The Press. — London, England, 1858-10-16 00:00:00

THE PRESS, OCTOBER 16, 1858. 1014 combination of operations, are turning against us, and may be expected to become still more unfavour able. The approaching resumption of specie pay ments by the National Bank of Austria is causing the administration of that establishment to absorb as much coin and bullion as it can obtain, and Germany and France as well are feeling the effects. In Germany many of the banks have, in order to protect themselves, raised their rates of discount. Then, the arrangements connected with the Lorn. bardo-Venetian Railway and the New Turkish Loan are such that it will probably be found profitable to complete them by remitting gold from this country. Indeed, the contractors for the Turkish Loan sent 150,000 sovereigns yesterday to Constantinople, and they are preparing to forward 300,0(X) more. Mean while the bullion both in the Bank of England and the Bank of France has as shown above undergone a dimi nution. In the face of circumstances such as these, and the contingency of their being continued, how could it be expected that the Directors would reduce ' Yet they are roundly abused, this very morning, by the leading organ of the private banking interests, not only for not reducing but for fixing a minimum at all. Under all the circumstances we are decidedly of opinion that the Bank is acting prudently for the general interests, and most persons will be disposed to applaud the firmness of the Directors in resisting the ill-concealed dictation to which they have been exposed during the last month. The specie arrivals reported during the week have amounted (including those by the West India mail, reported this morning, and which are 184,9371.) to 406,427/. Of this sum 221,0001. have been sent into the Bank. Large sums are expected from Russia in the course of the next eight or ten days, and further amounts from the United States. But on the other band there will now be some exports to the Continent in addition to the sums sent, and to be sent, to Turkey. We rather expect that under these circum • stances it will hardly be possible to maintain the stock of gold in the Bank at its present large aggregate. The Funds have not maintained the highest prices of the week, though they are now somewhat better than those of last Friday. Railway Shares have not very materially changed. Somewhat less business has been done in Public Securities generally, and hitherto the amount of re-investments of dividend money has been comparatively small. This is owing in a great measure to an opinion that, notwithstand ing the cheapness and abundance of money, public stocks are at a high price. Consols at one time stood at 984 to Z. This was the highest price of the week, and it was made in the course of the settlement which concluded on Wed nesday. Afterwards there was a gradual decline to 981 to 4, attributable in some respect to the charac ter of the Indian news, but more to sales influenced by the considerations at which we have glanced above. The operations of the Government broker, who has been a moderate purchaser of stock, failed to arrest this tendency. To-day the Indian news was more favourably regarded, and the market WWI firm ; but it afterwards gave way when it was known that the exchanges were again lower, and that the Bank Return would not be very good. The closing price was 984 to 4. In the Foreign Market there has been some degree of firmness, particularly in the new Turkish Scrip, both of the first and second issues. They have both advanced to a considerable premium, and are both firm, from the certainty that no further issues will be made until a fixed period in 1859, at a less price than 90. Railway Shares have, on the whole, been firm, and in some cases a decided advance has been estab lished. To-day they closed steady, but not at the highest prices. Banking, Mining, and been quiet. Atlantic Telegraph Shares are flat ; the closing quotation to-day was 340 to 380. Those of the Red Sea Company are steady at d to 3 premium, and those of the Indian and Australian at to I premium. The Continentai Exchanges this afternoon were generally against this country. The abundance of money has told upon the value of Exchequer Bills. Those of the March issue are at 355. to 38s. premium, and those of June 275. to 30s. premium, being in each case an advance of from Is. to 2s. Shares have The directors of the Unity Bank have made a further call of W. per share, payable on the 4th of December. The Scinde Railway Company have paid to the credit of the Secretary of State in Council for India the sum of 108,3001. on account of the second issue of capital. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company have obtained the new Australian mail contract. Its duration is seven years. The service may now be expected to be effectually performed. The allotment of the new shares in the Lombardo- Venetian Railway was made on Tuesday, and they have since advanced to a considerable premium. The African Steamship Company have given notice that their vessels will in future Fail from and return iract to Liverpool. ceasing to call at Plymouth. Goree and Monrovia are likewise to be omitted ; but Cape Palma, Benin, Nun, are ports that will be called at. 'the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada will pay no dividend for the past half-year. But in a report issued this day the directors announce the complete success of the plan for the conversion of 500,0001. consolidated stock into seven per cent. debentures, and the opening of thirty-one miles additional line, from London to Stratford, by which some important points of Western Canada are connected with Toronto and the East. With very few exceptions the Provincial Trade Reports of the week are favourable. The prin cipal exception comes from the Manchester spinners, who, owing to the firm price of cotton in the Liver pool market, and to a reduced demand for yarns and twist from most parts of Europe except Russia, complain of the difficulty of effecting sales except upon lower terms. The India and China letters, however, are likely to restore animation to the most profitable branches of the market. The manufac turers of goods are well occupied with orders, and there are no complaints from them except the stand ing one of reduced profits. The woollen and worsted trades are all active and remunerative, notwithstand ing the high price of the raw material, and the same may be said of those in silk, flax, and other staples. The Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Sheffield trades are improving, large orders from the United Stales having, in the course of this week, added to a demand already stimulated by our own domestic wants. As a necessary consequence, the receipts of most of the railway companies, derived from the conveyance of goods and merchandize, are increasing week after week, though they are still lower than those in the corresponding period of last year; and the shipping interests are enlivened, after a long period of depression, by a demand for freights. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE. Tuesday, Oct. 1.2. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED .—Joux HARGRZAVES, Brad ford, Yorkshire, coal merchant. . . BANKKUPTS.—CARL Zucmgu, York-row, Kennington-road, watchmaker—CHAßLES SEAMAN and HENRY KEEN, Milk-street, Cheapaide, silk manufacturers—GEOßGlC B. Harsgs, King's Norton, Worcestershire, brickmaker—JosEPir and WILLIAM COOKE, Shrewsbury, agricultural engineers—Tmowts F. FANCOTT, Stourbridge, hosier—WILLIAM NENDICR, Wolver hampton, grocer—TmomAs STEELE, Torquay, shipowner— WILLIAM S. ASPINALL, Leeds, grocer—JONAS 8111TH, jun., North Bierley, Yorksinie, worsted spinuer—GEOßGE JACKJON, Manchester, decorative designer. SCOTCH 8 KQUEST RAT IO Mi.—Aux/omits BIRRILL, Kirkcaldy, merchant—JAMES G4LLETLEY, Dundee, commist-to n agent—DONALD WARTHUR, Glasgow, hotel keeper—JAMES G ADAM, Glasgow, calico printer. Friday, October 13. BANKRUPTS.—PETER FOSTER. Sunderland, ship-builder— MArrnEw Bares, Huddersfield. manufacturer--GEORGE HEAPS, jun., Leeds, ironmonger —JAMES PARKINS, Grocers'-hall-court, Poultry, auctioneer—CHAßLES COLLS and dolts Lows, St. SwithM'clane, bankers—JOHN BROWN, Bradford, draper—ANN MARGARET GOODACRE, Edenham, Lincolnshire, grooer. BIRTHS. DASHWOOD—On the 9th instant, at Stone Lodge, Suffolk, the Hon. Mrs. George Dashwood, of a daughter. LIDDELL—On the 9th instant, at Ryde, the Hon. Mrs. Adol• phus Liddell, of a daughter. PERRY—On the 10th instant, in Eaton•place, Lady Perry, of a son. REEVE—On the 9th instant, at flulby House, near Bourn, I.incolnahire , the wife of Lieut.-Colonel Reeve, late Grenadier Guards, of a daughter. WHICHCOTE—On the 9th instant, in Tilneystreet, Park-lane, Lady Whichcote, of a son. MARRIAGES. COCKAYSE—LITTLER—On the 9th instant, at Buckfast leigh, Devon, J. Aston Cockayne, Esq., of Great Berkham• stead, Herts, to Helen Olympia, widuw of the late General Sir John Littler, G.C.B. MARSH—CARMICHAEL—On the 12th instant, at St. Peter's, Willoughby-Digby Marsh, Captain Royal Engineers, to Mar garet Isabella, daughter of the late Dr. Carmichael, of Trinidad. SCHUSTER—FITZ-MAURICE—On the 11th instant, at All Saints' Church, Ennlamore-place, Samuel Leo, son of Leo Schuster, Esq., of Roelismpton, Surrey, to Lady Isabella Fitz• Maurice, daughter of the Earl of Orkney. STOCKER—TICE—On the 9th instant, at Old Ford, Captain Edward William Stocker, of Carlingford, county Down, to Louisa, daughter of the late Dr.Tico, Inspector of Hospitals DICA.THS. BINDON—On the sth ult., at St. John's, Newfoundland, Major 13indon. late 84th Regt.. aged 78. CHAPMAN—On the 12th instant, Sarah, relict of John Hood Chapman, Esq., aged 90. COLLIER—On the 2nd instant, at Mammals, near Brentwood, Essex, George Samuel Calyer, Esq., of Park-place, St. James's, aged 94. COVENTRY—On the 6th instant, at St. Leonard's-on-Sea, Agnes Kathleen, daughter of Thotnee Wm. Coventry, Esq., grandson to the sixth Earl of Coventry. JACKSON—At Tunbridge Wells, Alioe Catharine, daughter of sir Charles Jackson, aged 13. MACKENZIE—On the Bth instant, at Edinburgh, the Hon. Mrs. Hay Mackenzie, of Cromarty. RANI)OLPH—On the 19th instant, in Victoria.square.Pimlico, Caroline Mary Victoire, wife of Lieut.. Colonel Randolph, Grenadier Guirds. WINKLEY—Cn the 6th instant, at Richmond Cottage, Ham- mersmith New-road, William Winkley, Esq., late of her Ma. jesty's Treasury, aged 74. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Under the Management of Mr. CHARLES KEAN. On MONDAY, and during the Week, will be presented Shakespeare's Historical Tragedy of KING JOHN. King John, Mr. C. Kean t Constance, Mrs. C. Kean. Preceded by the Faroe of AWAY WITH MELANCHOLY. PROFESSOR WILJALBA. FRIKELL. - Last Week but One.—NEW TRICKS THIS AFTER. NOON at Three o'clock.— POLYGRAPHIC HAf.L. King Wiliiam•street, Charing•cross.—TWO HOURS of ILLUSIONS, previous to Professor Frikell's departure on a Provincial Tour. Every Evening at Eight. Saturday Aftenioons at Three, Private Boxes, One Guinea; Box Stalls, Ss.; Orchestra Stalls. 3s. ; Area, Us. ; Amphitheatre, —Places may be secured at the Polygraphic Hall, and at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond street. SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM . A COURSE of TWELVE LECTURES on the HUMAN FORM will be delivered by JOHN MARSHALL, Esq., F.R.S., Assistant• Surgeon to University College Hospital, on the 22nd and 29th of October, sth, 12th. 19th, and 20th of November, 3rd. 10th, and 17th of December, 7th, 14th, and 21st of January, 1859. This course will be delivered on Friday evenings at eight o'clock. Tickets, Os., for the course of twelve lectures or Is. each lecture, to be obtained at the catalogue sale stall, or from Messrs. Chapman and Hull, :93, Piccadilly. A Summer Course is given to which Female Students are admis sible. By order of the Committee of Council on Education. DUTCH FLOWER ROOTS. THOMAS F. WILDING, Importer of Dutch Flower Roots from Haarlem, Wholesale Florist, 2, CHESTERFIELD STREET, KING'S CROSS, London, has now ready for sending out his celebrated BOXES, containing :- 24 line named Hyacinths 12 Campernellen Jonquils 12 tine named Early Tulips 12 &ilia Siberica 12 Tournescl Tulips 12 fine named Gladiolus 12 Due Van Tholl Tulips 12 fine named Iris Angelica 12 fine named Ranunculus 12 tine named Iris Hispanics 12 fine named Double Ane. 12 fine named Narcissus mones 50 choke named Crocus 12 sweet-scented Jonquils 50 largest Yellow Crocus All warranted Dutch Roots of the best quality, which will be delivered (free of carriage) at any railway station in England or Scotland, and at all the ports of Ireland that have direct com munication with London, for Two Guineas. Or a box containing half of each of the above for One Guinea, which is the smallest quantity he can supply compatibly with his wholesale business. G LENFIELD PATENT STARCH, lIUSED Iv THE ROYAL LAUNDRY, And pronounced by HER MAJESTY'S LAUNDRESS to be THE FINEST STARCH SHE EVER USED. Sold by all Chandlers, Grocers, &c. &c. AT APPIN'S "SHILLING" RAZOR S 111 (Warranted good by the Makers) shave well for Twelve Months without Grinding. MAPPIN'S 25. RAZORS shave well for Three Years. MAPPIN'S 3s. RAZORS (suitable for hard or soft beards) shave well for Ten Years. MAPPIN, BROTHERS, QUEEN'S CUTLERY WORKS, Sheffield, and 67, KING WILLIAM-szazzr, CITY, London ; where the largest Stock of Cutlery in the World is kept. M A PPIN' S ELECTRO-SILVER PLATE and TABLE CUTLERY. MAPPIN, BROTHERS, Manufacturers by Special Appoint ment to the Queen, are the only Sheffield makers who supply the consumer in London. Their London Show Rooms, 67 and 64, KING WILLIAM STREET, London Bridge, contain by far the largest STOCK of ELECTRO-SILVER PLATE and TABLE CUTLERY in the World, which is transmitted direct from their Manufactory, Queen's Cutlery Works, Sheffield. Fiddle Double King's Lily Pattern. Thread. Pattern. Pattern. S. s. d. C. a. d. S. s. d. g. s. d. 12Table Forks, best quality 1 18 0 2 14 0 3 0 0 3 12 0 12 Table Spoons, do. 116 0 214 0 3003 12 0 12 Dessert Forks, do. 1 7 0 2 00 2 402 14 0 12 Dessert Spoons, do. 1 7 02 0 0 2 4 (11 14 0 12 Tea Spoons, do. 0160140 1 7 0 1 16 ll 2 Sauce Ladles, do. 0 8 0 tr 10 0 011 0013 0 1 Gravy Spoon, do. 0 700106011 0 0 13 0 4 Salt Spoons (gilt bowls) 0 6 S t) 10 0 0 12 0 0 14 0 1 Mustard Spoon, do. 0 1 8 0 2 6 0 300 3 6 1 PairSugerTongs, do. 0 3 6 0 5 8 060 0 7 0 1 Pair FishC arvers,do. 1 0 0 110 0 114 0 1 11 , 0 1 Butter do. 0 3 0 0 60 0 60 0 7 1 Sonp Ladle, Knife, 0 do. 012 00 16 00 17 81 0 0 6 Egg Spoonkgiltbdo. 010 00 15 0 018 0 1 1 a Complete Service ..110 13 10 is 16 6 17 13 6 21 4 Any Article can be had separately at the same Prices. One Set of 4 Corner Dishes (forming 8 Dishes), Al. Be.; O Set of 4 Dish Covers—viz., one 20-inch, one 18. inc h, Cruet and two 14-inch-101.10s.; Frame, 4 Glass, 243.: Full-Size with Tea and Coffee Service, 91. 10a. A Costly Book of Engravings, prices attached, sent per post on receipt of Twelve Stamps. Ordinary M e di u m Belt ne Quality. Quality. Quality. Two Dozen Full Size Table Knivs, Ivory Handles .1 6 0 41: 0 Doz. e Full Size Cheese Ditto l4 0 114 6 :1 0 One Pair Regular Meat Carvers 07 6 011 0 0 6 1* t, One Pair Extra-Sized Ditto 0 56 0130 0 0 1 6 , 0 One Pair Poultry Carvers O7 6 11 01 5 6 One Steel for Sharpening ---. .-----. -------- .. ..., a Complete Service •• • ,C 4 16 0 6 18 6 9 16 V Messrs. Mappin's Table Knives still maintain their unrivalled superiority. All their blades, being their own Sheffield han man dle u facture, are of the very first quality, with secure ivor y which do not come loose in hot water; and the difference ess in price is occasioned solely by the superior quality and thickn of the ivory handles. MAPPIN, BROTHERS, 67 and 63, King William-street, City London. Manufa I oil, Queen's Cutlery Works, Sheffield.