The Sun. — London, England, 1857-07-09 00:00:00

MONEY :AI: ''T COMMERCI 1 11, INTELLIGENCF. CITY, Two o'CLocK. Letters from Liverpool state that the Cott( n. Market, yesterday, closed with an upward ten dency, and compared with Friday's rates, pi ices of all kinds were rather higher. Maccio were /d. dearer, and other Brazil d. per lb. dearer. The Railway Share Market was exceedingly inactive, and prices receded. During the six months ending the 31th ult., the exports of bullion were iu excess of the receipts. Messrs. Huggard and Pixley have just issued a statement of the amounts sent away from London, slid the results are subjoined. _ . _ - Total of corres- Total ponding period 1857. Gold and Silrer. last year. £ £ 9 I ndia, including Ceylon 800,870 China and the straits 6,005,220 u ~e a Pe and Mauritius 262,500 anaburg Belgium, and Rot terdam, Fra nc?, via Boulogne, Calais, and Dunkirk 1,985,000 P eninsula, Mediterranean, the Crimea, Mediterranean, • 403,300 West Indies 433,500 Brazils . 579,600 Africa ************** **** *********** ** 24,900 Tot al 12,906,390 4 ' The above total is irrespective of the large sums sent by Way of Folkestone and Dever to France, during the same Period, and which, according to the Customs' return, amount ' 4, - - Gold, 4,254,600 1. ; s i lver, 53 , 100/ . ; to t a l , 4 , 307,700/ . ; di tt°, correspondin g - period last year, gold, 2,570,000/, ; silver, 9 01,600/. ; total, 3,471,6001. Further symptoms of recovery were apparent in the Paris Bourse yesterday, and providing political affairs present no unfavourable features, a continued reaction is not improbabl e . The Bank of France is not enabl e d - to reduce the terms of discount so rapidly as was expected when the rate was lowered Money Maiket is towards a further improvement, and the Funds and Shares may therefore be con sidered at low prices. In France, as in England, the prospects of the harvest are encouraging, and the Yield of silk promises a more satisfactory result than was lately predicted. Trade also is flourish ing, and it is believed that both financial and co mmercial prospects of the country are favour able. Under these circumstances the late fall on the Bourse has either not been justified, or there is something with which the general public are not acquainted to account for the movement. Pur chasers of stock, however, have now appeared, and a rally took place yesterday of 10 centimes in the Rentes, and on the average of about 10 francs iu railway shares. This day a special meeeing of the Newport, dz,c., Railway Company was held, when the bill for making a railway to Aberdare and Bargord Valley was agreed to. At the meeting of the East Kent Railway Com pany, the bill proposing to make a line from Herne Bay to Faversham was adopted. The Bank of England Directors after some dis cussion at their " parlor" meeting to-day, deter- Mined upon making no immediate alteration in the terms of discount, but as accommodation in t he best descriptions of paper can be ob tained at 51 per cent., and the supply of money is abundant, the delay will occa sion no disappointment. The public at the present broment, especially as the dividends are in course of payment, are not in want of so much assistance tt3 they were a few weeks since, and the market therefore is quiet, with a declining tendency. ' t hough th e measure has not been adopted b l4) daY, it i s th oug h t that it cannot consistently Postponed beyond next week. It is desirable that the "other securities" should be materially r educed before increased ficilities are offered. An .?Provement, however, in this respect ma y b e pro duced by the payments of the 4th, and the return Of the. loans obtained upon stock during the Period of the shutting. Be tween 90,000/. and 100,0001. in gold was taken into the Bank yesterday. ery little c h ange has taken place in the English _tock Ma r k e t to-day, and business has been very adtudll. The settlement has progressed fivourably loans money in the "H ouse " i s exceedingly easy, dihaving been obtained from day to day at 3 and per cent. There hasbeen no fluctuation in prices. Consols have been 92# for money, and 92 7-„ for 4-.. t est. ng The New 3 per Cents. have been 92A I, the Redu ce d 92 1 g. B ank Stock is 214. „, ! t India ditto 215 t o 217 . E xchequer Bills re ain 3s, discount, to par., a n d I n di a B on d s, under 1,0001., 10s. t o 4 s . di scount. ~,,o V e 9 ry lit t l e business has been done in Foreign ks, and quotations generally are quiet. Peru ;lll 41 p er C ents , are steady, at 821. Sardinian gave receded t o 84 and Spanish P ass i ve to 5 4 . Br azilian a re fi rm, at 101, and Turkish 6 p er C ents: realise 951 6 and 961. There was no busi ner.'s reported In the Turkish 4 per Cents. Locks following are the Per prices of Foreign ~,,t..c_ks:—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6 61 ; Mexie ; Peruvian 41 per Cents., 82i 31; ditto 3 per k 0 ':.) n 5 ... 6 57 ; Portuguese 3 per Cents., 441 5i ; % Pe! Cants., 109 111 ; to 41 per Cents., De ferred pa n RI 3 per Cents., of 40/ ; ditto New 1,25 i ; ditto Certificates, 61 1 - g ; ditto aa , tve, 6 . toln.esl.ast- week's r a il way receipts, ascertained up day, are in round figures as under : tGre at 1857. 1856. orgilt,t noii : W w e e s s t t e e r r n n ........................ £31,559 £29,968 68,502 66,148 14 iiad n ....................... 16,766 17.097 buth.t ................................. 32,544 30,374 astern. 21,150 21.257 ja ledoni a 13,823 12,290 Great N orthern t 21,560 21,257 a . 4 eashire and Yorkshire 26,693 24,897 -unienhe d 3,294 3,196 Ilti a • Ch .tol and Exeter e, ter and Ho) head 6.776 7,135 East La Y 7 529 6 , 85 7 t 1 a.ti ncashi re 0 easter and Carlisle Nortndon G eneral Omnibus Company 13,010 h London s ou h Stafford „,th Yorkshire , 2 676 2,351 ZLVelit Ilartlepool atersord and Limerick E dinburgh, and Glasgow fa;cliaburgh, Perth, and Dundee -,laegow and South-Western neottish North-Eastern. 3 503 3,361 Grand Trunk of Canada Ngreat Western of Canada .... orthern of France , Only a moderate business has been done in the gailway Share Market, most of the dealers being 9Nercupied with the settleme n t i n the Consol Market. w o rth-Wester n generally are steady. S outh-Eastern and receded s s. ; an d Edinburgh, Pettit, d Dundee, 15s. ; North-Eas•ern York and Lan- C: sh ire and Yo r k s hi re i mproved ss. ; and South ilestern, and North B r i t i s h , 1 0s. The Foreign and onial lines hav e b een very inactive. The French . 4 8 are at nom i na l rates, and Great 'Western and 1 ' sa nd Trunk of C ana d a have declined about ss. to 1 13 :. East Indian, G reat Indian Peninsula, and tnbardo-Venetian are at steady rates. For Mining Shares th ere was little inquiry. St. ' 4ll ll del Rey were at 10k, and Fortuna, li. Joint- Stock Bank Shares are rather firmer. doLondon Chartered of Australia advanced about • Union of Australia, ss. ; and U n i on of Lon g, ss. ,; 4 4 - 1 1 the Mi sce ll aneous M ar k e t th ere i s littl e va 3.ti°n to ra de flatter.eport. National Discount Company are "'J lI4II TISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (from the Official List:) Business done. L: , ' l4 ( St k . 214 B 'de , " 92 a r Cttt. Beduced A onuiti,ls ,rePer Cent. Consols Anngitiee ')2l Jil 4 , v.. 3 92 6 - i / • Per Cent. Annuities 4ttia. Stock 215 17 la,, • (aid ...... , , ....... „i 4, ts, .t.. 10%;;; ••• •• .. e " 1403 Under £lOOO 4 10 d plZ;}_s for Account, Aug. 6 ... ... 021 i hp ..o for Openinr' 92j " '4'ilequer tills, 2id. .ts u.: . ...... 3 d par f?() . .. ........ -. ''' ........ '...". .......... 3 d par Litil. '''''''''''''''''''' 3 d par att._ ''' .. ...... . . , u -g. S OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. • :5 1, 14 5 per Cell' - u itto Account ~??ada New Active, 2i per Cent. I,eircit.to Deferred 6 trvutn Dondß, 4i per Cent t,j.t? Account 82Jit..".141au tiells 6 per Vent. ... ....... to Account' ... • vi,t.'41,1 Berkfls, 3 per Cent. 4 , , , !tt 0 New Doferred, 3 per Cen'. 4 , —itt, p as __ 6'l ."14111 'lve _ - U • Bonds, 6 per cent witto Account 1,,c mob on ti:e above pln I ondcn.a3ablE '..-.., TWO O'CLOCK. b.. Conzols money ...., Coll4oles'icor Accotuit . ........ ...m u O2l THE SUN, LONDON THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 9, 1857, HARE MARKETS—this Day.) RAILWAYS. Closing Prices yesterday Business done this day. RA MWATO. St. 10 St. St. 'Paid 100 100 100 100 100 j Do. Str. V. R. gua. St all ,Irish South-Eastern. all .Lancaster &Carlisle. 14fD0., Thirds... 112 Do. New Thirds Lancash. &Yorkshire Do., do. F. £l3 Do., Wst. Riding Un Do. Southport. L London & Blackwall Lond.Bright. dz S.Cst. London & N. Western Dc. Fifths .. D0.,1G/.5h.,M&8...0 Do. Eighths London & S. Weateru, Lndndrry.&Colerainel Lndndrry. do Ennisk. Manch.SheLdr Linen. Metropolitan Do. J. L. Ricardo'p arrangement Widland Do. Birmiag. dr Derby Widland G. West. (Jr.) - Do. Shares ..... Newcastle dr Carlisle Newpt.Aberg.dr Hrfd Newry & Enniskillen Newry, Warrenpoint di Rostrevor Norfolk. Northn. Counties Un North British North Devon, Rail. dr Dock Stock Do., A Stock Do., B Stock N. Eastern - Berwick Do. do. Extension Do do. G. N.E.Purch Do Leeds Do. York North Loudon ..... .„ N. & S. Wstn., Hamp stead, and City Jn North Staffordshire North Western N. & S. Wostrn. Juno l Osford Worcester & Wolverhampton Portsmouth Rhymney ,Scottish Central Scot. N.E.Abrcln. St Shropshire Union Sitiugboui ae &Sheer 'South Devon ... 'South Eastern . Do. 4i per:. Shares South Wales..... 'S. Yorksh. RiverDnn 20 I 1 St. St. St. 50 St. St. 20 20 10 St. 1100 1 100 all 1 all 400 32 100 ,100 au 1100 16 ,100 100 Staines,Wok.,& Wok. 'Stockton & Darling I Do. do., 1854 Do. do., 1855 ;Stockton dt Hartlepi ITatF Vale Do. Pref., No. 1 Thames Hay. D. & Vale of Waterfd. & Kilkenny Waterford&Limerick West West End of London and Crystal Palace Do. A Do. B West London Do. First Class Do. Second Class Wmbleclon &Croydon I Ambg. Nottng. Bost. Eastn. Belfast & Ballymena Birmng. Wolverh. do Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lancsh. de Cheshire Junet Blackburn Blyth & Tyne original £25 (iss. at £45) Bristol & Exeter Caledonian. 'Chester dr Holyhead Cork and Bandon Cork, Black. & Pass Cornwall D. A Do. B Dublin&BelfastJunc. Dun. P. &Aber.Junc. East Anglian ......... Eastern Counties..... EasternUnion,A.stk. Do., do. P.. ...... Do. New A ...... East Kent East Lancashire ...... East Suffolk Do. 'Edinburgh & Glasgow Edi nb . and Peebles Edinb. Prth. &Dundee !Forth and ClydeJunc. Furness C'ilasgow & S.Western Great N. of Scotland ,Great Northern Do., A. Stock ..,... Do. , B. Stock ...... ,Gt. Sth. &West. (Ire.) ,Great Western. BRITISH PO and St. Law. Bombay, Baroda, and Cen.lnd,guar. 5 P. c. !Do. IBuffalo & Lake Hur. Butt , Brnt. & God ch.i 6 p. c.bds., 1 Aug. ,'721 Do. do., 1 July, '731 Do. do., 1 June, '741 Calcutta and S. East. Central Oude (Lini.)l Ceylon A BY arc s 1 _ - Do. B. do Demerara . Eastern Bengal East Indian Do. C Shares D°.4l p.e.Bnds.,'s7 Do. do. do., '59, do. i Geelong di Melboarnel guar. 5 per cent. Gd. Trunk. of Canada] I Do. 6 p. c. Deben Gt. In. Pen. g. 5 per c iDo. New. guar. 5 p.c Westn. of Canadai Do. New Do. Bds., payable '57, Do. do., '76, p. '6O Do, do., '73, do , Do. do., '73, without option ;Madras, guar. p.c Do. do., 5 per c. Do. 44 p. c. Exten. Do. 3d Ex. , g. sp. c. Do. 4th Ex., do ,Onde (Limited) ; &Ando, guar. 5 per c Do 51 5a 8i - 9 70 - 72 7i - 8i 91 - 93 75 - 75 36 37 i - ..6 9 - 10 20 - 21 . 11R -11 i 52 - 54 351 -36 i . •. - 7 ( 1 97i - 98 63 -- 64 ii - ii 99 - 101 8 - 9 99 - 100 90 - 9 1 121 - 123 1041 - 10 3 64 - 65} 63 - 65 70 - 74 6 - 8 p I 6 - 1001 -- 101 ! 61 -6?, 112 - 314 -103 i 10— d 1 —102 f ai - ii 83i - 83i1 54 - 5561 ii - M 62 - 61 34 - 43t; 92 - 93 22k - 23 21- lii 45 - 46 Tli -72 i 06 - 99 4i - 46 1 7 - 8 10_ - 103 31 36 6 5d 101 - IC3 25 - 26 43 - 50 3 - 2 .1 17 - 18 7.1; - 75 89 90 5A 44:1 51 4!,d 9 11 40 42 ill - ili 31 41 7 - 9 3 -3?; - , SSESSIONS. i - ip 4, - 3 , 1 188 - 92 85 - 90 85 - 90 ••• - •• 1 1 - li • P i - ,106 - 108 - lip 20 - 2011 56 - 58 86 - 88 21. -21 i - IP! 21 - 218 - 1 P; 99 - 101 109 - 113 109 -- 113 106 103 I 19 20 1 21 241 id - LINES LEASED AT FIXED ItENTALS. Leasing Closine Price, Business Stir Paid' RAILWAT.9. Co m p an i e s yesterday, this day St. 100 Buekghamsh. Ln.&N.W. ••• St. 100 ClydeealeJe. Ca:edon 25 all Col.Stour Vy. E.U.diE.O 11 13 Rt. 100 ,E.Lin. g. 6 p.e Gt.Northn 132 131 5 all E. Un. Sh. E. Count. - 4,1 St. 100 Glas. Barr. dr Caldonian. Neils• Direct. ••• St. 100 Do. N0w.. .. .. Do 2; all iCastr.&Dn.Fr. 50 all Hull di Selby. Y. & N.M. 106 103 25 all Do. Shares. Do — •.• 12} all Do. I Shares. Do — 121 all ILon.&Greenw S.Eastorn l2i —1 2 i 20 all !Do.Preference Do 22i —23 t St. 100 !Lou. Til., &S. Peto &Co lO. 105 1)4 10 7i Do. Birk. Sh. Do p 521 all Manch.Baton. Ln.&N.W and Matlock & Midld 2l 2R St. 100 ,31,11d.Bradfd. Midland B9 91 6i 5.} Newmarket !SuryE.G.spc. E. Count p Pm 50 all IN.dzEst.s p.c. Do 55 57 50 all , Do. 6 per ct.. Do 50 all Do.Fixedsp.c Do 25 all Prest. dr Wyre L. & . W ... 122; all , Do. 2 Shrs. A Do St. 100 I Roystu.&Tlit. Gt.Northn'l3l 133 10 all ;"hrews.& Her T. Brasseyl 8 82 12 all S. Staffordsh.. M. MClean, , 9 94 50 i all WearVal.g6pc Stk.diDard 25 all Do 'Do I 312 323 St. 100 Wilts&Somrst Gt.Westn 89 91 FOREIGN MINES. e i li - 2 - Ad 50 52 11. 13 id 17 20 7f 71 1d p i - 7 'a = ii - 3R. - 3i Australian Brazilianlmp.(issued at £5 pm) Do. Coczes & Cuiada Do. St. John Del Roy Clarendon Con. MM. Co. of Jamaica Cobra Copper Copispo Fortuna General Linares Lusitanian I Mar'ouita 1 7 , tew Granada No eau MOT' e IPont.Sil.LdAl.d., if..t Santi97o k e r;nbA Australian 'Do. Scrip :Do. 10 p. c. 'United Mexican PREF ERENI !E SEIARES. Blyth and Tyue 10 p. c.pref. (issd.at 501.) Bris.&Ex.4 p.c. qt. Do. 4 per c. Shares Caledn. £lO 41 p. c. Ches. it Ho. 51 p. c. Do. co. 5 per cedc I Cor :StßardonNp.c. Dun.Pertb./crt. Anglian Cis. A Sh. Do. do. Cls. B Op. c. Do. do. Cls. C 7 p. c. Ea5.C0.Ex,5p.t,2:0.1 Do. No. 2 IDo. New 6 pr. c. (East Un., G. 6 p. c. 'Do. 51., 10 per cent. Do. 101. De"Jentr.Sh. Do. do. 4 per cent East TJancasb .6 p.cts E.&W. York. J. sthß Edir 5 p. c. Sh. FA. Pr th .&Due.4p.c. Furness. 5 p. c......• Glas. dt 5.W.G.5 p.c. Great Northn. 5 p.c. Do. 5 p. c. Redeem. at 10 p. c. prem Do. 4 per cent ..... Do. 5 p.c., Red. at 5 p. c. prem. Gt.N.orf',eot.lst Pre Gt. S &W. (Ireland) Do. 4 per c. Pref. St. iGt.W.(o.dr.d.Ex.spc Do. con. red. 4i p.c. (Do. con. red. 4 p. c. 'Do. irred. 4 per len;;. Do 5 p. c. red. pref.! 00. Ellin. Pre". Sl' 1 Do. Chester 3p. c. P. S Do. do. 5 p. c. do Do. Birm. Gua. Stk ' Do. Cbesh. Gua. Do. do. do Do. do. do Lan.dr fork. Lon. &B. G. 5 pc.No. l Do. New Guar. 6 p.c. Do. do. 5 p. c., N 0.4 Lon. dr N. - W., Coy. dr Nuneaton 5 p. et & S.W. 7 pact , 26i 13 20 St. all 100 100 1 100 1100 'lOO 20 123 25 20 St. 25 10 1.0.6 1 100 100 1 .00 .100 all 1 all 20 25 25 12i all all late 3d Shares Londy.& Color. Sh Lowly. &Ennis. Sh M., S.,&L. 6 p. Cent Do. do. do. £6 IDo. do. 3 1 per cent. Mar) )t. C. 4 p.c. Do. 4i per cent Do. do. ... Aid. Consol. 6 p.c. St. Do. Con .Br. B . r. 6 p.c. Do. 44 p. c. Pref. St Do. L. & Pref. St. New.,Aber., &c., pr. sp.c.red.s.).c.pm. Do. Perpet. (, pr. Norf . Deb. 4 ).c. Sh. Do. 5 p. c. Ext. i 846 Do. 54 p.c. pf , 1847 Do.Wv.V.sp. . '847 ,North British 'Do. 71. Preference N.E. Berw. 4 p.c.Prf Do. do. do Do. Leeds 6 pc. No. I Do. do. Qrs., 1848 Do. York &S..Pur North Staffordshire Ox., Wor. & Wolv. p.c., Ist guar Do. 6 n. c. 2d guar Scot. Ceut.New Pref Sc. N. E. At er.2,.. 6p. e Do. do. 7 p.c. p', St Do. c'0.31 p.c. pi". Si, SouLl, Devon Do. fixed 44 pr cent S. Eastern (Bead;ng Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. Do. 44 per cent Do. Fixed 4i p.c. Sh S. Wales Gua. 4 p. c Do. do. 44 p. c S.Yorksh.4p.c.Guar Stock. &Dar., sp. c Do. do. do. 91 - 93 95 7- 97 - = 110 - 112 110 - 112 - 2 12i -12 i 7 70 --- 7.2 .•. 114 - 116 105 - 107 100 - 102 61 -- 63 10i -- 10$ - 6i 94 - 96 83 - 85 85 - 87 101 - 103 9A - 10 16 -17 i 91 - 104 73 - 75 193, - 20 91 - 10 144 - 15 134 - 136 138 - 141 115 - 117 Stock. & Hartl. g. 5. p.c. till July 1, '33 Waterfd&Kilk, 6 pc. 155 - 157 66 - - 68BP t 32 - 134 96 - 97 87 - 89 ••• •••••• ••• 1 i - lli 102- 104 93 95 li is ld par 22i —22 t 1113 - 115 114 - 116 105 - 110 is 1 - - 19 22i -23 i 98 -- 100 95 -- 100 27i --- ii 2 ; 3 / 4 - 3 p ..• ••• 21 - 3 .95 4i BRITISH MINES. 2112 Alfred Cons. (Philk.) 17 18 20 14 British Iron 20 Condurow (Cambrn.) 130 140 10 1 iDev.Gt. Cnsls. (Tay.) 140 450 ... lls !Great South Tolgus l6 18 ... 1 1 / 3 !Grt.W.Alfrd.(Philk.) 61 7 ... 7 IGrt.W. Vor (Helstn.) 4 5 ... 13s ;Lady Bertha ••• 71 N. Frances (Illogan) 12 14 ... , . N.W.Basset (Illogan) 15 16 ... 6 / 1 5'North Wheal Crony 3 .-- 4 ... 11 Par. Cons. (St. Blau) 20 —2.). 9 Porkellis U. (Wend.) 5 6 ... 6s. Sort. Cons. Mir. C) 10 la ••• 21 ;S. Caradon (St. Ceer) 315 325 ... 2S. Carn Brea (Illogn.) 5 6 ... 19 'S. W. F rances (lll ogn .) 280 —. 300 5 41 Tarn. S. &L. Min. Co. 11 I.f 10 9 ' Tin Croft 3t 41 ... 40 1130.Minee (Gwennap) •.: ••• ... 1256,V. of T owey (C.iwar.' .:1 4 ... 11 W. Basset (Illogan) 271 281 ... 20 W. Caradon (Liskrd )120 130 ... 51 Wh. Basset (Illogan). 230 240 ... 5 IWh. Buller (Rdruth). 260 - 280 ... 5i likril. Edward(Calstck) 54 6. ... 1/ 7s:Wh. Kitty (U. LlantY 18A 191 .. 8 Wh.Ma.Ann (Menht.) 44 46 4 1 25 19 Wh. T Australian r . rel awy n A e gr i ( c L u i I s t . 24 .) 19i - 26 MISCELLANEOUS. 20 6 10 all A.ustraln. Royal Mail ... ... 10 all Berlin Water Works.. 4 5 50 40 Brit. American Lar 7 ... . . 100 321 Canada St. 100 Do.Go.6pc.Jauu .- 1121 113 1131 St. 100 Do. 6p. e.Fch.&Auf , :. ... ... St. 100 D 0.6 p.c. Mar.&Sept. ... ••• St. all Copper Min. of Eng. 30 35 25 all Do. Pref. 7,1 p. ceri 5 all Crystal Palace . la 18 5 all Do. Pref re'ice 4 all Crystal Pal, of Franc :. ... 1 0 Duston Iron Ore .. ••• 20 18 'Eastern 5team.... .... ... -- ... St. 100 Electric Tele gra ph 1 all Electric Tel. of Irel ... ... 5 i all En. &Aust.Cop.Sraeo, 10 13 10 10s. Eur. & Ind.Jctn. Tel.' ... 25 'di Gen. Ir.Sc.Col.(lim.)l ... ... 15 1.4 Gen. Steam Navim ° at. ... 234 4 20 5 London Discount 4 all Loud. Gen. Omnibusl 33 31 20 i 10 Magdalena St. Navig.! ... ... 1.0 all I Meditoran. Elec. Tel i ... 10 all !Mexican & S.Americnl 2 26 5 5 INat. Discount Co l 11 ill 3i 5 5 Do. New ••• . ... 10 5 Nctherla.npdf.sisLass..anLtdai.nD.di 143 : 4 —:: 44 1 : : 1 5 0 a a l l l l D D o o . . B D p n e . 1 id P Slolt 5 1 :1- laB a oallol . oll l l liji-N'NN'T ei.tB;'Bh: DI:11r:°A Oriental .f:tiEkG ° G suNt r a lt s a. P e5l a PsSi tacen a . n1:I 98 : 4 -- —. -1 99 1 f 2 1 5 2 0 5 laa°oll.lDP„ae°acillsrualheui..wl: S hare s 1 l e i n n tai rl 6 1 8 1 ----.... t 7 1 : 3 4 50 10 Do. New • 4A 5 p 50 all Rhymney Iron 15 all Do. New. 1 7 _._ , 60 CO R o yal Mail Steam.— GO 62 1 all 'Scot. Austral. Invest. 11 la all Do. New ... . 10`..t all S.AuL Gov.6p.c.bds 1.03 105 1030 25 all South Austral. Land 133 35 1 all Submarine Tel. Scrip il -- 1 1 all Do. Registered 20 5 True. LI). Co. Up. Can. . 100 28 . 1 Van Diemen's Laud. , . 11 -- 12 NEWMARKET RACES.—(This Day.) (BY BLECTRIC TELEORAPII.) SWEEPS CA KES OF 10 SOVS. T.Y.C. Po'ly John k o Woodmite Seven ran. 501. HANDICAP PLATE. Huntirgton Sneer colt CHESTERFIELD STAKES. B,eswax colt. Jaly 2 reven rap. BETTING ON THE COURSE. LIVERPOOL CUP. 10 to 1 apt Lima 9 to 1 agst Newton-le-Willows and Bashi- Baz )uk (couple?) GOODWOOD STAKES. 12 to 1 agst Martinet 100 to 7 agst Fulbeek (offers to take) 20 to 1 agst Squire \Va't GOODWOOD CUP. 7to 1 agst Gt>mma di Vergy 10 to 1 agst Florin (offers to take) 12 to 1 apt P ,tocki ST. LEGER. 3to 1 agst Mink Binny (taken) 3to 1 agst Ignoramus (offered) 20 to 1 agst Sydney (taken) 40 to 1 agst Oakball (taken) DERBY. 25 to 1 agst Coek-a-doocle-doo IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF COMMONS—(This Day.) The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. London and South Western Railway Acts Amend ment, Mersey Conervancy and Docks, Norfolk Estuary Acts Amendment, North Western Railway, and Tiff Vale Railway bills w . ere read a third time and passed. ELECTION CO NI MITTEES. The SPEAKER called on the memberi of the Lam hers of the L%mbeth and town of Galway Election Committees to come to the table of the house to be sworn. It wal then found that only a few of the mem bers were present, aad it was 'ascertained that in all probability the others would not attend till 4 o'clock, on which Mr. Colville, one of the members of the committee, asked to be allowed to retire, but Sir George Grey intimated that according to the act, the hon. member must remain in the house until he was sworn. On reference to the act, Sir G. Grey discovered that members of committees were directed to attend to be sworn at any time before four o'clock. He, therefore, apprehended that the hon. mem ber -night retire, if he wi-bed, and suggested his attend ance again at half-past-three o'clock. REFORMATORY SCHOOLS BILL. _ _ _ On the motion for going into committee on this bill, Mr. ALCOCK moved that the house go into com mittee on this bill on this day three months. He said that this bill, if carried, would destroy the voluntary efforts in favour of education. Three years ago a simi lar bill was pa-eed for Middlesex, but no steps had been taken to put it in force, because the magistrates could not agree as to the best course to pursue under its pro visions. Lord Brougham and Lord Carnarvon, and others, who discussed the subject the other day in the House of Lords, were unable to come to any practical conclusion on the subject. The hon. gentleman entered at some length into the great expense these schools would entail on the public in extra taxation. Mr. R. HANBURY seconded the amendment, on the ground that the bill would destroy the voluntary principle, and thereby impede the advancement of edu cation. Sir G. GREY opposed the amendment. He denied that this was a compulsory bill, and urged that the state of society required such an enactment as that before the house. Mr. BRISCOE supported the amendment. He argued that these schools under the provisions of this bill would become juvenile prisons. He objected to the expense that h b na palacestt would t wt than as nb required eschools entailed foorr b prisons. the by i ont suppression the country, and there was a tenden c y to ere c t public buildings more lik e Sir E. KERRISON supportedthebillo,fonertihmeeg. H ground considered the expenses would be less than many hon. members supposed. He approved of a compulsory system of reformation throughout the country. Mr, HACKBLOCK was in favour of the bill. Mr. BUXTON considered the bill needless. The present reformatory were well adapted for the require. ments of the country, and the Government, instead of superseding the voluntary system ought to supplement it. The reformatory movement was advancing suffi ciently fast, and if the Government waited a few years they would find it woul I supply the necessary wants of the country. Ho objected to any further increase of taxation, especially by justices, against the consent of the rate-payers. who bad no voice in county expenditure. Mr. MILNES supported the bill. He thought it would have the effect of reforming the criminal popu lation. If it did that it would reduce the expense of crime, and any measure that did that would relieve, rather than increase, the burt.hens of the tax-payer. [LEFT SPEAKING.] LLOYD'S SHIPPING.---(This Day.) LoismoN, July 9.—Wind this day at noon, W.N.W. ; light breeze, and fine. PORTSMOUTH, July B.—Wind . N.N.W. to W.N.W.— Sailed—Copenhagen, for Melbourne. PLYMOUTH, July 8.--Wind N.N.E.—Sailed — Lady Ann, Adelaide, S.A. FALMOUTH, July B.—Wind N.—Arrived — lphegenia, from Rio Janeiro. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH•) LIVERPOOL, Thursday Morning. Wind N.W. Arrived—Alexander, from Quebec ; Teneriffe, screw steamer, Palermo ; Caman, Callao ; Adelaide, St. John's. N.B. ; Inez, Charleston ; Glenroy, Smyrna ; Magician, Hamburgh ; Dart, oAend. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Thursday, 9.30 a.m. Wind W.N.W. ; tide low water ; fine. Arrived, July B—Douglas, from Guernsey; Gauline, Ncusadt; Minerva, Riga ; Thomas Hughes, Honduras; Eliza, Guernsey. Propitious, 01l o Arrived, ek, July uebee 9 ; — B C ri e t n i t n a n u i r a , , from st. s ß t i e o p O h ernasu d;Margaret P;i Cherbourg ; Medway, Militello ; Concordia, Rotterdam. Sailed, 9th—Sylph, for Bordeaux. DEAL, Thursday morning, 9 a.m. Wind W.N.W. ; light. Passed, July B—Ellide, from Bergen, to Frankray ; Fra nz and Ernst, Cardiff, Lubeck ; Rowallon, Aux Cayes, Rot terdam. Passed, 9th—Elizabeth, brig, from eastward, to west ward. The French Government is in possession of informa• tion which proves that the late revolutionary, movement in Italy bad its active correspondent. in /ranee. If the mad attempts in 'he Peninsula had for a time suc ceeded similar demonstrations would have taken place in Parie. It was reported yesterday, at the headquarters of the Chatham division of Royal Marines, that it is theinten tion of the Government to send out i m mediately 4,000 Marines to China, to relieve the regiments o f the line, so that they may be forthwith sent to India. —On Sunday THUNDER STORM AND Loss OF LIFE. - afternoon, about two o'clock, a severe thunderstorm broke over the village of Hylton, about four miles from Sunderland ; and during the storm a littl e bo y , named Ge rge Haddock, son of Robert Haddock, sawyer, was killed upon the spot by the electric fluid. The storm, which is described as having been very violent, was not observed in Newcastle, Shields, or the neighbouring towns.—Manchester Guardian , . PUBLIC PETITIONS.—ACCOrdiII to the last report of the Select Committeo of the Commons' House, there were 14 petitions against the abolition of church-rates, signed by 445 persons ; 101 against the Divorce Bill, signed by 26,793 persons ; 87 for the removal of Jewish disabilities, signed by 14.572 persons ; 137 against the Oaths Bill, signed by 5,623 persons ; 17 for an altera tion of the Oaths Bill, signed by 17,934 p ersons ; 97. for a repeal of the paper duty, signed by 2,902 persons; 39 for equalizing poor-rates in the metropolis, signed by 4,366 persons; and 21 for the ballot, signed by 3,498 persons. ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY.—At the half -yearly meet ing of this society, held yesterday, Mr. B. B. Cabbell in the chair, honorary silver medals were unanimously eaed 60, at Menai bridge,lBss ; Henry im awarded to the following persons , who had been recom• mended as being very deserving of the prize :—Mr. John oth A y, w ng h i o es t .y, aved 2 C B a th the o r f in N e J o o ve ti m es br, , g Bonner, licensed victualler, who saved Willi am W . Gil liatt at Boston haven, Lincolnshire, 24th of November, Timothy, 1856 ; Geo. Griffin, steward, her Majesty's ship Opos sum, who saved a seaman of her Majesty's ship High flyer, at sea, 21 of November, 18. 56 ; Lieut. Augustus Bullock, R.N., her Majesty's ship Centurion, assisted by other seamen, who saved a ... seaman of th e same vess el etf Lisbon, 9th October, 1856 ; Mr. Edw. Wm. May, officer, Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's steamer Conway, who saved a seaman of the steamer La Plata, in the Bay of Biscay, sth of December, 1856 ; Lieut. J. C. Wilson, R.N., her Majer.dy's ship Spiteful, who saved a Greek boatman in the Pi eaus on the Ist of January, 1857; Francis Bould, plater, who saved four women and tried to save another at Hatherton Lake, Walsall, on the 30th of January, 1857 ; George Moody, seaman, her Majesty's ship Raleigh, who , saved Private Thomas Beezley, R. M., of her Majes!y R ship Raleigh, at sea, on the 231 of December, 1856 ; Lieutenant Henry Christian, R.N., her Majesty's ship Rifleman, who saved Ed ward May, a boy of the same vessel, in the River Parana, South America, on the 10th of February, 1857 ; Mr. Erasmus Wilson, who saved a Woman aged 60. in the Regent's Canal, Regent's-park, on the 22d of April, 1857 ; William Balls, seaman, her Majesty's ship Mon arch, who raved Richard Smith, A. 8., at Esquimalt Harbour, Vancouver's Island on the 3d of September, 1856 ; and William Dustin, A. 8., at Caldera, South America, on the 27th of March, 1857, both belonging to her Majesty's ship Monarch. LITERATURE. The Autobiography of Elizabeth Davis, a Balaclava Nurse. Edited by Jane Williams, author of " A Memoir of the Rev. T. Price," Jac. 2 vols. Hurst and Black< tt. These volumes contain the history of a very re markable woman, who has visited many countries', and seen much of life, who has met with some sin gular adventures, and always shown herself equal to the emergency. She was the daughter of Dafydd Cadwaladyr, a well known Welsh dissenting mini ster, and from an early age manifested an unusual independence of spirit and decided temper. She was anxious to see the world, so left home and entered service, and filled various places of trust for many years, visiting the East and West Indies, China, and Australia. She hal numerous offers of marriage from inhabitants of all parts of the world, but having lost her first love by death, she refused all others. She saved a large sum of money which was lost in an unfortunate speculation, and having had much experience of sickness she applied to join the band of military nurses who went to the East. This part of her experiences, though it gives the title to the book, only occupies part of the se cond volume, and it is with this art that some fault may justly be found. Doubtless Rizabctli Davis is in many respects an admirable women, and the testimonials.to her services in the Crimea given in the appendix are quite sufficient testi mony to the value of her services ; but the tone of prejudice which throughout pervades her tone in speakirg of the management of the nurses, and especially in all that concerns Miss nightingale, is much to ba regretted. Mrs. Davis evidentiy took a prejudice against that lady before she saw her, and therefore everything that was mis managed in hospital affairs, the stores that were lost when men were dying of need, the illness that was aggravated by the want of proper remedies, are all set down to her account. It would be folly to suppose that Miss Nightingale's arrangements were perfect, that she male no errors or mistakes in such a trying position, rendered still more per plexing from official mismanagement. But to speak aid write of her as Mrs. Davis and her editor have done is neither just nor reasonable. Mrs. Davis plainly hints that she made herself comfort thle while neglecting others. If such had been her ob ject, it would have been more easily attained nearer home. Profit there was none, and even Mrs. Davis cannot accuse her of seekine• '' fame or popularity. The extreme retirement she has kept in since her return effectually precludes such a suggestion. The readers of this book, much as they may admire Mrs. Davis's unflinching honesty and indefatigable spirit, will find quite enough in the earlier record of her life to guard them as to their judgment on the latter portion. With an undoubting truthful ness, she did not hesitate to "speak her mind," in true Welsh fashion, to master, mistress, or the Great Mogul himself if she met him. She confesses she always " cherished a very high opinion of my own goodness, and I was more especially proud of my honesty and truth." She never owned her self in the wrong ' • and on one occasion, when her mistress had offended her, refused to stay in her service unless she begged her pardon on her knees. It will be easy to understand that such a temper as this did not bend very easily to military discipline, and was more inclined to command than to obey. Doubtless such a character was most valuable in the Crimea. There an energetic spirit and disregard of rules was only too scarce ; but it is plainly seen that if the plans recommended in the appendix had been adopted, of differenta ranks of nurses, Mrs. Davis would not have put up with a second rank. She was established as cook in the kitchen at Balaklava, and proved herself most valuable by her unwearied personal exertion. It is with regret that we learn that she is left at pre sent unprovided for. An address is furnished, and doubtless many will gladly give a tribute to her ser vices. The earlier portion of the work is the most agreable. It is full of entertainment. People and places are described in a manner so quaint and on ginal, that it would give zest to less exciting in cidents. The following is an account of a narrow escape at sea, in which the heroine's courage was especially useful : " We bad stormy weather in crossing the Bay of Biscay, and afterwards, when we came to the place where the four. seas meet, the waves, and wind, and thunder, and lighten ing, were awful. It was the dead of night, and dreadfully dark, the glaring blue lightning flashed incessantly across the ship ; she was going at a rapid rate, all sails set, when she was taken aback and went under water as far as the mainmast. The surgeon rushed down the cabin stairs crying out, " We are sinking." The people, men, women, and children, rushed from their berths with horrible shri e k s , and crowded the quarter-deck in their night-clothes. Mr, Pringle, a passenger, took the helm, in his shirt. The screaming still rings in my ears of those two hundred people in despair. The captain stood upon the cuddy, until the water washed him off. Ha bade me take the passengers from the quarter-deck. They were standing half-naked in the water. Tho hatches had been opened, and the sea poured in ; there was no leak, the waves came over the ship. We got the passengers into the cuddy, crowding one over the other in the utmost confusion. " The foremast and foresail wore set on fire by the lightning. The captain had ordered all hands aloft to take in the sails; there was great difficulty :in doing it, and several tif the sailors were struck blind by the lightning. One man called !from aloft in a desperate manner for a certain rope to be let go; I did not know one rope from another, but rushed about the deck, up to my neck in water in some places, and let go every rope that I could get hold of. Down came rushing heavily, all the sails at once, bringing many sailors with them like lead upon the deck, while the crush of the canvas and the violent rain put out the flames. " The ship righted instantly, and Captain Foreman ex claimed, ' Thank God ! the Denmark Hill is saved !' " All readers of " Childs Harold" will remember the passage which refers to the following scene : " We came a second time, after several month s e l a p se d, back to Brussels, and arrived there about two o'clock in the morning : we were delayed for a draw-bridge to be let down before we could get to the Queen's Hotel. On the night of that day there was a ball, and Sir George and Lady had tickets, and attended. Their servants, also had tickets for the gallery to view the scene. The room was the largest I ever saw in my life. About midnight orders came for the 10th Hussar officers to march. At that moment, the dancers were forming all bands round. There was much confusion, and the party broke up. "We returned to the Queen's Hotel, and were very dull and anxious until we heard of the battle of Waterloo. Five days after it had been fought, we left Brussels on an excursion to visit the field. It was thickly strewn with dead bodies. Soldiers were carrying them into corners, and laying them together. Many persons were there searching among the killed for their friends. Broken bayo- nets, and otheAhings, were scattered about." On one occasion she was living as housekeeper to a lawyer in the city, and an amusing incident oc curred : " One day, when an important cause was comit b es on, a parcel of pap e r s h a d b een sent from Mr. G-' s office to Lord Brougham, but one was forgotten, and Mr. G-, hastily recollecting it, bade me run with it instantly, and deliver it very carefully. • " I went, and was shown into a room where I saw a per son whom I took to be a clerk. I gave the packet into his hen', and told him to be sure to give it to his master. "He nodded his head, and said quietly, I dare say I shall.' " I was provoked at his taking it so easy, and said to him, You sulk y o ld f e ll ow , I'll tell your master. Look at the paper. It is of great consequence, Mr. G- says, and you must look at it.' I would not rest until he did so,. and then I went away. Mr. told me afterwards that itwas Lord Brougham himself ; who was so pleased with my faithful ness about the paper, that be gave Mr. G- half a sove reign to give me for my impudence.'" The following is a sample of her abrupt manner of settling affairs of moment : "As to my proposed marriage, it ended as my former engagement bad done. " One day II- asked me whether I had told my sister Bridget that I had consented to marry him. She was then living in London, in a place which I had procured for her. I answered, No. ' We had a dispute about it, and quar relled, and broke off the match. "He wrote to me afterwards, and sent a Mend to try and make it up again ; but I refused to have anything more to do with him. " I left Mrs. R-- on a Thursday, and went that same evenine•. to Queen's Terrace, Brompton ; and there, at the hoese of a French count, I agreed with his sister-in-lac, Mrs. S-, to enter her service, and to wait upon her and her child to the West Indies and back. "On Friday, Mrs. R-- sent after me ; and, although my rate of wages bad reached thirty pounds a year, she said she would not hesitate to give as much more as I chose to ask, if I would only return to her. " This it was no longer in my power to do." She was instrumental in capturing several thieves, and was accustomed to much exertion. She had the health and strength, as well as the vigour of character so oft en met in hardy mountaineers. She filled the place of nurse at Guy's Hospital for some time, and afterwards nursed private patients, but not liking this so well as service, 'she took another place and lived next door to Lord Raglan. Here is an account of her first re solve to go to the East. "I had from my early childhood a dislike to soldiers ; and this dislike was aggravated by the cruel conduct of the sentries in India who prevented the young widow's escape from the suttee. "After having been abroad, I always liked to know what was going on the world, and this curiosity made me an eager reader of the newspapers. Sitting one evening with my sister, I road in one of them an account of the battle of the Alma. " !' said I, if I had wings, would not I go ?' " What,' answered Bridget, go to be a soldier ? Well, I can believe anything, if you have changed your mind about them.' "I did not want to be a soldier, but to see what was going on, and to take care of the wounded. " Then again I read ofMiss Nightingale preparing to take out nurses. I did not like the name of Nighting ale. When I first hear a name, I am very apt to know by my feeling whether I shall like the person who bears it.' She kept to this irnpressionand refused to like any thing connected with her, though she appears to have met with a fair share of consideration and kindness. - She was not much disposed toL.submit to superintendence. " One day about twelve o'clock, which was the dinner time, Miss, Nightingale and her maid came iu from the Castle. I was busy sending out the extras for the patients on half diet. "I was irritated at being interrupted, and said, ' You must please to walk out. I don't wantoetticoats here.' "There wet e perhaps as many as thirty orderlies in the kitchen, and I was cutting fowls and putting things ready for them to carry away. " Seeing the necessity of the case, she went away ; and when the hurry was over, she came back again, and said, You were in a had humour, Mrs. Davis.' " I denied it, for 1 did not consider just displeasure as bad humour. " She said, thought you were. You spoke very sharply.' " I told her that I was very busy, and thought that she would not like to be there among the common men. So she went away again." • • - - Nightingale, however, appreciated her ser vices, and her invincible integrity and sobriety among so many of a different characters, and when her health at hest , , filed from her unremitting exer tions, she orfered to send her where the doctor re- I 1, at her own expense. Mrs. Davis, how ever, refused all the places selected, Malta, Smyrna; and the South of Fr.mice, for she wished to come home; which she (lid, and is at present resting after her rani , d wit entures. The editress's appendix has little to recommend it ; she has taken her ideas from kir heroine, without making due allowance for a prejudiced mind, and invinc'ble obstinacy, and she has taken up the cause of hospital nurses, maintaining they have been very unjustly treated and disparaged. It would be indeed satisfactory to think that the class was equal to her assertions, but it is prepo.terous to infer that all are like Mrs. Davis, who, with all her narrow-mindedne , s aid self-satisfaction, is a women whose strength of cha racter and presence of mind, whose bon-sty and truthfulness, are rare in any station. Unf rtu nately, it is too well known that the sijit of habitual suffering l:at•deas the heart, as d it has been recently prove I that some hospital nurses are almost devoid of feeling. No doubt some are worthy women and gentle "nurses ; it is always unjust to condemn a class, but if the editress will turn to the book she frequently quotes, "Eastern Ho pitals and Englith Nurses," she will find a differ t o; inion. It is an originA and in'erating work, giving a sketch of a varied aad adventurous life, and show ing the outline og an uncommon ( h iracter. Had the editress contented herself with publishing it as the biography of a remarkable woman, who had even strange sights and visited many places, it would have been more satisfactory than adopting the opinion of a prejudiced witness, who perhaps had not always the opportunity of judging, to at tack, on very insufficient foundations, the services of Florence Nightingale. But setting aside this drawback, it is full of entertainment for the curiow, and will Letter serve to amuse a leisure hour than many works of fiction. Amusing Poetry. Edited by Shirley Brookes. Lambert and Co.: London. This cheap volume presents us with a collection of all sorts of poetry, and all sorts of authors, includ ; ing, among others, Longfellow, Tennyson, Thomas Hood, and the Editor himself. Old ballads and new songs are mingled in pleasant confusion, anal form an agreeable book. Perhaps an objection may be fairly urged against the " cutting and maiming" abridgment of many of the poems, as it has tended to deteriorate the character and quality of some of our ancient and modern favourites. The Bell-Founder , and Other Poems. By D. Florence MacCarthy. Bogue : Fleet-street. _ _ Mr. MacCarthy possesses strong metrical talent, and pours for , h harmonious rhymes very fluently, in which delicate grace and pleasing sentiment are abundantly scattered. Gems of deeper thought occasionally enrich the volumes, but musical sweet ness appears to be the author's forte. We admire especially " Spirit Voices." It is an elegant and charming I.ttle poem. "Sweet May," " Alice and Una," and many others are among the best. The lyric of " Tne Pilgrims" conveys a very pretty poetic notion, but in it the author gives us " sweet scented hawthorn," and laburnum's golden hair, contemporaneously with "fields of fresh-mown hay," which, we think, is a mistake. A writer of Mr. MacCarthy's taste must surely study his land scape before he mixes his colours. THE BALLOT. Mr. Henry Berkeley's speech on the ballot leaves us nothing to desire• in the way of argu ment, a happy use of examples and humorous illustrations. He has made many good speeches on the Abject, but never a better than the last. We wish that the task of opposing the motion had devolvei on some other than Lord John Russell, whom it is not pleasant to se.-) placed in the front of a battle for the foul influences. It sounds strange and unnatural to hear from his lips the arguments which used to be urged ad nauseam against his own motions of old for Parliamentary Reform. "It works well," was the favourite plea of the old Tories, for the system swept away by the Reform Bill, " the country has grown to its greatness under it, and the liberties of the people have made advances." But in those days Lord John Russell would not consent to let ill alone on the pretence that it was letting well alone, and lie was char-sighted enough to see that the country got on, not because of the rotten ness in its representative system, but notwithstand ing it, and he resolutely and boldly removed the impediment to its better progress. Yet now we find him adopting and turning against the Ballot all the hackneyed pleas which he so ably confuted when they were put forth in defence of sham re presentation. We seem almost to Lear the voice of Croker again in these words delivered by Lord John Russell : \Ve have gone on a long time with this imperfect, and, as it appears, corrupt mode of voting, under which we have gained great liberty, and the system of secret voting has only been proposed, or even thought of, within late years. Liberty his made greater advances in this country than in any nation of Europe, and I venture to say that that there is more freedom in this country than exists even in the United States of America. This is the stereotyped defence of every abuse. The same argument was held against Catholic emancipation, against the repeal of the corn-laws, against every beneficent change of our time. When Sir Robert Peel establishel the metropolitan police, a service all his own, and resolutely performed in spite of much misrepresentation and clamour, he was told that the public had been sufficiently well protected under the infirm old night watch, and that no change was needed or called for. And it WAS true, undeniably, that Loudon had grown and thriven, increased in wealth and population, not withstanding the insecurity of its streets at night ; but Sir Robert Peel thought this fact noreasou for not strengthening the protection of person and property, and he did so accordingly. He did not say, h ere is a sufficient general amount of safety, but he took such measures as made every inhabitant of the metropo lis feel a degree of security that he had never en joyed before. Analogous to this is the case for the protection of voters. No one asserts that all electors are subjected to the foul influences, but, on the other hand, it is unquestionable that a very considerable number are in that unhappy condition, and for them the only protection that can be afforded is claimed. It is not enough fur Lord John Russell to deny that so much intimida tion prevails as to render it impossible to ascertain the opinions of the enfranchised classes. Mr. Henry Berkeley justly contends that the legislature is bound to afford protection where it imposes duties, the upright discharge of which may be resented by those whose wishes it disappoints, no matter whether a brutal mob, as at Kidderminster, or a dictatorial landlord, as upon the Waterford estate, in Ireland. But then comes the stale fallacy that the suffrage is confided in trust, and must be kept under the view and control of public opinion. First, it is to observed that the individual vote never is under the view and control of public opi nion. Public opinion does not occupy itself about John Thompson's vote at an election. Nor, if it did take cognisance of John Thompson's vote, could it form any judgment whether it was an honest or corrupt vota, for the heart of John Thompson cannot be searched, nor his motives scanned. John Thompson's vote is watched only by those whose passions or sinister interests are concer ne d to sway or to resent it. To see how the man sots would be alt very well, if in the process his ac.ti.on was not liable to misdirection. The puMicity only serves the intimidator or corruptor, and when their work is acco mplished it is impossible to the general p u blic to form a judgment .on the particular case, if it could oc cupy its notice at all, which it does not, and eau not. The whole sum and substance of this, like every other argument a g ainst the ballo t, is that the but that m ob s: i m s else, land etobosdwyay his suf leolencit,opraitsronno,t frage. Secre t votin g i s the crypt where con tcustomer elect, b, science recovers freedom and power. Illicit pro mises are there annulled and duty holds its course. Yet Lord John Russell professes surprise at the doctrine that morality is served by the breach of illicit engagements : My hon. friend states that he has a high moral au thority for sayirg that a voter may will give his promise to a candidate, and yet be at liberty, according to the rules of a very sound morality, to break that promise. I suppose I must accept that as sound morality. It may be so, but I can only say that it is strange and new to me. Are :there, then, no promises "to be honoured more in the breach than in the observance ?" Can any voluntary engagement set aside an obligation of duty ? If a man promise to tell a falsehood, is he bound in honour and conscience to the lie ? Can any one at will divest himself of a publio duty ? . Is ' an engagement with a corrupter or tyrant superior in force lo the obligation to society and the state ? Lord Joh❑ Russell regards Vie franchise as a trust, add in his view dies a promise to aomm't a breach of trust hod good against the duty to dis d,a7ge the trust honestly. There is nothing startling in Mr. H. Berkeley's assertion that high moral authority sans tions the breach of illicit engagements. If Lord John Rus sell's servant were bribed to open his door to a mid night thief or cut-throat, on which side should fi delity prevail at the last moment, fidelity to the master or fidelity to the robber or assassin ? Lord J. Russell would see the true bearings of the more , l doctrine clearly enough apart from the electoral question, but he and most of his class lave from custom contracted ver3 lax notions of the obliga tions of electors. A voter is in their view a vessel having no more conscience concerned in what is deposited in it than a pipkiu. Lord John Russell lays much stress on the lia bility of electors to error. They are not infallible, says he, a n d why should they b e i rres p ons ibl e ? They should be irresonsiblo simply becaus like the sovereign, it isimpossible to make them responsible, there not b!.irg any safe and competent tribunal to discover their errors. Bribery, indeed, may be detectel, but how is the vote extorted by intimida tion against the sincere conviction to be dis'..overed, end how are the suffrages given for unreasonable and discreditable causes to be found out? Tho tribunal of public opinion is in this instance a fic tion or I -h er fud;e. Several boroughs have per sisted in returning men whose fraudulent offences are notorious, and how has public opinion ac t e d on them ? Has it shamed or corrected them ? Not a jot. They boast and glory in their prefe rence for what the Americans call " smart men ;" and two of them are only likely to be de prived of their worthy representative by process of ,criminal trials. Neither collectively nor individu ally is there any responsibility for the suffrage, except the responsibility there ought tot to be to the intimidator, the dictatorial individu a l, or th e savage mob. o one thinks of public opi n ion, or what its judgment will I e in giving a vote, but many have unpleasant reflections of what the con sequences may be, either from the resentment of a landlord, patron or customer, or from the violence of an excited rabble. We agree with the Chancellor of the Exchequer that the Ballot has reached that mature and im portant epcch in the history of all great popular questions, " the practical stage." All that was to be done by argument was exhausted by Mr. Grote ; all that ridicule could do in aid of reasoning has been accomplished by Mr. Berkeley ; and the time seems indeed come for the strenuous and combined action of reformers necessary to prove that they are in earnest and determined to carry their point. Sir George Cornewall Lewis has done his best, and without success, to roll the question back to the didactic stage, which was certainly more in his power than to reconquer its humorous position. Had it been possible to laugh the truth down, Lord Palmerston would have been the man for the occasion, and would no doubt have been in his place to do it ; but it was probably the opinion of the Cabinet that their best chance was a little more dry discus sion, which accounts satisfactorily for their having left the battle of Tuesday night to be fought by their best master of that particular fence. It is easy to imagine what the feeling of the House of Commons must have been of a sultry summer night to bear the Chancellor of the Ex chequer state that " he wasslesirous toexamine the question practically." He meant, of course, to con vey that Mr. H. Berkeley had left that mode of treating it to him ; but to 114 it appears that Mr. Ber keley's speech was far the more pratical of the two. How for example was it possible to argue in more busi ness-like way for secret voting than by producing a long array of strikiing and notorious facts illustra tive of the evils of voting openly ? The practice of intimidation will appear to most plain-thinking people a strong practical reason for devising some method of defeating it. Narratives of outrageous things aro always exciting ; nay, there is always a spring of humour in them, as there is in romances that symbolise by giants and ogres the abuses of strength and excesses of power. When Sir Henry Ward brought torward this question he cited the case of an estate which bad charged bands three times in a very few years. It first belonged to a Tory, then to a Whig, and then to a Tory again ; and at every election during that time the tenantry upon it in variably voted in accordance with the politics of the landlord for the time being. (A. laugh.) Again, in Lanark shire, during the life of the late Duke of Hamilton, who was a Whig, his tenantry there always voted for a Whig, but wren the present duke, who was a Tory, suc ceeded to the ti le, they turned round and voted for the Tory candidate at every election. (Laughter.) The mirth produced by such anecdotes as these is due much more to the source we have just indi cated than to the speaker's agreeabie manner of 'elating them. The house laughed repeatedly while Mr. Berkeley read the memorial presented to the Marquis of Waterford, by his Irish tenantry previous to the late general election, and the au dacious answer returned to it by the marquis's agent. As there is light and fire in flint, so there is a fun inseparable from mischief; and the humour of Mr. Berkeley's speech, chiefly flowing from his familiar acquaintance with the monstrous details of his subject, was a hundred times more practical than the gravity that followed without answering it. The division on the ballot in the new Parliament is naturally a matter of interest both to the friends and opponents of secret voting, and it is satis factory to find that no ground has been lost. The number for Mr. ,11. Berkeley's motion was 189, to which are to be added 24 pairs in favour, making a total, including the two tellers, of 215 , which is within one of the largest division ever mustered for the Ballot. The adverse majority was composed of a strange jumble of 257 members, about four-fifths of whom were inveterate anti- Reformers. The fact that neatly a third of the house is for the ballot, and that the adverse two thirds are mainly Tory, is full of significance.— Examiner. THE GLASGOW POISONING( CASE.] EIGHTH DAY. EDINBURGH, JULY 8. The Dean of Faculty made an able speech for the prisoner, contending that it was not proved that the prisoner and L'Angelier met on tha 19th of February, and particularly that it was not proved the prisoner possessed arsenic until the 21st of February, though all the druggists' shops in Glas gow had been searched, and the prisoner's pur chases had been openly and frankly made. The Crown must therefore choose between the horns of this dilemma ;—lf L'Angelier was then ill from arsenic some other hand than the prisoner's must have administered it ; if he was not, the whole foundation of the case was shaken. After maintaining that the evidence disproved their having met on the 22d ef February, the second oc casion on which she was charged with attempting to poison, lie referred to the absence of all proof whatever that they had mat the night before the death of L'Angelier. The appointment was made for Saturday, not Sunday. Prisoner went to her bed late that night with her sister, and there was not a tittle of evidence that the house was disturbed or approached in the course of the night. She could have had no motive to destroy D'Angelier while he had such letters in his posses sion, and every circumstance in the case spoke strongly against the probability of her committing a foul and deliberate murder. After referring to the probability of L'Angelier's death being the re sult of suicide or arising from other causes, he called on the jury • not rashly to tear aside the veil of mystery in which Providence had wrapped this prayed them to bring their hearts as well as their man, and in an eloquent and af fectin g p er oration minds into judgment in this case. The Lord Justice Clerk commenced his charge to the jury. He said, poisoning by arsenic was almost always a secret crime, and was generally to be proved by circumstantial evidence.; that evi dence, however, must be complete, distinct, and sa ti s f a ctory, and must exc l u d e the possibility of i nno cence or of u nexp l a i ne d mystery, and not supply they must any defect in the usapro secutor's case by susp i c i on or presumption against the acchd eci the purpose They ntu a s n t d b t e he sat o is p fi po ed rt t u h n a it t y; the t Lcy ac cusedmust be satisfied the parties met that night. They might have a strong suspicion they did so, or the probabilities of the case might favour that view ; but unless they could by just, satisfactory, and inevitable inference conclude that they did meet, a link remained wanting in the case, and the catastrophe and its alleged cause were not found together. The numerous theories for the defence might not be of much value,but their failure could in no way strengthen the case for the p r osecution, which must be of itself complete and conclusive,. and carry conviction to their minds. His lordship had read over nearly a half of the parole evidence, when the Court adjourned at six o'clock till to morrow (this day). ETON COLLEGE.—A resignation has just arrived at the Provost's Loilge, Eton College, from the Provost of King's College, Cambridge, occasioned by tte marriage of the Rev. Mr. Talnian. Mr. Austen Leigh, captain of the school, will consequently take his departure for Cambridge. Mr. Austen Leigh is the fifth son of the Vicar of Bray, and has distinguished himself whilst at Eon by gaining the declamation prize, Christmas, 1856, a nd Easter, 1857. Mr. Austen Leigh is succeeded by Mr. Willis as captain of the school. THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.—The result of the poll has been unfavourable to the preference share helders. The di rectors ' mot i on was d ec l are d carried by a majority of 13,597 votes, representing 1443,5011. 15s. stock. 201 100 100 100 20 20 20 20 17,!.; St. 20 100 100 20 FOREIGN. 10 I all I Azitwrp &Rotterdam 61 6g 20 18 Ardennes... ......... •. 5 all Belgian East. Junct • 11 1i 11 20 16 Bczicrs to Graissessac 6 all Carmeaux&Toulouse Coal Mines and Ry. 4i 51 •21. 3 d 20 12 Dutch Rhenish 20 all Eastern of France 271 27 20 all Do. New 20 2s. Euphrates Valley 20 18 Gt., Central of France 24A 25 20 18 Great Luxembourg 6i 6 1 1.0 4 Italian Junction ..• ••• 20 all Lake Const. & Bale ... ••• 20 all Lierre and Turnhout •u 20 6 Lombardo-Venetian 41 5 all Lucca & Pist.sp.c.p. 20 all Lyons and Geneva 20 all Lyons & Mediterran — ••• 33A all Maria Ante - ala 10 all Do. New . ••• 20 all Namur & Liege - 8i 20 all Do. do. 6p. c. Pref 2o} 201, 16 all Northern of France 361 —36 t 10 all NorwegianTrnk.Pref 8. 9A 20 all Paris and Lyons s7* —57 i, 20 all Paris and Orleans 56 58 20 7 Recife & San Fran , (Pernam.) .7p. c. d par 10 7A Rome and Frascati 20 I all Royal Danish l 6• 18 5 all Royal Swedish — 1 20 I all I Sambre and Meuse 7 8 1 10 I all Do. per cent. pref. 8 8i 20 all 'soutl •ICIII of France.. 273 28 8i all Virest. Flanders 44 5 10 all IDo. 51 per c. 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Now 6 7 50 10 Union of London — 271 103 ,50 Unity Mutual 100 50 Wootralt Qthond u 11 9d 1001 1 1031 f i 4t, 101 i 2 741 901 1 NM Le, of a. de ed vs• 7 I all 106 100 100 lOs all ' l 0; all all all all 92. i 71i 2 31 21i ICOi IC6i 34i I 9i 10 5t all all all all all all all