The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 25, 1 69.

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.

Closing Business
Share Naas. paid. Price. done
10 Agra Limited, A... all 101 101 101
al Do B.
50 Albion .... ....... 14 s 6
00 Alliance, Limited
20 Anglo-Austrian
20 Anglo-Egyptian, line all 191 20i 201
2U Anglo-Hungarian 8 14 11
20 Anglo-Italian 1866, limited 10 55 11
40 Australasian
20 Bank of British Columbia all 11 13
20 Do issued at 2pm ~.. 5 54 •
25 Bank of Egypt ...... ......... all 38 40
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 all 131 1,1
50 British North American
20 Chartered of India, Austra-
lia, :nd China all 18 19
25 Chartered Mere. of India.
London, and China all 301 31 311
20 City
100 Colonial 25 38 40
10 Consolidated, lien.
50 Delhi and London, lieu
50 East London, lint 5 2 1
20 English and American, lien 10 ... ...
20 English Bank of Rio de Ja-
neiro. lini lO pr 1p 11
20 English, setatish,aud Aus -
traliau Chartered
285 Hong Kong and Shanghai
Bank Corporation all 33 33
2SI Do new 55 21 21
too Imperial, lien 24 16 17
20 Imperial Otto:Lain lO 2 21 11
fi lonian all 21 26
25 Do new 5 1 1p
ko Lad Mor44age of Indii, li,n 4 31 35
100 Do sp. c. De, b 5.1861, a,) all 76 75 73
30 London 13auki of alexico
and South America, lien. 23 61 51
100 Loudon and Brazilian, line. 45 30 27
20 Do new 71 51 41
100 London &Sliver Plate, li,n. 40 9 II
25 Do new 10 25 2jp
20 London Chart. of Australia all 2.1 23
20 London and County 2O 50 SI
SO Do new iss at 20 p.m, 16 pd ll ... •••
Loudon Joint 5t0ck........, I 311 3t4
Loudon and South African al 81 91
00 Loudon &S.-Western, lien, 20 13 11
150 Loudon & Venezuela, line 124 ••• ••
100 London and Westminster 2) 6i4 621 035 i
100 Do Scrip, iss at 10 pen
100 Merchant, lim 25 51 41
10 Metropolitan, lint all 75 71 71
100 Midland, lim . 2O 11 1
5 National of Australia
25 National of Liverpool, lien. 15 10 •lp
100 National rrovinc. of En,,t'd 42 ... ..-
10 Do ...... .42
50 National..... ........... . ......... 30 ... ..
20 New South Wa1e5.,,,,,,,,,,, all 41 43
20 North-Western
25 Oriental Bank Corporation all 421 431
• 50 Provinc. Bank. Corpo., lien. 10 6 5
00 Provincial of 1re1and......,, 25 83 90
10 Du new. all ... ... 331
100 Stand. of Brit. S. Africa, lien 25 15 11
100 Do issued at 6 pm. 10 8 6
25 Union of Australia all 47 43 474
100 Union of Ireland, lim
50 Union of London
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TELEGRAPH COMPANI RS.

lrAnglo-American Tel: inn,.---ai 'tl 221 /
10 Anglo Mediter Tel.,lim 10 121 13 21
et Atlantic Telegraph 10 2i 1.2 21
st Do. 8 per cent 100 61 63 671 fi
st B. and I. Magnetic Tel., lim. 100 158 163
st Electric & Inter. Telegraph 100 233 238 237
10 Do. New 8 9 lip 19
25 Indo-European Tel., hm lO
5 Lond. Provincial Tel. Inn all •21 3
1 Do. Prefer. 10 per cent all pr 1p
10 Mediterra. Exteu. Tel., hm all 31 31
25 Reuter's Telegram all 53 bS 5; 60
20 Societe Transatlaut., lira all 171 18 171
st Submarine Telegraph
1 Do. Scrip .. :
20 Telograph Con. & Maiu.,liin all 17 171 171
SU. Kingdom Tel. Co., lim all 5, i
b Do. 10 per cent. Pref all 3 3:p
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biIb;CELIOUS.

all • 151 161 14
Agricultural
1 141 151
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Australian
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Australian Land
and
Finance, lint.
lian Mort.
: Estates,
lint, all A 171 1511
11000
BeßaDrui:iii.arawhaTt:
all 31 41
lint. 6 3 4
4 11 id 4
1052
1313ooDruleokb.00ywNNoecjw.. Vaughan, lint. ._ 5.0 ,
11
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all 66 7 )
5 ) British Al. mdeianneaTneal:aiunt.••••••••
a 1144 1251 li73i
2920 CBarintaisdhaSeh°lPilawnanyuedrslnvest-
-10 Canadian Loan
21 2 1 4
lint lO 4 344
5 21 2ed
ment, lint
25
9 41 31,1
Ciptyer°tfy, lint
of Milan Improv. lint, all 5 6
1022 g CityCepYoniAsc shares
u Company,
i
lint.., all
Lrdonlinlteal pro- 4
30 City
23 26 25,1
'2O 3 2
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221 „,
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6100 C(3°oemniaetnrsyc:i aion
at 1!
n Africanwn 85819 err- 6 i iP 54
20 Continental Union Gas, lint. all 391 201
25 Copper Miners of England,
pref. 74 per cent,
all 6 7
100 Corporation of L021(1011
Bonds, 1877, 44 per cent. all 1031 1011
100 Do. 1879, 41 per cent. all 1(ili 103 i
3 2344
100 Do. 1882, 41 per cent. all 1041 1041
15.00
Credit
F Foonn..oof MauritiusfEglattd lint. alOll 241
.3
st Crystal Palace lOO 1) 21
st Do. Preference
rin ot.
Ipetual Deb. 103 105 112
28
Eastern
a Assam, p. c
Darjeeling,
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lint 6l "'... -.4
. ...
11°
50 East Indian Lind Credit
and Finance, lint.
20 East India lrriga. & Canal all
32 Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron, at, I
Coal, lint.
100
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20 Egyptian Ciiiti.iv 1'1%1,1. iini.
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15 lini.vis ft :Lud. Foreign Credit 71 41 3,1
lon Eng. and Scot. I, :trine, lint. s ... ••• I
10 Fairbairn Engineering
20 Fore-street WAr,t,i,,,,e, not. 12 1 1.1.1
too Fur.' Col. Gov. Trust :tit. l
Loan Scrip, issued ~T A:63 ,ii 87 ~.,8 87
50 (loins-ant. lim. .................. '1(1 ... ...
10 General Credit & Di:; j.....
lint. 71 111
13 General Steam Navigatioil II ...8a :;
50 lioirr,.& Col Marine I it. lint. 5 2 11
1() llong Kong and China ‘ 1.,.s a 11... ...
20 H1148071'8 illy
20 Imperial Land Co. of Mar-
seilles lion. ................. 124 -• •••
20 laterna.'Financial Sc.o lint 5 14 :11, 3
20 Interns.. Laud Credit, lilt. 6 6 3.1
50 Italian Land ..................... 5 1.1 p2O Italian Irri. (Canal Ca.rour) all 3 4/
100 Do. 6p. c. Bds., redeem
1870, issued 110 ............ all 65 07 67
50 Land Securities, lint 5 21 114 32:
25 Loudon African Trading lO 7 bd
25 Lon. & Caled. Marine, lint. 6
••• •••I`,'
10 London County Land and
Building, lint. ~,•,,, 4 ••• •••d
50 Lond. Financial ASBO., lint 30 22 •41 8}
4 Lond.Gou.Omnibus.Co.lim. all '2 24
50 Lond. and Glasg. Engineer
and Iron Ship, lima..__... 25 21 161
20 Loud. & Provincial Marino '2 LI Pr
st Madras Irriga. & Can]. Grua.
5 p. c. by India Gov.
10 Mauritius Land, Credit, and 100
105 107 106 1 6
Agency, Jim... ............ 11 4 Id
50 Merchant Shipping, li.nt— all 33 38
60 Millwall Iron Works, lint. 121 ••• •••
10 Natal Laud and. Colonisa-
tion Co., lint. ........... 9 51 40 .. 25 National Discount C0,,0 , lint 5 111 111 1.3
25 National Prov. Marine., lint, 4 4 311
10 National Steam Ship, lint. all 91 101
20 Norbudda Coal & Iron, Bin. 6 31 3'`,. 10 New Consolidated Dis. lint. 3 11 It.
sl\ ew Quebrada, 1int....... 4.4.0 41 1
23 New Zealand Loan &Met'.
cantilo Agency,lini
........ 21 1 111
25 New Zealand Trust and
Loan, lint. ...........ea. . .... 5 14 14
10 Northern Assam Tea, 5 7" 10 Do. B .................... all 9 8
st North Brit. Austral , Rm... 100 48 5 ;
50 North Brit. & Merca•n. In , 64
.9, 1,91
1,
23 Ocean Marine (insurance) 5' 50 Oriental Financial, lint ll
5 Oriental Gas,
............ lint. . all 7 8
5 Do. New
4 1P
10 Otago and Southland In
vestment, lint ..... 1,1 4p
5 Ottoman Gas, lint~,.
10 Panama, New Zealand, and
Australian It. Mail lint all :.7:
5 Do do.
......... all 0
at Peel R. Land & Minerl, lint 100 81 34
50 Peainsu. & Oriental Steam all 48 60 46£
50 Do. New 1867 ... 10 11,1 01
50 Rhymnoy Iron
15
25 Rio dDeojanNeierwo Cit;• ................
Im Jint. all 17 18 17
all 61 7
20 Do. Gas, lin;
100 Royal Mail Steam
at Scottish Aust, Invest., lint lOO 83 81
st Do. 6 P. c. Guar. Prof lOO
20 Societe Fin. d'Egypte lint lO •••,: ..E1:1
20 Societe Geu.de l'Empire Ot 8 21 31
50 S. African Mort. &Inv., lint. 6
25 South Australian Land
20 Thames and Mersey Marine
(Insurance), lint ......... 21 8 41
20 Trinidad Petroleum, lint
JO Trust &Agency of Aus.,lint 1 "-i, •ip
10 Do do. do. all
. ...
20 Trust &Loan Co., U. Canada, 5 . _
50 Union Marine L'pool, litn 5 .111 g p
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20 Union Steam Ship, lint
15 United Discount Corp., lint 6 1i i 4
20 Universal Marine(l.), lint
11 2 p
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Do.Apl.&001 18904900 lOO 111 113
Do. do 1880-90 lOO 107 109
Do. Jan.&July, 11191 •••• 100 108 119
Do. 5 per oent. 15 April
and 15 Oct., 1900 lOO 98 100
Ceylon, Nov 1878, 6 P., •• 100 108 tie
Do. 1872, do•• •• 100 105 107
Mauritius, 6P. o, 1873,
-- Jan. and July
, 104 106
Do. 1878 ..• ........ •• "0 106 IOS
Do. 1882, May and No, ,• 00 108 los
—• Do. 1895, Feb. & Atia,• •• 10 too pm
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N.Zealand, 6p. ct. ISO ICO __
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Do. 5 per cent 1( 0
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Do 6p c. Mar & 6ept '91•• 100 108 110
-- Do June & Dec , 191 lOO 109 ~1
iDo Prov.,l Auctld. 1 110
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Nova Sootia 6 p.c.Jau
and July. 1875
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Do 1891 . •
Tasmanian 6 per e. 1.395 • . 1064 1074 n
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Victoria 6 Ler cent. 1591 IL 0 113 1/4
7 PIN April and C00k,.....! 1.99 loi IN uoi

THE " BELFAST MEETING.

The Orangemen of Ireland are well satisfied with their
Belfast meeting. All the forces of Orangeism in a district
where it flourishes were collected on Saturday and forreel,
the most imposing demonstration in point of numbers
since the commencement of the Defence agitation. The
fact that Mr. Johnstone, M.P., was inducel to preside
secured the attendance of the rank and file of the Orange
Society, who, from feelings of jealousy, had kept away
from other meetings. The meeting was chiefly composed
of the working classes. Its numbers are differently
estimated in the voluminous reports of the proceedings
which appear in the local journals. The Express
states that at the commencement there were
about 15,009 present, but that after some time, when the
workpeople were released from the mills, it received
enormous accessions, and that it was ultimately computed
at from 80,000 to 100,000. The number of tickets issued
was 75,000, and one ticket was sufficient t 3 admit an
Orange Lodge. Special trains broughtcontingents from a
distance. From Monaghan and Londonderry 1,800
Orangemen came, under the command of Captain Madden
and Mr. Archdall. When they entered the Botanic Gar-
dens the " brethren " put on their scarves and other
insignia, and marched in military order to their places
around the platform, which was profusely adorned with
flags and banners. The meeting was optncd, of course,
with the singing of a psalm and prayer. The chairman
commenced the oratorical perf,rmances of the day with a
speech, in which he referred to the Bangor procession in
terms of satisfaction, and expressed the determination of
Irish Protestants never to concede their rights to meet as
Orangemen where and when they pleased to express their
opinions. He characterised the Orange Institution as the
noblest organisation ever devised by Protestants to main-
tain their cause and to carry out the spread of
Bible Christianity. The chairman's observations
kindled the enthusiasm of the meeting. Mr.
John Thompson, D.L., high sheriff of the county of
Antrim, moved the first resolution, which contained a pro-
test against Mr. Gladstone's bill, as subverting the Pro-
testant constitution of the country. Mr. John Guy
Ferguson, Governor of the Apprentice Boys of Derry,
seconded the resolution. He assured the meeting that
the " mighty heart " of the body to which ho belonged
was throbbing with one universal feeling of opposition to
the spoliatory measure. Mr. William M'Cormick, an
Episcopalian, vice-president of the Belfast Working Men's
Association, and Mr. Joseph English, a Presbyterian
working man, supported the resolution in speeches advo-
cating bold and determined action. Mr. Adam J. Macrory,
president of the Presbyterian Constitutional Association,
moved in a long speech the next resolution, which
asserted the right of the Presbyterian Church to a con-
tinuance of the Regium Donum. The Rev. Dr. Baylee
seconded the resolution. The meeting was also
addressed by Messrs. Alexander Sims, W. Wallace, Rev.
J. D. Crawford, Rev. H. Henderson (Presbytirian), and
others in support of resolutions urging the Lords to cast
out the bill, and adopting a petition to the Queen against
it. The meeting was orderly, and passed off without
creating any disturbance iu the town, its political excite-
ment being allowed to expend itself in the cool seclusion
of the Gardens.

FURTHER DOINGS OF
'S. THE SPIRIT.
RAPPER

A few days ago we reprinted the evidence adduced at a
recent meeting of the Spiritualism Committee of the
London Dialectical Society. The following narrative is
in addition to what we then published :
Mr. John Jones, of Enmore Park, South Norwood,
gave an account of a séance which had been held at his
house in July last, as follows:—"It was on Friday,
July 17th, about text o'clock, in a room sixteen feet
by thirty-four, two gas burners alight. In the room
was a heavy 100 table, around which were ten chairs, seven
occupied. The other three chairs were meant to repre-
sent my late wife, my daughter Marian, and my son
Walter. I had placed en my wife's chair her last silk
dress, on my daughter's the flannel robe she wore before
passing away, and en my son's chair his necktie. I was
trying to think of some tune to get us into a state of har-
mony, when suddenly my thoughts were anticipated ; my
accordion began to emit sounds, and a most jubilant tune
was brilliantly played. Bright lights, like stars, were
seen moving up and down the keys during the hymn of
praise. The accordion then gently rose in the air about
four inches, and floated three feet round the table. A
hymn was sung by my family, and then my aged
mother was raised from the floor in her chair until
her knees were on a level with the table top. My late
wife's bonnet was raised from the vacant chair, and car-
ried to my daughter Edith. My late wife's chair then
rose in the air with the dress on it, and leant upon my
mother's breast. The chair then floated back to its place.
The dress on the chair began to pass over and moved on
my mother's knee. Then toy deceased daughter's chair
moved round, with ti:e robe eN tf mled on it, close to the
table, shoved my chair an ay, and .he chair and I were
forced aside to make room for la-es. lier chair then went
from the table, j assed by the tear of my chair, no ionnan
being toneldi,g it. Sinniltantously Mr. Home was ccer:cd
b 0.103, away from the tz,b!e. It then proceeded to occupy
the space vacated by I\lr. lloine, and gradually, and in
sight of all prestat, r, se up in the air. Mr. Jones also
said that he had on li,ore than one occasion seen a large
100 table he was sitting at, at his mental wish, rise front
the flour as high as the ceiling."
Mrs. ]ton croft eated that in July 1S(10 she had seen
tie apparition of her husband. "I was lying," she said,
" on the sofa, at about six and SCYCllo'clock in the evening,
perfectly awake, and not thinking at all about my husband,
when I heard three distinct knocks at the door. Thinking
it must be one of the waiters, I said Come in,' and my
husband, who had been dead five years, entered, dressed
in the morning dress prescribed for British consuls—a
blue coat, with Victoria buttons, a straw-coloured waist-
coat, and a white hat, such as be always used to wear in
the summer. He had also a walking stick, with a chamois-
horn handle. I jumped up and advanced towards him.
He then went into the next room ; an-i when I had
recovered myself sufficiently to follow him he was gone."
In answer to questions, this lady stated that she was
unable to say how long the apparition lasted ; she had
every reason to believe that her husband was poisoned on
board a ship ; the door actually opened when she said
" Come in ;" the door was not open when the apparition
disappeared.
Miss A. Jones gave an account of certain remarkable
phenomena which she had witnessed at a séance held at
Stockton House. Mr. Home, who was present, said that
he was ill, the spirits were in him, and did not understand
him. She saw a bodily form above his shoulders, and it
took the form of a ccne. lie went out on to the verandah,
and was carried from thence right across the lawn, a
distance of more titan a hundred feet, to a rhododendron
bed. He returned, bringing with him a piece of rhododen-
dron, and although it teas raining fast he was not at all
wet, and the soles of his shoes were dry. He had observed
on going out that they would each have a different
perfume given to them, and accordingly, as soon as he was
gone, it seemed as if each one present had been sprinkled
with a different kind of sc nt.
This closed the velenee for that evenirg.

SID END OF A CENTE/' Old wiffrran
,supposed to be 103 years of a; e is reperted to have died
at 1 r stol. She caught her dre scn fire while sifting
ashes, and was so much frightened and injured that she
soon afterwards died.
ROYALTY AND TILE EARLSWOOD ASYLUM.—HiS
Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has kindly con-
sented to lay the first stone of the enlargement of the
Earlswood Asylum for Idiots, lledhill, Surrey, on Mon-
day, the 28th of June, and the annual fete and summer
entertainment will take peace the same clay. Ladies
desirous of obtainine ynrsoa to be presented to his loyal
Highness the Prince of Wales and laid upon the first
stone will be supplied on early appro%tion. Each five
guineas collected will entitle to a life vote.
THE LATEST VRLOCIPEDE.—BOUDd to be ahead
of the world in everything, the Californians are in glee over
a new invention in velocipedes. The four-wheeled machine
is comfortable, the three-wheeled more convenient, the
bicycle seems to need a marvel of skill and confidence to
manage, but a resident of San Francisco has inverted a one-
wheeled velocipede, which he claims is as easily balanced,
longitudinally and laterally, and more easily worked than
any of the others. The only improvement left would be to go
without wheels—but that would be returning to first prin-
ciples, and so will hardly be patented.—New York Times.
NEWS FROM IRELAND.—The following budget
of news from Ireland is published farmer named
Dunphy, of Waterford, was visited on Saturday by men
with blackened faces, who threatened him with something
serious if he did not give up land in his possession.—The
police at Cork are beginning to stir about the Fenians, and
have commenced a search for nuns end documents. Under
a warrant from the Lord-Lieutenant they searched the
house of Patrick Bymes on Sunday, but found nothing
but a report cf the speech delivered from the prisoners'
dock by the Fenian G eneral Burke. Byrnes was one of the
speakers at the late mass met ting.—John Francis Kearns,
one of the Fenians recently liberated, has become a
lunatic, and has been placed in the Cork Asylum.—Con-
stable Crowley, who was wounded at the recent dis-
turbances at Ballyheigne, is getting worse. O'Hara is
dying in the infirmary at Cork, and Dunne is not expected
to live very long.—Several burglaries were committed in
the city of Cork and neighbourhood during the past
week. The new Mayor attended the Bridewell on Sun-
day, and discharged three men and two women, prisoners
for drunkenness; and at the police-court on Monday he
declared his firsts detenuination to put down disorderly
il9lNbligta 3 •

THE GENERAL ELECTIONS IN FReINC.

PARIS, MON4AT.

The calm whieh prevArtea throughout the capitaktes-
terday has not been broken to-day. The elections are
passing off in the most pacific manner. The French do not
like agitation in wet weather—a shower of rain would at any
time prevent an insurrection in Paris—but here to-day the
weather is splendid, and yet there is no agitation. Save
that Paris is covered with bills, that the newspapers are
doing an excessive trade, and that a small crowd is
assembled round some of the balloting places, there are
no signs that an alteration is going on—certainly none of
the signs which ordinarily attend a contest in England.
The newspapers prosper in these exciting times. The sale
of the Liberal journals especially is something incredible,and
even the semi-officials are attaining a circulation which they
will never reach again until the next general election.
The reason of this sale is not very apparent, for the
papers contain less now than at any future time.
Whilst the Ballot is doing its work they must
perforce be content with exhortations to the elec-
tors to vote on the right side. The billstickers
are not less busy then the journalists. Nothing can be
more impartial than their labours. They patronise all the
candidates alike, and no aspirant to legislative honours
can apparently afford to do without them. It has been
reckoned that the various candidates for the Seine depart-
ment, that is for the city of Paris, have issued 150,000 bills
—an average of 3,003 to each. Of course many of the
fifty who professed to come to the poll will receive no
votes and have accordingly spent very little money.
To avoid inconvenience, the voting places have been
multiplied as much as possible. They are established in
the halls of the Mairics, or other convenient buildings
belonging to the State or the City of Paris. In each
bureau are seated a president, and two assessors on
his right and left ; and before the latter are placed
registers containing the names of the electors. The urn
stands in the centre of the table ; being,in fact, a wooden
box with double padlocks, having a slit in the lid,
through which the voting ticket is introduced.
As each bulletin is deposited, the president, after a
verification in the registers, tears off the corner
of the card which had been handed to him, and says, " M.
So-and-So has voted." In general very few groups
were formed, the voters departing at once after depositing
their bulletins. Nobody is admitted to this room except
the voter; but it is easy for outsiders to see all that is going
on. Very few sergents• do-rifle are employed in guard-
ing the voting places, nor does there appear the
slightest need for them. The mode of voting varies
considerably in different districts. At Montmartre
the electors come in very slowly one by one at intervals of
two minutes ; whereas at the Batignolles the stream is
continuous, and in Quartier of the Epinettes the eagerness
to vote is very remarkable. But in all cases the business
was conducted with the most unexceptional quietness.
The same is reported by telegraph from the departments.
The voting, we are told, is far more general than on
previous occasions, but nowhere is there any disturbance.
'The electors then have behaved irreproachably, but the
same can scarcely be said, if report speaks truly, of the
authorities. In the first place, the electors on the
last two occasions have claimed the right of
sealing the ballot-box with their private seals in
addition to the seals affixed by the president and
assessors. This year the privilege has been denied, and
much discontent has been awakened. It is noteworthy

that last night, at eleven o'clock, M. Thiers, accompanied
by his friends, went to the Mairies of the 17th arron-
dissement and demanded to sea the ballot-box. It
was shewn him, and he carefully examined the
*.e.terior to assure himself that the box had not been
tampered with. The Maire, who was not present when
this was done, is very angry. He considers M. Thiers's
conduct an insult, but then the authorities should not, in
the first instance have forbidden the electors to exercise
the privilege which they enjoyed in former years. The
Temps enumerates several arbitrary acts of the officials in
the provinces, and no doubt the authorities in the
country districts will not forget the experience of former
years. But in Paris the Opposition istoo watchful

COMPLETION OF THE UNION PACIFIC

RAILWAY.

Some exciting scenes took place during the last days of
the great work by which a railway has been thrown
across the American continent from the Atlantic
to the Pacific seaboard. The enterprise was carried
on by two companies, the " Central Pacific" working
from California to the East, and the Union Pacific
crossing the Missouri into the desert from the West.
These two companies were by no means friendly, and for
some time past the squabbles and lawsuits in which their
rivalry found vent seem to have scandalised even the
fnanciers of New York. According to the Times corre-
spondent, this rivalry endured to the last, and prevented
the juiect:on of the two lines for several weeks.
"1 he roadinakers of each company wiaked like heroes to
extend their lines. 'The more iuiies of road, cheaply
built, the more bonds there would be, and the more
Proet. The gradiog parties of each line met weeks ago,
but they did not join. The companies did not love each
other, so they turned the cold shoulder and passed by, and,
each working on, for fifty-three miles the two roads were
graded parallel to each other. Here was an excellent
chance for trouble, and it came. Each road followed its
surveys ; they ran into each other, and so did the roads,
and so did the labourers, and so did clubs and stones.
The roads were nearly always in sight of each other,
sometimes but a few yards apart, and once they crossed.
The labourers dug out each other's embankments, and
filled up each other's cuttings ; they cursed and fought
and fired blasts without giving notice, so that a small
earthquake, followed by a shower of d6bris, would greet
the opposite party. Happily no human being was killed,
but several mules were, and finally each party sent to
headquarters for firearms for protection. They worked
and fought on, building their roads side by side, delaying
the junction and completion of the line until the managers
concluded that the proceedings were too costly, and
there was a compromise at Washington, which was
speedily telegraphed to the Plains and restored peace •
there. By the compromise the Central Company
abandoned its own graded line and took the Union Com-
pany's line. The track was laid on the latter. The Union
paid the expense, and gets the Government bonds for
fifty-three miles. Bonds were at the bottom of the whole
trouble."
The Bth of May was fixed for the formal junction, but
owing to fu:ther difficulties it did not take place until the
10th. On that day the Pacific Railway was com-
pleted, and the project which was deemed a visionary
scheme three years ago became an accomplished
reality. All over the country the event was celebrated
by bell-ringing, cannon-firing, processions, and oratory of
the true American type. At noon, on the 10th, the last
spike was driven in, every stroke of the hammer
being announced by telegraph in every telegraph
office of the States. " There were prayers and
speeches, Te Deums ' and Hail Columbias,' Old
Hundredths' and 'Star-spangled Banners ; ' and of
every incident as it happened all Americans were informed
M the instant. Promontory Point signalled to New
York, Chicago, San Francisco, New Orleans, Washing-
ton, &c., with the comprehensive salute, 'To every-
body ! Keep quiet.' By-and-by came another an-
nouncement of the beginning of the ceremonies—
' Almost reedy : hats off. Prayer is being offered.'
Then came a pause, during which the electrified
'everybody' was charitably supposed to be pray-
leg. This little task, however, was soon completed;
for the next message was, We have got done praying.
The spike is about to be presented.' By-and•by came
warning to look out for three taps on the bell, as the
final blywo tin the splice were to be given.
Then the hammer of the magnet tapped the bell, one, two,
three, and at 2.47 Promontory Point triumphantly flashed
the concluding message, Done.' A tie of polished Cali.
fornia laurel, bound with American silver, and a spike ca
Californian gold mark the place of union at Promontory
Point, near Salt Lake, Utah."

A diocesan conference, summoned by the Arch.
bishop of York, opened at Sheffield on Monday. Amongst the
subjects of discussion is set down the question of " how to
attach the working classes to the Church." His Grace held
an ordination at Sheffield on Sunday.

The 34th West York Rifle Volunteers, who have
been encamped at Woodsome-park during the past week,
were inspected on Saturday by Lieut.-Colonel Wombwell.
In the course <f his remarks at the close of the proceedings,
the inspecting officer expressed himself strongly in favour
of occasional camp life, as cr.ablir.g volunteers to get an
insight into the duties that might be required of a soldier.
At the ShefliLld sessions on Saturclay thirtcen colliers
were indicted for having riotously assembled at Mexbro'
on
the 11th April. The charge arose out cf what is known as
the Dent.by Mein lock-out. The men were engaged undera
mouth's notice, end tie pi oprietors having resolved to discon-
tiutto the en Voyn cut cf union seen, terminated the
ngagement with their Lands on the usual notice, and
set on non-unionists. 'The charge against the pri-
s,.ners then was that they on the day named riotously
assembled and endeavoured to prevent the non-unionists
from following their lawful employment. The juryroturned a
verdict against the accused, when the Court exercised
its discrimination in dealing with the men, and ordered
«' illiam Birkinshaw, Bowers, and Hodson to be bound
over 111, their recognisances to keep the peace for three
months ; Martin Birkinshaw was sentenced to three months,
John Taylor and Samuel Tye to six weeks, and Calligan,
F Fulw9o Johnson, ,onglpttora, faci
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NOTICh.

The Third Edition of " The Sun " of last Evening was
published in time for delivery in town at 7.15 p.m.

SUN OFFICE, 7 O'CLOCK.

SPORTING INTELLIGEME—This Day

EPSOM SUMMER MEETING-THIS DAY.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH)
CRAVEN STAKES.

I.ancet .
Houestv

(leant des Battuilles

Mysotis
President Lincoln
Lord Hawthorn

Fiv© ran.
ROUS STAKES.

Eight ran.
WOODCOTE STAKES.

Sunsliino
Greou bibband

Tymplo

mywu ran.

MORTON STAKES.

Sto►k.

Vulcan.....
Wanetou c

Eleven ran.
WALTON MANOR STAKES.

Trocadero
Vagabond
Rupei t
Seven ran.
HE A THC OTE PLATE.

1.

Perfume 1
Cymbal .. 2
Prince Imperial
Eight ran.

LATEST BETTING ON THE COURSE.

DERBY.

to 4 agst Pretender (taken)
5 to 1 agst Pero Gomez (taken)
6 to 1 agst Belladrum (taken)
9to 1 agst Perry Down (taken)
15 to 1 agst Drummer (taken)
25 to 1 agst Martyrdom (taken)
25 to 1 agst Border Knight (taken)
30 to 1 agst Thorwaldaen (taken )
100 to 3 agst De Yore (taken and offered)

LATEST SCRATCHINGS.

DERBY—Typhon, Vagabond, Stratlmairn, Blair Drum-
mond.

Boys STAKES—Morgan La Faye filly.
WOODCOTE STAKES —llalnaby, Marchioness, Lancaster,
Pollio, Master Dick, Chancolier, Saxon, Lady Louisa colt,
Masque de, Apathy, Don Quixote, Brother to Dalesman
Sister to Tomato, Director's dam filly,Verdure, Annexion,
Torment colt.

WALTON MANOR STAKES—King Victor, Gondolier, Ne-
lusko, Restitution, Rowsham, Badsworth, Strathnairn.

Race Glasses, by Voigtland, are now no longer the ex-
clusive luxury of the rich. Since the great demand for
photographic lenses has diminished, an opportunity has
been afforded for applying mechanical power with the
greatest success, whereby the cost of these beautiful and
most perfect instruments is reduced in price in some
instances to as much as 20 per cent. In fact they are now
no dearer than those of the hest French or English makers.
At the depot Aallaghan, 23e, New Bond-street, corner of
Conduit-street, the patrons of the Derby may indulge
their taste in the possession of a veritable Voigtliinder at
comparatively trifling cost. It is superfluous to say the
quality is as ever matchless.

71XT ii R ES.

• Newcastle 22, 23, 24.
lOdiham 22
Bibury Club 23
1 Stockbridge 24, 25, 26
New Forest Hunt
(Lyndhurst) 28
IChelmsford
Liverpool Summer 29, 30
Sutton Park .....`29, 30
LY

IDown Royal Corpo. l4
Airdrie 15
Reading. 15, 16
1 Koutsford 16
ilinutingdon 2O, 21
Stamford 22, 23
Goodwood 27, 28, 29, 30
UST.

Oxford
flungelfutd . 24
-Yolk 24, 20, 26
Croyduu
I'l3lllom h 26, 27
Siutrborough 3U, 31
Bodo'. Ilddeu 3l
Grt,*t Yarmouth 31
Derby ttuu.ruer .. 31, Sep. 1
Wepnouth 31, Scp. 1
Couterbury 81, Sep. 1