The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-26 00:00:00

THE LORDS' AMENDMENTS.

The Lords' amendments to the Irish Church Bill are
increasing rapidly, and now occupy ten printed folio
pages. Beside those already published, and which have
been placed upon the notice-paper by Lords Grey, Russell,
Colchester, and Shaftesbury, there are others moved by
the following twelve peers :
Earl RUSSELL (additional)amendment to the effect that,
upon the application of any owner, declaring that he wishes
his lands to be liable to their present rent-charge in
whole or in part, in perpetuity, it shall be lawful for him
to obtain an order from the commissioners, distributing the
rent-charge payable after January 1, 1883, in whole or in
part, either to the clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal
Church or the minister of the Presbyterian Church, or
the priest of the Roman Catholic Church officiating in
the parish wherein the rent-charge arises, or to all of them,
in such proportions as he may deem fit ; and the deed
providing for such distribution shall be registered in the
Court of Chancery, and be of perpetual force and
obligation.

Archbishop of CANTERBURY proposes several amend-
ments. The first is to substitute 1872 for 1871 as the date
at which the bill shall come into operation. The second
is to provide that the new commissioner shall be a member
of the Church. The third proposes to substitute the
second year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth (1560) for
1660 as the date from which private endowments shall be
exempted from the operation of the Act. The fourth inserts
a provision by which the commissioners shall be empowered
to take historical and other evidence as may seem
to them to be satisfactory (although the same may not be
legal evidence) as to whether any property is a private
endowment. The fifth orders that when any land becomes
vested in the coinmissi oners which has been appropriated
as glebe land by royal grant, or letters patent, since moo,
the commissioners shall, on the application of the pro-
posed representative body, made within six months after
January 1, 1871, vest such property in that body, subject
to any life interest subsisting therein.
Archbishop of YORK proposes a new clause in lieu of
the 23rd. The effect of the alteration will be that any
archbishop, bishop, cathedral dignitary, or beneficed
clergyman may, during the year 1871, apply to }Lave his
life interest or annuity, exclusive of pew rents and burial
fees, commuted for a capital sum ; the cmnmutation to
be based upon tables approved by the Treasury in accor-
dance with 27, 28 Viet., c. 43, and to be calculated
upon the value of the property after deducting all rates
and taxes other than income tax, and to include the benefit
derived from fines on the renewal of leases taken on an
average of fourteen years preceding 1869. The com-
missioners are to pay the amount, together with an
additional sum of 25 per cent. to cover contingencies
and risks, to the representative body, and that body
is to pay either the annuity or its commuted value.
Upon the capital sum being paid the annuity of the
applicant shall cease, and his estate and interest shall
vest in the commissioners.

Archbishop of DUBLIN proposes six amendments:—
First. In calculating the compensation to be paid to
incumbents no deduction shall be made for the salary of a
permanent curate, as is now provided. Second. All that
portion of the 14th Clause which relates to the investiga-
tion respecting what constitutes a permanent curate is to
be omitted. Third. The present clause, providing for
the payment of compensation to curates, is to be omitted,
and in lieu of it there is to be a clause whereby any
curate, serving as such between January 1, 1869,
and January 1, 1871, and shall not subsequently
have accepted duty out of Ireland, shall have a gratuity of
£lOO for every year during which he has served, but the
amount is to be not less than £3OO nor snore than £1,500.
Fourth and fifth are verbal amendments of the fifteenth
clause. Sixth. In case of any alteration being made in
the articles, doctrines, or rites of the Church by the repre-
sentative body, they shall not be binding upon any
ecclesiastical person who may dissent therefrom viithin six
months, and such dissent shall not disqualify him from
receiving compensation.
Bishop of PETERBOROUGH proposes amendments whereby,
in estimating the compensation to be paid to incumbents,
the commissioners shall deduct the tax now paid to Eccle-
siastical Commissioners in Ireland, but not the payments
made to diocesan schoolmasters, visitation fees, and other
payments for the maintenance of registries and eccle-
siastical courts and charges under the Drainage Acts.
Another amendment orders that where the income of an
incumbent is estimated to be less than £2OO a year,- the
annuity paid to him shall be £2OO a year.
Duke of CLEVELAND proposes that the commissioners
shall be authorised to build parsonages, and to attach
thereto ten acres of glebe land, in all parishes where the
Roman Catholic priest or the Presbyterian minister has
no suitable dwelling.
Marquis of SALISBURY wishes to omit all that portion of
Clause 27 after the word "thereon" (line 33, page 13),
which compels the clergy to pay for their parsonages.
Earl GRANVILLE: proposes to add the following pro-
vision to the clause giving compensation to lay patrons:—
f' Provided always that where any person would, but for
the provision of the s'atutes affecting Roman Catholics in
reference to conformity to the Established Church, have
had at the passing of this Act any such advowson or rikjilt
of presentation vested in Lim, be shal be entitled to com-
pensation for such advowFon or right of compensation in
the same manner as if the same were then actually vested
in such person."

Viscount LIFFORD makes the same proposal as the
Marquis of Salisbury with regard to ecclesiastical resi-
dences, and would also have the commissioners ascertain the
cost of the erection of churches or meeti ig houses and manses
by the Protestant non-conforming congregations of Ireland
in receipt of the Regium Donum, and pay over the
amount to trustees. He proposes also to grant glebe
lands to Roman Catholic p iests and Presl yterian
ministers.

Viscount CLANCARTY prep-s-s to allow the 1 resent
occurants cf Irish sees to reta!n the'r seats in the House
of Lords even after the passing of the bill.

Lord Fox Foul) (Earl of Limerick) proposes-that when
the commissioners purchase the surrender or assignment
of any subsisting lease or tithe rent charge, made by an
ecclesiastical person or corporation, they shall deduct such
sum in the poundis Las been paid on the average fur
Door rates during the five years preceding.
Lord CAIRNS. The amendments moved by the leader
of the Opi:osition are very numerous, but are (excepting
one) less important than those moved by other peers. His
first proposed alteration is that the bishops, clergy, and
laity of the Irish Church shall be empowered to meet in
general assembly or convocation by representatives from
the different dioceses, and shall frame regulations for the
government and for the property of the Church and the
future representation of the Chunh in diocesan
synods. The persons to represent the Church in the
proposed representative body arc to be chosen by a
majority at a general assembly or convocation fairly
representing the bishops, clergy, and laity of the Church.
Then comes a very important amendment, well-
nigh the moa important of all that have been
proposed. The bill, as it stands at present,
allows the newly-constituted representative body to hold
lands, notwithstanding the Act of Mortmain, " to such
extent as is in this Act provided, but not further or other-
wise." Lord Cairns would omit the words quoted, and so
wholly repeal the Act of M ortmain so far as the Irish Church
is concerned. Lord Cairns then proposes a new clause which
renders any alteration of the articles, doctrines, or rites
of the Church which has been sanctioned by the newly-
constituted body binding upon all the members of that
Church in the same way as if they had contracted to abide
by the same, such observance to be enforced in the tem-
poral courts ; and every clergyman shall be subject to the
.authority of his diocesan in the same way as though the
bill had not been passed, but the bishop is not to have
any coercive jurisdiction. The other amendments worth
mention are one providing that in the el ent of any eccle-
siastical estate being sold by the commissioners, the
purchaser shall respect all tenants' rights of renewal to
which the lands were subject at the time of sale ; and one
ordering that, in the event of a vacancy in any bishopric,
benefice, or cathedral appointment, the net income shall
be paid over to the representative body, who shall make
provision for the discharge of the spiritual duties attached
to the vacant preferment.

His Royal Highness the Field-Marshal Com-
manding-in-Chief will hold a levbe at one o'clock on Thurs-
day, the Ist July. t
THE NOTTINGHAM ELECTION.—A dinner was
given on Thursday evening, by some of the Liberal party
in Nottingham, to celebrate the return of Mr. Charles
Seely, jun., to Parliament. In the course of the evening
gr. W.A. Richards, Mr. Seely's election agent, said that.
he had bad experience in Nottingham elections for many
years, and could state that no purer election had ever
taken place in that borough than that which resulted in
the return of Mr. Seely. Referring to the future, Mr.
Richards said that he had very little doubt that at the
next election Mr. Bernal Osborne wmald be sen to Par-
Lament as the colleagne of Mr. Seely.
CRIMINAL - STATISTIC:3.-111C number of criminal
offenders committed for trial in England and Wales in 1868
was 20,091, of which 13,033 terminated in convictions and
5,015 in acquittals. In the previous year the numbers
were—committed, 18,971 ; convicted, 14,`207: acquitted,
4,741. It would appear, therefore, that crime in England
and Wales had increased in 1868. In Scotland, in 1868, the
number of criminal offenders committed for trial was 3,384,
against 3,305 in 1567 ; the number convicted was 2,490,
against 2,510 in 1867 ; the number acquitted was 297, against
277 in the previous year. In Ireland the cornmitthls last
year were-4,127, or 434 less than in 1867 ; the convictions
mere 2,394, or 339 less than in 1867 ; and the acquittals
were 1,709, or 94 less than the previous year.' In Ireland
there has been a considerable decrease in the number of
ariminikkOmWititarad otthctedi

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SPORTING PROPHECIES.

LIVERPOOL, CHELMSFORD, AND WORCESTER
MEETINGS.

" BELL'S LIFE."

Liverpool. —Molyneaux Cup—Myosotis. Trial Handi-
cap—Rejoinder or Portugal. Welter Plate —Marshal NeY
or Pantaloon. Croxteth Flying Stakes—Myosotis. Juve-
nile Plate—Performer or My Honey. Great Lancashire
Produce Stakes—My Lady or Highclere. Maiden Plate--
Emerald or Antietam. Earl of Sefton's Plate —Myosotis.
Bentinck Handicap —Emerald or Ellen the Fair c. Nur-
sery Handicap —Eskdale. Liverpool Cup —The Spy or
Ploughboy.
Chelmsford.—Sweepstakes of 10 sous—Pate. Chelms-
ford Handley —Warlike or Wild Flower. Great Baddow
Stakes—Nightingale's selection. Nursery Handicap—
Fusee or Amel:a f. Town Handicap—Kingsley.
Worcester.—Worcestershire Stakes—Avoncourt or
Winifred. Flying Stakes—Marshal Ney or Gipsy
Coventry Stakes—Sparkle or Hollandaise.

" THE FIELD."

Liverpool.—holyneaux Cup —Victress or the Spigot
Lodge representative. Croateth Flying Stakes—Sou-
brette or Rejoinder. Trial Handic•p -Portugal or Kelvin
Grove. Welter Plate —Kammertou or St. Valentine.
Liverpool St. Leger —Biair DrummJnd. Produce Stakes
—My Lady. Juvenile Plate—Petforaler or My Honey.
Earl of Sefton's Plate—Landscape or Alyosotiq. Bentinck
Handicap—Emerald or Whinyard. Stanley Nursery Ilan-
dieap—Eskdale or Queen of Beauty. Shorts Handicap—'
Pantaloon or Soubrette. Welter Cup—The Maze or
King of the Fab ies. Maiden Plate—Produce or Antietam•
Liverpool Cup —The Laird or The Spy. Nursery Handi-
cap—Enfield or Miss Whip c. Stamford Plato—Dawdle•
Scurry Welter Handicap—Otampagne Charlie or Sagit-
tarius. All-aged Plate—Antietam or Produce.

Chelmsford.—Chelmsford Handicap—King Victor or
Jove. Great Baddow Stakes—Wedding Chimes or Miss
Merry weather. Nursery Handicap —Blanche or lbster.
Hyland's Plate—Tornado or Court Card. Town Handt-
cap —Adjutant or Kingsley.
Worcester.—Worcestershire Handicap—Silenus or Wini-
fred. Croome Handicap—Bonnie Katie or Fancy. Boy
Grand Stand Plate —Official Assignee or Mando. Flying
Stakes—Minnie Warren or Malcolm. Worcester Cup--
Bedivivus or Cock of the Walk. Coventry Stakes - Hol-
landaise or Whiteley c. Bentinck Benevolent Fund Stakes
—La Sorrentina.

" THE ERA."

Liverpool.—Produce Stakes—Hengist or My Lady.
Juvenile Stakes—Performer. Molyneux Cup —Mr. Payne e
selected. Croxteth Flying Stakes—Perfume. Trial Han-
dicap—Honestish or Kelvin Grove. Welter Plate—Ham"
merton or Fitz william. Earl of Sefton's Plate--Islam or
Myosotis. Bentinck Handicap—Emerald. Maiden Plata
—Antietam. Stanley Nursery Handicap—Castanette
Liverpool Cup—Acaster or Bete Noir ; Tabouret for A
place.

Chelmsford.—Chelmsford Handicap —Chapel Royal or
Wild Flower. Chelmsford Nursery Handicap—Kenning-
ton or Hester.

Worcester.—Grand Stand Plate—Gipsy. Croome Han-
dicap—lslam or King Richard. Worcestershire Stakes--
Silenus or Ligurian. Great Worcestorshire Stakes —O
cial Assignee. Flying Stakes—Lana. Worcester Cur-
Make Haste or Redivivus. Bentinck Benevolent Fund
Stakes—Sulky Bet. Coventry Stakes—Hollandaise or
Lorelei f.

" SPORTING LIFE."

Liverpool.—Liverpool St. Leger—Beautiful Bird or
Blair Drummond. Produce Stakes -My Lady. Welter
Plate—Pantaloon. Molyneaux Cup—Stork; in his absence,
Myosotis or Good Hope. Croxteth Flying S takcs—Per-
f ume. Juvenile Plate—Performer. Grand Stand Stakes
—Melaine. Earl of Sefton's Plate—Patrician or illyosut►s'
Maiden Plate—Emerald or Antietam. Bontinck Plate--
Emerald or Python. Stanley Nursery—Catamaran or
Soucar. Shorts Handicap—Soubrette. Welter CUP"-
Remus. Liverpool Cup—The Spy. Nursery Handicap--
Eskdale. All-aged Plate—Emerald or Antietam. Stein-
ford Plate -Patrician or Good Hope. Scurry Welter Han-
dicap—Robespierre.

Chelmsford.—Chelmsford Handicap—Court Card or
Joseph Dan son's representative. Great Baddow Two-Yr--
old Stakes—Zaccheus. Chelmsford Nursery—Fusee;
Hyland's Handicap—Court Card or Joseph Dawson 11;
representative. Town Plate—VielettA.

"SPORTING GAZETTE."

Liverpool.—Molyneaux Cup—lslam or George Osbal-
deston. Croxteth Flving Handicap—Perfume. Juvenile
Plate—My Honey. Produce Stakes—My Lady. Maiden
and All-aged Plates—Emerald or Antietam. Liverpoo
Cup—Acaster or TLe Spy.
Chelmsford.—Chelmsford Handicap—Chivalry or The
Skipper. Great Baddow Stakes—Miss Merryweather or
Birdie.

Worcester.—Worcester Handicap —Silenus. Croo►ne
Handicap—Ben Block or Fancy Boy. Grand Stand Plate
—Gipsy Great Worcestershire Stakes—Lady of Lyons.
Flying Handicap—Malcolm. Worcester Cup—RedivivuS
Coventry Stakes—Hollandaise.

" TfIE SPORTSMAN."

Liverpool.—Mo!ynenx Cup—Lady Henriette or Islanl•
Crostetli Flying Stakes -Stork or Perfume. Produe3
Stakes—My Lady. Liverpool Cup- Romping Girl, The
Spy, or The Liird.
Ctudinsford.—Two-yr-old Sweepstakes—Pate. Chelms-
ford Handicap—The Skipper or Court Card. Great B"cl-
dow Stakes—Wedding Chimes or Mss Merryweather•

"SPORTING TIMES."

Liverpool.—Trial Handicap—Vulcan. Molyneaux CeP
—Myosotis. Juvenile Plate—My Honey. Produce Stakes
—My Lady. Maiden Plate—Emerald. Liverpool Cur-
The Spy ; The Laird and Ploughboy for places.
Chelmsford.—Sweepstakes of 10 sovs—Pate. Chelms-
ford Handicap—Court Card, The Skippar, or Mars. Great
Baddow Two-yr-old Stakes—Atlas. Nursery
Queen of Hearts or Kennington. Hyland's Plate —Gear
Card. Handicapt

Worcester.—Worcester Stakes —Bloss's representative
Worcester Cup—Edinburgh.

" THE BEACON."

Liverpool.—Molyneux Cup—Myosotio, Punishment, or
Messenger. Croxteth Stakes —Pantaloon or St. Valentine.
Produce Stakes—My Lad/. Welter Plate—Marshal Noy
or Pantaloon. Liverpool Cup—The Laird or Bete N°ll.'
Chelmsford.—Chelmsford Handicap—Warlike or Court
Card. Great Baddow Staks —Wedding Chimes. Chelius"
ford Nursery—Hester or Miss Merry weather. T°lrrt
Handicap—Falstaff or Kingsley.
Worcester.—Worcester Handicap—Winifred. Croonl°
Handicap—Emerald or King Richard. Grand Stand 1713t3
Goojerat or Gipsy. Flying Handicap —Election or gar.
colra. Worcester Cup—Redivivus or Needle Gun. Bell:
tinck Benevolent Fund Stakes—Wellington or eroojer3"
Coventry Stakes—Hollandaise.

" SUNDAY TIMES."

Liverpool.—Liverpool St. Leger —Beautiful Bird, -Ml'
or Blair Drummond. Produce Stakes—My Lady. 'e':
ter Plate—Pantaloon. Trial Handicap—Rejoinder or
Portugal. Molyneaux Cup —Victress. Croxteth Flyinb
Stakes—Perfume. Juvenile Plate—Performer. Earl
of
Sefton's Plate—Vex or Islam. Maiden Plate—Antietam'
Bentinck Handicap —Professor Anderson or Rauud6*
Stanley Nursery Handicap—Vintner. Shorts Handicap'
King of the Rovers. Welter Cup—King of the Faille°.
Liverpool Cup -Ploughboy or The Laird.
Chelmsford.—Great Baddow Stakes—Wedding Chime'
Chelmsford Handicap—Wild Flower. Chelmsford Nursery
Handicap—Kennington. Town Handicap —Kingsley
Hyland's Handicap Plate—Harebell, Court Card, or Dicril-
ing Star.
Worcester.—Worcestershire Stakes—Silenus. Groom°
Handicap—Bonnie Katie. Grand Stand Plate —Actrea
Gipsy. Great Worcestershire Stakes—Manalo. Flying
Stakes—Luna or Malcolm. Worcester Cup—Silenus
of
Cock of the Walk. Bentinck Benevolent Fund Stakes--
Actrea or Goojerat. Coventry Stakes—Hollandaise.

THE DERBY AND OAKS FOR 1871.--The conditions ot
these races aro advertised in this week's Calendar. The
entries for now yearlings close on the Tuesday after the
ensuing Newmarket July meeting.
THE WHlP.—This ancient turf trophy may bo challenged
for on July 13 next, and, if accepted, will be run for on
Tuesday in the Second October Meeting, lOst each, Beacon
Course, 200 soya each. Mr. Chaplin is the present bolder'
As an instance of the success sometimes attending
"patched-up" horses, the Hackler, who "broke down" at
the end of last season, and was fired by Mr Condon, may b 9,
mentioned, as he has won three races since the operation..
Sir G. Chetwynd's colours are—Dark blue, and yelloW
hoops.
Aldershot Races are altered to Friday acd Saturday
July 9 and 10.
Number Nip was struck out of the Northumberland
Plate at 2.25 on Wednesday.
FORFEIT LlST.—Gordian Knot's forfeit has been Paid'
3 soya of Lochiel's arrears have been paid.
Mr Glenville sold Ttuubler to Mr Sill for his running at
Stockbridge. The price did not transp:re.
Prince S'oltykoff has named his yearling colt by Knight
of Kars out of Mavourneen, The White Knight.
Soucar, after winning the Selling Sweepstakes at Stock-
bridge, was sold to Mr Brayley for 400 guineas.
YORK SPRIXG MEETING.—On Friday, at a meeting of
the Race Committee (John Roper, Esq., in the chair), it
being reported that in consequence of Newmarket Sprin,
being fixed for the first week in May, Chester Races had
been appointed for the second week, it was determined
that the York Spring Meeting should be held on Tuesday
and Wednesday, May 17 and 18. It was also resolved that
the Z2tlitud Stakes, for two year olds, should have 200
sous added ; and a new two year cld plate for 100 sovs,
given by the committee, to be run for on the second day,
was also determined upon. These attractions are likely
to bring large fields of " the youngsters," who, according
to the regulations of the Jockey Club, cannot now rue
before the month of May.
The 'Lewes and Croydon First Spring Races will take
place, as usual, between the Newmarket Craven and First
Spring Meetings.
Romping Girl ran in the colours of her new ovrner, Div
Chaplin, in the Wallop Plate at Stockbridge.

MONEY MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.

Consols are fit mer to-day, at 921 s for money ;
ditto, for Account, 93 ; Three per Cent. Re-
duced, 921 i-; New Tkree per Cents, 92i 4 ;
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 5 prem.; ditto £lOO,
£2OO, and £5OO, par; Bank of England Stock, 4
per Cent., 243. . _

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India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, shut ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1111 ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 1001 ; ditto Enfaced Paper, 51
per per Cent., 1101 ; ditto Bonds under £l,OOO,
10 prem.
In the Foreign Market, Turkish Five per Cents.
are 44 to 441 ; ditto Six per Cents., 67 to 671 ;
Spanish, 294 to 30 ; Charkof, 781 to 78,1; Orel,
80f to 804 ; Peruvian, 791- to 791 ; Mexican, 121
to 121; Italian, 55- to 56i; Egyptian (1864), 88
to 89 ; ditto (1868), 78i to 794. ; Argentine, 804
to 811 ; Brazilian, 82 to 82f ; and Portuglese, 35
to 351.

American Five-Twenty Bonds are 801 to 801.
In the Railway Market Caledonian are 771 to 78 ;
Great Eastern, 381 to 381 ; Great Northern, 108 to
109 ; Great Northern (A), 1081 to 1081 ; Great
Western, 501 to 511 ; London and Brighton, 441
to 45; London, Chatham, and Dover, 161 to 17+ ;
London and South Western, 89 to 91; Metropo-
litan, 971 to 98 ; Midland, 1171 to 1181.
The sum of £70,000 in gold was taken to the
Bank yesterday.
Advices from Frankfort state that the long con-
tinued activity on the Bourse has at length sub-
sided, and that the market presents distinct symp-
toms of being overstocked, particularly as regards
American descriptions, which are largely in the
hands of speculators, waiting for the investments
likely to be made when the July dividends become
due. Mr. Walker, from Boston, is now negotiat-
ing at Frankfort for a 5 per cent. Massachusetts
loan, but objections are made to the price upon
which he insists. The issue of 5 per cent. Lombard
Bonds at 90 in Vienna currency, equal to 73/ in
silver, has been a great success, the subscriptions
having been largely beyond the required amount.
Austrian shares are heavy; Lombards remain firm,
being favourably influenced by sanguine expecta-
tions of the participation of the company in
the projected Turkish network of lines, al-
though as yet there appears little disposition to
engage in this affair, owing to its magnitude,
and the long time its completion would take, and
the consequent uncertainties in case of any dis-
turbance in the East while the works were in
progress. A subscription for the shares, it is said,
would have but a poor chance in Germany. The
influx of American bonds having ceased exchange
on London is a little lower ; but the Frankfort
bankers, generally well stored with long bills on
this city, " have been cleared of them, and thus
a very useful reserve has been absorbed by the ex-
tent of the vast speculation." 'The German corn-
markets are rising, unseasonable weather having
prevailed ; but there is as yet, it is said, no appre-
hensions for the crops, and all would be set right
by a favourable change. The wine crop alone ap-
pears to be irretrievably lost. For the holders of
Elizabeth Railway shares, of which there are many
in England, it is mentioned that for the construc-
tion of new lines 15,000;000 florins will be raised,
10,000,000 by new shares and 5,000,000 by the
issue of preference stock. The holders of old shares
have the option to claim for three shares a new one
at 82, and for six a preference share at 86, both
payable in Vienna currency, 5 per cent. interest in
silver being guaranteed by the Austrian Govern-
ment. It is reported from Vienna that the Minister
of Finance is preparing some measure for paying
the interest of their bonds to foreign holders as
hitherto in the principal foreign towns.
In the colonial produce markets this week there
has been a steady demand without material change
in quotations. Refiners have taken a fair quantity
of sugar at firm rates, and several floating cargoes
have been disposed of. Some parcels of bright
grocery were sold yesterday at full rates. The good
and fine coloury qualities of coffJe have met with
more competition, and in many instances prices
have been in favour of the sellers, but common ani
grey sorts are still sold with difficulty uuless at
lower terms. East India of good character sold
well. The tea market has =tinned very quiet
throughout the week, and the transactions have
been extremely limited. The Indian sales werc
held on Tuesday and Wednesday, when pekoes went
heavily. In other kinds prices remained unchanged.
Moderate supplies of cocoa have been partly disc
posed of without alteration in value. Several car-
goes of rice have changed hands at higher rates,
but on the spot the market is quiet. White pepper
has been realised at prices slightly favourable to
buyers. In other spices there is no change.
The report of the Hudson's Bay Company, to be
presented on the 2d of July, states the profit for
the year to have been £71,533, against £54,874 in
the preceding year, and recommends a dividend of
Bs. per share, making, with the interim distribution
of 6s. in January, 14s. per share for the year against
12s. in the preceding year.
At the, annual meeting of the Ebbw Vale Com-
pany yesterday a dividend of 10s. per share was de-
clared, making, with the interim dividend, 17s. 6d.
for the year, leaving a balance of £6,259 to be car-
ried forward.
The Postmaster-General has concluded a con-
tract with the London, Belgium, Brazil, and River
Plate Royal Mail Steamship Company (Limited)
for the conveyance of mails, via Falmouth, on the
3d of each month, to Rio Janeiro, Montevideo, and
Buenos Ayres, returning from Buenos Ayres on
the 17th of each month. It is hoped that the City
of Brussels, which leaves Falmouth on the 3d of
July, will take the first mail.
Messrs. S. L. Halliwell and Brother, of Spring.
head Mill, Lees, nearth Saddleworth, have called a
meeting of their creditors. Their liabilities are
said to be small.

BRITISH FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES.I

GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
3 per. Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account, July 7
8 per Cent. Reduced 94 I
Now 3 per Cent
Now 2k per Cent. Jan. 1894
Do. 5 per Cen Jan. 1873 .. —
Annuities, SO yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880.
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 --
Do (Red Sea Televaph), Aug., 1908 —
Exahoquor Bills, £l,OOO, 24 & 3 per th,
Do .ClOO, £2OO & .£5OO .--
IVIIIIE of England Stock, 43: por Cent
Da. opening
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Canada 4 per Cent. Bonds
Inter-Colonial Omnntm

INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES:
Imiia 4.'10019 1O per °Out., April 1874
Do. Ononiog, for Account

Do. blper Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888

Do. Certificates _
Do. Enlaced rapt. 4 per C1int......
Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 ....3...
Ds). 5} per Cent. May 1879 llok
Da 5 per Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872 —
Do do 1877 —
Do. do. 1882 —

1.1..;. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 ~
Do. Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO —
Do. under £l,000
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent ... .
luitrian Bonds 5 per cent . —
Do. 1859 —
Brazilian 5 per Cent _
00. Ii per Cent. 1862
Do. do 1858.....
Do. • no. 186°
Do. do., 1863
Do. 5 per Cent., 1865
Do Account B2
B.lenos Ayres 6 per Cent.
DJ 2 per Cent.. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
Cuba, 6 per Cent.
C.i.i.an 6 per Cent —
I) i. 4 per C0nt.."... ........ ~..
Do. 3 per Cent.,
1,0. 6 per ce-t. 1867 97
Do. 7 per Cent., 1866
C lo übisu, 6 put. Cent.
Danish, 3 plc Cent., 1825....4...
Dan,,!.iiin Principalities, 7 ler Cent 79
Do S por Cent., 1867 92
Equalor New Consolidated, 1 per Cent.
Egyptian, 7 r C0nt...,. pe

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Po Second Issue
Do. .£SOL Bonds.
Do. 41.05) Bonds
Do. 1864
Do. Account
Do. L'..00 Bonds
Do. £lOO Bonds
Do. 7 per Cent., 1868
.. • 79} k

HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, June 25.

The Queen, accompanied by her Royal High.
ness Princess Louise, drove out yesterday after-

noon.

Her Majesty went out in the grounds this morn-
ing with Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and
Prince Leopold.

LATEST INTELL MENCE

(RElrEa's TELEGRAMS.)

AMERICA.

NEW YORK, June 25.

The North German Lloyd steamer Union, and
the Cambria, of the Anehor line, arrived out to-
day, the former at 5 p.m.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CLOSING PRICES.

Gold closed at 1371 ; the highest quotation dur-
ing the day was 1371 ; the lowest, 137.
Sterling Exchange on London 109,1.
5 20 U. S. Bands, 188)
" 1885 llBk.
" 1867 ll9l.

10-40

Illinois 143.
Erie 29i.
Cotton—Mil upland 33kc.
Petroleum—Standard White 32e.
Flour, extra state, $6.20c. to $6.89e. Corn, old
mixed, 96e.