The Sun. — London, England, 1855-10-25 00:00:00

adson'a ciosa. , long. lat. 40 28 W. pt. 21, mouth, Oct. 10, in 11, in. fay 4, S.W., pt. 20, 41 N, Lon ;wing , Oot. ig the unday rahara fir. E. rn the nvesti ith the re the rnitted ceased of sue warded moider person ie, but et np- This lid not 7 case r pre ihould person cook, ne evi [onday on the to local missed for dis stated Lud the he evi elicited •n sus. narked .hange. 3und Baker, 6mpton assizes. Atratei mayor, endea id nd an ; using r , who rn, died provid- passed, ling to dation' r. May rs who iument an the uffered occur bin the ly chil ~revere highly tender • young irt time at Bon and in shape ; r to b New. rock, foot, rrived us. 'Ad°, Garay, oomiu• ing. iu - uds- ersey ; Syd• Etinck- aid of >an zig. -dat niNEY .nARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocK. The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed .tamely and heavily, without any marked change in )ricer. The sales were 6,000 bales (500 for ex / )art), comprising 4,000 Americans, 440 Pernam a nd. Maranham, 200 Egyptian, at 6d. to bid. ; 1, ,000 Surat, at 3d. to 40. ; and Sea Islands, at 9( 1. to Is. 9d. per lb. In the Railway Share M Earket a considerable improvement took place in ti ie quotations, and the market closed firmly. The Board of Trade has received a despatch from tl le Vice-Consul at Galatz, reporting the following in ic Tease in the duty on grain exported from Wal lac hia :—Wheat to be raised to 10 piastres per kill 3gramme (Is. 4d. per quarter), Indian corn to 5 r ►iastres, and barley to 3 piastres, or sd. per qn arter. Recent accounts from Ceylon give the value of e imports during the last quarter at 2,597,3251., r nd that of the exports at 2,245,288 1 . The native coffee crop for 1855-6 was estimated at 180,000 .cwt. The amount of Plantation already shipped - was 308,165 cwt., and would probably reach 15,000 cwt. more. The favourable movement in the English Funds yesterday had but little effect on the Paris Bourse, while there was some fluctuation in prices. At the close of the market the quotations of the 3 per Cent. Rentes for time and money closed at 64f. 35c. The 4i remained without alteration on previous quotations. Shares of the Bank of France and Credit Foncier suffered no variation ; while those of the Credit Mobilier fell 2f. 50c. on previous prices. The business in the Railway Shares pre sented nothing of interest, and the fluctuations were few and insignificant. In the Paris grain markets the fall on previous quotations was main tained, and the slowness of foreign arrivals gave activity to the home market. Flour remains at the nominal price of 103 francs. The factors bad de clared to 3,396 sacks. Spanish flour nominal at 102 f. The latest accounts from Berlin state that the Prussian Government have concluded a new com mercial treaty with the Mexican Government. This treaty supersedes that of 1831, and is said to be more beneficial to Prussia than its predecessor. It was ratified by the Mexican Government on the 10th July of the present year, and the Prussian Minister of Finance profits by the circumstance to renew negotiations with the States of the Zollve rein, that it may receive their sanction. During the fortnight ending yesterday the Honourable East India Company have drawn bills upon Madras and Bengal to the amount of 3,9751. We believe it may now be asserted that the Money Market is temporarily easier. We are not going beyond this term temporarily, because, like most other persons, the vicissitudes of the last few weeks warn us to be extremely guarded in an ticipations of the future. When the Bank of England itself is unable, with all its means of information, to tell what will happen from one week to another, it cannot be oxpecttA that ca pitalists and speculators would be less at fault. Taking matters as they are, however, there is less of that unwholesome rushing for discount accom modation, which half the time the applicants could postpone, and the rates for eligible paper at proper date are not above those of the Bank of England, and in some instances lower. It is still the long dated bills that are most subjected to scrutiny, and that have to pay relatively by far the highest rates. Considerable purchases of money stock are re ported to have been again made on the Stock Exchange, and the Hebrew party have bought largely. These operations have naturally given much strength to the market. As we have before stated, there is generally a more con fident feeling, and the public are steadily investing. Consols for money have been 88i to 881, and for account, after being 88i I, they were 88 buyers, and are now 881 a again. The New 3 per Cents. are 88 to 88k, and the Re duced 87k to 4. Bank _Stock is flat at 207. Ex chequer Bills are 33. discount to 2s. premium. According to a despatch received by the Messrs. Baring from the Secretary of State for the Finan cial Department of New Granada, we learn that the Government of that country request these gentlemen to inform the Committee of Spanish American Bondholders in London that the Peru vian Bonds held by them are destined to be in due time and season applied for the benefit of the foreign debt, and they request the committee to return the said bonds, in order that proper regula tions may be issued to carry the purpose intended into effect. The following are the nominal prices of foreign stocks: Grenada Deferred Bonds, 18 to 20 ; Mexican, 19i to 19i ; Peruvian, 71 to 73 ; ditto Three per Cents., 51 to 53; Portuguese Four per Cents., 43 to 45 ; Russian Five per Cents., 95 to 98 ; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 85 to 88 ; Spanish New Deferred, 19i to j ; ditto Three per Cents., 37i to 38 ; ditto Certificates, 4i to 4i ; ditto Passive, 4/ to 5. For Foreign Stocks there was generally a steady market. The Turkish 6 per Cents. have been as high as 971 to 971, but are at present 97i to 97i. The New Scrip is at 21 to 2i discount, being a rise of about per cent. Belgian 41 per Cents. are 94, and Spanish Deferred 191 to 193, which is about the previous value. Sardinian Bonds' are flat at 83g. Peruvian Four-and-a-Half per Cents. realised 71 to 72. Danish Five per Cents. are at 1001, and Brazilian Five per Cents. 99i. Tie last week's railway receipts, ascertained up to this day, are in round figures as follow :- 1855. 18M. £28,775 £24,429 61,021 56,466 15,736 13,414 16,275 14,797 29,245 27,872 23,702 17,932 Great Western North-Western South-Western Brighton Midland South-Eastern _ Caledonian Great Northern Lancashire and Yorkshire North-Eastern 11,833 26,013 20,736 11,802 22,185 19,126 There is more activity in Railway Shares, and the prices tend upwards. Great Western, North- Western, North-Eastern, and Berwick and South- Eastern are all higher. The Foreign lines rule dull. Canada Shares are steady. For Mining and Banking Shares there is scarcely any inquiry. Canada Government Debentures are 1 per cent. higher. Royal Mail Steam have risen about 2/. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES, ( Prom the Official Lin. ) Bnqtness done I:l‘nk Stock . 207 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities....... ........ 87i / i 3 per Cent. Co nso l s A nnu i t i es New 3 per Cent. Annuities Lmg Annuities, Expire sth .Tan., ISt.to Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct., 1859 3t A India Bonds, £lOOO .. Ditto, under £ [OOO 3 p 2 d Conqols for Account 89- 1 8 i i / 8 E {chequer Bills, ''i i 2d. £lOOO —. 2500 ..... 2 d 4 p Small • 2 d 4 p _ E rc h eqlo r Bonds 1858, 31 per Cont. : gp 1 1 ,i Ditto 1859, PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS TF,I9-lig 9DAY. B raz ilian Bonds 5 per Ceut. . Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent Ditto 5 per Cent ...................... •.... . kt3xican 3 per Cent. ln Peruvian Bonds, 4i per Cent Ditto for the Acc0unt....................... .... 0 74 .21 1 i Ditto 3 per Cent. Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent., Con. 1811 Ditto 4 per Cent. Ditto ex. all over due Coupons 4oi igirdinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto for the Account B3l i 4 Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent — Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. Turkish Bonds, 6 per cent 7B Ditto for the Account 7 91 B i A Ditto New Scrip, 4 per Cent. Ditto for the account 2i 3i d Dtvieends ore the above eavahle in London. Belgian Bonds, 21 per Cent. ex. 25 fr — Ditto 4} per Cent. Ex. 25 fr D doh 1 zchange, 2A per Cent. 12 Gull 6 41 Diw) 4 per Cont. Certificates ... - Consols . THREE O'CLOCK. ...... ........... ................... M Ditto for the A ucouat Bth N0v......... 88iI REDUCTION IN THE PRICE OF BREAD.—Yesterday moruing, in consequence of considerable dissatisfaction that Ills been evinced by the inhabitants of St. Luke's and Shoreditob, relative to the rise in the price of bread, several bakers in those districts reduced the price of the 41b loaf of bread of the second quality to 9d, and house bread (unweighed) to Bd. p er l oa f. hold or country SHARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) RAILWAYS. ielosing Prices this day. Berr,w iTI. . ... A mbg. Nottn g. Boat. and Eastn. Janet... Belfast & Ballymena. Binning. Wolverh Stour Valle y Birk e fed. Lanc6l.. Cheshire Junct fl o. Chesh. £5O and £25 Cons. Do., £2O Rlyth Tyns origins , £25 (issd. at £4l Bristol and Exeter... Caledonian Cum. and Cardigan Chester & Holyhead, Cork and Bandon... Cork, Black, dr Pas. , Cornwall Do. A Do. B Cr ier Junction DuolindtßelfastJunc Dun. P. do Aber. Joe Do. N , w . East At glian Eastern Counties.. East. Union, A Bt De., B. Stoefr Do., New A..... ., East Keut (East Lancashire Edinburgh & Glasgov. Edinb. and Peebles... Edin. Prth &Dundee Forth & Clyde it, n 3. Furness Do. Extension Glasgow At S. W.'s' Great N. of Scotlnd iGreat Northern 'Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Gt. Sth. &West.(lre ) Great Western Do. Stour Val. Rail Gna. Stk Irish South-Eastern. Lancaster & Carlisle Do., Thirds Do. New Thirds Loa:wash. andVork Do., Wst. Riding Ern. iLiv.Crsby.&Southnt London & Blackwal . Lon.l. Bright & S.Cst. Land. and N. Westn. iDo. Fifths 'D0.101.13h.,M&8...0 Do. Eighths,. London ands. Westn. Do., £5O Do., £4O . Lndndrryl; Coleraine Ludndrrr. & Ennisk , Manch.S het & Limb Do. 4 Shares, No. Do., Mar. & Lin. Un Metropolitan .. . Midlanu Do.Birmng.&Derby Midld. G. West.(lro. Do. Half Shares Newcastle & Carlisle Nwpt.Aberg. & Hrfd Newry &Enniskiller Newry Warrenpoint and Rostrevor. Norfolk .... Northn.Counties Un North British North Devon, No. 1 1)o., No. 2 A Deferred ... Do., B Guarantee , " N. astern—Berwie Do. do. Extension G.N.E.?urel2 Co. Leeds Do. York North London .&S.Wstrn.,Hami - stead, and City Jn.. North Staffordshire.. North Western & S. Westm. June Nuneaton, Hinckley and Leicester oz, Wore.. hi Wolv -Ports: - .louth y. o Dish Central Scottish Midland , 4hropshire Union ... Booth Devon l ioath Eastern rionth Wales Yrksh. do Riv. Dun Do.. -;taines, Wok &Wok toekton & Darn., kton & Taff Valo Do. Pref., No. P' ,,, nies Hay. P.& R. frlyerstone & Lanes Vale of Neath Waterfd. & Kilkenny Araterforilck Limer ek West Cornwall. • Nest Eud of London to Crystal Palace Do. A ..... Do. B West London. 1 Wimbledn & Croydon) Awe ripSOixitt. rdam Do. 5 p.c. Oblgs. con. in Sh. at par till '64 Ardennes 3elgian Eastn. June, Reziers to Oraissesso. Bombay, Barods., and Central India,Scrii. Do. D crobrara Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France Do. New East Indian, g. 5 p c. Do. Eitensiou Do. do. do., '59, do Gd. Tk of Canads.A is Do. St. Lawrence Atlantic do. Do. Cert. of Deben con. into Stk. till '6P Do. Comp. 6 p. c., do. Gt. Central of Fran Gt. Indian Peninsuls guar. 5 per cent. Do. New 6 per cent Po. Extensions. Groat Luxembouv Constituted Share Do, Obligations Gt. Western of Canad Shams „ Do. New Do. lids., payable's7, with option till '55.. Do. do., '62, p. '56 .. Do. do., '76, p. '6O do., '73, without option Hamilton & Toront, Do. 6 por cent. lake (lewd & Lierro and Turnhout Lyons and Genova Lyons & Mediterran Madras Do. New Maria Antonia Do. do. New Namur & Liege ( vitlJ interest) Do. (ox interest) Northern of France D 0.20/. Sim Do. 20/. 3 p. c BdF. (f my. B. & Arne. She. NorwegianTrunkPre Paris and Lyons Ditto Bonds Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen... ParisCaen & Cherbrg Do. /tome and Frascati Rouen andHavre Royal Danish RoyalSweilish Do. Obligations ... Sambre and Siew.e. Do. 5i p. cent. Pre I Sciridj I D 0 ... Southern of Franee i 5 St. Andrew's and Quebec (A) 1 West Flanders 1. Do 5 per c. Prof Western of France LI Do Li Zealand . ro INT-3' tittral,l Bank of London isri. Co). LiR.ELLn. C. Sritiih N. American ( Marti. Bank of Asia Chrtd. Bnk. of India, Australia, & China City Colonial Commercial of Lond m Scot • & Ans. Cht Lond. Chart. Bk. of Australia . t)itto New '''''''''' London and County Find. &E. Bnkg. Corp London Joint Stock Lond. & Westminster National Pro.of Eng. Do. Now National of Irelaud New South %lea— Oriental Bank of Corporation. l'rovincial of Ireland Do. New loyal Australn. Bkg .1 , 0(1 Imp Co., Royal British (.4th Australia union of AustrPlia... Do. 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OCTOBER 25,. 1855. 2 , t 4 01 -rsit • ,11 ,r• tvAL''''tA ' nestly to impress upon the shareholders, policyholders, ant it every one interested in the welfare of the office, that th o sure and true way to sustain the successful results which have already been achieved, and to increase the business of the society, is for each one to be active and energetic in canvassing his friends and connexions, making apparent the great and manifold advantages which the adoption of the provident principles of Life Assurance presents to all classes of the community, and thoroughly revolving, with that perseverance and energy so characteristic of the race whose name the office bears, to contribute his proportion to the general success which may be predicted for the Saxon Life Assurance Society during many ensuing years." The CHAIRUAN, in moving the adoption of the report just read, said that the success that had attended the operations of the society had been exceedingly gratifying considering the fact that the society had been only in operation eight months. The expenses of the first year of a society were generally the greatest, but they now bad a bodyof agents in the provinces that few offices could boast of, and the fruits of the expenditure would be found in an increased and increasing business. The society possessed as an agent abroad a gentleman of great ability. He had forwarded between 40 and 50 po licies, and on his return to Berlin he had no doubt that his exertions would not be relaxed. The Chairman then urged the importance of life assurance, and con •luded by moving the adoption of the report. Mr. UTTING seconded the resolution. her. He shook her, and the damp shirt that had been wrapped round her body under her clothes fell down. The little girl said her mother took it to sell to procure victuals with the money. The mother wag afterwards apprehended in a public-house. The mother, in answer to the Lord Mayor. said she to ok the shirt to get some victuals for her-ielf and three oh ildren, who had had only 11b. of bread between them to eat for the last two days. SUN OFFICE, Seven, o'clock. The prisoner's two other daughters, who were in court, sn d presented a very decent appearance, said they worked at the satin back work, but were unfortunately no w much distressed from the want of employment. The police said the mother was separated from her hi sband and was much addicted to drinking. His Lordship reprimanded the mother for training so young a child to dishonesty, and sentenced her to 10 (Nays' imprisonment. Commiserating the position of the children, the two elder of whom were evidently indus trious girls, and had to work to supply their unnatural mother with money to spend in drink, his Lordship directed that they should be given 10s. with which to meet their present necessities. The children thanked his Lordship and retired. GUILDHALL. The CHAIRMAN then put the resolution, which was passed unanimously. Armin= Swam—William Holder, of 27, White friars-street, London, 42 years of age, was charged, be fore Alderman Finnis, with attempting to destroy him self. R. H. Bing, Esq., and the Rev. James Patteson, the retiring directors, were unanimously re-elected. Mr. R. H. BING then moved the re-election of the auditors, which, having been agreed to, Mr. POTT returned thanks, and bore testimony to the admirable manner in which the accounts of this society were kept. He begged leave, as a proprietor, to move a vote of thanks to the directors for the great success with which they have conducted the operations of the society, and that the sum of three hundred guineas be placed at their disposal. The motion having been seconded, it was put to the meeting and carried unanimously. Police-constable 54 stated that he was on duty this morning in Shoe-lane, about 10 o'clock, when he saw the prisoner and his wife in an excited state, the latter endeavouring to take a phial bottle from her husband. Witness rendered her assistance, and conveyed the pri soner to the station-house, where another bottle was found on him. Both bottles contained laudanum, and the prisoner told him, if he took them away, he would adopt some other means " to do " for himself. Alderman Finnis remanded the prisoner, to enable the surgeon of the prison to examine the state of his health. EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCIL—john. Johnson was charged with stealing a purse, containing Bs. 6d., from the person of Elizabeth Freeman, servant at the Ball Hotel, Holborn. Mr. M'ALPIN moved that interest at the rate of 5 per cent. upon the paid-up capital be paid at Christmas next, free of income tax. This resolution was also carried unanimously. The CHAIRMAN then moved a vote of thanks to their excellent secretary, Mr. Roberts, and assured the meet ing that the directors felt they had got the right man in the right place. Last night, about half-past 6 o'clock, the prosecutrix was standing looking into the shop of Messrs. Meekin, of Holborn-hill, when the prisoner stole her purse and ran off, pursued by several persons, and was apprehended by police-constable 232, in Hatton garden. When searched at the station-house, the purse was not found on him. This morning about seven o'clock, the police man went to Hatton-garden, and in front of a house he found the purse with the money in it, lying across the area grating, near the pathway. The purse was identi fied by the prosecutrix. Alderman Finnis summarily convicted the prisoner, and sentenced him to two months' imprisonment. The purse and money was given up to the proseeutrix. The SECRETARY returned thanks, and stated to the meeting that his best endeavours would be exercised for the interest and prosperity of the society. Thanks having been voted to the other officers of the society, The proceedings then terminated. FORGERY BY AN ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH CLEM—Mor ris Nash, was charged with obtaining 1/. 12s. 6d. from the Electric Telegraph Company, by means of a forged ord It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner was engaged in the office of the Telegraph Company, at Lothbury, and that it was his duty to make out orders for the repayment of surplus money deposited for the transmission of messages, which orders were signed by the assistant-secretary, and were payable on presentation at any of the company's stations. On Saturday last the assistant cashier received an anonymous letter, appoint ing a meeting with the writer at Tom's Coffee-house, Holborn. He went there, and found the prisoner. After some conversation the prisoner showed him two orders, one signed by the assistant secretary, the other bearing a forged signature of that officer, and asked him if they were both presented, if he could pay them, and offered him half for it. The assistant cashier said he would consider the matter, and on Monday morning gave in formation to the assistant secretary, and at his request made a second appointment with the prisoner, who then informed him he bad presented the forged order at the London-bridge Station, which was for 1/. 12s. 6d., and had it cashed. At the prisoner's lodgings a quantity of blank orders were found, many fictitious signatures of the under-secretary, and one with a genuine signature which had been obtained by the prisoner making out a fictitious return paper, and obtained the Assistant-Se cretary's signature to it. The signature of the order paid was a clever imitation of the Assistant-Secretary's writing. A clerk from London-bridge Station proved paying 'e order for 11.125. 6d. The prisoner was remanded till Saturday. LITERATURE. Passing Clouds : A Talc of Florence. A. Play. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longinans. An exquisite dramatic love story, this " Tale of Florence"—the production of a refined taste and of a chastened and fruitful ii , .aginatiou. We have perused it more than once already, and have done so, moreover, at interv a l s su ffi c i en tl y l eng th ene d to enable the judgment to revert with freshened zest to the t as k o f analytic examination. It is, therefore, w e may remark, with the emphasis of deliberation that we commend thus play of " P ass i ng Clouds warmly the anonymous a Tale of Florence." Whether the composition be fore us be a maiden performance or not, is a ques tion left altogether to our unguided conjectures. From the exhilarating freshness apparent through out, we should be tempted to surmise that the work under notice is the achievement of one entirely unhackneyed to the dusty pursuits of the real or ideal, the scholastic or histrionic conlisses. But that with this bloom of novelty and of youthful day-dreamings, it would be difficult not to recog nise the skilled ability visible in every scene of the five acts, from the earliest "entrance" to the latest exeunt ; or rather from the first suggestive page, giving us the list of the dramatis persona down to the final groupi ng o f th e pr i nc i pa l c h arac t ers , prior to the fall of the curtain upon that mystic line (the last line of every acted or matted drama), along which the heroes and heroines assemble side by side under the shadow either of an actual, or, it may be, of a purely imaginary proscenium. Never theless, after all, it matters little, if anything, whether the play, read or witnessed, examined by the homely flame of the argand burner, or by the gassy glare of the footlights, be the product of some timorous tyro or of some practised playwright. What we have really to do with is the drama and not the dramatist. Watching the progress of the piece as a reader placidly turning over the leavesin an armchair, instead of excitedly following its inci dents through the palpable medium of a living and breathing representation —we are deprived of the time-honoured privilege of the playgoer, the right to summon any successful author to the front of his box, there to receive the spontaneous tribute of our cheers of felicitation. Reading a play in privacy it is always so, and that, of course, inevit ably:, we close the drama, as thesupposititious green baize descends upon the hypothetical stage, think ing more of it than of the dramatist. Whereas, upon the witnessing of any first night's performance it is, as we have indicated above, directly otherwise— the play itself, if triumphant, is no sooner com pleted than the spectator almost instantaneously loses all recollection of it in a not irrational and easily comprehensible curiosity to behold, with all his blushing 13. - mours thick upon him, auctor opens prcecipui, bowing in confused exultation to the plaudits of the gods and the groundlings. In lieu of those resounding acclamations, the published dra matist, as contradistinguished from the acted drama tist, must solace himself perforce with the sedative tokens of victory percolating to him from the press in the honey-drops of praise vouchsafed at rarest intervals by the public reviews. Such words we are now happily enabled to pronounce conscien tiously upon the unknown writer of this charming " Tale of Florence," be the author he or she, young or old, veteran or stripling aspirant. The play is to our thinking, from first to last, emi nently beautiful. It appears without the affecta tion of either explanatory note or apologetic pre face—simply and modestly relying upon its own merits in the way of lucidity. The principal per sonages introduced scarcely number a dozen in all. The scene is restricted to Florence and its imme diate neighbourhood. The incidents are supposed to transpire somewhere between 1295 and 1300. Everything essential in reference to the accessaries of the story might be told in a few minutes, so clearly defined is the drift of it, so natural and se quential are the stages of its development. Sant Angelo, a Florentine patrician, and De Beaufort, a French nobleman, are the old men of the piece— the fathers of the two heroines—obdurate, of course NEWMARKET RACES.—(This Day.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) £5O SUBSCRIPTION PLATE. Polestar Speed the Plough Four ran. SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOPS. Ceres Persia SWEEPSTAKES OF 50 SOVS Yellow Jack Secret Blue Mantle Won by a length and a-half. SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS. Bianca Laura Selina . Thirty to Five Three ran. • GLASGOW STAKES. Tyre Peter Wilkins Seven ran. Won by a neck. HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES. Sattve-qui-pent Goldhill Six ran. SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS. Anniversary Quack Calcutta SFLLING STAKES. Mary Ann Surgeon-General Six ran. SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS. B rezina Alcyone LATEST BETTING. DERBY. 10 to 1 agst Yellow Jack (taken) 13 to 1 agst Ellington (taken) 35 to 1 agst Sugar Plum (taken) 40 to 1 agst Langton (taken) NURSERY STASES. 5 to 1 on field offered, either class. GLASGOW STASES.--Indulgence,Voivode, and Bucolic paid forfeit. 100 SOUS. HANDICAP SWEEPSTASES.—BenhaIDO, Sneer colt, and Curo3bus paid forfeit. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.) The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty this day : LIEUTENANTS. Thomas C. Bruce, to the Sampson. Denis B. Pack, to the Russell. Edward White, to the Penelope. PAYMASTER. Alex. C. Yule, to the Arachne. Saxon Life Assurance Society—(This Day.) The first annual general meeting of the Saxon Life Assurance Society was held this afternoon, at the offices of the Society, 25, Old Jewry. _ The advertisement calling the meeting having been read, The CELualrArr called upon the Secretary (Mr. W. .R Roberts) to real the report. The SECRETARY then read the following report : " The directors of the Saxon Life Assurance Society have much pleasure in meeting the shareholders at this the first annual meeting of this society. "In accordance with the provisions of the deed of settle ment, such meeting is convened for the purpose of receiving the report of the directors, and the balance sheet as ap proved by the auditors, showing the receipts and disburse ments of the first financial year; sad in laying which be fore the shareholders, the directors have west satisfaction in stating, that although the society can be said to have been but little more than eight months in active operation, yet an amount of business has been done, connections se cured, and influence established, far beyond their most sanguine anticipations. " Though originated at a period of great depression, and though the certainty of increased taxation arising out of the present war brought with it an additional obstacle to the progress of a new institution in acquirinc , business of purely a pr ov id en t c h aracter, ye t the directors did not flinch from the task committed to them by the promoters of the society. Relying upon the intrinsic merits of the office, and feeling confident that in all titres, and under all circumstances, the great provident principle of Life Assurance, when rightly advocated, are capable of being still b e tt er understood and appreciated, and the sphere of their operations more widely diffused than even it is at present, they addressed themselves boldly to pub lie consideration. Supported by the zealous efforts and activity of the secretary and the other officers attached, as well as the very valuable exertions and influence of an extensive and highly respectable body of agents, the di rectors have no hesitation in stating that the Saxon Life Assurance Society has secured for itself such a position in public estimation, and excited so general an interest in its welfare and progress wherever it has extended its opera tions, as to fairly eniitle it to take its stand among the most flourishing offices of the day. To secure this desir able result, unremitting energy and perseverance h At been used, and, at the same time, it has ever been a constant thought with the directors so to adapt the means to the end, as to exercise a sound and judicious economy in all the financial operations of the society. " It is of course readily understood that in the first year of a society's progress considerable expenses must neces sarily be incurred in preparing the way, effecting arrange ments, and laying the foundation for future business. The directors felt that if the office were to be worked success fully and well, it must appeal to the public, and to do that efficiently a properly-organised staff of agents and other persons who could be interested in the society must be ap pointed throughout the various provincial districts ; and the only expenditure of large amount in which they have ventured since the formation of the society has been in curred in this respect. It is their satisfaction to report that the society is represented in nearly every town of importance in the United Kingdom ; and, in addition, district branches, with local offices, have been established. at Manchester, Birmingham, H u dd ers field, Hull, New port (Moumouthshire), Todmorden, and the Potteries, under the management of most energetic and persevering agents. The society's operations have likewise been ex tended to Berlin, Frankfort, Hamburgh, and the northern parts of Germany, at all of which places a very large measure of the general success has been reaped. It neces sarily took soma time to bring the various agencies of the society, which now amount to nearly 230, into working order ; and it was not till the last month of the financial year that the results became apparent, during that period fifty policies having been completed from the agencies alone. Any future expense that may arise on this head, will merely have reference to measures extending the effi ciency of the above agency appointments, which have this year been so advantageously called into operation. " The directors now proceed to notice the business tran sactions of the y ear, of which, to give the shareholders the fullest information of the society's progress, the following return has been made up to the 22d inst., viz.:— , No. d gg. Amount. Income. Number of proposals made to the Society from the 9th of August, 1854, to 22d of of October, 1855 Policies complete and issued 251 64,233 2,010 11 3 Proposals declined Proposalsunder consideration 23 9,400 156 11 9 359 £98,272 £2,791 15 11 " Of the above, 30 are reassurance policies, the remain ing portion coming from the general body of the public. "The directors congratulate the shareholders upon this statement, as they feel that it must be evident to all in terested, that it exhibits a marked amount of vitality and success, and they trust at the next meeting it may be their pleasure to report the same amount of public support and good fortune. " The directors aro particularly gratified in recording that no claim on account of death has been made upon the society, an evidence of the extreme care and discrimina tion with which the board, under the advice of their able and experienced chief medical officer, Dr. Cockle, have selected the lives submitted to them for assurance. Though the directors have hitherto confined their considerations to the acceptance of first-class lives, yet they feel it would be unjust to limit the opera tions of the society entirely within that sphere, and they have, therefore, determined to give the fullest at tention to every proposal involving the contingency of human existence, and where there may be no evidence of immediate disease, but on account of hereditary or tem porary causes, the lives may be considered more uncertain than with the generality of individuals, to make an addi tion to the usual rate. Such extra premium, however, may not become a permanent addition, for a re-examina tion is always open to the assured, adshould the cause of the increased charge be removed, the life will eventually be taken at the tabular rate. " The directors allude with satisfaction to the establish ment of the Saxon Fire and General Assurance Society, not only from the circumstances that the two societies are calculated very materially to extend the operations of the office, and to render it the most complete and popular of the assurance institutions, but as a means of large saving in the general expenditure of the establishment, the ex penses being borne by the two societies proportionately. It the same time the directors wish it to be understood . that the two societies are quite separate and distinct in their deeds of constitution, working, and proprietary. " In pursuance of the provisions of the deed of settle ment, the two following directors retire, but, being eligi ble, present themselves for re-election, viz., Richard H. Bing, Esq., Rev. James T. Pattison. The following auditorslikewise retire, viz., John Wilson, Esq., Thomas Alfred Pott, Esq., Charles Stanbridge, Esq. " An account of the attendances made by the directors at the weekly board is likewise open to your inspection; but, in addition thereto, an almost daily attendance at the office has been given by some one or more of the directors, as consistent with that prompt and careful supervision of the society's affairs which they have from the first manifested. " to conclusion, the directors beg to assure the share holders, that it shall be their constant endeavo r to exer cise the utmost care and economy in the applicltion of the society's funds, and to promote by every means in their power the prosperity of the instituti o n co m m itt e d t o th e i r Management But, At the same time, they beg most ear. SPORTING NOTES. THE NURSERY STARES. When the weights for the Nursery Stakes were posted in the room this evening a tremendous rush was made to see them, and the general opinion was that that han dicap had been most impartially framed. At about half-past eleven the acceptances were read, and a feeling of disappointment was created by the division into two classes—an arrangement which, although in accordance with the conditions, proved destructive to speculation. Ifp to 12 o'clock not a bet was made on either class, but at last a Scotch earl took 25 to 1 that the two heavy weights won. His judgment in this instance I am in clined to deem sound, for Manganese with all her weight ought to be capable of defeating whatever oppo nents may be brought against her. Queen's Head, however, will doubtless stick to her. For the second class also I shall be inclined to adhere to the top weight by recording my partially for Mincepie. Byrsa and Diego are the next animals favourably handicapped. Subjoined are the acceptances : IGt Class. at lb Manganese Queen's Head 8 2 Dramatist La Victirne 7 8 Staffordshire Nan Tug o' War 7 2 Melissa 7 2 Pit-a-Pat All ari 2d Cl st lb Mincepie Thames Ditton Sister to Rifleman Alice Wentworth Byrsa st lb Ear Drop . Blue Mantle— 6 13 Lawn Maid of the Mill 6 12 Ghika Oyster Girl Tie Dresser Shelali .e here. st lb Lady Florence 6 le Curious 6 10 Secret Pretty Boy Posthorse 6 6 Bobby Taft Latitude colt Diego Pembedw 7 0 Goldhill All are here. A partial settlement of the Cambridgeshire accounts was effected this morning, and the business certainly seemed to make little satisfactory progress. Two cases of default were reported, but of course it would be un just to refer fully to this matter until after the general settling day at the corner on Monday next. A FRESH MAN, Newmarket, Wednesday, 12.30 a.m. LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.) BANKRUPTCY COURT. (Before Mr. Commissioner Evans.) IN RE STRAHAN, PAUL, AND CO. THE CLAIM OF THE GLASGOW INSURA.NCH COMPANT.— At the last sitting in this case a claim was made by the Glasgow Insurance Company to prove against the estates of these bankrupts for the sum of 13,5001., balance of 20,0001. advanced by the company to Gandell, Brothers, of Paris, the bankrupt guaranteeing by a deed the re payment of the advance. The question raised was whether the bankrupts' estate was liable for the amount, Gandall, Brothers, hav ing made default and become bankrupt since the bank ruptcy of Strahan, Paul, and Co. A lengthened argu ment ensued on the application to prove, Mr. Linklater contending this was such a contingency as was contem plated by the act—Mr. Lawrence, for the assignees, arguing contra. The point was reserved for consideration, and to-day his Honour gave judgment in favour of the claimants. CRIMINAL COURT.—(This Day.) OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Baron Alderson.) Daniel Lordon was placed at the bar to plead to an indictment charging him with the wilful murder of his wife, Catherine Lordon. The prisoner pleaded not guilty. Mr. Parry, who appeared for the prisoner, applied to the Court to postpone the trial to the next session, on the ground that the prisoner had not had sufficient time to prepare his defence. Mr. Bodkin, who was instructed for the prosecution, said he should not oppose the application. Mr. Baron Alderson accordingly directed the trial to stand over. Alfred Jarrett, a respectable looking young man, who had pleaded guilty to a charge of uttering forged Bank of England notes, was brought up for judgment. Mr. Robinson, the counsel for the prisoner, urged on his behalf that up to the time of the transactions in ques tion the prisoner had borne a very good character. The learned counsel said the offence to which the pri soner had pleaded guilty was one of the most serious character that could be committed , and only a few ye ars ago his life would have been forfeited, and he would un doubtedly have been executed, He felt under these cir cumstance sthaii, as an example to others, he bad only one duty to perform in such a case, and that he was compelled to pass the full sentence of the law,:which was that he be transported for life. NEW COUNT. (Before Mr. Baron Martin.) John Mahoney, 24, labourer, was indicted for the manslaughter of Daniel Jeary. Mr. Giffard prosecuted, and Mr. !M'Enteer defended. It appeared that deceased and several Irish had been at a christening at Deptford. The prisoner was there, and about one in the morning a quarrel took place, pri soner being attacked. He upon this run into a room for protection, and opened the window to alarm the police. Deceased followed and broke open the dcorto get at him. Upon this prisoner took a portion of the broken door, and struck deceased in self defence, from the effects of which deceased died. The jury acquitted the prisoner. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.) MANSION-HOUSE. A DISGRACEFUL CUARACTER.—EIiza Baldwin and her child, about 8 years of age, were placed at the bar charged with stealing a shirt, the property of Daniel Boardman, a sailor. The prisoners and the prosecutor reside in one of the narrow courts in Lower Thames-street, and last night the prosecutor missed one of his shirts, hung out to dry on a line reaching from his window to theirs. On mak ing inquiries, he received information which induced him to go in search of the child, whom he found in Canuonitreet. Zfe called A policeman to 'arch THAMES. AN ASIATIC CHSVI.—DEMAND FOR WAGES.—This morning a party of Lascars, 21 in number, and many of whom appeared to be suffering from cold, applied to Mr. Yardley under these circumstances :—They came from India, in the sloop Janet Mitchell, to Bristol, where they were discharged, and summoned the owner for their wages, which were actually ordered, but not paid. The,owner brought them up to London, and shipped them on board the Earl of Eglintoun, now lying in the West India Dock. Mr. Glazier, an interpreter, said the Lascars had repeatedly applied at that court, and that on one occasion Capt. Hutton, the master of the Earl of Eglintoun, attended, and his worship informed him that the men were entitled to their wages, and that they ought to be paid before the Earl of Eglintoun sailed. Captain Hutton then promised that the wages should he paid. The Lascars had been in this port for several weeks, their wages had been repeatedly promised, and the Earl of Eglintoun was getting ready for sea, and would sail in a day or two. The Lascars refused to do any more work until they received the wages due to them. Mr. Yardley said he was very much surprised that the Lascars had not received their wages for the homeward voyage, and asked where the owner of the Janet Mit chell was living. Glazier replied at Greenock, and that he was also the owner of the Earl of EFl„lintonn. Mr. Yardley said it was most disgraceful to withhold the wages. He was very much surprised they had not been paid. If the Lascars were not paid forthwith, they would have no security f-Jr payment when they got back to the East Indies, because the captain who brought them over in the Janet Mitchell was not the master of the Earl of Eglintoun. He directed Tapling, 234 S, an officer of the court, to wait on Captain Hutton immedi ately, and make a formal demand of the wages. MARYLEBONE. DESPERATE VIOLENT ASSAULT.—Patrick Conner and Patrick Fitzgerald were charged before Mr. Long with having assaulted policeman Cameron, D division, and a gentleman named Coppard, residing in Manor-place, Walworth. The policeman stated that at about 4 o'clock the pre vious afternoon he was on duty near the Royal Oak Tavern, Paddington, when he was informed that the prisoners were causing a disturbance there. He went to the house, and was no sooner within reach of the pri soner Conner when he was struck by him a violent blow upon his face and was knocked down. Ho gat up and laid hold of Conner, but he was immediately pulled away by Fitzgerald and some other men, companions of the prisoner. Conner then made his escape. Mr. Long—Did you feel the effects of the blow upon your face ? Policeman—Yea, sir. I was stunned , for a few moments. Evidence continued—He pursued Conner about 150 yards, and again seized hold of him. Conner became very violent, struck him, and bit both his hands. Ho (the policeman) was almost overpowered, upon which he was compelled to call for assistance. A gentleman came up and offered his services. He laid hold of the Prisoner, and they all went along for about 50 yards. Fitzgerald came up and exclaimed, " You b—, you shall not take him." He then struck complainant, who asked him not to interfere. Instead of leaving them, he laid hold of the gentleman by his neckcloth and got him down on the pavement. Complainant, seeing that the gentleman was nearly strangled, took out his staff and struck Fitzgerald upon his head. By this time Mr. Horton, a tradesman living in Crawford street, laid hold of Conner, when, with the as,-istance of other consta bles, the prisoners were eventually coaveyed to the sta tion-house. Mr. Coppard, in support of the evidence of the police man, said that after he offered his assistance to the offi cer, Fitzgerald gave him a blow with his clenched fist under the left ear, and knocked him down. While on the ground he put his knee on his chest, and hit him several times in his face. (There were several scratches on the complainant's face.) The prisoner said that they were drunk, and that they did not know what they were doing. Fitzgerald, in addition, observed that when he rescued Conner from the constable's custody it was in order to take Conner home. Conner was sent for a month to the ABHous f Coardredci tion for the assault on the policemen, and " in lt on tion, fined 205., or in default 14 days for the tisaii aMnre.mCooapip.harfodr. the F iatzsgsaeuraitldanwtahseu policeman,d4os., or an i d n default Mr. 14 days for the assault on Mr. Coppard. Baron de Prokesch-Osten, President of the Diet, arrived at Frankfort on the 21st. The King of the Belgians and the Count d e Flandre returned to Luken on the 22d, from their taoursion to the Chateau d'Ardeuue. at the outset, but, as it chances, from the force ofper verse circumstances, rather than from any inherent cross-grainedness ! So that all turns out happily before the conclusion of the drama—though pre viously the entire plot hasappeared to be entangled in the inextricable confusion of cross-purposes. Ra phael Sant Angelo, kinsman of the first-mentioned of that name, and in reality, though younger, head of their ancient house and heir t o it s princely pos sessions, shines upon the scene from first to last, the good hero of the piece, selected by both sires as the chosen spouse for the one cherished daughter of each—Constance and Herminia. Gaston de Courcy, nephew of De Beaufort, is the other lover in the romance—the brilliant, brave, and chival rous suitor for the hand of the fairest of all the fair ladies of that time in Florence. Raphael, regarded originally by his kinsman as his future sun in-law, becomes in the end the betrothed of Constance, the child of the Gallic peer De Beaufort. Gaston, after being apparently doomed to death for illegal entrance into Florence, is accepted ulti mately by Herminia's father as the husband elect of his beloved daughter. It is between the loves of Raphael and Constance, of Gaston and ller minia, that the interest of the drama may be said to oscillate. It were difficult to decide to which of the two love-tales should by right be accorded the preference. The walking gentleman of the piece appears in the person of the Chevalier de Vaubel, a kinsman of De Beaufort. The dowager dame becomes visible in the Countess Matilda, god mother of Constance. The villains of the drama are discernible fur a moment in a nameless cur mudgeon of a Senator, in two or three vagabond robbers, and in some score or so of the insurgent iabhle of Florence. Otherwise the dramatis per sonce are for the most part little less than paragons. Yet, in spite of their so being, the sweetness of the dramatic narrative as a charming love story, never once degenerates into the mawkish, is never palls upon the taste as a romance over-sugared with moral excellences. Francis, Denis, and Sylvio are the servants flitting to and fro across the scene with messages for good or ill ; and beyond them, grouped together in the background, aro discernible Sant Angelo's steward, the steward's wife, Indies attend ant upon Herminia, men-at-arms, and citizens, who happen now and then in their civic brawls to come amateur men-at-arms themselves. Another personage not yet mentioned is among the first and foremost throughout. This is Polydor, the good, simple-hearted, kindly, genial, learned, loveable Polydor, formerly tutor to Raphael—now the sago adviser at once of Gaston and Herminia, conveying love tokens hither and thither between the enamoured pair, ignorant of his being all the while a carrier dove in a scholar's garment, with a book under his arm and his head in the clouds. Many of the " Passing Clouds " of the story from which the play derives its graceful designation may ho traced indeed, both in their origin and in their ultimate dissipation, to the unconscious hand of this delightful Polydor a sort of Italian Dominie Sampson in his way, with all the Dominie's goodness and none of his grotesque. ness. If there is one flaw in the piece it is that the intellectual verdure of Polydor is somewhat over coloured—reminding one of that classic version of ono of the quaint old London signs : Viridis home et tranquillus How amusingly the old man, in reply to Hermi nia's inquiry as to whether Gaston finds anything to praise in Italy and the Italians, exclaims— " Ask what he praises not. Tho' ignorant of many vital things, Most gross in grammar, destitute of verbs, He bath learned every adjective of praise To paint our names with." The rogue ! So well, indeed, that—hero is one of the samples of his skill in translating into Hermi nia's northern tongue one of the barbarous Nor man lays, as honest Polydor calls them, of the Trouvores or the Troubadours : Whom doth my lady love 4 Is it he who evermore Near her stands at hall and door, Ready with unfaltering hand To obey her least command ? By all the pretty oaths that be, It is not he 1 u. Whom doth my lady love Is it he who, when a child, Shared her sports and made them wild, And, a man, wild sports foz swore, Thinking thus to please her more ? By all the eager oaths that be, It is not he ! 111. Whom doth my lady love Is it he who standeth mute When she plays upon her lute, And whose soul, tho ug h f ar remote, Trembles in each melting note By all the whispered oaths that be, It is not he ! IT. Whom doth my lady love Is it he whose name is beard Crowned with many a flattering word, First in field and first at home, Whither he doth seldom come ? By all the knightly vows that be 'Tis he 'Tis he ! --- Excellent Master Polydor not only carries hiero glyphics like these between the lovers, unconscious himself of their hidden significance, but lo ! how wisely he acts in the presence of one of them, ac cording to the account furnished by the tender so liloquy of Gaston : " Here are the lines traced by her vary hand ; For while her simple tutor-turned his head To 'ie. a rainbow, whose bright Ark .; (511" d By miracle upon a cloudless sky, Did I exchange our books, and4ds is her's ! Oh ! sweet Ilerminia ! woni l thou had -t bee n born In mine own France and of more liberal sire ! For thine doth ban her as th' accursed land Whence no good thing can come, and by hia will his life were like the unsocial banyan tree, Which, sclf-enantoured, casts its young sh.oota down Year after year, close by the parent trunk, In the same soil, ever and evermore." In allusion to Sant Angelo's dream of the union between Raphael and Herminia, the dream of a union happily for four hearts never realised. The metaphor must be allowed to be one eminently graceful, novel, and felicitous. The dramatist, it should be observed, moreover, has a lively sense of the humorous, as we find pleasantly indicated by a, number of gay touches hero and there throughout. Sometimes visible in surly comments, like that of the artisan who observes : " I am no brawler, though men call nte so ; But I do love to call things by their names ; To call a knave a knave—a fool a fool, And so my life grows storms, three crops in the year." Sometimes in casual conceits such as that of Raphael, who says : " ----Why looking carelessly abroad Who would not swear this world of ours is flat I Many do think so still, and that the sun Runs like a lacquey bowing round and round.'" Kindred to another fantastic thought articulated later on by Constance :-- "Trees are but out-door servants, liveried In varied green to bow as we do walk." Reminding us of the phrase put in the mouth of the young Prince in Planche's burlesque of the " Sleeping Beauty," when the trees gf the magic grove separate to give ingress to the stranger-hunts man, his Highness advancing amongst them plumed hat in hand, with a graceful " By your leaves 1" In regard to mere style there is one other charm in this drama of "Passing Clouds" not yet montioned —i.e., that it is in no way characterised by affec tation or grandiloquence. There are passion and sensibility —no ranting or drivelling. A servant is attacked by cut-throats in the fourth act, and thus quoth he : Murder me if thou wilt, yet thou shalt gain Nought but damnation. Not a groat have I In either pocket ; no, nor hidden coins Within my shoes or vest. A rod of steel Have I alone :—that I present to thee, Thou bloody knave. Take all I have (they fight). All's lost ! The blade bath snapped." Again. Constance has gradually growing up in her heart's core a mingled sense of love and respect for Raphael, yet, speaking of him to the Countess, her godmother, she simply remarks— " E •lieve me still, this is no common man." While Herminia, in the anguish of her dread lestl Raphael Sant Angelo may really in earnest aspire. to be her husband, says— " But gentle Raphael, if thou lov'st me well, . Tell me at once thou lov'st me not too much." Towards the close of the fifth scene in the thiri act, when Raphael comes magnanimously to t 1 e aid of the imprisoned Gaston, the latter exclaims-... " Oh, Raphael ! not a word of thanks Hast thou yet heard from me, who owe thee all From vessels, full to the brim, no drop will flow : Empty they seem ; so much resembling show. Too little and too much !" With gratitude as with grief—a grief like that x. quisitely sung by Tennyson : " There twice a-day the Severn fills ; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills. The Wye is hush'd nor moved along, And hush'd my deepest grief of all, When fill'd with tears that cannot fall I brim with sorrow drowning song." Gracefully floating over the landscape of the• scene —the beautiful groves and gardens of Tuscany— " Passing Clouds " chequer with alternate light and shade the courtly figures of the drama— " Ladies fair and gallants gay " until the last faint shadow is lost at the close in the sunshine of prevailing happiness. " Passing Clouds," howbeit, we accept rather as a love-story than as a drama—less as a play than as a simple, tender, charming Tale of Florence. THE GREAT GLOBE. Prior to the outbreak of the war this valuable exhibi tion was deservedly a place of fashionable resort. As an object of curiosity, unique and imposing in its way, it possessed considerable attractions. As a singularly efficient school of instruction in a necessary branch of knowledge its claims to support were greatly increased. To have the relative positions and magnitude of the con tinents, islands, oceans, and seas, with their subdivisions, tributaries, and peculiarities pointed out on a globe con structed on a scale so grand, and otherwise described in the most striking manner by popular lecturers, who aimed at being understood, was indeed a boon to be sought after, and none the less likely to be appreciated when accompanied by the opportunity of witnessing models of various relics of antiquity and articles of vertu gratifying to an enlightened curiosity. But when subsequent to the outbreak of hostilities a large and accurate model of Sebastopol and its approaches, that mighty fortress within and before whose bastions the clioicest troops of four nations combated for 'victory, a victory in which the interests of liberty and civilisation were involved, and for which the British soldier struggled so gl,riously, it can excite no wonder that the Great Globe acquired a celebrity which almost elevated it to the position of a national institu tion, and drew within its walis crowds of the most intelli gent of all classes. Crowds, in which were to be found returned warners from the Crimea, w'bose repeated at tendance, and critical approval, of course, attested the merit of the exhibition, and, in more than a personal sense, added to its attractions. Not content, however, with pecuniary success, and the loudly expressed ap proval of his patrons, the enterprising and public spirited proprietor has gone on adding to the attractions of the exhibition. Now in the shape of implements of warfare, wearing apparel, and articles of utility and curiosity captured from the Russians ; anon, of a gallery of por traits of military men and potentates connected with the war. Now, of a fine model of Sweaborg and Hel singfors ; anon, of Cronstadt on a scale of extramdinaay magnitude. Now, of additions to the model of Sebas topol, step by step as the siege advanced, and the Blow sap pierced its zigzag way towards the devoted city ; anon, of a Russian infernal machine fished up and robbed of its diableric by British daring; and not un mindful of the arts of peace, of a splendid cabinet of Irish bog-deal, enclosing a score or more of models in Irish bog oak, of remarkable curiosities, illustrative of Irish history. And last of all, previous to our visit, of a model of the Re , lan and the Malakhoff, with their approaches on a scale sufficiently large to enable the visitor, with the aid of the larger model, to appreciate the difficulties en countered by the allied troops, and more especially our own, at the glorious consummation of the siege. The reader by this time may be disposed to cry "Hold I enough." He has not y e t, h owever , acqu i r ed a rough notion even of the attractions Mr. Wyld holds forth. A number of well-informed and studiously piain-spoken lecturers are in attendance, and alternately enter and on. thean intelligible exposition of the respective model s, events which lend them interest, so that it will be his or her own fault if the visitor does not take away a d—of pretty accurate notion of the localities i n which h o stilities are being, or are likely to be, wage the daring and 'cm in the pro tered and to be encountered by both eery' endurance of our troops, and of the difficulties encoun tered for eery one to information with which it is t h Ell e or eo e u t r a a n g g e i tangible said this much, all that re mains of the war, together with a variety of collateral compliment the proprietor on m be ni a n c s q f u o a r in us te t d o . dollaisvitnog hs ape of an abundant pecuniary return, harvest, in the which hhiem bas reap haa his enterprise, h o outlny a o n n d for t enter. T HE HUME MONUMENT. - The following interesting communication was made to the members of the "Hu me M onument Committee, " p r evious to their interview with Sir B. Hall on Tues day Great Stanhope-street, Oct. 22. Gentlercen,—l enclose a copy of a letter which I have received from Lord Fortescue, in relation to the subject upon which you formed a deputation to me. I beg you will lay that communication before your committee, and I shall be happy to hear from you or to see you again in re ference to the proposed memorial to the late Idr. Unrea— -1 have the honour to be, gentlemen, your most obedient servant, B. HALL. Mr. Davenport, Mr. Cross, Mr. Wall. (Copy.) Grosvenor-square, Oct. 20. Dear Sir Benjamin,—When you kindly informed m• of the result of your interview with the deputation from the Working Men's Association respecting the erection of a monument to Mr. Hume, you may recollect my mentioning as the motive for my inquiry that I had been lately ln . communication with some of my friends on the same sub . jeot. I have now the pleasure to tell yen that the eneleeed. has been idgned by above twenty peens , who, 1 2 1 1. 6 mygelt sat and voted with Mr. Hume in t he Sense of Comma". end it is I think, likely to receive some mere 'iv:Warns subscription they may b e before the assembling of Parliament._ t. s . It may be well that you shouldfmi k the m nterfe "°" t. the Association, not with the view • generalenheroaplerg in any w a y didflosed to give their aid with their proceedings, but in i t z e th t. which ...re e v ry faithfully, a ill of course be proposed at tbe g mee meting, --I am, dear Sir Benjamin, 9 - .Ha n , B ar t . FORTEIOI7B. Right lion. Sir B. (Copy•) wo, tho undersigned, having sat in the House of Coal- mon o with the late Mr. Huuie, and feeling, in common, as eve believe, with many of our cenntrymen, that the grati tude of the public for his long services in that hone, ought to be manifested by the erection of some monument to his memory, beg to invite those who agree with us in that feeling to attend a meeting at on the first Saturday after the assembling of Parliament, to consider the best means of carrying the above object into effect. EXTRAORDINARILY QUICK PASSIM—The clipper ship Eastern City, of Glasgow, made the run from Lo uden to Calcutta i n 76 days, being com puted the quickest r dibig o or record.—No'.k Britia4 Daffy Mal' n- ►e. 7cl ant, savy Ss 2d 8d; sup was 3eef, ilod ffals. s Od ; Blbs. litto, load. I do., load. r do., ]oad. LW.; acted ne on ping, Ling. . 23. . 24. LIU. s . in . 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