The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-04 00:00:00

THE ROYAL VISIT TO READING.

itThe Ist of July has now been definitely fixed upon by
the Reception Committee for the Prince of Wales to lay
the foundation stone of the new Grammar School. _ The

Mayor and Corporation will meet the Prince on his ar-
rival at the Great Western Railway station, and present
an address. Then a procession will be formed, which
will march to the school grounds. On the grounds
the Berkshire Volunteers will be drawn up as a guard of
honour. The ceremony will be performed with Masonic
honours, and the whole of the Sunday school children will
take part in the proceedings. For the musical portion of
the ceremony the Reading Philarmonic Society and the
Grenadier Band have been enlisted. On the ground the
Bishop of Oxford will offer up prayer, and the singing of
the " Hallelujah" chorus will bring the proceedings to a
clese.

THE CHARGES AGAINST THE MASTER OF

BRISTOL WORKHOUSE.

At a meeting of the Bristol Guardians, to-day, a letter
was read from the Poor-law Board, stating that, on con-
sidering the evidence adduced at Mr. Longley's recent
investigation into the serious charges against Mr. Groe-
torex, master of the Bristol Workhouse, they had no
alternative but to ask Mr. Groetorex to resign his
appointment.

HOCKING ACCIDENT AT NORTH fiHIELDS.

Yesterday morning a gentleman named Henry Twizell,
aged forty-eight, destroyed himself at North Shields. It
appears that he got out of bed about two o'clock, and
shortly afterwards his wife heard a noise. On going to
the passage outside the room she found the deceased with
his throat cut in a • frightful manner, and a. table knife
covered with blood lying near the spot. The deceased was
a shipowner, and a son of Mr. J. Twizell, of North Shields,
He leaves besides his wife a family of seven children.

SUDDEN DEATH OF AN OXFORD GRADUATE.

Captain G. F. Lamert, 8.A., of Worcester College,
Oxford, expired suddenly at his residence in Beaumont-
street, Oxford, on Thursday. He held the important office
of Master of the Apollo University Lodge of Free-
masons last year, and took an active part in the Masonic
festivities at the commemoration.

The Cotton Brokers' Association of Liverpool will I de-
cide next Friday, whether any alteration is to be made in
the declarations of cotton to arrive.

The City of Ragusa, a boat two tons burthen, twenty
feet long, in which two adventurous gentlemen purpose
attempting to cross the Atlantic, left Liverpool early
yesterday morning for New York.

THE MONEY MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocx.

The application list for shares in the Northern silver,
Lead, and Blonde Mining Company (limited) will close on
Tuesday next,

The directors of the Cape Copper Mining Company yester-
day received tenders from the shareholders for the surplus
new shares, and the highest tender was from one share-
holder to take the whole number available at £l7 Os. 6d. per
share, and they were consequently allotad to him.
Notwithstanding that business has not been extensive,
the tone of the Stock Exchange generally has been firm,
and a further improvement has taken place in the quota-
tions, especially as regards foreign bonds. Consols have
been rather steadier, at 920 to 92i ex div. for delivery, and
924 to 93 ex div. for the 6th of of July. Reduced and New
Three per Cents., 92g to 92g. Exchequer Bills, par to 58.
prem. Bank Stock has marked 234. India Five per
Cents. have been done at 1111 ex div.
Foreign bonds have been dealt in to a fair extent, and
the movements of prices have been favourable, Hon-
duras have risen 1; Peruvian (1865), ; Spanish, and
Turkish 5 per Cents., Portuguese, however, have been
rather easier. The new Peruvian Loan is quoted at
to 2 prem. ; and the new Spanish at 3 to 32 prem.
For English railway stocks the market has been de-
pressed. There has been a pressure of sales, and prices
have given way. Caledonian shews a fall of , Great
Northern Aof 1, Great Western of London, Chatham,
and Dover of and Metropolitan of
The shares of the Devon and Somerset Railway Com-
pany are quoted at 1 to 2 prem.
Bank shares have been steady in value, but the demand
has not been active. Telegraph shares have been dull,
but without material alteration. Telegraph Construction
shares have fallen 1.

The directors of Hooper's Telegraph Works recommend
a dividend of N. per share being at the rate of 15 per
cent. on the paid up capital of the company. The remain-
ing call of grper share will be deferred.

Mr. John Balguy, of the Midland Circuit, has been
appointed a stipendiary magistrate for Staffordshire, at a
salary of £BOO a year.
VISCOUNTESS BEACONSFIELD.—Mr. Disraeli's
wife is a lady of great force of character and many accom-
plishments. On one occasion she drove with her husband
to the House of Commons, where he was to deliver an
elaborate address on an important subject. As he left
the carriage he flung the door to behind him, and her
fingers, which were in the hinge, were crushed to a jelly.
Repressing even a groan till he was out of sight and hear-
ing, lest the accident might discompose his thoughts, she
then ordered the coachman to drive to a surgeon's, and
submitted to a severe operation.—New York Tribune.

Governor Haight, of California, has received a
letter from the Premier of the Colonial Government of
New Zealand congratulating him upon the opening of the
direct steamship communication between the two States,
and saying, " I can assure you that the inhabitants of
New Zealand view with much pleasure the prospect of
close an;? friendly relations with the inhabitants of Cali-
fornia, t which they anticipate the mail sdrvice will lead
They hope, moreover, that commercial results, beneficial
to both countries, will arise."
NEW YORK AND STETTIN.—The North German
Correspondent says that the project for establishing a
direct steam communication between Stettin and New
York is progressing favourably. The direct service will
be kept up by four steamers, two English and two Ameri-
can. The new vessels are to be about 300 feet long, and
capable of containing from 700 to 800 passengers. The
first is to be completed and safely delivered at Stettin by
the 20th of next March, and the second four weeks later.
The company will bear the name " Baltic, Lloyd, Stettin
and American Steam Navigation Company.
THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA AND TILE KING OF
PRUBSIA.—The official press of Berlin have stated that
the visit of the King of Prussia to Ems is only an act of
courtesy, but other interpretations have been put upon
it. It is said that the Russian Government regards with
a jealous eye the fortifications which Prussia has built in
the Island of Alsen and on the coasts of the
Baltic. Prince Gortschakoff did not conceal
from Count Bismarck the annoyance which
his Government experienced at the prospect of
Prussia attaining the command of the Baltic, to which
Russia would wish to have a free access. As the Vice-
Chancellor of the Czar has not followed up his observa-
tions with any definite policy, King William has made
many friendly protestations to the Emperor, doubtless in
the hope of preventing any more energetic remonstrances
on the part of Russia.

The London correspondent of a Manchester paper
says : We adjourned, I need not now be ashamed to
say, to go to the Derby. Mr. Gladstone's ,presence on
the Downs on Wednesday sets us all at ease on that point.
I am told by a friend who was on the Gran 4 Stand that
the presence of the •right hon. gentleman. excited the
greatest interest and curiosity among the halitues. With
great prudence he had placed himself in the charge of
Lord Granville, who is, I need not say, as much at home
on the racecourse as he is everywhere else, and who
piloted his chief through the crowd with the most
assiduous and amazing care."

FREE AND OPEN CHURCH.—At a meeting of the
Lnndon Free and Open Church Association, the treasurer
reported that, at a meeting which he attended on the 12th
ult. for promoting a new church in the parish of Hoxton,
he had proposed a resolution expressing the sense of the
meeting that all the seats should be free and unappro-
priated, which resolution was carried unanimously. Also
that the new rector of an important rural parish in the
London diocese had abolished the pew-rents which had
been illegally collected in a chapel of ease in the parish,
and was taking steps to make the chapel free from appro-
priation of seats.

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