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

.....! ;lit i''' le [lO me' "if • at ; stea ille bec °lll. lA°4ll ,, ° ° ; es vitif t r , : o o g e ip • cic" oNEy ARKET AND COMMERCL4L INTELLIGENCE. TRE TURKISH LOAN. CITY, Two o'CLocK. f e e i. e P ra -ing to appointment, the capitalists who 00..'isPosed to take an interest in the loan for the the Government assembled at 10 o'clock at Itiur residence of the Turkish Ambassador, M. Mu praseBhe following gentlemen. being amongst those • th e t e t t :-""sir Alexander Spearman, on behalf of se tt thgelisph Government ; M. Baudin, to repre ko rench Government ; Baron Rothschild l ilt ; eta brother, Meyer Rothschild of Frankfort, 11 1% 1 1 C"eldsinid, Mr. Horsley Palmer, Mr. Capel, t4 2 r .t .. 2 ,3 ' e 11i, the Deputy -Governor of the Bank of -"`"' Mr. Mullins, and others. The proceed -410 p d the ckun f ollow by the Ott oman Mi n i s t er rea di ng e . ito rr i onn g '•- l oan OF OF THE PROPOSED LOAN. to be f or fi ve millions sterling Abl e i „ The interest to be at four per cent. per annum, Pay aioieties half -yearly, on the Ist of February deem lst of An . until the capital is N l ed ; t,_ first in every year, .„ 3 1 11. 1% first payment to become due on the let of t_kidition to the interest of four per cent.,_ a Sat 0 7 4 of one per cent.• per annum, together with the "°,ted ett g so ranch of the loan as shall from time to time ,1, eq, will be applied in redemption of the capi . the ,vzolfeertiterest and sinking fund are made a d c s ha e r e g i e aly n tokheoazii tileavienaunieosuonftthe Ottomanthe of tribtiteof empire,Egy and which P re • 441,10,1'a1id above the parfthereof already appropriated ?2mod, 3,000,0001, °f 3,00 0,000/. negotiated on the 24th August, ,* I,l:22loreover, on the customs of Smyrna and Syria. oN d i';_qre and regular payment of the interest - gu o a f tngland and France, under the authority % , 0 - 5 6, T he by the Legislatures of the two countries. iitionyB of payment and the proportion of the °4°l' bef4el3232pda,iAlegruse tas follows :'- 10 per cent. 1 2th Sept em b er 20th October 2O 7) 7 7 23d No vem b er l5 $7 14th December l5 Zte " t January, 1856 ~ 10 25th „ nt. 111 be allowed for any payment in a ici -7:44 ouch Payments are to be made to the Bank of k the latldearip receipts will be delivered by the Ban It'Pith totSoecribers, t o be exchanged against certificates, Ptid - P °l4 for the interest,when the whole instalments It 4 8 14111 lk O f t el°t erest, as it becomes due, will be paid at the % T h egand. "kin f d will be applied from year to year, ' o e r bei C e n t g t th g e le s h t - ofAugus . t 1859 either in the pur h. optio,.,acates of the Loan in the 'public market, or, IC! ktieh °f the Ottoman Government, in . paying Off W10 1( 4 th cer.tificates as shall be drawn by lot iia the re -1044 quef cashier and chief accountant of the Bank haNist e f ° ll some one day in the month of May next 4otiY Precedin g the Ist of August in each year, and 14 4 segf u c e Of the numbers of the certificates drawn ws. tO the London Gazettc, and in some ne 'NO° //d o t t ing in London and in Paris. „ 14 14,4; 0 ,,,`.°8t on the certificates so drawn, together - "eltal, will be payable on Ist of August ne on I,l7i4ttet-, drawing, after which day all interest ( killt;..P4 rt , : a s t o s drawn will ceasealto o g a e loan must enter into letott7azitii subscribingfor Ottoman such Minister for payment of the 4 1 . I: 1 °f the several instalments. ,(1/4ttie t t 'ille it e4 Se of failure of payment of any instalment a t 4:lBt4lPlnted. for th a t purpose , t h e deposit all e 4 Q l3:lel lt4 sh a ll b e forfe i ted for the service of th hO, I SO 4t b I:4 tornan Government shall have a right . to N1L,A1 t ,,`,., 41. the amount of the certificates then remain- S t ,, - `of - ",,ed at the expiration of twenty years from tqld'es ()knit, 1859. li stA lt° il a lao Minister will . be prepared to receive 't1,1 0 7 tligre foregoing conditioi d is for e be loan at the aclockBlafld, s must presented 2liereAl°ekllrrec(isevlheorne Monday the tenders e er 2Oth day of August." to7l,ter-eas fo Y rmal discussion as to the ' terms, Olt efePlanations publicly asked ; but •in the . t lo Nte 44: co nversation among the various capi rpl the representatives of the Bank and the , 74elents it was urged that, as a general e 1 4 _ 41a4 b v esting public did not like " scrip so 11 t1 j e ,,,, ti L t18 ,3 and that, consequently, it would be k i „4 l'.i3- "te to issue the stock periodically, as O t t ) /° , BB paid upon. In a nswer t o thi s it was )1 ' 4 4 i;" Would be scarcely possible to get th e k 41. 1/c e' under two or three months, a s th e Q )4 ta ckl r a ' °i ng, and signing would occupy that Ili, not t ng could be done until the con j 4, th e c 'cl 4othi ed int o what proportions they would 1 ) , 1 4 Ite.'etids rita „ divided. titi t o by M. Musurus that th e l oan mus t the 41,` the Whole am oun t, an d it w ill b e seen 44 'fetal4;6l.o statement that the dates for h e4 ta are tolerably prompt, show -1,: the loan has been deferred t o ICY litAjossible moment. The inducement by u e entire sum is to a certain extent de t kttithe - k tie t , e t he non -all owance o f any di scount, b u ttist.„tt,joy the to se cure t h e stoc k f ort h w i th, they kot tt i - nA e ., 4 Per cent. i n t eres t on th e nomina l l Opt f 011‘• We say nominal, because it does h hlthat th e exact contract price will be kI ek t q l ti jkls, (1 for a bond repr e s en ti ng one h un d re d 1 / 4 1 % 42 t he cont rary, accor di ng to the esti -11401 the cont rac t ors h o ld t h e secur i ty, - e,, i ef ' -es arily offer more or l ess th an t h e ,ht t :4 3 e: 13" hale int erest b e i ng payable on the Ist N a small bonus, f or , suppos i ng a At O pay t -e total subscription on th e 22d i nst., -4:01 b.o, f a year's int eres t, a lth oug h hi s ca ltl'e te c i"ave been invested more than five ;046 e days. 4 1 0 : 4 11 4 ..,„ -at , i4 g the probable value of the new tli:"e4; We have to take into account not t4t.,6l3trktrarantee of England and France, but tO te ile,, 4 of the sinking fund, and it is of little " s ' i. t e the subscribers, however important 14 4 Ne ttt il4 e: a PaYers, whether the Ottoman Go tlty?f payers, a farthing of the interest. The topc,4 su re is close at hand, and there we N R -re the dividend •will always be forth tO Itilett 0111 that • We have no apprehension, t he ' 4 e Ottoman Porte will fail to act : 40, ea of the bond, and even if cir hd delit:uld at any future time oc.ca tked, in the receipt of the Egyptian `4ti : 14 1er a falling off in. the customs Icekitt4Blrues that would temporarily impede ti l l, t hat : I ls e() of the required sum, we may be th .N liot b 7. British and French Governments e lo ng under advance. The question of :`0.. 1 1 ' sll r City capitalists is how long Tur ih 'NI • Vens e • t , , With another loan if the war pe slow length along," as it has done dur kolitie,lesellt :year, and although under due Y 4 Y, a' a nd With the exercise of greater to 1 ) : IN, may go a groat way, the ()ti e t hki 4 44., 4ce.of war expenditure warns us not 111)1414)4°4°441e in our expectations, or to hope 44 3' more than ourselves, can do im chti 4 ete la ; atid carry on the struggle without .I hed .'3.1,113* The favour now accorded by c tt e , l tle to c'verlinients gives them the right 4 4E'. tile high s upon the Ottoman Porte one mat- I gheSt tyhte,_ Inportaiace, viz., a revision of r 1 . 75 erre 4t 4. 1 1 ) wad the adoption of such reforms Pilfering of taxes by officials left %`4lt.t, ""4011t control. The thing may be th,,acc(4llplish, but it will be to the advan g,Nd suit m a s s -4 and his people that the effort '44tptree.eh Without delay, the aggregate in tirkey 68 Constantinople being much below k. N 1 1 401144 "an conveniently raise. 1e" ytalik of next the te n d ers are to b e presented I,.Adet kfter b 4 g'and, and the result will imme tis e c°lllllaunicated, we presume, if any °jell ' In all probability an arrange t,4 tnad e a Oct, Join i„ il iong some of the leading capi vVettieeo: °lle tender, but we, nevertheless, S itk e t 6 04 7 "'Petition, as the loan is undoubtedly 11 1 • te' don ere are three or four powerful 4 .4),.. 114 titi 0 `""S' consider themselves entitled by 14 ‘ltti to co 8 41 11R Me forward and endeavour, by flel tea eral thinal aria to secure the whole for t e , 4 rki T "". The contractors of the ...ao an tit Se h ave a , tor example, may calculate 7tli o. Pon b e . good claim, and that they can „kte tpir.,l'vellestablis h a footing by the pri ;te, w utria ti (101 7 a stated to have rendered to l ' e td e ., e6 t4e t o t e f li . ine nt• On the whole, there- Iv et we l l tak en. "e conclusion that the loan will ti t uticlhave t iot a e t , a f air price, although the points °libetuy the course of our remarks 4 kh e Wet with capitalists. N - 60 4 0 to - 7 3 , 114 market at Liverpool yesterday cloned ad 4 `at ,v'z' advance i n •.00 0 kl,o en • The American and Surat of id. dd ee'" Whi c h leB were estimated at 12,000 were taken for export and 200 tat44ar4eielPactiiulatitsn ), comprising ti a (chieg 700 Pernam 144 3;oBawginned), at 64d. per lb.; 3karate The Railway Share TIEIE SUN, LONDON, `VEDNESD►AY EVENING, AUGUST 15, {865: Market closed heavily, at about Monday's cur- rency- There is a firmer market for public securities, the destruction of Sweaborg having imparted con 6dence. Consols opened at 91 / for transfer, but have since been 90 / T c , as it is thought money will be scarcer. For account they have been 911 to Exchequer Bills at 2d. have dropped to 15s. and 18s. premium. The New 3 per Cents, are 222 and the Reduced 914 to 92. Bank Stock has risen to 214-k 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 iu 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 aro 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 93-1- to 931, and are since 92g- to -I. Sardinian Stock has realised 87, Peruvian is 812, and Buenos Ayres 56k. Dutch 4 per Cents. are 961 to 96g. The following are the nominal prices of foreign stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 7 to Mexican, 21g- to 21i ; Peruvian, 81i to 84- ; ditto Three per Cents., 59 to 60 ; Portuguese Four per Cents., 43 to 45 ; Thissian 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 37-- 2 ; ditto Certificates, 41 to 42 ; 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 AT ONE O'CLCc ( From the Official List.) Buqinexs done BAnk Stock ......... ... 2141 151 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuitiea......... ...... 92 li 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9ll f 90/ Now 3 per Cent. Annuities India Bonds, £l000 Consols Zor Account, 6th September 9li 1 -1- 4 Exchequer Bills, 21d. j 2d. 21000 1500 Small . Exchequer Bonds 1858, 31 per Cent.... 101 i Ditto 1859, ~ ~. 1001 i PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLO, i' s , Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 561 Peruvian Bonds, 41 per Cent Bll Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Tarki.li Bonds, 6 per cent 931 i 2i i Ditto for the account ~ tivitlends of, toe above payable in London„ Dutch Exchange, 21 per Cent. 12 Gnil Ditto 4 per Cent. Certifleates .. .... HALF-PAST TWO, Consols Ditto for the Account.... 9ll 1 LONDON AND NORTH- WESPERN 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, IMP., 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 bad 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 coin munication had been opened, they tended to d 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 had 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, 00 0/. to the Shropshire Railway over the usual half-yearly payment, which would be done for the 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 had, 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 eonsequ.snce 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 bad 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 tho whole of the circumstances, were of opinion they had fully carried out their engagements with the North Staf fordshire Company, and that the agreement was at an end. Mr. Boom, one 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 535,8651. Is. 2d., leaving a balance of 6,9501. is. 6d. to be car ried forward to the next half-year's account. [We will give the close of the proceedings In our late edition.] DEATII OF OENERAL BOURKE. General Sir Richard Bourke, whose sudden death at Thornfield, Castle Connell, near Limerick, was announced yesterday, was son of the late Mr. John Bourke, and was born in 1777. He married in 1800 Miss Bourke, yonngest daughter of Mrs John Bourke, of Carshaltan, and Receiver-General of the Lard-tax for Middlesex. The deceased entered the army in 1798, as ensign in the Ist Foot, and the following year served with his regiment in Holland at the Helder, where he was severely xvounriea in both jaws, after having participated in the ar,tiotm of the 27th of August, the 10th and 19th of September, and the 2d and 6th of October. On his reco very be was placed on the staff in England, and was for a short period Superintendent of the Military College at Mar low. In 1806 ho 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 1809, 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 Wales and Van Diemen's Land, which he held up to December, 1837, when he resigned. He was created a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1835, in conside ration of his military and civil services, and in 1837 he obtained the colonelcy of the 64th Regiment, which be comes vacant by his death. His commission bore date as follows :—Ensign, Nov. 22, 1798 ; Lieutenant and Captain, Nov. 25, 1799 ; Major, Aug. 27, 1806 ; Lieu tenant-Colonel, Sept. 16, 1806 ; Colonel, June 4, 1814 ; Major-General, July 19, 1821 ; Lieutenant-General, Jan, 10, and General, Noy. 11, Ha 20 20 10 10 St. 10 St. 25 20i 100 20 20 16 20 5 SHARE MARKETS (THIS DAY.) 134 isl 20 li 18 4 1.7 i al 20 li * 2O al 20 a] 20 11 1.00 0.1 too ai 25 25 al 100 I 71 100 a] 20 I 5 : 5 ! 5 a] 20 L 4 al 2O ft] 100 al 100 I a] 100 al 20 ii 20 1, 33~ 1i 10 :31 20 lall 20 li 40 al 20 al 20 I 20 al 20 2s 20 al `2O 11 Bil RAILWAYS. AntwerpaltottJrdam Belgian Eastn. June Beziers to Graissessae Bombay, Baroda, and Central India,Serir Demerara rOlosine Prices i yesterday 24 - 41- 4; 11. ''. •• 8 - 13h - 13 15i - 16 8 4 - 74 91 - 93 621 - 63 20 1 20 I 6 al 20 a] 50 al 25 20 100 31 100 2. 100 21 20 e.. 1 JOINT-STOG in Australasia al British Colonial Bank and Loan Company dl British N. American 5 Ohartd. Bank of Asia 4 Ghrtd. Bnk. of India, Australia, & China ;0 City 20 1 50 21 50 11 100 21 100 a 5 Colonial ................ 0 C o mmercial of Loud: 11 English Scottish and Australian Chart.... .11 bond. Chart. Bk. of 12 - 14 8 - 10 ... 3 2ia 14 - 15 11i 73 - 75 56 - 53 9 - 19 - 20 71 - 73 88i - 891 65 - 67 127 - 129 LO2 - 104 551 - sq. 70 /5 7 8 o 7 - 8 80 —81 ii 7i 99 100 97i —97 i id id 1 86i —87 i 7 6 6 5 dj 84 691 - 69; 40 - 42 11 - 9 li - 21 50 -- 52 26 - 72i • 7 66 36 Si 12— 13i 48 49 48 50 6 d par • id — k, 6f 6id 6 1 d tar 25 - 27 'O6 108 72 74 44 46 13i -- 61 62 30 31 4 3 ' 2d par 39 :-- 41 5 - 204 3 2 4 1a 3 1 20 - 22 5 7 S 2d 9i —10 i 2is 2 11 2 par 384 39 2! —l3i 2! 24 . 2i 31, 71 - 16i - 17 j 61 - 66 914 -95 i 4' - 5 ~ g - 20 50 2! 20 a: 25 a: Australis ............. 5 Ditto New ............. !O London and County.. 10 London Joint Stock.. !O Lond. & Westminster National Provincial 100 2! 10 al of England . .......... Business done this day. .0 30. New ............... 21 National of Ireland.. 611 New South Wales•... 11 Oriental Bank of C0rp0rati0n.......... 5 Provincial of Ireland' 3i - 3Z 3 - 31 231 - 231 100 - 102 112 - 115 114 116 107 1084 234 - 24 114 - 116 89i 70 69 103 i 56 1 44 821 Ii 981 97i 81 8 70i 1 705 10 i die 7 8; 23i 4 19i -- 20 p li 2 p 7 9 2 -- 3 5 - 5i 36. ,- 871 12i -12 i 8 - 49 - 49ip 49 51 50 52 27 29 202 14 Ida 9 - n - 26 ... -- pm ••• •-• i 4 4 ••• d 12 ..-. 13 p iii -- f6i ',IC BANKS. li Do. New 1 Royal Australn.Bkg & Gold Imp Co ,11 South Australia 11 Union a Austrs.lin_. 2i Do. New LQ Uuion of Loodos 93 -- 95 66 68 i d par 911 - - I%p 17i —17 i 19i 20 d 6 - d 37 38 ••1 ..."" . • - 42 -= 43 51 - 52 ..• 47i a 39} - 401 72 74 8 9 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. 0.d.1 RAILWAYS* Leasing Compan Clomns Primo yesterday. AI Bedford and Bletzhley 10 Buckghamsh. Clydesclal e Jc. 4 Col. Stour Vy. Sud. and Hal. K) E. Lin. g. 6 pc. 10 Glas. Barr. & Neils. Direct St. 100 Do. New 25 all Glstr.di Dn. Fr 100 all Hrtlpl. Dk. & Railway 50 all Hull & Selby 25 al] Do. Shares. 12r3 al] Do. Shares. 12' all Lon.&Greenw 20 all Do. Preferen-e 10 all Lon., TH., &S. St. ' `X) Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. 0 Do. 6 per ct. 11 Manch. Bxtn. and Matlock 50 I all Middles'oro' & Redcar. 0 Midld.Bradf , Newmarket Bury Exton._ ill N.dt Est.s p. c. ill Do. 6 per ct. al Do. Fixeds p ,11 Prest. & Wyre 501 a; St. is St. 10 25 2, St. 101 st. Ito( St. t( 5 St. 'to 61 5, 12 1 q a] 25 I t 25 al St. u Agna Fria ...... Anglo Austrin. Gold a Anglo Californian ... 5 Australian II Australian Cordillera 11 Ave Maria 11 Baden (Gd.Duchyof 11 Blamarvon Iron and Coal ..,.. • .. .4 British Iron Brazilianlmp.(issned at £5 pm.) al Do. Cocaes & Cuialy .5 Do. St. John Del Rey Carson's Creek Clarendon Cons. Min Co. of Jamaica 11 Cobra Copper 1 Colonial Gold di Copper Min. of Eng ill Do. Pref. 7,Jj p. cent Copiapo. .11 English and Austin Copper Smeltg Co 1 Fortuna ill General.. Gt.Nugg etVeinßeg. al Great Polgooth . al Liberty 11 Linares 3i Do. B 1 Lusitanian al Mariquita 11 New Granada 11 New Linares Mining and Smelting Co 11 Nouveau Monde 11 Pontgibaud Silva] to al 5 St. a 25 a 1.1 5 al 20 `a] 1 I a] 1: 1 a] 3 al Business this day. 5 1 a] 1 a] 1 a 1 5 1 a] 50 a] 15 a] London 4. N. West. L.&N.W. CaWon E. Un. E. C Gt.Nrthn.l Caldonian.l Do Gt. Westr Yk. New. & Berw. Y. &NM Do Do.. 3. Easter Do Peto & Co Norfolk Do L.& N. W & Midld Stckton & Darlingt. Midland En. Coun. E. Count. D 0,,. Do L. & N. W &Ln&Yk Do 11 Do. Stirs. A )0 Roystn.&Hit. .83 Shef.Roth.and Goole g. 5 p. c. ill Shrews.&Her. 9i S. Staffordsh. 611 WearValleygr 6 per cent ill Do 10 Wilts&gomrst Gt Northn Lancash& Yorksh. T. Brassey N. =lean Stockt. Darlingt Do I . 4tWeetn. MINES. 30 I 1; Lead Min. & Smelt 1 Port Philip ill Quartz Rock Xll 1 Rhymney Iron Xll Do. New ,?jt I Santiago de Cuba...,. 1 all' South Australian 10 7 2 1 Tin Croft 2S all United Mexican 1 all Waller 1l all T. 1.26, 1 all West Mariposa Worthing Mining 01 Australia . Yuba 25 1 1 le 1 a] 10 ' 50141 99 - 101 102 - 104 135 - in i = iO ioi 109 12i -- 13 23 -- 24 111 -- llf 21 - 2i 44 - 96 - 58 - iP 60 134 := 136 •.• - ••• 8f - Si 2t - 20 100 13; St. ROI 31i -32 i 93 - 94 I ••• fi ••• ••• •• 71 5A 6i 8- 6 24 3 3i 41 27 29 61 32 35 2d par 19 20 14 2 15 17 2 * 2 1 8 gi 3 —36 p lip = - 13i - 14. - # 19 - 21 5 - 6 5 - 5i --- 3 3f -3/ 1 SHARES. gpb ... ••• •• 4:3 7:91 99 - - 101 3 - 4 6 - 6} . 1 - l i p 1 - lr 13A - 14 23 I 6 - 6 25 I 2: ...x, 'll9 - 121 15 1 , 20 a] 20 li 20 11 20 I I 50 50 1 2 al 1.00 & 25 I al soi 111 - 113 105 - 107 $ i - P 91 - 4 6 - 6i 96 - 98 85 - 87 87 - 89 10 - 11 17 - 17. 101 - 10 74 -76 19i - 20. 9 -10 f 141 - 156 186 - 138 ... '''' "‘ •• 2! - • 34' 13i -13 i - it) od 138 97 99 id par 4a 4i 59i Pm -- ••• 164 - 106 95 -97 3i --44 —ld 105 - 107 ••• 133 - 14 .•• id par 231 - 244 101 103 .•• - 18 ••• 16 - ,104 ...2 - 2ip 3 —2 d pm pm ex div 1851 LITERATURE. The Wabash ; or Adventures of an English Gen tleman's 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 regarding 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 feelings, 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 burs, 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, and 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 head 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 alone, 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 all imaginable responsibilities, a lady wife and not less 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. Beste to judge for himself in a- matter over which he 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 daugh ters, 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, having 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 t c u h i e n r i e s d h e s d o ni treasures u l n a d t e e r r bay the vr d A a n s i t a st i e l l a hock, er r a e s we find amusingly intimated by our author, while he musingly 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 them (par example) three substantial cases containing altogether 784 pieces of plate for table, knives, forks, spoons, dishes, side-dishes, cream jugs, etcetera, et cetera, the whole paraphernalia of the buffet and the buttery, and with all this luggage such an astonishing assem 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— " DREAM-STORY. " We had a dormouse, also," he says, " with a hairless tail,—for said dormouse had a habit of escaping from its box— 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 judgment of those curious in such matters. She had dreamed, some three years before, when this dormouse, who was called Sailor, had a fellow•pet called Soldier, that it said to her, ` Oh, Mistress, Sailor has beaten me so cruelly that I have been obliged to run away and 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 spot of blood stained its door—Sailor alone was there, and poor injured Soldier was missing. " ' Fetch the box of worsted !' " In 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, need as a bag for loose bits of worsted, was found coiled up the missing dormouse. He was near starved, and 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 bas l'Autriche !' Vive 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 the 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. Beate is one eminently calculated to be dispassionate— seeing that Mr. Beste is a co-religionist in his cha racter as an English Roman Catholic gentleman. Hear him speak, out of the fullness of his disgust, 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 t 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 k g lazed calico, into a little shop, hung with white and he took me rcunnter and half a and in the centre of which was a and clean • ns i s c t o ed upon treating r dozen bottles of wine or spirit,smasher,' have? ' me to my first glass of A m erkca i nl y iq o i r Sherry cobler," mint j Ip . , `brandy W iat —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 c ounter s q ueeze 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 now), cover the whole over with pounded white sugar, and thou pout 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 throngh it the liquor there. I did so. The day was excessively hot, and I was fatigued by my walk and by my 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 !' " 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 ho 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 them 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 " IHE 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 the hurrying and chafing of the rapids on this the Canadian side, on—on they come ; a peaceful, though rapid, river. The channel is here about half-a-mile broad ; and onwards--onwards came the over 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 rook-girt pit below, and hide whither they are gone, and what has become of them. But there again —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, curling, 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 discomfiture. " But is it all over ? No ' • not so. Look above. There where ye marked theta 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 precipice 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; the earth trembled and shook : the Lord ruletla 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 Roman Catholics of real enlightenment can talk and think upon the subject of religion, remember ing, 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. Besto, " was mak ing immense progress in the state of Ohio. About one half of the population of Cincinnatiis 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. The archbishop himself being an American, and a man of business and of zeal tempered by prudent() 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 may 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 France, 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 exercised by the most devotional mind ; and that religion and temporal politics aro 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 support what he believes to be another man's error, reli gious charity only can lead one 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 tight 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 aro in accordance with these convictions; and amid such the Catholic faith prospers. " Let the gods avenge their own wrongs,' wisely said Tiberius. " `Lot 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 eve; to have souls or not ; but I myself do believe in ono parti cular religion, and I think it my 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 Ido not care. It is no affair of mine—provided only that you do not disturb the public peace. If you do, I shall come down upon you all alike.' " 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 true, it ought no:, 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 otherwise, indicating, as it 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 of illustration, that we regret exceedingly the limits of our space preclude us from submitting his ideas upon these matters to the scrutiny of our readers through the medium of adequately ex tended quotations. Debarred by the above-men tioned reason from transcribing the views enun ciated in these instances by Mr. Beste, we must content ourselves with referring to the opinions expressed by him at pp. 238-239, "Vol. 1., on the subject of " Slavery, at pp. 163-164, Vol. 11., on that of the " Ballot," immediately afterwards 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 the matter of " Religious Equality," and, finally, in the second volume, at pp. 330-331, upon the vexed question of a " Decimal Currency." Hap pily, more suited to our purpose by its brevity, is the jocular explanation given by our author of that noteworthy Americanism— A GONE 'COON ! " It. seems that some celebrated sportsman, some Ame rican Colonel Hawker, being ont 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. Yon 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 GENU-INE U-NITED STATES CITIZEN• . _ " A middle-sized, light-haired man of about forty years of age ; with hollow cheeks and high American cheek bones ; with long, lanky, brown hair that nearly hid his baldness ; with a round, bright blue eye, which he opened very wide and rolled about incessantly ; with an inquisi tive, intelligent, good-humoured and very animated look, Dr. Read thus stood by my bedside. With his two hands in his breeches pockets, his shocking bad hat upon his head, and a quid of tobacco in his month, which ho twisted incessantly from side to side, occasionally squirted the juice to the floor on the -d o and side of the room, Dr. Read thus stood by my bedsi . e , examined me ; and a bright, good-humoured smilopl wifec over his plain but wide-awake features. M y gild 1: an was horror-stricken. She thought we had got a of the woods for a physician." w_hielether I d ua b c r o u ni sh . who to be—one , hearted physician, Dr. Read p the little patient Isabel, No wild man of the woods, hreowyeevser, but a gentle standing by the bedside of o is more than once observed away the tears from his eyesaslt_must be admitted by the most touchy and sensitive civilised humanity—that Mr . betwurantcahwesa p A l m a isnriincganssutffheermers.si yes . Bea of all t e knowngives of r t a h c e e m a aafsacommuuity a_most amiable, f consideration to regard for what if a w holly unflattering, description. The entire nar rative, indeed, is wonderfully candid in every parti cular, even when explicit truthfulness would seem to to express those • . and conventionalb thee l vulgare s s eh cte be ec y o u . out disposed o l , Ir.l3este, being a 3 a simple pure minded and out-spoken man,and entertaining strong opinions, and burning to do so plainly and honestly opinions, to the very letter, upon all possible occasions, tells " the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth," be the theme of his observations a " ca bi net d'aissance" or a political institution. The result •is at times sufficiently amusing--ealculated probably to shock the deli cacy of Citizen Jonathan, but dear to the honest, homely heart of bluff old Farmer Bull. 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The approaching visit of the Queen of England suggests to the .Pays some obser va ti on s alike marked by good taste and j ustice. N o one , i n d ee d, wh o . j hears the manner which the coming of the Royal party of England is spoken of by every c l ass o f per sons in Paris can entertain the slightest doubt that the reception of her Majesty will be i n eve ry re spect worthy of so chivalrous a nati on as F rance, 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 b e 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 on ly an ac t o f courtesy, b u t it will be a political demon s t ra ti on . All th e mar k s o f res pect 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 fOting 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 Sovereign who presides 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 feudality, and the war which, at the beginning of the present century ab sorbed a part of the activity of the first Empire, had its origin in the political situation of the old government, prior to 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 accmplished. 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 French or an English Cabinet, but a single one, 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." ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. KIDDERMINSTER. The election for this borough, occasioned by the ap pointment of Mr. Lowe as Vice-President of the Board of Trade, took place yesterday. There being no oppo sitioß, Mr. Lowe was declared to be duly elected. HERTFORD. The election to supply the vacancy in the representa tion of this borough, in consequence of Mr. W. F. Cow per having accepted the office of President of the Board of Health, took place to-day. No opposition was offered, and Mr. Cowper was declared duly elected. THE LATE ACCIDENT AT CREMORNE GARDENS. The following is a Est 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 FIRST BATTALION. James Gillespie, contusions of the knee. Henry Dear, sprained ankle, contused loins. Wm. 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 bask (not very severe). William Barker, contused chest. Charles Tipper, bayonet wound through ahoulder (very severe), and contused knee, James Gould, sprained ankle and contused back. John Walker, contused knee. William Hoare, sprained back. Samuel Gam bleton, contusions of back. John Langston, sprained ankle. William Malt, contused knee and side. SECOND BATTALION. James Sherwood, bruised back and contusions on bead. John Newman, sprained ankle ; bayonet wound on finger. Grant Hodder, contusions. William Blake, bayonet wound through masoles of neck, very severe. William Bailey, Tower Hamlets Militia, contused loin. AT ST. GEORGE'S HOSPITAL. John Cralley, artilleryman, severe bayonet wound on arm. John Colwell, artilleryman, severe bayonet wound on arm. James Sergeant, artilleryman, bayonet wounds on head, arms, and hands. William Stones, Grenadier, severe injuries of body. William. Sharp, Grenadier, both legs broken. It will be observed that the most severe cases are those at St. George's Hospital, where the two last-named suf ferers lie in great danger. With regard to the men in the Military Hospital, although the injuries of some a►rs comparatively of an 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 received minor injuries, which were attended to in barracks. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. A very moderate supply of English wheat was on sale in to-day's market. The attendance of buyers was limited, yet the demand was steady, at Monday's decline in the quotations. We were well supplied with foreign wheat. All descriptions were excessively heavy ; indeed, so few transactions took place that the currencies were almost. nominal. In floating cargoes very little was doing. Barley sold slowly, yet prices were supported. In the value of malt no change took place. The oat trace wrs dull, and late rates were barely sup• ported. Beans, peas, and flour as on Monday. ♦RRIVALS THIS WEEK. English .. Irish .... Foreign .. Wheat. 850 Barley. 620 malt. Oats. roar. 2,00 300 1,040 21,500 240scks. 6,21) ) 4,720 BOROUGH HOP. The sale for hops is very dull, and prices are fully Ns to 20s per cwt. lower. Duty, I:80,0004 to 285,0001. WHITECHATEL. Beef, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; mutton, 3s 4d to 4s Sd ; Ism 1:), 4s 6d to 5s Sd ; veal, 3s 8d to 4s 8d ; pork, 3 s 6d to 48 bct per Slbs. by the carcase. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY•) LOUDON, Aug. 15.—Wind this day at noon, IV .N.W light, with dull sultry weather. (PEE ELECTRIO T ELEGRAPB.) SOUTHAMP TON, Wednesday Moroi ng. Arrived—Trefusis, fr om Midelesbro'; Cruiser, se " Love, London. E 2 aPire State, Now o LTVEBPOOL, Wednesday morni ng . Off —A mou r, for Quebec. Sal —or l e d S a irak , for Ph; J aQd elhia„ Arrived —erChase, Qfur°ebniecHavana ; UEENSTOWN, Aug. 13. wind, W.S.W. Arrived —P r imus, from Leghorn. or SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Wednesday, 10.35 a.m. W tide, last h our ' s ebb ; weather fine. Arrived,indN.WAu.2. 14—Hawk, from Memel. Arrived, Aug. 15—Seine, from Boulogne; 1m1169°0 Stralsund ivind N ; Airdrie, Danzig, DEAL, Wednesday, 10.16 a.m. Anchored—Benjamin Buck Green, from Mauritius, for Pas ed London ; b r i g Stratton, westward, for London. Rattler por , .wil Callao ; Hen r y P ratt, Shields, for New York. it i o o n n ry, f T o a r n c u o er s , fr t o.mLodn Wave, London, for don, for Ascension CABINET COUNCIL—A Cabinet Council was held yea. terday afternoon, at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. The Ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Marquis of Lane. downe, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Sir William Molesworth, Lord Panmure, the. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Viscount Canning, and the Earl of Harrowby. niCELEBRATION OF THE DUCHESS OP KENT'S BISTE. DAY.—Yesterday, by command of her Majesty, a fie 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 Arms Tavern, Kensington, on Friday next, the 17th inst., to celebrate the birthday of the Queen's august parent, the Duchess of Kent, who on that day completes the 69th year of her age. In addition, a p l en tif u l dessert is ordered to be furnished from the R oyal gardens at :leer : The town of Kensington will be brilliantly illu mi Preparations are also making for an at t h e illumi n at es . West-end. THE BOILER EXPLOSION AT Sir . riott died on Monday from injuries sustainedln3-I:yhiAleMarex: h T d d th plosion on Saturday evening of the boiler at t e ower Mills, Sheffield, this making the tir ea from the 4 1, tes 0 N ' 1101( 11 lid l ij, 2 5, i o Pr e° oo. btv rs ' °lll Of s ilit 0 ,), .4 to be L bl. 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