The Express.
London, England, 1867-05-29 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 29, 1867.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.

Sittings in Banco.—(l3efore Lord Chief Justice Bo siU and
Justices Willem, Keating, and Smith.)

APPLICATION TOR AN NJ NCTION.
Mr. Mellish, Q.C. (with him Mr. Kaye) applied to the
court for an injunction to restrain the Lancashire and
Yorkshire Railway Company from giving any undue
preference to other coal owners over his client, Mr.
Gidlow, who had a colliery near the Wigan Junc-
tion. The application was made under the Rail-
way and Canal Traffic Act, and the circum-
stances were these :—Mr. Gidlow's coal had to be carried
2j miles before it reached the Wigan junction on its way
along the North L'nion Railway, a line which was leased
jointly by the North Western Railway Company and the
Lancashire and Yorkshire Company. The complaint was
that Mr. Gidlow was charged under the short distance
clause for six miles to Wigan junction, though the dis-
tance was only 21 miles ; whilst other coal owners were
charged only for the actual distance travelled ; further,
that the company refused to take Mr. Gidlow's coal unless
he furnished full train loads of fifteen trucks, whilst they
carried even as few as two track loads for other coal
owners; and lastly, that they systematically delayed
longer in returning Mr. Gidlow's empty truck' than in
returning those of other coal owners. There had been a
good deal of correspondence between the parties, and
after a long discussion the court granted a rule to show
Cause.
Rule granted.

in the House of Correction, but afterward, be was allowed
to go at large for • fortnight on his paying H. 78. and the
costs of the warrant and inquiry, to see the parish autho-
rities, and make an arrangement for supporting his wife.

WOILSH IP-STREET.
AITEMPTIM SUICIDIt.

Emma Brown, a re.peotable-looking young woman, was
charged with attempting her life by drowning.
A police-constable swore—About half-peat 1 o'clock this
morning, while on duty at Cambridge-heath, I was in-
formed that a woman was in the canal I rushed down to
the bank by the side of the canal, and found the prisoner
had been taken out. She was lying senseleas. She was
perfectly sober, and, after I had slightly revived her, she
said, " I meant it." I had her conveyed to the station.
Margaret Donald, living in Providence-place, Bishops-
gate, spoke to having heard an alarm, and finding another
woman under the bridge and the prisoner in the water,
witness got her out without help, at which time she was
quite "exalted" (exhausted).
The constable said he had ascertained that prisoner
lived in Marine-street, Bethnal-green, but not any of her
friends were present.
Prisoner coolly remarked that she had nothing to say, but
Mr. Newton observed that he should not be satisfied
with such an &newer, and remanded her.

MONEY MARKET.-(THIS DAY.)

On o'CLoca.

The large influx of gold to the Bank, the
announcement to-dayof the arrival of a further sum
of nearly 300,0001. from New York, and the almost
general expectation that the Bank rate will be
reduced to-morrow from 3 to per cent., have
imparted additional firmness to the stock markets.
The amount of business, however, is not very
large, attention being chiefly directed to the
fortnightly settlement, which has just commenced,
and will be completed on Friday. Many of the
English railway securities continue very Kam in
the Stock Exchange, and a bonus has been paid in
several cases for the loan of stock till the next ac-
count. Consols have experienced a fresh advance
of I to I per cent., while the Three per Cent*.
Reduced and New Three per Cents. are b better.
The improvement in some of the British railways
and foreign bonds amounts to Ito per cent. The
inquiry extends to colonial government securities.
The discount market is extremely quiet to-day,
bills being kept back in anticipation of a reduc-
tion in the Bank rate to-morrow. The general
quotation is 2k to 24 per cent., but we hear of
transactions at 4. The charge for short loans in
the Stock Exchange is 2 per cent.
Consols are now quoted 94 to 4, with div.,
for money, and 924 to 4, ex div., for the ac-
count (June 6), and the Three per Cents. Reduced
and New Three per Cents., 92 to 4.
The Indian Five per Cent. Stock is still inquired
for, and show an upward tendency ; the present
quotation is 1114 to 112.
The government broker has bought to-day
13,0001. New Three per Cents. for the sinking
fund at 92.

The transactions in foreign stocks are to a fair
extent, and the general tone of the market is fa-
vourable. Turkish Bonds of 1862 have improved
1 per cent. ; ditto of 1865, ; Italian of 1861, 1 ;
and Mexican, 1. Turkish Bonds of 1862 are
quoted 561 to 571 ; ditto Five per Cents. of
1865, 32} to 1 ; Greek, 141 to 1 ; Spanish
Passive, 221 to 1; ditto Certificates, 141 to
15k ; Italian of 1861, 521 to ; Mexican, toi
to 171.
The shares of the financial companies are un-
altered, with the exception of a decline of 2s. 6d.
in International Financial, viz., to 21 to 2 die.,
General Credit are quoted 2 to 11 dis. ; Credit
Foncier, 6 to 51 dia. ; and London Financial, 22 to
21 dia. In the miscellaneous market, Hudson's Bay

and National Discount are quiet, at 16t1 to and
7i to # prem., respectively.
Bank shares exhibit no movement of importance.
Imperial Ottoman are quoted Ito 0 die. ; Alliance,
10 to 9 dis. ; and Union of London 40 to 41.

The market for American securities is quiet,
but the 5-20 bonds are slightly better, at 724 to I.
Erie and Illinois Central railway shares are un-
changed at 394 to 40, and 76 to 4 respectively.
Anglo-American Telegraph and Atlantic Tele-
graph Eight per Cent. Preference shares show no
variation ; the former are quoted 17# to and
the latter 44 to f.
The City of New York has arrived from New
York with 182,5001. in specie, and the Hammonia,
from the same port, with 88,0001., making a total
of 270,5001.
A petition for the winding-up of the West of
England Brewery Company (Limited) is to be
heard before Vice-Chancellor Stuart on the 7th of
i June.

The amount of gold bought by the Bank yester-
day, out of the recent arrivals from America and Aus-
tralia, was no lees than 263,000/., makings total of
460,0001. since the date of the last return, and a
further large amount is expected to be sent in to-
morrow ; while throughout the week there have
been no withdrawals for export. Of the recent
arrivals about 50,000/. has just been purchased for
the Continent

The Tarifa, from New York, has brought 11,000'.
in specie. The Ville de Paris, from the same port,
has also reached Brest with 160,000/.; and the
Shannon, from Brazil, has arrived at Lisbon with
17,0131. . . .

The bar silver by the Mexican packet has been
sold for Holland at ss. 04d. per ounce, and the
dollars at 4s. 1014, showing no change from the
recent quotations.
The foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon pre-
sented little alteration, the recent improvement
being well maintained. The list is as follows :
Amsterdam, 3 months, 11.194 to 12.01 ; ditto, short,
11.18 to 11.19 ; Rotterdam, 3 months, 12.0 to 12.01 ,
Antwerp, 3 mouths, 25.40 to 25.45 ; Brune* 3 months;
25.40 to 25.45; Hamburg and Altana, 3 months, 13.91. to
13.10 ; Berlin, Cologne, do. 3 months. &26 to 516
St. Petersburg, 3 months, 314 to 311 ; Paris, short, 25.115
to 25.25 ; ditto, 3 months, .37i to 95.424 ; Marseilles,
3 months, 25.374 to 24.424 ; Pranidort-on-the.Maine,
3 months, 120 to 12arVienna, 3 months, 12.25 to
13.0 ; Trieste, 3 mon 12.95 to 13.0 ; Madrid 3
months, 49 to 484; San , months, to 484 ; Cadiz.,
3 months, 491 to 49; Seville, 3 months, 494 to 49; Malaga,
3 months, 484 to 484; Valencia, 3 months, 484 to 484 ; Bar.
*elms, 3 months, 494 to 49; Bilbos, 3 mouths, 484 to
481 ; Saragossa, 3 months, 484 to 484 ; Leghorn, 3
months, 27.15 to 27.25 ; Genoa, 3 months, 27.15 to
27.21; Naples, 3 months, 27.15 to 27.25 ; Palermo, 3
months, 27.15 to 27.25 ; Messina, 3 months, 27.15 to
27.25 ; Lisboa, 90 days' date, 524 to 52 ; Oporto, 90 days'
date, 521 to 52.

Advioes from South Staffordshire announce the
failure of Messrs. Ambrose Beard and Sons,
Beard and Thomas, and T. S. Sneeth and Co., in
the iron trade, with liabilities estimated at 60,000!.
The chief partner in the three firms is Mr. George
Beard.
A Madrid letter of the 25th inst. mentions that
the Supreme Court of War and Marine, by judg-
ment dated the 23rd instant, has quashed the
entire proceedings of the Cadiz Prize Court in the
case of the Tornado. The owners of that vessel
have thus been successful in both their appeals to
the Supreme Court at Madrid.
The London, Brighton, and South Coast Rail-
way
traffic return shows this week an increase of
5,030/. over the ~orresponding week of last year,
owing to the Epsom races ; the Metropolitan a de- •
crease of 484/ ; and the Glasgow and South
Western a decrease of 21W.
The traffic return of the Grand Trunk Railway of
Canada for the week ending the 11th inst. shows an I
increase of 4831. over last year.
A general meeting of the shareholders of the
London and Venezuela Bank (Limited) was held
yesterday at the bank premises, Tokenhouse-yard. I
Mr. Edward Redman in the chair, when the report
and statement of accounts were received and
adopted. A vote of thanks to, and confidence in,
the directors was unanimously carried. 1
The Master of the Rolls has appointed the 18th
of June to proceed with the settlement of the list
of contributories in class B of Barned's Banking
Company (Limited).
Mr. Ralph Earle, M.P., has been elected a
director of the Russian (Vyksounaky) Ironworks
Company (Limited).
The annual meeting of the United Kingdom •
Provident Institution was held at the London •
Tavern yesterday. The report for 1866 shows that
2,331 policies were issued, assuring 419,8251., and ,
producing in new premiums 14,050/. Is. The atm- i
mulated capital is now 875,000/.
Subjoined are the quotations of insurance, gas, I ;
dock, waterworks, and canal shares, as given in the
Stock Exchange hat of last evening :
Inrurance—Loadon and Provincial Marine, 1 7.16;
Ocean Marine, 19 ; Universal Marine, 3.
Gas and Coke—City of Moscow Gas,; Great I+
Central, 12., 13 ; Imperial. 68A : Ditto. Debentures, I
173; Imperial Continental, 97 ; London, 62, 3; Won-
minder, New, 36 ; Western, 13f, 14. 11
Docks—Bast and West India, 125, 41.
Watenrorip—Cholasa, 110; East London, New, Mt ; 1
Southwark and Vaushall.lo3.
Canal—Birmingham (Guaranteed 4 per cent. London
and North Western', 84

Amongst the pi ices obtained at the sale reatcr-
day at the "Open Stock Exchange (Limiteds" were
the following :
Agra and Mairterman's Bank, 6/. ; Dagenham ('Mmes
Dock, 10s. ; Alhambra, 41. 17s. 6d. ; T
Malvern Railway, overdue coupon for 121. 10s.,
01. 7 4,ba
Grosvenor and West-end Hotel, 31. 7s. 6d. ,• Star ;
Garter Hotel, 2!. 2s. Gd. to 2!. ss. ; Anglo-Brialiaa.Gold,
19s. Gd. to IL ; Varna Railway, 3!. 2s. 6d. to M. Is. 6d. ;
Roam Grande Gold, 10a. to 11s. ; Pops/dim Laud Grant,
2,200 acres, 31. Is. ; Atlaatic and Great WesternAillway
Debentures. 1,0001.. 131. per cent. ; Fred. Braby, Com-
pany, 3/. ,• National Marine Salvage, Is. ; Library Com-
pany, Gs. 6d. ; Ottoman Railway, 6 per cent. debentures,
4.5/. ; Imperial Land Marseilles, 20/. debentures, 71. ; Con-
federate States Loan, 1803 (cotton coupon), 11M 6d. ;
Galveston, Houston, and Henderson Railway, 500 dole.
bands, 1/. 15s. per bond ; Taminea and Landes, V. per
share ; International Hotel, 10s. ; Confederate Lam, 1861,
1,000 dull., 19e. ; Westminster Improvement, 5001. bonds,
13!. 10s. ; City of Milan Improvement, 141. per share ;
Trust and Agency Company of Australia, 14a. 6d. peashare ;
Hop and Malt Exchange, 41. Ts. 6d. to 4/. 10s. ; Atlantic
end Great Western Railway, 355. coupons, lls. 6d. ; Con-
federate Loan, 7 per cant., 1,000 dola., IL 2s. to If. 3a. ;
Galveston, Houston. and Henderson Railway, 31. overdue
coupons, se. ; Specie Basis, 100 dole. first mortgage bonds,
61. to 71.

The interest due the 11th of June on Danish
Four per Cent. stock of 1862 is announced ssa pay-
able by Messrs. C. J. Hambro and Son.

The'June interest on the State of Alabama Six
per Oent. Bonds is advertised se payable by the
Union Bank of London.
We are requested to state that on and after
Monday, the 3rd June, the business of the National
Bank of Australasia will be carried on at its new
premises, 47, Cornhill.

TUESDAY EVINOG.

Consols, which closed yesterday at 911 to 92, ex
div., for the 6th of June, opened this morning at
the mime quotation, and closed at 924, " bura."
For money the last price was 93# to 4, with div.
The official business report is as follows :—Three
per Cent. Consols, for money, 934, I, f, 'with
div. • ditto, for account, 92, n, 24, ex div. ;
Three per Cents. Reduced, 91, # ; New Three per
Cents., 94, ; ditto, Two-and-a-Half per Cents.,
744 ; Bank Stock, 251,24 ; India Stock, 218, 20, 1 ;
ditto Five per Cent. 112, 114, 12 ; ditto Five per
Cent. "enfaced " rupee paper, 1034 ; ditto Five
per Cent. Debentures, 1044, 4 ; ditto Bonds, 60s.
Fem.
The India Fivo per Cent. stock met with a re-
newed inquiry, and was firm.
Exchequer Bills were quoted 225. to 275. prem.
The amount of business in foreign stocks was
small, but there was a demand for Peruvian of
1865, Russian of 1850, 1862, and 1866, Brazilian
of 1852, and Sardinian bonds, which rose 1
per cent. Italian of 1861 and Russian scrip were
also 4 better, while Spanish Three per Cents. and
New Deferred declined •, the Viceroy of
Egypt's Loan, ; and Turkish of 1805, I.
Canadian Government Debentures of February
and August and Victorian improved to 1 per
cent. ; while Natal and Queensland declined to
the same extent.

MINES.-(TEM DAY.)

thirs o'Ouxii.

There is little fresh business in the mining
market to-day, owing partly to preparations for
the fortnightly settlement on Friday next. Prince
of Wales shares, however, are in good demand,
at 55e. to 575., owing to an improvement in the
mine. West Chiverton are quoted 63 to 65 ; North
Crotty, 4?, to ; Chiverton Moor, 41 to 5 ; West
Kitty, 15s. to 20s. ; West Caradon, 9 to 10 ; East
Lovell, 84 to 9 • and Chiverton, 6i to 1.
The half-yearly meeting of the Scottish Aus-
tralian Mining Company (Limited) is called for
the 7th of June.
An extraordinary general meeting of the Otea
Copper Mining Company (Limited) is called for
the 4th of June, to receive a report from the
' directors on the present state and prospects of the
company."
With reference to the Pontgibaud Silver-lead
Mining and Smelting Company, it is notified that
an instalment of 15 francs per share, on account
of the dividend for the year 1806-67, is to be
paid on the sth of June next. The payments in
England will, allowing for exchange, be at the
rate of Ils. 11d. per coupon (less income tax).

RA ILWAY&-(THIS DAY.)

Oirs o'CLooK.

In the railway market to-day the principal
feature is a rise of p
_per cent. in Metropolitan
stock. London and North Western and Great
Eastern have .ls improved 1, while London,
Chatham, and Dover has declined 1, and Mid-
land /.
Metropolitan stock is now quoted 1221 to 123 ;
Great Western, 43 to 1 ; London and North
Western, 1131 to I ; Midland, 1091 to ; Lanca-
shire and Yo&shire, 1261 to 1; South Eastern,
661 to g ; Great Eastern, 36/ to 31/ ; Great
Northern, 1111 to 1121 ; ditto A, 1111 to 112;
London, Chatham, and Dover, 17 to 4 ; North
British, 33 to 34; and Brighton, 58 to 1.
(For tacisy's Shin List see page 4.1

Tux SEVI3R3 WEATHER AND THE IRISH POTA'TO
; i CROP.—The cold and ungenial weather for some time past,
so unusual in the inerry month, Las had a most prom-
' dicial effect ou the crops, and more particularly on the
potato. Owing to the frost oa Wednesday night, the
, i young leaves were much injured, and accounts from
various parts of the country state that potatoe-. present
, quite • blackened appearance. This unlooked-for blight will
I I have a disastrous effect over the whole country, as a greater
acreage of potatoes than ordinary has been sown this year,
owing to the lateness of the moon for other mops.—
Northers Whig.
WANT OF INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION IN ENGLAND.—
' Dr. Lyon PLyfair, who has just returned from Paris,
where be acted as a juror in one of the cheeses of the
' Exhibition, writes:—' I am sorry to say that, with very
few exceptions, a singular accordance of opinion prevailed
that our country had shown little inventiveness and made
but little progress in the peaceful arta of industry since
IS' I. Deficient representation in 110J10 of the industries
might have accounted for this judgment against us, but
when we find thatout of 90 °Lewes there are scarcely a ammo.
I in which pre-eminence is unhesitatingly awarded to us, this
plea must be isio.ndoned. My own upimon is worthy only
of the contidenee which might be supposed to attach to
my knowledge of the chemical arts ; but when I found
some of our chief mechanical and civil engineers lament-
! ing the want of progress in their industries, and
! pointing to the wonderful advances which other nations
are making ; when I found our chemical and even textile
manufacturers uttering similar complaint:l, I naturally
devoted attenti ni to elicit their views as to the causes. So
f.:r as I could gather them by conversation, the one cause
upon which there WAS most unanimity of conviction is that
France, Prussia, Austria, Belgium, and Switzerland pawns
good systems of industrial education for the masters and
managers of (adorns and workshops, and that England
; possesses none. A second cause was :dso generally, though
not so uuivorsalb , .olmitted, that we had suffered from
the want of cordiality between the employers of labour
and workmen, engendered by the numerous strikes, and
more particularly by that rule of many trades' utions,
that men shall work upon an average ability, without giving
free scope to the skill and ability which they may indivi-
dually possess."
PARISIAN PAOANS.—A PICTURE FOR M. Joint
Le .10INNE. —The Berme des Deux Monde, is publishing a
story of much power by M. Octave Feedlot, the new libra-
rian at Fontainebleau. The following is from a chapter in
the last number of the Revue :—" The artificial Men*-
, spkes here away
writes M. Feedlot, "of high Parisian civilisation
tikes from women the feeling and the taste of duty,
leaving them only the sentiment and the taste of plea-
sure. Like the fairy of a theatre, they lose in this brilliant
and false atmosphere the true notion of life in general,
and of Christian life in particular ; awl it o.ay has
affirmed that all those who do not retire from the wild
eddy and enter a Thaibade (and there are such) are pagans.
They are pagans because the pleasures of the senses
and of society interest them alone, and because they have
not awe in a year an idea, an impression of moral order.
unless it is forced upon them by maternity, which
some of them detest. They are pagans like the beauti-
ful but profane catholics of the sixteenth century, thirst-
ing after luxury, rich dresses, costly furniture, litersturv,
arts, themselves, and love; they are dooming pse^n• on
the model of Mary Stuart, and capable, like her, of finding
themselves Christians under the axe. We speak, be it
understood, of the beet, of the Rite of those who read,
think, and dream. As to the others, who hang on to the
skirts of Paris life, with their puerile clatter ; those silly
creatures who occupy their time in making assignations, in
influencing one another, in dressing sh•l gos" rirg, wh,
busy themselves night and day over mere and
dance with a sort of madness in the no). of the
Farisiaa
min, without thought. without passions or even vioess—it
is
impossible to imailue any beings more despicable."