The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-28 00:00:00

The National Reform Fete and Banquet.

The committee of Trades Delegates which has
been appointed to make the arrangements for the
carrying out of this celebration, which is to take
place at the Crystal Palace on Monday next, met
again at the Bell Inn, Old Bailey, last evening.
Mr. GEORGE POTTER, the chairman of the com-
mittee, presided, and on the part of the sub-com-
mitee, upon whom the making of the arrangements
as to the celebration more particularly devolves, re-
ported that the arrangements had now almost
reached a conclusion, and he was happy to state
that everything hitherto had proceeded most favour..
ably. They were all aware that at their last meet-
ing a suggestion was made, that as Mr. Bright had
not sent an answer officially as to attending the
banquet, a deputation would be better able than a
letter to induce the hon. gentleman to be present on
that occasion. It was then determined by the com-
mittee that the matter should be left in his (Mr.
Potter's) hands, to act as he considered most pru-
dent.. He had sent a letter to Mr. Bright, and the
answer he had received was neither more satisfac-
tory nor more discouraging than that which had
previously been received. It was put into the hands
of the secretary, who telegraphed to Mr. Bright
stating that a deputation had been appointed to wait
upon him, and asking him where he could be
found. To that telegram an answer had been re-
ceived from Mr. Bright that day, stating that he
did not wish that a deputation should wait upon
him, and that he would write to the committee
on the subject. As Mr. Bright was coming
every day nearer to Rochdale, the answer
might he immediately expected. In reference
to the arrangements everything that the committee
had wished to be done in the matter had been done.
A programme of the proceedings of the day had been
drawn up, and the toasts to be proposed at the ban-
quet had been selected with a view to give expres-
sion to the political opinions of the 'Working Men's
Association, as well as to carry out the convivial
character of the celebration. These toasts would be
put into the hands of competent gentlemen, but the
names of those gentlemen had not yet been finally
fixed. As regarded the prospects of success, he had
to state that they were most favourable. There
would be a greater number of gentlemen present
than would find opportunity to speak, and he might
state that City gentlemen especially were giving in
their adhesion to the movement. The manager of the
Crystal Palace Company was doing all be could to
secure a large attendance. The estimates of 'the
numbers who would attend were of course various
and conflicting. Some said 20,000, many 80,000,
and not a few that 100,000 would be present ; but
however that might be, all they wanted to secure a
most perfect success was fine weather. Many mem-
bers of Parliament who had been absent were now
returning to town, and many of them would no
doubt be present at the banquet, and there was
every reason to believe that 800 or 1,000 persons
would sit down to it.
The SECRETARY stated that the list of toasts to be
proposed at the banquet, so far as arranged, was as
follows :—The Queen and the Royal Family ; the
Reform Act of 1867 accepted as an instalment, to
be responded to by Mr. A. S. Ayrton, M.P. ; the
Nation's Laws by the People's Voice, to be responded
to by Sir J. Bowring ; a Free Press, a Free Parlia-
ment, and a Free People, the best safeguard of
Liberty and Progress, to be proposed by General
Thompson ; the National Reform Union ; the
Working Men's Reform Association ; the Reform
League, coupled with the name of Mr. Beales, &c.
These were the toasts, as so far arranged, but the
names of all those who were to speak upon them
could not at present be announced.
Mr. JENKINS, a member of the sub-committee,
stated that he had taken some pains to dispo c of
tickets fur the banquet in the City, and that he had
met with the greatest success.

The report of the committee having been adopted,
several matters of a routine nature were arranged in
reference to the celebration, and the proceedings ter-
minated with a vote of thanks to the chairman.

DEATH OF Mlt. ROPHINO LACY.—The death of
this well-known dramatic author is announced. Mr. Lacy's
connection with the drama and the theatres has been of
lifty years' duration. Ills principal pieces were produced
at the late Covent-garden Theatre, between the years 1830
and 1850. Ho was the author of " Cinderella," a comic
opera, produced at Covent-garden, and which achieved
great success, running some hundreds of consecutive
nights. Mr. Lacy also wrote several dramas, and adapted
the opera of "Robert le Diable" to the English stage. As
a novelty, ho attempted to produce liandel's oratorio of
" Israel in Egypt," with scenery and costumes, at Covent-
garden Theatre, in 1832, but the performance was prohi-
bited by the Lord Chamberlain, as an infringement of the
act by which theatres are licensed.
THE KENT-IZOAD MURDEII.—Louis Bordier, 32,
currier, wits yesterday, at the Central Criminal Court,
found guilty of the wilful murder of Mary Ana Snow, 11.
young woman with whom he had cohabited, and sentenced
to be hanged in front of liommonger-lane Gaol.

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGANCE,

TWELVE 0' CLOC K .

Business in all departments in the City this morn-
ing remained very inactive, and in the general dis-
count market no material change can be reported,
both as regards the demand for accommodation and
the rates charged.
The sum of £84,000 in gold was fallen to the
Bank of England yesterday.
The Douro, from the West Indies, has brought
£530,000 ; the Dunbar Castle, from Sydney, with
£81,500 ; and also the Persia, from New York,
with £l,OOB.
The Government broker made a purchase yester-
day of £21,140 13s. 2d. Reduced Annuities at 924.
The mail from Guayaquil has brought a remit-
tance of £445 Os. Si. on account of the debt of
Ecuador.

The traffic receipts of the East Indian Railway
for the week ending August 11 were £27,346 7s.
ad., against £27,342 9s. sd. in the corresponding
week of the previous year.
The official returns relating to the trade and
navigation of the United Kingdom for the eight
months ended August 31 were published this morn-
ing, from which it appears that the total de-
clared value of the exports during that period
have been £121,056,913, against £125,265,820 in
the corresponding period of the preceding year,
and showing a decrease of £4,208,907. The impor-
tations of the principal articles have been larger as
regards . ships and lambs' wool, coffee, corn,
and unrefined sugar ; but smaller as regards
raw cotton, provisions, rice, flour, rum,
brandy, tea, tobacco, and wine. The ship-
ping accounts exhibit a decrease in the amount
of tonnage employed in the foreign trade
for the entries inwards, while in the clearances
outwards there is a slight increase. In the coasting
trade there has been a slight falling off in both
instances.

The specie movements during the past week have
been on a rather extensive scale, consequent upon
large arrivals from Australia, and the West Indies
and the Pacific. The imports have amounted to
about £968,168, including £3,560 from New York
by the City of Baltimore; £40,682 by the Hansa,
£B,OOO by the Pennsylvania, and £l,OOB by the
Persia. The Suffolk, from Melbourne, has brought
£285,000 ; the Dunbar Castle, from Sydney,
£84,500 ; the Douro, from the West Indies and
Pacific, £530,000; the Celt, from the Cape of
Good Hope, £l,BOO ; and the Delta, from Alexan-
dria, £2,762. The exports have been confined to
remittances to the Continent, through private
sources, estimated at £184,883.

Two o'CLocK.

Very little business has been transacted in the
English Funds, and prices are a shade flatter. Con-
sols have declined to 941 for both money and
account.

Messrs. Baring, Brothers, and Co. have received
£612 2s. 10d. from the Custom-house of Carthagena
by this mail on account of the New Granada divi-
dends.

The New Threes are 92i i ; Reduced Annuities,
92i 1 ; India Stock, 222 ; ditto 5 per Cents., 113 i
t ; Enfaced ditto, 1041 ; and £l,OOO Bonds, 70s.
prem.

Foreign Stocks still continue to show considerable
buoyancy ; Italian 5 per Cents. have advanced 8,
to 48f 49 ; Mexican Stock, 3, to 15 153 ; Spanish
Passive, 3, to 203 234 ; ditto Certificates, I, to 161
17 ; and Turkish 5 per Cents., 3, to 311 323.
In the Railway Share Market the dealings have
been to klimited extent, but prices, in several in-
stances, have shown an upward tendency ; Caledo-
nian, Lancashire and Yorkshire, Brighton, and
North Western, have each improved 3 ; and Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, and South Eastern,
each 3.
Miscellaneous and Finance shares show little
change ; Anglo-American Telegraph are dealt in at
17 4 ; Hudson's Bay Company, at 15 151 ; Na-
tional Discount Company have improved to 103 ;
and Viceroy of Egypt's Mortgage Loan to 721 3.
The Foreign and Colonial lines remained dull,
Without any material changes in value. Great Lux-
embourg are marked 103 1 ; San Paulo, 163 ; South
Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 151 ; Grand
Trunk of Canada, 193 3 ; Great Western of
Canada, 161 ; East Indian, 1104 1; and Great
Indian Peninsula, 1083 1081.
Bank shares are quiet. Alliance have improved
to 153 4; London and County are firm at 55 ;
London and Westminster at 683 ; and Union of
London at 373 3.

MINING MARKET.
SATURDAY AFTERNOON.

Continued buoyancy prevails, and prices have an
upward tendency. Annexed are some of the closing
quotations
:
Uhiverton Moor bf 5
Chontales Gold
Clifford Amalgamate 7f 8
East Basset l6 17
East Caradon ss 51
East Russell l4 2
East Wheal Grenville 24 2}
Great Laxey
Great Retallick
Great Wheal Vor 174 184
Marko Valley
North Crotty

North Treskerby 33s 350
Prince of Wales 51s 6d 53s Od
Providence Mines 29 30
South Caradon —
South Frances
Tincroft l3 14
West Chiverton 63 65
Wheal Basset BO 85
Wheal Buller
Wheal Chiverton
Wheal Grenville 24s 26s Od
Wheal Soton

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BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
a per Cent. Consols
Lk). Account, Oct. 8
8 per Cent. Reduced 921 1
Now 3 per Cent 921 1
New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894
Do. 0 per Cent. Jan. 1873 —
Annuities' 80 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
Do (Red Sea Teletraph), Alio., 1908 ,_
Ma—rch Juno.
hxchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 21 & 2 per Ct —pm —pm
Do £5OO —pm —pm
Do. £lOO & VOO
Bank of •
England Stock, 41 per Gent ~
Do. Account
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
Indian Stock, 10} per Cent., April 1871 222
Do. Account
De. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates ........................ .
Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent —.
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D°. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 ........... .
;e• 51- per Cent., May 1879 ......... .
"".• 6 per Cant., Rup. Deb., 1812 —
Do. do. 1872
Do. de. 1882 —
Do. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 . .
Do
Do. Bond; per sCent., £l,000
. under £l,OOO ...... . .......... • ....... pm
Ar FOREIGN FTTNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
gelatine Republic, 6 per Cent ..........
.I.l..ndtrian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 1809 ......
16razilian 5 per Cent.....;
Do. 4/ per Cent 1852-58-60 ............ 67
Do. 1863
`'o. 5 per Cent., 1865
Do Account 741 8;
1., no. £lOO Bonds -'''
'Qualms Ayres 6 per Cent . .
Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
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4,.,1)41 6 per Cent.
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'34tall 6 per Cent —'
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„uo. 6 per Cent., B
110. 1867
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°.) 7 per Cent 1866
n po., Scrip, £2O paid
' LI. mbian, 6 per Cent.
I) uisil., 3 ner Cent., 1825
Innbian Principalities, 7 per Cent —
DO 8 per Cent, 1867 —
42quador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
4.l;irptian,7 per Cent —
1)0. Second Issue
Do. XlOO Bonds —
tio. Do. 1864
.„1)0. 45 ;0 Bonds BBl
,1-10. £lO6 Bonds . 9O
G 4'o Government Railway Debentures.. 861 7 61
reek sper Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons
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Do. Coupons
n Do. Account
mAatemala 5 per Cent ..
It,'
,lian 5 per Cert., 1865 —
4'o, Account
la 0.• Maremmana Railway
'zieat, 3 per Cent —
Ditto for Account

Dn. 1864
T.,
6 per Cont. Anglo-French
-Lontevideau 6 per Cent.
ktoorish Imperial 5 per Cent
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Doforred.
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PeDo ripr
Accouniau pert
Cent., 1865
661
per Cent., 1865
A) 441- i per Cent. (Uribarren)
DO 4k per Cent. 1802

Do Account
Portuguese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, '7, '9,'60,'2,'3 39,1;
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St --...41
Do 41 per Cont. 1850
Do 41 per Cent., 1360
Do 3 per Cent., 1859
Do 5 per Cent., 1862
Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1861, £lOO Bonds... 881
Do. do. £B4 15s. do. ...
Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds BB}
Do. do. £B4 Lis do —
iardinian, 5 pur Cent —
Spanish 3 por Cont —
Do Acc,,unt .
Do New D, ferrJu . . .. .
Do Account
Do Passive
Do Acc,unt
5o Coru. Cert. of Cou . 'nit fu dept
Do Account
l'urldsli 6 per Cent., 1151

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Do Account
Do 6 per Cont. 1838
Do Account
Do I'loo Bonds —
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Do 6 per Cent., 1860 ......
Do Account
Do .£IOC Bonds 61.1 -I i 5
Do. 1863 —
Do 5 per Cent., 1865
Di Account _
Do 6 per Cent., 1.„86a. _ sli
D , 1 per Cent., Guatantc,L,l
Venezuela, 3 per Cent.

Do Account —
Divideuas on the above payaule in London.
Austrisu o par Cent. Ex 10 Florins
Boigloo, 41 per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch 21 per Cent. Ex. 12 Gail —
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ..... —
French lientes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 2M. —
Italian 5 per Cent. 1831, Ex. 25f.
Do. Account 4Bl 1
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money 941 f
Do. Account, Oct. 8 -

ATTEMPTED FENIAN MURDER.

THIS DAY.

A diabolical outrage was perpetrated this morning
near Bloomsbury-square, which gives rise to the
most serious apprehensions.
As far as can be collected at the present moment
the following are the facts of the case :—Shortly
before one o'clock this morning Edward M'Donald,
a bandsman in the 2d Life Guards, with a companion,
had been drinking at the bar of a public house
in the neighbourhood, and there being a number of
other persons there at the time, a discussion arose
with regard to the Fenian outrage at Manchester.
M'Donald and his companion expressed some
strong opinions as to the punishment those in
custody should undergo, when two tall men,
each wearing long beards and felt hats,
with large slouch brims, entered into the conver-
sation and defended the proceedings of the
Fenians. This led to an altercation between the
parties, and the soldier, who was not in uniform,
and his friend left the house; but, unfortunately,
instead of proceeding home they returned again to
the public-house and wished to be served with more
refreshments. This was refused, and M'Donald
and his friend left the house, followed by the two
men whom they had been talking to. When they
had proceeded to the corner of Vernon-place, one
of the men wearing the felt-hat said to his friend,
"Did you hear what they called us?" and after-
wards he made an attack on M'Donald's friend,
and knocked his hat off ; as he was stooping
to pick it up, he heard the report of a pistol, and
the next moment M'Donald fell to the ground, when
both of the men made off in different directions.
An alarm was raised, and, on raising M'Donald
from the ground, it was discovered he had been
shot in the right breast, and immediately he was
conveyed to the hospital, where on examination it
was found that the wound was one of a dangerous
character, the bullet having passed completely
through his body, injuring, it is at present
feared, the right lung. The bullet, which
has been recovered, is somewhat of a peculiar
character. It is of a conical shape, and,
with the exception of being slightly jagged,
by the rifling o► the pistol on its discharge, it is as
perfect as when it left the mould. Up to two
o'clock M'Donald was still alive, but the hope of
his recovery is very slight indeed.
The public-house where the conversation took
place has long been suspected by the police as a
rendezvous of Fenians, and the presumption at
present is that M'Donald and his friend were taken
for detective policemen.
The most active steps are being taken by the'
police, but beyond the faint description of them
given above nothing is at present known.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

LONDON, Sept. 28.- -Wind this day at noon—North-
Westerly ; moderate breeze and find weather, but rather
cloudy.
CLYDE, Sept. 27.—Wind N.—Arrived—Columbia, from
New York.
OFF QUEENSTOWN, Sept. 27. —Wind N.W.—Arrived—
Nebraska, screw steamer, from Liverpool; City of Boston,
screw steamer, from Liverpool—both proceeded for New
York.

(By Telegraph.)
GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning.
Arrived, Sept. 27—IIrsa Minor, from Nrageroe ; Pride
of the Orwell and Pride of Ipswich, from Dunkirk; Ger-
mania, steamer, from Hamburg ; Eider, steamer, from
Tonning.
Arrived, Sept. 28—Moselle, steamer, from Antwerp ;
Cologne, steamer, from Boulogne.
DEAL, Saturday Morning.
Passed—Holmesdale, from London, for Port Philip;
Robin Hood, from London, for Cardiff.
Anchored—Esmeralda, from London, for Havannah ;
Profeta, from London, for Swansea; Westmoreland, from
London, for Jamaica; Mountstuart Eiphinstono, from
London, for Point do Gallo; Espana, from London, for
Swansea.

THE TURF AND ITS IDOLS.—It is hardly neces-
sary ferns to answer that the men of rank and fortune who
stooped to malpractices of yore were as much an exception
to the mass of their order as are the honest owners of horses
the exception upon a race-course of to-day—that the de-
layed settlement in 182—, to which we have alluded, was
the solitary default in a prolonged turf career. But
there are other evidences of the diminished self-respect
of
many noble and gentle patrons of the turf, which
cannot be noticed without regret and humiliation by
thoughtful and reflective moralists. The racehorse, it
would seem, is a more democratic leveller than Mr. Beales
or Mr. Odgers; e. greater disintegrator of aristocratic
society than the railroad or the penny press, or the Reform
Bill itself, big with mysterious and inscrutable possibilities.
That a young, raw, uneducated Yorkshire or Newmarket
lad, who can ride 7st, but who cannot pen a letter of which
a milkmaid would not be a-hamed, should bo welcomed to
the homes of dukes and marquises—that he should be en-
couraged to smoke cigars, play billiards, and volunteer
opinions without restraint in the presence of his betters of
either sex— is one of the saddest anomalies of our modern
civilisation. The days are at hand when the people of
England will pay little respect to men and women with
handles to their names who do not respect themselves.
Fashion, said Henry Fielding more than a century ago, can
also make gambling sweet and wholesome. When itshall
cease to be fashionable for men born in the purple to chat
and smoke with jockeys and trainers, and to bet thousands
and tens of thousands upon the speed and bottom of a race-
horse, without any other moans of paying, if the race goes
against them, than the indulgence a money-lender shall
afford,—then, and not till then, shall we expect to see the
rehabilitation of the turf.—St. Paul's, Edited by Anthony
Trollope.
STEAM SHIPBUILDING ON THE CLYDE.—Messrs.
Beath and Connell, of Rutherglen, have launched a screw
of 441 tons register, intended for foreign service. She has
two decks, and is.to be provided with engines with all the
latest improvements. She was named the Silver River.
Messrs. Seath and Connell have now on hand a screw
steam yacht of 50 tone, another of 60 tons, and two twin
screw tons of over 200 tons each. The Denmark, screw,
recently built by Messrs. Henderson, Coulborn, and Co.,
of Renfrew, for the Baltic trade, has made a favourable
trip, having attained an average rate of 10 knots, with a
consumption of 9.75 cwt. of coal per hour. The Denmark
is built for the grain trade, and is constructed to carry from
4,000 to 5,000 qrs. of grain. She is fitted with compound
high and low pressure engines of 100-horse power, nominal.
HEAVY STORM IN THE NORTH SEA.--On Thurs-
day the steamer Cossack, Capt. Martin, arrived at Hull from
St. Petersburg, having encountered very heavy weather on
her passage across the North Sea. The Cossack presented
a very shattered appearance, a portion of her portthus bulwarkscaused
having been washed away, and the aperture
was filled up with deal battens. In addition to this
damage, the forward bridge and a small do a
ck-house on the
starboard bow were washed away, an house amidships
was so much battered that it had been deemed necessary to
patch it up with pieces of deal plank. The deck cargo had
also been entirely washed overboard, or thrown away for
the safety of the vessel. All this damage
on Monday and Tuesday last, while the Cossack was
e wind blowa perfect hurricane
crossing the North Sea. Th
from the south-west raising by ery heavy sea, and the
Cossack's decks were swept a mountain wave which
broke over her. The escape of her crew from personal
injury is almost marvellous. The Queen of Scotland,
another Hull steamer, had been compelled to put back to
'AAuftven owing to the violence of the storm,