The Sun.
London, England, 1869-11-09 00:00:00

rnE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 9, 1869.

SI1,41;1; LIS7.

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.

Shares ' NINE. Paid.
10 Agra Limited, A all 10 Closingrriee Busdßusinessl
111 101
10 Do B lO 31 41
40 Albion
00 Alliance, Limited
20 Anglo Austrian
20 Anglo-Egyptian, lint all 231'241p 2.4
20 Anglo-Hungarian
20 Auglo-Italian 1806, limited 10 5 4
40 Australasian
20 Bank of British Columbia all 12 l 3
20 Do issued at 2 pm._ , 5 5 4
25 Bank of Egypt
20 Bank of Otago, lim.
25 Bank of South Australia all 30 32
50 Bank of Victoria, Australia' '25 37 39
10 Bank of New Zealand all 181 101
50 British North American
20 Chartered of India, Austra-
lia, and China all 18 19 171
25 Chartered Mere. of India.
London, and China all 32 34 32 1
20 City lO 10 11 101
100 Colonial '2s 36 17
It) Consolidated, lint.
50 Delhi and London, lint
50 East London, lint 5 2j lf
20 English and Allll,!'iCaLl, lull 10 ... ...
20 English Bank of Rio de Ja-
ueiro. 1im.... ..... .....
20 English, Scottish, and Aus-

tralian Charter'ed ... all 161 161 161 I
281 Hong Kong and Shanghai
Bank C0rp0rati0n......... all 36 38
281 Do new lll 4 4
100 Imperial, lint 2O 15 10
20 Imperial Ottoman IU 2/ 21 121
25 lonian all 19 '22
25 Do now 6 0 3
Lnd Mortgage of India, lim 4 31 31
100 Do sp. c. Debs.lB6l, 30 all 76 16 SO
100 London Bank: of Mexico
and South America, lim. 20 7 G 111
100 Loudon and Brazilian, lim. 45 35 30
20 Do new 71 5 41
100 London &River Plate, lim. 40 6 II
25 Do new 10 11 2 p
20 London Chart. of Australia all 231 24/
20 London and C0unty...,,,,,, 20 401 501
50 Do new. iss at 20 p.m,16 pd. 11 ... ...
Loudon Joint 5t0ck.......... 311 321 311
Loudon and South African al 8 9
100 London & S.-Western, lim, 20 13 11
50 London & Venezuela, lim l2l ... ...
100 London and Westminster. 20 571 581 591 1
100 Do Scrip, iss at 10 pm 2O ... ...
100 Merchant, lim
10 Metropolitan, lint
00 Midland, lim..
5 National of Australia
ip
00 National of Liverpool, lim l5 3d
00 National Provinc. of Ened 42 ... ...
10 Do . ...... .. 42
... ...
50 National.. 3O
... ..
20 New South Wales all 41 43
20 North-Western 7l
25 Oriental Bank Corporation all 41 42 411
50 Provinc. Bank. Corpo., lim lO 61 51 3/
30 Provincial of Ireland 25 IN 92
10 Do new.. all ... ...
100 Stand. of Brit. S. Africa, lim 25 11 LI
100 Do issued at 6pm lB 8 6
25 Union of Australia all 46 41
100 Union of Ireland, lint
50 Union of London l5 361 371 371 1

TELEGRAPH COMPANIES.

10 Anglo-American lei., iim all 20,1 20/ 201
10 Anglo Mediter Tel., 1im.... 10 17.. 17k 1:1
s t Atlantic Telegraph lO 15 17
st Do. 8 per cont.
st B. and I. Magnetic Tel., lim lOO 163 163
st Electric & Inter. Telegraph 100 251 259
10 Do. New 8 12 13 p
25 Indo-European Tel., lim lO 1d pr
5 Loud. Provincial Tel. lint all 31 4
1 Do. Prefer. 10 per cent all A ip
10 Mediterra. Exten. Tel., lim all 61 71
25 Reuters Telegram all 79 81
20 Societe Transatlaut., lint all 16 161 161
st Submarine Telegraph
1 Do. Scrip all 11 2
5 U. Kingdom Tel. Co., lim all 7 71
A Do. 10 per cent. Pref all .11 o p

MISCELLANEOUS.

10 Anglo-Mexican Mint all 13 151
25 Australian Agricultural
25 Australian Mort. Land and
Finance, lim.
10 Baugarah Tea Estates, lim 3 51
10 Berlin Water Works, lint all 1:4 111
10 Do. Now all 1 i 1,5
100 Bolckow Vaughan, hut.
5 Bombay Gas, Inn.
5 Do. New 4 n
50 British AuLmicau Land 44 15 17
20 British Indian Tea, lam all 21 31
20 British Ship Owners
29 Canada Company all 63 t 6
10 Canadian Luau and Invstst-
mein, lim
20 Ceylon Company, lim.
20 Do. A shares
10 City Die. -
25 City of London Real Pro-
perty, lint 9 51 41d
30 City of Milan Improv. has, all 5 6
25 City of Moscow Gas, lint all
50 City Offices, lint 25 23 22 d 221
50 Colonial, lint.
Do.
50 Commercial uTnion (Assur) 5 pr s
p
10 Company of African Mer-
chants, lint
20 Continental Union Gas, lint all 26 27 261
25 Copper Miners of England,
pref. 71 per cent.
100 Corporation of London
Bonds, 1877, 41 per cent. all 1031 1041
100 Do. 1879, 41 per cent. all 101$ 1054
100 Do. 1882, 4; per cent. all 103 104
10 Credit Fou. of England, lint, all 21 24
50 Credit Fon.of Mauritius lim lO 34 2id
st Crystal Palace IOU 22 24 23
st Do. Preference lOO 92 p 7
st Do. 6p. c Pexpetnal Deb lO9 105 /10 109 11
20 Darjeeling, lim.
10 Eastern Assam, lim. 6l ...
50 East Indian Land Credit

and Finance, dim.
20 East India Irriga. & Canal all ..
32 Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron, and
Coal, Inn.
100 Egyptian 9 per cent. V'ruy
Gua. by Egypt. Goy all 98 99 991
20 Egyptian Cum. & Trad. dim 6
3 Eng. & Austral. Copper, lien 21 1
15 English and Foreign Credit 71 41 31d
100 Eug. and Scot. 31arine, lint 8 „,,t
10 Fairbairn Engiueerin,
20 Fore-street Warenouse,lim l2 1 2 p
100 Fur. & Cul. Goy. Trust and

Loan Scrip, issued at £B5 all 83 N 901
50 Gellivara, lint. 2O
10 General Credit & Dis., lint 71 11 10 61
15 General Steam Navigation 14 27 29
50 llorn3 & Col Marine In. Inn. 5 21 20
10 Hong Kong and China Gas all ...
20 Hudson's Bay all 124 15
2U Imperial Land Co. of Mar-
seilles, lint.
20 Interua. Financial Soc. lint 5 2 II
20 Intorno,. Land Credit, lint 6 6 44
50 Italian Land 6 10 p
20 Italian Irri. (Canal Cavour) all 3 31
100 Do. 6p. c. Bds., redeem
1870, issued 00
50 Land Securities, lint 2l 10
25 London African Trading.., 10 7 5,1
25 Lou. & Caled. Marine, lint 6 ... ...d
10 London County Land and
Building, lint..
50 Lend. Financial Asso., lint 30 22 21
4 Loud.Gen.Omnibus.Co.lint all 2 21 29 16
50 Lond. and Glasg. Engineer
and Iron Ship,
20 Lond. & Provincial Marine 2 1d pr
et Madras Irriga. & Cant. Gua.
sp.c. by India Gov lOO 104 108
10 Mauritius Land, Credit, and.
Agency, lint..
50 Merchant Shipping, all 32 37
80 Millwall Iron Works, lira. 121
10 Natal Land and Colonisa-
tion Co., lint. ............. 9 51 410
25 National Discount Co., lint g 101.
25 National Prov. Marine, lint. 4 ...
10 National Steam Ship, lint, all 91 101
20 Nerbudda Coal & Iron, lint. 6 31 3d
10 New Consolidated Dig. lint. 3 1/ 111
5 New Quebrada,
... , 4.8.0 41 44
25 New Zealand Loan & 31er. .
cantile Agency,lim
25 New Zealand Trust and
Loan, lint .................... . 5 i 1
10 Northern Assam Tea, Um 5 7 5
10 Do. B
st North Brit. Austral.., 100 48 51
50 North Brit. & Moreau. In_ 64 19 191
25 Ocean Marine (Insurance) 5 13 14
50 Oriental Financial, 1it..., ll ...
5 Oriental Gas, lint
5 Do. New
10 Otago and Southland In
vestment, 1int....,,,,, ld 113
5 Ottoma' Gas, 1int......... 11 21
10 Panama, New Zealand, and
Australian R. Mail lira
5 Do. do.
of Peel R. Land & Minerl, lint 100 31 34
50 Peninsu. & Oriental Steara all 648
50 Do. New 1867.....,,,. 10 11 lilJ 9
50 Rhymney Iron
1 Do. New ........... all 61 7
2 Rio de Janeiro City .all 18 19
Do. Gas,
100 Royal Mail Steam
Scottish Aust. Invest., lint lOO 78 83
Do. 6 p. c. Guar. Pref lOO
Societe Fin. d'Egypte, lint, 10 7 6d
Societe Gen.de l'Empire Ot. 8 24 34
50 S. African Mort. & Inv., lint. 6
25 South Australian Land
20 Telegraph Con. & Main.,lim all 29 294 32
20 Thames and Mersey Marine

_
(Insurance), lim 2 2; 3
20 Trinidad Petroleum, lint.— 81 ... ..
11 led
10 Trust &Agency of Aus.,lim. 1 i 1p
10 Do do. do. all ... ...
20 Trust &Loan Co., U. Canada 5 i ip
50 Union Marine L'pool, lira 5 41 A p
20 Union Steam Ship, lim all 22 24
15 United Discount Corp., lira 6 11 id
20 Universal Marine(ln.), lim 5 3 47p
10 Upper Assam Tea, lira all ji 2
163 80 82/
30 Van Diemap's Land 2Bl
100 Viceroy of Egypt, 7 per
50
vicaerrnat.n(tMFoinartgnaegee, (Mortgage) Loan all;
50 West India and Pacific
__

Steam, lim 2l 5 3
20 WestLoudon Wharves and
Warehouses lO
••• ...

COLONIAL GOVIIIINMIGNT SECURITIIM

- Do.
p.
0.
Jan. a jpu.lye
,
- British Columbia, 6 per
0ent.,1872.......... lOO ._ _
- Do. 1895.. l9O -. .„.„
- CauAlov.6p.o.Jan.v&July
1877-84
- Do. 6p. o Yeb, & Aug lOO 102 10}
- Do. sp. o. Mar. & Sept lOO 102 104
- Do. sp. c. Insoribed 8k ICO 90 ,2
- Cape (3.110pe, 6 p. 0.1873 lOO 102 10e
- Do.Apl.&Oot 16904900 lOO 111 113
- Do. do 1880-90 lOO 107 109
- Do. Jan.&July, 1891
- Do. sp( r tient. 15 April
- c
dayni
odul,sl4ooovt ~
1878,1900 6
111 lob 921
191031
- Do. 1872, do lOO 105 107
- Mauritius, 6 p. o, 18711,-
- JAn. Ind July
- Do. 1878 .... .......
- Do. 1882, May and Nc• ; OO 106 108
- Do. 1895, Feb. & Aug•••• 10 Lk. 196
- Melbourne Corporate., -
1867-75, 0 per cent ••• •• 1"0
109 100
- N. 13.G0v.6 p.o.Ja.Az.luly lOO 103 104
- Natal 6 p ot, Apl & Oct OO _ .
.;5
Do 6p e. May ze Nov 1`..0 1( 6 101,
- N. S.W. 5 p•e., '7l to '76 lOO 99 1,1
- Do. 6 p.o. 1888 to 1896 lOO v 9 100 1011 1
- Do. 5 p.c. rd,'67 to '75
-. N.Zealand, 6p. et. 1891 lOO -
- n
91 92 pli I
- Do 6p e. Mar &Sept '9l lOO
100 108 110
1,, percent....
07t
11100
(.:D o J°
-- Do June & Dec., 1691 •••• lOO ill
- iDo Vrov., 1 Anokld. 1
1(0 -
- ( t (.riei 1& 2, 164•• ,
- Nova Sootia 6p. C.Jan...
- and Jnly. 1875 . 190 105 41
- Do 18e6.. .. ....... ~ WO 10
- Qunenand. 6p. o. 'B2-C... 100 ',I/7 1081 1091
-- Do 1891 ......... ..... 100 107 1981
- Tasmanian 6 per x. 1595.. . 107 109
- Do .893 97. ..... .... IJO 108 109
- Victoria 6 per c0ut.1891.. 100
-- Do. April and Oct , , .88..1.03 111 .12

MER ICA N AFFAIRS.

(From the Anglo-American Tines.)

ELECrioN NEWS.—The Tennessee Legislature
balloted four times, Thurs•ley, Oct. 21, for United States
Senator. The last ballot stood:—Johnsen 48, Etheridge
31, scattering 24. Mr Johnson wanted but 4 votes to
elect him. The next day, to the surprise of. the country,
which had considered his election sure, a trap was sprung
on him and be was defeated, Henry Cooper of Davidson
County toceiving 55 votes to Johnson's 51. The new Sena-
tor was born near Columbia, Tennessee, 45 years ago, one
of many brothers, the father being a successful merchant;
graduated at Jackson College, studied law, and commenced
practice in Bedford county. When the war broke out he
became a Unionist, left for Europe on the capture of Nash-
ville by General Buell, was appointed Circuit Judge of the
State, resigned in 1867 for the chair of Law Professor in
Lebanon Law School. Subsequently removing to Nash-
ville he was elected Senator to represent that district in
the Legislature over W. L. Stone, the Stokes nominee
and thou beat Andrew Johnson for the United States
Senate. Judge Cooper was a violent opponent of the re-
strictive franchise measures passed by the Legislatures at
1865, 1866, and 1867, and, in common with his brother,
Edmund Cooper, was known as a Conservative Union-
ist, is considered an able lawyer, and is a gentleman
of high culture, possessing many eminent social qualities.
It is said to have been discoveed that the newly-elected
Senator from Virginia, Mr Johnston, as well as Mr. Gib-
son, one of the Representatives from that State, are still
labouring under the disabilities imposed by the Fourteenth
Amendment. The amendment was ratified after the pas-
sage of the Act by Congress relieving the disabilities of
Messrs. Johnston and Gibson, and it is asserted the Act
of Congress approved April 1, 1869, removing the dis-
abilities imposed by the Fourteenth Amendment, fails to
embrace in its terms the cases of Messrs. Johnston and
Gibson. On Tuesday, the 2d inst., Governors were
elected in Massachusetts, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. In
New York a Secretary of State and Comptroller, and in
all, together with Now Jersey, Kansas, West Virginia,
and Maryland, State Legislatures. In Massachusetts, a
successor to Secretary Boutwell was elected for the
Seventh Congressional District, George W. Brooks having
been nominated by the Republicans. The elections passed
off quietly. The Democrats were successful in Now
York, returning Mr. Nelson as State Secretary over Gen.
Sigel, and Mr. Allen as State Comptroller over Horace
Greeley, and securing a majority in the Legislature.
Maryland gave a majority of 25,000 to the Democrats, who
were successful in every District. The same party car-
ried New Jersey, securing a majority in both the Houses
of the Legislature. Massachusetts re-elected Mr. Claflin
its Republican Governor by a majority of 10,000 over John
Quincey Adams, the son of the late Minister to England.
In Minnesota the Republicans elected Mr. Austin as Go-
vernor. In Wisconsin Lucian Fairchild, the Republican
candidate, was elected Governor by a majority of 50,000.
West Virginia also went Republican, a majority being
secured in the Legislature. All this was anticipated, hence
the result is scarcely news. There appears to have been
a hard struggle inNe w Yerk, the first report being that the
Republicans were successful in the Legislature. Addi-
tional returns of the election in lowa indicate a Republican
majority of over 37,000. The National Executive Com-
mittee of the Union League had held a meeting in New
York, at which arrangements were reported in reference
to the political canvass in New York, Mississippi, and
Texas. It is stated that movements were on foot for a re-
vival and reorganization of the Union League. We fear it
is true that Mr. Johnston, the Senator-elect from Virginia,
and Mr. Gibson, ono of the Representatives elect, are po-
litically disabled by the Fourteeth Amendment.
BUDGET OF PERSONAL.—Alexander T. Stewart,
as a beginning of his Hempstead Plains improvement for
the benefit of the working men of New York, has con-
tracted for 500 miles of streets and roadways, and the
construction of five hundred dwelling houses.—Dr. Mary
Walker has been lecturing in St. Louis on the necessity
of a law compelling men to marry before they reach the
age of forty.—The New York Herald says that William B.
Astor during the last twenty years has so managed a for-
tune of twenty millions as to roll it up to sixty millions. -
The Duke and Duchess Del la Torre, of Italy, arrived at
New York iu the Java, Oct. 20, and went to the St. James
Hotel.—Major-General George H. Thomas, Commander
of the Department of the Pacific, was at the Brevoort House
New York, Oct. 20, and left for San Francisco the same
evening.—Miss Mary Hovey has been offered the Horticul-
tural Professorship in the Kansas Agricultural College.—
Sir Francis Hineks, C. 8., who takes the place of the Hon.
John Rose us Minister of Finance of the Dominion of
Canada, is a native cf Cork. When the Earl of Elgin
became Governor-General, Mr. Hincks was made Prime
Minister, and held that place for some years. He retired
upon being defeated in the Provincial Parliament, but
was knighted by the Queen and appointed Governor of
Barbadoes in 1858, and three years later becaMe Governor
of Guiana.—Susan B. Anthony received one vote for Go-
vernor in the Fifteenth Ward, Philadelphia.—Charles W.
Eliot had been inaugurated President of Harvard Univer-
eity.—Mr. John Bigelow, lately editor of the Now York
Times, is coming to Europe to remain several years.—Sir
Jchn A. MacDonald, the Canadian Prime Minister, said, in
a recent conversation, that the man was a fool who talked
of Canadian independence; and that there was much more
sense in Canadian annexation.—lgnatius Donnelly has been
making speeches in Minnesota against the protective tariff.—
Alexander H. Stephens writes that he is so feeble that he
has " very little hope of ever leaving home again."—Capt.
Hall, the Arctic explorer, is now lecturing on his Arctic
journey, and exhibiting an Esquimaux family —Vice-
President Colfax attended the marriage of a Chinese couple
at Truckee.—The New York Tribune says :—" Ossian E.
Dodge, once noted as the perpetrator of some of the most
abominable concerts ever inflicted upon a defenceless
people, is now Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce at
St. Paul, Minnesota."—An American, named Grimmell,
has been appointed Admiral and Inspector of the Japan
navy, at a salary of $15,000 a year.—Blacque Bey, the
Turkish Minister, was editor for many years of the most
popular paper in Constantinople —On the 27th Oct., at the
British Legation, Berne, Switzerland, Lieut. George S.
Sewell of the 101st Royal Bengal Fusiliers, son of John
Sewell, Eq., was married to Emily, youngest daughter of
the late John Schenck, Esq., of New York.—On the 28th
Oct., at St. Paul's Church, Avenue-road, London, Edmond
J. Seiders, of U.S.A., was married to Carrie, third daughter
of G. C. Trufant, Esq., Boston House, Upper Avenue-road,
N.W.—Commodore Worden has left Dresden and sailed
for America.— Secretary of War Belknap has just married
an Ohio heiress. He was not to take up his office till Nov.
I. President Grant and General Sherman will be present
at the reunion of the Army of the Tennessee, which takes
place in Louisville, N0v.17 and 18.—Among the editors who
lately arrived at New York are Mr. Samuel BoWles of the
Springfield Republican, Major Ben. Perley Poore of the
Boston Journal, and Mr George B. Smith of the Chicago
Evening Post. This is Mr. Bowles' first visit since his
celebrated adventure with James Fisk, jun.—The Right
Rev. J. ll‘Loughlin, D.D., Catholic Bishop of Brooklyn,
has arrived in the Ci'y of Antwerp, to take part in the
(Ecumenical Council.—Bishop Lynch:of Toronto was in
New York at the Astor House. Archbishop Blanchet of
Oregon, and Bishop Amat of Monterey were also in that
city on their way to Rome.—Geo. F. Seward, United States
Consul-General at Shanghai, and J. Markham, British
Consul at Foochow, have arrived at San Francisco.—
Orange Judd, proprietor of the American Agriculturist,
has given to the Wesleyan University $50,000 for the
erection of a building for the Department of Natural
Science.—The Rev. H. Carmody, of New Haven, Con-
necticut, removed 58 tombstones, levelling the graves
beyond identification, to improve the grounds of his re-
sidence. He is charged with sacrilege by the ecclesiasti-
tal superiors of the Romish Church.—General Butler, who
has proceeded to .Washington, allowed a private letter to
be published, denying the assertion of the World that he
was going to fight General Schenck in the Ways and
Means Committee for their tour on the Pacific. Butler
does not intend to answer every newspaper aspersion; if
he did, his whole time would be thus occupied, to the in-
jury of public affairs.—One of the crew of the Cuba, at
Wilmington, North Carolina, committed suicide by jump-
ing from a window of the Seamen's Home,—Miss Sallie A.
Bowles, eldest daughter of Mr. Samuel Bowles, and Miss
Maria Whitney of Northampton, sailed for Europe in the
steamer Idaho from New York on Wednesday afternoon,
Oct. 20, and will reside at Cassel, Germany, for the greater
part of next year, to study the language of that country.—.
Jared C. Terry, a soldier of the war of 1812, has just died
at Orange, Massachusetts, aged 76, and was buried at Mon-
tague on Sunday, Oct. 17. —W. J. Shattuck of Coleraine,
Massachusetts, lost $125,000 in mills and other property
by the freshet, but will rebuild at once.—Drs. 0. F. Harris
of Worcester and Seth Rogers of Pomfret, Connecticut,
have purchased the "Magnolia estate" of 400 acres, on the
St. John's River in Florida, 25 miles above Jacksonville,
and will fit it up as a resort for tourists and invalids.—
The two oldest bank officers in the United States, Elipba-
let Williams, President of the Northampton National
Bank, who is in his 90th year, and Stalham Williams,
President of the Utica (N.Y.) Savings Bank, eisho is in
his 97th year, are both descendants of the Rev. William
Williams, for 56 years pastor of the church at Hatfield,
where he died in 1741. —James Fisk, jun., has been sum-
moned for contempt of court in New York as a delin-
quent juror.—Daniel S. Curtis, Mr. Joseph Churchill's
friend, was released from imprisonment at Boston, Thurs-
day, Oct. 21, his term of two mouths having expired.—
Mr. Eliot is the seventh president Harvard University has
had during the past forty years. Four of them, Quincy,
Everett, Sparks, and Felton, aro dead.— Willard Knapp's
h6uso in Woodford Hollow, Vermont, was swept away
during the great freshet, and Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Porter, Lyman Knapp, and Louis Rivers were drowned.
—Josiah Minot of Concord is the executor of ox-Presi-
dent Pierce's will. The estate is estimated at $90,000.--
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe has completed her rejoinder
in the Byron case, and loft Hartford, Connecticut, for
Brooklyn, whence she will soon proceed to her winter
home in Florida. Her editorial connection with " Hearth
and Home" ended with October.— At Augusta, Georgia,
Oct. 20, John P. Foster was shot dead by William R.
M'Donald, in "a difficulty."—.The Dominion Cabinet has
been reorganized as follows : —Sir J. Macdonald, Prime
Minister; Sir G. Cartier, Minister of Military Affairs; Sir
Francis Mucks, Minister of Finance.

Ind as compared with the month ending the 10th of
Oct., 1868, the above returns show a decrease of
£513,060 in the circulation of notes in England, and a
decrease of £296,976 in the circulation of the United
Kingdom.
On comparing the above with the fixed issues of the
several banks the following is the state of the circulation:—
The English private banks are below their

fixed issue £1,330,129
The English joint-stock banks are below their

fixed issue

385,487

Total below fixed issue in England ... £1,715,616
The Scotch banks are above their fixed issue... 303,498
The Irish banks aro below their fixed issue 1,977,333
The average stock of bullion held by the Bank of Eng-
land in both departments during the month ending 6th
of Oct. was £19,978,992, being a decrease of £909,624,
as compared with the previous month, and a decrease of
£883,485 when compared with the same period last year.
The following are the amounts of specie held by the
scotch and Irish banks during the month ending the 9th
of Oct.:—

Gold and silver held by the Scotch banks ... £2,726,457
Gold and silver held by the Irish banks ... 2,277,274

£5,003,731
being an increase of £157,520 as:compared with the pre-
vious return, and an increase of £232,170, when compared
with the corresponding period last year.

Louisville has been the scene of a great Com-
mercial Convention, and its neighbourhood, though in In-
diana across the river in Ohio, has illustrated the happy state
of law and order which there prevails. A man named Spring-
stoor, with his brother, got into a difficulty with the two
brothers Clark, about the settlement of an account. Both
the Springstoors were killed, and the murderers walked
away with the utmost indifference. Though the Vigilance
Committee to which the Springstoors were supposed to
bslong were out and armed, they never dreamt of interfer-
ing with so legitimate a mode of settling an account, but
proceeded to the residence of Moss Rice, who had been
warned to leave the neighbourhood, the time given him
having then nearly expired. There they fired several shots,
which made such an impression on Moss that he cleared out
straight away, and the after proceedings showed him by
the fate of another Rice that under the circumstances
hurry was advisable ; the other Rice having paid no at-
tention to his warning, so he was found dead in the woods.
Mr. Whitinghills and his son declined to act either with
or against the committee, a proceeding so distasteful to
that despotic body that both received an instant warning
to quit. This state of affairs places the power of life and
death, of banishment and surrender of property, in the
hands of an irresponsible and unknown band, perhaps of
ruffians, a system better calculated for border life than for
the great and growing State of Indiana ; but to do In-
diana justice, we must say that Warwick county is very
close to Kentucky.

A letter from the attorneys of the shareholders
in the Overend and Gurney Company yesterday, published
in the Times, gives some idea of the expense in even the
attempt to get justice in a case where the ruin has been
enormous. They oppose Dr. Thom's application to throw
the expense of the prosecution of the directors on the
liquidator; for the reason that the shareholders bad already
lost, through what they evidently consider such like foolish
proceedings, one million and a quarter sterling, with an
extra quarter of a million for interest. There never was a
more hideous parody on justice and law; but this point
should not be overlooked, that the quarrel which led to
this loss was between the victims—the shareholders on one
side and the creditors on the other. Dr. Thom's proceed-
ings are against the men through whose agency the state
of affairs was brought about. Still, this letter shows with
what impunity such ruin can be wrought. A case, how-
ever, is being heard, on which we therefore cannot com-
ment, against the managing directors of Barned's Banking
Company, a failure •that caps that of Overend, Gurney,
and Company.

A correspondent informs us there is a stir, as
we last week announced, by the Government clerks
of Washington, for an increase of twenty per cent
on their salaries, and strong efforts are being made
to support the motion when brought up in Congreba.
The clerks have got hold of what is alleged to be an ap-
plication from the Hon. E. B. Washburne, the Minister at
Paris, to have his own pay, as well as that of the m tu-
bers of the Legation, increased. Mr. Washburne is wtil
known as " The Treasury Watch-Dog," and many raiders
in that direction when he was iu the Representatives
were scared by his furious onslaught. Not only have the
clerks now the advantage of having their old enemy out of
the way, but they are preparing to use his own application
against himself, that is if he ever made it.

His Excellency ex-Governor Andrew G. Curtin
has been given credit by many American papers for a
knowledge of languages which perhaps he has not acquired,
and, if not, would have no wish to receive the praise at the
expense of another. A Mr. Curtin, of the American Le-
gation at St. Petersburg, did address the Huss banquet at
Prague in the Bohemian and Russian languages, creating
the greatest enthusiasm ; but it was not the Minister, but
the late Secretary of Legation, Jeremiah Curtin, of Wis-
consin, who did so.