The Sun. — London, England, 1859-08-15 00:00:00

320.NEY MARKET ANL C. PITY NEWS, CITY, Two O'CLOCK. The accounts from the manufacturing districts continue of a satisfactory character. During the past week a fair amount of business has been done in woollen cloths at Leeds, for this season of the Sear, particularly in fancy goods, and the opera tives generally are fully employed. At Bradford there has been less activity in the demand for yarns ; piece goods, however, have been dealt in to a fair extent, and at late rates. India goods, at Manchester, have not been in such good request, and prices have slightly given way ; the inquiries for the home trade have been steady, and the market generally may be considered favour able. At Leicester the hosiery trade has been exceedingly active, and prices have tended upwards. At Birmingham the various branches of business Connected with the town and neighbourhood have shown rather less animation ; but the iron trade of South Staffordshire generally exhibites symptoms of improvement. In Sheffield, Wolverhampton, and Walsall there has also been a slight ameliora tion, orders to some extent for the home trade and for the United States having been received. The Liverpool Cotton Market on Saturday closed with a dull appearance, and 7,000 bales were sold at previous rates. In the Railway Share Market the transactions were limited, and prices tended downwards. There has been less inquiry for money during the last few days, and the terms asked for accom modation in the discount market have been slightly relaxed. Early last week first class bills could scarcely be negotiated at 2a per cent., but instances are now recorded of 2Z- and 21 per cent. being f reely accepted. It is thought, however, that the su bscriptions to the Indian and Russian loans will tend to stimulate the inquiry, and impart increased firmness to the quotations. The imports of gold from America continue on a moderate scale, and at the present moment, when there is an active export demand, they are of con eiderable importance, inasmuch as an effiux of gold from the Bank of England is prevented. The last return shows a small diminution, but the total is maintained in a very satisfactory position. The receipts from Australia augment the general im portation. The Africa, from New York, with £ 9 0,000 sterling, and the Southampton, from Port PhiliPhilip, w ith £118,216, h ave b een announce d th i s p, Th e dividend of the Royston and Hitchin Rail- Way Company was declared to-day. The amount for the half-year, after the expense of management, 'vas £2 16s. 2d. per £lOO Codsolidated Stock. . At the meeting of the Bank of Australasia held to-day, a very brief report was presented, stating that the business of the bank was proceeding satis factorily. Owing to the great competition, how ever, and the allowance of interest on deposits, the Profits of the current year had fallen off, and the directors prepared the shareholders to look forward to diminished profits. They still felt themselves Justified, in the absence of the accounts, to con tinue in October next the existing scale of dividend and bonus, at the rate of 20 per cent. per annum The report was adopted unanimously. Very little alteration is apparent in the market ' Mr railway share departments, owing to the paucity 9 ° ! business. Consols have been 95 to 951, and a 1 1 The new loans have created rather a heavy " l e- The New 3 per Cents. and the Reduced are steady at 952 ; Exchequer Bills, 235. to 265. 1)rel n• ; India Loan Debentures (1858) have re ceded to 941; ditto (1859), are firm at 941. Foreign stocks are quiet, but the quotatiens re main steady, and in some instances there is an im- Proving+ tendency. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 82 0 " ) 83 ; the New Loan, 72 toand the 4 per South American 102 i. Venezuelan, Brazilian, and other ''. °ll th American stocks are steady. Mexican 1 8 " ) e ll is 20 to 201. The New Russian Loan is ato prem. Rather more firmness has prevailed in the Rail- Wa y Share M ar k e t t o -d ay. Th e s t r i c t b us i ness at ,;.ended to h owever h as b een the preparations for the u quidations of th e h a lf mont hl y account. Edin burgh, Perth, and Dundee, London and Blackwall, a nd North Eastern (Berwick) advanced 55.; Mid land, 158., and Eastern Counties 1/. to 1/. ss. ; South Eastern declined 1/. The other lines dealt in brought about former rates. The Foreign and Colonial undertakings have been eceedingly inactive, and prices show no material variation. Lombardo-Venetian shares are at merely nominal quotations, and Great Luxembourg are Shade firmer. East Indian declined ss. ; and Gra nd Trunk of Canada, 10s. Joint -Stock Bank and Miscellaneous shares show tittle activity, and prices are unaltered. ..,}IItITIISII FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOC K B a ck Stock ,i, Per Cent. Reduced Annuities 951 1 omper Cent. Consols Annuities w 3 per Cent. Annuities 95 1 l ' l dia Stock Ditto Il ebentures, 1858 941 ~. Ditto, 1859 Ditto fors,'Bo Zl,OOO ouols cco (Sept. 7) h xth. rift 50U B ' ills Sl ' 000, 11d 26 3 500 26 po.tto Small lid j t a I OES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. ...r• t , • • ' I dlan 5 per Cent. , Aiitto 1 per Cent. 1858 941 11tador New Consoudated Irenitto Provisional Land Warrant 3l L'',2rdeati 3 per Cent• },euitto Account !,I?Aian 41 per Cent — ..., iiitt. A ..- CCollilt el'irdini T u. ,_. all. 5 per Cent B6 r'l9l,h_ %per Cent Ditto v bitto N eran Lo te au ed, 73 1021 a d 4 per Cent. ellezuelan 5 per Cent. Dividends on the above payable in London. TWO O'CLOCK. Consols, Money 95 Ditto Account su . - R Ivi,:nE,-----LIP SENATOR.—TESTIMONIAL.—A massive Ijl, -r "ixstand, of unique design, has been finished by _ 83ra. Widdowson, of the Strand (where it is o . n view) for presentation, with an Indian work escritoire, inscribed h"iGs I.,..at.itude's trifle," from Captain Lees, of the Senator, and 1 4 riends, to F. Solly Flood, Esq., of the Temple . and susVexford, barrister, to acknowledge his energetic, continu ' and gratuitous exertions, which were crowned with success, in rescuing an innocent man from an unjust prose- Godfrey,uiny conducted at S. Helen, IssB-9. John solicitor ; Pearce and Nash, agents. Accounts from Belgrade state that the death of the senator Voutchich, who had been arrested by order of prince Milosch, on a charge of being engaged in a con apiracy against him, has caused considerable agitation in tli e t city. Strong suspicions of foul play had been raised, and a post mortem examination of the bod who demanded. This was, however, refused by the prince,had a gua r d placed round the tomb of the deceased. ACTS OF PARLIAMENT.—In this year (1859) the following Acts were passed : —Fi rs t S ess i on (22 Victoria), Public general Acts, 35; local Acts, 3.5 ; private Act, 1 ; t `"' t al) 71. Seco n d Session (22 and 23 Vi c t oria ), public 219 gener a l A c t s , 66 ; local Acts, 139 ; private Acts, 7 ; total ; grand total, 283. -DIPIITHERIA.—We find another remedy , agains t tl dreadful disorder recommended in the " Union Medi cal©"ai,, by Dr Roche. It consists of irrigations of the . th . ro . the pa Rai. t Nv.ater, co . ntm . ued . almost without . intermission , patient lying on his side, with a basin under. of salt his mouth e t ate r is the liquid running out, while a jet e t r hm swollen parts `Nvvitrhrail: directed upon the tonsils and other Itocb,p e l lgator. In one of the cases described by Dr. but •-' 'a Previously cauterised the parts with . stick caustic; Y e ars o f In another case which was that of a child about . five_ b age, he was unable to introduce it, and was obliged Ito have recourse to irrigation alone, with which he obtained ti erfect Cure. The effect of the salt water is to wither the iitiv,entitious membranes by degrees, andto reduce the swel- B a li': The water may be impregnated either with common or ,_or with alum, chlorate of pctassia, iodine of potasium, Suppochloride of lime ' in all cases, so as to render the taste rtable, flibl\rENV YORK, August 3 . — Despatches received from atn Y this morning announce the occurrence of a nigh t. 41 accident on the Northern Railroad last I Pnt• The accident occurred near Sc'iagticoke, to Ltiv„ en en route for Albany. The train, while pass 3IS, Over the bridge which spans the Tomhannock, foot. Precipitated into the creek below, a distance of 0 " tO 25 feet. The water was about seven or eight d los t eep, and over 13 persons are reported to have v_ E their lives. Nine dead bodies had been reco ,,el'ed at 11 o'clock last night, and more were sup posed to be in the water. About 20 persons were 111 ; ° l'e or l ess wounded. The moment the train 8 Ze' r uck the bridge the structure gave way, and a at portion of the train was precipitated into the ss usY. but, stra nge to say, the locomotive got across "e bridge, and became detached from the tender. A lett er .from Pont Audemer, near Havre, says that N v the batt ery•called l'HOpital is l.eing mounted arith twelve rifled cannon. A n ar till ery officer has ri v n _, ed at H onfleur to superintend the operations, -,I provisio na l b arrack is being erected to lodge fifty a illen• Similar preparati ons are b e i ng made at ec se a a c i nP where a battery is to be erected on the oast, n ear the Casino. US DAY.) I LES AND STOCKS. Paid. Closing Price. 6 6} 7i 8i 75 77 12 97 09 811 82 4i 5; 8 9 14e 15 55 56i 40 43 28 30 .13 15 94 96 724 734 261 261 92 93 100 102 81 83 131 133 106 108 58} 59/ 55 60 87 00 12 13 p,' 12 13 pl 94 esi I I d d 65 67 108 110 931 94i 11 93i 944 5 7 35 86 104 104) 79 81 9 11 Stock l 50 Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock 25 Stock 'Stock Stock 59 61 3} S d 57 571 sot oil 44f 441 721 73 102 104 j Stock] Stock Stock Stock Stock 10 Stock Stock Stock 4i 41 d 1 , 3 . 4 141 Stock Stock, Stock Stock 6 B . 31 32 Share Blythe and Tyne 1( per c. pref. (issued at /.50) Brie. & Exet.4p.ct.Stocki Do. do. do. Shares Btock Caledon £lO, 4} per cent 12.10 Do. Quar. Shares, No. 2. Stock Chester & Holyhd„si pc Stock Do. do. 5 p. ct. Cork & Bandon, 5} p. 6t Dun. Perth,& Aber.Jun. Stoc E.Angn. Class A 7 & spc Stock Do. do. Class B 6 pc.... Stock Do. do. Class C 7 pc .... Stock E. Coun. Ex. 5 pct. No.l Stock Do. do N 0.2 Stock Do. New 6 per ct. Stock Stock,Eastern Union, 4 per et. Stock East Lana. 6 per ct 5 E.& W. York. Jcn. fifths Stock Edin.&Glas. 5 pc shares S ';ock Edin. Perth,& Dun. 4 pc. 8 Ock Furness, 5 per cent Stock Glas. &S West. • a. spc Stock Great Northern, 5 p. ct 1 Stock Do. 5 pc Redm.,lop.c.pmi Stock Do. 4a p. c. do. do. 100 D0.5 . g.c. Redm„s . p . c. pm 10 Stock 60 Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock' 264 Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock stock) 12 12i Stock, Stock - 12 i 120 Stock Stock Stock Stosk 10 I Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock' Stock Stock Stock' Stock Stock' StoCk Stock Stock Stock 10s. 1.0.6. Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock 25) 25j Stock Gt. Rh. of Scotld;lsi pf. Gt. Sn.& W (Ireland) 4 p. ct. pref. Stock Great West. (Berke and Hants) Ext. 5 p.ct Do. Redeemable, 44 p ct Do. Redeemable, 4 p. et Do. Irredeemable, do Do. 3 p. ct. Redeem. Pref Do. Birm. Pref. Shares Gt. West. Ches. 8 p.c.pf. shares . Do. do. 5 p. et. pref Do firming. guar. stock Do. Chester guar.shmes Do. do. do Do. do. do. Lan. & York 6 p.c. stock Lon. &Brig.spc. gu. No.l Do. pref., 5 p. a. ...No. 2 Do. New gua., 6 p. ct Do. do. 5 p. c. No. 4 Lon. & N. W.Cov. &Nun eaton, 5 p. ct. Lon.&S. W, 7 p.ct. stock, late 3d shares Londondy & Cole, shs Londondy.& Ennis 4 sh Man.,Sh., & Lin., 6 p. ct Do. £6 Do. 34 per cent. Maryport & Car., 4 p.c. Do. 4 per cent... Do. Mid. Con. 6 p. c. Stock Do.Con.Bris. & Bir.6p.ct Do. 4} p. C. pref. stock .Do. with option till 1860 Do. Leic. & Hit.pref. st. Newport,Aber,&c. pret.s p. c. redeem, at 5 p. c. o m Do. Perpet, 6 p. c. with option till 1866 Norfolk Deb. 4 p.c. shares Do. 5 p. C. Ext. Stock,lB 46 Do. 54 p. c. Pref. do. 1847 Do. Way. Vat Ex. Sk 1847 North British, 5 per cent Do. New, zua. 5 per cent Nth.Dev.Rail.& D.k.Co. N-East. irred. 4 p.c. Deb. Do. Berwick, 4 p. c. Pref. Do. do. do. Do. Leeds, 6 p. c. No. 1 Do. do. Quarters,lB46 Do. York, H. & S. Perch. North Staffordshire Ox. Wr. & Wol. 6 pc. Ist g Do. do. do., 2d gua .. Do. 41 p.c. Db. stk.in perp Scottish Central, new pi Scottish N.-Eastern deb Do. 31 per e. pref. stock Do.Aberdeen.gua. 6 pm Do. 7 p. c. pref. stock. South Devon, Ann. 108. Do. Fixed 41 per cent. South Eastern (Reading Ann., 1.0 6 ) Do .41 per cent Do. Fixed 41 p.c. let is Do. New do., 2d issue South Wales, gua: 4 p.c Do. 41 per cent S.-Yorkshire, 4 p.c. gua Stockton and Dar. 5 p.e Do. 6 per cent Waterford & Kilkenny, 6 per cent.- LINEI BED AT FIRE: 111 113 24} 25i 82 84 45 47 3i 2i d 44 46 734 744 61 63 60 64 13 15 8 11 34 .57i 65 70 Bedford and Bleteh y l all Buckinghamshire le O Colchester, C t yd nin e i s oc o (l n a i,nu l e s aJhrui Stourwrtie f e . l i c i s h . D .. Val,-. c e 1 100 all Do. Woodbridg e .. ': 100 Gle.Barr.&Neils,Drct 1 il l aaa:o gg il Do. New .... . Gloster& Dean Forest yDD; Do.. Caledonia .... . NNW......8dt ..r. Hartlpool.Dck.&Rail. Hull and Selby Do. i Shares Do. i Shares all Do. Lon don&Greenwich .'• Do. Preference Lon.,Tilby.&Soutend lOO Feto &Co. Do. Barking Shares all Do. . Norfolk .... Lowestoft, gua. 4p. ct. 100 Do. 6 per cent lOO Do. . Mane., Buxtn. & 3Tatk all LN Vial- Mid sb.& Redcr,g.6p.c all Stk.& Da Mid.BradfordPrf. Stk lOO Midland Newmarkt.,BuryEx 1 5. 5.6. E.Counts gu aranteed 5 p. c. Northn.& Baste. 5pA all Do. Do. do. 6 per cent all Do. Do. Fixed 5 per cent. all Do & . L N W Preston and Wyre. I all & Lsk. Do. i Shares A. all Do. Roystn,llitch.,& Shep 100 Gt. North. Shf.Roth.&Gol.g.sp.c. 18 11 6 Lan.& Irk Shrewsbry& Hereford all T Brassoy South Staffordshire .. all M'Clcan . Wear Valley, g. 6p. c. all i tk.& Dar Do. do. Wilts and Somerset.. 100 Gt. West Wimbledon& Croydn . all I L.&Brgtn Share Dooks. 6 6i 4 lf Ln & N.W Ln& N.W 98 100 Caledonin 102 104 E.U.&E C 17i Gt.North.'l4o 144 E. Counts. DOCKS. Closing Business I Paid p r i ce . Done. Stock Commercial . ... Stock Do4perCent..Pref .11in. 100 Stock East and west India... 100 Stock London ... . ............ 100 Stock St. Katharine .......... 100 Stock 50uthampt0n .......... 100 -••• Stock Victoria .............. . 100 101 103 vo Do New ..............R 18 ... Closing Business Railwayg. Prioe. Done. Itailwayg, Paid., Leasing Closing Busineaa Co. s. Price. Done. Business rHARE ORDINARY SHAT nail Ways . zu bet °tang. Bost. and Eastern Jurotion raelfast and Ballymena Wol., and `tr. Val. Birk., Lane., and Chesb. Junction Blackburn Myth and Tyne Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Chester and Holyhead Cork and Bandon Cork, Blkrock,&Passag Cornwall Do. A A rcves. no div Do B -- until6p.c.per an haslleen pd.toß Dublin andßelf ast June Dun.,Perth,&Abr.Junc East Anglian Eastern Counties Eastern Union A Stock Do. do. B Stock Do.Nw.A.(lte.E.U3ds) East Kent East Lancashire East Suffolk Do Edinburg and Glasgow Edin.,Perth, & Dundee Forth & Clyde Junction Furness Glasgow & South Vf estn Great North of Scotland Great Northern Do. do. A Stock Do. do. B Stock Gt. South.& Wstn.(lreld) Great Western Do. S tr. Vl. R ail Stk Trish South Eastern Lancaster and Carlisle Do. Thirds Do. New Thirds Lancashire & Yorkshire Do. do. F 216 Do. do. 29 shares Do. West Riding Union Do. Southport London and Blackwall Do.Newiss.at £slosp.sh Lon.,Brighton &S.Coast London & North Westn Do. Eighths London& South-Vestn L'derry & Coleraine L'derry & Enniskillen Man 4 Shei., & Lincoln Metropolitan Midland Do. Birming. & Derby. Mid. Gt. West (Ireland) Do. 4 Shares Newcastle and Carlisle New., Aber., & Herefd Newry & Armagh (def.) Newry, Warpt., & Roe Norfolk North. Counties Union North British Nor.Dev.Rail.&Dk. Stk Do.A Stk.— Arec. no div until 6p.c.hasbeenpdß Do. B Stock .. North-Eastn.—Berwick Do. do. G.N.E.Purchase Do. Leeds Do. York North London N. &S. Westn., Hampstd and City Junction North Ataffordshire North-Western No. & Son. W. Junction ebrford, Wor.,& Wolver Peebles Portsm9uth Rbymney Scottish Central Scoth. N. E., Aber. Stock Do. Scottish Mid. Stock Shropshire Union Sittingbourne & Sheer South Devon South-Eastern South Wales South Yorks.& Riv. Dun Do. do ,Staines, Wok., & Wok Stockton & Darlington Do. do. 1855 Do. do. 1858 Stockton & Hartlepool Taff Vale Do. Preference, No. 1 ThamesHavenbk&Rail Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny Waterford & Limerick West Cornwall W-end Lon. & Cry. Pal. Do.A.—Arecv.nodiv.till 7 p.c. has been pd. to B Do, B West London Do. Ist Class all all all all all 'Do. 2d Class rREFERENCE SHARES. RIOT' 90 92 II 9 'ALB. 91 1 1! 12.10 13.14 Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock' Stock, Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock 16 1613 4 Stock Stock Stock Stock 12 Stock Stock 10 Stock] S took all ) 100 100 100 100 100 all 931 I 93 I 100 3i 100 100 100 'lOO 100 1613 4 £3 le, l7i all all 100 all 161 100 100 100 100 all all all 49 41 95 97 1103 105 5 1 6 1 99 101 112 117 107 111 114 116 113 115 129 131 81 83 140 142 115 117 120 122 111 113 106 108 85 87 96 98 86 28 88 90 101 103 91 101 17 18 10 104 74 76 194 204 91 104 144 154 138 140 1158 162 8 9 120 123 60 ir 68 139 141 104 106 91 I 96 iP 9-1 10 114 111 110 112 108 110 98 100 1 4p i d 224 2 3 4 124 126 123 125 99 101 72 74 120 124 118 122 14 11 !24 24a 1104 106 jlO4 106 24 24 34 mi 47 53 110 112 64 66 1115 120 91 93 2i 21 98 100 * F 57 59 1139 142 9i 10 10i 11 THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVIMING, AUGUST ' 15, 18b$1. • Share Railways. Paid . Closing I Business Price. Dona. Atlantic & St . L awrence 100 all 79 81 • Leased at 6 per cent 18 Born.,Baroda&Cent.lnd 13; 61 17 16; gu. 5 per cent 18 Do all 11 8 1 80 0 . . Addit o Capital g 1 11 , 1 7; 1 24 Buffalo and Lake Huron all 4 5 d 01 Do. New l6; 61' 100 Iliffalo,Brant.&Godrich 1 100 ( 6 p. ct. lxls. 1 Aug., 187'z ) 100 Do. do. 1 July, 1873 100 190 Do. do. 1 June, 1874' " • 20 Clcutta.&S.Eastrn.Lini. 1. .1.0. 4d 1 p 20 Cape,Eastn. Prov.(Lirn. 2s. 20 Cape Town & Dock Scrip 2s. 11 id 20 Central Oude (Limited) 2s. 6d. -- 20 Ceylon Guaranteed 6p.c 7l 1 1 d 171 Demerara 20 Eastern Bengal.gu.sp.c 5 11 ; d Stock East Indian, gu. sp. c lOO 99 100 991 9 1 20 Do. C Shares all - 20 Do. F Shares Ext 5 • 20 Do. Jubbulpore 5 5 1 d 100 D 0.41 p.c. Bds. pay.'s9 al l 99 5 100 4 20 Geelong& Mel.gua.sp. c. all 19 20 Sto. Geelong Corporation 6 100 _ ( per cent. Bonds Stock Grand Trunk of Canada 100 34 35 34 100 Do. 6 p.c. Deben.,pay.'7B all 71 73 100 Do. 6 per cent. Pref lOO 91 93 20 Gt.lndiaPenin.g - ua.sp.c all 97 98 20 Do. New, gua.s per cent 4 ; d 20 Do. do 4 -- 20 Gt.S.of Ind.Lim.—Scrip 2s. 14 Id ( guaranteed 5 per cent. 20 Gt.W. of Canada Shares all 141 144 201 Do. New 100 Do. Bonds pay. '76,with all 102 104 ( ept. till '6O 100 Do. do. '73 till '6O all 102 104 100 Do. do. 'V3 without opt all 102 104 100 Do. 4p. c. do. '77 do 20 Madras, guar., 41 p. c all 85 90 20 Do. do. 5 per cent all 20 Do. 4' p. c. Extension l5 89 91 1 20 Do. Third Ex. gua.s.p.c l5 181 195 d 20 Do. Fourth do. itock Alelb. Corp. 6 p.c. Bonds 100 - Newßrunswlck&Canda. 20 Ry.&Land(Lim.)g.6pc 10 —d Class ACapitl.Share.. ▪ Do. do. Land d 0... .. 20 Do. do. B. Capital do. 10 -d ▪ Do. do. Land d 0... 20 Northof India Tramroad 2s. Limited, Scrip 20 Oude (Limited) 20 Scinde • 15 --d d 20 Do. a all 101 115 20 Do. New r . 12 11 5 d 20 Do. Punjaub `i t ; 5.) 5• 11 1 d 20 Do. Indus. St. Flo. '"" 10 11 1 d 20 ISt. Andrews & QuebecA 18 1 10 !Trinidad(Limited) Scrip 1 Stock THIS DAY'S MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE. The leading country markets held on Saturday were rather scantily supplied with wheat, yet all descriptions moved off slowly, at about stationary prices. Barley and most other kinds of spring corn, as well as flour, were a slow sale, but not cheaper. Throughout the Continent, wheat has sold in limited quantities, at about previous rates. Other kinds of pro duce have ruled without material change. In the United States the downward movement in the value of produce has been checked. Only limited supplies of home-grown produce were re ceived up to our market, last week. The arrivals from abroad amounted to 11,779 quarters of wheat, 1,610 of barley, 57,586 oats, 24 rye, 225 tares, 575 linseed, 2,675 rapeseed, 64 sundry seeds, and 891 sacks of flour. The supply of English wheat in to-day's market was very moderate, and chiefly composed of last year's qualities. The condition of the new wheat was by no means prime, and white parcels sold at from 44s to 48s per qr. For most descriptions we had a slow inquiry; nevertheless, com pared with Monday last, very little change took place in• the quotations. Millers generally showed no disposition to purchase beyond immediate wants. We were again extensively supplied with foreign wheat. Dealers operated with extreme caution, but we have no change to notice in prices. Floating cargoes of grain off Falmouth were held at full quotations. The show of barley was very limited, yet sales progressed very slowly,'at late rates. The general quality of the new samples was very poor. There was only a limited inquiry for malt, at last week's currency. The arrivals of foreign being large, oats moved off slowly, and prices had a downward tendency. In beans, very little was passing on former terms. The supply was very limited. New white peas sold at 40s. to 445. ; new grey, at 34g. to 365. per quarter. Flour was only in moderate request at last week's prices. About 800 quarters of new white mustard seed, in mid. dling condition, was on offer at from 12s to 16s per bushel. New tares were held at lOs 6d. 10d to Is ld. New Zealand—Clean Oteeps', is 4d to 2s; scoured, is 10d to 2s 2d ; locks, &c., is ld to is 6d. Other kinds of wool have sold at from is Id to is 7d per lb. The private market rules inactive, on former terms. FOREIGN RAILWAYS. 10 Antwerp & Rotterdam all 43 43 20 Ardennes all p 20 Rah.&S.Fran.,Lim.7p. c 3 13 3 d 5 Belgian East. Junction all 3 1 20 Bezera to Graissessac all 5 Carmeaux Mine & Rail all 2 25 20 Dutch Rhenish 6 Eastern of France 20 Euphrates Valley 2s. p 20 Great Central of France all 20 Gt. Luxem., Con. she all 63 63 Q 3 10 Italian Junction • 20 Lake Constance & Bale all 20 Lierre and Turnhout all 20 Lombardo Venetian 8 21 2/p 20 Lucca & Pistoja, 5 p.c.pf all 20 Lyons and Geneva .... all 335 Maria Antonia all 20 Do. do. New 20 Namur and Liege all 83 83 20 Do. do. 6p. c. Pref all 19 20 16 Northern of France 20 Do. New Shares 10 Norwegian Trunk Pref all 9 10 20 Ottoman. Grua. 6 per cent 7 - 20 Paris,Lyons, and Medit all 345 354 20 Paris and Orleans all 51 66 20 Recife& S. Fran. (Pero.) j 2O 23 23 d 103 Fua. 7 p. et. (Lim.) ) 20 Riga and Duniburg 4 10 Rome and Frascati 20 Royal Danish all 5 Royal Swedish 4 Do. 7 per cent. Pref. 20 Sambre and Meuse. all 6 64 10 Do. 53 per cent. Pref. 20 Southern of France 83 West Flanders all 54 6 10 Do. 55 p. c. Preference 20 W. & N.W. of France all 214 221 20 Western of Austria .. 6 20 Western of Switzerland all 6 Wiesbaden 6 Do 8 per cent. Pref all 20 Zealand all COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Share Securities. paid, I Closing I Business Prices. Done. Can.Gov.6p.c Ja. & July 100 112 113 1123 3 Do. 6 p.c.Fb.&Aug. 100 110 112 Do. 6 p.c.Mr. & Sep. 100 113 115 N.8.G0v.6 p.c. Ja. &July 10C 1095 1103 Do. 6p.c.Ap. & Oct. 100 N. S.W. Gov. sp. c. Deb. 106 983 994 NovaScorlaGov.6 p.c. • Deb. redeemable, 1875 100 1095 1104 S.Aus.Gt.6pc.Jan&.July 100 108 110 Vict•Gov.6p.c.Jan&July 100 MISCELLAri EOUS. M i ccxiianeous. B p aid. Closing Business dons Price. Anglo-Mexican Mint Atlantic Tel. (Limited) Australian Agricultural Australian Royal Mail . Berlin Water Works Do New, issued at £es dis British American Lane Brit. & Irish Mig.Tel.A. Do. B, 7 p. c. till 1862 Do. C j)3i 144 0 220 28 29 I i 2 3 36 38 19 21 14 15 107 111 8 9 Canada Land Chan.lslands Tel.(Lim.) Cop.Min.otEng.&Smlta Do. Preference 74 per ct Crystal Palace. Do. Preference Eastern Steam Electric Telegraph Eng. & Aunt. Cop.St.Co Europ. & Ind.Junct.Tel Europ.&Am.Stm.(Lim.) Gl.lron ScrewCol.(Lim Gen. Steam Navigation London Discount Lond.Gen. Omnibus Co Mediter. Electric Teleg Med. Exten. Tel. (Lim ) National Discount Co Netherlands Land Do do DoBp.c.Pref.,iss.at idis N. tr. &NovaScotiaL and N.B.Australasian (Lim ) North of Europe Steam Oriental Gas Do. New Shares Peel River Land & Min Pen. & Oriental Steam Do. New Red Sea & Ind. Telegr Rhymney Iron Do. New Royal Mail Steam Scot. Austrin. Inv.(Lim ) South Australian Land Submarine Teleg. Scrip Do. do Registered Tr.& 1.n.C0.01 Upr. Can Vqn Tliorrown'e T And 24- 25 I , T If oi 'lO4 106 , i i 3 31 4 5 1 11 Share i I i d ; i ll 2i 2tp 76 78 9 11 f 1 P 21i 224 6 7 125 135 35 37 I 1 8 0 BRITISH MINES. Mines. Alfred Consols (Philack)' British Iron Condurrow (Camborne) Devon G. Cons. (Tavist.) East Bassett (Illogan). E. WI Itussl (Tavistk.) Great South Tolgua G. Wheal Alf3.(Phillack) G. Wheal Vor (If elston) Lady Bertha North Frances (Illogan) North Wheal Crofty N.Wh'l Basset (Illogan) Par Consols (St. Blaxy) Porkellts Unit. (Wend.) Sortridge Cons. Min. Co. South Caradon (St. Cleer) South C. Brea( Illogan). S Wheal Fran. (Mogan) Tamar Silver and Lead Mining Co Tin Croft UnitedMines(Gwennap) Vale of Towey (Caren.)) West Basset (Illogan).. W. Caradon (Liskeard). Wheal Basset (Illogan). Wheal Buller (Redruth), Wheal Edward (Cals.).. Wheal Kitty (U. Lelant) WWI Mary Ann (Memhe)l Wh'l Tretawney (Lick.)! 1 I 2.11.10 6.11.0 17s 11.18.8 9* 18s 6d Si 7.9.4 nil. 18.18.91 12s 6d Paid. 1 Closing Business Price. Done. 5 6 1 2 435 445 j 170 175 10 11 131 iff , 1 it ; 1k 1 tk 6 7 7 8 74 84 12 13 240 250 21 160 170 2 4 1 24, 21t 22 130 135 175 185 85 95 11 21 9 10 35 37 27 291 FOREIGN MINES 20 1 35 20 5 1 i Australian Bon Accord Copper,Lim. Brazil. Imp. (is. at £5 p.) Do.St.Johnd eIReT, Lim. Do.L and and 3liningCo. Clarendon Consols Min ing Co. of Jamaica ... Cobra Copper Cepiapo DunMoun.Cop.Ming.Co Fortuna Genaral.. Linares 5 1 30 28.2.81 Lusitanian Mariquita New Granada N.RhineCop.of S.Aus.L Pontgibaud Silver, Lead Mining and Smelt Port Philip Santiago de Cuba (United Mexican JOINT-STUB Share] Joint-Stook Banks. Agra&pn!tedServiceßk lAustralasia i 5 Bank of Egypt Eank of London () 0 C BB T r ' td tti !Chß° l. k lrkt o h. f &A l L ni a i r a l Co 0 City 0 Colonial 11 Corn. Bank of Canada Commercial of Landon 1 Eng , Scot., & Aus. Ch Gen Bk. o Switzerland Lon, Char.Bk.ofAustral. Loudon and County London Joint Stock London & Westminster.l Nat. Prov. of England. Do. new National Bank New South Wales 15 Orient .Bk. Corporation 0 Ottoman Bank Provincial of Ireland 0 Do. New .............. .. South Australia 5 Do. New 5 Union of Australia 5 Do. New 9 , Union of London 0 Unity Mutual 0 Western Bk of London il I i, 9 11 41 43 8 9 2g -23 24 10 3 / 4 ilk d • } OP 31 41 11 11 ICK BANKS. p aid . 1 Closing I Business Price. Dune. 71 73 89 91 21 22 6Z 64 13i 14 311 18 20 154 16 201 211 19 20 71 73 254 264 CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wheat—Essex and Kent, red, new 3Bs to 44s Ditto, old 39s 448 Ditto, white, new 4os 48s Ditto, old Norfolk and Lincoln, red, old i. 48 43s Ditto, new 378 45s Rye—Old —8 —8 New 3os 328 Barley—Grinding...., 268 29s Malting 378 388 Chevalier 3BB 43s Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk 528 668 Brown 5OB 52s Kingston and Ware 528 648 Chevalier Oats—Yorkshire and Lincolnsh., Feeding 22s 26s . Potato 298 338 Youghal and Cork, black 23s 26s Cork, white 23s 32s Scotch, Feeding 238 32s Beans —Tick Pigeons Peas—Grey Maple White 4os 49s Boilers Flour—Town-made Suffolk 32s 348 Stockton and Norfolk 3os 318 METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. The total imports of foreign stock into London last week were 10,622 head. In the corresponding week in 1858 we received 9,578 ; in 1857, 8,922 ; in 1856, 5,028 ; in 1855, 8,867 ; in 1854, 9,703 ; in 1853, 10,973 ; and in 1852 head. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEER. From. Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. Rotterdam Amsterdam Harlingen Medemblik 3 .. 1,595 .. .. 8 .. Hamburgh •.. 62 .. 1,594 .. . Tonning 675 .. 600 .. .36 ~ Bremen .. 96 .. .. .. Ostend - .. Antwerp • ".. - .. 17 .. 2.. -.. 25 .. Total 1,045 8,381 70 713 413 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheap. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1858 2,524 .. 5,035 .. 494 .. 743 .. 772 1557 1,046 .. 6,140 .. 613 .. 643 .. 580 1856 1,088 .. 3,147 .. 196 .. 407 .. 190 1855 1,466 .. 6,633 .. 234 .. 627 .. 907 1854 1,738 .. 6,525 .. 71 .. • 600 .. 860 18.53 1,528 7,240 .. 774 .. 671 .. 759 The supplies of all kinds of foreign stock in our market, to-day, were very extensive as to number, and in fair average condition. From our own grazing districts the receipts of beasts fresh up this morning were seasonably good, but their general quality was by no means first rate. The priniest Scots, crosses, &c., were in fair request, at full prices ; but most other breeds moved off slowly, at late rates. A few very inferior beasts realised 4s. Bd. per 81bs. The arrivals from Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Northamptonshire amounted to about 1,600 short horns and crosses; from other parts of England, 1,200 of various breeds ; from Scotland, 50 Scots and crosses ; and from Ireland, 110 oxen and heifers. The show of sheep was seasonably good. On the whole, the mutton trade was in a sluggisht state. In the general qualities, however, we have no change to notice. We were well supplied with lambs, and the demand for them was heavy, at a decline in the quotations, compared with Monday last, of fully 4d per 81bs. The veal trade was heavy, at Thursday's delina in value of 2d per 81bs. The supply of calves was good. In pigs very little business was transacted, at last week's currency. Per 81bs. to sink the offal. u. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Crse. &inf. beasts 2 8 3 0 Primecrs-wool do. 4 2 4 4 Second qualitydo. 3 2 3 6 Pme. S'thdowndo. 4 8 5 0 Prime large oxen 3 8 4 2 Large crse. calves 3 10 4 4 Prime Scots, &c. 4 4 4 6 Prime small do 4 6 4 10 Crse. & inf. sheep 3 2 3 6 Large hogs 3 0 3 6 Second quality do. 38 4 0 Small porkers Lambs, 4s 6d to 5s Bd. Suckling calves, 18s to 22s and quarter .old store pigs, 18s to 225. . TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts 4,75 01 Beasts : 1,410 Sheep and lambs ..... 29,260 Sh eep Calves Pigs 2OO Pigs - A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in the Great Metropolitan Cattle Market, on Monday, Aug. 16, 1858, and this day, Monday, Aug. 15, 1859. Per 81bs, to sink the offals. Aug. 16, 1858. Aug. 15, 1859. is d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Coarse and inferior beasts . . Second quality ditto 3 6 '3 10 3 2 3 6 Prime large oxen 4 0 4 4 3 8 4 2 Prime Scots, &c. . . . . 4 6 4 8 4 4 4 6 Coarse and inferior sheep . . 3 0 3 2 3 2 3 6 Second quality ditto . . . . 3 4 3 8 3 8 4 0 Prime coarse-woolled ditto . .3 10 4 2 4 2 4 4 Prime Southdown ditto . . Lambs Large coarse calves . . . 3 8 4 23 10 4 4 Prime small ditto Large hogs Neat small porkers . • • Beasts Sheep and lambs . . Calves Pigs SUPPLIES ON SALE, Atig. 17, 1857.---Beasts, 4,136; sheep and lambs, 24,620; calves, 322; pigs, 315. Aug. 20, 1856.—Beasts, 4,405 ; sheep and lambs, 25,790 ; calves, 287 ; pigs, 437. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The supplies of each kind of meat are seasonably good. Prime beef, mutton, lamb, and veal are in steady request, at full prices, otherwise, the trade ruled heavy. Per 81bs. by the Carcass. -- s. d. e.... I , s. d. s. d. Inferior Net 2 10 to 3 0 Infr. Mutton. 3 2to 3 6 Mid. d 0..... 3 2to 3 6 Mid. do 3 Bto 4 0 Pm.largedo. 3 Bto 3 10 Prime do. 4 2to 4 4 Do. small do. 4 oto 4 2 Veal .. . 4 oto 4 6 Large pork.. 0 oto 3 8 Small pork 4 4to 410 Lamb, 4s 6d to 5s 2d. BOROUGH HOP. Since our last report, only moderate supplies of potatoes have appeared on sale here. On the whole, the trade is very firm at extreme quotations. Shaws are selling at from 70s to 90s, and Regents 100 s to 140 s. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. New Sussex hops, in good condition, have sold at £B, and new Kent at £8 8s per cwt. For all kinds, the demand is heavy, at nominal currencies. Duty £255,000 to £260,000. SEEDS. Linseed has continued in fair request, and prices have advanced is per quarter. Rapeseed is steady, at full quo tations. Canary' is in moderate request, at late rates, and clover seed is held at very high prices. Fine new white mustard seed is worth 14s per bushel. In cakes very little is doing. furnip,White,p.bus.l2s to 14s Swede Mustard, Brown Bs 118, White, new l4s 20s Tares, Spring, new.. 926 d 12s Old —s Canary, per quarter Nis 76s Rye grass, new 22s 20s Clover, Red Eng. , et. —s —s White -s — s , Foreign Red —s White —s —s Trefoil, new -s Carraway 4os to 433 Coriander 9s 12s Hempseed, per qr 30s 38s Linseed,Eng.sowing 74s 76s Crushing —s —s Baltic —s —s Odessa Linseed Cake, p. ton - English £lO Os £lO 5s Foreign, p ton £9 Os .£lO 5e Rape Cakes,p. ton 4 15s 5 5s Rapeseed, p. qr. .... 04s 74e WOOL M. ARKET. The public sales of colonial wool continue to be well at tended, both by home and foreign buy ers . Th e bi dd i ngs still o sld a rule firm, 8d tat tver o 2 yf s 8 full prices. Syd ney —C lean sheeps ' has d ; scoured, is 8d to 2s 4d; skin, Is 2d to is 8d ; grease, &c., Is. to Is. 6d. Port Philip— Clean sheeps', is 8d to 4d ; scoured, is 8d to 2s 8d ; handwashed, is 9d to 2s 2d ; lambs', is 7d to 2s 4d ; skin, &c., is 2d to is 7d. Van Dieman's Land —Clean sheeps', Is 8d to 2s 10d ; handwashed, is 7d to 2s 6d ; lambs', Is 8d to 2s 4d; grease, Ild to is ld. Adelaide—Clean sheeps', Is 6d to 2s; scoured, is 6d to 2s; lambs' is 6d to is 11d; grease, is to is 2d. Cape—Clean sheeps', le 5d to Is lOid ; handwashed, is 4d to is 8d; lambs', is 4d to is 8d; grease, TALLOW The business doing in our market is only moderate, yet prices are well supported. P.Y.C. on the spot is selling at 555; for delivery during the last three months, 558 9d to 56s per cwt. Rough fat, 2':4 lid per 81bs. 1855. 1856. 1857. I 1858. Stock this day.... 140.42 Price of Y.C. 55s Qd to 35s 3d Delivery last week 2,C 17 Ditto from June 1 20,C53 Arrivals last week 869 Ditto from .June 1 13,*4l Price of Town .... 56s 6d 10.611 12.577 11.716 121.552 5:.":8 6d to 65a 0d to 4980(1 to 5580(1 to 53s 9d —s )d —s Od —8 Od 1,503 1,873 2,810 1,799 23,019 16,359 16,: , 14 11,153 40; 2,581 305 965 15.991 15,792 16.50:1 2,0597 55s 9d Gas td 50s Od 558 9d STATEMENT OF TALLOW SHIPPING AT ST. PETERSBUHG. Tallow despathed from Cronstadt 1859. 1855. 1857. to July 20, 0. S. (estimated at 25 Casks. Casks. Casks poods to the cask) 23,855 • 15,175 7,508 In ships loading and lighters 3,011 1,755 2,767 Total loaded offfrom St. Petersburg, July 22, 0. S 26,869 16,930 10,?75 Do. after this d a t e Total at the close of the navigation Stock S Cocl; all all all 15s. all all 112,012 103,761 London Liverpool 313 --- Bristol Other English po r t s Ireland • 76t 159 Scotland B'4 Germany 732 France 2,775 1,194 Total 1,021 199 23,855 15,157 7,508 CRIMIN.iL COURT.-( THIS DAY.) (Before the Lord Chief Baron.) TRIAL OF DR. SMETHURST. This morning the trial of Dr. Smethurst, who stands indicted for the wilful murder of Miss Isabella Bankes, at Richmond, was resumed. Sir John Lawrence was amongst the distingutahed per sons who occupied seats on the bench. The court was very much crowded. Upon the prisoner being placed at the bar, The Clerk of the Court read to him the indictment and the coroner's inquisition, by both of which the prisoner was charged with the wilful murder of Isabella Bankes. He pleaded not guilty. Sergeant Ballantine, with Mr. J. Clark and Mr. Merry weather, appeared for the Crown; Sergeant Parry, with Mr. Giffard, defended the prisoner. It will be recollected that the prisoner was a person who had for some years practised medicine, and about 30 years ago he married a lady, still alive, and who was in advance of his own age, and he was living with her in January, 1857, when he resided at No. 8, Rifle-terrace, a boarding-house, kept by very respectable people. Miss Bankes was a lady about 43 years of age and of considerable private means, to the extent ofabout £l,BOO. In 1858 she obtaimd a life interest in £5,000 in the funds, but at her death that would, of course, pass away. In the autumn of the same year she went to re side at No. 8, Rifle-terrace, - where the Smethursts were resi ding. An acquaintance sprang up between them, and the landlady, seeing that there was some familiarity between Dr. Smethurst and Miss Bankes, spoke to Miss Bankes, who left the house and went to reside at a similar establishment in Kildare-terrace. On the 9th of December, 1858, Dr. Smethurst met Miss Bankes at a church in Pimlico, where they were married. Dr. Smethurst went back to his wife for a day or two, and it would be found that Smethurst and Miss Bankes afterwards left their respective boarding houses on the 11th of December. Nothing was heard of the lady until the 10th of January, 1859, when Miss Louisa Bankes, received a letter from her sister. That letter was answered, and on the 15th of February Dr. Smethurst and Miss Bankes, calling herself Mrs. Smethurst, went to live at Old Palace-gardens, Richmond. They appeared to live on the most affectionate terms, and Miss Bankes went for long walks, and appeared to be in Very good health. Up to 28th March they lived there, and then commenced the illness which terminated in death. The prisoner made inquiries as to who were the best medical men in the town, and, on recommendation, Dr. Julius and Dr. Bird, his partner, were called in on the 3d of April. Dr. Julius treated her for an ordinary case of diarrhcoa, having obtained from Dr . Smethurst a full account of the nature of the symptoms. Dr. Smethurst took a most active part, was in close attend ance on the deceased, and never allowed the medical men to be alone with her. Dr. Smethurst also suggested medi cines, innocent in their character, but in which he said he had faith. Dr. Julius continued to attend her from the 3d of April to the 15th, when she left Old Palace-gardens and went to Alma-villas. Dr. Julius was extremely puzzled by the symptoms, and was astonished to find that all his remeelies were unavailing. Under these circumstances, he requested Mr. Bird to see her ; and from that time to the day of her death Mr. Bird attended her, in connection with his partner. The unfortunate lady died on the 3d of May, and the present indictment was in consequence preferred against the prisoner. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine, in his opening speech, laid the whole of the above details before the jury, and then pro ceeded to call evidence to prove the case against the prisoner. The evidence adduced to-day was similar to what has already appeared in The Sun. The trial is expected to last three or four days THE NEW PLENIPOTENTIARY FOR CENTRAL AMERICA. The country will view with considerable satisfac sation an awakening sense in the silent bosom of the Foreign-office as to the importance of Central America. Secret diplomacy only demonstates its operations by outward and visible signs, leaving the public to speculate upon their significance ; and by these signs the public must judge of the inten tions of Lord John Russell. Long ere the stars and stripes decorated the free banner of the United States, the King of Great Britain had recognized territory in Central America. The woodcutters of British Honduras are as ancient a race as the Pilgrim Fathers; but the wood-cutters remained faithful when the sons of the Pilgrims shot down their fellow.subjects on Bunker's Hill. And the wood-cutters still desire to remain faithful, notwith standing the threats and blandishments of their northern cousins. British Honduras, including the Islands of Ruatan and Bonaca, is a British colony, as much as Canada or the Cape of Good Hope; and its title is unaffected by the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. as all American politicians know, though some are not honest enough to avow it. About two years ago the present Foreign Secretary was indis creet enough, in his place in Parliament, to speak with indifference of the value of her Majesty's pos sessions in Central America. Mature reflection has, we believe, however, altered his opinion. In deed, credit must be given to the Foreign-office for having recently greatly amended its ways. The public opinion, freely expressed in this and other journals, has at length reached the recesses of the Foreign-office, and repentance is evidencing itself in acts having a tendency in the right direction. We expressed hopes that something would be done to restore the confidence of the colony when Sir W. G. Ouseley was sent out, last year, as Minister Plenipotentiary to Nicaragua. The well-known manly character, instinct with British feeling, of Sir W. G. Ouseley, rendered him a peculiarly fit instrument to reassure the drooping confidence of the colonists, and to unmask the aggrandising ten dencies of the United States. I: is suspected that Sir William's line of policy was of too bold a nature to be sanctioned by the traditions of the Foreign-office, and' it is not unlikely but that this has caused some complications, working personal annoyance to himself—and it is known that he has suffered greatly in his health in the warm, moist climate of Nicaragua. Be the cause, however, whatever it may, it is, we under stand, the intention of the Foreign-office to recall Sir W. G. Ouseley, and to supply his place with Mr. Charles Lennox Wyke, who was presented by Lord John Russell to the Queen, at Osborne, on Friday, and will take his departure by the West India mail on the 17th for Costa Rica, via Panama, the directors of the railroad across that isthmus having, through their president, Mr. D. Hoadley, now in England, in reference to the Australian postal contract, placed a special train gratuitously at his disposal, as they did when Sir W. Ouseley proceeded from Aspinwall to the same destination. The Foreign-office list for the present year fur nishes a short biography of Mr. Wyke. He was formerly a lieutenant in the Welsh Fusiliers, and afterwards, for three years, a captain in the Gene ral Staff of the late King of Hanover. In 1845 he was appointed vice-consul at Port-au-Prince, and ' in 1852 he was named as consul-general for Cen tral America, on the retirement of Mr. Chat field; and in 1854 he was raised to the diplo matic rank of Charge d'Affaires. Mr. Wykes' name and reputation are necessarily shrouded in the haze which hangs over Central A•oerica ; but, from such information as may be gathered from a perusal of such of his despatches as the Foreign-office have made public, it is evident that he is a gentleman of considerable ability, and thoroughly English in all his thoughts and feelings. Unless Mr. Wyke be crippled in his actions by secret dispatches from home, his coun trymen may expect shortly to see some practical evidence of a sound policy whi c h, while respecting the rights of the Republics of Central America and assisting in the developm en t o f f re e routes of transit shall at the same time maintain the rights of her Majesty, and of he r M a j es ty' s subjects, in this hitherto neglected but important corner of the Queen's dominion s . —Li ver p oo l Albion. THE TREASURY CHEST.—The liabilities of the Treasury Chest on the 31st of March, 1858, are returned at £3,206,643, and the assets at £4,537,344, leaving a surplus balance available for the service of the Chest amounting to 41,330,701. PROROGATION OF PARLIALMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS-(SATURDAY). The ceremony of proroguing the Imperial Par li anent, by Royal Commission, took place to-day with the usual formalities. Shortly after two o'clock the Lord Chancellor and the other peers named in the Comthission entered the house in their scarlet robes, and took their seats in front of the throne. The usual preliminaries haying been gone through, The LORD CHANCELLOR then directed the Usher of the Black Rod to summon the "faithful Commons to the bar of their lordships' house to hear the Royal assent given to certain bills, and also her Majesty's most gracious speech proroguing Parliament." The Usher of the Black Rod then. retired, and in a few minutes the Speaker and a number of the members of the House of Commons appeared at the bar. The Royal commission having again been read, the Royal assent was then given to the following bills : Income Tax Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) ; Stamp Duties; Military Savings Bank; Universities Incorpora tion Act Amendment; Queen's Remembrancer ; County Cess (Ireland) Acts Continuance; Universities (Scotland); Constabulary Force (Ireland) ; Manufactories (Ireland) Acts Continuance; Cambridge University Commission Continuance; Law of Property and Trustees Relief Amend ment; North-Western Territory (British America) Coinage; Probate and Letters of Administration (Ireland) ; Turn. pike Trusts Arrangement ; Railway Companies Arbitra tion; Marriages (Lisbon) ; Imprisonment for Small Debts; Militia Law Amendment ; Bankruptcy and Insolvency (Irelarid) Act Amendment; Customs (No. 2) ; East India Loan ; Militia Pay ; Reserve Volunteer Force of Seamen ; Government of India Amendment ; Inclosure Acts Amend ment; Stock-in -Trade Exemption; Ecclesiastical Juris•• diction Continuance; Episcopal and Capitular Estates Act Continuance ; Corrupt Practices Prevention Act (1854) Continuance ; Weights and Measures Act Amend ment ; Turnpike Act Continuance ; Dublin Police ; Chari table and Provident Societies ; Inclosure ; European Troops (India) ; Divorce; Sale of Gas; Charitable Trusts Act Continuance; Sessional Division; Law Ascertainment so ciety; Poor Law Board(Paymentof Debts); GalwayHarbour and Port Amendment; .Fishing Vessels passing the Nore ; Chester and Holyhead Railway; Westminster New Bridge; Newcastle-under-Lyme Burgess Land ; Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway ; Chichester Harbour Embank ment; Herne Bay and Faversham Railway (Margate Ext.) ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, and East Lancashire Railway Companies ; Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax Junction; Nuneaton and Hinckley Railway ; Victoria Station and Pimlico Railway; Berks and Hants Extension Railway; British and Canadian Telegraph Company ; South Staf fordshire Railway ; London and North-Western Railway (Denton to Staleybridge) ; and several other bills. The LORD CHANCELLOR then rose and read HER MAJESTY'S SPEECH. " MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, " We are commanded by her Majesty to release you from further attendance in Parliament, and at the same time to convey to you her Majesty's acknowledgments for thit zeal and assiduity with which you have applied yourselves to the performance of your important duties during the session of Parliament about to close. " Various circumstances have occasioned inter ruptions, and prevented the completion of important mea sures which her Majesty pointed out to the attention of her Parliament at the beginning of the present year, but her Majesty trusts that these matters will be taken into your consideration at an early period of the next session. " The war which has broken out in Northern Italy hav ing been brought to a close by the peace of Villaf?anca, overtures have been made to her Majesty with a view to ascertain those held by the great Powers of Europe, for the purpose of settling arrangements connected with the pre sent state and future condition of Italy, a plenipotentiary would be sent by her Majesty to assist at such conference, but her Majesty has not yet received the information ne cessary to enable her Majesty to decide whether her Ma• jesty may think it fit to take part in any such negotiations. "Her Majesty would rejoice to find herself able to, con tribute to the establishment of arrangements calculated to place the general peace on satisfactory and lasting founda tions. "Her Majesty, in accordance with the stipulations of the treaty of Tiensiag, has instructed her plenipotentiary in China to repair to the Imperial Court at Pekin; and her Majesty trusts that such direct communication with the Imperial Government will have a beneficial effect upon the relations between the two countries. " Her Majesty commands us to inform you that she looks forward with confidence to the continued mainte nance of those friendly relations which so happily subsist between her Majesty and all foreign Powers and States. " Her Majesty is glad to be able to congratulate you on the complete restoration of tranquillity in her Indian do minions. " It will be her earnest endeavour to promote their in ternal improvement and to obliterate the traces of those con flicts which her Majesty witnessed with such deep concern. " The financial arrangements of that portion of her Ma jesty's empire will continue to engage her Majesty's serious consideration. " Her Majesty has had much satisfaction in giving her assent to the bill which you presented to her for the forma tion of a naval and military reserve force. A complete and permanent system of national defence must at all times be an object of paramount importance. " Gentlemen of the House of Commons, — "Her Majesty commands us to convey to you her cordial thanks for the readiness and zeal with which you have provided the necessary supplies for the year. My Lords and Gentlemen, — Her Majesty commands us to express to you her heartfelt gratification at witnessing the general wellbeing and con tentment which prevail throughout her dominions. The happiness of her people is the object dearest to her heart. At the termination of the reading of the Royal Speech, The LORD CHANCELLOR said—By virtue of the commission which has just been read, I declare, in the name of her Majesty the Queen, that this Par liament is prorogued until Thursday, the 27th day of October. During the proceedings few visitors were pre• sent. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. -(THIS DAY.) MARLBOROUGH-STREET. OBTAINING GOODS UNDER FALSE PRETENCES BY A NOBLEMAN'S COACIIMAN.—Henry Findon, coachman to Lord Lurgan, was brought up on a warrant by Shillingford, an officer of this court, and who had apprehended him at his lordship's estate, Lurgan, County Antrim, charged with obtaining a lady's side saddle, from Mr. Peter Worsley, saddler, 57, South Audley-street. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner in May last was in Lord J. Manners' service, in Brook-street, Grosvenor-square, and without any authority from his lord ship he went to tho p prosecutors, and by saying that he was sent for it he obtained a lady's side saddle. When Lord J. Manners was spoken to about it he denied having sent the prisoner for the article. Prisoner had since obtained another situation in Lord Lurgan's family. Lord J. Manners' steward said his lordship,Tor the benefit of his health since his accident, had gone to Malvern. Prisoner was remanded for the attendance of his lord- ' ship. THIS DAY'S SHIPPING. LONDON, Aug. 15.—Wind this day at noon, North- Westerly ; fresh breeze, with fine weather. It rained heavily in the night and this morning. PORTSMOUTH, Aug 14.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Her Majesty's ship Pigmy, for Portland. PLYMOUTH, Aug. 14.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Her Majesty's ship Curacoa, for Monte Video. SWANSEA, Aug 14.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrived—Ford., mill, from Quebec. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Monday Morning. Wind N.N.W. Arrived, August 14—Kelpie, from Cameroons ; Equity, from Galvestton. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGEXPR.) GRAVESEND, Monday morning. Wind W.; tide, two hours' flood; weather squally. Arrived, Aug. 14 —Derwentwater, from Ostend. DEAL, Monday Morning. Wind S.W., strong, with rain. TRINITY -HOUSE PlLOTS.—Copies of the memo rials and correspondence relative to the application of cer tain free watermen of the port of London to the Trinity house and the Board of Trade to be examined as to their competency to act as pilots in the said port of London, and, if found competent, to have permissive (not compulsory) licenses granted to them, were published on Saturday, on the motion of M r . W illiam Ewart, M.P. The Board of Trade decided (in June, 1858) that-1. That so far as re gards the capability of the memorialists to act as pilots the Thames, their case appears to have been yrovic le o f° f r a b Y, an Order of Council, passed upon the application Elder Brethren of the Trinity-house on the Ist eg a . o r f d May, the 1855, a copy of which is eclosed. 2. That s as to r waterman further question of granting special licences acts in the showing their competency to do certain inmanagement of vessels in the Thames, the Lords could not 111 E SER.PIf.N INE. 4 TO THE EDITOR or THE TIMES. Sir,—As the engineer employed by the Govern ment to cleanse the water of the Serpentine, I have hitherto felt myself precluded from taking part- in the singular controversy now raging in your co lumns. As, however, some of your correspondents are —apparently from mere excess of unrestrained vivacity —becoming very personal towards myself, and Mr. John Lilwall especially so, I may, perhaps, be permitted to correct them and him in several important particulars. First, as regards my profession, Mr. Lilwall com municates to the public the following gratuitous and as he evidently imagines, very damaging informa tion :—" Personally I know nothing of Mr. Hawks ley"—this compliment I can truthfully reciprocate— " but I venture to suggest that to consult that gen tleman, himself a contractor, upon various papers relating to the purification of the Serpentine was, to say the least, to place him in a most undesirable position. Clearly his interest la y in th e o p pos i te direction of deciding in favour of any plan not his own. Than this no system could well be worse," &c. Now, although I am very happy to agree with the principle enunciated by Mr. John Lilwall, I am under the unfortunate necessity of dissenting from his facts. I am not a contractor, nor ever was a contractor, nor have 1 ever been concerned or in terested, directly orindirectly,in any contract what ever; on the contrary, I have for the last 30 years been occupied in the practice of my profession as a civil engineer, and most extensively in designing and superintending the construction of waterworks at home and abroad, under circumstances in which the purification of water by the means about to, be adopted at the Serpentine are more or less exten sively employed. I am, therefore, just the sort of person to whom Mr. John Lilwall would advise the Government to refer; and it was, probably, because the Government have by anticipation coincided with Mr. John Lilwall that I had the honour to be asked to make a report. Mr. John Lilwall's other statements, plausible as they appear, are unfortu nately equally dashing, and for the most part equally wide of the truth. Their weight and au thority are entirely derived from the prominent place with which you have honoured them in your journal. Having notoriously made a greater number of hydraulic works than any otherliving person, I may be expected to have acquired at least some reliable knowledge of the expenses attending the pumping and filtering of water. If I have possessed myself of this knowledge, and provided always I were that scandalum magnatum the " contractor" that Mr. John Lilwall incontinently asserts me to be, but which I am not,—by tte way, ,the most indignant of your correspondents, affection ately quoted by Mr. John Lilwall as the firm which is willing and anxious and endeavouring to effect the same purpos 3in another fashion, hap I , ena to be in that id ent i cal position—l should venture to undertake to perform the whole operation in respect to which that gentleman cites such formidable figures for the comparatively small remuneration of £3OO per annum. On the general subject the truths of the matter lie in a very narrow compass, and are ma i n l y t h ese : —That the vast deposit a t the bottom of the Ser pentine, black and deep as it is, does not affect the condition of the supernatant water ; that the water of the Serpentine does not hold much organic matter in solution, but, on the contrary, is essen ti.tlly clear, sweet, and inodorous—let there be no mistake on this subject, for I am speaking of the water;—that it is, nevertheless, t o some ex t en t loaded with confervoidal and other forms of vegeta tion of a very primary and harmless character, com mon to and well known in most waterworks, and in exposed lake waters generally ; that these can be very readily removed by filtration, and that as they will become reproduced under the favouring action of summer light and heat—and they would be just as rapidly produced in other water added to the Serpentine as in the water now there—they can be again as easily removed, and so from time to time when and as the occasion may require. I may further remark that the very simple, and effectual operation now about to be performed is entirely independent of the removal of the mud or of the formation of an artificial beach for the benefit of the bathers ; and that it would be just as necessary for the preservation of the incumbent water, after these alleged improvements had been made, as it now is. If your somewhat excited correspondents will not take offence I will, with all deference to their imaginative opinions, venture to recommend them to go to the house of the Royal Humane Society, on the north bank of the Serpentine, there borrow a glass or a bottle, take a boat and pull off from the side, then (if their prejudices will allow them, for they need not be alarmed) view, taste, and smell the watcr; afterwards filter some of it through apiece of white blotting paper (this can be obtained properly folded at any respectable druggists's) ; put some that is filtered and some that is unfiltered under a good working microscope, with Dr. Carpenter's or some other standard work on microscopic forms by their side ; evaporate a quart or more of the water very slowly, and at a low temperature, so as to bring down all the inorganic salts and all the organic matter ; weigh the dry residue in a small platinum crucible, ignite and weigh again (the difference of the two weighings will consist of organic matter and some gases com bined with the inorganic salts), and your core spondents will then, it may be, lear n w h a t th ey d o not seem to know, that neither sensibly nor che mically is there much that is wrong with the greatly abused water of the Serpentine, and that the little that is wrong may be readily set right by the simple process of filtration. That the water of the Serpentine is preserved fresh and sweet is a natural consequence of its magnitude and depth, and the same result is observable in all large sheets of water, while the contrary effect is experienced in all small sheets of shallow depth. The reason is almost too obvious to mention ; the depth retards the depuration of the mass, while the extent of surface affords facility for agitation and the conse quent combination of the water and its devitalised organic contents with that all purifying element oxygen. For the information of your readers generally, I may also state that the proposed constructions will be of a decidedly pleasing character, that the filter-beds will create neither a nuisance nor an eyesore, and that the public may safely trust the First Commissioner, whose heart is in the matter, to tolerate nothing either in the design or the work ing operation which can afford ground of offence to the most fastidious taste. The general effect will be that of an Italian flower garden, with fountains and vases, and four ornamental sheets of water. The machinery will be noiseless and smokeless ' • it will be placed in a lodge-like cottage, forming also the attendant's residence, and will be disposed among the large trees at some little distance from the other works. While on the one hand there will be nothing pretentious or obtrusive, so, on the other hand, there will be nothing to hide ; and if my ability be equal to the task I have undertaken I shall succeed in combining, without sacrifice, the useful with the agreeable. The soiled sand (which will be insignificant in amount) will be hand- , carted in the early morning to the machinery, by which it will be washed, and the small quantity of water dirtied in the process will flow off into the adjacent Ranelagh sewer. The filthy duck-pond, one foot deep, at the head of the Serpentine will be o aiwv b e l i b t r e i r d a g t ed ew , and the h e ree stagnantfte hereafter be f e p d o portion a of c the en l , id a e k r e . of the " cont rac t ors, " a b e v s i t t r h e am your of l e p a u s r e i fi e e n d e w w a o t r e d r . Messrs. Easton, Amos, and Sons. It appteabres that nianowny ea"Tintersrespted" pernopion ttilii ee shabit t e l f e r n e i l n i a g v e t b f e o i r r sitions on the attention of the Government, and that they seem to think they have a vest e d r i g h t i n all works for w a t er supply undertaken by the Go vernment; so much so, indeed, that they have angrily resented an official negatite to an unasked for proposition. Now, of these gentlemen's schemes I never so much as heard till some time after my report had been sent in and adopted, and then only because Messrs. Easton and Amos forwarded a letter to the First Commissioner almost, ifnot quite, rebuking that important officer of the Crown for . being so a d venturous as to accept my profescional views in preference to their trade propositions. (See hereon their own letters published by them selves).. I then, however, for the first time-became acquainted with 11Iessrs. Easton and Amos's scheme, End all I can say in relation to it—fbr I was not called in to sit in judgment on any One's sug gestions—is, that if my powers had, as IVr.Lilwall insinuates, included those of an arbiter between competitors, I should not have awarded the prize to Messrs. Easton and Amos, whose device is, in my deliberate opinion, unnecessarily expensive (taking working charges into account), based on false pre ieances o f no small pre mises both as regards the influence itzo:dlslhaanvd: exercised on the Serpentine and the quantity of awater certaint obe obtained top roduc e evil from consequences well ns eu m agnitude in and around St. James's-furrk. Had Messrs. Easton and Amos received the commands of the First Commissioner I should co! rtainly not have considered it my duty to interfere publicly or privately with the performance of theil • appointed functions. It may, however, we ll be tilt Lt "contrac tors " and professional men regard f,uch interfe rences from very different points of • view;-:-I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, 3yEY. 30, Great George-street, WesttainAter, AuB 13. • • • n id es ~ Share Share,