The Sun. — London, England, 1866-09-05 00:00:00

--a.m. , P..........' L... l years ago, ireful wig niddle class, Iraestic rant- AND Slg- ual explains ;hew, r of hydro rth reading, ttters, while r deserve at übt Sunday.. ,tended by rning. • r by Pr inc e rice, (Troy° Churchill, 4ionday. Christian, Rugh, and 1 Waiting► church of and Chap- with the ually good the Prince , ort in th e he Duke 0 . , deer-stalk t bringing shown to Abergeldte a shooting. well-filled [pg. t 3 E - wa l es to the neigh 'ully dec ° 4 : Amongs" , g ....,--Fru° l , le Duke c)1 ess Louise , the 11°1!: and 51r ige, Major 61 Knollys, from gar s of Fife , Duff, t he Present 011 and V . 's' Lady F il^. Mr. Mon' 'orbes, pt. Baird, ti s tatione d nd a nunl isted prol continued ved. Af ter continue d broke uP., P r ince a nd Balmoral, • reeePti c , large arch' tely brow/ ; B a lmoral/ h e grollu 4 rs of jut °. g of rowa n arch; and the appea r. )2 flowed' ture, tivhil e Balmoral, Til ° Doni. the pilla r° msiderable 1 by 1 ' 1411 :: trice, r° Tb e ne 1:0 by 1'1, 13- 1 ,0 , , 1 The r o t r i sau le 4 r al his 110: 01 ie w ood° wro rocs i e die Aber ttl lu of tte , g Y 4 ' v fa° io oce l4 k e the " J , -- $.4 - Chu rchl l3J 'rive t e 3ai r o t 1 1‘r• i S l of ai 11 a t„ eD iog rilj` ONEY MARKET COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCZ, TWELVE O'CLOCK. • „ Th e mercantile community continue to negotiate as f e w,,, Securities as poss ibl e , b ecause th e id ea i s gene `"Y entertained that a reduction of another 1 or 13e , cent • will b e made i n the official minimum to norrow. Bankers and others have a plentiful sup- I . _Y of floati ng capital at the i r comman d , an d are 7 4 ous to obtain employment for it at about 11 per tent below the Bank rate. The report of the directors of the English and American Bank recommends a dividend on the de rsit of £5 per share, at the rate of 2s. 6d. per share, from available balance of £5,842 on the four m r I : °ll the working of the general business, which will eve £2,032 to be carried forward. Gold t o t h e amount of £91,000 in bars and 16,000 sovereigns was taken to the Bank of England yes terday. , 4 dividend of 5 p er cen t. h a s been declared by • t u e London General Omnibus Company. T he traffic receipts on the Atlantic and Great west ern Railway for the second week in August ain °ll nted to $131,088 against $145,000 in the co— rresPonding period last year, exhibiting a decrease in $ 13 ,912. The, receipts for the two first weeks n gust were $230,011 against $261,080 in 1865, J ° Wing a dimi nu tion of $31,069. From the Ist L u11:1 , 41 7 to the 16th August, the gross earnings ti red $3,315,471 against $2,922,543 in 1865, ° wing an increase of $392,928. A meeting has been held to-day of the English °Glut Stock Bank where a call was made of £4 per stare, payable on the 10th inst. Two o'CLocK. i A t the Paris Bourse to-day, according to Reuter's 6 e grate, the 3 per Cent. Rentes were dealt in at 9 f. 82e. and English Stock Market has presented a firm ' active appearance to-day, and the depreciation ex _Perienced d ur i ng th e l as t t w o days has been re- Speculators have been encouraged by the s.... eaB Y condition of monetary affairs to operate for a in prices, and the Funds have improved./ per ( 3 4 . Consols are 891 for money, and 891 1 for tober. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities t° 86187 k ; Exchequer Bills, 2s. dis. to 2s. prem f c k March, and par to 3s. prem. for June. IVO important alteration has taken place in the ~ oes for Foreign Stocks. Italian have advanced t° 55 ; Spanish Passive 1, to 23 1; but Turkish Per Cents. have declined 1, to 27k 4 ; Mexican 1 1 to 161 ; Sp an i s h C er tifi ca t es to 151 1; and r alilian Scrip 1, to 2 11 dis. Mexican (New) eettinue at 111 12, and Greek at 141 1. s peerican Shares are buoyant. Erie shares have k, to 46; 4; Illinois remain at 781'791 ; -4,1 'United States 5-20 Bonds at 722 73. Atlantic and Great Western Debentures have continued in active demand, and have risen another i Per cent., vi z ., to 70 72, and the Consolidated Mor tgage Bonds have also advanced 1, to 471 481. The deali ngs i n th e R a ilway Share Market have bee n_ to a f a i r ex t en t, and a firmer tone has pre- Great Western and North-Western have 2 11 t , 13 ,, m ved ss. ; London, Chatham, and Dover 1 ; l culaed 15s. ; Great. Northern A Stock £1 ; and ri ghtoo 21 10s. ; while Lancashire and Yorkshire ft l'e declined 55., and Metropolitan ss. at The Foreign and Colonial lines remain inactive , a bout previous rates. at 'ultok and Miscellaneous Shares are quiet, but at solaclY rates. Alliance are dealt in at 21i 2 ; Con a°'ldation a t 51 1 ; L on d on an d C oun ty 651 66 ; I , ll c l Union of London at 48. Anglo-American elegraph have improved to 151 ; Atlantic Tele :4.111'11 8 per Cents. to 882, 921; and Telegraph Con tict ion and Maintenance to 141 151. I3RITIS FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. a be GOVERNMENT FUNDS. D r Cont. Consols I „„ 1:1 °. Account, Aug. 9 B9l } trr Cent. Reduced B7 1 61 x d tl''''' 3 per Cent B6/ 71 x d ew 3 1 Per Cent. Jan. 1894 — D o Dper Cent. Jan. 1873 — uit o ies, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 o. for 30 yrs, Telegraph), A ire sth April, ° (Rod Sea ug., 1908 — kk t s March. June. -e uequer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 per Cent .2 dis 2pm par 3pm Do. .£500 la Do £lOO and £2OO t is tik of England Stock, 51 per Cent — 41 ° Account I.,,„ ll `rulks GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Tall Stock, 101 per Cent., AprillB74 — h -o • 5 per Cent. July, 1870 --°• 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 ,e. Certificates _ ' l , O . Enlaced Paper 4 per Cent — - 1 ) ° . 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 1 )-° 5 i per Cent., May 1879 — b°• Deb 5 r Cent., Aug. 1873 ~ — to. Bonds,4per Cent, £l,OOO — 0 . under £l,OOO POREItiN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. krgentine Republic, 6 per Cent., £l5 pd — pm kw.. 13r 7„.ia1l Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 u -Lan p Cent D°. 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 — Do. 1863 1 , Do. 1865 --' °•Account 1)110. £lOO Bonds 701 111 1 ,:"' Scrip, £65 paid r \ - " 0 3 Ayres 6 per Cent — ...t 0 A D ° . account — ea4'o £lOO Bonds — ° 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) E n ift ° 6 per Cent _ c 4 } per Cent _ I ,°. 6 per Cent _ " S • •£7spaid t 0 1 0 Scrip, e tib 'nblan 6 per Cent. — b , i 4. e,6 per Cent. R E:', s °, 3 per Cent, 1825 — 14, 1 - 0 . per Cent., 1864 ... b ilbtan Principalities t 0. Account 'wader New Consolidated, 1 per Cent l2 Drovisional Land Warrant 0 • , Pl, ... 4 Lleferred 7Ptian 7 per Cent 0 £lO Bonds Sed Issue 4 ' Do. 1864 B7l D 0 4100 Bonds I ,°• Gov ernment R a il way D e b en t ures B3l u r " o . 480 paid eek 6 Cents 1824-5, ex Coupons —dis D o. per ~ Do ' C 41,0uc0 cunt Ipons t*A:L'• Account itZreala 5 per Cent. e o ° 5 per Cent 1865 y, • Account kr•lifaremmana Railway — le a° 3 per Cent n Do 1864 trout-° 6 Per Cent. Anglo-French evidean 6 per Cent., £3O paid 4ish Imperial 5 per Cent e r lY Granada ~,"'0 2 per Cent l3 ' lO . Deferred p •'-'0 Land Warrants , (Hectares) 11 '1W-in t 5 per Cent. 1865 °. Account D D ° 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) • 1 .,° 4 } per Cent., 1862 "orto Account c h guese 3 er 11 Cent., 1853 1, -- ° A 0 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, 88 441 31 ,'-' : ccount . l o sia, o. 5 Per Cent., 1822, £ St 1) 0 It per Cont. 1850 • Do 4 per Cent., 1860 D_ 3 per Cent. 1859 b° 5 per Cent. 1862 — 134 5 per Cent. 1864 — • t oaian 5 per Cent la (). Account Palli sh 3 Lent ! P o : l i 4 ;e c E Pe u D i n e rt t ferred — D 'assive — p -'0 Account 231 3 "Paw 1. o 8 .1 Cert. of Coup not funded Sw ett ° Account l5l 1 i) 43 . .. , 4 per Cent. 1'4,,Z - i 1 ,4 per Cent. 1864 I) s 6 per Cent. 1854 — 0: ' Account D 6 Per C ent . 1858 bu• A ccount Dos°4l-00 Bonds 1)„ „ Per Cent. 1862 D c Ac count _ 511 1 D ° -tlOO Bonds Per Cent., 1863 — Do IPer Cent., 1865, paid up Scrip — D , 0 d ceount v • ' Per Cent. Guaranteed — Lo zliel 3 per ent. Do ' 6 Accountt., 1862 D O. • 6 „Per Cent, 1864 — Aq ui ., l 'ivideuns on the above payable in London. 11 .01,, 5 , par Cent., Ex. 10 Florins -. 4J Ilt ' i • --- 1 4 Per c t Ex 25f. c o. ~,, en „ . . 1 _ Do A:4 pc- Cent. Ex. 12 Gm , Um • k,ertificates .6044• A .5 e Pot' Cent.' . 1861, En. 25f. Coutit C o Ilsol s , II TWO O'CLOCK. ' m o. A %ley Ditto o e r o u be t r B9/ i 891 f SHARE MARKETS,—This Day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Share' Railways. Closing Business r rice. I done. auu .bliceter Caledonian Cambrian ..... Cork and 8and0n...... Cornwall Dublin & Belfast June Dun„Perib,& A b.Junc &London, berip Certi 87 89 128 130 40 45 13 15 4 6 67 70 70 72 Do. f3lasgow .S 5 S. Western! Great Eastern, Ord. s Lll.l 118 I'2 31 3 3 5 6 Do. E. Angl: st. No. 2 lreat North of Scotland ireat Northern Do. A stook Do. B stock 122 121 1.13 131 Do. New, is. at 25 pu. GtS, and W. of Ireland Gt. Western -Original Do. 6. Val. Rail gua. Do. South Wales Do. W. Mid.—Oxford Do. Newport Do. Hereford Lancashire &Yorkshire L.,ndon and Blackwall Lon., Brigh., & S Coast Lon., Chat, and Dover 92 94 69 37 39 34 35 125 i 127 90 92 2) 22 Do. Metrop. Ex. A Lun. & North Western Lon. k South Wester'. Man., Stmt., ( Lincoln Metropolitan. Do. New 122 ;23 80 68 ! 60 el :31 13! 2 3p i 11 11i 97 99 Do. Extension Metropolitan District. Do. do. do. I Do. and St. John's W'd Midland Do. £9 Share 121 121 i It 2 c 91 06 Derby Aid Kent . North British Do. Ed., Ptlr., & Dun th. Eastern—Berwie k Do. (.4.1%1•E purohnek Do. Leeds Do. York Dc. Carlisle . . 58 60 5 s 0 109 111 Do. Stock.& Darling. Do. do. 1860-61 North London Do. do. 1864 ... Do. do. 1865 North Staffordshire N. & S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot. N. E , Aber. stock Do. Scot, Mid. st.)clt Shropshire Union South Devon south Eastern taines, Wok., & Wok raft' Vale Do. C Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny Waterloo & Whiteha I West Cornwall BRITISH YOSSE Atlantic& StLawrence Flom., Baroda, & Cen.ln. gu. 5 per cent... ..... Do. F shares ........ Buffalo & Lake Huron Do. Preference ...... Buff.,Brant,dz Goderich 6 p.c. 1872-3- 1......• • Calcutta & 8. E., lim.. :at e Town & Dock, gu. Demerara, 7 p.c. per. pi . East. Bengal, gu., 5 do East Indian , gu. 5 p.c. Do. J Extension .. Gland Trunk of Cantu - 14. Do. • Equip Mort, Bonds I Cha'rge 6 p.is Do. Ist Pref. Bonds Do. do deferred De. 2d Pref. Bonds Du. do. deferred Do. 3d Pref. stock Do. do. deferred Do. 4th Pref. stook Do. do. deterred Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c. Po. Gua. 5 per cent Do. New gua. 5 p. c South of India gua. 5 per cent Do. 41 per cent Do Great Wes. of Canada.. ] Do. New Do. 6 p. c. Bds. pay. 1873 Do. 54 do. pay. 1877-8 Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.o Do. 41 do Do. la do Do. Fifth Extension Melb. Cor. 6 p. c. finds. Mel. da Hudson's Bay N. da,6pc lstpf.bs. &bade ..... A Do. Delhi Do do Do. Puniaub.... Do.lndus St.Flot `'"' 65 67 97 99 34 35 9 10 p 120 122 1 2p 1 2p 73 75 111 114 152 156 74 AO 45 47 70 7t 8i 9i 14 lab 2 3): 99 iO2 53 65 ISIONS. bi b 6 us 100 Id ip 4 4i 74 tia 76 80 60 65 100 102 991 ICO6 99 101 20 22 86 89 56 68 48 52 50 55 45 SO 40 45 31 3J 24 24 24 26 106 107 li 1 95 100 91 93 141 14i 54 3 tit 93 83 85 II Old 97 98 89 01 84 86 8. 8•' 96 93 94 (. 1 6 1} 1 , 95 97 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. British Columbia, 6 per cent., Dee. 31, 1872. 100 Can.Gov.6p.c.Ja.& July 1877-84 Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug l ,O 93 91 Do. sp. c. Mar. & Sept 100 91 96 Do. sp. c. Jan. & July 100 75 77 784 Do. sp. e. Inscribed sk 100 75 77 Cape G.Hope, 6 p.c.1873 100 99 101 Do.Apl.& Oct ,1890-1900 100 102 101 Do. do; 1880-9 lOO 102 101 Do. Jan. &J uly, 1890-91 100 100 103 Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and 15 Oct., 1900 lOO 86 8) 894 Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p.c 100 100 102 Do. 1878, do. 100 105 1 7 31auritius, Bp. 0,187 i, Jan. and July Do. 1878 Do. 1882, May 15, Nov.l:, 10.) 101 103 Do. 1895, Feb. & Aug lOO 103 105 Natal Soy. 6 per cent loo 97 100 N. 8.G0v.6 p.c.Ja.2LJuly 100 93 02 N. S.W. Gov. 5 p•c.,186t, 100 90 92 Do. 5 p.c. 1871 to 1870 100 110 95 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1892 100 83 B 5 New Zealand, 6p. cent 100 92 91 Do. 5 per cent.... Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. o sterling, 1875 l9O 94 96 Queensland Gov. 6p. c. 100 90 93 93 3. Aus.Gov. 6 p,o 1868-9 100 Do. 1878 & upwards 0 102 101 Vio,Gov. 6 p.c. Ja & July 100 - - Do. do, April & Oot lOO 103 105 IC7 BRITISH MINES. 2 Cam. ConsoL Gold, Um. 1 Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated. 30 t 3 14 Devon G. Cons. (Tavist. 1 400 420 Drake walls 2.1.0 I East Bassett (Illogan) 294 14 16 Oast Caradon 2.11.6 6 8 East Cara. Brea 3/ 14 2 Kast Grenville 2.14.0 2 3 East Gunnislake. 8.3.6 - East Lovell 3.9.0 64 74 E. W'l Russell (Tavistk 10.8.0 8 34 31 Gam.& StAubyn(Gwen. 66 4 Great L'txey, limited.. all 19 20 194 Great South Tolgus.... 0.14.6 1 14 Great Wheal Busy 14.9.6 f 1 G. Wheal Vor (Heist .6 40 21 22 25/ Grenville 8.18.0 11 2 Herod's Foot ilingston Downs 5.10.6 31 31 Margaret (Uny Lelant 13.17.6 4 6 Marke Valley 4.10.6 3/ 41 4 M.wyndy Iron Ore, lito 31 24 14d New Seton - North Roskear N.Wh'l Bassettallogan 4.4.0 North Wheal Crotty 2.13. t t 1 Pr ited osper Un _ Providence Uny Lelant 10.6.7 20 25 S. Caradon (St. Cleer) l/ 325 875 South Condurrow 3.2.0 it Z S.Wheal Fran. (Illogan 18.18.9 174 44 —. Stray Park 35.15.6 • Tin Croft 5 Vigra and Clogan, lim all 3 5 West Bassett (Mogan W. Caradon (Liskeard 9 6 7 ‘VestChiverton West Seton 474 115 125 Wheal Bassett 'Mogan 54 80 85 Wheal Buller (ftedruth 16 10 15 _ Wheat Mary Ann (Men. 8 3 b Wheal Seton Wheal Trelawney (m B . 5 . 1 7. 0 9 11 eltltleEltENCE rstiAlllob. Bristol and Exeter 4 per cent stock, 86/ Mid Consolidated, 6 per cent. stock, Ditto, Bristol and Birm., 6 per cent., Ditto 41 per cent., rd., We North Eastern, West Hartlepool Harbour and Rail., 791 --- - PREFERENCE SHARES AND 5T0011.15. Great Eastern 41 per neut. pi., Ditto, 5 per cent., 1882, 94} Midland A and B £5 pi, 1014 South Eastern, 6 per tout. Charing-eross, 1863, 95} LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Nottingham and Grantham It. and C, 91 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San Francisco, 11,n., gun. 7 per cent., 14 Great Luxembourg, 1411 FOREIGN MINES. St. John del Rey, 11m., Vi 9 BANHO; Alliance. lim.. 211 Australasia, 681 8 Chartered Bank of India, Australia. and China. 181 Chartered lier. of India, London. and China, 371 City, 16 Consolidated Bank, Um., 5i Hindustan, China. and Japan, Lim., 3/ Imperial Bank, lim.. 251 Imperial Ottoman, 91 1 Land Mortgage Bank of India, lim., 3 II London and River Plate. Ditto, issued at 11 pm., 12/ London and County. 651 6 London Joint Stock, 4sl National Provincial of England, Ditto. ? d and 3d issue. 321 Oriental Bank Corporation, 18 71 Provincial of Ireland. 80 Union of London, 48 DOCKS. London and St. Katharine. 70 MISCELLAN I COUN: Anglo-American Telegraph, 141 151 Atlantic Telegraph, S per cent. gua. lim., 85 92) 88) Berlin Water Works. lim., 111 Bo'. bay Gas, Um., ) Canada Company, 78 Credit Foncler and Slobiller of England, 5} I Crystal Palace, 57 ) Eastern Assam Tea, lim . 8 Nast Indian Land Credit and Finance, lim., I) Ebbw Vale, 121 Fore-street Warehouse, Um,. 101 Gen. Credit and Finance of London, lim., 413 Hudson's Bay, 161 1 International Financial Society, lim., 4 Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour), 5 London General Omnibus Company, Um, i) Nrtional Discount company, 141 Panama, N. Zealand, and Australian R. Mall, Rm., 7 Peninsula and Oriental steam, 00 Ditto, new, 4..) Quebrada Land, Rail, and Mining, lira., 1/ lihymney Iron, -- Ditto, new, 74 7 Submarine Telegraph, 53 Telegraph Conbtructiun and Maintenance, liro., Ditto (£l5), 141 35} We understand that a marriage is arranged and will shortly be celebrated between Mr. John F. W. Drum mond, brother of the late Sir James Williams Drummond, of Hawthornden and Edwinsford, Bart., aid Miss Emma L. M. Thornton, daughter of the late Mr. Butler Edmund Thornton, of Whittington, Lancashire. 21f e 58i i 21 21 1 21 21 1i 37 i 11 I 11 1 1 241 i 4 9 108 9 Si 102 i 2 354 1 56 i 1021 2 211 1081 71 THE SON, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 5, 1866. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS--This Day. (Before Mr. Sergeant Dowling.) ROBBING A SAILOR. Emma Williams, 15 ; Catherine Haley, 10 ; and Jane Anderson, 23, were indicted with stealing a purse contain ing the sum of £3 10s., the property of Abel Batson. The prisoners, it appeared, met the prosecutor, who is a sailor, in the neighbourhood of Poplar, and entered into conversation with hini. They eventually adjourned to a public-house and began drinking, and the result was that, _ . after some more spirits had been consumed, the prosecutor lost his purse, and the prisoners were charged with steal ing it. The jury found all three prisoners guilty. The learned judge sentenced Haley and Anderson to six months' imprisonment, and Williams to imprisonment for one month, and throe years in a reformatory. • Anderson, on hearing the sentence, said the prosecutor had given false evidence, end Williams left the dock im ploring mercy. • BUTTER. (From the Saturday Review.) "Butter! butter! I think I've heard that name before !" Lord Dundreary. There are occasions in our lives when most of us have had to administer butter, and to administer it more or less unsparingly, and the art of buttering is accordingly an art which it is well worth the while of all of us to study. Butter is of various kinds, and the different kinds ought to be kept quite distinct, and each sort requires its own special manipulation. There is the marriage-breakfast butter, and the after-dinner butter, and the funereal but ter. The first of the three does not demand any genius of a high order. Every ono knows, whom a young lady is married, that some one has got to dilate on the virtues of the bridegroom and the beauties of the bride; and even if both are limited, there is always a family fogy who can be brought 'to drink lifm3.df over afternoon champigno into a species of maudlin admiration of matrimony in general, and of the young couple who are performing in particular, and who is roaly to assort, from a long awl intimate knowledge of both parties, that Au gustus Brown is the one fortunate b3ing who deserves to be trusted by heaven with the happiness and destiny of . _ _ Sophonisba Smith. Funereal butter is a little more diffi- cult to manage. The duty of erecting oratorical tomb stbnes to the departed requires tact and judgment, and is not usually confided to a casual speaker. There is some- hung historical about the affair, and spectators like to see he customary honours done well, and with judgment. There is no one, for example, who can follow a contem porary to the grave liko Mr. Disraeli. He is the hearse- horse of the Conservative party, and on occasions of state deaths is trotted out by common consent, in sable trap pings, to conduct the ceremonial in due form and with proper solemnity. An after-dinner panegyric is the hardest of the three labours. When a man is married, sympathy is easily comm.mded ; _and when a man dies, every one is pleased to think that the most is to be made of his valuable points, forno one, asPericlos tells us, is jealous or envious of the dead. Sentiment at such times comes in and helps the orator considerably, and few are keen to mark the defects of the panegyrist who praises either dead people or matrimonial turtle-doves above their exact de serts. But an after-dinner puff is exposed to a very diffe rent ordeal. It has to be read by jealous and critical eyes next morning. Speeches look very poorly over the tea urn which aro pronounced over the bottle, and no one cares to endorse about his neighbour all . the lavish encomium that has been bestowed on him overnight by sympathetic topers. The butter spread on after-dinner toasts is there fore a subject on which too much attention never can be vent, and whenever we come across a great master of the craft, it is as well to pause, and to investigate wherein the secret of his skill resides. There have been two or three remarkable after-dinner puffs during the last couple of months. There was Mr. Disraeli's discussion at the Mansion-house, in the course of which he took occasion to style the King and Queen of Belgium "amiable and accomplished" sovereigns. Every one thought that it was rather hard on a youn g king to call him goodnatured so publicly, and without the least provocation. Such a commendation is not a panegyric of a high class, and if Mr. Disraeli had been engaged in his more congenial occupation of burying Caesar instead of praising him, perhaps he would not have been cruel enough to finish off a crowned head with a cold suggestion of his great affability and softness. We also have had Mr. Glad stone's after-dinner views about Mr. Cobden, and about Lord Russell; and we have had that indefatigable gentle man the Lord Mayor upon Mr. Gladstone and everybody else. Never was there such a Lord Mayor for poetry and sentiment and butter, and ho does credit to the aldermen among whom he was raised. But perhaps the most splen did instance of the post-prandial puff was Professor Kings ley, the other day, on ex-Govornor Eyre. We are not going to enter now on tho fine moot point whether Mr. Eyre ought to bo hung, or whether he ought to have a statue — a difficult moral problem, which- only can be solved by a sort of docent compromise. Whatever is bis just portion whether it be the lot of Haman or of Mordecai—one thing is certain, that Professor Kingsley, like Jael, gave Mr. Eyre last week his butter in a lordly dish. It is always pleasant and delightful to have plenty of butter ;oing on such occasions, and few things contribute more to the comfort and satisfaction of the evening than the application of universal butter to every one, from the House of Peers and, the British Constitution down to the ladies. If you wish to butter somebody successfully start by buttering everybody. And this is what Professor Kingsley did so admirably. He buttered his country, and his audience, and right gloriously did he butter the House of Peers, coupled with " the most ancient and honoured came of the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot." If he had boon chaplain to a Duke—which, indeed, for anything we know, the famous Professor may be—he could not have spoken more nobly or more feelingly of that great body, and of what we owe to them, and of how greatly it is to be wished that Mr. Eyre could only be turned into one of the order. It would seem that, for a warm, loving, Elizabethan reverence for a peer, ORO may safely depend upon a pro fessor of muscular piety. He fears God, ho honours the King, and ho worships the British aristocracy. He likes a :ord when he sees him, and feels no scruple at telling him so to his face ; and whatever the faults and virtues of the House of Lords, the House of Lords is only second—so says the Professor—in value and sacredness to that most ,Marry l aboutethis t i at blood,themithe excellentnobility, butter n sacred of all institutions, monarchy itself. If we want to know why the House of Lords is such a grand institution, Professor Kingsley informs us a little further on, in a pas sage which shows what real Eversley butter can ac complish. The powe r o f the British aristocracy, he says, consists " not me re ly i n s ti c ki n g to its ancient blood," but adopting int o it s ran k s a ll th e genius, all the talent, all the virt ue, an d h e was a f ra id a grea t p ar t o f th e beauty of the cou n t ry. " Wh en we see a c l ergyman w h o i s looked up to by b eer -d r i n ki ng an d t urnp ik e - roa d- wa lki ng young heroes at C am b r id ge convers i ng i n thi s glowing fashion yto co o m ne m se o lf n , sense and unrom an ti c b utter manu f acturer wou ld h ave boueer can indoeniedy.' say A and been e to s thealarmedancient s am time as as idea sticking depicting ntga king chtehe (whateverr al cheerily i h s atto and t e mayra heartily cy a t one mean)o new blood as wall. Sticking to old blood might seem to vulgar minds incon s i s t ent with the a d opt i on o f new. M r. Kingsley, however, thinks that such a feat as this can bo performed by the nobility of Great Britain, of which he saw bright representatives around him in the Persons of Lord Cardigan, Lord Hardwicke, and the Earl of Shrewsbury. The House of Peers, accord ing to Mr. Kingsley, has got " all " the genius, talent, and virtue of the country, and "nearly all" the beauty ; and any ono who has the pluck to utter this re markable sentiment in a mixed audience, with an air of moral exaltation, is the very man to be made purveyor of butter to the Royal Family and to the nobility and gentry of the greatest nation on the globe. How butter for the House of Peers could be indirectly turned into butter for Mr. Eyre as well remained to be seen. The connection was not obvious, but Mr. Kingsley's unrivalled imagination invented a coupling link between the ex-Governor of Jamaica and the most sacred institution in the realm but one. In twenty-five years ("if God gives him health," adds Mr. Kingsley, in the pious tone of a man who never forgets his D.V.'s), Governor Eyre is to be a peer himself. He is to go where all the talent is, and three-quarters of th o beauty. And when he gets there ho will be not the least noble in that ancient assembly. Give him twenty-five years and the Divine blessing, and Mr. Eyre may yet be a baronet or a duke. We can well comprehend how at such a brilliant prophecy all Southampton warmed up into en thusiasm, and testified by discriminate applause that this was the sort of after-dinner butter which their soul desired for the ex-Governor of Jamaica, and for the noble magnates who honoured the company by their presence. A man who goeth about—as Hooker might have said— to butter noblemen and gentlemen, if he is quite wise, will not descend too completely into detail, or give too minute reasons for his spontaneous admiration. if Mr. Kingsley failed at all in this buttering, this perhaps was a cause of his failure. Eulogising the pluck, the enterprise, the hardi hood, the temper, the endurance, the foresight, and the skill of Mr. Eyre, as exemplified in his conduct in Australia, "when he walked seven hundred miles round the head of the Gulf of Carpentaria," this, he said, "proved him in the highest degree to possess that English spirit which had carried the Anglo-Saxon tongue round the world, and would carry it back again." One sees how butter should not be tempted to descend into explanations or minutiae. Governor Eyre may be, and we are ready to believe has been, the sort of man who walks 1,000 miles in 1,000 hours. Satan in the hymn trembles when he sees the humblest sinner on his knees, but Satan in reality, as stalwart be lievers are aware, is much more terrified in these days at the sight of the walking Christian on his legs. The vir tues of pedestrianism aro not, however, so universally acknowledged e.s to be confessedly the brightest jewel in a civil servant's crown ; and Mr. Kingsley's butter no sooner began to descend into this sort of mus cular detail than it began to fall into bathos. He gives too literal an interpretation to the Scrip. turul figure of walking with God, which he identifies ap parently with stiff exercise in the Gulf of Carpentaria. It is pleaban • t to worship with Mr. Kingsley at the shrine either of a. peer or a pedestrian; the two beings who, in his oyes, stand very properly at the head of all creation. But butter, to bear the test of the next morning's news paper, should not appear to bo the capricious result of a crotchety admiration of a fellow creature's legs. Mr. Kingsley, indeed, avers that, front what he has heard of Mr. Eyre at the Gulf of Carpentaria, he is willing to take him on trust about Jamaica; but if Mr. Kingsley had stuck to butter of a more general kind, he would not have given the enemy occasion to blaspheme; for the Psalmist hints, as Professor Kingsley should remember, that there is a limit even about delighting in any man's legs. One of the reasons why the manufacture of butter is so thoroughly agreeable is that, in buttering others, one always has an opportunity of slily buttering oneself. As a rule, men approve most vociferously of those qualities which they wish to be considered to possess. Mr. Kingsley has written and talked so much and so romantically about the grand spirit of chivalry, and pluck, and g3od temper, and gallantry, fair play, and when he brings up the old vir tues and drapes them about Governor Eyro, one feels in clined to fancy for a minute or so that Governor Byre is only a lay figure taken and used by hini as a peg on which ' to hang one more sermon about the characteristics which Mr. Kingsley so ostentatiously bepraises in and out of season. Butter of this description has a professional savour about it which excites a passing suspicion in the mind. It tastes of the sermon a little too much to be perfectly pleasant. It is not the good wholesome butter of men of the world, but a clerical butter which is meant to do us good. Good advice taken in this sort of medium is nothing more or less than physic in disguise. And Pro fessor Kingsley's panegyric of Mr. Eyre really strikes one as valueless for all critical purposes, so fara.s the conduct of Mr. Eyre is concerned, and as chiefly useful to impress on the British public the gallantry and chivalij of Professor Kingsley. All this we aro trained by Mr. Kingsley's books to be willing, for the sake of argument, to admit already ; and to have it over again in the shape of exaggerative laudations of a gentleman whose faults have been both patent and prnicious, and in Pindaric odes about the British aristocracy seems a waste of time. AN OLD AREA SNEAK. John Durkin, a well-iresed man, and Elizabeth Coley were indicted for breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Richard Ward, and stealing therefrom two gold brace lets and a variety of other articles of jewellry,the property of Richard Ward. The prisoner, it appeared, entered the house of the pro secutor by some means, supposed the area door, and pro ceeded upstairs and stole the property. As he was de scending the staircase he was met by the footman, and on being questioned, he made a dash past him and attempted to escape. A very exciting chase ensued, when the pri soner was captured with the jewellry in his possession. The only evidence against the woman was, that she was seen in the company of the man previous to the robbery. On the direction of the judge, the jury acquitted Caley, and Durkin having pleaded guilty, the judge asked whether anything was known of him. Lockerby said tho prisoner was first in prison in 1848, since which time he had been in and out no less than thirteen times. He had been repeatedly flogged, and on one occasion he assaulted one of the officers of the county prison, from which he escaped. The learned Judge told the prisoner he was a most dan gerous person to let remain loose on society. He had re ceived various sentences varying from two days to two years, and all to no avail, as the present was his fourteenth appearance in a court of justice. He appeared to be one of those persons denominated at ea sneaks,who, taking advan tage of . the temporary absence of tho servants, entered houses, and carried off the first thing they could lay their hands on. It was highly desirable that such robberies as that to which ho pleaded guilty should be punished in a severe manner, and therefore he should sentence him to 10 years' penal servitude. AN IRISH ROW. A young man, named Griffin, was indicted with attempt ing to grievously assault Cornelius Crawley. From the evidence it appeared that the alleged attempt was made during the continuance of a disturbance which took place in Seven-dials. A number of Irish witnesses were examined, but their evidence was so confused that the jury acquitted the prisoner without waiting for the summing up of the learned Judge. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. BOW-STREET. THE PRUDENC - -; OF CI vll.rrY.—John Joseph Harver, conductor of one of the omnibuses of the London General Company, appeared to a summons at the instance of Mr. John Henry, a gentleman co anected with the Press, charg ing bim with delaying his vehicle in the street• The complainant said that, on Tuesday morning, he got into defendant's omnibus at Charing-cross to ride to the City. The omnibus stopped for fully one minute at the corner of King William-street. HaN ing just come up from the country with copy which he was on his way to deliver at the newspaper offices, he wished to proceed without delay. He said to the defendant "What are you waiting for ?" The defendant replied, "To ge:, a load of course. What do you think ?'' Witness told defendant ho should take out a summons ; and got out at the corner of Wel lington -street. Witness would not, perhaps, have taken this step, but that haN:ng, frequently been annoyed by these de'ays, the conductors making a regular practice of stop ping at the corner of King William-street and Agar-street, and sometimes at Bedford-street also. He had wrii;ten to the secretary, and had received au answer by no mans courteous. Now, as there were notices posted up in the omnibuses, directing that in the event of any misconduct on the part of the drivers or con ductors complaint should be addressed to the secretary, it was really to be expected that at least persons should be treated with civility when they acted in accordance with that notice. In answer to the defendant, the witness said ho was the only inside passenger. Another gentleman, howeVer, said that ho had got into the omnibus at Spring-gardens, and he did not perceive any undue delay. Ile thought if there had been any he must have noticed it, as he was obliged to be at his office punctually, so that the loss of one minute would be incon venient. He had ridden with defendant for 16 years. Mr. Flowers said this gentleman might not have noticed the delay, but the complainant spoke to it positively. At the same time, it was very probable that if the secretary had written a civil letter these proceedings would not have been taken. As the defendant had received an excellent character, pe-haps it might bo a sufficient caution to him to order him to pay the costs. MARLBOROUGII-STREET. AN UNFORTUNATE AND HER PERSECUTOR . — Daniel White, described as a groom, was brought up on a war rant by Rosekilly, one of the warrant officers, charged as follows : Mr. Sayer, from the office of Mr. E. Lewis, Great Marl borough-street, appeared for the complainant, and said the prisoner had lived on her prostitution, and because she would not live any longer with him, on the 28th August ho followed her about, and threatened to do for her, and on her running away he pursued her, and on coming up with her he kicked her violently in the groin. A summons was taken out against the prisonor, and since then he had urged others to molest the complainant, and therefore a warrant was applied for. Mary Ann Jessup, the complainant, said that she had lived with the prisoner, and h•tid a child by him. She had kept him by her prostitution, and because she would not keep him any longer ho came up to her on the 20th ult., in Regent-street, and said that he would do for her, and that ho did not care if ho hung for her. On the advice of some gentlemen and females she ran away, and the pri soner pursued her, and on coining up with her in W lad mill-street kicked her in the groin, and then ran away. She then applied for a summons and subsequently for a w arrant. . Catherine Mason, a young woman, proved seeing the pri Boner knock the complainant down, and then kick her. Mrs. Bowen, of 21, Lichfield street, said that on ono oc casion the prisoner came to the house where the complain ant lodged, and broke up a table, a clock, and other arti cles, leaving the complainant without a thing'in the place. Mr. Tyrwhitt said that after the prisoner bad done the complainant every mischief he could, and lived on her prostitution, he thought he could knock her about as he liked, but he was mistaken. The prisoner was a cowardly wretch, and would be committed for three months, with hard labour. VIOLENT STORM.—FALL OF A HOUSE.— (This Day).—During the early part of this (Wednesday) morning, and the whole of last night a terrific storm of wind and rain took place, not only in the metropolis but also in the country districts for many miles away, doing in the brief space of 12 or 13 hours an incalculable amount of mischief. An extraordinary accident took place, in the premises of Mr. Thos. King, an engineer, No. 9, Gosset street, Southwark. It appears that Mr. and Mrs. King were out at the time, and upon a sudden blast of wind springing up the inmates felt the building crack, and rock like a ship in distress. An occupant cried out" The house is going to fall, for God's sake run into the street." The command was instantly obeyed, and fortunate it was, the whole building fell, demolishing furniture and everything else in the place. THE ST. LEGER.—Some master mind proposed that there should be on Doncaster Town-Moor a race in which a horse should only take part once, and all the com petitors be of the same age. Six subscribers were found, and the race was firit won in 1776 by the Marquis of Rock ingham's Allabuculla. At the race-ordinary next year, when the entries were being made, it was proposed that the race should be called " the St. Leger," after the colonel of that name, "Handsome Jack," then resident at Park hill, near Doncaster. The proposition was accepted with acclamations. The name of his seat is also commemorated by the Park-hill Stakes, for three-yr-old fillies, now run on the last day of the meeting. The Leger was run on the Monday for the last time in 1824. Like the Derby, it is now run on the Wednesday. *rho Derby, a similar stake for south country horses, was not established until 1780, and it was 20 years before the winner of the Derby won the Leger.—Once a Week. BANQUET IN DUBLIN TO MR. JOHN BRIGHT, M.P.—Wo understand a letter was received this day (Mon day) by Alderman J. B. Dillon, from Mr. John Bright, M.P., in which he expresses his willingness to comply with the requisition inviting him to a public banquet in Dublin.—Dublin Evening Post. FATAL ACCIDENT. -- A fatal accident occurred yesterday to a workman employed at Woolwich Dockyard named Philip Shapland. It appeared that the deceased was at work, with other men, upon the steam troopship Mcgona, now in the harbour preparing for sea, when he fell into the water, and was drowned, although every effort was made for his rescue. Tho body has not yet been re covered. THE FATAL OCCURRENCE AT OTTERY ST. MARY. —An inquest has been held on the bodies of the six per sons who lust their lives by the fall of a chimney at Ottery SL Mary, and a verdict of accidental death has been re turned, The event has naturally caused great gloo.n in the town. Sufferings at Sea. On the 4th of May the New York ship Hornet was burned at sea, in North lat. 2 deg. 20 min. West long. 112 deg. 8 min., about 1,000 miles due south from Cape St. Lucas, Lower California, and 2,500 miles east of llawa!i. In reference to this event the Honolulu Commercial of June 30 says : " Captain Mitchell distributed the men into three boats, according to their capacity. In the long boat with him were the two passengers, the third mate, and 11 seamen. 'The provisions and water were all equally distributed among the three boats during the first right, masts fittcd, and sails cut out for them, as well as circumstances and materials would permit. Being in the track of Ca"fornia-boand vessels, Captain Mitchell concluded it best to head north-west, in the same course, hoping to sight some passing ship. The two quarter boats were taken in tow by the long boat, and thus they started off in search of EA-me mode of deliverance. The second day frequent light showers occurred, and some four gal lons of water were obtained, to add to their small stock. The - winds were "ght and baffling, and the sun fell with scorching rays on their unprotected heads. The fourth day the course was changed for Clarion Island, located in long. 114 W., lat. 18 deg. 30 min. ; but owing to strong winds and heavy sea, the boats were unable to fetch up to it. On the fifth, sixth, and seventh days six dolphins, a bonita, and tu7tle were caught, and divided among the three boats, giving the crew plenty of raw meat ; but as they had no salt they were unable to keep it. All the boats' crews wero now put on an allowance of a gill of water, half a biscuit, and half a raw potato twice a day. But when it rained all hands were priv;leged to drink all the water they could catch. For the next 13 days the winds continued light and baffling, the long boat towing the other two all the while. On the 17th day out two boobies' were caught, which were divided among the boat's crews. When 18 days out, under a strong trade wind, it was found impossible for the long boat to continue towing the others, as the strain and jerking was so severe as to endanger her, and Capt. Mitchell deci lcd to cast off the mate's boat, which was done in long. 114 W., lat. 13 N. Three days after it was decided, for the same reason, to cast off the second mate's boat, and after coming alongside, d'.viding the beggarly rem nant of stores, and bidding each other adieu, they cast off, all bing in good spirits. Up to this time the three boats were still in sight of each other, each having a navigator in charge, and heading on the same course. That night they parted company, and the two mates' boat 3 have not since been heard from. After reaching long. 117 W., lat. 17 N., Capt. Mit chell. decided to head for 'American Group,' located, according to Bowditch, in lat. 17 N., long. 133 . 30 W. The boat spent several days cruising over the position, but found no signs of land. Thus far they had endeavoured to keep in the usual track of California-bound clippers, in hope of meeting a passing sail. But failing to find land here, they headed for Hawaii, distant 1,200 miles. At this time they had no meat, and nothing to eat but the bare bones of the ham and the canvas it was rolled in, with their regular two gills of water. Pieces of this canvas and the staves of a butter keg, which had a saline re" 3h to them, served as the main stand by, wh"e the leather of their boots was scraped off, soaked in water so as to make the leather soft. This served as their soup. For dessert they ate pieces of cotton sh"t and hand kerchiefs. By some accident there was a supply of tobacco in the boat, which served to allay thei th"st, and may have been a principal means of pre serving the'r lives. Dieing the entire passage the utmost discipline prevailed, with watches off and on as regularly as on the ship. The boat leaked badly, and a" hands took turns bal'ug to keep her afloat. With the strong trade winds, hem. y sea, and squalls, blowing at times almost a gale, this was no light work. On the 38th day four flying fish kindly flew into the boat. These were seized and divided into 15 equal parts, and each ate his share raw. The next day another flying fish came aboard, wl , :ch was also d;vided into 15 pieces, and served round. On the 40th daya very small fish flew aboard, which was given to the captain, as he was suffering most from want of norrishment. On the 41st day Neil Turner, an inval'd seaman, gave up e'scouraged, and lay down on the bottom of the boat. The rest of the party were in good spirits, but weak, expect ing to see land in four or five days. There was no grumbrng or dissension. On the 43d day out, at . 11 a.m., the cry of ' Land ho' was given, and the lofty summit of Mauna Loa cheered the famished voyagers. The land was sighted a day or two sooner than they expected. On nearing a flag was waved en a pole, which was seen by those on shore, but at first it was supposed to be a fishing party. When approaching nearer the breakers, ofl Laupa hoehoe, two natives swam off to the boat, and on finding the destitute condition of the crew climbed into it, shook hands with every one, saying, How do you do?" took the oars, and brought the boat safely to the beach. None of the party were able to stand up, and on trying to do so fell over, perfectly helpless, and unable as infants to walk alone. The natives crowded around, women, vieing with the men, took them up in their arms, and carried them all ashore. The whole party in the long boat thus reached land safely, after having been 43 days at sea, on short allowance part of the time, and less allowance most of the voyage. What is more re markable, there was no sickness, nor any of that dizziness which is often the accompaniment of per sons kept in a starving condition for so long a time. The other boats, unless picked up by some stray vessel, have probably been lost. MARKETS.—This Day. MARK TANI, Fresh up to our market to-day tho arrivals of English wheat were only moderate. For both red and white par cels the trade ruled firm at prices equal to Monday. There was a good supply of foreign wheat on the stands. The value of all qualities was well supported, but the amount of business transacted was by no means extensive. Floating cargoes of grain changed hands to a fair extent at full currencies. With barley the market was scantily supplied. The de mand was steady at quito late rates. Malt realised previous currencies, with a limited inquiry. Oats were in moderate supply and steady request at the recent improvement in prices. Both beans and peas moved off slowly, but no change took place in their value. There was a moderate demand for flour on formor terms. SHIP ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. English and Scotch 320 30 250 350 Irish Foreign 5,440 1,860 -24,410 800 sks. bls COMPARATIVE QUANTITIES AND PRICES OF GRAIN. For the week ending Sept.' For the corresponding week 1, 1866. last year. Qrs. Aver. Qrs. Aver. Wheat 52,216-49 s 7d Wheat 51,742-41s 7d Barley 1,476-35s ld Barley 2,234-31s 2,1 Oats 1,485-25s 3d ( Oats BOROUCIII HOP. Only a moderate business has been transacted in hops at about late rates. New produce is selling at from £8 to £9 per cwt. The accounts from the plantations are on tho whole favourable. WHITECIIAPEL. The supplies of meat are only moderate, and the trade is steady at about stationary prices. Per 81b. by the carcase. Beef 3s 6d to 5s Od I Mutton ... 4s O B d to 5s Octto 5s 8d Veal 4 s 2 d to 5s 2d Pork —--- Li v erpool Co tton Market: — This Day. Market quiet. Sales probably 8,000 bales. Prices below Friday. ITALY AND PRUSSIA. FLORENCE, September 1. The following note has been addressed by the King's Government to the Prussian Ambassador in this capital, in reply to the notification that peace had been concluded between Prussia and Austria : " The Minister for Foreign Affairs to his Majesty the King of Italy has the honour to acknowledge receipt of the Note of the 25th instant, which his Excellency Herr von Usedorn, Ambassa dor Extraordinary of his Majesty the King of Prussia, has addressed to him to notify to the King's Government that peace has been signed between Prussia and Austria at Prague, and at the same time to express the wish that the hearty relations of the two Allied Powers may con tinue and become even firmer in future. " The King's Government has seen with satisfac tion, in Art. 2 of the treaty signed upon the 23d inst. by the Plenipotentiaries of Prussia and Austria, a pledge for the speedy conclusion of a mutual peace between Austria and Italy, with the firm assurance that this result will shortly be in reality achieved, the undersigned reserves to himself then to acquaint the Government of the King of Prussia with the fact. " The King's Government has de:ived great satisfaction from the wish expressed by the King of Prussia's Government with regard to the continu ance of the alliance of both States even after the present time, and its own views coincide heartily with this desire. We attach great value to the bonds of sympathy and common interests which are destined to unite the Italian and German nations. These bonds will be drawn still closer in the season of tranquillity which the union of Venetia with the Peninsula will bring about. " The understanding existing b e t ween P russ i a and Italy will acquire further development when we shall be at peace with our neighbours, as Prussia is now. The King's Government, so far as in it lies, will neglect nothing to secure permanently to both countries the mutual advantages of lasting friendship. " The undersigned begs his Excellency Herr von Usedom again to accept the assurance, &c. (Signed) " VISCONTI VENOSTA. " His Excellency Count von Usedom." STATE CF TRADE. MANCHESTER, Sept. 4.—The market has been flat for all kinds of shipping yarns, and even at lower prices (within moderate limits) very few sales could be made. In home-trade yarns there has been but little inquiry, and prices are in favour of buyers. The demand is also limited for cloth. All through the past week there has been an unwillingness on the part of buyers to eater the market, ani very little business has been done. To-day we are even still quieter, and a great deal of timidity is displayed on the part of purchasers. We have had too few operations to serve as a test of prices. Sellers quoted last week's prices, but these are merely nominal, and the actual value of the cloths may be taken as some what below such rates. No doubt some little of the weakness in this branch of the market to-day is due to the giving way in cotton and yarn, together with discouraging India advicca. The uncertainty as to the future of our cotton supply also renders buyers cautious. Messrs. Du Fay and Co., in their monthly trade report, give cotton and yarn at about id. to ld. per lb. lower than on Aug. Ist-31b. printers at lid. per piece less, and heavier and finer makes 3d. to 4d. less. They quote 71b. 36in. shirtings, which at the beginning of August were 13s. 3d. down to 10s. per piece, and heavier and finer qualities at 3d. to 9d. per piece lower. They observe that the supe rior qualities of cloth are now generally inquired for, and that the 'resent ample supply of a better qua'ity of cotton will enable manufacturers better to maintain the former established credit of their goods than was possible during the cotton famine, while the very inferior qualities are disappearing. Messrs. John Slagg and Co. report of to-day's cloth market:—" Little business has been done during the week, and buyers have offered but timidly. To-day we have a very quiet market, and close with a smaller business, though prices have undergone no quotable change." CARDIFF, 3d.—There is a very good foreign de mand for steam coal, and large quantities are being daily sent there by rail to Birkenhead and the metropolitan and midland markets. The house coal collieries are but partially employed, and the in crease in the coasting inqu'ry is not so great as ex pected two or three weeks since. The tone of the iron trade of the district has improved very much since the reduction of the rate of discount to 6 per cent. The improvement in the demand for cold black pigs is maintained, 'and for other qualities quotations are a little firmer. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning. Arrived, Sept. 4 —Symmetry, from Trinidad ; Johan Emily, from Montevideo. Arrived, Sept. s —Orion, steamer, and Batavier, steamer, from Rotterdam ; Carl XV., steamer, from Gothenburg ; Panther, steamer, and Giraffe, steamer, from Boulogne ; Sir Robert .Peel, steamer, from Dunkirk ; Teal, from Lagos; Sverne, from Prederiekshalt ; Alardus, from Gefle ; Stella, from Bordeaux ; William Clara, steamer, from Honfleur ; Lode, steamer, from Oporto ; Holland, steamer, from Ostend. Sailed, Sept. s. —Nile, steamer, for Cronstadt ; Souvenir steamer, for Caen. DEAL, Wednesday Morning. Passed.—Bolivar, screw steamer, vessel of war, from the not tb, for the west. Anchored.—Minerva, of Newcastle, from Shields, for Gurracha. Tho shipping in the Downs riding all well. LONDON GAZETTE.—Last Evening. FOREIGN-OFFICE, SEPT. 8. • The Queen has been ploased to approvo of Mr. G. 11. Heap as Consul at Belfast for tho United States 01 America. ADMIRALTY, Ave. 13. The Rev. William Robert M , llwaine, 8.A., has this day been appointed a chaplain in her Majesty's fleet. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, SEPT. 3. The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade have received a notification to the effect that a quarantine of eleven days has been imposed by the Greek Government upon all arrivals from Great Britain in Greek ports. COURSE OF EXCHANGE--Last Evening Amsterdam Short. 11 17 11 1 Ditto 3 Months. 11 191 12 Rotterdam Antwerp — 25 50 25 55 Brussels Hamburg — • 13 91 13 9; Paris Short 25 221 25 821 Ditto 3 Months. 25 45 25 50 Marseilles Frankfort on the Maine 1211 1211 Vienna — 13 20 13 40 Trieste — 13 20 13 40 Petersburgh Berlin 45 Madrid 46 1 Cadiz 27 10 Leghorn 26 9@ Milan Genoa Naples — 26 90 His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has left Gloucester House, Piccadilly, on a tour of visits in Scotland. His Royal Highness the C ou nt de Paris is making a series of visits in Ireland. Iris royal highness has been on a iSit to viccount and Vi s countess Castle rosse, at li'l K err a rney Rouse , county y. The Prince and Princess Brodiruo, attended by Count Grovro, arrived at the St. James's Hotel, Picca,d'lly, on Monday. The Duke and D uchess of Newcastle arrived in t o wn on Monday fro m N:sitin g Mrs. Hope, at Castleblay- - . ney, Ireland. The Earl of Derby, accompanied by the Hon. F. A. Stanley, M.P., and Colonel tho Hon. W. Patrick Talbot, went out partridge shooting on Saturday at Knowsley, and the party had capital spoil. The Earl and Countess of Horne are entertaining company at Douglas Castle, Lanarkshire. The Countess (Dow.) of Charlemont has recently left town for Tunbridge Wells. Lord aud Lady Stuart de Decies have arrived at Dromar" their seat in the county of Waterfo:cl, from a Continental tour. A marriage is announced as about to take place between the Hon. Junan Fane, brother of the Earl of Westmoreland, and the Lady Mine Cowper, sister of tho Earl Cowper. SPORrA.ING INTELLIGENOE.—This Day IVARIVICK RACES.—THIS DAY. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. HANDICAP PLATE. A HANDICAP of 5 sous each, 3 ft, with 25 added, for all ages ; the winner to be sold for 100 sous; winners after thq weights are out 51b extra ; half a mile. Variation.. .., Blackbird Piano . 3 Five ran GRAND STAND PLATE. The GRAND STAND PLATE of 100 sovs (Handicap); win ners after Aug. 30 (at 11 a.m.) 71b extra; three qqarters of a mile. Steamboat ........ 1 Tier Ladyship 2 Vigilant Eight ran. 3 NOTES FllO3l TRAINING DISTRICTS. (THIS DAY.) [The Doncaster St. Leger is near at hand, to be rapidly succeeded by the Cesarewitch and Cam bridgeshire, the weights for which are due this week. Turfites are deeply interested in the result of these three great events, and are anxious to glean all reliable information as to how the several candidates are progressing in their preparation To meet the requirements of our numerous sporting subscribers, we have made arrangements to be fur nishcd. daily with Special Notes from the various Training Districts, so as to keep our readers well " posted up" on the actual work done each morn.. ing by the principal competitors for the leading current racing tournays.] NEWMARKET. We have had a great fall of rain this week, but the training grounds and race course are in very good con dition, the wind having prevented them becoming heavy. Penelope Plotwell was again leading Lord Falmouth's Leger horse, Honiton, a good gallop this morning, but not quite a mile and three-quarters. Lord Glasgow's roan colt and his lordship's Maid of Masham have got into a bit longer and faster work, but they are of no quality. Godding is looking well to the Flutter colt for the Glas gow Stakes at Doncaster next week, for which the Hatter and Pedagogue are in good trim, and the latter is especially promising. The Hermit, the Miss Sarah coat, Soeur de Charite, and others are being prepared for the Champagne Stakes ; but they are not good enough to beat Achievement or Marksman. Nu is doing rarely just now, and if they a s k her to perform properly in the Great Yorkshire Handicap, she will pull that race off. Robin Hood (by North Lincoln) and Leybourne galloped a mile and a half each this morn.. ing ; and Tourmalin went beautifully. Jasper and the Rake worked freely ; but Hippia and D'Estournel worn again quiet. Breeze went two miles, and Lo Mandarin about the same distance. Breadalbano and Broomielaw exorcised separately, and the latter is improving much the other is quite ripe. ILSLEY. Our Downs aro getting heavy through such a succession of wet weather, but all is going right with the Leger crack Lord Lyon, as the ground has for some time time past now been just suited to him, therefore his preparation has been uninterrupted. Some days they tako him two miles and a half over the Horse Shoe Gallop, kindly lent to Mr. Sutton by Mr. Ten Broeck ; and, at others, his lordship is restricted to a mile and three-quarters' gallop. This morning he did the latter, and looks as fresh as paint, as does his schoolmaster, Split the Difference, who must not be forgotten this autumn, as he goes a clipping pace. Lord Lyon is a sweet-tempered horse, and a courageous one, too, therefore the Leger appears to be at his mercy. Rust was not out to-day, but Achievement followed Gardevisuro their usual mile ; and the Champagne Stakes filly is quite fit. The Celt resumed work. MARLBOROUGH. Sarernake did a mile and three-quarters this morning with the Flutter colt, and he looks as clean as a smelt, and goes as resolutely as a lion. His condition is superb, and if Mr. Sutton's crack be not right next Wednesday, Lord Ailesbury's horse will reverse the Derby positions with him. Having suffered so much from rheumatic affection during the winter and spring Alex, Taylor was unable to quite wind him up for the Epsom race ; so that the Brother to St. Albans will not only be much better at Doncaster, but have the advantage of Tom Challoner's pilotage, and that jockey, wo hear, is to ride the horse as he likes, which French had not the privilege of doing in the Derby, which ' causes some people to think Savornako was somewhat sacrificed that journey. Pepper's Ghost continues iu ex cellent work, and the two year olds aro now nearly all trotting. RICLUIOND (YORKSHIRE)). Podargus is no good for the St. Leger, for though ho is working daily with Pedant, he is not doing enough, and goes lame. To-day they went a mile and a quarter only, and that very steadily. It is true the moors aro heavy, but on the eve of the Sellinger he ought really to be in longer and faster work. Strathconan, on the contrary, does plenty, and that first class. Lozenge leads him his canters, and Raunds his gallops, now ; and this morning the latter took him nearly a couple of miles, the sturdy grey pulling up sound and well. Lozenge subsequently schooled Plaudit, giving her a good mile gallop, besides canters, as she is required to fulfil her Doncaster engage_ ments. Newland did not do much to-day, and El Cid was kept at home ; but Moldavia, quick March, and &nada worked freely. MALTON. Taraban got to work again to-day, and, with Grand Cross, was led over a mile, very fast, by the Rejected.; and there is no doubt Grand Cross is being got ready for Don caster. The Midsummer Colt was again absent, but the other Leger horses, Knight of the Crescent, Westwick, and War, were in good exercise. Knight of St. Michael again leading the first named a mile and three-quarters, Mr. Bowes's pair following them. All four went beautifully ; but those who see them working on the Wuld morning after morning prefer Westwick, though privately wo aro of opinion that Knight of the Crescent is of a more superior stamp. All Shepherd's horses aro doing first rate ; but Peck's have been cased, and young Dawson's too. Lina and Syeeo cantered, and then had a short sharp gallop. LAMBOURNE. We have had very unpleasant weather hero all the week; and beyond Liddington leading Marksman and the Sun flower filly a good mile gallop daily nothing of immediate import is doing. The two latter go to Doncaster. W a t c h_ box, Gong, and a few others are merely cautoring, and in dulged with occasional galloping; but the Primate, Beclzo hub, and the 4-yr-old Mcestissium filly are entire absentees. The following appeared in oar Third Edition of last evening : STOCKBRIDGE. Ackwm th having gone to Warwick, Gomera was sot to lead Rustic a mile and three quarters, and ho went bril liantly. Whatever may be said about his being cumber some and feint-hearted, the Doncaster course will suit the " lout," and he will turn the tables upon his York con qwueeerko h eßreepsuullsto of f n d w h h o i c w h i l w b e o s t h r i a e l d l i a a pp t h r i e s s c o o u li r r s e r s o a f d t a h r s o quickly irne cklyo s p, da a i n ly. d the mare is in good form , g allo p in g nearl y two MAL TON. Wostwick galloped nearly two miles with War this morning, and Knight of the Crescent followed Knight of St. Michael a sim;lar distance, the Midsummer colt trot-. tins and walking. It is said that three of these will run for the Leger. 'Wan was struck out of the St. Leger yesterday (Mon day). 1n Duke ide of York) to the yearling o eareleinv,Tegcd hr ol t tD ou uk g e h of thecolt kick ing Cambridge (Br. to at exorcise on the Warren-hill. His le g was broken, Nv and he was immediately destroyed. A meeting will be held during the week at the Club.. house Kildare, of the stewards and members of the Turf Club, to take into consideration certain amendments to be made in the present Turf Club rules and rules of racing. The Duke of Beaufort and Mr. W. F. Copeland are the stewards elect for the Lichfield Summer Meeting of 18t17. Count de la Bigne has declared forfeit for Jarnicoton, and Bouruet for Rohm win all their engagements. • The Limerick Tradesmen's Plate of 250 sues. closes to day (Wednesday), and the Steeplechase Plate of 150 soon ouSaturday next. Mr. Pryor sold Raglan during the past week to Mr. Pobert, for one of his masters. The price was 1,000 Boys, and the horse will be trained by Fobort. TURF AGENCY OFFICE, 100, JERILYN-STREET, ST. JAMES'S, LONDON. ill execute s C ai o l l M . R. SYDNEY SMITH (Member of Tatter mbiegss inform i t o o Ns oiy letterth ra o c n i l n y g ) o p n u let the esv prin cipal races throughout the year. 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