The Sun. — London, England, 1865-10-19 00:00:00

in 16. High- Louise, ,ernoon 'rincess Princess Amoral ley ar- Prince nd the In their visit to far as rriages Aber s made e only West st (➢lr. al vLsi- ey sta vithout fore 6. ted on Sheriff magis tor of ;eneral om the )Ugh a ►n was rolun- up at mak hem a were coach 3, and ;burg, [lowed ry un people than T cir th the ;nthu- about drovd casing ghted with front place. ted— ler in inated wero tion al rail unds, nated ►f the b was ening td the and Lord party 7inces, Hon. Mar- Park, MONEY-MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Two o'CLock. At the Paris Bourse this morning, according to Reuter's. telegram, the 3 per Cent. Rentes were 67 f. 80c. An improvement of 1 per cent. has taken place in the English Funds, and the market presents a favourable appearance. The suddenness with which the death of Lord Palmerston came upon the pub lic caused at first a slight decline, but now a re action has occurred, and Consols are 884 for money, and 891 1 for the account. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 871 ; Exche quer Bills, June, Bs. to ss. dis. ; India Stock, 217 k; ditto 5 per Cents, 1044 105 ; ditto Enfaced 5k per Cents., 107 k 108 k ; ditto 4 per Cent. Deben tures, 984 ; and Bank of England Stock, 250. As in the English so in the Foreign department there has been a marked return from the momentary depression. Business has been a little more lively owing to the purchases which have caused the reactionary tendency. The latest prices are as follows :—Turkish C onso lid es, 48 f ; Mexican, 2 5 k ; the Ne w L oan, 24k ; Spanish Passi v e, 9 / f, showing a considerable improvement ; Certificates, 141 f ; Italian, 63f 8 ; Confederate Loan, 6 7 ; and B raz ili an S cr i p, 3 f prem. American Securities are likewise buoyant. United States 5-20 Bonds are 64 f ; Erie Shares, 574 581 ; and Illinois, 83 f. The directors of Messrs. Smith, Knight, and Co. have replied to the accusations made against them by the committee of investigation. All the charges all made seriatim, and the directors appear in a more satisfactory light than could have been anti cipated from the first report. Business in the Railway Share Market has been d ull, but a firmer tone has prevailed, and prices generally are a shade higher. Lancashire and Yorkshire, and South Eastern have each advanced 5 3 ; and Great Western, Metropolitan, and Mid land each 10s. In the Foreign and Colonial undertakings there has been very little business entered into, and quo tations remain unaltered. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are dull. Char tered of India, Australia, and China have receded 234 ; Alliance are dealt in at 314 ; Imperial Ottoman, at 151 e; Imperial Mercantile Credit, at 71 ; and National Discount Company, at 15i ; Overend, Gurney, and Company have improved to 14 191 ; Allan's Transatlantic Telegraph Company shares are quoted 2 to 21 prem. ; Transatlantic Steam - 1 8 hip Company, p ar , 1 prem. ; M erchants' Company, 4 (US* 4 prem. ; London and Australian Agency, 1 1 ; and Tass'o Brazilian Gold Mining Company prem. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. . GOTERNMENT FUNDS. ° Per Cent. Consols . Do. Account, Nov. 8 B9f ;siPer Cent. Reduced New 3 per Ceat B7; it i f Si - I , Dw I per Cent. Jar 1891. r Per_n. A,'"°. i Cent. Jan. 1873 — Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 Do. for 30 yrs, xpire sth April, Do (Red Sea Teelegraph), Aug., 1908.,. 19s Jun© Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, Do. £5OO 3 J 431 per Cent. ... Do £lOO and X2OO zank of England Stock, 101 per Cent Do Account ' 2W DD ,-, --....., trOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Itidiati Stock, I.oi per Cent., April 1874 2l7i 20 Do Account 100. 5 per Cent. July, 1870 . Account 1-)0. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 Do. Certificates — De. Do. srceent J Pape p Jan. 1 r 4 872er Cent — pe C Do. 5} per Cent., May 1879 lo7i 8 o. 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 9B} Do. Bonds, £l,OOO Do. under .£l,OOO FOREIGN per P9ItICES. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent _. Do. 1863 Do. 4 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Do. Scrip, £l5 paid Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent -- Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) Chilian 6 per Cent — Do. 41 per Cent — Colombian 6 per Cent. — Cuba, 6 per Cent. _,Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 — Do. 4 per Cent., 1863 — ~12)0. 5 per Cent., 1773-77, £25. paid — '-'anubian Principalities it New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — ~,, 'A, Provisional Land Warrant — ''g',Ptiart 7 per Cent 941, 4)0, Second Issue Do £lOO Bonds -- Do. 1864 914 I 1 1 Do £lOO Bonds Utiseek , 5 anti ents., 1824-5, ex Coupons —l9i -uo Acco Do. Coupons txu-DateeznAacelaellsnt per Cent. Do £B6 paid — Do. 1839 and 1850 — 4talian 1865 5 per Cent (Maremmana Railway) Do _ Do Scrip, £671 paid — „,, I) 0 per Cent., 1864 _ 41.exican per Cent OP. Account • 25! 1 1 8 6 y ................... Do ~. Do 6 per Cent. Angle-lecOnch Do French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c . . . tlontevidean 6 per Cent., £3O paid Nkloorish Imperial 5 per Cent ew Granada DDo 2 per Cent o Deferred ~ Do Land Warrants (Hectares) ce'ruvian 41 per Cent DO,• Account 73 i „J•Jo Scrip, £45 paid, paid in Bonds — ,-1,0 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) Forty' ° 41 per Cent., 1862 Iguese 3 per Cent., 1853 ''-'t,o 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, 46 b4-2'. Account 444ssian. 5 per Cent., 1822, X St DoE° 4i per Cent. 1850 41 per Cent., 1860 1,0 3 Pei Cent. 1859 1.,13 5 per Cent 1862 9l/ Na'T 5. per Cent. 1864 L-14iatt 5 per Cent Spft,,°iste3copellort 0.. z, .. i .._- Ibc, Account .11 ,30 Nevr Deferred ___ lx, D Account 38f 0 Pas 1) . sive 44.,°ift°°01Dat 291 1 Do_Oert. of Coup not funded tilved(Bl-icc9unt b_. 4 per Cent. — Turr_,29_per Cent 1864 91 bo""tL r Cent. 1854 Do mop.E•t Do A Per Cent. 1858 — D Eo `,4l(eir t o. 11 Per Bonds — 0• 6 2 Cent L,O per Cent 1862 — 14 .' Account ........ £lOO Bonds .2: 75 l b° per Cent., 1864 ............ 4-3 i 1 /Do '' Per Cent. 1865 Do t 1( p Bands ,f)so eicriP, £35 paid VoneznaranteeCenter Cent — be. 161eia 3 per tio per Cent. 1862 • v bo• Aecourit ) .................. _. • 6b1?" elli, .1864 - 4tiatria ividends on the above payable in London. ei,;,,..,n, 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins I)4' `e01,41 per cent., Ex. 25f. bo 441 Per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil - Protle',' Per Cent. Certificaies Ired.. .0 AenteB 41 per Cent. 12,0`41,beePer Cent. ,1861, Ex. 25f. - 4 Olin t ..................... - 0Q- _ olq ....... THREE O'CLOCK 4..) Act _ . .................................. 89 vulat .............................. 89} i TWELVE O'CLOCK. The Bank of England rate of discount remains at 7 per cent., and a more favourable feeling has been the consequence. The commercial public are bring ing forward their bills more freely, and the brokers 1 are negotiating business with less caution than they recently observed. First-class bills are rather a fraction below the official minimum, and there is an ; expectation that the return to be published this evening will contain alterations of a satisfactory character. The gold has received an accession of More than half a million during the week, and it is riot at all improbable that some coin from the coun- E try and Ireland has found its way into the Bank. An influx of £155,000 took place at the Bank of s England yesterday. The directors of the St. John d'El Rey Mining Company (Limited) have received the following re- Port, dated Morro Velho, Sept. 16, 1865 :—Produce for August, 38,681 oitavas ; cost for August, £9,383 ; profit for August, £5,518 ; produce, 11 days of 1 , September, 17,016 oitavas ; yield, 9.453 oitavas er ton. is SHARE ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Share( Railways. 'Bristol and Exeter lii It Caledonian lO it Cambrian (0 Cork and 8and0n...... al :0 Cornwall al it Dublin & Belfast June lOl t Dun„Perth, & A b.Junc lO O .London, scrip Certi 2l Do. it - Glasgow & S. Western 101 it Great Eastern, Ord. s tk. 101 it Do. E. Angl. at. No. 2 10( it Great North of Scotland 101 it Great Northern lOl t D.,. A stock . 10( it Do. B stock ll4 it Do. New, is. at 25 pn• 10 it GtS, and W. of Ireland 101 it Gt. Western -Original 1 I it D , .. S. Val. Rail gua. 101 it Do. South Wales it Do. W. Mid.—Oxford 101 it Do. Newport 10( it Do. H eford 01 it Lanc.rshire & Yorkshire 10( it Lmdon and Blackwall 101 it Lon., Brigh., & S Coast 10 it Lon., Chat., and Dover 101 it Do. Metrop. Ex. A ICI it Lou. & North Western 101 it Lon. & South Wester!: 10; it Man., She!., & Lincoln 101 it Metropolitan al (0 Do. New '0 Do Extension Metropolitan District al ( Do do. do. (0 Do. and Wit. JohnsW'd it Mid.and 9 Do. £9 Share st Do, Birmin.. & Derby 10 :5 slid Kent . . It North British it Do. Ed., Pth Dun lO it Nth. Eastern Berwick 10 15 Do. G.N*E purchase 16.1 it Do. Leeds ..... 10 it Do. York lO it Do. Carlisle ..... 10 Do. Stock. & Darling. al Do. do. 1860-61 it North London (0 Do. do. 1864 10 Do. do. 1865 it North Staffordshire (0 N. &S. W. Junction a, it Scottish Central it Scot. N. E Aber. stock 10 it Scot, Mid. stick lO it Shropshire Union it South Devon lOl it -ouch E stern 10 Staines, Wok., & Wok al: it Taff Vale.. (0 Do. C_ 2 . it Vale of Neath it Waterford & Kilkenny 10 1 ,0 Waterloo & Whiteha 1 it West Cornw I r a i d. i Closing Business Price. done. 92 /4 1261 1271 94 98 12 14 6 6 10 67 7' :0 71 73 10 91 0 lO 6 5 d )0 1(9 in )0 46i 17} 10 7i 5i 10 l3O 132 10 118 150 JO 9? 63j (4 61 63 4?. 44 37 40 104 iO6 12 121 J i 87 ) 104 11`6 10 37 39 '0 M PO 1124 i IO 954 96.'1 )0 57 - Jii' 11 IZB 139 7 3 4 If lap 11 10: 104 10 - 1251 1251 1 14 21 91 98 61 62 8 30 10 110 )0 I C 8 69 )0 1024 103 11 36 37 [6 10 1I p 11 118 120 5 lip 4 1 1A p .00 - 75 76 11 I 10 11 10 148 152 , 0 5? 60 61 6? /0 57 59 0 784 60 11 _t,4 pi )0 1 145 la 3 3 f p 10 103 105 6 I 50 52 BRITISH P, )O Atlantic & St. Lawrence a S Born., Baroda, Cen.ln. 10 gu. 5 per cent.. .. ;0 Do. te shares • :04 'Buffalo & Lake Huron a; 10 Do. Preference BJ _ _ Buff.,Brant,Ez Goderich I 6 p.c. 872-3- i........ it Calcutta dt S. E., Bin.. 10 it are Town dz Dock, gu. 101 10 Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p: al it Nast. Benv.al, gu., sdo 10 t East Indian, gu. 5 p.c. 10 0 Do. J Extension .. 1 t Grand Trunkof Canad it 10' 00 Do. Equip. Mort. Bonds 1 charge 6 p.c all 06 Do. Ist I'ref. Bonds all 00 Do. do. deferred CO Do. 2d Prtf. Bonds all 00 Do. do. deterred 00 Do. ;id Pref. stock. al 00 Do. do. deferred 00 Do. 4th Pref. stock 00 Do. do. deterred st Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c lOl 20 ►'o. Gua. 5 per cent 1 20 Do. New gua. sp. c et Gt. South of India .. gua. 5 per cent at D 44 per cent 10; st Do 204 Great Wes. of Canada.. at 204 Do. New . .. 00 Do. 6p. C. Ids. pay. 1873 al DC Do. 51 do. ray. 1877-8.. al 10 Indian Branch, limited at Madras, gua. 5 p.c 1 st Do. 41 do st Do. 44 do tO Do. Fifth Extension 4t Melb. Cor. 6p. c. Buds. i 0 Mel. & Hudson's Bay a, 5t N. M.C'da, 6pc Ist pf bm. 10 ;t Scindo .. f 1 I; It Da Delhi :0 Do. do ;t Do. Puniaub.... Ar 3 Do.lndua S _ A 0 1 COLONIAL GOVERN British Columbia. 6 per cent., Dec. 31,1672 10 Can.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.& July 1877-84 lO Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug l, I Do. sp. c. Mar. & Sept 10 1)o. sp. c. Jan. & July 101 Do. sp. e. Inscribed sk 10( Cape G.Hope. 6 p.c. 1873 101 Do.Api. &Oct , 1890-1900 NI Do. do; 1880-9 101 Do. Jan. &July, 1800-0' 104 Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and 15 Oct., 1900 lOl Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p. 4. 101 Do. 1878, do tOl Hatiritius, fi p. c, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1 , ,,78 Do. 188?, May 15. Nov..: 10 Do. 1895, Feb. & Aug 10( Nat al , iov. o per cent lo' N'.l3.Gov 6 p.c.Ja.&Jul) 101 N. 5. W. Gov. 5 p•c.,1861 101 Do. 5 p.c. 18.1 to 187 t 10( Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 189. 101 New Zealand, 6p. cent 101 Do. 5 per cent.... Nova Sc.,tia Gov. 6 p. c sterling, 1875 l9( 4ueensland Gov. 6p. c 10( 3. Aus.Gov. 6 p.c 1868-1 , 101 Do. 1878 & upwards l' I Vic,Gov. 6 p.c. - ja & Jul) 101 Do. do, 9 pril & Oct lOl BRITIS 2 Cam. Consol. Gold, - Chiverton - Clifford A malgamated 3i - Devon G. Cons. (Tavist - Drakewalls 2.1 - East Bassett (Illogan) 2! -- East Camden 2.1 - East Cara Brea - Nast Grenville - East Gunnislake .. 8.: - East Loved - E. WI Russell (Tavistk 10. - Gam.& StAubyn(Gwen. 4 Great L ixey, limited al - Great South Tolgus O.l - Great Wheel Busy-- 14.' - G. Wheal Vor (Heist ul 4( - Grenville 8.1: - Herod's Foot - llingston Downs 5.1 , - Margaret (Uny Lelant 13,1 - Marke Valley 4.11 4 11 wyndy Iron Ore, lino - New Se ton - North Roskear N.Wh'l Bassett(lllogan 4.2, North Wheel Crofty 2.1: Prosper United 7.1, - Pruvidenee Uny Lvlant 10. - S. Caradon (St. Cleer) 1 - South Condurrow 3.2 S.Wheal Fran. (Illogan 18.1 - • Stray Park 35.1 - Tin Croft 5 Vigra and C 1 gan, lim, a] - West Bassett (Mogan - W. Caradon (Liskeard 1 - West Chiverton 1 - West Seton 4' - Wheal Bassett 'lllogan - Wheal Buller (Redruth 1' - Wheal Mary Ann (Men. - Wheal Se ton •- Wheel Trelawnev (Lis Ykt./0 IGRENcr, Great Western, 4 per cent. irred , El North Eastern, Stockton and Darlington, A 5 per cent., 27i Ditto, B, 6 per cent., 32} ?REFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Midland A and B £5 pf, 1071 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS Midland, Bradford Pref. Stock, 914 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San Francisco % DA.) gua. 7 percent., H Belgian Eastern Junction, if Dutch Rhenish, 24k great Luxembourg, Ilk Sambre and Meuse, 6k South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 171 ff FOREIGN MINES. Cobre Copper, 22 Frontino and uolivia Gold, lira., 3 2} Kapunda, lira., i St. John dcl Key, Km., 40 3i Washoe Gold, lira., Ditto, (£4), 71 _ BANKS. Agra and Masterman's, lim., 57/ 11i4nce, 311 1 Anglo Egyptian, tiro., 14 / Anglo-Italian, lim., 131 Bank of London. 140 1 Bank of Queensland, lim, 211 Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 23 1 4 Chartered kler. of India, London, and China, 501 Colonial, lim.. 42 Consolidated Bank, lim., 10 1 East London, lim., European Bank, lim., 12 Hindustan, China, and Japan, i1m.,:201 Imperial Bank, lim., 291 1 Imperial Ottoman, 151 / 4 Land Mortgage Bank of India, l ira., 41 London Bank of Mexico and S. America, lim., 111 London Joint Stock. 511 National Provincial of England. 1544 Oriental Banx Corporatioh,sll Union of Australia, 53L 4 Union of London, 53; - DOCKS. London and St. Katharine, 76 MISCELLANEOUS. Atlantic Telegraph, 8 per cent. gua., 21 Australian Agricultural, 17/ 16 Boo.bay Gas, lim., 51 CO of London Real Property, lira., 44 City Offices, lim., 68 Company of African Merchants, lim., 31 Credit Fonder and Mobilier of Knglano, 1011 Egyptian Com and Trading, hrn., 21 4 Electric Telegraph, 1:-,01 English and Australian Copper, 14 Gen. Credit and Finance of imndon, Bra., 6 Liudson's Bay, 153 Imperial Mercantile Credit Asso., 11M.. 7 4 International Financial society, lim., 64 Italian Irrigation (Canal Catiour), Ditto, 6 per cent. Bonds, redem. 170, issued 91, 83 Joint Stock Discount, lim., 81 London Financial Association, lira , 221 London General Omnibus Company, lira., 38 Merchant Shipping, lim., 91 Freehold Laud and Dock, 21 Milwall Iron Works.l4l 1 National Discount t ompany, lim., 151 North British Australasian, 50 North British and Mercantile Insurance, 184 overend, Gurney, and Co., lim., 191 f Royal Mail Steam. 119 20 Telegraph Conatructitn and Maintenance, 11m., Ditto (X. 12., 84 Cuban Marine Liverpool, Um., iSESSIONS. ll 1 58 80 )0 101 102 6 id to 11 5 } 5 I 11 10 11 7S 80 O 99 101 O 70 75 [1 101 103 0 101 102 )0 103 101 15 fp )0 21} 22 11 83 90 t 1 69 71 1 60 el 1 57 59 1 ' 2 55 1 4i 49 1 43 45 1 28 29 1 28 <9 0 103 104 .4 p 4 Z 3p; 101 102 i 1 15} 16} 8 5 41 , 1 11 OS 18 il 85 d 7 2 1 4d )0 100 102 )0 93 95 )0 83 90 111 61 66 lo 82 84 00 101 102 00 101 102 2 4 Id [OO 100 101 .00 -- INT SECUR. 0 PS I) 93 )o I ioo )U 1 105 )0 1 934 9f4 10 1 , 3 105 10 110 112 10 1 104 0 105 ' f 107 10 t 1.5 , ti f 102 93 101 10 9 9 5 10 90 91 10 I 103 105 10 I 841 85 99 101 102 103 T 1 1 - 0 - 6 108 10 1 105 106 u[Nls. 74 9 10: .. 18} _l9, 560 680 ..0 :91 24 26 14.6 94 101 3 1 14.0 2 bij 3.6 4 1 9.0 14 15 .8.0 21 3 :6 2 11 21 22 14.6 11 2 .9.6 4 4 ,0 334 844 18.0 24 3 10.0 39 41 10.6 44 11 17.6 .1 5 10.6 31 44 2/ 24 1,01 3/ 35 40 ;4 10 12 1.0 1 [.6 .6.7 32 34 11 430 950 ?..0 3 3i 18.9 121 15.6 10 12 9 17 18 Lll 5 8 11 6 7 9 S 10 11 70 75 MI 165 175 5 1 1 75 80 6 26 28 8 4 6 84 195 200 7 18 19 8 dis 5 dim This Day. 1 POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day, ~--- MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Constance Sherwood. By Lady Georgiana Fullerton. Three Vols. Bentley. One of the most charming heroines yet intro duced to us by Lady Georgiana Fullerton is Con stance Sherwood, and the story which she relates to us—another chapter from the romantic but disas trous annals of religimis persecution—is full of in tense interest throughout. In her early girlhood Constance becomes acquainted with one whose friendship is the delight of her life, sweet mistress Ann Dacre, the step-daughter of the Duke of Norfolk, and afterwards the wife of the Earl of Arundel and Surrey. Lady Arundel divides with Constance the interest and admiration of the reader. Her character, whether as seen in the occasional glimpses which history reveals to us, or in the more fully developed. but evidently most truthful portraiture of Lady Georgiana, is singularly attractive and exquisitely natural. Adorned with all the virtues of her sex, and yielding to some of its weaknesses also, Ann Dacre is one whom a novel writer might readily select for a heroine, and as her story is narrated by the lips of her tender and worthy friend Constance it loses nothing in interest or adherence to truth. The friends are separated for some time after the mar riage of the young countess, who is compelled for a while to share the gaieties of the court. Very grievous is it to Constance when she again meets her early companion and discovers that both Lady Arundel and her husband, like so many of the other courtiers, have conformed to the reformed religion. But the early faith of the young countess soon re-asserts its influence, and very charming and very natural is her letter to Constance, in which she reveals her dread of confiding the change to her husband. Thereupon, it is, she narrates how, on his return from London, he walks with her in the garden, and tells her that his sister has returned to the old religion, and hailing the opportunity, she, clinging to him, timidly whispers, "So has Nan"— the tender abbreviation of her name. Though fully aware of the danger of the step, the young earl makes no objection, and soon after follows the example of his wife. The trials and sufferings which this declaration of faith brought upon the pair are matter of history, or indeed they might be deemed impossible, and yet, perhaps, for their very im probability, they should he classed with those things which Lady Georgiana Fullerton has styled " too strange not to be true." We will dwell no further upon this portion of the tale, except to say that the authoress has done full justice to the interest of her theme, and has recorded these trials, and the fortitude with which they were borne, with exquisite simplicity and tenderness. The individual story of Constance Sherwood, the ostensible heroine of the work, we shall not betray. Constance herself is not among the waverers. She is most true throughout to her early belief, and faithful to her earliest affections. When one of the courtier states men of the Queen endeavours to persuade her to yield to the views of policy and ambition, she boldly tells him that, wise and learned and astute as he may be, there are two things beyond his powers of appreciation—" the heart of a woman and the faith of a Catholic." Like her heroine, the fair authoress reveals in every page how eminently she is herself endowed with these possessions, and among the readers who differ from her belief there will be found none to quarrel with her as a controversialist, or to charge her with any want of Christian charity. The authoress of " Lady-bird," and " Grantley Manor," and " Ellen Middleton," may be fairly congratulated on the success of " Constance Sher wood." SUICIDE IN A POLICE CELL.—On Mr. Knox taking his seat on the bench this morning, Inspector Walker stated that a man, who was charged at the Vine-street police station, yesterday committed suicide while in the cell. It appears that yesterday afternoon the deceased, Charles Dugard, a cab-driver, badge 963, wa,s taken into custody by police-constable Wood, 193 C, in Jermyn-street, being at the time drunk, and wholly incapable of taking care of his horse and cab. About 9 o'clock in the evening the deceased was found to have tied a pocket-handkerchief round his neck and secured it to the grating of the window. Mr. Tothill, the division surgeon, was immediately sent for, and used every effort to restore animation, but without success. The deceased was in the employ of Mr. Mayhew, the cab-proprietor. AN IMPUDENT THlEF.—Louisa Harris, who gave an address at Hackney, and .is said to have been previously convicted, was charged before Mr. Knox with the follow ing robbery. Thomas Whittington, assistant to Mr. John Hooper, linen-draper, 52, Oxford-street, said that in consequence of an alarm being given yesterday afternoon he ran into ono of the shops and stopped the prisoner, when she threw down a roll of 50 yards of flannel, of the value of 50s. He then took her back to the shop, when she became very impu dent. A constable was thou sent for, and sho was given into custody. Police-constable Thaxter, 176 E, said the prisoner on the way to the station said it was not the first thing she had had. He believed she had been convicted for a similar offence. Mr. Knox remanded the prisoner. WESTMINSTER. DISGRACEFUL CHARGE AGAINST A PUBLICAN.- -Mr. Robert Brook was charged with assault and Robbery. Charles Steward, 174, Oakley-street, bootmaker, said— Yesterday evening I went into the Green Dragon Tavern, kept by defendant, and had some rum. 1 put a two shil ling piece on the counter, and a woman behind the bar put it iu the till, and fumbled it about. She asked me what 1 gave her and I told her. She gave me the change and I put it in my pocket. I stood at the bar for three or four minutes. Some conversation ensued about Hertfordshire, and I left. A man who had been at the bar followed me across the road. The man wanted me to stand something, and said _ _ _ I had had is. too much. I went back to the house and told the landlady. She said she would swear to the fact that I had Is. too much, and abused me very much ; she said she would kick me out. The landlord (prisoner) came and seized me, and drove me back into a room. He knocked me on to a form, used filthy language, and threatened me. He struck.me repeatedly on the head and shoulders, and demanded the shilling. I refused to give it up. He then said, " You --, I will have it." He tore open my coat, and took is. out of my waistcoat pocket. I was much hurt, and a table was knocked over. I was perfectly sober; I have lived where I do now for seven months. I had two florins and 3s. from my boy on Satur day night, and this was one of the florins. I had no ls. at all when I went into the house ; that I swear. Ho wanted to compromise it when I fetched the police. 1011 103 k 2'l 2 Cross-examined—l did not deny haying is. when he struck me. Thomas Connaught(); 53 B—l apprehended the pri soner, who said he took the shilling from him. He put his hand in his pocket, and said, " I shall have no more hum bug," but I would not have a compromise. When I went there were two florins in the till. 29 Prisoner•donied the charge, and called 1031 1 Alfred Parr, engineer, 10, Harewood-terrace, King's road, one of the men in question, who said prosecutor gave ls. hard change for a 2s. piece, and flatly contradicted him in every point. William Prich, 2, Spark's Cottages, Graham-street, Pimlico, corroborated last witness, as also Henry Kemp. Mr. Selfe believed the prosecutor ordered the Is. to be given, and fined defendant 40s. for the assault or a month. MARKETS—This Day. METROPOLITAN CATTLE. Our market to-day was but moderately supplied with beasts, chiefly in middling condition. Prime breeds moved off steadily, at full quotations. Otherwise, the trade was heavy, at late rates. Ths top figure was ss. 4d. per 81bs. Sheep, the show of which was rather limited, changed hands freely, at extreme rates. Downs and half breds realised 6s. 4d. to 6s. Bd. per 81bs. The quality of most breeds was good. We were fairly supplied with calves, which sold steadily, at very full prices— viz., from 4s. to ss. 6d. per Bibs. Very few English calves were on offer. High prices were again demanded for pigs, but the sale for them was inactive. In milch cows very little was doing. Per 81b to sink tho offal. scled Crse. Ai inf. beasts... 3 2 3 8 Second quality do ..3 10 1 6 Prime large oxen ..4 8 5 0 Prime Scuts, &c.... 5 2 5 1 Crse. and inf. sheep. 4 4 41 Second quality do ..5 u 5 6 actsd Pme crs-wool sheep 5 8 6 2 Prime s'thclown 00.6 4 6 8 Large coarse mins * 6 5 2 Prime small do 5 4 5 6 Large hogs ....4 4 5 4 Small porkers 5 6 5 10 Lambs....os Od to os Od. Suzkling mires, 20s to 248; and quarter-old store pigs, 3Js to 348 each. Head of stock on sale. Total supply. Foreign supply. Beasts 1,02) Beasts 6lO Cows. 135 Cows. k Sheep and lambs 6,922 Sheep and lambs Calves 412 Ca yes 4OO Pigs 37s Pigs MEAT MARKETS. NEWCIATE AND LEADENEAT.L.—The supplies of meat ara are moderate, and the trade is steady, as follows : Reef, from 3s Od to 4s 8d ; mutton, 4s 4d to 6s Od; veal, 4s 4d to Os 4d; and pork, 4s 8d to 6s Od per 81b by the carcase. SOUTHALL, Oct. 1 8.—Prime stock sold freely at very full prices ; otherwise, the trade was heavy at barely late rates. Beef, from 3s 6d to 5s 2d; mutton, 4s 6d to 6s Gd; veal, 4s 8d to 5s 4d ; and pork, 4s 6d to 5s Gd per Blbs. to sink the offal. ROMFOItD 7 Oct. 18 . —About an- average business was passing to-day, as follows :—Beef, from 3s 4d to 5s 4d; mutton, 4s 4d to 6s B c t ; vea l , 4 s Gd to 5s 4d; pork, 4s 4(1 to as Gd per Sibs. Suckling calves, 20s to 23s ; quarter-old store pigs, 25s to 80s ; and milch cows, £lB to £2O each. HAY. SrarnarELD.—Meadow hay, £4 Os to £5 ss; clover, £5 Os to £6 Gs ; and straw, £1 7s to £1 14s per load. Trade dull. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, £4 Os to £5 108; clover £5 Os to £6 6s; and straw, £1 8s to £1 16s per load. A slow trade. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay £4 Os to £5 58; clover, £5 Os to £6 lOs ; and straw, £1 7s to £1 14s per load. A fair supply. COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market. Holywell Main........ . s. d. s. d. 20 0 Hetton ... 2J 3 Eden Main ............ 2 2 0 Carway and Duff r y n Pensher Primrose ...... 21 3 Malting 24 0 ... 22 0 ~., . Ships at market, 16 ; sold, 16, ----- ffiE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 19, 1 q 5. THIRD EDITION LORD PALMERSTON. subject of the present sketch ; the younger was afterwards known as Sir William Temple, the British Envoy at the Court of Naples. Not much is known regarding the early life of Henry John Temple. He was one of the late flower ing plants. Always remarkable for his ability, and generally successful in his undertakings, he rejoiced in a splendid constitution, and had to get rid of a certain excess of animal spirits before his ambition could rise to the level of his powers. There is a long period of some five and forty years--considerably more than the half of a man's life—which Lord Pal merston passed in comparative inactivity, and which is a puzzle to the biographer whose idea of the man is derived from the-later glories of his career. To account for this anomaly, it has by some of his eulo gists been asserted that he was never at heart a Tory, that he was out of his element in the Ministry of Liverpool and Castlereagh, and that he never truly lived until he escaped from the thraldom of Tory ideas and joined the friends of liberality and pro gress. This theory is quite unfounded. Lord Pal merston was at the lastwhat he was at the first. There is no real difference between Palmerston Secretary at-War, Palmerston Foreign Secretary, Palmerston Home Secretary, and Palmerston Prime Minister. The explanation of his backwardness lies wholly on the surface, and is what we have already indi cated. He was never what would be called an am bitious man ; and, delighting in society, he found, in the pleasures of private life what, together with the cares of his particular office, was sufficient in his hot youth, if not fully to occupy his powers, at all events to employ his time. Whatever he had to do he did well, but it is quite evident in his Parlia mentary history that he never cared to go out of his way for work. As Secretary -at-War for some 20 years he hardly ever made a speech except on the subject of the army, and then only when he was compelled to do so. As Foreign Secretary for a period little less, he in like manner confined his at tention to the business of his own department. At a time when he was the most popular statesman in England, he was content to serve now under his junior, and now under his rival. On the dissolu tion of the Aberdeen Cabinet he consented to serve even under Lord Derby if certain of his colleagues could be induced to follow the same course. It was not until every possible combination had been tried, and every possible Premier had given up the task in despair, that, as a last resource, Lord Palmerston was asked to form a Government. He at once accepted the position which he had not sought, and filled with dignity to himself and advantage to the country an office which, from his never having grasped at it, persons who measure men, not accord ing to their deserts, but according to their demands, regarded as beyond his power. In the little that is known concerning the early life of Lord Palmerston there is not much that is re markable. He received his education at Harrow, at Edinburgh, and at Cambridge. He went to Harrow a little after Lord Aberdeen, and about the same time as Sir Robert Peel and Lord Byron. Thence he proceeded to Edinburgh, to enjoy the benefit of Dugald Stewart's instruction; and, by the way, it may be noted as something peculiar that he was one of the very few Mfrs who followed the example of the young Whig's of that generation in sitting at the feet of the great Whig Professor of Moral Philosophy and Political Economy. It certainly does not appear that he entered with any enthusiasm into the studies which absorbed evers inmate of Stewart's family ; and one might with some show of reason accept it as a proof of this apathy that his name is not to be found among the members of that Speculative Society which was joined by-,every man of mark in the University, and which, besides Lord Lansdowne, Henry Brougham, Sydney Smith, Francis Jeffrey, Francis Horner, Walter Scott, and Lord John Russell, in cluded Lord Palmerston's own brother, Sir William Temple. But he himself stated about two years ago in one of his speeches, " I passed three years of my youth in studying at the University of Edin burgh, and I will frankly own, without disparage ment to any other seat of learning at which I had the fortune to reside, that I enjoyed greater ad- I vantages in the acquirement of useful knowledge and sound principles during the three years' resi dence in Edinburgh than I possessed at any other place." Certainly, the influence of Stewart's training was at a later period apparent in the strong deter mination expressed by Lord Palmerston to maintain those principles of government of which Huskisson was the exponent. So long as Huskisson remained in the Cabinet he felt certain that these doctrines would be honoured; when Huskisson was ejected from the Duke of Wellington's Ministry on purely personal grounds he too seceded, because he had. no guarantee, he said, that these doctrines would have the weight to which they were entitled. We may add that it must have been in Stewart's class room that a phrase which he often turned to good account in his speeches, and on one memorable occasion with most brilliant effect, first caught his fancy and left upon it an indelible impression-- " The fortuitous concourse of atoms." Having been inoculated at Edinburgh, where he remained three years, with these liberal views and his inkling of philosophy, he turned southward again to the Uni versity which Pitt represented in Parliament, and which was at that time the chief school of thought in England. Almost all his political contemporaries who took a leading position, whether in the Whig or in the Tory ranks, were Cambridge men. If Byron, Coleridge, and Wordsworth are to be classed among our greatest poets, it would appear that in other de partmants than that of politics Cambridge had, at the beginning of the present century, a pre-eminence over the sister University of Oxford. Lord Palmer ston, who had in the meantime succeeded to his title through the death of his father, entered at St. John's College in 1803, and worked in good earnest for academical success at a time when it was not usual for a nobleman to present himself for any but an honorary degree. The Temples were a family predestined to rule. Within the space of 50 years Macaulay has counted among the sons and grandsons of the Countess Temple alone, and she died in 1752, three First Lords of the Treasury (Geo. Grenville, W. Pitt, and Lord Grenville), three Secretaries of State, two Keepers of the Privy Seal, and four First Lords of the Admiralty. Although Lord Palmerston belonged to a different branch of the Temple family, he too, whose father had been a Lord both of the Admiralty and of the Treasury, looked forward to political life, and, in 1806, immediately on the death of Pitt, offered himself to the University of Cambridge as a candidate to represent it in Parliament. He was opposed, on this occasion, by Lord Henry Petty, who had become Chancellor of the Exchequer in room of the " heaven-born Minister," and who thus came to the election with a weight of Minis a only a candi date twothird terial influence whi c h hi s r ival found it vain to withstand. That ri va l, however, was not to be dis couraignedlB. h p e r n ese h n e t f e ea d i t e h r di m e o d s f e s h ll u is c a c g f e e a s s r t i n b u a y n votes ; and in 181 1 b time, in this case attaining the object of his ambi tion so unmistakably that he continued to represent the University until, in 1831, he gave mortal offence to his constituents by joining the Whigs. In the meantime, however, he found his way into Parlia ment, at first through the pocket borough of Bletch ingley, and then through the borough of Newport, in the Isle of Wight. Nor was he long in Parlia ment before be enjoyed the sweets of office. The notorious Ministry of " All the Talents" soon fell to pieces, and, as if in mockery of that splendid coalition, a Ministry succeeded to power headed by a nobleman whose natural incapacity was aided by a natural indolence, and,whose indolence was aggra vated not only by sickness, but also, to make assurance doubly sure, by continual opiates, under the influence of which he would fall asleep over his The fears which for months past the state of Lord Palmerston's health has excited have at length been realized. The great statesman is no more. Many who saw him towards the close of last Par liament, broken and bent by a recent attack of ill ness, shook their heads and whispered to each other that he could never meet another Parliament. That fear has been quickly and fatally verified. The bulletins we have published will have prepared most persons for the sad news which we have to announce to-day, that Lord Palmerston died yesterday morn ing, at a quarter to 11. There never was a statesman who more truly re presented England than Lord Palmerston. His name is now added to that splendid but very short list of Ministers, from Walpole to Pitt and from Pitt to Peel, who in tines of great difficulty have rendered England prosperous at home and famous abroad, and who, while obtaining place from the Court, derived their chief power from the country. Pitt, properly speaking, belonged to the last century, and there have been but three men in the present century who attained to the same enviable position. The first was Canning, a great spirit, but greater in what he devised than in what he accomplished ; for no sooner had he reached the pinnacle of power, and excited the brightest hopes of the nation, than, sick at heart, he fell before the intrigues of rivals, leaving it to others to avenge his death and to pro secute his policy. After Canning, two statesmen from among his colleagues, the one his rival the other his disciple—Peel and Palmerston —gradually rose to the highest offices in the rea l m , an d won, as only great characters win, the sweet voices of the multitude. They have this in common—both were trained in the Tory camp, both forsook the tradi tions of Toryism, both have been decried as the most inconsistent statesmen that ever lived. Yet no two men could be more unlike, and the inconsistency of each was so different, that what in the one was a fail ' ing in the other was a virtue. Sirßobert Peel gave up his principles ; Lord Palmerston merely relinquished his party. Less sociable than Palmerston, and less capable of forming new alliances, Peel clung to the Tories while rejecting their dogmas, and compelled them again and again to follow a course which they had learnt from his own lips to regard as the road to destruction. Free and frank, of a jovial nature, hail fellow with good men and true of every rank and politicians of every shade, Lord Palmerston was less fettered by party ties, and, so the objects dearest to his heart were attained, cared little whether the men with whom he sat on the Treasury benches .were styled Whigs or Tories, Liberal-Conservatives, or Conservative-Liberals. His very consistency in this respect has been denounced as a fault. It has been said that he was constant only in the retention of office ; that he was fixed only to the Treasury bench ; that his one principle was that of the Vicar of Bray. He was a member of every Government since 1807, with the exception of those years in which Sir Robert Peel, and subsequently Lord Derby, held the reins. He began life as a Pittite ; gradually he developed into a Canningite ; when the Whigs cameinto power he renewed his youth ; when they had fallen into di.3repute he expanded into a Conservative-Liberal; afterwards he stood forward as the Tory chief of a Radical Cabinet ; and he closed his wonderful career at the head of a Minis try with the motto of " Rest and be thankful." In all these changes there may be traced a consistency of purpose, which, when the clue to it is perceived, becomes entitled to our highest respect ; and this clue is furnished in the fact that, whatever changes' come over the domestic or colonial policy of -Eng land, her foreign policy is unalterable. Teat policy is, indeed, more or less modified by the circum stances of the time, by the amount of our resources, by the temper of our allies, by the spirit of 4" nation ; but in principle it is always the sttme. Our domestic reforms are for the most parp,,,carried in the face of a formidable Opposition ;but our foreign policy is supported by overwhelming majo rities, and by a national enthusiasm which nothing can resist. We have never a dispute about the prin ciple; it is a tradition based on the universal senti ment of patriotism, and handed from generation to generation—from Cabinet to Cabinet. The Minister of such a policy may through all changes adhere to the Treasury bench if he can: nothing need remove him from it but his personal relations with its other occupants; and he who, like Lord Palmerston, can preserve his seat there through the vicissitudes of half a century, is indeed a great man as well as a great statesman. Henry John Temple was the third Viscount Pal merston, and was born at Broadlands, near Romsey, on the 20th October, 1784. Although an Irish Peer, his descent is traced to Saxon earls anterior to the Conquest. In the arms of his family may be seen the eagle displayed of that Leofric, Earl of Mercia, who is remarkable chiefly for his treatment of his wife, the Lady Godiva. Lord Palmerston, however, bears a nearer resemblance to another and less my thological member of his family, of whom his father was the heir male—Sir William Temple, the friend of William 111., the patron of Dean Swift, the author of that triple alliance which bound England, Sweden, and the States-General to prevent France from-en tering the Netherlands, and, singularly enough, a statesman who, while he remained in public life, was always on the winning side, and had the credit of all the popular acts of the Government after the Restoration. M. Capefigue, in noting this resem blance, has been pleased to observe that the chief point of similarity between the Minister of William 111. and the Minister of Queen Victoria lies in the utter hatred which both had to everything French, and thinks that on one occasion, as he was dining with Lord Palmerston, he made a terrible homethrust when he recalled the unpleasant fact that Sir William Temple, in bequeathing his property to his grand daughters, stipulated that they should not marry Frenchmen. It gave M. Capefigue considerable satisfaction that Lord Palmerston could only laugh at the remark ; it never entered into his head that the statement is quite unfounded, there being no mention of such a condition in the will of Sir W. Temple. Not from Sir Win. Temple, however—it was from Sir John Temple, younger brother of the diplomatist, and the same of whom Archbishop Shel don said, "He has the curse of the Gospel, for all we T ll he of fi l r i s i t m v ,' i ' se th ou at a L o o f rd th P e a n lm am er e st w on as w th a e s d m e e s n c e s n p re d k . grandson of Sir John Temple, and was created a peer in 1722. Little more has to be said of him than this,—that his wife was regarded as a perfect model of conjugal affection, her will being quoted with admiration in the Annual Register. The second viscount, the father of our great statesman, was grandson of the first, and, like his grandmother, has been regarded as a pattern of conjugal tenderness. The epitaph which he wrote on the death of his first wife is said to be the most pathetic ever penned ; and written at a time when our poetry had reached its lowest ebb, when all was artifice and platitude, phrase and frippery, it must be admitted that the lines have a genuine tenderness which it is almost impossible to find in other compositions of the period. To his father, indeed, Lord Palmerston owes much of that taste for literature which furnished many a happy illustration in his speeches in Parliament, be sides enabling him in his younger days to join with Croker and Peel in assailing the Whigs with literary satire. Of his father's lively humour the late Lord Palmerston himself gave an amusing illustration in one of those anecdotes with which he, of all men, knew best how to parry the questions of political opponents or the entreaties of troublesome deputa tions. He said that it was his father's habit, in placing wine before his guests, t • , but osayi "Heren ca claret, gentlemen ; here is sherry swer for them ; I can only give you the word of my wine merchant for them. Here is port, however, f or which I can give my own word,—it is very good —I made it myself." If he was a bad judge of wine, he was considered a good judge of pictures. He collected in Broadlaonfdsthae egeanitleuryry,ohf apaintings e Reynold s , i n b equeathing to his w h rhi repute, n aa d t tdh t 1 br l e y i o Joshuarnkn gifl o g f his own easel unsold at the time of.his death, gave to the Earl of Upper Ossory the first choice and to Lord Palmerston the second. He enjoyed the gift of his artistic friend ten years, and, dying in 1802, left by his second wife, who did not long survive him, two sons and two daughters. Of these sons, Henry John Temple, the elder, is the papers. Not able to touch animal food, not caring to open his mouth, often found sleeping at his desk, it would be one of the marvels of government that the Duke of Portland contrived to keep a Cabinet together for more than a couple of years, were we not too well acquainted with the truth of Oxen stiern's commonplace regarding the wisdom of rulers. It was in this singular Ministry, whose great achieve ment was the Walcheren disaster, that Lord Palmer ston first entered upon office. He entered on the office which his father had long enjoyed, as a Lord of the Admiralty and when, on the quarrel of ISt 16 13t 97 COUNTRY MARKETS H ULL.--T UESDAY. At our market to-day there was a small show of English wheat, which sold freely a t l ast week's prices for good samples. Barley very scarce, and rather dearer for all de scriptions. Fine oats in more request ; beans and peas no change. In linseed a limited business done. English old white wheat, 438 to 48s ; old red, 408 to 45 5 . Barley, chevalier, 8s to 325. Oats, Russian, 22s to 245. Beans, new English, 42s to 435. P eas, E ng li sh blue, 35s to 36s 6d ; grinding, 35s to 35s 6,1 per 36 stone. LYNN— T UESDAY. The attendance to-day wac smaller than it was last week. Farmers are nowsowing their autumnal seed, consequently we had a short supply of wheat on offer; good dry samples sold at prices in advance of last week; damp d escr i pt i ons met a slow sale at late rates. Malting barley in request, and prime samples 6d to is per qr. dearer. N6 w wheat, 44s to 48s ; new red, 38 8 t o 40s ; old white, 48s to 52s ; old red, 45s to 47s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, 33s to 365; secondary, 30s; ordinary, 24s to 26s per qr. Oats, 22s to 24s per 24 stone. Beans, large, 38s to 40s ; small, 42s to 44s per 38 stone. MELTON MO WI3RAY.—TITESDA.Y. There was a limited show of wheat at market to-day; the trade was fair, and fully late prices were made. Oats unaltered. Barley advancing in price. White wheat, 42s to 51s ; red, 378 to 48s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, 33s to 36s per qr ; feed, 26s to 31s per 30 stone. Oats 208 to 28s. Bean; old, 38s to 465; new, —8 to —s per qr. SALISBURY.—TUESDAY. To-day being theannual city Michaelnias fair for cheese morn inga and w on a i s o v n e s l , 7 lthearagte. An increased supply of wheat was shown, the quality andte attendance in the corn exchange this condition of which was good, and prices the turn against buyers. Barley large supply, but malting samples continue a limited supply. Oats sold a little higher; beans and peas likewise firm in price, and a larger business done. The following are the quotations :—Wheat realised from 36s to 50s ; barley, 26s to 38s ; oats, 22s to 30s ; beans, 40s to 50s ; and peas, 34s to 42 s per qr. Tares, from 6s to 7s 3d per bushel ; Best bread, 12d ; household ditto, lld per 81b loaf. Flour, 32s to 38s per sack. NEWCAS TLE-ON - TYNE.—TUESDAY. There was a small supply of wheat from the country, with a moderate coasting and foreign arrival. A better de mand was experienced, and good samples of new brought the extreme prices of last week, while fine descriptions of old foreign found buyers at prices not previously obtained. Barley for malting moved off slowly at late rates, but grinding sorts were 6(1 higher. Fine old malt at full prices. Beans firm, peas dearer, oats at previous terms, flour dearer. FALMOUTH, Oct. 18.—The ship John Duthie, Phillips, commander, from Sydney, New South Wales, for London, out 90 days, passed this port this day, and lauded a mail and one passenger, 110 1181 S 9 50 631 i 4 120; 89 8 105 i 1211 41 5 1.381 51 103 j 3 12 1 4 f 5, 5 62 If 1 0 i 104 3 10 f THAMES. AN ANCIENT DRUNKARD.—A little nimble old man, named Peter Montell, a barber, who called himself a flour dealer, was brought before Mr. Partridge, charged with being drunk and disorderly last night. The prisoner is 70 years of age. Ho has been charged at this court with being drunk and disorderly so often, that an officer said he had left off counting how often Peter had been in custody of the police. Last night Peter was outside the Britannia public-house, opposite Limehouso Church, challenging every one in the house to fight and vaunting of his prowess. He continued his disturbance for a long time, and when he was taken into custody he gave much trouble to a constable named Mortlock, 243 K. In addition to numerous convictions for drunkenness Peter had been once convicted and sentenced to four months' imprisonment and hard labour for stealing a pair of boots. Ho had boon in various lodgings, never paid any rent, and was summarily ejected from them by orders of the magistrates. An officer said Peter had been drunk 100 times. The prisoner-1,000 you mean. Mr. Partridge asked the prisoner if he was not ashamed of himself to be in such a disgraceful position at his time of life ? Peter Montell bowed, and said he could not get rid of his old habits. Mr. Partridge ordered tho prisoner to enter into his own recognisance to keep the peace for six months and to pay the fee. The prisoner —pay what fee, sir ? Roche (the gaoler) —Now, Peter, this way ; you know well that you must pay the recognisance fee. Come this way, you know the road ►ell. Peter followed the gaoler to his old quarters—a cold cell. DRIVING A CAB WITHOUT A LlCENSE.—Francis Sadler, aged 67, was brought before Mr. Partridge, charged with driving a cab last night in the Commercial-road without a license. The Stamp-office plate, No. 692, was on the cab. John Chamberlain, 670 A, said the prisoner came to the Poplar station-house on Monday night with a sailor, and said he would not pay his fare. The prisoner was then questioned and said he had no license. Last night the prisoner was driving the same cab in the Commercial-road without a license, and he took him into custody. The prisoner said ha formerly drove a coach for Mr. Wheatley, of Greenwich, and had been to Scotland-yard and could not get a license. He had a license six years ago. Mr. Partridge—This can't be allowed. The public must be protected. I fine you 405., and in default 21 days' im prisonment in the House of Correction. Railway Traffic Returns for the Week, The last week's railway receipts ascertained up o this day are in round figures as under :- 1865. 1864. ▪ £76,193 £74,700 ... 116,852 111,807 • 26,761 25,747 ... 23,646 22,296 Great Western ... North Western ... South-Western ... Brighton. ... Midland ... 50;703 49,747 South Eastern 27,994 27;103 Great Northern 39,363 38,939 Lancashire and Yorkshire ... ... 40,070 36,022 Bristol and Exeter ... 6,979 6,827 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln. 20,313 18,940 Great Eastern . 36,432 35,988 London, Chatham, and Dover ... 11,277 9,556 These returns, when compared with those of the corresponding period of last year, show in most in stances some favourable features. On the Great Western there is an increase of £1,493 ; on the North Western of £5,045 ; on the South Western of £1,014 ;. on the Brighton of £1,350 ; on the Midland of £957; on the South Eastern of £891; on the Great Northern of £424 ; on the Lanca shire and Yorkshire of £4,048; on the Bristol and Exeter of £125 ; on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln of £1,373; on the Great Eastern of £444; and on the London, Chatham, and Dover of £1,721. Envelopes Rid., 3id., and 4d. per 100. Note-paper 3d., 4id., and 6d. per five quires. If at any time you want better and cheaper stationery than you get from your re gular stationer, try Arthur Grangers' patentee, of the new safety envelopes and writing papers, 308, High Holborn, and 95 and 96, Borough. Agents wanted. A WORD ABOUT THE TERN.—The habits of the tern are exceedingly interesting. From time im memorial, I believe, a colony of these birds has visited annually the same locality. It is not easy to find their nests, which are simply hollows made in the shingle, and the eggs resemble the stones so much in their general colour that they can only be distinguished by a quick eye. Tho colour of the eggs is generally an olive brown, blotched with dark brown; and I have observed that the small stones on which they are deposited are often marked with dark stains very much like those on the eggs. How appa rent here is that exquisite Providence without which the balance of nature could not be maintained. The egg re sembles the stones in colour, and the instinct of the bird prompts her to deposit it among them, that, though ex posed, it may be unnoticed by depredators, winged or human.— Once a Week. NEW ZEALAND WEST-COAST GOLD FIELDS.— The Customs' duties at Hokitika for the month of July, up to the 23d, amounted to £3,200 on imported goods, in addition to the export duty on gold, which reached £2,378, representing 19,0240 z. Tho total export of gold from the West Coast during this year, up to the 23d of July,fias been 73,0000 z., and 1,5000 z. more were exported in 1864, the whole being valued at upwards of £288,000. The population gathered on the new ground is estimated at 3,000—a1l collected on the north side of the Arnold, in Nelson province. Mr. Rochfort is laying out a town on the Canterbury side of the Grey. Stores are being erected, and there is every probability of a good sized town being established there. Some specimens of the gold have reached us. It is all heavy in character. One piece mea sures one inch in length and one-eighth of an inch in thickness.—Letelton Times. ,ITIES. los; I 9i 5 i t SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK. SPORTING INTEL LIGENCE —This Lay. HARROW RACES-THIS DAY. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. NURSERY STAKES. British Tar Arethusa Bay Loaf Nino ran. SELLING STAKES. Tilt Saxon Beauty Retainer Eleven ran. FOURTH F }ITIO SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 7 O'CLOCK SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day, KELSO RACES-THIS DAY. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) BORDER HANDICAP. Bendigo Jupiter Seven-and-analf Four ran. MATCH. Edward beat Bella Addle. TWEEDSIDE PLATE. Lapidist Buccleugh Yarrow Nine ran. WELTER CUP. Seven ran. STEWARDS' CUP. Iconoclast 7.. Tring Tonio Lady Durham Lozengo Four ran. HUNTERS' STAKES. Marksman Idlo Boy Five rap. HANDICAP PLATE. Skirmish Lady Abbess Balornock HARROW RACES--THIS DAY. Thirteen ran. HARROW STEEPLECHASE. 2 Polly Hopkins Shuttlecock White Stockings Nine ran. SELLING STEEPLECHASE. Sinito Idiot.. Bessie Five ran. TAT rERSALLS'7This Evening - - CAMBRIDGESHIRE. Bto 1 agst Gladiateur (offered, take 9to 1) 12 to 1 agst Salpinctes (taken and offered) 13 to 1 agst Provisor (offered) 22 to 1 agst Ostregor (offered) 22 to 1 agst Gontran (offered, take 25 to 1) 25 to 1 agst The Duke (taken) 33 to 1 agst John Davis (taken and offered) 33 to 1 agst Gratitude (offered) 33 to 1 agst Sister to Drake (take 40) 40 to 1 agst Nu (taken and off.) 70 to 1 agst Merry Wife (taken) 100 to 1 agst Copenhagen (offered) 100 to 1 agst Argonaut (offered) VICTORIA CLUB BETTING-THIS DAY. CAMBRIDGESHIRE. Bto 1 agst Gladiateur (taken) 12 to 1 agst Salpinctcs (taken and offered) 100 to 8 agst Provisor (taken) 22 to 1 agst Ostregor (taken) 22 to 1 agst The Duke (taken) 22 to 1 agst Custard Castle (taken) 25 to 1 agst Gontran (taken) 25 to 1 agst Gardevisure (taken) 30 to 1 agst Regalia (taken) 33 to 1 agst Sister to the Drake (offered) 33 to 1 agst King Charming (taken) 33 to 1 agst Nu (offered, take 40 to 1) 40 to 1 agst Wedding Peal 50 to 1 agst Victory 1000 to 10 agst Tennyson (taken) 1000 to 10 agst Argonaut Bank of England Return.—This Evening. An Account, pursuant to ti cap. 32, for the week ending Act 7th and Bth Victoria, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 1865. PAATMENT. ISA Olt DE F Notes Issued ...—a26,654,8101 Government Debt £11,015,1C0 Other Securities .. 3.634,91,0 Gold Coin ds Bullion 12,004,840 Silver Bullion .... £26,C51,840! X 20,654,840 BANKING D ez oprietors' Capi tal £14.553.000 nest Public Deposits (in cluding Exche quer, •Savings' Banks, Commits missioners of Na tional Debt, and EPARTIKENT. Government Secu rities (including Dead Weight A nnuity) S9 3.6,477 Other Securities 2l, 07,283 Notes Gold and Silver . 785.118 Coln Dividehd Ac counts) 3,589,351 Other Deposits..., 14,01•s,611 Seven Day and other Bills 565,9.3 £35,8J5,478 U. k 3 ' , , 4 05,478 FORBES, Deputy Cashier. Oct. 19, 1365. The French Press on the Alabama Correspondence• Several of the Paris journals publish comments on the despatches exchanged between Mr. Adams and Earl Russell, and seem to look on them as mere diplomatic sparring and nothing more. The Presse declares that all idea of hostilities between America an d England on such a futile cause is simply pre posterous, and that the rapidity with which the Cabinet of Washington has disbanded its troops and restored its peace establishment proves that it has not the slightest intention of resuming a belligerent attitude. The writer adds : Mr. Seward and Mr. Adams aro too intelligent not to comprehend that, although their complaints are serious, although their demand possesses an incontestable character of equity, if considered in the strict point of view of the existing right of nations, still there has not been on the part of the British Government any precise material 'rio lation of national and international law. It is certain, on the othor hand, that the said Cabinet has not acted, with respect to the Union, in a straightforward and friendly manner—has observed a neutrality more apparent than real. Our contemporary believes that the Government of the United States has a more elevated object in view than any pecuniary reparation, namely, to call the attention of the civilised world and of all the Governments concerned to the omissions and im perfections of the present law of nations, and to provoke from genaral good sense and the force of public opinion a legislation on the subject of a more extended and equitable character, and more in con formity with the progress of civilisation. The Monde on the same subject remarks : The American Government has not yet arrived at a sa tisfactory arrangement with the Cabinet of St. James in regard to the question of maritime indemnities and the re cognition of the Confederates. A commission, however, is spoken of. That comedy might well be called after that of Shakspere, " Much Ado About Nothing." Doubtless the Government of Washington only wishes to get rid of its re sponsibility towards the American shipowners plundered by the Confederate corsairs. It often requires a much less seri ous affair to bring about a war; and if one sets aside the grandiloquent causes to which were attributed the Mexican expedition, the indemnities demanded from Juarez were not more worth speaking of than those demanded from Lord Russell. Under the present circumstances, however, such an eventuality is not to be dreaded, and the notes of Mr. Seward will merely b• made us of as matter of reference should the relations between England and America assume an unfriendly tone at some future period. FIRES.—This morning a fire broke out in the premises of Mr. Richard Morris, coachbuildar, 782, Old Kent-road. Owing to the inflammable nature of the stock, the building, which consisted of three floors, was entirely consumed. A fire also occurred at the house of Mrs. Warren, lodginghouse-keeper, 19, Old Quebec-street, but was soon extinguished. Messrs. Tubbs and Lewis, india rubber manufacturers, New North-road, had a fire on their premises, which destroyed part of their warehouse. Several other fires took place, but the damage done at each was trifling. ~x..~== ~ ~» .aven 011 3 e left Sun- th© ;-e of ~ady Hall, [aria a re- and ager ,ount wich, rived 31. of ) late was a she cond nely, Ed lar- iisa Liam the m of mty ibi the vise, an de- 3ay, ais- )ur -or rich Eft Cho