The Sun. — London, England, 1865-09-26 00:00:00

• ._ ... - . _.. . . --• . . . . _ _.. • -•..-. "aIIgriIPPMMIMMNPMIMIMMIFINIMIrrprr,,,...,..r.•••caswm•Eaa—.. . . .. • • _ . . . ITE SUN 5 LONDON , TUESDAY EVENING SEPTEM EBR 2G 1865 . ---,......,....- MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. TWELVE O'CLOCK. Indications of activity and firmness continue ap parent in the money market. The inquiry for dis count accommodation has been very large, and 4 per cent. has been the lowest quotation for the negotia tion of the best paper. A third dividend of 2s. 6d. is announced by the liquidators of the East of England Bank, making altogether 17s. tid. in the pound, payable in Nor wich next week, and subsquently at the offices of Messrs. Harding, PieHein, Whinney, and Gibbons, Bank-buildings, City. The London and Australian Agency Company, which proposes to facilitate the investment of English capital idAustralia, and to assist generally in developing the resources of the country, has just been announced. Its business will consist chiefly in making advances to the pastoral tenants of the Crown lands and others, and by taking security on their stations, stock, freehold land, and wool, in ac cordance with the Mortgage and Lien Acts of the Colonial Legislatures ; in actingas agents for the sale of wool and other produce in Australia, or for its ship ment to England ; in effecting the sales of stations and stock, and in conducting a financial and general agency business. Operations will be commenced by taking over the business of Messrs. J. H. Clough and Co., of Melbourne, which has been established upwards of ten years. The purchase-money is to be paid half in shares and half in debentures, and th • business already secured will enable the company to commence operations at once. Under the articles of association the qualification for each director is fixed at £4,000 at the least, to be held by him in his own right in the shares of this company. The nominal capital is to be £1,000,000, the first issue to comprise 30,000 shares of £2O each, which are quoted this morning on the Stock Exchange to 1 prem. Two O'CLOCK. At the Paris Bourse this morning, according to Reuter's telegram, the 3 per Cent. Rentes were 68f. 35c. The Stock Exchange markets have been steadily supported, and, with the exception of a decline in the prices of the Funds, quotations generally show buoyancy: Consols have receded to 891 f for money, and to 89} _for the account. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 894 1 ; An nuities (1885), 13 11-16ths ; Exchequer Bills, 3s. dis. to is. prem. ; India Stock, 216 218 ; ditto 5 Per Cents, 1051 1. Foreign Stocks have been active, and buoy ancy greatly prevails. Brazilian Scrip has further improved to 3 1 Fem. Turkish Consolides are 49f 1 ; Mexican ex all, 25 1 ; the New Loan, 241 I ; Greek, 208 218 ; Spanish Passive, 30 4 ; the Certificates, 141 8 ; Italian, 641 65 ; and the Confederate Loan, 7 8. American Securities are also firm. United States 5-20 Bonds, 681 1; Erie Shares, 581 1; and Illinois, 811 1. Business in the Railway Share Market bas been rather inactive, but prices are a shade firmer. Great Northern A Stock, Lancashire and Yorkshire, and North-Western have each improved 55., and North British 10s. ; while Great Eastern and Great Western have each declined ss. In the Foreign and Colonial undertakings there is no material change. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares continue very quiet, and prices are in several instances a shade flatter. London and Westminster have declined to 96i- ; Chartered of India, Australia, and China, to 26/ ; and Royal Mail Steam, to 1191. Atlantic Telegraph preference shares arc quoted 1i 2 per share ; Overend, Gurney, and Company, 4i ; and Transatlantic Steamship Company, 2 2i prem. BRITISH FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 8 Per Cent. Consols • B9 119 Do. Account, Oct. 10 6 per Cent. Reduced B7l / New 3 per Cent B7l I 1 New 3} per Cent. Jan. 1894 94} Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 — Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April,lBBs l3 1-16 Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 — Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 per Cent. — Do. £5OO Do £lOO and X 2 jOO t 3 dis 1 pm Bank of England Stock, 5} per Cent shut Do Account • — INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Indian Stock, 101. per Cent., AprillB74 217 16 18 Do Account — Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1870 Do. Account Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 Do. Certificates — Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent B9 Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 Do. q per Cent., May 1879 — Do. 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 — Do. Bonds, £l,OOO _ Do. under £l,000 FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent. 991 Do. 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Do. 1863 Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent — Do. Account Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) Chilian 6 per Cent — Do. 41 per Cent . __ — Colombian 6 per Cent. Cuba, 6 per Cent. Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 — Do. 4 per Cent., 1863 Do. 5 per Cent., 1773-77, £25 paid — Danubian Principalities Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Do., Provisional Land Warrant — Egyptian 7 per Cent 941 51 Do., Second issue Do XlOO Bonds Do. 1864 951 61 Do £lOO Bonds Cheek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons Do Account Do. Coupons — uuatemala 5 per Cont. Do XB6 paid Do. 1839 and 1850 atalian 5 per Cent (I.laremmana Railway) Do 1865 Do Scrip, X 671 paid Do 5 per Cent., 1864 1 , Do. Scrip, X 55 paid .I Lexican 3 per Cent Do. Account Do • 1864 Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French ~Do French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c Moorish 6 per Cent., X3O paid New Imperial 5 per Cent 'evr Granada l4l Do 2 per Cent 321 Do Deferred Do Land Warrants (Hectares) 13 eruvian 41. per Cent Do Scrip, £45 paid, paid in Bonds Do 3 per Cent. (llribarren) 11 , 0 41 per Cent., 1862 P ortuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Po Account — Do 3 p er C en t., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, 461 1 t , D o. Account 411 8sian 5 per Cent., 1822, X St 9l Do 41 per Cent. 1850 Do D 0 3 per Cent. 1859 D— -41 per Cent., 1860 o p e r Cent. 1862 9ll 2i Do 5 r Cent. 1864 96 s° Vinia p n 5 per Cent uo Account S panish 3 per Cent Do Account 1 - 10 New Deferred — ' - ' 0 Account DO Passive — Guo Account h al ligh Cert. of Coup not funded — 4.,:'0 Account l4l ledish 4 per Cent. — ' - ', O Account — rt h ' - ' O . 4i: pe r Cent. 1864 ' t kialt 6 per Cent. 1854 to Account 95 .1) 9 6 per Cent. 1858 D° Account 72} ,t) £lOO Bonds "'-'o ' 1 1 - TIAr 0,,.... B - 4 per Cent D ° 6 per Cent. 1862 0 Acc oun t 74i 1 1 i .... ~.,0 £ l OO Bonds 75 4i 0 n D,." per Cent., 1864 7 0 per Cent. 1865 b u 4 )-(0 Bands - 1), 0 gerip, £35 paid Ir e , la.ranteed, 4 per Cent — I:ll,s.zmupla 3 per Cent. tuo Account 42 • 6 Per Cent, 1864 F N ,, , Dividends on the above payablo in London. Ik - 'en Route 4. r Cent. keeoun s t' IPe 1) per ent., 1861, Ex. 25f. 0 Accou n t 6 if fo ols THREE O'CLOCK. -- - D o - ..... 89 comet . iver Pool Cotton Market —lhis Day. .et steady. Sales;robably 20,000 bales. SEAM MAIVKIUS—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. I Paid.' "4125 i Share/ Railways. done. Business Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cambrian Cork and 8and0n...... Cornwall . Dublin & Belfast June. Dun„Perth, Sz A b.Junc. &London, t crip Certi. Do. Glasgow do S. Western Great Eastern, ()rd. stk. Do. E. Angl. st. No. 2 Great North of Scotland Great Northern D.,. A stock Do. B stock Do. View. is. at 25 pn , GtS. and W. of Ireland txt Weste,n I) . S. V4l. Rail gua. Do. South Vales .... Do. W. Mid.—Oxiord Do. Newpo Do. Ile; Lanc ,shire &Yorkshire 1....nd0n and lilackwall Lon., Brigh., & S Coast Lon., chat., and Dover Metrop. rx. A Lon. & North Western Lou. & South Western Tian., Sher., & Lincoln Metropolitan ..... Do.. New Do Extension...— Metropolitan District Do du. do Do. and ..t.John'sW'd Midland Do. £9 Share Do. Birmin.. & Derby %lid Kent North British Do. Ed., Pth ,"& Dun. Nth. Eastern Berwick Do. Ii.N•E purchast Do. Leeds Do. York Do. Carlisle Do. Stock. & Darling. • - Do. do. 1860-61 North Londou Do. do. 1864 . Do. do. 1865 North Staffordshire N. & S. W. Junction Scottish C , ntral Scot. N. E . Aber. stock uo. Scot, Mid. stick Shropshire Union South Devon south E stern Staines, Wok., & Wok Taff Vale Do. C Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny IV hi ha 1 West Cornwill BRITISH P Atlantic& St. Lawrence Bom.,Baroda,c Cen.ln. gu. 5 per cent.. .. Do. le shares Buffalo & Lake Huron Do. Preference Buff.,Brant, & Goderich 6 p.c. 872-3- Calcutta & S. E., lim ape Town & Dock, gu Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p: East. Bengal, gu., 5 do East Indian, gu. 5 p.c. Do. .1 Extension Grand Trunkot Canads Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds 1 charge 6 p.c Do. Ist Pref. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. 2d Pr, f. Bonds Do. do. deterred Do. 3d Pref. stock Do. do. deferred Du. 4th Pref. stock Do. do. deterred Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c o. Gua. 5 per cent Do. New gua. 5 p. c l (it. South of India gua. 5 per cent D . 41 per cent 1 Do Great W. of Canada-1 1)i. New Do. 6 p. c. Ms. pay. 18731 Po. 53 do. pay. 1877-8 l Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.c Do. 41 do Do. 4.1.1.? Do. Fifth Extension Melb. Car. 6 p. c. Bnds. Mel. & Hudson's day.. N. B 1. C'da, 6pc lst pf.bs. Scincle . a 0 Do. Delhi Do. do Do. rani:tub-4 " Li., Do.lndus St. Flo OSSE 100 1100 2 100 100 190 100 100 1' 0 100 100 COLONIAL GO VICE British Columbia, 6 per cent., Dec. 31, 1872.... Can.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.dr July 1877-84 - Do. 6 p. a. Feb. & Aug.. Do. 5 p. C. Mar. & Sept to. 5 p. c. Jan. & July Do. 5 p. t. Inscribed sk Cape G.Hope. 6 p.c.187: 2 t_to.Apl.Btocl le9l-190(• Do. do: ISB I -9 Do. Jan.&July, 1890-9. Do. 5 per cent. 15 April _ _ anc(is Oct, I‘o3 Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p.c Do. 1878, do Slauritius, 6 p. c, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1 , 78 . )o. 1884 Mayls, Nov ' Do. 1895, Fcb. & Aug at al 'iov. d per cent V.B.Gov. 6 p.c.Ja.SLJ ul) N. S.W. Gov. 5 re., 186 i Do. 5 p.c. 18.1 to 187, Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 189_ New Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 5 per cent Soya So ,tia Gov. 6 p. C sterling, 1875 42ueensls.nd Gov. 6 p. 3. Ans. Gov. 6 p,o 1868-1 , Do. 1878 & upwards trio,biov. 6p.c.Ja &Jul} Do. do, n pril 45 Oct BRIT" II M . Cam. Consol. Cold, Rua Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated Devon G. Cons. (Taoist Drake wal Is East Bassett (Illogan) East Caradon East Cam Brea East Grenville East GI un nis lake East Love.' E. W'l Russell (Tavlstk Gam. & StA übyn(G wen. Gr. at L .xey, limited Great South Tolgus Great Wheal liusy G. Wheal Vor (Heist •n Grenvilie If erod's Foot .... Elingaton Downs Margaret 1 Uny Lelant Marke Valley wy ndy Iron Ore, lim New Se con North Roskear Bassett(lllogan North Wheal Crofty Prosper United Pr vidence Uny Lvlant S. Caradon (St. Cleer) S..uth Condurrow S.Wheal Fran. (Illogan stray Park Tin Croft Vigra and Clogan. lim West tiassett (Mogan %V. Caradon (L , skeard %Vest Chiverton West Seton Wheal Bassett 'Mogan Wheal Buller (Redruth Wheal Mary Ann (Men Wheal Seto!' Wheal Trelawnev (Lis 2.1.0 2t6 2.14. E - 3 E 2.'4 U 8.3.6 3.9.0 10.8.0 encrEILENCS SLLAKE , . Great Northern, 5 per cent., rd. at 10 per cent. pm., 103 Great Western, 5 per cent., rd. pl., 10i PRICFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Kent Coast, 0 per cent. pref. 11, 107 LINES 1. HASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Chester and Holyhead, Ditto, 5 per cent., 1:0 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. A ntwerp and Rotterdam, pi Bahia and San Francisco that.) gua. 7 per cent., 111 Dutch Rhenish, 24i Great Luxembourg, 151 fel ) a NiaN MINE& Don Pedro, North Del They. I i Frontino and Bolivia bold, lam., 41 Port Philip, 1, Yudanantutana of S. Amaralia, Um., 1i DOCKS. London and St. Katharine, 771 7 BAN Ks. Agra and Mssterman's. lim., 57 61 alliance, li m.. 31/ 2 1/ Ditto, issued at 20 pm., of which 20 is paid., 261 6 61 Anglo Austrian, 61 7 Anglo Egyptian, lm., 131 1 Australasia. 75 Bank of British Columbia, 241 Bank of Egypt, 301 Chartered Bank of India. Australia. and China. 261 6 1 Commercial Bank of India and the East, 291 1 Consolidated Bank, lim., 10 East London. lim.. 51 ish Joint Stock, lim., Ili Hindustan, China. and Japan, Um., 21 Imperial Bank, lim.. 80 Imperial Ottoman. 161 London Bank of Mexico and S. America, Rm., 141 1 London and Brazilian Ditto, new, 3 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 251 Loudon and County, 771 7 London and 11 eatminster, 961 Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, lim., 161 Provincial of Ireland, 811 1 Ditto, new. 30 Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi. Um., 71 Standaid of British Sot Africa, 101 Union of A ustralia, 651 1 5 Union of Ireland, 17 Union of_London, 531 1 MISCELLANEOVIt. Atlantic Telegraph, 8 per cent. gua., If Bombay Gas. Urn., Ditto. &I issue, 21 1 Canada Company, to Co...mental Union, Insurance, 61 • Credit Foncier and Mobiiier of iNugland, 91 Discount Corporation. 16 East India Irrigation and Canal. 81 Egyptian Corn and Trading, Inn., 31 Fairb urn Engneering, fl Hudson's Bay, It) / Imperial Mercantile Credit Asso.,llm, 7 1 1 International Contract, 5j 1 International Financial society, lim., Joint Stock Discount, lim.. 91 6 Interational i.and Credit. lim., 71 Madras Irrigation and Canal, Ditto (all),,181 Millwall Freehold Land and Dock, lim , 31 North British and Mercantile Insurance, 18 Overeud, Gurney, and Co., lim.. 151 1 Panama, New Zealand, and Australian Mail, lim., 7 Ditto (all), 41 Royal Mail steam, 1191 20 Smith, Knight, and Co., Thames and Mersey Marine (lusurauCe): lien., 8i 93 15 120 131 93 97 12 19 fi 6 67 7 71 73 9i 96 6 4d , 110 111 48 49 8 9 132 134 151 15' 126 .19 91 el 65i G 6 63 65 43 15 37 10 04 106 121 1214 GO 92 105 107 33 40 51 53 Iz4 :25 96 97 58 19 139 !4•) l 3 1 1g 104 105 ' I 12 1 2 31 12n1 1 il 97 99 C 4, 63j, 1,0 3: 111 112 69 70 104 105 36 376' 104 114 p 118 120 1 11 , 1 10) 1 iL 776 11 12 150 154 60 62 57 59 81 dli 85 9 4 150 155 3 !,p 104 100 5) 52 SSIONS. 67 59 101 102 id } p k5l 9i 10i 73 80 99 101 70 75 101 103 1011 102 i 104 105 i gP 19 29 9.9 9L 66 64 55 60 54 58 50 53 44 46 40 43 273 tB4 16 17 1014 I(si i 1 1) 2 3P 101 102 11i 14' 6 52 , 1 .5 18 85 87 1 id 101 102 93 95 S 3 90 64 S 6 82 81 101 102 101 102 6 in KENT SECUR 96 98 95 b 7 9S 97 83 81 83 S 5 103 105 107 109 106 10• 105 107 931 911 1(3 105 110 112 104 1(6 108 ICB 107 109 1 6 107 102 104 96 88 9) 101 93 95 co 61 103 105 84 85} 00 101 102 103 106 108 12'1 IC5j 483 I 65. 14 9 '44 38, 139; 4) bf MI 4 1271 f i 051 5 111 i 11 1191 114 WEST3IINSTER. A QUEER CHARACTER.—James Wilson, a low-looking fellow, well-known as the associate of thieves and smash er; was charged with being in enclosed premises for a felonious purpose. Police-constable 228 A said that on the previous even ing he was called to take prisoner, who had just climbed over a garden wall belonging to a house in Dean's-yard, Westminster. Mr. Samuel Poole, a sculptor, carrying on business with his father at Great Smith-street, said that at 11.30 on Monday evening he saw prisoner climb over a wall be longing to Mr, Gullau and gave an alarm. The prisoner climbed over the wall again and endeavoured to escape, but he was secured. Dennis, the gaoler, said that a fortnight ago prisoner was charged with a similar offence, but discharged not known. Mr Inspector Starr, of the A division, said a few nights' • ago he found prisoner trying to open his window to open the door of his area. He got away, but witness found him again five minutes afterwards and took him to the station. No skeleton keys were found, and he gavo an address. He 10 was liberated, as he appeared to be drunk. The address was false. Next morning witness saw prisoner in company with a convicted felon in Orchard-street, Westminster. Prisoner gave the same false address, and pretended to know nothing of the affair. 101/ # He was sentenced to six weeks' hard labour. THAMES. BOBBING A SAILOR.—Three women, named Mary Ann Cocklin, Johanna Reardon, and Ann Reardon, all well known thieves, were brought before Mr. Paget, oharged with stealing 20 sovereigns from the person of Peter Jacob Bardrop. The prosecutor is a ship's carpenter, and belongs to a Glasgow ship called the Bertha, lying in the river, near London-bridge. Yesterday evening he met Cocklin and Reardon in Rateliff-highway, and he treated them to liquor at several public-houses, and afterwards accompanied them to the house of an old woman, named Simmons, No. 6, Blue-gate-fields, Shadwell, where numberless robberies have been committed, and sailors have been badly mal treated. He had a pocket-book in his possession, which contained 20 sovereigns. Cocklin soon left him and went out of the room. He missed his pocket-book directly afterwards and made a noise about it. Reardon wanted to converse with him, and ho told her hs did not want her company and would have his pocket-book and money. The old woman Simmons then came into the room and returned him his pocket-book. He opened it and found all the gold had been abstracted and only a small amount in silver left in it. He said you have picked out the 20 sovereigns and left the change. He went out and gave information to a police-constable named Isaac Pa wsey, 485 K, who saw Cocklin and Reardon leaving the United States public house and took them into custody. He was con veying them to the station-house when Buckley came be hind them, and Reardon immediately handed two sove reigns and a half sovereign to her. Pawsley called out to Sergeant Proctor, No. GO K, "Take that woman into cus tody." Buckley was taken with the £2O in gold upon her. It was stated by Donald M'Kay, a police constable, No. 275 K, that Simmons had absconded, and that she had been committed for trial eight times for being concerned in the plunder of sailors, and had always escaped conviction. Mr. Bodkin, the Assistant-Judge, said her house ought to be indicted, and that she was the worst thief he had over met with in the course of his judicial career. Mr. Paget—How is it she has escaped so often ? 111• Kay—The sailors go to sea before the trial, and she escapes. There is a woman outside the court who, I un derstand, has had £6 10s. of Bardrop's money ; and old Mother Simmons has had £6 10s. more. She won't return until the sailor has gone to sea. _ _ _ 1041 51 41 14; f 12 lli 1011 i 91i 5 1011 loot ITIE3. 1091 1 The prisoners all declared their innocence ; and said, "We want it settled hero." Mr. Paget said ho should send the case to the sessions at once ; and if the grand jury were not discharged they could be tried at Clerken well to-morrow morning. The prisoners were committed for trial. SOUTHWARK. A HOPEFUL DAUGHTER.—Sarah Martin, a woman be between 30 and 40, was charged before Mr Woolrych with stealing plate and wearing apparel, the property of her landlady. Margaret Richardson, the prosecutrix, said that yester day the prisoner, who lived with her at 59, Bland-street, Newington, took from the house in her presence a blanket and sheet, and had previously stolen the other articles, which she had pawned. Mr. Edson said the prisoner had been married to a re spectable man, who had held a situation under Govern ment, but was compelled to leave her in consequence of her habits of drunkenness. The prosecutrix, a very respectable old woman, eaid that she kept not only the prisoner, but her son and daughter, since she was deserted by her husband, about teu years since. The prisoner said that not only the articles in question, but everything in the house in the shape of furniture, bed clothes, &c., belonged to her, having been given to her by her husband previous to his desertion. The prosecutrix said there was no truth in that state ment, as she had purchased the articles as well as the other property in her house. Ann Sorrel, a servant of the prosecutrix, said she found the prisoner in the house of a neighbour yesterday in a state of drunkenness, and took from her pocket the pawn tickets produced. The prisoner was remanded for a week. WANDSWORTH. DISTURBING A BURGLAR—SINGULAR APPREHENSION. — John Martin, aged 58 years, who was described as a labourer, with no home, was brought before Mr. Ingham for re-examination orr a charge of burglary and robbery. Ellen Kearsley said—l live at No. 1, Edward's-cottages, Sheepcot-lane, Battersea, with my father, who is an engi neer. The prisoner is a stranger to me. Between three and four o'clock on the morning of the 17th inst., hearing footsteps in the lane, I got up and gave an alarm. On going down stairs I found both the back parlour and the kitchen windows open, which were nearly closed the night previous when we went Co micsed soveral articles or nnen from the parlour and others from the kitchen. Outside the window in the garden I found four shirts, two coats, three waistcoats, and other articles made up into a bundle, as if to bo carried off. Our garden adjoins a field with low paling between. The coat the prisoner now wears was left behind at our house, arid a box of lucifer matches was in one of the pockets. • Police-constable Wright, 294 V, said—On the morning of the 17th inst., about a quarter past three o'clock, I saw the prisoner at Battersea-bridge toll-gate, going towards Chelsea. Seeing the end of a towel sticking out of his pocket, I asked him what he had. Ho replied, " Nothing but this towel." I felt about him, and inside his waiscoat I found a petticoat and a chemise. I asked him how he came by them, and he replied, " I know best about that." I then took him to the station. The articles found upon the prisoner were identified by Miss Kearsley. It also appeared that the prisoner was wearing a coat belonging to Mr. Kearsley when appre hended by the constable, and at the station he exchanged it for his own. Mr. Ingham inquired whether the prisoner was known to the police ? _ _ _ The constable Wright said ho was not. Mr. Ingham then committed him to take his trial at the next sessions of the Central Criminal Court. As an indication of the unusual mildness of the season, a few ripe strawberries were to be seen a few days ago on a fruit stand in St. Nicholas-street, Aberdeen,grow n in a garden at Canal-road, where a second crop of this fruit has formed. THE VALUABLE RECTORY OF WELWYN, Hertford shire (famous as the benefice held by Dr. Young, of the "Night Thoughts"), is placed at the disposal of All Souls College, Oxford, by the death of the Rev. Sir Brooke William Robert Boothby, aged 56. It is worth £750, with a population of 1,600. Sir Brooke was born in 1809, and succeeded as tenth baronet in 1846. He was educated at Charterhouse and Christ Church, Oxford; 8.A., 1820; M.A., and Fellow of All Souls, 1832. Having held from 1846 the living of Elmley, Kent, he became in 1852 rector of Welwyn, and married Martha Serena, daughter of the Rev. C. Boothby. He is succeeded by his son Brooke, born in 1856. The baronetage was created in 1680. Murder of a Sailor at Bristol. At the Bristol Council-house, on Saturday, a Manilla seaman, named Emmanuel Lilian°, serving on board the American ship Sandusky, lying in Cumberland Basin, was brought before the sitting magistrates, charged with having' that morning shot Alexander Richardson, a sailor on board the same vessel. The prisoner is a ferocious looking youth, and when in court his face • was nearly covered with blood and scars, indicating . that he had recently been engaged in a desperate encounter. Mr. Williams (magistrates' clerk) said it wit's impossible to go into the case at present, as the wounded man had been removed to the infirmary, where the sur geons were at that moment endeavouring to extract the ball, and it was doubtful whether he would recover. Orring ton Linnekin, the master of theVessol, stated that ho came into port on Thursday, and since that time there had been a great disturbance on the part of the crew, who had been drinking freely. lle had to come ashore that morning, and it was during his absence that the occurrence took place. The mate, who had been left in charge, quitted the ship in order to get the assistance of the police, and before his re turn Richardson was shot. Mr. Thomas and Mr. 'Williams proceeded to the infirmary for the purpose of taking the deposition of Richardson, but on their arrival foun•l that a number of medical officers were still endeavouring to ex tract the ball. They waited : a considerable time, but it was found impossible to take the deposition in consequence of the man's exhausted state. They accordingly returned to the Council-house, and heard sufficient evidence to justify them in remanding the prisoner. Louis Henry said—l am an American seaman on board the Sandusky, and came into this port on Thursday last. - The prisoner was a cabin-boy on board the same vessel, which is now lying in Cumberland Basin. Since the vessel arrived in port there has been some unpleasantness between.himand the cook. This morning, at 11 o'clock, when the captain was ashore, I was in the rigging at my work, tarring down, and saw the cook, whose name Ido not know,- carrying a chair out of the cabin. I also saw the prisoner follow him and seize the chair ; then a struggle between them took place, the cook still having the chair. I came , down out of the rigging, and then I heard the report of .a : pistol, and saw the cook fall back from out of the cabin, the prisoner, who held him with his hands and teeth, falling alongside of him. Inside the cabin door I saw a pistol, like the one produced, lying on the floor. The secondinatnseized- hold of the prisoner, and pulled him away, and I then noticed that the cook had been shot in the leftarm. The second mate st cured the prisoner. The cook's wound was bound up, ninth& was taken to the infirmary. The prisoner is the person who caused the injury. The cap tain proved that the name of the cook steward was Alex ander Richardson. The prisoner was remanded for fur ther examination, the kVeral witnesses being detained in the meantime at the central police station. The magis trates told the captain that he ought not to allow his men to have possession of arms, but he said he was unable to prevent it, and that they would secrete the arms if asearch were made. The captain also said that he understood that the shot was fired to keep Richardson out of the cabin, and if that were so, in his opinion the prisoner was justified in firing it. Mr. Z. Eastman, the American consul, was pre sent to watch the proceedings. Whilst the examination was being made, Richardson died at the infirmary from loss of blood, the ball having severed one of the arteries, and the efforts made to extricate it having failed. Attempt to Murder. --.... A desperate attempt was made on Saturday in Leith Docks by an engineer named Isaac Beamish to murder Captain Luke Scott, master of the screw steamer Xantha, of Leith. Beamish, it appears, joined the Xantha in Lon don, under Captain Scott, in the beginning of August last. He did not give satisfaction, in consequence of which the captain reported him to the owners of the vessel. The Xantha arrived in Leith from London on Saturday week, and an investigation into the conduct of Beamish was made by the owners. The result of theinquiry was that Beamish was paid off on the 19th by the captain in presence of the shipping master. Beamish, however, refused to accept the sum offered him, and threatened to take legal proceedings against the captain. With this view he put his case into the hands of a solicitor, who succeeded so far as to induce the captain to offer terms which Beamish agreed to accept. On Saturday Beamish went to a publichouse in Dock street, and sent for a; cab. When the cab arrived he re quested the driver to take him to the head of the West Pier, at the Victoria Dock. When they reached the piert he ordered the cabdriver to go to the Xantha and rogues the captain to come and speak to a gentleman in the cab The cabman went as requested, and the captain came to the cab, thinking it was ono of his owners who wanted to see him ; he was about to pass when Beamish ordered him to go into the cab, to drive to the solicitors who had their case in hand. • This the captain refused to do. Beamish then drew a revolver from his breast pocket, pointed it at Captain Scott, and again . ordered him to go into the cab. Seeing ho would not do so Beamish drew the trigger Of the pistol twice, but fortunately the weapon missed fire both times. The captain turned and ran duwn the pier pursued by his assailant, who fired the pistol at him The ball went whizzing through the air close to a number of persons who were in the vicinity, but it did not hit any one. Beamish then returned to the cab, and ordered the cabman to chive him to Bernard-street. The man, much afraid at what he had seen, complied. Meantime &police constable hearing of what had taken place went up to the cabman and directed him to drive to the police-office. The constable walked alongside of the cab, not thinking it pre per to grapple alone with such a dangerous person as the occupant of the cab seemed to be. When they reached the Custom-house Beamish fired two shots from the windows of the cab, but appeared to intend no mischief at this time, for he pointed the pistol upwards. Detective constables Couts and Morgan at this time came forward. The latter endeavoured' to take the pistol from Beamish, who, how ever, leant back and pointed the pistol at him in such a threatening manner that the officer sprang back. A seaman named Mark Burk quickly entered the cab from the oppo site side to that at which Morgan was, with the intention of inducing Beamish to give up the revolver. Beamish pointed the pistol at him, and might have fired it, but Couts, on observing the danger of the young man, suddenly sprang forward and succeeded in wrenching the pistol. from him. He was easily secured after, and lodged in the police-office. The pistol, a s ix-b arre ll e d revo l ver, was loaded with powder and three bullets, and was capped. A quantity of powder, bullets, and caps were found iu Beamish's possession. It has been ascertained by the police that he had bought the pistol, powder, balls, and caps in Minburgh on Saturday afternoon. He will be brought before the police -court this morning. —Scotsman. MABEE IS_-This Day. --- -a-- lIAY, SMITHFIELD.—Moadaw hay ' .£4 5s to £5 15s; clover, £4 15s to £6 15s ; and s t raw £1 lOs to 11 18s per load. Trade slow. CUMBEHLAND.—Meadow hay, £4 lOs to £5 15s; clover, £5 Os to £7 Os ; and straw, LI. 12s to £1 18s per load. A quiet trade. WmTEcnApEL.--Iteadow hay, £4 lOs to £5 15s; clover, £5 Os to £7 Os ; and straw, £1 12s to £1 17s per load. Trade slow. COLONIAL. TEA.—There has been a moderate amount of business transacted, and prices have remained steady. SUGAR.—A good demand continues to prevail for West India, and holders demand fully late rates. In the refined market the dealings have been to a fair extent without any material alteration in values. COFFEE.—The demand for colonial descriptions has con tinued steady notwithstanding extensive arrivals, and lite prices are well maintained. . RICE.-Oul y limited dealings have been entered into, at about former rates. TALLOW.—The market has again and priu., Eon tenth present and forward delivery tend up wards. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted 46s 3d, October 465, and January to March 47s 9d per cwt. COAL MARKET. - Price per ton at the Close of the market. /3. d. ' s. d. South Hetton Carway and Duffryn Wylam l6 9 Malting 24 0 Tunstall Holywell Main......... 16 9 Walls End Haswell_ 20 3 Hatton 2O 3 Kelloe East Hartlepool ...... 20 0 Wylam l6 9 South Kelloe ......... 19 6 Eden Main Haugh Hall ............ 19 6 Pramwellgate lB 6 Staffordshire .............16 6 New Belmont. l9 0 Hastings Hartley...... 18 . 6 Caradoc l9 6 Hartlepool Ships at market, 58 ; sold, 56. The report of the Bank of British Columbia to the proprietors has been issued. It states that tlie directors have satisfaction in intimating that, afte r deducting rebate of i n t eres t on making ample p rov i s i on f or b ad bills paying n o talldue, charges, and and doubtful debts, the undiVided profits amount to £20,078, which the directors propose to appro priate per annum ; dividend d s aftolltohNevs,ravtiez. of:— f o 9,3p7erc ent. 5 in payment of a A £7,000 to reserve fund, which will then amount t o the curren t henvailnfg £3,703 to be c2.a.--, ed forward to -year. During the last few days the dealings in the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets have been tnoderately active. Sugars have fully supported previous rates, while superior qualiti es o f co ff ee have found ready buyers at, in some insta n c es , a there slight a sn advance.. ot Ricemuch has animation. been ation. dull, and in tea been Tallow, how ever, has again been in active request, at enhanced quotations for both present and forward delivery. AN AUST.EALIAN QUOTATION.-At a land .sale held recently in Zustralia the place was so crowded and accommodation so difficult to be obtai.U°d - that a charge of ss. was made forth° privilege of sitting in a bagatelle-room. The Ruling King of Siam. During the reign of the usurping sovereign, the legitimate heir (let him be honoured with all his titles) Phra Bard Somdetch Phra, Paramendr Naha Mongkut Phra Chom Klau Cha Tu Hua, provided for the safety of his person, seriously menaced, by withdrawing from the sphere of public observation, giving to himself the sacred character of a Buddhist priest, and taking possession of apartments in one of the I'Vator temples, which form the most prominent objects in all the towns of Siam, and especially in the city of Bangkok. He there devoted himself to profound study. He not only explored such litera ture as the ancient Siamese records presented to him, but mastered the Sanskrit and the Pali lan guages ; of Latin he had acquired such a mastery, mainly by the aid of the Catholic bishop, that he was engaged while I was in Siam in writing his auto biography in that language, and paid great atten tion to the English tongue, in which he was assisted by his intercourse with the Ame rican missionaries, who had maintained their ground in Bangkok and its neighbourhood, notwithstanding the persecutions and annoyances of the court. But his principal source of instruc tion was found in dictionaries, and his conversation was therefore much combined with words little used in ordinary colloquies. For example, he would use zenith and nadir in preference to north and south : his collocation of words is not always grammatical, but he had always an expression at hand, though not in common use, by which he very distinctly conveyed his meaning. He reminded one of a man talking through the medium of a dead language, translating his thoughts from a language more familiar, but not thinking in the language which he spoke. On one occasion when I read an English address to him at the time of my formal official re ception, he sent for me to the interior of the palace, said he had understood perfectly every word but one, and of that word he asked an explanation. And this reminds me of one of those " touches of nature which make the whole world kin." On my first public audience we passed through the centre of a large hall in which all the principal nobles of the land, clad in garments of gold, lay on all fours prostrate with their faces nearly touching the ground, when a curtain was drawn, and from a raised tribune at the end of the hall appeared the king seated on his throne, clad in gorgeous apparel, a sceptre in his hand, a richly jewelled crown on his head, surrounded by " all the wealth of Ormus and of Ind." The ceremony over, he desired to see me in the interior of the pa lace in one of his private apartments. He sat there divested of every ornament, with no other garment than a shirt ; he held on his knee a little girl ab solutely naked, and with no adorning but a chaplet of fragrant white flowers round her head. He asked me to admire her beauty—she was his youngest born ; and here I may add that I received a letter not very long after informing me that since my de parture from Siam five children had been added to the royal race. " Plenty of royalty," was one of his Majesty's expressions. In fact, he rejoiced in the possession of 300 wives and concubines, which he said was a very moderate number : his father had 700 for his portion. He laughed loudly on one occasion when I told him that in England one wife was found all sufficient. He had a drama got up for our amusement, in which no lesithan a hun dred ladies of the court were engaged as actresses, under the discipline of an ugly old promptress, whose scoldings were sometimes louder than the music of the piece. The women were of every hue, from the snowy to the sable, and of every oriental race.—Sir John Bowring, in the Fortnightly Review. &Shocking Fratricide in West Missouri. Two brothers, named John and Samuel M'Dowell, together with their sister Eliza, came to London (Missouri West) on September 2, to dispose of some produce and make some purchases, and on their return home the men became intoxicated. John's wife was away picking hops when her husband and his brother returned, and when she came back they were both standing in front of the shanty. They • appeared to be very angry and high words were passing between them. John's wife let down the fence to get the cattle into the yard, when:he interfered, telling her it was too late in the evening to let cowsin. She did so, however, and then fol lowing Samuel into the shanty, gave him his supper and began to churn. Just then her husband rushed in and angrily demanded why she had let the cows in at that time of night. Some hard words passed, and John struck his wife on the head with his clenched fist. This was what Samuel had antici pated, and to prevent which he had come that night to his brother's house. At the sight of the stroke he entirely gave way to his passion, and rose hastily from the supper table and bounded with terrible ferocity upon his brother. With a heavy blow of his fist he sent him reeling to the floor, then fell upon him, and getting him jammed up behind the door, began to choke him by grasping him with his fingers at the throat. True to woman's instinct, Mrs. M'Dowell interfered to save her husband, begging Samuel in piteous accents to desist from violence towards him, offering to suffer any tortures he might inflict upon her rather than see him harmed. Samuel then allowed his brother to get up, ani the latter had no sooner gained his feet than he called for the axe.. Samuel got it from him, and seizing it with the ferocity of a maniac, hurled it over his head and threatened to chop down any one who would molest him. But, watching his opportunity, Samuel again seized his brother and forced him to the floor, and during the scuffle Mrs. M•Dowell recovered the axe and hid it away. Samuel then ran into a field and, stripped to the waist, he dared John to come and meet him in a fair and open fight. John again demanded the axe from his wife, but she stated that she did not know where it was. In a minute more the horrible tragedy was enacted. Seizing a stick which had been used to stir the fire, John rushed to meet his brother in deadly conflict. He made one bound to clear the fence and to get at his brOther, but tripped and fell upon the ground. Samuel bounded upon him in an instant, and with great strength wrenched the weapon from his grasp, and as he lay partly stunned by the fall, and nearly mad with rage by the injuries already received, Samuel lifted the stick and struck him with all his might three heavy blows upon the head. At the second blow John's wife ran up, threw her self between the two men, and implored Samuel, in tile name of Goa, oparo her husband. The wife lifted him up gently, and seeing, by the moon's bright rays, his upturned eyes and ashy counte nance, and feeling that his pulse had ceased to throb, turned upon Samuel M'Dowell and charged him with killing her husband. The death of his brother did not appear to disturb him much. He lay out in the bush all night, like a hunted felon, every moment expecting the officers of justico upon his track, and the fear of detection, instead of nerving him to elude pursuit, seemed to paralyse his energies. On Sunday afternoon an inquest was held on the murdered man by Coroner Flock, when all who had any knowledge of the circumstances were thoroughly examined touching the matter. Dr. Moore, of London, made a post mortem examination of the body, and said that de ceased had sustained a great many hurts and bruises in all parts of his body. The heaviest blows, he . stated, were inflicted on the mouth and nose. The skull was not fractured, but death resulted from concussion, which produced a rupture of the blood vessels of the brain. The prisoner was committed to take his trial. ' With regard to .the wool trade, Messrs. Charles Balme and Co., in their usual circular, make the following reference to the auctions not concluded:— " The continued active state of trade in the woollen districts enabled our buyers to dispose largely of their purchases in the June series, and they came prepared to operate freely in these sales at former rates, notwithstanding that so large a quantity was again brought for Ward, and it must be taken as a strong proof of the stability of the trade that nearly 300,000 bales have been sold within the past four months at firm prices." .The telegrams from Greece state that the Govern ment has contracted a new loan for a small amount with the lonian Bank. It is to bear 7 per cent. in terest, and will be reimbur§gd in the course of 15 years. The Risks of Swiss Hotels. .0.---- Most people who visit Switzerland go up the Righi, but few Englishmen follow my example of staying there for a fortnight. It would be impos sible to remain so long at the hotel on the summit, where they do not want you to remain, and where the daily change of 200 visitors would be a source of constant irritation ; so I distributed my time between the hotel, or rather pension on the Righi Scheldeck, 5,400 feet high, which is much Froquente4 by Swiss of the middle class, and a similar establishment oat the Kaltbad, 4,727 feet, which is filled during the season chiefly with aristo cratic Germans. .- . . Before the present erec tion was made, the Kaltbad hotel was of wood; and the last time that it was burned down the fire spread so rapidly that a lady who was in a bath at the time was obliged to escape in a sheet—losing aot only the clothes in her rooms, but also every article of dress she had just been wearing As nothing was saved from the conflagration, the. other ladies could not help her, so she had to be put in a chair and carried down the Righi in her African costume, as was related to me by a Zurich Professor, who himself witnessed the scene. The wonder is that these wooden hotels in the Alps are not burned down even oftener than they are, con sidering the amount of smoking that goes on in than, the number of travellers they frequently contain, the dryness of the resiny pinewood, and the winds which blow about. It is also a mystery how people are saved when a fire occurs, for no means of escape appear to be provided. Even these Alpine hostel ries have sometimes a fourth storey ; and when you are put up there to sleep it becomes a curious sub ject of speculation as to what effect your head will have upon the stones below the window should a fire break out during the night. You begin to consider whether that German professor, who smoked his huge pipe interruittingly all the evening, smokes in his bed also ; and you give undue attention to the inci dental statement of the lady who mentioned that she could never sleep without a light in her room. In these trying circumstances I always consoled myself with recalling the story of the member of the Alpine Club, who is said last year to have fallen 60 feet upon his head upon some rocks, and to have injured the rocks very much indeed, with out himself suffering serious damage. I always went to sleep, determined to become a member of that club as soon as possible ; and I think it must have been this story which led me to the insanity of making ascents in the high Alps, which I suppose qualify for being an M. A.O . Another drawback con nected with the timber hotels is, that they form a spe cies of Dionysius ear. You may not be informed of what goes on through the entire house ; but if your ears are of no ordinary acoustic power, it is difficult to escape hearing, so long as slumber does not kiss your drooping lids, a good deal of what may be going on in the room above you, and the room beneath you, and the room on either side. To many this is not pleasant ; and if given to speaking while asleep, the impressions which you convey to timid persons in the neighbouring apartments will not only cause them a great deal of unnecessary anxiety, but may suggest to their minds an exaggerated and extremely damaging impression of your own life and character. From one neighbouring coffer-like chamber I could not help hearing the warning de livered i n English in a feminine voice, " Now, W illiam, you must not speak in your sleep ; everything you say will be overheard." And it is very easy uttering such warnings, but of what avail are they when the man has passed into slumber ?--Blackwood. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day. LON - DON, Sept. 26.—Wind this day at noon—South- Easterly; moderato breeze and fine weather, but rather cloudy in the morning. CARDIFF, Sept. 25.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Betty, for Shanghai; Athens, for Monte Video; W. H. Jenkins, for Rio Janeiro. LAMLASI; Sept. 24.—Wind for Manilla. SIIILLDS, Sept. 25.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Magnolese, from Quebec. FALMOUTH, Sept. 24.—Wind W.—Arrived -Carl, from St. Thomas for Hamburg. Nrwitaysx, Sept.; 25.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Lewes, from Gurracha. PLYMOUTH, Sept. 24.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Gosforth, from London for Adelaide. PENZANCE, Sept. 24.—Wind E.—Arrived—Dania, from Pernambuco for Hamburg. CLYDE, Sept. 23.—Wind S.E.—Arrived---John Fer guson, from Havanuab. FORTSMOunr, Sept. 24.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—B. Wylie, from Iliehibucto for Grimsby. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning. Arrived, Sept. 25—Fire Queen, steamer, from Archangel. Arrived, Sept. 26-11ellenas, from Patras. DEAL, Tuesday Morning. No arrivals. Foreign Mail Packet List. - -4- MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton..... Oct. 19. Ditto, via Marseilles Oct. 13. Brazil and Cape Verde. by British pao et Oct. 4. Ditto, by French packet Sept. 22. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St Helena... Sept. 22 China, Penang, and Sing , ipore, via Sou hampton—Oat. 2 Ditto, via Afars Lilies Sept. 26 Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton ‘'ept . 25 India (Calcutta). and Ceylon, via Southampton... Oct. 2 . Ditto, via M.lneilles . . Sept. 26 India (13,,mbay), via Southampton Sept. 23 Ditto, via Slarseitles Mauritius, via Southampton Oct. 10. Ditto, via Marseil e t... ....0ct. 4. Newfoundland , Sept. 27 Portugal ... . .........0ct. 4. Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon... United States and British North America, by Bri tish packet Sept. 27. Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ton Ditto, via C.;rk Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry.. Sept. 29. West Coast ot Africa. Madeira, and Teneriffe . Oct. 11. West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba, and Mexico Sept. 23. Bahamas, via New York. Oct. 11 Bermuda, ditto Sept. 27. Cuba and Mexico Sept. 28. The Committee of the Stock Exchange have passed the following resolution :—" That pending an inquiry into the circumstances connected with the General Estates Company, the buying to be sus pended." In the Paris corn market last week business was rather brisk, with an upward tendency in prices. The four marks of flour were quoted 50c. higher, at 50f. 25c. the 157 kilos.; wheat was unvaried at 28f. the 120 kilos. ; and rye at 16f. the 115 kilos. ; barley advanced 50c. to 17f. the 100 kilos.; and oats 75c., to 19f. the 100 kilos. At the last cattle market at Seeaux, oxen sold at lf. 20e. to lf. 50c. the kilo.; cows, at 88c. to if. 36c. ; calves, at lf. 36c. to lf. 75c.; and.sheep, at lf. 18c. to if. 50c. At Poissy the prices were if. 15c. to If. 44c. ; 82c. to lf. 32c. ; lf. 34c. to lf. 70e. ; and lf. 20c. to lf. 52c. respectively. A CASE OF CONSCIENCE.—A remarkable in stance of the irresistible power which conscience has over some men, who, having once committed a crime, can find no rest until they have unburdened their minds by a full confession, was brought to light the other day in the court-martial of a soldier at Portsmouth. In 1861 a colour-sergeant belonging to the 87th Irish Fusiliers deserted, and what became of him nobody ever knew. He had been nineteen years in the service, and up to the time of his desertion had been a remarkably steady and well-conducted man—' name being quite unknown to the defaulter's sheet. He was consequently much re spected by both the officers and men of his regiment. No motive whatever. could be discovered for the step he had taken. Being pay-sergeant, his accounts were of course examined to see whether he was influenced by pecu niary difficulties. Not only was his cash found free from arrears, but there was even an excess of .£4 to his credit. Nothing more was heard of him till about a couple of weeks ago, when he walked into the headquarters of his regiment, in the uniform of a lieutenant in the Federal army, and gave himself up as a deserter. During his ser vice with the Yankees he had been in twenty-six general . engagements, be s ides numerous skir mishes, and ha d re ceived seven wounds, some of them severe. All this time he says he never had a day's peace of mind. The shame of de sertion haunted him continually. The fear, too, lest by any accident his cash accounts had been found wanting ever so little gave him no rest. He imagined everybody knew he was . a deserter, and despised him accordingly. This torturing thought harassed him day and night, till, unable to endure it longer, ho obtained his discharge from the Federal service and took ship for England, solely with the intention of giving himself up. Tho finding of the court martial was that he should suffer 84 days' imprisonment.; but the sentence was subsequently remitted, with the ex ception of 28 days. The unfortunate man, of course, loses the pension which two years morn service with his old regiment would have entitled him to. THIRD EDITION SUN OFFICE, 7 O'CLOCK. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day. NEWMARKET RACES-THIS DAY. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPIL THE TRIAL STAKES. Lizard Lytham 7 Vixen Six ran. I GRAND DUKE MICHAEL STAKES Longdown Zambosi Contract DICAP T.Y.C. Lady do Verge Indigestion Wild Thyme 1 J Eivo rau. GREAT EASTERN HANDICAP Confederate Cadeau Gemma Sixteen ran. IiOPEF UL STAKES. Mr. Pitt ~ Chibisa Four ran. BUCKENIIA STAKES. Musjid filly - - --- 1 Wi1db riar..................... .......................................... " Heliotrope SIXTEENTH TRIENNIAL. Eve............................................... ............. w.o. SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS. Cross Bow Fury Saffron '; LATEST SCRATCHINGS. GREAT EASTERN HANDICAP.—John Davis, Attraction, Gatdevisure, Claremont, Soumise,.Lord Douglas, Belle - of the Ball, Tennyson, May Bloom, Vaudervelde, Charity, Antimacassar, Jezebel, Swordsman, Reginella, Il Re Galan tuomo, Tibia, Nip, Thalassius, Troubadour, Diomed, Va balathus, and Peeress. SIXTEENTH TRlENNlAL.—ltigolboche, Figaro, Idle Girl, Anna, Abbot, Menace, Baraga,h, Ely, Auricula, Hollyfox, Myrtilus, Alcyone, Revival, Bandarilla, Sir Roger, Valiant, Skeffington, Ilymettus, Mirage, Peon, Bucken lam, and Leybourne. HOPEFUL STAKES.—Lass of Gowrie, Lady Bank, Saxon Beauty, War, Penelope, Plotwell, Vagabonde, Florida, Adelina, St. Sophia, Duke of York, Osiris, Schoolboy, Mary Hill, and Conservative. GRAND DUKE MICHAEL STAKES.—AII have paid forfeit but the following :—Contract, Zambesi, Liddington, and Longdown. SCRATCHINGS AT TATTERSALL'S. The following scratchings were affixed to the notice board at Tattersall's on Monday afternoon : GREAT EASTERN HANDlCAP.—An timacassar, Vander velde, II Re Galantuomo, Tennyson, Gardevisure, Jezebel, Belle of the Ball, and Charity. OCTOBER HANDlCAP.—Exchequer, Chimney Sweep, Furze Chat, Moose, Sandal, Nuneaton, Ethelred, and Charity. All Lord Zetland's, Prince do Soltikoff's, and Mr. S. Thellussen's horses are struck out of their engagements in the Newmarket First October Meeting. LONDON GAZETfE—This Evening FOREIGN-OFFICE, SEPT. 16. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Robert Burnett David Morier, Esq., now a Second Secre tary in her Majesty's Diplomatic Service, employed in her Majesty's Embassy at Berlin, to be Secretary to her Ma jesty's Legation at Athens. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint Sidney Locock, Esq., now a Second Secretary in her Ma jesty's Diplomatic Service, employed in her Majesty's Legation at the Hague, to be Secretary to her Majesty's Legation in Japan. SEPTEMBER 22. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. P. G. Van der Byl as Consul-General in England for the Republic of the Orange Free State in South Africa. WHITEHALL, SEPT. 23. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting unto Admiral Sir George Francis Seymour, G.C.8., the office or place of Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and Lieutenant of the Admiralty thereof, in the room of Admiral Sir Thomas Johr. Cochrane, G.C.8., pro moted to be Admiral of the Fleet. The Queen has also been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting unto Admiral Sir William Bowles, K.C.8., the office or place of Rear- Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire land, and of the Admiralty thereof, in the room of the said Admiral Sir George Francis Seymour. DOWNING-STREET, SEPT. 23. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Thomas William Henry Dillett, Esq., to be a Member of the Legislative Council of the Bahama Islands ; and Robert Grimes Pedder, Augustus McCleverty, and William Bagwell, Esqrs., to be Non-Elective Members of the Legislative Council of the Virgin Islands. 00IIRSE OF EXCHANGE—This Evening Amsterdam Ditto Short. 11 181 11 19 Rotterdam 3 Months. 12 i 12 1} Antwerp — 12 I 12 14 25 ,s Brussels Hamburg Paris — 13 9 2 ). 13 10 Short 25 20 Ditto 25 27* 3 Months. 25 45 Marseilles Frankfort on the Maine 45 120 k 25 50 121 Vienna — 11 lii 1 1 22 Trieste — 11 20 11 25 Petersburgh - 30} 30,E Berlin Madrid — 47/ 48 Cadiz Leghorn Milan M ess i na Genoa — 25 57* 25 62* Naples — 25 • 571- 25 62f Palermo Oporto — 51 51 1 4 Lisbon — 511 514 TIIE ATLANTIC CABLE.-IIALrFAx, Sept. The British gun-boat Urgent, arrived at Halifax, reports that she passed the place whore the Atlantic cable buoys wero said to be locked, but saw nothing of them, and be lieves that they have drifted. HIGH PRICES—The South Australian Assembly have voted £5,000 to be used by the Government in tem porarily increasing the salaries of Government servants, v l • t h s id o oe s n e ni s a n en c o o dn m es l e e oci s tu d he o i nn o e s x f o c t uh e t e eh d £ Australian a unusually al l 3 y ' e T Register. g. pricesh e p r o WHAT TO DO WITH SIX HUNDRED A YEAR.—I am the victim of a noble discontent. lam an ambitious man. Possessed of talents above the average, but rendered infructuous through a certain difficulty of ascertaining in what direction they lie, 1 find myself condemned to an in significance abhorrent to my soul. Were I rich, old fel low, all would be well. My abilities would at once com mand the respect they deserve. But here again I fail. I have six hundred a year. Disgusting income ! Of all the peddling little prizes in fortune's wheel, six hundred a year is the most embarrassing. I wish it were practicable to toss e u s a p n with h t h e t e h b i e l i g n giro You're u d ,esres for everwhether dodging it s hou l a d h ebeet sixthe r tail of it, neither actually out of debt nor plunging honestly into it. In embracing solitude, I resign all the dreams of love and ambition. I owe nothing. My very tailor is paid. Disarmed, stingless, he melts into the common herd, and is forgotten. My frame will be covered by two gowns —my other needs by thirty pounds a year. The residue of my property will accumulate, so as to form a fund which after my decease, will be devoted to the outfit, biennially, of six hermits, of disappointed views, but irreproachable character. You will allow me to name you as one of the trustees."—Dickens's "All the Year Round." BRUTAL CONDUCT TO A HORSE.—At the Petty sessions, Dunmow, yesterday, before Mr. J. M. Wilson (chairman), Mr. E. Childs, Mr. J. W.Williams, and the Rev. Mr. West, Wm. Laundrum and Charles Willis were charged by the secretary to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals with torturing a horse on the 22d ult. Mr. Colam stated that on the said day the defendants were engaged carting bricks near Felstead, and in crossing a field the wheels of the cart got embedded in loose earth, and the horse was unable to draw them out. Anno y ed by this the defendants lighted some straw and I placed it under the belly of the horse, which though it caused fearful injuries, failed to cause the poor animal to move the load. Witnesses having deposed to the foregoing facts, Mr. Young, veterinary surgeon, was called to prove the extent of the injuries, and from his evidence it ap peared the wretched brute was covered with blisters over the entire length of the belly, each of which measured the size of a hen's egg, and the private parts were swollen to five times their natural size. Mr. Colam having pressed for heavy penalties, the chainnansaid there could be no excuse for the brutality which had been proved. Even if the horse had jibbed, as the defendants alleged, such horrible inhu manity could not be tolerated. Everyone knew that kind ness alone would cure jibbing. He should commit Laun drum, the elder defendant, to prison for three mouths hard labour, and Willis (the youth) for ono month. SEIZURE OF A LARGE QUANTITY OF AMMUNITION. —On Sunday the steamer Collins, Capt. Williamson, ar rived in the Mersey from St. Naza,re. She was yesterday seized by the Customs authorities because her manifest did not include a large portion of her cargo. The search of the officers resulted in the diScovery of 12C tons of shot and shell, of which there was no mention made iu her papers. She remains in the hands of the Customs authorities, who j await Government instructions. IC9 110 :NES. 10 10i 18 19 560 680 1 4 1 21 26 H 12 5r d 21 14 15 21 3 2 4 201 211 11 11 3} 31 35 31 21 3 39 41 5 3 41 3 31 41 21 1 d 33 40 lu 12 1 32 d 4 430 450 12i 176, 1° ' 17 18 5 8 6 7 g 10 74) 76 163 175 75 80 26 28 4 6 195 200 17 18 POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—This Day, MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A TROUBLESOME FELLOW IN A WORKHOUSE.—SamueI Withers, an inmate of the St. Martin's Workhouse, who has been a source of great trouble to the authorities, and has been several times charged with assaults, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt .witli assaulting Edward Barratt, an old and paralysed inmate of the workhouse. The complainant said that on Wednesday last he was laying the cloth on one of the tables for tea, the prisoner at the time sitting at another table writing. The prisoner looked savagely at him, and he said to the prisoner, " You'll know mo again," when the prisoner jumped up and struck him three times in the face, blackening both his eyes. Mr. Tyrwhitt inquired how it was that the prisoner was not charged before. Dark, the constable of St. Martin's Workhouse, said that on the complainant charging the prisoner with assault ing him the matter was put off for the board to decide v(hether the prisoner should be charged or not, and at.last they decided that he should be. The prisoner said the cloth was thrown over him and upset the ink on his writing, and that he acted on the im pulse of the moment, but was sorry for it. If ho was let off now he would leave the workhouse and never return. Another old man, and wooden-legged, said the prisoner had threatened to serve him worso than he had served Barratt, and he went in fear of him, the prisoner being a very quarrelsome man. Mr. Tyrwhitt said it was a wonder how a parcel of men who were so unfortunate as to be shut up in a work house could not be comfortable together. He would corn mit the prisoner for seven days for the assault on Barrett, and order him to find bail to keep the peace towards the man who hard lost his leg. 1011 5 100 et 20 '.04 too 1