The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-31 00:00:00

BRITISH POSSESSIONS.
Closing
Share RRilwaye Paid. Price. Business done
100 Itlantio &St Laiirenta all 58 60
Sk
Bom.,Barodact.Cent Inc] 100 101 102
Gu. 5 per cent..
20 Do. New . ..... 8
20 Do. E. Shares 74 4 dis p
204 Budalo and Lake Huron all a 54
10 Do. Preference . all 73/4 83/4
foo Buffalo,BrantotGodric.l, 100 75 80
p. at. bds. Aug. 1, IST,
100 Do. do. July 1, 187. 100 75 10
;00 Do. do. June 1, 1874 100 75 80
st Cleutta.aS.Eastr..(l,lnl 100 97 99
et Cape Town W Dock Seri; 100 94 96
stock Elwin. Bengal gu. sp. 100 102 104
Stook lwast Indian. gu. sp. 0. 100 101 102 1014
20 Do. do. U Ext V) 191 101
20 Do. do. II do.
stook Grand Trunk of Canada 100 19 29
100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds all 71 73
100 Do. do. deferred all 60 63
10.0 Do. 2d Pref. Bonds all 65 67
1.00 Do. do. deferred all 55 57
100 Do. 3d Pref. stock
100 Do. do. deferred all 43 45
100 Do. 4th Pref. stook all 27 29
100 Do. do. deferred all 26 28
stook Cit.lndiarentn.gua.sp.o 100 102 103
20 Do. New gua. sp. c l2 par 4p
Do. January, 1882
stook Gt. South.of India (Lim
guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 99 101
203/4 Gt. W. of Canada Shares all 04 10
203/4 Do. New .. ...... 18 103 104
100 Do. S p.o. '73 with't opt. all 89 91
100 Do. 54 p. c. do. '77-8 all 82 84
10 Indian Branch Limited 2 3/4 d 4p
stook Madras, guar., sp. 93/4 1004 1104
stook Do. 44 p. a. Extension 100 03 95
stook Dc. 44 do lOO 89 91
20 Do. Fifth Extension 2
stook Melb.Corp. ap. o. linds lOO
5o Melb. Ec llobson's Bay all 58 CO
100 Do. 7p. o. nortg. Bds all
20 Newßranswiok Grinds
Class A and B all 2 5
N.lll.C'da spo Ist plbde 100 80 84
stook .dude —• • ) (100 993 101
stock Do. Delhi... I •• ' 100 993/4 100)
20 Do. do ' ':244:9 2 4d par
st Do. Punjaub I all 9)5 1004
Do. Do. • -
stook Do. Indus. St. Flo.) tlOO 95 97 ,

COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
- t_;.b.Uoy. 6 p.c.J Jr J uiy
1877-68 lOO 96 99 96}
Do. p. 0. Feb: & Aug. 100 96 99
Do. op. o. liar. & Sept. 100 98 102
Do. 6p. 0. Jan.&July. 106 84 86
Do. 5 inscribed stock 100 84 86
Cape G.llope, 6 p 0,1873 100 104 106
Do.Ap & Oct. 1880 100 107 109
Do. 1890 100 109 111
Do. Jan. & July, 1891 100 107 10/ 1091
, Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 100 110 112
Mauritius 6 per cent lOO 103 105 101
Natal Gov. 6 per cent 100 104 107
6 p.c.J a.&July 100 97 100
Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. 100
N. S.W. G ov. 5 p 180( 100 97 99
Do. sp. to 1676 100 96 98 97
- I Do. d0.,11388 & upwds 100 96 98 96
- INew Zealand 6 p cent 100
- Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c.
j sterling, 1875. lOO 99 102
!Queensland Gcv. 6p. c. 100 100 103
S. Aus G6p:c.1878.& up 100 106 108
Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 1014
- Do. lo 6 D.°. A.n.&Oct.. 100 109 110 1081
BRITISH MINES.
2 Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 /
chilord Amalgamated 30 32 30
Devon G. Con.. (Tavist ) 1 580 590
East Bassett (Illogau) 30 67 60
East Clogau Gold Lid.
East Caradon ...... 114.6 27 28
'tact Caru Brea... ... . . 3.4.0 71 7/
,E. W'l Russel (Tavistk.) 8.13.6 5 54
- ;Gam.&St.AubyinGwen 581 5 7
0 rent South Tolgus 17s 2 24
1
IG. Wheal Vor (Holston 40 27 28
Grenville .
;ler:J.:Ps-Foot ...... 8.12 68 40
tiingston Downs 4.18.0 4}
Lady Bertha
gargarct (tiny Lelaut 9i 7 9
Alarke Valley..
4 Nlyndy Iron Oro (Lim 24 1t d
New Seton l9l 75 85
•-• North Downs 3 11 11
N.Whil Basret(lllogan 3.1.0 2 21
North Wheal Crotty
Par Cons Ole (St. Blazey:
Providence (Uny Lelnt.' 10.0.7 40 42 401
South Caradon(StCleer, 14 :00 520 51517}
S. Cara Brea (Illogan) —
.Wheal Fran. (Mogan, 19.19
424 474
—Stray Park 30.18.7.6 3O
- l'amar Sil v.& Lead Diin.
- 'Du Crolt 9 38 19
West. Basset (Illolan) l4 8 9
WCr radon (Liskeard; 9 91 10
.-- West Seton
Wheel Basset (Inman) 51 92 65
Wheal Buller(Redruth) 10 18 20
Wheal Kitty (U.Lelaut) 2.0.6
WhealLudeott
Wheal MaryAnn(lAen ) 8 14 16
Wheal Beton 584
210 215
Wheal Treiawney (Lis.) 7 19
221
I Wheal Union 1 4 11

•ES LEASED A -11 FIXED RENTALS.
Blanchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 3i
FOREIGN
Cape Copper, Bra., 101
BANKS. •

Anglo Austrian, if
Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 391
Consolidated Bank, lira., 10,1
European Bank, lira., 131 14
Imperial Bank (Urn.). 35i
Imperial Bank of :Mina, India,!and Japan, lim., 8
International Bank, lira., 181
Land Mortgage Bank of. India, lira., 5,1
London Bank of Mexico and S. America, Jim, 61
London, Buenos Ayres, and River Plate, 65
London and County, 73}
London and South African, 24
London and 11 estminster, I 8
South Eastern, Rm., 9

MISCELLANEOUS.
Australian Mort. Land and Finance, UM., 3
City Offices,
Credit Foncier, 111 124
Credit Mobiticr, lit 12
Crystal Palace, 33
East India Irrigation and Canal, 5
Gen. Credit and Finance of London, lini.,
Imperial Mercantile Credit A sso., lim., 81
Loudon Financial Association, lim., 2fl
Societe Financiere d'Egypte, lim.,

SHIPPING—T:caS DAY,

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(BY M4W.-A'ETIC TELEGRAPII;)

, GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning.
Arrived, Aug
from Port Natal—Pallas,
•
from Archan4a; Isabella and Lernvig, from Taganrog—
!r..n Licata—Reliance, Triumph, Mellon, and
Zunm, rroni Guernsey—Sir W. Poultney, from Cronstadt
—C`..Levalier, from Lisbon—Alexandria, from Yokohama.
DEAL, Wednesday Morning.
Passoe—Gaza and Matilda, from the west, for London—
Arbutus, from Barbadoos, for London—Fort Regent and
Marlborough, from Calcutta, for London— Moffat, from the
Cape of Good Hope. for London—Victor, of Sunderland,
from the west, for tho north—Aphodis, from the north, for
the west--Tanning, screw steamer, from London, for Ton-
ning.

ST. THOMAS'S HOSPlTAL.—Yesterday afternoon
a numerously attended meeting of the governors of
this hospital was held at the Terminus Hotel, London-
bridge, to elect a treasurer in the room of Mr R. Baggallay,
resigned, and fur other business. The president (Alderman
Sir J. Musgrove) presided. Mr W. Tito, M.P., proposed a
vote of thanks to Mr Baggallay on his retirement from the
office of treasurer. The motion was seconded by Alderman
Finnis, and unanimously approved. Mr Tite, M.P., then
proposed Mr Francis llicks for the office of treasurer,
Alderman Finnic seconded and Mr Gray supported the
nomination, and Mr Hicks was unanimously elected to the
°dice.

Sarah Collier reside at No. 9, Cross-street. De-
ceased and his wife occupied the first floor back-room.
During the ten months I have known them, they fre-
quently quarrelled. Wilkinson got tipsy at least once a
week. They only quarrelled when he was so, and then
she never said anything to him if he was good-tempered.
Last Sunday evening Wilkinson came in between six and
seven o'clock and asked me if I had seen his wife. 1 told
him I had not. About half-past seven a person came to
me and told me a lady wanted to see me in Hatton-garden.
When I went out I found it was deceased. She
said, " Have you seen my husband, directly we
came out of the station my husband struck me
in the face." She then told me that he had kissed
her niece, and that Chipperfieldihad kissed her, and that
had led to the quarrel. She said, " I'm afraid to come in
yet, as lam sure he will knock me about. I will go to a
friend's house and stop for two hours," At a quarter past
10 she again sent for me, and when she found her husband
was not within she came into my room. She went and
looked at her children,:and then came out and went into
bed with my aunt, to avoid meeting her husband until the
morning. We slept quietly until about a quarter past
12 when I heard Wilkinson going up-stairs. He_ knocked
at my door, and asked if his wife was in my room. I told
him she wus not, and he then went to my aunt's room, and
pushed the door open. In a few seconds 1 heard a noise as
of a quarrel. He was using oaths. I went in, and there
saw the deceased on the floor on her knees, and Wilkinson
near her. He was using dreadful language, and I saw him
strike her three times on the head with his fist. He then
got up from a box on which be was sitting and kicked her
in the stomach. The moment he did it, deceased seemed
very ill ; I asked her if he had hurt her, when she said,
"I'm very bad, he has given me my death blow." I held
up her head, and she vomited up a little blood, Directly
Wilkinson saw this he became altogether changed, and as-
sisted me to raise her up. 1 bathed her temples, and Wil•
kinson then assisted me to get her to her room. He cried
very ranch, and then he run for a doctor. Mrs Wilkinson
diet within the hour after she had received the kick.

By a Juror—They had had a quarrel on Friday night,
Before he kicked her the said " For God's sake, don't kill
me." Ho then said, " I'll give it you, you --." She
never spoke after she received the kick.

Dr. Clarke, 115, Holborn-hill, said he had made a post
mortem Examination and found that death had been occa-
sioned by hemorrhage, caused by a rupture of the spleen,

The coroner said there could be no doubt of the canoe of
death, viz., the rupture of the spleen, and that injury had
been produced by a blow.
A juror said it was of the utmost importance that the
accused man Wilkinson should be present while the evi-
dence against him was being given.
The Coroner entirely agreed with the juror. He found
it would become necessary at that stage of the inquiry to
adjourn until next Friday morning, and during that perfod
he would communicate with Sir George Grey. in order it
possible to obtain the order of the Home Secretary for the
prisoner's attendance at that inquiry.
The jury and witnesses wore then bound over to attend
again next Friday.

LAW INTELLIGENCE,-.-This Day,

SHERIFFS' COURT.
(Before F. Gibbons, Esq.)
A MAN COMPELLED TO PAT A DEBT DE DOES NOT OWE,

JONES V. PINKING.

This was a judgment summons, and his honour put the
usual questions to the defendant, who said he was not the
person who owed the money. There must have been a
mistake.

His Honour said that whether there was a mistake or not
defendant must pay.

Defendant—l do not owe the money.

His Honour—You must pay whether you owe the money
or not. This is a claim for 153. 41., and it has been decided
that!you must pay.

Defendant—But I never of the matter before to-day. I
was not served with the original summons, so I could not
attend to it.

His:Honour said he could not help that, the defendantihad
not appeared on the original suz,mons, and must go to prison
for five days. The commi!.inent would like in the office a
week before it issued.

Defendant very '.naturally declared that ho would not pay,
athe money, and left the court complaining
o; h hea did
grog n:t
injustice of such a law.
t

A CM'AIISSIONER FOR TARING OATHS IN COMMON LAW.

GAINSPORD AND OTHERS V. PHILLIPS.

This was an action to recover £3l Bs. bd., for carpets, &c.,
supplied to defendant, who is an attorney, of 12, Abchurch-
lane, and also is one of the Commissioners for taking oaths
in Common Law.

Mr Wray, for the plaintiffs, deposed to the goods having
been supplied, and a promise to pay.
Hi:, Honour found that no one appeared on behalf of the
dr_andant, and the usual order was made.

QUEEN VICTORIA AND THE DAHOMIAN SLATE
GIRL—, In speaking of slavery, I cannot omit to
mention the warm interest that our gracious Queen has
evinced towards a liberated Dahomian slave girl. Some
years since Commander Forbes, of the Royal Navy, was
sent to the savage ruler of that country for the purpose of
trying to prevail on him to change his policy of government.
The King was greatly impressed by the gentlemanly bear-
ing of the gallant officer, and as a token of his royal re-
gard for him, made him a present of a young slave
girl. Commander Forbes brought her to England in
his ship the Bonetta, and had her christened
by the name of Bonetta Forbes. When the Queen
heard the strange and eventful history of the girl,
she at once adopted her as a protdgd, and had her educated
at Melville Hospital at her own expense, and always took a
deep interest in Miss Bonetta's welfare, even going so far
as to have her occasionally at Court. When afterwards
the young girl married Mr Davis, a coioured merchant,
residing on the Gold Coast, the Queen took a most lively
interest in the event, and made Miss Forbes several
handsome wedding presents. I lately saw by a news-
paper that a further mark of favour was conferred on
Mrs Davis, who has given birth to a daughter to whom the
Queen has stood godmother by prosy. At the same time
the Queen presented to her godchild a beautiful gold cup,
with a salver, knife, fork, and kpoon, of the same precious
metal, as a baptismal present. The cup and salver bear the
following inscription —" To Victoria Davis, from her god-
mother, Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland,
1563." Does not this incident speak volumes for the good-
ness of our beloved Queen, who amongst her multitudinous
cares can still remember an African girl.— Colburn's United
So rice Magazine.

Nearly 10,000 clothworkcrs, at Biella, in
Piedmont, aro now on strike fur a decrease in the
hours of labour, and an increase of wages. This sue•
pension has lasted upwards of a fortnight, and Govern-
ment contractors are embarrassed, as they are unable to get
their orders executed. The men are now at the end of their
pccaniary resources, and will shortly be cbliged to cede.
A sum of :12,000f has, however, just been received Irons
Marseilles to be distributed among them. Th© local jour-
nals state that no one knows by whom this money has been
sent,

Last night, or rather his morning, at a few minutes
past twelve o'clock, the prisoners came out of the Green
Dragon publichouse in :sigh-street, Poplar, and began
shouting and bawling. They were desired by a police
constable named Owen, No. 305 K, to move on and go
home. Conner, who was mad with drink, began to pull
off his guernsey shirt, and said he had left his ship to have
a spree, and would fight my one, or fight all the world.
He was taken into custoly by another constable, named
Sorrell, No. 410 K, whorl ho kicked violently on the legs,
and nearly disabled him, Sorrell took his staff from his
case and gave Connor out blow, and succeeded in taking
him into custody. George Osborne, No. 129 K, took
Ward into custody, and tle female said he should not go,
and pulled him away. A scene of great disorder ensued,
and the screams and shorts of the woman, who used very
bad language, were frighful. At last, and with additional
assistance, the prisoners vero all secured. A crowd of 200
persons assembled in the tligh- street, and the disorder was
very great. Respectableand quiet inhabitants complained
of the disturbance,

Mr Paget said that Connor had seriously injured the
constable he had kicked, And he should sentence him to one
month's imprisonment azd hard labour. He sentenced the
woman Hughes to seven days' imprisonment and hard
labour, and discharged Vard, who had not offered any re-
sistance to the police.

MARKET B--T his Day.

HAY BIARKZTS.

Tho amounts of Englieh wheat fresh up to our market
to-day were but moderate. The demand, however, for all
qualities ruled inactive, at Monday's quotations. The
quality of the produce was very good.
Most descriptions of Foreign wheat were in fair supply ;
but the amount of business transacted in them was very
moderate, at previous rates.

Floating cargoes of grain moved off slowly, at previous
quotations.

The supply of barley on the stud was small. For all
quotations, the trade was firm, and Monday's currency was
well supported.

The malt trade was quiet, on forber terms.

With oats, the market was well supplied, and the trade
for all quotations held somewhat active, at very full prices.
Beans and peas were firm, at fully late rates.
The demand for flour was stee,dy, and prices ruled
tolerably steady.

ARRIVALS THIS wzRIC.
Wheat. Barley, Mitt. Oats. Flour.
English ,, 1,170 230 1,410 200 1,130
Irish ..
Foreign 11,810 1,120 43,740 3,090 eke.
1,340 brls,

BOROUGH Hof.
Now hops are selling at £6 to £9 per cwt. Last year's
hops move off steadily, at full price;, Old hops dull.

WHITEWIAM.
The supply of meat on sale is moierato, and the trade
rules heavy, at the annexed quotations :
Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s 4d ; mutton, 3s 8d to 4s 8d ;
veal, 3s 6d to 4e 8d; and pork, 38 ci to 4s 41 per Sibs by
the carcase.

GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATIpN COMPANY.---The
seventy-ninth half-yearly me3tivg of the share.
holders in this company was held yesterday, at their offices,
71, Lombard-street, John Wilkin, 4*, in the chair. The
report of the directors, and a stateuteat of the accounts for
the half-year to the 30th Jane last, were read to the meet-
ing and unanimously adopted. Th) customary dividend of
14s per share, being at the rate of tO per cent. per annum
was declared, and the cordial thanks of the proprietor, were
voted to the chairman and directors 1-0 their continual ex-
ertions in the management of the cokwany's affairs, after
which the meeting separated.

TILE " INSPECTION" AT DEPOT.—The barracks
were on a hill commanding the town, which had
been fashioned irresolutely into a sort of fort—and when the
sun was shining, little lengths of Emmet ribbon were seen
to unwind themselves on the walls, lie a cheerful edging
to a dull grey surtout, attended also ly lively drumming,
and the winding of trumpets. In this sort of clumsily dis-
guised reformatory, the soldiers toolt their punishment,
were drilled, snapped at with wordy; of command, and,
above all, "inspected." Which drealful operation was
now just being performed. It was a depot, and samples of
several regiments were herded together for training and exer-
cise. Major-General Shortall had been down, a
gaunt,
cheeked man, with what used to be terrcedthemutton-crheod
whisker, and who was determined to do his all to save the
service from the destruction to which was hurrying—by
keeping his upper lip clean and bare. The men had been
scrubbed, pipeclayed, French polished, burnished,
holy-
stoned even ; had been reviled and sworn into perfect
cleanliness, before General Shortall was taken down the
ranks. With a scowl of distrust, as though each private
was busy hiding some breakage or stain, and might, after
all, skilfully evade detection of his crime, the general
walked down by a row of chests and faces, pried into but-
tons, twitched open cartouche-boxes, mad pulled at straps
sourly, then walked up a row of backs, poked, probed as if
ho were making a surgical examination, and finished off a
line with au air of disappointment. Colonels and captains
walked with him in agitation. In the evening General
Shortall was to dine with the mess ; so also, was Sir
Charles Longman, the generic territorial person of quality,
and one or two gentlemen. It was a sort of little festival.
The general, in a grudging sort of fashion, had allowed
some commendation to be wrung from him, in which the
words "CfliCiGilt" and "soldier-like" were distinguiehable.
So there was a weight of care off the minds of the superior
officers, Like two kings at a conference, Sir Charles Long-
man and General Shorten met on the rug, as at a free
town. Colonel Ifenhow presented them to each other. The
gene. al said he had known a Longman in "my old regi-
ment" in Jamaica, and Sir Charles, promptly fixing his
glass in position, and painfully investigating the general all
over, said, doubtfully, "that he—er—didn't know." They
went into dinner thou, in a sort of clanking procession.—
"I'Vever Forgotten," in Charles Dickens's All the Thtr
Round."

MANCHESTER, Aug. 30.—The market has been
very firm. A fair business has been done in ship-
ping yarns, but it falls short of what had been an.
ticipated after receipt of the very favourable tele-
grams to hand here yesterday from the East. There
has been a good deal of enquiry for yarns suitable
to India, it is true, but it has not led to much bus:-
fleas. A little business has been doing for Germany
and also for the markets of the Levant. Although
the market for these yarns is not so brisk as it was
hoped it would be, yet a wrong impression might
be conveyed if it was not stated that it has recovered
a'good deal from the extreme depression felt at the
commencement of lest week. The market for home-
trade yarns is also a good deal steadier to-day, and
there has been rather more business than could be
effected last week, but spinners are rather free sel-
lers at about last week's terms. Sellers say, though
things are better than last week, still there is not
a good business going on—people do not buy freely.
Spinners have been offering yarn rather freely, and
it is thought this may be a reason why buyers hold
back. Sellers in the cloth market are a good deal
disappointed, like those in the yarn-market, that
the India telegrams received yesterday have not
produced a better effect. The advices were so
decidedly bettor that they were in hopes buyers
here would be induced to enter the market more
freely, but this has not been the case. Buyers are
not only quiet, but seem indisposed to make offers
to any extent. Some little business has been done
in light T cloths, shirtings, and madapollams,
chiefly for Bombay, to meet immediate require-
ments; but there has been no general desire to buy
manifested, and offers that have been made, as a rule,
were at prices too low to be accepted by manufac-
turers, who still hold pretty firmly to their quota-
tions. The general feeling of the market to-day
shows some little improvement, and some sales have
been made for various quarters, but they have been
The aggregate business of the day has been
considerable in amount, and the improvement in
prices very small. As a rule, the prices of cloth
may be quoted as about in the same position as last
week.

LEEDS, 30th.—There has been a numerous attend-
anfee in the cloth halls to-day, though only little
business has been done. To some extent buyers'
operations are prevented by the scarcity of some
kinds of goods. Superfine plain cloths can scarcely
be met with, and the best unions are so rarely offered
that there are cases in which an advance of 6d and
63-cl per yard has been gladly given. As to wools
and blacks and blues, the dearth is such that ac-
tually goods of that description have been bought
in the West of England to enable merchants here
to supply orders of pressing importance which had
been received. Of seal skins, black and brown,
tbere,is likewise by far too small a quantity to en-
enable buyers to enter into transactions with confi-
dence. The demand for such goods is not by any
means exhausted, but the manufacturers regard the
fall trade as over, so far as they are concerned, and
will make no more such heavy cloths except to
special order. Their occupation now is principally
the preparations of samples for the spring trade, and
already sample ends in some variety have been for-
warded to the merchants. It appears quite evident
that fancy diagonals in mixtures for mantles will
occupy a prominent position in the trade of the next
season. For men's wear there are out different pat-
terns of fancy coatings, but it is the opinion of come
petent persons that more plain goods will be worn
next spring than anything else, notwithstanding
that they will be extremely dear, both because the
raw material has commanded the highest prices at
the sales, which close to-morrow, and because indi•
go is an ',important article in the dyeing process,
which has greatly increased in price. There have
been some deliveries to-day of double milled wit-
neys, pilots, &e., from the White Cloth-hall, but the
demand for winter goods will now gradually be-
come extinguished.
NOTTINGHAM, 30th.—Business was quiet at this
exchange hall to-day, and there was only a small
attendance. The improved advices from Liverpool
caused sellers to ask full rates for lace yarns, but
only few transactions were effected. Hosiery
yarns met a quiet sale, and previous rates were for
the most part made. In silks not much change to
note. Brown nets a slow sale, at about previous

prices.
ROCHDALE, 29th.—There was a good market
to-day for flannels, and the manufacturers aro able
to secure the full prices of last week. The greatest
demand is for middle and low qualities, of which
there is little stock in the hands of producers. The
manufacturers of both plain and fancy goods are
fully employed. Yorkshire goods sell well, but the
high prices demanded rather check sales. The local
wool trade is active, and prices very firm.

THE RELATIONS BETWEEN SPAIN AND ITALY.—
A Turin letter of the 25th says:—" Within the
last few weeks the relations between Spain and Italy have
assumed a more friendly character. You are aware that
the two Governments have each a chargé d'affaires, who
constantly maintains official intercourse with the court to
which ho is accredited. Not long since a consular agent
of the Kingdom of Italy, in a small town in Spain,
thought proper to put over his door the words Italian
Consulate,' instead of Consulate of King Victor Ilar-
manuel.'. The Spanish (..;onservative party were greatly
irritated by this change, and a complaint was addressed
to Queen loabellit's Government. Some rigorous measure
was expected, and certain parties did all they could to pro-
voke it, but the Spanish Ministry gave proofs of its tole.
rant spirit by taking no notice of the affair,• and the in-
scription put up by the consul still remains. This fact,
though of little importance in itself, neverthless indicates
friendly dispositions on the part of the Spanish Govern-
ment," •

TRIAL TRIP OF A STEAM RAM.—We learn by
electric; telegraph that an unofficial trial trip of the Scorpion,
one of the Birkenhead rams, was made yekierday. The
speed attained was about 12 knots an hour. She answered
her helm splendidly. The results are coneidered e.-iegedivglY
eatiElactory,