The Sun. — London, England, 1866-07-02 00:00:00

rffoONEf MARKET AND COMMERCIAL UITELLIOFINP,& TWELVE o'CLocK. The Money Market exhibits symptoms of easi ness, owing to the demand for accommodation being limited, and the supply of capital on offer rather abundant. The brokers, however, will only take the very finest description of paper, and the principal bulk of the bills brought forward is, there fore, negotiated at the discount office of the Bank of England. The sum of £19,000 in sovereigns was taken to the Bank on Saturday, and there was also a with drawal of 4,000. A statement of the affairs of Sir Charles Price Marryat and Co. will be submitted to a meeting of the creditors on Friday next by Messrs. Coleman, Turquand, Young, and Co. Notice has been given that the coupons of the Atlantic and Great 'Western Railway will be paid as usual by the Consolidated Bank, and that they must be left at the office two clear days for exami nation. Notice has been given that interest at the r ate of 5 per cent. per annum, for the half-year ending the 30th inst., on the shares of the Metropolis Sewage and Essex Reclamation Company, will be paid at Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co.'s, bankers, on and after to-day. From the manufacturing districts the accounts for the past week have in some instances been more satisfactory. Cloths and yarns at Manchester have been dealt in to a moderate extent, at slightly en hanced rates. In the woollen trade of Leeds, Bradford, and Huddersfield, there has been rather more animation, while at Leicester and Notting ham the hosiery and lace trades have remained quiet. In the hardware districts of Birmingham, Sheffield, and Wolverhampton, there has been little change of importance. The Malta has been announced this morning from NOW York with £4,200, and the Africa, from Boston, with £37,242. Two O'CLOCK. At the Paris Bourse this morning, according to Renter's telegram, the French .Renter were 63f. 60c. Firm. In the Corn Market to-day there was only a moderate attendance, and prices of both home grown and foreign wheat remained the same as on Monday last. Spring corn, beans, peas, and flour were without change in value. The English Stock Market has been inactive, and prices have shown depression, owing to the 'stringency of money, and the war on the Conti nent, which is causing an uneasy feeling to pre vail. Consols are 86i 1 for money, and 861 + for the account. The New Threes and Reduced An nuities are 85+ ; Exchequer Bills, 8 dis. ; and India 5 per Cents. 103/- Foreign Stocks are generally flat. Mexican have declined k, to 14 4 ; Spanish Passive k, to 19 + ; and Brazilian Scrip 4 f to 41 31 ; Turkish 5 per Cents. are firm at 27+ k ; Greek, at 101 11+ ; and Spanish Certificates, at 15k ; United States 5-20 Bonds, 65 ; Erie Shares, 734 741 ; an d I llinois, 371 38+ . Business in the Railway Share Market has been very dull, and prices have slightly given way. North-Western and South-Eastern have each re ceded Si., Great Western 10s., and London, Chat ham, and Dover 15s. ; while Great Eastern have improved 55., and Metropolitan 10s. Foreign and Colonial markets dull, and without change of importance as regards prices. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are very quiet. Alliance are marked 22 221 ; Imperial Ottoman, 7 i 8 i; London and County, 654 66 ; London and Westminster, 92+ ; Credit Foncier and Mobilier of England are at 1:1 dis. ; International Financial, at 21 dis.; National Discount Company, 21 pre m . ; an d H udsons Bay Company, a t 17k 17. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. GCVERNUENT FUNDS. 0 Der Cent. Consols Do. A ccount, July 10. 85 86 / I 1 3 per Cent. R e d uced New 3 p er Cent B5l. New 21 per Cant. Jan. 1894 Do. 5 Cent- Jan. 1873 A nnuitie per s, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 Do. for 30 yrs, aspire sth April, 1885 — Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 — Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 per C en t March. Do. £5OO Do £lOO and £2OO - 8 dis ___ Bank of England Stock, S per Cent Do Account - INDIAN GovEnrimEwr Si3c Indian Stock, 10 - 4 per Cent., p A ulu ri T l l2 lB -.8.74..• Do. Account i Do. 5 per C ent. J u l y, 18 70 - - Do- 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 Do. Certificates Do. Eufaced Paper 4 per Cent Do. 5 per C ent., J an. 1872 . _Do. 54 Per Cent., May 1879 - Do. Do. Deb., 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 - Bonds, £l,OOO - - Pm Do- under £l,OOO FOREIGN FUNDS-ONE O'CLOCK, Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent., £l5 pd - pin Austrian Bonds, o per Cent, 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent - Do. 41 per Cent., 1 852-58-60 - Do. 1863 • Do. 1865 Do • Do A ccount - 701 Buenos A.yr. £lOO Bonds - Do. Scrip, £55 pai 3.1 died es 6 per Cent • Do - £ lOO Bond s - Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) - Chilien 6 per C ent - o. D 44 per Cent _ Do. 6 Col per Cent - Cubs 6 D o Scrip, £5O p a i d __ ombia per n 6 Cen iaer t Cent Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 _ Danubian Principalities Do. Account ........ .... - r4quador New C onsolidated, 1 per Cent - _ DDo., Provisional Land Warrant IsgyEo Deferred 12 tian 7 per Cent - Do-, Second Issue - £lOO Bonds .. :*. - Do, Do. 1.864 £lOO Bonds - pcGovernment Railway Debentures 77 8 . 4 60 paid ........ . .... . ........ . .......... - did Greek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons - i c ° : teccent ............................ . - GuO.i; pixels atemala per 18.5 e .............. . - Doltalian . per Cent 86"...... ••"'" ~,,B°Account ......... ................ . ........... . . 514 . Nteren:mana Rai1Zy".................. maxi D O . can. 3 Per Cent - D. Account Do 1864 .. „, ...... .. ........... .; - Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French ... . ........ Alontevidean 6 .per Cent, £3O paid Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent Do Land Wasrants (Hectares) - - New Granada . . - _ _ - „ Lio 2 per uent reruvian 5 per Cent, 1865 . ... - .13°. Account ... .. .. . Do Do 3 per Cent. (leribarren) - D 044 per Cent., 1862 - Account ............ . .. - Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 ... .:. . . - DoDo 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, - . Account ............. : Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St DDo 4.1 t per Cent. 1850 - Dooll per Cent., 1860 .................. Do 3 per Cent. 1859 Dos par Cent 1862 ........................ 804 14 5 . per Cent. 1861 ................ . - Do,Sardinian 5 per Cent SpaniAccount .. ............................... - Dosh 3 pe r Cent ........................... DAccount . . - New Deferred ........................... - DoAccount ................................. DoPassive ................................... Accaunt ................................ 194 Brbouish Cert. of Coup not •funded - Do Account ......... 16.1. 15 Swedish 4 per Cent .. : ............................ 4 D 0.14 per Cent. 1864- .............. . ..... - Turkish 6 per Cent. 1851 .......................... Do Account ....... . ................................. 80 ....... Do 6 per Cent. 1858 ....................... - Do. Account ................................... 54 3 Do £lOO Bonds ............................. Do 6 per Cent. 1862 ........................ Do Account .................................... 50 ' Do £lOO Bonds ....................... Do 6 per C en t., 1863 ...... .... ....... .......... - ...• Do 5 p er C en t ., 1865, Pala up ticrlp.... Do Account Do. 4 p er C ent. Guaranteed . : Venezuela 3 per Cent. Ditto account Do 6 per Cent., 1862 - Do. Account Do. 6 per Cent, 1864 - Dividends on the above payable in London. A.ustrian, 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins - Dutch_ Belgi, 44 per cent., Ex. 25f. _ ii per Glut., Ex. 12 Gull _ French Rantes 3 per Cent. Italian 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f. TWO O'_ CLOCKConsols f or money ............... - Do. A ccoun 86it ..., ........ ..• - pm SHARE 'his Day, ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Share, Railways. I Paid) Closing I Business .Prion. done. Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cambrian.. . ..... . Cork and Bandon Cornwall Dublin & Belfast June Dun„Perth, & Ab.Junc E.London, scrip Certi Do. Glasgow & S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. s tk. Do. E. Angl. st. No. 2 Great North of Scotland Great Northern D ). A stock . • Do. B stock 89 91 25 127 35 45 13 15 4 6 87 70 70 72 112 114 32} 5 6 12)i 121 130 !33 Do. New, is. at 25 pus. Gt S, and W. of Irelandl Gt. Western -Original Do. S. Val. Rail gua. Do. South Wales .... G 1 52 Do. W. Mid.— Oxford I'o. Newport 1)0. Hereford 34 35 Lancashire, Yorkshire Landon and Blackwall Lon., Brigh.,& S Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Do. Metrop. Ex. A , Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western Man., Slid., & Lincoln Metropolitan Do. New Do. Extension 121 124 Metropolitan District, __ Po. _ _ do. Do. and St. John'sW'd Xlidiand Do. £9 Share Do, Birmin.. Derb) aid Kent . 'North British Do. Ed., Pth., & Dun Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do. G.ti •E purchane Do. Leeds Do. York Do. Carlisle ..... Do. Stock. & Darling. Do. do. 1860-01 North London Do. do. 1861 Do. do. 1865 North Staffordshire N. & S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot. N. E , Aber. stock uo. Scot, Mid. stook Shropshire Union South Devon 'oath Estern itaines, Wok., 4t Wok TafT Vale Do. C Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny Waterloo & Whitelia West Cornwall BRITISII FOSS. Atlantic & S t. Lawrence Rom.,Baroda, Cen.ln. gu. 5 percent... Do. 1' shares Buffalo & Lake Huron Do. Preference Buff.,Brant, & Goderich 6 p.c. 1872-3- Calcutta & J. E., lirn :ave Town & Dock, gu Oemerara, 7 p.c. per. p• East. Ilen. al, gu., 5 do East Ibdian ' gu. 5 p.c. Do. J Extension ; rand Trunk of Canada Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds 1 charge 6 p.c Do. Ist Pref. Bonds Do. do deferred De. 2d Pr, t. Bonds Du. do. deterred Do. 3d ?ref. stock.. Do. do. deferred .. Do. 4th Pref. stook . Do. do. deterred ... Cit. India Pen. gua. sp.c. 'o. Gua. 5 per cent Do. New gua. 5 p. c 3 t. Sou? hot India gua. 5 per cent D.:. 41 per cent.... Do 3reat W4.a. of Canada.. Do. New .. Do. 6 p. e. lids. pay. 1873 51 do. pay. 1877-8.. Indian Branch, limited 51adras, gua. 5 p.o Do. 42 do Do. 4; do Do. Fifth Extension tfelb. Cor. 6 p. c. Bnds. Mel. & Hudson's Bay.. N.l4l.C'cla,6pclstpf.bs Scinde Do. Delhi Do. do / Do. runiaub.... Do. Indus St.Flot COLONIAL GO VEIL British Columbia, 6 per' cent., Dec. 31,1572 Can.Gov.o p.c.Ja.& July 1877-84 Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Au 4 Da. 5 p. c. Mar. & Sept Do. 5 p. c. Jan. & July Do. 5 p. c. Inscribed ak Cape G.Hope, 6 P.C. 1873 Do.Apl. &Oct , 1890-1900 Do. do; 1880-90 Do. Jan.&July, 1690-9 i Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and 15 Oct., 1900 Ceylon, Nov. 1868,6 p. Do. 1878, do Mauritius, ( p. o, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1878 Do. 1882, Mayls, Nov. lb Do. 185, Feb. & Aug• • Natal f;ov. 6 per cent N. B.Gov. 6 p.c.Ja.&J ul) N. S. W. Gov. 5 p v., 186 e Do. 5 p.c. 18;1 to 187 e Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1892 New Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 5 per cent.... N'ove Sc )tia Gov. 6 p. c sterling, 1 575. Queensland Gov. 6 p. c. 8. Aus.Gov. 6 p,c 18684, Do. 1878 & upwards Vio,Gov. 6 p.c. Ja .& July Do. do, it pril & Oct.. BRITIS Cam. Consol. Cold, lim Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated Devon G. Cons. (Tavist Drake wal ls East Bassett (Illogan) East Caradon East Cam Brea Nast Grenville East Gunnislake .. East Loved E. WI Russell (Tavistk Gam.& StAubyn(G wen. Great L ocey, limited Great South Toigus Great Wheal Busy G. Wheal Vorlst •u Grenville lierod's Foot ..., Ilingston Downs Margaret (ljny Lelant Marke Valley l awyndy iron Ore, 11w New Beton North Roskear N.Wh'l Bassett (Illo,g - an North Wheal Crotty Prosper United Providence Uny Lelant S. Caradon (St. Cleer) South Condurrow S.Wheal Fran. tillogan Stray Park Tin Croft Vigra and Clogan, lint West Bassett (Mogan W. Caradon (Ltskeardl West Chirerton West Beton Wheal Bassett !Mogan Wheal Buller (Redruth Wheal Mary Ann (Men Wheal Setou Wheal Trelawney (Ids 90 02 23 25 116 )17 91 12i 5)1 6E4 129 i f3O 2 21 pl I 1 Y 83 85 1241 124; 1/. 93 05 56 58 26 108 110 69 71 106 107 35 35 9 11 120 122 1 2p 1 2p 74 76 108 112 148 152 65 67 45 48 69 20 7i 9 L 4 1:5 2 3 ) 100 103 53 55 , ESSIONS 52 54 102 103 Id #p 4 44 8 9 76 80 58 GO 100 102 100 102 1(2 103 18 20 85 87 58 62 55 60 50 55 48 52 40 t 5 37 41 24 26 23 25 107 100 09 101 91 93 14 15 5 3 / 4 5 4 91 23 83 85 Old 101 102 9t 03 86 88 8 8' 98 100 93 99 1 97 99 'T SEGUE. 96 OS 95 97 94 95 78 80 78 80 99 101 102 ICI 102 101 102 104 88 8/ KO 102 105 1 7 102 104 103 105 101 tO3 50.1 500 09 100 91 94 92 95 90 95 85 88 98 95 74 76 96 99 104 106 ITILS, IC2'lOl Ii M. 2.1.0 294 2.11.fi 2.147.0 8.3.0 3.0.0 10.8.0 all 0.14.6 14.9.6 11 3.2.0 18.18.9 35.15.6 d 7 6 8 441 460 I z 11 7 8 1 2} 21 YEINFEREN 61 7, 31‘ 20 21 I 14 18 20 lf 2 37 %I) 38 31 4 8 3f 41 11c1 36 45 2 4 I 1 27 2 0 350 375 If • 2 176 g 26 11 3 5 1 2 6 7 671 721 125 135 80 85 121 171 3 170 18) 11 13 AC bHAJUGS. Great Northern, 5 per cent., 111 FOREIGN MINES. Capul . Silver, St. John del Rey, lim., 60 BANES. Alliance, Urn.. 22a 2 Anglo Egyptian, lim., 91 City, 174 Consolidated Bank, Hindustan, China, and Japan, ilm., Imperial Ottoman, si 7k Land Mortgage Bank of India, lim., London Bank of Mexico and S. America, lim., 9 London and River Plate, Ditto, issued at 1j pm., 12 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 20# London and County, 65) 6 Standard of British South Africa, 13 London and Westminster, 921 Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, Um., Oriental Bank Corporation, 42 South Australia, 27 6/ Union of London, 41k 4 BLISCELLAREOUB. Anglo-American Telegraph, 91 Atlantic Telegraph, 8 per cent. gua., 3j Australian Agricultural, lb Credit Foncler and Hobilier of England, 3 /I Discount Corporation, 7 Egyptian Com. and Trading, lim.. leore-street Warehouse, lim., Ili Gen. Credit and Finance of London, lim.. 4 Hudson's Bay, 17 16k International Financial Society, lim., 3 2} London Financial Association, lim., 6} ttional Discount C ompany, 121 Ditto, new, issued at 5 prem., of which 31 Is to pay, 6 SEVENTEENTH TRANSLATION OF GOETHE'S " FAUST" INTO ENGLIS,II.-Mr. Bayard Taylor, the author of the recently-published "Story of Kennett," is said to be busy upon an English metrical version of the "Faust" of Goethe. A conjecture has been made that Mr. Taylor is only the seventeenth English translator—at least, trans lator into English verse—who has accepted the task. An American writer says, it is to be "presumed that he is aiming to do it better than any of his predecessors, or else he thinks he has discovered a new 'stand-point,' as his German friends are fond of calling any opportune means by which they can with decent pretext meddle with an old subject. The novel scheme in Mr. Taylor's case seems to be the preservation of the ever-changing rhythm and variable rhyme of the original." What funny customs we establish. If you ask your friend for a postage stamp he accepts three cants as a matter of course; but if you ask him for a cigar he would regard it as an insult if you tendered ten or twenty cents in payment. We learn from the Home Journal that, among the newspapers whose circulation is forbidden in Prussia, are —the Press, and the New Free Press of Vienna, the Re form of Hamburg, the North German Gazette of Hanover, the Bund of Berne, the States Gazette of New York, the ll§ tin artn of London, and ZOlokol of Genera. Juno. 31} 4 501 50 9 174 21 20j 1 , 6} 63- 16 92 130} 1 30i ES 2i St 100 all 100 100 100 6.13.4 100 100 100 all 70 P 107 TEE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 2, 1866. MARKETS.---This Day. MARK-LANE. Tho trade for wheat in the country markets held on Saturday was very quiet. The amount of business trans acted was small, yet very little change took place in prices from the previous week. Spring corn of all descriptions moved off slowly, at about late rates. Tho flour trade was quiet, on former terms. On the Continent, the inquiry for wheat and flour for export has increased, and there is also a steady inquiry for spring corn. At New York the business doing in wheat and flour for export is small. A small supply of home-grown produce was received up to our market last week. The imports from abroad con sisted of 29,013 quarters of wheat, 2,923 barley, 23,144 oats, 393 beans, 2,530 linseed, 4,390 rape and oilseeds, 40 sundry seeds, and 1,717 sacks of flour. The amount of business transacted in all descriptions. of seed was very moderate. In prices very few changes took place. Cakes wero in but moderate request at last Mon day's currency. The trade for wheat in the country markets held on Saturday was very quiet. The amount of business trans acted was small, but very little change took place in prices from the previous week. Spring corn of all descriptions moved off slowly, at about late rates. The flour trade was quiet on former terms. On tho Continent, the inquiry for wheat and flour for export has increased, and there is a steady inquiry for spring corn. At Now York, the business doing in wheat and flour for export is small. A small supply of home-grown produce was re ceived up to our market last week. The imports for abroad consisted of 29,046 quarters of wheat, 2,926 barley, 23,144 oats, 396 beans, 2,560 linseed, 4,690 rape and oil seeds, 44 sundry seeds, and 1,717 seeds of flour. Fresh up to our market to-day the arrivals of home grown wheat were very moderate. There was a limited number of buyers in attendance, and there was much less activity in the trade both for red and white qualities. The transactions were mostly confined to retail parcels, at about the late advance in prices ; but to have concluded sales of any magnitude factors would have had to submit to a reduc tion in prices. The market was moderately supplied with foreign wheat. The trado was very quiet, and as regards se condary and inferior descriptions of wheat prices had a drooping tendency. Floating cargoes of grain were in fair dernand, at late rates. The supply of English barley on sale was small ; of foreign, but moderate. The trade, on the whole, was steady, at full prices. Malt sold slowly, at last Monday's currency. Oats were in but moderate supply. The trade was quiet, but good and fine samples were steady in prices. Beans steadily supported late rates. The market was but moderately supplied. Peas moved off slowly, but at full prices. The show o: samples was very moderate. _ _ The flour trade was steady. Prices wore without change rora Monday last. CURRENCY PER IMP. MEASURE.. Wheat—Essex and Kent, red, new, per qr. 42s to 50s Do., old s2s 60s Do., white, old 6os 62s Do., new Norfolk and Lincoln, red, old s —s Do., new - s Talavera Rye— Barley—Grinding Malting 36s 43s Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk Brown Kingstown and Ware Chevalier 66s 67s Oats—Yorkshire and Lincolnsh., Feeding 22s 28s Potato Youghal and Cork, black 22s 27s Cork, white 248 29s Scotch, Feeding 22s 27s Beans—Tick Pigeons ... 46s 50s Peas—Grey, ~ 3ss 37s Maple .._ Wliite Boilers Flour—Town-made, per 2801 b Suffolk 34s Stockton and Norfolk American, per barrel 2Bs French, per sack 34s METROPOLITANCA.TTLE. There was a fair show of stock here to-day from Hol land, under the new Order in Council. The total supply was rather extensive, and in fair average condition. Sales progressed slowly, at late rates. We wore very moderately supplied with home-fed beasts; their quality, however, by no means first-rate. The re ceipts from Ireland and Scotland were limited. Although the demand for all breeds of beasts was very inactive, last week's quotations were well supported. The general top figure was 5s 8d; but a few very superior Scots and crosses realised 5s 10d per 81b. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire we received 1,200 Scots and crosses ; from other parts of Eng land, including Lincolnshire, 800 various breeds ; from Scotland, 32 Scots and crosses ; and from Ireland, 53 oxen &c. Tho show of sheep was seasonably extensive and in good condition. Sales progressed slowly ; nevertheless, the prices current on this day se'nnight were maintained. The best Downs and half-breds sold at 5s 10d to Gs per 81b. Lambs, the supply of which was moderate, was inactive, at late rates, viz., from Gs 8d to 8s per 81b. The supply of calves was extensive, and the veal trade was heavy, at depressed currencies. The top Sgure was 3s Gd per 81b. The demand for pigs was heavy, at last week's prices, viz, 4s to 5s per 81b. Per 81b to sink the offal. ds d Crse. & inf. beasts... 3 10 4 2 Second quality do ..4 4 4 10 Prime large oxen ..5 0 5 4 Prime Scuts, &c.... 5 6 5 8 Crse. and int. sheep. 3 8 4 2 Second quality do ..4 4 5 0 d a d Pme cra-wool sheep 5 2 5 S Prime S'thdown C 0.5 0 6 0 Large coarse calves. 4 8 5 4 Prime small d0......5 6 510 Large hogs ...4 0 4 6 Small porkers 1 8 5 0 Lamb....6s 8d to 83 Od. Suckling calves, 20s to 233 ; and quarter-old store pigs, 308 to 33s each. _ _ _ Head of stock on sale. Total supply. Foreign supply. Beasts 3.620 I Beasts ....... 2.110 Cows lO5 Cows. Sheep and lambs 24,73u Sheep and 1 .mbs Calves 650 oa.ves 558 _ _ Figs :130 Pigs B5 The total imports of foreign stock into London, last week, amounted to 15,608 head. In the corresponding week in 1865, we received 20,395 ; in 18'64, 12,154 ; in 1863, 7,323 ; in 1862, 9,810 ; in 1861, 9,592 ; and in 1860, 11,806. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEEK. Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. - Antwerp lOl ... 2206 410 232 27 Boulogne 342 ... 990 69 ... Bremen lll ... 277 9 Gothenburg 192 ... 133 Cadiz — Calais.. — Dunkirk ........ 45 ... Caen B2 ... Christiana Dieppe. Hamburg 741 ... 6397 12 470 Stettin — ••• Ostend 75 Vigo 9B .. Rotterdam ... 44 ... - ••• ..• ..• 90 - 45 ... 9 50 ... ... 19 ... 8 ... 15 ... 8 ... - - ••• - ••• - ••• - 143 ... - ... 222 ... 5 - ••• - ... - ... - .., 209 Total 2,236 ...10,915 481 972 ... 904 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs 1865 1864 l9Ol ... 7506 1173 ... 772 802 1863: 958 ... 3639 ... 1227 ... 1082 ... 417 A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in the Great Metropolitan Cattle Market on Monday, July 3, 1865, and this day, Monday, July 2, 1866., Per 81bs. to sink the offal. July 3, .1865. July 2, 1866. Coarse and inferior beasts Second quality do. . Prime large oxen Prime Scots, &c. Coarse and inferior sheep Second quality do. Prime coarse-woolled do. Prime Southdown do Lambs ad sd 3 6 to 3 10 4 4 4 4 4 6 4 8 4 10 5 0 4 4 4' 6 4 8 5 2 5 6 5 8 5 10 6 0 6 0 7 4 d s d. 3 10 to 4 2 4 4 410 50 5 4 56 5 8 38 4 2 44 5 0 52 5 8 5 10 6 0 68 8 0 Large coarse calves 4 2 4 a 4 8 5 4 Prime small do. Large hogs Neat small porkers 4 2 4 8 4 8 5 0 Beasts 5,480 3,620 Sheep and lambs 34,200 24730 Calves Pigs SUPPLIES ON SALE, July 4, 1864.—Beasts, 4,730 — sheep and lambs, 27,640—calves, 410—pigs, 470. July 6, 1863—Beasts, s,o6o—sheep and lambs, 28,730 —calves, 383—pigs, 230. The arrivals of new potatoes are on the increase. There is a fair demand for most qualities, at from Bs. to 12s. per cwt. Last week's imports were 2,945 baskets from Dunkirk ; 19,108 Rotterdam ; 405 Antwerp ; 1,195 boxes from Lis bon ; and about 100 boxes, &c., from sundry quarters. Kent and Essex regents Scotch do. Yorkshire do Bos to 120 s „ „ Flukes 150 s to 180 s „ Rocks sos to 90s „ Spanish new Jersey and other kinds lls to 15s „ Prorogation igarian Diet, PEsTrr, June 26. The Royal rescript proroguing the Hungarian Diet to an indefinite period has just appeared. Its most important passages are the following :-- " Dear and Faithful Subjects,—ln convoking at the close of last year around our throne the faith ful Estates and representatives of our kingdom of Hungary to co-operate in the work of legislation, we were inspired by the hope that the benefits of peace we then enjoyed would be long preserved to all the peoples of our monarchy. To our profound regret this hope has not been realised. " The Estates and representatives met at the Diet are sufficiently acquainted with the march of the events whose final development has forced us to defend by every legitimate means the integrity and power of the territory of our ancestors, and to repel an unjust attack with armed hand. " We experienced heartfelt joy at having been a witness of the enthusiastic reception given by th e faithful people of our kingdom of Hungary to our intention of settling pending questions, as also at having seen the earnestgoodwill with which the Diet anticipated our efforts to come to an arrangement of that portion of common affairs by which it is affected. " It is with not less satisfaction that we have ob served the activity displayed by the Diet, which, notwithstanding the storms that accumulated at the extremities of the empire, did not allow itself to be disturbed in its labours by the warlike armaments which impose fresh sacrifices upon the country. " But we are unable to disguise the mournful conviction that the solution of the question depends upon the extreme tranquillity of the public mind— that most sublime benefit of peace ; while, upon the other hand, the defence of the empire, whose exist ence is menaced, must above all form the object of our endeavours. " These events, independent of our will, and which we have attempted to prevent by every means compatible with honour, place us under the neces sity of interrupting the debates, which promised so fairly, and of proroguing the Diet. While, there fore, giving the representatives of our Estates and the faithful population of our kingdom the assur ance of our grace and Royal favour, we think fit to decree the prorogation of the present Estates. " FRANCIS JOSEPH." Liverpool Cotton Market—(This Day. Market opens quiet. Sales probably 8,000 bales, NEW DIGNITIES.—The services of Sir Henry Storks in connexion with the Jamaica inquiry are about to be recognised by his being made a member of the Privy Council. Mr. Erskine May, whose useful services at the table of the House of Commons all members of Parliament will appreciate, is to be given the second grade—Knight Commander—of the Bath. Tho Companionship of the Bath is about to be bestowed on Mr. James Booth, lately one cf the Secretaries of the Board of Trade. It is under stood that Sir James Matheson, M.P., is likely to be the new Lord-Lieutenant of Ross-shire, in succession to the late Colonel Baillie. Mr. D. D. Keane, Q.C., has been ap pointed Recorder of Bedford, in succession to Mr. A. K. Stephenson, whose appointment to the Assistant-Solicitor ship of the Treasury we notified in our last impression. Sunday Gazette. We understand that the American monitor Mian tonomah will, after a short stay at Cherbourg, ar rive in the Thames. That she should come to the neigh bourhood of London was not contemplated when she left America. This deviation from the route originally pro posed for her is in consequence of Mr. Fox, the Secretary of the United States' Navy, under whose control the Mian tonomah has come to Europe, having been assured that many were desirous of seeing her whose engagements in London render it impossible for them to visit her at Spit head. We have great pleasure in drawing attention to Mr. Fox's friendly and considerate act. The MECHANICS' STRIKE AT HUDDERSFIELD.— Another attempt, but an unsuccessful oue, has been made to bring to a close the strike of mechanics at Hud dersfield. A deputation of the workmen had an interview with the employers at the White Swan Inn, on Friday night, in consequence of an intimation they had had that there might be an amicable arrangement effected, and on the part of the mon an offer was made to resume work for a present rise of is. a week, and another rise of a similar amount in a month—the time being subsequently extended to two months. The offer was declined, and as the masters were not prepared to go beyond their former offer of grant ing the rise asked for, 2s. a week, in four months, the strike still continues. Assistance is going to be rendered to the mechanics by members of other trades. THE FORTHCOMING CONGRESS OF THE ARCHEO LOGICAL INSTITUTE.—The arrangements have now progressed almost to completion. On Tuesday, July 17th, the opening meeting will be held, at 12 o'clock, in the Guildhall, when an address will be presented to the President of the Meeting, and afterwards members and their friends will visit two or three of the most interesting City churches. On Wednes day, after the adjournment of the sections, two short excursions will be arranged to the neighbour hood of London. On Thursday, Westminster Abbey will be examined, and lectures will bo given on the history of the Abbey, by the Very Rev. Dean Stanley ; and on the structure, by Mr. Gilbert Scott. On Friday, after the meet ing of Sections, the Tower of London will be visited, under the guidance of Mr. Hepworth Dixon, who will read a paper on the history of this great national monument. The Royal Institute of British Architects, in the evening, invite the In stitute to a conversazione. On Saturday, the excursion will be made to Windsor and to Eton, where the Rev. Prof. Willis will discourse on the architectural features of the College. On Monday, after the sections, parts of London, architecturally interesting, will be visited. On Tuesday, after the sections, members will go to Hampton Court, where Mr. Scharf will describe the pictures. On Wednes day, the general concluding meeting will be held in the Guildhall. Some interesting discoveries respecting Windsor have been made of late years, both in the Re cord Office, by Mr. Burtt, and at Windsor itself, and these will, of course, be made available on the occasion of the visit.—Athenleum. The Palestine Exploration Fund, adds the same journal, will hold a meeting on the day suc ceeding the termination of the Congress of the Archa3olo gical Institute, when a paper will be read in which tho objects of the fund, the results of its preliminary labours, and the plans of its future operations, will bo discussed, The meeting will be under the same auspices as those of the Institute. ANECDOTE OF HER MAJESTY.—Our Kirriemuir correspondent writes—Among the many traits of kindness and condescension in her Majesty's character the following is not unworthy of a place. One day last week, while taking a drive in her carriage, she noticed a man on the road with a pretty large bundle, apparently very much fatigued. With her usual condescension she entered into conversation with him ; by inquiring where he came from, and whither he was going ; in answer to which he told her that he had come from Cromarty, and was on his way to Dundee, intending to cross the Capel, as being the nearest road. Her Majesty then remarked that, as he appeared to be much fatigued, and his bundle was apparently heavy, if he would put it in the carriage, perhaps her coachman, who was also a Highlander, would take him up. The weary wanderer was thus taken a few miles on his way, and, as was ex pected, was greatly affected by the considerate kindness and condescension shown him by her Majesty.—Dundee Advertiser. • • • 4. ST. CLEMENT'S AT ROME.--This upper church is attached to a convent of Irish Dominicans, to whose prior, the Rev. Father Joseph Mullooly, the discovery of the remains underground was originally due. He had long come to the conclusion that the building in which he and his brethren sung their offices was not even a restoration of the original Basilica, but that it was entirely of com paratively modern date. Further consideration induced him to believe that the present conventional church had been built upon the exact site of the ancient one, and, by reason of the different level of ancient and modern Rome (which was shown so evidently by the Forum Romanum) above it. Was it not possible, then, that the original structure might still be in existence ? The conviction that such was the case, and further, that even St Clement's house itself might perhaps be discovered, grew upon him, and in 1857 he was enabled to begin his explorations. He opened a passage in a small chamber leading out of the sacristy, on what would be the south side of th e conven- tual church, ecclesiogically speaking, and after clearing away rubbish to the depth of about 15ft., he came upon some columns which had evidently helped to support the roof of the ancient building. On a wall near these shafts some traces of frescoes were discovered, amply sufficient to prove that the prior's conjecture had been well grounded, and that the true Constantin basilica, abandoned and for gotten for nearly a thousand years, had at length been found.— The Gentleman's Magazine. REVIVAL OF OLD COACHING TIMES.--Since four horse stage-coaches were knocked off the roads by the aduptinn of steam locomotion and railway transit, the old coaching times have sunk into oblivion, and this once popu lar equipage become a rara avis until the new coach now plying between London and Brighton wag put on the road, and since which the initativo has been taken, and other four-horse coaches will commence this week to run from the metropolis to Hastings, Worthing, and other seaside localities on the south coast, and continue on the road dur ing the summer. The demand for toll on four-horsed coaches running this route was formerly 17s. 6d., but is now remitted by the abolition of turnpikes. Victor Hugo, it is rumoured, has lost £15,000 by the failure of a London bank. Metropolitan and Provincial Working Classes Exhibition. Several gentlemen who were connected with the late Islington Working Men's Exhibition have formed them selves into a committee to do something higher and better than that which has been done in the way of exhibitions. This time the working * men of the provinces are invited to assist their metropolitan brethren in the good work. That they may do so with a will several influential gentlemen have offered special prizes to be computed for by the exhibitors. For the.most useful invention a prize of £l5 is offered by the directors of the Agricultural Hall Company, and £lO for the best painting in oil. C. Comfort, Esq., gives £d for the second best bil painting. Other prizes, but less in value, are offered for designs in jewellery, working models of steam engines, mills, workmen's dwellings, &c. Also for the best specimens of Sheffield cutlery, lady's boots, the entire work of the exhibitor. Inlaying inwood wood carving, cabinet workond ornamental typography all come in for special recognition and prizes. In addition to the prizes we have enumerated the Exhibition Silver, Medal, designed byWyon, will be awarded to the exhibitors of the best specimens of household . furniture, hammered iron -work, watch-case engraving, engraving on glass, Coventry ribbons, design for paper hangings, embossing in metal or electro plate, stained glass, artificial flowers, from nature, working model of a steam vessel, statuette, in plaster, or other material. This system will induce those who intend to exhibit to put forth all their energies, and thus we may expect to see really ornamental as well as useful works as the results of this projected exhibition. The programme of arrangements is very comprehensive, including the contributions of skilled workmanship, or amateur productions, of London the provinces, Scotland, Ireland, and the Colonies. Small workshops, with and without steam power, will be fitted up round the building for those who may desire to manu facture and sell articles during the exhibition. There will be a flower, fruit, and vegetable show, in connection with the various existing Amateur Horticultural Societies in the metropolis. A temporary garden to afford an opportunity for the proper exhibition of terra-cotta borders, rustic seats, &c., whilst the musical entertainments will be chiefly confined to societies supported by the working classes. Arrangements having been made with the Tonic Sol-fa Association to organise six concerts of 1,000 voices each. An emigrant ship cabin, full size, will also be constructed and fitted with every requisite for a voyage to new Zealand, showing the accommodation afforded to emigrants. There is merely an outline of what is intended to be carried out. From our knowledge of Mr. Watts, the secre tary, and his associates, we are certain nothing will be left undone by them to make this exhibition worthy of the projectors and those who exhibit. We understand the ex hibition will be opened on the 3d of September next, and all applications for space must be sent to the secretary, Mr. Watts, 7, Birchmoro-terrace, on or before June, the 30th. We had almost forgotten to mention that a " life boat," built from contributions by working men, will be one of the objects of interest of the forthcoming exhibition. We trust the success of this venture will be commensurate with the spirit and energy which characterise the chiefs in the movement.—Licensed Victualler's Review. The directors of Charles Laffitte and Co. Limited), wish it to be stated that the petition of Sir John Gray, M.P., to wind up the company by the Court of Chancery has been dismissed by the Master of the Rolls. THE PALMERSTON AND RUSSELL MINISTRY has held office for seven long years, and has had of course numerous changes within that interval. There have been three Chancellors, Lord Campbell, Lord Westbury, and Lord Cranworth ; four secretaries of war, Lord Herbert, Sir G. Lewis, Lord do Grey, and Lord Hartington ; two foreign secretaries, Earl Russell and Lord Clarendon ; two home secretaries, Sir George Lewis and Sir George Grey; two colonial secretaries, the Duke of Newcastle and Mr. Cardwell ; two secretaries for India, Sir Charles Wood and Lord de Grey ; four chancellors for the Duchy of Lancaster, Sir G. Grey, Mr. Cardwell, Lord Clarendon, and Mr. Goschen, and two post-master generals, Lord Elgin and Lord Stanley. Ireland has had two lords-lieutenant and three secretaries, viz., Mr. Card well, Sir R. Peel, and Mr. Chichester Fortescue. And finally, there have been two Premiers, Lord Palmerston and Earl Russell. THE ITALIAN WAR OF 1859 cost France 345 millions, Austria 730 millions, Italy 410 millions. Thus in two months, 1,458 millions were swallowed up. THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL IN LONDON.— The Queen of Spain has sent £lOO towards the erection of the Roman Catholic Cathedral in memory of Cardinal Wise man. The total amount subscribed is still under £19,000. Universe. THE COPYRIGHTS OF MOORE'S IRISH NATIONAL AND SACRED MELODIES, including the symphonies and ac companiments of Sir John Stevenson and Sir H. Bishop (the latter excellent for their fancy and delicacy), were the other day sold by Messrs. Puttiek and Simpson. In addition to Mr. John Ennis, whose advance ment to the dignity of a baronet we announced last week, the following gentlemen are likely to have the same honours conferred upon them Dudley CoUtts Mar j oribanks, M.P., for Berwick-upon- T weed ; Mr. Pryso Loveden, a relative of the late member for Cardigan of the same name ; and Mr. Tempest and Mr. Ingilby, who repre sented old county families, the former in Yorkshire and the latter in Lincolnshire. MADAME JENNY GOLDSCHMIDT has returned to England, and will sing at an orchestral concert, given by Mr. A. S. Sullivan, on an early day next month. PIUS IX.'S PONTIFICATE.—It is said that the Pope has commissioned Father Ballerini, a Jesuit, and one of the editors of the Civitta Cattolica, to write the history of his Pontificate. He has sent him some unpublished do cuments of great importance. The Times correspondent, Mr. W. H. Russell, started very recently for the headquarters of Field Marshal Benedek's army. Two ROMAN CATHOLIC PEERS have been recently called to the House of Lords, viz.—Lord Campden to the Earldom of Gainsborough, by the death of his father, and the Earl of Dunravon, created a peer by the title of Baron Kerry, of Kerry, in the county of Limerick. THE LAST OF THE COTTON FAMINE.—A recent report presented to Mr. Villiers by Mr. Rawlinson, C. 8., Government engineer, states that the Public Works-office in Manchester will be broken up this year, when Mr. R. Arthur Arnold, the resident Government inspector, will leave the district. DEATH OF GEORGE LILLIE CRAIK.—The death was announced yesterday of George Lillie Craik, LL.D., the distinguished Professor of History and English Literature in Queen's College, Belfast. He was born in Fife in 1799, and was the son of a schoolmaster. He never officiated in the Presbyterian communion, for the ministry of which he was educated, and in 1812 came to London where he was employed by Mr. Charles Ktiight and the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Ho was favourably known by the " Pursuit of Knowledge under Difficulties," written for the Libra]," of Entertaining Know ledge; then followed the "Pictorial History of England," " Sketches of Literature and Learning in England, from the Norman Conquest to the Accession of Elizabeth," "History of British Commerce," "Spenser and his Poetry," "Outlines of the History of the English Language," "The English of Shakspeare," and " The Romance of the Peer age." He had been professor in Queen's College, Belfast, since 1849. On the 20th inst. Dr. W. H. Russell, the Times' correspondent, started for the head-quarters of Field- Marshal Benedek's army. Dr. Russell has a special im munity from the hanging with which the genial Austrian Commander-in-Chief is said to have threatened all news paper correspondents.—Morning Star, Monday, June 25. THE NEW GOVERNOR OF JAMAICA.—Sir John Peter Grant, who is named as the now Governor of Jamaica, was born in 1807, and was educated at Eton and at the old East India College at Haileybury. Having pro ceeded to India in connection with the Company's service, he became Secretary to the Government of Bengal, and afterwards Lieutenant-Governor of that province. Ho was created K.C.B. in 1862. He is married to a daughter of Mr. Trevor Chicheley Plowden.—Morning Star, June 23. AMERICAN BEAUTY.--A writer in a London journal, in giving an account of the gay scenes on the Bois, in Paris, on a bright day last month, says :—" I could not help remarking the prevalence of American beauty among the frequenters of the drive. Miss Beckwith, Miss Torrence, and a host of other stars from the West,. .de cidedly carried the day, and completely outshone thg,r French rivals." but this we do know, that language containingou's rich, who LIFE.—We know not the author of the following,m ore truth never was uttered by man :—"Nature_kour we are not born a rn n . d f s o h od e , d w o i t l h l brought us all poor into the worltt andF gold. She_ who with fine clothes, nor with . receive us again quite naked our brought us into the workklewditishinolivue possessions and estates in itffheernenpereo.d umrcehsoaellanalfiikneci not know how to c ontain ground after death is enough for the grave. A little space h c ei l . ot b h o o s s o makes us all die without and ditious of the dead ? Open the sepul chres, the different con d.e v i ew the dbo s, move the ashes, and distin guish, the rich and the p . o h or o . utan y Nature d a . u •b if you can, the rich from the poor. Perhaps you will is know him by the magnificence of his tomb, which only shows that ho possessed more goods, or rather that he had lost more than the poor man has. I wonder that men do not put some feathers into their dying pillows. I wonder that people do not soften the mattresses on which they shall finally die, breathing difficulty away with their last breath, by thinking that they have made beds of soft ness for some of their oppressed, starving fellow creatures, to rest upon in life. I wonder that people who have money do not know the bliss, the joy, of using it while they live. Using it while they live, that is the test; not giving it away after death." " J OSH BILLINGS" is the nom de plume of Mr. Shaw, an auctioneer of Poughkeepsie, who has become popular as Comic writer and lecturer. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The supplies of meat on salo here, to-clay, aro limited. Generally speaking the trade is heavy, at our quo- ;ations. Per 81b by the carcase. s d a d v d s d Inferior beef 3 4 3 10 Inferior mutton.... 3 6 4 0 Middling do. 4 0 4 4 Middling mutton.. 4 2 5 4 Prime large do 4 8 4 s Prime do 5 0 5 lu Prime small d0....4 10 5 0 Large pork 4 4 5 0 Veal 4 0 4 6 Small pork. 4 8 5 2 Lamb, 5 8, Id to 7s 4d. BOROUGH HOP. The accounts from the plantations are favourable. The business doing in hops is very moderate, yet prices will be firm. Last week's imports were 7 bales from Rotterdam, 176 Antwerp, 25 Rotterdam, and 66 Boulogne. Mid and East Keats Bos to 190 s per cwt Weald of Kents Bos to 120 s per cwt Sussex Bos to 112 s per cwt 1864's Olds 2os to 50s per cwt BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. The season for old potatoes may now be considered °Ter. WOOL. Since the close of the public sales very little business has been done in the market for colonial wool. The few transactions have been at the late decline in prices. Eng lish wool has been in limited request, at late rates. The imports of wool into Loudon last week were 4,072 bales from Sydney, 1,661 Port Philip, 3,561 Melbourne ; and 7,500 bales from New Zealand. Current prices of English wool per lb. s d Fleeces —South Down hogets 1 41 Half-bred do 1 6 Kent fleeces South Down ewes and weThers 1 4 Leicester do Sorts—Clothing Combing s d 1 51 1 7 1 7 1 5 1 7 1 81 1 9 TALLOW. The tallow-trade is quiet to-day, at about late rates. P.Y.C. is quoted at 45s per cwt. on the spot. Town tal low, 445 net cash. Particulars. 1863. 1864. 1865. 1866. Stock this day 37,154 43,445 31,637 27,438 Price of Y.C. f 42s 6d to 40s 9d 41s 9d 45s Od to I—s Od —s Od —s Od Os Od Delivery last week B5B 979 1,356 928 Ditto from June 1 3,830 4,582 5,791 6,689 Arrival last week Ditto fa in June 1 3,600 3,006 4,945 5,802 Price of Town POLICE INTELLIGENCE.---This Day, MANS lON-HOUSE. Luke Farrell, a young man about 25, was charged with assaulting two women under the following circumstances. The prisoner is a working man, and it appears that his drinking propensities occasionally over-ride his discretion, and that ho has attained much notoriety in the east end of London by certain eccentric departures from the laws of sobriety. Mary Oliver, a married woman, said that she was drinking in a public-house when the prisoner came in, and having performed some antics before the bar, he immediatelystruck her a violent blow in the face, blacking her eye, and other wise injurying her. The witness held up her face to the worthy alderman (Alderman Finnis), and from its contused appearance it fully justified her statement. She remon strated with him, upon which ho resumed his attack upon her, and then proceeded to assault every female in the bar. The prisoner, in his defence, said that the statements of the different witnesses called to support the charge were quite untrue. So far from assaulting the women they had assaulted him, and they gave him a "regular stunner: , He was taking a drop of beer, and :one of them took the pint out of his hand and drained it, and then said, " What are you going to stand ?" He did not know what to say, but shook his bead in refusal, upon which the women assaulted him. The weight of evidence being against the prisoner, and his face being rather familiar to tho officers of the Court, the worthy magistrate sentenced him to 14 days' imprison.. ment. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. SERIOUS AND UNPROVOKED AssAurr.—Charles Markant, a cabinetmaker, was charged before Mr. Knox with the following violent assault on Michael Hay, a labourer, liv ing in Grafton-court, Marylebone. The complainant (who was compelled to walk with a stick) said—Last night, about half-past 11, I got off an omnibus at the corner of Tottenham-court-road, having my uncle and other members of my family with me, and while walking up the road the prisoner ran against my uncle. I asked him why he did so, and he went a short distance and then returned and knocked the pipe out of my mouth, and caught hold of me and swung me round, throwing me into the road, and then kicked me severely on the ankle, injuring me so much that 1 could not walk, and was obliged to be taken to the University Hospital in a cab. Mr. Knox—Had you given the prisoner any provocation ? The Complainant—Not the slightest. Mr. Knox—Was the prisoner drunk ? The Complainant—He was not quite sober. Mr. Knox— You wore attended to at the hospital ? The Complainant—Yes, sir. The Prisoner—lt was accidental. Thomas Boyce, 55 E—l saw the prisoner running up Tottenham-court-road, followed by a number of persons. I took the complainant to the hospital and the prisoner to the station. The constable handed the magistrate a certificate signed by Mr. Morrison, cne of the surgeons of the University Hospital, to the effect that the complainant's ancle wAs injured. The complainant —I have lost my work through it.. Mr. Knox—l think it a very cruel matter. A man is coming home peaceably with some members of his family, and a drunken man runs against one of them and then as saults the complainant and injures him severely, causing him to lose his work, and to be lame for some time to come. I shall remand the prisoner for a week, and I would advise him to make the complainant ample compensation, and if he does not I shall deal with him severely. THAMES. CRUELTY TO A HORSE.—SHOCEING CiASE: William Stephen; a contractor for scavengering, of Green-bank, Wapping, and Thomas Porter, a carter in his employ, appeared before Mr. Paget on a charge of cruelly ill treating and torturing a horso by striking it on the head and working it in an unfit state. Mr. W. Love, of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animal; conducted the prosecution. The case was originally before Mr. Paget on Saturday morning, when Porter only was charged. A police-con stable named John Shephard, No. 43 H, saw the prisoner driving a horse and cart. He was beating the animal over the legs with his whip, and after he had done so he struck the horse repeatedly over the head and nose. Shephard remonstrated with the prisoner, and asked him what was the matter with the horse that he should use it in that manner, to which he replied, with a profane oath, "I wish the -- would drop." The constable, on removing the horse's collar, found extensive sores on its back, and its sufferings were great. Mr. Paget examined the horse in the yard adjoining the court on Saturday, and its appear ance excited horror and disgust. He ordered a summons to issue against Mr. Stephens for sending the horse out to work in a cart in the state it was in. Mr. Stephens now attended to the summpns, and the case was again gone into. Mr. Paget said the conduct of Porter was very improper and absurd, and that it was not the way to get a horse along to beat it over the head and nose. He fined the prisoner 10s. - The case against Mr. Stephens was then gone into, and Porter was called as a witness, and said his master desired him to take the horse out, and knew the condition it was in. He called his master's attention to the state of the horse on Friday night, and he was told to work it in the usual manner in the streets. 2.1 r. Stephens, in defence, said the hair was over the wounds on Friday night, and he did not know the horse was in the bad state in which it now seemed to be. The hair had been rubbed [off by mismanagement. If he had known the horse had been so bad he would not have al lowed it to be worked. Mr. Paget wished the owners of horses should know that he had the power to send them to prison for three months and to be kept to hard labour for cruelty to ani mals and for sending out animals to be tortured, for it was torture to work a horse in the state in which the poor horse was. If he found cases of this kind continued, he would not inflict fines, but send owners and contractors to prison and to hard labour, without the option of paying any penalties. The defendant Stephens was the contractor for this district, and had set a bad example to his men. The defence set up was false and absurd. The wounds on the horse had existed some time. He never saw a horse in such a frightful condition. He fined the defendant £5 and costs. It was the first case against the defendant. A* second conviction for a similar offence would end in im prisonment. WESTMINSTER. A FATHER CORRECTING A DISHONEST SON.—Stephen Lay, a stone-mason, was charged with violently assaulting his son. Tho police said that the boy Was in St. George's hospital unable to attend. Timothy Lynch, 43 B, said that a quarter past four this morning he was on duty in Sloane-square, Chelsea, where he found the boy sitting down crying. He was much bruised and bleeding from the back and from the chin, and witness took him to the hospital, whore he was detained. Witness afterwards went and apprehended the father upon the charge of assaulting his son, the latter having stated that his father had inflicted the injuries ho then:bore, when the father admitted it. Mr. Arnold—What did he say ? Witness—He said he had beaten the boy with a strap, which he produced from his pockot, and which I have now here ; he admitted that he struck him with the buckle end. A leather strap about lila. wide, with a buckle at the end was produced. Defendant said—l punished him in a passion. On Sa turday afternoon he was sent out on an errand with half a sovereign, and no more was seen of him. I was going to work this morning when I met him, and having the strap in my pocket, beat him. It's hard for a hard-working man to be robbed by his own child. I was coming down to the station to take other means with him. Mr. Arnold—lt is a pity but what you had, as your cor rection was so excessive that your son is in the hospital. You must find one [Security ill. £5 for your appearance this day week. __~~~ SPORTING NOTES. The races at Newcastle were of the ordinary. nature. It is reported that Mr. Masterman L as been engaged to ride Honesty in all his future en gagements. Who is to execute the commizsons I have not as yet been able to learn, but Mr. Fredk. Swindells, who seldom makes • a mistake, may undertake the job. The two prin c i pa l races for thip„ week at Newmarket are th e J u l y Stakes and tine Chesterfield. For'both events I w ill stand :Achiclve, ment, as she is theest two-year-old out thin,year. The Beaufort Handicap should be wo n by L Apple, and the Mia su m mer St a k es b y Mount Paove 1a... tine. The Ca r li s l e M eet i ng i s not worth offering ar opinion on, as I anticipate there will be as ma.„, dead 'uns as there were at Newcastle. A FRESH Xt.h.N. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. —This Day VICTORIA CLUB BETTING—Tars DAT, JULY STAKES. sto 2on Achievement (taken and off) 7to 1 agst Redshoes (taken) 10 to 1 agst any other (offered) GOODWOOD STAKES. 100 to 15 agst Special (taken) Bto 1 agst Midia c (taken) 100 to 7 agst Othello (taken) 100 to 16 agst Black Prince (taken) CUMBERLAND PLATE. 4to 1 agst &lira (taken) 6to 1 agst Holstein (taken) TURF AGENCY OFFICE, 100, Jermyn-street, St. James's, LONDON. MR. SYDNEY SMITH (Member of Tatter_ sail's) executes COMMISSIONS (by letter ()illy) on all the principal races throughout the season, from xi upwards, on receipt of cash or Post-office Order (payable at Piccadilly office). COMMISSIONS as usual at startinr, prices on the day of a race at all the principal For further particulars and prices, see the advertiseiney,t'itt The Sportsman newspaper every TUESDAY and SA".euit_ ar DAY. Price Current p u bli s h e d DAILY, and fors ded on receipt of stamped directed envelope. N.B.—lt is particularly requested that ALL L'ATTERS containing CASH be registered. The Sporting Life, Aug. 20, 1864.—" We are satisSed that all intending backers of horses, who may have been for merly in doubt whom to trust, will, without fear or hesita tion, send their commissions, to any amount, to 100, Jermyn-street." SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day LONDON, July 2.—Wind this day at noon--South- Westerly ; moderate breeze and fine weather, but rather cloudy. BRISTOL, July I.—Wind W.—Arrived—Memento, from New York. QUEENSTOWN, July I.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—M a y, a, screw steamer, from New York, and then proceeded. for Liverpool. CARDIFF, June" 30.—Wind S.W —Arrived—Patriarch, Sarntini, from Singapore. PLYMOUTH, July 1. —Wind S.W.—Arrived-....5i1v0r Eagle, from Auckland. LEY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. GRAVESEND, Monday Morning Arrived, July I.—Avery, from Rangoon ; Countess Rus sell, from Bembay; Just, from Cape Coast Castle; Echunga, from Otago; Driver, from Windau ; Sarah Annie, from Grenada ; Mary, from Barbadoes; Lone Star, from Nevis. Arrived, July 2.—Regia, from Jamaica ; Plover, from Barbadoes; Vesper, from Soggendahl ; Balmacara, from Moreton Bay ; Ealing Grove, from Tobago ; Northumber land, from Jamaica ; Ceylon, from Bussorah. DEAL, Monday Morning. The William Cory, screw steamer, from London, for Beerhaven, with the shore end of tho Atlantic cable on board, passed on the Ist. Passed—Margaret of Bideford, from the west, for the north ; Admiral Nelson, of Guernsey, from the north, for the west ; Great Victoria, screw steamer from Sydney, for London ; Saint Ailing°, from Calcutta, for London. Passed, in tow—Blenheim, from London, for Calcutta. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton ... July 20. Ditto, via Marseilles July 14. Brazil and Cape Verds. by British packet ...... July 4. Ditto, by French packet Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena July 22. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton July 3. Ditto, via Marseilles June 27. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton June 27. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton..., July 3. Ditto, via Maraeilles India (Bombay), via Southampton June 27. Ditto, via Marseilles July 7. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton July 3. Ditto, via Marseilles June 27. Mauritius, via Southampton July 13 Ditto, via Marseilles. July 7. Newfoundland Portugal Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon...... United States and British North America, by Bri tish paoket .. July 4. Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ton • • Ditto, via Cork Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry ..July 6. West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe ....July 11. West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and Honduras) Cuba and Mexico Bahamas, via New Y ork. July 20. Bermuda, vla Halifax HIGH TEIIPERATURE BY GAS.-In the paper addressed to the Academy of Sciences, M. Schlcesing de scribes an apparatus of his contrivance for obtaining tem perature of extraordinary intensity from illuminating gas. The conditions necessary for this purpose ho states to be : -1. Combustion without excess of air or gas totally effected within the space to be heated; and 2, a rapidity of supply of the combusent gas sufficient to maintain the high tem perature notwithstanding loss of heat from the sheaths or other causes. To satisfy these two conditions he injects air into a copper tube three or four decimetres in length. A little behind the orifice of this tube two holes are pierced opposite to each other; here the tube is surrounded by a sleeve fed with the gas, which, drawn in by the current of . air, rushes into and mixes with it. The supply of gas is regu lated by a stop-cock, that of the air by a given pressure. When this mixture of air and gas is ignited it produces a large blue flame, the calorific power of which does not appear to be more intense than that of a common blow-pipe of equal dimensions; but if the flame penetrates into a refractory envelope without drawing in any exterior air was 4023'88:3°1181:5, the flame becomes shorter, and the combustion is entirely effected in a narrow space. No explosion is to be feared, but the burnt gas must have a proper outlet from the fur nace. Suppose it be required to raise the temperature of a porcelain tube to a white heat ; a flattened noozle is added to the extremity of the blowpipe and placed between two bricks, secured together by iron wire. By this means the flame assumes the shape of a flat sheet issuing through a slit not more than two or three milimetros wide. The operator will take care not to bring the porcelain tube too near the sheet, for the porcelain would be infallibly melted along the whole length of the flame. On each side and at both ends of the slit four pieces of brick are placed, im prisoning the flame within a space two centimetres broad and five or six deep ; the porcelain tube is put a little above, and surmounted with bricks properly shaped; tho ignited flame surrounds the tube and escapes above. By this arrangement, modified in the case of a crucible, the inventor has been enabled to melt a piece of iron, weigh ing 400 gms, in twenty minutes. TEN YEARS OF COTTON.-it appears that the total quantity of cotton imported into the United Kingdom i n 1856 ; in 1857, 969 , 3 18,8961 b ; in 1858, 1,034,342,1 761 b. ; in 1859, 1,225,989,0721 b.; in 1860, . 1,390,938,7521 b. ; in 977,978 2881 b In cense -1861, 1,256 , 9 81,7361 b.; ia 1862 523,973,2 961 b• ;in 1863, 669,583,2641 b. in ' i 1864, 8A304,720 1 b. ; and queues of the great and general redu ction ' . of the Euro pean stocks of cotton, the exports of cotton fro m th e United Kin g d om have very increased of late, having been 116,660,8611 b. lin 856, 131,927.6001 b. in 1857, 119 ,609,6001 b. in 1858, 1 75,143,1361 b. in 1859, 250,339,0401 b. in 211,352,4961 b. in 1863, 214,702,3011 b. in 1864, and 302,908,9281 b. in 1865. The excess of the imports of cot ton over the exports of cotton was thus-877,225,4401b. in 18 56, 837,391,2961 b. in 1857, 884,732,5761 b. in 1858, 1 , 05 0,815,9361 b. in 1859, 1,140,599,7121 b. in 1860, 9 58,696,8161 b. in 1861, 303,258,7681 b. in 1862, 428,230,7681 b. in 1863, 648,602,4161 b. in 1864, and 675,069,3601 b. in 1865. It was the small increase last year in the quantity of cot ton available for British consumption which enabled prices to be so well maintained after the termination of the American war. Thus in 1859 cotton averaged 6.76 d. per lb. ; in 1860, 7.17 d. per lb. ; in 1861, 7.39 d. per lb. ; in 1862, 14.24 d. per lb. ; in 1863, 21.97 d. per lb. ; in 1864, 21-01 d. per lb.: and in 1865, 16.20 d. per lb. In La Pattie there is an article on the Anglo- French submarine tunnel, entitled "Lo Testament de Cobden." After having quoted the advice given by that illustrious man on his death-bed to his friends as regards the execution of this tunnel, La Patric writes thus :- " The great apostle of commercial liberty thought that the two nations sincerely un it e d and relying on each other would, by their moral ascendancy, as well as by 'their material strength, be able to impose peace on the rest of the world ; and it is in this point of view that the creation of a submarine tunnel appeared to him, to the last hour of his existence, as a work of union and of civilisation." . , MEN' 1 0 0 100 100 1( 0 100 100 100 100 100 all 100 100 100 i 105} 75i 6 ( i 4 /I