The Press. — London, England, 1853-08-27 00:00:00

Abraham Jackson, a Jew outfitter at Shields, has been I sentenced to pay ss. and costs, or to sit for four hours in the stocks, for not observing the Christian as well as the Jewish Sabbath. A Russian Commissioner has arrived at the Suline mouth to investigate the condition of the river, and advise as to the means of making it navigable. Six hundred poor children, associated with various ragged schools in Spitalfields, were taken on an excursion on Tuesday last to the residence of Mr. H. E. Gurney, at Upton Park. Upon the fact becoming known, many of the surrounding gentry paid a visit to the park, where the children were being hospitably entertained by the host. The Magdalena Steam Navigaion Company have just launched the first of their fleet of ships for the navigat►on of the river Magdalena and the coasts adjacent. She is a fine vessel of 00 ► tons, and 120 horse-power, called the Estrella, of light draught of water when loaded—a feature of great necessity in the service in which she is employed. The site of old Verulam was wild by auction yeitun day week. The lot, comprising the Verulam hills and the site of the Roman city, with the St. Germain's estate of 80 acres, was bought by Mr. Adams, banker, of Ware, for 6,6501. The Earl of Verulam bought 10 acres of the land adjoining for 1,0301. The sale realised 3,0001. more than the price fetched by the same estate two years ago, when it was purchased by the Freehold Land Society, who it is thought have been induced to give it up in consequence of the dishanchisement of St. Alban's. The report of a great battle among the Indian tribes sear Fort Kearney is confirmed by some returned Kioways, according to whose account the Sioux and Cheyennes (Dogrilis ?) are almost exterminated. A splendid tablet has been erected to the memory of the late Sir John Webb, director-general of the ordnance medi cal department, in Trinity-churchyard, Woolwich. The removal of the Tivoli tea-gardens and pleasure grounds at Battersea commenced yesterday week to clear the ground for the formation of the new park. The com missioners have obtained possession of the celebrated Red House Tavern and grounds, and but little now remains to impede the laving out of the proposed park and the forma tion of the themes embankment, for which a sum of 300,0001. has just been voted by Parliament. The Spithead review brought an immense flow of traffic to the Southampton Railway. During the week including that event the receipts amounted to 23,1124., being more than 11,0001. above the the corresponding week of 11452, and 0,0001. higher than the highest sum ever attained by the weekly revenue of the company. The South-Coast line partook also of the increase, its receipts for the week being 18,2841. against 12,812/. last year. The British Museum will be closed on Wednesday next for the autumn vacation. It will reopen on Friday, the 9th of September. The value of land in the city of London, as shown by some ground rents offered for some ground at the end of Pinch-lane, is no less than 510,0: Se. per acre. Nearly 400 shareholders in the London and County Bank have presented their chairman, Mr. John Sadleir, M.P., one of her Majesty's 'Lords of the Treaeury, with three silver candelabra, valued at 0001., as a mark of admi ration for his munificence in contributing 4,5001. towards founding a provident fund for the officers of the establish. ment. The wires of electric telegraphs which are painted red are found to be much less liable to oxidation than those which are painted white. Within the last month there have been large importa tions of horses into France from the north of fiermany. They are believed to be introduced on the French Govern went account for a remount of the cavalry. The scheme for having sea-water baths at Paris is about to be realised. A concession has been accorded to the pro ector, who undertakes to have sea water brought to the j park of Monceau:. Mr. Salk Schwabe, who recently died in Manchester, kas left 3,000/. to the Manchester Infirmary, of which he was a patron during his lifetime. Captain William Gregson, lately residing at Hampstead, was seised with an apoplectic fit, on Tuesday, while in an omnibus, near Templehar. He was instantly taken in an insensible state to King's College Hospital, but died shortly after his admission. The hippopotamus from Egypt has arrived at the Jar dine dee Plantes. Thirty goats, which supply him with milk, came with him to Pans. He does not, however, live exclusively on milk, but eats melons and some other vege table productions. He is exceedingly tame, and allows himself to be handled by strangers. The mileage duty paid by the stage-carriage proprietors in England in the year ending 6th January last was 208,54'21., of which 67.1•241. was for the country, and 136,3181. for the metropolis. The licence duty for the same year paid by the same parties in England was 11,3431., whereof 6,6701. was for the country, and 4,603/. for the metropolis. A vast trade has sprung up in the importation of foreign arms of various kinds for immediate shipment to distant parts of the world since the issuing of the Treasury order on the subject of the shipment of goods in transitu. Foreign arms were before entirely prohibited by law to be imported for the purposes of trade; but now it is allowed on condition that they be in transit, and so declared to be en route to another place abroad : and the consequence is, that there are daily numerous importations of arms of every description, principally from Belgium and Gen many, for exportation to Australia and elsewhere. Foreign are still prohibited to be brought to this country for home use. Forged 51. notes are being somewhat extensively passed in the metropolis. The engraving is very good. and would deceive the most experienced judges, especially the Bri tannia in the corner ; but the water-mark is badly executed, appearing to have been impressed after the paper was made ; and the note has not that crispness of feel and whiteness of colour peculiar to Bank of England notes. It mug Niarket au (it Inititigtna. FRIDAY ETENING WE hardly ever remember a period when the fluc tuations of the funds have been less than during the present week ;—until this morning the price has not varied from 98t Stock has been very scarce, if anything, rather better for money than for time, which proves how largely the public have bought for invest ment. This morning the funds have receded to OR to I, in consequence of the unsatisfactory state of the weather, and the apprehensions which exist relative to the harvest, not only in England, but on the Continent. As this is a matter on which the future state of the Money Market must in a great measure depend, we have made careful inquiry on the subject, and from the best information we can gather it would appear that the wheat crop in France is not more than about three-fourths an average ; in Italy it is in many parts a failure ; and from the fact of large buyers from France, Holland, Belgium, and the Rhine being in our market, we may infer that in these parts of the Continent the crop is deficient. On the other hand, the crops are stated to be very abundant in the northern provinces of Europe and in the Black Sea, and likewise in America. Much will depend, so far as our Money Market is concerned, on the yield of our own crops, and, from the unfavoura ble summer and short breadth of corn sown, they are computed at below the average. The fear therefore is that should a demand arise for our own consumption, we should have to repur chase at an advanced rate the stock we are now sell ing to foreigners. If so, we may expect the ex changes will be against us, and the Bank of England will be compelled before the end of the present year to raise the rate of discount. At present the rate of money is below Bank rates ; for, as we explained last week, so long as bankers and brokers can obtain money for nothing by lending their stock in the market, which is at present the case, in consequence of the great demand for stock on the part of the public, there is no probability of the Bank raising the rate of discount, from the fact of the bankers and brokers lending money below the Bank rates ; and, consequently, all pressure on the Bank for money is obviated. The settlement of the Turkish question would un doubtedly bring both Austria and Turkey in the field as borrowers, although in the present state of public feeling it would be almost impossible to raise a loan for Austria. With regard, however, to Turkey the case is different, as we are informed that England and France, with a view of strengthening the posi tion of Turkey, both financially and politically, will give their moral support to a loan having solely for its object the development of the resources of the Ottoman empire, which are immense, although at present dormant. The fun& close 981, the rate of money is 31 per cent. Exchequer Bills, 1 dis. to 1 prem. The exchanges are lower this afternoon, especially Hamburg. THE PRESS. FOREIGN FUNDS. The transactions in the foreign funds have been extremely limited, and with little fluctuation in price. A report of the Secretary of the Home Depart. ment of New Granada is before us, in which he pro poses to extinguish the foreign debt of that country by means of a lottery. The foreign debt, with capi tal and interest, amounts to 11,7•21,292/. sterling ; but let not the Granadian Government delude itself with the notion that they will be able to dispose of shares in a lottery in Europe. The only way would be for a portion of land, duly defined, to be offered to the bondholders, and for them to accept or reject it as they may deem expedient. RAILWAYS. The Railway Market throughout the week has been extremely heavy. Below will be found the closing prices. The mar ket to-day for English shares has been very heavy. The market for French shares is, on the contrary, firm. PRICES CURRENT. BRITISH FUNDS. Closing Prices. OFFICIAL QUOTATION. IMului.lTresd.l Wed. IThurs.l 3 per Cent. Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced 3% per Cents Long Annuities Rank Stock, 7 per Cent India stock,lo4 per Cut. Exeb. Bills, Id. per diem India Bonds, (1,000) 9R4 981 991 I 1011 4 5 6 98t 99i 1011 22sf 2 1 \ I A B O 6I t 1 99 11 1 Z. 6 4 pu120 2 pi 9141 98 981 P 8 984 9sl 1011 - Is. d Belgian 4i p Ct. Ditto 2i Brazilian 5 Do. New ai Buenos Ayres l3 Clam - 8 - Danish 5 Ditto 3 Dtch. (Ex 12 Ouil )21 Ditto 4 French 3 Do. 46 1)o. Bank Stock Granada Deferred Mexican 3 Accouut 3 -- Peruvian 4l -- Peruvhui -- Portuguese 4 Russian 5 Ditto 4fi _ liniati II Spanish 3 Do. New Deferred S Ditto (Passive) Veuezuola 3l RAILWAYS-- Aberdeen Milberg., Nottng., Haw & East Junction Bina. Wolv. & Stour Val Dirk., Lan. & Ches. J unc Do. Chee. &Birk , 501.4 251 C. Do. do. 201. Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Chester and Holyhew Cork and Bandon Dublin & Belfast Jinn Dundee, Perth, tt Abel dean junction .... East Anglian Eastern Union East Lancashire E. k W. I. Dks. k Blr. Jn Edinburgh a Glasgow Eastern Counties Ednbrgh., Perth, Dund. Great Northern Gt. Sth. and Wat of Ire. Great Western Hull and Selby Irish South-Eastern Lancashire k Yorkshire Lancaster and Carlisle Leeds Northern Lon., Tilbury, d; Stbend 1.0 n., Brighton. kc. London and Blaekwall i.;;dw,,iind limn-West. Londndrry. & Coleraine Londndrry. & Ennalln. Man.,Shef.,& Lucolush. Midland Do. firm. and D Newmarket Newp.,Aber. , t Ilene Newry and Enuiek New.,Warntpnt.,it Norfdlk Nrthrn. Counties U . North British North Devon North Staffordshire North-Western N. A Sth.-Westeru June. Oxf., Wrestr., and Violv.l Scottish Central Scottish Midland Shrewsbury k Binning: Shrewsbury A Hereford Shrewsbury tt Chester Shropshire Union South Devon South-Eastern and Dov South-Western South \Vales Sth. Yorksh. A Rio. Dun Stockton A Darlington Thms. Haven Bk.& Rail. Vale of Neath Waterford A;lkennt . Waterford A Limerielt West Cornwall Wimbledon A; Croydon Woodford York, Newc., and Her. York and Nrth Midland BANKS — Australasian Chartered Bank of Asia Ch. Bank of India, Aus• trolls, & China Eng. Scteh k Aust. ('h Lon.Bnk of Ans.& India lAm. Char. link of Aust. Oriental Bank Corpor.l Roy. Ans. linking A Gle Importing Company South Australia Union of Australia Do. New Brazilian Imperial Do. (St. John del Rey) Care Copper . Colonial Gold . Nouveau Monde MISCELLANEOUS — Australian A gr‘c ultural l Brit. American Laud Canada_ ('r}•etnl Palace Crystal Palace of France ! North British Aus. Land. Do. Preferenco Peel River 'Auld Scottish Amu. Invest. South Australian Land Van Diemen's Land 0f20(1 IMM 2 , 150 f. 104 274 7 83i 4 i 41 5 1f 101 1 7 di, .1 31" 1 102 _8 lii I 211 2 19 20} 4 5 p 14 01, 72 4 52 5 72 4 i2i 3j 28 90 . 113 113 71 .t 76 104 .112 i )1113 14 20 1 88 72 40 2 55 7 A 4 u 1 3 2it 12 3 SATURDAY, \ Wed. 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