The Sun. — London, England, 1858-10-23 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND UITY NEWS. CITY, Two o'CLocK. The Bank of England return, completed to the 20th inst., although it shows some unsatisfactory features, is not of a character to cause any uneasi ness with regard to monetary prospects. Owing to the absence of Australian remittances the bullion has been decreased to the extent of about a quarter of a million sterling, while the reserve of notes, in conse quence of the payment of the dividends and other Periodical demands, has been diminished to the amount of about half a million. The other securi ties, notwithstanding the minimum rate of 3 per Cent, only show a small falling off. In the Public deposits there is a slight augmentation. But the private deposits, partly owing to the absorption of capital by the various Joint-Stock Companies lately brought forward, shows a dimi nution of nearly three-quarters of a million. The active circulation exhibits a moderate increase, and in the Government Securities no alteration has taken place. The various items of the balance sheet, and the changes they present, will be found in the subjoined table Active Circulation. .. 121,496,165 Increase .. 29.5,045 Bullion 19,276,.560 Decrease 220,431 Rest .. 3,097,613 Increase .. • • • . • • 6,101 Public Deposits 5,531,558 Increise 174,661 Other Deposits 13,808,346 Decrease .. .. 761,020 Seven Day and other Bills .. 889,465 Increase .. 62,193 Government Securities • • • • 10 , 809 , 467 Decrease .. .. • . 322,202 Other Securities .. .. 14,815,120 Decrease .. 2,589 Notes Unemployed 11,642,545 Decrease .. .. 495,195 The decline in the stock of bullion is presumed to be merely temporary, for, although the remittances to the continent and the East may increase, the imports will, no doubt, continue sufficiently large to meet the requirements of exporters and leave a balance for accumulation at the Bank. The rat e of exchange in New York is still very )31 01, and the City of Washington, just arrived, has brought £198,248. In the course of the next fortnight a considerable quantity of specie is expected from Australia, the Agincourt having been 91 days at sea with £283,100, and the Lincolnshire 70 days, with about £622,800. These "usignments, it is thought, will chiefly be retained in this country, for the present export demand Will scarcely .absorb more than the amounts re ceived from the United States and Russia. The late supplies of gold from Russia and Anstra ia having been disposed of, the influx at the Bank of England has temporarily ceased. The continental exchanges yesterday afternoon Were again rather flatter, but the movement was T el,' limited. The demand for silver continues moderately act ive, and, as th e supp l y i s li m it e d, th e quo t a ti ons te nd upwards. A, .ccounts from New York report that business in the exchange had not been quite so active. Money on call was abundant at 3 per cent., and first-class bills were negotiated at 4 to 6 per cent. The supply, however, was rather on the decline than otherwise, which had, consequently, caused increased competition among bankers and others. The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday mani fested a very dull appearance, and quotations were without alteration. The sales were estimated at 6,000 bales. Since Monday last the imports of specie have been about £489,839, and the exports .£129,794, exclusive of the following shipments direct from tondon to the Continent during the week ending Thursday last :—Gold coin (Boulogne), 390 ounces ; silver coin, (Boulogne), 4,400 ounces ; ditto (Rot terdam), 1,600 ounces ; ditto (Belgium), 9,000 °lluees ; bars (Hambro'), 300 ounces ; ditto (Rotter -44111), 100,000 ounces. The Funds receded about 8 per cent. soon after the commencement of business, but an improve ment has since occurred, Consols being now 981 c , bn Yere, for transf er , an d 98 1 1 for account. Some large speculative purchases have been effected, which have prevented depression. T he New 3 per Cents. are flat, and have declined to 9 71 to 97k, and also the Reduced Bank Stock is 4 r ll l at 222 to 224. Long Annuities 181, being ste ady; Exchequer Bills (March), 40s. t o 41 s. ; J une ditto, 31s. to 335. prem. ; India Loan Deben tures, 991 ; ditto, 2d issue, 996 ; and ditto Bonds, 12s. to 13s. Business in the Foreign Stock Market is mode rately active, and prices, in a few instances, tend d ownwards. Turkish 6 per Cents, are 941 ; ditto Scrip, Ist issue, I to 1 prem. ; ditto, 2d, 1-4 to 2f P r em. ; ditto, 4 per Cents., 1051 ; Portuguese 3 per Ce nts., 464 47 ; Russian 42 per Cents., 1014; Sar rlian 5 per C en t s ., 94 ; V enezue l a 5 per C e nts., 401; Brazilian 41 per Cents. (1858), 971 y ; evian 41- per Cents., Uribarren, 791 ; Spanish Shares have risen to 6a- ; Intercolonial Steam o:tares are 1 to 1 prem., and Atlantic ditto, 1 premi um. In the Railway Share Market to-day the deal 's have hav e b een of a very l i m i ted character. A l ew of the principal lines have been dealt in, but the rates realised have shown a decline of about 1 to Per cent• on previous values. Great Western, Lancashire and Yorkshire, and Scottish North :sterns have d ec li ne d s s . E as t ern C oun ti es, Nort h - Westerns, and North-Eastern (Berwick) 10s. 11 e Foreign and Colonial lines have been very dull. Paris and Lyons have declined ss. ; Pernambuco, u f ,!•, and E ast I nd i an about ss. ; Grand Trunk and Great Western of Canada are at steady rates. J oint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares show no Material alteration from previous rates. t ISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. 3 alllc Stock a Per Ce n t . R educed Annuities 9 7 26 ,1- New Cent. C onso l s A nnu iti es L ( '‘v 3 per Cent. A nnu iti es "nßA.nnuities, expire sth Jan., 1860 — Ditto 30 Years, expire sth Jan. , 1880 l4l 1 v Mi Ditto Stock 30 Years, expire sth Ap r il, 1885 lBl . a, Vitt° Lebentures -Ditto ditto, 2d Issue Ditto. Bonds, £l,000 C onsols for Account March June. Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2d. &lid... 41 40 f 33 1 FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Brazilian, 5 per Cent. — , D itto 1858, 41 per Cent. 971 ' 4 clllador N ew C onso lid a t e d , Ditto Provi s i ona l L an d Warrant 4l 4- eruvian, 4f per Cent. I, Ditto (Uribarren), 41 per Cent. uguese, 1853, 3 per Cent. b D itto Acco un t 4 "sian, 1822, £ St., 5 p er C en t — Ditto 41 per Cent. S ardinian,_ 5 per C en t . 94 6panish Coln. Cert. of Coup. not funded 6/ 1 N'edish, 4 per Cent. 4 urkieh, 6 per Cent. . Ditto Account Ditto New Loa n S cr i p — Ditto Account Ditto 2d Issue / p 'Venezuela, 5 per Cent. Dividends on the above payable in London. ' Consols, Money TWO OCLOCK. 981 Ditto Account 9Bl A strange tale is going through the coulisses o, the Italian Opera House. A prima donna of that theatre Who has lately risen to great fame and acquired a first-rate tosition on these boards, has just been claimed as his ughtor by one of the highest functionaries of the country. The claimant is possessed of rank, wealth, and influence, and, though it was well known in the young lady's family t hat the great man in question was in reality her father, Yet n o not i ce of the connex i on wa s taken by him her successful debut caused him to feel a pride in his offspring His anti-musical tastes had prevented him f °1 11 : following her through her musical education, n.". ,„ he was theref ore as muc h surprised as delighted at herC e eess. He has just made her an official offer of recogni i°l; and formal adoption, with the bestowal of his name 4114 Wealth, in addition to the advantage of the magnificent Position to which he would raise her. But she has sur tristed him still more by the ma n n e r o f her refusal. "MY uer refused to recd me when I was in poverty and 1 . 6 se ltritY, now, that I gnise am celebrated and rich, I refuse to °gnisu him. Let us be strangers to each other."— ourt Journal. 11,Oneral Niel has presented the Emperor of the _.reachi with the first copy of the journal of the works exe to ‘t" ,, by the French engineers during the siewe of Sebas nfPal• This magnificent work, which requires the labour Ciree years for its execution, has only just been finished. th e ete is a magnificent atlas attached to it, which gives all ...."-aiglish, F renc h, and Russian attacks. Roches, the French Consul-General at Tunis, Who is at present at Paris on leave of absence has received (44e1.8 to returnforthwith to his post, , SHARE MARKET.-(THIS DAY.) ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Shard R a il wa y s . I Paid. Closing I Business Price. Done. Share Railways. p.,,, " I Closing 1 Business '"` Price. Done. 10 Antwerp & Rotterd am a ll 54 5,4 151 20 Ardennes all - ' - p 12.10 Amber,g., Notting. Bost. 20 Bah.&S.Fran.,Lim.7p.c 3 par yA4 4 and Eastern Junction 10 61 6 1 61 5 Belgian East. Junction all 11 1 50 Belfast End Ballymena.. all - - 20 Beziers to Graissessae. all 9 10. 13.14 Bir., Wol., an d st r. V a l . a ll 71 71 5 Carmeaux Mine & Rail. all 2 2i Stock Birk., Lane., and Cliesh. 20 Dutch RheniOli Junction lOO 66 68 6 Eastern of France ...... all 28/ 29 25 Blackburn - - p 25 Blvth and Tyne all 31 33 20 Great Central ot France all - - Stock Bristol and Exeter - Stock Caledonian - - Stock Chester and Holyhead' lOO 37 39 20 Lake Constance & Bale all - - 50 Cork and Bandon all - - 20 Lierre and Turnhout... all - - 20 Cork, Blkrock,&Passage all - - 20 Lombardo Venetian... . 8 41 41 . 20 Cornwall all 41 5 41 2 20 Lucca & Pistoja, 5 p.c.pf. all - - 10 Do. AEA roves. no div until6p.c.per an 1 all - - 20 Lyons and Geneva .... all 241 251 10 Do. B all - - 331 Maria Antonia all - - ha sbeep . pd.toß. 20 Do. do. New - - 50 Dublin andßelfast June. all - - 20 Namur and Liege all 91 9 1 25 Dun.,Perth,& Abr.Junc. all 7/ 8 20 Do. do. 6p. c. Pref. all 21 22 Stock East Anglian lOO 17 18 16 Northern of France .... all 384 3 8 1 Stock Eastern Counties lOO 62 63 611 20 Do. New Shares - - P Stock Eastern Union A Stock 100 45 47 10 Norwegian Trunk Pref all 81 91 Stock Do. do. B Stock 100 30 32 7 3 1 d 20 Ottoman, gua. 6 per cent 25 Do.Nw.A.(lte.E.U3ds) 81 - - 20 Paris,Lyons, and ar m all 34f 341 344 25 East Kent all - - 20 Paris and Orleans ...... all 53 54/ Stock East Lancashire lOO 93 95 20 i Recife& S. Fran. (rem.) ( 9 4 d 1p 9 20 East Suffolk all - - 10 Do - - g ua. 7 p . et. (Lim.) ... ) 20 Riga and Dunaburg.... 4 - Stock Edinburg and Glasgow 100 65 67 10 Rome and Frascati .... all - - Stock Edin.,Perth, & Dundee. 100 27 271 - - 20 Royal D an i s h . ...l 10 Forth & Clyde Junction all - - all - - 5 Royal Swedish Stock Furness - - 4 Do. 7 per cent. Pref. .. all - - Stock Glasgow & South Westn la) 91 93 20 Sambre and Meuse..... all 8 81 8 10 Great North of Scotland all 101 101 10 Do. 54 per Cent. Pref. ... all 91 4 Stock Great Northern lOO 104/ 1054 105 20 Southern of France .... all 22!. 23: 81 West Flanders Stock Do. do. A Stock lOO 86 88 861 71 all 5 5/ Stock Do. do. B Stock lOO 129 131 10 Do. 54 p. c. Preference . all 9 9 N.W. of Fra n c e.. all 23. 24 i 1. Stock Gt. South.& wstn.(freld) 100 103 104 20 W. &N.w. Stock Great Western - - Stock Do.Str.Vl.ltail Gua.Stk lOO 55 57 20 Western of Switzerland all 6 Wiesbaden - - 12 Irish South Eastern.... all - - all - 161 Do. Thirds 50 Lancaster and Carlisle all 86 89 6 Do 8 per cent. Pref.... all 1613 4 Do. New Thirds l6 11 124 p Zealand all - - - 1 20 -1.. Stock Lancashire & Yorkshire 100 95 951 95 1 16 Do. do. F 416 6 1 Oid BRITISH POSSESSIONS. 9 Do. do. £9 shares 7 f 1 d 3 Do. West Riding Union 1- - Share Railway Paid. Closing I Business 20 Do. Southport - - Price. s. Dons. 11.6.3 London and Blackwall. all 6 61 6 11.6.3 Do.Newiss.at £slosp.sh. 41 - - Atlantic & St Lawrence Stock Lon.,Brighton &S.Coast 100 1101 1111 100 all - - Stock London & North Westn. 100 944 91 90 1 1 Leased at 6 per cent.. 124 Do. Eighths Stock London& South-Westn lOO 9 941 94 r. , ,u. 5 percent 25 L'derry & Coleraine ... all - - 18 Do. all - - 25 L'derry & Enniskillen. all - - 18 Do. Addit. Capital A 6 par p Stock Man., Shef., & Lincoln.. 100 35} 39 1 18 Do. Do. B 4/ par p 10 Metropolitan 3 -- d 201 Buffalo and Lake Huron all. 71 7 • Stock Midland lOO 971 . 974 971 • 201 Do. New l6l 131 12 d Stock Do. Binning. & Derby.. 100 68 70 69 100 f Buffalo,Brant&Godrich I 100 80 85 80 50 Mid. Gt. •West. (Ireland) all - - (6 p. et. bds. 1 Aug., 1872 25 Do. 1 Shares all - - 100 Do. do. 1 July, 1873 103 75 80 100 Newtastle and Carlisle all - - 100 Do. do. 1 June, 1E74 100 74 78 25 New., Aber., & Herefd all 10 11 101 20 Clcutta.&S.Eastrn.Lim. 1. 3.0. - - p 10 Newry & Armagh (def ) 9 - - 20 Cape,Eastn. Prov.(Lim.) 2s. - - 20 Newry, Warpt., & Ros all - - 20 Cape Town & Dock Scrin 2s. - - pm Stock Norfolk boo 63 65 20 Central Oude (Limited) 2s. 6d. - - 50 North. Counties Union 31 3 d 20 Ceylon Guaranteed 6p.c. 2 14 14p Stock North British l OO 571 5 8 57 1 171 Demerara - - Stock Nor.Dev.Rail.&Dk. Stk. 100 - - 20 Eastern Bengal.gu.sp.c 5 4 IP Stock Do.A Stk.- Arec.no div. Stock East Indian, gu. sp. c lOO 1071 108 1071 until 6p.c.hasbeenpdß 100 - - 20 Do. C Shares all - - Stock Do. B Stock lOO - - 20 Do. E Shares Ext. 10 11 lip 111 Stock North-Eastn.-Benvfek 100 932 914 93 1 1 20 Do. Jubbulpore 5 - - 25 Do. do. G.N.E.Purchase 1613 4 1 1 d d 100 Do.". p.c. Bds. pay.'s9 all - - Stock Do. Leeds lOO 471 48 20 G eeloug& Mel. g - ua.s p. c. all 17 18 Stock Do. York lOO 761 774 77 64 Sto. r Geelong Corporation 6 1 100 - - Stock North London lOO 101 103 ( per cent. Bonds 10 N. &S.Westn., Hampstd Stock Grand Trunk of Canada 100 37 38 and City Junction.... £3 is. - - 100 Do. 6 p.c. Deben. - ,pay.'7B all 74 76 20 North Staffordshire.... 174 5 41 d 1 00 , Do. 6 per cent. Pref 7O 10 5d 20 North-Western 10 No. & Sou. W. Junction all 74 8 1 . 20 Do. New, gua.s per cent 4 1 fp Stock Oxford, Wor.,& Wolver. 100 27 29 2 0 Do. do 2 1 ip 21 10 Peebles all - - 20 c Gt.S.of Ind.Lim.-Scrip 12g 1 1p pm x d 20 Portsmouth l9 7 5 d I guaranteed 5 per cent. 10 Rhymney lO - - 201 Gt.W. of Canada Shama all 181 181 18 1 x d Stock Scottish Central lOO 110 112 244 Do. New Stock South. N.E., Aber. Stock 100 271 281 100 f Do. Bonds pay. '76,with 1 all 105 108 Stock Do. Scottish Mid. Stock 100 82 84 ( opt. till 60 Stock Shropshire Union lOO 44 46 100 Do. do. '73 till '6O all 105 108 10 Sittingbourne & Sheer. all 3 2 d 100 Do. do. '73 without opt all 104 106 Stock South Devon lOO 314 34 100 Do. 61 p. c. do. '77 do .. all 991 100 Stock South-Eastern lOO 741 741 20 Madras , guar. , 44 p. c all 18 181 Stock South Wales , lOO 76 78 20 Do. do. 5 per cent all 20. 2CI 20 SouthYorks.&Riv.Dun all 13 14 20 Do. 4) p. C. Extension.. 15 Id Id 20 Do. do 20 Staines, Wok., & Wok all 9 11 20 Do. Fourth do. 25 Stockton & Darlington. all 34 35 Stock Melb. Corp. 6 p.c. Bonds 103 - - 25 Do. do. 1854 221 - -- Newßrt nswick&Canda. 25 Do. do. 1855 7 - - 20 / Ry...lrLand(Lim.)g.6pc 10 2 11d - Stockton & Hartlepool 161 - - Class ACapitl.Share.. Stock Taff Vale lOO - - - Do. do. Land d 0... .. Stock Do. Preference, No. 1 - - 21 Do. do. B. Capital do. 10 4 3 d 25 ThamesHavenDk&Rail 22 - - .. - I Do. do. Land d 0... - - Stock Vale of Neath lOO 92 04 20 I Northof India Tramroad 25. Stock Waterford & Kilkenny 100 - - Limited, Scrip 50 Waterford & Limerick all - - 20 Oude (Limited) - 20 West Cornwall 10 Wend Lou. & Cry. Pal. all - - 20 Do. - - 21 5 Do.A.-Arecv.nodiv.till 20 Do. New 4 ", 5 P 7 p.c. has been pd. to B all 3 31 20 Do. Punjaub 5 Do. B all 61 61 20 Do. Indus. St. Flo. tk e , ) 5 par p 20 West London - - 20 St. And”ews & Quebec A 18 - - , 10 Do. Ist Class - - 10 Trinidad (Limited) Scrip 1 par 1p 20 Do. 2d Class - - BRITISH MINES. Share' Mines. Paid. Closin: - ; Business Price. Done. Alfred Consols (Philack) 2.11.10 8 9 20 13ritish Iron Con durrow (Camborne) 2O 50 60 10 Devon G. Cons. (Tavist.) 1 450 460 East Bassett (Illogan). 30 1024 1071 Great South TolTus l7s 134 14t G.Wheal Alfd.(Phillack) 11.14.11 2 3 G. Wheal Vor (Helston) 81 1 1 4 Lady Bertha North Frances (Mogan) 81 6 7 North 'Wheal Cro.ty 7.9.4 8 9 N.Wh'l Basset (Illogan) nil. 4 5 -- Per Consols (St. Elaxv) ICI 171 Porkellis Unit. (Wend.) 9 Sol tridge Cons. Min. Co. Os 1 SouthCaradon(St.Cleer) 21 X 95 403 South C. Brea( Illogan). 2 21 31 S. 11 , heal Fran. (Illogan) 18.18.9 105 195 5 Tamar Silver and Lead Mining Co 10 Tin Cro.t 9 31 3` UmtedMinez (Gwennap) 40 65 75 Vale o 7 Towev (Carm.) 12s 6d 1 4 We?t Basset (llogan) .214 221 W. Caradon (...isker.,:ti) 2O 110 120 Wlieal Basset (Illoa - aa) 5l 200 210 Wheal Buller fredru:, ) 5 180 200 Wheal Edwa_ 6 (CJ's.) 5l 24 31 Wheal (U. Lelar) 1.7.2 8 9 Wh'l ryAnn Mesh?) 8 45 47 Wn't,Trelawney (Lisk.) 41 25 27 mi. FOREIGN MINES 20 Australian 1 Bon AcelrdCopper,Lim. 1 7 a p 35 Erazil. Imp. (is. rt p.) 27 1 1 20 Do.St.Jobndelßey,Lim. 15 9 10 5 Do.L7.nd and Mining Co. all 14 24 1 Ci;rendon Con:;o13 -Alin ing Co. or Jamaica d 40 Cobra Copper al :;.5 37 Coplepo l6 11 13 1 Due Moun.Cop.Min7,.Co all 2 Fortuna 20 Gener - ' all 20 2 3 Linares all 8 9 5 Lusi.';anian 1 Mariquita al: 1 1 New Granada all 20 Pontgibaud Silver, Lead Mining and Smelt all 4 6 5 Port Philip 1 1 30 Santiago de Cuba l6l 111 28.2.81 1 United Mexican COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Paid. Clo-in,g Business Sh ar e Securities. Prices. Done. Can.Gov.6p.c.Ja. &July 100 115/ 1104 Do. 6 p.c.Fb.&Aurs. 100 113 115 Do. 6 p.c.Mr. & Sep. 100 113 115 N.E.Gov.6 p.c. 3r. &July 100 1114 1121 -- Do. 69.c.Ap. & Oct. 100 N. S.W. Gov. sp. c. Deb. 100 100 1034 NovaSeotiaGov. 6 p.c. Si. Deb. redeemable, 1E75 100 111 112 S.Ans.Gt.6pc..Tankruly 100 112 114 Vict•Gov.6p.c.JanSattly 100 111 113 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Joint-Stock Banks. Paid. Closing i Business Price. Done. Agra StTJnitedServicenk Australasia Lank of Egypt Bank of London Brit. Col. Bk. & LoanCo Eritish North Americzn Chtd. Bank of India, A-A' City Colonial Com. Brnk of Canada Commerci,A of Lo - adon Eng. ' Scot., & Aug. Ch Gee. Bk. of Swit:Trland Lon.Char.Bk.otAustral. London and County • London Joint Steck London & Wc3tminster Nat. Prov. of England. Do. new National Bank New South Wales • Orient. Bk. Corporation Ottoman Bak Provincial of Ireland ' Do. New South Australia Do. New 58 (0 2 20 58 (0 2t 301 19 21 1C 17 2C: 21} 23 29 31 32,1 481 491 47 49 39 40 191 191 01 06 31 33 Union of Australia Do. New Union of London Unity Mutual Western Bk of London 55 57 54 56 24 23 law 19 17 d 1 31 I I s I o S u C L ELLANEOUS. i Bedford and Bletcliley all Ln & N.W - Share Mtscella: Buckinghamshire ... lOO Ln & N.W 99 100 ClydesdaleJunetlon 100 Caledonia 103 105 . Colchester, Storer Val all E.U.&E C 17 19 1 r a i d. l Closing Business done Price. 10 A — Mexican-Mexica oyw n oa M lrk : s n ta t .il ... : a a a l ll l ll 15 214 16 E.Lincolnshire,g.6p.c 100 Gt. North. 140 142 E Union,HarwieliShs. all E.Counts. 4 41- Do. Woodbridge . . 100 - Gls.Barr.&Neils,Dra. 100 Caledonia 1000 Atlantic Tel. (Limited). all 360 390 Do. New lOO Do. — 25 Australian Agricultural 19 314 351 1 10 0 Austra lianßerlin sat e l r t Gloster& Dean Forest all . Gt. West. Ilartlpool.Dck.&Rail. all Yk.N.&Br Hull and Selby 50 British American Land 40 Do. 4 Shares all Do. — 50 Brit. & Irish Mapr.Tel.A. all 40 42 Londoti&G recnwich Do. 1 Shares all Do. — 20 Do. B, 7p. c. tilt 1862.. all 19 21 Do. Prefi•rence Lou.,Tilby.&Soutend. 100 Peto &Co. 95 97 100 Cann& 32& 115 120 Do. Barking Shares.. all Do. — 10 Chan.fslands Tel.(Lim ) a ir 10 101 Lowestoft, gua. 4p . at. 100 Norfolk .. Stock Cop.Min.ofEng*.&Smitg alt 24 28 Do. 6 per cent lOO Do. — 25 Do. Preference 74 per ct all 24 26 Manc.,Buxtn. & Matk all LN W&M 24 24 24 5 Crystal Palace. Midsb.&lleder, f.:.6p.c. all Stk.& Dar N al em i( N l ,,:ina ß r r aa a rn d kt i te bl id d li l is ;r yp f E .. S ex tii. 100 Midland .97 99 5 Do. Preference 20 Eastern Steam all 2 2 Steck Electric Telegraph lOO 112 114 5. 5..6. E.Counts. 4 4 p 5 Eng IL Auwt. Cop.St.Co all 11 14 Northn.& Eastn. 5 p.c. all Do. all all _ 24 ...... 3 Do. do. 6 per cent. . . all Do. — Do. Fixed 5 per cent. all Do. — &L Yk I 21960 Gen.G E l i . P o s n . Preston and Wyre. I all L&N W s D R 1 0 0 l fy . . s i i tt Shares ont,hi c h 0 . . 1 . & .. . 4 .. . s . shp . A e. cp. A. 18 1a° P I : 6 Do . . . 20 London Discount ...... 5 15 11 d G La t. u Nlr y th i 140 — 142 - eto r . d . all a I T , B ‘c r;a: a s n e y . 9 - 9 4 - 1 - 0 9 4 Lond.Gen. Omnibus Co. all 14 1 4 14 1 1 0 0 3 111 e e d d i . t E e t& r x eS . Aa t lnrie i k . Electric l T aCtv e n: l i.' . g. . Telex. (( ( :'l 1 1 n.. . 1. ) l a a 4 l l l - - 74 7 - - i South rgw sbrYit Staffordshire i'er 2510 NationalNetl Wear Valley, g. 6p. C. all Stk.& Dar all 1 2 Do. do. lerlai D id i s soo La u n n d t Co 56 I d • Wilts and Somerset.. 100 Gt. ....... 90 92 91 5 Do 8 p.c. Pref. ,i ss. at Idt s. all 1 14 15 18 100 N.Br.&NoraScotiaLand 80 Wimbledon& Croydn. all L.&Brgtn 8 9 1 N.B.Australasian (Lim.) all 4 4 i 20 North of Europe Steam all —. DOCKS. -------- 1 Do. New Shares lss. 1 dig par Docks. Share I p a i d Closing B us i ness Price. D oc k s. 5 Peel River,Land & Min. all 24 2 4 50 Pen. & Oriental Steam. all 86 88 ________ 50 Do. New lO 12 13 p i 20 Red Sea & Ind. Telegr 2 4 4p 2 2 I 50 Rhymney Iron Stock Stock C0mmercia1............ 100 0 -- 0 I 100 60 C 4 66 I 15 Do. New Royal Mail Steam Stock Stock 14 L : o as n t d a o n n d West India... 10 0 — 1 Scot.Austrin.lnv.(Lim ) all 11 11 Stock St. Katharine lOO 931 25 South Australian Land. all 28 39 Stock Southampton lOO --1 1 Submarine Teleg. Serip. all 4 1 Stock Victoria - 101 103 1 1 D o . d o R eg i s t ere d a ll 1 1 20 IDo New .. 0 lB i Id 4PI 20 Tr.& Ln.Co.of Upr. Can. 5 - 100 Vau DiemeW6 Land.;,.. 284 11 12 Stock Stock 25 Stock Stock PREFERENCE SHARES. Share' Railways. 25 Blythe and Tyne 10 per c. pref. (issued at £5O) Stk Bris. & Exet.4p.ct.Stock 20 Do. do. do. Shares Stock Caledon £lO, 41 per cent 12.10 Do. Quar. Shares, No. 2. Stcck Chester & Holyhd, 51 pc Stock Do. do. 5 p. et. 61 Cork & Bandon, 51 p. c 61 Dun. Perth,& Aber.Jun Stock E.Angn. Class A 7 & spc Stock Do. do.-Class B 6 pc Stock Do. do. Class C 7 pc StockiE. Coun. Ex. 5 pet. No.l Stock'Do. do N 0.2 Stock Do. New 6 per ct. Stock Stock Eastern Union, 4 per et. Stock East Lane. 6 per ct 5 E.& W. York. Jcn. fifths Stcck Edin.&Glas. 5 pc shares Stock Edin. Perth,& Dun. 4 pc. Stock Furness, 5 per cent Stock Glas. &S West. g a. spc Stock Great Northern, 5 p. et Steck Do. 5 pc Redin.,lop.c.pm Stock Do. 4 p. c. do. do. "CO Do.sp.c. It edm.,s pc. pm 10 Gt. I\h. of Scotld, Ist pt Gt. Sn.& W (Ireland)4 ? p. ct. pref. Stock Great West. (Berks and Hant3) Ext. 5 p.ct Do. Redeemable, d 1 pct Do. Redeemable, 4 p. et Do. Irredeerr able, do.. Do. 5 p. ct. Redeem. Pref. Do. Birm. Pref. Shares Gt. West. Ches. 8 p.c.pf shares Do. do. 5 p. ct. pref Do. Birming. guar. stock Do. Chester guar.share,s Do. do. do Do. do. do. Lan. & York 6 p.c. stock Lon.&Erl9, - .spc. gu. No.l Do. pref., 5 p. c. ...No. 2 Do. New gua., 6 p. et Do. do. 5 p. c. No. 4 Lon.& N. W.Cov.&Nun eaton, 5 p. et. Lon.&S. W, 7 p.ct. stock, late al shares Londondy & Cole, 4 shs. Londondy.& Ennis 4 sh. Man.,Sh., & Lin., 6 p. ct. Do. £6 Do. 31 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. 41 p. c. pref. stock Do. with option till 1860 Do. Leic. Sr Hit.pref. st. Newport,Aber,&c. pref.s p. c. redeem, at 5 p. c. pm Do. Perpet, 6 p. c. with option till 11;66 Norfolk Deb. 4 p.e.shares Do. sp. c. Ext.Stcp.l,lBl6 Do. 51p. c. Pref. do. 1817 Do. Way.Val.Ex.Sk 1817 North British, 5 per cent 'Do. New, gua. 5 per cent Nth.Dev.Rail.& Dck.Co. N-East. irred. 4 p.c. Deb. Do. Berwick, 4 p. c. Pref. Do. do. do. Do. Leech, 6 p. c. No. 1 Do. do. Quarters, 1346 Do. York, 11. & S. Purcli. North Staffordshire Ox. Wr. & Wol. 6pc.lstg Do. do. do., 2d gua Do. 41 p.c. Db.stk.in perp Scottish Central, new pi Scottish N.-Eastern deb Do. 31 per c. pref. stock Do.Aberdcen.gua.6 pc. Do. 7 p. c. pref. stock. South Devon, Ann. 10s. Do. Fixed 41 percent. South Eastern (Reading Ann., 1.0 6 ) Do .41 per cent Do. Fixed V, p.c. Ist is. Do. New do., 2d issue. South Wales, gua. 4 p.c. Do. 41 per cent S.-Yorkshire, 4 p.c. gaa. Stockton and Dar. 5 p.e. Do. 6 per cent Waterford & Kilkenny, 6 per cent. Stock' 50 Steck Stock Stack Stock Stock) 2& 13} 20 Stock Stock Stock Ste:* Stook Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock' Stock Stock Stock SA Stook Stock Stock Stock 10s. 1.0.6. Stock Stc3k Stock Stock Stock 251 25 Stock all 1 103 6 100 100 100 103 all IPaid. I Closing Bbusoinne.ess 101 i 5 73; 1444 14 101 i LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Railways. Leasing I Closing' Business Paid. Co.'s. Price. Done. 49 51 95 97 1101 103 fil 61 112 115 105 110 114 116 112 114 128 130 82 84 72 74 109 111 120 122 111 113 101 106 Cl 66 111 111 93 95 84 F( 85 87 97 99 9} 101 16 17 72 74 18 19 9 91 131 14} 141 143 1160 165 120 122 rP I 68 72 HO 142 101 103 93 1 95ii 91 9f 11# 85 11# 95 Os 110 99 100 4 dis p id 31) 23 24 119 121 99 101 72 74 120 122 121 123 lot 101 24 241 102 104 101 103 281, 29 33 34 38 43 Share) 100 100 20.11 100 100 00 1 1 THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVEMNG, OCTOBER 23, 185 S. FOREIGN. THIII D EDITION. ROME. THE JEWISH CHILD KIDNAPPED IN The correspondent at Rome to the Arnzonia, a Jesuitical journal of Turin, makes the following statements about young Mortara : It was with great joy that this child entered the Institution of the Catechumens. When he arrived he perceived above the gate a statue of Our Lady of Tears. " Why does she cry 9" he asked. " She is weeping," they answered him, " because the Jews do not become converted, and are not willing to acknowledge her divine Son." " Then," replied the child, " she is weeping over my father and mother." When they announced to him his father's visit he was delighted at it, for the Catholic religion, very far from extinguishing filial love, strengthens it by sanctifying it. Besides, he imageind he should be able to convert his father, and render him a Christian like himself. This was his hope, and he showed it artlessly. But when he saw his father, and found him deaf to all his prayers, he began to weep bitterly. In fine, this child is firm in the faith like an apostle. His father begged him to go back with him to Bologna, saying to him " Wh y don't you come to me ? Have you forgotten God's command. ment, ' Honour thy father and mother ?" The child remained pensive for a moment, and then re plied :—" The Pope knows the commandments better than you or I, I shall do what the Pope says !" He knows the catechism admirably, and makes the profession of ihith in the most complete and exact manner. He insists on this point, that the Jews have neither an altar, a Holy Virgin, nor a Pope. He says he should like to convert them, and by his tone you perceive that it is grace which is speaking in him. The Pope wished to see him, and was enchanted with him. The child blesses the servant maid that baptised, and thus opened to him the entrance to the Catholic Church. They asked him what the Pope was ; he answered, " The vicar of Christ." " And Je,,us Christ," added they. His face coloured up, and he said, " Jesus Christ is the Saviour of men, whom the Jews crucified." And they want a child of such quick faith to be delivered up to the Jews ! That would be a cruelty without a name, and the most open violation of that principle of liberty of conscience which the Liberals have ever in their mouths. The young Mortara finds at Rome, in the Catholic Church, the protec tion necessary to him, that he may be able to pro fess his faith freely, and be instructed in the duties of his religion. It is not in Rome that they use violence, and seek to convert people by force. Cases similar to yonng Mortara's are rare, for rarely do we see such signal triumphs of grace. For the rest, no one here makes the least opposition, and the parents themselves are satisfied at seeing their child brought up in the Hospital of the Catechumens.. There are certain journals that declaim on this subject, but their declamations are only inspired by the hatred they feel for the Pope, catholicism, and baptism itself. Suppose the young Mortara had been born a Catholic, and had turned a Vaudois protestant or a Turk, these self-same journals would not have anathemas enough to launch against any person wishing to prevent it. And now they want him to be constrained by force to turn Jew again ! Let us pity them. They gnash their teeth with rage at the news of this conversion, and this sign of grace makes them blaspheme like demons. But on this occasion, in attacking the Holy See, they have not well chosen their ground ; it would seem they really believe that in Rome the eternal salva- tion of a 'Christian is not something far more pre cious and important than the capture of the Cagliari can be at Naples. The Journol des Debats has received the follow ing letter from Bologna on the same subject : Bologna, Oct. 18. We have not been surprised at the article in the Osservatore, which, after long hesitation, has at last come forward to break a lance in favour of the Holy Inquisition. The low and trivial language of this article is in keeping with the cause it upholds, and in this respect leaves nothing to be desired, . . . . It is entirely false, as correspondents assure me, that the father was able to see his child freely. He could see him, but only in the presence of the rector of the Catechumens, and the child continually declared that he wished to go back to his father and mother. WhQn Mortara left Rome, they promised him that in his absence the secretary of the Jewish committee at Rome should be allowed to visit his son. But the moment this individual presented himself at the mansion of the Catechumens, not only did they refuse to admit him, but the rector answered him from a window of that monument of religious intolerance that upon the return of the cardinal inspector of the Catechumens to Rome, a formal order had been given no longer to admit any Jew, the interdiction being extended to the parents themselves. The rector of the Catechumens did worse still. About the end of last month, little Edgar was by his order taken out for a walk in the streets of the Ghetto, either for the purpose of bantering the young girls you see mending their rags there, or to make an impression on the mind of the little fellow, by putting his comfort in contrast with the poverty of those unfortunate people, who recall to mind the wretched state of the Irish catholics in the days of Elizabeth and Cromwell. These wretched instances of low trickery lead me to mention another. To revenge themselves for the horror produced so justly throughout Europe by this abominable act, our impresario of the Piazza Maggiore (where a sort of puppet-show is exhibited) has received orders to put into the mouth of his :marionettes, once a week, words of hatred against the Jews, so as to kindle religious fanaticism. But this has been of no use ; our city has remained impassive to such incitements. Such are the cont r i vances th ey h ave recourse t o . Sensible persons here say that this affair has been an error on the part of C ar di na l Vi a l e P re l a . B u t it is to be observed th a t th e I nqu i s iti on d oes w h a t it likes and listens to no advice, being quite sure that no one will venture to contradict it. THE ALLEGED FRAUD IN THE PUR CHASE OF THREE PER CENTS. Adolphus Freeman, a young man described as a stockbroker, was brought up on remand before Alderman Salomons, at Guildhall, yesterday, charged with unlawfully appropriating to his own use the sum of £B5O, entrusted to him in April last by Mr. Daniel Austin, a printer, of 5, lon-square, Hack ney, to invest in the Three per Cent. Reduced An nuities. Mr. Wontner this case, sir, I appear on behalf of the prosecutor to state that we arc not prepared to go on with the case at present. At a future day we may have further evidence. Alderman Salomons—lt has been intimated to me that the prisoner is not a member of the Stock Exchange, and as he has been reprezented as a stockbroker I should like to know if he is, or is not, a member of the Stock Exchange. Mr. Wontner—l believe it is a fact that he is not a member of the Stock Exchange, and therefore not entitled to act as a stockbroker. Sergeant Webb (of the detective force)—The prisoner has admitted to me that he is not. Alderman Salomons—We must not act upon the prisoner's admission alone, when the fact can be otherwise proved. _ _ _ Mr. Mo'rgan—l appear for the prisoner, and may state that he is not a broker at all. Mr. Wontner—l cannot say. what we may be able to do hereafter, but I am not now prepared with further evidence. *Mr. Morgan—l understand it is not the inten tion of the prosecutor to press the case any further. Alderman Salomons—l do not intend to dis charge the case. If there is no further evidence I shall remand the prisoner. Mr. Morgan—You cannot do so without evidence. Mr. Martin (the chief clerk)—But we have the evidence of the prosecutor as far as it goes. Mr. Morgan—l think this case should be treated as all other cases are. I was present this morning when the prosecution was withdrawn in another case and the prisoner discharged, and the sam e practice prevails in all the metropolitan courts. It is not customary to compel a prosecutor to g o on with a case when he wishes to withdraw from it. Alderman Salomons—All must depend upon the nature of the case in which such a course is per mitted. In some instances it would be an act of humanity to extend such mercy to the party charged ; but in the case before me the prisoner has committed a double offence. He is accused of com mitting a wrong against a private individual, as well as a public wrong, and I am not disposed to deal lightly with a breach of trust of such a serious character. This is one of those cases in which the want of a public prosecutor is most felt, as so much depends upon the good faith reposed in the mere signature of a perso n, and it is of the utmost im portance that transactions connected with the public funds should be conducted with the strictest in tegrity. I shall remand the prisoner for a week, and should the evidence be sufficient I shall com mit him for trial ;'.but, if no further evidence be then offered, of course I cannot compel a person to pro secute against his inclination. The prisoner was then remanded. A letter from Stettin states that operations had been commenced for pumping out, by means of a large steam-engine, the water of the Lake Gothen, near Herings doif. The complete draining of this piece of water, which covers an extent of 3,000 acres, will, it is expected, be effected ill the apace of sib montiw~ SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. TATTE.RSALLS'-( THIS EVENING.) The main features were the up and down movements re specting Leontes, and the advancement of the Ancient Briton. After 14 to 1 had been laid against Leontes, he advanced to 10 to 1 (taken), whilst a point more only was obtainable about the Ancient Briton. Blanche of Middlebie was sent to the right about—" any odds" being offered against her. CLOSING PRICES. THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 7to 1 agst The Zouave (taken) 10 to 1 agst Leontes (taken and offered) 11 to 1 agst Ancient Briton (taken) 14 to 1 agst Brewer 15 to 1 agst Rocket 20 to 1 agst Satinstone (taken) 20 to 1 agst Prioress (offered) 25 to 1 agst Ignoramus 33 to 1 agst Volta (taken and offered) 33 to 1 agst Scribbler (offered) 40 to 1 agst Physalis colt (taken) 40 to 1 agst Eurydice 45 to 1 agst Farmer's Son 50 to 1 agst Gilderraire 50 to 1 agst Barbarity (offered) 100 to 1 agst Blanche of Middlebie CRITERION STAKES. Even on Promised Land 7to 4 agst North Lincoln (offered) ADDITIONAL ARRIVALS AT NEWMARKET. Volta, Filly byFugleman out of Love Bird (2 yrs), Vigo, Princess Royal, Ancient Briton, Abron, Dulcinea, Altro, Gracchue, Queen of the South, Orchehill, Hobe, Volatore, Joskin, Katrine, Conceit, Yarra Yarra, Little Tom, Nut field, Clapham, Weathermouse, Mr. Sykes, Pyrrhus the Second, and G riselle. Cambridgeshire Stakes.—Glenmasson and Supple Jack are scratched. SPORTING NOTES. THE HOUGHTON. On Monday morning I shall, as usual, despatch my notes from the "scene of action." I shall then endeavour to ascertain the latest movements, and shall by that time have had ocular proof of the condition and appearance of the probable competitors. As the • Criterion will, however, be run off before I again address your readers, I will merely state that despite the declared " precocity " of Promised Land, and the "slashing" attributes of North Lincoln, I shall not be surprised should neither of those animals win. They have both to give 31b. to the King-at-Arms, and:with a jockey on his back I am induced to express my belief that he will defeat the reputed " roarer " North Lincoln and the vaunted Derby favourite, the Promised Land. There is every prospect of a rare meeting, and the Cambridgeshire has already excited unparalleled curiosity and interest. A FRESH MAN. LATEST CITY BETTING. CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 7to 1 agst Zouave (taken and offered) 12 to 1 agst Ancient Briton (taken) 15 to 1 agst Leontes (taken) 16 to 1 agst Ignoramus (taken) 16 to 1 agst Rocket (taken) 16 to 1 agst The Brewer (taken) 20 to 1 agst Blanche of Middlebie (offered) 25 to 1 agst Physalis colt (taken) 25 to 1 agst Satinstone (taken) 33 to 1 agst Barbarity (taken) 33 to 1 agst Volta (taken) 50 to 1 agst Loyola (taken) 50 to 1 agst Prioress (offered) 50 to 1 agst Rosa Bonheur (taken) 1000 to 10 agst Eclipse (offered) In the morning 1000 to 10 was offered against Leontes, but in the evening there was a strong re-action, and the horse returned to 15 to 1 (takers). LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER-FRIDAY. CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 10 to 1 agat Zouave (taken) 16 to 1 agst Blanche of Middlebie (taken) 20 to 1 agst Satinstone (taken) 20 to 1 agst Prioress (taken) 20 to 1 agst Ancient Briton (taken) 20 to 1 agst Rocket (taken) 25 to 1 agst Eurydice (taken) 33 to 1 agat Physalis colt (taken) 50 to 1 agst Loyola (taken) 50 to 1 agst Lambourne. (taken) 100 to 1 agst Leontes (offered) THIS LAY'S MARKETS. COVENT GARDEN. Our market continues to be heavily supplied with pro duce, in which a full average business is doing, as follows : FRUIT. a. d. s. d. Pine apples, per lb 4 oto 7 0 Colonial do., each 0 oto 0 0 Grapes, per 1b.... 2 6to 5 0 Foreign do. 0 Bto 1 3 Melons, each .... 1 oto 2 0 Peaches, per doz .. 4 0 tolo 0 Nectariues, per dz 0 oto 0 0 Apples, per I sive 1 6to 4 0 Pears, per hf- sieve 1 9to 5 0 Oranges, per 100.. 2 oto 2 6 Lemons, per 100.. 4 oto 8 0 Apricots, per doz 0 oto 0 0 s. d. s. d. Cherries, per lb 0 0 to 0 0 Filberts, per lb 0 6 to 0 9 Cobnuts, per 1001 b 0 6 to 0 9 Almonds, per bas 24 0 to 0 0 Walnuts, per 100 0 10 to 2 0 Figs, per ooz 0 0 to 0 0 Strawberries, prpto 0 to 0 0 Gooseberries, s sv. 0 0 to 0 0 Currants, per do. 0 0 to 0 0 Plums, per do. ~ 3 6 to 4 0 Greengages, pr do. 0 0 to 0 0 Raspberries,prpt lo 0 to 0 0 3.r,zs. Shallots, per lb Horseradish, pbn 1 0 to 2 6 Parsley, per ditto 0 2 to 0 4 Celery, per ditto 8 0 to 1 6 Beet, per doz. Parsnips, per do. 0 0 to 0 0 Small salad, p. pn, 0 0 to 0 0 Musbrooms,ppotl 2 0 to 2 6 Artichokes, pr dz 2 0 to 5 I Cabbage letts,psc 0 0 to 0 0 Endive, per score 1 0 to 1 6 Radishes, dz hnds 0 0 to 0 0 Tomatoes, pr h sv 3 6 to 5 .0 Walnuts, per 100 0 0 to 0 0 Chillies, per 0 ditto 0 to 0 0 Capsicums, pe do 0 0 to 0 0 Rhubarb, per bun 0 0 to 0 0 Asparagus, pr do. 0 0 to 0 0 Sea kail, per pun. 0 0 to 0 0 VEG ET. Greens, dz bunch 2 oto 4 0 Cabbages, pr do. 1 oto 1 6 Savoy do., pr do. 0 2to 0 4 Cauliflowers, pdz 3 oto 5 0 Brocoli, per d 0... 0 oto 0 0 Old potatoes,p ton 2 sto 4 10 New ditto, per lb 0 oto 0 0 Peas, per sieve 0 oto 0 0 Turnips, dz bunch 2 oto 2 6 Carrots, pr bunch 0 4to 0 5 Cucumbers, each 0 2to 0 6 Garlic, per lb .... 0 6to 0 8 Sorrel, per sieve 0 oto 0 0 Spinach, per d 0... 1 6to 2 0 Urns. sprouts, h.s. 0 oto 0 0 Old onions, e%bun 1 oto 1 6 New do., per bun 0 oto 0 0 French beans, 1i.5.1 6to 1 9 Leeks, per bunch 0 2to 0 3 NEWGATE AND LEADENTIALL. Turkeys, 4s Od to 7s Od ; poults, Os Od to Os Od each; geese, 48 Od to 6s Od ; goslings, 4s Od to 6s Od ; ducklings, Is 9d to 2s 6d ; rabbits, is Od to is 6d each ; wild do., 8d to is Cd ; pigeons, Od to Os Od each ' • l arg e Surrey fowls, 5s Od to 8s Od ; chickens, 4s Od t o 6s Od • barn-door fowls, 3s Od to 5s Od ; capons, 4s Od ; hares: 2s Gd to 4s 6d ; grouse, 2s Od to Cs Od each ; pheasants, 2s 6d to 3s 6d ; ptarmigan, Os Od to Od ; woodcocks, Os Od to Os Od ; snipes, Os 9d to is 6d; teal, Os Od to Od ; wild ducks, is Gd to 2s Od; widgeons, is Od to is 3d; plovers, Os Od to Os Od each; guinea fowls, Os Od to Os Od ; roasting pigs, Os Od to Os Od each ; Ostend fresh butter, Is Od to is 2d ; English, is 3d to is 4d per lb ; English eggs, Bsod to 10s Od ; French do., 7s Od to 8s 6d per 120 ; leverets, 2s Od to 3s Gd each. NEWPORT. Beef, from 2s 6d to 4s Od ; mutton, 2s 8d to 4s 2d ; Lamb, Os Od to Os Od ; veal, 3s 4d to 4s 4d ; and pork, 2s 6d to 4s 2d per Blbs WHITECHAPEL. Beef, from 2s 6d to 4s Od ; mutton, 28 8d to 4s 2d ; lamb, Os Od to Os Od ; veal, 3s 4d to 48 4d ; and pork, 2s 6d to 48 2d per 81b. BILLINGSGATE. Salmon, 2s Od to Os Od ; trout, Os Od to Od ; eels, 8d to Is ; prawns, lsOd to 3s; pike, skate, sturgeon, and halibut, 6d per lb. Turbots, 2s 6d to 20s ; cod, 2s 6d to 20s Od; brills, 2s Od to 108 Od ; doreys, is Od to 7s Od ; mullets, 6d to 2s 6d ; lobsters, 6d to 3s Od ; crabs, 6d to 2s 6d ; plaice and pullets, 4d to is Od each; soles, 4d to 2s 6d per pair; common oysters, 16s to 20s ; natives, 50s to — s p er b us h e l ; whitings, 3s Od to 12s Od ; haddocks, 5s to 15s Od ; smelts, 2s 6d ; flounders, is Od to is 6d per dozen; mackerel, 60s; fresh herrings, 8s; bloaters, Os per 100; carp and tench, is to 3s per brace. BREAD. The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from bid to 71d; of household do., 5d to 60 per 41b loaf. HIDES AND SKINS. Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, 31d to 4d ; 641 b to 7 21 b, 4 d to 4,1 d ; 721 b to 801 b, 41d to 41-d ; 801 b to 881 b, 41d to 5d ; 881 b to 961 b, 5d to 5/c1; 961 b to 1041 b, Sid to 6d. Horse hides, 8s Od to lOs Od; calf skins, light, 3s to ss; ditto, full, 6s 6d to 7s Od ; polled sheep, 5s Od to 78 Od; half-breds, 4s 3d to 5s Od ; Downs, 3s al to 4s Od ; lambs, —s Od to •—s Od. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD. —Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 78 ; clover, do., £3 10s. to £5 55.; and straw, £1 4s. to £1 7s. per load. Supply moderate, and trade steady, at our notations. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 ss; clover do., £3 10s. to £5 ss. ; and straw, £1 4s to £1 7s per load. Both hay and straw were in fair request, at full prices. WHITECHAYEL. — Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 6s; clover, do., £3los to £5 ss. ; and straw, £1 6s to £1 9s per load. Trade rather dull, yet the quotations were well supported. ACCIDENT TO LORD LEIGH.—As Lord Leigh was driving over his estate on Thursday last, in a dog-cart, the horse took fright, and his lordship was thrown from the vehicle with such force that his collar-bone was dislocated. Medical aid was promptly obtained, and the bone was set. His lordship, we are glad to learn, has received no perma nent, injury.— W orces tershire Chronicle. THE TOWER. —The re-paving of that part of the thoroughfare in the Tower which is parallel to the river, ex tending from the tramway of the Salt Tower, has just been pav i n g has been d ug up; an d the earth completed. The old dug out to a depth required for laying down six inches of concrete, on which is placed a Pavrng of new Aberdeen granite, five inches by three. The work, comprising 1,200 superficial yards, was completed in 12 days by the contrac tors, Messrs. Pratt and Sewell, and the officers of the War Department, under whose superintendenc e th e wor k h as been carried out, have reported that the work has been exe- P, ess. cuted in the most satisfactory manner.—city THE LAKES IN AUSTRALIA.---Mr. Herschel Bab bage, the Australian explorer, asserts that the lakes in Aus tralia are naturally salt, and that they are only fresh after sufficient rain has fallen to give them depth of water. The lakes in some parts are surrounded by bluffs of elevated stony table-land, with occasionally a small valley of sand hills and scrub running down to them. At one lake there was a peculiarity which he had noticed elsewhere. The soil of the western side was quite dry, and it contained a number of fresh-water shells. The eastern bed was lower than the western, and was soft and boggy, and quite salt, the swine At several places being white with salt. 41106-. A LITERARY CELEBRITYS REASONS FOR NOT ATTENDING TUE SOCIAL SCIENCE CONFERENCE. (From tie Calcdonian Mercury) A literary celebrity having been invited to this Conference, he has sent an extraordinary r e ply to Lord John Russell, the President-elect, of which the following is a part : Good, my Lord,—l have to hand, conform to postmark, "Woburn Abbey," your letter inviting me to take part in the so-called " Social Confer ence," to come off in Birmingham, or some other place of like mind, some time in October next ensuing. Last, if not least, of Bedford's race, let us rea son together. Why, in name of all the rationali ties, or the non-rationalities fir that matter, do you ask me ? Have I in any we ever shown myself a word-deliverer ? Some poor thoughts of mine have been committed to the pressgang, to be by them set in pica, large or small as seemeth them good. [Thanks be to the Serenities, I am not now paid by the line, page or sheet—leaving that sort of thing to the doomed of Grub-street.] But because I indite somewhat with the pen of a ready writer, that is when in the spirit—for I deny the postulate of Samuel Johnson (born at Lichfield), that any mere man cam doggedly make himself shed ink to purpose —because I can at times do battle with the pillion, does it follow that I can screech to knife-grinders and razor-sellers at Birmingham during any month of this vear of grace that Cant may select from the Kalendar ? I hate Brummagem and its wares. Gods! the years of agony and blood and pimples that this same Brummagem has cost me and the aggregates of humanity, with its 'so-called sharp razors ! Was it not there, or at Sheffield, or somewhere else, that an unstrung ruffian put forth something called a razor -strop, which (as he phrased it), was to convert the toilet of early morn from a terror into a pleasure ? Did I not try that Diamond Abomination, and shed much innocent blood thereby, and have I not, Nebuchadnezzar-like, been ever since obligated to let my facial hirsuitities remain unkempt andunsborn. Assist me Dr. Slop, Balaam, and the Athanasian creed, to curse that man. The bane of this crazy paralytic century is talk, gibberish, audible vocabulisation. Thought is silent, inexpressible. Can ye gather dew-drops, and plant them like oysters' tears on my lady's boddice ? Can ye photograph, calotype, or stereo copise the rainbow ? Will any of your infernal machines of art lay hold of or detain for a single unit of time a poor struggling tiny sunbeam ? Hamlet to the players of Denmark all over. Men who cannot play the fiddle—[that game is about up, since the translation of Nathaniel Gow and the Italian Paginini—let M'Culloch note the fall of rosin !]—such men will play on—and will insist on it too. Ye can with the bodily eye mark the dew distilled from the womb of morning; even the daily writers in the daily papers can lift up their dim optics and see the tri-coloured arch that bridges over Zodiacs and Continents ; yea a red-tape worm, crawling among Downing-street's darkest slime, might lift its microscopic head and behold some of those golden solar emanations that shade the cerulean of Heaven. Pismires may see these things --see them, I say. But can you see thought, eternal, immo r tal, invisible ? I trove not. Holy men of old did not gabber. Old Isaac went forth at eventide. Did he gather his reapers into his barn and lecture them on political economy or any other blasphemy ? Did he not rather put his hands into his pockets—or whatever other substitutes oracular post-diluvians had for garment receptacles—Hebrew Moses and Son settle that point if you can; and so disposing of his digits Abraham's son (by the free woman) communed with his heart, and was still ? But great thoughts have been written, say you. Granted, but not the greatest. Could any collocation of words, from a to z of English alphabetisation, give forth the soul imaginings of Oliver, my Oliver, my peculiar Oliver ? King David sang sweetly ; compare " Babel's. Streams" with Chevy Chase, or that busi ness about King Henry of Navarre by that Thomas the Rhymer, whom Palmerston has made a baron of—and note the difference, I pray you; it may do good to your soul, if you any have. Well, then, the Shepherd Monarch saw visions, and he struck his harp—but could catgut, titillated by human thumb, give forth any response adequate to the heaving of a prophetic eye, that saw the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof ? And when the plaintive chords of that harp of sweetest melody soothed the soul into holi ness and peace, and called forth longings for the dove-wings that flee away and be at rest, far off from a foetid universe, could Hebrew vowels and con - sonants embody these angelic harmonies? They couldn't, and here endeth the first lesson. I divine your answer. You will say this man dealeth in generalities. He is subjective ; we are objective. He is of the universal, dreamy—we of the specific, practical. S. T. C. tried that passage of arms with the present writer, but it was a cock that would not fight—with him, at least, and cer tainly not with you. Have at you. I have attained to the general through large, varied, and kalci discopic acquaintanceship with the particular—l have had terrible conflicts with human fallacies— have smoked through and through them—and if any man doubts this verity he is worse than an infidel—an Act of Parliament regenerator, to wit. I will toss you off articulate) ,even as an attor ney's or tailor's bill, all good - logical reasons for denying every creed that is not in me. I will do it. Let your articles of indictment be writ. Be they as long as Brougham's speech in defence of that Queen of unhappy memory, whom Lambeth wedded to that royal notability with swallow tails and bad odour; or be they as dull as any protocol from the hands of Treasury Wilson, from whom whilom, while an un pretending vender of hats in Hawick, I purchased for twelve and a-half pieces of silver, that "go-to-meet ing roof" with which I attended the philosophy class, —falsely, so called—of Thomas Brown, said Thomas knowing nothing of Goethe or other divine cele brities ; verily, these were " Tom Brown's School- Days," and no mistake. The thought oppresseth me that youths, having Heaven's image, receive for their golden fees nought but sunless grass from Dalgetty's and other Scotch cloisters, and eke hay and stubble, rubbish, and untempered mortar at Oxford and Cambridge, to say nothing of the peat bog syllabub shovelled forth from Peel's godless seminaries in Erin's Isle. Now then. It is not theory. Ye gave utterances from Brummagen last year. Voices came from amongst the smoke, and sounds, not those of the hammer or of James "Watt's cylinders, were belched forth from this same factory of mental conglomera tion. I may not go over names, they are legion, or topics, they exhaust the last edition of Noah - Webster, whose memory rot for its brutish word hunting instinct. May every new word that he coined sink him deep in his own Hiawathan swamps ! Look at your volumed, list of subjects, as you vain : gloriously call your index. Here are some specimen bricks, culled as they catch the careless eye of the beholder.—" Chickoried coffee, Scotch bankrripts, penny banks, baths, washing-houses, coffins, crime, drainage, river smells, early shop locking, woman occupation, short imprisonment, alcohol, longevity, paupers, prostitution, prison sauces, the gallows, army cloacinas, railway murders, sermons, strikes, smallpox, &c., &c., &c." Could Babel itself rival such an incongru ous mixture. Soap and stink—fever and M2M mon—magdalens and the whipping-post, all re joicing together in one horrid pestiferous seething cauldron ? Is society ever to make head way through an alembic of such abominations? Any man of indifferent honesty would sooner follow the pen. sioners through the drains of the Grcat Metropolis (I quote James the Grant), rather than march through Brummagem with such a crew and such colours as you hoist. Good Jack Falstaff's fencibles were nothing to it by a chalk of broadest guage. Who speaks ? Henry Lord Brougham, member of something in France. He halls spoken all his life-long days, but to what purpose ? The thing at the bar is un derstandable—there , like women of the baser sort, men, or those calling themselves so, hold out their palms ready, when duly greased, to speak a lie. John Doe or Richard Roe, it mattereth not, first come, first served. And that the way that the chariot of justice is wheeled through the mud. But. Henry hath his pension—his betters not at all well off in that self-same matter. In Heaven's name then let him be quiet. Or if he will do aught. let him get him some other cow-loving Althorp with whom he may hold sweet counsel, and let them note the mathematics of bees, the growth of cab bages, or the marchings and counter-marehings of rats—it is at least no sin to observe nature's doings; the interpretation thereof belongeth to the pro phets, and he is too old for that school. Then there's yourself. You speak of law. Why? The horse-hair bombazeen business is not your line. The intrigues of Cabinets were a better vocation for you to delectate upon. Lord John, you have seen somewhere about threescore years and ten, and for good half a century have you dwelt in those tents of sin called place and opposition. Aged Whigling, what have you been doing, what have you done for the suffering human kind? Home Clerk, Foreign Clerk, Helmsman, Fugleman, everything by turns, but what reeks it ? I pay taxes as before, and tithe of every kind. Ducal Bedford flourishes, but the yeoman lacketh his crust, and more than ever is baled off by ship-loads to Tasmania and other distant climes for the bread that perisheth. Millions live among bad smells, old bones and corruption, and are variously whipped, transported, hanged, as after their fashion they try to help themselves to - what is going. Why ' not do good when you could, instead of catching shoe applaudits by going down. with the night train to Brummagem. Is the emancipation of Jewry money lenders to save the commonwealth ? Save the mark! Issachar's burdens oppressed no shoulders save his own, and being well padded with usury, he never felt them. Could Rothschild not light and pave Jerusalem, or Salon - ions lay down a grand trunk from Dan to Beersheba, and so raising the wind in Palestine; contrive to make the Promised Land a land where men would not only promise to pay, but in reality come down with the rhino. The sick man lacks rupees, and for ready money the 'Holy Land might be transferred to Montefiore in any juceglery of conveyancing that Fitzroy Kelly may think lies nearest to his conscience. But let not your Lordship think to raise the Gentile by elevating the Jew. Ah, but there's that live -long Reform Bill. In Humbug's sacred name, you, Baron John, indited a thing that has to be coopered in twenty years ! There's Magna Charta and the Treaty of Union as fresh as paint, and that after many centuries. Angels, unfold your cambr:cs—a Lord, nay, a literary Lord, who writes plays and biographies to boot, hears a nation's cry, and offers the mechanic, starved down to the depths of a walking skeleton—he offers such. this panacea. Friend, be of good cheer—your re demption draweth nigh. I, John Russell, am at this present now returned by Shoreditch without you ; but look up to heaven, for next year you will have a 57.894 th share in my election. *• * • HA.RBOURS,OF REFUGE CO3I3IISSION WEST HARTLEPOOL, Ocr. 19. The commissioner: resumed their inquiry this morning at 10 o'clock. Mr. R. W. Jackson was re-examined at some length. He produced a plan, showing the great fields of coal and ironstone lying withinthe line of coastbetween the Tyne and Runs wick Bay. He produced returns of the number of lives saved by the Hartlepool and West Hartle pool lifeboats from the year 1846 to the present time, amounting to 557 in the whole. He also sub mitted a reduced plan for a refuge harbour, the cost of which would amount to about £087,520, and enclose an area of 1,286 acres. Ile calculeted that every vessel frequenting the coast would, on an average, use the harbour three times a year, in the proportion of twice in ballast to once loaded. Mr. Cialver, C.E., gave evidence as to the condition of the bay during 1846, the last time he minutely examined it. He found then that it was silting up over two-thirds of its surface from one-quarter of an inch to 21 feet. Since that period he knew nothing of his own knowledge, but could easily conceive that changes might take place to com pletely alter the state of things that existed at that time, and which he then deemed likely to continue to exist. Had a refuge harbour been formed in the bay in January, 1857, he believed that all the T.'s sels wrecked on the 4th of that month would liar .! been saved. He deemed both Sunderland and &d -ear unsuitable places for a harbour of nine. Mr. H. Mossman, havenmaster, handed in returns, ox the prevailing winds on the coast fi r a lengthened period, ascertained from tables kept at the light house, a return of the wrecks occurring wtilrn the limits of the port, and a return of the nutab r cf storms, with the variation •7 the compass, during the years 1854-5-6-7. Mr. W. Russell, outdoor manager of the Wrecks Committee of Lloyd's, gave evidence of the peculiar adaptability of hartlepool Bay for a refuge harbour, it being the most central port on the coast. He preferred one large harbour to a number of small ones, though under certain circumstances he would prefer two moderate-sized. to one large one. A harbour at Filey would be valuable to vessels that had weathered the York shire coast, and one at Hartlepool for vessels that had not cleared the high land of Ycrkshire. Mr. W. Hutchinson, contractor, who had made an esti mate of the cost of the work proposed by Mr. Jack son, vould undertake to execute it at £375 per cubic yard, notwithstanding that the breakwater at Alderney, similarly constructed, was costing £568 per yard. He had made careful ca7culations, anti could execute the work for that sum in five years. Several nautical witnesses, North Sea pilots, ship owners, and captains from various ports were examined, including a Hamburg captain, all of whom agreed as to the great necessity of a refuge harbour on the coast, and that Hartlepool was the most fitting place for such harbour. Presuming that two harbours instead of one were suggested, they would approve Hartlepool-bay and Filey-bay. The commissioners terminated their sitting at a quarter to 10 p.m., and proceeded next morning to Redcar, which place they had. originally not intended to vi sit. THE ATTEMP TED MURDER OF P OLIVE INSP ECTOR B UDD. Edwark Mark Council, a pensioner from the Royal Engineers, and formerly employed at Wool wich, wns placed at the bar before Mr. Traill, at Woolwich Poliee-court,r . yesterday, on a remanded charge of attempting to murder William James Budd, senior inspector of police at Woolwich Dock yard, by firing a loaded pistol at his head. The prosecutor was not in attendaxce, and the following medical certificate was handed in : wi" I hereby certify that Inspector Budd, of the It d i i3ion of police, is unable to attend the court, in consequence of the state of prostre.tion and debility which has resultei from the injury Inflicted on him. The wound on his face is healing favourably. " WILLIAM STUART, Divisional Surgeon of Police." Mr. J. P. Cook, surgeon, attached to the Fisgard, flag-ship, corroborated the above certificate, and added that the shock to the system rendered it unsafe for Mr. Budd to attend the court at present. Mr. Traill said, under the circumstances, he should again remand the prisoner for a week, and when again brought up he would be sent for trial, a:4, if it was necessary, Mr. Budd might be bound over to prosecute at the Old Bailey after the pri soner's committal. Amongst the numerous documents which were addressed by the prisoner to the coroner's jury. whom he stated would have to sit upon his body, is one which contains the following singular state ment., signed by the prisoner : " Sly father, John Council, was the illegitimate son of Councillor John Scott—afterwards Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench at Dublin, and Earl of Clonmel. My father's mother was a young woman of good family, and gave my father a good education. He was apprenticed to a gumnaker at Dublin, in King-street, and afterwards be came connected with the leaders of the Irish Rebellion in 1798. The Earl of Clonmel was before that a good friend to my father, but finding that he had joined this party, sent him a message that he (the earl) never wished to see his face again. However, after this, my father and several of his friends were captured, and but for the intervention of the Earl of Clonmel they would have been hanged." The prisoner then details his early history, having enlisted into the Royal Military Artificers, subsequently termed the Sappers and Miners, &c. Roberti, the composer, has just left Paris for Tulin with a new opera. The subject of the opera, of which report speaks highly, is Petrarch and Laura." The libretto, by Dall'Ongaro, is said to be of the highest interest, the poet having chosen the moment of Petrarch's triumph at Avignon, and, with great taste and judgment, has introduced the famous stanzas of Petrarch on the hopes of Italy, for which ltoberti has composed a chorus of im mense power and effect. The role of Laura was written, bath by poet and composer, expressly for Mdlle. Vuneri, of the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane, to whose talent and per sonal appearance it is said to be admirably adapted. Calzado has engaged with the composer to bring out this opera, during the season, in Paris.—Court Jorrdol. A GIRL ROLLED TO DEATIL—A few days ago a young girl, not more than 14 years of age, named Thomas, met with a fearful but instantaneous death at the Cyrarthfa Ironworks where she was employed. In the and always ing is course of her work her clo thes cau g ht fire , and with her burning dress she ran to the rolls where runn i ng water, to put out the flames. In a F an h s t ° a l n v ev er, her dress was thecaugh d trabyedtween d e spindles, the revolving t the poor creature was dragged ro llers, and literally crushed to pieces, one of her legs being Of course the d ath was in stantaneous, to a g eat height. the dreadful affair bein g but momentary. The fragments of her body were gathered together and an in quest held over th em, the customary verdict being re turned. TnE OFFICE OF CLERK TO THE JUSTICES IN THE CITY.—In consequence of the f and clerks' committee of the co re e ra re t n i c o e n na to ad in e to the • itot officers' h e nature of the duties and the corporation of t emoluments of the office of clerk he peace, the delay of a few weeks has taken • place since the death of the late holdof fielder the office, Mr. John Clark, deceased. That report, however, being brought up and sanc tioned, has been ordered to be printed, and a copy sent to every member of the court. It details the duty of the office, which are numerous, and in which it does not propose or sug gest any alteration. Nor does it disturb in the least degree the principle of remuneration, which heretofore has been by fees, the sums paid by licensed victuallers, billiard and baga telle keepers, and the vendors of game, being the chief items of receipt, the victuallers alone furnishing the principal sums on the renewal of their licenses and annual transfer of their property in cases of change of occupancy. Besides these there are amounts received for fees in the shape of copies of legal documents, the sums realised by which arc comparatively of a trifling amount. The holder of the appointment has to pay an assistant officer about £lOO per annum out of the proceeds of the office. The election will take place at the ensuing Court of Common Council (Friday next, at two o'clock). We do not hear that any other candidate has appeared as an applicant for the situation besides Mr. Good man, the chief clerk to the magistrates at the Mansion house ; nor indeed, so far as can be gleaned, is any opposi tion expected to the return of that gentleman as the successor of Mr. Clark. The Royal mail steamer Trent, Capt. Woolcott, left Southampton yesterday for the West Indies, via Ma deira. She was built in 1841, and is one of the original ships possessed by the Royal Mail Company. She has un dergone a thorough overhaul, has been fitted up with new boilers, and her speed h as been g ot u p to 101. She is gone out to ' carry the intercolonial mails, taking out about 50 passenger's, c h i efly for Madeira, and a considerable amount of cargo: Amongst her passengers were Mr. Stoddart, the late consul of Madeira ; Admiral Lempriere, and the two hiss Fortescues, sisters of Lord Ebrington, who is at pre sent in Madeira in ill-health. Stoddart is succeeded - in the Madeira coluttl§hip by hiss 04-iu r law, Mr, graine. i r a4tao