The Sun. — London, England, 1866-10-24 00:00:00

rIONE/ MARKET AND COMMEROTILL INTELLIGEZME, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The commercial public are anxiously awaiting the result of the weekly Bank of England Court tomorrow. If the authorities are desirous of secur ing a larger amount of discount business than they have been enabled to attract to their establishment during the past week they will undiubtedly reduce .the minimum 4per cent. The reserve of gold must have Leen immensely increased by recent arrivals f rom Australia and America, and the other securi ties have been considerably reduced. To-day the demand for accommodation is very tight, and while 4 Per cent. remains the general quotation for first ,class bills, in exceptional cases 3i and 3:1 per cent. are the rates for the best short-dated bankers' ac ceptances. Since the publication of the Gazette return the receipts of gold at the bullion office of the Bank have been £376,000 (inclusive of the large amount taken there yesterday, viz., £280,000), and the withdrawals have represented £105,000. The directors of the Standard Bank of British South Africa have issued their: half- yearly report. The statement shows an available total of £16,102 an d recommends an interim dividend of 10s. per sh are on those of £25 paid, and 4s. per share on those of 110. Continued firmness in prices of Stock Exchange securities is noticeable, and a further fractional rise has taken place this morning in most descriptions of foreign bonds. The English Funds are being ste adily maintained at former values, and Consols are 891 for money, and 89} 1 for the account. American securities denote heaviness, but the de preciation in values is not important. An influx of £280,000, including £50,000 from the Continent, took place yesterday afternoon at the Bank of England. At the same time there was a withdrawal of 40,000 sovereigns for shipment to Alexandria. Advises received this morning from Manchester state that the mar ket for shipping yarns has been exceedingly quiet, and to effect sales spinners have had to accept reduced rates. Cloths have also been v ery depressed, as all the principal buyers for the I ndian markets have ceased their operations for the Present. In the various cloth halls of Leeds a mo derate amount of business has been recorded in seasonable goods ; manufacturers, however, are now busy with preparations for the spring trade. The Bank of New Zealand has given notice that they are prepared to receive subscriptions for the fourth instalment (amounting to £100,000) of the New Zealand Government 6 per Cent. Loan of £3,000,000. The bonds will be issued in sums of £lOO, £200; £5OO, and £l,OOO each, at the price of £92 ss. for every £lOO. The proceeds of this loan ill be temporally applied to the settlement of the Waikato district, under an arrangement between the general Government of New Zealand and the Provincial Government of Auckland. Applications Will be received till 1 p.m. on Wednesday, the 31st i nst., at the Bank of New Zealand, 50, Old Broad- Street. The brokers are 'Messrs. Steer, Cuerton, and Lawford. Two O'CLOCK. According to Reuter's telegram from Paris to-day the French Rentes were 68f. 95c. No further change . in prices of English Government 84)6 ' 4 can be reported. All the markets are firm, notwithstanding the comparatively small business in Pr° g r eas. The public are not operating very ex tensively, nor are speculators, but there is more c)llfidence, and quotations are therefore more stable. Consols are 891 1 for money, and 891 1 for the account. The New Three per Cents. remain firm at 874 8 2 ; and the Reduced Annuities are 871 k 'lank Stock continues at 214 ; and Exchequer Bills t are marked 4 s . prem. Th e 5 per C en ts. Indian .1 :,a 11 ) due 1870, rema i n a t 106/ ; an d 51 per Cent. z‘efaced paper at 107. ; An average improvement of / per cent. is shown the prices for Foreign Stocks. Turkish 5 per k,ents. are 291 1 ; Mexican, 151 16 ; Greek, 144 ; Itali an P ass i ve, 2 2 1 ; Ce r tificates 14* ; and 'talian, 5 51 56. American Securities are flat. United States 5-20 Bonds have receded 1, to 681 Erie shares 1, to 501 4 ; Illinois remains at 78 i• Atlantic and Great Western Debentures are r°a4ly.at 651 661 ; and the Consolidated Mortgage 114 , at 41 411 ex coupon. The business reported in Foreign Stocks has been 48 follows :-....Brazilian 48 per Cents., 1863, 611 ; ditto 5 per Cents., 1865, 69 6881; Chili= 3 per ; Egyptian 7 per Cents. second issue £lOO °n u; 86 ; ditto 1864, £lOO Bonds, 821 ; ditto Go vernment Railway Debentures, 81; Greek Bonds, 14 i ; Italian 5 per Cents., 1861, 53/ 56 ; ditto 70 : Mexican Stock, 15/ ; ditto 1864, 112 ; c N ew Gra na d a 2 per Cents., 331 ; Portuguese 3 per c e ata., 431 i R uss i an per C ents., 551 ; ditt o 5 per erl ts, 1 861, 91f ; S ar di n i an B on ds, 69 ; Spanish uertficate, 14 ; Tu r ki s h 6 p er Cents., 1862, 551 ; ditto £lOO Bonds, 551 ; ditto 4 per Cent. Guaran teed, n,,.1 ; and Venezuela 6 per Cents., 1864, 28. prevailed, prices In the Railw a y Sh are M ar k e t more ac ti v ity h as generally showing an upward ten ,etleY• No r th W estern have improved / ; G reat si p st ern and L ancas hi re an d Y or k s hi re , eac h * ; tdland, 4 ; and North British, 11 ; while Great cWestern have receded 1, South Eastern, 1 ; Man ester) Sheffield, and Lincoln, 1 ; and Great Northern, 1. The Foreign and Colonial lines are quiet. Ant- Nizerp and Rotterdam are dealt in at 81 ; and San !:a lll O at 131 ; B ombay and Baroda at 100/ 10 1 -; ; •cast Indian have improved to 1031 ; Scinde to 99 ; and Punjaub to 988. Miscellaneous and Finance Shares are dull. At i.antie Telegraph 8 per Cents. fully paid have unproved to 97/ ; National Discount Co. at 14 ; a nd Credit Foncier of England at 31. , Bank Shares con ti nue very inactive, and exhibit little change of importance as regards prices. Alli ance are dealt in at 18/ 1 ; Consolidated at 41 51 ; and London and County at 61. MINING MARKET. WEDNESDAY, Two o'cl oc k. There has been an active demand for Prince of Wales, Great Retallack, North Treskerby, Great Vor, and East Bassett. Annexed are the latest prices : Cam Camborne, 21s 23s Od ; Chiverton Moor, 41 5; Chontales Gold, 2} ; Clifford Amalgamated, 771 ; East Basset, 229 25 ; East Caradon, 51 4 ; East Cam Brea, 0 ; East Lovell, 11 12 ; East Wheal Grenville, 1} 2i; Froutino and Bolivia Gold, 7s 8s; Great Laxey, 18 19 ; Great Retallack, 12s 6d 15s ; Great Wheal Vor, 181 19 ; North Crofty, 1 11; North Treskeby, 41; Prince of Wales, 26s 6 d 28s 6d; South Condurrow, 12s 6d 15s; South Darren, 1 1 2 ; West Caradon, 17 18 ; West Chiverton, 57} 60; West Seton, 130 135 ; Wheal Buller, 20 22; Wheal Chiverton, 4} I; Wheal Crebor, 12s 6d 15s ; Wheal Gren ville, 22s 6d 255; Wheal Seton, 140 150. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 6 Per Cent. Consols New Do. Account, Nov. 8 B9l Cent. Reduced 571 1 1 ~„. per Cent B 7t 1 1 New 3 per Cent. Jan. 1894 — "°• 6 per Cent. A ire 3 — Annuities, 30 yrs, exp sth Jan., 1880 Do. ii, Dfor 30 yrs, expire sth AprillBBs — oe Red Se a T e l egraph), Aug., 1908 — 'quer Bills, £1,000,3 & 4 per Cent 4 pm Do. £5OO Do £lOO and £2OO [ 'al:lk of England Stock, 55 per Cent 244 Do Account , INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. De ns `llia tock, 105 per Cent., April 1874... . per Cent. July, 1870 ' , ,..!0. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 D. Certificates — Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent U°. 5 per C ent . , J an. 1 872 °. 5 4 per C en t.. M ay 1879 lO7 uo. Deb., 5 per Cent., Ang. 1873 Do. Bonds,*£lp,oe 00 — r Cent., £l,OOO pm Do. und er FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. 4 4 ,g s ell .t . ine Republic, 6 per Cont., £l5 pd — pm trian Bonds, 5 per C ent, 1859 Brazilian Ai °. 44 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Do. D 0.1863 D o Account 1865 — 69 85 5 Do. . £lOO Bonds Do P dis g ne • 'Joni), £65 paid „nos Ayres 6 per Cent ' uo • Account Do .£lOO Bonds — Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) Milian 6 per Cent — Do. 3 per Cent. Do. 6 per Cent A — De Scrip, X 75 paid Colombian 6 per Cent. — Cuba, 6 per Cent. Danish 2 per Cent., 1825 — Do. 5 per Cent., 1864 ... Danubian Principalities Do. Account Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Do. ' 'Provisional Land Warrant — Do Deferred 'igyptian 7 per Cent — Do., Second Issue — Do .£lOO Bonds B6 Do. 1864 — Do £lOO Bonds B2 1 Do. Government Railway Debentures Bl Do. £BO paid Greek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons Do. Account Do. Coupons Do. account 'l:den - 1;11a 5 per Com. — t9lian 5 par Cent 1865 Do. Account Do. Marommana Railway %lexicar. 3 per Cent Do. Account P. 1864 lll Do 6 per Cont. Anglo-French — Jlontevidean 6 per Cent .. noorish Imperial 5 per Cent \I ew Granada ___ Do 2 per Cent 334 Do. Deferred Do Land Warrants (Hectares) 'eruvian 5 per Cent., 1865 Do Account Do 44 per Cent. (llribarren) Do 44 per Cent., 1862 Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '9, '6O, '62, '3, Do. Account Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St Do 44 per Cent. 1850 Do 44 per Cent., 1860 Do 3 per Cent. 1859 Do 5 per Cent. 1862 9l Do 5 per Cent. 1861 3ardinian 5 per Cent Do. Account 9panish 3 per Cent Do Account Do New Deferred Do Account Do Passive Do Account Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded Do Account l4 Swedish 4 per Cent. Do. 4 -r Cent. 1864 .- JO. 4i per Cent. Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 Do. Account Do 6 per Cent. 1855 Do. Account ' Do £lOO Bonds Do 6 per Cent. 1862 Do Account 551 Do £lOO Bonds Do 6 per 1863 ........................ Do 5 per Cent., 1865, paid up Scrip... Do Account ................................. Do. 4 per Cent. Guaranteed ............... 971 Venezuela 3 per Cent. ........................ Do Account .................................... Do 6 per Cent., 1862 ........................ Do Account - ........... 00. 6 per Cent, 1864........................ 28 Ditto 11- per Cent. ....... . ................... Dividends on the above payable In Loudon. Austrian, 5 psr Cent., Ex. 10 Florins ... INgian. 44 per cent., Ex. 25f. Dutch i 4 per ('Ant. Ex. 12Gui!.. — Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ..... French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. — Italian 5 per Cent. 1851, Ex. 25f. Do. Account TWO O'CLOCK. Consols, Money ................................. 89 i Do. Account ................................. 831 Liverpool Cotton Market.—This Day. The market opens rather quiet, with prices id. to id. lower than the quotations of Friday. Sales will probably be 6,000 or 8,000 bales. DREADFUL EXPLOSION AND PROBABLE Loss OF FIVE LIVES.—This (Wednesday) morning an ex plosion of a serious character took pla3e on the premises of Mr. Laidlaw, china firework manufacturer, Shirwell's-yard, Mile-end. At the time of the explosion four young women and a man were at work in the preparing shop. From some unexplained cause a portion of the fireworks ex ploded, prostrating the females and the man, setting their clothes on fire, and blowing out several parts of the build ing. The whole five were found to be terribly injured, who were removed to the hospital, but there is not the least hope of the recovery of any of them. WIG STEALERS.—The reason why Racine put off _ _ ordering his son's wig is obvious enough, when we find that the price of one of the fashionable colour was 1,000 French crowns. Thi3 gentleman whom Sidney Smith. in reference to the length and redundancy of his curls, ac cused of growing Lair for sale, might have driven a profit able trade at that time. Down to the period immediately preceding the French Revolution, which introduced crops a la Brutus, the wigs commonly worn by English gentle men in the streets cost from 30 to 40 guineas ; and Rogers, appealicg to Luttrell in our hearing, thus described a mode of theft as practised in London within their common memory. The operator was a small boy in a butcher's tray on the shoulders of a tall man ; and when the wig was adroitly twitched off, the bewildered owner look round for it in vain—an accomplice confused and impeded under the pretence 51 assisting him, and .the tray-bearer made off.— Edinburgh Review. BARNED'S BANK. —Yesterday the case of Barned's Banking Company, which carried on business_at Liver pool until the recent financial crisis, was again before the Chief Clerk attached to Vice-Chancellor Stuart's Court. Mr. Emmanuel stated that on a previous occa sion an order had be en made that the shareholders might inspect the books and accounts of the company, and make certain other investigations which they con sidered necessary for the purposes of their defence against the call which had been made. The official liquidators had promised to give certain information, but up to the present time it had not been supplied. It was this which led the applicants to ask for further time to carry out the spirit of the order they had already ob tained, and make a searching investigation for them selves. A Clerk from Messrs. Freshfie ld, Newman, and Co. who are the solicitors to the official liquidators asked that the whole matter might be adjourned until Mr. Ch urch, the chief clerk to the Master of the Rolls, in whose court the cause was set down, returned. The defendant had delivered to his clients a set of interrogations rat her than a request, as stated, for examination of the books. In addition to this, they had had for an entire month the result of the investigation of the special examiner. Mr. Emmanuel said that if the information was not supplied to his clients, then they require time for further researches. IThe Chief Clerk, after some discussion, adjourned the con sideration of all three summonses till the 22th October. ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.—At the last sitting a letter was read from Father Sacchi, of Rome, on the spectrum analysis of stellar light. In examining a large number of stars, he says he was struck with the uniformity of their luminous constitution. He distinguishes three different types : one commonly called the type of white stars like Sirius, kc. ; another comprises the stars whose light produces red or orange-coloured bands in the spec trum ; and to the third belong the stars producing very narrow bands. In the first type he has found an excep tion : Gamma Cassiopeia, which, instead of having a dark band at F (a point of the spectrum well known to those who possess a map cf it) has a luminous one instead. Of the stars pertaining to the second type, Alpha Herculis is the most remarkable. It is of the third magnitude, and yields a spectrum, the bands of which appear in relief like the pil lars of a long colonnade. The stars of the third type might be appropriately called solar, their spectrum bearing the I ' strongest • resemblance to that of the sun. Another re markable circumstance is this, that each of these types appears to be dominant in some one or other of the celes tial regions. Our readers may remember our giving an ac count of M. Grimaud De Caux's papers, in which he main tains that ch o l era i s con t ag i ous , an d oug ht t o tie prevented y means of strict quarantine. We also gave abstracts of the replies which his papers elicited, and in which every one of his arguments was demolished ; besides which, we suppose our readers are themselves personally aware, as we are, of facts in direct opposition to M. Grimaud's views. Nevertheless, he has thought proper to address another paper to the academy, i n w hi ch, after attempting to cover his retr eatself as follows b y mea 1 : 2_13 o f If, a iin quibble rega of r dutt hen d ai a mt t es cholera, h e science -s ad v ti a s n n c o ed f tahestetpratuhsrmouisgshit)tihlietynoowf p te e m ac . h b a le ble m d a e la m d o y n , sittrais owing to me." This, in summer, would be refreshingly cool. - Galignani. A TOWN COUNCILLOR CONVICTED OF POACHING. —At the County Police-court, Macclesfield, yesterday, William Carr, soap and candle manufacturer, an d a mem ber of the ,Macclesfield Corporation, was charged with trespassing in pursuit of game on land in Marton, belong ing to Mr. A. H. Davenport, of Capesthorne Park. Richard Davenport swore that ho was ploughing in a field on the afternoon of September 26, when ho saw the defendant and Mr. JamesHodgkinson, of Congleton, got over a fence into a clover field, with a dog, when they spread them selves out and started a hare, which the dog killed, and the two men took it away with them. The defence was that Mr. Hodgkinson, against whom a similar charge had been withdrawn, was the guilty pertion, and that the defendant had permission from the tenant of the land (his relative) to pass over the clover field, as the nearest way to some land held by him. The bench said they considered the case proved ; and, as the defendant had bee n convicted before, he would be fined 40s. and costs, or to be impri soned for one month. THE LONG VACATlON.—Yesterday the long vaca tion ended, and this day declarations will be served in actions in which the parties appeared. The Chancery vaca tion will end on the 28th int? 'rum SUE, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 24, Mb. LAW INTELLIGENCE,—This Day COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Registrar Murray.) RE A. WALKINSHAW-FAILURE OF AN EAST INDIA MERCHANT. This bankrupt was described as an East India merchant of 9, Graccchurch-street, and to-day was appointed for the first meeting. The debts are about £lB,OOO ; assets are not stated. The cause of the failure is said to be owing to losses in consignments, and pressure on the part of some of many creditors. The largest creditor is Wm. Welkin slimy, Esq., of Holbrook, Chislehurst, Kent, who claims £1.1,3G0. Debts were proved, and a day named for the next mewing. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. M AN SION-HOUSE. EMBEZZLEMENT BY A COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER.—Richard Hayes, a young man of respaetable appearance, was charged before Mr. Alderman Finnis with embezzling money, the property of Messrs. Rickett and Son, general merchants, at 14'J, Upper Thames-stroet, and Hull. Henry Wallis said that ho was a merchant, and managed the business of Messrs. Rickett, the senior member of which firm was his brother-in-law. The prisoner was a traveller iu town and country to the firm, and was about two years in their employment. Tho prisoner's duty was to account to the cashier for the money he received, and pay over the same without delay to him He was not obliged, however, to do so when ho was in the country. A receipt produced for £1 12s. 3d. was in the handwriting of the prisoner, arid was given to a company who dealt with Messrs. Rickett ; and it was dated May last. The cashier informed him that there were irregu larities in the prisoner's accounts ; and he desires to make him settle his accounts, pay him a month's wages and dis charge him. The prisoner sent for him to the station this morning and told him that the cashier had promised to give him time to make up his accounts, and he denied,any knowledge of having received the money in question. The firm regretted to prosecute the prisoner, but felt bound to do so from a sense of duty to the public themselves. The prisoner said he had no question to ask witness who, he believed, gave his evidence in a very fair spirit, and that he would not have brought this charge unless he felt it his duty to do so. , Charles Prestman said that he was cashier to Messrs. Rickett. His duty,was to enter the moneys he received in the general cash-book, and the prisoner's to enter them in his book, to which the witness affixed his initials. He saw the receipt for the £1 12s. 3d., but he had not re ceived that amount,.nor had the prisoner made any allusion to it. Five or six cases came to his knowledge, in which the prisoner had received moneys for which he had not accounted to him. He wrote to him to the effect that if they were not settled he should feel it his duty to commu nicate the fact to the principals. The prisoner came to him and promised to pay the moneys, which consisted of four sums of £7 17s. 6d, £2 10s., .£1 lls. 4d., and Li 135., and he said to the prisoner that if the moneys were paid ho would regard the matter as a mere case of delay. These moneys were paid a few days afterwards. There was another sum which had not been accounted for, but that had also been paid. In respect to this last case he thought it right to communicate with Mr. Wallis. When he told the pri soner he was discharged, he said to witness that he should be glad to be allowed to remain 2. little longer, as his suc cessor might not be able to go over the ground which he had travelled. He had no recollection of having stated to the prisoner what the latter had mentioned to Mr. Wallis that morning, respecting giving him time to make up his accounts. The prisoner said ho did not think ho would make any statement at present, as he hoped the case would be adjourned. The prisoner was remanded for a week. DIARLBOROUGH-STREET. A FATHER CHARGED WITH ASSAULTING MS SON.— John Kaill, of No. 41, Union-street, Middlesex Hospital, was brought before Mr. Tyrwhitt, by O'Shaughnessy; one of the warrant officers, on a warrant charged with assault ing and using violent threats towards his son, Wm. Kaill. Th e complainant said — l reside at 22 , Union - s treet, Middlesex Theprisoner is my father. Yester. daytehold off my windpipe and swore be afrno H on o :h sp e itltl. caught would pull it out, and he then struck me in the mouth and in several other places, and again swore he would not let go of me till he pulled my windpipe out. He has attacked me twice before in a similar manner ; once ten years ago, when I had him here. In answer to the court, the complainant said he never laid his hand ou his father. The prisoner—Did you not send a note to me yesterday of a scurillous nature respecting your mother ? Complainant—l did not send any note to you whatever. I know nothing of it. Prisoner —lt is your handwriting. Complainant— It is not. My father is angry with me because 1 would not let my mother keep some property which belonzed to a poor person. Alfred Angel and Caroline Hutchins were called, and the former stated that he saw the complainant and the pri soner struggling together, and the latter said ho heard the prisoner say that whenever he saw the complainant in the street he would cut his windpipe out. Sarah Kaill, daughter of the prisoner, said—My father was angry, and asked my brother whether ho sent the note. My brother then struck my father. The complainant--I did nothing of the kind. Prisoner—l am afraid one of my ribs is broken. Mr. Tyrwhitt, addressing the prisoner, told him that ho was afraid he was a violent old man, and he should order him to find ono bail in £5 to keep the peace for six months. aged 19, of 32, THAMES. A BRUTAL SCOUNDREL. —Phillip Moor e, a shi p smith, James-place, Ratcliff, was brought before Mr. Paget charged with assaulting three women in a very gross manner, and also committing an assault on' John Perks, a police-constable, 381 K, in the execution of his duty. . Elizabeth Moss, of 6, John-street, S idne y -s q uare, Step ney, said she night, when the prisoner advanced in front of her and was passing along the Commercial-road last threw a wet and dirty sack across her face. It blinded her for some time, and the dirt and filth on the sack got into her eyes and mouth. Elizabeth Brown, of 102, Nelson-street, Stepney, said the prisoner also threw the sack across her face, and put her to oonsiderable pain and inconvenience. Perks, 54 K, said the prisoner dragged the sack in the wet gutter, and then forced it into the faco•of every woman he met. Three of the fernales came to the station house and complained of the dirty and offensive conduct of the prisoner. He took the prisoner into custody, and was assaulted in the same manner as the women'and struck on the breast. The prisoner was exceedingly violent, and made use of very bad language towards the females. The prisoner, in defence, said that he and another man were larking, and throwing the sack at each other, and it fell by accident on the females. Mr. Paget said he did not believe the prisoner's story, but he did believe the witnesses. The prisoner was a dirty blackguard, and it was not to be tolerated that decent women were to be molested in the streets in such a gross manner. Ho sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned for two months and kept to hard labour. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE —This Day, LONDON, Oct. 24.—Wind this day at noon—South- Westerly ; moderate breeze, and fine weather, but rather cloudy. PLymoutir, Oct. 23.—Wind N.—Arrived—lda Dixon, from Quebec. . A.Ar A D ARTM OUTH, Oct. 22. —Wind DI. IV —.o.mvoa—magianu, from Rio Grande. Munn, Oct. 23.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Eliza. Maria, from Odessa. CARDIFF,' Oct. 22.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—ft. J. Turn bull, for Monte Video. EY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. GRAVESFND, Wednesday Morning. Arrived,' Oct. 23.—Cassandra, from Genoa ; Adelaide, from Dohouet; Panther, steamer, from Boulogne; Mait land, from Foo-chow ; Thought, from Jersoy ; Otto, from Christiania. Arrived, Oct. 24. —May Queen, Bellona, steamer, and Ottawa, steamer, from New York; Orion, steamer, and Batavier, steamer, from Rotterdam ; Neptune, steamer, from Havre. Sailed—Souvenir, steamer, for Caen ; Prince Imperial, steamer, for Dunkirk. DEAL, Wednesday Morning. Passed—Theban, screw steamer, from London for Glasgow; Agamemnon, screw steamer, from the west for London. cheo—both from London. Bombay; Cedric, for Kurra- Anchored—Revenue , for imp' THE FATAL OUTRAGE AT AlICOATS.—Joseph Sloane, 20, was charged at the City Police-court, on Mon dhy, on suspicion of having aided in the assault upon the unfortunate man Lee, who was brutally kicked to death by a gang of ruffians in Jersey-street, Ancoats. On the application of his counsel (Mr. Ernest Jones) the prisoner was remanded for a week. - Manchester Courier. A BRIDAL BED COVER. --Some of 'the Italian journals state that in anticipation of a marriage between the eldest son of Victor Emmanuel and the daughter of the Archduke Albert of Austria, the city of Turin has ordered from Valenciennes a rich bed cover in the finest lace to be presented to the bride. GARIBALDI'S Lo_usr. —Garibaldi, at the time he was preparing his ill-starred expedition which ended at Aspro moute, had borrowed from two English houses a sum of 91i,000f. Unable to pay the amount even if he sold his island of Caprera, he lately applied to Baron Ricasoli, showing that the Ratazzi administration had seized arms and clothes belonging to the Volunteers worth upwards of 100,000 f. The baron thought the application worthy of attention, and by his orders the English houses have beep satisfied. Central Criminal Court—This Day, OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Mellor.) THE ALLEGED MURDER AT LEWISHAM. John Jones was indicted for the wilful murder of George Styley, at Lewisham, on the 13th of October. He was also charged on the coroner's inquest with manslaughter. Mr. Daly applied for the postponement of the trial of the prisoner until next session, on the ground that as the alleged murder only took place on Saturday week, and that he had only received his intructions within the last few minutes, he had not yet had an opportunity of reading the depositions or of having an interview with the prisoner. _ _ Mr. Poland, on the part of the prosecution, made no ob jection to the postponement of tho trial, and the learned Judge ordered it to stand over until the November sessions. CHARGE OF FORGERY. Alexander Wright, agent, was indicted with feloniously forging the acceptance of a bill of exchange for £l3O, with intent to defraud. There was also another indictment charging him with feloniously uttering- the same. Mr. Henry Woodgate said he kept a loan and discount office in Lambeth, and that he had known the prisoner for about two years. Upon the 9th of May he came to his office and brought a bill of exchange with him. Ire said he was desirous of introducing good business, and pro duced an acceptance of Major Curzon, who was the son of Lord Howe, and a first-class man. The major, he said, de sired him to get the bill discounted privately. The major, he said, did not want the transaction made public, and if he did not get it done privately it was to be returned. Ile asked the prisoner if ho knew the Major, and he said cer tainly, and that he saw the Major sign the bill. The prisoner said if ho did sign he could have £25 as dis count, that he could pay a bill drawn upon Lieut. Burgess for £25, and give him a cheque for the difference. He asked him whether Lieut. Burgess knew of the transaction and he said he did. Ho (witness) assented to the terms proposed, and gave prisoner a cheque for £BO on the Lambeth branch of the County Bank, and Lieut. Burgess's bill for £25. The bill for £l3O is its the prisoner's hand writing. He also believed that the acceptance was written by the prisoner, but in a feigned hand. The bill purports to bo drawn by Alexander Wright en the Hon. Ernest G. Curzon, major of the 52d Light Infantry, for six mouths, from the sth of May. Having found the accept ance was a forgery, he went to the prisoner's house in the Horseferry-road in September with Mr. Charles Wright, a solicitor, of Chancery-lane, and a police officer. When he told prisoner that he had come to give him into cus tody for giving him a forged bill, he said, "Make no fuss about it, come along." In cross-examination the witness said he had had two small transactions with the prisoner, and charged 15 per cent. He had had some discount transactions with officers, and he might have charged 60 per Cent. He had had the acceptance of Lieutenant Burgess for £5O, which he got through the prisoner. The discount on it was something less than 100 per cent. That acceptance was lost in con sequence of Lieutenant Burgess becoming bankrupt. Mr. Charles Wright, solicitor, of Chancery-lane. On Friday, the 21st of September, he went to the Horsferry road. Mr. Woodgate went with him, but he left him out side whilst he went in. The prisoner showed him a list of debts. He then asked him about the bill of Major Curzon, and the prisoner said he saw the major sign it. He said he had business to go to the camp at Aldershot privately. He said so on the occasion that he saw the major sign the bill. He (witness) asked what Major Cur zon, a man in high position, wanted with such a bill of exchange, and prisoner replied it was all balls and pleasure parties. Mr. Woodgcte came in and charged him, when the prisoner said " don't make any fuss," and he went with them. Cross-examined—He was quite sure nothing was said about Lieutenant Burgess. Major Curzon, of the 52d Regiment, said he was the son of Lord Howe. The acceptance to the bill of exchange now put into his hands was not signed by him. Mr. Justice Mellor—Or authorised by you. Witness—No, never. He never had had anything to do with bills of exchange. He did not know the prisoner or Lieutenant Burgess. He never heard of Lieutenant Burgess until the present proceedings. Frank Stockley, a clerk in the County Bank, said he gave 12 five-pound notes and 20 sovs in exchange for £BO. (The witness gave thenumbers of the notes.) Mr. Brasier, a licensed victualler, residing in the Horse ferry-road, said he changed two £5 notes for the prisoner, the numbers of which corresponded with those paid for Mr. Woodgate's cheque. Mr. Cooper, for the prisoner, contended that the prisoner, in the transaction, had been made the dupe of Lieutenant Burgess. The jury returned a verdict of guilty on the second count. The learned Judge sentenced him to 15 inouths' hn. prisoumeut with hard labour. NEW COURT. (Before Mr. Baron Piggot.) William Richardson was indicted for stabbing Jacob Chorley, with intent to do grievous bodily harm. The Offence was the result of a public-house quarrel in Chelsea, during which the prisoner said a woman had . robbed him, which caused a general row, and Chorley who had, it appeared, not taken part in it, was unfortu nately stabbed in the abdomen by the prisoner, who was in a very excited state arising from intoxication. The man Chorley had fortunately recovered from his wound, although it was of such a severe nature that the hospital authorities thought it right to send for the magistrate to take his deposition. The jury found the prisoner guilty of unlawfully wound ing, and the learned judge sentenced him to nine months' imprisonment with hard labour. THIRD COURT. (Before Mr. Commissioner Kerr.) THE GREAT EMBEZZLEMENT CASE. William Charles Huddon, who stood remanded from last sessions, was indicted for forging and uttering an endorse ment on a cheque for £losls. 5d., with intent to defraud; also for embezzling and stealing three cheques, respectively for £lOO, £56 18s. 9d., and £36 19s. 5d., the property of John James Russell, his master. There were a number of other indictments against the prisoner. It will be recollected that the prisoner was the agent and manager of the London establishment of Mr. Russell, an iron manufacturer, carrying on business at Wednesbury, in Staffordshire, and that a portion of his duty was to re ceive accounts and remit the same weekly to Staffordshire. but the prisoner contended that he had certain matters to perform which prevented him from doing so, and that the charge of embezzlement against him was altogether un true. The deficiency, it was alleged, amounted to £lO,OOO. The evidence appeared at length in The Sun during the examination of the prisoner at the Mansion-house, and as it was of a very intricate and uninteresting nature, con sisting principally of book entries, a repetition of it on the present occasion is unnecessary. After the examination of the prosecutor the case came abruptly to an end, and the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. FOURTH COURT. (Before the Recorder.) James Padden, carman, and William Crawley and Henry Thompson were indicted with stealing a leather case and varieus pieces of flannel, the property of Lewis Moir, in the dwelling-house of Mary Ann Mackie. The jury found all the prisoners guilty. Padden Itas sentenced to three months' imprisonment, with hard labour ; Crawley, against whom a former con viction was proved, to seven years' penal servitude; and Henry Thompson, also formerly convicted, to 18 months' risonment, with hard labour. MARKETS. -:-This Day. MARK LAN/J. Very little English wheat was received fresh up to-day, 1 but the bulk of the supply was offered in tolerably good condition. The trade for both red and white parcels was very firm, and the late improvement was established. There was a fair quantity of foreign wheat on the stands The demand ruled steady, and in all business transacted Monday's advance was firmly maintained. Floating cargoes of grain moved off freely, at the full prices of last week. Fine barley was in steady request, at very full curren cies. Grinding and distilling sorts changed hands to a moderate extent, on former terms. A good business was passing in malt, and prices ruled firm. --- In oats, sales progressed steadily, and the price 3 realised were quite on a par with those previously quoted. Beans and peas were firm. The flour trade was steady on former terms. BUIE' Al RIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. English and Scotch 530 590 750 260 Irish Foreign 8,130 2,970 3,720 7,760 3,050 sks. brls. BOROUGH HOP. Yearlings and old hops move d off freely at full prices. New Kent and Sussex produce changed hands steadily on SHARE MARKETS.—This Day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS• are' Railways. p aid. ! Closing Business Price. done. st 'Bristol and Exeter I at 'Caledonian it Cambrian 5 Cork and 8and0n...... 20 Corn wall it Dublin & Belfast June 1 it Dun„Perth, & A b.Junc 00 E.London, berip Certi Do. at Glasgow &S. Western a t Great Eastern, Ord. stk. st Do. E. Angl. it. No. '2, it Great North of Scotland at Great Northern st D. , . A stock • • it Do. B stock Do. New, is. at 25 pu at Gt S, and W. of Ireland at Gt., Western -Original at D 6. Vi'. Rail gull it Do. South Wales st Do. W.-Mid.—Oxtord st Do. Newport at Do. II e eford ..... st Lancashire & Yorkshire st London and Black wall it Lon., Brigh., & S Coast it Lon., Chat., and Dover at Do. Metrop. Ex. A st Lon. & North Western at Lon. & South Western st Man., Shut., & Lincoln at Metropolitan..... 10 Do. New 10 ' Do. Extension la) I Metropolitan District. Do. do. do. 10 Do. and St. John'sW'd at Mid'and 9 Do. £9 Share.. st Do, Birmin & Derby 25 aid Kent • • at North British at Do. Ed., Pth., & Dun. st :Nth. Eastern—Berwick 25 Do. G.N•E purchase at Do. Leeds st Do. York at Do. Carlisle 25 Do. Stock. & Darling. 25 Do. do. 1860-01 it North London .. to Do. do. 180 5 . . 10 Do. do. 1800 at North Staffordshire at N. &S. W. Junction at Scottish Central at Scot. N. E Aber. stock st Do. Scot, Mid. stock st Shropshire Union at South Devon at ,outh Eastern 20 itaines, Wok., & Wok st Taff Vale 10 Do. C at Vale of Neath at Waterford & Kilkenny 10 Waterloo & Whiteha it st West Cornwall 87 $6 121} 122 k 4U 15 13 15 4 6 65 63 :0 79 115 1 1 9 25 21 5 fi 116 1 1 8 12t1 127 90 92 53 55 35 40 33 3 12!} 1241 87 89 18 9 10 20 118 119 82 8 4 54 55 124 125 2 3 P 10 11 83 88i 1221 i 231 It 2 92 fl 100 all 100 100 100 16.13.4 100 100 100 all 35 37 ,6 20 103 ILS 65 '67 99 10L 34 f. 6 9 10 p, 120 ,25 1 2p I 2P ;2 74 114 118 150 154 42 41 66 87 8 9 14 MO 2 3.3 251 i 114 i 1:71 7 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. 34! 4 124 51 881 8i 15 I Lai 4 19 511 } 125 194 1231 k 4k 3; 33 71 9 105 i 66f I 100 Atlauttc & St. Lawrence all 86 68 a, IBorn., Baroda, Cen.ln. 100 100 102 161} gu. 5 per cent 20 Do. F shares . . 8 I d } p 101 Buffalo & Lake all 4 44 41 10 Do. Preference all 7f 81 100 Buff.,Brant, & Goderich 6 p.c. 1872-3-1 — -- at Calcutta &S. E., lira— too at _:al e Town & Dock, gu. 100 50 60 00 Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p. all 101 103 at East. Bengal, gu., sdo 100 100 111 st East Indian, gu. 5 p.c. 100 102 104 103} 3 40 Do. J Extension st rand Trunk of Canada 100 19 20 i 100 Do. Equip. Mort. Bonds 1 charge 6 p.o all 85 88 100 Do. tat t'ref. Bonds all 57 59 100 Do. do deferred a.l 41 52 100 De. 2d Pr t. Bonds— all 50 55 100 Du. do. deferred 100 Do. 3d Pref. stook all 38 10 1 00 Do. do. deferred all 100 Do. 4th Peet stock 100 Do. do. deterred at Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c. 100 106 107 1061 7 20 Co. Gua. 5 per cent lB a 1 f 20 Do. New gua. sp. o 6 6 1 r at tit South of India ...... gua. 5 per cent at D... 41 per cent lou 91 93 et Do 2 205 , 3reat Wa. of Canada, all 13 131 12 / 201 Do. New . 00 Do. 6p. c. 13c14. pay. 1873 all 1 1 1 e 3 100 Do. 5$ do. pay. 1877-8 all 83 85 10 Indian Branch, limited 2 I} Old at Madras, gua. 5 p.o 100 99 100 ieoi at Do. 4# do lOO t+9 91 99 st Do. 41 do lOO 84 86 20 Do. Fifth Extension 5 at Melb. Cor. 6p. c. Bnds. 100 SO Mel. & Hudson's Bay all at N. 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Gov. 5 p•c.,186t 100 90 92 Do. 5 p.c. 18.1 to 1871. 100 90 95 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1893 100 8: 87 £5l 6 New Zealand, 6p. cent 100 92 91 81 Do. 5 per cent.... ... 100 79 -81 Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c sterling, 1875 l9O 92 94 Queensland Gov. 6p. c lOO 80 91 91 S. Aus.Gov. 6 p,o 1868-v 100 Do. 1878 & upwards l‘ 0 105 107 Vie,Gov. 6 p.c. Ja &July 100 " Do. do, A pril & Oat lOO 103 104 1( 3i BRITISII MINES. cam. Consol. Cold, Um Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated Devon G. Cons. (Tavlst Drakewalls East Bassett (Illogan) East Caradon East Cam Brca East Grenville East Gunuislake East Loved E. W'l Russell (Tavistk 1 Gam.& StAubyn(Gwen. Great L‘ixey, limited Great South Tolgus Great Wheal Busy G. Wheal Vor (Heist , : Grenville Herod's Foot •••• Gingston Downs Margaret (Uny Lelant Harke Valley siiwyndy iron Ore, Um New Seton North Roskear N.Wh'l Bassett (Illogan North Wheal Crotty prosper United l'r .videnee Uny Lelant S. Caradon (St. Cleer) South Condurrow B.Wheal Fran. Hogan Stray Park Tin Croft Vigra and Clogan, Um_ West Bassett (Mogan W. Caradon (I,skeard West Chirerton West Seton Wheal Bassett 'Mogan Wheal Buller (ttedruth Wheal Mary Ann (Men Wheal Seton Wheal Trelawney (Ida 2.1.0 294 2.11.6 2.14.0 8.3.0 3.9.0 10.8.0 all 0.14. E 14.9.6 3.2.6 18.18.9 35,15.6 s§i 5.17.0 4 5 8 9 440 160 22 21 6 7 2 3 2 3 lt 1 2 2} 21 5 6 18 19 18 19 11 13 33 :16 31 3t ti 8 4} 5 21 11d 35 45 4 I 1 2i 25 310 330 * ti 18 '42 9 11 3 5 1 2 15 17 60 63 130 140 75 85 21 23 10 12 155 165 8 10 L'REFERENCE SHAIUGS. Great Northern, 5 per cent., 110 Grea t Northern, 5 per cent., rd. at 5 per cent. pm., 104 North Eastern, York, 11. and Selby purchase. 9k FOREIGN RAILWAY ts Antwerp and Rotterdam, 8 South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 131 HANKA, Agra and:Misterman's, lira., 0 • Mauler, lim.. 18 Anglo Egyptian, lim., 111 12 Australasia, 64 5 British North American. 47 Chartered Bank of India, Australia. and China. 181 Chartered %ler. of India. London, and China, 361 Colonial 361 Consolidated Bank, Um. 5 / Hindustan, China, and japan, ilm., 11 1 Imperial Bank, Urn.. 2.3/1 Imper ial Ottoman, ti Land Mortgage Bank of India, lim., 21 London and County, 611 London Joint Stock, 4 . !1 London and 1% estminster, 94 Merchant Bank, lim , 16 Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, Um., 101 1 Midland Bank, Hui., 171 Union of London, 45 DOCKS. London and;St Katharine, 672 MISCELLANEOUS. Anglo-American Telegraph, 151 Anglo-Mexican Mint, 16/ Atlantic Telegrapu, Dit o, 8 per cent., 9 I 31 5 Commercial Union. Insurance, 51 Credit Fonder of _England. 11w • 31' Credit Fonder of Mauritius, llm 5t Crystal Palace, 38 • Electric Telegraph, 135 7 Gan. Credit and Finance of. London, lim.. 31 Home and donial Ainurance, It Imperial Land Compy or Marseilles, lim., 22 International Financial aociety,lim., 33 Land Securities, lan., I London Financial Association, lira 9 London GeneralOmulbus Company, lim, 3 Nr-tional Discount t ompany, 14 Ditto, new, issued at 5 prem.. of whioh is to pay, SI Panama Nov Zealand, and Ans. It. Mail, 8 Peninsula and Oriental iteain, 62) za Ditto, new. 55 Quebrada Land, it dl, and Mning, lim., Trust and Agency of Australasia, lim.. it Universal Marine, Insurance, lim., 2 Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. &ustralia and New Zealand, via Southamptou Nov. 19. Ditto, via Marseilles Nov. 13. Brazil and Capa Verds, by British packet ...... Nov. 5. Ditto, by French packet Nov. 22 Cape of Good Hope, ABoellBloll, and St. Helena Oct. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Sou;hampton Nov 3. Ditto, via Marseilles Oot. 2 Falkland Islands _ . Gibraltar, via Southaropton Oct. 28. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Nov. 3.1 Ditto, via Marseilles ........• • -.....0et. 28 India (Bombay), via Southampton. Oct. 29 Ditto, via Marseilles . . ... Nov. 7 Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via 620. 1 1,a 1 n00 11 Oct. 28. former terms. WHITECHAPEL. For beef and mutton the trade is in a sluggish state at drooping prices. Fine p ork is in moderate request, but for veal the demand is inactive. Per 81b. by th e carcase. Beef '3sOdto 4s 4d M u tt o n ... 3s Od to 4s 10d Vea1......... 4s Od to 4s 10d I Pork ...... 3s 8d to 5s Od THE EASTERN FISHERIES. —The herring fishery is being prosecuted on the eas tern coast on remunerative conditions. During the past fortnight the deliveries of fish at Great Yarmouth have been large and prices have ranged high. Fresh fi sh have been scarce, and have has brought sold at £l7 t o £27 per la st (13,200 fish). Bloater stuff from £ l5 to £24 p er last. The operations of the Lowestoft boats have also been progressing favourably, FRENC ICALS. GRAND OPERA.—The theatrical event of the week is the reproduction of " Gluck's " Alceste." It made a short apparition on the same stage five years ago, and it now again appeals to, I regret to say the word, the patience of a Parisian audience. Some fifty years agii, (it is nearer a hundred) musi cians spoke of a Gluckist with the sort of a pitying smile with which men in general nowadays listen to a profession of liegelianism. Notwithstanding the favour of Marie Antoinette, Gluck, who was an odious coxcomb, had even fewer admirers in his lifetime than Wagner, who is the continuer of his school, has now. But he battled bravely for his idea, pleading his cause in the numerous prefaces which are prefixed to his various works. At the end of a hundred years he might boast, if he could return with Alceste from Hades, that he enjoys all the honour that he is ever likely to attain. His works have, unconsciously perhaps to the authors themselves, influenced the French school of music, and even iu his own time had some effect in check ing the prevailing effeminacy and triviality of the Italian opera, which only after this produced the great masters whose works me the glory of that stage. So far he was happier than Hegel, who in his last years acknowledged that he had met with but one man who had understood his system, and he had misunderstood it, and who would not find even that one man if he returned now. Gluck's system has been at least partially understood, and even adopted, by those who least admire him. He is not and never can be popular, at least with the ordinary frequenters of the opera, who go there not for en joyment but for excitement. It cannot be denied that his splendid bursts of passion, love, piety, and terror are accompanied by passages monotonous and sometimes tiresome at a first hearing, although on a better acquaintance there are found to be beauties as well as reason even in these. To enjoy thoroughly the music of Gluck one must sit down to it as a scholar would to a tragedy of Sophocles to whose genius Gluck's music is more akin - than to the polished verses of Euripides. One must be pre pared not only to give oneself up to the pleasure of hearing, but also to take the trouble of listening. As in some of Haydn's quartette, to miss a single pas sage destroys all the enjoyment of those which fol low, but it is difficult to give such sustained atten tion when cribbed, cabined, and confined in the narrow space to which the rise of rental in Paris has reduced the stalls of the Academy of Music. With a young gentleman on one side whose restless opera glass ranges constantly from one box to another, and an old gentleman on the other whose measure was cer tainly not taken for his stall and whose elbows en croach inconveniently on his neighbours' ribs, it re quires almost superhuman powers of abstraction to enjoy the beauties of this opera. An arm-chair with plenty of room to roll about in is almost an absolute necessity ; the addition of a long Turkish pipe filled with the choicest Jibelee would render the enjoyment perfect. The opera is very well per formed, and has never, perhaps, since Gluck's days, been so faithfully presented to the public. Mdlle. Battu sings the part of Alceste with a genuine pathos which was hardly to he expected, and few artistes could exceed the elegance of her personation of the heroine. To the admirers of what in Eng land is called classical music this performance affords a rich treat, but they must hasten to enjoy it, for it will remain but a short time on the playbill. The boxes yawn over it, and the loge infernale unequi vocally pronounces it a bore. VAUDEVILLE. —" Le Fou d'en Face." Dr. Johnson, or some equally wordy-wise sage, said, or is said to have said, " Sir, if you marry a widow, make sure that her first husband was hanged." Widow Livia's first husband was not hanged, but Hector, who occupies the apartment above her, never heard the oracle of the great lexico grapher. " Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise,' and so being, we must hope for his own sake, already very foolish, his only resource is to be wise after folly's fashion. It can only be in consideration of this that the authors and the audi ence of the Vaudeville allow him to drill holes throngh her ceilings so that he can watch all her goings and comings. In England such shocking doings would be put down at once. Now, Madame Livia is very tired of her honourable state of widow hood, which it is always to be considered is the greatest compliment she could pay to Husband No. 1, and in this case No.l must have been a charming fellow, for not one of all the pretenders to her hand comes up to her ideal of what No. 2 should be. She has the worst of all the ills known to humanity, she is ennuyee. Her only amusement is to watch the mopes and mod es of a madman who lives on the other side of the street. Hector, who knows every move ment she makes and hears every thought which she utters—for it seems that in France widows have a habit of thinking aloud--is at his wits' end for some means of introducing himself to the lady of his love. At last he hits upon the idea, and a very natural one for a man at his wits' end ; it is to force his way intolierpresence in the character of a madman on the opposite side of the street. The stratagem succeeds of course, for otherwise the curtain must fall, and in his assumed character of the madness he makes her alternately laugh, cry, tremble, each and all in the most fascinating manner, and not leaving her a moment for ennui. Finally he affects a lodgment in her heart by opening her cupboard and showing her a " pickpocket," which is the French for a burglar, concealed in it. Single ladies, I must make a parenthesis, this is the virtue of Judases. Having turned out the thief, who had certainly paid dearly enough for his evil intentions by having to listen to Hector's mad ravings, he falls at Madame Livia's feet, assures her that if he is mad it is only with love, and she who is evidently not less mad gives her hand. It is a mad farce, but an amusing one ; the plot is old, but the dialogue is vivacious, and it will be often played as a lever de rideau. The maddest character in it is not the fou d'en face. AMBIGU.—Les Amours de Paris. —From the mad loves of the Vaudeville we must pass to the Pari sian Loves of the Ambigu, which are both mad and bad. If the reader has ever attended a dra matic performance in China or Japan—the glori ous days of the Sanscrit drama which last a week or more are, alas ! things of the past—he will un derstand the pleasure of seven acts which drag their slow length through six mortal hours. In China the play would hardly last longer, and at least there are the fresh air of the morning, the flowing tea, the two hours allowed for dinner about midday, the cool of the evening, to palliate the infliction. To analyse such a performance would only be wasted time. It' begins with a sui cide by drowning, ends with another by the rope, and is diversified by a murder by a shooting in the middle. The authors have kindly omitted poison ing out of regard to the feelings of their audisetnuedey. But the piece is worth seeing to those who human aberrations on philosophical principles. A PANIC IN A RAILWA Y panic occurred on Sunday evening on the Ve rsailles Rail- T RA IN. —A sin g ular ay to a special train heavily laden with visito rs from w the La M arc h e steeplechases. Short ly a fter crossing the river at Asnieres the engine and carriages came Lora stand still, and a sudden terror seizing on the passengs a rush was made to the doors, and in a m oment the whole of the passengers scram bl e d on t o the line, some j um p ing front the seats on the tool* iu their haste to alight, no one, bow_ of their ever, knowing of any cause for alarm. Fortunately n o a F a reema , other train passed at the time, and the guard having re porte(rnte assured the passengers as to the cause of the stoppage,they resumed their seats, laughing, but half ashamed from foolish fear. who t.ioDrDifhltDstE3AoTlyfeAarTs a C n A2 i i t ß io ß re lD h G as E . b — ee y h r. e . Christ's returning ~, Trinity College, Cambridge, expired somewhat suddenly a visit to seine relatives, was passing on l‘londay night. The deceased, a quarter before 9 o'clock, when he g hrist's College about though in a fit. Assistance was immediatelywas observed to fall as deceased was conveyed in fly rendered, and street , , where he shortly a to his lodgings in B spoken. afterwards expired ndge without having HARDSHIPS OF HOP-PICKERS.—A project origi nating with the Rev. J. Y. Stratton, the incumbent of Ditton, Kent, for ameliorating the condition cf the myriads of poor creatures who make their way into the largo hop growing districts for employment in the picking, has been very warmly taken up, and a memorial on the subject has been most readily signed by owners and occupiers of hop lands and others interested iu the social and moral welfare of the county. A meeting of growers is to be held to-mor i row at Maidstone. SPORTING I. 'NTELLIGENCE.—This Day. NEWMARKET RACES—THIS DAY. EY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. OPTIONAL SELLING STAKES•. OPTIONAL SELLING PLATE of 5 sous; 3-yr-old; Bst; 4- yr-olds, 9st ; 5-yr-olds, 9st 51b ; 6-yr-olds and aged, 9st 71b ; selling allowances. Cambridgechiie Stakes? Course. Pamunkey • Love Apple Guluara Six ran lIANDiCIP PLITE. HANDICAP PLATE of 50 sovs, for two-year : -olds. Entrau ce , 2 sows. T.Y.C. 3 Bouncearnay Salamanca filly Tweuty-five ran £5O PLATE. 1 FIFTY SOY'S. PLATE ; 3-yr-olds, ist 101 b ; 4-yr-olds, Bst 10Ib ; 5-yr-olds, 9st ; 6-yr-olds and aged, 9st lib; I. l aiden allowaneos ; winners of 'AO sous 7th. ButraueL 2 sous. A.F. . Ostrogor 1 Dalesman Flutter filly Won by three lengths. GLASGOW STAKES. GLASGOW STAKES of 100 sovs each, h ft, for 2-yr-old colts, Bst 101 b. Last throe-quarters of R.M. 13 subs. Owain Glendyr Mandrake Maid of Masham Dutch Admiral Mandrake objected to for cannoning. THURSDAY. Acceptances for the FIRST NURSERY STAKES. St lb 8 10 Viriclis Nrieles ... 8 10 Flying Scud (lato The Hatter) ... 8 9 Innes 8 7 Commissioner 8 2 Lady Rosehill... 7 12 Lochaber 7 12 Lady Lambton ... 7 11 Atalanta, ... 7 11 Problem ... 7 10 Greenback St lb ... 7 2 Cheltenham ; Haidee Water Curo Leases Skylight My Lovo The - Reck Arcade ... Prairie Flower ... 7 0 ... 6 12 ▪ 10 ▪ G 9 • 6. 9 • 6 5 ... 6 2 ... 6 2 ... 6•- 0 ... 6 0 Janus ... 7 10 Mayouaise filly 5 11 Tynedale 7 10 Archeress 5 11 Python ... 7 6 Gentle Kitty filly 5 9 Sister to Vedette 7 3 Bravura FRIDAY. Acceptances for the SECOND NURSERY STAKES (Free Han dicap) of 25 Boys each, for 2-yr-olds. RM. St lb ... 8 10 ... 8 7i ... 8 6 ... 8 5 ... 8 5 ... 8 5, 8 3 7 8 7 ... ▪ 7 6 7 6 • 7 2 • 7 1 7 1 ▪ 7 1 7 1 6 10 Flying Scud ... Viridis ... ... Vauban ... Star of India ... Bismarck ~. Opoponax ... Hippo. ... ... Easby ... ... Tynedale ... Foresight ... Lady Rosehill... Kalpygo colt ... Assineboine ... Policy ... ••• Miller's Maid ... Vendetta ... Haidee... ... S t lb Sister to Vedette ... 6 9 Greenback ... G 9 Rhymer Stokeloy 6 8 Topsail colt ... 6 7 Gentlo Gale 6 7 Trombone ... ... 6 7 Leases ... ... ... 6 G Princess Thyra ... 6 5 The Rock 6 3 Arcade ... 1 My Love 6 1 Arabs 6 1 Busybody 5 11 Nine Elms ... ... 510 Bravura 5 8 Gentle Kitty ... 5 8 PROGRAMME OF TO-MORROW'S RACES. SUBSCRIPTION HANDICAP PLATE Of 100 BOYS, for 3-yr-olds and upwards. T.M.M. OPTIONAL SELLING PLATE of 50. SOUS; 2-yr-olds, Est 101 b ; 3-yr-olds, Bst 101 b ; 4 yr-olds, 9st 81b ; 5-yr-olds and upwards, 9st 121 b ; selling allowances. R.M. SWEEPSTAKES of 10 sovs each, or 2-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 101 b; fillies, Bst 71b ; the winner to be sold for 100 sovs. • HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES Of 15 sovs each, 10 ft, for 3-yr olds and upwards. T.Y.C. SELLING HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES of 10 sovs each, for 2- yr-olds and upwards. The winner to be sold for 200 sovs. Bretby Stakes Course. NURSERY STAKES (free handicap) of 25 povs each, for 2-yr olds. Criterion Course. 118 entries. FREE HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES Of 100 sous each, h ft, for 3-Sr-olds. A.F. 18 subs. Rustic ... Ceylon ... Mr. Pitt •.• Blue Riband Vespasiau Strathconan Janitor ... Mount Palatine Mazoppa Corsair... st lb ... 8 8 ... 8 7 ▪ 8 4 • 8 3 ... 8 2 ...712 ▪ 712 ▪ 711 ... 7 10 ... 7 9 st lb Lecturer ... ... 7 8 Sealskin ... 7 7 Ischia ... ... 7 7 Robin Hood ... 7 5 B c by Toxophilite, darn by Game boy— Physalis ... 7 2 Duko of York... ... 7 0 Staghound 6 12 Redan paid TROY STAKES of 50 sovs each, h ft, for 2-yr-olds ; colts fist 101 b, fillies, fist 711.); certain penalties and allowances T.Y.C. 56 subs. by Lord of the Isles—Splitvote. t by Newminster Irish Queen, Harpenden 31b, Bus in Urbe 31b, Vauban 41b, Caucasus 41b, Ophicleido 71b, Lady Hester 71b, Hermit 31b extra, Ruthven, Satyr, La Maudite, Bismarck, Lady Lamb ton, Preface, br c by Romulus—Attack 31b, br c by Toxo philite—The Drake's dam, Sunnylocks 41b, Uocas, King Charles, The Empress, The Duchess, The Palmer 31b, Fakir, Freemason 31b, Rouge Sanglier 31b, Cerf Volant, Enchanteur, Birdforth 31b, c by Thormanby— Rogerthorpe's dam 31b, Marksman, Bombastes 71'o, Julius 71b, Honesty, Cyclone, Higli wood, Londesborough 31b, Noisy, Wild Moor, Lady Rose, Little Ben 31b, Ailesbury 71b, Jasper, Ravioli 31b, cby a rmesan —Cincinnati 31b, Nell Gwynn°, Fair field, Feodor 41b, Cellina, Kidderminster 41b, f by Wild Dayrell—Rup3e 31b, Stradbroke 31b, The General, Distin, Foresight, and Assineboine. SWEEPSTAKES of 100 sous each, for 4-yr-olds ; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 61b. Last 3 miles of B.C. 4 subs. Cby Yellow Jack—Treachery, Don Basilio , Klarinska, and The Caloyer. SWEEPSTAKES of 50 sous each, h ft, for 2-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 10Ib ; fillies, Bst 71b. Ab. M. 7 subs. Charming May, Caucasus, Coldstream, Dovetail, Mar mite, Fair Weather, Sister to Hippolyta. MATCH.-200 sovs and the Cup; Mr. Sutton's Elland, 4 yrs, agst Marquis of Hastings' The Duke, 4 yrs, Bst 71b each. B.C. AUSTRALIA. (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) PLY3IOUTII, OCt. 23. The Trevelyan, from Auckland, with a detach ment of the Engineers, under Lieutenant Ferguson, and a battery of artillery, iu charge of Capt. Peels, arrived here this morning. LONDON GAZETTE. —Last Evening. DOWNING-STREET, OCT. 22. 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