The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-19 00:00:00

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Mr. O'Malley, Q.C., closed his arguments on the part of
la petition agains't the return of Mr. Morley.
The room was then cleared, but the committee had not
yen their decision when we went to press.

RUMOURS OF THE LOBBIES.
(From the Owl.)

Thursday.—BßAND is sure of five-and-thirty. He can
count on three hundred and forty.
Friday.—BßAND thinks it may be five-and-twenty.
Saturday Evening (at Sir RODERICK'S).—SeveraI Scotch
members are recalcitrant. BRAND can only positively
count on fifteen.

Sunday.— (Belgravia onerally)—AXDOVEß and BRECK-
NOCK dead against. DUNKELLIN has entrapped three men
at BROOKS'S to vote for GROSVENOR ; DICK GROSVENOR
touting for his brother. BRAND thinks fourteen about the
mark.

Monday, 5 p.m.—Fourteen still about the mark.
Tuesday, 1 a.m.—BRAND can't count on more than eight.
LAZARD has sent over at least six.

The stoppage has been announced of Messrs.
Kirkpatrick and Balguy, sugar refiners, whose
liabilities are stated to amount to £150,000, and
the assets to £30,000. The books have been placed
in the hands of Messrs. Coleman, Tarquand, and
Co., the accountants.
Advices from Liverpool announce the stoppage of
Barned's Banking Company, which was established
last year. The embarrassments, it is said, have
been precipitated through the fall in the value of
cotton. The capital of the company is £2,000,000,
in shares of £5O each, upon which £lO has been
paid.

At the ordinary general meeting to-day of the
shareholders of the Bank of British Columbia a
dividend of 10 per cent. and a bonus of ss. per
share was recommended.

At the annual meeting to-day of the Land Mort
gage Bank of India the directors proposed a divi

dend. of 3s. 3d.

The directors of the St. John d'El Rey Mining
Company (Limited) have received, per Estrama-

dura, the following report, dated Morro Velho,
March 17, 1866 : —Produce for February, 46,588
oitavas ; cost for February, £10,842; profit for
February, £7,104 ; produce 11 days of March,
18,887 oitavas ; yield, 10,287 oitavas per ton.
THE MURDER AND SUICIDE IN DRURY-LANE.—
The coroner's inquiry will take place to-morrow afternoon
at three o'clock at King's College Hospital.
A CANTERBURY DEGREE.—The Archbishop of
Canterbury has conferred the degree of master of arts on
the Rev. 'William Foster Elliott, of St. Bees Divinity Col-

lege, Cumberland, minister of East Dulwich Chapel,
Surrey.
It is not improbable that a vacancy will shortly
take place at the Admiralty by the appointment of Rear-
Admiral Fanshawe to the command of the Fleet in the
Pacific. Admiral Hastings will, in all probability, suc-
ceed Admiral the Hon. G. J. B. Elliot, C. 8., in the com-
mand of the Fleet on the South-east coast of America.
FINSBURY PIiEBEND.—Mr. Ayrton's Bill pro-
poses that one-half of the net rental of the great prebendal
estate, now about to come into the possession of the Eccle-
siastical Commissioners by the expiration of the lease,
shall be applied in payment of stipends of £2OO a year to
curates in the poorer metropolitan parishes where they are
required, according to a scheme to be framed by the Bishop
of London. The incumbent of the parish is to nominate
the curate for the approval of the Bishop, and the curate
is to be removable at the discretion of the incumbent or of

the Bishop. The stipend is not to be paid unless the
curate produces annually a certificate from the Bishop that
such curate has faithfully discharged his duty.
PETITIONS IN FAVOUR OF THE REFORM BILL.—

From the report upon public petitions which has just been
issued, it appears that up to Friday last 610 petitions had
been presented to Parliament in favour of the Govern-
ment bill, and the signatures which they contained num-
bered 440,941. Sixteen petitions, having altogether 2,895
signatures, has been presented against the bill, seven
against clause 16, and one in favour of Earl Grosvenor's
amendment. The largest petition for the bill is that of Mr.
Bazley presented from Manchester and Salford, containing
71,817 signatures. From Glasgow came one signed by
28,017 persons, and the next largest were, respectively,
Edinburgh, Bradford, and Sheffield. Of the whole num-
ber of petitions 172 were signed officially or under seal.
GERMAN TAILORS. —By the Hamburg steamer
which arrived on Saturday afternoon there were
brought to Leith 23 journeymen German tailors for masters
in Edinburgh. On being landed they proceeded to the
Shipping Company's office, where they signed an agree-
ment under which they will be required to work. They

will be entitled to the current rate of wages, and be subject
to such rules as the masters may agree to. The next
steamer from Hamburg will bring a second company of 30
tailors. A number of constables were in attendance in the
docks on Saturday to prevent the men being molested, but
so far as could be seen their presence was unnecessary.—
Scotsman.

VALUE OF PROPERTY AT ST. JOHN'S-WOOD:-

Compensation was awarded yesterday, by a jury at
the Sheriffs' Court, Red Lion-square, illustrating the value
of property at St. John's-wood. The Metropolitan and St.
John's-wood Railway Company had occasion to take a
portion of ground belonging to Elizabeth Villa, Finchley-
road. The owner of the property served them with a
notice to take the whole. The lease of the place was
purchased ten years ago for £1,500, and the owner had
expended about £l,OOO more on it. He now claimed
£4,000, and proved a great increase in the value of pro-
perty in St. John's-wood. The jury assessed the compen-
sation at £3,000.

ABD-EL-KAD ER AND M. RENAN.—The Evene-
ment tells'the following curious story about Abd-el-Kader:

M. Renan left Europe in November, 1864, for Alex-
andria, after visiting Egypt ; he afterwards went to Bey-
rout and Damascus, where Abd-el-Kader received him
hospitably. Hero a curious incident occurred. M. Renan,
who speaks Arabic, was conversing with the Emir of the
past and present. Let us speak of you,' said Abd-el-Kader,
' and of your " Life of Jesus." You have then read it !'
said M. Renan with surprise. The Emir sent for the
volume, and opening it, said See ! not only have I read
it, but I have annotated it.' The' Life of Jesus,' annotated
by Abd-el-Kader, is certainly a curious work, and, what is
still more strange, the Emir thinks of publishing it !"

FATAL TRESPASS.--On Tuesday morning one of
;hose shocking accidents was discovered to have

,aken place near Manchester by which in the vicinity 01

large towns trespassers on railway property pay the
penalty of their imprudence and rashness at the expense
of their lives. A gentleman's coachman, named Arthur
Frederick Copperthwaite, had gone upon the London and
North-WeSternr"Railway, at Levenshulme, during the
night, and had been killed by a train coming behind him.
He was discovered by the driver of an early train into
Manchester, and was taken to the nearest public-house.
He had evidently been dead some time. At an inquest
held by Mr. VT. S. Rutter yesterday, it was stated that he
had been in the habit of walking along the line when going
home late, though the distance saved, as eompared with
the nearest public read, v hieh runs parallel with the rail-
way, would be very slight. There was reason to believe
that he was in a state of intoxication. Verdict—" Acci-
dental death."
Mn. MARSH AND HIS CONSTITUENTS.—Mr. Marsh,
M.P. for Salisbury, has received a letter signed by
99 of his constituents, callinghim to account for his conduct
in opposing the Franchise Bill. The hon. gentleman, in
reply, asserts his claim to independent action on whatever
measures may be brought under the consideration of Par-
liament, and points out that the course he now takes in re-
ference to the Government bill is consistent with his pre-
y With regard to my not consulting
viously expressed and well-known principles. Mr. Marsh
int then
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constituents
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after Lord Palmerston's death, I cannot see
there was any occasion for it, as it might be presumed that
there would be no change in the principles of a Government
which consisted' almost entirely of the same individuals as
before. I think, however, that Lord Palmerston was much
too good and wise a statesman to have introduced a Reform
Bill into the House of Commons which he, in common with
all really thinking people, must have known could never,
under any circumstances, have been passed by such a sub-
stantial majority as to justify for one moment its being
attempted to be thrust upon the other house of Parliament.
I need scarcely say that I made my speech at the begin-
ning of the session against lowering the franchise without
consulting any one ; this you will, I think, infer from my
general independence. Since that time others have taken
the same course, and so far from thinking that they are a
small and discontented faction, perhaps the division will
prove that they are not so very small, and they are, I be-
lieve, only discontented with a Reform Bill which, by
beginning to lower the franchise, must in my humble
opinion inevitably lead to manhood suffrage and democracy.
In fact it is avowedly accepted by its best supporters with
this view."

The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at
60 days' sight is 1061 to 1(6, per cent. At these rates these
is no profit on the importation of go d fr,:m the United
States.