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

Naval and Military Intelligence. Capt. Le Mottee, 2d battalion, 18th Regiment, is held in immediate readiness to embark for the service companies of his battalion in New Zealand. Lieut. Sampson has been transferred from the 2d to thl Ist battalion of the same regiment, and is under orders to proceed to Chester to join. Capt. Madan, 49th Regiment, is under orders to proceed to the service companies of his regiment in Bombay, and will be relieved at the depot by Capt. Corbin. Lieut. Gillespie, 9Gth Regiment, is under orders to embark at Portsmouth for Bombay. The two troops of the 15th Ilusiars stationed in Ipswich barracks have received orders to proceed en route for the northern district, " to aid the civil power." Letters received by our Chatham correspondent from the Pacific squadron announce the departure of her Majesty's armour-plated ship Zealous, 20, 800- horse power, Captain Richard Dawkins, flagship of Rear-Admiral the Hon. George F. Hastings, from San Francisco, on the 6th of July for Esquitnault, Vancouver Island, where she was expected to remain for several months. During the time the Zealous was at San Francisco seven men deserted from her, a reward of $5O each being offered for their appre hension. Two days previously to the departure of the Zealous Rear-Admiral the lion. G. F. Hastings and the whole of the officers were entertained by the military authorities at San Francisco. Her Majesty's screw corvette Reindeer, 7, 200-horse power, Commander Edward Nares, was at Guay mas on the 2d of August, but was under orders to leave in a day or two for Mazatlan, calling at Ajia bampa en route. During her cruise she had visited the ports of San Blas and La Paz. The health of the whole of the officers and crews of the various ships of the squadron was stated, at the last advice, to be very good. _ Her Majesty's screw troopship Serapis, Captain Soady, sailed from Portsmouth on Wednesday, on her first voyage to Alexandria, with the troops on board, as already detailed in The Sun. Her Majesty's screw troopship Tamar, Captain Sullivan, C. 8., sailed from Portsmouth yesterday morning on a long round of foreign troop service, conveying the following troops, embarked on board yesterday alongside Portsmouth dockyard :—For Gibraltar.—Capt. Webber and 128 men, Royal Ar tillery ; Lieuts. Scott and Brenkeney, and seven men, Royal Engineers ; Lieuts. Munro and Lawler and 31 men of the Ist battalion 13th Regiment ; Major Prevoig, Ensign Phipson, and 52 men of the 75th ; Capt. Scott and 181 men of the 83d Regi ment; Lieuts. Irwin and Phibbs, and 51 men of the 87th Regiment. For St. Helena.-37 men of the Royal Engineers and 17 men of the Royal Artillery. For the Cape of Good Hope.—Capt. Mansell and 10 men of the 2d battalion 11th Regiment ; 11 men of the 2d battalion 10th Regiment ; Brevet Major Ord, 150 men of the 2d battalion 20th Regiment ; Assist surge. Knife and Levin ; Mrs. Mansell and Mrs. Knife and families. For the Mauritius—Captain Carey and one man of the Royal Engineers, Capt. Pike (and wife) and one man of the 86th Regiment; Lieut. Spencer, 86th Regiment. For Penang— Lieuts. Robson and Carr and 101 men of the Royal Artillery ; Mrs. Robson, 11 soldiers' wives, and 20 children. For Hongkong—Two men of the Royal Artillery, one woman and two children, and naval supernumeraries for the ships in the China Seas. After disembarking her troops for Gibraltar, on ar rival at that port, she will proceed to Ascension, St. Helena, and the Cape of Good Hope. At the latter place she will embark the 86th Regiment for the Mauritius, and will afterwards return from the latter port to the Cape and take on board the 10th Regi ment (2d battalion) for conveyance to Yokohama. She will, on her way to Yokohama, call in at East London, Singapore, Penang, and Hongkong. The Tamar returns to England from Japan and China with the 2d battalion of the Bth Regiment, and will probably be away altogether about 10 or 11 months. A detachment of non-commissioned officers and gunners of the first division of the depot brigade Royal Artillery, to the number of 75 men of all ranks, left headquarters yesterday, and proceeded to the School of Gunnery, Shoeburyness, for the purpose of undergoing a course of gunnery instruc tion previous to embarcation. Thu following notification was issued yesterday at the Admiralty, Whitehall :—" The Channel Squad ron arrived at Lisbon this day, October 17." The screw corvette Esk, 21, 1,169 tons, 250 horse power, Capt. John P. Luce, recently returned from a term of service off the coasts of Australia, was paid out of commission at Portsmouth yesterday, and her crew granted the customary leave of ab sence. George Martin, boatswain's mate, and John Wingliam, sailmaker, are awarded the silver medal each and gratuities of £l5, for long service and good conduct, with annual pensions of £'3B each. The Nelson, screw line-of-battle ship, Acting Commander Payne, is taking in her ammunition at Spithead preparatory to sailing for Victoria. The unarmoured screw sloop Blanche, 6, 1,268 tons, 350 horse-power (nominal), having been fitted with her engines and machinery by Messrs. Ravenhill, Ilodgson, and Co., in Chatham harbour, got up steam for the first time yesterday alongside the dock yard, for the purpose of testing the working of her boilers and engines. The machinery was kept in motion for several hours, the engines working very satisfactorily. The Blanche will proceed with her outfit in the harbour, where she will be brought for ward for immediate service. Yesterday Staff-Sur geon 11. Edmonds, M.D., Royal Navy, was engaged on board the Blanche in superintending the intro duction of his new system of ventilation in that vessel. Field-Marshal his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, K. 11., the General Commanding in Chief her Majesty's armies, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday afternoon on his annual visit of inspec tion. His Royal highness, accompanied by Lord W. Paulet, Adjutant-General, and other officers, arrived at the Gosport station of the London and South-Western Railway at 2 p m., where he was received by Lieut.. Gen. Sir Geo. Buller, Military Commander-in-Chief of the district, and staff, the garrison saluting battery firing a Royal salute with the ships in harbour. A parade of the troops at Gosport followed, after which the duke, accom panied by his personal staff and the commanding officers of the Royal Engineers and Artillery of the district, pail a galloping visit to the fortifications on the Gosport side of Portsmouth harbour. The duke afterwards crossed the harbour to Portsmouth, and alighted at the Government-house, where he will remain the guest of Lieut.-Gen. Sir G. Buller during his stay in the garrison. A review of the troops in Portsmouth garrison will take place on South-sea-common, after which his Royal Highness will resume his inspection of the fortifications. Recruiting for the Royal Artillery has for some time past been carried on very successfully. Dur ing the year 1,800 recruits have joined the depot at Warley, and last week 150 young fellows went into the garrison. Experiments were carried out at Chatham dock yard yesterday and the previous day, under the superintendence of Mr. S. M. Saxby, in the pre senc_! of the officials of the establishment, for the purpose of testing the qualities of the various de scriptions of armour-plating and angle and other sorts of iron sent into the establishment by means of galvanism and magnetic currents, on the recom mendation of Professor Airey, the Astronomer ]loyal. The importance of obtaining more reliable and accurate tests for the various qualities of iron than those hitherto in use has long been felt by the officials employed in this particular duty. Hitherto there has been no test for the condition of a forging beyond mere visual examination, and hence a mass of iron may contain damaging internal iliws which altogether escape detection. Mr. Saxby, however, the inventor of the new principle of testing iron, professes to be able infallibly to discover the least flaw in any description of iron by electrical agency. The experiments have been made on some of the thickest and largest of the armour-plates at the dockyard, when, by means of the magnetic cur rent, the exact quality of iron was instantly ascer tai„,.l. Experimeuta have also been made upo:) 1_,,,r of ivou into which a plug of steel had been welded, when the results were considered perfectly satisfac -40 pounder Armstrong gun was a l so tested tory. A by Mr. Siutby, who in a few seconds diesernered. a defect in the welding of the coil, although invisible to the eye, but afterwards proved to exist. Further trials have been made on large guns and rifle har rels with equally satisfactory results, and the experi ments will be continued next week. The steam screw frigate Termagant, 1,547 tons, 310 horse power, sold by the Admiralty to Messrs. Castle and Beach, of Vauxhall, left Portsmouth harbour yesterday in tow of Messrs. Watkins's stcamtug Anglia, for the Thames. Her Majesty's ships Royal Oak and Prince Con sort hare been directed to join Admiral Warden's squadron at Lisbon, and are expected there on the 22d inst. Mr. Scamp, deputy director of Admiralty works, is now on a final visit of inspection of the Admiralty works at Portsmouth, as being carried into effect according to his great scheme for the extension of Portsmouth dockyard and for the construction of the headquarters barracks, &c., for the Roy al Marine Artillery at Eastney. It is rumoured that Mr. Scamp has applied to the Admiralty to be relieved of the duties of the office which he has now filled for the last 30 years. The works designed by him and executed under his superintendence at all our home naval establishments, and at Malta, Gibraltar, and Bermuda, are of a very extensive, varied, and interesting character, and remain a worthy subject for future description and comment. A committee, of which Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas M. C. Symonds, K.C.8., is the president, has been appointed by the Admiralty, and is expected to commence its investigations at Chatham to-day, for the purpose of considering and reporting upon the best method of economising the expenditure in the transport department of the Navy, more especially in reference to the employment of dockyard trans ports and craft in conveying stores from one yard to the other. The principal object of the commit tee will be to ascertain whether or not a saving to the country will arise by transporting stores from one dockyard to another by means of railways or private vessels, in preference to the Admiralty keep ing up an expensive fleet of dockyard lighters and vessels, with their attendant officers and crews, for this exclusive service. The large iron caisson at the entrance to the third dock at Chatham dockyard—the first ever constructed at that establishment—having been completed and fitted in its place, the work of re moving the massive coffer-dam, erected some months since at considerable expense, will be at once pro ceeded with. The new iron caisson, which has been constructed in the most expeditious manner, is a fine specimen of dockyard workmanship, and when tested with 140 tons of iron ballast and the required quantity of water it was found to be in all respects perfect. The only wooden cais son at Chatham yard burst a short time since, and this is ordered to be replaced by an iron one, which is to be constructed at a private yard, the Admiralty having determined on getting rid of the whole of the wooden caissons at all the dockyards. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :—Commander W. A. de V. Brown low to be resident officer for transport service at Deptford, vice Commander St. Leger Aldworth, whose period of service has expired; Commander H. G. Belson to be inspecting commander in the Coast guard, vice Brownlow ; Lieut. A. H. Duthie to the Cumberland ; Navigating Sub Lieut. J. Henderson to the Skylark ; Navigating Sub Lieut. Henry A. Eusther to the Formidable, for service in the Lizard ; Navigating Sub Lieut. R. W. Stephens to the Mino taur ; Navigating Sub Lieut. H. Husbands to the Ganges, for service in the Liberty ; Navigating Sub Lieut. N. Child to the Caradoc ; Navigating Sub Lieut. W. Way to the Dasher ; Navigating Sub Lieut. F. Hire to the Heron ; Navigating Sub Lieut. W. B. Meade to the Orontes ; F. Ni. Rayner, staff surgeon, to the Victory ; and John Donald, paymaster, to the Wellesley. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, Oct. 15. Tha Margaret Professor of Divinity (Dr. 'hurt ley) proposes to begin his lectures on Tuesday, the 29th of October, at 12 o'cl.)ck. lie will lecture on the Creed and on the Thirty-nine Articles. Gen tlemen who wish to attend the course aro re quested to call upon him at Christ Church' on Monday, the 2Sth of October, between the hours of 11 and 1. The Regius Professor of Modern History (Nlr. Stubbs) proposes to give two courses of lectures during the present term on " The Constitutional History of England ;" each course to consist of 12 lectures. The first course will be given on Tues days and Saturdays, at 11 a.m., at the Taylor In stitution on " The Early Constitutional History down to the reign of Henry II." The second course (in continuation of that of last term) will be given on Tuesdays and Saturdays, at 12 o'clock, at the Taylor Institution on " The Con stitutional History of the Reigns of Edward 1., Edward 11., and Edward III." These lectures are open to all Undergraduates and Bachelors of Arts, on the payment of 11, the statutable fee in all cases except where the student has attended two previous courses under the same professor. Gen tlemen who propose to attend either course are re quested to call on the Professor at the Taylor Insti tution, at 2 p.m., on Saturday, the 26th of Octo ber. The lectures will begin on the 29th. The teacher of the German language in the Tay lor Institution will lecture this term on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, beginning on Tuesday, the 22d of October, at 2 o'clock p.m. Ile also proposes to form a class for those sufficiently ad vanced in German to study Danish-Norwegian and Swedish, in order to illustrate the connection be tween these languages and the German and English. The teacher of the Spanish language in the Tay lor Institution will begin his lectures for this term on Monday, the 21st of October. Wheat Crop Speculation. (From Land and Water.) Judging from the reports from the other side of the Atlantic of the American corn trade, our cousins must have suffere I as we did from the miserable speculations of travelling land agents, and in like manner as the " Britishers" were told during har vest-time that " Cornwall was very hilly," and that benighted farmers had a splendid crop, so possibly Yankee travellers by rail may have written to the limes to say that Niagara was a waterfall, and that the American wheat crop would whip the world. Compare with this extravagant and exaggerate I estimate the fol lowing extract :—" The advices from America state that in that country, as on this side, disappointment is experienced from the yield of the wheat crop, since it threshes out poorly in comparison with the estimates previously entertained. Many of the Western farmers, therefore, instead of sending their stocks rapidly forward, were holding out for higher rates." Elsewhere we read of a " further rise" having taken place at New York, and how it has already been found out that the first reports of extra abundance were exaggerated. Ilowever, this last statement causes no surprise, for it is well known that the Americans are ever apt to take a sanguine view of their prospects—it is a way 'hey have : so one always receives with some cau tion their first reports. For the egregious blunders of those wiseacres who thought fit to publish " re ports" upon the English harvest, reports founded upon the " baseless fabric of a dreamy" journey by rail, there is no excuse whatever. Utterly regardless of the effect which mig'it b 3 produced, by a seem ingly authentic statement of our future supplies of food, these gentlemen appear to have been actuate I by a wish to see themselves in print, forgetting that above all things it is imperative to be accu rate before committing oneself to " black and white ;" for litera scripta 7nanet. What can be their feelings nox ? The northern counties have concluded harvest, and even where to the practised eye of the farmer, the man who obtains his liveli hood by farming, there had been a prospect of average crops, the crucial test of threshing has re vealed an opposite result, the yield being unsatis factory. Throughout the south of England the same unpleasant state of things had already been made manifest ; and it is difieult to reconcile the favourable reports issued by these irresponsible THE SUN. LONDON. SATURDAY EVLNING, OCTOBER 19, 1%7 parties with the hard fact that this week again, and not for the first time in the few weeks which have elapsed since harvest commenced, Andover, Bath, Bedford, Carlisle, Exeter, Doncaster, Chelmsford, Colchester, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Canterbury, Maidstone, Leicester, Mallon, Newcastle, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxford, Reading, Ripon, War minster, Worcester, Southampton, and York, all showed more or less excitement in their wheat markets, and generally noted an advance of 2s. to 3s. per qr. Railway and other Companies. GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. The traffic receipts on this company's lines for the week ending 28th September amounted, for passen gers, to £12,513 ; for emigrants, to 1179 ; for mails, &c., to £1,027 ; and for freight and live stock, to £19,500; total, £33,219, and for the corresponding week last year to £34,326, showing an increase of £1,107. The total receipts from the Ist of July to the above date amounted to £338,257, and for the same period last year to £353,322, showing a de crease of £15,065. THE BATTLE OF THE SAFES. Official report of the committee to conduct the competitive trial of the two safes constructed by Mr. Samuel Chat wood, of Bolton, Lancashire, England, and Mr. Silas C. Herring, of New York, United States of America, re spectively. This committee was ppointed in virtue of an agree ment made and executed at Paris on the 9th day of July, 18G7, between Mr. Samuel Chatwood, of Bolton, Lanca shire, and Mr. Silas C. Herring, of Now York, U.S. The duties of the committee wore clearly determined in the fol lowing articles of the agreement : —l. That the four mem bers named by the two parties to the agreement should elect's fifth member of the committee, who should be a French engineer. 2. That they should be at liberty to employ such means as they may think best to enable them to form a correct judgment. 3. That the decision of the commit tee shall state which of the two safes is in their opinion the best ; in the following particulars, viz.: - In the quality of the material used, in the capability of resisting drilling instruments, gunpowder, steel wedges, crowbars, steel screws, or any other kind of burglars' appliances. The committee elected M. P. Douliot, civil engineer of Paris, as fifth member and President of the committee. In order to secure equal zeal, good faith, and skill in the conduct of the experiments which were to bo made simultaneously upon the two safes, it was decided that to each of the com petitors should ho allotted the task of opening his ad versary's safe, that ho should be allowed to inspect the drawings of the safes, which had been furnished, and accepted as sufficiently correct by the committee, that ho should choose his workmen and supply them with the necessary tools. By careful study of all the facts which became evident during the trials, the committee aro enabled to arrive at a decided opinion on the points subjected to their decision by the agreement. Taking first the Chat wood's safe, the mode of attack and the facts developed were as fol lows: —Herring's experiments commenced by attempting to drill through the door of the safe, but without attaining any other result than to convince the committee that the safe was invulnerable to this mode of attack, although no attempt by drilling was tried upon the Herring's safe, a subsequent examination convinced the entire committee that his safe possessed this quality in an equal degree ; although 57 minutes were spent in the fruitless attempts to drill Chatwood's safe, not more than 37 minutes of this should bo deducted from the total time occupied in open ing the safe, as prior to the abandonment of the drilling at least twenty minutes had been spent by one of the experts in chiselling a small groove along the whole depth of the edge of the upper side of the safe ; this groove displayed the position of the joints, and the plan of attack with wedges was commenced which ended in the opening of the safe. It was now evident that the plan adopted by Mr. Chatwood for joining the plates forming the sides of his safe, though offering great facilities for accurate fitting and concealment of the mode of construction, had the grave inconvenience of being open to a simple and straightforward, thought laborious mode of atta c k. As soon as the first wedge was driven in each joint and each dovetail became accessible in its turn,' and in the same manner, and although the labour required was severe, the time required might be calculated approximately; after considerable labour the steel plate forming the exterior of the attached side of the safe was torn off, and exposed to view a plate of hard cast iron, already broken, and which from its brittle nature yielded readily to the blows of the ham mer ; under this plate was a second ono secured in the same manner as the outer one, to the inner set of plates, and further supported by being bolted to the door frame. The experts now tried to force the bolts of the door, but the admirable arrangements of this part of the safe resisted all their efforts . and much time was lost in the fruitless at tempt ; by this time, however, the fireproof material had become loosened and a great deal of it had fallen out, and the exports were enabled to see that beyond the plate with which they were battling there was only a sheet of thin iron to oppose their entrance into the safe ; encouraged by this discovery they returned to the plan by which they had taken off the outer steel plate, and succeeded in removing the second one in the same manner ; a few blows from the crowbar sufficed to drive iu the sheet iron. The block was now taken out and the safe declared opened according to the resolutions of the committee. The whole time occupied in these opera tions was 235 minutes, or deducting 37 minutes, the time spent in the drilling operations, which in no way affected the resisting powers of the safe, wo have 195 minutes as the time occupied in the opening. Subsequently the two slight drawers at the bottom of Chatwood's safe were laid completely open in one minute. This was done to ascer tain whether any gain in time would have accrued to Mr. Chatwood if the sealed block had been placed in either of the drawers. The resisting powers of the Chatwood safe are greatest at its exterior surface, but they diminish consider ably as the interior is approached, and are also rendered somewhat less efficacious by being spread over too large au extent. The door, it is true, possesses an excess of strength over the sides, but to say that if the safe were built into a wall it would be perfectly unassailable is to admit that it is not so of itself, and as this mode of fixing is by no means general, and has some grave disadvantages, it can not be appealed to. Mr. Herring's safe is constructed on an entirely different principle ; its exterior walls are meant to protect the contents of the safe from fire only; before the outer doors can be opened their bands and fastenings mud be removed ; this Mr. Chatwood's men proceeded to do at once by the use of wedges, and by the same means they forced open the two wings of the outer door in a comparatively short space of time ; the interior was then seen to be divided into two distinct parts; the upper one, the larger in its capacity, was filled with shelv ing and drawers, for books and papers of value only to their owner. The lower division was a coffer designed for the safe keeping of valuables and containing the sealed block of wood. On this coffer the maker had concentrated all his sk 11 and the resisting power of his materials: only two of its faces wore accessible, the door and upper side ; the latter was first attacked, but this plan was soon aban doned, and the workmen directed all their energies to the breaking open of the door. The position limited the space from which it could be attacked, and to seine ex tent circumscribed the effect of , the levers and hammers employed against it, showing how well its situation bad been chosen so as to add to its defence. The direct introduction of wedges was prevented by a strong iron frame which protected the joint of the door, and which had to be cut bodily away, and when after a con siderable time this was effected the door itself was attacked. It was formed of a network of steel bars riveted together, and covered with a wrought iron plate which concealed its structure. The numerous and solid attachments of the door would have rendered its removal piecemeal an inter minable operation, so the experts endeavoured to remove it whole ; but its extreme tenacity, which it owed to its mode of construction, and the strength of the steel rivets by which it was secured to the inner plate and the bolts prevented its removal until within ten minutes of the time when Chatwood's safe was declared open. The coffer still remained entirely closed by a plate of hard cast iron, similar to that employed by Mr. Chatwood in the construction of his safe, but by an ingenious contrivance the tenacity naturally deficient in the material was supplied by the use of a close web of i-on rods which covered each face of the plate, and was in timately connected and even soldered into the plate itself by the mode in which they were cast together; the suc cess of this mode of construction was completely demon strated by experience. In order literally to bend over the plate all the wedges and tools which the workmen pos sessed were made use of, and the necessity for a larger wedge, similar to those which the committee had refused to allow to Mr. Herring's men was so evident that Mr. Chatwood's experts made usn of a hammer head from which the handle had been taken for the same purpose. After half an hour's labour, when the gap along the top of the door was completely blocked up with wedges and tools of all sorts, tho close of day put a stop to the proceedings, while it was yet uncertain how long tho bolts attached to the plate could continue to resist the strain brought to bear against them. The trial was resumed by the experts the next morning, who coming fresh to their work opened the door in four minutes, the opening into the coffer being then completely clear they were enabled to withdraw the block. The total time occupied in all these operations was 254 minutes. The Herring safe is thus distinguished by an ingenious complication of its means of defence, all concentrated at the precise point which it designed to protect, and indicates on the part of its maker an intimate knowledge of the requirements of a good safe. Admitting the excellence of both the safes submitted to trial, and also admitting the force brought to bear upon them was far superior to any over likely to be employed by burglars, a careful consideration of the facts compels us to the following conclusion s :—Firstl y , That, considering the intrinsic quality of th e different materials employed as being equal in the two safes, Mr. Herring has, by his happy combination, rendered the material more office cious,and indeed given to the hard cast iron the tenacity which it lacks by nature, and we are therefore of opinion from this point of view —lst. That Mr. Herring's safe is the better in the quality of the materials employed. 2d. That the exterior aspect of the Chatwood safe, from the closeness of its joints and simplicity of its form, would disincline bur glars to attack it, but if they should have the security ne cessary to make the attempt, its too great uniformity of constructive detail would give them groat hope of success, their difficulties would considerably diminish as they proceeded, and this would act as a moral stimulant to their physical force until they attained the prize they coveted. The Herring safe, which appears at first more easy of attack, presents to the end difficulties always groat and always varied, and never shows signs of an approaching success; it therefore tends to exhaust both the physical and moral energy, and to this extent offers a superior gua rantee against the successful attack of burglars. Wo aro therefore of the opinion that the Herring safe is the best in its capability of resisting drilling instruments, gunpowder, steel wedges, crowbars, steel screws, or any other kind of bur glars' appliances. We, therefore, in accordance with the foregoing decision, direct tha,t'tho 15,000 francs deposited by Mr. Herring be returned to him, and that the 15,000 francs deposited by Mr. Chatwood be applied, first to the necessary expenses of the trial, and that the balance, divided into three equal portions, be given to the charities of London, Paris, and Washington, as directed by Mr. Herring. In consequence of the QOll.OO taken by the English members of the Committee, and in order to place ourselves and our decision beyond all suspicion or ques tion, we hereby request M. Tagnard to be good enough to charge himself with the naming of the amount to be paid to the different members of the Committee for their profes sional services. Accordingly wo have signed the present document this sth day of October, 1867, in the presence of Mr. Beckwith, United States Commissioner-General of the Universal Exhibition, and Mr. Cheysson, Chief of the Delegated Service. President of the Committee. (Signed) P. DOULIOT. Members of the Committee. (Signed) JOSEPH E. TIoLmEs. (Signed) Tiros. It. Picimuso. (Signed) W. J. Hon.; Secretary. Chief of the Delegated Service. (Signed) S. CIIEYSSON. U. S. Commissioner-General. (Signed) N. M. BEcKwiTir. 1911SCELLLAINEOUS FOREIGN NEWS. A letter from Rome, dated Oct. 11, says : The telegraph and the newspapers have in formed you day by day of all that:has taken place in the Papal territory since my last letter. Do not put faith in the news coming from Florence, but take as the truth the news that comes from Rome, and which is given in the Giornale di Roma. To resume : Bagnorea was retaken after two and-a-half hours' fighting. The Papal troops were 480 strong, 260 natives, and the rest Zouaves. The Garibaldians numbered more than 500. We had three killed and five wounded. The enemy lost seventy men killed or wounded, and 100 prisoners. The population went out to meet the soldiers, and welcomed them as deliverers. The Papal column had three small cannons and a machine to throw grenades. The Garibaldians had already pro claimed the deposition of the Papal Government, hoisted the Italian flag on the cathedral, and nomi nated a triumvirate to govern in the name of Vic tor Emmanuel. On the same evening the Papal troops received a telegram from the Pope to con gratulate them on their gallant conduct. Colonel Azzanesi, who commanded the detachment, has been nominated Commander of the Order of Pius IX. On the next day the prisoners were conducted to Viterbo. These, together with others taken in various places, amounted in all to more than 200. 'Very few wear the red shirt All belong to the lower class. On the night of.the 10th they were conducted to Rome, and were placed in the Castle of St. Angelo. Rome enjoys a perfect tranquillity. The people attend to their pleasures and to their duties with their usual indifference, but this indifference is founded on faith. By a police order the rural inns have been closed during the prevalence of cholera. The month of October is a month of vacation for all the world—tribunals, schools, congregations, have suspended their labours and every Sunday and Thursday whole families are seen wending their way towards the neighbouring villas. Strangers are astonished at the tranquillity which prevails here. At the moment when the enemies of God and of His Church are making a supreme effort at our gates to attain the end which they have been so long pursuing, it is well to give public testimony to the security which prevails in the Government classes. Yesterday the Holy Father showed himself in public—he is taking what he calls his October va cations ; iF other terms, he is payingvisits to some convent dr some public institution. Never have we seen him so calm and so joyous even. The crowd received him with enthusiasm, and a good number of passers-by accompanied him as a guard of honour, till he had re-entered his carriage. The tranquillity of the Holy Father communicates itself to all about him. Some days ago he said to a Roman patrician, who was expressing his fears, " Be of good heart, my son ; the Church has seen many invasions come to nought since that of Attila," and, in speaking these words, he pointed to the wall of the room where they were, to a fresco representing St. Leo the IGreat, who ar rested the progress of Attila. The last news of the invasion is that the Ga ribaldians have changed their tactics. In place.of attacking in small bands they appear desirous of concentrating their forces in order to enter on all sides at the same time. From what I hear there are 800 or 900 along the frontier of Lubiano,.soo on the frontier of Naples, 700 or 800 between Orvieto and Petigliano. During these last few days they have felt their way in various points— at Monte Libretti, at Cerbera, at Subiaco, at Santa-Francesca, in order to see whether the pea santry were well disposed towards them. The people treated them everywhere with contempt. Meanwhile the Italian army is seen immovable two or three miles behind the Garibaldian bands. I can conceive how 50, or even 100 Garibaldians may have escaped the vigilance of the Italian Cordon ; but no man in his senses can believe this of 2,000. Day by day Cardinal Antonelli renders an exact account to the foreign Ambassadors, of the acts and deeds of the Garibaldians during each day. The Minister of War takes measures to show front against the invasion as much as possible ; for, as long as the Papal army keeps the upper hand, the Italian army will have no pretext for intervention. If the bands show themselves in very large num bers, I believe the Papal army will restrict itself to the defence of the chief places, and to the prin cipal towns on each frontier. The army consists, it is true, of 13,000, but after making all necessary deductions, not more than 2,500 could be put in possession to protect the frontiers, which would be quite an inadequate force. - On the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, at Santa Maria, in Ara Coati, in the capitol, the Minorites assisted at a High Mass, celebrated by the Domini cans, in memory of the ties of friendship which united St. Dominic and St. Francis. On this occa sion was heard for the first time the grand organ which Prince Tolonia, Syndic of the Convent, has just given to the church. The Houses of the Mendicant Orders, on account of the strict vow of poverty, do not manage the property which they receive from the charity of the faithful. It is therefore managed by a friend of the order, whom they call their Syndic. Most of the Roman patri cians are Syndics. It is an office which they take up in a spirit of charity, and which is transmitted from father to son. It is said that the Emperor of Brazil, knowing the eminent services rendered by the religious orders to the States of the New World, begged the Holy Father to send him as often as he could, members of the religious houses of Italy suppres sed by the law which has recently been enacted against them at Florence. The Invalide Russe, of the 27th ult., records a case of a peculiarly horrible character, which has just been heard before the criminal tribunal of Vladimir. A man named Kursin, aged twenty seven, a member of a numerous and fanatical Rus sian sect called the sect of the Saviour, lately killed his own son, a boy of seven, and offered him as a sacrifice to God. His own account of the crime is as follows : One night I felt so strongly that the human race must soon perish that I could not get a moment's sleep. I rose and lighted all the lamps before the images of the saints, and, throwing myself on my knees, I fervently prayed God to save me and my family. Suddenly the idea came to me of saving my son from eternal damnation, for, as this only child was a beautiful boy and finer than most boys of his age, I feared that he would be come, after my death, the prey of hell, and I deter mined to sacrifice him to the Lord. Filled with this idea I continued to pray. I said to myself that if, during my prayer, the thought of sacri ficing my son to God came to me from the right side, I would execute it ; if, on the contrary, it came from the left, I would give it up ; for, accord ing to our religious teachings, the thought which comes from the right side is from our good angel, and that from the left is the instigation of the devil. After a long prayer, the thought came to me from the right side, and I returned full of joy to the room where my son slept by the side of my wife. Know ing that she would oppose the sacrifice which I desired to offer to God, I sent her to the market to purchase provisions. When she had gone, I awoke my child, and said to him, " Get up my son, put on thy white :shirt, that I may admire thee." When he had done thin I laid him on the bench, and, after stabbing him in several places, cut the stomach open from top to bottom. Kursin says that just as the child breathed his last, the first rays of the sun shone through the window, and in a moment of ecstacy he fell on his knees and im plored God to mercifully receive this sacrifice." Kursin continued his narrative in these terms : " Just as I had thrown myself before the holy images, and as my son was lying in his blood, the door opened and my wife came in. She instantly saw what had passed, and, seized with horror, she fell senseless to the ground. I raised her, and said, "Go to the mayor and tell him all. I am going to give a fête to the saints." Kursin, after he had been sent to prison, reso lutely refused all kinds of nourishment, and died of starvation before the sentence upon him could be executed. ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN. A meeting of debenture-holders in this company, representing £70,000, was held in Leeds on Wed nesday to consider the proposals of the committee of investigation appointed in March last by the bond holders and other creditors. The arrangement by which every £lOO certificate of debenture would be liquidated was discussed. It was computed that 7 per cent. interest would accrue annually. After exa mining as far as possible into the position and pro spects of the company, it was agreed that all interest on the sectional mortgage bonds and shares due prior to March 31 ought to be paid into the Bank of England forthwith ; and before any new arrange ment was decided upon it be deposited in the Bank of England in the names of new trustees to be chosen by the debenture-holders. The meeting also took into consideration the course they should adopt at the ensuing meeting of the company. DE3IERARA. The traffic receipts on this company's line for the fortnight ending the 7th of September amounted to $4,083, and to $4,865 for the corresponding fort night last year, showing a decrease of $BB2. MELBOURNE AND HOBSON'S BAY (UNITED). The traffic receipts on this company's line (17 miles in length) for the five weeks ending August 22 amounted to £10,474, against £11,480 in the corresponding five weeks last year, showing a de crease of £1,006. MADAME DEPT'S COMPANY (LIMITED). The report of the directors of this company states that the balance-sheet, as audited by Messrs. Harding, Whinney, Gibbons, and Co., showed the amount of business done in the last 12 months to be £16,139, upon which a net profit of £1,393 had been made, after deducting £5,567 for various expenses. The paid-up capital of the company amounted to £12,790, upon which the directors proposed to declare a dividend of 10 per cent. for the past year, which would absorb £1,279, leaving £ll4 still in the business. This, added to the amount so left last year, made £1,461. The in creased business had been carried on with strict ad herence to the limited ten hours of daily work, and the directors felt confident that it would excite the interest of all philanthropists when it was thus clearly proved that this object could be so satisfac torily carried out with good financial results. The ladies of the committee, who had most kindly con tinued their interest and repeated visits, had ex pressed to Madame Devy, the manager, their satis faction with all the arrangements for the welfare of the milliners and dressmakers employed by the com pany. The directors were happy to hare it again in their power to place at the disposal of the Ladies' Committee for distribution among the most deserving of the employees 15 per cent. of the net divided profits after the first 6 per cent. allowed to the shareholders ; they felt confident, with Madame Devy, that this interest had proved most encour. aging to all the young people employed, who had used their utmost endeavours in every department to promote the good result of the limited hours from which they experience so much benefit. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, Oct. 18.—The market is a shade firmer, with more business doing. Shipping yarns have been in fair demand to-day, and prices are rather firmer. In some instances a slight advance has been obtained. In home-trade yarns there has been a strong market, and a good business has been transacted. For 32's twist and 34's to 40's weft (which arc used to a great extent in the manufacture of Indian shirting) about id. per lb. advance has l'een obtained in many instances, as compared with Tuesday's rates. In the finer counts of yarns there is not much change. For cloth there was a very general inquiry yesterday, which resulted in a good business, principally for classes of goods suitable for India. This demand embraced shirtings and the lighter makes of In lia goods as well, and a large business was effected in some cases with a slight im provement on Tuesday's rates. This improvement has been continued to-day, with an attempt on the part of makers to establish higher prices. We may quote goods as increased in value to some extent in consequence of the large business done, but we are unable to report any very marked advance on the quotations of Tuesday. The improvement, so far as we can learn, is the consequence generally of some exceedingly large operations of a speculative character, chiefly by one buyer. In home-trade goods, especially heavy cloths, we do not hear of much change. LEICESTER, 18.—The London and Manchester houses having experienced a better demand than for some time past, during the present season, has given quite a stimulus to the Leicester hosiery trade, which bas undergone a considerable improvement in various departments. Wools are, however, quiet, and growers holding firm prevents prices getting lower at present. The spinners seem to be working out of stock beforo they buy again, but an opinion prevails that they must be in the market before long. Worsted yarns are in active request, and spinners seem to think that the present rates will hold for some little time. Small job lots of yarn are disposed of quickly. The better classes of lambs-wool goods are moving off rapidly, and the supply is short ; nevertheless, the greatest caution is exercised by purchasers. The fancy houses have received a good many orders lately, and this branch of manufacture may be re garded as greatly improved. At Hinckley the cot ton hosiery trade continues very busy in the circular and wrought branches. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. knetralla and Now Zealand, via Southampton.....Oot. 20. Ditto, via Marseilles l3 Ditto, via Panama .......• ......... Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video Nov. 4. Ditto, by rrenob paoket •••• Oot. 2Z Cape Verde, by Brazil paotet ........ . Nov. 4. k;spe of Good Elope. Asoenslon, snit :it. Helena Oct. 21. China. Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton—Oct. 20 . Ditto, via Marseilles .., . .... •• ....Oct. 23 raikland Islands ... Nov. ..4 Glbraltar, via Southampton.. ..... Oct. 20. India via Sontirimproa Nov. 2 Ditto, via slarsell C 3 Malta, Egypt, .................... .......... Oct. 20 Ditto, Marseilles. Oct. 27. Mauritius, Cape, of Good five, and Natal, via Southampton. Oot. 20 Ditt ), via Marseilles Nov. 3. Newfoundland l'ortwgal . Nov. 4. Ditto, by private. ship to Oporto Ditto ditto to Lisbon United States, Canada, California, &c., by British ... Oct. 23 packet .. . . Ditto, by United States paoket Ditto ditto (New York) Ditto ditto (New York) DUO ditto (1141timore) Ditto, by Canadian pAoket . West Coast of Afrioa, Madeira, and Teneriffe NoY. 3. West Indies and Pacific (except Mexico and Baha mas) Cuba and Mexico Oct. 20. Bahamas, via New York Nor. li. DerMida ► Qla UAW= _•,•,...119.9U ,99-4,199 09 COMM ERCIAL. Nxw Yoitx, Friday, Oct. 4. Tho anticipated rise in money has taken place. Gra dually, but firmly, it is growing stringent. To-day 7 per cent. on call was the price, and not freely lent at that, while bills aro discounted at from 7to 10. There is a general rise on the produce exchange. Flour, wheat, corn, oats, are all dearer, and while the Western crops are known to bo large, they do not come to market as freely as expected. The high rates in the Western cities for loans act as a check, but the effects are more felt by speculators than by farmers. Gold has lately been excited, yesterday rapidly changing. For instance, to-day it opened at 145, went up I, than fell I, and finally left off 1441. The export demand has fallen to its lowest point, on Wednesday the Russia taking only $3,000. From the Ist January to 28th September the whole sum has been $42,177,117. The customs continue to give large receipts and to place Mr. M'Culloch in a strong position. For the week ending last Saturday the receipts at New York wore $2,970,000, making up so far for the year $94,639,655. The gold payments on the Na tional Debt have been to this same period, 28th Sept. last, $43,258,765. California has sent to New York, up to this period, $22,635,470. American silver is at 5f to 61 cents below the price of gold. Mexican dollars from 102 to 1024 in gold. Foreign exchange is quiet, with little doing, though there is more demand for bankers' bills. Of the compound interest notes amounting to $80,000,000 outstanding, $18,000,000 mature during October, $20,000,000 in December, and the remainder next year. Mr. M'Culloch's order, directing 3 per cent legal tender certificates to bo exchanged for these notes, has been dis approved by many, though the Secretary considers that he is left no option by the Act of Congress. The following is the notice, dated Ist inst.: -"Notice is hereby giver, that the Assistant-Treasurer at New York is prepared, and has been instructed, to issue three per cent. certificates, as authorised by Act of Congress, approved March 2, 1867, in denominations of $5,000 and $lO,OOO each, in redemption of the Compound Interest Notes maturing in October and December next. The accrued interest on all notes pre sented for such redemption will be paid in currency." I send you a copy of the Act, which will enable your readers to judge for themselves : "An Act to provide Ways and Means for the Payment of Compound Interest Notes. "Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the United States of America in Congress as sembled, That for the`purpose of redeeming and retiring any Compound Interest Notes outstanding, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorised and directed to issue temporary loan certificates, in the manner prescribed by section four of the Act entitled An Act to authorise the issue of United States Notes, and for the redemption or funding thereof, and for funding the floating debt of the United States,' approved February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, bearing interest at a rate not exceeding three per cent. per annum, princi pal and interest payable in lawful money on demand; and said certificates of temporary loan may constitute and be held by any national bank holding or owning the same, as a part of the reserve provided for in sections thirty-ono and thirty-two of the Act entitled .‘ An Act to provide a national currency secured by a pledge of United States Bonds, and to provide for the circulation and redemption thereof,' approved June three, eight hundred and sixty four: Provided—That not less than two-fifths of the en tire reserve of such bank shall consist of lawful money of the United Statesj. And provided further—That the amount of such temporary certificates at any time out standing shall not exceed fifty millions of dollars. "Approved, March 2d, 1867." The large 'St. Louis Flour and Commission House— Messrs. Lamb and Quinlan—has failed. The Croton National Bank of this city has been shut up by the Comp troller of the Currency, and it is feared the loss will be very heavy. The deposits amount to between 300,000 and 400,000 dollars. Its note circulation amounts to $ 80,000, which is fully covered by Government Securities, so the chief losers will be depositors. The cushier of the Atlas Na- tional Bank of Providence, Rhode Island, has lent the money in his charge to a Wall-street speculator. Thu cashier of First National Bank at New Milford, Connec ticut, has decamped. The former bank loses $40,000, the latter $50,000, and the Secretary of the Treasury, wilee. attention has bsen directed to these repeated instances of dis honesty, is about to inquire into the condition of the Na tional Banks throughout the country. There has been an over-issue of the fractional currency notes, to what extent has not yet been ascertained. Government securities are de pressed, 7-30's showing weakness. The banks are large sellers, and there are more than usual sinister rumours from Washiegton, coupled with lower prices from Europe, to depress the market. The miscellaneous market is active, railway stocks especially so, a largo business being done in the low-priced West ern Securities. The Erie Railroad election will take place next Tuesday. The Erie has experienced a strong re-action from the decline I reported a fortnight ago, and so also has the Now York Central. The Express Stocks are dull, closing as follows: Adams - 58 . to 58} American . 571 to 59 United States s6i to 57 Wells, Fargo, and Co ssi to 55' Merchants Union ($35 paid) Mining stocks aro negleotod. Petroleum stocks are firm, with a fair amount of business doing. The following aro the latest quotations in railway stocks : —New York Central 109 f, Erie 641, Hudson 1284, Reading 101, Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana 811, Illinois Central 121, Cle veland and Pittsburg 78f, North-Western 424, North-West. Preferred 66k, Canton 43f, Rock Island 1021, Cleveland and Toledo 127 k, Fort Wayne 991, Pacific Mail 1404, Quick silver 25, Western Union Telegraph 351, Mariposa Pro ferred 17, Ohio and Missouri Certificates 26k, Boston Water Power, 18, Cumberland 29k. (From E. F. Satterawaite and Co.'s Weekly Circular, 0ct.16.) By the Cunard steamer Russia we have advices from New York to th 3 Ist ins , . An increased supply of Go vernment Bonds, especially of the later issue, coupled with a tighter money market, had occasioned a slight fall in quotations. In Railroad Shares there had been consider able activity, but in few exceptions prices ruled lower. The market for American Government Bonds in London has, during the past week, been a steadily declining ono, though the total depression is not more than to 1 per cent. Large supplies have been received from New York, sales there being induced by the stringency of the money market, the Bonds arriving at a time when political and financial distrust deters buying. Five-T wenty Bonds are now quoted ex the Ist Novem ber coupon; they close 68} to I and those of 1865-66 f to for end of the month. . Erio Shares suddenly advanced 3 per cent., and have relapsed 1 per cent. ; we are without information as to what caused the rise in New York. Illinois remain steadily firm. Atlantic and Great West ern Consolidated Bonds have declined j to 1 per cent. (From Messrs. Bowles, Brevet, and Co.'s Circular.) Paris, Oct. 18, 1867. The past, week has been one of much excitement upon our Bourse, and the alarm and uncertainty, reported in our late circulars, have in the past day or two assumed almost the proportions of a panic, prices showing a marked decline. United States Bonds are dull and lower, touching on the 17th. For the issue of 1862 )7 „ 1865 74j 17 1/ Our advices from Now York are to tho 17th. Gold United States Bonds, 1862 The Route closes at 67 The Italian closes at Exchange on London 25 12k (From Messrs.Belding, Keith, and Co.'s Circular.) Thursday, Oct. 17. The market for American Securities has undergone an extraordinary change this week. The principal feature in 5-20 Bonds has been a fall of / per cent. since last Thurs day, owing chiefly to some considerable shipments from New York, while gold in that city has varied between 113 and 144 closing on Wednesday at 1431-. Five-Twenties, 1862'5, were quoted on Tuesday at the close 711 1, ar.d 1865's 69k 1. The quotations on Wednesday at the open ing were (ex coupon) 681 and 661 1 respectively. Illinois Central shares have shown no variation. They close at 77i 78k. Erie shares have risen on the whole per cent. during the week. On Tuesday they opened al 461. to 471, but have since declined, and close at 44i to this evening. The Atlantic and Consolidated Mortgage Bonds have varied from 20 to 211 with little doing. (From L. P. Morton and Co.'s Circular.) New York, Sept. 28, 1867. Since our last advices the money market has assumed a very decided activity. In tte West, and in other sec tions of the interior, the movement of large crops of grain at high prices has caused a pressing demand for currency, to meet which heavy remittances have been made from this city. At the same time an important amount has been takenlinto the Treasury upon the sale of bonds and gold and through the calling in of funds held by the National Bank Deposi tories, 4J the roult of the§o Parromits, tho ritto upon demand loans has advanced from 4 to 5 per cent., to the full legal limit, 7 per cent.; and, for tho last two days, loans have been effected with some difficulty, while dis counting operations are much interrupted, prime paper being current at 7 to 8 per cent. The stringency in money has checked the strong up ward tendency in railroad stocks arising from the liberal crops. Erie has declined 11-} from our last quotation, 69k; while Illinois Central, owing to the satisfactory con dition of its finances, has remained steady through the fluctuations of the general market. The prices of shares generally ramp from 5 to 10 per cent. below the current price at the beginning of the month. The money pressure has caused a moderato realising movement upon United States Securities; but the steudi ❑oss of the quotations for Five-twenties at London and Frankfort, together with considerable purchases of Seven thirty Notes by the Government, has held in check the consequent downward tendency in prices, and quotations do not vary materially from those given in our last cir cular. The condition of our financial relations with Europe being at present an element of much importance in esti mating the probable course of the premium on gold, and in judging of the future value of our securities abroad, we have endeavoured to ascertain, from official records, the probable balance of our trade with foreign countries, for the period extending from the commencement of the war to the present time. The Government returns for that period are not so entirely complete as could be desired ; as the exports of domestic produce aro recorded in cur rency value, there is some difficulty, owing to the wide fiuctuatioas in the gold premium, in ascertaining the precise equivalent in coin of these returns. Our data, however, are the best obtainable ; and as the gold aver ages are made with much care, we do not think the results of our estimates, given below, can be considered as diverg ing far from the truth. From the subjoined statistics it will be seen that the course of our foreign trade, for the last six fiscal years, shows an excess of imports over ex ports amounting to $256,422,071. These figures, how ever, can scarcely bn considered as representing the whole foreign indebtedness incurred within the pe riod. To the debtor side of the account must bo placed the interest accruing upon European investments in the United States; which, for the six years, cannot be esti mated at less than $120,000,000. It must also bo taken into account that the imports are, in not a few cases, invoiced under their true value, in order to save duty ; that during the last four years there has been alarge increase of smug gling operations, especially in costly merchandise ; and that an enlarged proportion of our imports are now carried in foreign vessels, involving the payment of freight to foreign carriers. In allusion to those items, the Secretary of the Treasury says in his last report : —"But these figures, taken from the reports of the custom-houses, do not present the whole truth. For many years there has been a systematic under-valuation of foreign merchan dise imported into the United States, and largo amounts have boon smuggled into the country along our extended sea coast and frontiers. To make up for under valuations and smuggling, and for cost of transportation paid to foreign shipowners, twenty per cont. at least should be added to the imports, which would make the balance for the past year against the United States nearly $100,000,000. It is evident that the balances have been largely against the United States for some years past, whatever may have been the Custom-house returns. On no other ground can the fact be accounted for, that a very large amount of American Bonds is now held in Europe which are esti mated as follows, to wit;—United States Bonds, $350,000,000; State of Municipal Bonds, $150,000,000; Railroad and other Stocks and Bonds, $100,000,000. Total, $600,000,000." Perhaps the secretary's estimate that 20 per cent. should be added to the imports upon these considerations may be regarded as excessive; although the well-considered views of a Minister of Finance must be awarded their due weight. It may, however, be very safely estimated that the combined items of under-invoicing, smuggling, and transportation, require an average addition to the imports of 7 per cont., which, upon the $1,942,147,510 of imports, for the six years since the commencement of the war, would amount, in round numbers, to $145,000,000. Adding this amount to the excess of imports over exports, and to the interest accruing upon foreign investments, wo have an adverse balance, accumulated within the last six years, amounting to over $520,000,000 in gold. It would be impossible to estimate from these figures the amount of United States securities sent to Europe within the period under review. They certainly show, however, that the highest estimates may be correct, and yet a large open balance remain against us. From an appended statement of exports and imports for the ten years next preceding the war, it will be seen that when we commenced the war with a comparative clean account with the world the balance against us for that period being only $26,000,000. The gold premium has shown much sensitiveness under political events to Europe, and the utterances of certain irresponsible politicians in favour of the payment of United States Bonds in currency ; but liberal soles of coin by the Treasury have prevented an advance from these causes. Foreign exchange is quiet, and rates weak. Importers are deferring their remittances in expectation that the payment of the November coupons, amounting to about $25,000,000, will reduce the premium on gold. Bankers' 60 clap' awning bills are quoted 1091 to 1091 • ditto 3 days', 1091 to 1008 ; bills on Paris, 6U days, 5.171 ditto 3 days', 5.15. LONDON GAZETTE.-LAST EVENING. FOREIGN OFFCE, OCT. 17. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. John Johnston as Consul in New Zealand, to reside at Welling ton, for his Majesty the King of the Netherlands. WHITEHALL, OCT. 16. The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. Alex ander Bryson to the church and parish of St. Michael's, at Dumfries, in the presbytery and county of Dumfries, vacant by the death of the Rev. James Fraser. ADMIRALTY, OCTOBER 17. The undermentioned officers have this day been pro moted to tho rank of Navigating Lieutenants in her Majesty's fleet :—John Aylen, Esq., William W. Hutton, Esq., John F. Barnes, Esq., Albrt R. Wonhain, Esq., William F. Anstey Greet, Esq., J o h n T. Partridge, Esq., Herbert T. Gimson, Esq., Robert Towers Esq., Henry F. Woods, Esq., C. E. Park er , isq., Daniel AL Browne, Esq., Charles A. Browne, Esq. (Acting), and George K. Moore, Esq. COUNTRY MARKETS. LIVERPOOL-FRIDAY. There was a small attendance at to-day's market, and no disposition to buy was evinced. White wheat may be called is per cental and rod 6d down from the highest point • Flour nominal. Oats and oatmeal decidedly easier. Bar ley 2d per 601 b, and beans and peas la to 2s per qr. down, with a retail sale. Indian corn in fair offer, and little in quiry, at 3s per qr less money—prime mixed being obtain able at 47s per 4801 b. S TAMF ORD-FRIDAY. Wo hai a tolerable show of wheat to-day, and extreme currencies must be quoted. Barley met with a healthy trade, and prices in favour of the seller. Oats were fairly disposed of, and prices were rather higher than last week• Beans in good request, and is higher. New white wheat, 76s to 80s; red do., 70s to 77s per 8 6 stone. Barley, malting, 46s to 48s; grinding, 31s to 430 per qr. Oats, now, 258 to 30s ; old, 32s to 36s per 24 stone. Beans, 48s to 54s per 38 stone. Peas as of late. DERBY-FRIDAY. There was an improved supply of wheat on offer to day, w,th a slow trade, at about the rates of last week. Barley met with a firm trade. Oats in improved show, and best sorts at is more money. Beans were scarce. New white wheat, 74s to t3s ; do. red, 66s to 74s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, 40s to 46s per qr. ; grinding, 34s to 37s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 26s to 308; old, 26s to 36s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 41s to 495; new, 38s to 453 per 38 stone. WAKEFIELD.-FRIDAY. At our market to-day English wheat met a fair demand. Fine barley brought is over the rates of last Friday'. Beans and oats rather dearer. Weather fine. LINCOLN.—FRIDAY. New white wheat, 80s to 84s ; now red, 72s to 78s per 3 6 stone. Barley for malting, 44s to 45s per qr ; grinding, 34s to 38s per 30 stone. Oats, 26s to 30s. Beans, 45s to 48s per 38 stone. BRISTOL S GAR—FRIDAY. Our stocks of raw sugar have been brought to a low ebb, and the sales have been confined to somewhere over 200 hhds. in second hands. Prices must be quoted fully 20 6d higher than the late lowest point. Births. TOWNSEND—O n the 14th inst at lona, Weston-super" Mare, the wife of Commander J. Townsend, R.N., of a daughter. THOM - SON—On the 18th inst., at 5, Maude-grove, West Brompton, the wife of Andrew Thomson, Esq., LL.D., barrister-at-law, of a son. WHITE—On the 18th inst., at 39, Lowndes-square, the wife of Brigadier-Gen. H. Dalrymple White, 0.13., of e l son, who only survived his birth a few minutes. Marriages. BROKE—BARRY—On the 17th inst., at Great Budwortht Cheshire, Lord Willoughby do Brokb, to Geraldine , eldest daughter of the late James H. S. Barry, Esq., ° Marbury Hall, Cheshire, and Fota Island, Cork. 11‘CAsKILL —Snirrx —On the 17th inst., at St. Thomas' s Church, Byde, Lieut.-Colonel J. 0. WCaskill, late lkfil ° dras Army, to Jane Agnes, third daughter of the Bel t ' & James Smith, formerly of mock. Deaths. CRESSWELL —On the 15th inst., at Newland, near Groat Malvern, James Cresswell, aged 71. ROBERTS—On the 17th inst., Mr. Geo. Roberts, of the Star and Garter, Kingsland, agod 42. SNELL —On the 18th inst., at Eastbourne, Edward Snoi l, Esq., aged 77. SWABY—On the 15th inst., at Wrotham Villa, Broadstair Ef f Capt. George S wall - , late of the Military Train, and for merly of the 18th (Royal Irish) Regiment, aged 43. 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