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ritEFERENCE SHARES.
Great Eastern, E. Counties, Ext. No. 1, i 0.5
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 6 per cent. stock,
flhto, 4i per cent., Blackburn put, 10,
PREFEMENCE SHARES AND STOCKS.
London, Brighton, &c., 44 per cent., 1858, 1001
Metropolitan 5 per cent., Mk 5

LINES LEASED Al' FIXED RENTALS.
London, Tilbury, and Southend, 104
Midland Bradford pret: stock, 94;

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Pali la and San Francisco (lim.) gua. 7 per cent., 171
Sambre and Meuse, 7i

FOREIGN MINES.
St. John del Rey (lim.), 12i
Yudananuttana of S. Australia, lim., 23 i

BAN
Agra and United Service (lira.), 131
Alliance tin,. 61
Bank of Egypt, 2)1
Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and-Chins, 10
Commercial Bank of India,
Ditto, issued at 10 pm.,
Consolidated Bain:, lira., fig
Continental, Um., 171
Imperial Ottoman, 19g
Land Mortgage Bank of India, Urn., 51
London Bank of Scotland, lira., 161
London, Buenos Ayres, and River elate,
i new, 61
London Chartered Bank of Australia, 23,1
London and Colonial 21 213 I
London, Hamburg, Cont. Exchange, 191
London and Nortnern, lira., 23
Merchant Bank, .im , 21
Mercantile and Exchang.e. Bra., 191
kie:ropolitan and Provincial Bank, lim., 191
Oriental BaTIK corporation, 591
Scinde, Punjab, and Delhi, Wm, In
Standard of British South Africa (HMO,

Ditto (.£2 ,), 3
Union of A ustralia, 551
Ditto, new, 43
Union of London, 58

MISCELLANEOUS.
Canada Corn any, Sol
Ceylon Company, 2.1
Company of African Merchants, Em.,
Continental Union Gas, lim.,
Copper Miners of England, pl. 7. per cent., 21
Credit Fowler, 15}
Crystal Palace, 6 per cent. perpctl. deb, 110 11
Egyptian Com. and 'trading, Lim., 41
Electric Teleg-raph, lt2
Fore-str. et Warehouse, 1im.;61
Italian Irrigation (Canal Ca, our',
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Ditto, 6 per cent. Bonds, redem, 1870, issue 90, 87
Joint Stock Discount, iim., 7i
Land Securities, 1 m , 5
London Financial Association, Dm., 27
Mercantile Credit Association, ltn., 13}
Royal Mail Steam, 91
Societe Finareicre d'Egypte, Rm., 5}

The last rehearsal for the Great Choral Festival
of 3,000 voices, to be held at the Crystal Palace on
Wednesday nest, took place on Saturday. The
programme WiLl consist of twenty anthems, choruses,
some of which are for
four treble parts,
eLoraiFs, pert bong-, &a.,
and will be sung by 1,000 voices
to a Part. Mr. G, 11r. Martin is the °inductor.

THE YELVERTON CASE,
HOUSE OF LORDS.-THIS DAY •
YELVE hTON V. LONGWORTII (OR YELVERTON).

This morning a largo numbc.r of Peers, in addi•
tion to the law lords, were present, it being known
that the case for Major Yelverton (the appellant)
had been closed, and that the case of the respondent
had been entered upon. •
The Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, Lord
Kingsdown, Lord Chelmsford, and Lord Wensley-
dale, took their Beats at 20 minutes to 11.

Tne Attorney-General said he had to discharge a
most anxious and important duty. It was not ren-
dered less so by the manner in which the case had
been presented to their lordships by his learned
friends. In such a case as this counsel were placed
in a much better position than their clients, for,
however scandalous and gross might be the asper-
sions cast upon the respondent—
Lord Brougham (interrupting) said most empha-
tically that he had reocived a letter from one of the
witnesses in the case. He could of course take no
notice of it beyond saying that it was highly im-
proper for any one to write to a peer, who was one
of the judges, in such a case.
Tae Lord Chancellor expressed his assent.
The Attorney-General said the best way for
counsel to meet such aspersions and misrepresenta-
tions as those to which he had alluded was by en-
deavourieg to pat the truth simply without
trick or disguise before there who were pri-
vileged to judge. That was what he desired
to do. He could not do otherwise than look
in the face the abominable representations of his
client's conduct and motives throughout these
melancholy transactions. He could not but know
that the case he was to meet was one which ime
puted to his client from a very early period gross
corruption on the part of the respondent towards
the appellant for the worst of purposes. That was
what had been imputed to the respondent by the
person who stood before them in the position of ape
pellant. In milder language, that view of the ale•
pellant's conduct had been adopted by the Lord
Ordinary in this case. He did not find that the
Lord President had committed himself to such
opinion, and he had to maintain the cor-
rectness of the view of the facts which
had been presented by the two other judges, Lord
Curriehill and Lord Dees, who were of opinion
from first to last that the motives and conduct of
the respondent were pure, and such as became a
lady in her circumstances. He should succeed in
proving to their lordships that there was no founda-
tion for the base and unworthy motives which had
been imputed to her. It would be a step towards
the proof that there was no foundation for the claim
which his learned friend had urged before their
lordships. It would be important for him to exa-
mine the facts applicable to the period which Fre-
ecded the first visit of these parties to Scotland.
As these were Lets simply and totally unconnected
with law, he would endeavour to place before their
lordships snme few details of the history of the
correspondence which had taken place between
them. He should adopt for his text the words
which had been used by Lord Curriehill. The
!earned gentleman went at some length into Miss
Longworth's early history. She was brought up
in the Roman Catholic religion, in a convent. She
had a great taste for music, was well skilled in
painting, and was very fond of poetry. This last
circumstance being indicative of the frame of mind
she has constantly exhibited in her correspondence.
They would find in those letters indications of a
mind imbued with the poetry of Tennyson, Long-
fellow, Shelley, and other poets of our time—a
dreamy poetry, consisting of sentiment tinged with
intellectuality. Of this class of poetry her mind
was ex idently full. Her taste was highly
cultivated and developed, but was evidently
not furnished with any real knowledge of
the business of the world. At the same time
it was clear that Major' Yelverton was addicted
to intellectual pursuits—not pursuits indeed as
those which engaged Miss Longworth's mind. They
both professed a knowledge of mesmerism or clair-
voyance, but whether or not either of them believed
in it it was of coarse impossible for him to say.
Major Yelverton was also a man who was accus-
tomed to throw over conventionalities, and this
accounted to a great extent for the apparent free•
dom which existed between them. (the learned
gentleman read some extracts from the earliest
letters which passed between the parties in confir-
mation of that view. He also pointed out that
Major Yelverton first addressed .her by her Chris-
tian name, while for a long time afterwards she
addressed him by his surname in the usual
way between persons not thoroughly acquainted.
It was not until he remonstrated with her at calling
him my dear Mr Yelverton, that she spoke of him
by his Christian name., After this ho called her
.Hiss Longworth again, and then came some playful
correspondence, after which they called each other
by their Christian name, as appeared in the corres-
pondence). Their lordships would clearly perceive
from these facts on which side the familiarity rested.
There was throughout these earlier letters a great
deal of badinage, and it was curious to see how
these innocent expressions were seriously torn to
pieces by the judges in Scotland, oue of whom (the
Lord Ordinary) had sail that Major Yelverton
had declared to the respondent that he was a con-
firmed bachelor, because in one of his letters he told
Mils Long worth that he had no " intended," and
that he was bound to an arm-chair at the United
Service Ciub, Was anything so extravagant as
this ? What knowledge of human nature on the
part of a man in high official position. All of course
Major Yelverton meant to say was, that there was
nothing in Miss Yelverton's way except the arm-
chair at the Club, and he asked with some concern,
whether such matters were to be determined in
courts of justice by persons who judged in such a
way. This arm-chair was a constant subject of
joking between them, and clearly had no serious
meaning about it. At length Miss Longworth wrote
a serious note to Major Yelverton, communicating
to him the death of her father, and then Major
Yelverton began to make serious advances to her,
and asked her if she 'thought that hereafter on
meeting egain—" shuffiA up in the pack," as he
expressed it—they would recognise each other
from sympathy, if not from personal recollection.
He did not wish to put upon this passage more
than it meant; but he aid wish it to bear what it
meant, and that meaning he thought was clear
from the passages which followed, as well as from
other expressions in the correspondence which fol-
lowed. The learned Attorney-General read many
passages, contending that the charge of grossness
which had been imputed to her in connection with
them was not sustainable.

Tne learned gentleman was proceeding with his
address when their lordships rose.

TOTTENHAM AND HAMPSTEAD lUNCTON RAIL-
WAY.--A special general meeting of this company
was held at No. 1, Poeta' Corner, Westminster, yesterday,
in accordance with the standing orders of the IIo•ase of
Lords, Captain Arrow in the chair, for the purpose of con-
sidering, and, if thought fit, of approving, the provisions
of the following bill now pending in parliament :—" A bill
for authorising the Tottenham and Hampstead Junction
Railway Company to make railways to join the Midland
and Great Eastern Railways; and for other purposes." Air
Toogood, the solicitor, having read the heads of the bill, the
chairman, in moving the formal resolution approving of the
bill, congratulated the proprietors on having possession
of a lino from which the meat;important results for the
future might be anticipated. Mr. Reed seconded the
motion, which was agreed to,and the proceedings terminated.
SOMETHING LIKE A WORD.—Chinese Literature
is making way in Germany. Here is the pleasant name of
a handbook for the use of students, juA published at
Frankfort :—" Han ts wenfachoukouangtsongmou ;
theca Sinologica, ale Wegweiser zur Sinologischen Lite-
ratur."— The Reader.

GUM ENGLISH WORD " HUMBUG" has beenengrafted into the Getman language. " Nicht alles is
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GUARANTEED LOAN TO NEW ZEALAND.—Yes-
essay
in the Nagazin fiir die
terday a return was made to Parliament of various papers
relating to a proposal that Parliament should guarantee a
loan of £1,000,000, to be received by the Government of
New Z eland to meet the expenses arising out of the native
war. The last of the number is a letter of Mr F. Peel,
written train the Treasury Chambers on Wedn.-sday last,
the substance of which is that in the opinion of their lord-
ships the rare and peculiar combination of circumstances
which is necessary to justify a guarantee of a loan contracted
for a colony exists in the present instsneo,