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

ONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS. CITY, Two o'CLocx. The Foreign 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 hare 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public sales of indigo no change of importance can be noticed, but a large quantity of the inferior qualities has been withdrawn by the holders.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 announced from New York with £31,600. The Bank of France return for the month end ing yesterday shows a decrease in the bullion of £2,840,000, 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 reduced 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 speedily get dearer. An advance has already occurred, since 4 per cent. is now the current rate in the genera/ Market for first-class securities, which until lately have been negociable 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 921 7 ,- 7 3 , and for account 93 to 931, beings 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 India Stock is heavy at 2191 ; ditto New Loan is steady at 1031 ; 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 701 to 701 ; ditto New, 554 to 56; and the 4 per Cents. have improved to 1011 102 ; Mexican to 221 ; Sardinian to 854 86; Spanish 491 ; and ditto Passive remain at 23. The Ocean Marine Insurance Shares are 11 2 prem. ; the Thames and Mersey, a I prem. ; and the Universal, s 2 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, L 1 ; 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 114 111. 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, 131 d ; East Indian, 994, 100; and Great Indian Peninsula, 961, 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—ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock .. 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 914 1 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities New 3 per Cent. Annuities India Stock Ditto 5 per Cent ... .. lO3l Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent. — Ditto 6 per Cent. 96i i Ditto Debentures, 'lB5B — Ditto, 1859 Consols for Account, Nov 8 .. 93± India Stock for Account — Ditto 5 per Cent Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, lid FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian 5 per Cent . ... .. • • Ditto 4} per Cent. 1858 B7/ 8 M ex ican 3 per Cent — Ditto Account Sardininn 6 per Cent . ..... .. . Ditto Account Spanish 3 per Cent... Ditto Account Ditto Massive Spanish Com. Cert. of Coup. not funded 6i Turkish 6 per Cent.... Ditto New Loan Ditto Account s ...... 56 Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. ........ Ditto Account Dividends on the above payable in London. TWO O'CLOCK, Consols, Money 92! 92i Ditto Account. 93 93i IRON-PLATED FRIGAT_ES. ---..--- A vessel of immense proportions in the course of building upon Messrs. Palmer Brothers' extensive works at Jairow, is attracting a great deal of attention from p e rsons passing up and down the Tyne___ in the packet boats between Shields and Newcastle. The vessel is the iron-plated ram frigate Defiance, building under contract for our Government. She is making most satisfactory-pro gress, and is intend e d to casing carry 36 heavy Armstrong guns. Her iron will be 4 1 , inches thick on the outside. Next that will be 20 inches of timber, and inside of that the iron framing of the ship, which will be as strong as any already used for the largest sized vessels in the amertrbY's merchant service. Her of But d ec k-beams are made patent beam iron, and the d ecks to be la id theereon will be of iron. Th e vessel will have water-tight w ith water -tight do ors, so that in wi case passages, se a shot s h o uld be driven t hrou g h the immense a sides of the doors into the com p ar tment, and plug u p the hole . Failing to do that, they can close the doors, and cut the cha m be r will b e off from the other p arts of the ship, kee p in g water within it. The stern post of the ship th one of the largest, possi bl y the largest, forging evere made in this or any oth er country. , The stem of the vessel will also be of e normous strength, and will in addition be fortified with plating, so that the ship ma run any timber-built ship down with impunity. With the exception of the ends, W hi ch have 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. Feathering and grooving • those plates will be commenced at once. Poor Lola Montes is rapidly failing. She has Lunde 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 hof • 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. ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A WIFE EY HER 11 1 : 31- ..... BAND.—On Saturday night last, a man and his wife, who travel the country attending fairs, took lodgings at a beer shop in Dragon-street, Petersfield, kept by James Parker . About the middle of the night the man made a desperate attempt on the life of his wife by cuffing 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 s proved, however, that the woman 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...4FM Mow Gazette. SIJARE Is DAY.) Share Railways. Paid. Closing Price. !Business none ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Railways. Paid. ! o p i orsioe t 7 I Businesso sltk Bom.,Baroda&.Cent Ind 100 00 Atlantic &St Lawrence all f Share • ( Cu. 5 per cent.. 1 18 Do, Do. 816 50 !Belfast and Ballymena all 204 Buffalo and Laxe Huron all 13.14113!r., Wol , and Str. Val. all 8 84 20/ Do. New 10 8 u D tr o a . i o Preference ßra n t,&G 0 . d . r . i c . h . 1 all stock 'Birk La., and Ch June. 100 78 80 ' 25 Blackburn 25 Blyth and Tyne all 6p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 10 Bost. Sleaf. and Mid.Co all 64 7 100 Do. do. July 1,187 n 100 stock Bristol and Exeter stock Caledonian 10 Carmarthen & Cardigan all 20 Cape, Eastn.Proy. (Lim.' 2s. 50 Cork and Bandon all 20 ,Cape Town & Dock Scrip 35. 20 cork, (Brock., ( - Passage all gets no div. 20 'Ceylon Guarantd. 6p. c.l 74 2 10 0 C D o o rn A w ( a Cornwall , until 6 p. peran. 20 Eastn. Bengaigu. sp. c , 71 10 Do B all stock East Indian, rg - u. sp. c. 100 all e hush d. toR 20 Do. F Shares Ext 15 50 Dublin & Belfast -lune. all 20 Do. Jubbulpore l5 25 Dun., Perth, &Ab..lune. all 74 8 100 Do. 44 pc. Debentrs all stock East Anglian lOO 16 17 100 Do. sp. c. Deb., 1864.. all stock Eastern Counties lOO 53 54 534 4 20 Geelong & Melbourne.. stock Eastern Union, A stock 1 00 38 40 sto. Geelong Corporation 6 100 stc.oc Do d o Bdo 100 27 29 per cent. Bonds 25 Do Nw A, late EU3ds 81 stock Grand Trunk of Canada 100 20 East Suffolk 10 Do stock E & rr dinburgh Glasow 100 81 82 100 Do. 7 per cent. 1862 .. all stock Edin. Perth, & Dundee 1 00 30 304 34 100 Do. do. 1867 .. all 10 Forth & Clyde Junction all 100 Do. do. 1872 . .. all stock Furness .. ._. stock Glasrr. and S. Western 100 109 111 20 Do. New glut. sp. c... 6 10 Great Ntlin. of Scotland all 20 Gt. South.of India (Lim) 13 stock Great Northern ... stock Do do A stock stock To do B do stock Gt. S. &W. of Ireland 100 112 114 100 Do. Bonds pay. '76, with all stock Great Western stock Do Str Val gni. stock 1 00 60 65 100 Do. do. '73 till '6O ...... all 12 Irish South-eastern stock T,aneashire & Yorkshir 100 1184 119 119 18 4 100 Do. 54 p. C. do. '77 d 0... all stock London and Blackwall 100 65 67 stock Madras, guar., 44 p. c... 100 stock Do. do. 5 per cent lOO stock Lou., Bright.. &S Coast 100 112 113 1134 stock Lond., Chat., and Dover 100 53 55 51 stock Do. 41 p. c. Extension 100 stock Lond. &Nth. Western 100 1001 1011 101 4 20 Do. Fourth do.. .. 120 Do eighths stock Lond. & , th. Western lOO 95 96 95 4 stock Melb.Corp. 6p. 0. Buds. 100 25 L'derry & Coleraine 25 l;derry & Ennisxillen all 10/ 11 20 Ry.&Land(Lim.)g,•.6pc all stock Man. Slid. et Lin^oln .. Do. do. Land do. 50 • Maryport and Carlisle.. all - 124 Do do 4 shares.... all 20 Do. do. B Capital do 10 ITetropolitan stock Midland stock Do ' Arming. & Derby 100 103 105 stock Scinde .......... d.,.: 100 50 aTid. G. W. of Ireland all 20 Do. Punjaub .... ee y. 7 25 Do 4 shares all 20 Do. Do. ........ :7, C.) a ll 5 Mid Kent. all stook Do. Indus. St. Flo. ? . 100 ti.r, 10 Do, tray Line 10 'Trinidad (Lim.) Scrip.. 1 100 Newcastle and Carlisle all 10 Newry & Armagh, def 9 7 6 d FOREIGN RAIL' 20 Newry, Warnpt. & Ros all stock Norfolk.... ... • 50 N lin. Counties Union stock North British lOO 62 624 62 4 20 IBali.&S.Fran..Lini.7 p.c. 81 stock 'onDey.llail&Dk.stoe, 100 -- 5 ,Belglin East. Junction all stock D A stk ; A recs no d. 20 IBeziers to Graissessac.. all until 6pchas beenpd.B 100 stock Do B stock . stock Nth. Eastern—Berwick 100 1 104} 1041 1054 4 100 Copiabo & all 25 Dodo, G.N.E. purchase 16134' p 1p d 10 I dtto Extension all stock no Leeds lOO 591 60 59; 20 Dutch Rhenish ........ 15 stock Do Yore stoci North London 19.16.4 North Staffordshire l7l 3 2; 1 14 4 4 4 20 Do. do. all 1 ° N. and S. IV. •Tlinction . • all 9 4 20 Great Central of France 72 Not. &Grantham Rail lO 6 7 20 )Gt. Luxem., Con. shs... 10 Peebles ... ...•••• • • • • all 20 Italian Junction ...... Portsmouth ....... 10 Rhymney • • •• •• •• all 20 ILierre & Turnhout .. ~all dock Scottish Central ••••• Mock cent N. E., Aber. stock 100 345 341 344 331 Maria Antonia ........ all dock Do Scot. Mid. stock lOO 86 88 10 'Do. New ..... ........ all dock Shropshire Union lOO 49 51 20 ,Namur & Liege all 10 Sittinabourne & Sheer. al l 6 7 20 IDo. 6p. c. Pref. ........ all 22221 1 00000 6 RIN N Dp, aaeo o irrr r . iiiw t Nrss h e, ee&L e g it tw r y n c laossnrn o . lh f Fsetai r E rrttiaelu r nss3 a . . i n k. ( ep c France.... d.p el . .. (Fern.) enc. .. rt. ..).. aaal a i l 1 1 Mock South Devon dock south Eastern dock smith Wales dock S. York. and River Dun 100 77 79 20 Staines, Wok,. and Wok all 6 8 25 Stockton & Darlington all 39 40 25 Do do ll 85 95 p gua. 7p. ct. 15m...... 13 Stockton & Hartlepool 164 20 Riga & Dunaburg...... 14 took Taff Vale .............. 100 10 Rome & Frascati ...... all tol: Do Pref. No 1 lOO 20 Royal Dani5h.......... all 25 ThamesHayenl , k&Rail 22 -.-. 5 Royal Swedish ........ all 50 Ulster • • all 551 561 4 Do. 7 per cent. Pref.. all 25 Do ...... ..... 210 Do : ...... • • ... li d p 10 Do. 51 per cent. Pref. rock Vale o • f • Neath • 100 , 64 66 20 San Paulo, lim, g. 7p. c 2 13 Victoria Sta. and Pim.. all 114 11; 114 20 S.Aust. &Lomb Venetin 12 toc, Waterford & Kilkenny 100 20 Southern of France all 50 Waterford & Limerick all —8/ West Flanders ...... 20 West C •rnwall . 20 West London ..... . 10 Do Ist class 20 Do 26 class _ hock West Midland—Oxford 100 ' 47 49 484 6 ;Wiesbaden 25 no. Newport all /01 11 6 Do. 8 per cent. Pref all 125 Do. Hereford 111 24 14 d 2O Zealand Si 83 93/ 041 11 1 d 5 151111 61 71 78 82 73 78 70 75 d PRT . , FE TtENCF SHARES. Wind N. rnE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 12, 1860. N.EIPIII..4I.!KET RACES.—(This Day.) EY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. SELLING HANDICAP. Romsey Miss Digby , Six ran. HANDICAP OF 15 SOUS. Sir Hugh Oliver Lady Clara Twelve rau. PRENDERGAST STAKES. Preceptress Phemy colt 2 Barb Pigeon Five ran. SCRATCHINGS. Prendergast Stakes—Solferino, Overreach colt, Lupus, Knight of the Thistle, Vaga, Rouge Dragon, Wing, See saw, Canto, Adrasta, Sooloo, Brownie, Bas Bleu, Physalis colt, Klarikoff, and Lord Kingston. Handicap for Two and Threo•yr•olds—Malta. Handicap of Twenty Sovs.—Cynricus, Lady Kingston, Emily, Trovatore, 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 agst Sir William (taken) 50 to 1 agst Little Dick (offered) THE DERBY. 11 to 2 agst Dundee (offered) 28 to 1 agst Folkestone (taken) 1000 to 20 agst Invader (taken) 5000 to 75 agst East Stanley (taken) ARTEMUS WARD SEES THE PRINCE OF WALES (From the Montreal Gazette.) At larst I've had a intervu with the Prince, the It cum purty nere 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 Fast 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 1 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 rich." " Good gracious 1" yelled the kurnal, '• the idea of a ex hibiter of wax figures going into the presents of Royalty I 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 he♦ 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 exiotens —yule a myth ! " " Wall," sez I, " old hoes, yule find me a ruther onkom fortable Myth of you punch my inards in that way agin." I began 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. Sez 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, & laded so sweet that I fell in love with him at once. He handid me a segar & we sot down on the Pizarro & com mense smokin' rite cheerful. " Wall," sea I, " Albert Edard, how's the old folks P" "Her Majesty & the Prince are well," he sod. " Dna the old man take his Larger Beer reglar ?" I in• quired. The Prince larfed & inte.thatid that the old man diden't let many kegs of that beverage spilo 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 & scrapia 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 ef 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 offshuls 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 obsarve that you soot me. Yure a good feller Albert Edard, & rho Ime agia 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, espeehully to showmen, who have allers bin aboozed sins the days of Noah, who wus the fast man to go into the N'enagery bizness, & ef the daily papers of his time are to be bleeved Noah's colleckshun of livin wild beests beet ennything ever seen sins, tho I make bold to dowt ef his snaiks was ahead of mine. Albert Edard adoo I" 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 nay hat k walkt away. "Mrs. Ward," I solilerquised, as I walkt along, "Mrs. Ward of yeu could see your husband now, jest as he prowdly emerjis from the presents of the future King of Ingland, youd be sorry you called him a Beest jez becawz he come home tired I night and wanted to go to bed with out taking orf his boots. Youd be sorry for tryin to deprive yoir husband of the priceless Boon of liberty, Betsy .Jane." A WARD. THIS 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 ; Gilmore, from London for the Cape of Good Hope aid Kurrachee, leaky. CARDIFF, Oct. 11.—Wind N.—Sailed—Sea Nymph, for Pernambuco. DEAL, Oct 12.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Oneida, from Manila for Hamburg ; Mystery, from the River for Malta. QUEENSTOWN, Oct. 10..—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived— Rhea Sylvia, and Annie Wilson, from Callao; Minora, from New York. WARRENPOINT, Oct. 11. —Wind E.N.E.—Arrived— Restless, from St. John's, N.B. FLEETWOOD, Oct. 11.—Wind N.—Sailed—Jeune Ma rianne, for Hayti. Orr HURST CASTLE, Oct. 12.—Wind N.—Arrived— Tagus, steamer, from Lisbon. SWANSEA, Oct. 11.--Wind N.W.—Arrived—Ford Mill, from Quebec. COWES, Oct. 11.—Wind atrong.—Arrived--- Bremen, steamer, from. New York, and proceeded for Bremen; Illinois, steamer, from Havre, and left for New York. (EY ELECTRIC TELEGIUrm) SOUTUAINIPTO2.t, Friday Morning. Arrived—Branch, from Sunderland ; Alliance, steamer, from Havre ; Duke of Cornwall, steamer, from London ; Minerva, from Sunderland. Sailed.—Orizont, for Amoy; Duke of Cornwall, steamer, for Dublin ; Dispatch, and Atalanta, steamers, for Jersey. (BY SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Friday Morning. Wind. N. ; weather fresh and fine. Arrived, Oct. 11.—Fortitude, froth Colombo ; Lady of the Lake, from Algoa Bay ; Margaretha, from Riga ; Dila, from Rotterdam ; Elizabeth, from Cronstadt. Arrived, Oct. 12.—Hepzite, from Riga ; Forrest, from Dantzic ; Minna, from Cronstadt; John and Alice Brown, from Riga; Emblem, from Cronstadt, Sailed, Oct 12.—Strathallan, for Hongkong. DEAL, Friday Morning. Wind N.W. by N. ; fresh and fins. Passed.—Alice, screw steamer, froth London, for Genoa. Anchored.—Mystery, from London, for Malta; Onega, ship, from Manilla, for Hamburg. LIGHTS IN THE ADRlATlC. — Liformation has been received at the Admiralty, from her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, that the lighttog on the Austrian, coast of the Adriatic is re - established. Closing Business Share Railways. Paid Price. Done. Plythe and Tyne 10 per c. pref. (issued at .E5 O & Exet.4 p.ct.stock Do. do. do. Shares ..... iCaledon £10,41 per cent Do. Quar. Shares, No. 2. Cork & Bandon, 5k p. c. Cornwall. 5 per cent... nun. Perth &Aber Tun. . E.AnErn.Class A 7 &sp.c. Do. do. Class 13 6 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 et. stock. Eastern Union, 4 per et. Do. 5 per ce'at. zuar... Eclin.&Glas.sp.c. shares Do. 4 p. c. zua. S. & .1).1 Edln. Perth& Pun. 4 p.c., Furness, 5 per cent Glas.& S. West.g.a. 5 p.c.l 'Great Northern, 5 p. ct.l Do.sp.c.Redm.,lop.c.prnl Do. 44 p. c. do. do. Do. sp.c. Redm. 5 p.c. pm, (It. Nh. of Scotl4l. let p 5 (Gt. Sn. S. W (Ireland) 4 p. ct. pref. stock Great West. (Ilerks and Hants) Ext. 5 p. ct. o. lledeemable,44 p.et.l Do. 'Redeemable, 4 p. cf. Do. frrerleemable, flo. 5 n.ct. Redeem. Pref. Do. firm. Pref. Shares. W. Ches. 8 p.c. pf.sh. no d c 5 p. ct. pref no Rirmcnemar. stock no. Chester gua. shares Do. do. do. Do. do. do. Lan.kYork a p. c. stock Do.Barnal.st.£s3s lad pc Do. 6 per C. (E. Lan.) Lon.k, 11r1c,r. 5 pc.gu. No.l Inn. 5 p. c No. 2 IDo. nut. p. c. Do. do. 5 p. c. No. 4 Do. do. 44 per cen'. Do. do. 4} p. c. shares Do. 7 p. ct. Pref. stock Do. 6p.c. do. (W.E.01.P 1 Do.4p.e.S.(div.def.til '651 Lon. Chat. and Dover Lon. and N.W. Coy, and Nuneaton, 5 p. ct I,on. & S.TV, 7 p. Ct. stock Do. 4X per cent. Do.(Prtferst. perpl anns. - - . of 2s. 6d. Londondy. & Cole. sh. Lon dony. & Ennis. 3 sh Man. Sh. &Lin. 6 per ct. Do. £6 Do. 3} per cent Do. redeem. 6 percent Nfary ort & Car., 4 p. c Do. 43 per cent. Mid. Con. 6 p c. stock Do.Con.Bris. & Bir. 6 p.c Do. 41 p. c. pref. stock Do. with option till 1860 Do. Leic. & Hit. pref. st. Norilk 5 p. c. Ex. st. 1846 Do. 53 p. c. Pref. do. 1847 Do.6Way.Val.Ex.st.lB47 North British, 5 p. c. Do. New, gm S p. c Do. Ilor. Un. g. pf. shs Do. do. do. Nth. Dev.R ail. &Dek.Co. 'NT -Ea st rons.Pref. 4 p. c. Do. Berwick, 4 p.c. Pref. Do. do. do Do. Leeds; 6 p. e. No. 1 no. do. Quarters, 1848 Do. York, H. & S. Purch North Staffordshire Rhyroney Guaranteed. Scottish Central, new pf Scottish North-Eastern p. r. pref. stock.... Do.Aberdeen,gua.(ip.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 4p.c. Ist is. south Wales. gua. 4 p.c. Do. 4 4 per cent. S.-Yorkshire, 4 p. c. gua., Stock.At _Dar. A 5 p. c.. Do. B 6 Der cent Do. C G per cent Wated & Killcny. 6 p. c W.Mid -Oxf lst Gua stk Do. 2d do Do. Newport 5 p.c.pf.red. Do.Perpet. 6 p. c. pt IR66' Do. till 1869, Ist is. Do. do. 2d is. Do. 'Hereford p.c. pf. TALS. 94 96 100 102 stock stock 204 214 5 1 6 1 99 101 111 113 106 108 109 111 108 110 123 125 82 84 sn I 1 oo stock toot; stock stock stock stock .their stock stock stock stock stock stock dock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock 2s. tici 124 stock stool= 124 stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock 101 10 stock stock stock stock stock stock 10s 1.0.6 stock stock stock stock stock stock stock lit 111 90 92 77 78 103 105 120 122 117 119 110 112 103 105 85 87 98 100 99 101 SO 91 90 92 100 102 9 101 174 18+ 10+ 10t 76 78 20 21 10 104 15 15+ 136 138 115 117 115 117 135 140 115 117 102 104 [52 156 [3O 134 68 70 92 03 117 119 [5O 155 121 13 127 129 I IP 68 70 & IP 137 139 101 103 92 91 111 113 109 111 lip 91 93 103 105 P ip P 24 23} 100 100 100 all all 120 123 130 133 10i 11 231 241 102 104 102 104 89 91 99 101 83 86 276 286 3 2 4 326 326 334 46 50 126 128 122 124 94 1 3 12 1 12 14 1 LINES 'LEASED AT FIXED RE Bedford and Bletchley Backinghtinshi re .... Chester & Holyhead.. Do. do. 5a per cent. Do. do. 5 per cent. Clydesdale Junction.. Colchester, Stour Val. E.Lincolnshire,E.r..ap•c• E.Union,Harwich Shs Do. Woodbridge Gls.Barr.&Neils,Drct. Do. New .... • • .. • • Gloster& Dean Forest Hartlpool.Delc.& Rail. Hull and Selby • • Do.i Shares ..... • • Do. Shares • • Lanc.& Carl. gua.s p.c. London Az Greenwich Do. Preference •• • • Ln&N.W Ln&N.W 95 98 I Do. 54 54, Do. ...... 125 127 Do. ...... 113 115 Caledonia 102 104 E.U.SzE C 153 14 Gt.North.l3B 140 E.Counts.l 4 41 Lon.,Tilhy.& Soutend. Lowestoft, gua. 4 p.ct. Do. 6 per cent.— •••• Manc.,Boxtn. & Matk. Mid. Bradford Prefer- . - ence Stock ..... -- Newinarkt.,BuryEx 1 guaranteed 5 p. c. Northn.& Eastn. 5 p.c.i i Do. do. Rper cent .. • . Do. Fixed 5 per cent. North Western ...... Proston and Wyr e . Do. Stares ... . ... A. Roystn.Hitch., Shep Skrewsbry& Hereford Do. Sc;'tl Stairordshfie • Wilts and Somerset. Wimbledon ze Croydnl Share' Caledonia Do. • • • Gt. West. Yk.N.&Br Yk.N. Md. Do. Do. Ln.& N.W S. East Do. Peto & Co Norfolk ,Do. 1081 NW&MI Midland 5. 5. 8 E.Counts all !Do. all !Do. all Do, all , Midland all • L 4 IC W L.Yk. all ,Do. 100 Gt North 100 T.Brassey 1 all M'Clean . 100 Gt. Wesi. all LABrgtn 78 71 stock stock stock stock stock stock stock 76 i Docks. Commercial Do. 4 per Cent.Pref.Min East and West Indies London St. Katharine.. . outhampton .., 138 j 1011 tVistoria DO NOW ..ass.toaii43esi Paid. Leasing Closing Business Railways. Co.'s. Price. Done. 2 lid td 1; lad 991 1(0 d pr d pr 98 99 101 102 26 27 85 i!.7 51 53 55 60 48 52 98 62 96 97 lad ;d 21 lact 13; 131 7 6ad' 100 102 100 102 100 iae 92 94 83 85 931 041 86 88 1; lad 5 7 5 7 N 100 d 1 I —d 93 94i 1 id WAYS. 51 6 — P 1 O d I 1 I 21 2f 21 2 d 31 8 a 25 26 6, 7 ]9 4 2 8 4 88 39 :16 37 53 55 3 20 13 15 5 61 ; f d 194 24 5 6 94 1 9l 22 23 BRITISH MINES. &Bret Consols (Philack) British Iron iClifrord Devon G. Cons. rravlst ) East Bassett (Illogan) 1 East Caradon ...... I E. WI Russel (Tavistk ) : Gam..kSt.Aubyn(Gwen ) ;Great South Tolgus !G.Wheal Alfd. (Philack) G. Wheal Vor (Helston)l Grenville Ilerod's- Foot— "lity,ston Downs 2.11.10 i 16 11 30 1 1.14.6 7.4.0 541 17s 12.13.9 94 5.14.6 8.12 4.8.6 !Lady Bertha Margaret (Uny Lelant)' North Downs North Frances (Illogan)i N.Wh'l Basset (1110 4an)l :North Wheal Crotty 1 I Par Consols (St. Blazey)s 11 Providence (Uny Lelia); 10.6.7 St/rtridge Cons. Min. Co. 12s 'South Caradon(St.Cleer) 1} S. Carn Brea (Illogan)..1 S. Dev. Iron &Gen., Lina.l all i S.Wheal Fran., (Illogan)!18.1.9 'Stray Park '22.18.0' Tamar Silv.& Lead Min 4i Tin Croit 9 Vale of Towey (Carm ) 6d West Basset (Illor,r,an) W. Caradon (Liskeard), West Seton Wheal Basset (Mogan) 5i !Wheal Buller (Redruth 5 'Wheal Edward (Cals. 6 N .l 7heal Kitty (U.Lelant 1.7.2 Wheal Mary Ann (Men. 8 Wheal Trelawney (Lis. 54 1.8.6 9 i 2 11 55 9.18.9 p a id ' I Closing Business Price. Done 4f 5} 1 2 415 435 1121 117# 9 10i 11 t 2 27 29 10# 11 II I#. 21 1 3 il 20 31 31 I 1f 2 92 44 41. 4# i i 4 _ 5 11 ]2 11 12 46 48 - ii - it 295 305 3 34 125 1 15 54 56 21 21 51 54 171 181 71 73 300 310 125 130 78 82 2 21 15i 16f 24 26 • 22 24 Sharel Mines. FOREIGN MINES Australian BonAccord Copper,Lim. Brazil. Imp. (is. at .£ s p.` Do.St.Johndel Itey,Lim Do. Land and 31.iningCo. Clarendon Cons.MinCo Cobre Copper Copiapo DunMoun.Cop.Ming.Co l Fortuna. !General Gt. N. Cop. of S. Austr Kapunda Linares ILusitanian Mariqulta N. Rhin eCopof S. Aus. L Pontgibaud Silver,Lead Mining and Smelt Port Philip Scottish Austen. (L.) ;United Mexican 'Worthing (Limited) Do 1 1 28'211 all 128.6 d. all 1 10s. a;1 all 19s. /d 4 • 14 If 274 284 (Us. 43 45 9 11 11 2i 22 23 id pr l 10 11 p d ip d 5 6 I a 1 22 k COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECU ITIES. Can. Gov. 6 p.c.Ja. & July 100 113 116 Do. 6p. cent. 1880 100 1141 Do. 6p. cent. 1879 100 ' Do. 6p. cent. 1883 100 Do. 6p. a Feb. & Aug. NO 111 113 Do. 6p. c. Mar. & Sept lOO 111 113 ( Do, 5 per cent lOO 103 1031 1031 1 I Do. Scrip 5O N.B.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 1106 107 1001 Do. 6p. c. Ap. & Oct. 100 N. S. W. Gov. sp. c., 1866 100 100 101 Do. sp. a, 1871 to 1876 100 99 100 Do. 5 p.c.,1888 & upwds 100 99 100 Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. sterling, 1875 lOO 1071 1081 108 S.Aus.Gt. 6 p.c.1878 &up lOO 108 110 Via Gov 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 I Do. do. 6 p.c. Ap.&Oct. 100 106 1061. _1 . 0 . 6}_ JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 100 Agra&UnitedService Bk 50 78 80 40 Australasia all 25 Bank of Egypt all 19 20 100 Bank of London 20 Bank of Turkey 3 11 14 50 British North American all 20 Chtd.Bank of India, &c. all 20 201 25 Ch. Mer. of In. L on.& Ch all 33 35 100 City 100 Colonial ......- ... 25 37 39 20 . 11 Com. Bank of Canada all 100 Commercial of London 20 Eng., Scot., & Aus. Ch all 15 151 20 Gen. Ilk .of Switzerland all 20 Lon. Char.Bkof Austral all 231 24 50 London and County 50 London Joint Stock 100 Louden & Westminster 20 61 100 Nat. Prov. of England . 42 98 20 Do. new l2 50 National Bank .....• .. 25 ;621 20 New South Wa1e5...... all 20 Do. new 25 Orient. B. Corporation 20 Ottoman Bank .. . 100 Prov metal of Ireland 10 Do. new 25 South Australia 25 Union of Australia all 50 Union of London l2 251 100 Unity Mutual 6O MISCELLANEOUS. 10 Anglo-Mexican Mint 1000 Atlantic Tel. (Limited) all 25 Australian Agricultural 19 27 29 271 7 10 Berlin Water (Limited), all 5 51 50 British American Land; 40 30 32 50 B.&l.Mag:. Tel. A. (Lim.) all 35 37 20 Do. 8,7p.c.ti111852 (Lim.) • all 18 20 20 Do. C. (Limited) all 12 14 321 Canada Land all 114 117 10 Chan.lslands Tel. (Lim ) all stock Cop. sl in.ofEng.&Sfultg. all 25 Do. Pref. 7 per cent all 241 251 stock Crystal Palace stock Do. Preference stock Do. 6p. c. Pei ? et. Deben. 100 106 ICB stock Electric Telegraph 100 99 02 25 Do. New ..... . 5 English & Aus. C opper all 21 24 21 15 Gen. Steam Navigate ma 14 1 Great Ship I imited).. . all 1 Do. 171 pet Preference / . 5 Lon. District Tel. (Lim.) 2 20 London Discount (Lim.) 5 11 11d 31 4 L.G. Omnibus Co. (Lim.) all 11 1 20 Madras Irr. and Canal 1 1/ 2 10 Mediter. Electric Teleg, a ll 10 Med. Exten. Tel. (Lim.) all 2 4 25 National Dis. Co. (Lim.) 5 14 11 d 20 Nerbu.Coal&lron (Lim ) 5 2 lid 10 Netherlands Land all 5 Do.B p.e.Pref-iss.atl die all 100 N.Br.&NovaScotiaLand go 25 26 1 N.B.Australasian (Lim.), all 1 1 1 1 Oriental Gas (Limited). all 1 1 Do. New Shares (Lim.). 2 15 8. 5. p r _ 10 Orintl,ln,Steam(Lim.)A 3. 10 Ditto B. 10 Ditto C stock Peellt.Lnd.&Min.(Lim ) 100 07 50 50 Pen. & Oriental Steam 50 Do. New....,,, 25 114 121 20 RedSea&lnd.Tel.g. 4 ll/. 0 all 17} in p 50 Rhymney Iron 15 Do. New all ai stock loo Scot. Etoya A l I s a t i i l n S i t7 (l4 . ;0 3 100 19 51 1 n 2.5 South Australian I , alla All 33 34 1 Submarine Tel; Scrip all 1 Do. do. Registered •10 Do. all 5 7 20 r. & Lu. CaofUpr.Can. 5 100 VMI Dlenicu'o Land 41. 9 10 stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stoc , 19.16.4 stock stock stock stock 10 stock stock stock stock stock stop.): 12 10 stock 13 stmt. stock 1109 111 205 208 61 63 115 120 92 94 3} 31 95 97 I }P 55 57 15 154 136 138 104 106 i 4 P 101 11} 92 94 7+ 8+ Paid. Closing Business Price. Done. 100 100 I'.lo 100 100 100 100 99 101 2 id P 121 k 51 991 100 27; $ 855 /31 1 lit i WEYHILL RP FAIR. The great six days' fair commenced on Wednes day, for sheep only; the second day is for beasts and horses, the third day for cheese and hops, the fourth day the principal hop fair, and the two I:kst chiefly for implements of husbandry, toys, and miscellaneous goods of every description. Booths standing the year round for this fair alone are rented for the six days at from £lO £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, Whir well, 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 and 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 40s 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 45s for sheep, others at from 36s to 40s; best lambs at front 36s to 40s; 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 ; lambs, 30s to 32s ; fat sheep, at from 4s 4d to Os 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 210,000, 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 hnp 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 town and district not being expected to realise £2,000, against from £14,000 to £20,000 other years. DR CUMMING ON PROPHECY. (From the Manchester .Examiner.) The frien s ds of Dr. Cumming will probably thank us for having afforded that learned gentleman an opportunity of explaining all about the 21 years' lease. It was he 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 on® arrangement which we incline to think entirely fair. Should Di. Cumming have occasion to take up another 21 years' lease, let him first send to the landlord a copy of his " Great Tribulation." lithe 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. Cumming charges us with having treated the subject of his lecture with "levity, with ridi 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 confronted 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 he 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 'limes 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. Dr. 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 the 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 Fist tense must be understood with a future signi fication, that "Woe" must be read " Ho," that "shadowing with wings" means" defending with a naval force," that "ships of bulrushes" are steam vessels, and "swift beasts" are railway locomotives, we meekly incline our secular selves before a doctor of divinity. But what will his hearers think ? What practical conclusions will be forced upon their minds ? They will conclude, in the first place, that they have been villanously cheated for the last 300 years out of the real meaning of Scrip ture. Nor is this all. If one verse can be made to undergo such a metamorphosis, why not another? In this way a haze of uncertainty creeps over the whole of the sacred text, till at last the persuasion is invincible that the common version is useless and positively mischievous, unless Dr. Cumming an be bound up along with it. But the scepticism thus engendered goes far deeper. It attaches to the things themselves, till the bewildered inquirer is disposed to regard an infallible interpreter as a necessary complement of the inspired writings. Thus, by straying from common sense, Dr. Cum ming leads his flock on the high road to Rome, a place which in degree of horror he holds only second to another which shall be nameless. As for ordinary attempts to explain Scripture, Dr. Cum ming's mode of procedure tends to brill.' 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 h e uses. f 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. Cuns ming's sacrilegious nonsense. On merely literary grounds and as a matter of taste, from the vital interests of religion , we stand up f or apart altog e th er 1 the august shades of these mighty men of old against a modern theological w ay beyond our usual domain,th ough a I n pursuit of this eminent ave d t i h v i i m ne bl ‘ e v r e ig h ger. Wan dered journalistsalong we claim a any,su right to speak on • b - as ject that interest s mankind. We do thi s by virtue of the all inclusive home sum. Besides, the sub jects treated on both occasions are intensely secu lar. The destiny of Great Britain —why, this is w hat we are talking about and humbl y t ry i ng t o i n fl u ence every day. The destiny of the Earth is a —..... wider theme, whi c h we w ill modestly leave in the doctor's hands. We are delighted to learn that he and his children love their Tunbridge cottage be cause a sprig of heather grows near it. This smacks genuinely of ! uman nature, which shows its toughness by thriving so vigorously on the extreme ! 1 verge of the present secular economy. Such send mentality ought, however, to be held in firm check, I and our reverend friend must have a remarkably 1 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 ire would find most men, Dr. Cumming shows remarkable equanimity in being able to ne gotiate a lease in order to spend the last seven years of the present economy near a bit of ileather. 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 sr.eh circum s t ances, can you, an honest Christian man, be sentimentalising with your landlord over a bit o f h eat h er? Such inconsistency betrays, the shallowness and un conscious insincerity,' of the theoriser, but does not disclose tine-half his mischievousness. Suppose thy. year 1867 should pass with out a Catastrophe, what will Dr. Cumming have enabled the " scoffer" to say in 1868? Surely it is 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 rushinc , in where a nge l s f ear t o t rea d, and settin g b e f ore 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 !leaven becomes its own interpreter. THE ROAD MURDER. I The Frome correspondent of the Bath Chronicle gives an account of the system of persecution and annoyance to which the inmates of Mr. Kent's house are subjected :—" Not content with sending letters containing threats and vross insults, there are those 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 rat° 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 Mc. 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 ehild ?' 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, resid e d f or 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, and died, being 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 the 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 poasiderable 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 Ms 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 Sidmouth, 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 68. The jury returned a verdict of natural death. TIIIS DAY'S MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE. We were again scantily supplied with English wheat to-day, and the general quality of the samples was very inferior. The few find qualities on offer changed hands at Monday's currency, but other kinds moved off heavily, at irregular, and in some instances at easier quotations. 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, however, refuse to accept lower rates. Floating cargoes of grain were at low inquiry, at late currencies. The few samples of barley in the market have moved off steadily, at quite Monday's prices. Fine malt commanded quite previous rates, but inferior kinds were less active. There was a good consumptive inquiry for oa ts , at fully late rates. Beans and peas commanded extreme rates, but flour was a dull inquiry. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Who'd. Barley. M alt. Oats. English.. :960 Irish F0reigu.........21 360 - 1 1,27; 7,840 4,180 sack s 15,080 brls. NEWGATE AND LEADENIJALL. The supplies of each kind of meat are moderately good. Generally speaking/ the demand is inactive, a t our quota tions : Per 81bs by the carcase. " s. d. s. d.t 8. d. d Inferior beef 24 2 8 Middling mutton 38 4 0 Middling do 2 10 3 4 Prime do ...... . 4 2 4 4 Prime large do 3 63 10 Veal ......... 4 0 4 6 Do, small do 40 4 2 Small pork .. 52 5 8 Large pork 4 4 5 0 arab.... ...... 0 0 0 0 Inferformatton 3 0 3 6 BOROUGII 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 is by no means active. Duty, £32,000 to £35,000. Mid and East Kent pockets, £l7 Os to £25 Os Wealds 15 Os to 21 Os Sussex 1859 •• •• •• 11 08 to 16 Os •• Olds •• •• •• BOstols Os • .. • • " 3 Os to 8 Os COLONIAL. TEX.—The market continues very quiet, and prices have shown no alteration. SUGilt.—The dealings have been on a rather limited scale, and for some descriptions prices have 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 for East India, and a rather large business has been trans acted in floating cargoes at full rates. SALTPETRE.—The market continues dull, and quota tions remain unaltered. TALLOW.—The dealings have been extensive, Part i r„ - larly for forward delivery, and a further advance hasj a a c r place in prices. P.Y.C. on the sßot is now cl i l gtv ` 4 ' .2 and 586, 6d, for *ring delivery. BANK RETURNS. An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria cap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank .Notes, of the several Banks of Issue in England and Wales, in circu lation during the week ending Saturday, the 29th day o September, 1860. PRIVATE BANKS. Andover Bank, Andover-Heath and Co Ashford Bank, Ashford-Jemmett, Pomfret, & Co. 11,265 Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury-Cobb and Co 30,015 Ealdock 13ank and Baldock and Bia-gleswadt?, Bank, Bigglaswade-Wells, H ogge , an d Co. Barnstaple Bank, Barnstaple-Marshall and Co 6,150 Basingstoke and Oldham Bank, Basingstokea- Seymour, Lamb, and C o• Bedford Bank, Bedford-Barnard and Co. 33,260 Bawdle) Bank, Bewdley-Nichols, Baker, and Co. 9,723 Bicester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank, Bicester--Tubb and Co Bin 'ling I, am Bank, Birmingham - Attwood s, Spooner, and Co. Boston Bank, Boston-Clayp ons an d C 0......,, 66,632 Boston Bank, Boston-Gee and Co. 13ridgwatet• Bank, Bridgwater-J. &J. L. Sealey 7,980 Broseley and Bridgnorth and Bridgnorth and Bullekroirglheya: ukaßnak, roseley-P ,d -ritcha • s, Boycott, and Co. 14,979 Bnckingham-Bartlett, Par rott, and c o 22,293 bury dt BSalko,lll3B ul a y n s k i. S E u d dbury d ßank, and Stow and Co. ..... Oakes ' B e van ' " 5i ,934 Banbury Bank, BanburyJ. C. and A. Gillett 33,327 Banbury Old Bank, BanburyCobb and Son 23,458 Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard-Bassett, Son, and Co. Birmingham Bank, Birmingham --Lloyds and Co 28,961 Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire.. Harris and Co. Brecon Old Bank, Brecon-Wilkin s and Co ..... 50,781 Brighton Union Bank, Brighton-Hall, w es t, and Co. ..................... 17,906 Burlington and Driffield Bank, Burlington-Hard ing, Smith, and Co .... 12,205 Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds-- Worlledge and Co. . 3,003 Cambridge Bank, Cambridge-Mortlock and Co. 11,732 Cambridge a n d C am b r id ges hi re Bank, Cambrid ge -Messrs. Fosters .. 41,477 Canterbury Ba n k, C an t er b ury -H amm ond and Co. 27,618 Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen-David Morris and Sons .. 20,223 Chertsey Bank, Chertsey-La Coste and 50n.... 2,725 Colchester Bank, Colchester-Round, Green, &Co. 16,072 Col c h es t er and Essex Bank, and - Witham and Essex Bank, and Hadleigh, Suffolk, Bank, Colchester , - Mills, Bawtree, and Co. , Cornish Bank, Truro-Tweedy and Co 45,074 Coventry Bank, Coventry -Little and Woodcock 5,622 City Bank, Exeter-Milford and Co. Craven Bank, Settle-Alcocks, Birkbeck, and Co. 75,911 Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Monmouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Chepstow- Bromage, Snead, and Co . 8,230 Derby Bank, Derby-'W. and S. Evans and Co. 10,686 Derby Bank, Derby-Samuel Smith and Co 31,686 Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, Derby -Crompton Newton, and Co. ... 27,716 Devizes and "Wiltshire Bank, Devizes-Locke and C 0 .8,405 Diss Bank, Diss-Fincham and Co 10,349 Doncaster Bank and Raiford Bank, Doncaster- Cooke and C o Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton-on- Tees Bank, Darlington-Backhouse and Co 82,445 Devonport Bank, Devonport-Hodge and Co 7,434 Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, Dor chester- R. and 11. Williams 46,066 East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard-Robins, Foster, and Co. 98,983 East Ridina• Bank, Beverl e y -B ower an d C o 49,525 Essex Ba n k' and Bishop's Stortford Bank, Chelms ford-Sparrow, Rouncl, and Co 41,589 Exeter B an k, E xeter-Sanders and Co 27,225 Farringdon Bank and Bank of Vantage, Farring don-Barnes, Medley, and Co 5,813 Farnham. Bank, Farnham -John and Jas. Knight 7,632 Faversham Bank, Faversham -Hilton and Co 5,093 Godalming Bank, Godalming-Mellersh and Keen 3,797 Guildford Bank, Guildford -Messrs. Haydon 12,617 Grantham Bank, Grantham-Hardy and Co 23,333 Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford-Mat thews and Co 13,715 Hull Bank and Kingston-upon -Hull Bank, Hull- Smith, Brothers, and Co .. 16,883 Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don-Veasey and Co. Harwich Bank, Ha rw i c h-C ox, C o bb o ld , an d Co. 5,379 Hertfordshire, Hitchin Bank, Hitchin-Sharples and Co Hereford, Ross, and Archenfield Bank, and Ross and Archer lleld Bank, Ross-Morgan and Co 21,014 Ipswich Bank, Ipswich-Bacon and Co Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, Had leigh Bank, Manning - tree and Mistley Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich-Alen.anders &Co 53,431 Kentish Bank, Maidstone-Randall, Mercer, and Co 10,749 Kington and Radnorshire Bank, Kington-Davies and Co. 25,717 Knaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Knaresborough-Harrison and Co 18,910 Kendal Bank, K en d a l-W a k e fi e ld , Crewdson, &Co 45,611 Longton Staffordshire Bank, L ong t on -C. Harvey and Son Leeds Bank, Leeds-Beckett and Co Leeds Union Bank, Leeds-W. Williams, Brown, and Co. Leicester Bank, Leicester-T. and T. T. Paget., 26,359 Lewis Old Bank, Lewis-Whitefeld and Co. 28,568 Lincoln Bank, Lincoln-Smith, Ellison and Go Llandoyery Bank, Lampeter Bank, and Llandilo Bank, Llandovery-D. Jones and Co Loughborough Bank, Loughborough -Middleton and Cradock Lymington Bank, Lymington-S. and G. F. St Barbe .. 3,713 Lynn Regis a n d Li nco l ns hi re Bank, Lynn Legas- Gurneys and C o . Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis- Jarvis and C 012,715 Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield-Brocklehurst and Co 14,853 Manningtree Bank, Manningtree-Nunn and Co 4,955 Merionethshire Bank, Dolg,elly-Williams and Son 8,447 Miners Bank, Truro-Willyams and Co. Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial Bank, Abergavenny-Bailey and Co. Konmouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth-. Bromage, Snead, and Co. Newark Bank, Newark-Godfrey and Riddell 18,579 Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark Bank, Sleaford-Handley, Peacock, and Co, Newbury Bank, Newbury-Bunny, Slocock, and Co 15,715 Newmarket Bank, Newmarket,-a-Eaton, Hammond, and Co. Norwich Crown Bank and Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Norwich-Harveys and Hudsons 50,197 Norwich and Norfolk and Fakenham Banks, Nor wich-Gurneys and Birkbecks 92,116 Skttingharn and Nottinghamshire Bank, Notting ham-Hart, Fellows, and Co. Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton -Craddock and Co. Naval Bank, Plym ou th-H arr i s & C o ... 21 574 New Sarum Bank, Sarum-Pinckney, Brothers .. 10,250 Nottingham Bank, Nottingham-Samuel Smith and Co Dswestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, O s westry -Croxon and Cog 9,412 Dxford Old B an k, O x f or d-P arsons an d C o . ... .. . Old Bank, Tonbrid ge , T on b r id ge an d Tonbridge Wells Old Bank, Tonbridge and Toni:T.olg: Wells and Sevenoaks Bank, Tonbridge-4 . 6,495 and S. Beaching ................ . n. . Oxfordshire Witney Bank, Witney-J 11,99 S and Sons H u ll Old Bank ar d Pease's Old Bank, Hull, the W Clinch 43,217 8,129 Beverley Bank, Hull-P Penzance Bank, Penzance-Batte n Bank, Peter • Peterborough Bank and 9,719 erfordwest-J. and W. e l e t an ten d a u n o d Co. W 12,965 Readingr borough-D. o rl utoekgr Back, Pembrokeshire ............... t . a d . : C ; Co ..o.n. .ds 11 d • 24 425 Bl' - • Co. 2 5 8 ;8 3 9 1 Reading Bank, Bank Reading - Stephens, latanondycie):o.z Cu. 3,357 Rochester, Chatham, and.Strood Bank, Rochester,- t o ic c h h m da o i n e d Bank , , D a y and Nicholson .......................... 6696 Royston Bank, Royston-F or dh am and Sons 10, , 410 gby-A Butlin and Son 10,333 Rugby Bank, Ru Rye Bank, Rye-R. C. Pomfret and Co 10,663 R os s Old Bank, Herefordshire, Ross-Allaway and MacDougal .... Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron Walden-Gibsons and Co Salop Bank, Shre w 21,607 sburn-Burton, Lloyd, &Co 12,080 Scarborough Old B an k , Scarborough-Woodall Co. 23 037 Shrewsbury Ol d Bank. and Shrewsbury and Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury-Rocke Eyton, and Co. 38,041 Sittingbourne and Milt on iank, Sittingbourne---- Vallanee and Co. Southampton Town and County Bank, Southamp ton-Maddison and Pearce Southwell Bank, Southwell-Wylds and C• 10,829 Southampton and Hampshire Bank, &uthampton -Atherley, Fall, and Co. Stafford Old Bank, Stafford-Stevenson and Co. Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford-Eaton, Cayley, and Co 18,940 Shrewsbury and Welsh Pool Bank, Shrewsbury , Beck, Downward, and Co. 21,051 Taunton Bank,Taunton-H. and R. Badcock 29,155 Tavistock Baa , k, Tavistock-Gill, Sons, and Co. 11,876 Thornbury Bank, Thornbury-Harwood' and Co 9,738 Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton-Duns ford and Co. Thrapston and Kettering Bank Northamptonshire, Thrapston-York and Eland 11,531 Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring-Butcher 63 _ and Son .1 Towchester Old Bank, T owchester-Percival and Co 7 ,253 Town and County of Poole Bank and Ringwood and Poole Bank, Poole-G. W. Ledgard and Sons . 6: 2 6 / 3 2 Union Bank, Cornwall, H 111 elston-Vivian and Co Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge-Hull, Smith, 1t9,0 lO,BBO Wallingfbrd Bank, Wallingford-Hedges, Wein, 6.121 and Co. ............................... tck_ Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwl .. 20,671 Greaves and Co. .................... Wellington Somerset Bank, Wallin-at . ..Fox, ▪ ....... 4,649 Brothers, and Co ................ d•........... West Riding Bank, Wakefield an ........... 44,138 Bank-Leatham, Tew, and Co ......... Chapman, n Whitby Old Bank, Whitby -Sung and C 0. .... ...... .......... 12,709 ... Winchester, Alresford, and Winches .. 18,105 ........................ ter-Bulpett and Co. 15,482 mouth-Elliot, Pearce,3l boaalorcchoe.ster Bank, Wey. Weymouth Old Bank Wirksworth and A a e Derbyshire Bank-. Arkwriglrt 36,945 Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech-Gur neys andcoand C o. C' ...and....... 39,203 Hanc ock .............. 7,625 Wiveliscomee Bank, IViveliscombe-P, W Wolverhampton Bank, Wolv enhampton-Goodricke a nd Holyoake ......................... • .... 10,846 W orces ter Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, Worcester-Berwiok, Lechmere, and Co 64,345 Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton-R. and W. F. Fryer Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, an d Halesworth and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth- Gurneys, Birkbech, to 44 1 025 41409 1 tlittottlosolltm.••••tute Lat a ho to 2g