The Sun. — London, England, 1862-08-23 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET. CITY NE WS--YESTERDAY. The discount market to-day was easier, and the demand at the Bank comparatively slack, but the rates generally were maintained at 1Z- to 2 per cent. for good bills. At Paris to- duy the 3 per Cent. Rentes opened at 68.70, and closed flatly at 68.80 for money and 68.75 for the account, being nearly the same as yesterday. . _ At Paris and Berlin the rate of discount is now 3 per cent. ; at Vienna, 5 ; Hamburg, 21; Turin, 41 ; Frankfort and Brussels, 21 ; Amsterdam, 3-1-; and at St. Petersburg. 51 per cent. The Gazette specie statement for the week ending Wednesday last gives the following totals, viz, : Imports of gold, £554,934 ; exports of gold, £1,027,033; imports of silver, £63,887; exports of silver, .-C24,429. A further sum of £120,000 in gold, principally Australian, was sent into the Bank to day, while 50,000 sovereigns were withdrawn for Constanti nople, to pay, it is stated, for Internal Stock sold here. The next outward Bombay steamer, which will leave on the 27th, is expected to take a large amount of specie, principally to pay for cotton. The final instalment of 9 per cent. falls due on the 27th inst. on Italian 5 per Cent. Maremmana Railway Loan for £1,333,000 sterling, negotiated through Messrs. Hambro and Son in Feb. last. The London and Middlesex Bank will commence business on Sept. 1 under the management of Mr. Terry. The suspension was announced yesterday of Messrs. Crabtree, Aked, and Co., of Liverpool, a respectable firm in the Brazilian trade, with corre sponding houses at Bahia and Pernambuco. The amount of their liabilities is not stated, but it is probably rather considerable. The event is inferred to have been caused by losses from the failures of other Brazilian houses - which have occurred during the past month. A deputation on behalf of Turkish Scrip holders, consisting of Messrs. R. W. Crawford, M.P., W. T. D. Stephens, A. P. Lattey, and W. and F. Froom, waited this afternoon on the Turkish Minister on the subject of the present condition of Turkish securities, and especially the new loan of 1362. His Excellency stated that the introduction of the internal debt or Consolides on the London market was entirely the result of operations by private capitalists, and, therefore, that the Turkish Government could not be reproached for any tem porary adverse effect created by their competition with the scrip. The dividends on the Consolides are payable only in Constantinople, and the secu rity of the holders is based on the general re venues of the Empire. He felt the most entire confidence in their value, but English investors must naturally prefer a security founded, as was the loan of 1862, under international arrangements. His Excellency finally remarked that he was not aware of a single circumstance that should render the holders of that loan less confident than they were when they subscribed for it. CITY NEWS-THIS DAY. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Since Monday last the imports of specie have been about £851,500, and the exports, £1,348,200. The Australasian, from New York, has brought £77,922 in specie. Notice has been given that the sum of £34,721 has been applied to the redemption of 76 Peruvian 41 per Cent. Bonds, and £11,159 to the extinction of 112 Arica and Tacna Railway Bonds. The traffic receipts of the South Austrian and Lombardo-Venetian Railway, for the week ending the 12th inst., amounted to £50,966, being an in crease of £2,652, compared with the same period last year. On the Central of Italy branch from Plaisance to Bologna the returns were £3,832, against £2,841 in 1861. A greater demand for discount accommodation has prevailed to-day, and although very little alteration has taken place in the quotations, an easier tone has been perceptible. Two o'CLomi. The market for Public Securities opened this morning with an unfavourable appearance, and a further decline of 1 per cent. was speedily re ported, Consols being 931 for transfer, and 93g for account ; no variation has since occurred, and the quotations at the close indicated dulness. The New Threes have risen 931 cl-; and the Reduced, 931 a ; India 5 per Cents. are marked 108 a ; the 5 per Cent. Enfaced Paper, 103.1 1041; Debentures, 101 1011; and Exchequer Bills, 18s. to 21s. prem. The dealings in the Foreign Market have not been of a very extensive character, but prices con tinue firm. Turkish 6 per Cents,, 1854, are 85 86; ditto, 1858, 711 72; ditto New Loan Scrip, 1 (4, dis. ; and the Consolides, 331 ; Egyptian Scrip is 12 prem.; Portuguese 3 per Cents, are 461 ; and the New l oan Scrip has advanced to 2,1,- prem.; Russian Scrip is par; and Italian 5 per Cents. are 691 y ; Brazilian, 1021. Mexican Stock has ina • proved to 291 5, but Sardinian are heavy at 831. In the Railway Share Market . business gene rally has continued inactive, but in some instances prices exhibit an upward tendency. Lancashire and Yorkshire, North-Westerns, Midlands, and South Easterns have improved 55., Great Westerns 108., and South Wales £l. Caledonians, however, have declined ss. The Foreign and Colonial lines have been in moderate request without any material alteration to record in value. Joint-stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares gene rally sustain former rates. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities New 3 per Cent. Annuities 9 31 h a India Stock Ditto 6 per Cent. Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent — Ditto 5 per Cent. Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent,, Oct., 1863 Ditto ditto April, 1864 101 Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 1011 Consols for Account, Sept. 4 93i Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 3 per Cent Ditto £500 FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Brazilian, 5 per Cent Egyptian, 7 per Cent., Scrip Mexican, 3 per Cent Ditto Account .. New Grenada, 2 per Cent . Ditto ex over-due Coups. and Hectares 91 Portuguese 3 per Cent,, 1853 — litto Account Ditto Scrip, £lO pd •. . • 2 1 1 A i 1-ti,,ian 5 per Cent 1322 £ St — Ditto 3 pet Cent., 1859 Ditto 6 per Cent,, 1862 (Scrip) Ditto, Paid up Scrip 931 Sa dinion 5 per Cent. .. Ditto Account Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto New Deferred Ditto Account Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 Ditto Account _Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 Dittu Account Ditto, Paid up Scrip Dividends on the above navable in London. Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 251. - TWO O'C LOC K Conqols, Money Ditto Account THE CONDEMNED PRISONER TAYLOR AND HIS WIPE.—Mrs. Taylor has not yet left Liverpool; and in an interview which she had with her husband yesterday, be fore he was removed to Kirkdale, he expressed a desire that she should not leave the town until after his execu tion, and with this wish she promised to comply. Taylor himself manifests not the slightest contrition for the act which caused Mr. Meller's death, and in any allusion which he has since made to the subject he qualifies his con duct, and even intimates that under. similar circumstances he would take the same parr again. Mrs. Taylor's uncle was in Liverpool during the trial, and wo understand still remains in the town. The father, sister, and cousin of Taylor visited him before the trial. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—DEWSBURY, YORKSHIRE, Friday, 3 o'clock.—One of the most alarming and destruc tive fires that have been witnessed in the West Riding for some years occurred at the mills of Messrs. J. T. and J. Taylor, woollen manufacturers, Batley, near Dewsbury, this forenoon. The mills are adjoining to each other, and occupy a large space of ground at Clerk green, in Batley. One of the mills has only been built about 12 months, and it is said that all the machinery had not yet been got into it. The other mill has not been erected many years. By this event some 300 or 400 persons are thrown out of em ploy. The origin of the fire has not yet been ascertained, but if is said to have been caused by the fiictirn of one of the machines. The damage is estimated at from £20,000 to £30,000, but t% portio4 of thin is covered by jPgir' Mee. it[ARE MARKET-THIS DAY. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOLS. Share Railways. i Paid. Closing Business [ i Price. done. Bir., `Vol., and Str. Val lily-the and Tyne. Bost., Sleat.,and Bristol and Exeter Caledonlan Cork and Bandon Cornwall 8 84 6 7 87 89 109 109 • Do A. A ,"eta no div Do. , tithipc.pan.has, Qbecut paid to B. Dublin ct Belfast June.] '6l 61 1 2 ' 5 6 42 44 94 101 871 881 104 108 435 44} 39 41 22 221 135 140 1241 1251 1.241 1255 135 137 107 109 651 (01 55 57 1071 1081 61 513 119 121 43 45 951 061 991 1001 40 45 E 9 391 !Dun.,perth,&Al;. Juno. Edinburgh & Glasgow. Glasg. and S. Western. Great Eastern, Ord. elk Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian st GreatNorthot Scotland Great Northern... I Do A stock Do 13 do Gt. S: an 1 W. of Ireland 'Great Western ...... • • L Do StrVal glut, stock; Lancashire tt Yorkshire !London and Blackwall I Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & Sonth Western L'derry & Enniskillen. Man., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. I Do I shares Metropolitan Midland Do New S} 83 130 /30 1/ lip 99 101 Do Birming. Derby Via. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. 4 shares i llid Kent Do Cray Line North British 601 dli 28 2) lEdin., Perth, & Dundee! Nor.Dev.RailBsDk.stock I Do A stk ; A recs no d till 6 pc. has been pdß Do B stock Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do, G.N.E. purchase ) Do Lecds Do York Do Carlisle... North London Do new North Staffordshire 971 981 1 04 d 54i 55i 85 86 102 104 P 4i Pm lt 4 d 101 11t 116 118 47 19 104 106 , r ilV. and S. W. Junction, Scottish Central (Scot N. E. ' Aber. stock Do Scot. Mid. stock. • I Shrews, and Welchpool - • 'Shropshire Union 'South Devon 'S. Durham & Lane. Un South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun Stain es, Wok.,an dWok Stockton & Darlington] Do Do New, 1860 'Taff Vale. .. DoTI Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford ez Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.dzlEt. West Midland Oxford Do Newport; Do Hereford PREFERENCE s: Brie. Exet. 4p.c. st Do. shares naledon. qr. shrs, No. 2 Cork & Bandon, 5i p. c. Cornwall, 5 per c(nt Do. 4:s p. c. tiva. perpet Dun. Perth, k Abez.J un Do. Ist Class Pref.., 1 Edin.&Glas.s p.c. shares Do. 4 p. c. guar. S. & (31as.& S.West. gu. 5 p.c. Gt.Eastn, E.Coun. Ex. 1 n o No. •"' Do 6 p. c. pref Do E. Angn A st 5 P.c . Do Do, E. Union, 4 p.c. gua Do Do.Norf'k 5 Ex. 1846 Do. do. 5. p c. pref. 1847 Do. F, p. c. Wavy. Val. '47 Great Northern, 5 p. c.. D 0.5 p.c.Redm.lop.c.pm. Do. 44 p. c. do Do.sn.c.Redrr.atsp.c.pm Do. Hertford purchase Do. do. 4ip. c. pref Do. Futon do Do. do. do. sp. c. pref t. Nh. of Scot. Ist pref. (31 - . Sn. & W. (Ireland) 4 per cent 'Great West. (Berks and Hants Ext) 5 per cent Do. redeem. 44 p. ct Do. redeem. 4 p. ct Do. irredeem. 4 p. ct Do. 5 p. c. redeem. pref Do. firm. guar, stock Do. firm. pref. stock Do. Cheater guar. shares Do. Chester 8 p.c. pf. shs Do. Chester 5 p.c. pf. shs Lan. & Carl. 44 p.c. pref Lan. & York. 6 p.c. stool. Do.Barnsl.Bt£s 38 10dPe Do. 6 p. c. (East Lan.) Do. , q p. c. (Black!). pur Lon.&Brig.sp.e.gt. No.l Do. 5 per cent. do. No 2 Do. S pee 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. 4 p I.on.Chat.&Dov. sp.c.pf. Lon. & N. W., Coy. (t• Nuneaton, 5 per cent. Lon. & S.We.st. 7p. cent. at., late 3d shares Do. (Portsm'th perpetl anus. of 2s. 6d.) Condony. & Ennis. Sian. Sh. Sr, Lin. S per ct. Do. £6 Do. 34 percent, Do. redeem. 6 percent Niaryport & Carl. 4 pr. c Do. 41 per cent Slidland Con. 6 p. c. stk Do.Con.Bris.et Bir. 6 p.c Do. 41 p.c. pref. at. rdem Do. 4/ p.c. irredeemable Do. 41 per cent. Do.Leic. andllit4per et Nort British, 5 per cent. Do. New !ma. 5 per cent Do. Bor. Un. g. prf. shs N th.Dvn.R ail. et Dbk. Co. N'-East. Cons. pref. 4 p.c. Do. 41pr. et redeemable Do. G. N. E. 4 p. et. pre( Do. Berwick 4 p. c. pref. Do. Leeds 6 p. c. No. 'Do. do. Quarters, lBlB Do. York, EL & S. Parch Do. Carlisle 41 p. c. Do. do. 4 p. N. London 41 p. c. £2O pf North Staffordshire Scottish North-Eastern 3 p. e. pref. stock.... Do. Aberdeen,gua.6p.c Do. 7 p. c. pref. stock south Devon, Ann, 10s. Do. Fixed 44 per cent South Eastern(Readinp Ann., 1.0.6) Do. 41 per cent Do, Fixed 4i per cent South Wales, gua. 4 p. c. Do. 4. per cent Do. do. 1859 Do. 5 per cent 'S. Yorkshire, 4 p. c. ,9 - ,ua Do. 5 p. c. g - ua Stock. & Dar. A 5 p. c Do. B 6 p. c Do. C 6 p. c Faff Vale No. 1 Pref. Vatrt d & Kilkny, 6 p. c W. Mid. -Oxf Ist guastk Do. 2d do Do. Newport 5 p.c. pf.red Do. Perpet.Gp. c. pf. 1866 Do. till 1869 128 123 103 123 117 130 126 105 127 120 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. ( Paid. Leasing 'Closing Business Railways. I Co. s Price. Done. Bedford and Bletchley all ILn.&N.W, , Birkenhead., . Buokingh msiLre lOO Do. Chester & Eolyllead.. 100 Do l5 57 xd Do. 51per cent 100 Do 125 127 xd Do. 5 „ 100 ,Do ll3 115 xd Clydesdale Junction 100 . ,Cledon. Colchester, Stour Val. 100 E.1J.&E.0 67 69 E. Lincolnsh. g• Bpr c. 100 !Gt.North. 138 140 Gls.Barr.&Neils.Dret. 100 ICledon . xd Mosier & Dean Forest! all Gt. Wes . t. Gt.Ea tn. Newmarket; 1 &c , 5 per cent I 00 Gt.Eastn. Do. E.l.T.Harwcti. 4 p.e l ' 10j . Do — Do.Wodbrg. Ex. 4 p.e ICh Do Hull and 6 elby all 1 Yk.N. Mid 111 113 Lancaster & Carlisle 100 i Ln.&N.W 200 102 xd Lon. and Clp,,L Ext. B 1 6 per cent Do. aomley, 6 per c all ,D 0... .. .. Do. New ShlB6l, 4ip.c I all ;D0........ 22 24 Do.Wo. Ext. A, 41 Ic. 0 ! all Do ..... ... tit 01 London & Greenwic:ll 100 IS.Eastern 63 05 Do. Preferen , Lon.,Tilb.& S- -,t`iend 100 Peto &Co B6 69 Lowestoft gua. 4 p c.. 1 100 Norfolk Do 6 per cent , 100 Do. Ilinc.,Tlxtn.,& Matlock all LNW& MI 3 4 xd Mid. Bradford Prefer-1 ence stock j 100 111Ildland 97 99 Northn.&Eastn. sp.c ,' all , Do. Do. 6 per cent. .. _ f all Do. xd N. Easto.--Hartlepool 110 N. E. Ber. .. .. North Western ... ... all Midland 16} 17 I Not. Gran. RI. & Cl. 100 Gt. North. 96 97 Preston and Wyre. I all IL&N W • 1 44 46 & L. Yk. Do. i shares A. all Do. •••••• •• •• Roystn.Hitch.&Shep. 100 Gt.North.ll34 137 Xd Shrewsby & Hereford 100 T Brasseyl3s 137 Do. Do. South Staffordshire lOO i Ln. &N.IV .. West London, Cis A all IW.Ln.Ex Do do 11 all ILn&N.W. _ Do do C all I & Ut.Wst. Wilts and Somerset lOO Gt. West. 92 94 Wimbledn & Croydon all L.&Brgtn, gi 94 xd 92 94 1 8i 941 FREFERENC Dividends contingent 'E SHARES AND STOCKS on the Profits of each separate Year. 104 106 st *Caledon. £lO Gua. Stk st Gt Eeastern, E. Ang. B, 6 p. c. pref st ,Do. do. C 7 do 1 st Do. Gt East. sp. c. pref st Lond'n, Brigotn, &c., 46 per cent... lB5B st Do. do. 4 per et 1860 , st Do. do. 4.} per ct 1861 5 Do. do. 44 per et 1861 10 iLon. & CtrAcin, Metrop. Ext. B, 6 p.c... .... at ILon. &S.Western 44 p.c. 10 (North British £lO Gua Shares, 1861 st Do Ed, Prth,&D'dee,4p e st *Scottisheentral44 p.c.' irred. pref... .... 10 S.-Eastern 44 p.c. 1859 all ei 9,1 10 Do. 5 p.c. June 1661 (rd ) 74 3 pm' 10 Do. 5 p.c. Aug. 1861 (rd ) 74 1 p m l 20 Vale of Neath .. * Failure of full dividends in any given half wade no out pt the MAO et AR au/anima 104 i 107 i 145 150 106 108 102 101 102 101 10,1 101 102 104 85 87 102 xcl :year not to In 1 3 Ludt year. 47 49 35 37 85/ F6l 684 C 94 97 99 13 7 37 38i 8 9 p 5 1 ri 150 154 4i 5 p 2 2p 24 55 56ii 3i p 85 1)0 AO 142 6i 7 41 43 35 40 90 :,*2 'HARES. 94 96 20 21 6 6i 111 113 9) 92 114 114 111 113 129 131 118 120 112 114. 105 107 108 110 98 100 ICO 102 90 02 91 93 102 104 78 80 78 80 173 170 105 107 137 139 103 105 115 117 115 117 136 140 115 117 152 157 )18 132 78 80 102 101 21 2; 122 124 a gum (5 117 .Pm 08 140 104 106 P 5 97 113 115 110 112 1 1 Ibm 94 96 102 104 96 98 1} 01 cl id iP 22 23i 140 145 10 11 24 244 MO 102 100 102 84 20 274 33 33 86 21 28i 34 34 13.14 25 10 st st 50 20 6.4.0 9.16.4 12.10 2s. Oct 1 0. 6. 100 100 100 all all 431 4 xall xd 124 5 66 51 6k 108 71 u 6 100 xd 139 i P stock I Share' Railways. Paid./ Closing 1 Business Price. Done. 10 lAntwerp & Rotterdam. all 7g. 7/ 71 4 20 ;Ardennes .... .... r. all 20 IBah.&S.Fran..Lim. - 7p.c. 18 11 2 p 191 20 191 5 Belgian East. Junction all 11 1/ Carmeaux Mine & Rail 30 101 115 100 Copiapo ........, all 10 Ditto Extension all I 45 4 20 Dutch Rhenish lO 11 11 p 20 1 Do all 20 Eastern of France 20 Grand Ens Guar. 6p. c al 20 Gt. Luxem., Con. shs all 14 141 20 Italian Junction 20 'Namur & Liege .... 20 Do. sp. c. Pref. 16 Northern of France all 395 101 16 Do. New Shares ..... 15 10 Norw.gian Trunk Pref. all 810 20 Ot'mn(Smyrna to Aidn) 17 8 7 d 20 Parls,Lyons, & Meditcr. all 431 44/ 20 Paris & Orleans .. . S 0 1 Recife & S. Fran. (Pern.) (185 gua. 7_p. et. lira-- all 184 195 191 184 191 D2 O Riga & unaburg ...... all 20 Royal Dani5h.......... all 15 16 6 Royal Swedish ......., all 5 4 4 Do. 7 per cent. Pref.... all 20 Sambre & Meuse ...... all 101 105 10 Do. 55 per cent. Pref..... all 9/ 10 9 20 San Paulo, lira, g. 7 p.c. 8 11 11pin 91 20 S.Aust, &Lomb Venetin 18 31 i p 26 S. East Portugal 7 p ot. 10 20 Turin and Savona .... 4 1/ 11 d2l 20 Southern of France.... all 325 335 81 West Flanders 10 Do. 55 pc. Preference., all 1 10 105 20 W. &N.W. of France .. all I 215 225 BRITISH MINES. Clifford Amalgamated.. nil 23 2i Devon G. Con., (Tavist.) 1 445 455 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd. l 58. td 1p East Bassett (Illogan).. 30 47 49 East Caradon 2.14.6 465 471 t 471 East Carn Brea... 3.0.0 101 115 101 11/ E. W'l Russel (Tavistk.' 7.12 6 3 35 Gam.&St.Aubyn(Gwen.) 57 . i 16 4 17 Great South Tolgus l7s 4 45 G. Wheal Vor (Ralston) 40 55 65 Grenville 6.15.6 55 51 Gerod's- Foot 8.12 41 43 tungsten Downs 4.14 25 3 Lady Bertha Margaret (tiny Lelant I 91 41 43 )Marks Valley.. 4 Myndy Iron Ore (Lim.) 24 1 05ds •-• North Downs 25 21 31 3 5 North Frances (Mogan 1 12.3 - N. Wh'l Basset (1110.fan)"2.9 0 3 31 North Wheal Crotty Par Consols (ISt. Blazey) 1 4 5 6 SW Providence(UnyLelnt.), 10.8.7 40 42 Sortridge Cons. blin.Co.l 1 1 4 South Caradon(St.Cleed 15 345 °55 It d S. Carn Brea (Illogan) 3.11.8 24 3 E.Wheal Fran. (Mogan) 18.1R.t. 100 105 - Stray Park 5 Tamar Silv.& Lead Min 45 / 15 10 Tin Croft 9 95 105 West Basset (Mogan) l5 13 14 W Caradon (Li s k ea rd) 5 30 32 West Seton Wheal Basset (Illogan) 51 80 85 Wheal Buller (Redruth) 5 50 55 Wilts( Edward (Cals.) 71 1 11 Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) 1.7.2 95 101 WhealLud ott Wheal Mary Ann (Men ) 8 16 18 Wheal Treiawney (Lis ) 7 16 17 FOREIGN MINES. 20 Australian 1 BonAccord Copper,l,lm ; all 1 I 5 Brazil Land & Mln.Co ; all 6 16 2 Capula Silver its pr fpm 40 Cobra Copper all 21 23 20 Copiapo I 16 7 8 1 DunMoun.Cep.Dling,.Col all / 3 East Del Rey (Limited) 1 1 1 11 ; 2 Fortuna... I all 3 81 20 General all 21 23 2 Gt N. Cop. ,f S. Austr ll 11 d 11 (Capunda (Limited) 1 p Linares all 61 74'. 5 Lueitanian , 2 1 ds 1 Hariquita all .1 1 N.RhineCopofS.Aus.L / 1 ds 20 Pontgibaud Silver,Lead Mining and Smelt..., all 2 4 6 Port Philip,- , 1 la la 1 Santaßarbara 1 pm 1 1 Scottish Austrin. (L.) I 10s. / 1 pm, 20 St. John del Rey (L.) l5 55 57 28.2.81 United Mexican I all 7 71 7/ 1 Worthing (Limited) ' all 3 YuclanamutanaS.A.Ld ; all 21 21 ILONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Can. Gov. 6 p.c.Ja. &July 1877-S2 Do 6 p. cent.lBB3-1 Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Aug. Do. 6 p.O. Mar. & Sept. Do. 5 per cent Do. 5 Inscribed stock) Cape G. Hope, 6p 0,1873! Do.Ap & Oct. 1880, Do. 1800 Do. Jan. & July, 1891 Ceylon, N0v.1861, 6 p c N.B.Gov. 6 p.c. J a.d6July Do. 6p. 0. Ap. & Oct. N. S.W. Gov. 5 p. e., 1866 i Do. 5 p. c.,1871 to 1876 Do. d0.,1888 &upwds' New Zealand 6 p. cent.! Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. c sterling, 1875 S. Aus G6p.0.1878.& up Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja. &July to 6D.0. 1051 6 JOINT-STOCK B 96 5i Agra&UnitedService B; Alliance B. Ln. &L'pool Australasia Bank of Egypt Bank of London British North Ameriesr Ch. Bk. of B. Columbia Chtd.Bank of In. - 11a, &c. Chiller. of In. Lon.& Ch. City Colonial .. Com. Bank of Canada.. Eng., Scot., Az Aus. Ch.. Gen. Bk .of Switzerlane Imperial Bank Limited Lon don and Brazilian . Lon. Char.Bkof Austral London and County .. London Joint Stock . ,London and S.Airican.. !London & Virestminstet Metrop. & Provinl. Bnk. Nat. Prov. of England . Do. new • National Bank ..... . . New South Wales Orient. B. Corporation Ottoman Bank ... Do. new Provincial of Ireland Do. new • • . South Australia ..-... Union of Australia • ,Union of Ireland, Lint ;Unto. of London ....,. 'Unity MISCEL An9, - 13-Mexican Mint ' Atlantic 11. ML Stm (1d) Australian Agricultural Bahia Steam (Limited). Berlin Water (Limited) Bombay Gas Limited. British American Land BAIMag. Tel. A. (Lim.), Do. 8,7p.c.ti111852 (Lim ) Canada Land China & Japan Coast & River Steam Naviga. Cop.Min.ofEng.&Smltg. Do. Pref. 7i per cent Crystal Palace Do. Preferenep Do. 6 p ct. Perpet. Deb E.lndia & Lon. Ship A Do. E. Indi a Ir r i gn . & Canß al Electric Telegraph Do. New English & Aus. Copper Gen. Steam Navigati Great Sbdp Limited) Do 17i p. ct Pref erence Indian Carrying. (Lim.) Lou. District Tel. (Lim.) L.G. Omnibus Co. (Lim.) Lon. & S.lrel.Dt.Tel. L. Madras Irr. and Canal Med. Exten. Tel. (Lim ) Do. 8 per cent. pref National Die. Co. (Lim ) Nerbu.Coal&lron (Lim.) Netherlands Land, Bp. c. N. Br. &N ova Scotia L au d N. B. Austral a slap (13tm.) Oriental Gas (Limited). Ottoman Gas, Limited peelli.„Lnd.&3lm.(Lim) Orintl. In. Steam (Lim) Pen. & Oriental Steam Do. New Rhymney Iron Rio Janeiro City Do. New ImptS Do. do. Royal Mail Steam..... • Scot. Austi n . I nv .(Lim.) ISouth Australian Land Submarine Tel. Scrip Do. do. R eg i stered Do. do .. • • Telegraph to India (L.) Trust and Ac.,ency of Austrlasia (lim) lst is. Tr.& Lu. Co. of Upr.Can. U. li'domTeL co. (li En .) iVap.Dlomento 103 xd xd xd xd xd 87i 8 xd THE SIJN, GONDON, SATURD A Y EVENING, AUGUST 23, 1862. Railways 'Atlantic & St Lawrence Bom.,Baroda&.Cent Ind Gu. 5 per cent.. Do. News . Buffalo and LaKC Huron Do. Preference Buflalo,Brant,&Godricll 6 p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 Do. do. July 1, 1873 Do. (M. June 1, 1871 Cl, - .utta.AlS.Eastn. (Lin ) Cape Town & Dock Scril Demerara Eastn. Bengal gu. 5 p. c, East Indian, gu. 5 p. e.f Do. do. G Ext Do. do. H do. Grand Trunk of Canada Do. 6 per cent. Pref Do. 2d Pref. 6 per ct Do. 6 per ct. Debentr Do. 7 per cent. 1862 Do. do. 1867 Do. do. 1872 G t.lndiaPenin.gua.sp.c Do. New gua. 5 p. 0... Do. January, 1862 .. "G t. South.of India (Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. t. W. of Canada Shares Do. New .. Do. 6 p.c. '73 witlet opt Do. 5 p. c. do. 77 do Do. 1878 - Indian Branch Limited Madras guar., 5 p. a. Do. Op. c. Extension, Do. 14 Melb.Corp. 6 p. 0. Bnds. Newßr answick Canda Ry.&Land(Lim.)g.6pc Class A Capital ShatV Do. do. Laad d 0........ Do. do. B Capital d 0... Do. do. Land do. ....•• N.Rl.C'da6 pc Ist pf bds Sande .......... Do. Punjaub g I Do. Do. ...... • • Do. Indus. St. Flo. Closin9, Price. 58 62 101 102 8 5 i 5 8 1 4 78 82 76 79 76 79 101 103 1071 108 i 103/ 1041 101 k 105 ip 20f 214 41) 64 (8 64 66 30 32 10 13 30 32 30 32 102 103 1 LP 1011 1024 121 121 81 8 98 100 89 91 89 01 die par 1011 102 95 96 91 93 5 7 4 E 85 88 162 i 104 1 pr p 1001 10If I 98 100 GREAT IVORTHERN RAILWAY. MEETING THIS DAY. The half-yearly ordinary general meeting of this company was held at 11 o'clock to-day at King's-cross Station — Edmund Denis, Esq., chairman of the board of directors in the chair. The report of the directors to the meeting, an abstract of which has already appeared in our columns, was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report referred to the sums which had been added to the capital account. The first item was one of £280,000 for the pur chase of the Hertford and Luton line, and he was happy to say that the returns on this line were thus far exceedingly favourable, and in point of fact, the line repaid them what they paid for it; besides which they got the traffic, small as it was, between the King's-cross Station and that line, and the purchase of the line they thus considered a benefi cial arrangement. (Hear.) The sum of £55,730 Bs. 6d. towards the Garston and Liverpool Railway was a sub scriptiep to a line in course of being made. Of the other sums there were £35,786 for works of various descriptions, detailed in the report, and £33,544 Os. 9d. for additional rolling stock, in fact, for new carriages. The sum total added to the capital, was £424,182 6s. 9d. He regretted that the capital of the Company should have been so much increased, but ho thought that there was not the slightest reason to apprehend that the money had been either hastily or injudiciously spent; that, on the contrary, it had been judiciously spent, and would amply repay them for their outlay. The next item, he thought, would be agreeable to them. It was the statement that the sum of £266,970 3s. 6d. had been received on account of the company's 4 per cent. debenture stock, and he thought it fair that he should make an observation upon that. "When the project of raising the stock was first proposed and discussed, they were told that it could never L e got at 4 per cent. There would be considerable doubt on the part of those in the Money Market as to whether they would take the stock. However the directors felt tolerably con fident of success, and the result showed that their confidence was not misplaced, as the total amount of the stock was £2,089,242 Bs. 6d. (Hear.) Regarding the revenue ac count, the gross receipts were £672,458 4s. 7d. against £050,798 2s. 11d. last year, but when they came to balance the account they found that they had to deduct from that £20,000, payable to the Nottingham and Grantham Com pany. That was charged upon the revenue, and for this time, and this time only, it altered the balance of the ac count. The Nottingham and Grantham line, although it could not be quite so favourably reported of as the Hertford and Luton line was as good as could be expected ; besides which it secured their position upon the line between Gran tham and Nottingham, which if not secured would have fallen into the hands of competitors. Meantime, however, the payment had the effect of reducing their revenue, so that instead of £39,296105. Bd., the apparent balance of net revenue, they had only £19,296 10s. Bd. He was happy to say that this increase arose from the decreasing expenditure in the various departments,the locomotive department and others, a fact which did them great credit. With reference to the statement in clause 11 of the report that the charge for relaying the permanent way was £15,000 this year, as against £5,009 in 1861, he mightlexplain that this was a sum which might have been paid out of capital, but being paid out of the revenue was in fact a paying off of the debt to that amount, and he thought that the shareholders would agree that this was a prudent course for them to adopt. There was a sum left available for a dividend of £109,359 16s. 9d., which enabled them to declare a dividend of 41 per cent. on the original stock, or per cent, more than at this time last year, and leave a balance of £1,460 4s. I Id. Regarding the bills introduced into Parliament, one had been passed, but another was rejected on the second read • ing. As to that he thought it had been done without due consideration; however, they must bow to the decision, and consider it for the future. Several bills had been in troduced into Parliament prejudicial and detrimental to the interests of the company, which they thought it prudent to oppose. This opposition was unavoidable, though he regretted its involving them in great expense. He was sure that intelligent gentlemen must know perfectly well that it was as much their interest to protect their property from inroads as to prosecute for new bills which would benefit their line. He, however, regretted the system that took money out of their pocket, but it really could not be avoided. A SHAREHOLDER.--Is the remedy worse than the dis ease ? The CHAIRXAN said that was what they could not ascer tain, as they had not tried letting the disease run its course. Had the alternative of doing nothing been tried—they could not try both at once—they might have had all their traffic taken from them. He lamented the present system of par liamentary proceedings, as there was an immense amount of money thrown away' (Hear.) But it-was asked again what were they to do ? To sit still and let these bills be prosecuted ? That would likely lead to them being seri - ously bled, if he might use the expression. The chairman concluded by expressing, in reply to questions, the hope that Parliament would be persuaded to take the subject of their procedure into consideration, and stating that he would not have the slightest objection to their passing a bill visit ing parties wrongfully opposing the bill with the expense of their opposition, he then moved that the report be received, Mr. PACRE, M.P., seconded the motion. Mr. GOETZ made a few remarks upon the subject of railway accidents and compensation to passengers injured, and asked if there was any amendment likely to be mado in the law. The CHAIRMAN said the feeling among lawyers was, that Lord Campbell's Act was not working as intended, but he could not say whether any change in the law was likely. In the course of a conversation that followed on the subject, he said that the difficulty and absurdity in the present law was, that a poor man and a man with £lO,OOO a year, though paying the same fare, and travelling in the same class of carriage, were treated differently when an accident occurred. Nothing could be more unjust, he thought, than the richer man, travelling at the same fare claiming compensation on his superior income. (Hear, hear:) If parties paid their fares according to their positions in life, or according to the sum they meant to claim, there would be some sense in the law, because their mode of paying would in effect give them a sort of insurance fund. Referring to the law as to corn • mon carriers being only liable for animals up to a certain fixed sum, unless specially insured, even a race-horse, which might be worth a hundred guineas, was only valued at this maximum rate, he said that he did not see why the same principle should not apply to the carriage of passengers. (Applause.) Mr. Hua Las congratulated the directors on the favour able character of the report presented. Everything was couleur de rose, and the dividends were large. He observed, however, there was no sum in the account in connection with the Hitchin accident, and he thought that if there had been no payment to be entered as a charge against revenue, there should at least have been a sum entered as an out standing liability of the company. He censured much the system of subscribing to other lines, which he observed this company was still continuing, as they were proposing in this report to subscrib e £90,000 i n thi s manner. He thought that if they had let other lines alone, and kept to the trunk line, they would have followed a course which would have been much more likely to enhance the prosperity of the company. Other branch lines must have been made, and could not have avoided taking traffic to the Great Northern. Mr. VALENTINE KNIGHT spoke in support of Mr. Hughes's views, and protested against the whole system of amalgamations. This course, if followed, would absorb the dividend altogether, a misfortune which had happened to other companies, and he hoped the directors would take warning in time. The CHAIRMAN said, regarding the Hitchin accident, that at the last trial a verdict against the company had been reduced from 13,000 to £9,000, but as to their further procedure, he did not wish to say anything. Th e di rec t ors were prepared to meet that liability, if it should be unavoid able, without encroaching on the capital of the company. As to the course of the company in their connection with other lines, he thought that the course they had taken was unavoidable, and was the most conducive to their prosperity. He pointed to the dividend which was recommended, and remarked that Mr. Knight's prophecies as to the evils that were to happen had as yet been unrealised. After some further conversation, the motion was unani mously agreed to. Resolutions were then adopted declaring dividends on the original and A and B Stocks as recom mended in the report, as also resolutions authorising the directors to exercise the borrowing powers conferred on the company by the Garston and Liverpool Railway, and other acts to the extent of £91,00. The meeting was then resolved into a special meeting to sanction agreements with certain other companies under the powers of the " Stockport, Time/ley, and Alt r incham Junction Railway Act, 1861 ," the "West Cheshire Rail way Acts, 1861 and 1862," the " Edgware, Highgate, and London Railway Act, 1862," and the " Hatfield and St. Albans Railway Act, 1862," and b authorise subscriptions to the capital of the said West Cheshire, Edgware, Highgate and London, and Hatfield and St. Albans Companies, and the creation of stock for such pur pose. The heads of the various agreements were read over. Mr. Goezt and others opposed them on principle, as part of a system of railway management which they con demned; while in reference to the Edgware, Highgate, and London Railway some shareholders thought that par ticular scheme injudicious, and that the expectations of traffic would not be realised. This opposition was, how ever, overruled, and the proposals of the directors were agreed to. On the motion of Dr. REED a vote of thanks was given to the chairman, and this terminated the proceedings. Yesterday three of the best of the American breech-loading rifles, a Whitworth, an Enfield, and the cavalry carbine (which has been reported on favourably by the Cavalry authorities at Maidstone), were removed from the International Exhibition for the purpose of being publicly tested at the long ranges at Wimbledon against the accuracy and penetration of the Enfield as a muzzle loader. CAPTURE OF A LARGE SALMON.—At the Stan nergate fishing station, east of Dundee, on Wednesday morning, the coblemen captured the largest salmon they have taken there for the past 30 years. It was 3ft. Bin. in length, 27 inches in breadth, and weighed 471 b. It was a remarkably fine fish, and, as its measurements show, ex ceedingly plump and InAvy is prop:quo, to its bizee— PilOff 4ifccrffser, POLICE-THIS DAY. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN A TAVERN.—Henry Walton], a cabinetmaker, with a half-starved appearance, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with attempting to commit suicide at the Olive Branch Tavern, Thomas•street, St, George's. Mr. Edmund Buckley, of 11, High-road, Kensington, decorator, said yesterday afternoon he was takinghis tea at the Olive Branch Tavern, about 5 o'clock, when he heard a rumbling noise in the water-closet, and on proceeding there saw the prisoner in a sitting• posture, with a piece of rope round his neck, it having been broken from another piece hanging to a gas pipe. (The rope was produced.) The rope, which was tied tightly round the prisoner's neck, having been removed, a constable was sent for. Mr. Tyrwhitt—He owes his life to you. Prisoner—The reason why I did it was, because I have b - en out of work a long time, and have a wife and four children. Noyce, 17G D,,said, yesterday afternoon he was called to the house and informed that a man had attempted to hang himself. He found the prisoner sitting in the parlour, and ho said he had no friends. He afterwards said ho had a wife and children at Bethnal-green. Prisoner said he was a cabinet maker. Mr. Tyrwhitt said he:would remand the prisoner for a week, and in the meantime if anything could be done for his family it should be done. It was a rash thing for such a young man to do. Prisoner was remanded. CAUTION TO CARMEN.—Peter Petoin, of 40, Uxbridge • street, Notting-hill, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt, at the instance of Mr. William Love, chief officer of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, with using a pony in an unfit state. From the evidence of George Cheyce, ono of the officers of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani mals, it appeared that he saw the defendant driving the pony attached to a cart in Oxford-street, and observing that it was in a state of suffering, he removed the collar and found an old wound three inches in length, into which the collar was pressing, and also another bad wound of some standing covered with blood. On speaking to the defendant, he said he had hired the horse, and did not know it had the wounds, but this was hardly possible. The pony was brought to the front of the court for the magistrate's inspection, and bore out the officer's statement. Mr. Tyrwhitt, after making some remarks on the de fendant's conduct, fined him 10s., or fourteen days. SOUTHWARK. A DARING ROBBERY.—Ann Judge, who has for some years been ono of the most notorious thieves in the Borough, was charged before Mr. Combo with being concerned with a man named James Peckin, and two other persons who have not yet been apprehended, with committing the fol lowing audacious robbery : Pomeroy, 130 M, stated that on Thursday night last, about 10 o'clock, a gentleman in Warwick-street, Borough road, informed him that he had just been robbed of a gold chain by two men and a woman. The gentleman stated that he had been knocked down by the parties, and he ap peared to have been treated with great roughness, He said that the assault was made on him as ho was coming from the Blackfriars-road. when he was pounced upon by two men and one of the women. From the description which the gentleman gave of the parties he succeeded in appre hending Peckin the following day, and he was remanded yesterday until Friday. He also took the woman into cus tody last night. It appeared that Peckin, who denied the charge, was a returned convict. Mr. Combo inquired why the prosecutor was not pre sent, as his evidence would be necessary to enable him to commit the prisoners for trial P Pomeroy said he understood he was suffering so severely from the injuries he had received that he was unable to at tend, but that he would be present in the course of next week. He said that he had no doubt he would be able to bring the charge home to the woman, and that he would be able to apprehend the other parties. The prisoner, who stoutly denied the charge, was re manded until Friday. THAMES. A DESPERATE WlPE,—Ellen Fitzgerald, a strapping Irishwoman, was brought up on remand before Mr. Self's, charged with cutting and wounding her husband, Dennis, ' labourer, whose left aim was bandaged. The parties have been for some time dwelling in Alma place, Cartwright. street, Rosemary-lane. On Sunday last at dinner time, Dennis Fitzgerald was washing out. a pocket handkerchief while his wife was eating her dinner, and he remarked that what he was doing was woman's work, not a man's work. This provoked the ire of the prisoner, who abused her husband, and took up a knife with which she inflicted two wounds on his arm. He was taken to the hospital, and has been under medical treatment ever since. He said he was only just recovering the use of his hand. He was Tory badly wounded, and lost a good deal of blood. The prisoner, in defence, said her husband attempted to choke her, and was a great vagabond. She called a witness named Briant, who said the Fitzgeralds were very sober people, and only had a " bobbery" now and then. Mr. Selfe committed the prisoner for trial at the Middle sex Sessions. EXTRAORDINARY CUAIWE.—Mary Johnson, aged 23, who was described as a prostitute, of 15, Star-street, Bromley, -vas charged with stealing £4 iu gold from the person of Thomas Gibson, a watchmaker, of 1, Type-street, Bethnal-green. The prosecutor, a grave-looking old man, said he met the prisoner last night in Bromley, and she said that she had two sick children at home, and was in great distress. He wanted to act a father's part towards her, and took her to a chandler's shop and gave her bread and cheese and a pint of small beer, with a bottle of ginger beer in it. He then walked about with her, giving her fatherly advice, until half-past four o'clock this morning, when he missed four sovereigns, and then gave her into custody. Mr. Selfe—And you were walking about with her six hours and a half giving her fatherly advice ? The prosecutor—Yes, sir, I have fourteen children of my own, and took pity on this young woman. Mr. Selfe—Don't you act a fatherly part again to frail women. The prisoner is discharged. Give the man his gold. MARKETS-THIS DAY. COVENT GARDEN. The show of wheat is still very moderate, and the demand rules steady at full prices. Vegetables, however, owing to the good supply on offer, move off slowly, at our quotations. FRUIT. s. d. s. d. Pine apples, perlb 5 0 to 7 0 Colonial do., each 0 0 to 0 0 Grapes,per lb 3 0 to 6 0 Foreign do 0 0 to 0 0 Peaches Nectarines, per dz 2 0 to 4 0 Apples, per hi-sv. 1 6 to 2 6 Years, per do Oranges, per 100 1 0 to 12 0 Lemons, per 120 3 6 to 7 0 Gooseberries hi sve4 6 to 5 0 Strawberries pr pt 0 6 to 1 0 S. d. sd. Cherries, per lb. 0 oto 0 0 Foreign ditto, pun() oto 0 0 Filberts, per lb .. 0 6to 1 0 Cobnuts, per lb 0 oto 0 0 Almonds, per bus 0 oto 0 0 Walnuts, per 100 1 6to 2 6 Figs, per doz. 4 0 to 8 0 Damson .. 4 oto 5 0 Currants, per h.sv 6 oto 6 6 Plums, per do. .. 4 oto 5 0 Greengages, pr do. 6 oto 7 0 Raspberries, prpt 0 3to 0 4 VEGETABLES. Greens, dz bunch 2 0 to 2 6 Cabbages, pr doz. 0 10 to 1 3 , Savoy do., pr dz. 0 0 to 0 0 Cauliflowers, p dz 1 0 to 2 6 Brocoli, per bun. 0 0 to 0 0 Potatoes, per ton 90 to 130 0 New ditto, pr pd 11 0 to 16 0 Peas, per sieve 0 0 to 0 0 Turnips, dz bunch 2 0 to 2 6 Carrots,pr do 5 0 to 6 0 Cucumbers 0 3 to 1 0 Garlic, per lb Sorrel, per sieve 0 0 to 0 0 Green peas,ll.-sv.l2 0 to 0 0 Brus. sprouts,h.s. 0 0 to 0 0 Onions, ht. sv .1 6 to 2 0 New Do., dz bun 0 9 to 1 3 French beans, 160 1 0 to 1 3 Leeks, per bunch 0 0 to 0 0 Shallots, per lb .. 0 10 to 1 0 Horseradish, pbn 1 oto 2 0 Parsley, per ditto 0 3to 0 4 Celery, per ditto 0 oto 0 0 Beet, per doz. .. 1. 6to 2 0 Parsnips, per do. 0 oto 0 0 Small salad, p. pn, 0 oto 0 0 Mushrooms.p ptl. 1 6to 2 0 Artichokes, each 0 4to 0 6 Cabbage lett,score 0 oto 0 0 Endive, per score 0 oto 0 6 Radishes, dz hnds 0 oto 0 0 Tomatoes, doz... 0 oto 0 0 Walnuts, per 100 0 oto 0 6 Chillies, per ditto 0 oto 0 6 Capsicums, per do 0 oto 0 0 Rhubarb, per bun 0 0 to 0 0 Asparagus, pr do. 0 oto 0 0 Seakale, per bun. 0 0 to 0 0 HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—OId meadow hay, £2 Os to ,L 5 Os Od ; new do., £1 168 to £4 Os; old clover, £4 Os to £5 15s Od ; new do., £3 lOs to £5 Os; and straw, £1 16s to £2 Os per load. Supply good, and trade dull. CVMBERLAND..—OId mewlow hay, £2 Os to £5 Os; new do., £1 lOs to £4 Os; ol 1 clover, £4 Os to £5 los ; new do., £3 lOs to £5; and straw, £1 lOs to £2 Os per load. A slow trade. WITITECHAPEL.—OId meadow hay, £2 O. to £5 Os; new do., £1 16s to £4 Os ; old clover, £4 Os to £5 15s ; new do., £3 lOs to 1:5 Os; and straw, 16s to £2 Os per load. Trade dull. NEWGATE AND LEADENTIALL. Turkeys, Os Od to Os Od ; geese, 4s Od to Gs Od each ; goslings, Os Od to Os Od ; ducks, Is 9d to 2s 9d ; ducklings, Is 9d to 2s 9d; rabbits, 10d to is 6d each; wild do., 9d to is ld ; pigeons, 4d to Sd each ; large Surrey fowls, Gs Od to 19s Od ; chickens, 5s Od to 7s ; barn-door fowls, 3s Gd to 6s Od ; capons, Os Od ; hares, Os Od to Os Od ; grouse, Os Od to Os Od each; ptarmigan, Os Od to Os Od ; partridges, Os Od to Os Od ; woodcocks, Os Od to Os ; snipes, Os Od to Os; teal, Os Od to Os Od ; wild ducks, Os Od to Os Od ; widgeons, Os Gd to Os Od ; plovers, Os Od to Os Od each ; guinea fowls, Os Od to Os Od ; roasting pigs, Os Od to Os Od each; Ostend fresh butter, 10d to is Id ; English, is to is 3d per lb ; English eggs, 8s Od to Os Od ; French do., 5s Gd to 7s Od per 120 ; leverets, Os Od to Os Od each. BILLING SOATE. Salmon, 10d to is Od ; trout, 9d to Od ; eels, 8d to Is ; prams, Os to Os ; pike, skate, sturgeon, and halibut, Gd per lb. ; turbots, 2s Gd to 15s ; cod 2s Od to 5 s Od ; brills, is Od to 7s Od ; dorevs, is Od to 5s ' 0(1; mullets, Os Gd to is 6d ; lobsters, Gd to 3s Od ; crabs, Gd to 2s 6d ; plaice and gurnets, 4d to is Od each ; soles, Gd to 3s 6d per pair ; common oysters,l2s to 20s ; natives, —s to 44s per bushel ; whitings, 3s Od to lOs ; haddocks, 4s to 12s ; smelts, Os Od to is 6d; flounders, Os Od per dozen ; mackerel, 40s per 120 ; fresh herrings, Gs per 100 ; bloaters, Os per 100 ; carp and tench, Os Od to Os per brace. NEWPORT. Beef, from 2s 10d to 4 s Od ; mutton, 3 s 2 d to 4s 4d ; lamb, 4s Od to 5s Od ; veal , 3 s Sd to 4 s Sd ; and pork, 3s Gd to 4s Gd per Sibs 1)y tho carcase. IVHITECHAPEL. Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s Od ; mutton, 3s 2d to 4s 4d ; lamb, 4s Od to 5s Od ; veal, 3s 8d to 4s 8d ; and pork, 3s Gd to 4s 6d per Sibs by the carcase. BREAD. The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from 8d to Sid, of household do., 6d to 7id per 41b loaf. HIDES AND SKINS. Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, 2id to 3d ; 641 b to 721 b, 3d to 31(.1 ; 721 b to 801 b, 3d to 3id ; 801 b to 881 b, 3d to 41c1; 81b to 961 b, 4d to 4id ; 961 b to 1041 b, 4id to 4ld. Horse hides, Os Od to O s Od ; ca lf s ki ns, li g ht 2 s to 3 s Od ; do. full, Gs Od to Os Od ; polled sheep, 3s Gd to 48 Od ; half. breds, Os Od to Os Od; Downs, 2s 10d to 3s Qdi 1943;001 315 Od to f;J to 9A4 In short, the general principles which Professor Simonds lays down for the guidance of fiock mas t ers who may happen to be visited with an attack of small-pox among their sheep are—to isolate the infected sheep from the healthy, to separate the former into small Jots, to protect them from at mospherical changes, to husband the strength of the pa tients by good nursing ; to use depletive remedies with the greatest caution, and only in the first stages ; to have early recourse to stimulating and tonic agents; to guard against the use of local applications, except when ulcerous sores exist; and last, but not least, to call in the services of a properly educated veterinary surgeon, and rely with con fidence on his judgment and skill. Nearly three weeks have now elspsed since Mr. Parry's flock were inoculated, and it is worthy of remark that out of 446 ewes in which the disease was thus artificially, as it were, produced, he has lost only four, while of those which took the disease naturally, the losses have already been 60 per cent., and there are numbers of other sheep of the recovery of which there is little hope--indeed, the total loss of those who have taken the disease in a natural way, Mr. Parry estimates, will not be much short of 65 per cent. Putting this, therefore, in contrast with the results after inocula tion, which, under the most unf , vourable circumstances, are not expected to average a mortality of more than 6 per cent., the desirableness of inoculation immediately upon the appearance of the disease in a flock, is placed beyond doubt. The deaths in the Allington flock up to the present time cannot be reckoned at less than 400; but as the lambs were not inoculated for at least a week after the older portion of the flock it is impossible to say what the ultimate result will be. One thing, however, is already apparent—that the lambs which aro sickening aro by no means so seriously affected as those which took the disease naturally, and there seems every reason to hope that the rate of mortality will be light even among this portion of the flock, although young sheep are, as a rule, always more susceptible to the influence of the disease than those of older growth. Paid. Business done Share( FOREIGN RAIL WAYS 105 107 103 105 106 108 95 96 94 05xd 108 109 1112 114 1112 111 1111 113 104 106xd 100 101 99f 100 99 100 108 110 104 106 ICB 110 1.66 108 108} 109 ANK S. 87 89 4} 5 p 68 69d 23 e 4 84 85 t id 184 194 M 67 90 92 40 42 17& 18 id ip 2.51 P , 6 4 36 374 334 341 3 34 p 78 8 id pr 41 13 52 54 224 294 p 45 46 1 04 d 31 62 ,ANEOUS. 18 'B4 2 4 22} 5 5i i die ip 50 55 :9 21 101 104 14 18 E 4 e 5 107 111 IEB 111 i d ipm 99 102 2 21 26 27 I i 1 li 41 al d II I& 24 21 3i 4i li II 1) 1 2 p i 1 12 14 11 1P 13# 7 par 1, m 52 sf p 72 71 11 13 1 8 20 6 6 27 281 _54 66 125 135 31 P. 3 1 I 4 1 6 f d id pr 1 p X l3 13 100 • 100 100 ' 100 001 1081 1051 33f ; x d 19 781 351 132 x d 711 E .2VALIGNANT DISORDER AMONG SHEEP. Nearly a month has elapsed since the outbreak of small pox in Mr. Joseph Parry's celebrated Allington flock. The disorder is now spreading, to the great dismay of all flock masttrs, in Wilts, Hants, and Dorset. The rumours re specting the calamity are exceedingly numerous, and many of them utterly false, those in particular that apply to places in mid• Hampshire, and to a district westward of Southampton, on the immediote bofeler of Dorsetshife. We can make this assertion on the best authority. With re gard to the spreal of the disorder in Wiltshire, we find the most reliable information in iho _Devizes Gazette of yester day. It would appear that up to Monday morning no symptom of infection had manifested itself beyond Ailing.. ton, and as a few more days would have seen Mr. Parry's sheep through the last stage of the disease, the adjoining fEckmasters entertained good hope that the loathsome and fatal malady would have been eradicated without doing fur ther mischief, The disease, however, has shown itself in a flock of 400 beautiful fat wethers belonging to Mr. Harding, of Etchilhamplon, which were being corn-fed in prepara tion for Wilton fair, on a spot at least a mile and a half from Allington, and divided from it by the canal and by intermediate farms. Naturally apprehensive for the safety of his fleck, Mr. Harding had, immediately upon hearing that the disease had broken out among Mr. Parry's sheep, his own flock removed to the remotest corner of his farm, They were ac cordingly placed in a field near " the Monument," adjoin ing the Salisbury road, where it seemed almost impossible that the disease could reach them—without, at all events, first passing through the flocks which were folded on the intermediate farms. About midday on Monday the atten tion of the shepherd was arrested by the staggering gait of some of the sheep, and upon an examination being made, it was unmistakeably apparent that the dreaded malady had come among them. Mr. Harding at once went over to Allington to consult with Mr. Parry, and, finding that Pro fessor Simonds was expected from London on the following day, he awaited the arrival of that eminent veterinary, and on Tuesday Professor Simonds examined the flock, and by his advice the whole of the sheep cn Monday were inocu lated, as the most likely means of lessening the fatal conse quences of the attack. The consternation which this fresh outbreak has caused will, as the Devizes paper points out, readily be understood, and the danger is the more alarming from the inexplicable way in which the disease has been conveyed. Had it ap peared in either of the flocks on adjoining farms to Mr. Parry's, it might in some way have been accounted for, but there is no means of accounting for its appearance on the spot where it has now shown itself—far removed, as we have said, from Allington Farm, and with flocks folded on intermediate land, which up to the preseut time are per fectly healthy and well. The medicines which have been used in the case of the Allington flock have been very simple, consisting chiefly of nitrate of potass, mingled with the water which is placed in the troughs, until a subsistence of the fever takes place, after which sulphate of iron has been substituted. Where diarrhoea has come on—as it not unfrequently does in the latter stage of the malady, more particularly if the pox becomes confluent—opium is recommended as a valuable agent to arrest the attack, which, if not quickly stopped, very soon carries off the sheep. FROM - TEE GAZETTE OF LAST EVENING. WITITEIIA.LL, AUG. 21, The Queen has been pleased to appoint the ittght lion. the Lord Mayor of the City of London; Major-General Sir Joshua Jebb, K.C.B. ; John Thwaites, Esq., Chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works ; Captain Douglas Galton, of the Royal Engineers ; Edward Burstal, E. g., Commander in her Majesty's Navy, Secretary of the River Thames Conservancy Board; Henry Arthur Ilunt, Esq., Surveyor of her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings; John Robinson M'Clean, Esq., and 'William Tite, Esq., to be her Majesty's Commissioners to consider Plans for making a communication between the Embank ment at Blackfriars Bridge and the Mansion House, and also between the Embankment at Westminster Bridge and the Embankment at Millbank. FOREIGN-OFFICE, AUG. 22. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Abdullah Effendi as Consul-General at Manchester for the Sublime Ottoman Porte. _ The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Don Francisco de Acuna, as Consul at Southampton for her Majesty the Queen of Spain. The following notice is substituted for that which appeared in the Gazette of the 19th inst. : CROWN-OFFICE, AuG. 18. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, con stituting and appointing Brent Spencer Follett, Esq., one of her Majesty's Counsel learned in the Law, Registrar of the Office of Land Registry, by virtue of an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, intituled " An Act to facilitate the proof of title to and the conveyance of Real Estates." WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, AUG. 22. Corps of Royal Engineers—Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Alexander Cunningham to be Colonel, vice Laughton, deceased ; Captain Archibald Impey to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Smith deceased ; Captain William Drumm n 1 Alexander Roberton Short to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Cunningham, promoted; Captain and Brevet- Major William A r d en Crommelin, C.i3., to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Yule, who retires; Second Captain Charles Thornton Stewart to be Captain, vice Impey, promoted ; Second Captain and Brevet- Major Frederick Richard Maunsell to be Captain, vice Short, promoted ; Second Captain Fred. Weston Peile to be Captain vice Crommelin, promoted. AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the returns made in the week ending Aug. 19, 1562, exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain Per. cwt. From the British possessions in America 22s. 5 2d. Mauritius East Indies 225. llid. Average price of the foregoing BANKRUPTS. The following are the only bankrupts of commercial im portance which appeared in the Gazette : Joseph Kent Joseph Perigoe, builder, Tunbridge 'S II II althamstow William Henry Astley, photographer, John William Perkins, chemist, John Barford, clerk, Camdeno-nei t dd sy s . 11 De vonshire Harry , evonshire Matthew Willing, moister, a o r wr g n a t e Harry Thos. Hopkins, coal merchant, w W. Donnelly, eiv.il_entgi,n_eeri,nle,hefinecilidurch-street k Brixton John Francis, coach h agent, 11 7. .5t Gorton, George Folsom Samuel J. Milne, commission co tton m sp a inuer, Oldham Lan cashire Field, forwardin g George W. a g ent, Strand • s u y i3 d u e r a t l o e n r , i i n ro c n o m ke o , nger, New-cut Samson li. Commercial-road East James R. Muir, accountant, &Nen Sister's -road Henry )iinion, publican, Aldridge, Staffordshire i sr m . Smith, plumber, Edenfield, Lancashire William Beckett, farmer, Norfolk William Howells, draper, Swansea SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. • James French, accountant, Glasgow George Hay, farmer, Easter Milanonie, Banffshire John M`Dougall, saddler, Tain COURSE OF EXCHANGE,—YESTERDAY. Amsterdam Ditto Rotterdam — 11 18i 11 181 Antwerp. Brussels — 25 471 25 50 Hamburgh — 13 8k 13 81 Paris Ditto Marseilles Frankfort on Maine — 1191 119! Vienna Trieste Petersburgh Berlin 13 0 34k 13 10 341 Madrid Cadiz Leghorn Milan 49 49h 25 57i 25 57i 25 57 49+ 49a 25 621 25 62+ 25 62+ Genoa - -I - 391- z Naples Palermo — 119 119} Messina Lisbon — 521 53 Oporto — 521 .531 Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per oz ....•.£0 17 9 0 0 Mexican Dollars Silver in Bars (Standard) ‘, 5 0 1/ S ou th American Doublo ons .................. 0 u The Sacred Harmonic Society, Exeter-hall, will repeat their P e rformance ef lgeoi 4 U V YriciaY neNt, Ault 29, From the abrupt termination of the case at the Guildford assizes, the evidence that was to have been adduced on behalf of the defendant was not alluded to ; if this had been gone into, it would have tended to make the inquiry of a still more extraordinary character. The defendant, Mr. Waite, is a tradesman in London, and possessed of considerable property; and the Norbiton Farm Estate was purchased by him, at the auction mart, for L 15,000; and he has since laid out £5,000 upon the property ; so that he had a very large sum at stake, and when he was called upon to give up the property on the ground that the deeds that were executed were not valid, upon the supposition that a forgery had been committed, he spared no ex pense in procuring evidence, and the case that would have been set up on his behalf was that both the deed of gift and the will of the 2d of September, 1856, under which Mr. Roupell came into possession of the propertywere genuine instrumento, and very strong evidence would have been brought forward to establish these facts. It would of course have also been suggested that Wm. Ronpell's con fession of forgery was merely an afterthought for the purpose of getting the property back to the use of his family; and there were a great many strong facts that would have materially favoured such a suggestion. It appears there were nearly 50 wit nesses at Guildford on behalf of the defendant, a great many of whom had had intimate and exten sive business transactions with Richard Palmer Roupell, the father of Mr. Wm. Roupell, and were perfectly well acquainted with his handwriting,and the greater part of these witnesses would have ex- Tressed their positive belief that the signature to _ _ he will and the deed of gift were the genuine sig lature of the old man, and they would have spoken . . o this important fact without the slightest doubt or hesitation; and it at the same time appears to be perfectly clear that, but for what has since taken place, the genßineness of these signatures would never for a moment have been disputed. Besides the evidence of these witnesses as to the handwrit ing, there were a great many who would have proved positively that the deceased had upon seve ral occasions stated that he had given the Kingston estate to his son William, and that he had nothing more to do with it, and this would have been very material evidence in support of the supposition that the deed of gift was a genuine instrument ; and if the case had gone to the jury upon these facts, it is very doubtful whether the defendant would not have obtained a verdict. It has been already stated that the amount of property squandered away by William Roupell was between £200,000 and £300,000 ; but there are grounds for believing that in addition to this enor mous sum, he is considerably in debt, and otherwise involved. Before he left Guildford he was served witha writ for £5OO by one of the officers of the Sheriff of Surrey. A correspondent of the Times writes as follows : " In the course of the examination of Mr. Roupell it will have been observed that he more than once stated that he had been robbed and defrauded by others'; yet, strange to say, this avowal was not followed in either instance by what would appear to have been the natural rejoinder, By whom ?' Had this, a; it appears to me, pertinent question been asked, I believe startling revelations would have been the result. It may be true, and doubt less is, that neither his mother nor brother knew of these forgeries and frauds until the evening prior to his leaving this country, but it is generally believed in this borough that another relative who has had from Mr. Roupell the great bulk of the money he has raised, not only knew of the forgeries prior to his leaving this country, but was cognisant of them soon after they were perpetrated, and has from time to time made this knowledge the means of enforcing his demands. Tho insertion of this letter may, perhaps, tend to a little enlightenment on these points at the coming trial." THE MURDERS IN 7HE NORTH. NEWCASTLE-9N-TYNE, Aro. 22, . . John Dixon and Thomas Miller, the two ruffians who threw Patrick Rogers, alias Needle Jack, through a privy hole at the High Crane, upon the a Quayside of this town, on Saturday last, and fro m whence he was swept by the tide under. a ship stern and drowned, have been committed. by e of magistrates to-day to take their trial on . n wilful murder. The facts, as adduced_ Mon were precisely these reported in The Su_ man, who Mon day. The prisoners had followed the Id o of them had was drunk, into the privy, and after ono i p ri a , o c n evidence, arg singed his hair with a lighted p a per they he had thrown. had slid into him into the tide, and from seemstnence was drawn over body was found the old man's the river, and was drowned. It coat that when his would be that he could his arms, the effect of which concluded the inquest Yesterday the corone o r t 4 _ Y. tHjallidav, the old woman who have made no exertions int t hewater to save himself. upon the body of A was barbarously street, on Sunday week. It mu rdered in the village of Hobble- Trot, near Chester -le itioual evidence at yeaerday's was proved proved bya n e in the house of the Irishman Cox, are in custody on charge o f t w in h g o, th w a i t th any hj o s wife, having mur dered the old woman, could have heard woma o ingtthatn transpired in the house of the old ht f the murder and that the 1 into it always nn i w oveho occupied heard the the po o cottagr old e befo creature say re Cox came her l prayers le before o she retired t o res t o f a night. P e-r ' e r i ng Th i s evidence strongly confi rme d the i mpress ion that if the old woman's house had been broken open and she herself brutally maltreated by persons other than the Coxs, they must have heard it. It was also proved that the old woman's door had been broken in. So the allegation made by the prisoners that they heard nothing of any disturbance, and were only awoke by their hearing the old woman groan, a s if s h e had fallen oat of bed, could not b e true. The Jury, after the summing up of the Coroner, Mr. Pavill, found a verdict of wilful murder against the priemers, John And his yife Mary cox. 711 E ROUPELL CASE. The following additional particulars in reference to this most extraordinary trial will, doubtless, be interesting to the public. It was stated that after Mr. Roupell had been examined before the magis trates at Guildford he was fully committed to take his trial at the Central Criminal Court; and as the August session of that court had only just commenced, and the grand jury were still sitting, it was thought that he would have been at once conveyed to New gate, and that the case might possibly come on at the present session. It appears, however, that the committal was for the September session, and the prisoner was consequently, in the ordinary course, taken to Horseraonger-lane Prison, the county gaol for Surrey, within which district the offence was alleged to have been committed ; and he will be re- moved to Newgate with the other Surrey prisoners shortly before the September session, which will commence on the 22d of that month. It appears to be not at all improbable that some more proceedings of an extraordinary nature are likely to arise in reference to this peculiar case. The public is aware that Mr. Roupell was given into custody by Mr. Baron Martin, the presiding judge, and taken before a magistrate upon the charge of forging the deed of gift. The only evidence that was then gone into in support of the charge, was proof that he hadadmitted, while under examination, that he had forged the deed in question; and upon this evidence alone he stands committed. it ap pears, however, that such evidence is considered totally insufficient to support such a charge, and that if he should be tried upon this evidence alone, the result would be that he would be acquitted. It appears to be also very doubtful whether such evi dence would be admissible, particularly as it Was given without a caution from the judge that Mr. Roupell was not bound to answer any questions that might tend to criminate himself, and under the compulsion of an oath. This case would appear to show the necessity for a public prosecutor, or some official whose duty it would be to see that justice was not defeated. Mr. Tongue, the gentleman who was bound over to prosecute, is merely the associate who sits on the civil side during the as sizes ; and he is not all connected with criminal matters. If he were to incur the expense of put ting the case into the hands of some experienced attorney, with instructions to proceed with the pro secution and procure the necessary evidence to sup port the charge, it would appear that there is no source from whence the money so expended could be refunded ; so that it is not very likely that he will incur so serious a responsibility, and there is no one else to do so. atk 1 20 204 174 stock stock stock 100 100 100 100 100 100 stock stock 90.11 100 f 100 100 100 { 100. 15 all 100 all all 1 all all all all 1 100 all 100 all all a,l all I 5 3 281 42k 291 ili I 1 31a I 341 109 f 11 11i 101 f 1021 1061 104* 105 4f IC2i IG2& 11 i