The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-07 00:00:00

Persecution of Jews in Moldavia.

Some further correspondence laid before Parlia-
ment gives an account of an interview which Consul
St. Clair had with Prince Charles at Jassy on the
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7th of June. The Prince assured the Consul
that he was determined to put a stop to all persecu-
tions against the Jews, and that persons guilty of
such acts should be severely punished. The Consul
represented to his Highness that on the evening of
his arrival in Jassy (the 24th) more than 200 Jews
were beaten and ill-treated, and some of them had
their beards and hair burnt and torn by
the torch - bearers who ran alongside his
Highness's carriage. More than thirty of these
had called at Her Majesty's Consulate, and
had evidently been roughly handled. A Jewess,
in the family way, the Consul also saw who had
received a bayonet wound in her arm because
she tried to prevent some soldiers from beating
her husband. The Consul, writing on the 28th,
the day after this interview, is able to add that the
officers who ill-treated the Jews had been arrested,
and would be punished ; but he writes that he ex-
pressed to the Prince his fear that on his Highness's
departure abuses would recommence, as the authori-
ties were either weak or unwilling to do their duty,
and the people unfit for a European constitution and
laws, which are foreign importations, and not the
result of the habits and customs of the Rouman na-
tion. In regard to the outrage at Galatz, the British
Consul at that place reports that on the 12th July a
batch of ten Jews, brought from Jassy,represented to
be " vagrants" who hadcome from Turkey, were de-
ported by soldiers across the Danube and forced on
shore opposite Galatz, on a marshy island, where
the soldiers left them, telling them to make their
way to the mainland by a ford which they would
find further on. No such ford exists. It searching
for it through mud and water one of them disap-
peared. The others were observed by the Turkish
guard at Zatoga, who sent a boat to rescue them, fed
them, and took them back next morning to Galatz.
From this place they were on the same day carried
back to another part of the same island. Here they
were again taken charge cf by another Turkish
guard, and a second time sent back to Galatz. This
time the Aioido_Wallachian guard refused to receive
them. The Turkish guard drew their boat close to
the shore, and compelled the Jews to land. The
Moldo-Wallachian soldiers drove them into the
water with their bayonets and the butt-ends of their
muskets. The Turks shoved off. The Jews clung
to the boat to save themselves from the soldiers on
shore. The Turks forced them to let go their hold,
and no attempt being made by anybody on shore
to save them they were both drowned. One of
them was a very old man, so weak that, when taken
over to the Turkish side of the river the second time
he had to be supported by two Moldo-Wallachian
soldiers. When the Turkish boat was clear off, the
surviving Jews were allowed to get out of the water,
and were put under arrest, and ultimately sent to
the Jewish Hospital in a pitiable condition. This
affair excited much indignation, and the foreign con-
sills met, and sent to the Prefect a joint protest,
declaring that they held him and the superior au-
thorities responsible for these acts of barbarity in
the face of the civilised world. The British Consul
also made known to the Jews at Galatz that he wae
prepared to afford a refuge at the consulate to any
of them who might require it. The Bucharest
21/(mitond tries to throw the blame on the Turks!
this
but the Roumanians were clearly the cause of
lamentable occurrence. Their Government Ilse
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appointed a commission to inquire into it.
British Consul at Bucharest writes that he .fe!flife
certain that Prince Charles would lay down his
rather than wittingly be a party to a Jewish perse
.
cution, but that it is so profitable that official
uu
derlings will not abandon it if they can help it.

THE ELECTORS IN SCOTLAND UND•
THE NEW REFORM BILL.

From a joint return moved for by Sir E. Colebrook Oa
il3
Mr. M'Laren, just printed, the effect of the ratepaY.s
suffrage upon the numbers of the Scottish borough constle
tuencies is very deafly set forth. We subjoin the reolto
as regards the different boroughs and groups of boroughs
No. of Male COI"
piers who lisTe_e
paid rates arl foe
R
No. of Electors entitled to °tat
on Roll. by Ito o o
lodgers).
21,280
51,912
8,445
3,811
5,964

Edinburgh
Glasgow ... 17,348
Aberdeen

Paisley
Dundee 3,333

Greenock
Perth

1,993
1,151

Wick District
Inverness Dirtrict 993
Elgin District ..... 1,083
Forfar District 1,840
St. Andrew's District 857
Kirkcaldy District
Stirling District
Kilmarnock District 1,725
Haddington District 717
Leith District
Falkirk District
Ayr District 1,366 ......
Dumfries District 1,128 ......
Wigtowu District
* Poor rates levied on income.

A
THE SALE OF BREAD.—A pretty general instrtlol
tion has recently been given to police superintew
dents to enforce the law, which compels every baker t°
setae:
sell by weight, and to furnish with weights and
every cart for the delivery of bread. During the past wort
many bakers in West Surrey and North Hants have been
summoned before the local magistrates, and fined 1,,t
amounts varying from 15s. to .£l, in consequence a not
with the above regulations. In numerous in-
stances the deficiency in weight in a quartern loaf has bee!
as much as half a pound, and oven newly-baked loave'
have been found several ounces deficient. 11/41°8t °f tilt°
defendants pleaded ignorance of the law, while some 3"-
logocl that loaves lose weight iu the b . • that On
needless to say that the magistrates pointed out
law deals with the loaf in the scale and not in the oven,
or polo',
and that proper weight must henceforth be given
Guildforyi
ties would be incurred. Some of the bakers of
who had been fined have revenged themselves ou OW.
customers by raising the price of bread a haifPen,rlsc,l:ll
loaf, and by adopting a process of " slack baking,' w-, A _
renders the bread heavy and indigestible. It is expee‘e:l:
however, that the inhabitants will devise means to deliver
aking. It ii almost
themselves from dictation of this kind. the
THE DUNDERBERG.—The iron steam-rain a
Dunderherg, purchased by the French GOVerninellt 1-1,.
fate
.'hie'
the United Sta'tes, has arrived at Cherbourg',
passage of 14 days and 17 hours. Notwithstanding to,
avourable weather, this vessel show©d perfect sea-s°l D
qualities.

MONEY MARKET

A ND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENOR,

TWELVE O'CLOCK.

The demand in the general discount market con-
tinues very moderate, and the business transacted
has led to no change in quotations, which still re-
main at 11 for first-class short-dated paper. •
Gold to the amount of £50,000 was taken to the
Bank of England yesterday.
The steamer La!Place, from the Brazils, has
arrived with £95,168 in specie ; and the Galileo,
belonging to the same line, has brought £52,272.
The report of the directors presented at the meet-
ing held to-day of the Mediterranean Extension
Telegraph Company stated that the revenue and
expenditure of the past half-year were about equal
to those of the preceding half-year. The Corfu
cable had been successfully repaired, at a cost of
£695, and both lines are now in excellent order.
The interruption continued from the 9th of De-
cember till the 4th of May, owing to which a
lapse of 56 days of the Government Guarantee
occurred. The directors recommended the usual divi-
dend of eight shillings per share, less income-tax,
on preference shares, equal to 8 per cent. per an-
num, and three shillings per share, free of income-
tax, equal to 3 per cent. per annum on the ordinary
shares, such dividends to be paid as soon as the
money shall be received from the other telegraph
administrations, and the balance carried to the re-
serve fund.

At the meeting of the City of London Brewery
Company (Limited) an ad interim dividend of 6
per cent. was declared.

At the meeting held to-day of the East London
Railway Company the directors' report entered
Lilly into the state and progress of the works, which,
though well advanced, have not been so rapid as could
be desired.

Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
remain steady at 26 28 ; and the Consolidated
Mortgage Bonds have risen I, to 22} 23.
At the meeting held to-day of the Electric and
International Telegraph Company the report stated
that the receipts for the half year slightly exceed
those of the corresponding period of last year, being
£167,461, and the net balance £68,995. The
directors, therefore, had much pleasure in recom-
mending a dividend of 5 per cent., free of ilicome
tax, upon the stock of the company, and a dividend
at the same rate, viz., 2s. 6d. per share upon the
new £lO shares of the company, over a period of
five months from the Ist February, the date at
which the first call of £3 was made. After pay-
ment of this dividend there is a surplus of £14,626,
out of which the directors recommended a sum of
£lO,OOO should be added to the trust fund, leaving
the balance to be carried forward. The trust fund
Will then amount to £105,174.

Two o'CLocK.

According to Reuter's telegram from Par is to-
day, the French Rentes were 691. 25c. Firm.
Rather animated.
Continuous rain and cold, at a period when
Sunshine and warmth are considered to be necessary
for harvest prospects, have had some further effect
upon the speculative account in ConsoLs at the
Stock Exchange. Values, however, have only
suffered by remaining unaltered when an advance
might have been reasonably anticipated.
The quiet manner in which the session is passing
to its close, the abundance of money, the quietude
of Continental politics, and the certainty of enor-
mous supplies of foreign grain to compensate at low
prices for any deficiency of our own crops, all tend
to support quotations in defiance of the determined
efforts of speculators for a decline. Consols con-
tinue quiet but firm at 94 k. _ _

The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are
93i ; Bank of England Stock, 260 ; India Stock,
220 ; ditto 5 per Cents., 112 1 ; and ditto Bonds 70s
prem.

Very few dealings are recorded in the Foreign
Department, and they are as follow':—Brazilian,
1852-60, 633 ; ditto, 1865, 75 ; Equador New.
Consolidated, 128 12 ; Egyptian (2d issue), 841
ditto, 1864, £lOO Bonds, 854 85 ; ditto Govern-
Inent Railway Debentures, 813 ; Greek, 13 ; Por-
tuguese, 1853-60, 393 ; 'Russian, 1850, 861 ; ditto,
1862, 851; Anglo-Dutch, 85/ ; Spanish New De-
ferred, 314; ditto Passive, 213 ; Turkish, 1854,
784 ; ditto, 1862, £lOO Bonds, 561 573 ; ditto,
1865, 304 ; and Venezuela, 1862, 18.
Considerable depression has prevailed in the
Railway Share Market, consequent upon the decla-
ration of unfavourable dividends by several of the
Principal lines.: Great Northern has receded 3,
and the A Stock 1; Midland, 14 ; North Eastern
(Berwick), and South Eastern, each 1 ; Great
Western, Lancashire and Yorkshire, and Metro-
politan, each 1 ; and Brighton, North Western,
and Great Eastern each 4.
The Foreign and Colonial lines are also a
shade flatter. Great Luxemburg have receded to
I°l ; Grand Trunk of Canada are marked 164 1 ;
Great Indian Peninsula 1074 108 ; and East
Indian 1083.
Bank shares still remain very inactive, but in
most instances support previous rates, Consolidated
eing dealt in at 41, Imperial Ottoman at 84, Lon-
don and Westminster at 93, and Union of London
at 391 40.
, Miscellaneous and Finance shares are flat. At-
lantic Telegraph 8 per Cents. have declined to 713 ;
Fore-street Warehouse are marked 123 ; Universal
'tarine Insurance 31, and National Discount Com-
pany 111 ex div.

MINING MARKET.
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.

.. __ .
In the market business has continued very dull,
Chiverton Moor, North Treskerby, Basset, Chiver-
ton, and Grenville are a shade flatter , while Chon-
tal
N.,. e 8) Prince of Wales, North Crofty, and Great
vor maintain former rates. Annexed are the cur -
tent
, quotations :
hivert
eh_ on Moor 4l 5 North Treskerby
iptales Gold
tau°ll Amalgamate 6 6f Providence Mines ...
t,,et Basset l4 16 South Condurrow 10s 12s 6d
, Caradon — Tincroft ... 12 12k
East,.. Lovell 6/ 7 West Chiverton 63 66
East Russell 1 1.1 West P. of Wales ...
GEast Wheal Grenville Wheal Basset
reat Laxey
311 at Wheal Vor ... 16 17* Wheal Chiverton ...... 61 7
varke Valley 4 4k Wheal Grenville 10s 12s 6d
'i°ll). Crofty 3 31 , Wheal Seton

BRITISH FUNDS —TWO O'CLOCK.
CIOVERNMEN'T FUNDS.
a 13,,3r ()out. Consols
8 uo. Account, Aug. 8 94
llt Per Cent. Raducod 93
3 per Cent 931
Nel I
2} per Cent. Jan. 1894 —
4:°. b per Cent. Jan. 1873
luities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan. 1880
O. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
°.(Bed Sea Telegraph), Auo., 1908
March. June. Exr,t,
-uoquer Bills, £1,000
Do £5OO —pm —Pm
g„ o. £lOO & £2OO —pm pin
1111 of England Stock, 5} per Cent
0. A.ccount
Ito. INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
?uu. Stock, 10} per Cent., April 1874 220
'O. Account
130 3
bi, Per Cent. July, 1880
to-c; • 'I„ Per Cent., Oct. 1888
bu
ti_•
uertificates —
• En faced Paper 4 per Cent —
b(c); 5, per Cent., Jan. 1872
)21,' ~3/4- per Cent., May 1879 —
Do. Debentures —
if. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
bci• bonds, 5 per Cent., £l,000
o• under £I,OOO
Arbon FOREIGN FUNDS—TWO O'CLOCK.
Buatiue Republic, t; per Cent —
raeoll:iaZ londs 5 per tdeut. 1859 —
sper bent _
_4l per Cent 1852-58-60
Do .1
0t). 5 • 1863
b_ per Cent., 1865 —
tho Account 75 '`'o• £lOO Bonds _
11110‘0, Ayres 6 per Cent —
,1 '' 4 Per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
`llll;,l%biii•u• 6 per Cent.
0 11.) u Per Cent.
I) lull 6 per Cent —
U° 4 1 Per Cent —
1416 per Cent A • --
.00. 1, B
baoi,*ll. 3i ~ Scrip, .£5O paid — dig
b) 5 ior (dent., 1825 —• b 4 Per Cent., 1864
labia •-‘
..4
,_ n .r-rmcipaliti 3e, 7 per Ceut
E julililrPKTer Cent., 1867, paid-up Scrip
.41 evr Ooneolidate, 1 per Cont , 12} 12

egyptian 7 per Cent —
Do. Second Issue
Do. £lOO Bonds —
lio. Do. 1864 —
D0..£100 Bonds B5l 5
Do Government Railway Debentures Blt
Greok 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons --
Do. Account
Do. Coupons
Do. Account
Guatemala 5 por Cent .. —
ltslian 5 per Cent 1865
Do, Account .. —
Do. Maremmana Railway —
M. %xicar. 3 per Cent —
Ditto for Account
Dn. 1804 —
Po S per Cont. Anglo-French —
11.ontevidear, C: per Cont.. . —
Aoorish imperial 5 per Cent
Now Granada —

Do 3 per Con -
Do. Deferral
Do Laud Warrants (Hectares)
Po-uvittu 5 per Cent 1865
Do Account —
Do 41 per Cent., 1865
Do 41 per Cent. (Uribarron)
Do 41 per Cent., 1862
Do Account
Porttigmese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, '7, '9,'6o,'2,'Zi 394
duisian 5 por Cent., 1822, £ St —
Do 41 per Cont. 1850
Do 41 per Cent., 1860
Do 3 per Cent, 1859
Do 5 per Cent., 1,-62
Do. 1864
Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1866
Do. Do. £BO paid
Sardinian, b per Cent —
Spanish 3 per Cent —
Do Acc•Junt ...
Do New Deforrott
Do Account
Do Passive —
Do Account 1 .•••
Do Com. Cert. of Con:. not fu:ided
Do Account
Turkish 6 per Cent., 1851
Do Account
Do 6 per Cont. 1858
Do Account •••
Do £lOO Bonds
Do 6 per Cent, 1862 . ... ....... ..,
Do Account
Do .£IOC Bonds 564 74
Do. 1863 —
Do 5 per Cent., 1865 —
D i Acount 3Ol 4
Do 6 por Cont., 1865
Do 4 per Cent., Guaranteed
Venezuela, 3 per Cent.
D i Account —
.....

Do 6 per Cont., 1862
Do 6 per Cent. 1864
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Austrian o par Cent. Ex 10 Florins
41 per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch .24 per Omit. Ex. 12 Gail,. —
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ....
French Rentes 3 per Cent., Ex. 2M. —
Italia', 3 per dent. 1831, Ex. 25f.
Do. Account 4Bl
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money 94
Do. Account, August 8 94 I
Do. September 10 94/

LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN

RAILWAY•

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sir.--With a view of making the public aware, at
the earliest period practicable, of the dividend likely
to be declared by this company at the ensuing gene-
ral meeting, I am authorised to state that the ac-
counts, though not yet finally audited, or approved
by the board of directors, appear to admit of a divi-
dend for the past half-year, at the rate of five and
one-quarter (51) per cent. per annum.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,
STEPHEN REAP, Secretary.

METROPOLITAN RAILWAY COMPANY.

The half-yearly general meeting of this company
was held this morning at the City Terminus Hotel,
Cannon-street, Mr. Parsons in the chair.
The CHAIRMAN said that they bad all had the
report circulated amongst them, and therefore he
would move that the seal of the company be attached
to the new shares, and also that the report be
adopted. Ihey were in a peculiar position. Many
causes which resulted in the depression of receipts
and traffic were not incident to them. They
were merely a steam omnibus company, if he
might use the expression, and their traffic was
clearly increasing. They as a company did not
enter into engagements with other companies which
were antagonistic to some of their neighbours. In
policy, in finance, and in traffic they were excep-
tional to any other company, and in their agree-
ment with the Midland Railway there were no
points which, had it been necessary, they would not
have granted to tbe Great Northern, or any
other line. He bad perhaps at the last meet-
ing overlooked some circumstances which would
affect the amount of receipts on the line,
such as the nature of the weather ; when it was fine
a great number of ladies used the line, but when it
was wet their passengers fell off. He might have
been in some difficulty in the matter had it not been
for the economy exercised by the officials employed
by the company, and be must give them great
credit for their exertions. The chairman then went
into a statement of the particular financial accounts
in the report, and congratulatei the shareholders
on the arrangements which had enabled the com-
pany to pay 6 or 7 per cent. He alluded to a
very singular accident which had occurred at
Farringdon-street Station. He did not know
whether they understood the arrangement on that
line. It was this—that one station should signal
that the line was clear before a train
was allowed to depart from an adjoining
station. Owing, however, to the dense fog, a
collision did take place, and they lost £1,750 by it.
He trusted .that it would not occur again. They
now proposed to pay an amount of 5 per cent. on
the preference stock, and 7 per cent. on the conso-
lidated. Bat, leaving finance matters, he would
proceed to the undertakings of the railway, such as
the Hammersmith Extension, and the Metropolitan
and St. John's Wood Railway.
Meeting still proceeding.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET—This Day.

Market opens steadily at yesterday's rates. Sales
probably 10,000 or 12,000 bales.

The Price of Gold.

The quotation of gold at Parts Is about at par, and
the short exchange on London is 25.17 per £1 sterling. On
comparing these rates with the English Mint price of Ls
tia. 104 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appettrs that gold is
at about the same price in Paris and London.
rhe course of exchange at New York on London for bills
at 60 days' sight is about 110 per cent. At this rate there
is a profit on the importation of gold from the United States.

THE REFORM BlLL.—Yesterday a requisition to
the Lord Mayor to convene a public meeting of the citizens
of London to petition Parliament against the Lords'
Amendments of the Reform Bill was in course of signa-
ture. The movement has been sat on foot by the Liberal
Registration Association in the city.

A GALLANT Act—A few days ago the billyboy
Sutcliffe, of Harwich, was stranded about a mile to the
southward of Cromer, ou the Norfolk coast, in a north-
east gale and a very heavy sea which had suddenly
sprung up. The lifeboat of the National Lifeboat In-
stitution on that station was in a dismantled state at
the time, as she was in course of being painted, and con-
sequently some delay occurred before she was fit to be
launched. Meanwhile, nearly all the fishermen and
boatmen of the place had gone to the scene of the wreck,
with tho view of rendering assistance in saving the
stew by means of the rocket apparatus or otherwise,
and when the lifeboat was ready to be launched
it was discovered that there was not a sufficient
number of boatmen to man her, and some difficulty was
therefore experienced in forming a crew. However, fore-
most amongst those who volunteered to go off in the life-
boat was the Hon. Auboron Herbert, brother of Lord
Carnarvon. As soon as the boat was launched she was
struck by a heavy sea, which broke four of her oars, and
drove her nearly broadside on to the beach; some of the
crow thereupon jumped out, squared the boat, and
succeeded in getting her clear of the broken water. After
a long pull through a very heavy sea the lifeboat arrived
abreast of the wreck, but by that time the crow had been
saved by rocket apparatus. The gallant services of Mr.
Herbert are to be brought under the notice of the
National Lifeboat Institution at its next meeting.

During the month ending the 30th of June last
France and the Channel Islands exported to England, by
way of Southampton, nearly 20,000,000 eggs, 14,000 bushels
of fruit, 4,800 tons of potatoes, and 1,700 tons of butter.
CITY RENTALS.—The City Press states that during
the last ten years the annual rental of the City pro-
perty has increased 273 per cent., or a million and a half
sterling. The houses in 1811 were worth £32 per house
annual value ; they are now worth £137. They were
worth, to capitalise them at 2.3 years' purchase, in 1811,
£14,131,075; they are now worth, by the same process
.£52,784,375, equal to the total revenue of Great Britain
only a few years since, and equal to five-sixths of the pre-
sent revenue.