The Press. — London, England, 1855-09-01 00:00:00

FOREIGN. Notice has been given by the Bank of England to day that the scrip of the Turkish guaranteed Four per Cent. Loan will be ready for delivery on Monday next. The settling day is fixed for Wednesday next. The dealings in this stock continue to be ex tensive, but prices are lower again. To day the Six per Cents. were down at 031 931 for money, and 931 for the 12th September. New Four per Cent. Scrip, 1I prem. Scrip of the French Loan was 21 prem. BRITISH FUNDS. Closing Prices. OFFICIAL QUOTATION. Mond. Trod. Wed. Thurs. Friday. 91$ 91 914 2j192 19 101., V 911 2 921 1. 1 IG':4l 1 921 521 -11 4 1-Id l 4 1. 4 4 10 12154 2164 2154 2101 per Cent.Consols bitto for Account $ per Cents Reduced 8 per Cents Long Annuities /lank Stock, 7 per Cent Omnium — Rsch. Bills, 2d. per diem :2 5 j 16 India Bonds, (1,0001.) BO I 15 2 116 21 14 6 sa 1 stii 99; 1 931 Fridnr fli 10 lid 2 p 21t 51 23} 4 7 8D 191 201 5t 361 ii 9 50 2 50 2 Frid. 23 7 7e 8 98 90 63 11 3 8 10 4 9d 13 4 7•l 4 1111 1 6$ 9 1(0 2 91 6 61 197 9 7 I 95 f 71 I a [5O 2 97 9 6j 7e 95 4 e9e 70 WSe GO 2 d 20 31 61 ti tl I b d 2alf 94 tf id 20 8 108 10 76 8 19 4 col 14 to. 4 1 31 2 21 3 4113 .:2 3 Se 31 3 41 9 30 1 133 7 2k 1 i 1 2} i If i 16 7 13 9 BANK OF ENGLAND. Au Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Fitit Victoria, cap. 32 for the week ending on Saturday, the 25th day of Aug.,106. ISSIIC DTPARTIIIINT. Notes issued .... i 28,916,770 [ Government Debt 411,015,100 Other Securities .. 2,984,900 Gold Coin 14,91C,770 Silver Bullion .... £28,9:6,770 A 28,916,770 sittctno DIPARTMENT. ProprletorsTapitsl2l4,ss9,ooo Government Secu- Rest Public Deposits* 6,971.823 Dead Weight An.) il3 025.164 Other Deposits Reven Day & other Notes 8,674,555 Bills £87,52 ,168 1 • Including Exchequer, Savings Banks, National Debt, and Dividend Accounts. £37,624,168 issionera of Gbi 68:75c' 34! 75c f. 1011 371 381 isi 494 31 93i 1 IN RAILWAYS. !9' lei 111 It 1 ip Is!. f. Wednes. 9Z 10 2} lid 1 }p 24} y bt fi ay 4 7 8p 191 40 ' } j SL;?j 8 9 48 9 48 50' 7'B p 191 VA b 361 b 9 48i i 148 5) 2 50 2 FOREIGN FUNDS. ,Mond ,Therd. Wed. 50 2 SHARES. Mond. Mead. 25 7 2b S i i .:11 3 90 2 69 # 53 # 11 3 11 8 1 ti 10 d 10 3 2 3 Yd , 19 4 19 4 Sxd 9ZI 1 104 b U. fl 834 41 4 97 0 1 1 7 i txdl 93 ixd 71 t It 2 —d 29 31 t'. t g 7 9 13 4 2i 44i 54 31 2 19 61i 441 31 21 1 30 1 !131 1 2 : 4 1 * * Sit 7 Per Cent. Brazilian b Danish Dtch. (Ex 12 Owl. French Do. Do. Bank Stocl Rexiean Peruvian Portuguese Russian Spanish Turkish (Acts.) Antes. & Rttrdm. Belgian East. J. Dutch Rhenish East Indian.... G. W.of Can.,Sit Lyons & Geneva Madras Nat.& Lge.(w. in) Nrthrn.of Froce. Norw. Truk. Prf. Paris & Lyous.. Paris & Orleans' Paris & Rouen.. .6 •) 2 e :4e Mond. 10} 2} Ijd, j I} pl 5} j *o} 4 7 s r I 201 ! 5 j 30} j 0 46} 1 ,48 Thurs l 103 2i 105 C 65 4j VY 70e .125: c Thurs.. 2i 10 d ,I 1 2 P 2.1 5 / 1 234 4 'l9l 8 24 361 e a sasi 48 NI 150 2 25 A !90 2 I 3 8 1U 3 2(l' 13 4 12 4 104 1 511 90 1103 5 I+sk 71 RAILWAYD-. Aberdeen Birm.Vb olv.AßtourVal Bristol and Exeter Caledonian . Cheater and Holynead Cork and Bandon ....' Dublin it Belfast Junc. East Anglian Eastern I (H) East Lancasbire Eastern Counties Great Northern Gt. Bth. and Wet of Ire Great Western Lancashire& Yorkshire Lon., Tilbury, & Stbend Lon.,Brighton,ttc London and Blackwell Loudon and Nrth•West Midland Newmarket sxil ne j 69 99 JO 4 Ct s;j 7 83 j 97 2 7i ixd 95,1 id 70i 1i 4 2i di 2 d 29 31 Newry and Enniskillen Norfolk Dirtlirn. Counties Union North Liritibh North Staffordshire North-Weutern Oxf., Wrestr., and Wulv Scottish Central Soottiah Midland South Devon Bouth•Eastern and Dov South. Western South Wales Waterford et Limerick M IaCiLLACEOUS Australian Agricultural Canada Crystal Palace Crystal Palace of it sure North British A us. Laud 6 4 i ti 7 1:le 2 13 4 1 62 8 ! 21 3 2900 i 134 u Iso 1 'f i Peel River Laud &Mi.,. Scottish Aust. Invest. south Australian Land Van Diemen's Land .. I 1 2 1 !36 Iv I i ik 2 i 96 7 t 90 lt 7 14 9 lltt 3 THE PRESS. 11t4ropolitan Varlitts. (Reported eretusivel, for "Tns Pains.") CORN-EXCHANGE— Very limited supplies of home-grown wheat have sppeated on sale this week, coastwise and by land carriage. Although the demand for flour on foreign account appears to have ceased, the transactions in Eirglish wheat have ruled active, at an improvement in the quotations of from 3s to 45 per quarter compared with Monday se'linight. Foreign wheat—the imports of which have been limited—has moved off freely, at Ss to 45 per quarter more money. The amount of business doing in it, however, has not been large, and some im porters have withdrawn their samples (ruin the market. New red English has realised 06a to 70s; and new white, lies to as per quarter. Grinding barley has produced is per quarter mere intone), and the value of other kinds has been supported. The malt trade has continued Linn, at very full prices. Oats have moved off steadily, at dd to is per quarter more money. Beans and peas have had an upward tendency. Norfolk dour has im proved in value 4s per sack. ENGLISH—Wheat, Essex and Kent white, 685 to 345; red, Gds to 7es ; Norfolk all.l Lincoln red, 66s to 745. Malting barley, 310 to Ste ; grinding ditto, 285 to 31s; distilling, 30s to 325. Malt, Ors to 725. Feed oats, 24s to ittis; potato, 2s. to Sls. Rye, 40s to 435. Tick beaus, 39s to 435; pigeon, 41s to 455. Grey peas, Jde to 394 ; maple, Sits to 41s; white boilers, 41ts to 40a per quarter. Town-made flour, Css to 70s; country marks, 645 to Gus per 2801bs. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. ?'lour. nelieh 740 .. 69u Insh - Foreign .. 3710 .. 470 .. 6630 .. Im6o ski. 2120 Ws. IMPERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES—Wbeat,79S id, bar ley, 84s bd ; oats, kir Gd; rye, 485 6d ; beans, 46s 4d; peas, 40s. THE SIX WEEKS' AVERAGES—Wheat, 7Ga Gd; 34a 7d; oats, 2'. 8d; rye, 44a od; berms, 40a 71; peat, 42. 3d. ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK Whest,7l,lo4 : barley, 301; Wall. 9,233; rye, 81b; beans, 2,290; peas, 347 querLers. BREAD—The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from lud to luau; of household, ditto, eid to itid per 41bs loaf. TEA The public sales have gone off steadily, and the quotations have been supported. Privately, about au average business is doing. The prices are as follows : Conguu, 81d to 2s 1:1; Niug Yong and Oolong, 10d to Is Vd; Seth:11011g, 94 to 2s 8d ; ilowery Pekoe, is 44 to 8s tW ; Caper, is to is 44; Scented Caper, is 4d to is Eltt : Orange Pekoe, Is Id to is 64; Scented Grange Pekoe, Is &id to Is ; T Nankay, 7d to Is Id ; Hyson Skin, 74 to is Od ; Hyson, la to 3s 9d; Young Hyson, 94 to 9s; Imperial, is to Is ed; Gunpowder, is to 3s O 4; Assam, Is 3d to 4s 44 per lb. Up to Saturday last duty was paid on 32,944,3951b5, against 29,v49,7ti01bs la SUGAR—A very extensive demand has sprung up for all raw sugars, and a good business has been done in them, at a further improvement in the quotations of fully is per cwt. Barbadoes lute realised Sea Gd to 41s 8d; Jamaica, 39. to 425; Mauritius, 31s lid to .635; Bengal, 39s to 439 6d; Porto Rico, 41s to 45a; Havannah, 40s to 41s; and kw white Pernambuco, 40a per cwt. Floating cargoes have been In request, on Dutch account. Re tined guo.la are is 6d to 2s dearer. Brown lumps, NA; and grocery, 519 to Obs per cwt.. The total clearance, to the 27th ultimo amounted to 4,8111,267 cwts, against 4,;.)37,632 cwta last year. MOLASSES—We have only a limited quantity on offer. The demand is steady, on higher terms—viz., troru Ids dd to 20a per cwt. COFFFE—Tee transactions in this market have been but moderate; nevertheless, the quotations are well sup ported. The following are current rates:—Plantation, fine, 71s to 82s; nue middling, Us to 74s ; good ddliug. 83s to 68a; middling, 58s to Us ; fine ordinary to middling, 64 to 5:4; triage, 4bs to 04r. Mucha, tine to finest, 78. to 9Us ; garbled, Goo to 77s ; ungarbled, bbs to 66.. Costa Rica, middling to rule. 57s to 72. ; good and fine ordinary, 50s to Ns. Java, 4es to 555. Jamaica, good middling to tine, ati to 87s. COCOA—AII kinds move off somewhat briskly, and prices have an upward tendency. Red Trinidad, 44s 6d to bus; grey, 40s to 428; Granada, 39s to 455; Pura, 36s to 3t4.5; 13shia, 36a to 37e ; and Guayaquil, 43s to 45s per cwt. RICE About 0,000 tons have sold this week—partly to arrive—at an improvement in vales of from 3d to 01 per cwt. SEEDS—There is a good demand for all new seeds, the prices of which have au upward teudeuct. Old seeds are a slow sale. Linseed cud cakes command last week's currency. HEMP AND FLAX In hemp only a moderate business is doing, as follow : —Petersburg clean, 411 to 451; Manilla, 371 to 4sl; Lunn, 141 to 201; Bombay, 171 to 2(14 per ton. Flex is slow in sale, but not cheaper. Jute and Coir goods command full quotations. WOOL—Great Inactivity prevails In the demand for all kinds of wool, the prices of which are almost nominal. The imports this week are under 300 bales. COTTON—About an average business is doing in this article, at full quotations. Surat, bid to bid; Bengal, bid to 4d; Madras, 30 to bd per lb. METALS—There has been less doing in Scotch pig iron, and pikes have ruled somewhat lower. All manufactured parcels command full quotations. Speiter has sold steadily. at 481 lbs to 241 per ton on the spot. Tin rules firm, at 1271 ]Os for Baum Tin plates are active, at 29e od for 1. C. coke, and 34s rid to 31s per box for 1. L. charcoal. Lead is steady, at late rates. SPIRITS—We have a moderate demand for rum, at full prices. Proof Leewarde, 2s 2iti to 2s Sid; East India, ils 2d to 2s 3.i ; and foreign proof to 10 per cent over, 2s Id to 2s 4d per gallon. In the value of brandy no change has taken place. M.lt•spirit is selling at 10s Ind proof, anu Geneva, 2s Ins to 3.84. 140PS—A few pockets of new hops have changed hands at 91 to 10110 s per cwt. Yearling and old qualities are steady, at full prices. The plantation accounts are favorable, and the duty is called 290,0001 to :luo,oool. POTATOES—The supplies ere extensive, and a steady busi ness is doing, at from bus to 74s per ton. TALLOW—No arrivals have been reported this week. Our market is firm, at s(e to bbs 6d per cwt for P. Y. C., on the spot. Town tallow is scarce, and worth bsa per cwt. Rough fat, 9s id per elba. --- OlLS—Linseed oil has realised 431 Os to 431 lOs per ton on the spot. Pale rape is worth 63s—brown, Gls. Turpentine sup ports last week's quotations. Hough, Ss 9d per cwt. METROPOLITAN CATTLE The supplies of beasts on sale this week have been moderate. The primest breeds have sold steadily, at full prices. Otherwise, the demand has been iu a sluggish state. Sheep have come slowly to hand, and the de• SATURDAY, mend for them has ruled ;steady. Lambs have fallen in value 2d; tut calves have improved %d per tilbs. in pigs very little is doing. Beef, from 33 10d to 56 4d; mutton, 3e Gd to bis 24 ; lamb, 4s Gd to 36 rd ; veal, 44 4d to 5s 4d ; pork, 3s Gd to 46 6d per sibs to sink the oflals. NF.WaAI I AND LKADENHALL—The general demand has ruled inactive, as follows :- Beef, from 34 4d to 4a dd ; mutton, Si 4d to 4s 10d; lamb, 46 4d to 5s Gd; veal, 3s 10d to 46 104 ; pork, 36 81 to 4s 6d per illhs by the carcase. BIRTHS. BEAUCHAMP—On the 20th ult., at Ipswich, the Hon. Mrs. Proctor Beauchamp, of a son. BRUCE—On the 20th ult., in Norfolk. street, Park-lane, the wife of Lieut• Colonel Bruce, Grenadier Guards, of a son. GRYLLS—On the 14th ult., at Bosahan, Cornwall. the wife of Captain Glynn Grylls, late 62ud Regt., of a daughter. LOGIN—On the 22nd ult., at Castle Menzies, Perthshire, Lady Login, of a daughter. ROY ER—On the lah ult., at Stoke, Devon, the wife of Lieut. Royer, R.N., of a daughter. WARBURTON—On the 21st ult., at St Mary's Priory, near Reading, the Hon. Mrs. Wm. Warburton, of a son. BAYLEY—MARLAY—On the 18th ult., at Hanover, Sir John Bayley, Bert, to Selina, daughter of the late Colonel Marley. CUNLIFFE—WILLIAMS—On the 28th ult., at St. George's, Hanover-square, Robert runliffe, Esq., to Letitia, daughter of the Ven. John Williams, Archdeacon of Cardigan. HONYWOOD—PAYNTER—On the 23rd ult., et Richmond Church, Sir Courtenay lionyweod. Bart, to Anne Static, daughter of Wm. Paynter, Esq., of Richmond. TAYLOR-11 EBD EN—On the 23rd ult., at Hove Church, near Brighton, the Rev. John Fraser Taylor, M.A., to Mary Geor giatia, daughter of Lieut.-Colonel Hebden, late 58th Regt. WORTLF:Y MARTIN—On the 28th ult., at Worabrough Church, near Barnsley, the Hon. Francis Stuart Wortley, son of Lorl Wharnclitie, to Maria Elizabeth, daughter of the late Wm. Bennet Martin, Esq., of Worsbrough•hall. 5 DEATHS. ASHLEY—At Lausanne, Antony Maurice Ashley, third son of the Earl of Sliafterbury, aged 19. BINGHAM—On the 26th tilt., at Saleham, Lady Anne Bingham, daughter of the Earl and Countess of Lucian, aged 16. BLAKE—On the 23rd ult., at Rottingdean, Sussex, Colonel Frederic Rodolph Blake, C. 8., lately returned ftom the Crimea, of fever. BELSON—On the 14th ult., near Scutari, Captain Fred. Chas. Belson, Royal Engineers, of typhus fever, aged 2e. COBBE—On the tith ult., In camp before Sebastopol, Colonel H. Cobbe, C. 8., of wounds received on the 18th of June. ELIOT—On the 26th ult., at Valebrook.lodge, Sussex, Lieut.- Colonel Win. Granville Eliot , K.H., aged 70. HAMMET—On the 17th ult., killed in the trenches before Se• • baatopol. Commander Lacon Usaher Hammet, R.N., of the Naval Brigade, aged 95. HAY—On the 29th ult., in Cadogan.place, Captain Win. Hay, C. 8., Commissioner of Police, aged G 3. LONOMORE—On the 22nd ult., of cholera, at Sebastopol, John Longmore, Esq., Acting Assistant-Surgeon. TORRENS—On the 24th ult., at Paris, Major-General Sir Arthur Wellesley Torrens, K.C.8., aged 46. WATSON— On the 22nd ult., at Abhethune, Lieut.-General Archibald Watson, of the Hon. East India Company ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. On Monday, September 3rd, and every night during the week. PROFESSOR ANDERSON, THE GREAT WIZARD OF THE NORTH, will have the honour of presenting his new series of DE LASSEME NS MAGIQUES, or the Wonders of the Ancient Magi, and the most renowned of Modern Magicians. The Great Wizard will select the most recherché experiments of his various programmes—from that submitted by him to her Majesty, at Balmoral, to that which obtained the approval of the President of the United States; together with special novel feats, invented expressly for the occasion, and embracing his extraor dinary and amusing illustrations of Spirit-Rapping. The Enter tainment will consist of Twelve Acts, divided into two parts, and arranged so that the interest shall dramatically accumulate to its tinal denouement in the twelfth act. Act lat—" Le Livre des Recutels Choioes." Act 2nd—" Magical Locomotion." Act 3rd a —" D'Ecrin de Verre." Act 4th—" The Cabalist', Counters." Act sth—"The New bottle of Bacchus." Act "The Mys terious Parcel." Act 7th—" The Homological Evaporation.' Act Bth—" The Aqua-avial Paradox." Act 9th—" The Mesmeric Conch." Act 10th—" Half an hour with the Spirits." Act lith— " The Enchanted Chair of Comus." Act 12th— " The Mystery of the Charmed Chest." Further particulars in Programme of the Day. Doors open each evening at Ball-past Seven; commence at Eight. Private Boxes, 11. lla. 3d. and 11. is. ; to be obtained at the Box-office, or at Messrs. Sams, Mitchell, Ebers. Bookhom, Bailey and Moon, Cramer and Beale, Leader and Cock, Chopper, ke. Stalls, 4s. Dress Circle, 3s. Ulper Boxes, 2s. Pit, Is. Gallery. od. The Box.oMee is open daily from Ten till Five, utpier the direction of Mr. Chatterton, Grand Fashionable Morning Performance on Saturday, September Bth, at Two o'clock : doors open at Balf.parit one. THE LAST WEEK of Mlle. ROSA BON- I. HEUR'S great Picture of the HORSE FAIR and of the French Exhibition of Fine Arts, which will positively CLOSE on Saturday, the Bth of September.— PALL-MALL. 1)R. KAHN'S GRAND ANATOMICAL MIISEL'Id. Consisting of upwards of One Thoupand Highly Interesting Models, representing every part of the Human Frame in Health and Disease, also the Various Races of Men, etc. Open (for Gentlemen Only) daily from Ten till Ten. Lec tures varying every day in the week are delivered by DR. SEXTON at Twelve, Two. Four, and Half-past Seven. Admis• sion Is. 4, COVENTRY-STREF.T, LEILESTER•SQUARE. A CLEAR COAIPLEXION.-GODFREY'S a. EXTRACT OF ELDER FLOWERS is strongly recurn• mended fur softening, beautifying, and preserving the akin, and giving it a blooming and charming appearance, being at once a most fragrant perfume and delightful cosmetic. it completely removes tan, sunburn, redness, ttc., and by its balsamic and healing qualities renders the skin soft, pliable, and free from dryness, scurf, ttc.; clears it from every humour, pimple, or eruption, and, by continuing its use a short time. tee skin be comes and continues soft and smooth, and the complexion clear and beautiful. In shaving it is invaluable, as it annihilates every pimple and all roughness, and affords great comfort if applied to the face during the prevalence of cold easterly winds. Sold in bottles price 2s. lid., with directions for using it, by all medicine vendors and perfumers. a Wed. 15 'JO t. 3 11 3 Is 10 3 2d 13 4 I TS 4 IWI I St r3a a 197 9 kl 3) 7 Old t4l