The Sun. — London, England, 1868-10-06 00:00:00

ONty MARIIET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIWINCB, CITY, Two o'CLocK. the Italian Government Six per Cent. Tobacco e,Loan of 237 , 0 00,000 fr., or £9,404,762 sterling, has oeen i ntroduced by Me ssrs . St ern B rot h ers , an d mos t favourably received. The Bonds, which are of £2O and £lOO each, bear interest from the Ist July last, athey a re redeemable at par in fifteen years by b learlY drawi ngs. Th e principal and i nterest, oth of which are guaranteed by the Italian Govern 12.lent, are p aya bl e in gold in Italy, Paris, Berlin, and London, and specially secured upon the P r oduce of the tobacco revenues. The object is t,onnevffenectitnii ful a 01oanjtyo the Government under the last ; and tho Bonds are issued by the company " Socidte pour la Regre Co-int eressee des Tabu , s," which with a capital of ,f 2,000,000 has obtained the right of farming the Italian tobacco manufacture for fifteen years. The gross receipts from thi s manu f acture amounte d i n 1867 to £3,6 80 , 0 00. The holders of the bonds have the ° tion of taki ng at par 47,400 shares in the company of X2O each, at th e rate of one share for every ten X2O each, for which purpose the concessionaires have appropriated 47 , 4 00 shares out of the 100,000 com prising th e capital. The price of issue of the bonds is at.the rate of £Bl 7s per £lOO bond ; and taking Into account the discount of 4 per cent. on payment in t all, the coupon on January 1, 1869, and the half- Yearly drawing s, the loan will iean interest to the subsc r ib ers of about 95 per cent . The subscription closes on Thursday evening. 8 , The Stock M arkets opened this morning generally ` e adY• The introduction of the Italian Tobacco loan h " had a favourable effect, and business is reported I , t _t prem. Italian (1861), Turkish, and Spanish have advanced to 4 per cent. English railways are dull, especially Great Northern, Brighton and South Eastern The first -mentioned is sold on the competi _o of the Midland, and the two others on reduced receipts. The only other feature is the heaviness of Royal Mail Steam shares. 4. moderate demand is experienced for discounts, it is e x p ected that the present rate, namely, 15 " Will continue t o b e supported :unt i l t h e divi ttends are released. rsConsols are steady at 94i to 945 for money, and to 94i for the November Account. New and educed Three per Cents, 935 to 93} ; India Five Cent., 11,4- to 1141 ; Exchequer Bills, 16s to p rem. advance of ti in Turkish, at 40i to 4C-a • of f in Nei Spanish of at 322 to 33 • and in Italian (1861) at 515 to 52 5 ; and of in ' Mexican, at 155 to 152 ; and .i ,,, n P t e o rnv l i 2 a i n, ; at 784 to 782. Greek Bonds are firm at Seven per Cents., (1864), 825 to 83k ; Viceroy's —erns., 732 to 75f ; ditto, Nine per 81 e nts., 95 to 954 ; Brazilian, 76k to 762 ; Danubian, 82 ; and Honduras, 81 to 82. ,he Italian Tobacco Loan is 1k to 15 prem. 4 ° American Securities United States Five-Twenty _•'-,,096 toe Steady, at 73ft to 731. Illinois are f lower, to 325 . 9 7 ; Erie Sh ares , w ith out c h ange , a t 32 a Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures re 37 1 to 38f, and the Consolidated Mortgage Bonds, 392 to 40f. T he variation s i n h ome railway shares are unimpor andlnto. vs. There i s a recovery of fin Greet Northern, to 1085 ; a n d i n Sh e ffi e ld , at 47 } t o 47/ ; of 11. in Metropolitan, at 105 k to 1052. Great Xorthern A are flower, at 106 to 1065 ; and there is a f a ll of i t in South-Eastern, at 775 to 78 ; and in I3righton, at 515 t o 5 1 2 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire are 128 to 1285 ; Midl an d, 1102 t o 111 f ; G rea t s tern, 40-1 to 40i ; Gre a t We s te r n, 49 to 495 ; a nd Caledonian, 69 to 695. Great I n di an Peninsula Railway New Four per Ue r nt o . re D ig e n benture Sto c k i s 945 t o 9 5 5 . railway shares are not quite so firm. Lom bardo -Venetian is 5 lower, at 165 to 16,E ; Great Luxembourg, 102 to 11. The receipts of the Great Luxembourg Railway last Week show an increase of £5OB 8s 9d. Bank Sh ares continue to attract little attention, and the only movement in prices is a decline off in London and County, being quoted at 485 to 495 ; Agra (A.), 115 to 125 ; Alliance, 13 to 12 dis. ; A nglo-Austrian, 6 to 7 prem. ; Chartered Mercantile, 29 5 to 305 ; Consolid a t e d, 4a to 45 •, Imperial Otto man, 1f to 15 prem. ; Loudon and Westhlinster, 65 to 66 ; ditto New, 52 to 53 ; Oriental, 445 to 455 ; London Joint Stock, 315 to 325 ; and Union of Lon don, 335 to 345. Foreign Mining sha res are s t ea d y . St J o h n d e l Rey is marked at 185 to 195 ; Rossa Grande, 5 to f poem. • ; Port Philip, 4 to 4 ; and Choutales, 25 Miscellaneous Securities are again in little request, and prices are without change. Anglo-American Telegraph is quoted at 21 to 21f ; Atlantic Telegraph andt per C en t ., 31 to 45 ; Hudson's Bay, 15 to 155 ; London General Omnibus, 1 to 1/. Advice s f rom the Don Pedro North del Rey Mines to the 2 n d ult , give the produ ce t o d a te as 10,478 oit ava s, and the estimate for the month of August was 12,500 oitavas. The produce of the Rossa Grande G o d ld Mines to the 20th August, was 1,164 oitav as, and the estimate for the whole month was 1,600 oitavas. ea The Gov ernment of Victoria are contemplating an : ,37 a ppeal to th e L on d on M oney M ar k e t f or cap i ta l t° oe used in the construction of railways. The first application will be for £2,000,000 for making a line connecting the go ld- pro d uc i ng di str i ct o f O vens, inetuding Wan gara t ta, B eech worth, and Al b urg, with Melbourne, which, it is calculated, will pay 6 per Cent There were no gold operations at the Bank yes terday. T he Danube has brought £7,798 in specie from the 13razils. The Weser and the City of Cork have brought £ 3 , 0 00 from N ew Y or k. At Melbourne the failure has taken place of hp e e Anderson, a squatter and land speculator. liabilities amount to upwards of £200,000, and a assets are less than £lOO. t.tt S ydney the su s p ens i on was announce d o f F . a - altn er The warehousem an , for about £19,000. Sod indecrease in the South Eastern traffic is £1,419, Th; thereceipts of the Lucknow and Cawnpore line endin Gude an d R ohilkund Railway for the week £9748, the creas e Th 23rd Au gus t show an increase of 1 1€1. The Great We s t ern o f C ana d a in £ll, and t h e G rand Trunk, £1,270. V eue ral meeting of the p ro p r i e t ors o f th e R oya l team Packet Company has been called for the 28 th inst. The C ape Railway Company have called the:half yd e e a n r ! a y r itn3 eetin g for the 27th inst., for the purpose of g dividends on the capital stock ; and the half- Yearly meeting of the Demerara Railway Com- Pa_nY Will be held on the 23rd inst. Co2:he directors of the English and Australian Copper — ra Pany (Limited) have received advices from their manager, dated Port Adelaide, 17th August last. The quantity of coal at Kooringa was 795 tons, at Kapun a 1 79 tons, and at Port Adelaide 795 tons. There furnaces and one refinery at the Port Works. Since shi pped, of last advices 200 tons of copper had been Wed, and about 200 tons more were in course of !shipment n The directors of the St. John del Rey Mining I l ' om pany (Limited) h ave rece i ved per Danube the o,ll o wing report, d ate d Morro Velho, August 29 : Morro Velho, produce 2nd division of August, ten days 1,919 oitavas ; yield 1,222 oitavas per ton. Gaia produce 2nd division of August, ten days 611 oitavas ; yield 2,314 oitavas per ton. !The directors of the Rhymney Railway Company b ng n e v a i r t i e applications for 11,000 £lO preference share s , 6 per cent. interest, being a portion of an issue of £213,00 0 authorised by the Companies' Act of required to comp l ete t h e Card i ff and Caerphilly % s ne, in course of constructi on . Th e s h ares are ouered at par. £2 are p a y a bl e t h e 15t h i nst., an d on four made su bsequent quarters. Application should tinhiellayrdr.iff.ine gives e the 12th inst. The an the Rhymney Rhymney Railway Cardiff direct access Hitherto it has paid the Taff Vale Rail ay tolls, now am oun ti ng to a b out £12,000 a year, for traffic sent over the Taff Vale to Cardiff. This cost o nleUn ft will al one su ffi ce to meet the interest on the co nstruction, without taking into accoun t th e gradual increase." BLITIBII rIINDS--TWO O'CLOCK. . UOVERNMEXT FUNDS. ° Per Cent. Consols D itto for Account, Nov. 5 . 94 Per Cent. Reduc e d 93 ,ew 3 per Cent 0 ow 2.1 per Cent. Jan. 1894 1:4) . 0 per Cent. Jan. 1873 D o. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 — Do (Red Sea Telek,ra.ph), Aug., Ot l9OB — Exchequer Bills, 41,000, 2 per 20 pm 1)0. Do 4500 £lOO £2OO — u / 3 tnk of England St Stock, 4 per Cent Do account t.l t adnada 4 Cent. Bonds — e irlter-Colonial Onanturn INDIAN 60VEltNMENT SECURITImg india tock, 10f per Cent., AprillB7l ... Do. Opening, for Account — P - 5 per Cent. July, 1880 uO.l Per Cent , Oct. 1888 Do. Certificate's o. D - Enfaced Pa pe ,. 1 per Cent _ 00 . 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 u o. 51- per Cent., May 1879 _ Do a per Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872 — Do. do. 1877 — Do, do. 1882 — D,.,. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 Do Bonds, 4 per Cent., 41,000 1) 0. Under 41,000 TONSIUN IrIiNDB—TWO O'CLOCK. Argentine Republic, t per Cent ... . Auitrian Bonds 5 per Cent. 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent — O. 4f per Cent., 1852 74 Do. do. 1858.... Do. do., 1860 — Do. do., 1863 67 Do. 5 per Cent, 1865 — Do Account 761 B,•enos Ayres 6 per Cent. DJ 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) Cuba, 6por Cent. Cullum 6 per Cent — Do. 41 per Cent — Co. 6 por Cent., B — Do., 1867 Do., 7 per Cent., 1866 — Do., Scrip £32 paid C )I, , mbian, 6 per Cent. DAnisb, 3 per Cent. 1825 , — Danubian Principalities, 7 liar Cent — Do 8 per Cent., 1867 oquador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent. Egyptia.n, 7 per Cent — Do Second Issue — • e 000000 Do. £5OO Bonds Do. £IOC Bonds — Do. 1861 Do. Account Do. .LSW, Bonds Do. £lOO Ponds English Scrip, 1868 Do do. £l5 pd — Government Railway Debentures GreeK (, per Cent., 1821 5, ex Coups — 8511 Do..ijecunt Do. Coupons , • Do. Account Guatemala 5 per Cent .. Honduras Gov. Rai]. Loan., 10p. Ct., .£25 p 891 Italian 5 per Cent., 1865 Do. Account . . 7B} Do Msremmana Railway — Mexican 3 per Cent — Ditto for Account Do. 1864 — Do 6 per Cont. Anglo-French — Mourevidean 6 per Cent. .. — Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent , New Granada — Do 3 per Cen — Do. Deferred Do Land Warrants (Hectares) Peruvian 5 per Cent. 1865 Do Account .. 784 4 4 Do 44 per Cent. (Uribarren) Do 44 per Cent. : 1862 - Do Account ortuguese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, 7,'9,'60,''2,'3 374 4 Do. do. 1867 371 Do. do. Scrip, £2O paid — Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ SL Do 44 per Cent, 1850 Do 44 per Cent., 1860 Do 3 per Cont., 1859 Do 5 per Cont., 1862 Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1864, £lOO Bonds , Do. do. £B4 los. do. Do., 1866, £lOO 80nd5...... 904 4 4 Do. do £B4 15s. do — Do Nicolas Railway 674 Sardinian 5 per Cent — Spanish 3 per Con ... Do. Account — Do. 1867 Do. Account Do. New Deferred — Do. Account Do. Passive — Do. Account Do. Corn. Cert. of Coup. not funded Do. Account Swedish Provincial Mortgage Loan Do Government, 1864 Do do, 1868 Do do, Scrip — pm Turkish 6 per Cent. ........ ......_.... . — Do Account Do 6 per Cent. 1858 Do Account Do £lOO Bonds Do 6 per Cent., 1862 Do Account Do £lOO Bonds Do. 1863 ~ 62 _ Do 5 per Cent., 1865 Do Account Do 6 per Cent., 1865 641 5 44 Do 4 per Cent., Guaranteed Venezuela, 3 per Cent. Do 6 per Cent., 1862 Do 6 por Cent. 1864 Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates — Dividends on the above payable in London. Austrian o per Cent. Ex 10 Florins Belgian, 44 per cent., Ex. 25f. Dutch 24 per Cent. Ex. 12 Guil„ Do Account French Rentes, 3 per Cent.. Ex. 25f. — Italian 5 per Cent. 1861, Ex. 25f. Do. Account.. TWO OTLIMIL. Consuls, Money 94. 4 Do. Account, Nov. 5 7HE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY. (THIS DAY.) The quarterly meeting of the shareholders took place this afternoon at the Norfolk-street offices, Strand. Mr. GRUNEISEN (the secretary) having read the adver tisement convening the meeting, the annexed report was read:— Tho Executive Committee have much pleasure in meet ing the shareholders at the close of the sixteenth financial year, and at being enabled to make the following highly gratifying returns for the four quarters of the year ending the 30th of September last : Qrs. ending Shares in Shares Total progress. Complete. Shares. Receipts. ---- Dec 25,1567 .... 610 179 789 £54,268 9 8 March 25, 1863 .. 395 175 570 50,948 13 4 June 24, 1. , 63.... 823 83 905 49,697 6 4 Sept. 30, 1563 ...... 418 89 507 33,428 10 2 2,245 526 2,771 188,342 19 6 Totals to Mi chaelmas, 1867. 22,386 5,397 27,783 1,100,603 7 9 -- - --- Grand totals to Michaelmas, 186 24,631 5,923 30,554 1,288,946 7 3 The total withi society(lBs2) The total sale of twals since the formation of the ) Michaelmas, 1868, are... £321,984 19 6 land for the same period is •.. ... 583,650 15 1 The reserve fund to Michaelmas, 1868, is... 12,153 2 9 The last share number issued to September 30,1868, was No. 30,554. The estates allotted since the last Midsummer report have been the following:— ]. Holloway (Upper), Middlesex, July 23. 2. Reigate (Red Hill), Surrey (East), Aug. 13. 3. Northampton (Kingathorpe), Northamptonshire, Sept. 3. It is a matter of congratulation that the final allotment of estates by the society should have terminated with the offering of such eligible building properties as those at Holloway, Reigate, and Northampton. The first men tioned estate, in the parish of Islington, can only be re garded as the continuation of the streets of London ; the second is beautifully situated within a short walk of the Red Hill Station, with a frontage to the high road to Reigate town ; and the last is a piece of land, within a short distance from the centre of the town of Northamp ton, just outside the borough boundary, and therefore is free from the town rates. The allotment at Northampton took place after a public meeting, at which the Mayor pre sided, and at which Messrs. Currie and Winstanley, mem bers of the Board, attended as a deputation, to explain the mode of selling land by allotment. The social advantages presented by the society's system of investment, and of making advances for building, were fully recognised at the meeting, by the unanimous passing of a resolution, expressive of confidence in the Conservative Land Society. As intimated in former reports, the land business here tofore carried on by the society, will from the present period be transacted solely by the United Land Company, Limited. The respective Boards, by co-operation, will be in a position to extend materially their operations—the company, by enlarging considerably the dealing in land ; and the society, by increasing building and other advances. The society, freed from the purchase of estates, can develope to a much greater extent the properties acquired in twenty-six counties, by enabling the existing allottees and the future purchasers of plots to build houses thereon. The very prosperity, indeed, of the parent society caused the demand for the loan business to be largely on the in crease every year, and the demand can now be met most advantageously, inasmuch as the United Land Company, Limited, with a fixed capital, can exclusively purchase properties for which building advances, if required, will each otother, be made by the o th er assoc i a ti on . Th e society and the action, will assist workingtogether, double b a l e cpoomwbeirnae and principle n resourcesci ple of being supplied by the mutual co-operation. Tho Executive Committee have nominated Mr. Thomas Russell, public accountant, and Mr. Newnham Winstanley, as the two auditors on hehalf of the Board. The two candidates to be elected by the shareholders at the present meeting are Mr. W. R. Clemow and Mr. James Goad, whose names have been duly advertised under Rule 30. After this day's election the four auditors will meet in due course to examine, audit, and report as to the accounts and balance-sheet for the financial year ending September 30, 1868, to ba presented at the annual meeting early in De cember next. The Executive Committee of the Conservative Land Society, in entering upon its 17th year, feel that they will be now enabled to carry out to a much greater extent than heretofore the wholesome provisions of the Friendly So cieties' Acts. As a benefit building society, und_a- the certified rules, advances will be made on freehold, lease hold, and other approved security ; such advances not being limited in amount and extent, as was necessarily the case when the society had to purchase the laud for allot ment. It is impossible to over-estimate the valuo of benefit building societies, socially and morally ; the working thereof has been of incalculable advantage to all classes of the community, not only as a safe and profitable invest ment, but also as enabling parsons to acquire land at a cheap rate, and to build houses, so as to become their own landlords. The Executive - Committee look forward, there fore, with confidence to the future of the society; whilst they cordially thank the shareholders for their confidence and support during the pa t 16 years. (Signed) ItANELAGH, Chairman. (Countersigned) CHARLES LEWIS GRUNEHIEN, Secretary. tritivb Columbia, 6 per 1872.... bo. ;an.tiov.6 p.c.Ja.&July 1877-8 i )o. 6 p. c. Feb. it Aug to. 5 p. c. Mar. & Sept to. 5 p. c. Jan. & Jul) )o. 5 p. c. Inscribed e► ;ape u. Hope, 6 p.c. 1873 /o.Apl.dt Oat 1890-190 0 do 1880-9 u Jo. JanAtJuly, 1691 )o. 5 per cent. 15 April and 15 Oct., 1900 :e) lon, Nov. 1878, 6 p.( Do. 1872, do Mauritius, 6 R. o, 1873, and July ...... Do. 1878 •.... . ... .1 10. 1882, May and Nov. )o. 1895, Feb. di Ana.. lielbourne Corporate., _ s 16i7-75, 6 per °int. g.8.G0v.6 p.o.Ja.&July atal 6 p of, Apt & Oct. Do 6 p c.lll y & Nov S. r l '.s p•c., '7l to '7B Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1896 Do. 5 p.c. rd. '67 to '75 i.Zealand, 6 p. et. 1891 Do. 5 per cent.... .• • Do Jan, Awl, July, Oct. Do 6 p c. Mar tt Sept '9l Do June & Dec , 1 , 91 IDo Pr,A. 1 Auckld.l ctrie3l &2, 1r96 ) ,ova Scotia 6 p. c.J an. and July. 1875 4ueenslnd. 6 p. 0. 'B2 5 Do 1891 .... • • i. Austral. 6 p 0.1859 77 Do 1878.92 Do 1b93 /WS Tasmanian pc, b 93 Do rd. 119.3 to 1•38/ .. Victoria 6p.c. Ja..t July Do. 1.5391 Do. do, April 8; Oct BRITISH I'OSSESSIONS. 100 Xtlantio&St.Lawrenoe all 56 58 58 at Bom.,Baroda, ALC OII . I n• 100 105'106 1051 gu. 5 per ()ant.. • 2) Do. Shares 10 -- 20 Do. G.. . ...... 2 6 , iuffalo ..... .HuroL all 3 4 10 Do. Preferenoo 10) 3u@:,Brant,dcGodericL all 101 103 100106 et cast Bengal, go., 5 (It 1 7 10 a Ot ;ape I M Pe gC r a u r ai s . 8 , 67 7 21 p e3r . c . ic P n e . t 100 10 7-0 75 20 Do. do. F per cent at European do N.Americ 10 Ist Mort. 1898 10 10 0 1_ , .7 ILB 109 1 2 8 0 t ICa p s o t . ln L dia ah n, re gu s : C 1 charge 0 p.O r o o t _;roa.nEdjuirpu.nploorft? B an o a n d d , l a o l o l 81501 6316 1163 all _ 1 10 0 0 ) D D e o : 2 1s d t p P r r e et Bf3oonoddss a ll 4 36 6 38 1)0 Do. 3d Pref. stook.— all 26 2 280 10) Do. 4th Pref. stook 108 8; 20 s i t k.ZdNieavrresnig:.enspt., 18 16 2 14. 100 1071 1 08 1 i 2) Do. New gua. p. o 6 1 6 2 Do. 4 p of, Deb vrip 25 egistere all st i t. South of Inala gua. 5 per cent at Do. 44 per cent... 110 99 101 oti .rent Wee. of Canada. all 1.1108 10 0 10. 1 . 111 oo a d : 56 7 . 4 a ' P r . fm g . B o ! a 6a n , yB )I p 3 aB . y p 7 7cl- o .e B5 i a aa o l ll o l ll 1 91 0 9 9 6 4-1 0(41-7431' 106 at Do. 43 do lOO 100 102 1.1 at Do. 44 do lOO 95 97 20 Do. Fifth Extensio, all 5) tlel. dz Hobson's Bay.. all 100 Do. 6p. C. Bnds. 188 all 100 Do. 5 d 3 1895 all S. Rl•C'da.6po lstpf.bs 100 83 1: st )ude p. 9 •00 105 105 at Do. Shares d( 21 1 Do. do. d 1 Nu:hatee 100 icinde . . 10 )o. Delhi . 100 103 104 20 ../o. do 4 2 4 1 1 -, et )(-). No 101 4 102 e 1031 st )o.lnduff St.Flot b o 100 BRITISH MINES. Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated 334 1 2 -- Devon G. Cons. (Tavist • 1 380 900 Drakewalls 24 4 East Bassett (Illogan) 331 8 10 East Caradon 2.14.0 3 4 East Carn Brea _ 3 l 6 2 Nas t Grenville 3.i2.6 14 East Lovell 3.9.0 8 9 14. Wil Russell (Tavistk;l2ls.6 1 I Qrta.dc StAubyn(G wen.j 72 2 4 Great Laxey, limited ) all 17 18 18 4 Great South Tolgus 1.4.0 —• G. Wheal Vor (iclels6.l) 40 13 14 Grenville 1 t It 11 tierod's Foot 8.10.0 38 40 Ilingston Downs 5.10.6 24 24 — . Margaret (Urry Lelant 13.17.6 6 8 Harke Valley 1.10 .6 7 1 72 Alwyudy Iron Ore, 11w 3.7.0 24 11 4 :NM Se ton 59} 60 70 North Roskear . 54.17.0 5 7 N.Wh Bassettallogan 1.4.0 North Wheal Crotty Prince of Wales 4 1 4 1 1 rrosper United 8.11.0 Providence kUny Lelant I 1.6.7 20 22 S. Caradon (St. Cleer) ll 360 330 -- South Condurrow 4.18.6 S.Wheal Fran t IR to a 71 to Prosper United Providence (Uny Lelan t S. Caradon (St. Cleer) South Condurrow S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan Stray Park . Tin Croft West Bassett (Mogan W. Caradon (Liskeard West Chirerton West Seton... . Wheal Bassett ( Mogan Wheal Buller atedruth Wheal Mary Ann (Men Wheal Setou Wheal Trelawney (Lis 20 22 360 330 4 74 19 4 14 16 3 1 1 10 12 60 6t 190 200 62 67 4 6 2u 22 60 65 8 10 18.18.9 41.0.8 47i 54 22 15 8 584 6.17.0 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Western, Orig. 41 per cent.. 93 riLEFERENCE 1311 AR S AND STOCKiJ Great Western, 6 per cent., irrd.. 1866, 1001 LINES LEASED T FIXED RENTALS. Wilts and Someset, 80 FOREIGN RAIL WAYe. AntWErp and Rotterdam, 101 4 Belgian Eastern Junction, 11 l.)utol Rhenish, -- Ditto, all, 23 llm., gua. 7 per cent., 12J i t a . n ux d , s it a i n bo l4 icr a g n , c l 26, south Austrian 'Ltd Lombardo Ven etian , IA GitreCaitte FORNIGN Don Pedro, N rth Del Rey, 21 F r ontino and Bolivia Gold, li m,, itossa Grande, YndAnamutana. of S. Australia, Urn., 2i • BAN h Alliance, lira., 10! Chartered Bank of India, Aus trait a, and China, 21 City, 14 Imperial Ottoman, 111 London and County, 421 9 London and 11 eatminater, 65! Ditto, Scrip, 521 National PrOVinCliti of England._ Ditto, ed and :Id issue, 391 Union of Australia, 47f Union of Louden., 113 i MISCELLANAOIIB. Atlantic Telegraph, v . — Ditto, S per cent , E 0 781 Commercial Union, Insurance, 54 E a l r 7 ' anted 5 per c en t by th e Egyptian India per lrrigation ce n tvi and cer o C y a n L( a lgo2 l anu . i gua. gSL anal Electric and Internation al Telegraph, 221; 4 Fo M re rs - ao s sn t r i e sr e ri t iiga l a V yi tt i o r l a 0 i S , C I India Government).' 103 INT,,ta Land and Colonization Co., Ilm., 5i recinsula and Oriental ai team, 634 Royal Mail Steam, 54 Viceroy of Egypt (Mortgage) Loan, 751 ADmrssioN OF ATTORNEYS.—There are ninety eight original applications for admission as attorneys in the ensuing Michaelmas term, besides a number of read- miss:one. THE COLLISION BETWEEN THE WARRIOR AND THE ROYAL OAK. —DEVONPORT, Out. s.—After lasting four days the Court-martial on Captain Boys, the commander of the Warrior, for having damaged and hazarded the Warrior and the Roysk Oak, by causing the collision that occurred between the two vessels on the night of the 14th of August last, was brought to a close to-day. The Gaut considered the charge not proved, and acquitted Captain Boys. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 6, 1868. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH STREET. SAD CASE—ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—EIiza Riddell, a poor, dejected-looking female, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with attempting to commit suicide by taking poison. Police-constable George Boyce, 85 F, said that he was called to the Charing-cross Hospital last night to take the prisoner into custody for attempt ing to take her life, when she said that she was very sorry, that she had been parted from her hus band for two years, and that he had taken two of her children from her. Mr. Francis B. Besley, surgeon, of No. 16, St. Martin's-court, said that yesterday evening the pri soner was brought to him by her husband, who said that she had taken laudanum. He gave the pri soner, who was very excited, an emetic, and as she became very drowsy, and her husband declined to take charge of her, he (Mr. Bosley) took her to the Charing-cross Hospital, and left her in the charge of the house surgeon. From inquiries he subse quently made he ascertained that the prisoner had purchased a pennyworth of laudnaum at a chemist's in the neighbourhood, but that was not sufficient to destroy life. He believed the prisoner had been greatly upset, and that a divorce case or something of the kind was going on between her and her hus band. The prisoner said she went to her husband to ask for some money to get some clothes, so that she might get a situation, and he refused to gire her any, and he had got two of her children away from her. Mr. Tyrwhitt said the best thing he could do would be to send the poor woman where she could be well attended to for a week, and by that time they would know more about her, and whether any thing could be done for her. _ _ The prisoner asked what was to become of her baby. It was in Judd-street. If his worship would send for it elle would be so much obliged to him. Mr. Tyrwhitt said the child should ,be sent for for the prisoner, and remarked that the present case showed how often it was that medical gentle men were the only friends people had. SOCIAL SCIENCE *CONGRESS. BIRMINGHAM, MoNDAT, The fault of the addresses of the heads of departments at the present Congress is their excessive length. No sane person believes, whatever he may say, that " you cannot have too much of a good thing ;" and I am sure we all should be perfectly satisfied if the many excellent things which the various presidents have to tell us were told in fewer words. Much listening, as well as much study, is a " weariness of the flesh," and an address occupying *the best part of an hour and a half in its delivery has a tendency to send you to the day's work in the sections somewhat enervated. Dr. Rumsey's prediic• tion this morning—a summary of which appears below — though full of excellent matter, and treating a subject of vast importance in a really practical way, would have been far better if compressed into half the length. In the opinion I have expressed I am by no means alone, and if I have sinned in uttering it, there are members of the Council itself who share in my guilt. Yesterday afternoon the members of the Association were granted admission to the Royal Botanical Gardens, where a magnificent specimen of the Victoria Regia in full bloom proved a great attraction. Special services in con. nection with the Congress were held in St. George's Church, which is situated in one of the suburbs of the town. The morning preacher was the Rev. Dr. Thornton, head master of Epsom College. In the evening the rector occupied the pulpit. As I have already mentioned the large number of ladies taking part in the present Congress, it will not be inappro priate to notice that strenuous efforts are being made to get up a series of morning lectures for ladies and for Birmingham and the neighbourhood, and that the idea seems likely to take well. The present proposal is for a course of lectures, to be delivered by Mr. J. W. Nales, M.A., Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, and Professor of English Literature, at the Ladies' College, Bedford-square, London, on " The English Literature of the Elizabethan Era." The fee for the course will be a guinea. A paper explanatory of the scheme, and detailing what has been done in the same direction in Liverpool and Manchester, will be read in the Education Section to-morrow, by Mr. Myers. _ _ The interest in the various sections has been well sus tained to-day. To-morrow will be entirely devoted to voluntary papers, and on Wednesday tha concluding meeting of members will be held. The soirse takes place in the Town Hall to-night. SHARE LIST. ORDINARY SHARKS AND STOCKS. 77 79f , 69 69} 20 SU 3} 31 73 ;5 70 72 7 9 60 I 04 05 401 4► 7, 04 15 6 107; 108. 106 1 , 7 96 97 19 69 66 68 . z 5 28 28 3.: 121 .28: 511 12 174 1% 11:6 113 b 7 84 tri 17 105 lON 10, 71 73 i:Ot 1:1, 79 81 32 33 - - DB 108 55 57 81 90 128 132 127 12a 118 I 1 1 57 bb 555 5 44 46 78) 79 11 12 145 15C 3 4 Paid./ Closing ri Business ' , ft. done. WE STIMNS rER. A SAD STORY. —Sarah Langford, a woman about 30 years of age, was charged with creating• a dis turbance in Walton-street, Pimlico. Police-constable Glasspool, 63 B, said that last night the defendant created a disturbance for a length of time. He was first attracted by seeing her being ejected from a house in Walton-street, where she knocked and kicked incessantly. She said her husband lived there, and she would not go away. As she continued to disturb the whole neighbourhood, he locked her up. Defendant—l went there for my husband. I considered that where he was I had a right to be. Policeman—She had been living apart from her husband for some time. She bad been drinking, and I told her last night that she had better come in the morning if she wanted her husband. Mr. Arnold—lf she was living apart from him she bad no business to go there. Do you know anything of them ? Constable—The husband, a! whitesmith, is a very respectable man. They lived happily together for two or three years, when she suddenly took to drinking, pawned her things and sh9es to procure drink, robbed her lodgings, for which she was taken into custody and committed for six months to bard labour. Her husband, after this, refused to live with her, but she went after him and an noyed him. Mr. Arnold said he should require ber to enter into recognizances for her future good behaviour. THAMES. JUVENILE TUMBLERS.--Richard Nicholas, aged nine years, and George Neville, five, were brought up on remand before Mr. Benson charged with va grancy. These boys were arrested by Dillon, police-ser geant No. 19 R, while tumbling " cart wheels" alongside an omnibus in the Commercial-road. They were covered with mud and dirt, and their heads were full of vermin. A few old rags were pinned together on their bodies, and they were bare legged and bare footed. They scarcely looked hu man. Their altered appearance after a week's stay in the Stepney Union workhouse, in Bromley, was most extraordinary. They were clean, ar.d well clad, and had been well-fed for the last seven days. Dillon, an intelligent officer, called the magistrate's attention to them, and said that , Mr. Paker, a humane man, the master of the Step ney Union, had offered the children boots, but they would not wear them, and preferred the freedom of their feet to the leather and lace-ups. They had been tumbling all the week in the union house, and could not be stopped. Mr. Benson noticed that the hair on the tops of the prisoners' heads was partially gone, and asked how that happened. Dillon—By tumbling and throwing somersaults on the road. Mr. Benson—These children have begun to tumble early. How do they learn it? Mr. Joseph Smith, a solicitor, answered this ques tion by saying that children in the district learnt to tumble directly they could run alone, and prac tised wherever there was a blank wall for their feet to rest against, until they were able to throw somer saults alongside the omnibuses. Mr. Benson—And the unthinking passengers encourage this system of vagrancy by throwing halfpence to the children. The nuisance done is incalculable. The mothers of the children said they would keep them at home in future, and Neville's mother said that an elder boy was so terrified with his brother arrest that he had never been out to tumble since. Mr. Benson was very glad to hear it. The chil dren ought to be sent to school and compelled to attend there regularly. The mothers said there were no schools in Rat cliff where they could be sent. The officers and others in court said there were ragged schools, free schools, and other educational establishments in Ratcliff under the control of the Coopers' Company, and such good men as the Rev. Mr. Atherton, Mr„ John Holt, Mr. Derby, Mr. Hughes, and others, and there was a large school next door to the police-court for 800 chil dren, under the control of a well-known philan thropist, the Rev. W. Valentine, where the boys would be readily admitted. Mr. Benson said there was no excuse for keeping the children away from school. There were plenty of schools for the middle classes, for the poor, for the very destitute, and for the ragged in Ratcliff and other parts of Stepney. There was a gentle man in court who offered to take the boys into the Rev. W. Valentine'slarge school next door. If the boys were ever brought before him again he would send them to an industrial school and never allow their mothers to see them again. He a poor girl who had o h f er inhuman parents to hadbe been nd sent t e h n a t the in streetst he by tunable alongside the omnibuses. Nothing could be worse than the victims before him, and when they were brought before his colleague, Mr. Paget, they were covered with mu.d adhering to their bodies, and it was doubtful if they had ever been washed from their infancy. A few rags were fas tened on their limbs, and the hair of their heads was full of insects. Nothing could be more shock ing. Stupid passengers on omnibuses give encou ragement to a system of vagrancy so demoralising. He discharged the boys only ou the understanding that' their mothers sent them to school, and kept them out of the streets. THE EASTERN FISHERIES.--The catches of her rings made by the Great Yarmouth boats have not been very large, but there has been some improvement in the quality of the fish landed. Prices have ranged at Yar mouth from £5 to £23 per last (13,200 fish.) DUNVILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re commended by the medical profession in preference to French Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exporta tion. Quotations on application to Messrs. Dunville and Co. Belfast; or 4, Beaufort -buildings, Strand, London, W.O --cm- Yertisement DR. RUMSEY'S ADDRESS ON HEALTH. The address of the President of the Health Department was delivered in the Friends' Meeting House at ten o'clock. Dr. Rumsey confined his observations principally to matters of public health. Taking up as the first subject the vitiation of air caused by town life, he observed that there were three natural remedies of different values in different cases, viz.: motion of air, diffusion of g ases by ' natural law, and the presence or introduction of active • origin. The last, if possible in dense populations, would be the real remedy. Practically, the most important mea sure of sanitary legislation and administration would be to purify, as far as could be done, the air of towns, and to provide better air than towns supply to the people, and to accomplish these objects by three methods : I. Speedily removing all the darts of animal life and everything which by decom position can corrupt the air ; 2. Promoting the free circu lation of air in every quarter, through every court and alley, into every house, every room in the inhabited area; and 3. Enabling every person to breathe a sufficient quantity of pure and good air, i.e., air having the pro perties of ozone. The present sanitary laws, if they were properly carried into effect, could secure the first object. The second was a very vexed question—what ventilation really was and how it could best be obtained being a matter open to much difference of opinion. The third object was one to secure which little had been attempted, either by the Legislature or by private enterprise. The Artisans and Labourers' Dwellings Act of last session was very unlikely to provide a cure for the evils of overcrowd ing. Some measures, it was suggested, ought to be taken by the State for the distribution of the labouring classes over wider areas of habitation. Passing to the consideration of the water supply of towns, Dr. Rumsey remarked on the serious diminution in the natural supply of water going on in most parts of the country. The real redress for this growing evil was to preserve with more sedulous care the great natural reservoirs of the water supply, the elevated sponges of those mountain and hill ranges which are the marks of watershed and points of attraction for atmospheric moisture. The causes of the diminution in the flow of streams having been pointed out, the question was asked whether, the sources of water thus decreasing, greater care was taken of that which nature still beneficently provided. The question must be answered negatively. Within the last thirty years almost all the watercourses of the land had been incorrigibly defiled, and even converted into distributors of disease by measures of town sewerage contrived hastily and executed unscientifically. Excepting certain first-class towns in the North, it was indisputable that the condition of drinking-water in most parts of England was deteriorating. Village supplies were gene rally scanty and bad. Besides injury to health caused by pouring sewer water into rivers, the means of augment and cheapening the food supply of a teeming and needy population bad been wantonly wasted. The distribution of sewer water over the land by irrigation within safe and accessible distances from large towns was mentioned as an only cure for the evil. Reference was then made to the practical question of administrative machinery. It was to be hoped that in any reconstruction of existing machinery as the result of the royal commission about to issue, the future central department would include all those distinguished men who had for years rendered invaluable services to the public under the present frag mentary and inharmonious system. The character and functions of sewer authorities, as now established, having been made the subject of comment, the address concluded thus : " Might it not be advisable for local bodies, in small districts especially, to seek, and for the Legislature to grant, an improved constitution of the administrative machinery adapted to the necessities of the public health ? Very desirable does it appear that town and country and union authorities should be enabled to unite in the execution of certain extensive measures, and especially in the appointment of skilled officers. A rational reform of local divisions, and a wise extension of administrative area, are quite compatible with respectful consideration for the ancient limits of ' parishes, towns, and counties. By judicious improve ments and reinforcements of country authority especially, a very noble and excellent characteristic of English society may be preserved in the advance of civilisation. If I have not dwelt with all the enthusiasm of a reformer on the progress and attainments of the last quarter of a century, it is not, I hope, that I undervalue the great results, but that I consider certain defects and sources of failure to be matters more deserving our immediate attention. It is well, moreover, to speak with modesty and caution on what has hitherto been accomplished. Before I sit down I venture to protest against the inconsiderate use—l might almost say the audacious misuse—of local rates of mor tality in support of some favourite sanitary statistics, or who do not perceive how small may be the bearing of any particular act or neglect upon the variations of a general death-rate, or, again, who forget that the same figures in different places and popu- lations, differing as to age, class, and occupation, may represent totally different standards of health, vigour, and longevity." A vote of thanks was passed to Dr. Itumsey for his address, which was of a must voluminous and exhaustive character. JURISPRUDENCE AND AMENDMENT OF THE LAW. The special question in the section of Municipal Law, " What Amendments aro required in the existing Law Of Ba,nkrucpty, ?' was introduced by Mr. W. G. Har greaves. It was admitted, he said, on all hands that the present law of bankruptcy was bad. The first point touched upon was the manner in which assets were realised, and it was the author's opinion that official assignees could get them in much better than trustees. The second matter dealt with was the division of bankrupts' estates. By dividing the estates into two classes, one in which the estimated assets were above £3OO, the other in which they were below that sum (the former to be dealt with in meet ings before the commissioner, the latter before a registrar) the public time would be greatly saved. Mr. Hargreaves then proceeded with ‘ an enunmeration of the different officers and persons who would be required in winding up an estate economically and efficiently. Thorn were first official assignees with a salary of £l,OOO per annum, and a commission of one per cent. on the gross assets received. Second, junior official assignees to be paid a salary of £6OO per annum and one per cent. commission. Thirdly, inspectors, to be appointed at a meeting of creditors as soon as pos sible after the bankruptcy. The paper further suggested that an official auctioneer should be appointed at a salary of £l,OOO a year. Mr. Hargreaves urged that in all cases under £3OO the Crown solicitor, whc should receive a salary as at present, should act as solicitor to the estate from the date of the choice of inspectors. With regard to commissioners, it was proposed that there should be four, one to he the chief commissioner. Appeals from the decision of one commissioner to be made to a court of three, of whom one shall be the chief commissioner, and one the commissioner by whom the case was originally hoard. REPRESSION OF CRIME The special question in this section of the Jurisprudence Department was, " What are the Principal Causes of Rrime considered from a social point of view ?" A paper read on the subject by Mr. A. Herbert Safford having presented a vivid picture of the "taw material " of London thieves, called attention to the absolute want of improved dwellings and the easy method of supplying the deficiency. The plan of Government advanc ing money for this purpose, under certain restrictions, wilt highly commended. That this plan of advance would pay was proved by the case of what Miss Burdett Ccutts had done in Columbia-square, London. On the outlay involved a profit of £3 per cent. had accrued. In reference to educa tion it was contended that we ought to be satisfied with nothing loss than aneducational system such as is suffi cient to qualify each citizen for the civil and social duties he will have to discharge ; such as teaches the individual the great laws of bodily health, as qualifies for the fulfilment parental duties ; as is indispensable for a witness or a juror as is necessary for the voter, and as is required for the faith fel Rad ceuti4upt.ts . dischFge et the dutieLef citiz9h4lo2, Railways. 717iitbi and Enter :aledonian ..... ;41rIbrian .;orn wall Jublin & Belfast Juni Oun„Yerth,& Ab. June East Lmdon ...... vo Do tilasgow & S. Wester' ;rent Eastern .. Do. E. Angl. No. 2 ircat North 01 Scotian« ;rest Northern Do. A Do, B stock RS, and W. of Irelan , t. Western -Origins Do. South Wales Do. W. Mid.—Oxtor. Do. Newport t•ancashire do Yorkshir ,nn., S• Cenk Do Scrip .... ..• .• on., Chat., and Dove Do. Metrop. Ex. A. ,t; North Wester .on. 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The October Produce Stakes of 100 soya each, h ft, for two year olds ; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b. Last five furlongs of A.F. 9 subs. Mr Merry's Belladrum, by Stockwell, Catherine Hayes, Bst 101 b (Daley) w.o. Match, 100, h ft; 6st 121 b each; Bretby Stakes Course.— Prince D. Soltykoff's Topsy agst Admiral Rous's Nut Girl, both two yr olds. Admiral Rous's Nutgirl, by Knight of St. Patrick— Noisette, Est 121 b (Jeffery) 1 Prince D. Soltykoff's Topsy, 6st 121 b _ . Betting-11 to Bon Nutgirl. Won by a length and a half. A Plate of 50 sous (Handicap), for three year olds and up w•ards. Cesarewitch Course. Mr Payne's c by Toni Bowline, Makeshift, 3 yrs, Gst 21b (Hunt) 1 Mr W. Day's Our Mary Ann, 3 yrs, Est 111 b ...(Wyatt) 2 Mr Savile's Miss Gratwicke, 3 yrs, 6st 41b (car Est 51b) (Butler) 3 The following also ran : —Nyanza, Romping Girl, Python and Papillon. Betting-5 to 2 agst Nyanza, 9to 2 agst Romping Girl, L to 1 each agst Our Mary Ann and Miss Gratwicke, 10 to 1 agst Makeshift colt, 100 to 8 agst Papillon, and 20 to 1 agst Python. Won by half a length. Match, 100, 11 ft; last half of Ab.M.—Mr Payne's Dulcet, 3 yrs, Bst 71b, agst the Duke of Newcastle's Lady Dar, 2 yrs, Bst. Duke of Newcastle's Lady Dar, by King Tom—Lady Blanche, 2 yrs, Bst (Kenyon) 1 Mr Payne's Dulcet, 3 yrs, Bst 71b (T. Unaßoner) 2 Betting—At first 5 to 1 on Dulcet, afterwards 5 to 4 on Lady Dar, who mado all the running, and won in a canter by two lengths and a half. A Handicap of 20 sous each, and only 5 ft if declared by ten o'clock the evening before the running. T.Y.C. Mr Savile's Reindeer, by Mountain Doer -Sultana, aged, Tat 51b (Maidment) 1 Prince D. Soltykoff's Coup d'Eclat, 3 yrs, 6st 31b (Jewett) 2 Mr Beadman's Goodfellow, 4 yrs, 7st 21b ...... ...(Butler) 3 The following also ran :—llippia, Bouneeaway, Out and-Outer, Realite, Master Willie, Dawdle, Contempt, and Ritualist. Botting-5 to 1 each agst Ritualist and R3indeer, 6 to 1 agst Out-and-Outer, 7 to 1 each agst Master Willie and Goodfellow, and 10 to 1 each agst Hippia and Contempt. Won by a neck. A Sweepstakes of 300 sovs each, It ft, for two year old fillies; Bst 101 b each; those out of mares which have never bred a wiener of 500 sovs allowed 31b. T.Y.C. 6 subs. Duke of Newcastle's Abstinence, by Newcastle— Penance, Bst lolb Mr. Chaplin's The Orphan and Mr. Padwick's Lady Cecilia saved their stakes. A Plate of 100 sovs for two year olds ; coltsBst 101 b, fillies Bst 81b. T.Y.C. Sir J. Hawley's Morna, by Beadsman—Madame Eglan tine, Bst 81b • • (J. Adams) 1 Lord Zetland's Brennus, Bst 1olb Mr J. Dawson's De Vere, Bst 101 b (French) 3 The following also ran :—Wrestler, Miss Peddie colt, Indigestion's data filly, Anlace, Neufchatel, Juanita, Ar baces, Regula, Vauxhall, Memento, and Black Pirate. Betting-5 to 4 agst Morna, 6to 1 each agst Neufchatel and Juanita, and 10 to 1 each agst Miss Peddie colt, Regula, and Brennus. Won in a canter by three lengths. A Sweepstakes of 300 sovs each, h ft, for two year old fillies ; Bst 101 b ; those out of mares which never bred a winner of 500 sovs allowed 31b; winners of 200 sovs 31b extra. T.Y.C. 7 subs. Mr W. S. Craufurd's Heather Bell, by Stockwell— Tightfit, Bst 11l (inc. 31b ex.) Lord Glasgow's filly by Young Melbourne, dam by Ted dington, Bst 71b . Mr Merry's Crocus, Bst 131 b (inc. 31b ex.).. (Daley) 3 Mr Chaplin's The Orphan, Bst 101 b (inc. 31b extra) (Custance) 4 Betting-7 to 4 agst Young Melbourne filly, sto 2 agst Crocus, 100 to 30 agst Heather Bell. Won easily by a length. A Sweepstakes of 50 sovs each, 30 ft, for three year old fillies Bst 101 b; untrieds allowed 31b; if both 51b; maidens allowed 51b. D.M. 4 subs. Lord Falmouth's Pear'feather, by Newminster—Bess Lyon, Bst 101 b (Custance) w.o. PROGRAMME OF NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER MEETING. WEDNESDAY. The Oatlands Plato (Handicap) of 50 sovs, for three year olds and upwards ; Cambridgeshire Course. A Handicap of 10 sovs each, for two and three year olds ; T.Y.C. The Bedford Stakes of 50 sovs each, h ft, for two year olds; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b ; winners of a sweep stakes amounting to 500 sovs with ton subscribers or upwards 71b, all other winners of sweepstakes or plates 31b extra; weights accumulative ; Bretby Stakes Course; 8 subs. The Beaufort Stakes of 150 sovs each, h ft, for three year olds; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 61b; untried allowed 31b if both 51b R.M. ; 6 subs. The Middle Park Plato of 1,000 sove, added to a Sweep stakes of 30 sous each, 20 ft, for two year olds ; colts Bst 91b, fillies and geldings Bst 61b; winners of a stake value 1,000 sous 71b, of 500 41b extra; maidens at start ing allowed 31b ; the second to receive 200 sous, and the third 100 out of the stakes ; Bretby Stakes Course ; 180 subs. A Free Handicap Sweepstakes of 23 sovs each, 10 ft. ; a winner of a handicap after September 29th to carry Mb extra ; T.Y.C. Age st lb •4 7 2 •4 6 6 ▪3 6 5 3 5 7 Age st lb Leonia ... 3 9 10 Victress Indian Star 5 8 0 Verity Out and Outer 6 7 11 Ritualist ... Reindeer ... ... a 7 7 Patrician Monarch of Glen... 5 7 3 The Select Stakes of 50 sovssach, h ft, for three yr olds; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b ; winners of any one of the following stakes 51b, of any two of them 101 b extra— viz., the Two Thousand Guineas or Ono Thousand Guineas Stakes at Newmarket, the Derby or Oaks at Epsom, the Prince of Wales's Stakes at Ascot, the Great Yorkshire Stakes at York, and the St. Leger or Don Stakes at Doncaster; R.M.; 6 subs. A Sweepstakes of 50 sovs each, h ft, for two year olds; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b, not engaged in the July, Chesterfield, Rutland, Clearwell, or Prendergast Stakes ; winners of 200 sovs or upwards 51b extra ; maidens allowed 51b; the second to save his stake; Criterion Course. 7 subs. The Windsor Stakes of 20 sovs each, h ft, for two year olds; colts 9st, fillies Bst 101 b; winners of 300 sovs 31b, of 500 71b extra; T.Y.C. 13 subs. THURSDAY. A Plate of 50 sovs; two year olds Gst 101 b, three Bst 101 b, four 9st 81b, five, six, and aged 9st 101 b ; maiden throe year olds allowed 51b, four and upwards 121 b ; winners of a sweepstakes value 300 sovs (including the value of any cup or prize) 31b, of 500 71b extra ; mares and geld ings allowed 31b; A Plate of 100 sovs (Handicap), for three year olds and upwards ; R.M. A Handicap of 15 sovs each, 10 ft, with 50 added, for three year olds and upwards ; D.I. A Handicap of 15 sovs each, 10 ft, for two year olds ; T.Y.C. A Sweepstakes of 10 sovs oacb, for two year olds; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 81b; the winner to be sold for 150 sovs if demanded, &c. T.Y.C. A Sweepstakes of 10 ksovs each ; two year olds 6st 131 b, three Bst I.olb, four 9st 31b, five and upwards 9st 61b; fillies allowed 31b ; the winner to be sold for 300 sovs if demanded, &c. T. Y.C. A Biennial Post Match 200 ; colts Bst 10Ib ; fillies Bst 71b. A.F. The Newmarket Oaks of 25 sovs each, 10 ft, with 100 added, for three year old fillies ; Bst 101 b ; the winner of the One Thcuso.nd Guineas or Two Thousand Guineas Stakes at Newmarket, the Oaks or Derby at Epsom, the Prince of Wales's Stakes at Ascot, the Yorkshire Oaks at York, or the Park Hill Stakes or St. Leger at Don caster 71b extra; maidens, if they have never saved their stakes in the above named races, allowed 71b; the second to receive 100 soya out of the stakes. T. 11.11. 69 subs. The Bretby Stakes of 100 sovs each, h ft, for two year old fillies; Bst 101 b each. Last three-quarters of R.M. 15 subs. _ A Sweepstakes of 300 sovs each, h ft, for two year olds; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 61b; untried mares allowed 31b. Bretby Stakes Course. 15 subs. A Sweepstakes of 300 sovs each, 200 ft, for three year olds; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b; the winner of tho Two Thousand Guineas, One Thousand Guineas, Derby, Oaks, or Doncaster St. Leger 51b, and of any two of those stakes 101 b extra; maidens allowed 71b. R.M• 7 subs. FRIDAY. A Handicap of 15 sovs each, 10ft, for two and three year olds; T.Y.C. A Selling Handicap of 10 soya each, h ft, for three year olds and upwards ; the winner to bo sold for 150 soya, if demanded, &c. ; A Plate of 50 sovs ; three year olds 7st 121 b, four Bst 121 b, five and upwards 9st 31b ; the winner to ba sold for 50 sovs ; if entered for 300 sous allowed 51b, 100 101 b. A.F. A Sweepstakes of 10 sow; each, for two year olds ; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b; the winner to be sold for 150 sovs, if demanded, &c.; if entered for 73 sovs allowed 71b; T.Y.C. The Newmarket Derby of 25 sovs each, 10 ft, with 100 added, for three year olds ; colts Bst 111 b, fillies Bst 71b ; the winner of the One Thousand Guineas or Two Thou sand Guineas Stakes at Newmarket, the Oaks or Derby at Epsom, the Prince of Wales's Stakes at Ascot, or the St. Leger at Doncaster, 71b extra ; maidens, if they have never saved their idtftiroS in the above mentioned races, allowed 71b ; the second to receive 100 sovs out of the stakes ; the last mile and a half of the 8.0. ; 73 subs. The Prendergast Stakes of 50 sovs each, h ft, for two year 01d4 Witt bot 10112, (alio brit 611); winzwil4 of 590 sovs sweepstakes with 10 subs Gib, of two such stakes 91b, of any other sweepstakes value 200 sovs, including the winner's own stake, and not having less than ten subscribers, Mb extra ; if the winner of the Clearwell should have won that race carrying 9lb extra ; he is to carry 121 b extra for this race ; T.Y.C. ; 40 subs. Match 200, 50 ft; T.Y.C.—Sir F. Johnstone 's Brigantine, Bst 121 b, agst Admiral bous's Amara, Bst 21b; bOth two year olds. Match 200, hft ; T. Y.C.—SirJ. Morna, Bst 101 b, agst Mr. Chaplin's Acaster, Bst. No Day Mentioned.—First Year of a Biennial Post Match of 500 sous each, 200 ft, -two tl the post; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b ; T.Y.C. RACING FIXTURES FOR 1868. OCTOBER. Chelmsford Cheltenham Northallerton Hereford 'girth N WEIMER. 3 I Leamington Hunt 9 Liverpool ~ Shrewsbury A CQ UA7ICS. STAFFORD AND WARD FOR £lO. Last evening 11. 'Stafford and J. Ward, amateurs, of Woolwich, rowed from Erith to IVool wich, for £2O a side in old-fashioned boats. Mr. J. E. Kent was referee. &Acing was 6to 4on Ward, who had the worst station, and went away with the lead, which he gradually increased throughout, and won by over a quarter of a mile. Time, 46 minutes. THE MENDED PRIZE FIGHT. Ti. following appeared in our Latest Edition of yesterday eTening:— This afternoon Rooke, who was on Saturday apprehended by Inspector George Silverton and Sergt. Pahner at Watford, on a warrant charging him with being about to commit a breach of the peace by engaging in a prize fight for £25 mid.) with a man named Goller, was brought to Bow street Police-court in order to put in bail for his future good conduct. Twenty-four hours' notica having been given to Inspector Silverton of the names of the parties offering themselves, inquiry hal been made, and, in answer to Mr. Flower, the magistrate, Inspector Silverton said he was quite satisfied that the bail tendered was of a responsible description, and therefore the prisoner might safely be allowed to go at liberty. _ _ _ Mr. Flower said he was glad to hear it, and he was further gratified at the frank ness of Rooke, who at once withdrew from that which he found was illegal. A man need not be a liar although he was to fight, and he should have accepted his bail on Saturday last only he had not the power. He hoped that his friends and companions would see the folly of attempting to engage in such contests, as whatever the secresy observed it would be useless, as the police in the present instance had shown. The necessary forms having been gone through, Rooke was discharged. 111ARKE7 S-7 HIS DAY. COTTON. LIVERPOOL, October 6.—Sales probably 10,000 bales. Market quiet and unchanged. HAY AND STRAW. Supplies are quite adequate to demand. Wheat is dull. 31eadow hay, Tos to 100 s ; clover, 80s to 1265. Straw, 28s to 32s per load. COLONIAL AND FOREIGN PRODUCE. Sugar.—The late imports have added perceptibly to the stocks, which are now 91,300 tons against 101,500 tons last year at this time. The deliveries, too, have fallen off, and the effect is to render buyers more cautious in their operations. For refined sugars the market was opened with a very limited inquiry, and although sales are not pressed at any apparent decline, the tendency is in favour of buyers. Coffee—The statistics of this week continue very favour able. The deliveries are large, and have further reduced the stock to 25,000 tons, against 21,000 tons last year. Our stock represents only 15. weeks' requirements, at the present scale of deliveries, whilst that last year repre sented 17 weeks' requirements at that time. It follows that, relatively, our supply is less ample now than it was then. The market is steady, with a fair inquiry, floating, as well as ou the spot, and a cargo of Rio has been sold for Antwerp at 36s 101 d. Tea.—There is some demand for fine now season's teas at 2 6d, but the general market is quiet. Rum.—Stock, 29,300 puncheons, against 31,500 pun cheons last year. The market is firm. Foreign Mail Facaet Liar. MAILS DUE. Mistrial& and New Zealand. via Eouthampton.....Oot.lo. Ditto, via Ynets—. ...... ................oet. 5. Ditto, via Pia..ama Oit 28. Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video Oat. 5. Ditto, by French paokot Cape Vords, by Brazil pactet Oct. 5. cape of Good hope. Asoension, and St. lielens oca. 13 Uhina, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton—Oct. 10. C+:braitar, via Southampton lndut,via Southampton .......•-•••••. •-.-.•• Oct. 10 unto, via Marseilles Halts, bgypt, Sao. Ditto, Marseilles Oct, 12 Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via Southampton _ Ditto, Marseilies ~ O.t. 1% Newfoundland ...... .... . rortugal Oot. 5. United States, t anada, California, &0., by British packet .......0ct 10. Ditto, by Canadian packet ..........•.........Uct 9 Ditto, by L nited States packet Ditto ditto( Baltimore) •• West Indies and Pazifio (except Mexico and Baha mas) West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffa. Oct. 17 Falkland Islands ........Oct. 21 Oub.t and Al exioo Bstiamae, via New Y k B muda, via Halifax .• Oc . 21. The Price of Gold. The quotation of gold at Paris is about at par, and the short exchange on London is 251. 220. per £1 sterlinf. On c maparing these rates with the English Mint price c ! £3 iia.loid. per ounee,for standard gold, it appe.rs that gold is about 2-10t1is per cent. dearer in London than itt Paris. The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight was on the last date about 1081 per cent At this rate there is no profit on the importation of gold from the United States. It is under the consideration of the Admiralty to break up several of the old wooden ships belonging to the Royal Navy in Sheerness dockyard. If de cided upon, a number of extra men will have to be entered for the purpose, in consequence of the present staff of Sheerness dockyard being entirely engaged for some time. The iron armour-plated screw steamship Defence, 18, Capt. Charles H. May, from the coast of Ire land, arrived at Plymouth yesterday. Her Majesty's ship Falcon, 17 guns, Commander H. L. Percival, was dismantled and paid off at Woolwich dockyard on Saturday last. SOUTII AUSTRALIA.—Some of the original foun ders of the colony of South Australia in 1836, South Aus tralian colonists at this time in England, other gentlemen interested in the prosperity of that colony, and the friends of the new Governor, purpose to entertain Sir Jas. Fer gusson with a dinner at Willis's-rooms, in King-street St. James's, early in November, previous to his departure from London for South Australia. THE ROMANCE OF TIIE PEERAGE.—The Commis sioners of Greenwich Hospital have ejected the lady calling herself the Countess of Derwontwater from Dilston Castle, which she had taken possession of with her retainers as the alleged heiress of the extensive Der wentwater estates, in the county of Northumberland. The last report was that the lady and her followers were en camped immediately adjacent to Dilston, with a view to a re-entry if TILE possible. TEA TRADE.—Oct. 5, 1868.—The deliveries in London made up for the week were 3,356,8961 b., being a drerease of 406,1.111 b. as compared with the previous week. • SUICIDE OF A SOLDIER IN A MILITARY PRISON.-- Yesterday Mt. W. J. Payne held an inquest at the a mili tary h r S iv o a u t t e hw inenh Regiment. F Southwark, on boiyof John ro Murphy, aged th evi dence of .ptain Clerk, the governor, it appears deceased ta prison,2 a wa s ordered four years' imprisonment, and was removed from Aldershot to Southwark - prison on August 2. On the morning of the 2d inst. deceased was ordered to be confined to his cell, and placed on broad and water for 24 hours, as a punishment for insubordination. On going to see deceased at a quarter to 9 on the above morning, he found him in a sitting position with a towel over his head, and it was found that he had hanged himself with the oakum which had been given Lim to pick. He had broken the zinc ventilator in his cell, and tied the rope to the iron bars outside. The jury having heard other corroborative evicleuw returned a verdict of temporary inanity. ast• ing r to the )ns ak la', or el Cho the I or ed. rat yea re by rill tic• jai; EC' 30 1 t At %IV wit' ,tea ice, It cl s rg ,ti gs- Share i t.~