The Sun. — London, England, 1865-08-31 00:00:00

OMMllliw''T ONEy MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. No alteration has been made this morning by the authorities of the Bank of England in their rate of discount. Very few commercial bills aro on offei, and, as money is abundant, the rates are easy at 31 and 3 i per cent. Exceptional operations are also reported at 3f per cent. t The l as t week ' s railway receipts ascertained up o this day are in round figures as under : GreatlB6s. 1864 Western south-1V stern .. £76 469 .£75,294 North Western • • • • •• • • 124 , 603 119,699 *** 28'266 27 797 .1 3 right on *** 24 , 458 23,732 Midland :••• *** ••• 51,926' 50,444 South Easte;ll •.:: 30032 28,376 Great Northern 38,189 34,668 ancashire and Yorkshire ... 47,305 45,247 liTßristol and ••• 7,803 7,668 rth Eastern Exeter.. •••. ••• 74,551 71,904 , anchester Sheffie • ld, and Lincoln • .. 20,509 18,686 ureE t t Eastern : 33,444 31,663 These returns, when compared with those of the corresponding period of last year, are generally of a s atisfactory character. 'On the Great Western there is an increase of £1,175 ; on the North Wes tern of £4,904 ; on the South Western of £469 ; on B righton of £726 ; on the Midland of £1,782 ; on tile South E as t ern o f £1 , 656 ; on th e G reat N ort h ern O p f £3,521 ; on th e L ancas hi re an d Y or k s hi re o f v 42,0 58 ; on the B r i s t o l an d Exete r o f £135 ; on th e Orth Eastern of £2,647 ; on the Manchester, Mend and Lincoln of £1,825 ; and on the Great as of £1,781. Two o'CLocic. At the Paris Bourse this morning, according to Ite uter's telegram , the 3 per Cent. Rentes were est 65 e. Firm. The English Stock Market has been less steady, and a fractional decline has taken place in values. T he improvement established at the close of bum -488 yesterday afternoon induced sales to-day, and Consols are now quoted 89/ 1 for money and ac count, and 901 for October. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 894 90 ; Exchequer Bills 3s. • to par ; India 5 per Cents., 104. The Foreign Stock Market has shown increased *lllness, and in many instances an advance has been recorded. Turkish Consolides are 481 1; Mexican, 234 24 ; the New Loan, 22* 231 ; Clreek, 20i 4 ; Spanish Passive, 291 30 ; th e Cer tificates, 14i j ; Italian, 641 ; and the Con federate Loan, 7 9. Aniericau Securities also show a tendency to b ill P r ovement. United Stat e s G overnmen t 5-20 Bonds are 68; 691 ; and Erie Shares, 53 tine the Railway Share Mark e t b us i ness h as con rather active, and prices h ave g enera lly Wown increased firmness. Great Eastern, Great est ern, Lancashire and Yorkshire, and North ' !stern, have each improved ss. ; and Metro and South-Eastern, each 108. T he Foreign a n d Colonial undertakings in most insta nces., maintain previous rates. I ° B .llk and Miscellaneous Shares have been in ! )e ' d request, and prices have shown an upward s, cl ement. Alliance are dealt i n at 31/ 321-; o%tered of India, Australia, and China, at 491 London and County, at 78 ; London sfinancial, at 23 1 ; and Peninsular and Oriental t,, " a ro, at 77. of T he following are the current quotations of some t .. 44 Principal new undertakings :--The New Issue T ° °,ooo P re f erence Sh ares o f £5 eac h o f th e Atlan c'Telegraph, 21 2/ per share ; Northern Assam T f , 4 Company's Shares, 1 dis. prem. ; Chubwa dis. prem. ; London-bridge Land, 2 1 ; Albert-bridge, 1 1+ prem. ; London Jute L ongo ' -1 prem.; M' Queen Brothers, 1 2 prem.; m ( l' 4°ll Quays, 1 dis. par ; British India Trust Q.,, i ,_ • Ageney Corporan, 1 1+ prem. ; Overend, 'eY, and Company tio , 31 31 prem. B RITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. 8 Q° TRNNIENT FUNDS. Do ce nt , Consols 89* 90 . Account, Sept. 7 2iper Cent. Reduced B9f 90 4:w 3 per Cent' 9O 891 Z o 2 k Per Cent. Jan. 1894 — A • per Cent. Jan. 1873 — DollaUities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885. — 1; (Bed Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 37-di par ellequer Bills, £1,000,3 dr 31 per Cent £5OO — Bank o. £lOO ax,cl ,C9OO 250 Do °f En land Stock, 51 per Cent 'Jo Acc 3 t ' — In4o oun ,i 10 GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. I.7o!l4.etcooc u k il lei per Cent., AprillB74 — _ Do. Ac er Cent. July, 1870 _ .;.count t-0: kpo rt r ifi C ea e t n e t s ., Oct. 1888 89 1- I ° . Bnfaced Paper 4 per Cent `l)°. ° per Cent., Jan. 1872 "(,°. 6 i per Cont., May 1879 — " N o. 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 — -.,'0. Bonds, £l,OOO — 4.10. under £l,OOO F OREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Atist ri b an Bonds, 5 per C en t, 1859 -1. ,,z,"-ilian 5 per Cent uo. 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Do. 1863 B uenos, Ayres 6 per Cent Cho 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) °a'4l 6 per Cent n,. 9 per Cent BO 0-°;_oinbian 6 per Cent. j'i ll ua l 6 per Cent. Do a nish 3 per Cent., 1825 1,. 4 per Cent., 1863 — D 8 7 0 . 6 per rincip Cent.,alities 1773-77, L 25 paid — 80i Du b an P •uO. Account E uo 486. paid gp O ador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — 7-., P rovisional Land W arran t — 13ti a° 7 per C e nt 9Bl °.) Second I ssue 1 , Do. 1864 95/ 65i I I (4-. JO 4100 Bonds Creek . 5 Per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons t„ Account 2Ol ,„"?. Coupons — t r° . i .afa 5 per Cent. _ ftkii;,„ l •° 3 6 and 1850 b. o l aa Per Cent (Maremmana Railway) _— D o ° D o Scrip, £671 paid Ix; „,,Per Cent., 1864 — kel;' ' e rflo. £55 paid Do, Aec ll 3 ou penr Cent 1 4 i' ,„ D o 23 ...., 06 1864 „., I„Per Scrip glo 41,.04„.j,ench Ex. 25f 20c . 4 1 0 '''''luean 6`per Cent., £3O paid li °riß h Ira 6; 1 sper Cent el, G.. _ perm l) o 2"ad — 11, ,Per Cent — " - u,efer red parLlAlld Warrants (Hectares) D 'R 'til 4 1 per Cent D o -er fP, £45 paid, paid in Bonds a I), 4 Per Cent. (Uribarren) — P D o / Per Cent., 1862 o rii i . e colint D 3 : l Ille " 3 per Cent., 1853 o 4e count Do, doer Cent. 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, 47} 7 I ttlis°:apunt ' D B O l-11 u Per Cent ., 1822, £St 94 D o l i Per Cent 1850 . 8891 D o ~Pez Cent. 1859 — D o p Per Cent., 1860 b o , Par Cent. 1862 1),„11.') per Cent. 1864 — D o 18 , 113 Per Cent 13111400:4::N:4:6ce.°Zuutunetiferred 471 1 D 0 assiv e I., ati c' i, A b e colint 20i 30 I) -A' C o unt 20i Coup not funded — 3 l'v 17), `' c eount Ir lBll 4 per o ~ ,k Cent D c ount — Tti rki ° B 4 l, 4 Per Cent. 1864 DoD . i i . l6 Per Cent. 1854 — e e coluat 941 D o , Per C ent. 1858 ) ' e cot 0 0 •E l OO B uno dg 1 )0 • 6 1 per & 1 Tit —Bo grr Cent. 1862 D o ° o liut .. ,„ „g , ........................... 7t. 1 ai I 4i uo 6 v uonds D o 5 „Nr C ent, 1863 7l b o L•rer Cent. 1865 IA --.(00 Th_ nds --Jo s e 44f D o r, I ll; X 35 •d ~o„,__ pai jertezuranteed, 4 per Cent 991 1 , Do G ''`a 3 Per Cent oo: per Cent 1864 4l/ 2 4-ccount ' Anst i . ; Ivi dends on the above payabla in London. kiel 441, 6 Per C , Ex. Florins 1 , ga n, A , en,., lO uut c h 2 ,'i Per cent., Ex. 25f. 1) 0 l' Per Cent., Ex, 12 Gull — eP ' 4 r e r C t • .' .. r_, en • Certificaies — ':4l ntes, 41 Per Cent. — Italißoa Z'A-ceount ..... ........................ — Account Per Cent., 1861 E 25f --- ' x. ' 641 THREE O'CLOCK. 00 B 4 s 0 °.1s4°cc:Milt SHARE 'his day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Share/ Railways. r,;,3 . 1 Closing Business -`' Price. done. Bir., Wol., Str. Val Myth and Tyne Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Corn wall Do. A (A gets no div. Do. D been paid to B Dublin & Belfast Junc. Dun,,Perth, & z b.J unc. Edinburgh & Glasgow Glasgow & S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. stk. Do. E. Ang,l. st No. Great north of Scotland Great Northern D. A stock Do. B do Do. j. , .'evir. is. at 25 pm GtS. and W. of Ireland Gt. Western -Original Il S. Val. Rail gua. Do. South Wales .... Do. W. Mid.—Oxford Do. Newport Do. - Hereford Lancashire &Yorkshire Landon and Blackwall Lon., Brig - h., & S Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western Man., Shot., & Lincoln Maryport and Carlisle Do. a shares .. Metropolitan.... Do. New Mid:and Do, Birmin.. & Derby Mid. Gt. W., Ireland Do. shares slid Kent North British Do. Ed., Pth ,"& Dun. Nth. Eastern - Berwick Do. G.N •E purchase Do. Leeds Do. York Do. Carlisle Do. Stock. & Darling De. do. 1855-58 Do. do. 180-61 North London Do. New Do. do. 1864 North Staffordshire N. & S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot. N. E . Aber. stock Do. Scot, Mid. stack shrews & Welchpool Shropshire Union South Devon ;south Eastern Staines, Wok., do Wok Taff Vale Do. C Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.&R Do. A irredeemable Do. A redeemable BRITISH P Atlantic & St. Lawrence Born., Baroda, fi Cen.ln. gu. 5 per cent Do. shares Buffalo & Lake Huron Do Preference Buff.,Brant,& Goderich 6 p.c. bds. Auz. 1, 872 Do. do. July 1, 1873 Do. do. June I, 1374 Calcutta & t". E., Urn ape Town & Dock, gu Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p , East. 13en,al, gu., 5 do East I Aran, gu. 5 p.c. Do J Extension Grand Trunk of Canad Do. Equip. Mort. Bond. 1 charge 6 p.c Do. Ist , 'ref. Bonds Do do. deferred Do. 2d Pr, f. Bonds Do. do. deli rred Do. d Pref. stock Do. do. deferred Do. 4th Pref. stock Do. do. delerred Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c. o. Qua. 5 per cent , Do. New gua. 5 p. c Gt. South of India (lim ' gua. 5 per cent D . 41 per cent Do Great W. s. of Canada.. Do. New Do. 6 p. c. B&. pay 1873 t , o. 5, do. pay. 1877-8 Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.c Do. 41 do Do. 43 do Do. Fifth Extension Melb. Cor. 6 p. c. Bnds. Mel. & Hudson's Bay New Brunswick & Can Class A and B !kl.l{l.C'da, pc Ist pf, bds Scinde Do. Delhi '‘ Do. do Do. Puniaub 1 Do.lndus St Flo; 1 3. 14- la It 11 11 2 30 32 470 490 15 2.) 13 15 17i 181 6i 7t. 10 12 75 8•) 170 180 75 80 28 30 4 6 95 2CO 17 18 ::'1111;r1,;11ENCE SHA.kiEb. Great Western, 5 per cent., rd. pf., 103 (it,Western, Wt. Illidland, Oxford 2d guaranteed stock, 120 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. London, Brighton. Sic., 4f per cent., 1858, 97f 8} Metropolitan 5 per cent., 106 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Northern and Eastern, 5 per cent., 43 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San Francisco gua. 7 percent,, 14} Paris and Orleans, 34i FOREIGN MINES, Frontino and Bolivia Gold, lim., 3f Mcnt. Attreos Brazil Gold Min.iCo., RAN KS. Agra and Masterman's, lim., 58 Albion, 81 Alliance. Jim.. 31i # Ditto, issued at 20 pm., of which 20 is paid., 251 Australasia, 761 Ditto, new, 75 Barned's Bank, lim. 5 British and Californian, lim., 5 British North American, 46 1 Chartered Bank of India, Australia. and China, 271 Chartered Aler. of India, London, and China, 60 ivh Commercial Bank of India and the East, 26 Consolidated Bank, lim., 101 1 English, Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 21 European Bank, 1irn.,12 Hindustan, China, and Japan, i1m.;201 Ditto, issued at 2 pm., Ditto, new, 15 14 Imperial Ottoman, 151 '1 Land Mortgage Bank of India, lim., 41 London.and Count', 78 London and South African, 181 19. Merchant Bank, lim., 27 Mercantile and Exchange. lim., 5j Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, lim., 15f Standard of British South Africa, Ditto, new, 5 Union of London, 54 MISCELLANEOUS. Atlantic Telegraph, 8 per cent. gua., 2} City Offices, Um., 5 Consolidated Discount, lira., 51 Credit Fonder and Mubilier of England, 81 1 1 / Crystal Palace, 39i Ebbw Vale, 131 Egyptian Com. and Trading, Rm., n Gen. Credit and Finance of London, inn., 5g,1 Hudson's Bay, 16 Imperial mercantile Credit Asso., lira.. sk 1 International Financial -'ociety, lira., 61 1 Interational a.and Credit. him, 7} 1 Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour 12 111 !Ditto, 6 per cent. Bonds, redem. 1870, issued 90, 841 Joint Stock Discount, lira.. 81 Land Securities, I .m., 3 , London Financial Association, lira. , 23 London ~general Omnibus Company, 31 Marine Investment, lira , Millwall Freehold I..and and Dock, lira , 2 1 Milwall Iron Works. 5i Now_;ong Tea, lira., Overend, Gurney, and Co., lira., 101 1 Penin-ula and Oriental Steam, 77 Ditto, new, 53 Rio de Janeiro City Improve . nents, Em., 23 Ditto ( el , , 8 Smith, Knight, and Co., lira., 7 Uuiveroal Marine, Insurance, lira., 51 100 100 100 100 100 OSSE COLONIAL GO VERNMEN British Columbia, 6 per cent., Dec. 31,1572 Can. Gov. 6 p.c.Ja.& July 1877-84 Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Aug 1) sp. c. Mar. & Sept. Do. sp. c. Jan.. July Do. 5 p. c. Inscribed sk Cape G.llope, 6 p.c. 1873 Do. April & Oct. 1880-4 Do. do' 1890-1 Do. Jan. & July, 1891 Ceylon, Nov. 1868,6 p. c Do. 1878, do Mauritius, 6 p. o, 1873, Jan. and July Do. Iq7B Do isp .• ,ov. 6 per cent N. B. Gov. 6 p.c.Ja.&July N. S.W. Gov. 5 ire., 1866 Do. 5 p c. 18:1 to 1876 • ____ . Do. 5 P.c. 1888 to 1894 New Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 6 per cent Nova &Ala Gov. 6 p. c sterling, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6 p. c 8. Aus.Gov. 6 p,o 18684+ Do. 1878 & upwards Vic,Gov. 6 p.c. J a &July Do. do, A pril & Oct BRITL Cam. Consol. Gold, lim Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated Devon G. Cons. (Tavist Drake walls East Bassett (Illogan) East Caradon ast Carn Brea East Grenville East Loved E. W'l Russell (Tavistk Gam. & StA übyn(G wen . Gnat L ixey, limited Great South Tolgus G. Wheal Vor (lielst Grenville Elerod's Foot •••• Elingston Downs Margaret (Tiny Lelant Marke Valley Mwyndy Iron Ore, lim Nangiles New Se ton North Downs North Roskear N.Wh'l Bassett (Mogan North Wheal Crotty Prosper United Pr. ,vid enee Uny Ls] ant S. Caradon (St. Cleer) S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan Stray Park Tin Croft West Bassett (Illogan W. Caradon (Ltskeard West Chiverton West Seton Wheal Bassett 'lllogan Wheal Buller (Redruth whea Ludoutt Wheal Mary Ann (Men Wheal Seton Wheal Trelawney (IA& Wheal Uni 190 100 100 10 100 100 'SIT M 37/ 4.2.0 2.8.0 7.1.6 10.6.7 11 18.18.9 30.17.6 474 54 16 3.12.8 rHE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 31, 1865. LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Befcre Mr. Registrar Brougham) Xi RE HON. GEORGINA AI:GT:STA PREDERICA HENRIETTA CATEINDISR BENTINCK. This bankrupt was described as a spinster, of 5, Green street, Grosvenor-square, to-day being appointed for the first meeting. The cause of the bankruptcy is said to be the loss of a sum of money lent to the late Dowager Lady Rivers, and insufficiency of income to maintain the ion. Miss Bentiuck's position in life. The debts are nearly £1,700, Lady Clare being a creditor for £6O, and the claims on the proceedings being made by a long list of West-end tradesmen, to the extent of nearly .EICO. The debts were proved, and a day named for the next meeting POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET ROBBERY or VASES OF THE VALUE OF £5OO BY A SER VANT.—Martin Van Asain, servant to the Hon. Mr. Wm. Rashleigh, of No. 31, Hill-street, Grosvenor-square, was charged before Mr. Mansfield, by Inspector Williamson, of the Detective Department, Scotland-yard, with stealing two silver vases, of the value of £5OO. Mr. James Guffen said—l was formerly butler to the Hon. Mr. Rashleigh, of Hill-street, and the prisoner was in the same service. I placed the two silver vases produced (most beautiful works of art) into the strong room. One of the vases is entitled the " Triumph of Neptune." I had no idea the articles were gone till I was about to leave, and then, when looking over the plate to see if it was cor rect, I missed the vases. The prisoner was the under footman, and had no right to interfere with the articles. The portions produced are those of the other vase which has been broken up. Mrs. Kelly, 19, Chester-place, Kennington, said—The prisoner called at her house last Thursday week, and said he had come from Paris, and expected a friend to call the next day. He brought a large box with him containing the articles produced. He left without paying for his lodg ing, leaving the box behind, and she then looked into it and saw what it contained. A few days afterwards he wrote from ,Liverpool, requesting her to send the boxes there. Inspector Williamson—On Friday last, from what I had heard I went to Chester-place, Kennington, and there found a large black box containing the property produced. I afterwards : , rent to Liverpool and saw the prisoner at the railway station. I told him I had come to arrest him for stealing plate from the Hon. W. Rashleigh. Ile said " Very well," and suddenly made his escape. He was recaptured, and after a desperate resistance, it requiring four or five other constables to take him, he was secured. Mr. Guffen—l wish to state that on the day the articles were missed the prisoner made an excuse that he was ill and could not go out with the carriage. In the course of the afternoon of that day the prisoner absconded. Inspector Williamson—Some of the pieces of the vase which has been broken with a pair of pincers have been melted. Tho prisoner—l did not take the vases front the plate room, but from off a barrel in another place. Mr. Mansfield committed him for trial. WESTMINSTER. A FEMALE DETECTIVE.—John Butler and John Fitz morris, two boys of between 14 and 1G years of age, were placed at the bar, charged with being found in en unoccu pied house for an unlawful purpose. Mary Hickson, wife of Police-constable James Hickson, 91 13, said that she and her husband were taking care of 51, Sutherland-street, Pimlico. At half-past 7 this morning she thought she heard a noise in 49, also an untenanted house, next door to her, aud, on listening more attentively, she became convinced of the fact. She then hastened to the front door, and looking over the area railings of 49, saw one of the prisoners standing near the cellar door, who immediately exclaimed to the other who was inside the house " fie are caught," and then Butler came out by the window. Both prisoners then rushed up the steps to get away, when witness seized Butler and bold him. He endea voured to effect his escape and struggled hard, but she still retained him until she got assistance, and he was taken to the station house. Butler exclaimed—Let me speak, your worship. I only went down the area to help him. Fitzmorris—l went there, your worship, to change my shirt, it was so dirty. Mr. Selfe—What ! put a clean shirt on in a cellar ? Fitzmorris—Yes, your worship, I often does. Mr. Selfe—And have somebody to assist you in the operation ? James Hickson, 91 B, said that between seven and eight this morning his wife called out " Thieves in 49," when he hastened to the front door. His wife was holding Butler, and he pursued and captured Fitz.norris, and took him in Clarendon-street. On searching Butler a sharp knife and sack were found upon him. Mr. Selfe—ls anything known of either of them ? A policeman—Butler was in custody a short time ago for pot stealing, and committed. Another policeman—He was also charged a short time ago with being found in an area. Butler's mother—lt was entirely an accident, your wor ship, through his not having anything in his inside. Mr. Selfe—That made him inside the area ? The mother—Yes, your worship; he was seized with a giddiness in the head through faintness, and slipped into the area. arr. ne went down an area to help his friend to put on a clean shirt, with a sharp knife and a sack. Policeman—llse has been long well known to the police. Mr. Selfe—What is known of Fitzmorris ? Policeman—He is about commonly with young thieves. Mr. Selfe—Butler, 1 have no doubt you are becoming a professed thief. You are committed for three months with hard labour. Fitzmorris (the younger by two years) is remanded, in order to see whether he cannot be got into a reformatory. The Death of William Aytoun, The following singularly beautiful, touching, and eloquent tribute to the memory of Professor Aytoun —a paper adorning, and yet saddening, the newly published number of " Maga" for September —will be perused not without emotion by the readers of Black wood's Magazine the wide world over ! It is a tribute in every way worthy at once of Aytoun and of Blackwood : It will not be expected that a new number of this maga zine should appear without our attempting to express, how ever inadequately, our deep grief and infinite regret for the loss we have sustained by the death of William Edmond stoune Aytoun. Carried off in the prime of life, in the midst of a brilliant, useful, and prosperous career, and in the enjoyment of the utmost domestic happiness, he leaves a blank which will not soon be supplied in the hearts of those who possessed his friendship, and in the number— now, alas ! too limited—of the men of genius and literary power of which his country could boast. For ourselves, we have to lament his loss upon a double ground ; as a most faithful and valued literary auxiliary, and as a friend bound to us by the strongest ties of dear and familiar intimacy. It is with difficulty that we can command our feelings so as to record with any regularity of method the few facts in his life which it seems proper here to notice. He was born in June, 1813, and bad thus at his death in August, 1865, completed his fifty-second year. On both sides of his house he was well descended and well con nected. His father, who was a writer to the signet, and the partner of an eminent firm in that profession, died when Aytoun was comparatively young. His mother lived to a great age, and died only a few years ago. She was an ex cellent example of an old Scottish lady, and from her ten dencies and traditions her son derived much of his early and enduring predilections for the Cavalier cause. He was a most attached son and brother, and his mother and sisters repaid his affection by the strongest feelings which an only son and brother could inspire. Ho was educated at the Edinburgh Ac . ademy, and went through the usual curriculum at the University, of which he was destined to become so distinguished an ornament. He afterwards studie . d for some time in Germany, where he acquired that love and knowledge of German literature of which his writings contain so many proofs. He passed as a writer to the signet, but soon saw that this was not his appropriate sphere, and in 1840 he was called to the Scottish Bar. He practised for a time with some success, particularly in criminal causes, and regularly attended the Western Circuit. His literary propensities, however, were too strong to bo repressed. He became well known among his cenipanions for various successful jeux d'esprit, as well as for compositions of a more serious kind, both in verse and prose. Ho furnished at this thus several contributions to Dait's Magazine, whore, in con junction with a congenial collaborateur, his early friend, Theodore Martin, he began the " Bon Gaultier Ballads," which now form the best and most popular collection that exists of that kind of composition. In 1839 his connection with this magazine commenced, and we venture to say with a feeling of pride which we trust will not be thought unbecoming, that he found here a peculiarly fit and favourable field for the exercise of his great and varied powers. These soon began to be appre ciated; but " The Burial-March of Dundee," and " Charles Edward at Versailles," which were published in the Maga zine in 1843, were the first things that made him known as a true poet, and from that time his reputation, and, it may be added, his powers of literary execution, continued steadily to increase. Shortly after this, th© railway mania attained the alarm. ing height which caused so serious a crisis in that form of speculation. Aytoun had seen in the circle of his own acquaintance a good dual of the ruinous effects which fell upon thoso " who," as ho used to express it, " were out in :he 'Forty-five' of the present century ;" and his refec• tions on this disastrous madness led him to attempt an antidote. In October, 1845, there appeared in the Maga zine his celebrated paper, " How we got up the Glen mutchkin." The picture there presented was not only a most amusing piece of comic writing, but a true represen tation of the ousting evils, and a powerful and most useful satire upon the parties concerned in them. We have reason to believe, from good authority, that the treticle had a marked effect at the time in moderating the frantic specu lations of the period, and "The Glenmutchkin" has ever since been a byword for denouncing those desperate enter prises that are undertaken upon no solid ground, and pro moted by an atrocious system of exaggeration and false hood. "The Glenmutchkin" was followed by many sketches of social life conceived and executed in the same happy vein of combined humour and good sense ; but it was not easy to find-another subject so fortunate or so popular. In the beginning of 1848 the Magazine contained the poem of "Edinburgh after Flodden," an admirable compo sition, and the best, perhaps, of that collection of lays on which Mr. Aytoun's permanent reputation is most likely to stand. We cannot help thinking that, with the single exception of Sir Walter Scott's ballads, this volume ex hibits by far the best and truest specimens of this peculiar and difficult form of poetry that have ever appeared from the pen of an individual writer. We have now before us a list of the various papers he contributed to our pages from the year 1839 to the time of his death. They amount in number to snore than a hun dred and twenty, and we cannot look over the catalogue without admiration of the diversity of subjects which they them. For we have no hosit a ti on !IL ...v. which produced his papers were carelessly Thrown off, but that in all of them he put his heart conscientiously into his work, and laboured to give it as much completeness and efficiency as it was in his power to bestow. It would be endless to notice the various departments of writing in which he excelled, though we may take an opportunity hereafter to attempt a review and estimate of the best things that ho wrote. We cannot, however, re frain from looking back with peculiar satisfaction to the political papers which he contributed in the year 1850, with reference in particular to the matters then agitated in connection with agricultuial interests. They seemed to us, at the time, to state with singular power and ability the case which the farmers brought forward; and we know that some of the best judges of the subject, who had no leanings in favour of " protection," considered them to be unanswered and unanswerable. if the :cause there ad vocated was to have been won, we are certain that those articles would have contributed largely to the victory. The questions then at issue are now set at rest ; but we continue to think that the grounds which the Protec tionists thus took were rested on fairness and equity, and such as they had no reason to be ashamed of occupying, whether as claimants for justice or as lovers of their country. In 1845, Mr. Aytoun had been appointed Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in the University of Edin burgh. This Chair had been occupied by very distin guished men beforo him ; but it was his peculiar merit to make it more practically instructive than it had ever pre- Tiously been. He began with a class of about 30 students, and ended with haying upwards of 150—a result which wo think is to bo ascribed, not perhaps to any superiority of his lectures over those of his predecessors, but to his great popularity with his students, arising from two different causes ; the one, his streng2,:sympathy with their youthful tortes and aspirations ; and the other, the unwearied in dustry with which he laboured to train them to the art of composition, by his strict ;examination and diligent cor rection of the papers and essays given in by them. This must have been an irksome as well as an inglorious task, but he considered it to be a duty imposed on him by his position, and he reaped the appropriate fruits of it by his great success and eminence as a literary teacher. In 1849 he married Jane, the youngest daughter of Pro: fessor Wilson, a most amiable lady, with whom he en joyed ten years of great domestic happiness, checkered only by her languid state of health, and clouded at last by her death in 1859. In 1852 he was made Sheriff of Orkney and Shetland, and devoted himself with his habitual earnestness and assiduity to the duties of his office. He usually passed a considerab l .e portion of the summer months in the islands that composed his Sheriffdom, and his death i s d eep l y lamented by all those over whom he was thus placed. The death of his gentle and affectionate wif e was a severe affliction to him, and for a long while his h ea l t h and spirits were e ol s a e t r i i o o n ; u sly an a d ffe it ote l\ d ,as by a it. Time, impleea to his friends , sure however, brought when, in December 1 863 , he marr ied bliss Kinnear, with whose near relatives, the Balfours of Trennabie, in Ork ney, he had long been intimate. This also was a most happy union, and his health seemed fora ti me t o b e re gaining its original vigour. Durin g last winter, however, bad symptoms appeared, and fears began to be entertained that some serious constitutional malady was undermining his frame. He complained of great weakness and languor, and felt labour of any kind to be irksome. Still he was in good spirits, particularly when he met with any friend ; and in the beginning of:June he went with Mrs. Aytoun;to Blackhills, a pleasant retreatnear Elgin, of which he had taken a lease for summer quarters. The accounts received of him after he went to llonyslure were not satisfactory, but no immediate danger was apprehended. We think it may be interesting to ou r rea d ers to see the way in which he speaks of himself and hi s s t a t e o f health in the last letter which we re cei ved from hi m , d a t e d a t Blackhills, on the 14th of Jily, 1865 : "Dr. Ross, from whose treatment I have received great benefit during the fortnight he has attended me, is per emptory against my working my brain until I am physi cally stronger ; and I am pie sure he is r i g ht , f or a f ew days ago the mere effort of flailing rhymes for some maca ronic verses I had commenced, wearied me in a w a y I pre viously would have deemed inc redible. However, I am, thank God, much better than liwas ; and h av i ng, as f ar as discoverable, no organic.com?litint, I may hope, with care and perseverance in a generous diet, to get back my strength. As regards the 'toms of the druggist I am parcus cultor of infrequens' taking nothing beyond a solution of iron ; but, en revinche, I am put upon a most liberal allowance of animal fod, brandy, and claret. "I have abandoned the ido, of going down to the islands in the mean time, and shall I jit off my visit until a much later period of the season. I shall hope to bo able to take the hill on the 12th of Augist, and would be seriously who WAS over part of grieved if prevented, for my keeper, the ground on Monday, gives an excellent account of the young broods ; and I have purveyed me a steady white pony—flomine Missy, which name I have elevated into that of ' the Muse'—well adapted for trotting through the heather. Do you think you could coma down here for that sport ? I need not say how joyfully you will be wel comed ; and I can assure you that there are few prettier or more enjoyable places to be found in the north of Scotland than this same residence of Blackhills. The range of grouse ground is very fair, but the extent of the low country shooting is immense ; and though partridges have not been very plentiful in the district for some years, there are hares enough to excite to frenzy the scalping instincts of a Choctaw. Think of this ; for I certainly shall not migrate southwards this year until summoned by the ap proaching exigencies of the session." These cheerful anticipations were not to be realised. His disease latterly made rapid progress, and he gradually sank under it, and tranquilly expired on the 4th of August, retaining the full possession of his faculties to the last, and calmly contemplating with the most pious resig nation his approaching end. His life altogether was a successful and happy one. Its success he owed to an unusual combination of genius, industry, and prudence ; and its happiness to his bright and genial temperament and equable temper. It was always a pleasure to'be with him, as will be acknowledged by every one who remembers him as a travelling or a social companion. The little tours that he made from time to time on the Continent formed often the subject of pleasant articles in the magazine, but they were not so pleasant on paper as they were in reality to those who had the good fortune to be his fellow-travellers. His domestic affections were of the warmest and most engaging kind, and the friendships that he formed were equally cordial and lasting. It is to ourselves a source of great though melancholy pleasure to look back on our long intercourse with him, which was never interrupted by any difference of opinion or estrangement of feeling. It is rare, indeed, that the relations of business become a source of so ranch heartfelt pleasure and familiar inti macy ; and we cannot think without painful emotion that all this happiness is at an end. It was erroneously supposed in some quarters that Mr. Aytoun occupied the position of Editor of this magazine. Indeed, it seems difficult to persuade our friends at a dis tance of what is well known to those nearer at hand, that the proprietors of this magazine have never since its commencement, now nearly half a century ago, devolved upon others the powers or responsibilities of an editor. To this system, perhaps, they owe it that the magazine has preserved a uniform consistency of aim and purpose ; and that, while warm in its advocacy of great views and principles, it has avoided those petty partisanships and predilections from which it is so difficult for an ordinary editor to keep free. We cannot close this short and imperfect notice without adding a statement which we think due alike to the me mory of the deceased and to the cause of true religion, at a time when so much laxity and false liberality prevail upon serious subjects. Mr. Aytoun was a sincere and humble Christian. At no time in his most joyous moments of jocularity did anything fall from his lips or from his pen that was irreverent, or in any way at variance with reli gious views ; and his last moments were soothed by par taking of the Holy Communion, administered to him by the excellent pastor who represented in his neighbourhood the Episcopal Church of Scotland, of which Mr. Ay town was always a devoted and exemplary, though never a bigoted, adherent. The letter to ourselves, from which we have already made an extract, contains another pas sage expressive of his firm reliance on the one sure foun dation of Christian hope ; and we only refrain from quot ing the last words that ho thus addressed to us, from an unwillingness to obtrude our private 'griefs upon public notice. We fuel that no apology is due to our readers for what we have now said. They cannot fail to lament with us the extinction of a bright light, from which they long derived such varied pleasure ; and to those who had not the privilego of Mr. Aytoun's personal acquaintance, it must be a satisfaction to learn that so great literary gifts were united with so many amiable qualities and so much solid worth. THAMES. DRUICXENNESS Ox RAILWAYS.—John Singleton, a young man, who said he was by trade a cutler and at present a telegraph agent, was brought before Mr. Paget charged with being drunk and disorderly at the Shadwoll Station of the London and Blackwall Railway. Last night the prisoner alighted at Shadwell from a carriage of the down train, which left Fenchurch-street at half-past 7 o'clock. He was drunk and very noisy, and he refused to deliver his ticket when it was asked for. On the ticket collectors attempting to detain him he became very disorderly, and tried to make his escape from them. They detained him, and then to prevent accidents to per sons on their way to and from the trains, made an attempt to remove him from the railway station to the police sta tion house. He resisted this, and made use of foul language and expressions. His struggles were most desperate, and he kicked, plunged, and shouted like one that was raving mad. Some glass was broken in the affray, and one col lector named Charles G. Fisher was severely cut. Another collector named Frederick Smith was also injured. The prisoner said he was very sorry ; he was drunk and had no recollection of what took place. Mr. Paget should like to know how and by what means a drunken man was allowed to travel on the Blackwall Rail way ? Fisher, a collector—lt is probable he got some friend to purchase a ticket for him, or escaped the notice of the money-taker who issued the tickets at Fenchurch-street. Positive orders have been given by the company not to allow drunken persons on the railway, and to remove them from the stations on the line. Mr. Paget said it was a duty incumbent on all railway companies not to allow a drunken man or woman to receive a ticket, or to travel in any carriage on their lines. He had ,seen the inconvenience, annoyance, and danger of drunken persons being allowed to travel on railways. A short time since ho saw a drunken sailor fall between the platform and a train of carriages about to be put in motion. Another moment he would have been killed, and the scene was appalling. That was not on the Blackwall Rail way, certainly. He had seen on anothet- railway platform in the country a drunken blackguard stagger against a child and push it on the railway as a train was approach ing. The most strict regulations should be enforced to prevent drunken persons having a ticket or travelling on any pretence whatever. Drunkenness on railways was attended with the greatest danger and trouble. In this case the prisoner had disturbed the business on the Black wall Railway, and occupied the whole staff at one station in preventing him doing harm. He acquitted the prisoner of any desire to defraud the company, because his ticket issued at Fenchurch-street was found upon him, but he should fine the prisoner 20s. for being drunk at the Shad well Railway station. The sum of £55,000 in gold was taken to the Bank yesterday. The Seine, from the West Indies, has brought £337,370 in specie. The British and Californian Banking Comdany (Limited).have announced an ad interim dividend of 4s. per share for the half-year anding the 30th of June. THE LATE ASSAULT AT AN EASTBOURNE HOTEL. —The llailsham magistrates have refused to continue the licence of the Anchor Hotel, Eastbourne, to Richard Hughes, the landlord, who was lately charged with assaulting Mr. Pratt, a doorkeeper of the House of Commons. It appeared that Hughes had formerly been fined £5 for assaulting a young man who bad come to take his father's dead body from the house.—Briiikton Guardian. METROPOLITAN BENEFIT SOCIETIES' ASYLUM, BALL'S-POND.—The 71st half-yearly meeting of this society was held at Salter's Hotel, Victoria-street, on Friday last. The auditors' report showed that the present balance-in-hand account of the Endowment Fund was £7,227, and that of the Building Fund £32 14s. 4d. There are at the present time 36 inmates enjoying the comforts of this benevolent institution. The report of the committee was adopted, and it was stated that the present amount realized by a sermon preached by the Rev. J. Spurgeon (father of the celebrated C. 11. Spurgeon) was more than £4O. Various resolutions were discussed and agreed to relating to the future well-being of the asylum, and after a vote of thanks to the chairman the meeting separated. South-Eastern Railway. HALF-YEARLY MEETING.—(THIS I)AY.) The ordinary half-yearly meeting of the shareholders and directors of this company was held to-day at the Bridge House Hotel, London-bridge. James Byng, Esq., chairman of the board of directors, presided. Tho report (which has already appeared in The Sun) having been taken as read, The CHAIRMAN rose to move the formal resolution for its adoption. He congratulated the proprietors generally on the fact that the receipts for the half-year ending the 31st of July, 1865, had been in excess of those of the cor responding:period:of 1864 to the amount of £33,540 6s. 2d, The statement of expenditure on revenue account showed that the ordinary working expenses during the half-year had amounted to £'266895 9s. 4d. ; the rates, taxes, tolls, and Government duty, to £43,633 10s. Bd. ; and the work ing of the steam-packet service, to £13,994 2s. 10d. After providing for the fixed charges against revenue, there remained a net balance of £111,012 9s. ld. available for dividend on the ordinary consolidated stock of the com pany. A dividend at the rate of 2i per cent. per annum would absorb a sum of £95,252 10s. 10d., leaving a balance to be carried forward of £15,759 18s. 3d. ; and that rate of dividend /.4 ( iAlia/440 UP6'2 ll Walidit9olilitily'gra t r tui the directors thought it right to recommend that it should be reserved to meet claims for compensation arising out of the calamitous accident which happened at Staplehurst in June last. The works on the direct line to Ton bridge were progressing satisfactorily, and the entire work, it was confidently anticipated, would be com pleted by next year. The City station was also rapidly advancing, and that also it was fully expected would be available for traffic at the opening of the ensuing year. The passing by Parliament of a competing line for the company's traffic at Godstone and Tonbridge Wells would demand the serious attention of the directors ; and the traffic arrangement with the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway had worked so favourably, that the direc tors felt quite justified in recommending it for the confir mation of the proprietors. With respect to the City terminus extension of the Charing Cross Railway the works were all being pressed forward. The bridge over the Thames was rapidly advancing, and the station in Cannon-street was not far from completion. The report was adopted, and the dividends were ordered ,o be paid on the 11th of September. The meeting was then made special for the purpose of considering and affirming certain agreements with the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, and the London and North Western, and other business matters. MARKETS—This Day. METROPOLITAN CATTLE. The supply of beasts on sale at our market to-day was only moderate, whilst the quality of the stock was very middling. Good and prime breeds consequently changed hands at the extreme rates of Monday, viz., from 5s to 5s 6d per 81bs. ; otherwise the beef trade ruled quiet, at Monday's currency. The market was moderately supplied with sheep, the trade for which was firm, at full prices. The general top figure was 6s 8d per 81bs. The few lambs on offer sold at about late rates. The trade for veal was steady, at full quotations. Pork ruled firm, and prime small porkers were rather dearer than on Monday. Per 81b to sink the offal. s de d Crse. & inf. beasts... 3 0 4 0 Second quality do ..4 2 4 10 Prime large oxen ..5 0 5 2 Prime Scuts, &c.... 5 4 5 6 Crse. and inf. sheep. 4 6 5 0 Second quality do ..5 2 5 8 s ds d Pmecrs-wool sheep 5 10 6 2 Prime s'thdowd d 0.6 4 6 8 La , ge coarse calves. 4 4 4 10 Prime small d0......5 0 5 4 Large hogs .4 0 4 6 Small porkers 4 8 5 2 Lambe....6s Od to 7s Od. Suckling calves, 19a to 23s ; and quarter-old store pigs, 25a to 3Ca each. Head of stock on sale. Total supply. Foreign supply. Beasts 1,03) Beasts 6lO Cows l3O Cows. Sheep and lambs B,l t.O Sheep and lambs Calves 520 Ca yes 303 rigs 3:10 Pigs .. ........ _ The Attempted Murder and Suicide in Westminster. At three o'clock this afternoon, the man Shaunessey, under the care of the surgeons at 'Westminster Hospital, was going on very favourably. The wound in the throat, although there is much inflammation, is not likely to prove fatal. The female also is going on so well that a fatal result in her case is not now anticipated. Detector's Revelations of Quacks and Quackery. Having driven the nail well home by his " Reve lations," Detector, otherwise Mr. F. B. Courtenay, has here effectually clinched it in his Second Edi tion, with an " Addenda." He had already hurled the vagabonds down, so to speak, into the gutter bordering the public highroad : and he now contents himself with fairly smothering them in the mire of their own dirty facts and cases, of their own nefarious practices and disgusting publications. It required some pluck to have anything at all to do with such a set of rogues, even in the way of meting out to them the deadliest punishment of all, meaning thereby the punishment of exposure. But Detector has done his work, here, bravely and well—he has spoken right out—he has entered from the first uncompromisingly upon the untemptingJand unsavoury task which he had, with so signal a self-abnegation, set himself to accomplish ! Set ting himself about its accomplishment, in effect, not only with a determination to call a spade a spade, but with a determination also to use it resolutely, wheresoever it might be deemed needful, in the effec tual cleansing out, namely, of those fouler Cloaca, the haunts of Quacks and Quackery ! Before Detector began his raid against the evil-doers and against the evil system which they had set on foot and were encouraging with such fearful success to them selves and with such pernicious consequences to many members of the general community—the atro city he has since laid bare was already notorious. It stank in the public nostrils. It was blatantly au dible and brazenly visible, to the right hand and to the left. There was no gainsaying the fact of its existence. And yet—granting all this—Until De tector put a sharp point to his pen and dipped it into that searing ink of his of a gall and bitterness doubly distilled—Until he had fairly written the Quacks down, lower even than Dogberry wanted to be written down by the Sexton, namely, not only as Asses, of a densely illiterate stupidity, but as Sneaks and Bullies to boot, as Swindlers and Extortioners of the most degraded character imaginable—Until De tector had done all this the Quacks were virtually un denounced, they were certainly in no way formally charged with their iniquities ! Quackery until then, in fact, drove its villanous trade triumphantly in the very midst of us. For what he has done, there fore, actually done, in his capacity as Detector- General of Quacks and Quackery, we take Mr. Courtenay to be nothing less than a Public Bene factor. His exposure of the rascals has been com plete and most effectual. lle has stripped them not simply of a mask or a domino, but of the whole of their disguises : and, afterwards, taking into his " honest hand" a " Whip" like that apostrophised by Emelia in the play, he has relieved his own over wrought feelings and those we arc sure of very many others besides, by " lashing the rascals naked through the world," through our own noisy, babbling world, that is, of Vanity Fair ! The additional Facts and Cases he has here brought together in the form of the " Addenda," appended to this Second Edition of his " Revelations," are as telling, as pungent, as acrid we might even say, as any with which the vaga bonds were, some months ago, pelted by him in the original Revelations themselves. The Pamphlet as it now stands—in its entirety—consisting as it now does, that is to say, of Revelations and Addenda combined—is for all the world like the application to a most foul and loathsome ulcer, now of the knife, now of the cautery ! MEAT MARKETS. - -------- - NEWGATE AND LEADENRALL.—The trade, on the whole, is steady, at the following prices :—Beef, from 2s 8d to 4s 8d ; mutton, 4s Od to 5s 8d ; veal, 4s Od to 6s Od ; and pork, 3s 10d to 5s 4d per 81b by the carcase. SOUTHALL, Aug. 30.—The trade is firm for all good and prime stock. Beef, from 3s Od to 5s 8d; mutton, 4s 6d to 6s 8d ; veal, 4s 4d to 5s 4d ; and pork, 3s 6d to 5s 2d per 81bs. to sink the offal. ROMFORD, Aug. 30.—There was a steady trade doing to-day as follows :—Beef, from 3s 4d to 58 4d; mutton, 4s 6d to 6s 8d ; lamb, Os Od to Os 011 ; veal, 4s Od to 5s 2d; pork, 38 6d to 5s 2d per 81b. Suckling calves, 18s to 20s ; quarter old store pigs, 22s to 28s; and mulch cows £l7 Os to £l9 each. HAY MARKETS - - - SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £4 15s to £6 Os; clover, £5 to £7 ; and straw, £1 16s to £2 2s per load. Trado steady. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, £5 Os to £6 2s Gs; clover, £5 Os to £7 Os ; and straw, £1 18s to £2 5s per load. A firm trade. WitrrEcitArEL.---31eadow hay, ..£4. 15s to £6 Os; clover £5 5s to £7 Os ; and straw, £ 1 16 s to £2 2s per load A fair demand. • Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. Market continues steady. Sales, 10,000 bales. A chamois has just been born in the Menagerie of the Zoological Garden at Dresden. Such a circum stance, the Cologne Gazette states, had not occurred before, except at Chambery in 1855. A synagogue is about to be opened in St. Peters burg. Gunsburg, the Jewish banker, has given 70,000 roubles towards this object. Letters from Odessa confirm the intelligence that the harvest will be bad in many districts of Southern Russia. S 4 $6 134 135 6 6 63 (5 16 17 110 112 465 471 73 8j 131 132 149 JP 126 129 86 48 681 67; 63 65 45 47 40 45 105 107 1191 120 88 90 103 105 3i 10 123/ 124-1 96J 974 1 57 18 1356 131 i 3 llu 128} 1281, 98 100 561 67.1 23 16 1101 1101, 69 70 103 103 j 37i 38} - -p 10 11 p 121 123 1i p 2 76 78 11 12 159 151 68 60 , 55 57 81 62 84 94 152 155 3 1p 104 106 49- 51 ISIONS. 56 68 101 102 pr ip 4 44 9 10 99 101 70 75 100 102 1011 102} 1( 3 104 I tp 17i 18, E 8 90 64 66 51 60 56 SB 50 52 43 46 38 42 25 /7 24 36 103 104 P P 1001 1011 11/ 12k 8 Bid 0 92 82 64 1 6d 101 102 95 07 9) 92 64 66 82 81 00 WI .00 101 i i d 00 101 T SECUR: 97 98 95 97 98 100 81 85 82 84 103 105 106 108 108 110 106 108 1(3 105 109 111 103 1(5 107 tOR 102 104 95 97 94 101 93 95 90 91 103 105 85 86 98 100 102 103 106 108 109 110 INES. 9 10 22 24 560 680 44 I 131 i6li 50i 49 07 i 6j i 7 120 19f 1 104 f 974$ & 4 3/ 57f 13C1 761 6 129 k 811 111 10& 104 3 81 Sti I I :22 i } ITIES. The Murder Near Lisburn. On Monday, Mr. Ward, coroner for the county Down, held an adjourned inquest into the circumstances connected with the murder of a young lad named Thomas Graham, who was brutally shot at Ballymacbrennan on the morning of the 11th. Since the frightful occurrence took place the police have been most assidous in their inquiries, with a view to the discovery of the murderer, and although the information they have gleaned is not such as positively to attach the guilt to any person, the suspicion is strong, alinost amounting to a moral certainty, that the peruetplor who some yeats ago was transported, chiefly on the evidence of the lad Graham's father, at whom, it is believed, the gun was fired, for having stolen a sheep, the property of a farmer named Wilson, residing at Ballymacbrennan. A number of witnesses were examined, who deposed to having, on the morning of the occurrence, seen a per son answering to the description of Logue pass along the road in the direction of Belfast. It appears that the per son alluded to went about nine o'clock on the morning in question to the residence of a farmer named William Moore, of Ballyleeson, by whom he was employed to assist in shearing, at the low rate of 6d. a day. Here he remained for four days. He was always asking what was the news, and was partially anxious to see the newspapers. I should state he gave his name as William Shaw when he went to Moore's ; and when the murder was mentioned in conversation, especially at meal hours, he said he knew Logue, whom he represented to be an awful headstrong fellow. Suspicion fell upon him ; and Mrs. Moore was ao unfavourably impressed with his appearance that she would not allow him to sleep in the dwelling house. Ha was ac commodated with a bed in the barn. Mrs. Moore said—l remember that on the morning of the murder a man came into our house. It was between 9 and 10 o'clock when he came in. He was employed by my hus band as a shearer. He stayed from Friday till Tuesday. I looked at him when he came in with suspicion. I did not like his look. My husband engaged him at 6d. a day. When I found he was engaged, I said he should not sleep in the house, but that he might sleep outside. He was put into the barn to sleep. I used to listen to the talk at meal times and in the evenings. I heard him say that Logue was an awful fellow, and that ho was a headstrong fellow. I asked Shaw (for such he gave as his name)what he would shoot the young fellow for, and he replied, "Graham swore to the rope when Logue was transported." I under stood that the rope he referred to was the one that was round the sheep. I hoard him say another day that a farmer named Carson had sworn against Logue, and had given him a bad character at the trial. Carson's stacks and houses were since burned. He said Carson was a bad man, and that Logue would have a " hop" at him yet. I then said, " How would he have a hop at him ?" "Oh !" says he, "he will wait till the dark winter nights come in." I do not remember whether he said it was Logue that shot the boy or not. He seemed afraid of the police. They were going past one evening, and he would not go out. He was always asking about the news of the murder. One night he said he had been fined by the Rev. Mr. Mansell in is. 6d. for throwing bullets on the road. He was working in our house as " Bill Shaw." That attracted my attention, and I asked Mr. Monsell if it was a man named Bill Shaw he fined, and he said it was John Logue. He also said that he and his party put stones on the road to throw at Mr. Monsell's horses on his way home from Hilaborough, as revenge for fining him. I asked Mr. Monsell about that too, and he remembered it, and said that it wasLogue he fined. He left our house very suddenly. My son said to him one evening, "Bill, I'll tell the police there is a stranger here," and that night he went away. He took two shirts out of my wash tub and a reaping hook with him. One of my sons saw a letter with him addressed to a person in Lisburn. He also felt shot in a parcel which he had, and he saw a pair of sugar-tongs broken in three pieces. He wrote on ono of the doors that I was a rascal. The letter and sugar tongs, it is hoped, will enable the police to discover the whereabouts of Logue, who was lost sight of a few miles from Lisburn, going in the direction of Ballinderry. A man named John Leathem, who belongs to Portadown, was arrested on suspicion, on Saturday evening at Ballinderry, but was discharged by order of the coroner, there being nothing to criminate him. The account he gave of himself was that, when arrested, he was going home from Crowe Hill, where ho was assisting a friend to pull flax. A nephew of Mr. Graham's, named George Kearney, was ar rested in Glynn on suspicion, but was discharged. The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown.—Dublin Express. TILE LATE QUAKER CASE.-A worthy member of the Society of Friends at Manchester was much scandalised on reading in the papers that Mr. Joseph Carson took off his hat on the second occasion of his appearance before Mr. Baron Bramwell, as a juryman at Liverpool. He therefore wrote to Mr. Carson himself ou the subject, and received the following reply :—" Respected friend,-- I have just received thy letter, and may inform thee that 1 did not appear in court uncovered, as stated in the papers, my hat having been removed and taken away by an officer of the court. It was also stated in the public prints that I addressed the judge as My lord,'—also an error, as I could not conscientiously thus address any human being. I much regret that the circumstance has been so incorrectly brought before the public mind ; but I am favoured with the feeling of peace from the conviction that I have acted in accordance with my conscience and principles through out.—Thy friend, JOSEPH CARSON." THIRD EDMON. SUN OFFICE, 7 O'CLOCK. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE —This Day. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. DERBY RACES-THIS DAY. HARRINGTO'N STAKES. Squire Life Guardsman Cairngoram BEAUFORT CUP. Queen of Trumps Cutaway liapunda Five ran. INNKEEPERS' PLATE. Crisis Cantharides .. 2 MOIRA HANDICAP. Lady Bohun Beadl e - 1 2 General H ess 3 Four ran. WEYMOUTH RACES---THIS DAY. TRIAL HANDICAP, A. D. Wagner Wee Aggie Loaf Sugar 3 Four ran. PORTLAND PLATE. May Queen 1 Searbro' Kathleen ................................................ The above are the only telegrams received up to the hour of going to press. We shall give a complete list in a later edition. Another Forgery of Russian Bank Notes. Late this afternoon five foreigners were placed before the magistrate at the Lambeth Police-court, charged with being in possession of a largo quantity of forged Russian bank-notes for five roubles each. The prisoners were ap prehended by Inspector James Thomson, of the Detective Police, and Sergeant Mulvany, at a house in Russell-street, Camberwell New-road. The men were found sitting in a room, and when the police entered they secured a carpet bag, in which the forged notes were dis covered. Mr. Herd, an employe of the Russian Consul in England, proved that the notes were forgeries, and that they had been struck from a plate which was very coarsely executed. The police also found in the house a box containing a quantity of engravers' tools. The solicitor who appeared for the prisoners denled that they knew anything of the contents of the bag which had been left there by other persons. Inspector Thomson said he should be prepared on another occasion with evidence which ho thought would bring home the charge to some of the prisoners, and therefore he applied for a remand, which was granted. The magistrate, however, said ho would take bail in £2OO for each of the prisoners, with the exception of the occupier of the apzv:tment in which the forged notes were found. In the present instazco the notes are quite distinct from the case now under investigation at the Marlborough-street Police-court, which, it will be recollected, were for i 7,0 roubles each, and were struck by the photographic pro cess. The Shenandoah.—Great Destruction of American Whalers. ~----- LIVERPOOL, Wednesday. Notwithstanding the cessation of hostilities in the United States, and the disbanding of the Confede rate forces, the officers in command of the cruiser Shenandoah seem determined to continue the de struction of American merchant ships. By the arrival here to-day of the City of Boston from New York we hare San Francisco advises to July 21. The latest accounts received at that place from the Shenandoah were to the afternoon of the 23d of June, when she was near Cape Thaddeus, steaming N.W., toward where a fleet of 60 whalers were known to be previeusly. Capt. Nye, of the French whaling barque Milo, on learning of the intentions of the captain of the Shenandoah, left his vessel in a small boat during a fog for the purpose of warning the whalers of their danger. The Milo also spoke a French whalex, which at once made all sail towards the fleet, and having a considerable start of the Shenandoah it was just possible she might be in time to save the vessels from destruction. While the Shenandoah was at the Island of Ascension, some time since, she burned the new London barque Pearl, and the New Bedford ship Young Hector, besides a San Fran c i sco an d a H awa i an w h a l er . 1.. *.kk e &Aine r b l e l e; Ntelitiie ll rflonpson, in the Kamtschatka sea ; and then several New Bedford whalers in the Anadir Sea, where she ar rived on the 20th June. It is feared that, unless the French ship's open whale boat could succeed in warning the fleet, all would be captured, as the Shenandoah knew exactly where to find them. They were hovering along the southern edge of the ice fields, drawing closer together as the ice drifted to wardsß ehring's Straits, through which they were seek inz a passage to the Arctic zone, as the ice permits. There were no efficient Government vessels at San Francisco, and the merchants at that place had ap pealed to the Commandant of the Navy -yard to charter the steamer Colorado, arm her, and send her in pursuit of the Shenandoah. As instructions, however, had to be obtained from Washington be fore the commandant could act, the fate of the whaling fleet looks rather gloomy. Should they s h h av en e au m d an oa a h ougewdtc;.d hardly dare getintoß to erh followin sS t t h ra em. its, the Bank of England Return.•—This Evening. An Account, pursuant to I cap. 32, for the week ending he Act 7th and Bth Victoria, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 1865. ,LtiTMENT. ISSUE DEP Notes issued Government Debt £11,015,1(0 Other Securities .. 3.634,900 G old Coin & Bullion 13,62,8G5 Silver Bullion .... 428 215,865', £28,215,885 BANKING D Proprietors' Capi tal £14,553,000 Rest Public Deposits (in cluding Exche yans,Commis. eri Savingsmissioners of Na tional Debt, and Dividend Ac counts) Other Deposits 14,49 ,034 Seven Day and other Bills 534,621 ;PARTMINT. Government Secu rities (including Dead Weight A nnuity) £10,384,209 Other Securities 21,256,7, Notes Gold and Silver 923,747 Coin £39,182,477 G. £33,182,477 FORBES, Deputy Cashier. Aug. 31, 1865. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day. LONDON, Aug. 31.—Wind this day at noon—North. Westerly; moderate breeze and fine weather, but rather cloudy. BRISTOL, Aug. 30.—Wind S.W. — Sailed—Albertus, for Labrador. SOVTILUIPTON, Aug. 30.—Wind W.—Sailed—America, steamer, for New York. CARDIFF, Aug. 30.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Ridsthae, from Jamaicr. OFF TORBAY, Aug. 30.—Arrived—Ocean Child, from. the West Indies. HOLYHEAD, Aug. 29.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Arcturnit, from Rio Jan e i ro . KINGHOAD, Aug. 30. from New York. Wind S.W.—Arrired---Guide7 • TORBAY, Aug. 30.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—San s P areil, for St. John's, Newfoundland. FALMOUTH, Aug. 29.—Wind for Plymouth. PLYMOUTH, Aug. 30.—Wind S.W.—ArriTed—Sidnen from Demerara ; Aurora, from Taganrog ; Rosoveden, from Pomaron. _ COWES, Aug. 31.--Wind S.N. — Arrived—Germania, steamer, from New York. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPII.] GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning. Arrived, Aug. 31.—Imog en , f rom Al goa Bay ; Bri tannia, from Penang; Arcadia, from Jamaica. DEAL, Thursday Morning. Passed—Frederick William of Guernsey, Two Friends of Guernsey, and hero of Weymouth, from the West—all for London. THE MURDER AT STRATFORD.—To-day Jacob Brenner and Charles Heins were brought up for examina tion before the magistrates at the West Ham Policc-court, on a charge of wilfully murdering Joseph Kuchen. The dying declaration of Kuchen was put in, which was to the effect that Brenner, without provocation, stabbed him in the abdomen. The only reason he could allege for the act was a quarrel which he had had with him three WJeks ago about his (deceased's) son. The prisoner Heins was dis charged, but Brenner was remanded until after the coro ner's inquest. 100 et{ 20 ''.43i 100 I no Ho all 109 100 {lOO 2 100 100 2.1.0 2.14.6 3.4.0 2.7.0 2. i 3.6 9.10.6 601 all 1.1.0 40 7.8.3 8.13 1.18.0 96 4.3.0 104 31 1031- i 1091