The Sun. — London, England, 1860-09-05 00:00:00

. , MONEY MARKET AND CITY .NEWS. SHARE MARKET.-(THIS DAY.) _ -- 4 .--- .----4--. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. ORDINAR Y S HARES AND STOCKS. Sha ____--- Ample provision was made by the commercial , paid. Cgs& B po usin nc ess 10( 'glare! Railways. classes for their engagements which arrived at 1 stk all - - ____ __ _ if maturity yesterday, no cases of embarrassment re- 2( quiring special comment having taken place. It 13 5 . 0 14 1 , . 13 8 i e r 1 . fa5t and Ballymena Wol ,and Str. Val. all 8 81 2( 1( is true the state of the money market gave them stock Birk., La., and Ch June loall 1140 78 121 80 25 Blackburn all due facilities for the prompt dischar g e of their 25 Blyth and Tyne - - liabilities ; but it is satisfactory to find that the 10 Bost. Sleaf. an d Mid. Co. all 64 7 stock Bristol and E xeter 10( failures recently reported were confined principally stock Caledonian lOO 94 941 10 Carmarthen & Cardigan all - -2( to one department of business, and that for the 2( 50 Cork and Ban don all - - 2( 20 Cork, Blrock., .Passa g e all - - present at least the apprehended di ffi culties in ail 54 64 •1: other directions have not been experienced. 20 Corn wall ... . 10 Do A nets no er d a iv. ;, until 6pc p n. 10 Do B I all - -2( sto( Money can be obtained on first - c lass securities r hasbeen . d. toB all - -2( 2( 50 Dublin & Belfast June. all - - at 31, to 3i 161 71 175 85 10( 10( more disposed than they were a week a g o stoc k East An Counties lOO 534 544 541 2( to discount long dated paper. The settlement of stock Eastern Union, A stock 100 40 42 sto. the Consol account may stimulate the inquiry for stock Do do Bdo 100 28 30 25 Do Nw A. late EU3ds. 81 - - sto( loans, but they are still negotiated on very mode- 20 East Suffolk - - 10( 10 Do - - 10( rate terms. stock Edinburgh & Glasgow 100 81 82 10( stock Edin. Perth & Dundee ICO 301 311 30 4 4 101 There was no alteration of importance in the 10 For ' Junction a ll - th & Clyde - Foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon. stock Furness - - t 2( stock Glasg. and S. Western 100 107 109 A further sum of 172,000 in gold was taken into 10 Great Ntlin. of Scotland all - -2( the Bank of England yesterday, and a considerable stock Great Northern lOO 1141 1154 stock Do do A stock increase may be expected in the bullion.: stock Do do Bdo stock Gt. S. &W. of Ireland 100 111 113 10( The Liverpool Cotton m arket yesterday closed 100 71 711 71 4 i stock Great Western with a firm appearance, and the price of Surat stock Do Str Val gua. stock 100 60 65 12 Trish South-eastern all - - 10( 10( advanced L.d. per lb. The sales were estimated at stock Lancashire & Yorkshire 100 1091 1101 1104 4 1 10,000 bales, of which 1,000 were taken for export stock London and Blackwell 100 67 es 68 sto( stcs 100 47 49 stock Lon., Bright_ & S Coast 100 110 111 1104 10 and 3,000 on speculation. In Railway Shares a stock Lond., Chat., and Dover sto( stock Lond. & Nth. Western 100 1004 101 101 1 2( good business was transacted, and prices of most 124 Do eighths - - 93 24 2( stcm lines, with the exception of Great Western and stock Lond. & sth. Western lOO 92 _93 25 L'derry & Coleraine . • all -2( Lancashire and Yorkshire , which were rather a st 2 o s ck 11 1' 1 ' 117S% e&f. EzLniinsepiolilnea. 10 a 0 11 4 1 3 0 ! 4 1 1 1 . 4 4 44 lower, exhibited an upward tendency. 50 Maryport and Carlisle all - A 1 There is very little animation to-day in the Mar- 121 Do do 1 shares all - 21 4 3 2 d 10 Metropolitan 2( ket for Public Securities, and rather less buoyancy stock Midland stcs has been exhibited, but the actual variation has all - -2( Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland stock so Do lairming. & Derby 100 100 102 been merely fractional, Consols being 931 1 for 25 Do 4 shares all -2( 25 Mid Kent. all - - stogy money, and 931 1 for the 10th October. Sales have 10 Do, Cray Line - -2( 100 Newcastle and Carlisle all - -1( been effected on speculative account and the re- - 10 Newry & Armagh, def 9 7 6 d • orted receipt of unfavourable advices from the wry, Warapt. & Ros all - - llst2oock I N Te orfolk... . 100 55 V 564 51 . .. ll Continent. The New Threes are 931 4; the Re- 50 Nthn. Counties Union L duced 931 1 ; Long Annuities 16 1 -1-, ; Exchequer stock North British.. stock Nor.Dev.Rail&Dk.stoe,.. I( 100 -- -2( I stk ; A recs no d. , ' Bills Is. to 4s. prem. ; India New Loan is 2( t 103 a ; stock D t ai un 6pchas beenpd.B 100 - - ditto 5 p er C e nt Enfaced Paper 961 ; ditto 51 per stock Do B stock ......... 100 - - . . 1 ✓ - stock Nth. Eastern-Berwick 100 98 984 9 8 4 I I 10( ✓ Cent. 1021 3- , ; ditto Debentures, 96 . 4 ; and ditto 25 Do do , G.N.E. purchase 15134 11 1 d d it t Bonds ss. dis. ; Bank Stock is 231; and India stock Do Leeds 100 5• 54 53 1 4 . 2( stock Do York •••••• - - • • • • 100 82 4 63 S 2 fr i i - 2( a, ditto, 218. stock North London • 19.16.4 North Staffordshire 174 34 11 dl4 134 21 ,- In the Foreign Stock Market the dealings have 10 N. and S. W. Junction all 94 10 . 2( 21 been rather numerous, but the alterations in prices 12 Not. & Grantham Rail lO 161 i a 10 Peebles..... ••.•••• • • • • • a l l - 21 are unimportant. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 734 1- ; - Portsmouth - -2( Y all - -2( ditto New Loan, 571 2 3 ,• Venezuela, 2 3 1 1 ; Brazi- 21 1.- stock ato l e o k I Scot.t h Scottish N ' Y Central ••• •-•• • • • • 100 114 116 100 324 331 33 3: 3- lien, 1004 • ; Chilian 3 Cents., 74 • Mexican 211 -I ; per , E., Aber. stock - ' stock Do Scot. Mid. stock lOO 87 89 ..,, 11 f- Peruvian, 941 ;Portuguese, 444 4• ; Sardinian, 834 ; 50 52 a. 21 w and Spanish, 481 ; and ditto Deferred, 40 1. 10 Slain gbourne & Sheer. all 6 7 stock Shropshire Union lOO 100 41 43 21 stock South Devon ill The Ocean Marine Insurance Company's shares 2< 100 - - stock South Eastern ........ 100 87 871 87 4 4it stock South Wales .. - • • • • • • 11 tp are 2 1 pm. ; the Universal, 1 1 pm. ; and the stock S. York. and River Dun 100 78 80 21 o-20 Staines, Wok.. and Wok all 6 8 2( i ,, Thames and Mersey,l _a p m . 25 Stockton & Darlington all 38 39 Business in the Railway Share Market has been 25 Do do ll 85 95 p 2( he - Stockton & Hartlepool 16.1 - -2( ho moderately active, and rather more firmness has stock Taff Vale - - 11 ad- prevailed in prices. Eastern Counties, Edinburgh, stock Do Pref. No 1 lOO i- -2( 25 ThamesHavenDk&Rail 22 - - ' tat Perth, and Dundee, Great Western, Lancashire 50 Ulster •• • all I 551 561 p ' my 25 Do 20 , 2 3 and Yorkshire, and South Western have improved 12 10 Do .. ~ : ............ 1 1 1 s o p 21 11 let 2l 55., and North Western and Midland 10s. Lon-a I i 5 114 stock Vale of Neath 13 Victoria Sta. and Pim don and Brighton have declined 10s. stock Waterford & Kilkenny 100 - - 21 ley 50 Waterford & Limerick all - - 1 we The Foreign and Colonial undertakings have 20 West Cornwall apy shown little variation. South Austrian and Lom- 20 West London --•• • • • • all - - 21 10 Do Ist class .. • all - - 21 bardo Venetian realise 11 ; and Antwerp and Rot- 20 Do 2d class .. .. - - 21 stock West Midland - Oxford 100 44 46 45 i terdam, 54; Grand Trunk of Canada have declined 25 Do. Newport all 1 101 11 1 V to 31 and 314; and Great Western of Canada im- 125 D o. Hereford 1 1 4 12114 d 2l PRE FERENCE SHARES. ___ proved to 134:3. . Joist Share' Railways. Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares f„a"i ~,, Closing Bashiess ir• Price. i Done. Shi ech are rather inactive. London and County Bank at realise 354 36 ; Ottoman Bank, 174 ; Electric Tele- 25 Blythe and Tyne 10 per - - 1, c. pref. (issued at £ 5O all - - 21 graph, 102; and Red Sea Telegraph, 181. f :tk i Bris. & Exet.4 p.ct.stock 100 --- - for )20 Do. do. do. Shares - - _ - stock Caledon £10,41 per cent 100 103 105 een. BRITISH FUNDS-ONE O'CLOCK. stock IDo. Quar. Shares, No. 2. all - - - the Bank Stock - - - the per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9 34 4 20 Cornwall., 5 per cent... all 204 214 61 I Dun.Perth&Aber.Jun. . all 51 61 - Iby .) per Cent. Consols Annuities - ing New 3 per Cent. Annuities - Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 - stock IDo. do. Class C .c.... 100 107 110 - 'try Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l6l 4 stock lE. Coun. Ex. 5 plc No. 1 100 109 111 111 - )0S India Stock 2lB stock ;Do do. No. 2 100 108 110 1091 - .. - Era- Ditto 6 per Cent - the Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent - stock 'Eastern Union, 4 per ct. 1 00 81 83 •• stock Do. 5 per cent. guar... 100 - - ;ion Ditto 5 per Cent. 964 • - Ditto 55 per Cent. stock Do. 4p. c. gua. S. &D. 100 90 92 - ght. Ditto Debentures, 1858 _ Em- Ditto Bonds El,OOO 6 d stock Furness, 5 per cent .... 100 103 105 _ ens() Consols for Account, 6th Sept.., 931 stock Glas.& , S. West. g .a. 5 p.c. 100 120 122 2 and Exchequer Bills, £I,OOO, lid stock IDo.sp.aßedm., 10 p.c.pm 100 109 112 - Row FOREIGN FUNDS-ONE O'CLOCK. stock Do. 41 p. C. do. do. - 100 Do. 5 , p.c. Redm. 5 p.c. pm 80 84 86 - not Brazilian 5 per Cent - - tsta- Chilian 6 per Cent - f Gt. Sn. &VT (Ireland) 4 1 100 97 99 - him Ditto 3 per Cent Mexican 3 per Cent 74 stock p. ct. pref. stock.... - IMH- Ditto Account . 2ll / ' Hants) Ext. sp. ct. .. 4 - - At Peruvian 45 per Cent took I. o. Iteuee,,,able,4l p.ct. 100 99 101 pied. Portuguese 3 per Cent.. 1853. 945 444 4 stock I Do. Redeemable, 4p. et. 100 89 91 stock ,I Do. Irredeemable, d 0... 100 90 92 - - the Sardinian 6 per Cent. .. - stock ,Do. 5 p.ct. Redeem. Pref. 100 101 103 'orps Ditto Account - Spanish 3 per Cent. lO (34. W. Ches. 8 p.c. pf.sh. all 161 174 - 'eimg - Ditto Account - itain Ditto New Deferred Turkish 6 per Cent 4O 4 stock Do Birmg.iruar. stock.. 100 75 77 r5l 265 Do. Chester gua. shares all 20 204 - ;s of_ .. - 1:15 Do. do. do. that Ditto New Loan - Ditto Account that Venezuelan 3 per Cent - stock Do.BarnststEs3s 10d pc 100 - - ance stock Do. 6 per C. (E. Lan.) .. 100 - - Ditto Account pro- Dividends on the above pay able in London. stock Do. s p. c. No. 2 100 115 117 !; 1 , in. TWO O'CLOC stock Do. gun. 6p. c. rhichlE' stock Do. do. 5 p.c. No. 4 100 115 117 • Consols, Money Lrt of Ditto Account - - and Ditto October 93 f 93 1 stock Do. 7p. ct. Pref. stock,l 100 152 156 rt Of stock IDo.4p.c.S.(div.dettil '65) 100 68 70 , use.) stock Won. Chat. and Dover.. 100 83 86 86 story TBIS DAY'S SHIPPING. stock Lou. and N.W. Coy. and ' ton) • Nuneaton, sp. ct..... 100 117 119 Sol- LONDON, Se p t. 5.-Wind this da y at noon-West; setoo e ck k D L0 0 n . . 4 & 4 p S. e i r V e , e 7 n p t . et. stock 100 152 1 1574 100 - - (Ap light breeze, and fine weather. 2s. 6d. Do. (Prtsm. perpl anns in PL - rmouTH, Sept. 4.-Wind N . N . W.-Arrived-Som - of 2s. 6 d all - - the 2 Londondy. & Cole. Ish all - - e of orosteo, from Havannah; Duncan Dunbar, from London for Sydney. 121 5 Londony. & Ennis. 1 eh, r all 124 124 üblie stock Man. Sh. &Lin. 6 per et , 100 126 128 BnisTOL, Sept. 4.-Wind N.W.-Arrived-Commo- 6 Do. Vi . hole done, from Sulina. stock Do. 34 per cent 10 Do. redeem. 6 per cent 5 i i p rven- PORTSMOUTH, Sept. 4.-Wind N. to N.W.-Arrived- 121 M a ryoort & Car., 4p. c. all - - - 11l as Eliza Ann, from Demerara; Triton, from Hamburg for 12 Do. , 41 per cent all - - honed Valparaiso. stoc 'Mid. Con. 6p a stock.. 100 - - stock coon- °F l ' QUEENS TOWN, Sept. 3-Arrived - Mary Allan, . stock 100 101 103 Do C o n.Bris. & Bir. 6 .c. 100 139 1 41 stock Do. 41 p. c. pre f. .. y from Porto Rico and sailed for London; Hunter Scale, 6 Do. with option till 1860 3 - - an tably Clyde. D emerara, short of provisions, and sailed for the stock Do. Leic. & H it. p ref. st. 100 92 94 • midst SOUTHAMPTON, Sept. 4.-Wi d N.W.-S il d C-, n a e stock Norflk sp. c. Ex. st. 1848, 100 - - stock Do. 5/ p. c. Pref. do. 184 100 - - - e J - stock Do.sWay.Val.Ex.st.lB47 100 - - ieror, lon, steamer, for Alexandria. y ab- stock North British, sp.c. .. 100 112 114 PILL, Sept. 4.-Wind ZT.W.-Sailed-Matouka, for stock Do. New, gua. sp. c.... 100 110 112 aer -- Canterbury, New Zealand. 101 Do. Bor. Un. g. pf. ohs 1 415 p that SWANSEA, Sept. 4 . - stock Ntli.Dev.Rail. &Dc k.Co. 100 - _ Wind N.-Sailed-Charles Lam- 10 , Do. do. do. all - - much bort, for Co q uimbo. stock N- East. Cons. Pref. 4p. c. 100 91 93 pro- CLYDE, Sept. 4.-Wind W.-Arrived-Welkin, from stock Do. Berwick, 4 p.c. Pref. 100 97 99 - 1f the New York. 17 Do. do, do Q 13.4. 14 d 20 Do. Leeds, 6p. e. No. 1 13 - - ation DIAL, Sept. 4-Arrived-Venetia, from the River for 124 Do. do. Quarters, 1848.. 9 - - and the Cape of Good Hope. 25 Do. York, IT. &S. Punch. 10 5 d 4 p FALMOUTH, Sept 4.-Wind N.-Sailed-Sylph, for in- 20 North Staffordspire.... all 221 235 10 Rhymney Gua anteed. all - - - , aMadras. and. 8i Scottish Central, new p all - - ge of ABIRDISEN Sept 4.-Wind S.W.-Arrived-Bertha, stock Scottish North-Easte from Konigsberg ; Henrietta, from St. Petersburg ; Fried- 31 p. c. pref. 5t00k.... 100 - - cc of rich, from Archangel. stock Do.Aberdeengua.6p.o: 100 122 124 1 was SUITDERLAND, Sept. 4.-Wind N.W.-Arrived-Gellert stock Do, 7p. c. pref. sto ck( 100 130 135 10s, South Devon, Ann. 10s. all 101 11 at if , T ively, from Quebec. to Do. Fixed 45 per cent. all - - Id be Lwow, Sept. 3.-Wind W . -S a il e d-John Curtis, for 1.0.6 South Eastern (Reading lerve, Matanzas. Ann., 1.0.6) stock Do, 41 per cent. lOO 102 104 t , - stock Do. Fixed 14 p. ', c. Ist is. 100 102 104 is he t I (BY ILECTRIO TILEGRA.PII.) stock south Wales, gua. 4p. c. 100 91 93 'M 1 the stock Do. 48 per cent SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday Morning. stock S.-Yorkshire, 4p. 0. gua. 100 83 85 Wind N.N.W. 25 Stock & Dar. A 5 p. 0., all 27 28 am it . Arrived, Sept. 4.-John Aylen, from Middlesborough ; Lange Alliance steamer, from Havre ;La Poule, from Cherbourg; Do. B 6 ner cent all 321 324 25 Do. C er cent all 32 33 U . ) Or `6 i :lands, from Newcastle ; Constantia, from Shields ; stock Watrfd 6 6p. o lOO 46 50 Vent'tock W.Mid -Oxf Ist Gua stk 100 126 128 At 7Z, from Sunderland,. Limerick Lass, from NaNswport ; Do.. 2d do 121 123 pre- Sall' steamer, from Jersey ; Woodlands, from Shields; 10 Do. Newport 5 p.mpf.red. all 9 105 - Aired for New Ceylon steamer, for Jersey ; Teutonia, steamer, 10 Do .Pe till p 1 D .Pe et. 6 .c. if 186 all 12 121 ' the linton, steam er, ; Dispatch, steamer, for Jersey ; Lady Eg- 121 Do. 1869, Ist is, all 14 141 er, for London. 1 2 Do. do. 2(1 is. 5- - wise, - Do. Hereford 41 p.c. pf. all - - ro)- (BY Styx ~,_ -- LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. time *A..a.mt AND MAGNITIC TELEGRA.PH.) ,weather fi ne. 1 rties, Win d w .N. .. vc , GnAvEsorrn, Wednesday Morning. ' Paid. Leasing Closing Business Railways. 1 Co.'s. Price. Done. gion, can Arrived, Sept. Arrived, Sept. 5--..:',,aat Anglian, from Gothenburg. ` - ' 4s ix from ed ord an etchley all L. 2 . .• ~ N.W 95 98 poli. ins, from Genoa ; s u i t , Rotterdam ; Ludwig Hold- M ar i a ch ri a ri ll, from Cronstadt ; Belinda, from Rackinghsmshire .... 100 Ln & Cheater & Holyhead - 100 Do. Guernsey ; hav e 125 127 Christi from Bogense. Do. do. 54 per cent. 100 Do. 'f the Do. do. 5 per cent. 100 0, ll2 114 DRAL, Wednesday Morning I ' Clydesdale Junction.. 100 aledonin 102 104 , Cher; i Wind N.W., moderate. Passed.-Surprise of aridix u t Colchester, Stour Val. all .U.&E C, 151 161 Edgar, b • and y re- rig, . Laura, E.Lincolnshire,g.6Nc. 100 Gt_North. 138 , 140 0 schooner, all from the North, fo , the West ; Maria Adele, E.Union,Harwich ha all .Counts. a they for Naples ; Constance Turn,' - - • vould Mary, for Havre-all from for Dordt ; John and Do. Woodbridge ... 100 n all Philadelphia ; Costive, for New 0 1 . 1. -84";:."11derland •; St. Peter's, for Gls.Barr.&Nils,Drct. 100 Caledonia - - St. John's, for Do. New ... ...... 100 Do. - .... - - •hilst tz-all fre t , Tule Hong .n. Cardiff ; Alma, for Gala Lo • Gloster* Dean * Forest all Gt. West. - - from Shields, for Hong' j_ ndou ; Cambridge, Hartlpooi.Dck.& Rail. all Yk.N.&Br - - Lurchfrom London, for Hull and Selky ...... all Yk.N. Md. 110 112 Constantinople; Joseph, from shields ,-7o; of Carthagena. Do. 1 Shares ... • ... all - ich a Sailed.-Venelia, for the Cape (flo o d Mope, Do. 5 Shares ......, all Do. ..... • - - , the Lanc.& Carl. gua.s p.c. 100 n.& N.W 206 209 agers ......--_________------------"""'"""---""..-__ eof land London & Greenwich 100 ._ . East... 61 63 vhich CHURCH RATES AT PLUMBTEAD*--CODaiderahie Do. Preference r the d agitation prevails in the parish of Plurastea ..., -to tha, Lon.,Tilby.& Soutend. 100 eto & Co. 921 931 _ Lowestoft, gua. 4 p.ct. 100 orfolk - - s pis- went of a rate made by the vestry for the P ureha s P a z ' Do. 6 per cent........ 100 0. at one - - Manc.,Buxtn. & Matk. all IL NW &M 3 35 3 1 t the to enlarge the churchyard. It appears t hat of the Mid. Bradford Prefer- , rated Vestry meetings the vicar refused to gra - the enoe Stock.....- .... 100 Midland 95 97 ,1 o ther gro an question of adjournment, and upon this ail- ds Newmarkt,Buryx 1 6. 5. 61E.Counts 5 1 p a large number of inhabitants have refused to pay the rate, guaranteed sp. c. Northn. & Eastn. 5 Several defendants yesterday appeared to answer sum.. P.C. all o. tro Ynonses at the ovi's White Do. do. 6 per cent .. . all o. o. Woolwich Police-court, Mr. Mea d North Western Do. Fixed 5 per - - [ADZ att ending to suppor t the rate. After hearing e v i dence as cent. all - - all rillidland 141 15 fi g') a to the mode in which the rate was made, Mr. Trail' d o- pr ,L& NW ) proton and Wyre. t all & L.Yk. i - - ~ordi- dined to adjudicate, and a case was then taken, setting Do. a gar- forth the whole facts, to be submitted to the ecclesiastical Roy t it Stares A all Do. - - eee of court. Shrewnsiliitch., & She 100 Gt. North. 135 136 y end .. in Do rY& Hereford 100 :T.Brassey 103 106 A -WEALTHY BEGGAR.--The police we,.. --" - * Pli * ,_, South Staffer ' • i wife formed a few days back that a blind man, who for seVor& i Wilts an d s ashire ;ping, Years had been aNustomed to beg on the steps of the church Wimbledon& c ••i orriers-t 100 Gt. West. 92 94 tatter. of the Petits-Peres had contracted for the purchase of a _____.---___roydh. all L.& West. nA______ ,ourse -- 1) - MICS furnished lodging-house in the Rue St. Pierre Montmartre, \ - -- n-----__._:__--,--!---- ---- y last for a sum exceeding 30,000 f. Havin g made inquiries, they sere Do u k, i. 1 , ~i 1 @losing \ Business found learned that the statement was quite true, and that, more- ' a..--' Price. Done. _----------- t .awing ever, he had paid down 12,000 f. of the purchase money. - 1 ----- nded ; On this they made a search in his lodgings, and found rail- stock IConnuercial . - I ;eased.... ........ 100 Way shares, bonds, and other securities to a considerable s t oc k 1:)(i. 4 per,C,,,,n_t_:, retaii, 100 - s, and amount. As he had only been allowed to beg at the church stock East an 11 ' e 8 I Indies.. 1 ,, 0 - • leelll , in the belief that he was really poor, and as besides he had stock ILondon ... , ............ 100 - ected, long been in the habit of pestering th e Em p eror and Em- fi s t • ock St Katharine......,,,, 100 - term* press with p e titi on s for charity, he was arrested, a nd is to took S ou thampton lOO stock Victoria . - 1 RI 97 99 i 93 be tried for meaclicity. 20 Do NOVI , •••• - "'""" ' 1 Id p THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EvENING, SEPTEMBER 5, 1860. Railways. Atlantic & St Lawrence Bom.,Baroda&.Cent lnd Gu. 5 per cent.. Do, Do. Buffalo and Lake Hurol Do. New . Do. Preference Buffalo,Brant,&Godrich 6 p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 187 Do. do. July 1, 1873 Do. do. June 1, 1874 Clcutta.&S.Eastn. (Lim; Cape,Eastn.Prov. (Um.) CflpeTOWll. & Dock Scrip Ceylon Guarantd. 6 p. c. Demerara Eastn. Ben.c.,rallku. 5 p. • East Indiatt,fgu. 5 p. c Do. F Shares Ext..... Do. Jubbulpore Do. 4i p c. Debentrs Do. 5 p. c. Deb., 1861 Geelong & Melbourne Geelong Corporation 6 per cent. Bonds Grand Trunk of Canada Do. 6 per cent. Pref 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. c Gt. South.of In di a (Lim) guaranteed 5 per cent. Gt. W. of Canada Shares Do. New Do. Bonds pay. '76, with opt, till '6O Do. do. '73 till '6O Do. do. '73 without opt. Do. 5 p. c. do. '77 d 0... Madras, guar., 4i p. c... Do. do. 5 per cent..... Do. 4.1 p. c. Extension Do. Fourth do.. ..... . Do. dm .... Melb.Corp. 6 p. o. Bnds. Newßrunswick .9c Canda Ry.&Land(Lim.)g.6pe Class A Capital Share Do. do. Land d 0... .... B Capital do. .. Do. do. Land do. ...... Oude (Limited) ........ Scinde .......... f Do. Punjaub .... Do. Do. ........ Do. Indus. St. Flo. S t. Andrews 14 Quebec A Trinidad (Lim.) Scrip.. FOREIGN Antwerp & Rotterdam Ardennes . . ah.&S.Fran..Lim.7 p.c. Belgian East. Junction eziers to Graissessac.. Carmeaux Mine & Rail Copiabo ........ & Ditto Extension Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France Grand Rus. Guar. 6 p. ' Do. do. Great Central of France 91.Luxem., Con. shs... Italian Junction Lake Constance & Bale. Lierre & Turnhout .... Lyons & Geneva ...... Maria Antonia .... Do. New Namur d 4 Liege Do. 6 p. c. Pref......... Northern of France.... Do. New Shares ...... Norwegian Trunk Pref. Paris,Lyons, Mediter. Paris & 0r1ean5........ Recife SL S. Fran. (Pern.) gua. 7 p. ct. lim Riga & Dunaburg...... Rome & Frascati ...... Royal Danish Royal Swedish ........ Do. 7 per cent. Pref.... Sambre & Meuse . Do. 5a per cent. Pref..... San Paulo, lim, g. 7 p. c. S.Aust. &L omb Venetin Southern of France.... West Flanders . ...... . Do. 5i p. c. Preference.. W. & N.W. of France .. Western of Austria.... Western of Switzerland Wiesbaden ...... iDo. 8 per cent. Pref Zealand .. LAW INTE THIS DAY), SHERIFFS' COURT. (Before Mr. Kerr.) THE CUSTOM IN THE COAL TRADE.-FIELDING V. ANDREWS. This was an action to recover 4s. 2d., and considerable interest has been excited, as, though the amount is small, a principle and custom, involving thousands of pounds, is in question. Plaintiff is a coal merchant of Tooley-street, and defendant partner in a firm of coal ship brokers. The present claim was made up as follows :-Is. overcharge on light dues, &c., paid at Sunderland ; 3s. charge for charter party; and 2d. overcharge on metage. Plaintiff said that he had been charged 31s. fer light dues, &c., at Sunderland, whereas for the same ship, Regina, he had only paid 30s. at SllielJs. His Honour held that what was paid at another port was nothing in this case. Plaintiff said that he discovered the actual amount paid, as per certificate from the Custom-house, to be only £1 ss. 6d. Defendant said his firm paid a clerk £l3O per annum to manage this portion of their business, and it was not likely the firm would work fer nothing. As to the charter party charge, plaintiff declared that the commission of 21 per cent. covered all, and he could pro duce evidence to show that the charge was not made by the brokers. He had paid defendant's firm a similar amount on a previous occasion, simply out of courtesy, and he also objected to it. Defendant remarked that he would bring evidence to prove that a charge was always made, and such charge varied from 10s. to 3s. His Honour said that to prove a custom it was not ne cessary to bring two, three, or five witnesses ; a great number—if necessary, the whole body engaged in the coal trade—should attend. What one firm did was not a custom if another firm did a precisely opposite thing. He would adjourn the case in order that witnesses might be summoned on each side, giving plaintiff leave to amend his particulars. He must impress upon the mind of defendant the fact that it required the very strongest evidence to esta blish a custom. No costs allowed on either side. POLICE INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) MARLBOROUGH-STREET. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY AT A JEwEnLnies.—Charles Fletcher, a respectable-looking young man, residing at 23, Broadley-terrace, Blandford-square, clerk, in the employ of Messrs. Henry Collingwood and Richard Abud, jewellers, 46, Conduit-street, was charged, before Mr. Beadon, with stealing 19 gold chains, 1 gold watch key, two rings, &c., the property of his masters, and of the value of MOO. Mr. Robert Nelson Collingwood said he was assistant to his father, Mr. Henry Collingwood, and Mr. Richard Abud, jewellers, in whose employ the prisoner was a clerk. On Saturday last, having missed a gold chain, he went through the list, and then found that several more were missing. He told his father he was afraid there was something wrong, and his father then told him he had seen in a paper an advertisement of a chain being stopped. He went to the shop of Mr. Mills, pawn broker, in the Edgware -road, the address given in the ad vertisement, and there saw the chain they had missed and some others. He then returned and told the prisoner there was something wrong. The prisoner was then taken into a back room by him, and he told him it might be better for him if he told the truth as to where the chains were. He said some were pawned opposite Mr. Mills's, some in Lis son-grove, in Duke -street, Park-place, and elsewhere He was then asked where the duplicates were, and he said they were in his desk, and on search being made they were found done up in packets, on which was written "Charles Fletcher's memorandums." Mr. Henry Leeson Slight, assistant to Mrs. Rosetta Smith, pawnbroker, Edgware-road, produced four chains (identified by Mr. Collingwood), two of which he received in pledge from the prisoner—one for £3 on the Bth June, and the other for £2 on the 19th July. Mr. Bowles, inspector of the C Division, said he wished for a remand for the attendance of the other pawnbrokers, as there were several to attend. Mr. Beadon remanded the prisoner for a week. THAMES. Txm SMOKE NUISANCE IN LIMEHOUSE.—The foreman of the pottery works, Bumton's-wharf, Limehouse, appeared before Mr. Selfe to answer a summons and information pre ferred by order of the Secretary of State for the Home Department against Henry Millichamp, proprietor of the factory, for using a furnace so constructed as not to burn or consume its own smoke. Smith, a police-constable, N0.'415 K, proved the service of the summons ; and John Pillar, a police-sergeant, No. 13 K, was called to prove the existence of a great nuisance, which has been mttch complained of by the inhabitants of Ratcliff and Limehouse. He said that dense volumes of black smoke were almost constantly issuing from Mr. Milli champ's chimney shaft, and it darkened the Commeraal road and adjacent str eds. The last time he watched the chimney a continual cloud of black smoke issued from it for l twenty-seven minutes. The chimney was not so lofty as it should be, and the factory, which was close to the Commercial-road, and facing the Regant'a Canal Dock, was complained of as a nuisance. Mr. Selfe—l have heard of this place and Mr. Milli champ before. What is the place—what do they make on the premises ? Pillar—lt is a drain pipe manufactory. The foreman said he would leave the matter in the hands of the magistrate. A remedy had been tried and failed. Mr. Selfe—Then you must try another. The defendant has been fined before. Mr. Sandison, civil engineer, in the employ of the Government, said the defendant was fined £3 for a similar offence three years ago. Mr. Millichamp had large works in Lambeth, where a similar nuisance had existed. He believed the defendant had provided a large boiler for the Lambeth works, and he believed they would in some mea sure, when in operation, remove the objections com plained of. Mr. Selfe—Three years is a long time for this smoke nuisance to be continued since the last con , iction. Do you press for the double penalty on a second conviction ? Mr. Sandison—No, only for the single penalty. Mr. Pillar—Everything is blackened with the smoke from the defendant's chimney. There are loud complaints from the inhabitants. Mr. Selfe fined the defendant £3, and said the sooner he completed the alterations of his furnaces the better. Such a nuisance could not be tolerated any longer. THIS DAY'S MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE. Several parcels of new English wheat were on offer here to-day, in fair average condition; but the supply of old qualities was very limited. The trade was heavy in the extreme, and to have forced sales a further decline of from is to 2s per qr must have been submittal to. Foreign wheat was in large supply anti heavy request on rather easier terms. The inquiry for floating cargoes was very dull at drooping currencies. On the whole there was a fair demand for barley and malt, and prices were fairly supported. Oats were a dull inquiry, and 6d per qr lower. Beans and peas changed hands slowly on former terms. Tho flour trade was very dull, and the best town-made qualities were, in some instances, offering at 56s per 2801bs. American flour was is per barrel cheaper. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Whett Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. 250 40 670 1 5411 1ri5h............ F0reign........ 5,170 3,220 f 8,540 1 3,850 sacks. 410 brls. BOROUGH HOP. All kinds of hops support the late advance, and the mar. ket is very firm. Duty, £50,000. PRESIDENT BUCTI4N2N AND THE • AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE. The letter of Lord John Russell on the suppres sion of the odious traffic in slaves and the intro duction of coolies, communicated to the American Government by Lord Lyons, has received from the Secretary of State at Washington the—following reply : Department of State, Washington, Aug. 10. Sir,—l have the honour to inform you that the despatch from Lord John Russell, dated the 11th of July, 1860, which you read to me, and a copy of which you left at this department, has been sub mitted to the President, with its accompaniment of printed documents relative to the coolie trade. He has given a most careful consideration to the three propositions which you have been instructed to make. It is unnecessary to express in reply the perfect agreement between this Government and that of her Britannic Majesty in their estimate of the character of the African slave trade. The action of the Government of the United States upon this subject has been so long con tinued, so consistent, and is so familiar to the civilised world, that I can properly refer to it as the clearest and strongest manifestation of its opinion, and I am instructed to say that the President learns with great pleasure from Lord John Russell's com munication that her Britannic Majesty's Go vernment can at length see with satisfaction the happy result of its efforts and sacrifices in the cause of humanity, and the steady diminution of this illegal traffic is accompanied by a corresponding development of honourable and lucrative commerce on the coast of Africa, which promises in the course of years to extinguish the slave trade in a most effectual manner. He regrets, however, that this agreeable prospect has been overclouded by the fact, also communicated, that this trade has again increased within the last two years, and that pre parations are being made " in the island of Cuba" for the prosecution of the trade on a most exten sive scale by means of association. This intelligence is believed to be well foundra The President has long entertained the opinion th a t the African slave trade will never be suppri2ssed whilst efforts for that purpose are confined the pursuit and capture of slavers between the coast o f Africa and the island of Cuba. To effect r‘nything positive or permanent the barracoons on t'ae African coast must be broken up, and the slaver s prevented from landing their cargoes in Cuba; o r , if l an d e d , the slaves must be followed into the, interior and set free from the purchasers. Whenever her Bri tannic Majesty's Government shall think it proper, in its discretion, to enforce the provisions of the treaty with Spain referred to by Lord John Rus sell, by which the Spanish Crown undertook to abolish the slave trade, and accepted a sum of £400,000 to enable it the m ore eas i ly to do so, then, and not until then, in the President's opinion, will the African trade with the island of Cuba be .abo lished. But with this the Government of the United States has no right to interfere. While, however, holding these general views, the President cannot give his assent to the propositions which have been submitted to him, for the follow ing reasons, which I proceed to state in the order in which the propositions have been made : First.—A systematic plan of cruising on the coast. This proposition would involve the necessity of a treaty with Spain to enable the cruisers of the United States to enter the waters of Cuba within a marine league from shore. The Spanish Government, so far from having given any intimation that a violation of its sove reignty to this extent would be permitted, has only recently made the strongest complaints to this Go vernment against the cruisers of the United States, upon the alleged ground that they had captured slavers within Cuban waters. While, therefore, Great Britain has already acquired this right by treaty, the United States do not possess it, and their cruisers would, consequently, be arrested in the pur suit of slavers as soon as they had entered Spanish jurisdiction ; whilst the cruisers of Great Britain and Spain could not only continue the pursuit until the slaves had landed, but could follow them into the interior of the island. It is but proper, however, to say, that while the President does not suppose that the Government of Spain would enter into an arrangement with the United States similar to its treaty with Great Britain, he could not consent to any such arrangement, for it would violate the well-established policy of this country—not to in terfere in the domestic concerns of foreign mations, nor to enter into alliance with foreign Governments. This Government has maintained, and will continue to maintain, a naval force in the neighbourhood of Cuba for the enforcement of its own laws. It will, to the utmost extent of its power, put down this abominable traffic, and capture all Ame rican vessels, and punish all American citizens en gaged in it. The success which has already at tended our efforts near the coasts of Cuba prove that we have done our duty in this respect, and this at an enormous expense, for the support of the captured Africans, for their transportation back to Africa, and for their liberal maintenance there during the period of a year after their return. Second.—The laws of regulation and inspection in the island of Cuba, by which the employment of slaves imported contrary to law might be detected by the Spanish authorities. After what has been said, it is unnecessary to state that the Government of the United States could not ask Spain to pass such laws of registra tion, But if this were otherwise, it is quite cer tain that such laws would have no practical effect. For if "her Majesty's Government are well aware that the price of sugar and the demand for labour afford the slave trader profits which enable him to corrupt the authorities, whose duty it is to thwart and defeat this criminal enterprise," and if joint stock companies are established at Havana for the prosecuting the African slave trade under the eye of the highest officials of the island, and with perfect impunity, it would be vain to expect the registrars throughout the country would counteract the policy of their superiors by faithfully performing their duty. _ _ Third.--A plan of emigration from China, regu- Lated by the agents of European nations, in con junction with the Chinese authorities. It is not probable that Lord J. Russell expected this Government to unite in forming such a plan of emigration from China, for if he had entertained this idea he would scarcely have omitted " the agents" of the United States from any participation in its regulation. Nor . can the President share in the anticipation of her Britannic Majesty's Govern ment, that the coolie trade can be put on any such footing as will relieve it of those features of fraud and violence which render the details of its prose cution scarcely less horrible than those of the middle passage ; and he is of opinion that it would exert a most deleterious influence upon every portion of this country to import into it Chinese coolies as labourers. In the States where the institution of domestic slavery exists, these heathen coolies would demoralise the peaceful, contented, and orderly slaves, very many of whom are sincere Christians, and in the free States they would be brought into competition with our own respectable and indus trious labourers, whether of native or foreign birth, who constitute so large a portion of our best citizens. I avail myself of this opportunity to renew to you, sir, the assurance of my high consideration. W. H. TRESCOTT, Acting Secretary. To W. Douglas Irving, Esq., &c. WHITECHAPEL. Our market is heavy, and prices generally have a droop ing tendency : Beef, 2s 8d to 4s 4d ; mutton, 3s 2d to 4s 8d; lamb, 4s 4d to 5s 4d ; veal, 4s Od to 4s 6d ; pork, 4s Od toss 2d per 81bs. by the carcase. COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—YESTERDAY. Amsterdam Ditto Rotterdam — 11 161 11 161 Antwerp Brussels — 25 271 25 321 Hamburgh Paris Ditto Marseilles — 25 371 25 421 Frankfort on Maine — 1171 117 k Vienna Trieste Petershurgh — 341. 35 Berlin Madrid Cadiz Leghorn Milan Genoa Naples Palermo Messina Lisbon Oporto Rio Janeiro New York Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard) ....per oz. Z 3 17 9 Mexican Dollars Silver in Bars (Standard) ,, 0 0 0 South American Doublons 491 49 25 50 25 40 25 421 391 498- 49k 25 55 25 45 25 47 39! 118/ 118! 631 631 118 1181- 53 In announcing last week the appointment of Col. Percy Herbert as Deputy-Quartermaster-General, in suc cession to Col. Gordon, we expressed a hope that the ap pointment would not interfere with his retention of his seat in Parliament. We regret, however, to find that our hope is not fulfilled. Col. Herbert accepted the Chiltern Hun dreds before the close of the session. Notwithstanding the great interest now attaching to questions of military admi nistration, the members of the House of Commons who are able to bring useful information and ability to bear upon their discussion, are unfortunately so very few that we can ill afford a diminution of the number.—. Army and Navy 6,404. THE MYSTERIOUS MURDER AT ROAD, FROME, TUESDAY. From information received to-day it appears that the Home Secretary has come to a decision respecting the steps which are to be taken to re investigate this mysterious case. Early this morn ing a police officer proceeded to Mr. Kent's resi dence at Road, and requested that the gardener and groom, and, we believe, some of the other domestic servants, should accompany him to Bath. Of course the request, which was almost a command, was ac ceded to ; and the servants, accompanied by Emily Dail, a person who was in the house on the morn ing of the murder, but who has not yet been examined, and Benger, one of the men who found the mangled corpse of the child, proceeded to Bath, where they were examined before Mr. Slack, solicitor. As to the real object of this step, every one is at present in the dark. Neither Mr. Kent nor his legal adviser have been communicated with, and the construction put upon it is that the Govern ment, feeling that a special commission is im practicable, has resolved to place the matter in the hands of a local solicitor. Whether this surmise is the correct one there is at present no means of knowing, but, as we have before stated, it is the only explanation which Mr. Kent and his solicitor can give. We need hardly say that great interest is felt in this new and unexpected turn of affairs. CHANCERY REFORMS.—Yesterday the new Chan cery Act was printed to retake better provision for the relief of prisoners in contempt and pauper defendants, and fo r the more efficient despatch of business in the Court o f Chancery. The Masters of the Cou rt of Chancery are re lieved from the existing duties, and the present solicitor t o the Suitors' Fund is to visit the Queens Prison 's quarterly d - and to report the cases of persons in contempt, and he may assign a solicitor to any such prisoner, not only for defend ing him in forma paup er is, but generally for taking such steps on his behalf as the na t u re of the cas e may require. Prisoners may be examine d on oath, and reference made to their poverty with the view of rendering assistance. The cases of all Chancery prisoners are to be reported to the Lord Chancellor. The expenses to be incurred for Chan cery prisoners are to be paid out of the Suitors' Fund. The clerks in the Court of act gives increased Wanes to Mae Chancery. Share stk I 18 20 20 10 100 1 100 100 • 17i 20 stock sto. stock 100 100 100 100 stock stock stock stock ttook stook 1 - 3 T -i I 100 100 100 11. 3 0. Closing Frice. 87 89 931 941 11 11 ( 51 G 4 7 7i 78 82 73 78 70 75 k d ip 24 2 1. 44 1* d 99* 100* Rd d * 94* 99* 101 102 21i 22i 314 324 89 91 55 57 63 67 51 54 50 53 964 97 ld id 2 lid 13i 131 7} sid 93 96 I 93 96 93 96 90 92 83 85 94 95 87 89 li li d 5 7 5 7 974 98} d lid —d 93 944 I Id SWAYS. 5 5} is " 2i 21 2i 2 d 4 3d 25 26 6! 7 n .BIL 19& 204 374 .84 - -P 74. 81 344 354 53 55 21 20 14 16 5i 54 8; 13§ 1 d 1; ;d, 19 20 a 22 23ti BRITISH MINES. Share, Mines. (Alfred Consols (Philack)l British Iron • iChfford Devon G. Cons. (Tavist.) East Bassett (Illogan) East Caradon E. WI Russel (Tavistk ) Gam.&St.Aubyn(Gwen ) Great South Tolgus ,G .Wheal Alfd. (Philack) G. Wheal Vor (Helston) jGrenville.. 'Herod's-Foot Hingston Downs jLady Bertha 'Margaret (Uny Lelant) iNorth Downs INorth Frances (Mogan) IN.Wh'l Basset (1110 an) INorth Wheal Crofty Par Consols (St. Blaney) :0 Providence (Uny Lelnt.) ,Sortridg,e Cons. Min. Co. South Caradon(St.Cleer) S. Cam Brea (Illogan) 1 S. Dev. Iron &Gen., Lim. ,S.Wheal Fran. (Illog,an), Stray Park 5 Tamar Silv.& Lead MM. LO Tin Croft Xale of Towey (Carm ) Vest Basset (Illogan) fW. Caradon (Liskeard) West Seton IWheal Basset (Mogan) Wheal Buller (Redruth jWheal Edward (Cals. 'Wheal Kitty (U.L elant Wheal Mary Ann (Men. Wheal Trelawn_ey (Lis. raid. 1 Closing Business Price. Done. 2.14.6 7.4.0 17e 1 12..13.9 5.14.81 8.12 4.8.6 1.8.6 9.18.9 1* 10.6.7 1} 3k all 18.1• 4 .9 122.18.0 !:£a 6d' 171 1.7.2 I 16 FOREIGN MINES. Australian BonAccord Copper,Lim. Brazil. Imp. (is. at £5 p.) Do. St.Johndel Rey,Lim Do. Land and AliningCo. Clarendon Cons.MinCo Cobre Copper Copiapo DunMoun.Cop.Ming Co Fortuna. General Gt. N. Cop. of S. 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(Limited) all 25 Australian Agricultural 19 26 28 10 Berlin Water (Limited) all 41 5 50 British American Land 40 30 32 50 B.&l.Mag. Tel. A. (Lim.) all 35 37 20 Do. 8,7p.c.ti111852 (Lim.) all 19 21 20 Do. C. (Limited) all 12 14 324 Canada Land all 114 117 10 i Chan.lslandsTel. (Lim )( all stock Cop.Min.ofEng.&Smltg ' all 25 Do. Pref. 74 per cent. stook. Crystal Palace stock Do. Preference stock Do. 6p : c. Pei ?et. Deben lOO 106 108 stock Electric Telegraph 25 Do, New l5 id 413 5 English & A us. Copper all 24 24 15 Gen. Steam Navigatx nt 14 1 Great Ship I imited) all A 4 1 Do. 174 pct Preference 4 Id a pr 5 Lon. District Tel. (Lim.) ( 2 24 2d 20 London Discount (Lim.); 5 14 lid 3114 4 L.G. Omnibus Co. (Lim.); all la 14 20 Madras Irr. and Canal I 1 24 24 10 Mediter. Electric Teleg. all 10 Med. Exten. Tel. (Lim.) all 3 4 25 National Die. Co. (Lim.) 5 la 14 d 20 Nerbu.Coal&lron (Lim ) 5 2 lid 10 Netherlands Land all 4 4 5 DO.B p.c,Pref:.iss.atl die. all 100 N. Br.&NovaScotia Land 8$ _ i 1 1 N.B.Australasian (Lim.) all 4 1 1 Oriental Gas (Limited). all a 1 1 Do. New Shares (Lim.) . 15s. 4pr 10 Orintl.ln.Steam(Lim.)A 6 10 Ditto B. 10 Ditto C. 2s. stock Peelß.Lnd.&Min.(Lim.) 100 750 50 Pen. & Oriental Steam . all 74 76 50 Do. New 25 124 131 p 20 RedSea&lnd.Tel.g.44p.c all 18 184 184 50 Rhymney Iron 15 Do. New all 50 6i 100 Royal Mail Steam 6O 51 63 stock Scot. Austin. Inv. (Lim ) 100 122 125 25 South Australian Land' all 33 34 • (Submarine Tel. Scrip all i -In. Registered 1 "Vv. .- - do all 51 64 10 DO. ".n. 5 20 fflr.4l/ Ln. Ca ortiv....—, , --i 9 10 lgo Vaa Diemou's Land ..... as • - _ • lusiness done 1 2 20 2 1 28'2:811 RITIES. IRELAND. DUBLIN, TUESDAY MORNING. THE HARVEST. Everything l ooks more promising to-day. Scarcely any rain for three whole days, and the weather, though rather cold for the month, looks settled fair. The last accounts from Cork, King's county, West meath, and Longford are extremely favourable. In the county of Cork reaping has become quite general, and numerous fields are now to be seen with the corn stacked. The complaints of the extension of the potato blight are less numerous than they were a week ago, but there is no question that the crop will show a deficiency as compared with last year's return. In some of the country markets the price is suspiciously low at this early period. IRISH SOCIAL BURDENS. On Saturday last Lord Fermoy, as Lieutenant of the county of Cork, presided over a large meeting of magistrates, ratepayers, and others interested, to consider the necessity a dividing the county and holding separate !ass:lzes for each division, repre sented by a separate grand jury. In the course of his opening addriJss his Lordship said he had taken the trouble of looking into the question of Irish taxation, and had come to the conclusion that Ire land for loyal purposes was the heaviest taxed country i u Europe. To bear out this view the noble chairma n quoted the following facts and figures : " The Grand Jury cess in Ireland amounted to the sum of over a million, but he would put it down at that figure, and the poor-rate amounted, in round numl - Jers, to about £500,000, making a total of xi,r,00,000. There were also other local burdens. There was the tithe rent charge. He had hr.ard the funds of the Established Church of Breland estimated by some as low as £500,000 a-year, and by others at £BOO,OOO, and the truth might be estimated as between the two, so that they might put them down at between £600,000 and £700,000. There was also another Church supported by the people of Ireland out of the fruits of the land—a Church that never liked to be ignored, and which, in his mind, ought not be ignored by anybody wishing to be considered as a philosopher or statesman as regarded Ireland —he meant the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of the great majority of the people of the country. That was no doubt supported by voluntary contri butions, but in considering the burdens the people had to bear, whether they were voluntary or im posed by law made no difference as to the amount. The only mode he had of ascertaining the amount contributed for the support of the Catholic Church was a very simple one. He found there were four archbishops, and he had put them down at £BOO a year each, making £3,200; 24 bishops, at £6OO a year each, amounting to £14,400; 2,291 priests, whom he put down at £2OO a year each on an ave rage, made £458,800. Then they had the building of chapels, s u b scr i p ti ons f or th e propagat i on o f t h e faith in foreign countries, subscriptions for the Pope and many other objects connected with the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, and he did not think he was under the mark when he put them down at £200,000 a year, and that would bring up the expenses of the Roman Catholic Church to nearly £700,000 a year, somewhere about the same as those of the Protestant Church. There was also the Presbyterian Church, the Wesleyan, and other congregations of Dissenters. The Presbyterians were partly supported by the Regium Donum , and partly by voluntary contributions. He did not think he was over the mark in stating that the voluntary contributions of the Presbyterian and other Dissenters amounted to somewhere about £200,000 a year. Therefore they had about £1,500,000 raised for religious purposes in Ireland, adding to that £1,500,000 of county cess and poor law taxation, they had a gross sum of £3,000,000 paid by Ireland for local purposes, out of a rental, according to Griffith's valuation, of £12,000,000 ; that is they paid 25 per cent. on the gross rental of the country towards local contributions and taxa tion." MARRI iGES IN IRELAND. The report of the Registrar-General of arriages in Ireland for 1859, which is confined to the mar riages of Protestants, states that the number was 9,261. The average for the five years 1850-54 was 9,646 ; for the five years 1855-59 only 9,295. The former series had the advantage of an unusual num ber of marriages in 1853, but the numbers do not indicate an increasing population. It is supposed that the proportion of early marriages is larger in Ireland than in England, but it is not so among the Protestant put of the population. The proportion of men unable to write their names is about the same as in England, but there is this difference— that in England the proportion is decreasing, in Ire land it is not ; of women unable to write the pro portion a few years ago was least in Ireland, but England has now improved, and in 1858 (the latest account made up) only 37.6 in every 100 women who married in England had to make their mark ; while in Ireland, in 1859, the proportion of illite rate was 42 . 70. As is England the marriages are most numerous in the last quarter of the year, but the difference is not so great in Ireland. Not very 1 much more than half the Protestant marriages were celebrated in churches, 2,686 were in Presbyterian chapels, and the large number of 1,498 at the Re gistrar's-office-35 per cent. of all which were not solemnised according to the rites of the Established Church. Jews must be scarce in Ireland; for the last 15 years the marriages of Jews have barely averaged one a year. At the close of the year there were in Ireland 1,424 churches and chapels belong ing to the Established Church, 543 Presbyterian chapels registered for marriages, and 148 other re gistered buildings belonging to the Wesleyans and others, in all 2,115 places for the 7,763 marriages which were not celebrated in the registrars' offices, so that some at least must have had few enough. Of the marriages solemnised at churches eight in every ten were by licence, but marriage licences are said to be cheaper in Ireland than in England. The marriage-licence system does not appear a very wise one ; it may be reasonable to tax persons who wish to marry without the unpleasant pub licity of banns, but in England, at all events, the chief portion of the payment they have to make goes, not to the State, but to private individuals. The Registrar-General regrets that he has to pre sent such a meagre report year by year, but so it is that there is no civil registration of the marriages of Roman Catholics, nor of the birth or death of any human being in Ireland. The State collects and publishes every year statistics of the crops and the live stock, but not of the people. They thus lose the benefit of an easy proof of age and descent, and all the collateral advantages which might result from an exposure of sanitary defects and the mor tality they cause. Ireland, says the Registrar- General, is the only civilised country in which the births, deaths, and marriages of the inhabitants are not systematically recorded. SALINE STRENGTH OF THE SEA. A new subject of research, which had hitherto ' i crossed been but cursorily touched upon—viz., the of salt contained in the sea under different jaEt e i e p s . : . has just received a considerable degree f d of .the degree went through the labours of y M twd . eir . R lsecv ' ebt o z , si T ot i l a ts s ha s nu Y ds ' who, in the pursuit of his ob l ject the Atlantic seveval times in l al performing a voyage of near salt . to leagues. The determination d important, both which sea water is impregnate with in , and because it because it dif ferentexer- places, is • . cises• an influence over the ex i s t ence and propa gation of various may furnish mariners 0 ~useful indications of rua ri w ne ith species . certain contingencies .w !lay of attention, In northern latitudes, for instance, a diminution i n th e degree of saturation .will warn the navi ga t or o f th e breaking UP of ice in the po l ar regions, or else it w ill inform him of _,. l the proxi m i ty of land. For his observa tions, M. Thornassy has employed the areo meter the , most convenient instrument merely consists of a glass ball with a gra duated tube atta c h e d to it, which, by sinking mor e or less in th e liquid to be experimented on, of all, it m denotes its degree of saturation. Assuming this in strument to be so graduated as to denote the liquid it displaces in sinking by thousandth parts to every tenth of a degree, M. Themassy's experiments show that the sa l t contained in the water of the Atlantic, taken at the surface, and at a distance from islands, continents, and the ice of polar regions, is repre sented by a minimum of 4 degrees, which, under the ev a p ora ti ng i n fl uence o f the trade winds and a tropical sun, may rise to 4.40 degrees. At the mouths of rivers subject to the tides of the ocean, the areometer, or halometer, as we may call it in the present instance, marks 3 degrees at high tide, the ebb making it fall at least one degree (the more the instrument sinks, the less is the salt contained in the water). Along the coasts subject to the in fluence of rivers, the instrument, according as there is flow or ebb, oscillates between 2.40 and 3.53 deg., but may rise to 3.80 in southern latitudes. The Gulf-stream marks 3.90. Those who desire further particulars on this interesting subject may consult M. Thomassy's paper in the Bulletin de la Societe * Geologiqus de .France, v 01.17, p. 666. LITERATURIii. Sir B. Buliver Lytton's Novels. Library Edition. Devereux. Von. Blackwood and-Sons: The eleventh volume of this singularly beautiful periodical issue of the novels and romances of Sir Edward Bulweelytton is the initial volume of the second of the four series into which the Library Edition has been subdivided. The completion of the first series we have already indicated. The Caxton Novels, to the number of 10 volumes, having appropriately inaugurated the " set" of Forty- Three—appropriately that is, considering that the name of the firm of William Blackwood and Sons appears at the foot of every title-page. No wonder the publishers at once accorded precedence to the three works associated with the later fame of Maga, those three popular and re nowned Caxton Novels which have assumed so conspicuous, and even prominent a place among the latest of the literary glories of Blackwood. " The Caxtons" themselves, or rather itsey (speak ing of it as a book), being to our own thinking about the most perfect among all Sir E, B. Lytton's prose master-pieces. And the two more elaborate fictions which followed—(purporting to have been written by Pisistratus, and assuming to themselves an elevation proportioned to their elaboration)—is it not reasonable wholely apart from any preference OT personal predeliction of the publishers, is it not i n simple keeping, so to speak, with the mere fit ness l ea d off with their grand he ne do ssof w th i i t n h g i s t,, t , that "My N ove l" an d "Wh at w ill march the stately procession o f t h e Bulwer Lytton works of imagination ? Everything considered in the arrangement of the sequence of the issue of the forty-three volumes of this charming Library Edition of England's Greatest Roman c i s t, we cannot but feel satisfied that the Messrs. Black woodow n n have sti n et a i c v t e e d inclination. judiciously An followingalternative their cer tainly lay before them tempting them to the republication of these works in the order of time, in the order that is of their ori ginal publication. The result, however, would only have been confusedly miscellaneous. " Pelham" would have opened the procession and " Pisistratus" closed it—but between the two the train of imaginary characters would have been rather jumbled and bewildering. As it is the scope of Sir Edward's genius as a novelist will be more accurately appreciated by even the most superficial observers from the subdivision of the Forty-three Volumes of this Library Edition into the Four Series announced about a year back in anticipation of its commencement. Firstly —the ten volumes of The Caxtons Novels— last month completed. Secondly—the twelve volumes of the Historical Romances—this month commenced. Thirdly—the five volumes of the pure and simple Romances—which are to follow as the penultimate series in the order of republi cation. And Fourthly and Finally—the Sixteen Volumes of the Novels of Life and Manners. It is with the second series that we have here to do at this moment exclu sively—namely, with the six " Historical Romances" beginning with " Devereux." reux having been simply selected to inaugurate these half-dozen historical - romances because it was the first effort of Sir Bulwer Lytton as a historical romancist. Viewed as such, viz., as the first adventure into the fairyland of historic romance, it is certainly very wonderful. It is re markable in any point of view, but in that espe cially so. When Sir Edward Lytton penned this imaginary autobiography of Morton Devereux, he was a very young author. He was twenty-five years of age. It was his third work of any im portance. He had two seasons before taken the town by storm with the humorous vivacity and witty impertinence, so to speak, of his sparkling "Pelham, or the Adventures of a Gentleman. The year after Pelham appeared, Mr. Bulwer had followed it up cleverly—certainly most amusingly with the" Disowned. People were still laughing at the remembrance of the Copperasses, w hen a marvellously different chord was struck by the hand of the young novelist. It was no longer the vzs comica that moved his pen of fascination. That pen was abruptly transformed in the wand of the historic romancist. And in answer to its wierd conjurations —up rose within the magic circle of the plot of " Devereux "—a motley thing of historic personages ! Here was Henry St. John Lord Bolingbroke —,since dubbed by the author of " Devereux" in his recent poem of " St. Stephens"—our English Alcibiades. Here was Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patricks. Here Sir Richard Steele—here the Right Hon. Joseph Ad dison—here Sir Godfrey Kneller—and yonder in a wondrous little episode exquisitely introduced (Book iii, ch. iv.) in his old age, in his rural retire ment, Richard Cromwell the son of the Lord Pro tector, some time indeed Lord Protector himself im mediately before the close of the brief but glorious annals of the Commonwealth. The interest of the work, however, the peculiarly enthralling interest of " Devereux " as a romance is discoverable in the loves and hatreds, the lives and deaths, the virtues and the vices of the purely imaginary characters described by the fictitious autobiog . rapher. And secondly, in the labyrinthine involutions of the plot of this early effusion of Sir Ed ward's genius as a novelist, we can re cognise the precocious mastery already attained by him at the very outset of his career, in the dexte rous entanglement and subsequent unravelment of the thread of a narrative—a faculty of contrivance, a gift of constructiveness, in the possession of which we hold Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton to stand forth among all novelists, past or present, wholly and absolutely unrivalled. Of this—" My Novel," alone, affords sufficient, or, as we conceive it, con clusive attestation. Compare with it in regard to plot, for example, the novel of all novels, the (in many respects) matchless " Gil Blas" of the incom parable Le Sage—" Gil Bias" is but a wonderful chain of incidents, side by side with the Cretan Labyrinth of the marvellous plot of "My Novel" —a maze of seemingly (at a careless glance) inex tricable confusion, but one through all the intricate windings of which the reader is conducted by that magic clue, the thread of the author's narrative, beginning at Hazeldean and ending at Lansmere. It is this also, almost at times to the same extent of intricacy with the clue wound through the singularly elaborated plot of "Deve reux." Here, in this first moiety of the romance, the reader follows the trail of it, spell-bound and breathless, to Isora's death-bed ! The Past and Future of British Relations in China. By Captain Sherard Osborn, C. 8., R.N. One vol. pp. 184. Blackwood and Sons. The appearance of this delightfully . A con- Blackwood's y d e a b oo b l e e : ii , r 37 y p o a b p s e e r r s v , volume is most seasonable and opportuunpineratedha siderable portion of its contents ito' ' er ca j i t a ten piecemeal, a bhto Writer, v er, tained a certain share of p p e u P e p i l to ether frroemvisrede been carefully . casion of its original have (and of course anonymous I Magazine. The fragnlect a t mrsigularl which have thus been c cent numbers of by their gallant they have been t o b y him (as he tells ns in under notice have been judi ciously his frank li ttle preface ) and added to ‘, largely." Beyond which, the facts referred in th e pages v olume 6011,4 brought down to the latest dates, a conside ration of ne small importance in this age of tele grams flashing to us perpetually from almost all the of the points of the compass. Together with what Cap tain Sherard Osborn contributed orn contributed originally to Blackwood has been blent i , there n the preparation of this timely volume m ach also of the information laid , 0y him . before his colleagues of the Royal Geo graphical Society. Appended to the letterpress here subdivided into three chapters with an ap pendix, are three admirable maps supplied by way of most acceptable illustration. There is in the first place a comprehensive map of China itself—and in the second and third place there are two equally reliable little maps of the river Peiho or Tientsin hoa. The former of these two maps of the Peiho carrying the eye onward from the entrance to that river to the town of Tientsin, and the latter conveying it still further northward from Tientsin to the capital of the whole Celestial Empire, the wondrous city of Pekin it self ! Captain Osborn's three chapters of chat—for his style is throughout most delectably , conversational—" the mariner hath his will," and we needs must listen to him, in each of the three, down to the very " end of the chapter"—Captain Osborn's three chapters, we say, are in their very titles sufficiently suggestive of their bearing and character. Chapter I. headed " Remarks on Chinese reasoning—H.M.S. Furious at Shanghai —Proceed to the Gulf of Pecheli—the Peiho River' —bringing us to Chapter 11., on " Our Futurefir . lations with China," and afterwards to Chapter I ti t , l x, on " War and Progress in China." The aPP r e e l s i n consisting of certain excerpts from the " l' 1 :, s hall China" of Sir John Barrow. Later 0 00 71 loons to probably have occasion, in our leadirg, v.. 01113 4 = : Cap refer more in detail to the opinions of u in regard to China and the Chinese. 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