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

DC ONEIMARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, TWELVE OCLOCK. Conti nued quietude prevails in the Money Mar ket, and as lower rates are not at all improbable, the mercantile community are only providing for : me diate wants. Short-dated paper of undoubted _oaracter has been negociable as low as 61 per cent., alt has per cent, should be quoted as the gfeeeral charge. In the Stock Exchange the supply t ° o mone y on offer has been very abundant, and the -r p m ' from day to day have been 4 to 4i per cent. '4lle N yanza has arri ve d thi s morn i ng f r om Alex fanaria with £60,000 and th e William Duthie, tor u . Melbo urne, with £14,000. stWlth regard to th e affairs of the English Joint li°ek Bank, th e liquidators, Mr. C. F. Kemp and r. h enry Chatteris state that they have been preve nted by legal difficulties in declaring a divi dend as soon as t h ey contemplated, but they hope t o o be able to n the 10th propose a dividend of 82. in the pound September. rrlie b ullion operation s re p or t e d a t the B an k o f of yesterday yesterday a ft ernoon com p r i se d an i n fl ux £22 ,000 in bar gold, and a withdrawal of 04 1)n riag the week the specie movement has been any , a less extensive scale. Tho imports have a nted to a b out £ 699,069, chiefly from Austra ba' a nd the C ont i nent, while the exports have £ 4 24,030, th e greater port i on of w hi c h h as en to America and the Continent. Two o'CLocK. kett the termination of business the discount mar was still i n a very quiescent cond i t i on. The different markets for stocks and shares have ha hUoyant throughout the day, no adverse event 2 1 n . g transpired to check the buoyancy noticeable . . 2 7' 11 1n the last few days. Consols are firm at 884 1, f t: l r money, and at 885 89 for the account. Ivohireiga Bonds, with the exception of Turkish Fives, : II suddenly declined, are either firm, or firmer. an ": ta ,eriean securities, sto c k s , an d s h ares are hi g h er, r ri `; -Qinglifth railways have likewise bee n i n f avour . di t , e I ' l ew Threes and Reduced Annuities are 874 88; l odl 2 5 Per cents., 705 ; E xc h equer Bill s, 3 s. prem ; a 5 per cents., 1034 ; and the ditto Enfaced t' cents., 995 1005 . Most of the principal Foreign Stocks show im expire_ 'neat. Greek Bonds have advanced 4 to 124 4 ; to 534 ; Mexican, to 165 ; and t he een f ili4ll Scrip, to 25 2 dis. Turkish 5 per 8 81 h owever, have receded 4to 244 255 ; and Irish Certificates, to 145 4. se ell a ?' little alt era ti on h as t a k en p l ace i n American t o ;es. United State s 5-20 Bonds have risen 77i t C i4 ; Erie Shares are 444 45 ; and Illinois, 4 1 ; 111 Atlanti c an d G rea t 'Western Debentures ti o „ e s ece ded 2 per cent., viz., to 59 61 on realisa co; aft er the recen t i mpor t an t a d van ce, but the at 4 8 6 ° 4 1i 8 d . ated Mortgage Bonds are firmly supported th rath e e Railway Sha r e M ar k e t b us iness has been Th r quiet, altho ug h p r i ces genera lly show more ba " (l ea s. Great Northern A Stock have advanced and Gr eat Eastern, N or th-W es t ern , Metropolitan, Xa 4t Z t til-Eastern (Berwick) each 10s., and South £l 10s. Vith o ,.,, °r eign and colonial lines remain inactive, Can m uch variation in p r i ces . G ran d Trunk of Peui o .a ... lare declined to 204, while Great Indian kla have i mprove d t o 106 5 to 4 . ris e ~.1 11c and Miscellaneous Shares are quiet. AM OS -4 . rr e dealt in at 204 ; London and County at llobiV j aieu of London, 47 ; Credit Foncier and at 1 3 - a let ef England at 35 dis. ; London Financial " l a.; and National Discount Co. at 85 prem. n naITISII FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. a ue - rx it , p . Der , e , .EXT FUNDS. a I.),.`'A‘szit, 001 28018 Per 64'eftet, Aug 9 B9 Isi bk , 3 'lit Reduced BB 71 kievir 3iPor Cent BB 71 A D o. I Per Cent. Jan. 1894 7Ol ``Setli ti l"„?r Cent. Jan. 1873. .. — Do, f '"', 30 yre, expire -sth .in., 1880 -- 1 4 (I ° o o Yrs, ompare sth Aug ‘ 4 hea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 — io March. t,,, Doer Bids, 41,000, 3 per Cent. — 131, 1) , 0 , £5OO — £lOO and £2OO D o ',:t tngland Stock, 51 per Cent — lro keeo unt — 1 Q't tkik li 8 o vERNMENT SECURITIES. Po. 5 _ t° ek, 101 per Cent., April 1874 — DO, A """,,,...r Omit. July, 1870 uo, efr'r Cent. Oct. 1888 N. t er t, ideates 1) 0.6 timeed Paper 4 per Cent — O. 6 ,Per C em., r_ _ . oan 1872 D o. n i• Per Cent. Ma 1879 - — I) ' , l , ~, 3' B 0• to A .." Per tient., Aug. 1873 - qt. i 1 ,,,T 4 ',4 per Cent, £l,OOO — r 4 1,000 4 Neet• Jr°IIZIGN FUNDS—ONE O'OLOUK. 41 1 leo - ~'Arial l, i'vPublic, 6 per Cent., £l5 pd — pm l z h tia ti R °ll4B l e per Cent, 1859 — ' o .4i - Per Cent . .00Per Cent., 1i . 51-358-60 ll 1) 0. 1863 , o A e 1865 — B Jo i e pint 13 s k ori .'.- .1 dis 1 ) 4 % AT; £65 paid ° tie Len per Cent — (.1), ~ 6 ds t, -I ke e, Cent (Deferred 3 per Cent ) - 00, i l " Per Cent — 0 0. 0 Per Omit —,, D o Per c ent ' l Ol O 'erip 47 1. 6 ...._ _ 1),, 1 :,t, C Der ,re e r Cent. ) 4 43 „,,,-, nt 44 ° .5 1 4,` - 'r Cent, 1825 — Co 1, 11 bi, 14 „ lit., 1861 — v "0. A rtiLicipart• skecount - 1 leg , or I, l _ Ip., p ro ev. Consolidated, 1 per Cont — t La ,D Visional Land Warrant — 7Ptr a e;red „so., Per Cent — .u o ~ 8° and , , 871 ' 4 OO - n,. ' B u° D° p,, - -ends D.., 0 o„ tip( ) , 1864 — ,s O . u 43°14 8 B5l 11 OVA (i t '''..£B3 m id Railway Debentures — D N e elt 5 Paid - dis 0• Ace Per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons ),°. 0 ° lint ► 12 1 LO on G O A Petts 'R- - "Cep It o ...trilal lint . 8. 6 Don 5 Per c e P°r Cent. — li b„ Ace°lnat a 1865 ? .11 tPeko 3 41.6141)1 ana Railw a y — 0 . A Per c ol a b o_ b ,e eount 11 0 6, 14,,Str Cent. An 1864 glo-French — N Vl l r 41 - 6 .per Cent., £3O paid — 1)0t: Per 5 per Cent (1 ' 4 Warrants (Hectares) Do 2rsnaqa 1, Per _ -IN* -u of eat D Vi sn r t€ 4 b O . Ae_Per Cent., 1865 b ° 3 1 ,,,`, 4 . 1 1 , at r p 41'„ a r (Jett. (Uribarren) — A ° A. '` - ` 4. °ea 1862 — Do fs t,N 43ll nt ' ‘.' 5e 3 4 - pe r Per Cent., 1853 144eet, pent'' 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, ' 3 , Do Ne, ..4 431 41,,,,Per Cent., 1822 £ St .! rp.err ent. 1850 ' — Do u Per e nt, 1860 Do 5 Per coat. 1859 — ktrqi 5 pe r ° at. 1862 BBl Cent. b ni a lat. 1864 _ Q °. Por p ki . .41,% Cent .6 Isli t uut b° Aet, Per Cent , t 66 Isl e , t)0 A .. D b (xec. o ' 1,44. e erred 1114 t , t „.-' •,,,;:eteb„,:,. . 4 ij"Nir e t "'" .... 204 20 li A rt. _•;•i NiZeqou l ei Coup not funded — T, D ro: 41 Dtt 604.11. t k 4'll (P er ° out. 18c4 - ,° A Per Cent 1854 — b„ Per 0 ••• b-• A,„,_ aut . i,i ................. I . ) ° , tli"ept .. u..j. D c pe. °sAls ...... . _ u A ' Cent _ 14 e onnt ' 1862 Do 4 ,,100 / 1 .. ▪ 511 50 1 ii),,, e pe. r .or • D 0 5 De ; y:er- l t ., 1 1;6 .................. ie6:;.-kie.Not:4"tullt.., 1865, paid up Scrip -• --- 1 4 411 , 0 1 e. 3 () „,, e n• ... ................ --- to -;',(;)e:rft..r..?.e.1.1t. - — O. 4 (lit b O. G eeo ulit -, 18 62 .. Per 0 ........... t 4114,,, bivid: l 2l 1 864 ....... • .... .. elZtn, 5 „ . ,1 1 1 on the Wit;o ' ce: ........ in Loudon. De, lii; Cow, za. io Florins i'lli lt ' 3 ll,in et , te tl:. Ex. 12 Guil„ — c) 1( 5 Per 0 ....... At, . eat 1861, ... ; ....... (414 . 1 Lx. 25f 531 l elltio i i .0 3 f r , TWO O'CLOCK. --it tc. A r 1 404e _ Ark,,e ounr ,, .i s .••0I•0••• • I 0 0 • • • • • 0 • •• • • 8 8 1 t ,u, .......... ....................... 884 Juno. 8 pm 3 'I raid. Share! Railways. Closing I Business Prioe. done. SHARE MARKETS,---This Day. -.:. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. brlbLoi auv hXeLti Caledonian Cambrian Cork and Bandon Corn wall Dublin & Belfast June Dun „Perth, & A b.J un c S.London, scrip Certi Do. Glasgow & S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. stk. Do. E. Angl. st. No •e, Great North of Scotland Great Northern Du. A stock B stock Do. .N ew, ts. at 25 pis. (it S. and W. of Ireland Gt. Western -Original Do. S. Val. Rail gun. Do. South Wales .... Do. W. Alid.—Oxi ord Do. Newport Do. lI ereford Lancashire & York.hirq London and Blackwall Lou., Itrigh.,& S Coast Lou., Chat., and Dover Do. Metrop. Ex. A Lan. & North Western Lon. k South Western Man., Shel., & Lincoln Metropolitan. Do. New Do. Extension Iletropolitan District. Do. do. do. Do. and St. John's%V'd Do. L 9 Share Do, Birrnin.. Derby' Itid Kent .- North British Do. Ed., Pt & Dun Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do. G.N•E purchase Do. Leeds ..... Do. York Do. Carlisle ..... Do. Stock. & Darling. Do. do. 1860-61 North London Do. do. 1864 Do. do. 1865 North Staffordshire N. & S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot. N. E Aber. stock to. Scot, Mid. it Jok Shropshire Union , South Devon South Eastern itaines, Wok., & Wok Taff Vale Do. C Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny Waterloo & Whiteha West Cornwall S 8 90 125 127 38 43 13 15 4 8 67 70 70 72 111 113 25i 21 5 6 121 123 1.8 :29 S 9 91 63i 11 35 37 33 36 1214 IV St SG 17 18 117 119 B'd 91 5S 59 .28 n. 9 2 3 0 10.) 10) 91 93 119 120 1f 2 9 i 2 53 • 55 2 2: 102 101 tS6 68 97 99 34 35 9 11 p 119 121 1 2p 1 2p 73 75 111 114 152 156 74 76 45 47 64 65 74 84 14 115 2 3 ; 99 102 53 55 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Atlantic & St. Lawrence Horn., Baroda, A Cenin. gu. 5 percent... Do. If' eshares Buffalo t Lake liuron Do. Preference Buff.,Brant,&Goderich l 6 p.c. 1872-3- Calcutta. & S. E., lim :al e Town & Dock, gm' Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p Mast. Bengal, gu., 5 do East Indian, pis p.c. l Do. .1 E xtension _ ;rand Trunk of Canadri l Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds 1 charge 6 p.c Do. let Pref. Bonds Do. do deferred De. 2d Pref. Bonds Du. do. deferred Do. 3d Pref. stock..: Do. do. deferred Du. 4th Pret. stock Do. do. deferred G t. India Pen. gua. sp.c Vo. Gua. 5 per cent Do. New gua. 5 p. c t. South of India gua. 5 per cent 41 per cent Do .treat Wes. of Canada Da. New .. Do. 6 p. o. Bds. pay. 1873 Do. 5i do, pay. 1877-8.. Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.c Do. 41 do Do. la do Do. Filth Extension Melb. Cor. 6 p. c. Ends. & Hudson's nay N. It I.C'da, 6pc Ist pf. bs, Scinde .... Do. Delhi Do. do ti 4 Do. Puniaub Do.lndus St.Flot lt.o 100 100 all 100 100 100 { lOU 2 1 OU 100 63 65 98 100 4 4 i i 74 84 76 80 60 65 100 102 99} ICOt I 99 101 23 22 85 87 65 58 48 52 50 65 45 SO 40 45 36 3.1 24 25 24 26 105 106 6 1t) P 98 100 91 93 14f 14 5f 3'l 91 t 3 83 A 3 If o}.i 97 08 ti 9 01 85 87 8' 82 96 97 96 97 95 ,1 i 1 96 101 1001 100 2 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIICS. --- - British Columbia, 6 per' oent.,Dee.3l, 1572 100 -- Can. Gov. 6 p.c.Ja..kJuly 1877-84 Do. 6p. c. Feb. it Aug 1 0 93 91 93 D"- S P. O. Mar. tz Sept 100 91 96 Do. sp. c. Jan. July 100 75 77 Do. sp. c. luseribcd sa 100 75 77 Cape G. Hope, 6 p.c.1873 1 00 99 101 Do.Apl..kOct.lB9o-1900 100 102 101 Do. do: 1880-90 100 102 101 Do. Jan.kJuly, 1890-9: 100 100 103 Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and 15 Oct., 1900 lOO 86 8) Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p., 100 100 102 Do. 1878, do lOO 1t.5 1.7 Mauritius. 6p. _c, 1813 Jan. and July 1)0. 1878 100 103 106 ( )0. 1882. May 15, Nov. ,t. 10' 101 to* Do. 1895, Feb. AL AUST lOO i( 3 *O5 Natal ';ov. 6 per cent lou 97 100 99 N. 8.G0v.6 p.c.Ja..szJuly 100 90 92 95 JI. 8. W. Gov. 5 p c.,186e 100 90 92 Do. 5 p.c. 18;1 to 187 r 100 90 95 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 189.: 100 83 1(5 New Zealand, C. p. cent 100 92 91 Do. 5 per cent lOO 73 75 Nova Scotia Gcv. 6p. sterling, 1875 • 190 94 96 Queensland Gov. 6p. c 100 90 93 914 3. Aus.Gov. 6 p,c 1868-9 100 Do. 1 . 878 dt upwards 1( 0 102 101 6 p.o.Ja. it July 100 Do. do, April .5; Oct lOO 103 105 105 BRITISITMINICS. 2 Cam. Consol. Gold, lin). I Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated 3O 85 94 Devon G. Cons. (Tavist. 1 400 420 Urakewalls 2.1.0 East Bassett (Illogan) 295 13 45 East Caradou 2.14.6 6 8 6j East Cam Brea 3l 4 1 rlast Grenville East Gunnislake 8.3.6 - - East Loved 3.0.0 65 74 71 E. W'l Russell (Tavistk 10.8.0 3 31 Gam..t StAubyn(G wen. 66 4 Great Lowy, Ihnited„ all 19 20 20 Great South Tolgus 0.14.6 Great Whcal Busy. G. Wheal Vor 40 21 22 22 11 Grenville Berod's Foot .. 8.10.0 31 31 Kingston Downs 5.10.8 34 3 4 * Margaret (Uny Lelant 13.17.6 4 6 Marke Valley 4. 1 0.6 3 4 41- 4 liwyndy Iron Ore, Bin 35 2t lid New Se ton North ltoskear N.Wlfl Bassett(lllogan 4.4.0 North Wheal Crotty Prosper United.....• • Pruvidenee Uny Lelant 10.6.7 20 25 S. Caradon (St. Cleer) ll 325 375 South Condurrow 3.2.0 It 2 _ S.Wheal Fran. (Illogau 18.18.9 174 £25 Stray Park 35.15.6 Tin Croft.... 5 Vigra and CI Tan, all 3 5 West Sassett (Mogan 14 1 2 W. Caradon (Liskeard g 6 7 West Chiverton ll 60 65 West Seton ... 4 75 115 125 Wheal Bassett 'Mogan 51 80 85 Wheal Buller (Itedruth 16 10 15 Wheal Mary Ann (Men. 8 3 6 Wheal Seton —. Wheal TrelawneY (Lis 5.17.0 8 *0 eamerammus si Bristol and Exeter 4 pert ent stock Great Western Orig. pr 43 per cei AI b. 84 .t pf:, 81} PREFERENCE SII A REs AND STOCKS North Eastern, Stockton and Darlington, Class D. pf., 261 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTAL:a. London and Blackwall, 79 FOIUfdGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San lerancisCo, llm., gua. 7 per cent., 13 Dutch Rhenish, 19} Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidln), 5 San Paulo, litn., gua. 6 per cent., 111 South Austrian and:Lombardo Venetian, 151. FOREIGN MUM. St. John del Rey, Rm., 47 United Mexican, Rm., 11 BANJUL Alliance, Um., 20 1 Anglo Austrian. 51 Bank of Queensland, 11m, 91 British North American. 471 Consolidated Bank, iim., 5 1; East London, lint., n Imperial Ottoman. L and Mortgage Bank of India, i1m..:3/ Do. 5 per cent. Debentures, 186 i, for ,s 0 years, 83 London and River Plate. Ditto, issued at 11 pin., 111 Ditto, ditto, 6 London and County, 651 1 5 London Joint Stook, 43 London and %I estminster, 931 Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, lint., 11 National Provincial of England.:— Ditto, 2,1 and 3d issue, 40 Union of London, 471 1 MISCJCLLANNOWL Anglo-American Telegraph, 11 Atlantic Telegraph, per cent. gua. lim., 65 l'erlln Water Works, lim.. ilk City Discount, lim, 14 City Offices, lim., 21 Credit Foncler and ilobiller of England, 41 Discount Corporation. 10 Fore-street Warehouse, lim., 101 Gen. Credit and lina.noe of Lonoon. Ilm.. 4 London Financial Association. lim., 12 Zirtional Discount t. ompany, 13i Ditto, new, issued at 5 pron.. of which 3 is to pay, 51 ['eninsula and Oriental Steam, 601 Ditto, new, 50 Royal Mail Steam, 1:. ii 10 Liverpool Cotton Market.—This Day. Market opens steady. Sales probably about 8,000 bales. FEMALE BEAUTY.—The plainest face is redeemed by a lovely skin and colour; the most beautiful is not per fect without it. Paints and powders are absurd to the - eyes of beholders, and deceive none but the silly wearers of those ruinous applications. A gentlewoman of rank, from philanthropic motives, is anxious to impart to every one of her sex, rich or poor, the means of procuring the most beautiful natural complexion by wholesome, simple, effective, and inexpensive means.—Send stamped directed envelope for particulars to Mrs. GRANTLEY, 4, Connaught terrace, Hyde-park, London, W.—(A.Dvr.) 100 5 100 all 100 100 100 16.13.4 rHE sUN, LOIN Great Northern Railway Meetinz.--This Day. The ordinary half-yearly meeting of this company was held to-day at the King's Cross station—Colonel Packe, M.P., the Chairman, presiding. The report, which has been published, was taken as read. The Chairman, in moving the adoption of the report, said that it had been his good fortune at every meeting at which he preSided to congratulate tho shareholders on an increase in their dividends, but he regretted to stato_that on the present occasion he had to inform them that the dividend would be reduced ono half. The company had earned £50,000 more than they had done the previous half-year, but to earn that amount they had to expend £47,000. Tbo increase in the expenditure had arisen from causes Which the marragomeut could neither fore see or control. The capital account had increased duiin,g tho last half year £766,000, of which £21,000 had been spent in the incorporation of the West Yorkshire stock. The carrying on of the works had increased by £335,478, and the increase as regarded the rolling stock wa5£156,719. The revenue receipts during the past half-year were not so profitable as could have been wished. There was, how ever, an increase of £621,110 on the coach, mail, and that description of traffic. There had been a decrease in the merchandise traffic as compared with the corresponding period last year, which arose chiefly on the mineral traffic, and that was caused by the warmth of the weather in December and January last, which of course had the effect of diminishing the amount of coal carried on their line. An increase of £3,456 had been incurred by the relaying of portions of their line, and the large increase in tha loco motive department was owing to the running of 2,090 miles more than last half-year. Owing to the increase of the rate of wages their expenses in that department was £13,000, but it must be remembered they employed about 9,000 men. He regretted to say that the amount for compensation during the past half-year was £12,058, although the directors dis puted the claims where there was a chance of resisting them successfully, at the • same time they avoided all un necessary law proceedings. The chairman then went in detail through the different points sot forth fully in the report.. • _ _ Colonel DUNCOMIIE, the deputy-chairman, seconded the motion. Mr. ULMIIES strongly condemned the policy pursued by the management, in which he said they were imitating the practice of the Great Easfern, and would; if they slid not alter their system, ultimately drift into the bankrupt con dition of the London, Dover, and Chatham. (Hear, hear.) He conterded that the directors wore not carrying out the wishes of the shareholders. (Hear, hear.) Ho strongly objected to the system prevailing on two grounds. In the first place the directors were self-elected, and were not the nominees of the shareholders, which was contrary to the spirit of the Act of Parliament. There was a clause in that certainly which empowered the directors to appoint a director in the event of a vacancy by death or some other emergency, but the Act, ho contended, contemplated that the appointment of directors should be vested in the body of the proprietary. (Hear. hear.) Notwithstanding, howl over, the directors continued to elect each other without any emergency having arisen to justify them in doing so. In the next place there w as an infamous system of proxies. (Hear, hear.) In fact, owing to that system the share holders were rendered nonentities, for tho directors had proxies in their possession and at their disposal which gave them a majority at the meeting. In illustration ho would state that ono gentleman sent the directors proxies representing £lOO,OOO stock. He wished to know if the shareholders would sit calmly like penguins and allow themselves to bo knocked on the head. Ho had, from the commencement of the present system of manage ment, protested against the policy pursued, and ho would continuo to do so until that policy had , been altered. In reviewing the proceedings of the directors, he adverted to the fact of £300,000 having been lent to the London, Chatham, and Dover, for which there had been no return, and also for money lent to the Great Eastern, with a simi lar result. He believed that the arrangement entered into with the London, Dover, and Chatham involved a con tract which the directors of the company had failed to enforce. (Hear, hoar.) Mr. Valentine Knight, Mr. Nicene, and other gentlemen supported the views taken by the previous speakers. The CHAIRMAN, in reply, said in reference to views en tertained adverse to the extension of the branches on the ground that they diverted traffic from the main line, that he agreed in that point of view, but he believed no loss had been sustained by the company through the extension of the branch lines. He reminded the shareholders that he was one of the original promoters of this company, and that he was appointed a director by Parliament, and two or three other directors stood in the same position. How ever, the names of retiring directors were always submitted to the meeting, and they could disapprove of the selection of any retiring director. He contended that the results of the connection with the London, Dover, and Chatham Railway had noeboen'ufiprofitable to the company. The motion was then agreed to. Immediately after the ordinary meeting an extraordinary meeting of the company was held in the same place, when a resolution was submitted authorising the creation of new capital to the extent of £1,075,000, under the powers of acts passed in 1864, 5,6, with a preferential dividend not exceeding 5 per cent. per annum ; to be allotted rate ably to all proprietors, and the payment of calls to bo dis tributed over a period of about 18 months. The resolution was carried. s_ A vote of thanks was then given to the chairman, and tho proceedings terminated. Embezzlement of more than Three Millions of Francs. The approaching trial of the cashier of the Se condary Bank of Railways iu Paris (Sous-Comptoir des Chemins de Fer) and his accomplices, is causing a great sensation in the French capital, on account of thelarge amount of the embezzlements, the strange circumstances which attended the crime, and, above all, the romantic history and high station of one of the persons incriminated. First, it is rather difficult to understand how it was possible to appropriate fraudulently such large sums of money without rousing the suspicion of the manager and the board of directors. The Railway Secondary Bank of Paris is a branch of the Discount Bank (Comptoir d'Escompte) ; its relations to the latter are such as those of the branch of the Bank of England towards the head establishment, with only this difference, that the branch possessed a capital of its own and a separate board. The business of the Sous-Comptoir consists in making loans to the railway shareholders upon their shares by means of mortgage deeds. The head establishment procures the money upon the security of those deeds. The shares are returned when the advances have been repaid. The modus operandi of Berthome, the cashier, was as follows : —He presented to the managing director the papers necessary to obtain the return of the shares. It seems that the manager was in the habit of signing these papers without making any inquiry. As soon as the mortgaged shares had been returned without any reimbursement of the first loan, they were mortgaged a second time. By these means the cashier Berthome succeeded in borrowing fraudulently nearly 19 mil lions of francs. The balance between the succes sive reimbursements and the amount of the loans is 3,300,000 f., which sum represents the actual defi ciency of the Sous-Comptoir. The embezzlements extended over a period of four years-1862 to 1860; but the amount increased every year (during 1865 it reached 1,387,000 f.) For what purpose had the cashier Berthome embezzled such large sums of money ? It was not for himself, be caused he jeopardised first his own modest fortune for the interest of those of whom he has been the tool. Berthome had made the acquaintance-of the Prince De Croy-Chanel, Knight of Saint Louis, Commander of the Order of Gregory the Great, Knight of Malta, who claims the crown of Hungary. He represents (he says) the Arpad dynasty, and coolly asserts that he descends from Attila, through Stephen of Hungary. To be impartial, it must be stated that in 1862 he applied to the Committee of the Great Seal in France to be recognised as a descendant of Andrew 11. of Hungary ; let us also add that the re port of the committee, drawn by M. Langlais, was unanimously in favour of his claim. Prince De Croy-Chanel claims also from the Duke of Modena large estates, and the title of Marquis of Este, as descending from the House of Este. To finish the sketch of that adventurous life, let us remember that he belonged to the household of Napoleon I. towards the cud of the First Empire, which did not prevent him from serving under Louis XVIII. in the body guard. Afterwards he played a political part in the Iberic Peninsula, and during a short time he was a member of the Ministry in Portugal. From Portugal he went to Spain, became a favourite of Ferdinand VII., and obtained from that king the exclusive pri vilege to manufacture cloth. But he ruined himself in those speculations. In 1827 he intrigued at the Court of Frmnce to obtain the Imperial Crown of Mexico, and he failed only on account of the opposition of Charles X. During the reign of Louis Philippe he returned to the Napoleonic ideas, and founded the journal Le Capitole. He took part in the affair at Boulogne, and was arraigned before the Chamber of Peers. He was also mixed up in a forgery of bank notes. The Prince Croy-Chanel is now 71; he is now absent iron France, and his counsel explained 14 3 ab. 1181. i 191 58, 4 127 4 b 4S; . 04 7f Km, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 25, 1866. sence before the court by this circumstance. His pre sence is still indispensable in Italy on account of his claim against the Duke of Modena, who owes him 15 millions of francs; as soon as the suit is over the Prince will return to France, in order to answer the charge now made against him. Mean time the cashier, Berthome, and the publisher, Dupray de la Maherie, are taking their trial at the Paris Sessions. Who is Dupray? When Prince de Croy Chanel made the acquaintance of the cashier he was trying to raise funds to buy the park of Bercy, which belonged to the Nicolai family. Ile promised to the poor cashier, who had only a salary of £lOO, the bulk of the patrimony he claimed from the Duke of Modena—that is to say about eight millions of francs. That promise dazzled the cashier, who gave him his financial support. Towards the end of 1861 Dupray de la, Maherie published a brochure, entitled " Droits des Carpad," on the rights of the Carpads. To raise the funds to pay for publication, and to provide for the expenses of his lawsuits, the Prince had obtained 155,300 f. from Berthome. The publisher; Dupray, was also in want of money, and the Prince introduced him to his good friend Berthome. Dupray began by per sonally guaranteeing the advances made to the Prince by Berthome, whose confidence was thus in creased. Then Dupray directly borrowed from the cashier large sums of money. The unfortunate cashier, deeply involved in the affair, involved him self more and more every day, by the delusion that the continuation of his support was necessary to recover what he had already lent ; but he only made the abyss more deep. In a word, he engulfs more than three millions of francs. What had be come of tht money ? The Prince does not answer, being out of the pale of the law. The publisher, whose defence has been entrusted to Barrister La chaud, so celebrated since the affair of Lafarge, asserts that he has lost millions of francs in Catholic publications. It is said that the eloquent and fiery preacher, Father Felix, had recommended Dupray de la Maherie to the noble subutb of St. Germain in particular, and to the Roman Catholic world at large Mr. C. W. Field and the Atlantic Cable. The New York Tribune gives us the following chapter in the history of Cyrus W. Field, in con nection with the Atlantic Cable, that may have a peculiar interest at this time. M. Field desired to' change his business, and looked around for some sphere for his peCuliar talent. Ile called one day on Moses Taylor, one of our wealthy and public spirited men, and proposed to open a new line of railroad across the Isthmus, and so create a new line to California.. This new project was opened in the mind of Mr. Taylor to serious objections, and, so far as he was concerned, was abandoned. Soon after Mr. Field called ag a i n ; he had now a project, he said, that was not opened to the objec tions stated by Mr. Taylor, and to which Mr. Field asked attention. It was to pur c h ase th e tele graph lines iu the Provinces, and connect them with the United States. The company held a valuable charter from the New Brunswick Parliament. It was unable to carry on business, and the whole franchise could be purchased at a small cost, and, when put in complete repair, would prove a valuable investment. The charter was examined and found not to be satisfactory. But it was said if the charter cauld be changed and amended, and the linos put at a low price, the purchase would be made. Mr. Field agree d to visit New Brunswick, and obtain the changes needed in the eharter, and to do this if paid $1,090 and his expenses. The desired alterations were made. Moses Taylor, Peter Cooper, Marshall 0. Roberts, Wilson G. Hunt, and C. W. Field put in the sum of $lO,OOO each, and became the company. THE CABLE SUGGESTED. The success of this line did not equal the antici pations of the new company. It seemed likely to be a failure. The boats had agreed to stop at the telegraph stations to and from Europe. They did so for a time. But the fog made the stopping at times dangerous, and ships: refused to call, and so business seemed to take its flight from the line.' Soon Mr. Field met the Company with a new suggestion, why not lay a cable across the Atlantic, and so be independent of steam-ships and steam companies? Mr. Field was full of it then, as he has been ever since. He won over his little com pany. He obtained subscriptions to stock. He crossed the water on the one great mission that now filled all his soul, and to which he has since de voted his life. HOW PROGRESS WAS MADE. Mr. Field began the work of raising money in London. He had to stretch out his hands and lift up his voice to a gainsaying people. He put a coil of ocean cable .about his neck, and went from banker to banker, from capitalist to capitalist, working day by day, never weary, never disheartened by refusals. Persecuted or repulsed in one place, he went to another. Ile gained his point day by day till the first cable Was sent down to its ocean bed. DARK DAYS. The first failure was repaired and the second cable took the place of the last one. Weary and sad, but with strong faith in the ultimate success of the work, Mr. Field came home after the failure of the second attempt to lay the cable. Few spoke words of cheer or hope. The little company who had raised the infant $lO,OOO up to among the fifties and the hundreds of thousands had no more they wanted cast into the depth of the sea. They regarded the thing as impracticable, and wanted to hear no more about the cable. But Mr. Field told the gentlemen that he would never give it up— while life lasted he would renew the attempt till it was a success. Like Peter the Hermit he began the new crusade. Partly from pity, partly from love of the pluck Mr. Field displayed, from one cause or another, quite a liberal subscription was obtained for the third attempt. MR. FIELD ABROAD. England was more obdurate than America. No man wanted to see the face of Mr. Field, and he was made to know that fact. Doom were closed against him. Mglionaires would not hear him talk. Some thought his tongue like that of the charmer, and fled from his approach. He was regarded as au enthusiast merely. But steadily Mr. Field pro ceeded. He went were he was not wanted. He came at odd times and in odd places—in the count ing-house and at the country-seat ; in the city home and in the mart of trade, He gained his point. Some were convinced ; some wanted to get rid of the importunity ; some were willing to throw away a small sum because they liked the persis tency of the man; a few had the" waning faith revived, and like the old hunter Henry Clay told of, were willing to pick fl:mt and try again. But Mr. Field cared not what the motives so long as he had funds and the two continents were united. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This. Day. BOW-STREET. Charles Spence, a porter, about 10 years in the service of Messrs. Smith and Sons, the great news agents in the Strand, was charged with stealing from his employers a large quantity of newspapers. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. The Southein• States. (From the Anglo-American Times.) Homer nods, and the most esteemed journalists now and then are forgotten, that is they forget them selves. The Yankees are not favourites with the British press, and except when they indicate an English prejudice against the Irish they seldoM pro voke praise. The London Examiner is usually vivid and wise, but on American questions it has hardly ever been fully informed. On Saturday last it con tained an article in which the grossest misconcep tion was exhibited. It was as follows : President Johnson is resolved boldly to play out the game with his determined enemies, the Republican party in Congress. From the day of his unlooked-for accession to supreme executive power, they have striven first to overtalk and then to overbear his earnest and wise counsels in favour of clemency and conciliation. Raised by his position aboie the' personal disappointments arid resent ments of unsatisfied ambition, and filled, As we believe, with a hearty desire to mark his administrative reign with the accomplishment of the groat work of Federal re union, he has unceasingly urged therenundiation of party vengeance, and the re-admission of the vanquished to the enjoyments of their sequestrated rights. No man, or at least no hand of influential men, argues that those rights should be held permanently forfeit. Let the •worst be thought of Southern secession, it was, after all, the act of several millions of enfranchised and educated men, misled no doubt, but in the main animated by a sincere and honourable faith in the defensive necessity and patriotic duty of civil war. Happily for the progress of civilisation and freedom they were worsted in the field, not without many a touching and noble acknowledgment from the victors of the gallantry and skill they -Itad displayed. Simply as a matter of fact it may be said, and simply in point of honour, it ought to be kept in remOmbrance, that, luau for man and corps for corps, the Confederates were not beaten ; they were worn out and compelled to yield by overpowering numbers. The standard of revolt was hauled down; slavery, the worst cause of all the misery and loss of thopast five years, was publicly and irrevocably abolished ; the oath of renewed fealty to the Constitution of the United States was taken by nearly all the men of rank and character in the South ; and, had the President and his ablest advisers had their way, tho Re-united States would have been ere now re-admitted to participa tion in the common weal. But the ascendancy in Congress of the Republican party, it was felt, would be thereby jeopardised. It was not enough that the policy of South ern statesmen should have been baffled, and the wealth and blood of their followers spent in vain; it was not enough that New England should have once more signally asserted its predominant strength of will and superiority of tenacious purpose ; it must make sure of its party re ward in the next quao-ennial election. And to this end, and for the sake of all the seceding States, save one, have been, and still are kept, regardless of their remonstrances and prayers, in a state of political captivity. The conse quence of this blind and selfish policy are beginning to ripen into bitter fruit. The moderate minority of the Re publicans have been compelled to draw closer and closer to the side of the Executive ; and, in order to countervail the electioneering tactics of the dominant majority, have been driven to coalesce xt:th their old party opponents, the. Democratg. Now, President Johnson is certainly obnoxious to the charge of having in part fraternised with the men who were the avowed opponents of President Pucoln, and of having accepted support from the party who were more than friendly to the South during the rebellion, The people who gave their energies to the cause of the North are virtually ignored ; and the writer in the Examiner, in ignorance of the bearings of parties, condemns the party who held fast, in the day of danger, to the Constitution. These obvious and admitted fads tend undoubtedly to impeach the policy of President Johnson. President Johnson is apparently under the in fluence of territorial prejudice. He is a native of the South, was a slaveholder, and naturally enough brought with him into the White House what might be called hereditary liking. Uncoil], when he .lived, would have admitted the proper claims of justice and humanity by stamping treason out otthe South ; for kindness and forgiveness somewhat prematurely extended permitted the indulgenea of former Southern pride and,,..Auti . - - Northern sentiments. We cannot open a Sou:them newspaper without finding it filled with abuse of the Yankees, and with sneers at the Northern people. The abiding hatred is openly ex pressed. The riot at New Orleans was the pro s per sequence of these opinions and feelings ; and the following extract from the telegram announcing the news by the Peruvian confirms the fact NEW YORK, August 10, Evening.—Governor Well; of Louisia.nr, has issued an address justifying the assembling of the Free State Convention in New Orleans, declaring that its opponents had concerted a plan to break it up by force. The rebel feeling of the slave-holding aristocracy is not yet extinguished. They seek to retain political power by the same spirit of political violence by which their chiefs sustained supremacy before the war. If the military authority be withdrawn the lives of Union men will not be safe. Military law still prevails at New Orleans, and the sale of arms and ammunition is forbidden. Members of the 1 1 1 CO State Oonventiok have made affi davits charging the mayor aid sheriff with complicity in the homicide during the riots. The Freedmen's Bureau Inspectors report that the sys tem of contracts enforced by the Bureau is simply slavery in a modified form. Too much was expected from the emancipation of the negroes. Their freedom was a reproach to their forther owners, their independent bearing an insult. Although they had escaped from the condi tion of cattle they were men, but being men they were obnoxious to the feeling of hatred which cattle could not inspire. The removal becomes therefore desirable ; and perhaps by-and-by people will dis cover wisdom in the recommendation of President Lincoln to locate them together in a suitable place at a distance. Their labour in the majority of the Southern States can now be dispensed with. MARKETS.--This Day. COVENT GARDEN. We aro well supplied with most kinds of produce. Fruit moves off freely, and in vegetables a fair average business is doing. The quotations rule as follows : FRUIT—Pine apples, 5s to 6s; grapes, 2s Gd to 5s ; filberts, 8d to is per lb; apples, is 3d to 2s 6d ; pears, is 3d. to 2s Od ; gooseberries, 2s 6d to 3s Od ; currents, 3s Od to 4s Od; plums, 3s Od to 4s Od; greengages, 4s 6d to 5s Gd per half sieve ; oranges, 8s to 14s ; l emons , 3 s Gd t o 8s per 100 ;" foreign pines, 18 3d to 3s each ; Mulberries, 9d to is per punnet. VEGETABLES—Red cabbages, is 6d to 2s Od; white do., 9d to is 6d; cauliflowers, is to 2s Od; horseradish, 9.1' 1 6 is 3d per doz heads; greens, 2s Od to 2s Gd; turnips, is Gd to 2s 6d; carrots, 3s Od to 4s Od ; onions, is 6d to 2s per dozen bunches ; cucumbers, 3d to is Od each peas; is Od to la 6d ; French beans, is Od to is 9d per half sieve ; cos lettuces, 6d to 10d per score. LAND, 110 ! By thQ side of Fulton, who started in his little boat up the Hudson amid the jeers o f th e multi tude, who expected and wished a failure ; by the side of Goodyer in poverty and reproach, pursuing his marvellous inventions to their completion ; by the side of Morse, w ho, in the packet-ship on the ocean, while conversing with a Boston physician, announced that he could send a meszage around the world,- and was laughed at for his avowal, Mr. Field will now take his place among th e w orld's benefactors, because of his success. Mr. COLERIDGE, Q.C., and M.P. for Exeter, was seized with illness whilst conducting a case at the Bristol assizes, which necessitated his withdrawal from the court. we are glad t o h ear, very muc h The learned gentleman is, better.—Law Times. The 24th Company of Royal Engineers, under the command of Capt. K. Bullen, has received orders to be held in readiness to embark for the Cape of Good Hope, to relieve one of the companies of Royal Engineers, whose term of colonial setv;ce has ex pally, prior to its em b arcat i on, w ill pired. The com be augmented from the depot and other companies at headquarters, Chatham. Orders have also been received at the garrison for a draught of the Ist battalion of the 10th Regiment, consisting of 40 men of all ranks, and a detachment of the 2d bat talion of the 20th Regiment, also to embark at the same time for the Cape of Good Hope, the head quarter and service companies of the 2d battalion of the 20th being under orders to proceed from China to the Cape. POULTRY. Geese, 5s Od to 7s Od; ducks ' 2s Od to 3s Gd ; tame rab bits, is to 2s Od ; wild do, 10d to is 2d ; pigeons, Gd to 10d each; Surrey fowls, lOs to 14s; do. chickens, Gs to lOs per couple. English eggs, 8s Od to 9s Od ; French do., 6s Od to 7s per 100. Fresh butter, is Od to is 3d per lb. BILLINGSGATE. Soles, is to 3s Od per pair ; cod, 5s to 12s 6d ; brill, 3s Od to lOs Od ; turbot, 5s Od to 15s each ; whitings, 5s to lOs ; haddocks, Gs to 12s per dozen ; herrings, —s to —s per 120 ; native oysters, 908 to 110 s ; other sorts, 30s to 35s per bushel. NEWPORT. Per 81b. by the carcase. Pool 3s Gd to 4s 8d I Mutton ... 3s Gd to 5s Gd Vail 4B Od to 58 2d Pork Lamb, 5s 6d to 68 Bd. WILITECIIAPEL. Por 81b. by thu carcaso. Boof 3s 6tl to 48 10d Mutton ... 3s B'd to 5s 8d I Voal 4s Od to 5s 4d Pork Laiub, 5s 84 to 6s 81. BREAD. The prices of wheaten broad in the metropolis aro from Bd. to 81d. ; of household ditto, 60. to 71d. per 4lbs. loaf. HIDES AND SKINS. Market hides, 56 to 61 lbs, nd to 3d ; 64 to 72 Ibs, 3d to —d '•72 to 801bs, 3d to 34d ;80 to 881bs., 31,1 to it ;88 to 9611i5., 3fd to 4d ; 96 to 1041b5., 4d W. 414. Horse hides, 93 to lOs Gd ; calf skins (light), 2s to 4s; full, 7s Od ; polled sheep, Os Od to Os Od; half-breds, Os Od to Os Od ; downs, Os to Os Oil; lambs, 3s Gd to 4s 6d ; shoarlings, 3 s Gd to 5s Gd. lIA Y. SMITHFIELD.—OId meadow bay, £4 10s to £5 lOs ; new do., £3 bs to £4 4s; old clover, £5 Os Od to £6 680 d ; new do., £4 Os to £5 5s ; and straw, £2 Os to £2 8s per load. Demand inactive. CUMBERLAND.—OId meadow hay, £4 10s to £5 12s Od; now do., £3 8s to £4 5s Od ; old clover, £5 Os to £6 6s Od ; now do., £4 Os to £5 5s ; and straw, £2 Os to £2 lOs per load. Trade quiet. WICITECHAPEL.—OId meadow hay, £4 10s to £5 lOs Od ; new do., .£3 5s to £4 4s ; old clover, £5 9s Od to £6 lOs Od ; new do., £4 4s to £5 108 ; and straw, £2 Os to £2 8s per load. Inquiry limited. THE CHOLERA. MANSIONATOITSE RELIEF COMMITTEE. From the representations made yesterday to this committee by various local authorities in the infected districts it would appear that, generally speaking, with an exception here and there, the epidemic con tinues to subside ; that there are fewer deaths in proportion to the attacks, but that, with less mor tality, there are more cases of diarrhoea. Still, the local committees concur in stating, from personal experience and observation, that there is a vast amount of distress consequent upon the visitation, which is aggravated by the want of work in the shipbuilding trades along the Thames, especially at Poplar and Millwall ; and that the fund raised by the Mansion-house Committee is most oppor tune, even though confined in its application to the relief of suffering from cholera. Up to last evening the committee had voted in all, since the commencement of the fund, upwards of £5,000 to wards the relief of the distress, of which £525 was granted yesterday, and £425 the day before, which has been and is being expended in all cases through the agency of local committees. On Thursday the Lord Mayor paid a visit to an auxiliary hospital for cholera patients and convales cents, which has been set on foot within the last few days in Commercial-street, Whitechapel, at the ex pense chiefly and under the' auspices of a committee of gentlemen, of whom Mr. E. H. Palmer, a direc tor of the Bank of England, is at the head. A large unoccupied warehouse, of three stories, and nearly new, has been adapted for the purpose, and proper regard is being had to the usual conditions of a well .regulated hospital, especially as to the space allotted to each patient. The matron and xurscs are all Sisters of Mercy, to whom ministering to the sick and Poor is . a lab Our of love. The Lord Mayor went alone and in a strictly private way, his name and position not being known to any of the authorities or attendants. Though the hospital•had only been • improvised within the last week, he found it in good working order so far as he was able to form an opin ion. There were nearly 20 patients, and they were all being well attended. Four dead bodies then lay in the house from the disease, and two of the patients were said to be on the point of death. having paid a previous visit to the place while it was being put in order, he was much struck with the marvellous rapidity with which it had been adapted to its present uses, and, indeed, with the general management. Yesterday. the •committee held a meeting at one o'clock, there being present the Lord Mayor, in the chair, Sir Mordaunt Wells, Mr. W. J. Maxwell, the Rev. F. G. Blomfield, Mr. R. B. Wade, Mr. R. N. Fowler, Mr. H. W. Ripley, Mr. Charles Hutton, Mr. Andrew Johnston, and Mr. Gilliat. Mr. John Abel Smith, M.P., was also present, though not a member of the committee. A communication from the local committee of St. John's district, Stratford, the population of which is about 8,000, half of them poor, was read. They gave a very minute and satisfactory account of how they had expended a previous grant made by the committee. There had been, they said, upwards of 50 deaths in the district, and above 100 persons were now suffering from the effects of cholera and diarrhoea, or left in indigence, and requiring relief in some form. Through mission and diStrict visi tors 100 had had meat, 72 beef tea, 31 brandy, 20 arrowroot, and assistance from the beginning had been given irrespective of creed. The case of a widow named Barker, with three children was spe cially referred to. The husband, a worker in gutta percha, died of virulent cholera early on Wednes day morning last. On calling at the house the in cumbent found the widow writing letters to his friends in the room with the corpse, and two chil dren, one being ill, lying on chairs. He brought them out of the room, and after the funeral he took them to an apartment he hired. They had not a sixpence in the world of their own, and the union would would not receive them, coming, as they did, from a house in which there had been cholera. The woman, too, was expecting to be confined. The committee granted the deputation £5O, with five gallons of, port wine, and some suitable stores towards the further relief of the distress. The local relief com mittee of Nichol-street, Bethnal-green, of which Mr. Benjamin Smith is freai3urer,.reporfed that they had relieved at their dispensary 48 cases of cholera and 2,375 of diarrhoea from the Gth to the 22d of August. They were sorry to add that the virulence of the cases had increased during the last three days The committee made a grant of £5O, and a quantity of wine, arrowroot, and materials for beef tea. The Ratcliff Relief Committee, headed by the Rev. Mr. Atherton, incumbent of St. James, re ported that they had been actively engaged relieving the sufferers from cholera night and day. There had been constantly at work in the hamlet the in cumbent (Mr. Atherton), two curates, a Scripture reader, two mission women,and other visitors. The accounts they gave, said the local committee, were appalling.. In, many houses the poor sufferers were lying without beds or bedding of any kind—some times on old sacks or a bundle of rags. There were several instances where patients had been discharged from the cholera hospital too weak to work and utterly without means of support. At 15, Love lane, and 11, Stepney-causeway, six families had b e en ill of cholera, and six deaths had taken place. On Wednesday night a poor man was attacked with cholera in London-street, Ratcliff ; the lady visitors were at hand to help, and ; having got the man home, they at once applied the most approved remedies till a medical man arrived. Under his direction they nursed the man all night, and the poor fellow was now better. In another case a woman, with choleraic symptoms passing into fever,had been found alone with lier children and no one to help her, her hus band having gone out early in the morning to work. She was carefully nursed, and, when practicable, removed to the hospital. Between 400 and 500 families had been visited since the first grant from the Mansion-house was made, and every case re quiring attention had met with immediate relief. Yesterday morning the visitors reported that there seemed more cases of cholera since Sunday than at the end of last week, and there were also many cases commencing with choleraic symptoms, turning into a kind of low typhoid fever, and which required con stant care and nourishment. The deaths from cholera in Ratcliff last week were 35, being nearly three times the average number of deaths from. all diseases ; but the number of deaths was not a full measure, of, the suffering caused by cholera, for as far as they could judge the number of persons attacked had increased, while the death rate had diminished. The Committee granted £lOO, nine gallons of port wine, and some arrowroot. Dr. Pearson, of Upper Phillimore-place, Ken sington, brought to the notice of the Committee a case of distress from cholera. The family, he said, consisted of a father, mother, and three children. The father died of the epidemic in the London Hos pital at the beginning of the outbreak. The mother and three children were all attacked and taken to the same hospital, but recovered. The eldest child, a boy five years of age, is a cripple ; and theyoungest a baby in arms, has been made blind during the attack of cholera. The mother is a delicate woman, much debilitated by the disease, and has no means of subsistence. A local committee from what is called the new district of St. John (St. George-in-the-)Vast) with a population of about 6,000, gave a sad account of the distress there. The people, they said, were only half fed, especially the children, whose dinner was usually bread and treacle and tea. From a grant made by the committee they had relieved about 250 families and 213 cases of cholera and diarrhoea, out of which there had been 35 deaths. The cholera wr,s decreasing, but there was a great amount of destitu tion. The committee granted £5O and nine g allons o f port wine. They also made a grant to the Ger man Hospital at Dalston of £lOO ; to the district of St. Luke's, Millwall, £5O; St. James-the-Less, Beth nal-green, £25 ; and to the reli e f committee con nected with Bethnal-green Congregational Church, £5O. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Da CITY BETTING —Tins DAY. ST. LEGER. 60 to 50 on Lord Lyon (taken) 6to 1 agst Rustic (taken) 6to 1 agst Savernake (taken) 100 to 8 agst Strathconan (offered) 25 to 1 agst Westwick (taken and offered) 1000 to 20 agst Midsummer colt (taken) 2000 to 40 agst Knight of St. Michael (taken) 1000 to 30 agst Podargus (taken) The English Volunteers and the Belgian Tir National. Yesterday evening a meeting of the volunteers who at tended the Tir National of Brussels in 1861-5 was held at St. Martin's Vestry-hall, Strand, to make arrangements for organising a visit to Brussels in September of the English volunteers, in acceptance of the cordial invitation sent to the National Rifle Association by the Council of the Belgian Tir National. Captain Irvine occupied the chair, and there were pre sent Capt. Dighton, Capt. Scrivener, Lieut. Marriuer, Lieut. Purley, Ehsign Starkie, Ensign Barnes, Mr. Chisholm, Mr, Watson, Mr. While, and other gentlemen. Reports were presented by Mr. Biginoro, one of the honorary secretaries, with respect to the reception of the Belgians in London, and a vote of thanks was passed to Capt. Styan and the reception committee for the manner in which the Belgians were received. Lieut. PURLEY gave the result of a correspondence, and it appeared from this that the Belgians woro determined to give the English a most cordial reception. Au offer had been made to send boats up the Thames and to carry the volunteers over free to Ostend, but it was thought that if cheap return tickets could bo granted to and from Dover, the better way would be to go from that port. The Coun cil of the Tir had heard from the King of Belgium, who had expressed his deep gratification at the manner in which his subjects had been received in England, and ho had offered to give up a park at some distance from Brussels in which to form a long range, and the Council of the Tir were about to make a range of GOO yards near Brussels for the English. The report was received with a vote of thanks toLieut- Furley for his great t7ouble in this matter, and ho was re quested to continue his correspondence. After other business, it was resolved that the meeting should act as a committee to place themselves in commu nication with volunteers who intend going to Brussels, so as to make arrangements for their tiavelliug and ex pauses. Portrait of George Peabody. We think there can be but one opinion of the princely munificence of the great and good Georgo Peabody. Stich disinterested benevolence as his, is a rare avis and, like comets, of very rare occurrence. If we cherish the memorials of friends in likenesses, how desirable that we have correct or reliable ones. In the case of Mr. Peabody we are singularly favoured by the artistic skill and acumen of the world-famed photographer, Mr. Mayall, of Regent-street and Brighton, as will be seen from the following extract, which we cheerfully give from the "Brighton Guardian" of the 22 nd inst. We content ourselves for the present by giving that extract, securing for our selves the personal opportunity which we shall have shortly of examining the production in question. But we cannot help adding, and we do so in good faith, what Mr. Peabody has done for the honour of humanity, Mr. Mayall has done for photography that which at once puts him un disputedly at the head of that art. He may have his equals, but unquestionably not his superiors. Some of these days we propose spending an odd hour in his studios, when we shall have much pleasure in referring to a few of its specialities. Inasmuch as Mr. George Peabody is perhaps the greatest practical benefactor the English poorer classes have ever had, and inasmuch as Brighton is honoured by being the place where two portraits of him were painted for presen tation to instit itions he has founded in the United States, we are glad to know that the working classes of Brighton will have an opportunity of viewing the second of these mementoes, and of becoming acquainted with 'the linea ments of the eminent and philanthropic man who but [a short time since was residing in this town. Our readers will recollect that while staying at Brighton, Mr. Peabody gave Mr. Mayan, photographer, sittings at the splendid studio erected by the latter on the King's road. The small photographs wero intended for publica tion, and have since been received both in Great Britain and on the Continent with much favour. Mr. Peabody, however, was so struck with the excellence and graphic individuality and character of Mr. Mayall's enlarged life sized photographs coloured in oil that he gave a commis sion for two such portraits of himself to be painted. Ho was then within a month of leaving for America, and wished to take the first portrait with him, in order to pre sent it personally with the Queen's Letter to the Peabody Institute, founded by him at his native town of Danvers. The portrait was finished in three weeks, and was pro nounced by Mr. Peabody to be the only one with which he had ever been really and entirely pleased. It now hangs in the Institute at Danvers.. The second portrait, designed by Mr. Peabody for presentation to the institute he founded at Baltimore, has since been finished, and is on private view during this week at Mr. Mayall's Brighton es tablishment, King's-road. It resembles the first portrait iu every. respect, except that the he ad is turned a little more to one side. This wo think an improvement. The other portrait was equally perfectas a work of art, 1 ut the aspect of the face in this ono is, to our mind, more graphic. The principal features are more decidedly marked, and there is a charming animation about the countenance which was not so apparent in the fuller face of the Danvers work. The head does not les° in dignity, in deed it rather gains, but the portrait looks smarter, if the word may be used, and a more life-like air is imparted to the . picture generally. The pose of the figure is exactly the same as in the, previous work, and the accessories are also copied, except in one respect. The Danvers portrait had in the background, by Mr. Peabody's express desire, thefitcade of the building iu which it has since been hung; in this picture is introduced a battle monument standing in the square where the Baltimore Institute is situate. If critics aro inclined to cavil at the effect this has on the picture, they need only recollect that in such a case tho sitter's wish is the artist's law. As it is, the work is ono of which Mr. Mayall may well be proud, and which will, no doubt, be as highly cherished in Baltimore as its fellow portrait is in Danvers. When the work was on view hero we expressed our admiration of it, and wo can confi dently repeat all that wo then said, and apply the praise to this later achievement of Mr. Mayall. 'Phis afternoon the portrait will be removed to the Town Hall, where "the whole town" will have free admission to it. Mr. Mayall thus realises his kind wish that the Brighton working classes should be familiarised with the lineaments of the man who has done so much for their London brethren. The Mayor granted the use of the Hall when requested to dy so, and is entitled to thanks fur his com p] iance. LONDON GAZETTE.—Last Evening. In all cases the Alansion-house Committee require the local authorities to whom they make grants strict accounts as to how the money is expended, not wishing at the same time to tie their hands in the distribution, which they leave to their discretion and judgment. The fund collected up to last evening amounted to about £15,000. WHITEHALL, AUG. 22. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal granting the dignity of a Baron of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire land unto Gustavus Frederick, Viscount Boyne, in that part of the said United Kingdom called Ireland, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, style, and title of Baron Braucepeth, of Braucepeth, in the county palatine of Durham. WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, AUG. 24. Chaplain's Department—The Rev. D. Robertson, M.A , Chaplain of the Second Class, to bo Chaplain of the Yirttt Class; the Rev. Thomas Gardner, Chaplain of the Thi r d I h ß a A s LthTisY, day AUbGe.en2l. promoted to the Class, to be Chaplain of the Second Class. Mr. Alexander Reid ADM rank of Engineer in her Majesty's Pit with 16th August, 1866. seniority of COURSE OP EXCHANGE—Last Evening. Amsterdam Ditto Short. 11 18 Rotterdam 3 Months. 12 1 Antwerp - 12 1 Brussels 25 5 7 Hamburg — l3 10 Falls " , Short 23 271 , Ditto 3 Mouths. 23 5U Mars e ill es Frankfort on the Maine 1201 Vienna — 'l3 3U Trieste ._ 13 30 28 Petersburgu - Berlin 44 Madrid .................. Cadiz ..• 2 r 7. 451 Leghorn ..................... Milan ........................ 27 70 Genoa ........................ 27 70 Naples ........................ 2 7 70 11 19 12 1} 12 1f 25 62f 25 62f 13 10f 25 571 25 Ob 25 571 121. 13 40 13 45 281 6 28} 441 46 27 85 27 85 27 80 27 80 The War Department steam vessel Lord Panmure yesterday shipped at Woolwich Pier tdfeonfrouhlre2rio-tthoenr ggutinn s s ,o o ir f o: n g a u n n er ea ca rr li i b ag re e , s, sh a o n t d , a sl n i a de s s h , e a ll n , Ma jesty's iron ship Bellerophon, at Portsmouth, to re place the armament now on board.' She is under orders to leave Wo o l w i c h this morning with a f cargo. TLe official returns from the War Depart ment reliitive to the efficiency and economy of the storeships in their employ have been made known at Wool* 'telt, and are ordered to be printed iu the Blue Book in. course of being compiled for the next l inancial'year. The returns are to the following effect :—The Lord Panmure steatuvessel, together with the sailing ships Raglan, Lord Vivian, Inker man, and Alma, havebeen in constant employ dur ing the past 12 months, and comparing the amount of outlay with the transport and work done by these ships, their lordships are gratified to find that a net saving to the revenue has been effected to the service of little shoat of £lB,OOO. This has enabled them to build,a new steamvessel, the Earl de Grey and Ripon (by the Thames Iron Works), to replace the Balaklava, lost on the coast of Ireland, in addition to which they have still a sin"' in the Treasury amounting to £lO,OOO. THE LATE GOVERNOR OF JA3fAIOA.-- 7 1Ve are re quested to state that Mr. Eyro's present address is Bolton row, Mayfair. London. When Mr. Eyre removes frointoW communications'Avill always reach him if addressed to care of Messrs. 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