The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-05 00:00:00

THE SUN; LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 5, 1868.

SHARE LlST.—This Day.

ORDINARY SHA.RICS AND STOCKS.

I Closing I Business
Share' Railways. I Paid. Price. done.
et ilirletol and Is;leet:er 22 22 luu 85 57
at Caledonian lOO 771 784 77 81
et Cambrian
- Cork and Bandon - - -
20 - Cornwall all 3 4
st Dublin & Belfast June lOO 741 754
st Dun„Perth, & Ab.Junc lOO 70 70
100 .Isl. London, scrip Celli all -
100 - - d
st Glasgow &S. Western 100 98 100
st Great Eastern,Ord.stk. 100 311 32 3211
st Do. E. Aug). at. N 0.2 100 0 8
at Great North of Scotland 100 15 .8
at Great Northern lOO 107 Ioa 108
st Du. A stock lOO 108 110 10.4 81 91
at Do. It stock lOO 122 k 123
at Do. New, is. at 25 pw 10J - -
at GtS. and W. ui Ireland 100 97 0)
et Gt. Western -Original 100 151 161 151 6
at Du. S.. Val. Rail. gua. 100 - -
at Do. South Wales
at Do. W. Mid.-Oxloru 100 -25 30
at Do. Ne*port lOO 29 31
at Do. Hereford - -
st Lancashire & Yorkshin 100 2261 1261 123, 7
at London and Blackwall 100 - -
st Lon., Brigh.,& S Coast 100 r 46 464 1,7 4
st Fon., Chat., and Dover 100 18 186 in
at Do. Metrop. Ex. A lOO 11 14
at Lon. .16 North Wester: lOO tlB3 1196 1184 1 194 .18i
st Lou. South Wester,: 100 57 89 8v 71 7
at Man., Shet., 4; Liticolo 100 §3 14 431
at Atetropolitan.
at Do. New lO - -
st Do. Extension all a9l 100/ lot 4 3
at Metropolitan District all - 75 3
20 t Do. do. do. 10 - -
10 )o. and St. John'a W'n 6 - -
at Midland
- Do. .£9 Share. 7 - -
at Do, Birmin.. & Derby 100 75 77 76
- idid Kent . • all - -
at North British
et Do. lid., Pth., & Dun lO9 - -
st Nth. Eastern-Berwick 100 104 105 101 f
25 Do. G.N •E purohast 16.12.1 - -
at Do. Leeds
st Do. York NO 95 97
at Do. Carlisle - -
at Do. Stock. & Darling. all . 132 134
25 Do. do. 1850-61 lB - p •
at North London
at Do. do. 1864 5 -
Do. do. 1866
10 North Staffordshire
st N. &S. W. Junction all 109 11
et ,Scottish Central -
- Sect. N. E , Aber. stool 100 -
Do. Soot, 31id. stook lOO -
- Shropshire Union
at South Devon lOO 43 15
at South Eastern
10 Staines, Wok., & Wok all 0 lo
at raff Vale
10 Do. C - -
- Vale of Neath -
- Waterford & Kilkenny 100 - -
10 Waterloo & Whiteha 1 6 - -
West Cornwall , 100 - -

Lou
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204
10
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COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.

'British Columbia, 6 per
cent., Deo. 31, 1872....
10an.Gov.6 p.o.Ja.a July

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1877-84
Do. 6 p. o. Feb. & Aug
Do. 5 p. o. Mar. & Sept
Uo. 5 p. o. Jan. & July
Do. 5 p. c. Inscribed sk
Cape G. Hope, 6 p.c. 1873
Do.Apl.& Oot • 1890-1900
Do. do 1880-90'
Do. Jan.&July, 1890-9 i
Do. s.per cent. 15 April

and Oct., 1900
Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p.
Do. 1878, do
Mauritius, 6 p. 0, 1873,
Jan. and July

Do. 1878 .. . .
t)o. 1882, Mayls, Nov t 8
Do. 180, Feb. & Aug..
atal ,iov. 6 per oent..
N.8.G0v.6p.c.Ja.&.1u13
N. S. IV. Gov. 5 p 18dt,
Do. 5 p.c. 1871 to 187til
Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1895
New Zealand, 6 p. cent
Do. 5 per cent.... ...
Nova Scotia Gov.6p.c.

sterling, 1875
neensiand goy. 6

Aus Gov. 6 p e lisiiB-i.

Do. 1878 &
Vic,(lov. 6 p.o. 'Fa &July
Do. do, u pril & Oct..

BILIUSEL r

Atlantic St.Lawrenoe
Rom., Baroda, m Ccn.ln.

gu. 6 per cent...
Do. I` shares
Buffalo & Lake Huron
Do. Preference
B u ff., Brant, & Goderich
6 p.c. 1672-11:4
Calcutta & 8. E., lim
Jape Town & Dock, gu
Demerara, 7 p.c. per. pi
fast. Bengal, gu., 5 do
East iudian, gu. G p.o.'
Do. .1 Extension
irandTrunkof Canada
Do. Equip. Mort, Bondi,
1 charge 6 p.c
Do. Ist Fret Bonds
Do. de deferred
Do. 2d Pref. Bonds
Do. do. deferred
Do. 3d Pref. stook
Do. do. deferred

Do. 4th Pref. stook ..

Do. do. deterred
tl t. l Odin Pen. gua. sp.u.
o. Gun. 5 per cent..

Do. New gtia. 5 p. c
o t. South of India
gua. 5 per oent
4f per cent

Do .
; reat VI/ co. of Cansda
Do. New • •
Do. 6 p. 0 ilia. pay. 1873
Do. 54 du. pay. 1677-S..
Madras, gua. 5 p.O ....
Do. 41 do

DO. 4i do

Do. Fifth Extension
lielb. Cor. 6 p. c. kinds.
Mel. & Hobson's Bay..
N. Itl.C'da.6po Istpf.bs
Dude da Rbiik'nd, g. 5 p.o
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Do. Delhi
Do. do ... Iti
Do. Puniaub.,..
Do.lndus St.lclot I

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100
100
160
100
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100 102,
100 1021
80 88
85 87
102 104
106 108
104 106
107 109

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110 1104

101 14,3
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105 107
lu7 tov
1(4 106
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162 104
103 1(.5

110 i 1 1

110 112

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100
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68 71

18 52
99 IL2
03 164
110 1104

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83 85
50 52

40 45

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107 108
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67 60
115 205
85 95
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cANtD
STOCKS
PREFERENCE SHARAs,
Great Northern, 5 per cent., 112
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 6 percent., 1231
Hid Consolidated, 6 per cent. stock,
Di ttrom, 11:rris:uolmaNndo:Irsmii.A,
966 per
en
Ditto, 4i per cent. rd., 96 "
Metropolitan 5 per cent., 103
Midland A and 13 £5 per cent., 103

LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTAL S
Lancaster and Carlisle, 2161
FOktitilGN RAILWAYP.
Bahia and San Francisco, 11. n., Rua. 7 per cent., 15
San Paulo, lien., gua. 6 per cent.,l9

•
le() IGN MINES.
Don Pedro, North Del Rcy, 211
restarena United Gold, 1im.,‘..2k
Rossa Grande, par
Scottish Australian, lim., 1 1-16
St. John del Rey, Um , 21
DOCKS.
London and Si. Katharine, 4±4 9
BANKS.

Agra, Um.. A, 111
Ditto, B,
Anglo Egyptian, lim., 174
Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and:China, 18
City, 111
Consolidated, lira., 41
Imperial Ottoman, 9 4
London and County, 53
Ditto, new, 27
London Joint Stock, 341 34
London and Westminster, 671 84
Ditto, Scrip, 391
Midland Bank, lim., 191
Oriental Bank Corporation, 421
Union of Australia, n 11
Union of London, 341:
BIISCELLANEO us;
Anglo American Telegraph, 191
Atlantic Telegraph, --
DIV°, 8 psi* cent., 1011 1024
Bombay Gas, lim.
Ditto, ne ef,
City Discount, lira, 24
City of Moscow Gas. lira., 81 9
0 irporation of London Bonds, 18,2, 4i per cent., 1011
*edit Foncier of England. lim.. 3 5-18
E tst India Irrigation and Canal, 164
Egyptian 9 per Cent., Viceroy Loan, Qua. by Egypt. Govt., 904
Gen. Credit and Discount, Lim.. 5 4 15-16
Hudson's Bay. 141-
Italian Irrigation (Canal CaYour). 2:
Ditto, 6 per cent. Bonds, rcdem. I'7o, issued 90, 38
London GeneraiOmnibus Company, lien, 1
Ocean Marine Insurance),
Panama. New Zealand and Aus. R. Mail., 41 .34
ithymney Iron, 1,44 19
Pio de Janeiro City Improvements, 231
Thames anti Mersey Marine, Insurance', lira., 4 7-16
Viceroy of Egypt, 7 per cent. (Mortgage Loan, 741 4 4

JEANIE'S QUIET LIFE. By the author of " St.
Olave's," &c. 3 Vols.—" This book is written in, a very
graceful manner, occasionally eloquont and pathetic.
Many of tho pictures of country life are very pretty, and
some of tho love scenes have a groat deal of poetry in them.
The book has a vitality which distinguishes the produc-
tions of but few contemporary novelists. The author has
shown a real creative power, and has given us some per-
fectly new and original characters."—Saturday Review.

7HEATRICALS IN WESTMINSTER HALL

in the Court of Common Pleas to-day, Chief Justice
Bovill was engaged in trying the case of Worboys v. the
London and North-Western Railway. The plaintiff was
a comedian who had fulfilled many engagements,
both in London and the provinces, and who sued
the company for the injuries received in an accident
at Warrington last June, as he was travelling from Liver-
pool to London. He was thrown with his knees violently
against the opposite seat of the carriage, the result of which
was that he suffered bruises and a shock to the lege, which
produced great pain for a long time and a weariness, which
has prevented him from following his profession hitherto,
and will, according to his own and his advisers' computa-
tion, continue to disable him for two or three years to come.
His actual professional salary had boon £1 per week, and
at the time of the accident he was on his way to join Mr.
Sothern in order to accompany him, as a member of his
company, to Paris. The company had paid £3OB into
court, but that sum was thought utterly insufficient,
and accordingly the case went to the jury. Several emi-
nent surgeons were amongst them, being Sir Wm. Per-
gusson, Mr. Bernard Holt, and Mr. Adams, to speak
to the condition in which the plaintiff was placed
by the injury; and Mr. John Oxenford, Mr. Ed-
ward Blanchard, Mr. Charles Mathews, and others,
were examined as to the Way of the plaintiff previous
to his meeting with the accident. The jury, after a short
deliberation, gave a verdict for the plaintiff for £2OO in
addition to the £3OO paid into court by the company.

In the Bail Court Mr. Justice Shea was occupied
with the case of Murray v. Webster. It was an
action brought by Mr. Dominic Murray the come-
dian against Mr. Benjamin Webster, the lessee of the
Olympic Theatre for wrongful dismissal. The
plaintiff signed an engagement with Mr. Webster to per-
form certain parts called "low comedy," and he was to
have half a clear benefit during the season, but there
were certain restrictions in the articles of engagement
which the plaintiff bound himself to observe. It was con-
tended by Mr. Webster that the plaintiff had entirely
voided his engagement by his refusal to play a part in a
certain farce called " The Two Puddicombs," and that,
therefore, he was not entitled to recover the sum he now
sought as damages. A number of actors were called, who
stated that the put in the farce was not a low
comedy part, and that, therefore, the plaintiff was justified
in refusing'it ; ad further, that the plaintiff had a right
to compensation, as he had not received the notice of 21
days to enable him to prepare for his benefit prior to the
conclusion of the season. Mr. Huddleston argued the case
for Mr. Murray and Sergeant Ballan tine for Mr. Webster, the
latter contending that the plaintiff ought to be non-s tilted ,as
everything that had taken place was within the meaning
of the engagement Mr. Murray had signed. The
learned gentleman for Mr. Murray said there had
clearly been an infraction of the engagement, and that
therefore he had a right to receive ample damages for the
loss he had sustained. The jury, however, had not de-
termined the question when we went to press.
In the Divorce Court the case of Vining v. Vining was
set down for hearing, but matters were arranged between
the parties, and the case was withdrawn.

LORD JERSEY'S RETIREMENT FROM
THE TURF.

The Morning Post cpatains the following " sen-
sational" remarks :—" Every kind of brigandage is
kept in active life by the incidents of the Turf from
the confederation of commissioners, who have a
family-man in every stable, to the notorious
discounters and well insurance coin -
parties, who, in combination with them, at
a ruinous cost from time to time skin over
ithe wounds that the wild two year old has received
in the great me'ree of the ring. Dukes, marquises,
and earls have succumbed of late years in rapid suc-
cession, after running with unavailing game-
ness, under terrific difficulties, and retired strained
and crippled fro:n the unequal contest between the
reckless courage of youth and the strategic science
of educated roguery. We announced a few days
ago in our 'racing letter that a noble lo'rd is about
to close at twenty-two the career on the Turf which
he has barely well entered into, under the assumed
registered name, as the phrase goes, of Mr. Jay.
Forty horses to which the noble lord has belonged,
as railway officials significantly say when speak-
ing of passengers and portmanteaus, are to come
up for sale at Tattersall's on the first vacant day,
and he then retires a strained and crippled two
year old from that world whose rogues have trained
him so pitilessly and ridden him so hard. We con-
gratulate the noble lord on the determination with
which he has pulled up, and we hope that it
may have been taken in time to give rest a com-
plete restoring power. But we have another hope,
and it is to assist its realisation that we now ad-
vert to the event at the risk of giving pain. Ru-
mour says that the immature victim has been exploite
under circumstances of peculiar iniquity. Even the
worst of the discounting brotherhood, the Christian
section,have hitherto refrained from eating the bird
before it has chipped the shell, and have let the corn
catch just a sun colour before attempting to pass it
through the mill; but the child of the Turf, rumour
says, was ' planted' while he was yet a boy-earl, and
one at least of the money-lending fraternity contrived
to get at him while he was at Eton. This man alone,
it is reported, has managed to build up a claim
amounting to no less than between £30,000 and
£40,000, and the ante-age liabilities of the victims
are supposed to reach in the gross nearly £lOO,OOO.
When a man of mature age, with his eyes
opened as a few years in London or regi-
mental life opens them, elects to borrow
of a professional discounter, because he either
has nothing but personal security to offer, or be-
cause it would not answer to submit his difficulties
to the governor,' it is a matter between his present
and his future, or between himself and his family ;
but when a boy who has succeeded to an earl-
doua in his boyhood, having been detected,
through the aid of the Peerage and tracked by the
bloodhounds of marauding capital to his school is
stalked and bagged with well-devised strategy, and
his estates drained of their life-blood, it becomes
an affair between society at large and the money-
wolf. It becomes both the duty and the interest
of society to drive the wolf out of the sheepfold and
hunt him down. Yet it is rarely done. The family
of the victim shrink from exposure and keep the
matter quiet, which means that it is not known and
talked of except in every club and at every din-
ner-table in London. The family lawyer is con-
sulted ; the family lawyer doesn't like the job,
and hands it over to some notorious solicitor up to
the thing,which means a practitioner who is in daily
intercourse with lenders and borrowers on bills. The
notorious solicitor takes showy initiative measures,
manages ultimately a quiet compromise, by which the
victim gets five or six thousand knocked off a claim
of fifty that real investigation wculd have reduced
' to ten, for which he receives the thanks of the family
and pockets a pretty smart fine from the discounter,
who then goes forth, with the mask still on his face
shrouded in his domino, and a still very heavy bag
of realised and secured profit in his pocket."

THE FATAL, ACCIDENT ON THE CAM

BRIAN BA IL JVAY.

CAEIISWS, MONTGOMERYSHIRE, Tuesday.
The great overflow of the Severn, which led to
the disaster of Saturday, has disappeared as rapidly
as it rose, and there is very little in the appearance
of the country here this morning to indicate that a
couple of days ago it was entirely under water. It
is unanimously stated by the inhabitants of the dis-
trict that there has been no such flood here for 16
years, and the circumstance of the annual overflow
was greatly aggravated by the suddenness of its ap-
pearance, and the terrible storm of wind by which
it was accompanied. People went to bed on Friday
night with their houses standing on dry land, and
awoke in the morning to find themselves in the
midst of a waste of raging waters, and com-
munication with their neighbours entirely cut
off. Being an exclusively agricultural district, and
the land still lying fallow, comparatively small
damage hat been done to the farms, but the loss of
stock by drowning is very great, many farmers
having lost from 20 to 50 sheep a piece, besides pigs
and poultry. IN umnous stories of individual mis-
adventure are told : amongst others of more
serious import, one old lady of the principality
relates how she awoke in the middle of the night,
and hearing cries of distress from the kitchen, went
down and discovered her only pig, which she had
left comfortably bedded by the fire, floating help-
lessly about in the room in company with the
table and chairs, and how she waded in and seized
the stay of her household, and after much labour
succeeded in transporting it to safe quarters in
her bedroom. It was late on Saturday afternoon
before the body of the unfortunate driver could
be got out of the river, though it was visible
all the time, as it stood upright in the water,
fixed between the engine and the tender. There
was a large gang of men at work, but at times it
became necessary for them to lie down flat on their
faces, as being the only means of saving themselves
from being blown into the river. All the morning
the wind raged with unexampled fury, occasionally
raising the water in vast sheets, and carrying it
about like a cloud for long distances. After noon
it moderated, and the work progressed more rapidly,
but it was found necessary to take the engine to
pieces, and remove it plate byplate, before the bodies
could be released, and this was of course a long task
when the men had to work standing in the water.
It is expected that the ordinary traffic of the rail-
way will be resumed by Monday, gangs of men
being now employed night and day in making the
repairs. The most important work is required at
the Pontdolgoch bridge, which, though built of
iron girders resting upon massive stone pillars,
has been totally undermined by the flood. The
bridge at Scofel is now pronounced to be sale,
the down train yesterday morning passing over
it in safety, though the passengers elected to
get out and watch the result of the experi-
ment from the embankment. At present through
communication is effected by means of omni-
buses and other vehicles, which, meeting the
trains at Lladloes-road, on the north side of Caersws
bridge, convey passengers to the train in waiting
at Carno, on the south side of Pontdolgoch bridge,
and vice versa.

The bodies of Samuel Daniells, the driver, and
John Davis, the stoker, were removed to the work-
house at Caersws, where an inquest was opened
yesterday afternoon.

After hearing the medical testimony the coroner
gave an order for the burial of the bodies, and the
inquiry was adjourned in order that the Govern-
ment inspector might be present.

A CIIANGE OF FORTUNE.—A letter front Pesth
mentions that Generals Klapka and Perczol are getting up
a grand ball in Pesth to which the Emperor Francis
Joseph is to be invited. In 1819 the Emperor would
have taken off their heads.

PRESENTS TO SUIT EVERY PURPOSE, TASTE, AND
POCKET AT PARKINS AND GOTTO'S.—Photographic Albums
a choice of 3,000; despatch boxes, writing cases, dressing
cases, travelling bags, envelope cases, blotting books, ink
stands, desks, book slides, work boxes, tea caddies, hand
bags and reticules, card cases, purses, stationery cabinets,
scent bottles, albums for postage stamps, crests, &c.; cigar
cases, card baskets, pocket books, electro-gilt and elegantly
mounted articles. Bibles, Prayer-books, and Church Ser.
vices, in every type. Parkins and Gotto, 25, Oxford-
street. Thousands of the above articles, all perfectly new
tad fresh, consequent upon a rapid sale.--14.Drr.)

The neighbourhood of Clerkenwell :Lis morning,
close to the House of Detention, was in a state of
excitement in consequence of a report that another
Fenian outrage had been committed. 'l'i►e fallowing
facts are authentic : —This morning a man named
Thomas Chatterbon, in the employ of Mr. James J.
Hicks, meteorological instrument cleaner, of No. 8,
Hatton-garden, was passing between Northampton-
street and Compton-street, within a short distance
of the House of Detention, when he was, without the
slightest warning, fired at by some man, who sud-
denly made his appearance, and the bullet entered
the right side of his neck, just below-the ear. Three
other shots were fired in rapid succession from the
same deadly instrument, but they did not take
effect. A man named Robert Bass- went up
to the attempted murderer, seized him by
the collar with one hand and the revolver with
the other, and firmly grasped and held him
until such time as William Knight, police-con-
stable, 219 G, came up and took the man into cus-
tody. He also secured the revolver from him, and
thus prevented him attempting anyfurther mischief.
The man was charged with the attempt to murder
Mr. Charrington or Sharrington. lie said his
name was James Needle, and his address No. 13,
New-street-square, Fetter-lane, Holborn, and that
he was by profession a solicitor's clerk. Ho ap-
peared to be a person of weak intellect.

FENIAN PLOT TO ATI ACK MACRON!

CASTLE.

CORK, Feb. 5.

A Fenian plot to attack Macroom Castle and
seize militia arms there deposited was defeated at
the moment an armed band was about to make the
assault.

The police having suddenly arrested two of the
insurgents acting as scouts, they alarmed the main
body, which dispersed.

At the time the attack was to have been made
the telegraph wires with this city were cut.

THE LATE MURDER IN LAMBE7II.

A respite was on Tuesday night received by the
governor of Horsainonger-lane Gaol from the
Home Office for the prisoner Clark, lately son.
tented to death for the murder of a child at
Lambeth.