The Sun. — London, England, 1866-09-21 00:00:00

IONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL NTIt'LLIGENCE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The Money Market presents no new feature of interest. The inquiry for accommodation continuos moderate, although the approaching end of the quarter is usually active with engagements falling due. First-class bills are still negotiable as low as n per cent., and there is a plentiful supply of float ing capital seeking employment. There was an influx of £B,OOO at the Bank of England yesterday, and a withdrawal of £2,000. The return issued by the Bank of England shows that th e pos i t i on o f th e es t a bli s h men t h as b een largely strengthened in its bullion and reserve of notes, while the other securities have been consider ably lessened. Subjoined are the particulars Activ e Circulation ... ....£23,316,700 Bullion Decrease 155,355 •... 16,223,516 Increase 'Zest ... 248,739 4 100 105 ••• ••• , , Increase ... ... 10 ',083 Public Deposits ... ... 5,551,717 Increase ••• ••• ... 366,959 Other Deposits ... ... ... ... ... 16,921,755 D,— ....I ocrease Seven Day and Othor Bills ... Decrease Government Securities ... ... Other Securities ••• ••• 386,642 ... 615,516 ... 36,693 ... 11,711,723 No alteration. 22,123,554 Decrease ... ... ... ... 358,387 Rotes Unemployed ... 6,841,335 Increase ... 420,215 The Bank of France return shows few changes of importance. The bullion has been reduced £236,000, the notes in circulation £320,000, the commercial bills £104,000, and the current accounts £168,000. The advances have been increased £20,000, and the Treasury balance £540,000. Two o'CLocx. The English Stock Market has been excessively dull, and prices remain at about former values, with a drooping teodency. Consols are 891 1 for money, and 894 1 for the account. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 86;1 87 ; Exchequer Bills, 2 ( Us. ; Bank of England Stock, 241 242, for account, ex div. ; India 5 per Cents., 1041 ; ditto Enfaced 5 per Cents, 100} 1013 ; and ditto Bonds, 12s. to 17 8 . prem. Most of the principal Foreign Stocks are de pressed. Turkish 5 per Cents. are 313 3 ; Mexican, 15 3 161 ; Greek, 15i 1 ; Spanish Passive, 221 1 ; the Certificates, 15 4; and Italian, 56173. United States 5-20 Bonds are 721 1 ; Erie shares, 171 48k ; and Illinois, 78 1. The receipts on the Atlantic and Great Western Railway, for the last week in August, amounted to $ 1 56,642, against $177,114 in the corresponding Week last year, showing a decrease of $420,472. The total receipts for August reach $528,618, against $597,798 in the same month of 1865, exhibiting a decrease of $69,180. The receipts from the Ist of January to the 31st of August amount to $3,614,078, against $3,259,261 last year, showing an increase of $354,817. The operations in British Railway Shares have have been very limited, and prices generally show a further slight decline. Great Northern, North- Western, and South-Eastern have each receded 55., and Great Northern A Stock and Metropolitan each 155., while Lancashire and Yorkshire have unproved ss. The Foreign and Colonial lines remain without Material change in values. _ Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are inactive at about previous rates. Union of London are dealt in at 452 ; Imperial Ottoman, 10 10; ; London and County, 631 ; Anglo-American Telegraph are at 16 2 ; Atlantic 'Telegraph 8 per Cents. paid up, 1222 1234 ; Credit Foncier of England, 44 5 ; Hudson's Bay Company at 17 ; and General Credit at 41. Atlantic and Great Western Debentures have declined 1, to 67 69 ; and the Consolidated kortgage Bonds f, to 481 49i. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. GCVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 Per Cent. Consols Do. A ccoun t, O c t. 9 B9l + 4 3 ,,per C en t. R e d uce d B6k 7 6 1 New 3 per Cent B7 61 1 ' , ow 31 por Cent. Jan. 1694 Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 — E xchequer Bills, .£1,000,3 per Cent„ — Do. £5OO — Do £lOO and £200 'auk o; England Stock, 5 1 per Cent Shut Do Account 242 1 INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Lulian Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 — Do. Account Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1870 Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 Do. Certificates Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent — Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 Do. 51 per Cent., May 1879 — Do. Bob., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 Do. Bonds,4 per Cent., £l,OOO l7 Do. under £l,000 FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. A rgentine Republic, 6 per Cent., £l5 pd — pm Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 - B razilian 5 per Cent Do, 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Do. 1863 Do. 1863 — Do Account 6Bl 9 Do. £lOO Bonds — Do. S c rip, £65 p a id B uenos Ayres 6 per Cent — Do £lOO Bonds — t , Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) ultilian 6 per Cent — Do. 41 per Cent — Do. 6 per Cent Do Scrip, £75 paid C olombian 6 per Cent. — C uba, 6 per Cent. uanish 3 per Cent., 1825 ~ Do. per Cent., 8 . uarinbian Principalities p Do. Account , luad or New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — -Do., Provisional Land Warrant — Do D e f erre d 4 gYptian 7 per Cent Do., Second Issue Do £lOO Bonds B6 Do. 1864 B5l Do £lOO Bonds Do. Government Railway Debentures Bl Do. £BO paid 'reek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons D O . Account Do. Coupons 'Jo. Account ,-i vatenaala 5 per Cent. I tOjian 5 per Cent 1865 Do. Account Do. Al aremmana R a il way — M exican 3 per Cent Do. Account De. 1864 4 Do 6 p er C en t. A ng l o -F renc h — ontevidean 6 per Cent. N e orish Imperial 5 per Cent Granada — Do 2 per Cent — DO. Deferred Do Land W arran t s (H ec t ares )" p ' eruvia n 5 per Cent., 1865 D O . Account Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) Do 41 p er Cent., 1862 v Do Account ° ,,, r teguese 3 per Cent., 1853 , 1- '° 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3 — i-'O. Account Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St Po 41 per Cent. 1850 uo 4i per Cent., 1860 D ° 3 pet Cent. 1859 per Cent. 1862 fi ''-'° 5 per Cent. 1861 — , kardinian 5 per Cent "Pknish 3 per Cent Do Acco unt -Do New Deferred • - Do Account Do Passive — k l o Acc.uut 221 1 P:tnisli Cert. of Coup not funded — R - Do Acc oun t "w • erlish 4 per Cent. — Tll)l2sirkll 6p ler Cent. 861 per Cent. l 1854 0 . Account D° 6 p er C en t. 1858 D ) D o- Account 0 .£l.OO Bonds 0 r ,o 6 per Cent. 1862 '-'0 Account 571 De £lOO B on d s — ° 6 per Cent., 1863 — Do 50 Acc per Cent. ' 1865, paid up Scrip — , OULI ' - 't -- vuo. 4 per Cent. Guaranteed — wiezuela 3 per Cent. Do Account — Do 6 per Cent 1862 — DOD Account ~ 0 . 6 per Cent, 1864 — D Divideutis on the above payable in London. Dll 2 44- per Cent. Ex. 12 Guil,- — p r . 4 per Cent. Certificates .... lt,Zh Itentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f 6Bf 50c. .b t V' . Per Cent. 1831, Ex. 25i. .... — 7 • Accuurt • 5/ 1 61 0 00 „, , TWO O'CLOCK. 1 , -,* o ' B , Money 894 f ' - ' O . Ac count Share! I Paid ) Closing ! Business Railways. Price. dene. ........ 0.11...... riar esday uise and ; a nd an, an d csidence on With ,nd Dr. Times ; for the Accoul -1,000 0f ye co II/. 84000 o f rill hav e anrctittee 3 thanl'' dy there r aenting the dis - .s when' ref that Eleven.° famine' ast, th e kis and to smi le ers seri" ;rope in were all ials who a ctual ised the cle V 135 MSS as" extrem e Madr as ' ;uffer ed ' c ha• rst le a that 5 las b een creOrPe' :rlns ar e predic t nine house s ' clothe(' polic • 0 a niost- SHARE MARKETS.—This Day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. liristol anti Exeter .... Caledonian ..• • Cambrian Cork and 8and0n...... Cornwall . . 'Dublin & Belfast June. Dun„Perth, & A b.Junc. s;.London, scrip Certi. Do. rllasgow S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. stk. Do. E. Angl. st. No. Great North of Scotland Great Northern D. A stock Do. B stock Do. f ew, Is. at 25 pio (iUS. and W. of Ireland Gt. West etu -Original Do. 6. V4 l . Rail bus. Do. South Wales .... Do. W. Mid.— Oxford Do. Newport Do. Hereford. Lancashire At Yorksli tr. LJudon and Blackwall Lou., Brigh., & S Coast Lon., chat., and Dover Do. Metrop. Ex. A Loa. tt iN or tli Western Lon. & South Western Man., Sher., do Lincoln Metropolitan. Do. New Do. Extension.— Actropolitan District. Do. do. do. Do. and St. John's W'd And:and Do. £9 Share Do, Birmiu.. Sc Darby +tid Kent . North British Do. Ed., Pth., & Dun nth. Eastern—Berwics Do. lii.N•E purchase Do. Leeds Do. York Do. Carlisle ...... Do. Stock. & Darling. Do. do. 1860-61 North London Do. do. Ise4 Do. ao. 1865 North Staffordshire .. N. & S. W. Junction .. Scottish Central ,Scot. N. E , Aber. stock Do. Scot, Mid. at.)ok Shropshire Union ioutt , Devon -outh E. stern ;tattles, Wok., & Wok raft' Vale Do. C Vale or Neath Waterford & Kilkenny Waterloo & Whiteha West Cornwall BRITISH POSSE, Atlantic St.Lawrenee Rom., Baroda, Ceu. In. gu. 5 per cent Do. I.` shares Buffalo & Lake Huron Do. Preference Butt,Brent, & Goderich 6 p.c. 1872-3- •• • • •••• • Calcutta & b. E., lirn al e Town & Dock, gu i ) emerara, 7 p.c. per. p' ,arit. Bengal, gu. ' 5 do East Indian, gu. 5 p.o. Do. ,1 Extension 'rand Trunkof Canad% Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds 1 charge 6 p.c Do. Ist vref. Bonds Do. do deferred • • De. 2d Prof. Bonds Du. do. deterred ..• • Do. 3d Pref. stock... • Do. do. deferred .- - • Do. 4th Pref. stook Do. do. deterred India Pen. gua. sp.e. o. Gua. 5 per cent Do. New gua. 5 p. c t. South of India gua. 5 per cent D 4f per cent Do treat Wva. of Canada Do. New .. Do. 6 p. c. Bds. pay. 1873 t 41 51 do. pay. 1877-8 Indian Branch, limited Nladras, gua. 5 p.o Do. 4i do Do. la do Do. Fifth Extension %telb. Cor. 6 p. c. 'bads. Mel. & Hudson's Bay.. N. ttl.C' da, 6pc Ist pf. be 0 Do. Delhi Do. do to' 6 - Do. Puniaub.... Do.lndus St.teloL lt , o 100 100 all 100 100 87 8i) 128 12 40 45 13 15 4 6 70 72 75 85 116 I? 0 1.1 31 5 ti I'B 120 1;10 i3l 91 93 GS 6,) 55 CO 37 39 34 39 121 125 81 81 119 120 84 t 6 t 8 128 IA 2 3p 101 11 91 96 (22i 122 f It 2 4 J 4 49 51 -. 2 21 105 L 7 67 69 tOO 103 34 36 9 10 {• 120 J 25 1 2p 1 2p 71 73 114 118 152 158 75 ;7 43 15 70 71 8 9 14 1-15 2 3; 51 63 ISIONS. 54 56 93 100 id icy 4 44 74 $ 76 80 60 65 100 102 994 ICOe 09 101 20 22 86 891 54 58 48 52 50 55 45 50 40 45 31 3i 25 27 24 26 106 107 1 p 95 100 91 93 141 141 5i 3 d 01 93 83 85 1} Old 98 09 rs 9 01 81 86 8 82 06 98 91 96 1} 1 d 95 97 cOLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. British Columbia, 6 per cent., Dec. 31, 1872 100 Can.Gov.6 p.c.J uly 1877-64 Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug. 1 0 93 D. , . sp. 0. Mar. Sept & 100 91 96 00. sp. c. Jan. & July 100 77 79 Do. sp. 0. Inscribed 8k 100 76 79 Cape G.llope, 6 p.c. 1873 100 101 113 Do.Apl./tOct. 1690-19 00 100 101 105 Do. do' I z .Bo-9, 100 102 101 Do. Jan.&July, 1890-9. 100 100 103 Do. 5 per cent. 15 April ana i 5 Oct., 1900 lOO f 3 70 Ceylon, Nov. 1668, 6 p., 100 100 1 2 Do. IS7B, do lOO 10 I 7 Mauritius, 6p. c, 1873, Jan. and July - Do. 1-78 .. - , )o. 1882, Mayls, Nov. 1 lO 0 101 (03 - Do. 1895, Feb. & Aust lOO 103 105 - :Natal •iov. d per cent loo 97 100 10'0 93 82 - S. B.IV. Gov. 5 p•c.,184 , 100 90 92 Do. 5 p.c. 18;1 to 1871 100 90 V 5 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 189_ 100 86 87 New Zealand, 6p. cent 100 92 04 Do. 5 percent.... Nova So Ala Gov. 6p. c sterling, 1875 l9O 92 94 Queensland Gov. 6p. c lOO 91 93 S. Aus.Gov. 6 p,c 1868-1. 100 Do. 1878 Sz upwards 1 0 105 107 Vic,Gov. 6 p.c. Ja July 100 - - Do. do, A pril & Oct lOO 106 103 BRITISH MINES. 2 Cam. ConsoL Gold, lieu. 1 Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated. 30 .1 13 Devon G. Cons. (Tavist. 1 440 460 Drakewalls 2.1.0 4 East Bassett (Illogan) 291 20 23 6.sist Caradon 2.14.6 7 8 East Carn Brea 3l 21 3 8:tot Grenville East Gunnislake East Loved 3.9.0 10 12 E. WI Russell (Tavistk 10.8. o 31 41 Gam.& StAubyn(Gwen. 66 4 Great L (xey, limited., all 19 20 Great South Tolgus 0.14.6 1 Great Wheal tin4y - - G. Wheal Vor 40 25 27 Grenville B. iB.O 14 1i Herod's Foot .... 8.10.0 33 36 Ilingston Downs 5.10.6 31 31 Margaret (Uny Lelant 13.17.6 6 E. Marke Valley 4.10.6 41 5 4 Ilwyndy Iron Ore, lira 31 21 14d New Sewn North Roskear Bambett (Mogan 4.4.0 North Wheal Crofty 2.13. a 1 Prosper United...... 7.1.6 Pr,vidence Uny Lelant 10.6.7 27 30 S. Caradon (St. Cleer) ll 325 575 South Condurrow S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan 18.18.9 14 16 _- Stray Park - fin 5 Vigra and Clogan, lim all 3 5 West 14 assett(Illoga n 14 1 W. Caradon (Llskeard 9 8 : 0 West Chi verton ....... . 11 63 67 West Set0n..... Wheal Bassett 'Mogan 51 85 95 Wheal Buller (Itedruth 16 23 26 Wheal Mary Ann (Men. 8 7 9 Wheal Seton ...... _. Wheal Treiawney (Lis 5 17.0 9 it YKEPERENCE SkiAlthlh. 'onsolidated, 6 per cent. stock, .to, Bristol and Birm., 6 per cent., 126; LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Chester and Ro:yhead, 54 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Dutch Rhenish, 21 Luxembourg', in Ottoman (Smyrna to AI( 5} South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 161 FOREIGN MIII Itb. Vallanzaaca Gold, 11m., BANKS. Anzlo-Italian, lirn„ l2i Bank of New Zealand, 171 unaolidated Banff, 11m., 51 IMperia, OttOman, 10} 10 r.flo don and Comity, 63} Unlon oh London, 45 MISCELLANEOUIL Anglo-American Telegraph, 1161 1 / Atlantic Telegraph, 80 791 82i Ditto, 8 per cent., 1261 2i 3/ Ceylon Company, City Offices, lira., 41 co r:mercial Union, Insurance, 5/ redit. Fonder of Enudano, lim, 41 East India Irrigation and Canal. 11/ Gen. credit and Fitionoe of L md,n, lim., 41 General Steam Navigation, 26 iludson'e Bay, 17 Imperial Land Company or Marseilles, Urn., 31 London Cameral °mull:me Company, lim, 3 Madras Irrigation and Canal, Ditto all), 18 Mauritius Land, Credit. and Agency, lim., 1 1 Merchant Shipping, him, 6 Freehold Land and Dock, 4 Nerbudia Coal and Iron, Ditto, new. 21 I an' ma Ni w Zealand, and Aus. R. Mail, 7/ hames and Mersey Marine. Insurance Bin, 6/ Trust and Loan Company of Upper Canada, a CRYSTAL PALACE.—The last but one of the series of Old English ballad concerts which have been introduced for the first time this year, and have now become a conspi cuous feature in the numerous entertainments which the Crystal Palace affords, was given yesterday,and was attended witn a success which may be almost termed unqualfied. It was expected that Mr. Sims Reeves would have been able to attend; owing to a severe cold and hoarseness, con tracted during the Worcester Festival, he was prevented from doing so, but we are glad to say his place was most .efficiently taken by Mr. W. 11. Cumming, who sung all the songs announced for Mr. Reeves, with great care and effect, especially "Good bye, sweetheart, good bye,' for his spirited rendering of which he was rewarded by an unanimous encore. Miss Edmunds, among other pieces, sang " Cherry Ripe " with a sweetness and piquancy which recalled the time when Mrs. Alfred Mellon "charmed the town" by the sprightly music of this chaste and elegant cemposition. Maclaine Palersdorff, who was greeted with more than usual warmth, was vociferously applauded.—Ono Shilling Day, Thursday, Sept. 20.—Admissions on payment, 8,473 ; ditto by season tickets, 3,220 ; total visitors, 11703. Mid D: TI-IE. SUN, LON_DuLN, FRIDAY EVE.•;.NiNG, SEPTEMBER 21, 1866. Central Criminal Court--This Day. OLD COURT. , (Before Mr. Justice Willes.) CHARGE OF WILFUL MURDER. Thos. Murphy, 29, labourer, was indicted with the wil ful murder of Thomas Sullivan. The prisoner pleaded not guilty. According to the evidence it appeared that the parties resided in the same house, in the neighbourhood of Rose mary-lane, and on the evening of the Ist September a quarrel took place between the women, and ultimately the men became involved. Murphy occupied the second floor in Sullivan's house, and as he commenced to destroy the furniture Sullivan went up to protect his property. The parties then gut fighting, and at last cries of Sullivan's wifo were heard crying out send for the police, as Murphy had killed Sullivan. When the police arrived Sullivan was discovered lying dead on the floor. On examination it was found that Sullivan had received a wound on the left side, which penetrated the left ventricle of the heart to the cavity. A blade of a knife was found the next morn ing in the room in which Sullivan was killed. For the defence it was urged that the wound which caused the death of Sullivan was not given by Murphy, because, had it been so, he would have died instantly, and ho could not have used the words attributed to him after Murphy had left his room. The learned counsel also said it was not his duty to prove how the wound was inflicted, but he thought that the fair inference was that the whole being a drunken quarrel, in which a number of other persons were engaged, the blow had been inflicted by some one, but by whom it was impossible to tell. No knife had been found on Murphy when ho was taken into custody, although the broken blade of one was found in the room the next morning. Ile could not agree to the statement made during the case for the prosecution, viz., that the blade of the knife had been ejected from the wound by the muscular action of the body. The prisoner, he said, was a quiet, well-behaved man, who had served his country during the Russian war, that ho was in the receipt of a pension, and that it was too much to suppose that he would be such a coward as to use the knife in a quarrel. The learned Judge, in summing up the evidence, told the jury that the impression that death instantaneously fol lowed a wound in the heart was a mistake. It had been proved beyond doubt tkat persons had survived such an injury some time. The use of the knife was justifiable against a person who attempted to murder, or against the midnight burglar, because the law could not come to the assistance of the person so assaulted, but under less cir cumstances than these it was punishable by law. The jury had all the circumstances connected with the case before them, and it was for them to say whether the prisoner was guilty of the crime of murder or manslaughter. The jury, after a brief deliberation, returned a verdict of guilty of manslaughter, with a recommendation to mercy, because he was drunk at the time the blow was inflicted. The learned judge sentenced hini to five years' penal servitude. NEW COURT. John Cronin was indicted for violently assaulting Mary Ann Kelly. The jury found him guilty, and the Judge sentenced the prisoner to 10 years' penal servitude. George °unlock, 50, wharfinger, was indicted with felo niously uttering a forged bill of exchange for the payment of £lBB, with intent to defraud. The Court sentenced him to 18 months' imprisonment. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. MANSION-HOUSE. A CANDIDATE FOR SIX MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT.— ThoHlas Smith, who was wretchedly-attired, but whose manners and language were superior to the class who generally make their appearance at the bar of a police court, was charged before Mr. Alderman Lusk, M.P., with breaking a pane of glass in one of the lamps in Charlotte row, close to the Mansion-house. Police-constable 613, said that last evening ho was in the neighbourhood of the Mansion-house and saw the pri soner throw a stone at the lamp. He spoke to him, and the prisoner said that he wished to be taken into custody. Alderman Lusk—And you obliged him. (A laugh.) Policeman —Yes, your worship. The prisoner did not deny the charge. He said that he was quite destitute, and had for six days and nights been exposed to the inclemenoy of the weather. He had never been in a workhouse, and he bad a great objection to be known as a pauper. He begged to be sent to prison for six months, and at the expiration of that time he hoped to be able to maintain himself. Alderman Lusk—How old are you ? Prisoner said he was 30, and had supported himself by hawking, but had done nothing for the last six weeks. Alderman Lusk said it was disgraceful for a young, healthy, and evidently intelligent man like the prisoner not to work for his support. lie would not give him six months, but he would sentence him to 21 days hard labour. JUVENILE DEPRAVITY.—Timothy M 4 Cabe, a diminutive urchin, between 13 and 14, was brought up on remand, charged with picking pockets, and the offence was clearly proved. Police-sergeant Wickham, said that he had not been able to obtain any further information respecting the prisoner. Francis AFCabe said he was a shoemaker, and father of the prisoner. His son bad been convicted of a similar offence at Worship-street, and got 21 days. He was after was convicted and got three days and 12 lashes. He was useful to witness in his trade, but he would not work, and had been absent from home for a fortnight. • Sergeant Wickham said that the prisoner told him he had got 21 days at Epsom, and five days for another offence. M'Cabe, in reply to Alderman Lusk, assured the magi strate that he had given the prisoner no excuse to mis conduct himself, but that he was incorrigible. He had endeavoured to get him into a reformatory, but without Success. Alderman Lusk said he would see what could be done about obtaining his admission into a informatory, and remanded him for a week. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. CAUTION TO REFRESHMENT -HOUSE KEEPERS.—Mr. James Chubb, the keeper of a refreshment-houseat No. 4, Rupert street, was summoned before Mr. Knox to answer the com plaint of the police of keeping his house open between the hours of one and four in the morning. The defendant did not appear, but a person attended on his behalf. Sergeant Matthew Fox, 21 C, said that at a quarter to two o'clock on the morning of the 11th inst. he saw three women come out of the defendant's house, 4, Rupert-street. He visited the defendant's house, and saw five persons. There was a glass on the bar, and on the floor under a female's dress there was a glass containing liquor. Mr. Knox, having ascertained from the police that there was no previous conviction against the defendant, inflicted a fine of 20s. and costs. WESTMINSTER. DISGRACEFUL PLUNDER OF A POOR MANGLING WOMAN. —John Ward, a man between 50 and 60 years of age, was charged with robbing Mary 3lapleson, a poor widow woman, who gets her living by mangling clothes. Prosecutrix, who lives at 7, Robert's-buildings, Pimlico, said that about six o'clock last evening the prisoner came to her parlour door with a bundle of books in his hand, and asked her to purchase some at a halfpenny each, at the same time displaying the pictures with which *they ware illus trated. One of the books, entitled the "British Traveller,') he said contained a faithful narrative of his own adventures and sufferings in India, and that representation particu larly induced her to look at it with some attention, but still she did not buy, and prisoner, after having exhibited some other pamphlets, backed out of the room with one of them opened before him, and which screened the whole of his front from observation. A woman, who had been sitting in another part of the room, then told prosecutrix that pri soner had purloined a bundle of linen from her drawers while talking, and she followed and found him with it. Prisoner—l Was very muchiander the influence of drink, and suppose I took the linen up instead of my own books. Mr. Selfe—One of the books you had with you is en titled "Rogues of London." Prisoner—l know it, your worship, Policeman—He was not drunk ; he was the sane as he is now. Prisoner was committed for trial. BANK OF FRANCE. The following is the return of the Bank of France for the week ending to-day, together with the cor responding figures of the previous account : THAMES. ROBBERY BY A SOLDIER IN THE TOIVER.—IVID. Mould, a private in the Grenadier Guards, quartered in the Tower of London, was brought before Mr. Woolrych charged with stealing a gold watch and chain, value £35, and a £5 Bank of England note, the money and property of Lieut. Charles Chricton and acting Captain of the same regiment. The prisoner was the servant of the prosecutor, who was on duty on Monday night in the Bank of England. He left his gold watch and chain and a £5 note on a table in his room. Ou his return from duty at the Bank on Tuesday morning the watch, chain, and note were missing, and it was ascertained that the prisoner had absconded. _ _ Chandler, a police constable, No. 117 11, traced the pri soner to a public-house called the Wellington, in Percival street, Windsor, yesterday morning, and said, "I want you for stealing Captain Chricton's watch and a L 5 note in the Tower." The prisoner said, " You have got hold of the wrong man," to which Chandler replied, "No, I have not, and I shall search you." Ile found the prosecutor's watch and chain upon him, and asked him where he ob tained it ; to which he replied, " I bought the watch in Birmingham. It was now identified by the prosecutor, who was asked by the prisoner if he did not bring the waten to him at the Bank on Monday night, to which ho replied in the negative. Chandler also produced £2 10s., which he found on the prisoner. Mr. Woolrych said there was no occasion to notice the charge of desertion. The prisoner would be committed to Newgate for trial for the felony. Mr. DICKENS'S NEW SERIAL STORY. —lt is stated that the first part of our great novelist's forthcomilig fiction is ty appear in, January. DEBTOR. Sept. 20. Sept. 13. fr. c. fr. c. Capital of the Bank 182,500,000 182,500,000 Profits in addition to capital (Art. 8, Law, June 9, 1857) 7,044,776 02 7,044,776 02 Reserve of tho Bauk and its branches 22,105,750 14 22,105,750 14 Reserve in landed pro perty 4,000,000 4,000,000 Notes in circulation • 943,2.'34,823 931,370,073 Banknotes to orderand receipts payable at sight - 28,386,731 01 26,523,272 59 Treasury account cur- _ _ _ rent creditor Current accounts, Paris 259.166,756 76 274,423 577 96 Do. branch banks Dividends payable 1,417,816 75 1,537,821 75 Discounts and sundry interests Rediscounted the last six months Surplus of receipts not distributed — Sundries Total CREDITOR. Sept. 20. Sept. 13. Cash in hand and in fr. c. fr. c. Branch banks Commercial bills over due Commercial bills dis- counted, not yet due 266,747,687 78 266,171,012 46 Do. branch banks.... . . 333,254,156 336,529,002 Advances on deposit f bullion . 15,625,800 15,100,700 Do. branch banks .. .. 11,261,900 11,586,300 Do. on French Public Securities 13,661,400 13,045,000 Do. by branch banks 7,636,200 7,869,800 Do. on railway shares and debentures D. branch banks 23,675,500 23,727,000 Do. on Credit Foncier Bonds Do. branches Do. to the State (Con vention, June 10, 1857) • 60,000,000 60,000,000 Government Stock re serve 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14 Do. disposable Routes Immobalisees (Law, June 2, 1857) 100,000 000 100,000,000 Hotel and furniture of the Bank and landed property branches Expenses of manage ment 1,351,072 27 1,123,955 78 Sundries Total 1 ,6 71,330,434 53 1,678,133,704 04 °edified by the Deputy-Governor of the Bank of France. (Signed) AtiDOIRILLE. Mn.II:MILL, of the Beales Testimonial M.P., ON THE REMOVAL OF 11111. TRT ittee heCora Fund have received the following letter from Mr. J. Stuart ' Mill, M.P. :—" Avignon, Sept. 10, 186 G. Dear sir,—Your letter of August 30 did not reach me until too late to send a letter which could be read at the meeting in favour of a testimonial to Mr. Beales. I think it quite right that Re formers should make compensation to Mr. Beales for the pecuniary loss to which he has been subjected in conse quence of the prominent part he has taken in urging the claims of the working classes to representation in Parlia ment. I see no force in the reasons assigned as a justifica tion of this treatment of Mr. Beales, Strong political con victions are not considered a disqualification for much higher judicial offices than that of revising barrister, nor aro ever likely to be considered except when the opinions aro on the side opposed to the ruling powers. To exclude from the seat of justice all who are decided politicians would be to keep out all the fittest men, for who, in the present state of the world, is without strong political opi nions of some sort except because he is wanting either in mental cultivation or in the public spirit requisite for taking due interest in the subject ? And to say that the opinions shall be an exclusion because they are known and avowed would be still more absurd, since it is precisely when they are known to the world that there is least danger of their exercising an improper bias on the judgment. Besides, even if the reason were good against appointing an active politician for the first time, it cannot hold against retain ing him, who, having been appointed, has, by the acknow ledgment of even adversaries, proved his impartiality by his conduct.—l am, kc., J. S. MILL." EMIGRATION FROM IRELAND.—The Registrar- General's report for the quarter ending June 30, 1866 proves that the population of Ireland is still steadily de creasing at the rate of 100,000 ayeaBBl6 r:l:he representingbirthsf an for the quarter ending in June numbered 38,816, annual proportion of ono in every 35.9 of the estimated population. But the deaths numbered 24,763, and the num ber of emigrants in the quarter was 41,124, so that the de crease iu the population in a single quarter was 27,071. The number of emigrants in the same period of 1865 was 37,588, and there is an increase of 3,536 in the June quar ter of the present year. This increase is the more remark able because no exceptional causes are at work in the coun try. On the contrary, there was employment to be had at moderate, bet increased wages, the condition of the pea santry is generally improved, and the harvest promised to be most abundant. We fear that the drain will still go on unless labour more remunerative than that provided by agriculture shall induce them to remain at home. The emi grants who have departed were able-bodied men and women in the prime of life and health, the very persons whom it would be most desirable to retain. We may, and probably will, need all these yet, and, perhaps, too late. Statesmen may regret that they have not broken the iron rules of a cold-hearted philosophy to encourage the manu factures and industry of Ireland.—lrish Times. THE APPROACHES TO THE NEW PALACE AT WESTMINSTER.—These approaches and alterations are rapidly progressing, and are expected to be completed by the meeting of Parliament. Palace-yard is to be encircled by an ornamental railing seven feet high. Ample means of ingress and egress will be afforded for the public and vehicles. A colonnade is now in course of construction, in unison with the architecture of the building, by the side of the Speaker's house, fronting Palace-yard, which will lead by a subway on to the Thames Embankment at the end of the now existing Manchester-buildings. It is intended to erect there an hotel by a company, on the plan of the hotel in Langham-place. Approach ing the Houses of Parliament there will be three gate ways, where statues will be placed Two of these en trances will lead to the Speaker's Court, and one to the Clock Tower. Behind the facade now in course of erection some steps are being placed in order to allow a free passage from the Speaker's Court into what is called the "Speaker's Garden," and thence to the "River-stairs." The whole of Palace-yard is to be levelled ; and • in consequence of the Metropolitan Railway coming close to Canning's statue, the statue is to b e removed to a vacant piece of ground by the side of the Westminster Sessions-house. The statue is considered by m any to be one of Westmacott's best. These works ar e b e i ng carried out, so far as the New Palace at Westminster is concerned, by Mr. Field, the con tractor, from the designs of Mr. Edward Barry. VISIT OF HER MAJESTY TO THE LINN OF QUOICH. —The Queen visited the Falls of Quoich last Thursday, driving from Bahnoral via Invercauld House and Allan more House. Luncheon was provided at the elegant summer house erected by the Earl of Fife ; and tea was also served there iu the afternoon. The Royal party, after spending some time in the grounds and at the fall, had a ride of sonic miles up the Vale of the Quoich, ghillies and ponies being in attendance from Balmoral. The return to the Palace in the evening was made via Braemar.—.Dundee Advertiser. RAILWAY TRAVELLING ON SUNDAY IN SCOTLAND. —On Wednesday the half-yearly meeting of share holders in the Glasgow and South-Western Railway took place, and in reference to the,matter the Scotsman says : " There was a. curious little displ ay at the meeting of the Glasgow and South-Western R a il way Company, w hi c h , i t is to be hoped, will escape the attention of the foe and the stranger.' The directors consent, on the requisition of the Post-office, to run a train carrying the mail-bags on Sunday morning, but refuse, on the requisition of the public, to carry passengers. Act ua ll y, th e di rec t ors were a assailed by a Dr. Cowan — who, it i s t err ibl e t o think, was long a teacher of youth—not for refusing the pas sengers, but for not also refusing the mails. The chair man, Sir Andrew Orr, very easily showed that the running of the train, instead of coaches and gigs, had caused an im mense saving of Sunday labour, and that the attendance on Sunday by the railway servants is quite infinitesimal. But he did not show, and was not called on to show, why that amount of labour, small as it is, should be in great part thrown away, and why the railway should not effect a saving of Sunday labour much greater than it has happily effected already. Men and women, as well as letters and news papers, have sometimes occasion to travel on Sunday, and when they are not carried on railways, they get themselves carried by cattle and men-servants. All that might be saved by the railway, without any more work being done on the railway than is done already. The carriages run empty on Sunday ; let passengers get seats in them, and many people are accommodated, many aro exempted from Sunday work, nobody is injured or inconvenienced, and the railway company is made to look rational instead of ridiculous. The chairman, however, having the fear of the Cowan kind of people before his oyes, stated that he and the directors would not admit passengers unless compelled, as they perhaps might, by a legal process which has been commenced against them." At the annual general meeting of the United Service Company (Limited), held on the 13th inst., year. a dividend of 5 per cent, Was declared for the past The City of Moscow Gas Company have notified that the books will be closed from the Ist to the 15th October next, preparatory to issuing warrants for the payment of interest on the shares for the half-year ending the 15th October next. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day. LONDON, Sept. 21.—Wind this day at noon—South- Westerly ; moderate breeze and fine weather, but rather cloudy. PonTsmounr, Sept. 20.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—The Lord Warden, from London for Madras. TROON, Sept. 20.—Wind from Londonderry. FALMOUTH, Sept. 20.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Mar garetta, from Bahia. _ . BRISTOL, Sept. 20.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Naparina from Trinidad; Venus, from Barbadoes; Louise, from Pomaron. lamiasH, Sept. 19.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Endora, for Bombay. PLYmounr, Sept. 20.—Wind S.W.—Arrivoi—Nancy Bro-, , in, from London for Portland Bay, leaky, and with other damage. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. bRAVESEND, Friday Morning. Arrived, Sept. 20 - Zephyr steamer, from Harlingen ; Secret, from Riga; Henry Parr, from Droback ; Thomson, from Landscrona ; Gannymede, from St. Petersburg; Susan Bailey, from Logos. Arrived, .Sept. 21— N aterloo, steamer, from Rotterdam; Concordia, steamer, from Boulogne ; Diana, steamer, from Amsterdam. Sailed, Sept. 21—Stratton Audley, for Calcutta ; Forest Rights, for Port Philip ; Marshland, steamer, for Konigs berg. _ . DEAL, Friday Morning. Anchored— Hercules, from London, for Cardiff; Alex ander, from Shields, for Alexandria. Put back, the Alert, of Jersey, from Dungeness, with loss of anchor and chain. UNITED STATES POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS. Mails for the United States are made up in London every Saturday evening, Wednesday morning, and Wednesday evening. Letters for the Saturday and Wednesday evening mails must reach the General Post-office by 6 o'clock p.m., and those of the Wednesday morning mails by 6 o'clock a.m.-that day. Newspapers must always be posted half an hour earlier. The Wednesday and Saturday's mails are taken up at Queenstown, on the following day, by the Liverpool steamers. The Wednesday morning mails are taken by the Southampton steamers. Mails from the United States are due in London on Mondays and Thursdays of each week. Periodical works not of daily publication, issued in the 'shape of pamphlets, may be sent to the United States, California, and Oregon, by packet, at the following rates : —Not exceeding 2 oz. ' id. ; above 2 oz., but not exceeding 3 oz., Gd.; above 3 oz., but not exceeding 4 oz., Bd. ; with an addition of 2d. for every additional ounce up to 16 ounces, above which the privilege does not extend. At the same rate of postage, any pamphlet not weighing more than 8 oz (even though it be not a periodical publication) may be sent to the United States, California, and Oregon. This postage is only the British portion, a further sum being charged on delivery. The periodical works or pamphlets must always be sent in a cover open at the ends (not more than one being sent in a single cover), and the postage must be prepaid. Other printed papers or books (except those specified above), addressed to the places above named, are liable to letter rate of postage. There must be no writing, or other marks upon such periodical works, pamphlets, &c., or upon the covers, ex cept the names and addresses of the persons to whom they are sent; nor upon the covers must there be any printing, except the names and addresses of the persons to whom they are sent and the names and addresses of the senders Any other writing, &c., will render the packetsliable to letter rates of postage. Liverpool Cotton Market.—This Day. The market steady, on receipt of American news. Sales, probably 1,000 bales. The directors ofthe Mauritius Land, Credit, and Agency Company, in their report, state that the net profits for the year ending the 30th June last amount to £4,101, and recommend a dividend of 2s. per share, in addition to the interim dividend of 5 per cent. paid in February. The balance to be carried forward is £lOl, after reducing the prelimi nary expenses £l,OOO, and increasing the reserve fund £5OO, which now amounts to £l,OOO. The directors of the Westminster Chambers Association recommend a dividend for the half year at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum. The coupons of the Egyptian Government Loan of 1864, due on the Ist October next, ana the bonds drawn for redemption, will be paid on that day or any subsequent Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, or Friday at Messrs. Fruhling and Goschen's offices, Austinfriars. In the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets there has been very little business transacted. Dur ing the last few days sugars have only been in moderate request, at about previous rates. The public sales of tea have continued to proceed with rather more animation, while rice has continued in good request, and at a further slight advance. Tallow, however, has been neglected, and prices for both present and forward delivery tend down wards. The directors of the Grand Trunk Railway Com pany of Canada recommend in their report, issued to-day, the payment of a cash dividend for the half year ended June 30, on all the First Preference Bonds and Stocks. The interest will be paid on and after the 15th of October next. A woman named Piquet, a farm servant, has just been tried at Arras for the murder of her mistress at Colembert. The accused was of a violent temper, and was said to be on intimate terms with her mas ter. The mistress was also known to be afraid of the servant, and to not dare to give her any orders. The woman Piquet had been seen near the spot at the period of the crime, and traces of blood were found on her clothes. She was declared by the jury guilty of homicide, and condemned to 20 years' hard labour. THE CASE OF SWINDLING BY AN EX-OFFICER OF THE ARMY AT WINDSOR.—Since the examination'of Bayley, the ex-ensign of the 35th Regiment, who has been remanded till Monday next upon charges of swindling, the prisoner has remained in the custody of Mr. Superintendent Eager, at Windsor borough police-station, in Sheet-street. On Tuesday and Wednesday he Nips again attacked with fits, and a medical man had to be called in to attend him. While in this condition it has taken several men to hold him. From the time of his arrest the prisoner has strenu ously refused to write to his friends, from whom he has as yet received no communication since being taken into cus tody. Letters relating to a number of swindling transac tions in which the prisoner is supposed to have taken part are being almost constantly received by the superintendent of police at. Windsor, one of which, from Mr. Bennett, of the Bedford Tavern, 30, Western-street, Brighton, was read by the magistrates at the petty sessions yesterday. Mr. Burrows has been summoned to attend and prosecute on Monday, and till then the prisoner will be watched day and night, in order to prevent him injuring himself, or trying to escape from the law. He seems to feel his posi tion deeply. THE ADMIRERS OF WASHINGTON IRVING will learn with pleasure that the forthcoming volumes of essays, entitled, " Spanish Papers and other Miscellanies,' edited by his son, will contain, in addition to numerous interesting magazine articles never before collected, several hitherto unpublished papers bearing the following' titles —" The Legend of Don Roderick," "Legend of Count Julian and his Family," "The Legend of Pelayo," " Abdor nihman, the -Founder of the Dynasty of the Ommiades in Spain," " Chronicle of Fernan Gonzalez, Count of Castle," "Chronicles of Fernando the Saint,"and Spanish Romance:" —Traner's " American and Oriental Literary Record.' Mr. SWINBURNE, according to the Publishers' Circular,'" is preparing a reply to his severer critics, like Byron's English Bards and Scotch Reviewers,' will pay no respect to persons. Mr. Swinburne will challenge his censors to point out a line or passage in his last volume of poems which is really of an objectionable character." We shall be glad to see this " reply," bat the only diffi culty in " poipting out" the objectionable passages arises rom a natural dislike to defiling oneself by touching pitch, GRASP YOUR NETTLE.—The invaluable results of giving the utmost publicity to all the available facts touching the progress of the cholera have beenvery clearly marked in the course of the present epidemic. The daily advance of the disease in one quarter, and its retreat in an other, have been watched by the ablest and best informed and most charitable persons. The whole information of the inhabitants of the infected localities has been brought to bear upon the exploration of the causes of cholera and the accomplishment of preventive schemes. The local authorities have been watched, guided, stimulated, and helped. Charity and science have concentrated their efforts on the extinction of the disease in its stronghold, and the relief of suffering which the first outburst had occasioned. Th^ immediate effect of the epidemic has been to induce all our authorities to hasten and perfect the means of obtain ing and affording full information. Mr. Simon called for daily returns of sickness to his office from every district Dr. Farr has published daily instead of weekly mortuary lists. We have in our columns traced accurately and in detail the deaths in every district. The result has been that this epidemic has been combated with greater success than has any previous attack. There has been no panic and no desertion, but an earnest, hopeful, and successful struggle with the advancing euemy. Mr. Adderley gives a diff eren t account from Paris, and we have reason to be lieve that his information is partially correct. He told his constituents the other day that he was rather amused at what he had heard recently. As soon as the cholera ap peared in London the papers gave the returns of the num ber of deaths daily ; whereas when it broke out in Paris, the Emperor, who had all the papers in his own hands, di rected the Moniteur to say that the city was never more healthy, whereupon all those who knew the Emperor in stantly packed up their things and bolted in every three tion.—LanCeet 1151 1.91 I 1231 41 'l9 i 181 19 84 b7l 1281 8 12T 21 SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, HAMPTON AUTUMN RACES -THURSDAY. The HAMPTON .NURSERY PLATE of N soya, added to a Handicap of 10 sovs each, 3 ft (to the fund); winners of any race after Sept. 14 (at ten a.m.) of the value of 100 sovs 31b, of two of 100 each, or one of 2001 b 51b, of 300 together or separate 71b extra ; the second to sale his stake; three-quarters of a mile. Mr. W. W. Baker's Merry Monarch (Wyatt) 1 Mr. Hodgman's Vice Versa ... (Bartholomew) 2 Mr. Alwyn's Bonnie Doon . ; (Unstable) 3 Milan, Gentian, and Miss Partridge also ran. Betting -5 to 4 agst Milan, 7 to 2 agst Merry Monarch, 4 to 1 agst Vice Versa. Wou by a neck ; neck between second and third. The LADIES' PLATE of 23 sous, added to a Sweepstakes of 3 sous each ; two-yr olds . 7st 7th, three . gat 21b, four 9st 101 b, five and upwards lOst 21b; mares and geldings allowed Bib; the winner to be sold for 200 sovs ; if entered for 150 sovs allowed 71b, 100 141 b, 50 211 b, 40 261 b; five furlongs. To close and name by nine o'clock on Wednesday night. - Mr. W. G. Bi nneta's Gulnara (Ffibberd) 1 Mr. Abron's Stud T. Ballard's Florican (Wyatt) 3 The EPSOM PLATE of 100 SOVS (Handicap); winners after Sept. 14 (at ten a.m.) 71b extra ; three-quarters of a mile. Mr. R. Porter's British Tar, by Orest—True Blue, 3 yrs, 6st 4Th (S. Mordan) 1 Mr. Hope's Signet, 3 yrs, 7st (0. Page). 2 Mr. T. Ballard's Hopleaf, 3 yrs, Est 51b (car. Gst 71b) (lluxtable) 3 _ . The following also ran :—Puebla, Wild Bee, The Naiad, Astonishment, and La Muta. Betting to 1 agst British Tar, 3to 1 agst La Muta 9 to 2 agst Puebla, 6 to 1 agst Hopleaf, and 10 to 1 agst The Naiad. Won easily by a neck. The HOME PARK PLATE of 30 soya, added to a Sweep stakes of 5 soya each ; two-year-olds, 7st ; three, Bst 101 b ; fillies and geldings alloivec r l3lb; maiden two-year olds having started twice allowed 51b, and three-year oldi which have never won 100. sovs allowed 101 b ; the winner, to be sold for 100 sovs ; if entered for 50 sovs allowed nb over and above other allowances; five fur . . . longs. Mr. B Ledger's Bayleaf. by Promised Land—Bay ROSS, lind, 3 yrs, 7st 111 b (.£100) (E. FoirstEit) 1 Mr. Johnstone's Owlet, 3 yrs, 7st 4lb (LAO) ...(J. Bench) 2 Mr.: Goodwin's Tiny, 2 yrs, sst 131 b (.£so)....(Goodwin) a Newnham and Black Tulip also ran. Betting-6 to 4on Tiny, and sto 1 agst Bayleaf. Newn ham made play, with a slight lead of Tiny and Bayleaf, to the distance, where the last mentioned came away. Won in a canter by a length. MATCH, 25 sous each. Five furlongs, Mr. Randall's nd Dalesman, by Tadrnor—Ellen Percy, aged, Bst 101 b (fleartfield) 1 Mr. Bennett'S c by Gamma di Vergy —the Medal, Bst 21b (J. Grimshavr) 2 Betting-6' to son Dalesman, who waited on the Gemma di Vergy colt till reaching the stand, where he got his head in front, and won, after a rattling finish, by a head. The PALACE STAKES (Handicap) of 5 sovs each, with 40 added ; the winner to be sold for 50 sovs ; half a mile straight. 15 subs. Prince do Soltykoff's Fern Leaf, by Magnum—Fanny Fern, 3 yrs, ist 91b (Huxtable 1 Mr. Prices's Tesane, 4 yrs, Bst 31b (J. Grimshaw) 2 Mr. Carew's Hatty, 2 yrs, 6st 121 b (Goodwin 3 Won cleverly by a neck. The WELTER STAKES (Handicap) of 10 soya each, 3 ft (to the fund), with 20 added; gentlemen riders, profes sionals 51b extra ; one mile. Mr. Hughes's Mongrel, by Surplice or Pelion—Elcot's dam, 4 yrs, list (inc. 51b extra) (D. Hughes) 1 Mr. Fuller's Wild Bee, 4 yrs, lOst 41b (inc. 51b extra) (Ducker) 2 Betting-5 to 2 on Mongrel. Won easily by three quarters of a length. BET TING ON THE COURSE. GREAT EASTERN HANDICAP. 20 to 1 agst Gretna (taken) 20 to 1 agst Coup d'Etat (taken) 25 to 1 agst Master Richard (taken) 25 to 1 agst Vespasian (taken) 25 to 1 agst lon (taken) 25 to 1 agst Sultan (taken) 25 to 1 agst Cadiz (taken) 25 to 1 agst 11 Re, Galantuomo (taken) CESAREWITCH. Bto 1 agst Potomac (offered) 20 to 1 agst Mathilde (taken) 20 to 1 agst Ethelred (offered) 20 to 1 agst Lothario (offered) 1000 to 30 agst Abergeldie (taken and offered) 3010 1 agst Pearl Diver (offered, 33 to 1 t 33 to 1 agst Regalia (taken) 1000 to 30 agst Verdant (taken and offered) 40 to 1 agst Black Prince (taken and offered) 40 to 1 agst Philosopher (taken and ofiered) HENDON (WELSH HARP) RACES. THE BARE STARES of 30 sovs, for horses that never won a stake or plate of 30 sovs. Mr. Gilke's Silver Tale (late Ellen), by Drogheda— Panpipe (£2O), 3 yrs, 7st 131 b (Viney) 1 Mr. C. Somers's Finale (£3O), 3 yrs, 8$ 21b ...(Deacon) 2 Mr. Bentley's Triumph (.£3O), 3 yrs, Bst 2lb ...(Gregory) 3 The following ulso ran : —lngratitude, Agnes, Polly, Nell Gwynne, Lancashire Witch, Adeline, Wizard, and Little Pickles. Betting-7 to 4 agst Finale, 4to 1 agst Silver Tale, and 4to 1 " bar two." Won in a canter by five lengths. TILE Two-YEAR-OLD STAKES of 3 sovs each, with 25 added ; colts, Bst 101 b ; fillies, Bst 71b ; penalties and - allowances. Five furlongs. Mr. C. Somers's Elburg, by Amsterdam, Sabrina's dam, Oat (in. 71b ex.) (Deacon) 1 Mr. P. Wickham's Battle-Axe, Bst 51b (ff. Jackson) 2 Mr. 0. Somers's Mermaid colt, Bst 101 b ............(Marsh) 0 Betting-6 to 4 was laid alternately on Battle-Axe and Elburg. Won by a neck. THE METROPOLITAN CUP, of 25 soya each, added to a sweepstakes of 2 Boys each, for 3-yr-olds and upwards. Mr. Bentley's Triumph, by Trumpeter —Cressa (£3O), 3 yrs, 9st 91b (Gregory 1 31r. Hobson's Triumpher (.£5O), 5 yrs, list 21b (Owner 2 Mr. C. Somers's Finale (X 10), 3 yrs, 9st 111 b (in. 71b ex. (Coslett 3 THE KILBURN HANDICAP of 3 soya each, 1 ft, with 25 added, for 3-yr-olds and upwards ; winners extra. One _ mile and a half. Mr. B. Land's Victoria, by Vedette, Rupert's darn, 3 yrs, 6st 101 b (Marsb) 1 Mr. Ramerton's c. by Frogmore, dam's pedigree un known, 4 yrs, Bst 71b (H. Jackson) 2 Mr. Covey's Sister Mary, 4 yrs, 7st 41b (Walling) 3 The following also ran: —The Turner, Lydia, Retainer, Discretion, Opposition, Lundyfoot, and Sylvia. THE VOLUNTEER CUP, value 40 sovs, added to a sweep stakes of 3 sovs each, for horses the property of and ridden by members of volunteer crops; penalties and . . _ allowances. Two miles. Mr. Laymond'e Jassy, by Voivodo, Lady Avon, 4 yrs, 12st 131 b (Owner 1 Mr. Hobson's Triumpher, 5 yrs, 12st 31b (Owner 2 Mr. Steel's Rapture, aged, 12st 131 b (Baker 3 The followipg also ran :—Disappointment, Notting ham Weasel, and Hu-by-the-Sea. MONMOUTH MEETING-THURSDAY. The FIRST MONMOUTH BIENNIAL PRODUCE STAKES of 10 sovs each. Mr. Brayley's Codicil, Bst 71b (Cannon) w.o. The SECOND BEAUFORT BIENNIAL STAKES of 10 sovs oach. Mr. J. Day's Sweet Anne " (Fordham) w.o, SWEEPSTAKES Of 50 sovs each. Half a mile. Mr. Brayley's Mouchir 2 yrs, Bst 41b (Cannon) 1 Mr. Maund's Man of ioss, 2 yrs, Bst 71b (Payne) 2 Mr. Chaplin's Anatomist, 2 yrs, Bst 71b (Fordham) 3 _ _ Betting-6 to 4 agst Mouchoir, and 2to 1 each agst sLan of Ross and Anatomist. Won easily by two lengths. The COUNTY lintnEns'l ) LATE Duke of Beaufort's Ischia, 3 yrs, 7st 51h (inc. sth. ex.) (Murray) 1 Mr. Weyman's The Colonel, 3 yrs, sst 121 b (in. 51b ex.) (Kenyon) 2 Mr. Wyatt's Jupiter, 4 yrs, 7st 51b (Clement) 3 The Guide and Isle of Man also ran. Betting-6 to 4 agst The Colonel, 9to 4 agst Jupiter, 4 to 1 agst Ischia, and 10 to 1 agst any other. Won easily by two lengths. • The BEAUFORT CUP 'handicap) of 1 0 SOTS each , w ith a piece of plate added. Mr. J. Day us Menace, 5 yrs, Bst 41b (iue 51b extra) (Cannon) 1 Mr. Brayley's Bitter Sweet, 3 yrs, 6st 21b (Kenyon) 2 Mr. G. C. Morgan ns The Brigand, 4 yrs, Pat 121 b (Murray) 3 'Contraband and Trapeze also ran. Betting-7 to 4 agst Bitter Sweet, sto 2 agst Menace, and 4to 1 agst Brigand. Won by a length. The HENPRE STAKES of 3 sovs each, with 25 added. Mr. W. Jones's Chance, 3 yrs, 7st 51b (G. Sopp) 1 Mr. Bellow's Champagne, 4 yrs, Bst 91b (Grey) 2 Mr. Adam's Lauretta, 2 yrs, sst 71b (Watkins) 3 Betting-5 to 4 agst Champagne, and 2to 1 each agst Chance and Laurette. Won by two lengths. The Txtox PLATE of 25 sovs added to a handicap sweep stakes of 5 sovs each. Mr Sly's Needle Gun, by Gunboat, dam by Surp lice, 4 yrs, lOst (in. 71b ex.') (W. White) 1 Mr Thomas's Brigand, 4 yrs, lOst 101 b (Mr Millward) 2 Mr E. Brayley's Viceroy, 4 yrs, 10at 41b (Mr 11. V. Wilkinson) 3 10st 4lb Mr T. V. Morgau's Contraband, - 4 yrs, (Mr. A. Williams) 4 Mr Noble's The Tartar, 5 yrs, list (Owner) 5 Betting-2 to 1 agst Needle Gun, 7to 2 each agst Vice roy and Brigand, and 4to 1 agst The Tartar. Won by four lengths. The CHIPPENHAM STAKES of 10 sovs each, with 40 added. Lord Bateman's Queen of Trumps, by King of Trumps-- Catherine Parr, aged 9st 71b (W. Whitel 1 Mr. Herbert's Usher , 5 yrs, 9st 101 b Mr. F. Morgan's Spangle, 2 yrs, Est 71b (G. Sopp 3 Betting-1 to lon Queen of Trumps. Won in a canter by six lengths. The CLYTHA STAICES of 7 sovs each, with 30 added. Mr. Herbert's Stockinger, by Stockwell—Lady Evelyn, aged, 12st 121 b (Owner 1 Mr. J. Turner's Little Ellen, 3 yrs, list 21b (Mr Merton '2 Mr. F. 0. Morgan's Ruperra, 5 yrs, li s t 91b (Owner 3 Mr. Herbert's The Guide, 4 yrs, list 81b (Mr. Wombwell) 4 Betting-7 to 4on Stockinger, and 7to 4 eget Little Ellen. Won easily by four lengths. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day HORSES STRUCK OUT OF THEIR ENGAGEMENTS. Sept. 4, at 2.10 p.m. Bradamante, out of the Leamington stakes. Sept. 10, ab0ut . 3.30 p.m. All Lord Glasgow's horses, ex cept c by Young Melbourne, dam by Teddington, out of St. Leger. Sept. 11, at 11.30 a.m. Sunnylocks and Star of India, o u t of Champagne stakes, at Doncaster. Sept. 11, at 11.30 a.m. Honiton, out of St. Leger aud Doncaster stakos. Sept. 11, at 11.30 a.m. Dovetail, out of Doncaster en gagements. Sept. 14, at 2.30'p.m. Tormentor, out of Cambridgeshire stakes and Canterbury eugagements. • - • Sept. 14, at 4.b p.m. Breadalbane, out of Cambrilgeshir4 stakes. . Sept. 17, at 9 a.m. Wynnstay; Edgbaston,,West Lanca shire, and Yeatsall, out of Manchester engagements. . Sept. 17, at 9 a.m. Regalia, out of East Kent baudicap. Sept. 17, at 9 a.m. Rtgentess, Plautago, and Exec!lier and all Capt. Christie's horses, out of Hampton engage-, monts. Sept. 17, at 9 a.m. Drum, out of Monmouth engagements Sept. 17, at 12.30 p.m. Miss Elizabeth, out of Hampton engagements. Sept. 17, at 4.30 p.m. Steamboat, out of County Membera and Ladies' plates, at Monmouth. j [Sept. 17, after 6 p.m. Planet, out of Cesarewitch stakes. Sept. 18, at 9 a.m. Windham, out of Ayr, Edinburgh and Kelso engagements. Sept. 18, at 9 a.m. General Kmety, out of Mole Nursery, at Hampton. Sept. 18, at 11.25 a.m Contraband and Vindicator, out of Tenby engagements. Sept. 18, after 6 p.m. Belzoni, ont of all engagements in England. Sept. 18, after 6 p.m. Stoic and c by Vedette, out of Ellett Percy, out of Manchester engagements. Sept. 18, after 6 p.m. Ticitus and Golden Plover, out of all engagements, 1866. Sept. 19, at 4.13 p.m. Crossbow, out of the Great Eastern Railway handicap. Sept. 18, after 6 p.m. Blush Rose, out of all engageppents in the First October Meeting. Sept. 19, at 9 a.m. Scamander, Princess of Wales, and Lady Tredegar, out of all engagements, in Newmarket First October Meeting. Sept. 19, at 9 a.m. Mrs. Allan, out of Great Eastern Bail, -way handicap, Newmarket First October Meeting. Sept. 20, at 1.45 p.m. Reda; out of the Great Eastern Railway handicap. TURF AGENCY OFFICE, 100, JERMYN-STREET, ST. JAMES'S, LONDON, R. SYDNEY SMITH (Member of Tatter -11sall's) begs to inform the racing public 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 I:eceipt 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." MARKETS.---This Day. MARK LANE. Fresh up to our market to-day the arrivals of home grown wheat were moderate. For most qualities there was a steady demand, and prices ruled firm. The supply of foreign wheat on offer was moderate. A fair amount of business was transacted in most descriptions at full quotations. _ _ Floaticg cargoes of grain were in fair demand at quite late rates. Barley was in short supply. The trade for all qualities ruled steady at fully Monday's currency. Malt was firm at full quotations. The supply of oats on offer was moderate. There was a fair demand for most qualities at Monday's prices. Beans and peas ware in short supply, and the trade ruled steady at full quotations. There was a fair demand for flour at late rates. SHIP ARRIVALS THIS WEER. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. English and Scotch 630 120 310 10 880 Irish — 210 Foreign 7,610 1,690 16,350 620 sks. 1,330 bls. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL The supplies of meat on sale at these markets are toler ably good. Prime qualities move off freely at full prices ; otherwise, the trade is heavy. Per 81b by the carcase. sd s d inferior beef 4 0 4 t Riddling do. 4 4 4 6 Prime large 8 4 10 Prime small d, 1 10 5 0 Veal 4 0 5 4 Lamb. 03 0 ad e d Inferior mutton 3 6 42 Middling mutton 4 4 4 to Prime do 5 f' 5 4 Large pork 4 10 5 0 Small pork. 1 10 5 2 Id to Oa 01 BOROIIU~ HOP. The weather having been More favourable the accounts from the plantations have"improved. The market s how ever, is but scantily supplied with new produce in but middling condition. The demand has ruled steady, and the short quantity on offer has been easily disposed of at £7 to £8 Bs. for Sussex and Weald of Bents. COLONIAL. TEA.—At the public sales of China there has been rather more animation, but no change in prices. SUGAR.— Only a moderate amount of business has been done at about previous rates. The market for goods has also been very quiet, at about former quotations. CoFr•EE.—Business has been inactive, and a decline of about Gd. per cwt. has been established in Ceylon descrip tions. RICE.—The demand continues active, and holders de_ mand full rates, which, in some measure, prevents large transactions. SALTITTRE.—There have been no public sales, but in tho private market prices are firm, British refined being 25s Gd to 26s per cwt. TALLOW.—The market is flat, P.Y.C. new, on the spot is quoted 45s to 45s 3d ; last three months, 45s 3d ; and January to March delivery 46s 6d per cwt. GUSTAVE Doßt AND ALFRED TENNYSON. —A mag nificent Christmas gift-book for 1866 is now in ac tive preparation, it would appear, according to a preliminary announcement just issued from the emi nent house of the Messrs. Edward Moxon and Co. —pre-eminently the Poets' Publishers —and will be produced by them on the Ist of next December. It will be published in imperial 4to, with paper and type made expressly for the work, price one guinea. And this forthcoming Christmas gift-book, it may be asked— What is it ? It is the Elaine" of Alfred Tennyson, the text of it illustrated by Gustave Dore. Nine exquisite full-page drawings—pencilled by this young but already world-famous illustrator, and these drawings of his, for the first time, in this instance, engraved on steel, in the thisons t i occasion,t constitute the em as be w lli e sh h m a e v n e ts j o u f st th r e ern vo a l r u k m ad e : hi g hest style a art, by Hon, Baker, Jeeps, Robinson, an d c Nott,hveerr until s have the designs of Gustave Dore been engraved on steel. Until now, consequently, it can hardly be said that his de signs have ever been interpreted in their fullest sense. M. Dore has made these drawings, we •are told, with especial reference to this very mode of engraving, and it was at his earnest request, in fact, that the pub lishers determined to incur the great outlay neces sary to produce the forthcoming volume. It is also, curiously enough, the very first time that M. Dore has illustrated the works of a contemporary author, he being desirous, according to his own observation, that the work about to be published may prove a monument to Mr. Tennyson and to his illustrator. Nay, Gustave Dore's brother, M. Ernest Dore, has written em phatically in reference to the new enterprise thus entered upon by the precocious and prodigal illustrator of Holy Writ, Ls well as of the resplendent genius of such writers as Dante and Cervantes " Mon frere a fait cette fois-ci le grand succes qui fera descendre sou nom b, la posterite." We shall look forward for the realisation of that noble design with the liveliest interest, we are even tempted to say also with the fullest *confi dence, in the all but certainty, that it will be realised. It has about it all the essential elements for successin precisely this very kind of enterprise—viz., adventurous publishers, skilled engravers, a gifted artist, and a poet whose verses arc suggestive of what we doubt not they will receive from Gustave Dore's facile hand; superbly imaginative embellishments. A fire broke out a few evenings ago at Saint Affrique (Aveyron) in the house of a widow named Izarn, and in a few hours the whole building was reduced to ashes. The Napoleonien of Rodez sig nalises an act of courage, reflecting the greatest hon our on M. du Moiron, substitute of the Procureur- Imperial, who in the midst of the conflagration planted a ladder against the burning pile, and 'rescued a woman who was springing from one of the windows. RAELI TILE NORTH OF E NG LAND. —It Mn. , D IS RAEL] is undertood that next month the Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer will be the guest of the Earl of Lonsdale at Lowther Castle ; and, in anticipation of his visit, the Con servAive party in Carlisle are understood to be already arranging for a grand banquet, to which Mr. Disraeli will be invited.—Scotsinan. A LEXA NDRA PALACE AND PARK.--ThlS magni ficent structure, now in course of erection on the very top of Muswell-hill, is fast approaching completion. Thew,- ' tractors, Messrs. Kelk and Lucas, have 1,2C0 men engaged. w ith unabated ener w g ot y artae t i h na r : o d ug al: ho;t il lie : The works were commenced in September, 1865, and have been carried on monetary crisis, showing the confidence of our capitalists iu this important u ndertaking. The Great Northern Cotn ipt7i3w- ay have,byalmreoaadnys p o u f r w ch h a i s c e h d th th e e y Edgware to the palace. .0 i¢ sr ° $ va i laer li : , o ° V whic h de o , irvi lls c ,_ il tto , _ li es a tb° do" ott°' 3 , „too. nCl' d - CO, op tOu st 20 :Oi 10 ‘OO 49i 691 i 04 5 25} 107 k 7