The Sun. — London, England, 1865-08-31 00:00:00

■~ MONEY MARKET COMMERCIAL INTELY.IGETTCR, TWELVE O'CLOCK. No alteration has been made this morning by the authorities of the Bank of England in their rate of discount. Very few commercial bills are on offer, and, as money is abundant, the rates are easy at 3i and 38 per cent. Exceptional operations are also reported at 3i per cent. The last week's railway receipts ascertained up to this day are in round figures as under : 1865. 1864 Great Western ... £76,469 £75,294 North Western 124,603 119,699 S outh-lVestern . 28,266 27,797 11 - * • ,Jrighton Midland ▪ ... 24,458 23,732 • ... 51,926 50,444 _ -•- Jouth Eastern Great Northern La. 30,032 28,376 ... 38,189 34,668 .auenshire and Yorkshire ... 47,305 45,247 Bristol and Exeter ... ... 7,803 7,668 North Eastern .. 74,551 71,904 Manchester Sheffield , and Lincoln 20,509 18,686 Great Eastern 33,444 31,663 These returns, when compared with those of the corresponding period of last year, are generally of a satisfactory character. On the Great Western there is an increase of £1,175; on the North Wes tern of £4,904 ; on the South Western of £469 ; on Brighton of £726 ; on the Midland of £1,782 ; on the South Eastern of £1,656 ; on the Great Northern of £3,521 ; on the Lancashire and Yorkshire of £2,058 ; on the Bristol and Exeter of £135 ; on the North Eastern of £2,647 ; on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln of £1,825 ; and on the Great Eastern of £1,781. Two O'CLOCK. At the Paris Bourse this morning, according to Reuter's telegram, the 3 per Cent. Rentes were 68f. 65e. Firm. The English Stock Market bas been less steady, and a fractional decline has taken place in values. The improvement established at the close of busi ness yesterday afternoon induced sales to-day, and Consols are now quoted 894 j for money and ac count, and 904 for October. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 894 90 ; Exchequer Bills 3s. dis t • India 5 per • o par , Cents., 4 1051 The Foreign Stock Market has shown increased firmness, and in many instances an advance has been recorded. Turkish Consolides are 481 1; Mexican, 231 24 ; the New Loan, 221 23i ; Greek, 201 ; Spanish Passive, 291 30 ; the Cer tificates, 141 s ; Italian, 641 ; and the Con federate Loan, 7 9. American Securities also show a tendency to improvement. United States Government 5-20 Bonds are 681 691 ; and Erie Shares, 53 I. In the Railway Share Market business has con tinued rather active, and prices have generally shown increased firmness. Great Eastern, Great Western, Lancashire and Yorkshire, and North- Western, have each improved ss. ; and Metro politan, and South-Eastern, each 10s. The Foreign and Colonial undertakings in most instances maintain previous rates. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have been in good request, and prices have shown an upward movement. Alliance are dealt in at 311 321 ; Chartered of India, Australia, and China, at 49i 50 1 ; London and County, at 78 ; London Financial, at 23 1 ; and Peninsular and Oriental Steam, at 77. The following are the current quotations of some of the principal new undertakings :—The New Issue °f 50,000 Preference Shares of £5 each of the Atlan tic Telegraph, 21 21 per share ; Northern Assam T ea Company's Shares, 1 dis. prem. ; Chubwa ,t Tea, dis. prem. ; London-bridge Land, 2 1 ; Albert-bridge, 1 11 prem. ; London Jute orks, / 1 prem.; M'Queen Brothers, 1 2 prem. ; London Quays, 1 dis. par ; British India Trust an d Agency Corporation, 1 11 prem. ; Overend, G erend, and Company, 31 31 prem. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. a G Gent OVERNMENT FUNDS. 13 n r Consols —O . Account,l Sept. 7 t.Per Cent. Reduced B 9/ 90 ir e w 3 per Cent 9O 89f / 1 per Cent. Jan. 1894 — A (1 . per Cent. Jan. 1873 eauities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —1) 0. for 30 yrs, expire sth AprilBBs — t Do (Ited Sea Telegraph Aug., 1908 — l ehequ Bills, £l , 000 3 ) & 31 per Cent 3 dis par er s, , , Do, £5OO — Bank Do £lOO and £2OO 114 - Ba • ,-, of England Stock, 51 per Cent — DO Accoun t ' — iiiINDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. B an Stock, 101 p er Cent., April 1874 — 0 Account 1)° . 5 per Cent. July, 1870 .i.„O . Acco un t Do 4 per Cent. , Oct. 1888 Do. C ert i f i cates — Do.Enlaced P a p er 4 per Cent — •. 1 -, 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 ' —°' 5i per Cent., May 1879 ___ Do. 4 per Cent, Aug. 1866 _ Do. Bonds, £l,OOO — De. unde r £l,OOO FOREIGN FUNDS —ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 B razilian 5 per Cent Du. 44 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Do. 1863 Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) Chilian 6 per Cent Do. 44 per Cent Colombian 6 per Cent. Cuba, 6 per Cent. Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 O. 4 per Cent., 1863 — Do. 5 p er C en t ., 1773-77 , £25 paid — Danubian Principalities Do. Account £B6 paid ',quador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — i ., -I- - )0 ., Pro v i s i ona l L an d W arran t -,gYptian 7 per Cent 984 1)0 ., Second Issue , Do. 1864 954 654 U r ee k -u0 £ l OO Bonds z 1824-5, ex Coupons r 1 Per C —0 Account ents., 204 Coupon s vuateinala 5 per Cent. -0 0. 1839 and 1850 Italian 5 per Cent (3laremmana Railway) b o 18(35 r D 0 Scrip, £674 paid — ° per Cent., 1864 D _ ke 0. Scrip, £55 paid 23i 4 j ic all per Cent 0. Account n Do 1864 r 6 per Cent. Anglo-French — Nt -•-'0 French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c _ I,e4tevidean 6;per Cent., , £3O paid °W Granada — Bo1)° 2 Per Cent Do Deferred P i r Land Warrants (Hectares) e ViarL 44 per Cent ° S eri £45 paid, paid in Bonds B o , 1 3 , Do . per Cent. (Uribarren) — D o 1 per Cent., 1862 I,u - ccount D o rttl guese 3 per Cent., 1853 ""eCOUIIt — RD1?); Per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, 474 O : Account "elan 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St Do 4 P 94 89t D o j per Cent. 1850 B„',Pel Cent. 1859 11, ',l Per Cent., 1860 D 0 ~, per Cent. 1862 13 1: , ..) Por Cent. 1864 — DO-111sh 3 Cent D per A ccount 'Nev 'N Deferred — JOOO A ccount D 0 A v e —61 a. .A.ecount Ph Cert. of Coup not funded — sw 0 .Account l4l 4 It elle A ll 4 Per Cent. — B o - " e ,count — 'l'l lr f t i 11 Per Cent. 1864 -. B 61 6 Per nt 941 Cent. 1854 - - 0 ll_ A, . cou D u o "' Per Cent 1858 No A ccount — D o 1 10 0 Bond s — Dog } Per Cent Do Apr Cent 1862 — DoB ount 734 4 3 4100 Bonds B 0 ' ° Per Cent. 1 865 / ) , u :;,.. 100 Bonds c i --i . .100 paid yelan ,uaanteed, 4 per Cent — ~ D o 7u 6 elo, 3 per Cent. 80. -, A P er cent, 1864 4ll p e r Rust Divid ends on th e a b ove p a yable in London. I 3 r la il, 5 ttl g i a , Per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins but eh ' i i,l per cent , Ex. 25f. _ Per Cent.;Ex. 12 Gail Pr tr Cent. Certificates French ,-., ntes, 4i per Cent. — Itali () AC e°llllt ......... 2 • D 4 t• per Cent., iB6l Ex 25f °' 4c eount ' • 004,,.48 _ TWO O'CLOCK. ............ . o, Aecouti , .. 89 1 i ............................ , .................... il ....... II 89; SHARE MARKETS—This day. ORDINARY :3R,kIIES AND STOCKS. Paid.' Closing Business Price. done. Sharel Railways. 13.14 et at at 50 20 Sir., Wol., & btr. Val Rlyth and Tyne Bristol and Exeter aledonian ;ork and Bandon.. Cornwall )0 A 4 gets no div. t) ' - ‘• B been paid to B Dublin & Belfast June. Dun,.Pcrth, & b.June. Edinburgh & Glasgow Wasgow & S. Western. Great Eastern, Ord. stk. Do. E. /log 1. st No. ? G reat North of Scotland neat Northern A stock Do. 1; o Do. I%ew, Is. at 25 prr GIS. and W. of Ireland (34. Neste n -Ori final I .S. Val. hail gua. Do. South %Vales .... 100 SW Ox:or41, Ncwpo T o. !le jford Lane shire & Yorkshire' L ndon and Lon., & S Coast Lon., Chat., and Davi r Lon. & North Western' Lon. & South Western Man., Shet., & Lincoln Maryport and Carlisle; Do. shares Metropolitan Do. New 3.lid'and Do, Birmin Derby Mid Gt. W., Ireland Do. shares %lid Rent .. North British Do. Ed., Pth ;Jr Dun Nth. Eastern Berwick Do. G.N•E purchase Do. Leeds Do. York Do. Carlible ..... Po. Stock. & Darling. De. do. 1855-58 Do. do. 1860-01 North Londou Do. New Do. do. 1864 North Staffordshire N. & S. W. Junction Scottish (3, ntral Scot. N. E , Aber. stock Scot, Mid. stick Shrews & IVelchpool Shropshire Union South Devon South E stern Staines, Wok., & Wok Taff' Vale Do. C Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornw I V.llartlepool llar.& It Do. A irredeemable Do. A redeemable BRITISH P Atlantic& St. Lawrence Born.,l3aroda, Cen.ln. gu. 5 per cent Do. le shares Buffalo Sc Lake Huron Do Preference Buft,Brant, & Goderich 6 p.c. bds. Aug. 1, 872 Do. do. July 1, 1873 Do. do. June 1, 1574 Calcutta & s. E., Bah . at e Town & Dock, gu. Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p East. Rental, gu sdo East dian gu. p.c. Do .1 Extension ;I and Trunk of Canad Do. Equip. Mort. Bonds 1 vharge 6 p.c Do. Ist z ef. Bonds Do do. deferred . Do. 2d Pr, t. !sonde.. Do. do. deti•rred Do.: d Pref. stock.... Do. do. deferred .... Do. 4th Pref. stock . Do. do. deterred ... G t. India Pen. gua. o. Gua. 5 per cent Do. New gua. 5 p. c Gt. South of India (Ifut gua. 5 per cent . 4 - 1 per cent.... Do Great W , a. of Canada.. D. New Do. 6 p. c. Bds. pay 1873 lio. 55 do. pay. 1877-8 Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.c Do. do Do. 4i do Do. Filth Extension Melb. Cor. 6 p. c. Bnds. Mel. & Hudson's Bay.. New Brunswick & Can Class A and B V'. C'da, pc Ist pf.bds Scindc Do. Delhi Do. do / gip Do. Puni nub... Do.lndus St Flo OSSE, all 10') 100 {lOO 2 100 100 COLONIAL GO VERNMEN British Colurnbia,6 pert cent., Dec. 31, 1872. - - Can.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.& July 1877-84 Do. 6 p. e. Feb. & D sp. c. Mar. & Sept 00. 5 p. c. Jan. & July Do. 5 p c. Inscribed sk Cape G.Hope, 6 p.c. 1873 Do. April & Oct. 1880-4 Do. do; 1890-1 Do. Jan. & July, 1891 Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 8 p. Do. 1878, do Mauritius, 6 p. c, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 178 Do. 1882, May 15, Nov. Natal 'lov. 6 per cent N.8.G0v.6 uly N. S.W. Gov. 5 p •c.,1866 Do. 5 p.c. 18,1 to 1874; Do. 5 P.c. 1888 to 189: New Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 6 per cent.... Nova Sc ,tia Gov. 6 p. c sterling, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6 p. c a. Aus.Gov. 6 p,c 1803-9 Do. 1878 & upwards Vio,Gov. 6 p.c. Xs. & July Do. do, A pril & Oct BRITI Cam Consol. Gold, lim Chiverton Clifford A malgamated Devon G. Cons. (Taoist Drake walls East Bassett (Illogan) East Cara. ion as:, Cana Brea East G:enville East Love .1 E. W'l Russell (Tavistk G am. & StA übyn(G wen. Gr. at L .xey, limited Great South Tolgus G. Wheal Vor 'Heist , Grenvile Elerod's Foot • •• Hingston i;owns Margaret (Uny Lelant Marke Valley ‘lwyndy Iron Ore, 11w Nangi les .. New Seton North Downs North Roskear will Bassett (I ilogan North Wheal Crotty Prosper United Pr vidence Uny LKlant S. Caradon (St. Cleer) S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan stray Park Tin Croft West Fassett (Mogan W. Caradon (L.skeard West Chi verton West Seton Wheal Bassett 'Mogan Wheal Buller (Redruth vc flea Ludoc.tt Wheal Mary Ann (Men Wheal Setoq 11 , 11e.t.11%elawney (Lie. Wheal Uni rt 9(1 !8 134 135 61 (6 6 17 109 ►ll 1 481 471 71 8, 133 134 153 151 128 .32 85 48 66} 66t, F 3 f 5 45 47 40 45 C 5 .07 119. j 120 88 90 lu3 105 3 10 1271 !271- 93 10 67 18 135 i 134 3 li p 1324 133 101 .103 56) 574 z 4 Y 5 1121 1131 B 9 70 105 lit) 31} 336 - -p 10 II pl 121 123 j li 2 p 16 78 11 12 150 154 58 60 55 57 81 82 84 9, 155 158 3 4p 106 108 49 51 ,SIONS. 58 58 101 102 pr p 4 44 9 10 99 101 70 :5 100 102 10 , 4 112} 1(3 W 4 11 1 174 )8,, 58 90 64 66 5 i 60 56 S 8 50 52 43 46 38 42 25 47 24 26 103 IC4 P 100} 101 i 11; 12k 8 81'1 10 12 82 64 1 4 d 101 102 95 07 9) 92 64 66 82 84 100 101 100 101 Id .00 101 T SECUR: 97 98 95 97 98 100 81 85 82 84 103 105 106 108 108 110 106 108 If 3 105 109 111 103 105 107 102 107 109 102 104 95 97 9) 101 93 95 90 11 103 105 85 86 98 100 102 103 106 108 109 110 .INES. 9 10 22 24 560 580 I 18 .0 11} 124 6 6! 21 2 10 11 3] 4 2 4 196 204 if 21 .?5 37 ?, 21 40 4l 2 2 6 21 3 4} 46 21 1. 11 13 25 35 A 1 12 1; 11 2 32 470 490 15 2 , 13 15 17i 184 . 61 7; 10 12 75 5 170 180 75 80 '4B 30 4 6 95 2(0 i 7 18 ti.n.ol 4 .lllhNl il, JtiAKM.n Great Western, 5 per cent., rd. pf., 103 t. Western, Wt. Midland, Oxford 2d guaranteed stock, 120 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. London, Brighton...tc , 4; per cent., ISSB, 97i Si Metropolitan 5 per cent., 108 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Northern and Eastern, 5 per cent., 43 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. !labia and San Francisco klim.) gum. 7 per cent., 141 Paris and Orleans, 34} FOREIGN MINES, Frontino and itolivia Gold, lim., Sri Mcnt. Aurcos Brazil Gold Alin. .Co., BANKS. Albion, 81 alliance, lim.. 311 # Ditto. issued at 20 pm., of which 20 is paid., 251 Australasia. 761 Ditto, new, 75 Barned's Bank, lira., 5 British and Californian, Urn.. 5 British North American. 46 Chartered Bank of India, Australia. and China, 271 Chartered kler. of India, London. and China, 50 iu Commercial Bank of India and the East, 20 Consolidated Bank, lim., 101 1 English, Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 21 European Bank, lim., 12 Hindustan, China, and Japan, ilm., 201 Ditto, issued at 2 pm., Ditto, new, 15 11 Imperial Ottoman, 15: 1 Lard Mortgage Bank of India, lim., 41 London and County. 78 London and South African, 181 191 Merchant Bank, lim., 27 Mercantile and Exchange. lim., Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, lim., 151 Standard of British South Africa, Ditto, new, 5 Union of London, 54 MISCELLANEOUS. A tlantio Telegraph. 8 per cent. gita.. 2/ Credit Fonder and Mobilier of I , ,nglaud, 81 1 Crystal Palace, 39 1 Egyptian Cora and Trading, lira., 31 1 Gen. Credit and Finance of London, niu., 5: Hudson's Bay, 16 Imperial Mercantile Credit Asso., lim., 1:4 International Financial -ociety, Urn.. 6: London Financial Association, lira., 23 1 I,ndon General Omnibus Company. 31 reverend, Gurney, and Co., am., Ili 1 Penin ula and Oriental Steam, 77 Ditto. new, 53 Rio de Janeiro City Improvements, lim., Ditto ( £l ,, , 8 Smith, Knight, and Co., lim., 7 THE EMPEROR'S "LIFE OF JULIUS C/ESAR.”—The Gazette des Etrangers announces that the Emperor is preparing the second volume of " L'Histoire do Jules Cesar." Tho manuscript is being put in type at the Im perial Printing-office, and nearly ten sheets are now ready. That amount scarcely makes up one-half of the volume, which w ill not come out, it is said, before the beginning of next -ear. II 11 2.1.0 30 2.14.6 3.4.0 2.7.0 2. 3.6 9.10.6 60t all 1.1.0 30.17.61 rim SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVEAING, AUGUST 31, 1865. LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Registrar Brougham.) IN RE HON. GEORGINA AUGUSTA FREDERICA HENRIETTA CAVENDISH BENTINCK. This bankrupt was described as a spinster, of 5, Green ■treet, Grosvenor-square, to-day being appointed for the first meeting. The cause of the bankruptcy is said to be the loss of a sum of money lent to the late Dowager Lady Rivers, and insufficiency of income to maintain the Hon. Miss Bentinck's position in life. The debts are nearly £1,700, Lady Clare being a creditor for £6O, and the claims on the proceeding 3 being made by a long list of West-end tradesmen, to the extent of nearly .V.PO. The debts were proved, and a day named for the next meeting POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. -4.- MARLBOROUGH-STREET. ROBBERY OF VASES OF THE VALVE OF £5OO BY A SER YANT.—Martin Van Asam, servant to the Hon. Mr. Wm. Rashleigh, of No. 31, Hill-street, Grosvenor-square, was charged before Mr. Mansfield, by Inspector Williamson, of the Detective Department, Scotland-yard, with stealing two silver vases, of the value of £5OO. Mr. James Guffen said—l was formerly butler to the Hon. Mr. Rashleigh, of Hill-street, and the prisoner was in the same service. I placed the two silver vases produced (most beautiful works of art) into the strong room. One of the vases is entitled the " Triumph of Neptune." I had no idea the articles were gone till I was about to leave, and then, when looking over the plate to seo if it was cor rect, I missed the vases. The prisoner was the under footman, and had no right to interfere with the articles. Tho portions produced are those of the other vase which has been broken up. Mrs. Kelly, 19, Chester-place, Kennington, said—The prisoner called at her house last Thursday week, and said ho had come from Paris, and expected a friend to call the next day. He brought a large box with him containing the articles produced. He left without paying for his lodg ing, leaving the box behind, and she then looked into it and saw what it contained. A few days afterwards he wrote from Liverpool, requesting her to send the boxes there. Inspector Williamson—On Friday last, from what I had heard I went to Chester-place, Kennington, and there found a largo black box containing the property produced. I afterwards went to Liverpool and saw the prisoner at the railway station. I told him 1 had conic to arrest him for stealing plate from the Hon. W. Rashleigh. He said " Very well," and suddenly made his escape. He was recaptured, and after a desperate resistance, it requiring four or five other constables to take him, he xas secured. Mr. Guffen—l wish to state that on the day the articles were missed the prisoner made an excuse that ho was ill and could not go out with the carriage. In the course of the afternoon of that day the prisoner absconded. V _ Inspector Williamson—Some of the pieces of the vase which has been broken with a pair of pincers have been melted. _ The prisoner—l did not take the vases from the plate room, but from off a barrel in another place. Mr. Mansfield committed him foi WESTMINSTER. A FEMALE DETECTIVE.-JOllll Butler and John Fitz morris, two boys of between 14 and 16 y ears of age, were placed at the bar, charged with being found in an unoccu pied house for an unlawful purpose. Mary Hickson, wife of Police-constable James Hickson, 91 B, said that she and her husband were taking care of 51, Sutherland-street, Pimlico. At half-past 7 this morning she thought she heard a noise in 49, also an untenanted house, next door to her, and, on listening more attentively, she became convinced of the fact. She then hastened to the front door, and looking over the area railings of 49, saw one of the prisoners standing near the cellar door, who immediately exclaimed to the other who was inside the house "We are caught," and then Butler came out by the window. Both prisoners then rushed up the stops to get away, when witness seized Butler and held him. He endea voured to effect his escape and struggled hard, but she still retained him until she got assistance, and he was taken to the station house. Butler exclaimed—Let mo speak, your worship. I only went down the area to help him. Fitzmorris—l went there, your worship, to change my shirt, it was so dirty. Mr. Selfe—What ! put a clean shirt on in a cellar ? Fitzmorris—Yes, your worship, I often does. Mr. Selfe—And have somebody to assist you in the operation ? James Hickson, 91 B, said that between seven and eight this morning his wife called out " Thieves in 49," when ho hastened to the front door. His wife was bolding Butler, and he pursued and captured Fitz.-norris, and took him in Clarendon-street. On searching Butler a sharp knife and sack were found upon him. Mr. Selfe—ls anything known of either of them ? A policeman—Butler was in custody a short time ago for pot stealing, and committed. Another policeman—He was also charged a short time ago with being found in an area. Butler's mother—lt was entirely an accident, your wor ship, through his not having anything in his inside. Mr. Selfe—That made him inside the area ? The mother—Yes, your worship; he was seized with a giddiness in the head through faintness, and slipped into the area. Mr. Selfe—And this time he went down an area to help his friend to put on a clean shirt, with a sharp knife and a sack. Policeman—He has been long well known to the police. Mr. Selfe—What is known of Fitzmorris ? Policeman—He is about commonly with young thieves. Mr. Selfe—Butler, 1 have no doubt you are becoming a professed thief. You are committed for three months with hard labour. Fitzmorris (the younger by two years) is remanded, in order to see whether he cannot be got into a reformatory. The Death of William Aytoun. The following singularly beautiful, touching, and eloquent tribute to the memory of Professor Aytoun —a paper adorning, and yet saddening, the newly published number of " Maga" for September —will be perused not without emotion by the readers of Blackwood's Magazine the wide world over ! It is a tribute in every way worthy at once of Aytoun and of Blackwood : It will not be expected that a now number of this maga zine should appear without our attempting to express, how ever inadequately, our deep grief and infinite regret for the loss we have sustained by the death of William Edmond stoune Aytoun. Carried off in the prime of life, in the midst of a brilliant, useful, and prosperous career, and in the enjoyment of the utmost domestic happiness, he leaves a blank which will not soon be supplied in the hearts of those who possessed his friendship, and in the number— now, alas ! too limited—of the men of genius and literary power of which his country Could boast. For ourselves, we have to lament his loss upon a double ground ; as a mast faithful and valued literary auxiliary, and as a friend bound to us by the strongest ties of dear and familiar intimacy. It is with difficulty that we can command our feelings so as to record with any regularity of method the few facts in his life which it seems proper here to notice. He was born in June, 1813, and had thus at his death in August, 1865, completed his fifty-second year. On both sides of his house he was well descended and well con nected. His father, who was a writer to the signet, and the partner of an eminent firm in that profession, died when Aytoun was comparatively young. His mother lived to a great age, and died only a few years ago. She was an ex cellent example of an old Scottish lady, and from her ten dencies and traditions her son derived much of his early and enduring predilections for the Cavalier cause. He was a most attached son and brother, and his mother and sisters repaid his affection by the strongest feelings which an only son and brother could inspire. Ho was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, and went through the usual curriculum at the University, of which he was destined to become so distinguished an ornament. He afterwards studied for some time in Germany, where he acquired that love and knowledge of German literature of which his writings contain so many proofs. He passed as a writer to the signet, but soon saw that this was not his appropriate sphere, and in 1840 he was called to the Scottish Bar. Ile practised for a time with some success, particularly in criminal causes, and regularly attended the Western Circuit. His literary propensities, however, were too strong to be repressed. He became well known among his companions for various successful jeux d'esprit, as well as for compositions of a more serious kind, both in verse and prose. He furnished at this time several contributions to Tait's Magazine, where, in con junction with a congenial collaborateur, his early friend, Theodore Martin, he began the " Bon Gaultier Ballads," which now form the best and most popular collection that exists of that kind of composition. In 1839 his connection with this magazine commenced, and we venture to say with a feeling of pride which we trust will not be thought unbecoming, that he found here a peculiarly fit and favourable field for the exercise of his great and varied powers. These soon began to be appre ciated ; but " The Burial-March of Dundee," and " Charles Edward at Versailles," which were published in the Maga zine in 1843, were the first things that made him known as a true poet, and from that time his reputation, and, it may be added, his powers of literary execution, continued steadily to increase. Shortly after this, the railway mania attained the alarm ing height which caused so serious a crisis in that form of speculation. Aytoun had seen in the circle of his own acquaintance a good deal of the ruinous effects which fell upon those "who," as he used to express it, "were out in the ' Forty-five' of the present century ;" and his reflec tions on this disastrous madness led him to attempt an antidote. In October, 1845, there appeared in . the Maga zine his celebrated paper, "How we got up the Glen mutchkin." The picture there presented was not only a most amusing piece of comic writing, but a true represen tation of the existing evils, and a powerful and most useful satire upon the parties concerned in them. We have reason to believe, from good authority, that the article had a marked effect at the time in moderating the frantic specu lations of the period, and "The Glenmutchkin" has ever since been a byword for denouncing those desperate enter prises that are undertaken upon no solid ground, and pro moted by an atrocious system of exaggeration and false hood. "The Glonmutchkin" was followed by many sketches of social life conceived and executed in the same happy vein of combined humour and good sense ; but it was not easy to find another subject so fortunate or so popular. In the beginning of 1848 the Magazine contained the poem of "Edinburgh after Flodden," an admirable compo sition, and the best, perhaps, of that collection of lays on which Mr. Aytoun's permanent reputation is most likely to stand. We cannot help thinking that, with the single exception of Sir Walter Scott's ballads, this volume ex hibits by far the best and truest specimens of this peculiar and difficult form of poetry that have ever appeared from the pen of an individual writer. We have now beforo us a list of the various papers he contributed to our pages from the year 1839 to the time of his death. They amount in number to more than a hun dred and twenty, and we cannot look over the catalogue without admiration of the diversity of subjects which they embrace, and the persevering assiduity which produced them. For we have no hesitation in saying that none of his papers were carelessly thrown off, but that in all of them he put his heart conscientiously into his work, and labourel to give it as much completeness and efficiency as it was in his power to bestow, It would be endless to notice the various departments of writing in which he excelled, though we may take an opportunity hereafter to attempt a review and estimate of the best things that he wrote. We cannot, however, re frain from looking back with peculiar satisfaction to the political papers which he contributed in the year 1850, with reference in particular to the matters then agitated in connection with agricultural interests. They seemed to us, at the time, to state with singular power and ability the case which the farmers brought forward ; and we know that some of the best judges of the subject, who had no leanings in favour of " protection," considered them to be unanswered and unanswerable. If the :cause there ad vocated was to have been won, we are certain that those articles would have contributed largely to the victory. The questions then at issue are now set at rest ; but we continue to think that the grounds which the Protec tionists thus took were rested on fairness and equity, and such as they had no reason to be ashamed of occupying, whether as claimants for justice or as lovers of their country. In 1845, Mr. Aytoun had been appointed Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in the University of Edin burgh. This Chair had been occupied by very distin guished men before him ; but it was his peculiar merit to make it more practically instructive than it had ever pre viously been. He began with a class of about 30 students, and ended with having upwards of 150—a result which we think is to be ascribed, not perhaps to any superiority of his lectures over those of his predecessors, but to his great popularity with his student; arising from two different causes ; the one, his strong :sympathy with their youthful tastes and aspirations ; and the other, the unwearied in dustry with which he laboured to train them to the art of composition, by his strict :examination and diligent cor rection of the papers and essays given in by them. This must have been an irksome as well as an inglorious task, but he considered it to be a duty imposed on him by his position, and he reaped the appropriate fruits of it by his great success and eminence as a literary teacher. In 1849 he married Jane, the youngest daughter of yro fessor Wilson, a most amiable lady, with whom he en joyed ten years of great domestic happiness, ' checkered only by her languid state of health, and clouded at last by her death in 1859. In 1852 he was made Sheriff of Orkney and Shetland, and devoted himself with his habitual earnestness and assiduity to the duties of his office. He usually passed a considerab l .e portion of the slimmer months in the islands that composed his Sheriffdom, and his death is deeply lamented by all those over whom he was thus placed. The death of his gentle and affectionate wife was a severe affliction to him, and for along while his health and spirits were seriously affected by it. Time, however, brought consolation ; and it was a great pleasure to his friends when, in December 1863, he married Miss Kinnear, with whose near relatives, the Balfours of Trennabie, in Ork ney, he had long been intimate. This also was a most happy union, and his health seemed for a time to be re gaining its original vigour. During last winter, however, bad symptoms appeared, and fears began to be entertained that some serious constitutional malady was undermining his frame. Ile complained of great weakness and languor, and felt labour of any kind to be irksome. Still h e was in good spirits, particularly w hen he met with any friend ; and in the beginning of:June he went with Mrs. Aytoun:to Blackhills, a pleasant retreat near Elgin, of which he had taken a lease for summer quarters. The accounts received of him after he went to Morayshire were not satisfactory, but no immediate danger was apprehended. We think it may be interesting to our readers to see the way in which he speaks of himself and his state of health in the last letter which we received from him, dated at Blackhills, on the 14th of July, 1865 : "Dr. Ross, from whose treatment I have received great benefit during the fortnight ho has attended me, is per emptory against my working my brain until I am physi cally stronger ; and I am quite sure he is right, for a few days ago the mere effort of finding rhymes for some maca ronic verses I had commenced, wearied me in a way I pre viously would have deemed incredible. However, I am, thank God, much better than Ivrea ; and having, as far as discoverable, no organic complaint, I may hope, with care and perseverance in a generous diet, to get back my strength. As regards the stores of the druggist I am parcus cultor et infrequens,' taking nothing beyond a solution of iron ; but, en revanche, I am put upon a most liberal allowance of animal food, brandy, and claret. "I have abandoned the idea of going down to the islands in the mean time, and shall put off my visit until a much later period of the season. I shall hope to be able to take the hill on the 12th of August, and would be seriously grieved if prevented, for my keeper, who was over part of the ground on Monday, gives an excellent account of the young broods; and I have purveyed me a steady white pony—nomine Missy, which name I have elevated into that of- 'the Muse'—well adapted for trotting through the heather. Do you think you could come down hero for that sport ? I need not say how joyfully you will be wel comed ; and I can assure you that there are few prettier or more enjoyable places to be found in the north of Scotland than this same residence of Blackhills. The range of grouse ground is very fair, but the extent of the low country shooting is immense; and though partridges have not been very plentiful in the district for some years, there are hares enough to excite to frenzy the scalping instincts of a Choctaw. Think of this ; for I certainly shall not migrate southwards this year until summoned by the ap proaching exigencies of the session." These cheerful anticipations were not to be realised. His disease latterly made rapid progress, and he gradually sank under it, and tranquilly expired on the 4th of August, retaining the full possession of his faculties to the last, and calmly contemplating with the most pious resig nation his approaching end. His life altogether was a successful and happy one. Its success he owed to an unusual combination of genius, industry, and prudence ; and its happiness to his bright and genial temperament and equable temper. It was always a pleasure to be with him, as will be acknowledged by every one who remembers him as a travelling or a social companion. The little tours that he made from time to time on the Continent formed often the subject of pleasant articles in the magazine, but they were not so pleasant on paper as they were in reality to those who had the good fortune to be his fellow-travellers. His domestic affections were of the warmest and most engaging kind, and the friendships that he formed were equally cordial and lasting. It is to ourselves a source of great though melancholy pleasure to look back on our long intercourse with him, which was never interrupted by any difference of opinion or estrangement of feeling. It is rare, indeed, that the relations of business become a source of so much heartfelt pleasure and familiar inti macy ; and we cannot think without painful emotion that all this happiness is at an end. It was erroneously supposed in some quarters that Mr. Aytoun occupied the position of Editor of this magazine. Indeed, it seems difficult to persuade our friends at a dis tance of what is well known to those nearer at hand, that the proprietors of this magazine have never since its commencement, now nearly half a century ago, devolved upon others the powers or responsibilities of an editor. To this system, perhaps, they owe it that the magazine has preserved a uniform consistency of aim and purpose ; and that, while warm in its advocacy of great views and principleS, it has avoided those petty partisanships and predilections from which it is so difficult for an ordinary editor to keep free. We cannot close this short and imperfect notice without adding a statement which we think due alike to the me mory of the deceased and to the cause of true religion, at a' time when so much laxity and false liberality prevail upon serious subjects. Mr. Aytoun was a sincere and humble Christian. At no time in his most joyous moments of jocularity did anything fall from his lips or from his pen that was irreverent, or in any way at variance with reli gious views ; and his last moments were soothed by par taking of the Holy Communion, administered to him by the excellent pastor who represented in his neighbourhood the Episcopal, Church of Scotland, of which Mr. Aytoun was always a devoted and exemplary, though never a bigoted, adherent. The letter to ourselves, from which we have already made an extract, contains another pas sage expressive of his firm reliance on the one sure foun dation of Christian hope ; and we only refrain from quot ing the last words that he thus addressed to us, from an unwillingness to obtrude our private griefs upon public notice. _ _ We feel that no apology is due to our readers for what we have now said. They cannot fail to lament with us the extinction of a bright light, from which they long derived such varied pleasure ; and to those who had not the privilege of Mr. Aytoun's personal acquaintance, it must be a satisfaction to learn that so great literary gifts were united with so many amiable qualities and so much solid worth. THAMES. DRUNKENNESS ON RAILWAYS.—John Singleton, a young man, who said he was by trade a cutler and at present a telegraph agent, was brought before Mr. Paget charged with being drunk and disorderly at the Shadwell Station of the London and Blackwell Railway. Last night the prisoner alighted at Shadwell from a carriage of the down train, which left Fenchurch-street at half-past 7 o'clock. lie was drunk and very noisy, and ho refused to deliver his ticket when it was asked for. On the ticket collectors attempting to detain him he became very disorderly, and tried to make his escape from them. They detained him, and then to prevent accidents to per sons on their way to and from the trains, made an attempt to remove him from the railway station to the police sta tion house. He resisted this, and made use of foul language and expressions. His struggles were most desperate, and he kicked, plunged, and shouted like one that was raving mad. Some glass was broken in the affray, and one col lector named Charles G. Fisher was severely cut. Another collector named Frederick Smith was also injured. The prisoner said he was very sorry ; he was drunk and had no recollection of what took place. Mr. Paget should like to know how and by what means a drunken man was allowed to travel on the Blackwall Rail way ? Fisher, a collector—lt is probable he got some friend to purchase a ticket for him, or escaped the notice of the money-taker who issued the tickets at Fenchurch-street. Positive orders have been given by the company not to allow drunken persons on the railway, and to remove them iron the stations on the lino. Mr. Paget said it was a duty incumbent on all railway companies not to allow a drunken man or woman to receive a ticket, or to travel in any carriage on their linos. lie had seen the inconvenience, annoyance, and danger of drunken persons being allowed to travel on railways. A short time since he saw a drunken sailor fall between tho platform and a train of carriages about to be put in motion. Another moment he would have been killed, and Liao scene was appalling. That was not on the Blackwall Rail way, certainly. Ho had seen, on another railway platform iu the country a drunken blackguard stagger against a child and push it on the railway as a train was approach ing. The most strict regulations should be enforced to prevent drunken persons having a ticket or travelling on any pretence whatever. Drunkenness on railways was attended with the greatest danger and trouble. In this case the prisoner had disturbed the business on the Black wall Railway, and occupied the whole staff at ono station in preventing him doing harm. He acquitted the prisoner of any desire to defraud the company, because his ticket issued at Fenchurch-street was found upon him, but he should fine the prisoner 20s. for being drunk at the Shad well Railway station. The sum of £55,000 in gold was taken to the Bank yesterday. The Seine, from the West Indies, has brought £337,370 in specie. The British and Californian Banking Cmndany (Limited) have announced an ad interim dividend of 4s. per share for the half-year anding the 30th of June. TILE LATE ASSAULT AT AN EASTBOURNE HOTEL. —The Hailsham magistrates have refused to continue the licence of the Anchor Hotel, Eastbourne, to Richard Hughes, the landlord, who was lately charged with assaulting Mr. Pratt, a doorkeeper of the house of Commons. It appeared that Hughes had formerly been fined £5 for assaulting a young man who had come to take his father's dead body from the house.—Brighten Guardian. METROPOLITAN BENEFIT SOCIETIES' ASYLUM, BALL'S-POND.—The 71st half-yearly meeting of this society was held at Salter's Hotel, Victoria-street, on Friday last. The auditors' report showed that the present balance-in-hand account of the Endowment Fund was £7,227, and that of the Building Fund £32 14s. 4d. There are at the present time 36 inmates enjoying the comforts of this benevolent institution. The report of the committee was adopted, and it. was stated that the present amount realized by a sermon preached by the Rev. J. Spurgeon (father of the celebrated C. 11. Spurgeon) was more than £4O. Various resolutions were discussed and agreed to relating to the future well-being of the asylum, and after a vote of thanks to the chairman the meeting separated. South-Eastern Railway. HALF-YEARLY MEETING.—(THIS DAY.) The ordinary half-yearly meeting of the shareholders and directors of this company was held to-day at the Bridge House Hotel, London-bridge. James Byng, Esq., chairman of the board of directors, presided. Tho roport (which has already appeared in The Sun) having been taken as read, The CHAIRMAN rose to move the formal resolution for its adoption. He congratulated the proprietors generally on the fact that the receipts for the half-year ending the 31st of July, 1865, had been in excess of those of the cor responding:periodof 1864 to the amount of £33,540 6s. 2d. The statement of expenditure on revenue account showed that the ordinary working expenses during the half-year had amounted to £266,895 9s. 4d.; the rates, taxes, tolls, and Government duty, to £43,633105. Bd. ; and the work ing of the steam-packet service, to £13,994 2s. 10d. After providing for the fixed charges against revenue, there remained a net balance of £111,012 9s. id. available for dividend on the ordinary consolidated stock of the &il pally. A dividend at the rate of 2} per cont. per annum would absorb a sum of £95,252 10s. 10d., leaving a balance to be carried forward of £15,759 18s. 3d. ; and that rate of dividend the directors recommend to be paid. The balance proposed to be carried over was unusually large ; but the directors thought it right to recommend that it should be reserved to meet claims for compensation arising out of the calamitous accident which happened at Staplehurst in June last. The works on the direct line to Ton bridge were progressing satisfactorily, and the entire work, it was confidently anticipated, would be com pleted by next year. The City station was also rapidly advancing, and that also it was fully expected would be available for traffic at the opening of the ensuing year. The passing by Parliament of a competing line for the company's traffic at Godstone and Tonbridge Wells would demand the serious attention of the directors ; and the traffic arrangement with the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway had worked so favourably, that the direc tors felt quite justified in recommending it for the confir mation of the proprietors. With respect to the City terminus extension of the Charing Cross Railway the works were all being pressed forward. The bridge over the Thames was rapidly advancing, and the station in Cannon-street was not far from completion. The report was adopted, and the dividends were ordered to be paid on the 11th of September. - The meeting was then made special for the purpose of considering and affirming certain agreements with the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, and the London and North Western, and other business matters. MARKE T S—T his Day. METROPOLITAN CATTLE. The supply of beasts on sale at our market to-day was only moderate, whilst the quality of the stock was very middling. Good and prime breeds consequently changed hands at the extreme rates of Monday, viz, from 5s to 5s 6d per 81bs. ; otherwise the beef trade ruled quiet, at Monday's currency. The market was moderately supplied with sheep, the trade for which was firm, at full prices. The general top figure was Cs 8d per 81bs. The few lambs on offer sold at about late rates. The trade for veal was steady, at full quotations. Pork ruled firm, and prime small porkers were rather dearer than on Monday. Per 81b to sink tho offal. ds d Crse. & inf. beasts... 3 0 4 0 Second quality do ..4 2 4 10 Prime large oxen ..5 0 5 2 Prime Scuts. &e.... 5 4 5 6 Crse. and inf. sheep. 4 6 5 0 Second quality do ..5 2 5 8 a ds d Pme cra-wool cheep 5 10 6 2 Prime s'thdown 00.6 4 6 8 Large coarse calvcs.4 4 4 10 Prune small d0......5 0 5 4 Large hogs ....4 0 4 6 Small porkers 4 8 5 2 _ Lambs....6s Od to 74 Od. Suckling calves, 198 to 23s ; and quarter-old store pigs, 25s to 30s each. Head of stock on sale. Total unpply. Foreign supply. Beasts 1,03) 1 Beasts 6lO Cows .. 'l3o' Cows. • • 0000 • Sheep and lambs 8,14u Sheep and lambs ... 0 .. . • 4,460 Calves 520 Ca yes 03 l'igs 3 90 Pigs MEAT MARKETS. NEWOATE AND LEADENHALL.—The trade, o n the whole, is steady, at the following prices :--Beef, from 2s 8d to 4s 8d ; mutton, 4s Od to 5s 8d ; veal, 4s Od to Gs Od ; and pork, 3s 10d to 5s 4d per 81b by the carcase. Soul-HALL, Aug. 30.—The trade is firm for all good and prime stock. Beef, from 38 Od to 5s 8d; mutton, 4s 6d to 6s 8d ; veal, 48 4d to 5s 4d ; and pork, 3s 6d to 5s 2d per 81bs. to sink the offal. ROMFORD, Aug. 30.—There was a steady trade doing to-day as follows :—Beef, from 3s 4d to 5s 4d; mutton, 4s 6d to 6s 8d ; lamb, Os Od to Os Oct ; veal, 4s Od to 56 2d; pork, 3s 6d sor e 2d per 81b. Suckling calves, 18s to 20s ; quarter old stor pigs, 22s to 28s; and milch cows £l7 Os to £l9 each. HAY MARKETS SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £4 15s to £6 Os; clover, £5 to 17 ; and straw, £1 16s to £2 2s per load. Trade steady. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, £5 Os to £6 2s 6s; clover, £5 Os to £7 Os; and straw, £1 18s to £2 5s per load. A firm trade. WIIITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £4 15s to £6 Os; clover £5 5s to £7 Os ; and straw, £1 16s to £2 2s per load' A fair demand. . Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. Market continues steady. Sales, 10,000 bales. A chamois has just been born in the Menagerie of the Zoological Garden at Dresden. • Such a circum stance, the Cologne Gazette states, had not occurred before, except at Chambery in 1855. A synagogue is about to be opened in St. Peters burg: Gunsburg, the Jewish banker, has given 70,000 roubles towards this object. Letters from Odessa confirm the intelligence that the harvest will be bad in many districts of Southern Russia. 151} 5' f 1 67 i 61 120 191 124 j & 4 13( 7 61 1291 61 :21 i I ,ITIES. Detector's Revelations of Quacks and Quackery. Having driven the nail well hoZne by his " Reve lations," Detector, otherwise Mr. F. 33. Courtenay, has here effectually clinched it in his Second Edi tion, with an " Addenda." He had already hurled the vagabonds down, so to speak, into the gutter bordering the public highroad : and he now contents himself with fairly smothering them in the mire of their own dirty facts and cases, of their own nefarious practices and disgusting publications. It required some pluck to have anything at all to do with such a set •of rogues, even in the way of meting out to them the deadliest punishment of all, meaning thereby the punishment of exposure. But Detector has done his work, here, bravely and well—he has spoken right out—he has entered from the first uncompromisingly upon the untemptingland unsavoury task which he had, with so signal a self-abnegation, set himself to accomplish ! Set ting himself about its accomplishment, in effect, not only with a determination to call a spade a spade, but with a determination also to use it resolutely, wheresoever it might be deemed needful, in the effec tual cleansing out, namely, of those fouler Cloaca, the haunts of Quacks and Quackery ! Before Detector began his raid against the evil-doers and against the evil system which they had set on • foot and were encouraging with such fearful success to them selves and with such pernicious consequences to many members of the general community—the atro city he has since laid bare was already notorious. It stank in the public nostrils. It was blatantly au dible and brazenly visible, to the right band and to the left. There was no gainsaying the fact of its existence. And yet—granting all this—Until De tector put a sharp point to his. pen and dipped it into that searing ink of his of a gall and bitterness doubly distilled—Until he had fairly written the Quacks down, lower even than Dogberry wanted to be written down by the Sexton, namely, not only as Asses, of a densely illiterate stupidity, but as Sneaks and Bullies to boot, as Swindlers and Extortioners of the most degraded character imaginable—Until De tector had done all this the Quacks were virtually un denounced, they were certainly in no way formally charged with their iniquities ! Quackery until then, in fact, drove its villanous trade triumphantly in the very midst of us. For what he has done, there fore, actually done, in his capacity as Detector- General of Quacks and Quackery, we take Mr. Courtenay to be nothing less than a Public Bene factor. His exposure of the rascals has been com plete and most effectual. He has stripped them not simply of a mask or a domino, but of the whole of their disguises : and, afterwards, taking into his " honest hand" a "Whip" like that apostrophised by Emelia in the play, he has relieved his own over wrought feelings and those we are sure of very many others besides, by " lashing the rascals naked through the world," through our own noisy, babbling world, that is, of Vanity Fair! The additional Facts and Cases he has here brought together in the form of the " Addenda," appended to this Second Edition of his " Revelations," are as telling, as pungent, as acrid we might even say, as any with which the vaga bonds were, some months ago, pelted by him in the original Revelations themselves. The Pamphlet as it now stands—in its entirety—consisting as it now does, that is to say, of Revelations and Addenda combined—is for all the world like the application to a most foul and loathsome ulcer, now of the knife , ' now of the cautery ! The Murder Near Lisburn. On Monday, Mr. Ward, coroner for the county Down, held an adjourned inquest into the circumstances connected with the murder of a young lad named Thomas Graham, who was brutally shot at Ballymacbrennan on the morning of the 11th. Since the frightful occurrence took place the police have been most assidous in their inquiries, with a view to the discovery of the murderer, and although the information they have gleaned is not such as positively to attach the guilt to any person, the suspicion is strong, almost amounting to a moral certainty, that the perpetrator of the deed was a returned convict named William Logue, who some years ago was transported, chiefly on the evidence of the lad Graham's father, at whom, it is believed, the gun was fired, for having stolen a sheep, the property of a farmer named Wilson, residing at Ballymacbrennan. A number of witnesses were examined, who deposed to having, on the morning of the occurrence, seen a per son answering to the description of Logue pass along the road in the direction of Belfast. It appears that the per son alluded to went about nine o'clock on the morning in question to the residence of a farmer named William Moore, of Ballyleeson, by whom he was employed to assist in shearing, at the low rate of 6d. a day. Here he remained for four days. He was always asking what was the news, and was partially anxious to see the newspapers. I should state he gave his name as William Shaw when he went to Moore's ; and when the murder was mentioned in conversation, especially at meal hours, he said ho knew Logue, whom he represented to be an awful headstrong fellow. Suspicion fell upon him ; and Mrs. Moore was so unfavourably impressed with his appearance that she would not allow him to sleep in the dwelling house. He was ac commodated with a bed in the barn. Mrs. Moore said—l remember that on the morning of the murder a man came into our house. It was between 9 and 10 o'clock when he came in. He was employed by my hus band as a shearer. He stayed from Friday till Tuesday. I looked at him when he came in with suspicion. I did not like his look. My husband engaged him at 6d.aday. When I found ho was engaged, I said ho should not sleep in the house, but that he might sleep outside. He was put into the barn to sleep. I used to listen to the talk at meal times and in the evenings. I heard him say that Logue • was an awful fellow, and that he was a headstrong fellow. I asked Shaw (for such he gave as his name) what he would 'shoot the young fellow for, and he replied, "Graham swore to the rope when Logue was transported." I under stood that the rope he referred to was the one that was round the sheep. I heard him say another day that a farmer named Carson had sworn against Logue, and had given him a bad character at the trial. Carson's stacks and houses were since burned. He said Carson was a bad man, and that Logue would have a " hop" at him yet. I then said, " How would he have a hop at him 2" "Oh !" says he, " he will wait till the dark winter nights come in." I do not remember whether he said it was Logue that shot the boy or not. He seemed afraid of the police. They were going past ono evening, and he would not go out. He was always asking about the news of the murder. Ono night he said he had been fined by the Rev. Mr. Monsell in 7s. Gd.for throwing bullets on the road. He was working in our house as "Bill Shaw." That attracted my attention, and I asked Mr. Monsell if it was a man named Bill Shaw he fined, and he said it was John Logue. He also said that he and his party put stones on the road to throw at Mr. Monsell's horses on his way home from Hilsborough, as revenge for fining, him. I asked Mr. Monsell about that too, and he remembered it, and said that it wasLogue ho fined. He left our house very suddenly. My son said to him one evening, "Bill, I'll tell the police there is a stranger here," and that night ho went away. He took two shirts out of my wash tub and a reaping hook with him. Ono of - my sons saw a letter with him addressed to a person in Lisbttrn. Ho also felt shot in a parcel which he had, and he saw 'a pair of sugar-tongs broken in three pieces. He wrote on one of the doors that I was a rascal. The letter and sugar tongs, it is hoped, will enable the police to discover the whereabouts of Logue, who was lost sight of a few miles from Lisburn, going in the direction of Ballindorry. A man named John Leathern, who belongs to Portadown, was arrested on suspicion, on Saturday evening ,at Ballinderry, but was discharged by order of the coroner, there being nothing to criminate him. The account he gave of himself was that, when arrested, he was going home from Crewe Hill, where he was assisting a friend to pull flax. A nephew of Mr. Graham's, named George Kearney, was ar rested in Glynn on suspicion, but was discharged. The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown.—Dublin Express. ALPINE ASCENT.—The first ascent of the Pigne d'Arolla, a mountain 12,500 feet in height, near Evolena, in the Val d'Hereas, was made on Wednesday, the 16th inst. The Rev. Dr. Millard, vicar of Basing stoke, his brother, the Rev. F. M. Millard, and the Rev. F. C. Fitton, left the Chalets at Arolla at 3.10 a.m., reached the summit at 10 a m., and returned to Arolla at 2.30 p.m. In two previous attempts they were defeated by bad weather. THE LATE QUAKER CASE.—A worthy member of the Society of Friends at Manchester was much scandalised on reading in the papers that Mr. Joseph Carson took off his hat on the second occasion of his appearance before Mr. Baron Bramwell, as a juryman at Liverpool. He therefore wrote to Mr. Carson himself on the subject, and received the following reply :—" Respected friend, — I have just received thy letter, and may inform thee that I did not appear in court uncovered, as stated in the papers, my hat having been removed and taken away by an officer of the court. It was also stated in the public prints that I addressed the judge as My lord,'—also an error, as I could not conscientiously thus address any human being. I much regret that the circumstance has been so incorrectly brought before the public mind ; but I am favoured with the feeling of peace from the conviction that I have acted in accordance with my conscience and principles through out. —Thy friend, JosEPA CARBON:, )3PORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day. DERBY RACES—Tins DAY. HARRINGTON STAKES. Squire Life Guardsman Cairngoram BEAUFORT CUP. Queen of Trumps 1 Cutaway Sapunda 23 Five ran. The Attempted Murder and Suicide in, Westminster. At three o'clock this afternoot, the man Shannessoy, under the care of the surgeons at Westminster Hospital, was going on very favourably. The wound in the throat, although there is much inflammation, is not likely to prove fatal. The female also is going on so well that a fatal result in her case is not now anticipated. The Shenandoah.—Great Destruction of American Wnalers. LIVERPOOL, Wednesday. Notwithstanding the cessation of hostilities in the United States, and the disbanding of the Confede rate forces, the officers in. command of the cruiser Shenandoah seem determined to continue the de struction of American merchant ships. By the arrival here to-day of - the City of Boston from New York we have San Francisco advices to July 21. The latest accounts received at that place from the Shenandoah were to the afternoon of the 23d of June, when she was near Cape Thaddeus, steaming N.W., toward where a fleet of 60' whalers were known to be previeusly. Capt. Nye, of the French whaling barque Milo, on learning of the intentions of the captain of the Shenandoah, left his vessel in a small boat during a fog for the purpose of warning the whalers of their danger. The Milo also spoke a French whaler, which at once made all sail towards the fleet, and having a co ns id era bl e start of the Shenandoah it was just possible she might be in time to save the vessels from destruction. While the Shenandoah was at the Island of Ascension, some time since, she burned the new London barque Pearl, and the New Bedford ship Young Hector, besides a San Francisco and a Hawaian whaler. She next burned the New Bedford barque Abigail, in the Ochotsk Sea ; then the Thompson, in the Kamtschatka sea ; and then several New Bedford whalers in the Anadir Sea, where she ar rived on the 20th June. It is feared that, unless the French ship's open whale boat could succeed in warning the fleet, all would . be captured, as the Shenandoah knew exactly where to find them. They were hovering along the southern edge of the ice fields, drawing closer together as the ice drifted to wardsßehring's Straits, through which they were seek ing, a passage to the Arctic zone, as the ice permits. There were no efficient Government vessels at San Francisco, and the merchants at that place had ap pealed to the Commandant of the Navy-yard to charter the steamer Colorado, arm her, and send her in pursuit of the Shenandoah. As instructions, however, had to be obtained from Washington be fore the commandant could act, the fate of the whaling fleet looks rather gloomy. Should they have managed to get into Behring's Straits, the Shenandoah would hardly dare to follow them. Valuation of Life Liabilities• A pamphlet on the subject of the valuation of the Life Liabilities of the Royal Insurance Com pany has lately appeared, which, while modestly termed by the author an Appendix to the Report, as the actuary to the directors of that company, has, in truth, a much wider interest. In this able publication, of about 50 pages, not merely are the results of the business of the particular company disclosed, with an entire absence of reserve which is worthy of imitation by every other life office, but the object of the talented author appears to have been so to bring down to the level of the unprofessional mind the abstruse science of the application of vital statistics to life insurance, that the intelligent reader may follow every step in ascertaining the liabilities, and the application of the profits resulting from the business of a great and leading life insurance company. It is satisfactory to add that the particular business which forms the theme of this work ap pears to have been most gratifying in its results, as is sufficiently evidenced by the following ex tract from its pages:— " The statement of accounts for the last twenty years shows, as a final result, the entire accumula tion of funds on the life assurance branch to be, on the 31st Dec., 1864 £571,046 11 1 " The amount required to be re tained to accumulate at three per cent. interest to meet the liabilities of the company, as shown by the laborious calcula tions above described, is 402,087 16 10 " The amount of profit on the last five years is, therefore 168,958 14 3 Sufficient, even though the interest of money should only be three per cent., to provide a reversionary bonus of £2 per cent. per annum, to be added to the original sum assured of every participating policy effected previously to the Ist January, 1863, and existing on the Ist January, .1865, for each entire year that it had been in existence since the last appropriation of bonus." SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE —This day. LONDON, Aug. 3 1 . — Wind t his day at .noon—North- Westerly; moderate breeze and fine weather, but rather cloudy. BRISTOL ? Aug. 30.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Albertus, for Labrador. SOUTLIABIPTON, Aug. 30.—Wind W.—Sailed—America, steamer, for New York. CARDIFF, Aug. &I.—Wind S.W. — Arrived—Ridedule, from Jamaicr. OFF TORBAY, Aug. 30.—Arrived—Ocean Child, from the West Indies. HournEAu, Aug. 29.—Wind S.W.—Arrivod—Arcturnis, from Rio Janeiro. KINGROAD, Aug. 30.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Guide, from New York. • TORBAY, Aug. 30.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Sanspareil, 'or St. John's, Newfoundland. FALMOUTH, Aug. 29.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Auora, for Plymouth. PLYMOUTH . , Aug. 80.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Sidney, from Demerara ; Aurora, from Taganrog ; Roseveden, from Pomaron. _ COWES, ^ Aug. 31.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Germania, steamer, from New York. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning. Arrived, Aug. 31.—Imogen, from Algoa Bay ; Bri tannia, from Penang; Arcadia, from Jamaica. DEAL, Thursday Morning. Passed—Frederick William of Guernsey, Two Friends of Guernsey, and Hero of Weymouth, from the West—all for London. THE CHOLERA.—The Odessa Gazette annOnces that there have been five cases of cholera at Galatz, of which two terminated fatally; five cases of cholera had also occurred on board three vessels which had arrived at Odessa from Constantinople. General Kotzebue has issued an order that all vessels coming from the Principalities, Constantinople, and the Turkish ports of the Black Sea shall undergo t en da y s' quarantine. Moreover, the Governor-General, after con sulting with the authorities and physicians of the city, has ordered that all vessels coming from f orei g n ports shall be stopped naar Langeron (five versts from The c where a guard shall be placed to watch them. The quarantine of the town is quite closed, and there is no communication with it. A committee has been formed at Odessa to deli berate upon the measures to be taken to stop the cholera, and diminish its effects in case it should appear in the town. THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON'S VISIT TO ARENEN BERG.—The Wachter am Rhein tells the following story:—During his late visit to Arenenberg, the Emperor took great pleasure in seeing his former neighbours and having a familiar talk with them. Re was received by the inhabitants with great enthusiasm. On his return from the Lake of Constance, finding that the gates of the park at Arenenberg were besieged by a dense crowd, he ordered the people to be all admitted, and mingled among them, shaking hands with every one he recognised. A little old woman of Salenstein, on being accos t e d by him in these words, "Well, good woman, haw you too recognised me?' answered " Yes, yes, Mr. Emperor, I know you well enough ; but you look a little older than when 1 saw you last." The Emperor on leaving Switzerland gave a sum of 30,000 fr. for the poor in the communes around Aronen berg. The Duchess Adelaide of Augustenburg, who, it has been stated, went to meet the Royal family of England at Coburg, has returned to Nieustedten, Holstein. 1 11111 A j 100 10 'Co 1 0 100 100 100 k 0 100 100 100 100 100 100 F.,0 100 100 10,1 100 100 7.8.3 8.13 4.18.0 gi 4.3.0 2t 211 43i 371 4.2.0 2.8.0 7.1.6 10.6.: 3.12.81 4;j I Sli f 81 104 31 103/ II 1091