The Sun. — London, England, 1855-06-29 00:00:00

11ONEY MARKET AND CO.II.IIERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocg.. The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday closed firmly, with au upward tendency in prices. The sales were estimated at 20,000 bales (13,000 of Which were taken on speculation), comprising 650 I c 'ernara and Maranham at 6d. to 7id., 200 at 6id. ; 200 Egyptian at 7d. to Bd., 800 S urat at 41d. to sid. ; and 60 Sea Islands at is. to 18 . 8 (1. n per lb. The Railway Share Market closed s teadily, although the business done is still limited. There has been a quiet market for colonial pro d, nee this week, but without any material variation 111 values. Sugar has gone off steadily at auction f or most descriptions, and coffee has been in de w and at firm rates. Cocoa has ruled heavy , and tea at public sale has been taken sparingly. Spices h ave obtained previous prices, rice is cheaper, and s altpetre has declined 6d. to is. per cwt. Tallow ihas been heavy. Messrs. D. Bell, Son, and Co. report that during h e Past week there has been less activity in the market for American Securities, whilst prices re main without material alteration : tin' Redeem Ible. Per Cent. t t , e(l States 6 per Cent. Bonds 18 6 8.. .109 110 t t ed States 6 per Cent. Inscribed IC'ook 1867-1868...108 109 lculsYlvania 5 per Cent. Inscribed Stock ... 77 78 lit li n B Ylvania 5 per Cent. Bonds 1877... 83 86 It. 4BB aohnsetts 5 per Cent. (Sterl. Bonds) 1868...103 104 'Q,:l l4 s:land 5 per Cent. (Sterling Bonds) 9 51 1:,,... ..Klnia 5 per Cent. (Sterling Bonds) _lBBB._ 861 871 -. Kuala 6 per Cent. Bonds 1886... 89 91 114 . RAILROAD BONDS. liii °l5 Central 7 per Cent. Bonds 1875 ... 74 1 75 1 nu ls Central 7 per Cent. Freeland It l oods 1860... 731 741 , l' k e ,;; l gan Central 8 per Cent. Bonds 4' 411 a 7 per Cont., Ist Mortgage (Ster k, g Bonds) 1859... 921 931 l' e , i , s 4 u l a 7 per Cent. Bonds 1864... 93 tusYlvania Central 6 p. Cont. Mortgage 1880... 1880... 901 911 York and Erie 7 per Cent. Ist Mort 15, , , .................................. . -- 1868 1869.- 101 102 * r ~_ -ork and Erie 7 per Cent. 3d Mort -1/.515e, Convertible 1883... 87 88 F ond and Erie 7 per Cent. Sinking 1875... 83 84 t o The last week's railway receipts, as certained u p thu s day, are in round figures as follow : G T , 1855. 1854. k at , W es tern Lrtg-Western li`qghto n ...... 14 720 17,842 ' t oi c , 1 4. 14 ad ti t j e ' l zi l- Eastern I 9,637 17,688 (lit onian t i‘ e l: t N orthern 40"ettshire and Yorkshire 21,506 20,360 rtla -Eastern Th e statements concerning the inten ded amount q 0 4e now French loan are still rather conflicting. faccount mentions that the sum will be e°°,ooo, while another puts it at 750,000,000 c, 0 , e8 . There i s some talk also of an intende d g' 7 ersi on. 'Riga on the 21st instant the heat had abate d . here e Was no rain, however. Business had bee n animated during the week. Th e Austrian. Finance Minister is still strenu hill Y exerting himself to improve the resources of t a e l ° ll utry ; an d b es ides the saving effected by the urge of a large portion of the army, it is in ktru e , d to grant further concessions for the con toba-e"n of railways. An English and Fre nch th e pang are tendering for the Italian lines, i ll & names of the capitalists associated in.- C ir ig Messrs. Laing, Uzielli, Blunt, and OfV 11 ) with the engineers Talabot and Pois s a l th ar ia) and Dr. Bingler of Milan. To complete e line s mos t requ i re d in Austria will need a ti I l l o l ltal of 110 to 125 millions of francs. Messrs. 4ti i l t sehild of Vienna are supposed to be co-oper lla. c c omits of the 25th instant from Galatz men onthat the ships were taking in corn as fast as Able, in apprehension that impediments would iu be thrown in the way of navigating the 4, 1 4 11 be. There have been no letters yet received by t he d‘tning from Port-Philip, telegraphed as having ti at Queenstown. She has 276,0001. on steamer Atrato, with the West India and h 'e mails, has on board 538,361 dollars. bhe th ti a ls lat er accounts from Peru, which state that olt G - t k cirninistrative party had triumphed, and b that tl e ; et al Castilla stood a good chance of e 41 - L e d President. By this mail M. de Murietta th ‘l O 7 ll officially advised of his removal from ise 4 1511 - Consul for the republic, and a successor -rou ted. ho l t k the list o f M r . Miller of the Jerusalem Coffee tirle we find several large ships up next monththe l, . o 7 l hourne, the Queen of the Seas, 1,337 tons , Of 1 - ", ar nPion of the Seas, 1, 2 7 0 tons , a nd others %f a :" 00 and 1,000 tons. There seems a lso to be Il e ; n umber of ships on the berth in London for South Wales and India. h e : 4li sh Stocks have been flat again, in copse katl,ee of the rumours about changes in the cora enceLof the army, and the doubt whether t he eile r 7 3 ! of Lord Raglan will be an able an d tir e : l t ' d ° officer. There are rumours freely Il e cated . at Paris that neither Canrobert nor tli 4ei er hav e l a tt er l y agree d ver y well with lett e t : lief of the British forces, and in a Vienna it i we have seen the writer asserts that matter of notoriety that the difference of .1,40°4 between Pelissier and Raglan has become addstserious. Consols have been heavy at 90i 51, 1, have since touched 91k, and aro now about bap scarcely b uyers or se ll ers . E xc h equer Bills 434." r ealised 21 s . t o 24 5., an d I n di a B on d s 29 5 . t o )1/41:rerniura. The New Annuity is at 16 15-16. 21 4 Dek is firm at 211. E xc h e qu e r Bills (21d.) p 8 ' to 245., and (2d.) at 20s. premium. 1 14 1 ,: re ign Securiti e s ha ve b een qu i e t. M ex i can been dealt in at 21i, and Peruvian at 69. 807 4 'sh Bond s h ave b een quo t e d 81i t , an d s i nce I ,' Sardini an h ave rea li se d 851. itot following are the nominal prices of foreign ":--Grenada Deferred Bonds, 61 to 7; Alexi- C 2 i to 211 ; P eruv i an, 68 to 70 ; di tto T hree i t ents., 48 to 50 ; Portuguese Four per Cents., tli tL t ° 46 ; Russian Five per C en t s., 98 to 100 ; B'° Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 89 to 91 ; anish New Deferred, 18k to 18i ; Ditto 3 per eta., 38} to 381; Ditt o C ert i ficates, 4 to ; tt. Passive, 4 to 41. This is " pay day" in the Railway Share market, ; 4 4 an appearance of heaviness pervades it. The ti t außactions have been limited, and h ave b een prin- LPIIY in Great Northern, Great Western, N or th es ter; and Midland. The Foreign Shares have ten 4t quite neglected, but Sambre and Meuse are ,1 1 14 . Great Western of Canada are quoted ex .v , n i dend and ex the new shares. tC,,.. 116 Foreign Mines are rather lower, including e united Mexican. Crystal Palace are firmer, 11 11 : 1 also General Screw Steam. The joint-Stock ' 41 (8 are quiet. 1141T ISE[ FUNDS THIS DAY.-CLOSING PRICES. (Prom the O9cial List. ) 11 Rumness done a qt stock ........ k e k r Cent. Reduced Annuities,.. 9ll 2k Lo h * 3 Per Cent. A.nnuities . 924 $ i •,.,"' &nullities, Expire sth Jan., 18K0 . Iq ui tte 30 Years, Expire sth April, 1885 2 1 9 6 3 1 3 5-16 c ji t .., ll °llde. .ClOOO .. . t o - " 0 , under 21000 3l. 32 t 'kla i'or 21d A count, 10th July 9l 90i It , quer 2d. kezießills, £I 9OO .... 400 . 25 20 1 t %aid! — 2 O 2O 1 teh -ecta.er Bonds 1858, X 32 per Cent. ti t% 131tICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS TT - L O l . DAY. ....9art Bonds 5 per Cent. kluitto New, 1852, 4i per Cent 93 knit Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent — e to for the Account K 6 i I ) t i ean 3 per Cent. l'or - ' t .Bonds, 4i per Cent ...... ..... tZtirmese Bonds 5 per Cent., Con. 1811 • tar' d i , t t° 4 per C 't ... ........ k3p,,:i.ltian Bouds e , n s per Cent. 1::,h Roads, 3 per Cent — 1\ 14, 0 New Deferred, 3 per Cent. ttiV.te Passive 4 r ' sis h P 1 6 ^r cent , ,on( s, p- 81i 811 li uitto for the Account Bl} L Li D,, tVclercls 011 VIC: above na,ahle in Lon on. '" Exchange, 2i per Cent. 12 Quit Cobsolß THREE O'CLOCK. D itto for the Account. 9l x d hel'it"PS FOR THE CRIMEA.—It 1S said that the num• r troops orde re d f or i ns t an t d epar t ure t o th e se a t a witr amounts to about 12,200. ItAILWLYS. ~ALL'R ISD. TIA Prices this da; 23 - °;5 ... ,;• • and Easta. Junet... I Belfast & 1 eirming. Wolff ;lb Sz Stour Valley • f 2 Siric —aid. Lance.. dr Chesti *e Junet • . I D'o. t.Toessia. dr B1rk;, 1 £5O and £25 Cells. , Do., £20... L Rlyth & Tyn9 original 425 (issd. at £45): Bristol and. Exeter... Caledonian. Carmarthen and Car digan 'Chester dr Holyhead Cork and Bandon Cork, Black, & Pass Cornwall -ff Junction DnolineißelfastJunc Dundee PerthdrAbe; (leen Junction Do. N East Ai glian Eastern Counties.... ' Eastern 'Union, A Stock .. Do., B Stots- . Do., New A East Lancashire Edinburgh & Glasgow Edinb. Edinb. and Peebles Edin. Prth & Dut . 46 orth & Clyde Jur Furness . Do. Extension.. ' • Glasgow &S. Wester /re,at Northern Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock qt. Sth. &West.are. flreat Western D,. Stour Val Rai. 43 -4; - 8i - 124 tsi - 16. Bi - 7i 90 - 92 62i - 63 13i - 14 9 - 11 ... - ...a 14i - 15 12 - 12, 32 - 36 23 - 25 76i - 77 - 59 8i -9 ; 19 - 20 411111 ...... 70 - 72 924 - 63 75 - 96 - I`B 99 - 1.01 67 •- 67i 59 61 Gua. Stk I`l all Irish South-Easter , .i 0 all Lancaster & Carlis I.6'S 14f, Do., Thirds.. Itif 7 Do. New Thirds St. 1110 Lancash.andirork , 3 D,., \Vat. Riding Iry 20 all Liv : Crsby.&Southi , t 11 t all London & Btaekwa St. 100 Lon& Bright &S.Cs , St. 100 Lond. and N. West , 20 16 Do. Fifths ...... 10 N Do.lo/. Sh., M&8... C 121 2 , Do. Eighths St 100 London andS. West/ #74 Do £5O 40 '8 Do., £4O 25 all Lndudrry& Col eraine 25 all Lndtichry. & EnniA . St. 100 Ntanch.Shef./t Lincln' 25 all Do. Shares, No. I 8/ 2s i2s. /0., Man. & Lin. Un. St. 100 Midland St. 100 Do. Birmng. &Derlol 50 all Midld. G. West. (Ire, ) 1 25 all Do. Half Shares 100 all Newcastle & Carlisle 2F 233 Nwpt.Aberg. &Hrfl .0 8 Newry & Enniskillen 20 all Newry Warrenpoint and Rostrevor 0 Norfolk 3 Nortlin. Co unties Un. /0 North British 11 North Devon, No. I ill Do., No. 2 .11 Do., a A Deferred . .11 Do., B Guaranteed PI N. Eastern—Berwicl :0 Do, do. Extension .. .3 Do.do. Purcl .11 Do. Le ,ds 10 Do. York ii North London 11 Do. New XlO N.StS.Wstrn.,}lamp. stead, and City Jn.. :7? ) North Staffordshire.. .11 North Western., .. ... dl N.& S. Westrn. June 1 Nuneaton, Hineklet and Leicester.. )0 Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton 8 Portsmouth Sc,..i.ish Central Scottish Midland /0 Shropshire Union ..: 1 South Devon xl Soatl. Eastern 11 South Wales Yrksh. & Riv. DIIT 73 8 P 8 - 9 81a - 82 l• ''.. • .• - 8 00 - 102 - 101:1 - I A - g 83 - 84 8i • 70 7i - i6i - 26 81 p- Si 74 - 73] 43 - 45 ... - ~ *to 9 - 7 ii - 2 ..• -- ••• 50 - 52 St. ••• ••• 30 ... 31 • • • "'" • St. It 25 21 25 t 50 74 75 6i 6 1 3i —3/ 14 144 50 51 49 —5l d Par Ad 5 ...- 6i 7 I. d t ar St. 101 50 a o 131 20 1' 20 a 7 10 al ',:;,•• "'a" • • ?7,i - 28 1 1 03 105 '.67 69 46 - 58 Of 14J 61 613 29 30 4 2 2d viz St. 13 St. 101 50 a 50 a' 20 1 5 Do I qtaines, Wok &Wol, 6 1 Stockton StGlkten fa Hr.rtlep )0 Taff Vale 9 Do. £lO shares )0 Do. Pref., No. 1.... 11i Thames Haven Dock And Pa.ilwav trlverstone & Lancs. 611 Vale :); Neath 611 Waterfil. & Kilkenny ill Waterford&Limeri. v al West Cornwall. 5 West End of London and Crystal Palace 11 Wost London 'lB.,Wimbledn &Croydon - 41 • •• ...". 4- 5 20 2 3 - 4# 22- 2* 7 - 8 .. ~.." oils 6LIARE MA.IKZT6 (THISEA Y.) sius , ,,e.p 4.ns this day. FOREIGN. 11 Antwerpev god •rdarn 4 Belgian Eastn. Junc , .0 Beziers to Graissessal 13. Bombay, Baroda, Central India.Scri) 1 01 Demerara Dutch Rhenish 611 Eastern of France LO Do. New all East Indian, g. 5p c 10 Do. Ey l ;ension 11 Do. 4. 1 1 p. c. Bds., pay '57, convertible 01 Do. do. do., '59, do Gd. Tk ofCanada4is AI Do. St. Lawrence h Atlantic do. r Do. Cert. of Deben con. into Stk. till '6? al no. Comp. 6p. c., do ID Gt. Central of Fran I dl Gt. Indian Peninsnl,l guar. 5 per cent. 1 Do. New 5 per cent 2 Po. Extensions.... al Do. do Great Luxemborr , Constituted Shares a Do. Obligations... „ Gt.WestornofCanarl Shares... ......... all Do. Bds., payable's7, with option till '55.. all Do. do., '62, p. '56 all Do. do., 76, p. '60.. all Do. do., '73, without option .11 Hamilton & Toronto dl Do. 6 per cent. .4 Lake Const. & Basle 11 Lucca & Pistoj a 5 p.c pref .................. .0 Lyons and Geneva 4 Lyons & Mediterran al Madras LO Do.Ner Maria Antonia 1 Do. do. New 11 Namur & Liege (with interest) ...... . dl Do. (ex interest) . 11 Northern of France , ell D o .20/. Shs.late Char • leroi and Erquelines guar. 3$ p. c. & red. at 22/. dur. 88 yrs. from 1 Jan. 1854.... 611 Do. 20/. 3 p. c BdP (fmy.B.& A.ms.Shs. NorwegianTrunkPre6ll 1.6 Paris and Lyons...—. dl Ditto Bonds ill Paris and Orleans.... dl Paris and Rouen... 13 ParisCaen & Cherbrg. Lll R.onen and Havre al Royal Danish 3 oyal Swedish di Sambre and llieuss 611 Do. 5.4 p. cent. Prof s Scindl ill Southern of France_ 1 .6 St. Andrew's and Quebec (A) al West Flanders 6u Do 5 per c. Pref.,, 16 Western of France L. , ; West. of Switzerland all Widshaden .11 Zealand JOINT-3pr ail ,1113tratztdla, all 3ritish Colonial Bank and Loan Company all tritish N. A11101%43043 5 ,:hartd. Bank of Asia 4 •Thrtd. Buk. of India, Australia, k Clain* a 0 City ....•• '''''''''''' ' ,o 0 Commercial of Loud .11 English Scottish and Australian Chart 611 Lond. Chars. Bk. of Australis 5 Ditto New 20 London and County 10 London Joint Stock 20 Loud. & Westminster 35 National Provincialof England. 10 Do. New .. .... ......... 226 National of Ireland all New South Wales all Oriental Bank of ' . !orporation ........ 25 Provincial of Ireland all Do. New l Ronal Australn.Ekiz. & Gold Imp C 0.... 25 all Soutli•Australia:' 25 all Union of Australia... ... 2A Do. Now . 50 10 LTIli01) 91 London ~, 8 11 - 9 k n 21 t :2f - 2e 2} 21 I id 35 3 / 4 36 9 10 25 3 / 4 26 3 1 3 3ir. •,. 6 - 18 - 19 65 67 94 - 96 4 - 4 i 5 - 64 , R!? 51 - 4 - 41 - : 4 4 21 - 22 100 - 102 106 - 109 112 - 115 104 106 221 - 109 - 111 ---- al. 1 .•.. 5i 6 f . -- i 0 21 3 F 5 7 2 - 3 6i - 6 i 36 - 86; 12i -- 13 R -- 9 29i - 29iP 4 . 6 45 - 47 - pm 25 26 21 - 22 18 -:0 4 91. - 101 2i -- 2i , - pm 31 4 - 10, i BANKS. 84 -- 85 65 i 66ixd - 6 pi 17i -•18; 19 90 d 36 —• 38 a = 49 35 : ia 38 - 39 SO _ 51 •• •••••• ••• 3 „ A B - 40 - 75 8 - 9 25 St. 20 St. 25 I 2. 20 .. Lu al 50 11 20 al 10 17: Z 0 1. 18 10: 17i al 20 li 20 al 20 1 1 20 20 I 100 A. 100 al 25 1: 25 61 100 I 71 100 al 20 11 5 al 20 1 20 al .00 a] 20 1 20 1 1 20 1 20 li 33A31 10 911 20 al 20 I a] 201 a] 20 20 a, 20 al 20 1: 20 al 20 a] 20 I ,LJ 20 a] 20 1 le al 20 20 1 6 a ] 20 'd 100 100 100 20 20 50 50 100 100 12j 4 ~. - THE StYl4 l LONDON'. FRIDAY - EVENING, JUNE 29 Mb, EtAiLwAYs. Icdferd and BuckOmrnsh. Clydesd al e ,Te. Col. Steer Vy. Sad. and Hal. E. Lin. a. 6 F c Glas. Barr. & NciL. Direct Do. New Glstr. di Dn. Fr Hrtlpl. Dk. • Railway Hull & Selby Do. Share:. Do. Shares. Lon. & Greenw Do. Preference Lon., Til., & S. Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Do. 6 per et. Manch. Bxtn. and Matlock Michllesbro' & Redcar Midld.Bradfd Newmarket Bury Exton.. N.& Est.s p.e. Do. 6 per et. Do. Fixeds p Prest. & Wyrr Go,lllEli COMpan London L. &N.W '113.4410n E. Un. run n. Caldouian. (it. West.) Yk. New. Berw. V.&NSI Do., Do S. Easter Do Peto & Co Norfolk Do N W & Midld Stckton & Darlingt. 50 50 25 all all all all En. Coun. G. Count. ...... L. &N.IK. &LnStYk Gt North , ' ►.ancash& YorkHh. T. Brassey MClew: Aockt. Darlingt lo Do. Shrs. A Roystn.& Hit. Shef. Roth arvi Gooleg.sp.e. Shrews. &Her S. Stafforcish Wear Valleygr 6 per cent Do.. 'Xilts&r,curst ItWestn. 0 , 0.ng this Any. 93 - 100 100 - 102 135 - 167 ii ::: 29 107 - 109 I`2i - 13 23 - 24 11 - 121 2fi - 2i 91 - 96 - 8P 58 - 60 133 - 135 8i - 9 2i - 2i 32 - 33 93 - 95 PREFERENCE SHARE:, Aberdeen Do. N 0.2, 7 p. C. Dl3rth and Tyne 1 0 per e. pref. (issd. At,501 Eris. & Ex. 4 p. e. St Do. 4 p. c. Shares :laledonian ••• - ••• 93 - 100 95 - 97 99 : ibi , Thester & Holyhea , Gnar. 54 per cent . Do. do. Pref. No. 2., Do. do. Pref. No. 2.. Cork &13andon51lLe Dllll Prth & A her. J. T.. A raglian CI s. A Sh Do. do. CJs. B 6 p. c. Do. do Cis. C 7p. c. Eastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No. 1 - )0. No. 2 3 - 4 6 - 6} 1 - 1i - I 134 - 14 Do. New 6 r . c. St East Un., G. 6 p. c. Do. 51., 10 per cent. Do. 10/. Debentr.Sb. Do. do. 4 per cent Fast Lancash. 6 p. its q.&W. York. J. sths, Prth. &Dun. 4 p.c. Furne.s nas. & S. WV. G. 5 P.C. 'treat North)). 5 p. e )0, 5 p. c. Redeem , at 10 p. c. prom... le. 41 p . c 10 St. 20 50 all .00 9 6 Do. 5 p.c. Scrip, Red, tt 5 p. c. pm... :t. N. of Scot. Ist Pry' It. S. &W. (Ireland) Do. 4per c. Pr ,f. , t Wostn. (Barks S. Rants Ex. 5 p. c).. Do. con. red. 41 p.c. Do. con, red. 4 p. e Do. irred. stp.c, Do. Birm. Pref. Sh... Do. Cnester 8 p. e.P.S. Do. do. 5 p. c. d 0... Do. Bum. Gua. Stk Do. Ches. Gua. Sh.. Do. do. ....... Do. do. do Lan. &York. F. £2(' Do. (3 p. c. Stack Lon. & Brie]. 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. d Nuneaton 5 p. et Lon. & S. W. Con. 3d. Londy. & Color. Sh. Londy. & Ennis. # S! Shef., & Lin. New, £lO Do. a tiarypt .& Carl. 4 p Po. 4 per cent Do al 64 IS - 120 110 - 112 104 106 - iP 9 - 93 AA n 9 101 90 92 -- 94 10 11 17 —17 i 10i 10i 74 —76 19i 201 9 101 14i 154 137 - 139 ••• .... .. . ••• •• - 2/ •- 3:1 50 t 2 . 12:3 10 6 1.2?, 127 St. St. 6 all sil all 10('11 Consol.6 p.c.Sl lop Do. Cousol. Bristol Firm. 6 per cent 100 Do. 4i p. c. Pref. St 115 Po. Prof. 4 "KA. col all Do. 5/. Pr f 4 p. c.. 100 Ditto Leick stcr an( 131 -- 14 * -- iP I P9 - 141 97 - W 41 - 41 St. 16* 5 St. Hite en Pr•:.f. St.. all ( Norfolk Deuature too Do. Pref. 4p. C. Stoc too 11.)0. 5 p.c. Est 'lOO 1 1)0 . 5 4 per ct.prof too Do. Way. Val. 5 p. c 00 North British N. E. Berw, 4 p.c. P Do. do. do Do Leeds 6 p.c %NM Da. do. Quarters 4 5 ' Do. York H.. & q. Pur. North Staffordshire.. 101 - 103 95 -91 AI 34 - 4 Isford, Worcester, 10 • 8i 25 t 0 .•O.f 1.051 - par Wolverh. £l5. 6 p Do It. Pre. 101. Sh. Scot. Cent. , New Pro South Devon Do. fixed, 42 per COD' S. Eastern (Kew.liot Ann.) of X 1 Os. 6(1 Do. 41 per cent..... S Wales Gua. 4p. c. Do. do. 44 p. c.... S.Yorksh.4p.c.Guar. Stock. & Dar., 5 p. c. 'Do. do. do Stock. & Hari!. g. t r. c. till July 1, 'SA aterfd. & Kilk. 6 p c 105 - 107 131 - 14 id - pay 23k —23 i 99 101 16 - 18 ••• ... ••• 2 - 3p 96 WI - 25.1 1-2°Bol l l . :,,,' 1 1 61 ‘, Australianl4A.. Australian n: nagg iI:FCA riaualsi t;o; Cordillera irn.n::M(ln. °I.:iN:(118 . . C. .. 11 - ** 1: ..1 ••• 1 all Ave Maria 1 a ll Baden (Gd. Duchy of 1 0 50 all Blamarvon Iron and Coal . ~ 20 14 British Iron 5 6 35 26 Brazilianlmp.(issued 30 1115 Do, St. . 2 s C t s o . c j p a o m e h 4 D C o u i i n a c b 3 2 2 2 8 1 1 - - 3 1 20 1 A Carson's Ct•e , )k. ii I 1 ; Clarendon Cons. Min Co. of Jamaica__ A Op 40 all Cobre Copper 59 61 5 1 Colonial Gold 1 i St. all Copper Min. of Eng ... -• 25 311 Do. Prof. 7. p. cent ... ... 1C Copiapo.... l9 21 .. 5 all English and Austin Copper Smeltg (i a' 11 —l/ 2 1 Fortuna i -- AP. 20 all General l5 —l7 1 all Gt • Nugg etVeinßeg 0 0 4 , i all Great Polgooth IA —2, 1 a ll Liberty A - i 3 all Ltuares 7 5 3A 7i D , B • 2 21 -. 1 Lusitanian ............. 1 11 2if 1 all Mariquita i 1 It 1 all New Granada — 1 a ll New Linares Minim a nd Smelting . .. Co - ... 1 all Nouveau Monde 20 all Pontgiband Silve, Lead Min. & Smelt 16 17 161 5 1 Port Philip . I 1 all Quartz Rock A - I 50 all Rhymney Iro n l9 6 21 15 a ll Do. Now 30 121 Santiago de Cuba... 5A 6 51 1 all South Australian f / 10 7 Tin Cr0ft...... - ... 4 28 , all United Mexica n 3i 1 1 all Waller 1 1 all West Mariposa A - i 1 129. Worthing Mining ot Australia 1 all V' ._....... _ . _2h1 - L1...: -—- -----L----- - ." ALISO ELL A.NEO Üb. 51----.71i Australian Agric. 2 Ilt. 30 31 301 10 all Aus';raln. Royal Mail .. ••• 10 7 Berlin Water Works 2} 60 2 d 50 40 Brit. American Land 57 5 1 Brit. & Coln. Smeltg. and Reduction Co. _ ••• 100 32A Canada ................. 120 125 St. 100 Canada Gov. 6p. ct. Jan. and Ju1y........ 114 115 1141 5 a ll Crystal Palace 2 / — 3A 3 5 5 Do. Preference 5l —, 5 i , 5 1 4 0,11 Crystal Pal. of France _ ... , 1 i Dus t o n Iron Ore ... .„ 25£q Eas t er n Stearn — .. 23 Electric Telegraph I7A -1 8 i 1 all Electr ic Teleg. of Ir ••• ..,, 15 14 Gen. St eam Navigat ••• ... 16i i 20 all General Screw Steam ••• ..,, 20 10 Irish B eetroot Sugar ••• ... 20 10 Magdalena St. Navin •., _. ... 10 all Meditera n . Elec. Tel. • • „. 10 9 Mexican&S.Amerien. 6 . i 6A 41 10 2 1 Do. New 1 all Nat. •Pat. Steam Fuel ~. ..„ 10 5 Netherland s Land l3 2 2 1 N. S. W. Coal &Inter. Steam Navigat. Co. . . -- ... 1 all N. B. Australasian... 4 - 1 20 15 Nrth.ofEuropeStaarn ... ... 1 all Orienta l Gas ls 11 ha ll Peel Rr. Ld. & Minrl 2a 26. 50 all Penins ular & Oriental .• • ... 62 5',) 10 Do. New • —12 A ... 2 all Portlan d Iron Co 1 -- 14 100 60 n e yal Mail Steam I all Scot. Austral. Invest ll 2 2 1 i Ditto New — 25 all South Austral. Land : , 6i —37 i 1 all Submar. Tel . Scrip 1 all D. Reg isterea 1 -- 1 5 Trust& L.Co.U. Can. ... ..,.. ... 1 , Si Van Diemen 's Laud, „. ... ... (3usq,ess this day. LA IF" INTELLIGBNCE.-(THIS DAY.) QUEEN'S BENuti, UUILDHALL. (Before Lord Campbell and a Special Jury.) BAMFORD V. GULL. This was an action brought by the plaintiff to recover 277/. of the defendant for goods sold and delivered. The defendant denied that the goods in question were the pro perty of tho plaintiff, but that they hart been obtained by fraud from a Brussels house, for whom he repur chased them of the plaintiff, and to whom he forxarded them. The cross•examination of the plaintiff elicited some strange statements from him as to the manner in which he conducted hi 3 bwinoss as a commission agent; but as the case hal not concluded when our despatch left we abstain from entering,' further into it. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, (Sittings at Nid Prius, at Guildhall, before the Lor3 Chief Baron and Common Juries.) REDMAN V. HANCOCK. • This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a butcher, against the defendant, a widow, for the recovery of a balance due for meat supplied to some dining-rooms in Lambeth, of which it was alleged the defendant was the tenant, and for supplying which she had entered into a contract with him. Mr. Atherton, Q.C., with whom was Mr. Jones, were for the plaintiff, and Mr. Sergeant Shee, with Mr. Lush, were for the defendant. The defence set up was, that the defendant was not the tenant of the rooms in question, and that another person had paid for the goods sent in. The learned sergeant was about to address the jury for the defence, when the learned judge suggested that he should callihis witnesses at once, if he believed the plaintiff to be mistaken in affirming that Mrs. Hancock was responsibie for the debt. Serzeant Shee—l am not anxious, I assure your lord ship, to make a speech. (A laugh.) The Lord Chief Baron— Tuen call Mrs. Hancock at Sergeant Shee—Very well, my lord ; but if the jury are indulged in such a manner they won't be anxious to hear any speeches at all in future. (Loud laughter.) Mrs.llandcock was thereupon called, and her evidence was proceeding ashen our report was despatched. MARKBT NEIVS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. Very moderate supplies of English wheat have arrived up to our market this week, coastwise and by land car riage. Although the show of samples in to-day's market was limited, the demand for all kinds ruled very inactive. In prices, however, no quotable change took place from Monday. Rather over 14,000 quarters of foreign wheat have arrived this week. Good heavy qualities were held firmly, at full prices. In low and middling kinds so little was doing that the rates were almost noodual. Floating cargoes of grain were less active. The sale for barley was slow, but no change took place in the quotations. In the value of malt no change took place. Oats sold to a moderate extent, on former terms. Beans, peas, and flour ruled dull, at barely late rates. Wheat. 1,460 ARRIVAL% THIS %VRIES. Barley. ( Malt. ; Oats. 350 1,2',0 5O S 1,446 1,450 23,650 English .. Irish .... Foreign .. 11,16 , 50 sks. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. To-day's market was fairly supplied with beasts, the time of year considered. For all bresds—owing to the small number of buyers in attendance—the demand ruled heavy, at prices barely equal to those obtained on Monday. The show of sheep was good, and the mutto❑ trade was iu a depressed state, at a decline in the quotations of from 2d to 4d per Sibs. We had a very dull sale for lambs, at from 2d to 4d per 81bs less money than on Monday. Calves were in good supply, and heavy request, at fully Gil per Sibs beneath late rates. In pigs, very little was Mich cows sold heavily at from 141 to 191 ss, including ,heir Email calf. Per Slbs to sink the offsls. s. d. s. d. Inferior Beasts.... 3 oto 3 2 Second quality.... 3 4 3 8, Prime large oxen 310 4 2 Prime Scots, &c. 4 4 4 C Inferior Sheep ...3 2 3 G Second quality ...4 8 4 0 Prime erse.-wlled.4 2 4 4 Lamb TOTAL SUPPLY s. d. s d. :•Prime Southdown 4 6 4 S Largo erse. calves 3 8 4 2 Prime small d 0... 4 4 4 Large hogs 3 4 3 8 Small porkers 310 4 4 Sue ~l ing calves .22 () 28 0 Quarter old pigs 21 0 26 0 48 8d to 5s fl. Beasts .. •• • • ...... ...... 1.100 Sheep .•• •• ..•• •....• .... 9,30'J Calves:, •... •........... 359 Pigs ........ • ....... .... 350 NEWGATE AND W© had a very dull trade ff ing prices. FOREIGN FUMY. Beasts . 210 Sheep • . •....... 450 305 pigs..•• •• •• " " LEADENITALL. oral 1 kinds of meat, at droop- Per Blbs by B. d. s. d. s. d. s. d Beef, inferior 210 3 2 Mutton, Inferior 3 0 3 6 Do., middling 3 4 3 6 Do., middling ..... 3 8 4 0 Do., prime largo 3 8 3 10 , Do., prime 4 2 4 4 Do , do. small ....3 10 4 0 Veal 3 ti 4 0 Furk, large ..... 3 4 3 8; Pork, small 310 4 4 Lamb 4; 4d to 5s 4d. tl., o carcase. BOROUGH HOP. Owing to the favourable accounts from the plantations, our market—although the show of samples is limited—is dull, but we have no changes to notice in prices. Mid and East Kent pockets, 141. to 18/. 10s. ; Weald of Kent ditto, 131. 10s. to 15/ os. ; Sussex ditto, 12/. to 13/. 10s. COLONIAL. TEA.--At the public sales the trade have purchased with reluctance, and Young Hysonshavo gone some what cheaper. SUGAR.—West India has been in moderate demand, at former prices. East India.—Grocery Madras, all faults, brought 34s Gil to 40s Gd for mid yellow to good white. Penang sold at 31s 6(1 to 36s Gil for mid foxy brown to good yellow. Foreign.—Porto Rico, at auction, brought 33s Gd to 38s Gd for low to good yellow ; 34s to 39s for low heavy to good bright grocery ' • and 39s to 40s for fine. Yellow Havannah realised 35s to 395, brown 32s to 34s 6d, and tlorettes 40s to 425. Refined has beon steady, brown lumps at 475, and grocery at 47s 6d to 52s per cwt. COFFEE.—Thero has been a good demand, and at full rates. Plantation Ceylon publicly sold at 57s Gil to 623 for low mid small to mid bold coloury, at 60s to as Gd for low mid to good, at 57s to 59s for other kinds, at 62s to 66s 6(1 for mid and good mid bold coloury, at 48s to 55s for triage, and 68s to 693 Gil for peaberry. Good ord Na tive was sold at 475, and P 0 H marks at 47s Gd to 48s per cwt. Damaged Rio sold at 37s per cwt. RICE.—The market is dull and rather lower. Bengal sold at 14s Oil to 143 Gd for good mid, and 14s Gd to 15s for good white. Arracan good half-peeled went at 13s, and first class damaged at 12s Gd per cwt. SPlCES.—Pimento has been firm at 5d to 51(1 for mid and good mid. Penang nutmeg sold at 2s to 2s 10d for small to mid brown. Mace realised 2s ld to 2s 24. Cloves are steady, and good bright realised 11(1 to 111(1. Zanzi bar went at sieto 5d for mid dark. SALTPETRE.—.AI decline of Gd to is has occurred ; free Bengal sold at 31s Gil per cwt for 1 per cent. refraction. COTTON.—Very little has been done. COCOA.—Trinidad at public sale was taken in at 37s Gd to 41s Gd for ord grey to mid rod. TALLOW.—The - m - arket has been dull, and P.Y.C. is 52s 3d to 52s Gd per cwt. on the spot. GREEN FRUIT.—The sale of oranges good. Lemons im proved in value a parcel of Palerino via Antwerp, sold by Keeling and Hunt at public sale, went at an advance of 2s per box. A moderate sale for nuts, the importation of fresh fruits from Franco and Holland interfering with the demand. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, June 29.—Wind this day at noon, E. ; pleasant breeze, and fine clear, sultry weather. ItAmsGATE, June 28.—Wind, E.N.E. Sailed—Tem pito (French gun•hoat), for the Baltic, after repairing. " PORTSMOUTH, June 28.—Wind, S.E. Arrived—Barham, from London, for Madras and Calcutta. Arrived— SOUTHAMPTON, Juno 23. Wind, S.E. Atrato (s.), from the West Indies. PLYMOUTH, June 28.—Wind, E. Sailed—Conrad, for Sydney, N.S.W. ; Industry, Hong Kong. Arrived — (transport 24), from Southampton. for tho Crimea. FALMOUTH, June 28.—Wind, E. Arrived—Dolphin, from Gefle, for Rio Janeiro. LOWESTOFT, June 28.—Wind, E.S.E. Arrived—Dra gon (steam-tug), from Shields, for Constantinople, leaky. POOLE, June 28.—Sailed—Prince Eugenie, for New foundland. HARTLEPOOL, Juno 28.—Wind, S.E. Sailed—Amazon, for Havannab. _ SHIELDS. June 23.—Wind, N.W. Sailed—Neptune's Bride, for Pont de Gallo; Fanny, Baltimore. STETTIN, June 2G.—The Maria Sophia, from Walgast to this port, with cargo, ex Fredericka, from Bo'ness, sprung a leak, off War, on the 20th inst., and sunk the same day ; crew saved. . . ---• CURACOA, June 9.—The Abrota (British brig), of Jer sey, from Liar elly to this port, went on shore at the N.E. point of Little Curacoa, on the sth inst. ; crew saved. VALPARAISO, May 15.—The Lord Nelson (British brig), for Swansea, foundered at sea on the 2d of May ; the crew were saved. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Friday Morning. Wind, S.E. Arrived. —Mary and Susan, from New York. Off port.—Eliza Mary, from Quebec ; Susan, from Hamburg. Sailed.—Clara, for Gibraltar; Cordelia, for Dordt ; Karen Elise, for Randers. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAM) GRAVESEND, Friday, 10.4 a.m. Wind E.S.E. ; tide 2A hours' flood ; weather fine. Arrived, Juno 28.—Lydia, from Uddewalla ; Diana, Doderodde ; Friendachaft, Thisted; Ida Nicholine, Fre derika, and Barba, ,Nykoping • Sabiona, Gotten borg ; Lawrence, Antwerp ; Helen, Antwerp ; Wil helmine, from Aarhuus; William Septimus do Septimo, from Brussels. DEAL, Friday, 9.3 G a.m. Wind, E.S.E.; moderate, fine. Passed.—Rose, from London, for Bathurst; H.M.S. Dee, from westward, for Woolwich ; Queen of the Sea schooner, from north, for westward. HAYMARKET THEATRE.—MR. BUCKSTONE'S BENEFIT. —To-night Mr. Buck tone is to take his benefit at this theatre. We do not doubt that the public will show, in the clearest manner, that they are grateful-for the ener getic and enterprising manner in which the manager has conducted this establishment since it has been under his control. The entertainments themselves, independent of any extraneous interest, should command a crowded house. RESIGNATION' OP Lol:D RAGLAN. (From, the Times of this, day.) The news of the war is more than usually grave. We have indeed still to learn the particulars of our ill suo cess.on the ISth, and are stiil without, tidings of anv further attempt; but while we wait time wears on, and nature takes its course.' Lord Raglan's iron constitu tion has at, length given way to a cause that has laid many n, younger and t-tronger man low, and his lord ship has, we are told, requested to he relieved of los command, in order to return home. General Simpson, we believe, will succeed him in the command-in-chief: General gstcourt, Deputy-Adjutant-General, has fallen a victim to the cholera, and one of the first duties of the new Commander-in-Chief will be to appoint a sne cesser to its post capable of -its duties. Another loss excites the' deepest regret. Captain Lyons, whose talents and enterprise marked him for the cAnmand of the expedition to the Sea of Azoff, in spite of his . coda-, parative youth, and who amply justified the wisdom of the choice, has died of his wound. It appears that, in his anxiety to make a thorough reconnaissance of Kalfa,. he approached so near to that port that, standing onAlte paddle-box of his ship, he received a rifle ball in his leg. Tie did not think much of it at the time, but the extreme heat, the excitement of the occasion, and probably also a degree of vexation at being thus unnecessarily dis abled, checked the healing process, and deprived the service of the very promising officer to whom we owe our very first naval success in this war. It is evident that the summer is beginning to tell as severely as the winter, and that it becomes ordinary prudence to make: the best of our strength while we have it. We have to choose between war and disease. Miss Nightingale is about to return home. Miss Stanley has already, we bear, arrived. No doubt that, as the war changes its character, as the conflict draws closer and closer, as we fight one part of Sebastopol against the other, the arsenal against the ' town, and the south side against the north ;—further, as we advance into the interior, and pursue the foe through defiles, over steppes, and across marshes, we shall have many more such budgets as that of this morning. The tardy resolutions of a divided Legislature, and the best intended measures of an honest Government, will be an ticipated by many a removal and many a promotion by Death's own band. It is needless to say that we never regarded with favour propositinnsof a retrospective and even vindictive character_ They do not become either the gravity of the subject, the dignity of Parliament, and, what is even more important, they are of no use. The war itself will do its own work. It chooses its own scene, its own men, its own measures. It has long since passed out of that strangely intermediate state in which our Ministers of last year thought it possible to keep it. We are no longer making idle demon strations, threatening camps, and naval reviews. We are waging a war of the direst reality and on the largest scale. We sent out Lord Raglan more as a military negotiator to keep on good terms with our allies, and to avoid war if possible, than as ,n General to be guided by purely military consideratione. We have now to commission a soldier with no othrir object than to fight and beat the enemy. No doubt I other changes will be in the same direction. The work before us is none for holyday soldiers. The Crimea is not a place to kill time, nor is our army there an agree able club. Glory, and perhaps promotion, are there to be won at appropriate risks. Such is the administrative reform, the promotion by merit, that we have hitherto laboured for in vain. Such is the spirit of our youtk, and so common to all classes is honourable ambition, that there will be no lack of candidates for her Majesty's commissions. At the Fame time, as the war advances, and its sacrifices increase, the private soldier rises in importance, and his advance in the social scale is al ready marked by a great increase of pay. Probably the war never wore so menacing an aspect as at this moment, when they who in various capacities were concerned at its commencement are successively quitting the scene, and leaving their places to men of sterner mould, and perhaps also more reckless temper; Russia played for a high stake, and has already lost the. substance of actual territory and power, as well as the shadow of a fanatical expectation. Every year, every month that the Black Sea and its shores are in the hand of the allies will be so much admission of western and southern influence, and the longer that state lasts the more difficult will Russia find it to reassert her ascen, dancy, if that is ever to bedone. In the presentnbstinacY of Russia aind counter determination of the allies we see too much reason to fear a. protracted struggle. With! new armies, new generals thrown into the bloody arena, with new provocations, with those mistakes, outrages, and retaliations which no efforts can prevent, the war must continuolly become more relentless and more in capable of compromise, or even of humanity. Several hundred thousatad men are now fighting from hill to hill, from mound to mound, from the opposite sides and ends of the same gorg e--taking and retaking positions still filled with their oisvn dead. The allies in all this are still in the ascendant, and we have even regained some of the vantage ground lost on the 18th. There can be no reasonable doubt 0.9 to the early issue of such a strug gle on the scene where it now rage. Sebastopol will soon be ours. What next,—in what direCtion the lava torrent of war will roll, and where we shall again contest inch by inch the soil of the Crimea, it would be vain to conjecture. But, Sebastopol won, the Crimea is also ours, and we shall hold the Black Sea and the whole of its shores as a material guarantee for the submission of Russia. PRINCIPLES OF MORALS BY LORD PANMETRE. Lord Panmure is an eminently moral and religions character—a leader of the Free Kirk. It is, therefore, not without surprise that we have read the noble lord's ethical code with regard to soldiers' marriages as pro pounded by him in the House of Lords last night. The Duke of Richmond drew the attention of the house to the subject of improved barrack accommodation for soldiers' wives. This brought the Minister of War upon his feet. The exordium of Lord Panmure's speech, we may be allowed par parenthese to remark, was comical enough. He commenced by protesting ho was convinced that the Duke of Richmond had adverted to the subject " in ne spirit of hostility to Government." This is one of those utterly uncalled-for exculpations which are tantamount to accusations. It looks as if. Lord Panmure, after the baiting that Government has of late had to undergo, had become so touchy that the most innocent remark appeared to him to involve a censure of himself and his colleagues. He is almost as bad as the navy surgeon of whom Lord Byron relate., that having been long quizzed by his mess about his wig, he became so sensitive that no one could mention even a hat in his presence without being told, " Sir, you grow Terminal." But it is with Lord Panmure's principles of morals, not with his testiness, that we have to do at pre sent. Well ; he admits the demoralising consequences of the shameless manner in which men and women are now huddled together in barracks, but his only remedy is compulsory celibacy on the part of nil soldiers for the first 10 years of their service in the infantry, and 12 in the cavalry. Never having studied Scotch metaphysics, we confess ourselves , unable to explain the rationale of this distinction between the two arms of the service. But over looking this special mystery, and addressing ourselves merely to Lord Panmure's general principle, we must be al lowed to doubt whether 10 or 12 years' comp ulsory celibacy of all soldiers is likely to be conducive to tl le morality of the army or of society in general. We have' been accus tomed to believe that, under proper regulati ens, matri mony was conducive to morality. The neighbourhood of a barrack, even as matters now stand, is not much liked by sedate and decorous heads of ; but if almost all the inmates of that barrack . were to be bache'ors by compulsion, it would become an intolerable nuisance. Lord Panmure is of opinion that a 'wife is too great a luxury for any man below the rank of a cor poral to indulge in. Nay, he goes farther ;be " wishes to see the army without women attached to it at; all." He " thinks soldiers should do for themselves many things which women aro now employed to do. What these things are he did not condescend to explain ; but it is pretty clear that Lord Panmure's model barracA would be a kind of military convent. Yet the legends' of his native land tell strange stories about Monkish morality. —Daily News. PERJURY AND FRAUD By A MILITIAMAN.—At the Southwark Police-court yesterday, James Connoway, a young fellow about 20 years of age, was committed for trial by Mr. A'Beckett for obtaining a haltsovereign, the property of her Majesty the Queen, by means of fraud and perjury. John Cleary, a sergeant of the ;d Royal Surrey Militia, stated that about the latter end of June, 1854, the prisoner came to him and volunteered to serve in the above corps. Prisoner swore he was not an apprentice, and afterwards received the bounty money of 10s. from the adjutant of the regiment. Percival A. Scott, a lighterrnan, said the prisoaer was apprenticed to him in May, 1849, to serve seven years, by the gover nors of Queen Elizabeth's Free School in St. Olave's. He produced the indentures to prove that fact. HARROW &Hon.—THE SPEECH DAY.—The custo mary annual speech day took place yesterday at Har row, and, as usual, attracted a very brilliant company. Most of the leading personages of ra n k assem bl e d at t h e Rev. Dr. Vaughan previous to congregating at the school, the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Oxford, &c., being among the early visitors. At 11 o'clock, the Head Master (the Rev. Dr. Vaughan), accompanied by a numerous party, proceeded to the school-room, where the recitation of the speeches commenced. The speeches were of an average class. Some of the recita tions were rapturously applauded, particularly Mr. Toilemache (Trial of Warren Hastings), and Mr. Tre velyan (The Four Invasions of England). The head master, in delivering the several prizes to the successful competitors, briefly addressed them, congratulating them on their exertions. The Head Master and Mr. Vaughan gave a sumptuous entertainment to above 250 of the principal visitors who were present on the occa ( sion. EMBEZZLEMENT BY A CLERK.—At the Wandswr o rth police court yesterday, Thomas Honeborne Bich who was described as being a clerk and traveller ,11 the service of Mr. W. Randall Wood, coal and timl) er mer chant, of the waterside, Wandsworth, was fi „evilly exa mined before Mr. Paynter, on a charge of . embezzling various sums of money to the extent of 'oetween 4001. and 5001., the property of his master,. The prisoner had been in Mr. Wood's service off . And on for the last six years, and it was his duty to orollect money and pay it over to the cashier every r.q,"itt. The prosecutor bad no' suspicion of the priser,er's dishonesty until Tuesday, the 19th inst., when th, e p r i soner ' s def a l c ations were f or the first timediscovi.sred. It seemed that the prisoner was in the habit of accounting for portions of the bills he had received, r an d after they had been entered in the ledger .by, the. cashier he surreptitiously obtained the books, and altered the amounts. He was also in the practice of scratching out the sums and items made by the cashier, and writing others. Mr. Paynter committed the prisoner (who offered no defence) for trial. 62i i 93i 3 67i 7 81i 11 107 k 1 i 100,i En iiii i 83 3 7 3 i i i li i$ id in Pm 59 once. Nloqr. 1,800 LIT ER TU RE. Curiosities of London. By John Timbs, F.S.A. David Bogue. An extraordinary treasury of information in re gard to the wonders of our vlst arid populous capital—a veritable microcosm ofllemetropolis— one of those condensed figures which must rernla, At% repertories of facts and .mere names of Timbs, and Haydu , emqi l yedeP e k `curiosities" of - .. themselves to our post rk inzears from the brief but sufficient prefacelp thetTIMA volume, that the notion of _gke 4 , Kgrac . ortnelly presented itself to the author's utink-gi fm k tnarnm seven years from the 'rim% :of its rictuatiublidation as twenty "ln the parlour of No: 3, Charing -Cross (then a publisher's)," says Mr. Timbs, " I wrote (in 1828) the title and plan of a volum e to be called Curiosities • 'of London.' " Nearly three de cades pass by, and in .1855, instead of 1828, the book so designated makes its deliberate and mature appearance. During the interval be tween those dates—in other words, during a period of very nearly thirty years' duration, the writer of the prospectus of 1828 and of the sub stantial fulfilment of that prospectus in 1855, has been all the while unremittingly sedulous in hi s endeavours to accumulate store upon store of in: teresting particulars in reference to our chief city, its history, and its antiquities. What, in regard to this, is our author's own naïve declaration ? "Since the commencement of this design —pre cisely midway in my lifetime—l have scarcely for a day or hour lost sight of the subject." All the while, therefore, lie has been gathering together the sometimes homely and sometimes recondite knowledge here amassed in 800 pages, abounding variously with matter alike for instruction and amusement. All the while he acknowledges he has been " endeavouring to profit by every oppor tunity of increasing his stock of materials." All the while he has been making his researches with a view to the enhancement of the value of his principal and favourite contribution to our popular literature. And yet it must not be imagined for an instant that Mr. Timbs has been a man of one idea, that hi is a mind warped by one invariable " bent" until it runs the risk, by which all such one-idea'd minds are endangered, of becoming in the end eccentric, crotchetty, and monomaniacal. During these twenty-seven years of constant preparation for the ultimate issue of "The Curiosities of Lon don," the compiler of this singular repertory— ." Exhibiting the most rare and remarkable objects of interest in the metropolis, with nearly fifty years' personal recollections"—has di.played from first to last, upou subjects totally different in cha racter, a really noteable intellectual activity. It is seldom, indeed, that we have an opportunity of observing the continuance of a mental industry so sustained and pertinacious. Already, before the date of his writing the prospectus of the present work in the parlour of No. 3, Charing-cross, close upon thirty years since, Mr. Timbs had some time before then seriously entered upon his labours both as a man-of-letters and as au antiquarian. As far back as the year 1822, h e h a d curr i e d through the press his maiden volume—" A. Picturesque Promenade round Dorking in Surrey." By the year following his first work had attained the honours of a second edition. In 1826 he had pro duced his three volumes of " Laconics," being, as its supplementary title acquainted the reader, " The Best Words of the Best Authors." Between 1827 and 1838, an interval which may be differ ently described as one of eleven years, and twenty two volumes, he had edited, the Mirror, a weekly periodical, at that time enjoying rather extensive popularity, but since then swallowed up by fate or fickleness, like many another once well-known, brit now almost forgotten publication, such, for exam ple, as the Courier among daily papers, or as the Metropolitan among magazines. In 1828 (" pre cisely midway in my lifetime," as we have already heard Mr. Timbs observing in his preface to the present undertaking)—the year when he was jotting down the prospectus for his " Curiosities of Lon don," in the publisher's parlour at the west end of the Strand—besides editing the Mirror, as lie was then doing, he found leisure to produce two separate volumes within the same twelvemonth, the one entitled "Signs before Death," the other " eameleon Sketches." In the tour eof the next year, namely 1829, he brought out his " Com panion to the Theatres." While during the ten years which elapsed between 1828 and 1838, in ad dition to the labour of editing the Mirror he con trived to give to the world no less than eleven volumes of the " Arcana of Science and Art." In 1830, moreover, he issued the " Wine-Drinker's Manual," in 1831, a work called less convivially, though quite as socially, the " Family Manual," and in 1831 and 1832 conjointly, he managed in spite of all his other engagements to compile as many as four volumes of "Knowledge for the People," or, as he otherwise called it 'quaintly enough the "Plain Why and Because." In 1834 appeared his "Popular Zoology :" and in 1835, besides his " Domestic Life in England," volume 'two of a work called " The fustruc- tor," written for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. In 1837, Mr. Timbs gave us his "Family Handbook "—between 1839 and 1840, the three volumes of his "Literary World"—in 1848 his two volumes of " London .A.uccdote" (a foretaste of his larger work then after the lapse of a score of years still in prepara tion) ---between 1850 and 1851 the two volumes of his " Illustrated Year Book"—in 1852 his " Wel- lingtoniana"—and between 1839 4, the present year of grace 1855 his important annual serial, po pularly known as the "Year Book of Facts," a scien tific gathering of memorabilia, seventeen volumes of which have consequently by this time made their appearance. Altogether, therefore, John Timbs has already as author, as editor, or as compiler produced, apart from this goodly book of London Curiosities, scarcely credible though it may seem, no .less, -actually, than—SEVENTY-FIVE VOLUMES ! A rather remarkable evidence, we take it, of his being no one-idea'd man, notwithstanding all those twenty-seven years during which he tells us he has " scarcely for a day or hour lost sight of the subject" of this most che rished and elaborated of his productions. A not able testimony, moreover, as it appears to us, of honourable industry, xesearch, and perseverance. It were impossible, therefore, all things consi dered, to receive this volume of ? " The Curiosities 'of London," otherwise. than with the respect due to the result of so much laudable toil, and pains- taking investigation. We do so. We receive the volume gratefully i‘s a contribution almost inestimable in its instriasie worth towards the history of the capital of England—the metropolis of Great Britain—the chief city of the whole world in many particulars, iu wealth, in extent, and in enterprise, if not also in the numerical vastness of its 'copulation. And assuredly for these and obber (kindred) reasons London is especially entitled to this species of antiquarian celebration. A metropolis extending over an area of 115 square miles, or 73,715 statute acres—comprising 176 parishes—having (according to the census of 1851) a population of 1,103,730 males, and of 1,257,910 females, altogether of 2,361,640 inhabitants—con taining 307,722 inhabited and 16,889 uninhabited houses, 329,428 altogether, besides 4,817 iu course of erection—a city in which 130 persons are each day added to the mass of the population ! So that, according to an eminent statistiojal), " if the popu lation continue to increase li t lhe same ratio as in 3851, 1.515 per cent. per annum, amount at the close of the century t o 4,1316:062r To accom i nodate which multitudePther7rame , ndividual cal culates that the present iffitfiliaouarAl . pf London rill require to ba doubled'—so that tlie'acres com prised within its circumference instead of being a s at present over 70,000, will be upwards o. f 160,000, while the houses, instead of bct ing as already observed in excess of 300,000, will sui 'pass even as many as 650,000 in the aggregate ! It I this wonderful assemblage of human beings, it is this marvellous accumulation of riches, it is this Asto nishing agglomeration of industrial enter p•ris e and commercial activity that Mr. Timbs' v, 11 . ume undertakes to illustrate. A theme un qi testionably abounding in suggestiveness. One ca pable of securing the attention of even the most in, Efferent. We venture to remark of this one co) npact little volume that it condenses within its, 314 so to speak, in some sort, the interest of a wh .ole library. It might, in a manner, stand in lieu of the marrow of an entire encyclopaedia. It is the epi tome, and pith, and quintessence of many years of k 19reful scrutiny and laborious investigation. It is apt authority upon the subject upon which it treats, VT ich may be confidently relied upon, relied tlg .on, in truth, as confidently as any work of refe r( mice of the most standard character and established reputation. It were idle, of course, to attempt to speak of the volume at any length otherwise than in generalities. As well, almost, attempt to afford an accurate notion of a dictionary by extracts, as attempt to convey an adequate idea of the book under notice by quotations. An ex oerpt from its pages given with this intent would la, / not one jotless ridiculous in its way than the brick „Allred to a would-be purchaser of a house by the redoubtable CKOXaa tXocr of Hierocles. Neverthe less we cannot but presume that a few casual re; !erences to the contents of this ample but corn_ p ar <t pioduction may be welcome as in some cur sory way illustrative of its agreeable lucidity of s t y l e, and of the general merit of its alphabetical arrange-. men; 'l. Its arrangement we say is alph a b et i c4.l, bring ing us, for example, from the Adelphi to Whit from A lmack's to the Zoological Gar dens, from Battersea to Vauxhall. Ordered in this B anner, the articles making up the mass of the Dontents comprise amongst them, however, • , i 6 Y4714'41 i 3 44404 - r..144 4 4(fi‘ . 11i41 7 44. series Of objects is r4iewed together. under the generic head of Halls, for instance, we have the :; everything we nee d to l ea rn i n re f erence t o ek ftler ers', GraCare', Drapers', Fishmongers', inners', Merchant-Teilora'., Haberdashers', cum exleris puribus. Under the Inns of Old London, we are rod all we can well wish to be told about the Bull and-Mouth, the B .It-in-Tun, the Belle-Sauvage, the S wan-with-two-N ec k s , t h e Y orkshire-S tinge, and the like famous hostelries. Under that of Libra ries,. we are introduced successively to such literary sanctums as those. of the Royal Institution, th e Royal Academy of Arts, or the Royal Society of Literature. The article on Markets conveys us, in 'like manner, in due sequence through the flowers 'and fruit of Covent-garden, the greengrocery of Clare and the Borough, the meat of Newgate, the poultry of Leadeuhall, and the fish of Billinsg,ate. After a like fashion, it may be observed, all the smaller streets of any note leading out of them, are spoken of under the heading of the principal tho roughfares: Thus in wandering with Mr. Timbs down Fleet-street, we branch off every now and then into all sorts of byeways ; now into Bride-lane, now into Wine-office-court, now into Sergeant's-inn, now into Gough-square. Or, sauntering along the Strand, we are allured from what has recently called " the main artery of the world"—(Vide "Famous Persons and Famous Places," p. 125.)—At one moment into Fountain-court, at another intoßeau fort-buildings, at another into Milford-lane, at an other into Pd geaee -place, now into Ship-yard, and now again into the Lowther Arcade. As illustrat ing in pleasant way the kind of curiosities here a. embalmed like flies a n d s traws in the amber of Mr. Timbs' compilation, we may direct attention to the ingenious notes c ompacted toget h er , i n an alpha betical position, th us expressed under t h e h ead i ng "Fashions, Old, in Dress." Within this one sec tion of the work before us what strange congeries of odd and out-of-the way facts are there amassed ! It reminds us that if the mutability of dress is pro verbial elsewhere, in London old fashions are pre served, here and there, in a manner quite extraor dinary. The blue coats and yellow stockings still worn bythe boys of Christ's Hospital being the com mon habit worn in the days of Edward VI, by serv ing men and apprentices! The quaint jacket with its metal badge on the arm worn nowadays by our firemen and watermen, dating back to the same reign ! Nay, the Yeomen o f the Guard, or roya l beefeaters (buffetiers), we learn, are decked out to this day in the uniform of the private soldiers of the time of Henry VII ! Slightly varied, indeed, in some minute details, but at any rate exactly the same as they appeared at the Court of Charles IL—in their scarlet tunics, and red hose, and stiff white ruffs, in their parti-coloured shoe bows, and their black velvet caps enriched with knots of red, blue, and white ribbon ! So also, we are informed ou the authority of /Votes and Queries (No. 82), that the plain mob-caps and long gloves of our London charity girls are the same that they were in the time of Queen Anne—the brass badge of our cab and omnibus men being a vestige of the liveries worn by Elizabethan retainers— the sailor's dress of the era of William 111. being yet preserved among our , fisher men—the blue smock Of our butchers b e i ng an old guild uniform—and so on through all sorts of un expected coincidences between the dresses of to-day and those of a remote past familiar to our far-off ancestors. Mr. Timbs, by the way, here takes pc casion to commemorate certain peculiarities of garb, by which sundry personages of ability were, in their day, diStingtushed, as in the instance of Mr. Pitt's blue-coat, buckskin breeches, top-boots, round hat, po wderand pigtail—or of Mr. Fox's plain coloured, almost Quaker-like, clothes, his broad rimmed hat, and his white stockings—or of the large cocked hat of Murphy the dramatist—or of John Wilkes' great scarlet and gold flap-waist coat. It may be remarked, in further illus tration of the motley nature of the London " Curiosities" here commemorated, that while on the title-page of the volume there appears a facsimile of the charter granted to the City of Lon don by William the Conqueror—to the effect " William the King friendly salutes William the Bishop, and Godfrey the Portreve, and all the Burgesses within London, both French and Eng lish : and I declare, that I grant you to be all law worthy, as you were in the days of King Ed ward : and I grant that every child shall be his father's heir after his father's days : and 'I will not suffer any person to do you wrong : God keep you" —while we say the curious Saxon characters of the Old Charter are imitated in the woodcut upon the title page : the last paragraph of the volume has re ference to the new " wonder of the world," the Crystal Palace—the Palace of the People—at Sy-. denham ! Closing the volume at that significant and suggestive paragraph, we can conscientiously, and very cordially, and even gratefully, commend the twenty-seven years of assiduous toil which have resulted in this valuable and attractive contribu tion to the national memorials henceforth to ba stored up in the library of the educated English man. THE UNSUCCESSFUL _ATTACK ON THE MALAKROFF. The following is from - a letter, dated Paris, yesterday, six p.m. : " The same day that the telegraphic despatch, giving an account of the unsuccessful attack of the Allies on the Malakhoff Tower and the Redan, reached us, it was whispered that the failure was principally owing to slowness or carelessness on the part of the Bri tish. Whether the rumoured omission of the faseines was true or not, I am unable to say ; but it is certain that, as I mentioned at the time, a phrase or two of General Pelissier's despatch was left out In the Moniteur. General Pelissier also said that his reasons for making his troops resume their po sition were too long to be transmitted by telegraph. It occurred to me at the moment that there must have been some complaints made by the French General on the want of combination or of energetic support on the part of his English colleague, and from what has transpired within the last few days I believe such to be the case. Indeed, these com plaints, which. have been pretty freely expressed in several public offices, are not now uttered for the first time since Pelissier took the command ; and, if it be true, as is stated, that a good deal of discontent exists not merely at his head-quarters, but generally through out the camp for the same reason, the matter assumes a very serious aspect. It is stated that, a correspondence has take place between the two Governments on the subject, and that it has not yet termi na t e d, nor can I say how it may terminate." RUSSIAN ACCOUNT OF THE STATE OF SEBASTOPOL. The Journal de Constantinople of 18th says : "The Russian prisoners taken in the recent affairs, and who have been brought to this city, have given interesting information as to the present situation of Sebastopol. Some of the details have been kept secret owing to their importance ; but it is generally known that the Russians have at this moment 15,000 wounded Soldiers in the place, and that they cannot send them away, from being so closely watched. It is known also that cholera is exercising great ravages in the town, and it is true, as previously stated, that all women, children, and old men have been sent from the town, and are now encamped beyond the citadel. The fol lowing rather curious episode is said to have taken place at the Mamelon Vert in the evening of the Sth. The soldiers employed in constructing the batteries sud denly perceived a Russian sub-officer and three sol diers coming towards them. Their appearance caused some surprise, for they appeared to have risen from under ground, and it was found on in quiry that they had actually done so. On quitting' the ALttnelon Vert the Russian commandant left them in the powder magazine with orders that they shotld set fire to it the moment the French entered. These poor men, not feeling any inclination for a flight into air, even in com pany with a number of enemies, took care not t o execute. this order, and after remaining in their place of conceal went for about 15 hours, and feeling the pangs of hunger, they extinguished the matches with which they might have done such mischief, and quietly came and asked for something to eat from the new possessors of premises." Weunderstand that Lord Panmure and Lord Hardinge will proceed to Aldershot to-day to inspect the seven battalions of infantry now encamped there. They ar e the Ist Battalion Coldstream Guards, Ist Battalion Soots Fusilier Guards, sth Royal Lancashire Militia, West Kent Light Infantry, 2:lWar wickshire, Ist Royal Surrey, East Middlesex, and a wing of the 2d Staffordshire. ILLNESS OF THE KING OF DENMARK. —A. letter from Copenhagen, of the 21st instant, states that his Danish Majesty had had a rather violent attack of fever on they 19th, but that on the following day it had very much decreased. DINNER TO HER MAJESTY'S JUDGES. Last evening the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, Sir Henry Mug geridge and Sir Decimus Crosley entertained her Ma jesty's judges at a splendid banquet, at the Albion. Amongst those present were Mr. Baron Parke, Lord Jus tice Knight Bruce, Vice-Chancellor Stuart, Mr. Justice Erie, Mr. Justice Cresswell, Mr. Justice Williams, Mr.. Justice Crowder, Mr. Baron Martin, Mr. Serjeant Man ning, Mr. Serjeant Shee, Mr. Serjeant Thomas, Mr. Serjeant Atkinson. There were also present—Sir Übap man Marshall, Alderman Hu'-nphery. Alderman Cabitt, Alderman Rose. Alderman Sidney,‘Deputy Dakiu, Mr. L. Taylor,Mr. Wood, Mr. T. H. Hall, Mr. W.Sones, Mr. Valiance, Mr. Cotterill, Mr. Perkins, Mr. Toker, Mr. Lloyd, Mr. Lambe, Mr. M Athri r e . dher l eat a o t ba e,F iffr r . , ol d f e N je .Th Y i ' llips, Mr. Parker, Mr. White, Southwark, the under theriff., Messrs. Farrar and Crosley. Covers were laid for 130. After th e usual loyal toasts. had been proposed and responded to with enthusiasm,. Sir 11. Muggeridge gave " Her Mee jesty's Judges," Mr. 'Rayon, Parke and Lord Justice Knight Bruco.returning thanks. The other toasts le the evening were " The Lord Mayor," " The Sheriffs "The Lord Mayor," &c.. The dinner, which . consisb of every luxury, was setzved in most admirable style 4 Di Messrs Staples. 741 5