The Sun. — London, England, 1855-10-27 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMME.CIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLooK. The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday mani fested a languid tone at one time, but prices were unchanged, with sales estimated at 8,000 to 10,000 bales. These included fully 1,500 for export and on speculation. Prices, according to the brokers' standard of quotations, were steady. Uplands, bid. ; Mobiles, 51d. ; and Orleans, 60. per lb. In the Rail way Share Market the stringent charac ter of the money market prevents much business going fcrward, and sellers find a difficulty in sus taining prices. The week's Bank return to the 20th instant is as satisfactory as was expected. The diminution of bullion was of course anticipated, and some had looked for a much larger addition to the amount of discount. The effect of this falling off is some proof that the• rates are checking the demand. Compared with last week the principal changes were as follows : Active circulation .................... Decrease ......................... Bullion Decrease Rest Increase Public Deposits Decrease Other Deposits Decrease Seven-Day and other Bills . Increase Government Securities Increase Other Securities Decrease Notes unemployed Decrease £20,371,745 276 620 11,230,207 522,214 3,161.093 13,194 3,825,021 534,830 11,764,080 141,845 980,139 6,272 10,635,359 79,319 18,789,512 490,934 4,310,485 247,005 The rates at which bills on the principal cities of the Continent were dealt in yesterday afternoon showed a slight decline in Amsterdam and Ham burg, but Paris short ruled steady, and the three months' bills rather advanced. The shipments of the precious metals direct from London during the week to Thursday last, com prised 125,800 ounces of silver and 5,279 ounces of gold. Most of the former has gone to Balaklava. The Cape of Good Hope accounts state that the directors of some of the mining companies formed in the colony had waited on the Colonial Secre tary to pray for time in the taking up of their leases, and that this request had been met by a re duction for the present in the rents to one-fourth. Trade was dull but steady at Cape Town. The general state of business on the Paris Bourse yesterday exhibited a decline on the closing trans actions of the previous day, with dullness in sales. The 3 per Cents., for time operations, fluctuated, and the 41- per Cents. fell 50c. for bargains at the close of the month. In the other business of the market nothing of importance occurred. Railway Shares failed to maintain previous quotations. The Grain market was dull, and the dealers were cau tious in only purchasing small parcels of flour for immediate use. The restrictive measures relative to the exporta tion of wheat from Wallachia have been approved of by the Sultan, the particulars of which are as follows :—A. tax upon the exportation of wheat, maize, oats, and barley. On wheat the tax will be 6 piastres 15 paras, which, added to the actual price of 4 piastres 28 paras, will make a total of 10 piastres per kilogramme. Maize 2 piastres and paras, with the value at 2 piastres 371 paras, makes 5 piastres the kilog. Baxley and oats will be taxed 1 piastre 7 paras, which, added to the cost price 1 piastre 321 paras, will make 3 piastres' the kilog. Other products such as millet, colza, &c., are exempted from any tax as the quantity ex ported is small. Although the dealings in the Funds have been very limited, an improving tendency in prices has existed, and an advance of about # per cent. has been established. Consols, after remaining almost stationary at 88 to both for transfer and time, rather suddenly rose to 88i for the former, and to 881 II for the latter. The market has the ap pearance of great * firmness, and if money con tinues easy a further enhancement is expected. The New Shares have been 88 to I, and the Re duced BTh t. Exchequer Bills have ruled steady at 2s. discount to 3s. premium. Bank Stock is heavy at 206 to 208, and India Stock is 226. Foreign securities have been very steady. Turkish 6 per Cents. have advanced to 794 to 79k, and the New Scrip to 3 and 21 discount. Mexican Stock is firmer, at 191 Spanish 3 per Cents. are 37k, the New Deferred 19g, and the Passive 5. Danish 3 per Cents. brought 82, and Belgian 4i psi Cents. 93i. Dutch 2i per Cents. aro 64. The following are the nominal prices of foreign stocks: Grenada Deferred Bonds, 18 to 20 ; Mexican, 19i to 191; 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 ; ditto Three per Cents., 37i to 38 ; ditto Certificates, 4i to 4i ; ditto Passive, 41 to 5. Railway Shares have been dull, and in some in stances flatter. Lancashire and Yorkshire, So ath- Western and North-Eastern are about to I worse. In the Foreign and Colonial market there has been no movement of importance. Mining and Banking Shares were steady, but Canada Land hays dropped 3/. to C. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOt.:. „ ( From the Oficial List.) Bnsinesa done Bank Stock ... .. 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuitias,....... 88 871 i 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 1 8 i New 3 per Cent. Annuities 1.4 nn; Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 , 3 7-16 6 Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth April, 1883 161 India Stock India Bonds, £lOOO Ditto, under £lOOO 2 d Consols for Account Bl 8 i Exchequer Bills, lid. £lOOO ....••• .. £5OO ... 3 p 2 d Small 3 p 2 d Rxchequer Bonds 1858, 3i per Cent.... 981 Ditto 1.859. .. 98 s PRICE OF FOREIGN FIYNDS AT ONE O'CLOt K. Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent B2 Ditto 5 per Cent lOOl Mexican 3 per Cent. Ditto for the Account l9l 1 a d Spanish Bonds. 3 per Cent 378 Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent Ditto Passive 5 Turkish Bonds, 6 per cent 791 Ditto for the Account 79i 9 i Ditto New Pcrip, 4 per Cent. Ditto for the account , i,ilenti , cp. tn., above Oavrthlf, in honlor, Belgian Bonds, 2i per Cent. ex. 25 fr — Ditto 4. 3 / 4 per Cent. Ex. 25 fr Dateh Exchange, 2i per Cent. 12 Gnu _ . 61 HALF- DA ST TWO. Console Ditto for Via \ ~eount BB/ buyers LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LONDON, Oot. 2T.—Wind this day at noon, B.W. . (lit, with fine cool weather. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Saturday Morning. Wind W. Arrived.—Duchess, from P ictou ; Alma, Nantes ; Sir James Ross, Iquique; Romulus, Lagana ; Conqueror Bombay ; Earl of Sefton, Calc utta ; Charles Jackson; Arica; David Harrison, Philadelphia. Sailed—Plicenix, for Melbourne. QUEBNEITOWN, Oct. 25. Wind W.S.W. Arrived.—Judith, from Aberaman ; Meirna, Douro ; Effingham and Cape Rouge, Callao. - - (BY SUBMARINE! ANT.) BSE RITISH TELEGRAPH. I GB E 9 Saturday, 10.30 a.m. Wind W. by S. ; tide, one hour's flood ; fine. Arrived, Oct. 26.—Clemontina, from Dunkirk ; Hoff won& rigger Canal ; Orion, Palermo. Oct. Tr.—Royal Sovereign, from Charente; Devonshire, New York. DELL, Saturday, 10.9 a , m. Wind, . W.S.W. lit and fine. Passed.--Corinthian,gh from Now Orleans, for Bremen. Anchored. —Old Dominion, from London, for Cardiff. The schooner Bessie Bent, from London, for Plymouth, drifted athwart a hawse of the ship City of Benares, at anchor, and Was so much damaged that she filled with water, and is now floatin g in the Downs. Boats are en deavouring to save the property. The City of Benares slipped from an anchor and 75 fathoms to clear tho schooner. Th e E n terprise, from London, for Bristol, has been sup plied with an anchor, in lieu of one lost at Dungeness. The Hermanns Francescus, from Amsterdam, for New York, has also been supplied with an anchor and 70 fa thoms of chain, in lion of othor9loo, nt Dmvitenegli. NzwsPAPER MOBTALITY.—The Dundee Times, a penny paper, expired on Saturday last, after an existence of 17 weeks. SHARE MARKET S. (THIS DAY.) RAILWAYS. 401,V.L1G. hr. I :.. st.lb v,,11 Al I 22 I 1 -1. [to ito to In 01 %I all Do. 8 Do, ...... I.mbg. NoLtrg. Boat am a. Ee.:;La. 1.1 P.c.:l faA & PaHymen". 3.tr ming : I,76'.verh 93 67. June' 11 1 - .)o. Cliewh. 6; Birk., CE.O anti 225 Cons. .9 Do., £2O .11 myth ,$2: Trio r)rigina' X 25 (isfsd. at £45: flri — si T x - 1 and Exeter.. 'lO Caledonian .s. Cann. .e.r.d. Caldigan Chester t.T. Holyhead. [1 Cork mud. Bandon.. II Cork, Edw.:l:, Par* v 'r vcv U 10 a: 10 1 50 4 25 Zt, a' St. 10 ' - ?0 2,1 St. 101 St. II !alio A B J unction . DuatiuttßellastJune. di Dun. P. & Abo , . Jnc. Lll Do. ,11 , :57 )0 East Arglian ...... ,11 Eastern Counties )0 East. 7 .Tuion, A Sti .00 Do., B. Sloe SA Do., New 4. East Kent 14eawashire IOG Edinburgh& Glasgo ,, all FAPnb. and Peebles Li Edin.PrLti & Dux 9 Forth & Clyde Jh n all Furness all Do. Extension 1.00 Glaszow f 2 z,S I V , O all Great N. of Seothicl: 160 c ireat Northern ... .100 Do., A. Stock 1 00 Do., B. Stock Ca.Sth. kWest.are. 1 1 100 Great Western 100 Do. Stour Val Rai' (qua. Stk 611 Irish South-Eak.tort. 11 Lancaster & Carlisle .4i IDo., Thirds 7 Do. New Thirds Lancash. and Yorke Do., vi'st. hiding Un. 31 ,LiT.Crioy.liSoutb.pt Xll (London Blackwal .00 11.ond. Bright tt S.Cst. 12 I al st:lt IIA St. 1 1 , 20 1 26 18 t.. 50 St. 10 25 a] 2a F 2 10 St. 10 St. I.oi 50 al 25 a] 1.00 .1 St. 11, St. it St. 101 25 21 25 1: 50 al St. 1C 1.0 31 20 l' 20 a] .I.IF it. 101 it. io‘ St. 101 a! St. 1 t K Lend. and N. Westn .6 Do. Fiftns 5i :Do.lo/. 2i j bo. tignths LOO' London andS. "%Vesta , Es s Do., £5O 18 Do., £4.0 .1 611 Lndndrry4SlColeraini dl Linclndrr^. & Ennink. Ms.neli.Slief.& dl Do. 3 Shares, No. 1 29. Do., ?dam. & Lin. Un ! 1 Metropolitan Cl 1 Midland )O Do. Birmng. & Derby 611 Nficllel. G. West. (Ire, ' L.ll Do. Half Shares 611 Newcastle& Carlisle, dl Nwpt.Abcrg. &Hrfo_ Newry & di Newry Warrenpoint and i/,ostrever. )0 Norfolk 3 Northn.Counties )O North British, , North Devon, No. 1 II Do., No. 2 il A Deferred II Do., B Guaranteed 0 7.C.Eastern—Berwia .to Do. do. Extension L 3 Do.do. G.N.B.?iarch ill Do. Leeds )( Do. York DO North London . • L &S.Wstrn.,Earl T.- stead, and City Jn.. North Staffordshire.. 11 North Western ll N. &S. Westrn. June 1 Nuneaton, Hinckley &nd Leicestor....... 10 6i, Wore.. & Woly 8 PortKaonth o..i;ish Central 1‘ eottish Midland ihvapshire Union =,outh Devon, r • South Eastern South Wales . Yrksh. Do t 6' ) tockton 'barn- Hrztlepi ?,0 1 11 25 a l'aff Vale . fl Do. Pref., No. 1. 1 "cl-ames Mo.. fl.& R, Ulverstone di Lanes ,l 1 Vale ot Neath. 0 I al St. t St. 121 0 a,] 0 I AI J Waterfd. & Kilkenn3 11 Vaterford&Limeriek 31 West Cornwall. 8 West End of London and Crystal Palace 11 Do. A . 5 5 fir.) 10 3 I Do. B ...... ~ J.l West London..., Wimbledn &Croydon nw! ny Prices riaterd . 23 - 24 3/ - 4 ••• •• 71 - 7i 16 - 15 14 - 35 9 - 8 58i - 1)9 Ili - l2i 6} - 4ij 5 - 6 6i •.. - 63 49 - 51 9i - 16 - 17 ••• ''.. 71 - 73 - 7 82; - 67 - 69 119 t - 1 99 101 50A 51. 50 55 65 - 70 6 - 6 5 • 6 p 744 - 75 6k 94 --- 96 911 92 2 k i lid' l -- 1k 82 s 3 91 81 8 7 • 22 ~ - 63 id i —63 i 35 37 •N ~ •r .1111. it :in ii 25 ... 26,E 676 68 rid 4 116 126 446 45 92 97 7h - 71 5/ - 5i 23 - 25 00 105 72 74 41 - 43 11 - 12 564 57i 314 5 3d 2d part 33 - 35 ••• ''''''' .. '"' 18 19 3 - 4 18 - 20 4 - 6 ... .... ~ tt•xeinee+7 done this day. to 40 11 Antwerparßott , rdana O Do. 5 p.c. Oblgs. con. in Sh. at par till'64 0 Ardennes Belgian Eastn. June .0 Reziers to Graissessac Bombay, Baroda , C,:ntrallndia i Scrip 11 Do. .11 Demerara 1 Dutch Rhenish ID Eastern of France [0 Do. New 11 East Indian, g. sp. c. .0 Do. Extension i 1 Do. do. do., '59, do .7i Gd. Tk of CanadaA is 11 Do. St. Lawrence St Atlantic do. '0 Do. Cert. of Deben , con, into Stk. till'63 11 Do. Comp. 6p. c., do. .0 Gt. Central of Francr, Gt. Indian Peninsula guar. 5 per cent.... Do. New 5 por cent. Do. Extensions 20 1 11 20 11 18. 4 18 a] 176 al 20 1: 20 al 20 11 20 a] 20 11 100 tti 25 1' 25 a 100 1 71 100 I al 20 li 20 1J Groat Luxembourg' Constituted Share 4 all Do. Obligati ow 20i all Gt.WesternofCanad, Sharer, Do. New Do. Bda., payable's7, with option till '55 a Do, 0,0.,'62, p.'56 tl rio . do., '76, p. '6O al Irv. do., '73, without option 20j ar. 'Hamilton & Toronto WO I all Do. 6 por cent. 71 17 Lako Conat. & Basle 20 all Liorre and Turnhout 20 10 Lyons and Geneva 20 14 Lyons & Mediterran. 20 all Madras 20 10 Do. New 31i all Maria Antonia 11 all Do. do. New z 0 all 100 al 100 a 1 11"0 al Namur & Liege (witl interest) Do. (ox interest) 31 Northern of France D0.20d. She.. ao all 2a 1 al 1B al 20 al Do. 20% 3 p. a ➢de. ~ (fmy.B.dt Ame.Shs. it NorwegianTrnnkPrer 6 Paris and Lyons al Ditto Bonds dl Paris and Orleans.... 11 Paris and Ronen... ParisCaen & Cherbrg. al D 0... 5 Rome and Frascati.. dl Room and Havre di Royal Danish 5 Royal Swedish dl Do. Obligations 1; Sambre and Mouse 61] Do. 5 p. cent. Pref s Strode , dl D 0... al Southern of Fra,noe l 6 St. Andrew's and Quebec (A), 11 West Flanders 11 Do 5i per c. Pref._ IS Western of Franco_ .11 Do.. ' Zealand 20 1 40 ?:0 al 30 tl 9 .0 ll 20, al 20 al 20 al FOREIGN. IA I al ZO a 1 20 I I 8 10 al 20 1! 20 a] 20 al JOINSATO I [1 Australasia 0 Bank of L on d on Li "ri. Col. Bk.& L n . C: 0 British N. American 5 Ohartd. Bank of Asia 4 Chrtd. &lc. of India Australia, & China 0 City .. ..... :5 Colonial. :0 Commercial . of ****** .11 Eng.Scot&Aur.Cht. .11 Lond. Chart. Bk. of Australia 20 5 Ditto New 50 20 I:4ndon and County 100 50 Lud.&;E.Bnkg. Corp 50 10 London pintJt Stock 100 20 Load. & mstez WO :35 National Fro.of Eng. 20 10 Do. New ......... - . 50 224 National of Irelaud 20 all New South Wales 25 all Oriental Bank of Corporation 100 25 Provincial of Ireland 10 all Do. New 5 1 Royal Australn.Bkg 100 30 ,Rt y a i l dT British ri'') , C . ::: . : 25 all wutli Australia • 25 all Union of Australia .• , ... 14 Do. New . . SCI 10 1 Uniou Of LonclOA ~,,, 100 54 100 21 100 21 20 to 20 a] 7A - 7i 2i 2id 4 2 d I- I E 1 Id 351 -- 364 9 10Ary 21/ 224 9i -- Si; 14i 15 70 - 72 88 -- 90 3 -- 3 4 5 -- 51 par— iP 4 -- 41 21 -- 3 221 -- 231 li -- lip' 99 -- 101 112 -- 116 113 -- 116 le3 105 22i 23 110 115 •.. -- ... 1 5 - 6p 191 -- 191 7 2 -- 3 44 -- 51 44 -- 5 34 -- 344 111 -- 14 ". 74 -- 444 -44 - 6 - ,i ... - pm 20 21 2 lid `Zi 8 8 i --lp ... - pm 3i - 4 . . 30 -31 p 19 - 26 BANKS. 85 - 87 51 - 53 ... ... i d par ... - ...d • ..•. 15i —l6 I 1 9 19 d 1 d ... ... par --. 2p §.• .... ... ...- "'"" M• 34 -- 36 40 - 42 52 - 54 ... - •••• 39 - 41 69 - 7 1 7i Li 28 g DU 20,, too 82/ i 2 2213 x 7 THE SUtL LOr-DON SATITRDAY VvENING s OfTOBER, 27, 185 5. CRMINAL COURT.—(This Day.) OLD COURT. Tefore Mr. Justice Willis, Mr. Baron Alderson, and _ Mr. Baron Martin.) Conviction of Sir John Dean Paul, Strahan, and Bates. SECOND DAY. The Judges took their seats this morning at 10 o'clock, v►hen the trial was resumed. The first witness called was Mr. Abrahall, registrar of he Bankruptcy Court, but before he was examined The Attorney-General asked if this evidence could be received ? Baron Alderson said the admission of this evidence was more a question for the consideration of the court than the jury. The question was whether they should tell the jury this was or was not evidence in this case, upon wl , ich they (the jury) were to act. Mr. Baron Martin said the judges had given the point great consideration. Mr. Abrahall, examined by Mr. Serjeant Byles, pro duced the fiat in Bankruptcy, dated 11th June, 1855. Mr. M. J. Tatham was the petitioning creditor. They surrendered on the 12th. Their first examination was on the 25th. There was a joint declaration of the bank rupts, but no examination. The declaration, dated 25th June, 1855, was put in and read. It stated that the bankrupts had made a full disclosure of all and every security deposited with them, which they had sold, pledged, or otherwise converted, or had been done at their direction. In the schedule of securities was entered 5,000 Danish 5 per Cent. Bonds, belonging to Dr. Gvillths, bought by Strahan and Co. No date given when the purchase was made, but that they had been deposited with Overend, Gurney, and Co., and sold by Foster arid Co. _ The separate statement of Sir Jahn Paul was put in and read. It was dated on the 18th June, and stated that the accounts filed in the Bankruptcy Court con tained a true account of all the securities of my cut°• mere, at any time pledged or converted by me, the par _ _ titulars of which will be found in the banking books, the green stock-book, and the ledger. Mr. Parry called their lordships' attention to the state ment of Mr. Bates being a little different from theirs. It did not state the securities were pledged by him. Baron Alderson—Then it is not a disclosure. Mr. Parry said whatever the effect of it was he con sidered'hinaself bound to direct their lordships' attention to it. Mr. Lewis, attorney for two of the prisoners, was ex• amined by Mr. Serjeant Byles. He stated that under the advice of counsel he advised the prisoaer to make the statements in question, with a ♦iew, amongst others, to making a disclosure within the statute. The statements were produced to the Commissioner in Bankruptcy, and the bankrupts requested to hand it in, as their statement with regard to the securities which they had received from their customers, and the manner in which they were disposed. Upon that the Commis. sioner stated that no creditor had asked for it, but they were at liberty to hand it in, if they thought fit, to the official assignee. The statement was then handed in, and the Commissioner signed them. After that it was given to the official assignee, and then to the solicitor to the fiat, who examined them on the truth of the statements which the bankrupts signed. Cross-examined by the Attorney-General—At the Bankruptcy Court Mr. Parry, who attended for the bankrupts, asked if they might be examined with reference to the statement of the securities to be de livered in. The Commissioner said if some creditor wished it, they might be examined, but on their own ap• plication he refused it. Mr. Parry said, then I formeoy tendered this declaration of bankruptcy, and his Honour might accept it or not, but under the bankrupt statute th e y bad a right to do it. His Honour said they might put in what they liked if they signed. Witness did not hear Mr. Parry ask Mr. Lawrence if he wished to ask the bank rupt any questions. He had had no previous communi cation with Mr. Lawrence, other than ask him to bring up the bankrupts for examination, but he refused, and witness had to pay the expenses and bring them before another commissioner than the commissioner to the fiat for the first examination. At that time they were in cus tody on criminal warrants. On the morning of 22d June there had been an examination of the prisoners ; in the afternoon of that day he ap plied to the Commissioner for a warrant to bring the bankrupts before him to make a disclosure with reference ,o those securities. By Sergeant Byles—There was no understanding be. tween witness and Mr. Lawrence. By Baron Alderson—Dr. Griffiths' attorney was pre sent at the Bankruptcy-court, but did not interfere. Mr. Sergeant Byles asked for the production of the green stock-book and ledger. The grew' stock-book contained no statement relative to Dr. Griffiths' secu rities. The Attorney-General said that was the reason why he wished to have the green stock-book produced. The books were produced and examined. The ledger contained two entries in Sir J. D. Paul's private account to which attention was called. Mr. Baron Alderson said, the green stock-book did not affect the case at all. It appeared to be a book of stocks on which they received the dividends. Mr. Sergeant Byles asked the Attorney-General if it was intended it should affect the case ? The Attorney-General said he was net aware it did. The ledger was examined, and in the private account. of Sir Jobn Paul was entered on the credit side, 12,2841 ss. Od., the proceeds of the sale of the 5 per Cent, and 3 per Cent. Danish Bonds, sold by Foster and Co., and on the debit side was entered the cost price of the substi tuted securities pledged with Orerend, Gurney, and Co. Mr. Sergeant Byles then called evidence as to the pledging of these bonds, to prove the truth of the bank rupts' statements that the securities were pledged. Mr. Bois, clerk to Overend, Gurney,and Co., examined by Mr. Sergeant Byles, said that the bonds re-purchased by Mr. Hill were the same numbers as those deposited with them by Mr. Young, solicitor for Sir John Paul, on SOth April, 1855. Mr. Savery proved the payment of the coupons on the above bonds to the prisoners. This was the case for the defence. The Attorney-General said it now became his duty to address the jury on the evidence that had been adduced for the defence, and in doing so he had no desire nor wish to do anything but discharge faithfully and honour ably a public duty that had been confided to him. As he said at the commencement of the trial, it was not the desire of the prosecution, nor those who represented them, to act harshly or vindictively towards the de fendants in this case ; but they had a public duty to discharge which must be faithfully and earnestly dis charged. The case divided itself into two parts, one of which was more immediately for their consi deration, the other for that of their lordship. In the first place, had the prosecution made out its case against the defendants that would bring them within the terms of this indictment ? The second part was that, supposing the first was proved, had the defence set up by the defendants brought them within the protecting provisions of that clause of the statute which enabled persons who had committed an offence to evade the penal consequences by making a disclosure under circumstan ces required by that statute ? In the first place, had it been proved that the defendants, or either of them, had made away with, contrary to the form of the statute, securities entrusted to them by Dr. Griffiths ? It was not, nor could it be de nied, securities belonging to Dr. Grlffiths had been entrusted to them for safe custody, and amongst them were 5,000 Danish 5 per Cent. Bonds, which was the subject matter of this trial. Now, with regard to Sir John Paul, it could not be denied nor for a single mo ment disputed that he did make away with those secu rities in contravention of the terms of the statute. But his learned counsel relied on the defence he had set up, which, if that failed him, he must be found guilty of the charge. He (the learned Attorney-General) admitted there was a distinction in the case between Sir John Paul and the defendants Strahan and Bates—there was more difficulty about the case as regarded them. It was true that Strahan bad made a clear and explicit confession of having made'away with the securities belonging, as he said, to Dr. Griffiths, by depositing them with Overend, Gurney, and Co., in 1855 ; but it was said, however, that, inasmuch as this charge, as preferred on the part of the prosecution, related more immediately to the se• curities disposed of by Sir John Paul—the original securities of Dr. Griffiths in March, 1854 —the con fession of Strahan did not affect the case as regarded the present charge in the indictment. Sir F. Thesiger, on the part of Strahan, put it to them that that admission must be taken to the full extent to which it was made, and to lead them fairly and reasonably to the conclusion that Strahan knew nothing whatever of the transaction in which Sir John Paul was the leading actor in March, 1854, and the learned counsel had also put it to them that they were bound to take the whole of Strahan's statement, in his interview with Dr. Grif fiths, as entirely true to the full extent of the letter. That, however, was a proposition to which he (fll,‘ Att.rne: -G ee-al) could no! nt,TcrlP. He could not go with him in saying that everything a man said in extenuation when a criminal prosecution was hanging OYU him, and when he "as endeavotuiog to mitigate the feeling and resentment of a man wro aged by him, was to be implicitly believed. Strahan sa v Dr. Griffiths in order to appease his feelings and ave 0, that prosecu lion which was impending over him, a nel he naturally put the case to Dr. Griffiths in a mantle r least calculated to irritate and offend him. In conciliating his friend he was not likely to inform him the ban k had been tam pering for two years with the snenrities lodged with them for security—that they sold the se curities in 1854, repurclia. - ied tb em, "veil again disposed of them to Overend and Co. in April, 1855, but to put the case to him that it was cbm e tit a moment of temporary depression, and that it Ave s the first time he had ever embarked in such a tranwiction. They knew, however, too well, by the expari trim: of every-day life, that when once the boundaries, of honesty and honeur were overstepped, those of trutl a were very soon lost sight of. He must ask them to loi )k at all the cir cumstances, and not bo bound by - the statement of Strahan. What, he would as'k, was the case against Strahan I Why, not merely his declaration of having made away with securities in April, 1855, but the fact that the fiern had been embarki ti,g in those trans actions to an extent perfectly appalling, and which had been made stronger evidence against th e prisoners by the production of the bankrupts' proceedi Jigs than at the commencement of the case. By the se proceedings it bad been shown that securities to the amount of 113,000/. had been dealt with in this way by the pri soners, of which 12,000/., including the 5,000/. of Danish Bonds now under investigation, belonged to Dr. Griffiths. Was it possible in. the face of that that his learned friend could ask t' ae jury to believe that those transactions were entered int) and carried on by a single individual of the firm v rithout the kno ledge and concurrence of the other members of that firm, except in the last instance that had occurred because that was the proposition of the learned counsel who appeared on behalf of Bates, who called their atten tion to the fact that this was the only joint proceeds of their transactions. He the (Attorney-General) found that there was a private account of Sir J. Paul's, and that therefore Bates must have in the most perfect simplicity and honesty believed that Sir J. Paul was paying into his private account moneys which he had obtained from securities sold or deposited by him with out the knowledge of Bates. Ho must have been in perfect ignorance of all these transactions, on the part of Sir J. Paul, to make his learned friend's point good, and who, with a certain show of triumph, appealed to that account in establishment of the proposition. But that account, it appeared to him (the Attorney-General), was not only fraught with the greatest suspicion, but produced the cogent, if not conclusive, guilt of those parties. That was plain to his mind ; and he submitted there was conclusive proof on the face of the private ac count of Sir J. Paul that the dealings in securities de posited with the bank was known to all the members of that firm, and that they were co-operative parties to the transactions. If they turned to the account, it was plain and. palpable on the face of it that it was a colour able account —an account called the private account of Sir J. Paul, but, in fact, an account into which all those transactions, involving the disposal of securities, were entered. What, he would ask, became of t'l,3 thousands of pounds raised by this firm on the securities deposited with them ? Why that they found their way into the private account of Sir J. Paul, which bore no resem blance to the banking account of an individual gentleman. It dealt not with items such as men in their daily re quirements needed, but large sums of money, none of which, excepting in two instances, were under 5001. This private account, it should be recollected, the other partners were conversant and familiar with, and there was no other form in which the proceeds of those secu rities, when disposed of, could be carried to the benefit of the bank than that of putting them to the account of one of the partners. Of course it was most desirable that the clerks in the banking-house should have no notion that the principals of the firm were dealing with the securi ties of the customers, and raising money by sale or ne gotiation of them. And how could that be done ? Only by carrying the proceeds of such sales or negotia tions to the private account of one or other of the part ners, when it would find its way into the tills and drawers of the bank, available as much for the purposes of the house as if it had been put to the joint account of the three partners. That being so, how does the account stand 3 He (the Attorney-General) found that, for 1854, the sums drawn by Sir J. Paul evidently had reference to large monetary transactions, and not those of the ordinary transactions of a gentleman who draws on his banker for his daily requirements. The first charge he found entered was 10,0201. to Sims and Co., brokers ; May 3d, " self," 30,0001. (a sum which a gentleman did not often draw for) ; and on the Bth of May a sum of 3,000/. Against that he found was entered on the credit side a balance, to start with, of 9,978/. 13s. sd. On the 16th March, 30,000/., corresponding with the sem with which he was debited on the 3d May. On the 16th March, 12,281/. is., which corresponded in amount with the cheques received from Messrs. Foster and Braithwaite, the proceeds of the Danish Three per Cents., and the 5,000/. worth of Danish Five per Cents., the property of Dr. Griffiths. The Attorney-General then referred to several other entries for large amounts to Sir J. Paul's private account, one of which, to his credit, was dated the 22d of August, 1854, for 6,137/. 10s., which was admitted to have been received from the disposal of these securities, and which went to make up a balance in his favour of 27,3301.; and this is the gentleman whom his learned friend asserted was in such circumstances of personal embar rassment as to render it necessary to resort to tie con trivance of supplying the house with funds. When they looked at these transactions, to the amount of thousands involved, it was impossible to entertain the least doubt or hesitation that this was not the private account of Sir J. Paul, but was an account of the disposal of se curities to meet the emergencies of the day. Was it possible for a moment to doubt that Strahan and Bates, who were actively engaged in the management of the firm and its affairs, must not have known well the state of this private account of Sir John Dean Paul's I Was it for a moment to bo doubted by men of ordinary in telligence and apprehension in those things, that Strahan and Bates must have known of the disposal of these securities, and if they know of Wm they must of necessity been a party to the transactions. He had no wish to strain the case unjustly against the prisoners, or to put it to the jury higher than they thought the case he had submitted to them warranted on the evi dence produced—and he asked them if it did not bring home to their minds the conviction that Strahan and Bates were parties to and privy to the transactions in which Sir J. Paul was personally concerned. If they had any doubts on the matter they would of course give them the benefit of them, but if not, after coupling the other circumstances of the case with those to which he had directed their attention, it would be their duty to find the prisoners guilty. He now came to the other part of the case, that of the evidence that had been produced on the other side, whereby it had been shown that the whole of the prisoners had disposed of certain securities which were not the original securities of Dr. Griffiths, but securities substituted after the originals bad been sold, and it would appear to stand thus—that Dr. Griffiths' securities were sold in March, 1854, which were substituted by the firm by others purchased in Juno of that year. They knew from the evidence of the broker that he received orders from the firm of Strahan, Paul, and Co. to purchase for Dr. Griffiths 5,000/. Danish 5 per cent. bonds, which was a circumstance not unworthy of consideration to deter mine the question whether Strahan and Bates were concerned. with Sir John Paul in the sale of the original securities, because if those securities had been sold by Sir J. Panl, without the knowledge of Strahan and Bates, for his private purpose, and placed to his private account, he could have understood Sir J. Paul's going into the market and purchasing new securities with which to replace the old ones ; but he was totally at a loss to understand why the firm should have sent an order for the purchase of securities to replace those pre viously sold if they had not all of them been privy to the making away with the original s ecurities. They, how ever, did so, and Sir F. Thesiger bad contended the new bonds were the property of Dr. Griffiths, and that he would have been enabled to maintain his right to them as against the claims of the assignees under the bank ruptcy for the benefit of the general body of creditors. These were the securities deposited with Overend, Gut. ney, and Co., and the defence relied upon was, that al guilty of an offence und er th e though they had been statute in so disposing of the new securities, they had not been indicted for that offence, end therefore they sought to get rid of the charge for which they were called on to answer by showing they had been guilty of another misdemeanour. That brought him to the con sideration of the question of the bankruptcy proceedings, and which the learned Attorney-General considered did not apply in this case. They.sought to get rid of the original transaction by making a disclosure of the second transaction. This, he contended, was no answer to the first transaction. Mr. Baron Alderson said he was entirely of opinion with the learned Attorney-General on that point. The disclosure was no statement with regard to the first offence, but an answer to that which was. The ;earned Attorney-General said, the admis sion must be a bona fide one, and not put in to defeat the ends of justice. Tho di,sglosures were made without any desire 1 wing expressed upon the part of any creditor. Mr. Baron Alder. ion said the question for the jury would be upon the 1 ids establishing the misdemeanour. Mr. Baron Marti. e said that he was clearly of opinion hat the disclosure is ado was not a disclosure within the meaning of the apt `;. Mr. Baron Aldersoq ' said it would be monstrous if the disclosure made by the bankrupts was to defeat the pro visions for which it was enacted, and he did not think any act could be so fool ish as to contemplate anything of the kind. The Attorney-General', in conclusion, said that the question was, whether the disclosures made were of a bona fldc character, n r only made by the prisoners to escape the penal cone luences of their conduct. It had been admitted by the: '‘r attorney that this was only a screen to go before the thankrupt commissioner, and there make a statement to el ear themselves. This they had done unsolicited by any one of the creditors. The learned Attorney-General then told the jury that the question which they would have • to decide was, whether they thought the prisoner Sir John Dean Paul bad, in 1854, disposed of the securities which had been intrusted to him by the Rev. Dr. G,riffiths, and if the other two pri soners were parties to :that act of which he was a prin cipal. Mr. Baron Alderson then summed up, and told the jury that if they thought the prisoners, being the agents of the Rev. D . r. Griffiths, had sold certain securities entrusted to tl iem, then they would clearly be guilty of the misdemeas tour charged against the three prisoners, and the jury •svould have to say how much the parties were seven :11y implicated. Against Sir John Dean Paul it cert ainly pressed the heaviest, against Strahan the nest, and perhaps against the prisoner Bates the least. The learned Judge then proceeded to read over the evidence of the prosecutor (Dr. Griffiths), commenting - upon the fact that Dr. Griffiths had, at the interview about the payment of the dividend upon Danish Bonds, been with the prisoner Bates. His lordship then went through the evidence re lating to the securities, and then went into the question of the complicity of the prisoners with the act of Sir John D. Paul, and upon the question of partnership. It stood thus: a partner was liable for the deeds of his copartners by the deeds of his partnership. A partner was clearly responsible civilly for any act of the other members of the firm, but not criminally, unless he took an active material part in such criminal transaction. For in stance, if a man was a sleeping partner in a firm, and lived in the country, one , who merely had his name put up and took the'profits:of the firm, but no part in the actual trausactions.of the firm, G od forbid that such men should he held }personally liable for the criminal acts of any other. But then they the juasy must look into the actual acts of these men. For this purpose they would have to take into their consideration the statements made in the disclosure upon the bankruptcy, and then con sidering the prisoners Bates and Strahan in the disclosures they made had not proved that they had not clearly established their knowledge of the acts of their other partner. That was the main question upon which they had to decide. With regard to the question of the disclosures, he (the learned Judge) did not think they had made full disclosures of their acts ; and even if they had, did any one ever suppose that persons were to commit a misdemeanour, ren dering them liable to transportation, and then to go and volunteer a disclosure to clear them selves of the act, to make a disclosure in one place and then bring it here as a full bona fiche disclosure, and if it was as if a mere play were acting? Could the jury suppose that it was ever intended that persons should play fast and loose with the criminal laws like that ? It was not a disclosure ever contemplated by the act—it was a sham, a farce. He (the learned Judge) would wish to take the opinion of the jury even upon that point, even though it would not have the effect of settling that part of the question, which would go elsewhere. The main question they would have to decide was, did Sir John Paul part with the securities, and did they, the other prisoners, give their authority to do so, with their approval and consent t If any doubt existed upon their minds as to the part the other two prisoners took in the matter they would give the prisoners the benefit of that doubt. The jury then retired, and having been absent about half an hour returned, and found all three prisoners guilty. Mr. Baron Alderson, in passing sentence, said it was a most painful duty for him to have to perform, to pass sentence upon men who bad held the high position which they had, and one of whom he had known and sat beside, when holding high office, and he would to God it had fell to another's lot to pass the sentence ; still a publio duty demanded that he should do so, and he would not shrink from such duty. He could not contend a worse offence, and should, therefore, pass the severest sentence the law allowed him, and that was transportationlor fourteen years. The learned judge seemed deeply moved whilst pass ng the sentence, but the prisoners, who each drew themselves up to their full height upon being called upon for sentence, and remained so during the whole of the learned judge's address, received their sentence with the utmost apparent indifference. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.) THAMES. DEMAND FOR WAGES BY THE ASIATIC CREW OF THE PRINCE ARTHUR.—Captain Chas. Campbell Sutherland, the master of the ship Prince Arthur, of Liverpool, ap peared before Mr. Yardley to answer the claims of 43 Lasca . rs, who assisted in navigating the ship from Singa pore to London. The Asiatic crew mustered long before the magistrate arrived, and formed a picturesque group. They were dressed in every variety of costume, the tur ban prevailing for head-dress, and were attended by their Serang or chief, and the Burra Tuidal or boatswain, and there were among them Bengalese, Cingalese, Malays, and Calcutta men. Captain Sutherland attended before the magistrate, with his European seamen, 11 in num ber, a few days ago, and said, as the ship had changed hands since she sailed from England, he could only pay their wages under a compulsory process, and asked the . magistrate to grant summonses to the Europeans, which was done, and Captain Sutherland appeared to the sum monses against himself two days afterwards, and, •rders having beea made, he paid the Europeans all their wages in the court, with 10s. costs in each case, at the same time expressing his regret that the state of affairs connected with the ship had compelled them to come' before a magistrate. The Lascars now complained that they were about to be sent back to India in another ship, and without their wages. Captain Sutherland said the Lascars had entered into a contract to navigate the ship to England and back to India, but if the vessel did not return to go to the East Indies, they would be sent home in another vessel. It was not yet arranged whether the Prince Arthur would return to India or not. If she did return to India, the Lascars were bound to go back in her. Mr. Yardley—Certainly, that is the contract. Ex plain that to them, interpreter. The Lascars are under a contract to serve in the ship Prince Arthur from Sin gapore to England and back, and they are not entitled to any wages until the voyage is terminated in India. Mr. Levy, the interpreter, having explained what th• captain and the magistrate said, the Lascars ex pressed their fears they were to be sent back to India in another vessel without their wages. Mr. Yardley said there was uo fear of that. Captain Sutherland had met the crew in a most fair and gentle manly spirit, and would pay all the wages due to them here if the Prince Arthur did not return to India. Mr. Levy said the Lascars wanted a little money to purchase a few necessaries. Captain Sutherland said he had no objection to ad vance the Lascare a little money ; and the magistrate, in dismissing the two summonses which had been taken out to try the case, said he was quite sure the Lascars might rely on the honour and integrity of the captain. Some time afterwards Mr. Levy said the captain had offered to divide 201. only among the Lascars. Mr. Yardley—That is a small sum. There are 43 men, and he can't offer them less than 1.1. each. The magistrate's suggestion was immediately adopted. The Lascars received 20s. each, and retired apparently quite satisfied. REPRESENTATION or WELLS.—Mr. Serjeant Binglake (Liberal) will contest Wells on the Liberal interest, in opposition to Captain Joliffe (Conservative). HER MAJESTY'S JUDGES IN THE RURAL DISTRICTS. — The anniversary of the Broadhembury Agricultural As sociation was celebrated on Monday, and the interest of the proceedings was enhanced by the presence of Mr. Baron Alderson (who is spending the vacation with his relative, Mr. Drewe, of the Grange), and Mr. Justice Patteson, who resides in the locality. The learned baron had the toast of " The Judges of Ploughing " confided to him, and he proposed it in a facetious speech, in the course of which he alluded to a portly agriculturist named Pyle, who was one of the judges, and said that that worthy gentleman had a particular claim on him, inasmuch as he bad told him (the learned baron) that he had become a " judge of the land " 25 years ago, at the same time that Mr. Baron Alderson had commenced his official duties. Farmer Pyle, in responding, rejoiced at tee fraternising spirit of the learned baron, but said there was a difference between the two, " and that dif ference," exclaimed the sturdy farmer, slapping his breeches' pocket, "is here." This amusing retort ex cited considerable laughter. Spirit of the Public Journals• (From the Morx,ing Post of this day.) Rumours of a coalition fly about on ail sides, and politicians who affect great insight into the back scenery of public affairs talk oracular mysteries to their friends and admirers touching. things that are to be when next the great council of the nation as sembles for the despatch of business. Lovely peace is said to be at hand, and Lord J. Russel!, Mr. Bright, Mr. Disraeli, and Mr. Gladstone are the four outriders. Garlanded with olive, and inex pressibly amiable, they join hands and embrace like lasses and their swains beneath the mistletoe on Christmas-eve. 'They have been bitterly op posed, they have impugned each other's public spirit and political morality, they have bearded one another, and quarrelled over crotchets lilee dogs over the same bone. But the alarm of war has scared them out of their own identity, and seeing nothing but one another's virtues, and held by a curious coincidence of interest and similarity of prospects, they declaim against the very thing that erewhile they agreed was indispensable to the vin dication of international morality and the best in- I terests of the human race. So says Rumour. But Rumour may be true or false, and we do not pre sume to endorse what. she says. There is much to be said both ways. If we look at the names of die parties who are to head this coalition, and re fer to their antecedents, the chances are certainly against their working amicably together in the ser vice of the country. But they may perhaps risk the experiment.. Lord J. Russell is so uncertain that his best friencle never know when they have him. His eccentricities are more undeterminable the longer ho lives. No public man or public writer would bo so rash as to predict, even remotely, what course Lord Jilahn would pursue in any great crisis of public affairs. Let the past suffice. We do not wish to rake up old grievances, but it is possible not to be guided and influenced by the general convictions that ha previous conduct has left upon the mind. The chances, then, are about equal that he will or will not unite with an anti war and pro-Austrian coalition. Then there is Mr. Gladstone. After all he has said and done, this way and that, who will certify what course he will steer, or that he will be able to keep the point towards which he professes to advance . Nobody doubts the manly integrity of his purpose, but who has a moment's confidence in his a,tability ? Until he has been swung at Greenhithe in'id had Ills compasses adjusted, there is no chance Of his answering Io the helm, and no proper ground of confidence in him as an administrator of the func tions of Government. Mr. Disraeli, again, has many brilliant qualities, but a very limited follow ing. The identical men who are content to assist I him by their vo . :es in his attempts to get his party "in," would. decline to follow his leading when that object was accomplished. The great Conservative party is for the war. Mr. Disraeli does not, however, represent that party, and would probably be glad to exchange the somewhat cold support he at present re ceives for the more exciting and noisy applause which his appearance in a new character might win for him from the disjecta menvbra of former Minis :ries. The only man of the four whose course has been uniformly consistent, and whose " line" may be safely calculated, is our old friend, the pacifico pugnacious John Bright. And it is just because we can well forecast his course of action, his views, and his speeches, that we doubt the possibility of their amalgamation with those of the three other names now before the reader. But indeterminate as the chances are, we must contemplate the possibility of the rumour being a true one. But what a contemplation is it ! There have been extraordinary coalitions in the world. Fortes" (or, as a printer once facetiously put it, Foxes), " vixerunt ante Agamemnon." And Dis raeli and Gladstone, after all their past bitterness, may yet come together on the same side, and flank ' 'he same side of the Speaker in the House of Com mons. Precedents of such combinations are not wanting, though, unfortunately, the instances of their over effecting much public good are few and far between. Certainly the last coalition was not the least incongruous, as it certainly was one of the most unfruitful of anything good. It was the Aberdeen Government that let us in for the war, and was demolished because it could ❑either carry it on nor got us out of it. Yet the pro posed coalition is even more incongruous and un promising. There is Mr. Bright, opposed to all war, under any circumstances ; Mr. Gladstone opposed to this particular war, or at least to its continuance Lord John Russell, opposed to every thing in general, and nothing in particular, sup porting to-day what he opposed yesterday . , with the fullest likelihood that he will overthrow to morrow what he maintains to-day—a statest.laß who is never sure of himself, and has an incolayse nient habit of letting his friends down at the very moment that they have most right to count upon his help. Last of the quadruplato comes Mr. Disraeli, who, last Whitsuntide, went through a martyrdom of misery lest Lord Palmerson's Go vernment should conclude an ignominious peace during the recess, and whose spasmodic grief and misgiving choked his utterance, and spoiled that beautiful speech which was to have overthrown the Ministry, and installed the Opposition in the confi dence of her Majesty. It is impossible not to ask what have these men in common ? How can they govern together 7 One only common object can animate them—peace. Peace at once—peace at any price. But what would be the first effect of peace ? Supposing this incon gruous coalition to obtain peace at some price, what must follow ? Their own dissolution as a Ministry. Peace obtained, the only principle that held them together would be gone. No single bond of unity would remain. On every other point they are wide as the poles asunder, and the conclusion of peace abroad would be but the signal for the commencement of the bitterest strife at home. Such a Ministry could not exist a week without danger to the country. Their miserable efforts for peace would bat end in smoke, and the last state of the country be worse than the first. MARKET NEWS.—(This Day). COVENT GARDEN. We had a steady demand for both fruit and vegetables at full prices. The supplies were seasonably large. FRuir.—Pine apples, English, 3s to Gs per lb; colonial do., is to 3s each • hot-house grapes, is 6d to 4s Oil per lb ; foreign ditto, Od to Os ; melons, is Od to 2s Gd each; peaches, is 6d to 6s ; nectarines, is 63 to 4s per dozen ; apples, is Od to 2s 6d per half sieve ; pears, 2s Od to 5s per half s'e. , e ; plums, 5s to 7s per sieve ; green gages, Os per punnet; apricots, is Gd to :is Od per doz.; common plums, 5s 01 to 7s Od per sieve ; cherries, Od to Od per pound; lemons, 4s to 8s Od per 100 ; oranges, 8s to lls per 100; fil berts, Gs to Os per doz. lbs ; cobnuts, Os to Os ' • almonds, Os to Os per lb. ; walnuts, 8d to 10d per 100 ; figs, Os 9d to is 6d per doz, ; strawberries, 0(1 to Od per pottle ; goose berries, is 6cl to 2s Od per half sieve i • currans, 3s Od to Od per half seive ; raspberries, 2d to Gd per pottle. VEGETABLVs.—Greens, is 6d to 3s Od per doz. bunches; red ditto, 2s to 5s Od per dozen ; French beans, 2s Oil 'to 3s Od per half sieve • brocoli, Od per bund. ; potatoes, 60s to 100 s per ton ; vegetable marrow, 4d to is per doz. ; peas, 3s to 5s Od per bushel ; broad beans, is Od to is 9d per half sieve ; turnips, 2d to 4d per bunch ; carrots, 3d to 5d per bunch ; cucumbers, Os 2d to Os 6d each ; garlic, 8d to Os 8d per pound ; spinach, is Od to is 6d per sieve ; old onions, Os to Os per bushel ; new ditto, 2s Gd to 4s per doz. bunches; leeks, 14 to 2d per bunches ; shallots, 4d to 6d : horse-raddisi, 2s Od to 4s Od per bundle ; parsley, 2d to 3d per bunch ; celery, Os 9d to is 3d per bunch ; endive, is 3d to 2s 3d per score ; beet, 1s Od to 2s par doz. • parsnips, Os 6d to is Od per dozen ; small salad, 2d to 3d per punnet ; mushrooms, le 3d to is 9d per pottle; artichokes, 5s to Gs per doz. ; cabbage lettuces, 9d to is Od per score ; sorrel, Gd to is per half sieve ; radishes, is to is 3d per dozen hands ' • tomatoes, 3s to 45 per half sieve; chillies, ls to is Gd per 100; Brussels sprouts, is Od to 2s per half sieve ; capsicums, is 6d to 2s per 100; walnuts pickling, 6d to is per 100; cauliflowers , 2s to 5s per doz. NEWGATE AND LEADENH.A_LL. Turkeys, Os Od to Os Od ; Geese, 5s Od to 6s 6d e s top . ; Ducks, 2s 3d to 2s 9d ; tame Rabbits, Os t Od tq 0 0. . c t!d ; wild do., is to is 6d each; Pigeons, 6d Vti Od li to large Surrey Fowls, Os Od to Os Od ; middling, 33 6d 3s Od ; Chickens, is 9d to 2s 3d ; Cap° to 4s 6d ; Hares 3s Od to 45 Od ; Grouse, 28 Od to e ls 3d to 18 9d each ; Pheasants, 3s Gd to 3s 9d ; z n s.sd each Guinea Fowls, 2s 6d. to 3s Odpeaarcthr7gOs'iend fresh butter, lis o h ditto, 5s Od to 78 Od 6d to 12s 6d, and English lie Gd to 148 6d per dozen lbs. English Eggs, 8s Od to 9s Od ; Fran per 120. BILLINGSGA TE. iIIB2s 6dto lOs each ; Salmon, Turbots, 380 d to 15s ;Brod ills, 2s 6d to 15s each ; Soles, le 6d to Os Od per lb Eels,; 8d to is Od per lb; Lobsters, 1 s to - whitings, 3s °ci t. t o 0 0 2 1 86 2 6 : ds per ppee rr doz, dbos ;;. 8d to 2s 6d per pai9 7s Od • 2s 6d ; Crabs, 6d to . m;Smelts,Natives,ps s 5 0 8 d s Common Oysters, 168 rto10020s; is 6d to 2s 6d per gallon; Mackerel, 60s to Os per 6d per dos. ; Fresh Herrings, 8. Od Skate, 6d to Od 1 00 • Scotch do.,Sprats,Bs Od to Os Od Bloaters, is Od to • 6d; to Os per is Od to 103 each;p er bushel ; D o reys,Haddocks, 4s to 12s per doz.; Pike 6d ; Sturgeon, Gd per lb ; P rawns, 4s Od to Os; Mu ll e t s , 6d to le 6d ; Plaice, 4d to is each ; Halibut, 6d per i H D ; Flounders, is 6d to Os per dozen. BREAD. Th e prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from 100 to ;of household ditto, 82d to 10d per 4lb loaf. HIDES AND SKINS. Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, 3id to 3id ; 641 b to 721 b, 3id to Od ; 721 b to 801 b, 3cl to 4d ; 801 b to 881 b, 4d to 4id ; 881 b to 961 b, lid to 4jd ; 961 b to 1041 b, 4id to 5d ; 104 to 1121 b Od to Od ; upwards, Od to Od ; Horse hides, 6s. 6d to Os Od ; calf skins, tight, 2s Oct to 3s Od ; ditto, full, 6s 6d to Os ; Polled Sheep, 3s 10c1 to 5s 2d ; Seats, 3s 8d to 4s gd ; Half-brads, 3s 8d to 45 8d ; Downs, 3s Od to 3s 6:1; Lambs, 2s 9d to 4s 6d ; Shearlings, Os Oct to Os Od. HAY MARKETS. timrrfirmr,D.—Meadow hay, 3/ 15s to 616 s ;`clover ditto, 4l Os to 6/ 15s ; and straw, 11 Ss Od to 1113 5 ' Od per iced.A fair average supply and a steady demand. CITLIBEIILAND.—Meadow hav, 3118 , 4 to 61104; clove! do., 41 Os to 6/ ; and straw, 1/ 8s to 1/ 11s per load. Supply tolerably good, and trade rather firm. WHITECIIAPEL.—Meadow hay, 31 15s to 6s 6s; glover do., 4/ Os to 61 18s ; and straw. 11 8s to 11 13s per load. Both hay end oraw were is fag request, at full pricois rrlt4 4AgeP f„i' fl 74.4,: gr o ss • SUN OFFICE, Six o'clock. NEWM.LEIZET R,ACES.—(This Day.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) £5O PLATE. CRITERION COURSE. Fortuna Eardrop Six ran. MATCH. .Mincepie heat Cheerful Home. HOUGHTON HANDICAP. Katerfelto _ _ Sneer Cult Fifteen ran. SWEEPSTAKES OF 5 SOVS. Anglo-Saxon • Usurer .... ............. 1 Twelve ran. SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS. Berez►na Assayer ..... Four ran. SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS. Cinens 'ortimer Three ran. MATCH. 200 SOVS. EA.CH. Tyre beat Brother to Bird on Wing. SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS. Imposture Ceres 2 Four ran. HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES OF 15 SOVS. Lady Florence Diego 2 Three ran. SELLING HANDICAP. Bobby Taft . Triton. Mortimer . SPAIN. MADRID, [Oct. 21.—Senor Madoz, who is the especial cham7ion of Catalan interests, has had a► conference with the President of the Council of Ministers on the subject of tariff reform, which the new Tariff Board has been appointed to report upon. E is stated that at this conference the Duke do la Victoria gave assurances to Senor Madoz, that while it was certzinaly the intention of the Govern ment to bring forward a measure of tariff reform in a liberal sense, the Catalan interests should be re spected. It is, therefore, probable that whatever reductions may be made on some artieles of the present tariff, thE me will be little change attempted as regards such branches of goods as are manu factured, or are believed to be manufactured, to any amount in Cr►talonia. The Tariff BoArd has suspended its meeting, which was to have taken place yesterday, till the 24th. It has ageued to propose some reduction in the duties levied on foreign paper ; that woollen goods shall pay iuties by weight, instead of mea sure, and that mi xed goods, in which wool, silk, or linen predominatt )3, shall be taxed according to the amount of the respective materials that enter into their composition. It is expected that the duties on goods and linens will be discussed at the next meet ing of the board. It is reported that the Carlist chief Estartus has entered the Spa.nish territory from France at the head of 100 mon. A telegraphic despatch from Saragossa, dated yesterday evening, states that a despatch had bee n received at Lerida from Briga dier Rios, dated:Pons, the 17th, to the eftlot that the Carlist party i n that province had been com pletely disorganise ti. The Duke and Duchess of Montpensier are ex pected at Seville by the end of this month on their return from abroad. There were 109 iaew cases of cholera yesterday and 84 deaths, 62 o f which were of persons attacked on that day. The authorities are said to have re solved to try the of Feet of discharges of cannon and of fires in the streets. To-day being Sunday the Bolsa was closed, and there are no transactions out of doors. In, fact s these matters are quite paralysed at present. STATIT OF TRADE. (From the IfLancA , ,ester Guardian of this day.) MANCHESTER, Out. !!6.—We stated in our last report that, although the do wnward course of prices had re ceived no check, indications of a slightly improved tone of feeling were not unobservable. Since then, the direc tors of the Bank of England have held their weekly meeting, at which no imurther alteration in the rate of discount was made. It appears, therefore, that a some what easier state of tilt , currency is now experienced. This was showing itself ill the earlier part of the week, and has become more appaven t each succeeding day. For some time back mercantile i nen have been narrowing their lia bilities, and gathering their resources under their hands as much as possible. The benefit of this cautious pro cedure has been felt as the drain of gold has proceeded, and as the rate of interest has risen, and is very palpable to everybody at the present moment. The entire trade of the country hae remained sound and underanged, with no other exception than the fall in prices. Our own dis trict has exhibited a ren iarkable case in regard to means, and so also have most o.f the other great centres of indus try and commerce, whilt + scarcely any abridgment of em ployment for manufactu. ring operatives has taken place. But a conviction that the • uncertainty of our position ren- • ders continued caution in , dispensable to safety, seems to have rooted itself deeply in the minds of merchants and dealers, spinners and manufacturers. They have seen a very striking instance of the power of political causes to effect a most serious financial disturbance, which does not shake our trade, only because that trade is, on the whole, upon a solid footing ; and, with this fresh in their memories, they are not likely to be thrown off their guard by appearances w hich are so manifestly liable to pass away. So that, all hough the prices of yarns and goods have now dec.'ined to very low ranges, the differ ent classes of buyers aria still holding back from business in a very decided way, a nd the market at large remains flat. But people are less ,gloomy, and are inclined to think perhaps seen the worst ; though a sli g ht shadow haves iscast upon us from the United States. We find that there has been more inquiry to-day for cloth of some descriptions on Ole part of home houses ; and purchases of go ode for India and China have been made, for delivery within a short time, on account of the sailing of a certain vessel. In the same way, 165.. to 245. water twist has been taken for China. But the sepa rations we speak of aro few and exceptional, and do not materially affect a gent ral estimate of the market. They are, however, valuable- as barometers. The parties to these t ransactions are p ersons possessing ample resources, and not given to iidered ventures ; it is, therefore, a fact to be noted when they venture to act under cir cumstances such as nos ► exist. worthy of condition of business in this town, nothing NOTTINGHAM, Oct. 21 i.—Since our last report of th ? e e, re mark has occurred, and , both the hosiery and lace t r ades petted. Although the eartigapilnosytmoeun: daeamdasando:eand tphios: are in a more healthy s actiontate than a n nf theo Eight e b ßt t , auall naturally o fit m b ug e s, ta F has not effected us sec iously ins ' are are (321'3;7 ranch ofedoivart p a lin g g en tr e a r d al e d h u e l r l e ne a s s a w ll a li s continued, elsewhere.have the effe o T t h of er c e ri i p s pre. madnufactluhre and LEICESTER, Oot. v goodsvalent are th r o o n u l g y h p We fear theiosriaer. machi neryoni..y a. precut.. has nor to a worse state, of business. The high p rice of r rseopedu:ed .for many operatives oennt,cliteefB,3 state of the money added to the res. mar k et and tl to increased f discount and t er on causes the Utmost caution rate o visions albweaeynsBoup —ans. are light, and some Government orders svonld relieve several departments. amongst all. Still stc‘cks on h Worsted spinners are not so busy, and pyoduee with cau tion. At ,the colonia 1 wool sales some of the inferior sorts were sold at Ld, per lb. less than the former, but the better kinds went off at but a triflin reduction; indeed it was matter of 4 urprise they sold .so well, con sidering that the Bank of 11%ngland on that day had an nounced their advance in tilts rate of discoui at. English wools are flatter, and but 1i the doing is' them ; the growers a re quite careless about selling, ast 311 their pro. duce is in demand.—Leicester Jommal. WOOLLEN TRADE. (From the Lceds Mercury of this da v.) Lupe, Oct. 26.—There has seldom been a larger at tendance of buyers in the town (representiing moat of the principal London wholesale houses) than during s e current week, and a little more activity 2ies qnently been given to the woollen chiefly., i! c u o i n a e e y rs e . have been purchasing winter . goods c . i b u tit'Y n which have for some operated very cautiously, limiting their purchases to immediate wants. Cotton warps, t, businessbs 'e been. we ll . time past bee T n h a er d e r i u s g ais i o n sought up. considering the vet y unsettled the country trade, an a, athfaeirmstaerakedy i t s and the high price of .lorn, there state of money matte the woollen trade air the is suite as much doing in m ost sanguine could expecot. 5 Wool oontinn d • BRADFORD, Oct. .. . . , -e in very fair u ply and the staplers evinced ay increased. desire to supply, off' combing qualities ; this could not be, done to ex tent,the prices restricting business to quantities any required for _ and, to effect sales low er figures bad to be submitted to--in fact, the general tone of business was very quiet, with a slight 'downward to Short descriptions of wool did not meet with so steady a sale as that for some time past experienced, and in consequence lower prices were accepted. In the h om e piece trade the general business was rather in. active. Yarn continued dull and unsatisfactory, with a reduction in price in the transactions which took place ; these were very limited, spinners declining to enter into new contracts at similar rates to those at which the con tracts now terminating were effected. n g the HALIFAX, Oct. 20. —Things have been fie tainod. week And prices wool* aro Wyly ma d I 1 I 9} i tOi f 6i 911 681 i 684 8 22 i 10i 10 1o& 864 6 461 i