The Express. — London, England, 1865-08-01 00:00:00

LATEST SPORTING INTELLIGENCE pa Immo riukumpu.) BRIGHTON MIETING.—(rars DAY.) BRIGHTON STASES. One &le and three-quarters. B.:leap, John Davis, Velntl, read Diver, Claxton, Red min, Faroe. sad Verdant are bora. MARINE PLATE. T.V.O. N y w k g , Liam% BMA Mantle, Lord Douglas, Historian, diye,&Wks. Gramm, lemons, Arkansas, May i s ; l it, sad My Gob are ban THIRTEENTH BIENNIAL STASES. this L a Mandarin sad Loader's are kern. CHAMPAGNE STAKE& Om toile. A p a ged, Master Itiohard, fialadin, Andes, Pantaloon ls, Union Jaok, Plover, Archimedes, Osoiboscan: ow red Lydian am berm AzErm ._Purity, Madcap. Cobweb, Flatterer, Cadis, A mm itas, Dal, B•lttet, Ooldy Looks, Lady Valentine, t o Robed, mo on , and Vixen. To .a sy i s the 67th anniversary of the battle of la Five British veterans who were Gouged is th e i the 141-7,.",;,,,,, via, Admiral Sir J. A. Gordon, G.C.8., tinm sow Governor of Greenwich Hospital ; doe r a Forbes, then midshipman; Captain J. B. t r hen "" Joidshiptosti ; i'l;so midshipman; Oommeoder R. L Connolly, wad First Lieutenant John Scobell, who ma then bo Pn''"n t mak, promotion at any kind having singlir d OUT AND TEE c _oRH E N.—l LECTIOt is r. maks the DeDlist Renting Mail) that Mr. Scully is mnldla the gratitude of his former oonstituente by ee"'" ° ' in tends He to petition for as avoidance of anther •••• nounds of the nuance of the the ate 21 " 4ks ' 11, fixi n g th e maw) o f dainM ci ,p. qua n y net yrrin(beeo complied with. a n AL OF LIVERPOOL (laurrau).—An NATION Be „ nary , "gm um held _yesterday, to receive the —A t"WW Mr. It. Man, the chairman pre elowee"„_, ~,k . "'',..g ge — a h owed net profit on the half - veer to tole - 12,67 . 7/., to which 2,8101. from t last st Jan Mb, ▪ ar 746i. balance of premium on shares, wen IN., distributed as follows - dividend at the a▪ te of w ikk ot :l s t, pee annum ; 10s. par share on 20,000 M u Wager, 10,KOL ;7a an 8.779 new shares, 3,0721, 13a.— U Ta mat and lass next amount, 3,1611. 1~pa 1372 ' ow 3n. lld. Of the 2,494 new shame on U teed et l i d mi ming, 1,273 had been taken up at the pro- lj aidm pm sham, producing 8,9111. Of this 13,385/. bag hose ape.. rest — to ne fund, inaressing it to 1(0,8954, p ; 1, 8001 to extiseties of preliminary ex fa - bill* ? sa la d dist. 746l. to twat end loss. The chairman stated a s t o is directors had suwiessfully endeavoured to tcraintals 6 e m a nce during the uncertain (audition of the money 2 _ mans. l eav i ng development to more auspicious times. 1 ; m i med.; was irnalil3lollll, and the report was adopted. GAUANT CONDUCT OP A RAILWAY GUARD.— 2 On Saturday a telegram was noaived at Mirfield-station, a one of the busiest junctions on the Lancashire and York- Wee lies, front Cleckbeston, to the effect that 23 trucks, ; heavily laden, with timber, bad passed that station from - L os Kerr without engine or mrd.van. A number of wa ggons had been placed in the siding, and the timber trim not being properly sprigged, started off, and by the time it reached Cleckheatoo was running ate very rapid rite On receipt of the telegram the line was cleared by & tog of workmen, and the train came dashing towards g Mirrield Station et • great speed. A guard, named Game Below, who happened to be on the platform. jumped spat die runaway train sad succeeded in bringing it to • stead I n appiying the fixed brakes to several waives. Bat foe Itarlow's gallant oonduot, a terrible collision might 2 ss a takes place with a passenger train which was mo mentarily expend. SERIOUS FIRE AT WEST HARTLEPOOL. —About ten o'clo:k on Friday ermine last a most alarming fire was discovered in the soros-house of Masers. Louder and Mel b .I, y ' s m 1 ,41 11118, West Hartlepool Four fire-engines were speedily cm the spot, but a delay of upwards of half an hour Mimed before the water-plug could be found, and during this stoppage the roof of the engine -house fell in, and the sleeper saw-mill took fire, as also did the liwskwaith's shop. In the sleeper sawmill were three laden with deepen, and they, together with that j DMZ, ware crammed by the flames. Fortunately the p wild was it the right direction for keeping the fire from the main buildiog, or the whole yard, with its stacks of • timber, must have inevitably suffered destruction. The 4' fire ra ged for about three hours ' and some thousands of peopk ware congregated round the scene. There is no • MOOD assigned for the origin of the conflagration, but It is oaojecturd that the fires in the boiler house had been the i source which had caused the destruction. The damage is i eatimandat 7001. or 8001., which is fully conered by insise- h sate—Neresede Chrottiele. FIERCS ATTACK or • LION UPON A HYENA.— u The Journal de Loire* gives the following account of an si Widest whisk has just occurred at Saumfur. in a menagerie ti belonging MIL Schmidt :—" The tamer was is • large cage with a hoe sad a hyena. After having made them go 1 2 dough several yarformarmas, he gave some meat, " d j as mud, to the two animals, when soddenly the lion,animated by the smell of flesh , threw himself on the hyena, • overtursed him, and bit him is the neck. The flange S lostintis of the king of the desert manifested themselves a immediately ; the more the blood flowed the more he seemed to he roused; and his sinister look inspired the most seri- p on fears for M. Schmidt. M. Schmidt did not, however, u lose his mange for as instant. The first means which he era- ployed wen Wulff= a whip. A revolver ensue handed to • him : with this he discharged several shots at the hoe, I which did sot in the least move him, as be still kept his 2 victim between he teeth, and it appeared almost without tl life. Gran concern prevailed in the boxes • the women tried, end perbape the uproar excited the g lion. The employes of the menagerie assembled I rased the ease, They passed • draghook to M. Schmidt, who made it penetrate the mouth of the hoe, whilst some of them gave the animal repeated blows IJ, through the ban. The lion than yielded, and precipitat-d breed( spiost the bars. M. Schmidt easel this opportu nity to retire, dragging with him the hyena, into a neigh. bowleg cage. A door then separated them from the hoe. it was time ; for, already furious, he was Sr probehieg, and, his mouth being covered with blood, dashed at the door. H. Schmidt showed himself to the spectators and reeeired their congratulations, but he was pale and emend with blood. The hyena is grievously wounded, but it ie hoped that it will recover." A PARISIAN SWINDLER. —The Tribunal of Correc tional Polies has been engaged for three sittings in trying, on Jammu chaos of swindling, the Countess de Naoquard, egad 10, a lady who at one time possessed a fortune of seedy 80,000 fr. a year. A dressmaker named Gratsmoller, sad an agent d'affaira named Sismonnet, were also charged ▪ atentrelles. It appeared from the evidence that until 1862 the Couotese resided with her husband at the Chateau de la Prude (Loire Internees), but their annual knee was thee reduced to about 6,000 fr. In that year mks sum to Praia for the purpose of siroseentiog a law nit in which she and her husband wee, engaged. Ikea after her arrival in the capital the borrowed various large sums of money, part of which were eventually need, but whoa borrowing became difficult ohs had re. carne to objectionable expedients. In the fiat place, the Purchased from K. Kesearzar, a jeweller, a diamond necklace, worth 26,01Nr., which was immediately pawned, but ultimately recovered by the jeweller with a loss of 4,228 fr. M. Kraemer had ben induced to let the Pri mer have the necklace by her repreeentatiooa, and those tor two accomplices, that she was a lady of great pro pene. Two other dealers, M. Cutout and M. Hem- Urger, deposed that the countess, aided by the other primers, had defrauded them respectively of 6,000 fr. sad 3,500 fr. From the firm of Gallois-Glgnonx, drapers, they obtained shawls worth 7,105 fr.; and if. Literati. another draper, lost 21,900 fr. by their realcsavres. In short, the total vain of the goods fraudulently obtained by the pri loan was 166,9i1fr., and the de ,d loss to their victims 117,179 fr. The tribunal, after hearing the Avocet-Imperial, she Pressed for a conviction, condemned the countess to these years' imprisonment, the woman Grenadine to two yaw' and Simonet to 13 months'; likewise each to 50fr. AY sad costa—Galignan. Tai WHITE buss tir TEE SOUTH. —A correspon dent of the New York Herald writing from Columbus, rmaarks—" The candid truth is, that, generally 'Plaice, the great majority of the Southern whites are not sea whit the superiors in elocution or morals of the !Mmes. Both races have to be 'dusted, have to be freed from the bondage of lineman is whieh the slaesholder ,Iteet both the negroes and the ' poor white trash,' no !?'e, they will he able to judge correctly what is best for turisterest and welfare. If any one wishes to comer°. hied hew it was that the rebel leaders so sucemsfully dela ;l,l_tibit People into their accursed rebellion, sad to see 1: weipletely the poorer whites became mere tools to 4 bends of. the richer planters, he has only to came eesitis sod ass how totally ignorant and fearfully depraved mots poor whites are." Enoroa's Visrros.—A correspondent of the In. York Tribune. in describing the fire at Barnum's miasma, en s " Senna monkeys escaped from the burning bedding to th e ne i g hbouring roofs fs and striate ; a *maiden " ,7 t was caused by the attempts to snare them. ise of the mat amusing incidents In this reenect was in °_, a eeertion with Hr. James Gordon Renate The velum 1114 the Herald was s itti ng in hi s private offics, with to the open window, calmly discussing with a frie'd the chances that the f tenth! establishment would the coellagratios, which at that time was threat. " th e advancing up Ann-street, tion to Mr.wants Name. Mrs, of hi. conversa Bennett jagml ut is 'flowerer though I have usually had good ne . 0( ore, they say that the devil I. _ Doe's shoulder, and —' Here an exaternaties .. Bus trin e d interrupted him, and turning quickly, irlf ethiy taken aback at seeing the devil biro areething very like him. at his very shoulder as he Reoneriag his equanimity with the ease and ltkith is Dual wish him in all esespany, Mr. ens shoat to address the intruder when he per that what he had taken for the gentleman in black ....,,, w4 hinitesore than a fright/sod rowan outeng. The poor 6 . - - t r i a ni b i :t _recently released from oeptivity, aod douht -2" lb 3 that he might fill some VSOIIIIOI to the editorial Pips, tad papaw in question, had descended by the water mit initiactively taken refuge in the inner swims./ sot of tl• THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 1. 18et SHARE LININ-_-(7 1 #118 DAY.) Two o'Oraos. The railway market continues flat. London and South Western, Caledonian, and Great Northern stocks have declined per cent., South Eastern 11, and Groat Eastern 4. London and North Western stook is now quoted 1211 to 3 ; Great Western, 64 3 to 664 ; Midland, 1304 to I ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 119 f to 4 ; South Eastern, 82 to 3 ; Metropolitan, 1.36 to ; Great Northern, 130 to 131 ; ditto A, 141 to 142 ; London and South Western, 99 to 100 ; Great Eastern, 474 to 48 ; and Caledo nian, 131 to 133. Great Luxembourg Railway shares have im proved, and Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean are inquired for. Very few transactions have occurred in Indian and Canadian lines. sio,oc 68 68 82 84 100 lul I°°.. - ii ill' 100 tut 91 93 AC BANKS. irai 0. Sabi 10 -day 10 1 11.11 L 471 i 1 .2115 91 11 WO WOO ti kilo3 l SO,Kit MANI M, 1160,1 300,0 0N01110 00 mow' mow: 1000 000 IMAM. 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V 7 V 9 99 let 96 P 8 95 HI 66 CS 96 98 9/ 98 107 110 041 MOtill r 11110171 Naisbasimepan.,tasiive arr.sp.o..irnacitio Do.llp7re•rabAting. , 100 DwipatiLllar./13100 Do .8 per allmel 100 Do. per el, Ds. ,100 ▪ . 811181.10/.84.11178100 do. 118041100 .. Do. do. 1.1 100 De. do. 11004000 100 Do.lp.o.Ap.drOsllooo.loo .. Olike,ltov.l O l/80581.08.1100 00 ' Do. ,1 Spa et. 1818 1 100 tW 1878 1 100 Do IDE I I4O 'I " 'AO .: ,909 .. MO .. 000 . ew ... ,000 .. 5;7 iiit Ifstot GovArse mat_ II Nov Brom. Gov. 6 p.etl( ILS.WaloiGv. 6 p.0.1806' it Do. 6p. o. 1871 to 16/6 iII Do. 6 p... 11118 to 181)41( Now &Wood I par amt.! If Do. 6 per cent j II No,. Molls II p. 8.. 1876 IC 1 4 Gov. 6p. et. It tr i mil b . m em 6 p. W a, 1878 II Vlallocllp.o.Jaa. WI 11 Da. 46.119...Age11e05. It DZITIIIII 1113 awls. i I Oambeins Ora Geld Bharat= Clifford Anal. Der. G. Con. (Tavistk ) Brakeman East Basest (Illogan) Bea Ceradon 'oat Cara Brea Bad Grenville last Onlonlanko I fait Lovell L W. Russell (Tarlalk ) Granata. a Oren Laney (lami Manoble ng) Great Sonia Tolgus G. W. Yoe (Holston) Grenvllle Herods loot Illogaion Downs Y alley aret (Gay talent) V Mer it d" Ina Or. Nanglne New Beton North Leakier N. Wb. Basset (Mope) North Wheal Grotty Prosper United 'Teri/once (U. talent) & Cararlon South Con/wive S. W. "moss (Mops, Way Park Tin erott Vigra and Mara. Us West Basset Gauges) . W. Ceradon (Llakeardl West Clilvarton West Beton WI.. Basset ("Illosan) Wh. Buller (tednith) W. Mary Ann (aonhen ) Wheel /etas Wh. Trslawney (Us/s ) 97 99 09 101 OS 100 ne .116 66e 199 106 106 108 108 DO 106 108 99 06 109 106 1011 110 102 106 106 108 107 109 107 100 10! 106 OS 97 99 101 98 96 90 91 109 106 ea 100 106 LOOIB LOW 10.1 Lsoi 1•6 11 111 1.1.0 29 e &MI 11 1.14.0 13.6 11.9.0 101.88. imed ao LILO 8. 104. 6.10.6 12.17.6 4.10.0 7a~ :001 :: 'kil . 0.13 .. owoi • ,os4l 611 .. Ali .. .. .000, .. %OW ," 11.000 4678,110 MOM 667.07! TIC is is. R. B{. It 48 Wit 4.2.0 1120 7.46 10.6.7 It 122.0 18.18.9 16.15.6 Ili 117.0 Mut sad Weet ladle . deserallrlosting Jock Lesdou&Si. [whirls easticalsowat Barre: Commercial cs . 0 1 91 101 96 33 SOO 180 24 1 IS 30 II 1314 41 91 3 121 1 1 9 10 1 $1 9 1 2 4 19 29 1001 101 YIBcjLLAN, 40 41'7 81 :I 8 1 1 416 13 1 36 to 13 16 1 1/ 30 82 CM 600 3i 81 121 174 12 14 17 18 8 14 Se 71 8 30 721 77j 175 185 76 50 21 21 7 200 205 83i 17 18 I .. zd CL petals. 1 Wu. 11111_1 I 1112 134 tt ;Si ; 76 sal los „100 us UT II I N. I Myna,. I Salsa 1414 17e .II& par scils llf 3 tom ri a 2di 66 SO 11011 BY MARKET.—(TiIIa DAY.) Two olhoos. The English funds are firm to-day, and have risen i per cent., owing chiefly to a purchase of 30,0001. New Three per Cents. by the govern ment broker for the sinking fund. These invest ments, it is presumed, will be oonlinued for the next few weeks. The other departments of the Stook Ex change are rather dull, with little business, that for British railway stocks showing chief depression. The reduction in prices, however, is not important. The discount market is quiet to-day, but the rate for choice bills is maintained at 3} per cent. Loans from day to day on English government securities are in demand in the Stook Exchange, owing partly to payments on Indian railway debentures, and the quotation has advanoed to 3 per cent. At Paris to-day, according to Ir. Renter's tele- gram, the Three per Cita. Rentals opened at 67fr. 65c., being be. better than yertarday. . - Conseil; are now quoted. 901 to 1, both for money and the account (August 8). The official busiuces report is as follows :—Three per Cent. Con sols, for money, 90f, 1 • ditto, for account, 901 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 90, 891, 901 ; New Three per Cents., 89/, 90, 891, 901 ; Bank Stock, 247 f, 246, 248 ; India Stock, 217, 220 ; ditto Five per Cent. Stock, 1041, 105 ; ditto Four per Cent., 991 ; Five per Cant. " enlaced" rupee paper, 1014 ; and Exchequer Bills, par. Foreign stocks are inactive, and the only varia tion is a rise of 4 per cent in Turkish Consolidds. Some of the present quotations are sub joined, via :--Greek, 201 to 21/ ; Turkish, 1868, 74 to 4 ; ditto 1882, 73 to 1 ; ditto Con solidds, 491 to 50 ; Spanish Passive, 281 to 291 ; ditto Certificates, 131 to 14. Con federate, 71 to 81; and Mexican, 231 to ; Transactions are recorded as follows ;--Dutch Cer tificates, 982 ; Egiptian, 981 ; ditto, second issue, 160/. bonds, 981 ; ditto 1864, 1001. bonds, 941 ; Greek Coupons, for account, 81 ; Italian, for account, 644, 4 ; Monte Videan, 62 ; Portu guese 1856, kc., for account, 474 ; Russian, 1860, 89 ; ditto 1862, 92, 4 ; Spanish Passive, for account, 291 ; Turkish, 1858, for acoount, 741 ; ditto, 1862, 734, 721 ; ditto, for account, 731; ditto 1001. bonds, 731 ; ditto 1866, 441; Venezuela, for ac ()aunt, 161. Tenders were opened to-day at the Union Bank of Australia for 500,000/. of Queensland 6 per cent. debentures. It was announced that only a small amount had been taken, and that applications will be received for the remainder. _ The shares of " Overend, Gurney, & Co., Limited," are rather lower, at 21 to f prem., a number of sales having followed the issue this morning of a portion of the allotment letters. The nominal quotations for the shares of some of the new companies are subjoined :—Atlantic Telegraph preference, f to 1 prem., showing a rise, iu Consequence of the receipt of favourable intelli gence respecting the submersion of the cable ; Hodges' Distillery, 1 to 11 prem. ; Anglo-Greek Steam, 2to prem. ; General Exchange Bank, 11 to 21 prem.; Massa-Carrara Marble, 2 to 3 prem.; Marseilles Extension Railway, 11 to 2/ prem.; Hop and Malt Exchange, 21 to 31 prem. ; and Metro polis Sewage, 8 to 9 prem. International Financial shares are now quoted 1 to 1 pm. ; General Credit,l 9-10 to 11-16 prem. ; London Financial, 61 to 1 prem., ex div. ; Imperial Mer cantile, 11 to 1 prem. ; Credit Fonder and Mobilier of England, 31 to prem. ; Ottoman &Mitt; Gdnerale, 21 to 3 prem. ; Hudson's Bar 151 to 1. The subjoined notification has justbeen issued by the authorities of the Bank of England : Bank of England, August 1, 1865. Notice is hereby given, that in order to prepare the dividends due on the 10th October, 1885, the balances of the several accounts in the following funds will be struckon the night of Friday, the Ist September, 1865, viz.:—New Three per Cent. Annuities. Reduced Three per Oast. Annuities, Annuities for Thirty Years, Annuities for Terme of Years, India Four per Cont. Stock. On Saturday, the Zed September, the above-named funds will be transferable without the dividend due on the 10th October next. Bank Stock shut Wednesday, 13th September; open Wednesday, 11th October. There were no bullion operations at the Bank yesterday. The steamer Oneida, from Brazil, has reached Lisbon, with 14,8811. in specie. The monthly totals of the Board of Trade Returns for June continue to compare un favourably with the previous year, the decline on this occasion being 751,4641., while for the six months the reduction is 3,918,9481. As regards 1863, however, there is an increase on the month and half-year of 1,955,535/., and of 12,114,4411. One of the chief causes of the present apparent falling off is to be found in the lower prices now pre vailing. For example, the exports of cotton manu factures in June, 1864 and 1865, were respectively 151,786,765 yards, and 167,553,664 yards, while the values are stated at 3,828,3191. and 3,35i,3091. In cotton yarn there has been an increase in quantity from 6,930,157 yards to 10,024,418 yards, or nearly 50 per cent. ; and in price, from 822,1181. to 939,1841., little more than 10 per cent. The prin cipal decline has taken place in woollen and linen manufactures, especially the former. Machinery, iron, haberdashery, and silk manufactures are also items on the unfavourable side. Leather and hardwares show an augmentation. The present returns give the computed value of the principal articles imported into the United Kingdom in the month and five months ending the 31st May. Another considerable falling off is shown, the amount for May, 1865, baying been 14,615,8471. against 22,392,6011. in the same period of 1864, and 15,730,6901. in 1863. For the five months the totals stand at 60,054,9331. in 1863, 77,111,9911. in 1864, and 64,756,0001. in 1865. The decline is chiefly exhibited in cotton, the im ports having been 3,215,4181. only in May 1865,while in the same month of 1864 they were 10,868,6201., and in 1863, 3,991,0501. The imports of wheat have more than doubled, from 598,4731. to 1,269,0261., as regards May only •, for the first five months of the year, on the other hand, they have fallen to 2,358,3931. in 1865, from 3,983,6771. in 1864, and 4,561,5481. in 1863. The annual meeting of the Australian Agricul tural Company was held yesterday. The directors' report, which was adopted, stated that the expendi ture on capital account on the 31st of December last exceeded the amount paid up by 4,5531., and that at that date the balance of net revenue was 13,8251. Out of this the sum of 5,0001. was dis tributed as dividend in February last, leaving 8,8251. due for future distribution oa account of the operations up to the 31st December, 1864. At that time, however, this amount was absorbed in an advance of 4,5551. to capital, and in the general colonial account, and was thus rendered unavailable for dividend. At the first half-yearly meeting of the Eastern Assent Company the directors' report, announcing the payment on the Ist August of a dividend for the six months at the rate of 10 per cent. per an num, leas income-tax, was approved. The meeting of the Nowgong Tea Company of Assam took place yesterday, when the directors' re port was adopted. It mentioned the payment on the Ist August of a dividend for the six months at the rate of 10 Der cent, per annum, lees income tar. At the meeting yesterday of the St. Namara Company the following report was presented : In conformity with the articles of aisociatiow the direc tors bee to hand you the statement of earauats to the 31st May. The directors morel that they Irmo sot able to terry oot the amalgamation for which they obtained tear sanction, es upon Metathetic& they did not foil It would bs for the Wends of thejtharrholdare. thei As objects ter whisk** hese someway was formsl bun Assad. and differed widely from those which had been !resented at the time whoa segotiations for the amalgamation io gustiest wore firmed. The directors have, however, the pleasure to saareses that they are now in oommunication with partite for the sale of the lands, and they hope before long to be able to lay before you a satisfactory account of the pending negotiations. At a meeting of the Australian Trust Company a dividend of 4 per cent. was declared for the half year. At the meeting yesterday of the Marine Invest ment Company the following resolution was adopted : That there be paid tc the members cat account of the di vidend to be declared at the text ordinary 'safest meeting, out of the profits made during the be ll -year sadist; 30th of Jane, 1865, a sum at the rate of 5/. per pent. on the capital of the oompaay paid up on the Ist January, 1865 ; sad that • sum, on the like account, *imputed after the said rate of 51. per cent. for six mooths, be paid to the members in respect of that portion of the capital paid up on the lst of Kay, 1865. The said paymeate to be made on and after the 4th day of August next. The Consolidated Bank announce the receipt from New York of remittances amounting to 31,0001. on account of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway for interest account. It is stated that a company is about to be formed to develop some valuable tracts of land in Venango County, Pennsylvania,l7.B., the site of the lubricat ing petroleum wells. The proposed capital will, it is said, be about 200,0001. Notice of the first call of 2/. per share on the Varna Railway Company shares has been an nounced. Colonel Wageman, the government inspector, has lately been over the works, and is said to have expressed his entire satisfaction at the progress made. The line is expected to be opened for traffic during the autumn of next year. Messrs. J. H. Schrcider and Co. have announced the half-yearly interest on the Bay of Havana and Matanzas Railroad Seven per Cent. Loan of 1863. The share list of the Marseilles Extension Rail way and Land Company (Limited) will close for Loudon on Saturday next, the sth, and Monday next, the 7th August, for the country. MONDAY EVINING. Consols, which closed on Saturday at 94 to a for money and the present account, were quoted at that price throughout the day. For September they left off at 90/ to #. The o ffi cial business report is as follows :—Three per Cent. Consols, for money, 904, 4, ; ditto for account, 901 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 891,1 ; New Three per Cents., 891, 90, 891, 90 ; India Stock, 217 ; ditto Five per Cent. stock, 1041, 1 ; ditto Four per Cents., 99/, ; ditto Four per Cent. Debentures, 1866, 100 ; Five per Cent. " enlaced " rupee paper, 1011 ; ditto Five and-a-Half per Cent., 1091. Indian securities have been slightly flatter, while Exchequer Bills were without change at par to Ls. prem. In the foreign market there have been some inquiries for Greek Bonds and Coupons. Turkish Six per Cents. of 1862 have improved, but the New Five per Cent. scrip shows a renewed decline. National Discount shares were last quoted to- I day 101 to # prem. ex div. ; Joint-Stock Discount, 2 to lf die., showing a decline ; Egyptian Trading, ljj to lf du. ; Ottoman Socidt4 Gindrale, 21 to 3 I prem. ; - Hudson's Bay, 151 to 1 ; and Lion Brewery, 11 to 2 prem. Miscellaneous descriptions were in little demand, but remain with a steady appear ant. Bombay Gas, Electric Telegraph, Fore street Warehouse, Oriental Financial, and Tele graph Construction were quoted higher, the latter on the favourable advices respecting the laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable. Quebrada Land were rather more offered. The shares of the financial companies were quiet, and with the exception of a slight improvement in International Financial prices were unchanged, being as follows :—luternational Financial, I to 1 prem., ex div. ; General Credit, 11 to 11 prem. ; London Financial, 51 to 6 prem., ex die. ; Imperial Mercantile Credit, 1 3-16 to 5-16 prem., ex div. ; Credit Foncier and Mobilier, 31 to 1 prem. The closing (but in many cases nomuud.) quota tions for shares in new undertakings are sub joined :—Atlantic Telegraph Eight per Cent. Pre :erence I t die. to 1 prem., being lower ; Hop and Malt Exchange, 3 to 1 prem. ; Parkseld Iron, Ito 1 prem. ; General Estates, 3 to 1 prem. ; General Exchange Bank, 24 to 1 prem.; Hodges' Distillery, 11 to f prem.; Anglo-Greek Steam, 11 to 21 prem. ; London Bridge Land, f to 1 prem. ; Railway Credit, 1 to 2 prem. ; Marseilles Extension Railway, 2 to prem. ; Insurance Corporation of Great Britain, 2to 1 prem.; Massa-Carrara Marble, 2 to 21 prem.; and London, Windsor, and Greenwich Hotels, 21 to 31 prem. The letters of "regret" in " Overend, Gurney, and Co.(Limited)"were issued this morning, and the shares rose to 3 to 3/ prem.. some large purchases being made to oover previous sales. A partial re action subsequently occurred, and the closing qua tation was 2f to 3 prem. A portion of the letters of allotment were posted this evening, and the rest will be sent out as soon as possible. American Government and railway securities were again dull, and a further fall of 1 per cent. took place in the 5.20 Bonds to 681 to 1. Illinois Central shares likewise receded to 791 to 80, while Erie shares were comparatively steady at 531 to 541. Atlantic and Great Western debentures left off at 85 to 87, showing no change. The proposed dividend on the Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway stock for the past half-year will be at the rate of 31 per cent. per annum, against 3 for the corresponding period of 1864. Colonial Government Debentures left off the same as on Saturday. MINES.-(THIS DAY.) Two o'CLocz. The mining market is firm to-day, and prices generally exhibit a favourable tendency. The amount of , business is rather considerable. Some of the present rotations are as follows : Great Vor, 33 to 34 ; East Lovell, 91 to 10 ; Frank ills, 7to 4 ; East Rosewarne, 3f to ft ; Wheal Grylls, 44 to 5 ; Great Leroy, 19 to 20 ; Great Busy, 34 to f ; Provi dence, 314 to 324 ; Chiverton, 94 to 10 ; and West Chiverton, 724 to 77. Foreign and colonial mining shares are quiet, At the meeting yesterday of the Cobre Mining Association, the directors' report, which has already been published, was adopted. Notice has been given that the subscription list of the Tamar Lead and Silver Smelting Company will be closed on the 3rd August for London and on the 4th for the country. Haw Bops.—The Hop Planters' Joint-stock ; Company, Southwark, have this day received the first pocket of hope of this year's growth which has been sent to market. The bulk, of which this was a sample, was grows and well managed by Mr. Coles Child, , of Bromley Palms, Kent, whose hop-gardem is the nearest , one to the metropolis. The "leafy bitter" was in doe coo- , dittos, sad of • aim unwashed natural colour ; and this con. sisamsut wee sold to Mesas. J. and F. Moon, of the Hibernia-chamber, Southwark, at 101. par cwr. for Messrs. Beddiogtoc and Hart, Strasgeways-brewery, Manchester. DIZZLIAD CODA.—In several of the corn growing I districts of Yorkshire, and os the Wolds and the Flows!. dies Hills eapeoially, the growieg crops of own, especially of wheat, have bees attacked suddenly with • very degree- I ties disease. Some farmers term it " blight," others canker,"mew," bat whatever it is, it is quite same! for any auras as attack to take place is • dry memos like the pommel In wet years Ch eteconiriog liks it has been knave, but not at all to extent sow appacest. In many places, fields which preempted a healthy ;trees look • few days ago, are DOW of a dirty looking brows—in fact, the straw has died, not ripened. The diemse is sot confined to wheat, bat the oat and barley wept are likewise showieg traces of it. In fields the meet attacked, the atmearesee of the crop at • distance is that of an immense sheet of brown pa r. There is sous of that flue golden tine so cbsraoterlspe of well ripened core. The harvest bee eat yet eosnosaced, but te • man i a journey au odd field here there is men est. ' premature reaping is tendered sesmeary by the die *sea which renders the straw easeparatively salads. aud the awe wei7 sm all A simians stem of wheat was eat from • Geld about two wake berth of Monol, as , Saturday lest. Is this field it is believed there is sot • straw that is free frees the dimes. The shwas see all essi the foliage is • dissibb brows. Is • belie that the t wal spread, many people are shoat to eat I their aeries awe. The damaging effects 60 prawn are , very onsiduelgo. UADLNL&Y ALUMS AND ROCKS. eh. I rd. I luawari. I aw'll Et 4l " your— liattli'? l !" 0101.••••1 1111 98 ISI 1911 193 96 ICambrian Oak a* Beaton ois - CulTall Do. • I • so dtv. lantil Do. D 10. Drill & Dobkin awl liJoac. Doilis.ralalb&Jo Sod D.= Instere Ord. DI. Do. & Jug. , No ? Grest Nati at llooilasd Gesslllfartiora Diu L . 1 • no. us. ANDIp. s. Dyad et. Sou th & We& (DC OEMS WIND= Dalkse 7.1.0m.11th De. loath Woks._ Da W._104.-4ftleril Do. Do. Hereford losesehlre•Yorkshlre London hod Blookrall Loa. BriOla.tt Leone 1011'1°."....-..°110P2).• Do - Met. Iden.A6p.o. Lembo &Nord% 1 1 / seem LouctotutSouthWeetoro Man..liket..ttl/oeolsolt Metropoliten Do. New W. 100 1.0 1 7 !oo I le 100 100 to. 13 Do. liztooddon Metro. Dia (Pro. dorip C. Do. do. do. .... Do. Se Sham .... 1347 Finitil , led Kant .... ..... North &Mb N4in.,Por4b.thutd N. Ilikatok • 1 IM la 100 100 HO 1 107 th Leeds.. ...... York ..... ArW 1866.611.... .1 a ea 111 17 91 13 109 n 181 in 4 51 WI .. .. 1101 1311 1408 1411 164 181 87 89 641 861 II 06 16 49 611 46 106 146 11911 1191 96 94 106 1111 8 41 111 63 Itle MS Ay 104 66 11 36 136 1/14 Si lips zWs d ii 108 106 _ _,60. 884 North Stagordabim N. & L Westani Jam IleottAsli Central !WM& N. L Aber.SlL l et za= Union o a IStained', W Math:4am Tall Vale 6 1/01 1611 pm 2 4 100 102 611 54 ft 10 110 111 Ili 2 2 6 10 11 pa 111 125 ii 2 pm 711 10 14 12 160 166 66 67 9 . — e7 aeli 7 Val D e o. o! oNoah. Ilt w n. a t Medici W. lia r gpl. a.a a a a a 69 51 64j t 3 9 111 16d 159 I 4 pa 1N 146 48 60 No. lllkl [PAM& No. I 50, 1 8,28,7401 ii,joi 1110,000 WAX 19.00. 12.000 ~:~i — sifiliel ........_ ii:tti uttirt li.iii 14916 110.01,3 1601 T ?7 • *i 16;0111 4.9 t. 26,00(0 ~:~i iiiik 40,1100 10,000 17,600 10,0110 1000 110,004 110, iii,iiol 277.000 t 7,600 MOW 18,000 10.000 10,000 lii.iiii OW a 70,006 16,000 HAW -I e-.:" 1 mac ikouul Iso,gool it in:otes4 6000 ~eo:~l Anglo-EgypL Nay. (1 ) Ditto ditto Anam-lirtiean Mint Atlantic Tel. gua.Bp.d. Amarenan AmtralisnaLLANlA(L. TealiatateaL a tiotr a ElVtarworite (L.) Bolckow Vaughan ( L.) Bombay Om (Limited Do. Odd Maw British American Land B. L. MM. Tel Tea o4 British (A) Canada Caspar tia,dianimaatlav(4) M. to Nylon . City of =Av.( City et Illhui !meat! 2 Si 1 Ots 1 Okils I 3Ms 9 gdis City of Moscow On (L)' ,Jon. otAtricaniLer.iii Ocasioildated Dia Continental Un.Gast ) OontracrCorationg U. . Oop.llLisaa,PreLrap.a fooo..frl A. of rot Do. of Itauritins °r Maw Preferenc• 1 De. 6 p. el Path Gehl: DeriseUng (Limited) Mal • outCorporatioug itastarn Assam rea(L) ffLiadlaLaud.C.&Fin K. bulbs bell{. o Canal Ebbw Vale =Woad; Trd.(L biss.atol YoreisMit IL Falrbeirn liaginearlag. Flaatietel Corporation. rtaanclal Demount (4) Iforeal Warehouse (L. Gailleara (Linsited) Den. Stearn flaelgatiou domed Juloolikl 44.1 T.l Gong Knng& China Gas ftedeosiehest timber Iron Works(L) Imp.dfler.CalAss.,L.) Donau Carrylog (Lilo.) International Contract awry is s iii•ii ims 6 6 die star 6 6 d d b 11 16 4 'ice la 40 110 115 110 115 15U par iOB iiial !dal *Pall f1u7.1 14 1 di. 131S_ 198 ;0001 Du, 000 _ 60 . 1 160,000 000,004 -I 1,43000vul "4001 ii:iii &MO U,OOO *oil 67.600 148,666 6,000 ,- - - 10,000 6,000 014500 514000 IO,®O 14600 MOW 15.00? 1 - 4 3 41s 1 dla 1 lipEn 8 641. 31 4 pm 11 io db 14 11pss 36 VS I Nab 1 fpm lb 164 16 14 Als par 14 l~pm i - .;i ,,-, 01 W4 OOO 10.000 16- i 110,000 10,000 0,000 .f. 4,- 21 01;000 WAVY 1,000 87,1760 40,000 10,000 110.000 18.000 0000011 10.000 10,000 110.000 10,000 WOOD !I•Vc I 'tlm Intarnatatnan.roa. (1 ) latarnat.Lend .edlt(L Italian Land. liallaolnlg. (Can. Oa v. Do. o p. c. 0.1.. r. JolntilitockDbarant(L) Laud Oactarltias (Lim.) Load. Mains ?mew Load. andUlalorlon.ll.(L Loa.CotustylandaT Load. Warta{ Talera. Lona. Ifluaa. Ara. } Load.O. Otaolbetallt*L. toud.(tOlaag.llnr.Co(t Italian, &oaten Load. tier. Dlacount(L) fond. Prorinalalliarta• ILadrae Latta. it Carl Do. Amino lorestenotit(L ) alauralua Landotc.(L) Vadat. Paten. Tel (L) ti wallF. &Doan. lava Warta Natal Lad 001. O. atioual wa.Caa V &lions, Financial National Pray. Kaatoo(L National Rama liar. (L) Kartoaddatloal I. 1.: 0 1 4 b lla 12* 70 al ladla la uadla 7 For 10' 0 for Is l 3 la Gap. , 1,1 Si II 10 BWs 11li xd N.Zediand L &ILA& L N.iomiabol LettmttL. lorthernAmmeree(L) .Itrit. A miesladlea(l4 •t.Drtt.dtteresn.M.(L •lovieleotleo.andL L.) Do. do. Nowgood Tea (Limited) Nee. r.rwe , taws. Mental Commemial(l. OriestallPinanatal(Lird (Mental Gem (Limutedj Coximat.lnleadabeem(L,) bs.g., .2 stnismilevest Ottoman Comma, (L) UtkIIS/SLI Iloa IM iLo Monne Gee (Limited)l Penstuall.ll.titedra(L , Do. do. Do. New Potillo.Lsoild )R44 real(moar 0. atom Do. do. New tebrada L, R., 14.0( Rayatoey Iros Do. New Rio .1. City tummy. (L ) Ditto dltto Royal Wallataant. Atm,. invad. %tall, Knight, &Co. L ter.rinan Savoie( .) R. African TL • Is. (L loath Aoetratt.n Land Submarine Talopaytt Do, Scrip al.Constroc.kllals.(L Unarow.tti way I ...IL Trinidtd retries= (14 retastetagesoyudAas. L t. • L. Do. of U. Oallada OILMAN,* of Liver. lllEttad K. Tele& (L. _ Univers. %wise ins(L. Upper aslant Tea(Lirs Ditto wan Ditenon'a Land— #lSTraat 11111,0600.4 1 / 1 .) A .tindia&Poa L. PREFERENCE SH. Great Easters, E. Coke 4 pee asst. Great Northerly, 5 went., 113. Great Western, (Meisel Birtaiesbara gas. stock, 75 to 6. -- .L . cii 10 ear I 1 ism 1 of di 11 10 21 2 01. Idis k ara at at 0 0 0.. 10 10egga rd —.41, 6} Ijl4 1d o.#pfilw• - rim I 1 pea id Pa Par 45 46 Iti 184 1441 124 170. i" Pel I dis 4 it Ma pat p.r Ir 4 7 54b 4 41 61 n 4 11 IMs 40 44 16 78 44 44 U. 64 16i i zd 10,214 16,400 101,o" 10.104 10,000 17,004 10" 101% 4 lf An 14 113 116 Ili , 94 7 6 elt. si situ eollp 19 31 cd 6 06 ni i id id YO,ltlll 0.1.11.1 V $20,0001. 0).0011 14004 +~~I 1e0.0001.1 1000 C .0 7.6.10 WA& Pl,00( 100,0 m mimeo h 0,001,, ts,oool 16,0011 10,100 00,000 10.001 xd firm B 417ra 1 Pm 1 pm IMO 2212 11 Ire 2 46 2 4 pas 111 10 9 10 If lids 4 1 Mir lti 13 '►3 zd MS. guar. 80. YORRION RAILWAYS. Great Lexemboarg, Ottoman (Smyroo to Aldo)), 9/. PUY, Lyons, and Moditerraossa, 34. SCARCITY OF WATER. AT BoxsoN.—The oorporse I ties of Bolton bare used o cone, (sling attention to the low don of the ciorporstion reeerroirs, otitis; that the quantity of mar was " bow istoso moll • compels es be be quite anemone' and expressing fear that "the Nit more would be IRAA they wenn hare to Mop the sup ply los all mossateturiag perpossa" At presses the reser mks contain 68.0011.000 ohms. which is 52,000,000 pa lms lees the. at the emu tam lam yar, sod it is only equal to • moans sap* es the radiaary tale el oar monia& 67 GO 102 103 BRITISH i'OIIIIIBBIONS. ii.IN.I ZAMWATIL AUssialb it. lawmen ! ! 8an.iv..y1.10.4 6.1.19. lICW aLaks Reveal Do. hawses NI.. Brent &Ooderich et ent Idl6-3 4 Oa a IL IfeaSerubp.o. g Cape T. & Dantean. e. I Demwers,7 p.o.picre UAL Bend EL I • • but Indian N. I do Do. J Extension .. I* Arend it all I all I NO . Trunk of woad& D Do.Squip. bllMot o. lot peg. Do. do. deferrid Do. bad pref. Honda.. Do. d p o. defeated led . Stock .. Do Do. do. rof' deferred Do. Oth wet Stook .. Do. do. defeated leek Indian reigned& Do Do. re% 6 ro r al" Do. It S. of Indio 6. p.cd.. Do di per mut. l et. Western of Caudal DD. Now II Do. Op. o. Bete pay. IWO D 0.4 do. do. 10774 hull= Breech. limited Madras roar. I p. wet as. do. Do. on. do.— Do. IWO E 'deb. Corp. per c. Ed Moro. sod Robson's Mg N.R.otCan.Op.e.let v.& Undo, goa. put Not. Do. do. do. Do. Pow}sao do Do. lidos kW. nos. do ii I 0 I. ilO Melee prism. SI IS Ali di 4 19 0 ,jar Si 91 19 101 70 76 100 101 101} 14,4 109 . 194 _ _ 211n 1 18 19 66 90 06 66 60 61 66 6%1 62 66 66 60 44 186 276 264 166 021 9.4, 16 4 1 99 101 maultA 104 97 JOINT BT "' Ni l U 00l sow 0,000; 66,000 200,000 6,000 6,000 00.000 60,000 10,000 V.OOO 10,000 16,000 called Com. Bask at Canada Com. liaak of India. sc Conartliltttd Moak (L ) ii: 000 le. 1.16,000 iiiii 0,0001 100,000 1 0. 000 1000 14,000 4000 110,000 32.0601 "iiii T s 000 10,000 6..ini Kiiiii b 1,00: 10.0001 6).6301 134" 1 4,166 20.000 !MOO' fit:ail 10.03 i yyjpp( 7,t101 0.040 11.1" tos too toe too 11s1, IT. I a*. moo Do. New Kest Loadou (Limited, [lateen liaaheneet Lint , Seel& Joint Stock (L) tog.dooL6humi-Chersd. keeslisb mid Swedish (L Kamm= itenit , LiroPel lllMais.CtisadJap.( l 4 Do. issued at S Do. New howls! Beak. Lassited to Do. New Land Wort Bk. lon. Bk. offleslooto. (L Ira Back ot fedisaikL tatifto sod Besallsa Lowayres.tillnatetL Do. New. la. at if pis Ica. Ch. Bank et Ass Lemke and Coady—. Lou. tiembe.Coo 111 ( 1 .) Losdos Mai Los6ost loath *Mom Lou. t d. lyeeteru Um. Do. do. New Landon& Venezuela (1.) Lon. a Wastnahwitor Morahan& nook( Ilia.) llwasatibr a asthma L 'Metro. di Pro,. beak (L I Do. d Beak o. (Urn.) • • National of Liverpool Lire. of liarload Do. Sad Was Do. Ord Issas Nottooda Book Do. New. . . NOW Sea* W MM . NOW Zootoad (IMMO North Menem Otiostol Doak Coopora novas. BoaktraCorp.(l Da do. Noels.. of Inlaid D.o. do. Now r Sofa& ad., &Deihl CE, tooth Aortroao !toad. a et. B. Aides Do. It% Imo ships. Union rd riairesita nom or !,dead 01Jao) Calla oi Inds DEBSTTUIE 11*. u lid = 14 11111. 510,900 m as.ow' et. aes.o•ola•- 1lNS!I1NI Ili MIMS, at. Iskin 51.11.4.4.3.11 .11 . 4 . 4 . 3 . 1 1 at. A — B 7— Es liaatarntads(L Al 10 AlllancaLoa4Ll 16 Do. Wood at 40 pa ID Anglo Austrian Anglo Erripthin 1811 Annlo &taboo (Lamar], II Lidatlellank.Cor.norsh 6 Aastralada Do. New MI Hanka BettabLolunshla all ' Bank of ligypt !Bank of London SO Bank of Otago (Limited) 8 !Sauk ot quoensland (L) 1111 Bank otOlotoria,Aoalala Bank of Now &salami Britalllanttorttiguass(L 10 British s OflliefDlYl (1. TI British N. America C. Bk. badla,Aaa.,Cblna an Chart. Yr. of Indla,de all city . SO cao4:o 4.16.1.615.6p.5. Nar..6Dap. IN G. Nchu.,4 p.o.Jazi.dl ttly IN G. Weta.—W. Y. —oz..6* p. et.. Jan. & July ... . IN LuseitYk.4 p.a.lan&JD 106 Lee, belsb.‘p.o.Jarh&JD IN LAN. W.4p.c..16e.&/ sly 106 Ds• Sp. 0.Jaa.&1611 IN L.Mi.W..sp.c.J.o.&Jul: IN 10.11and.6p.e..faa.41 MN N. &Mb. IL P.• D. IL. 6 p. a., Fob. & Aft— 141• N.lllhau..6p.e.J 'sillily IN 1•66.61.‘46. IN 18 80 i / diet • 4 cbel _s ail ;FS s ... se COMMERCIAL AND MARKET& INIIICING-LANZ.--(TIII 8 DAY.) Socsn.—Tits market bat opened quietly sod without salts of :mpottanos ty pirate entrain. Refined is doll of isle at lost week's curre' ay. Conn.—A [sir banns is doing in eolooisl sorts at km rises. 'M.—Green and u 'loured Japan ten bare been sold for impost at last week's carrancy. Cluitsmos.—At the quarterly public male 1,500 bolos were offered, an swirly all sold with good competition , at 9d. to sd. advent*, fine quality being most in request : Cey too, first son., to'd, low to etsperior, Is. 7d. to 34.; seend. in. sd. to 2s. 4d.; think Is. 4d. to L. 10d.; fourth, L. Id. to Is. 51 ; Whammy, third to fins, Is. 4d. to Is. ed. Rice, Rex. sad IticTreras —No solos repotted. Corrort.—There is move disposition to perches', but tie sales are limited to a few linden bales ninon chug* from the closing prices of last week. J cost.—The market is arm at the late edema • TALLOW MARILDT.—(THIS DAT.) The market is steady at the fellow's( prices :—Tows tallow, 41.. 3d. not sag ; Psessebarg T.C., os i thll= 41s. 3.1. to 41s. 6d. ; old, 41s. ; October to pe 421. 3d. to 425. 6d. ; December, 43 a. ; January to Msteb. 43.. 3d ; Much, 43,. 61. SMITHFIRLD HAY MARICILT.-(11118 DAY.) Mr. amiss Jams Easton reports trade at the fol lowing prices :—Old clover, from 120 e. to 140 a ; Inferior ditto, 954. to IL5s. ; new ditto. 100.. to 126 e. ; old hay. 110. to 126 e. ; laboior ditto. Ma to 1021. ; ae• ditto, 95e. to 1124. ; straw, 29e. to 33e. PROVINCIAL SHARI MARKETS. LlVlagook, JOLT 6L-!ales beday:-Great Western. 64- Lancashire andYorkshire,lll4 11-London and North Worms. m a-Manchester, Shc6l4d, and Lincolnshire, 04 31 .7 d-Metrorlitan, 136-Midkand, 161--Sotith Lateen, ink -Biaffalo and Lake Huron, 7-16 }-Great Western of 111-krte, 617-Illinois 4 antral. C 4 l 1 1 110 i 60 .11-11 Blair Five-Twenty Benda, 6081 rest Luxembourg arm, 141-Allianee Bank of London and verpool ,Untital 164 i d., p. -Liverpool Financial Association (Limited), 1 1-16 d.-21esminirs and Errange Bank (Limited). 611.161 d.-Part's Bankig_ Com sy (Limited). S p.-Liverpool and London and Globs rye awl Vie, 0 13-16 p.-Maritime Insurance Grafted). 6 d.-Vales Marine (Llano'), 1 7-16 p.-Atiantle Telegraph B Der ear, 6 7-16 17-16 1-lintialt and South American Steam ( l, 64 d.-Fllnt hire Oil. 21 d. - National Steam Limited 71 Pantile Steam new Shares, 22 p.-West India and Pad& Steam. d. JOLT 61.-Tee market was flat, and prior lower. Alliance Bank 'Unified 31 p.-Consolidated Bark (Waited), 6p.-Great linters, 471 - Great Northern A. 162 11 1- Great R intern of Carr, 11-Oreat Western, 65 -18iooM Ca ittBoll 1 901 *SO 714 1 50-Lancashire and Yu 110 1 -London and North Western. 1211-Manchester, and Lincolnshire, 63i 2 1-listr o P olll An. 138 Mialan d r 13 1 1136} -New York and leis, Si-South Eastern, 621 1 Staveley Coal and Iron Company (Limited). 171 p sat Mersey Marine Insurance (Limited', 0111-16 p.-Gaped Stales 5 10 Years Bonds, 60-Railer Steel and Plant, New, Is i ..Llanidloes,' No. 2, 101. litiuman en, JOLT 31.-Birmlnebam and Staffordshire Or OS/ errea changed hands at M. Bs. 9d. prem. • and Metropolitan Railway Carriage and Wagon, Second lune, at 1 dia. Wore/tree sad Birmingham Canal quoted to 12: Nottingham Joist- Bto k Bank, 11 to 2 prim. ; Birmingham Financial, li to If prem . P 11 to and Patent shalt and Arie -1 tree, 51 to 51 prem. General market flak A CAUTION TO SEA-SIDE BATHERS.—/i melan choly death by drowning occurred at Lowestoft os Saturday last. A party of gentle melt f rem the office of the A'orwiehMer cury were there for a day ei pleasure, and moms of them went to bathe, when Mr. W. Henry Dukes. who had been swimming, was suddenly observed to go down, end before essistance could reach him he died. Every possible exertion was used to restore animation, and medical aid was promptly gives, without avail. The demand was ap. prenticed at the Norwich Mercury office. and was saber). quently for several years engaged upon the Times. COUNTY Comm.—The County Courts returns for the year 1864 show that the decrease in the number of plsiots entered in these courts cootioues. In the years 1859.63 the annual number averaged 800,501, bat is the last of those years wee only 799,254 ; and in 1864 It fell to 738.481. The amount for which pla int.ints are entered is, ma would be expected, also falling year by year ; thee:wont to 1864,1,760,3841., is pearly 19 per cent. leas then the amount io 1861. The number of debtors imprisoned is 1864, 6,529, wall 2,000 less than the average of the preceding years, but the somber of executions a l most the goods of the &liters ineressed from an average of 119.755 to 124,804. 01 the, 402.172 judgmecits in the year 1864, 69 pa cent. related to sums not exceeding 40a. The cuts and fees together give ao average of 41e. Id. for every cruse determined. On the whole 59 circuits of England and Wales the county courts 8.; 7,796 days *1864, giving en average of 51 cams heard sad determieed at each day's sitting. The oonnty course gave protesting orders is the yen to 590 wives deserted by their husbands, and made 3,376 adjudications of bank. ruing : only two matters were heard apes the Charitable Trusts' Act, and only two probates were decreed. • Game PROSPECTS IN PERTHKElRE.—Gamekeepers have recently been over the moors and through the forests, and their reports of the appearance and condition of the grouse are very promisieg. The bird. are well grown and more numerous oo nun yof th e bills than for several years. Generally then is considerable havoc smug them by d6oese, but there has been to loss this season through this cause, and ea the weather ban all along bent favourable, they have an excellent chance of inceeernog. All other kinds of game are likewise abundant. Is the forest stalkers may antici pate superior sport. Several of the sportsmen have ;heady arrived at their shooting lodges, and ere giving thole atten tion to angling, and others are expected is a day or two. Those moors Mall unlst are eagerly inquired after, and will, no doubt, beidismed at high rentals.— Edinburgh Courant. Tun Hanyzar of ic Emits. —The operations of the harvest commenced last week, and are now general in most parts of Essex. A considerable breadth of wheat is already down, the reaping machine having been b rou g ht into much more general actinic than in former years ; and we are happy Lobar°, though of cones there are some exceptions. that the crop is likely to realise the expectations firmed of it. Peas, rye, and some winter oats in this district have already been carted. —Eire Herald. Jour QUINUT ADAM& —Without forming part of the group of the actual founders of the republic, John Quincy Adams, of Massachusetts (born 1769, died 1848), belongs yet to that of the 'ninepin oonterepenries et Washington. The son of John Adams, he scoornprisied his father to Europa as a boy. then returned to Americo, grade ated brilliantly at Harvard, studied and pea-.tied law (naps. really with little asecesa), had the credit of being the fink who strenuously advocated the absolute neutrality of the United States I. European quarrels (in Urine signed " Manaus, to the Boob" Sentinel, 17%). He waa soon distinguished by Washington, and was seat by him—the youngest man ever selected to repressed the United Staten abroad—at tweetyaeves, as minister to Hodes& thou to Portugal. When John Adams wooded to officio. be con. salted Washington as to whether be 'bread main** his son at his post. • I give it as my decided opinion," said Washington, "that Mr. Adams lithe most valuable public. character we have abroad. end that there remains no doubt in my mind that he will prove himself to be the ablest of all our diplomatic corps." Ity Jobe Adams be was sent to Peoria, but recalled by him on leaving office, sot to em barren Jeffereos, Mr.S.eward tells us; so act quite out of keeping with the epitolul appointments to office h :Min et ' feriae charged on his p re deoessor. After a period ot urc's, Gratin the genets of h e own state, thee in that of the Unite States (during pert of which time he was also pro fewer of rieetroio and belles lathes at Cambridge Univer sity), John Quincy Adams resumed office, being seat an ea sister to Russia by Mediu, and filially to England, from whence he was needled by Munn. to become hie Sanatory of State, a poet he only quitted for the Presidency. Like Jefferson at his drat election. he owed his Presidency to the Hones of Represeniatives—Andrew Jackson, who had the largest mamboed votes. not having obtained the requi site majority. A man, it will be seen. of the most varied experience abroad, and of the highest at boots ; of remark. able eloquence, overflowing with keowledge • hog* and lofty in mind, strong of body ; teed of atbles ' ac exerziars, an untiring walker till very late In life, a first-mt. swimmer (while Presidect he might of tee be eeen at sunrise breasting the waters of the Potomac); freuktemperate, so se to be 'tensed of at*gioese ; ea ear* riser, who, daring his Presidency, was probably the rat man up in Washington, lighted his own fire, and was herd at work in hie library," whait every us else was asleep ; a Unitarian is creed. but a devout reader of the Bible. Most warm-hearted in fact, hot " with an exterior, we are told by a friendly writer, of at times almost repulsive col itten.," be was sot popular enough and probably too cultivated far his time. Like all northern Presidents, John Quincy Adams wan may allowed to fulfil a single term of office (182.5•2914 But. unlike both hie prideesseore and successors. he reall filled a larger apses is his country's history after leavi ng the Prieridesey than before. no man who had been the chief of the state accepted and retained for seventeen years, till hie death (1831.48), a met. sot even in the Solute, hie natural home, bat in the Howe of Representatives of the United Slates. His eloquence seemed to riae, hie moral character P. stand out purer and loftier, with the increase of years. He became the champion of the anti.sleyery party, the streenoss defender of the right of petitios„ which was nasally denied is reforests to slavery; brought forward in 1842 a motion for en amisedrunt to the condi tutiou sitiormahior hereditary slavery after the 4th July of that year • was threatened with expalaioa, indictment , the peciteat;ary, assamiastion, mob•law ; menaced ; sew the first streaks of a tannin dawn is the reseasion, is 1845, of the "gag rule." and the aomensont eAmierioo of peti tions os the subject of slavery ; et seventy-four renriseed the Baremse Conet, after thirty years' shunts from the bar. to &sled the moss of the Andstad, who, being _taloa be Oats. bid den es their se& having mashed the United States wan sow sisismid two Spaniards ; and led the howlers el their decreed. Ills death ibm taro. Os the 21st Februaly. 1848, bawls( shows that mernireg ea ussessl alacrity, art boo* esaspread wren slew atoms el poetry, be was struck with peealyds is the Hones ; lay sasosecioss is the = es teas till the 23ed (hie lest weeds ea Wag moved • beim " 111 s is the bat id Oath ; I am oostent") ; and died is the wising of that day, pat& besieges brie( easpradird is trees of reaped to k a pd the public afire bail( grgpg is iscausies after his aro*. Altogether se sable a ftsr• as aim an Americas hinny ; *tumour, satique. "The aid man siectsoot" was his ammo* dews- Wits la kW yono,—ifroobiliat's Zsgssise for Jags& 14 1 1 ! 1, , #. , wow