The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-28 00:00:00

THE LORDS' AMENDMENTS.

Five more pages of amendments have been issued, the
most important proposal being made by the
Earl of SHArTESBURY.—In clause 67, which deals With
the surplus, he will move that half of the property be
applied under the management of " the Commissioners of
the Loan Fund Board of Ireland" in order to aid certain
persons by grants of loan at interest not exceeding'
the rate of £4 or less than £2 per annum. Loans may be
granted to (1) farmers holding farms either below or above
five acres, in stocking, draining, repairing, building, or
otherwise improving their lands and holdings ; (2) trades-
men or mechanics, dealers or hnxters, weavers or spin-
ners, fishermen or boatmen, or persons in other occupa-
tions requiring loans of money for their respective
callings. He also proposes that when the commission
expires ten years hence, half of the surplus funds then
remaining shall be applied for the benefit of the labouring
population of Ireland.
Viscount MoscK will move that any person who is
aggrieved by the act of one commissioner may require his
case to be heard by the three commissioners, instead of
two.
Lord DUNSANY will propose that the case shall be heard
by the other two commissioners. In Clause 25, which pro-
vides several enactments with respect to churches, he will
propose to leave out sub-section 4, which grants that
where any church vested in the commissioners is not
disposed of under preceding sections, they shall dispose of
such church and the site thereof in such manner as they
think expedient. In Clause 36 he will move that in
the case of any burial-ground not adjacent to any church
now used, or other place of worship, but being in any
private park, demesne, or ornamental grounds, such
burial-ground shall be vested in the Board of Works.
Viscount G01..1G11 proposes to add to Clause 27 a proviso
that where any ecclesiastical residence is vested in the
representative body of the Church, the body shall have
the same power for recovering any sums due for dilapida•
tion as the successor of any archbishop, bishop, or incum-
bent would have had if the Act had not been passed.
Lord SALTERSFORD (Earl of Courtoun) proposes that
whenever any annuity shall become forfeited, or cease
otherwise than by the death of the holder, then a like
annuity shall thenceforth during the life of such holder be
paid by the commissioners to therepresentative body of the
church, who shall make provision for the proper discharge
of the duties appertaining to the office.

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The Archbishop of DUBLIN. —To propose that every
claimant shall be reimbursed of all reasonable costs and
expenses properly incurred by him in establishing all
claim under the Act

The Bishop of PETERBOROUGH will endeavour to get tae
words " with any burial-ground annexed or adjacent
thereto" to the proviso that where any church appears to
the commissioners to be ruinous, such building shall be
preserved as a national monument.
Marquis of SALISBURY.—In clause 14, which deals with
the compensation to persons deprived of income, he will
move to leave out the words " salaries of permanent
curates." He will also propose that in the event of
formation and incorporation of the representative body
of the Church, the commissioners shall pay over to them
the sum of £200,000 to provide for the payment of the
servants and agents and other expenses connected With
the constitution of said body, and the management of the
affairs and property thereof.
Earl NELSON will propose several amendments to
Clause 16, which provides for annuities to cathedral
officers. the

TBE OVEREND AND GURNEY CASE ill")

THE GOVERNMENT.

Some further correspondence is published between Dr.
Thom (through his solicitors) and the Government in the
matter of the Overend, Gurney, and Co. prosecution.
Messrs. Lewis and Lewis write to the Secretary for the
Home Department as follows:—"We have the honour to
acknowledge the receipt of your communication of tbs
22nd inst., in which you state that the Government
will not undertake the prosecution of these defendants'
Since we addressed you upon the subject, the Lord Chief
Justice has fixed this trial to take place on Friday, the
2nd of July, and his lordship has decided that Dr. Thom,
the prosecutor, cannot conduct the case, and that the
court will refuse to hear him. Dr. Thom has therefore
desired us to communicate these circumstances to Y°ll,
and to add, for the reasons given in our former
letter, he will not instruct counsel, or add t°
the heavy legal expenses he has already incurred.
This most important indictment, found by a grand
jury, and which charges the defendants with a conspiraa
to defraud the public of three millions sterling, will he
left in the state indicated unless the Government will
authorise the expenditure necessary to try it. The costs
(including the heavy counsel and other fees), even of such
a trial, which will probably last ten days, we would under'
take should not exceed £5,000, and we state that limit
that it may not be supposed that any unusual outlay Wig
become necessary."
To this the following reply, dated " Whitehall, 3,1!
25, 1:169,' and signed "A. F. 0. Liddell," is made
am directed by Mr. Secretary Bruce to acknowledge the
receipt of your further letter of the 24th instant, slig.
gesting that the Government should undertake the further
proceedings in the case of E. v. the Directors of the
Overend, Gurney, and Co. (Limited),' and I am to inform
you that Mr. Bruce adheres to the decision communicated
to you on the 21st instant."

FATAL ACCIDENT TO AN ACROBAT.-011 Satur-
day a trapeze vaulter, named Becona (or rather Tax:l6l)'
who recently fell a distance of about twenty feet while
going through a performance at the Wellington Music
Hall, at Windsor, expired from the effects of his injuries*
THE TOWN CLERK OF MANCHESTER.—The Fiji°
Minister has in very flattering terms communicated t 0
Mr. Heron, the town clerk of Manchester, her MajestYl
approval of his recommendation that the honour
knighthood should be conferred upon Mr. Heron, in recog'
nition of his high character and position, and his long
services to the community with which he has been italn.l
diately concerned.
CABINET COUNCIL. —At the Cabinet Council hell
on Saturday, in Downing-street, the Ministers present
were the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Lor
Chancellor, Earl de Grey and Ripon, the Ear
of Kimberley, the Right Hon. H. A.
the Earl of Clarendon, Earl Granville, the Right
Hon. E. Cardwell, the Duke of Argyll, the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. Hugh Childers, tl3°
Right Hon. J. Bright, the Right Hon. G. J. Gosche,ll'
the Marquis of Hartington, and the Right Hon.

Fortescue.
EMIGRATION FROM THE MERSEY. —TIIO enliglv
don from Liverpool last week was not so great as that °i
the previous week. During the week there sailei
ald
steamers from the Mersey for the United States all
Canada. The Cunard steamer Malta with 530
passe
the Guion Queen steamer Nelouska with 624, the 113051:1
Company's steamer City of Paris with 870 steerage P 9.5..
sengers, together with a full complement in the 01)111:
the Allan Company's steamer Hibernian with 500 1156.
sengers, and the Cunard steamer Lava with 310 PD
sengers. jt

THE RATE DEFALCATIONS AT GREENWICII*--':,
will be remembered that a few weeks ago Mr. Franc'
Durant, one of the collectors of parochial rates for tea
parish of Greenwich, absconded, leaving ascertain%
deficiencies amounting to nearly £3,000. Two Pilit
sureties for a sum of £6OO had been taken again
any such defalcations, but the persons thus resPe"'
sible complained at the time of the great want of Baer;
sision exercised by the parochial officials in duly audits.:
the receipts and payments. The defalcations in question e'
supposed to have extended over a period of several Year!.
The parochial authorities, having commenced an action
the Court of Queen's Bench to recover the full amount e.
ir
the joint bond entered into, the sureties, through they
solicitor, made an offer for the payment of a sum of rv:
in discharge of their liability. A vestry meeting of tilv
parish has been held, to take this offer into consideratiooo
when, on the motion of Mr. Berry, seconded by DIP
Major, it was rejected, and the action will proceed.
THE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE BRECON 1'149
MERTHYR RAILIVAL—On Saturday Mr. W. H. Brewer'
coroner for the western district of Monmouthsbire'
v
commenced his inquiry at the Angel Inn, Maesycwrelner'
touching the death of Thomas Stokes Thomas, ellgi/le's
driver ; John Kendall, locomotive superinteudene
Rhymney Railway ; and John Simpson, loconsotiv
whse
superintendent Brecon and Merthyr Railway,
thQ
deaths were caused by an engine running off
line at Maesycwmmer, on the 10th instant, and
falling into the parish road. Mr. lice allays, the gener,,
manager of the line, and Mr. Roberts, chief engineer, w'-
in attendance, and stated that they were present at the
directors' request, who were anxious afford the Pr/
every information, so as to enable thvis to arrive at the
cause of the accident. From the evidence of John,
Crane, traffic inspector, it appeared that the train consist
of empty coal trucks, timber wacgons, and five truoiscei
lacier. with iron ore, and one with tin plates. They Passed
Maesycwmmer station all right, but soon after Pussinl:
under the viaduct the engine left the line, and witnee:
was going to jump off when the bridge went to pieces, en
5
the engine and tender and three of the trucks, laden witii
iron ore, fell over into the road beneath. One of the
jurors said he believed the engine had been off the line
several times, but this was said to be the fault of the
platelayers. Another juror said he had heard the engine
was too light in front, which caused it to run off the line.
The engine was said to have been weighted by the Governa:
ment inspector, and as he was not present the inquiry W
adjourned for his attendance,

MONEY MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

Consols unaltered to-day at 924 for money ;
ditto, for Account, 93 ; Three per Cent. Re-
duced, 924 ; New Three per Cents, 924 1 ;
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, —; ditto £lOO, £2OO,
and £5OO, —; Bank of England Stock, 4 per
Cent., 242.
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, shut ;
ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1111 ; ditto 4 per
Cent., Oct., 1888, 100 i ; ditto Enfaced Paper, 5
per per Cent., —; ditto Debentures, 1031.
American Securieties are quiet, and prices are
unchanged. United States Five-Twenty Bonds is
quoted at 301 tto 3034 ; Erie Shares, 19f to 20 ;
and Illinois, 941 to 944.
In Miscellaneous Securities Anglo-American Tele-
graph shows an advance of 4, dealings being effected
at 201 to 208.

Mln Bank Shares, London and Westminster is
higher, at 61 to 62 ; while Oriental shows a de-
cline of being quoted at 40 to 41k.
Beyond a slight reduction in Turkish and Ar-
gentine there is no quotable change in the Foreign
Stocks.

In English Railways there is an advance of i in
London and South Western, and k in London and
North Western ; Brighton, Caledonian, and Great
Western, i each.
There were no bullion operations at the Bank on
Saturday.

The Delta, from Alexandria, has brought
£10,689 in specie.
The Liverpool cotton market on Saturday was
buoyant, and the sales increased to 18,000 bales.
The Canadian News publishes the resolutions
passed by the Senate and Commons of the Cana-
dian Parliament, ratifying the bargain between
Canada and the Hudson's Bay Company. These
resolutions provide, among other points, for the
payment of the stipulated sum of £300,000 by
Canada to the Hudson's Bay Company, and
authorise the Governor-General iu Council to take
measures for the carrying out of the agreement.
The money is to be raised under an Imperial gua-
rantee.

We have received a copy of the balance-sheet
for 1868 of the Azienda Assicuratrice of Trieste, an
undertaking which was established in 1822. It
appears that the accumulated funds of the com-
pany, invested in real estate, Government stock and
other first-class securities, are now £354,013 15s.
Bd., showing an increase on last year of about
£90,000 ; and, after having paid a dividend of 10
1-6 per cent., the company has been enabled to
raise its reserve and premium funds from £210,595
12s. in 1867, to £286,853 18s. 7d. in 1868.
The last advices from Montevideo furnish details
of the late financial crisis in that city, and of the
embarrassments that are still resulting from it. It
is stated that the efforts of the Government and of
the Legislature to afford relief have proved futile,
and that, while the proposals for a resuscitation of
the suspended banks have all been rejected, the
only circulating medium in the country is still the
paper of these banks.

The effect of the decline in the value of wool
upon Cape interests is shown in the following ex-
tract from the circular of Messrs. L. Lippert and
Co., dated Port Elizabeth, May 14 :—" The advices
of the continued downward tendency of our staple
in the home markets has given prices here also a
turn in favour of buyers. Supplies have been
steadily pouring in, and large quantities are said to
be on the road."

The British Land Company (Limited) have de-
clared an interim dividend to the 30th inst. of 5 per
cent. on their paid up capital.
At a meeting on Saturday of the creditors of
Messrs. T. and S. Sykes, worsted spinners, Duckett-
mills, Bradford, the liabilities were stated at about
£5,000, with assets expected to yield ss. in the
pound. A committee was appointed, and the meet-
ing adjourned till Tuesday.
The coupons on the first preference 6 per cent.
Bonds of the Northern Railway of Canada are ad-
vertised for payment on the Ist of July.

We are informed that Messrs. W. C. Miller and
Sons, of Garston, floated the screw steamer Brazi-
lian from their graving docks on the 24th instant,
after having lengthened her 125 feet. Her dimen-
sions now are as follows : —Length between per-
pendiculars, 403 ft. ; breadth, 37ft. gin. ; depth,
35ft. 4in. She will be propelled by engines of
500 horse power, and steered with Skinner's verti-
cal steering apparatus. With the exception of the
Great Eastern this vessel is now, we believe, of
greater length than any other in the merchant ser-
vice. She is said to be intended for the Suez Canal
navigation.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
GOTEILNMENT FUNDS.
8 per Cent. Consols
.Ditto for Account, July 7
3 per Cent. Reduced 921
New 3 per Cent
New 2i per Cent. Jan. 1894
Do. 5 per Cen ,an. 1873
Annuities, 80 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 ---
Do
(Rod Sea Televaph), Aug., 1908 —
Exchoci= Bills, £l,OOO, 2t & 3 per Ut

Do - .£1.0.0, .E'2UU & £5OO
Bank of England Stock, 4-1, per Cent
Do. opening
Canada 4 per Cent. Bonds —
Inber-Colonial Omnium —

INDIAN dOYERNMENT SECURITIE6.
India tock, 10* per Cent., April 1879
Do. Openiag, for Account
D. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates

Do. Enfaced Pape,. 4 per Cent..;., —
Do. 5 per Cert., Jan. 1872 -........ —
Do. 5} per Cent. May 1879 —
DJ b per Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872 —
Do do 1877 —
Do. do. 1882 —
IL. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
Do. Bond; 4 per Cent., £l,OOO
Do. under £l.OOO

FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent
Arian Bolide 5 per cent
Do. 1859
Brazilian 5 per Cent
00. 4} per Cent. 1852
Do. do 1858..... 72/
Do. au. 1860

Do. do., 1863 —
Do. 5 per Cent., 1865
Do Account —
II znes Ayres 6 per Cent.
Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
Cuba, 6 per Cent.
Cudian 6 per Cent —
Do. 4i per Cent. —
Do. 3 per Cent.,
1)o. 6 per ce"t. 1867 97} 7
Do. 7 per Cent., 1866
C lo nbian, 6 per Cent.
Danish, 3 per Cent., 1825
Dani,rian Principalities, 7 ler Cent —
Do 8 per Cent., 1867 . ........ 91f i
Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent
E4yrtian, 7 per Cent B4}

~. . .
Do Second issue —
Do. £sot, Bonds —
D0..£100 Bonds
Do. 1864
Do. Account
Do. £5OO Bonds
Do. 4100 Bonds 9of
Do. 7 per Cent., 1868
Government Railway Debentures loo}
Greog 5 per Cont., 1824 5, ex Coups
Do. Acccunt
Do. Coupons
Do. Account
Gamternala 5 per Cent .. _
Honduras Goy Rail. Loan., lop. Ct., all pd
Ita iian 5 per Cent., 1865 —
Do. Account ~
Do 11;tremmana Railway
MexicaL 3 per Cent
Ditto for Account
Do. 1864 —
Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French
aiontovideau 6 per Cent.
61corish imperial 5 por Cent
New Granada —
Do 3 per Con —
Do. Deferred
Pe uriau 5 per Cent. 1865
Do Account .. 791 i
Do 1. per Cent. (Di :'.arren) ------ —.•••—
Do 4i per Cent.. 1862 • —
Do Account —
inn: !,'9,'60,'2.'

Do 1P67.
Do: do. - -
Do. do. Scrip, £2O paid —
Ita-;sian 5 ,ier Cent., 1822, £ Si,
Do 41 per Cent . 1850
. „.

Do •1i per Cent., 1860
Do 3 per Cont., 1359
Do 5 por Cent., 1932
Do do, Scrip —
Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1664,- £11)(1 lion's:.
Do. do. £B4 15s. d0..._ - -
Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds —
Do. do £Bl 15s. do —
1)o Nicolas Railway --

Sarlinian 5 per Cent
Spanish 3 per (Jen .
Do. Account
Do. 1867
Do. Account
Do. New Deferrou
Do. Account
Do. Passive
Do. Com. Cert. of Coup. not funded ...
Do. Account
Swedish Provincial Mortgage Loan
Do Government, 1864
Do do, 1868
Turkish 6 par Cent.:
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent. 1858
Do Account
Do £lOO Bonds
Do 6 per Cent., 1862
Do Account
Do .£IOC Bonds 69
Do 5 per Cent. 1865 44f I
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent., 1660
Do 4 per Cent., Guaranteed
Do Laud Warrants (Hectares)
Venezuela 3 per Cent.
Do. Ace. out
Do 6 per Cont., 1862
Do 6 per Cent. 1664
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Austrian a per Cent. Ex 10 Florins ...
Belgian, 41 per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch •2* per Cent. Ex. 12 GuD,,
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ....
Do. Account
French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 251.
Italian 5 per Cent. 1831, Er.. zSf.
DJ Account 551
CLOSING PRICES.
Jonsols, Money 921 xd
Do. Account, July 7