The Sun. — London, England, 1865-11-04 00:00:00

XONEirMARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, 7 The money TWELVE O'CLOCK. market to-day is quiet but very firm, p e r Cent. being the lowest rate fcr the negotiation of best bills. Gold amounting to £15,000 was taken yesterday to the B ank. The Oneida has arrived to-day with £57,000 in specie from the Brazils. The movements of the precious metals during the Week have been of a rather extensive character as regards the imports, which have amounted to £509,632, chiefly in silver, from the West Indies and P acific. The exports have been to the extent of £134,582, a large proportion of which has been in silver to the East Indies and China. The steamer which leaves to-day for the East will take Out £ 9 2,842 in specie, to be distributed as follows : -- Alexandria, £2,000, and Madras, £3,314 in gold, and also £26,250 in silver to the latter place ; Cal cutta, £ 4 8,870; Hon g K ong , £12,108; and Shang hai, £3OO all in silver. With regard to the cotton market Traver's Cir cular states as follows :—" The cotton market during the past week has been unusually quiet both in London and Liverpool. In the latter place this dullness is accounted for by the visit of the Prince a nd Princess of Wales to that city, and the conse quent interruption to business occasioned by so un usual a circumstance ; Tuesday was observed as a pub lic holiday. The state of the market will depend upon the receipts from America, which, according to re cent advices, seem likely to be much larger than eri ginally anticipated. The quantity at present hel d by spinners, from 80,000 to 100,000 bales, Will probably keep the market quiet for some time, a nd We may see even lower prices ; there is, at all ev ents, no chance of a revival of the demand, which some weeks since encouraged the hopes of the speculators, but has gradually subsided during the last fortnight." R At the Two o'CLocic. Paris Bourse this morning, according to euter's telegram, the 3 per Cent. Rentes were 68f. 07 c . H eavy. ' Money has continued in steady request, and the rates are fully up to the Bank minimum. Consols are steady, being 88/ for money, 881 89 for the Bth inst.,-and 891 1 for December account. All the oth er E ng li s h secur i t i es aro we ll sus tained, but there has been very little business. F oreign Stocks are in some instances lower. The following are the latest prices : Turkish Consolides are 471 4; Mexican, 251 4. la the Railway Sh are M ar ket there has been very little animation, and price generally are a shade flatter. Great Western, North Western, and South Eastern have each declined ss. The Foreign and Colonial lines show little , var iation, except Grand Trunk of Canada, which u ave declined about 10s. B ank and Miscellaneous Shares are dull, at about Prev ious quotations. Overend, Gurney, and Co. are dealt in at 191 1 ; Pennsylvania Lubricating oa Lands Co. are quoted 11 / prem. ; Credit Foncier and Mobilier of England old shares 31 1 ; and Transatlantic Steamship Co. par k Prem. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. , G OVERNMENT FUNDS. " 13 e,r Cent . Consols '-'O. Account, Nov. 8 BBt tper Cent. Reduced B7* 7 1 ew 3 per Cent B7f 7 -.6 1 -I °. 2 i per Cent. Jan. 1894 — ---°• Per Cent. Jan. 1873 — Annuities, 30 yrs expire sth Jan., 1880 101 D.,, 0 . for 30 yrs, ' expire sth April, 1885 l3f 4 ' o (Rod Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 — March June Do Chequer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 4z34 per Cent 2 dis 8 dis £5OO — Do £lOO and .£2OO Do ah -- 1,. ,-,- of England Stock, 11 per Cent Account ' I IND LLN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. ndian Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 — DO Account 1) °. 5 per C en t . J u l y, 1870 D O . Account 0. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 Do. Certificates — P r ,e. Enlaced Paper 4 per Cent " - ' O . 5 per Cent. Jan. 1872 D°. 51 per Cent., May 1879 984 o. 4 per Cent, Aug. 1866 — Do. Bonds, £l,OOO — Pm 0. under £l,OOO FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent _ Do. 41 per Cent. , 1852-58-60 D0. . 7 Do. 1863 1865 — ~, Do. Scrip, £l5 paid ...; 2 i i i pm zuetios Ayres 6 per Cent _ Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent. Ch illan 6 pe r C ent ) Do. 41 per Cent Colombian 6 per Cent. Cuba, 6 per Cent. Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 — Do. 4 per Cent., 1863 — Do. 5 p er Cent., 1773-77, £25 paid — Danubian Principalities Do Account — •rquador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Do., Provisional Land Warrant — Egyptian 7 per Cent — Do., Second Issue Do £lOO Bonds — Do. 1864 . Do £lOO Bonds Greek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons Do. Account Do. Coupons Do Account — Guatemala 5 per Cent. Do £B6 paid Do. 1839 and 1850 Italian 5 per Cent (Maremmana Railway) Do 1865 Do Account I Do Scrip, £671 paid — Do 5 per Cent., 1864 — Mexican 3 per Cent Do. Account Do 1864 .— vO -,., 6 per Cent. Anglo-French — ~.lio French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c — 41.,.ontevidean 6 per Cent., £3O paid 04loorish I m perial 5 per Cent w Ne Granad a l5l 10 L' . Do 2 per Cent — Do Deferred Do Land Warrants ( )Hectares P ertrvian 41 p er C en t DG. Account 11)° Scrip, £4spaid, paid in Bonds D°Do ' p 44 per Cent., 1862 (Vogues° 3 per Cent., 1853 D O ° 3 Per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, Account Russians D . „..4 , 7, 41,5 , :p ee rrPerCent.e el ut o t: . n : t : . 8 , 685: 1 0 8 0 22 £ St 894 88f -.14: . 0 Pei Cent, 1859 . per Cont. 186.1, — Sardinian 5 por Cent 884 91 9 911 1 Do .A.ccount — Now Deferred Spa n i sh 3 per ce... 0 0 00000000000000000000000000000 DO.. Do Account oo o 381 9 D. Passive SDo Account ri ardsl , „er, ...................... . ... _ sw_.clgisiuk_k_.,4 pe t . r o e f e C n o t. up not funded _____ ~-,..ccount ............................. Do. 41 T ur , . s Per Cent. 1864 D- glB . ll 6 Per Cent. 1854 — ,No Account r," ° 6 Per Cent. 1858 :..' r?,°o 4£lcoe°ollßnotncs — 721 r u i c o ). li per Cent — Do 6 Per Cent. 1862 0 AileoT-Iltnds — 751 6 DO ,'' per Cent., 1863 — . N e 0 per Cent. 1865 ~-,.:)0 Account 431 i 4,7)06 £IC 0 4Bands ~ Scrip, £35 paid v.....ut0 Guaranteed, 4 per Cent — Do.t=llolla 3 per Cont. tliz,:6 . , Per Gent., 1862 e. Account 6 Per Cent, 1864 — Dividends on the above payable in London. 4 0qri t e i • a n, 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins t a r,l, 41 per cent., Ex. 25f. T, e " 2 1 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil — pr-LochLio 4 per Cent. Certificates 941 irai Rentes 41 1861 Cent. — . 0 414 5 per Cent. ~ Ex. 25f. ° Account Co TWO O'CLOCK. la .. . ~.,ols for money BBl 4 -unto account ... . .. • 4 iverpool Cotton Market—This Day. Dal es. et opens rather quiet. Sales, probably COO twol much la rger number of newspapers have passed been the Post office since Lord Palme rs t on ' s d ea th th an has - " 11101 0I'irn Since , the death of the Duke of weningt9n. 1, 34 36 420 440 li I 12s 171 it) ll 18 20 4 6 5 8 10 12 721 776 175 185 75 80 22 24 4 6 145 195 186 196 PREFERENCE M tiA Rios Great Northern, 5 per cent., rd. at siper cent. London, Chatham, and Dover 5 per cent. pret. Midland, Leicester and Hitchin 4 per ct., 89 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Midland A and B £5 pf, 107* LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Buckinghamshire, 90 London and Chatham, 5 per p Cent., Ditto. Com. Fund stock 5 per cent., 101 Nottingham and Grantham R. and C., 92* Wilts and Somerset, 861 FOREIGN MINES, Cape Copper, 1irn.,1121 East del Bey, Frontino and Bolivia Gold, Um., 21 United Mexican, lien., 3* Vallunzas3a Gold, lim., 2 Yorke Peninsula, lim., 1 * pm., 108 ~ 95i BANICS:' Anglo Egyptian, Um., 14 Auatralaaia, 71} Bank of utago, Rm., 7} Brazilian and Portuguese, lira., 91 British and Californian, lira., 4} Chartered Bank of India. Australia. and China. 23 f Chartered Titer. of India, London, and China, tOf Eng ish Joint Stock, Rm., 12f European Bank, Um., 12} Imperial Ottoman, 161 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 25} London and Couuty, 78} f London and Veneznla, lira., 12 Midland Bank, lien., 181 National Provincial of England. Ditto, 2d and 3d issue, 45 New South Wales, 43} Oriental Bans: Corporation. 50 Oriental Commercial Bank, lira., late 0. C., 6 Provincial Banki❑g Corporation, lim., Ditto (XlO , 7f Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi, Union of London, 52} MISCELLANEOUS. Commercial Union, Insurance, 71 Continental Union Gas, lim., 9.1 Credit Fonder and 3lobilier of e:ngland, 81 Crystal Palace, 7 Egyptian Corn and Trading, lim., 3 EL glish and Australian Copper, I} Gen. Credit and Finance of London. lira.. 6 Imperial .slercantileiCredit Asso.,llm., 71, Indian Carrying, lim., International Financial Society, lim., Lon on audyrovincial Marine, 3 Millwall Freehold Land and Dock, 33 21 National liisconnt ompany. Urn., 151 Ottoman Financial Association, lim., 9 Overend, Gurney, and Co., Hui., Dm Peninsula and Oriental Steam, 71. Scottish Australian Investment, lim.. 125 Smith, Knight, ana;Co., lim., 1;1 dis Thames and Mersey Marine (Insurance). lim., 81 GARIRALDI AND ROBERT BLENS. —The sons of Burns having recently forwarded to General Gari baldi, through Mr, M‘Teat, of Glasgow, a photographic portrait and autograph of " The Ayrshire Bard," inscribed " To tho William Wallace of Italy, from tho sons of Robert Burns," the following acknowledgment has been received from the general :—" Caprora, 23d October, 1865. To Colonel and Lieut.-Colonel Burns. Thanks for the portrait of this very great Scottish poet—your father. I will leave it to my sons as a precious souvenir of a man who somuch honours a country which I love.—lieceiye all the gratitude of yours —G. GARIBALDI. SHARE MARKETS,—This Day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Railways. 'Bristol and Exeter I Caledonian Cambrian Cork and Bandon Cornwall Dublin & Belfast June. Dun„Perth,& A b.Junc. E.London, scrip Certi. Do. Glasgow & S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. stk. Do. E. Angi. st. No. 't Great North of Scotland Great Northern Da. A stock Do. B stock Do. New, is. at 25 pm GtS, and W. ot Ireland . Gt. Western -Original D.. S. Val. Rail gua. Do. South Wales . Do. W. Mid.—Oxford Do. Newport Do. Hereford Lancashire & Yorkshire Landon and Blackwall Lon., Brigh., & S Coast Lon., ('hat., and Dover Do. Metrop. Ex. A Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western Man., Shet., & Lincoln Metropolitan Do. New Do. Extension Dietropolitan District Do do. do. Do. and St. John'sW'd Midland Do. £9 Share Do, ►iirmin.. & Derby Mid Kent . North British Do. Ed., Pth , & Dun Nth. Eastern - Berwick Do. G.N•E purchase Do. Leeds Do. York Do. Carlisle ..... Po. Stock. & Darling. Do. do. 1860-61 "1 North London Do. do. 1864 Do. do. 1865 North Staffordshire N. &S. W. Junction I Scottish Central Scot. N. E Aber. stock D o. Scot, Mid. stack Shropshire Union South Devon South E ,stern Staines, Wok., & Wok Taff Vale Do. C Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny Waterloo & Whiteha I West CornwAll Closing 1 Business I Paid */ Price. done. ►4 127 129 94 96 12 14 6 6 67 7) 71 73 IC9 111 46 17 7 8 12 ) 13 148 149 90 02 63} 64 61 63 43 45 36 39 104 106 12?4 123 89 91 104 106 37 39 50 52 1241 125 96 97 574 384 137 178 31 lip 1i ltp 106 104 12ei 12011 16 2 95 97 1 61 6? 8 30 110 111 4ot I 130 148 i 63} aid 2 122 j 1 89 105 124 f f i 961 137 61 7 61 71 51 126 Si 29 11C1 74 I 57 8 71 791 t BRITISH P Atlantic Az St. Lawrence Born., Baroda, •c Cen.ln. gu. 5 per cent... Do. le shares Buffalo ac Lake Huron Do. Preference Buff.,Brant, & Goderich 6 p.c. 872-3-4 Calcutta & S. E., Um 'ape Town & Dock, gu Demerara, 7 p.c. per. pi East. Ben2,al, gu., 5 do East I u gu.s p.c. J }lit:6llBton IGrand Trunkot Canada Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds 1 charge 6 p.c Do. Ist Pref. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. 2d Pr,f. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. 3d Pref. stock Do. do. deferred Do. 4th Pref. stock H Do. do. deferred .... Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c. I o. Gus. 5 per cent.. Do. New gtia. 5 p. c Gt. South of India gua. 5 per cent D .. 41 per cent Do Great W, s. of Canada.. Do. New .. Do. 6 p. c. Bds. pay 1873 1 Do. 51 do. pay. 1877-8..1 Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.o Do. 4f do Do. 4i do Do. Fifth Extension Melb. Cor. 6 p. c. Bnds. Mel. Hudson's Bay.. N. Rl.C'da, 6pc lstpf. bs. Scinde . Do. Delhi Do. do l 6. Do. Puniaub Do.lndus St Flo um, lAL GO VER British Columbia, 6 per cent., Dec. 31,1572.... Can.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.ct July 1877-84 Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Aug Do. 5 p. c. Mar. & Sept Do. 5 p. c. Jan. & July Do. 5 p c. Inscribed sk Cape G.Hope, 6 p.c. 1873 Do.Apk&Oct 1890-1900 Do. do: 180-9 Do. Jan. &July, 1690-91 Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and 15 Oct., 1900 Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p. Do. 1878, do Mauritius, 6 p. C, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1578 ...- Do. I 88?, May 15. Nov. :1. Do. 1895, Feb. Jc Aug.. Natal , ;ov. d per cent.. N. B. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja. tt,l uly N. S.W. Gov. 5 erc.,186(. Do. 5 p.c. 18;1 to . 1871 Do. '5 p.c. 1888 to 189,1 New Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 5 per cent.... Nova So ,tia Gov. 6 p. c sterling, 1875 I Queensland Gov. 6 p. c S. Aus.Gov. 6 p,c 1868-9 Do. 1878 & upwards Vic,Gov. 6 p.c. Ja & July Do. do, A pril & Oct 68 69 103 104 36 ST 10 II p 118 120 1} )ip li UP 74 76 10i 11 148 152 60 62 57 69 716 606 86 96 149 151 3 1 p 103 105 50 52 ;SIONS. 67 59 102 103 51 51 10 11 75 80 99 101 70 75 101 103 101 102 104 105 I VP 23 25 88 89 64 68 55 60 54 58 ti 82 43 47 4 44 28 30 27 9 104 105 2 1) 3'j 30 101& 51 162 17 96i 101 102 18t 57} 3f 3id 98 18 85 87 1 6d 101 102 93 95 88 90 64 66 82 84 101 102 1004 1014 1004 1014 1 SECU ITII6. 9.5 97 93 F 5 93 95 St 83 81 83 103 105 103 105 103 105 1( 3 105 9 92 1 , 2 114 109 11i 102 104 104 106 116 10 105 107 100 1(2 95 97 9) 101 93 95 90 91 103 105 84 85 99 101 102 103 106 108 105 106 1051 i 'OSSK BRITISH MINES. Cam. Consol. Gold, lim Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated Devon G. Cons. (Tavlst Drakewalls East Bassett (Illogan) East Caradon East Cam Brea li.ast Grenville East Gunnislake East Loved E. W'l Russell (Tavistk Gam.& StAubyn(Gwen. Great L txey, limited Great South Tolgus Great Wheal Busy G. Wheal Vor (Helstnn Grenville Herod's Foot Hingston Downs Margaret (Uny Lelant Marke Valley Mwyndy Iron Ore, lim New Se ton North Roskear N.Wh'l Bassett (Illoga1; North Wheal Crofty Prosper Pr , videnee Uny Lelant S. Caradon (St. Cleer) South Condurrow S.Wheal Fran. tillogan Stray Park Tin Croft Vigra and Cl, gan, lim West liassett (Mogan W. Caradon (Ltskeard West Chirerton West Seton Wheal Bassett 'Mogan Wheal Buller (Redruth Wheal Mary Ann (Men Wheal Setou Wheal Trelawney ads 474 54 16 8 584 7 2.1.0 29i 2.14.8 31 2.14.0 8.3.6 3.9.0 10.8.0 all 0.14.8 14.9.6 40 8.18.0 8.10.0 5.10.6 13.17.6 4.10.6 2 43i 37i 4.2.0 2.13.0 7.1.6 10.6.7 li 3.2.0 18.18.9 35.15.6 9 all 9 10 18i 19 1 560 580 21. 23 951 61 93i 821 81 1771 THE SUIN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVEN! q, NOVEMBER 4, 1865. LAW INTELLIGENCE.--This Day. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Befor© Sir J. P. Wilde.) EDWARDS V. EWER-EXTRAORDINARY WILL CASE. This was a suit promoted by the plaintiff, a sailor, who had formerly been on board the Miranda, man-of-war, to establish the validity of a will alleged to have been duly executed by a Mrs. Edwards, who had lived at Copen hagen-street, Islington, in the same house with the plaintiff. Dr. Travers Twiss, Q.C., and Mr. Clarkson, were coun sel for the plaintiff, and Dr. Tristram appeared for the defendant. From the evidence it appeared that the testatrix was a widow, and that during the lifetime of her husband the plaintiff had been employed by him as a carpenter. She had no family, and according to the statement of one of the witnesses had been at variance with her relations for some yeaas prior to her decease, and was heard to say that she would leave her property to the plaintiff in consequence of the unkindness of her own family. She died possessed of about £350, the bulk of which she left to plaintiff, whom she appointed sole executor. She died in January, 18G5, a short time subsequent to the execution of the will in dispute, which she had re-copied by the plaintiff after he had enlisted and when on board the Miranda. The testatrix was unable to write, and the attesting witnesses were in the same condition, so that they had to affix their mark to the will, which was in the handwriting of the plaintiff. The plaintiff served during the Crimean war, and on his return to this country in 1855, he became acquainted with the fact that the testatrix had died, upon which he commenced, according to his statement, to adopt proceed ings to prove his claim. The defendant was the niece of the deceased, and pleaded that the will was not duly exe cuted, and unnecessary delay in the prosecution of the suit All the attesting witnesses were dead, and it was elicited in the course of the evidence that one of them, of the name of Tubbs, was described as belonging to the 2d battalion of the Coldstream Guards, but on reference to the list of privates at the date in question there was no such man. The learned judge, in delivering judgment, went care fully through the facts of the case, which, he remarked, presented some very peculiar features. The court in this instance was not called on to pronounce on the question as to whether or not a fraud had been committed by the pro pounder of this will, but the question to be decided wa s whether the evidence he had called in support of the in strument was sufficient. The property of the deceased would have gone to her relations in the event of hor hav ing died intestate, and the onus probandi devolved on the party propounding the will. It was indispensable that the evidence called in support of the will should be of the most satisfactory character, which was not the case in the pre sent instance. In the first place, there was not a scrip of writing in the document but that of the plaintiff, who drew up the will himself, and carried it about with him until he commenced proceedings; it being remembered that, with the exception of some trifling legacies, the whole of the deceased's estate was left to him, and that he was appointed sole executor. His lordship having referred to the constitution of the old court, and to the vigilance it exercised in regard to the circumstance of the custody of a will even when a testator could write. That vigilance was founded in wisdom, and should be particularly exer cised in a case like the present. Under all the circum stances he felt bound to refuse probate of the will. Mr. Tristritn applied for the costs. His lordship said that he did not feel bound to make any order on that point. POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—This Day, MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A SCENE IN THE HAYMAHKET.—ReginaId Johnson, of 14, Pakenham-street, King's-cross ; Thomas Smith, 13, Jewin-crescent, Aldgate-street, City ; Daniel Hara, of 6, Claremont-square ; Theodore Fennell, Bartholomew-close; and Wm. Jones, 17, Great Coram-street, were charged before Mr. Barker with being drunk and behaving in a dis orderly manner in the Haymarket. Edward Johnson, of 14, Great Percy-street, was charged with being drunk and assaulting police-constable Reeves, 24 C, and Albert Bus carlet, of 78, Guilford-street, Russell-square, was charged with assaulting police-constable Langham, 108 C. All the defendants were described as gentlemen, with the exception of Buscartel, who was described as a doctor, and who was also charged with attempting to rescue one of the other defendants from custody. Lawrence Poole, 305 A, said that at a little after one that morning ho met five of the defendants walking arm in-arm in the Haymarket, and pushing against every one they came near. He cautioned them, when they all got round him. Ono of them told him to go to -. The five defendants, who were all drunk, then walked up and down the Haymarket, shouting and singing all the way, and making a great noise. The last time they walked up the police Inspector Draper and Sergeant "Ward remon strated with them, but they would not leave, and they were obliged to take them into custody. In answer to one of the defendants, the constable said he could swear they were all drunk. Inspector Draper said that about 20 minutes to one that morning he was in the Haymarket, and saw Reginald Johnson, Buscarlet, and Edward Johnson coming down the place. Reginald Johnson knocked his helmet over his head. Ho cautioned him, and the defendants, who were all drunk, then went down the Haymarket, shouting and making a great noise. He spoke to the defendant again, requesting that they would go away, but about 10 minutes afterwards he was spoken to by the last witness, and find ing the defendants again making a great noise, he, with the assistance of several constables, took them into custody. In answer to Duscarlet the inspector said they were all walking together—four in front and three behind. Police-constable Reeves, 44C,sairthat Reginald John son said, " Here's the police," and tried to kick him. He told the defendant ho had better be oareful or he would be locked up. A little after, seeing the defendant in custody, he went to assist the police and took Jones, when Edward Johnson said, " What are you going to do with my friend," and struck him a violent blow on the chest. He again said "He (the constable) should not take Jones," and struck him again, and he then took him into custody for the assault. Faulkner, 340 A, corroborated Reeves. Langham, 108 C, proved assisting in taking one of the defendanta into custody—the defendants being all drunk and making a great noise—when Buscarlet came up and said, "What aro you going to do ?" He told Busearlet not to interfere, when he replied, "I'm if you take him (meaning the defendant he had in custody) to the station , and then pushing him tried to rescue his prisoner. Buscarlet denied either being drunk or disorderly, and said he wished to call witnesses. Mr. Barker fined the whole of the defendants 20s. each, with the exception of Buscarlet, whose case was adjourned for a few days that ho might call witnesses. Mr. Adolphus Murray, who gave the address 1, White hall, was charged with being drunk and behaving in a dis orderly manner. 326 1, having proved the case, the defendant 1 walllmsofineadnos. And as compared with the month ending the 15th of October, 1864, the above returns show an increase of £1,161,098 in the circulation of notes in England, and an increase of £1,170,888 in the circulation of the United Kingdom. On comparing the above with the fixed issues of the several banks the following is the state of the circulation:— The English private banks are below their fixed issue £1,017,467 The English joint-stock banks are below their fixed issue ... ... 307,103 Total below fixed issue in England £1,324,570 The Scotch banks are above their fixed issue... 1,766,1 3 The Irish banks are above their fixed issue ... 253,221 The average stock of bullion held by the Bank of Eng land in both departments during the month ending the 11th of Oct. was £13,523,211, being a decrease of £771,938 as compared with the previous month, and an increase of £451,028 when compared with the same period last year. The following are the amounts of specie held by the Scotch and Irish banks during the month ending the 14th of October : Gold and silver held by the Scotch banks £2,442,017 Gold and silver held by the Irish banks 2,320,559 £4,762,576 Being a decrease of £307,176 as compared with the pre vious return, and an increase of £410,533 when compared with tb:, corresponding period last year. FATAL ACCIDENT ON TIIE SOUTH-WESTERN RAIL WAY.— On Thursday a fatal accident occurred at Hounslow railway station. One of the porters, James Wallen, aged 23, was in the act of coupling one of the vans to a luggage train when by a sudden movement of the train he came between the buffers and was instantaneously killed. The deceased was a quiet, civil man, and was much re spected. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. LINCOLN AUTUMN MEETING.—FmnAY. The Blankney Stakes (handicap) of 100 sovs, added to a sweepstakes of 5 soy; 2 ft to the fund, for all ages ; winners extra ; second to save his stake. One mile, • subs. Mr. C. Peek, jun.'s Exceller, 3 yrs, 7st 10lb (Carroll) 1 , Mr. G. Mathe r ' s Papoose, 3 yrs, ist (Elphick) 2 Mr. P. 11. Jennings 's Lady Kinghorn, 3 yrs, Est 121 b _ . (J. Grimsbaw) 8 Mr. G. Little's P egasus (h . b . ) , 4 y rs , 7 s t ( carr i e d 7 st 21b) _ - (Dunbar) 4 Mr. Buckley's Wynnstay, aged, Bst 101 b (Britton) 5 Mr. L. Peckitt's 2enobia, 3 yrs, 7st 41b (Gurry) G Betting-7 to 4 agst Lady Kinghorn. 7to 2 agst Excel ler, and 5 to 1 agst Wynnstay. Won by a head; threelengthsbetween second and third; a length between third and fourth. Her Majesty's Plate of 100 gs ; 3-yr-olds, Bst 91b ; four, 9st 71b ; five and upwards, 9st 111 b. Two miles. Mr. Graham's Regalia, 3 yrs, Bst 91b (Carroll) w. o. The Lindum Nursery Handicap Plato of 10 sovs, for 2-yr-- olds ; winners extra. Six furlongs. Mr. C. Peek, jun.'s, Aldcroft, Gst 101 b (Dunbar) 1 Mr. B. E. Dunbar's Tormentor, 7st 31b (inc. 71b extra (carried 7st 41b) (Loates 2 Mr. R. Osborne's Mi ss H awor th, E s t 81b...(R. Challoner 3 The following also ran : —Retrouss6, Dart, The Danne brog, Black Tulip, and Globule's dam filly. Betting—Even agst Tormentor, 4 to 1 (at first 5 to 2) agst Aldcroft, 4 to 1 agst Miss Haworth, 5 to 1 agst Re trousse, and 10 to 1 agst Dart. Won by half a length ; a bad third. The Consolation Scramble (handicap) of 8 sovs each, with 20 added, for all ages ; winners extra. Six furlongs. Mr. G. Little's Pegasus, 4 yrs, Est 121 b (Gurry) 1 Mr. G. W. Morri s ' s Si va, 4 yrs, 7 s t 111 b (Whiteley) 2 Mr. Mather's Papoose, 3 yrs, 7st 21b (Elphick) 3 Mr. Kirby's Malta, aged, 7st (Carroll) 4 The following also ran :—Charming Woman, Balder dash, Nelly Grey, and Pink. Betting-100 to 30 agst Charming - Woman, 4to 1 agst Papoose, 5 to 1 each agst Siva and Malta, and 7 to 1 agst Pegasus. Won by a length and a half ; two lengths be tween second and third; a length between third and fourth. The Innkeepers' Selling Stakes of 5 sous each, with 30 added ; weight for age ; selling allowances, &c. One mile. Mr. Chaplin's The Turner, (h b), 3 yrs, 7st 121 b (X2O) (Grimshaw) 1 Mr. L. Peckitt's Mrs. Lirriper, 3 yrs, 7st 91b (.£2O) (Carroll) 2 Credulity and Missile also ran. Betting-5 to 2on The Turner, who won by six lengths, Credulity and Missile were left at the post. The winner was bought by Mr. Wilkins for 175 guineas. The Great National Autumn Steeplechase (Handicap) of 10 sovs each, 5 ft, and only 3 if declared, with 80 added; winners extra ; the second to save his stake. About four miles. Nineteen subs, eight declared. Mr. T. Bancroft's Elsham (h b), 6 yrs, lOst 121 b (Mr. G. Walker) 1 Mr. J. S. Bygott's Bridegroom, (II b), aged, 11st 61b (Mr. G. Harland) 2 Capt. Machell's Acrobat, aged, list 81b (Captain Smith 3 Mr. Summer's Arlescott, 6 yrs, list 71b (inc. 71b ex.) (Mr. Rickaby) 4 The following also ran:—Rook tho Gardener, Air:can, and Harbinger. Betting.-- 7 to 4 agst,Acrobat, 7 to 2 agst Bridegroom, 5 to 1 agst Elsham, 8 to 1 agst African, and 100 to 8 agst Harbinger. Won by five lengths; a bad third. BROOK-HILL (EAST BARNET) STEEPLECHASES, FRIDAY. The Stand Plate (Handicap) of 40 sovs; winners extra. About two miles and a half. Mr. Ellison's Sportsman (late Zodiac), aged, Ilst._7lb (Owner) 1 Major Flinche's Objected, 5 yrs, list 71b (B. Land) 2 Mr. B. Land's Stiletto, 4 yrs, lOst 71b (States) 3 The following also ran : Ballycasey, The Rogue, Bravo, Paleface, Tonic, Brown Bess, and White Surrey. Betting.-3 to 1 agst Sportsman, 4to 1 each agst Ob jected and Ballycasey, 5 to 1 agst The Rogue, and 10 to 1 agst any other offered. Won by four lengths; Stiletto was a bad third. A Selling Handicap Steeplechase of 3 sovs each, with 25 added; the winner to be sold for 40 sovs. About two miles. Mr. B. Land's Strike, 6 yrs, 12st (States 1 Mr. Riley's White Stockings, age d , li st 41b .(Daniels 2 Mr. Clifford's Diana, 5 yrs, list 4lb (Mr. Castles 3 The following also ran : Idiot, St. Maximus, Scribbler, Traverser, and Hydrogen. .Betting: 5 to 2 agst Strike, 4 to 1 agst Scribbler, and sto 1 bar one. A good race, won by a length and a half ; the same distance separated second and third. The winner was not sold. The Barnet Open Steeplechase (Handicap) of 10 sous each, 5 ft, with 70 added ; winners extra. About three miles and a half. Mr. W. W. Baker'slMorocco, 6 yrs, list 21b (Mr. Edwards 1 Mr. B. Land's The Wasp, 5 yrs, list (States 2 Mr. J. Smith's Jack, aged, list bib (Mr. Buckley 0 Betting-6 to 4on Morocco. Won by half a mile. Jack fell. A £4O Plate ; weight for age, with selling allowances. About three miles. Mr. Clifford's Diana, 5 yrs, 11st slb (£40)...(Mr. Castles) 1 Mr. Tarrant's Cassock, 4 yrs, lOst 101 b (COO) ...(Knight) 2 Mallet and Louth also ran. Betting-5 to 4on Diana, 2to 1 agst Mallet. Won by four lengths. The winner was bought by Mr. Handford for 80 guineas. A Scurry Handicap Steeplechase, of 3 sovs each, with a purse added. About two miles. Mr. Hawkins's The Rogue, aged, 12st 51b (Picket) 1 Sailor and White Stockings also ran. Betting--5 to 4on The Rogue, 2to 1 bar ono. Won by a field ; White Stockings bolted, and Sailor was pulled up after going about a mile. MARKETS—This Day. COVENT GARDEN. Fair supplies of vegetables are on sale, and tho show of fruit is seasonably good. Most kinds of produce are in steady request, as follows : FRUIT —Pine apples, 5s to 8s; hot house grapes, 2s Od to Gs; foreign do, 9d to is 6d; filberts, 9d to 1s 3d per lb; apples, is 9d to 3s Gd ; pears, 2s Od to 3s 6d per half sieve ; lemons, 3s Gd to 8s ; oranges, 14i to 18s ; walnuts, is to 2s 6d per 100. - - VEGETABLES —Red cabbages, is 6d to 3s Od; white do., 9d to is Gd; celery, 8d to is 9d; horseradish, is to 2s per doz heads ; greens, 3s to 3s Gd ; turnips, 2s to 3s Od ; carrots, 4s 6d to 5s 6d per doz bunches ; cucumbers, 6d to is each. POULTRY. Turkeys, 4s to 7s 0d ; Geeso, Gs Od to 8s Od each ; ducks, 2s Od to 3s Od ; tame rabbits, is 3d to 2s Od ; wild do., is to is 6d ; pigeons, 6d to 9d each ; pheasants, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; partridges, is 6d to 2s 3d ; hares, 3s Od to 4s 9d leverets, 3 s Od to 4s Od; woodcocks, Os ; grouse, 2e Od to 3s Od ; snipes, Od to 1s each • Surrey fowls, lOs to 12s ; do. chickens, 68 to 9s ; barn-door fowls, 4s Od to 8s per couple. English eggs, 12s to 13s ; French do., 8s 6d to lOs Od per 100 ; Ostend fresh butter, is to is 3d ; English, is 2d to is 5d per lb. BILLINGSGATE. Eels, Od to Os per lb. ; soles, 1s to 58 Od per pair ; cod, 2s Gd to 20s ; brill, 2s 6d to lOs Od ; mullets, 6d to 38 6d ; doreys, is to lOs ' • turbot, 5s Od to 25s ; lobsters, Os to Os Od ; crab s , O s to Os Od each ; whitings, 38 to 125 ; had docks, 4s to 20 5 ; smelts 2s 6d per dozen ; common oysters, 008 to 00s ; natives, 004 to 000 s per bushel ; herrings, Os to 108 ; mackerel, 50s per 120. P NEWORT. Beef, fr om 3 s Od to 4s 6d • mutton, 3s 4d to be 4d ; Teal, 4s Od t o b s 2d; and pork,' 48 6d to 68 Od per Blbs by the carcase. WITECHAPEL. Beef, fr om a s Od to H 4s 6d • mutton 3s 4d to 5s 4d ; Teal, 4s Od t o 5 2 2d ; and po'rk, 4s 6d ' to Gs Od per Ms. by the carcase. BREAD. The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from 74d. to Bd. ; of household ditto, 6d. to 7d. per 4lbs. loaf. HIDES AND SKINS. Market hides 56 to 64 lbs, 3d to sid. • 44 to 72 lb., 3id to ;72 to 801bs, 3id to nd ;80 to 881bs., Bid to 4d ;88 to 9tilbs., 4d. to 4id. ; 96 to 1041b5., 4d. to 4td.; 104 to 1121b5., 4id to sd. Horse hides, 9s to 10s Od ; calf skins (light), 2s to 3s ; full, 88 6d ; polled sheep, 8s Od to lOs Od ; half-bred; 6s 6d to 7s 6d ; down; 51 Od. to 64 Od. HAY. SMITTIFIELD.—Meadow hay, £4 lOs to £5 10s; clover, LI 15g A fair to 16 12s 6d; and s t raw, £1 8s to £1 16s per load. demand. CUMBEMeadow hay, £4 108 to £5 15s; clover, £4 17s to £6 12s 6d ; arid straw, £1 103 to £1 18s per load. Trade firm. WHITECITAPEL.—Meaand stradow hay £4 lOs to £5 10 s; c l over, £5 Os to £6 158 Od ; w, £1 8 4 t o Ll 16s per load. Supply moderate. COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market. s. d. s. d. Holywell Main......... 19 0 Hetton .. 23 6 West Hartley ........ 18 6 Tunstall Carway and Dafryn South Hetton Malting ............... 24 0 Pensher P r i mrose Hotspur .. . .......... . .... 19 0 West Lambton 22 6 Walls End Haswell... 23 6 Cassop . N.S taffordshire .......... 17 6 Ships at market, 46 ; sold, 37. PLAYING AT TIANGING.—On Monday afternoon, at Greenock, a boy named M'lnalty, about seven years of age, nearly lost his life by engaging with other boys in the foolish prank of playing at hanging. A rude scaffold having been extemporised in a coal shod, and a rope tied over a beam, with a noose hanging down, M'lnalty agreed to personate Dr. Pritchard, while another boy, ten years of age, officiated as Calcraft. All being prepared, M'lnalty mounted the scaffold, got his head through the noose, and When all was in order the other boy knocked away the scaffold from under him. Tho poor fellow struggled wildly, his face became black, and so much alarmed the boys that some of them ran out and got their mothers. One of the females held the boy up by the feet, being unablo to reach the rope, while another got up to it by some pieces of wood. The lad, when got down, was almost dead. He was carried home, stripped, and put to bed, and restoratives applied. He gradually came round, but it was some time before he could speak. Ho was yesterday out of danger. —Edinburgh Courant. TIMID EDITION SUN OFFICE, 6 O'CLOCK. The Bank Returns. The Bankers' Magazine furnishes the returns of the cir culation of the private and joint-stock banks in England and Wales for the four months ending the 14th October. These returns, combined with the circulation of the Scotch and Irish banks for the same period, and the average cir culation of the Bank of England for the four weeks ending the 11th of October (the nearest date furnished by their returns), will give the following results of the circulation of notes in the United Kingdom when compared with the previous month : Sept. 16, Oct. 14, 1865. 1865. Increase. Decrease. I. Bank of England... 21,617,745 21,965,514 1 £347,769 Private Banks 2,861,915 3,122,002 260,087 Joint-stock Banks 2,774,785 2,919,1541 144,369 Total in England 27,254,44 28,008,670 - 752,225 Scotland 4,305,561 4,5 5,4 4 2U9,843 Ireland 5,938,593 6,607,715, 669,122 United Kingdom 37,498,599 39,129,789' 1,631,190 — THE INSURRECTION IN JAMAICA. HALIFAX ; OCt. 25. On Monday night information was received by telegraph from the United States that a negro re volt had occurred in the Island of Jamaica. It is said that the negroes had applied for relief to an extent the authorities were not in a position to grant, and, taking umbrage at the refusal, num bers of the coloured population armed themselves and commenced a riotous attack on the white in habitants. Upon information respecting this re volt having reached the authorities here, it was de cided to despatch H.M.S. Duncan with the 17th Regiment to the scene of the disturbance for the purpose of quelling the insurrection. The Duncan will sail on Saturday'ncxt, and on her way put into Bermuda, where some companies of the regiment now serving in that garrison will be embarked for Jamaica. Yesterday General Doyle, in reply to a request made by a number of merchants for information concerning the negro outbreak in Jamaica, furnished the following statement, which was posted in the news-room in the afternoon : " The Governor of Jamaica reports, through Consul-General Bunch, that a rebellion of negroes had occurred in the eastern district of the island of Jamaica. Mr. Bunch's letter bears date the 18th October." SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day. VICTORIA CLUB BETTING-THIS DAY. LIVEERPOOL HANDICAP. sto 1 agst Bendigo (taken and offered) 9to 1 agst Nu (taken) 11 to 1 agst Valliant (taken) 14 to 1 agst Accident (taken) 16 to 1 agst Windham (taken) 16 to 1 agst Blithfield (offered) 22 to 1 agst Dalby 25 to 1 agst Moldavia 25 to 1 agst Helen 25 to 1 agst Farce LONDON GAZETTE—Last Evening. FOREIGN-OFFICE, OCT. 12. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Geo. West, Esq., now British Vico-Consul at Suez, to be her Majesty's Consul at the same port. The queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint Thomas Backhouse Sandwith, Esq., no British Vice- Consul at Caiffa, to be her Majesty's Vice-Consul at Cyprus. OCTOBER 17. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Sir Robert Alexander Osborne Dalyell, Bart., now her Majesty's Consul at Jassy, to be her Majesty's Consul at Roustchouk. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint Alexander Bower St. Clair, Esq., now her Majesty's Consul at Tarna, to be her Majesty's Consul at Jassy. [ OCTOBER 25. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoinT Percy Mitford and Edmund Constantine Henry Phipps, Esq., now Third Secretairies,l to be Second Secretaries in her Majesty's Diplomatic Service. OCTOBER 30. The Queen has been graciouslypleased to appoint John Ward, Esq. C. 8., now her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires to the Free Hanseatic Cities of Lubeck, Bremen, and Ham burgh, to be her Majesty's Minister Resident to those Cities. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint Robert Bunch, Esq„ now her Majesty's Consul-General in the Island of Cuba, to be her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires and Consul-General to the Republics of Guatemala, Nica ragua, Costa Rico, Honduras, and Salvador, in Central America. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint William Webb Follett Synge, Esq., now her Majesty's Commissioner and Consul-General in the Sandwich Islands, to be her Majesty's Consul-General in the Island of Cuba. NOVEMBER 2. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Joso Maria Corbacho as Consul at Southampton for the Republic of Peru. WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, Nov. 3. 21st Regiment of Hussars—Major -General William Parlby to be Colonel, vice Lieutenant-General Sir John Bennett Hearsey, K.C.8., deceased. Royal Artillery—Copt. John. Clement Hailes to be Lieute nant-Colonel, vice H. Bruce Sandford, retired upon full pay; Capt. and Brevet-Major Thos. Trenchard Haggard, from the Supernumerary List, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Biggs, retired on full-pay ; Second Capt. Godfrey Twiss to be Captain, vice Hailes ; Lieut. Horace Cowley Brown to be Second Captain, vice Twiss; Lieut. Chas. Trench to be Second Captain, vich Maurice Henry Fitz maurice, deceased ; Second Capt. Philip Henry Saudi lands to be Adjutant, vice Fitzmaurice deceased; Second Capt. John Mackvicar Burn to bs Adju tant, vice Hanwell, who reigns the Adjutancy only. The promotion of Captain Sandford as Lieutenant- Colonel to bear date Aug. 3, 1865, in succession to Haw kins, deceased, and not Sept. 14, 1865, in succession to Biggs, retired upon full-pay, as stated in the Gazette of the 10th ult. The promotion of the undermentioned officers to be antedated as follows :—Captain William de Vitre ; Second Captains Thomas Carr Fletcher, Edward Augustus Slessor, Louis Charles Augustus Adrian de Cetto, and Henry Anderson. BREVET. Major-General Faddy, on the Retired Full Pay List of the Royal Artillery, to be Lieutenant-General, he having at the time of his retirement been Senior to Major-General Sabine, promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-General in the Gazette of the 10th ultimo, vice Gordon, de ceased. Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert Bruce Sandford, on the Re tired Full Pay List of the Royal Artillery, to be Colonel, the rank being honorary only. Paymaster James Graham, of the Royal Artillery, to be Captain, the rank being honorary. ADMIRALTY, OCT. 31. Mr. William Inglis (B) has this day been promoted to the rank of Acting Engineer in her Majesty's Fleet, with seniority of the 15th July, 1865. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE —This day. LONDON, Nov. 4.—Wind this day at noon—North- Westerly; moderate breeze, and cloudy weather, with fog in the morning. RAMSGATE, Nov. 3.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Tordensk fold, for Southampton. CLYDE, Nov. B.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—City of Nang pore, for Bombay. COWES, Nov. 3.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Nos Nina, for Rio Janeiro. I,AmL.tur, Nov. 2.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Otago, for Bombay. CARDIFF, Nov. 3.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived—Charles Capper, screw steamer, from St. Nazaire. Sailed—Alex andra, for Cape de Verds. PENZANCE ROADS, Nov. 2 . — Arrived—lsmaro, from Po moron, with loss of boat, bulwarks, sails, and other damage. BERWICK, Nov. 3.—Wind N.E.—Arrived.—Ecliptics, from Rio Grande. BRISTOL, Nov. 2.—Wind S.W.—Awed—Gladetono, from Onega. [ET ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. I GRATESEND, Baturday Morning. Arrived, Nov. 3—Maria Pia, steamer, from Lisbon ; Cos mopolitan, steamer, from Hamburg; Smyrna, steamer, from Eastad. DEAL, Saturday Morning. Passed—Prances, from London, for Colombo ; British Ensign, from London for Corfu ; and Bertha, from Dantzic for Fecamp. Anchored.—Leoni Remundo, from London for Madeira. Sailed.—The whole of the outward bound, except Tip tree, for Yokohama, which has been supplied with anchor. FEARFUL WRECK ON THE GOODWIN SANDS.—The following is an extract from a letter from Ostend, dated the Ist of November :—" We have been informed that a terrible wreck occurred on Monday morning on the Goodwin Sands. A largo Bremen vessel, bound for Now York with 270 emigrants, was totally lost there. The English newspapers will soon bring confirmation of this fearful disaster. The source from which we obtain this news appears too respectable to doubt its fearful reality. 'We also learn that on Monday morning an English sloop, from London, for Calais, was totally lost. The master, his wife, four children, and two sailors were drowned." 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UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. 3IR. GLADSTONE'S VALEDICTORY ADDRESS AS RECTOR. Yesterday afternoon, at two o'clock, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Rector of the University of Edinburgh, delivered a valedictory address to his constituency, the students, on the occasion of com pleting a second term of office. The place of meet ing was the Music-hall, and the admission was almost entirely restricted to the students and gra duates. The hall was crowded to excess. There was a splendid attendance of all branches of the Univer sity. The Court and Professors were on the plat form, and the students and graduates in the hall. Mrs. and Miss Gladstone were present, and were loudly cheered. The Rector's reception was most enthusiastic. The following address, notwithstanding omissions, took two hours and a quarter in delivery : Mr. Vice-Chancellor, Professors, and Gentlemen —The subject on which I desire to address to you my parting - words is the place of ancient Greece in the providential order of the world. Even the pointed announcement of such a subject may seem to partake of paradox. No one, indeed, would think of denying that the people who inhabited that little cluster of rugged mountains and of narrow vales played a part, and a great part, upon the stage of history, and left a mark, not deep only, but in delible, upon the character of the human race. No one would deny that they have delivered to us bril liant examples of energy in action, and matchless productions of the mind and hand, models in letters and in art. Nor is there any doubt about the fact that Christian Europe has during many generations assigned to Greece the largest share in the cultiva tion of the human mind. But this age, which ques tions much, questions naturally enough the propriety of the judgment which has thus awarded her the place of honour in the career of general education. Her language, her history, her , literature, and her art are regarded as the privileged delight and separate entertainment of the few; but there is no clear perception in the majority of minds that all these have entered deeply into the common interests of mankind: Lastly, they are distinguished in so broad a manner from the teaching of the Gospel-- nay, in certain points and instances they are so much in conflict with the spirit of the Evangelical code-- that there is a disposition to regard them as belong ing exclusively to the secular order as well as to the secondary, and, if I may so speak, ornamental inte rests of life. To its secondary interests, because Greece does not propose to teach us how to choose a profession, or to make way in the world : "Ti Si 1.0 c'oc6eXio-ovoi .1 evopol Ts-pis ra c fura ;" To the secular order, because it is beyond doubt that we cannot obtain from her the lessons of true reli gion. Nay, she has sometimes almost assumed the attitude of its rival ; for the period of the revival of learning, and also more modern times, have supplied signal instances in which her fascinations have well nigh persuaded men of genius or of letters, Christian born, to desert their allegiance to their faith, and endeavour to revive for themselves, at least in the region of the fancy, the worship once in use at her long-abandoned shrines. Other reasons besides these have produced a practical indisposition to regard ancient Greece as having had a distinct, assignable, and most important place in the providential govern ment of the world. Something that may be called religionism, rather than religion, has led us for the most part not indeed to deny in terms that God has been and is the God and Father and Governor of the whole human race, as well as of Jews and Chris tians, yet to think and act as if His providential eye and care had been confined is ancient times to the narrow valley of Jerusalem, and since the Advent to the Christian pale, or even to something which, enforcing some yet narrower limitation at our own arbitrary will, we think fit to call such. But surely He, who cared for the sixscore thousand persons in ancient Ninevah that could not distinguish between their right hand and their left, He without whom not a sparrow falls, He that shapes, in its minutest detail, even the inanimate world, and clothes the lily of the field with its beauty and its grace, He never forgot those sheep of His in the wilderness, but as, on the one hand, He solicited them, and bore witness to them of Himself, by never ceasing bounty and by the law written in their hearts, so, on the other hand, in unseen modes He used them, as He is always using us, for either the willing, or if not the willing, then the unconscious or unwilling, furtherance and accomplishment of His designs. The real paradox, then, would be not to assert, but to deny, or even to overlook, the part which may have been assigned to any race, and especially to a race of such unrivalled gifts in that great and all-embracing plan for the rearing and training of the human children of our Father in heaven, which we call the providential government of the world. Such preparation, ascertained and established upon the solid ground of fact, may be termed prophecy in action ; and is, if possible, yet stronger for the confirmation of belief, and yet more sublime in aspect as an illustration of Almighty greatness, than prophecy in . word. But in this pro vidential government there are diversities of opera tions. In this great house there are vessels of gold and silver, vessels of wood and earth. In the sphere of common experience we see some human beings live and die, and furnish by their life no special lessons visible to man, but only that general teach ing, in elementary and simple forms, which is deriv able from every particle of human experience. Others there have been who, from the time when their young lives first, as it were, peeped over the horizon, seemed at once to "Flame in the forehead of the morning sky ;" whose lengthening years have been but one growing splendour, and at the last who "leave a lofty name "A light, a land mar k, on the cliffs of fame." Now, it is not in the general, the ordinary, the ele mentary way, but it is in a high and special sense that I claim for ancient Greece a marked, appro priated, distinctive place in the providential order of the world. And I will set about explaining what I mean. I presume that all philosophy, claiming to be Christian, regards the history of our race, from its earliest records down to the incarnation and advent of our Lord, as a preparation for that tran scendant event on which were to be hung thereafter the destinies of our race. Let us, however, examine more particularly that opinion which has prevailed in the world, sometimes sustained by argument, oftener bysufferance, sometimes lurkingunderground, and sometimes emboldened to assert itself in the face of day, that although the Divine care extends in a general way to all men, yet we are to look for this preparation, at least for the positive parts of it, no where except in the pages of the Old Testament, and in the history and traditions and patriarchs and the Jews. This opinion has what some of our fathers would have termed " a face of piety ;" it has un doubtedly been held by pious persons, and urged in what are termed the interests of religion. But that face I am persuaded is a face only, a mask which ought to be stripped off, as it hides the reality from our view. According to this theory, we are to con sider the line of the patriachs and the descendants of Abraham as exclusively the objects of any Divine dispensation which, operating in the times before the Advent, is to be reckoned as part of the preparation for the great event. To them we are to look as the guardians of human excellence in all its infinite varieties ; and when we seem to find it elsewhere, wo are either to treat the phenomenon as spurious, or else, believing without sight, we are to consider it as derived, through some hidden channel, from the stores communicated by Divine revelation to the favoured race. This theory found perhaps its fullest, nay, even its most properly fanatical, development in the " Paradise Regained" of Milton. There the works of the Greek intellect and imagination are de preciated in a strain of the utmost extravagance ; and,what is worse, the extravagance is made to pro ceed from those Divine lips, all whose words were weighed and measured in the exactest balances and lines of truth. First, the proposition is advanced by the poet that Divine inspiration precludes the need of any other knowledge, even though granted true " but these," so proceeds the speech—. " But these are false, or little but dreams, Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing firm," The Greek philosophers are dismissed, as a body, with wholesale condemnation ; while Homer and the tragedians are stated, with a gravity irA itself wonderful enough, to have learnt the art of poetry from the Jews : " All our law and story strewed With hymns, our psalms with artful terms inscribed, Our Hebrew songs and harps, in Babylon That pleased so well our victors' ear, declare That rather Greece f rom us th ese arts derived." The orators are set to compete with the Hebrew prophets : Herein to our prophets far beneath As men divinely taught, and better teaching The solid rules of civil government." A competition this, which would probably have caused the greatest astonishment to those to whom the prize in it is awarded. It is difficult to under stand how Milton's genius could have prompted him thus to pit against one another things really, in the main, incommensurable ; or how his learning, which must have made him acquainted with Greek philo sophy, could have failed to impress him with the belief that men like Aristotle and Plato were earnest seekers after truth. Warburton observes upon these passages that they were in accordance with the fashion of the time. And it appears that, especially in the later years of Milton's life, there were a number of learned men, English and foreign, such as Bochart, Huet, Voss, Gale, and Bogan, who busied themselves in showing correspondences be tween the Hebrew and the Pagan traditions, and who, in some instances, particularly that of Huet, Bisliop of Avranches, pushed their undertaking into undue and fanciful detail. But I have not found that they propounded any doctrine in reference to the derivation of heathen literature from Jewish sources, either to the sweeping extent, or in the cynical spirit, of the " Paradise Regained." Their object appears to have been a dif ferent one—namely, to fortify the historical credit of the sacred records by tracing elsewhere matter essentially corresponding with their contents, either as clothed in contemporary disguises or as flowing from a common fountain-head. In truth, the seed plot of this pectdiar learning belongs to a much earlier and a more interesting and important litera ture. Paganism, which had been for the two greatest races of the ancient world in their infancy a creed, and in their riper age a profession, did not, when assailed by the victorious advance of Chris tianity, retire from the intellectual battlefield with out a desperate struggle, carried on in its behalf with all the resources of powerful and subtle intel lects. As a revelation of the designs of God for the recovery and moral renovation of mankind, the Gospel was not unfairly required to give an account, not only of itself, but of everything else in the world that preceded or opposed it. The Pagan sys tem, if it had nothing else, had at least one impor tant advantage in the controversy. It represented a continuous unbroken tradition dating from beyond the memory of man. It had come down from father to son through more than a hundred generations with an ostensible sameness and a very widely ex tended sway, and none could name the day when, in the two far-famed peninsulas that had given the breath of life to the ancient world, it did not exist and prevail. Under these circumstances, it was most difficult for the Christian apologists to admit that there lay in the old religions of the world, and par ticularly in the Greek or the Latin mythology, any nucleus or germ of the primeval truth. For the logical consequence of such an admission might have seemed to be that they should not sweep the old religion off the face of the earth, but endeavour to reduce it to some imagined standard of its purer infancy ; that they should not destroy it, but reform it : whereas, on the contrary, their purpose was, and could not but be, not to reform but to de stroy. They met, then, the traditional claims of Paganism by taking their stand upon the purer, clearer, and still older tradition of the Hebrews. They parried the negative value in argument of an undefined antiquity with the positive record of the creation of the world, and with the sublime exordium of the human race, propagated in a definite line from man to man, down to the firm ground of historic times. So far so good. But still they were obsti nately confronted by a system conterminous both in space and in duration with the civilised world, and able, too, to say of itself, with some apparent truth, that when civilisation and culture themselves began they did not- make or bring it, but found it on the ground before them. Thus upon the merely historic field the battle might have looked to the ordinary spectator like a drawn one ; while it seemed needful for the dignity and high origin of the new religion to conquer not at one point but at all. Hence, per haps, the tendency of the Christian apologists, in unconscious obedience to the exigencies of contro versy, after they had proved by reasoning the truth and authority of the Gospel, and had smitten their enemy, as they did smite him, to the dust, by their moral arguments against Paganism, to accelerate its end, and to demolish the very last of its seeming titles, its antiquity of origin, by refusing to affiliate any part or parcel of it, at any point of time, to the stock of a prinieval religion, and by contending that so much of truth as was scattered through the rolls of its literature had been filtered in detail through successive media, from Greece to Rome, from Egypt to Greece, but was ultimately to be traced in every case to the ancient people of God, and to the records and traditions which had had an historical existence among them. I turn now to the remarkable work of Eusebius, commonly called the " Prwparatio Evangelica." In that work he sets forth the moral impurity, imbecility, impiety, and falseness of the Pagan system. He contrasts with it the marvellous prerogatives of the older Scriptures. In what lies beyond this province he is not so injudicious as to depreciate the intel lectual development of the Hellenic race, alike original and vast. But, he says, they learnt in its elementary form the " superstitious error" of their religion, which by their own genius they afterwards recast and adorned from Egyptian, Phoenician, and other foreign sources; but their glimpses of the Godhead, and whatever they had of instruction for the soul's health, they obtained, by importation mediate or immediate, from the Hebrews only, ex ecefpntaitnuraes. far Th a e s q i u t ewstaisonsuhperpeliaedristehs if tbhyntHheellliegnhiet frraocme whence t en thr religion oee i didEgypt fr a oi n n d P r h h cez n c i l e a ia an eb d ta E in gyp it t, ? And here it is that we come upon the chief error into which Eusebius was led by the controversial exigencies of his position. He treats the religions of the world as having been purely and wholly, even to their first beginnings, errors and inventions of the human mind, without any trace or manner of relationship to that Divine truth which, as he truly tells us, had been imparted to the Hebrews long before the days of Moses and the composition of the Pentateuch. According to him, the old religions were made up of worships offered to the heavenly bodies, to the powers of nature, to the spirits of de parted men, to useful or important arts and inven tions, and to the demoniac race in its two families of the good and the evil. He admits, in every part of his work, that he appears in the arena to maintain and justify the Christians as the authors of a schism in the religious world ; and this admission it is which, by the nature of his proposi- T tio h n e s v a i n e d w his arguments, by Eusebiusguments, hecon :_ e a r s ts , apprehend, ta boast. h t r h is e t y ian po a s p s o es lo se gis d apologists. that st . generally Clement o f taken A lxa Alexandria h ria not only denies the ori ginality of the Greeks in lveh Christian truth, but treats as a theft their appropriation of Hebrew ideas ; and fancifully, I might say whim sically, supports the charge by instances of pla giarism perpetrated by one Greek author on another. Justin Martyr allows no higher parentage to the Greek mythology than the poets, who were bad enough, or, still worse as he says, the philoso phers. Lactantius ascribes to fallen angels, or demons, the invention of image-worship. Theo philus affirms that the gods of the heathen were deadmen ;- Lactantius, that they were reges maxima et potentissimi. But time does not permit and the argument does not require me to pursue this part of the subject into greater detail. 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