The Sun. — London, England, 1860-10-12 00:00:00

11:101VEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS, CITY, Two O'CLOCK. The Foreig❑ and Colonial Produce Markets during the last few days, have been less active. The dealings in tea have been restricted to immediate requirements, and prices have shown no material alteration. Sugars have been in moderate request, although in some instances holders have accepted rather lower prices. Business in the refined market has continued dull, without change to notice in the value of dried goods. For coffee there has been a steady, although not very active, inquiry for plantation Ceylon, and fine qualities have realised full rates. Rice has been dealt in to a fair extent, but the dealings in fruit have not been so large as usual at this period of the season ; prices, however, are steadily maintained. At the public sales of indigo no change of importance can be noticed, but a large quantity of the inferior qualities has been withdrawn by the holders. At the public sales of drugs prices were rather flatter, but an increased demand has been experienced for oils and tallow; the latter article has advanced 6d. to ls. per cwt. P.Y.C. on the spot is now quoted 585., and for delivery up to March, 58s. 6d. per cwt. A fair amount of business was transacted in the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday, and prices were fully supported. The sales were estimated at about 12,000 bales. The Bremen has been anuounced from New York with £31,600. The Bank of France return for the month end- ing yesterday shows a decrease in the bullion of 4840,000, in the currency accounts of £1,140,000, and in the Treasury balances of £632,000. The bills discounted exhibit an increase of £1,150,000, and the advances on securities of £93,300. The committee of Spanish American bondholders have convened a meeting of the holders of the New Granada Bonds, for the purpose of receiving a proposition from the Government of New Granada for the adjustment of the foreign debt. A call of £2 per share has been made by the directors of the San Paulo Brazilian Railway Company, payable on or before the 15th proximo. A further withdrawal of £400,000 from the Bank of England yesterday has imparted increased firm ness to the rates of discount, and produced an adverse effect upon the Stock Exchange markets. Rather more than £600,000 has now been sent from that establishment in the space of a few days, and as that was the sum which it was stated in the early part of the week would be required, the efflux will probably cease or continue on a very reduc©d scale. Considering the large quantities of grain coming forward, it is not improbable that specie will flow to the continent in payment, and many parties are consequently inclined to the opinion that money will speadily get dearer. An advance has already occurred, since 4 per cent. is now the current rate in the general market for first-class securities, which until lately have been negotiable on lower terms than at the Bank of England. Very little business has been reported in the market for Public Securities to-day, speculation being exceedingly dull, and the settlement has con• tinued to engage attention. Consols for money are 92/ I-, and for account 93 to 93k, being k per cent. lower than they were early in the day. An unfavourable effect is still produced by the adverse specie movement. The New 3 per Cents. remain at 911 ; the Reduced at 911 t. India Stock is heavy at 2191 ; ditto New Loan is steady at 103/ ; and Exchequer Bills are at 3s. prem. Foreign Securities have been dealt in to a limited extent, at rather higher prices. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 704 to 70/ ; ditto New, 551 to 56; and the 4 per Cents. have improved to 101/ 102 ; Mexican to 22/ ; Sardinian to 851 86; Spanish 49/ ; and ditto Passive remain at 23. The Ocean Marine Insurance Shares are 11 2 prem. ; the Thames and Mersey, 1 I prem. ; and the Universal, prem. The dealings in the Railway Share Market have been rather numerous, an 3. prices generally showed a marked improvement. Caledonians and Great Northerns have advanced ss. ; Eastern Counties, Great Western, Lancashire and Yorkshire, Brigh ton, North Western, 10s. ; South Western, 15s. ; North Eastern (Berwick), North Eastern (York), and South Eastern, ; and Midland, £2. The Foreign lines were dealt in to a fair extent, and at slightly enhanced prices. South Austrian and Lombardo-Venetian have improved to 111,- llf. Dutch-Rhenish realise 13 ; and Antwerp and Rot terdam, 51. In the Colonial Market an advance has also taken place. Grand Trunk of Canada brought 274 28 ; Great Western of Canada, 13Z 4 ; East Indian, 991, 100; and Great Indian Peninsula, 969. Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares con tinue dull; London and Westminster, however, have improved 10s. ; Australian Agricultural, 10s.; and Peninsular and Oriental Steam have receded 55. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICHh. Bank Stock .. 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9ll 1 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities ... A 93k 2i 3 New 3 per Cent. Annuities India Stock .. Ditto 6 per Cent . . . Ditto Entaced Paper, 4 per Cent — Ditto 5 per Cent. Ditto Debentures, 1858 — Ditto, 1859 Consols for Account, Nov. 8 India Stock for Account — Ditto 5 per Cent Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 11d : w - tp;ielN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES: Brazilian 5 per Cent Ditto 41 per Cent 1858 Mexican 3 per Cent B7/ 8 Ditto Account Sardinian 5 per Cent 223 I 1 86 Ditto Account Spanish 3 per Cent .... Ditto Account Ditto Passive Spanish Corn. Cert. of Coup. not funded.. 6/ Turkish 6 per Cent 7 o* Ditto Account ........ Ditto New Loan .................... Ditto Account - Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. Ditto Account Dividends on the above payable in London THREE O'CLOCK. Consols, Money 921 921 Ditto, Nov. 8 ....... ._921 93 IRON-PLATED FRIGATES• A vessel of immense proportions in the course of building upon Messrs.. Palmer Brothers' extensive works at Jarrow , is attracting a great deal of attention from persons passing up and down the Tyne in the n, pa c k et v b l oats between Shields and Newcastle. frigate Defiance, is the iron-plated ram building under contract for our Government. he i s making most satisfactory pro gress, and is intended t to carry 36 heavy Armstrong guns. Her iron casing will be 4f inches thick on the outside. Next that will ii be 20 inches of timber, and inside of that the ason framing of the ship, which will be as stronggthe any already used for the largest sized vessels in of merchant service. Her thereon deck-beams are made iron, and the decks to be laid ti erron will be of iron. patent beam The vessel will have water - tight shot with water-tight doors, so tigla',.t in passages, sides of the should be driven through the Immens e il case vessel men may pass through the doo rs into the cut the cha mber compartment, and plug up the a h n o d l% that, they can close the doors, ailing to do gill be off from the other parts of the ship, keeping st g era eve r the water within it. The stern post of the ship one of the largest, possibly the largest, for made in this or any other country. The the vessel will algo be of enormous strength, X will in addition be fortified with plating, s° that the ship may run any timber-built ship down with impunity. With the exception of the ends, W hi ch kave been kept back by the difficulty in forging such a mass of iron as that necessary for the stem and stern, the whole is plated. Many of the armour plates are on the premises. Feathe rin g and grooving those plates will be commenced at once. -.......... Poor Lola Montes is rapidly failing. She has found a friend near the city who gives her an asylum during the closing days of her career. The poor woman had a paralytic attack some days since, which shattered her intel lect beyond the hope of recovery, and now she is fast lapsing into idiotcy. Her cheeks are hollow, her eyes sunken, her complexion cadaverous, and a racking cough is hastening her to the grave.—New York letter. is ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A WIFE BY HER Hue- ISAND.—On Saturday night last, a man and his wife, who travel the country attending fairs, took lodgings at a beer shop in Dragon-street, Peterafield, kept by James Parker. About the middle of the night the man made a desperate attempt on the life of his wife by cutting her throat. He then proceeded to the station-house, and gave himself up to the police, stating that he had just killed his wife. It proved, howevor, that the yv,rnau was not dead. Surgical aid was procured, and she is likely to recover. The man was brought up before the Hon. J. J. Carnegie, on Tuesday, and remanded until the wife shall be able to attend to give evidence,— West &sox Gazette, SHARE MARKET.-(THIS DAY.) syarel Rhilways '3.14 stock Belfast and Ballymena Bir., Wol , and Str. Val. Birk., La., and Ch June Blackburn Blyth and Tyne Bost. Sleaf: and Mid.Co Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Carmarthen & Cardigan Cork and Bandon Cork, lilrock., .tPassage Cornwall (A getsno div. ,Do untilgp peran. "3 B e hasbeen d. toB Dublin & Belfast June. Dun., Perth, &Ah..lune East Anglian Eastern Counties Eastern Union, A stock Do do B do Do NW A, late EUthis East Suffolk Do Edinburgh & Glasgow Fdin. Perth, & Dundee Forth & Clyde Junction Furness Glasg. and S. Western Great Ntlin. of Scotland Great Northern Do do A stock Po do B do Gt. S. & W. of Ireland Great Western tork stock stock stock stock stc,tc Po Str MIL stock . risk South-eastern ... Lancashire &Yorkshire London and Blackwall Lon., Bright.. & S Coast Lond., Chat., and Dover Lond. &Nth. Western Do eighths Lond. & sth. Western L'derry & Coleraine L'derry & Enniskillen Man. Shef. & Lincoln Maryport and Carlisle Do do shares Metropolitan Ilidland . stock stock stock stock 50 stock stock stock .tock stock stock qtoc. 19.16.4, "Irming. & Derby Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do A shares Mid Kent........ Do, Cray Line Newcastle and Carlisle Newry & Armagh, def Newry, Warript. & Ros Norfolk .... h n. Counties Union North Br►tish ... \ - or.Dev.Rail&Dk.st(lei , D • A stk ; A recs no d. until Opch as been pd.ll Do B stock stock stock stock stock 10 stock stock stock stock Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do do , G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds Do Yort , North London 'Forth Staffordshire stock stock N. and S. W. Junction . Not. & Grantham Rail. Peebles ...... 12 10 stock Portsmouth ilhvmney Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock Do Scot. Mid. stock Shropshire Union. Sittin gbonrne & Sheer. Smith Devon .. . S..nith Eastern south Wales .......... S. York. and River Dun tables, Wok,. and Wok Stockton & Darlington Do do Stockton & Hartlepool Taff Vale ....... .. Do Pref. No 1 TharneslFlavenl•laltall Ulster . •• Do•. •• •• •• g• •••• •• • Vale of Neath 'Victoria Sta. arid Pim 109 111 100 all all 100 all all 95 96 al 1 all all all all .6134 113 115 341 34f 86 88 49 51 6 7 42 44 831 Alt 62 64 77 79 6 8 39 40 8i 9i p 551 561 2 d 3 p 61 66 p llf 11; Waterford & Kilkenny Waterford (t Limerick West C-rnwall ........ West L0nd0n.......... Do Ist class .. Do 2d class all 100 all all all all all 6} 61 West Midland—Oxford no. Newport Do. Hereford 47 49 104 11 1 2} 1} a PREFERENCE SHARES. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. 8 81 78 80 111 12i 64. 7 95 97 91t 62i 6 6, 74 8 16 17 53 64 38 40 27 29 81 82 30 301 [l4 115 116 116 31 133 .12 114 741 74/ 60 65 118} 119 65 67 112 113 53 55 MI 1911 104 11 474 484 3 2d 1311 13! 105 107 114 k I 1164 131} 75 4 119 18f a 1131 54 3 101 i 1 95 i 0 48i 74 8 7 8d 54 56 3i 35 d 621 621 551 62 1 i tO4l 1041 P 1 P 59} 60 841 901 102 104 6 1 2;1 9 4 7 34} f 84} i 4S i i Closing Business Paid. Price. I Done. 53 i ri i i 131} 21 i 1 2 105 50 60 59, DOi f 1 901 141 stoc, stock Share ) Closing BUSilleBll Railways. (Paid Price. Done. :tk 20 stock stock TAlvthe and Tyne 10 per c. pref. (issued at £5O Rris. & Exet.4 p.ct.stock 'Do. do. do. Shares , Cal ed on .£1 0, 41 per cent Do. Quar. Shares, No. 2. Cork & Bandon, 51 p. c. Cornwall, 5 per cent Dun.Perth&Aber.Jun. E.Anzn.Class A 7 &sp.c Do. do. Class B 8 p.c Do. do. Class C 7 p.c E. Conn. Ex. 5 p. c. No.l Do. do. No. 2 Do. New 6 per ct. stock. Eastern TTnion, 4 per ct. Do. 5 per cent. Guar... Edin.&Glas. sp.c. shares Do. 4p. c. ua. S. &D. Fdin. Perth& Dun. 4 p.c. Furness, 5 per cent Glas.& S. West.p. - ,.a. 5 p.c Great Northern, 5 p. ct Do.sp.c.Redm., 10 p.c.prn Do. 41- p. c. do. do. Do. sp.c. Redm. 5 p.c. pm (It. Nh, of Scotld. Ist pf. Gt. Sn. & W (Ireland) 4 p. ct. pref. stock (reat West. Glerks and Hants) Ext. 5 p. et. rO. Redeemable,44p.ct Do. Redeemable, 4 p. et , Do. irredeemable, do , Do. 5 p.ct. Redeem. Pref Do. Rirm. Pref. Shares 01% W. Ches. 8 p.c. pf.sh no d c sp. ct. pref Do Rirmcr.guar. stock Do. Chester gua. shares Do. do. do. Do. do. do. T,an.&York R p. c. stock Do.Rarnsl.st.£s 3s 10d pc Do. R per c. (E. Lan.) Lon.& Brig. 5 pc.gu. No.l no. 5 p. c. No. 2 Do. frua. 6 p. c. Do. do. 5 p.e No. 4 Do. do. 44 per cen'. no, do. 44 p. e. shares.. Do. 7 p. et. Pref. stock. no, ape. do. (W.E.&C.P.) no. tp.e.s.(div.def.til '651 Lon. Chat. and Dover.. Lon. and N.W. Coy. and Nuneaton, 5 p. et..... T.on. & S.W, 7 n. ct. stock Do. 41 per cent Do. (Prtsm. perpl anns of 2s Rd. T.ondonfiv. & Cole. 1E sh. T.on clony. & Ennis. 4 sh Alan. Sh. &Lin. R per ct. Do. .£5 Do. 34 per cent Do. redeem. R percent Vary ort & Car., 4 p. c no. 44 per cent. Con. R p c. stock Do.Con.Bris. t Bir. Rp.c Do. 44 p. c. prof. stock no with option till ism no. Leic. l Hit. pref. st. Norflk 5 p. c. Ex. st. IR4tl Do. 51 p. c. Pref. do. 1847 Do.sWay.Val.Ex.st.lß47 North British, 5 p. e Do. New, zna. ,5 p. c Do. Bor. Un. g. pf. shs Do. do. do.l Nth.Dev.R ail. &Dck.Co. N-East.C'ons.Pref. 4 p. c. Do. Berwick, 4 p.c. Pref. Do. do. do Do. Leeds, 6 p. e. No. 1 Do. do. Quarters, 1848 Do. York, A. it S. Purch North Staffordshire Phymney Guaranteed Scottish Central, new pf Scottish North-Eastern 1 4 p. e. pref. stock Do.Aberdeen,zua.6p.c Do. 7 p. c. pref. stock South Devon, Ann. 10s. Do. Fixed 44 per cent. south Eastern (Reading Ann., 1.0.6) Do. 44 per cent. Do. Fixed 4 p.c. Ist is. , outh Wales, gua. 4 p.c. Do. 44 per cent. S.-Yorkshire, 4 p. c. gua. Stock & Dar. A 5 p. c Do. B 6 ner cent Do. C 6 per cent Watrfd & Kilkny, 6 p. c w.Mid -Oxf Ist Gua stk -- Do. 2ci Do. Newport 5 p.c.pf.red. Do.Perpet. 6 p. c. pf 1866 Do. till 1869, let is. Do. do. 2d R Do. Hereford 4 p.c. pf. 94 96 100 102 204 214 51 61 99 101 111 113 106 108 109 111 108 110 123 125 82 84 111 113 90 ?2 77 78 103 105 120 122 116 118 110 112 103 105 85 87 98 100 99 101 89 91 90 92 100 102 91 104. 174 18 104 101 76 78 20 21 10 104 15 154 136 138 116 118 116 118 135 140 116 118 102 104 152 156 130 134 08 70 92 93 117 119 150 155 121 13 127 129 68 70 1411 137 139 101 103 92 91 111 113 109 111 I lAn 91 93 ,103 105 P il3 P it 21 23a 120 123 130 133 10i 11 23 1 24} 101 103 101 103 89 91 99 101 83 86 274 284 324 334 324 336 45 48 126 128 122 124 0 10 4 1 121 12 14 1 1001 100 138 f 8 7 `ES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Paid. Leasing I Closing Business Co.'s. i Price. Done. Railways. Bedford and Bletehley Buckinghamshire ...• Chester & Holyhead..i Do. do. 5} per cent.) Do. do. 5 per cent. Clydesdale Junction..l Colchester, Stour Val. E.Lincolnshire,g:.6p.e. E.Union,Harwich She Do. Woodbridge ... Gls.Barr.&Neils,Drct., Do. New . Gloster& Dean Forest Hartlpool.Dck.& Rail. Hull and Selby Do. Shares ....... Do. Shares ....... Lanc.& Carl. gua.s p.c. London & Greenwich Do. Preference Lon.,Tilhy.& Soutend. Lowestoft, gua. 4 p.ct. Do. R per cent........ Manc.,Buxtn. & Matk. Mid. Bradford Prefer ence Stock ... Newmarkt.,BuryEx guaranteed 5 p. c. Northn.& Eastn. 5 p.c. Do. do. fi per cent .... Do. Fixed 5 per cent. North Western ...... Preston and Wyre. Do. 4 Stares ....... A. Roystn.Hitch.,& Shep Shrewsbry& Hereford Do. Do. South Staffordshire .. Wilts and Somerset.. Wimbledon n Croydn. Ln&N.W Ln&N.W 95 98 Do. Do. 125 127 Do. ll3 115 Caledonia 1022 104 E.11.&E C 4 164 Gt. North.l3B 140 E.Counts.l 4 41 Caledonia Gt. West. Yk.N.Srßr Yk.N. Md. Do Ln. N.W S. East Do. Peto & Co N mfolk Do IL NW &MI 3 1 3% 95 97 i 4P 55 57 !Midland E.Counts Do. Do. 1 5. 5.8 all 1 all all I Do. all Midland all L& NW & L.Yk. / all Do. 100 Gt. North 100 T.Brassey 1 ...... all M'Clean. 100 Gt. W es t all L.& Brgtn 15 14 136 138 104 106 1 I 1111 92 94 8.11 S h are Docks. I Paid. Mosing Business Price. Dcine. stock Commercial lOO stock Do. 4 per I 7. , r t.Pref.Min , 100 ..... Ft4)Ck East 9/11.1 WW c..;t !:orl! ! ..._.."-: 1211 stock London 1 100 s tock t. Katharine .. . 1 100 stock outhampton .4 100 , s t oc k istoria. '••••1 100 , ' 99 101 20 Do •New ~ * 0 .....ai.l.• 3 14 i p otock letoria v•••1 100 _ 99 101 *0 [ P 14 Ip t ock tock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stook stook stock stock stork stock stock gtock stock 28.6 d, stook stoct. TILE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 12, 1860. BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Share! Railways. ______ Paid. Closing Baldness done 100 Atlantic &St Lawrence all r 81 83 c om.,Baroda&.Cent Ind stk B 100 935 944 91 Gu. 5 per cent .. .... 18 Do, Do. B' 16 14 1 d 204 Buffalo and Laae Huron all 5 bid 5 4 204 Do. New 10 Do. Preference 100 Buffalo,Brant&Godrich 100 78 82 C 6 p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 100 Do. do. July 1, 1873 100 73 78 100 Do. do. June 1, 1874 100 70 75 5 Clcutta.&S.Eastn. (Lim , 1. 30. 4 d 4p 3 20 Cape,Eastn.Prov. (Lim. , 2s. 20 Cape Town & Dock Scrip 35. 14 14 d 20 Ceylon Guarantd. 6p. c. 74 11 1 d 174 Demerara.. 20 Eastn. Beng - 4gu. sp. c 75 14 14 d 54 stock East Indian, 'gm. sp. a 100 99 It,o 994 100 994 4 20 Do. F Shares Ext l5 4 d pr 20 20 Do. Jubbulpore l5 4 d pr 20 100 Do. 45 pc. Debentrs all 93 99 100 Do. sp. c. Deb., 1864 all 101 102 20 Geelong & Melbourne — sto. Geelong Corporation 6 100 per cent. Bonds stock Grand Trunk of Canada 100 264 274 274 $75 100 Do. 6 per cent. Pref all 85 1 , 7 854 100 Do. 6 per ct. Debentr all 51 53 100 Do. 7 per cent. 1862 100 Do. do. 1867 all 48 52 50 100 Do. do. 1872 all 48 52 49 took Gt. IndiaPenin.gua.sp.c lOO 96 97 984 4 20 Do. New g,ua. sp. c 6 11d 4d 20 Gt. South. of India (Lim) 13 24 14d guaranteed 5 per cent. 204 Gt. W. of Canada Shares all 134 134 134 4 204 Do. New 18 7 did 100 Do. Bonds pay. '76, with all 100 102 opt, till '6O 100 Do. do. '73 till '6O • all 100 102 100 Do. do. '73 without opt all 100 10e 100 Do. 54 p. c. do. '77 do all 92 94 934 3 stock Madras, guar., 44 p. c lOO 83 85 stock Do. do. 5 per cent lOO 93 94 . stock Do. 41 p. c. Extension 100 86 88 20 Do. Fourth do lO 14 14 d 20 Do. d 0..... _ stock Melb.Corp. 6p. c. Bnds lOO Newßrunswick & Can da 20 Ry.&Land(Lim.)g.6pc all 5 7 Class A Capital Share .• Do. do. Land d 0... 20 so. do. B Capital do . ' • all 5 7 Do. do. Land do. 20 Oude (Limited) stock Scinde .... . .... . ,0; 100 99 100 994 20 Do. Punjaub .... aop c.) = 7 14 d 141 { 20 Do. Du. ..... .. <!rs all d stock D o.lndus.St. Flo. r,-. 100 93 944 20 LAndrews t Quebec A 18 10 rinidad (Lim.) Scrip 1 4 4 d FOREIGN RAILWAYS. 10 Antwerp & Rotterdam all 54 6 54 20 'Ardennes . . 20 Bah.&S.Fran..Lim.7 p.c. Si 14 4 d 5 !Belgian East. Junction all 4 1 20 ißeziers to Graissessac.. all 6 Carmeaux Mine & Rail all 24 24 100 Copiabo — &...... all 10 Ditto Extension all 24 2 d 20 Dutch Rhenish ........ 15 34 8 0 13 20 Eastern of France .... all 25 26 ; 20 Grand Ens. Guar. 6p. c. 6 20 Do.. do. all 20 Great Central of France 20 Gt. Luxem., Con. shs... 64 7 20 ,Italian Junction .. ... 20 'Lake Constance & Bale. 20 ILierre & Turnhout .... all 20 !Lyons & Geneva .... all 334 'Maria Antonia .... ... all 10 Do. New ... ........ all 20 Namur & Liege ........ all 74 84 20 Do. 6p. c. Pref......... all 39 5 20 5 205 16 Northern of France.... all 88 39 20 Do. New Shares .—.. 15 10 Norwegian Trunk Pref: all 75 84 20 I Paris,Lyons, & Mediter. all 36 37 20 jPa.ris & Orleans.. _ .... all 53 55 ' ( 'Recife & S. Fran. (Pero.) 20 1 gust. 7p. ct. Ern.— 13 3 24d 14 . 20 Riga & Dunaburg...... 14 ' 10 Rome & Frascati ...... all 20 Royal Danish .. . all 13 15 5 Royal Swedish 4 Do. 7 per cent. Pref.... all 20 Sambre & Meuse ...... ail 54 64 1 10 Do. 55 per cent. Pref..... all 84 64 20 San Paulo, Dim, ~,, r . 7p. c. 2 4 id I 20 S.Aust. &Lomb Vene tin 12 4 4 d 114 4 20 Southern of France.... all 194 204 84 West Flanders 10 Do. 51 p. c. Preference.. all 94 54 20 "W. & N.W. of France .. all 22 23 20 :Western of Austria.... 6 20 'Western of Switzerland all 6 I Wiesbaden 6 IDo. 8 per cent. Pref all 20 (Zealand all 3 TRW D EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock. ITALY. The following telegram has been received at Mr. Reuter's office : NAPLES, OCT. 11. The official journal publishes a decree ordering the vote by universal suffrage to be taken on the 21st inst. on the following question—" Do you wish Italy to be indivisibly united, with Victor Emmanuel as constitutional King, and his legiti mate descendants 9" The cannonade at Capua continues. LONDON GAZETTE-(THIS EY:ENING), VICTORIA CROSS. Erratum in the "London Gazette" of Tuesday, June 19, 1860.—1 n the notification of her Majesty's intention to con fer the Victoria Cross on three soldiers of her Majesty's army, for Ist Battalion, sth Regiment, Sergeant Robert Ewart, read, Ist Battalion, sth Regiment, Sergeant Robert Grant. NETYMA.RKET .R.ACES.—(Vais Day.) BY ELECTRIC TELEGRA_PR. SELLING HANDICAP. Romsey Miss Digby .. .... • • 114 Six ran. HANDICAP OF 15 ;JOYS. Sir Hugh Oliver Lady Clare Twelve ran. PRENDERGAST STAKES. Preceptress Phemy colt Barb Pigeon Five ran. SWEEI'STAKES_OF 10 SOVS. Lady Like May Bell filly Seven ran. £5O PLATE. Precursor Pedlar Rattlesnake.. Eight ran. HANDICAP OF 20 SOVS. T.Y.C. Twilight Tightfit .... Six ran. BRITISH MINES. Share Mines. Alfred Consols (Philack) British Iron (Clifford Devon G. Cons. (Tavist ), East Bassett (Illogan) ,East Caradon Paid. I Closing Business Price. Done E. WI Russel (Tavistk.) Gam.&St.Aubyn(Gwen.) Great South Tolgus G.Wheal Alfd. (I'hilack)i G. Wheal Vor (Ifelston) 'Grenville IHerod's- Foot 'Hingston Downs I lLady Bertha Margaret (Uny Lelant) North Downs 'North Frances (Illogan) !N.WICI Basset (1110 , an) 'North Wheal Crofty Par Consols (St. Blazey) I Providence (Uny Lelnt.) Sortridge Cons. Min. Co. 'South Caradon(St.Cleer) 'S. Ca rn Brea (Illogan) S. Dev. Iron &Gen., Lim S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan) !Stray Park 'Tamar Silv.& Lead Min ,Tin Croat 41 5 1 2 Vale of Towey (Carm.) l West Basset (Illogan).. Caradon (Liskeard) l West Seton Wheal Basset (Mogan; Wheal Buller (Redruth; I Wheal Edward (Cals. Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant I Wheal Mary Ann (Men. ;Wheal Trelawney (Lis.) '2.14.6 7.4.0 541 17s 112.13.9 0/ 5.14.6 8.12 4.8.6 1.8.6 9.18.9 li 10.6.7 12s 435 435 1121 117 k 91 loi 11i 12 27 29 106. 11 1 il 1 11 21 3i 29 M 3i i 11 2 42 44 4 41 i 4 4 5 11 12 11 12 46 48 all ; 18.1• 4 .9 122.18.0, 11 11 295 305 3 34 k 121 135 54 56 2 21 5 54 174 18 4 71 73 300 310 125 130 78 82 2 21 15i 181 24 28 22 24 11 - :e4 6d L - f 2 541 4 FOREIGN MfNES. 20 Australian 1 BonAccord Copper,Lim lss 1 d 35 Brazil. Imp. (is. at p ) 271 11 14 20 Do. St.Johndel Rey,Lim 15 28 29 281 8 5 Do.L and and Mming,Co. all 1 Clarendon Cons.MinCo. 4 dis. 40 Cobre Copper Copiapo l6 9 11 1 DunMoun.Cop.Ming.Co all 1 2 Fortuna. 20 General i all 21 23 2 Gt. N. Cop. of S. Austr 1 id pr 11 Kapunda (Limited) 1 12 11 p 3 Linares all 10 11 104 6 iLusitanian 2 1d 4p 1 , Mariquita I all 1 1 , 1 IN.RhineCopof S.Aus.L 125.6 d. 1 1 d 20 I Pon4,ribaud Silver,Lead Mining and ;melt all 5 6 6 (Port Philip 1 I I 1 ;Scottish Austrin. (L.) los. 1 1 d 28•2•84 United Mexican . all 14 2i 1 'Worthing* (Limited) all 1 I Do l9s. COLONIAL" GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Can. Gov. 6 p.c.Ja. & July 100 113 116 Do. 6p. cent. 1880 100 I 1141 Do. 6p. cent. 1879 100 - - Do. 6p. cent. 1883 100 Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug. 100 111 113 Do. 6p. c. Mar. & Sept. 100 111 113 c Do. 5 per cent lOO 103 1031 1031 I Do. Scrip 5O N.B.Gov 6 p.c. Ja.&July! 100 106 107 1061 Do. 6g. c. Ap. & Oct. l 100 N. S. W. Gov. sp. c., 1866 100 100 101 Do. sp. c., 1871 to 1876 100 99 100 100 Do. 5 p.c.,1888 & upwds 100 99 100 994 ,Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c 1 1 sterling, 1875 lOO 1071 1081 108 S.Aus.Gt. 6 p.c.1878 &up lOO 108 110 Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 - - Do. do. 6 p.c. Ap.&Oct lOO 105/ 1061, 1061 105/ IANKS. JOINT-STOCK B 100 kgra&UnitedService Bk 50 78 80 40 Australasia all 25 Bank of Egypt all 19 20 100 Bank of London 20 ,Bank of Turkey 50 British North American all 20 Chtd.Bank of India, &c. all 20 204 204 25 jCh.Mer. of In:Lon.& Ch all 33 35 100 ,City 100 'Colonial. 25 37 39 201.1 Corn. Bank of Canada all 100 Commercial of London 20 {Eng., Scot., & Aus. Ch all 15 154 20 'Gen. Bk .of Switzerland all 20 Lon. Char.Bkof Austral all 234 24 50 London and County 50 London Joint Stock 100 London & Westminster 20 61 100 Nat. Prov. of England .1 42 98 20 Do. new l2 50 National Bank ........ 25 :624 20 New South Wales all 20 Do. new 25 Orient. B. Corporation 20 Ottoman Bank 100 Provincial of Ireland 10 Do. new 25 South Australia 25 Union of Australia 50 Union o 1 London l2 254 1 5 100 Unity Mutual 6O MrSCELLANEOUS. 10 Ang - 10-Mexican Mint 1000 Atlantic Tel. (Limited) all 25 Australian Agricultural 19 27 29 274 7 10 ,Berlin Water (Limited), all 5 64 50 (British American Land 40 30 32 50 IB.&I.Mag. Tel. A. (Lim.)' all 35 37 20 iDo. 8,7p.e.ti111852 (Lim.); all 18 20 20 Do. C. (Limited) all 12 14 324 ,Canada Land stock 2s I C D o o p . p sl r i e n t ohE p n e g r . & c e S n in t . 1 t . g.. 10 I Chan.lslands Tel. (Li m. ) a ll all aall 114 117 stock Crystal Palace stock ,Do. Preference . stock jDo. 6p. c. Pet ?et. Deben. 100 106 ICB stock Electric Telegraph 100 99 02 25 Do. New 5 English & Aus. Copper all 24 2f 21 15 Gen. Steam Navig,atx ma 14 1 Great Ship I imited) all 1 1 Do. 1715 pet Preference ; ; 5 Lon. District Tel. (Lim.) 2 20 London Discount (Lim.) 5 lf licl 34 4 L.G. Omnibus Co. (Lim.) all 14 lf 14 20 Madras Irr. and Canal 1 1; 26 10 Mediter. Electric Teleg. all 10 Med. Exten. Tel. (Lim.) all 2 4 25 National Dis. Co. (Lim.) 5 14 14 d 34 20 Nerbu.Coal&lron (Lim ) 5 2 lid 10 Netherlands Land all 4 5 D . o. S r p & .c N . o ' r v e a f s .. s o s t . j a a t L l a d n i sd 8 . all 100 N B I N.B.Australasian (Lim.) all ; 1 1 1 Oriental Gas (Limited). a ll 1 1 Do. New Shares (Lim.) . 15s. pr 10 Orintl.ln.Steam(Lim.)A 6 --t 10 Ditto B. i 50 Do. New stock 5 16 0 e e D n e t R A, t . 6 L O C I i (1 n & t 11 a l l i n s t ( e L a i m m ) 1 a 2 2 00 :51 117 - 1 22 7 1 5 7 1 7 48 3 20 RedSea&lnd.Tel.g.44p c all all l 18 5 17f 171 p 171 l 4 2 56 0 4 5 15 0 Rh p ytn o. n N e e y w l . r . o . n a 100 Royal Mail Steam stock _ 4 B t e, a) u rT . ae l - Tv ars . ( ci L r,i i ap m n. l aa o ll o ll 1 3 23 24 1 3 16 1 bmarine 20 Tr. & Ln. Co.of Upr.Can.l 10 1 Do. do. p Registered all l 5 7 100 Van Diewen'a Laud .0. 1 iai 9 IR WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, OCT. 12. 73d Regiment of Foot—Major-General Benjamin Orlando Jones to be Colonel, vice Major-General Sir Michael Creagh, deceased. 4th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—James Colquhoun, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Ma rr i o tt, pro moted. 6th Dragoons—Captain Thomas Edward Gordon, from the 14th Light Dragoons, to be Captain, vice Chapman, who exchanges. 9th Light Dragoons—Assistant-Surgeon George Carleton Clery, from the 17th Light Dragoons, to be Assistant- Surgeon, vice Fuller, who exchanges. 14th Light Dragoons—Captain Frederick Barclay Chap man, from the 6th Dragoons, to be Captain, vice Gordon, who exchanges. 17th Light Dragoons—Assistant-Surgeon Samuel Fuller, from the 9th Light Dragoons, to ke Assistant-Surgeon, vice Clery, who exchanges. 18th Light Dragoons—Captain George Harmer Paring, from the 21st Foot, to be Captain, vice Gifford, who ex changes. Royal Artillery—Ssoond Captain Henry Renny to be Captain, vice G. R. C. Young, placed on temporary half-pay ; Lieutenant William George Martin to be Second Captain, vice Renny. Royal Engineers— b ßrevet.Colonel Sir William Thomas Denison, K.C.B. on the Seconded List, to be Colonel; Brevet-Colonel Edward William Durnford to be Colonel, vice Stotherd, removed as a General Officer; Brevet- Major Thomas Bernard Collinson to be Lieutenant-Co lonel, vice Durnford ; Second Captain Edward Nicholas Hey gate to be Captain, vice Collinson ; Lieutenant Ed ward Harding Steward to be Second Captain, vice Hey gate. Military Train—Lieutenant C. W. Farwell to be Captain, by purchase, vice Wolrige, who retires ; Ensign George Edward Brace, from the 69th Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Farwell ; Thomas Gerard Lockyer, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase; Quartermaster-Ser geant Frederick Luttrel to be Quartermaster, vice Wean, appointed to an Ensigncy in the 94th Foot. Ist Regiment of Foot—Luke Edmonstone Miller, Gent., to be &isign, without purchase, vice Fringe, superseded for being absent without leave. 2d Foot—Ensign Thomas Kelly to be Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Nicholetts, who retires. 7th Foot—Ensign Edward Wynne Griffith to be Lieuten ant, by purchase, vice Keyser, whose promotion, by pur chase, has been cancelled. 9th Foot—Captain Charles J. Cramer Roberts, from the 49th Foot, to be Captain, vice Grimston, who exchanges. 11th Foot—Ensign Edward Henry Hare to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Webb, who retires. 13th Foot—Lieutenant Aubrey Henzel has been superseded fbr being absent without leave. 21st Foot—Captain John Wynter James Gifford, from the 18th Light Dragoons, to be Captain, receiving the for mer difference between a lieutenancy of cavalry and a lieutenancy of infantry, vice Pering, who exchanges. 29th Foot—Captain Richard Coote, from the 46th Foot, to he Captain, vice Gordon, who exchanges. 32d Foot—The Hon. James Bruce Ogilvy to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Cherry, promoted. 40th Foot—Ensign John Thomas Whelan to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Brooke, killed in action; Ensign Frederick Dudgeon, to be Lieutenant. without purchase, vice Whelan, whose promotion of the 4th Sept., 1860, has been cancelled._ _ _ _ 46th Foot—Captain 'John James Hood Gordon, from the 29th Foot, to be Captain, vice Coote, who exchanges; Ensign Richard Fletcher Armytage lioworth to be Lieu. tenant, by purchase, vice Mullen, who retires. 49th Foot—Captain Rolland V. S. Grimston, from the 9th Foot, to be Captain, vice Roberts, who exchan ges . 59th Foot—Major and Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Edward Burmester to be Lieutenant-Colonel, bypurchase, Tice Brevet-Colonel Henry Hope Graham, C. 8., appointed Inspecting-Field Officer of a Recruiting District; Captain and Brevet-Major Robert Wm. Romer to be Major, by purchase, vice Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Purmeeter ; Lieutenant Herbert Edward G. Crosse to be Captain, by purchase, vice Brevet-Major homer; Ensign Charles Wollaston Hutton to be Lieutenant, by purchase, Tice Crosse. 60th Foot—Wm. Warren, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Worsley, promoted; James Blakie Keith, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Meade, promoted. 75th Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Alexander Mackay to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Woods, who reigns.s 76th Foot—Staff-Surgeon Arthur Bell to be Surgeon, Tice Surgeon Major Scott, who exchanges. 90th Foot—Ensign John Williamson to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice C. B. Wynne, promoted ; Ensign Wm. Stewart Hamilton, from the 12th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Williamson. Rifle Brigade—Lieutenant Hector S. Vandeleur to be Cap tain, by purchase, vice the Hon. J. F. Pennington., who retires; Ensign Fitz Roy Wilson to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Vandeleur. Gold Coast Artillery Corps—Captain and Brevet-Major Thomas Cochrane to be Major, without purchase, vice Major and Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Bird, promoted to an Unattached Lieutenant-Colanelcy, without purchase ; Lieutenant Francis John Bolton to be Captain, without purchase, vice Cochrane. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.—Surgeon-Major Robert Thos. Scott, from the 76th Foot, to be Staff Surgeon-Major, vice Surgeon Bell, who exchanges. BREVET. Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Wm. Pasley, K.C.8., Royal Engineers, to be General, vice Thackeray, deceased. Major-General William Cuthbert Ward to be Lieut.- General, vice Sir C. W. Pasley. Colonel Richard John Stotherd to be Major-General, vice Ward. Major-General Charles Dixon and Major-General Sher burne Williams, retired full pay Royal Engineers, to be Lieutenant-Generals, in consequence of the promotion of Major-General Ward, who stood below them on the effec tive list of the corps at the dates of their retirement, and Colonel Thomas More, retired full pay Royal Engineers, to be Major-General, in consequence of the promotion of Colonel Stotherd. BANKRUPTS. John Keen, merchant, Leadenhall-street, City, to sur render Oct. 23, at two, and Nov. 29, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Robert Stevens, innkeeper, Ipswich, Oct. 23, at twelve, and Nov. 29, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alfred Silvester, photographic artist, New Dorset-street, Clapham-road, Oct. 25, at one, and Nov. 29, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. John Cooper, printer, Great Yarmouth, Oct. 25 and Nov. 23, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Benjamin Goodson, jun., farmer,LittleCoggeshall,Essex, Oct. 24, at two, and Nov. 21, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Solomon Lindo, wino merchant, Westbourne-grove, Bayswater, Oot 24, at half-past twelve, and Nov. 26, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Charles William Bourne, corn factor, Dudley, Worces tershire, Oct. 25 and Nov. 15, at eleven, at the Birming ham District Court. James Whittaker Evans, cotton spinner, Newcastle under-Lyme, Oct. 22 and Nov. 12, at eleven, at the Bir mingham District Court. Thomas Ragg, printer, Birmingham, Oct. 25 and Nov. 15, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. John Siddons and William Clark, ironfounders, Great Bride, Staffordshire, Oct. 25 and Nov. 15, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Matilda Archer, grocer, Filey, Yorkshire, Oct. 26 and Nov. 16, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Jabez Fowler, draper, Tredegar, Monmouthshire, Oct. 23 and Nov. 20, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Daniel Platten, draper, Dorchester, Oct. 26 and Nov. 28, at one, at the Exeter District Court. SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. John Thomson, merchant, Edinburgh. Henderson Law, merchant, Glasgow. John Gray Mac'farlrn, merchant, Glasgow. Thomas Callender and Sons, leather factors, Glasgow. BANK OF ENGLAND. An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 10th day of Oct., 1860: ISSUE DEPARTMENT. Notes issued ...—.X29,162,255 Government Debt £11,015,100 Other Securities .. 3,459,900 Gold Coin & Bullion 14,687,255 Silver Bullion .... - £29,162,255 Z 29,162,255 BANKING D Proprietors' Capi tal £14.553,000 Rest Public Deposits (in cluding ExclA quer, Savings' Banks, Commis missioners of Na tional Debt, and Dividend Ac- :PARTIKENT. Government Seen- rities (including Dead Weight A nnuity) Other Securities Notes Gold and Silver Coin 738,358 counts) 6,583,944 Other Deposits 12,813,771 Seven Day and other Bills 759,631 £37,793,363 M.l' £37,793,363 [AIIBII AL L, Chief Cashier. Dated Oct. 11,1860. AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com puted from Returns made: in the week ending the 9th day of Oct., 1860, exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain : ...,___ . Muscovado, tho produce of the British pos sessions in America Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius Average price of the foregoing .. 26s 10d 2'.HIS DAY'S SHIPPING. LONDON, Oct. 12.—Wind this day at noon—North- Westerly ; rather fresh breeze, and fine, clear, frosty weather. PORTSMOUTH, Oct. 11.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrived-- Venus, from Copenhagen, and sailed for St. Thomas ; Gamow, from London for the Cape of Good Hope aid Kurrachee, leaky. CARDIFF, Oct, 11.—Wind N.—Sailed —Sea Nymph, for Pernambuco. SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOUS. Miss Fanny .... 1 Pollyolbiion ...., .... , .. 2 Five ran. SCRATCHINGS. Prendergast Stakes—Solferino, Overreach colt, Lupus, Knight of the Thistle, Vaga, Rouge Dragon, Wing, See saw, Canto, Adrasta, Sooloo, Brownie, Bail Bleu, Physalis colt, Klarikoff, and Lord Kingston. Handicap for Two and Three-yr •olds—Malta. Handicap of Twenty Soya.—Cynricus, Lady Kingston, Emily, Trovatere, Prophet, and Sheffield: LATEST BETTING. CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 4to 1 agst Dulcibella (taken) 100 to 7 agst Thunderbolt (taken) 25 to 1 agst Sutton (taken) 100 to 3 aget Sir William (taken) 50 to 1 apt Little Dick (offered) THE DERBY. 11 to 2 aget Dundee (offered) 28 to 1 agst Folkestone (taken) 1000 to 20 agst Invader (taken) 5000 to 75 eget East Stanley (taken) COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—THis DAY. Amsterdam Ditto Rotterdam — 11 164 11 16 Antwerp Brussels — 25 25 25 30 Hamturgh - 13 61 Paris Ditto Marseilles — 25 372 25 422 Frankfort on Maine — 1174 117 k Vienna Trieste _ Petersburgh Berlin Madrid Cadiz —49 a 49; Leghorn — 25 55 25 60 Milan — 25 371 25 45 Genoa — 25 47} 25 45 Naples Palermo — 1211 122 Messini. —121 k Lisbon Oporto Rio Janeiro • • New York — •• •• Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard),...per oz. £3 17 9 Mexican Dollars as .. „ 0 0 0 Silver in Bars (Standard) f 9 0 5 la South American Doublons -etRTEMUS WARD SEES THE PRINCE OF WALES (From the Montreal Gazette.) At larst rya had a intervu with the Prince, tho it cum purty nerd costin' me my valuerable life. I cawt a glimpse of him as he sot on the Pizaro of the hotel in Sarnia, and elbode my way through a crowd of women, children, sojers, and Injins that was hanging round the tavern. I was drawing near to the Prince when a red-faced man in milingtary close grabd holt of me and axed me where I was going all so bold. "To see Albert Edard, Prince of Wales," sez I. "Who be you ?" He said he was Kurnal of the Seventy Fust Regiment, her Majesty's troops. I toled him I hoped the Seventy Onesters were in good health, and was passing by when he ceased holt of me agin, and said in a tone of indignant cirprise— " Impossible I It cannot be I 'What, sir ; did I under stan' you to say you was actooally going into the presents of his Royal Iness ?" " That's what's the matter with me," I replied. " But, sir, it's onprecedented. It's orful, sir I Nothing like it hain't happened sins the Gun Powder Plot of Guy Forks. Owdoshus man, who air you ?" " Sir," sez I, drawin' myself up and puttin' on a defiant air, "I'm a American sitturzin, my name is Ward, I'm a husband an' the father of twins, which I am happy to state they look like me. By perfeshun Ime a exhibitor of wax work and sich." " Good gracious !" yelled the kurnal, " the idea of a ex hibiter of wax figures going into the presents of Royalty The British Lyon may well roar with rage at the thawt 1" Sez I, " Speakin' of the British Lion, Kurnal, Ide like to make a bargin with you fur that beast for a few weeks to add to my show." I didn't mean nothin', by this. I was only gettin' orf a goak, but you orter hey seen the old Kur nal jump up and howl. He actooally foamed at the mowth. "This can't be real," he showted. " No, no. Its a orrid dream. Sir, you air not a human bein—you hey no existens —yure a myth 1 " " Wall," sez I, "old hose, yule find me a ruther onkom fortable Myth of you punch my inards in that way agin." I begat to get a little riled, fur when he called me a Myth he puncht me purty hard. The Kurnal now commenst showtin for the Seventy Onesters. lat fust thawt Ide stay and becum a Marter to British Outraje, as sich a course mite git my name up and be a good advertisement for my show, but it occurred to me that if any of the Seventy Onesters should happen to insert a barronet into my stum mick, it mite be onpleasunt, & I was on the pint of running orf, when the Prince hisself kum up and axed me what the matter was. Sez I, " Albert Edard, is that yu ?" &he smilt and sed it was. Se% I, " Albert Edard, hears my keerd. I cum to pay my respeks to the futur king of Ingland. The Kurnal of the Seventy Onesters hear is ruther smawl per • taters, but of course you aint to blame for that. He put on as many airs as tho he war the Bully Boy with the glass eye." " Never mind," sez Albert Edard, " Ime glad to see yu Mister Ward;at all events," and he tuk my hand so pleasant like, & larfed so sweet that I fell in love with him at once. He handid me a segar & we sot down on the Pizarro & com mense Pmokie rite cheerful. " Wall," sez I, " Albert Edard, how's the old folks ?" " Her Majesty & the Prince are well," he sed. " Duz the old man take his Larger Beer reglar ?" I in- quired. The Prince larfed & intermatid that the old man diden't let many kegs of that beverage spile in the seller in the coarse of a yere. We sot and tawked there sum time about matters & things, and bimeby I axed him how he liked bein' Prince as fur as heed got. "To speak plain, Mister Ward," he sed, "I don't much like it. I'm sick of all this bowin & scrapin and crawling & hurrain over a boy like me. I wood rather go threw the country quietly & enjoy myself in my own.^way, with the other boys, and not to be made a show of to be garpen at by everybody. When the people cheer me I feel pleased, fur I know they meen it, but if these one-horse effshuls cood know how I see threw all their moves & understan (m -eekly what they air after, & knowed how I larft at em in private, they'd stop kissing my hands and fawnin over me as they now do. But you know Mister Ward I can't help bein a Prince, & I must do all I kin to fit myself fur the persishun I must sumetime ockepy." " That's troo," says I, " sickness and the doctors will carry the Queen orf one of these dase, sure's yer born." The time haven arove fur me to take my departer I riz up and sed, " Albert Edard, I must go, but previs to doin so I will observe that you soot me. Yure a good feller Albert Edard, k tho Ime agin Princes as a gineral thing, I must say I like the cut of yure Gib. When you git to be King try and be as good a man as yure muther's bin. Be just and be Jenerus, espeshully to showmen, who have allers bin aboozed sins the days of Noah, who was the fast man to go into the Menagery bizness, & ef the daily papers of his time are to be bleeved Noah's colleekshnn of livin wild beasts beet ennything ever seen sins, tho I make bold to dowt ef his snaiks was ahead of mine. Albert Edard, adoo 1" I tuk his hand, which he shook warmly, and given him a perpteooal free pars to my show, & also parses to take home for the Queen & Old Albert, I put on my hat k walkt away. "Mrs. "Mrs. Ward," I solile r qui se d, as I walkt along. as he Ward ef you could nee y our husband now, jel. prowdly emerjis from the presents of the future S ing of z Ingland, youd be sorry you called him a Beestjx becaw e he come home tired I night and wanted to g o to bed with out taking orf his boots. Youd be sorry for try your husband of the priceless Boon of liberty, WARD.A itt ta to y .d_compre.,iv,e Cowes, Oct. 11.—Wind N.N.8., s tron g .—Arrived—. Bremen, steamier, from New York , and p roceeded for Bremen; Illinois, steamer, from Havre, and left for N ew York. SwANszA., Oct. 11.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Ford Mill, from Quebec. LI G HTS IN THE ADRlATlC.—lnformation ha s b een received at the Admiralty, from her Majesty'Secretary of s State for Foreign Affairs, that the lighting on the Austrian coat of the Adr iatic is re-ostablished. 1081 10 9 I 1 1C9 111 '205 208 61 63 115 120 92 94 12.1L10 16 WEYHILL GREAT SEEEP FAIR. I The great six days' fair commenced on Wednes day, for sheep only ; the second day is for beasts and horses, t'L third day for cheese and hops, the fourth day the principal hop fair, and the two last chiefly for implements of husbandry, toys, and miscellaneous goods of every description. Booths standing the year round for this fair alone are rented foil the six days at from £lO to £3O each by innkeepers and retailers of provisions, the hop booths also at a price, as also covered offices for the hop factors selling by samples. In the morning, before daybreak, droves of sheep were being driven on every road leading to Weyhill, many being penned by six o'clock and sold by breakfast time, the chief number being cleared away by noon. The sum realised for the hiring of sheep pens this year amounted to £3OO odd, which goes to the church clergyman of Weyhill, who has the letting of the same. The well-known breeders of Stockbridge, An dover, Whirwell, Overton, Whitchurch, the three Wallops, the Tarrants, and other parishes in Hants, besides many other breeders of Down sheep from Sussex and Wilts, had some splendid droves at the fair, the judges computing the gross number of Southdowns to be 200,000, and of half-bred ang other sheep of 50,000 more. At the opening of the fair sales were but slow, as the prices asked were too high to suit the buyers, but as the morning advanced a reduction of 2s. per sheep was submitted to ; then flock after flock changed owners, and were driven away in all directions. Hampshire Downs were most in demand, best ewes selling at from 408 up to 50s each; second quality from 38s to 40s each; a few very superior ditto making above the top figure above named. Some fine tegs were sold at from 40s to 45a for sheep, others at from 36s to 40s; best lambs at from 36s to 408; a few reaching 42s to 445; fat wethers realised full 5s per stone of 81b ; ditto, ewes, 4s 4d ditto. Sussex Downs were also excellent in quality, and rather larger in size than the Hants flocks, consequently some lots realised 2s per sheep more money. Wilts Downs, smaller than either of the above named sheep, were in good demand, yet prices varied considerably ; best ewes not making more than 38s to 40s each ; tegs from 34s to 36s ; limbs, 30s to 32s ; fat sheep, at from 4s 4d to 5s per 81b. The horned sheep being chiefly those left from Appleshaw fair were not of the finest quality, or the size of the Somerset and Dorset sheep generally, still many were large and good, making good prices, so that by noon nearly all the sheep of every size and breed had changed owners, The amount of money realised was estimated by competent judges at nearly half a million, and the quantity of sheep at the fair more than 240,000, being an excess of 10,000 over the number in 1859, and 60,000 ditto in 1858, prices being 4s per sheep dearer than those sold in the first-named year, and Gs each above the prices of 1858. _ _ The knp fair this year will cut but a sad figure compared with the last four or five productive years, as.many of the Farnham growers have few pockets 'to bring of this year's growth—the duty of that to. and district not being expected to realise £2,000, against from £14,000 to £20,000 other years. DR CUMZEUNG ON PROPHECY. (Franz the Manchester Examiner.) The friends of Dr. Cumming will probably thank us for hating afforded that learned gentleman an opportunity of explaining all about the 21 years' lease. It was ho who introduced the subject, and the facts, as stated by himself, certainly seemed to us susceptible of an awkward inference, affecting not merely his inconsistency—the point which had been already the theme of an amusing disquisition in Punch—but his honesty. At the same time we suggested it only as a matter which required to be explained. • We were quite certain that a gentle man of such perfect unexceptionability of conduct would be guilty of nothing which he deemed dis honest, or even unhandsome, but this only increased our obligation to indicate an apparently weak point, at which, if left unelucidated, some " scoffer" might carp. Our commercial readers will best ap preciate the conclusiveness of the defence. The payment of a certain rent for 21 years seems to have been on the landlord's side the very essence of the bargain, though his ignorance of prophecy cannot be laid to the charge of Dr. Cumming. Each acted according to the light that was in him ; and if the balance would have been in the doctor's favour it is an advantage to which he is not unfairly entitled as a set-off against the time and labour which he has devoted to prophetic studies. As a means of solving any future difficulties of the same kind, there is one arrangement which we incline to think entirely fair. Should Dr. Cumming have occasion to take up another 21 years' lease, let him first send to the landlord a copy of his " Great Tribulation." If the latter, with the facts properly explained, and, so to speak, with his eyes open, chooses to close the bar gain, no outsider will have the slightest cause for cavil. Dr. Cumming has taken our remarks on this part of the subject a trifle too seriously. He could not have shown more earnestness in rebutting them even if he had felt their force. Dr. Cumminc , charges us with having treated the subject of his lecture with "levity, with iidi cule, and almost sceptic contempt." If he had said that we had treated him in this manner, we would have pleaded guilty at once. His pretensions cer tainly excite within us a scepticism the most pro- found ; and as for levity and ridicule his own ex position of an inspired prophet was so grotesque that.he had to caution his audience not to laugh— an admonition which it was impossible not to dis regard. In fact, the hall rang with merriment. In attempting to unveil the mysteries of Holy - Writ, a severe taste might have led him to refrain from interlarding them with the criticisms of Punch. Think of the Prophet Isaiah being solemnly ( onfronted with the dog Toby ! Since the doctor has taken up this style of rebuke, we will frankly tell him the whole truth. We will avow, then, that our reverence for the prophetical writings is strong: enough to make us instinctively shudder when ho subjects them to his horrible scalping knife. He robs them to our mind of all their mystery and beauty. He smears their drapery with sordid mire, and fills their gorgeous visions with smoke and soot and steam. When we see him, spectacled and buttoned, with extracts from the Times and Punch within the leaves of his Bible, stalking up to the veil of the temple, and essay to rend it from top to bottom, we remember how sublimely the miracle was once achieved, and begin to think that the latter times of the scoffers" have arrived indeed. We feel shocked at the ingrained coarseness of mind which such treatment reveals. To feel its offensive ness it is not at all requisite to have a very pro fane taste—it is only requisite to have a moderately religious one. Irr. Cumming's treatment of the inspired writings is chargeable with another result, against which it would be only decent for a man in his position _to guard. We shall not presume to dispute with him the use of th• Hebrew tenses, nor even to affirm whether or not he wholly ignores the wide distinc tion which must be drawn between the laws of grammar and those of rhetoric. When he tells us a pist tense must be understood with a future signi fication, th "Woe" must be read " Ho," that "shadowinwith wings" means " defending withula naval force," that " ships of bulrushes" are sce ir a es, vessels, and " swift beasts" are railway locomotives, we meekly incline our secular selves before of divinity. But what will his hearers upon What practical conclusions will be f o rced in the first their minds ? They will conclude, a think? place, that they have been villanoeuas i of Scrip the last 300 years out of the real uyncgheated for 1 ture. Nor is this all. Hone vewrulleycan not another ? be made to undergo such a metamorphosis, last the persuasion In this way a haze of unc.elrltaatnty creeps over the whole of the sacred test, till version_ is useless and is invincible that the common un _ ess Dr. Cumming Zan be positively mischieyo.cius, But the scepticism thus bound up along I engendered goeswiftar idesper. It attaches to the till the bewildered inquirer is things themselves, disposed to regard:n infallible interpreter as a g . nt of the inspired w r iti ngs. Thus, by str le ni necessar y campi n from common sense, D r. c um _ on the high road t o R ome, a p l ace which Y m ing leads his flock in degree of horror h e h olds only second to another which shall be nameless. As for ordinary attempts to explain Scripture, Dr. Cum mings mode of procedure tends to bring them into utter contempt. By his loose canons of interpreta tion you may prove positively anything. There is no theory, however grotesque and absurd, which could not be defended by the weapons he uses. If it suited him to treat St. Peter with as much freedom as he bestows upon the prophet Isaiah, imagination can but faintly figure what his yester day's lecture might have been. In the name of decency and sobriety, we protest against Dr. Cum ming 's sacrilegious nonsense. On merely literary grounds and as a matter of taste, apart altogether from the vital interests of religion, we stand up for the august shades of these mighty men of old against a modern theological thimblerigger. In pursuit of this eminent divine we have wan dered a long way beyond our usual domain,though as journalists we claim a right to speak on any:sub ject that interests mankind. We do this by virtue of the all inclusive honzo sum. Besides, the sub jects treated on both occasions are intensely secu lar. The destiny of Great Britain—why, this is what we are talking about and humbly trying to. influence every day. The destiny of the Earth Is a wider theme, which we will modestly leave in th doctor's hands. We are delighted to learn that and his children love their Tunbridge cottage be-. cause a sprig of heather grows near it. This smacks genuinely of human nature, which shows its, toughness by thriving so vigorously on the extreme verge of the present secular economy. Such senti mentality ought,however, to be held in firm check, and our reverend friend must have a remarkably happy temperament to be able to indulge it when. such vast forebodings are rumbling in the distance. Considering the spiritual condition of the world,. considering the plight in which, to speak soberly, the Dies Ira would find most men, Dr. Cumming shows remarkable equanimity in beirtg able to ne gotiate a lease in order to spend the last seven years of the present economy near a bit of heather. A bit of heather ! Why, man, here are millions of immortal souls whose longest torm of probation will not sur pass those seven years. In such circumstances, can you, an honest Christian man, be sentimentalising with your landlord over a bit of heather ? Such inconsistency betrays the shallowness and un conscious insincerity of the theoriser, but does not disclose one-half his mischievousness.. Suppose the year 1867 should pass with out a catastrophe, what will Dr. Cumming have enabled the " scoffer" t° Suroly it i s say in 1868 ? more ' discreet, more consonant with the narrow powers and narrower province of man, to confine ourselves to the plain path of duty ; and instead of rushi ng i n where angels fear to trend, and setting before hand the times and seasons which it is not given to man to know, to leave prophetic mysteries in their proper gloom, and humbly wait till Heaven becomes its own interpreter. ~..~.~- TEE ROAD MURDER. The Frome correspondent of the Bath Chronicle gives an account of the system of persec u ti on and annoyance to which the inmates of Mr. Kent' s h ouse are subjected :—" Not content with sending letters containing threats and gross insults, there are thos e who most improperly trespass on the premises out of curiosity and cruelty. On Sunday last, for in stance, a party of six persons, dressed like gentle men, rode into the grounds of the house, laughing, smoking, and joking, and, halting in front of . the house, made the affair the subject of ribald. jest. Seeing one of the young ladies at the window, they shouted, ' There is Constance,' and it was only on Mr. Kent making his appearance that they rode away. On Sunday morn ing, also, as Mr. and Mrs. Kent were on their way to church, a large party collected round the gates, and yelled and hooted at them, calling out, Who murdered his boy ?" Who killed his child ?' and similar invectives, causing Mr. Kent considerable difficulty in getting his wife into church, she being almost in a fainting state. The police surveillance has been removed." In the Western Press we find the following particulars respecting the Kent fa mily :—" Mr. Kent, who is a Government inspector of factories, resided for some years at Sidmouth. His first wife, then living, was the daughter of Mr. Windus, of Stamford•hill, near London, the owner of one of the best picture galleries in the neigh bourhood. The match was not a happy one. Neither wife nor children seem to have gained the love of Mr. Kent. The former, indeed, is said to have been somewhat deranged. Of the latter there were five, four of whom are now living. The eldest son went to sea, and was shipwrecked off Balaclava in that fearful storm when the Prince and a fleet of other vessels went down. For some months he was not heard of, and the family went into mourning for him; but he returned unexpec tedly. Not long after he was seized with fever, we believe in the West Indies, an d di e d, b e i ng at that time engaged to be married. The third daughter, Constance, is alleged to have , shown at various times symptoms of insanity. Mr. Kent's second wife was a Miss Pratt, a native of Tiverton, and for some years a governess in tilt? Kent family. Her mother was celebrated for her beauty, and was the reigning toast among the farmers of the neighbour hood. Mr. Kent inherited a considerable property, the greater portion of which he had " post-obited. ' After leaving Sidmouth, Mr. Kent went to reside at Walton House, near Clevedon, in Somerset, from thence he removed to Boynton House, near West bury, Wilts, and subsequently to his present home. The money belonging to the first Mrs. Kent was settled upon her children, and they have also in herited some property from their grandfather, Mr. Windus. The Kent family are distantly connected with Baron Channell." INQUEST ON A MURDERER IN BETHLEHEM" HOSPITAL. Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held by Mr. Sergeant Payne, in the Board-room of Bethlehem Hospital, on the body of Anthony Abel, a criminal lunatic, who had been removed there from Norwich gaol on being acquitted of the charge of murder on the ground of insanity. He was one of the oldest inmates of that establishment, having been there ever since the 18th of June, 1817, a period of up wards of forty-three years. Mr. Sergeant Payne, the coroner, addressed the jury, and said the deceased was indicted for murder and acquitted on the ground of insanity, after which he was removed to this establishment, which ren dered it necessary that an inquiry should take place as to the cause of his death. Mr. William Charles Wood said he was a doctor of medicine, and resident physician of Bethlehem Hospital. The deceased was brought to the hos pital under a warrant of Lord Sidmonth, the Sec retary of State for the Home Department, on the 18th of June, 1817, having been indicted for the murder of his uncle at Southberg, in the parish of Thetford, Norfolk, and acquitted on the ground of insanity. His uncle was a farmer, and the deceased was apprenticed to him. The deceased was of a most impetuous temper, and, while engaged in ploughing, his uncle spoke to him, upon which he raised a stick used for clearing the ploughshare, striking his uncle with it on the head, which laid him dead. For many years he was considered so violent and dangerous that he was confined in a strong room, and under the old regime then in use in the establishment, he had a strong belt and gloves, and was put into irons. He was one of the most violent men he had ever met with. Deceased was found dead in a closet on Monday morning, and a post mortem examination showed that the cause of death was disease of the heart. He was 6S. 1 he jury returned a verdict of natural death. TBIS DAY'S MARRETS. CORN EXCHANGE. We were again scantily supplie d with English wheat to-clay, and the general quality of the samples was very inferior. The few fine qualities on offer changed hands at Monday's currency, but other kinds naoyed off heavily, at irregular, and in some instances at easier q uotations. The imports of foreign wheat, 21,360 quarters, having been liberal, and as most of the millers are well in stock, the demand for both red and white parcels was inactive, Importers, howev er, refuse to a cce p t lower rat es. Floating carg oes of grain were at low inquiry) at lat e curre ncies. The few samp les of barley in the market haVe moved o ff s t ea dily, at quit e Monday's prices. Fi n e malt com manded q uite p re cious rates, but inferior inquiry fo'r oats, at fully kinds Therweewreasleassgaocotdivce. consumptive la t e rates. Beans and peas command e d extreme rates, but flour was a dull inquiry. ARRIVALS THIS 'WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. English.••• •• • • 1 ,260 ' 880 2,t80 i 10 I :960 Irish — Foreign... 510 ..... 21,360 1 ,270 I 7,840 I 4,180 sacks 15,080 brls. NEIVGATE AND LEADENHALL. The supplies of each kind Of meat are moderately good. Generally speaking, the demand is inactive, at our quota tionn : Per Sibs by the carcase. s Inferior beef .... 2 4 2 8 Middling mutton 3 . 8 4 0 Middling d 0.... 2 10 3 4 Prime do Prime large do.. 3 6 3 10 Veal Do. small d 0.... 4 0 4 2 Small pork 5 2 5 8 Large pork 4 4 5 0 Lamb.... ...... 0 0 0 0 Inferior mutton 3 0 3 6 BOROUGH HOP. There is a fair quantity of new hops on offer, but chiefly in poor condition. Fine samples command high quota tions ; but the demand for other kinds js by no means active. Duty, £32,000 to £35,000. Mid and East Kent pockets, £l7 Os to £25 Om Wealds 15 Os to 21 Os o Sussex .. 11 Os to 16 1859........8 Os to 15 Os Olds .. 3 Os to 8 (is TEA.—The market continues very quint, COLONIAL. shown no alteration. and prices have SUGAR. — The dealings have been havea rather limited scale, and for some descriptions prices slightly given way. In the refined market previous rates are generally current. COFFEE.—For the finer qualities of plantation Ceylon the inquiries have been to a fair extent, and late prices are well maintained. Other descriptions are at rather easier rates. RicE.—At public sale rather higher rates were obtained partieu for East India, Lad ao r e a s t a h t er ful lar l r g a e te b s u . siness has been trans. acted in floating cargoes the spot is now quoted 58s SALTPETR.E.—The market continues dull, and quota tions TALLow.—The dealings have been extensive, lady for forward delivery, and a further advance has taken place P.Y.C. on and 5Sa. 6d, for prig delivery, .7 i 124 124 stock stock stock sock stock stock stock stock stock 10i 10 stock stock stock 84 stock stock stock lOs 1.0.6 stock stock stock stock stock stock stock all 1 100 100 100 100 all all 78 ri 132} 1021 1011 On 1031