The Sun. — London, England, 1865-07-01 00:00:00

HONEY MARK :6T AND COMIERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, TWELVE O'CLOCK, Ihere is a very strohg demand for money, and the supply does not exhibit the slightest increase. The principal borrowers are consequently compelled to resort to the Bank of England, where the rate is quite as low as in the open market. There were no bullion operations at the Bank yesterday. In the foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon there was no material alteration, although the rates were a shade higher in some instances. The application list of Barned's Banking Com pany will close for London on Tuesday, and for the country on Wednesday next. The English Joint-Stock Bank have taken over the Bideford Bank, which was established in 1844, and consisted of four partners, one of whom (Mr. Yelland) remains as manager of the bank. The Southern Insurance Company, one of the leading companies in the colony of Victoria, has opened an office at No. 2, Moorgate-street, under the management of an influential board of London directors. The transfer books of the Warrant Finance Company will be closed from the 3d to the 10th July, previously to the declaration of a dividend. The imports of specie during the week amount to £805,742, and the exports to £149,174. Two o'CLocK, At the Paris Bourse this morning, according to Reuter's telegram, the S per Cent. Rentes were 66f. 55c. Heavy. The quietude, accompanied by heaviness, has been the principal feature of the Market for the English Funds to-day, and Consols are quoted 90i for money and the 6th inst., and at 901 I for August. The approaching elections and the disposition generally evinced by the public to take advantage of the holi day season conduce to the quietude of business. Foreign Stocks are dull, and generally lower. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 70i 71f ; do. Con solides, 48i 49k ; Mexican, 23i 4 ex div. ; do. New, 221 ex div. ; Greek, 20i 21 ; Spanish Passive, 29i 304 ; do. Certificates, 141 15 ; Italian, 64 ; and Confederate Loan, 6 8. In the Railway Share Market the dealings have been * moderately active, and prices have shown a slight improvement. South-Eastern, Lancashire and Yorkshire, Metropolitan, Midland, and North- Eastern have each improved 55., while Great Wes tern have declined The Foreign and Colonial lines show little varia tion of importance. Bank and Miscellaneous shares continue at steady rates. London and South African are marked 19} ; Union of London, 55/ 56f ; National Discount Company, 15i I ; and Peninsular and Oriental Steam,l7s2. Subjoined are the current quotations of some the principal new undertakings :—Hop and Malt Exchange Warehouses, 11 1/ 1 pm. ; General Ex change Bank, 1 1 pm. ; Steam Biscuit and Flour, 1 11 pm. ; New Issue of 50,000 Preference Shares of £5 each of the Atlantic Telegraph Company, pm. ; Downs Docks Shares, 1 1 pm. ; Grange Town Iron, 1 11 pm. ; Russian Ironworks 8 and 10 pm. ; London Bridge Land, + a pm. ; Northern Assam Tea Company,par 1 pm. ; British India, &c., Trust and Agency Company, 11 2 pm. ; London Quays and Warehouses, par 1 prem. ; London, Windsor, &c., Hotels, 11 i 21 pm. ; West London Freehold Ground Rent Association, 1 2 pm. ; Peruvian Rail ways, 21 31 pm. ; Blakely Ordnance, 31 4 pm. ; Barned's Banking Company, 11 4 pm. ; Gowhatty Tea Company, 1 1 prem. ; Austin Consolidated Silver Mines Company, 1 1 pm. ; Dalbeattie and Kirkconnell Granite Company, 11 2 pm. ; East London Railway Scrip, 1 11 pm. ; do., paid up, par pm. ; London and Mediterranean Bank, 3 1 pm. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 Per Cent. Consols Do. Account, June 6 — a per Cent. Reduced B9f 1 New 3 per Cent B9f * New 2/- per Cent. Jan. 1894 — Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 — Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth Ap r il,lBBs — Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 — Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 & 3f per Cent Do. £5OO par 4 pm Do. £lOO and £2OO Bank of England Stock, 51 t per Cent Do Account INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Indian Stock, 10 per Cent., AprillB74 shut Do. Account Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1870 Do. 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 100; . Do. Account Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 Do. Certificates — Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent — Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 Do. 5i per Cent., May 1879 — Do. Bonds, £1,000... — Do. under £l,000 FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent — Brazilian 5 per Cent Do. 4-1 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Do. 1863 Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent Do. Account — Do I per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) Chilian 6 per Cent — Do. 4-1 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 Do £B6 paid . — Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Do., Provisional Land Warrant Egyptian 7 per Cent 96 Do., Second Issue 969 Do. • 1864 93/ 4 Do £lOO Bonds' 94* 3/ Greek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons Do Account — Do. Coupons Guatemala 5 per Cent. — Do. 1839 and 1850 — Italian 5 per Cent (I.laremmana Railway) Do 1865 Do Scrip, £67* paid — dim Do 5 per Cent., 1864 — Do. Scrip, £55 paid Bexican 3 per Cent. — Do. Account Do 1864 Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French Do French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c — Montevidean 6 per Cent., £3O paid — Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada Do 2 per Cent Do Deferred Do Land Warrants (Hectares) Peruvian 41 per Cent. Do Scrip, £45 paid, paid in Bonds — dis Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) — Do 4} per Cent., 1862 Do. Account Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Do Account Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, 47f Do Account Russian 5 per Do Cent., 1822, £ St., 4 per Cent., 1850 1860 Do 3 per Cent., 1859 Do 5 per Cent., 1862 D 01864 Sardinian 5 per Cent — Do. Account Spanish 3 per Cent Do Account — Do New Deferred — Do Account — Do Passive „ Do Acco un t ° Danish Cert. of Cbup not funded l5 Do Account — Swedish 4 per Cent. — Do. 41 per Cent. 1864 Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 — Do Account — Do 6 per Cent. 1858 Do Account .. . .............. Do £lOO Bonds .................... Do 6 per Cent. 1862 Do Account 7O/ 1 Do £lOO Bonds 74 ii 1 Do 5 per Cent. 1865 Do Scrip, £2O paid Do Guaranteed, 4 per Cent Venezuela 3 per Cent. Do. 6 per Cent, 1862 Do. Account 6 per Cent, 1864 — Do. 1/ per Cent — Dividends on the above payable in London. 4.ustrian 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins .l i) 3el g i a ' 4l per cent., Ex. 25f. ' — Do•utch 2* per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil — 4 .er Cent. Certificates — French lientes, 4* per Cent. 1.0. Account It air'. per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f. 0. A.ccount C onsols TWO O'CLOCK. D o. Aec o ut 90 i1. 90i I SHARE MARKETS—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Share/ Railways. paid. ! Closing I Business Price. done. Bir., Wol., & Str. Val Blyth and Tyne Bristol and Exeter Caledonian 3ork and Bandon Cornwall . 95 17 1321 133 bi 61 Do. A t A gets no div Do. B till6p.c.p.an.haE been paid to B Dublin & Belfast June Dun,.Perth, & A b.Junc. Edinburgh & Glasgow Glasgow & S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. sr k. Do. E. Angl. st. No. 2 Great North of Scotland Great Northern D). A stock Do. B JO Do. New, fs. at 25 pn Gt S. and W. of Ireland Gt. Western -Original D S. Val. Rail gua. Do. South Wales Do. W. Mid.—Oxford Do. Newport Do. Hereford Lancashire & Yorkshire Landon and Blackwali Lon., Brigh., & S Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western, Lon. I South Western Man., Shet., & Lincoln Maryport and Carlisle Do. f shares Metropolitan. Do. New Mid,and Do, !Armin & Derby Mid Gt. W.. Ireland Do. 4 shares vlid Kent North British Do. Ed., Pth Dun Nth. Eastern Berwick Do. G.N•E purchabe Do. Leeds ..... Do. York Do. Carlisle Do. Stock & Darling De. do. 1855-18 Do. do. 1860-61 North London Do. New. Do. do. 1864 North Staffordshire N. & S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot. N. E , Aber. stock Uo. Scot, Mid. stick Shrews & Welchpool Shropshire Union South Devon youth E .stern Staines, Wok., & Wok Taff Vale Do. C Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornw ill W.Hartlepool Han& R Do. A irredeemable Do. A redeemable BRITISH P Atlantic& St. Lawrence Bom.,Baroda, & Cen.ln. gu. 5 per cent... Do. I shares Buffalo & Lake Huron Do Preference Buff.,Brant, & Goderich 6 p.c. bds. Aug. 1, 872 Do. do. July 1, 1873 Do. do. June 1, 1574 Calcutta & 8. E., 'a e Town & Dock, gu. Demerit a, 7 p.c. per. p East. Bengal, gu., 5 do East It.diao, gu. 5 p.c. Do. J Extension Grand Trunkof 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. Id 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 G t. South of India (lim gua. 5 per cent D 41 per cent Do Great Wt a. of Canada.. Da. New.. Do. 6 p. c. Bds. pay 1873 1)0. 5, do. pay. 1877-8 Indian Branch, limited Madras, gna. 5 p.o Do. 42 do Do. 4i do Do. Fifth Extension srelb. Cor. 6 p. c. Bnds. MeL & Hudson's Bay New Brunswick & Can Class A and B 7.lll.C'da, pc let pf.bds &in& Do. Delhi d Do. do Do. Puniaub n Do.lndus St Flo 62 (6 16 17 90 92 106 1 , 8 48 49 7 8 130 132 145 146 128 :32 86 SS 69 69 64 86 46 48 45 48 105 106 121 1221 9: 94 107 1(8 404 11 123} 124 981 99, 61 62 14t 143 3 , 3 ip 1314 135 104 I(6j 53 54 z4i /5 112 1121 69} 7s 101 105 37 38 - - P 91 101 p 221 123 1 lip 79 81 11i 12 145 150 At 56 6t 63 56 63 84 85 9 10 156 159 3 t p 104 106 , 47 49 79 81 SIONS. 57 54 101 102 prt 4f 4ip bk 9/1 98 99 70 75 100 102 104 1(5 102 103 19 i 9 E 8 90 65 66 55 60 57 i 584 50 52 45 41 43 45 25 27 254 26i 102 103 41) P 102 103 1111 11; 87, 811 88 30 81 414 1 Id loch 10111 93 95 88 90 66 68 3 5 82 84 99 100 99 1( 0 I Id 9.9 luo ii 3 96 T SECUR: 98 190 97 99 97 99 85 07 85 97 101 IC3 105 107 105 107 108 110 102 104 107 109 104 106 107 109 105 107 102 104 97 99 100 102 94 96 92 94 104 106 87 90 97 1.00 1054 106. 107 109 109 i 110 INES. FI 8 25 27 595_ 605 13.14 et at et 50 20 COLONIAL GO VERNMEN' British Columbia, 6 per cent., Dec.3l, 1872 Can.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.& July 1877-t,4 Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Au.?;„ D.). 5 p. c. Mar. & Sept ')o. 5 p. c. Jan. & July Do. 5 p e. Inscribed sk Cape G.Hope. 6 p.c. 1873 Do. April & Oct. 1880-4 Do. do: 1890-1 Do. Jan. & July. 1891 Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p.c Do. 1878, do Mauritius, 6 p. c, 1873, Jan. and July Do. Is7B Do. 1882, Mayls, Nov. lb Natal 1 3ov. 6 per cent N. B. Gov. 6 p.c.Ja.&J uly N. S.W. Gov. 5 pv.,1866 Do. 5 p.c. 18:1 to 1876 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1892 New Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 8 per cent.... Nova Sc .tia Gov. 6 p. c sterling, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6 p. c S. Aus.Gov. 6 p,c 1868-9 Do. 1878 & upwards Vic,Gov. 6 p.c. - I a & July Do. do, a pril & Oct BRITI :SH M . Cam. Consol. Gold, lim Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated Devon G. Cons. (Taoist Drake vral ls East Bassett (Illogan) East Caradon as& Carn Brea Last Grenville East Loved _ E. W'l Russell (Tavistk Gam. & StA übyn(G w en. Great Lacey, limited Great South Tolgus G. Wheal Vor (Helst , m Grenville Herod's Foot •••• Hingston Downs Margaret (Uny Lelant Marke Valley Mwyndy Iron Ore, lim Nangiles New Seton North Downs North Roskear N.Wh'l Bassett (Illogan North Wheel Crotty Prosper United Providence Uny Lelant S. Caradon (St. Cleer) S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan Stray Park Tin Croft West Bassett (Mogan W. Caradon (14+skeard West Chiverton West Seton Wheal Bassett 'Mogan Wheal Buller (Redruth Whea Lndoott Wheal Mary Ann (Men Wheal Seton Wheal Trelawney (I.ls. Wheal Uni0n.......... PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Western. West Midland, Newport perp. 6 per cent opt. till '64, 123 North Eastern, Cons. pref., 4 per cent, Ditto, 4} per cent red.. 90j, PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOWE& Great Eastern 4! per cent. pt.,:— Ditto, , per cent. pf., 100 Ditto, new, 5 per cent, 100 south Eastern, 5 per cent. Charing.oross, 1863, 100 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Chester and Holyhead, Ditto, 5 per cent., 114 London and Chatham, 4i per Cent., 88 Northern and Eastern, 5 per cent., 53i FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Dutch Rhenish. 23k FOREIGN MINER. Cape Copper, tiro.. 11 12 Vail:turas= Gold, Rm., 2i I Washoe Gold, lint, Ditto (£3 , 74 Yorke Peninsula., Y udanantutana of S. Australia, lim, 11 A gra and Mastermstn's, lira., 581 Albion, 51 1 alliance, if , - 3 f Anglo Austrian.L6/ Brazilian and Portuguese, Um., 84 9 Consolidated Bank, lim.. 101 European Bank, lirn., 12 Hindustan. china, and Japan (lira.), Ditto, issued at 2 pm., Litt°, new, 9j Imperial Ottoman, 161 16 London Joint Stock, St London and South African, li4 Mercantile and Exchange, aim., 74 Midland Bank, aim., 18 South Australia, 35 Union of London, 542 51 MISCELLANEOI 13. Atlantic Telegraph, 8 per cent. gua., 51 City of London Iteal Property, .im., 3 24 Credit Fonder and Mobiller of England, 8/ .1 Crystal Palace. 39 Discount Corporation. 12 Egyptian Corn. and Trading, Um., 3; Fore-street Warehouse, aim., 101 Gen. Credit and Finance of London, aim., 6 International Financial society, Um., 61 Italian Land, 8/ London Financial Association,llim., 221 Universal Marine, Insurance, 1im.,,64 Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. Market quiet. Sales, probably 5,000 bales. The Price of Gold. The quotation of gold at Paris is about 1 per mills pm., and the short exchange on London is 25.17 k per 41 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £.3 17s. 104 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is about 1-10th per cent. dearer in Paris than in London. 100 100 100 100 100 OSSR 15 17 L 2 L 2 21 3 32 35 490 500 15 20 13 15 161 17i 6i 7 8 101 75 84 180 190 8) 85 15 20 11 13 200 205 161 171 rHE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 1, 1865. POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET, THE FOREIGN PROSTITUTE NUISANCE IN REGENT-STREET. Clementina Brunetti was charged before Mr. Knox with loitering in Regent-street for an immoral purpose, and also with annoying Mr. Henry Dolby, engraves, of Regent street. Mr. Dolby said that about 10 the previous night he saw the prisoner walking up and down Regent-street as a com mon prostitute, and accosting every gentleman who passed her. Ho watched her, in company with a constable, for some time, and was about to give her into custody for an noying him as an inhabitant of the street, when she came up and asked him to go home with her. He then gave her into custody. In answer to Mr. Knox, Mr. Dolby said the prisoner had been in the habit of walking up and down Regent-street for several years. Police-constable 201 C corroborated Mr. Dolby's evi dence, and proved seeing the prisoner accost several gentlemen. Mr. Knox fined the prisoner 405., or a month. ROBBERY AT THE ALHAMBRA PALACE.--James Fuller, a plumber, and Thomas Bates, his apprentice, were charged before Mr. Knox with stealing some lead, the property of Mr. F. Strange, of the Alhambra Palace, Leicester-square. Bates was seen this morning with a bag on his shoulder by Mr. Littlejohn, builder, of Central-hill, Norwood, in whose employ the prisoners were. Mr. Littlejohn asked where he was going, and he said to Norwood. His suspi cion being aroused he followed Bates as far as St. Martin's Church and then stopped him, and on putting some ques tions to him he said the bag contained "stuff," and that ho bad been sent with it to Mr. Haverson's by Fuller. He told Bates he should give him in charge, and he asked to be taken back to the Palace, and on arriving there the bag was opened, and found to contain lead, the property of Mr. Strange. Fuller then admitted that he had sent the lead by Bates, and that he alone was to blame. The prisoners were then given into custody by Mr. Strange. Fuller put no questions, admitting that all that was said against him was true. Mr. Glover, in the employ of Mr. Strange, having iden tified the load as Mr. Strange's property, 176 C said that on taking the prisoners into custody Fuller said he did not see why Bates should suffer for him. Mr. Knox remanded the prisoners, but took Bates's own recognisances to appear on the next occasion, when the prisoners will be sent for trial. WESTMINSTER. On Saturday, in the forenoon, Mr. Selfo, the presiding magistrate, had the greater portion of his time occupied with the papers of pensioners entitled to receive pensions at Chelsea Hospital. This ceremony takes place once a year at the various police courts, the signature of a police magistrate being required to the document. There were as many as beween 700 and 800 applicants. At each of the police courts of the metropolis, also, there were almost as many applications, and in consequence some slight delay took place in the regular routine of business of the court. THE PROGRESS OP INTEMPERANCE.—There were no cases to engage the attention of the magistrate but charges of drunkenness, and of these there were but seven, each of which was charged with being drunk and incapable. There were various defences set up as apologies. One stated that her husband had left her, and that in conse quence she had a deal of trouble on her mind. Another said that her husband was out all night, and that she was looking after him. A third and fourth—mere boys—said they did not know what to say, but they were very sorry. A fifth was found lying on the pavement insensibly drunk. As she was a woman well known to the police for her in temperate habits she was sent to prison for seven days. The other prisoners were fined in mitigated penalties. THAMES. ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A WOMAN BY HER PARAMOUR. —Henry Smith, a dock labourer, aged 49, was brought before Cdr. Partridge charged with attempting to murder a young woman named Esther Cooke by stabbing her on the neck with a knife. It appeared that the prosecutrix and the prisoner had lived together as man and wife. Their quarrels had been frequent, and she was subjected to great violence from him. He was a very brutal fellow. They separated 12 months ago, and the prisoner since that time frequently annoyed and threatened the woman because she declined to renew the connexion which formerly existed. She obtained a comfortable living as a charwoman. Last night sho went into the tap-house of the St. George Brewery, Church lane, with a female acquaintance, and they remained there two hours over a pint of beer. The prisoner was there, he did not exchange a word with the woman, but he occa sionally nodded to them and laughed at them. He left the house a quarter of an hour before them. When they left the beerhouse he was on the opposite side of the way. The prisoner asked Cooke to come across the way to him. She went to the edge of the kerb stone, and stood there. The prisoner came across the road to her, and she leant against the beerhouse door. The prisoner said, "Are you going to stick in there," to which she re plied, "Yes; I have no other place to go." The prisoner said, " I'll be hung for you." The woman said, "I do not care." He then put his hand in his pocket, opened a clasp knife, and stabbed her on the throat. The blade of the knife went through her bonnet strings, and she was soon covered with blood. The prisoner ran away. She pursued him a short distance, with the blood gushing from the wound, and called out "Murder, murder, stop him." Sho soon fall from exhaustion, caused by the loss of blood, and was raised by the bystanders, who carried her to the station house in Leman-street,Whitechapel, to charge the prisoner. He was captured by George Foster, a police-constable, No. 207 11, as he was running across the High-street. Foster said the prisoner made a laugh of the affair, and gloated over what he had done. Jane Withenall, a married woman, confirmed the state ment of Esther Cooke as to the occurrences of the preced ing night in every particular, and added that a week ago, in a conversation with the prisoner, he said, in speaking of the prosecutrix, " I'll be hanged for her. I'll do for her. I'll stab her." Mr. John Connley, surgeon, of High-street, Whitechapel, said he dressed the wound of the prosecutrix at the station house. She lost a large quantity of blood, and had been very ill and weak all night. A severe wound had been inflicted just above the neck bone. It took an oblique direction, was an inch and a half in depth, and three quarters of an inch in width. Had it not taken the direc tion it did the wound would have been fatal. The prisoner said he would reserve his defence, and Mr. Partridge committed him for trial. THE QUIRE OF EARNDALE.—It was a famous quire, which every year—once or twice in the year —strangers would come to listen to. It consisted of but five men, one of whom played a clarionet with bold, firm tone, that sustained the treble, and gave confidence to the crack-voiced boys and rough-voiced girls who hardly stood in need of encouragement. Another played a violon cello, to which he had attached a fifth string tuned to F F, in order to add sonority to the deeper bass. A third performer played the flute, on which he executed the counter-tenor part as it was written for him in the G clef, above the treble or air. Of the remaining two men, ono sang the air with the clarionet, only an octavo lower, and the last sang the bass. But besides this, the violoncello player sang bass, tenor, or air, or counter-tenor in a screaming fal setto, one part or the other as ho deemed it necessary to ornament or support the service of song. Such was the Quire of Earndale ; they sang pluckily, and made a cheer ful, if not a melodious noise. I gave them supper once a year, but could not induce them to adopt more ecclesiastical music than glees and songs set to sacred words. Still, we were better off than the Meeting, where they all sang in discordant chorus, while the parson played the big fiddle in the pulpit. Like other things in Earndale, the quire was an institution, and I did not attempt to remove it. But after five years clarionet left the valley, and we began to feel symptoms of dissolution. Flute wouldn't play the air, it was so tame ; and when remonstrated with, with drew and carried off tenor with him to the Meeting. Still we had a sturdy voice for the air, and the rural " master of song." But alas ! the master, always fond of drink, became so uproarious that we were obliged to dismiss him. The crisis came when a stranger was taking duty ' for me. A new tune of Abel's own composing was to be sung, one full of eccentric turns and intricate distances. The quire made a start, quavered, and broke down. Abel sounded the note anew, :tad again they broke down : this time a pause. "Let us pray," said the officiating clerk, meekly. "Pray be blowed !" shouted Abel. " Let's try again." It was Abel's last Sunday of office. For some Sundays we tried congregational singing, our ono remaining voice, with the help of a pitch-pipe, leading the tune ; but bit by bit the congregation grew tired of a duty which had devolved upon paid officials, and many a tune was sung by good old Jamie and the children,--ho, with spec tacles on nose and book in hand—while the other hand, hooked in his red waistcoat, beat time on his breast to the tune : save when, in some pathetic ♦erse, it was released to cuff some youngster who gave tongue too lustily, and didn't appreciate the h temper'of the strain. Then in our perplexity we procured a small barrel organ, which had seen service in a room used for dancing on week-days, and service on Sundays. It was a peCuliar instrument: the first time we tried it, it went off like a musical snuff-box, and played all the tunes successively, including a valso and " Merrily Danced the Quaker's Wife." Earndale has not forgotten that Sunday yet. The wardens and sexton managed to carry it out (it was not large) into the churchyard, but even there it fired away tune after tune amid the snow and cold till all the machinery was unwound.—Cornhill Magazine for July. The South Wales and Great Western Direct Railway Bill has been passed by a committee of the House of Lords, presided over by Earl Amherst. The proposed line will cross the Severn near Chep stow, by a high level bridge, at an elevation of 100 feet above high water mark. The importance of this line as providing means for bringing the coal of South Wales to London was fully recognised in its progress through both Houses of Parliament. The Salisbury Hotel. - -0- Another of those great hotels which have of late sprung up in the metropo)is has just been opened for the ac commodation of the citizens and visitors to London. This latest addition is nail the Salisbury Hotel, a n d i s situate in Salisleiry-squ, e, Fleet-street. The building is of the most substantial and convenient character, and everything conducive to the comfort of its occupants has been studied and provided for with the most scrupulous attention. The building contains nearly 100 bed rooms, besides private sitting rooms, private dining rooms, and ladies' coffee room, on tho upper floors. On the ground floor are hotel coffee room, 50 feet long by 25 feet wide ; three rooms for the purposes of the Farmers' Club, the largest being nearly 40 feet long by 20 feet wide ; a smoking room ; besides the ordinary manager's room, bar, service, &c. There is also, on this floor, a large dining room or hall for public dinners, meetings, &c., 70 feet long by 30 feet wide, and upwards of 20 feet high ; this can be used either for the hotel purposes, or let sepa rately. The basement contains the kitchens and various offices, which have been fitted up in the most complete manner by the firm of Adams and Son, of the Haymarket, the gentle men who performed such surprising work at the Langham Hotel. The larders in this portion of the building are com pletely lined with white tiles, and the cooking apparatus is distinguished by all that novelty and substantiality that so peculiarly distinguishes the work of the Messrs. Adams. One of the many improvements in this department is the great saving that is effected in the consumption of fuel for cook ing operations, as by the improved means more than one half ordinarily used is saved, whilst better results are secured. They have also provided lifts for luggage, and baths, both hot and cold, with all the modern appliances, have not been forgotten. Altogether the arrangements of the hotel are of the most perfect kind. No expense has been spared internally, for the simple reason that nothing has been thrown away on the outside, which nevertheless has an imposing and good effect. The architect is Mr. Giles, of Craven-street, and the builders of the structure the Messrs. Trollope, of Parlia ment-street. Owing to the difficulties of the site a great number of iron girders have been used, and the whole building is fire-proof. Taking the moderate tariff and the central and unusually quiet situation of the Salisbury Hotel into consideration, it should be among t the most successful of our modern hotels. The whole of the man agement has been placed in the hands of Mr. Higgs, whose experience, gained at the Euston, will be a guarantee for the comfort of all patronising the new establishment. MARKETS—This Day. COVENT GARDEN. Moderate supplies of fruit are on sale, but the show of vegetables is good. All kinds of produce in fair request, at the annexed rates : FRUIT. • 8. d. s. d. 8. Q. BCI Pine apples 8 otolo 0 Ala berries,pr pt 0 otc 0 0 Foreign do., each 0 oto 0 0 Cherries, per lb. 0 3to 0 9 Grapes,per lb 6 oto 10 0 ; Foreign ditto, puno oto U 0 Foreign do 1 6to 2 ti Filberts, per lb .. 0 9to 1 0 nelons 0 oto 0 , Waluktts, per 100 0 oto 0 0 Nectarines, per dz 0 oto 0 0 Cobnuts, per lb .. 0 oto 0 0 Apples, per hf-sv. 2 6to 3 6 Almonds, per bus 0 oto 0 0 Pears, per do Oranges, per 100..6 oto 12 0 1Peaches, per d 0... 0 oto U o Lemons, per 100 4 oto 8 0 Currants, per 11.8 V 3 6to 4 6 Gooseberries hf sve2 oto 3 0 'Plums, per do. .. 0 oto 0 Strawberries pr pt 0 6to 1 6; Damsons, pr d 0... 0 oto 0 6 VECETA ISLES. Greens, dz bunch 2 oto 2 6 Shallots, per lb .. 0 oto 0 0 Cabbages, pr doz. 0 9:o 3 Horseradish, pdo ► oto 2 0 11%1 ditto 0 oso 0 0 , Parsley, per ditto 0 oto 0 0 Savoy do., pr dz 0 oto 0 0 t Celery, per ditto 1 6tc 2 0 Cauliflowers, pdz 1 6to 3 0 j Beet, per doz. .. 0 oto 0 Brocoli 0 oto 0 0; Parsnips, per do. 0 oto 0 n Potatoes, per ton 63 oto 20 0 j Small salad, p. pn, 0 oto 0 New ditto, pr lb. 0 2to 0 6 ; Mushrooms. p pt. 0 oto 0 3 Turnips, dz bunch 3 oto 3 61 Artichokes, each 0 oto 0 0 Carrots,pr do 5, 6to 6 6:' Cos lett, score .. 0 Bto 1 0 Cucumbers 0 3to t 6 I Mint and savory..o oto 0 3 Garlic, per lb Sorrel, per sieve 0 oto 0 0 ; Turnip Radishes 0 Btoo 10 Green peas, 0.-sv. 1 3to t 6 Tomatoes, doz... 0 uto 0 6 French beans,h.s. 0 oto 0 01 Chillies, per ditto 0 oto 0 ( Onions, doz. h.s, 1 oto 1 6, Capsicums, per do 0 oto 0 n New Do., dz bun 1 oto 1 6 j Rhubarb, per bun 0 3to 0 6 Spinach . . 0 oto 0 0 Asparagus, pr do. 2 6to 4 6 Brussels sprouts 0 oto 0 OlSeakale, per bun. 0 oto 0 0 -POULTRY. Turkeys, Os Od to Os Od ; geese, 5s Od to 7s Od each ; goslings, 5s Od to Gs 6el; ducks, 2s Od to 3s Gd ; ducklings, 2s Od to 3s Od ; rabbits, is 3d to 2s Od each ; wild do., 10(1 to is 2d ; pigeons, Os 6d to Os 9d each ; Surrey fowls, lOs Od to 15s Od ; chickens, 8s to lOs Od ; barn door fowls, 4s Od to 8s Od ; capons, Os Od ; hares, Os Od to Os Od ; ptarmigan, Os Od to Os Od. each ; pheasants, Os Od to Os Od ; partridges, Os Od to Os Od; woodcocks, Os Od to Os Od; snipes, Os Od to Os Od ; teal, Os Od to Os Od ; wild ducks, Os Od to Os Od ; widgeons, Os Od to Os Od ; plovers, Os Od to Os Od each ; guinea fowls, 7s Od to 8s Od ; roasting pigs, Os Od to Os Od each ; Ostend fresh butter, is Od to 1s ld ; English, is 1d to 1s 2d per lb ; English eggs, 7s 6d to 8s Od. ; French do., Gs Od to Gs Gd per 100 ; leverets, 2s Gd to 5s Od ; grouse, Os Od to Os Od. BILLINGSGATE Salmon, is Od to is Gd; trout, Os Od to Os ; eels, Os Btl to is Od ; prawns, Os Od ; pike, skate, sturgeon, and hali but, Od per lb ; turbots, 2s 6d to 12s Od ; cod, 2s 6d to 5s Od ; brills, 3s Od to is Od ; . doreys, is Od to 3s Gd ; mul lets, Os Gd to is 6d ; lobsters, is Od to 3s Od ; crabs, Os,6d to 2s Gd ; plaice and gurnets, Os Od to Os 01 each ; soles, Os Gd to 2s 6d per pair ; common oysters, 12s Od to 60s Od; natives, 84s Od to 90s Od per bushel ; whitings, 4s Od to Gs Od ; haddocks, 6s Od to 12s Od ; smelts Os Od to Os Od ; flounders, Os Od per dozen ; mackerel, 40s 0(1 to Os Od per 120 ; fresh herrings, 8s Od to Os Od per 120 ; bloaters, Os Od to Os Od per 100 ; carp and tench, Os Od to Os Od per brace. NEWPORT. Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 6d ; mutton, 4s Od to 5s 6d ; lamb, 5s 8d to 6s 8d ; veal, 3s 8d to 4s 8d ; and pork, 3s 8d to 4s 10d per 81bs, by the carcase. WHITECHAPEL. Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 6d ; mutton, 4s Od to 5s Gd ; lamb, 53 8d to Gs 8d; veal, 3s 81 to 4s 8d; and pork, 3s 6d io 4s 10d per Blbs, by the carcase. BREAD. The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from bid to 7d, of household do., 5d to 6d per 41b loaf. HIDES AND SKINS. Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, 21d to 3d ; 641 b to 721 b, 3d to ; 721 b to. 801 b, 3d to 3}d; 801 b to 881 b, 3id to 31d; 881 b to 961 b, 3jd to 4d ; 961 b to 1041 b, Od to Od ; 1041 b to 1121 b„ Od to Od. Horse hides, 9s Od to lOs 6d ; calf-skins, light, 2s Od to 43 Od ; full, 6s 6d to Os Od ; polled sheep, —s Od to sOd ; half-breds, Os Od to Os Od ; Downs, Os Od to Os Od; shearlings, is 9d to 2s Od; lambs, 3s Od to 4s 3d. HAY MARKETS SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £4 10s to £slos Od ; clover, £5 lOs to £6 15s Od ; and straw, £1 6s to £1 lOs per load. Trade steady. New meadow hay has realised £4 to £5 per load. Railway Traffic Returns for the Week, Miles Opened. Receipts. Railways. 1865. 1864. 1865 1864. 136 2,063 1.760 49 9;.9 754 5,260 7,349 20,167 19,559 1,909 1,453 3)0 Belfast and N. Counties 136 Belfast and County Down 49 Blyth and Tyne . 28 Bristol and Exeter l2ll Caledonian 2Bll Cambrian Cockermouth K & Penrlth .. 311 Cockermouth and Workin .. 9 Cork and Bandon 2O Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 324 Cornwall 654 Deeside „ 17 Dublin & Belfast Junction.... 63 Dublin and Drogheda 75 Dublin and Meath Dub. &Wicklow and Wextd lO7l Furness, &o 5O Glasgow & South-Western Gt. Eastern,Nrtk.,&E.Union 6BBl Great Northern 404 Great North of Scotland 99 lit. Northn. & Wes tn. (Irel.) 7ll gt.Soutlin. & Westn.(lrind.) 3871 Great Western l2BO Hull & Hornsea Inverness & Aberdeen Juno ll7l Inverness & Perth Jun..tion 1194 Irish North-Western 145 Kent Coast 27 Lancashire & Yorkshire 403 Limerick and Ennis.. Limerick and Foynes 261 Llanelly 46/ Llynvi Valley London & North-Western London and Blackwall 5l London & South-Western Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 272 London, Chatham, & Dove•.• 721 Do. Metropolitan Extension 111 • Lon., Tilbury, & Southend 51an.,Sheilield,&Lincolnsh blanch. S.Jun.& Altrincham 9l Haryport and Carlisle 2B Metropolitan 3l Midland (incl. N.-Western) 66 3k Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind 262 lonkland 7ll llonmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 North British, Edin., Perth and Dundee N-Eastern and Stock. & Dart 1110 1095 North London 9 9 North Staffordshire 258 258 Rhymney l9l 191 Scottish Central Scottish North-Eastern l3B 138 Somerset and Dorset 66 66 South Devon South-Eastern 3OB 308 tali Vale 57 57 Ulster Vale of Clwyd. Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 Waterford and Limerick 77 77 West Cornwall 274 271 W.HeYtlepool IlarbrAltaiL 524 524 W'haven,Cleator,& Egroaut lO lu Whitehaven J unction l3 13 Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 35 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. Austrian B2B 823 Bahia and San Francisco Belgian Eastern J unction 2tl4 264 Bombay, Baroda, & I en. India 306 1851 Detroit and Milwaukie lBO 115 Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France 11;6 1428 Eastern Bengal .. ..., llO 110 East Indian Grand Trunk of Canada 1.17 1.135 Great Central of Belgium 295 272 Great Indian Peninsula 520 5531' Great Luxembourg 134 134 Great Southern of India Great Western of Canada 345 3.5 Madras Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant (8) 650 Northern of Canaaa ... Northern of France 728 728 Norwegian Trunk Ottoman Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 1967 1781 Paris and Orleans 1616 1614 Recife and San Francisco. &c. 774 771 Sc:nde lO5 105 Do. Punjab, &o 32 32 South Austrian, &c .... 2216 1527 Southern of France 823 770 Victoria Welland. West & N-Wn. of France 1211 x"l4 8 20 362 3.16 27 285 230 651 1,7,5 1.842 17 470 363 63 1,495 1.372 75 1,070 1.8 6 55 292 241 911 4,334 2,405 5 ( 3,311 3.144 198 9,819 8,601 663 33,329 31,130 365 86.473 33,004 99 2,977 2.998 711 751 748 88%1 10421 9 123 1235 74,3 8 73,220 153 1171 1,686 1,403 1191 1,816 1,6 2 145 1,932 1.932 27 2,4_0 2,020 403 45,057 43,015 241 '421 266 201 102 t 46 1 918 824 201 434 369 12521 121,497 117,710 b 2,1 13 2, , 79 451/ 30,802 26.776 2671 22,257 21,414 721 7,2 a 6.: , 75 10/ 2,800 1,8 5 421 2,192 2, 25 2421 19,651 18,749 I,'oo 1,429 28 1,399 1,536 31 2,933 2,211 641 49,6u5 47,410 262 5.4 5 5,3 1 711 1,565 1,532 44 2,410 2.697 22,773 21,756 65, 17 61,756 3,518 3,782 1 , ,292 8.699 1,065 1,106 5,797 5.886 5,474 5 221 930 697 4.435 3,963 25,27: 23.,37 5,. , 77 5,2.9 2. 41 2 214 221 202 452 352 1,427 1,196 1,058 1,0 2 4.333 4.572 0'49 781 67t 1. 02 909 1,017 30,127 3.4 5,144 8,768 0,4 5 75,9.7 2, 64 2 .6 2 26 567 7, 24 2 , 074 5,237 673 11,754 6,19.1 15,193 0,171 1,0!0 604 134,160 68,255 1,262 1,148 502 17,9,7 27, a 9 2f),748 41 55, ,90 354 2,320 4,4 7 6,205 03,7 7 1,44 2 ,03J 23,115 113.478 4.351 993 11,631 5 695 21,1.0 53.073 1,042 581 135 230 04.994 881 1.892 3SB 52,958 25,118 n 7 47,E67 RECENT WILLS AND BEQUESTS (From the Illustrated London News) _ _ _ The will of Lady Jervis, of Bailbrook Lodge, Batheaston, Somerset, was proved in London by W. Long, Esq., of the city of Bath; and P. C. Shep pard, Esq., of Hampton Manor House, Bath, the executors and trustees. The personalty was sworn under £5,000. Her ladyship was the granddaughter of the sixth Earl of Cavan. Her father, Captain Ricketts, R.N., assumed the name of Jervis, the family name of his uncle, the gallant Admiral Lord Jervis, first Viscount and Earl St. Vincent, and died without male issue. Lady Jervis was twice married—first to Osborne Markham, Esq., by whom she had a daughter (her only child) ; and, secondly, to Lieut.-Col. Sir Wm. Cockburn, Bart., but with out issue ; and since his death her ladyship has taken the name of Jervis. She died, on Feb. 26 last, at the age of 70, having executed her will on Jan. 19, 1865, and a codicil on Feb. 11. Her ladyship has bequeathed to her sister, Mrs. Palmer, a policy on her life for £2,000, with bonuses, and after her decease the same is to be divided between her four nieces, with contingent interest to her nephew in the event of two of her nieces not marrying. She has also bequeathed to her daughter, Martha, wife of the Rev. W. H. Pearson, M.A., a life interest in the residue of her property ; and after her decease to her granddaughter, Honora Mary Pearson. All legacies to be paid free of legacy duty. The will, of Sir William Wake, Bart., of Courteen Hall, Northampton, was proved in the London court, on the 21st of June. The executors nominated are his brothers, Drury Wake, Esq., and Captain C. Wake, R.N., together with the Rev. M. F. Thursby, 8.A., Rector of Abington. They are also appointed guardians to his seven children (four sons and three daughters), who are in their minority. He is succeeded by his eldest son, now Sir Here ward Wake, Bart., who is in his 14th year. The testator died on the 13th of April last, at the age of 42, on board his yacht, having only enjoyed the title since Feb. 23, 1864. He executed his will March 14, 1864, and a codicil thereto Jan. 12, 1865. By virtue of a power vested in him, he has charged the family estates in counties of Essex and North ampton with the sum of £lO,OOO for younger child ren, and leaves to his wife, Lady Wake, the abso lute use of all his disposable' real and personal estate and effects. The personalty was sworn under £7,000. To the abstract of the will of the Marchioness of Londonderry, given last week, should be added the bequest of £4OO a year to Mr. Clayton, the trustee and sole acting executor, for his management of the property, which is likely to extend over a lengthened period. The will of Major-General Abraham Henry Gor don,. of Westbourne-terrace, Hyde-park, was proved in the London court, -by his sister, Miss Amelia Gordon, the sole executrix. He directs his house and property at Everton to be sold, and, with all other moneys, to be equally divided between his brothe r , Major Frederick Gordon, his sister, Amelia Gordon, and his niece, Harriet, the daughter of his late brother, Augustus Gordon. There are specific be quests to a nephew and to Colonel Henry Lawford. The will of Francis Bullivant, of Eastcheap, Lon don, tea merchant, was proved in the principal re gistry, under £70,000 personalty. The executors appointed are Edward Chambers Nicholson, of Herne-hill; John Nicholson, of Clapham-commo n ; and Richard Lowcock, of Laurence Poutney-lane, to each of whom he leaves a legacy of £5OO. The will is stated to have been signed by him while lying on his back in bed, fit Guy's Hospital, suffering from a compound fracture of the left leg. The signature is tremulous. The will is dated April 21, and he died on the 23d. The attesting witnesses are Fred. Jas. Chester, solicitor, Newington Butts, and his clerk, L. J. Dunham. He bequeaths to each of the children of his late brother, Thomas Bulli vant, a legacy of £2,500 on attaining the age of 21. To his brother John an annuity of £lOO. To his sister Fanny Bullivant a legacy of £4,000. To several of his cousins £5OO each, and a like sum to a godson. To his clerks, Gordon and Lampart, each £250 ; and to his porter (James) and carman (Saunders) each nineteen guineas. All legacies to be free of duty. The residue he bequeaths to his sister Ann Bullivant for her own absolute use and benefit. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day LONDON, July I.—Wind this day at noon—North- Easterly; moderate breeze, and fine weather, but rather cloudy. FALMOUTH, June 30.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—San Jose, 'or London. OPT FALMOUTH, June 30.—Wind S.—Arrived—Adam, 'rom Trinidad de Cuba. CARDIFF, June 30.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Agincourt, from Hong Kong ; Gondola, from Cape Town. Sailed — Fargo, for Barcelona. PLYMOUTH, June 30.—Wind N.—Arrived—Eglantner, from Sagua, la. Grande. Sailed—City of Ottawa, for Quebec. OFF PLYMOUTH, Juno 30.—Wind N.—Arrived-31er. chantman, from Madeira. QUEENSTOWN, Juno 29.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Charles Davenport, from Callao. OFF HOLYHEAD; June 30.—Wind S.W.—Arrived— Bowick, from Africa. TORBAY, June 30.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Georgiana, for London. OFF THE LIZARD, June 29.—Arrived—City of Manche ter, from Colombo. LIVERPOOL, June 80.—Wind S.L.—Arrived—Borde• [also, from Matamorrs. SWANSEA, June 29.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived—Ebe, from Quebec. Sailed—Shanghai, for Valparaiso; Roman, 'or Monte Video. HULL, June 30.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—George Son• dal], from Calcutta. CLYDE, June 30.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—St. Patrick, steamer, for Quebec. BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH. GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning. Arrived, June 30, —Apphin, from St. Lucia; Lord Warden, from Madras ; Lucerne, from Gibraltar. Arrived, Juiy I.—Vesper, from Riga ; Olive Branch, from Waken; Perseverance, from Medemblik ; Empheden, from Abo; Catherina, from Landscrona; Hannah Andrew, from Stettin ; Isabella, from Cronstadt. Sailed.—Belgium, steamer, for Ostend ; Rhine, steamer, for Boulogne. DEAL, Saturday Morning. Passed.—Reliance, for Cape of Good Hope ; Sovereign, for Lisbon ; Ariel, for Algoa Bay—all from London ; America, bark, from North, for West. PHOSPHATES OF THALLIUM.—Our readers are aware that about two years ago a great controversy arose between Mr. Jrookes, the discoverer of thallium, and M. Lamy, who claims the honour of having been the first to proclaim the metallic nature of that element. In a paper recently presented to the Academy of Sciences, M. Lamy returns to the charge, asserting, contrary to W. Crookes's experiments, that the phosphates of thallium are extremely soluble, and that that was one of the reasons which had induced him to place the new metal nearer to potassium than to lead. He states that thallium forms not one, but se veral phosphates with the phosphoric acid, and that most of them are extremely soluble, and at least of as various composition and properties as the corresponding com pounds of the alkaline metals. All these salts are white, nearly all are soluble in water and insoluble in alco hol. They are distinguishable from the phosphates of the alkaline metals first, because hydrochloric acid produces white precipitates with them ; nitric acid does the same, provided the solutions be neither warm nor too much diluted. Moreover, the phosphates and pyr o phosphates of thallium yield a white precipitate of tri-basic phosphate by means of alkalies, while they do not precipi tate by alkaline carbonates, nor even by alkalies in the presence of those carbonates. Neutral phosphate of thal lium is obtained by saturating at boiling point common phosphoric acid with carbonate of thallium. It is so soluble in water that its solution may be, reduced to the consis= teney of syrup before crystallisin,g. Its reaction is alka line. When heated, it loses all its water of ciystallisation, and is converted into a glass y and transparent substance which is a neutral pyrophosphate of thallium. The same phosphate may be produced IN ithout any water of crystal lisation, but it then presents this curious pecultarity, that it loses its solubility in a gre at measure. If to this salt phosphoric acid be added until the mixture be quite acid, the acid phosphate of -th allium is the result. This salt crystallises in fine liunina3 having the lustre of mother-of-pearl. Under tha influence of heat it loses from one to two equivalents of water, and is thus converted into acid pyrophosphate, or els e into metaphosphate of thallium. The basic phosphate is o btained by pouring an alkali, am monia for instance, into a solution of one of the twa for mer salts. This compound is not very soluble is water. M. Lamy concludes w ith reiterating his opinion that thal lium is an alkaline mutal,—Galignani. 48f I 71 891 1 81 9 122 9 1084 8 41i 123 f 4 991 474 8 143 j 134; I 1121 701 I 102 11 101 i 111 121 ,ITIES. THIRD EDITION. SUN OFFICE, 6 o'CLocK. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day CITY BETTING—Tms DAY. GOODWOOD STAKES. 9 to 1 agst Claremont (offered) 100 to 7 agst Suspicion (offered) 14 to 1 agst Alabama (taken) 15 to 1 agst_Joco (taken) 25 to 1 agst Moose 40 to 1 agst Guide (taken) The Cholera at Alexandria. --_,,.- (REUTER'S EXPRESS.) TRIESTE, June 26. The Triester Zeitung of to-day says :—The Italian steamer Principe Tonamaso, and the Austrian steamer Marco Polo are now in the Theresa lazaretto. Their passengers (152 in number) are lodged in the lazarette quarters, as well as circum stances permit. All are perfectly healthy, and notwithstanding the great overcrowding in both vessels—the Italian steamer having brought 173 passengers to Ancona, while the Marco Polo was crammed with 105—not a single case of serious illness occurred during the voyage. All contrary reports are stupid or malicious inventions. Several travellers, however, concur in admitting that cholera prevails at Alexandria to a great degree, and that the majority of the cases have a fatal issue, but the causes of this are purely local, and mainly attributable to the wretched sanitary con dition of the town. Above 700 carcases of cattle are said to be lying on the Nile canal alone, and the water from this source supplies the inhabitants. A letter from Alexandria on the 19th inst. says : ' The measures taken by the Government have proved entirely useless to meet the extent of the evil, the first case of which was observed here on the 10th or 11th ult. The disease prevailed first in the north-west suburbs near the railway station, which are inhabited by some 20,000 Arabs, Greeks, and Maltese, all belonging to the lowest class. It is remarkable that the epidemic has hitherto only attacked the port of Alexandria, while hot and populous Cairo, together with the internal portion of the country, has remained entirely free. During the first few days 4.5 to 8 persons died daily, then the deaths rose to 30.39, and on the 17th 61 fatal cases were reported.' " An official telegram from Alexandria, dated to-day (26th), estimates the number of deaths hitherto at 1,034, the great majority of which be long to the native population. On the 25th 183 persons died out of a total population of 160,000. Large numbers of inhabitants were leaving the town. " Arrangements have been made here that per sons coming from Alexandria are to be subjected to a week's quarantine, reckoned from the day of arrival. Ships are to be ventilated and fumigated; clothes, furniture, and bedding thoroughly cleaned; and goods and letters exposed to the treatment cus tomary in Italian ports." The same paper publishes a report from Alexan dria as to the cholera in Mecca, an imperfect account of which has previously appeared. It says :—" The Mussulman festivals of the Kurban-Bairan took place during the first 20 days of May, when 600,000 to 700,000 pilgrims annually assemble in Mecca and upon Mount Ararat, to celebrate their pilgrimage with the usual religious ceremonies. The mode of life, utterly opposed to all rules of dietetic prudence, pursued by these crowded masses for 10 to 15 days at the holy places, yearly entails a number of diseases to which many are sacrificed. This year the cholera, or as the Government prefers to call it, cholonna—.was added to the customary pests, and is said to have carried off 20,000 people at Mecca and upon Gebel Ararat within the short space of two months. Private accounts place the loss of pilgrim life at 100,000, an estimate obviously ex aggerated, as these do not even include the deaths by cholera. We, in Alexandria, have no more exact details of this terrible drama, which made no extraordinary impression upon the pilgrims them selves, who, in their religious fanaticism, believe every one certain of Paradise who dies during pil grimage. The country being at all times inaccessible to European medical men, the meagre reports we have are derived from a few Egyptian military surgeons, ordered by the Government to accompany the pilgrims from Egypt. Lamentable and Fatal Accident. We deeply regret to record a very melancholy and fatal accident which has occurred in this island, and has caused great distress in one of our most respectable family circles, and very deep and general sympathy. The Rev. D. M. Lempriere, chaplain of the General Hospital and Prison, with his wife, children, and a lady friend, set out in the morning on a picnic excursion to Bonne Nuit, and while Mrs. Lempriere was walling along the ridge of one of the _ _ ... _ _ dangerous precipices there, one of the children having, it is supposed, ran too near the edge, in the attempt to save the little girl from the imminent danger in which she was placed, Mrs. Lempriere herself slipped and fell over the precipice. The unfortunate lady was dashed to pieces, and her husband, who was a short distance behind, alarmed by the cries of his little daughter, ran to the spot, when he had the agony of mind to find his wife lying at the foot of the precipice a lifeless and mutilated corpse. The following is the evidence adduced at the inquest held on the body : Sergeant Francis West, 8.A., deposed that in the morning, about 10 o'clock, while he was at work at the Bonne Nuit Battery, St. John's, his attention was drawn to a person falling down the slope to the beach. He looked through a glass and saw a gentleman raising a lady, who appeared insensible. He hastened immediately to the spot for the pur pose of rendering assistance. When he arrived he saw the body of a lady in the arms of Mr. Lempriere. Witness directed Gunner Davis, who had accompanied him, to run and fetch water and a towel from the barracks. At the re quest of Mr. Lampriere, who was getting exhausted, he supported the lady until such time as a hand barrow and rug had arrived. With the assistance of the gunner he had the deceased conveyed to the nearest house in the neighbourhood. He had examined the place where Mrs. Lempriere had fallen. It was about 60 feet in height from the beach, with a slope of 40 feet, and a perpendicular drop of from 15 to 20 feet. The deceased did not breathe. She must have been killed in staneously. Mr. Lempriere showed his wife's hat to wit ness, and it contained about half a pint of congealed blood. She had fallen on her head on some stones imbedded in the beach. He telieved the skull must have been severely fractured. The pathway near the spot was very dangerous. Gunner B. Davis corroborated the statement of the former witness, and added that he saw the deceased fall from the slope upon the beach. Mr. Lempriere was next examined. He said—We left town in the morning about 9 o'clock for the purpose of spending the day a t B onne N u it, an d arr i ve d there in due course of time. After alighting from the car riage we went down the hill, when we came abreast of some soldiers' wives who were on the slope, and asked them for the pathway leading to the beach. We intended to bathe the children. The servant w ent ahead, carrying pro visions, and I followed, carrying my youngest child. My wife and a lady, our friend and companion, with two children, followed in the rear. I looked round several times to see how my wife and her companions were getting on. Mrs. Lempriere told me to go on, and as soon as I had deposited the child on tho beach to come back and fetch her. I proceeded a short way, when to my surprise my eldest daughter, aged seven years, ran up to me and said, "Poor mamma has fallen down the hill !" I ran to the spot whore she should have stood, but I saw nothing but her parasol. I ran down the path to the beach, and only found a corpse there. I raised my poor wife's head; but alas ! all was over. Death must have been instantaneous. I was soon joined by two soldiers, who rendered every assistance in their power. I inquired for a surgeon, but I was told that none lived in the neighbourhood. The path was narrow, but' the descent was gradual, and no danger apprehended. The pathway was not difficult, for the chil dren trotted along it with ease. I surmise that Mrs. Lempriere must have got out of the path for the purpose of protecting one of the children, who may have gone too close to the precipice, and thus sacrificed her life to save that of her child. The accident took place in an instant. The mother fell with a shriek. Her maiden name was Maria Jane Collas, and she was a native of St. Saviour's. Her age was 37 years. Dr. Charles Lo Vesconte Godfray, surgeon of the General Hospital, said ho had examined the body of the deceased lady. The whole of the cranium was completely fractured, and there was no doubt but that death was instantaneous. Marie PilleeMoll, a servant-maid in the family of Mr. Lempriere, was at the place with her mistress, but said sho did not seo her fall ; she heard a shriek . , and that was all. The deceased has left six children. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental Death."— Jeray Paper. The traffic receipts of the Atlantic:a nd Great Western Railway (New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio) for the month of May amounted to $460,442, against $214,679 in the corresponding period of 1864. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, June 30.—The market for export yarns to-day is reported to have been a perfect blank. No transactions whatever have taken place, and it is quite impossible to say what the decline in price is as compared with Tuesday's quotations, when the reaction was setting in. To force sales to-day at least I.d. to 2d. per lb. decline would have to be submitted to. This branch of the market closes with a still further tendency to decline. The market for home trade yarns is also drooping, and very little business has been effected. There is no doubt sellers would listen to offers of at least 2d. per lb. decline on Tuesday's rates, if such offers were made. In the cloth market there has been no buying, and in fact the men to whom goods arc generally sold or offered are themselves rather anxious to sell. The quantity held on speculation and for re-sale is considerable, and has been offered at rates which entirely deprive manufacturers of the opportunity of taking contracts at anybut ruinous rates. In such a state of things it is almost impossible to quote prices with precision, but it is pretty nearly equal to that on yarns. There has not been business enough offering fairly to test actual values. To-day many manufacturers say they observe a check to some ex tent of the depression in values, and a slight improve ment of tone in the cloth-market, but it does not manifest itself in any augmentation of business, and we close very quiet. The collapse of the cotton market came rather suddenly, but it had been not unlooked for, and, as stated in our later reports, a good deal of uneasinesshad manifesteditself, among buyers of cloth especially. LEEDS, 30th.—The following is the trade report of the Leeds Chamber of Commerce for June : " In the woollen cloth warehouses there has been a steady demand for the season. In the halls business has on the . whole been better. The manufacturers continue to be fully employed preparing winter goods, for which considerable orders have been given. The cap trade has not been quit so brisk. The London sales of colonial wools closed on the 24th, when not less than 168,000 bales passed the hammer, being considerably more than was ever before brought for ward in one series. Prices though moderate have been un usually steady throughout. To this result the reduction on the rate of interest and the general soundness of trade have, no doubt, contributed. The French were large buyers, the Belgian and German smaller. Altogether it is computed that two-fifths of the entire quantity have been taken for export. The home trade continues steady, without being brisk. There has been a good demand for English long wools, and prices have advanced. There is a great difficulty in obtaining as high prices in the market as have been given at the fairs. There has been much excitement in the flax trade. Prices have very quietly advanced, and are atleast £lO or £l2 per ton higher than last month. This has been partly caused by the steady advance in cotton, but much more by the unfavourable reports of the crops from the growing countries. In France and the low countries the plant has suffered greatly from the dryness of the weather, and it is now too late to expect much improvement from a change. From Russia the same complaints are received, and to some extent from England and Ireland. Tows are not in good demand, and have by no means advanced in proportion to flax. There has been an improved demand for linen yarns, and all the spinners are asking and obtaining higher prices, but not many very proportionate to the advance in the raw material. Tow yarns are dull of sale. Threads continue steady. The demand for all descriptions of iron has been quieter, though a fair business is still being done in the commoner sorts. The machine-makers are very fairly em ployed. The engineer tool trade is good. The locomotive and railway plant makers continue busy. The inquiry for cut nails is not so good. Seed crushers have been actively employed, and a large business has been done both in lin seed and rape oils at increased rates. In rapeseed there has been little done, as stocks are exceedingly low both in Lon don and Liverpool, and the new crop on the Continent is reported as bad. Continued dry weather both here and on the Continent and the fears of a deficient crop of turnips have caused a considerable demand for linseed cakes. Baltio linseed has risen considerably in value, and an active in quiry exists at full rates for all fine seeds. Olive oil has been in good consumptive demand at full rates, and a fair business reported. There has during the whole of the month been a good demand for all descriptions of leather, except for heavy sole leathers, as is usually the case at this season. Prices are firm. The tanners are batter employed. There has been a good business done in all descriptions of shoes suitable for the season, and the makers are in full work. There has been an increased demand for paper, and the manufacturers are working to order, with a fair prospect of a good trade. The market is well supplied with material. There has been a fair supply of cattle, and prices have been very firm. Numbers shown (four markets)—beasts, 2,022 ; sheep, 14,050. There have been fair supplies of wheat with a good demand. Prices have recovered the fall of last month. Barley has not been much sought for, and prices are in favour of the buyers. Oats are dearer. Beans with out much change." NOTTINGHAM, 30th.—The attendance on 'Change to-day was by no means numerous, and the demand for lace yarns was limited, at rather under the rates of Tuesday last ; in some cases prices were ld. to lid. per lb. lower. The demand for hosiery yarns was less active, and prices had a tendency to re cede. Thrown silks were dearer. Spun silks have advanced fully ls. per lb. during the. week. The demand for brown nets is on the whole steady, and prices remain stationary. EXTRACTS FROM PUNCH. ALL "DICKY" wrrit HIM I A great sensational news paper paragraph was made, a week ago, out of the fact that Mr. Richard Bethell was tapped on his shoulder by a sheriff's officer while enjoying the sport on Ascot Heath. His release should be headed in the largest type, "Richard's himself again." FOR MR. LEIGH MURRAY'S BENEFIT.—(A day after the fair.)—Murray's " Guide to the Continent" —Mrs. Leigh Murray. RETJTER ROUTED.—Tho news so emphatically telegram... m Reuter u n te m r e o re f alighroeka-taßnu-as-sbiaonll story.defeat Bhokan, turnseLd b B oy : x, Mt r E o. n b ET LE TAUREAU. —T h e Toulonnais publishe, a full, true, and particular account of a new steam-ram called Le Taurean. Making a bull of a ram is surely mak ing a bull, indeed. QUERY.—Please, Sir, do the Black Ball Ships take away from England the Candidates rejected by different Clubs ? Sic SEMEER T TRANNI.—PoIand is put down by the sword. The Emperor says, mockingly, "No dreams !" How can there be dreams, when Macbeth bath murdered sleep ? CONSUMPTION OF FUEL IN FRANCE.—In a paper addressed to the Academy of Sciences, M. Becquerel gives some curious particulars concerning the quantities of fuel consumed in France at various periods, both for domestic and manufacturing purposes, taking into ac count the increase of population, and the relative quantities of each kind of fuel, reducing them all to a common standard, pure carbon, and thus giving the co-efficients by which a certain quantity of fuel must be multiplied in order to obtain the number of metri cal quintals of carbon producing the same amount of heat as the combustibles in question. We are told that it was under the Consular period, from 1801 to 1804, the consump tion of wood was the most considerable ; it fell materially under the Imperial era, rose again under the Restoration, and declined again from 1826 to 1834. The fall continued until 1848, to such an extent as to cause much anxiety to landed proprietors ; but from that period a rise began, and has been continuing ever since. The consumption of charcoal increases:in proportion to the population, because the poor find it cheaper tha n sea-coal. Nevertheless, the consumption of the latter has rapidly increased. The events of 1830 and 1848 slackened this increase for a while. In 1821, when pit-coal was not yet in common use for domestic purposes, the amount of wood consumed was equivalent to 2-16 quintals of pure carbon. This quantity has been constantly diminishing, so that in 1861 it was only represented by an equivalent of 0.687 of a quintal of pure carbon, the difference being evi dently made up by pit coal. Now, if by any chance the production of the latter were to decline, it would become necessary to fetch wood from a great distance in order to satisfy the wants of the capital, and its price would con - sequently experience a rise ; but were the clearing of forests to continuo on the same scale as it now does, the price of wood would become exorbitant in a very short time. The great consumption of charcoal induces landed pro prietors to cut their wood every 15 or 16 years, and even oftener, instead of every 18 or 20 years, in order to get more wood fit for charcoal, and more bark for tanning, the price of which has doubled. By this means the reserve is de lsittryoyoef(al,rewwhoioted woo dntakes s t . h e G r p e le Broiftaoinakh,asanoditlhye2qupaer cent. of forest land ; Spain only 3 per cent. ; France has still 16.7 per cent. left ; and if things continue on the pre sent footing a very few years will suffice to reduce it to the penury of the above-mentioned countries. A MAN GORED TO DEATH.—OR Tuesday a man named James Methley, at Barnsley, died from injuries re ceived on the previous Sunday by being gored by a bull. A bull belonging to Mr. Hattersley having got into a fiold in the occupation of his employers, he went up to put it out. For that purpose he got hold of the ring attached to the nose of the bull, when the animal resisted and forced him down on the ground, and then gored him in a very savage manner. The Duke and Duchess of Cleveland entertained a large and distinguished party at dinner on N 4 ednesday evening at their residence in St. James's-square. ADMIRALTY.—Rear-Admiral George G. Wellesley has been appointed admiral superintendent of Portsmouth Dockyard, vice Rear-Admiral Elliot, resigned ; Mr. R. S. Syer has been appointed to be a dockyard clerk at Hong Kong. r ~:.~. 204 10 100 I ICO 100 all 10.1 100 {lOO 2 100 100 100 100 103 100 100 190 100 100 1 , 0 100 100 214 3 321 3.10.6 2.8.0 7.1.6 10.6.7 11 18.18.9 30.17.6 471 51 10 3.12.8 8 581 7 10 t 110}