The Sun. — London, England, 1866-09-18 00:00:00

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'll‘ ji T D O `to 10•"" 4 3 ' Clt 1,81" )0 1 " - A re itte , 9, 13 .1; 10,1Sa pl $Ol Prot!, 110 !P t a y. is re °et' f ilo 31 1 • 0 00 us t ° t ot a il t e , 'Jo l'*4 4 OW' ,er 1- o'° ;:t 0 reg 0 Ii XONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, TWELVE O'CLOCK, A further influx took place at the Bank of Eng land yesterday, amounting to £70,000 in bar gold and 11,000 soverigns. The coupons on t he New York second Mortgage and the Pennsylvania and Ohio First Mortgage Bonds of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway, due on the Ist prox., are payable on that date at the office of the company. In the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets during the last few days there has been rather more animation. Sugar has been in great demand, and late rates have been fully maintained. For coffee the inq u i ry h as b een to a f a i r extent, superior qua lity of Plantation Ceylon having sold readily at full Prices. Rice has again been in active demand Chiefly for exportation, and holders demand a fur ther slight advance, while in tallow the dealings have been very restricted, without any material change as regards prices for either present or for- Ward delivery. It has been arranged to close the public sales of reel on Tuesday, the 25th, instead of the 26th l c . at., as announ ce d. U pon th e w h o l e, as t h e auc tions are drawing to a close the competition has become more animated for all descriptions. The demand is brisk for combing wools, of which there Will be but few until the next March sales, and Prices show, if anything, a further improvement. Two o'CLocr. At the Paris Bourse to-day, according to Reuter's telegram, the 3 per Cent. Rentes were dealt in at 69 f. 25c. The English Stock Market, although extremely dull, has denoted firmness in prices. Business has b een very limited in consequence of the large num ber of the commercial -classes who in the early part of September. are seeking recreation in the country. Consols have not varied, the quotations being 89k 1 f or money, and 891 j- for the account. The New 'limes and Reduced Annuities were 861 87 ; Bank (3 f England for account, 242 ; India 5 per Cents., 1 , °4 1 - 1 ; ditto Enfaced 5f p e r Cents., 105 ; and Debentures, 1011. The prices of most of the principal Foreign Stocks are at a decline. Greek Bonds have receded to 1 51 ; Mexican, 1 to 161 1 ; Spanish Passive, to 231 ; Certificates, 1 to 151 ; Italian, however, are firm at 561, and the Brazilian Scrip at 4k 3} dis. American Securities aro a little buoyant. United States 5-20 Bonds have advanced 1 to 721 f ; Erie Shares, I to 47/ ; and Illinois 1 to 78k 1. The Atlantic and Great Western Railway De bentures are steady at 68 70, and the Consolidated Alortgage Bonds at 49 50. 11l the Railway Share Market only a moderate a mount of business has been transacted, but prices generally exhibit rather more firmness. Great 'Vestern, L ancas hi re an d Y or k s hi re, an d L on d on Chatham, and Dover, have each improved 1, and South Easte rn , N or th W es t ern, M etropo lit an , an d ° ° ll th Eastern, each, 1. The Foreign a n d C o l on i a l li nes genera lly exhibit Little change of importance. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares remain dull. Im- Per lal Ottoman are m ar k e d 91 10 ; L o ndon and A °l lotY, 64 ; Oriental Ba n k C or p ora ti on , 45 46 ; °00 -Ameri can Telegraph are dealt in at 17+ 1; 3 7,, tl antic Telegraph 8 per Cents paid up, at 1271 3. 4 . Telegraph C ons t ruc ti on an d M a i n t enance a t 8 18 1 ; and Hudson's Bay Company, at 17/, 1. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES D G OVERNMENT FUNDS. u Der Cent. Consols D 891 1 , o. Account, Oct. 9 - ii. Per Cent. Reduced B6/ 7 & el ' 3 per Cent B6l 7 1- 1 1 ' af per Cont. Jan. 1894 92 4 -0 . per Cnt. Jan. 1873 — IMuities, 30 0 yrs, expire sth Jan. 1880 bo. for 30 yrs, expire sth 1908 AprilABBs. 1)0 (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., a — rch. tx 1, --c " o cluer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 per Cent. — Do. £5OO 3 pm ll Do £lOO and £2OO a h il k oA I England Stock, 61 per Cent Shut .'-'ccount 242 T IliDaN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. ntia• n ' l4l l Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 2ll DO 5 per Cent. July, 1870 .. lO4l 1 O. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 hO. Certificates — tO. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent — D ° b . 5 par Cent., Jan. 1872 o, 5 f per Cent., May 1879 lO5 bo. Deb 5 I) per Cant. Aug. 18 73 , P DO . Bonds p Cont., £l,OOO lolf 17 " 0 . under £l,OOO 4, rOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. A,g,,eli.tino Republic, 6 per Cent., £l5 pd — pm -.tria ti t ra „„, Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 — b 4ll an 5 per Cent — 1 °' 4 1 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Do 1863 _3 D 3 A Dccounto • 1865 Do . £lOO Bonds — Ik e ,. crip, £65 paid e 0 °2.4., ( 3 ) - w o s n 6 d i s )er Cent — D ° 1 iu Ot i i i : -'• Per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) 1:1 1 an 6 per Cent — b r , ° ' ~.4 1 per Cent — IV' 0 por Cen ...., 0 o . -... v oi - crip, .£7st paid e4iptbian 6 per Cent. — b a N Per Cent. D 11,.% 3 per Cent., 1825 . 0 Per Cent., 1864 .. -4 11 bi • •'' ••)1 an Principalities to" Account U rs ad °r New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — if', P rovisional Land Warrant — ISDN,° belerred _,l - 7 per Cent j) *) Second Issue — ° £lOO Bonds B9 D e Do. 1864 — 1:), £ ) 0 0 Bonds B7l 1;0'. G overnment Railway Debentures (ir ee i 48 5 0 p a id ....7 cut, IL per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons D ° ' Account 13 oupons ;un to '• Account Itliala 5 per Cent. — D,;41, Per Cent 1865 ~,4 t ecount mlezi Atarenainana Railway N eat ' 3 per Cent Account b 4 D ~. 1864 — Lkozi° - t. 61) Per Cent. Anglo-French — tko t ilidean 6 er Cent. ev,,'' Imperia]. 5 per Cent .6 0 , .:,rranada l3/ 14 DD o ',Per Cent — o' 4ioferred l'et o L arid Warrant s (H ec t ares ) b • Accou Via D o 4 0 per Cent., 1865 nt . _ 4, .3t, Per Cent. (Uribarren) I' — ()° A 1 Per Cent.,1862 Ac ortli C OUnt .--• b 0 P e so 3 per C en t., 1853 hD o ',Per Cent 1856 , '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, 441 f Aas,,i Account '' N 't P 5 Per Cent., 1822, £ St BBl D a a t Per Cont. 1850 D o i Peer Cent, 1860 N 6 Cont. 1859 Q I), , Per Cont. 1862 9( trcii ll u. Per C ent. 1864 Qbo ; al l 5 per Cent 1) „o ec - 4 Int ",e. PEW Deferred — unt tio A cunt •—• Pa ll . "ee 41 11 t 13 ' 4l O 0 A eq. of Coup not funded — ;I•oee c ount l5; P t 1) 0. 1 !i ll i 4 Per Cont. — Itrki*t:r6Per Cent. 1864 04_ Per Cent. 1854 — 0 0 6 Act 82 1 uo P e r Cent 18 - 8 Dobe. 4 ` 3eo oiit • ') .tlOO ii , tot,6 , Cent. 1862 ACori Cent. 1862 1) o ° .I °o Yr 571 61 71 6 Per _onds D o 6 ,Pe, kjelat., 1863 bq .ik,`", e ' C© 1865, paid up Scrip — V, O . A Per b 0 "172atiaer3Cent. Guaranteed b 0 6 Per o P ‘ er Cent. — — p e Per cnt., 1862 — d J e '°unt . eel , cetii, . i 1 . 4 ., ............ tti4 • I vide u a, l rl 4ll, as on the above payable in London. t o N , , 9 , Per Cent., Ex. 10 Flaring in 2cl Per cent., Ex. 25f. I t'lli ° ' CeP" ° Aut. Ex. 12 Guil — lb ificv bo g 5 Per (`‘ es • ,k,e -out., 1861, Ex. 25f. °4 ot h 4 Ol ..., 0 8 , lkt o THREE O'CLOCK. ' A 4 e3r ee ount • . B9l 1 The 'Money Market shows no alteration of import ance. The supply of floating capital, although abundant for all present requirements, is not quite m large as it was a few days ago, and rates, there fore, are slightly tending higher, but still k per cent. below the official minimum for the best short dated Paper. 11ARE 'his Day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Share! Railways. I p a id./ Closing Business Price. I done. t itiriatol and Exeter it lUaledonian 87 89 128 29 40 45 13 15 4 6 70 72 75 85 t C.lzll brian 5 Cork and Bandon ;0 Cornwall st Dublin & Belfast Junc. st Dun„Perth, & Ab.Junc. 100 &London, zerip Certi. Do. st Glasgow &S. Western at Great Eastern, ()rd. stk. st Do. E. Augi. at. No. st G real North of Scotland at rest Northern at Do. A stock 116 120 30 31 5 6 1:8 120 LO i3l st Do. B stock Do. New, Is. at 25 pw st GtS, and W. of Ireland, ;t Gt. Western -Original, ;t Do. 6. VAI. Ilafl bus. It Do. South Wales it Do. W. Mid.—Oxford it Do. Newport Do. Hereford. at Lancashire lz Yorkshire at London and Blackwall at Lon., Brigh., & S Coast at Lon., Chat., and Dover at Do. Metrop. Ex. A..' at Lou. & North Western at Lon. do South Western at Man., Shet., & Lincoln, at Metropolitan 10 Do. New 10 Do. Extension. 100 Metropolitan Dietrict. ( Do. do. do. .0 Do. and St. John'eW'd it Midland 9 Do. L 9 Share et Do, Btrmin.. & Derby 25 ►lid Kent st North British ...... at Do. Ed., Pth., & Dun. at Nth. Eastern—Berwick 25 Do. G.N•E purchase at Do. Leeds at Do. York it I Do. Carlisle: 15 Do. Stock. & :5 Do. do. 1860-61 it North London Do. do. 1864 Do. do. 1865 ... t 'North Staffordshire it N. &S. W. Junction it Scottish Central it Scot. N. E , Aber. stock' it Vo. Scot, Mid. stack st Shropshire Union it South Devon it South 1] atern IStalues, Wok., it Wok it raw Vale Do. C ... ...... et Vale of Neath et Waterford & Kilkenny 10 Waterloo & Whiteha et West Cornwall BRITISH 100 Atlantic k St. Lawrence et Rom.,Baroda, r Cen.ln. gu. 5 per cent... 20 Do. F shares 204 Buffalo Az Lake Huron 10 Do. Preference 00 Buff., Brant, & Goderich 6 p.c. 1872-3- • at Calcutta dr S. E.,-lim at ;al :e Town & Dock, gu 00 Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p st East. Ben,;al, gu., sdo at East ledian ' gut. 5 p.c. 20 Do. J Extension s t Grand Trunk of Canada 00 Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds 1 charge 6 00 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds 00 Do. do deferred .... 00 De. 2d Pr, f. Bonds 00 Du. do. dehred 00 Do. 3d Pref. stock.... Do. dd, deferred ... Do. 4th Pref. stook . Do. do. deterred ... st G . t. India 1 ; 20 1 o. Gua. 5 per cent.. 20 Do. New gua. sp. c.., at at. South of India gua. 5 per cent at D.;. 41 per cent st Do 20i Lfrcat Wes. of Canada.. 20& Da. New . ...... 'OO Do. 6p. e. I3d . s. pay. 1873 100 Do. 51 do. pay. 1877-8.. 10 Indian Branch, limited at Madras, gua. 5 p.o at Do. 41 do at Do. 4i do 20 Do. Fifth Extension at Nfelb. Cor. 6p. c. Bnda. 50 Mel. aL Hudson's Bay at N. Itl.C'da,6pc lstpf.bs at Scinde ...... A at Do. Delhi 20 Do. do .l : c7s st Do. Puniaub.... at Do.lndue St.llot "'" 91 93 59 BO 55 0 37 39 34 3d 125 126 83 89 22 28 120 121 81 16 68 .9 130 13.: 2 3p' 11 111 94 98 123 /23y li 2 1 91 04 lo 51 2 21 105 1.7 67 69 101 103 34 26 9 10 p 120 125 1 2p 1 2p 71 73 114 118 152 156 75 77 43 15 70 71 8 V ,4 145 2 3 51 53 ,SIONS. 61 A 6 93 100 id 1p 4 44 741 84 76 80 60 65 100 102 994 IGO, 99 101 20 22 86 89 55 SS 48 52 50 55 45 50 40 45 33 3:1 25 27 24 26 105 107 1 1 tl5 100 91 93 141 14/ 5i 91 93 83 , 35 11 011 98 09 89 81 84 86 B'2 96 98 94 96 1 1 1 95 97 107 j I 141 i .., COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECUII ITI British Columbia, 6 per cent., Dec. 31, 1572.... 100 Can.Gev.6 p.c.Ja.&July 1877-84 Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug.. 1..0 93 95 Do. sp. c. Mar. & Sept 100 94 94 Do. sp. c. Jan. & July 100 77 79 Do. 5p c. Inscribed sk 100 76 79 Cape G.llope, 6 p.c. 1873 100 101 163 Do.Apl.6zoet, 1890-1900 100 101 105 Do. do; IsBo-9t, 100 102 101 Do. Jam&July, 1890-91 100 100 103 Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and 15 Oct., 1900 lOO 88 20 90 Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p.c 100 100 102 Do. 1878, do. 100 105 1.7 Mauritius, 6p. 0, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1878 Do. 188?, May i 5, Nov. It, 100 101 103 Do. 1895, Feb. & Aug lOO 103 105 Natal qov. 6 per cent lOO 97 100 N.B.Gov.6p.c.Ja.&July 100 90 92 N. S.W. Gov. 5 p•c.,1866 100 90 92 Do. 5 p.c. 1871 to 1876 100 90 95 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1892 100 86 87 86 New Zealand, 6p. cent 100 92 91 Do. 5 per cent lOO 79 81 801 Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. 0 sterling, 1875 l9O 92 94 931 e Queensland Gov. 6p. c lOO 91 03 911 2 S. Aus.Gov. 6 p,6.1868-9 100 Do. 1878 & upwards 1(0 105 107 Vie,Gov. 6 p.c. Ja &July 100 Do. do, April & Oct lOO 106 103 11.71 • BRITISH MINES. 2 Cam. Consol. Gold, Lim 1 Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated BO : 0 12 Devon G. Cons. (Tavist 1 440 460 Drakewalls 2.1.0 f East Bassett (Illogan) 295 23 25 East Caradon 2.14.6 7 8 East Carn Brea 3l 25 3 East Grenville East Gunnislake 8.3.6 - East Loved .. . ... 3.9.0 10 12 E. W'l Russell (Tavistk 10.8.0 31 41 - Gam.& StAubyn(G wen. 66 4 Great L,ocey, limited all 19 20 Great South Tolgus 0.14.6 } Great Wheal Busy }cm G. Wheal Vor (llelst.n 40 25 27 Grenville 8.18.0 1} 15 Ilerod'a Foot • . . 8.10.0 33 36 Hingston Downs .. ... 5.10.6 3} 31 Margaret (Uny Lelant 13.17.6 6 8 - Mare Valley. ...... ... 4.10.6 '45 6 4 ttwyndy Iron Ore, ... 35 2} 1/d --New Se Len North Roskear . - N.Wh'l Bassett(lllogan 4.4.0 • • North Wheal Crotty 2.13. t 1 Prosper United....... 7. " Providence .Uny Lelant 10.6.7 27 30 S. Caradon (St. Cleer) l} 325 375 South CondurrOW - B.Wheal Fran. (Mogan 18.18.9 14 16 Stray Park 35.1.5.6 - Tin Croft..... .... . 5 Vigra and Clogan, lira all 3 5 West Bassett (Mogan W. Caradon (Liskeard 9 8 ;0 95 West Chi rerton ....... . 11 63 67 West Seton. ..... . - Wheal Bassett 'Mogan 55 85 95 _ Wheal Buller atedruth 16 23 26 Wheal Mary Ann (Men. 8 5 7 Wheal Seton ...... . ... 585 160 111:0 Wheal Trelawney (Lie. 5.17.0 9 11 ettEYEILENCE bllAuss. London end S.W., Portsmouth perpet. suns. o Hid Consolidated, 6 per cent. stock, Ditto. Bristol and Birm., 6 per cent., 128 North Eastern, Cons. pref., 4 per cent., Ditto, 4i per coat. et. rd., 93 2} North Eastern, York, H. and Selby purchase, 10 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern 4i per cent. pi., Ditto, new, 5 per cent., 1862, 74 London and S.-Western 4i per cent., 90 PA 6d, 2} LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. London and Blackwall, 811 Nottingham and Grantham R. and C, 901 Vale of Neath, 100 FOREIGN MINDS. Chontales Gold and Silver Mining, 31 / Frontino and Bolivia Gold, 11m., 1 BANKS. Bank of British Columbia, 171 1 Colonial, 381 1 Consolidated Bank, lim., 54 4 1 English, Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 171 English and Swedish. lim.. 114 Hindustan, China, and Japan, ilm., 3 Imperial Ottoman, 94 10 Land Mortgage Bank of India, lira., 34 London and River Plate, 50 London Chartered Bank:of Australia, 23 London and County, 84 London Joint Stock,:43 London and South African, 13 London and Westminster, 934 Oriental Baltic Corporation, 46 3 61 Provincial Banking Corporation, Rm., 4 Union of Australia, 47 Union of London, 46 DOCKS. London and St. Katharine, 63 MISCELLANNOUI3; Anglo-American Telegraph, 174 1 17 Angla-Mexican Mint, IN Atlantic Telegraph, 894 9 91 90 Ditto, 8 per cent., 1271 30 25 Boo , bay Gas, lira., 31 Credit Fonder of England, lira , 5 44 Electric Telegraph, 1334 Gen. Credit and rinance of Londsn, lim., 44 Hudson's Bay. 171 International Financial Society, lim., 34 4 Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour), Ditto, 6 per cent. Bonds, redem. 1870, issued 90, 54 London General Omnibus Company, Um, 3 1 Mauritius Land, Credit, and Agency, lira., 1 1 Merchant Shipping, lim., 64 Freehold Land and Dock, 34 4 National Discount ompany. 14 am, ma. Ntw Zealand, and Aus. R. Mail, 74 Peninsula and Oriental steam, 62 lioyal Mail Steam. 113 Telegraph Construction and Maintenance, lim., Ditto (.£1), 184 18 Thames and Mersey Marine, insurance lim, 6/ BISM.kIICK'S KING.—On the new coinage now being struck at the Mint of Berlin tho Prussian King's head is surrounded with a laurel leaf—a decoration not to be found on Prussian coins since the days of Frederick the Great. OUR PRINCESS ALICE'S HUSBAND.--A rumour is afloat to the effect that the Grand Duke of Hesse pro posos to abdicate in favour of Princo Louis, the husband of Princess Alico. June. SSE; THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 18, 1866. Central Criminal Court—This Day. OLD COURT. (Before the Common Sergeant.) TILE MURDER IN ST. GILES'S. An application was made by Mr. Daly before the court this morning on the part of Jeffrey, the accused, for a post ponement of the trial to the next sessions. The Common Sergeant said the application should be made to-morrow, when the judgeswould be in attendance, more especially as the grand jury had not yet returned a true bill against the prisoner. The application, therefore, had bettor stand over. Shortly after the grand jury entered the court with a numbor of true bills,amongst which was one against Jeffrey for wilful murder. Mr. Daly, 'it is understood, will renew his application to-morrow morning. CHARGE OF 13 URGLARY-A KIND GRANDFATHER. John Harcott, 28, compositor, was indicted for feloni ously receiving a plated biscuit box, a cruet frame, throe spoons, and othor articles, the property of John Clark Marshman, well knowing the same to have been stolen. From the evidence it appeared that the residence of the prosecutor, who resided at Bickley Park, had been.broken into, and the prisoner was seen in Bishopsgate-stroet with one of the articles in his possession under very suspicious circumstances. On being questioned he gave a very un satisfactory account of how ho became possessed of the property, and ho was taken into custody. Some pawn brokers' tickets were found in the pockets of the prisoner, which were found to relate to the other articles stolen from Mr. Marshman's house. On the close of the evidence the prisoner made a very original statement to the jury in his defence. Ho said—l was passing over London-bridge to work on Saturday morning, when two men came up to me, and one of them said, "Good morning, John," to which I said, " Good morning, but ycu've the advantage of me." The man in answer, said, "I'm your grandfather," when I answered, "Aro you? Well, I didn't know it." The man said, " Oh, yes, I am, but I haven't seen you for seven years." I said, "I am glad to see you." (Laughter.) To which my grandfather said, " Come and take some refreshment, as I am going to Paris," and we all went to a public house, whore we remained for over an hour. We then went to the railway station to gether, and finding the train not going for some time we went and had some breakfast. IVlNenjoying the repast my grandfather—(laughter)—said, "I should like to give you something to remember me by," and I said I should like to have something. (Laughter.) He said, "Do you want money ?" and I said " Yes ; but don't give me any, as if you do I shall spend it." He then took out a carpet bag from under the seat and said, " This teapot cost me £5 10s., and I give it to you as a heirloom, so that you may keep it in the family to remember me by" (laughter), and I said "thank you, I will." Ile then said to the young man who was with him, "you have a lot of things you don't want, they'll only be a trouble to you to take them to Paris ; you might let my young relative have them cheap ;" and then the young man took out another bag and showed me a pot and some towels and a number of other things, and he offered to sell them to me for a pound. I told him I had'nt got a pound and that I had only 155., but if ho would wait until the evening when I got my money I'd give him a pound for them as they wore worth it. He agreed to take the 155., as they were going away, and then I saw them safe off. (Laughter.) I thought I'd go down to Kingsland and see my aunt—(loud laughter)—and show how kind her brother had been to me—(repeated laughter) —but she was'nt at home, and as it came on to rain, and I had'nt got any money, I went and pawned some of the things for Gs. Gd. (Laughter.) I then went and had some dinner, and went home to Lambeth. After dinner I thought I'd go and see my aunt again —(laughter) —and so I took the tea-pot under my arm, wrapt up in one of the cloths, and as I was going down Bishopsgate-street I that one of my aunt's lodgers —(laughter) —and I asked if my aunt was at home, and ho said no, and so I thought I wouldn't go ; and as it came on to rain again —it poured very hard—l stood up under a gateway, and just as I was doing so a gentleman tumbled in after me, right on to my heels; and he said it's very wet, sir; and I said, yes, it is. He said, what have you got under your arm? I am a police officer. I said, a pot ; and he said, where did you get it from ? I told him my grandfather gave it to me. Ho said, your account is not satisfactory, and he took mo to the station. That's all I've got to say about it. The Common Serjeant, in summing up, pointed out the difference between the statement made by the prisoner according to the version of the police-officer, and his pre sent defence, which, if the jury believed, they would give a verdict accordingly. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and the Common Serjeant sentenced him to 12 months' imprisonment with hard labour. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day MANSION-HOUSE. STEALING LEAD.—William Price, Richard Stock, and John Brown, were charged, the first with stealing 331bs of lead, and the others with aiding him in the same. From the evidence of police-constable 909, one of the City police, it appeared that about half-past eight last even ing lie was standing at the door of his place in Baker's buildings, Bishopsgate-street Without, when he saw the prisoners loitering about, and his suspicions being aroused he spoke to Price, who had a bundle tied in an apron. He opened the bundle and discovered the lead, which Price said he had found on a dungheap. With the assistance of his brother officers tho prisoners were taken to the station. They were not known to the police. He compared the lead with some that was in the house of a gentleman in the neighbourhood, and found that it had been stolen from these premises. • Price and Stock, who were in the employment of an ironmonger, received an excellent character from him, and he appealed to the Lord Mayor to deal leniently with them, adding that he was willing to take them into his service again. A gentleman, named Simmons, said he lived in the neighbourhood of Baker's-buildings, which had been taken by the Great Eastern Railway Company, and from which a number of persons had been recently ejected. Brown was in his employment about a week, but ho took him Without any character. The gentleman to whom the lead was supposed to be long not being in attendance, the prisoners were remanded. A gentleman, who did not give his name, said ho lived in the neighbourhood, and that the building had become a regular nuisance since the premises had become vacant. Idle and ill-conducted boys used ito get into the houses, light fires there, and cause great annoyance to the peace able inhabitants. RATE DEFAULTERS.—SeveraI persons were fined diffe rent sums, or sentenced to short terms of imprisonment for non-payment of rates. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. THE BITER BlT.—Thomas Ever, cook, was charged be fore Mr. Tyrwhitt with stealing a jar from tho shop of Mr. Banger, shell fishmonger, Oxford-street. The prisoner was seen by W. Hills, City policeman, who happened to be passing, to go up to Mr. Banger's window, and take up what no doubt he supposed to be a jar of anchovy paste, and put it into his pocket. The pri soner, however, made a mistake, for in consequence of Mr. Banger having been several times robbed ho had taken the precaution to place some empty jars in his window with the view of saving tho full ones. Mr. Banger stated that his object was not so much to punish the prisoner as to caution others, Mr. Tyrwhitt committed the prisoner for seven days. WESTMINSTER. THROWING MUD INTO THE THAMES.—John eockerell and Frederick Cooper, navvies, and Edward Oliver, a lighterman, of 40, Salisbury-street, Bermondsey, were charged, under the 20th and 21st Victoria, the Thames Conservancy Act, 1857, with throwing mud into the River Thames. Inspector Pricker, of the Thames Police, said that from information received on the Monday evening he went in a boat, with two constables, up the river, and when off Cremorne saw a barge drifting down in charge of Oliver. He hoard the splash of something being thrown into the Thames, and went alongside the barge. He saw the two navvies throwing mud overboard. She had contained 25 tons of mud, which had boon taken from a dock just above Waterloo-bridge, and all had been thrown into the river but about a ton. The prisoners inculpated another, and Oliver said he had bean employed by a contractor named Fitz, of Cherry-garden-street. This was not the first load of mud that had been disposed of in this way. Oliver had no defence ; he had been employed to take it to Wandsworth, but missed the tide. The other prisoners pleaded ignorance of the law. Mr. Selfe said it was the most outrageous thing ho had heard for a long time, and having pointed out that they wore liable to a £2O penalty, fined the two "navvies" ss. each, and Oliver ..£s—in default of distress, seven days' and one month's imprisonment. fined the prisoner •lOe, for each assault, and in default 14 days' imprisonment, the sentences to be consecutive. The prisoner —I can't pay £d. Mr. Partri,lgo—Then you must go to prison for 42 days MABYLEBONE. A CRUEL TIU SBAND.-o:iVer Tomlin, a powerful man, living at 3G, Upper Carlisle-street, Marylebone, was charged with committing a violent assault upon Elizabeth, his wife. Prosecutrix, whose head and face was nearly covered with wounds, and who appeared to be in a very weak con dition, said for a long time she had boon subjected to a course of ill-treatment from her husband. Last Saturday night he returned from his work, when, from some un explained cause, he commenced abusing her, and continued doing so, almost without intermission, the whole of Satur day night and Sunday. At 3 o'clock yesterday morning he pulled her• out of bed, and for upwards of an hour he beat her about the head, face, and body, with his clenched fist, swearing all the time that he would murder her. Ho then knelt ou her body, and pulling her right hand to his mouth he knawed at it, and ultimately made his teeth meet through her hand. Her cries alarmed a police constable, who took the prisoner into custody. A number of witnesses were called, who proved that the prisoner was in the habit of brutally illtreating his wife. The prisoner said his wife was in the habit of remain ing out all night drinking with strangers. Mr. Mansfield sent him to hard labour at the House of Correction for one month. Naval and Military Intelligence. A Horse Guards' order was yesterday received at Chatham directing the 24th company of Royal En (P t , incers to be held in readi ness t o em b ark at Graves end on board the chartered troopship Merchantman, which has been taken up for the conveyance of the company to the Cape of Good Hope, to relieve one of the companies of that corps whose period of colonial service has expired. The 24th company will be augmented to 100 men of all ranks from the depot companies at headquarters, Chatham. The order also directs a small detachment of 23d company of Royal Engineers, together with a draught of the Ist battalion of the 10th Regiment, consisting of 45 men of all ranks, to embark for the Cape of Good hope in the same vessel, to join the service companies of that corps. The officers placed under orders to embark with the above troops are Captain Richard Bullen, Lieut. Walter St. George Burke, and Lieut. W. F. Richardson, Royal Engineers; and Ensign James Woolcott Lang, Ist battalion 10th Regiment. The detachments are to be in readiness to embark at Gravesend on the 21st inst., should the vessel be ready to receive them on board by that date. The sloop -corvette Reindeer, 7, 200-horse power, fitting for commission at Chatham, is ordered to have an armament consisting of one ordnance wrought-iron 7-inch muzzle-loading pivot gun, two 64-pounder muzzle-loading pivot guns, and four ordinary slide guns and wrought-iron carriages. She will also carry one 9-pounder breech-loading Armstrong rifled gun and one 6-pounder smooth bore brass gun for boat and field service. Her proportion of shot and shell will consist of 120 com mon 7-inch, 480 64-pounder, and 90 9-pounder segment shell% empty ;70 7-inch common, 240 64-pounder, and 70 9-pounder Armstropg shells, filled; and 30 9-pounder and 96 6-pounder solid shot for her boat guns. • Mr. J. F. Barnaby, attached to the Draughts man's Department at Chatham dockyard, has been selected by the Admiralty to superintend the manu facture of the iron beams for the Blanche, 4, 1,268 tons, 350 horse power, building at Chatham, at the Butterby works. The masts and gear for the Blanche are to be made at Chatham. A site near the redoubt on Mount Wise, 'Devon. port, has been selected on which to erect a statue o the late Lord Seaton—labourers are at work clear ing out the foundation. The screw steam gunvessel Dapper (tender to the Britannia), from Dartmouth, arrived at Plymouth on Thursday, and returned to Dartmouth on Friday. The armour-plated screw steamship Ocean, 23, left Plymduth on Thursday to join the Channel Squadron at Portland. About 200 artisans and labourers were entered in the Devonport dockyard on Thursday for service to the close of the financial year. • The armour-plated screw steamship Zealous, 20, at Devonport, was put in commission on Thursday for service probably in the Pacific. The armour-plated screw steamship Lord War den, 20, was placed on Friday in No. 3 dock in Keyham steam-yard to have her bottom cleaned and valves overhauled. The screw steam storeship Industry, Staff-Com mander E. C. Youel, from Woolwich for Ascension and Rio, arrived on Friday at Plymouth to embark stores. EDITION. SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day RICHMOND RACES—THIS DAY. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. EASBY STAKES. Tho EASBy STAKES of 5 sovs each, 3 ft, with 25 added ; two-year-olds 7st, three Bst 121 b; fillies and geldings allowed 31b ; maiden two-year-old starters twice allowed 31b, four times 51b; maiden three-year-olds allowed 71b; winners in 1833 of 100 soya at any ono time 41b, twice or of 200 soya 81b extra; the second to save his stake ; Grey Stone in ; 11 subs. Paxton ............................................ (R. Challoner) 1 The Admiral (Cameron) 2 Won by throe -quarters of a length. Betting-5 to 4on Paxton. RICHMOND CUP. THE RICHMOND CuP of 50 sovs (Handicap Plate); winners of any race aftor Sept: 14 51b, of any race value 100 sovs 71b, or of any race value 200 sovs 101 b extra. Grey Stone in. Feemy ................................................... (Craddock) 1 Cora ........................ . ....• (Barker) 2 Yarrow .................................... (Carroll) 3 Chessman, Warwick, Deerhound, Mochrie, and Fair Wind also ran. SAPLING STAKES. • A SAPLING STAKES of 10 sous each, h ft, with 50 added, for two-yr-olds ; colts Bst 101 b, fillies and geldings Bst 71b; winners of 100 sous 31b, 300 71b extra (extreme penalty); starters twiee without without winning allowed 31b; untrieds allowed 31b; tho second to receive 15 sous out of the stakes. Grey Stone in. 17 subs. Bumblekite. Newland . lionestish Won by h a lf a l ength. 3 MEMBERS' PLATE. The MEMBERS' PLATE of 50 sovs, added to a Handicap of 5 says each, 2 ft; winner of any handicap value 100 sovs after Sept. 14 71b, of two such handicaps or of any race value 200 sovs 101 b extra (extreme penalty) the second to receive 10 sovs out of the stakes. One mile. 19 subs. Elviro 1 Lady Coverdale 2 Bonaparte Six ran. BRECON RACES—Tnis DAY. BOROUGH STAKES. The BOROUGH STAKES (Handicap) of 10 sovs each, 7 ft, and 4 only if declared, with 50 added; the winner of the Breconshire Stakes 51b extra ; one mile and a half ; 11 subs. Colonel (Kenyon) 1 Ischia (Cannon) 2 Bitter Sweet (Murray) 3 Guido also ran. Betting-6 to 4 agst Colonel, 3to 1 agst Bitter Sweet, 4to 1 agst Ischia. Won by half a length. NURSERY. The NURSERY STAKES (Handicap) of 10 sovs each, h ft, with 40 added ; winners after Sept. 11 (at 10 a.m.) 71b extra ; five furlongs ; 6 subs. Recompense (Kenyon) 1 Whirligig (Cannon) 2 Colenso (Sopp) 3 Betting-6 to 4on Whirligig, sto 2 agst others. Won by a length. SELLING STAKES. The SELLING STAKES of 3 sovs each, with 20 added; three year-olds Bst 71b, four 9st 91b, five lOst 41b, six and aged lOst 71b ; the winner to be sold for 100 sovs ; it entered for 80 soya allowed 51b, 60101 b, 50141 h, 40181 b, 30 211 b, 20 281 b; one mile. Chance Hanway 2 Won easy. STEWARDS' CUP. the STEWARDS' Cur, value GO sovs, added to a Sweep stakes of 5 sovs each ; three-year-olds Bst 71b, four 9st 71b, five, six, and aged 9st 121 b ; winners once 41b, twice 71b, thrice or more 101 b extra; two miles. Gomera .. 1 Neroli Stockinger - Four ran. BIENNIAL. The THIRD BRECON BIENNIAL STAKES of 10 sovs each, with 40 added, for two-year-olds ; colts Bst 101 b, fillies and geldings Bst 71b; untrieds allowed 31b, but only one allowance; starters three times and never won allowed 51b; winners of any stake value 200 sovs 31b extra; three-quarters of a mile ; 9 subs. Whirligig Texana filly Won by a length. VICTORIA CLUB BETTING—Tins Day, CESAREWITCH. 7to 1 agst Potomac (offered) 100 to 6 agst Mathilde (offered) 100 to 6 agst Lothario (offered) 100 to 5 agst Ethelred (taken and offered) 100 to 3 agst Zenobia (taken and offered) 100 to 3 agst Regalia (offered) 100 to 2 agst Caithness (offered) 100 to 2 agst Chepstow (taken and offered) 200 to 3 agst Surney (offered) 200 to 3 agst Hawkawell (taken) DERBY. 5000 to 100 agst Star of India TURF AGENCY OFFIOE, 100, JERMTN-STREET, ST. JAMES'S, LONDON. R. SYDNEY SMITH (Member of Tatter sall's) begs to inform the racing publio he will execute COMMISSIONS (by letter only) on all the prin cipal races • throughout the year. For further particulars and prices see advertisement in The Sportsman newspaper every TUESDAY, THURSDAY, and SATURDAY. Price Current published DAILY, and forwarded on receipt of stamped directed envelope. Post-office Orders to be made payable at the Piccadilly or St. James's street offices, and cheques to be crossed the London and Westminster Bank." LONDON GAZs Evening. At the Court at Balmoral, the 14th day of September, 1866, present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council, it is this day ordered by her Majesty in Council that the Parliament, which now stands prorogued to Thurs day, the 25th day of October next, be further prorogued to Tuesday, the 20th day of November next ; and that the Right Hon. the Lord High Chancellor of that part of the United Kingdom called Great Britain do cause a Commis sion to be prepared and issued in the usual manner for proroguing the Parliament accordingly. EDMUND HARRISON. At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, Sept. 18, 1866 Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint the Right Hon. Edward Godon, Lord Penrhyn, to be her Majesty:a Lieutenant of the county of Carnarvon, his lordship this day took and subscribed the oath appointed to be taken thereupon instead of the oaths of allegiance, supremacy, and abjuration. WAR OFFICE, Sept. 17. The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for the appointment of Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Arthur Williams, of the Royal Artillery, and Lieutenant-Colonel Fiennes Middleton Colville, of the 43d Regiment, to be Ordinary Members of the Military Division of tho Third Class, or Companions of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. ST. JAMES'S PALACE, SEPT. 14. The Queen has been pleased, on the nomination of the Right lion. the Earl of Tankerville, to appoint Captain Charles William Earle one of her M a j es t y ' s Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, vice Winchester, resigned. ADMIRALTY, SEPT. 17. Royal Marine Light lnfantry—First eutenant Lennox George Rodney to be Captain, vice William Taylor, to half-pay; Second Lieutenant William Purvis Wright to be First Lieutenant, vice Rodney. ADMIRALTY, SEPT . 17 Mr. George Barnes Blackwell has this day been i pro moted to the ran k o f Fi rst Class Assistant Engineer n her Majesty's Fleet, with seniority of 3d September, 1866. THAMES. EXPENSIVE AMUSEItIENT.—James Cooke, a stoker, em ployed on one of the river steamers, was brought before Mr. Partridge, charged with assaulting three police con stables. Last night the prisoner was given into the custody of Braybrook, a police-constable, No. 92 II,!for assaulting a man with whom ho had been drinking, and whose nose was bleeding at the time. Ile made a violent assault on Braybrook, and a seveio struggle took place. A second constable, named Smith, of the K division, soon arrived, and he was also struck and knocked down. A third con stable arrived, and ho was felled. When he got up the prisoner was so very savage and desperate that ho took out his staff and disabled him, by striking him several times on the arms. The united exertions of the three constables and others were requested to convey him to the station house. Mr. Partridge said he was very glad the prisoner had not been struck on the head by the police-constable, who was quite justified in using his staff after the prisoner had acted so violently, and committed three assaults in addi tion to the one for which ho was given into custody. no Professor Anderson's Conundrum Contes This " event" came off at the Mechanics' Hall, Nottingham, on Friday evening, before a crowded audience and under the patronage of Sir Robert and Lady Clifton, who honoured the entertainment with their presence. The first part of the programme was confined to the Professor's performances of legerdemain (several new and astonishing tricks being introduced), and to an exhibition of Miss Anderson's wonderful powers of memory. The second part was devoted• to the adjudication of the prizes for the best and the worst conundrum. Ac cording to the conditions of this contest, a jury of thirteen was selected by the audience, and after the gentlemen had taken their seats the Professor put it to them whether any of them were authors of, or interested in, competing conundrums. A solemn looking man, in a wide-awake hat, who had caused considerable merriment by his pertinacity to form one of the jury, and who founded his claim to the position upon the ground that he was the " represen tative of the working classes," hereupon said that he was " slightly interested." The Professor accordingly requested him to retire; but so anxious was the repre sentative of the working classes to take part in the deci sion of the prizes that he at once offered to retract his statement, which, of course, he was not allowed to do, and he was declared disqualified. Before descending the platform, however, he was led by a singular freak of anomaly to make a short speech to the effect that he was convinced that truth would always prevail, and in order to show, as he said, that he bore no animosity towards his fellow jury men, he shook hands with them all round. The working classes having found another and a less eccentric representative, Mr. Belk, one of the jury, proposed that Mr. Steegman should be foreman, and the motion, having been seconded by a gentle man in a white apron neatly rolled round his waist, was duly carried. Miss Anderson then read the list of selected conundrums, which the professor had divided into the following sections :—Anderson and Association-al Conundrums ; section B.—Bad Conundrums ; section C.—Cliftonian Conundrums; section D.—Doubtful Conundrums ; section E. —Excruciating Conundrums ; section F.—Funny Conundrums ; section G.—Good Conundrums. At the conclusion, Mr. Anderson intimated that it was open to any one who had sent in a conundrum which had not been • read to request that his or her composition might be submitted to the jury, whereupon a number of gentlemen, who evidently considered that " The Brains of Nottingham" was an incomplete work, rose and propounded divers queries, which to our mind certainly came within the jurisdiction of section E, " the excruciating." At last the jury were enabled to retire to consider their verdict ; in the meantime Miss Flora Anderson sang " Macgregor's Gathering," the solemn-looking representative of the working classes above-men tioned diverted the audience with a singular speech from the platform, and Mr. Wardle gave a comic disquisition upon music. In about three-quarters of an hour the jury re-appeared, looking as grave as if their deliberations had been one of life or death, and amid a silence as breathless as that which pre vails when a criminal is about to be condemned to the full penalty of the law, the foreman announced that it had been decided that conundrum No. 105 was the best. It was as follows ;—Why does Not tingham show more partiality for the rifle than any other town? Because it has an Enfield for the Town Clerk, and a Ball for the Mayor. The author, however, it was found on the vouchers being produced, had not complied with the con ditions by omitting to send his name ; and the jury had to make another selection. The second verdict was in favour of No. 170 :—Why is the Corporation of Nottingham better armed than any other corporation in Eng land ?—Because it's got a " Ball" for its Mayor, and an "Enfield" for its Town Clerk. The jury had, in the first instance, decided that the worst conundrum was No. 9 :—Why is a swallow like a German stove ?—When it's a crooked flue (flew) ; and the author of it was announced to be Sir Robert Clifton ; but the manuscript it was discovered was in the handwriting of Miss Anderson, and it did not bear the name of the hon. baronet. Miss Ander- son explained that the original was accidentally destroyed ; but the audience was unanimous in de- Glaring that it ought to be rejected, and rejected it The jury had, therefore, a second time to asider their fiat, which was ultimately pronounced :or No. 5 :—When is a conundrum not a conun- drum ?—When it is not. The winners were Mr. Grundy, Sneiton (the best), and Mrs. Smith, Bruns wick-villas (the worst) ; but neither of the indivi duals in question were in attendance, and Mr. Anderson, in accordance with his declared intention n such caso, handed the prizes to the foreman to be realised for the benefit of the local charities, which, perhaps, was about the best result that the " sand papering" of the brains of Nottingham could have Produced. The entertainment did not conclude till midnight.—Notlinghani Guardian. 301 1.8 191 131 3,1 1":15 I 22 120, 20 84 5 133 i 30 I 10/ 123 k S 2f 931 51; I 101 i 'Of 76 If NI 1011 i 2 211 MARKETS.---This Day. HAY. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £4 Os to .£5 ss; clover £5 Os Od to 46 10s Od ; •and straw, £1 16s to £2 5s per lo a d . Trade slow. CuunEttraxn.—licadow hay, £4 Os to £5 8s Od; clover, .€5 Os to £6 108 Od ; and straw, £1 18s to £2 5s per load. Demand inactive. WHITECITAPEL.—Meadow hay, £4 Os to £5 5s ; clover, £5 Os Od to £G lOs Od ; and straw, £1 16s to ..£2 5s per load, A limited inquiry, COLONIAL. TEA.• -There has been very little business transacted, the trade having postponed their operations until the public sales, which commence to-day. SLGAR•—There has been a good demand, and late prices are well sustained for West India produce: In the Refined Market a fair amount of business has been done at fully pre vious quotations. COFFEE.—There has been a good demand for all descrip tions of Ceylon produce, and Plantation of superior quality has sold readily at full rates. RICE.—The demand has continued active for cleareC. descriptions, and holders in some instances demand a further slight advance. TALLOW.—The Tallow Market has been dull during the week; the arrival and delivery on contracts of a small amount of tallow have caused prices to give way ; 455. 3d. would have been accepted at on; time for the last three months. Towards the close, however, there was rather more steadiness, but with littlo business doing. Liverpool Cotton Market.—This Day. Market opens very strong. Sales, probably 15,000 or 20,000 bales. Thugg,ism in New Zealand. The greatest excitement has been created in this province by the arrest of a gang of four men, who, with other accomplices who have, it is supposed, gone to Australia, have evidently for a length of time been committing robberies on the West Coast gold fields, and in the course of their career have committed upwards of 30 atrocious and cold-blooded murders. The suspicions of Mr. Jervis, innkeeper at Canvas Town—which had been aroused by the disappearance of four persons, all residing at Deep Creek, named Felix Matthiew, hotel-keeper ; John Kempthorne, storekeeper ; Jas. Pontius, miner; and J. Dudley, storekeeper —were directed towards a party of four strangers who put up at his house and left shortly before the unfortunate victims started for Nelson on the 12th of June, with a pack-horse and considerable property in goods and money with them, where they never arrived. Alt. Jervis tracked them on their way until he lost all clue, and then com municated with the police. General suspicion was roused, and large parties volunteered to search the district, highly to their credit declining the rewards offered by the relatives of the murdered men. The gang suspected by Mr. Jervis, who when they were at Canvas Town were almost destitute, were arrested at Nelson, pretending to bo unknown to each other, flush of money, having purchased new clothes and most suspiciously having all shaved off their beards and moustaches. Their names are Richard Burgess, alias Hall ; Thos. Kelly, alias Hannan, alias Noon; Thomas, alias John Joseph Sullivan ; and William, alias Phil Levy. Thomas Sullivan had, strangely enough, assumed the name of John Joseph Sullivan, a man wanted by the Otago police, on his arrival in the colony about three months ago, indicating that the gang had connexions in Australia, where, in deed, they had been long known as most desperate characters. After their arrest Sullivan made a con fession, acknowledging that the gang had not on l y waylaid and mu r d ered the four men above-men tioned, but also Mr. Dobson, jun., the Government Surveyor of Canterbury, and a pedlar, named Jas. Battle, all of whose bodies had been recovered from his information ; but he also stated that they had in their cups bragged of many other , 4 exploits" of the like character which they had committed previous to his joining them ; and there is too much reason to fear that these revelations fall short of the great many perso ns at different times fearfully actual facts, for th e sudden disappearance of a harmonises with the man's statements, and many of • the circumstances narrated by him are corroborated by the evidence of other parties. Mr. Dobson was garotted on the most scientific prin ciples, and so were James Dudley and Battle, show ing that some of the gang were such proficients in this fatal art that in one case the medical man could assign no cause of death except a slight congestion of the brain and lungs, but not of itself sufficient t o account for stran gu l ation in the total absence of any external violence beyond a slight mark of pressure on and displacement of the apple of the throat. Kelly, or Noon, had been tried for murder at the Ovens, in Victoria, in 1853, for which his brother was hanged. Burgess had been mate to the notorious Capt. Mel ville, and was known to be the most daring but cool and cautious desperado in Australia. Levy had kept a shanty on the banks of the Molyneux, in Otago, and the number of bodies of persons found drowned in crossing that stream had excited the suspicions of the police, but no proof was ever brought against him. In fact, the career of the gang would fill a volume. In addition to these murders they had been watching Mr. Yates, the gold buyer of the Bank of New South Wales in Otago, but he escaped their attentions. It is also proved that they carriedstrych nine, with the diabolic object of poisoning any party too numerous for attack b y j o i ning with them and seizing the opportunity of d rugging their liquor at any resting place. At the tim e o f their arrest they had come to Nelson for the purpo se o f ro bbi ng the and one of them was on Bank of New South Wales, the point of going to Australia t o o b tain reinforce ments and appliances. They had fully reconnoitred see the manager just before th e closing hour, and wasentghaegir pl ed a t n was for for one to go in and rest were to rush in, c t l h o e premises, whilsts e the e d o doors (which would not then excite at tention), overpower the clerks, and murder them all. One body was to be buried , i n the hope that and it would be thought he had done the deed and escaped by steamer to Australia, as they intended to do, having laid their plans accordingly. The con corroborated by the discovery fs s ion of of Sullivan the strychnine which was concealed a s h e d eclared, and the evidence of many witnesses, whi c h ,Tut together, bodieswas fully just as h e i n di cate d , t h e makes a most extraordinary chain of evidence, suffi cient to have convicted them without Sullivan's con fession, but unimpeachable with it. They had been committed, and would probably be tried at a special commission in September.-41as•tralian anfl New Zealand Gazelle. AS-TU 'WU LAMBERT,?--A c orrespondent suggests of this bit of Froncl i annotated copy of the Satires he s ßwo d ai s i l se looking e a o u e o n d d t vi h ne or an d the originol third, h r d where a dinner bore invites an ',unwilling friend to dino with him, he holds out, amongst other inducements— Itua. donna sa parole. r e avec Tartuffe y doit . jotter son role, g g l u y i p re l p us lie e s s , t, The fri E en t Q ( L l 11 1 0 1 7 i 1 1 : ! b g e l L i ii t a n , And the other rejoins, Lambert ? Oui, Lambert! 3 domain. C'ost assez. So that this joke about Lambert is as old as the time of Boileau. was, COURSE OF EXCHANGE—This Evening. Amsterdam Short. 11 16 Ditto 3 Months. 11 19} Rotterdam Antwerp — 25 45 Brussels Hamburg — 13 8.-} Paris Short 25 20 Ditto Marseilles .... . ... _!._ Frankfort on ihe . Al..aine —119 i. . Viennh. ..... . Trieste Petersburgn Berlin Madrid — 45/ Cadiz Leghorn Milan 11 17 11 19f 11 19 25 55 25 55 13 8 25 2ri 25 45 120 13 30 13 30 Genoa Naples Palermo Messina Lisbon Oporto 2G 45 2G 45 2G 45 26 45 51} ma 29} 6 27 45k 46J 26' 55 26 55 26 60 26 55 26 55 26 55 511 511 SIR FREDERICK MADDEN has resigned the Keepership of the Manuscripts at the British Museum. He has been connected with the Museum since 1826. It is believed ho will be succeeded by Ur. Edward Bond, the keeper of the Egerton MSS. AnTEmus,IVARD," whose comic writings have made his name as familiar in England as it has long been in America, will shortly detail his experiences among the Mormons, at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. He will occupy the room hitherto used by Mr. Arthur Sketchley " Artemus Ward's" fellow-traveller, Mr. llingston, now the manager of the Margate Hall-by-the-Sea, will lend his aid to manage th e out-door business of the great comic genius of the United States. AGRICULTURAL PROSPECTS. malting purposes, and the quality of the new wheat is much complained of." From Buckinghamshire : " A\reather is very unsettled still, and corn in the fields, say oats and barley, very much sprouted." From Worcestershire : " Continued wet, night and day, has now done irreparable damage to the greater portion of the new crops previously unse cured, white wheat and barley suffering most from sprout. In this district there still remains a large quantity in the fields, while further north a very small portion only is housed." From Suffolk, near the coast : " We have had a wet gloomy week, but yesterday and to-day were fine nearly throughout. Harvest in this immediate district is almost con- eluded, but on our heavy lands quite one fourth of the barley is still abroad." On Friday morning early the weather was very wet, but from 9 a.m. until the afternoon it held up, when showers again fell. Our advices from North Lincolnshire stated : " Weather is fair; we have neither wind nor sun, both of which are necessary to put the corn in good condition. The quality of the wheat is mostly good, and where stacked before the rain, will come otit, if allowed time to dry in the stack, a good sample. That got in now is stained and sprouted. A few samples of barleyappeared to-day, dark and damp." In Yorkshire the wheat is much grown in the sheaves, and from the East Riding it is writte❑ : " The weather continues most unfavourable for the harvest operations. Much grain remains iu the fields, and the qUality and condition must be greatly deteriorated." From the West Riding : " Since Tuesday the weather has been somewhat better ; rather showery, but with more wind, which will do good if it does not shake out the grain where stand ing uncut." Another account from the same quar ter says : "With the exception of Wednesday, we have had another week of most unfavourable wea- ther, and it is quite clear that unless an immediate and permanent change takes place, our Yorkshire crop will be beyond recovery." Saturday was a fine autumnal morning, clear and breezy up to three p.m., when it became showery, and from that hour carting and carrying was suspended for the re- mainder of the day. On the whole the weather has not been quite so disastrous during this as last week, and from the anxiety of the farmers to secure some thing or other whenever a few hours of dry weather occurred, some amount has gone up in poor condi tion. This, of course, will have to be kept in the stack until the frosts of winter or spring winds have dried it, and rendered the sample fit for the market and use of the millers.—Mark-lane Express. The Cotton Crop of America. With reference to the growing crop of cotton in America, the circular of Messrs. Neil Brothers and Co., contains the following : " Since our last circular we have received from England a synopsis of the report of Dr. Forbes, which has, doubtless, been read extensively, and may have produced some effect on the markets of Europe. That portion of the public who are in terested in the cotton question, must, however, by this time, have learned to distrust the judgments of special reporters, coming from a distance, with out knowledge either of the country, the plant, or the people, and will refer to two or three extraor dinary sources of information last year which did _ . not supply any very reliable forecasts. Yet last year the facts lay, as it were, on the surface, one would suppose the bales hatl only to be counted, and the information in the case of the estimate of 1,300,000 bales, published by the Treasury depart ment, was supplied by a vast body of subordinates, resident in all parts of the South, and instructed to inquire and report, and, in another case, by a party who spent mouths in making, what he called, a census of the cotton bales,' but only managed to count about half of them. This year the task is infinitely more difficult, for the cotton had to be grown, we may almost say, after Dr. Forbes first came here ; and vicissitudes of weather in this crop produce such rapid changes, and so much depends on the date of frost and the weather in August, September, October, and, in late crops, even of November and December, that we do not hesitate to say that perfect weather up to Christmas, telling over the area then planted, has, in some former years, added to the crop fully as much, above its promise in July, as the whole amount Dr. Forbes now estimates for the whole country. We mention this merely to show the influ ence of the weather in fall and winter on late crops. Dr. Forbes asserts that in Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Tennessee the desolation from the war was found to be complete.' We have before us, however, from a Jackso n (Mi ss i ss ip p i) newspaper the report of the ' Cotton-grow ing Association' of that place, which has b the n oergactolinsdedition of for the purpose of learn ingand gives th e particulars of affairs 323 . 11 planters tha t who Sta er t n e : ee ployed 7,621 hands in 1860, and now employ 3,495 in cotton growing. This report states that, taking the whole country on the same average as this State (which Dr. Forbes thinks so desolated), the crop should be 1 ,700,000, and that of Mississippi 400,000 bales, leaving only 150,000 bales (according to Dr. F.) to be grown in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Ten ne ;ssee---the absurdity of which estimate necdsno com ment. There are complaints of worms from several counties in Alabama, of a late date, to which wo alluded last week. Elsewhere the worms do not spread, and from Texas and Georgia the accounts are quite flattering. The middle States had been suffering for want of rain, but our correspondent in Georgia reports genial showers. We must again caution our friends against being led away by esti- mates formed at this time, no matter from what source or authority they come. A correct estimate now is totally impossible, and any figures now put forth cre mere guess work—they may be ever so honest, but cannot be reliable." The week opened with a tolerably fine day, but at night some heavy rain fell, with the wind from the S.S.E. Monday morning was wet, with showers in the forenoon, and accounts from the midland and northern counties were very disastrous as to the state of the crops. Tuesday was a very showery day, with strong breezes from the S.W. ; thermometer 58 degrees in the morning, and 62 at mid-day ; barometer as low as 29.6 inches ; and our ad vices were most unfavourable. From the West Riding of Yorkshire it was stated :—" Since Friday, the wea ther has been very unsettled, with rain more or less daily. Sunday and Monday were fine and beeezy, but with heavy rain in the nights following. To-day smart showers have fallen ; but there is a brisk wind. Every wet day is now a very serious matter to the farmers, and the corn trade seems now to be good. Let us hope that Providence will soon favour us with a change, so long desired. No carting as yet done in this neighbourhood." From Lincoln shire :—" The weather in this part of the country gets worse daily ; and there is no mistake now about the matter, that serious injury and loss are being caused by wet. In many fields the barley is grow ing at the bands of the sheaves ; and the colour of the grain is damaged, so much so, that if it is ever got dry, maltsters will not like the sample. In the northern part of Lincolnshire, two-thirds of the corn aro yet in the fields, and on the heavy soil the cart ing it away will be a work of difficulty." In Lanca shire, all work was suspended :—" Wind S.W., quite a gale, the barometer being very low." From the northern part of Suffolk : " The weather continues most unfavourable for the latter harvest, and a largo breadth of barley is still unsecured. The crops of both wheat and barley are badly reported of in the yield." On Wednesday the weather was fine up to 1 p.m., but afterwards showery, and no harvest work could be accomplished. From the west coast of Scotland it was remarked : " We have again had much rain, but to-day is more promising." From Norfolk : " We have much rain this week, with a small offer of grain." From the East Riding of Yorkshire : " Weather very wet, and our farmers complain bitterly of the serious damage - alreadyidone to the outstanding crops." Thursday was mostly fine, scarcely any rain falling, and some carrying of damp grain was proceeded with. From Essex it was stated :" A great deal of corn carted to-day, and in better condition than during the last fortnight ; the barley has lost its colour, and will be unfit for maniMl 100 100 100 all 100 100 .100 100 2 100 •100 98 i