. & South Westeri, 100 85 87 i 86 1 5 at Sian., She(., & Lincoln jou 42 itl et tietropolitan.. . - iIO4 10 at Do. New lO - Do. Exten6ion a ll 1)4 105 1053 at A4trupolitan District a ll - 201 Do. do. do, t 0 - - to Do. and St. John's Iti 'a 6 - - at llidland - Do. X') Share 7 - st Da, liirmin.. & Derh; 100 76 , d -rtid Kent .. . too - - at North British at Do. Ed., Pth., & Dun. 100 - - • st Nth. Eastern-Berwiel. 100 105 107 104 25 Do. G.N•E purchas, 16.13.4 - st Do. Leeds ..... 100 G 3 64 st Do.. York lOO 98 100 et Do. Carlisle . . .... ico 1 30 134 st Do. Stook. & Darling. all 134 136 131 35 Do. do. 1860-01 lB - P at North London et Do. do. 1864 5 - Do. do. 1866 10 North Sta ff ordshire too 56 18 st N. &S. W. Junction all 10" 111 t Scottish Central - - Scot. N. E , Aber. stock 100 - - Do. Soot, Mid. stock lot- Shropshire Union st South Devon lOO 43 45 st South Eastern 20 Staines, Wok., 22 Wok all 9 to at Waft Vale lOO 146 /60 10 Do. C - Dale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny I.ou 10 Waterloo & Whitehu 1 6 - West Corawa" - CREfIINAL COUR F.—This lay. OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Baron Bramwell.) THE ATTEMPTED MURDER BY A LUNATIC. James Needell was placed at the bar, charged with shooting a man named Thomas Chattertou. It was intimated to the Court that the prisoner was not in a position to plead. He was put back in order that a preliminary examination of the state of his mini might be made. THE DISCOVERY OF MR. SPLICE. We are now in possession of what we have every reason to believe is the correct history of the disappearance of the Rev. Mr. Speke, the manner in which he has disposed of himself since the night on which he was last seen in London, and his discovery under the extraordinary cir cumstances already briefly announced. With reference to the latter the Western Morning News says that a week or two ago a Mr. H. Ayre absconded from Hull with a large sum of money, and the police being in. possession of his photograph, copies of it were forwarded throughout England. One of these on Wednesday last reached Police sergeant Soady, of the Cornwall county constabulary, stationed at the port of Padstow, on the north coast Li Cornwall. Two days afterwards his attention was attracted by a man who had taken lodgings in the town, wearing the dress of, and professing to be, a cattle drover. Many cattle being shipped to Padstow, possibly the man was expecting to get on board some vessel in pursuit of his alleged occupation. Soady went to the stranger's lodgings and conversed with him, and on comparing his features with the photograph of Ayre was so impressed with the resemblance, that he sent for his superior officer—lnspector Opie, of Wadebridge—who went to Padstow on the following day (Saturday), and the result of their consultation was that the stranger was taken into custody. The ideas of the police officers were corroborated by finding on their prisoner a considerable amount of money, and they at once took him before Mr. IL P. Raveling, a county magistrate, who remanded him for three daps on suspicion of being the man absconded from Hull. Mean while the authorities at Bodmin, the county town, were communicated with, and the deputy chief constable, Mr. Vincent, with Mr. Barnes, superintendent of the Bodmin police, proceeded to Padstow. After a careful examination of the prisoner, the officers became satisfied that they had not secured the man Ayre, but being im pressed with the conviction that there was some mystery worth solving about their prisoner, they waited on Mr. Rawling, who remanded the man to Bodmin. On the way thither the officers seem to have become convinced that the man was lie drover, but one who had been accustomed to the refinements of life. His gentlemanly demeanour and conversation showed that the prisoner was of a much higher grade in society than he assumed to be, and on arriving at Bodmin he was re-inspected and com pared with the description of the Rev. Benjamin Speke which appeared at the time the reverend gentleman vanished. This at once set all doubts at rest. In every particular the man corresponded with his por traiture, and after a careful observation they became unani mously satisfied that their prisoner was no other than the long-missing clergyman. His luggage was searched, and found to include several suits of clothing and other articles, enabling the possessor to assume various disguises. Some books were also found with the name "Dick Maxwell" written in them. The prisoner was then taxed with being the Rev. B. Speke, of Dowlish, and after some considerable hesitation he admitted that he was that gentleman. The chief constable at once communicated the fact to the friends of the long-lost man, one of whoin, Mr. Murdoch, forwarded the information to Sir Richard Mayne, chief commissioner of police, as our readers alrcad• knOw. On the discovery by the chief constable, Colonel Gilbert, at Bodmin, that the person arrested on suspicion of being the absconded man Ayro was the missing clergyman Speke, that gentleman was treated with every considera' tion. The Home Office and Mr. Speke's friends were telegraphed to, and on Tuesday morning Mr. W. Speke Ind Mi. Murdoch, the brother and brother-in-law of the clergyman, arrived at Bodmin by the London mail, and had an interview immediately with Colonel Gilbert and the Rev. B. Speke. Detective-sergeant Williamson, of the metropolitan force, accompanied those gentlemen, and they subsequently started for London by the first im express. The Itev. 73. Speke gives the following account of his rroceedings since leaving. London. On the night of his disappearance he went to Basingstoke, and the next day walked on to Winchester, a distance of eighteen miles. Thence he proceeded to Bishopstoke, Southampton, Gos port, and Portsmouth. He remained at Portsmouth until the 20th January, visiting during the time various places in the neighbourhood. He then proceeded by steamboat to Plymouth, where he arrived on the 30th January, making that place his headquarters till February 10. Whilst there he visited among others the following places :—Egg Buckland, Tamerton, Itoborough, Ivy bridge, Cotehele, Saltash, and St. Germans. In the latter place he attended church on Sunday, February 16. ITe proceeded next day to Fowey, a little port on the south coast of Cornwall, where he remained one night s and walked on to Lostwithiel, six miles, the next day:' On the 20th he walked another six miles to Bodmin, the county town. There he put up at the Queen's Head, a small second-rate inn, intimating his intention of remain ing there for some time. On the following day he went on to Patlstow, a distance of fifteen miles on the north coast, where be was arrested. He left hie luggage, con sisting, Of one large bag, in which, however, it afterwards appeared were several smaller bags, at the Queen's Head. _ Two hundred pounds in bank-notes and gold were fauna upon him. When brought to Bodmin he was a little e i v,eited, but talked rationally with the chief constable. He appears, however, to hold peculiar religious views. His great object in leaving home was, it seems from his own statement, to get to a country where nobody knew anything about him, that he might labour forhis living and preach the gospel to his fellow working men. He had, h e states, obtained - a greater insight into the spirit of the Bible by lonely study on the rock.s by the sea-shore, and he felt his responsibility. On being asked why be did not go abroad at once insteao •of wandering about England, he replied that it would have been of no use to attempt to do so, as he knew the telegraph would be at work and the detectives watching to stop him. He hoped by moving from place to place to tire out all search, and then, after a time, he should be able to get - away from a seaport without molestation. He had laid out a plan for future action when arrested. He intended to return to Bodmin and attend church there on Sunday, the 23rd, then to visit various points of interest on the Cornish coast, and after wards proceed to Ilfracombe, and cross over by steamboat to Swansea. He had already ascertained the times of sailing of the steamers. for Swansea, and proposed to walk through Wales to Liverpool, and there embark for A m erica. He had read the newspapers daily, but the public excite ment consequent on his disappearam;e had no effect in changing his resolution. He admitted to his brother, Inwever, that he was now ashamed of what be had done, and cried when told of the anguish felt by his friends as to fate. He was calm and composed when he left Boil min, but appeared much dejected. ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS. A special edition of the Western Morning News says :-- "The Rev. Mr. Spoke left Bodmin on Tuesday morning, in charge of his relatives, for London, to see a physician. Mr. Spoke's diary slims that ho visited the celebrated places around Southampton, Plymouth, and in Cornwall. I[e visited Portsmouth thrice. Re usumed the dress of a drover at Bodmin, and went to Padstow to inquire for a steamer for Liverpool, for the purpose of proceeding thence to America. He expresses deep regret for the anxi e ty h e has caused his friends and the public. His friends attri bute the freak to his unwillingness to marry. He is per fectly sane. The Cornish police have the reward promised Or 114 teS4CI6 discovery.". FOREIGN RAIL WAYS. Bahia and Ban Francisco, gna. 7 per .uent., 151 Dutch Rhenish, 21} Ditto, all, '4l Great Luxembourg, ok San Paulo, lim.."Lua. 6 pericent.,lB} South Austrian..and Lombardo Venetian, 151 West Flanders, 8j West Flanders, 51 per cent. pf., 9j IrOItUGN MMES. Chontales Gold and Slaver linin r u m .. 3 Don Pedro, North Del itry, St. John del Key, llm , 18 DOCKS. London and Si. Katharine, 60k Surrey Commercial, 1091 _ _ ISADIgs. Chartered Iler. of India. Lonc on, and Chi na. 2 9 } N I I n n g p e ii r s i h a . 1 S o c t o t t o c o h t , i u a !%Australian Chartered, 17,1 London and Brazilian, Urn., 12 i London Chartered Bang of A.ettraaa, 23) London Joint Stock, 331 London and South African. 10} London and Westminster, 681 Ditto, Scrip, 404 Union of London, 34i: IdISCELLANICOUS: Anglo American Telegraph, 191 Atlantic Telegraph, Ditto, 8 par cent., 104 City of Moscow Gas, lim., 9) r i e ul :m 4 . 1. 1870, issued 90, 36 E on d on G e neralOmnibua Company, um,lCtor, e 6 di per Credit roncier of hingiauti. lim.. 2 1 , 5-:6 Ge lludson's Bay, 14i Italian Irrigation (Canal CaYour), _. D earnedenDt.isßcotionndts: i d 2 16-16 Peninsuht and Oriental iteatn, ._ Dito, new, 1807. 6 1 Submarine Telegraph, Ditto, Scrip, Viceroy of Egypt (gortgage) Loan) 711 3; STAMPED it In the fiscal year end- E ingI I B V 6 S 7 P , AI3 27,863,572 E sheets or half-shoots for wh March,N newspapers published in Great Britain were impressed withstan b l y ps p a o. at the stamp-office f or secur in g f ree trans mission THE NATIONAL CHORAL SOCIETY.—This being Ash Wednesday, the usual weekly meeting of this society will not be held. LPRESENTATION. — To commemorate the sixtieth year of his service as chief accountant to the Bank of Eng land, Mr. George Earle Gray was presented yesterday with a piece of silver plate, subscribed for by 153 of his col leagues and friends, as an expression of their respect and affection for him personally, and of their appreciation of the manly, honourable, and, kindly administration of his office. BREACH OF PROMISE.—An interesting breach of promise case is about to come before the law courts, in which the plaintiff is the daughter of a retired surveyor, and the defendant a partaer in tm eminout firm of accoun tants LA the Oity. COLONIAL GWYN/MM.:NT SECURITIEs, British Columbia, 6 per cent., Deo. 31, 1572.... 1 0an.G 0v.6 p.c.Ja.d; uly 1877-84 - Do. 6 p. G. Feb. & Aug Do. 5 p. c. Mar. d& Sept , Uo. 5 p. o. Jan. & Julyl Do. 5 p. c. inscribed at Cape (I.llope, 6 p. 0.187 31 Do.Apl. &Oct .1890-1900 Do. do 1880-9, Do. Jan. &J uly, 1890-9 Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and 15 Oct., MO Celon, Nov. 1878, 6 p. Do. 1872, do. Mauritius, 6 R. 0, 1873, Jan. and July ...... Do. 1878 • ..•. .... .1 Do. 1882, Mayls, Nov. lb Do. 1895, Feb. it Ang• • Natal goy. 6 per cent.. N.8.G0v.6p.0.Ja.40 uly N. S.W. Gov. s w 0 .1866 Do. 5 p.c. 1871 to 1876 1 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1886 New Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 5 per cent.... •• • Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. C. sterling, 1875........ gueenaland Gov. 6 p. .S.Aus.Gov. Do. 1878 up w ards.. Vlo,Gov. 6 p.o.lll..tJuly Do. do. April Oot.. Bit11'18 1 : 1 r Atlautio&Bt.L&Wr ellOe Rom.,Baroda, gu. 5 per ..... Do. F shares . , ..... Buffalo do Lake jiurou Do. Preference ...... it utf.,Bran t, & Goderich 6 p.c. 1872-34•••..... Calcutta & B. E., Jape Town & Dock, gu. Demerara, 7 p.o. per. I N East Bengal, gu., 5 do East Indian, gu. 5 p.c. Do. J Extension .• ,irand Trunkof Canada Do. Equip. Mort, Bondt• 1 charge 6 p.c ...... Do. Ist Pref. Bonds.• Do. do deferred De. 2d Pref. Bonds.. Du. do. deterred .. • • Do. 3d Pref. 5t00k.... Do. do. deferred ..• • Do. 4th Fret. stock .• Do. do. deterred ..•• t. India Pen. glut. sp.c. Co. Gus. 5 percent.. Do. New pia. 5 p. o.• t. South of India gua. 5 per cent DO. 4 per cent Do Ir;reat Wee. of Canada. Do. New ... Do. 6 p.o Bea. pay. 187:: Do. 5i du. pay. 1877-8.. Madras, gua. 5 p.o .• Do. 4/ ............ Do. 41 do ........... . Do. Filth Extenstoz, Melb. Cor 6 p. c. 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Maurice Lyttleton, Florence Macarthy, and Jarries Richardson, were placed in the dock, and arraigned on a charge of traitorously endeavouring to deprive her :Alaj.,:sty of the style, honour, and name of the Imperial Crown of the United King dom ; and also with feloniously adminsterin2, : treasonable oath to take up arias in the Fenian cause to Thomas Boutelt. The prisoners pleaded not guilty, and they were then removed. CHARGE OF ATTEMPTING TO MURDER. James Clancy was indicted for shooting Police sergeant Chown and Constable Chamberlayne with intent to murder. Mr. GiffarJ, Q.C., appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Ribton defended the prisoner. It will be recollected, from the full report of the examination of the prisoner which appeared in The Sun during the first examination of the prisoner at Bow-street police court, before Sir Thomas II enry, that Chown, having some suspicion of the prisoner, he, in company with Chamberlayne, watched the house in which the prisoner resided in Sidmouth street, Grays-inn-road, on the 18th of January, and, on seeing him leave, both the officers followed him to the corner of Bedford-square, and Chown went up to him and spoke to Lim, when the priso ner drew a revolver, and, after deliberately taking aim, discharged the piece at him, and then ran away. Chamberlayne then followed him, when he again fired the pistol at him. A coachman named Hurst stopped the prisoner as he was running, but at the moment he was not enabled to secure . him. A struggle took place, when Chamberlayne came up, and whilst he was endeavouring to take the pistol from the prisoner the pistol was again discharged. This time Chamberlayne had a narrow escape, as his whiskers were singed by the fire from the pistol, and some grains of gunpowder were afterwards dis. covered in the constable's hair. The above facts having been proved in evidence, and also that he was a deserter from the 35th com- Ipany of the Royal Engineers, Mr. Ribton, in addressing the jury for the pri soner, said be presumed, after hearing the evidence that had been adduced—the charge against the pri soner being that of shooting,with intent tomurder— they would be of opinion that it had altogether failed to prove the case, but if they were of opinion that the prisoner fired the pistol in resisting his lawful apprehension there could be no doubt about that, and he could not struggle against a conviction. He could not sit down without making a few observations, and he might, in the first instance, ask them whether they reasonably believed that there was a settled convic tion in the mind of the prisoner to murder Chown, because if they were not of that opinion they could not find him guilty of the first indictment. There was also an entire absence of all motive for his attempting to murder Chown ; anl with regard to the prisoner carrying a revolver with him, the prisoner was the only person who could give a satisfactory account. The present were very troublous times, and it might be that he carried it for his own protection, and from the fact that he saw the two constables in plain clothes watching him, he might have thought that they were intent upon doing him some personal injury, and therefore he fired the pistol for the purpose of preventing him following him any further. Had the prisoner hit the constable, that, as the learned Judge would tell them, was murder, but if they had not a settled conviction that he had a decided intention of carry ing out a design which he had in his mind of killing Chown when he discharged the pistol they couli not find him guilty of murder. The shot fired at Chamberlayne he (Mr. Rib ton) also urged upon them, was fired with the same intention of deterring him from following him any further. With regard to the third shot there appeared to be much doubt. Hurst, one of the witnesses, said it was fired at him ; whilst another witness, Davis, said he was present at the time, and he saw the pistol, and the barrel of the weapon was then pointing in the air, so the fair inference was that the pistolhad gone off by accident, and not by design. Chamberlayne himself said he caught hold of the revolver and then it went off, so taking that with the account given by Davis it perfectly coin cided. He did not think it would be safe for the jury to speculate as to the motive which induced the prisoner to carry the revolver, but he hoped, under the circumstances, they would take a merciful view of the transaction and find the prisoner guilty of the second indictment. The learned Judge said the prisoner was now before the jury charged with shooting at Chown only, and that they were only now inquiring into his case. The indictment against him was that he intended to kill the constable, and also with resist ing his lawful apprehension, and it remained for them to say of which of those charges he was guilty and under the present law they could not find the prisoner guilty of the attempt to murder without they were sure that the intent to do so was present in his mind when the pistol was discharged. It was quite clear that the learned counsel could not struggle against a conviction for the minor offence, but that matter did not rest with the judge or the counsel—it was entirely a question for the jury. That was the law of the land. There was no doubt that the prisoner was a deserter from the Royal Engineers, and there was also no doubt that the prisoner fired at the officer after they had told him they were about to take him into custody for being a deserter, and they must judge what his purpose was when he commit ted the act. The jury returned a verdict of guilty of shooting at Chown, and with resisting his lawful apprehen sion. Baron Bramwell said the jury having found the prisoner guilty, it became his duty to pass upon him the sentence of the law, and not of his. The law said that a person committing such an offence as that of which the prisoner had been found guilty should be liable to penal servitude for life. The jury had not found the prisoner guilty of shooting with intent to murder, but the case was as bad a one as could well be, and the Legislature had told him (the learned Judge) what to do, and h e therefore sentenced him to penal servitude for life. The learned Judge directed a reward of £lO to be paid to each of the two constables, Chown and Chamberlain, and also to Hurst. THE DEPTFORD FENIANS. Maurice Lyttleton, Florence M'Carthy, and James Richardson were then placed at the bar to take their trial for high treason. Mr. Poland stated the case against the prisoners, and slid he desired the jury to treat the matter as the mischievous act of ignorant men, rather than to invest it with the importance of a State prosecution for high treason. James Boutell was the first witness examined. He repeated at length the evidence he gave at the Greenwich Police-court, which, shortly summa rised, amounted to the fact that he met the pri soners Lyttleton and O'Leary on the 18th of January, near the King William the Fourth, a public-house at Deptford, where Dan O'Leary told him he was a head-centre of the Fenians, and Lyt tleton was a corporal under him. He then detailed the persuasion on the part of O'Leary and Lyttleton to induce him to take the Fenian oath, his refusal to do so, and his communication of the whole matter to the police. The case was not concluded when we went to press. TUE TEA DUTY IS REDUCED.-11orniinan's Pure Tea is sold 8d per pound Cheaper. This interesting fact will, when fully known, even further increase the demand for these Choice, long-approved Teas. They are not sold loose, but only in Packek. INPERIAL PARLIAIvIENT HOUSE OF LORDS—LAST EVENING. Tho LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack at five o'clock. • THE IRIS Ii RAILWAYS. Tho motion on this subject was postponed till Friday next. PRIVATE BUSINESS. Tim Whitehall Railway Bill was read a second time. RESIGNATION OP THE EARL OF DELZBY. The Earl of MALMESBURY said that it was his duty to inform their lordships that from failing health the Earl of Derby had been obliged to tender his resignation to her Majesty, and she had been pleased to accept it, and to give authority to the Chancellor of the Exchequer to form a new Administration.. For himself ha would say that he was sure that b)th sides of the houro would be sorry to hear of his being obliged to retire, not front party dohat, but. front illness. What, then, must. be the feeling of those wl.o had fought under his lordship in many party fights. The purpose of the noble earl was that he might recruit his strength, and ho hoped that it would be so restored that he would appear amongst them once men) in that house. Ile would say uo mare upon the subject, but come to the resolution, as it was thought most advisable to adopf, and that was, as it was necessary that the Ifabaas Carpet Continuance Act should receive the royal assent b-fore Sunday, that the house should adjourn until two o'clocit on Thursday. Earl RUSSELL expressed his regret and that of the party to which he belonged on the serious illness of Lord Derby, and although ho had many times differed with him ou particular subjects, yet he regarded hint with great esteem, and his great qualities were capable of obtaining for him the greatest confidenete amongst a large section of the people. lie trusted that although ho might never taka official position again, yet that his great eloquence would soon again be heard within that house. HABEAS CORPUS S USPENSION CONTINUANCE AC T. This bill passed through comtuittee, and was reported without amendment. Their lordships then adjourned. 110,1JSE OF COMMONS-LAST EVENING. The SPEAKER took the chair at fear o'clock. NEW MEIII3ER. Mr. B. HOPE took the oath and his scat for the Uni versity of Cambridge. Tho hon. gentleman was intro duced by Mr. Walpole and Sir M. Stirling. RESIGNATION OF THE EARL OF DERBY. MINISTERIAL STATEMENT. Lord STANLEY said he had to announce, and that with the deepest regret, that in consequence of the state of health of Lord Derby it was re quisite that he should retire from public affairs for some time to come. Under these circum stances he had felt it his duty to tender his resig nation of the office he now held, and that her Majesty had been graciously pleased to accept that resignation. By her Majesty's command the right hon. gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer was at present engaged in the formation of a Ministry. lie thought he should be following the invariable custom in such cases if he suggested the adjournment of the house, in order to afford time to his right hon. friend to complete the necessary arrangements. (Hear, hear.) Ha deeply re gretted, and his right hon. friend also deeply re gretted, that anything should have occurred to in terfere with the debate which the hon. gentleman opposite (Mr. Maguire) intended to have initiated that evening, but if the house thought favourably of his proposal, and it met with approval, he should move that the house adjourn until Friday next. The SPEAKER put the question that the house at its rising adjourn until that day, when there were cries of " Gladstone, Gladstone." Mr. GLADSTONE said, so far as the proposi tion just made to the house was concerned, he should have thought he was not called upon to say a single word, it was so obviously dictated by the circumstances of the case. It had become necessary for the noble lord, by his singular destiny, to com municate such an event to the house, and he (Mr. Gladstone)could not adequately express his regret that a career so distinguished and so remarkable as that of his father should have been brought to a close by the failure of his bodily health andstrength. (Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") Mr. MA.GUIRE said he deeply regretted the circumstances that had occurred, which prevented him pressing his motion that evening, but he begged to ask what Government day would be given to him to bring forward his motion ? He would not ask for an answer to his question until ]{'ridgy next, but he did think that he had a right to some indul gence. Lord STANLEY said all he could say was that his right hon. friend was most anxious that the im portant subject (the state and condition of Ireland) should be brought forward, and that it should be fully and speedily discussed. The house then adjourned until Friday. MISS BATEMAN AS "LEAH." (From the Scotsman.) Miss Bateman appeared in Edinburgh a number of years ago as a child-actress, in company with a sister of equally tender years ; and the two little creatures acted marvellously well, not mechani cally, as infant prodigies for the most part do, but with evident inborn love of the art and true genius for the stage. She now returns a young lady of established metropolitan and American reputation, the promise of her childhood borne out by the performance of her maturer years. In the one part, at least, by which she has made her present fame, she exhibits the attributes of a genuinely tragic actress—her Leah being unques tionably a personation of no common order. If it does not rise to the highest pitch of tragedy, or sound the profoundest depths of pathos, it is from no fault in Miss Bateman's conception of the require ments of her art, but rather from the limit set by her natural capacities, and the shallow style of the character and the piece. Her physical power is rather intense than abundant; but she has great force of concentration and will, and throws herself into the feeling of the part with all the abandon ment of genius. Her figure is rather petite than commanding; but she is both graceful and forcible in action, has considerable power of expression, being gifted especially with an eloquent eye ; and has a clear, full, and well-trained voice. LONDON GAZETTE.-LAST EVENING. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, ST. JAMES'S PALACE, FEB. 3. Notice is hereby given, that the Queen will hold Draw ing Rooms at Buckingham Palace on Thursday, the 12th March, on Wednesday, the I st April and on , Tuesday, i the 12th May next, at three o'clock, nstead of two, as previ ously announced. FEBRUARY 17. Notice is berely given, th a t his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales will, by comm and of the Queen, hold Levees at St. James's Palace, on behalf of her Majesty, on Tuesday, the 3d of March, and on Tuesday, the 17th of March next, at two o'clock. It is the Queen's pleasure that Presentations to his Royal Highness at these Levees shall be considered as equivalent to Presentations to her Majesty. N.B.—The Knights of the several Orders are to appear in their Collars at the Levee on the 17th of March, it being a Collar Day. W HITEHALL, FEB. 22. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal granting the dignity of a Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire landm o o herf IMJettYdl; unto William J onnor, of Harley-street, Cavendish square, in the paris h of St. Max y lebone, and count y of Is d y d si l e e i s a e u x s , n Doctor odi u Medicino, a o r f y,andthe oao heirs of male lawfully begotten. FOREIGN OFFICE, FEB. 24. The Queen has been pleased to approve of M. Laurent Cachelet as Consul at Gibraltar for his Majesty the Emp3- ror of the French. CROWN OFFICE, FEB. 22. MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IX THE PRESENT PARLIAMENT, Borough of Stoke-upon-Trent.--Worge Melly, Esq., in the room of Alexander James Beresford Hope, Esq., who has accepted the office of Steward to her Majesty's Manor of Northstead, in the county of York. ]?1 B. 25. University of .Cambridge—Alexander James Borosford Hope, Esq., Doctor of Laws, in the room of Sir Charles Jasper Selwyn, Knight, who has accepted the office of ono of the Judges of the Court of Appeal in Chancery. - THE SOUTHAMPTON 1.30 AT ACCIDENT.---,The bodies of the two mon who were drowned in Southampton Water on Saturday were recovered the next day, and on Monday evening an inquest was held, at which a verdict of acci dental death was returned. ~~~ SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day (Br ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) NOTTINGHAM RACES---Tms DAY. FOREST HANDICAP. Mooibeam Novice Innerdalo 3 Despair ' • • 00000000 0 .•. • 1 VICTORIA CLUB BETTING —This DAY. GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE. 10 to 1 agst Daisy (taken and offered) • 10 to agst The Lamb (offered) 13 to 1 agst Moose (taken) 13 to 1 agst Chimney Sweep (offered) 100 to 7 agst Tuseulauum (taken and of e.red) 100 to 6 agst Tennyson (t a k en an d o ff ered) 20 to 1 agst Fan (taken) 25 t.) 1 agst Despalelt (ta7:en) 25 to 1 a,-,st Helen (taken and offered) 33 to 1 agst Clansman (taken) 50 to 1 agst rualassias (offered) 50 to 1 agst Aleibiade (taken) 100 to 15 agst Lord Coventry's lot. 15 to 2 agst Tennyson and Tusculauurn coupled (taken) 100 to 9 agst Fan and ilel3u (coupled (taken) 25 to 1 agst Lord Stamford's lot (offered) 2,0J0 GUINEAS. 100 to 3 agst Rabican (tak.m). DEI.II3Y. 11 to 2 agst Lady Elizabeth (offered) 40 to 1 agst See Saw (taken and offered) ROTUNDA CLUB AND COMMISSION EXCHANGE Threw DJJrs from Illaeldriars Bridge, Surrey Sido, OPE.V DAILY. Messrs. Fisher and Reynolds, W. Atkins, F. Mitchell and Co., W. Leach, and others, will be in attend ance daily. Applications for membership may be made to any of the above gentlemen, or to the Secretary, 3, Black friars-road. A'n nu al subscription, Five N.B.—The wires of the Electric and International Tele graph Company aro lIONY laid on, and aro open for trans, mission of messages to all parts of the kingdom. LIVERPOOL SPRING MEETING. Weights for the Spring F sovs each, with 100 Ago st lb Monitor 6 8 12 Salliet Pantaloon 6 8 4 Sycee 4 8 2 Cell ina Skylark Practitioner Problem 4 7 6 Amour Propre 4 7 2 Moonbeam 4 7 0 Lady Clinton Star of the Evening 5 7 0 King of the Fairies 4 6 12 Dawdle Columbine 4 6 12 Flying Jib.. 4 6 12 Mongrel 6 6 12 'lying Stakes (handicap) of 5 added. Half a mile. Age st lb Vulcan b had well Chivalry Absentee Spitfire Madame Bosco 5 6 3 Kate Kearney Blacklock Bassoon 3 5 12 Philosopher, by Laughing Stock 3 5 12 Fair Star Proctor Child of the Mist f 3 5 9 Paleface 3 5 9 Toy 3 5 7 MARKETS—(I his Day.) NEWGATE AND LEADENTIALL. MEAT.—The dead meat trade to-day was very dull, as usually is the case at this season, but supplies being very moderato prices aro maintained, and for prime small pork are rather higher. CORN. The trade is quiet throughout with but little change in quotations. From the country markets only limited transactions are reported, and prices generally are un changed. From both importing and exporting continental torts quotations come firm. At Mark-lane to-day tho tone was quiet at late rates. Tho very small supply of English wheat realised Mon day's rates. The liberal supplies of foreign wheat rendered buyers more reserved in bidding, and late rates were paid in tho retail business effected. Floating cargoes also met a very active inquiry. Flour unchanged in value with a slow demand. Malt still at previous prices. Barley, beaus, and peas remain without any appreciable change. Oats sell slowly, but supplies being light, rates were maintained. ilzmr remain s at .£.57 for clean St. Petersburgh on tho spot. Ls.—The market is quiet. : brown rape, 36s Gd on the spot. TALLOW. Linseed, 355; English. Only a limited business is passing. Y.C., 42s Cl;. spot, 42s Gd to 42s 9d; April to June, 43s Gd to 43s 91 COTTON. LIVERPOOL, Fob. 2G.—Market opens steadily. probably 10,000 bales. IRELAND. Sales DUBLIN, Feb. 25. The house of Mr. Neweuharn, a magistrate at Douglas, two miles from Cork, was attacked last night by five armed men. Two were disguised. They demanded arms. Mr. Newenhatu, who was in the drawing-room, pretending compliance, went to the bed-room, locked himself in, and going to the window with a double-barrelled gun, fired at a man outside. The Fenians returned the fire, striking the window. Mr. Newenham again fired, but without effect. The housekeper rushed into the hall exclaiming "Police !" and the ruffians then ran off. At Longford Assizes to-day eight prisoners were convicted of riot and assaulting the llcv. Mr.• Campbell, a Wesleyan minister, while passing through the town in July last, and sentenced to terms of imprisonment from one to nine months each. At the Lord Mayor's banquet this evening the Lord-Lieutenant, responding to the toast '" Prosperity of Ireland," took an encouraging view of its condition. He held out hopes of a better railway system, as the result of the Commission showed a decrease of 19,000 in emigration last year, and an expected further decrease this year. He referred to the disturbances in Cork as excep tional, and believed three-fourths of the country sound. He remarked that the English people were disposed to discriminate between the perpetrators of outrages and the Irish people, and to consider their grievances, and sympathise as far as possible. lie noticed the progress of Dublin. Its tonnage had increased from 830,000 in 1857 to 1,436,000 in 1867, and the revenue from £26,000 to £44,090. He also intimated the desire of the Government to give more liberal and special encouragement to the Irish. AN OPPORTuNE ENACTMENT.—The following clause of the Refortn'Act of last year will obviate the ne cessity for the re-election of any present Minister in the Rouse of Commons on his changing one office for another —" Whereas it is expedient to amend the law relating to offices of profit, the acceptance of which from the Crown vacates the seats of members accepting the same, but does not render thorn incapable of being re-elected : B 3 it ea acted, that where a person has been returned as a member to serve in Parliament since the acceptance by him from the Crown of any 01113,3 described in schedule Ii to this act annexed, th c subsequent acceptance by hint from the Crown of any other office or offices describodia such sche dule, in lieu of and in immediate succession the one to the other, shall not vacate his seat." TESTIMONIAL TO MR. CHARLES MORTON.—A zommittee has been formed with the object of receiving subscriptions to be applied in the presentation of a testi monial to Mr. Chas. Morton, on the occasion of his loss by the fire at the Oxford Music Hall. Mr. Morton, having originated a class of public entertainments now so popu lar, has, by his management of the Canterbury and the Oxford—both founded by him—done his best to preserve their exclusively unobjectionable character, by maintain ing a higher tone than has been observable in the conduct of almost any other similar establishment. Re has, more over, by unremitting attention to the comfort of visitor; and by more than ordinary kindness to the artists and other persons in his employ, made himself many friends, Who see in the recent disaster an opportunity of showing their sympathy and esteem for the principal suff,:rer. STEAM SIIIPPING.—Mr. J. Laing, of Sunderland, is building for Mr. K. Young, M.P., two screw steamers each of 1,500 tons burden. These steamers, which will be ready in a few weeks, are intended fer the Meditorranea trade. THE ASSAULT ON A LIVERPOOL MERCHANT. — The young men Wilson and flarris were brought up be fore the magistrates yesterday, and, Mr. Kase' not being able to attend, they were ram:tilled for a we,.ek. A clerk of Mr. Basel is in custody charged with collusion with the prisoners. A room in which the prisoner Wilson was confined for a short time had a floor covered with sawdust, and on his being removed it was found that ho had written with his finger in the sawdust the words, "Forsake us not, 0 Lord, in this our hour of sorrow." MR. JUSTICE HANNEN.—To-day the commis sion will be opened at Warwick—the first place on the Midland Circuit ; and on being sworn in before the Lord Chancellor, Mr. Justice Hannon will proceed with Mr. Justice Aiontague Smith on the circuit. td of ra re) een liss on- ry yet , or ng, ints gl art or rith ►to- , me At la- lug .ust ms. nis the 1 of on- ;us- Ay her .av- L to ion. ese tte'd the and tout Ate, Le is mid The a of be a tine •atio riest thich orge ably sing all -im- Ither ye— ; the piti evil of eless " he lay's WU 8t; 20 20a 10 100 1 i 190 100 100 100 100 100 I SSESi tuo tOO 100 all 100 100 all all all all WO 9 5 i I 108; & 109 i 9