The Sun. — London, England, 1865-10-16 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, Two o'CLoca. At the Paris Bourse this morning, according to Reuter's telegram, the 3 per Cent. ltentes were 67f. 75c. Flat. Dulness was again the principal feature of the Stock Exchange markets. Very few seemed dis posed to invest and speculate. Evidently there is a desire to await the course of events in relation to money, and the appearance of schemes known to be in process of development that may present attractions superior to undertakings already thoroughly established. Therefore, affairs are extremely quiet, and the course of prices are adverse to holders simply from a paucity of business. Consols, like most other descriptions of stocks were lower ; for transfer they are now 88i ; for the Bth proximo, 89 Foreign Stocks are generally weak, and the prices of some of the leading descriptions are lower. Turkish Consolides are 48k e ; Mexican, ex all, 25 ; do. New, to 24 I ; Greek, 19fr 20 ; Spanish Pas sive, 28,1 29 ; Certificates, 141 ; Italian, 631 64 / 1 ; Confederate Loan, 6 8 ; and Brazilian Scrip, 3 prem. American Securities are firmer. United States Government 5-20 Bonds are 66/ 67 ; Erie Shares, 5 8i ; and Illinois, 83/ 84. In the Railway Share Market there has been very little animation, and prices in most instances are a shade flatter. Great Western have declined 10s., North Western 55., and Metropolitan £l. The Foreign and Colonial undertakings remain inactive, without any material alteration. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are dull. Impe rial Ottoman have declined to 154 s ; Union of London to 532- ; Credit Foncier and Mobilier of England are dealt in at 10 4 ; and Overend, Gur ney, and Co., at 17/ ; Allan's Transatlantic Tele graph Company shares are quoted 11 2 prem. ; Gale's Protected Gunpowder at 1/ 2 prem. ; Mer chants' Company, par 1 prem.; Transatlantio Steam Ship Company, par 1 prem. ; London and Austra lian Agency, / 11 pm.; and Tafasso Brazilian Gold, 1 prem. BRITISH FUNDS-ONE O'CLOCK. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 0 Der Cent. Consols Do. Account Nov. 8 BB9 1 ° Per Cent. Reduced B7l 61 71 New 3 per Cent Now 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 87t 61 71 Do. per Cont. Jan. 1873 A nnuities, 30 yr s , exp i re sth Jan., 1 880 Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April,lBBs — Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 — March June 10 8 dis Exchequer X 1,000,3 per Cent. £5OO £ l OO and £200 D o Bank Acco of Enuglnt and Stock, si p er C en t — INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Indian Stock, 101 per Cent., AprillB74 219 D o Account D 0.5 per Cent. July, 1870 Account Do. 4 per Cent., 96 Oct. 1888 Do, Ce r tifi cates Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 FOREIGI'T FUNDS -ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent Do. 44 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Do. 1863 Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent Do. Account C Dian 6 1 pe per r C ent. (Deferred 3 p er C ent .) Cent Do. 41 per Cent Colombian 6 per Cent. Cuba, 6 per Cent. Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 Do. 4 per Cent., 1863 Do. 5 per Cent., 1 773-77, £25 paid — Danubian Principalities Do Account Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — • Do., Provisional Land Warrant Egyptian 7 per Cent 944 Do., Second Issue 94 Do £lOO Bonds 941 Do. 1864 9O Dok 5 £ l OO Bonds Gree Do A cco unt er Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupon s 19 Do. Coupons Do Account cniatemala 5 per Cent. Do £B6 paid Do. 1839 and 1850 Italian 5 per Cent (Maremmana Railway) Do 1865 Do Scrip, £671 paid Do 5 per Cent., 1864 D O . Scrip, £55 paid 4 Le:=Lican 3 per Cent Do. Account 1864 24 31 Do 6 pe r Cent. Ang'o-French Do French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c Montevidean 6 per Cent., £3O paid Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada ..14 DDo 2 De, Cen, o Dolerrod ................. . Do Land Warrants (Hectares) .......... Do Scrip, £45 paid, paid in Bonds Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) Do 41 p er C e nt., 1862 Do. Account P ortuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 - 51 Do 3 p er C en t ., 1856 , '7, '9, '6O, '62„ , 3 Do. Account ltussia n 5 per Cet., 1822 , X St Do 41 per Cent. n 1850 551 Do 3 per Cent. 1859 D a 14 per Cent., 1860 Do a per Cent. 1862 Do 5 per Cent. 1864 9l- 904 Sardinian 5 por Cent 4an Do Account ish 3per tki.Do AccoupntCent Do New Dwferred 3Bl / Do Account 39 Do Passive l' Do Account ianish. Cert. of Coup not funded Do Account Wedish 4 per Cent. , 1) 0. 4-1,- per Cent. 1864 1 1, r168 4 - 6 per Cent. 1854 9ll DoAccount DDo Ac ' co er Cent. 1858 u Do £lOO Bonds Do. 1?-- per Cent 1),.,0 Ac2er Cent. 1862 .'0 count Do £lOO Bonds— Po 6 p er Cent, 1864 741 per Cent. 1865 £IC 0 Bands Do . • (-11 1), £35 paid v_ DO Guaranteed, 4 per Cent e,i,iezuela 3 per Cent. • 6 per Cent., 1.862 1864 371 on the above payable in London. 134(311:8:0.r:jaA6DneP:icv5oriudpCneenterndCtsent., Ex, 10 Florins gian, 41 per cent., Ex. 25f. ' l ,tch 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil p l uo . 4 per Cent. Certificates Renton 41 per Cent ' ralian 5 per Gent. 1861 E. .. Do Account ... ....... . 631 TWO O'OCLCIL 00138_0.1. - o Account TWELVE O'CLCK. With the di s t r ib u ti on of the dividends the O re is a larger amount of capital afloat, which is rendering the Money Market slightly easier. Added to this circumstance, the high rate of discount is also very appreciably lessening the demand for accommoda tion, and affairs altogether are, therefore, presenting a more favourable aspect. The quotations, how ever, have not been materially altered. For bankers' acceptances a concession of per cent. has been made, but for commercial bills generally the terms are about the same as before, viz., 7 per cent. The General Credit and Finance Company of London are in receipt of advice from their agents, Messrs. 11. L. Boulton and Co., dated La Guayra, Sept. 25, 1865, of duties collected (and remitted) on account of the above loan, as follows: Porto Cabello, $ 7 ,387 7 2e. Messrs. Boulton add that "the season's Crops are now at an end, and no stocks are held for shipment. Some of the new coffee crop may be expected in market about the month of November, but no large quantity will be brought forward much 1 earlier than January. This growing crop promises to be a heavier one than that of last season, and the next cotton crop will also show an improvement. The imperial Royal Privileged Lemberg-Czerno witz Railway have announced that a half-year's in terest, at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, upon the amount paid up on these shares, will be pay able at the offices of the company on and after Ist November next. The City Offices' Company have advertised the issue of a limited number of debenture bonds, bear ing interest at 5 per cent. A new feature in this issue is that shareholders can tender them in pay meat of future calls. Lt , Oct. 14. ss Princess r Balmoral, f Athole at of Ely and . Her Ma gan to the id Princess returned on the Caledo- a ball last of Wales. attended by tle. , Oct. 15. rivy Council f St. Cloud, t, by orders the sanitary ment, based ove that the ranee in the 1 the Prince ey are about , and Italy, Ls stated, to :he Emperor Legislative of Queen sterday, the re Dame at 'ho had not vas present, Int and the litary fano 7sons of all hurch. arriving at Y station by ?se Minister, ere at once B elle -Vttc, :or them. ,ncl. Princess a their attend - Elotel on Wed .ssed through 9.30 train on assador and residenco at mister and m Munich 011 rn on Satur ayes for Bad- Llisbury have [atfield House ng others, the :ount Pah len, [on. Benjamin r. Vessey, Jr ristol intend north of Scot y to Ickworth 01 have left 3y, Yorkshire, mansion, on 'rom Low',her I. at Brechitt ce gone to 111- ge pasty of presort week. Lisses Liddell Eavensworal residence in Exchequers )f his sister-ill' varden Castle, s'aying at Sir teshire. as arrived at shire. 'ION will be t wing of tho says the ever aristoc of the 1 the jowl' Lion, endorses intended onli e respeets os y may beloog;. as well es d e , leave the rsg: 6 , 's traverse to slink sl oe r o n o sweete r ' 9 offend the g oo de. Brahn 3 , l llo ihadows el , ' O , nay be ss hose Braht cl o think tha t of as the cos il ' e y clusivelY t . o st hould abolished‘' SHARE 'his day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. 1 Share l Railways. Paid.) Closing I Business I Price. done. a,, [Tolstoi and Exeter st Caledonidn Cambrian.... ZO Cork and Bandon Cornwall st Dublin & Belfast June et Dun„Perth, & A b.Junc .‘" t.London, bcrip Certi Do. t Glasgow &S. Western It Great Eastern, Ord. stk. it Do. E. Angl. st N 0 . ., It Great North of Scotland st Great Northern , t Do. A stock ;t Do. B stock 92 PI 126 127 95 97 12 14 67 7 71 73 94 95 6 5 d 119 111 47 48 7} Si 130 132 118 15) a Do. ?ew, Is. at 25 pm, ;t GtS, and W. of Ireland it Gt. Weste n it D S. Val. Rail gua. ;t Do. South %Vales .... st Do. W. Mid.—Oxford 3t Do. Newpo. t st 1)o. He ;t Lanc•;shire &Yorkshire st Landon and Blackwall a Lon., Brigh., & S Coast ;t Lon., Chat., and Dover it Do. Metrop. Ex. A it Lon. & North Western It Lon. & South Western it Man., Shet., & Lincoln it Metropolitan .0 Do. New 0 Do Extension. 00 Metropolitan District. Do do. do. .0 Do. and rt. John'sW'd it Mid and 9 Do. £9 Share 3t Do, Birmin De. by %i id Kent ... 3t North British 3t Do. Ed., Pth ,"Az Dun ;t Nth. Eastern Berwick :5 Do. (.N •E purch.s, ;t Do. Leeds It Do. York it Do. Carlisle 5 Do. Mock. & Darling. :5 Do. do. 1860-el it North Londou • . 0 Do. do. 1864 10 Do. to. 1863 st North Staffordshire .. 10 N. &S. W. Junction .. at Scottish Coftral Scot. N. E , Aber stock st ;'o. Scot, Mid. Et JOIE St Shropshire Union 3t South Devon at , loutli E •stern :0 Staines, Wok., & Wok ;t Taff Vale A; Do. C ;t Vale of Neath ;t Waterford & Kilkenny 0 Waterloo & Whiteha 1 it West Cornwtitl BRITISH P N) !Atlantic St. Lawrence it f Born., Baroda, Cen.ln. gu. 5 per cent.: !O Do. 14' shares Buffalo & Lake Huron [0 Do Preference 0 Buff.,Brant, & Goderich 6 p:c. 872-3- .•••••• • et Calcutta do s. E., lim.. at ape Town .5; Dock, gu.l 00 Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p' 3t East. Ben _al, gu., sno 4 East L dial! ' gu. 5 p.c. 20 Do .1 Extension at t; rand Trunk of Canad% Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds' 1 charge 6 p.c Do. iat Pref. Bonds Do. do. deferred 100 Do. 241 Pr. f. Bonds.. 100 Do. do. deferred .... 100 Do. d Pref. stock.... 100 Do. do. deferred .... 100 Do. 4th Pref. stock.. 100 Do. do. deferred .... 8t Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c. 20 o. Gua. 5 per cent.. 20 Do. New g - un. sp. c.. bt Gt. South of India ...... gua.. per cent at D . 41 per cent at Do 204 Great W s. of Canada.., 204 Do. New ...... 00 Do. 6p. c. Bds. pay 1873 DC 'o. 5 1 do. pay. 1877-h.. 10 fndian Branch, limited at Madras, gua. 5 p.c st Do. 41 do st Do. 44 do 10 Do. Fifth Extension it Melb. Cor. 6p. c. Ends. i 0 Mel. & Hudson's nay st N. ki 1. C'da, 6pc let pf. be st Scinde It Do. Delhi :0 Do. do t'' ci st Do. Pun iaub ....1a a I st Do.lndus St. Flo 91 93 61 G 4 63 65 42 14 37 10 'O4 ;04 1201 121 88 90 1(4 105 37 39 51 53 123/ 124 i 95 96 57 38 1344 1394, 3 lip 1 liu 102 104 125 125 14 2 t 91 96 C 2 63 0 31 10 110 68 69 1 1021 104 36 37 10 11 p 118 120 t} a4p 1 lip 7S 77 11 12 150 154 58 50 63 6? 57 59 80 61 8a 9i 150 155 3 (p 103 105 s') .52 :SSIONS. 59 61 100 101 id D 51 I 5t 10 11 7i 80 99 101 70 75 101 103 101 102 104 103 I 11 , 21 24 99 92 63 7t 60 64 59 61 2 55 4 49 43 45 29 3t 28 30 103 101 4 I P 1) 101 102 15} )51 5_ 41d 5 i 8 85 d 7 1 01 101 102 93 95 83 90 64 66 82 81 01 102 01 102 6 01 Loot 104 IT SECU 95 97 95 b 7 9.5 97 82 8 82 s 4 103 105 107 109 106 10 105 107 931 914 1..3 105 110 112 104 1(6 106 108 107 tO9 1 , 5 iO7 102 104 96 98 9) 101 93 95 90 81 103 105 844 854 100 {loo 2 100 100 COLONIAL GO VERNREN British Columbia. 6 per cent., Dec. 31, 1972. Can.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.& July 1877-... Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Au;' D sp. c. Mar. & Sept I to. 5 p. c. Jan. & July Do. 5 p Inscribed 8k Cape G.Hope, 6 p.c. 1873 tio.Apl.B/ocl 1890-1900 Do. do: 1880-9 Do. Jan.&July, 1890-9 Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and 15 Oct., 1900 Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p. c Do. 1878, do Mauritius, 6 p. C, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1 , 78 00. 1882, May 15, Nov. !- Do. 1895, Feb. & Aug Natal o per cent N.B.Gov. 6 p.c.Ja.&July N. S.W. Gov. 5 p.c., 186+ Do. 5 p.c. 18,1 to 187. Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 189_ New Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 5 per cent.... Nova Sc tia Gov. 6 p. c sterling, 1875 ..lueensland Gov. 6 p. c 8. Aus.Gov. 6 p,c 1868-t , Do. 1878 & upwards Vic,Gov. 6 p.c. Ja & July Do. do, A pril & Oct BRITI 2 Cam. Consul. .old, Lim Chiverton - Clifford A malgamated Devon G. Cons. (Tavist Drake walls East Bassett (Illogan) East Caradon East Carn Brea East Grenville East Gunnistake ... East Love.l E. W'i Russell (Tavistk Gam & StAubyn(Gwen. 4 Gr. at L , xey, limited Great South Tolgus Great Wheal busy G. Wheal Vor (Heist Grenville Herod's Foot Hingston Downs Margaret (Uny Lelant - Marke Valley 4 VI wyndy Iron Ore, liin New Sewn - North Roskear N.Wh'l Bassett (Mogan North Wheal Crofty • Prosper l'n.vldence Uny L.lant S. Caradon (St. Cleer) &nth Condurrow S.Wheal Fran. (Mogul - stray Park Tin Croft 5 Vigra and Cl gan, lim West Bassett (Mogan W. Caradon (L,skeard West Cht ver ton ....... . West Seton. Wheal Bassett 'Mogan Wheal Buller (Redruth Wheal Mary Ann (Men. Wheal Setou . ........ -- Wheal Trelawnev 104 1: 14 191 56U 580 1 24 26 11 12 5• 6 21 34 14 15 24 3 2 4 204 21 J 4 2 35 38 24 3 39 41 44 1, 3 5 31 44 2i 1 d 33 40 lu 12 4 32 34 430 454 3 3} 12i 17; In 12 17 18 5 8 6 7 S 10 7) 75 165 175 75 80 26 28 4 6 195 200 17 18 t'REIPERENCE S. Great Eastern, E. Anglian, A stock Ditto, No. 1, 5 per cent. stock, 10 , ~7ondonßedford and Cambridge, 90 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 6 per cent., 122 i Not th Eastern, Cons. pref., 4 per cent., Ditto 41 per cent. stock, rd., 99 North Staffordshire, 21* PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. South Eastern 411 per cent., 1859, 89& FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Dutch Rhenish, 24 Great Luxembourg, 15 Di am ur and Liege gua. lit, per annum, 0 j San Paulo, lira. , gua. 6 per cent., 17 A ELMS 7 per cent.. LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS S. Yorkshire and River Dun, 102} Chester and Holyhead, 112 Nottingham and Grantham R. & Q;9l/ Frontino and isollvia Gold. yoftElClN lim., 3 MIN IM BANKS Agra and 31 asterman's. lim., 57 Brazilian and Portuguese, lim.. 0 Chartered .ter. of India. London, and China. 50 Commerzial Bank of India and the East, 31 European Bank, lira.. tli Imperial Ottoman, 151 London and River ['Late, Ditto, new, In London and 11 estininster, 95} Union of Australia, 64, Union of London, 531 DOCKS. London and St. Katharine, 76 MISCELLANEOUS. City of Moscow Gas, Bm., 3} Commercial Union, losuran3e, 8 Credit Fancier and Mubilier of England, 10 * Ebbw Vale, 141 Eoglish and Australian Copper, 1: Gen. Credit and 11.3 C of London, lim., Gtneuil Steam Navigation, 258 Imperial Mercantile Credit Asso., lim., 71 International Financial ,ociety, lim., 61 if alian Irrigation (Canal Cavour Ditto, 6 per cent. Bonds, redem. 1.70, issued 90, 81i 3 London General Omnibus Company, lira., Si 31ilwall Iron Works. 4i National Discount ompany, lim., 15} Overend, Gurney, and Co., dm., r5B k Peninsula and Oriental Steam, 73 Ditto, new, 528_ The Price of Gold. The quotation of gold at Paris is about 3 per mine pm., and the short exchange on London is 25.30 per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price oi 17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is about 2-ICths per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 428 per mark and the short exchange on London is 13.6 per .C 1 sarlin Standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, at about 2-10 tbs pe r c en t. d earer i n H am b u rg than in London. course of exchange at New York on London for bills 6t 60 days' is a eight is 100/ to 110 per cent. At these rates there small profit on the importation of go d from the UnitediStates. 461 / 64 21 38} 120} 514 124 k 96 137 k I 51 1021 100 all 100 100 100 6.13.4 100 00 100 all 1021 2 'OSSE; 100 100 100 all 100 100 103 23 21f } .ITIES. 10 , 100 10.1 100 100 100 190 100 100 1. 0 100 100 :SIT M: INES. 2.1.0 20i 2.14.6 31 2.'4.0 8.3.6 3.9.0 10.8.0 all 0.14.6 14.9.6 1i 3.2.0 18.18 9 35.15.6 rHE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVEMNG, OCTOBFR 16, lE67_ Day. moderate. The market, however, as regards prices is very . firm, and in some instances the quotations have an up ward tendency. Colonial wool in the private contract market is in but moderate request, yet prices rule firm Last week's import amounted to 8,203 bales from Algoa Bay, 694 Port Natal, 290 Cape, 991 East London, 1,185 Sydney, 1,188 Taganrog, 1,031 Odessa, and 46 bags from Oporto. —This Day. MARK-LANE. The country markets held on Saturday wore quiet for wheat; nevertheless both red and white qualities changed hands at full prices. In spring corn only a moderate busi ness was transacted on former terms. The flour trade was steady at late rates. Advices from America report more business in wheat and flour for export, with a steady con sumptive demand. In prices an improvement had taken place. On the Continent the corn trade generally is steady; The arrivals of English grain up to our market last week were but moderate. The imports from abroad amounted to 23,771 quarters of wheat, 10,467 'barley, 30,549 oats, 640 rye, 46 beans, 718 peas, 196 tares, 25,904 linseed, 25,259 oilseeds, 7,039 maize, 60 sundry seeds, 252 sacks and 2,360 barrels of flour. The supply of home-grown wheat received fresh up to our market to-day was very moderate, but the Condition of the bulk of the produce was good. The trade opened with firmness, and factors demanded Is. per quarter more money than on Monday last, both for red and white samples. Sales progressed slowly ; nevertheless, a clearance for all good and fine qualities was effected, and in some in stances an improvement 'in value of ls. per quarter was realised. For inferior home-grown wheat the trade was slow, at late rates. The imports of foreign wheat continue good, and to day's market was well supplied with Continental, but very moderately with American descriptions. A fair amount of business was transacted, and prices generally ruled firm. Floating cargoes of grain were in fair request at fully late rates. The supply of English barley on sale was moderate, but there was a great scarcity of fine samples. The trade for good and fine malting qualities, therefore, ruled firm at very full prices, but inferior parcels were a dull inquiry. Foreign barley moved off slowly at previous quotations. Malt was in fair average request, and prices were well supported. There was a good supply of oats on the stands. The trade was firm for all qualities, at the full prices of Mon day last to 6d per quarter advance. The improvement was chiefly in Russian produce. Beans were in short supply, and the trade ruled steady, at late rates. The market for peas was quiet, at late currencies. The supply on offer was very moderate. Most descriptions of flour were in fair demand, and the quotations ruled firm. The supply of barrels on offer has slightly increased. CURRENCY PER IMP. MEASURE. Wheat—Essex and Kent, red, new, per qr 34s to 42s Do, old 42s 47s Do, whit; old 5OB 54. Do., new Norfolk and Lincoln, red, old —B —8 Do., new Talavera, new sos 588 Rye— Barley—Grinding Malting 3O; 358 Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk Brown Kingstown and Ware Chevalier 64s 658 Oats—Yorkshire and Lincolush., Feeding 20s 24; Potato Youghal and Cork, black l9s 24; Cork, white 2O; 25s Scotch, Feeding l9s 23; Beans—Tick Pigeons ... 42; 458 Peas—Grey, new Maple White Boilers Flour—Town-made, per 2801 b Suffolk 3os 32s Stockton and Norfolk American, per barrel 258 30s METROPOLITAN CATTLE. We were again heavily supplied with foreign beasts. Amongst them were about 300 from France in good condi tion. The stock from Tonning was inferior. The arri vals of sheep from Germany were again very large. From our own grazing districts tho receipts of beasts fresh up, to-day, were very moderate, the time of year con sidered, both as to number and quality. The arrivals from Ireland and Scotland were on a limited scale. Good and prime breeds commanded a steady inquiry, and, in some instances, prices were slightly on the advance. Otherwise the beef trade was inactive, at last Monday's currency. The top figure was ss. 4d. per 81bs. The arrivals of beasts from Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and Northamptonshire, amounted to 1,250 short horns, &c., from other parts of England 500 various breeds, from Scotland 10 Scots and crosses, and from Ireland 80 oxen, cows, and heifers. The supply of English sheep was very limited, but most breeds come to hand in improved condition. The mutton trade was firm, and the quotations had an upward ten dency. Prime Downs and half• breeds produced 6s. 6d. to 6s. Bd. per 81bs. Good foreign sheep were rather dearer. We were scantily supplied with calves, which moved off freely, at full currencies, viz., from 4s. 6d. to ss. 6d. per 81bs. The sale for both English and foreign pigs was far from active, nevertheless last week's prices were supported. The best pigs wero worth 58. 10d. per_Blbs. Per 81h to sink tho offal. sded s dad Crse. & inf. beasts... 3 2 3 8 Pme crs-wool sheep 5 8 6 2 Second quality do ..3 10 4 6 Prime s'thdown 00.6 4 6 8 Prime large oxen ..4 8 5 0 La ge coarse calves. 4 6 5 2 Prime Scots, ac.... 5 2 5 4 Prime small d 0...... 5 4 5 6 Crae. and int. sheep. 4 44 1 Large hugs .4 4 5 4 Second quality do ..5 0 5 a Small porkers 5 6 6 10 Lambs....os Od to 0 Od. Suckling calves, 22s to 20s ; and quarter-old store pigs, 27s to 32s each. Head of stock on sale. Total supply. Foreign supply. Beasts 6,310 Beasts 3 790 Cows. Calves 236 ua ves 230 Pigs 47.) Pigs The total imports of foreign stock into London, last week, amounted to 21,090 head. In the corresponding week in 1864, we received 17,089 ; in 1863, 14,181 ; in 1862, 8,909 ; in 1861, 9,501; in 1860, 12,558 ; and in 1859, 8,395 head. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEER. Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. Antwerp — ... 331 ... ... 24 ... 14 Boulogne 3O ... ... ... ... 356 Bremen 542 ... 377 ... ... Calais Dunkirk Gothenburg — ... 28 ... ... 3 ... 233 93 ... 4083 ... ... ... 1294 Hamburg Harlingen ...... Medemblik 46 ... 1449 ... ... ___ ... Oporto •-•-• •.• ••• --- ••• ••• Ostend 2 ... 75 ... . 25 ... Rotterdam 722 ... 4362 ... ... 416 ... 466 Tonning 1736 ... 2942 ... 385 ... .., Havre - ••• Total 3402 _14,674 9 480 ...2525 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs 1864 1863 3524 9,466 ... 546 216 ... 489 1862 A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in the Great Metropolitan Cattle Market on Monday, Oct. 17, 1864, and this day, Monday, Oct. 16, 1865. Per 81bs. to sink the offal. Oct. 17, 1864. Oct. 16, 1865. sd s d s d s d. Coarse and inferior beasts 3 2to 3 10 3 2to 3 8 Second quality do. Prime large oxen 4 8 5 0 4 8 5 0 Prime Scots, &c. Coarse and inferior sheep Second quality do. Prime coarse-woolled do. Primo Southdown do 5 4 5 8 6 4 6 8 Lambs Large coarse calves 4 4 4 6 4 6 5 2 Primo, small do. Large hogs Neat small porkers 4 4 410 5 6 510 Beasts 8,150 5,720 S Calves heep 29,740 32,140377 324 Pigs SUPPLIES ON SALE, Oct. 19, 1863.—Beasts, 6,920 — sheep, 23,340—calves, 239—pigs, 440. Oct. 20, 1862—Beasts, 6,s6o—sheep, 24,260—calves, 229 —pigs, 490. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The supplies of meat on sale at these markets are only moderate. The trade is steady, and in some instances prices are rather on the advance. Per 81b by the earoase. sd a d Inferior beef 3 0 3 4 Middling do. 3 6 4 0 Prime large do 4 2 4 4 Prime small do 4 6 4 8 Large pork 4 0 5 2 Lamb, Os 0 ed s d Inferior mutton... 4 2 4 8 Middling mutton 4 5 4 Prime do 5 6 5 13 Veal 4 0 5 4 Small pork. 5 4 tl 0 Id to 08 Od. BOROI7C-11 HOP. Our market is well supplied with hops, and most quali ties are in good demand, at our quotations. The imports into London last week were 90 bales from hamburg, 291 Ostend, 453 Antwerp, 22 Bremen, 105 Ghent, 4 Rottendam, and 9 bales from Boulogne. New Mid and East Kents...., 110 s to 189 s per cwt. New Weald of 'Cents , 7 Now Sussex , 7 Yearlings BOROUGH AND SPITALPIELDS. The supplies ci potatoes on sale are tolerably large. On the whole, tba trade is steady, at our quotations. About 800 tons were imported last week chiefly from French ports. Kent and Essex regents 6os to 90s per ton. Scotch do. 71 Yorkshire do 6os to 80s Il Flukes ~ 71 Rochs 40s to GO s 71 WOOL. The amount of business passing in English WOOl is Yery LAW INT. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.) IN RE CAPTAIN BOYLE. Tile following is a copy of the letter, written in a firm hand, excepting where the word ghost occurs, and then it is marked with a most ominous trembling, symbolical of the fear to be felt by the recipients, the uncomplimentary ghost writes as follows : " U dirty old man,—if udo not paye mye widdy for the clothes i drowJed myself in, and which u are now weering and sho sing off, my ghost shall haunt U—u. " THE GHOST. " i shall see u at 12 to knight." After this postscript follows a graphic picture of a man in the act of committing suicide. His Honour, after hearing the wrongs of each party, made an order against defendant to pay the debt by two instalments. Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. Market very strong, especially for Egyptian qualities. Sales, probably 15,000 or 20,000 bales. THE CHOLERA. IN MADRID. — MADRID, Oc T. 13 (Evening). Yesterday the cholera was very severe in this city—MO cases occurred, of which 175 proved fatal. To-day the disease has decreased, but notwith standing a general panic prevails. Ironmasters' Quarterly Meeting. DUDLEY, Saturday Evening. The closing meeting of the ironmasters for the current quarter was held in this town this evening. The attendance was small, and the business done as moderate as at Wolverhampton on Wednesday. The custom which at one time prevailed of leaving contracts over for disposal at this meeting is no longer observed, and the great business of quarter day is centred in Birmingham. None of the lead ing members of the trade were present here to-day, and the absence of buyers was as marked, but at all the principal works in this locality they are very well supplied with orders, and in other respects trade in this quarter is in a healthy state. The sales of pig iron have been on a very mode rate scale all the week, for reasons already assigned. Mr. Griffiths, the metal broker, in his circular issued to-day, says :—" The Lilleshall Company sold their usual quantity to their regular customers, say from 13,000 to 14,000 tons ;" and for such of the favou rite brands as were to be sold there has been a good demand. Earl Dudley's grey mine forge iron is quoted at £4 ss. ; Union Mine grey forge, £3 155.; Ward's Priestfield's, £3 15s. to £3 17s. 6d. ; Ben nett's hydrates, £4 10s. to £4 12s. 6d. ; ditto cinder forge, £3 to £3 2s. 6d. ; and Mathew's Corbyn's Hall mine forge, £3 12s. 6d. Earl Granville's Lilleshall cold blast iron was quoted £4 15s. to £5; ditto hot blast, £4 ss. per ton. The business of quarter-day has passed off satis factorily as far as relates to the payment by mer chants and factors of their accounts, which has been prompt. The amount of £55,000 in gold was taken to the Bank on Saturday. A remittance of £l,BOO on account of the debt of Ecuador has been brought by the mail from Guayaquil. It has been announced that the subscription list of Allan's Transatlantic Telegraph Company will close on Wednesday next, the 18th inst. In the manufacturing districts during the last week there has been rather less animation in several departments consequent upon the advance in the value of money. At Manchester both cloths and yarns have been in leis request, although prices remain without material change. In the woollen trade of Leeds, Bradford, and Huddersfield the ope rations in winter fabrics have been limited, at about former values. The hosiery and lace trades of Leicester and Nottingham have been dull, but at Birmingham, Sheffield, and Wolverhampton more activity has prevailed, owing to the receipt of con siderable orders from America. - -------- THE NATIONAL GALLERY, which remains closed unil the 6th pros., has been enhanced in value as a public collection by the addition of a new picture to Memlinc. It is divided into two compartments, and represents St. John the Baptist and St. Lawrence, upright, standing in bright backgrounds of appropriate characters. Each saint bears his emblem ; the lamb is in the arms of the former, who wears the skin garments ; while the other, who is dressed in the deacon's robes of red and white, holds the instrument of his martyrdom. ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL.—The work of preparing for the erection of this hospital on its new site, by the side of the river, at Stangate, has been commenced. A WAIF FROM THE SEA.—On Friday morning a bottle was picked up on the beach at Mowan, Pensarn, near Rhyl, North Wales, in which was enclosed a note con taining the following words :—•' August 12, 1865.—The Ocean Wave sunk this day. There was a dreadful storm. We took to the boats. Written by the ship's cabin-boy, Walter Seagrave. Name is the Ocean Wave." CITY OF LONDON HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE CHEST, VICTORIA PARK.—The number of patients relieved at this institution during last week was 1,026, of which 257 were new cases. THE MEETING OF THE NEW PARLIAMENT.-It is generally understood that the new ParliMent will not meet till the third week in January, when the first busi ness will be the election of Speaker, who, having been presented to the House of Lords on the following day, a week will be allowed for the swearing in of members. The regular business of the session, will not, therefore, com mence before the usual time. REPRESENTATION OF THE CITY OF OXFORD.—Mr. Alderman Towle, of Oxford, has notified his intention to petition against the return of the Right Hon. E. Cardwell and Mr. Neate, and to claim one of the seats for himself. on the grounds that, after being duly proposed and se conded, his nomination was not submitted to the electors, and that on the day after the nomination votes in his favour wore tendered to the returning officer, who de clined to receive them. SUNKEN LAKE.—Several of our citizens have just returned from a visit to the great Sunken Lake, situated in the Cascade Mountains, about 75 miles north east from Jacksonville. This lake rivals the famous valley of Sindbad the Sailor. It is thought to average 2,000 feet down to the water all round. Tho walls are almost per pendicular, running down into the water and leaving no beach. The depth of the water is unknown, and its sur face is smooth and unruffled, and it lies so far below the surface of the mountain that the air currents do not affect it. Its length is estimated at 12 miles, and its width at ten. There is an island in the centre, having trees on it. No living man has ever been, and probably never will be, able to reach the water's edge. It lies silent, still, and myste rious in the bosom of the "everlasting hills," like a huge well, scooped out by the giant genii of the mountains in the unknown ages gone by, and around it the primeval forests keep ward. The visiting party fired a rifle several times into the Water at an angle of 45 degrees, and were able to note several seconds of time from the report of the gun until the ball struck the water. The account seems incredible, but is vouched for by some o our most reliable citizens. The lake is certainly a most remarkable curiosity. —Jacksonville (Oregon) Sentinel. TELEGRAPH COMMUNICATION.—At a meeting of the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce, held on Thursday— Mr. Duncan M‘Laren, M.P., presiding—it was unanimously resolved to memorialise her Majesty's Government to issue a royal commission to inquire into the present system of telegraphic communication with a *NY t 9 ite improvement This bankrupt was described as a captain in the Royal Artillery, formerly of Woolwich, then of Malta, and now of Woolwich, and to-day he came up for the order of dis charge. Tho accounts show—Debtor to unsecured creditors, £1,172 ; do., holding security, £l,OOO ; liabilities, £1,500 ; do., £4,545 ; total, £8,217. Creditor, by property given up to the assignees, -£.350; do., with creditors, £1,000; and liabilities per contra, £1,500 ; the deficiency being £5,367. The bankrupt states the cause of his failure to be "in consequence of his having been sued on bills for which ho had received no consideration." Amongst the creditors aro Lieut.-Colonel Artillery, £3OO ; the Sovereign Lifo Insurance, £1,500 and others. It was understood that arrangements would be made and order given by consent. SHERIFFS' COURT. (Before Mr. Commissioner Rein) EXTRAORDINARY LETTER PROM A GIIOST-sELBY T. 'NEWMAN. This was an action to recover 7s. for goods sold to de fendant, and two females appeared as representatives of the defendant. The lady who appeared for defendant did not dispute the debt, but entered into a war of words with the lady who adv i Ocat ed plaintiff's rights. During the discussion defendant's representative said she had received a letter from plaintiff which was very insulting, and upon its being handed up to the bench, his Honour said, " This is not a letter from plaintiff, it is a letter from a ghost." Defendant's representative—Oh! it is a mistake; that is not the one. Current prices of English wool per lb. - s d s d Fleeces—South Down hogets 1 8 1 9 Half-bred d o 2 0 2 1 Kent fleeces South Down ewes and wethers 1 Si 1 9 Leicester do Sorts—Clothing _ . Combing 15 2 0 MAR. SEEDS. Linseed and rapeseed moved off slowly, on former terms. For all other seeds, with the exception of tares, which were in fair request, the trade was dull. Cakes changed hands to a moderate extent, at previous quotations. TALLOW. The tallow trade is steady to-day, at full prices. New P.Y.C. is quoted at 48s Gd per cwt. on the spot, 48s 6d for October to December, and 50s for January to March delivery. Rough fat, 2s 5d per 81bs. Town tallow, 47s Gd net cash. Particulars. 1862. 1863. 1864. 1865. Stock this day 46,649 55,439 47,864 42,427 Price of Y.C. l47s 9d to 45s Od. 4].s 3d 48s 6d to —s Od —s Od —s Od —s Od Delivery last week...... 1,820 1,661 2,465 4,081 Ditto from June 1 29,514 24,814 26,841 38,264 Arrival last week ... 1,857 9,064 2,494 5,038 Ditto from June 1 37911 42,506 29,684 48,208 Price of Town STATEMENT OP TALLOW SHIPPED AT ST. PETERSBURG. 1865. 1864. 1863. Casks. Casks. Casks, Tallow despatched from Cron stadt to Sept. 20„ 0. S 50,198 24,188 49,816 In ships loading and lighters 15,720 16,741 3,714 Loaded off from St. Petersburg Sept. 22, 0. S 65,918 40,929 53,532 Loaded off from St. Petersburg after this date.. 17,427 22,412 Total at close of navigation 58,356 75,944 London Liverpool 2,097 340 Bristol Other, English ports Ireland 560 150 Scotland Germany 2,788 1608 11,612 Franco 1,967 911 2,083 Total.. 50,198 24,188 49,818 POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day, BOW-STREET. A NICE PAIR.—John Holland was placed at the bar charged with being drunk and creating a disturbance. Sergeant Mathews said—Last night the prisoner came to the station-house and demanded to see the inspector. Prisoner—Yes ; I had been robbed by nine or ten thieves, young'uns—(laughter)—and I wanted to tell the inspector. Witness—He was told that no one intoxicated was al lowed to see the inspector, and he then turned round and said he'd teach me my duty. I was compelled by his con duct to charge him with creating a disturbance. It ap pears that he and his wife were making holiday, as she is in custody for drunkenness. Mr. Flowers—l shall fine you 55., or send you to prison for seven days. Prisoner—Pm only a shoeblack, so I suppose I must do the seven. Sarah Holland, the female referred to, was placed at the bar charged with being drunk and incapable. The potman at the Royal Standard public-house, Drury lane, said as ho was outside the house about half-past nine the female was outside drunk. He persuaded her to go away, when she turned round and bit his finger. Mr. Flowers—Did she hurt you very much ? Witness—She did it purposely. (Laughter.) James Patch, barman at the Royal Standard, said the prisoner came into the house for liquor, but she was refused. This circumstance displeased her, and she set to fighting and kicking in such an outrageous manner that she had to be forcibly removed from the house. Prisoner—Your two quarterns of gin made mo so. Witness—You had nothing at our house. All we did was to put you out. Prisoner—l was beat and kicked in a most scandalous manner, and the people cried shame. Mr. Flowers to Witness—Did the people cry shame ? Witness—Nothing of the sort. She threw herself down and they had to get a stretcher to take her to police station. She was too drunk and no mistake. Police-Constable F 54 said, when ho went to take her into custody she said she wouldn't walk, and throw herself on the ground. A stretcher was obtained, and she was carried to the station. She tried to bite him. Mr. Flowers—Has she been here before ? Prisoner—lts six years since I've done seven years. (Laughter.) Gaoler—She was here a few weeks ago. Mr. Flowers--I should have punished you much more than I am going to do but for the fact of your being generally quite when you get intoxicated. You have on this occasion, however, been guilty of biting one of the witnesses and trying to injure another. I therefore shall send you to prison for 14 days. Prisoner—Of course I must go, but bad luck to the wit nesses. She was then locked up. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Two POLICE -CONSTABLES CHARGED WITH ROBBERY.— Two police-constables of the C division, named William Pawson and Thomas Tollough, were charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with stealing a gold watch, of the value of £lO, from the person of a seafaring man named Gurmet Ruffin, while locked up at the Marlborough Police-station. Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, ap peared for Tollough ; and Mr. Lewis, of Ely-place, for Pawson. After hearing the evidence of several witnesses, Mr. Tyrwhitt said the case had been most properly in vestigated, and that a great interest attached to it, inas much as the persons accused were police constables. He (Mr. Tyrwhitt) could not account for the loss of the watch, and he was not bound to do so. It certainly was a most ex traordinary case, but he was of opinion that there was no evidence upon which ho could send the men for trial. He declared that there was not a scintilla of evidence against either man, and had they not been police constables they would never have been placed in the position they were in, being both men of good character, and that fact should always have great weight with him. The accused were then discharged. THAMES. DRUNKENNESS AT A RAILWAY STATION—IMPORTANT CONVICTION. —Joseph Uler, a tall German, was brought be fore Mr Paget, charged with being drunk and incapable of taking care of himself, at the West India Dock station of theßlackwall Railway, last night. The prisoner obtained a ticket from the clerk to convey him to Poplar. He presented it to William Spooner, who discovered he was very drunk and could not walk steadily. The prisoner was informed that he could not be allowed to ascend to the platform, where other passengers were as sembled waiting for the down-train from London. The prisoner insisted on passing, but the ticket-collector would not allow him to do so, on which the pri soner abused him and made a great disturbance. He also used very filthy language, and in the presence of women and children. Ile threatened the station-master, and attempted to strike Spooner. After a scene of great disorder and confusion the prisoner was consigned to the custody of a policeman. Tho evidence of Spooner was confirmed in every par- icular. The prisoner said he had a drop too much yesterday, and told along and very incoherent story about his silver watch which he said was quite safe in his pocket. He was asked his trade or profession, and where he lived, to which he replied that he was a shoemaker, generally employed by captains and mates of foreign vessels, and that he lived at No. 1, Cold Harbour-lane, Blackwall. Mr. Paget said the prisoner had committed a veryserious offence, he did not know a more serious one. Th• ticket collector had acted in a very right and proper manner, and he did wish the same vigilance was exercised at all the stations on the line and at all the railway stations in the kingdom. It was highly improper and dangerous to allow a drunken man or woman to travel on a railway. Nume rous accidents had been caused by it. The conduct of the prisoner was most disorderly and violent, and his language, though delivered in broken English, was most disgusting. He should on every occasion of this kind inflict the full penalties. He fined the prisoner 403., which was the maxi mum fine for drunkenness at a railway station. The prisoner asked the mazistrate permission to go home and fetch the money. _ . Mr. Paget—No, if you don't pay it before two o'clock you will have to travel in the police van to the House of Correction. A FACT FOR THE CURIOUS.—A gentleman belong ing to Coupar-Angus, while on his way home from Rotterdam to Leith, on the 9th September, at noon, and when about 100 miles from the mouth of the Rhine, en closed his card in a bottle, pencilling on the back of it that ho would pay a sum of money to any one who brought or sent the card to his address. The bottle, carefully corked, was dropped from the steamer Holyrood about 12 o'clock noon of the 9th September, and on Wednesday morning (the 10th October), the gentleman received, per post, the identical note from a fisherman, who had picked it up on the shore near Sizwell Gap, about 7 miles north of Orford ness, in the county of Suffolk. The battle was found at 3 o'clock on the afternoon of the sth inst. The gentleman at once transmitted the promised reward to the finder. It is somewhat remarkable that a promissory -note placed in such a position should within a Month's time be p resen t e d for payment,--Dundee Advertiser. Visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to ltoxburghshire. KELSO, Sat u rday. For some mo n th s past the Prince and Princess of Wales have been expected to honour Rexburglashire with a visit, having received an accepted and invitation from the Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe to stay a few days at their palatial residence of Floors Castle, near Kelso. In accord ance with pre-vious areangement, their Royal Hielnesses will arrive at Floors on Tuesday next, and they have inti mated their intention of attending the Kelso race -meeting on the following Wednesday and Thursday. Tho ducal family have been honoured on two former occasions-with a visit from Prince Alined, who then enjoyed some excel lent fishing on the Tweed; and it is said that the Duke contemplates initiating the heir-apparent to the thron e into the mysteries of salmon-fishiugs The enthusiasm of the Borderers shows their high appreciation of the honour conferred upon them by their distinguished visitors. In the times when the Kers, the Scots, the Dougiases, the Elliots, and the Armstrongs rejoiced in their raids upon offending- or prosperous neighbours, or patrioticaily united in repelling an incursion of the "hated Southrons," the presence of royalty in Tweedside and the adjacent country was not so rare an event as now, nor sornetimes, we may add, so agreeable. Witness the Laird ol Hende-land as he swung be:ore his own castle-gate by the peremptcey order of his incensed monarch, James V. But tempera mutantur, the advent of royal: y to this district cores now as a luxury, and the preparations being made in Kelso and the neigh bouring towns to give the Pelnee and Princess a suitable welcome, show that their arrival will be masked as a red le: ter day in the Border calendar. Kelso has called in the aid of art to add to and enhance its many natural attractions; I:duel/ph:l arches, decorations, have been speedily subscribed for, and are being busily erected; hoHdays have been promulgated by the town au: beetles ; while hotel keepers and others posseeted of letable apartments tell, in their own cautious, self -complacent way, how they have, Without d i fficulty, di awn on the pockets of intending visi tors dining the race days to the time of a " gowden guinea" or two, in exchange for a single nigtat's accmrmodation. It may not, therefore, be out of piece to give some descrip tion of this interesting and picturesque locality, - noticing a few particulars in the history of the family whose guests the Prince and Psincess are so soon to become. It is a difficult matter to determine the founder of the ducal house of Roabu •-g he. On the Innes's side it is said that the pre sent Duke is the 30th in descent from Berowaldus, a famous Fleming who settled in Moray about the 12th century, while t :e mire of Ker is said to have been bolas by one of the principal officers of William the Conquir. or. The peer age writers, howeves, give John Ker, of the Forest of Sel ho lived about 1358, as the founder of the house of Cessfosd and Roxburghe. Ever since the 14th century the family of Ker has occupied a psomineet place in the history of Scotland. As wardens of the midd'e and eastern marches, and having their baronies in the debateable borderland between England and Scotland, they, with the Scotts and Douglrnes, were the chief actors in those raids, fire-sais jogs; and conflicts which had so much of the romantic in their nature that their history has been recorded in ballads and songs. The first of the family raised to the peerage was Sir Robert Ker, of Cessford, by the title of Earl Roxburghe. He was Gentleman of the LedchambestoJarees VI., cad in 1606, seven years after his first creation, he was made Baron Ker. Having no male heir, he in 1648, by charter from the crown, nominated Sr . William Drum mond, son of his daughter Jean, Countess of Perth, hisheir, and at his death Sir William succeeded to the title. Earl William was distinguished for his military genius in Hol land, and for his strong attachment to the Royalist cause was fined £6,000 by Cromwell. His son John, for his ser vices in bringing about the Union, was created Duke of Roxburghe by Queen Anne. A writer of his time de scribes him "as an honour of his country abroad, the or nament of the court at home ; a prince of great learning, as well as a fine gentleman ; was Secretary of State to Queen Anne, and continues the same to King George." Robert, his son and successor, never married. He had wooed and would have been married to Christina Sophia, daughter of the Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, had not her younger sister, the Princess Charlotte, been espoused to George 111., and it was thought not proper that the elder sister should be the subject of the younger. On the demise of William, the fourth Duke, in 1805, without issue, a long litigation ensued between two claimants for the honours and estates in the persons of Sir James Norcliffe Innes and Brigadier-General Ker of Littledean, and not until 1812 did the law decide in Sir James's favour. He assumed the name of Ker, and had been married in 1807 to Harriet, daughter of Benjamin Charleswood of Windles ham. He died in 1823, leaving issue the present duke, who was born in July, 1816, and who married the daughter of General Sir Charles Dalbiac, G.C.B. Her grace's mother is mentioned in Napier's "Peninsular War" for her heroic conduct in fearlessly attending her husband through the dangers and privations of two cam paigns. The duchess, as one of the ladies in waiting on the Queen, recently accompanied her Majesty to Germany. The Inneses are of Flemish extraction, and many remark able men who filled high offices in Church and State have sprung from Berowaldus, the first of the name, and of his posterity it has been said " they have either been notable or happy in that their inheritance never went to a woman ; that none of them married an ill wife, and that no friend ever suffered for their debt." Sir Walter Scott, in speaking of the situation of Floors Castle, the residence of the Duke of Roxburghe, says : " The mansion of Fleurs (or Floors), with its terrace, its woods, and its extensive lawn, forms altogether a kingdom for Oberon or Titania to dwell in, or any spirit who before thes7 time might love scenery of which the majesty and even the beauty impress the mind with a sense of awe mingled with pleasure." The Tweed, for some miles above the castle, flows between lofty and picturesque banks, but at Floors a spacious plain opens up on the left bank, and on a terrace commanding the view of the river the castle is built. Its dimensions are palatial, and the architecture of the Tudor-Elizabethan order. Alarge rectangular block, flanked by towers crowned with minarets, occupies the centre of the building, and on each side of the towers ex tensive wings, surmounted by dome and turret, stretch northward, forming a stately quackangle, from which can be viewed the old and once almost impregnable bar on'al seat of the Fomes and the weird three-cleft; Eiidons. The prospect :"rom the south side of the caa:le is very fine, and 'embraces the old castle of Roxburgh, the town of Kelso, with its venerable massive ruined abbey, and the delight ful panorama of country where Tweed and Teviot flow almost side byside, and at last mingle their waters ; as also the genay undulating and finely wooded upland etreteh ing to aid bounded by the blue Cheviots. In the 1. - wn sloping from Floors Castle to the Tweed is the spot marked by a holly-tree where James 11. was killed by the bursting of a cannon, when besieging Roxburgh Castle, which stands facing Floors. Of this old and once im portant fortress, the scene of many a siege and treaty—at one time in the possession of the English, at another of the Scottish armies—the remains yet convey an idea of its size, strength, and strategical importance in Border warfare. Occupying almost wholly the neck of the peninsula be ' twecn. the Tweet and Teviot it was natrrally well forti fied, and from its geographical position was, in the words of Earl Hes t:ord in a letter to Henry VIII., "surely the very seat and place which shall and may scourge, and keep in obedience, both the Marches and Tevietdale." The archways and huge blocks of wall on the Teviot side still remind the traveller of the "towering fortress" and its his torical associations; but within its walls tall trees now rise, and sheep browse on its battlements and in its moat, and on summer holidays picnic partiesquiely regale them selves, after satisfying their historical tastes and beholding the magnificent view from the ridge on which it is built, with the contents of their hampers—fearing no foe. Under the west wing of irloors Castle stands what up to within a few yea: s was the principal Sower garden. It is 5.'1.1. however, kept up, and _presents a very gay appear ance during the spring and summer months, being bedded out with choice flowers. This garden is of limited dimen sions, but is laid out, after a very elaborate and tasteful design, in the Italian or geometrical style. At the north end of it is a conservatory, always filled with gorgeous flowers from the conservatories and green-houses when the ducal family are residing at the castle. In the centre of this house is a bed filled with camelias of considerable size, all in excellent health, some of which are reckoned among the best specimens in Britain. Leaving this part of the gardens, there is a choice of two paths leading to the flower and kitchen gardens, which are about throe hundred s ards to the woat. The way by which we ap proached was through what may be termed a bower, formed on the one side by the flank of a wood and on the other by some noble specimens of Spanish chestnuts ; at the extreme of which there at once bursts upon our view in all its splendour the principal flower garden. Nature could not have perhaps provided a more beautiful site for it, and Art has done its share in make it a delightful snot. It is bounded on the north side by what is generally acknowledged to be the finest range of glass in Britain, extending to about 85,000 square feet. On the east and south it is encircled by stately trees. The west side is bounded by the east wall of the thchen garden, which is planted with hederacea and ether climbing plants, so that in a year or two this will also bo a sheet of living green, forming a tapestry rivalling all the skill of science and art. This garden has an area of several acres laid out on the geometrical style, and planted after the same fashion as the gardens of South Kensington. The glass already referred to is divided into eight compart ments, all span roofed ; the largest hous l e lk bo u r p being a the centre, conser vatory 250 feet long, having a winding and filled with many rare and beautifullof a 'spe size, specimens of the two of n b e i ng conservatories,fthe finest exotics. The other houses are al plant stove, three vineries, and s one peach-house. The plants a plants are of the finest in cultiva tion, and bear evidence that the highest skill and ability have been employed in their management. The kitchen garden comprises four acres, and is nicely walled in, having six acres without for growing the more common vegetables. Glass here is also in great abundance, consisting of peach houses, vineries, pineries, orchard and fern houses, greenhouses, cucumber, melon, and propagating houses, with numerous other places for horticultural purposes. All these different divisions have been laid out within the last seven years, under the direction of Mr. Rose, the p r incipal gardener, whos e s kil l as an eminent horti culturist was evinced at the international flower show held in Edinbur4h a few weeks ago,--Telegraph. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE —This Day. VICTORIA CLUB BETTING-THIS DAY. THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 10 to 1 agst Gladiateur (taken and offered) 100 to 8 agst Provisor (offered) 100 to 8 agst Salpinetes (offered) 18 to 1 agst Custard Castle (offered—take 20 to 1) 18 to 1 agst The Duke (offered) 20 to 1 agst Wedding Peal (offered) 25 to 1 agst Ostregor (offered) 28 to 1 agst Sister to Drake (offered) 30 to 1 agst Gontran (offered) 30 to 1 agst Gratitude (offered) 33 to 1 agst Bacchus (taken) 33 to 1 agst Holstein (taken) 40 to 1 agst John Davis (taken) GO to 1 agst Lady Egidia (taken and offered) 50 to 1 agst Copenhagen (taken) 6G to 1 agst Kate Hampton (taken) 66 to 1 agst Gomera (offered) 1000 to 10 agst Victory (taken) BOMBAY AND MAITRITITTS MAILS. - The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Syria, Capt. E. Christian, arrived at Southamp . ton on Saturday evening, with the heavy portion of the Bombay and Mauritius mails, in charge of Mr. Douglas, of the General Post-office. She brought 129 passengers (of whom 34 were first class, 34 second, and 61 deck), £1,380 in specie, 2,396 bales of silk, 23 cases of Indian shawls, .2 casks of wi ne , and 122 packages of general merchandise. The Syria left Alexandria on the 2d inst., Malta on the sth, and Gibraltar on the 9th. She had fine weather between Alexandria and Malta; strong head winds from Malta to Gibraltar ; strong south westerly gales and heavy seas along the coasts of Spain and Portugal ; rainy weather and strong north-westerly swell across the Bay of Biscay ; and moderate winds, with cloudy weather, in the Channel. On the sth inst., at 9.30 p.m., the Syria spoke the Pera steamer, bound to Malta ; on the 6th, at 6 p.m., the Ocean King, bound for Liverpool ; on the 7th, at 10.15 a.m., the Calpe, for Liverpool ; and on 11th, at S a.m., a ship bearing third distinguishing pendant. • ' The Egyptian steamers, Charkieh and Dakahlieh, a Sardinian corvette, and two French steamers, were at Alexandria when the Syria left. Her Majesty's ship Pelican was at Malta and the Redpole at Gibraltar. There was very little shipping in Gibraltar Bay. The British brig Test, Captain Roberts, from Port Madoc, put in at Gibraltar on the Ist inst. to land the crew, six in number, of the late schooner Marie Antoinette (of Nantes), Captain Dejoie, which foundered on the 2Gth of September, in lat. 39 44 N., long. 13 13 E., while on her voyage from Adra to Nantes with a cargo of lead. The Test proceeded on her voyage to Naples without anchor ing. Latest quotations of exchange at Gibraltar were as follows :—London, 90 days' date, 491 tof ; Paris, ditto, sf. 22c. to 23c. ; Marseilles, ditto, sf. 23c.; Madrid, 8 days' sight, 1 dis. ; Cadez, ditto, 1.1 to 2 dis. ; Seville, ditto, par to dis ; Malaga, ditto, to dis. The above exchanges are nominal. The cholera at Gibraltar is reported to continue in the descending scale. The fall of rain at the beginning of the month, which amounted altogether to 2} inches, appeared to have a good effect, and the number of cases daily oscillated, but on the whole the epidemic seemed to be steadily declining. The Chronicle of the 9th inst. says :—" The report of the public health to-day is favourable. The cholera cases are few, and the fresh westerly breezes and cooling showers now experienced, which are agreeable to the feelings and favourable to the general health, will, we hope, hasten the final departure of the malady. There is, too, a more cheerful and ani mated appearance in our streets, and the spirits of the people have been raised by the re-opening of the trade with Barbary. The Tangier Board has re duced the vigour of its measures, and has substituted for the total exclusion of vessels from Gibraltar a six days' quarantine in Moorish ports. The board has also facilitated the embarcation of provisions for Gibraltar at Tangier by allowing them to be shipped under health guard supervision from lighters along side, assimilating their quarantine rules in this par ticular to those of European ports. It is to be hoped that, with the disappearance of cholera, free inter course with Barbary will be speedily restored, and in the meantime the recent modifications of their quarantine rules by the Tangier Board has caused general satisfaction to the commercial portion of this community." The following is the official notification issued at Gibraltar on the 9th inst. by the Colonial Secretary of the regulations respecting quarantine made by the Morocco Board of Health :—" In consequence of cholera having appeared in many places, the Mo rocco Board of Health have decided that every vessel arriving at Tangier, either with a clean or foul bill of health, her captain must declare whether there are any sick on board, signing such declaration. Should there be one or more sick the ship will be visited by a doctor, and if the sickness has the cha racter of cholera the vessel will be sent away to un dergo a quarantine at a lazaretto. A vessel arriving from an infected port will undergo a quarantine of six complete days ; a health guard will be placed on board, and the vessel will be anchored in such place as may be directed. At the expiration of six days its admission to pratique will be granted until inspected by a doctor. Should there be any sick on board ou the arrival of a vessel or at the end of the quarantine imposed, such vessel will be sent to a lazaretto. Vessels arriving with cleanbills of health, and which touched at an infected port without communicat ing, will be admitted to pratique. Vessels arriving in quarantine will be allowed to take in provisions and depart under the surveillance of a health officer; should they return, the time that they would have passed in quarantine cannot be allowed to count in the new quarantine, even if they have not commu nicated with an infected port. Vessels arriving with Hadjis and with a foul bill of health will be sent to the Island of Mogador to land in quarantine their passengers. These passengers will undergo a qua rantine according to the peculiar circumstances of the case. Vessels with Hadjis arriving from non suspected ports with a clean bill of health will not be permitted to land them until after a visit from a doctor, and their disembarkation will be at such place as may be indicated by the President of the Board. Vessels arriving from Gibraltar to load must have a health guard on board, but those arriving to perform quarantine at Tangier need not to be so provided. The barges destined to transport provisions, &c., to vessels will be taken near such vessels, where they will be left, and the sailors of the vessels will load without help from the people from shore. After this, the barges will be washed with seawater in the presence of the health officer and abandoned to be retaken by the people from shore." SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE —This day. LONDON, Oct. 16.—Wind this day at noon—South. Westerly; moderate breeze and flue weather, but rather cloudy. PLYMOUTH', Oct. 15.—Wind S.W.—Arrived-13015in, from Mauritius. PORTSMOUTH, OCt. 15.—Wind a._ .Rer Ma jesty's ship Salamis, on a cruise. QUEENSTOWN, Oct. 14.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Ellswick, from Liverpool for Montreal. OFF FALMOUTH, Oct. 15.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Fire Queen, from China. YOUGUAL, Oct. 14.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Georgo and Philip, from Quebec. DARTMOUTH, Oa. 1 3.—Wind S.W.—Arrived----British Empire, from. Quebec. SOMETHING LIKE A SHOT.—Mr. Adam Leding ham, gamekeeper to Mr. Simeon Keir, while out shooting upon the Lesmurdie moors, in this county, upon Thursday last, discharged his double-barrelled gun at a large covey of grouse that were flying past him, andbrought down five out of their number. Mr. Ledingham, after loading his fowling piece, saw another large pack of grouse flying in the same direction; and while they were in the act of passing him he discharged both barrels among them and brought down 12 out of their number, thus killing in all at the two dis charges 17 fine, plump, strong grouse, making a hit in grouse-shooting that probably has no parallel in the annals of sport, more especially at this season of the year, when the grouse have such a coating of feathers upon their bodies as greatly defends them from the shot.—Banffikire Journal. 41041 1021 1054 I