The Sun. — London, England, 1865-10-18 00:00:00

XONEY 21ARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Two o'CLocic. At the Paris Bourse this morning, according to %miter's telegram, the 3 per Cent. Itentes were 67 f. 82c, Prices at the Stock Exchange to-day have indi cated a feeling of much depression, though the fluc tuations have not been of great extent. The prin cipal cause of such a condition of affairs is the illness of our Premier aad its apprehended result. Speculators for a fall have effected additional sales, and recent operators for a rise have in many cases closed their engagements. Consols are down per cent., the quotations being 881 for money, and _ 8 8.89 for the account. As usual, thereis a propor tionate depression in the New Threes and Reduced Ann cities, as well as in all other descriptions of Government Securities. Yesterday there was a 1 bargain in India Stock at 218, and to-day another IC at 217. Numerous sales have taken place place in the Foreign Stock Market, and quotations are generally lower. Turkish Consolides have declined 1 to 47 i . ; Mexican, Ito 251 ; the New Loan, to 2811; Greek, Ito 19 ; Spanish Passive, Ito ii ; and Certificates, 1 to 141; Italian are 631 „u 4 i ; Conf e d era t e L oan, 6 8 ; an d B raz ili an S cr i p, 1( 41 preen. American Securities are also at less values. I nited States 5-20 Bonds are 63i- ; Erie Shares, 57 4 ; and Illinois, 821 83i. Business in the Railway Share Market has been inactive and prices in several instances have shown l e ss firmness. Great Northern have declined 14; Ate tropolitan, 1 ; Great Western, Lancashire and Yorkshire, and South Eastern each I. The Foreign and Colonial lines have remained Without change of importance. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have been dull. 1 , London and County have declined to 771. Oriental Bank are d ea l t in at 52 I ; Overend, Gurney, and Co., at 18-1 ; Allan's Atlantic Telegraph Company are quoted 2to 21 prem. ; Gale's Protected Gunpowder t Company 1-2- 2f prem, ; Merchants' Company, f dis. prem, and Transatlantic Steam Ship, par, 1 prem. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. 8 G OVERNMENT FUNDS. Der Cent. Consols Do. Acc ount, N ov.B 891 81 0 Per C ent. Redueed 87 1 New 3 per Geist 871 7 f 6i NeW 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 Do• b per Cent. Jan. 1873 Annuities, 30 y rs , exp i re sth Jan. 18 80 Do. Mr 30 y rs, expire sth April, 1885.,. 131 Do (Bed S ea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 — 4ellecliter Bills, £1,000,3 3t31 per Cent March Juno Do. £5OO Do £lOO and £2OO Do Ba tik of En gland Stock, 5; p er C en t — Account 1111)1AN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. lildiall Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 217 Do Account - E.: sApeccoruCtietut. July, 1870 _l_o4l • .—. .......... Do. 4 per (Jen; . . Oct. 1888 Do. Certificates. Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent — Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 Do. 51 per Cent., May 1879 — Do Do . 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 — . Bonds, £l,OOO _ Do. Under £l,OOO roiticiGx FUNDS —ONU O'CLOCK. iiitstrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 — Do razili ar „ 5 per Cent _ Do. 1863 •,,• 4 1- per Cent., 1852-58-60 , -1, 0. Scrip, £l5 paid ."",,elaos Ayres 6 per Cent _ _ •uo. Account Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) Chili a n 6 per Cent _ _ ColD 41 per Cent ~,onabian 6 per Cent. _ 1 41 k 6 per Cent. D anish 3 per Cent., 1825 Do. 4 h per Cent., 1863 2o _ paid .--- Do. 5 Cent., 1 7 / 3 -77, £ 'anubian Principalities ~ Do Account -- 4 quadur New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Do. Provisional Land Warrant — E gyptian 7 per Cent Do., Second Issue Do £lOO Bonds 931 Do. 1864 9l , D o £lOO B on d s vreek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons Do Account DDo. Coupons o Account Dbruaternala 5 per Cent. , Doo6paid . 1839 and 1850 &talian 5 per Cent (Maremmana Itailvray) DoDo 1865 .................. ................... Sc r ip, £ 671 paid iexicau 3 p er C unt Do 5 per C ent., 1864 25i. Do. Account 1)o Do 1864 6 pe r C ent. Anglo-French ,Do French Scri, Ex. 25f c M oorish I m 41ontevidean 6 per Cent., £3 20 0 paid perial 5 per Cent liew Granada DoDo 2 per Cent Deferred ................................. 71 h ero Do Land Warrants (Hectares) ......... orian 41. per Cent ........................ DDo Scrip, £45 paid, paid in Bonds Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) , Do 4f per Cent.,_1862 o. Account '"ortuguese 3 per Cent. 1853 Do 3 per Ceut., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, --- b Do. Account • 46 .4ussian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St D 4 1 per C en t. 1850 1 ., D0 3 pet Cent. 1859 • ""-,-, 0 5 per Cent. 18 62 9l 90f 8 ' l- ' l3 5 per Cent. 1864 ardinian 5 per Cent ur,o Account 1)" - ' 13 NeW Deferred ,-uo„0 Account ................. . Passive 81,-n Account jrish Cert. of Coup not fund.ed — !I °_,,Account 1 3 '-ush 4 per Cent T Dish per Cent. 1864 .... . V 6 per Cent. 1854 t i ° '4`.ceolint .11; v!, per Cent. 1858 D ° Account r,e .£lOO Bonds ~..,0 , i ., • ii. per Cent V -13 6 P ep Cent. 1862 ___ o Account ..................... t i . " o ° X6lOO Bonds ' 74 1 i .0 _ , per Cent., 1864 ____ ID ° 0 for Cent. 1865 1)0 0 £llo 8 .Bands ............................. , 0 erg), £3 paid venoezGueu jara.3nteed,,4 per Cent D b_. a per Cent. 4 Per Cent., 186 i . Aecount a • - Per Cent, 1864 ..................... Dividends ou the above payable in London. Belgian, 41-I).et..ecreftiti Anstrian. 5 Per C B utch _ Do. 4 per Cent C j . : . " .- -- _ _ f reach Route s 4/ p e rt 1 4'L S — r klian 5 per C 2 er Ce t. 1)0 account cut" "61 ' x. 25f. _ VOO .Accost,. . ................................ .....T WB°Bl 7CLCK. 88; " 5 dis 5 dis l'iverpoof Cotton Market —This Day. ))Al9o 0 ark bales.et st eady, but rather quiet. S a l es, probably TWELVE O'CLOCK. Monetary affairs remain in a quiet but rather stringent condition. Bankers and brokers are awaiting the Gazette return and the result of the weekly court to-morrow before offering any con cession to the commercial classes. There is little belief that the value of money will be cheaper for so me time to come, and it would not excite surprise i f the reserves of the Bank necessitated the addition of another 1 per cent. to the official minimum. A Much less active demand for accommodation now Prevails ; but it is only in exceptional instances, viz., for first class bankers' acceptances, that per cent. leas has been taken. An adjourned meeting of the Confederate Cotton llondholders was held at the London Tavern this clay, for the purpose of receiving a report of the committee appointed at the first meeting, which was hold on the 4th ult. The opinion of Mr. Fleming, on the case submitted to him, left no doubt that, sooner 13 or l ater, either the U n it e d St a t es or t h e S tates lately . °ll fling the Confederation, would recognise and pay 3 the loan. On the perusal of that opinion, which I° l action, shows th at the loan was a perfectly legitimate trans- El the committee considered it would be h ighly desirable that the bonds of the loan should 2 be quoted like other loa ns i n the official list of the . Stock Exchange, and more especially as large trans actions were daily taking place in it by the members of the Stock Exchange and the public. SHARE 'his Day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Share/ Railways. I Paid Closing 1 Business *I Price. done. ._ , it ißriatol and Exiter tjealedonian 92 14 126 127 95 97 12 14 6 6 67 7' 71 73 94 93 6 6d Ic9 111 46i 411 74 8 $0 Cambrian ;0 Cork and 8and0n...... Cornwall it it Dublin & Belfast Junc Dun„Perth, & A b.Junc ;0 E.London, acrip Certi Do. ;t Glasgow &S. Western t Great Eastern, Ord. stk. t Do. E. Angl. st. No. 2 t Great North of Scotland t Great Northern t D... A stock. ;t Do. B stock. 130 132 118 15) st Do. New, is. at 25 pm st Gt S. and W. of Ireland at Gt. Weste.n st 113 ,, . S. Val. Rail gua. st Do. South Wales st Do. W. Mid.—Oxford at Do. Newport at Do. Hereford. et Lancashire & Yorkshire st L andon and Blackwall st Lon., Brig - h., & S Coast t Lon., Chat., and Dover st Do. Metrop. ltx. A t Lou. & North Western at Lon. & South Western at Man., Shet., & Lincoln at Metropolitan..... [0 Do. New '0 Do. Extension... Metropolitan District. t Do do. do. 90 92 63i 43; 61 83 42 44 37 40 104 tO6 12 121 87 80 104 1(6 37 39 51 53 124 124 954 96,;; 67 bS 137 k 134 3 lip 1 14t) 10! 104 LO Do. and Si..iohn 7 aird !t Mid; and 9 Do. £0 Share 12ti 14 21 91 96 it Do, Birmin.. .Sz Derby 15 Mid Kent . it North British it Do. Ed., Pth ,'dc Dun it Nth. Eastern - Berwick 15 Do. G.N•E purchabe it Do. Leeds 62 63 8 30 109 110 it Do. York... t Do. Carlisle . 68 69 102& 103 :5 Do. Stock. & Darllnp - ,. :5 Do. do. 1860-61 It North London 36 37 10 II p 118 120 1 i 1 11) 1 1; p 75 77 it 12 148 152 57 50 Do. do. 1864 10 Do. kio. 1865 ;t North Staffordshire ,0 N. &S. W. Junction It Scottish Central Scot. N. E , Aber. stock it , o. Scot, Mid. et ack it Shropshire Union it South Devon it South Eastern 0 Staines, Wok., dr Wok It Taff Vale 69 6?. 57 69 BO M 84 94 14S 152 3 tp, 103 105 .0 Do. C it Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny 0 Waterloo & Whitcha 1 it West CornwAll 5) 52 BRITISH P DO Atlantic & St.Lawrencc at Bom.,Baroda, fi Cen.ln. gm. 5 percent... tO shares :01 1 Buffalo & Lake Huron l 0 Do. Preference 10 f Buff.,Brant, & Goderich 1 6 p.c. 872-3- $......• . it Calcutta do S. E., lim cape Town Jz Dock, gu: 00 Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p:' it East. Beno,al, gu., sdo et East Indian, gu. 5 p.c. 20 Do. J Extension st Grand Trunk of Canad s DO Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds 1 charge 6 p.c DO Do. Ist Pref. Bonds DO Do. do. deferred DO Do. 2d Pref. Bonds )0 Do. do. deferred )0 Do. 3d Pref. stock )0 Do. do. deferred )0 Do. 4th Pref. stock )0 Do. do. deterred it Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c i 0 o. Gua. 5 per cent !O Do. New gua. sp. c st Gt. South of India gua. 5 per cent st D 41 per cent st Do 20i Great Wes. of Canada.. ni DJ. New . DO Do. 6p. c. Bds. pay. 1873 DO Do. 5i do. pay. 1877-8 10 Indian Branch, limited Bt Madras, gua. 5 p.c 5t Do. 41 do 3t Do. 43 do 0 Do. Fifth Extension 5t Melb. Cor. 6p. c. Bnds. i 0 Mel. dz, Hudson's Bay it N. 111. C'da, 6pc lst pf.bs 5t Scinde it Do. Delhi 0 * Do. do d it Do. Punjaub.... m, O t Do.lndus St. Flo, COLONIAL GOFER: British Columbia, 6 per cent., Dec. 31,1472.... Can.Gov.6 p.c.ja.& July 1877-84 Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Aug Do. 5 p. C. Mar. & Sept 00.5 p. c. Jan. & July Do. 5 p. 0. Inscribed sk Cape G.Hope, 6 p.c. 1873 Do.Apl. &Oct , 1890-1900 Do. do; 1880-9. Do. Jan.&July, 1890-91 Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and 15 Oct., 1900 Ceylon, Nov. 1868,6 p. c Do. 1878, do lattritius, 6 p. c, 1873, Jan. and July Do. IR7B Do. 188?, May 15, Nov. ,6 Do. 1895, Feb. & Aug natal ';ov. a per cent N.8.G0v.6 p.c.Ja.&July N. S.W. Gov. 5 p.c., 1866 Do. 5 p.c. 18;1 to 187 h Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 189% New Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 5 per cent Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. c sterling, 1875 'Queensland Gov. 6p. c s. Aus.Gov. 8 p,c 1868-9 Do. 1878 & upwards Vic,Gov. 6 p.c. Ta &July Do. do, a pill & Oct BRITL 2 Cam. Consol. Gold, line. - Chiverton 7- Clifford Amalgamated - Devon G. Cons. (Taoist - Drakewalls - East Bassett (Illogan) - Nast Caradon - East Cam Brea - Nast Grenville - East Gunnislake - East Loved - E. W'i Russell (Tavistk - Gam. & StAubyn(G wen. 4 Great L ocey, limited - Great South Tolgus - Great Wheal Busy - G. Wheal Vor (Helstou - Grenville - Herod's Foot - Elingston Downs - Margaret (Uny Lelant - Marke Valley 4 liwyndy Iron Ore, Urn - New Se ton - North Roskear N.Wh' 1 Bassett (Mogan North Wheal Crofty Prosper United - Pr,,videnee Uny Lelant - S. Caradon (St. Cleer) - South Condurrow S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan - • Stray Park - Tin Croft 5 Vigra and Cicgan, - West Bassett (Mogan - W. Caradon (Ltskeard - West Chi rerton ....... . - West Seton - Wheal Bassett 'Mogan - Wheal Buller (Redruth - Wheal Mary Ann (Men. - Wheal Seton -• Wheal Trelawney (Lis ISIONS. 68 60 101 102 id } sio 1 5 10 11 75 80 99 101 70 75 101 103 101 102 102 103 i 'IP 21 24 90 92 60 7t 60 64 59 61 f 2 55 4t 49 43 45 29 31 28 30 103 104 ~ -l~pl i #P 101 IC2 15i 151 5 411 5 18 85 67 1 ed 101 102 93 95 88 90 64 66 82 84 101 102 101 102 id .00 101 32 54 430 950 3 3} 124 174 10 15 17 28 5 8 6 7 8 10 70 75 165 175 75 80 26 28 4 6 195 200 18 19 fltiflieEßENCE SHARES. Manchester, Sheffield. and Lincoln, 8 per cent.. Ditto, £4l, 41 North Eastern, West Hartlepool Harbour and Rail., 83 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San Francisco tli.n.) gua. 7 per cent., 11 Dutch Rhenish, 24 Great Luxembourg, Ili Recite and San Francisco (lini.), gua. 7 per cent., 14 FOUEIGIi KINES t Cape Copper, lira., 11-2- Cobre Copper, 22 1# Frontino and Bolivia Gold, lim., 3 Washoe Gold, lira., Ditto, (DI). 7# Yudanamutana of S. Australia, Jim., 1# Alliance, lira„ 311 Brazilian and Portuguese, lira., 9 8 Chartered Rer. of India, London, and China. 501 Commercial Bank of India and the East, 32 3 Hindustan, China, and Japan, _— Ditto, issued at 2 pm., - Ditto. new, 191 Land Mortgage Bank of India, lira., 41 London and River Plate, Ditto, new, 13 8 London Charterea London and Couuty, 772 Bank of Australia, 2 s l Merchant Bank, lira., 201 Mercantile and Exchange. Bin., Oriental Bank Corporation, 52 Provincial Banking Corporation, Um., Ditto (.£lO,, MISCELLANEOUS. Atlantic Telegraph, S per cent. gua., Credit Fonder and Mobilier of England, ioi Ebbw Vale, 141 J3i Egyptian Com and Trading, lim., Euglish and Australian Copper, 11 6 Fairb drn Engineering, 6 Imports' Mercantile Credit Asso., Um., 71 International Financial z,ociety, lim., fit Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour), Ditto, 6 per cent. Bonds, redem. 170, issued 90, 81 National Provincial Marine, 16 Overend, Gurney, and Co., Jim., 1 91 - J. - Quebrada Land, Kan, and Mining, lien., 4} Thames and Mersey Marine (Insurance). Um., 8} Union Marine Liverpool, Um., 4 Universal Marine, Insurance. lim., 6 COURSE OF EXCHANGE--Last Evening Amsterdam Short. 11 191 12 Oi Dit to 3 Months. 12 2f 12 3 _ 12 2i 12 3} Rotterdam Antwerp — 25 65 25 70 25 70 25 65 Brussels Hambur g Paris . 25 35 ................ .... Ditto Marseilles 2.5 62f 25 67} Frankfort on the Maine 1211 121} Vienna- Triesto ...... . Petersburgh -29 f 111.1 30 ••• Berlin Madrid LCadiz eghorn 25 80 Milan 2A Messina :i 0) OSSE KENT SECUR: 95 97 95 97 95 97 82 84 82 54 ,103 185 107 109 106 10s 105 107 93i 916 IC3 105 110 112 104 106 106 108 107 100 1( 5 107 102 104 96 98 94 101 93 95 90 01 103 105 84i 85i 99 101 102 103 106 108 105 106 9 10: 18i 194 560 580 , niE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 18 . 1865. LAW INT. .This Day. SIIERIFFg" COVRT. (Bofore Mr. Commissioner Kerr.) BATEMAN T. THE GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. This was an aotion to recover £lB 13s. damages arising out of the non-delivery of six watches, aportion of a parcel, entrusted to tho defendants to deliver at Norwich. Mr. Lewis, of Ely-place, for the plaintiff, stated that his client, on August 6th last, booked at defendants' station a parcel of watches, which were consigned to Mr. Rudd, Norwich. Those watches were not delivered, and the pre sent action was brought to recover the value. His Honour—Does any one appear for the defendants ? Mr. Barnard (instructed by Mr. Ashloy)—l do. His Honour—What is your answer ? Mr. Barnard—The Carriers' Act. Your Honour will re member the case of Baxendale and Hart, in which it has been decided that the first duty is on the sender. Here the value of the goods is £lB, and there is no declaration of value. Mr. Lewis was of opinion that the company ought to have informed plaintiff that he was bound to declare the value of the goods. Mr. Barnard said that the Court of Error had expressly decided that they were not. Mr. Lewis then urged that plaintiff sued the company in trover. His Honour—How can you prove trover when you de livered the goods to the decendants as carriers? You seek to make the company liable as common carriers, and they set up the Carriers' Act, under which you are bound to declare the value of the goods. You did not do so, and I ask you how do you get over the defence ? Mr. Lewis—l elect to be nonsuited. Plaintiff nonsuited, and costs allowed to defendants. A CHEQUE NOT A LEGAL TENDER-JONES V. BOUNSWELL. This was a case in which the defendant did not dispute the amount, and, indeed, had paid the debt into court. Mr. J. A. Farnfield now applied for costs. Defendant did not think that costs should be allowed, as he had tendered the money before action. Mr. Farnfield said that the tender was not a legal one, as it had been made by cheque. His Honour—A cheque is clearly not a legal tender. Defendant—So I have since learned, but my credit had not expired when I was sued. His Honour laboured hard to explain to the defendant that by paying the money into court he had waived all question of defence, but defendant considered ho was very hardly dealt by, lamented the absence of his attorney, and thought that his Honour was entirely wrong. His Honour allowed defendant the costs of attorney. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day, offender, the receiver, who could not be placed in the dock owing to an accident since she had been in custody. The girl stole a coat from her master's house last Saturday, and he missed it on Sunday. Tho girl was discharged from the service of he'r master, and when the robbery was mentioned to her father an inquiry was instituted, and her mother brought her to Mr. Farrow yesterday morning, and she admitted having stolen the coat. She was asked where it was, and sho said she had sold it to Mrs. Herdsman for half-a-crown. The receiver was taken ill in the station house, and fainted away. She was seven months advanced in pregnancy, and it was feared she would miscarry. Mr. Farrow having confirmed the statement of his soli citor, the girl was asked what she had to say in answer to the charge. The girl, with great simplicity, said—Please, sir, what am I say ? Mr. Daniel Bose, surgeon, of Connaught-place, Com mercial-road, said the prisoner Lucy Herdsman, of Old Gravel-lane, was labouring under uterine hemorrhage, which in all probability would terminate in a miscarriage. She was not in a fit state to be brought to the Court. Mr. Paget remanded the girl for a week. Mr. C. Young said it was not the wish of Mr. Farrow that the child, for so he might with propriety call her, should be sent to prison, and asked that she might be bailed until the leaving -shop keeper could attend to answer the charge of feloniously receiving the coat. Mr. Paget said as the application for bail came from the prosecutor ho would accede to it ; and the sureties offered having been accepted, the girl was liberated. Police-sergeant Smith, No. 47 K, said that the woman Herdsman was in custody at the station-house and at tended by a female. He asked what ho was to do with her. Mr. Paget could give no directions in the matter. The woman was not before him. If the police thought proper to discharge her, they could take her into custody again when she was sufficiently recovered to be brought to the court. Mr. Livingstone, chief usher of the court, said that in the cases of people attempting to commit suicide and other offences, where the parties charged were too ill to be brought before a magistrate, they were removed to a work house and taken charge of until sufficiently recovered. There would be no difficulty in keeping the woman in a workhouse and providing her with medical attendance until she recovered from her illness. The husband of the woman said his wife was in danger, and she might die through being taken into custody. Mr. Charles Young—Her arrest can be justified. She is charged with receiving stolen property. South Australia. (From the South Australian Register.) ADELAIDE, Aug. 26. There have been some fine rains during the month, which, however; havo not extended to the Far North. The flocks are suffering- most severely, and the loss of property has been immense. It is feared that the season is now too far advanced to warrant the expectation that rain in any sufficient quantities will fall. The sheep on some stations havo died by thousands. A commission, consisting of the Hon. C. Bonney, Mr. W. Cavenagh, M.P., and Mr. Valentine, Chief Inspector of Sheep, has started for the north to inquire into the con dition of the runs there. Their report will be looked for with much anxiety. The wheat crops, though more backward than usual, are looking very well and promising. A great breadth of land is under cultivation for wheat. Parliament was prorogued by his Excellency on the 4th of August. It is understood that both Houses will meet again about the close of September. The Government have summoned Mr. Finniss to Ade , . _ _ laide, and the party at Adam Day will remain, during his absence, in charge of Mr. Manion. They have engaged Mr. McKinlay for 12 months to explore and report upon the northern territory, and the site of the capital will re main meanwhile abeyance. Mr. W. P. Auld, lately returned from the Northern Ter ritory, has been brought before the Police-court by warrant, charged with the murder of an aborigine near to Escape Cliffs. Ho has been remanded for a weel-, and bail refused. The Government are about to charter a vessel to take Mr. McKin'ay and his party to Adam Bay, and to bring back Mr. F:nniss. It is said Mr. McKinlay's instructions are to ascend the Liverpool and probably the Roper Rivers, so as to examine thoroughly the country now unknown. It is expected the vessel will sail in about a fortnight. The annual lessees of waste lands, whose runs have been sold by the Government, have refused to give up possession. An attempt has been made to impound the stock, which was resisted by the occupiers. The case has been before the magistrates in Adelaide, who decided they had no ju risdiction. The matter will next come before the Supreme Court. A party of seven purchased as open boat at Escape Cliffs, with which they sailed to Champion Bay, vid Camden Har bour, a distance of 2,500 miles, over a comparatively un known sea. Though exposed to much danger and suffering many privations, they succeeded in safely reaching their destination, and came on from King George's Sound by the mail steamer. Much anxiety was fe!t about the party when it was known they had started on such a perilous voyage in a small boat, and their appearance in Adelaide safe and well was a cause of much saasfaction. The natives in the Far Norl are still troublesome, owiig, it is presumed, to the scarcity of their usual food. They are said to be suarin,g terrible privations. Mr. G. S. Walters has resigned the Agent-Generalship of the colony in England. No successor has yet been ap pointed. A strong feeling has been expressed in favour of work ing the mall service Ga!le by a Colonial Steam Company. It is believed all the colonies would look favourably on a movement of this kind. The Legislative Council have passed a resolution in - favour of such a scheme. The Devon flour mills, Pore Adelaide, have been de stroyed by fire. Insured, entirely in British offices, for £B,OOO. The immigration to Port Adelaide to August 19 has been 4,144; emigration, 1,905. The cereal exports to August 19, out ports included, amount to £940,964 03. 3d. The Custo.ns' receipts to August 19, out ports included, are £153,489 13s. 6d. The imports and exports at Port Adelaide only to Aug. 19 are—imports, £1,672,560, exports, £1,429,529. Tho total quantity of laud sold to Aug. 24 was 206,903 acres, yielding £332,534 2s. 9d. The railway receipts on both lines to Aug. 19 amounted to £90,089 13s. Exchange. —All the banks except the Union sell 60 days' bills at 11 per cent. premium, and purcha3e the same at par. The Union sell GO days' draughts at 1 premium, and pur chase document bills at per cent., and Bank bills at 1 per cont. premium. Shares.—Burra, £6O ; Moonta, C.D., £171; Karkarilla, £lB ; Adelaide Bank, £1 Bs. ; National Bank, £6 7s. 6d. ; South Australian Insurance, £2 3s. Gd. ; Adelaide Marine Insurance, £1 12s; Adelaide Gas, £lO 4s. Copper.—Burrs and Wallaroo, £B5 per ton. Flour, fine, silk-dressed, £lB to £l9 per ton of £2,000, at the port. Wheat, per bushel of 601 b, at 7s. 9d. to Bs. hi. Arrived.—Goolwa, Norman Morrison, Aboyno, and Charnel Queen, from London ; Kohinoor, from Tome. Sailed.—Doors, for Swansea (via Wallaroo); Akbar, for Guam; Crown and Coorong, for Mauritius. Gale's Protected Gunpowder in Ame Lica. Mr. Handel Cossham, who left England a. short time since, with Sir Morton Peto and other English capitalists, for a visit to the United States, has there introduced Gale's process for protecting gunpowder with the same success as has attended the experi ments in England. We take the following from a New York paper : "An interesting series of experiments were tried yesterday afternoon in one of the yards of the Jersey City Locomotive Works, at Jersey City, for the purpose of testing a newly-invented process for rendering gunpowder non-explosive. The process is of English origin, and is the invention of Mr. Gale, electrician, of Plymouth, England. It is introduced into this country by Mr. Handel Cossman, one of the party of English tourists, who have recently been travelling through the States, by whom the experiments were conducted. The method, which is purely mechanical, consists of mingling the explosive gunpowder with a certain proportion of a non-explosive powder of a much greater degree of fineness, so that each grain of gun powder is surrounded and isolated from its fellows by a non-combustible wall, through which no fire can penetrate. If, then, fire should be communi cated to any part of this mixture, only those grains of powder will be burned which the fire actually iouches. It will not flash through the entire mass. Mr. Crossham commenced his experiments by burning several simples of different qualities of powder in open wooden vessels. They all flashed up instantly on the application of a match or a red-hot poker. He then took small quantities of the same owder and mingled them in different propor ons with the non-explosive powder, which in these exiperiments was simply common glass ground to an almost impalpable dust. A mixture of equal parts by weight of a fine quality of English rifle powder with the glass dust, being set, on fire by a paper match, burned like a squib, or a like a mix ture of dry and wet powder, the powder being en tirely consumed, but slowly, and without any ap pearance of explosion. A mixture of one part gunpowder with two of glass was stirred up with a red-hot poker. Some of the powder was consumed, producing a succession of tiny jets of flame and smoke as the hot poker came successively in contact with the different grains; but, after a pretty thorough stirring with the hot iron a considerable quantity o , the powder was found to be still unburnt. " Into a vessel containing one part of gunpowder and three parts of glass dust a pyrotechnist's quick match was placed, passing entirely through the mix ture. The match was then fired at both ends, and burned entirely out without producing any appear pearance of explosion or even combustion in the mixture. " The residue remaining from each of these ex periments was then placed in a common sieve, and the remaining powder was instantly and easily se parated from the glass dust. Each sample of powder was then subjected to the same test as the mixture had been, when each flashed up and burned instantly, showing conclusively that no change had occurred in the powder. Each of these experiments was repeated over and over again, the fire or heat being applied in different ways, and always with the same results. ‘4 In order to show the-entire safety of the mixture on a larger scale a common gunpowder keg was then filled with four pounds of strong rifle powder, and about nine pounds of non-explosive dust, and placed upon the top of the fire in a portable furnace. Some of the spectators at first seemed to think that this was carrying the matter to extremes, and showed a disposition to retire from the im mediate neighbourhood of the furnace, but the con fident manner of Mr. Cossham reassured them, and they concluded to remain. The bottom of the keg soon burned through, and its contents ran out into the fire, causing a small burst of flame and smoke, as a handful of any dry shavings might have done, but not producing sufficient explosion to move the empty keg from its position. " Several variations of these tests were tried, but always with the same results. The powder in com bination with a proper proportion of the glass dust would not burn, but on being separated from it by simply sifting the mixture it burned as readily and exploded as forcibly as ever. " The experiments seemed to prove conclusively the entire correctness of the theory. It will be seen that no chemical change takes place in the powder. Its particles are simply separated from each other by the interposition of a non combustible medium, so that fire does not pass from one particle to another. That is all. It may be objected that, by this mixing of the pow der, greater space is required for its storage, but on this score the inventor claims that, by rendering the powder perfectly safe, he is enabled to dispense with the cumbrous precautions usually required in stor ing it, and so a quantity of his mixture stored in bulk will really require little if any more space than the same amount of powder stored in the usual way. Also that the cost of the safety material will not exceed that of the preparations now required to attain, less efficiently, the same result. 44 A s the greater part of the cost of gunpowder now grows out of the precautions necessary to en sure safety in producing and keeping it, Mr. Coss ham thinks that a general adoption of this plan will ultimately lead to a great reduction in the cost of the article. , L The process is protected by letters patent, both in Europe and in this country." SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day. LONDON, Oct. 18.—Wind this day at noon —South. Westerly; moderato breeze and cloudy weather, with rain, FALMOUTH, Oct. 17.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Corandia Bell, for London. COWES, Oct. 17.—Wind S.E. — Arrived—Bavaria, scrow steamer, from New York. CARDIFF, Oct. 17.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Vulture, from Stettin. Sailed—lsloaid, for the Cape of Good Hope gOUTIIAMPTON, Oct. IG.—Wind S.W.—Sailod—Had• dington, for Bombay. fRISTOL, OCt. from Africa. 17.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Congo, LIVERPOOL, Oct. 15.--Wind S.B.—Arrived—Blanche, rom St. Nazairo ; Morning, from Shanghai. Sailed—Elise, :or Rio Janeiro. SWANSEA Oct. 16.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Claymoro, from Adelaide. PORTSMOUTH, Oct. 16.—Wind S.W.—Arrived -Her Ma• esty's ship Helicon, on a cruise. ELECTRIC TELEGRAPILI GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning. Arrivod, Oct. 17.—Zephyr, from Singapore; Aliwall, from Guernsey; Wilhelmina, from Onega; Bose, from Jacobstadt. Arrived, Oct. 18.—Leo and Cologne, steamers, both from Rotterdam; Cid, steamer, from Bordeaux ; Triton, steamer, from Boulogne ; Velocity, steamer, from Calais ; Gibraltar, steamer, from Cadiz ; Charente, steamer, from Lisbon ; St. Petersburg, steamer, from St. Petersburg; Batavier, steamer, from Rotterdam ; Holland, steamer, from Ostend ; Scotia, steamer,jfrom Malaga ; Lord John Russell, steamer, from Ostend. _ _ _ _ -- ---.... DEAL, Wednesday Morning. Anchored.—Fairy, from London, for Bangkok. RIFLE SHOOTING MATCH BETWEEN THE FIRST MANCHESTER RIFLE VOLUNTEERS AND THE SCOTS GREYS.—On Saturday an interesting rifle shooting match took place between 10 sergeants of the First Manchester Rifle Volunteers and 10 sergeants of the Scots Greys. Tho contest came off on the ground of the former corps, at Ast ley, and the ranges were 100 and 200 yards, five rounds at each distance, with carbines. The targets were as per re gelation, and the shooting of the two opponent squads was very fair, considering that the Scots Greys scarcely ever practise with the weapon, and the First Manchester being totally unused to it ; but the latter corps has decidedly the best of the match, as it is well known they are well up in the use of the Enfield rifle. The match was won by the sergeants of the First Manchester by 48 marks. The fol lowing are the scores of each squad :—First Manchester : Sergeant Allison, 31; Sergeant Mitchell, 30 ; Sergeant Instructor Heaton, 30 ; Sergeant Mellor, 28 ; Sergeant Ridge, 28 ; Sergeant Walker, 25 ; Colour Sergeant H. Tay lor, 23 ; Sergeant Green, 20; Sergeant Gilson, 18 ; Sergt. T. Taylor, 18 ; total, 251. Scots Greve Sergt. Masterson, 30 ; Sergeant Webb, 28 ; Sergeant Black, 26 ; Sergeant Conrade, 23 ; Sergeant Instructor Gibson, 22 ; Sergeant Ramsay, 19 ; Sergeant Hughman, 19 ; Sergeant M'Kay, 18; Paymaster Sergeant Brown, 12; Troop Sergeant Major Liddle, 6 ; to:n 1 , 203. At the close of the contest the competitors were marched to the canteen, where a dinner was provided for them by the officers and non-com missioned officers of the First Manchester. BOW-STREET. George Welch, a poorly-clad fellow, was placed before Mr. Vaughan charged with robbery. Bridget Welch and the prisoner a short time ago came to the house in which sho resided, and as ho appeared to be in a very destitute and starving condition, the other lodgers with herself, out of charity, allowed the prisoner to sleep in the place for the night. After this she had occasion to place her basket of walnuts for safety in the kitchen. After getting up next morning she found the prisoner had gone away and taken her basket with its contents with him. She saw him yesterday again in a state of intoxication, and she accused him of stealing her basket. lie did not deny it, and as he refused to toll where it was she gave him into custody. Police-constable, 337 A, said he took the prisoner to the station-house, where the prosecutrix charged him. He said it was quite true that he had stolen her basket, and that he had pawned it for sixpence in Golden-lane. The prisoner pleaded guilty to the charge. Mr. Vaughan said it was a most heartless case of robbery. The prisoner waa given shelter for the night out of a feel ing of charity and commiseration for his destitute condition, and that act of kindness he repaid by robbing the poor girl of her basket, which formed a principal means of her getting her living. He was told that ho had only got Gd. on the basket, and for that small sum he had robbed those who had been kind to him. He should send him to prison for 14 days, and he directed the prosecutrix to go to the place where her basket was detained, and in the event of the owner of the shop refusing to give up the stolen pro perty, to attend at that court again and he would take steps to compel him to do so. The prosecutrix thanked his worship and retired. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. UNPROVOKED ASSAULT BY A GENTLEMAN.-Mr. Arthur Charles Davis, of 52, Albert-street, Mornington-crescent, gentleman, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with assault ing Mr. Charles Mills, a medical student, residing at 55, Guildford-street, Russell-square. The complainant said he was in the Flying Horse Tavern, Oxford-street, last night, taking some refresh ment, when, without the least provocation, the defendant knocked him down and struck him several times while he was on the ground. Ho then sent for the police, and gave the defendant into custody. The defendant asked the complainant whether he had not made remarks about him, and he said he had not. Mr. Frederick Buswell, of IG, Stamford-street, said he was in the tavern taking a glass, and he saw the defendant strike tho complainant without any provocation. Both persons were strangers to him, and he had attended at some trouble. A police-constable said that hearing last night a noise in tho public-house he looked in and saw the defendant striking somebody who was lying down. The defendant said the complainant was making re marks over the bar. He asked the complainant if they were meant for him, and he replied " Yes, if you like.' He then invited the complainant to put up his hands, and , on his doing so he struck him. Mr. Anthony Hart Davis, brother of the defendant, said he heard the complainant making offensive remarks, say ing that persons came to the house and pretended to be gentlemen, giving themselves airs. The complainant put up his hands, and then there wore blows exchanged be tween the complainant and his brother. Mr. Buswell said ho did not believe tho last witness was present. Mr. Tyrwhitt said he considered it an unprovoked assault altogether by a person who, from his dress, one would think would know better. Tho defendant was fined 40s. or a month's imprison. ment. SAVAGE ASSAULT BY A FEMALE.—Sarah Thompson, a young woman, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt on a war rant with violently assaulting a young man named Edward Cainling, of 23, New Church-court, Strand. The 'complainant, whose head was bandaged, said that on the night of Saturday week he was having a fight with another man in a ginger-beer and ice shop near the Tot tenham-court-road, when the prisoner seized up a ginger beer glass and struck him a violent blow on the head with it. The glass broke and he was frightfully cut. The pri soner then stabbed at his head with the broken glass, in flicting another severe wound. He fainted, and was taken, smothered with blood, to the North London Hospital, where he had had to attend ever since. [The complainant hero exhibited tho shirt he was wearing at the time, and it was saturated with blood.] Sergeant Head, 2 E, said ho found the complainant bleeding from wounds on his head, and while he was as certaining how he came by his injuries, tho prisoner, who was present, ran away. He took the injured man to the hospital, where the doctor said the wounds were very bad, two veins being cut through. The prisoner was yesterday taken on a warrant. The prisoner said that the complainant was at the time fighting a young man she lived with. Mr. Tyrwhitt said that striking a man with a glass was a very serious affair. lie should fine the prisoner 40s. or a month. WESTMINSTER. IMPORTANT APPLICATION BY A CATTLE INSPECTOR.— Mr. Stanley, Government inspector of cattle for the West minster district, applied to Mr. Dayman for a warrant to enable him to search certain premises where he suspected there were diseased cattle, and where ho had been refused entrance. Mr. Stanley said that on Saturday last ho received in formation that there were diseased cattle in the shed of ono Mrs. Ramshaw, at Bonner's-yard, York-street, Westmin ster. He went there and found 26 cows, some of which he was of opinion were infected, and—under the Order of Council passed at Whitehall on the 11th of August last— he ordered them not to remove the cows. Last night ho received information that some of them had been removed, and on going to the place where they had been slaughtered he made a post-mortem examination of two of the carcases and found that they had been labouring under incipient disease. He then returned to Mrs. Ramshaw's and wished to inspect the rest of the cattle, and found another one about to be removed, but was refused permission to see the cattle. He left, and said he would call this morning to see thorn, but was again refused, and now applied to his worship for a warrant to search the premises. Mr. Dayman, ou looking at tho copy of the Order in Council, said that:by the fifth clause of the order every in spector should have power to enter and examine any time as often as he might think necessary. A warrant, there fore, was not needed. Ho was the person appointed to enter, and if refused admission he had full power to enter the promises with sufficient force and break open the place where ho supposed the cattle wore kept. Mr. Stanley thanked his worship, applied for several summonses under different clauses against Mrs. Rarnshaw7 and retired. THAMES. THE THIEF AND RECEIVER.—PAINTTL CASE.—Sarah Ann Berry, a simple-looking servant girl, only 14 years of age, was brought before Mr. Paget charged with stealing a coat , value 205., the property o f h er master, Mr. John Hastings' Farrow, a veterinary surgeon, of 55, iLadcliff Highway, and Lucy Herdsman, aged 30, a "I .eaving shop keeper," of No. 33, Old Gravel-lane, charged with feloniously re ceiving the same, O lin Ch- ...at) well knowing it to be stolen. -' Young, solicitor, said it was with great re l'actance Mr. John H. Farrow was compelled to prosecut e . _.Jos l his servant girl, but it was done to reach a much worse M ARKETS—This Day. MARK-LANE. Fresh up to our market to-day the arrivals of home grown wheat were very moderato, but the condition of the produce was good. For all good and fine samples the trade ruled firm at fully late rates. For inferior English wheats the demand was in a sluggish state on former terms. The supply of foreign wheat on offer was good. The demand was by no means active ; nevertheless, a fair busi ness was transacted at fully Monday's currency. Floating cargoes of grain were in fair demand at full prices. Fine barley was scarce, and fully supported Monday's quotations ; otherwise tho barley trade was quiet at late rates. Malt was in fair demand, and prices ruled firm.' The market was well supplied with oats ; most descrip tions were in fair request, at fully late rates. Beans and peas were in but mode ra t e supply, and the ;rade was firm, at very full prices. Flour wa:3 in fair demand, and th e quotations ruled firm. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. English and Scotch. 540 370 420 380 1010 Irish Foreign 3950 510 -- 24,490 220 sks. COMPARATIVE QUANTITIES AND PRICES OF GRAIN. For the week ending Oct. For the corresponding week 14, 1865. last year. Qrs. Aver. Qrs. Aver. Wheat 80,312-41 51 1d Wheat ....... 76,126-38 s 9d Barley 40,246-3 N 9d Barley ..... ....44,750-30s 2d Oats BOROUGH HOP. A largo business is passing in hops, and prices rule firm. The best hops aro selling at £9 Ds per cwt. WHITECHAPEL. The supply of meat on sale was moderate, and the trade rules steady as follows : Beef, from 3s 10d to 4 s 8 d ; mutton, 4s 4d to 5s 8d ; veal, 4s Od to 5s Od and pork, 4s Od to Gs Od per 81bs, by the carcase. FUNERAL OF A SOLDlER.—Yesterday afternoon a soldier's funeral took place at the Hampton Ceme tery with all the military honours, the deceased, James Millie, who was only 31 ycarsof age, having been employed in the Ordnanae Survey Department under the cokamand of Captain the Hon. Leopold French. A very largo num ber of the Royal Engineers followed the corpse to the grave, the bandpreceding and performing the usual solemn and impressive music, and in testimony of respect a detach ment of the Grenadier Guards also formed part of the pro cession. The ritual having been read, the firing party ad vanced to the grave and did their sad duty, so closing the affecting ceremonial. The deceased, who was much re spected, died from consumption, leaving a widow and one child to deplore his loss. 47k 7 1 130 6 3 1 2 i 121! 1 10 1241 962 138 a 125 41 5 68 2 +1 104 751 i 80 i 15; 18 ,ITIES. 1051 6 SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. (Mr. Edwards) 4 Zodiac, Ace of Hearts, The Rogue (late Orphan), also ran. Betting-7 to 4 agst Doubloon, 4to 1 agst Morocco, sto 1 agst Zodiac, 10 to 1 any other. Rochester took up the running, with a strong lead, followed by Doubloon and Morocco, Zodiac bringing up the rear. They ran thus for two miles, when Doubloon went to the front, Zodiac, com ing with a rush, taking second place, but soon gave way, dropping rapidly in the rear. Doubloon and Rochester from this point had the race between them, the former winning by a length and a half ; but the jockey of Rochester, al though riding with great determination, could not make the most of his horse, having broken his stirrup leather early in the race; Sly Fox was a bad third, a head behind whom was Morocco; The Rogue was fifth, Zodiac next; Ace of Hearts, who fell the last time round, walked in some time a:terwards. A 50 Sovs Szeeplechase Plate (Liandicap) ; winners extra. About two miles. Mr. Cook's Rapture, aged, list 71b .......... (T Ablett) Mr. Rupert' s Sh u ttl ecoc k , 5 yrs, list 121 b .... .T(. Barton 1 ) 2 Major Flitch e ' s Obj ecte d , 5 yrs, 10st 121 b ...(Mr. Grant) 3 Mr. B. Land' s St r ik e, aged, 11st 41b (Statos) 4 The following also ran :—Gamecock, Physician, Brown Bess, Concave, Done Brown, and The Lee. Betting--3 to 2 agst Objected, 3to 1 agst Shuttlecock, 5 to 1 agst Strike, 6to 1 agst Rapture. Strike took a strong lead immediately after the start, followed by Objected and Rapture, Shuttlecock heading the remainder. After going once round there were but four left in the race, Rapture having the lead of Objected, Strike, and Shuttlecock, which he held to the end, winning by half a length from Shuttle cock, who finished with a rush. Objected was a bad third, a length in front of Strike. Concave and Dose Brown went the entire course, but finished some distance in the rear ; the remainder pulling up, did not pass the post. Gamecock fell at the first fence, and took no part in the race. The Bickley Stakes of 3 sovs oach, with 50 added, for all 41 ages. The winner to be sold for 10 sovs. About five furlongs. Mr. Hamlin's Master Shutt, 2 yrs, 6st 41b (Mordan) 1 Mr. England's Lady Warwick, 4 yrs, 7st.lolb (S. Smith) 2 Mr. H. Wright's Bunch, 3 yrs, ist 71b (l'Anson) 3 The following also ran :—Whimsical, Skirmish, La Pique, and Katherine. Betting-2 to 1 agst Bunch, sto 2 agst Lady Warwick, sto 1 agst Skirmish, 6 to 1 agst Master Shutt. A long delay occurred at the post, but when started Skirmish, Lady Warwick, and Bunch were in front, followed by Master Shutt and Katherine. On making the turn into the straight Skirmish and Katherine bolted out of the course, and Master Shutt took up the running and won cleverly by half a length ; three lengths separated second and third ; La Pique was a bad fourth ; Whimsical next The winner was bought in for 71 guineas. Mr. H. Wright claimed Skirmish. A Selling Steeplechase of 3 sous each, with 20 added ; selling allowances. About two miles. _ Mr. J. W. Richard's Sinite, 6 yrs, list 71b (£3O) (Jarvis) 1 Mr. Hamlin's Idiot, aged, list 71b (X3O) (J. Land) 2 Ace of Trumps and Irish Boy also ran. Betting—Even agst, Ace of Trumps, 6 to 4 agst Sinite. Idiot made the running till coming over the last fence, when Sinite headed him and won easily by a length from Idiot. Irish Boy beaten off. Ace of Trumps refused and took no further part in the race. The winner was bought in for 66 guineas. BETTING ON THE COURSE. CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 500 to 10 agst Victory (taken) BETTING AT MANCHESTER —TUESDAY. Tho principal investments this day were in favour of Wedding Peal, King Charming, Regalia, and Gardevisure, all of whom had an improving appearance, and the "knock ing out" of Edinburgh, against whom 1,000 to 5 was laid twice over. Provisor fluctuated in price between 100 to 8 and 100 to 6, but finally 100 to 7 was accepted, and that price was taken about Custard Castle. The favourite, Gladiateur, remained firm at 9to 1. Closing prices : CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 9 to 1 agst Gladiateur (taken and offered) 10 to 1 agst Salpinctes (taken and offered) 100 to 7 agst Provisur (taken) 100 to 7 agst Custard Castle (taken) 20 to 1 agst Ostregor (taken and offered) 20 to 1 agst The Duke (offered) 20 to 1 agst Gontran (offered) 22 to 1 agst Sister to the Drake (taken) 25 to 1 agat Gardevisure (taken) 25 to 1 agst Wedding Peal (taken) 28 to 1 agst Gratitude (taken) 30 to 1 agst Holstein (taken) 100 to 8 agat King Charming (taken) 40 to 1 agat Regalia (taken) 40 to 1 agst Moldavia (taken) 40 to 1 agst John Davis (offered) 1000 to 5 agst Edinburgh (taken and offered) AQUATICS. SCULLERS' RACE FOR £lOO. - - - - Yesterday afternoon a scullers' race of an unusual cha racter came off, a Manchester man being pitted against a Southerner, which has not occurred for very many years. The competitors were Frank Kilsby, of the Old Barge house, Lambeth, a waterman, 23 years of age, who has been very successful since his first appearance on our river; and Edward Barrett, of Manchester, 28 years of ago, who has been equally successful with the sculls upon his native river, the inky Irwell. The race was for £5O a side, from Putney to Mortlake, and Kilsby had undergone his preli minary preparation at Mr. Wilcox's, the White Hart, Barnes, while Barrett had been placed under the care of Henry Kelly, the champion, who brought him to the post in first-rate condition. Kilsby, on the contrary, had been somewhat ill during his training, and no doubt hold the race somewhat cheaply besides, but his hearty appearance on the day emboldened his friends, and as Barratt is an awkward sculler, and had not exhibited much form during his stay in town, Kilsby's party made their man the fa vourite, and before the race started thought they had got such " a moral" that they laid 3 to 1 and 4to 1. Citizen L accompanied the•race, and Mr. Ireland was referee ; and Barratt having won the toss took the Middlesex side, and they got away on the top of tho water. Barratt imme diately took the lead, and rowed so exceedingly fast that ho had nearly cleared his man at the London Boat-house. Here and higher up Kilsby drew half over him, but was rowed right out at Craven, and at the Crab Tree Barratt led by two clear lengths, and by the same at Hammersmith bridge. All through Corney Reach it was very rough, and Kilsby naturally felt most at home, but Barratt was steered with great judgment, and, holding an easy lead all the way, won by two lengths and a half. The time (29 min. 30 sec.) will give an idea of the pace, although there was not much tide. SALVAGE CASE.--A case of this kind came on at Bridlington Police Court, on Saturday. The brig Sarah Home, of Whitstable, was last week brought up in Bridlington Bay, in a leaky state, with loss of topmast, &c. The lifeboat was manned, and went to her assistance, when four men were left on board, and afterwards other four men were put on board. The number of men engaged were twenty-four. Mr. R. D. Preston, barr 7 ster-at-law, Brid lington quay, instruc:ecl by Mr. Harland, of Bridlington, advocated the cause of the salvors, and the owner of the brig conducted his own case. The claim set up by the men was £l5O. Tae magistrates awarded them £7O and the costs, two shares to go to the Lifeboat Association. BREAKFAST BEVERAGE.—Homceopathic practitioners, and the medical profession generally, recommend cocoa as be ng the most healthful of alt beverages. When the doct,,ne of homoeopathy was first introduced into this country, there were to be obtained no preparations of cocoa either attrac tive to the taste or acceptable to the stomach ; the nut was either supplied in the crude state, or so unskilfully manu factured as to obtain little notice. J. Epps, of London, homoeopathic chemist, was induced in the year 1839 to turn his attention to this subje.t, and at length suc:eeded, with the assistance of elaborate machinery, in being the first to produce an article pure in its composition, and so refined by the pert et trituration it receives in the process it passes through, as to be most acceptable to the delicate stomach. For general use Epps' cocoa is distinguished as an invigo nutrie: cocoaitiveh and principles rating, grateful breakfast b evera g e, wi th a delirious aroma Dr. Hassan in his work, "Food and its Adulterati.ms," s ays " ; every n d Cocoa contains ir e a i great en tA necessaryvarietygain ‘ . A of s importanta tiv n to the growt tr stands s a v n e ce ry inofuethhehibgchdeyr than body. either coffee or tea." Direc tions : —Two teaspoon hula of the powder in a breakfast cue, filled up with boiling water or milk. Secured in tin-lined ipackets, e c t h % m an is d ts. sold at ls. 6d. per lb - b., b y grocers, d c lib. on te 0 1 a t i b o e d n : leers and BROMLEY RACES.—TUESDAY. The concluding day of this fleeting was very successful in good entrieo t and the weather having cleared up Before noon there was a large attendance of the general public. The ring was also much better patronised than on the opening day, and speculation was carried on with great spirit. The racing was very good, but it needs no com ments here, as the annexed return contains every feature of interest. The concluding race was very late owing to the number of false starts in the Bickley Stakes. The fol lowing is a return of the running : The Bromley Cup, value 15 . sees, added to a sweepstakes of 3 sous each ; gentlemen riders ; 12st 71b each ; win ners extra. Two miles on the fiat. Mr. J. T. Sheppard's Bolero, 6 yrs, 13st (inc. 7lb extra) (Owner) 1 Mr. Hunt's Freestone, aged, 13st (inn. 71b ex.) (Owner) 2 Mystery, Jessie, and Pioneer also ran. Betting-6 to 4 agst Bolero, 2to 1 agst Freestone. Jessie led the way for a short distance, but soon gave way to Freestone and Bolero, the first named keeping the lead to the far turn, where Bolero passed and won by three quarters of a length. The others were pulled up and did not pass the post. The Kent Open Handicap Steeplechase of 5 sove each, 2 ft, with 50 added; winners extra.. About three miles. 11 subs, four of whom pay 2 ft. Mr. J. Read's Doubloon, aged, list 91b (T. Barton) 1 Mr. E. Clifford's Rochester (late Attaman), 5 yrs, lOst (Castle) 2 Mr. Bilnam' s Sly Fox, ag ed, 12st 71b (Land) 8 Mr. W. W. Baker's Morocco, 6 yrs, 11st 51b SPORTING INTELLIGENCE —This Day. VICTORIA CLUB BETTING-THIS DAY. CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 7to 1 agst Gladiateur (taken and offered) 100 to 8 agst Salpinctcs (offered) 13 to 1 agst Provisor (taken) 20 to 1 agst Custard Castle (taken) 25 to 1 aget Gardovisure (taken) . 25 to 1 agst The Duke (taken) 25 to 1 agst Gratitude (taken) 30 to 1 agst Copenhagen (taken and offered) 30 to 1 agst Wedding Peal (taken) 1000 to 30 agst King Char►ving (taken) 40 to 1 agst John Davis (taken) 40 to 1 agst Moldavia (taken) 50 to 1 agst Bacchus (offered) 66 to 1 agst Nu (token) 66 to 1 agst Argonaut (taken) 100 to 1 agst Merry Wife (taken) 100 to 1 agst 'fauerede (taken) Anak, the Greatest Giaut of All. epoch s be as discov discoveries, n ar ts t;o t a h r e e r s e s, aro literature, hB of e h v e o r l e u t s i e ors, s :r o a or anything else. There was an epoch of dwarfs inaugu rated by Tom Thumb. That seems to have passed away with Tom's last visit to London, and the gig -antic era to have commenced. It was so in pre-Christianic times, for wo are told in the Holy Writings that " There were giants on the earth in those days." There were the giants also of the days of classic fable. Some, like Briareus, had a hundred arms; others, like Typhon, breathed out fire ; Euceladus required the whole weight of Mount Etna to keep him down ; and Tityus, when stretched on the plain, covered nine acres. We accomplish great works of engi neering skill at the present time, but it required the age of giants to accomplish that which Virgil records, and "Imponere Pelio Ossam." The era of modern giants seems to have . commenced in America, followed up in London by a giant from Fy-chow, in China. For a week or two past he has been the wonder in human magnitude who has enlisted public attention. But China can no more compete successfully with the Western World in giants than she can in ironclads and railways. Another giant is announced, who is to surpass all giants we have seen, and dwarf even the towering Mongolian who has aspired to be "nearer to heaven" than all other men. The name of the new giant, as announced in adver tisements and bills on the walls, is " Aim& of the Anctkints." It is, of course, easy to be understood that this is his as sumed title rather than his name. We understand that he comes from the mountains between Mul hausen and Mayence, just as the Anakims came from the mountains of Judea. It is not uncommonly believed that the negro race aro the descendants of Ham; and, if with them remains the sentence pronounced on the chil dren of Ham, it is but reasonable to suppose that the earth still retains traces of those famous Anakims, of whom, after Joshua attempted their destruction, there still remained those who had sought refuge in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod. The new giant is reported to exceed 8 feet in height, and to be capable of looking down upon the head of Chang. He is also said to have the singularity of pos sessing one rib more than all the rest of the human race We believe that ho will be presented to the public as "Napoleon, the Anak;" and that the manner of his being presented to the public will be as extraordinary as tho man himself. A very large place being required for his exhibition, St. James's Hall has been secured for his daily receptions, by permission of Professor Anderson. There is really a great amount of interest attached to exhibitions of this sort, if it be only to stimulate speculation on the subject of the physical development of the human race. Have we attained our normal development, or is it pos sible that by attending to certain rules and obeying cer tain physiological laws, we can all be taller than we are, just as we can all be more muscular if we practise gymnas tics, and more graceful if we pay attention to calis thenics ? When Anak appears it will be as well to pub lish some particulars of his history, and afford the public definite information as to whether he is the representative of a race, the result of physical training, or merely a freak of nature. A man over eight feet in height, with other dimensions proportionate, and with one rib more than any other man possesses, will certainly be a great curiosity. From that which we hear of him, we learn that, though born amongst the mountains of the Rhine, and in ono of their wildest fastnesses, he is a gentlemen in manners, ex ceedingly polite, and possessed of considerable education. If, however, he had no other qualifications, he would have this, presuming all that is reported of him be true—the crown of his head is nearer to the stars than that of any other known living being, and he is the tallest man in the world. We are glad to hear our old friend " Ninuno"—ever on the alert for any novelty—is the entrepreneur for this new speculation. His enterprise deserves success, and he has our best wishes. We shall be glad to report after we have seen the Goliath. LONDON GAZETTE_Last Evening, FOREIGN-OFFICE, OCT. 14. Earl Russoll has received the following despatch from her Majesty's Ambassador at St. Petersburg : Peters, 3, 15. My Lord —A farm er i n t e t. interior interior of the Oct. Empire B6 has addressed to me a letter, requesting that the greatest pos sible publicity may be given in England to the treatment for the cure of the prevailing cattle disease adopted by him with marked success on two several occasions. As, under the present unfortunate circumstance; the result of the writer's long experience may possibly b found of use, I beg leave to forward herewith to your lordship the letter in question, together with a translation. —I have, &c., --• (Signed) ANDREW BLTIIANAN. Earl Russoll, &c. (Translation.) Talnoe, Sept. 8, 1865. Sir,—l beg to be allowed to make known for the benefit of all a remedy against the " Typhus Bovilis," now raging in England. When this disease broke out in the Ukraine during the Crimean War, it was of such eminent service to me that of 600 head of cattle I lost but 6 per cent. The remedy is simply the following: As soon as the first symptom of the malady (dryness of the skin) shows itself, the diseased animal should bo placed in a vapour bath and rubbed down, the moist temperature of which should bo such as not to cause too groat a difficulty in breathing. Then the animal should be rubbed dry, covered over with several woollen blankets and put in a stall thoroughly sheltered from draughts, the greatest care being taken to prevent its catching cold. This is of the utmost import dicn the treatment. Cooling draughts and food easily gested were then given to it by me. This simple treatment has already twice saved me in Russia from great losses. For the last 31 years I have farmed and bred cattle. The last 13 I spent in Mecklenburg, and the last 18 in Russia, where I managed the large estate of Count A. Bob rineky. I then remained abroad for a short time, and now for three years I lease a farm belonging to Count P. Schou valoff. Both estates are in the Government of Kieff. From my heart I trust this simple treatment may be of as much service to my fellow farmers in England as it has been to me, and I entreat your Excellency in the general interest to cause the greatest possible publicity to be given to this treatment. The vapour bath I used was of a very primitive con struction' and consisted of a room , th e B oor o f w hi c h was not level but raised at one end, so that the animal could be brought by degrees into a higher temperature. The steam I obtained by means of an oven covered with iron plates, on which water was poured after the room had been already heated to a temperature of 35 dogs. Reaumur. (Signed) H. F. FEULING. His Excellency Sir A. Buchanan, K.C.8., aze. WAR-OFFICE, PALL MALL, OCT. 17. COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT. Deputy-Assistant Commissary -General Matthew Winter to be Assistant Commissary-General, vice Booth, placed upon half-pay. - ADMIRALTY, OCT. 13. Commander Samuel Pritchard to be Retired Captain, under Orders in Council of Ist August, 1860, and 9th July, 1864. O 14. Sub - Lieutenant Alexander Plantagenet Hastings to bo Lieutenant in Her Majesty's Fleet, confirming a Commis sion given by Vice-Admiral Sir James Hope, G.C.8., Coin ander-in-Chief on the North American and West Indian Station, in a vacancy caused by the dece ase o f C om modore Cracroft, C.B. Foreign. Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zetilanci,TiaS;Jhampton Oct. 19. Ditto, via Marseilles Nov. 12. Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet Nov. 5. Ditto, by French packet...... . .... Oct. 22. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Oet• 21. China. Penang. and Singapore, via Southampton—Oct. lg . Ditto, via Marseilles Oct. 27. Falkland Islands an d Ceylon, via Southampton.... Oct . 1 9. Gibraltar, via Southampton India ........... - •... Oct. 27. India (Bombay), via Southampton. ................. Oct. 27. Ditto, via Marseilles .. ........................ 00t..21. ,lo via (Calcutta), 31 ), arsenics M a uritius, via Southampton ............ . ........ .Nov. 11. Ditto, via Marseil.e .......................... .Nov. . N e wfoundland .......................... ... . Oct. 23. Portugal .................. .. ...... ~,. .....N0v 5. Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon... United States and British North Amerioa, by Bri tish packet ........................ Nov. 2. Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ton Ditto, via Cork Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry.. Oct. 20. West Ccast of Africa. Madeira, and Timeriffe Nov. ,0. West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba, and Mexico Oct. 30. Bahamas, via New York. Oct. 19 Bermuda, ditto Oct. 25. Oct. 30. 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