The Express.
London, England, 1867-11-19 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 19, 1867.

LATEST SPGRI'ING INTELLIGENCE

SHARE LIST&-(TZIS DAY.)

MONIAL OW

(ET TELEGRAPH.)
WARWICK MEETING.-(THIS DAY.)

ORDINARY SHARES 'AND nom&

Sh. 1 Pd.' 111.11.14470 lei =so 1 Sales to-day
9 1 to 1 p.m.
_
St. 100 Brigid sod Em z. 22 22 _
IS 103 , Caledonian .-_ _. 1 214 e}} 76 74 54
15. 100 Ilkantelas ..- -......._ IS ii. -
Ili all lOornmill-,,- 2 4 -
IN. 100 ,DMSlnandbelit ..jy744-1 73 24 -
so. 100 Dundes,PartP,,kAb,4j2 70 71 -
10 6 Sail London
100 all Do. Scrir, .. ...
81. 100 IZO4' And& Workeri - - -
84. 100 itsatira Ord. St. 291 30} 301
St 100 7..0. X Amt. Mk.. Nol 5 0 -
St. 100 P.matNeeth of Sootland 15 16 -
84. MO Oroat Northam _.. 108 110 107} 1
St. W. Do.a J A rec. no dir an, 110 111 111
St. Irja luo 6 11116p.o.lapiddll, 123 126 -
8t 100 'Do. Ord. Del. Dtv.64oult6 -
84. 1100 'IN. Math 41 Nal (Ira) 14 N -.
St 161 (heat Western 1 641 46 451 14/
St. 100 Do.StourVal.Ona.B474 .- - -
St. 100 Do. South Wales - - -
St 100 Do. W. 1191.-Onterill 26 SO -
St 100 Do. Do. N 29 31 -
sa. 100 i Lancashire *To 110 12 1211 201
It 101 Lon.,Brightn, &S.Coaet 61} 514 52 }
Et 1% ILoodoatChatbankt 171 17 171
St
MO D0.)144. Erten. A6p.a. 13 16 -.
St. 300 , London & North Mann. 1121 113 11231
84. 000 ,LondomilSoathWastara 76 74 -
8t 100 IMen. Slief..&Ltnoolneti 46} 471 -
85. 1100 lumropostan_ —..— 119} 120 1201 20 1
84. 100 Do. bit en/ion.divi-
dend Bp. ct 1111187 108 110 1091
Bt. 100 llsbnpolltan DI ANN 82 84 -
80 10 Do. do. do. •-• ,- --
10 all Do. &6L Jobn'oerood - - -
N. 100 Midland 1124 113 113 111 121
' 84. 100 Do. Slim. a Derby. 81 83 -
8t 100 North British 32 33 32}
18t. leo Do.smo.,p.rt.i.:Foiiiil
8t 100 N. imiarn-liemrlck .. 00 98 94} 35 2 4
SS In Do. 0. N. I. Pura - - - -
8t 100 Do. Leeds --- .. 68 so
W. 100 Do. York --- - - 56 88 86 64}
1 St. Iss Do. Carlisle_ ...... - - -
St. 100 Do. Stook &Darin's,. 123 130 -
'3O an Da do., issoas
8t 100 1117401 Landon - 116 117 U.S
10 6 Do. do. LW- 1 14 pm 4.
84. 100 Nossosessfososoks.::: so 62 -
8t 100 N. & 6 Western Jane 110 111 -
8t 100 ~nropshlre Union -- 05} 66e -
8t 100 Muth Nivea.... __ _ 44 46 -
8t 100 South laden 45 46 1161 6
10 511 Illsinm,WokingiaViC 84 91 -
N. 100 Taff Vale -
10 61 De. 0--_..--.. - - pc -
et no iwassrloof iiis ...
10 8 I Walemoo & Wallehan 4.. -4
BRITISH russisasiows.
b. I Pd. 1 Juraway& Closing prima. I Bsloa.
109 00 atisatiows&Lwraway 63 65 -
W.
100 Ikna.Bar.&C.ln. gips. 1014 1044 1041 4
110 14 Do. 7 Bh•rat ... _ _ *
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16 .11 Do. Preference II a
NO 100 inff.,llrant ,111loderlel -
0 per cent.lB76-.14 - IN 70 -
8t 100 ON etB.laeterolip. e.g. - 4.. .-
it. 100 CapeT.&Dockflppi. eis. 43 60 -
WS all Desamara,7p.c. 97 99 -
IL 100 ad /111W.1 ill. a -
10 124 Do. do. 6do ... - -
M. LOU Emit Indian gu. 6do llO 111 , 1101 11
111 6 Do. L Shares.. —-1 1. 2pm 1 -
9t 100 Grand Trunk of Canada 161 171 1 -
100 all Do. Equip. M.B.lp.ct 00 02 i -
150 all Do. let prod. Bond. -I 44 49 -
100 el/ Do. 2nd prat Bonds. U 37 -
100 all Do. Srd pre( 8400 k 2l SO -
100 all Do. 448
_pref. Stock -
II MO Groat Lean Paniami)a 109 110 1001 10 9}
16 all Do. gm. 5 par mat -. .- pm i -
N I Do. New do. I 1
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10 2 Do. Nam .. 1 1 pin, 34
St no at s.ot &mi.'s. rsa—ii 1102} 1 • 1 1034
60. 100 Do. 4/ per cant.
1111 all (it Western of Canada 16} 161 1 164 1
100 all Do. .c..lsdapay.lB7l 97 99 id -
100 all Do. do. do. 1877-5. 87 9) L
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W. 1011 Do. de. 4 do l6 98 -
IL 100 Do. do. 4 do 92 ft -
N all Do. 711th Extension - - -
M all Nelb. and Hobsoa's Day 40 31 i , -
pl 110 all Do. 6it M., pay.lBB9 98 97 -
ISO all Do. 3p. at, pay. 1896 62 83 -
W. 100 Nit ofean.lo c. 1 dp.B. 70 Si -.
St. all 'Oudo&Rohllkuted,g.s 102 103 -
10 2} iio. Shares do }die }pm' -
St all Do. Nulhatee - - I .-
ea My %lode, gas. 4 percent 103 106 I 1041
IX MO Do. Deihl do.- - - 102 113 , 1021
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A ISO Da. Punlanb do. - 102 103 -IL NI Do. /Mu U. Rolla 87 80 I -

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1871
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Do. 6per Goat.
1.0. 6 per amt. 18171;
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130. Do. 1991 . I
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104 1031
101§ 104
101 1•2
90 92
Se 9
103 146
146 106
163 196
196 107
94 96
1041 1091 ad
IE3 106 ad
104 106
196 107
104 106
106 109
103 106
102 101 a

TALLY-HO STAKES.
Jacob •••
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Sowerled .. •••
Useless •••

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5 ran.
Winner objected to for being in a training stable.

HANDICAP.

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Columbine . . •• •
Catalogue ...
9 ram
WELTER HANDICAP.

Pintail
Her Ladyship
Calot c

16000
100,000.

1,116,800
5,11T1,6001MM0i
100.000
1.500,000
500,000
105,000

96i 9
96 Ns
100 101

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9..0.
NURSERY HANDICAP.
Nelly Rose
Rettleholder
Than&

96 96
104 I 106 e
11.6 107
10t 104
103 146
103 104

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RACING STAKES.
L'Africaine
Substance
Retirement ...

260,000'
1,010.10 D
1,177,4601
0001

suo.oa&
Lossonl

100 leg
112 113
110} 111 k

11 ran.

DONNINGTON HANDICAP. Three quarters of a mile.
Ceram!, Queen of Trumps, King Charming, Python,
Indian Star, Mistletoe, Indigestion, l'l bus, Cellina, Ada-
menthes, Jeannie Deans, Marquis of Worcester, Tribune,
Redbourne, Chibisi, Sis to Scottish Chief, Nancy, Tightfit
e, Columbine, and Canard are here.
SELLING NURSERY. Three-quarters of a nine.
Reny ltel Comyn, Herelliliann., Salvor, Leda, Capsi-
cum, Wild ldood, rfielns, Clara de Clara, Lady Cora, Slan-
der, Chlegume, Billet, Sagantick, Acorn, and Diadem
are hors.

BRITIBII Ml

No 8.

HANDICAP HURDLE. Two miles.
Carus, Tbs.Lumina, Greenland, Monitreea, Harrington,
Risk, an I Spurgeon are here.

CHARTERED MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA,
LONDON, AND CHINA.-(THIS DAY.)

-
The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders was
held at I o'clock at the bank, 15, Old Eroad.atreet ; Mr.
O. G. Nicoi. in the chair.

The report was as follows :
" The directors on the occasion of the first interim meeting
present a half-yearly statement of accounts, which they
trust the shareholders will consider satisfactory, showing
a profit of 82,1021. 7s. ld., or upwards of 20 per
cent. per annum on the capital of the bank. The
directors, however, regret to state that the winding-
up of thel operations of the previous very unfavour-
able year will entail a further loss to the bank, which
will be provided for when the annual accounts are made up.
An interim dividend of 3 per cent. for the half-year to
June 30, has been paid, and a balance of 00,002!. 7s. 11. is
carried forward to this half-year's account."
The Cum asiax, in moving the adoption of the report
and accounts, observed that the dividend having been
paid on the lst of July, there was no business to be tran-
sacted. The accounts showed that the bank was in a
very strong position, and under all the circumstances
the profit realised was satisfactory. The loss during
three or four months by the itaance was between 30,00 W.
and 40,0001. ; and it might be assumed, therefore, that but
for that drawback the profits would have been
proportionately increased. He was happy to say that the
losses of the half year did not exceed 10,0001., and every-
thing of that kind had been written off. There was every
reason to believe that the surplus of the last two half-
years would prove sufficient to provide for all the losses.
After a short discussion the report was adopted, and
the proceedings terminated in the usual manner.

JOINT STOOL BAAL".
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PREFERENCE SHARE.
Great Northern 5 per Si. redeem., at 5 per et. pm., UH,
North Eastern, W. Hartlepool Harp. and Rail., 82.

Anglo-American Telegraph (Lim.), 18, 4,4, I.
Atlantic Telegraph 8 per oent., 771, 80.
City of Moscow Gas (Limited), 121.
Crystal Palace, 22.
Egyptian Conunercial and Trading (Limited), 1 11-16, I.
Foss-street Wszehouse (Limited), 124.
Gemara Credit and Discount (Limited), 54.
Hudson's Bay, 141.
Madras Irrigation and Canal, 5 per cent. guar. by Indian
government, 1024.
National Discount Company (limited), 11, 4,10;.
Peninsular and Oriental Steam, 534, 2.
Peninsular and Oriental Steam. New. 1855, 514.
Peninsular and Oriental Steam, New, 1867, 41, 4, j.
'Royal Mail Steam, 63.
Societe Financings d'Fgypte, 24.
Viceroy of Egypt (Mortgage) Loan, 69, 704.

THE OAKS COLLIERY.—It would almost appear
as if the engineers in charge of the Oaks colliery are unable
to devise aO7 successful means for entering the working,
and reoovenng the remain, of the men entombed in them.
Since the explosions of the sth inst. all attempts in that
pirection have nearly ceased.
. . .

MONEY MARKET.-(THIS DAY.)

Oils 400 Loot.
Public securities improved this morning, owing
to the satisfactory tenor of the speech just made
by the French Emperor, combined with the droop-
ing tendency of the corn market and the absence
of withdrawals of bullion from the Bank. The
railway department was especially firm, and
Caledonian stock was dealt in at 77, or
2 per cent. higher. A relapse, however,
has since taken place upon a renewal of sales for a
fall. Caledonian is now quoted 7314 to 74, being If
lower than yesterday. Consols have advanced i
per cent. for money, but are unaltered for the
account. Foreign Bonds, though less firm than
at the opening, are in several cases better than yes-
terday.

The demand for money is not active, but there
is no disposition to take choice bills below If to If
per cent.

Consols are quoted 541 to with div., for money,
and 93 to 1, ex div., for the account (Decem-
ber 5). The Three per Cents. Reduced and New
Three per Cents. are steady at 921 to I.
The transactions in British railway stocks are
chiefly confined to Caledonian, which improved in
the morning, but has since given way, and is now
11 per cent. worse than yesterday. Most other
lines are flat, but exhibit no movement of impor-
tance at present. Metropolitan is quoted 119/ to
1201 ; Great Western, 45 to ; London and North
Western, 1121 to 113 ; Midland, 1121 to 1 ; Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire, 1204 to f ; Caledonian, 731
to 74; South Eastern, 653 to I ; Great Eastern,
30 to ; Great Northern, 1071 to 1081 ; ditto A,
1101 to 1111 ; London, Chatham, and Dover, 174
to 3 ; North British, 311 to 32 ; and Brighton,
52 to 4.
Spanish Passive bonds and Italian of 1861 are in
request, and have improved per cent., viz., to
21 to 1 and 451, to 1, respectively. Turkish of 1862
are at 611 to 621 ; ditto of 1865,31/ to 321, show-
ing a rise of / per cent. ; Spanish Certificates, 171
to 18, being 1 better ; Greek, 121 to f ; Egyptian,
1864, 82 to 83 ; and Mexican, 141 to 15 ; Egyptian
bonds are steadier.

Very few transactions have been quoted in the
scrip of rthe new Egyptian loan, but the price is
quoted 1 prem. The Honduras loan is rather
flatter, at par to i prem.
The tone of the market for American securities
is rather firm. There is a demand for the 5-20
Bonds, at an advance of 1 per cent., the present
price being 70i to 711. Erie Railway shares are
quoted 471 to 481 ; and Illinois Central, 841 to
851, being steady.

- -
Atlantic Cable shares show no alteration. Anglo-
American are at 181 to ; and Atlantic Telegraph
Eight per Cent. Preference 31 to 4.
Bank shares present no movement of importance.
Imperial Ottoman are 2s. lid. lower, at to g die. ;
London and Westminster are called 69 to 71;
Union of London, 344 to 3511; Alliance, 12 to 11
die. ; Oriental Corporation, 42 to 43 ; and London
and County, 50 to 51.
The shares of the Financial companies are still
neglected. International, 2i to 21 dia. ; London,
24 to 23 die. ; General Credit, 21 to 2i dis. ; and
Credit Foncier, 6/ to 6 die.
The adjourned meeting of the proprietors of
East Anglian Railway stocks will be held on the
29th inat.

The half-yearly meeting of the Ilfracombe Hotel
Company is convened for the 28th inst., when a
dividend will be declared.

The second ordinary meeting of the George Hotel
(Bangor) Company is called for the 29th inst.

HALF-PAST THREE O'CLOCK.

Consols are steady, at 94* to ;!, with div., for
money, and 93 to 1, ex div., for the accounts
British railway and foreign stocks meet with in
quiry, and are better.

About 10,000 sovereigns have been taken from
the Bank for Egypt.
The 505,4001. of New Zealand Government De-
bentures have been allotted to-day, nearly the
whole (470,0001.) being taken by Messrs. Roths-
child and Sons, at 1.041. ss. The miniuttoit was
fixed at 102 i.
The Brazilian mail has brought the news of the
recall of the Baron du Penedo, who for upwards of
ten years has been Brazilian minister in London.
As the successful negotiator of several loans for his
government, and aa connected with the formation
and direction of the three Anglo-Brazilian Railway
Companies, the baron is more known in the City
than the members of the ay-pi diplvetatique usually
are, and he is highly esteemed and respected. Hie
intended successor was M. de Macedo, but he died
in Parie on the 11th inst.

The South Eastern Railway traffic return shows
this week an increase of 1,2U81. over last year.
_ _

The subjoined circular to the holders of certi-
ficate of debenture of the Atlantic and Great
Western Railway Company has been issued by the
committee of administration :
Clentlemen,—With reference to the certificates of deben•
tyre, due on the 15th inst., I am instructed to inform you
that the committee have taken steps to bring the trust
under the control of the English courts, and to prevent
any hostile or prejudicial action by forced male of the
collateral securities or otherwise. With this view they
have instituted a snit, as advised by counsel, in order, as
far as practicable, to ensure the due administration of the
trust, and to facilitate the carrying out of the scheme of
reconstruction indicated in the report of the committee of
investigation. In the meantime, I am to request that,
pending the completion of definite arrangements, you will
retain your certificates. lam also instructed to inform
you that the committee have under serious consideration
the wishes expressed by many holders of certificates of
debenture, that they should be united in the trust for these
securities with one or more of the existing trustees, and
they will shortly make a further announcement on the
subject. —I am, &0., If. W. SMITHyRS, Secretary.
5, Wertminsterthambers, Victoria-street,
Westminster, Nov. 18.
A general meeting of the proprietors of the Lon-
don Chartered Bank of Australia is called for the
3rd December, when a dividend is to be declared.
The half-yearly meeting of the Calcutta and
South Eastern Railway Company (Limited) is called
for the 28th inst.

; Spanish Paasive, New Throe per Cc te., 14nd
Deferred, and Certificates, as well as Port ague*,
to # ; and Italian of 1861, #.
The Honduras Government Railway Loan re.
covered this afternoon to I to 1 prem. It is ex-
pected that the letters of allotment will be parted
on Wednesday evening.

- .
FATAL GUN ACCIDENT.—A shocking gun acci-
dent is reported from the village of Greenhorn, in Berk.
shire. On Saturday, Mr. J. C. White, whose father is
the occupier of Chapel Farm, in the above parish, had been
out in the fields rook shooting, and as busmen called him
to Newbury, about two miles distant, he carried the gun
into the brewhouse, and laid it upon the shelf out of the
reach of his younger brothers, intending to discharge its
contents on his return home. In the evening one of the
labourers on tin) farm named Wiggins, with two boys
named Stevens. were in the brewhouse. Wiggins cleaned
the knives, and when be had finished he mounted • stool
and removed the gun in order to put the knifeboard on
the shelf. He leid the gun on a chest below, which stood
unsteadily owing to one of its legs being broken, sad in
descending he aecidently touched the chest, from which
the gun fell to the floor, and instantly went off. The
whole of the charge entered the head of one of the boys,
named Joseph &seen', who was engaged upon the farm,
and shattered him face in • frightful manner. Wiggins
and the deceased's brother were 'so alarmed by the ac-
cident that they fell senseless to the floor, where they re-
mained for some time before they could cill any member
of Mr. White's family. An inquiry was opened yesterday
before Mr. Wooden, of Reading, one of the deputy coroners
for Berlin, when • verdict of " Accidental death " was re-
turned.
RAILWAYS AND HUNTINO.—AII these arguments WIPE MURDER ix MANCHESTER.—Last evening,
have been found to be more or leas true ; and yet railroads between eight and nine o'clock, a man named Luke Mar-
kers done so much towards hunting that they ma almost MONDAY EVENING.
be said to have crested the sport anew on a wider and Consols, which closed on Saturday at 93 to I, tin, a brush hawker, murdered his wife in Friday-street.
Lever-street, Manchester. He stabbed her in the pit of
the stomach, and she died three minutes afterwards. The
mach more thoroughly organised footing than it ever held ex div, for the sth December, opened and closed
before. They have brought men, and with the men their I • f removed by John Bell, 1:39 A but she was
yat the same notation. For money the last dead before she arri‘ ed at the Royal . money, from the towns into the country ; and the men ttds Infirmary. Last
and the money together have overcome all those din'. puce WB5 94g to with div. The Three per night the man had not been apprehended, and could not
be found where be lived, near Oldham-road. Imme-
minim which the railroad' themselves have produced. Cents. Reduced an New Three per Cents. were
diately after she had been stabbed, she exclaimed, " It's
Homes are now made for foxes, especially constructed for quoted at 3 o'clock 92i to A. The official buil- my husband that done it." It is believed that the woman
their convenience and welfare, in in which a mini- wee report is ee gallows :—Three per cent. con_
mum of disturbance may be ex ; special rides across wag murdered in a drunken affn2y.
and under railroads are provided ; hunting trains aro sole, for money, 94k i, g; ditto, for accounti 93
~_ --If THE CRADLEY COLLIERY EXPLOSION M .—Two MO
arranged to take hunting men in and out of the large 3, ex div. • per Cents. Reduced In 1 ; names have to be added to the Inn of deaths from tho
cities ; horse" by the dozens may be seen walking in and New Three per Cents,, 921, / ; ditto Two-and-a- above serious occurrence. These are William Battleton, of
out of their boxes with as much nenaustemed composure Half per Cents., 77i • Bank Stock, 245, 4, st, ; the Lye, and Solomon Guest, of Quarry Bank. Battleton
as the bolder of • season ticket. Before railwaysdied yerterday morning, and Guest on Sunday. Mr.
made hunting was confined to the dwellers in the connwetryre, 1
Five per Cent.
I India Five per Cent. 'Stock, 1 t6A ,ditto Four per
Baker, the government inspector of mines, again visited
or to the few rich and idle men who could give up their I Cents. ;I°° ; nd.,ittc:" enfaced " rupee the colliery at Homer-hill, yesterday, with the view of
whole time to the pursuit. Now a man who cares for his , Paper, 1041, ar , ditto Five and-a-Half per Cents., examinin4 the spot where the accident happened. The
Math, and can be happy on horseback may work at his I 1081 ; ditto Bonds, 538.,. 575. prem. doors, which were blown out at the time of the explosion,
desk four days in the week, and bunt tile other two, sixty Exchequer Bills remain at 28e. to 31s. prem. have now been replace& —Riming*" n Peg.
or a hundred miles from his home, and get back to dinner In the foreign stock market the chief feature THE PRICE OF MEAT AT GUILDFORD.—Tho
with his family. Successful men of bulimia' have availed 1
was a fall of fully 3 per cent. in the Viceroy f
„, employes at the Guildford railway station have taken this
themselves so largelLof this facility for getting air and I - question into their own hands. They have secured a place
exercise, that hunt has been more than doubled, I Egypt's loan, upon the announcement that bills to (
or a shop, obtained an orthodox butcher's block, weights
instead crippledoftp=e by the railroads. Hunting as a considerable amount have been protested in con- and scales, &0., appointed a salesman, formed • so-opera-
it is now could not exist without railroads, nexion with his privy urse. The other Egyptian tive society, with president, treasurer, and secretary ; ant
the use o which has been introduced into all hunting bonds declined gto 1 per cent. ; Turkish of 1865 last Saturday afternoon found parch:sem amongst them.
programmes, as it has into the programme of every other receded .g .
On the other hand, Buenos Ayres Six selves for two sheep, sold from 41d. to 7d. per lb., as well
amusement and buboes of life,—St. Pours "yams fornantity of meat a at greatly reduced psis,—SamarNovember. p ) Ser Cents. improved 1 per cent. ; Russian of 1864 as ao 4
ta ord.

M&ARKS.

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The poll of the Ottoman Railway shareholders
closed yesterday at 4 o'clock, when the result was
stated as follows—viz., for Mr. Lewis' amendment
on the accounts, 2,26 shares and 218 votes;
against it, 940 shares and 95 votes; showing a
majority against the directors of 1,486 shares and
123 votes.

A dividend will be payable on the shares of the
Anglo• Mexican Mint Company on the 2nd Dec.

ROME.

Moat ma ovrx consomme.)

ROME, roe•. 1:5.

For reasons best known to themselves, but not
apparent on the surface, the French are continuing
to treat Rome as if it was a city is imminent li
danger, not of revolt, but of assault. Of the twelve
gates five were closed by the Pontifical government
ea Wed October last, they still continue closed,
add inside are barricaded further with sandbags.
over which a French guard keeps watch, and a
French sentry warns all stray passengers against
approaching too near. Workmen are still em-
ployed iii improving the earth battery which de-
fends the Porta del Popolo, and which only allows
access to that main artery through a narrow side
wicket. Now that the Garibaldini are dispersed.
their chief a prisoner, and the Italian troops with-
drawn to their own side of the frontier—now, in
fact, when Rome is safer from attack for the mo-
ment than it has been for the last twenty years, it
is!impossible to conceive what purpose these mea-
sures of merely provisional defence can be intended
to serve. Even those who inside the city are
favourable to the Papal rule, can only shrug their
shoulders and say, it is "to look imposing." I can
hardly accept that reason, nor even that which
has been also suggested, that it is to give the men
something to do, for Italian labourers, and not
French soldiers, are employed on the works, and
their defence is entrusted to but half a company in
the guardroom.

All the important points in the city, as well as
all the principal barracks, are occupied by the
itrench defenders of the Papa-Re. These auxiliaries
have no notion of being merely supporters of the
proper forces of the actual sovereign ; they shoulder
the latter unceremoniously out of the way, and leave
to them only the minor duties of mounting guard
at the Vatican, or the subordinate govenmui•nt
offices. At the Castle of San Angelo, the French
now place a sentry of their own, toeing the Papal
Zouare, who is also for decency allowed to remain
there, and apparently the foreign sentry's orders
are much briefer than those of the domestic one,
for the operation of relieving him occupies about
a tenth of the time that the Papal corporal
requires. Speaking of these mercenaries or volun-
teers, I must in one respect a little qualify the
opinion I expressed of them in my last letter. I
then spoke of them as being clean, but that idea
was formed after an inspection of them on Sunday :
it is now Wednesday, and the dominical purity
has become a good deal modified. They have un-
doubtedly some gentlemen among them, b:it
the majority, though fair-haired and tall, are
by no means wolf washed warriors. I still
retain, however, the mural impression which their
faces at first suggested to me. Instead of being
the cutthroat ruffians I had somehow got into my
bead to expect to see, they are really very mild and
harmless in aspect, with a certain curious unformed,
almost infantile expressionof countenanceprevailing
among them (noticed by others as well as by me),
as if they had no very strong ideas about anything,
or at least were not capable of supporting them
with any very strong reasons. But lam bound to
admit that they strike some other people very
differently, for I have now before me a little tract
of four pages, entitled, " From Monte Rotondo to
Born," printed" by permission„"and advertised on I
the walls among the sacred announcements,
in which the Roman citizens are called on to lo
honour to these conquering young her. es, and in •
which the author apostrophises them thus : " 0
lions of Judah, I prostrate myself before you!
You ate the sacred and heroic phalanx of invinci-
Mee, the defenders of the faith, the crusaders of
Pio IX. Reverence, glory, and honour be to you,
0 soldiers of the Papal King ; to your hands
God willed should be confided the protection
of the tights of the church, his sponse. You
the God of armies, ordained to be ministers of His
vengeance against the violators and enemies of His
holy name. To you are due not the crowns and
laurels which flourish on earth for guerdon of the
brave, but rather to you the palms and the im-
perishable wreaths of glory with which the Macca-
bees now rejoice to adorn themselves in heaven."
I have just left one of these young Lions of Judah
in the smoking-room of my hotel, where he has
been imbibing rather more Maraschino after his
coffee than is quite good furs Maccabee who is
still on earth, and where with eyes that are sleepily
bright lie is telling in rapid French to some of his
compatriots how when the Papal Zouaves appeared
Garibaldi ran away, and how in a certain house in
Rome they bayoneted six in one room, because
"Mon Dieu, lee Geribaldiens aunt comme des
mimeo x." One could not be angry, because it was
impossible to believe that the fair-haired lad ever
did anything of the sort ; but such is the talk
which one hears front the "crusaders of Pio
How."

The French regulars, meantime, either do not
seem much to like their mission, or they are fairly
shamed out of boasting by the gasconade of their
_Papal allies. The officers keep is good deal to
themselves, the soldiers do r.ot in the lent mix
either with titbit= or Pontifical Zouaves. In
truth, the men seem to have hard work to make
their time pass away. Few of the barracks have
exercising grounds, and them is no marching
through the streets. St. Peter's is a'ways a centre
of attraction, and some of the men will sometimes
stop a stranger in the street to ask the way to
some object of interest of which they have heard,
but of which they can only i.ive a very wild imita-
tion of the name. But they never stop to examine
anything, and there is never a crowd round the
most famous of antiquities or works of art in th
galleries. What seems most attractive to them are
the streets themselves, with their paternal., of
population, and especially the windows of cheap
print and photograph shops, where they can see
something that they really understand. For though
this is the Holy City, it is also a city in which art
Immix, or dignifies all subjects, and hence, though
there are none of the vulgarly nasty photographs
from nature which onesees in back streets in London,
there are plenty of photographic reproductions of
either common prints or celebrated plating', how-
ever indecent the subject, and these are exposed
side by side with the most sacred effigies. So when
in the Corso a group of French soldiers blocks up
the narrow footway, it is pretty sure to be gathered
round a window in which cardinals in their robes
are exhibited in juxtaposition with suggestive
scenes at the Bal Mabille, and the Pope himself,
with uplifted fingers in the act of blessing, is
',inked on one aide by a copy of the Crucifixitn,
and on the other by one of Leda and the Swan.
As to what the Romans themselves think of their
visitors, whether they regarl them as tyrants cs
protectors, I will not yet attempttogive anyopinion,
for it will be easily understood that this is a matter
m which, with an army of 22,009 men in possession
of the city, one finds it far from easy to obtain any
:suable information. It is certain that there are
so overt demonstrations tither in the one way or
lbs other. But it is a-so unquestionable that
before the French came the authorities were in

the direst alarm, and had resorted to the most
extreme measures of repression. One English-
man who was here during that reign of terror
tells how he was tired at in the street for no offence
but that of being in the street after dark, and how,
on another occasion, he was charged with the
bayonet in apparent mere wantonness. All agree
that the proclamation,which is still to be seen posted
up, forbidding groups of more than four persons to
assemble, was rigorously and unscrupulously en-
forced without notice, and often with bloodshed.
It is certain also that a good many houses were en-
tered and the inhabitants killed, on proof, or sus-
picion, of being revolutionary ; and it is said on all
sides that of those who were seized in the streets a
considerable number were shot after a hasty ex-
amination. These things were chiefly perpetrated,
however, not by my young friends the Lions of Judah,
but by the Papal gendarmes—a very much rougher-
looking lot, who are dressed something like French
dragoons, but are distinguished by the badge—
jovial with us, sacred here—of the cross-keys in
their helmets. But who can say how much or how
little blood was shed in these days in a huge city
where law is abrogated 1 Who knows how many
were slain in Paris on the 2nd of Decem-
ber ? And it is a characteristic of the
situation here that nobody can tell you anything
positively. The government is silent as the grave,
and it imposes the like silence on all. The strangest
stories are current, upon no authority, but capable
of no contradiction. The newspapers confine
i
themselves to extracts from foreign journals, but
eunnuuuicate no news of [tome. One can only form
an idea of what has been by piecing together the
1 little facts one learns from each individual of his
f own experience, by explaining them by help of the
official proclamations, with the commentary fur-
-1 niahed by such circumstances as seeing on a few of
the houses printed bills with the words " Viva
Pio IX." pasted up, as men daring the Gordon
riots chalked "No Popery" on their doors for
protection.

Sometimes offichl documents, however, contra-
dict themselves, and then it is as well to recall the
earlier evidence of the truth. I see, for instance,
that the Moniker states the number of Garibaldian
prisoners at 1,100. Now, the atonic:at di Roma,
when the fact was recent, called them 300, and this
agrees with the figures given by Dr. Bertani
on the other side as having capitulated next day
at Mentana, for none were taken on the first day.
Each side states its own total number of men
engaged at about 5,000, and gives double that
number as the force of the enemy. It is reasonable
to assume that each knows its own correctly, and
is in error in its estimates of its opponent's, and
hence that the real numbers were about equal.
But the Papalini and French were regulars,
had been well drilled, and had rifles and breech-
loaders.
The Garibaldini were raw levies, badly
armed, and collected together within the day or
two preceding. I can have no doubt therefore
which fought most gallantly during that long
indecisive day.
It is commonly believed here that the number of
Papal and French troops who were killed and
wounded was considerably above the official
ll
figures. An Englishman who visited Mentana on
the third day after the battle saw the corpses of
several Garibaldini and one or two Zouaves still
lying unburied in the vineyards, and an American
gentleman who has visited the hospital sets down
the number of wounded whom it contains at nearly
200. The Garibaldian loss, which the Moniteur de-
clares to have been 6,000, was believed at Florence
by their officers to be between a tenth and a
twentieth of that number. But the nominal lists of
killed and wounded Garibaldini will doubtless be
soon published, and even in quoting the Mouiteur
I may unwittingly be inaccurate, for I take it as re-
produced in the Omervatore Romano.

THE ROMAN QUESTION.