The Sun.
London, England, 1869-08-27 00:00:00

niE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 27, 1869.

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.

Closing Business
Share NAME. Paid. Price. done
10 Agra Limited, A all 11 111 11l
19 DJ B lO 31 4} 4
50 Albion
00 Alliance, Limited
20 Anglo Austrian • 7i 21 22
'0 Anglo-Egyptian, lim all 221 291 p 23;
20 Anglo-ilungarian
20 Anglo-Rah:ln 1383, limited 10 5 4
40 Australasian
'2O Bank of British Columbia all 11 i 3
20 Do issued at 2pm ~.. 5 5 4
25 Bank of Egypt
20 Bank of Otago, lim. .. .
25 Bank of South Australia all 30 32
50 Bank of Victoria, Austialia '25 37 39
10 Bank of New Zealand all 131 161 15;
50 British North American .., all 501 511
20 Chartered of India, Austra-
lia, • nit China all 18 19
25 Chartered Mere. of India,
London, and China all 21 3C4 324
20 City
10 11 12 101
lOU Colonial 25 36 4i;
10 Consolidateddim.
50 Delhi and London, liin
,50 East Loudon, lira 5 21 11
20 English and Amo-ican,liin 10 ... •••
2U English Bank of Rio deJa-
neiro. lim
....... 10 pr 1p
20 English, :,cottisli, and Aus-
tralian Chartered ...... • all 41
281 Hong Kong and Shanghai
Bank Corporation all 36 38
281 Do new . 111 4 5
100 Imperial, lint 2O 15 161
20 Imperial Ottoman lO '2l 2i ill I
25 lonian all 19 '22
25 Do new 5 6 3
Lud Mortgage of India' lira 4 3i 31
100 Do 5 p. c. Debs.lB64, 30 all 76 71 vo
100 London Bank, of Mexico
and South America, lint, 20 7 6
100 London and Brazilian, liw. 45 30 '27
20 Do new 71 5 41
100 London & River Plate, Jim 40 6 8
25 Do new 10 11 2 p
20 London Chart.of AuStralia all 231 241
20 London Cud County 2O 491 403
50 Do new, iss at 20 p.m,14 pd. 11 ••• • •
London Joint Stock__ ~„ I at 1 321 301
Loudon and South African al 8 9
100 London & S.-Western, hut, 20 13 11
50 London & Venezuela, lim l.2} ••• •••
100 London and Westminster 2O 571 5.1
100 Do Scrip, iss at 10 pin...,,,,,, 20 ... •••
100 Merchant, lim
10 Metropolitan, lim.
00 Midland, 1int,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 20 11 1
5 National of Australia
25 National of Liverpool, 1110, 15 3d 1P
00 National Pro vine. of .Ened 42 ... ... 1431
10 Do
50 National.....
20 New South Wales all 41 43
20 North-Western
25 Oriental Bank- Corporation all 41 42
50 Provinc.Bauk.Corpo., lint lO 61 51
30 Provincial of Ireland 25 9.; 92
10 Do new. all ••• •••
100 Stand, of Brit. S. Africa, im '25 11 11
100 Do issued at 6pm lO 8 6
25 Union of Australia all 46 4; 461 71
100 Union of Ireland, lim
50 Union of London

TELEGRAP II COMPAN I ES.

10 Amlo-American Tel:,liini all tut, 201 21► i
10 Anglo Mediter Te1.,11m.... 10 1,1 16; 151 161
at Atlantic Telegraph lO 18 20
at Do. 8 per cent.
at B. and I. Magnetic Tel., lint lOO 165 175
at Electric & Inter. Telegraph 100 265 270
10 Do. New 8 12 14p
25 Indo-European Tel., lint lO id pr
5 Lond. Provincial Tel. lint all 31 Z
1 Do. Prefer. 10 per cent all 1 1p
10 Mediterra. Ex ten. Tel., Um. all 5 6 GT
2.5 Reuter's Telegram all 7,,) 81 A
10 Societe Transatlaut., lint— all 191 241 1) 1 18i
et Submarine Telegraph
1 Do. Scrip all li li,
SU. Kingdom Tel. Co., lint all ui 71
5 Do. to per cent Pref all -.I ;,',,

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CORTI c•-)/..sl'Q.

IIER, MAJESTY.

BALMORAL, August 24.

ller Majesty, accompanied by Princess Chris-
tian, drove to the Glassalt Slid in the after-

noon.
Prince Christian went out deer-stalking.

P:41',1":3 C(3111V.1-.,7-4P:)•ND7.7CCE.

THURSDAY.

The full text of M. Devienne's long-looked-for report is
new in the hands of Parisians; audit is everywhere conned
with the greatest avidity. The ingenuity with which the
[tamer'of the report has avoided the pitfalls that awaited
him, and has endeavonred to effect at least a nominal and
external agreement between very discordant and contra-
dictory elements and principles, is worthy of admiration.
In one notable instance M. Devienne found the task
too hard for hint. He has simply contented
himself with stating the two counter propositions,
" the Ministers depend only on the Emperor," and
"the Ministers are responsible to the Chamber," without
attempting to reconcile them. There is no change, he
says, in what relates to the sovereign: The only change
is in the collective and political responsibility of Ministers.
This is the only innovatioM 111. Devieune, however,
expects this responsibility to be something more
than an empty form. The opposition in the Corps
Lelgislatif may, he admits, overthrow the Ministry,
whose policy displeases it, on the condition of being able
to substitute another, and take its own turn in office. This
he holds to be a necessary consequence of the concession
of Ministerial responsibility. With regard to the attributes
of the Senate itself, M. Devienne is inclined to be a little
less liberal. He defends their.retention of the power of
veto, though he believed it should be very rarely used, and
only when the Corps Leigislatif has temporarily misinter-
preted public opinion. However seldom used, .be thinks the
possession of the power would give the Senate a moral
authority and influence which would strengthen its position
as a moderator. :The paragraph which the commission has
added to Article 5 has no doubt considerably modified
the evil effects of the veto, since the Lower Chamber will
be able to introduce in the next session the law whose
promulgation Las been vetoed by the Senate ; and the
French Liberals are consoling themselves by the example
of the House of Lords, who seldom refuse to recognise
the popular wishes.
There is one point, however, which is very unsatis-
factory, and I am glad to see that the Constitutionnet
of this morning takes it up vigorously. The Senate
persists in retaining the right of modifying the
Constitution, without the concurrence of the Corps
Li,gislatif and the ratification of the country. The Cons
stitutionect Oeclares this to be, in fact, an equivalent for
the famouS Article 14 of the Charter of the Restoration,
mid believes its retention will involve great risks. The
Seeate will have the power during the recess of the Lower
Chamber to propose and vote setions constitutional
changes without the nation or its representatives being
able to express an opinion. M. Devienne devotes some
space to the amendment of M. Lenjean, and answers
his argument for the election of a part of the eenators.
His objections, as you may suppose, are not very
logical, and he dwells upon the contrast
tvbich should exist between the two Chambers- as the
re presentstives of progress and of conservatism. What is
• the use, he asks, of having two if the two elements of
activity and stability are to exist in the same?
Would the reformers like to see half the depu-
ties nominated for life by way of modifying the Corps
Lsesslatif ? The troutlesonae Article 11 has been
disposed of by a eels:premise. You \rill remember that
the point at issue was whether the relations between the.
Emperor and the great powers of the State should be
regulated by 'an imperial decree, or by a Senatus-Consul-
tum. These relations, M. Devienne remarks, are two-
fold. There are the material relations and matters of
detail, and the foundation of those relations which affect
the Constitutional position of the powers. After a long
discussion, which, as we know, seriously impeded
the progress of the Commission, it was resolved
that all _matters relating to the material and
minor relations of the great powers should be settled
by Imperial decree, Let that in all matters which affect
the Constitution these relations must •be decided by a
Senates Consultum. M. Devienne's report was listened
to throughout with deep attention, as it deserved to be,
for it is undoubtedly a work of great ability.
The Senate will reassemble on Wednesday next for the
opening of the debate. If we are to accept M. de Char-
din as the crgan of the Liberalr, the report
will not aatirly thorn. Fr:o2(e, he says, mu:t
now choose, not Ictween the Empire and Li!), I ty,
but between thel:mpice and Revolution, and thedecislon
will rest with the Alinisterp,„ who hold oiilee when the
Constitutional changes are completed. if they are e !nai
to their task it is all over with the Revolution; if thus
are not equal to it, it is ell over With the Empire. M.
Emile 011ivier, whose address to the Conseil General of
Var is published this morning, is far more sanguine.
He rejoices over the wise concessions of the Emperor, and
declares that the " irreconcileahles" have forfeited confi-
dence by their very name. It rests with Frenchmen
themselves to remove the mortifying distinctions between
France and England, and he exhorts his associates to seek
neither display nor preponderance, but the welfare of
their country.

The Emperor's health continues to improve, lie pre•
sided yesterday at the Council of Ministers. For some
days past he has been able to go on foot in the Park of St.
Cloud. It may, therefore, be considered that all anxiety,
at least for the present, is at an end, and that his Majesty
will shortly resume his old habits. The Empress and the
Tintcrial Prince appear to be making a most successful
tour, and are everywhere received with enthusiasm. At
an early hour on Wednesday, the Empress and the Prince
went without escort to the Hospital of St. Eugenie. The
Empress contributed a large sum to this establishment,
and takes a great interest in its success. Her Majesty's
visit was quite a fete day in the neighbourhood, and
khe has the satisfaction of seeing that the hospital was
most admirably conducted in every particular.
A Spanish journal gives a touching account of the visit
of the wife of the Carlist chief, Palo, to the Regent of
Spain. She begged that an amnesty might be accorded to
him, but the Regent declared that he could give no
definite assurance in this respect, though he spoko in
hopeful terms.

It is said that M. do 33eust is expected at Marienbad,
where he will meet with M. de Thile, who has been there
some days. It is possible that these statesmen may find
it easier to come to terms at a personal interview than
they did when carrying on communication by letters and
despatches.

A terrible accident took place in the coal mine of
Firming on Tuesday. The cause was firedamp, and twelve
persons were taken out dead. Nine are not expected to
survive, and it is feared that other persons are missing.
The Emil says that many people persist in saying that
Ledru Rollin is incognito at Paris, and remarks thereupon
that Ledru Rollin has no occasion to hide, and that whet
he returns he will let his friends know in good time.

Pius IX. remembering that it was Marshal Niel,
at he time Colonel, who brought him in 1849, the keys of
Rome at Gaeta, hastened, on hearing of that officer's death,
to celebrate a low mass for the repose of his soul.
The death is announced of Sir William
Henry Roger Palmer, the fourth baronet. He was born in
1832. He is succeeded •by his son, Roger William Henry
Palmer, Lieut.-Colonel of the 2d Life Guards, who served
with considerable distinction in the Crimea. The new
baronet was ➢i.P. for Mayo from 1857 to 1865.

Flint Jack, the noted forger of antiquities, who,
after a year's incarceration iu Bedford jail, had returned to
his old haunts in Yorkshire, is again in prison at Northal-
lerton. Ho was employed to clean a fossil at Whitby, which
he did, but sold it for Is. Ho told the bench he was "super-
annuated with drink" when he did the act. Ho was sent to
hard labour for six weeks.

At the Manchester Chamber of Commerce meeting
on Wednesday, a discussion on the agitation which appears
to be going on adverse to the operations of free-trade was occa-
sioned by the receipt of a pamphlet speech of Mr. Staveley
Hill, M.P., and it was resolved as the best antidote to the
protectionist movement to reprint and circulate the speech
of Mr. Bright in reply.

A dreadful misfortune has just occurred at Ulm.
A society of Catholic workman had arranged to have a party
on the Danube. They went in three boats which were
overcrowded, and came in contact with part of a twill that
was on the shore, and were dashed to pieces. Twelve bodies
have been found, but there are thirty persons missing who
are supposed to be drowned. •
At the Norwich Election Commission the " Trum-
pet" group of bribery cases is not yet exhausted. Further
evidence has been given yesterday as to the bribery proceed-
ings of a man named Hunt at that tavern. Hunt himself is
expected to be examined.

At Beverley further evidence has been given yester-
daY of bribery at borough elections ten years ago and since.
In 1865 the voters say they were paid on behalf of Mr.
Keane, the Liberal candidate, a pound by an Unser person
and anotherpound by a stranger. There is alsofurther evidence
that the payments at last municipal election were intenied
to influence the parliamentary election. Some of the wit-
nessess are (our correspondent telegraphs) very olliviousi
and the Commissioners threatened them with imprisonment.

THE GREAT BOAT hACE.

OXFORD v. HARVARD.

As our University Boat Race is looked upon by
all classes, not only as a symbol of our national
greatness, but as an annually recurring festival; so
is the boat race between the Universities of Har-
vard and Yale in the United States of America.
Equally greeted by our trancatlautic brethren, for
America boasts of two as fine universities
as the mother country, the one being situate
at Yale. in Newhaven, Connecticut, and
the other at Harvard, Cambridge City, near
Boston, Massachusetts. The constitution of these
Universities is identical to that of ours, except that
the stu lents generally remain longer. Harvard,
after the fashion of Oxford University, has for some
years held the wastery over the amateur oarsmen
of America, besides which, Harvard has beaten the
celebrated Ward Brothers (professionals), and bid
fair to long hold its position of pre-eminence among
tha oarsmen's clubs of America.

It must be acknowledged that in matters apper-
taining to the oar the Englishman has held an uu-
deniable superiority over the American, as thole
who have come from the States to try their prowess
against their countrymen have experienced ; and
until very recently—vast changes having taken place
in the build of American racing craft—racing
was in nothing like so advanced a state, con-
sistent with the progress the nation had made
in civilisation and social intercourse with other
nations. The outrigger now used was unknown
until introduced a few years ago by a Yorkshire
builder. ; improvements have been rapidly made, and
we may now safely say that Elliott of Greenpoint,
who has been brought to this country as the Har-
vard boat-builder, can turn as good a four-oared
racing boat off the stocks as any of our builders.
After the triumph of the New Brunswick crew
over our best talent at the Anglo-Parisian Regatta
in 1866, and a recent victory over the Yale Col-
legians, the Harvard gentlemen sent a formal chal-
lenge to the President of the Oxford University
Boat Club, challenging to row au eight-oared race,
without a coxswain, a style of rowing in vogue on
the other side, which was in use at the Paris Re -
gatta aforesaid. This was some months ago, and
and was declined on the ground that the
Oxonians were not accustomed to this class
of rowing. Further negotiations, however, went
on, and at length it was determined
that the race should be in four-oared boats, with
coxswains, from Putney to Mortlake in August;
the Oxonians under Mr Tinn6, their President,
were soon at work at home in a tub-boat, and did
Lot rovire much polish, having formed part of
the dark Mae division at the University Boat
Race;-and they went into the raci'►g boat at Pang-
bourne, a fortnight ay, and that they were under
the care of Mr. Geo. Morris3n is a sullijent gua-
r.►ntee of their l regress.
Atner:cans htl been in tr.,ining, an I in-
deed are always kept in coalition, on the Ever
Charles, on which thcl city is situate, and nearly
six weeks ago err►ba:ked on board the City of Paris
• —after being feted in New York to a great degree
—part of wh.e4 had been set apart fur their occu-
pation, so that all kinds of ni tidy exercises rnig'nt
is,: gone through oa the ten days' voyage to Liver-
pool. Five weeks to-day they arrived at Putney,
and put up at the Star and Garter, leaving in a
few days for a more commodious house nearer
their boat-yard, and screened from the all-
observant Cockneys who Letook themselves
to Putney in great numbers to witness the first trial
trip of the Yankees on our water ; for some days
they were disappointed, and rumours were rite that
the Ilarvards did not intend to let the public know
what they did, or when they did it, but on Tuesday
following they essayed a trip to Hammersmith in a
prodigiously long four, built entirely of wood, with-
out canvass, and galvanized hollow outriggers; they
sat her well, and evidently had been well trained, but
the style of the rowing altogether was of so ordinary a
character that Londoners at once began to lay 3 to
lon Oxford. It was soon very palpable that the
American style of rowing was not on a par with
ours, and the crew talked about sticking to the
style, in which they were loudly supported by the
backers of Oxford, who fondly Lnagitied, no doubt,
that they would be blind to their own defeats and
our better style. They were not, however, for Eng-
lisl► costumes were obtained ; new boats were
ordered (five in number) by English makers ;
new oars, too; they c Aught our style of
rowing very rapidly, and at length, when the
Oxonians arrived here a fortnight ago, bade fair to
turn out a much finer crew than had been antici-
pated. Two new oarsmen, Messrs. Fay and Ly-
man, had just arrived, and they were put into the
place of Messrs. Bass and Rice, making up a dif-
ference for the better, and strengthening the fast
growing opinion that they were not at all to be
despised. What can we say further of the training
of either crew ? Eminently, the Oxford style, and
both in their trials displayed great pace and endur-
ance, so that the odds-3 to 1 on Oxford—were
not only unjustified, but absurd to a degree.