The Sun. — London, England, 1862-08-28 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET. .~---- e- CITY NEWS—YESTERDAY. Some of the bullion lately remitted from England to Constantinople, in connection with the last Turkish loan, is now finding its way back, the exchanges being still adverse to Turkey. About £lOO,OOO in silver has arrived in Paris, and will be sent here when required for transmission to India. Further amounts are expected in France from Constantinople. The total in silver des patched some months ago from England to Turkey on account of the loan was about £1,000,000. There were no gold operations at the Bank to day. The total taken there since the date of the last weekly return is 1244,000, and about 150,000 or 200,000 s ivereigns have within the same period been withdrawn for Turkey. A further call of £2, making £lB paid, is to be paid on the shares in the London and South African Bank by the 26th Sept. The London and North-Western Railway traffic return shows this week an increase of £8,480, and the Lancashire and Yorkshire a decrease of £6,600. It has been announced by Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co. that they have been instructed, in paying the current dividend on the sterling bonds of the Michigan Central Railway, to deduct the income-tax of 3 per cent. lately imposed in America by the Washington Government. This proceeding on the part of the Company seems wholly in equitable, if not illegal, and should the precedent be followed, as will most likely be the case, in other American bonds of oimilar character, it will add greatly to the distrust in which the securities of that country are held. Mexican dollars being scarce, pending the arrival of the Mexican packet, some amount by the Queen of the Exe and other vessels has to •day been disposed of for China at 611 d. per oz. The price has fluc tuated during the past few weeks between 61d. ands 62d. CITY NEWS-THIS DA-Y. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. An active demand for discount accommodation is still experienced both at the Bank of England and in the g eneral market, and full rates are required for the negotiation of the best bills. The Tagus, for Lisbon, has taken out 28,000 sovereigns. The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up to this day, are in round figures as under : 1862. Great Western £67,140 N orth-Western South- Western 1861. 59,851 93,5b5 23,232 . -- • Brighton Midland 45,842 South-Eastern Great Northern Lancashire and Yorkshire 37,735 Bristol and Exeter 7,431 North Eastern 48,102 Great Eastern 24,353 42,209 27,284 27,674 44,201 7,095 46,015 28,990 ilanchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln 14,735 Great Southern and Western of Ireland 8,840 Great 'Western of Canada 15,115 8,914 7,054 These returns, with one or two exceptions, are of a very favourable character. On the Great Northern there is an increase of £4,617; on the Great Western, £7,289 ; on the North-Western, £8,480 ; on the South-Western, £5,311 ; on the South-Eastern, £1,230; on the Brighton, £252; on the Midland, £3,633; on the North-Eastern, £2,087; on the Great Eastern, £627; and the Great Western of Canada, £2,213 ; the Lancashire and Yorkshire, however, shows a decrease of £6,466; and the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, £3BO. Two o'CLoCK. The half-yearly meeting of the Oriental Inland Ste am Company was held to-day, Colonel Grimes in the chair. The chairman stated that the ope rations of the company were highly satisfactory; all their vessels Were fully employed, and the directors entertained the hope that at the next meeting they would be in a position to declare a dividend of not less than 5 per cent. The report was unanimously adopted, and the meeting accorded the it thanks to the directors, whose efforts they highly eulogised. At the half-yearly meeting of the Victoria (Lon don) Dock Company also held to-day—Mr. C, Mor riso ❑ in the chair—the report submitted showed that during the six months ending June last, 2,547 ships, measuring 552,264 tons, entered the Vietoria Docks, exhibiting an increase of 72 ships and 67,110 tons;, as compared with the same period in 1861. The directors, at the invitation of the Fire Insur ance Companies, bad consented to make certain im provements in their warehouses to increase their security from fire, the cost of which would not ex ceed £lO,OOO. The report was unanimously adopted, and a vote of thanks tendered to the chairman and directors. The English Funds opened this morning at the depreciated quotations of yesterday, but a few pur chases have caused an improvement of 4- !? e r cent., and a rather better feeling seems to prevail. Con sols for money and the 4th proximo have been 93 i t, but are now 934 1. The New Threes and the Reduced remain at 93 a ; Exchequer Bills, at 18s. to 21s. prem; Bank Stock has improved to 239 i 241; India 5 per Cents. are steady at IbBZ Foreign Securities are rather depressed, and the dealings are moderate. Turkish 6 per Cents, are 84 85 ; ditto, 1858, 701 711 ; ditto, New Loan Scrip, 21 2 dis. ; and the Consolides are 321 33. Bra zilian 5 per Cents. have receded to 100 and 101. Egyptian Scrip, 2d issue, 101 prem. Mexican is flat at 282 29. Portuguese Scrip 2i a prem., and Italian 5 per Cents. have receded to 668 67k. In the Railway Share Market the chief dealings have been in connection with the liquidation, and owing to a rather large supply of stock, prices have shown increased heaviness. Great Northern and South Eastern have declined ss. ; Caledonian, North Western, and North British, ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 155., and Great Western, Ll. The Foreign and Colonial lines are also flat, Recife and San Francisco being dealt in at 18t, ; south Austrian and Lombardo-Venetian have declined to 21.7- I; Great Western of Canada realise 12 7-; Grand Trunk of Canada, 21-1- ; and Great Indian Peninsula, 1021. Joint-stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares re main at steady rates. Bank of Australia realise 70-1; London Joint Stock, 34; London and South Atrican, 191 a ; Ottoman Bank, 28i; Crystal Pa lace Debentures, 1101 ; and Van Dieman's Land, 121. BRITISH FUNDS --ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities ~ ... 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities New 3 per Cent. Annuities s-'3 1 3 Red Sea Telegraph, 1908 India Stock Ditto b per Cent 10 3 3 /4 1 Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent....., Ditto 5 per Cent ............ 104/ 31 Consols for Account, Sept. 4 ............. 931 1 Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 3 per Cent .... 21 18 I,itto Small FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian, 5 per Cent lOl Ditto, 1839 and 1859 E gyp ti a n, 7 per Cent., Scrip Ditto, Second Issue, £2O pd Ditto Paid-up Scrip Mexican, 3 per Cent Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 46 Ditto Small ............ Ditto Scrip, £lO pd .... 2 3 / 4 i ' lllB ' 34n 5 per Cent 1822 £ St — Ditto 5 per Cent., 1862 (Scrip) Spartan 3 per Cent ........... 514 4 Ditto New D e f erre d ................ ~. 44 3 / 4 Ditto Passiv e.. . ............... ~ . ... 181 Spanish Cert. of C oup . no t funded ...... 9a 4 T irkish 6 per Cent. 1854 .............. ---- Li;Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 ....... .. Ditty Account .... Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862, Scrip, £4O pd 2i„ 2_i Ditto, Paid up SCrip:::. LP ' 654 6 - 51 Venezuela, 3 per Cent 25 Ditto Account thvidends on the above payable in London. Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, E x. 25t .. Ditto Account ..... ~ .. .. . 'l' WO ti'C .1.,,K) , Con , ols, Money .......... 94 k Ditto Account -.. .................... 93i .i, PRICES OF ARTICLES AT R ICHMOND.—A letter dated Richmond, August 3, says ''' There is a great deal of suffiring here. C6ffee sells at 3 dole Per lb ; tea, 7 dols ; brown sugar, 75c per lb ; eggs, 1 dol per dozen ; milk, 1 dol per gallon ; calico, 75c per yard ; linen, 2 dols per yard ; hats 14 dols ; boots, 25 to 40 dols per pair; shoes, 15 dols; salt, 12c per lb ; flour, 13 dols per brl ; butter, 1 dol per lb ; writing paper, 30 dols per ream ; potatoes, 6 dols per bush; any kind of coat, 50 to 75 &is; pants, 25. About 600,000 persons more here than before the war. No prospect o f an end. They will fight to the bitter end—to the last Inen. Tobacco crop a failure—prices have advanced 200 to 1 00 per cent." siIARE M. 'HIS DAY ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOKS. Share' Railways. I Vsf., Wol.. and IS tr. Val lily t?re and Tyne. eat.,a -ad o Bristol and Exeter Caledonian 'Cork and Bandon 0 !Cornwall.. 13.14 A gets no div Do. Do A I ' 116pe.pan.has B 11 been paid to B. IDublin & Belfast June. Dun.,Pertli,&Ab. June. Edinburgh & Glasgow. Glas.T. and S. Western. Great Eastern, Ord. sl k Ditto A stock ...... Ditto East Anglian ,t GreatNorthof Scotland Great Northern Do A stock Do 13 dt , Gt. S. an i W. of Ireland Great Western .. • • Do Str Val g - ua. stool: Lancashire & Yorkshire 1 1 London and 131ackwaPj Lon., Brizht.,& S. Coast : Lon., Chat., and Dover ion. & North Western ion. & South Western L'derry & Ilan., Shef., & Lincoln, Maryport and Carlisle DO I shares Metropolitan Illidland 6.4.0 Do New Do Binning*. & Derb) Gt. W. of Ireland Do. shares Mid K.ent Do Cray Line North British Edin.,_ Perth, & Dundee Nor.Dev.Rail&Dk.stoel , Do A stk ; A reel no 0 till 6 pr has been pal Do B stock NthEastern—Berwicl Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds Do York Do Carlisle North London Do n”w [9.15.4 \orth Staffordshire !T. and S. W. Junction scot tish Central scot N. E., Aber. stool , Do Scot. Mid. stock shrews, and Weichpoo' Shropshire Union south Devon S. Durham & Lane. Un South Eastern at South Wales st R. York. and River Dun l 0 -taines, Wok.,an dWok l 5 I Stockton Darlington 15 Do Do New, 1800 ITaff Vale. Do B Do C Ulster 12.10 Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford Sz Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Isar. &R West Midland Oxford Do Newpor Do Hereford raid. Closing Business Price. done 8 6 7 87 89 109 109, ei 1 2 5 6 42 44 94 10 874 88 104 106 431 441 39 41 21 224 135 140 1244 1254 1246 125 135 137 107 109 654 fit/ 55 57 108 1084 61 83 119 120 43 44 954 46 991 1006 40 45 181 394 81 pi 13ot 13oj 1 4 OP IC2 6O 28 2) 971 PEI I 01 54i 5q 85 86 102 104 P it 41 44 , 10i 11 116 118 47 49 104 106 120 43; 4 47 '9 34 86 97 I d 85} 80 ori 69i 97 99 8 7 37 38 8 9 54 fi I 150 154 4} 5 24 21 p 55i 564 26 34 87 89 140 142 CI 61 - - 41 43 35 40 90 24 PREFEREN l4ris. & Exet. 4 p. c. st.. Do. shares Caledon. qr. shrs, No. 2 Cork & Bandon, 51 p. c. Cornwall, 5 per e( nt.... Do. 4.; p. c. gas. perpet. Dun. Perth, & un. Do, Ist Class Pref.. Edin.&Gla 5.5 p.c. shares Do. 4 p. c. guar. S. & u.. Glas.& S.West. p.m. 5 p.e. Gt.Eastn, E.Coun. Ex. 1 Do No. Do 6 p. c. pref Do K Angn A st 5 o.e. Do Do. E. Union, 4 p.c. p, - ua Do 5 p.c. gua Do.Norf'k 5 ;:.c. Ex. 1846 Do do. pc. pref. 1'47 Da p. c. Wavy. Val. '47 ‘;reat Northern, 5 p. c.. D 0.5 p.c.Redm.lop.c.pm. Do. 41 p. c. do Do.sp.c.Redrc.atsp.c.pm Do. Hertford purchase Do. do. 4e p. c. pref Do. Luton do Do. do. do. sp. c. pref t4t. Nh. of scot. Ist pret 13 1- . Sn. & W. (Ireland 4 per cent Great West. (Berks and Hants Ext) 5 per cent Do. redeem. 43 p. cr. Do. redeem. 4 p. et Do. irredeem. 4 p. et Do. 5 p. c. redeem. prej Do. Birm. guar. stock r)). Birm. pref. stock Do. Chester guar. share; Do. Chester 8 p.c. pf. shs Do. Chester 5 p.c. pf. shs Lan. & Carl. 43 p.c. prel Lan. & York. C p.c. stool Do.Barnsl.st£ s 3s lOdne Do. 6 p. c. (East Lan.) Do. 43 p. c. (Blackb. pur i.on.etßrig,r.sp. , "_ , .gt. No.l Do. 5 per cent. do. No 2 Do. 5 per cent. d 0... Do. 5 per cent. do. No. 4 Do. 7 per cent pref. stk Do. 6 p.c. do(W.E.&C.P. Do. 4p . on.LI at. diD rm. sp. c. p f . ,on. & N. W., Coy. Nuneaton, 5 per cent. Lon. & S.West. 7p. cent Pt., late 3d shares .... Do. (Portsm'th.perpetl 2s. 6d. st st 10s. 10 10. 6. anus. of 2s. 6d) t.ondony. & Ennis. sh , Sian. Sh. &. Lin. 6 per ct. Do. £6 Do. 34 per cent. Do. redeem. 6 per cent aryport & Carl. 4 pr. c Do. 44 per cent Aridland Con. 6 p. c. stk Do.Con.Bris.& Bir. 6 p.c Do. 41 p.c. pref. st. rdem Do. 4i p.c. irredeemable Do. 41 per cent . . Do.Leic. and Hit4per ct Nort British, 5 per cent. , Do. New gua. 5 per cent Do. Bor. Un. a. prf. shs th.Dvn.liaiL&Dck.Co. NT-East. Cons. pref. 4 p.c. Do. 44pr ct redeemabi. Do. G. N. E. 4 p. ct. pret Do. Berwick 4 p. c. pref. Do. Leeds 6 p. c. No. l Do. do. Quarters, 1848 Do. York, FL. & S. Purch Do. Carlisle 44 p. c. Do. do. 4 p. c. N. London 44 p. c. £2O pt North Staffordshire Scottish North-Eastern 3/ p. c. pref. stock Do.Aberdeen,zua.6p.c Do. 7 p. c. pref. stock South Devon, Ann, 10s. Do. Fixed 4/ per cent Soutn Eastern (Reading Ann., 1.0.6) Do. 44 per cent Do, Fixed 4/ per cent South Wales, gun.. 4 p. c. Do. 4/ per cent Do. do. 1859 'CE s: 100 100 100 all all Do. 5 per cent. S. Yorkshire, 4 p. c. Do. 5 p. c. gun. Stock. & Dar. A 5 p. c Do. B 6 p. c Do. C 6 p. c Taff Vale No. 1 Pref. Atiatrld & Kilkny, 6 p. c , W. Mid.-Oxf Ist g - uastk Do. 2d do all 1f 0 100 100 100 Do. Newport 5 p.c. pf.re d. I'erpet.6 p. c. pf. 1861 fill 1869 ARES. 94 96 20 21 6 64 111 113 9) 92 !ill: 114 111 113 129 131 98 100 09 101 90 02 91 93 102 104 78 80 78 80 173 176 105 107 - - 137 139 84 20 274 33 33 85 21 28 34 31 42 128 123 103 123 ,117 44 130 126 105 127 120 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Railways. Paid. , Leasing 'Closing Business Co. s Price. Done. Bedford ancl Bletchley all Ln.&N.W Birkenhead., Buckingh ma'_nre lOO Do. Chester & Holyhead.. 100 Do . 55 57 Do. 5 4 per cent 100 Do. Do. 5 „ 100 Do. Clydesdale Junction 100 Cledon.. Colchester, Stour Val. 100 E.U.&E.O 67 69 E. Lincolnsh. ~,.• Apr c. 100 Gr.Nerth. 138 140 Gls.Barr.&Neils.Dret. 100 ,Cledon Gloster &Dean Foreso all ;Gt. West — Gt.Ea tn. Newmarket,l &c,, 5 per cent lOO Gt. Eastn. Do. E.U.Harwch. 4p.c 100 , Do . Do.Wodbrg. Ex. 4p.c 104 Do — HEM and nelby all I Yk.N. Mid 111 113 Lancaster & Carlisle 100 Ln.&N.W 210 202 Lon. and Chat. Ext. Ii 6 per cent Do. Bromley, 6 per c. all IDa ...... .. .. Do. New ShlB6l, 4 }p.c., all IDo 22 24 Do. We. Ext. A, 44 p c. 'J all D,......,. 8/ 04 Loudon & Greenwic 100 S. Eastern 63 65 >, Do. Preteren 100 !Do. Lon.,Tilb.& S.. -I;'lend 100 Pet°& Co B6 '39 Lowestoft 7,ua. 4 p c.. 100 `Norfolk Do 6 per cent lOO Do. Mnc.,Bxtn.,& Tvlatlock all LNIV& M 3/ 4 Mid. Bradford Prefer ence stock llOO Midland 97 99 North n.&Eastn. 5 p.c all ,Do. ' 66 58 Do. 6 per cent..... all I Do. N. Eastn—Hartlepool 100 N. E. Ber .. .. North Western Not. Gran. 13.1. & Cl. 100 iGt.North. 96 97 Preston and Wyre. I all ,L&N .W ,s , L. yk . 1 44 46 Do.:} shares A all IDo. - • ••.., .. .. Itoystn.Hitch.& Shep 1 100 , Gt.North.;l34 137 Shrewsby & Hereford' 100 T Brassey 135 137 Do. Do. ' 5 .. _ , 2/ 3,q) South Staffordshire lOO ILn.&N.W i .. .. Wes tLondon, Cls A all 'W.Ln.Ex. Do do B all ;Ln&N.W.; Do do C all '& Gt.Wst.l _ Wilts and Somerset lOO Gt. West. 02 94 Wi mbledn & Croydon' all I L.&Brgtn, 84 96 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS Dividends continent on the Profits of each separate Year. l * Caledon. £lO Gua. Stk . E u a s 7 t -.,? I Gt East ern; E. Aug. B ID D o o . . c d 3 o t 6 P. C. pr e f iLon.& kwall,4a n. .sk I do Do. do. 4 P. e. pref . shares I Lond'n, Brig'tn, &c., 4i per cent. . 'i , ~l')_ ' Do. do. 4 per ct. 186 f, !Do. do. 44 per et. 1861 DO. do. 41 pc: et. 1861 Lon. & Ch.. kn, Metrop. EXt. 13, (1 P' C '''' —• • Lon. &S.Western 4i p.c. INI orth British £lO Gua. 100 100 iOO 100 all • F; made Shares, 1S(11... ..... • DoEd,Prth,&D'dec, 4 pe *ScottishCentral4l P.oirred. . ....... . • 'B.-Eastern 4i p.c. 1150..1 Do. 5 p.c. June 1101 (rd.) IDo. 5 p.c. Alio:. 1801 (rd.) Vale of Neath ... ailure of full dividends good out of the profits c all . A any of ay 104 106 145 150 1(6 108 100 101 61 - Year not to be 1 ball year. 102 101 102 104 101 1(4 103 105 85 S 7 gi i ifmi a iPm 201 21i given half - 008eqUelll 21 2; 122 124 Anm C 5 117 !Pm. 128 140 104 106 95 97 113 115 110 112 1i lipm 91 96 102 104 1} 01 d i d i p 22i 23i 140 145 10 11 24 244 100 102 100 102 DOLT Closing 'e , Railways Paid. Price. Business done Atlantic &St Lawrence ! . all 57 CO Bom.,Barodat.Cent Gu. 5 per cent........ 100 104 1024 Do. New ...... .... 2 , Buffalo and Laxe Liuror, all 5,1 tf 1 54 1 Bufralo,Prant,&Godrich Do. Preieron ce . ail 81 9 100 73 82 t 6 p. Ct. lids. Aug. 1, 1872 (De. J 1, 1873 109 76 79 De. do . .1 an, 1, Ir, - -1 100 76 79 )Cliaitta.&S.Eastri.(.Li, 100 101 103 )CapeTown & Dock Seri' 100 1074 1081 ,Demerara.. all Eastn. Bengal gu. 6p. c 100 1034 104 East Indian, gu. sp. c. 100 1044 . 106 Do. do. G Ext..... g• IP Do. do. H do. .. 2 .Grand Trunk of Canada 100 201 21* 214 Do. 6 per cent. Pref.. all 64 (8 64 Do. 2d Pref. 6 per et. all 54 66 Do. 6 per ct. Debentr. all 30 32 Do. 7 percent. 1862 .. all 10 *3 Do. do. 1867.. all 30 32 Do. do. 1872 .. ' all 30 32 3 1 GLlndiareniti.gua.sp.c 100 102 103 1024 • Do. New gua. sp. c... 12 4 a p Do. January, 1862 .. 2 i t ip Gt. South.of India (Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 104 104 104 Gt. W. of Canada Sham. all 135 134 134 12 Do. New Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. all 98 100 Do. 51 p. c. do. '77 d 0... all 89 91 Do. 1878. all 89 91 Indian Branch Limited 1 die par Madras. guar., sp. c. 100 1014 102 Do. 41 p. c. Extensior 100 85 96 ' Do. 41 d 0........ 100 91 03 Illelb.Corp. 6p. c. Buds 100 Newßrunswick t Cami.. Ry.&Land(Lim.)g.6P, an 5 7 Class A Capital Shan. Do. do. Land _ Do. do. B Capital d 0... all k Do. do. Land do. N.Rl.C'da6 pc Ist pt bds 100 85 88 Bcinde Do. Punjaub Ws 15 pr p Do. Do. eti all 00* .101. Do. Indus. St. Flo • . 100 98 100 bt THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 28, 1862. FOREIGN RAIL WAYS Share, Railways. raid. Closing I Business Price. Done. 10 Antwerp & Rotterdam. 1 all I 74 71 20 Ardennes.... ...... ~. -1 all - - 20 , Bah.&S.Fran..Lim.7p.c.l 18 14 2 p 5 ;Belgian East. Juncticn! all If 11 Carmeaux Mine & Rail 30 104 Ili 100 Copiapo ........, all - - 10 Ditto Extension all 44 4 20 Dutch Rhenish la 11 11 p 20 I Do all - - 20 'Eastern of France 20 Grand Rua Guar. 6p. c al - - 20 'Gt. Luxem., Con. sits ) all 141 141 20 'ltalian Junction. - - 20 Namur & Liege I all 84 Et 20 Do. sp. c. Pref. 16 Northern of France all 334 404 16 Do. New Shares -.. 15 - - 10 Norwegian Trunk Pref all 8 10 20 Ot'mn(Smyrna to Aidn) 17 8 7 d . 20 Paris,Lyons, & Medi ter. all 431 441 20 Paris & Orleans all - - x d 20 i I Recife & S. Fran. (Pern.) Alia. 7p. et. lim all 18 19 181 20 Riga & Dunaburg all - - 20 Royal Danish all 16 17 5 [loyal Swedish ....... all 4 1 I Do. 7 per cent. Pref all - - 20 Sambre & Meuse 10 Do. 55 per cent. Pref all 0/ 10 20 San Paulo, lim, g - . 7p. c 8 11 11pm 20 S.Aust, &Lomb Venetin 18 31 31 p 214 4 i 20 S. East Portugal 7 p et. 10 -- 20 Turin and Savona .... 4 14 11 d 20 Southern of France.- all 321 331 81 West Flanders ...... .. all 71 74 10 Do. 54 p c. Preference.. all 10' 104 20 IW. & N.W. of France .: all 214 224 BRITISH MINES. - Clifford Amalgamated - 23 25 231 - Devbn G. Conn. (Tavist. 1 450 460 . 1 East Clopu Gold Ltd. 55.. id ip • ~ - East Bassett (hllogan).. 30 48 50 - East Caradon 2.14.11 46.4 474 - East Cam Brea.... - S. WI Russel (Tavistk 7.12 61 3 31 - Gam.&St.Aubyn(Gwen ) 571 15 17 - Great South Tolgus - G. Wheal Vor (Ralston) 40 5 6 - Grenville - II erod 's - Foot B. l, 41 43 - !ling - Bton Downs 4 . 75.6 2 4 3 - Lady Bertha - Margaret (Crny Lelant 9i 41 43 ' - Marke Valley.. 4 Myndy Iron Oro (Lim.) 21 1 04ds - North Downs 2l 24 31 - North Frances (Illoga 12.3 - - - N. Wh 'I Basset (Moon' 2.9 0 25 3 , - North Wheal Crotty - Par Consols (St. Blazey) 1/ 5 6 20 Providence(UnyLelnt.) 10.6.7 39 41 - Sortridge Cons. Min. Co. 1 1 6 - South Caradon(St.Cleer) 11 350 '6O x d - S. Care Brea (Illogan) 3.11.6 21 3 - ,!'.Wheal Fran. (Mogan; 18.1 , .1 100 105 - Stray Park 5 Tamar Silv.& Lead Min 44 8 11 10 Pin Croft 9 95 104 1 - West Basset (Illoaan) l4 13 14 , , - W Caradon (Liskeard, 5 30 32 - West Seton - Wheal Basset (Mogan 51 80 85 - Wheal Buller(Redruth) 5 50 65 - Wheal Edward (Cals.) 71 1 15 - Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) 1.7.2 94 101 - WhealLud ott - Wheal Mary Ann (Men ) 8 14 16 - Wheal Treiawney (Lis ) 7 16 17 FOREIGN MINES. 20 Australian I BonAccord Copper,Lhn all 1 1 5 Brazil Land& Min.Co all 4 14 2 Capula Silver lts. prm 1p 40 Cobre Copper all 21 23 20 Copiapo l6 7 8 1 DunMoun.Cep.Ming Co all 4 1 3 East Dcl Rey (Limited) 1 1 1 2 Fortuna ~, 20 General all 21 23 2 (1t N. Cop. AS. Austr I 11 11 1 d 1 15 liapunda kLimited) 1 i 5 0 i Linares all 6/ 74 64 5 Lueitanian 2 1 4ds 1 nariquira all 1 4 1 N.RhineCopotS.Aus.L 4 5 4ds 20 Pontgibaud Silver,Lead Mining and Smelt... all 2 4 5 Port Philip 1 Santaßarbara GldMine; 4 4 Ipm 1 Scottish Austrin. (L.) I 108. / lipm 20 St. John del Rey (L.) l5 66 58 28.2.84 United Mexican i all 7 74 1 Worthing'(Limited)..• ! all 4 i 3 YudanamutanaS.A.Ld, ] all 21 24 LONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. 105 107 Can. Gov. 6 p.c.Ja. &July 1877-S2 Do 6 p. cent.lBB3-4 l Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Au;:.! Do. 6 p. c. Mar. A Sent. Do. 5 p. c. Jan.&July. Do. 5 Inscribed stock; Cape G./lope, 6p c,18731 Do.Ap &Oct 1880] Do. 1890 Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. Ceylon, N0v.1861, 6 p c N.13.G0v. 6 p.c. J a.&July Do. 6p.c. A p. & Oct. N. S.W. Gov. 5 p. c., 1866 Do. S p. c.,1871 to 1876 Do. d0.,1888 & upwds New Zealand 6 p. cent. Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. sterling„ 1875 S. Alts G6p.c.1878.& up Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July I 10 6 n.c. An. &Oct 1 103 10r, 106 108 95} 964 94 05 108 109 112 114 112 114 1111 113 104 106 100 101 90& 100 99 100 108 110 1104 106 ICB 110 166 108 on 109; JOINT-STOCK BANKS. e AvTa.zUnftedService B 50 87 89 100 Alliance B.Ln.&L'pool. 7 44 4)p 'll4 40 Australasia all 119 71 705 25 ;Bank of Egypt all 224 13, x d 100 Ra,k of London ... M . ) 84 86 50 British North Amerlear a,l 20 Ch. Bk. of B. Columbia 10 1 scl 20 ,Chtd.Bank of India, . all 184 19i 25 Ch. Mer. of In. bon.& Ch. all 15 67 100 City 100 Colonial . Colonial.. .. 25 40 42 20•11 Corn. Bank of Canada.. all 20 Eng., Scot., & Aus. Ch.. all 174 18 18 20 Gen. Bk .ot Switzerland all _ 100 Imperial Bank Limited 7 Id fp 100 Lon.& Brazilian (Lim.) 5 Id pr 141 20 Lon. Char. Bkof Austra, all 255 65 60 London and County .. 20 36 37 x d 50 London Joint Stock .. 10 335 344 34 20 London and S.Airican. 16 334 p 195 100 London & Westminster 20 77 79 100 lletrop. & Provinl. Bnk. 10 4d pr 103 Nat. Prov. of England 42 —•-• 36 50 Do. new • ,• 12 2C National Bank ....... 3) 20 New South Wales all 41 43 25 Orient. B. Corporation . all 52 54 100 Ottoman Bank ..... . all 285 294 281 10 Do. new 25 Provincial of Ireland 10 Do. new all 25 South Australia all 2i Union of Australia ... • all 444 454 100 Union of Ireland, Lim. 2 15 o d 51 (Imo, of London ..r. 12 31 32 1315 101 Unit \ :t1 Oval ........ 60 MISCELLANEOUS. lu Inglo-11.14. , xican Mint ..1 all 1 18 85 10 Atlantic R. MI. Stm (1d) all 2 4 25 Australian Agricultural 19 225 .34 10 Bahia Steam (Limited). 1 10 Berlin Water (Limited) all 55 54 x d 5 Bombay Gas Limited. 1 , 1 dls 4p 50 British American Land 40 at B.&l.Mag,r. Tel. A. (Lim.) 100 50 55 1 20 Do. 8,7p.c.ti111852 (Lim ) :all :9 21 324 Canada Land all 101 104 10 China dc Janan Coast & River Steam Naviga. 5 et. Cop. Alin.ofEng.&Striltg all 25 Do. Pref. 75 per cent all 14 18 st. Crystal Palace at. Do. Preference ... . . . st. Do. 6 p ct. Perpet. Deb lOO 109 111 1101 10 E.lndia & Lon. Ship A all Do. R all 20 E.lndialrrign. & Canal 1 1 d 4pm at. Electric Telegraph 25 Do. New all 5 English & Aus. Copper, all 14 24 15 Gen. Steam Navigate m 14 27 28 1 Great Slip I ,imited) all # 1 Do 174 pet Preference all 15 15 2 Indian Carrying (Lim.) 1 5 Lon. District Tel. (Lim. It d 4 L.G. Omnibus Co. (Lim all 15 15 11 10 Lon. & S.lrel.Dt.Tel.L 2 20 Madraslrr. and Canal 1 25 21 10 Med. Exten. Tel. (Lim. all 31 41 ' x d 10 Do. 8 per cent. pref' all 25 National Die. Co. (Lim.) 5 15 11 p 20 Nerbu.Coal&lron (Lim.) 5 1 2 p 5 Netherlands Land, 811 c. all 1 100 N. Br.&NcvaSeetiaLand 81 12 14 1 N.B.Australasian (Lim.' all 14 1 (Oriental Gas (Limited). a ll 15 l 10 Orintl. In. Steam (Lim.;. all 65 74 I 5 ,Ottoman Gas, Limited 1 par 5 Pin ( ) 100 52 54 50 d et. 50 Pen. S O n r d i . e .szny n. team all 72 74 ls 50 Do. New 50 Rhymney Iron 18 Do. New all 6 6 25 Rio Janeiro City Impts all 275 285 25 Do. do. 100 Royal Mail Steam ..... at. Scot. Austin. Inv.(Lim.) 100 125 135 x d 25 South Australian Land all 31 M 1 Submarine Tel. Scrip ale 1 Do. do. Registered .• •• a.l 10 Do. all 4 4 6 i 2 Telegraph to India (L.) 1 id 10 rust and Agency 01 Austrlasia(lim)lst is. I id pr 20 TrALn.Co. of U pr. C an. 5 4 1 p 5 U. K'dom Tel. Co. (li m .) 3 1 d pr 10 0 Vali D 1 men's 1.••1:al.- 28 4 12 13 DAY. - r MARLBOROUGH-STREET. STEALING PLATE AT AN HOTEL.—Charles Murphy, a tall powerful -looking fellow, was charged before Mr. Elliott, who sat for Mr. Tyrwhitt, with stealing a silver cream jug, the property of Mr. Thomas Pole Price, hotel-keeper, 26, Dover-street, Piccadilly. John Atkins, porter to Mr. Price, said that on the pre vious afternoon he was about to enter the pantry 'when he sew the prisoner at the plate. As soon as the prisoner saw him he seized up a cream jug and ran up the area steps, but was quickly followed by him down Berkeley-street, and in his flight he threw away the cream jug, but at length he caught the prisoner and handed him over to a constable (Tizley, 65 C). In answer to Mr. Elliott the witness eaid the cream jug was silver. Prisoner said he had no questions to ask. He was desti tute, and had nothing to eat for two days, having been discharged from the army. Mr. Elliott asked the prisoner whether he wished to plead guilty, and on his answeting in the affirmative, committed him for six months with hard labour. MARKETS-THIS DAY. MARK LANE. ERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES. Wheat, 578 9d ; barley, 32s 4d ; oats, 26s 3d ; rye, 378 3d ; beans, 42s 7d ; and peas, 38s 9d. THE SIX WEEKS' AVERAGES. Wheat, 57s 6d barley, 32s 5d ; 0at5,:258 Od ; rye, 37s sd; beans, 41s 6d peas, 40s 2d. ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK.—Wheat, 42,620; barley, 1,022 ; oats, 4,763 ; rye, 132 ; beans, 2,690 ; peas, 084 quarters. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. Our market to-day was scantily supplied with beasts, chiefly in poor condition. Some Scots and short-horns changed hands steadily at very full prices ; otherwise, the beef trade was heavy at barely Monday's currency. The top figure was 4s 10d per Blbs. The show of sheep was only moderate, and the mutton trade ruled firm at previous quotations. The best Downs were worth 5s 4d per 81bs. Prime lambs commanded quite Monday's prices, viz., 6s to 6s 4d per 81bs. Inferior lambs, however, were inactive at late rates. Calves—the supply of which was moderate— moved off steadily at full currencies. Iu pigs and milch cows very little was doing on former terms. Per Slb. to sink the offal. s. d. s. d. Crse. &inf. beasts 3 4 3 6 Second quality do. 3 8 3 10 , Prime large oxen 4 2 4 6 Prime Scots, arc. 4 8 4 10 Crse. & inf. sheep 3 8 3 10 , Second quality do. 4 0 4 6 _ _ _ s. d. s. d. Primeers-wool d 0.4 8 5 0 Pme.S'thdowndo.s 2 5 4 Large erse. calves 4 0 4 6 Prime small do 4 8 5 0 Large hogs 3 10 4 2 Small porkers ... , 4 4 4 8 Lambs, 5s Od to Cs 4d. Suckling calves, lOs to 21s ; and quarter-old store pigs, 9s to 295. TOTAL SUPPLY. Beasts Cows l2O Sheep and lambs 9,700 Calves Pigs. 320 FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts .. 3BO Sheep and lambs 1,600 Calves . . 160 Pigs MEAT MARKETS. NEWOATE AND LEADENHALL.—The supplies of meat are moderate, and the trade rules inactive, as follows : Beef, from 2s 8d to 4s 2d ; mutton, 3s 8d to 4s 6d ; lamb, 4s 2d to 4s 8d ; veal, 4s Od to 5s Od ; pork, 3s 10d to 5s Od per Blbs, by the carcase. SOUTHALL, August 27.—The supplies of fat stock here to-day were seasonably good, and the trade ruled heavy at barely stationary prices. Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 8d; mutton, 3s 8d to 5s 4d ; lamb, 5s Od to 6s Od ; veal, 4s Od to 4s 10d; and pork, 4s Od to 4s 8d per Blbs, to sink the offal. ROMFORD, August 27.—Prime stock moved off steadily at full quotations; otherwise the trade was in a sluggish state. Beef, 3s 6d to 4s Bdi mutton, 3s 10d to 5s 4d; lamb, 5s Od to 6s Od ; veal, 4s Od to 4s 8d ; pork, 3s 10d to 4s 8d per 81b ; suckling calves, lOs to 19s ; quarter-old store pigs, 19s to 28s each; and milch cows, £l4 Od to £lB Os each. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD,— Old meadow hay, £2 Os to £5 Os Od ; new do., £1 16s to £4 Os; old clover, £3 lss to £5 15s Od ; new do., £3 lOs to £5 Os; and straw, £1 168 to £2 Os per load. A slow trade. CUMBERLAND.— Old meadow hay, £2 Os to £5 Os; new do., £1 16s to £4 Os; old 'clover, £3 15s to £5 15s; new do., £3 lOs to £5; and straw, £1 16s to £2 Os per load. Trade .dull. WHITECHAPEL.—OId meadow hay, £2 Os to £5 Os; new do., £1 16s to £4 Os ; old closet, £ 4 Os t o £6 Os ; new d o .; £3 0s to £6 Os; and straw. £1 16s to £2 Os per load. Supply moderate, and trade dull. SHIPPING-THIS DAY. LONDON, Aug. 28.--Wind this day at noon—North; moderate breeze, and fine wealer, CARDIFF, Aug. 26.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Ocean Wave, from Quebec. SALCOMBE, Aug. 27.—Wind N.E.—Sailed---Amy, for the West Indies. PILL, Aug. 27.—Sailed—Greffe Berg, for New York; Clara, for St. John's, N.B. CLYDE, Aug. 27.—Wind E.—Sailed—Hermione, for Mauritius; Cuban, for 11Iontreal; Meteor, for Newfound land. LONDONDERRY, Aug. 26.—Wind W.—Arrived—Thcr, from Montreal. HULL, Aug. 27.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Ellergill, for Quebec. LY ELECTRIC lELEGRAPR. SouTHAmprolc, Thursday Morning. Arrived—Havre, steamer, from Havre ; Shannon, steamer, from St Thomas. Sailed—Atalanta, steamer, kr Jersey. (BY MAGNETIC "ELEGRAPH.) GRAVEEOND, Thursday Morning. Arrived, Aug. 27—Norden from Bejerin; Granville, from Dantzic. Arrived, Aug. 28—Augusta,from Stockholm. Sailed Nornen, for Heriosand ; Konigsberg, for Hudikswall ; Anna Mathilda, for Bjorkoda ; Gustaf, for Sundswall; Meggie, for MaCras ; Trebolgar, for Port Phillip ; Seine, steamer, for 3oulogne; Chandelier, for Stettin. rEAL, Thursday Morning. Passed—Azorin, from Londcn, for Canaries, MISS O'IVEILL'S FII?S2 STAGE SUCCESS There are many yet living who remember the time when Frederick Jones was the theatr.cal lessee of Crow. street Theatre in Dublin, which, en pessant,it may be said, is now the medical school of the Catlioic University. Fred. was a clever fellow in his way, but fat too fond of self-indulgence to be a punctual paymaster. lie had his hams boiled in Madeira, but very often forgot to pay his actors and actresses their salary. Amongst his stock company a Miss Smith was the leading heroine in tragedy and comedy, and on a certain occasion, when the Flay of the night was to be " Romeo and Juliet," the actress "struck," declaring to the stage manager (Williams) tha: she would not recite another line until part of the arrears die to her were paid up. When the stage manager made her resolve known to his principal, the declaration was received vith a volley of oaths, and a counter declaration that the cffender should not receive a penny. But what was to be brae P The actress was inflexi ble, the lessee equally so, and the public to be propitiated and amused. In this dilemma Williams suggested to Fred. that recently he had an application for an engagement from a provincial actress, which lie had not as yet answered. " Seek her out at once," said Fred., " and ask her can she play Juliet ? If so, engage het at once for a month." Fred. was a dictator, and his word was law. To the classic region, therefore, of Stoneybatter did Williams betake himself, and there, at an obscure inn, he was introduced to a very lovely girl, looking, in Barry Cornwall's phrase, As if she had looked in Paradise, and caught Its early beauty. Taken with her appearance, the good-natured Bob Williams told his mission, and asked her could she undertake so large a part on so small a warning. " Yes she could ; she had played it often, and would like to open in it if the chance were given her." This was satisfactory. "Be with us at one for rehearsal, and you shall have a fair start, for your Romeo is Conway, a good actor," said Bob, hurrying away to tell his pleasant story to Fred. That night is a memorable one in the annals of the Irish stage, for then the celebrated Miss O'Neill made her first curtsey to the Dublin audience, who thenceforth never faltered in their allegiance to her sterling genius and inestimable private worth. An Irish audience is seldom mistaken in their appreciation of artistic talent, and in her case their fiat proved the pathway to fame. She be loonged to the stock company for some years, and was then drafted to Covent-garden, Where she became the legitimate successor to Mrs. Siddons, and was held to be her superior in all but the finer feminine parts, such as " Lady Macbeth," " Constance," and so on. In " Isa bella," however, a Belvidere," " Jane Shore," and " Evadne," the greatest actress was left far behind. Dur ing Miss O'Neill's engagement in Dublin her male "great creature" was Conway, a very tall man, and " the pet of the petticoats," who on her success applied for a situation in London, obtained it—and failed. Ultimately, after some trials, he sailed for A merica, and jumped overboard in a fit of despair.—Saunders. A CANADIAN ICE-BoAT.—A special claiss of craft are those ice -boats, peculiar to Upper Canada, and their navigation requires an amount of skill and courage not every day to be found combined. They are barges or pinnaces, cutter-rigged for the most part, and built of the toughest timber the colony produces. Below the keel, is a raised runner of polished iron, sharp as a skate at the edges, and designed —not to plough the waters, but to skim across the ice of the great lakes, These craft are propelled by sails, and steered by helm, exactly like sea-going vessels; it is hardly necessary to add that with a favouring breeze they can attain a speed never equalled by a ship that haste cleave through water, and not much inferior to that of an express train. But they have the drawback of danger. So many accidents have occurred from the breaking in of the ice from sudden squalls, collisions, and so forth, that these win ter yachts have never attained the popularity of the safe and covenieAt sleigh,—.Nhens's ( 6 4g the rfar Bound," In company with Division Surgeon Ball, of Gen. Morgan' s b r i ga d e, I ro d e d own th e road towards Slaughter's M oun t a i n , p a ssing up war d s of a score of battery horses slain in the traces by the splendid firing of our advance pieces on Saturday midnight. The noble animals, whom thunder could not jar nor iron rain intimidate, lay close beside each other, ' ' the worms already making havoc in their flesh, their limbs stiffened and their ghastly hoofs ex tended. Here was a splintered wheel, with blood and hair upon the spokes, and a stain, like a rivulet, extending a little way down the clay. Beyond I came upon the usual indications of re treat—jackets, bayonets, cartridge-boxes, and knapsacks, thrown here and there confusedly, tram pled, rent, and bloody. Those traces grew more numerous until I crossed Cedar Creek, where the stench of decaying flesh, man and horse, was plainly perceptible. The ground was trampled as if by the desperate feet of combatants, and off to the left, in the ruined cornfield, I saw a party of grave-diggers engaged in their solemn but hasty task of shutting away the face of glory. Tbe first unbnried corpse stared out from the shelter of an oak tree, but the resemblance to man had been well nigh obliterated. The arms were thrown clenchedly back, and the chin raised, with the tendons and thews of the throat bare and black. The eyes had bulged through their apertures in the flesh, dis tended to the size of eggs, and the hair lay long, tangled, and matted with blood, over a forehead blue and yellow by exposure and hastening corrup tion. What more may have been remarked it is use less to say, save that no imagination of death is half so terrible. If such feelings were engendered by the glimpse of a single body, what shall describe the horrible picture of the dead grouped, nay, heaped, upon each other and withering under a fiery sun ? They lay by the margin of the tributary rivu let, half hidden in the stocks of corn, one with an arm drawn over the eye, another with arms fixedly folded upon the chest, and others sitting bolt up right, as if resurrected and about to speak. There was no speculation in the eyes that they did glare withal ; the grave seemed to have been opened that I might see, and after glory the worm had come to hold high revel upon the good, the gallant, and the gifted. A few officers were noted; but the tinsel shoulder -straps were rusty and discoloured, and they looked like common clay. I noticed one stal wart fellow, who bad fallen with his musket tightly gripped to his side, as if he had fallen at " Shoulder arms." Some seemed to have died irre solutely, and the terror had petrified in theirvisages, but the predominant expression was one of wrath, caused, perhaps, by the loss of some tried comrade who had fallen previously. A few looked placid, though their features were distorted, and all were so swollen that they compared in size with the dead horses adjacent. The bodies of these are lifted by their comrades and deposited in trenches, without coffin or headstone. Occasionally the practical sexton discovers some old friend, honours him with a special grave, and quietly makes a note of his resting place for future exigency. All of our dead, so far as I saw or heard, had been plundered of their money, arms, and, in some cases, of their clothing. I think that we may have had 150 dead. I found them grouped in the edges of all ,he woods, in one case 22 together. Several of these appeared to be killed by fragments of shells, and one man's head was missing. In common juxtaposition to these ghastly objects I saw an old-fashioned plough that had been struck by solid shot and broken in half. War had levelled the earliest and last indica tion of industry. By the kindness of the rebel cavalry general, Stewart, I was allowed to ride with Lieut. Johnston across the rebel lines and ex- amine the enemy's dead. As most of these had been buried I could not tell with certainty the rebel loss ; but it could scarcely have been less than ours. Eight North Carolinians lay in a row by a frag ment of fence—stout, stalwart rustics in homespun clothes; who had perhaps been dragged as con setipts from their homes to perish in an unholy cause.—New.Fork herald. THE VISITORS TO WOOLWICH ARSENAL.—On account of the number of persons attracted to London by the Exhibition, the demand for tickets of admission to Woolwich Arsenal has totally exhausted the stock recently printed. On Tuesday, lithograph tickets admitting upwards of 1,600 persons were made available. About 250 persons who had gone down to Woolwich unsupplied with tickets were denied admission, the regulations to that effect having been rigidly ordered to be observed. Yesterday a great number of persons without cards of admission were also disappointed, and were obliged to return to London. It is suggested that the hours of admission, to be printed on the new cards about to le issued, should be from half-past 9 to half-past 11 (as the factories and workshops are closed for the men's dinners, and from 2to 4. This would obviate the many murmurings and complaints of a want of courtesy, dtc., on the part of applicants who present themselves be tween 12 and 2, as they would then be made distinctly aware of the regulations. TAXES UPON ENJOYMENTS.—The tax upon cards and dice produced £13,637 last year; it has been rather a declining tax for the last two years. The tax upon armo rial beatings brought in 175,010; 10 years ago it produced £70,000. The tax upon hair powder is constantly falling off: it is now down to £1,116, and we may soon find that all is lost. Racehorses are improving, and produced £6,957 last year. Game certificates and licences produced £140,954, being some thousands more than 10 years ago. Patent medicines, which 10 years ago contributed only £37,333 to the revenue, supplied £46,237 last year, Dogs, if they may here be added, were taxed £196,616 last year. The dogs of Ireland enjoy an exemption from taxation, but not for their own merit, for a recent return showed that large numbers of sheep are worried and killed by them. PARISH BOOK-KEEPING about eleven thou sand parish:registers now in existence, there are eight hundred which begin in fifteen hundred and thirty eight; forty of these contain entries prior to that date; four thousand have their first entries within the sixteenth century. As to the early dates, many of the registers (kept sometimes by negligent incumbents) are defec tive by reason of gaps, omissions, and other acts of care lessness. For example, the clergyman of Tunstall, in Kent, was annoyed by the number of persons with a particular name—Pottman—among his parishioners. In one year he christened three Pottmans by the name of Mary, and soon afterwards, in fifteen 'sixty seven, the disgusted parson cooly writes in the register "From henrforward I omitt the Pottmans." In another parish, a clerk who was a grocer took waste paper for the wrappings of his groceries, out of the parish register, and so established some considerable gaps; other registers had leaves torn out by parliamentary soldiers during the civil wars ; the register of Torpoley, in Cheshire, explains that a breach of five years " hapned by reason of the great wars obliterating Memorials, wasting fortunes, and slaughtering persons of all sorts." The early registers of Christchurch, Hampshire, were found in course of being steadily used up some years since by the curate's wife, who made kettle holders of them, and who would have consumed, in good time, all the archives if the parish clerk had (lot interposed. In an Essex parish, the clerk being applied to for a copy of an entry, and not having pen and ink handy, said to the applicant, "You may as well take the leaf as it is," and cut two whole pages out of the register with his pocket knife. The old registers supposed in rustic parishes to be " out of date," have been snipped into measures by a tailor clerk, or used for singeing geese, or given by another clerk as parchment to his daughters who were lace-makers. In Northamptonshire, a clergyman discovered at the house of his parishioners, an old parchment register sewed together as a covering for the tester of a bedstead. An inhabitant of Lambeth once got a tradesman's package in a leaf of parish register, and found it contained the entry of his own baptism.—Dickens's " All the Year Round." SLEIGII-DRIVING.—SIeigh-driving is the one grand unapproachable unalloyed pleasure to be enjoyed in Russia. There is nothing to compare with a long furious sweep in a good Russian sleigh over hard crisp clean snow, wrapped in good furs. With a great bear-skin hanging over the back of the sleigh, and its apron another bear skin, covering your legs, with your feet encased in fur goloshes, resting on a doubled-up black Siberian curly sheep-skin, with a fur cap en your head as tall and straight and roun 1 as a very large English hat, without the rim, with your hands buried four-inch deep amongst the sable sleeves of your coat ;—as you lie easily back, thus com forted, under a clear frosty bright sky, the horses, in grace ful silver. mounted harness, tossing their heads, the bells at their necks tinkling merrily, the driver in high wolf-skin cap and sheep-skin coat, over which ho has drawn a hand some blue caftan trimmed below the arms with silver-plated round buttons as large as little eggs, and with a large parti coloured sash bound round his waist—a fellow all excite ment, but coolly managing three wild horses, who tear on at whirling speed, dashing the crisp snow in s howers from their hoofs, sometimes for a moment or two half blinding you with the finest cleanest and whitest powder in the word --with these appliances, and as you see and feel theta all, you know the luxury of sleigh-driving. I am not speaking of a drive through the streets of Petersburg, but of a drive of 30 or 40 miles over untrodden virgin snow through the forest, when the trees are clothed in a dense fantastic foliage of hoar-frost festooned with millions of stalactites, and when the pure bracing air as you rush through it sends the blood tingling through your vienss—Dickene3"old the Fear amid." THE 111U_RATS AND NEAPOLITAN BOURBONS. The Civil Tribunal of Naples is at this moment engaged in hearing a claim brought by the descen dants of King Murat and Queen Caroline, against the Minister of the Household of the King of Italy and the Director of the Sinking Fund, of the King dom, for the recovery of Property confiscated in 1815. Napoleon 1., in giving the throne of Naples to his brother Joseph in 1806, reserved to himself an annual income of one million out of the property of the Crown, and when, in 1808, he put his brother in-law Murat in the place of Joseph, he transferred to the former and his wife Caroline Bonaparte the half of that income, not as a donation, but in ex change for palaces and property which the Murat family possessed in Paris and other part of France. Certain estates in Italy were appropriated to the payment of this income, and were administered as privato property belonging to the Royal family. King Ferdinand 1., on recovering the throne of Naples, although he had by a decree of the 14th of August, 1815, declared all property inviolable, afterwards disposed of that belonging to the Murat family, adding a part to his own private domain, and returning the rest to the State. The heirs of Murat now demand the restoration of that pro perty, which has considerably increased in value, and which all became national property by the decree of September, 1860. They also claim pay ment of the rent received on that property since 1815. The Present claimants are four; the Prin cess Louise Murat, daughter of King Murat and Caroline Bonaparte, and three daughters of her sister, the late Princess Letizia Murat, Marchioness Pepoli. The other descendants of the family re siding in Paris do not take part in the suit. THE HARTEST IN NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.—Under the influence of most splendid weather farmers have been enabled to make considerable progress with the harvest since last week. Along the banks of the river Trent for miles the cutting of wheat is general, and many fields have been carried in first-rate condition. Around Ruddingtcn there are some splendid crops, and the yield will be pretty nearly to the average. Barley is likely to turn out far beyond anticipation. Oats are exceedingly plenti ful. Beans acd peas have done very well indeed. In the vicinity of Basfotd some of the best crops in the county have been grown, and in this district wheat will be a fair crop, but cn the poor land around Mansfield the yield will be light. In the central part of the county a good deal of grain has fallen to the sickle, leading is general, and farmers speak far less gloomily of the anticipated yield. Wheat looks best on the heavy soils ; the ears are larger than for some years past, both on the light and clay soils. Barley scarcely ever looked better, and cutting will shortly commence. Peas are re markably well podded. Beans have suffered to a slight ex tent from the smother fly, but the crops will be abundant. The second crops of red clover are exceedingly promising. Swede and white turnips look splendid. The disease among potatoes, at present, is very exceptional, and the tops look healthy. Harvest work is general in the vicinity of East Retford, and wheat is well spoken of. A hawker who had taken refuge under an oak between Saint•• Denis and Sablons (Gironde), during a storm a few days back, was killed by lightning, the electric fluid stripping him of a part of his clothes, and carrying his hat into a tree at some distance, and his port monnaie was wholly consumed. The terrible conflagration which occurred two days since in the neighbourhood of the Brotteaux, at Lyons, first began in the carriage-building establishment of MM. Fallot and Robergeot, and owing to the combustible nature of the stock, the flames spread with fearful rapidity, and defied all the efforts of the firemen. Nearly the whole block of houses adjoining the above premises was also burned down, and more than eighty families, chiefly working people, lost all they possessed. No life was lost, but several persons were more or less injured in their efforts to save the contents of the burning houses. The damage is roughly estimated at 900,000 fr. A RIVAL TO THE ROLL OF BATTLE ABBEY.— One of the most remarkable learned gatherings of thepresent year was held recently at the small Norman town of Dives, to inaugurate the affixing in the old church there of a%new and a carefully compiled list of the companions of William the Conqueror, in his conquest of England in 1066. Dives, though now an almost unknown seaport, was once among the most important Norman ports, and is still a locality of mighty memory, for nigh to it, at the mouth of the river Dive, according to Hume and Lingard, and all historians, was the appointed rendezvous of William and his leading warriors prior to their embarkation. In the church of Dives, still standing, William, before he started, offered up a prayer to God. An eminent and munificent Norman savant, M de Caumont, erected last year a commemorative column on the very spot where the famous host of the Conqueror met ; and it is under his auspices that the recent inauguration of the roll of them has taken place. It was intended to be an international fete, but owing, in all pro bability, to the notice :of the event being about to occur having been given in the English papers, no English were present. The stormy weather, too, prevented many from attending. Nevertheless, the fete went off brilliantly. A meeting in the Market-hall of Dives, a religious service with choice music in the church, a promenade to the lately erected column, and a banquent with 200 covers, formed the principle features of the affair. MARVELLOUS AFFAIR.—Some of the Paris jour nals relate the following extraordinary history :—About a dozen years ago a man, rather shabbily dressed, but bearing an air of distinction, entered a cafe of modest appearance in the Faubourg St. Germain, and asked for a cup of coffee and a roll. This he swallowed rapidly as if pressed by extreme hunger, and then slowly retired, without, however, seeming to avoid the demand for payment. The waiter, stupifi ed, hastened to inform his mistress, a widuw burdened with a family, but a kind-hearted woman, of what had taken place. The latter, who had observed the air of dejection of the stranger, immediately replied, "It is all right, I know the gentleman." The next day the stranger returned, asked for the same things, and retired in the same manner with out paying. This continued for about two months, after which he was seen no more. About a month ago the widow was invited to call upon a notary to receive a sum of money which had been left to her by will. She could not believe her good fortune, and thought there must be some mistake, when the notary afforded her an explanation by reading the following extract from a will which he held in his hand :-- "I bequeath 60,000 f. to the widow —, proprietress of a cafe (giving the address) to thank her for giving me a breakfast every day for two months, without demanding payment, which it was then impossible for me to make. I was then in misery, but since, fortune having smiled on me, it is only just that I should pay for the 60 breakfasts to which I owed my life." THE GAME LAWS. The now and important Game Poaching Prevention Act, 25 and 26 Viet., c. 114, with a practical commentary, directions, and forms, is an nounced to he published in a few days by Mr. Geo. Coke, of the Mansion-house Justice-room, who is the author of the popular " Handy-book of the Game and Fishery Laws," "The Magisterial Synopsis," &c.; the eighth edition of the latter work being also shortly to be issued. INVENTIONS IN LlTTLE.—:Neglected and hidden, and wholly unappreciated, what in pity's name are these poor little fabrics of tin and wood which we light upon in a very obscure corner of the Italian department ? Little sorry wares these, made up of odds and ends of wood and small scraps of tin and fashioned in the roughest way. They look as if they were made by some workman at his sparo moments. Perhaps they were. Perhaps his wife and children watched their progress and thought London must be electrified when these inventions were displayed before it. They are, it seems, small models of certain inventions designed to be made on a larger scale for the benefit of hu manity. Let us road the inscriptions upon them. One is the " model of an instrument for smoothing muddi roads with great speed an d economy. " Another is ,t a me chanis that can be applied to different motory contrivances tts re quiring a rot ar y movement at various d i stan ces andin va rious directions" I H ere , too, is " a machine for thrust ing the grain out of the ears of Indian corn," and also "a ma chine for an economical and speedy removal of snow from th e public streets, leaving but a thin laye r o f it " — this sounds about these i slipp ery 4I eas il y swep t a way." There is s ome , thing very pitiful and affecting i nnocent little models, with their inscriptions n broken English, There they lie in an unknown corner, unseen, n eg l ected, like many another object in this mighty show, whi c h wa s ex pected by the maker of t, and by his friend s , to ma k° an immense sensation. Never mind ; thi s h onest en gineer of Pavia may be in the right road, for aught we know, and may some day co nstruct a " mechanis,, whic h will not only 4, smooth the maddi roads" of England, but smooth his own road to eminence an d f ortan e.—Diekens s "411 t roug h e,ear s ound." TIIE REPRESEXTATION or STOKE UPON-TRENT. —There are now three candidates for the representation of : the Parliamentary b orough o f Stoke-upon-Trent ( t h e Staf fordshire Potte r i es ) , viz. —Mr. H. R. Grenf e ll (Lib eral), hope (Conservati ve ) , Mr. A. J. B. B eresfor d and Mr. Ser geant Shee (Lib era l). 3lr. Grenfell is i n t ro d uce d to t h e Liberal party by the Right Hon. C. P.Villiers, M.P., the Hon. F. L. Gower, 11.1. P., and M r. T . G. Baring, chairman of the Lib er al Registration Association. I n hi s a ddre ss , just issued, be s a g e he is prepared t o sup p or t an exten sion of the franchise, a well-considered re-distribution of seats, vote by ballot, the abolition of Church-rates, the extension of education, the foreign policy of the present Government, and the local interests of the district. Beresford Hope's friends are making a vigorous canvass, and it is felt that his return may be regarded as certain, unless the Liberals are united. Mr. S. Pope (Radical) has also issued an address, in which he says he is prepared to offer himself as a candidate on being invited to do €0 by a considerable number of electors. Mr. Montagu Chambers aPPeRrs to have retired freill the field. THE LATE DISCOTERY IN CASTLE STR.E.E.7, LONG-ACRE. THE MYSTERY CLEARED UP. Information was received yesterday by Superin tendent M'Kenz e, of the F division, by which all doubt or mystery with respect to the blood-stained linen, &c., lately thrown away by a woman in atstle-street, Long-acre, is completely removed. It appears that a gentleman, whose name and address and circumstances are known, was in the habit of visiting an unfortunate woman living in Tower street, Seven-dials. On Friday, 15th inst, he called on her, and saying that he was not very well, asked her to allow him to lie down in her room, to which she consented. After he had been in bed some time she went to the room and found him in sensible. She sent for Mr. Roberts, surgeon, of Earl-street, who, after applying restoratives with out effect, and opening a vein in the arm, pro nounced life to be extinct. Information was given to the coroner in the usual manner, an inquest was held, and Mr. Roberts made a post-mortem exami— nation of the bcdy, the result of which was that the cause of death was disease of the heart and con gestion of the brain. The jury returned a verdict of natural death. The post-mortem examination took place in the room where the man died, being the woman's bedroom, and Mr. Roberts cut away the shirt and undershirt as being the easiest way of removing them from the body. Th©y were stained with blood, partly from the opening of the vein, and partly during the post-mortem examination. The woman was puzzled how to dispose of the blood-stained articles, and foolishly took them out into the street to throw them away. This is the simple explanation of the "supposed mur d er. " It is curious that the police were occupied during a great part of Tuesday night in investigating— cer- tain information afforded by the friends of a person who has been missing from home since the sth inst. He was a cylinder-sinker, formerly employed on the Eastern Bengal Railway, and had but lately returned from India. Two maid servants and a washerwoman employed at the coffeehouse where he lodged, identified the torn and bloody shirt as having belonged to him. They are clearly mistaken in that identification, as the articles are unques tionably those removed from the body of the gentle man who died at the house in Tower-street, and who of course was a very different person from the Indian cylinder sinker. ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE NORWICH, Aug.—Full particulars have been re ceived to-day at the chief office of the Norfolk County Police of a shocking affair which occurred on Monday, at North Lopham, near Harling. It, appears that a cloth hawker named Richard Roberts, who has for some time resided at Lopharn, has been for the past two years " keeping company" with Eliza Hunt, a young woman living in the parish, who owns some cottage property of the value of about £2O per annum. Their wedding has been repeatedly arranged to take place; but it has been Postponed from time to time for reasons which are not generally known, except that Roberts has been in pecuniary difficulties. These misfortunes and the; fact that a rival local suitor had appeared for the. hand of the young woman seem to have preyed upon his mind ; and from a few broken sentences which the injured woman has been able to articu late to her attendants, it has transpired that on. Mondaymorning, at an early hour, he called her up, having come down by mail train from London_ She let him in to her house, and he took a chair in the front room of the cottage, she returning to the bed, in which she had sleeping with another woman. About 8 o'clock both the women got up and went downstairs, where they found Roberts still in the front room reading a book. Hunt proceeded to prepare breakfast and the other woman havi ng left the house, the parties sat down to breakfast together, Suddenly, according to the young woman s statement, without using any angry ex pression, Roberts seized her violently, threw her down, knelt on her, and cut her throat. She screamed loudly, and a neighbour named Higgins, living under the same roof, rushed in to her assistance, but the injuries which she had sus tained were so serious that she soon lost all con sciousness. When Higgins and the other persor_ is who had collected began to recover from their alarm they found that Roberts was standing in. the room also severely wounded, and bleeding profusely. He ran upstairs, and being pursued was found crouching under a bed with a knife in his hand, and insensible. The circumstances were at once reported to Mr. Cockell, one of the local magistrates, who issued a warrant for the apprehension of Roberts ; but it was found that the injuries which he had. inflicted on himself were so serious that he could. not be removed, and last night he was scarcely ex pected to survive. His intended victim has rallied, and some hopes are entertained of her recovery. THE BANK OF ENGLAND NOTE FORSERIES. Yesterday john Lee was brought up before Mr. Bigge, stipendiary magistrate, at the 'Town hall, Brighton, charged with uttering a forged £5 Bank of England note, well knowing it to be forged. Superintendent Barnden briefly stated the case, the facts of which have already appeared in The Sun. Richard Alexander Bevan, a partner in the Union Bank in Brighton, stated that the note produced, purporting to be a Bank of England note, was paid into their bank on Monday, the 18th inst., and sent to the bank of Jones Lloyd and Co., their bankers, on the following day. The initials on the note are " L. T." the number is 83,165, and it is dated 26th of March, 1862. He received the note himself, and it was forwarded to London by one of the clerks in the bank. It was returned by Jones Lloyd and Co. on the following Friday, as it was discovered that the note was forged. Prisoner, in answer to Mr. Bigge, said he had no thing to ask the witness. He was an innocentman. Caleb Kenward, an apprentice to Mr. Corder, linendraper, North-street, deposed that prisoner passed the forged £5 note produced on Monday the 18th of August, about 2 o'clock in the afternoon. He saw prisoner standing at the counter. Prisoner here interrupted witness, calling upon Almighty God to witness his innocence. He was as innocent as an unborn babe. Witness continued—An apprentice brought him the note, and he saw the change given. Prisoner—l can prove I'm a highly respectable jeweller in London. Witness—l,Vhen the note was brought to him he was in the adjoining shop. He (witness) took the note to Mr. Corder, and then took it back to his desk, where it remained till the evening, when he delivered it to Mr. Frederick Corder with other money. That was between 5 and 6 o'clock. He did not see any more of it. The apprentice who gave him the note was named Thomas Meager. Witness a gave Meager £4 Os. 9d. in change , and saw another named George Starr give it to prisoner. Witness first saw the prisoner when he went to show the note to Mr. Corder, and also when the money was paid to him by Starr. Superintendent Barnden—How long were you standing by the counter when you saw the pri -1 soner there ? Witness —Two or three minutes. Did you take particular notice of him. Yes, I did. Have you any doubt at all ab ou t t he prisoner ? —Not the slightest doubt, si r . By Mr. Bigge--Saw pr i soner on Saturday in Lewes Gaol. He was b rought b e fore witness. By Superintendent Barnden—Previous to his going to Lewes he w as cautioned that if he had any doubt ab out the pr i soner 's identity h e s h ou ld give him th e b enefit of it; but he had no d ou bt. By Mr. Brims e _-The note was not endo rse d w h en first br oug h t to w i tne ss ; but prison er a f terwar d s endorsed it, ',F re derick Lardner,l4, King's-road, Chelsea." Mr. Gadstan, clerk in a firm a t 34 , Old J ewr y, London, here entered the room, and said he WO desirous of representing the prisoner. l ßigge decided th a t h e could not allow t hi s . If ..r solicitors appeared for a prisoner the magistrates ba d some control over them, which they bad not over a clerk. Mr. White, chief officer, then asked for a remand till Tuesday next, which was granted. Mr. Gad s t on— Wi ll your Worship acce pt bail? Mr. Bagge—Certainly not. Prison er b urst i nto tears, an d c alled upon Almighty God to attest his innocence. He was then removed. __- EXECUTION AT WARSAW.--.A. letter from Warsaw, of the 21st inst., in the Independance, says :—" The execution of Louis Jaroszynski for the attempt on the life of the Grand Duke Constantine took place ths morning at nine o'clock, on the glade of the citadel, in presence of a crowd composed of about tea thousand persons, among whom were a large number of women belonging to the middle classes. He was brought to the place of execution in a cart drawn by one horse, seated, and having beside him a Capuchin monk, holding a crucifix. On arriving at the foot of the scaffold the sentence was read to him, and he was covered with a long white dress which covered he head; in a few seconds human justice was satisfied. This melancholy siieetacle made a deep impression on the crowd, especially the female portion, but no disturbance took puce . Jaroszynski had been condemned by the court-martial to be shot, but the authorities charged with the reattached of of the right s INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. The the trial ordered him to be deprived 757, and season tickets 3,950, a a y y ni tic e k nt t s s to his condition, and he was executed by hangi n g* " at the building yesterday were 4 r B a , a l k B i B n , g sh a illi r) total g- of 52,895 visitors—just abOut the usual average for Wednesday. .4.41 ~~ 4 1 ~ 1 174 stock stock stock 100 100 100 100 100 100 stock stocß stock Share 100— stk i 20 10 100 I 100 100 i ~4?