The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-29 00:00:00

EVENING, JUNE 29, 1F69.

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.

Cloeing thisineme
Share NAME. Paid. Price. done
10 Agra Limited, A all 10 101
10 Do B lO 31 34 3}
50 Albion l5 8 7
00 Alliance, Limited
20 Anglo Austrian
20 Anglo-Egyptian, lien all 201 211
20 Anglo-Hungarian
20 Auslo-Italian 13GG, limited 10 51 41
40 Australasian
20 Bank of British Columbia all 10 1:
20 Do issued at '2 5 4
25 Bank of Egypt
20 Bank of Otago, lint.
25 Bank of South Australia all 30 32
50 Bank of Victoria, Australia '25 37 39
10 Bank of New Zealand an 1 i 17
50 British North American
20 Chartered of India, Austra-
lia, nd China all 18 10 He
25 Chartered Mere. of India,
London, and China all 32 33
20' City
100 Colonial 25 38 4O
10 Consolidated, lint.
50 Delhi and London, lint 25
50 East London, lien 5 21 11
20 English and American, him 10 ...
20 English Bank el Rio &Ma-
neiro. lim lO pr 1p
20 English, :_-cottish, and Aus-
..

tralian Chartered
281 Hong Kong and Shanghai
Balk Corporation an 36 38
281 Do now 54 2/ 21
100 Imperial, lim 2O 15 16,,
20 Imperial Ottoman lO 21 21 12
25 lonian all 19 22
25 Do new 5 8 8
Lnd Mortgage of lutlia' lim 4 31 31
100 Do 5 p. c. Debs.lB64, 30 all 76 76 88
100 London Batik! of Mexico
and South America, Rm. 20 7 6
100 London and Brazilian, Hut 45 80 27
20 Do new 74 5 41
100 London & River Plate, Hui. 40 6 8
25 Do new 10 11 2 p
20 Loudon Chart. of Australia all 231 244 23J ,
20 London and County 2O 4111 501
60 Do new, iss at 20 p.m, 16 pd ll ...
Loudon Joint Stock—. 1 311 821 3:
London and South African al 8: 5.
100 London & S.-Western, lim, 20 13 11
60 London t Venezuela, Hai_ 121
100 London and Westminster. 20 61 62 61
100 Do Scrip, iss at 10 pm 2O ...
100 Merchant, lim 25 6 5
10 Metropolitan, lim.
00 Midland, lim..
5 National of Australia
25 National of Liverpool, lim. 15 3d alp
00 National I'rovinc. of Eng'd
10
10 National. 3O
20 New South Wales all 41 43
20 North-Western
25 Oriental Bank Corporation all 41 42 41
50 Provinc. Bank. Corpo., lim lO 64 81
30 Provincial of Ireland 25 90 92
10 Do new. all •••
100 Stand. of Brit. S. Africa,llm 25 14 1.1
100 Do issued at 6pm lO 8 6
25 Union of Australis, all 47 43
100 Union of Ireland, lim
50 Union of Loudon

TELEGRAPH COMPANIES.

10 Ariao-Americau 'AI., Hui all 20S •!0-i 201
10 Anglo Mediter Te1.,1ina.... 10 13i 14}
at Atlantic Telegraph lO 20 •.:2
St Do. S per cent.
at B. and I. Magnetic Tel., lim lOO 168 173
at Electric & Inter. Telegraph 100 250 255
10 Do. New 8 it 13)
25 Indo-European Tel., lint lO ...
...
5 Lond. Provincial Tel. lint all 3} st 31
1 Do. Prefer. 10 per cent all i i p
10 Mediterra. Exteu. Tel., lim all 4 41
25 Reuter's Telegram all 65 6i 70 89
10 Societe Transatlant., Um— all 18/ 19 10
et Submarine Telegraph
1 Do. Scrip all ii 1 i
20 Telegraph Con. & Main.,lim all 201 z 1
5 U. Kingdom Tel. Co., lim all 61 64
5 Do. 10 per cent. Pref all 4 t
. 4xp

DIISCELLA3

10 Anglo-Mexican Mint all 141 151
25 Australian Agricultural
25 Australian Mort. Laud and
Finance, lint.
10 Baugarah Tea Estates, Rm 9 3 51
10 Berlin Water Works, lint all 14 11/
10 Do. Now 6 3 4.
100 Bolckow Vaughan, limn.
5 Bombay Gas, lim.
5 Do. New 4 1! ad
5j British American Laud 44 15 17
20 British Indian Tea, lim all 21 31
20 British Ship Owners 7'
29 Canada Company all (A; 71
10 Canadian Loan and Invest-
ment, limn 2l .. ...
20 Ceylon Company, lim.
20 Do. A shares
10 City Discount, limn 6 ___ _
25 City of Loudon Real Pro-
perty, lim 9 5.1 411
30 City of Milan Improv. lim all 5 6
25 City of Moscow Gas, lim all
50 City Offices, lim 25 27 261
50 Colonial, lim.
Do.
50 Commercia: 'Mimi (Assur) 5 pr s p
10 Company of African Mer-
chants, limn.
20 Continental Union Gas, limn all 20 21
25 Copper Miners of England,
pref 71 per cent.
100 Corporation of Loudon
Bonds, 1877, 41 per cent. all 1031 1011
100 Do. ' 1879, 4; per cent. all 1011 105.1
100 Do. 1882, -li pet cent. all 1041 1011
10 Credit run. of England, lint. all 21 2/ 21 1
50 Credit Fou.of Mauritius lim lO 31 21d
st Crystal Palace lOO 22 24 23
st Do. Preference lOO y , to ;
st Do. Gp. c Pet petual Deb. 109 108 112
20 Darjeeling, lint.
I 0 Eastern Assam, limn.
50 East Indian Land Credit

and Finance, Ern. -1 411
20 East India lrriga. & Canal all „.
32 Ebbw Vale Steel, lrou, au&
Coal, lint.
100 Egyptian 9 per cent. V'roy.
Gus. by Egypt. Cloy all 15 151 151
20 Egyptian Cum.& Trail. lim C
3 Eng. & Austral. Copper, lint 21
15 English and Foreign Credit 71 41 3,(1
100 Eng. and Scot. %. urine, lint. 8 ... ...d
10 Fairbadru Engineering 5 3 2tl
20 Fore-streetWltrehouse,lint l2 1 2 p 131
100 For. & Cul. (loy. Trust and

Loau Scrip, issued at .685 all 871 881
80 Gellivara, lim.
10 General Credit & Die., line. 71 11 11 6 1
15 General Steam Navigation 11 27 22 2 1
50 Home &Col Marine In. lieu. 5 2. 4id
10 Hong Kong and China Gus all ...
20 Hudson's Bay all 121 121
20 Imperial Laud CO. of Mar-
seilles, Bin.
20 Interus.FinancialSoc. hut. 5 2 11 3j
20 Interns,. Land Credit, lien 6 6 4d
50 Italian Land 5 Id p
20 Italian Irri. (Canal Cavour) all 3 31
100 Do. 6 p. c. Bds., redeem
1870, issued 80 ...... all 65 67
50 Land Securities, ........., 5 21 lid
25 London African Trading lO 7 5.1
25 Lou. & Caled. Marine, inn 6 ... ...d
10 London County Land and
Building, lim. ............ 4 ...
50 Lond. Financial As so., line 30 23 %I
4 Lond.Gen.Omnibus.Cu.lhu. all 2 21
50 Loud. and Glasg. Engineer

and Iron Ship, lim. 25 21 161
20 Lond. & Provincial Marine 2 11 pr
at Madras Irriga. & Can]. Gua.
.5 p. c. by India Gov. lOO 104 106
10 Mauritius Land, Credit, and
Agency, 1im...... ........ 11 11 Id
50 Merchant Shipping, all 32 37
80 Millwall Iron Works, him 121 ...
10 Natal Laud end Colonisa-
tion Co., lim. 9 7 6 d
25 National Discount Co., lim 5 11 llf
25 National Prov. Marine, lies. 4 ...
10 National Steam Strip, lira, all 91 101
20 Nerbudda, Coal & Iron, Rm. 6 3} 3d
10 New Consolidated Dis. lim. 3 If
5 New Quebrada, lim. .... . .A. 4.0 41 4
25 New Zealand Loan & Xer.
candle Agency,lim ........ 2l 1 IP
25 New Zealand Trust Lnd
Loan, lim 5 11 11
30 Northern Assam Tea, nm, 5 7 5
10 Do. B
et" North Brit. Austral., Ihn... 100 48 51
56 North Brit. & Moreau. 61 V 191
25 Ocean Marine (Insuraree) 5 13 14
50 Oriental Financial, 11 ...
5 Oriental Gas, lim.
5 Do. New 1 t 1P
10. Otago and Southland In.
vestment, lim
•• id 11)
5 Ottoman Gas, 1im...,., ~ 1= 2i
10 Panama, New Zealand, and
Australian R. Mail lim
5 Do do. ............ 1 0
at Peel R. Land & Miner', lim 100 31 34
50 Peninsu. & Oriental Steam all 48 50
50 Do. New 1867 ......... 10 lid 01
50 Rhymney Iron ............... all 22 24 251
1 Do. New .............. all 61 7 7
Ina.,lins all 17 18
Gas, lim all 21 6
100 Royal Mail Steam
2 Rio dpeo.l.aneiro City
Scottish Aust. Invest., lim. 100 78 83
Do. 6p. c. Guar. Pref. 100 ... .
Societe Fin. d'Egypte, lim. 10 7• ga
Societe Gen.de l'Empire Ot. 8 2/ 31
50 S. African Mort. & Inv., lim. 6
25 South Australian Land
20 Thames and Mersey Marine

. - -
(Insurance), inn 2 21 3
20 Trinidad Petroleum, lira Bl
10 Trust & Agency of Aus.,lim 1 .1
'y
10 Do do. do. all
20 Trust &Loan Co., U. Canada 5 ip 5 4
50 Uuion Marine L'pool, Jim 5 4.1 5 p
20 Union Steam Ship, lim all 22 24
15 United Discount Corp., lim 6 11 id
20 Universal Marine(ln.), lira 5 it 2 p
10 Upper Assam Tea, lim. all 11 2
30 Van Diemar's Laud
100 Viceroy of Egypt, 7 per
cent. (Mortgage) Loan all 82 821 821
50 Warrant Finance, lim l2 11 104
50 West India and Pacific
Steam, lim 2O 4 2
20 West London Wharves and
Warehouses

6oLoril.a.L GOVOIikihINNT 81CCUILITIXIS

Ilritiab Columbia, 0 per
..... 100

180

- Can.Gov.6p.o.Jan.v&July
1877-84
Do. 6p. o 7eb. & Aug lco 102 106
Do. sp. c. Mar. & Sept lOO 102 104
Do. 6p. o. Jan. & July lOO 68 00 931 41
Do. sp. c. Inscribed sk ICO 90 92
Cape U. Hope, 6 p. 0.1873 lOO 102 101
Do.Apl.&Oot 16904900 lOO 111 113
Do. do 1880-90 lOO 107 109
Do. Jan.&July, 1891
Do. 5 per cent. 15 April
and 16 Oct., 1900. ..... . 100 98 !CO
- Ceylon, Nov 1878,0 p.c lOO 108 116
Do. 1872, do lOO 105 10/
Mauritius, 6 p. 0, 1873,
Jan. and July . lOO 104 106
Do. 1878 DO 106 IOS
Do. 1882, May and NC%
Do. 1895, Feb. & 10 106 108
- Melbourne Corporate.,
1,607.;:), 6 per colt. 'CO 100 100
N.8.G0v.6 p.o.Ja.&July
Natal 6 p et, Apl& Oct OO
Do 6p a. 513 y & Nov 1 0 It 6 108
N. S. W. 5 p•c., '7l to '76 lOO 99 i• 1
Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1896... 103 vbl 991 ICOI
Do. 5 p.c. rd.'67 to '75
N.Zealaud, 6p. 0t.1891 lOO
Do. 5 per cent..
DoJan, Ap•l, .1 uly, 0 t lOO 93 94 951 4:
Da 6p o. Mar & wept '9l :00 108 1101
Do J atte & Dec , 1-91 ICO 109 ill
IDo l'rov., 1 Auceld. 1 1.0
1 &2, 1tt05...
nova Scotia 6p. o.Jan
ani July, 1675
- Ito ISt6. . ....... . 100 I'2 1(4
Qu,Tusind. s p..c. 100 1071 tCBI 11 1
. Do 18,J.
Tasmanian 6 per 0.1895 ,. 061 1071
Do ..95'97 . . 100 1151 It.?
Victoria 6t er cent.l39l lt,o 115 6
Do. April and Oct ~9a 111 lt 2

SPIRIT OF TILE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The Times, in referring to the Lords' amendments, ob-
serves that anything like recasting the Irish Church Bill
from the beginning is quite out of the question. Anything
conceived on such a large scale as to come under the defi-
nition of concurrent endowment is equally hopeless.
Anything involving permanent relations in the nature
of a Concordat between England and the See of Rome
would be at once repudiated by the national senti-
ment. But those who go on to say that the verdict of
the. country at the hustings has pronounced against a
modest proposal to erect residences and to assign glebes of
ten acres with them to the Presbyterian and Roman
Catholic clergymen as an equivalent for equal benefits
retained to the clergy of the Disestablished Church speak
without any warrant from facts. In truth, the evidence
in favour of the Duke of Cleveland's proposal
increases every hour, while the argument in favour
of its policy has never been met. The Tines believes
the Duke's suggestion will appear on reflection
to possess the greatest recommendations with the
fewest drawbacks. It is moderate. It is just. It
excites to passion. It would induce no prolonged con-
troversies. It would involve no protracted relations
between the commissioners and the religious communion:
of Ireland. The commissioners would be authorised to
receive applications from parishes where the ministers of
religion possess no house and glebe, and upon proof of the
truth to supply ascertained deficiencies. The religious
communions of Ireland would remain afterwards as
before, entirely free and unaffected by State alliance or
State control, while all vestiges of predominance and
inequality would have vanished.
The Star discusses the propositions of concurrent
endowment, and believes that when they come to be
seriously considered, the proposals to give the Irish priests
and clergy churches, residences, and glebe lands, or the
residences and glebes without the churches, will be found
impossible expedients. It would be far easier to remit
the building charge of the Irish Church clergy out of
goodwill and favour than attempt to shield the
.process under cover of a general endowment.
The history of the present movement has
been strangely forgotten. To judge from the new
praises of levelling up, and the ardour of some peers in that
course, there is little enough memory of the time when
" levelling up '' and " disendowment" were the opposing
watchwords of party conflict. But the causes which made
so much turn upon the opposition of these watchwords are
as potent as ever they were. The Roman Catholics of
Ireland are still demanding religious equality through dis-
endowment, and not through the opposite process. The
Nonconformists of England and Wales, the Presbyterians
of Scotland and Ireland, and the most ardent defenders of
the Irish Church itself, are all bitterly hostile to indiscri-
minate endowment, and especially to the endowment of
the Roman Catholic Church. However the fact may be
disliked, the sentiment of the people of the United King-
dom is arrayed in the most unmistakable manner
against the course which finds so much favour.
That it animates the best part of the Opposi-
tion, as well as of the Government majority, makes
the proposal a certain failure, but the Liberal majority is
so composed that the Government must resist it to the
uttermost. Nut only the Dissenters, but the voluntaries
among their supporters, are sufficiently numerous to make
any favour shewn to indiscriminate endowment the cause
of a fatal breach in the party. There has been quite
enough grumbling as it is at the alleged favour shewn to
Maynooth in the arrangements of the bill. To go farther
and give the priests parsonages and glebes, to encourage
in this way the " teaching of error," would deprive the
Liberal party of all confidence in its leaders.
The Standard -says that it is ail-remit to conceive any
living man carrying his memory back to such days 01
cruelty aid horror as were described by the Lord Chan-
cellor at the Haberdashers' Hall banquet to the judges on
Saturday evening. Most of us live in times so different,
under laws so changed, and surrounded by a social spirit
so utterly in contrast with that of fifty years ago, that
we are apt to exaggerate the distance between ourselves
and them. Yet younger persons than Lord Hatherley
might recall to mind similarly fearful scenes enacted in
the name of civilised justice. The Lord Chancellor told
his audience that once, hen a. boy, he was present in
the Central Criminal Court when seventy-five persons—
men and women—were condemned to death in a batch.
Not all were to be hanged, and many of them knew it—
knew that their lives were to be spared, N.:bile others were
to be inexorably left for execution. These laughed and
gibed as they passed out of the dock at their more
miserable fellows in crime who were sure to die. No
more frightful pcture, no more humiliating illustration of
human nature in its lowest state, could be imagined. But
it was in the nine teenth century, nevertheless. It seems
a dream to us now, as remote from our practical thoughts
as the eontre.versies of the schools. Yet these Draconic
statutes were not r, periltd wholly on grounds of
humanity ; they were only abolished when they
lost their meaning and had ceased to operate.
The Consolidation Act of a few years ago swept
them clean off the statute book, so that the letter of the
law has been purged not less than its practice. But it is
as well that we should be reminded now and then about
the monstrosities of which our civilisation was capable,
not so long ago hut that a living Lord Chancellor can
remember being a spectator of those awful scenes, and can
tell of them, as an eye-witness, when responding to a
toast at a civic banquet.
The Telegraph thinks that it is so far satisfactory that
the attention already drawn to the case of Overend,
Gurney, and Co. has cleared up a little doubt which at-
tached to one or two points, and has aroused some of the
public to comprehend the extreme importance of the
issues at stake. Dr. Thom has all along intended to con-
duct his own case, and will appear before the Lord
Chief Justice on Friday—not as a last resort, merely
because the Government has declined to aid him,
but in pursuance of his original design. The re-
solution does the public-spirited gentleman great
credit, but it by no means lessens the responsibility of
the Government or the public. It is not by amateur
labour, however zealous, that the prosecution can be
exhaustively carried out, and a satisfactory decision
reached ; and a possible failure through well•intentioned
mistakes is as unpleasant to contemplate as the absence
of any trial at all. To obtain the means of effectively
carrying on the case is therefore indispensable; and we
are glad to see that the fact is beginning to be recognised.
Mr. Darby Griffith offers a subscription of £lOO towards
the costs ; and there can be little doubt that his
sentiments will be shared by many who have been
less prompt in giving them utterance. It depends,
then, on the disposition of the public to follow the example
of Mr. Griffith, whether the prosecution shall have full
justice done to it or not. It is to be hoped should other
means fail, that it is not yet too late for Mr. Bruce to
interfere, and thus to arrest the grave scandal which must
arise if the most important commercial prosecution which
our time has witnessed fail through mere misadventure.
Effectively handled, whatever its results, the trial would
place on record one of the most valuable representative
cases which our judicial procedure has yet supplied for the
guidance of the mercantile world.

The Daily Nears declares that the money epidemic seems
to be clearing London society, as twenty years ago the
potato disease swept away the population of Ireland.
Just as the East and its speculators are beginning to
fancy that they see the dawn of a calm day, a storm,
growing rapidly to the dimensions of a hurricane, has
burst upon the astonished West. What is to be the end
of the fashionable crisis? In the mercantile crisis the
ruin began at the other
,end of the system. The great
dealers in money-lending and discounts suddenly fell to
pieces, and with them fell the companies they had
created, the enterprises they had fostered, and all
the minor traders in speculation who had lived by
picking up the crumbs that fell from their table.
In the fashionable difficulty the case has been
inverted. The customers and the borrowers have
gone first, and it remains yet to he seen whether
those on whose means they floated will not join them in
the great maelstrom where they are whirling, or will
contrive to keep a footing outside and save themselves
alive. What effect will these events have on the Turf,
and what has now, unhappily, become the soul of the
Turf—the Ring ? The Ring, it may be presumed, whether
it goes with a crash or dwindles away from want of sus-
teeance, will be eliminated from the racing system. When
this change has taken place we may possibly see the old
character of racing restored as it existed when Lord
Derby, Lard Exeter, Lord Glasgow, Lord Palmerston, and
General Peel were its leading patrons, and when men of
wealth and position did not shrink from running horses in
their own names ; but if not, we indulge a hope that we
shall not much longer see the names of noble gentlemen
bandied about like shuttlecocks in discreditable contests
in courts of law, which drag into the strife even their
wives and their mothers.
In referring to the recent catastrophe in Hosier-lane,
the Herald says that such silent slaughter in the midst of
a great city, on a Sabbath evening, strikes the mind
almost with a feeling of awe. That a whole family should
be thus swept off in a night—the man in the prime of his
his days, and the babe as it lay in the cot—is an incident
which may well excite unmitigated horror. Such a merci-
less sacrifice of human life would seem to demand
some overpowering motive. Yet, in this case, we can
trace nothing but the exaggerated impulse of insanity.
Still there was enough of reason to enable the man—at
some time or another—to indite a couple of letters, duly
directed and posted, es if in relation to the most ordinary
affairs of every-day existence. When such hideous tra-
gedies as this start up in the midst of our busy life it prompts
the question whether, by some mysterious derangement of
the intellect, the most amiable and affectionate of men
may suddenly be transformed into the most ferocious
murderers and determined suicides. Does it only need
the brain to be unduly wrought upon, whether by
physical agony or by overwork, or by the mere pressure
of care, in order for the husband to slay wife, children,
and self—quenching the tire upon the hearth as with a
deluge of blood? We are inclined to believe that deeds
so murderous and monstrous, even where insanity is
present, are not wholly unconnected with previous
degeneracy of character. Suicide may be perpetrated
by the best of men in a moment of hallucination ; but we
would fain hope that the wise and virtuous do not become
as demons the niomeht reason totters on its throne. The
frequency of murder and suicide in the present day seems
to us to indicate a moral as well as a mental and physical
cause. It may be a moot question, but we are inclined
to think that even insanity does not wholly obliterate
character. It is a dark subject, and eight corpses in one
house make it a matter of rainful interest,

IMPERIAL PARMA MENT

HOUSE OF COMMONS—This D.Y.

The SPEAKER took the chair at two o'clock.
DIFIIISONMENT FOIL DEBT BILL.

On this bill being considered, the ATTORNEY-
GENERAL moved the insertion of a clause waking the
act applicable to the Vexatious Indictment Act, and to
provide for the case of a justice of the peace becoming
bankrupt or arranging with his creditor, in which event
be should become incapable as a justice of the peace for
five years. -
The next clause was agreed ti.

Mr. Sergeant SIMON moved the omission of the first
paragraph iu clause 5, which instituted an entire new sys-
tem of jurisprudence. The enactment of the fifth clause
perilled a man's liberty, for the proviso, as it stood on
affidavit, might be cooked up in an attorney's office be-
hind the unfortunate man's back, and thus he might be
kept in prison for the space of 40 cloys.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL opposed the motion.
The cause had been discussed three times by the house
in committee, and the object of it was merely to sustain
the county court jurisdiction which was extended by the
bill to the superior courts. If the clause was omitted he
thought they might as well give up the bill and take nu
further trouble in the matter.

Mr. HADFIELD thought it would be worth the while
of the custodians of the public revenue to pay many of the
misLrable debts of a few shillings for which people might
be sent to prison under this act, rather than incur the
expense of maintaining the poor creatures in prison for
the term sot out in the act.

Afte: a short discussion the proposition was negatived.
[LEFT SITTING. I

HOUSE OF LORDS.—LAST EVENING.
The Lonn CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.

Lord REDESDALE presented a petition from the
Governors of Christ's Hospital against the Endowed
Schools Bill.

The Poor Law Act Amendment Bill was read a third
time and passed.

THE ENDOWED SCHOOLS BILL.

Earl DE GREY and RIPON moved that this bill be
read a second time. He thought their lordships would
agree with him that the present state of many of the en-
dowed schools in this country was not in a satisfactory
condition. The bill proposed to carry out certain preli-
minary work—to examine into the condition of the
schools, and to arrange the authority under which they
were to be governe(L

After some conversation tho bill was read a second
time, and
Their lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMNIONS.—LAST EVENING.
The SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock.
THE TELEGRAPH BILL.

Mr. GRIEVE asked the Postmaster-General whether it
was the intention of the Government to bring in a bill to
carry out the provisions of the Telegraph Act of 1868.
The Marquis of HART INGTON stated that a bill was
prepared, and would shortly be submitted to the house for
the purpose of providing for the transference of the tele-
graphs to the Government. A clause would be inserted
to give a monopoly to the Government as at the Post-
office.

Mr. GOURKE asked the Attorney-General whether, in
the event of the house agreeing to the secand reading of
the Dublin Freemen Disfranchise! cent Bill, it was Lis in-
tention to bring in a UN to dis!'ranchisi the ward of the
borough of BradfJrd respecting which Mr. Baron Martin
has reported to the Sp..alter that, being '• inhabited prin-
cipilly by Lishmen of the working class, large numbers"
therein "were influenced by corrupt practices" at the: late
election.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL answered in the nega-
tive, the two cases, in his opinion, not being at all similar
(Hear, heir.)
THE BXNKRU'I'FCY BILL.

This bill was real a third kiln° and passed, amid loud
cheers from the NEuisterial side of thb houie.
THE CIVIL SERVICE ESTIMATES.

Mr. CANDLISH. rose to call attertiou to the imperfect
audit of the public acamuts, and to the failure of the
departments to l:ty their aecouuts before the Auditor-
General.

The hozlse then went into Committee of Supply on the
Civil Service Estimates.

A number of votes relating to Royal palaces, the public
offices, Sc., were agreed to, and the house resumel.
After a desultory discussion, several bills wore formally
advanced a stage.
The house then adjiurned.

DECISION UNDER. THE BETTING ACT.

At the Marlborough-street Polite-court, yester-
day, Mr. T. Hawkins, tobacconist, Oxford-street,
who wa: charged with keeping and using his house
as a betting-house, contrary to the 16th and 17th
Vict., cap. 119, appeared before Mr. Tyrw•hitt to
learn the decision of the magistrate.
Mr. Beard appeared for the defendant.

The evidence was to the effect that the police
went to the defendant's house, asked the price of
horses, and, having offerel to make bets, were told
to go outside the shop, and on doing so they made
bets and gave money to the defendant. They also
made bets in the shop, and received money which
they had won by betting.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—•l adjourned the case when before
me last week as I wished to look into the law, this
being the first case of the kind before me. I am
now prepared to give my decision. The Betting-
house Act, 16th and 17th Vict., cap. 119, passed in
1853. After a long abeyance recent events appear
to have revived its action. That its enactments may
be put in force against the class of smaller offenders
is evinced by the present prosecution, but little
more can be said for the instituting it, for the
Legislature seems to have contemplated establish-
ments where, as a matter of (regular money-hunt-
ing trade or business, betting was carried on sys-
temically in the ways descriUed in the act, and have
accordingly attached corresponding penalties of
large amount. Thus in many of the cases where
magistrates in the north have convicted under
this act, regular betting-house tackle has been
produced in evidence, such as a business like
array of account or betting books, with receipts
or documents in the nature of " assurances to
pay or give hereafter money, &c., on an event
relating to a horse-race" (the words of the act).
Now, in this case the close search of the whole
premises produced only club subscription cards,
telegraph messages, and memoranda relating to
them, with one solitary card, headed " Newmarket
Craven Meeting." We must not exclude that evi-
dence when we come to consider that of the detec-
tives, who bought cigars from the defendant, and
afterwards offered to bet, leading him on to
take their bets at first elsewhere, and on a later
day, one or two in the shop itself. Ido not say
that a cigar shop, or any other shop, may not be
brought within the act if the surrounding circum-
stances showed distinctly that the trade was only a
blind for the real business of the place, if that real
business was the " using" that shop for the purpose
of the occupier betting with persons resorting thereto
for that purpose. But is there here sufficient evi-
dence to show that any such colourable keeping
of the shop existed ? and, on the whole, I think
there is not. Putting an end to betting pure and
simple has not, I apprehend, been attempted by this
act, nor does it seem to have contemplated a bet
with a person who buys a cigar in a shop, and by
thus making the shopkeeper's acquaintance in-
duces him to bet, but was intended to repress
the mercenary pursuit of gain on a business
scale by ,4 opening places as betting-houses or
offices in the way of gaming-houses" (the words
in the preamble). However, if acts of betting con-
tinue to take:place in any part of the defendant's
premises they will afford strong evidence of the
place being used in an illegal way. I therefore
caution the defendant as to his future conduct, but
dismiss the charge. I have arrived at this conclu-
sion after some doubt, but without affecting to lay
down anything out of this case ; it is enough to say
that it does not appear to me to be one which were
I to convict my decision would be confirmed on
appeal to the sessions.
Charge dismissed.

THE FOREIGN MAILS.—The number of letters
passing through the New Ycrk Post-office during the
last fiscal year amounted to 11,128,532, an increase of
830,298 over the preceding year. Of these 5,228,223 an
increase of 212,392 were received, and 5,900,307, an in-
crease of 587,906, were forwarded. In 1868-69 the groat
steamship companies carried 9,532,252 let:ers, distributed
as folews :—Cunard line, 2,880,553 ; German Lloyd,
?,664,258 ; Inman, 2.063,862 ; Hamburg, 1,600,387 ; French
Direct, 323,292. The number of letters received from
tud forwarded to the principal countries with which corre-
,pondence is maintained by the United States is as fol-
lows: —Great Britain, 4,680,822 ; France, 1,799,949 ; Bre-
men, 1,416,412 ; Prussia, 1,104,216 ; Hamburg]; 899,242 ;
West Indies, 647,055.

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