The Sun. — London, England, 1866-08-25 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Continued quietude prevails in the Money Mar ket, and as lower rates are no% at all improbable, the mercantile community are only providing for llntnediate wants. Short-dated paper of undoubted character has been negotiable as low as 61 per cent., altho ug h 6} per cent. should be quoted as the general charge. In the Stock Exchange the supply . of money on off er h as b een very a b un d an t, an d the terms from day to d a y h ave bee n 4 to 41 per cent. I he Nyanza has arrived this morning from Alex andria, with £607,000 and the William Duthie, from Melbourne, with £14,000. With regard to the affairs of the English Joint- Stock Bank, the liquidators, Mr. C. F. Kemp and Henry Chatteris, state that they have been preve nted by legal difficulties in declaring a divi dend as soon as they contemplated, but they hope t ° be able to propose a dividend of Bs. in the pound on the 10th September. The bullion operations reported at the Bank of England yesterday aft ern o on co m prised an influx of £ 2 2,000 in bar gold, and a withdrawal of £73,400. 0 D ing the we e k th e s p ec i e movemen t h as been a n a leas extensive scale. The imports have I Meanted t o a b out £699,069, chiefly from Austra bla and the Continent, while the exports have is e en £424,030 , t h e greater port i on of w hi c h h as ueen to America and the Continent. Two o'CLocK. At the t erm i nat i on of bus i ness the d i scount mar ket was still in a very quiescent condition. b Th e different markets for stocks and shares have heel]. buoyant throughout the day, no adverse event _ft.NTing transpired to check Con buoyancy noticeable i forwithia the last few days. sols are firm at 88/ money, and az 88/ 89 for the account. wi T e tgli Bonds, with the exception of Turkish Fives, American suddenly declined, are either firm, or firmer. ajnierican securities, stocks, and shares are higher, T h ` 4E ,nglish railways have likewise been in favour. •e 4 ew Threes and Reduced Annuities are 87/ 88; 40 2i per cents., 70f ; Exchequer Bills, 3s. prem 4 1144 5 per ce n t s ., 1031 s; and the ditto Enfaced 1)e! cents., 991 1001. M ost of th e pr i nc i pa l F ore i gn S toc k s s h ow im °7. e 7 .tnent. G ree k B on d s h ave a d vance d 1 to 1214; li an a; /to 531 1 ; Mexican, / to 161 1; and the e: az ati Scrip, 1 to 21 2 dis. Turkish 5 per eta., howe ver , h ave rece d e d 1 t o 24/ 251; and ~attisit C ert ifi cates, / to 141 i s_ v e rY little a lt era ti on h as t a k en pl ace i n American cnriti es. 7 toi 1; United States 5-20 Bonds have risen 7 ‘v Erie Shares are 441 45 ; and Illinois, . 4 1 1. b a The Atlantic a n d G r eat Western Debentures ti: e receded 2 per cen t ., v i z., t o 59 61 on realisa -11 a fter the rec en t i m p or t an t advance, but the Conso lidated Mortgage Bonds are firmly supported at 4 6 48. pat n t he Railway Share Market business has been fi r m e r quiet, a l t h oug h prices generally s how more fir her Great Northern A Stock have advanced an ;i ' - /reat Easter n , North-Western, Metropolitan, N' erth-Easte rn (Berwick) each 10s., and South "teril £1 10s. wihout ge f oreign and colonial lines remain inactive, much variation in prices. Grand Trunk of a h Il eti :""ave declined to 20/, while Great Indian tins*. have improved to 1061 to /. a llee a nk and Mi sce ll aneous Sh ares are qu i e t . Alli -05 I are dealt in at 201; London and County at )44: 1: 171 don of L on d on , 47 1 ; C re dit F onc ier and at ii' Ler of England at 3/ dis. ; London Financial dis. ; and National Discount Co. at 81 1 preen. t, B RITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLO CK. a " o vtitNm E b e ,. c _ , NT FUNDS. 1) vr it. Consols a 0 . Ac e° 89 " 1 Per e, unt, Aug. 9 88 71 I lev. , 3 t ' l lt• Reduced N ew 3 Per Cent BB 71- D o t Per Cent. Jan. 1894 7Ol 14 14 . r Per Cont. Jan. 1873 — Do', l s, 3 0 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 otetor(oc, yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — ' 3 ea Telegraph), Aug, 1908 — March. June. tieh e o.aer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 per Cent. — 3 pm £5OO 3 Ea no hk o f t , £lOO and £2OO D o A -u-digland Stock, 54 per Cent — Do Ina l AN Gn -,1 44 c , -VERNMENT SECURITIES. o. etOk, 101 per Cent., AprillB74 7034 4 80. 4 P e r Cent. July, 1870 D e. eper Cent., Oct. 1888 Do. errtiacates _ _ D o. 5 iliaced Paper 4 per Cent De, sP er Cent., Jan. 1872 991 11040. Iferr Cent, May 1879 — b ) 0.1304_5 Per Cent, Aug. 1873 ) 4 per Cent., £l,OOO — ° " 44 cle' Pin r £l,OOO !PR by IP°IIBIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. siksetri,l%_RePublic, 6 per Cont., £l5 pd — pm ',, a zilia -- 11 4) ° g ads, 5 per Cent, 1859 — .0 li: ' Per Ce n t — ' l l Per Cent 1852 58-60 o. .1 - 1) 1863 — be b A o, 1865 — ` Lee elint • D t 1 00 13 4,t o. 8 . Bonds 40 0 erl P, £65 paid 8 Ayr 8 6 — t, 410 0 Per Cent _ t,e) . „ . _ Dad s ailf4,,v"r Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) N. 4 1 , Per Cen t _ ~t),), 6 2 Per C ent — t Do ie tter C ent et i lar ebili,, 47 4 paid 1) 4 1 6 a " s',Per Cent. _ so. _ b laf t Ter uent. D 4 „ s NPer Cent., 1825 — 4 4 . r 0,,,, t ~ bo ' a n P • •'' I°6l . % • ge e rin elPalities for ii. allt be,' Pr o Y„Consolidated, 1 per Cent _- 16, ° Deforvrislonal Land Warrant _ tia ' ll 7 It i r_ to S eeo ,_ , Cent. 874 u 1 4(1 00 n Issue 1)„43. 4°11(18 — Do— —-40013 1864 851 j j _ (1 0 , 'Duds Or °. 40'12111e/it Railway Debentures — a ek Paid be ' Per b• Ae Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons t,1,0 e e°ll 4t .. ou, o. A yel ls 111 . te raal ou ta I ) 'ti 5 °,,,.° Per Cent. _ b o , A e r o r Cent 1865 _ kr' far o "t Ita4llD iau b o. 4 3 „_. a R a i lway 4,.yer oent— -13 1);; ; eallt 1, 1 ° 6 ~0t , ,,. pe r o _ 1864 ‘oorividea,,e2ll. Anglo-French — o D s h I rn ' ° Per Cent., £3O paid 1 1 48? Land trial 5 per Cent _ _ D o 4 2 ran al r a arrants (Hectares) V II° . D Per °eat tr iAv . ef err _ Oe! o a 5 ed 13 Ae Per Cent 1865 4 ° 3 ce ntit " , A Per e b () 0 :4 po„eilt• (Uribarren) — 'art "et - ' b ut., 1862 4 D'N °°° t ... „ Per 3 h o. u 4 pe r o ler Cent 1853 ~ 4 4 . te ou n IA., 1856, '7 , '9 , '6O , '62 , '3 , b o la i n 5 por t 431 1) 1 it Per C Ce nt, 1822, £ St b e , p er 4' ll l. 1850 t ) o Pet o` l e e nt, 1860 il bo . kr 0 ut. 1859 4 r(li:. Per Olt. 1862 BB4 il 1) 0. 1 4, 5 cut 186 4 k w Ac co Per Cent b o Nt 3 1111 t ~0 4, . p er 0 _... ......................... ij liZ: 4l lt " 37 oA. bere 413 0 0 `) l'aestse°illl,llot. r..r.°.4 3 24 1)1,,.i..ee1, i'.1 . 41 %Q;;,,,•,i l ij ( iiBl e i t(l tlut . ° ° ll P not funded —, t 0 A. 1301..„-. ali t . 'i p e ‘-;eut. h 1 8 4 r e en „ ‘ D 0 A " Per 0 " 186 4 o ee out. 1851 — 1) 6 e ° r 4 o nt •'• . h. a. A e‘.... _e l:4. . i..:!..: e41.6 - ( rilllt . Q " ) 5 o 6 toil PO A Per 0 48 . 4 --k c Out . 1,.,! b° lo C o nllit ... °" . 3 ~ o 6 s_ nola: Do 5 Per e e z _ A Per 'l , ' 1 863 — veto. Cent. itecnlot) 1865, paid up Scrip — tiezi per r, ......... Aee 3 per ,vuoaranteed — ') G ° alit ' e nt. ... kr 0 Do, A ert ,. .. _ ... reeont ' ' 1862„ il.4s_pe!. cl,_ !, ............... - st ri .o iN ei zt, 1864 ~i ,..,441, 6 8 oil tb.... above payable ......... • payable in London. 4 . ) :, 4 : li P2r c ell , .„? t." 1 1:1 0 4 ki ,) Per cent.' LX. 10 Florins ttli 4 * eorir r " e rito. .E l ' 4l * I) k. 5 , teat ° , E. 12 Guil„ — -.s.4,ket:er teat., . ... ............. E 4 24 ' 186 4 Ex. 25f 0 4 • ........ iv • 6,34 -Lol l ", `:.°11 11t j TWO O'CLOCK. 881 ir ...................... 88i SHARE MARKETS.—This Day. Share, Railways. b 8 VO 125 127 38 43 13 15 4 8 67 70 70 72 111 tl3 251 24 5 6 121 123 1.8 129 89 91 G3l 54 35 37 33 36 1211 12?, ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. 27 I 54 I Paid.i Closing I Business Price. done. lSrlatoi awl Caledonian Cambrian. Cork and Bandon Corn wall Dublin & Belfast June Dun„l'erth, & A b.Junc M. Loudon, Berip Certi (ilaSir.OW & S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. stk. Do. K Angl. at. No. 2 Great North of Scotland Great Northern D.,. A stock • • • Do. B stock Do. New, Is. at 25 pm GtS, and W. of Ireland t.. Western -Original Do. S. Val. Rail gua, Do. South Wales Do. W. Mid.—Oxford Do. Newport Do. _Hereford.. Lancashire & Yorkshire London and Blackwall Lon., Brigh., & S Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Do. Metrop. Ex. A Lon. & North Western Lon. 1; South Westorn Man., Shet., & Lincoln Metropolitan. Do. New Do. Extension lietropolitan District Do. do. do. I Do. and St. John'sW'd Mid!and Do. £9 Share Do, Birmin.. & Derby' did 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 North London I Do. do. 1864 Do. do. 1865 North Staffordshire N. Jr S. W. Junction Scnttish Central Scot. N. E Aber. stock Do. Scot, Mid. stJck Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern Staines, Wok., & Wok raff Vale Do. C Vale of Nealh Waterford & Kilkenny Waterloo & Whitcha West Cornwall 84 86 17 18 117 )10 SCI 91 58 b 9 128 129 2 3 p 106 101 91 93 119 120 If 2j 9U 02 53 55 e 2 21 102 101 66 69 97 99 34 35 9 11 j 119 121 1 2p 1 2p i 3 75 111 114 152 156 74 76 45 47 64 65 7i 84 14 145 2 3 ; 99 102 53 55 171 18 118 i 2 10} 681 i 9 1271 b POSSESSIONS. Atlantic & St. Lawrence Bom.,Baroda. Cen.ln. gu. 5 per cent Do. I' shares Buffalo & Lake Huron Do. Preference Butl:,Brant,& Goderfch 6 p.c. i 872-- Calcutta & S. E., lim ,:ape Town & Dock, gn Demerara, 7 p.c. per. is East. Bew4al, gu., 5 do East Indian, gu. 5 p.c., Do. J Extension rand Trunk of Canad a Do. Equip. Mort. Boucle 1 charge 6 p.c Do. Ist Pref. Bonds • Do. do deferred Do. 2d Pr, f. Bonds Du. do. deferred Do. Zd Pref. stock 1 Do. do. deferred I Do. 4th Pref. stook Do. do. deterred Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c Lo. Gua. 5 per cent Do. New gua. 5 p. 0 tit. South of India gua. 5 per cent D 41 per cent Do Great Wes. of Canada Da. New .. .... •. • • Do. 6 p. c. Bds. pay.. 187 31 Do. 54 do, pay. 1877-8 1 Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.O Do. 41 do Do. 4i do Do. Fifth Extension Melb. Cor. 6 p. c. Buds. Mel. & Hudson's Bay N. ttl.C'da, 6pc ls t pf.bs icinde ..... Do. Delhi Do. do Do. Puniaub...• Do.lndus St.lelot 100 100 'Co all 100 100 53 55 93 100 Id ip .1 44 74 14 76 BO 60 65 100 102 094 KO!, 09 101 2D 22 85 87 55 68 48 52 50 55 45 50 40 45 31 31 24 23 24 26 105 le6 P it COLONIAL GOV= British Columbia, 6 per cent., Dec.3l, 1372 Can.G 0v.6 p.c.Ja.dr July 1877-b4 Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Aug Do. 5 p. c. Mar. ,t Sept Do. 5 p. c. Jan. & July Do. 5 p c. inscribed 8k Cape G. Hope, 5 p.c. 1873 Do.Apl.&Oct 1890-1900 Do. do; 1880-9' , Do. Jan. &J uly, 1890-9 Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and 15 Oct., 1900 Colon, Nov. 1868, 6 p Do. 1878, do 3tauritius, 6 p. o , 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1878 ... )o. 1882. Mayls, Nov. IS Do. 1895, Feb. & Aug Natal Gov. 6 per cent N. 11.Gov.6p.c.Ja.,10uly N. S.W. Gov. 5 ire., 186. Do. 5 p.c. 18:1 to 1871. Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1892 New Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 5 per cent Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. C sterling, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6 p. c 3. Aus.Gov. 6 p,o 1868-9 Do. 1878 & upwards Vio,Gov. 6 p.C. Ja & July Do. do, April & Oct 98 100 91 93 14 IV/ 5i 5 d 01 23 83 A 5 11 0:1•1 97 08 89 01 83 87 8, S 2 96 97 90 1I 1 95 96 103 1001 100 241 MI ! IS3IENT SECUI 92 94 93 9: 91 9~i 75 77 75 77 99 101 102 101 102 101 100 103 80 8) 100 102 105 1 7 102 104 103 105 101 (03 IC3 105 97 100 90 D 2 90 02 90 95 S 3 85 92 04 73 75 .11' 1 Po:, 94 96 90 413 102 104 103 105 5 6 811 •Di 400 420 13 15 6 8 * 1 2 3 7i' 3 34 19 20 to 21 22 2 32 11 31 3} 4 6 31 41 21 11c1 35 45 2 4 i 1 20 25 325 375 If I 174 /A 9 11 3 5 1 2 6 7 60 65 115 125 80 85 10 15 3 5 130 140 8 10 BRITISII 31: Cam. Consol. Gold, Lim Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated Devon G. Cons. (Taoist Drake wal ls East Bassett (Illogan) East Caradon East Carn Brea East Grenville East Gunnislake East Lovell E. W'l Russell (Tavistk Gam.& StAubyn(G wen. Great Limey, Great South Tolgus Great Wheal Busy G. Wheal Vor (lielston Grenville Herod's Foot Hingston Downs Margaret (Uny Lelant Marke Valley Mwyndy Iron Ore, Um New Se ton North Roskear N.Wh'l Bassett (Mogan North Wheal Crotty Prosper United Providence Uny Lelant S. Caradon (St. Cleer) South Condurrow S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan Stray Park Tin Croft Vigra and Clogan, West Bassett (Mogan W. Caradon (Liskeard West C hi verton . . West Seton . Wheal Bassett 'Mogan Wheal Buller (Itedruth Wheal Mary Ann (Men Wheal Seton Wheal Trelawney (Lie 2.1.0 296 2.14.0 31 2.14.0 8.3.0 3.9.0 10.8.0 all 0.14.6 14.9.6 58 5.17.0 4 ?REFERENCE 8 Bristol and Exeter 4 per cent stock, 84 Great W es tern Orig. prof. 44 per cent pf., ARIiJS. I'EN;FERENCE SHAKES AND STOCKS. North Eastern, Stockton and Darlington, Class D. pf., 261 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. London and Blackwall, 79 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San Francisco, lial., gut'. 7 per cent., 13 Dutch Rhenish, lOi Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidln), 5 San Paulo, lim., gna. 6 per cent., 14; South Austrian and:Lombardo Venetian, 151 FOREIGN MINES. St. John dcl Rey, lim., 47 United Mexican, Um., I f BANKS. Alliance, lim., 20 Anglo Austrian, 511 Bank of Queensland, lim, 91 British North American. 471 Consolidated Bank, lim., 5 4; East London. lim., 31 Imperial Ottoman, 81. Land Mortgage Bank of India, lim.Z3/ Do. 5 per cent. Debentures, IEOI, for 30 yearo, 83 London and River Plate. Ditto, issued at 11 pm., 111 Ditto, ditto, 8 London and County, 851 5 London Joint Stock, 43 1 London and Westminster, 931 Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, lim., 11 National Provincial of England,— Ditto, 2d and 3d issue, 40, Union of London, 471 MISCELLANEOUS. Anglo-American Telegraph, 11 Atlantic Telegraph, per cent. gua. lira., 65 Herlin Water Works, lira., City Discount, Urn, 1k City Offices, lira., 21 Credit roncler and Rol:alter of England, 41 Discount Corporation, 10 Fore-street Warehouse, lira ., 101 nen. Credit and Finan ce of Lonnon, 4 London Financial Association, lira., 12 Nr.tional Discount Company, 13} Ditto, new, issued at 5 prem., of whioh 3 is to pay, 53 Peninsula and Oriental Steam, 6& Ditto, new, 50 Royal Mail Steam, IL9I 10 Liverpool Cotton Market.—This Day. Market opens steady. Sales vrobably about 8,000 bales. FEMALE BEAUTY.—The plainest face is redeemed by a lovely skin and colour; the most beautiful is nut per fect without it. Paints and powders aro absurd to the eyes of beholders, and deceivo none but the silly wearers of those ruinous applications. A gentlewoman of rank, from philanthropic motives, is anxious to impart to every one of her sex, rich or poor, the means of procuring the most beautiful natural complexion by wholesome, simple, effective, and inexpensive means.—Send stamped directed envelope for particulars to Mrs. GRANTLEY, 4, Connaught terrace, Hyde-park, Loudon, W.---(Anyr.) niE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVEINid, AUGUST 25, Mi. Great Northern Railway Meetinz.—This Day. The ordinary half-yearly meeting of this company was held to-day at the King's Cross station—Colonel Pack; M.P., the Chairman, presiding. The report, which has been published, was taken as read. The Chairman, in moving the adoption of the report, said that it had been his good fortune at every meeting at which he presided to congratulate the shareholders on an increase in their dividends, but ho regretted to state that on the present occasion he had to inform them that the dividend would be reduced ono half. The company had earned £50,000 more than they had done the previous half-year, but to earn that amount they had to expend £17,000. The increase in the expenditure had arisen from causes which the management could neither fore see or control. The capital account had increased during the last half year £766,000, of which £21,000 had been spent in the incorporation of the West Yorkshire stock. The carrying on of the works had increased by £335,478, and the increase as regarded the rolling stock wft5L156,719. Tho revenue receipts during the past half-year were not so profitable as could have been wished. There was, how ever, an increase of £621,110 on the coach, mail, and that description of traffic. There had been a decrease in the merchandise traffic as compared with the corresponding period last year, which arose chiefly on the mineral traffic, and that was caused by the warmth oi l the weather in December and January last, which of course had the effect of diminishing the amount of coal carried on their line. An increase of £3,456 had been incurred by the relaying of portions of their line, and the large increase in the loco motive department was owing to the running of 2,090 miles more than last half-year. Owing to the increase of the rate of wages their expenses in that department was £13,000, but it must be remembered they employed about 9,000 men. He regretted to say that the amount for compensation during the past half-year was £12,058, although the directors dis puted the claims where there was a chance of resisting them successfully, at the same time they avoided all un necessary law proceedings. The chairman then went in detail through the different points set forth fully in the report. Colonel DUNCOMBE, the deputy-chairman, seconded the motion. Mr. litTortEs strongly condemned the policy pursued by the management, in which ho said they were imitating the practice of the Great Eastern, and would, if they did not alter their system, ultimately drift into the bankrupt con dition of the London, Dover, and Chatham. (Hear, hear.) He contended that the directors wore not carrying out the wishes of the shareholders. (Hoar, hear.) Ho strongly objected to the system prevailing on two grounds. In the first place the directors were self-elected, and were not the nominees of the shareholders, which was contrary to the spirit of the Act of Parliament. There was a clause in that certainly which empowered the directors to appoint a director in the event of a vacancy by death or some other emergency, but the Act, ho contended, contemplated that the appointment of directors should be vested in the body of the proprietary. (Hear. hear.) Notwithstanding, how ever, the directors continued to elect each other without any emergency having arisen to justify them in doing so. In the next place there was an infamous system of proxies. (Hear, hear.) In fact, owing to that system the share holders were rendered nonentities, for the directors had proxies in their possession and at their disposal which gave them a majority at the meeting. In illustration he would state that one gentleman sent the directors proxies representing £lOO,OOO stock. He wished to know if the shareholders would sit calmly like penguins and allow themselves to be knocked on the head. He had, from the commencement of the present system of manage ment, protested against the policy pursued, and he would continue to do so until that policy had been altered. In reviewing the probeedings of the directors, he adverted to the fact of £300,000 having been lent to the London, Chatham, and Dover, for which there had been no return, and also for money lent to the Great Eastern, with a simi lar result. He believed that the arrangement entered into with the London, Dover, and Chatham involved a con tract which the directors of the company had failed to enforce. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Valentine Knight, Mr. Nicolls, and other gentlemen supported the views taken by the previous speakers. The CHAIRMAN, in reply, said in reference to views en tertained adverse to the extension of the branches on the ground that they diverted traffic; from the main line, that he agreed in that point of view, but he believed no loss had been sustained by the company through the extension of the branch lilies. U r,2Luiuded the sharoholllrs that lie was ono of the original promoters of this company, and tl'atzhe was appointed a director by Parliament, and two or three other directors stood in the same position. How ever, the names of retiring directors were always submitted to the meeting, and they could disapprove of the selection of any retiring director. He contended that the results of the connection with the London, Dover, and Chatham Railway had not been 'unprofitable to the company. The motion was then agreed to. Immediately after the ordinary meeting an extraordinary meeting of the company was held in the same place, when a resolution was submitted authorising the creation of , new capital to the extent of £1,075,000; under the powers of acts passed in 1861, 5,6, with a preferential dividend not exceeding 5 per cent. per annum ; to be allotted rate ably to all proprietors, and the payment of calls to bo die tributed over a period of about 18 months. The resolution was carried. A vote of thanks was then given to the chairman, and the proceedings terminated. Embezzlement of more than Three Millions of Francs. The approaching trial of the cashier of the Se condary Bank of Railways in Paris (Sous-Comptoir des Chemins de Fer) and his accomplices, is causing a great sensation in the French capital, on account of the large amount of the embezzlements, the strange circumstances which attended the crime, and, above all, the romantic history and high station of one of the persons incriminated. First, it is rather difficult to understand how it was possible to appropriate fraudulently such large sums of money without rousing the suspicion of the manager and the board of directors. The Railway Secondary Bank of Paris is a branch of the Discount Bank (Comptoir d'Escompte) ; its relations to the latter are such as those of the branch of the Bank of England towards the head establishment, with only this difference, that the branch possessed a capital of its own and a separate board. The business of the Sous-Comptoir consists in making loans to the railway shareholders upon their shares by means of mortgage deeds. The head establishment procures the money upon the security of those deeds. The shares are returned when the advances have been repaid. The modus operandi of Berthome, the cashier, was as follows : —He presented to the managing director the papers necessary to obtain the return of the shares. It seems that the manager was in the habit of signing these papers without making any inquiry. As soon as the mortgaged shares had been returned without any reimbursement of the first loan, they were mortgaged a second time. By these means the cashier Berthome succeeded in borrowing fraudulently nearly 19 mil ' lions of francs. The balance between the succes sive reimbursements and the amount of the loans is 3,300,000 f., which sum represents the actual defi ciency of the Sous-Comptoir. The embezzlements extended over a period of four years-1862 to 1866; but the amount increased every year (during 1865 it reached 1,387,000 f.) For what purpose had the cashier Berthome embezzled such large sums of money ? It was not for himself, be caused he jeopardised first his own modest fortune for the interest of those of whom he has been the tool. Berthome had made the acquaintance of the Prince De Croy-Chanel, Knight of Saint Louis, Commander of the Order of Gregory the Great, Knight of Malta, who claims the crown of Hungary. He represents (he says) the Arpad dynasty, and coolly asserts that he descendsfrom Attila, through Stephen of Hungary. To be impartial, it must be stated that in 1862 he applied to the Committee of the Great Seal in France to be recognised as a descendant of Andrew 11. of Hungary ; let us also add that the re port of Or:, committee, drawn by M. Langlais, was unanimously in favour of his claim. Prince De Croy-Chanel claims also from the Duke of Modena large estates, and the title of Marquis of Este, as descending from the House of Este. To finish the sketch of that adventurous life, let us remember that he belonged to the household of Napoleon I. towards the end of the First Empire, which did not prevent him from serving under Louis XVIII. in the body guard. Afterwards he played a political part in the Iberic Peninsula, and during a short time he was a member of the Ministry in Portugal. From Portugal he went to Spain, became a favourite of Ferdinand VII., and obtained from that king the exclusive pri vilege to manufacture cloth. But he ruined himself in those speculations. In 1827 he intrigued at the Court of France to obtain the Imperial Crown of Mexico, and he failed only on account of the opposition of Charles X. During the reign of Louis Philippe he returned to the Napoleonic ideas, and founded the journal Le Capitole. He took part in the affair at Boulogne, and was arraigned before the Chamber of Peers. He was also mixed up in a forgery of bank notes. The Prince Croy-Chanel is now 71 ; he is now absent from France, and his counsel explained his ab sence before the court by this circumstance. His pre sence is still indispensable in Italy on account of his claim against the Duke of Modena, who owes him 15 millions of francs ; as soon as the suit is over the Prince will return to France, in order to answer the charge now made against him. Mean time the cashier, Berthome, and the publisher, Dupray de la Maherie, arc taking their trial at the Paris Sessions. Who is Dupray ? When Prince de Croy Chanel made the acquaintance of the cashier be was trying to raise funds to buy the park of Bercy, which belonged to the Nicolai family. lie promised to the poor cashier, who had only a salary of £lOO, the bulk of the patrimony he claimed from the Duke of Modena,—that is to say about eight millions of francs. That promise.dazzled the cashier, who gave him his financial support. Towards the end of 1861 Dupray de la Maherie published a brochure, entitled " Droits des Carpad," on the rights of the Carpads. To raise the funds to pay for publication, and to provide for the expenses of his lawsuits, the Prince had obtained 155,300 f. from Berthome. The publisher, Dupray, was also in want of money, and the Prince introduced him to his good friend Berthome. Dupray began by per sonally guaranteeing the advances made to the Prince by Berthome, whose confidence was thus in creased. Then Dupray directly borrowed from the cashier large sums of money. The unfortunate cashier, deeply involved in the affair, involved him self more and more every day, by the delusion that the continuation of his support was necessary to recover what he had already lent ; but he only made the abyss more deep. In a word, he engulfs more than three millions of francs. What had be come of the money ? The Prince does not answer, being out of the pale of the law. The publisher, whose defence has been entrusted to Barrister La chaud, so celebrated since the affair of Lafarge, asserts that he has lost millions of francs in Catholic publications. It is said that the eloquent and fiery preacher, Father Felix; had- recommended Dupray do la Maherie to the noble suburb of St. Germain in particular, and to the Roman Catholic world at large ! POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. BOW-STREET. Charles Spence, a porter, about 10 years in the service of Messrs. Smith and Sons, the great news agents in the Strand, was charged with stealing from his employers a large quantity of newspapers. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. The Southern States. (Prom the Anglo-American Times.) Homer nods, and the most esteemed journalists now and then are forgotten, that is they forget them selves. The Yankees are not favourites with the British press, and except when they indicate an English prejudice against the Irish they seldom pro voke praise. The London Examiner is usually vi v id and wise, but on American questions it has hardly ever been fully informed. On Saturday last it con tained an article in which the grossest misconcep tion was exhibited. It was as follows : President Johnson is resolved boldly to play out the game with his determined enemies, the Republican party in Congress. From the day of his unlooked-for accession to supreme executive' power, they have striven first to overtalk and then to overbear his earnest and wise counsels in favour of clemency and conciliation. Raised by his position above the personal disappointments and resent ments of unsatisfied ambition, and filled, as we believe, with a hearty desire to mark his administrative reign with the accomplishment of the great work of Federal re union, ho has unceasingly urged the renunciation of party vengeance, and the re-admission of the vanquished to the enjoyments of their sequestrated rights. No man, or at least no band of influential men, argues that those rights should bo held permanently forfeit. Let the worst be thought of Southern secession, it was, after all, the act of several millions of enfran s chised and educated men, misled no doubt, but in the main animated by a sincere and honourable faith in the defensive necessity and patriotic duty of civil war. Happily for the progress of civilisation and freedom they were worsted in the field, not without many a touching and noble acknowledgment from the victors of the gallantry and skill they had displayed. Simply as a matter of fact it may be said, and simply in point of honour, it ought to be kept in remembrance, that, man for man and corps for corps, tho Confederates were not beaten ; they were worn out and compelled to yield by overpowering numbers. Tho standard of revolt was hauled down; slavery, the worst cause of all the misery and loss of thepast five years, was publicly and irrevocably abolished ; the oath of renewed fealty to the Constitution of the United States was taken by nearly all the men of rank and character in the South ; and, had the President and his ablest advisers had their way, the Re-united States would have been ere now re-admitted to participa tion in the common weal. But the ascendancy in Congress of the Republican party, it. was felt, would be thereby jeopardised. It was not enough that the policy of South ern statesmen should have been baffled, and the wealth and blood of their followers spent in vain; it was not enough that New England should have once more signally asserted its predominant strength of will and superiority , of tenacious purpose ; it must make sure of its party re ward in the next quadrennial election. And to this end, and for the sake of all the seceding States, save one, have been, and still are kept, regardless of their remonstrances and prayers, in a state of political captivity. The conse quence of this blind and selfish policy aro beginning to ripen into bitter fruit. The moderate minority of the Re puLlicans have been compelled to draw closer and closer to the side of the Executive; and, in order to countervail the electioneering tactics of the dominant majority, have been driven to coalesce with their old party opponents, the Democrats. Now, President Johnson is certainly obnoxious to the charge of having in part fraternised with the men who were the avowed opponents of President Lincoln, and of having accepted support from the party who were more than friendly to the South during the rebellion, The people who gave their energies to the cause of the North are virtually ignored and the writer in the Examiner, in ignorance of the bearings of parties, condemns the party who held fast ; in the day of danger, to the Constitution. These obvious and admitted facts tend undoubtedly to impeach the policy of President Johnson. President Johnson is apparently under the in fluence; of territorial prejudice. lie is a native of the South, was a slaveholder, and naturally enough bronght with him into the White House what might be called hereditary liking. Lincoln, when he lived, would have admitted the proper claims of justice and humanity by stamping treason out of the South ; for kindness and forgiveness somewhat prematurely extended permitted the indulgence of former Southern pride and anti-Northern sentiments. We cannot open a Southern newspaper without finding it filled with abuse of the Yankees, and with sneers at the Northern people. The abiding hatred is openly ex pressed. The riot at New Orleans was the proper sequence of these opinions and feelings ; and the following extract from the telegram announcing the news . by the Peruvian confirms the fact : NEW Yoßx, August 10, Evening.—Governor Wells, of Louisiana, has issued an address justifying the assembling of the Free State Convention in New Orleans, declaring that its opponents had concerted a plan to break it up by force. The rebel feeling of the slave-holding aristocracy is not yet extinguished. They seek to retain political power by tho same spirit of political violence by which their chiefs sustained supremacy before the war. If the military autgority be withdrawn the lives of Union men will not be safe. Military law still prevails at New Orleans, and the sale of arms and ammunition is forbidden. Members of the Free State Convention have made affi davits charging the mayor aid sheriff with complicity in the homicide during the riots. The Freedmen's Bureau Inspectors report that the sys tem of contracts enforced by the Bureau is simply slavery in a modified form. Too much was expected from the emancipation of the negroes. Their freedom was a reproach to their former owners, their independent bearing an insult. Although they had escaped from the condi tion of cattle they were men, but being men they were obnoxious to the feeling of hatred which cattle could not inspire. The removal becomes therefore desirable ; and perhaps by-and-by people will dis cover wisdom in the recommendation of President Lincoln to locate them together in a suitable place at a distance. Their labour in the majority of the Southern States can now be dispensed with. MARKETS.—This Day. COVENT GARDEN. We aro well supplied with most kinds of produce. Fruit moves off freely, and in vegetables a fair average business is doing. The quotations rule as follows : FRUIT—Pine apples, 5s to Gs; grapes, 2s Gd to 5s ; filberts, 8d to is per lb; apples, is 3d to 2s 6d; pears, is 3d to 2s Od ; gooseberries, 2s 6d to 3s Od ; currents, 3s Od to 48 Od; plums, 3s Od to 4s Od; greengages, 4s Gd to bs 6d per half sieve ; oranges, 8s to 14s; lemons, 3s Gd to 8s per 100 ; foreign pines, is 3d to 3s each ; Mulberries, 9d to is per punnet. VEGETABLES—Red cabbages, is Gd to 2s Od; white do., 9d to is 6d; cauliflowers, is to 2s Od; horseradish, 9d to is 3d per doz heads ; greens, 2s Od to 2s ad ; turnips, is Gd to 2s 6d ; carrots, 3s Od to 4s Od ; onions, is Gd to 2s per dozen bunches ; cucumbers, 3d to is Od each ; peas, is Od to is 6d ; French beans, is Od to is 9d per half sieve ; cos lettuces, Gd to 10d per score. Mr. C. W. Field and the Atlantic Cable. The New York Tribune gives us the following chapter in the history of Cyrus W. Field, in con nection with the Atlantic Cable, that may have a peculiar interest at this time. Mr. Field desired to change his business, and looked around for some sphere for his peculiar. talent. He called one day on Moses Taylor, one of our wealthy and public spirited men, and proposed to open a new line of railroad across the Isthmus, and so create a new line to California. This new project was opened in the mind of Mr. Taylor to serious objections, and, so far as he was concerned, was abandoned. Soon after Mr. Field called again ; he had now a project, he said, that was not opened to the objec tions stated by Mr. Taylor, and to which Mr. Field asked attention. It was to purchase the tele graph lines in the Provinces, and connect them with the United States. The company held a valuable charter from the New Brunswick Parliament. It was unable to carry on business, and the whole franchise could be purchased at a small cost, and, when put in complete repair, would prove a valuable investment. The charter was examined and found not to be satisfactory. But it was said if the charter could be changed and amended, and the lines put at a low price, the purchase would be made. Mr. Field agreed to visit New Brunswick, and obtain the changes needed in the eharter, and to do this if paid $l,OOO and his e x p enses . Th e desired alterations were made. Moses Taylor, Peter Cooper, Marshall 0. Roberts, Wilson G. Hunt, and C. W. Field put in the su m o f $lO,OOO each, and became the company. TIIE CABLE SUGGESTED. The success of this line did not equal the antici pations of the new company. It seemed likely to be a failure. The boats had agreed to stop at the telegraph stations to and from Europe. They did so for a time. But the fog made the stopping at times dangercus, and ships refused to call, and so business seemed to take its flight from the line. Soon Mr. Field met the Company with a new suggestion, why not lay a cable across the Atlantic, and so be independent of steam-ships and steam companies ? Mr. Field was full of it then, as he has been ever since. He won over his little com pany. He obtained subscriptions to stock. He crossed the water on the one great mission that now filled all his soul, and to which he has since de voted his life. _HOW PROGRESS WAS MADE. Mr. Field began the work of raising money in London. He had to stretch out his hands and lift up his voice to a gainsaying people. He put a coil of ocean cable about his neck, and went from banker to banker, from capitalist to capitalist, working day by day, never weary, never disheartened by refusals. Persecuted or repulsed in one place, he went to another. He gained his point day by day till the first cable was sent down to its ocean bed. DARK DAYS. The first failure was repaired and the second cable took the place of the last one. Weary and sad, but with strong faith in the ultimate success of the work, Mr. Field came home after the failure of the second attempt to lay the cable. Few spoke words of cheer or hope. The little company who had raised the infant $lO,OOO up to among the fifties and the hundreds of thousands had no more they wanted cast into the depth of the sea. They regarded the thing as impracticable, and wanted to hear no more about the cable. But Mr. Field told the gentlemen that he would never give it up— while life lasted he would renew the attempt till it was a success. , Like Peter the Hermit he began the new crusade. Partly from pity, partly from love of the pluck Mr. Field displayed, from one cause or another, quite a liberal subscription was obtained for the third attempt. MR. FIELD ABROAD. England was more obdurate than America. No man wanted to see the face of Mr. Field, and he was made to know that fact. Doors were closed against him. Millionaires would not hear him talk. Some thought his tongue like that of the charmer, and fled from his approach. He was regarded as au enthusiast merely. But steadily Mr. Field pro ceeded. He went were he was not wanted. He came at odd times and in odd places—in the count ing-house and at the country-seat ;in the city home and in the mart of trade. He gained his point. Some were convinced ; some wanted to get rid of the importunity ; some were willing to throw away a small sum because they liked the persis tency of the man; a few had their waning faith revived, and like the old hunter Henry Clay told of, were willing to pick flint and try again. But Mr. Field cared not what the motives so long as he had funds and the two continents were united. LAND, HO By the side of Fulton, who started in his little boat up the Hudson amid the jeers of th e multi tude, who expected and wi▪ shed a failure ; by the side of Goodyer in poverty and reproach, pursuing his marvellous inventions to their completion ; by the side of Morse, who, in the packet-ship on the ocean, while conversing wi▪ th a Boston physician, announced that he could send a message around the world, and was laughed at for his avowal, Mr. Field will now take his place among the world's benefactors, because of his success. Mr. COLERIDGE, Q.C., and M.P. for Exeter, was seized with illness whilst cond uc ting a case at the Bristol assizes, which necessitated his withdrawal from the court. The learned gentleman is, wo aro glad to hear, very much better.—Law Times. The 24th Company of Royal Engineers, under the command of Capt. K. Bullen, has received orders to be held in readiness to embark for the Cape of Good Hope, to relieve one of the companies of Royal Engineers, whose, term of colonial service has ex pired. The company, prior to its embarcation, will be augmented from the depot and other companies at headquarters, Chatham. Orders have also been received at the garrison for a draught of the Ist battalion of the 10th Regiment, consisting of 40 men of all ranks, and a detachment of the 2d bat talion of the 20th Regiment, also to emb ar k a t th e same time for the Cape of Good Hope, th e head quarter and service companies of the 2d battalion of the 20th being under orders to proceed from China to the Cape. POULTRY. Geese, Ess Od to 7s Od; ducks, 2s Od to 35 6d; tame rab bits, is to 2s Od; wild do, 10d to is 2d ; pigeons, 6d to 10d each; Surrey fowls, 10s to 14s ; do. chickens, Gs to lOs per couple. English eggs, 8s Od to Ps Od ; French do., Gs Od to 7s per 100. Fresh butter, is Od to is 3d per lb. BILLINGSGATE. Soles, is to 3s Od per pair ; cod, 5s to 12s Cd ; brill, 3s Od to lOs Od ; turbot, bs Od to 15s each ; whitings, bs to 10s ; haddocks, Gs to 12s por dozen ; herrings, —s to —8 per 120 ; native oysters, 90s to 110 s ; other sorts, 30s to 35s per bushel. NEWPORT. Per 81b. by the carcase. Beef 3s Gd to 4s 8d Mutton 36 Gd to 5s Gd Veal 4s Od to 5s 2d Pork Lamb, 5s 6d to Gs Bd. WIIITECHAPEL. Per 81b. by the carcase. Beef 3s Cd to 4s 10a I Mutton 3s 8d to 5s 8d Veal 4s Od to 5s 4d Pork Lamb, 5s 8a to Gs Bd. BREAD. The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from Bd. to 81d. ; of household ditto, bid. to 71d. per 4lbs. loaf. TILDES AND SKINS. Market hides, 56 to 61 lbs, nd to 3d ; 64 to 72 lbs, 3d to —d ; 72 to 801bs, 3d to Bid ; 80 to 881bs., 3-I{l to 31d ; 88 961b5., 3id to 4d; 96 to 1041b5., 4d to 40. Horse hides, 9s to 10s 6d ; calf skins (light), 2s to 4s; full, 78 Od ; polled sheep, Os Od to Os Od; half-brods, Os Od to Os Od ; downs, Os to Os Od; lambs, 3s 6d to 4s 6d; shearlings, 3s 6d to . 5s 6d. • HAY. SMITHFIELD.—OId meadow hay, £4 10s to £5 lOs; new £.3 5s to £4 4s ; old clover, £5 Os Ocr to .£6 Os Od ; do., £4, Os to £5 5s ; and straw, .£2 Os to .£2 8s per load. new Demand inactive. CumsEnLAND.--Old meadow hay, £4 lOs to £5 12s Od; new do., £3 8s to £4 5s Od ; old clover, Os to .£6 Gs Od ; new do., £4 Os to £5 5s ; and straw, £2 Os to £2 lOs per load. Trade quiet. WHITEurrArEL.—OId meadow hay, £4 108 to £5 10s Od ; new do., £3 5s to £1 4s ; old clover, £5 550 d to .£6 lOs Od ; new do., £4 4s to £5 lOs ; and straw, £2 Os to £2 8s per load. loquiry 14.10 i TEE CHOLERA. MANSION-HOUSE RELIEF COMMITTEE, From the representations made yesterday to this committee by various local authorities in the infected districts it would appear that, generally speaking, with an exception here and there, the epidemic con tinues to subside ; that there are fewer deaths in proportion to the attacks, but that, with less mor tality, there are more cases of diarrhoea. Still, the local committees concur in stating, from personal experience and observation, that there is a vast amount of distress consequent upon the visitation, which is aggravated by the want of work in the shipbuilding trades along the Thames, especially at Poplar and Millw all ; and that the fund raised by . the Mansion-house Committee is most oppor tune, even though confined in its application to the relief of suffering from cholera. Up to last evening the committee had voted in all, since the commencement of the fund, upwards of £5,000 to wards the relief of the distress, of which £525 was granted yesterday, and £425 the day before, which has been and is being expended in all cases through the agency of local committees. On Thursday the Lord Mayor paid a visit to an auxiliary hospital for cholera patients and convales cents, which has been set on foot within the last few days in C ommercial -street, Whitechapel, at the ex pense chiefly and under the auspices of a committee of gentlemen, of whom Mr. E. H. Palmer, a direc tor of the Bank of England, is at the head. A largo unoccupied warehouse, of three stories, and nearly new, has been adapted for the purpose, and proper regard is being had to the usual conditions of a well regulated hospital, especially as to the space allotted to each patient. The matron and nurses are all Sisters of Mercy, to whom ministering to the sick and poor is a labour of love. The Lord Mayor went alone and in a strictly private way, his name and position not being known to any of the authorities or attendants. Though the hospital had only been improvised within the last week, lie found it in good working order so far as he was able to form an opin ion. There were nearly 20 patients,'and they were all being well attemjed. Four dead bodies then lay in the house from the disease, and two of the patients were said to be on the point of death. Having paid a previous visit to the place while it was being put in order, he was much struck with the marvellous rapidity with which it had been adapted to its present uses, and, indeed, with the general management. Yesterday the committee held a meeting at one o'clock, there being present the Lord Mayor, in the chair, Sir Mor daunt Wells, Mr. W. J. Maxwell, the Rev. F. G. Blomfield, Mr. R. B. Wade, Mr. R. N. Fowler, Mr. 11. W. Ripley, Mr. Charles Hutton, Mr. Andrew Johnston, and Mr. Gilliat. Mr. John Abel Smith, M.P., was also present, though not a member of the committee. A communication from the local committee of St. John's district, Stratford, the population of which is about 8,000, half of them poor, was read. They gave a very minute and satisfactory account of how they bad expended a previous grant made by the committee. There had been, they said, upwards of 50 deaths in the district, and above 100 persons were now suffering from the effects of cholera and diarrhoea, or left in indigence, and requiring relief in some form. Through mission and district visi tors 100 had had meat, 72 beef tea, 31 brandy, 20 arrowroot, and assistance from the beginning had been given irrespective of creed. The case of a widow named Barker, with three children was spe cially referred to. The husband, a worker in gutta percha, died of virulent cholera early on Wednes day morning last. On calling at the house the in cumbent found the widow writing letters to his friends in the room with the corpse, and two chil dren, one being ill, lying on chairs. He brought them out of the room, and after the funeral he took them to an apartment he hired. They had not a sixpence in the world of their own, and the union would not receive them, coming, as they did, from a house in which there had been cholera. The woman, too, was expecting to be confined. The committee granted the deputation £5O, with five gallons of port wine, and some suitable stores towards the further relief of the distress. The,local relief com mittee of Nichol-street, Bethnal-green, of which Mr. Benjamin Smith is treasurer, reported that they had relieved at their dispensary 48 cases of cholera and 2,375 of diarrhoea from the Gth to the 22d of August. They were sorry to add that the virulence of the cases had increased during the last three days The committee made a grant of £5O, and a quantity of wine, arrowroot, and materials for beef tea. The Ratcliff Relief Committee, headed by the Rev. Mr. Atherton, incumbent of St. James, re ported that they had been actively engaged relieving the sufferers from cholera night and day. There had been constantly at work in the hamlet the in cumbent (Mr. Atherton), two curates, a Scripture reader, two mission women, and other visitors. The accounts they gave, said the local committee, were appalls g. In many houses the poor sufferers were lying without beds or bedding of any kind—some times on old sacks or a bundle of rags. There were several instances where patients had been discharged from the cholera hospital too weak to work and utterly without means of support. At 15, Love lene, and 11, Stepney-causeway, six families had been ill of cholera, and six deaths had taken place. On Wednesday night a poor man was attacked with cholera in London-street, Ratcliff ; the lady visitors were at hand to help, and, having got the man home, they at once applied the most approved remedies till a medical man arrived. Tinder his direction they nursed the man all night, and the poor fellow was now better. In another case a woman, with choleraic symptoms passing into fever, had been found alone with her children and no one to help her, her hus band having gone out early i n th e morn i ng to work. She was carefully nursed, and, when practicable, removed to the hospital. Between 400 and 500 families had been visited since the first grant from the Mansion-house was made, and every case re quiring attention had met with immediate relief. Yesterday morning the visitors reported that there seemed more cases of cholera since Sunday than at the end of last week, and there were also many cases commencing with choleraic symptoms, turning into a kind of low typhoid fever, and which required con stant care and nourishment. The deaths from cholera in Ratcliff last week were 35, being nearly three times the average number of deaths from all diseases ; but the number of deaths was not a full measure of the suffering caused by cholera, for as far as they could judge the number of persons attacked had increased, while the death rate had diminished. The Committee granted £lOO, nine gallons of port wine, and some arrowroot. or s Dr. Pearson, of Upper Phillimore-place, Ken sington, brought to the notice of the Committee a case of distress from cholera. The family, he said, consisted of a father, mother, and three children. The father died of the epidemic in the London Hos pital at the beginning of the outbreak. The mother and three children were all attacked and taken to the same hospital, but recovered. The eldest child, a boy five years of age, is a cripple ; and the youngest a baby in arms, has been made blind duri n g attack of cholera. The mother is a delicate Woman, much debilitated by the disease, and h as no means of subsistence. A local committee from what i s called the new a district of St. John (St. George - in-the-East) sad account of the distress there. The people, population of about 6 , 000, g %v th-y said, were only half fed, especially the children, whose dinner was u sually bread and treacle a nd tea. From a grant ma de by the committee they had relieved about 250 families and 213 cases of cholera and diarrhoea, out of w hich there had been 35 deaths. The chol era was C l ccr casing, but there was a great amount of destitu tion. The committee granted £5O and nine gallons of port wine. They also made a grant to the Ger man Hospital at Dalston of £lOO ; to the district of St. Luke's, Al illwall, £5O; St. James-the-Less, Beth nal-green, £25 ; and to the relief committee con nected with Bethnal-green Congregational Church, £5O. In all cases the Mansion-house Committee require the local authorities to whom they make grants strict accounts as to how the money is expended, not wishing at the same time to tie their hands in the distribution, which they leave to their discretion and judgment. The fund collected up to lest evening amounted to about £15,000. TI EDIT I ON. SUN OFFICE, 6 o'CLocK. AUSTE.L.A. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) VIENNA, Aug. 25. The accession of Austria to the Geneva Conven tion for assistance to the wounded upon the field ha7s been officially published this morning. The Press states that the Austro-Prussian peace treaty contains fourteen articles, together with sup plementary protocols referiing to the transport of troops and exchange of prisoners, to be effected at Oderling, and the question of Federal property. The New Free Press says that the cession Of Venetia to Italy has been expressly mentioned in the peace treaty. The Fremdenbladt asserts that immediately after the conclusion of peace, the interior questions re lating to the constitution of the Empire will be settled.. The principle of a separate administration of Hungary will, it says, prevail in the new political organisation of the empire. " An Imperial manifesto will be published grant ing responsible Ministries to Hungary with such power of independent action as is compatible with the unity of the Empire. The Frenadenblatt further states that the Em peror will reside during several months of the year• at Buda. Prince Alexander of Hesse was received yester day by the Emperor in special audience, in order to take leave of his Majesty. The Prince subse quently set out for Stuttgard. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. CITY BETTING-THIS DAY. ST. LEGER. GO to 50 on Lord Lyon (taken) 6to 1 agst Rustic (taken) 6to 1 agst Saveruake (taken) 100 to 8 agst Strathconan (offered) 25 to 1 agst Westwick (taken and offered) 1000 to 20 agst Midsummer colt (taken) 2000 to 40 agst Knight of St. Michael (taken) 1000 to 30 agst Podargus (taken) The English Volunteers and the Belgian Tir National. Yesterday evening a meeting of the volunteers who at tended the Tir National of Brussels in 1861-5 was hold at St. Martin's Vestry-hall, Strand, to make arrangements for organising a visit to Brussels in'Soptember of the English volunteers, in accaptance of the cordial invitation sent to the National Rifle Association by the Councilof the Belgian Tir National. • _ _ Captain Irvine occupied the chair, and there wero pre sent Capt. Dighton, Capt. Scrivener, Lieut. Marriner, Lieut- Furley, Ensign Starkie, Ensign Barnes, Mr. Chisholm, Mr• Watson, Mr. While, and other gentlemen. Reports were presented by Mr. Bigmore, one of the honorary secretaries, with respect to the reception of the Belgians in London, and a vote of thanks was passed to Capt. Styan and the reception committee for the manner in which the Belgians were received. Lieut. FURLEY gave the result of a correspondence, and it appeared from this that the Belgians were determined to give the English a most cordial reception. An offer had been made to send boats up the Thames and to carry the volunteers over free to Ostend, but it was thought that if cheap return tickets could be granted to and from Dover, the better way would be to go from that port. The Coun cil of the Tir had heard from the King of Belgium, who had expressed his deep gratification at the manner in which his subjects had been received in England, and ho had offered to give up a park at some distance from Brussels in which to form a long range, and the Council of the Tir were about to make a range of GOO yards near Brussels for the English. Tho report was received with a vote of thanks to Lieut. Purley for his great trouble in this matter, and ho was re quested to continuo his correspondence. After other business, it was resolved that the meeting should act as a committee to place themselves in commu nicatiou with volunteers who intend going to Brussels, so as to make arrangements for their travelling and ex penses. Portrait of George Peabody. We think there can be but one opinion of the princely munificence of the great and pod George Peabody. Such disinterested benevolence as his, is a rara axis and, like comets, of very rare occurrence. If we cherish the memorials of friends in likenesses, how desirable that we have correct or reliable ones. In the case of Mr. Peabody wo aro singularly favoured by the artistic skill and acumen of the world-famed photographer, Mr. Mayall, of Regent-street and Brighton, as will be seen from the following extract, which we cheerfully give from the "Brighton Guardian" of the 22nd inst. We content ourselves for the present• by giving that extract, securing for our selves the personal opportunity which wo shall have shortly of examining the production iu question. But we cannot help adding, and wo do so in good faith, what Mr. Peabody has done for the honour of humanity, Mr. Mayall has done for photography that which at once puts him un disputedly at the head of that art. He may have his equals, but unquestionably not his superiors. Some of these days we propose spending an odd hour in his studios, when we shall have much pleasure in referring to a few of its specialities. _ _ _ inasmuch as Mr. George Peabody is perhaps the greatest practical benefactor the English poorer classes have ever had, and inasmuch as Brighton is honoured by being the place where two portraits of him were painted for presen tation to institutions he has founded in the United States, we are glad to know that the working classes of Brighton will have an opportunity of viewing the second of these mementoes, and of becoming acquainted with the linea ments of the eminent and philanthropic man who but a short time since was residing in this town. Our readers will recollect that while staying at Brighton, Mr. Peabody gave Mr. Mayall, photographer, sittings at the splendid studio erected by the latter on the King's road. The small photographs were intended for publica tion, and have since been received both in Great Britain and on the Continent with much favour. Mr. Peabody, however, was so struck with the excellence and graphic individuality and (Ammeter of Mr. Mayan's enlarged life sized photographs coloured in oil that ho gave a co mmis sion for two such portraits of himself to be painted. Ho was s h e t d t o then en take within the a firs m t o p n o t r h tra o i f t vile,aitylPihgimf,oirn Americaoe t o and wished pre sent it personally with the Queen's Letter to the Peabody Institute, founded by him at his native town of Danvers. The portrait was finished in three weeks, and was pro nounced by Mr. Peabody to be the only ono with which he bad ever been really and entirely pleased. It now hangs in the Institute at Danvers. The second portrait, designed by Mr. Peabody for presentation to the Institute he founded at Baltimore, has since been finished, and is on private view during this week at Mr. MayalPs Brighton es tablishment, King's-road. It resembles the first portrait in every respect, except that the he ad is turned a littlo more to one side. This we think an improvement. The other portrait was equally perfectas a work of art, but the aspect of the face in this one is, to our mind, more graphic. The principal features are more decidedly marked, and there is a charming animation about the countenance which was not so apparent in the fnller face of the Danvers work. The head does not lase in dignity, in deed it rather gains, but the portrait looks smarter, if . t l . l O word may be used, and a more life-like air is imix ( lr i tl t y the picture generally. The pose of the figure is the same as in the previous work, and thi))anvors portrait also copied, except in one respect. 4 accessories are had in the background, by Mr. Peabo b T d; it as since boon hung; the fagade of the building in which bottle monument standint: in this picture is introduced . a 1 's express desire, has situate. o n the in the square where the Ba et critics are inclined to cavil m t in such a case tha t is, the work is ono picture, they need only , recolle c ts ..,s,. proud, and which will, the e n ff s e t c a t u t t h ° is is o si f tt w er h 's ic wi h m sh r. ismtahyeatthic misatriseisldabo in Baltimore as its fellow no doubt, be as hig- -, c When the work was on view our admiration of it, and we can confi dently we expressed then said, and apply the praise portrait is i dently rope , .It all that we m. , 1 . oven:Lent of Mr. ,ty all. his afternoon to this later /Lehi be removed to the Town Hall, where n Danvers. admiration - will will have free admission to it. Mr. the the whole realises his kind wish that the Brighton should be familiarised with the lineaments of king classes working limn who has done so much for their London bretbren. The Mayor granted the use of the Hall when req uested to do so, and is entitled to thanks for his ' M " t a b ; I l thus t owa ' com pliance. The War Department steam vessel Lord Panmure yesterday shipped at Woolwich Pier ten 121-ton guns, iron gun carriages, and slides, and four other guns of smaller calibre, shot, and shell, for her Ma jesty's iron ship Bellerophon, at Portsmouth, to re place the armament now on board. She is under orders to leave Woolwich this morning with a full cargo. The official returns from the War Depart ment relative to the efficiency and economy of the storeships iu their employ have been made known at Woolwich, and are ordered to be printed in the Blue Book in course of being compiled for the next financial year. The returns are to the following effect :—The Lord Panmure steamvcssel, together with the sailing ships Raglan, Lord Vivian, v inker em p.o., man, and Alma, havebeen in constant find that a net dur ingof outlay tll e 13 with as t t 2 h emtransportonti months, and a andcomparing done_ h e amounte bythe se saving to the revenue has of little shoat of £lB,OOO. the l Earl de Grey and gratified b ne, n r eh ff .s ec h t a e s d e t n o a t b il l e ed se t r h v e ic m e to build a new stearnve l sse n , Works), to replace the Ripon (by the Thames tßoalNaylhdiacivia,tilloeyst hoinavethesctiorilaosat s o l f un lre i l n and th , e in T a r d e tt u io r n y amounting t o £lO,OOO. b ° •0 - (er v bo 3iOg luo et 20 204 10 100 1 190 100 100 110 100 100 93) I 1201 1 103] 4 45; 64 7i 814 4 22 If '1