The Sun. — London, England, 1865-09-25 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. TWELVE O'CLOCK. The discount market is tolerably active, and al though bankers and brokers have a large supply of capital at their command, there is a determination to take the best bills at a lower price than 4 per cent. The accounts of the Great Western Railway of Canada for the half-year ending 31st July last admit of the declaration of a dividend by the direc tors at the rate of 2 per cent. per annum, leaving a balance of £3,205 to be carried forward. The directors of the Channel Steamship Company will close the list of applications on the 28th instant. It is intimated that the subscription lists of the Erie Loan will close to-morrow for London, and on Wednesday for the Continent. From the manufacturing districts the accounts during the past week have generally been of a very satisfactory character. The woollen trade of Leeds, Bradford, and Huddersfield has continued season ably active ; while at Manchester enhanced prices have been current for both cloths and yarns, owing to an increased demand for exportation. The hosiery and lace trades of Leicester and Nottingham have been busy ; and at Birmingham, Sheffield, and Wolverhampton a fair amount of business has been done in most departments. Two o'CLocx. At the Paris Bourse this morning, according to Reuter's telegram, the 3 per Cent. Rentes were 68f. 35c. • Very little business has been negotiated in the Stock Exchange markets to-day, and prices, after showing firmness, have generally receded to former values. The funds have remained at about pre vious quotations, Consoll3 for money being 891 1 ; for the account, 8914. The New Threes and Re duced Annuities are 871 ; Exchequer Bills, 3s. dis. ; and India 5 Per Cents, 105 1. The Foreign Stock Market is not very buoyant. Turkish Consolides are 491 ; Mexican, 25 j. ; the New Loan, 24 ; Greek, 21 4 ; Spanish Pas sive, 30 + ; the Certificates, 144 15 ; Italian, 64.1 65 ; and the New Brazilian Scrip has advanced 24 3 prem. In the American Market prices have not much improved. United States Government 6 per Cent. 5-20 Bonds are 681 j ; Erie Shares, 57} 58 ; and Illinois, 81 Business in the Railway Share Market has con tinued moderately active, and prices have remained without material alteration. Lancashire and Yerk shire, Brighton, and South Eastern have each im proved ss. ; while • Great Northern A Stock and North Eastern (Berwick) have each declined ss, The Foreign and Colonial lines have been in moderate request at about previous rates. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have remained inactive. Alliance are quoted 311 32 ; English Joint-Stock, 111 ; London and County, 77,E ; Union of London, 53+ ; Electric Telegraph, 127 f ; Na tional Security, Co npany, 15} Overend, Gurney, and Company, 15k ; and Transatlantic Steamship Company, 2 1 2.1 prem. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. • GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 8 per Cent. Consols Do. Account, Oct. 10 a per Cent. Reduced 873 3 3 I New 3 per Cent 873 3 4 New 2 4 per Cent. Jan. 1894 Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 — Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth ApriBBs — Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 — Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 per Cent. Do. £5OO 1. 3 dis Do £lOO and £2OO 3 Bank of England Stock, 51 per Cent shut Do Account INDIAN GovERNMENT SECURITIES. Indian Stock, 101 per Cent., AprillB74 — Do Account Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1870 Do. Account Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 Do. Certificates • Do. Enlaced Paper 4 per Cent Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 Do. 51 per Cent., May 1879 — Do. 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 Do. Bonds, £l,OOO — Do. under £l,OOO — FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent. — Do. 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Do. 1863 Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent — Do. Account Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) Chilian 6 per Cent — Do. 4/ per Cent. — Colombian 6 per Cent. — Cuba, 6 per Cont. — Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 — Do. 4 per Cent., 1863 Do. 5 per Cent., 1773-77, £25 paid Danubian Principalities t g b uador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Do., Provisional Land Warrant Egyptian 7 per Cent — ~ Do Second Issue Do £lOO Bonds Do. 1864 96} 4 53 6 Do £lOO Bonds Greek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons Do Account 2l Do. Coupons txuatemala 5 per Cent. Do £B6 paid Do. 1839 and 1850 Italian 5 per Cent (Maremmana Railway) Do 1865 Do Scrip, £671 paid Do 5 per Cent., 1864 Do. Scrip, £55 paid Mexican 3 per Cent Do. Account Do 1864 2s} Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French Do French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c Rontevidean 6 per Cent., £3O paid Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada 143 Do 2 per Cent Do Deferred — Do Land Warrants (Hectares) Peruvian 43 per Cent •Do Scrip, £45 paid, paid in Bonds Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) Do 41 per Cent., 1862 Do. A ccoun t P ortuguese 3 per Cont., 1853 Do Account Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, DO. Account Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St 913 2 Do 43 per Cent. 1850 Do 3 pet Cent. 1859 'Do 43 per Cent., 1860 ( Do 5 per Cent. 1862 923 2 ~,' Do .5 per Cent. 1864 953 Qardini an 5 per Cent D o Account finish 3 per Cent Do Account Do New Deferred Do Account J 2 14 Passive , Do Acco un t 't'anish Cert. of Coup not funded — ~ Do Account 143 ' ) Wedish 4 per Cent. — Do Account T Do. 43 p er C en t. 1864 .- urkish 6 per Cent. 1854 — DO Account 944 5 D o 6 per Cent. 1858 — 1 20 Account 72 DO £lOO Bonds Do. 13 per Cent L',o 6 per Cent. 1862 ,L'e Account 743 3 5 44 4 -' 0 £lOO Bonds 744 R. 6 per Cent., 1864 D 5 per Cent. 1865 X1(0 Bands DoScrip, £35 paid 4.10 a . " , Ir e _ vuaranteed, 4 per Cent — jtezuela 3 per Cent. ~'O . Account '-' O . 6 p er Cent, 1864 423 bustri.., , Dividends on the above payable in London. b e 1 n ,,..---., 5 per Cont., Ex. 10 Florins ks zt *3 44 per cont., Ex. 25f. D o ' i per Cent., Ex. 12 Gull Pr • ''Ke e r Cent. CertificaLOS — etto, ~ 1) 0 ' l , ntes, 41 per Cent. — ktAli a : a ccount DO 6 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 251. ...... Account ;1 eO4B Ol THREE O'CLOCK. D O 4B B9 40 coluit l verpool Cotton Market — ' This Day. 80 -1 -ltet continues very strong. Sales probably ,000 bales at advance. in .irlista.ve Dore has drawn' two plates illustrat -41 o ' u me late t err i ble accident to English mountaineers on th il e t , Cer vio ;. one represent s th e t r i um ph an t comp l et i on . 13 ef ra - " r at part o f th e t as k , t h e travellers arriving at the the notro dden summit of the mou n t a i n , an d th e secon d til, cata stroph e . M . D or a h as availed himself of all the 4 4 1 " Power which he possesses to exhibit the immen -1144:. oat ure and th e corporea l littl eness o f t h e b eings who r ; t °* so bold and so dangerous a task.—Athenamm. orchestra RENRIErrA. Sims was married last week.— SHARE MARKETS—This ORDINARY URARES AND STO Share/ Railways, Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cambrian Cork and 8and0n...... Cornwall Dublin & Belfast June.' Dun„Perth, & a b.Junc. li.London, ..trip Certi. Do. Glasgow & S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. stk. Do. E. Angi. at. No. 2 Great North of Scotland G rest Northern D A stock Do. B stock Do. New, is. at 25 pa Gt S. and W. of Ireland Gt. Western -Original D . S. Val. Rail gua. Do. South Wales Do. W. Mid.—Oxford Do. IN'ewport. Do. lie eford Lanc- , shire & Yorkshire L,ndon and Blackwall Lon., & S Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Do. Metrop. Ex. A Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western Man., Sher., & Lincoln Metropolitan. Do. New Do Extension Metropolitan District.' Do do. do Do. and John'sW'd Midland Do. £9 Share Do. Birmin & Derby %lid Kent Noi th British Do. Ed., Pth ,'Sz Dun. Nth. Eastern Berwick Do. (I.N•E purchase Do. Leeds ..... Do. York Do. Carlisle ..... Do. Stock. & Darling. • • Do. do. 1860-61 North London Do. do. 1864 .. Do. .to. 1865 North Staffordshire N. At S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot. N. E . Aber. stock Scot, Mid. stick Shropshire Unioa South Devon youth E stern itaines, Wok., do Wok Taff Vale Do. C Vale of Neath Waterford k Kilkenny aterloo Sz White ha 1 West Cornwidi Cloeing Paid./ i'rice. V 3 15 129 131 93 97 12 14 ES 6 67 7' 71 73 94 96 6 4d no 111 48 49 8 9 132 134 151 15t 120 ►29 91 93 65i 66 63 63 43 95 35 40 104 105 121} 1211 90 92 105 107 33 40 5) 52 124 325 96 97 58 19 139 14) 3 k 1 11 ) 1. I; 104 195 In2 l . t 127 1 / 9/ 99 C4s 65} :.0 3•. 111 112 89 70 104 105 36} 376 104 pip 116 120 1 4 aP 1 lip 77 78 11 12 150 151 60 62 57 69 , 811 86 96 I 160 155 3 p 101 106 51 52 BRITISH P Atlantic & St. Lawrence Born., Baroda, Cen. In. Du. 5 per cent... o. k' shares Buffalo & Lake Huron Do Preference Buff.,Bran t, & Goderich 6 p.c. 871-3- .• • •••• • Calcutta S. E., Bin.. ape Town & Dock, gu.l Demerara, 7 p.c. per. ro East. Ben,al, gu., 5 do East ludiau, gu. 5 p.c. Do. J Eitinsion Grand Trunk of Canada Do. Equip. Mort. Bonds 1 charge 6 p.c Do. ist ►'ref. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. 2d Prd. Bonds Do. do. deterred Do. Id Pref. stock Do. do. deferred Do. 4th Pref. stock Do. do. deterred Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c o. Gua. 5 per cent Do. New gua. 5 p. c Gt. South of India gua. 5 per cent D 41 per cent Do Great Wes. of Canada.. Da. New .. • • Do. 6 p. a Bds. pay. 1873 Do. 5$ do. pay. 1877-8.. Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.c Do. 42 do Do. 43 do Do. Fifth Extension Melb. Cor. 6 p. c. Bnds. Mel. it Hudson's Bay.. N. B L C'da, 6pc latpt.bs. Scindc . . Do. Delhi Do. do . • ti Do. Puniaub.... ElLo Do.lndus St. Flo. " COLONIAL GO VER: 'British Columbia, 6 per cent., Dec. 31, 1172 .... Can.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.dz July - 1877-b4 Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Aug D,). 5 p. c. Mar. & Sept 1 )o. 5 p. c. Jan. & July Do. 5 p e. Inscribed sk Cape &.Hope. 6 p.c. 1873 oo.Apl. &Oct • 1593-1900 Do. do; IbBo-9 Do, .7an.&July, 1890-9, D 0,5 per cent. 15 Aprils and i 5 Oct; 1900 Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p.( Do. 1878, do ilaurltius, 6 p. c, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1.78 `►o. 1882, May i 5, Nov. t Do. 1895, Feb. & Natal 'iov. 6 per cent N. B.Gov 6 p.c.Ja.&J my T. S.W. Gov. 5 p•c., 1861 Do. 5 p.c. 18 1 to 187, Do. 5 P.e. 1888 to 189- NTew Zealand, , 6 p. cent Do. 5 per cent. Nova So tia Gov. 6 p. C sterling, 1875 4ueenstand Gov. 6 p. c 3. Aus.Gov. 6 p,o 18684 Do. 1878 & upwards Vic,Gov. 6 p.c. Ja &July Do. do, April & Oct BRITE Cam. ConsoL told, lira Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated Devon G. Cons. (Taoist Drakewalls East Bassett (Illogan) Bast Caradon East Cam Brea last Grenville East Gunnislake East Loved E. W'i Russell (Tavlsti Gam.& StAubyn(Gwen.' Great L ,xey, limited Great South Tolgus Great Wheal 13118 y G. Wheal Vor (llelst Grenville Herod's Foot •••• llingston Downs Margaret iUny Lelant Marke Valley liwyndy Iron Ore, lim New Se ton ... North Roskear q.Wh'l Bassett (II logan North Wheal Crotty Prosper Pr videnee Uny Lvlant S. Caradon (St. Cleer) South Condurrow S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan Stray Park Tin Croft Vigra and Clogan, lim.. West Bassett (11 iogan W. Caradon (Liskeard West C hi certon West Seton Wheal Bassett 'Mogan Wheal Butler (Redruth Wheal Mary Ann (Mcn Wheal Seton Wheal Trelawnev (Ida. etLEFEREN' US tillAKEs. Great Northern, 5 per cent., rd. at 5 per cent. pm.. 107 Ditto, 4i per cent., redeemable at 10 per cent., 101 Great Western Orig. 4i per cent pt, 9i North Eastern, Berwick capital, 1} PREFEttENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. London, Brighton. Sce , 5 per cent., 1865, 105 London, Chatham, &0., Metrop. Ext. B, 6 per cent., 100 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Hull and Selby, It 8 Nottingham and Grantham R. & C., 814 South staffordstdre, 8 Wilts andizomerset, 88 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. A ntwerp and Rotterdam, 1( f Belgian Eastern Junction, lf reat. Luxembourg, 151 Sambre and Meuse, 74 South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 184 West Flanders, 8 FOREIGN AfIN ICb Don Pedro, North Del Rey, Frontino and isolivia Gold, lim., 54 St. John del Itey, Rm., 40 Yudanamutana of S. Australia, 11m. , 14 BANKb. Alliance, Urn.. 31; 2 Ditto, issued at 20 pm., of which 20 is paid., 26 Bank of British Columbia. 241 Bank of New Zealand, 10 i Chartered .ler. of India, London. and China. 52; Commercial Bank of India and the East, 281 9 Consolidated liana, lim., 10; 10 East London, lim., 51 -Eng fah Joint Stock, lim., 11; English. Soo: ch. and Australian Chartered, 23} Europedd Bank, lim. ' 121 1 Imperial /tank, lim., 30; Imperial Ottoman, 10 i London Bank of Itexi,o and S. America, Urn., 141 4 London and Cdtiuty, 771 7 London Joint S mit, 50; London and e. tminster, 97 Provincial of Irel nd. 85 6cinde, Punjauo, Ind Delhi, lim., 7 Union ol z London, 53/ MISCELLANEOI7B. Atlantic Telegraph. 8 per cent. gua., Bo ..bay Gas, tim., Ditto. :Id issue. 21 Ceylon Company, 101 City offices, lira., 61 6 Credit Fonder and Muhllier of England, 91 Crystal Palace, 391 Ebbw Vale, 141 Egyptian Com. and Trading, lira., 31 Electric Telegraph, 1271 7 9 Gen. Credit, and Finance o► London, lira., ((16 Hudson's Bay, it; 16 Imperial Mercantile Credit Asso., lira.. 7 1 International Financial z,ociety, Bin, 64 Joint Stock Discount. Bra.. 91 London Financial Association. lim., 231 Madras Irrigation and Canal, 134 Ditto (all), 184 Merchant Shipping. lira., 51 6 Miltwat' Freehold Land and Dock, lim 31 National Discount Company, lira., 151 1 National Provincial Marine, lf Overend, Gurney, and Co., lira., It 4 1 Peel River Land and Mineral, 39 40; Rio de Janeiro City Improvrnents, Rm., Ditto (£lO , 8 Royal Mall Steam, 1201 2) 1 191 Smith, Knight, and Co., lira., 1 Thames and Mersey Marine (Insurance), lira., 84 IKONS. 55 58 101 102 pr 4p 8 54 si loi 73 80 99 101 70 75 101 103 101} /02i 104 105 19 29 59 9t 65 67 53 58 56 58 BO 63 44 46 33 42 27 28 25 27 101 105 1 P p 101 IC2 54i 6} 6 d 15 18 85 67 1 1 6d 101 102 93 95 63 90 64 413 82 84 100 101 100 101 6 id 1006 1016 1011 1001 li i rr SECUR: 96 98 95 97 95 97 83} 81 83 S 5 103 105 107 109 106 10 105 107 931 911 1 3 105 110 112 104 1( 6 106 c(8 107 109 1 5 107 102 104 96 98 99 101 93 95 90 el 103 105 811 861 Q 8 100 102 103 106 108 109 110 'OSSR 2.1.0 24 2.14.6 2. 4 9 1 8.3.6 3.9.0 10.8.0 10 10i 18 19 550 580 4 I 24 26 11 12 5 • 6 Zi 1 14 25 3 2 205 215 15 1/ n 32, 35 34 2j 3 39 41 1 3 3 6 45 34 45 24 1:d 33 40 lu 12 1 32 84 430 950 3 34 12i 174 I't It 17 18 5 8 6 7 s 10 71 75 165 175 75 80 26 28 4 6 195 200 17 18 , THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, - SEPTEMBER 25, 1865. MARKETS—This Day. MARK-LANE. There was more activity in the demand for wheat in the country markets held on Saturday. The amount of busi ness transacted, however, was but moderate, nevertheless, the best samples commanded in some instances rather more money. For most descriptions of spring corn the:trade ruled quiet at about stationary prices. Flour was in but moderate request at late rates. On the Continent the wheat trade is quiet at about late prices. For spring corn there is only moderate demand at late rates. At New York, both wheat and flour have rea lised enhanced rates ; resulting, however, from an exten sive home demand, and not from an active export inquiry; the business doing for shipment, indeed, is small. There was a good arrival of English flour up to our market last week, but the receipts of wheat and spring corn were limited. The imports from abroadamounted to 31,717 quarters of wheat, 4,947 barley, 60,379 oats, 110 rye, 640 peas,. 1,865 linseed, 15 rapeseed, 2,765 maize, 521 sundry seeds, and 590 sacks of flour. Fresh up to Mark-lane to-day the arrivals of wheat from Essex and Kent were very moderate, and a portion of the supply was received in poor condition. For good and fine wheats there was a steady demand, and the rates of Mon day last were fully supported ; but for inferior home-grown wheats the trade was in a sluggish state, but without leading to any probable change in prices from this day se'nnight. The general state of the English wheat, in fact, was devoid of activity, although there was certainly considerable firmness apparent as regards the best qualities of produce. The supply of American wheat on offer was decidedly limited, but the show of Russian produce on the stands was of considerable extent. Very little Dantzic wheat was on offer, the bulk of the week's arrivals having gone direct to millers' hands. The demand for most descriptions of foreign - wheat ruled quiet. lAA Monday's currency, however, was well supported. Floating cargoes of wheat commanded more attention, at fully late rates. Spring corn afloat was firm in price. The market was scantily supplied with home-grown, and very moderately with foreign barley, yet the trade ruled quiet, On former terms. A parcel of fine Scotch barley was exhibited for Salo, and was held at 425. per quarter. There was a steady demand for malt, resulting in toler ably extensive transactions, at full prices. With foreign oats the market was well supplied, but there _was only a moderato supply, of home-grown qualities on sale. The trade for most descriptions ruled steady, at late rates. Beans were in short supply, yet the demand for them ruled inactive, on former terms. There was an increased supply of peas on offer. The trade was quiet, yet prices ruled stationary. For English flour there was a fair demand, at full prices. Foreign sacks were steady in price ; whilst the trade for barrels—owing to the limited supply on offer—ruled firm. CURRENCY PER IMP. MEASURE. 34s 42s Wheat—Essex and Kent, red, new, per qr. Do., old 4 28 47 s Do., white, old s os 54 s Do., new Norfolk and Lincoln, red, old —s —s Do new —s —s Talavera, new... 50s Rye— Barley—Grinding Malting 3os Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk Brown Kingstown and Ware Chevalier 64s Oats—Yorkshire and line°lnsh., Feeding 20s Potato Youghal and Cork, black l9s Cork, white 2os Scotch, Feeding l9s Beans—Tick Pigeons ... 42s Peas—Grey, new Maplo " 36s White Boilers Flour—Town-made, per 2801 b Suffolk 3os Stockton and Norfolk American, per barrel 2ss METROPOLITAN CATTLE. The arrivals from Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Northamptonshire comprise 1,100 head, from other parts of England, 300 of various breeds ; from Scotland, 10 Scots and crosses ; and from Ireland, 300 oxen and heifers. The arrivals of sheep from English counties were small; but there was a moderdte supply of Scotch and Irish breeds in the pens. The trade was firm, and last Monday's cur rency was well supported. The general top figure was Gs 8d per 81b. In some instances as much as is per 81b was realised. Calves were in fair supply and steady request, at fully late rates. The top price was 5s Gd per 81b The pork trade was firm, and higher prices were ob tained. There was a very large supply of foreign stock on sale in our market to-day, off but middling quality. The trade was firm, and prices were rather higher than on Monday last. The supply of beasts from Normandy was received in good condition. Fresh up from our own grazing districts the average of beasts were small. From Scotland they amounted to only 10 head, but a tolerably good supply was received from Ireland. The quality of the stock generally was very middling. For the primest breeds there was a somewhat active inquiry, at 5s 4d, 5s 6d, and in some instances 5s 8d per 81bs ; otherwise the beef trade ruled firm, and the quo tations were, in most transactions, 2d per Bibs higher than on Monday last. Per 81b to sink the offal. s de d Crse. & inf. beasts... 3 6 4 2 Second quality do ..4 4 4 10 Prime largo oxen ..5 0 5 4 Prime Scuts. ac.... i 4 5 8 Crse. and inf. sneep.4 6 5 0 Second quality do —5 2 5 8 a dad Pmecrs-wool sheep 5 10 6 2 Prime s'thdown u 0.6 4 6 8 La ge coarse calves.} 4 5 0 Prime small d0......5 2 5 6 Large hugs ....4 2 4 10 Small porkers 5 0 5 6 Lambs....os Od to 0, Od. Suckling calves, 205 to 245; and quarter-old store pigs, 28s 325 each. Head of stock on sale. Total supply. Foreign supply. Beasts 6,72. Beasts 3 3'•o Cows. - Sheep and lambs 32,110 Sheep and lambs 18,230 Calves 321 Ca ves 315 Vigs 4.:0 Pigs 3O The total imports of foreign stock into London, last week, amounted to 22,578 head. In the corresponding week in 1864, we received 22,424 ; in 1863, 17,372 ; in 1862, 13,477 ; in 1861, 11,763 ; in 1860, 8,672 ; and in 1859, 8,563 head. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEER. Beasts. Antwerp — ... Boulogne 6 ... Bremen 360 ... ••• •.• Copenhagen__ ... • •.• Dordt. Dunkirk l6 ... 80 .. ... - Gothenburg 25 ... 20 ... ... 3 ... 60 Hamburg Harlingen 137 ... 1839 ... 10 3 .. 35 _. 172 Medemblik l9 ... 1162 •.. ... ••• Nieu Diepp Ostend Rotterdam. 698 ... 5802 ... Tonning 1747 ... 593 ... 242 ... - 8200 ... 450 ... 1 ... Malmo Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Piga. 21 ... 22 385 ... 97 262 21 22 ••• ""'" - ... 12 Total .......4376 ...17,799 ... 509 ... 597 —lBOB The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows: — Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1864 1863 1862 A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in the Great Metropolitan Cattle Market on Monday, Sept. 26, 1864, and this day, Monday, Sept. 25, 1865. Per 81bs. to sink the offal. Sept. 26, 1864. Sept. 25, 1865. ad s d s d sd Coarse and inferior beasts 3 4to 3 8 3 6to 4 2 Second quality do. Prime large oxen 4 8 5 0 5 0 5 4 Prime Scots, &c. Coarse and inferior sheep Second quality do. Prime coarse-woolled do. Prime Southdown do 5 6 5 8 6 4 6 8 Lambs Large coarse calves. Prime small do. Large hogs Neat small porkers 4 8 410 5 0 5 6 Beasts 6,930 5,720 Sheep 28,790 32,140 Calves Pigs . 590 420 SUPPLIES ON SALE , Sept. 28, 1863.—Beasts, 7 , 060 sheep, 25,190—calves, 144—pigs, 450. Sept. 29, 1862—Beasts, 6,23 o—sheep, 25 , 2 70—calves, 187 —pigs, 510. . NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. These markets are but moderately supplied with . town and country killed meat. The demand for most qualities rules steady, at our quotations. Per 81b by the earnase. s d s ii e d s d Inferior beef 3 0 3 4 Interhr mutton.... 4 4 5 0 Middling do. 3 6 4 0 Middling mutton..s 2 5 6 Prime large do 4 2 4 4 Prime do 5 8 6 0 l'rime small d0....4 6 4 8 Veal 4 4 5 4 Large pork 4 0 5 0 Small pork. 5 2 5 8 Lamb, re Od to Os ud. BOROUGH HOP. The supply of new hops on sale is tolerably large. In good and fine samples a fair business is doing ; but the trade for inferior, as well as old, qualities is dull. There was an increased importation into London, last week, the arrival from Ostend being 60; from Rotterdam, 5; from Dunkirk, 20; from Hamburg, 26; and from Antwerp, 81 bales. The prices current are as follows : Now Mid and East Kents loss to 160 s per cwt. New Weald of Kents New Sussex Yearlings 9ss to 140 s ;, BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. The supplies of potatoes on sale are tolerably large. Good and fine qualities are in steady demand, at from 80s. to 110 s. ; otherwise, the trade is dull, and prices rui e : as low as 40s. per ton. About 70 tons came to hand from Continental parts last week. WOOL. The public sales of colonial wool are now concluded. Prices, on the whole, were fairly supported during their progress, notwithstanding State inferior wools exhibited occasionally a slight depreciation, say of about id per lb., from last series. The leading transactions were on the part of our own manufacturers, foreign buyers having operated to a very moderate extent. Privately the trade for English wool is firm, and is decided in a healthy state. The business done is of moderate extent. Last week's import was only 286 bales from Port Philip. Current prices of English wool per lb. s d Fleeces—South Down hogas 1 8 Half-bred do 2 0 Kent fleeces South Down ewes and wethers 1 8} Leicester do Sorts—Clothing Combing s d 1 9 2 1 2 0/ 1 9 2 0 1 11 2 0 S.UDS. Good and fine mustard seed continues firni, but in infe rior qualities little is doing., Tares are dull. Linseed and rapeseed rule firm. Cakes are in moderate demand at late rates. TALLOW. The tallow trade is firmer to-day on rather higher terms. New P.Y.C. is quoted at 46s to 4Gs 3d per cwt. on the spot, 46s to 46s 3d for October to December, and 47s Gd for January to March delivery. Town tallow is selling at 46s 3d net cash. Rough fat commands 2s 4d per Blbs. Particulars. 1862. 1863. 1864. 1865. Stock this day 37,373 42,755 40,955 33,046 Price of Y.C. S-18s 6d to 44s 3d 41s Od 46s Od to ****** '** 't —s —s Od —s Od 46s 3d Delivery last week 1,611 1,787 1,705 2,216 Ditto from June 1 24,904 18,493 20,690 28,658 Arrival last week Ditto from June 1 23,965 23,503 16,624 28,221 Price of Town STATEMENT OP TALLOIV.SHIPPED AT ST. PETERSBURG. 1865. 1864. 1863. Casks. Casks. Casks. Tallow despatched from Cron stadt to Aug. 30, 0. S 23,516 10,068 31,146 In ships loading and lighters 17,552 11,975 9,754 Loaded off from St. Petersburg Sept. 1, 0. S. Loaded off from St. Petersburg after this date — 36,313 33,044 Total at close of navigation 58,356 75,944 London Liverpool... Bristol "• Other English ports Ireland Scotland . . . Germany France. 19,650 268 789 7,565 20,421 120 838 1,741 280 Total.. 160 8,204 1,509 23,516 10,068 31,146 SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. THE "SPECTATOR" ON LORD PALMERSTON AND MR. BRIGHT.—Mr. Bright's letter to Glasgow, de clining to speak there on Reform, expresses with his old force the intensity of Mr. Bright's antipathy to our aged Premier, the depth of silent wrath with which his whole nature is shaken 'when the image of Lord Palmerston crosses his ardent political dreams. " When the present Prime Minister leaves office," he writes, " no Ministry will be possible of the Liberal party which will not deal with the Re form question. I am not anxious that it should be dealt with during his official life, for lie is the only man connected with the Liberal party who is at once both able and willing to betray it. One sen tence from his lips would have passed the bill of 1860, and that sentence he refused to utter. His col leagues preferred their places to their honour as public men, and they consented to the greatest poli tical fraud of our times rather than leave the Treasury bench even for a season. Happily, the question does not depend on the Prime Minister. he has never promoted its growth, and he cannot prevent its suc cess." And before concluding, he again speaks passionately of the ' degradation" of sitting as a supporter of an administration which " repudiates and has betrayed the first and greatest question or cause on which the whole policy of the Liberal party is founded." Lord Palmerston probably repays this " robust" political hatred with something of the flavour of artistocratic contempt. He told Mr. Cobden to "stick to his last," not to attempt general politics, especially the care of the navy ; and he no doubt feels towards Mr. Bright something of the hauteur of a Nicias towards a Cleon. Yet to the poli tical historian of our time both these men will be characteristic figures, full of meaning and vigour, as different indeed in attitude and expression as can well be, but by no means engaged in that internecine conflict with each' other in which Mr. Bright's ar dent and graphic imagination always represents them whenever the shadow. of Lord Palmerston touches his shuddering mind. There are some men whose fancies always run on a duel—intellectual, social, or otherwise —with some one haunting enemy whose existence mars their peace. And yet it does not really follow that they may not be, though working from totally different motives, working in great measure-,to the same result with their fancied antagonists. Mr. Bright is always fighting such a duel in his mind with Lord Palmerston. It is always a routrance ; he never fires his pistol in the air. As he rehearses the future in his speeches or writings, the first thing of which he fiercely disencumbers the present is the political pre sence of Lord Palmerston. Yet though they have little or nothing in common, there is almost as little of pure opposition in the objects for which Lord • Palmerston and Mr. Bright have struggled. In genius, in unity of expression, in strength of feeling, in force of passion, in all that fits a man for a characteristic political portrait--to represent im pressively, that is, a single element in the political life of a nation—Mr. Bright has vastly the advan tage of his greater antagonist. He is himself essen tially all that he represents, while Lord Palmerston, who represents much more than Mr. Bright, for the most part only represents it, and has not, could not have, lived it. Mr. Bright represents what little of the genius of true democracy there is now in England, as Lord Strafford .represented the genius most opposed to it during the time of Charles I. A Vandyke would paint of Mr. Bright an histoiical picture never to be forgotten—the broad Saxon face asserting its plebeianism as a pri vilege in spite of the clear light of genius, the smouldering fire just restrained sufficiently for the thinker to calculate the blow, the homely imagina tion disdaining subtleties .but vivid with a sort of domestic light, the solid and heavy attitude planted as it were on the earth; but yet an attitude that suggests less resistance than aggression, the hand lifted to give weight to deeply meditated wrath, o class, from a ss and common hbme the lips formed to s l ow but we i g h ty art i culation, and sending forth th e i r words lik e cannon balls— everything repre sentat i ve of the host i l i ty to a do minantiofty of that sort of hostility which springs feeling profoundly the superi life, laborious in dustry, and domestic affections, over the shallower, less concentrated, less solidly rooted, more indolent, laxer, and more worldy wisdom, which he attributes to the aristocratic society sup plying the greater number of our rulers. Lord Palmerston is no doubt a great contrast to, but in no respect the antith es i s Of , M r. Bright. You see at once indeed what is in him which concentrates on him so vividly the great democrat's wrath. In the first place, as we said, he has strongly marked that essential charatteristic of a man of the world—the power of recognizing and =king his easy bow to much which has no particular value to him, much which perhaps he.may even dislike or despise. Cha racters like Mr. I3right's haye a keen hatred to this knack of getting all the advantage, as it were, of re spect and admiration without feeling it. They call it levity, and no doubt `to some Extent it does indicate the absence of 'any strong 'discrimination between good and evil, right and wrong. Then there is in Lord Palmerston, alSo conspicuous to discern, not only the pliancy of a man of the world, but the complacency of a man at the of top the world ; and that, too, is insufferable to Mr. Bright. Then there is the strong common-place conventional manner, the habit of taking up hackneyed phrases that are in every one's mouth, and which have no impress of his own experience upon them, and this Mr. Bright regards as buckram. Finally, there is the powerful will, the strong jaw with its vivid lines, the ambitions,dis ogni all expressing the force recognises and yearns to defeat. not the stron g ly mark e d Lord i o n h r c i ed t l h y N n i i ra. Palmerstonr Brightk e d ,rhe ase character and genius of Mr. Bright. He would scarcely be Prime Minister if he had. An English Minister, above all an English Minister who has passed through so many phases of government as Lord Palmerston, must have much of the flexibility of the reed as well as its tenacious roots. H e mus t b e Pe respect in politi ca l lif e muc h that he respect in his own h eart. Il e must not well tempered es identify himself too passionately with any political cause, or he will narrow his influence and perhaps also wear himself out. He must be shrewd and take ething lo things ng easily, a without wa n ti ng strengt h . L or d Palmerston go expressed his contempt for the belief entertained by the stiff Tories " that the firm and steady determination of a few men in power could bear down the opinions of the inany, and stifle the feelings of mankind," and he has certainly always been on his guard against that error bowing quite as che er f u ll y " to the opinions of the many" when (as recently) they appeared opposed to reform, as he did more than thirty years ago when they were in favour of it. Something of flavourlessness, something of indif ference to personal convictions, must mark a man who can represent a composite public opinion like that of England, and represent it in the most dif ferent phases of political feeling. It is the privi lege—if it be a privilege, and'in some sense it is— of representing only a strong and homogeneous but rather narrow class feeling, as does 44r. Bright, that you can take the whole of its natural creed into your heart of hearts, till it kindles the thoughts, passions, and sentiments into one white glow of con viction. No such privilege—so far as it is a privi lege —can be enjoyed by a popular Prime Minister who has shared for two complete generations in the Government of England. THE " EXAMINER'S" PANEGYRIC ONMR. DISRAELI. —What is Mr. Disraeli about? Is he stripping him self of his Toryism, and about to return to the Radicalism of his lounger days, as the French say we do to our first loves ? Certainly never was any thing less Conservative than his speech at the meet ing of the Bucks Agrienitural Association. lie began with a sort of defianco, for what else is it to tell a meeting of farmers the harvest is a fair one? In such company there is never a good harvest, and it is insult to speak of such a thing. Since the beginning of things did ever mortal fartnei• satisfy the desires of his heart in respect of crops? Is there not always something to complain of; some pestilent fly in the pot of oint ment? If the crops be abundant, prices are low in consequence, and it is hardly worth while to gather in the crops. If they be scanty, high prices will never compensate the deficiency in quantity. So, like a blow to the face of the meeting was Mr. Disraeli's assertion that the harvest is a fair harvest. " Hear, hear," cried the farmers in astonishment and anger, and " No, no." They expected the usual condolence, and they were offered congratulation ! But Mr. Dis raeli was nothing daunted. He stuck to it that the harvest was fair, and took his stand upon the wheat stacked while the weather was fine. But not to go too far at once, he made a little concession as to bar ley, and adorned it in 'this fashion of the finest word painting, " I admit that the brightness of our bar ley was tarnished by the gusts and showers. That was a misfortune ;" and then he proceeded, in this provoking language, to show that the misfortune of tarnished brightness of barley was compensated by thegood done to theroot crops. Now the agricultural mind abhors the saying about ill winds doing good, for what farmer is to be reconciled to an ill wind " tar nishing the brightness of his barley" by reflecting on what it may be doing for root crops. Sufficient for the wind is the evil thereof, and it is a condition of the agricultural mind to refuse comfort. It dwells upon its disappointments and griefs, and will not look beyond them. Or if it casts its eyes upon its roots, it says, " What avails it that these roots are refreshed and invigorated by gusts and showers, if those gusts and showers have tarnished the bright ness of barley." And upon this thought the agri cultural mind sobs aloud. Having affronted the meeting, as we have said, Mr. Disraeli proceeded to reproach Bucks with its backwardness just as if pro gress was to be preached by the Conservative leader. The Royal Bucks Association was the oldest agricul tural society, but it had never grown, never expanded, and was in its infancy in its old age. "It worked well in its generation," says Mr. Disraeli, but it has not kept pace with the age, and has contented itself with pottering over small local concerns, giving leather breeches to labourers who have reared a score of children without parochial aid, and such encouragements to virtue, rather than to cultiVation. But it was when he came to the virtues of competi tion that Mr. Disraeli threw off all disguise, and broke all terms with the meeting by expounding the great free-trade principle. Look, abroad, he says, enlarge your views, see what others are doing, and profit by the example and rivalry. All this is the A B Cof the free-trade lesson, and as Bucks is to Britain so is Britain to all the rest of the world, from unrestricted intercourse and competition with which it derives its immense advantages. Mr. Dis raeli wisely deprecates drawing conclusions from a contracted area of observation, and still more to be deprecated is drawing supplies fiom a limited field, which the protective system proposed. What Cob den taught 30 years back Mr. Disraeli teaches now in Bucks, but beginning at the beginning, as is necessary with such pupils, for whose weak diges tions strong meats are not fitted. Commencing. however, with the transcendent virtues of competi tion, which Mr. Disraeli so well recommends, all the" rest comes easily. Altogether Mr. Disraeli made an extremely good speech, sensible through out, and candid. THE REFORM LEAGUE.—The executive committee of the above League met at their rooms, 8, Adel phi-terrace, Strand, on Friday evening last, Edmond Beale, Esq., president, in the chair. The minutes of the previous meeting having been confirmed, together with the weekly accounts of income and expenditure, the secre tary read correspondence from Glasgow, Halifax, Newark, Nottingham, and other places. Reports of meetings were then given as follows :—Mr. Baxter Langley reported the meeting hold in Cubitt Town, isle of Dogs, in which lo cality the reform element seems very strong and enthusi astic. The Secretary reported the opening of a new branch at Hoxton, and the probability of great success in that lo cality from tho earnestness and intelligence of its prom tors The President and Mr. George Odger reported the success of their mission to Grantham, and the earnestness of the men in that district. The; secretary also reported the opening of a new branch in Halifax, with most favourable prospects for a thoroughly successful winter's campaign. Some remarks having been made in reference to Mr. Bright's letter to the reformers of Glasgow; the council deprecated the delay advised in that letter, such policy had already produced injurious results to the Reform cause, and it was humiliating to the country to make a national cause dependent upon the caprice of Lord Palmer ston, or any other individual. The programnie of the con ference was then submitted for reconsideration, and, after some further revision, adjourned till next meeting. Captain Dresser Rogers, and Messrs. John R. Taylor and De Gruyther were added to the financial committee. After some further business the meeting separated. AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY.—A frightful crime was committed at Hartshorn's Tavern, near Dedham Court house, Boston, on the Ist inst. The Boston Ilerald thus describes the tragedy :—" The victims were Dr. Carlos Marston and Cora Marston, his daughter, and the mur deress was Mrs. Susannah Marston, his wife. For several years Mrs. Ma rston had been in feeble health, and some five weeks since she recovered from an attack of the measles, which apparently left her in a more prostrate mental condition than before. On Wednesday she was much prostrated and absent-minded—did not appear to know where she was, and indulged in strange incohe rent utterances. On Thursday she appeared better, but presented a wild and haggard look. About three days previously she manifested a desire to possess her husband's revolver, and it was feared she might destroy her own life. Hence the doctor placed the weapon in his trunk, hav ing first drawn the charges. Miss May, an invalid resident in the house, states that on Thursday night Mrs. Marston came to her room late about a disturbance which a cat be low stairs was creating, and that she (Mrs. M.) said some thing about ' killing him before morning.' This remark so alarmed Miss May that when the doctor visited her to leave her medicine or instructions still later at night, she told him of his wife's remark, and he replied he was going to bed and would lock his door. Whether he did this or not is not known, as no one now living saw him alive subsequently. Miss May now dropped asleep. About 2 o'clock she says she was awakened by a noise which seemed to her like scuffling, and a fall overhead. She presently heard the report of a pistol, and comprehending the position of affairs at once she iunne diatel arose, and crossing one or two apartments passed to the foot of the stairs in the front entry. Here, being afraid to go upstairs, she called loudly two or three times to the doctor, but from him she received no response, for at that time he was probably still in death. Mrs. Marston, however, appeared at the head of the stairs without a light, and in a firm calm tone ordered Miss May to go to her room and remain quiet under the penalty of having her brains blown out. The frightened girl, after hastily throwing on her clothing, went out in quest of help. She first met a Mrs. Hartshorn,who resided in the other part of the house, and who had also heard the noise, and they together went after some of the neighbours. Before they left the house two additional shots were heard, and ere they returned two others, accompanied with groans. Having procured the assistance of two or three men, they returned to the house. The party went upstairs and first visited Dr. Marston's chamber. On the bed lay the doctor upon his back; and restsng upon one arm, which was par tial!) round her neck, while her head reclined upon his shoulder, lay the body of Mrs. Marston. Both were dead ; and the revolver was found in the bed. The room of Cora, the daughter, was next visited. Cora lay upon the door near her bed, her face turned downwards, her clothing saturated with blood, and her face discoloured with it. A very strong odour of chloroform pervaded the house, and a 3oz. bottle, nearly empty, was found. It was clear that the murderess had used it to stupify her victims before finally taking their lives. The doctor had received one shot through the lungs, Mrs. "rston ono through the :chest, and one through the heart, and the little girl one in the back and one iu the head." Disappearance of some old customs once more honoured among us in the observance than the breach. There is no disguising the matter, says the Queen, that this is a very fast and material age, and that many things are gradually disappearing which some would have willingly preserved. How many sqrires keep Christmas now in the manner so admirably described by the author of "Brace bridge Hall." WhO burns the yule log now ? In how many halls of our gentry is the contre-dance danced ? How many young ladies are there who would not shriek at mention of the mistletoe? Who " takes wine together" now —that old, old custom, which afforded to many an adversary in a hot q uarrel the o pp ortunit y of grace fully holding forth the olive branch of peace ? Alack, the day ! These and many other grand old customs have disappeared, or are fast disappearing, like the costumes, into the limbo of the past ! The last blow to those who aro Conservatively-minded with regard to these old bulwarks of nationality, these symptoms of *na tional peculiarities, was perhaps the dreadful announcement which has now become so common, of "no cards." Well might our valued correspondent It. B. ask, wittily and pungently, "What next ? • NO .cards ! No wedding cake ! no wedding! no nothing!" The Supposed Murder of a Young Lady by her Lover• BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAini SALISBURY, Monday. There was no evidence offered before the magistrates this morning against Storer, the young man charged with having poisoned the young lady, the prosecution relying on the verdict of manslaughter by the coroner's jury. The charge against him was consequently dismissed. POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—This Day, BOW-STREET. Frederick Rogers, a well-dressed, respectable-looking young man, was paced at the bar on remand charged with uttering counterfeit coin. At about twelve o'clock on Thursday night the pri soner entered the Sir John Falstaff in Brydges-street, Covent-garden, and ordered a glass of ale, in payment of which he tendered a bad halfcrown. Mr. Roberts, the land lord, at once detected it. The prisoner said he had taken it with other change at Chatham. He paid for the ale with a good halferown and Mr. Roberts detained the bad one. When he left Mr.e-Roberts followed and watched him, ac companied by Hines, a constable in plain clothes, whom he met in Drury-lane. They saw the prisoner go up to a lamp in Castle-street, Long-acre, and examine his money, after which he went to the Eagle beer• shop in Endell-street, where ho tendered another bad half- crown; but Mr. Payne, the landlord, being forewarned by Mr. Roberts and Hine, detained the coin and gave him in custody. At the station house he described himself as a tailor, and said he lived at Chatham. The prisoner was fully committed for trial. Business done. 48 I I I 134 3 1511 I 65i 6 6/ I 12'4111 1 its, . a 124 t 6 I 58, i 139114 1271 I 51 MI I 51 31i klli I (gi :Oil I 571 81 81f j 1012 101 f I I Hi I i I ITIES. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. STONE THROWING IN KENSINGTON GARDENS, HYDE num.—John Mullis, a young man, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with throwing stones and damaging the trees in Kensington Gardens. Henry Topp, park constable No. 44, said that on Satur day afternoon he saw the defendant throwing stones at the chestnut trees in Kensington Gardens and a younger brother picking up the chestnuts as they were knocked off. He then took the defendant into custody, there having been great complaints of stone throwing in the gardens. Mr. Tyrwhitt said the defendant was old enough to know better, and asked the amount of the damage dune. The constable said about half a crown.. , The defendant said he only did it to please a younger brother. Mr. Tyrwhitt said that immense sums were paid to keep up the gardens and to preserve the trues, and a lot of idle, mischievous persons would clear the gardens in a week, doing more mischief in a short time than years would re pair. lie should order the defendant to pay 2s. Gd. for the damage, and a fine of 55., or seven days in default. Brambleby, p ar k Win: Miles, a lad, was charged by constable 36, with throwing stones and damaging the trees in the gardens. The defendant was ordered to pay the damage 2s. Gd., and a fine of ss. or 7 days. Henry Gardner and Henry Wyatt, two boys, were charged by park-constable Pritchett., with a similar offence, and ordered to pay 2s. 6d. each for the damage, and a fine of 6d. each. Alfred Simmons, a young man, was also charged. The case was proved by Brambleby. The defendant said he did not know the rules of the gardens. Mr. Tyrwhitt ordered the defendant to pay 2s. 6d. for damage, and a fine of ss. George Amery and Thos. Cheney, two boys, were charged byJohn.Browning, a park constable, with throw ing stones in Hyde-park, and having proved the case, Mr. Tyrwhitt fined the boys ss. each or 7 days. Thos. Allen, Edward Cowie, and James Bullock were also charged with throwing stones near the Broad Walk in Kensington Gardens, the object of the boys being to get across. In this case there was more than usual danger, there being a number of children in perambulators and playing about at the time. Mr. Tyrwhitt fined the boys ss. each or 7 days, and said that if the stone-throwing did not cease, the fines would be considerably higher. MORE STONE THROWING—COMPLAINT OP THE INHAEI TANTS.—James Pemberton, a lad living at 21, George-street, Grosvenor-square, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with throwing stones in Hart-street, Grosvenor-square. Joseph Soper, 150 C, said that about 7 o'clock on Satur dayevening he saw the defendant in Hart-street, Grosvenor square, throwing stones, and he took him into custody. Inspector Harrison said there had been great complaints from the inhabitants of Hart and Duke-streets of boys throwing stones and dirt into their shops, not fewer than 30 having sent a petition to the station. Some of the in habitants were in attendance to speak to his worship on the subject. Mr. E. W. Burden, chemist, 38, Duke-street, Grosvenor square, then made a statement as to the intolerable nuisance the inhabitants of Duke-street suffered from a parcel of lads throwing stones and dirt into their shops, producing at the same time several stones and a piece of iron which had been thrown into his own shop. Mr. Burden also stated that the street was made a play-ground of on week days, stones, cire., being thrown, and boys run ning in and out of the shops, and on Sundays made a race ground. Mr. Tyrwhitt said it was quite clear there must have been a great nuisance, or the inhabitants would not have complained to the police as they had. He should fine the defendant 205., or 14 days, and if there were any more charges of the kind the fines would be much heavier. SOUTHWARK. YOUNG THIEVES.—WiIIiam Harvey and Thomas Col lins, two boys, were charged before Mr. Woolyrch with endeavouring to pick pockets. _ _ Policemanl93M said that on Saturday night, about a quarter to one o'clock, ho saw the prisoners together in Short-street, New-cut, and very industrious in putting their hands into the pockets of some men that were loiter ing about. The elder prisoner was the most active, and the plan adopted was for him to thrust his hand into the pocket, while the younger one stood close to him, ready to run off with the booty. It did not appear that they had been successful during the quarter of an hour that he was watching their movements before ho took them into custody. The magistrate dismissed the prisoners with a caution. TURNED OUT AT AN EARLY AGE.—Sarah Harrington, a young girl between 15 and 16, and her brother, aged six, were brought before the magistrate charged with being found in a piece of enclosed ground the night previous. The girl, in reply .to the magistrate, said that she had been in service for a year and a half, and left because her mistress did not require her any longer. She was after wards employed at hopping, and last Tuesday she left Chatham, in consequence of her father, a labourer in the docks, saying that ho would not support her any longer, as she was over 14. Her brother followed her, because he know that she had a few half-pence in her pocket, and they were two days coming to London. They had been in the workhouse, and had no means of support. The Alagistrate . directed that the young unfortunates should be sent back to Chatham. THAMES. FLINGING STONES ON TIIE BLACKWALL RAILWAY.- Richard Seeley, a lad employed in attending boats on the canal, was charged before Mr. Paget with throwing stones on the Blackwell Railway, near to the Limehouse station. The evidence showed that on the previous night a porter was lighting the signal lamps, when he heard some person flinging stones on the line. Ho went towards the bridge, and on looking over it he observed the prisoner and some other lads fling stones to the bridge. He called out to them and asked them to desist. They did not, when, as they continued throwing stones, he gave information to a con stable, who took the prisoner into custody. Mr. Paget (to the porter)—Did he throw stones at you ? Witness—No, sir. He was the most active of all the boys, which was the reason of his being taken into custody. Mr. Paget—Are you sure he is the same boy ? Witness—l am, sir. Mr. Paget—lt is a most dangerous practice, and lam determined to do all in my power to stop it. An inspector stated that there were constant complaints of boys throwing stones on the railway. The prisoner was fined 405., or in default 14 days. ANNOYING PASSENGERS ON THE NORTH LONDONRAILWAY. —Chas. Chell was charged with annoying passengers. Policeman Squire, 44 K, stated that on the previous evening he was at the Bow Station when the prisoner ap plied for a ticket. Witness, seoing he was tipsy, refused to let him have one. Ho then became very violent and made use of most disgusting language. It was so bad that wit ness was obliged to take him into custody. Th e e vidence having been corroborated, 31r. to go by , 31r. Paget obse rved that the railwa y authorities had t a h c e t e t d ra very h properly in drunk, not and fi allowing ned the him 405., or i n d e f au lt 14 days. DISEASES.--There seems to be quite a mania just now about diseases in everything. Besides the potato disease and the cattle disease, we hear numerous rumours of disease among poultry, disease among pigs, and lastly, disease among hares. Our Ross-shire contemporary on Tuesday had the following It is said that a number of hares have been found dead on the Artigowan estate from some yet unknown. disease. Their bodies were emaciated." We have seen several reports as to serious disease amongst poultry, and newspaper paragraphs are quite rife in regard to disease amongst pigs in Ireland.—Elyin Courant. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL.—A munificent contribution of £lOO to the funds of this charity has been made by Mr. George Homer, of Solihull, near Birmingham, through Dr. Parkes, Professor of Military Hygeine at Net ley, formerly Professor of Clinical Medicine to University College and Hospital. The annual subscription of 10 guineas of his Royal Highness the Prince of 'Wales has been received from General Knollys. Mr. Thos. Boucher, of Belsize-park, Hampstead, has sent a donation of 10 guineas, and Mr. Jeremiah Greatorex, of Cleveland-square, one of 20 guineas. THIRD EDITION SUN OFFICE, 7 O'CLOCK. TAT TERSALLS'—This Evening. GREAT EASTERN HANDICAP. Bto 1 agst Cadeau (offered, take 9to I) 12 to 1 agst Acolyte (taken) CESAREWITCX. 20 to 1 agst Morris Dancer (taken freely) 20 to 1 agst Alabama (taken) 25 to 1 agst Nuneatpn (taken) 50 to 1 agst Nukuheva (taken) CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 40 to 1 agst Deliane (taken) The Derby not mentioned. BETTING AT MANCHESTER—THIS Dom... EASTERN COUNTIES HANDICAP. 9 to 1 agst Cadeau (taken) 10 to 1 agst Vandervelde (Taken) 100 to 7 agst Acolyte (taken) 100 to 6 agst Gemnia (taken) 100 to 6 agst Thallasins (taken) 25 to 1 agst Dawdle (taken) CESAHEWITCH. 100 to 8 agst Privateer (taken) 20 to 1 bar one (offered) CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 25 to lon the field ARRIVALS AT NEWMARKET. The following horses have arrived :—Tilston, Dawdle, Paris, Czarina, Scheldt, Matilda, Cuntract, Slender, Viper, Forester, Alabama, Vixen, Venturer, Venturesome, Rose Cheri, Siberia, Wild Agnes, Alb erta, Longdown, Mineral, Ack er s i' vorth, Master Richard, Duke, Ischia, King Hall, Nnkuheva, Pantaloon, Lady Egidia, Black Prince, Crisis, Liddington, Zambesi, Heliotrope, Cadeau, Liston, Mr. Pitt, Princess of Wales, Skirmish, and Deerfoot. THE BOMBAY MAIL. MARSEILLES, SEPT. 25. The roonah, with the Bombay mail, arrived here at 6 a.m. to-day. The mail leaves for London at 11.30 a.m. Passengers and ship in quarantine for 52 hours. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day. BETTDTG AT THE VICTORIA CLUB. EASTERN COUNTIES HANDICAP. 9to 1 agst Cadeau (taken) 11 to 1 agst Vandervelde 1.20 to 1 agst Gemma 20 to 1 agst Wild Agnes 25 to 1 agst Audax (taken) 25 to 1 agst Salpinctes 33 to 1 agst Lord Douglas CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 100 to 1 agst Soumiso (offered) CESAIIEWITCH. 4 11 to 1 agst Privateer 16 to 1 agst Morris Dancer 20 to 1 agst Alabama 20 to 1 agst Nuneaton (offered) 30 to 1 agst John Davis (taken) 40 to 1 agst Breeze (taken) 40 to 1 agst Lansdown (taken) 66 to 1 agst Fantail 66 to 1 agst Union Jack 100 to 1 agst Solon 100 to 1 agst Chimney Sweep The Claxton Case• TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Stn—Now that the Claxton case is finally settled and all correspondence expected to cease, will you permit me to say a few words on it. At the commencement of the discussion, I explained in a note to the editor of the Globe, which he did not think proper to allude to in any of his articles, that the Newcastle case was decided by a majority of the committee of Tattersall's, who are the lawmakers on betting ; consequently it became the law, and must remain so, whether good or bad, until a majority of the said com mittee think proper to alter it. This was well known at the time to all the members of the sporting press, who had not a word to say in opposition to it, nor yet when it governed the Starlight and other cases ; and why they should consider this decision so outrageous certainly re quires some explanation from them, as Claxton was once in the race, but Newcastle and Starlight never were.—l am, Sir, yours, &c., As OLD TURFITE. September 23, 1865. Attempted Extortion by a Newspaper. -~ -- TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE SUN. Sir,—An application was made on Tuesday to Mr. Burcham, the sitting magistrate at the Southwark Police court, for a summons against parties representing a journal styled the Joint-Stock Reporter and Insurance Review, for a very disgraceful attempt to extort money from the National Horse Insurance Company. Will you permit me to say that this occasional periodical was set on foot about a year ago, and presented in title—. though in no other respect—so glaring an imitation of the journal devoted to public companies and joint-stock enterprise, which I had the honour of establishing nearly 20 years ago—namely, The Reporter; or the London Mone tary Times 7 that I have striven, but in vain, to discover the parties implicated, in order that I might endeavour to restrain the issue of the journal by injunction. No sooner did I warn one printer of the obvious illegality of the pub lication than the imprint and place of publication Were changed. Not having seen the periodical for some months I naturally reckoned that its normal maleficent mode of action had at length, and most justly, brought it t 3 grief. But your police reports of to-day exhibit the reverse, and also the dastardly means by which the plagiarists have managed, up to the present time, to keep their print afloat. My connection with the metropolitan press as reporter, editor, and newspaper proprietor for over 23 years, and long ig htfo p r e y s r t o r d d , a the s a f n a i r h c o l a e r s a t c t e h r e w I h s p o p o e 1 r h a w v r e f ter earned a man of business, would, I hope, lead those who know nd i n a t h s t a r t a me, and especially the liberal supporters of my journal, to ignore the possibility of my being guilty of such rascality as that imputed to the defendents, but, sir, The Re porter, or the London Monetary Tunes, is a class journal, and the general public may by accident get impressed with the belief that the journal, which I have striven hard, from first to last, to conduct with honour and independence, is the one indicated. For instance, it is well known that the Royal British Bank owed its down fall to the criticisms that appeared in our columns. The fact, too, of the contiguity of the offices of the two journals may not unlikely favour this erroneous impression. Will you, therefore, out of courtesy, permit this explana tion to appear in your next issue, and thus render simple justice to your faithful and obedient vant, f. Inv The Reporter ; or, the London Monetary Times J. IRVING SCOTT. Office, Fleet-street. Sept 20, 1865. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE —This day. LONDON, Sept. 25.—Wind this day at noon—North- Westerly ; moderate breeze and fine weather, but rather cloudy in the morning. FORTSMOUTH, Sept. 24.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—R. Wylie, from Richioucio for Grimsby. FALMOUTH, Sept. 24.—Wind W.—Arrived -Carl, from St. Thomas for Hamburg. CLYDE, Sept. 24.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Brenda, for Demerara. LIVERPOOL, Sept. 23.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Comorn from Calcutta; Victory, from New York ; Red Jacket, ' from Calcutta. BRISTOL, Sept. 24.—Wind E. — Arrived—San Pietro, • from New York. LAMLASH, Sept. 21.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Alolphus, for Manilla. SLIPS OF THE PEN.—Thackeray seems to have had an intense dislike to the trouble of revision, for his popular - works, especially those published periodi cally, abound in trivial mistakes, arising from haste, ouna candle instead cf a forgetfulness, and want of care. The novelist mortally with rds attributes her death Candlestick, dsan to a stone staircase. Newcome senior is • colonel and la a d f y terwa and major at one and the same time ; Jack Belsize is Jack on one page, an d Charles on another; Mrs. Ra ymo nd G ray, introduced as Emily, is suddenly rechristened Fanny; and Philip Fermor on one occasion becomes trans formed into the author's old hero, Clive. With respect to the last mentioned gentleman, author and artist seem to have differed, for while Mr. Thackeray jests about Clive's beautiful whiskers and handsome moustaches, Mr. Doyle persists to the end in denying young Newcome's possession of those tokens of manhood. It is not often that an author is satirical upon his own productions ; but Charles Dickens has contrived to be so. Describing the old inns of the Borough, in his " Pickwick Papers," he says they are queer places, with galleries, passages, and staircases wide enough and antiquated enough 'to fur nish material for a hundred ghost-stories, supposing we should ever be reduced to the lamentable necessity of inventing any.' How little could.Boz have anticipated certain charming Christmas books witching the world a few years later! So also "American Notes," Mr. Jefferson Brick and tlie transatlantic Eden lay unsuspected in the future, when he made Old Weller suggest Mr. Pick - wick's absconding to America till Dodson and Fogg were hung, and then re turning to his native land and writing a book about the 'Merricans as 'ill pay all his expenses and more, if he blows , 'em up enough !"- -Cha;nberis Journal. 20i lu 100 ; MEN' 190 100 100 10 100 100 111 M. 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