The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-30 00:00:00

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

(Front the Illustrated London News.)
The will of Sir Anthony George Perrier, C. 8.,
late British Consul for Brest, in the Department of
Finnisterre. Morbihan, and Cotes-du-Nord, was
proved in London by Follett Pennell, Esq., one of
the executors, power being reserved to William
Pennell, Esq., the other executor. The penalty in
England was sworn under £3,000. The will was
1859, and he died at Brest,
Julyexecuted
8, a1t867, Paris,
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aged
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enty-four. The testator
was the nephew of Sir. A. Perrier, formerly
Mayor of Cork ; and married, in 1816, Louisa,
daughter of William Pennell, Esq. He has
bequeathed to his wife, Lady Perrier, a life interest
in all his property in Great Britain, and on her
decease ho leaves the same to his daughter Louisa
for her life ; but in the event of her marrying the
property is to be equally divided amongst all his
daughters, in certain specified proportions, or at
her death to the surviving daughters. The testator
states that he does not leave any part of his property
in England to his son John, of the Admiralty, in
London ; nor to William, a lieutenant in the navy,
both being better off than his wife and daughters,
he having provided for them by the French will
out of his property in France.

The will of Morgan
Treherne, Esq., M.P. for
Coventry, of Stratford-place, has been proved in
London, by his son, Morgan Dalrymple Treherne,
Esq., the sole executor. The personalty was sworn
under £30,000. The testator was Deputy Lieute-
nant for Surrey, and died July 11, 1867, at Long
Ditton, at the age of 64, having executed his will
March 10, 1865. He bequeaths to his wife an
immediate legacy of £l,OOO, and his carriages and
horses, and a life interest in the remainder of his
personal estate, including the leasehold residence,
with the furniture. lie has bequeathed legacies of
various amounts to his sons and thughters, and
appoints his son, Morgan Dalrymple Treherne,
residuary legatee.

The will of Miss Anna Maria Prinald, formerly
of Eltham, Kent, but late of Camberwell-grove,
proved in London, under £lB,OOO per-
She leaves the following charitable be-
quests—To the Royal Hospital. for Incurables,
Putney,
and the Asylum for Idiots, each £5OO ; to
s per-
sonalty. n Surrey,lat y : was
the Orphan Working School (Haverstock-hill), the
Law Association for Widows and Families of Pro-
fessional Men, Hospital for Consumption and Dis-
eases of the Chest, Houseless Poor Committee Society
(Old Broad-street), Convalescent Homo for Females
(Bayswater), each £2OO ; to the Church of England
Scripture-readers' Association, the Friendly Female
Society (Camberwell), Infant Orphan Asylum,
' Church Pastoral Aid Society, British and Foreign
Bible Society, Society for the Propagation of the
GospelinForeign Parts, London Hospital, Colonial
and Continental Church Society, Cancer Hospital,
Benevolent or Strangers' Friend Society, and the
Society of Friends of Foreigners in Distress, each
£100; to the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Old Kent-
road, and the Association for the Yelfare of the
Blind, Easton-road, each £5O; to the ragged schools
in Southwark, £2OO ; to the incumbent of Camden
Church, Camberwell, £lOO for charitable objects
in connection withal .that church ; to the minis-
ter of Blackheath Park church, £lOO, to be
applied in like manner ; to William Moon, of
Brighton, inventor of a system of embossed
reading for the blind, or to the treasurer of
the :society formed for embossing books on that
system, £lOO. She bequeaths to the Vicar of El-
tham £5OO stock, the dividends to be applied in
keeping the family tomb in repair, and the surplus
to be given to the deserving poor of that parish.
The wills of the undermentioned were recently
proved :---The Right Hon. Caroline, Baroness
Churston, under £2,000 personalty ; the Baroness
Georgiana Solardi, £4,000 ; the Hon. John Yarde
Buller, £9,000 ; the Hon. Henrietta Jones, £B,OOO ;
and the Hon. Henry Byerley Thomson, one of the
Puisne Judges at Ceylon, £5,000 personalty in this
country.

LIVERPOOL COTTON M4RKE7—This Day.

Market flat. Sales probably 8,000 bales.

INVESTMENTS iN MINES.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—I notice the remarks in your paper of the
16th from Mr. Spargor's pamphlet, which I think
ought to be read by all the investing public. There
cannot be a doubt but money can be safely invested
in our metallic mines in this country to much
greater advantage than lending millions to foreign
countries, with 80 and 100 years' credit ; in fact,
better give them the money, for doubtless a tithe of
it will never be returned to the English investor!
What mighty and miraculous events may occur in
less time than 80 years ? The sick man may die
long ere this—nearly three generations of credit
may expire. The Ecton Mine paid the Duke
of Devonshire more than a million sterling, when
the price of copper was less than the present
quotation ; the Anglesca Mines paid several millions
sterling when the standard of copper was less than
100 ; the Devon Consols more th.,n a million ster-
ling, and the price of copper under the present quo-
tation ; and numerous mines is Cornwall gave
fabulous profits in dividends when the price of
copper was from 10 to 20 per cent. below the price
in August, 1867. Where money is lost in mines it
has invariably been by re-opening old and exhausted
mines. In embarking in old mines it is just like a
young man marrying his grandmother ; to 11 it, the
once rich mines of Burra Burra, the Cobre Mines
in Cuba, the rich mines in South Africa, the Cape,
Canada, and California cannot pay when they get
deep, unless the price is very high, and then the
English mines get inundated with foreign copper.
It is much better that the price of copper should re-
main just where it is—say about 115 standard—
and then Cornwall and Devon have nothing to fear
by embarking in new and unexplored ground. The
cream or profit from mines is from the adit level to
the 100 fms. under it, and below this depth the
mineral invariably declines in value as the centre of
the deposit is passed. This is understood by prac-
tical miners in most countries. £lO,OOO invested
in English mines is equal to £lOO,OOO invested in
most of the foreign mines. I speak this from my
experience in foreign mines.—l am, &c.,
AN INVESTOR IN MINES FOR 40 YEARS.

BANK OF FRANCE.

PARIS, August 29.

The following is the return of the Bank of France
for the week ending to-day, together with the cor-
responding figures of the previous account :

DEBTOR.

Aug. 29. Aug. 21.
fr. c. fr. c.
Capital of the Bank 182,500,000 182,500,000
Profits in addition to
capital (Art. 8; Law,
June 9, 1857) 7,014,776 02 7,014776 02
Reserve of the Bank

and its branches 22,105,750 14 22,105,750 14
Reserve of landed pro- •
Perty 4,000,000 4,000,000
Notes in circulation 1,117,492,625 1 112,937,225
Banknotes to ordor and
receipts payable at
sight 30,069,187 85 29,183,926 70
Treasury account cur-
rent creditor 92,193,901 37 90,429,420
Current accounts, Paris 287,357,768 96 274,509,786 19
Do. branch banks • 40,882,270 -- 38,417,164
Dividends payable 1,423,370 75 1,506,650 75
Discounts and sundry
interests
Rediscounted the last
six months 1,093,802 80 1,093,802 80
Surplus of receipts not
distributed
Sundries

Total
CREDITOR.
Aug. 29. Aug. 21.
Cash in hand and in fr. C. fr.

Branch banks
Commerdial bills over-
due
Commercial bills dis-

counted, not yet due 231,740,038 04 229,035,038 18
Do. branch banks 221,721,639 219,494,009
Advances on deposit of
bullion 59,033,400 57,660,900
Do. branch banks 9,508,331 9,686,231
Do. on French Public

Securities 12,291,000 12,618,000
Do. by branch banks 6,971,400 6,927,100
Do. on railway shares
and debentures
Do: branch banks
Do.'on Credit Foncier
Bonds
Do. branches
Do. to the State (Con-
vention, June 10,
1857) 60,000,000 60,000,000
Government Stock re-

se .rve----
12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14
Do. disposable
Rcntes Immobalis6es
(Law, June 2, 1857) 100,000,000 100,000,000 --
Hotel and furniture of
the Bank and landed
Propel ty branches
Expenses of manage-
ment 1,050,102 81 892,760 11
Sundries

Total 1,795,893,101 57 1,773,659,986 08
Certified by thr Senator Governor of the Bank of France.
(iSgned) ROULAND.

THE HARVEST.

BANBURY. —The weather has been very favour-
able for harvest operations, and good progress has
been made. Cutting is going on daily, and all
the crops are proving better than was expected. In
many places wheat and barley will be deficient.
The root crops look well.

BERKSHIRE.—For the past fortnight the weather
prevailing in Berkshire has been highly favourable
for harvest work, the only interruption which has
taken place being caused by a few showers of rain
at intervals of several days. The local markets
have been quite forsaken lately, and so much pro-
gress has been made that nearly the whole of the
wheat is now gathered in. The quality of much
of the wheat we have seen is thin, and reports agree
that the yield will not be an average one. In
some parts there is a good deal of grass among
the barley, which has deterral farmers carrying.
Where the heavy rains laid down the corn the
quality is thin ; still there is a good crop in many
places. The oat crop on light soils is satisfactory,
but irregular on heavy lands. The root crops are
spoken of in all directions as being good and remu-
nerative.

BURTON-ON-TRENT.—The crops in this neigh-
bourhood are now matured, and all available work
is rendered in the field. The quality of wheat
generally is good, but the yield not so satisfactory.
BRlGG.—harvest work is now in full vigour, and
the crops are being well gathered. Wheat will be
a tolerable yield. On the best lands barley will
reach an average yield. The unfavourable weather
early in the season has had an injurious effect upon
potatoes, the disease being amongst them. Root
crops generally look healthy.
LOUGHBOROUGIL—There will be some good crops
of wheat secured in this neighbourhood, and the
grain on the best lands is of good quality. On the
other hand, in some places the yield will be defi-
cient. A considerable quantity has now been
garnered in good condition. The crops of barley
vary very much, and an avcragc yhdd must nut be
looked for. Oats upon the whole are a fair crop.
Beans look very promising, and the root crops are
also progressing satisfactorily.
MANSFIELD.—A very fair breadth of land has
been secured since our last report, the favourable
state of the weather during the past few weeks has
much improved all sorts of grain. Wheat is turn-
ing out better than expected, and barley has much
improved. With a continuation of fine harvest
weather a fair crop of each of the above grain is
anticipated. Beans will be a fair average yield.
Pastures are very luxuriant, and the root crops are
making good progress.
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CONSUMPTION OF HOME-MADE SPIRITS.—By a
memorandum from the Board of Trade it appears that this
account, as published in the last number of the Trade and
Navigation Accounts, is incorrect for the half-year ended
30th June, 1867. An amended account will be immediately
issued.
[ADVERTISEMENT.]—Holloway's Pills.—Counsel and
Cheer.—Many impurities enter the human body dur-
ing the summer from the decomposition of ani-
mal and vegetable matter which often taints the
air and renders the water noxious. The grand quality
displayed by these excellent Pills of searching out, expell-
ing all pernicious particles from the system, constitute
them the best medicine for averting indigestion, bilious
attacks, diarrhcei, and English cholera, of all the various
affections of the alimentary canal constantly recurring in
a variable climate. Holloway's Pills are the best, cheapest,
and safest remedy, since they can never act wrongly or be
taken without benefit if their accompanying directions re-
cc-tip only moderato attoktion, and the diet be mtrided to
plain, wholesome, and digesti,)* food.

2HE LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOU? I 1

COAST RAILWAY.

THIS DAY.

The 43d ordinary meeting of this company took
place at the International Hotel this morning, Mr.
S. Laing in the chair.
The report, which has already appeared in The
Sun, was taken as read. •
The CHAIRMAN said, after the seal had been affixed
to the register of shareholders, in moving the adop-
tion of the report, that the report had gone so fully
into detail that it was not necessary fo7 him to say
much. As a very small section of the shareholders
were present at the meetings it was necessary to
make the report a critical one, and have everything
placed as clearly and distinctly as possible before
the whole body. He would come to the broad fact
at once, that in 12 years they had doubled their
capital, and :lot got an increase of income. It was
an unpleasant thing, and he did not wonder that
both the shareholders and the directors were un-
willing to look this evil in the face, and
they went on until no more money could
be obtained, and they, he thought, owed a great
deal to the committee of investigation, who had ex-
posed the true position they were in. They now
knew the worst, and he trusted would go on in a
different manner in future. When the new
directors took office they found that if something
was not done they might get into Chancery. One
of the great advantages was the settlement of the
debt with the Union Bank, and it would be
advantageous to the bank. If the issue had been
made it was inevitable that they must have gone to
the Court of Chancery. By the allotment, the
whole account would go amongst the shareholders,
and there had been a small premium, which was
advantageous to the smaller ones. The whole had
been taken up, and the money put into the
company's bankers. They were now in a
state of solvency, and their liabilities were
reduced to about ono million and a quarter,
and their assets were £900,000. There werelother
questions with regard to the lines that were bank-
rupt which he should be obliged to defer, as it
would answer no purpose to state what was their
intention with regard to them at present. The
works on the lines which had been suspended had
been recommenced, and they were progressing on
the South London and Sutton lines. The Brighton
Company had arrived at such a state in raising
capital that they must pay for their stations, im-
provements, &c., by a reduction of the dividends.
They could not charge these expenses to capital.
They must charge them to revenue expenditure, and
this would reduce the dividends. As to plant, that
ought to be charged half to capital half to revenue.
He concluded by stating that the expenditure of the
half-year, with a small balance, nearly absorbed
the revenue.

At the conclusion of the chairman's speech the
report was adopted.

711 E PROPOSED REFORM MEETING IN
GLASGOW.

The following is a copy of the answer by Mr. D.
APLaren, M.P., to the invitation from the Scottish
National Reform League to attend the great Re-
form meeting proposed to be held in Glasgow on
the 17th of September :
" House of Commons, Aug. 20, 1867.

" Dear Sir,—l duly received your letter of the
10th inst., inviting me to attend the National
Conference of Political and Social Reformers to
be held in Glasgow on the 17th of Sep-
tember, and have to thank you for the
honour done me by the invitation ; but as the
Reformers in Glasgow and thb West are well able
to manage their own affairs without any aid from
Edinburgh and the East, and as I have remained
here during the whole Session and require some re-
laxation from labour, I hope my non-attendance
will be excused.

"As you ask my opinion respecting the future, I
may state that the burgh franchise is now so ex-
tended that I think all agitation for any further
extension should cease for many years. It seems to
me that the ballot will be required to protect depen-
dent voters, both in burghs and counties, under the
extended franchises, and that without this or some
other protection to these classes we shall not have a
Parliament so independent as it ought to be for the
public interest.

" The question of a good Reform Bill for Scot-
land seems tome to require the serious attention of all
classes and parties in Scotland, with a view to In-
creased representation, and I cannot doubt that if
the people of Scotland will earnestly unite for the
promotion of that object they will be successful. I
have never met with one English or Irish member
who, in conversing on the subject, did not
admit that seven additional members were
far too few, nor anything like an approxi-
mation to justice to Scotland. Owing to the way
in which all discussion on the Scotch Reform Bill
after the first reading was managed to be suppressed
the House of Commons cannot be held to be com-
mitted even to the increase of seven members, be-
cause the second reading was carried by a surprise,
without any discussion; and on this account it
does not carry the moral weight it would have
done had the increase been agreed to by all parties
knowingly, and after a full discussion. On the
first reading of the bill, after several Scotch mem-
bers had praised it more or less, I took the liberty
of condemning it very strongly as being quite in-
adequate in extent, and unjust in its proposed distri-
bution of the seven members, as well as in other par-
ticulars ; and the more I have thought on the sub-
ject since that time, the stronger have my objec-
tions become. Within the last week a new return
has been printed on the motion of Mr. Crawford
(No. 524), brought down to the 31st of March
of the present year, which shows that during the
year ending at that date Ireland contributed
£4,494,046 under the four great heads of Excise,
Stamps, Land and Assessed Taxes, and Income-tax,
while Scotland contributed £ 6,016,748 under the same
four heads ; and yet Ireland has 105 members, while
Scotland has only 53 ! Nothing could more clearly
show the flagrant injustice of the present distri-
bution of legislative power, under which Scotland
has become merely a great sponge, out of which is
squeezed annually the largest possible amount of
taxes with the least possible degree of influence re-
garding their application. The consequence is that
Ireland, which pays so little into the exchequer, gets
at least four times as much out of it as Scotland
gets, as will soon be proved beyond the possibility
of cavil or dispute by a return which I have recently
moved for, and which I hope will soon be forth-
coming.—l am, dear Sir, yours faithfully,
I,D. BPLAREN.
" Mr. George Jackson, sec., Scottish National
Reform League, Glasgow."

COURSE OF EXCIIANGE.--This Evouing.

Amsterdam Short. 11 19 11 191
Ditto
Rotterdam
Antwerp
Brussels — 25 37} 25 42i
Hamburg — 13 10 13 10f
Paris Short 23 17f 25 25
Ditto 3 Mouths. 25 35
Marseilles
Frankfort on the M 25
aine 421
120 i 1201
Tiennh, — 12 75
_ _ _ 12 80

r
-- 311 31
6 26f 6 27
Berlint'e Lelsteburgn
Madrid — 49 491
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa
Naples — 27 '25 27 30
Palermo
Messina
Lisbon - 511 52
Oporto — 51/ 521-

TILE LIVERPOOL CORONERSIIIP.—Yesterday the
Liverpool Town Council unanimously elected Mr Clarke
Aspinall, solicitor, and brother of the Recorder of Liver-
pool, for the borough coronership, vacant by the death of
Mr. P. P. Curry. The position is at present w rth about
£1,200 per annum, derived from fees, but the Council in-
tend to apply to Parliament for powers to.pay a fixed
salary. Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Charles Turner, M.P., and
others spoke in favour of the appointment.
Ricciotti Garibaldi, the son of the General, is
now in England. The exact purport of his visit is no
known; but the surmise is that it has something to do
with the Roman question—pi obably its financial require-
ments.

THIRD EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, 7 O'CLOCK.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

TUNBRIDGE RACES—Tins DAY.
(Br ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
MID KENT STAKES.
The APd Kent Stakes (handicap) of 10 sorseach, h it, with

Pakrita....
Vampire .
Ft morn

added. About ono mile.

Five ran.
CUP.

A Cup, value 21.-1 sous, added to a sweepstakes of 3 soya
each; three year olds lOst, four list, five aril -.-ards
list 411). .11,out hall a mile.
Pakrita st, 3
Romney • . 2

Eight I•an.
SE LLIN G STAKES.

A Selling Stakes of 3 sovs each., with 25 added, for all
ages; two year olds ist, three Bst 91b, four 9st 41b, five
and upwards 9st 51b. Half a mile.
Derry
Deformity
Fair Star
Four ran.

..

LICHFIELD RACES—Tins DAY.
COPELAND NURSERY.
The Copeland Nursery Plate of 50 sovs (Handicap). Three_
quarters of a mile.

Sirocco 1
Cuckoo 2
Mignonette 3

Six ran.
FLYING PLATE.

The Flying Plato of 40 sovs each, added to a handicap of
5 sovs each ; straight half mile.
King of Spades 1
Squire 2
GOLD CUP.
The Gold Cup of 100 sovs (handicap). One mile.
King of Spades 1
Edinbro'
Black Princo
Four ran.
NURSERY PLATE.

Tho Nursery Plate (handicap) of 50 sovs, for two year
olds; winners after Aug. 22 (at noon) 51b extra ; three
quarters of a mile.
Holder 1
Kaffer Land
Beautiful Star
Seven ran.