The Sun. — London, England, 1867-10-19 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND fI :OMI ' IIEitCIAL I.I4TELLtratZ,ICE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The attendance in all departments of business in the City to-day was very limited, and in the general discount market no change of importance can be reported, the rates current for the negocia tion of first-class short dated paper ranging from lf tq 11 per cent. On the Stock Exchange there is an abundant supply of capital on offer, and loans on Government Securities are readily obtainable at 1 per cent. The bullion operations at the Bank of England ycsterday comprised an influx of £lO,OOO and a withdrawal of £182,000, inclu ling 70,000 sovereigns for E gyp t . Two Australian arrivals have taken place, viz , the Great Britain, with £138,024 ; and the Wave of Lire, with £120,252, making a total of £558,276. The Kepler, from the River Plate and Brazils, has also arrived this morning with £30,000. Notice has been given by the Secretary of State for India in Council that the amount for which tenders for bills of exchange on Calcutta and Madras will be received at the Bank of England on Wednes day, the Gth proximo, on the terms stated in the a nnouncement on the 10th November, 1863, will be 10 , 0 0,000 rupees. • Accounts from Dunedin, New Zealand, have been received by the directors of the Otago and South land Investment Company. An interim dividend has been declared at the rate of 10 per cent. for the _six months endi ng 31 s t J u ly, l eav i ng a cons id era bl e balance to be tarred forward. The Bank of New South Wales have announced that the balance of the Tasmanian Government Loan of £102,500, offered on the 26th June last, has now been subscribed for. Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures have receded to 24 25 ; but the Consolidated Mortgage Bonds remained steady at 20 20k. The specie movements during the past week have boon on au extreme scale, particularly as regards th e imports, which have amounted to about £1,050,003, including £26,370 from New York by the Bremen ; £1,500 by the City of Antwerp'; £4OO by the Hammonia ; £221,259 by the Tasmania from the West Indies and Pacific ; £438,024 from Australia by the Great Britain ; £120,252 by the Brazils. of Lif e ; £30 , 000 by th e K ep l er f rom th e Jr azils- The Athenian from the West Coast of Africa has brought £B5O. About £6,348 in gold 4 4 been received from Portugal, and £5,000 in silver from the Continent. The exports have been £430 to Bombay by the 611 niatre ; £l,lOO to the West Indies by the Douro ; "nd there h ave b een rem i ttances to t h e C ont i nent through private sources estimated at £353,875 —the total amounting to £355,405. T he Standard Bank of British South Africa have I . r alu ed a report f or th o h a lf-year ending the 30th Ju ng l ast. The accounts show a balance of net p r ofit of £14,299, after making allowance for rebate on bills not due and providing for bad and doubtful debts. Out of this available balance the directors reco mmend a dividend for the half-year of 10s. on the shares with £25 paid, and of 4s. on the shares n w ith £lO paid, w hi c h w ill ta k e £9 ; 393 ; th a t £5OO he written off preliminary expenses, £l,OOO off the amalgamation account, and that £2,000 be added to the reserve fund; leaving £1,405 to be carried for ward. In addition to the ordinary profits the directors have been able to apply £9,370 arising from forfeited shares, in reduction of the amalgama tion account. Although the directors do not pro pose to increase the rate of dividend beyond that of the two past half-years, they have much pleasure in Stating the continued advance of the bank in strength and public favour. The withdrawal of two local institutions in Natal will tend materially to improve the position of the bank in that colony. Two o'CLocK. According to Reuter's telegram this morning, the French Rentes were 67f. 101. Uneasiness. When the market for Consols closed yesterday afternoon, there was a firm advance of nearly 1 per es et., but to-d a y, ow i ng t o a f ew sa l es , th ere h as b een a reaction of 3.. Lower prices from the Paris 130 urs; and thp persistency with which reliable cor resPondence from Paris refer to the almost inevitable reoccu pation,, of Rome by the French troops, and Lee probability of affairs between France and Prus sia assuming a m o re serious aspect, have brou ght forward fresh " bear" operators on the sudden jum p that has taken place. Withdrawals of gold from the Bank have been commented upon, and t all these un f avoura bl e i n fl uences have to some !3tten negatived the remarkable and most encourag- Ing S peech made by th e P rem i e r at Manchester, the fextrenaely easy co n diti on o f the money market and an d returns i ssue d by the Banks of England 11(1 Fr anco, as they both indicate an expansion tot tr ade or ent erpr i se o f some ki n d . C onso l s are at °,p 11 l ower than they w e r e yeste r day afternoon, ,r93i for transfer, and at 931 / for the account. 9 2 ', 11° New Threes are 92k 4 ; Reduced Annuities, ; India 5 per C ents. have b een d ealt i n at .141 113 3 - ; do. 4 per Cents., 991 ; do. Enface.d anger, Cents., 1041 ; do. 51 per Cents., 109/ uo• Bonds, at 68s. prem. eb Alth on _ h 6 most departments of the Stock Ex doange are considerably depressed, Foreign Stocks 1 , 1 2 .°t how , any material variation. Italian have to I : l , e d to 431 44 ; but Greek have advanced 3., are ``l ; and Mexican, 1, 141 15k ; Spanish Passive a n , linc hanged, at 18/ 191 ; the Certificates, at 161 ; 4 Turkish 5 per Cents., at 311 1. An ad vance has taken place of 1 in Erie Shares, , orh "paneport of a change in the direction of the Y, and are 45 46 ; bat Illinois have declined — 77 ; United St a t es 5-20 B on d s 3., t o 681 eZ div, d e ln the Railway Share Market the downward ten nfileY of prices has made farther progress, and most b ap principal lines are neglected. Caledonian Lastgv declined 41 upon a pressure of sales. North t r ern (Berwick) have receded 1, Great Western, l and n, London, Chatham, and Dover, and Mid ea; e ach 3. ; Great Eastern and South Eastern i; and Great N or th ern A St oc k , N ort h ,rester n, and M e t ropo li tan eac h 1 . g at h e Foreign an d C o l on i a l li nes are also a shade e ter, with th e excep ti on o f S outh Austr i a and rnb ardo-Veneti an , which have improved to 14k. ntr a i Argentine are ma r ked 134 14, G ran d G rill * of Canada 17 17k, E as t I n di an 1101, re at t India n P en i nsu l a 107 1, and Scinde 1031 104. pri auk shares continue in very limited request, and ea." generally remain unalter e d. Ch ar t ere d Mer -25141e of India, London, and China are dealt in at aa p v ; , London an d B raz ili an, at 20f ; London at 34 / estminster, at 701 71 ; and Union of London, a I fti ti t. ,he Miscellaneous an d Fi nance Sh are M ar k et Stecthey decline has taken place in Royal Mail o f t il l, which h ave receded to 81 and 821 ; Viceroy to f a nit's Mortgage, to 711 4 ; and City Offices, Pr o ' w hile National Discount Company have im yeti t alai • 11k k • Tel egra ph C ons t ruc tio n an d C orn , Mee remained at 16 ; and Hudson's Bay vauY, at . MINING MARKET. t SATURDAY, Two P.M. 4illeaS has c on ti nue d very qu i e t. Th e s h ares eb o il j t in request have been North TreskerbY, hay , al es, North Crofty, and South Frances, which 1/41.01Y maintained previous rates. The follow -0,7 4re 80 08 of the latest quotations : qlloverton Moor. .... 41 5 r Clio al Gold ... 31 3} 1,1 8t ° 1 .1 1 Amalgam. ******* 71 7 t l;t tat. C 4B et ............ krit Co'vaetn ......... 6 61 (48t Whottl ........ — 2 4:344t Laxey . 71 17 i 1 4 N- ..... 3/ 4 4.110 heal Vo .. ... .. 17} 18 0_ Vall e 61 6 40 1 erof tyy .................. 3 31 North Treskerby 33s 35s Oct Prince of Wales 52s 6d 54s Od Providence Mines South Caradon — South Frances Tincroft l2 13 West Seton Wheal Basset ..... 821 87k West Caradon 7l 81 Wheal Buller 22 23 Wheal Grenville 31s 33s Od Wheal Beton 1 0 .2} 107} ~, BRITISH PIINDS—CLOSING PRICES. 8 ‘ 4 011 3 ,,,„ h t ... —gsiENT IruNns. 1:1 "ut 00 1)101 it h l 4 . o 4 : a c i °ll , ll t, Nov. 's 7 93k I 4 3 1 o w 3 • Reduced 92 'IY 21 13er (I nit 921 2 i a Por Cent. Jan. 1594 — Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 Annuities, 80 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 Do. for 30 yrs, expiro sth April 1885 — Do . (lled Sea Teleb,raph), Aus., - - -. - March June. Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2& 2i per Ct —pm —pm Do .£5OO — pin pot Do. .£lOO & .£2OO pm. Bank of England Stock, 4 per Cent — Do. Account INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Indian Stock, 10f per Cent., April 1874 — Do. Account Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1380 Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1838 Do. Certificates — Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent — Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 Do. 5f per Cent., ➢lay 1879 l'j9 i Do. 5 par Cont., Ilup. Dub., 187 1 . .. DO. do. , 1877 — Do. do. 183 - ) Do: Deb., .5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 — Do. Bends, 5 per Cent., £l,OOO Do. under £I,OOO FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Argentine Ropublic, 6 per Cent — Austrian Bonds, 5 por Cent. 1859 Br tzilian 5 per Cent — Do. 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Do. 1863 a°. 5 per Cent., 1865 — Do Account 7'2 2 Do. £lOO Bonds — Buenos Ayros 6 per Cent — Do 2 por Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) Cabo, 6 por Cent. o..ilian 6 per Cent — 'Do. 41 per Cent — Do. 6 per Cent., B , Do., 1867 Do., Scrip, £74 paid —pm Do., 7 per Cent., 1866 Do., Scrip, £2O paid o)l4 , mbian, 6 per Cent. Danish, 3 ner Cent., 1825 atnubian Principalities, 7 per Cent — Do 8 per Cent., 1.67 — Einador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — rigyptian 7 per Cent — Do. Sec, ad Issue Do. £lOO Bonds B7 Do. Do. 1864 — Do. £5lO Bonds B3l Do. £lO6 Bonds 854 Do Government Railway Debentures B7 G:aek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Couponm:— • Do. Account - 12 i ' Do. Coupons Do. Account Giatomala 5 per Cent .. — It Tian 5 per Cent., 1865 — Do, Account ~ — :3 Jo. Maremmana Railway — 61..)xicar. 3 per Cent —A Ditto for Account Do. 1864 Do 6 per Cont. Anglo-French — Alontevidean 6 per Cent. .. — M.oolish imperial 5 per Cent — Now Granada Do 3 per Cen — Do. Deferrad Do Land Warrants (Hectares) reraTian 5 per Cont. 1865 — Do Account — Do 41 por Cont., 1865 Do 41 per Cent. (Uribarren) Do 41 per Cent., 1862 Do Account Portuguese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, '7, '9,'60,'2,'3 Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St B4} Do 4} por Cent. 1850 Do 41 por Cent., 1860 Do 8 per Cont., 1859 Do 5 por Cent., 1862 Do. Anglo-Dutc14.1864, £lOO Bonds — Do. do. £B4. 15s. do. Do., 1866, .£lOO Bonds £B4 158. do — 8 4 in Do. do. Sardinian, 5 per Cent Spanish 3 per Oeni Do Account Do New Deferred Do Account Do Passive Do Account Do Com. Cert. of Cour. not funded Do Account Turkish 6 per Cent., 1854 Do Account Do 6 per Cent. 1858 — Do Account Do £lOO Bonds — Do 6 per Cent., 1.862 — Do Account Do £lOO Bonds 63f 4} Do. 1863 — Do 5 per Cent., 1865 Do Account Do a per Cent., 1865 ' DJ 4 por Cent. Guaranteed ...... - Venezuela, 3 per Cent. — DJ Account — Do 6 per Cont., 1862 Do 6 per Cent. 1864 Dividends on the above payable in Loudon. Austnan o psr Cent. Ex 10 Florins Belgian, 44 per cent., Ex. 25f. Dutch 24 per CAnt. Ex. 12 Gail., — Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates French lientes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 23f. — Italian 5 per Cent. 1831, Ex. 25i. Do. Accoun 4 TWO O'CLOCK. Consols, Money 931 4 Do. Account LATES CITY INTELLIGENCE. CITY, FIVE O'CLOCK. Some of the latest quotations after official hours are as follows :—Consols, money, 93i ; ditto ac count, 931 ; Italian 5 per Cents., 431 44 ; Greek Bonds, 12 12} ; Mexican Stock, 141 14i ; Turkish 5 per Cents., 31; k. Caledonian Railway, 91 91}; Great Northern, 109 110; ditto A Stock, 113 1131 ; North Western, 113 1131 ; Midland, 118 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin coln, 48 f ; Brighton, 52 I ; Alliance Bank, 111 101; Hudson's Bay Company, 141 15 ; General Credit and' Finance, 2} 2 dis. ; and Credit Fon cier of England, 5i dis. At the Bank of England there were no gold opera tions of importance this afternoon. A telegram with regard to the Cotton Market at Liverpool states that there has been a strong de. mand at advancing prices. Sales, 18 to 20,000 bales. Imports, 17,060 bales. 711 E STA.7E OF CRETE. (From the Correspondent of the Times.) ATHENS, OCt. 10. The affairs of Crete continuo to be a source of trouble to Turkey, and of political and social con fusion in Greece. But the Ottoman Government and the Greek nation are wasting their strength, mortgaging their future prosperity to strangers, and injuring their character, by the continuance of a state of things which offers no issue honourable to both parties. The Greeks tells us that the Christians of Crete have rejected the Sultan's amnesty, and remained decided on the question of union with Greece. The emigration goes on, and as nearly one half of the best arable land in the Greek kingdom is uncultivated, and there is a constant complaint of want of population, Greece may be a gainer, even if it be carried much further. The Ottoman Go vernment is making a new attempt to pacify the island. On the 2d inst. the Grand Vizier Aali left Constantinople with powers to make every concession to the Cretan Christians necessary to secure to them a good Government by means of local self-admini stration, in so far as may be consistent with the pre servation of the sovereignty of the Sultan. There is a disposition in Greece to force Turkey to declare war. On the 3d inst. the Greek Govern • ment allowed the inhabitants of Syra to make a demonstration in favour of the prolongation of the war in Crete, and of the rejection of the amnesty which would have been made the ground of a decla ration of war by any European Power but Turkey, whose hands are tied up by the protecting Powers. The blockade runner Enosis (Union) has taken the place of the Arkadi, and is engaged in feeding the war. SUNDAY WORK BY POST-OFFICE OFFICIALS.—The Fifeshire Journal of yesterday says : —"The man in charge of her Majesty's mails between Edinburgh and Perth, via Granton and Ladybank, has not been off duty a single Sunday for 16 years ; the church bells all that time have been ringing in vain for him, this branch of the civil ser vice being apparently too hard up to afford him the relief of a gin -horse. Three other cases equally discreditable have been mentioned to us : ono runner goes between In verness and Perth, while the other two serve their country by taking charge of its letters between Perth and Aber deen. We commend these poor men to the consideration of the Anti-Slavery Society in Edinburgh." GOLD FROM NEW ZEALAND.—The official return of the quantity of gold exported from New Zealand shows that 3,388,0280 z, have been exported since the discovery of its goldfields and of that quantity 179,3250 z. were ex ported during the second quarter of the current year. Of the total, Otago contributed 2,138,818 oz., and 48,5900 z. of the quantity for the quarter. I ADVERTISEMENT.] Holloway's Pills and Ointment.— Health at all Times.—The journey from infancy to age is besot with dangers from accidents or disease, nearly all of which may be remedied by the use 'of the excellent medicaments discovered and manufactured by . Professor Holloway. The pills cast out the countless impurities which are constantly gaining admission into the stomach and circulation, the ointment cools and soothes inflamma tory tendencies, disperses diseases of the skin, and heals ulcerations irrespective alike of their depth or duration. Both pills and ointment are carefully prepared. Vegetable extracts, uncontaminated by any mineral matters, whereby the thousand evils which were engrafted on the constitu tion by mercury and antimony are altogether avoided and sect:ol67 illnesses. fHE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCFOBER, 19, 1807. raid. ! Closing I Business Prise. done. 166 1u0 too 131tITISti YOSSII 14)0 100 100 all 100 100 100 {lOO lb 100 100 53 15 V 5 96 35 15 3 5 73 70 70 72 103 ilt all 13 4 6 209 tll t 5 116 123 1.5 91 16 46 47 25 3) 29 3i t'a 53 44 ID :e0 11 /4 113 114 83 • £4 9 , 3 591 122/ 951 1 3 i 1 311 1 I(9f 1154 141 S 5; i 27 8 53 2 ,8. 13 1 I 12 I f 111 113 83 85 - - 1181 119 lie; I 1 87 89 31 31 321 3 101 l &I 66 1111 103 21 103 f 114 Ira 1031 4 1031 4 London, Chatham, and Dover Railway. MEETING THIS DAY. This morning a general meeting of the share holders of the London, Chatham, and Dover Rail way was held at the board-room of the Victoria Station—Mr. Hodgkinson, M.P., in the chair—for the purpose of electing a share director, pursuant to the provisions of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway (Arrangement Act, 1867). The CIIAIRMAN said that the meeting of to-day, as they all knew, would be under different auspices from the previous ones, and that they now met in compliance with the dames of an Act of Parliament for arranging the affairs of the company. The CHAIRMAN then went into a narrative of the arrangements which had been made since they were obliged by the bad position of their company to take some radical steps to preserve their very valuable property, reminding them that a committee of investigation was appointed, which committee went into an elaborate scrutiny into the precise position of the company ; and on October 1 a report was prepared, and in that report it was deemed ad visable to ask the whole of the directors to retire, with the exception of Lord Harris, the chairman ; and although his lordship had since retired, it was only just to say that further examina tion justified this recommendation. They would also recollect that the committee of investigation was appointed in the place of the others, and that there was a debenture committee, with Mr. Hodg son as chairman, and these several bodies brought their bills before Parliament, and it was under the authority of this Act that they met to-day to carry out that clause, which says they should elect a fourth director within two months. Mr. HARTRIDGE said that the directors were not now directors, but trustees. They (the share holders) could not do anything without resorting to the courts of law. The new Act had placed them in this position. A SHAREHOLDER wished to know whether the officials of the company were to remain, for the shareholders had heard a great deal with regard to them, such as free tickets being given to their friends to travel up and down the line with, &c. The CHAIRMAN, in reply, said that the accounts had been prepared in compliance with the advice of the Investment Committee. With regard to the consolidated bill of the company the share holders had approved of it. Lie knew nothing about the free tickets, but they would inquire into it. Mr. BUCHANAN then proposed Mr. George Cavendish Taylor, and said that he was one of a smellfungus committee who had looked into all the minutiae of the company's affairs, and his con duct had been much approved of. Mr. HoTHAx seconded this nomination. He was unanimously elected, and this terminated the meeting after a vote of thanks to the chairman. THE FINANCIAL STATE OF FRANCE. M. Forcade, in the Semaine Financiers, speaking of the financial state of France, proceeds to say : From the economic point of view there are first of all the facts specially connected with the finan cial market. How could a revelation such as that which occurred last month, as to the position of the Credit Mobilier and the Immobiliere, be made without affecting numerous interests and exciting serious distrust? That incident proved that a considerable capital, represented by scripin the hands of shareholders, was menaced in its integrity and condemned to remain without revenue for an indefinite period. To the securities without pro duce which encumber the market, and . which represent enormous sums either entirely lost or compromised ; to shares and bonds of the Spanish and Italian railways; to the Mexican Bonds left in depreciation, notwithstanding the governmental patronage which so ostensibly encouraged their emission, were going to be added the scrip of two companies which had of late years taken and exer cised the high and active initiative in speculation, both in moveable and landed property. Such an event should inevitably give a profound shock to public confidence. Besides, this sad surprise surged up in the midst of economic circumstances which raised perspective ditlidultieS for the ensuing winter. We have this year two bad crops—in corn and wine—and we are subjected to dearness of provisions; manufacturers are suffering and restrict their operations. As to the French funds they could not help being affected by the known amount of the floating debt and by the extraor dinary expenses entailed by the reorganisation of the army. On the other hand political circum stances are not calculated to counterbalance the unfavourable elements of the financial situation. We do not wish here to allude to incidents of the kind of those which have appeared to affect the Bourse during the past week, and which have been denied by the Government. We speak only of the political situation `from a general point of view. What characterises this state of things is the incer titude and ignorant perplexity which it inflicts upon public opinion. Are affairs marching towardss war or peace ? No really decisive answer has yet been given to settle the dilemma with sufficient evidence and authority for the reestablishment of public confidence on a solid basis. The " dark spots" of which the Emperor spoke a month since have not yet been effaced by a new governmental declaration. The Illonitenr announced a few days ago that the service of the contingent of the last reserve would last this year five months instead of three. This preca u ti on o f military instruction evidently does not co rrespon d w ith an ordinary state of things. Gene ra l Fl eur y is going from Vienna to Berlin. Is it no t perm i ssa ble to attribute a political object to that journey? The principal Ministers are at Biarritz, and it is allowable to think that they are going to deliberate with the Emperor on the measures which -will express what the unity of direction in the governmental views really is—what the concerted action of the different Ministers aims at. How can the confidence of the public be restored before the results of the councils at Biarritz are announced? The presence at the same place of the Italian Minister, M. Nigra, is also an indication of important negotiations pre pared in connection with the Italian crisis ; on that point also, in order to see clearly, information is required as the decisions which will be taken, and doubt must be submitted to until the final word is pronounced. Therefore, in no reasonable manner can the disquietude and the agitation of the financial market be attributed to the inexact rumours spread as to the details of daily facts. THE CASE OF JoHN CROSS.—At the Wimborne County Court, on Wednesday, John Cross, the "Dorset labourer," was brought up for his final examination as bankrupt. He has been imprisoned two months in Dor chester Gaol under a fi. fit. Cross stated that he had no effects, and that of the money subscribed on his behalf ho hid received from the Roy. C. Onslow £2O and one 410. lie had applied to Mr. Coventry, in whose name the money subscribed had been invested, but he refused to give him any. The judge ordered the immediate discharge of the bankrupt, and, on the application of Mr. Carker, directed summonses to be issued against St. John Coventry, Esq., the Rev. Mr. Plumptre, the Rec. Mr. Kemp, and the Rev. Mr. Onslow, returnable at a special court on the 14th of November, to give an account how the money had been invested. [ADVSRTlSEMPANT.]—Dyspepsia(lndigestion), Constipation, De bility, Consumption, and all nervous, bilious, stomach, and liver complaints in every stage, are only aggravated and accelerated by thugs of every description, but perfectly curable by Da Barry's health-restoring Rovalenta Arabica Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had been considered hopeless, such as—cough, asthma, also diarhcoa, luomerrhoids, liver com plaint; flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, iafluenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, aeldity, palpitation, heartburn, head ache, dobility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness, even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach and between the shoulders, &c. We quote a few :—The Pope's health restored by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 03,413.—" Rome, July 21, 1866,—The health of the holy Father is excellent, especially sines, abandoning all other remedies, he has cenftned himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produced a sur prisingly beneficial effect ou his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly."—From the " Gazette du Midi, July 25 Cure No. 46,270 Mr James Roberts, Umbel merchant, of Frimley Surrey, of hirti years' diseased hangs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partia deafness. Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieut. of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. "Fifty years indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness and vomiting.—MariaJoly." Important Caution.—Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached.— In tins at Is. lid.; 1 lb., 2s 9d. 2 lbs. , 45. 61; 5 lbs., lls. ; 12 lbs., 22e.; 24 lbs., 40s .— BARRY Do B ARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London; also Fortnam and Mason, 182, Piccadilly; and at 61, Gracechurch-street; 4, Cheapside; 63, 160, and, 45 9 , 07.19111tagt §trpd old pal Vittatitat THE PRICE OF FOOD. The rise in the price of wheat is exciting interest, not unmixed with astonishment. The harvest in England was considered fair, and in America abun dant. It is now asserted that the promise given by the well-developed ears has Leen deceptive, the yield when threshed not equalling the expectation. The French crop is 1;;;s than an average. Poland, Bel gium, Spain will be comp , •lled to import, while Southern Russia and Hungary have enormous sup plies. The harvest in Egypt is good ; and in Tur key, both in E.:rope and Asia, the crops are fair. Large as the yield this year has been throughout the United States, prices keep up, for it is known that both in England and throughout America the surplus supplies have been heavily drawn on. In deed the United States was approaching a famine when the bxantiful harvests of this year came to the rescue. California will export largely, for her gr.,- naries have of late years been full, except when she sent away her surplus stores. It is not then that the average yield of the present year has been deficient that the rise is due so much as to the ne cessity for making good the deficiency of former years, more especially in the United States.. Two or three large harvests on the great prairies will fill up the exhausted barns of the world, but the United States cannot redeem in one year the waste of half a' decade. Some allegea combination of Greek specula tors on is gigantic scale as the cause. But what most surprises is the fact that, while the loaf rises, meat, especially mutton, which is known to be more abun dant than ever, should not fall. The public may rest assured that it is easier to raise than to reduce prices. The energy of the few will beat the grumbling of the many, each of whom is not materially interested. People erroneously imagine they have established Free Trade, and that prices will find their true level; but a careful inquiry will show that they are victims of monopolists, who plunder them right and left, even in their great commercial metropolis of Lon don. What is the difference between the buying and selling price of a fishmonger in a fashionable district ? Let the customer buy in Billingsgate, and even then he will obtain an imperfect idea. France has been entertaining the world, having attracted, by her warm invitations, hungry thou sands, whO have helped to empty her larder and to fill her purse. Sho has made a good thing out of her generous invitation, and now her agents are everywhere employed in purchasing the grain of Europe. What with the deficient harvest and the unusual strain on her supplies she has much to make good ; and her factors compete with those of England in all the grain markets and help to raise the price. We extract from the Springfield Repub lican of Oct. 5 the following report on the harvest in the United States : TIIE ABUNDANT HARVE STS OF 1867.—The crop reports of the department of agriculture for August and September have just been issued. The August reports give the general average for the several States, from the approximate estimates of corres pondents, of the crops then harvested as compared with those of 1866, together with the current con dition of the growing crops, while the September tables pertain chiefly to the state of the fall crops. The August returns show a uniform reduction in thegene ral average of wheat as compared with the July figures, and in the September estimates the wheat harvested as compared with the crop of 1866 drops the figures somewhat lower in a number of the States. This is attributable to bad weather while harvesting, and in some sections the grain is found to be shrivelled and threshed out less to the acre than anticipated. The leading wheat-growing States report the following percentage of increase at the close of the harvest :—Ohio 130, Indiana 50, Michigan 33, Wisconsin 17, Minnesota 25, Illinois 11, lowa 20, Missouri 40, Kentucky 34, West Virginia 60, Virginia 50, Tennessee 40, Georgia 80, Arkansas 45, New York 14, Pennsylvania 40. Only Kansas and Texas sbow a falling off from last year. The amount of these crops for the current year will be more accurately shown by the reports due October 1. " The prospects of the corn crop continue to im prove, and if the frost holds off the general crop may be a fair one. While a number of States re turn a low estimate, others, particularly the Southern States, show a marked improvement over last year. The cotton crop promised well up to September first, when the worms were ap pearing, and much apprehension is felt in various sections for its safety. Of the cotton-growing States, extracts from the correspondence show that Georgia promised to yield 53 per cent. beyond the crop of 18G6, South Carolina 50, Ala bama 42, Mississippi 24, Arkansas 18, and Ten nessee 9 ; while Louisiana and Texas show a con siderable failing off from last year. Rye, barley, and oats exhibit no material change from the pre vious reports, though oats are seriously injured in some sections by the extreme wet weather during the harvest, but generally the crop appears superior to that of last year. Buckwheat shows an average acreage, with prospects of a fair crop. Potatoes are rotting badly in many large potato-growing States, and the crop will probably fall below the yield of last year. The leading sugar-producing States show a fair increase over the crops of last year. Sorghum is evidently on the decline in most of the States without sufficient reason. The crop now growing is in good condition. " Ina few States the apple crop promises well, but in a majority the crop will b 3 from 10 to 40 per cent. below the crop of last year. Hay shows an increase in almost every State, and quite a large one in many, Pennsylvania returning an increase of 50 per cent., New York 24, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Illinois 28, Indiana 26. The average will reach from 25 to 30 per cent. above the crop of 1866. The wool clip will probably fall from 5 to 10 per cent. short of that of last year, which is attributable to the severe weather of last winter, and the conse quent exposure and destruction of a 'Argo number of sheep." THE ALLEGED DANGER OF BOAT-RACING.—SO far as we are able to gauge medical opinion amongst those who have the best opportunities of judgment, and who are special authorities on the subject, Mr. Skoy's caution as to the evils of boat racing finds but a feeble echo in their experience, or in the suggestions which spring from it. Several of the most eminent physicians in London who have communicated to us their experience aro unable to recall a sirglo case of heart-disease which could be traced to it; and, while ono or two isolated instances of mischief to the vessels of the lung dwell in their memory as exceptional, they are disposed to believe that the risks of over-exertion are fully ap preciated by boating men, and that the weak who suffer in training most usually take early and timely warning. The evidence of Professor Ilumphry, who care fully discusses this subject in a letter which wo print to day, goes entirely in the same direction. With an experi ence of a quarter of a century in large Cambridge practice, constantly in contact with the boating mon, he believes that tho ill-effects of boat-racing aro rare, and can quote no striking instance of thorn. On the other hand, he lays a great stress on the . enormous value of the exercise as a physical training, which can ill bo spared for our rising youth, and as a pastime which forms the man and pre pares him for after struggles in , life; while it is free from vicious associations.—British Medical Journal. A GOLD-DIGGER'S FORTUNES.—One day at Ballarat a man rushed up to the police magistrate, his fa'.lo livid, and speechless with excitement, so that the magistrate began to think he had just committed or witnessed a murder. At last ho found words to ox press himself. lie had some upon a nugget so big ho could scarcely carry it, and dared not bring it in alone. Two or three of the police went back with him to help him, and ho brought it in in triumph, followed by a procession of diggers. And indeed it was a nugget. it was about as big as a leg of mutton, and much the same shape, white lumps of quartz sticking to it like so much fat. It weighed 135 pounds, and he was offered .£5,000 for it on the spot. He refused to sell it, and take it home to England, to exhibit it. But it proved to bo a nugget of expensive habits, and at last was sold to pay for its keep and lodging, and the finder ended, as so many finders of great nuggets ended, in poverty and wretched ness, and even madness. POLLUTION OF RIVERS.—The Royal Commission, over whioh Mr. R. Rawlinson presides, has held meetings this week at their offices, Victoria-street, Westminster, for the purpose of arranging for the prosecution of inquiries into the condition of rivers in the South of England and in Wales. The well-known actress, Miss Kate Terry, was on Thursday.marriod to Mr. Lewis, of taw firm of Lewis and Allobh Regat-§toct. SHARE LlST—This Day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Share/ Railways. Irlstol an, keter Caledonian ambrian ork and Bandon...—. Corn wall Dublin .Si Belfast June un„Perth, & Ab. June ' & London, bcrip Cs: ti Do. Glasgow Jr S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. stk. Do. E. Angl. et. No. 'L Great North ol Scotland Great Northern Di. A stook Do. B stock . Do. yew, Is. at p 25 a, (it 8, and W. or Ireland Ut. Western -Original Do. 5. Val. Rail. gua. Do. South Wales Do. W. illld.-o)aorai Uo. ilewpert. ...... Lansashire& Yorksitirt , London and Blackwall Lan., Brigh.,& S Coast , Lon., Chat., and Dove! Do. Metrop. Ex. A.. Lon. & ,Sorth Western Lon. k South ‘Ve+sterx, Man., bbet.,`.l; Lincoln; lietropolit an—. ...... Do. New Do. Extension...— uetropokitan District Do. do. do. Do. and St. John's Midland Do. £9 Share Do, Birmin.. Dub) kiid Kent North British Do. Ed., Pth., & Dan. Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do. (*.NIS. purchase Do. Leeds ..... Do. York D. Carlisle .... Do. Stock. & Darling. Do. do. 1860-61 North London Do. do. 1861 5 Do. do. 18C6 . North Staffordshire N. & S. W. Junction 'Scottish Central Scot. N. 1i , Aber. stook Do. Scot, Mid. stook Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern 'Staines, Wok., .3; Wok ralr Vale Do. C Vale of Neath Waterford A; Kilkenny Waterloo .t Whltelia.i West Cornwall 20 st st 100 Atlantic) & St.Lawrenoe limn., Bare da, & Cen.ln. gu. 5 per cent... Do. F shares Buffalo .t Lake Huron Do. Preference Butf.,Brant,&Cioderich 6 p.c. 1872-3-5 Calcutta & B. D lim.. Jape Town ca ock, gu. Demerara, 7 p.c. per. pi East. Bengal, gu. sdo East Indian, gu:s p.c. Do. J Extension .. irandTrunkoi Canada Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds 1 charge 6 p.o Do. Ist Pref. Bonds Do. do deferred I De. 2d Pref. Bonds Do. do. deterred Do. 3d Pref. stook Do. do. deferred Do. 4th Pref. stook Do. do. deterred t. India Pen. gua. sp.c t'o. Gua. 5 per cent Do. New gua. 5 p. o t. South of India gua. 5 per cent Di. 41 per cent Do lireat Wes. of Can%Lici.. Du. New. • • Do. p. o 1345. pay. 1873 Do. 54 do. pay. 1877-8.. Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.o Do. 41 do Do. 14 do Do. Fifth Extension Melb. Cor. 6 p. o. Buds. Mel. Is Hobsou's Bay N. IMO' da, 6po latpf.bs, Soinde . • Do. Delhi Do. do ..) c ti Do. runiaub.... Do•lndus St.Nlc6 a° 1U • 103 el 82 94 9b 132 lit 8 9pl 115 117 1 lop 64 66 lOU 112 60 47 45 47 64 67 8 10 143 148 ;SIONS. 66 68 103 108 i P 4 5 0 68 71 65 65 99 101 100 IG2 IC9 110 17 IS 80 85 50 52 40 45 St Si 19 20 107 109 - 2 p - 2pi 100 10i 92 94 15i 13 95 1 1 7 85 67 i id 100 102 93 96 69 91 83 85 100 101 1004 1014 , 1) , 89 100 85 87 ' BRITISNE iiIINES. Cam. Consol. Gold, lint. I Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated 3O 7 8 Devon G. Cone. (Tavlst 1 4/0 43 ) Urake walls 9.1.0 ; li:ast Bassett (Illogan) 2Ol 10 21 East Camden 2.14.c 5 6 East Cain Brea 3l 3 31 (last Grenville 2.11.0 2 3 East Gunnialake .. 8.3.0 4 4 East Loved . 3..) 8 9 1'4"1 Russell (Tavistk 11.2.6 2 21 Gam& StA tibyn(G wen. 116 4 5 4 ..ireat L txey, limited.. all 17 IS tlreat South Tolgus.... 0.14.6 • real Wheal tinny..... 14.9.0 (.1. Wheal Vor (tielstn, 40 18 ID tlerod's Foot ..... • llingston Downs 1.10.0 2k 21 Margaret (Uny Lelant 13.17.6 6 8 Marko Valley 4.10.6 41 51 4 liwyndy Iron Ore, li m 31 21 1 elv Scton North Roskear 1.1V11 . 1 Bassett (Mogan 1.4.0 North Wheal Crotty Prosper United 8.14.0 2 21 Providence ‘Uny Leant 10.0.7 29 31 S. Caradon (St. Cleer) ll 390 410 South Condurrow. B.Wheal Fran. (Mogan 18.18.9 371 421 Stray Park . 35.15.6 4 6 Pin Croft 9 14 14 Vigra and Clogan, lim , all - - West :'asseLL (11togan W. Caradon (Ltskeard 11 8 10 {Vest Chirerton ll 61 67 West Seton. 471 110 120 Wheal Bassett 'Mogan 51 C7l 72 ; Wheal Buller (Aedruth 16 25 27 Wheal Mary Ann (Men. 8 16 18 -- Wheal Seton Whewl Trelawney lids 5.17.0 * 7 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT 5.1401.11t1T1E6. British Columbia, 6 per cent., Deo. 31 1872 lOO Can.Gov.6 p.c.J a.& July 1877-84 o. 6p. a Feb. & Aug leo y 9 Icl i;o o .. 5 5 p i di July Belt 100 100 88 91) 9 t :) I 631 6 Do. sp. a. Inscribed ek 100 b 7 to Cape G. Elope, 6 p.c. 1873 100 It 3 It 5 Do.Apl.&001. 1890-1900 100 107 103 Do. do 1880-9 u 100 117 108 Do. Jan.&July, 1890-91 100 143 107 Do. 5 per oent. 15 April and 15 Oct., 1900 lOO DI ;6 Oejlon, Nov. 1868, 6 p.e 100 101 104 Do. 1878, do lOO 1111 112; • Mauritius, 6p. 0, 187 3 , Jan. and July Do. 1878 ... 1882, Mayls, Nov. t 5 100 105 107 Dd. 180, Feb, & Aug lOO 104 106 Natal gov. 6 per cent lOO 102 104 N.B.Gov.6p.o.Ja.&July 100 It 1 103 N. S.W. Gov. 5 p 0.,1860 100 - - Do. 5 p.c. 1871 to 1870 100 97 09 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1815 100 94 95 931 41 3; New Zealand, 6p. cent 100 Do. 5 per cent lOO 91 96 91;1 Nova Se,tia Gov. 6p. 0 sterling, 1875 l9O 98 99 Queensland Gov. 6p. o lOO 08 100 1001 S. Aue.Gov. 6 p,o. 1808-9 100 - - Do. 1878 & upwards lOO 106 103 V10,(40v. 6 p.0.A.& July 100 Do. 42, April &00 100 109 110 1091 81 111 YOREJGN RAILWAY b. Bahia and San Francisco, Hai., gna. 7 per cent., 131 1 Central Argentine, 13i Sambre and Meuse, 61 San Paulo, lim., qua. 6 per Cent.,l6i South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 141 West Flanders, 81 FOREIGN MINES. Chontales Gold 'and Silver 31ining,:lim., Don Pedro. Nor h Dcl Rey. 2i pm wrontino and uolivia Gold, lim.. Rossa Grande, 9-16 Scottish Australi in, lim., It St John del Rey, lim., 591 BANKS; Bank of New Zealand, 18 Chartered Banc of India, A.ustralia, and Chlnall9 Chartered ier. of India, London, and China, 26j 11 Land Mortgage Bank of India. London and Brazilian, lim., .44 Ditto, new, 2 London and County, 434 Loudon and 11 eatininster, 7)4 Ditto, Scrip. 34 e National Provincial of England, Ditto, '4 and 3d idBl.lo, 40 Union of London, 37 MISCELLANEOUS: Australian Mort. Land and Fininoe, Am., 51 Berlin Water Works, lim., 1.21 City of Moscow Gas, lim., 13 Credit Fonder of Mauritius, 11m. 6 51 .East Indian Land Credit and Finance, 3S Credit Fonder of England, lim., 5 3-16 Hudson's Bay, 15 London Genera'omnibus Company, lim, 2 145 2 Madras Irrigation and Canal (guaranteedjs per cent. by Indian Government), 10ii • Nr.tional Discount company, 11 North British and Mercantile Insurance, 151 Peninsula and Oriental Stearn, Ditto, new, 1847, 4 Royal Mail Steam, s Scottish Australian Investment, lim., 11) Te:ezrapli Cons.ruc. and Slaintenance, inn . Thames and Mersey Marine, Insurance, liui., 51 Viceroy of Egypt, (Mortgage) Loan, 74 13 COURSE OF EXCHAA GlL—Last Evening. Amsterdam Short. 11 18 Ditto 3 Mouths. 12 Rotterdam 11 181 12 0 12 01 25 37* 25 37* 13 101 25 17* 25 80 25 12* 120} 12 7o 12 80 32 0 6 27 48 49i 28 50 28 50 28 60 28 60 28 60 28 60 Antwerp — 25 325 Brussels Hamburg — 13 10 Paris Short 25 10 Ditto 3 Months. 25 25 Marseilles Frankfort on the Maine 1205 Vienna — 12 7u Triesto — 12 70 Potersburgh - 31i Berlin _265 Madrid Cadiz Leghorn Milan Genoa 48i 49 28 30 28 30 Naples : Palermo Messina Lisbon OPolt9 1111111111111IIIIMMI 28 30 28 30 - 28 30 - 28 30 51 - 01* THIRD EDITION. SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocx. TATTERSALL'S-THIS EVENING. CAMBRIDGESHIRE. sto I agst Honesty (taken and off.) 11 to 1 agst Aettea (taken) 100 to S agst Knight of :11l Garter (taken) PM to 6 ag-st Loz , nge (taken) 100 to 6 agst Lam - n-et (taken and offered) 100 to 6 agst Friponn:er (offered) 100 to 6 agst Blinkhoulie (taken and offered) 20 to 1 agst Wroughtim (taken) 20 to 1 agst Julius (offero 1) 1090 to 30 agst Jeuao Premiere (taken) 100 to 3 agst Tormentor (taken) 40 to 1 agst Duke of York (taken) 40 to 1 agst Dragon (taken) 43 to 1 agst Ammunition (take.i) 49 to 1 La Dauphine (offered) 40 to 1 ag-it Wo!soy (offered) 1009 to 15 agst War (offered—take 1030 to 10) 1000 to 10 agst Captain Kidd (taken) 1000 to 5 agat Moldavia (taken) 1000 to 1 agst Signal f (taken) PLACE BETTING. 6 to 4 agst Honesty (taken and offered) 5 to 2 agst Adam (taken and offered) 3to 1 agst Knight of the Garter (taken) sto 1 agst Wroughton (taken) 7 to 1 agst Jeune Premiere (taken) 7to 1 agst Tormentor (taken) 10 to 1 agst Duke of York (taken) SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day. VICTORIA CLUB BETTING—Tun DAT. A large attendance and plenty of speculation. Honesty, for the Cambridgeshire, was at one time in strong request at 9 to 2, but, a reaction setting in, he was driven to 100 to 15. Actfel fluctuated be tween 9 and 10 to 1, being supported for good money. Knight of the Garter, in like manner, was in good odour, and backed to win many thousands. The leading features of the doings was the rapid advance of Laneret, who, on many heav - y outlays, steadily advanced till his backers were con tent to accept anything over 16 to 1 to win some thousands. Lozenge was in good request, but both Julius and Friponnier appeared quite out of favour. Of the outsiders War met with strong advocacy at his long price, being backed to win something like £20,000. The subjoined is a list of the business done : CAMBRIDGE/NUM 100 to 15 agst Honesty (taken and offered) 9to 1 agat Aetsea (taken and offerod) 12 to 1 agst Knight of the Garter (taken) 100 to 6 agst Laneret (taken and offered) 100 to 6 agst Lozenge (taken and offered) 20 to 1 agat Friponnier (taken) 20 to 1 agst Julius (taken and offered) 25 to 1 agst Blinkhoolie (taken) 30 to 1 agst Attack colt (taken) 30 to 1 agst Tormentor (taken) 40 to 1 agst La Dauphine (taken) 40 to 1 agst Wulsey (taken) 40 to 1 agst Ammunition (taken) 66 to 1 agst Grey Stocking (offered) 66 to 1 agst Harry Brailsford (offered) 100 to 1 agst War (taken) 50 to 1 agst Lord Westmorland's lot (offered) MEETING OF THE JOCKEY CLUB. A general mooting of the Jockey Club will be hold at Newmarket after the races on Wednesday in the Houghton Meeting. The dates of the Newmarket meetings, 1868, will be sub mitted for approval. According to the usual arrangements they will fall as under:— Craven Meeting First Spring Meeting Monday, April 27. - July Meeting First October Meeting Tuesday, Sept. 22. Second October Meeting Monday, Oct. 5. Houghton Meeting Monday, Oct. 19. If these datos are not altered Epsom Summer Meeting will commence on Tuesday, May 26, and Ascot on Tuesday, Juno 9. JOAN STIRK, 25, WELLIXGTON-STILEET, STRIND, Mtecutes Commiiiions en all tho racom to any amount. The full market adds laid. Price list daily. CHARLES OSBORNE, 7, Ordnance-road, Regent's-park, London, N.W. CAMBUIDGESIIIRE STAKES. Extension of Time. All town commissions received by the One o'clock post on the above important race will be executed, and vouchers forwarded immediately. The Cambridgeshire Sporting Predictions. .13.311's Life.—lfonesty ; La Dauphine and Attack colt for places. Land and Water.—Ammunition, Actre, and La Dauphine. Field. —Monarch of the Glen, Jenne Premiere, and Vale row. AS porting Gazette.—Acta) and Tormentor. Shorting Life.—Acta) and linight of the Garter. Sp artan:tn.—Knight of thn Garter and IloneBty. THE INVASION OF THE PAPAL STATES. (REUTF.R'S TELEGRAMS.) ROME, Oct. 19. It is announced that, after a fierce engagement, the Papal troops re-occupied Nerola last night. The Garibaldians sustained heavy losses in killed, wounded, and prisoners. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—This Day. (Before the Assistant-Judge.) STEALING THE MARCHIONESS OF HASTINGS'S RINGS. Johu Thomas Bell was placed at the bar charged with stealing six valuable rings, the property of the Marchioness of Hastings, from her ladyship's boudoir at the St. George's Hotel, Albemarle street. The prisoner pleaded not guilty. Mr. Sleigh prosecuted and Mr. Ribton defended the prisoner. Miss Bradley was the first witness examined. She stated that she was lady's maid to the Mar chioness of Hastings. The marquis and marchioness were staying at the St. George's Hotel, Albe marle-street, in July last. Her ladyship had a quantity of valuable jewellery, amongst them a number of rings. They were quite safe when her ladyship arrived at the hotel. On the 21st of July six rings were stolen from her ladyship's jewel case. The rings produced are those taken away by some person. Mr. Lampart, proprietor of the White Bear Hotel, Piccadilly, said the prisoner in July was staying at his house. On the 21st of July he saw the prisoner between one and two o'clock ; he was not then wearing rings. Between five and six the same evening the prisoner was wearing six on his fingers. The next morning prisoner asked him to lend him some money on the rings, which he refused. On the Monday following, the 29th, he asked if any letters had arrived for Ithri, and being told in the negative, he said it was very inconvenient, as he should not be able to go to Goodwood. He then asked whether he (witness) would advance him some money on the two rings he had previously left in his care. He (witness) told him he had better send them to a pawnbroker's. He said he did not know one, and he then asked witness if he would oblige him by sending the rings to a shop of that description. He (witness) got £5O on the rings from Mr. Brown's, in Leicester-square, which he gave the prisoner. Pri soner then left town for Goodwood. On August 15 he saw an advertisement in the papers respecting some stolen jewellery, and he then gave information to the police, and a day or two after Inspector Sil verton came to his (witness's house) and took the prisoner into custody. He never made any com munication to the prisoner before he gave informa tion to the police. Ile saw the prisoner in the House of Detention. Ile (witness) said h e was sorry to see him there, and prisoner replied it was the greatest lark in the world how he got the rings. He was walking along Bond-street, and met a lady, she took him to a street leading out of Bond , street, went through the hall, where there were servants in livery, upstairs into the drawing-room, and stayed there about three quarters of an hour, after which the lady put the rings on his fingers, and put two on her own hand at the same time out of the case. He went on to say he had made an appointment to meet her the next night, and, as he had no money, he borrowed the money of me on the ripp, De lady, 119 Pia, bad mad 9 Ala appintuant ' to meet him the following night, but she did not keep it. Witness advised him to give all the infor mation he could in order that the property might be recovered. - That was the only account that prisoner gave of how he became possessed of the rings. Mr. Ribton—Then it is in consequence of the information the prizoner gave that the rings hav e been recovered. Mr. Sleigh said it was not Witness—lle gave inforznation With mpect to two, but of the others ha sail he could not recollect where they were. After the money had been ob tained he went abont a goo 1 deal. Oa leavin4 Goodwood prisoner went to Worthing, he said, to meet the object of his heart. The Assistant-Judge —The object of lii what? Witne,3s—llis heart, tny lor.l. Ie mil.) , to further questions from Mr. Ribton, the witness said the prisoner did not make an.y mystery about the rings ; he wore them publicly 1u the coff,x-roozn. The first step he took . with respect to putting the police on the tract was to go to Messrs. Hancock, the Court jewellers, who had an advertisement in the papers relative to the loss of the rings. In reply to Mr. Sleigh, witness said he had known the prisoner for four or fire months, and always as the lion. M. Bruce. Prisoner always seemed, whilst lie was at witness's house, to hare plenty of money. The Assistant-Judge—Have you ever load any betting transiction with prisoner ? Witness—No, my lord. Mr. Phillips, assistant to a pawnbroker at 35, Brewer-street, said he bought one of the rings pro duced for .£25. Prisoner said they were family jewels, and being pressed for money he was dis posing of them. He gave the name of the Hon. Henry Bruce Stillwell, Royal Engineers, Chatham. Mr. Crouch, of 203, Oxford-street, said on the 23d of July the prisoner entered his shop and asked him to buy a diamond cluster ring. Ile said ho wanted £35 for it. Witness eventually bought the ring for £25. Prisoner gave the name of the Hon. M. Stillwell, 3d Company, Royal Engineers, Chat ham. Witness saw the prisoner wearing two of the other rings now in court. Mr. James Webb, jeweller, Oxford-street, said he purchased one of the rings now produced, from the prisoner, on the 23d of July. Prisoner asked £25 for the ring, but ho eventually gave £lB for it. The prisoner gave the name of Bruce, and his address at St. John's Wood. Samuel Button, assistant to Mr. Attenborough, of Piccadilly, said on the 26th of July the prisoner brought in a ring for sale, •for which he wanted £3O. He gave the name of Henry Bruce, 3d Company Royal Engineers, Chatham. He gave the prisoner the price he asked for the ring. William Wilder, assistant to Mr. Brown, of Cran bourne-street, proved the pledging of the two rings for £5O by Mr. Lampard. Mr. Henry Dore, partner in the firm of Hancock and Sons, jewellers, of Bruton-street, said the value of the six rings was about £6OO. Mr. Ribton—Were the rings purchased at your house ? Witness—Some of them. He advertised the articles by direction of Lady Hastings. The Marchioness of Hastings having identified the rings as her property, Inspector Silverton ,repeated his evidence with respect to the apprehending of the prisoner, and also the same version of the matter which the pri soner repeated to him as well as Mr. Lampert. Mr. Sleigh then summed up the evidence which he had adduced to prove the case. Mr. Ribton addressed the jury for the prisoner. He said the matter was of the most vital import ance, and a sensational character had been given to the prosecution in consequence of the comments that had been made upon it in some of the daily newspapers. Tho learned caunsA for the prosecu tion contended that he had satisfactorily proved the case, but h 3 did n)t think that they would be of that opinion. His learned friend had told them that the prisoner had stolen the property, and that it could not have been given to him. .But were they clear ou that matter. It seemed to him (nr. Ribton) out of the question that the prisoner should have been enabled to obtain the property, because it was quite impossiLle that he could have entered the hotel, and proceeded to the Marchoness's bed-room, and their rifled her jewel case without observation. Then, again, if the prisoner had stolen the rings, was it at all feasible he would have been found attempting to dispose of the property without the slightest attempt at concealment. The version of the prisoner that the rings were given to him by a lady was not so absurd as the counsel fur the prosecu tion wished them to believe. If the rings had been stolen the thief would, without doubt, have taken the jewel-case with its contents en tire, and not have left about twenty other rings. remaining in it. There were a great many families staying at St. George's Hotel, each of whom, of course, had a lady's maid, and there was no know iug what some of these persons might not have done. The prisoner might have been invited into the hotel by some one, and that person might have been liberal to the prisoner out of Lady Hastings' jewel case. The present was not a case of receiving —it was for stealing ; and if they could not find the prisoner guilty of stealing they must acquit him. The Assistant-Judge summed up the case to the jury, and remarked that everything that could be said, and a great deal which it had been better should never been said, had been addressed to them, but strip ping the case of the fringe that had been attachel to it, it became one of the mist simple that had been submitted to the jury. 'The prisoner was found in the possession of stolen property, and it was for him to satisfactorily account for it. With respect to the observation of the learned counsel, about selecting six rings instead of taking the whole, it appeared to him that had the thief done so he would have had to have carried the case with the marchioness's crest about with him for some time, the discovery of which would have been proof positive on his being captured, and another reason why ho did not do so was, that if the box had been carried off the robbery would have been very soon discovered, instead of its being some time before only some of its contents were discovered to be missing. If the jury believed the story the prisoner told with respect to the lady giving him the rings then they would acquit him, but if not they would find him guilty of the present charge. The jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of guilty. A former conviction of an hotel robbery at Bishopwearmoutli during the present year was proved against the prisoner. Mr. Sleigh asked the Assistant - Judge whether be would not respite the prisoner's sentence until the next session, in order that the prisoner might give any information as to whether he had any accomplice in the robbery. The Assistant-Judge said, the case being closed, he could now state his opinion ; he did not think the prisoner had an accomplice, but ha thought some person had given him information as to the con struction of the building. Mr. Sleigh sail it had been stated in the news papers that the present trial had been postponed in order that the nirluis of Ilistings !night be present at Newmarket races. Such was not the fact ; the trial hal been postponed in order that the former conviction might be pro curel from Sunderland. lle would take that opportunity of informing the court that the prisoner was an 3 , lept at billiards, and by that means he was enabled to get sufficient means to lodge at hotels. Previous to the present charge ho had been found in the upper apartments of another west end hotel, near to a large quantity of jewellery, but be was fortunately discovered, and his excuse for being on the staircase was that he had strayed a little too high for the billiard room. The Assistant-Judge said, under all the cirA stances he should sentence the prisoner to five years' penal servitude. 'rue Countess Delawarr (Baroness Buckburst) is very much indisposed at Kuole, her ladyship's s..at, near Seveuoaks. 11cr illness occasions much alaziav to her LOU et 1 toi to too 1 J