The Express. — London, England, 1862-11-01 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS. MOM OMB OWN PARIS, FRIDAY Evrinto. The Count de Peraigny's dinner to the Emperor arid Empress yesterday was a fete quite hors ligne. Lord Malinesbury was amongst the guests. The Empress was accompanied by Madame de Smiley and Baroness de Pierres ; and the Emperor by the Prince do la Mcekowa, uncle of the Coun tess de Peraigny, the Duke de Talents, General Fleury, and the Count de Baciocchi. Among the persons invited to this fete were the Duke and Duchess de Moray, the Minister of State and the Countess Walewska, the Baron and Baroness de Berkheim, Baron Paul de Richemont, senator ; H. Edouard Deleesert, M. Boittelle, Prefect of Police ; M. Thuillier, Councillor of State, and Di rector-General of Communal Affairs at the Ministry el the Interior ; Viscount de Vongy, M. Dureau, and Count de Treillard, directors of the principal departments at that ministry, and Count de J au- Lourt, secretary. The following is an account of the magnificent country house which the success of the empire has enabled one of the oldest and most faithful— though originally penniless—adherents of Louis Napoleon to become the possessor of : The Chateau of Chamarande is in the neighbourhood of Etampes, upon the Orleans railway ; it was built by the elder Mansard, and is in the Louis XIII. style. The estate es very ancient ; it first bore the name of Bounce, so d was called Chamarande from a chateau situated in Fore, in the came commune where Count de Bossism was t o m. The estate was raised to a comtk. in 1680. During sn generations the chateau belonged to the De Talent family, an ancient and illustrious house of the previous of Forez, and the last possessor was the Marquis de Talaru, formerly ambassador to Spain, and the friend of Chateau brumd. The most remarkable part of the chateau is the gallery in which Count de Penigey has collected the historical souvenirs relatingtoChamarande since the eleventh century, dating from a sire of Montlhery, of the house of Mont enorency• _ - A singularly apropos misprint in the Patrie of last night has provoked many hearty guffaws in the rates to-day. The journal which, but a few months ago was the organ of the very General Almonte whom it has now been found expedient to repudiate—the journal which, on very sufficient in spiration, took the lead in advocating the Mexican expedition, has now, by an accident for which it MO never forgive itself, described in one scorching sentence the probable result of the appeal to the people, which General Forey's proclamation refers to as the coming sanction of whatever has been done. The Patrie, meaning only to sing the old French song that universal suffrage, although given at the point of the bayonet, cures all bygones, and is of necessity, though but once pronounced, the ex pression of the real will of every people, is unfortu nate enough to say that "when the Mexican people shall be delivered by the French arms from a despotic regime it will be free to choose that government"—(il resterait fibre dechoieiree gottverne hold). The Patrie meant to echo General Forey's words that Mexico would be at liberty to choose any government which it might like, but lapsing most unwillingly into truth, it has in reality said that the country is free to choose a despotic or— for grammar is sufficiently elastic to leave an alternative construction of the sentence—a French :ovcrnment. The France asserts that M. Nigra has made au apo leg to M. Drouyn de Lhuys for General Durando's circular. It adds that the apology has been favourably received, and that M. de Sartigee will be the bearer of a note to Turin, in which the ideas and intentions of the Emperor's government will be expressed. I think this very likely to be true ; but if so it appears to me evidence that Rattazsi's cabi net is in extremis. General Durando cannot be disavows' without disavowing the only title of Victor Emmanuel to be King of Italy. The prin ciple of unity is his sole justification for his sove reignty in Naples and the central provinces. Those states never meant, and never will submit to be mere additions to Piedmont. The Duchess of Lenchtenberg is among the first belies of invited guests to Compiegne. It has been thought necessary to instruct the Pays to say, that this coincidence has nothing to do with the candi. dature of the Prince de Lenchtenburg for the throne of Greece. The Bourse has been decidedly firmer to-day. The Bente ruse 25c. for cash and 400. for amount, dosing at 70fr. 95c. and 70fr. 90c. Mobilier rose 11r. 50c., and the Italian Loan 10c. Railways were generally better, but Southern fell 3fr. 75c. AUSTRALIA, SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY Moslems. A pilot, landed here this moruing, reports that the ,Lip Stratheden, Captain George H. Pile, from Sydney, Pawed up Channel yesterday for London. She was 10 mike oti the Bill of Portland at 2 p.m. yesterday, under all sail, with a light, easterly wind. The Stratheden left Sydney July Ai, rounded Cape Born September 3, and crossed the line October 4. She has 21 passeagen, 30,0001. in gold duet, 1,406 bale, wool, 12,000 hides, 400 tow tallow, and sundries. In lat. 49.20 N., long. 6.6 W., pared a ship showing Prudent No. 8,139, bound west. Saw ice on three dif (treat occasions in lat. 55 S. TERRIBLE SUFFERINGS OP A SHIPWRECKED CREW. The Royal Mail steamer Solent, from Colon, brought here on Sunday morning last, as passengers, pro ceeihng to Europe, the captain and owner of the ltalhol Lob Mia Madre, that foundered in the Pacific. The Mia Madre, Captain G. Opium, and belonging to Mr. Alp igloo Pedemoste, who was ImPcreargo. and • brother-in.law to the Messrs. Costa here. left Callao on the 27th July last with a full cargo of guano, bound to Valencia, Spain. After being • few days out the vessel was found to be making water, which increased so rapidly that on the 15th August it became necessary to abandon her, wh e n a b ou t one thousand miles from the port she had left. The ship had three boats ; the second mate took command of one, the first mate of an ether, and the captain of the last. The boat of the second mate after some hours disappeared, and • few of her men were saved by the boat of which the captain had chugs, in which was the owner. The boat of the first mate and the men in her were entirely lost sight of. In the lad of the captain, after many days lingering, five men died, of whom the second mate was one. The first three Focuses were thrown overboard, and the remain ing two were reserved for the most horrifying purpose that the mind can well conceive. On the nineteenth day after abandoning the ship those who Were yet in the boat were picked up by an American whaling teasel, whose name we omitted to ascertain. This vowel rhanged her course io order to land them at the port of Nu, as theme most likely to give them an opportunity to reach Panama, and thenc , l to Europe. The owner and captain express themselves in the most grateful terms of the captain of the whaler for the extreme kinds. extended to them whilst on board, be having in the first days of their excessiv e debility personally fed them with a spoonful at a tim e cf well cooked tea-broth, thus gradually restoring to them their long lost strength.--.tir. Thomas's Tide's*. The Sultan of Turkey has decided upon order -1a; four iron-cased iron screw steam-ships of the Valiant clam to be built in this country, excepting that they will be fifteen feet longer, and will mount two more guns. The Thames Iron Shipbuilding Company have received an order for one ship, and the other three am to be constructed by some equally experienced builders. C.EITON IN SAN DOMlNGo.—Accounts from San lanaingo state that cotton planting is carried on actively, and next year that country is expected to rank among tottoo producers. The cotton trees are stated to grow s pontaneously on all the south side of the island, and to flourish in the poorest soil. That which is growing in the eieioity is of short staple, but strong and fine, and would improve wi',6 care in miring. On the extreme eastern end of the island, in th e d ement of Ifigoey, the staple is described ea looter and tioer.—Jamaira paptr. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 1, 1862. THE DISTRESS IN LANCASHIRE. (nom ova 'min MANCHESTER, Ocr. 29. The apparent disproportion between the alleged intensity of distress in Wigan, and the amount of the poor-rates, so much lower than in many towns similarly circumstanced, has its origin, I believe, in the peculiar arrangement of its factory labour. Of its 19,500 hands, by far the larger part are women and girls. There has long been a tendency in the manufacturing system of Lancashire to dispense more and more with the services of men, and families have been supported rather by the aggregate earnings of their younger members than by the wages of their head. But in Wigan, owing to the prevalence of the old-fashioned throstle spinning, which is managed by female labour, this is tenfold the case. Everywhere women have long been acquiring a monopoly of weaving : here they invade &domain which for the most part belongs only to men. What, then, becomes of the male population 1 Some are engaged as overlookers, mechanics, engine-tenters, performing functions which are absolutely and necessarily unfeminine ; others are employed in the foundries of the town ; some of the older men are handloom weavers ; the great majority, however, work in the coal pits. At a very early period, therefore, the attention of the relief com mittee was especially directed to the condition of the women thrown out of work by the scarcity of cotton. Many of them, although members of Wigan families, lived in lodgings, high wages having pro duced a precocious and dangerous feeling of inde pendence. How was it possible to abandon these girls to the perils of want, or to leave them to the doubtful protection of the workhouse 1 Accordingly, as the distress deepened, a kind of tacit under standing was arrived at between the relief committee and the board of guardians, the former directing their chief attention to the female factory hands, the latter accepting, when necessary, the charge of able-bodied men. For various reasons the number of the latter is but few, and the expense to the ratepayers comparatively Man The colliers are not as yet a distressed class. In accordance with a custom, which may or may not be peculiar to Wigan, some 200 of the highest paid men, overlookers, me chanics, and others, are still kept on at the mills, at four days' wages per week. Besides, then, the rest of the male factory population, there remain a wretched class, some 400 handloom weavers, who are always trembling on the verge of starvation, and who were precipitated into the abyss by the first shock of this calamity. Their ordinary work is the weaving of ginghams, damasked table cloths, and the like, at which, in ordinary times, they were able to earn 7s. or Bs. a week. Many of them are old men, who have lagged behind the times thus long, and have neither energy nor capacity to learn a new trade. Their children, for the most part, work in the factories ; and the probability is that the present distress will altogether extinguish their trade. It will be but the substitution of one short, sharp pang, for years of slow suffering. There is none of the busy sounds of manufacture in the North that a kind-hearted man will so willingly miss, as the heavy clatter of the handloom, begun in ome dark, damp cellar while the factory folk are trooping to their work, and prolonged into the night for hours after they have returned to rest or recre ation. In the week ending October 24, the number of persons in Wigan receiving outdoor relief was 4,290, the cost of relief being 2891. 13s. 9d. Th e corresponding week of the relief committee ends on October 25. Their accounts show 10,490 as the total number of persona relieved, at an expense of 5081. 10a. for food, and about 301. for education. It would be a mistake, however, to add these two accounts together (as I nutice is done in some cases) to estimate the total amount of dependence upon legal or voluntary charity in Wigan. In all pro bability most of the families in receipt of pariah pay are also pensioners upon the relief fund. Here, as in Blackburn, there is one general com mittee, which takes the direction of the whole work ; and air ward committees, who attend to its details in as many districts of the town. There is no restriction of the committee to any class of the community, and no complaint of sectarian rivalries or partialities. The visitors, all but two, are unpaid, and are for the most part, with the admixture of one or two working men , tradesmen in the town. Of the manufacturers, one represents the town in the Manchester Central Committee ; another gives his whole time and strength to the local board in the capacity of secre tary ; while the rest take no active part in the work. Cases are visited, with the usual precautions, and the principle of relief is to supplement paro chial aid, till the income of the family reaches 2s. per head. In practice, I was told that this limit was not only reached but slightly exceeded, and that a feeling prevailed in the committee that a still higher rate would become necessary as the winter drew near. Relief is given in tickets, each of which is worth Is. at any provision shop in the town. The shopkeeper, before presenting the ticket at the general treasury, is required to endorse it with the name of his customer and an invoice of the gouda supplied. The general impression seemed to be, that the liberty of choice thus given to the people was wisely exercised ; the principal part of the money being spent in bread, meal, and potatoes, and only • small fraction being reserved for those working-man's luxuries, which it is diffi cult to distinguish from necessaries, sugar, tea, butter, bacon. A curious consequence of the fact that each ticket has a fixed money value is that in one or two instances they have been used as cur rency, the shopkeepers passing them after they have been exchanged for goods from band to hand among themselves. The advantages of this method of relief are obvious ; and not less its disadvantages. It enables the poor to buy articles which it would be inexpedient, even if possible, to distribute ; it relieves them f rom the distasteful waiting an crowd ing at the central store, and it helps to sustain a class of shopkeepers who are themselves severe sufferers by the distress. On the other hand, food can be distributed at a lower price than any shop keeper will sell it ; and the system offers the mini mum of security against fraud and waste. It is impossible for any relief committee to tell through what hands their tickets (especially when of fixed value) pass after they have left their own office ; or to provide against the deceptive statements of needy or unscrupulous men. On the whole, I am con vinced, that unless the distress of the coming winter be unexpectedly lightened, or the means of reliev ing it be largely increased, this plan, wherever adopted, will have to make way for others, in which the possibility of making a shilling go as far as a shilling will, is the chief con sideration. It is, however, only fair to add, that the Wigan committee express the utmost confi dence in the loyal co-operation of the tradesmen of the town ; and declare their conviction that their method is free from any serious taint of imposture. As might be concluded from the general sketch which I have given of the relief system of Wigan, the sewing-schools form one of its most important features. Of these there are four, containing 1,800 women and girls. The hours of labour are four per diem for four days a week, half the time being spent in education. The girls are not paid any fixed wages, attendance upon the sewing-school being required as an equivalent for the necessary amount of relief granted to their families. Up to the present time they have been chiefly occupied in clothing themselves ; now some of them are engaged in working for a fund which has been raised to supply the labourers on the roads with a couple of shirts a-piece. I heard the old story over again, • story which in these depressing times and scenes it is difficult to hear too often, of the aptitude and willingness of the girls ; of their orderly behaviour, their cheerful gratitude, their rapid progress. Be sides these four large schools, one or two small once which have been organised in connexion with the Baptist chapels of the town. The adult school system has not yet been adopted in Wigan. In a district which is very poor, and where the sewing school is the largest, it has been proposed to give the girls a weekly entertainment, of a half instructive, wholly amusing character, to which it is hoped that their fathers and brothers may be attracted. In addition to the girls in the sewing-schools, the relief committee have taken under their charge all young ' children of persons receiving help from their funds. They make it a condition of relief that all such shall be sent to some school, themselves paying the school fee at the rate of 2d. a head. At present 500 to 600 of such scholars have resumed their places upon the benches which their parents' i poverty compelled them to vacate. A clothing depot which the Wigan committee have opened is hardly yet in operation. The want of this has, however, to some extent, been made up by the liberal donations of money and clothing! which have been placed in the hands of a gentleman who, under the signature of " A Lanca shire Lad," some time ago appealed in the columns of the Times to the generosity of the public in behalf of his suffering townswomen. The work has grown upon his hands, nor less his kindly energy in its performance ; and he at present devotes the whole of his time to the service of the relief committee, and the careful distribution of the gifts which come to him from many quarters. Nor is this a solitary instance of benevolence. The noble family of Lindsay, who represent the traditionary heroine of Wigan, and inhabit her ancient mansion, are eager to aid in any good work ; while, at:three fac tories, food to the weekly value 'of 651., as nearly as I could ascertain, is distributed to the unem ployed workpeople. It was a Wigan coalowner, Mr. Blundell of Ince, who gave the munificent amount of 5,000 tons of coal to the whole suffering district. Last winter many donations of the same kind were made to the town by the proprietors of neighbour ing collieries, and tokens of similar liberality are again apparent. Still, even in Wigan, where the scale of relief is high, and the presence of a large population not dependent upon the distressed trade exercises an indefinite though great effect upon the condition of the rest, the prospect for the winter is sufficiently ghastly. Disease has greatly increased during the last month ; and the low fever which is generated in underfed bodies and fostered by listless spirits has already set in. All that has ' yet been done is to provide a bare sufficiency of food, while the necessity for shoes, and clothes, and bedding, although admitted, has yet been but vaguely measured. It is at least a momentary re lief from thoughts and apprehensions such as these to turn to the recollection of the energetic and un selfish goodness which this trouble has revealed and ' called into action, and to cherish the belief that those who have already accomplished so much,with little meed of praise more than that awarded to them by their own consciousness of well-doing, will not fail us now in our extremest need, when sup ported, as they will be, by the help, and sympathy, and gratitude of the whole nation. Prince Napoleon will, it is expected, visit the Ordnance Survey Office at Southampton, previous to his embarkatioa at that port for France. Commander Thomas C. Bruce, R.N., has been appointed naval mail agent on the Southampton station. GREAT CENTRAL GAS CONSUMERS' COMPANY.- ; - The twenty-third half-yearly ordinary meeting of the share holders of this company was held yesterday evening, at the London Tavern ; Mr. Alderman Lakin in the chair. The Chairman read the report, which stated, that after paying all working expenses, including a suitable provision for repairs and depreciation of plant., as well as discharging the obligation, for the period, arising out *tithe Wood-street tire and the arbitrators' award, there remained for share holders' profit, the sum of 12,580 f., out of which the di rectors recommended • dividend at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum, free of income tax, payable on and after the 19th day of November next, after which there would remain • balance of 1,Z561. Ils. Bd., to be carried to the next half-year's account. The rental had increased by the sum of 3,875/. A. 5c1., and although the larger portion of that amount was due to the increased price obtained, there still remained • very satisfactory increase of rental as com pared with former years. During the summer the 36. inch main was hid from Mile-end to the City, and was now in operation ; the work had been carefully and satisfactorily performed, and the directors were persuaded that the outlay would be amply repaid by the larger and more regular supply of gas to the consumers, and by the diminution of leakage. In the last report it was stated that the Court of Common Pleas had given an unanimous decision that this company came under the operation of the Metropolitan Gas Act of 1860; since then, however, the Commiesioners of Sewers bad removed the case by writ of error to the Eachequre Chamber ; it was partly beard on the 21st of Juee last, but being the last day of term, the court intimated that the further hearing would take place in November next ; the directors are still advised there was but little probability of the judgment of the Court of Common Pleas being reversed. The company's engineer reported the works to be in a highly efficient condition for the present and future supply, the quality of the gas had been fully equal to the requirements of the Metropolis Gas Act. and satisfactory to the consumers generally. The report was unanimously adopted. RAILWAYS IN THE WEST. Some months ago we mentioned that the Great Western and Bristol and Exeter Railways bad commenced running feat trains from Padding ton to Exeter and back, and that the distance of 194 miles was accomplished in 4A hours. Since then the two com panies have endeavoured, but in vain, to pennade the South Devon Railway Company to join them in their efforts to as the public by running • quick train over the South Devon line. This company, by way of keeping pace with the enterprise of the other companies, has now an nounced that it will, after October 31, cease to run the express train which left Exeter at 10.10 p.m. and retched Plymouth about midnight. Thus, in spite of the great in crease of traffic upon the line, involving • large expenditure in new stations and a second lie, of rails, this company has resolved to cut off a town of 150,000 inhabitants, and an important seaport, from any communication with the metro polis later than 11.35 LW. Plymouth has been called the "capital of West Barbary." The inhabitants bid fair to become "Outer Barbarians."— Western Morning News. RECOLLECTIONS OF RIIPILIOS. —I have sat near that young man at a public dinner, and beheld him in • gilded uniform. Bat yesterday he lived in splendour, had loug hair, a Bowing beard, a jewel at hie neck, and a smart enema,. So attired he stood but yesterday in court ; and to-day be sits over a bowl of prison cocoa, with a shaved bead, and in a felon's jerkin. That beard and bead shaved, that gaudy deputy-lieutenant's coat exchanged for felon uniform, and your daily bottle of cham pagne for prison *aces, my poor Rupilius, what a comfort it must be to have the business brought to an end ! Champagne was the hon. gentleman's drink in the House of Commons diuing-room, as lam informed. What uncommonly dry champagne that must have been ! When we saw him outwardly happy, bow miserable he must have been! When we thought him prosperous, how dismally poor! When the great Mr. Harker, at the public dinners, called out —" Gentlemen, charge your glues% and, please, silence for the honourable member for Lambeth !" how that honourable member must have writhed inwardly I One day, when there war a talk of • gentleman's honour being questioned, Rupilius said, " If any man doubted mine, I would knock him down." But that speech was in the way of business. The Spartan boy, who stole the fox, smiled while the beast was gnawing him under his cloak. I promise you Rupilius had some sharp leap gnashing under his. We have sate at the same feast, I say ; we have paid our cootribation to the same charity. Alt! when 1 ask this day for my daily breath pray not to he led into temptation, and to be delivered from evl—" Ronadabout Papers," in email! Maga:ins fo November. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. ' (Before Yr. Ocannsissioner GooThum.) RE BACON.—A FAVOURABLE CARE. This was an application for an order of discharge by Henry JAMS' Bacon, of Sunatreet, Hitchio , upholsterer. M ban r te . p Edward t. s, of Bt. • Swithin'alane, supported the The unsecured debts are 5.561., and the official assignee stated that there was a prospect of a dividend. There was no opposition, and, in dis chargi ng the bankrupt, The Commissioner said—l have much p leasure in stating that you stand much more favourably before me than many bankrupts do. Yon can take your discharge at once. lis COLLIC.—A BUILDER'S FAILURE. . . The bankritpt,iiiotiaso;iii.,;;;; described u of Eden grove, Holloway, builder. The unsecured debts are 4471. ; secured, 4721., holding mortgages on two houses and a public-house in Baxter-road, Ball's-pond. Mr. J. J. Holt applied for the bankrupt's dwoharge, which was granted. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. (THIS DAY.) David Brown and Benjamin Iforgoaki were this morning convicted under the Bankruptcy Act et conspiring together to defraud their creditors, and Brown was sentenced to be imprisoned for two, and Kortoaki for twelve months. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) GUILDHALL ISXHIDEII2IB . Till "BRITISH WOHIMAII."_ AMU Brazier alias Hastop, vas charged before Alderman Hale with stealing 10,000 copies of • monthly publication called the British Workman from a ware hoe in Johneon:itoottr!,Fleetwtreet... . . . Mr. Watson, of 5, Kirby-street, Hatton-garden, printer of the British Worknuus, said for some time put he had kept a quantity of back numbers of the above publica tion at a warehouse in Johnsou's-court, and as the premises were undergoing repair the key of the warehouse was in the passion of the workpeople, and it was by that means the prisoner obtained &CCM to the stock. He discovered there was • deficiency, and asoertrined, on inquiry, that the prisoner had been selling • quantity of the issue of January last as waste paper, and therefore gave him into custody. Alderman Hale said it was a very useful journal for the working classes, and asked what its circulation was. Mr. Watson said about 300,000 monthly. Alderman Hale asked what quantity Mr. Watson had missed from his stock Mr. Watson said there were more than 10,000 copies missing and all of the date of January but. A grocer named Hart, in Fetterlane, said he knew the prisoner and had bought about 2,000 copies of the British Workman of him at the rate of ld. per lb. Alderman Hale said that was less than ss. for what sold at nearly 101. Hart said the prisoner said they were back numbers which were out of date, and that they were his own property. Alderman Hale said the witness's own common sense ought to have convinced him that a work which was in such great demand u to be seen everywhere would not be sold in such quantities as waste paper by a person like the prisoner. He would recommend the witness to be more careful in making such purchases for the future. The prisoner was then remanded to afford the officer an opportunity of tracing the remaining 8,000 copies. BITBAORDINARY CHABOI OP BURGLARY. Peter Ciarc, a private in the Royal Marines, was charged with breaking and entering the dwelling.house of Mr. John Wilson, of 21, Brompton-row. Mr. Wilson stated that at between 2 and 3 o'clock this morning he was disturbed by hearing some one in his garden, and the breaking of a window . He went down stairs, and found the prisoner there in the kitchen. He was drunk. Mr. Paynter—How did he get in Mr. Wilson—The servant had neglected to fasten the shutter of the kitchen, and prisoner, having opened the window, forced it back. Mr. Poynter (to prisoner)—What have you to say to this? Prisoner—l throw myself entirely upon your mercy. I don't know anything that happened. Mr. Poynter—Your offence is even greater than being found in the house for a felonious purpose. You have broken the house. The prisoner —I am mire lem very sorry. Police-constable William Stratton, 344 B, said be found the prisoner in the kitchen. He did not say anything. The clerk—Was he in his uniform, as now? Witneas—Yea, with the exception of his trousers—he bad no trousers on. _ _ Mr. Paynter—No trousers on Witness—No; he had taken them off, and left them on the garden wall. Prisoner—lt seem I was going to turn in. It is not likely, if I knew what I was about, that I should take my trousers off out of doors. Mr. Paynter —How came you at Brompton last night? Prisoner—l left Chatham yesterday afternoon on leave of absence till Monday. My pan and return railway ticket were found in my pocket. The police-constable produced them. Prisoner-1 had been to see a friend in Leader4treet, and I don't know what occurred afterwards. I had no in tention of doing wrong. Mr. Payuter—Perhaps you bad not, but you alarmed this family in the dead of the night, and ought to be very sorry. Through your intoxication you make yourself appear a burglar, but as it is clear to me that it was all through drink I shall discharge you. CLERKENWELL CONWITTAL OF Till CAPTAIN OF ♦ GANG OP THMTAL James Lane, slims Thomas Brute'', alias Ratty, alias The Captain, a young fellow about 20 years of age, was charged before Mr. D'Eyncourt with stealing about 1916. of beef, the property of Mr. John Hall, a butcher residing at Is- Boston. The evidence went to show that the beef in question was on a block in front of the shop, and the prisoner was seen loitering about. The shopman went to the back of the shop for the purpose of getting some small articles, and on turn log saw the prisoner standing near the beef with his oust off. He watched the prisoner, and sew him put his coat over the beef, sod then walk off with it.. He followed him a distance of 50 yards, when the prieoner,seeing him, dropped the beef and ran off. He was pursued and brought back, but not with out a great deal of difficulty as he fought despe rately. At the police-station the prisoner denied having stolen or touched the beef, but on examining his coat several small pieces of suet were found adhering to it. The prisoner, in a whining tone, said it was • great shame that he should be brought up on this charge, and it was worry hard that • poor ycung fellow who bawd a piece of heel on the pavement couldn't pick it up to put it in the shop without being a thief. Police-constable Stammers, 236 N, said he had known the prisoner for years as • thief, and as the captain or trainer of a gang of young thieves. The prisoner had been sentenced to 14 days, 21 days, a month, on four occasions to three months' each, and be war convicted at the March sessions of the present year, and sentenced to six months' hard labour for felony. Besides these convictions, he knew the prisoner had been in prison for other offences, but for what terms he did not know. On cue occasion, when the prisoner was serving three months for attempting to commit • burglary, his father committed suicide, and it was stated that it was through the prisoner's misconduct. The prisoner —Win% you say a little more and make it hotter for me. You would not have said that if I had treated you to a drop of gin. (A laugh.) W hen I come out I'll report you, never fear. (A laugh.) Mr. D'Eyocourt said it was plain that the prisoner was a paltry thief. He then fully committed him to the Middlesex Sessions for triad. LATEST SPORTING INTELLIGENCE (sr awe= Istasurr.) NEWAIARIENT MICETING.-(THIS DAY.) MATCH. Levity beet Neptanee by 20 Loeb& Silketooe HANDICAP PLATE. Prophet g 3 10 ram. HANDICAP PLATE FOR TWO-TSAR OLDS. Gipsy Oil E Blanche of Lamas:tee 3 9 teL HOUGHTON HANDICAP. Farfalla 13 rae. ENTRY FOR SELLING STAR ES. R.M. Benham Lau, Wild Duck, M. Philippe, and Flirtatioa. ENTRY FOR SWEEPSTAKES. Half a mile. LYN Ludy Derby, Disdain, Neilgberry, Miss Emma, Griselte, Ridiceroe, Xuru ll o, sod Tuba Geis. All are here. FIRST MEET OF THE SOUTHDOWN FOXHOUNDS.— Yesterday (Friday) (says the Sutter Express) the first meet of the Southdown foxhounds took place under the most favourable auspices. The first part of the day was wet and dreary, but fortunately towards the time of the meet it became much finer, and the rain kept off. The meet took place at Glyndebourne. There wan a larger field than usual, at least 150 horsemen, and the scene presented, therefore, was a very animated one. The Glyndebourne covers were drawn, and though several foxes were moved, they ran to earth without breaking cover. At length one was found in Great Wood, but after a short run up to the Mount, it ran to earth. The covers 1141111 r Mr. Christie's house were spin : drawn without Income. MONEY MARKET.-(THIS DAY.) Two o'CLoox. The Stock Exchange is closed, according to cus tom, this being one of the days for striking the half-yearly balance at the Bank of England, where the transfer offices are also shut. There has been, therefore, no business in the stock and share markets. Scarcely any of the members of the Stock Exchange have come into the City, and no prices are quoted. An instalment of 10 per cent. falls due to-day (Saturday) on the Turkish Loan, and 24 per cent. on the second issue of the Egyptian Loan, less the amounts already paid in full. On Monday a pay ment of 5 per cent, has also to be made on the Portuguese Loan. The news of the ratification of the new Vene zuela Loan has been promptly followed by the ap pointment of a settling day in the scrip. The day fixed by the committee of the Stock Exchange is Wednesday next, the sth of November, and the loan is to be quoted in the official list. Wednesday next is also appointed settling day in the shares of the London and Colonial Bank (Limited), Buenos Ayres Great Southern Railway (Limited), and Vancouver Coal Mining Company (Limited), all of which are to be quoted in the official list. Gold to the extent of 20,000/. was bought from the Bank yesterday for exportation. There was not much alteration in the foreign ex changes yesterday afternoon, but, owing no doubt to the increase in the value of money here, the tendency was rather more favourable. The rates were as follows : Masterdom, 3 mouths, 11.16 to 17 ; ditto, 3 days, 11.14 to 1; Rotterdam, 3 moo 11.161 to 17 • Ant werp, 3 months, 25.379 to 421; Ham , ma. bow:), three mouths, 13.61 to 7 ; Paris, S days, 25.171 to 221 ; ditto, 3 months, 25.40 to 21 ; Frankl-thirMaine, 3 months, 1181 to 119 ; Petersburg (per rouble), 3 months, 341 to 1 Vienna, e ff . do., 3 months, 12.45 to 55 ; Trieste, eff. do., 3 mouths, 12.45 to 55 ; {Madrid, 3 months 491 to 1 ; lad* 3 months, 491 to 1 ; Leghorn, 3 months, 25.55 to 60 ; Genoa, 3 months, 25.55 to 60 ; Milan, 3 months, 25.55 to 60 ; Naples, 3 months, 391 to 1 ; Palermo, 3 month; 1191 to 1; Mamma, 3 mouths 1191 to 1; Lisb on, 90 days, 52 1 to 9 °Porto, 9 0 days, 52 1 to 53 . • At Paris the rate of discount in the general market is 4 per cent. ; Berlin and Amsterdam, 4; Frankfort and Brussels, 3; Vienna and St. Petersburg, 5} ; Turin, 41 ; and Hamburg, 4} per cent. At nearly all these places, therefore, the value of money is, higher than it is here. To-day is the day appointed by government for receiving tenders for the conveyance of the mails between the United Kingdom and the West Indies, or between New York and the West Indies ; also the mails between the United Kingdom and the Brazils and the River Plate. It is notified that the directors of the Born. bay, Baroda, and Central India Railway Com pany, with the sanction of the Secretary of State for India in Council, have resolved to issue the further sum of one million of capital, in 201. shar es, with a 5 per cent, guarantee. The allotment will be in the proportion of two new shares for each 1001. capital held on the 31st of October. The de posit must be paid by the 12th of November. Pay ments in full will be received to a limited extent. The Caledonian Railway traffic return shows this week an increase of 164/. A further all of 21. making 61. paid, is to be paid on the shares in the Turin and Savona Railway Company by the Ist December. The certificates of shares in the Buenos Ares Great Southern Railway Company will be ready for delivery on the 4th November, in exchange for the letttes of allotment and bankers' receipts. The ha-yearly meeting of the Madras Railway Company is convened for the 14th November. The half-yearly report of the directors of the West Flanders Railway Company, iasuod yesterday, recommends a dividend of 4s. per share. At a meeting of the proprietors of the Western Gaslight Company, held on Thursday, at the office, in Argyll-place, a very satisfactory report of its im proving position was read, and unanimously adopted ; a dividend at the rate of 13s. per share was declared, and the retiring directors were re elected. The Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool will open a branch at No. 2, Southwark-street, Borough, on Monday, the 17th November, to be ultimately removed to premises now in course of erection at the corner of Southwark-street and High-street. We are informed that 7,000 shares in the Union Bank of England and France (Limited) have been paid upon, the first allotment being limited to 5,000. It is accordingly notified this evening that the list will be closed on Thursday next. The Gazette specie statement for the week ending Wednesday last gives the following totals, viz.:— Imports of gold, 254,3621. ; exports of gold, 120,3171. ; imports of silver, 305,2231. ; exports of slyer, 412,065/. FRIDAY Evzirnts. Consols, which close.' yesterday at 93 7-16 to for money and the 6th November, opened this morning at 93 1 to 4, and closed at 934 to #. For the 4th December the last price was 934 to 4, or equal to 994 to 4 ex div. The "continuation" was #. Tbe official business report is as follows :—Tbree per Cent. Consols, for money, 931, 4 ; ditto, for account (Nov. 6), 934 ; Three per Cents. Re duced, 911, ; New Three per Ceuta., 911, ; Thirty Years Annuities, 1885, 15 ; Bank Stock, 236 ; India Five per Cent. Stock, 1091, I, 4, ; ditto Four per Cent Debentures, 1864, 1001 ; ditto 1864 or 1866, 101 ; ditto Bonds, 32a., Me. prem. ; Four per Cent.. " enfaced " rupee paper, 94. The India Five per Cent. Stock was quoted 109# to 4 ; and India Bondi, 30s. to 325. prem. Exchequer Bills were again offered, owing to the improved rates obtainable for money in the dis- count market, and declined Is. ; the March closing at 15e. to 18s. prem. ; and the June at 17s. to 201. prem. In the foreign stock market a considerable amount of business was done, and prices generally were firm. In the market for Bank shares au improvement occurred iu Bank of Australasia, Bank of Queens land, and London and County Bank, while City Bank and Bank of London were quoted rather lower. In miscellaneous shares, Berlin Water works and Peninsular and Oriental New were inquired for. After the reg u lar hours Metropolitan and Pro vincial Bank shares were quoted better, at 4 to prom. Ocean Marine shares closed to-day at 71 to 8 prem. • Thames and Mersey, 24 to prem. ; Universal, 14 to 14 die. ; North British and Mercan tile, 154 to 16 ; Commercial Union, i-16 die. to 1-16 prem. ; Loudon and Provincial Manna, to dire. ; London and Colonial Bank, II to It prem. ; Standard Bank of British South Africa, 24 to prem. ; Bank of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, 4 to prem. ; Union Bank of Eng land and France, 4 to a prem. ; Buenos Ayres Great Southern Railway, dis. to par ; Metropolitan Cab, to 3 prem. ; and Canadian Oil, 1 to 11 prom. MINES.-(THIS DAY,) Two Vzoos. This being a holiday on the Stock Exchange, only • limited amount of business has been transacted in mining shares, and prices generally are without alteration. East Caradon are a shade firmer, at ad vanced , and North Roskear steady, at their quotation of 51 to 52. Lady Bertha are quoted 31a. to 335. The directors of the St. John del Rey Mining Company (Limited) have this day received by tele gram, from Lisbon the following report, dated Velbo, September :—Produce for second division, eight days September, 10,060 °haves ; yield of ditto, 7107 per ton ; remittance, 91,760 oitaras. . . . . The subjoined weekly report of the metal market is extracted from the circular of Messrs. Von Dadelszen and North : The tone of the metal market during the put week hew been decidedly flat. The absence of any favourable sews from America, the uncertain state of European poll and • tightening money market, have been sufficient to forward numerous sellers, as they have on the ot►er tended to keep burns back. Iron—Welsh bens sand ha favour of buyers, 54 15e. to 51. 17e. 6d. f.o.b. Wales, sad at • corresponding price here. Stafordshire iron is quiet, but unchanged in value. Scotch pig iron has fluctuated from I day to day ; after touching 56e. 9d. cash the market has re lapsed to 56a. sellers. Co English I. dull of wile, and obtainable • trifle under prices. Very little beeisses has been done in foreign. For Barra 1001. 10a. is asked, r a t p itlzers are scarce, even at 1001. Hapunda 1014 ; 931. to 951. ; 901. to 911. Tin his its poition well, and a fair amount of balsam bass bma done; Straits, 1181. cash, 119/. full prompt ; bnaca t 1195 The Dutch market is quiet, at 69111. ; Eoglisb in fair deemed. Tin plates—Since the adverse news train America no beds cow tracts of any lan have been entered into, emolet remain unsnarl& Lead is steady, but there is HMIs Spelter has undergoes an entire change, s►asl holders wanting to realise have fenced the prices down to 181. 2e. 64., and even to 181. prompt emb, at which a eon. siderable business has been done. From interested mo tives, false reports of much lower sales have been spread around, doing great injury to bona fide holden. non I. now more firmness, and thin are buyers at 181., without sellers. RAILWAYS.-(THIS DAY.) Two o'Ctexa. The Stock Exchange being closed to-day we have no report to make under this head. COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS. TALLOW MARKET.-(TH18 . DA?). The midget is dull. The present quotations are an nexed :—Town tallow, 455. to 455. 3d. s • I. cash Peters burg Y.O. on the spot, 475. ; aD the ries, 46e. 9d., sellers . • Derember, 47a to 465. 94. ; January to March, 475. to 46a 9d. ; March, 47m. Mau= Aril/AGM—Town tallow, 47a. 9d. ; fat by ditto, 24. 4 d. ; yellow Russian, 48e. Id. ; melted stuff, 365. 6d.; rough ditto, 204. 6d. ; tallow greases, 16s. ; good drip, 7s. SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—(THIS DAY.) Messrs. Harvey and Fasten report trade dow, at loot day's prima Prime meadow hay, 70.. to 80..; superior ditto, 84e. to 90e. ; inferior ditto, 365. to Mt ; clover, old, 846. to 110.. ; ditto, second cut, 80e. to 100.. ; straw. Us. to 36m. COVENT GARDEN.—(THIS DAY.) Vegetables and other produce in lemon 11111 continue good and plentiful. Importations of foreign fruit are als3 well kept up, but trade is mid to be dull. Grapes and pine apples are plentiful. Pears consist of Marie Louisa, Duchene d'Angordeme, Bourse Diel, Won MCWOIIIIII2, and Cramane. Tomatoes, though mace, and members, are still sufficient for the demand. Cat dowers chiefly consist of orchid., pelargoniums, violate, mignonette, and moss. . . FRUIT. _ Pine Apples, per lb., Ss to is Apples, per doz., fd to Uid Grapes, per lb., te Wes per e sieve, Se to es Melons, each, le to ts Lassos, per 100, de to lOs Pears, r dor., Is to es Walnuts, per 100, ls to Ye p pe er e sieve, 11l to lle Filberts, p. 100Ibe., bOs to 70s VEGETABLES. French Beans, per halt sieve, Cucumbers, each, id to ed Is to !a I Artichokes, each, 44 to tici Peas. per sieve, ta Beet, per dos. le ed Cabbages, p. doe, 1e 11 to le ed Celery, per bundle, le eld to 5 Potatoes, York Regents, per i Shallots, per lb. 04 to ed ton, 1400 to 1605 1 Garlic, per lb ed to 8,1 „ Flukes, do., 200 s to 140 e ; Lettuces, each, Id „ Rocks, do., 140 e to 160 s I Endive, ppeerr score, is Cups, do., Ns to 900 IHo lab. per bee.,lred to is New, per lb, td Vegetable !Yarrows, each, Id Tti . rnipa, per bunch, id to 44 Mushrooms, p.p0tt.,14 60 to Se Carrots, do., &I to 041 Parsley, per It bunches, 3. to ta Spinach, per sieve, ed to ls Herbs, per bunch, Id to CI TRAFFIC RETUE3S. Ulla Par Mar Toga Total, 1 SAILWATII apes gingen ellsndlato 3162 1861 Week ending Oct. 19. a A 6 A London, Tilbury, t South end Extend= Ottoman Week ending Oct. 21. 8. Aunt. A Lombardo-ken (South And Line) 1004 17.129 11.498 44.617 60,646 (Lombardo Line) Central Italy Branch Plabance to Bologna 9l 2,046 1,741 4,396 3,078 Week ending Oct. 11l Caledonian 230 6,944 11,187 17,131 16,961 PROVINCIAL SHARE MARKET& LirEason, OCT. 91—Bake to-uay :—Great Easters, 46—Lan casbire and Yorkshire, 1077—Sambre and Manse. 8 11-16. OCT. El—South Eastern have been Is request, and a fair general business has been done. Prices firm. Orme Northern A, Ml—Great Western, W.—lllinois Central. 62- -Leneadhire and Yorkshire, 1071 I—London and North . Western, 921—Manchester and County Bank, 11 p.—Man. cheater, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 371—New York and Is, 871 87—North British, 6611—South Listens, 851 I—Thames aria Mersey Marine Insurance, 2 7.10 p.— District Bank. 171 p.— East Anglian. 221—Kendal end Winderniere, IC—Grand Pastern 6 per cent. Preference, 107—Alliance Bank, 8 IL—Man chester and County Beak New, 11 p. TIATTIC RISCIFI7II3. —The traffic receipts of rail ways in the United Kingdom amounted for the week ending the 25th Oct., on 10,499 miles, to 560,0901., and for the corresponding week of last year, on 10,186 miles, to 530,480 i., showing an blouses of 313 miles, and of 9,5401. in the receipts. The gross receipts on the fol lowing 14 railways amounted in the aggregate, on 7,221 miles, to 446,3861. ; and for the corresponding week of 1861, on 7,006 miles, to 434,869/. ; showing an in crane of 215 miles, and of 11,5171. in the receipts. The increase on the Caledonian amounted to 163/. ; on the Great Eastern to 313/. ; on the Great Northern to 1,3871. ; on the Great Southern and Western to 44131. ; on the Great Western to 3,706/. ; on the London and North-Western to 2,6021. ;on the Ludt-a, Brighton, and South Coast, to 2,0131.; on the London and South-Wester to 1,8811. ; on the North British to 32/. ; on the North-Eastern to 1,3881. ; and on the South Eastern to 1,5961. total, 15.4741. But from this must be deducted 2,5731., the decrease on the Lancashire and Yorkshire ; 1,3371. on the Marianske, Sheffield, and !Lincolnshire ; and 451. on the liidlud together, 3,9571., leaving the increase, as above, 11,5174 The goods and mineral traffic on those Bees amounted to 231,1811., and for the corresponding week of 'Sill to 237,3981., showing • decrease of 6,2171. Tbe receipts for pasungers, parcels, Sic., amounted to 213,3051., against 197,4711., showing an iecrease of 17,7341. The traffic receipts on 64 other lines amounted, on 3.279 miles, tek 113,6341., and for the corresponding week of last year, oh 3,180 miles, to 115,611/., showing a decrease of 99 miles, and of 1,9771. is the receipts. The increase in the paseenger traffic of the part week, as compared with the corresponding period of 18Fl, arises chiefly from the International Exhibition and excursion traffic ; and the de crease in the goods traffic from depression io trade. The total receipts of the put week show • decrees* of 20,8981. se compared with those of the preceding week, ending the 18th of October. THE BANE OF ENGLAND NOTE ROBBERY.—Be. tweet seven and eight o'clock last evening, Detective Inspector Manton and Sergeant Webb, of the City of London detective force, sitar digging for • long time it different places in Aston Manor • discovered a plat, which was known to be in existence, but up to the present time could not be found. It was wrapped in • bag, and was The homeward passage money paid to the Royal buried at some depth. The plate is said to be a new Mail Company is about 20,0001. • year more than the out- one, sent down from London • short time ago, and ward passage mosey . Th e i n t er ...l ea k' t ra gi c i s nearly bears the following .—**lB62. October 13th, London, 011e4ii - th of the whole receipts. October 13th, 1862. W. P. °situ." There have beta STEAM SHIPPING—October has terminated without some fresh disclosures made by Griffith., but fur obvious any material improvement in the actual or prospective eon- reasons we are unable at prevent to state how far they dition of the steam shipping interest ;so that any favourable inculpate others. It is desired t h at Griffiths should be re-action before the close of the year an no longer be ex• removed to London to be tried with the men who have yected. Few steamers have positively changed owners i n been apprehended there, but before that is done an order the past month, although inquiry has been active. Amos`` I will have to be obtained from the Birmingham straps, the sales effected have been • few peddle-wheel steamers of It was stated yesterday that Ma'am. who left - good speed, reported to have been purchased for the ham • few dais ago, has been apprehended in London.— Southern States of America, and to be destined to run the Birmingham PM. blockade; which speculation is now much restricted by the A SHAER FOUND IN THE KENT.—On Friday iumemad vigilance of the Federal States' cruisers. British afternoon LA a young man of the mine of Dover clamed steamship builders are pretty well employed, upon borne from the river Keel, near Nether Bridge, at the southern and foreign coutracta, for the winter months ; and are look. I extremity of the town, a young shark. It was found at big forward to incremed activity in the spring. Several the bottom of the river, and he drew it out of the water time chartist lave been effected Efficient and otherwise I by means of click•hooks. It measured five feet in lengthh. suitable steamers commanding fair rates ; and some of 1 from snout to tail, and was dead when taken out of the medium teenage are still in request. As anticipated, river. During Saturday it we. exhibited in the Mediation freights to the Baltic have continued to improve ; but Hall, and afterwards sold to Dr. Gough, for the Kend• return cargoes from the Baltic and the lower grain ports. Museum. The shark had three rows of teeth, and had have not been so well supported, for which the depressed several bruises on its body. There are various ormjecturee condition of the corn market will partly account. We are as to how it got into the Kent ; some think that it had bee* unable to report any material improvement in the steam blown sad fr ightened oat of its latitude, by the lap storms, ship employment of the Mediternmeao ; although from into Morecambe Bay, from whence it had entered the Alexandria charters have been effected on good terms.— i mouth of the Haat at the bead of the bay, and ascended ( From the Circular of Mesas. Alfred Brett and Co.) I the river, where it perishad.—Kenefei Mercury.