The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-01 00:00:00

Bank of England Returns•-• This Evening.

An Account, pursuant to I
cap. 32, for the week ending
ISSUE DE:

the Act ith and Bth Victoria,
Wednesday, Feb. 28, 1866.
PARTMENT.

Notes issued
.....£28,113,205

Governmt. Debt.£ll,ols,loo
I Other Securities 3,984,900
Gold Coin and
Bullion
Silver Bullion

£28,113,205
BANKING D:

£28,113,205

Proprietors' Capi-
tal X14,553,000
Rest

PARTMENT.
Governmt. Seen-
rities(including
.......

. .
Public Deposits
(including Ex-
chequer, Sav-
ings' Banks,
Commissioners
of National
Debt, and Div
Accounts) 5,448,781
Other Deposits 12,742,313
Seven Day and .
other bills

Dead' Weight
Annuity) £9,915,483
Oiler S.;curities 18,812,117
Notes 7,315,105
Gold and Silver
Coin

£36,926,074
March 1, 1866.

£36,926,074
W. MILLER, Chief Cashier.

THE TESTS ABOLITION (OXFORD) BILL.—The
following is the bill brought in the Rouse of Commons,
by Mr. Coleridge and Mr. Grant Duff, to provide for the
abolition of religiousde ee
in thetestsinUniversity of Oxford .
connection with academical
-
degrees an
Whereas it is expedient that provision should be made
for enabling her Majesty's subjects to take degrees other
than degrees in divinity in the University of Oxford, and
to hold public professorships, readerships, and other
academical offices which are or may bo tenable by lay-
men therein, without requiring' from them religious
tests :—Be it enacted by the Queen's most excellent Ma-
jesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords
Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present
Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same,
as follows :—From and after the passing of this act, no
person shall be required, upon taking, or to enable him to
take, any degree (other than a degree of divinity) within
the said University of Oxford, or as a condition of exer-
cising or enjoying any of the privileges and rights which
may heretofore have been or may hereafter be exercised
and enjoyed by graduates thereof, to subscribe any article
or formulary of faith, or to make any declaration or take
any oath respecting his religious belief or profession or to
conform to any religious observance, anything in the 44th
section in the act passed in the session of Parliament held
in the 17th and 18th years of her present Majesty, chapter
81, or airy other act of Parliament or statute of the said
University,that
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nanya co contrary notwithstanding--provided
always
for any
qualificationo eseucnhowde
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only
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tenderedoma sb;
of the United Church of England and Ireland for which
such degree as heretofore constituted one of the necessary
qualifications, being other than an office within the said
University or any of the colleges or halls thereof, the per-
son or persons appointing or electing to such office shall re-
quire the person so tendering such degree as aforesaid to
subscribe such formularies or to make such declaration as
he would have been required to subscribe or make on tak-
ing the degree of master of arts iu the said University if
this act had not passed. From and after the passing of this
act, no person shall be required, as a qualification for, as a
condition of, holding any public professorship, readership,
or other academical office which is or may be tenable by a
layman within the said University, to subscribe any ar-
ticle or formulary of faith, or to make any declaration or
take any oath respecting his religious belief or profession,
or to conform to any religious observance, anything in the
Bth, 9th, and 10th sec. of the act passed in the session of
Parliament held in the 13th and 14th years of King Charles
11. chap. 4, or in any other act of Parliament or statute
of the said University, to the contrary notwithstanding.
Provided always that nothing in this act contained shall
be taken to apply to any headship or fellowship, or any
office of or in any college, house, or hall within the said
University, not being a fellowship or other endowmentd in
such college, house, or hall attached to some public
pro-
fessorship, readership, or other academical office sin the aidUn versity, and held by virtue thereof."

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, FEB. 28.

The Lord Lieutenant held the second Levee for
the season at the Castle yesterday. Considering
that so many of the nobility and gentry are now in
London, and that the assizes are going on, the at-
tendance was numerous. Twelve peers and two
bishops were among those present.
The sudden death of the Right Hon. henry Her-
bert, M.P. for the county of Kerry, is reported.
He expired on Monday night at Dunraven Castle,
Adare, where he 2nd his family, with other distin-
guished guests, were on a visit for some days, and
where mirth and gaiety had prevailed till this sad
occurrence, which will be deeply lamented through-
out the county. Mr. Herbert was for some time
Chief Secretary for Ireland, in 1857. He succeeded
Mr. Horsman, and continued in office till the
change of Government, in the following year, when
he was succeeded by Lord Naas, and after him came
Mr. Cardwell.
At the opening of the assizes of Louth county at
Dundalk yesterday Mr. Justice Fitzgerald, in the
course of his address to the grand jury, referred to
the Fenian conspiracy, some drilling cases having
come before them. He expressed his satisfaction
at the readiness with which the gentlemen sum-
moned on the grand jury and the long panel had
come forward to dispose of those cases. That was
a wholesome sign of the times, for, although Louth
was in comparative peace, and although it was to a
large extent free from the disastrous conspiracy
known as the Fenian Confederacy, yet there could
be no doubt that they lived in a time when it was
incumbent on the gentlemen of the country to show
a determination not alone to perform their duties,
but to lend ther aid to the Exeeutive Government
in resisting the progress of the disorder. He hoped
he was not transgressing the proper limits of his
duty in saying that it appeared to him to be impos-
sible to over-estimate the importance of the aid to
the Government given by the country gentlemen,
the grand jurors, and magistrates in the careful and
determined administration of the law, and by their
example and the influence of their residence on
their property. This had dcne much to arrest the
progress of what he would call the flood of so-
cialistic red Republicanism which threatened the
welfare of the country.
A meeting of the members of the Athy Farmers'
Club was yesterday held in the Court-house at Athy
for the purpose of receiving the report of Mr. Pelin,
veterinary surgeon, on the cattle plague, who had
been specially sent to England and Scotland by the
club to report on the subject. The chair was occu-
pied by Sir Anthony Weldon. Mr. Pelin, in the
course of his observations, gave an account of his
visit to the sister kingdoms, briefly sketched the
character of the plague, and related the various
symptoms of the disease which had presented them-
selves to him duringhis journey. The reading of the
paper was followed by a general conversation on a
system of inoculation and proper care of cattle.
The reported arrests of Fenians are net so nume-
rous aa they have been for some time. Four sus-
pected Fenians were lodged in the gaol of Water-
ford yesterday, and one young man in Cork named
O'Callaghan, who is supposed to have obtained the
rank of 44 B." It is said that some suspicious docu-
ments were subsequently found at his residence.
Greggy, one of the men arrested last week, has been
liberated on the representhtion of his father, who
produced letters to prove that the prisoner had no
treasonable object in coming to Ireland. The
young man Byrne, arrested inTullow, has been ad-
mitted to bail upon the recommendation of the ma-
gistrates of the district.
Several persons have been arrested at Ballina, in
the county Mayo, but the fact caused no display of
popular sympathy. A number of suspected persons
have left that part of the country. There are ten
men committed under the recent act in the gaol of
Roscommon. From Mallow, in the county Cork,
we learn that a policeman named O'Brien and a
sergeant of the North Cork Rifles, named Maurice
Nagle, have been arrested on a charge of Fenianism.
A correspondent of the Daily Express reports from
Limerick the arrest of a Maynooth student, the son
of a lady of considerable wealth :
" On this morning Mr. Stephen B. Welsh, aged
21 years, a very respectable young man, was brought
in from Kilmallock by the constabulary and lodged
in the county gaol. This person had only recently
returned from Maynooth College, and his mother,
who is worth some few thousands pounds, recently
bought an estate, and is this day in Limerick ar-
ranging to purchase another. The next arrest to
record is that of the master of the Rathkeale work-
house, Mr. Robert Casey, who before receiving that
appointment was taken up some time ago, but dis-
charged. He is also a prisoner in the same gaol.
In addition to these there have been committed
within the last few hours Thomas M'Donnell, slater,
Ballingarry ; Mr. Richard Loane, weighraaster,
Newcastle West ; John Sheahan, publican, New-
castle West. This man had been previously ar-
rested, but was out on bail. All the above were
brought in by train, under police escort, and lodged
in the county prison, where the total number of
Fenians in custody is 33. Thomas O'Connell, of
Abbeyfeale, recently arrested, was stated to have
been a captain in the Federal army, and an associate
of Geary, who shot Head-Constable O'Sullivan in
Newcastle. His friends assert that he did not oc-
cupy the rank of captain, and deny that lie had any
acquaintance whatever with Geary. For three weeks
previous to his arrest O'Connell was confined to his
own house under medical treatment. I have before
me the calendar of prisoners for trial at the coming
county assizes, and there appear the following
names see-Darby O'Grady, John Lysaght, Edward
Dillane, David Quack, John Sheeahan, and Thos.
Browne, who are to be tried under the Treason
Felony Act. They stand charged with being mem-
bers of the Fenian Brotherhood, and soliciting others
to join the confederacy; also for having treasonable
documents in their possession. The remainder of
the calendar is made up as follows :—Thomas Ma-
grath, writing threatening letters to the Rev. Ralph
Taggart and Mr. Barry ; James Roche, having the
form of an illegal oath in his possession ; John Ben-
nett and Patrick Flanagan, felonious assaults ;
John Walsh, manslaughter of his wife ; Morgan
Finucane, and John and Johanna O'Brien, lar-
ceny; Thomas Ryan, cattle stealing; Ellen Ma-
bony, larceny ; Owen Keeffe, burglary at Newcastle
West ; Patrick O'Brien, assault ; and Patrick
Keane, larceny."
The number of Fenians now in the county prison
at Muliingar amounts to 24, and for their safe

keeping an officer's guard, consisting of 24 rank and
file, marches from the barrack to the prison each
evening, and remains there until the following morn-
ing. The arrest of the man named James Magrath
at the North Wall, Dublin, on Saturday last, was
the result of information contained in letters written

by him and found by the constabulary in the house
Of one of the parties arrested by them who now lies
in MulHagar gaol. The information thus obtained
is likely to lead to further arrests, and probably of
much greater importance. Allusions are made to
other parties, and ..
Magrath also to chests of tea sent by
to partiespackd in the country, which he states
be saw well Themeaning of this can hardly
admit of a doubt,. the tea contained in these
chests might in all probability be of the true gun-
powder character,
s letters to _aving got the above particu-
lars from Magratb.'
his Fenian friends,
members of the force
instanter to the
Telegraph-office "and forwarded eaddtwo the Castle the
evidence, or so much of it
necessary
to
justify the arrest of Magrath, and very
remained in the office until an answer was properly
returned
that the message had been duly received. This cir-
cumspection is much to the credit of the const.bu-
lacy here ; they have been, and still are, unceasingly
on the alert, and no men could be much harder

worked.
The truculent spirit of the Fenian conspirators is
displayed in their proclamations. One of these
documents, written in a large bold hand on tea
paper, and well spelt, was found posted up at the
Court-house and Bridge of Athy, in the county Kil-
dare, on Monday

" NOTICE.
"God save Stephens; God save the Green!
Woodlouse, hurrah! Whereas a certain act, caled
the Habeas Corpus, has been suspendedin thel
clown-trodden isle, I, by virtue of the same, can
arrest any person or persons suspected of being an
Irishman, or sympathising with Irishmen, and I can
east them into prison without judge or jury, or any
trial whatever (God bless the mark), and lean send
them to Spike Island, or imprison them as long as I
think fit, without even making known to them the
charge preferred against them, or without their
having broken the peace or committed any overt

act whatever. Oh ! what liberty under the glorious
British Crown !) I, therefore, command all my
white slaves and serfs to return to their allegiance,
or I shall make Ireland a Jamaica the second. I
further command them to submit to every insult,
such as the Protestant Establishment, Tenant
Wrong, and English Education, &c.
" Ent A LARKIMEN.

" Given at Corruption Castle, Dublin, this
26-2-26, being the last year of our blessed, tyranni-
cal, and exterminating rule in Erin-go-Bragh.
" God save the Green!"

Railway and other Companies.
-*-
GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN.

The directors of this company have resolved to
recommend the shareholders at the half-yearly gene-
ral meeting to declare a dividend at the rate of 17
per cent. per annum for the past six months ending
31st January, carrying forward £5,118 to the credit
of the next account.

LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOVER.
The half-yearly general meeting of this company
was held yesterday at the Grosvenor Hotel, Pimlico
—Lord Sondes in the chair.
The report, an abstract of which has appeared in
Ike Sun, was taken as read.
The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the re-
port, said he thought itwas satisfactory. The traffic
was increasing considerably, and during the past
half year 5,123,038 passengers were conveyed over
their lines, showing an increase of 759,374 as com-
pared with the number carried in the corresponding
half of 1864. There was every prospect, therefore,
of a greatly increased traffic when the delays and
obstructions to their operations IN ere removed, and
they were enabled to run the trains over the new
bridge in and out of the Victoria station with facility
and without the hindrance they had so long suffered
from. Their traffic had been greatly impeded by
other companies in the neighbourhood of London,
but in the course of a few months some of those
obstructions to their traffic would be removed. They
were in hopes that two lines of way over their new
bridge across the Thames into the Victoria station
would be opened in June next. There was a pros-
pect of having a new line from their railway at
Beckenham to Brighton, which if constructed would
bring a large traffic over their metropolitan lines.
Lord llAartis, deputy-chairman, seconded the
motion. He said the directors felt very much dis-
appointed in not being able to submit a better account
of their traffic. Their anticipations had been based
on the completion of their system of lines which,
owing to various unforeseen circumstances, had been
seriously retarded. Had their system of lines been
completed 12 months ago, as they intended, the
traffic would have now presented a much more satis-
factory result. The opening of the link line to a
junction with the Metropolitan Company's railway
had been delayed until the Ist of January, although
it was ready for traffic on the Ist of September last.
They trusted that they would soon have a consider-
able traffic in coals and merchandise from the Great
Northern Railway over the link line to their lines
south of the Thames. They had. been assured that
the four lines of way over the new bridge into the
Victoria station would be ready for traffic in
August next. It was their desire to work the traffic
in a most efficient, punctual, and satisfactory manner.
The great delays to which their traffic had been sub-
jected had greatly retarded its development, and
they had suffered accordingly ; but on the com-
pletion of their various junctions and additional
lines of way they would be able to run their
trains with facility and punctuality. He then ad-
verted to the great advantages the public would de-
rive from the construction of the proposed new line
to Brighton in connection with their metropolitan
lines.
Alderman WILSON, of Brighton, contended that
the proposed line to that place would never pay,
and that it was not wanted.
Mr. HARTRIDGE remarked that as all their lines
were so costly they could not expect them to pay
for many years to come. "At present the receipts
yielded a profit of 1 per cent. all%the year round.
He estimated they would require about seven times
the present traffic to pay 5 per cent. all round on
their capital.
Mr. HoLnoYD, a director, explained that the cost
of the lines was considerably less than Mr. Hart.:
ridge had estimated them. They had been driven
to a very large expenditure by the opposition and
obstructions of neighbouring companies, but they
would soon surmount all these obstacles by the
completion of their system, and in consequence by
a largely increased traffic over all their lines. (Hear,
hear.) The company's metropolitan extensions
would derive an unmixed benefit by the proposed
line if made to Brighton. Sooner or later, on pub-
lic grounds, he believed that line would be con-
structed.
Mr. M'GAREL, who, it appeared, had nearly
£lOO,OOO preference and other stocks in the com-
pany, said he could not see why some of the share-
holders should so strenuously endeavour to damage
the property.
Mr. BILLINGS was quite contented to wait for the
completion of the company's lines ; their traffic was
choked at present by the Brighton company. It
was well known there were obstructions to the traffic
at various points which would be removed in the
course of a few months, and then, he believed, a
very different state of things would exist.
After some observations by Mr. SHAW and other
shareholders,
Mr. FORBES, the general manager, explained that,
owing to leasing the Sevenoaks and Sheerness lines,
instead of being paid for working them, made a
difference in the accounts of £4,500 against the
company, there was an increase of £l,OOO in the
rent of the Victoria station, so that he considered
the company had arrived at the maximum of their
burdens ; and, as the traffic was increasing on these
and other lines worked by the company, the surplus
would in future tend to increase the net receipts of
the Chatham Company. Then there was to come
the South-Western traffic to the 'Ludgate-station,'
the Great Northern coal and goods traffic over their
lines, a new. traffic to the Chatham dockyards, and,
above all, the removal of existing obstructions to
their metropolitan and other traffic. All these things
would tend to increase the company's revenue.
Millions of capital had been expended by them on
works and land which were now unproductive, but
would not be so when their lines were completed.
The traffic on the general undertaking in 1863 had
averaged £5,300 a week, in 1864 £6,100 a week,
and in 1865 £B,OOO a week. Things were not going
to remain stationary, but would, like traffic on other
lines, go on increasing. At present the Continental
traffic amounted to £400,000 a year, of which they
got 35 per cent., but next year it would probably
amount to £500,000 in consequence of the Paris
Exhibition, their proportion then would be 39 per
cent., and in 1870, under their agreement with the
South-Eastern Company, they would have 50 per
cent. of the Continental traffic. This time next
year the company would be in a very different posi-
tion to what it was at present. Yesterday the Great
Northern passed a goods train over the link line to
the company's main line at Beckenham ; and he had
just received a telegram stating that Colonel Yol-
land, the Government inspector, had approved the
portion of their line from Loughborough-road to the
Elephant and Castle. He hoped they lvould not
expect much this current half-year, but he had no
doubt the second half of this year would show a great
improvement.
Sir Monrox PETO remarked, as to the completion
of the works, that none of the recent widenings of
the line could be commenced before November last,
and that some of them were now completed. As to
the Victoria-bridge, it would be completed in 14
smootnhtahts
therefrom had
de
beent ini
n the e
want of
commenced,
weneerregaylli
fnutllhye
im-
pressed worksa
rectors or the contractors. They
pressed with the importance to the traffic of
m
pleting the works. When it was consideredetoha;
the company were only able to run one train iu 25
minutes instead of one train in every five minutes,
they could form some idea of the disadvantages
under which the traffic was conducted on their me-
tropolitan lines. He had no doubt whatever that
the works referred to would be completed by the
time specified.
Mr. SURGEY thought there could be no doubt that
when all the lines were completed the traffic would