The Sun. — London, England, 1865-11-10 00:00:00

The Florence Nazione of Tuesday has the fol. lowing remarks upon the speech recently delivered at Cossato by Signor Sella, the Italian Minister of Finance : The Minister of Finance has given a good example for our constitutional life, by appearing among his constituents and explaining to them, in English fashion, at a banquet, his own views re- SPecting the administration to which he belongs, and the political course of the Cabinet of which he is a member. . .We are rejoiced to find that the * views of Signor Sella upon the Roman ques tion are in complete accordance with our own programme. With much simplicity and distinct ness he has explained the judicious and appro priate reasons which induced the Cabinet to reject the, pretensions of the Roman court with regard to the abolition of the royal exequatur ; and in speak ing of the Convention of the 15th of September he has admirably defined its political value, and its inevitable effects. "We shall fulfil our engagements with scrupulous loyalty," he said ; " the experiment Of the temporal power of the Pope depending on its Own Strength will be made without a trace or shadow of violence on our part." This is the course, neither More nor less, which the Italian Government ought to impose upon itself with regard to the Convention of the 15th September; this is the just and realinter- Pretation of that treaty. Upon the Venetian question it might h ave b een desired that the minister should have explained his views more clearly; but his official position sufficiently justifies the reserve he io 3 posed upon himself on this subject. We are, how ever, rejoiced that instead of the discouraging re signation, and the timid counsels that we deplore in other distinguished politicians, we find reasons in the words of Signor Sella for believing that the liberation of Venetia is still the first and most im portant object to which the efforts of the Govern ment point. We have on other occasions declared that we do not ask from the ministry a promissory note at a fixed date, that we do not ask it to tell us the precise time and manner in which it means to settle the Venetian question; but we ask it to con tinue in a ll earnestness the accomplishment of the nation a l programme, and not to discourage the Country by imprudent declarations, or arouse Mistrust in the honest intentions of the Liberal part y. And Signor Sella satisfies our wishes In frank and noble words. " The situation i 8 a difficult one," he said, " there are not wa nting in th e coun t ry representatives of a really imPossible past." " Behind us is the abyss," a cid General Lamarmora, amid the applause of the 110 Usel " nor could a backward step be even dll agined without terrible ruin to all and every g• There is thus no other alternative. We Must go forward and complete the national pro gtarame." In these words our whole policy is ex pressed, and we gratefully welcome them from Signor S ella. And we heartily join with him in the homage Italians owe to the noblest and most patriotic Of kings. The speech of Signor Sella comes oppor tunely to disp e l th e a b sur d rumours recent l y circu laied by malice and credulity, with respect to plans of abdication, concordats, and the separation of certain provinces from the rest of the kingdom. It will strengthen, we are sure, the moderate party, and revive that confidence in the destinies of the country, which grows weak and oscillates when doubt arises as to the convictions of the men who stand at the helm of the State. BRITISH. FUNDS —ONE O'CLOCK. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 per Cent. Consols Do. Account, Nov. 8 BBl x d 0 per Cent. Reduced B7t 1 New 3 per Cext B7l i New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 7ll Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 — Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth ApriClBBs — Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 — March Exchequer Bills, £1,000,3 &31 per Ce n t. 6 4 di e Do. I i .£5OO — Do £lOO and £2OO Bank of England Stock, 5} per Cent 250 -Do Account . INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Indian Stock, 101 per Cent., AprillB74 216 Do Account Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1870 Do. Account — Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 Do. Certificates — Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 Do. 5i- per Cent., May 1879 — Do. 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 99 Do. Bonds, £l,OOO lO Do. under £l,OOO FOREIGN FUNDS —ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 — Brazilian 5 per Gent Do. 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Do. 1863 — Do. 1865 — _ Do. Scrip, £l5 paid Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent — Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) Chilian 6 per Cent — Do. 8 per Cent Colombian 6 poer Cent. Cuba, 6 per Cent. Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 — Do. 4 per Cent., 1863 Do. 5 per Cent., 1773-77, £25 paid...., paid Danubian Principalities Do Account Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Do., Provisional Land Warrant — Egyptian 7 per Cent 941 Do., Second Issue Do£loo Bonds — Do. 1864 9ll Do £lOO Bonds' 921 li Greek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons Do. Account Do. Coupons Do Account — Cruatemala 5 per Cent. D0.£86 kd paw. Do. 1E39 and 1850 — Ltalian 5 per Cent (Maremmana Railway) Do 1865 Do Account — Do Scrip, £67i paid Do 5 per Cent., 1864 — Mexican 3 per Cent — Do. Account Do ,_-;„. 1864 Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French Do French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c Montevidean 6 per Cent., £3O paid Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada Do 2 per Ce n t Do Deferred — Do Land Warrants (Hectares) eeruvian 4i- per Cent Do. Account Do Scrip, £45 paid, paid in Bonds — Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) — Do 4i- per Cent., 1862 Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, Do. Account Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St BBf Do 4i. per Cent. 1850 Do 41 per Cent., 1860 Do 3 pet Cent. 1859 .... - LO 4ti Ont-.-IM _ Sardinian 5 per Cent — Do Account Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto account Do New Deferred Do Account 3B Do Passive — Do Account 1 — Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded — _.. MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, a"- TWELVE O'CLOCK. The Money-market presents an easier appearance this morning, consequent upon the satisfactory. re turn from the Bank of England. No dispose on, however, is shown by the brokers to negotiate the best bills upon lower terms than have lately pre prevailed, viz., 6 and 7 per cent. The sum of £lB,OOO in gold was taken to the B ank yesterday. The return issued by the Bank of France shows the fo llowing changes i n th e pos i t i on of the estab -I,4huwat- Th. bccu. ICUULTU Z,Zlz,t.Juu, but the notes in circulation have been decreased £580,000. The bills discounted are £770,000 less; the advances on stock, £50,000 ; the Treasury bala nce, £316,600 ; and the current accounts, 4720,000. The Bank of England returns shows that the Position of the establishment has been strengthened during the week. The reserves are larger, and also the Government Securities. Annexed is our usual al ialYeis 4ctiYe Circulation Decrease Do Account Swedish 4 per Cent. Do. 41 per Cent. 1864 Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 Do Account 9Ol Do 6 per Cent. 1858 Do Account 75 I Do £lOO Bonds Do. 11 per Cent Do 6 per Cent. 1862 Do Account 7si Do £lOO Bonds Do 6 per Cent.,1863 Do 5 per Cent. 1865 Do Account Do £ICO Bands Do • Scrip, £35 paid Do Guaranteed, 4 per Cent Venezuela 3 per Cent. Do. 6 per Cent., 1862 ilulliort ....£21,473,775 ... 373,530 ... 13,306,277 87.474 ... 3,188,737 ... 7,045 ... 4,886.861 ... 723.344 ... Root Increase Increaosits •se •.• Public Dep.• Other D increase --'eposits 13,148,786 Increase ••• ••• ••• ••• 168,996 Seven Day an d Other Bills ... 522,121 Decrease ••• ••• ••• ••• 15,920 °Veriarlaent Securities ... 9,746,089 so Other Seclunrcitr i e e a 505,125 s 20,070,914 ..• ••• ••• Decrease ••• ••• ••• ••• 73,664 Notes Une mp l oyed 5,745,605 , Increase ••• 000 ••• •.• 430,645 The Imperial Ottoman Bank have received ad vices from their Bucharest agency of the payment, On. the Ist November, of the usual monthly remit tances o f £ 5,300 on account of interest and £1,400 for the sinking fund of the Danubian Principalities Loa n , oThe Master of the Rolls has appointed Mr. kxeorg e A . Cape, of Adelaide-place, accountant, official liquidator to the Land Credit Company of Ireland (Limited). It is announced that Mr. Thomas Wilson Ran -1313n) of Su n d er l an d , h as j o i ned the direction of the T yne General Engineering Company, and that the lists of application will close on Thursday, 16th inst., for London, and on Monday, the 21st, for the country. The Stock Exchange Committee have appointed Monday, 13th inst., a special settling day in the shares of the South of England Wagon Company (Limited), and the Marseilles Extension Railway and Land Company (Limited), which are not to be marked. The committee have also ordered the fol lowing securities to be officially quoted :—Th e 20,000 London regi s t er shares of the National Bank of Australasia and the per cent. X2OO Bonds, 1881, of the Philadelphia and Erie Rail roa d Company. The share list of the Pennsylvania Lubricating Oil Lands Company (Limited) will close on :Mon day, the 13th inst., at 4 o'clock, for London, and Oa Tuesday, the 14th, for the country. During the last few days there has been a rather moderate amount of business transacted in the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets. Sugars have been neglected, and the few sales effected in t he private market have been of slightly reduced P r ices. For coffee, however, there has been a fair inquiry, while slightly enhanced rates have beet obtained for tea. Rice has commanded full prices, While for tallow there has been a better inquiry at enhanced quotations for both present an d f orwar d delivery. 431 I Do. Account Do. 6 per Cent, 1864 Dividends on the above payable in London. Austrian, 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins Belgian, 4-i per cent., Ex. 25f. Dutch 21- per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil 6li Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates French Renter 4i per Cent. lralian 5 per Cent. ,1861, Ex. 25f. 1.)o Account, TWO O'CLOCK. 89 88 i f x Consols for money Do. Account Liverpool Cotton Market—This ray Market opens steady. Sales, probably 10,000 bales. FRIGTHFUL DEATH. Yesterday Mr. Richards, deputy-coroner for Mid dlesex, held an inquest at the Alfred's Head, William-street, Stepney-green, on the body of Mercy Ellis, a married woman, aged 44, who re sided with her husband at 47, Silver-street, Step ney, who met with her death under very painful circumstances. From the statements of the witnesses it appeared that the deceased had been drinking hard for the last three years, and had not been sober for a single day for the last three months. It had been her custom when the time approached for her husband to return home in the evening to lock herself in the parlour, and when he entered the house to make her exit by the window and proceed to obtain more drink. On Monday, the 23d of October, her son Henry, aged 20, upon returning home at six o'clock in the evening, found her so drunk that she did not seem to know what she was doing. She proceeded upstairs to the first-floor front room and locked herself in. Shortly afterwards an alarm was raised from the street, and it was found that she was lying on the kerb with her head fractured, having evi dently fallen or jumped from the window. From statements she afterwards made, it appeared that when she got upstairs she was so drunk that she thought she was still in the parlou r , an d proceeded to get she out fell of tothe th e window gr ou t n o d . g et a "drop," when of course • Two O'CLOCK. At the Paris Bourse this morning, according to ;T i ter's tel egram, the 3 per Cent. Rentes were "f. 45c. Finn There are the same indications of easiness in the general appearance of the Discount Market. Q, l3ll° Yancy was th e c h arac t er i s ti c o f th e E ngl i sh Market this morning, and a farther rise of I per cent • took place. As per cent. advance oc rred yesterday, the additi ona l i mprovemen t l e d to .., sal es in realisation of profit s , an d th e p er cen t . h as B ne r, en lost i n consequence. Consols for money are 1 and for the account (ex div.) 88 e. Business not very act i ve, but there are signs of speculative dealing s . In the Foreign Stock Market the dealings have bee n rather numerous, and quotations generally Show an imp rovement. Turkish Consolides have ri sen to 47i 481; Mexican, ex a ll, are 25 * .g-; s he New Loan, 21 ; Greek are 1- better at 19 ;, ; PalliBll Passive are 28i ; the Certificates, NI From the 'medical evidence it appeared that de ceased might have recovered if her blood h a d not been thoroughly poisoned by drink. An enormous ulcer formed on her back whilst confined to her bed, had hastened her death. The ulcer had been caused by lying in the wet. The husband of the deceased said that there were tbree females waiting upon her during her illness. The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death." The United States Consul at Leghorn, in a com munication to the State Department, under date of Sept. 30, represents that there is a constant inquiry for Ameri can vessels, which are given the preference by parties desirous of chartering, but as they cannot be had others are taken. Twelve American ships would have been chartered during the past three months if they could have been obtained. Lord and Lady Charles Bruce have left Brown's Hotel, -D over-street, for their residen ce i n Hertford-street. , peech of the Italian Minister of Finance. I 14 i ; Italian, 63 4 64 ; the Confederate Loan, 7 9 but Brazilian Scrip has receded to 2i 4 prem. American Securities also indicate an improving tendency. United States Government 5-20 Bonds are 631 64 ; Erie Shares, 534 54 ; and Illinois, 81 82. In the Railway Share Market there has been very little animation, although North Western, Metropolitan, and Midland have each improved 55., and North London, 11; while Great Eastern, Great Northern A stock, and Great Western have each declined ss. The Foreign and Colonial lines are without material change. Grand Trunk of Canada have advanced 1, and Great Western of Canada e. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares continue dull, London and County being dealt in at 794 ; English Joint Stock, 13 ; London and Brazilian, 424 4 ; Na tional Discount Co., 16-2- y ; and Overend, Gurney, and Co., 184 19 ; Credit Foncier and Mobilier of England Old Shares are quoted 1 2 prem. ; Tasso Brazilian Gold, pm ; Leeds Woollen Extract and Spinning Co., 1 2 prem. ; North London, High gate, and Alexandra Park Railway Co., 14 pm. ; and Real Estate, 3 34 pm. r. 9. ;ended jnceS roness ttend- led by ;oubY, ay of Castle ; with ?rince d the ie re- Juno 8 dis 90_ A THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 10, 1865. SHARE MARKETS,—This Day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. 8 hare' Railways. I Paid.! Closing I Business Price. done.. Bilatol and Eiiter Caledonian Cambrian Cork and 8and0n...... Cornwall Dublin & Belfast June Dun„Perth, & eb.Jnna E.London, scrip Certi Do. Glasgow & S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. stk. Do. E. Angl. st. No. 2 Great North of Scotland Great Northern DJ. A stock • • 92 /4 127 29 94 96 12 14 6 6 67 7 ) 71 73 1127& 'l(9 11l 46 47 7 8 1281 129 148 149 Do. B stock. Do. New, Is. at 25 pm GtS, and W. of Ireland GL Weste. n -Original D . S. Val. Rail gua. Do. South Wales Do. W. Alid.—Oxford Do. Newport _ Do. Hereford..., 90 92 621 631 61 63 41 43 36 39 104 103 12! 122/ 88 90 IC4 106 37 39 50 62 124} 32 I 96 97 674 186 134 137 3 1 34 p 1 I/p 10! 104 Lammshire & Yorkshire L )ndon and Blackwall Lon.;Brigh., & S Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Do. Metrop. Ex. A Lon. & Nor th Western Lon. & South Western Man., Shet., & Lincoln Metropolitan Do. New Do Extension Metropolitan District Do do. do. 'Do. and John - eW'd Mid'and Do. 49 Share 125 1251 111 21 95 97 Do, Birmin Derby Slid Kent .• • • ....... North British _ _ 61 6! Do. Ed., Pth , & 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. 186.5 North Staffordshire N. & S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot. N. E , Aber. stock vo. Scot, Mid. stJck Shropshire Union South Devon South Eistern Staines, Wok., it Wok Taff Vale Do. C Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny Waterloo & Whiteha West Cornwall COLONIAL GO VEX British Columbia, 6 per cent., Dec. 31,1972 Can.Gov.6 p.c.Ja. & July 1877-b4 Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Aug Do. 5 p. c. Mar. & Sept 1)0. 5 p. c. Jan. & July Do. 5 p. c. inscribed 3 Gape Do.Apl. &Oct 18 1 3 0 r" l v Do. do: 1880-9 ,, Do. Jan. &July, 1690-91 Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and 15 Oct., 1900 Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p. c Do. 1878, do Mauritius, fi p. c, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1878 1 2 0 , I§§3t 1 1 1 445: 1 1 NC.T.:!I - qov. 6 per cent.. N. B. Gov. 6 p.c.Ja..t.) uly N. S.W. Gov. 5 p •c.., 1866' Do. 5 p.c. 18:1 to 187 t, Do. 5 P.c. 1888 to 1892 New Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 5 per cent.... Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. sterling, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6 p. C S. Aus.Gov. 6 p,c 1888-8, Do. 1878 & upwards Vic,Gov. 6 p.c. Ja & July Do. do, april & Oct BRIT! 100 all 100 100 100 OSSE, luo 100 100 all 100 100 100 100 2 100 00 'ME N 190 100 100 1( 0 100 100 68 60 102 103 fd ip 51 51 10 11 75 80 99 101 70 75 101 103 101 102 It 4 105 i VP 24k 25 88 89 66 69 58 62 57 s'd 51 52 45 5) 4 45 30 32 :8 30 1011 105, P P 95 97 93 95 93 95 81 83 81 83 1Q 105 102 104 1(3 105 90 92 IL2 IC4 109 111 102 104 104 tO6 18; 10 1(2 95 97 9) 101 93. 95 90 61 103 105 84 85 15 . 9) i4Bl } 125 41 5 97 137 i 1131 I 5 2 3 103 f f i IC4I 1 1 5 2461 30} 28# I_ll 5 11 I 1411 ,ITI/IS. 96j } 100 102 f 1034 4 LAW INTELLIGENCE.--This Day. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. (Sittings in :Banco, before the Lord Chief Baron, and Barons Bramwell, Channell, and Pigot.) BOUILLON T. VALENTIN. Mr. Sergeant Simon resumed his argument this morning against the rule for a new trial. The Chief Baron suggested that as there was other litigation proceeding in this case, some arrangement should be entered into in reference to the present motion. It was arranged that the further arguments in this casa should be postponed for a week. COURT OF DIVORCE. (Before Sir J. P. Wilde.) 'WILLEY V. WILLEY. This was a suit instituted by Sarah Willey, for a dis solution of marriage on the ground of her husband's adultery and cruelty, and the respondent traversed the allegations, and further pleaded condonation in regard to the cruelty. Dr. Swabey appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Sergeant O'Brien and another learned gentleman for the respondent. Sir J. P. Wilde said that this was a very bad case, and pronounced a decree nyi, with costs. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner ilolroyd.) IN RE LEWLNE AND MORRIS-HEAVY FAILURE-REMARK- ABLE CASE. __— These bankrupts were described as of Love-lane, East cheap, merchants, and, to-day was appointed for the last examination and order of discharge. The debts are £260,000, and the deficiency as large as £lOO,OOO. Mr. Reed, for the assignees, said this was a remarkable case, inasmuch as the debts were all contracted in two years and a half, and a report of the assignee showed that the bank rupts commenced capital in 1862 with £lO2 cash, and a sum due from a debtor in America of £BO9, and this, with other matters, raised their total capital to £1,002. The deficiency account showed a loss, through liabilities, of nearly £90,000. The assignee concluded by calling the at tention of the Commissioner to the fact of the bankrupts speculating upon such a small capital, and that there were practically no assets for the unsecured creditors. His Honour inquired what had beon the result of the in vestigation into the consignment accounts. Mr. Reed—Nothing but loss. Mr. Linklater—lt may be taken that all the consign ments show a loss. Lyon Lewin°, one of the bankrupts, was then examined, and he said—l was formerly a crinoline manufacturer in New York. I failed in Canada for £2,000 to £3,000, and then went to New York and joined a Mr. Jacobs. I had a capital of £l,lOO when I began business here. I lent my brother £BOO before I left America, and he sent me goods to sell. Hy brother had been in partnership with me in Canada, and we failed together. I made subse quently $4,000 in the crinoline business. I have been con signing goods to the amount of £84,000 since I have been in business here. I once sent him an invoice. He sent me an account of the sales by letters, wherein he informed me that there was a loss on some of the goods, and a large pro fit on the rest. Those letters had all been given up. I was engaged in bill transactions with Mr. Salomon, who has made an assignment. Mr. Reed—How do you explain launching out into these extraordinary transactions with a capital of only £lO3 ? Bankrupt—lt was £l,lOO, and I dealt very largely, but the transactions were not enormous, as the figures only reach £250,000. Mr. Morris, of Montreal, to whom we consigned goods, is a brother of my partner. He had four businesses, and sent home account sales. About five or six weeks before we stopped I sent my partner out to Nassau, some goods having been sent out previously. My partner was also going to Bombay, where I had sen goods upon which I obtained advances from the Agra Bank about two months before we failed. Mr. Harris, to whom I consigned goods, has failed. Messrs. Hoffman and Co. were merchants of Liverpool, and I consigned goods to them. They were running the blockade to Bermuda, and I let them have £lO,OOO worth of goods, upon which they let me have half. I claim the balance from them, but they claim a sum from me. I did not know they were engaged in running the blockade. I lost £3,600 in the Stock Ex change about four months before I failed. I lost all this money in one transaction. I bought shares in the Hamper Bank when they were at 10 premium. I did make other speculations in Bank shares, and lost all. I dealt in accommodation bills for the convenience of others. _ _ Mr. Reed then generally examined the bankrupt, being followed by Mr. Linklater, after which the Commissioner reserved his judgment. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS—This Day. Cvz 4CROFOra. tity of brass fittings, taps, hinges, and other articles the property of Mr. Clemence, builder, of Villiers-street, Strand ; and John Armstrong, a marine store-dealer, was indicted for receiving the same, well knowing it to have been stolen. Tho elder prisoner, it appeared, rented a vault under the Ado]phi-arches, and ono particular day last week ho was engaged sorting over a quantity of miscellaneous articles, amongst which were some pieces of rope which attracted the attention of the police. They saw some thing going on which they looked upon as suspicious and they afterwards went to the prisoner's shop, which was close to Mr. Clemence's, and there found a book with the name of the younger prisoner entered, as the dis poser of a very largo quantity of brass. in another part of the shop a vast collection of brass taps, hinges, locks, gas fittings, rope, pewter, and other articles in such a con dition with respect to use that they at once instituted inquiries respecting the seller, and found that he was a boy in the service of Mr. Clemence, and in moving further in the matter it was discovered that a large quan tity of metal articles had been stolen from his premises. The policeman then took possession of the shop, and on searching it found a large quantity of pewter and a num ber of broken publicans' measures, some of which had the engraving plainly upon them, which proved them to belong to Mr. Corby, of the Ship and Shovel public house, in Craven-court, near the Charing-cross Railway Station. Mr. Corbey said ho had never sold the measures as old metal, and that they must have been stolen by some person and sold to the prisoner. The lad Gordon was then taken into custody, and he at once admitted that he had taken a quantity of brass articles from the stock of Mr. Clemence, and that he had disposed of it as old metal at the shop of the prisoner Armstrong. He further said that he took the property in order to provide himself with the means of visiting various places of amusement. There were registered in the prisoner's book about thirty transactions with Gordon, and Mr. Clemence said the price given by the prisoner was much below the market value of the articles, which were in some instances worth three times as much as was given for them. The elder prisoner said his transactions with the lad wore all open and straightforward. He used to say he had been sent by his master to dispose of the metal, which was only lumber, and not of the slightest use. The lad Gordon, who pleaded guilty, was during the trial removed from the dock and placed in the witness-box to give evidence, but he merely repeated the statement he had made in the first instance. The prisoner Armstrong received a good character for honesty from a number of witnesses. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty of receiving the property knowing it to be stolen, but guilty of great neglect, the foreman of the jury remarking that they had had a doubt in their minds, and they had given the pri soner the benefit of it. The prisoner Gordon they recom mended to mercy on account of his youth. The prisoner, Armstrong, was again indicted for receiv ing some pewter pots, the property of Mr. Corby, well knowing them to have been stolen. The pots were found by the police whilst searching the prisoner's house. Mr. Corby identified the pots as being his property. The jury found him guilty. Mr. Metcalf, on behalf of the prisoner, asked that the fact that no witness had proved that prisoner was the per son who actually bought the article, might be reserved. The Assistant-Judge did not think there was anything to call for any departure from the usual course. His lord ship then asked whether the house kept by the prisoner was known to the police ? The constables said they had never had occasion to visit the place before, although they had some suspicions about it. The Assistant -Judge sentenced Gordon to six months' imprisonment. Sentence was deferred upon Armstrong. Destructive Fire. ---This Day. This morning a destructive fire broke out be tween the hours of five and six o'clock at the resi dence of Mr. Harris, Albert-street, St. George's road, Camberwell. The fire was discovered raging in the lower part of the house, and on the alarm being given Mr. Harris made his way for the stair case, but was beaten back by the flames, and as a last resource he tied a sheet to the bedpost and lowered his family out of the window. The Surrey Volunteer Fire Brigade from Hill-street, Peckham, was shortly on the spot, under the direc tion of Captain Irvine and Sergeant Curtis, but owing to the delay from the want of water and the disgraceful state of the St. George's-road, the house was burnt to the ground. Insured in the Atlas Fire Office. The Alta Californian says the preparations for the commencement of the United States Pacific Telegraph Company's line are completed, and in a few days a large force will commence operations. The new line will have a double wire upon a single set of poles from San Francisco to Fort Kearney, at which point the wires will diverge, one running to St. Louis and the other to Chicago. Tho total length of this line will be 3,270 miles, including both the St. Louis and Chicago branches, and 6,040 miles of wire will be required in its construction. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Thiz_Day. THAMES. SELLING BEER WITHOVT A LICENCE.—George Gerlock, a native of Germany, appeared before Mr. Partridge, upon an adjourned summons, charged with unlawfully selling beer without a licence in an old established public-house, called the Black Horse and Windmill, Fieldgate-street, White chapel, and which house has for many years been fre quented by natives of Germany. This was a proceeding instituted by Inspector Holloway, of the H division of police, by order of the Commissioners of Police. The defendant formerly kept a beer shop called the Jolly Sailor, in Whitechapel. Much disorder prevailed in the house, and the defendant was fined ..£5 and costs for permitting gambling in his beer house. A few weeks since the defendant agreed to purchase the good will and fixtures of the Black Horse and Wind mill public - house, and applied to Mr. Paget, one of the magistrates of the Thames Police court for au interim order of protection until there was a transfer day of the licensing magistrates t f the division, by whom the transfer from the old to the new tenant of the house can be made. The usual report ou the defendant's application was made by Inspector Holloway, and upon that report the magistrate refused to grant the defendant an order of protection. Gerlock, notwithstanding this, took possession of the Black Horse and Windmill, and acted as landlord in defiance of the law. A complaint was soon made against him by the police for suffering drunkenness, disorderly conduct, and fighting in his house, and a sum mons taken out for an infraction of the law, which was ordered to stand over until the present case was dispose of. On the 18th of last month, Inspector Holloway went to the Black Horse and Windmill, and saw the defendant acting as landlord there. The in spector told Gerlock he was doing wrong, and that he had no right to sell anything until the house was trans ferred to him. Gerlock took no notice of the warning. On the 20th of October Inspector Holloway went to the public-house again, in company with Archer, a constable, No. 101 H, and saw the defendant sell beer and receive the money for it. This was the specific offence charged. On the same evening Archer went alone to the house, and saw Gerlock sell gin, but, although the fact was proved, he was not charged with selling spirits without a license, and which offence, if legally charged, would have rendered him liable to a much larger penalty. A gentleman from the Inland Revenue-office proved that the lieense granted to a former occupier of the Black Ho-se and Windmill expired in the month of October last, and it had not been renewed. The evidence having been translated to Gerlock by Mr. Wentgen, an interpreter, he said he regularly bought the public-house of the former occupier, and paid a deposit. He took possession under the agreement, and, owing to the magistrate not having granted him protection, he was compelled to give up the house, and had lost the deposit money. Mr. Brown, a public-house appraiser, said the Black Horse and Windmill was sold to the defendant condition ally. Mr. Partridge said the defendant was not a fit and pro per person to keep a public-house in which good rule nod order was to be maintained. The defendant had violated the law with his eyes open, after he had been warned. The highest penalty was £2O, and the lowest £5. He should order the defendant to pay a fine of £lO. It was stated that the defendant had paid £5O deposit on the house, the whole of which he had forfeited. MARKETS—This Day. MARK-LANE. Fresh up to our market, to-day, the arrivals of English wheat were very moderate. The trade, however, ruled quiet ; nevertheless, the late advance in prices was well supported. There was only a moderate supply of foreign wheat on the stands. In most descriptions sales progressed slowly, at late rates. Floating cargoes of grain wore in request at extreme currencies. The market was more extensively supplied with barley. Most qualities of produce were in fair request at fully late rates. The malt trade was firm at quite Monday's currency. Oats were in good supply, but the supplies on offer almost entirely represented foreign produce. There was a fair demand for most qualities at full prices. Beans and peas were in short supply, and the trade ruled firm at extreme rates. Most descriptions of flour were in steady request at full quotations. SHIP ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. English and Scotch. 1720 3050 1480 530 1230 Irish Foreign B2lO 1540 The supply of meat on sale is moaerate. speaking, the trade is quiet, at our quotations : 37,680 40 sks. ed e d Inferior mutton * 6 4 2 Middling mutton 4 i 5 0 Prime do 5 2 5 6 Veal 4 0 6 0 Small pork. 5 4 6 0 d to Os Oct. Uenorzuly Per 81b by the carcase. sd s d Inferior beef 2 8 3 2 Middling do. 3 4 3 10 Prime large do 4 0 4 4 Prime small do 1 6 4 8 Large pork 4 4 5 2 Lamb, Cs 0, BOROUGH HOP. The market for good and fine hops is firm, at full quo. rations. Inferior hops are dull, at about previous rates. New Mid and East Kents Bos to 190 s per cwt. New Weald of Kents New Sussex Yearlings 958 to 135 s BRITISH P Atlantic & St. Lawrence Born., Baroda, Cen. In. gu. 5 per cent Do. F shares Buffalo & Lake Huron) Do ['reference Buft,Brant, & Goderich 6 p.c. 872-3- Calcutta & 8. E., lim ,ape Town & Dock, gu Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p! East. Ben..:al, gu., 5 do East Indian, gu. 5 p.c. Do. J Extension Grand Trunkot Canada Do. Equip. Mort. Bonds 1 charge 6 p.c Do. Ist Pref. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. 2d Pref. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. 3d Pref. stock Do. do. deferred Do. 4th Pref. stock Do. do. deterred "Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c I `o. Gua. 5 per cent Do. New gua. 5 p. c Gt. South of India gua. 5 per cent • ••• • • D , 41 per cent 1 Do Great Wes. of Canada 1 D. New .. Do. 6 p. c. Bds. pay. 1873 Do. 5,, do. pay. 1877-8 Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.o Do. 42 do Do. 4a do Do. Fifth Extension 3felb. Cor. 6 p. c. Mel. & Hudson's Bay N. 81. C'da, 6po lstpf.bs Scindo Da Delhi Do. do .1 4. Do. Puni aub e 5 .. 3 Do.lndus St. Flo, "" ICam. ConßoL told, lim Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated. Devon G. Cons. (Tavist Drakewalls 9 10 20 21 560 580 1 9 21 8 9 bf 1 :Si 1 . _ East Bassett (Mogan) cast Caradon East Cam Brea. Nast Grenville . East Gunnislake.. East Love.l E. W'i Russell (Tavistk Gam.& StA übyn(G ven. Gnat L (xey, limited Great South Tolgus Great Wheal busy... G. Wheal Vor (Heist `L Grenville Herod's Foot .... llingston Downs Margaret (Uny Lelant Marke Valley wwyndy Iron Ore, Hu, New Se ton .. North Roskear N.Wh'l Bassett (Mogan North Wheal Crotty Prosper united Pr,videnee Uny Lvlant S. Caradon (St. Cleer) South Condurrow S.Wheal Fran. (Illogan Stray Park Tin Croft Vigra and Cl gan, lim.. West l.assett (11togan W. Caradon (14 tskeard West Chirerton West Seton Wheal Bassett 'lllogan Wheal Buller (Redruth Wheal Mary Ann (Men Wheal Seton Wheal Ttelawney (Lis 2 4 20 21 2 4 41 35i ':64 24 3 39 41 41 51 6 8 3 3, 21 lt,cl 40 60 10 12 It 34 36 420 410 121 17. It. 12 19 20 5 6 10 12 80 85 175 185 75 80 12 24 4 6 190 210 18 19/ I'REFERENCE SHARES. Great Western, 4 per cent. irred.. 83 Midland, Leicester and Hitchin 4 per et_ 9) North Eastern, Cons. pref., 4 per cent., Ditto 41 per cent., rd., 99 North Eastern. G.N.E. 4 per cent. pref., 108 North Eastern, West Hartlepool Harbour and Rail., 821 South Eastern (Heading Anne., £1.0.6), 221 2 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Midland A and B £5 pf, 1061 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. London Tilbury, and Southend, 1021 Preston and Wyre, 424 FOREJGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 91 Great Luxembourg, 141 1 Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidin). 10/ Sambre and Meuse, 04] FOREIGN MINES, Cape Copper, Urn., 131 Frontino and Bolivia uold, lirn., 21 Mcnt. Aureos Brazil Gold Alin. Co., Washoe Gold, lim., 81 DOCKS. London and St. Katharine, i 791 BANKS. Agra and Misterman's, lim., 56 Alliance, 11w.. 311 Anglo Egyptian, lim., 131 Brazilian and Portuguese, lim.. gi British and Californian, lim., 5} Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 23 Eng ish Joint Stock, lira., 13 European Bank, lim., 12 Imperial Ottoman, 161 I Land Mortgage Bank of India, lim., 4} London and Brazilian dim.), 421 London and County, 791 London Joint Stock, 50i London and South African, 161 London and 11 estminster, 981 Merchant Bank, Ain 261 National Provincial of England, Ditto. 2d and 3cl issue, 45 Oriental Bank Corporation. 49} Oriental Commercial Bank, lim., late N. F., 21 Provincial of Ire!a,nd, 84f Scinde, PunjauO, and Delhi, 11m.. 51 MISCELLANEOUS. Atlantic Telegraph, B:per cent. gua.,2a commercial Union, I..suran,:e, Continental Union Gas, lim., Credit Foncier and Muni.lit r of migland, 81 Crystal Palace, 3 71 East India Irrigation and Canal. 8 i Gellivera, lim., 3 Gen. Credit and Finance of London. lira.. 6 Imperial .dercautile Credit A sso., um., 71 International Financial society, Joint Stock Discount, lim., 8a Land Securities, 1im.,;2/ London Financial Association, lim , 22 Mtliwail Freehold Land and Dock, bi 5 National Discount Company, lim., I 6) Ottoman Financial association, lim., S) Overend, Gurney, and Co., lim., 18& 9 Panama, New Zealand, and Australian Mail, lira., 7 Peninsula and Oriental steam, 791 , Royal Mall Steam, 117 Trinidad Petroleum, lim., 41 . Universal Marine, Insurance, 11m., 41 The Republic of Mexico, under Juarez, has ap plied to th© United States for a loan of thirty millions of dollars. The New York Herald says the loan will he Qpeedily taken up. 8 30 110 111 68 69 103 104 36 37 10 11 p' 119 121 )Vp 74 76 101 11 148 152 60 62 57 69 7, 8# 9# [49 151 3 4p [C2 105 50 52 ISSIONS 101 102 ie )71 3} 3 d i),6 18 85 Al 1 4d 101 102 93 95 88 90 64 66 82 84 1001 lOU tOCII 1011 icl LOO uni T SECU. COLONIAL. TEA.—A good business has been done in low and medium descriptions, at a slight advance on former rates. SUGAR.—A very small quantity has been offered at public sale, and the operations in the private market have also been limited, prices, in some instances, being a shade lower. COFFEE.— The demand for both plantation and native Ceylon bas been moderately active, and prices have re mained steady. Other descriptions remain at previous rates. RlCE.—There is a good demand, and holders continue to exact fully former prices. TALLOW.—There has been a better tone, and quotations 'r both present and forward delivery are a shade higher. Fatal Accident at Messrs. Rennie's. Yesterday (Thursday) Mr. W. Payne, coroner for London and Southwark, held an inquest at the Moonrakers, Great Suffolk-street, Borough, respect ing the death of George Barratt, aged 24, lately in the employ of Messrs. Rennie, of Greenwich, boiler maker. On Wednesday, the 25th ult., about two o'clock in the afternoon, the deceased was engaged with a fellow workmen, named William Pratt, in tighten ing a tube stay, £0 as to secure the plates together. They were using a spanner of six sides for screwing up the rivets, when suddenly the spanner slipped, both were knocked down, the spanner striking de ceased in the side. He appeared very ill, and pro ceeded home to his father's house in Wellington street, Blackfriars-road, where he described the accident. Eventually he was admitted to Guy's Hospital, where he expired on Saturday last. Mr. James Stocker, medical officer at Guy's Hos pital, said that when deceased was admitted he was affected with cough, accompanied with great pain, showing that he had inflammation of the lungs. He made no mention to witness, though he might to the nurse, about having received a blow. There was no bruise to be seen, or any mark of violence, and although the blow from the spanner, as de scribed, might have produced the inflammation and thus have caused the death, there was no proof of it from his examination of the body. Although the Coroner in his summing up inti mated that death was the result of accident, yet the jury returned a verdict of natural death. NATIONAL LIFEBOATINSTITUTION.—Mr. Brewster, the proprietor of one of the large concert-halls at Wolver hampton, gave a concert a few days ago in aid of the funds of the National Lifeboat Institution. The proceeds hap pily realised £25. Mr. Brewster made last year a. similar present to this truly national and• benevolent institution. THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS. --The weekly meeting of this institution will be resumed in the house in Great George-street, on Tuesday evening, the 14th inst., at 8 p.m., when a paper by Sir Charles Tilston Bright, M.P., M.1.C.E., "On the Telegraph to India, and its extension to Australia and China," will be read and discussed. BREAKFAST BEVERAGE. —Homceopathic practitioners, and the medical profession generally, recommend cocoa as being the most healthful of all beverages. When the doctrine of homceopathy was first introduced into this country, there were to be obtained no preparations of cocoa either attrac tive to the taste or acceptable to the stomach ; the nut was either supplied in the crude state, or so unskilfully manu factured as to obtain little notice. J. Epps, of London, homoeopathic chemist, was induced in the year 18.39 to turn his attention to this subje.t, and at length succeeded, with the assistance of elaborate machinery, in being the first to prodace an article pure in its composition, and so refined by the perf.et trituration it receives in the process it passes through, as to be most acceptable to the delicate stomach. For geucrsl use Epps' cocoa is distinatibhed as an invigo rating, grateful breakfast beverage, with a delicious arm' , Dr. Hassan in his work, "Food and its Adulterations," says—" Cocoa contains a great variety of important nutritive principles ; every ingredient necessary to the growth and sustenance of the body." Again, "As a nutritiv e, cocoa stands very much higher than either co ff ee or tea . " Direc tions : —Two teaspoonfuls of the powder in a breakfast cup, filled up with boiling water or milk. Secured in tin-lined i-lb , and lib. labelled packets, and sold at Is. Ocl. per lb. by grocers, confectioners, and chemists. H MINES. 2.1.0 2Y 2.14.0 3} 2.14.0 8.3.6 3.9.0 10.8.0 all 0.14.6 8.18.0 8.10.0 5.10.6 13.17.6 4.10.6 41 371 1.2.0 2.13. t 7.1.6 10.6.7 3.2.0 18.18.9 35.15.6 The Oil Regions of Pennsylvannia• (From the Special Correspondent of the Times.) OIL Crry, Oct. 24. Difficult to travel as are the roads of the oil regions in the most favourable weather, they are all but impassable during the rainy season and on the ap proach of winter. During the last few days there has been a rapid accumulation of mud, and a large party of excursionists from New York and other cities have found to their cost that explorations in the oil regions are not to be lightly undertaken, and cannot be made without serious discomfort and an exciting amount of risk and adventure. The coun try, too, at this time of the year is fast losing many of its natural charms. The deep and varied tints of the foliage are daily becoming more sombre and uniform in their colour, and the leaves which still cling tenaciously to the forest trees are comparatively few in number. A visit to Oil City even now will, however, be amply repaid to those who are desirous of examining minutely into the strange phenomena which are presented to view at this season of the year. The frosts of winter which seal up the sources of rivers, and which check the flow of water, also lock up the oil in its mysterious recesses. The mer cury in the thermometer, the rise and fall of the barometer, do not indicate with greater accuracy the change in the weather than does the rate of supply of the oil from the well. Strange and unaccountable as is the source of the supply of petroleum, it is even still more of a puzzle to account for the influence of temperature upon the - yields of the wells. Thetheo ries which are laid down with more or less of dog matism on every subject in Petrolia are numerous and irreconcilable in respect to the fluctuation of the yield of oil, and there is not an explanation offered, no matter how inconsistent with another, that is not certain to be falsified by actual facts within a few hours after it has been offered. A law of lawlessness prevails here, which it is hopeless to attempt to understand or explain. The daily experience of the petroleum industry has a most destructive influence upon all hitherto prevailing notions of natural philosophy. Beneath the earth crust of Pennsylvania water flows on the surface of oil, above the ground the relative positions are changed ; fresh water lies above salt water; brine mingles with oil ; and there is scarcely a fact applicable to one well which will serve as a guide for its neighbour. There is an amount of un certainty about all the operations connected with oil sinking which to the individual is most annoying, but which tested by the results in the aggregate passes into absolute certainty. Nine men may fail, but the tenth will win a prize that divided would be a fortune for each. The freaks of those oil wells which have been brought under my notice are very curious, and it is not improbable that many of the ventures which have been permanently abandoned, and much of the loss that has been sustained in seeking for oil, have resulted from temporary causes only,and from some of those sudden and unexpected results in which nature in her sportive mood seems to love to indulge. In some of the wells the flow oil will cease for 20 out of the 24 hours, and for the remainder of the time it will belch out at irregular intervals of a few minutes. Others of the wells work short time of six hours, and that only at night ; others, again, select midday as the hour for com mencing their labour; a third kind, as if solely for the purpose of vexing its enterprising owner, will supply for several hours in the day a constant yield of salt water, then it will rest altogether, and the hopes of the poor man who has ventured his all in the undertaking will sink within him, and then, when all seem dark and hopeless, the wells will smile upon him, and pour a stream of oil in the tanks, already full to the brim with the brine of a few hours previously. The Wild Cat well is sulky for 40 minutes at a time; it then spits forth a few drops of the precious liquid, then sulks for 20 minutes, foams and spurts again, and then gives forth the petroleum freely for about 10 minutes, and again goes her round of sulks and sullenness as before. The Wild Cat accompanies its yield of oil by a succession of sharp reports, as though the earth from the barrel again, are quiet in their work, ut Many orcuum-nraa and spurt as they discharge the oily fluid. Each well has its own peculiar characteristics, which are perfectly known to the attendants, and it is usual to apply to them terms such as would be used in de scribing the qualities of a horse or a dog. A well is " skittish," or "sulky ;" it is some times " fond," and often " clever ;" it is " libel al," and sometimes " elegant," and not unfrequently " real nice,"—a phrase which in America appears to combine everything that is good and desirable on this planet. Another very striking feature in connexion with this lawless ness of supply of oil is the uncertainty as to its precise locality. One instance brought to my know ledge was the case of an ever abundantly-flowing well, the yield of which naturally excited the cupidity of the owner of an adjoining piece of land. He ac cordingly commenced to bore within a few words of the well in the hope that he, too, might tap the great lake below, from which it was anticipated he would obtain equally satisfactory results. Far down below the depth of the yielding well the rival carried his tubes, but no oil rewarded his labours. Selecting a spot a few feet more distant, he tried again, but still with the same result ; a third time he tried another locality, and a third time a few drops only were ob- tained, and the further prosecution of the work was abandoned as hopeless. Again, two wells may•be struck close to each other, and to all appearance would derive their yield from a common source of supply ; but the one well produces its thousands, and the other only its score of barrels ; one of them will flow by fits and starts, the other will give forth a continuous stream ; one may run for years, the other may " give out" in a week. On the other hand, there are instances in which the experience obtained is exactly the reverse of the above. One great spring which yielded its 2,000 barrels per day was reached successfully by a rival, who carried off nearly the whole of the supply. But, curiously enough, the manager of the first well found that by Withdrawing one of his tubes he could arrest the flow to his neighbour's tanks, and a similar discovery was mado by the manager of the second well. Each held a key to the treasures below, each was cogni zant of the power of the other to regulate or stop the supply, and ultimately a treaty of peace was signed by the belligerents, and the yield of the two wells was shared in a proportion agreed upon. In some cases small lagoons of rock-enclosed oil is reached by different sets of tubes, and the sound of the drilling of the one may be heard through the tubes of the other ; but one only will draw the oil, and the other will have brine or gas only as the reward of his labour. The extent to which the brine or salt water and the oil are found in common is another of the seven wonders of Petrolia ; a score at least of theories, more or less abstruse, showing more or less of a superficial knowledge of the geolo gical structure of the place, but each and all op posed to one or more facts, are propounded as ac counting for this mixture of oil and water. It is singularly amusing to hear the adventurers and possessors of oil wells discuss with each other the action o vast geological epochs, the formation of limestone and conglomerates, and carbonaceous ingredients, and to hear them enforce their argu- ments by illustrations of wells in some particular locality where the experience obtained was exactly the opposite of that of some other well. It would indeed be a valuable contribution to the science of geology if some inquiry were set on foot by a com petent and able commission to collect facts and data upon which reliance might be placed as a means of arriving ultimately at some sound decision respecting the origin, the conditions, and the extent of this remarkable source of natural wealth. Such an inquiry might result in showing that in certain kinds of stratification petroleum might b er e fairly ex pected to be met with, a nd many psons would then be induced to search for, and probably to find, in other countries similarly valuable deposits of this useful material. At the present season of the year it would be most interesting to trace, if not the effect, at least the coincidence, of a diminished yield of oil with a falling temperature. The generally received idea of the temperature of the earth increasing in a certain ratio with the depth is not supported by the experience of Petrolia, inasmuch_ as the oil brought up from the greatest depths has a lower temperature than that obtained ........ nearer to the surface. Then it appears to be a well-established fact that the wells do not yield so much in winter as in summer ; that they are, in fact, peculiarly sensitive to the influences of heat and cold. Some of the wells differ in the yield to the extent of 20 and 50 per cent., while in some the supply altogether ceases. Some of the managers explain this diminished yield by the fact that a greater quantity of solid 'paraffine is found during the cold weather; that this, clogging the inside of the tubes, diminishes the area through which the oil has to pass ; that the deficiency is not, in fact, due to the well, ')ut rather to the capa city for its delivery on the surface. This explana tion, however, like so many on the subject of petro leum, will not hold water, for owners, anxious to extract as much as possible from the wells, have a r l e l tu ti b i e e d o t b h s e t m : euscu i t n li to.ln ns winter, or taken steps to r e move of th t e he dak prararffiecneses,esb:,thewrie oil is with no satisfactory found nature will take her rest, and though six or seven hundred feet below the surface, where snow and frost are supreme, still by some mysterious sympathy she feels thei r i n fl uence, doles out her treasures with a niggard hand, or seals up the reser voirs of oil until a more congenial season. The oil wells are not merely sensitive to the extremes of cold, but they are affected by meteorological influ ences to an extent which would be scarcely credible were there not so many cases on record to justify the assertion. Twenty-four hours before a cold rain or a snow storm that unfailing barometer, the oil well, is tur a e ff is ec n te i f t on A ly c r h e a c n o g r e de o d f , w b, ind or ,t fall of predicted. t T emp he er ' ain fluence of the change is felt in the depths of the well long before it is known on the surface of the earth. The column of petroleum in the tube of the oil well rises and falls, is slack or abundant, precisely as the readings of the barometer indicate rain or storm. In spite - of every effort which is made to keep up the temperature at the upper portion of the tube, and to exclude all atmospheric influences, the yield is still affected by these changes. One well, which in summer gave forth 100 barrels per day, in winter yielded only 20 ; in another the decrease was from 85 to 10 barrels ; a third of which I was informed fell off from 300 to an average yield of 50 ; but in these, as in several other wells which were men tioned, the supply recovered in summer to the old standard. Subject to these fluctuations caused by temperature and change of weather, in the face of so much uncertainty in attaining the oil, and with the full knowledge of the short-lived existence of a flowing or pumping well, the work of explor ing and prospecting still goes on with unabated energy. The supply of oil is not diminished over the whole area, though many individual wells have long since " given out." New districts are constantly being added to Petrolia, where fortunate men. " strike ile," and find themselves millionaires who but yesterday were all but penniless adventurers. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day. LIVERPOOL RACES—Tuis DAY. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. HANDICAP. East Lynn Skylark Jane Shore 3 Nine ran. LIVERPOOL CUP. Elland • Windham Sidewind Eighteen ran.—Winner objected to for crossing. HURDLE RACE. Benazct Jacob Cutler 3 Five ran. WHIT EFIELD NURSERY. Venturesome 1 Kenilworth 2 Carnizette 3 Sei•en ran. SELLING NURSERY. Rama 1 Venturer Sauey Boy Ri, rnn. LATEST DETTING ON THE t)Utjtio.L. LIVERPOOL CUP. sto 1 agst Elland (taken) 6to 1 agst Bendigo (taken) SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day. LONDON, Nov. 10.—Wind :this day at noon—North_ westerly; moderate breeze, and fine weather, but rather cloudy. CLYDE ) Nov. 9.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Tearless, from Bahia. SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 9.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Douro, steamer, for Brazils. KINGROAD, Nov. B.—Wind S.—Arrived—Bessy Parker, from St. John's, N.B. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. i GRAVESEND, Friday Morning. Arrived—Curtis, from Cronstadt ; Lightning from Go thenburg ; Elliner, from Koningsberg ; Scandelhaven, from Frederickstadt. Sailed Triton, from Boulogne ; Lord John Russell, steamer, for Dunkirk. DEAL, Friday Morning. Passed, Nov. 9—Victoria, from London, for Rangoon. Passed—H.M.S. Bristol, from Shields, for Portsmouth ; Forester, for Demerara; Citizen, screw steamer, for Bordeaux— both for London. Bank of England Return,•--Last Evening.;] An Account, pursuant to tl cap. 32, for the week ending LBSUE DEP . Notes issued ......X27,219,3801 £27,219,3601 BANKING D rroprietors' Capi tal £14,553.000 fleet Public Deposits (in cluding Exche quer, Savings' Banks, COMMlfl misbioners of Na tional llFbt, and , Dividend Ac counts) 4,838,861 Other Deposits 13,148,786 Seven Day and other Bills 522,221 £3F,299,503 Nov. 9, 1865. he Act 7th and Bth Victoria, Wednesday, Nov. 8, 1865. ARTMENT, Government Debt £11,015,160 Other Securities .. 3,634,vG0 Gold Coin & Bullion 12,569,380 Silver Bullion .... £27,2.9,350 , k; PARTMENT. 1 Government Senn- rities (including Dead W eightAn unity) Other Securities Notes Gold and Silver 736,8U7 Coln .£36,299,605 '. MILLER, Chief Cashier. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Bouthampton Nov. 18. Mvarardeille: Capeßraz D il it a t i o A via ßritish packet Nov. 12. Dec. 4.; Nov. China, Penang, k g : e n Verde , , s ' packet y Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. lielena Nov. 21. and Singapore. via Southampton—Nov. 18 Ditto, via Marseilles. Nov. 12. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton .......... . .......... . Nov. 11. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.... Nov. 18. . . Nov. 12. Ditto, via Marseilles ....... .. ................. India (Bombay), via Southampt on...... " Nov. 11. Ditto, via Marseilles .......... . Nov. 20. Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, v ia Marseille'. ......................... ov. 6. Newfoundland ..... . .................... .... Nov 21. Portugal ...................................... " Deo 4. Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon U n ited States and Brit ish North America, by Bri tish packet ........................ • ..Nov. 16. Ditto, by United States packet, via SOutbarap _ t0n........ ........... Ditto, ria Cork .... Ditto, by Canad ian p acket, via Lon donderry..Ncv. 17. W e st Coast of Afrlca..llladeira, and Teneriffe Nov. 10. Wes t Indies and Pacific (except Baham as, Cuba, .. __ and Mexico B a hamas, via New York. Nov. 16 B er muda, ditto Nov. I'2. Cuba and Mexico Nov. 28. FURTHER CALAMITIES TO LIVERPOOL SHIPS wheat, Tidings of addition a l di sasters to shipping connected with Liverpool cam e t o h an d yester d ay. The brig Mar garet Jane (R wasodg ( Rodgers ), ) e , r t bound aken fromw twith a Santander vien tn nn ti, tost storm e with 0 28th ult., and struck on the rocks of Magoiro, near Etel. Her helm became useless, and the waves broke over her With such terrible fury that the crew (six in number) had to mount the rigging for refuge. After remaining there for some time they attempted to reach the land by swimming. The captain and two men succeeded in doing so, but the remaining four were drowned. The brig afterwards went to pieces. Several other disasters are reported, but no fur ther loss of life. A WATER SPO UT.--A large water spout was obseryod off Worthing a few days ago. It took an easterly direction, and the sea in its course was in violent com motion. ilr. Vales, ;rland r the ester, right [CC of Oner a the l utrY 1 the vholc 1 the anal rnber have Bon. ,s of itlee —Tha ,God L one no tto roof eSta tiler° 3tter 3 stan ❑gs. hat- reet, the •nns the with TO 'S g ird seSt LlBB, an d the the