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

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The Money Market exhibits symptoms of easi ness, owing to the demand for accommodation being limited, and the supply of capital on offer rather abundant. The brokers, however, will only take the very finest description of paper, and the Principal bulk of the bills brought forward is, there fore, negotiated at the discount office of the Bank of England. The sum of £19,000 in sovereigns was taken to the Bank on Saturday, and there was also a with drawal of 4,000. A statement of the affairs of Sir Charles Price Marryat and Co. will be submitted to a meeting of the creditors on Friday next by Messrs. Coleman, Turquand, Young, and Co. Notice has been given that the coupons of the Atlantic and . Great Western Railway will be paid as usual by the Consolidated Bank, and that they must be left at the office two clear days for exami nation. Notice has been given that interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, for the half-year ending the 30th inst., on the shares of the Metropolis Sewage and Essex Reclamation Company, will be paid at I\lessrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co.'s, bankers, on and after to-day. From the manufacturing districts the accounts for the past week have in some instances been more satisfactory. Cloths and yarns at Manchester have been dealt in to a moderate extent, at slightly en hanced rates. In the woollen trade of Leeds, Bradford, and Huddersfield, there has been rather more animation, while at Leicester and Notting ham the hosiery and lace trades have remained quiet. In the hardware districts of Birmingham, Sheffield, and Wolverhampton, there has beenlittle Change of importance. The Malta has been announced this morning from New York with £4,200, and the Africa, from Boston, with £37,242. Two o'CLocK. At the Paris Bourse this morning, according to Reuter's telegram, the French Rentes were 63f. 60c. Firm. In the Corn Market to-day there was only a moderate attendance, and prices of both home grown and foreign wheat remained the same as on Monday last. Spring corn, beans, peas, and flour were without change in value. The English Stock Market has been inactive, and prices have shown depression, owing to the stringency of money, and the war on the Conti nent, which is causing an uneasy feeling to pre vail. Consols are 861 4 for money, and 864 1 for the account. The New Threes and Reduced An nuities are 85 4 4 ; Exchequer Bills, 8 dis. ; and India 5 per Cents. 1034 4. Foreign Stocks are generally flat. Mexican have de clined 4, to 11 ; Spanish Passive 4, to 19 4 ; and Brazilian Scrip f, to 44 34 ; Cents. are fi rm at 271 ; Turkish 5 per Greek, at 104 114 ; and Spanish Certificates, at 154 ; United States 5-20 Bonds, 65 f ; Erie Shares, Illi nois, 374 384. 734 744 ; and Business in the Railway Share Market has been very dull, and prices have slightly given way. Nor th - Western and South-Eastern have each re ceded 55., Great Western 10s., and London, Chat ham, and Dover 15s. ; while Great Eastern have improved 55., and Metropolitan 10s. • Foreign and Colonial markets dull, and without change of importance as regards prices. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are very quiet. Alliance are marked 22 221 ; Imperial Ottoman, 7 4 81; London and County, 654 66 ; London and Westminster, 921 ; Credit Foncier and Mobilier of England are at 14 dis. ; International Financial, at 24 dis.; National Discount Company, 21 prem.; and nudsons Bay Company, at 174 17. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. GCVERNMENT rumps. 8 Dor Cent. Consols Do. A ccount, July 10. B6l 3 Newer p Cent. Reduced - I 1 8 8 ° 5 4 A 3 per C en t 1 o New 2/ per Cent. Jan. 1894 — 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 isTrch. Juno. Exchequer Bills, £ l,OOO, 3 per Cent. — Do. £5OO Do £lOO and £200 B a ,,Uk of England Stock, 5 per Cent o Account -.INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Indian Stock, IA per Cent., AprillB74 — Do Do.. Account 1 5 per Cent. July, 1870 De. 4 per Cent., 03 3 } Oct.. 1888 Do. Certificates Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent Do. D. 5 per C en t. , J an. 1872 100 Do. 5 / per C en t. , M ay 1879 — D o. Bond Do. Deb., s, 4 p £erl,ooo Cent., Aug. 1866 Do. under £l,OOO FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent., £l5 pd — pm Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent Do. 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Do. Do. 1865 — 1863 Do Acc ount 7 DO. 4100 B onds I 01 Do. Scrip, £55 pa id 3i 7 3 1 dis Buenos D o £lOO B Ayres 6 per Cent — Bonds Chinon 6 p er Cent — DO. 4i per Cent — Do. 6 per Cent Co lo Do Scrip, £5O paid mbian 6 per Cent. 1 ) 414 811 3 per Cent. 1825 Dan ubian Principalities Do. Account Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Provisional Land Warrant Do Defe rre d E gyptian 7 per Cent 1)0 ., Second Issue Do £lOO Bonds Do. 1864 79i 1 Do £lOO Bonds Do. Government Railway Debentures 77 8 6 Do. £6O paid dis Ur 1,- - - qe- 0 per Cents., 1824 - 5, ex Coupons Do. Account Do. Coupons Do. Account buaternala 5 per Cent. Italian 5 per Cent 1865 Do Account 5l/ ~,, DD. Marenunana Railway "Lexi can 3 per Cent Do. Account Do 1864 Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French Montevidean 6 per Cent., £3O p a id Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent Do Land Warrants (Hectares) New G ranada Do 2 per Cent - Peruvian 5 per Cent., 1865 Do. nt Do 3 per Cent. (U r ib arren ) oo 4 Cent., A l ce p o e u r nt 1862 Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, Do. Acco un t 41{ 2 11.- roan ß 5 pe r C ent., 1822, £ St 4.1. per Cent. 1850 Do 4 per Cent., 1860 Do 3 pet Cent. 1859 Do 5 per Cent. 1862 SDo 5 per Cent. 1861 .. ardinian 5 pe r Cent spDallo•ishAc3copuenrttz - Do Account ................... Do Nov Deferred Do Account Do Passive ................. . ...... Spanish Cert. of Coup. not.flided l9l . - Do Account ................. Swedish 4 per Cent. ....................... 151 15 1 Do. , ii per Cent. 1864 • - Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854::::::::::::..•.••.•• -- DDo Account BO 1 o 6 per Cent. 1858 ............... Do. Account 54 3 41 Do £lOO Bonds ' Do 6 per Cent. 1862 Do Account 50 1 Do £lOO Bonds — Do 6 per Cont., 1863 Do 5 per Cent., 1865, paid up Scrip Do Account 2871 Do. 4 p er C ent. Guaranteed 994 Venezuel a 3 per Cent. Ditto account Do 6 per Cent., 1862 — Do. Account Do. 6 per Cent, 1864 3oi 11 Dividends on the above payable in Lonuon. Austrian 5 psr Co n t. , E x. 10 Florins French lientes 3 per Cent — It').liai, 5 per Cent., 1861, Es. 25f. Consols for THREE O'CLOCK. money . Do. Account ........................... '' 861 '. 861 f xd 1 xd AIM. go a 3 7. ,ncl ich mo- is a :?:TVICe field. stion and ierica s no to in e un- ?.ffort, ) take he in- con- ustice own erring , t only d, but 1:—In bsence sis has public lajesty tussell ement rds on ing to in the have instead journ- al con- 11 very ourtly in the n ; but ne who tst few on the 6 seclu- y some Ed havo aoment lifficul- Conti rational ) access care to ;et fur be kind he new .DSTON a a visit death ler, who Indian ority of is corro ' that the intnan ool ao liftliao. that the es was 0 0 ;h French S BARE MARKETS. —This Day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Share! Railways, P Closing Business aid. Price. done. Bristol and Exeter Caledonian 89 91 125 '27 31 45 13 15 4 6 67 70 70 72 Cambrian Cork and Bandon. Cornwall Dublin & Belfast June ' Dun„Perth,& Ab.Junc E.London, bcrip Certi , Do. Glasgow & S. Western' Great Eastern, Ord. stk. 112 111 33 B 1 5 6 Do. E. Angl. st. No. Great North of Scotland Great Northern DJ. A stock Do. li stock 1 21 121 128 i3l Do. sew, is. at 25 pm Grt S, and W. of Ireland Gt. Western -Original V4l. Raila{a. Do. South IVales Do. \V. llid.- Oxtord 53 5 Do. Newport Do. ilereford LAncialiire & Yorke 1,„ ndon and Illackl,vall [.on., I;righ.,& S Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Do. Metrop. Ex. A Lon. & North Western Lou. & South Western Man., Stint., & Lincoln 3letropolitan.... Do. New Do. Extension...... Metropolitan District. Do. do. do. DO. and :it. John'sW'd Midland Do. £9 Share Do, Birmin.. & Derby \lid Kent .. North British Do. Ed., Pth., & Dun ' Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do. U.N•E purchas - e Do. Leeds Do. York Do. Carlisle Do. Stock. & Darling Do. do. 1860-61 North London .. Do. do. 184 ... Do. to. 1865 North Staffordshire N. & S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot. N. E , Aber. stock Jo. Scot, Mid. iatJck Shropshire Union South Devon South EJstern Staines, Wok., & Wok Taff Vale Do. C V ale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny Waterloo & Whiteha West Cornwall 34 SI 12 1 12 90 92 23 25 116 )17 1 91 57i 581 129 a 13q 2 2.1 p 1 P 83 85 L4l 124 f 93 ,)5 56 58 4 26 108 110 69 71 106 107 35 36 9 11 120 122 1 2p 1 2p 74 76 108 112, 148 152, 65 67 45 48 69 70 7i 9 14 115 2 3), 100 103 63 65 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. 100 Atlantic& St. Lawrence all 52 54 st IRom., Baroda, Cen.ln. 100 102 IC3 100 gu. 5 per cent.. 20 Do. It' shares 8 5d ip 205 Buffalo & Lake Huron all 4 4 5 10 Do. Preference 100 Buff.,Brant,&Goderich I 1. 6 p.c. 1872-3-1 lOO 76 80 st Calcutta &S. E., lim lOO st Cape Town & Dock, gu lOO 58 60 00 Demerara, 7 p.c. per. pi all 100 102 st East. Ben-gal, gu., sdo 100 100 102 st East Indian, gu. 5 p.c. 100 102 103 100 1 20 Do. J Extension 15 s.iiaLlTrunkof Canada 100 18 20 100 Do. Equip. Mort, Bond. 1 charge 6 p.o all 85 07 100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds all 68 62 100 Do. do deferred 100 Dc. 2d Pref. Bonds., all 50 65 100 Du. do. deferred all 48 52 100 Do. 3d Pref. stock—. all 40 45 100 Do. do. deferred 100 Do. 4th Pref. stook all 24 26 100 Do. do. deterred all 23 25 st Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c. 100 107 109 1055 20 i 'o. Gua. 5 per cent l6 1 1 1 1 , 20 Do. New gua. sp. c 6 1 1 P st Gt. South of India gua. 5 per cent st D 41 per cent lO., 91 93 st Do 2 205 Great Wt s. of Canada all 141 15 151 205 Da. New . 100 Do. 6p. e. lids. pay. 1873 all 91 03 lOC Do. 54 do. pay. 1877-8.. all 83 85 10 Indian Branch, limited 2 15 Old st Madras, gua. 5 p.o 100 101 102 081 st Do. 41 do lOO 91 93 et Do. 45 do lOO 86 88 20 Do. Fifth Extension 5 et Melb. Cor. 6p. c. Bnds. 100 50 Mel. & Hudson's Bay all et N.lll.C'da,6pc Ist/atlas 100 8) 92 st Scinde. .. .... , 100 98 100 st Do. Delhi d 100 93 99 20 Do. do ,t' 5. 2 1 6 ,s 1 st Do. Punjaub loo 97 99 et Do.lndus St. Flo 4. ° 100 -- COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. British Columbia, 6 per cent., Dec. 31,1972.... 100 Can.Gov.6p.c.Ja.&July 1877-84 Do. 6p. c- Feb. & Aug l .O 05 07 DJ. sp. c. Mar. & Sept 100 94 84 ')o. sp. c. Jan. & July 100 78 80 755 6 Do. sp. 0. Inscribed sk 100 78 80 Cape G.llope, 6 p.c. 1873 100 99 101 Do.Apl.&Oct, 1890-1900 100 102 101 Do. do; 1 , 80-9, 100 102 101 Do. Jan.&July, 1890-91 100 102 lig Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and 15 Oct., 1900 lO3 86 8) 87 Ceylon, Nov. 1868,6 p.c. 100 ICO 102 Do. 1878, do. 100 I ts 1 7 Mauritius, Ii p. c, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1.78 Do. 1880, May 15, Nov. 10) 101 (03 Do. 1895, Feb. & Aug 1.20 164 106 Natal , j;ov. 6 per cent lOO 99 100 N.B.Gov.6p.c.Ja.&.July 100 91 94 90 N. S.W. Gov. 5 p•c.,186i, 100 92 95 Do. 5 p.c. 1811 to 187, 100 90 95 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1592 100 84 88 835 New Zealand, 6p. cent 100 91 05 Do. 5 per cent.... 100 74 76 -- Nova Sc Ala Gov. 6p. c. sterling, 1875 l9O 96 99 915 Queensland Gov. 6p. c. 100 96 100 93 S. Aus.Gov. 6 p,c 1868-9 100 -- Do. 1878 & upwards l ,O 104 106 Vic,Gov. 6 p.c. Ja &July 100 - Do. do, April & Oct lOO 102 101 BRITISH MINES. 2 Cam. Consol. Gold, lira 1 Chiverton - Clifford Amalgamated 3O 6 8 - Devon G. Cons. (Tavlst 1 44) 460 - Draket,valls . 2.1.0 - East Bassett (Mogan).- 201 12 11 - East Caradon 2.14.6 7 *I 71 - East Carn Brea 3l 1 - Nast Grenville 2.14.0 21 21 - East Gunnislake 8.3.6 - - - East Loved 3.9.0 61 71 - E. W'l Russell (Tavlstk 10.8.0 3 36 - Gain.& StAubyn(G wen. 66 - - 4 Great LAxey, limited., all 20 21 201 - Great South Tolgus 0.14.6 14 - Great Wheal Busy 14.9.6 - G. Wheal Vor (Heist ,e 40 18 20 - Grenville 8.18.0 1/ 2 - Herod's Foot 8.10.0 37 29 - Llingston Downs 5.10.6 38 31 - Margaret (Uny Lelant 13.17.6 4 6 Starke Valley 4.10.6 31 41 4 M.wyndy Iron Ore, lim 21 21 lid New Sewn - North Roskear - N.Wh'l Bassettallogau 4.4.0 - North Whe;il Crotty - Prosper United 7.1.6 - Pr: vidence Uny Lelant 10.6.7 27 21) - S. Caradon (St. Cleer) l/ 350 375 - South Condurrow 3.2.0 14 I S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan 18.18.9 171 221 -. Stray Park 35.15.6 - Tin Croft 9 9 11 5 Vig - ra and Clogan, lim all 3 5 - West Bassett (Illog . ,an - W. Caradon (Ltskeard 9 6 7 - West Chiverton ll 671 721 - West Seton - Wheal Bassett Jllogan 5/ 80 85 - Wheal Buller (Redruth 16 121 176 - Wheal Mary Ann (Men. 8 3 b - Wheal Seton -- Whcal Trelawney (Lis 7 11 13 813AttES. eREFEREN Great orthern, 5 per cent., 111 Manchester, Sheffield. and Lincoln, 61per cent.. 120 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Buckinghamshire, 93 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 11i FOREIGN 1 , 31NE1 , . Cape Copper, lien., 91 Capuli Silver, 's Chontales Gold and Silver Mining, 31 St. John del Itey, lirn., tO BANKS. Agra and Masterman's, lim., 51 Alliance, 11w.. 22. 2 Anglo Egyptian, lim., 91 Chartered Bank of India, Australia. and China. 18 17 Chartei.ed Iler. of India, London, and China, 301 1 City, 171 tLonsolidated Bank, lim., 411 English, Smelt, and Australian Chartered, 161 Hindustan, China, and Japan, ilm., Imperial Ottoman, 81 7i Land Mortgage Bank of India, lim., 31 London Bank of Mexi,:o and S. America, lim., 9 London and River Plate, Ditto, issued at 11 pm., 12 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 201 London and County. 65 6 London and South African, 13 London and 11 estminster, 921 Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, lim., 141 Oriental Bang Corporation, 42 South Australia, z 7 e 1 Standard-el British, South Africa, 13 Union of London, 441 4 1 MISCELLANEOUS. Anglo-American Telegraph, 91 1 Atlantic Telegraph, 8 per cent. gua., 31 1 Australian Agricultural, 15 Ceylon Company, 8 City Offices, lim., 2 Credit Fonder and itlobilier of England, 31 Discount Corporation. 7 Egyptian Corn. and Trading, lim., 31 Fore-street Warehouse, lim. ' ill Gen. Credit and Finance of London, lim., 4 31 Hudson's Bay, 17 16} International Financial Society, lim., 3 21 London Financial Association, lim , 61 London General Omnibus Company, lira, 31 Freehold:Land and Dock, 91 5 Nrtional Discount Company. 121 Ditto, new, issued at 5 prem.. of whioh 31 is to pay, 5 Two ROMAN CATIIOLIC PEERS have been recently called to the House of Lords, viz.—Lord Campden to the Earldom of Gainsborough, by the death of his father, and the Earl o f D unraven , crea t e d a peer by the title of Baron Kerry, of Kerry, in the county of Limerick. TIIE LAST OF THE COTTON FAMINE.—A recent report presented to Mr. Villiers by Mr. Rawlinson, C. 8., Government engineer, states that the Public Works-office in Manchester will be broken up this year, when Mr. R. Arthur Arnold, the resident Government inspector, will leave the district. The Times correspondent, Mr. W. H. Russell, started very recently for tho headquarters of Field Marshal Benedok's army. 341 4 31 12)i 501 50 I .9i 17i 21 20. 16i 5; 16 1301 1 304 E 5 21 :It P 70 107 SCN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 2, 1866, MARKETS.---This Day. MARK-LANE. Tho trade for wheat in the country markets held on Saturday was very quiet. The amount of business trans acted was small, yet very little change took place in prices from the previous week. Spring corn of all descriptions moved off slowly, at about late rates. The flour trade was quiet, on former terms. On the Continent, the inquiry for wheat and flour for export has increased, and there is also a steady inquiry for spring corn. At Now York the business doing in wheat and flour for export is small. A small supply of home-grown produce was received up to our market last week. The imports from abroad con sisted of 29,046 quarters of wheat, 2,926 barley, 23,144 oats, 396 beans, 2,560 linseed, 4,690 rape and oilseeds, 40 sundry seeds, and 1 ; 717 sacks of flour. The amount of business transacted in all descriptions of seed was very moderate. In prices very few changes took place. Cakes were in but moderate request at last Mon day's currency. The trade for wheat in the country markets hold on Saturday was very quiet. The amount of business trans acted was small, but very little change took place in prices from the previous week. Spring corn of all descriptions moved off slowly, at about late rates. The flour trade was quiet on former terms. On the Continent, the inquiry for wheat and flour for export has increased, and there is a steady inquiry for spring corn. At Now York, the business doing in wheat and flour for export is small. A small supply of home-grown produce was re ceived up to our market last week. The imports for abroad consisted of 29,046 quarters of wheat, 2,926 barley, 23,144 oats, 396 beans, 2,560 linseed, 4,690 rape and oil seeds, 41 sundry seeds, and 1,717 seeds of flour. Fresh up to our market to-day the arrivals of home grown wheat were very moderate. There was a limited number of buyers in attendance, and there was much less activity in the trade both for red and white qualities. Tho transactions were mostly confined to retail parcels, at about the late advance in prices; but to have concluded sales of any magnitude factors wouldhave had tosubmit to a reduc tion in prices.. The market was moderately supplied .with foreign wheat. The trade was very quiet, and as regards se condary and inferior descriptions of wheat prices had a drooping tendency. Floating cargoes of grain were in fair demand, at late rates. The supply of English barley on sale was small; of foreign, but moderate. The trade, on the whole, was steady, at full prices. Malt sold slowly, at last Monday's currency. Oats were in but moderato supply. The trade was quiet, but good and fine samples were steady in prices. Beans steadily supported late rates. The market was but moderately supplied. Peas moved off slowly, but at full prices. The show of samples was very moderate. The flour trade was steady. Prices were without change from Monday last. CURRENCY PER IMP. MEARTRE. Wheat—Essex and Kent, red, new, per qr. 42s to 50s Do., old s2s 60s Do., white, old 6os 62s Do., new Norfolk and Lincoln, red, old s —s Do., nev Talavera Rye— ftarley—Grinding Malting 36s 43s Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk Brown Kingstown and Ware Chevalier 66s 67s Oats—Yorkshire and Line°lnsh., Feeding 22s 28s 28s 32s Potato Youghal and Cork, black 22s 27s Cork, white 24s 29s Scotch, Feeding 22s 27s Beans—Tick Pigeons ... 46s 50s Peas—Grey, Maple White Boilers Flour—Town-made, per 2801 b 50$ Suffolk 348 8 Stockton and Norfolk American, per barrel French, per sack 34s 38s METROPOLITAN CATTLE. There was a fair show of stock here to-day from Hol land, under the new Order in Council. The total supply was rather extensiva, and in fair average condition. Sales progressed slowly, at late rates. We were very moderately supplied with home-fed beasts; their quality, however, by no means first-rate. The re ceipts from Ireland and Scotland were limited. Although the demand for all breeds of beasts was very inactive, last week's quotations were well supported. The general top figure was 5s 8d ; but a few very superior Scots and crosses realised 5s 10d per 81b. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire we received 1,200 Scots and crosses ; from other parts of Eng land, including Lincolnshire, 800 various broods; from Scotland, 32 Scots and crosses ; and from Ireland, 53 oxen Sce. The show of sheep was seasonably extensive and in good condition. Sales progressed slowly; nevertheless, the prices current on this day se'nnight were maintained. The best Downs and half-breds sold at 5s 10d to 6s per 81b. Lambs, the supply of which was moderate, was inactive, at late rates, viz., from Gs 8d to 8s per 81b. The supply of calves was extensive, and the veal trade was heavy, at depressed currencies. The top figure was - 5s 6d per 81b. The demand for pigs was heavy, at last week's prices, 4s to 5s per 81b. Per 81b to sink the offal. sdsd s d s d Crse. & inf. beasts... 3 10 4 2 Pme ers-wool sheep 5 2 5 S Second quality do ..4 4 4 10 Prime s'thdown c 0.5 0 6 0 Prime large oxen ..5 0 5 4 Large coarse calveB.4 8 5 4 Prime Scuts, 6 5 8 Prime small d0......5 65 10 Crse. and int. sheep. 3 8 4 2 Large hugs .4 0 4 6 Second quality do ..4 4 5 0 Small porkers 1 8 5 0 Lamb... .Gs 8d to 8s Od. Suckling calves, 20s to 23s ; and quarter-old store pigs, 30s to 338 each. Head of stock on sale. Total supply. Foreign supply. B eas ts 3.620 Beasts 2 llO Cows. lO5 Cows. Sheep And haabs 24,73u Sheep and 1 mbs ...... 9,520 C a l ves 650 Ca yes 558 Pigs l3O I Pigs 15 The total imports of foreign stock into London, last week, amounted to 15,608 head. In the corresponding week in 1865, we received 20,395 ; in 1864, 12,154 ; in 1863, 7,323 ; in 1862, 9,810 ; in 1861, 9,592 ; and in 1860, 11,806. ___ IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEEK. Boasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs, Aarhuus Antwerp Boulogne 342 ... 990 69 ... Bremen ... 111 277 8 ... Gothenburg. . 192 133 ... 41 ... Cadiz Calais.. 9O 45 9 Dunkirk Caen B2 ... 8 15 8 Christiana Dieppo. Hamburg 741 6897 12 470 Stettin - ... ... ... ~, Ostend. 75 ... 143 222 5 Vigo Rotterdam •" --- ... - .., 209 Total 2,236 ...10,915 481 972 904 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs 1865 1864 l9Ol -. 7506 1173 .- 772 ... 802 1863 . : 958 .- 3639 .- 1227 .- 1082 ... 417 A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in the Great Metropolitan Cattle Market on Monday, July 3, 1865, and this day, Monday, July 2, 1866. Per Blbs, to sink the offal. July 3, 1863. July 2, 1866. s d s d ad s d. Coarse and inferior beasts 3 6to 3 10 3 10 to 4 2 Second quality do. . 4 4 4 4 4 4 410 Prime large oxen 4 6 4 8 5 0 5 1 Prime Scots, &c. Coarse and inferior sheep Second quality do. Prime coarse-woolled do. Prime Southdown do 5lO 6 0 510 6 0 Lambs Large coarse calves 4 2 4 8 4 8 5 4 Prime small do. Largo hogs Neat small porkers 4 2 4 8 1 8 5 0 Beasts 5,480 3,620 Sheep and lambs 34,200 24,730 Cal.. es Pigs SUPPLIES ON SALE, July 4, 1864.—Beasts, 4,730 — sheep and lambs, 27,640—calves, 410—pigs, 470. July 6, 1863—Beasts, 5,060 —sheep and lambs, 28,730 —calves, 383—pigs, 230. The arrivals of new potatoes are on the increase. There is a fair demand for most qualities, at from Bs. to 12s. per cwt. Last week's imports wore 2,945 baskets from Dunkirk ; 19,108 Rotterdam; 405 Antwerp; 1,195 boxes from Lis bon ; and about 100 boxes, &c., from sundry quarters. Kent and Essex regents Scotch do. Yorkshire do Bos to 120 s „ 71 Flukes 150 s to 180 s „ 17 Rocks sos to 90s „ Spanish new Jersey and other kinds lls to 15s „ Prorogation of the Hungarian Diet. PESTH, Juno 26. The Royal rescript proroguing the Hungarian Diet to an indefinite period has just appeared. Its most important passages are the following : " Dear and Faithful Subjects,—ln convoking at the close of last year around our throne the faith ful Estates and representatives of our kingdom of Hungary to co-operate in the work of legislation, we were inspired by the hope that the benefits of peace we then enjoyed would be long preserved to all the peoples of our monarchy. To our profound regret this hope has not been realised. " The Estates and representatives met at the Diet are sufficiently acquainted with the march of the events whose final development has forced us to defend by every legitimate means the integrity and power of the territory of our ancestors, and to repel an unjust attack with armed hand. We experienced heartfelt joy at having been a witness of the enthusiastic reception given by the faithful people of our kingdom of Hungary to our intention of settling pending questions, as also at having seen the earnest goodwill with which the Diet I! anticipated our efforts to come to an arrangement of that portion of common affairs by which it is affected. " It is with not less satisfaction that we have ob served the activity displayed by the Diet, which, notwithstanding the storms that accumulated at the extremities of the empire, did not allow itself to be disturbed in its labours by the warlike armaments which impose fresh sacrifices upon the country. " But we are unable to disguise the mournful conviction that the solution of the question depends upon the extreme tranquillity of the public mind.— that most sublime benefit of peace ; while, upon the other hand, the defence of the empire, whose exist ence is menaced, must above all form the object of our endeavours. " These events, independent of our will, and which we have attempted to prevent by every means compatible with honour, place us under the neces sity of interrupting the debates, which promised so fairly, and of proroguing the Diet. While, there fore, giving the representatives of our Estates and the faithful population of our kingdom the assur ance of our grace and Royal favour, we think fit to decree the prorogation of the present Estates. "FRANCIS JOSEPH." Liverpool Cotton Market—(This Day.) Market opens quiet. Sales probably 8,000 bales. NEW DIGNITIES.—The services of Sir Henry Storks in connexion with the Jamaica inquiry aro about to bo recognised by his being made a member of the Privy Council. Mr. Erskine May, whose useful services at the table of the House of Commons all members of Parliament will appreciate, is to be given the second grade—Knight Commander—of the Bath. The Companionship of the Bath is about to be bestowed on Mr. James Booth, lately one of the Secretaries of the Board of Trade. It is under stood that Sir James Matheson, M.P., is likely to be the new Lord-Lieutenant of Ross-shire, in succession to the late Colonel Baillie. Mr. D. D. Keane, Q.C., has been ap pointed Recorder of Bedford, in succession to Mr. A. K. Stephenson, whose appointment to the Assistant-Solicitor ship of the Treasury we notified in our last impression.— Sunday Gazette. We understand that the American monitor Mian tonomah will, after a short stay at Cherbourg, ar rive in the Thames. That she should come to the neigh bourhood of London was not contemplated when she left America. This deviation from the route originally pro posed for her is in consequence of Mr. Fox, the Secretary of the United States' Navy, under whose control the Mian tonomah has come to Europe, having been assured that many were desirous of seeing her whose engagements in London render it impossible for them to visit her at Spit head. We have great pleasure in drawing attention to Mr. Fox's friendly and considerate act. The MECHANICS' STRIKE AT HUDDERSFIELD.— Another attempt, but an unsuccessful one, has been made to bring to a close the strike of mechanics at Hud dersfield. A deputation of the workmen had an interview with the employers at the White Swan Inn, on Friday night, in consequence of an intimation they had had that there might be an amicable arrangement effected,' and on the part of the men an offer was made to resume work for a present rise of ls. a week, and another rise of a similar amount in a month—the time beitlg subsequently extended to two months. The offer was declined, and as the masters were not prepared to go beyond their former offer of grant ing the rise asked for, 2s. a week, in four months, the strike still continues. Assistance is going to be rendered to the mechanics by members of other trades. THE FORTHCOMING CONGRESS OF THE ARCHEO LOGICAL INSTITLITE.—The arrangements have now progressed almost to completion. On Tuesday, July 17th, the opening meeting will be held, at 12 o'clock, in the Guildhall, when an address will be presented to the President of the Meeting, and afterwards members and their friends will visit two or three of the most interesting City churches. On Wednes day, after the adjournment of the sections, two short excursions will be arranged to the neighbour hood of London. On Thursday, Westminster Abbey will be examined, and lectures will bo given on the history of the Abbey, by the Very Rev. Dean Stanley ; and on the structure, by Mr. Gilbert Scott. On Friday, after the meet ing of Sections, the Tower of London will be visited, under the guidance of Mr. Hepworth Dixon, who will read a paper on the history of this great national monument. The Royal Institute of British Architects, in the evening, invite the In stitute to a conversazione. On Saturday, the excursion will be made to Windsor and to Eton, where the Rev. Prof. Willis will discourse on the architectural features of the College. On Monday, after the sections, parts of London, architecturally interesting, will be visited. On Tuesday, after the sections, members will go to Hampton Court, where Mr.. Scharf will describe the pictures. On Wednes day, the general concluding meeting will be held in the Guildhall. Some interesting discoveries respecting Windsor have been made of late years, both in the Re cord Office, by Mr. Burtt, and at Windsor itself, and these will, of course, be made available on the occasion of the visit.—Athenaeum. The Palestine Exploration Fund, adds the same journal, will hold a meeting on the day suc ceeding the termination of the Congress of the Archa3olo gical Institute, when a paper will be read in which the objects of the fund, the results of its preliminary labours, and the plans of its future operations, will be discussed. The meeting will be under the same auspices as those of the Institute. ANECDOTE OF HER MAJESTY.-01.1r Kirriemuir correspondent writes—Among the many traits of kindness and condescension in her Majesty's character the following is not unworthy of a place. One day last week, while taking a drive in her carriage, she noticed a man on the road with a pretty large bundle, apparently very much fatigued. With her usual condescension she entered into conversation with him, by inquiring where he came from, and whither he was going ; in answer to wkich he told her that he had come from Cromarty, and was on his way to Dundee, intending to cross the Capel, as being the nearest road. Her Majesty then remarked that, as he appeared to be much fatigued, and his bundle was apparently heavy, if ho would put it in the carriage, perhaps her coachman, who was also a Highlander, would tako him up. The weary wanderer was thus taken a few miles on his way, and, as was ex pected, was greatly affseted by the considerate kindness aEd condescension shown him by her Majesty.—Dundee Advertiser. ST. CLE3IENT'S AT RODIE.—Tbis upper church is attached to a convent of Irish Dominicans, to whose prior, the Rev. Father Joseph Mullooly, the discovery of the remains underground was originally due. He had long come to the conclusion that the building in which he and his brethren sung their offices was not even a restoration of the original Basilica, but that it was entirely of com paratively modern date. Further consideration induced him to believe that the present conventional church had been built upon the exact site of the ancient one, and, by reason of the different level of ancient and modern Rome (which , was shown so evidently by the Forum Romanum) above it. Was it not possible, then, that the original structure might still be in existence ? The conviction that such was the case, and further, that even St Clement's house itself might perhaps be discovered, grew upon him, and in 1857 he was enabled to begin his explorations. He opened a passage in a small chamber leading out of the sacristy, on what would be the south side of tho conven tual church, ecclesiogically speaking, and after clearing away rubbish to the depth of about 15ft., he came upon some columns which had evidently helped to support the roof of the ancient building. On a wall near these shafts some traces of frescoes were discovered, amply sufficient to prove that the prior's conjecture bad been well grounded, and that the true Constantin basilica, abandoned an d for gotten for nearly a thousand years, h ad at lenth been found.— The Gentleman's Magazine. REVIVAL OF OLT COACHING TlMES.—Since fouhr-e horse stage-coaches were knocked off the r oad!: y adoption of steam locomotion and railway trn o s n i c , e b t p h o e p t o u ld . coaching times have sunk into oblivion, ahnsdntews coach now lar equipage become a ram avis until w t as put on the road, plying between London and Brighton and since which the initative has been taken, and other this week to run from four-horse coaches will com A m Ar e o n r e t i g, and other seaside th e m etropolis to Has tin g s, l oca lities on the south coast, and continue on the road dur ing the sum mer. The demand for toll on four-horsed c oaches running this route., was formerly 17s. 6d., but is now r emitted by t he abolition of turnpikes. - Victor Hugo, it is rumoured, has lost £15,000 by the failure of a London bank. THIRD EDITION. SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK. TATTERSALL 3' —This Evening. GOODWO OD STAKES. 6to 1 agst Special (taken) Bto 1 agst Midia colt (taken) 10 to 1 agst Nu (taken) 100 to 8 agst La Fortuna (taken) 100 to 7 agst Surney (taken) 100 to 7 agst Black Prince (taken) 100 to 6 agst Othello (taken) 25 to 1 agst Harry Brailsford (taken) GOODWOOD CUP. 5 to 4 agst Gladiateur (taken) ST. LEGER.. 6 to 4 agst Lord Lyon (taken) Very little betting. MANCHESTER BETTING—Tins DAY. JULY STAKES. 2to lon Achievement (taken) GOODWOOD STAKES. 100 to 15 agst Special (taken) 100 to 12 agst Media c (taken and off.) No arrivals have been received up to the hour of going to press. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Sir Joseph llawley's Red Shoes has arrived, and he will be the horse that Achievement has most to fear in the July Stakes. Wells will ride. He is reported to be a better horse than Palmer. THE WAR IN GERMANY. PESCIIIERA, July 1.- The Austrian cavalry have made a reconnaissance from Goito to Chiese. They drove back the Ita lian outposts and took several prisoners. Two Austrian gunboats, under Capt. Manfroni, have cannonaded the encampment of the Volunteers on the shores of Lake Garda. The Volunteers dis persed after sustaining considerable Joss. BERLIN, July 2. The following official announcement has been made here : "In consequence of the successful storming of Gitschin, the junction of the armies under the Crown Prince and Prince Frederick Charles is looked upon as completely effected. " Notwithstanding the recent severe and san guinary fighting, the Prussian army are in excellent spirits." NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The supplies of meat on sale hero, to-day, aro limited. Generally speaking the trade is heavy, at our quo- taticns. Per 81b by the oaroase. s d s d w d 8 d Inferior beef 3 4 2 10 Inferior mutton.... 3 6 4 0 Middling do. 4 u 4 4 Middling mutton.. 4 2 5 4 Prime large do 4 6 4 $ Prime do 5 6 5 10 Prime small d0....4 10 5 0 Large pork 4 4 5 0 Veal 4 0 4 6 Small pork. 4 8 5 2 Lamb, 5s 8d to 78 4d. BOROUGH HOP. The accounts from the plantations are favourable. Tho business doing in hops is very moderate, yet prices will be firm. Last week's imports wore 7 bales from Rotterdam, 176 Autweip, 25 Rotterdam, and G 6 Boulogne. Mid and East Eents Bos to 190 s per cwt Weald of I‘ents Bos to 120 s per cwt Sussex Bos to 112 s per cwt 1861's Olds 2os to 50s per cwt BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. The season for old potatoespaay now be considered over. WOOL. Since the close of the public sales very little business has been done in the market for colonial wool. The few transactions have been at the late decline in prices. Eng lish wool has been in limited request., at late rates. The imports of wool into London last week were 4,072 bales from Sydney, 1,661 Port Philip, 3,561 Melbourne, and 7,500 bales from Now Zealand. Current prices of English wool per lb. sd s d Fleeces—South Down hogets 1 4i 1 5i- Half-bred do 1 6 1 7 Kent fleeces South Down ewes and wethers 1 4 1 5 Leicester do Sorts—Clothing Combing 14 1 8 1 3f 1 9:1 TALLOW. The tallow-trade is quiet to-day, at about late rates. P.Y.C. is quoted at 45s por cwt. on the spot. Town tal low, 44s net cash. Particulars. 1863. 1864. 1865. 1866. Stock this day 37,151 43,445 31,637 27,438 Price of Y.C. —s Od —s Od —s 0(1 Os Od Delivery last week B5B 979 1,356 928 Ditto from June 1 3,830 4,582 5,791 6,689 Arrival last week Ditto fr( in June 1 3,600 3,006 4,945 5,802 Price of Town POLICE INTELLIGENCE.--This Day. MANS lON-110USE. Luke Farrell, a young man about 25, was charged with assaulting two women under the following circumstances. The prisoner is a working man, and it appears that his drinking propensities occasionally over-ride his discretion, and that he has attained much notoriety in the east end of London by certain eccentric departures from the laws of sobriety. Mary Oliver, a married woman, said that she was drinking in a public-house when the prisoner came in, and having performed some antics before the bar, be immediately struck her a violent blow in the face, blacking her eye, and other wise injurying her. The witness held up her face to the worthy alderman (Alderman Finnis), and from its contused appearance it fully justified her statement. She remon strated with him, upon which he resumed his attack upon her, and then proceeded to assault every female in the bar. The prisoner, in his defence, said that the statements of the different witnesses called to support the charge were quite untrue. So far from assaulting the women they had assaulted him, and they gave him a " regular stunner." He was taking a drop of beer, and :one of them took the pint out of his hand and drained it, and then said, " What are you going to stand ?" He did not know what to say, but shook his head in refusal, upon which the women assaulted him. The weight of evidence being against the prisoner, and his face being rather familiar to the officers of the Court, the worthy magistrate sentenced him to 14 days' imprison ment. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. SERIOUS AND UNPROVOKED ASSAULT.—CharIes Markant, a cabinetmaker, was charged before Mr. Knox with the following violent assault on Michael Hay, a labourer, liv ing in Grafton-court, Marylebone. The complainant (who was compelled to walk with a stick) said—Last night, about half-past 11, I got off an omnibus at the corner of Tottenham-court-road, having my uncle and other members of my family with me, and while walking up the road the prisoner ran against my uncle. I asked him why he did so, and he went a short distance and then returned and knocked the pipe out of my mouth, and caught hold of me and swung me round, throwing me into the road, and then kicked me severely on the ankle, injuring me so much that 1 could not walk, and was obliged to be taken to the University Hospital in a cab. Mr. Knox—Had you given the prisoner any provocation ? The Complainant—Not the slightest. Mr. Knox—Was the prisoner drunk ? The Complainant—He was not quite sober. Mr. Knox— You were attended to at the hospital ? The Complainant—Yes, sir. The Prisoner—lt was accidental. Thomas Boyce, 55 saw the prisoner running up Tottenham-court-road, followed by a number of persons. I took tho complainant to the hospital and the prisoner to the station. The constable handed the magistrate a certificate signed by Mr. Morrison, cno of the surgeons of the University Hospital, to the effect that the complainant's anclo was injured. . . _ Tho complainant—l have lost my work through it. Mr. Knox—l think it a very cruel matter. A man is coming home peaceably with some members of his family, and a drunken man runs against ono of them and then as saults the complainant and injures him severely, causing him to lose his work, and to be lame for some time to come. I shall remand the prisoner for a week, and I would advise him to make the complainant ample compensation, and if he does not I shall deal with him severely. THAMES. ----- CRUELTY TO A HORSE.—SUOCKING Stephens, a contractor for scavongering, of Green-bank, 'Wapping, and Thomas Porter, a carter in his employ, appeared before Mr. Paget on a charge of cruelly ill treating and torturing a horse by striking it on the head and working it in an unfit state. _ _ Mr. W. Love, of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, conducted the prosecution. The case was originally before Mr. Paget on Saturday ntorning, when Porter only was charged. A police-con stable named John Shephard, No. 43 H, saw the prisoner driving a horse and cart. He was beating the animal over the legs with his whip, and after he had done so he struck the horse repeatedly over the head and nose. Shephard remonstrated with the prisoner, and asked him what was the matter with the horse that ho should use it in that manner, to which he replied, with a profane oath, " I wish tho would drop." The constable, on removing the horse's collar, found extensiyo soros on its back, and its sufferings were great. 11Ir. Paget examined the horse in the yard adjoining the court ou Saturday, and its appear ance excited horror and disgust, He ordered a summons to issue against Mr. Stephens for sending the horse out to work in a cart in the state it was in. Mr. Stephens now attended to the summpns, and the case was again gone into. Mr, Paget said tho conduct of Porter was very improper and absurd, and that it was not the way to get a horse along to beat it over the head and nose. Ile fined the prisoner I.os, - The case against Mr. Stephens was then gone into, and Porter was called as a witness, and said his master desired him to take the horse out, and knew the condition it was in. He called his master's attention to the state of the horse on Friday night, and he was told to work it in the usual manner in the streets, Mr. Stephens, in defence, said the hair was over the wounds on Friday night, and he did not know the horse was in the bad state in which it now seemed to be. The hair had been rubbed 'off by mismanagement. If he had known the horse had been so bad he would not have al lowed it to be worked. Mr, Paget wished the owners of horses should know that he had the power to send them to prison for three months and to be kept to hard labour for cruelty to ani mals and for sending out animals to be tortured, for it was torture to work a horse in the state in which the poor horse was. If he found cases of this kind continued, he would not inflict fines, but send owners and contractors to prison and to hard labour, without the option of paying any penalties. The defendant Stephens was the contractor for this district, and had set a bad example to his men. The defence set up was false and absurd. The wounds on the horse had existed some ti me , Ii e never saw a horse in such a frightful cond ition, no fined the defendant £5 and costs. It was the first case against the defendant. A second conviction for a similar offence would end in im prisonment, WSTMINSTEIi, A FATHER CORRECTING A DISIIONEST SON,—Stephen Lay, a stone-mason, was charged with violently assaulting his son. The police said that the boy was in St, Qeorge's hospital unable to attend. Timothy Lynch, 43 B, said that a quarter past four this morning ho was on duty in Sloane-square, Chelsea., where he found the boy sitting down crying, Ito was much bruised and bleeding from the back and from the chin, and witness took him to the hospital, whore he was detained , Witness afterwards wont and apprehended the father upon the charge of assaulting his son, the latter having stated that his father had inflicted the injuries he then:bore, when the father admitted it. Mr. Arnold —What did ho say ? Witness—He said he had beaten the boy with a strap : w hick ho produced from his pocket, and which I have now hero ; ho admitted that ho struck him with the buckle end, A leather strap about wide, with a buckle at the end was produced, Defendant said—l punished him in a passion. On Sa turday afternoon ho was sent out on an errand with half a sovereign, and no more was seen of him. I was going to work this morning when I met him, and having the strap in my pocket, beat him. It's hard for a hard-working man to bo robbed by his own child. I was coming down to the station to take other means with him. Mr. Arnold—lt is a pity but what you had, as your cor rection was so excessive that your sou is in the hospital. You must find one security in .£45 for your appearance this day week. THE BANK OF HOLLAND, AMSTERDAM, July 2. The Bank of Holland has raised its rate of dis count from 61- to 7 per cent. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF COMMONS—This EVENING. The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. NEW MEMBER. Mr. DIMSDALE took the oath and his seat for Hertford. HELSTON ELECTION COMMITTEE. Tho committee appointed to try the merits of the peti tion complaining of an undue return at the last election for Helston was sworn. It consisted of Mr. Lowe, chair man, Colonel Barttelot, Hon. G. Denman, Mr. Russell Gurney, and Lord Edward Howard. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Lords' amendments to the following bills were con sidered and agreed to :—Thetford and 'Patton Water, Beddgelert Railway, Brighton and Hove General Gas, Cannock Chase and Wolverhampton Railway, Economic Telegraph Company, Hoylake Railway, Hull and Hornsea and North-Eastern Railway, Kilmarnock Water, Liver pool Central Station Railway, London and North-Western and Cockermouth and Workington Railway Companies, London and North Western and Whitehall Junction Rail way Companies, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Liverpool Extension), Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (New Lines), Sheffield United Gas, Thorpe and Great Clacton Railway and Pier, Whitby, Redcar, and Middlesborough Union Railway, Winchcomb and Midland Railway, and Wivenhoe and Brightlingsea Railway. THIRD READING. The Aldershot iGas and Water Bill was road a third me and passed. SECOND READINGS. The following-bills were read a second time :—Clare College, Cambridge (Blythe's Benefaction), Dalabole Rail way and Bossinney Harbour, and Pagham Harbour. CARLOW LUNATIC ASYLUM. Mr. BRUEN asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whe ther Dr. White, the assistant superintendent of the Carlow Lunatic Asylum, had tendered his resignation ; when that resignation was received by the Government ; and whether a new superintendent agent had been appointed, and the date of the appointment ? Mr. FORTESCUE said the medical superintendent of the asylum had not resigned, but died—(laughter)—about a ago; and after the claims of the gentleman recom mended as his successor Were considered, he (llr. For tescue) had been in communication with the Lord-Lieute nant. He believed his qualifications wero considered satisfactory, and he had been appointed to the post. Mr. CHILDERS moved that the house, at its rising, adjourn till Thursday. THE BANK OF ENGLAND AND THE RATE OF SPORTING NOTES. The races at Newcastle were of the ordinary nature. It is reported that Mr. Masternaan has been engaged to ride Honesty in all his future en gagements. Who is to execute the commissona have not as yet been able to learn, but Mr. Fredk. Swindells, who seldom makes a mistake, may undertake the job. The two principal races for this week at Newmarket are the July Stakes and tb.e Chesterfield. For both events I will stand:Achic- ve _ ment, as she is the best two-year-old out this year. The Beaufort Handicap should be won by Love Apple, and the Midsummer Stakes by Mount Pala tine. The Carlisle Meeting is not worth offering an opinion on, as I anticipate there will be as many dead 'uns as there were at Newcastle. A FRESH MAN. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,---This Day VICTORIA CLUB BETTING—This DAT. JULY STAKES. sto 2on Achievement (taken and off) 7to 1 agst Ralshoes (taken) 10 to 1 agst any other (offered) GOODWOOD STAKES. 100 to 15 agst Special (taken) Bto 1 agst Midia c (taken) 100 to 7 agst Othello (taken) 100 to 16 agst Black Prince (taken) CUMBERLAND PLATE. 4to 1 agst Selim (taken) 6to 1 agst Holstein (taken) TURF AGENCY OFFICE, 100, Jermyn-street, St. James's, LONDON. MR. SYDNEY SMITH (Member of Tatter .LYI sail's) executes COMMISSIONS (by letter only) on all the principal races throughout the season, from .£1 upwards, on receipt of cash or Post-office Order (payable at Piccadilly office). COMMISSIONS as usual at startinK prices on the day of a race at all the principal meeting- A For further particulars and prices, see the advertisemen.„ i n The Sportsman newspaper every TUESDAY and SAT UR_ DAY. Price Current published DAILY, and forwarded on receipt of stamped directed envelope. N.B.—lt is particularly requested that ALL LET TElts containing CASH be registered. The Sporting Life, Aug. 20, 1864.—" We are satisfied that all intending backers of horses, who may have been for merly in doubt whom to trust, will, without fear or hesitr, tion, send their commissions, to any amount, to IGO, Jermyn-street." DISCOUNT. Mr. WATKINS said he was sorry the Chancellor of the Exchequer was not in his place, as the trading and commercial community were anxious to know whether t h e concessions allowed by the letter to the go vernors of the Bank of England were to be con tinued ; and whether the Bank of England, having a reserve of £15,000,000 of bullion, and the Bank of France with £20,000,000, the former was to be allowed to retain its interest at the rate of 10 per cent. Although the Bank was allowed to hoist the storm signal, they should not allow them to keep the signal hoisted so long after the hurricane had passed. He move d that the house should a djourn until to-morrow, in order to see what could be done in the matter. Mr. CeIILDERS said it was quite understood that the house was only to meet to-d a y pro forma, and that no pu blic business was to be transacted. THE MEETING TO-NIGHT IN TRAFALGAR- SQUARE. Mr. D. GRIFFITHS asked the Home Secretary whether the Commissioners of Police had taken steps calculated to preserve the public peace, on the occasion of the meeting in Trafalgar-square that evening ? Sir G. GREY—Yes, they have. (Loud laughter.) The motion for the adjournment of the house was then agreed to. The orders on the paper having been disposed of, the house adjourned. Alhambra Company (Limited.) The half-yearly meeting of the directors and share holders of the Alhambra Palace Company was held this afternoon, at the offices of the company, in Leicester- square. - The balance-sheet showed that the profits for the half year amounted to £5,135 7s. 3d., out of which the directors recommended a dividendat the rate of 20 per cent. per an num, for the six months ending June 10th, payable July 18th, which will absorb about £4,700, the balance it was proposed to carry to the next half-year's account. The report was adopted unanimously. HIGH TEMPERATURE BY GAS.—In the paper addressed to the Academy of Sciences, M. Schlcesing de scribes an apparatus of his contrivance for obtaining tem perature of extraordinary intensity from illuminating gas. The conditions necessary for this purpose he states tobe —l. Combustion without exces s of air or g as totally effectedsup within the space to be heated ; an d 2, a rapidity of . n ft:- of the combusent gas sufficie nt to maintainttbhee shegaths or perature notwithstanding loss of heat from be injects other causes. To satisfy these two conditions lea are pierced A little behind the orifice of this tubbeetw is surrounded by a air into a copper tube three or four deciembeetres in length . of gas is regu rushesopposite to each other; here the to in by the current of air, sleeve fed with the gas, which, . a p T o h w e e s : P o P f lY which does not lated by a stop-cock, the air i.)y a given pressure. t a l i: l- and into and mixes wittheif* power is ignited it produces a When this ofmixturebe drawing icno any exterior blow -p i a p e t r calori: d large blue flame , . but if the flame penetrates into a of equal dimensions , appeai-to be more refractory envelope shorter, and i t nto ;v n i s t : o t u b i t i the flame becomes the combustion is entirely effected in a na rrow space. No explosion is to be feared, b u t the burnt gas must have a proper outlet from the fur nace. s u ppose it be required to raise the temperature of a porcelain tube to a white heat ; a flattened floozie is added to the extremity of the blowpipe and placed between two bricks, secured together by iron wire. By this means the flame assumes the shape of a flat sheet issuing through a slit not more than two or three milimetres wide. The operator will take care not to bring the porcelain tube too near the sheet, for the porcelain would be infallibly melted along the whole length of the flame. On each side and at both ends of the slit four pieces of brick are placed, im prisoning the flame within a space two centimetres broad and five or six deep ; the porcelain tube is put a little above, and surmounted with bricks properly shaped ; the ignited flame surrounds the tube and escapes above. By this arrangement, modified in the case of a crucible, the inventor has been enabled to melt a piece of iron, weigh ing 400 gins, in twenty minutes. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day. LONDON, July 2.—Wind this day at noon—South- Westerly ; moderate breeze and fine weather, but rather cloudy. BRISTOL, July I.—Wind W.—Arrived—Memento, from, New York. _ _ QuEENsTowN, July I.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Malta, screw steamer, from New York, and then proceeded for Liverpool. CARDIFF, June:, 30.—Wind S.W —Arrived—Patriarch, Sarutini, from Singapore. . - - PLYMOUTH, July I.—Wind S.W.—Arrivod—Silver Eagle, from Auckland. LBY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. I GRAVESEND, Monday Morning Arrived, July I.—Avery, from Rangoon ; Countess Rus sell, from Bombay; Just, from Cape Coast Castle; Echunga, from Otago; Driver, from Windau ; Sarah Annie, from Grenada ; Mary, from Barbadoes ; Lone Star, from Nevis. Arrived, July 2.—Regia, from Jamaica ; Plover, from Barbadoes ; Vesper, from Soggendahl ; Balmacara, from Moreton Bay ; Ealing Grove, from Tobago ; Northumber land, from Jamaica ; Ceylon, from Bussorah. DEAL, Monday Morning. The William Cory, screw steamer, from London, for Beerhaven, with the shorn end of the Atlantic cable on board, passed on the let. Passed—Margaret of Bideford, from the west, for the north; Admiral Nelson, of Guernsey, from the north, for the west ; Great Victoria, screw steamer from Sydney, for London ; Saint Mungo, from Calcutta, for London Passed, in tow—Blenheim, from London, for Calcutta. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. tkustralla and New Zealand, via Southampton July 20. Ditto, via Marseilles July it Brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet ...... July t Ditto, by French packet Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena July 22, China, Penang, and Singapore, via SouLhampton—July 3. Ditto, via Marseilles June 27. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton June 27. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.... July 3. Ditto, via M.►rseilles India (Bombay), via Southampton. June 27. Ditto, via ilarseilles July 7. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton July 3. Ditto, via Marseilles June 27. Mauritius, via Southampton July 13 Ditto, via Marseilles. July 7. Newfoundland Portugal ......July 4. Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon. . United States and British North America, by Bri tish packet Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ton Ditto, via Cork Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry ..July 6. West Coabt of Africa, Madeira, and T.nerilre ..July 11. West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and _ _ Honduras) July 14 . Cuba and lilexioo July 30. Bahamas, via Nevrlork. July 26. Bermuda, via Halifax .July 4. I" In La Patric there is an article on the Anglo- French submarine tunnel, entitled "Le Testament ce Cobden." After having quoted the advice given by that illustrious man on his death-bed to his friends as regards the execution of this tunnel, La Patine writes thus :- " The great apostle of commercial liberty thought that the two nations sincerely united and relying on each other would, by their moral ascendancy, as well as by their material strength, be able to impose peace on the rest of the world ; and it is in this point of view that the creation of a submarine tunnel appeared to him, to the last hour of his existence, as a work of union and of civilisation." TEN YEARS OF COTTON.-It appears that the total quantity of cotton imported into the United Kingdom in 1856 was 1,023,886,3011 b. ; in 1857, 969,318,8961 b. ; in 1858, 1,034,342,1761 b.; in 1859, 1,225,989,0721 b.; in 1860, 1,390,938,7521 b. ; in 1861, 1.,256,984,7361b.; in 1862, 523,973,2961 b. ; in 1863, 669,583,2641 b. ; in 1864, 893,304,7201 b. ; and in 1865, 977,978,2881 b. In conse quence of the great and general reduction of the Euro pean stocks of cotton, the exports of cotton from the United Kingdom have very greatly increased of late, having been 146,660,8641 b. in 1856, 131,927.6001 b. in 1857, 149,609,6001 b. in 1858, 175,143,1361 b. in 1859, 250,339,0401 b. in 1860, 298,287,9201 b. in 1861 , 214,714,5281 b. in 1862, 241,352,4961 b. in 186 3 , 214 , 702 , 3041 b. in 1864, and 302,908,9281 b. in 1865. The excess of the imports of cot ton over the exports of cotton was thus-877,225,4401k in 1856, 837,391,2961 b. in 1857, 884,732,5761 b. in 1858, 9 1, 5 0 8 5 , 6 0 9 , 8 6 4 , 5,61 1,140,599,7121 b. in 1860, 30,7681 b. 958696,8161 b. in in 18 n 1861, 309 5 , 9 2 , 1 58,7 ,4 6 1 81 0, 5 b.i 9 1 9, 0. an d 875,069,3601 b. in 1865.. in 1863, 648,602, 4161 b. in 1864, It was the small increase last year in the quantity of cot ton available for British consumption which enabled prices to be so well main ta b le d after the termination of the American war. Th us in 1859 cotton av eraged 6•76 d. per lb. ; per lb. ; in 1861, 7 ' 39(1 . per lb • i n 1862, 14 24d p e r lb. in 1860, 7.17 d. 12 1863, 21.97 d. per lb. ; •. ; 6 20d - in 1864, 21.01 d. per lb.: and in 1865, 1•. per lb. T H E ITALIAN WAR OF 1859 cost France 345 .Austria 730 millions, Italy 410 • lions. Thus i n two mon ths, 1,458 millio ns were swallowed up. T I LE ROMAN CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL IN LONDON. The Queen of Spain has sent £lOO towards the e rect i on of the Roman Catholic Cathedral in memory of Cardinal Wise man. The total amount b su scribed is still under £19,000. -Universe. THE COPYRIGHTS OF MOORE'S IRISH NATIONAL AND SACRED MELODIES, including the symphonies and ac companiments of Sir John Stevenson and Sir H. Bishop (the latter excellent f or their fancy and delicacy), were the other day sold by Messrs. Puttick and Simpson. In addition to Mr. John Ennis, whose advance ment to the dignity of a baronet wo announced last week, the following gentlemen are likely to have the same honours conferred upon them :—Mr. Dudley Coutts Mar joribanks, M.P., for Berwick-upon-Tweed ; Mr. Pryse Loveden, a relative of the late member for Cardigan of the same name ; and Mr. Tempest and Mr. Ingilby, who repre sented old county families, the former in Yorkshire and the latter in Lincolnshire. MADAME JENNY GOLDSCHMIDT has returned to England, and will sing at an orchestral concert, given by Mr. A. S. Sullivan, on an early day next month. IX.'S PONTIFICATE. —It is said that the Pope has cemmissioned Father Ballerini, a Jesuit, and ono of the editors of the Civitta Cattolica, to write the history of his Pontificate. He has sent him some unpublished do cuments of great importance. THE NEW GOVERNOR OF JAMAICA.—Sir John Peter Grant, who is named as the new Governor of Jamaica, was born in 1807, and was edu c c o a m te p d ann a y t acv E si t ns o eg n rv i c n oe d : at the old East India College at Haileybury. e on G w ot h er t ntent of Bengal, and ce be ed b e e d ca t m o e ln s di e c a r afterwards Lieutenant -Governor of that province. Ile was created in 1862. He is married to a daughter of g Star s Juno 23 Mr. Trovor Ch i c hele y Plowdeu 11-. [ld he )r- Lbt he ctly y be men ing ary, and lice, .erin cord that Lder. tage cials um ;sent s all less- E its ern- rings have front take ; not