The Sun. — London, England, 1855-08-15 00:00:00

It and a• t 13 011 Y stoo l° s bec °111 :„ . „ inks u- 6 4 tes , ateS Iroo d 0 ,, fig ;o prep3 i o o , 0 i ?It Jab 24tt f o 0 e el , t s t to ty ed bi o oflt r to tie s~ a 0, ;0 0 0 03 4 $ll isel0; 0 0 r a I O°F. 0 ls l 'oo 4 tbef i doi t? 0 0, 0 5, de 0 1 41 '6 O _ 4 P O f .0b 13" :r. fo" f . il potoe* irT 71 ., 4 . 7,:r Tr- A Arm r r AND CaALVERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. TIIE TURKISH LOAN. Ace n CITY, Two o'CLocK. f eel to app o i n t ment, t h e cap it a li s t s w h o ott:usP°Bed to take a n i n t eres t i n th e l oan f or th e the "elan Government assembled at 10 o'clock at enc sz.l'eside of th e T ur k ish Ambassa d or, M . Mu tie folow • .l ni g t gentlemen being amongst b those the Sir Alexander Spearman, on behalf of lent English Government ; M. Baudin, to rep,e -1114 of nth Government ; Baron Rothschild Meyer Rothschild of Frankfort, ;Itarrea Goldsznid, Mr. Florsley Palmer, Mr. Lapel, t 1 zielji , the Deputy -Governor of the Bank of ' to g ant i) Mr. Mullins, and others. The proceed- Itielic4nnienced by the Ottoman Minister reading 1, (1 the following ' I I3T I MLA.ItS OF THE PROPOSED LOAN. e loan to be for five millions sterling. 444114 e int erest to b e a t f our per cen t . per annum , P -4ad 44,1 moietie s , h a lf -yearly, on the Ist of February FNee 6 ' of Aucrust in every year, until the capital the first c.ary 1 8,56 Payment to become due on the Ist of ‘ 3. 11 1... 1 ,. addition to the interest of four per cent., t a e I.ll C4 ltin d of one per cent. per annum, together with the be i r odee '' on so much of the loan as shall from time to t i me . , 1 4. Thal, will be applied in redemption of thecapi a o l n whol interest and sinking fund are made a charge spurvenues of the Ottoman empire, and sp ecially . 144,„-,.l amount of the tribute of Egypt which re he i v er and above thepart thereof already appropriated 4, 4, a ',°, 4 1 0 of 3 ,000 000/. ne ,, •otiated on the 24th August, Moreover: on the 'customs of Smyrna and Syria. • t att oe d . °, due and regular payment of the interest is . guaf %ski. °Y kngland ad Franec, under the authoilty o 1 , 1, 48 ed by the Legislatures of the two countries. d aYB of payment and the proportion of the 0 4 htnt ' °llB to be paid are as follows : - or before 22d August t, 12th September ..... 20 ~ 3, 20th October 2O If 23C1 November l5 ~ 14th December l5 ~ 15 0440 a. 251 t allowed January, 1856 . 10 , h ! i ° l l. 414 will be allowed for any payment in antici totind4ll4llcsliorPaYments are , to be made to the Bank of • '4l4eriberiP receipts Nri h be delivered by the Bank %,,eoSpo„ the interest, exchanged acminst certificates, 11;va4icl 1 . 1 ; i l l or when the t 'whole instalments 9:orhfletglioante.drest, as it becomes due, will be paid at the Z l : te ' b en ' ei lle nz Si o n ti ki t o ia g fund will be applied from year to year, f A st 1859, either in the pur theq Certificates le P o Loan in the public market, or, te„ lt k ° 4 l) ,,, t i, i°4 of the s ° Ott the man Government, in paying off -re eert . 6 . .t Of b e ea et! as o shall be drawn by lot in the pre it4Z 81 . 44: e _a_lef cashier and chief accountant of the Bank N i e dlatel y n e some one day i the month of May next / 11 aqic e P ,o r t . Preceding the Ist o o f f n A t August in each year, and h certificates so drawn 'T ci rcal,° the L n o u n m do e n rs G n a ci -r i t n te, r i d in some news 11°10itioll t.liekea t er.est g Oran. Ltobnedocertificates so drawn, together the W leg Dit al, will be payable . on Ist of August next ttifinell drawing, after which clay all interest on 10 ''ates so will cease altogether. to,lt Patties (1 00 IN with the for uch loln must enter into M•n s ister fur payment of the the 0 tt, o ' 1 11 e I'X t several ma instalmenti. Drioirti,e4l:4-oef failure of payment of any instalment at o t , 14 44 _ irated for that purpose, the. deposit and all N!quaeots shall be forfeited for the service of the ! Tlieveent* shall have a right to tttp, r O ttoman Government recle enle t he amount of the . certificates then remain c„4,t of _ et at the expiration of twenty years from (~gust, 18,9, yl o;',‘o,Man Minister will .be dto receive n ‘P i 'e foregoing conditions for e prepared loan at the here such tenders must be presented ei°e- Precisely ° e r n e Monday the 20th day of August." We re gasno formal discussion as to the terms, s. , ec nrk 'e l Planations publicly asked ; but in the . 7 4 41, 1 , 1 a c onversation among the various ca t pi- N0: 4(1 . the representatives of the Bank and the tjernnients, it was urged that, as a general ,se e investing public did not like " scrip b . e Ver i - ee ds, and that, consequently, it would kit delitrable to issue the stock periodicall .t y, as 14 1 ge a8 (1 41 : Was paid upon. In answer to this Ntl.:• uat it would. be scarcely possible to get was the 11 Per„ Is h e d under two or three months, as the ti ke, a - "g t 'aving, and signing would occupy that nothing could be done until the con -9allC• ie cided i n t o w h a t proportions they would It bonds divided. hj Was th e b tak en M. Musurus that the loan must .h f or the Whole amount, and it will be seen tDe abo ve statement that the dates for 1 4 $ Ith""annents are tolerably prompt, show -1 " t at the loan has been deferred to ;I:ta • latest possible moment. The inducement i t ''°3' Y ed - b P t he entire sum is to a certain extent d but the non-allowance of any discount, bu ' ee desire to secure the stock forthwith, .they l Zpitk ßill ti n ° t he 4 per cent. interest on the nominal j c ,. t 100 i. We say nominal, because it does ;;w that the exact contract price will be 11°11 , , cas h for a b on d re presenting ono hundred t7ti o3'l,ll 8 ' ; (31 1 the contrary, according to the esti- Z 1 '; 1 ; 11 ` W hich the contractors hold the security, •'a res ne cessarily offer more or less than the re• -itle• a' The interest being payable on the Ist li kty t 01.37 offers a small bonus, for, supposing a P~PaY the tot a l subscription on the 22d inst., ct4l i t t h alf a year's interest, although his ea "NZ, ' llo t have been invested more than five Ip nd nine days. ! i 4 k' e }: titn atinc , the probable value of the new st °ck, we have to take into account not '"o ope ne -e guarantee of England and France, but 4 ie - q h l.4tio n of the sinking fund, and it is of little `) .. -- i e ; e cti to the subscribers, however important )4414:,.'h t axpayers, whether the Ottoman Go- Zaalt ever pays a farthing of the interest. The -4 2 Y 1: - E ngland is close at hand, and there t w h e sl 're the dividend will always be for 1 , 1 ,, w e - ,, W , he n due. We have no apprehension, t ve t Vlat the Ottoman Porte will fail to act , ; 1141 :t spirit of the bond, and even if cir: a a. on -Ce should at any future time oc . ca del ay in the receipt of the Egyptian "Ocl t t e l ', O r a fallinc, off in the customs t he 131,-4el. revenues that would temporarily impede b 111 Ze einlittance of the required sum, we may e te al(l 7' ,„ at the British and French Governments nil of be long under advance. The question '"/ 's a cle of our City capitalists is how long Tur ag (lisPense with another loan if the war th e i t 3 slow length along," as it has done dur 111 ; Pre Selat year, and although under due I ce 'tto rv i „ s ` o ns and with the exercise of greater ti toleg-'l5 five millions may go a great way, the b e elaerience of war expenditure warns us i not e th at unreasonable in our expectations, or to hope 11° 4,1 4%i h' Il i r t i ; eY, any more than ourselves, can do in -4,"eqt111,-es, and carry on the struggle without 'oe -A-i;e Item's. The favour now accorded . by t 4 4(1 -t..4ie(l G overnments gives them the r ig ht t er °t itl e to tie urge upon the Ottoman Poi to one mat its fi sca l '4 highest importance, viz., a revision of 4 'till s Y s tem, and the ado tion of such reforms t t at. ar l'est p the pilfering of taxes by officials left c'ii teifi li t el 4. l W ithout cont ro l. The thing may be "4e of .: 1 ° acc omplish but it will be to the acivan kl,llll4l7e Sultan and his peole that the effort ,Nethe m ade without delay, .the aggregate in "ht I,,,,t.,reaches Constantinople being much below • Tut reaches ~`"rl Ati o can conveniently raise. 4 the h nu aY next the tenders are to be presented dis tal atilt o f England, and the result will imme te 3' a~ontfter be Utl er - communicated, we presume, if any to . ace ePted. In all probability an arrange wil . l be la de e hats among. some of the leading capi llecta,,J°4l in one tender, but we, nevertheless, 60? In competition, as the loan is undoubtedly $ 7 1 :11a e v - ii ° ; 7lc ite, and there are three or four powerful k Ne ir i 0n , ( 7, e , 11 May consider themselves entitled by 4. 41 ba1'; ; - '° l l to come forward and endeavour, by t)4lr)aseTvnegs libyral.. terms, to secure the whole for rr, ancl friends.. The contractors of the l'as t "tkiBll calculate u for example, „ , a, —e a good claim, and that they may can Itutbar4,ll,l::°n being well. backed ; while Messrs. 'lat e " q "d might establish a footing by the pri alsief,„_c `'"' Ott- e they are stated to have rendered to fo re uroan Gov ernment. On the whole, there bcti. ; ead e il y e43 t tn ; ) to the concusion that the loan will Wi ll t g4t ,L e tl i oub a t 4 : l ll l3 a :tafair price, although the points ~ lave noted in the course of our remarks Weigh with capitalists. Th e cotto n t of id. market at Liverpool yesterday closed to 11' at all advance in American 1) 4 1 4 Per lb. The sales were esti a m n a d te S d u a ra t 12,0 n 00 . 1,000 ( A-Iu of which were taken for export n a am d ttlad Nara " 4Pecnlation), comprising 700 Per _ ; 2% Zullarn. (chiefly Sawginned), at 6/d. °l3tiall an d 1 )000 Surat. The Railway Share per lb. THE SON, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGITSI I 15, 1855. Market closed heavily, at about Monday's cur .', ,!, urin,ir - inark7t, for pu7)lic., securities, the destruction of Sweaborg having imparted con fidence. Consols opened at 91,- I for transfer, but lifv - e since been 997, as it is thought money will be scarcer. For account they have been 91 to Alxchequer Bills at 2d. have dropped to 15s. and I \ Bs. premium. The - New a per Cents. are 22 and the Reduced 91i to 92. Bank Stock has risen to 2141 and 215. ' The - Sultan steamer, with the rest of the Indian mail and China dates of June 10, has not yet arrived. She. left Malta July 30, and has been now out 16 days at sea. The voyage is generally made in nine or ten days, - and the contract time is eleven days. The effect of the terms of the new loan have been to depress Turkish Stock, although upon what precise ground we are rather at a loss to conceive, except that holders of the existing loan sell out in order to have funds at disposal to participate in the new loan. The quotations have been 932 to 93±, and are since 92f to Z. Sardinian Stock has realised 87, Peruvian is 812, and Buenos Ayres 56k. Dutch 4 per Cents. are 961 to 961. The following are the nominal prices of foreign stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 7 to 712 ; Mexican, 21i to 21± ; Peruvian, 81± to 821 2 ; ditto Three per Cents., 59 to 60 ; Portuguese Four per Cents., 43 to 45 ; Russian Five per Cents., 100 to 102 ; ditto Four-and-a- Half per Cents., 89 to 91 ; Spanish New Deferred, 181 to 19 ; ditto Three per Cents., 37 to 371 ; ditto Certificates, 41 to 41 ;. ditto Passive, 4 to 41. This is " ticket-day" in the Railway Share Mar ket, and attention is principally directed to the necessary arrangements for the settlement of the account. The principal lines are at an improve ment generally, and Great Western are not so heavy as they were. The foreign lines are very quiet, and Great Western of Canada are higher. St. John del Rey are firmer. Bank Shares are steady, and the Miscellaneous dull. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES ( From the Oficial List.) Bu 1n,..., done B Ink Stock .... ..... . 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuitias........ 3 por Cent. Consols Annuities 91 , 14 i 90i 18 1 ' , ew 3 per Cent. Annuities Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 ,_ Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth April, 1885 16 15-16 T, its , A , •ids Xlill'il Consols for Account, 6th September 9 li $ iii 21. £lOOO .I.xuntaii.w. _::sulb, 21d. 21000 ..... ,... l9 15 18 2500 l7 18 20 Small ~ .. 18 19 Exchequer Bonds 1858, 31 per Cent.... 10 :1 i Ditto 1859, „ ~. 100 i i PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. Brazilian Bonds 5 per Cent. Ditto New, 1852, 4 per Cent 951 Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent - 56 Peruvian Bonds, 4h per Cent.... Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent., Con. 1811 Ditto ex. all over due Coupons 4l Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Spanish Bowls, 3 per Cent — Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. TarVhll Buds, 6 per cent 934 1 23 t i 1 Ditto for the account I)ividends on the above payable in Wri , Ditch Exchange, 21 per Cent. 12 Gnil 641 5 Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates .. .. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols Ditto for the Account.... 9ll / LITERATUB E. The Wabash ; or Adventures of an English C7l - Family in the Interior of America. By J. Richard Beste, Esq. 2 vols. Hurst and Blackett. As delightful volumes descriptive of travel and adventure as we remember to . have perused for many a long day—a narrative, moreover, which we can conscientiously declare to be in our estimation not less instructive than entertaining. It has been with a peculiar sense of enjoyment that we have read from "preface" to "finis" Mr. Beste's amusing account of his personal experiences. And not of his personal experiences alone, but of those also of the various members of his rather nume rous family numbering altogether that omi nous total of thirteen, which is diminished to twelve before the travellers can retrace their steps from the interior to the Atlantic coast of the great North American Continent. It must be per mitted us to remark that, although wecommenced the examination of the work before us as entire strangers to the author and his companions, we did not complete its perusal without having ac quired from its pages a habit of regaiding each and all in that charming group—the wandering English gentleman, his lady-wife, and their youthful chil dren—with sentiments of affectionate interest — with feelin g s, indeed, not altogether easily distin guishable from those of actually personal friend ship. We cannot close the concluding volume, in truth, without finding our thoughts in regard to the author and hiS family involuntarily resolving them selves into an aspiration for their future wel fare, for their ultimate reunion, and for their continued and protracted happiness. It may be advisable to acquaint the reader of these critical remarks of ours, at once, with the constituent ele ments of this genuine English family Robinson — so far, at least, as we have been enabled to under stand the relative position and distinguishing characteristics of the roving household, now that we have carefully collected together divers particu lars in reference to the thirteen wayfarers, particu lars given by Mr. Beste, quite incidentally, as it were, or strictly par parenthese, but which we have taken pleasure in gathering up from their scattered position in the narrative, with a view to some such ulterior explication. Reviewing, in this manner, the whole of what we have here read in al lusion to the author and his co-voyageurs, it appears that, strictly speaking, it was in quest of health for an ailing daughter, andl of fortunes for his younger sons, that Mr. Beste adventured, when he origi nally undertook this rather extraordinary expedi tion. Extraordinary it must undoubtedly be admitted to have been, when we have remarked that the bead of the family, an English country gentleman, then residing at Bordeaux, determined, as it seems to us, somewhat suddenly, though at the same time without anything like undue preci pitation, to take ship at Havre, and after travers ing the Atlantic, to move onwards by railway-cars and river steam-boats, and other conveyances when necessary, into the remote interior of some of the back states of the North American Continent—not alcne, not accompanied by one or two fellow tra vellers, but having with him, we will not say, as encumbrances, but certainly as sources of the weightiest of ales maginable responsibilities, a lady wife and not e than eleven carefully nurtured and some of them delicate children. The leader of this goodly party seems himself to have been conscious that his enterprise might be re garded by many as somewhat Quixotic. How ever, he manfully deprecates any such repre hensive imputation, and while doing so, avows the existence of certain occult reasons of his own, not here explained, impelling him to the apparently eccentric course already described—wherefore the most captious censor of other men's doings amongst us, must perforce hold his peace, if only from motives of decorum : permitting Mr. Baste to judge for himself in a matter over which lie alone could by possibility be said to possess any positive right of adjudication. Well, whatever his motives—and two of them, all-sufficient motives of themselves to our thinking, he has already, as we have intimated, explained ; namely, a search after health (happily not in vain) for one of his dangle tern, and after fortunes (ultimately, let us hope, too, quite as effectually) for, two of his sons—Mr. Beste quits the coast of France (May, 1851) on board that excellent teak-built vessel the Kate Hunter, Captain Parsons, commander, leaving with him his wife, and eleven of his children, the latter numbering amongst them five boys and six girls, or let us say (place aux dames), more explicitly—Catherine, a young lady of twenty summers, with her younger sisters, Ellen and Lucy, besides twins (Agnes and Louisa) of thirteen, and Isabel, a darling little cherub of nine, with laughing blue eyes, and "a wilderness of pale, pale flaxen curls," who is left by the rest, when they return homewards, in the green grave yard of the Wabash, in the recesses of the lovely State of Indiana, and with these six fair daughters, sons, as we have said, to the number of.five, in cluding Kenelm, a youth of sixteen, Frank, aged fourteen, Constable, ten, a little boy of four, and a two-year- old baby-boy named Bruno. Such were the members of the English gentleman's family who quitted Bordeaux on the 2d of May, 1851, and after penetrating as far into the interior of America as the fatal Wabash bottom in Indiana, where they left, as we have seen, one of their cherished treasures under a verdant hillock, re turned some months later by the Asia steamer, as we find amusingly intimated by our author, while he mus ingly turns over the exorbitant bill of the Vic toria Hotel, Euston-square, to, in more senses than one, dear old England—sadder from some of their recollections, wiser from many of their experiences. Eleven children, we have observed, have been among the companions of our principal traveller in these curious peregrinations across ocean and continent, but with these, too, what numerous and weighty encumbrances —heavy packages by way of luggage, including among the m (p ar exam p le) three substantial cases containing altogether 784 pieces of plate for table, knives, forks, - spoons, dishes, sidk_ , -.;isile3, cream jugs, et cetera, et cetera, the whoL3 paraphernalia of the buffet and the byittery, and with all this lOggage such an astonishing asseua ,blage of domesticated pets—a queer little lapdog, something between a yellow cur and a long-haired spaniel ; half-a-dozen canary birds in a cage ; an African parrot ; and the veriest oddity of an elfine dormouse ! About this latter curiosity, Mr. Beste tells this wonderful—. DREAIf-STORY. ,t • We had a dormouse, also," he says, " with a hairless tail,—for sail dormouse had a habit of escaping from it , LOX— and being once caught by the tail, it had slipped its skin, which had remained, like a scabbard, in my wife's fingers. She had dreamed a dream about that dormouse, which I submit to the jud g ment of those curious in such matters. She had dreamed, some three years before, when this dormouse, who was called Sailor, had a fellow - p et called Soldier, that it said to her, ' Oh, Mistress, Sailor has beaten me so cruelly that I have been obliged to run away end hide in your box of worsted work.' Of course, when the maid came in in the morning to wake her mistress, she told her to fetch instantly the dormouse cage. The cage was open ; a small soot of blood stained its door—Sailor alone was there, and poor injured Soldier was missing. " Fetch the box of worsted !' " Ia vain it was tumbled over; no dormouse was to be found. Who would be so silly as to believe in dreams ! " Three weeks afterwards, a doll's cap was wanted ; the worsted box was again hunted over; 'and there, in a netted cap, used as a bag for loose bits of worsted, was found coiled up the missing dormouse. He was near starved, aml had eaten half the worsted around him. All this is a fact.' As to the Parrot, we must let our author describe his heartburnings on its account in his own words : " We had an African parrot in a tin travelling box, which I had often joyed to see the French porters, igno rant of its contents, bury under piles of baggage; but the malicious beast would not be smothered, and generally ut tered some scream which startled and caused them to re lease it from its confinement. I own that I had done all I could to cause its neck to be twisted, — with. the chance of going into Italy, I had taught it to cry a bas l'Autriche !" Viva Napoleon !' and I now la boured to make it say General Cass—hurra !' I fondly hoped that some or other contending faction would silence it for me; but there I now still hear it below stairs— whistling, whooping, and crying Vive Napoleon !' as if triumphant over me and all its own adventures." With such an entourage our author sets forth on his transatlantic wanderings. Scarcely has he planted foot on the quay at New York when he is struck by the abOminable aspect assumed by the mob of emigrated Irishmen, the beasts of burden in the large cities of tha Republic, well-to-do vagabonds who, judging from this description of them, appear to be the pest of the United States. Remember, the estimate formed of them by Mr. Beste is one eminently calculated to be dispassionate— seeing that Mr. Beste is a co-reli e ,aionisii in his cha racter as an Aglish Roman Catholic gentleman. Hear him speak, out of the fullness of his disgast, scorn, and indignation of these— " IRISH IN AMERICA. " Despised by the Americans ; themselves despising the blacks ; with their bellies full for the first time in their lives ; insolent in their looks ; extortionate in their de mands; oaths in their mouths ; free from all restraint of neighbourhood or parish priest; beggars upon horseback, they ride full tilt to ... Enough for the present. I would commit them to their clergy and the treadmill." To take the taste of these bitter words out of our memory, let us listen to - our author's ecstatic mention of his first Sherry Cobbler : " I met Captain Parsons in the street, and he took me into a little shop, hung with white and pink glazed calico, and in the centre of which was a clean counter and half a dozen bottles of wine or spirit, and insisted upon treating me to my first glass of American liquor. What would I have ? Sherry cobler," mint j ulip,' Or a ' brandy smasher,' —or any of half a dozen other delicacies which he named I chose the far-famed sherry cobler, and curiously watched the lad behind the counter squeeze a little lemon into a large tumbler full of small lumps of bright, transparent ice ; lay over them one or two bits of lemon peel (perhaps a dusting of spice, I am not certain no w ), cover the whole over with pounded white sugar, and then pour about a wine-glassful of sherry over all. He handed it to me with a glass tube about eight inches long. I was shown how to push this among the lumps of ice to the bottom, and to suck up through it the liquor there. I did so. The day was excessively hot, and I was fatigued by my walk and by wy exertions in fighting shy of Mr. Beebee's coal mine. I sucked it up to the last drop. Then, turning to Captain Parsons, I exclaimed, It is worth a voyage to New York to enjoy that r " We question whether any subsequent draught of the same delicious beverage could prove compa rable to that first nectarian tumbler—under which impression, will Mr. Beste forgive us for hinting to him, very execrably, that his aptest motto for the nonce might have been ne sutor ultra crepidam! It is pleasant to find the travelled Englishman paying the following wholesome tribute at once to the habits and customs of the United. States' men, where he observes of them : " Americans are cleaner in their linen and clothes than Europeans ; and though their sentiments of independence and common citizenship give them a manner and tone of equality, yet they also give them a sentiment of self-respect which prevents them doing what would lower thorn in public opinion." There is one descriptive extract we must per force add to those already transferred to our columns, the extract nobly and impressively de scriptive, descriptive in a reverent spirit, in a spirit at once lofty and humble, of the mightiest of the many mighty wonders of the New World, namely, of " THE FALLS OF NIAGARA. " The Great Horseshoe Fall was close before us. " Nearer—nearer came the waters. " Majestic, in the majesty with which they had reco vered themselves after tho hurrying . and chafing of the rapids on this the Canadian side, on—on they come ; peaceful, though rapid, river. The channel is here about half-a-mile broad ; and onwards--onwards came the ever flow of half the fresh waters on the globe. A rapid and peaceful river, on they come. Suddenly the earth, the solid rock-bed, fails beneath them. They spring forwards unsupported. The sun glances through them ; and they gleam with hues more than any emerald bright. For a moment they gleam ; and then down—down—down they go. A cauldron of froth and spray receives them. Clouds of white foam uprise from the rock-girt pit below, and hide whither they aro gone, and what has become of them, But therciagain—lower down still—one hundred and sixty feet below the ledge from which they had sprung; there again they emerge from the foam-clouds ; dark blue, almost angry black, though breaking occasionally into short, flashing waves—on they go indignant, on they hurry, they roll, they race from the scene of their discom fiture. They dig themselves a channel three hundred feet deep below their own surface ; and onwards, in that wild but narrow ravine, between those close overhanging rocks, onwards they hurry, they roll, they race from the scene of their diecomdturo. " But is it all over ? No ' • not so. Look above. There where yo marked them first come on majestically slow ; there where the rock-bed, cut away in the centre in the shape of a segment of a circle, or of a horse-shoe, fails beneath them ; there where transparent, emerald-green, they leapt from the pre,Apice and fell down—down into the foam-cauldron below ; there onwards, onwards still they come in their majesty ; there they leap ; there they fall. A sentiment of infinitude, of eternity, oppresses the mind. Onwards they ever come ; down, down they ever fall. So have they done since the world was made; so will they continue to do while the world endures. The voice of the Lord is upon the waters ; the God of majesty speaking in the thunder; tho earth trembled and shook : the Lord ruleth the floods : the Lord is king for ever.'" Another passage, a passage of considerably larger importance, we gladly append to the foregoing, ex pressive as it is of the liberality with which iLornan Catholics of real enlightenment can talk and think upon the subject of religion, remember as they do so, the all-embracing tenderness of true Christianity. It were well for the subjoined quotations from " The Wabash" to be conned alike, and that meditatively, by Exeter-hallites and by Ultramontanists. " The Catholic religion," writes Mr. Baste, " was mak ing immense progress in the state of Ohio. About one half of the population of Cincinnati is Catholic. Besides the twelve Catholic churches in the town, seven others were in its immediate vicinity ; and the religion seemed to be going a-head quite as much as everything else in the country. 'rho archbishop himself being an American, and a man of business and of zeal tempered by prudence and liberality, was highly spoken of by all the people of the state, and they seemed to be proud of him as a country man. His reverend brother partakes his views, and admir ably seconds them. " For however timidly the Catholic hierarchy in Europe ma y have allied itself to civil governments, and have al lowed itself to be considered the upholder of despotism and the foe to progress, Catholics in America are able to de clare, as M. de Montalembert has declared in Franco, that there is nothing in the spirit of their religion opposed to the spirit of freedom ; that the fullest civil rights may be asserted and exorcised by the most devotional mind ; and that religion and temporal politics are quite independent the one of the other. In the United States of America all religions have a fair field and no favour ; and Catholics there ask for nothing more. Where no man is taxed to s upport what he believes to bo another man's error, reli gious charity only can lead ono man to interest himself in the religious opinions of another man. The fire of religious discord must lack fuel where no religion can boast of state patronage. Nations and bodies of men do not quarrel or fight to get to heaven, but for the loaves and fishes to be eaten on the road, or for the full liberty of going thither by whichever road they fancy - - or elsewhere. The political principles of the United States are in accordance with these convictions ; and amid such the Catholic faith s pro „ pers. Lot th e gods avenge their own wrongs,' wisely said Tiberius. " Let each one mind his own affairs and pay for his own priest and doctor if he wants one,' says the .states man Agreed,' says the religionist—` I agree that the State shall look upon us as citizens only ; that it shall have no right to inquire, and shall not inquire, what are cur indi vidual opinions, or whether we believe ourselves even to have souls or not • but I myself do believe in ono parti cular religion, and I think it nay duty to try and persuade others to believe it also. " Practise, teach, preach whatever you like,' reiterates the statesman—' I, as a statesman, am not particularly in spired to know whether your opinions are right or wrong ; and as a statesman merely I do not care. It is no affair of mine—provided only that you do not disturb the public I shall come down upon you all alike.' peace. If you do, I " Hurrah, for liberty of conscience !' cries the citizen. " Magna est veritas et prevalebit—truth is great and it will prevail !' ejaculates the religionist. " And, if it is not tr ue, it ou g ht not to prevail,' con cludes the philosopher.' " Having encountered the celebrated Father Theo bald Mathew at Cincinnatti, our author gives an account of the appearance presented to him by the venerable Apostle of Temperance. The account is rather painful than other rise, indicating, as it WHITECHATEL. Beef; 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 8d ; lamb, 4s 6d to 5s 8d ; veal, 3 s 8d to 48 8d ; p or k , 3 s 6 d to 48 6d per 81bs. by the carcase. LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, Aug. 11—Wind this day at noon, W.N.W.; light, with dull sultry weather. (PER ELEOTRIO TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday Morning. Arrived—Trefusis, from Middlesbro'; Cruiser, sea ; Love, London. LIVERPOOL, Wednesday Morning. Arrived —Chase, from Havana ; E m pi re St a t e , N e w York ; Inkerman, Quebec. Off—Amour, for Quebec. Sailed—Sarawak, for Philadelphia. QUEENSTOWN, Aug. 13. Wind, W.S.W. Arrived—Primus, from Leghorn. tide last hour's ebb ; wea th er fi ne . (BY SUBMARINE A ND Emma TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Wed nes d ay , 10 . 35 a . m . Arrived, Aug. 15— Seine , from Boulogne; Louise, Stralsund; Airdrie , Danzig . W Ar i r n iv d ;d lC , .A .W. u . g ; . 14—Hawk, from m em o. DEAL, Wednesday, 10.16 a.m. Wind, N.N.W., moderate. Anchored —Benjamin Buck Green, from Mauritius, for Loudon; brig Stratton, westward, for London. . . seems to do, that the lamp of the-good man's life is burning out only too rapidly under the influence of his exalted and exalting enthusiasm. We are fain to regard the picture as somewhat over-coloured.. There are several subjects, by the way, upon which our traveller discourses so very ingeniously, and with such novelty of argument and freshness 9 '• of illustration, that we regret exceedingly the limits of our space preclude us from submitting St. his ideas upon these matters to the scrutiny of our 123 readers through the medium of adequately ex- to tended, quotations. Debarred by the above-men- 13t tioned reason from transcribing the views enun ciated in these instances by Mr. Beste, we must 31 content ourselves with referring to the opinions expressed by him at pp. 238-239, Vol. I. on the subject of " Slavery," at pp. 163-164, Vol. 11., e 2 on that of the " Ballot," immediately afterwards 25 at pp. 165-166, do., on that of " Universal Suf frage," again on the latter subjects at pp. 173-175 of the same volume, later on, at pp. 305-307 upon. 10 . the matter of " Religious Equality," and, finally, in the second volume, at pp. 330-331, upon the 50 vexed question of a " Decimal Currency.' Hap- 50 pily, more suited to our purpose by its brevity, is the 20 jocular explanation given by our author of that 20 10 noteworthy Americanism— I 50 A GONE 'COON ! " It seems that some celebrated sportsman, some Ame rican Colonel Hawker, being out with his gun that was never known to miss its aim, espied a racoon in a tree and levelled his piece. " 'Don't give yourself the trouble, Colonel Hawker ;' said the poor animal. ' I know my fate. You never miss. Don't trouble yourself to fire. I conclude to come down to you. lam a gone 'coon.'" As a characteristic accompaniment to the fore going, let us present to our readers the subjoined sketch to the very life of " A GENII-INE 11-NITED STATES CITIZEN. 10 " A middle-sized, light-haired man of about forty years 50 of age ; with hollow cheeks and high American cheek 20 bones ; with long, lanky, brown hair that nearly hid his St. baldness ; with a round, bright blue eye, which he opened St. very wide and rolled about incessantly ; with an inquisi- St• tivo, intelligent, good-humoured and very animated look, St. Dr. Read thus stood by my bedside. With his two St. hands in his breeches pockets, his shocking bad hat St. upon his head, and a quid of tobacco in his mouth, St• which he twisted incessantly from side to side, while he occasionally squirted the juice to the floor on the other 12 side of the room, Dr. Read thus stood by my bedside and SO examined me ; and a bright, good-humoured smile played 15-1 over his plain but wide-awake features. My poor wife 16 5 was horror-stricken. She thought we had got a wild man St of the woods for a physician." No wild man of the woods, however, but a gentle- It hearted physician, Dr. Read proves to be—one who, Be standing by the bedside of the little patient Isabel, St. is more than once observed to turn away and brush 20 the tears from his eyes as he watches the uncom- 10 plaining sufferer. It must be admitted by the IV Americans themselves—most touchy and sensitive 50 of all known races of civilised humanity—that Mr. .10 Beste gives of them as a community a most amiable, 25 if a wholly unflattering, description. The entire nar- 25 rative, indeed, is wonderfully candid in every parti- 25. cular, even when explicit truthfulness would seem to , 12s be less practicable out of consideration for what St. the vulgar might be disposed to regard as simple St. conventional decency. Mr. Beste, being a pure- 50 minded and out-spoken man ,and entertaining strong N la opinions, and burning to express those opinions, and to do so plainly and honestly to the very letter, upon go all possible occasions, tells "the truth, the whole 20 truth, and nothing but the truth," be the theme of his observations a "cabinet d'aissance" or a political institution. The result is at times sufficiently St. amusing—calculated probably to shock the deli- 16 cacy of Citizen Jonathan, but dear to the 16 honest, homely heart of bluff old Farmer 8 Bull. Altogether, we must reiterate our E,.; panegyric on "The Habash"-the book is from 25' first to last thoroughly delightful : a work hence- 2 5 forth to be stored up after perusal in a favourite 50 corner of our bookshelves—thrust between the St. humorous Notes of our own inimitable Boz, and 12 the historical memorabilia of queer, old, incom- 10 parable Diedrich Nickerbocker. HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO FRANCE. (Front Galignani.) The approaching visit of the Queen of England suggests to the Pays some observations alike marked by good taste and justice. No one, indeed, who hears the manner in which the coming of the Royal party of England is spoken of by every class of per sons in Paris can entertain the slightest doubt that the reception of her Majesty will be in every re spect worthy of so chivalrous a nation as France, and that the enthusiasm of the Parisian population will nobly respond to the acclamations which hailed the presence of the Emperor of the French during his late visit to London. The Pays, in bearing the fullest testimony to the excellent feeling which prevails in Paris on the subject, makes the follow ing observations " The visit of the Queen of the ;United Kingdom of Great Britain is the last seal affixed to the alliance of the two nations. In this point of view, it must be considered as an event, the trace of which will remain in history. The enthusiastic reception which awaits her Britannic Majesty will be, on the part of our fellow citizens, not only an act of courtesy, but it will be a political demonstration. All the marks of respect which the French people will lavish on the august ally of the Emperor will be justly considered as a fresh and striking adhesion given to the policy of the Anglo-French al liance. In feting Queen Victoria, we shall celebrate the reconciliation of two great nations that have ex tinguished in a glorious fraternity of arms the remem brance of old discords, the seeds of which are for ever destroyed. The just popularity which is attached to the person of Queen Victoria will, besides, be expressed in such a manner as to leave no doubt in her Majesty's mind as to the sentiments which she inspires. France loves and respects the Savereign who presi3es with so much wisdom and dignity over the destinies of Eng land, and who, from her throne, sets an example of every virtue. The cause of the sanguinary quarrels of the middle ages disappeared with feudaiity, and the war which, at the beginning of the present century ab sorbed a part of the activity of the first Empire, had its origi❑ in the political situation of the old government, prior ti the French revolution. Forty years of uninter rupted peace between France and England have effaced the last bitterness of the struggle ; a new generation has risen up, which has not imbibed the milk of national hatred. The moment had arrived to repair by the cor dial association of the two most powerful nations of Europe the mischief which their enmity had caused in the world. This great idea the Emperor Napoleon and Queen Victoria have a,ccmplished. Thanks be to them for it ! Lord Clarendon said the other day in the House of Lords, to characterise the intimate union of the two countries, that there was no longer either a Free,ch or an English Cabinet, but a single ono; the members of which sat indifferently at one or the other side of the Channel, We can in our turn say that there will be only one people from the day when Queen Victoria shall have made her entry into Paris.' St. 10 St. 25 ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. Ito' - _ 20 KIDDERMINSTER. 20 The election for this borough, occasioned by the ap• 20 pointment of Mr. Lowe as Vice-president of the Board 20 of Tra,le, took place yesterday. There being no oppo- 20 sition, Alr. Lowe was declared to be duly elected. 3:', -- to HE RTFORD. • .20 The election to supply the vacancy in the representa tion of this borough, in consequence of Mr. W. F. Cow- 20 per having accepted the office of President of the Board 20 of Health, took place to - day. N o o pp osition was offered, and Mr. Cowper was declared duly elected. MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. A very moderate supply of English wheat was on sale in rendes were almost to-day's market. The a ttendance of buyers was limited, y ; indeed, so few yet the demand was steady, at M onday's decline in the quotations. We were well supplied with foreign wheat. All transactionsdese nominal. In floating cargoes very little was doing. descriptions o tookn s were pla c e excessively th th e h c e .u a r y Barley sold slowly, yet prices were supported. In the value of malt no change took place. The oat trade wcs dull, and late rates were barely sup ported. Beans, peas, and floor as on Monday. I Ait l iP7AL 8 Vila WHIM Wheat. I Barley. Malt. Enlllah ..850 1 620 2,030 Irish •• •• Foreign .. 6,211 Oats. flour. 300 1,040 21,500 240scks, SHARE MARKETS (THIS DAY.) R.A.ILIVLYI3. Pale.' RAILWATV. 100 kberdeca 8: kmbg. Noting. Bost. and Eastn. Junct... all rielfast & Ballymena.. all Birneing. Wolf J-13 Stour Valley Lsnesl.. & Chealdre all D. Che h. & Birk., 450 and £25 Cons. 1.0 Do., .... all Myth &Tyneoriginal £25 (lead. at £45) 1100. .Briotol and Exeter , 100 Caledonian. 61s. Carinarthen and Car digan al. Chester & Holyhead , all Cork and Bandon all Cork, Black, & Pass 16 Cornwall 1i ie 1 - Junction 45 Duolin&BelfastJunc all Dundee Perth&Aber deen Junction all Do. New. , .... . 100 East Anglian all Eastern Counties 100 Eastern Union, A Stock .. 100 Do., B. Sto.e . 84 Do., New 100 East Lancashire 100 Edinburgh & Glasgow all Ediub. and Peebles 100 Edin.Prth &Dundee 9 Forth & Clyde Jtr ‘e all Furness all Do. Extension 100 Glasgow& S. Western 100 Great Northern 100 Do., A. Stock 1 00 Do., B. Stock 00 Gt. Sth. &West.(lre ) 100 Great Western 100 Do. Stour Val. Rail Gua. Stk all Irish South-Eastern 1 all Lancaster & Carlisle' 14i Do., Thirds 7 Do. New Thirds 100 Laneash.andYorksh Do., Wst. Riding UD. all Liv.Crsby.&Southpt all London & Blackwal' 100 Lond.Bright&S.Cst. 100 Lond. and N. Westn, 16 Do. Fifths 5i Do.lo/.5h.,M&8...0 24 Do. Eighths 100 London andS. Wostn 47i Do., 450. 38 Do., £4O all I,ndnch-ry& Coleraine all Lndndrry. & Ennisk. 100 Manch.Shef.&Lincln all Do. f Shares, No. 1 82s. Do., Man. & Lin. Un 100 Midland 100 Do. Birmng. & Derby all Midld. G. West. (Ire,) all Do. Half Shares all Newcastle &- 233 Nwpt.Aberg. & Hrfd 8 Newry & Enniskillen all Newry Warrenpoini and Rostrevor 100 Norfolk 3i Northu.Counties Un 100 North British all North Devon, No. 1 all Do., No. 2 all Do., A Deferred all Do., B Gnarantee6 1.00 N. astern—Berwick 20 Do. do. Extension 13 Do.do. G.N.E. Parch. all Do. Leeds 100 Do. York all North London all Do. New £lO I.s N .&S.Wstrn.,framp stead, and City Jn In North Staffordshire , all North Western all N. &S. Westrn. June 1 Nuneaton, Hinckley and Leicester.. 'lOO Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton 8 Portsmouth 100 So,,ti;ish Central 100 ScottishMldlaud 100 Shropshire Union al. South Devon 100 South Eastern all South Wales 15 S. Yrksh. & Riv. Dun 5 Do 1.4 Staines, Wok. &Wok al. Stockton k Darline 16 Stockton Hrztlepl 100 Taff Vale 9 Do. £lO shares 100 Do. Pref., No. 1.._ 21i Thames Haven Doc!: and Railway Ulverstone & Lanes all Vale of Neath all Watcrfd. & Kilkenny all Waterford&Limerick all West Cornwall 5 West End of London) and Crystal Palace all West London. all ,Wimbledn &Croydon FOREIGN. all Antwerp&nott-rdam 4 Belgian Eastn. June 10 Be viers to Grai ESC ssac 4i Bombay, Baroda, and Central hub a,Scrip all Demerara 10 Dutch Rhenish all Eastern of France 10 Do. New all East Indian, g. sp. c 10 Da. EY lension all Do. 4i p. c. Bds., pay '57, convertible all Do. do. do., '59, do 17. ad. Tk of Cana,laA is all Do. St. Lawrence & Atlantic do. 70 Do. Cert. of Debut., con. into Stk. till '63 all Do. Comp. 6p. c., do. 10 Gt. Central of Franc all Gt. Indian Peninsula guar. 5 per cent. 1 Do. New 5 per cent 2 Po. Extensions...... all I Do, do 13 Groat Lux,n2bonr4 Constituted Shares alla - , Obligations I • ell Gt.Westorn of Canad Shares all Do. Bds., payable's7, with option till '55 all Do. Jo., '62, p.'56 all Do. do., '76, p. all Do. do., '73, without option all Hamilton Toronto all Do. 6 p;:r cent. 14 I Lake aoust. le Basle all Lucca tr. Pi3toja 6 p.c. _ . prof 10 Lyons and Geneva 14 Lyons 4 Moditerratn all Madras 10 Do. New 1311 .4 Maria Antonia lan Do. do. Now all Namur & Liege (with interest) all Do. (ox interest) all Northern of France all D o .20/. Shs.late Char leroi and Erquelinet guar. 3i p. c. & rod. at 2211. dur. 88 yrs. from 1 Jan. 1854 all Do. 201.3 p. (fmy . B. & Ams. Shs all NorweglanTrunkPre 16 Paris and Lyons all Ditto Bonds all Paris and Orleans all Paris and Rouen... 15 ParisCaen&Cherbrg. al boon and Havre . all Royal Danish 3 HoyalSwedish all Sambre and Meuse_ all Do. 51 p. cent. Pref. 2s. Scittdo all Southern of France 16 St. Andrew's and • Quebec (A)... all West Flanders all Do 5i per c. Prof 18 Western of France 16 Wept. of Switzerland all Wicsba,den 20 all Zealand JOINT-S' 11 tnstralasia 11 British Colonial Bank and Loan Company 11 British N. American 5 Chartd. Bank of Asia 4 Clutd. Brk. of India, Australia, & China 0 City 5 Colonial 0 Commercial of Load 11 english Scottish and Australian Chart._ 11 Loud. Chart. Bk. of Australia 5 Ditto New 20 10 20 35 10 22 all all London and County.. London Joint Stock.. Lond. & Weatminator National Provincial, of England Do. New National of Ireland New South Wales Oriental Bank. of Corporation Provincial of Ireland Do. New Royal Anstraln.Rkg & Gold Imp Co South Anstr.dis Union of Jitlgtralia Do. New IMOD of Lindo2 L,,.. le losing Priam this day 24 - 25 43 - 43 ••• 8 - 8} 13 -- 13 15i -- 16 84 -- 7i 91. - 93 62 - 63; 11 - 13 8 - 10 of. "... ... .3i ••• ..• 14 - 15 11i - 11 73 - 75 55 - 57 9 - 9i 19 - 20 71 - 73 89 - 90 6i - 70 127 --129 103 - 105, 1 2 wi 58 • 60 70 - 15 7- 8 • 7 - 8 p 82i ... 83411 74 7* 98 100 98i 994 i id i - d 1 i 87 88 7 6 d C• 5 d 251 -25 i 7t 84 • - • 71 - 711 41 - 43 1] - 9 1/ - 21 50 - 52 29 ... 31 72 3 / 4 • 73i 7 3 12 - 13 48 49 48 par 6 6f . 6i, 1 - d - ••• ... 25 - 27 106 108 72 74 44 46 13i - 14. 61 62 30 31 4 3 2a par 39 - 41 • •• ..... .. 5 - 54 20i .1 21 3 - 4 20 - 22 5 - 7 3 - 21 9 1 1 - 10 3 / 4 24 --, 2 - 11 1 3 / 4 - 2 par 7 P 384 -- .39 12:1 —l3i 24i 24 2i 34 qd l 16 - 17; GI - 6G 914 - 956 4- 5 , 5i - 5 1 r iP - iP 3 --3 i 231 - 23 , 100 -- 102 112 -- 115 114 -- 116 fork 108 23A 24 114 116 . -at. 7 .... 87, 19i -- 20 p, lA - 2 p 7 - 9 2 -- 3 5 - 5i 361 121 - 12, R - 9 49 -49 p, 49 51 50 52 ... pro 27 29 19i aq 1i lid 9i 10 A -24 p ... -- pm ••• ."" ... - 4 - 4 12 ::: 13cip ••• '.. •• • _ "• iBi -19 i BANKS. 93 - 95 66 -- 68 d p d -- par Oi 10;p .1. ... 171 -- 171 19i -- 20 ct " 1 d 37 -- 88 I IP. •••• oil* ••• ••• 33 - 84 51 - 52 39a 40, 72 -- 74 8 9 lbow 81181110.11 dons this day. all 100 5 1 100 all all 2 100 1100 all 4,420 ' dull, antl Prices are fully Ns to tBO,OOO/. to 285,000/. • BOROUGH HOP. 20sT hpeersaclwetf.elrohweeprs. isDvuertyy, 111 I 1271 105 56 I 814 3 li i 73 i 24 10i 23i 4 PREFERENCE SHARES. Aberdeen ..... Do. N 0.2, 7 p. C. Blyth and.Tyno leper c. pref. (issd. at 50/, Bris. & Ex. 4 p. c. Do. 4 p. c. Shares Caledonian £lO Chester & Guar. 5A per cont._ Do. do. Pref. No. 2 Do. do. Pref. No. 2 Cork ttßandons Dun.Prth .4z Aber. J. Anglian Cis. A Sh. Do. do. Cis. B 6 p. c. IDo do Cls. C 7p. c. Castern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No. Do. No. 2 oe 94 99 = ioi 3 - 4 6 - 6i 1. - 1 - 1 3A - 14 IDo. New 6 r. c. St. East Un., G. 6 p. C. Do. 51., 10 ner cent. Do. 10. Dcbentr.Sh. Do. do. 4 per cent East Lancash. 6 p.ets E. &W. York. J. sths Ed. Prth.&Dun.4p.c Furness GO 62 Glas. &5.W.G.5 p.c. Great Northn. 5 p. c. Do. 5 p. c. Redeem., at 10 p. c. prom... Do. 4?). p. c D0.51).c. Scrip, Red at sp. Pm—. • Gt.N. of Scot. Ist Pre; Gt. S. &W. (Ireland) Do. 4 per c. Prof. St Gt. Westn. (Berks & Hants Ex. 5 p. c) Do, con. red. 4i p.c con. red. 4 p. c Do. irred. 4p.c. Do. Birm. Pref. Sh Do. Chester 8 p. c.P.S Do. do. 5 p. c, do Do. Birm. Gua. Stk Do. Ches. Gua. „Sh Do, do. do Do, do. do Lan. &York. F. £2Ol Do. 6 p. c. Stock Lon. &Brigh. G. 5 p. c. Do. Pref., 5 p. c. St. Do. New Guar.6 p. c. Do. do. 5 per cent Lon. &N. W., Coy. Nuneaton 5 p. ct Lon.& S. W. Con.3de Londy. &Color. Sh. Londy. &Ennis.*Sh. Man., Shef., & tin Now, £lO 139 - 121 [ll - 113 LO5 107 94 - 9t 6 - 64 9 6 - 98 8 5 - 87 87 - 84 10 - 11 17 - 17.3 10i - 10$ 74 -76 19A -20 i - 104 14i - 154 r 136 - 138 ••• . m. •N ••• ... .. 2f - 3i 131 13j' 0 - iP Do. .e 6 klatypt .&Carl.4p o Do. 4i per cent Do {id. Consol.6 p.c.St Do. Consol. Bristol Birm. 6 per cent Do. 42 p. c. Pref. St Do. Pref. 43 pm. cen Do. 5/. Prcf. 4 p. c Ditto Leicester and Hitch on Pref. St... !Norfolk Debenture :D o.Pref. 4 p. c. Stoc: 1130. 5 p. c. ETA Do. 5 per ct. prof._ ,Do. Way. Val. 5 p. c. "North British (36 138 97 —9. j et par 4i 4.4 N. E. Berw, 4 p.c. P Do. do. do 104 - 106 95 -97 31 - 4i Do Leeds 6 p.c De. do. Quarters 4S. Do. York IL& S. Per. North Staffordshire. Oxford, Worcester, Wolverh. £l5, 6 p c Do R. Prof. 101. Sh. Sc .• - - 105 - 110 :ot. Cent. ,New Pre; South Dovon Do, fixed,44 percent S. Eastern (Readily Ann.) of Os. 6d. Do. 4A per cant S. Wales Gua.4 p. c Do. do. 44 p. c S.Yorksh.4p.c.Ginar Stock. & Dar., 5 p. c Do. do. do Stock. & Hartl. g. r. 0. till July 1, '56 ;Illaterfd. & Kilk. 6 p c ••• 143 id -- p ar 231 2441 101 103 I 100 all all tall all 16 -18 2 - 24pj ••• ••• 3 2Ad MISCELLANEOUS. 25 1 174 Australian Agrieult. 29 30 1P 1 all Auslraln. Royal Mail 1(1 7 Berlin Water Works 2 1 ;el 50 40 Brit. American Land 1 .63 62 5 1 Brit. dt Coln. Smeltg. and Reduction Co 100 32i Canada 133 136 St. 1.00 Canada Gov. 6p. et Jan. and July 114 115 5 all Crystal Palace.. 2s 2' 2 5 5 Do. Preference 5 5 * 4 all CrystalPal.of France 1 Duston Iron Ore 20 11 Eastern 5team........ 25 23 Electric Telegraph... 17.1; 18ti' 1 all 'Electric Teleg. of Ir. 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat. 20 all General Screw Steam 18! a 20 10 Irish Beetroot Sugar 20 10 Magdalena St. Navig. 10 all Mediteran. Elec. Tel. 10 9 Mexican&S.Americn. 6 64 10 2i Do. New ••• ••• 1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel 10 5 Netherlands Land 3 .1 - 2 1 N. S. W. Coal c 4 Inter Steam Navigat. Co 1 all N. B„Amstralasian — 1 2G 15 Nrth. c Europ e Steam 1 all Oriental Gas lh all Peel Rr. Ld. & Minrl — 24 50 all Peninsular& Oriental 68 70 50 10 Do. New ..• 2 all Portland Iron C 0..., ll 2 100 60 Royal Mail Steam ... 82 1 all Scot. Austral. Invest. 1 11; it 1 Ditto New — 25 all South Austral.lancl 37 1 all Submar. Tel. Scrip — 1 ' all Do. Itegistorea. a 1 5 ['rust& L. Co.U. Can. 5 0 , , rau Yon( 1.2 a DEATH OF GENERAL BOURSE. General Sir Richard Bourke, K.C.8., whose sudden death at Thorufield, Castle Connell, near Limerick, was announced yesterday, was son of the late Mr. John Bcnrke, and was born in 1777. He married in 1300 Miss Bourke, youngest daughter of Mr. John Bourke, of Carshalton, and Receiver-General of the Land-tax for Middlesex. The deceased entered the army in 1798, as ensign in the let Foot, and the following year served with his reOment in Holland at the Helder, where he was severely wounded in both jaws, after having participated in the actions of the 27th of August, the 10th and 19th of September, and tho 21 and 6th of October. On his reco very he was placed on the staff in England, and was for a short period Superintendent of the Military College at Mar low. In 1806 he was appointed Quartermaster-General in South America, and was present at the actions of the 19th and 20th of January, 1807, at the siege and storming of Montevideo, and in the expedition against Buenos .Ayres. He also served with the British army in the Peninsula in 1309, 1812, 1813, and 1814. In 1825 he was ap pointed Lieutenant-Governor of the Eastern district of the Cape of Good Hope, and conducted the government of that colony till November, 1829. Sir Richard, in 1831, was appointed Governor-in-Chief of New South \Vales and Van Diemen's Land, which he held up to December, 1337, when he resigned. He was created ed Kniuht Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1835, in conside ration of his military and civil services, and in 1337 he obtained the colonelcy of the 64th Regiment, which be comes vacant by his death. His commission bore date as follows :—Ensign, Nov. 22, 1793 ; Lieutenant and Captain, Nov. 25, 1799 ; Major, Aug. 27, 1805 ; Lieu tenant-Colonel, Sept. 16, 1806 ; Colonel, June 4, 1814 ; Major-General, July 19, 1821 ; Lieutenant-General, Jan. 10, and General, Nov. 11, 1851. TEE LATE ACCIDENT AT CREMORNB GARDENS. The following is a list of the unfortunate soldiers who were injured on Monday night by the falling of a stage at these gardens, and who are now lying at the Military Hospital of the Grenadier Guards, Rochester-row, West minster : tins T BATTALION. James Gillespie, contusions of the knee. Henry Dear, sprained ankle, contused loins. Win. Tunnidge, sprained knee ; bayonet wound on hand. James Elliot, sprained back • bayonet wound on head. Thomas Wallbank, sprained ankle and severe contu sions on different parts of body. George Smith, scalp wound, and wound on back (uot very severe). William Barker, contused chest. Charles Tipper, bayonet wound through shoulder (very severe), and contused knee. James Gould, sprained ankle and contused bsck. John Walker, contused knee. William Hoare, sprained back. Samuel Gatubleton, contusions of back. John Langston, sprained ankle. William Malt, contused knee and side. SECOND BATTALION. James Sherwood, bruised back and contusions on head. John Newman, sprained ankle ; bayonet mound on finger. Grant Hodder, contusions. William Blake , b a y onet wound through nr asele 9 o f neck, very severe. Bailey, Tower Hamlets Militia, contused loin AT ST. GEORGE'S HOSPITAL. John Cralley, artilleryman, severe bayonet vround on arm. John Colwell, artilleryman, severe bayonet wound on arm. James Sergeant, artilleryman, bayonet wiuunds on head, arms, and hands. William Stones, Grenadier, severe injuries of body. William Sharp, Grenadier, both legs broken. It will be observed th at the most severe cases are those at St. George's Hospital, where the two last•ni.med suf ferers lie in great danger. With regard to th,e men in the Military Hospital, although the injuries of 'some are comparatively of Pm unimportant character, those of others are very severe, and it is not impossible% that the result may in some cases be fatal. In addition to these, seven men re ce i ved minor injuries, which were attended to in barracks. 100 100 100 100 100 100 12i 12i 12 St. St. 16 St. St. St. St. 17 20 12:! all all 10? 100 100 all all li all 104 3; 96 erhi-yrp..--..-_--•.--1-4.-ition SUN OFFICE, &c o'Clock. READING RACES, (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECN2IO TELEGRAM) FORBURY STAKES. Curious .... Cardiff Lass .., 1 Five ran. 60/. HANDICAP PLATE Bright Phoebus Tittermouse Nineteen -ran; INNKEEPERS' PLATE. Lucy Locket Octavia liothorpe Eight ran EBOR HANDICAP. 6 to 1 agst Saucebox (taken.) WOLVERHAMPTON RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH) STEWARDS' PLATE: Princes Mixture' Lady of Lodge Yewtick LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY-(THIS DAY.) The half-yearly ordinary meeting of this company was held this morning at Euston-square Station, for the transaction of the general business of the company ; the Marquis of Chandos, M.P., in the chair. The CHAIRMAN said he had no longer to call their attention to an increasing traffic, but a falling off in the most important branch—the passenger traffic. The diminution was from 704,0001. to 680,0001., which he thought was to be attributed much to the war dimi nishing the means of persons to travel. The di minution was not confined to stations where they had competition, but was observable in others, and he re ferred, in illustration, to the decrease of traffic at the stations between London and Layton. Another cause of diminution was the numerous new lines, and the altered position of others from recent legislation being brought into competition with them. Amalgamations had been effected, which the directors always predicted would be injurious to them, and the result had verified these prognostications. If they compared the traffic of the past half-year with those of previous years they would find that, when new channels of com munication bad been opened, they tended to di lute and but slightly increase the traffic of the district. The diminution of their passenger traffic might be divided into two heads, 20,0001. owing to the opening of new lines, and 12,0001. from a diminished traffic arising from what he had already alluded to. There was a large increase of income connected with the merchandise and mineral traffic, which it was gratify ing to find had been earned at a reduction of working expenses, arising from arrangements made by the direc tors, and the accounts showed the excess of receipts over the corresponding period to be 7,0001. Arrange ments bad been made to meet the reduction of passenger traffic, and the directors thought that, having placed a check on increasing expenditure, they might hold out hopes of reductions in the working expenses commensurate with its being carried out. The noble chairman alluded to the payment of 4,0001. to the Shropshire Railway over the usual half-yearly payment, which would be done for tko future until that account had been brought up to the date of all the others. After referring to the bills that had been passed this session of Parliament connected with this line, he adverted to the bill for improving the communication with Ireland, which ultimately would have to come specially before them before anything could be done under it. The rejection of the North Staffordshire Amalga mation Bill was to be regretted. It was intro duced into Parliament under a belief that it was a wise measure, believing from the position of the North Staffordshire Railway it could be worked in cordial co-operation with this line. It was with that view the company entered into arrangements with the North Staffordshire Company. The bill bad, however, been rejected a third time, but he hoped it would not render a less harmonious working of that line by the two com panies. By the arrangement between the two com panies, if Parliament rejected the bill three times on its merits, and not on formal points, the arrangement was to be at an end; and the bill having been rejected a third time, the board of directors considered they were no further bound by the arrangement ; but it had been asserted otherwise, and the directors designated repudiators in consequence of expressing such an opin ion. His lordship then entered into the details of the proceedings in Parliament, relative to the three applica tions for the bill, and said there could be no doubt three applications had been made, but denied there had been a suspension of either of them, as. had been stated, so as to make it appear there had been but two applications made to Parliament instead of three. He contended the applications had been refused by Parliament entirely on their merits, that of amalgamation, which was so understood by the North Staffordshie Company, and who were aware the last was the third application. The directors of this company, after reviewing the whole of the circumstances, were of opinion they had fully carried out their engagements with the North Staf fordshire Company, and tat the agreement was at an end. Mr. BooTH, ono of the secretaries, then read the re port, which recommended a dividend of 21. 7s. 6d. per cent. for the last six months, amounting to 535,865/. is. 2.1., leaving a balance of 6,950/. is. 6d. to be car ried forward to the next half-year's account. Mr, BENSON (Deputy Chairman) moved the adoption of the report. Mr. UPCROFT called attention to the high rate of in terest they paid for their money, which he considered arose from the directors settling it amongst themselves, instead of advertising for it. Were they to do so they might save 40,0001. per annum. Mr. HADFIELD, .11. P., said be thought the time was come when the directors should allow a deputation of shareholders to look into the accounts and ascertain the cause of the diminution of the dividend. He understood a committee of the Board of Directors had investigated the tul , jtct, and that they suggested enormous reduc tions. It was a notorious fact that whilst the traffic had increased in four years equal to one per cent., their dividend had decreased. There must be some cause for it which he wished to see explained. - 1 - ii3ft;r one did not consider the management of the line was what it ought to be. (Cheers.) The hon. gentleman proceeded to :make some remarks on the expenditure of the com pany, observing that the fighting expenses of this com pany averaged 100,00 C/. a year, which had to be paid out of revenue. (Hear.) He was satisfied one percent. of revenue might be saved from the expenses of the com pany. The committee he alluded to had taken oin evi tenon, ce, and be called on them to speak out. T he a pp t of the deputation he named was not intended as a vote of censure on the Board of Directors. Sir 11. WILLOUGHBY, M.P., called attention to the debenture debt, which amounted to 10,834,000/. with reference to railways. The CHAIRMAN said h o th e thoughtien recentlyili ri l c utid h esier g tele o ni nnt o tloo d rv;spe w awan o rod u lui l ia d lud. pro posed -deputation, been en ean l i t ,y lti t n h t e t t e i l l y en l: b e e e r if f e o c r te s d he b ffi y eid d iii .11), el:feser:litd.l eaanrdbeyyis alwaysNo wotiao. ir. .ftar;e b i tcitaexinel, pt: odod p cn po asaim s oit e doen ( d l ntdehtti t pier o auoilinlfnoagsalt tir e lhodl n tiel s i do, i o f dpiner'eirrutervliseewodfs entertained be most happy to mee o- I•d extensions generally, the board was that, as re believed O') p th o e s y ed ha to d t l e r i c:: doubt, excur.' • aeinuwdanasbenot there to approve moderated y y . 3' ears The used much t l c ) o i s m y l ve a a n r i . e 8 H . ' but now very much ed at some length into the general state of the throughout the countr bs board b p yehrasi experience, c i n • e e o: anything from raini t ,:no o rliu,lii,id t eti,u h ehe.apn e ryter holders, hut they wish to keep the knowledge of the share a ther. d mo tahneargreariillelaty, thing publicly known doubted f the policy of making every or the information of the public companies. A vc,ry lengthened r dl n c l u e s s s ' ion took place relative to the rate of fairs charged, and the ins- Policy of running excursion trains at so low a figure, and the i n t er f erence of Parliament w i t h railway property, Which latter it was stated, bad had the effect of placing this lin e i n its present adverse position. The report was then put and carried, and the dividend declared of 21. 7s. 6d. per cent. A resolution embodying Mr. Hadfield's views were then agreed to, and a committee of gentlemen nominated and agreed to. A discussion then took place relative to the rejection of the North Staffordshire Amalgamation Bill, after which the meeting terminated. CELEBEATION OF THE DUCHESS OF KENT'S BIRTH. DAY.—Yesterday, by command of her Majesty, a fine fat buck was sent from the Royal Park, at Windsor, to Kensington, as an addition to the grand banquet to be given by the Royal tradespeople at the King's Ara Tavern, Kensington, on Friday next, the 17th inst., to celebrate the birthda.y of the Queen's august parent, the Duchess of Kent, who on that day completes the 69th year of her age. In addition, a plentiful dessert a ordered to be furnished from the Royal The town of Kensington will be brillianq illFmmated. gardvis at . Kew. Preparations are also making for au illurawatown M the West-end. . PM PM ex div 232 4 47i i 1#