The Sun. — London, England, 1866-09-25 00:00:00

NONEY - MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. TWELVE O'CLOCK. The Money Market is very quiet, comparatively few bills being brought forward for negotiation. The floating capital at the command of the brokers shows a further increase, and the quotations for the best commercial paper tend lower. In exceptional Cues, 41 and 4 per cent. have been. taken for the best short dated bills. The sum of £90,000, in bar gold and sovereigns, Was sent to the bullion department of the Bank of England yesterday afternoon. There was also a withdrawal of £2,000 for Anierica. The business of Messrs. Knight, Dale, and Co., stock and share brokers, has been absorbed by the London Stock and Share Company Limited, with a capital of £lOO,OOO in £20,000 shares of £5 each, fully paid up, which will commence operations to day. Mr. Knight has accepted the deputy chairman ship. Only a moderate amount of business has been transacted in the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets during the last few days. The public sales Of tea have proceeded at steady rates. Sugar has been in moderate request, without any material Chang e in prices ; while the transactions in coffee have led to a decline of 6d. per cwt. on Ceylon de scriptions. The demand for rice has continued active, chiefly for exportation, and holders again demand enhanced rates. 'Fallow has been in mode rate request, but owing to large speculative opera tions, quotations for both present and forward de livery have slightly given way. Two o'CLocK. At the Paris Bourse to-day, according to Reuter's telegram, the 3 per Cent. Rentes were dealt in at 69 f. 20c. Heavy. The English Stock Market has been rather active, and prices have manifested firmness. The Funds, although not largely dealt in, have improved * per Cent., and Consols are 891 for money, and 894 8 for the account. The New Threes and Reduced An nuities are 861 1 ; Exchequer Bills, par to 3s. Prem. ; India 5 per Cents., 1041 1 ; and ditto Enlaced 4 per Cents., 83. A slight advance has taken place in the prices of Foreign Stocks. Turkish 5 per Cents. have ad vanced 1, to 311 1 ; Mexican *, to 16 I ; do. New to 11/ 12 ; Greek I, to 15/ 161 ; Spanish Pas- Etre 8, to 22/ 23 ; and Italian f, to 561 k ; Spanish Certificates remain at 15 f. American securities have fractionally declined. Illinois have receded /, to 77/ to 781 ; Erie shares to 47/ to 48 ; but United States 5.20 Bonds con tinue at 71/ to 72. Atlantic and Great "Western Debentures remain steady, at 67 to 69 ; but the Consolidated Mortgage Bonds have advanced I, to 48f to 49f. Business in the Railway Share Market has been more animated, and in several instances prices have slightly improved. North Stafford have advanced s s. ; North-Western and Merropolitan each 10s. ; South-Eastern 155., and Lancashire and York shire ft. The Foreign and Colonial lines exhibit no mate rial change as regards prices. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are quiet. Alli ance are marked 201 ; Consolidated, 5i ; London and County, 621 63i ; London and Westminster, 92 i ; and Union of London, 44k. Anglo-American Telegraph are at 161 17 ; Atlantic Telegraph 8 Per Cents. paid up, at 120 122} ; Credit Foncier of England at 4i 1 ; Hudson's Bay Company at 17 17 4 ; Natonal Discount Company at 131 ; and Telegraph Construction and Maintenance at 17i j-. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES GOVERNMENT FUNDS. a Der Cent. Consols Do. Account, Oct. 9 B9} a per Cent. Reduced B6l k ~,l le Nv 3 per Cent B 6l i - a 0 e'w 3i per Cent. Jan. 1894 , Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 41 1nuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 Do. for 30 yrs, aspire sth April, 1885 — ~ Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 — 4 xchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 per Cent. 3 pm par Do. £3OO — Do £lOO and £2OO 'ahk ol England Stock, 6} per Cent — Do Account — INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. ilt liari Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 Do. Account Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1870 Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 Do. Certificates Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent B3 Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 Do. 51 per Cent., May 1879 Do. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 Do. Bonds,4 per Cent., £l,OOO Do. under £l,OOO FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Argentine Republic, 6 per Cont., £l5 pd — pm Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 - B razilian 5 per Cent 9B Do. 44 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Do. 1863 Do. 1865 Do Account 6Bi i Do. £lOO Bonds 69 Do. Scrip, £65 paid Bueno s Ayres 6 per Cent Do £lOO Bonds Q :i il r , -uo 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) ian 6 per Cent — Do. 4 per Cent — Do. 6 per Cent r , Do Scrip, £75 paid r\-:olonlbian 6 per Cent. — ‘Oba, 6 per Cent. " 4 ,, , aish 3 per Cent., 1825 126 •U0. 5 . per Cent., 1864 ... ianubial Principalities ~ l _, 13 0. Account "uador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — De., Provisional Land Warrant — ~, Be Deferred g gYptian 7 per Cent — Do., Second Issue — Do £lOO Bonds — „ Do. 1864 B6 5 Do .£lOO Bonds Do. Government Railway Debentures 79f 1) 0. £BO paid ' ek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons - Ai 0. Account De. Coupons Do. Ac , •ount ateinala, 5 per Cent. It 5 per Cent 1865 Do. Account „Do. Maremmana Railway nexica n 3 per Cent °O. Account Do Do. 1864 uo 6 p er -C en t. Angle-French — ' i ontevidean 6 per Cent. 1 100 rish Imperial 5 per Cent N ew Granada . — • Do 2 per Cent — Do. Deferred P jjo Laud Vivian Warrants (Hectares) Vivians per Cent., 1865 0 Account 661 " Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3 — , Do. Account t kussian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St — Do 4} per Cent. 185 A 4i ppr Cent., 1860 DO 3 pm Cent. 1859 Do, 5 per Cont. 1862 S.uo 5 per Cent. 1864 ardinian,, 5 per Cent t i " 0 . Account Patish 3 per Cent r ,o Accp,unt "0 New Doferxed 'Jo Account Do Passive 1 , 4 _ 0 0 Account 221 'Panish Cert. of Coup not funded 6 Do Account wedish 4 per Cent. — ',Do. 4} per C en t . 1864 T urkish 6 per Cent. 1854 Po. Account .10 uo 6 er Ce t 1858 D 13 count 11 • 0 - Ac - ' 38f D 0 £lOO Bonds "i N ° 6 per Cent. 1862 - o Account 554 '-'0 £lOO Bonds 56 "0 6per Cent.,1863 Vo 5 per Cent., 1865, paid up Scrip — , 4 - 1 0 Account v "Jo. 4 per Cent. Guaranteed — e,oezuela 3 per Cent. -1 -'0 Account — b° 6 per Cent, 1862 — g Account ` 4° . 6 per Cent, 1864 26 Dividends on the above payable in London. r It ':!leo Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 23f — mlat, b per Cent. 1861, Ex. 25f. 'N). Account Cop, ,• 480 Ie, Money 410 . Account THREE O'CLOOK. 89} 89; f I , o admiral Van Dockum, who has just been ap tholea Minister of Marine in Denmark, formerly servedin r ench navy. He was present at the battle of Nava th as orderly officer to Admiral de Rigny, and obtained co .?ross of tho Legion of Honour for his distinguished ou that occasion. SHARE MARKETS.—This Day. Share Railways. iirldtol ana Exeter Caledonian Cambrian. Cork and Bandon Cornwall 'Dublin & Belfast Junc. Dun„Perth, & A b.June. 14].London, t erip Certi. Do. Glasgow & S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. stk. 87 BD 128 12D 40 15 13 15 4 6 65 E 8 70 72 75 85 116 lq.) 28i 19; 5 6 Do. E. Angl. st. No 2 Great North of Scotland Great Northern Do. A stock 1;8 120 130 i3l Do. B stock.... Do. New, Is. at 25 pm Gt S. and W. or Ireland Gt. Western -Original Do. S. Val. Rail gua. Do. South Wales .... Do. W. illid.—Oxtord Do. rCewport. Do. Ilerjford LancAshire.t Yorkshire London and Blackwall Lon., Brigh.,& S Coast: Lon., Chat., and Dover Do. Metrop. Ex. A Lon..; North Western Lou.' & South Western Man., She!., A; Lincoln Metropolitan.. Do. New Do. Extension...... Metropolitan District. Do. do. do. Do. and St. John'sW'd Mid and Do. £9 Share Do, Birrniu.. & Derby Nid Kent . North British ... Do. Ed., Pth., & Dun. Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do. G.N•141 purchast Do. Leeds Do. York Be,. Carlisle Do. 610 ck,& Darling. Do. do. ►B6O-fit North London Do. do. 1864 . Do. do. 1865 North Staffordshire N. & S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot. N. E , Aber. stock uo. Scot, Mid. st.ick Shropshire Union iouth Devon youth E stern ;taines, Wok., & Wok Pall Vale Do. C Vale Neath Waterford & Kilkenny Waterloo & Whitelia %Vest Cornwall ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. 2n i 9 11 123} 85 21 g ' lB l 1 62 31 129 8} IGI 932 1211 i I 42a 1a 103 69} i Paid] C l osingßusiness Price. i done. BRITISH I'OSSE Atlantic &St. Lawrence Bow., Baroda, gu. 6 per cent.. Do. F shares Buffalo & Lake Huron Do. Preference Butf.,Brant,& Goderich 6 p.c. 1872-3- Calcutta & S. E., lirn.• e Town & Dock, gu. Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p , East. Bengal, gu. ' 5 do East Indian, gu. 5 p.c. Do. J Extension Grand Trunk of Canada Do. Equip. Mort, Bond., 1 charge 6 p.c Do. Ist Pref. Bonds Do. do deferred De. 2d Prcf. Bonds Du. do. deferred ...• Do. 3cl Pref. stock Do. do. deferred ...• Do. 4th Pref. stock Do. do. deterred ...• Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c. I'o. Gua. 5 per cent Do. New gua. 5 p. c Gt. Sout h of India gua. 5 per cent D 41 per cent Do , 3reat Wf s. of Canada.. Do. New Do. 6 p. c. Bds. pay. 1873 00. do. pay. 1877-8.. Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.c ...• Do. 41 do Do. 41 do Do. Fifth Extension Ifelb. Cor. 6 p. c. Bnds. & Hudson's Bay N. 6pc lstpf.bs Scinde Do. Delhi Do. do ..1 1 ,1 n. Do. Puniaub...• Do.lndus St.Flot 100 100 100 all 100 100 100 100 2 100 100 COLONIAL GO VER British Columbia, 6 per Cent., Dec. 31,1872 Clan.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.& July 1877-84 Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Aug Do. 5 p. c. Mar. & Sept 00. 5 p, e. Jau. & July Do. 5 p. c. Inscribed sk Cape G. Hope, 6 P.C. 1873 Do.Apl. & Oct , 1890-1900 Do. do: 130-9. Do. Jan. &July, 1890-JI Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and 15 Oct., 1900 Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 IL( Do. 1878, do Mauritius, 6 p. c, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1 , 7 S 1 )o. 188?, May 5, Nov. ,1 Do. 18115, Feb. ..4z Aug Natal qov. ti per cent N. B.G ov. 6 p.c.Ja.&.l uly N. S.W. Gov. 5 p.c.,1866 Do. 5 p.c. 1871 to 1870 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 189 z New Zealand, 6 p. cent .Do. 5 per cent—. ... Nova Sc ,tia Gev. 6 p. c. _ sterling, 1575 , 4uccnsland Gov. 6 p. z. Aus.Gov. 6 p,c 1868.4! Do. 18:8 It upwards. VIO,Gov. 6 p.c. Ja &July Do. do, A pril & Oct 91 93 57 /9 55 tO 37 89 31 36 122 123 83 89 21 22 2) 25 117 )18 82 84 57 :8 128 129 2 31, 10:1 11 114 94 1201 i2li 1/ 2 1 9,, 42 47 49 O 22 103 1.5 67 69 ICO 102 34 36 9 10 i) 120 ,25 1 2p 1 9 p 1.1 73 114 118 152 156 75 ;7 43 •5 70 71 8 9 14 115 2 61 53 SIONs. 51 66 93 100 id ip 4 44 74 P 4 76 80 60 85 100 102 99& IGOt 99 101 20 22 86 89 56 58 48 52 50 55 45 50 40 45 34 3) 25 27 24 26 106 107 6 11 6 1 p P 5 100 91 93 141 Hi 54 3 d 91 93 83 65 11 01 08 60 d 1 84 86 81 82 96 98 94 96 1 1 .1 95 97 'T SECU 94 96 93 M 91 96 77 79 76 79 101 103 101 105 102 104 100 103 88 ". 1 0 ICO 1 , 2 105 1 7 102 1.04 103 105 101 (03 il3 105 97 100 90 02 90 92 90 95 86 87 92 94 79 81 92 94 91 93 105 107 106 103 5 6 i 1 13 410 460 I 20 23 7 8 21 3 2 3 10 12 31 41 19 20 k 1 25 27 11 33 36 31 31 6 8 4i 5 2} lad 35 45 , 2 4 t 1 27 30 325 575 i li 14 16 11' 13 3 5 8 10 63 67 149 :50 85 95 23 26 7 9 :BO 170 9 11 BRITISH MINES. !ham. Consul. Uold, Rua. Ulitford A malgamated. Devon G. Cons. (Tavist Urake walls East Bassett (Illogan) East Caradon East Cam Brea East Grenville East Gunnislake.. East Love,l E. W'l Russell (Tavistk Gam.As StAubyn(G wen. Grcat LAxey, U reat South Tolgus... Great NVlleal G. Wheal Vor (llelst,u Grenville tlerod's Foot Ringston Downs Margaret (Uny Lelant Nlarke Valley uwyndy Iron Ore, hal N ew Se L:on North Roskear N .Wh' 1 Bassett (I ilogan North Wheal Crotty Prosper United Pr .videnee Uny Lelant S. Caradon (St. Cleer) South Condurrow S.Wheal Fran. (Illog;n Stray Park Tin Croft Vigrra and Clogan, lim West Bassett (Illogan W. Caradon (Ltskeard West Chtirerton ....... • West Seton Wheal Bassett 'Mogan Wheal Buller (Re dru Lb Wheal Mary Ann (Men. Wheal Seton Wheal Trelawney (Lis. PiLEFERENCE bliAltsti. Great Western Orig. pref. 44 per cent pf., 851 Great Western, 5 per cent., rd. pi., g 5 Kid Consolidated, 6 per cent. stock, Ditto, Bristol and Birm., 8 per cent., 1274 Ditto. 4i per cent. irred., 96: North Eastern, Cons. pref., 4 per c en t ., Ditto, 44 per cent., rd., 91 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. London and S.-Western 44 per cent., 91 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. London and Blackwall, 824 Wilts and Somerset, 80 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Dutch Rhenish, 19i Great Luxembourg, 12 11 FOUEIQN MINES. General, 191 20 Port Philip, 1 St. John del Rey, lira., 473 1 BANKS: Alliance, lira.. 206 Anglo Austrian, 0 • Bank of British Columbia, 15 Bank of Victoria, Australia, 41 consolidated Bank, lint., 56 Ilindustan, China, and .1 apan, ilm., 2 Imperial ottoman, 9010 London and County, London Joint Stock, 43 London and Westminster, 921 National Provincial of England. Ditto, ,d and 3d issue, 49 Oriental Banx Corporation, 436 Union of Australia, 46 Union of London, 44) MISCELLANEOUS: Anglo-American Telegraph, ti 17 Atlantic Telegraph, - Ditto, 8 per cant., 1226 1 20 Australian Mort. Lam' and Finance. lira., 41 B. and I. Magnetic Telegraph, lim., 83 City of London Real Property, am., 3:1 City of Moscow Gras, lim , 125 Co.limerclat Union, Insurance. 6 City Discount, lira, 16 Company of African Merchants,: ~ 2 Credit Fonder of Enrrlann, lira . 41 Credit Fonder of Mauritius, lira '6/ Crystal Palace, 371 Discount Corporation, 61 EgYPtian Com. and Trading, lira., 3 / English and Foreign Credit, 36 den. Credit and Finance of L9nti2n, lim.. 41 4 Hudson's Bay, 176 Imperial Land Company of Marseilles, lira., 3 International Financial society, lira., 31 1 Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour), 5 London General Omnibus Company, lira, 3 6 liirdras Irrigation and Canal,-- Ditto (all), 186 Freehold Land and Dock, 1 Nr.tional Discount company, 186 Oriental Gas, Um., 5/ Peel River Land and Mineral, 38 Peninsula and Oriental steam, 62 Ditto, new, 47 Quebrada Land, Rail, and Mning, lira., ti Telegraph Construction and Maintenance, lim., Ditto (115), 116 1 The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is about 146 per cent. At this rate there is no Profit on the importation of gold trini the United States. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 25, IH6. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. that the prisoner, who had been wearing a hat, was wear ing a cap. He noticed the prisoner pass something to a man, with the remark, "Good night," and believing it was his watch he followed the prisoner and charged him with stealing it. The prisoner denied having done so, and he then gave him into custody. Benjamin Bishop, of No. 2e, Upper Rathbone-place, proved seeing the prisoner and another man, one on each side of the prosecutor. The prosecutor complained of being robbed, and ho (witness) sew the prisoner pass some thing to the man, and then they made off. He went after the prisoner and stopped him, and was struck by some of the prisoner's friends, In answer to the prisoner, thf witness said ho did not see any exchange of hats. Sergeant Cole, C division, sail the prisoner was a ticket of-leave man, the term for which he was sentenced not hav:ng yet expired. Mr. Tyrwhitt committed the prisoner for trial. Agricultural Prospacts. The week opened with a most unfavourable day, much heavy rain falling at intervals, with a gale of wind. Early on Monday morning the rain was again heavy; wi n d, west ' :o sout h- wes t ; thermo meter, 58 degrees ; b arometer, 29 . 80 i nc hes. Th e day was more favourable, but no harvest work could be proceeded with. On 'Tuesday the morning was fine and autumnal, cold and breezy, with slight rain at 3 p.m., and again in the evening. Our advices on that day were as follows :—From the West Riding of Yorkshire-4' Since Friday, the weather has, on the whole, been better, and some carrying . was done on Saturday. Sunday afternoon was very wet. Monday and to-day fine until 4 p.m. ; but rain now comes freely again, so that but little pro gress can be made in clearing the ground, and the grain shakes out with moving. Our farmers will therefore have plenty of work to make ends meet and tie again. Turnips look well, except where they have been flooded ; but they want dry weather, as well as the potatoes, which are now taking harm." From the East Riding—" Weather during the week has been very unsettled, with more or less rain almost daily : on Sunday it poured down in torrents for several hours. Harvest opera tion. have, in consequence, been much impeded, and the bulk of the grain still remains in the fields, while what has been gathered must necessarily be in wretched condition ; to-day, however, is rine, with a rising barometer. Most of the grain in this district will be sprouted and other wise deteriorated in quality by the long-continued untoward weather." From Norfolk : " The weather since Thursday has been more favourable, and har vest is almost completed in the marshland district." From Suffolk : "More corn yet to be secured in this district, and weather unfavourable." From Northumberland : "The weather on Wednesday was dull, but without rain. Since it has been fine, with occasional showers : wind varying from S.W. to W." Wednesday was a favourable morning, but rain followed about three p. m. , w ith occas i ona l s howers afterwards. From Li nco l ns hi re, on th a t day, it was observed : " The weather the past few days has been more favourable for the harvest, and the farmers have been busy with their crops. Should the weather continue fine, the fields will soon be cleared. Both wheat and barley have sprouted." From Nottinghamshire : "We have had finer weather this week, and the harvest has been pushed forward as much as possible around here. There are complaints of barley having sustained consider able injury from the late rains. Wheat is not so badly damaged as vas expected." From the west coast of Scotland: "The weather has been fine from Friday up to yesterday forenoon, when heavy rain again set in." Thursday was a cold, boisterous day, with scarcely any sun, dull and gloomy, yet seine corn was got up in the north. Our advices from Worcestershire on that day ran thus : " Har vest operations continue to be much impeded byrain, which we experience more or less daily. Farmers appear to take every opportunity of carrying be tween the showers, and thus at least three-fourths of the crops in this district are now secured, a large portion being in wretched condition." From Buck inghamshire our advices stated :—" There is still a large breadth of barley and oats and the weather anything but settled." On Friday there were occa sional showers, and where such was the case little work could be accomplished. Our advices were as under :—From the West Riding of Yorkshire— " Since Tuesday the weather has enabled our fartners to gather a fair portion of their crops even in better condition, from drying winds ; but rain came on heavily again last night. To-day is most dry thus far, but the sky looks unsettled." From the East Riding—" The weather for - the past - week has been still very unpropitious, much rain having fallen at intervals, which hinders harvest operations, and the crops, a great part of which in this district is still in the fields, are in a critical condition," From Lancashire our advices state—" Much rain has con tinued falling, chiefly during the nights; but with breezy days a considerable breadth of the crops has been hurried off the fields from the fear of still further damage being sustained. Notwithstanding the temperature is cool, there are very general com plaints of sprouted grain." From the northern parts of Lincolnshire The weather since my last has been very unpropitious, scarce a day without rain during some part of it ; but in spite of this, owing to good winds, much corn is being gathered, and the bulk of the grain will be got in by a few days hence. Much wheat will be found seriously damaged, and barley equally so. The reports of the yield of wheat are not up to the expectations of the growers." From Devonshire, in the neighbour hood of Exeter, our advices say : " There appears a good deal of both barley and oats still unsaved on some of our hills, but we see nothing out on the line of rail. The wet weather for the last fortnight has stopped thrashing, and the supply at market has been in consequence small. With dry weather I expect much larger supplies." Early on Saturday morning a heavy rain set in, with a cold north easterly wind, which lasted until the afternoon, when the wind veered round to the north-west, and it ceased raining for the remainder of the day. The week, however, closed with a most gloomy aspect for the farmer, and there bids fair to be a most dis astrous finish to the northern harvest, as well as to all late districts; while, without a favourable change in the weather, the next trouble will be that the land cannot be got ready for -the sowing of wheat. It is difficult to foresee the result of this long procrastinated and very expensive harvest. The low temperature has been the means of pre servation from germination up to a certain point ; but beyond this, it has been too wet for such injury being avoided.—Mark-/ane Express. THE PRESIDENTIAL TOUR.--The Daily News is of opinion that ,Presiclent Johnson has acted foolishly, and offended the sensibilities of the American people by his tour through the States. His journey to lay the corner-stone of the Douglas monument wears the aspect of a politi cal pilgrimage to the shrine of his new political faith. In every Northern city there is a large minority who belong to the Democratic party, and who welcome Mr. Johnson as a new'and powerful leader with all the enthusiasm of renewed hope. But neither the enthusiasm nor the loud shouts of triumph will have much effect upon the polls. When the shouts have passed away, and the boasting has effected its temporary purpose, Mr. Johnson's speeches will remain on record, and the doings of Mr. Johnson's friends at New Orleans and elsewhere will be exerting their effect, and the electors will be quietly resolving, in the terms of a motto displayed in the loyalists' convention now sitting at Phila delphia, that "Treason defeated in battle shall not rule by ballot." The Northern people have known how to defeat hostile armies in the field—they know how to beat a hostile party and a President who gn. The President has o^sing it, as he asks hisfavours p su c ceededo lc i tyi in thebu hist electoralendeavour _instead c o a fmtope n g make them understand d i them, they will rebuke and defeat it, as the best in terests of their country and humanity demand. The Electorad ofless fortunate than the Kingt ate f h Saxony, loses his Crown and his s recently intimated, on abdica2 oecide a isaßesse, wass he ting ; he retains all his.private fortune, plus an income of 600,000 thalers (2,200,000 f.) eharned on the State domains, the annual receipts of which exceed five millions of thalers. The Elector is besidos authorised to resido wherever he may please, saving in the neighbourhood of Oassol, his old capital, French Theatricals. • LYRIQUE.—The good people of Paris—for who shall say that there are any bad people in so plea sant a place ?—well, the Parisians are frequently reproached with their excessive capriciousness and their bad taste in dramatic matters. They have drawn down this reproach upon themselves by flock ing every night to the Biche aux Bois, the Famille Benoiton, and other dramatic representations of questionable merit. But . Paris is not altogether peopled by the foolish and the frivolous. It con tains a vast floating population whose taste is be yond reproach. See how they run to the Theatre- Lyrique. Faust always . fills the house, from the poulalier to the extreme verge of the orchestra. Does not their constancy thus loudly testify to their good taste ? Are they, then, powerless to appreciate the boundless beauties of Gouuod's style, and the artistic groupings, the admirable arrangement of colours which are combined upon the stage so as to make pleasant pictures in the fancy. To Gounod and to Mme. Carvalho exclusively appertain the honour of attracting the multitude, for all the rest is sorely in different. M. Carvalho has substituted Monjauze for Michot, Cazaux is the new Mephistopheles, and Mlle. Cornelia plays Siebel. If Michot played the devil with Dr. Faustus, what can be said of his suc cessor ? M. Carvalho has all Caisar's predilections for obesity. " Let me have men about me that are fat; fellows who have a lean and hungry look cannot hope for an engagement." Now, Monjauze and Cazaux are no disciples of Banting ; they are the fattest artists that ever grunted in Epicurus stye, and a fat Faust is an anomaly ; so is an obese Mephistopheles. The envoy f ro m the realms of Plutus should be as lithe and nimble as the knight of La Mancha ; and the Faust whom Goethe drew should be a philosophic maypole. We could however look over these abdominal protuberances, a feat which neither of those artists could themselves perform, had they any voices, but they have none. Monjauze seems to regard the entrance to Marguerite's cottage as that seat beneath the shade, " for talking age and whis pering lovers made," since he whispers the exquisite melody " Laisse-moi contempler ton visage," in• notes so gentle as to be inaudibl e . I s thi s the im - - passioned love-song with which Faure and Mario electrified us 'and made us wonder whether any woman could resist such special. pleaders ? The Falstaff who plays Mephistopheles is the same "stout party" whom you remember at the Opera ; he is a well-meaning painstaking singer, but, like Words worth's primrose, he is " nothing more." The same may be said of Mdlle. Cornelia. But Mme. Carvalho is perfection. See her clad in complete chastity, walk ing "in maiden meditation fancy free" across her garden, panoplied in all the pride of virginal purity, and mark the beauty of her decadence after the love lorn girl has fallen before the tempter. How sweetly does her mind wander on the " Seigneur" who had accosted her as she sits at her spinning -wheel chanting her ballad, and then mark the maiden's bound into childish glee as she decks herself out in the jewels, the seducer's lure. It is all beautiful from first to last. VAUDEVILLE.—This theatre has had another fiasco, "The Confessions d'un Enfant du Siecle." Jean Jacques' confessions were not particularly palatable, but they are so charmingly told, that we almost forgive him when his reflections upon Madame de Warrens drove him to those excesses into which even Horace fell when he journeyed to Brundusium. The confessions of the enfants of our age are, however, nasty and stupid, far more Irish and less nice than those of either Rousseau or 'Horace. M. Labreteche is a highly respectable bourgeois, a model husband and father. A snake bites his finger at a menagerie ; the doctors tell him that he must die, the virus is already coursing through his veins, whereupon he makes a clean breast of the Augean stable. This respectable gentleman's death-bed confession is as edifying as Addison's. He sent for young Lord Warwick, to let him see how a Christian could die, but unfortunately he died drunk. M. Labreteche, the moral model husband, admits that he had been shockingly immoral in his habits ; he had even in troduced Mile. Verdurette under the toit conjugal, where, by the way, Asmodeus might find many Ver durettes in the model menages of Paris. He tells how he has defrauded his friends, swindled, cheated, lied, and when he asks for absolution, the doctors find .that the cobra capella was but a common harmless snake, with no more venom in its fangs than Sir Toby Belch found in ...Sir Andrew Ague Cheek, Whatever genus the snake may have belonged to, this new failure at the Vaudeville is of the same genus as the constrictor. NOUVEALITES.—The Pays de la Gaudriole will re pay yeti for your pilgrimage to this little-out-of-the way theatre ; the place is not easily found, you drive up to some unknown regions in the Faubourg St. Martin, you ascend to the third storey—pre nziere Torte a gauche, and there is the theatre. There you will find yourself in the Pays de la Gaudriole, and had O'Connell seen its indigenous population he might have waived the Emerald's claims to the " finest pisantry" in the world. A right pleasant country to live in must be this same Pays de la Gaud riole—the plot baffles all description, it has even mastered M. Charles Monselet, whose droll sketch of the Gaudriole, in the Etendard, is confidently submitted to those who don't object to the Gaud riole of the old Gaulois. M. Monselet'S critique is even far more amusing than the play itself. Many of the theatres are making ready, awaiting but the words "Present, fire !" from their colonels. Much is expected from the " Parisiens it-Londres," at the Porte-St.-Martin. " Je tape dans le tas " is the chiffonieresque title of the piece now in prepa ration at the Delassements-Comiques: M. Sardou has got a piece on the stocks at the Gymnase, " Nos bons Villageois," promised to us on the 2d October ; and the younger Alexandre Dumas will put " Ma dame Aubray" on the stage next month. "Don Carlos" is detained behind the scenes because the singers can't settle their little rivalries. Verdi is said to be very angry, and well he may. Why does not M. Perrin launch out his quos ego at these refrac tory artists ? The " Nouveau Cid" has gone the way of all such too solid flesh—putrescence set in before its appearance on the stage. The purveyors of al fresco entertainments have had a bad season. They display considerable inge nuity in imagining devices to attract the people to their trim gardens on the Forum, but even the moat intrepid quail before the meteorological impedi ments to pleasure, for who would care to listen to music in a macintosh ? Jacques loved to sit and muse under the shadn' of melancholy boughs, but would his philosophy have sustained him under the shade of a melancholy umbrella ? M. de Besselievre, the entrepreneur of the concerts in the Champs- Elysees, presents his customers with their photo grAphs. Acquit us, gentle reader, of the imper-. tinence of attempting to :make you poser ; the photographer will perform that part of the business for you,- and you can hear some' good- music to boot, and all for a franc—c'est pour rim. At Aspierea they have Blondin. At Mabille and the Chateau-. Rouge they have all the amusements, or some of those which Horace loved, though the fair habituees might not perhaps come' up to his idea of the Nymphasque decentes." And as to the Hippodrome you can see Sara l'Africaine much in the same cos \tume as decked the lovely limbs of Hugo's Sara la Baigneux, and a wonderful Nubian is this swarthy ecuyb-e; so black that charcoal would make a white mark upon her face, and she bounds overand under, on and off her flying steed with wondrous agility, so that we found ourselves following the Bedford motto, and shouting out " Clic Sara, Sara." There is a wonderful biography about her. She was sold into slavery, and passed with a batch of other chattels into the possession of the Emperor Theodorus. But her adventurous spirit enabled her to break the bounds of the harem ; she escaped to the desert, caught a horse from the wild herd that never needs a fold—" Oh, give me but my Arab steed"—and without saddle or bridle, or even a halter, she gal loped across the desert to the Hippodrome. The sneering smile in of the scepti c i s suggess i ve o f Bar num's finger this biography —but avaunt ye dis believers ! It must be all true, since the most vivacious of all chroniclers, in the Gazette des Etrangers, gives the high sanction of his authority for the facts. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day, LONDON, Sept. 25.—Wind this day at noon—South- Westerly ; light, pleasant breeze, and very fine, clear weather. PORTSMOUTH, Sept. 24.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—His Imperial Russian Majesty's steamet:Grigen, from Cronstadt ; Fearful, from Sunderland. BRISTOL, Sept. 23.—Wind S.E.—Arrived--Trinidad, from Havannah ; Elizabeth M'Lea, from Newfoundland ; Ocean Pearl, from Quebec. PLYMOUTH, Sept. 24.—Wind S.W.—Arrived-Colurn binci, from Quebec. Sailed—Earl King, screw steamer; for Melbourne. GLOUCESTER, Sept. 21.—Wind S.W.--Arrived—lndus trio, from Nov York; San Francisco di Poalo, from New York. CARDIFF, Sept. 22.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Condor, for Shanghai ; Ilealman, for Buenos Ayres ; Ludvig, for Rio Janeiro. FALMOLTII, Sept. 23.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—John Henry, from Newcastle for Madeira. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning. Arrived, Sept. 24.—Fyenoord, steamer, from Rotterdam ; Thos. Snowden, steamer, from Cronstadt ; Dolphin, steamer, from Antwerp; Seine, steamer, from Boulogne; Sydney, from Rangoon ; Isabella Heron, and Argus, from Riga ; Edel, from Petersburg. Arrived, Sept. 25.—North Star, steamer, from Chris tiania ; Camilla, steamer, from Patras ; Panther, steamer, from Boulogne. DEAL, Monday Morning. Anchored.—Kelpie, for Bathurst; Fanny Fern, for Swansea ; Eumore, for Barbadoes—all from London ; Fanny Scott, from Shields, for Rio Janeiro, has been supplied with an anchor and 15 fathoms of chain, in lieu of others lost. BOW-STREET. DARING RoI3RERY. —John Brown was placed before Mr. Flowers, charged with the following daring robbery. Eliza Wickelgren, the wife of a cabinet-maker, said last evening about five o'clock she was passing near Angel court, carrying her purse in her hand. The prisoner came up, made a snatch at it, but not succeeding in obtaining possession of it, ho laid hold of her, threw her to the ground and commenced beating her hand until she was compelled to open it, when the prisoner seized the purse and ran away with it. She got up and pursued him down the court and across the Strand,when she observed him run through the gates of Somerset House, and then, meeting with a constable, she told him of the robbery, and ho went in pursuit of the prisoner. She was certain he was the person who robbed her, as she never lost sight of him until she saw him run into Somerset House. Prisoner—You say in your evidence that I throw you down. Now, when I snatched at your purse did you not cling to me and fall down ? 11r.Flowers—It will be important to the prisoner for you to answer that question, as it will make a material differ ence in the offence : whether or no it was a highway rob bery with violence. Prosecutrix —I think he put out his foot and thus caused me to fall to the ground, but I will not be certain. I can not say positively how it was I fell to the ground. I only clearly recollect being there and the prisoner beating my hand. ➢ir. Flowers—lt was quite daylight when the robbery occurred. You are quite sure the prisoner is the man that robbed you ? Prosecutrix—Oh, yes. I had a good opportunity o seeing his face. Police-constable 144 said he was on duty at Somerset - House when the prosecutrix informed him of the robbery, and told him the thief had run through the gates. He went in pursuit of him, and meeting with another con stable he told him of the circumstance, and shortly after the prisoner was taken. At the station-house £1 Bs. 6d. was found on the prisoner—the exact sum prosecutrix had been robbed of. Witness afterwards looked for the purse, and found it on the Thames embankment, very near the spot where the prisoner was secured. It contained a small Swedish coin, which the prosecutrix at once identified as her property. Police-constable 108 F said he was also on duty at So merset House, and, observing the prisoner run down one of the slopes to which there was no, thoroughfare, he men tioned the matter to police-constable 144, when he was taken into custody. Mr. Flowers asked whether the prisoner was known ? Sergeant Ackrell said he knew the prisoner to be an old thief. He had been several times iu custody, and had been convicted of felony, when he was sentenced to four years penal servitude at the Middlesex Sessions. He had done nothing else but thieving since he had served his sentence. Prisoner—That's wrong. I don't deny the previous conviction ; but I wasn't, as be says, four years, it was only three. Mr. Flowers—Well, that can be clearly proved on an other occasion. Have you anything to say why I should not commit you for trial ? Prisoner—No ; I've nothing to say. Committed for trial accordingly. • Abraham Sidelman, a Frenchman, and Robert Hopewell, were placed at the bar, charged with assaulting the police. Constable Leary, 104 F, said ho was on duty in Holborn last night, when a disturbance arose against some women. He went up, and whilst doing so Sidelman struck him ; as ho was taking him to the station-house the prisoner Hopewell also struck him. Sidelman said the constable's statement was untrue. He did not strike him—he only interfered when he saw the policeman strike one of the girls, and told him that he would not have done such a thing with impunity had he been in France. Hopewell said he did not strike the policeman. He was altogether mistaken with respect to him. The constable denied striking or even pushing either of the women. Mr. Flowers thought it important that the girl who it was alleged was struck should be in attendance. Sidelman said the girl was a poor-looking person, and was probably afraid to attend. Mr. Flowers said however poor and shabby she might be she would get the same justice as the richest lady in the land. He should adjourn the case, admitting Sidelman to his own bail. Hopewell, who clearly had no right to in terfere, ho should fine 2s. 6d. MANSION-HOUSE. LOITERING IN THE STREETS.• - George Holies was charged before Mr. Alderman Lusk, M.P., with being found loiter ing in the streets. Police-Sergeant 55 said that last night, about 12 o'clock, he saw the prisoner walking slowly up and down Gutter lane, and again at 3 o'clock this morning in Foster-lane. In reply to a question as to what he wanted in the streets at that hour ; the prisoner said he had no money to pay for a lodging. Not considering that statement satisfactory, and being informed that the prisoner had been loitering about all night, .he took him into custody. He understood that he was a returned convict, having oLtained a ticket of leave, but his informant was not there in attendance. The prisoner asked the officer where he had got his in formation as to his being a returned convict. It was quite true that he had been loitering about for the reason he had given, but he denied that he had any improper intent. He had been at a coffee shop until 11 o'cloCk, and then being unable to remain there, having no money, he was forced to walk the streets. Alderman Lusk inquired what he was ? The prisoner said he was a draper, and was in the habit of buying goods which he sold at a profit. Ho had b3en allowed £5 a month by his relatives until lately. He had been in Australia, but certainly not as a convict. He was remanded. THEFT BY A SERYANT.—Frances Franklin, a middle aged woman, was charged with stealing property to the value of £3 from the premises, No. 2, Half-moon-place, Half-moon-street, Bishopsgate-street. Elizabeth Cousens said that she was a married woman , and her husband was a tailor. She ma d e u p ar ti c l es f or the establishment where ho was employed, and the pri soner assisted her. On the 10th instant she sent her for some mangling and she did not return. She discovered a flannel petticoat and several articles were missing, and she found on the table in the parlour a number of pawntickets relating to the things which had been pledged at Mr. Horton's, Bishopsgate-street, and at Mrs. Staples', Skinner street. She identified the articles as being the property entrusted to her. The prisoner had been some time in her service. From the evidence of Police-constable Underwood it appeared that the prisoner admitted to him having pledged the things, and also that she had three months in Wands worth House of Correction for a former offence. The prisoner, who made no defence, was remanded till Friday. WESTMINSTER. WOUNDING WITH A POKER.—James Woodman, coffee house-keeper in Duke-street, Chelsea, was charged with assaulting and wounding a young man named Hayward. Complainant had his head wrapped up, and had evi dently received a sharp wound. He .said he was waiting near the water-side at 2 o'clock this morning at Chelsea to moor some boats, when he suddenly saw a man named Eager, and inquired of him how he did. At that moment the defendant and his wife rushed forward, and the defen dant struck complainant with a poker upon his head and wounded him badly. Two witnesses were called, who gave exactly the same account of the transaction. Mr. Lewis, solicitor for defendant, said his client's door had been forced open by the complainant and four or five others, and himself and wife beaten seriously. lie rushed after them with the poker and struck complainant. After some evidence, Mr. Selfe said it was quite clear that defendant had struck the wrong man, who had not been in any way to blame. Defendant was committed for two months. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. COMMITTAL FOR THE HULL TERM FOR BRUTALITY TO A WlFE.—William Stephens, a low-looking fellow, was brought before Mr. Tyrwhitt, on a warrant by O'Shaugh nessy, one of the warrant officers, charged with violently assaulting his wife Mary Ann. The complainant said The prisoner is my husband, and we reside at No. 3, Prince's,-eourt, Whitcomb-street. On Saturday evening be kicked me in a delicate part, and I have been suffering in consequence ever since. On Sun day evening he said, " I've not done with you yet," and ho took the kettle off tho fire, the water in it being nearly boiling, and threw it at me, and my arm was so badly scalded that I was obliged to go to Charing-cross Hospital to have it dressed. He has been imprisoned before, being sentenced to one month at the Bow-street police -court for assaulting me, and he has also been bound over to keep the peace towards me. I have led a life of punishment at his hands. lam suffering from palpitation o f th e h eart. It is no use cautioning him — nothing will do him good. Mr. Tyrwhitt—What is he ? Complainant—A horse coper. A Female said—Hearing screams of "Murder," I went up to ascertain the cause, and the prisoner pushed me downstairs, and I nearly killed a child in consequeAce. He said that if 1 came up again ho would kick my teeth out. The prisoner made a rambling defence, and said his wife had often assaulted him. Mr. Tyrwhitt said he considered the prisoner's such a detestable case that he should commit the prisoner for six months with hard labour, and at the end of that term he would have to find bail to keep the peace towards his wife. A 'TICKET-OF-LEAVE MAN AT WORK AGAIN. —Martin Cooper, a ticket-of-leave man, was charged, before Mr. Tyrwhitt, with the following robbery. Frederick Puschart, a young man residing at No. 3, Little Torrington-street, was in High-street, St. Giles's, trying to prevent a quarrel between two persons, when a crowd collected, and the prisoner stood by his side. Lnme diately afterwards he missed his watch, and then noticed ITIES. UNITED STATES POSTAL ARRANGEME-VTS. • Mails for the United States are made up in London every Saturday evening, Wednesday morning, and Wednesday evening. Letters for the Saturday and Wednesday evening mails must reach the General Post-office by 6 o'clock p.m., and those of the Wednesday morning mails by 6 o'clock a.m. that day. Newspapers must always be posted half an hour earlier. The Wednesday 'and Saturday's mails are taken up at Queenstown, on the following day, by the Liverpool steamers. The Wednesday morning mails are taken by the Southampton steamers. Mails from the United States are due in London on Mondays and Thursdays of each week. Periodical works not of daily publication, issued in the shapb of pamphlets, may be sent to the United States, California, and Oregon, by packet, at the following rates : —Not exceeding 2 oz., ld. ; above 2 oz., but n ot . exc e e di ng 3 oz., 6d.;. above 3 oz., but not exceeding 4 oz., Bd.; with an addition of 2d. for every additional ounce _up to 16 ounces, above which the privilege does not extend. At the same rate of postage, any pamphlet not-weighing more than 8 oz (even thoug it be not a periodical publication) may be sent to the United States, California, and Oregon. This postage is only the British portion, a further sum being charged on delivery. The periodical works or pamphlets must always be sent in a cover open at the ends (not more than one being sent in a single cover), and the postage must be prepaid. Other printed papers or books (except those specified above), addressed to the places above named, are liable bo letter rate of postage. There must be no writing, or other marks upon such periodical works, pamphlets, &c., or upon the covers, ex cept the names and addresses of the porsons to whom they are sent; nor upon the covers must there be any printing, except the names and addresses of the persons to whom they are sent and the names and addresses of the senders Any other writing, &c., will render the packets liable to letter rates of postage. COURSE OF EXCHANGE—Last Evening. Amsterdam Short. 11 161 11 17 Ditto 3 Months. 11 191 11 19 Rotterdam Antwerp 25 45 25 50 Brussels Hamburg — 13. 8i 13 9 Paris Short 25 20 25 27i Ditto 3 Months. 25 40 25 45 M.arseilles . _ .. 1191 . SPORTIVG INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. NEWMARKET RACES -THIS D.Y. By ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. TRIAL STAKES. Opoponax Gilead Primrose Panacea... Mistletoe . Eight rtn. HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES. Ten ran. GREAT EASTERN HANDICAP. Plutus Out and Outer Eightenti ran. TAT TE a SALL' —Last Evening, CESAREWITCH. 13 to 1 agst Mathilde (taken) 100 to 7 agst Bradainante (taken) 100 to 6 agst Potomac (taken) 1000 to 40 ng.t Pearl Diver (taken) 25 to 1 agst Ethelred (offered) 25 to 1 agst Cliepstowe (offered) 25 to .1 agst Lothario (offered) 33 to 1 agst La Favorite (taken) 50 to 1 agst Klarinska (taken) 50 to 1 agst Verdant (offered) 50 to 1 Agst Dulcimer (taken Dud offered) CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 100 to 7 agst Chepstow (taken freely) 100 to 6 agst Thalia (offered) 100 to 6 agst Scarborough (offered, take 20 to 1) 20 to 1 agst Moldavia (taken) 25 to 1 agst Affidavit (taken) 30 to 1 agst Abergeldie (taken) 50 to 1 agst Master Richard (taken and offered) 500 to 5 agst Cranford (taken) DERBY. 15 to 1 agst Palmer (taken) NOTES FROM TRAINING DISTRICTS. (THIS DAY.) NEWMARKET. Upwards of eighty "strangers" having arrived in the course of Sunday and Monday, the Long Hill, the race-course, and other portions of the heath, were completely covered with horses at exer cise this ( Tuesday) morning. — Of course the observed of all observers were Lord Lyon, Savernake, Knight of the Crescent, and Achievement, the first and last of whom unexpectedly arrived by special train the afternoon previously. Knight of St. Michael led Knight of the Crescent a nice steady gallop on the Bury side of the town, where Gladiateur usually does his work, and the two knights went brilliantly along. Gardevisure took Lord Lyon a nice breather up the hill, and the latter goes as free as ever, but sweated much. Savernake pleased us more than ever, for his action w as grand, and he was as lively as a kitten. O s _ tregor went at a walking pace, and so did the improved Out-and-Outer. Gownsman is lame. The Baron's team did good work, especially Janitor and Hippia, and Breeze is mending ; but for the Cesarewitch we still have an idea that Lothario will be the trusted oue. Broomielaw showed a deal of temper this morning, but Bread albane went striding along quietly and in good form. Sultan is looking and going first-class ; so do Master Richard and 11 Re Galantuomo. Nu begins to look very light now, but Jollity gets on first-rate in her long work. Saladin is full of flesh. The Rake is very fit. The training grounds were too crowded to do any particular amount of exercise, but most of the animals galloped from a mile to a mile and three-quarters or so. Frankfort on the Maine Vienna — 13 25 13 30 Trieste — 13 20 13 30 retersburgli 6 29 `7 Berlin Madrid Cadiz Leghorn Milan Genoa Naples — 26 45 26 60 A report has been issued by the committee of in vestigation appointed at the general meeting of shareholders of the Buenos Ayres Great Southern Railway Company (Limited.) They conclude with the following : " Your committee have carefully inquired into the pro bable results of the future working of the line, as, howerer satisfactory it may be to have the Government guarantee of 7 per cent , that is not a return with which the shareholders should rest content. The returns, up to the present time, are of too experimental a nature to afford any sulicient basis for calculation on this subject ; but the opinion of Mr. Parish and the engineers is in favour of a large increase in traffic. Already villages are beginning to spring up at various points in its course where there were previously mere wastes. At Chascomus, the southern terminus of the line, 72 miles from Bucinos Ayres, building has been stimu lated, and the population aloiig the line aro beginning to understand the facilities which the railway presents to them. Your committee refer on this head to the reports of the general manager, already submitted by the directors to the shareholders. The duty of striving to make the dividend to the shareholders larger than that to be derived from the Government guarantee imposes upon all con cerned the obligation of the greatest economy consistent with efficient administration—an obligation which your committee trust will be most rigidly observed both here and at Buenos Ayres. "HENRY WHEELER, Chairman ; H. P. BOWRING, ABEL BUCKLEY, SPENCER HERAPATH, THOMAS AIOXON, Members of the Committee of In vestigation." SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM.--Visitolll during the week ending Sept. 22;—On Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday, free, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., 11,353; on Wed nesday, Thursday, and Friday (admission 6d.), from 10 a .m. till 6 pan, I,26l—total, 12,614. Average of corre sponding week in former years, 11,606. -Total from the opening of the Museum, 6,316,612. A letter from Miramar, in the New Free Press of Vienna, states that the anniversary of the independence of Mexico was celebrated there on the 15th by the execution of a Te Deurn, at which the Empress Charlotte was pre sent, followed by a State dinner and the firing of salvoes of artillery. Don Castillo, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Don Barandiaran, Ambassador at the Court of Vienna, as well as the persons of her Majesby's suite, were invited to the banquet. A deices from Stockholm state that the new poli tical organisation-in Sweden will soon commence working. The Four Orders of the States-General are, it may be re membered, now entirely abolished, and the Parliament will henceforth consist only of an Upper and a Lower Chamber. THE WEATHER IN SCOTLAND._A change highly favourable for the , progress of harvest operations has occurred in the weather of the past two days. Both Satur day and Monday were fine autumn days ; with a gentle breeze blowing from the south-east ; whilst at night the moon shone with full " harvest" brilliance. The weather has some appearance of being settled. —Scotsman. HISTORY OF A PICTURE.—Sir Edwin Landseer's picture of "A Distinguished Member of the Humane So ciety," so well-known by multitudinous engravings, has been left to the nation by the late Mr. Newman Smith, and, on the decease of his widow, will be added to the collection in the National Gallery. Its history ignorth the telling. The- artist, when dining with Mr. Newman Smith, was greatly struck with the appearance of his Newfoundland dog, and expressed a wish to paint its likeness. The dog was therefore sent up to London, and, lying upon a table in Landseer's studio, patiently gave the requisite number of sittings. The figure is life size, and the painting is in the artist's firme s t an d b est sty l e . Mr. Newman S bo m k n h i t gave ced him £BO for th e p i c t ure , w hich would not n o w down by Mr. Christie for a less sum than an extra cypher and would p ro b a bly fetch the covetable price of ~ . four figures." It is ono of which any nation 4 collection ,may well be proad.=London Review. A SHAM SANITARY INSPECTOR.--Yesterday, at the Bradford Borough Court, Mr. M‘Gowen, the town clerk of Bradford, appeared to prosecute a well dressed young man, name John Jackson, for having, while representing himself as an officer of the Bradford corpora tion, obtained from several persons money and other pro perty under false pretences. On the 13th inst. the prisoner went to several lodging and other houses in Bradford, stated that he had been brought from Manchester, where he was last employed, by the Bradford corporation, to in spect the town in reference to cholera, and was allowed to make an inspection of those houses. At two of the houses, Mrs. Fowler and Mrs. Hutchinson, on Church-hill, he made an inspection of the lodging-rooms and beds, and of the former he borrowed 2s. 6d. and obtained six cigars ; and of the latter he obtained two chickens. The money and the cigars and chickens were given to him solely on the strength of his false representation, and with a desire to conciliate the good opinion of a person they supposed to be an important public functionary. The prisoner, who is an old thief, was committed for trial. Three men, named Merles, Pajol, and Bose, were tried three days back at Agen for the murder of a Spaniard, named Gonzales. Two of the accused were quarrelling in a low wine-shop, when Gonzales interposed to separate them. They, however, with the third prisoner, then turned against Gonzales, and when the last named quitted the house at night followed him and killed him. Merles was condemned to hard labour for life, Pajol to eight years' hard labour, and Bon to aye yeArs' imprisonment. IL SLEY. Lord Lyon and Achievement, despite the short work they have done recently, have gone to New.. market with others of Mr. Sutton's, and several of Mr. Ten Broeck's, Claymore, Fitzroy, Paris, Peon, and Slender being amongst the American string ; and it is very likely the latter will remain at head quarters for some time, as is customary with them at the back cud of the year. All were looking well ; but we fear for " the brother and sister" this essay. This morning Jezabel and Grisette had a nice gal lop, after which the former led the yearlings their ordinary work. Run and General went steadily. Gay Tom, the Celt, Threadbare, Aggravator, Vampire, Vocalist, and others got through a fair amount of exercise. MARLBOROUGH. Savernake was despatched in a van to Newmar ket yesterday after our notes were transmitted from Fyfield ; and Alec. Taylor also sent the two-year-old filly by St. Albans out of Catania, and another or two on during the temporary absence of our corres pondent. Bradamante, Pintail, Dulcimer, Nimble, and the Flutter colt continue well. The Cantiue filly won her trial, with the Wild Dayrell and In timidation colts. This morning Bugler, Over tonian, and Countess Amy galloped two miles ; and Adam Bede resumed work; but merely trotted. Captain Kidd did not show, nor the three-year-old Mayonaise filly. Pepper's Ghost galloped a couple of miles. Dragoon, Pussy, and some others went a mile. RICHMOND. Bumblekite and Strathcouan are at Newmarket ; both are fit. This morning Zenobia and Moldavia, in the big autumn handicaps, galloped a couple of miles beautifully, led by Empress of India. Beatrice took Plaudit and Rose a nice striding gallop ; and El Cid pioneered Graciosa. The Admiral followed Hawkswell a mile, but Newland merely trotted, as did Chatsworth. Lozenge, like Raunds, again was merely walking. Louisa, Violet, Elvire, and others galloped over three-quarters of a mile. LAMBOURNE. We have a very short team at Newmarket this week, Mr. Nierry's horses being too moderate, and Mr. Graham keeping his for later events. Excel er is not at work just now. Regalia and Chepstow were eased a few days back, but are now pushing along. The former galloped a mile and three quarters steadily by herself this morning; and ik, No a r are spinning Caithness did a m il e an d a half. Chepstow cantered a Milo twice, fast. Mirella is ab sent ; and Watch boga walking along again. beautifully; s a o n " a d r eMBa Beanstalk, Spada nsta manby, and Ornament. TURF AGENCY OFFICE, 100, JERMTN-STREET, ST. JAMES'S, LONDON. MR. SYDNEY SMITH (Member of Tatter sall's) begs to inform the racing publio he will execute COMMISSIONS (by letter only) on all the prin cipal races throughout the year. For further particulars and prices see advertisement in The Sportsman newspaper every TUESDAY, THURSDAY, and SATURDAY. Price Current published DAILY, and forwarded on receipt of stamped directed envelope. Post-office Orders to be made payable at the Piccadilly or St. James's street offices, and cheques to be crossed the "London and Westminster Bank." LAWS OF THE RHENISH PROVINCES. --Mx. P o p e Hennessy,t saysin his : , preface to the second e di t i on of his pamphle The laws under w hi c h the inhabitants _,, of the Rhenish provinces live are actually French laws. They have less in common with the lawS 'of „Prussia than the laws of England. The system of law in Prussia proper is the code of Frederick 11., Landrecht fur die Prussischen Staaten. There are no open courts, and no trial by jury. But in the Rhenish provinces they have open courts and trial by jury, because they are governed by the Code Napoleon. In these provinces the people have the same laws, religion, and habits as the people on the banks of the Seine. The only difference is, that these unwilling subjects of Prussia sustain a closer conscription and heavier taxes. British travellers who have wandered on the left bank of the Rhino will remember the impartial dictum of their constant companion, Murray. This intel ligent guide accounts for the circumstance that th . e Prus sian system could not bo imposed upon the in R 11 purposes of ment of the people.' Indeed, except for anpro vinces, because ' the French laws are rootetdhe revenue and recruitment, the annexation is alreadyac complishedLsattach- fact." declared to be pre- The Dresden Journal. lately r tain Vienna organs of mature the statement made cboync.c_ion of cer tain Vienna peace between Prussia and Saxony. the press, respecting ily:, conclusion Zeidler Correspondence now . • s by announcing that the preliminary still more serum • have not led to any result, and that for communications confirms that rectification and . proves the matter to be the moment all uegociatious with Saxony have beeu broken off. re ;it 3d 10 cd )e lOU st 20 20i 10 100 MEN 100 100 100 1. 0 100 100 2.1.0 294 3 2.14.0 8.3.0 3.9.0 Ski 517.0 931 I 99i 102 II 107 6 97 i 91 } 1(7 i