Resume Of The Week's News.

mend it to our readers . They will find the Speciahte Sherry absolutely unvarying in its quality , and they may offer it to the most fastidious guest without the slighest misgiving .

Coming before the world , as this wine does , at a time Avhen public confidence has been shaken in the character of the ordinary sherries with which the market is stocked , it should command the patronage and confidence of a large class of Avine drinkers .

Bro . H . Wright , No . 188 , Avho has for many years been associated with the Sacred Harmonic Society , announces a grand Evening Concert at Exeter Hall . The vocalists are

Miss Bessie Stroud , Madame Poole , Miss C . Leslie , Bros . Theodore Distin , G . T . Carter , F . J . Jones ; Pianoforte , J . Liddell ; and part of the band of the Coldstream Guards , conducted by Mr . H . G . Dyer .

Bro . G . S . States , late manager of the Caledonian Hotel , Robert Street , Adelphi , has been unanimously elected manager of the New City Club , George Yard , Lombard Street . From the long and practical experience of our Avorthy brother , the members could not have made a better selection .

The following is the List of unsuccessful Female Candidates at the Election of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution , on Friday 21 st May , and the number of votes polled by each . These Avill be duly carried forward to their credit at the next Election .

No - ou Xo on Voting Naino Forward To-day Total p „ ,, Paper rul

2 Tidswell , Snsaunah - ¦ 35 308 343 — 3 Wreyford , Elizabeth - - 137 25 162 — 8 Churchill , Elizabeth - ¦ 1-1 48 G 2 — 9 Giduey , Lydia ... 19 81 100 — 10 Elliott , Isabella - 15 4 19 — IS WI'II- PS . ' Eliznlw . Mi 'ri s « isn

—, 1 G Dark , Ann .... 3 1 14 — 17 Eedick , Maria ... — 460 460 — 18 Edwards , Eleanor ... 23 G 5 88 19 Chipcbase , Emily 33 2 35 — 20 Charlton , Sarah ... 3 69 72 — 24 Coweu , Harriet - — 131

—27 Keen , Mary .. .. — 11 — 30 Enssell , Sarah - — 43 — 32 Shearer , Anne - — 84 — 35 Hoaro , Henrietta ... — 480

—HOLLOWAY s PILLS . —Bilious complaints and irregularities of the system , produced by depraved or over-abuudiint bile , can always be corrected by a fewdoses of these inestimable I'ills , which are everywhere admired for their rare combination of mildness and power ; for though they conquer with ease and rapidity the most obstinate disease , thoy never weaken the stomach , or necessi . iito any interruption of ordinary duties or amusements . Ou the contrary , they increase tho appetite to all the animal functions , and fit both hand and brain for fresh exertions . The sick and enfeebled may , by a single trial , speedily discover what a happy revolution these Pills have the power to effect n the human system .

Money Market And City News.

MONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS .

FK i DAY . Business during the past week has been dull , accounted for by the Epsom races , the approaching fortnightly settlement and the general depressed state of trade . Tho railway market has suffered nearly all

round , and other branches are iu the same state . The best feature in the Bank Keturn is undoubtedly the large increase in 'he coin aud bullion daring tho past week , the increase being £ 951 , 529 . The reserve being now equal to 40 J per cent , of tho liabilities .

The report of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company , to bo presented to the meeting on tho 8 th June , states , that owing to a reduction in the mail subsidies and a decrease in the receipts on the lines to and from Bombay , the result of tho operations of the half-year i 3 ! c ; : s favourable than for many years past .

After deducting from tho revenue the current expenditure , and adding the usual reserves for depreciation and insurance , there remains a profit on the working account , but not such as to justify the directors iu recommending the paymout of an interim dividend . The Australian subsidy is £ 40 , 000 less per annum than

formerly , and the Imperial subsidy is . 820 , 000 per annum ' ess , besides being now subject to deductions for heavy penalties arisiiiL from bad weather aud other causes cf detention over which the company has no control . The result 13 a diminution under the head of tubsid y in the revenue for the six months ended March last oi $ 22 , 000 , compared with the Bams period of last year . The cause-

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ot the still more serious falling otf in the earnings ou tho Bombay lines are also fully explained . The most important items of account show an important reduction in tho expenditure , which , it is believed , -will involved a considerable saving during tho current year . The directors add that , although regretting the result

of the half-year ' s operations , they fcol that they havo done their utmost to ensure success under the circumstances . In addition to replacing the older steamers by vessels of an improved class they have , in efery department of the service , applied measures of stringent economy , and placed the various lines of communication

and tho arrangement of their work on a now basis , which is calculated to maintain and strengthen the position of the undertaking for postal and commercial purposes . According to tho report of the Queen Insurance Company the fire premiums for 1874 amounted to £ 334 , 630 , and the losses to £ 185 , 694 .

Out of tho balance £ 90 , 753 , was declared a dividend and bonus of 15 per cent . £ 50 , 000 was carried to suspense account , and a balance of £ 13 , 778 was carried forward . A dividend and bonus equal to 10 per cent , is recommended by Liebig ' s Extract of Meat Company Limited , tho available total for

tho year being £ 75 , 097 ; £ 25 , 000 is added to resorve fund , and tho balanco , £ 1020 carried forward . It is stated that the new business of the Great Britain Mutual Life Assurance Society for 1874 amounted to £ 374 , 302 . At a meeting of the Northern Railway of Buenos Ayres a dividend

ot , per cent , per annum was declared . At the meeting yesterday of the General Life and Fire Assurance Company , a dividend of 7 per cent , was declared . The Tunisian Eailways Company Limited havo declared a dividend on tho preference shares at the rate of 7 per cent , per annum

for the live months ending with December last . The report of tho Bank of British North America recommends a dividend of £ 2 10 s per share , payable tho 3 rd of July , and the

" rest" has been increased to £ 250 , 249 . Tho Clearing House return for the past week gives a total cf £ 91 , 297 , 000 , against as £ 83 , 795 , 000 for tho corresponding week last year .

Railway Traffic Returns.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS .

Tho following statement shows the receipts for traffic on the undermentioned railways for the past week , as compared with the corresponding week in 1874 : ¦— Miles open . Receipts . Railway . 1875 1875 1874 £ £

Caledonian 737 i- 55 , 873 53 , 002 Glasgow and South Western . . 315 £ 17 , 751 17 , 344 Great Eastern .... 763 54 , 964 52 , 855 Great Northern .... 523 56 , 014 55 , 357 Groat Western .... 1 , 525 113 , 34 G 113 , 175 Lancashire and Yorkshiro . . 430 97 , 102 62 , 808

London and Brighton . . . 37 fii 36 , 522 30 , 157 London , Chatham and Dover . . 153 i 21 , 594 19 , 112 London and North Western . . 1 , 5823- 181 , 762 171 , 285 London and South Western . . 626 £ 43 , 103 40 , 183 London , Tilbury and Southend . 45 ¦ Manchester and Sheffield . . 259 J- 31 , 701 30 , 694

Midland 956 * 133 , 587 116 , 666 Metropolitan 8 10 , 121 8 , 7-0 „ „ District ... 8 5 , 507 4 , 708 ,, „ St . John ' s Wood . . If 549 457

North British 839 46 , 159 40 , 973 North Eastern .... 1 , 393 136 , 289 109 , 491 North London .... 12 8 , 145 7 , 077 North Staffordshire Railway . . 190 12 , 525 10 . 141 „ Canal . . 118 1 , 199 1 , 592 South Eastern .... 350 44 , 083 37 , 865

Tin : FOUNMJIM ; or PIIIT . ADKLI'H IA . —For the capital of Pennsylvania the "City of Brotherly Love , " which is "Philadelphia" in New Testbnent Greek , a site was chosen by William Ponri at a place named by the Indians Wicoco , situated at the junction of the Delaware and the Schuylkill . It was bought of three Swedish colonists , by whom it had becu occupied before . The projected city was to

cover twelve square miles : Ponn would havo liked every honse to to be surrounded by its largo garden , so that the whole might bo a " green country town . " Tho colonial surveyor very soon laid out h s plan for tlie making of this town , with a series of parallel roads or streets across the neck of laud between the two rivers , intersected at certain angles by another series , equally straight , but

in general following tho lines of the rivers course to then-junction . The streets being wide , and well planted with a variety of line trcos the effect is rather pleasing , rin'ladelphii , as an infant city , grew very rapidly and healthily from its birth iu the summer of 1682 . Two years after that time , it contained sis hundred houses . It had a riverside quay , where vessels of live hundred tons burthen could

bo unladen at the wharf ,- a commodious inn , the " Blue Auchoc , " built in the old Cheshire stylo of a timber frame ( illed up with brickwork , which served also for the corn-exchange and post office j chapels aud schools , and even a printing office . The population wa 3 increased by the arrival of two or three vessels mo > th'y , bringing ? amilies who soon made themselves at home . —Cassel ' s "Illustrated Kistoi-y of the VntfM States ?