The Sun. — London, England, 1855-08-09 00:00:00

jj CBI t a t a-, herns ll ' 3 11e1 ere t he : n rdej hav e , tIO ate r 2 ` 134 6 the b ri" f b - car ded co das bridg es w i t ieh thing dolle . ; ofte n flo c „itie9 ~1 „111 !d bc 3 uoico' a ble P O "" ce o g i d ,n- f theirs then On ft the be crushedeJ, the e'r iel b , r ats-in . , nt yes COV r o ttr: 001 yr° 0 1 '4 a rs' ij il I a pp I 13t r 170; woo u to " „,Jr, se re l• • jp, 0 ; 0r t ° at e of ll l ', or! otoc .clJ Pf eA 10/ . a DI 11 0 ` g 0 1 ' I P er tf ( 154 j W fo l Pe• so 10 0 J, r D e l 10 0, 0 1 ye; pp' , Per ' riP r 0 fl ier' gel 0 1°1°' Ps' or A' l 00 0 ' t►; MONEY VIA RKET COAL AND VERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocK. h elclos e d r. The cotton market at Liverpool yesterday heavily, with out change in prices. The sales st, ,111°Inited to 7,000 bales (500 of which were taken 1.2 'or export, and 1,500 on speculation), comprising BO Pernam ra and Maranham at 6id. ;20 Bahia at 1 5 31 ; 61d • ; 250 Egyptian at 61d. to 7id. ;an d 700 , Surat at 3 1d. to 51d . per lb. The Railway Share il Market closed flatly, and business was very inac- ' 1 .7 tire. T he weath er, more than any other subject, now 25et enarter ngages attention, and the statements fro m var i ous st. gs are rather unfavourable. In the report of st. 10 ke s srs- Joseph and Charles Sturge, of ingham, 4., i s asserted that already decided injury has been 5 bri ng by the heavy rains. Still we cannot yet 50 , ring ourselves to the belief that the grain crops 20 Will tot prove an average, taking the whole 1 ,. _0 °f t he United Kingdom, provided an auspicious ' 2 lt s ) chan ge occurs, and the rains cease, of which there ~5 Reel: " a fair prospect. At this season we always st, e q e ct the alt erations peculiar to the summer, and 20 , a hi gh tempe ra t ure. The following is an extract it, ' r oba the report above alluded to : St. Wa:uring the early part of last month the weather E 23. 4 ,,h, ver.Y favourable for the growing crops, yet our prices itlz:ficed previous to the 19th ult. about 2s. per quarter. IS! . . fa rmers the a we have had an increased supply from our ly . 4',, ers, and larger imports of foreign. The heavy rains d st 4h. P . Pea7 to have been very general the last fortnight, and 501-2 3 " done c onsiderable injury to the wheat and barley 2 l ei P% 4 8 the late wheats were in blossom, and the bar• - 3t. 4 11(i 8 well as the more forward wheat, was much laid, ~it. blo at a Ini, as instances mildewed, so that even under the A. th e , loecable circumstances for the coming harvest 8 3t t. Atie,% e i ,"" l ee Is probably reduced one•eighth ; still . our t. . likeiave recently given way. Some Barley will mot ' 3 ... (I, II J be cut in our early districts next week, but we 't fm, o 6t think reaping can be general before September.. e toutthirable reports as to the results of the harvest in the wh. , O f Europe and the United States—the arrivals, added , wi ll now occur almost daily from . the Danube, &c., Pre` `" our other sources of supply, will, w:, anticipate, va o v e e i 't Our present high prices from further . froadm l'raiontig, provided we have no competition is - s e but our recent reports of the crops th ~,'t CrAlntry are not so favourable as ofec'eu4ve hitherto been. Russia now permits the e . xport t ot bi r o n kfrein Bessarabia, the only part of her dominions t he el l e ailed ; and the high range of prices, h added to Ir-ad mate r : t oeeB of work, caused by the war, kiedallY d iminished the consumption of a t s he a bette i Y s r a o f l u::: f "d• The potato crop, with few exceptions, 46c1 O, rerms ing. Barley has been steady in price for tl) : - teks ; the consumption appears to be small for 1 iie,4"en of The bulk of straw or. th h e . ground treattrea te Y large, L andthe breadth of land under t is grain he er r than for some years, but the quantity must d rio. tate i r cl ! ) ,Y the weather, and the quality much dli ribe t he "` \° change in the value of oats has taken et p k e lace t Pace ° . our supplies have about ep t with the , 4 ve „; e demands The crop is promising. Beans ' 4 %1 2 '' ve rt Way a trifle in price. The crop is . ver t y Lhernerraebl.9 reported of, and sale limited. Peas begin o 4 quire for. The crop, with fine weather, will The done g th;;°lleY Market keeps rather tight, consider lierit n i: llfl ux of specie, the cessation f or th e pre eutn; th e demand for the continent, and the cir treatloe that the gold last received from Aus- Th e 4 h as been sent in to the Bank of England. Pra t i, v : ll le of cash, however, is higher at Paris, the p s ' or t) and other places than here, and until lio, te , xlc h loan allotments are made there may be po'Ned alteration. rgatitr,the English Stocks there is a less buoyant the ,:4' s lid the settlement being now concluded, tern', e°llltaugo" from this date to the Gth of Sep- fiber receded from } and 5-16ths, which it r eali se d Yesterday, to about k. Consols have 4 oc0 3 1 : 90 i to 90; for transfer, and 901 to 91 for t ,.? 9 11 2, - ' The New 3 per Cents. have been 924- till a 1 , ) 4 nd the Reduced 91i to ;. Exchequer Ititi ta H o ga ve been 198. to 21s. premium. East 74 - ' cl ods are 28s. to 31s. premium. The T . Pro v i r, nriush Bonds have been in favour, at im hara- tates, and now the bill has passed for the kti - t iltee d loan the speculators look for renewed ll' vi ia l t ,' The prices have been 92i to :;. Sar 14e,- ' 3 tcnk has been done at 87. Equador has (11 (1 411 h 111c)t ed 4- to 41-, and Grenada 201. Brazilian s ad tk -e4 cis are 102 k. Spanish Threes are 37 g 15,, Th'e Deferred 181- lIN (3,°"araittee of Spanish American Bondholders at Liteeived from her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires , kkotillia, Peruvian Bonds of 41 per cent. interest, 4 1)pr e ll , ti "g to 9 07,000 dollars, which have been t o ttr i ated by the Government of New Granada torei:DaYment of the arrears of interest on the titter debt. The committee have also received a t'a4Lir°4-1 their commissioner, Mr. Mocatta, dated t o rl ''' a ) July 7, stating that he was on his return 1 1 , 10 4,1 .1a td. with 860,000 dollars in Peruvian Zad :, t 4 i per cent. interest, which bonds lie 4je bt t-eive d ou account of the Ecuador Foreign Th e fol I.T 14cl ekg low ing are the nominal prices of foreign 20 eA 4 2 1 ; C henada Deferred Bonds, ii to 71; Mexi - 20 4 t ' O f : l t 0 21i ; Peruvian, 81 to 83 ; ditto Three . 2 ! ' o ° 4 3 t o - A llt s, 59 to 61 ; Portuguese Four per Cents., '0039 di tto t‘ - ' 5 ; Russian Five per Cents., 100 to 102: tiatlio,"l-Ir-and-a-Half per Cents., 89 to 91 ; too t klat f :' ' N' ew Deferred, 18i to 19 ; ditto 3 per 25 ' 4 4, ' to 3'l • ditto Certificates, 4} to 41 ; ph i i , Theile, 4 to 41. 100 to t h . ast Week's railway receipts, ascertained up this a too a Y) are in round figures as follow : 20 O r 5 li.N W e 1855. 1854. ;_Ortho ot ,_Eiter rk £29,686 £25,933 5 i' o ith.\:„:„ester n. 63,635 63,581 1 5 iTalit oti e4teru :Bill ton .. ..... • 22,190 19,182 20 k„,"NhL.," e. • ************************* 23,876 29,397 ale, 4=Acker.n.••• ************************ 24,765 22,765 4 Gr e 'otiia t , ***** N ate ho t he *14,751 11,567 20i a. e h ir rn 6 **************************** 21610 19,581 100 Qrtil.a:tand Yorkshire er n ~ 22,597 21,881 36,257 35,029 too ,_ * A gricultural meeting at Carlisle. 100 1 7 to tin 3 '' shares are rather fluctuating, but there 100 ttel.'rra. alteration. North-Western have been 20 art) Sr' a" a lso South-W es t ern ; E as t ern Counties too es have' a nd South -E astern are goo d . Th e fore i gn 20 [IS a b een well suppor t e d , a lth oug h th e d ea l - - - Isi i r e tot lar ge , sad T e : l re dull: Australasia Bank hare risen ,1 the : Company aro still at very full rates, t h ' t eara shares are i n some reques t . i;tz t 4 FUNDS THIS •DAY AT ONE O'CE,c) , ' a i „ 2 r Prom the Oficial List. k ) , r (31:1t ' R ed Bnqlness don. 1:!,' Be Annnities........ ******* 91a il ~3 ,„brt.,oooBolB Annuities . i l l: kt,blii‘jt.ent. kunnitios IttriiN 30 '". } :atnire sth Jan., 18 6 0 — 0 0 it e ,,, Years, Expire sth April, 1885 16 15-16 "itt e '''',. 41000 30 eNe le l r liti ` l er tIOOO •" 31 28 Itt v, °r lice "ticit le 9' lll t, 6th September 90,1 i 1 ,_ r liills, 21d I 20. 4 7 a 4 .500 ************* 19 ....................................... ttllN„ie,.. ............ . ............. I ,,b_ itt c , - uucts 1,, 3i per Cont.... ( ' l O r ,.. 1809 10 - 0 i -4 1; 111 441Z I' OREIGN 'i FUNDS AT ONE . O'CLO MK. itto s 114 N 5 per Cent. t 'lliz e i or ~c,,1011 Bonds 100/ & 2031 4trtia.444 izriqs I, l , k lpla il 4 1 (1 1, 8 li per Cent. bl i t' t h 11ni4,1, , i 5 per Cent. ti,. ti c ilt , f or „ 6 ac Per Cent — it I,rewtni) count 37F, i Dit to for t h " er red, 3 per Cent. T 4 , 1 1 ,•t0 1:,„,,. e Account lBi Ta nis, - --env e ,, .. „ , 6 ..................... . 4i e l ,, e ph f o , t , ° . Per cent 92+ bill ,i Pere account 1)1431„reCent........ ••• • 9A lads on the above payable In London. DitEi 'lla°lB HALP-PA ST TWO. to for the . Acc..,;11. ..... , g)1 i A toc,k k eetin,, of -- -- hena, lae„ i'. e the Australian Agricultural Company . 1 4 0 , a Rp ee i I ter daY, Mr. J. 11. Ravenshaw presiding, p e ,"ght f o , a ' r eport on the collieries at Newcastle was . 1, 61 4 re - ,; war cl, and a call was announced of 1/. 10s. 100 thoett,' ;KLabie at the end of October. 100 ah, li nh b oth ill Leart BILL —This bill has now passed 100 tq bewive received°uses of Parliament, and as . soon as it 20 jea t qive n the Roya,l assent, which is expected be ()i e.. .by the '„l,ltneliately, a public notification will 2O iai3;ol3iteliata tol-9.rkish Minister, inviting the attendance 20 ' k o poried to b e ear the conditions on which the amount 50 Alk ti , 1 4 /1 0 ,_ 8 raised. 50 14 .44 :4 1 g adari i67sR.EB OF GOLD AND WATCHES.—The te, o s ' B It emsPatie of our thieves de la haute voice, 100 444,1)1:41g tru t? wait for the long nights of winter, are .f?eleat...e!ery o•Ytizarrn?ing. Trays of jewellery disappear , 20 whi, 4 Y ~,,a ", aY—swept off nobody knows how, M fin , -- letic Will g W " e re• It is the same with watches 20 a, ,:i. \,. es ( To be difficult to obtain except through the 25 lett ,t it Y egtetiaiejclaY afternoon information was given that Role watehtnaejcbbery was committed at Mr. G. Mil. IN tO 4 )144 d silver 4ers Cecil -street, Scrand, consisting of 41,44 ef2Awna,tchea, with other articles, amounting , u ‘aatt er °f atlext",. ; and at the same time news was re- 25 k tit riotei. ensue robbery at the celebrated Star and , 25 -1414 Ely4:l3°,th?,eVec decamped iwith nearly 100/. I . ... ' it. 10 St. 15 20 16 20 22 19 20 20 6 20 5 Do t Staines, Wok &Wok a'l Stockton & Darlii. 16 StGlkton & 00 Taff Vale . 9 Do. £lO shares. 10 Do. Pref., No. 21i Thames Haven Docl, and Railway tTlverstone & Lanes all Vale ut Neath all Waterfd. & Kilkenn3 all Waterford&Llmer .14 all West Cornwall 5 West End of Londot and Crystal Palace all West London .0 I all Wimblodn & Croy , ' or I H RE MARKETS (THIS E AY.; w YE, RAUMAIO. iCtogint Prices ye. erday 24 - 25 -4! ••• ...... .. 8 - 8. 134 -- 13 15i - 16 8i - 7 91 - 93 63 - 63 13 - 14 8 - 10 3 2 d 14 - 15 na - 11, •• • • 71 - 76 56 - 53 9 - 19 - 20 •O 70 - 72 88i - 891 65 - 67 1!%7 [Ol - 103 63 ,- 63i 58 60 70 - 15 7 - 8 7 - 8 pr 81 -81,1 99 100 98 981 - - 44 id 86 - 87 7; - 64 7 25 7p- 70 - 70. 10 - 42 • • • ..". 11 - 9 1 - 13 , 16 - E ~0~ Ii 72i 73, 7 3i 6t 13t 13 484 494 48 56 d par Ad k GA 64,1 6i 1 d par 25 - 27 105 107 72 74 I 44 46 I3i 143, 61 62 30 —31 i 4 3 2d pare - 41 • . -.- •• Business dons I this day. St. St. .100 Aberdeen Ambg. Nottug. Bost. and Eastn. Junet all Belfast & Ballymena all Binning. Well )rh Stour Valley Birk „Aid. Lancsl.. & Cheshire Junct all Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O and £25 Con,. 19 Do., ....... all Rlyth &Tynzorigina' £25 (issd. at .-C4!), 100 Bristol and Exeter 00 Caledonian 161 s. Carmarthen and Car digan Chester es Holyhead all Cork and Bandon__ all Cork, Black, et Past 16 Cornwall 1 Ci -fl' Junction 45 Duolin&BelfastJune all Dundee Perth&Abi!l deco Junction all Do. New 100 East Al - glian 411 Eastern Counties 100 Eastern Union, A Stock . lOC De., B. Stoll" 8?, Do., New A LOG East Lancashire 06 Edinburgh& Glasgow all Edinb. and Peebles Edin. Prth & Dundee, 9 'forth & Clyde Jrt all Furness all Do. Extension LOG Glasgow &S. Western 100 Great Northam .00 Do., A. Stock 00 Do., B. Stock JO Sth. &,West.(lre.) 00 Great Western 0(1 Do. Stour Val Rail Gua. Stk all Irish South-Eastern all Lancaster & Carlis e 1.4 i Do., Thirds 7 Do. New Thirds 00 Leincash. and York sh i Do., Wst. Riding Un. all LivCrsby.kSouthpt all London & Blackwal !00 Lori& Bright & S.Cst 100 Loud. and N. West, .1 16 Do. Fifths 5i Do.lo/. C 2 Do. Eighths 100 London and S. Westr i 7« Do., £5ll. , 8 Do., £4O all lindncirry& Coleraine all Lndndrry. & Enn:sk /00 vianch.Shef.k Linclu all Do. Shares, No. 1 428. l to., Man. & Liu. lin 1 100 liddland 100 • In. Birmng. &Dorby all \fidld. G. West. (Ire, ) all Do. Half Shares ill • Newcastle & 23i Nwpt.Aberg. &Hrf 8 Newry & Enniskillen all Newry Warrenpoin and Rostra vor 100 Norfolk 3i Vorthu.Counties Un 100 North British all North Devon, No. 1 a ll Do., No. 2 ill )0., A Deferred all Do., B Guaranted WO N. Eastern—Borwici 20 Do. do. Extension 13 Dodo. O.N.E. Porch all Do. Leeds 100 Do. York alp North London all Do. Now £lO 3. lE N .&S.Wstrn.,Hami stead, and City Jn.. .1.7 A North Staffordshire , all North Western all N. &S. Westrn. June 1 Nuneaton, Hinckley and Leicester 00 Oxford, Worcester,A Wolverhampton 8 Portsmouth Se—Lish Central I.;'Y Scottish Midland... LOO Shropshire Union a I South Devon ........ . South Eastern all South Wales 15 S. Yrksh. (St Riv. Dui 5 - 5i 20} 21i 3 - 4 20 - 22 5 -7, ... -... .. • ••. .... FOREIGN. ATIGIVOry, no Belgian Eastn. June. Beziers to Graissessa , , Bombay, Baroda, an, Central India,Seri , Demerara Dutch R►lenish . Eastern of France Do. New East Indian, g. 5 p.c Do. EYielifiloll.. Do..q p. c. Bds., pa 3 '57, convertible Do. do. do., '59, do Gd. Tk of CanadAA i Do. St. Lawrence k Atlantic do. Do. Cert. of Deben con. into Stk. till '63 Do. Comp. 6p. c., do. Gt. Central of Fran Gt. [radian Peninsula guar. 5 per cent. Do. New 5 per cent Do. Extensions.... Do. do Great Luxembour Constituted Share- Do. Gt. Western of Canad Shares . Do. Bds., payable's7, with option till '55 Do. do., '62, p. '56 Do. do., '76, p. '6O - Dn. do., '73, without option Hamilton & Torontc , Do. 6 per cent. Lake Const. & Basle Lucca & Pistoja 5 p.c prof Lyons and Genova Lyons & Mediterran Madras Do. Now Maria Antonia Do. do. New Namur & Liege (with interest) Do. (ex interest) Northern of France. D 0.201. Shs.late Char leroi and Erquelines guar. 3a p. c. & red. at 22. y. dur. 88 yrs. from 1 Jan. 1854 Do. 201. 3 p. c Bde (fmy. B. & Ams. Shs. NorwegianTrunkPre Paris and Lyons Ditto Bonds Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen... ParisCaen & Cherbrg. Rouen and Havre Royal Danish Royal Swedish Sambre and Meuse... Do. 54 p. cent. Pref Scinde , Southern of Franoo St. Andrew's and Quebec (A) West Flanders Do 5i per c. Pref Western of France Wert. of Switzerland , Wiesbaden Zealand 10 101 2i 2 21 11 2 ••. id par .58 12. —l3 241 24i 3 3i - 7 d 16i -17 j 64 66 91 - 95 4 - 5 5 - 5- 1 I $ iP i - iP 3a 3i 3 - 3} 22i -23 i 100 - 102 110 - 112 113 - 115 107 108 22i - 23. 113 - 115 - Al 7i ..- 7i; - • ig 3 / 4 - 20 1 3 / 4 2 7 9 2 - 3 6i - 6 ii -2 iii 12i - 12 - 9 49 -493 p 49 - 51 49 - 51 - 26?; 27 20 - - 21 13 - - 9i li - 2b - Pm 4 - 4} 11i - 12 .•• - ••• 18i- 193 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. all I A ustralasia all I British Colonial Bank and Loan Company all ;tritish N. American 5 Chartd. Bank of Asia 4 Chrtd. Birk. of India, Australia, & China 30 City 25 Colonial 20 Commercial of Lond. ail English Scottish and Australian all Lond. Chart. Bk. of Australia 5 Ditto New 20 London and County 10 London Joint Stock 20 Lond. & Westminster 35 National Provincial of England 10 Do. Now 22A National of Ireland all I New South Wales all Oriental Bank of Corporation 25 rrovincial of Ireland all Do. New 1 Royal Australn.Bkg Gold Imp Co all South Australia all Union of Australia .2i Do. ki0V 7 .••••••••••••• Grgion o; Lolidos iu, 91 -- 93 66 68 I d—ip 6d— par 116 - 126 p ...... •• • ". ." 17i -- 18} 19} -20 id 3 38 ~• ,~ M• 414 -42 ii 51 - 52 o. .... .. 39 - 40 70i -71 k 7i .8i THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 9 1855. LINES LIK.A.SED AT FIXED RENTALS. BRIGHTON RACES. Naval and Military Intelligence. (THIS DAY.) The Marlborough, 131, screw, is using all despatch in getting her machinery and boilers on board, and is ex pected to be ready for sea by the end of October. The Great Britain screw steam transport, No. 137, Captain Grey, arrived at Spithead yesterday from the East. She left Malta July the 25th, and Gibraltar Au gust the Ist. On the 31st ult., in lat 36'8, long. 4 . 55. signalled the steam transport Zebra ; on the 4th inst., in lat. 40'37, 10ng.10 . 16, signalled the steam-ship Rajah ; on the sth, in lat. 43 . 1, long. 9.33, signalled the ship Walter Scott. She has brought borne from Scutari, Major Anderson, Royal Artillery, in military charge of invalids ; Major Mills, of the 7th Regiment ; Major Gordon, of the 93d ; Major Grimstone, of the Turkish Contingent ; Lieutenant-Colonel Douglas, of the 79th ; Captains Elliot and Burnand, of the sth Dragoon Guards; Lieutenant Harman, of the 34th; Lieutenant Spai,ght, of the 31st ; Captain Sullivan, of the Turkish Contingent ; Messrs. Fosbery (Deputy-Assistant-Com missary General), Rust, Gardener, and Watts (hospital dresser) ; Mrs. Booth, 9 seamen and firemen, 169 in valided soldiers, 8 women, and 6 children. The 'running steam transport, C a pt a i n Franklin, steamed into Ports mouth harbour yesterday morning to land stores and baggage from the East. The Blake and the Progress transports went into Portsmouth harbour yesterday. The Glatton floating battery, Captain Cumming, is to have a new rudder. The Meteor, 16, steam battery, took in coals yesterday at Spithead. The steam transport Rajah, Captain Burn, arrived at Spithead yesterday af ternoon from the East. She left Balaklava on the 14th of July, Constantinople the 19th, Malta the 25th, and Gibraltar August 1. On the 6th she exchanged colours with the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Na vigation Company's steam-ship Indus, in the Bay of Biscay, in lat. 45'20 N., long. 7.50 W., bound for Alex andria. Captain Agar, Royal Artillery, is the only pas senger by the Rajah, No invalids. The barque Ocean Gem brought up at Spithead yesterday afternoon, and was afterwards towed into Portsmouth harbour for re pairs, having sustained serious damage from collision with a large American ship off Portland yesterday morning at 3 o'clock. The screw steam-ship Simoom, 18, Captain Sullivan, which arrived at Plymouth on Monday, is gone into the steam yard at Keybans to discharge her old boilers and machinery. The steam-ship Transit, with artillerymen and horses, which put into Plymouth Sound on Monday with ma chinery damaged, sailed therefrom-on Tuesday evening for Balaklava. A great many testimonials have been forwarded referring to Mrs. Margaret Disney, late a nurse in the Crimea, who arrived a few days ago at Portsmouth, in the transport Saldanha, from Balaklava. These tes timonials are from officers, soldiers, medical men, and the crew of the Saldanha, and they all speak in the highest terms of the attention paid to the sick and wounded by Mrs. Disney, on board the transport as well as in the Crimea, where she had to suffer her full share of privations and dangers. The public have ap preciated the valuable services rendered by the nurses in the Crimea, and such testimonials as these prove how consoling and important thesa services have been to the sick and wounded. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Ripon, Captain Cooper, Transport No. 25, will embark this day at Southampton troops for the Crimea. They will consist of about 1,000 of the German Legion, who will be conveyed as far as Malta, from which place the Ripon will immediately return. Intelligence has been forwarded to the officials at Southampton to prepare the Royal mail steam-ship Trent, Transport No. 94, for the reception of two officers, 94 men, and 114 horses of the Royal Artillery, on Monday and Tuesday next. Colonel Crofton, of the Turkish Legion, also leaves by this departure. The Trent took on board yesterday a large portion of the corn and bay for the voyage. At 6 a m. yesterday the first division of the 25th Re giment (King's Own Borderers) arrived at Chatham Bar racks from Gravesend, consisting of 7 officers, 15 ser geants, 6 drummers, and 206 rank and file, with 16 women, and 25 children, under command of Major S. B. Hamilton, with the undernamed officers :—Capt George Bent, Capt. Charles D. Pogson, Lieut. J. R. Harvey, Lieut. G. S. Hallowes, Lieut. H. S. Brown, Ensign C. G. Harrison, and Surgeon W. S. Whylock. The regi ment has been on foreign service about 15 years. It has about 700 effective bayonets. The above division em barked at Cannanore on the 18th of April last on board the ship Cheapside, Capt. Lidley, which after a passage of 109 days dropped anchor opposite Gravesend about 9 p.m. on Tuesday. During the voyage the aivision only (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH) FOURTH BIENNIAL STAKES. Aleppo.. Ariel ... Six ran. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT, HOUSE OF COMAIONS—(THIS DAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair shortly after 12 o'clock NEW WRITS. On the motion of Mr. HA 1' TER a new writ was ordered for Kidderminster, in the place of Mr. Lowe, who has accepted the office of Vice-Presi dent of the Board of Trade ; also a new writ for Kilmarnock, in the place of Mr. Bouverie, who has accepted the office of President of the Poor Law Board ; also a new writ for the borough of Hertford, in the place of Mr. Cowper, who has accepted the office of President of the Board of Health. CHARITABLE TRUSTS BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. UNION OF CONTIGUOUS BENEFICES BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. CRIME AND OUTRAGE (IRELAND) CON TINUANCE BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. SCHOOL GRANTS (SECURITY FOR APPLI CATION) BILL. This bill was also read a third time and passed. LEASES AND SALES OF SETTLED ESTATES BILL. The house then went into committee upon this bill. On clause 20, Mr. WHITESIDE! at some length contended that this clause had been introduced virtually for the pur pose of preventing the act applying to the case of Sir Thomas Wilson. It had been unjustly stated that that gentleman had wished to enclose Hampstead Heath, when, in fact, he had only sought to obtain leasing powers ; in repeated attempts for which object be hai been obstructed by the false reports set in cir culation against him. The hon. and learned gentleman read a letter from Sir Thomas Wilson himself, written to a friend, which he maintained clearly showed this to have been the case, and concluded by pointing out the manifest injustice of the clause. Mr. FOSTER supported the clause. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said it was undoubt edly true that this clause had been introduced into the bill, in consequence of its being stated to him that unless the bill did contain some clause of an explicit nature it would be quite impossible to carry its second reading. At the same time he did not wish the clause to be framed so as to give rise to the im pression that it was directed against any par ticular individual. Having, therefore, considered how this difficulty could be best met, he had em bodied a principle in the first lines of the bill with which the spirit of the clause perfectly accorded. —(bear)---and he maintained that that principle was a sound and correct one. With regard, however, to Sir Thomas Wilson, let him renew his application to the house, and he (the Solicitor-General) would undertake to say that when that application was made the recol lection of this debate would induce it to give that gen tleman's claims the best and most liberal attention ; and beyond question Parliament was the most fitting place to adjudicate upon them. (Hear, bean) ,(LEFT SITTING.) CRYSTAL PALACE COMPANY. The third ordinary general meeting of this company was held this morning at the Bridge• House Hotel, Lon don-bridge, for the reception of the report, &c., of the directors, and also for the purpose of authorising the conversion of the share capital into stock, and for rati fying an agreement with the West End and Crystal Palace Railway Company. Mr. Laing, M.P., the chairman of the company, presided. There was a numerous attendance of proprietors. The SECRETARY (Mr. G. Grove) having read the re port of the directors and the financial statement, which have already been published in The Sun, I i t AILIWAIII. Redford And Blet .thley 100 Buckghamsh. 100 Clydesdale .Tc, 24 Col. Stour Vy, Sud. and Hal. 100 E. Lin. g. 6 pc. 100 Glad. Barr. & Neils. Direct 100 Do. New Glstr,di Dn. Fr R,Il Hrtlpl. Dk. & Railway all Hull & Selby all Do. Shares. all Do. Shares. all Lon.&Greenw all I Do. Preference all Lon., Til., &S. [OO Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. usi Do. 6 per et. all Manch. Bxtn. and Matlock all Middlesbro' Redcar. . (CO Midld.Bradfd 54 Newmarket Bury Exton.. all NA Est.s p.c. all Do. 6 per ct. all Do. Fixeds p all Prest. & Wyre all Do. Shrs. A ' E;(;) Roystn.& Hit. iSi Shef.Roth and Gooleg.s p. c. all Shrews.&Her t 4 S. Staffordsh. all Wear Valleygr 6 per cent all Do 1100 I Wilts&gomrst Llasino Compan, London 6 N. West. L.&N.W. Calotion_ E. Un . 6 1 E C , Gt.Nrthn ,Oaldoni&n Do Gt. Went Yk. Now. & Berw. Y. &N act Do. Do Eastir, 'Do Peto Co.& Norfolk Do L.& N. W & Midid. Stckton & Darlingt. Midland 1 lEn. Coun. E. Count., Do Do L. & N.W &Ln&Yk Do (fit North'. Laneash& Yorksh. T. Brassey M. MClean Stoat. & Darlingt Do ItWestn. PREFER 100 Aberdeen , 400 Do. No. 2, 7 p. c. all Blytha.ndTyne lOperl c. pref. (issd. at 50I) 1 100 Brie. & Ex. 4p. c. St. 5 Do. 4 p. c. Shares 100 Caledonian £lO all Chester & Holyhead Guar. 54 per cent ~ all Do. do. Pref. No. 2.. all Do. do. Pref. No. 2.. all Cork &Bandonsip.c, all Dun.Prth .tk Al , er. J. 2 Anglian Cis. A Sit. 100 Do. do. Cls. B 6 p. c. 100 Do. do Cls. C7p. c. all I ;astern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No. all Do. No. 2 all Do. New 6 r. c. all Fast Un., Cl. 6p. c all no. 51. , 10 per cent. all Do. 10. Debentr.Sl). all Do. do. 4 per cent... 100 Mae Lancash. 6p. eta. all 1 4 1.1 c W. York. J. sths 100 'd Prth.&Dun.4p.c. all Furness 101, (;las. &5.W.G.5 p c. 100 Great Northu. 5p c 1 100 ho. sp. c. Redeem., at 10 p. c. prem. 1110 1 )o. 41 p. 76 Do. sp. c. Scrip, Red tt 5 p. c. all Ct.N. of Scot. lstPre• 100 (It. S. dr W. (Ireland) 9 Do. 4per c. 6 Gt. Westn. (Berks & Rants Ex. 5 p. c)•, 100 Do. con. red. 4i p.c. 100 Do. con. red. 4p • e 'lOO Du,in-ed._ &11 I Do. Birm. Pref. Sh all Do. Cheater Bp. c.P.S . all Do. do. 5 p. c. do. 1 0 Do. Birm. Gua. Stk all Do. Ches. Gus., Sh all Do. do do all Do. do. do 6 Lan. &York. F. £2O 100 Do. 6 p. c. St:/ek 100 Lon.&Brigh. G. 5 p.c. 100 Do. Pref., sp. c. St., 100 Do. New Guar.6 p. c. 100 Do. do. 5 per cent 100 Lon. &N. W. ' Coy. & Nuneaton 5 p. ct 5 Loc. &S. W. Con.3d, till Londy. & Coler. Sh. ill Gandy. & Ennis. 6 St . all 'Kan., Shef., & Lin. Now, £lO 4flDo. £8 all Warypt.& Carl. 4 p c all Do. 4i per cent 10! Do 1.00 Mid. ConsoL6 p.c.St WO Do. Consol. Bristol !, Birm. 6 per cent 100 Do. 4i p. c. Pref. St Pref. 43 per cec all IDo. :V. Pr , f. 4 p. c.. 100 Ditto Leicester and ilitcllen Pref. St. , 1.11 Norfolk Debenture . 100 Do. Prof. 4p. c. Stop, 100 Do. 5 p. c. Est 100 po. 5 per ct. prof... 100 IDo.Way. Val. 6 pc. 00 ;North British iOO N". E. Perm, 4 p.c. F 5 Do, do, do • • 104 - 106 96 - 98 3.1 - 44 13 Do Leeds 6 p.c cNo.I 9 Do. do. Quarters 4' 10 Do.Vork .& Poi% all North Staffordshire., 100 Oxford, Worcester, r. Wolverh.£ls, R p,e 7 Do R. Pro". 101. Sh. all Scot. Ceut. , New Pr all South Devon i - 7 - - is 103 - 105 11 no. fixed, 44 per cell . ' 411 IS. Eastern(Readi!,p 13i -14 i id - par 131 —24 t 101 103 j knn.) of 6(1. 1.00 Do. per cent__ all i s Wales Gua.4 p, c. all Do. do. 4i p. c.... all S. Yorksh.4p.c.Guar. all Stock. & Dar., sp. c. 15 Do. do. do all Stock. & Hartl, g. F p. c. till July 1, 'AP 4 Waterfcl. & Kilk .6 p c 16 = li" i -: 24p - !LINES. 1 all Agua Fria 1 all Anglo Austrin. Gel'? ••• ••• ••• 10s. all Anglo Californian — a 20 6 Australian — 1 all Australian Cordillen - 1 all Ave Maria. , — 1 all Baden (Gd• Duchy of 50 all BlEenarvon Iron awl Coal . 61 61 20 14 British Iron 5 6 35 26 Brazilianlmp.(issue ! at £5 pm.) 30 all Do. Cocaes & Cuiab 31 44 20 15 Do. St. John Delß.n 27 —29 2$ 1 1 Carson's Creek — 1 Clarendon Cons. Min Co. of Jamaica — OP to all Cobre Copper 59 61 zd 5 1 Colonial Gold a St. all Copper Min. of Env 32 35 25 all Do. Prof. 71 p. cent 2cl par ... 1C Copiapo l9 20 5 all English and Austin Copper Smeltg ck , 1 2 2 1 Fortuna a 20 all General. l5 —l7 1 all Gt.NugletVeinßeg. $ 1 4i all Great Polgooth. 2 2 2} 1 all Liberty 3 all Linares Bk 81 . . 31 Do. B . 3 1 - 3 p 5 1 Lusitanian j 1 all Mariquita 1 I 1 all New Granada — 1 all New Linares Mining and Smelting Co .. . 1 all Nouveau Mondo 1 - 20 all Pontgiband Silvei Lead Min. & Smelt. 13i —14 i 5 1 Port Philip — 1 all Quartz Rock — 50 all Rhym ney I ron l9 21 15 all Do. New 30 121 Santiago de Cuba..., 5 51 1 All South Australian — 10 71 Tin Croft ....... .28i, all United Mexican 3l 31 3i 1 all Waller 1 all West Mariposa 128. Worthing At.y Mining of a 1. all ........ • MI6(J.ELLAN BO ÜB. 25 1 17i Australian Agrimilt. 28h —29 k all Aus;raln. Royal Mail 10 7 Berlin Water Works 11 —11 d 50 40 Brit. American Land 58 5 1 Brit. & Coln. Smeltg. and Reduction Co — 100 32i Canada 130 134 1371 41 6 5 St. 100 Canada Gov. 6p. et. Jan. and Ju1y,,,,,,, 114 115 1141 5 all Crysta l Palace.,, 23 2i 21 5 5 Do. Preferenei , 4 a ll Crystal Pal. of France 4/ 1 0 Duston Iron Ora, 20 11 Eastern Steam.. 25 23 Electric Telegraph , 18 19 181 1 all Electric Teleg. of Ir. 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat. 20 all General Screw Steam 14, 20 10 Irish Beetroot Sugar 4 20 10 Magdalena St. Navig 10 all Mcditeran. Elec. Tel 10 9 mexicansaAmerien 61 6$ 10 21 Do. New • ••• 1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel 10 5 Netherlands Land , 2 1 N. S. W. Coal & Inter. Steam Navigat. Co. 1 all N. B Australasian_ 1 20 15 Nrth. of EuropeSt .3am 1 all Oriental Gas la all Peel Rr. Ld. & Minrl. 21 21 50 all Peninsular& Oriental 68 50 10 Do. New • ••• 2 all Portland Iron Co IA -- 2' 100 60 Royal Mail Steam 1 all Scot. Austral. Invest. 13 1 Ditto New 1 all South A subraar. u T s e t l ra . 3 4 1 1 25 1 all Do. Registered 5 Trust4L.Co.U. Can. ... 10 zsi ew Divainea U 1 = loon* Price , yester Jay. 99 - 101 102 - 104 ••• ..... ••• 135 - 137 ••• • •• 28 - 30 .•• .... 107 - 109 12i -- 13 23 -- 24 111 -- 111 2f - 2i 94 - 96 58 = k 134 - 136 .. .•. 8f - 81 21 - 2f,1 31i - 32; 93 -- 94 CE SHARES. - -1 - 102 93 - 95 6 - 101 ••• "". wee 3 - 4 6 - 64 - lip lip 14 Ti main ess this day, The CHAIRMAN moved their reception and adoption by the shareholders, and was about to proceed, when Mr. LYON called the attention of the meeting to the fact that the accounts and books of the company had not been taken forty-two days before the day of meeting before the auditors according to the char ter. The accounts ought to have been ready for the inspection of the shareholders 14 days before the meeting ; but, on his going to the Palace, on the 2d August, he found the accounts were not ready, and he received uncourteous treatment from the official at that place. He complained of the revenue-book not being forthcoming, as it ought to have been, and characterised the accounts as being in a bad state—(hear)- neither showing the whole of the receipts nor payments of the Company. (Hear, hear.) He thought a committee should be appointed to investigate the accounts. (Hear, hear.) The CHAIRMAN interrupted Mr. Lyon, by reminding him he was not in order. (Hear, and hisses.) The proper mode was for him (the chairman) to make his statement, and then Mr. Lyon, or any proprietor, could address the meeting. (Hear, hear, and dis approbation.) ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.) HOME CIRCUIT.-CROYDON. (Before Mr. Justice Cresswell and a Common Jury.) WITHRINGTON AND OTHERS v. SIR W. JOLLIFFE-TH3 BANKRUPTCY of STRAHAN, PAUL, AND co. This was an action brought by the plaintiff to recover the sum of 541., the amount of a cheque given by the defendant to the plaintiff upon Strahan, Paul, and Co. From the statement of the learned counsel for the plaintiffs, it appeared that they were drapers, carrying on business in Pall Mall, and Lady Jolliffe was a cus tomer to them, and had an accouat there, for the settle ment of which the cheque in question was given by Sir W. Jolliffe. That cheque was paid by the plaintiffs into their bankers, Messrs. Glyn and Co., the day after it was given, there not being time to pay it in before. On the cheque being presented by Glyn and Co., at the Bank of Paul, Strahan, and Co., on the Monday, the day of their stopping payment, it was dishonoured. The only question in the case was whether the plaintiffs, in delaying to pay in the cheque to their bankers or the bank on which it - .vas drawn, had not been guilty of such laches as would disentitle them to recover against the defendant the amount of the cheque. At the conclusion of the evidence, Mr. Justice Cresswell held that a person receiving a cheque from any party was bound to pay it into the bankers upon whom it was drawn the day after receiv ing it. This course not having been adopted in the present case, and sufficient diligence not having been shown, he thought the jury were bound to find a ver dict for the defendant. The jury, therefore, under the learned judge's direc ions, found a verdict for the defendant. THE NEWLY-RAISED RUSSIAN MILITIA. A letter from St. Petersburg of the 29th ult., in the Constitutionnel, says :—" The reports from the governors of several of the central provinces, as to ' the state of commerce and manufactures, are of so disquieting a nature that the council of Ministers, on the proposition of M. de Brok, the Minister of Finance, has suggested to the Emperor several measures, which have been considered suited to re medy the evil. Treaties of commerce with Prussia and Austria are talked of as being in contemplation, ,in order to favour importation into Russia from Germany, and also modifications in the customs' system now in operation on the western frontiers. The disarming of a part of the Austrian army is regarded by this Government as a change in the policy of the Cabinet of Vienna, and the Russian statesmen entertain the hope of prolonging the neutrality of Germany. The blockade has caused an immense rise in the price of all kinds of produc tions, and there is more than one of our great per sonages who do not disdain to profit by this circum stance. M. de Nesselrode, for instance, is now de riving a considerable revenue from his numerous establishments for breeding sheep; and there are many other high functionaries who are also en gaged in undertakings, which are for a time fa voured by the blockade. Notwithstanding the less threatening attitude of Austria, the Emperor of Russia continues to push on the organisation of the defensive forces of the empire, and reviews follow each other in rapid succession, particularly of the newly-raised militia, and everything is done to excite the enthusiasm of these men. In an order of the day, published the day after one of the reviews, the Emperor, among other things, says—' Make then avenging vi o yourselves the true champions of Russia, since we are called on to defend all that we hold most lation of the soil of sacred. Call to mind the militia of 1812, and their the profanation Russia. Let us prove to Europe, and to the whole gloriouso of our churches co-operation and i world, that we are worthy of our ancestors, and that no one can with impunity dare to offend us." GRACEYIIL TRIBUTE. — On Mr. Justice Erie observing the bust of the late Judge Talfourd erected opposite the Bench in the Stafford Court, his lordship observed to the jury :—" I never venture to offer remarks to a grand jury which are not strictly connected with the duty they have assembled to perform ; but on looking at the image of the man I see before me, I may beg leave to express my affectionate regard for his memory, aid my cordial admiration for the spirit of enlightened hu manity with which he discharged his duties as a judge. The memorial of so much worth appears to me a salu• tary example to those who COMO after him." _ lost two men—privates Wood and Phillips. Staff-assistant Surgeon Black and Assistant-Surgeon G. Palatians, medical officer from the Garrison Hospital, Chatham, 161 t yesterday morning for embarkation. The former gentleman proceeds to Southampton to embark for the East, and the latter goes to Liverpool to embark on board the ship Andus for Malta. The troops belonging to the consolidated cavalry depot at Canterbury, consisting of the Ist Royal Dragoons and the 6th Inniskillen Dragoons, underwent a general in spection yesterday by the Inspector-General of Cavalry, the Earl of Cardigan, who was accompanied by Colonel Cotton and another inspecting officer. Although the rain descended in torrents almost incessantly during the whole time the men went through the movements of a field-day ; their kits were also thoroughly inspected by his lordship, who pointed out many deficiencies, and articles that were not suited for the Crimean ser- vice, which his lordship ordered to be remedied. The stables and horses were then inspected, and subsequently the school and hospitals. At the con clusion of the inspection Lord Cardigan, observing a farrier of the Inniskillens with the Crimean riband, inquired if he was wounded ? The farrier replied in the affirmative. "Did I see you at Scutari ?" rejoined his lordship. "Yes, my lord," was the answer. "Did _ . _ you get any of the money I left there for you ?" "No, my lord." " Why, I left 1001. to be distributed among you; did you not get any ?" "No, my lord," was the reply of the wounded soldier, " nor have I been able to get the money that I left in the country yet, my lord." Colonel Cotton said there were many similarly situated, but they would get it by and by. Lord Cardigan then left, and the troops were dismissed to their quarters. MILITIA. Major-General Eden and Major Nasmyth proceeded to Carlow on Monday to inspect the Kildare Rifles in that garrison. Lord Seaton, Commander of the Forces in Ireland, was also expected to arrive in Carlow on Tuesday. The various depot battalions throughout Ireland have received orders to send out draughts for their respective regiments to Malta, to the number of 960 men and 64 officers. Of these a draught of 50 men and 8 officers of the 55th Regiment will leave Templemore immediately. A large number of young men have arrived in Water ford, being volunteers from the Lancashire Regiment of Militia, for the 50th Regiment of the line. I?EIrIEJV OF THE FOREIGN LEGION AT STIORNCLIFFE BY THE QUEEN. DOVER, Aug. B.—The unpropitious state of the wea ther has, as was anticipated, caused some changes in the programme of her Majesty's route from Osborne, men tioned yesterday. Intelligence was received at an early hour this morning that her Majesty would embark from Osborne to-morrow in the Royal yacht, and would pro ceed to Portsmouth instead of to Folkestone. A special train will be ready at Portsmouth at 9 . 30 a.m. to con vey the Royal party to Folkestone, via the South Coast and South-Eastern lines. The train will arrive at Folke stone at about 12, noon, and the Royal carriage will be in waiting there to convey the august party to Shorn cliffe. Every preparation, as far as the short time at the disposal of the authorities would admit, has been made to fit up the messroom at the camp, in which to receive her Majesty and the illustrious party who will accompany her. It is not stated whether her Majesty will return by railway to Portsmouth and ',hence take the sea to Osborne; but, as there is still a tolerably heavy head-sea rolling in the Channel, it is probable that the railway will be preferred. The weather has been extremely variable to-day. At one time a clear and almost cloudless sky has given promise of a bright to-morrow ; but half an hour's interval has brought with it heavy showers, accom panied by thunder, which has led many to believe that the interesting event at Folkestone would be post poned. By the kind and provident arrangements of her Majesty, however, her subjects of Dover and Folke stone and the adjacent places will, without doubt, have the pleasure of welcoming her Majesty at Shorncliffe to-morrow. The unusual nature of the event and the rarity of a royal visit to this part of the coast have natu rally caused great excitement, not only in Dover and Folkestone and their immediate neighbourhood, but in nearly the whole county. It is expected that the means of conveyance at the disposal of the railway company will be severely taxed, and the old and antiquated ve hicles with which Dover is plagued will many of them reap an unexpected and golden harvest. Nearly all the hotels in Dover are full, and we hear that almost fa bulous prices have been given to secure beds in some of the hotels at Folkestone and Sandgate. The Swiss Legion, as mentioned yesterday, will travel by special train, which will commence running at 9.30. The trains are to run as close as possible to the camp, at a spot between Folkestone and Hythe. The troops, in conse quence of this admirable arrangement, will arrive fresh and ready for the review. NVe believe that it is not the intention of her Majesty to proceed to Dover. CHARGE of MURDER AT SALFORD.—Yesterday morn ing a man named George Booth was brought before Mr, Trafford, magistrate, Salford, charged with beating and killing Grace Beaumont, a woman who had been living with him as his wife. The evidence adduced was to the effect that the prisoner and deceased lived in Chapel street, and about two o'clock on the previous day the prisoner was seen beating her outside the front door. He had hold of her by the hair of the head, and pulled her into the house. Whilst pulling her by the hair he was seen to kick her on the stomach. When he got her into the house he ordered some persons who were at tracted by sympathy for the woman to the spot to be off, and shut the door upon them. They could hear him beating her afterwards, and one witness said he beard some boys who were looking in at the window exclaim, " How he is kicking her !" Alice Brown, a neighbour, said she saw him strike her and kick her repeatedly whilst he had hold of her hair, and he knocked her down r and kicked her whilst, she was down. At a later hour in the evening he went and asked a neighbour to fetch o her some brandy, but she was then in a dying gtate, and expired about 25 minutes past eightsame night. She complained much of pain in the s tomach. the The pri soner said he had no question to ask ; deceased had been forever - daps. He drinking, and had not been sober was remanded until an in q uest ha d been held on the body of the unfortuaate woman. 11i i if 89 i 66 le7i 8 63 1 9 si i i 11 87 6} 7} 70 I 501 i 73 21 131 43i i 11i 11 10G 7 73 615 f 60 12 1.2 10 6 1.2?. 12.), 12? St. St. St. St. St. St. St. 20 12i, 25 20 St. 10 1.0.€ 20 20 20 25 71 701 10i 74 19 9i 14/ 136 ••• ... 1 2/ —31 s. 13. -13 i - 1: 1 6 138 97 91 - par 4i 4i 1001 PM PM 1 134 61 - 63 5 - 121 L7l - 113 LO5 - 107 9/ - Vi ••• .... ••• 8) 120} 111; 89 8 •z div i d r "Ff LITERAT UR E. The Music Master : a Love Story. And Two Series of Day and Night Songs. By William Allingham. G. Routledge and Co. William Allingham—whoever he may be, for, to us, he is but as a name upon a title-page—is a true poet. An entire stranger to ourselves though he may yet remain, we welcome him, nevertheless, with the cordiality due to one who has spoken to our heart of hearts, through the dulcet tones, and ten der cadences, and exquisite modulations of that grand old language familiar to every lettered Eng lishman—" the tongue that Shakspere spake"—a language only fully audible when breathed through the lips of genius —a language the music of which has proved so wondrously variable in its harmo nious adaptability from the days of old Geoffrey Chaucer down to those of Alfred Tennyson. We welcome Mr. Allingham not as the favourite of a coterie—not as the treasure trove of a clique—but as any unknown minstrel might have been wel comed in the age of romance had he struck the chords of his harp in unison with the vibrations of the heart-strings of his auditors, or as any unrecog nised knight must have been welcomed in the age of chivalry had he borne his crest bravely over his closed vizor through the crashing lances and gleaming swords of a tournament. From the evidence presented to us in these pages we should conjecture that the author of them is still young—that he is a Catholic—and that he is an Irishman. We have already declared him to be in our estimation a poet —no mere versifier,—but a poet--aten,fit sed nascitur. His volume has large promise of future excellence, but with this it has also excellence of its own already accomplished. As lovers of poetry we exult over the promise, and are justified in so doing because we can discover reason even now to rejoice over the accomplish ment. Mr. Allingham first appeared as a candidate for honours in poetic literature five years ago, when in 1850 a volume was issued from the press, which has been since modestly withdrawn from publication. Last summer a smaller collection of fugitive pieces from the same pen 'lade its appear ance. And at length these two preliminary 'ventures have ripened or effloresced into this mature perform ance. A charming little book of some 220 pages, gracefully embellished by artists who have " sub mitted their genius to the risks of wood-engraving" —painters no less gifted, and of no less eminence than Hughes, and Millais, and Rosetti. The dainti ness, the sweetness, the melody, gathered up like the song, of a bird in a rose bush in this beautiful grouping together of the results of pictorial art and poetical nature, are symbolised aptly enough in the little vignette on the title-page, representing the books, the flute, and the flower. Already, we doubt not, but that by many readers several of the "Day and Night Songs " of William Allingham will be recognised as old favourites. Such, for example, as the nursery song of " The Fairies," the tiny, goblin, elfine sprites of the sod and the moonbeams . . . " Wee folk, good folk, Trouping all together ; Green jacket, red cap, And white owl's feather !" Or the piquant coquetting—across the street— with the " Tenus of the needle"—who'll . . . " —Bless the youth whom love shall bring, And happy stars embolden ; To change the dome into the ring— The silver into golden !" Everybody, for instance, who has sauntered through the cool shade of the sculptor-room of the Royal Academy, admiring the grand head of a truer lyrist than Alton Locke—Gerald Massey, tailor and poet —will remember Munro's "rendering" of the Lover's Walk, as suggested by that tender fancy of Mr. Allingham in his delicious quatrains on the " Wayside Well :" " When a laddie brings her pail Down the twilight meadow, Tender falls the whisper'd tale, Soft the double shadow !" But among all these country songs for Day and Night, commend us to the one, set to an Irish tune—a song that none but a true Irish poet could have written, celebrating the graces and the paces of " Lovely Mary Donelly" : " Oh, lovely Mary D'qnelly, it's you I love the beet ! If fifty girls were round you, I'd hardly see the rest. The dance of last 'Whit-Monday night exceeded all before, No pretty girl for miles about was missiog from the floor ; But Mary kept the belt of love, and 0 but she was gay ! She danced ct jig, she sang a song that took my heart away. When she stood up for dancing her steps were so complete, The music nearly killed itself to listen to her feet ; The fiddler moan'd his blindness, he heard her so much praised, Rut blessed himself he wasn't deaf when once her voice she raised. O lovely Mary Donelly, your beauty's my distress, It's far too beauteous to be mine, but I'll never wish it less." Why, a song like this weighs more in the balance to our minds and hearts than all the spasmodic grandiloquence that Professor Aytoun, wicked wag that ho is, sang with so soporific a lullaby into Lethe through the mocking echoes of his " Firmilian." But the jewel of the book before us—girdled by its filagree setting of the " Day and Night Songs "—the central gem of all, we have not yet mentioned—the principal poem of the collec tion, " The Music Master." It is " A Love Story " —a simple, homely tale enough—the theme of a ballad—a village romance about the loves and the lives of poor little Milly and young Gerald White, the music master. The story might be told almost in two minutes, so few and so plain are the inci dents related in it. Yet, in the telling of it, Wil liam Allingham has struck the chords of his harp— our heartstrings—so deftly that the sounds seem to call the tears up into his voice as he sings, and into our eyes as we listen—and we lay the tale that is told aside at last only to revert to it o ft en , and very tenderly, afterwards, remembering the song and the singer, as we do the thought of some dear friend and the token of some cherished friend ship. Yet the Love Story of the Music Master is not without its faults either, when considered with anything like critical acumen :—Sister Ann we cannot but deem maligned without apparent reason of any appreciable kind whatsoever—Gerald's first departure remains to the last moment altogether unexplained—Milly's premature death appears even now when we think of it entirely and bewilderingly incomprehensible. Nevertheless, enough for every blemish of the poem when these passing exceptions to it have been pronounced. Otherwise " The Music Master"—the poetic gem in its setting of Day and Night Songs—remains, to our judgment, " one entire and perfect Chrysolite." How ex quisitely, and with what a loving hand, how very tenderly and delicately, Mr. Allinghani pencils the form and features of his heroine : " White lily,—Milly,—darling little girl I think I see as once I saw her stand ; Her soft hair waving in a single curl Behind her ear ; a kid licking her hand ; Her fair young face with health and racing warm, And loose frock blown about her slender form. " The dizzy lark, a dot on the white cloud, That sprinkles music on the vernal breeze, Was not more gay than dilly's joyous mood ; The silent lark that starry twilight sees Cradled among the braird in closest bower, Not more quiescent than her quiet hour. " Her mind was open as a flowery cup That gathers richness from the sun and dew, To knowl' dge, and as easily drew up The wholesome sap of life ; unwatch'd it grew, A lovely blossom in a shady place ; And like her mind so was her innocent face." Such was Milly as she appeared to her lover in the early morning of her girlhood. Later on we see her, when . . " Her silky locks have ripened into brown, Her soft blue eyes grown deeper and more shy, And lightly on her lifted head the crown Of queenly maidenhood sits meek and high ; Her frank soul lives in her ingenuous voice, Most purely tuned to sorrow or rejoice." Of Gerald we hear at the very outset-- " The boy's whole thought to music lean'd and evrity'd ; He heard a minor in the wind at night, And many a tune the village noises played ; The thunder roar'd like bands before the mighe Of marching armies; in deep summer calm The falling brooklets would intone a psalm." And so the great love of his art deepens into a treble g lides at last passion with his advancing life--and between the two, between the youth and the maiden, at once as a bond and as a revelation. The g tre a l: earliest apparent reciprocation of their tenderness comes indeed to them silently, one eve a n n i d n thei r loiter through the village coppice side by sid e , " -- The dappled hyacinthine glade Lit up in plats of . blue how soft The kine s deep lowing is by distance n i d, , The Quail's ' twit-wit-qcit' like alto)) ' a - ' Thrown along ice—the dragon-flies, the pebble The rustling twig—all noticed in ft , , e birds, w words t" But Gerald's passionate outpouri ng Milly, improvised. upon the k eys ng of his love for s t ea ls forth not long after i n the of the piano, th e music-master think s hire darkness, when the inarticulate confessio self n streamed into the alone, but when lighted ears, and th roug h de heart of Milly them into the enraptured. served. It is the clim standin g at th e o p en d oor unob climax of the aX * of the joy of the poem— thequickly afterward sorrow emerging from it but too 6 ; Maio Mister" 'to R. The composition of the a myrtle-wreath for the brow lof William Allingbam. May it flourish there, aid only be hidden at last by the bay leaves won in his maturer manhood. Onward and Upward ! The ad vance cannot to him be one of difficulty—for it is in his instance not among sterile cr agi , b u t among flowers and fountains, with verdure overhead and underfoot ; and for his genius, has he not proved it to be already at once supple, and agile, and mascu line ? And so let us bid a kindly adieu to William Allingham, crying to him as we part, with tha poet's pilgrim—Excelsior ! The Newcomes. No. XXIII. and XXIV. By W. M. Thackeray. Mr. Thackeray never wrote anything worthier of the admiration of his readers—meaning, nowa days, the million —than this double number, which brings hii noble serial story of "The Newcomes" to a conclusion. We linger over it tenderly and regretfully. Unwilling to be persuaded that all is over in regard to that narrative, among whose fluctuating incidents we have wandered so pleasantly during the last two years, we are fain still to believe ourselves observant of one of the severer crises in the progress of its vicissitudes rather than spectators of its actual termination. Yet in spite of all our wishes to the contrary, it is to us now but as a tale that is told. We must close the last pag e of the last volume. It is fi n i s h ed. It is comp leted. We have, as it were, in our hands, the catalogue of births, deaths, and marriages. Among the births, those of children to Clara, t o Rosey, to Laura, and to lesser heroines in the fie. tion, leaving us marvelling over the sorrowful ex clamation of the Duo d'lvry to his poor good natured little oddity of a wife—" Ala ! pour quoi n'en a vons - nous pas, J eanne ? pourquoi n'en n'avons-nous pas t" Among the deaths those of grim old Lady Kew , of cordial James Binnie, of h ear tl ess little Rosey, of our gentle, 'noble, knightly, "preux chevalier, et parfait gentilhomme," Colonel Thomas Newsome. Among the marriag es , besides the ill- s t arre d nu ptials of Clive and Rosey, of Barnes and Clara, of the last mentioned again (when divorced), with her first flame Jack Belsize, Lord Highgate—besides these we say, and the union of Lord Kew with Clara's sister, and that of M. de Florae with a daughter of the house of Higges, of Manchester, I and that of Sir Barnes with somebody else (name unknown), whom we are told, though we need scarcely have been so incited, to hope with the author that she avenges every one by bullying the Baronet, her husband—beyond all these, we say, the tardy but inevitable knitting together in wedlock of the lives and fortunes of Clive and Ethel. Yes—all our anticipations, aspirations, hopes, desires, in their regard have been to the full at last mast hap pily realised. Rosey, as we have remarked, dies —she dies in childbirth, through a paroxysm of rage, jealousy, chagrin, despondency, and indig nation. Clive is left for a while to lavish all his tenderness upon his little one—" Boy," otherwise " Tommykin"—but not long afterwards is per mitted to share that love with another, the darling of his boyhood, of his youth, of his maturer years, Eth e l, once th e gay, now the gentle, the tender, the loving, the love-worthy, always the noble-hearted, noble-minded, still the beautiful. They are united at last, but only when the great joy of their union is saddened inexpres sibly by the knowledge that the noblest soul in all the world is taken from them—the kindly, the brave, the simple, the lofty spirit animating the beloved familiar form of the grand old Colonel. What appears to us the distinguishing peculiarity of " The Newcomes"--which, by the way, with all our admiration for "Vanity Fair," and all our love for "Arthur Pendennis," we are fain to regard as Mr. Thackeray's undoubted masterpiece—is the circumstances that among its dramatis personas there are so many creations so entirely loveable. There is queer, honest old Fred Bayham, for example—faithful friend to the very last, through all his preposterous eccentricities. Even vulgar, hospitable Mr. Sherrick, wine mer chant and bill-discounter, has a dash of hu man cordiality in his coarse hebrew-cockney nature, that admits him to no small share in the ample disbursements of our friendship. Then again howsufficientlycanvre speak, in terms of affec tionate regard of our cherished favourites of old— Arthur Pendennis, and his Fidus Achates of the Temple, glorious George Warrington ; and asso ciated with them our delightful, and inimitable, and altogether incomparable M. Paul de Florae, Due d'lvry and Prince de Montcontour. Nor have we lost our remembrance of the manly, gentle heart of the young Earl of Kew, or of the noble qualities, blended with all the blunderings and peccadillos of poor, erring Jack Belsize. But with them, and above them all, how can we speak in terms of ade quate tenderness of our gallant and noble Clive, and of that paragon of the whole book— the epitome of the every excellence of a gentleman—Colonel Thomas Newcome ? Colonel Newcome we regard henceforth in English Litera ture as one among the foremost in that list of worthies among whom must ever be enumerated the Sir Roger do Coverley of Steele and Addison, the Parson Adams of Fielding, the Uncle Toby of gterne, the Doctor Primrose of Goldsmith, the Austin Caxton of Lytton, the Tom Pinch of Dickens—names beloved and honoured whenever thought of, and thought of often with a kind of romantic tenderness, memories henceforth to be associated in our regard with the loving recollec tion of the Colonel Newcomo of Thackeray. As we have in other words already intimated, the double number now before us, terminating the story of the Newcomes, is the very crown and flower of the whole serial. There are scenes described, and incidents related in it, that, to our thinking, are in their way veritably wonderful. As, for example, the scene descriptive of the sud den appearance of Ethel in the family group of the Clive Newcomes, or as in the homely incidents of that memorable morrow of Christmas, upon which Clive's wrath descends at last upon that fiend of a woman the Campaigner. The death-bed scene in the poor Cistercian brother's room, where the Colonel beats time on the counterpane to the clink ing of the chapel bell, and then, as it ceases, cries " Adsum !" breathing his last as he utters the old schoolboy response—" and 10, he, whose heart was as that of a little child, had answered to his name, and stood in the presence of the Master." All this is entirely exquisite. So exquisite, so true, so natural, so eloquent, that we close the volume, not without a pang at parting from it—looking forward to the time when we may resume, under the shadow of these yellow leaves, our privileged commune with the author of " Vanity Fair," and " Pendennis," and " The Newcomes," a writer whose genius has embalmed his name in our hearts in the conserving aromatics of our gratitude and our admiration. TAILORS' LABOUR AGENCY. Yesterday, according to annual custom, nearly 200 persons of both sexes connected with the Tailors' Labour Agency —an institution founded by Mr. Dunn, in New' ington-eauseway, a few years ago at his own risk, but which has proved of the greatest advantage to a nume rous body of workers—dined together at the Rye House. As some of our readers may be unacquainted with the objects of the agency, we will give a slight sketch of its objects. The design of the Tailors' Labour Agency is to conduct its business on a principle which will be fair to the producer, the distributor, and the consumer of the article—a principle by means of which the customer may obtain all he ought to desire for his money, and the workmen all he is entitled to for his labour. It is called a Labour Agency, because the employer merely ocau pies st oft o h o ep o o m si e t r ion and a the dis workman,tributor, and, renders a ng between the an account of the price charged on each article, aiasnn taken end ke a n t to fair hat what n p o i is persono termed portiou the receivesf the o e r a e t l 7ll:g fi o sy stem, ' r t's kT ' ht aah h a v e Earl fth c are t p e ti ea t e able to perform himself. The "agency" has been in. operationlent purposes six d iyears, theira a i ,a d ai siscau t aa h tcpt e cs:seeb b lghl e seo s .l itd.osolepftrdrhmou‘aaorcatfiennooal Wire, theytmhti rheoeedhi accommodating i b n benevo lent e2voo ch s reading-roomusedp le ny o t e u pd n r en library, bd t r :ad: evening. This is , d and ay alta other 7 ya't lectures, which hgfapu f urnished rlynrenesit: S haftesbury, ncrj r and y mw m h s hoil at b Mh n v e been r na. occasionally A:cwwe'aeelsleiliico-tscnuehairoesresnw e an fi, d tid e t lc e eediag e ly ' 0 a rep lir r Edwards, the able and indefatigable secret ri ar a y m ; - th - e Rev. T. y, and the Rev. W. Cadman. Mr. Dunn, the appro priate. • ne founder of the institution, presided at the dinner andtabl m yesterday,thedi a da.nd Tailors' and complimentary was supported by Mr. Mason per moat ity t Af ter dinner, the usual loyal theoasts having been given, Mr. Edwards proposedyLtoaahsotuorf Agency," which i;iPwreass enthusiastically responded to. In the course of Mr. Edwards's observations, he remarked that the aye. rage weekly earnings of first-class men in the winter months was from 1/. 7s. to 1/. 155.; of the second class, from 18s. to 11. 7s. In the summer the first-class men earned per week 1/. 15s. to 2/. 45., while the next class realised 1/. 7s. to 1/. 125.---the maximum of the winter being only the minimum of the summer. Mr. Dunn, in sketching out the various objects he had in view, stated that one of the first importance was to secure about five acres of freehold land in a healthy spot, a short distance from town, for the erection of a workshop and houses for the workers ; and also, that it had been resolved to enlarge the reading-room and otherwise to improve the institution. The announcement of each of the proposi tions was loudly cheered. After dinner the whole com pany partook of tea, and the evening's amusements ter minated with a dance. The whole of the proceedings were extremely gratifying, and were characterised by a sense of order and propriety highly creditable to all per sons present, and which must have proved a source of unalloyed pleasure to its philanthropic founder. The late M. Salamon Rothschild, of Paris, has left a fortune of 2,500,0001. sterling, which will be divided between.hia two nephews. I' . Ste t . r? 0 1) , Lld pa. 3k 23 2k 92 61 2 20i 31# 4 T 4