The Press. — London, England, 1854-09-30 00:00:00

SEPTEMBER 30, 1854. THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION. THE scientific business of the association for the year 1854 closed on Wednesday last. Thursday was devoted to the pleasures of excursions to the Northwich salt-mine and to the busy manufacturing town of St. Helen's. Near six hundred of the mem bers and visitors proceeded to visit those places of interest. At Northwich, Mr. Lyon, the owner of one of the finest salt-mines in the kingdom, kindly pro mised to illuminate the mine, in order to afford the visitors an opportumity of witnessing the beautiful effect upon the crystals of the mine which light will present. At SL Helen's, the various manufactures of plate, sheet, crown, stained, flint, and bottle glass, the alkali, chemical, and copper-smelting works, iron founding, and coal-mines, formed the subjects of curious inspection. The attendance of visitors during the late meeting has been unusually good. There have been of old life members, 337 ; old annual members, 119; new life members, 21 ; new annual members, 120; asso• ciates, 781 ; lathes, 652 ; a larger number than there has ever been before ; and foreigners, 10. The total number of tickets disposed of has been 1,891, and the total receipts therefrom 1,8551. The total number of papers read in each section is shown in the following table : Total 'Sep. Sep.lSep. Sep. Sep. Sep. in each 21. 22. 23. 25. 26. 27. section. —— Mathematics and Physic 9 10 8 13 21 81 Chemistry Geology 6 8 3 2 10 6 35 Zoology and Botany Geography & Ethnology 4 6 7 4 8 10 37 Statistics Yectuunce Total each day Total each FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE. Tuesday, September 26. BANKRUPTS.—PRTER POLAND and EVAN BARNETT MERE• DITH, Breead•atreet, ChellpSide—CHAßLES PLAISTER, EVerBlloll street, St. Pancras, draper WM. TYREE, Blackfriars-road, Surrey, boot manufacturer—Jossim CRAVE, Torquay, Devon shire, builder—ELlAB WARHURST, Ardwick, Lancashire, timber merchant—OEonou WILSON, Salford, Lancashire, ironfounder— WILLIAM HousroN, Manchester, joiner—JoHN HARWOOD, Black burn, Lancashire, tailor. Friday, September 29. BANKRUPTCY ANN ULLED.—TiromAs BELsaAm Himont , Birmingham, wine merchant. BANKRUPTS.—HARRY WOOLDRIDGE, Strand, publisher— Jolts BARBER, Manchester, engraver to calico printers—JOHN MILLS, Leeds, printer—ROßEßT GETTY, Liverpool, shipbuilder —JoHN BERINGER, Penzance, silversmith—PAUL RHonsa, Men stone, Yorkshire, innkeeper—JOHN CHANCELLOR, Dorrington- Street, Clerkenwell, funeral carriage•mrker WILLIAM JoHN REEVE, Beaufort-wharf, Strand, coal merchant WILLIAM WHITE, St. John's-wood, buiIder—CHARLES GOODA, Great Yar mouth, baker. Pug Starke Imb d itg itttiligence. FRIDAY EVENING. THE market for English securities has been languid during the current week, and prices have drooped a little. No definite cause can be alleged for this de cline, except the fact that the transactions have been exceedingly limited both in number and amount. At present the public do not come forward as buyers, while the speculators postpone operations, and wait for some decisive news from the Crimea before extending their engagements. In fact, it is long since the Stock Exchange presented so perfectly in animate an appearance as it has done for the last few days. This state of inaction affords us no mate rials for remark, and we have nothing more to add, except to register the trifling fluctuations that prices of Consols have undergone from day to day, and which have ranged as follows :—On Monday, 95 to for money, and 954 tog for account; Tuesday, 95 to 4 ; Wednesday, 954 4 ; and Thursday, 95 to 4. To-day the tone of the market has been somewhat firmer, and the quotations improved to 954 4 for money, and 954 for account. Money has been tight and in demand throughout the week, notwithstanding the arrivals of some con siderable parcels of cash and gold-dust from New York and Australia. On the Stock Exchange the current rate of interest on advances is 44, and out of doors 5 per cent. is demanded, on first class bills. The Bank of England shows no symptoms of an intention to relax their rate of discounts, and the private capitalists are cautious in making advances. The payment of the October dividends will, it is hoped, afford some relief to the many. The demand for gold for shipment to the Continent has cea , ed for the moment, and, as the rate of ex change has experienced a sensible decline in China, we shall not he called upon at present to send further supplies of silver to that quarter. FOREIGN. Dealings in foreign securities have been not less dull than in English stocks. The only fluc tuations of moment were in the Turkish loan, whose price has suffered a progressive and considerable depreciation. Much mismanagement is stated to THE PRESS. have occurred in selecting the partied to whom the scrip was granted, and a large number of the original allottees press the sales of their stock instead of holding it: the quotations rapidly decline. The price was sent during the week as low as 2} premium (on new). This afternoon the quotations were 2j I. RAILWAY SHARES. The half-monthly settlement in shares passed otf satisfactorily on Wednesday last, but the state of the accounts showed an ample supply of stock, and the prices drooped afterwards in consequence. Specula- ' Lion is almost paralysed by the high rates for money now ruling. The total amount of the railway calls falling due in the course of October is a little over one million sterling, of which 380,0001. is on account of the London and North-Western line, 270,0001. for Midland, and 135,0001. for the Royal Danish. The aggregate sum already called up during the present year is 11,197,0001. Under the new Stamp Act all dividend warrants issued by public companies, and requiring the signa tures of the parties to whom they are payable, must bear the penny receipt stamp. if payable at a future day they require proportionate stamps as bills of ex change. This afternoon's prices of shares in the principal lines have been :—Caledonian, 651 i x d ; Great Northern, 861 7; Great Western, 711 1 ; Lancashire end Yorkshire, 711 1 • London and Brighton, 1031 4 ; London and North- Western, 1014; Midland (1001. paid), 691; North British, 324 1; Oxford and Wol verhampton, 331; South Devon, 131; South-Eastern, 631. Crystal Palace shares continue dull, and were last quoted at 21 3. BRITISH FUNDS. OFFICIAL 4 [OTATION. ruesd. l Wed. 3 per Cent. Consols ° 91 1 34. Ditto for Account per Cents Reduced 8i per Cents Long Annuities Bonk Stock, 7 per Cent — India Stock, 104 per Cnt — Blob. Bills, 20. per dleinr 6 India Bonds, (1,0001.) — Thurs. Frick*. 9 71 2 4 07 6 L Ti I 6 9 1 7p _ - _ 9 BANE OF ENGLAND. i c s Ai Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 92, fur the week ending on Saturday, the 23rd day of Sept., 1864. ISSUE DEPARTMENT. Notes issued .... X 20,569,760 Government Debt £11,015,100 Other Securities .. 2,98000 Gold Coin & Bullion 12,6%9,730 Silver Bullion .... £28,589,7301 1426,682,730 BANKING DEPARTMENT. Proprietors'Caplial2l4,ss3,ooo (Government Semi. Rest Public Deposits* 5,363,572 Dead Weight An.) 210,986,955 Other Deposits Seven Day & other Notes Bills 234,418,689 154,418,689 • Including Exchequer, Say ngs Banks, Commissioners of National Debt, and Dividend Accounts. The foregoing return, when compared with that of the preceding week, ending Sept. 1, exhibits the following changes. la the Püblic Deposits Other Deposits Notes Issued Do. Reserved Seven-day Bills DECREASE of l,lBO Coin and Bullion Government Securities (Na fluctuation.) Other Securities The Rest The amount of active circulation In Notes £12,298,250 Do. in Seven•day and other Bills 1,021,395 Coin and Bullion in both Departments FOREIGN RAILWAY! I moßd. Tuesday. Wednes. 81 7' tii 7i fif 7 4 3d 4 8 d 4 8 d * It f li t li _ —Pm P k 2 21 2 3} r 1! a d tpi IP £ntw. & Rttrdm. Berm to Grates. Belgian East. J. Charla. & Erque. Dijon & Besang. Dutch Rhenish East Indian.... Do. Extension.. GL Indian Pen. Grand J. of Fra. G. W. of Can.,Bh. B. (2d is.) 1679 ex.& Pls. 6 p c pf. Luxembourg .. Lyons & Gans. 14 sdras 13,817,645 121 Z 1 3i p id _!P 16} 71 13,248,tit1e Is dl ' par I :i plr i Maria Antonia.. Na. & Lge.(w. in) Nrthrn. of Froce. Norw. Trnk. Prf. Paris & Lyons.. PaHs & Orleans Paris & Rouen.. Paris & Strasbg. P.,Caen 4 Cher. Qbec.& Rehm& Rouen & Havre I Royal Swedish Sambre& Maus S. E. of France 1 Stium of France Upper I nd. Seri p Wet. Flanders.. WM. of France W warn. of Snits. Zeeland 7 1 7 .341 1 341 9 10 9 10 191 fp ldf fp 48 50 48 50 38 40 38 40 . —p p —d d 231 1 43} — die d 71 81 7f 81 P P —P p p pm 34 8 4 S 4 64 P 6 t- 84 .16 716 7 Tao, I 9 10 1e p 48 60 138 40 t it 21 21i' id 9 Ili L:f P - r die 13i t dii 7} d - p - P Friday. 6i 7 8d '1 If f 3 2i t 2 die 2f Ct i 7; Ilfir 41' die --- 1 p 1 ip Par S IP Par IP 71 7 1 34 10 9 e 1 044 1 t 9 !CI p 191 ip 46 150 4$ 30 38 40 39 40 P -- die 28* d 7i 8i • -- p i -- pm. - Pul l 3i 4 6 i 1) 16 17 - Pm 23t I d 71 8} Pin 81 4 6 IP 16 7 SHARES. RAILWAYS— pfoitd. Tuna.' 14 ed. I Thur. Aberdeen til/ 21 214 2131/ 2/ 21/ Nottna.,Batn 1 Bast Jusedes 1: ••41 41414 1 4 I 1 4 4 Birm.Wolv.atitour YaL 12 8e / _ _ 1 ' 11 1641 lad 19 11 1 f 1 * 119, .1 IT 8 111 8 117 8 1161 771 .7 8 i f T I d. 7 dd 7 99 1 95 6 1 96 T 196 795 t el: 1 ~1 14 6 4 1 4 : i 10 1 1 19 8 10 3 10 9 .21 119 17 91 44 3 1 d 3 1 169 79 4 169 I TE 16 7 18 4 1 86 40 38 40 I lid 70 6d 70 66 8 . 66 d 61 xl 67 9:4 67 0 67 f 1114 a 111 3 111 4 111 19 1 ifty 99 4 14 . 188 133 371 8 tide " 3 91 90 90 . . 71; VI OITA Ow- Birk.. Lan. & C hes. J nu Do. Ches. & Birk , 5014 9010 Do. do. Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Chester and Ilulyhead Cork and Bandon Dublin * Belfast June. Dundee, Perth, & Aber.l Been Junction East Anglian Eastern Onion East Lancashire E. & W.I. Ms.& Bir. J o. Edinburgh & (Hugo* Eastern Counties I Edubrgh., Perth, Dand i Great Northern Bth. au d Wet of Irs.l Great Western 74/id iil 6ti 7i - 1 Hull and Selby — 1 100 2 Irish South-Eastern Lancashire& Yorkshire 7112xd 711 271 91 Lancaster and Carlisle 80 bid 80 Sided 6 Leeds Northern Lou., Tilbury, &intend 111 1 111 1 111 1 Lou., Brighton, ac lOB 6163 6 103 6 London and Blackwall 84 I 'd. 1 IN* 1 Loudon and NI-tit-West. 101191'161121 101 a Loudndrry. 4 Coleraine Loudndrry. & Eunsklln. Mau.,Shef.,et Lucolush. 241 5041 06 241 41 Midland Do. Birm. and Derby 41 3 1 41 3 40 2 Newmarket. Newp.,Aber.& Hereford 8 Ttl l Bl 7148 1 1 7*(l Newry and Enniskillen 28 INI 1 121 1 New., Warrnput.,A Roe. 6 3 B bi Of 5 4 ot t Norfolk Nrthrn. Counties Union 31 id 31 14 1 d North British North Devon b 10 le 10 e 10 North Staffordshire 4l 8144* Sid 31c North-Western 6l 7 161 7 6 7 N.&Sth.WesternJunc.ld iVed 11)(4 iF Oxf., Wrintr., and Wolv. 32 4 ;44 4 38 4 Scottish Central Scottish Midland ... 02 4 '62 4 62 4 Shrewsbury 4 Birming. .... Shrewsbury I Hereford 7* 8 7* 8 718 1 Shrewsbury 4 Chester 1 , Shropshire Union .... 3 1 id 3 1 I dl3t South Devon South-Easternand Dor di} % 441 xd 63* 1 South. Western South Wales 33 433 4 ,33 i ld SO. Yorksh. & inv. Dun 2 11 ,1 2 1 14 1 Stockton I Darnm„tou 34 6 '34 a i Thms.HavenDk.&Rail. —( Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny 4* 1 4* 14* 1 111 Waterford I Limerick 24 d 94 6 94 8' West Cornwall 4 6 6 4 6 Wimbledon & Croydon Woodford York, Newc., and Bor —.-.. York and Nigh Midland —.-.. li ANECS— Australasian Chartered Bank of Awls 1 i4 l Id 1 14 1 014 Oh. Bank of India, Aus• trona, & China —d i —d— d 1 d 1 Eng. Sctch I Aust. C1i ,; 16 2148 sld 8 21d 3 21d 1 Lon.BnkofAuctlndi I I I Lon. Ohar. Bnk of Aust. 211 9 21* 2 1111 2 91* 9. Oriental Bank Corpor.'42 4 42 4 42 4 49 4 ' Lon. Aus.l3nkinglt Old I 1 Importing Company 1 , •••• I 1 South Australis 144 644 614 644 8 Union of Australia —1671 81 87 2 87 9 87 9 Do. New 171 81 7* 81 71 be 7i bi MINES— I . . I I Brazilian Imperial .. •„3 1 3 1 3 3 i i Do. (St John del Rey)l26 8 '27 4 27 9 27 Cobre Copper 142 4 :12 4 42 4 i 42 4 Colonial Vold Nouveau Monde ls i 1 1 1 *II i l i M ISCELLANICOUS— Australian Agriculturall2 8 ;42 3 40 2 40 Brit.. American Land Canada 9B 108 08 103 98 103 96 Crystal Palace 2lB 121 191 8 2/ Crystal Palace of France _pi — . I) 2 North British Aus. Land 1 111 I 1 11 Do. Preference Peel River Lead it Min. il 41 31 4181 4 Soottish Aust. Invest. 2 1 1 2 1 1 2 * South Australian Land 16 8 136 8,35 VanDiemen's Land .., 121 51 121 311121 1,244 bl it 140 X FOREIGN FUNDS. M( Per Cent. Belgian 4} Ditto 24 Brazilian 6 Do. New 4} Buenos Ayres... 6 Chilian 3 Danish 5 101 Ditto 3 Dtch. (F.:12 Outl )211 Ditto 4 French 8 Do. 44 Do. Bank Stock Granada Deferred 14 liesiean 3 Do. Account 8 Persvien 44 Peruvian Scrip .... Portuguese 4 Russian 6 Ditto 44 Sardinian 5 Spanish 3 Do. New Deferred 3 Do. Pass. Convert. Turkish Scrip 6 6' 102 1 74( 00c 98(76e Wed. NNW - _ - 5f 10c W c Sc96of. 2 - 41 ! i _ i 703 ul 401 i - 181 '3% ' 181 933 riday. 211 . 111 1 be 9 I 11 161 71 7 6 95 7 01 21 is 6 lo 12 S 1d 1 16 7 - - Sr 9 311 1 N 4 N 7 SO 2 L I N i 1 Tut 1} 110 b 1 1 s lull 4 a di 4 iat _..". V._ 24 I Oli f 40 2 8i li d SI Iss Si 411 01 - 32 8 10 4/ 3/ 11/ 7 I 4 d * 4p 35 I 62 4 7/ 8 d 13 4 lA3 / d 33 4 I 2 44 95 3 17 9 4 4 24 6 4 6 I - 1.410 82 4 1 id 3 Sii 21 I 12 6 4' -S d 7 I ye Be a 27 1 42 4 Il i I 40 Sl__ 65 70 90 108 Ili al i ~., Si 4 2 i 42 2 12i 34 Fridng. 1011 - ;.. 611 Ii 's 21 li 11 '2 l 1 To 6 80 111 104 lull 2 162 4 I - !Ili 11 4 G3j 4 131! 4 I{ 6 - 136 -71 71+1 1941 6( ufoe 98f 80c 2966 f. ••••• dn. man •••••