The Express.
London, England, 1868-06-30 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TU. TSDAY E V ENTNG, JUNE 30, 1868.
LATEST SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

TI iIII I) EDIT 10 N.

LAW INTELLH:EN(T.--(TIIIS DAY.)

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Thu demurrer would therefore be overruled, with the
tilitutry rerult.

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nuctluv policeman. Emily Scott then cam., nit, AAA,/ I
ahniCS Scott round the nook, culled him her husband, and
declated that ho should not go to the station.
Mr. Franklin produced a gold Albert watch-key which
be boil picked up on the spot where Mr. Bennett fell.
Mr. Absalom Bennett, gentleman, said ho WWlstaying at
a pirate hotel in Norfolk-street. A little before '/ this
morning he WAS going home, when ho was acceded by
two w, men. Ile WAS then imildtmly struck from behind
end fellul to the ground. The attack was so instan-
tnnmus that he knew very little of what occurred. He
did not lime cuber what the Vfolllllll said. Ac soon as ha
recovered fmm the fall he missed his watch and chain and
Ley. Ile identified the key found by Mr. Franklin.
l'ohoe-t,ergeaut Hargreave, 14 10, who took the moo
in cuttody, corrobor.itoil Mr. Prohert's account of that
portion of the transaction. When Emily Scott interfered
the was coming from Norfolk-street, towards the Strand.
The prisoner Wilton --Did nut I toll you that I knew
notliaw about it, that me and this woman ware going to
1::: ro a tight ?. . .

iti:e7 Not at that time; you did afterward‘.
The psi-;saer Emily Scott Why did you not ta!:,l nrs
in vest; oy at the time:
Willa,. You had not been islinted out to m
The pis; tier ElizaSiMth said she was not with tha other
pris; arms at 1!11. She WIt,:110111`.
rOlit F 82 said that when Ifa,,zr.-tve; w ;
Wilson and Smith. the first witnefs t ;Id him dr it
the two men pointing them out were (-onus •Le I w•th
the rol,lNcy. Ile took them into custody. Emily Se rat
I,llile lip, 4-.41101t dames Scott round tit ; n !,,k, an I -o I a t
uas her loishand. Witness gave Campbell try ti
'I hemes e.ledable, who took him Li W-.! ‘.•ti
was eiaircying Scott thither when Emily ~.salt thr.:vr nor-
'...R.li the wound before him, and tripped him up, Al that
I c felt :11111 James Scott got away. Witneas too!: Emily
Scott to the station, and went nut on ditty again. In
lit nut belts ;in hour he met James Scott in Rassell-street,
and took him to the station.

Jelin ililler, 20 Thames police, corroborated. On the
way to the station Campbell said, "We were out for a bit
of a spree, and I don't know what is up."
Mrs. Smith, the female searcher at the Bow-street sta-
tion, proved that she found a portion of a broken watch
glary on the prisoner Emily Scott.
After some further evidence, tho prisoners were re-
manded.

TILE GRAND PRIZE DAY AT ALEXANDRA

PARK.

CRYSTAL PALACE COMPANY.
(THIS DAY.)

INTENDED PUBLIC RECEPTION OF THE DUKE
OF EDINBURGH AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE.

The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders
was held at 1 o'clock, at the City Terminus Hotel, Mr.
T. Iluonsa, M.P., in the chair.
The report having been taken as read,
The CHAIRMAN, in moving its adoption, observed that
the year hitherto, as far as the board could judge,
HMI a succeenful one. Both in general attend-
ances and in the issue of season tickets there
hail been an improvement over the preceding year; and
there was mason to believe that the year would prove a
profitable one financially. The rebuilding had been satis-
factory. There was now a high pressure of water in the
building; and so far as human precaution could ward off
fire the company was secured against a recurrence of the
lute disuater. The Handel Festival had been a very marked
feature in the history of the Crystal Palace. The late fee.
tival as regarded the music was a decided improvement
ou preceding festivals, while financially tho late festival
was also mote sueoowful than its prodocessors.
Cleat credit was due to the staff of Cie
rubies, whose exertion, were creditable not only
to the staff itself but to the Crystal Palace Com-
pany, and as regarded the opening of the Alexandra
Falk that day, he did not think an opening by means of a
laCe-COLLMO would do the company very gnat credit. To
bet maw before the people us a proper sort
of amusement for their leisure hours was not
a very desirable thing. (Hear, hoar.) In order to
retain the position so honourably gained by the Crystal
Palace Company it would be necessary for all interested
to act unitedly ; and he trusted that in the face of the
manifold opposition they had to meet they would all
remember that it was their dnty to endeavour to
maintain the useful character of their property.
(Hear, hear.) He then referred to the question
of the sale of surplus lands for building pitmans,
observing that the board had not been able to come to a
conclusion as to the beet means of dealing with those
lands, and that all they now proposed was that general
powers to deal with them should be sought by means of a
bill in parliament. He then alluded in appropriate
terms to the death of Mr. Anderson, a director, within the
year, and suggested that the filling up of the vacancy
should be postponed till the annual meeting in De-
cember. As regarded the alleged bequest of a
large sum to the company by the late Mr.
Etches, the honourable gentleman observed that
the directors had received no notice of it, and therefore
were not in a position to take any step in the matter. As
to the issue of free tickets for the admission of the friends
of shareholders on Sundays, which was to be proposed by
Mr. Lampeon, he must say he considered that question to
have been disposed of by a previous meeting. (Hear.)
Mr. Bra meoe testified, as an architect, to the sub-
stantial and satisfactory manner in which the work of
restoration had been performed.
Mr. Purim= was glad to hear the Chairman speak as
he had done of the way in which the Alexandra Park was
being opened. That concern would take away a
class of persons whom the Crystal Palace Company did
not want, and the shareholders ought to congratulate
themselves that there was now such a place as Alexandra
Park. (Laughter.)
The CHAIRMAN interrupted the proceedings to state that
a telegram bad jest been received from the Duke of
Sutherland stating that the Duke of Edinburgh had settled
to receive a public reception at the palace at 6 o'clock on
Saturday next—(loud cheers)—and that the Prince of
Wales and other members of the royal family will also at-
tend on that occasion. (Renewed cheers, and cries of
" Make it a shilling day," responded to by exclamations

of " No," and that such a course would be a breach of
faith.

The CHAIRMAN also intimated that the suggestion made
could not bo acted upon.
The report was shortly after adopted.

FATAL EXPLOSION.

An explosion, attended with fatal results,
occurred yesterday afternoon, at the premises of Mr.
Kynoch, percussion cap and cartridge manufacturer, Wit-
ton-lane, the victim being a middle-aged man, named
George Southey. The deceased was emplo ed in the mix-
ing department, and was at the time wo • in a por-
tion of • detached shed, situated at a • ce of
about thirty yards from the factory, in which
several other persons ware also. employed in pre-
paring the metal for the cartridges. Shortly before
I o'clock he was wetting some of the fulminate, the
compoeition of which the cartridge is composed, when •
youth named Meredith looked in the mall room where
deceased was, and observing him in the act of pouring
the fulminate into a bowl, expressed himself afraid at the
dangerous nature of the compound being used.
Deceased replied, "Are you afraid ?" and then
shook the remaining contents of a paper he had
in his hand into the bowL As he did so the
youth saw a flash, and this was followed by an imme-
diate explosion, by which deceased was struck and blown
with great violence into a corner, where he was shortly
afterwards found with his head severed and his
bowels protruding. Life was quite extinct, and
it was evident that be had met with an instantaneous
death. One pound of the composition was equal to 30
pounds of ordinary powder and great care was exercised
in the using of it ; deceased, who was considered a very
careful and skilful workman, being allowed to wet small
quantities at a time. It is conjectured that his atten-
tion being attracted by the fear displayed by the youth,
he did not exercise quite so much care as usual, and that
in shaking the paper, be caused the friction which re-
sulted in the &spit:mon. The body was afterwards removed
to the Crown and Cushion public-house, where it lies
awaiting the coroner's inquest. The deceased leaves a
wife and five childreu.—Bsreasehass Pert.

QUEENSTOWN, JurrE 30.—The Cunard (extra)
stoamehip Tarifa, from New York, arrived here at 8.43
a.m. to-day, with 142 passengers, 32 of whom she landed
with her despatches, and proceeded for Liverpool at
9 a.m. All well.

ATLANTIC TELEGRAM COMPANY.—(TIIIB DAY.
—An extraordinary meeting of the shareholders was held
at noon at the London Tavern, Sir C. Lampson in the
chair, for the declaration of dividends for the nine months
ending the 30th April last. The accounts, which were pre-
viously published, having been taken as read, the chairman
moved the adoption of the accounts. The Hon. R. Grimston
seconded the motion, which, after a short discussion, was
agreed to. The Chairman, in moving the next resolution,
" That a dividend be, and the same is hereby de-
clared, upon the First Preferential Eight per Cent. Stock
of the Atlantic Telegraph Company, at the rate of 8 per
cent. per annum for the nine month' ending April 30,
1868," observed that although the earnings of the last two
months were rather less than had been expected, that was
owing solely to the bad state of trade, and he had no
doubt whatever that the company's property would prove
very valuable. He also trusted that there would ere long
he a closer amalgamation between that company and the
Anglo-American Company. After a short discussion the
reselution was adopted. It was afterwards resolved—
" That a dividend be, and the same is hereby declared,
upon the Second Preferential Eight per Cent. Stock of the
Atlantic Telegraph Company, at the rate of Bper cent. per
annum for the nine months ending April 30, 1868 ;"
" That a dividend be, and the same is -hereby declared,
upon the ordinary stock of the Atlantic Telegraph Com-
pany, at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum for the nine
mouths ending April 30th 1868," and "that the several
dividends this day declared upon the stocks of the coin-
' any he payable on and after the let of duly, 1868." The
oceedinge terminated in the usual manner.
THE Bishop OF OXFORD AND MR. SPUR-
oFox.—The Duke of Argyll fitly described the speech of
the Bishop of Oxford before it was delivered when he said
that during this debate the bishops had all spoken as
ecilesiusties, not as statesmen. They have gone on the
motto of No Surrender, said the duke ; have offered no
compromise, have made no suggestion, but have
merely taken up that cry of ecclesiastical government
all over the world, Nun possums,. The Bishop
if Oxford was, however, more of an ecclesiastical
and less of a statesman than any of them. He is a power-
ful speaker, but his speeches have about them the air
of the tea paety or the platform. He is eloquent
and sarcastic, tells a story well, misrepresents his op-
ponents with the blandest appemrance of sincerity and
generosity, and tickled the ears of the groundliugs in the
'post masterly way. He spoke pretty much to the
peeresses' gallery last night. Titer ladyships crowded to
hear him, and he gave them their reward. But the
bishops speeches are out of place in a deliberative
assembly. When he is in his liveliest vein the House of
Lords lays aside its courtly dignity for a moment, and
gives itself up to he amused. Nor is the bishop at all ecru-
pulped whence the amusement comes. That ho should
put in contrast Mr. Spurgeon'spraisen of voluntaryism and
Mr. Spurgeon's appeals against the deficiencies of Lao
voluntary principle was perfectly fair, but that he
should teed them in a tone of solemn mockery was be-
teeth the iUguitv of the house, and utterly unworthy of
the subject. It was even more. In that tone of
mockery the Eihop was defiling the graves of his own
anrcstas, fur Mr. Spor;oon is to-day the most proud:eat
rt•prer(ntat'Ne of that Chihli.= sect with which the name
of leillea !r
ot Olt isIIII.XtI iutbly associated. That he should
quote rut ion of a Remelt Catholic dignitary w se also
;I;i:wale, hat that he should enunciate the lettars of
heueutable distinction which followed the name of the
eceler'sudie iu a tour of theatrical contempt was an in3ult
to the whole Catholic community, and an outrage on the
good manners and good feeling of every Protestant gen-
tleman who beard him .—Doily

MONEY MARKET.-(THIS DAY.)

ONB 0' CLOCK.

The tendency of the stook market, on the whole,
is slightly better to-day, and a moderate improve-
ment has occurred in some securities, owing to the
decline yesterday in the price of wheat, the steady
flow of gold to the Bank, and an expected large
increase next month in the supply of floating
capital, with the release of the dividends. Con-
sols have improved 1-16 per cent., and the Three
per Cents. Reduced and New Throe per
Cents. are inquired for. Home railway stocks are
also in request, and have advanced /to 1. Foreign
bonds, however, are rather dull. Italian of 1861 have
declined, the advice. from Florence being re-
garded as lase satisfactory. The fortnightly set-
th ment, which tends to restrict fresh business,
will be finished this afternoon.

Considering that this is the last day of the
quarter, the discount market is not active, and the
best throe months' bills are still taken at 11 per
cent.

Consols are quoted 941, et dir., for money, and
841 tog, ex div., for the account (July 9), and
tho Three per Cults. Reducod and Now Three
per Conte., 944 to 1.

Tho railway market is firmer, and a rise of to
1 per cent. has taken place in most of the principal
stocks. London and South Western, however, is
1 lower, at 91 to 92. Caledonian, 70Ir to 71 ;
London and North Western, 1131 to 4 ; Great
Western, 49 to ; Midland, 1041 to A ; Great
Eastern, 334 to 4 ; Brighton, 614 to ; South
Eastern, 724 to 734; Metropolitan, 110 to ; Great
Northern, 101 to ; Ditto A, 96 to ; London,
Chatham, and Dover, 19 to ; Lancashire and
Yorkshire, 1274 to 1284; York and North Midland,
924 to 934; Berwick, 1034 to 4 ; and North British,
34 to 4.

As regards foreign bonds, Brazilian of 1865, Ita-
lian of 1861, and Peruvian of 1866 have declined
1 to 1 per cent., while Egyptian of 1864, and the
Orel Vitebsk Railway Loan have risen to the same
extent. Subjoined are the quotations :—Brazilian
of 1866, 761 to 77; Chilian of 1867, 951 to 981;
Egyptian, 1864, 82 to 83; Italian of 1881,54 ;
Mexican, 161 to 1 ; Peruvian of 1885, 831 to 1 ;
Russian of 1888, 90 to 91; ditto Orel Vitebsk, 82:
to ; Spanish of 1887,36: to 4, ex div. ; Turkish of
1858, 63/ to 641 ; ditto of 1862, 64 to 66 ; and
ditto of 1866, 891 to 4.
No alteration is observable in Indian securities.
The Five par Cents. are quoted 1141 to 115 ; the
Four, 104/ to 105 ; the Bonds, 275. to 325. prem.;
and the Debentures, 105 to 4. Bank Stook, 240
to 242 ; and Exchequer Bills, 15s. to 20s. prem.
In the market for bank shares Anglo-Austrian
are inquired for at 61 to 1 prem. ; London and
Brazilian, 30 to 25 dia. ; Imperial Ottoman, 11 to
prem. ; Consolidated, I to 1 prem. ; London and
Westminster, 701 to 4; London and County, 49:
to 501; and Union of London, 331 to 4.

A moderate amount of business is going for-
ward in miscellaneous shares, at steady rims.
_ _

National Discount, 8s to 1 prom. ; General Credit,
21 to 1 dis. ; Credit Foncier, 3} to f per shwa ;
International Finanoial, 14 to 11 die. ; London, 22
to 21 die. ; Hudson's Bay, 151 to 1 ; Egyptian
Trading, 5 to 41 die. ; Telegraph Construction,
131 to 141 ; Atlantic Telegraph Eight per
Cent. Preference, 41 to ; and Anglo-American,
211 to 4.
United States 5-20 Bends are without varia-
tion, at 731 to 4. Erie Railway shares are at 431
to 464, showing a decline of 1 per cent. ; Illinois
Central, 1014 to 102, being better ; Atlantic and
Great Western Debentures, 281 to 29 ; and the
Consolidated Mortgage Bonds, 331 to 1, a reduc-
tion of 1.

The half-yearly meeting of the London and
Greenwich Railway Company will be held on the
14th July, " when a dividend upon the original
stock of the company will be recommended to the
proprietors of IJ. 7e. Id. per cent., or ss. sd. per
share, clear of income tax, for the half-year."
The half-yearly meeting of the East and West
India Dock Company is convened for the 10th of
July, to declare a dividend on the capital stock for
the half year.
The directors of the British Land Company
(Limited) have declared an interim dividend to
this date of 5 per cent. on the paid-up capital of
the undertaking.

I TWO g CLOCK.

The markets for public securities are decidedly
firmer. Consols have advanced per cent., viz.,
to 941 for money, and 944 to 96 for the account.
Railway stocks are in good demand, and Midland,
Metropolitan, Caledonian, London and North
Western, and Great Western have risen to 1 per
cent. since 1 o'clock. Foreign bonds likewise
meet with inquiry.

FOUR O'CLOCK.

Consols have experienced a relapse of to 1 per
cent., viz., to 94.1 to # for money, and 941 for the
account.

Railway stocks remain firm. Caledonian, 711
tot ; Metropolitan, 1101 to ; Brighton, 51 to
; South Eastern, 731 to 1 ; Midland, 105: to 1;
London and North Western, 113: to 1141 ; Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire, 128 to 1; and Great
Western, 491 to t.
In tho foreign stock market Italian Bonds of
1861 have declined t per cent., the present price
being 531 to 54. Orel, 82: to 1 ; Nicholai, 651 to
; Spanish of 1867, 361 to ; and Turkish of
1865, 391 to 1.
About 35,0001. in bar gold has been sent into
the Bank.

At Paris to-day the Three per Cent. Rentes
opened at 70fr. 75c. for the account, showing no
change.

The Stock Exchange Committee have appointed
Thursday next a special settling day in the Four
per Cent. Debenture Stock (scrip and registered)
of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway Company,
which is to be marked in the official list.

The South Eastern Railway traffic return shows
this week an increase of 1491., compared with the
corresponding period of 1867.
The directors of the British and Foreign In-
surance Company (Limited) have declared an
ad interim dividend for the current half -year at
the rate of 10 per cent. per annum.
The report of the directors of the Oriental
Hotels Company (Limited), to be presented at the
general meeting on the let of July, states that
the business of Gallo Hotel for 1867 was satis-
factory, showinq a net profit of 3,4271. With re-
gard to the Cairo Hotel, however, the directors
see grounds to modify their anticipations of profit.
Amongst the causes of the present embarrassed
state of the company's finances is the large
amount paid for the land at Cairo and, inasmuch
as this land was purchased by the company with
the special sanction of the Viceroy, in connection
with projects for public improvements which have
now fallen through, the directors are strictly of
opinion that upon adequate representations being
made to his highness, the price paid for the land
ought to be refunded to them.

At the meeting yesterday of the Assam Company,
tbe directors' report, which has already been pub-
lished, was adopted. The chairman read a tele-
gi am to the effect that the affairs of the under-
uking in Aaeam are progressing satisfactorily,
nd that the estimated out-turn will in all probe-
Linty be realised.
At the meeting of John Brown and Co.

(Limited), held yesterday, at Sheffield, the direo-
tore' report was adopted nnaainioualy.

MINES.-(THIS DAY.)

ONE O'CLOCK.
There is no change of importanoe in British
mining sharers. Wort Chivorton, 60 to 61;
Emily Henrietta, 314 to 324 ; Great Lucy.
174 to • Now Lovell, 22e. 6d. to 27e. 6d. ;
Prince of Wales, 40s. to 425. 6d.; °hirer-
umi.jlfoor, 61 to 7; Great Itotallack, 34 to ;
Wheal Seton, 724 to 75; and North Troekerby,
1.55. to 17s. _ _

tiubjoinod are the quotations of foreign anl
colonial mining shares :—St. John dol Roy, 18.}
to 194; Don Pedro, 24 to 34 prem.; Aeglo-
- 3-16 to 5-16prem.; Postarena, # to :
dig. ; Chontales, 11 to 2; Rosa Granck, *to }
prtm.; Anglo-Italian, par to prom.; United
Mexican, 14 to 1 • Frontino and Bolivia, Ito
4; and Port Phillip, 1 9-16 to 11-16.
The Den Pedro Gold Milling Company have re-
ceived the following telegram from Lisbon :-1-
" Produce to 2nd June, 20,020 oitavas ; estimate
for May, 21,800."

RAILWAY, MINING, AND OTHER
SHARES.-(THIS DAY.)

[Closing pnoes to 1 p.m.l
COLONIAL GOVERNMENT sucunnirs.
Ceo"4., 6 per cent., 1877 to 1884, Jun. and July, 1041,
6, 41.
Cape of Good Hope, G per cent., 1873, June and Dec.,
1111.
Now South Wales, 6 per cent., 1888 to 1896, January
ri July, 1001, 991.
New Zwil• and, 6 per cent., 1891, June and Doc., lON,
ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS.
Caledonian, 71, 1.
Great Eastern, 3E4, 1, 6.
Great Northern A (A receives no dividend until 6 per
cent. has been paid to B), 96,
Do. B, 126.
Great Western, Original, 481, 91, r.
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 128.
London, Brighton, and South Coed, Re. I.
London and North Western, 1131, 1, 14.
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 411, 1.
Metropolitan, Ij.lol, 10, 1.
Midland, 1041,
South Eastern, 721, 1, 31.
PREFERENCE SHARES.
London, Chatham, and Dover, 6 per cent., 63.

PREFERENCE SHARES AND BTOOIIII.
Great Eastern 6 per cent., 1862, 80.
Great Western 6 per cent. irredeemable, 1866, 1021.
London and tiouth-Westorn, 93, 21.
Midland 6 per cent., st

BRITISH POSSESSIONS.

.
Bombay, Bar. and Cent. Ind.,___ gua_ . 5 per et., log, id.
Eastern Bengal, gua. 6 per oent.. 107 f, ad.
East Indian, guas per cent., 1094, 4, ad.
Grand Trunk of Canada, Ist preference bonds, 434.
Great Indian Peninsula, New gua. 6 per cent, 94, ad.
Great Western of Canada, 141, .
Madras, gua. 6 per cent, loo„
Sonde, gua. 6 per cent, 1014, z.
Do. (Delhi), gas. 6 par cent., 102, ad.