The Sun. — London, England, 1868-02-08 00:00:00

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Yet the I at what is ipered by a )ard for its an opinion. tirely agree given. The s the fullest re acquittal. cents of the mid-air re leaving tho a suspicion the legiti )n and une -1 to escape orks lately, sort of free the Metro n discussing ie ratepayers are bound to letropolitan for its cba: hat body fall 3 must go to the nation ; persons and ;thins which a have bee' 0 righted ; if rers—if ther o :he u►isdeedd &Unguents , Me. Diul be obtaiued• TASTE, Op t phic Albuin g des, dasing g books, laic :;addies, bona cry cabinets, ts, 10-; cig ar cud elogantll Church Ser 25, Oxfo rd. perfectly nevr Dvz) MON t LIARKET AND 00 IMERCIAL TZLIAGXNCS. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. The Stock Markets are exceedingly quiet. The Only change from yesterday's final quotations is a re lapse in tho prices of several railways, a condition attributable to the absence of business from the public. The Funds remain at the final prices of yesterday. Foreign Stocks are unaltered, but most of them retain a considerable degree of firmness. The Discount Market is very quiet, at 1i per cent. for the best bills. • Consols are without change, at 93f to 93 for money and account. New and Reduced Three per Cents., 93} to 93 a . India 5 per Cents., 112 to 112 i. Bank Stock, 248 to 250. Exchequer Bills, 20s to 25s nrem. • The Foreign Stock Market is steady. Mexico,' Bonds are quoted 13 to 13i ; Greek, 13 to 13 ; New Spanish 36,9. to 36i ; Turkish (1865), 33 to 33k ; Italian (1861), 431 to ; Chilian (1867), 92i to 9 3i ; Egyptian Railway Debentures, 93 to 94 ; the Viceroy's Loan, 76f to 761; and Portu:.,uese, lg to 1 prem. In Colonial Bonds there is not a single variation. Ltnada Six per Cents. are quoted at 99 to 101 ; Mauritius Six per Cents., 86 to 87 ; New South Wales Five per Cents., 99 to 101 ; New Zealand Six Per Cents., 108 to 110 ; Queensland Six per Cents., 1034 to 104} ; Victoria Six per Cents., 110 to 111. The new Honduras Loan is steady at / to 1f prem. In American Securities United States Five-Twenty Bonds are steady, at 71i- to 71i ; Erie Railroad are better, at 47k to 471 ; Illinois unaltered, at 81 to 88k. Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures remain at 27 to 28, and the Consolidated Mortgage Bonds at 241 to 25±. Railways are being realized, and there is conse quently a falling off in quotations. There is a relapse of .1 1 in Caledonian, at 77 to 77i ;of in Great Eas tern, at 30 to 30k ;of in Great Northern, at 109 i to 1101 ; and in Great Northern (A), at 110 to 111 ; of in London and North Western, at 118 to 118? ; and of k in Great Western, at 46/ to 461 ; in South Eastern, at 701 to 71± ; and in Midland, at 106± to 1061. ' Lancashire and Yorkshire, 116 i to 1061 ; Brighton, 46 to 46i ; North Eastern, 105 to 106 ; and Metropolitan, 109/ to 1091. Sheffield are firmer, at 431 to 431. In Bank Shares there is no feature, and prices have scarcely altered. Agra (A. shales) are quoted at 11 to • Union of London, 33i to 3412, ex div. ; London ' Joint Stock, 33i to 34i ; London and West minster, 67hto 68k , ex div. ; London and County, 52 to 54 lmperial Ottoman, 1 to / dis. ; Imperial Bank is * higher, at 17i to 18 ; Consolidated, * to prem. ex div. Finance shares are quiet, and the only variation is an improvement of 1-16th in General Credit, which have been enqu i re d f or at 2a to 2 1 1 dis. •ex div. Credit Foncier, 3 to 3±. Egyptian Trading ' 41 to 4k dis. International Finance, 2 to 1/ dis. ex div. Miscellaneous securities are steady. Anglo- American Telegraph is quoted at 19i to 19R- ex div. Atlantic Telegraph 8 per Cents., 5 to 5i ; ditto 10 per Cents., par to ± prem. London General Omni bus, Itl to 1k ; National Discount, 11 to 11/ ; Find son's Bay, 141 to 15. The annual meeting of the West India and Pacific Steamship 'Company has been called for the 17th inst., after which the meeting will be made special for the purpose of passing a resolution to reduce the capital of the company from £1,250,000 to £625,000, to be represented by 23,000 shares of £25 each. The ordinary general meeting of the London Tavern tiompany has been tailed for the 24th instant, for the purpose of receiving tho directors' report and state ment of accounts. The half-yearly meeting of the Kingston-upon- Thames Gas Company has been convened for the 26th instant, to receive the directors' report and to declare a dividend. The sum of £145,000 in bar gold and coin was . taken from the Bank yesterday for export. Tenders are invited for Wednesday, the 19th inst., 101` £200,000 India Council Bills on Calcutta and Madras. It is announced that the business of the Scuth Aus- Lralian Banking Company is now conducted under the title of the Bank of South Australia, in accordance With the new charter of incorporation, for which a certificate has just been granted by the Lords Com- Inissioners of her Majesty's Treasury bringing it into immediate operation. At the annual meeting of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (Limited), held Yesterday, the report and accounts were adopted. A dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum was declared. £5,000 was carried to the reserve fund ; and £1,022 13s 10d to the next account. Messrs. J. Waddell and Company, accountants, nave removed to New Poultry Chambers, 7, Poultry. The North Eastern Railway dividends are 6 per cent. per annum ou the Berwick, 5} per cent. on the * York, 31s- per cent, on the Leeds, Carlisle 8 per cent., and Darlington 8* per cent. The following is Messrs. Durant and Co.'s Silk Circular, dated Feb. 7 :—" We have to report an extremely quiet market in silk—hopes have been entertained from time to time that a revival was at hand, but thus far all have ended in disappointment. We have had occasional forced sales at continually easier prices, but all has hitherto failed to draw out buyers. In the meantime stocks have rather in creased. This, however, is scarcely likely to continue, Yre may have another month of comparatively large arrivals, but after that we may reasonably expect a 1 see more or less gradual diminution in the stocks. During the last two or thee days we have had more frequent inquiries, leading to the belief that buyers a re anxiously watching the market with a view to purchase as soon as they feel the moment for action h t as arrived, b u t th u s far we h ave a ver y sma ll 4 .7 i isiness. The deliveries are upqn the limited scale of t e last si x mon th s , in some measure to be accounted fo r., by th e di rec t importations to the Continent.. "pan silk shares are generally quiet, although the Stock has been gradually shrinking and is now really !swan. In Bengal silk we have nothing of moment ---the deliveries are comparatively favourable. The ' i ext periodical public sales are fixed to commence en the 19th inst. The directors of the Panulcillo Copper Company, L imited, have issued a circular containing the results, !9_ far, o f th e i nves ti ga ti ons o f th e manager . M r . Lieatley speaks in high terms of the efficiency of eve rything connected with the working of the mine, a n d States the production to have now reached the r ate of 400 tons of pure coppe r per month, with ei ghteen furnaces at work. Mr. Eleatley calculated that,l with a price of $l4 per qtl. for bars In Chili (equal to a sale price in England of £7O per t , with fr e i g ht s a t £4, an d exc h ange a t 4 7d) the t ;! n Pany would work at a profit. And since making fie calculation M r . Heatley had concluded an agree ment with the Coquimbo Railway Company, which _7_lll result in a saving of £12,000 t o £14,000 per annum ; in consequence of these and of other econ - les he counted on a total reduction of some £ 2 0,000 on this year's working charges. A GIGANTIC CommrrioN.—The iVava/ and Military ‘lazette, alluding to the statement of the Invalide Busse, th at "the ord ers o f the R u s s ia n Go v e rnmen t t o pu bli c an d private manufacturies were so given as to insure the com- Pletion in the course of 1867 and 1868 of 800,000 new rifles 1" ex claims : "Eight hund r ed thousand new rifles in two y ears 1 flow shall we stand with regard to this matter at the end of this year of grace 1868 ? Shall we have by that time half the number of Snider rifles that Russia will have of the Marl pattern? Not one half at the rate we have be en going on ; though it is impossible to believe that these vast military preparations are undertaken with so much energy without some ulterior purpose in view. France, , t oo, even before the Ch assepo t had done wonders' at "•orue, was pressing forward in the race, and will soon, foevery respect, complete her m ilit ar y prepara ti ons r whatever may be said to the contrary—the g _ re at struggle th a t i s i m p en di ng over E urope. O ur 7rnest wish, and that of the country, must be that we shoul d he p repare d f or anyt hi ng that might happen ; that Seale , e e sho u ld be able, not only to defend our own in case of but also to thro w our wei g ht, if necessa r y, i n t o one our of other of the European balance, in order to defend De l. c " 11 interests, or else to maintain the sacred cause of 140 ' e ; but t o do this we must be fully prepared—infinitely t e so than we are at present—to meet every aggressor." BRITISH FUNDS CLOSING PRICES. ft I3OVIZRNMENT FUNDS. Per Cent. C onso l s 13 °. Account, March 5 93 1 ~,,Per C ent. Reduced 031 I il o e 7 v 3 per Cent 93, I 2 1 per Cont. Jan. 1894 — 4 --°. 5 per C ent . Jan . 1873 — 'l,hrlu i ties, SO y rs, expire sth J an ., 1880 — Do. fo r 3 0 yrs, expire sth AprillBBs — (Red S ea Televaph), An„., 1908 — tchoqouer Bills, £l,OOO, 2 & 21 per Gt — pm D £5OO — pm t a k -D ,°- £lOO & £2OO 2O pm til -0. oAccEt ngland Stock, 41 per Cent 249 ount 1,, bIDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. , .. t k . ., , N il oo lt . l ,,A t e o c c o k ti , r of per Ceut., AprillB74 2lO 1:11.)00.. 4 0,ev i rti z ne C e i n n tet t s:, J 1 17 :1 1 8 8 8 8 8 0 ^' loll b • b.utaced Paper 4 per Cent — 0* 5 par Cent., Jan. 1872 I: 1 ° ' 5 1 Per Cent., May 1879 — ° 5 por Cent., Rup. Deb., 1872 — , 1.) )) ° 0 . do. . 1877 — 4.)01 , * do. 1882 lO3l Do, 'Ja., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 1 .,°. Bonds, 5 per Cent., £l,OOO * l O. Bonds, 5 pm L rOR E I GN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICI S. %T all 804 per C Cent _ per ent., 185 9 — l ic : do., 18-8 _ 1 , • do., 1840 — 4 ' c) * do., 1863 671 Do. 5 per Cent., 1865 — Do Account 77 -1, 61 Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent — Do 2 per Cont. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) Cuba, 6 per Cent. Cidlian 6 per Cent lO2 Do. 4i per Cent — Do. 6 per Cent., B , • Do., 1867 Do., 7 per ,Cent., 1866 Do., Scrip £32 paid C )lombian, 6 per Coat. Danish, 3 p )r Cent., 1825 Dmubian Principalities, 7 per Cent ( .9 Do 8 per Cent., 1867 — D pador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — ngyptian, 7 per Cent — Do. Second Issue — D '..f.500 Bonds Do. £IOC Bonds 92 • Do. 1864 Do. £5lO Bowls — Do. £lOO Bonds ..... 921 1 3 Government liailwrtv th3l),,iittwes .... 9 4 1 1 Greek, 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex Coups — Do. Account Do. Coupons Do. Account Guatemala 5 per Cent .. — Honduras Gov. Rail. Loan., 10p. Ct., £2sp Itslian 5 per Cent., 1865 — Do, Account Do. Maremmana Raiway 47 Mexicat. 3 per Cent — Ditto for Account Dn. 1864 — Do 6 per Cont. Anglo-French — 11ontevidean 6 per Cent. • • — Itiloorish imperial 5 per Cent Now Granada — Do 3 per Con Do. Deferred Do Land Warrants (Hectares) Peruvian 5 per Cent. 1865 Do Account 77} _ Do 41 por Cent. (Uribarren) Do 4* per Cent., 1862 1)o Account Portuguese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, '7, '9,'60,'2,'S 401 Do. do., 1 9 67 4O l do., Scrip, £lO paid ll pin Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ SL Do 41 per Cent. 1850 Do 41 per Cent., 1860 Do 3 per Cent., 1859 Do 5 per Cent., 1862 Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1861, £lOO Bonds B9 Do. do. £B4 15s. do. Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds B9l 1 Do. do. £B4 15s. do — Sardinian, 5 per Cent. — Spanish 3 per Oen . Do Account Do New Deferred — Do Account Do Passive — Do Account Do Corn. Cert. of Coup. not funded Do Account Turkish 6 per Cent. - .. Do Account Du 6 per Cent. 1858 — Do Account Do £lOO Bonds Do 6 per Cent n 1862 611 2/ Do Account Do £lOO Bonds 64 Do. 1863 — Do 5 per Cent., 1865 514 Do Account Do 6 per Cent., 1865 541 1 Do 4 por Cent., Guaranteed Venezuela, 3 per Cont. — Do 6 per Cont., 1862 Do 6 per Cont. 1864 Dividends on the above payable in London. Austrian 0 par Cent. Ex 10 Florins INgian, 41 per cent., Ex. 25f. Dutch 2:i per Clout. E. 12 GO, 56 Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates .... French Relates, 3 per Cent., Ex. 23f. — DJ Account Dalian 5 per Gent. 189 1 , Ez. zsf. — Do. Account 431 I TWO O'CtLOCIC. Consols, Money 931 i Do. Account, March ... 931 } POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. THE PRIVILEGES OF MAGICIANS.—In'the City of Lon• don Court, Mr. Commissioner Kerr had before him the case of Morris v. Delight, in which suit the plaintiff sought to recover, under very singular circumstances, a guinea and a half, for his own and his wife's services as magicians at a grand entertainment given by the City of London Temperance Association, at the Albion Hall, on Boxing Night, defendant being a member of the committee.— Mr. Morris proved the engagement of himself and his wife to perform at the fête in question. He stated that when he got to the hall he found people behind him on the platform, and re. fused to perform unless they were removed, as they would see through his tricks. The defendant would not remove them, and he did not perform.—The defendant said that they objected to paying the plaintiff, as be did not carry out his engagement. The last conjurer they had performed with people behind him.—HisHonOur: -He might have been a cleverer magician than the plaintiff, who is not to be bound by what other people have done. I he plaintiff is entitled to object to perform when he is mrerlooked. The peop'o go to see him and Mrs. Morris for the purpose of being deluded, and if they are allowed to be on the platfoi•zn or behind the magician while the tricks are being performed, there is an end of delusion. — Verdict for the plaintiff. SYSTEMATIC CONSIGNMENT OF STOLEN GOODS FROM LIVERPOOL—Three men, named Charles Byatt, Richard Irwin, and Alfred Johns, and a woman named Sophia Byatt, believed to be the wife of the first prisoner, were brought yip on remand at Bow-street charged with having in their possession a box containing twenty-one watches and two gold chains, which had been stolen from various per sons in Liverpool. Inspector Harnet, Sergeants Chapple and Dowdell, all of the F division, went on Saturday (last week) to Martha-street, Hackney, where the Byatts live, and saw the box in question delivered by a parcels delivery cart to the three prisoners. The prisoner Byatt gave the conductor of the parcel cart a receipt for the box. They were taken into custody and the box was seized. It was found to contain the articles above men tioned. It appeared to have been sent from Liverpool to London by rail, and Lom the London ter minus to Hackney by Parcels' Delivery Company. Byatt, on being told that he must be searched, at once produced a letter dated from Liverpool describing the contents of the box, and fixing the price of them at £29 18s. (much below their value), 4 the same time expressing a hope that " there shOuld be nb squab bling this time, as there was the last." This letter was in the same handwriting as the direction on the box, and also that upon another similar (but empty) box, which was found in the house. During the search the officers found a number of pawn brokers' duplicates. The watches and chains all answered to the description of articles stolen in Liverpool within the last few months, and during the interval of remand the two chains and nine of the watches had been identified by the owners. When apprehended Byatt said, " You have got me to rights, but •so help me God the others had nothing to do with it." When asked from whom the letter came, he said, " I don't mean to lug anybody else into it."—The prisoners were again remanded. STREET OUTRAGE.—At Marylebone, three men, named John Larkin, George M'Sheen, and William Horne, were charged with the following outrageous conduct. Sergeant Hoskisson, 16 X, said he was in Princes-street, Edgware• road, when he was informed that three men were knocking people about. lie followed up, and saw a respectable. looking man struck and knocked down by one of the prisoners, and whilst down kicked by them. Wit ness ran across, and took hold of M`Sheen, and the man said he was the one who kicked him. A stranger came to assist, when a most violent struggle ensued. For his own protection he knocked M'Sheen down in the road. He then threw Larkin down, and threw himself on him to keep him down till assistance came. A sergeant came up and sprang his rattle. Altera most desperate resistance they were got to the station-house. The man who was knoelcad clown was taken o tlie hospitaL—PThq prianppi AiraMiad Mk, THE " SPORTING LIFE."—In the suit of Kelly v. Hutton, Vice-Chancellor Stuart decided that the plaintiff was en titled to a half share in the copyright of the Sporting Life, and that the sale to the defendant must be set aside as regarded that half share. Defendant to pay costs. RAILWAY AND OTHER BILLS BEFORE PARLIA MENT.—Yesterday Messrs. Frore and Palgrave, the exa miners of standing order proofs upon railway and other private bills now pending in Parliament, resumed their duties, and transacted the following business. In the court presided over by Mr. Frere, in Committee-room 16, the standing orders were declared to have boon passed in the cases of the unopposed petitions of the Savins Estate, the Londonderry Bridge, the Dublin and Drogheda Railway, the Salford Hundred and Manchester (City) Courts of Record, the Barry Railway, the Chichester Cattle Market, the Loughborough Local Board, and the (postponed) Dartford Water Bills. In Mr. Palgrave's court, which was held in Committee-room No. 17, the following unopposed petitions were declared to have passed standing orders : —Great Northern and Western of Ireland Railway, Farnworth and Kearsley Gas, Vey and Arun Junction Canal, the Warrington Water, the Humber Conservancy, the Somerset and Dorset Railway, and the Reading Water. The same examiner declared, the stand ing orders complied with, after the further consideration of the adjourned unopposed petitions, in the following cases:—The London and North-Western and Knighton, Central Wales, and Central Wales Extension Railway Companies. After further consideration of the opposed adjourned pAition of the Isle of Wight (Newport Junc tion) Railway, the examiner declared that the standing orders had not been complied with. MUSICAL ITEMS.—Mr. G. A. Alaefarren will de liver on Monday next, itt the London Institution, the first of a series of four lectures on the " Secular Music of Eng land, from the Earliest Times to the Prosent."--Musicai Standard. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURD,A_Y EVEN!NG, FEBRUARY 8, 1868. SHARE LlST.—This Bay. ORDINARY SHARES AisiD STOCKS. • -- Share - Railways. ne. I raid. / Closin g . 811. int at .Bristol and Dieter 100 65 87 at 'Caledonian . 100 771 7,1771 s 1S 7 • et Cambrian - Cork and Bandon - - - 20' Cornwall all 3 4 .3 st Dublin & Belfast June lOO 741 751 et Dun„Perth,& Ab.Junc lOO 70 72. 100 E.London, bcrip Celli all - - Do. 100 - - d st Glasgow &S. Western 100 100 102 at Great Eastern,Ord:stk. 100 311 321 311 301 at Do. E. Augl. at. No. 2 100 Ot 71 at Great North of Scotland 100 15 at Great Northern lOO 109 111 1091 101 st Do. A stock .. 100 0.,./ 11l st Do. B stock lOO 1221 123 st Do. New, is. at 25 pat 100 - - st GIS, and W. of Ireland 100 06 93 at (it. Western -Original PIO 40 10. 46 1 at Do.'S. Val. Rail. gua. 100 - - • at Do. South Wales 100 46 47 43 5 at Do. W. Mid.-Oxford 100 20 Si st Do. Newport lOO 29 it at Do. Hereford lOO - - at Lancashire & YorksiorQ 100 1261 i 27 1201 st London and Blackwall 100 - - et Lon., Brigh.,& S Coast 100 46 461 454 6 at Chat., and Dover 100 18 184 'lB, at Do. Metrop. Ex. A lOO 11 14 at Lon. & North Western 100 118 1134 18118 1 I at Lon. di South Western 100 85 1.8 87 163 71 st Man., awl., & Lincoln 100 43 14 431 at Metropolitan all 111 112 101 at Do. New lO - - at Do. Extension all 100 101 1.1 at Metropolitan District all - 20 ( Do. do. do, 10 - - 10 Do. and St. John'sW'u 6 - st Midland - Do. £9 Share 7 - - at Do, Birmin.. do Derby 100 75 77 7111 - Ind Kent .. . all - - at North British at Do. Ed., Pth., & Dun. 100 - - at Nth. Eastern--L'erwict 100 104 1 0 5 1 06 25 Do. G.N'E puroliaat 16.13.4 - - st Do. Leads ..... 100 62 64 at Do. York lOO 95 97 st Do. Carlisle . . ... . - - at Do. Stook. & Darling. all 133 135 I'4l 25 Do. do. 1860-61 lB - p at North London at Do. do. 1864 5 - Do. do. 1866 10 North Staffordshire at N. &S. W. Junction at .Scottish Central - Scot. N. E , Aber. stool. 100 - Scot, Mid. stank lOO - Shropshire Union at South Devon lOO 43 45 st South Eastern 20 :Raines, Wok., & Wok all 9 10 st Taff Vale lOO 146 750 10 V ale of creath - - - Waterford & Kilkenny 100 - - 10 Waterloo & Whiteha 1 6 - - West Cornwall lOO - - COLONIAL GOVICIINMICAT SECURITIES, British Columbia, 6 per Dent., .L/eo. 31, 1872.... Can.Gov.tS p.o.Jaaz July , - 1877-81 - Do. 6 p. o. Feb. & Aug Do. 5 p. o. Mar. & Sept Do. 5 p. o. Jan. 4t July , Do. 5 p. c. Inscribed as Cape G.llope, 6 p.c. 1873 Do.Api&Oct • 1890-1900 Do. do 1t5.30-9u, Do. Jan.&July, 189 0-911 Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and 15 Oct., 1900 Cdylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p.i Do. 1878, do Mauritius, 6 p. 0, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1878 1882, Mayls, Nov. tt, Do. 1895, Feb. * Aug Natal (Joy. 6 per cent N.B.Gov.6p.c.Ja.a&Jul) N. S.W. Gov. 5 p•c.,186t , Do. 5 p.c. 18;1 to 1871, Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1895 New Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 5 per cent.... Nova &Ala Gov. 6 p. o sterling, 1875 o.2necusland Gov. 6 p. C Id. Aua.Gov. 6 p,o. 18684 , Do. 1878 St. upwards Vio,Gov. 6 p.c. Ja Jmy Do. do, A pril Oct 100 100 100 100 100 100 98 100 100 102; 100 Luz sp 88 b 5 87 102 101 106 108 104 106 107 109 D 5 07 113 110411 101 lt3 106 108 105 107 107 109 IC4 106 103 105 98 ' , JO Oa 06i - 98 99 1(2 104 103 115 110 .11 991 9 'i I IC4i Sf TRADES UNIONS. A crowded meeting of delegates of London trades societies was held on Friday night, at the Bell Inn, Old Bailey, to receive the report from the sub-committee appointed to arrange the forthcoming.confererite with Mr. Gladstone, and to consider the recent attack on trades unions by Mr. Roebuck, M.P. Mr. George Potter, who occupied the chair, said, before the report of the sub committee was brought up, he desired to make a few remarks upon some matters of recent occurrence relating to trades unions. They were all aware that Mr. Roebuck, in addressing a meeting at Sheffield lately, had made a fierce onslaught on trades unions, and branded their members with being guilty of all sorts of crimes. Now, Mr. Roebuck was himself a member of a profession the rules and practices of which were more stringent than those of any workmen's union— a profession which limited the number of its articled clerks, fixed the minimum fee which its mem bers should receive for their snvices, allowed no member to receive a brief in person from a client, and did all those things and more which he denounced in working, men u s unions. Again he thought it most indecent in Mr. Roebuck, while sitting in a judicial capacity as a member of the Trades Union. Commission, to go about the country denouncing those men upon whom he was sitting in judg ment. No honourable or right-minded man would be guilty of such conduct. Mr. Roebuck ought at once to be removed from the Royal Commission.—The secretary then read the report of the sub-committee, the correspon dence with Mr. Gladstone, and the basis laid down for the conference, with the names of the delegates appointed to conduct it—viz., Messrs. Potter, Lawrence, Dunning, Upshall, Lewis, Squire, Broadhurst, M`Namara, Cohen, and Hartwell. After some discussion the report was adopted, with the substitution of Mr. Lester for Mr. Upshall, on the ground that the fornier delegate repre sented one of those trades in which the limitaLiun of apprentices was enforced.—Mr. Lawrence (tailor) then said he thought the delegates were bound to express _ _ _ ;heir opinion of the conduct of Mr. Roebuck in re- ference to his attack upon trades unions, looking at his position on the Trades Commission of Inquiry. He would therefore move the following resolution : "That this society of trades delegates is of opinion that Mr. J. A. Roebuck, M.P., has acted most indecently and unfairly in his strong denunciation of trades unions at a public meet ing in Sheffield, while he at the same time is a member of a royal commission appointedto inquire into the working of those bodies, and hereby declares that no honourable man or unionist can accept the decision of the commission if he continues a member of that body, he having declared his opinion before the evidenci has been completed. We therefore, consider him an unjust judge, and one unworthy any longer to sit upon the Trades Union Commission.'-- Mr. Cohen (cigar maker) seconded the resolution, which was carried with loud cheers, and a copy order,en to he sent to the Home Secretary, and also to the chairman of the Trades Union Commission. The meeting was then adjourned until Friday, the 21st inst., to receive the report of the deputation to Mr. Gladstone. Both Mr. Beresford Hope and Mr. Cleasby, Q.C., are in the field for the representation of Cambridge University, and have issued their addresses to the members of the Senate. Lord Stanley was asked to become a candidate, but he declined to leave King's Lynn. A large meeting against the rating clauses of the Reform Act has been held, amongst other places, at North Shields. It was absurd, the chairman said, that the qualification for voting should depend on the personal payment of rates. The Duke of Northumberland in Churton had paid the rates of all his tenants ; so had Mr. Trevelyan, M.P. ; and there was no bribery and corruption under them. A motion was carried for a petition to the House against tho clauses. Mr. Digby Seymour, Q.C., addressed, on Friday night, what is described as a large meeting of Irishmen. He spoke plainly enough on all hands. He was the leading counsel for Larkin and Gould, yet he thought they had committed an outrage, and he did not, as he told them, believe in their remedy for the wrongs of Ireland. He was a loyal but by no means either a satisfied or contented Irishman. He believed .in a Protestant Church of England, but he regarded the Irish Establishment as a perpetual insult to the Irish people. The tenancy at will throughout a great part of Ireland was only another name for serfdoni. He was opposed to a repeal of the Union, yet he did not think that a Parliament sitting at West minster could understand the wants of the Irish people. He therefore proposed local legislation , by a Chamber sitting at Dublin, whose proposals should b e sen t up to the Imperial Parliament for its approval. The Irish people did not want a Lord-Lieutenant ; they wanted Royalty. It did not necessarily follow that the Queen must go there—why not the Pri nce of Wales or the Duke of Edinburgh? Still be was loyal, and he urged t h e meeting to come forward and sign the address to the Queen, which, he said, would be given to Mr. Hardy for presentation on Tuesday, with 20,000 names attached. The diaappcitrance of Mr. Spoke excites more lively in terest daily. The theory of voluntary absenc e is fast losing ground, and the general o pinion now given is that h e has been foully murdered. m. T.," writing to the Times, suggests another solution of the mystely. The writer calls attention to the fact that Mr. Speke had a relative whose townhouse is in Queen -square, 'Westminster: There is no other house in 'Westminster to which he could have been going. It is stated that Mr. Speke's relative was absent from London at the time. It is no uncommon thing at such a time for servants to leave a house un guarded. Somebody having temporary access to the ptace may have received him, ilere are gardens and snrunnehes at the back to whielihe may. have "retired. anct,:where stranger may have been concealed. The tact that tnese gardens are actually in, Birdcage-walk, whertMr. Speke's hat was found two hours after he was last seen. is surely a singular coincidence, and the writer believes that the lint was picked up directly opposite the steps which lead into the square. THE CONTAGIOUS DISEASES ACT.—It has been resolved by the military authorities to apply the provisions of the Contagious Diseases Act to Colchester, Shotncliffe, Canterbury, and the Curragh. THE " LIFE OF THE PRINCE CONSORT." The ...thence= states that her Arialestv'ig wife of the Prince Consort"' is to be reproduced iL a condensed form, in embossed letters, for the use of the blind. The work of abridgment has been entrusted to Mr. John Plummer. CHALLENGE TO FIGHT A DUEL.—The Derby borough magistrates have heard an extraordinary applica tion. A local solicitor applied for a summons against gr. VT. Turpie, manager of the Derby and Derbyshire Bank, and captain of the Ist Company of the Derby Battalion of Volunteers, with a view to have him bound over to keep the peace towards Mr. T. B. Hutton and all her Majesty's subjects. Mr. Hutton has for *many years been cashier at the Derby and Derbyshire Bank, of which Mr. Turpie is still the manager, and for several years Mr. Hutton is said to have been subject to various acts of petty tyranny and annoyance from Mr. Turpie. On Tuesday last the anno3 ances were so great that it forced Mr. Hutton to express himself in strong language to the manager. The latter summoned him before the board of directors and brought against him the serious charge of dishonesty, and it ended in Mr. Hutton being called upon to at once give up his situation without the usual three months' notice. The charge of dishonesty has been since withdrawn. On Thursday Mr. Hutton was astonished to receive the following letter :—" 6th Feb., 1868.—Sir, having been grossly insulted by you, I, as an officer and a gentleman, demand ' satisfaction.' I ask you to send me the name and address of your friend, and I shall request Captain Cox—who, I understand, returns to-night—to call upon him, and make the necessary arrangements for a meeting.—l am, sir, &c., TURPIE. Mr. T. R. Hutton, ITttoxeter-road, Derby." The magis trates at once granted a summons. BABY-FARMING. — An inquiry has been held in the committee rooms, Fountain-court, Minories, by Mr. W. J. Payne, deputy-coroner, relative to the death of a child, six weeks old, named Adelaide Neumann. The deceased was the daughter of a German Jewess, named Rachel Neumann, who had been deserted by her husband. The child was taken to the registrar by the mother and another Jewess, and neither of them being able to speak a word of English, they gave her the name of Adelaide in Hebrew. The registrar believed the infant to be a boy, and registered it as Isaac. The mother, finding it necessary to go out to service, took the child to Mrs. Lily Speckmaster, living at 8, Garden-court, Minories, and gave it to her to take charge of, promising to pay her ss. a week, paying a w week's money in advance b y way of a d e p os it. Th at was on Saturday week. The child was hand-fed ;it got arrow root three times a clay. The coroner asked Mrs. Speck master how the child got on upon that food. Her answer was, " What are you to expect with a child of five weeks old ?'' It looked skinny, she added, when it was first brought to her. On Tuesday last it would take no more food; it looked badly in her eyes , and she ca ll e d i n a ChemiA, but it died that night. The mother visited the child every day. On Tuesday she said it would die quick, and she stopped until it did die. Mrs. Speck master, it appeared, called the child Eliza ; other people called it indiscriniinately Idel and Hedel and Rachel. The mother, on being examined through an interpreter, said that she had forgotten what was the real name of her child, and it was only after a long investigation that it was concluded by the coroner that its original and real name was Adelaide. When death took place the chemist who had been called in gave a certificate contrary to the .et of Parliament, with a view to the burial. Mr. D. H. Dyte said the deceased died from debility. Of course s:. young a child should have been suckled, and not fed by hand. The jury returned a verdict of death from &Milt: from natural Valises. LAW INTELLIGENCE.—This Fay. COURT OF DIVORCE. (Before the Judge-Ordinary.) BOOTH V. BOOTH AND LEAPMAN. In this case the Queen's Proctor had intervened. The case, which came from Leed-z, was originally heard before his lordship on the petition of the hus band against the wife for dissolution of marriage, and there being no opposition, the decree nisi was made. Circumstances, however, had come to the knowlelge of the Queen's Proctor, and he now sought to have the petition presented on the first occasion dismissed. A witness named Fanny Higham stated that she accompanied the husband, who formerly lived at Leedp, to London to carry on the case for a divorce. There were two other persons with them, but as they arrived in London very late they all four went to a coffee-house near the railway station, and en gaged sleeping apartments. She (witness) occu pied the same room as Martin Booth, the peti tioner, and Richardson and the witness named Lodge slept in the other room. Richardson said, being desirous of getting a drop of whisky early in the morning, he went to Booth's bedroom, and after knocking he heard a female voice, and then Booth said he would bring it. It was done, and after that they had breakfast, and all went out to a lawyer's office, where Booth, the petitioner, got some money. Mrs. Wilber said she knew the peti tioner when he lived at Leeds, and she had had oc casion to desire him to quit her house on account of the disreputable company he used to bring home with him of an evening. Ellen Laycock said the petitioner was on the most intimate terms with a girl named Violetta Smith, and also that he was a constant visitor to the house of Lotty Wilmot, in Lower-street, Leeds. Mr. John Pollard, the Superintendent of the West Riding Constabulary, said he knew the petitioner, Martin Booth, very well. He had known him for many years as a most disreputable character. He had kept a noto rious house in Leeds, and was the associate of the most dissolute characters in the place. The Judge-Ordinary said a more abandoned case had never come before the Court, and it illustrated most remarkably the wisdom of the Queen's Proctor intervening. Here was a wife living in adultery her self giving her husband £5O to procure a divorce, and on the petitioner coining before the Court, there being no opposition, a decree nisi was made. It was now proved that the petitioner, on the very nightihe arrived in London, being that previous to his attending in that court in the capacity of a witness, he had himself committed the same offence with one of the other witnesses, named Fanny Higham. The petitioner was a person who had trampled under foot every moral obligation, and therefore the ietition he had formally presented would be dis missed, and with costs against the co-respondent, if it was so desired. It was intimated to his lordship that the co-re spondent was dead. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. (Before the Lord Chief Baron.) WOODIIOUSE V. DICKER• The hearing of this trial, which commenced yes terday, was resumed this morning. It was an action brought for an illegal arrest under a writ of ca. sa. issued in respect of a judgment which had been obtained by the defendant against the plain tiff upon a certain biil of exchange after such judg ment bad been satisfied by the payment of the amount of the debt and costs. The defendant pleaded not guilty, and that the plaintiff had not satisfied the judgment befere the arrest took place. It appeared that the plaintiff had formerly been a lieutenant in the 13th Infantry, and the defendant was a bill discounter. In the autumn of 1866 the plaintiff was indebted to the defendant in the sum of £4BO, for money advanced upon four bills of exchange. In respect of that sum the defendant had obtained judgment against the plaintiff, and had issued execution, lodging a writ of ca. sa. in the hands of the sheriff. In August the plaintiff sold his commission for £7OO, and the money was paid into Messrs. Cox and Company's, who received instructions to pay the bills held by the defendant. The bills having been paid, the de-. fendaut's attorney wrote to the sheriff, requesting him nut to put the writ of ca. sa. into execu tion, as the matter had been settled. In the following January the plaintiff was shooting in company with several friends near Bognor, when he was arrested under the ca. sa., and taken thirty miles to Petworth Gaol, where be was de tained for eight days, until he was able to show that the bills had been paid and the judgment satisfied, when he obtained his release. The defence was that Messrs. Cox had paid the £4BO to the defendant under a mistake, they h av i ng om i tted to deb i t the plaintiff's account with a bill of exchange which they had discounted for him, and that when the error was discovered the defendant had repaid Messrs. Cox £lOO, receiving back from them the £lOO bill, upon which the judgment in respect of which the ca. sa. was issued, had been obtained. The defendant, under these circumstances, thought be had a right to put the ca. sa. into force, in order to compel the plaintiff to pay the remainder of the debt. There was no malice upon the part of the defendant in causing the plaintiff to be arrested. The case is not expected to conclude before the rising of the Court. 110 112 BRITISH "'OBSESSIONS. 100 Atlantic & St. Lawrence all 53 65 et;Bom.,Baroda, &Cen.ln. 100 104 105 103 4 gu. 5 per cent.. 20 Do. 3' shares lO p 4p 204 Buffalo & Lake Huron all 34 4 10 Do. Preference all 5 6 1 Buff.,Brant, &Goderich 100 at dloPlictt. a 18 ,t 7 2 8 4 . at Jape Town & Dock, gu. 100 18 22 100 Demerara, 7 p.c. per. pi all 09 102 et East Bengal, gu., sdo 100 .03 104 - E 1 : , .1 . 1 in ' . .• . . 1 10 " 00 6 _B 71 20 Do. J Extension at East Indian, gu. 5 p.o lOO 110 1104 109 4 1 4 et GrandTrunkot Canada 100 17 18 100 Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds 1 charge 0' p.o all 8 3 8 5 100 Do. let Pref. Bonds all 50 52 100 Do. do deferred 100 De. 2d Pref. Bonds all 53 35 100 Do. do. deterred - 100 Do. do. deferred 100 Do. 3d Pref. stook all 27 29 100 Do. 4th Pref. stook 1.00 Do. do. deterred at (3t. India Pen. gua. sp.e. 100 107 108 ILVI 14 i 93 co. Gua. 5 per cent lB 2 1 9 ! 20 Do. New gua. sp. o 6 2 C et kl t. South of India gua. 5 per cent at st Do 2 - Do. 44 per cent l ov 02 94 204 Treat Wes. of Canada all 15 4 15 4 204 Do. New . - - 100 Do. 6p. o Bt.s. pay. 1573 all 95 87 100 Do. 5$ do. pay. 1677-8 all 85 17 at Madras, gua. 5 p.o at Do. 41 do lOO 93 95 at Do. 43 do' .. 100 89 91 9:4 29 Do. Fifth Extension 5 at Melb. Cor. Bp. c. Buds. 100 50 Mel. & Hobson's Bay.. all et kl.Rl.C'da.6polstpf.bs 100 83 15 at Dude &Ithiik'nd, g. 5 p. o' 100 1014 1054 at Scinde .... , 100 100 Oil at Do. Delhi - e ll d 100 1004 1014 , 1001 101 20 Do. do . 1 :a. pj, 15 44 p et , Do. Punlaub.... ne, 100 99 100 1031 4 et Do.lndus St.Flot ba 100 85 87 BRITISH MINES. ------_ cam. ConeoL Gold, Um. 1 Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated 3O 54 64 D evon G. Cons. (Taviet 1 410 430 rakewalls 2.1.0 - ast Bassett (Illogan) 204 1 0 1 1 2 ast Caradon 2.14.. 5 6 'ast Cana Brea 34 2 24 East Grenville 2.14.0 14 2. last Gunnislake 8.3.0 4 4 'East Lovell 3.9.0 8 9 E. W'l Russell (Tavistk 11.7.6 14 2 Gam.& StAubyn(Gwen. 66 4 5 4 Great Laxey, limited all 17 18 18 Great South Tolgus 0.14.e - - Great Wheal bAsy 14.9.6 - - G. Wheal Vor (Helston 40 20 21 Grenville 9.0.6 11 14 Herod's Foot .... 8.10.0 35 37 - Hingston Downs 5.10.6 24 24 Margaret (Uny Lelant 13.17.. 6 8 Marke Valley 4.10.6 44 54 :4 31wyndy Iron Ore, lim SI 24 14 New S ton ...... North toskear . 384 5 7 N.Wh Baseett(lllogan 4.4.0 North Wheal Crotty ~ 2.13.0 2 3 ... Prosper United 8.14.0 2 24 Providence kUnyLelant 10.6.: 29 at , S. Caradon (St. Cleer) ..... 14 390 410 South Condurrow _.%Wheal Fran. (Mogan 18.18.9 374 424 . tray Park . 35.15,6 4 8 Tin Croft 9 12 14 Vigra and Clogan, lim.. all ,_. West Bassett (Illogan .. 14 4 11 ... W. Caradon (Liakeard 11 10 12 ..... West Chiverton ll 67 89 . West 8et0n."... 471 195 205 _ Wheal Bassett (Mogan 54 85 95 .... Wheal Buller (Redruth 16 18 19 Wheal Mary Ann (Men. 8 18 20 -- Wheal Seton ...„-- Wheal Trelawnev (Lis 5.17. 0 6 8 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Western, Orig. 4i per cent., n :FOREJGN*RAIL WAY'. Recife and San Francine, lira., gua. 7 per cent., 15 :N'OREWN MIkiEB. Cape Copper, B iVi Don Pedro, North Del Iley, 21 Peatarena United Gold, lim., 4 - St. John del Hey, lira , 20a 2 1 BANKS. Agra, lim., A, 111 Anglo Egyptian, lim., 174 Australasia, 67 Chartered slier. of India, London, and China, 28 City, 114 Consolidated, lim., 44 Imperial Ottoman, 94 London Chartered Bang of Australia, 234 London and County, 524_31 Ditto, new, 27 London Joint Stock, 34 London and 11 estminster. 684 8 Ditto, Scrip, 4 Metropolitan Bank, lim., 64 National Provincial of England, Ditto, 'd and 3d issue, 39 Oriental Bank Corporation, 92 MISCELLANEOUL An to American Telegraph, 191 Atlantic Telegraph, 49 Ditto, 8 par cent., 1024 Credit Fancier of England, him. 31 Egyptian 9 per Cent., Viceroy Loan, gua. by Egypt. Govt., 91 Gen. Credit and Discount, t tin_ 5 Lon , on and Provincial Marine, 11 New Quebrada, Ocean Marine Insurance), 2) Oriental Gas, him.. 61 Panama, New Zealand and Aus. R. Mail., 41 31 Peninsula and Oriental *team, 56} Rhymney Iron, 184 19 Viceioy of Egypt, 7 per cent. (Mortgage) Loan, 77 } TIIE ATIIERSTONE HUNT.—An interesting cere mony occurred on the occasion of the moot on Monday, the 17th ult. As was announced, the hounds met at Sib son, and, according to previous arrangement, immediately made for the famous covert of the Ambion Wood, belong ing to W. Stuart, Esq., of Aldenham. On arriving at this jar-famed spot, Lord Curzon, master of the hounds, called together his brother sportsmen to join with him in doing honour to Mr. Thomas 13raddeld, of the Anibien Hill Farm, who for half a century has been a zealous fox pro server, and has ever been noted for his generous hospitality 'to the "Hunt." The mole the "Hunt" chose to mark their high appreciation of Mr. Bradfield's character and worth was by requesting his acceptance of a very handsome tankard, which bears the following inscription:—"Pre sented to Thomas Bradfield, by the members of the Allier stone Hunt, in gratitude to him for his many years services as a fox preserver. Jau., 1868."—Mr. Bradfield is so de servedly esteemed by his numerous friends and neigh bours—enemies he has none—that all classes sincerely congratulate him upon his being made the object of so much regard and esteem. MARKETS—('t his Day.) COLONIAL AND FOREIGN PRODUCE. The markets are quiet this morning, without any new feature worthy of remark. TALLOW. The market is quiet, at 42s to 42s 3d on the spot; 425, three months ; last three mouths, 43s to 43s 6d. HAY AND STRAW. Trade generally very dull. First cut clover, being rather scarce, is pretty firm, at 958 as the top price. Second cut is very irregular in quality, and dull, at 50s to 80s. Meadow hay, 60s to 84s. Straw plentiful and dull, at 28s to 335. POTATOES. Supplies are very short, and prices higher. Cattto feed firmer; wurtzell short supply, at 30s; Swedes is good Supply, at 40s to 'sos per ton. VEGETABLES. The green stuff trade is very dull, with large supplies. Green, is 6d to 2s 6d per dozen bunches; savoys, 6d to is ; turnips, is 6d to 2s 6d ; carrots, 3s to 4s ; Brussels sprouts, 6d to is per dozen ; stalks, is 6d to 28 6d per bushel. COTTON MARKET. LIVERPOOL, Feb. B.—Market opens strong. Sales pro , bably 12,000 to 15,000 bales. COAL .M Price per Ton rARKET. ' at the Close, s d Haswell lB 0 Original Hartlepool lB 0 Hartlepool l6 3 Wyl am l5 6 Kolloe. l6 0 Hetton Hetton Lyons l5 8 s d Hawthorn l5 3 Bradyell'elletton... ...16 3 S. Hollyvrell screened 14 0 South Hetton Tunstall l5 6 Heugh Hall l7 3 PORTLAND CONVICT ESTABLISHMENT. Some little excitement has been occasioned at Portland during the past week by the detection and punishment of two of the warders employed at the Convict Prison for being in unlawful communication with the prisoners under con finement. The system of "trafficking" between the warders and the convicts seems to have been on the in crease of late, and consequently a vigilant watch has been set by the authorities to check the unlawful intercourse which has been carried on. On Friday last a warder, named Morris de Young, was taken into custody, charged with conveying letters out of the prison, and supplying tobacco to a Belgian convict named Milkien wiez. The desire evinced by the prisoners to obtain tobacco is manifested in the fact that 120 ounces of bread is willingly exchanged for an ounce of "weed," while many of the convicts would readily forego a meal in order to possess themselves of a small portion of that luxury. The convicts had, it appeared, intrusted letters to the warder, who had posted them, and had supplied 21b. of tobacco in all to 31ilkienwiez, for which he was sentenced to three mouths' hard labour. On Monday another warder, named Peter Aldersley, was charged with a similar offence, and was detected in the act of fetch ing a parcel from the Weymouth railway station, contain ing tobacco and money, which he intended to deliver to a convict named Batt. lie had also posted letters to a Mrs. O'Bmieu, 42, Buttesland-street, Horton, and the parcel was addressed to "William Thompson, to be left at the Weymouth station till called for." The offence was fully proved, and he was sentenced to four months' hard labour. An Alabama paper announced that it would keep silent in regard to a " cartain little affair" if a bottle of champagne were sent to the office. The editor received seven bottles from seven different parties. SPORTING OPINIONS. (From the Sportsman.) The \lrate!loo Cup quotations show little or no change since I last wrote, 100 to 6 being still cur rently offered on the field. Lord Lurgan's nomina tion, however, seems to be in most demand for money, as; whenever there is a chance of obtaining 20 to 1, takers are found in plenty ready and willing to operate. The nomination of Lord Sefton is also the subject of continual inquiry, and 'presents every. appearance of speedily joining the 20 to 1 division. To-day 25 to 1 would have been freely accepted in several quarters had the price been obtainable, hut the bookmakers persistently declined to mak.) any advance upon 20 to 1. Mr. Blanchard's nomination was entrusted with a little money at 25 to 1, and 30 to 1 was asked for about Mr. Lister's, but not more than 25 to 1 was offered. The nomination of Lord Stair was in general re quest at 33 to 1, and that of Mr. Spinks would have received substantial support at 40 to 1, but in the latter case no business was effected, 1000 to_3o being the best bid. (From the Sporting Life.) The movements on the Two Thousand since my last have neither been important nor significant. Rosicrucian has, by common consent, taken his position at the head of the betting and Sir Joseph Hawley's commission is apparently exhausted at the price ; and while 9 to 4 is offered about the son of Beadsman, backers are ready to take 5 to 2 about him. Backers of Pace (who has been steadily supported for some time) can obtain no higher price than 8 to 1, and 9 to 1 would be taken about him. Those who prefer to follow " good men" may like to know that Mr. Steel is seemingly a warm partisan of Pace for the Derby, and on Wed nesday at the Club, after that leviathan bookmaker had accepted 500 to 35 twice, he loudly proclaimed his desire to back Pace to win him £2,000 more, but was not accommodated. It is a bad thing to op pose such well-informed operators, but I am assured that the stable absolutely consider Pace to be " slow and puddling"—the identical words which he used in describing his chance. The name of that high priced impostor, St. Ronan, has cropped up in the Two Thousand betting, and 1,000 to 26 is taken about the lumbering son of St. Albans and Elspeth. After the Stockbridge Meeting this horse was backed to win a great sum of money for the Derby, but his proving another Hermit to Mr. Chaplin seems out of the question. An offer of 40 to 1 was made against Blue Gown for the Guineas, but in the pre sent position of Rosicrucian it seems literally any odds against " the Gown." Apart, however, from the favouritism of his stable-companions, there is evidently something seriously amiss with " the Gown," who has been absent from his exercise ground for weeks. (From Bell's Life.) Plenty of matter has been stirring of late to keel the racing world on the qui vice, and the season't , near approach is indicated by many signs. It ma) almost be consilered as under way, in fact, the in dustrious ones having been fairly started at Car marthen, though they will have nothing but steeple chasing to keep them going till Lincoln. This description of sport, however, has now a faster hold on the racing public, perhaps, than ever it had, no further proof being needed of its popu larity than the speculation the Liverpool Grand .National is creating, in the face of the great " legiti mate" events that were simultaneously with it thrust upon society. It is plain that until the contest is over wo shall hear very little of the Northampton Stakes or City and Suburban Handicaps that used "to fairly rival the Chester Cup iu the amount of interest created, but which have at present been as dead letters even as the Newmarke t or " Metrop," or the more modern St. Liz. Slow as the business is, the betting at the clubs on the old-established Cestrian prize has.* this week already ex tended over some twenty animals —a fat greater number than have been introduced for the Lincolnshire Handicap or the Waterloo Coursing Cup; and the pencils have not been idle over the three year oil races since our last. Rosi crucian is still all the rage for the Two Thousand, only the bold bets of 1,000 to 600 and 500 to 300 laid " with a start" having had the effect of steady ing him at all, or keeping him at a reasonable price; nevertheless, he cannot fairly maintain his plat alongside the Lady for the Derby, and there are not a few good judges who would prefer tL, stand Green Sleeve to him for both his races did the market allow. harvester's arrival at Newo market has not much altered the aspect of affairs with reference to M. Da.wson's lot, having created far less stir than had been anticipated ; and we may have a far greater sensation when another darkie— who shall be nameless, for he is the son of a pirate and a peeress changes his quarters, and joins Viscount at Whitewall. We may go so far as to hint he is a relative of one " Paul" (not the one who recently went to Davey's locker —and, we hope, took something out), ha§ Wintered well, and will not prove a Mid summer colt, if he is nearly so good as he looks ; but what his capabilities are is a point not yet proven, and it may happen after all that the lowest whisperings concerning him die away when he has been " asked a question." There are just as " dark" things among the host in the Liverpool Grand National Steeplechase, a question of more immediate importance, and one that we purpose discussing in detail this week, so as to com plete our series of articles on the great spring events before the season commences. No light was thrown upon by the recent doings in Wales, only Fly fisher of the whole lot engaged performing there, and he figured so badly as to render it very impro bable lie will put in an appearanee at Aintree. The Price of Gold. The quotation of gold at Paris is about at par, and the short exchange on London is 25f. 15c. per Li sterling. On c )mparing these rates with the English Mint price 01 104 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is,nearly.one-tenth dearer in Paris than in London. The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is about 110 per cent. ;At this rate there is a slight profit on the importation of gold from the United States. ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—Mr. Hudson, of Castleacre, has resigned his seat at the Council of the Royal Agricultural Society, in consequence of his some what advanced ago. Mr. Hudson is well known as an agriculturist throughout Great Britain. MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—On Thursday after noon, at Higham, a village about three miles from Barns ley, two young men, Henry and John Dawson, were prac tising a well known Yorkshire game known as " Knur and Spell," in which an ordinary stick, some two feet in length, has a solid piece of wood throe inches long and two inches in depth screwed on for the purpose of striking a marble. While John Dawson was striking at a marble with all his force, the bottom, or pommel, flew off, and striking his brother on the temple, killed him on the spot. Medical aid was called in, but of no avail. W AT ERS OF AFFLICTION. —It is comp u ted that the cost of distilling water at Annesley Bay is 2s. a gallon, and the daily needs of the men anThedr a e nim fore a the water supply ls collected there ave rage 40,000 gallons a da y . alone of that station is costing the British taxpayers at the rate of £1,520,000 a year.—fall -mall Gazette. BIRMINGHAM HORSE AND HOUND SHOW.—At a meeting of the Birmingham Cattle Show Council, held a few days ago (froward Luckcock, Esq., in the chair), it was decided to hold a Horse and Hound Show, as last year, in the month of June next, provided a guarantee fund of £l,OOO is raise d by the town to insure the Cattle Show Council against loss. The Mayor has liberally headed the guarantee fund, and there is no doubt the su m will be speedily p romised, as on the last two occa sions the Horse Show p roved a source of profit to the managers. We understand the week commencing June 221 is the time fixed upon for the show. Loss OF A STEIMER.—Ou Thursday the screw steamer Swan, Captain Ilurrell, from Loudon for Newcastle, put into Lowestoft, with her bow considerably damaged, having been in collision with the Seagull, pad dle steamer, which sunk in a few minutes. One passen ger was lost, but all the others, with the crew, were saved, and were landed at Lowestoft by the Swan. The value of the lost steamer is estimated at £15,000, and her cargo at £lO,OOO. The passenger lost was a Dutchman, and it is sur posed that ho was killed in his berth. Part of the crew of the Seagull, including the engineer, carpenter, and stewardess, took to the lifeboat, which was on deck, nod as the steamer steadily settled the lifeboat, with those in it, floated over the taffrail, and eventually got on board the Swan. The crew saved nothing but what they stood in. LA' • '1 Y. 1" 1 " t FDIT iON • SUN OFFICE, 6 o'CLocK. LATE iT WES r END BETTING. THIS DAY. LINCOLN HANDICAP. 9 to lon the field (offered) CITY AND SUBURBAN. 33 to 1 ag.st Lady Coventry CHESTER CUP. 15 to 1 agst Viridis (taken) 25 to 1 110 Beesiwing (taken) TWO THOU3AND. O to 4 agst Ttlsicruciau (offeran) Bto 1 agst Pace (taken freely) DERBY. 6to 1 agst Lady Elizabeth (offered) 7to 1 agst Rosicrucian (offered) SPORTING INTEL LIGENCE—rais Day. VICTORIA. CLUB BETTING—Tuts DAY. LINCOLN HANDICAP. 9to 1 agst Czar (taken and offered) 20 to 1 agst Easby (taken) 20 to 1 agst Artesian (taken) 20 to 1 agst Grey Stocking (taken) 25 to 1 agst Purveyor (taken) 25 to 1 agst Cauthloen (taken) LIVERPOOL GRAND NATIONAL. 13 to 1 agst Fan (taken and offered) 100 to 7 agst Daisy (offered) 100 to 7 agst Tusculanum (offered) 100 to 7 agst Tennyson (taken and offered) 25 to 1 agst Clansman (taken and offered) 25 to 1 agst Helen (offered) CITY AND SUBURBAN. 25 to 1 agst Franchise (taken) 33 to 1 agst Lady Coventry (taken and offered) CHESTER CUP. 100 to 7 agst Viridis (offered) 20 to 1 agst Beeswing (offered) 25 to 1 agst Dalby (offered) TWO THOUSAND. sto 2 agst Rosicrucian (taken) 17 to 2 agst Pace (taken) 1000 to 80 agst Typhoeus (taken) DERBY. 4000 to 100 agst Blue Gown (taken) 40 to 1 agst Banditto (offered) THE ROTUNDA CLUB AND COMMISSION EXCHANGE, THREE DOORS FROM BLACKFRIARS BRIDGE,:SURREY SIDE IS NOW OPEN FOR BUSINESS. Annual Subscription Five Shillings. Responsible Bookmakers desiring Stands should apply immediately (as the number will be limited) to the Seer Lary, 3, Blaekfriars-road. RACING FIXTI FEBR Lincoln Spring st tnsdeld iarro W URES FOR 1868. Nottingham Spring 25 I Derby Spring MA: L'verpool Spring M 3 !) .ehnsford Spring M 10 3.,rowsbury Spring llO West Drayton l2 Warwick Spring Margate Epsom Spring Meeting 24 Croxton Park Northampton Bromley Spring 6 Durham liendou l3 Newmarket Craven Catterick Bridge IG Lewes Spring T hirsk Curragli April 2l OXFORD UNIVERSITY BOAT CLUB. L'IIE AMERICAN EIGHT AND THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. A Captain's meeting was held on Monday last in the University Barge, when a statement of accounts was road and passed as satisfactory. Mr. E. S. Carter, Worcester, was at the same time elected on the committee, in place of R. S. Bridges, Corpus Christi College, resigned; and Mr. R. G. Marsden, Merton, was elected treasurer, in the place of the same gentleman. The Torpids were fixed to begin on Thursday the 27th instant, and to continue on the six following days. Mr. W. W. Wood, University, brought forward a motion that the eight-oar races be divided into two heats, as at Cambridge, so as to lengthen the dis tance the boats have to row. After much discussion, in which many gentlemen spoke, the motion was lost by majority of 12, without the President voting. The Pre sident, Mr. F. Willan, then made, known to the meeting the whole of the circumstances under which an attempt is being made to get up a race between Oxford and American Universitios, and read the correspondence on the subject. The management of the affair up to the present time by the President was highly approved, and it was finally agreed to leave it to the committee, under whose coa -1 sidetation it now remains. SPECIAL CONSTABLES. This afternoon, the magistrates, Henry White, Esq., and J. G. Stillwell, Esq., attended for the twenty-third time at the lhad-quarters of the Covent-garden Division, for the purpose of adding to the already strong force of special constables which have been enrolled in this parish. The utmost excitement was occasioned in the neighbourhood by the arrival of Mr. Strange, and the whole of the employ6s of the Alhambra Palace, headed by the splendid band of that establishment. Immediately the officers were sworn in, the Chairman of the bench (H. White, Esq.) addressed the assembly in the] most loyal terms.—The hon. ;gentleman's address, calling forth repeated cheers. Mr. 'Web ster then led the whole of the company, and the employe's of the Olympic and Adelphi Theatres, into the room, and immediately the first batch of gen tlemen had taken their places in front of the table, Mr. White also addressed them appropriately. He said he saw there before him many gentlemen who had distinguished themselves on the mimic stage, but he felt that in the event of any emergency . arising the same gentlemen would as greatly distin gish themselves in defending their Queen, and main taining the peace of the country. The address was received with the most enthusiastic cheering, and altogether the proceedings of the afternoon were of the most enlivening character, which were not at all diminished by the fact that, after the whole body had been sworn they formed up outs side the Vestry-offices, wearing their badges and shouldering their staves, the band during the time playing the "National Anthem." OPENING OF THE TAY SALMON FISHINGS.—The salmon fiahings on the Tay and its tributaries opened on Wednesday for the season 1868. The past spawning season has been most favourable in every re spect, the river having been almost always at summer level, which precluded the danger of the spawn being left dry, as is invariably the case when the spawn is deposited during the continuance of high water. The weather which for months after the beginning of close time was open and favourable, changed about a fortnight ago, and since then has been stormy in the extreme, and on Friday last the Tay rose to an alarming height, flooding all the level lands on its banks. The weather on Wednesday was boisterous and:stormy, and not favourable either for net or rod fishing. The not however, were at work, and, every thing considered, had a fair amount of success. At Stan ley 37 fish were got, most of them of large size. The first shot on Linn of Campsie yielded 13 fine fish, and a num ber more were got on the same station in the course of the' day. Tho other stations fished pretty well, but below the bridge of Perth little was done. Yesterday the water was a good deal above the level for successful fishing, but a goodly number of fish were nevertheless landed with net. A number of rod fishers were out, but we did not hear of any of them having obtained s port. The river is swarm ing with fish, and, s h ou ld the weather prove favourable, anglers anticipate rare sport. SALMON FISHING ON LOCH TAY.—The fishing on this loch began on the sth inst. (Wednesday). Mr. Ashley Dodds, water, vice gentleman, fishes this season the pre servedat vice Mr. M'Farlane, of Glasgow, who had it last year. Mr. M‘F ay l ane i s ex p ec ted at Auchmore House in the course of a few days to fish the Auchmoro portion of the lake this year. We had a continued flood in the rivers here during almost the whole of last week, so that the loch is higher at present than it has been for the last nineteen years. We have had our own share of the high winds prevailing for the last ten days, and although dwelling-houses have escaped unscathed, tho plantations have suffered severely. Great Jots of larch and fir and other trees have been uprooted and smashed. TILE LIVERPOOL CAB STRIKE.—Tbe strike still continues, and it is now stated that the 'bus proprietors are about to strike also, in order to support the cabbies, and to bring the corporation more speedily to terms. In the meantime the corporation offer to license any species of vehicle for conve,yauce of goods or passengers. EXTRAORDINARY CATCII OF BADGERS NEAR BOIDMIN.—On Monday last whilst a party of tradesmen of Bodmin were engaged in rabbit sporting on the farm of H William I'oarse, at Coleruniek, in the parish of liellaLd, a large tier of holes was discovered, and on an examination was found to contain badgers. After two nand half-hours' exercise of picks and shovels, they su ceeded in capturing, with the aid of only one small ter rier, weighing about twelve pounds, four splendid badgere, weighing about one hundred pounds.—Wester Daily Mercury. [LOII. 'RIL. ~:y ). 7. •