The Sun. — London, England, 1855-10-23 00:00:00

;be Past Works, averting I f or the Mail• DR BAT- tetnatic ers and 1 Artil of well occur, lent for battery in the van up cee will I.nd the of a do t of the issioned d driY- Irgeant ter of twenty d gun lundred loun der do not n under Ito this eters of sl prat e officer derson) It of all to the ) retain ;pective to the service, 1M each der in -3 tO be lligent, oin this Or ac or duty circum- om the !ENT- toff, the astopol, dded to , it may e of the is views ire bona for the I artiste spot by ley bear rtn two to inia• oterday, with (go luaus to tree are all the oae the d the t your Lied by to time de you recame asures era the maize, one of ven in h con ibited. ed for .anteed larkets ours. The 3terior scribed Iraudu- 'er was :essary and in in the wheat, al pro- Illy re which .o mul wages of the isation ct that distri tr. In accru- 11 your it acti he con• ,crifices be to tnunes, it ; yet ad you ill also ,rms in visit in in corn nay be wise to rou will ination ans, so lighten of pro th you re how d with a abun ae who ed and sternal efforts, )f their of the ion and t to the flow at bisery ; advice interest e these They ing fer I know 1m and ich the sieur le 1 initia urts, of viduals of my lON. MONEY HARKET AND COMIERCIAL INTELLIGENCE CITY, Two o'CLooR. The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday- closed heavily and with irregularity, but prices were not quotably changed. The sales comprised 5,000 bales, I,OOQ for export, including 50 Pernam and Marauham at s:id. to frild. ; 10 Bahia at 52d. ; 100 Egyptian at sid. to Bid. ; and 500 Surat at 3,id. to 4d. per lb. The Railway Share Market was firm, at a slight advance on Saturday's prices, closing dull. By the America we have latter Oates than those which we alluded to yesterday. The return of the city banks for the week ending Oct. 6, 1855, was rather more favourable than the previous one, as the loans and discounts showed a decreasa of 1,870,204 dollars, while the specie was larger by 1,190,563 dollars. The calling in of loans on the part of the banks had led to rather largo sales of stock upon the market, bat prices had recovered from the temporary depression which these occa sioned, and at the latest date tended upwards. The market for foreign fabrics had become much quieter ; still, however, there was a good inquiry for seasonable goods. The shipments of bread stuffs to Liverpool, in the week ending Oct. 6, j were to the extent of more than $400,000. Recent accounts from Sydney, New South Wales, announce that the Mint under control of the Colonial Treasury is now in full operation. Gold will be received daily at the Mint, not less than 12 ounces to be converted into coin, for which a charge of one per cent. would be made on all quantities above that to 10,000 oz., beyond which it,would be reduced to per cent. Some dissatis faction prevailed at the proposal of the Governor- General, Sir William Denison, to add the articles salt, vinegar, and soap to the new tariff, and it was expected that there would be great opposition to the bill. Our latest accounts from France announce that, notwithstanding the commotion among the mer cantile community created by the measures of the Banks of France and England to raise their dis• counts, the manufacturing districts havenot suffered in the least. Large orders were in hand from the United States, and everywhere the workmen in the principal manufactories of soft goods were fully employed. Orders from Spain for articles of Parisian manufacture were likewise coming in. The commerce of the interior was ge nerally in a satisfactory state ; while greater ac tivity than usual was exhibited in that of the pro vince of Algeria. Safo commercial enterprises were realising profits of 25 to 30 per cent., and interest on money bad risen to 8 and 10 per cent. The accounts from the United States, of an abundant harvest, had maintained the fall experienced in flour at the close of last week ; and it was anticipated that a still further reduction would take place in a few days. Sales of the best quali ties were made at 103 fr. 50c. without taking pre mium ; and the factors had declared a sale of 1,631 sacks. Spanish flour was in demand at 103 fr. At Chartres and Monterau a fall of 2fr. 50 centimes per sack was announced. The usual supplies from • Egypt however, would cease, as it was known that the Pacha intended preventing the exportation of grain until the 6th January, 1856, in consequence of the River Nile not having risen and flooded the adjacent agricultural lands to its ordinary extent. Very little alteration has occurred in the Eng lish Stock Market, owing to the limited specula tion, and the absence of any foreign intelligence of importance. Consols have been 87* to 87± all the morning for account, but the money prices have been 87i to Bank Stock is at 2071 to 209. India Bonds are 3s. discount to Is. premium. Exchequer Bills are now 3s. discount to 2s. pre mium, an advance caused by the increase which has just been made in the rate of interest, viz., t o 2id. per cent. per diem on both classes. Tli i e New Threes are 87k to b, and the Reduced 86R to 861. The Market for Foreign Stock presents a:duller appearance than it has done for some time past. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 781 to 79, which is a slight improvement on the closing values ofester day. Dutch 21 per Cents. are 644 to 64, aid the 4 per Cents. are 93. Brazilian 5 per Cents. are quoted at 981, and Austrian 5 per Cents.' at 81. No business is reported in Mexican, Spanish, French, or Portuguese Bonds. The following are the nominal prices of foreign stocks: Grenada Deferred Bonds, 18 to 20 ; Mexican, 191 to 191 ; Peruvian, 71 to 73 ; ditto Three per Cents., 51 to 53; Portuguese Four per Cents., 43 to 45 ; Russian Five per Cents., 95 to 98 ; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 85 to 88 ; Spanish Three per Cents., 371 to 38i ; ditto New Deferred, 19i to ; ditto Certificates, 4 to 48 ; ditto Passive, 41 to 5. Most Railway Shares are about to per cent. lower, and this is most observable in the Great Western, Great. Northern, Midland, and North- Eastern, Berwick. French Shares aro neglected. Mining and Banking Shares are very inactive. Canada Land Shares continue heavy. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE 0'0144 From the Official List. ) " . Roo fl ess done Rink Stock ...........,.. 209 7i 3 par Ceut. Reduced Annuities... .. . 864 i a 1 3 par Cent. Consols Annuiti es B4 a Nay.' 3 per Cent. Annuities L )lig Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct., 1859 3 Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth April, 1883 16 3-16 5-16 In lin. Bonds, £lOOO 1 p 3 d Ditto, under £lOOO 1 p 3 d Clo viols for Account 1C (chequer Bills, 2j d. I 2d. £lOOO. 3d 2 p 3d 2 p 2500 — 1 ama11...... 0000000000 164. • . 4dSp 1 4 d 3 P PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONLY O'CLO , K Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent__ S 1 Brazilian Bonds 5 per Cent. Ditto for the Account 9Bi - - Turkish Bonds, 6 per ceut Ditto for tke account in 9 Dividends on the above payable in Londot , Datch Exchange, 2i per Cont. 12 Gull 641 4 Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates HALF-PAST TWO. Console Ditto for the Account MARKET NEWS.—(This Day). • HAY MARKETS. SMITHYIELD.—Meadow hay, 3110 s to 6/ 6s ; clover ditto, 4/ Os to 6/ 103 ; and straw, 11 8s Od to 1/ 131 Od per lowi A fair average supply and a sluggish demand. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 3/ 12s to 6/ G 1; clover do., 4/ Os to 6/ 6s ; and straw, 11 Ss to 11 13s per load. Trade steady. WR ITURANEL.—Meadow hay, 3/ 103 to 61 6s ; clover do., 4/ Os to Cl lOs ; and straw, 1/ 76 to 11 121 per load Supply good, and trade rather dull. FOLONIAL. quiet, pending TEA.—The Market which have in a great n: tlie publio sales, Tate contract, ure suspended business by pd. SUGAR.—In this article a largear_bilainess has been done by private contract, and prices 12, is at 30s to 31s. A cargo of l a n i i i r s • Havannah, No. of 400 . ,:. in Rotterdam, chests and 800 bags, sold at 275, for the,l39nnitseiadtilingingdom. 200 tons of Java have also been bouoht • • be delivered at au outport ex ship. to COFFEE.—There is a dull market for this article, and the quotations generally may be considered nominal. G oo d ci •dinary native Ceylon, 50s to 51s. RICE.—The market remains in much the same state as last week, and prices, with one or two exceptions, remain the same. A cargo f Arracan, about 500 tons, has been sold at 13s. 1,000 bags Bengal on the spot at 15s 9d, and a small parcel Rangoons at 13s 9d. Rum.- The appearance of this market is very firm and holders are asking higher prices in consequence of the Go• vornment contracts. The following are the names of the parties and the quantity taken by each : Messrs. Henry White and Co. 86,000 „ Ruck and Co 75,500 „ „ Hart gallons. 27,000 „ ~ Inmaz 193,F)00 gallons. TALLOW.—On Saturday our market was rather firmer than on Friday, especially for forward deliveries. 63s to 63s 6d was given for January to March, and 62s 3d for November and December. To-day the market opened firm, uealy all the tallow at the scale having been cleared off ; and the speculators for a fall refusing to go on, there was a reaction in all positions. The demand from the trade is again large, but we do not hear of any business doing to-day for the Coutinet. Our closing prices are, spot new, 62s Gd ; 1854, 62s 3d to 6d received ; all the lone 62s 3d. The stock of " Sorts" is small. We quote kustralian sheep Gls to 9d ; Beef 62s to 63s ; town tallow, heavy at 628 9d nett cash. Palm oil, 48s to 468 6d ; T dlow Elsinf.. 58s to 58s 6d ; Tallow oil, 43s Gd to 445; L'nseed oil, 42s 9d. 'CRYSTAL PALACE. SHILLING DAY. •-•-• Monday.-, Adaii:Esious on payment, 2918 ; do. by season ti c k e t s , 21;e7; tota!, 3,215. Corresponding day last year, 3,581 , (THIS DAY.) RAILWAYS. RAILWAYt. iClosirts Pete* yesterday. 10 ....... .nabg, Nottng. Ms! and Eastn. Junct... all ielfast & Bailymern, all sirming. Wolye :11 4 hour Valley ``chj ;irk e _dad. LancsL. & Cheshire Junct all Che%h. & Birk., £5O and £25 Cons, 19 Do., £2O all ''.lyth &Tyneorigina . £25 (isscl. at £4s' .00 3ristol and Exeter .100 '!aledonian ....... 61s. (lam. and Ca, digal ' 'lhester & Holyhead. all 7. 1 0rk. and Bandon all iork, Black, 4 Pass 18 Cornwall all Do. A 8 Do. B 13 Chief!' Junction 45 Duolin&BelfastJune all Dun. P. & A 1,..,.. Jne all Do. .N. , v 100 East Ai:glian all Eastern Counties.. 100 East. Union, A. St} 100 De., B. 5t0.,.. SA Do., New 73 East Kent 100 East Lancashire 100 Edinburgh & Glasgon all Edinb. and Peebles 100 Edin. Prth & DundF,F 9 Forth & Clyde Jnn!. all Furness. all Do. Extension 100 Glasgow &S wosi ‘z all Great N. of Seotlnd. 100 Great Northern 100 Do., A. Stock 1 00 Do., B. Stock 1)0 Gt. Sth. &West.(lro ; 100 Great Western 100 Do. Stour Val. Rai: Gna. Stk all Irish South-Eas:ert all iLancaster & Carlisle 143 Do., Thirds 7 Do. New Thirds__ 100 Lancash.andYorkel i Ds. all Liv:Craoy.&Southpt all London & Blackwal: .00 Land. Bright & S.Cst. .00 Lond. and N. Westn. 16 D. Fifths 53 D0.10.13h.,./A&B_CI 2i bo. Eighths 100' London and S. Wotan 473tD0., 459 38 Do.; £4O. all Lndndrry& Col erain , all Lndndrrr.& Ennisk, 00 Manch.Shef.& Lin& all Do. Shares, No. 82s. Do., Man. & Lin. Un 1 Metropolitan 100 Midland 1.00 Do. Birmng. & all Midld. G. West. (Ira all Do. Half Shares all Newcastle & Carlisle all Nwpt.Aberg. &Hrfd 83 Newry & Enniskillen all Newry Warrenpoin and Rostrevor 100 Norfolk 33 Northn.Connties Un 100 North British all North Devon, No. 1 all Do., No. 2 a ll A Deferred , all Do., B Guaranteed 100 N. Eastern—Berwie 20 Do. do. Extension 13 Do.do. G.N.E. l'ureh all C'o. Leeds 100 Do. York 100 North London ..... 13/ 1F N.&S.Wstrn.,Hanay stead, and City Jn„. 171 North Staffordshire all North Western all N. &S. Westrn. June 1 Nuneaton, Ilinckle and Leiccster 00 )x, Wore.. & Wolv 8 'oiter.iouth 1.00 . 41 o Aish Central 100 3cottisliMidland 100 Thropshire Union as :oath Devon 1)0 :oath Eastern all south Wales 15 Yrksh. & Riv. Du , 5 )o 11 :tames, Wok &Woi. a'l 'tockton & Darli: 16i f.,(.'.1t0n & Iln.rtlepr 1.00 ^o.ff Vale 100 o. Pref., No. 1 21i liames Hay. D.& P. Ulverstone & Lanes all Vale of Neath all tVaterfd. & Kilkenn\ all Vaterford&Limerici all West Cornwall. 8 West End of Londol. and Crystal Palace all Do. A 3 Do. B all West London all Wimbledn &Croydon 23 4 7 - 7 16 - 15 14 - 15 9 - 8 87 - 89 571 581 lla • 12 • •• "."` - 5 - 6 ••• 11 - 12 9k - 66 - 68 504 - 51 9i - Di 16 - 17 ... - ~ 71 73 6; 7 81 P 2 67 63 119 99 1.01 soi 51 50 55 65 - 70 5 • 6 p 74. t -74 i Al 64 94 96 911 1k 2 f — l ea 1k 82 P 3 8 7 84 i 21i - d 63 i 63 35 37 .« - .. ... MIN , 12 - 14 14 - 2 •.• -- ••• 45 - 47 - 26, • •• ..".. 674 . 68i 8 7fd 4 —44 d 114 124 444 454 92 97 7i - 7} 51 - 5i 23 - 25 00 105 73 75 41. 43 114 1211 561 574 301 314 5 3d 2d t•pa I - 35 L 8 19 3 - 4 18 - 20 5 - 7 .• ... SHARE MARKETS. Antwerpaßott ,, rdam 30 Do. sp. c. Oblgs. con. in Sh. atpar till '64 10 Ardennes 4$ ;elgian Eastn. Junt 10 Bezi ors to Graisscasa, 4i Bombay, Baroda, awl rlentral India.Scrir all Do. all Demerara 11 Dutch Rhenish . all Eastern of France 10 Do. New all East Indian, g. sp. e 10 Do. Extension . all Do. do. do., '59, do 17i Gd. Tk of CanadzA. is all Do. St. Lawrence & Atlantic do. 70 Do. Cert. of Deben. con. into Stk. till all Do. Comp. 6p. c., do. 10 Gt. Ceutralof Franc , all Gt. Indian Peninsulb guar. 5 per cent. 1 Do. New 5 per cent 2 Do. Extensions.... 1.3 Great Luxembourg Constituted Share. all Do. Obligations all Gt. Western of Canad Shares 5 Do. New all Do. &Is., payable's7, l with option till '55 all Do. do., '62, p. '56 all Do. do., '76, p. '6O: all Do. do., '73, without all 'option Hamilton gr Torontc all IDo. 6 per cent. _ . 17 Lake Conet. St Bash all MOM and Turnhout 10 Lyons and Geneva 14 Lyons ds Mediterran all Madras 10 Do. New all Maria Antonia all Do. do. Now all Namur & Liege (wit} , interest) all Do. (ex interest) all Northern of France. all Do.2ol.Shs. all Do. 20 7 . 3 p. o Bds (fmy. B. dr Aran. She. all NorwegianTrunkPre 16 Paris and Lyons all Ditto Bonds all Paris and Orleans all Paris and Rouen... lt ParisCaen /z, Cherbrg. all D 0... 5 Rome and Frascati.. all Rouen and Havre..... all Royal Danish ..... 5 Royal Swedish all Do. Obligations all Sambre and Memo_ all Do. 5i p. cent. Pref. ss. Scindo , all D 0... all Southern of Franoo..l 16 St. Andrew's and Qaebec (A). til West Flanders all Do 5t per c. Prof IS Western of France all Do all Zealand JOINT-S' all Australasia • 50 Bank of London ..... Ln C. erican 5 Cbartd. Bank of Ash, all 4051111 C.C(Cl:ljrint74lmrtrtinsi.nmd.C:::etra.:7ll:til.lciaikliOol.:ninfi all Lond. Cha r t. •n • t i • Australia... 5 Ditto New..,,' 20 London and Count 3: . . 50 Lud. &E. Bnkg. Corp. 1(i London Joint !ROC& 20 Lond. & weetminstei 35 National Pro.of Eng. 10 Do. New 22 1 , National of Ireland, all New South Wales.... all Oriental Bank of Corporation 25 Provincial of Irolano all Do. New 1 Royal Australn.l3kg. Sr Gold Tmp C 0....) 50 Royal 8riti5h......... all South All gtralla all Union of Australia... Do. New 10 Union of London 71 7a I - I 4el 35 351 9 —lO p 21t 224 81 14. -15 i 70 - 72 89 91 2i 3,t 5 —5l par - ip 4 - 41 2/ - 3 22/ - 2.3+ - lip 99 - 101 112 - 116 113 - 116 103 105 22i - 23 110 - 115 ... - .. 5 - 6p- 19}-19/i 7 9 2 - 3 - 51 4} - 5 33i - 34 11 - 7 i - P 3 431 -44 43 - 45 ••• .... see ... pro ... ..... 20 21 2 lea 2i 3h 8 84 ••• .... a 1 p ... pm si 4 - .. 29 - 80 pi 18i - 194 BANKS. 84 -- 86 50 - 52 . ... i d par 53 -- 55 •w ... ••• 16i -- 161 19 19 ti 1_ it 40 Par 2p GNI ft... ••• 34 - 36 40 - 42 52 - t 4 eir• '"'" ..... op* -- .. 39 - 4 1 69 - 70 7i - Fr • 20 11 St. St. 20 20 10 10 20 5 20 18 201 100 20 20 100 100 100 20 20 so '''".• .. -"''' 90 I 10s. 221 3 a d 30 7 } 20 I d I 25 40 39i I 2 , 691 : 2A i 1 1001 2 THE SUN; LONDON; TUESDAY ;we I RosLwAre. Leasinr Compans losing •`rice.. yesterday. Business this day. OCTOI3 RR 23, 1856: THE SOUND DUES. Such is substantially the memorandum accompanying the despatch of Oct. 1. Of the two annexed tables, one gives the amount of the dues levied in the Sound and the Belts on the vessels of each of the States in the years 1851, 1852, and -1853 ; the other the amount of the dues levied on the goods imported into the Baltic or exported from that sea. The following appears in yesterday's Indepen dance Beige : Hurg, Oct. 18. The Da n i s h d espatc h of Oct. 1, on the amb conference upon the Sound dues, of which I cent you an analysis in my letter of yesterday, was accompanied, I told you, by a memorandum, addressed, in the same form, to all the governments interested. I think myself fortunate in be ing able to forward you a detailed account of it to-day: It is as f.)llows :- 4 The memoir alludes, first of an, to the agitation for a long time levelled against th e to ll , and which would have entirely disregarded the claim of the Danish esta blishments, whose object it is to facilitate naviga tion, tc. " Under the late King Christian VIII., in consequence of negotiations entered into by Denmark, England, and Sweden, a revision of the tariff was effected. There was then a stationary period. "Christian VIII. had in view other modifications and revisions. He was prevented from carrying them out through the war (with Schleswig-Holstein) and its con sequences. Later, the war iu the East broke out. " If, in order to seek a solution, Denmark has chosen the present moment, it is because the situation has been created for her, in this w a y : " By a not e dated last April, the 14th, the American envoy to the court of Copenhagen denounced the con vention of April 26, 1826, the only one in which, in so far as America is concerned, there is any mention of the toll. "It results from the explanations of the American envoy that the avowed object of this denunciation is to release the American shipping from this toll, although, in the Danish point of view, this release would not be the natural consequence of the cessation of the conven tion. "This has therefore created for Denmark anew situa tion, and the ideets previously imparted must from that moment become problematical. "Denmark herself would be disposed to have a revision of the tariff, but neither America nor other powers would be satisfied with that. The Danish government, there fore, put the revision on one side, withoutaltogether aban doning it. It results from this hypothesis that the other governments, considering the revision not calculated to prevent the conflict,• might have invited Denmark to make other propositions. " But it is wished to come to some definitive airange ment for putting an end to the toll, without infringing on the rights of the Danish crown. "It is from these motives that Denmark is induced to propose the capitalisation of the toll. "One essential condition is, that the question should be treated, not as an affair of trade or money, but as a political affair. On this head, the memorandum alludes to the Sound duos, and the part that the toll has played in the poiicy of northern Europe. In thus mating the question the negotiation will have impressed upon it the character and impulse to which it is entitled. "Denmark's desire to see the negotiations opened at Copenhagen in the course of November next, already expressed in the circular, is repeated and supported by motives to be found in the circumstances and in the im portance of the city of Copenhagen for the affair in question. "Without wishing, in the slightest degree to antici pate the decisions of the Governments, Denmark points out the basis, the adoption of which in her opinion would have for its result that each of the powers should contribute on the payment of the capital in a ratio to the duty levied on its navigation and commerce. " The Sound dues are partly levied on the ships, partly on the cargoes. " These latter are the true Sound dues, whereas the former consist especially in lighthouse dues and the like. " Formerly the idea was propounded of adopting for the exclusive basis of capitalisation the nationality of the ships passing through the straits ; but this plan was anything but just, seeing that the number of ships be longing to a nation and passing; through the Sound does Lot at all represent the quota contributed by the nation to the toll, which is chiefly levied on the goods. " There would be far greater conformity with the true state of things if the quantity of goods that have passed through the Sound and the Belts were taken as a basis. "It might, fur instance, be agreed upon that' the re spective Sates, including Denmark, should contribute in propOrtion to the quantity of goods exported from their harbours and imported into the Baltic through the straits, or exported by the same Baltic route for the purpose of being imported into their harbours. "By combining this basis with that of the nationality of the ships, so that the compensation to be paid to Denmark might be calculated, for the true Sound dues, according to the movement of the goods, according to the direct importations or exportations of each State, in goods having passed the Straits of the Sound and the Belt, and for the lighthouse dues, according to the flag, a more just and equitable solution of the difficulty would be arrived at." sit Redford. awl filetalay ICO Buclrgharash. 1N Clydesclal T, • all Col : Stour y. Slid. and E. Lin. -6 pc all E. Un. H. Sll. 100 Glas. Barr. & Neill. Direct 100 Do. New..,... all Glztr.dt Dn. Fr all Hrtlpl. Dk. Railway..... all Hull & Selby all Do. Shares. all Do. I Shares. all Lon.&Greonw all Do.Preferen2e 10.) Lon.,Til., &S. IA Lowestoft gr. 4 per cont. LOO Do. 6 por ct. all Manch. llxtn. London N. W-t. L.& N n.14,10n„. E. Un. E. C... . E. Count. Caldol:dm. Gt. Westl Yk. New. Bcrw. Y. &N Do S. Eastern Do ..... Peto & Co. Norfolk Do L.& N. W & Stckton h Darlingt. Midland and Matlock all Middles,bro' & Redcar. . 100 Midld.Bradfd 5i Newmarket Bury Exten all N.& Est.s p.c. all Do. 6 per et. all Do. Fixeds p all Prost. gtll , yr , all Do.' Shrs. A L 0 Roystn.& Hit. IGtNorthin 181 Shef.Roth.and Lancash & Goole g. 5 p.c. Yorksb. all Shrews. &Her T. Brassey 91 S. Staffordsh. M.MClean all Wear Valleygr Stockt. & 6 per cent._ Dariingt all Do Do En. Coun. IE. Count Do Do.. 1100 I Wiltsl4,•"-orirst L. & N.W Do lqtWeetn. PREFE SL 20 50 St. 124 10 . 100 Aberdeen 100 Do. N 0.2, 7 p. c. • all Myth andTyn. , 1 Opel 0. pref. (issd.l 50/ . 100 Brio. & Ex. 4p. c. St. ' 5 Do. 4p. c. Shares 100 Caledonian £lO all Chester & Plolyhea , ' Guar. 5i per cent . all Do. do. Pref. No. 2 all Do. do. Prof. No. 2 all Cork dtßanaonsip.c all Dun.Prth .4z A her. J 2 E. Anglian Cls. ASh 100 Do. do. Cls. B6p. c 100 Do. do Cls. C 7p. c. all Eastern Counties Ex tension 5 p. c. No. all no. No. 2 . all Do. New 6 p. c. St all East Un., G. 6p. c. all Do. 5/. 10 per cent all Do. 101. Debentr.Sh. all Do. do. 4 per cent... 100 East Lancask. 6 p.cts all ..&W. York. J. sths 100 Ed. Prth.&Dun.4p.c all Furness 10 , ) • Has. &S. W. G. 5 p. c 100 great Northn. sp. c : 100 Do, sp. 0. Redeem. at 10 p. c..prem. 100 p, c. 7. Do. sp. c. Scrip, Red. Nt 5 p. c. pm_ all Gt.N. of Scot.l atP re 100 ' lt. 4W. (Ireland) 10 Do. 4 per c. Pruf. S, 6 it. Westn. (Berks Hants Ex. 5 p. o) 100 Do. con. red. 4,4, p.c. 100 eon. red. 4 p. c 100 Do. irred. 4p. c. all Do. Birm. Pref. Sh all Do. Chester Bp.c.P. S. all Do. do. 5 p. c. do 100 Do. Birm. Gua. Stk all Do. Ches. Gua. Sh all Do. do. do all Do. do. do 6 Lan. &York. F. LW 100 Do. 6p. c. Stock 100 Lon. & Brigh. G. 5 p.c. 100 Do. Prof., sp. c. St. 100 Do. New Guar.6 p. c. 100 Do. do. 5 per cent 100 Lon. &N. W., Coy. at Nuneat on 5 p. ct.. 100 Lon. & S.W. 7 per et. all Londy. & Coler. Sh. ell Londy. & Ennis. A St. all 11an., Shef., & Now. £lO 4 Do. £6 I all )61arypt.&Car1.4 p c all 10. 4. per cent 10! Do 100 'lid. Consol.6 p.e st. 100 no. Consol. Bristol - 1 -lirrn. 6 per cont. 100 Do. 4i p. c. Pref. St .64 all Do. Pref. 41 per eel , 5 all Do. 5/. Pr f. 4p. c. ft. 100 Ditto L. &H. Pref. SI .0 411 Norfolk Debenture . It. 100 .Do. Pref. 4 p.c. Stoe It, 100 'Po. 5 p.c. Eat St. 100 ! Do. 54peret.pref St. 100 ,Do. Way. Val. 5 p. c St. !00 North British 6 12A 12. 12 , St. St. It. 100 N. E. Dem, 4 p.c. P LT 5 tDo. do. do 'A 13 'Do fJeeds 6 p.c %No.] 9 Do. do. Quarters 4' 10 Do.YorkTl.& S. P' r. all North Staffordshire.. 100 Oxford, Worcester, • Wolverh.£ls.6 p.e 81 Do R. Prof. 101. Sh. all Scot. Cent., New Pr. all South 1)ovon 11 Do. fixed, 41 per cen all S. Eastern (Readi , 4 Ann.) of 41 Os. 6d. 100 Do. 41 per cent... all IDo. Fixed 41 p c sh. all I S. Wales Gua. 4 p. c. all Do. do. 41 p. c.... all IS.Yorksh.4p.c.Guar. all Stock. & Dar. ,5 p. c. 15 iDo. do. do 11 all Stock. & Hartl. g. p. c. till July 1, '5Fi 41 ;Water fd. & Kilk. 6pc 94 1 4 St. 10 20 20 MINES. 1 all kgua Fria 1 I all Anglo Austrin. Gold all 'Anglo Californian 6 kustralian all Australian Cordillorr all Ave Maria all Baden (Gd. Duchy of, all Blamarvon Iron and Coal ..,.. 14 British Iron 26 '3razilianlmp.(issued at 25 pm.) all Do. Cocaes & Cuiab• 15 Do. St. John Del Re 3 Clarendon Cons. Min. Co. of Jamaica all Cobra Copper 1 Colonial Gold all Copper Min, of Eng all Do. Prof. 7i p. cent 1C Copiapo 1 Fortuna all General.. all Cit. Num AVoinßeg i all Great Polgooth all Gt Wheal Vor United all Liberty all Linares 1i Lusitanian all Nlariquita. all New Granada all Nouveau Monde all Pontgibaud Silver Lead Min. & Smelt 1 Port Philip all ',quartz Rock all Rhymney Iron all 00. New 12i ktutiago de Cuba... all Aoutl, Australian... all Do. 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Can Irs.o Dlemide lo.ut 93 - 96 95 - 100 ••• 135sd ••• .... 26 - 28 0 - 165 12} - 13 1124 - 117 21 - 24 90 - 42 fA - it 56 - 58 130 - 134 8 - 8j 3 - 201 30 - 31 82 - 80 'CB SHAREt.A. 115 110 91 - 93 94 - 90 15 - ••• '-' 51 -5/ - - 12 - Ei - 59 ill 1 - 113 SC 10k 16i 10 70 18i THE LATE SIR WM. MOLES WORTH. Yesterday, about the hour of noon, Sir William Molesworth, late Secretary of State for the Colonies, expired at his residence in Jilaton-place, after a brief but severe illness. Sir had_only attained his forty fifth year, having been born in 1810. His father was a Cornish baronet of old descent—his mother an Edin burgh lady, of the name of Brown. Ile lost his father at the age of 13, and it is alike creditable to his natural disposition and to the maternal care that he was un spoiled by the early attainment of wealth and weal po sition. Scarcely any details of his non-age and educa tion have reached us; indeed we only know that he spent ono year as a student at Edinburgh. His debut i❑ public life was 'as M.P. for Cornwall, which he represented in Parliament from 1832 to 1537. From the first he avowed himself a member of the not nu merous but energetic and accomplished party which went by the designation of the "Philosophical Radi cals." His most intimate associate during this period of his career was Mr. Temple Leader, with whom Le for a time kept house in common. The men were essentially most unlike ; Molesworth a deep and earnest thinker, with literary tastes ; Leader a dashing, talented, impulsive spirit. Similarity of age and inde pendent generous sentiments formed their bond of union. Less akin in opinions, but more like to Molesworth in his tastes and intellectual habits, was the late Charles Buller, with whom he lived on terms of confidential in tiinacy. Common intellectual pursuits kept him in close ' alliance with Mr. George Grote and Mr. John Stuart Mill. A radical so prononce had small chance of retain ing his seat for Cornwall after the effervescence of the Reform Bill period was over. But Leeds welcomed the rejected of the squires and their " Chandos clause " ♦o ters, and he sat in Parliament for that borough from 1837 to 1841. How he came to lose his seat for Leeds we could never rightly understand. He re mained out of Parliament till 1845, when he was re turned for the borough of Southwark, which he con tinued to represent till his death. While a memb, r of the House of Commons his voice and vote were unreservedly given in favour of every liberal principle and measure ; but it was chiefly as an enlight ened and able advocate of colonisation and reform in our system of penal transportation that he distinguished himself. To this it was owing that, when he consented to accept administrative office, he was, after a short time spent in the rather uncongenial Board of Works, promoted to the Colonial Department. In the Cabinet, however, Sir William's presence appears to have been more important as a recognition of the principle of men entertaining his opinions to office than for any very ac tive or influential part he took in the deliberations of Government. Sir William took an active part in the attempt to establish the short-lived London Review; but his principal literary effort was his collective edition of the works of Hobbes. It is not a very encouraging symp tom of the state of public opinion in England that this munificent enterprise was, on one occasion, made a sub ject of grave acousation against Sir William at the hust ings. Be the opinions of Hobbes what they may, he is the parent of English intellectual analysis--the origina tor -if those inquiries to which we owe Berkeley, Hume, Reid, and Stewart. The loss of his works would leave an irreparable gap in the history of English intellectual moral and political science. Sir William married, in 1844, the daughter of Bruce Carstairs, Esq., whose first husband was Temple West, Esq. Ho had no family by this lady, who survives; as does also the Dowager Lady Molesworth. SUPERANNUATED FIELD-MARSHALS. • ci On A letter in a contemporary says . find that Lord the Peerage with Hart's Army List, I . comparing ited field-mar- Combermere, one of the recently appointe d was made ~ shals, was born in the year 1780 ;cattb).t'arti,olaattll43,,aacomloajnoe"rl cornet at 10, a lieutenant at 11, a and lieutenant-colonel (in the ~sam,eeayess I -/- of age. His lord at 20, and a major-general at the s y Y were very brilliant— ship's active services—and they l e lis co c ill ei ra nt e n h • ce d . appear to have been confined betwee a n nd th During this time lh merit of the Peninsular warl i7 in y l e B a o rs B : oanbiosrutone promotion, that of lieu tenant-general,in India—a period of his lordship received . 2 1 2, Again, at 75 years of age, and in 18 .. . e .s chosen Lord ? to he one sf a after 30 years of inae r t s iv b i a tr s , . n new batch of field-marshals. .Combermere's pro are almost entirely confined to his first motions, then, andsecond c hildhood. Of the 10 gr a d es t h roug h w hi c h it.is ought necessary an officer should pass before he a tt a ins the highest rank only one is assigned to him in t h e a ctive and distinguished part o f Li s career . Whi c h mua t be the more utterly useless, or rather more in jurious, to the service of his country, the juvenility of a boy-colonel of 14, or the auility of a field-marshal of 75, it is difficult to say. If such things are allowed to be, we shall be disgraced in the eyes of Europe, and must forfeit our character for a practical business-like people. If the British army must have its generals and field marshals, why in the name of common sense are they not made when they have done something, or can do something, ? Why in England alone should a general or field-marshal be only another name for effeteness and incapacity ?" FOUR-OARED CUTTER RACE.—A very spirited race took place yesterday amongst the members of the Lon don Unity Rowing Club, for five silver cups, presented by Mr. C. Morton, proprietor of the Canterbury Hall, Lower Marsh, Lambeth. The race was in one heat, the distance being from Putney-bridge to Lambeth Pa lace, and was won by Messrs. E. Piper, G. Barnes, J. Amor, F. Knight, and J. Lawn. St,sine.sw dons I 3 t,. this day. St 23i 57 i i I 9} I 67 81 i i I i RI 50i 50 I St. 20 Pm I 91 Zi 911 901 211 1 On i I di, 1 124 25 20 30 1 xd 1 all 24 all all IDo.. i - ••• .... 100 - 102 131 -14 i id - pay 214 -22 i 93 - 96 91 - 9i 16 = is' 14 - 2ip •• -- ••• 2i - 2141 I - I $ - 1 i i 5 - 7 41 - 51 21 = 21 2i - 31 27 - 29 Ad 65 69 4 ...id par Ip 13 —l5 2 2i 1 die par A - 6 - 15 - 16 21. - 2 3 6 - 8 3 - 4 21 -- 3} 4 - 4 . I - 1 ... ....... ... EOI7B. 26 - 27 74 8 sti 1~0 -14 i t(6 107 2 - 24 41 - 5,i 1 -- 17i -- 18 8 - 10 5i - I I - i i 2 3 i dis par -- •• i - ••• i = it ---- ii 1 .xe 11 4 I if' 35 12i :"..; 131 Ev_r,Ncumm; NEWMARKET RACES.—(This Day..) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPII.) CAMBRIDGESHIR,E STAKES. Sultan Mary Dame Judith Twenty-three ran. Won by a length. £5O PLATE. LAST THREE MILES OF B.C. Save que peat Duvernay filly Twelve ran. LATEST BETTING. CAMBRIDGESHIRE. sto 2 agst Crown Pigeon (taken) 9 to 2 agst Veteran (taken) 5 to 1 agst Flatterer (taken) 10 to 1 agst Vandyke (taken) 13 to 1 agst Flacrow (taken) 20 to 1 agst Pole Star (taken) 20 to 1 agst Miss Allen (taken) 2.5 to 1 agst Lord Alfred 33 to 1 agst Welham 33 to 1 agst Calamus 33 to 1 agst Robgill (offered) 40 to 1 agst Lady Tatton 50 to 1 agst Blooming Heather 50 to 1 agst Old Noll (taken) 16 to 1 agst Dawson's Lot 50 to 1 agst Rifleman (taken) IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT—(This Day, HOUSE OF LORDS. Parliament was this day further prorogued by Royal Commission. At a quarter-past two the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, and the Earl of Harrowhy entered the house robed, and having taken their seats the Lord Chancellor directed Sir A. Clifford, the Usher of th Black. Rod, to summon the Commons to their lordships' house. Shortly after, Mr. Loy, one of the clerks of the hous e , having appeared at the bar, The Royal Commi , sion was read, and the Lord Chan cellor declared the Parliament prorogued until Tuesday, the 11th of December. 19, Prescott-street, North Woolwich, grocer, and is be lieved to be a married man. SOUTHWARK. PAYING DEAR FOR A LARK.-IVilliani Croker, a young man about 20 years of age, was brought before Mr. Combo, charged with stealing a hat from the shop of Mr. Joseph, general dealer in Bermondsey street. Police -constable IC7 M said he was on duty in ) , Der monclsey-street about seven o'clock last evening, when he saw the prisoner go up to the prosecutor's shop, where there were several countrymen's hats exposed for sale. He took off his own cap and placed it in his pocket, and directly afterwards he put one of the hats on his head, and went away singiag " All round my hat" as jolly as could be. Witness followed him, and asked him where he was going to with the prosecutor's hat, when he replied "What's that to you?" and endeavoured to run away. He, however, seized hold of him and took him into custody. When at the station-house he said he took the hat for a lark, and had no intention of stealing it. The prosecutor said that be had a number of hats lying on a board outside his shop last evening, and about seven o'clock he saw the prisoner walking away with one of his hats on his head. Last witness laid hold of him, and then he gave him into custody. In answer to the .charge, the prisoner said he took up the hat and put it on his head for a lark, when the con stable seized him and took him into custody. He was a respectable young man, and got his living honestly. The motLer of the prisoner, a very respectable female, said that her son was her chief support, and she could not account for his taking the hat unless it was for a lark. He had plenty of money. Mr. Combo told him he must pay for his lark, as he should fine him 405., or one month's imprisonmE THAMES. Ann bolt, a dissipated and bloated-looking woman, the wife of a carpenter and joiner, was brought before Mr. Yardley charged with violently assaulting her two children, one about two and the other six years of age. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner was an habitual drunkard, and grossly neglected her husband and children. She was in the practice of wasting her husband's earnings and selling the children's shoes and clothes to enable her to indulge her sensual gratifications. She had been twice held to bail by the magistrates of the Westminster police-court for violence to her husband and children. Five months ago the family hired apart ments in Gill-street, Limehouse. Since then the pri soner had behaved worse than ever, and hor unfortu nate husband generally found her on coming home after a hard day's toil lying on the floor wallowing in dirt and quite drunk. He was compelled to perform all those offices for his children which ought to have been done by the mother. She beat the children a fortnight ago, and, when the neighbours remonstrated with her, she abused and. threatened them. Last night, while she was in a beastly state of intoxication, she beat her children and threw them about the room. Mr. Yardley said the prisoner was lost to all sense of decency and shame. He would not ask her whether she was ashamed of herself. This was not a solitary instance of a drunken and infamous woman neglecting her hus band and children, sacrificing them for the love of drink; but the public seldom heard of those cases, numerous as they were. From some cause or other the women in the district had become worse and worse. He ordered the prisoner to find bail to keep the peace for 6 months. She was committed in default of bail. VIOLENT ASSAULT ON A POLICE SERGEANT.—James Wecalierall, a labourer in the employ of Mr. Jewett, an outfitter, was brought ,hefore'Mr. Yardley charged with committing a violent assault on William Haynes, a po- ice sergeant, No. 400 A. The police sergeant stated that, at an early hour this morning he was called to a house in John's-place, Back road, Shadwell. There was a mob in front of the dwell. ing, and a woman in a room above was screaming and calling out murder. He went upstairs and found the prisoner on the top of his wife, and pummelling her with his fists. She was bleeding profusely, and ap peared to have been dreadfully beaten. Three prosti tutes bad seized the prisoner by the hair of the head, and were attempting to drag him from the woman. He pulled the prisoner away from his wife, and asked him what he meant by such conduct, to which he replied, "What the hell is that to you?" and struck him a violent blow on the head. A struggle took place, and the pri soner got him outside the door and endeavoured to throw him down stairs and nearly succeeded in doing so. He then got the tongs from the fire-place and made a blow at his head, but it fell on his shoulders. The prisoner then made a rush at him and threw him down stain , . He procured assistance and went up stairs into the room a second time. A desperate struggle took place in the room, and he was compelled to strike the prisoner on the head with it before he could subdue him and effect his capture. Mr. Yariley sentenced the prisoner to 14 days' impri sonment in the House of Correction. SEAMEN'S ADVANCE NOTES. A tradesman named Myers came before Mr. Yardley and said that he had been directed by one of the shipping masters of the port of London to ask his worship's advice under these cir cumstances :—About 12 months ago he cashed an ad vance note for the payment of a month's wages for a seaman who had signed articles to proceed on a voyage to the East Indies and back. The note was made p .y -ab'e three days after the sailing of the ship, provided the seaman sailed with the vessel. The mariner aban doned the vessel, which sailed without him, and the note was cashed. The seaman shipped on board another vessel, and obtained another ,note, which was cashed, and played the same trick over again. The dishonest fellow shipped a third time in a ship bound to the Euxine with stores for the troops, and sailed in that vessel, which had just arrived, and the crew of it were paid off this morning. He demanded the cash he had given for the advance note, and the sailor refused to pay him. The shipping master bad detained the man's wages until the magistrate's opinion was taken . Mr. Yardley—My opinion is, the shipping master bas no right whatever to detain the wages, and I am very much surprised he has done so. Your remedy against the sailor is in the County Court for money lent, but the Merchant Shipping Act no longer recognises advance notes. If tradesmen cash them, or accept them in pay ment of goods, they do so at their peril. If advance notes are given to sailors the owner cannot be com pelled to pay them. The law recognising these instru ments, and enabling holders of them to sue owners and agents of ships, has been repealed. So many tricks have been played by mariners who obtain advance notes, abandon their vessels, and sail in another, that trades men, slopsellers, and licensed victuallers ought to be very cautious in dealing with them. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LONDON, Oct. 23.—Wind this day at noon, W.S.W. ; cloudy. POOLE, Oct. 20.—Wind W,—Sailed----Nelson Packet, for Newfoundland. 22. Wind variable.—Sailed—Fairy, for Balaklava. DARTMOUTH, Oct. 21.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Escort, from Labrador. Off the port—Panama, from New York, for Hamburg; Snowdrop, Akyab, for Falmouth. LERWICK, Oct. 17. —Davis' Straits Whale Fishery.— The True Love, from Davis' Straits, reports the whale fishery to be a failure, there having been only nine whales taken there this season. CLYDE, Oct. 20.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Noel, for New foundland ; Wild Wave, Shanghai. LIVERPOOL, Oct. 21.—The Albania was met, in lat. 43, long. 54, waterlogged, and the crow taken off by the Loo choo, arrived here. GLOUCESTER, Oct. 21.—Arrived—Ariadne, from Syra. QUEENSTOWN, Oct. 21.—Wind N. W.—Arrivod—Bank side, from Callao; Dawn and Lord Raglan, from Syra. Sailed—Volant, for St. Michael's. Off the port—Gem, from Syra; Greenock, Mauritius, and sailed for the Clyde. SHIELDS, Oct. 22.—Wind W.—Sailed—Caspian, for earth agena. NEW YORK, Oct. s.—The Kaffir, of Damfrios, from Rio de' la Hache to Liverpool, with wood, was wrecked on the west side of Inagua on the Gth Sept.; cargo and materials saved and sold. _ ST. JOHN'S, N. 8., Oct. B.—The barque Albion, of. Hartlepool, waterlogged and abandoned, was passed on the Ist Oct., in lat. 41 N., long. 57 W. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday Morning. Arrived.—Courier (s.), from Jersey; George, Ply mouth ; Atalanta (s.), Havre. sailed.—Wortby and Don, for Newport ; Georges, Cherbourg ; Despatch (s.), Jersey; Wonder, (s.), Havre. LIVERPOOL, Tuesday Morning. Wind W Arrived.—Centurion, from New York ; superior, New foundland ; May Queen, Mamba ; John and Edward, Havre ; Arcturus, Mazagan ; Annie Worrell, Buenos Ayres. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Tuesday, 10 son' Wind W. ; tide, three hours' ebb ; fine. Arrived, Oct. 22.—Palestine, from New York; Louis? , Gefle ; Walter Hood, Sydney ; Brutus, Stettin; 3 ' 1, 4 1 Bay, Denia ; Rose, Guerns e y ; Gleaner, Memel ; Emden; Weyborn, Maiodor ; Justinian, Memel. Arrived, Oct. 23.—Rose and Hohenzollern, from- .uon zig air d. ohn M ecr ow et,lemfor , GuGenoa ernsey ; Arabia, . Hobart T 4 Iwn ; S—S Magellan, Geelong. DEAL, Tuesday, 9 . 30 a.. - a. Wird, S.W. ; light, thick, and haz y . Anchored.—Ellen, from London , f or New p ort . Passed.—Brig Necker, from the westward for the north. Several of the outward bound ships sailed last evening some of which have put b ack ; ono is t he Investi,lator , Captain Prynn, for Adelaide. CRIMINAL COURT.—(This Day.) • OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Russell Gurney, Q.C.) INGENIOUS FRAUD.- William, Poster, 34, was indicted for forging an order for the delivery of five tons and a half of coals, with intent to defraud. Mr. Gifford conducted the prosecution. The prosecutors of this indictment were Messrs. Lee and Jordan, coal and lime merchants, and it appeared that the prisoner had formerly been in their service as clerk. It appeared that on the 13th September a letter was received at the counting-house of Messrs. Lee and C.)., requesting that five tons and a half of coals should be sent to Mr. 0-. H. Percival, at an address in the Walworth-road, and the writer represented that he had been recommended to purchase the coals by another customer, who had recently purchased coals of the firm, and was very much pleased with their quality. The coals were sent accordingly, and the prisoner met the carmen near the place where the coals were to be taken, and re presented himself to be Mr. Percival, and he ordered the carmen to shoot the coals in a shed close by. When this was done he signed the delivery note, but did not pay any money; telling the carman that he would call at the counting-house ; but nothing more was beard of him until inquiries were made about the coals, and it was then ascertained that on the day they were ordered to be delivered the prisoner hired the shed where be caused them to be deposited, and that almost immedi ately after they were left by the carmen he sold the coals to a coal dealer in the Walworth-road for 19s. a ton. The prisoner, when called upon for his defence, denied that he had any intention to defraud the prosecutors, and said that if they had waited a little while he should have paid for the coals. The jury found the prisoner guilty. In answer to questions put by the court, it was stated that the prisoner had, heretofore, borne a respect able character, and that he had recently been out of a situation. He was sentenced to sir months' imprisonment, and hard labour. LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.) BANKRUPTCY COURT. (Before Mr. Commissioner Evans.) IN RE LOINS LICHENSITIN. This was a meeting for last examination. The bank rupt was described as of Great St. Helen's, importer of fancy articles. The balance-sheet commenced July, 1853, and ended September, 1355, and showed—debtor to cre ditor, 3,9031. ; do. to be paid in full, 121. ; profits for trading, 1,3381. Creditor by good debts, 142/. ; doubt ful do., 2251. ; debts held by creditors, 162/. ; property given up (after deducting claims), 3331. ; accepted arti cles, 201. ; trade expenses, commission, balance, &c., 1,9971. ; domestic and personal expenses, 1,121/. ; losses, 1,0791. ; deficiency at commencement, 1971. Mr. Chidley appeared for the assignees, and as the accounts were satisfactory no opposition was offered, and the bankrupt accordingly passed his last (=mina tion. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—(mss Day.) MANSION-HOUSE. Charles Morgan, a respectably-dressed young man, was charged before the Lord Mayor with an aggravated assault. Mr. Wontner appeared for the prisoner. Susan 3.lockett, 16 years of age, a dressmaker, resid ing with her parents at 126, East-street, Kenningtne. road, deposed that she went yesterday to , Dalston to visit a friend. On her return, the prisoner, about half past five o'clock, overtook her near the Railway Station, Shoreditch, and asked her if she was going to take a walk, or if she would go and have something to drink, She refused, Baying she wished to make the best of her way home. He, however, pressed her to do so, saying it would do her no harm, and she took his arm, and they walked a short way, when they turned up a street went into a public-house, and partook of some brandy and water. After that they left, and the prisoner asked her to accompany him to a house in the neighbourhood. She consented, and they went to a bed-room on the second floor, and remained there about five minutes. The prisoner then attempted to take her bonnet off, and defendant threw her on the bed, on which she screamed out, and the land'ady of the hOuse came up. Cross-examined by Mr. Wontner---Ile did not see the policeman pay the woman at the door of the house 2s. ad. The landlady catne up when she screamed and rendered her assistance. She sent for a policeman. Sarah Jacobs, residing in the neighbourhood of Swan yard, Bishopsgate, on hearing the screams she went up and had to firce the door open. - On entering the room she found the female standing by the side of the bed with her hair disarranged, and ber bonnet string torn off. The complainant clung to her and asked for pro tection, and seeing she was but a child she protected her. She was afterwards very ill from the brandy and water she had drank. She appeared a decent girl, and having. no reason to doubt her statement witness was anxious tO save her, and accordingly went for a police man, and the prisoner was taken into custody. His lordship "remarked that the witness had acted in a proper manner in protecting the complainant. The servant of the house deposed to the loud scream ing, and the complainant asking her mistress to protect her from the prisoner, who was a . stranger to he r . The complainant was recalled, out she had no recol lection how her hair became disarranged and her bonnet string broken off. The drink had very much affected bet. Had she known the character of the house sbe was taken to she would not have entered it with the prisoner. The complainant had since been examin e d b y a sur geon, but nothing of a criminal natu re h a d occurred to her. Mr, Wontner submitted this case did not amount to that of an aggravated assault, with intent. The Lord Mayor said that bad the girl been sober when she went with the prisoner to the house in ques- tion, be sliould have considered her a consenting party, but it appeared to him she was muddled at the time from the effect of the drink she had taken, and was entirely in the power of the prisoner. Mr. Wontner having recapitulated the facts of the case, contended this was a case just without the law, and hoped his lordship would not stretch the law to meet it. His Lordship said—After attentively considering the case, he regretted he must discharge the prisoner. There were some doubts in the ease, and out of consideration of the girl he bad come to that determination. After -severely reprimanding the prisoner he Was ordered to be lischarged. The Prisoner was described on the police sheet as of X( x d 95 4i P 1 lzi pQ, 113 12 69 ad - THE AI?2ITY IV THR CRIMEA. t GENERAL ORDERS. Head-qua r t er F, Sebastopo l , Oct. 6. No. 1. At a General Court-martial held at Camp before Sebastopol on the 3d day of October, 1855, in pursuance of au order of his Excellency General Simp son, Commanding the Forces, dated the Ist day of Oc tober, 1555, No. 3,455, Private James Salmon. 93d Ffivbiand,rs, was tried 'upon the following charge : " For having deserted from the 93d Highlanders when on duty in the trenches before Sebastopol, on or about the 13th of August, 1355, with intent to go over to the enemy." Of which charge the Court found the prisoner guilty, Sentence—The Court having found the prisoner guilty of the charge preferred against him, which being in breach of the Articles of War, and having received evidence of there being no previous convictions against him, and of his indifferent character since he joined the regiment, do now adjudge him, the prisoner, No. 3,455, Private James Salmon, 93d Highlanders, to suffer death by being shot, at such time and place as the Commander of the Forces may appoint. W. G. ROMAINE, Deputy Judge-Advocate. G. STAUNTON, Colonel and Lieut.-Colonel of the 31st Regiment, President. Approved and confirmed, JAMES SIMPSON, General Coinmanding. Head -quarters, Crimea, Oct. 5. REMARKS. The Commander of the Forces has attentively consi dered the proceedings of the Court-martial on the trial of the prisoner for the gravest of all military crimes. H's entirely concurs in the justice of the sentence pronounced by the Court after a most anxious and deliberate hives. tigation of the case. The Commander of the Forces, therefore, approves and confirms the same, but he is induced to commute the Ben tence of death to penal punishment for life. This commu tation of sentence by the Commander of the Forces is made entirely from consideration of the good and faith ful conduct of the regiment, and of the army to which the prisoner belonged, and of which he has been so un worthy a member. The prisoner is therefore ordered to be kept in penal servitude for life in such place as one of her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State may flow time to time direct. JAMES SIMPSON, General Commanding. Head-quarters, Crime:,:, Oct. 5. No. 2. The General Court-martial of which Col. Staun ton, 31st Regiment, was president, is dissolved. No. Leave of absence is granted, at the r-commen dation of a medical board, to Capt. F. Botts, 77th Regi ment, to Nov. 5, to proceed to the Monastery. No. 4. A medical board will assemble to inquire into the state of health of Lieutenant and Adjutant Horne, 48th Regiment. The principal medical officer will be pleased to give the necessary directions. No. 5. The Commander of the Forces has, with the approval of the Secretary for War, been pleased to authorise the following alteration in the style or titles of the non-commissioned ranks in the Laud Transport Corps:—Regimental Superintendent, to be styled Regi mental Sergeant-Major • Assistant t o Q uar t ermas t er, to be styled Paymaster ex : Quartermaster-S et ... emi t ; Super intendent, to be s tyl e d T roop Serjeant-Major; Sub-Su perintendent, to be styled Sergeant ; First-class Driver, to be styled Corporal ; Second-class ditto, to be styled First-class ditto ; Third-class ditto, to be styled Second class ditto. No. 6. It is to be understood that such corps, or por tions of corps, employed in roadmaking as are reported not to have worked well, will not be included in the Quartermaster-General's approved pay list. No. 7. Ensign Sullivan, 82d Regiment, will be at tached to the Land Transport Corps, to do duty as A Quartermaster until further orders. No. 8. Leave of absence is granted, at the recommen dation of medical boards, to Lieuts. Martin, 19th Regi ment ; Hvndham, 3d Regiment ; Quartermaster Fraser, 6th Dragoon Guards ; also, at the recommendation of boards held at Scutari, to Lieut. E. P. Vaughan, 28th Regiment ; Rev. G. Lawless, Officiating Chaplain ; Dis penser of Medicines G. Clayton—to proceed to England. On arrival they will report themselves to the Adjutant- General. No. 9. Leave of absence is granted on medical certifi cates to Captains Sawyer, 6th Dragoon Guards, to the 20th of October ; Smart, let Regiment, to the 10th of November; Rev. F. Cannon, Officiating Chaplain, to the 31st of October— to proceed to Scutari. And, in exten sion, to Lieutenant-Colonel Stuart, 21st Regiment—to remain at the Monastery. No. 10. Leave of absence is granted, on argent p►i vate affairs, to Lieut.-Colonel Fitzunayer, Royal Artil lery, to the sth of January, 1856. No. 11. The following subaltern officers, being in charge of troops or companies, may draw field allowance and forage as captains from the Ist of October :—Lieu tenants Nowlan, Peddle, and Baird, 41st Regiment. By order, H. W. BARNARD, Chief of the Staff, Head-quarters, Sebastopol, Oct. 6. Medical boards will assemble to inquire into the state of health of Colonel Daniell and Brevet-Major Baring, Coldstream Guards; Captain Godber, Land Tiansport Corps ; Lieutenant Brinkloy, 97th Regiment. The principal medical officer will be pleased to give the ne cessary directions. By order. H. W. BARNARD, Chief of the Staff. FORTIFICATIONS IN CORK HARBOUR. Our local readers are aware that fortifications to some extent are being gradually erected on the principal points of the harbour, but owing to the jealous secrecy of the Government very little is known of their extent or importance. The principal of these is that now in progress on Spike Island, which, when completed, will prove a most formidable defence. Previous to the war with Napoleon almost the sole protection for that island was a small redan battery on the eastern face of the island, the strength or importance of which was very trifling, but on the breaking out of hostilities with the French nation, the immense value of Cove, as a har hour of refuge for vessels, and a point of departure for convoys, was perceived by the Government of the day, and it was resolved to fortify Spike Island in such a manner as to enable it to become a de fence suitable to a great maritime port. Accordingly, designs were made and the works begun, but they proceeded slowly, and the war was ended before the fortifications were completed ; not, however, as we can learn, until they had co s t near ly a million of money. On the arrival of peace the country began to grow weary of expense and the works were stopped, and they remained in an unfinished condition, until on the refusal of the colonies to receive convicts from England, it became ne cessary to establish depots at home, when it was con ceived that their labour could be made available for the completion of the fortress of Spike. They have now been engaged on those works for a period of seven or eight years, and at last the results of their labour are beginning to be seen. Most persons who have seen our harbour will re member the position and appearance of Spike Islam 3 It rises from all sides, with a rather steep slope, to a table-land commanding the entrance of the harbour, the Man-of-war roads, and the passage up to Cork. On this platform has been built a sing p l , e , i oefit r ,au t fic ifi ecs c a, a ti t o io n n, an d . everythingta othr ieginai of about a thousand feet in length, with a breadth of about seven hundred feet. In shape it is an elon gated hexagon, having at each angle a bastion. The platform surmounting this work will be ten feet broad, on which will be placed 200 guns mounted on barbettee while the bastions will be pierced with embrasures. Behind the platform will be a banquette for the amora -1 'iodation of men working the guns, and below will bo casemate barracks, bomb proof, capable of accommodat mg 2,000 men. Around the entir : e co f er. o d r :n tre e s r s ru ru p n t about 20 feet deep and 40 broad, both sides being com pletely faced with cut stone. O n ly a 9 t s he ditch er - ofth but glacis is as yet completed on the east and it is intended to level the land all round the ori slope , so as to form the whole island into ii thesmooth w e r k s o s ut h hs a ea l st l rising gradually to the fortress. When 11 the houses on been sufficiently far en a e d m v y a on the island will be removed, could afford shelter to an feet sweep of the guns obtained their th e recent bat tery only with twenty-four be though " PG design of the armament contemplated pounders, v p e la ry ted si b m d : l o t . u T ti h n e g n o head doubt can have sitive information changes in o rdnance effect, and much heavier metal to be substituted. The plan cause on willth i s of this fortress, though now we would reckon it old, dating as it does nearly half a century back, is consid ered to be very perfect of its kind, being so formed as to ena bl e a small force to hold it against any merely naval power that could be brought against it. It is com mended indeed by hills on the main land, but at a very considerable range ; beside that the possession of these hills by an enemy would Su ppose the existence of an occupying army and a regular siege, which, of course, it is not meant to meet.. it is merely a fortress, built for the protection of the shipping, and the Government stores at Ilaulbowline. Corvict labour has been also employed on the forts at each tide of the harbour's mouth, new batteries having been erected close to the water's edge, and platforms for pivot guns, covered ways and glacis formed. When these works shall have been completed, they will no doubt torus very efficient defences of a harbour NO important as that of cork. We shall look with curiosity to Be 0 whether, after all the labour and expense bestowed de: them, they will be furnished with either a gun or soldier.—Coele Examiner. DARING RESCUE OF A BURGLAR. Wa g ayemp m ted at the A few weeks ago bular house of Mr. Hume, a rg son of the late Mr. Joseph Hue, No. 6, Harley-btreet, Cavendish-square. There were two men engaged in the affair, who ascended a ladder about eight o'clock, which was placed in front of an adjoining house that was undergoing repair. They had reached the house of Mr. Hume, where they succeeded in forcing open a, window of the attic. They were then disturbed and pursued by Mr. Hume, upon which they retraced their steps down the ladder. One man got away, but the tether man fell off the ladder, when his right leg was broken. He was taken to the Middlesex Hospital, whore ho remained up to yesterday morning. He was to been brought up yesterday at the Marylebone Po'iice-court, but, upon the case being called, Mr. Jack inspecto.r of the D division, stated that between t .‘vo and four o'clock in the morning four men succeeded 'in taking the man from the hospital. The four men got over the garden wall in the rear of the hospital, entered the institution by means of picklock keys, and removed . 111 m from hi s room b y d ropp i ng hi m out of the window. , elle policeman who bad charge of the man was in bed and asleep. They then succeeded in carrying him g through the garden, placing him in a cab , and ge tting t clear away. The man is wanted for ano ther burgl ary ULT." FOR' IGN. 5(. 2 .00 17,2 VG id 1061 21 21 i