The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-15 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, Aug. 14.—Two o'clock.—The market has
again been little more than nominal, and scarcely
any business being transacted the variations are in-
significant. Prices were first quoted at about the
closing figure of yesterday. French Threes were
done at 69f., or a rise of sc. ; Italian Fives at 52f.
25c., or 10e. higher ; Mobilier unchanged at 648 f.
75c. ; Credit Foncier at 1,290 f., or 6f. 25c. lower ;
Comptoir d'Escompte at 872 f. 50c., or a fall of 2f.
50c.. Scarcely anything is doing in the Railway
Market.

Three o'clock.—The market has closed with a
slight improvement :-
4; per Cents 97 90
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 69
Do. end month 69 05
Credit Mobilior 650
Do. end month
Credit Fonder 1300
Do. end month 1297 50
RAIL

Bank Shares 3550
Italian Loan 52 45
Do. end month 52 40
Mexican Loan 27
Do. Bonds 173 75
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —
Deferred -
AYA.

For Account.
Orleans
Northern 1132 50
Lyons and Mediterranean........., B6B 75
Southern 530
Western —
Eastern
Sardinia
Austrian
Lombard 3BO
North of Spain
Saragossa 125
Ditto to Barcelona —
Itomau —

MARKETS.--This Day.
MARK LANE.

Fresh up to our market to-day the receipts of wheat
from Essex and Kent were on a limited scale. For both
red and white parcels the trade continued quiet, yet late
rates were supported. _

Foreign wheat, the show of which was moderate, moved
off slowly. The prices realised, however, were quite on a
par with those quoted on Monday.
In floating cargoes of grain a moderate business was
transacted, on former terms.

The trade for barley ruled firm, at late rates. The show
of samples was moderate.
The show of oats was good. Good and fine parcels
changed hands at full prices ; otherwise the trade was
heavy.
Beans were dull, and in peas very few transactions took
place.

The flour trade was quiet, on former terms.
SHIP ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
English and Scotch 1,000 710 1,110
Irish
Foreign 7,730 2,880 24,490 520 sks.
48,701 bls.

COMFARATII'E QUANTITIES AND FRICES OF GRAIN.
For the week ending Aug. For the corresponding week
11, 1866. last year.
Qrs. Aver. Qrs. Aver.
Wheat 45,980-51s 2d Wheat ....... 53,311-42 s Od
Barley 628-35 s 2d Barley .••••• 463-27 s 10d
Oats

BOROUGH HOP.
Tho trade for hops is firmer, and good and fino parcels
command rather more money. The plantation accounts
are unfavourable.

WHITECHAPEL.
Moderate supplies of meat are on sale. On the whole
the trade is steady, at our quotations :

Per 81b. by the carcase.
Beef 3s 6d to 4s 10d Mutton ... Ss 8d to 5s 8d
I
Veal 4s 2d to 5s 4d Pork ...... 4s Od to 5s Od
Lamb, 5s 8d to 7s Od.

Lord Stanley, Secretary for Foreign Affairs, ar-
rived at Portsmouth yesterday morning, and having
embarked on board the steam-yacht Fire Queen,
Staff-Commander Paul, proceeded to Osborne on a
visit to her Majesty.
The double screw iron gunboat Vixen was yes-
terday taken out of No. 1 dock at Woolwich, and
the raster veseel Viper was docked yesterday.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

TAFF VALE.

The directors have resolved to declare a dividend
at the rate of 9 per cent. per annum for the half
year ended the 30th of June last.

STAINES, WOKINGHAM, AND WOKING.

The directors of this company have declared a
dividend of ss. 6d. per share, or 24 per cent. per
annum, for the half year ending the 30th of June
last, against 4s. per share, or 2 per cent. per annum,
for the corresponding half of 1865.

LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN.

The following is the report of the directors, to be
submitted to the proprietors on the 24th inst. :

" The annexed statement of accounts for the half
year ending June 30, 1836, duly audited and veri-
fied, presents the following results :—Net proceeds
of the half year's working, £962,293 14s. 10d. ; ba-
lance from last account, £12,262 Bs. 11d. ; dispos-
able balance, £974,556 3s. 9d. ; which enables the
directors to recommend a dividend at the rate of 6
per cent. per annum on the ordinary share capital,
leaving a balance of £28,169 15s. 3d. to be carried
to the credit of next half year. The proprietors will
observe a change on the present occasion in the form
of the accounts, the capital of the undertakings dis-
solved and vested in this company having been
brought into the General Statement of the Capital
Account, and the dividends accruing thereon incladed
in the Dividend Statement, instead of, as hereto-
fore, in the General Statement of Revenue Account.
The auditors concur with the directors in consider-
ing this a preferable mode of stating the accounts.
The results of the last session have not been encou-
raging to parties promoting schemes for purely spe-
culative purposes, the majorities of which were
either withdrawn or rejected. Other projects, more
or lea affecting the company's interests, were passed,
but the directors were generally successful in secur-
ing the right of the company, either by making ar-
rangements with the promoters, or by obtaining
clauses in the several acts. An act has been sanc-
tioned by Parliament relating to the issue of railway
companies' securities. The directors trust that the
effect of the measure will be to cause increased con-
fidence in these investments. An agreement has
been entered into with the Fleetwood, Preston, and
West Riding Railway to vest that undertaking
jointly in this and the Lancashire and the Yorkshire
Company in equal proportions. The proprietors are
aware that the Midland and North British Com-
panies some time ago began proceedings in Chan-
cery against this and the other companies parties to
the English and Scotch Traffic Agreement, and that
consequently a very large sum of money remained
in the clearing-house undivided. A decision has
recently been given by the Court, under which the
money has now been apportioned. The directors
have to report the resignation of their colleague, Mr.
John Platt, M.P. The favourable consideration of
the proprietors is asked for church accommodation
and the extension of the burial ground at Crewe.
The directors request votes of the proprietors to the
amount of £210,339 for new works, &c., at about
50 stations on the line. For works on the Lancaster
and Carlisle line, £15,780, and on the Chester and
Holyhead line, £13,287." The capital account to
the 30th of June shows that £44,652,141 had
been received, including £31,515,031 on share
capital, and £43,325,788 expended, leaving a
balance of £1,326,353. The revenue account for
the half-year shows that £2,975,122 had been re-
ceived, against £2,788,331, for the corresponding half
of last year, showing au increase of £186,791, and
£1,426,494 expended, against £1,305,160 in the
same half of last year, showing an increase of
£121,334, leaving a balance carried to the general
account of £1,548,627, against £1,483,171 for the
corresponding half of 1863, showing an increase of
£65,456.

MIDLAND.

The half-yearly meeting of this company was held
yesterday at Derby ; Mr. W. E. Hutchinson in the
chair.

The report was taken as read.
The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the
report, said the traffic receipts for the last half-year
had been most satisfactory, the increase had been
large, amounting to nearly £125,000, and that was
spread over nearly all the different branches of
traffic, excepting cattle, in which there had been a
decrease of from £5,000 to £6,000, the cause of
which was obvious. The shareholders would ob-
serve with satisfaction that in carriage of minerals
there bad been an increase of £21,000, whereas in
the preceding half-year there had been a decrease of
£6,000. The discrepancy between the aggregate
receipts for the half-year and the published weekly
returns arose out of circumstances connected with
the Scotch traffic and the large amount in dispute
which had accumulated in the clearing-house ; of
that amount within 25 per cent. of the undisputed
had been divided, reserving the whole of the dis-
puted ; but as to that a decision in the Court of
Chancery had been given in favour of this company.
In those circumstances the directors had thought
themselves justified in crediting the accounts of the
half-year with the whole of the amount received on
account of the undisputed traffic. The decision of
the Vice-Chancellor gave to this company £lOO,OOO.
Of this they had only appropriated £25,000, leav-
ing the remaining large surplus to be dealt with at
some future period. There might possibly be an
appeal, but the money had been actually paid.
(Hear.) The directors had hoped to declare the
same dividend as in the corresponding period of
1865, but they had been disappointed. This was attri-
butable to the large increase in the amounts paid in
salaries and wages, in the maintenance of way and
works and in the traffic and locomotive departments;
there had also been an increase in the price of the mate-
rials used on the railway; and finally, there was the
stringency in the money market, which had prevented
the company borrowing money on such favourable
terms as it had done hitherto. On account of the
lamentable accident to an excursion train they had
paid up to June 30, £34,000, and there were a few
small claims still unsettled. That was the most un-
fortunate accident which had occurred on the Mid-
land line, and he hoped there would be no repetition
of it. The legal and parliamentary expenses had been
heavy—the former in defending unjust demands ;
the latter in the parliamentary committees. With
reference to their law charges, one result had been
a decision in their favour in a dispute with the Great
Western Company, the award being for between
£60,000 and £70,000. Since June 30, 1865, the
amount of unproductive capital on which dividend
and interest had to be paid was over three millions
of money ; notwithstanding that drawback the divi-
dend declared on the open stock was within ss. per
share of this time last year. He thought that was a
cheering feature in the accounts. When that dor-
mant capital became productive there must be a con-
siderable rebound in their dividend. Several of the
new lines were in a forward state ; and in reference
to the last parliamentary campaign he said it had
been a successful one for this company. Having ob-
tained lines of their own or running powers into all
the great seats of our commerce, they would now
pause for a time, in order that they might consoli-
date that which they had acquired. (Hear.) It would
be unwise to give any pledge that no more new lines
should be made; there were some fillings up to be
done, but nothing requiring large outlay; the board
was well aware that the concern required rest. (Ap-
plause.) They were anxious in future to devote their
energies to the management of the great system
which had been built up, so that the Midland Rail-
way might be not only an advantage to the public,
but a source of increased profit to the proprietary.
(Applause.)
Mr. PRICE, M.P., seconded the resolution.
A PROPRIETOR asked when the £3,000,000 of un-
productive capital was likely to become productive;
also when the St. Pancras station would be opened,
and whether the line from Bedford would be opened
simultaneously with it.
The CHAIRMAN replied that a portion of the new
lines now unproductive would be opened this year.
As to the Bedford line he hoped it would be opened
to the goods station in the autumn of next year,
and „the St. Pancras station some months later.
The total amount of unproductive capital was
£3,068,000 ; the amount a interest paid on it in

the half-year was about £60,000, which was equal
to 1 per cent. on the half-year.
After some further discussion, tho resolution for
the adoption of the report was carried, and the
various dividends therein recommended were de-
clared.

Resolutions were also passed for the consolida-
tion of certain shares of the company into stock.

THE CHOLERA.

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MANSION-HOUSE RELIEF COMMITTEE,

Last evening the fund now being raised at the
Mansion-house, under the auspices of the Lord
Mayor and a committee of eminent bankers and
merchants of the city of London, for the relief of
the distress consequent upon the visitation of cholera,
amounted to nearly £7,000, as the result of a week's
subscription. Of that £664 odd was received at the
Mansion-house alone, in addition to the sums paid
into the different banks in connection with it.
At 1 o'clock the committee held a meeting to hear
applications for assistance from the fund, and to
make grants, there being present the Lord Mayor,
Sir Mordaunt Wells, Mr. R. N. Fowler, the Rev.
William Rogers, the Rev. F. G. Blomfield, Mr.
Alderman Cotton, Mr. Andrew Johnston, Mr.
Charles Hetton, Mr. R. B. Wade, Mr. Ripley, Mr.
Needham, Mr. P. C. Glyn, and Mr. W. J. Maxwell.
A deputation of six of the principal inhabitants of
St. Luke's, Millwall, waited upon the committee to
ask for a grant. The population was about 6,000,
almost entirely poor. There were now 50 or 60
cases of cholera. The disease had slightly abated,
but the distress was very great, private charity being
nearly exhausted, and the £25 given to the clergy
by the Bishop of London's Fund was very inade-
quate for the exceedingly pressing wants of the poor
families suffering from the epidemic and its atten-
dant diseases. The committee granted £5O, as a
beginning, and five gallons of port wine.
A local committee of nine gentlemen formed in
Mile-end Old-town had also an interview with the
committee. They are raising a fund for assisting
persons and the families of persons suffering from
cholera, convalescent patients, and especially the
widows and orphans of persons who had died from
the effects of the disease. There are 12,000 houses
in the " hamlet," and the population is about 84,000.
The deaths from cholera from the outbreak were
56 in the week ending the 21st July; 136 in the
next week ; 155 in the third ; and they decreased
to 65 in that ending Saturday last—making 412
deaths in all from cholera alone. Of these 84 were
the deaths of husbands, who had left 84 widows
and upwards of 400 children. Throughout the
whole hamlet 1,912 cases of cholera and choleraic
diarrhcea had been treated during the week ending
Saturday last, or 273 on an average daily, excluding
those in the Union. The committee granted £l5O
and ten gallons of port wine. They also granted
£5O and five gallons of port wine to the Stepney
Relief Society.
An application was made by Mr. Walter C.
Cocks, honorary secretary to the House of Charity
in Greek-street, Soho, for a grant. He stated that
20 children, who had been cholera patients at the
London Hospital, were now residing there, and
would be kept until sufficiently strong to be re-
moved, when other children would be admitted.
The charity, he stated, had been put to great ex-
pense in providing bedding, food, and clothes for
these children, especially in clothes, as the children
were sent from the hospital wrapped in blankets,
consequently clothes had to be provided for them.
£25 was granted by the committee for clothing.
From a communication addressed to the committee
by the Rev. Sherrard Beaumond Burnaby, rector
of Wapping, it appears that the total number of
cases (not including those in a temporary hospital
there) treated for cholera and diarrhoea in Wapping
and that portion of St. George-in-the-East which
was attached to his benefice, have been 1,091, and
the deaths 23, from July 21 to Friday last. That
amount of illness had caused great distress. In
addition to those numbers 93 cases had been ad-
mitted into a cholera hospital in the parish, from
July 28 to Friday last; the deaths there had been
32, and 33 patients had been discharged as cured.
From 40 to 50 out-patients had been treated daily
since July 28.
Out of about 1,200 men employed at the Great
Eastern Railway works at Stratford New Town
there had been an average of 80 cases of cholera
and diarrhoea, 13 of which had terminated fatally,
and very many of the wives and children had
perished besides, leaving in many cases large families
in the deepest poverty and misery. In one case a
father, mother, and one child were taken away, and
eight other children left helpless and dependent.
In St. George's-in-the-East the total mortality for
the five weeks ending on Saturday last had been
149, as compared with 39 in the corresponding five
weeks of last year, and as compared with 95 in five
weeks of September and October, 1854, the last
visitation of cholera. In the parish of St. Mary,
St. George's-in-the-East, 31 cases of cholera and
diarrhcea ended fatally during last week, and there
were many new cases of both this week, chiefly
arising, it is believed, from want of good food.
There have been some distressing cases of bereave-
ment among the poor German and Dutch in the
Bow-road. From Bethnal-green an influential de-
putation, headed by Mr. Bevan, attended before
the committee and asked for a grant towards a fund
they are raising for the express purpose of relieving
the widows and orphans of persons who had died
of cholera. The whole population of Bethnal-
green is estimated at 108,000. The disease, they
thought, was abating, but many were suffering.
from the consequent bereavement. A poor woman
called upon one of the deputation that morning
to ask for assistance. Her husband and one child
had died, and she was left with five children.
The committee made a grant of £2OO to the
deputation. The Rev. William Roger, rector of
Bishopsgate and a member of the committee, took
occasion to speak in the highest terms, on his own
personal knowledge, of the efficient manner in
which a local committee of comparatively humble
men in the district of St. Matthias, Bethnal-green,
with the assistance of the curate, are working to-
gether to relieve the distress in that very poor
quarter consequent upon the epidemic. It was in
striking contrast, he said, with the very unchristian
spirit which existed in some other parts of Bethnal-
green in this emergency.
A long conversation arose on an application made
by Mr. Palmer, a director of the Bank of England,
for a grant towards the cost of establishing a tem-
porary cholera hospital in Commercial-street, White-
chapel, by adapting a large unoccupied warehouse
there to that purpose. The building is said to be
large enough to accommodate 200 patients, and
£l,OOO has been already subscribed or guaranteed
towards carrying out the enterprise by private muni-
ficence. Mr. Palmer dwelt on the vast importance
of taking the cholera sick from the healthy in poor
and crowded districts, and removing them to a
temporary hospital, properly conducted, both as
affording means and chances of recovery and with
the view of gradually stamping out the disease itself.
The committee were a good deal divided on the sub-
ject, both as to the necessity for such an institution,
seeing that the epidemic was said to be abating, and
on other grounds. Sir M. Wells contended that in
the event of a large outbreak of cholera the London
Hospital would be wholly unable to cope with it,
and that it was the duty of the committee, in the
common interest, to prepare for any emergency
thrt might arise, cholera being now present, and
they knowing not what turn the disease might take
in the next week or ten days. In the result Mr.
Palmer was informed in effect that in the event of
his complying with the rule they had laid down for
their governance in distributing the fund through
local committees, by forming such a committee for
the management of the proposed hospital, they
would be prepared to reconsider the matter with the
view to a grant in aid.

The following is the official return of deaths from
cholera and diarrhoea for Aug. 13 and 14 :
Cholera. Diarthcea.
West districts ••• 1 ••• ... 8
North districts ... ••• 2 ••• ... 6
Central districts... ... 2 5
East districts —123 ••• ... 14
South districts ... 11 ••• ... 13

Total ,„ „,189
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HER MAJESTY.

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058 0 RNE, Tuesday.

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise and
Princess Beatrice, embarked yesterday afternoon
on board the Royal yacht Alberta, Captain his
Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen, and steamed
through Spithead, passing close by the forts in course
of erection there.

In attendance were Lady Waterpark, the Hon.
Flora Macdonald, and Col. Du Platt.

The Duke of Marlborough had the honour of
dining with her Majesty and the royal family in the
evening.

The Queen drove out this morning with Princess
Louise.

Prince Leopold drove out also.

Lord Stanley had an audience of the Queen to-
day, after which he presented to her Majesty the
Rev. John Fladd, lately detained in Abyssinia. Mr.
Fladd, whose family remains in that country, is
about to return there, under instructions to effect,
if possible, the release of the remaining prisoners.

The Duke and Duchess of Newcastle left town
on Monday evening for Mrs. Hope's seat, Blayney Castle,
Castleblayney, Ireland, where the duke and duchess intend
to remain a fortnight, and then go to Clumber for the
autumn.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Kildare and
family are expected to leave Carlton House-terrace, ou
Monday next, for Kilkee Castle, their seat in Ireland.

Viscountess Jocelyn, accompanied by Viscount
Jocelyn and the Hon. Miss Jocelyn, is expected to return
home in a few days from a tour in the south of France.
The Count and Countess de Jaucourt have ar-
rived at Claridge's Hotel, from Paris.

The Countess de Noailles, accompanied by Mr•
Vicars, has arrived at Claridge's Hotel, from Ingatestone,
Essex.

The Lord Chancellor left town ou Saturday to
join Lady Chelmsford and the Hon. Miss Thesiger at
Folkestone.

Lord and Lady Walter Scott have joined the
family circle staying with the Duke, and Duchess of
Buccleuch at Drumlanrig Castle, Dumfriesshire.
The Earl and Countess of Carnarvon and family,
accompanied by the Countess of Chesterfield, passed
through town yesterday on their way to Buxton, Derby-
shire, from Highclere Castle, near Newbury.

Lord Ilenry Percy, M.P., left town yesterday
for a tour in France and Spain, and will be absent abroad
for several months.

"We understand that a marriage is arranged and
will shortly take place between Mr. Henry Arthur Her-
bert, of Muchross, Killarney, and M.P. for Kerry, and the
Hon. Emily Keane, only child of Lord and Lady Keane.
MARRIAGE IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. Tbis
morning, Lady Rose Sophia Mary Fane, only sister of the
Earl of Westmoreland, C. 8., was married in Westminster
Abbey to Mr. Henry Weigall, the eminent portrait
painter. The Abbey was thronged, and outside it there
was a vast amount of bustle and excitement as the nume-
rous carriages poured into Dean's-yard. The bride, ac-
companied by her noble brother, left her mother's house,
29, Portman-square, about half-past eleven, and entered
the Abbey, attended by the following young bridesmaids/
dressed in the Earl of Westmoreland's turf colours—white
and green :—Lady Grace Fane, Miss Thomson (daughter
of the Archbishop of York), Miss Alice Weigall, Miss
Lowther, Miss Ada Ibbetson, and Miss Alice Bagot. Mr.
Fred. Cockerell was the bridegroom's best man. The cere-
mony was a musical one, a chorale being sung, the psalm
chanted, &c., by the full Abbey choir. His Grace the
Archbishop of York was the principal celebrant. After
the ceremony a grand wedding breakfast was given by the
Dowager Countess of Westmoreland, at her town residence,
29, Portman-square, and at 2.30 Mr. and Lady Rose
Weigall were to leave for Apethorpe Hall, Lord West-
moreland's seat in Northamptonshire. Among the valu-
able presents received by the bride are some from her
Majesty the Queen of Prussia, her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Cambridge, the Duchess of Cleveland, the
Countess of Jersey, &c.