The Sun. — London, England, 1855-11-05 00:00:00

NV IN been y the prime t., to Itone, T the ionth- Idon ; If too ay he The gibe n the ark of titled [ersey Is for ►inces, ndise 'acific, ► were ;b, of of the H. E. , Bos )assed Capt. inst., Atters 7eo'ng letters to fees house, ur the ..- _._--. MONEY MARKET AN COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLooK. In the Liverpool Cotton Market on Saturday the sales were estimated at from 8,000 to 10,000, of which 1,000 were taken for export and 500 on speculation. They included 20 Bahia Sid. to 6d., 300 Egyptian 5i -d. to 7d., and 1,000 Surats to sd. per lb. The market closed with an upward tendesey. Compered. with Friday's rates prices of American were 1-16th more against the buyers. All other sorts were unchanged. The Railway Share Market was heavy, little business being done, and prices were lower than on Friday. A telegraph despatch from Madrid, of the 3rd inst., announces that the Junta of Tariffs has de clared that the exportation of bark for tanning and making cork is open from that date. The sale of clergy lands, on the Ist Nov., included 2,079 pro perties. Their total value, as sold by auction, amounted to 21,010,056 reals, and the price fixed by adjudication on account of the Govern ment is 40,680,228 reals. Thus leaving a balance of 19,670,772 reals to the credit of the State. The quit rents redeemed up to that time had amounted to the number of 1,513, of the value of 6,528,172. It will be remembered that one-half of the issue surplus monies accruing from the ecclesiastical lands in Spain will be appropriated towards the liquida tion of the floating debt of the State. Saturday on the Paris Bourse showed a favour able improvement in the value of the French funds. The 3 per cent Rentes, at the close of the day, had advanced 50 centimes on the morning's prices, both for money and account. In the Share Market there was a similar improvement, and shares of the Credit Mobilier, which have been falling during the last fortnight, were on the rise. Shares of the Credit Foncier were firm at an advance on previous prices, and Austrian Society shares, which had touched a fall of 30f., had rallied to within Of. of the preceding week's quotations. Bank Shares remained steady, without variation. Railway Shares, which had declined up to Friday, recovered, in consequence of the favourable weekly reports published, which showed an average in crease in the value of the traffic on the principal lines from 10 to 15 per cent. al;ove the corresponding week of 1854. . . The advices from New York received this morn ing state that there had been a panic in the stock market. Although money was comparatively easy, and the banks were able to retain the Californian receipts, there was very little confidence in the future, as it was considered that a renewal of specie shipments to Europe would soon recommence. The last official statement showed an increase in the amount of specie held by the banks of 1,322,845 dollars compared with the previous week. The exportation of bread stuffs continued very active, principally to London and Liverpool. As regards the importation of mer chandise generally, there was a material falling off. Front Ceylon we learn that the fine weather which had prevailed was rapidly ripening the coffee, the picking of which continued throughou t most districts. The plantation of this staple was increasing, and forest land was in demand. There was a good supply of shipping. The market for English Stocks has rather an up ward turn, owing to the fact that very little is said in the American papers upon the subject of a pro bable misunderstanding with this country. In Stock Exchange circles many are of opinion that the affair is settled. Consols opened at 88 for money, and 88i.i for account. For a short time they were even rather higher for the latter, but when an advance of 2s. per quarter in the corn market was announced they declined to 884 sellers. For the December account they have been 881 The New Three per Cents. are 88 to 882, and the Reduced 871 Exchequer Bills are worth Bs. to 45., discount being higher. In the Foreign Market the most important change has been effected in Turkish Bonds; the 6 per Cents. being 79i and the New Scrip 21 discount. Sardinian Bonds are 84i, Grena , Ta Active 191 to 20, and the Deferred 61 to 7. These are the only dealings recorded, the market being very dull. The following are the nominal prices of foreign stocks : Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6i to 7 ; Mexican, 19& to / ; Peruvian, 73 to 75 ; ditto Three per Cents., 53 to 54; 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 New Deferred, 19/ to ; ditto Three per Cents., 37i to 8 ; ditto Certificates, 4i to ; ditto Pas sive, 5i to I. The railway meetings announced are the follow ing Company. Date. Place. Cork, Blackrock, & Passage Nov. 30, Cork. Eastern Counties Glasgow, Barrhead, Nielaton Nov. 6, Glasgow. Lancaster and'Carlisle Nov. 7, Lancaster. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Nov. 8, Manchester. In consequence of the improvement in th© Funds most of the Railway Shares rule higher, and rather more business is doing. Some of the principal lines are fully Ito per cent. better, as compared with the latest quotations of the last week. The Foreign undertakings show very little alteration, owing to the limited number of transactions en tered into. The Canadian lines are rather firmer. In the Miscellaneous Market Canada Land Shares are 101. better. Banking and Mining Shares are steady. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE 01.);.; ( From the Ogciai Itu.inos, don, Bank Stock . ..... .... 3 per Vent. Reduced Annuiti 3 S...... 3 per Cent, Consols Annuities Naw 3 por Cent. Annuities L , n,t, Annuities, Expire sth Jan., IMP 3 7-16 Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct., 1859 31 Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan., 1860 3s Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth April, 1885 16 15-16 it ' , Ala Bonds, .E,lOOO ......... . 5 . Ditto, under 21000 9 Consols or Account BBi i B ccheciner Bills, 20. £IOOO £5OO 4 3 . 3mall _PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLO: K. Grenada Bonds, 1i per Cent. .... ......... .. 20 19i _ Grenada Bonds, Deferred S.rdiniau Bonds, 5 per Cent. Tarkis.h Bonds, 6 per cent — Ditto for the Account.. 7oi Ditto New scrip. 4 per Cent. Ditto for the Account 2i d Dividends on the above payable in London. HALF-PAST 7'W: . Consols Ditto for the December :1 —ount BBfi if LLOYD'S SHIPPING.--(This Day.) I.otonotc Nov. s.—Wi n d thi s day 10 noon, N.W. ; 20 light breezes and fine. (PER ELECT RIO TPLRO RAPE.) SOUTHAMPTON, Monday Morning. Arrived—John Birkett, from Cardiff ; Atalant ing. ) GYPseY, and Clara,NewHavre ; Brothers, Neath; Cheshire Witch, Swansea; a(s. Eliza, Harriet, Matilda, Tiber, New port ; Ostrich and Tertius, London ; Manney, Sunderland, Sailed —Sylph (s), for London ; Transit (al Havre; Charlotte, Guern se y . The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Ri pen, transport No. 25, arrived from the Black Sea this - morning with 23 officers and 70 soldiers, several of whom were wounded in the attack made upon the Redan on the Bth of September. L I VERPOOL, Monday Morning. Wind, S . Sailed.—Lucretia, for Dordt ; Ludoljes Theodosius, Groningen. QUEENSTONVii, Nov. 3. Wind N. Arrived.—Ocean, from Kirkwall ; Olive, Galatz. OM—Typhoon, from Bombay. (13T SUBITARINE ANli BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Monday, 10.6 a.m. Wind W.N.W. 1 • tide, one hour's ebb ; fine. Arrived, Nov. 4.—Lutchan, from Harburg ; Cobden, Geae ; Jane Lawson, Stettin; Ctstor, Hernosand ; Eaper dola, Gothenburg ; Borussia, Konigsberg. Arrived, Nov. s.—Hendrik Carstenson, from Sunds wall ; Longer), Wilhelmine, and Morning Star, Gothen burg ; Nopoleon, Haparanda ; Hoop, Worcum ; Harmona, Sannesund. Sailed.—Rhine, for New York ; Idas, Demerara. DEAL, Monday, 9.30 a.m. Wind, W.N.W. ; moderate, and fine. Passed, Nov. 4.—lndex, for Malta ; Young Marquis, Constantinople; Paris and London (s.s. No. 2), for Rouen —all from London. A company has been formed at Milan for establishing steam navigation on the Lake of Lugano, \' (THIS DAY.) RAILWAYS. EAMMAYII. (Cloth= Prices Saturday. 23 211 oti I A.berrl een ...... Ambg. Wottrg. Bost and Eastn. all Bolfasi All Birming : Wolve rh 31 - 4 Stour Valley.. .... %..P6 Birkeihd . Lancsl.. & Cileahire Juliet al! Co. Chesh. & £5O and £25 Cons 1P Do., £2O all Myth & Tyn origina £25 (issd. at LC), 100 Bristol and Exeter... 100 Caledonian 61s. Cann. and Cardigan al. Chester & Holyhead. all Cork and Bandon . all Cork, Black, & Pas , 18 Cornwall all Do. A 8 Do. B - 16 - 15 14 - 15 9 - 8 85 - 87 584 -58 i 11 - 12 lA Cii&l Junction. ..,. 45 Duolin&Bel fastJunc . All Dun. P. do Ahs. Jnc , 42 -• 5 - 6 all Do. N , "5,...•.. [OO East Al;glian 2.0 Eastern Counties.. . [OO East. Union, A Stl 190 De., B. St(A/t 81 Do., New A— .„. 7. East Kent [OO Easi Lancashire 8i - 9 LOG Edinburgh &Glasgos , all Edinb. and Peebles. LOO Edin. PAL & Dur p. 9 Forth & Clyde Jtn all Furness . all Do. Extension........ LOG Glassrow &S. Wost. , all Great N. of Scotlnd. 100 Great. Northern LOG Do., A. Stock 00 Du., B. Stock )0 Gt. Sth. &West.(Tre * C 7 - G 8 49 - 51 91 - 16 - 17 71 73 6 - 83i - 84; 68 - 69 .18 I'o 100 - 102 50i 51ii IX) Great Western Do. Stour Val Ra;' Qua. Stk all Irish South-Easton :. all Lancaster & Carlisl. 14i 'Do., Thirds ...... j Do. Now Thirds 100 Lancash. d Vorki,T , D,., Wet. Riding all Li v. erany. &Flout!. ot all London & Black vfnl 100 Lona. Bright & WO Lend. and N. Weste 16 IN,. Fifths di0,101.:511.,,14&11,...0 23 Do. Eighths 100 Loudon andS. Wort.v Do„ ..... • 38 Do., .E4O all Lndndrrydt Colerain , all Ltandrr7. & Ennlsk 100 Nranch.R.oe'. l 4. - all Do. # Shares, No. ) 4c.,Man , /11. Lin. ITT: 1 Metropolitan 100 Midland ..... „ 100 1)o. Birmng. all Midld. G. West. (Tie. all Do. Half Shares all Newcastle & Carlielt all Nwpt.Aberg. &Hrti 83 Newry & Enniskille , all Newry Warrenpoiw 68 72 6 - 7 5 7; 75 75" - 6i 94 - 96 92i - 9231 2 - 13( 14 , 14 - 83 - 84 9 - 8 8 7 11.1 -21 i - id 61 —64 i 36 38 a 14 ..... IL 1 and Rostrevor n 0 Norfolk 31 N orthn.Counties 17n. 100 North 8riti5h........ all North Devon, No. I ail Do., No. 2 all (0., 1 A Deferred all Do., 1 B Gnaranteo.' , 100 N. Eastern—Berwiel , 20 Do. do. Extension ... 1:3 DO. do. G.N.E. o. Leeds 100 Do. York 100 North London 3' .&S.Wstrn.,lTaTnl - stead, and City 3n.. North Staffordshir , .. al: North Western all N. &S. West rn. 3 ST tin eat on , Hinkle.} 44 - 46 25i w 26?. 67i - 684 81 Tid 4 —44 d 126 44 - 95 92 - 97 ii and Leicester..... .. /a, Wore., & Wolv. 8 ,'orts:aouth "4 4 o fish Central 1. >cottishMidland.... 4i!ropshire Union south Devon . 4crath Eastern,— all 'south Wales ..... I I. Yrksh. Riv. 5 14 4ta3nes, Wok. &Wok a" tockton & Darli 16 41,GAton di Brirtlepl rafr Vale.. . 10. Pref., No. 1..... }Taw. P.& IL Ulverstone & Lanes. all Vsie all Wate.rfl & Kiikrnr aP . .,krsterforl&Lirac . all West C0rnwa . 1...,,... 8 N , 'st. End of 1n , n , 1-1, Crystal Pa.'sce.. all Do. A .......... ..... 3 Do. B 23 - 25 00 lot 72 74 41 - 4 3 i 1 -- 12 56} 5 7 4 3O 314 5 -- 3d 2d pal - 35 18 19 3 - 4 18 20 4 -- 6 ai I West Lond on... all I \Vimbledn &Croy , ' eA, FORFION A 't Cc. f, 17T :7 11 ., tt• 40 Do. 5 p.c. Oblgs. con. in Sh. atpar till'64 10 Ardennes 4 • k:lgiati Raitu. Jun, 10 ~ : eziers to GrAss. ss, 4 ilaroda, an ' 11,.”Itralindla,Scri - ••••• ..• 2d I - i all Do. all 'enierara 11 DTA& Rhenish 311 Eastern of Franc's, 10 Do. New a,ll East Indian, g 5 p.c 10 Do- Elr,ensinit.. Do. do. do., '59, do 20 Gd. Tk of Canada.A i - Do. St. Lawrence k ‘tlantic d 0....... • 70 Do. Cert. of Dcben. eon. into Stk. till 'e•Y all Do. Comp. 6p. c., do 10 Gt. Celitral of Fran all Gt. Indian Peninsals , guar. 5 per cent. 1 I'o. New 5 per cent 2 t'o. Extensions. .. 13 Great Luxerabour. Constituted Share , all Do. Obligations all Gt. Western of Canad Shares 1 - 35.35 9i - 10-1 221 -- 1 9i - 14i - 15 68 70 87 --8) 21 34 54 54 par - ip 4 - 4 # 2 - 3 22i - 23 1} - 99 - 101 109 - 113 110 - 114 20t. I N Do. New 100 ill Do. Bds., payable's7, with option till '55 all Do. do., '62, p. '56 all Do. do., '76, p. '6O all Dr,. do., '73, without!, option all Ramilton & Toronto all Do. 6' per cent. 17 La.l- , Const. & Baslr all Lie- re and Turnhout .0 Lyons and Geneva .4 Lyons dr Mediterran. 101 103 22f - 22 108 - 113 5 6p 19 -16 i t P 7 2 - 3 - 51 33i -34 i 111 - 12 all Madras 10 Do. New all Maria Antonia all Do. do. New all Namur & Liegr ("eitl interest) all Do. (ex interest) all Northern of France all Do .20Z. Shs all Do. 201. 3 p. cM E Xfray.B.&Ams.Shm. s all NorwegianTrunkPre' 16 Paris and Lyons all Ditto Bonds all Paris and Orleans all Paris and Rouen... It ParisCaen & Cherbrg all Do 5 Rome and Frascati al Ronen and Havre all Royal Danish 5 lima] Swedish all Do. Obligations .... .111 Sambre and Meuse., all Do. 53 p. cent. Prof, 5s Sci'ido all Do all Southern of France 16 St. Andrew's and Quebec (A), „ [ O.: West Flanders all Do 5i per c. Pref ~ lg Western of France all Do ... „ tli Zealsna 7i - 8 i 43. - 44 43 - 45 ... - pm 1.9 a 20, 2 1 ii 3 8 8i ,•• --- •. i -1• P PM - 291 -30 i is -- l9A ' JOINT•STO BANES. sal I. !i.t,r?,:;81r... 50 Bank of London ..... all -In. Col. C ‘ll N. Americar 5 .11tartul. Bank of Asis 4 iThrtd. Bnk. of India, 88 -- 53 - """ ... i . d par ...d 56 - Australia, & Chins 50 City 25 tlolonlal 20 Commercial of Lond 811 r ' il g• S COt.& 4.llF.Cht. all Lond. Cheat 13k. o 1 Australia 5 Ditto New 20 1 . -^ndon and County 50 Lucl.&E.Bnkg. C or p lA, London Joint Stock 20 Loud. & Westmi ns t er 35 National Pro.of Eng. 10 Do. New._ 22 National of Ireland. all New South Walea.... all Orients.] Bank of Corporation 25 ?rovincial of Ireland all Do. New 1 Royal Australu.Bkg Az Inn Co 50 Royal British ••• So , ,th Australia 39 41 al. Union of Australia 72 - 74 Do. NOW ........ 9 1.0 Union (? Imado 28 030 151 • 1(r, lg -- 19 1 d par 2p ••• ..... s• • 34 - 36 38 - 40 52 - 54 ... -- ... SHARE MARKET S. Business dons i Bt. this day. St 50 25 12 12 1581 1 St St 8 i 5e,,, 20 10 to 5 5 10 20 5 18 20i tOO 20 20 20 16 20. L 0 100 100 1.00 20 20 69 f St, 51 a St. 20 Pm I 9; 68 10 95a 5 St. St. 928 a 6t 11 8 3 i i 61i i 75] " 6a 20 THE SU • N ) LONDON s MONDAY EN 114(1 NONTEMB - ER 5 1855 LINES SED 1 VIX3I) RRNTA LP. LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.) MARKET NEWS.—(This Day). Compan , Satur MI neap his .tar QUEEN'S BENCH. (Sittings in Banco.) (Before Lord Chief Justice Campbell, Mr. Justice Cole ridge, Mr. Justice Wightman, and Mr. Justice Erle.) CORN EXOLIANGE. The supplies of wheat in the leading country markets held on Saturday were but moderate, yet the trade ruled inactive, and prices were rather lower. Fine barley was scarce, and in request, at full quotations. Most other kinds of produce were a slow sale, on former terms. The business doing in grain in most of the near conti nental ports continues very limited. Prices, however, rule high. The latest advices from America state that large quantities of grain and flour continue to be pur chased for shipment to England and France. Very moderate supplies of English grain were received up to our market last week. The imports from abroad were 4,373 quarters of wheat, 33 barley, 24,589 oats, 136 beans, 2,775 peas, 89 tares, 8,184 linseed, 8,001 rapeseed, 147 mustard seed, 223 sundry seeds, and 3,272 sacks of flour. 92 - 95 95 - 100 1131 - 135 16 16 loi 105 Fresh up to-day the arrivals of English wheat were very limited, but in fair condition. As there were more coun try buyers in attendance than of late, there was an im proved demand for all kinds, at an advance in the quota tions obtained on Monday last of 2s. per quarter. The quantity of wheat received from Essex was smaller than for many previous weeks. With foreic , b n wheat, fresh as well as ex granary, we were but moderately supplied. The active advices from America, and the limited nature of our imports last week, caused holders to be very firm. However, the business done was almost wholly confined to immediate wants, yet in some instances the finest red qualities were ls. per quar ter dearer than on this day se'nnight. Floating cargoes generally held for more money. Fine malting barley realised is per quarter advance. Grinding and distilling sorts were steady, at full quota tions. There was a moderate sale for malt, at full prices. Old oats sold to a fair extent, at fully late rates. New qualities—the supply of which was good—were dull, and 6d per quarter cheaper. Beans and peas sold steadily, at full prices. The flour trade was firm, but we have no material change to notice in the quotations. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wheat--Essea & Kent, Malt—Chevalier •• •• 78s to 79s Red •• new 635 to 863 Oats Yorkshire and Ditto•• •• .... old 74s 868 Lincolush., Feed 26s 305 Oltto, White new 7's 85s Potato Ditto.. •• .... old 803 90s Youghai and Cork 'iorfolk and Lin- 81ack....... 25s 28s coin, Red, old 72s 80s Cork, White 26s 30s ditto new •• •• .• 633 77s Scotch, Feed. •. . • 27s 305 •• •• •• •• •• •• —s —s Beans—Tick ... •......465 48. 48s 52s Pigeons .... 47. 50 Raley—Grinding .•• •• 34s 37s Peas—Grey ..•• •• 40s 455 Malting .•••• •• 358 37s Map1e........... 453 48s Ohevalier•• •• • • 383 41s White........... 50s 54s Malt—Suffolkand Nor- Boilers ••• 48s 565 folk.. •• •• •• 71s 76s Fleur—Town-made... 73s 75s , -!rown.•• •• •• ........ 623 64s Suffolk .... .• 58s 60s KingstonandWare 762 78s Stooktn &Norfolk 57s 60- 12i 13 — d iio 2 -24 8) - - iP 56 - 58 iio 8 - 3 2i :301 83 - 85 SHARES. 110 - - 112 107 110 91 93 94 96 15 -- 16 4 ---- 4 ••• 12 - 12} 57 - 59 114 [O6 -- 108 LOU 102 0 0 9 i - 6 -- 6A 93 -- 95 80 -- 85 S 4 -- 86 91 -- 101 16 -- 16 9} - 10 68 -- 70 17 -- 18 SA -- 9 12i -13 i 11 -- ld 130 - 135 ',F11" , (1. I R•ALLWAYIB9 s.II Bedford and Bletzbloy 00 Buckghamsh. .00 Clydesdale Jo. all Col. Stour Vy. Sud. and Hal. 00 E. Lin. a. 6 Pc all E. Un. H. Sh. glee. Barr. & _ _ Neils. Direct 00 Do. New__ all Gletr.di Dn. Fr all lirtipi. Dk. & Railway all Hull & Selby all Do. Shares. all Do. Shares. all Lon.&Greenw al] Do.Preferen !e .0) Lon.,Til.,&S. .00 Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. 00 Do. 6 per et. all Manch. Batn. and Matlock all Middlesbro' Redcar 100 Midld.Bradid 54 Newmarket Bury Exton.. all N.& Est.s p.c. all Do. 6 per et. all Do. Fixeds p all Prest. &. y all Do. 6is hrs. A 1 , 0 Roystn.& Hit. Shef. Roth and Gooleg.s p.c. all Shrews. &Her• 9t S. Staffordsh. 4.1] Wear Valleygr 6 per cent... all IDo 1100 Wilt9&'7l-orrtrst • •• ...' ..., ..• •N 12i -- 13 i -- i • - 132 94 - 1f - 1 4 -4?, 96 ! 8 - 91 3 •• - 100 -- 102 -14 i pal 21 - 93 -91 is :is - - ": I - 7 4} 2 - 24 8 - 34 28 - 30 4.1 iP 65 -- 69 - * i -.xd 18 -- 20 par -- IP 13 -- 15 1/ 21 1 dis par A - 4 - ----- 14i - 21 - 1 23 6 -- 8 3i - 4 a 3 - 3 9 - 4 EOUB. 25 - 27 - 8 30 - 135 'F6 -- 1071 1 - 2 4 - 4i . ••• I - li 17 - 18 .4 - ... ~ - • • • ~ ..... ••• ~ ".... ... 8- 10 5/ - 6i ..• 2 3 die— par 'i 7 - - - I' ..i -- Vi ii --- ii 14 1) la 1 34 - 3PI 12 "..1 13 ..„, _ ROURKE V. SHORT. Mr. Atherton, Q.C., moved that the plaintiff should have liberty to enter the verdict on the second plea in his favour that had been returned by the jury for the de fendant. The action was tried at the last Liverpool assizes, before Mr. Justice Crowder, and was fnr goods bargained and sold under the following circumstances : —The parties were rag merchants, and in dealing for a quantity of rags a discussion arose as to the price of certain rags supplied on a former occasion whether the price was ss. 9d. or 6s. per cwt.—the plaintiff contending it was 65., the defendant ss. 9d. It was arranged the question should be decided by a wager, the loser paying f)r a quart of brandy ; and further that, if the plaintiff were right, the plaintiff should pay 6s. per cwt. for the rags then sold, but if wrong the defendant should have them for Bs. per cwt. It afterwards appeared the plaintiff was right, and the defendant paid for the brandy, but refused to take rags at 65., at which they were invoiced, where upon the action was brought. The defendant pleaded first non-indebted, and secondly, a special plea that the con tract depended on a wager, and could therefore not be enforced. The jury found for the plaintiff on the first plea, and for the defendant on the second ; the learned j udge who tried the case reserving to the plaintiff leave to move. The learned counsel submitted that the defendent had not proved his plea, and also that if he had it was of no effect, for there was a complete bargain and sale, and the wager was a matter collateral to the .contract for the breach of which the action had been brought. The court granted a rule nisi. THE ODESSA CHARTERS.-AVERY V. BOWDEN'. Mr. Watson, Q.C., moved for a rule to show cause why the verdict in the case for the plaintiff should not be set aside and entered for the defendant, and also for a new trial. The action was tried at the last Guildhall sittings before Lord Campbell, and was for a breach of contract arising from the declaration of war between this country and Russia. In this case there were two separate charges of breaches of two charters involving different questions. The plaintiff was a shipowner of Shi.ld4, And th. eipfpndant a merchant at Hull, and the first charter was that the Rolla should proceed to Fal mouth or Queenstawn, there receive her orders and then proceed to Constantinople, and from thence to Odessa, or as near as she could get there, and load a cargo of either tallow, wheat, seed, or other gaain, with which she should return to any port in the United Kingdom. The clause in the charter on which the question turned was this :—" It is further agreed, that in case of war having commenced previously to and continuing on the ship's arrival at Constantinople, the defendant was bound to load the ship there at 10s. per ton less than if loaded at Odessa." After the sailing of the vessel war was declared between great Britain and Russia, and the question was the meaning of the word " war" in the charter party, in connection with the date of its decla ration and being known at Constantinople. Mr. Justice Wightman said that must be taken to be such a war as would prevent the ship taking in her cargo. Mr. Watson said the second charter was that of the Lebanon. The same term was in the charter party, but she was to load at Odessa. She arrived there but did not load, and a question arose here in addition to the term of the charter party relative to the war, whether a dispensation had been given to the captain, and which the jury confirmed on the trial. He was now in posses sion of letters from the captain, dated 3d and 4th of April, after the declaration of war was known at t idessa, making no mention of a dispensation, but in reality asking for one. In addition to that the Emperor of Russia published an ukase on the 3d March prohibit ing the exportation of grain at Odessa. Lord Campbell said it was an important question, and the learned counsel could take a rule generally. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. TYRER V. RITSON. This was an action brought by the plaintiff to recover damages of the plaintiff for loss sustained in leakage, &c., of a quantity of beer forwarded by them in the de frndant's vessel, from London to Liverpool, arising from bal stowage. The action was originally tried at Liverpool, and was for the plaintiff, the learned judge allowing the defendant to move to set aside the verdict. Mr. E. James, QC., moved for a rule calling upor. the plaintiff to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside and entered for the defendant. Rule refused. EXCHEQUER CHAMBERS. (Before Mr. Baron Martin and a Common Jury.) MORGAN V. LORD CLINTON. This was an action brought by the plaintiff to recover 51. ls. of the noble defendant. It appeared from the evidence that the defendant was a shareholder in the Grange Silver and Lead Mining Company, Aberystwith. The real question was to establish the noble lord's lia bility. The company was established in 1849, when the defendant became a shareholder, the understanding be ing that the mine should be worked on the cost-book principle. . . The jury had not returned their verdict when we went to press. POLICE INTELLIGENCE--(This Day.) MARY LEBON E. WIFE BEATING.—A fellow named Gurnley was this morning brought before Mr. Broughton, charged with violently assaulting his wife, to whom he had been married 29 years. He was ordered to attend on a future day, to enable a material witness to attend and give evidence against him. THAMES. WATCH STEALING.— TVillianz .Rathbone was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for stealing a silver watch from the person of Mr. West, as he was leaving a rail way carriage at the Stepney station. SOUTHWARK. ANOTHER WATCH ROBBERY.—Mary Ann lloskins was fully committed for trial this morning, by Mr. A'Beckett, for stealing a watch from William Perry. - - - The French Minister of War has just caused to be placed among the productions of Algeria at the Uni versal Exhibition an ingot of gold, value 12,000 fr. ; and a block of silver of the value of 52,000 fr., taken from the mines of La Calle, in the province of Constan- tina. le REPRESENTATION OF NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE. —It stated that Mr. Smith Childe, one of the members for North Staffordshire, is on the eve of resigning his seat, and that a requisition is being numerously signed by the Conservative electors of the division calling upon Mr. H. F. Meynell Ingram to come forward as a candidate. Should that gentleman comply with the requisition, his return, unopposed, is almost certain. The Vice-Chancellor Sir James Stuart, owing to the severe shaking and contusions he received a few days since in consequence of an accident on the railway, while returning to London from the Isle of Skye, w as prevented from attending the L ord Chancellor's levee, and was unable to sit at Lincoln's-inn on Saturday. Hi s Honour, pursuant to notice, however, disposed of the cases in his lordship's for the day, at his residence, No. 19, Hertford-street, Mayfair. ALARMING FIRE.—On Saturday morning, between the hours of seven and eight o'clock, considerable alarm was caused by a fire breaking out on the premises of Mrs. Elizabeth Lowe, lodging-house keeper, No. 29, Glou cester-place, Hyde-park. The London Fire Brigade engine, under the direction of Mr. Staples, district engi neer, 'promptly attended, and the fire was subdued, but not until considerable damage was done. Mr. Charles Braham has made his debut at the San Carlos, Lisbon, in Verdes Macbeth, and although he had to encounter opposition of—if the local papers and cor respvndence are to be believed —not the most creditable character, he succeeded in making good his footing, and at the latest dates had established himself as a universal the past favourite. S OUTHA MPTON, Nov. 2.—The return of passengers who have landed in Southampton docks during month exhibits a large increase over the corresponding month of 1854. During October, 1855, there were 3,031 passengers having 9,530 packages of baggage, while in October, 1854, there were 2,261 passengers and 6,914 packages of baggages, showing an increase for the past month of 771 passengers and 2,616 packages of baggage. In addition to this there also landed 246 in valided soldiers, sailors, &o. EARLY SNOW. —On Friday morning, between seven and eight o'clock, snow fell for about ten minutes at Northampton. The flakes, which at first were only just distinguishable by their whiteness from the accom panying rain, became tolerably large before the storm ceased. The suspension was announced on Friday morning of Messrs. Lewis Reis and Co,, a mercantile house engaged in the oil and fruit trade with Spain and Sicily. Their liabilities are estimated The3oo and are chiefly to con ti n e n tal creditors. prospects of the liquidation have not been stated. A DEFAULTER.—NEYWASTLE-ON-TYNE, Friday.—A very great amount of excitement has been caused in this town during the week by the fact that the junior cashier of the Northumberland and Durham District Bank, a young man of the name of Martenson, had absconded a defaulter to the amount of 4,2641. He went off a week to-day, and has not yet been captured. The bank holds security to the extent of 2,0001. He appears to have been rather of . 4 ! fast" habits. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. Considering the boisterous state of the weather, the imports or foreign stock into London last week were tolerably good, the total supply amounting to 7,8&. head. In the corresponding week in 1851 we received 7,721; in 1853, 7,712 ; in 1852, 6,117; in 1851, 7,602; in 1850, 6,072; and in 1849, 4,412 head. - -- - IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WENN. From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs Rotterdam 261 ... 1,017 160 ... riamburgh , 108 284 Dordt Terming 673 221 Brake 199 ... 27 Bremen 2lO ... 15 fiarlingen 302 753 Medemblik 72 1,941 Amsterdam l5 738 Antwerp Kampen ... •-• •. . - • 36 ... 118 1 ... - 3 ... 18 T0ta1....1,918 ... 5,5,1 ... ... 260 ... 206 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. .854 2,152 ... 5,056 ... ... 307 ... 206 .853 ...... LB2B ... 5,203 ... ... 463 ... 218 852 668 ... 5,110 ... ... 251 ... 88 .851 1,465 ... 5,707 ... ... 122 ... 308 850 1,518 ... 4,168 ... ... 210 ... 178 L 549 892 ... 3,208 ... ... 172 ... 140 The arrivals of stock from Ireland last week, direct by sea, were 100 beasts. The Irish stock continues to arrive in excellent condition, and perfectly free from disease; but buyers generally state that both the beasts and sheep, though heavy in appearance, come very light to the scale. There was about an average supply of foreign stock in to-day's market. The fresh arrivals from Ireland, via Liverpool, amounted to 350 beasts and 1,300 sheep, the whole in excellent condition. From our own grazing districts the receipts of beasts put up this morning were moderate, but their general quality was very inferior. Nearly all breeds were in good request, and prices were 2d per 81bs higher than on Monday last. The pritnest beasts sold readily at from 5s to 5s 2d per 81bs ; very prime breeds were worth 2d more. The arrivals of beasts from Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Northamptonshire amounted to 2,000 short horns, and from other parts of England 400 of various breeds. We had no fresh arrivals from Scotland. For the time of year the show of sheep was small, and in poor condition. The mutton trade was decidedly active, and the quotations ruled 2d per 81bs higher than on this day se'nnight. The best Downs were worth 5s 2d per 81bs. We were but moderately supplied with calves, and the veal trade was brisk, at 2d per Sibs above the prices paid on Monday last. The best veal realised 5s 2d per 81bs. The supply of pigs was moderato, and the pork trade ruled active, at fully last week's currency. The top figure was 5s per 81bs. Per Bibs to sink tho offals. s. d. s. d.' Inferior Beasts.... 3 6to 3 8 s. d. s d. 'Prime Southdown 410 5 2 Large crse. calves 310 4 6 Prime small do 4 8 5 2 Large hogs mall porkers 4 6 5 C suckling calves 24 0 30 0 quarter old pigs 23 0 28 0 FOREIGN SUPPLY. , easts .. • • • • ............ 5,205 1 Beasts•• ..•• •• . . . 1,917 cheep ••• •• ..•• ..........22,170 I Sheep ..•• .• •• ............ 3,600 'alvea . . 193 Ctilves.••• • ..•• ........ 146 A statement and comparison of the supplies anc stock exhibited and sold in Smithfield Catti Monday, Nov. 6, 1854, and in the Metropo' this day, Monday, Nov. 5, 1855. Per Sibs, to sink the offals. •lecond quality.... 3 10 4 2 1 prime large oxen 4 4 4 8 °rime Scots, Gic. 410 5 2 Inferior Sheep 6 3 8 lecoud quality ...3 10 4 4 'rime erse.-wllect 4 6 4 8 prices of fat 3 Market, oe titan Markel Nov. 6, 1854 'Nov. 5,1855 s. d. s. d. coarse and inferior beasts ... 3 2to 3 4 second quality ditto ... ... 3 6 3 10i P r imo large 0xen............4 0 4 8' Prime Scots, & 410 5 0 coarse and inferior sheep 3 4 3 6 Second quality ditto 3 8 3 10, P r i m e coarse woolled ditto 4 0 4 41 Prime Southdown ditto 4 6 410 Lambs ... 0 0 0 0 Large coarse calves ..„ 3 6 4 2 Prime small ditto 4 4 410 La) s. d. s. d 3 6to 3 8 3 10 4 2 4 4 8 4 10 5 0 36 3 8 310 4 4 1 4 6 4 8 '4 10 5 2 y) 0 0 0 310 4 6 8 5 2 arge hogs . 3 2 4 413 10 4 4 neat small porkers 4 6 5 0 4 6 5 0 Beasts.., 5,354 5,205 Sheep 26,029 22,470 Calves.., 198 193 Pigs 310 i 565 SUPPLIES ON SALE, Nov. 7, 1853.—Beasts, 5,277 ; sheet 27,210 ; calves, 262 ; pigs, 310. November 8, 1852.—Beasts, 4,704; sheep, 25,500; calves, 223 ; pigs, 380. NEWOATE AND LEADENHALL. Since our last report these markets have been well sup plied with both town and country-killed meat, mostly of poor quality. On tho whole, a full average business has been transacted at full prices. Por 81 - bs by the carcase. a. d. a. d. :3eef, interior 3 2 3 6 Do., middliug 3 8 3 10 Do., primo largo 4 0 4 2 De,., do. small A 4 4 6 Fork, large 3 10 4 4 s. d. s. a. Mutton, Inferior 3 2 3 6 Do., middling 3 8 4 0 Do., prime 4 2 4 6 Veal 3 8 5 0 Pork, small 4 6 5 4 BOROUGH HOP. We have a fair demand for fine hops at fully last week's quotations, but inferior parcels are dull and lower to pur chase. The duty is called 350,0001. Last week's im p orts were-179 bales from Hambro', 1 from Ostend, 65 from Rotterdam, and 9 from Konigsberg. Sussex pockets, 70s to 82s ; Mid and East Kents, 80s to 120 s ; Weald of Kent, 80s to 95e per cwt. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. We have had increased supplies of potatoes on sale here since Monday last. The imports have only been 50 pack ages from Rotterdam. About an average business is doing, as follows :—York Regents, 80s to 955; Middlings, 505 to 60s ; Blues, 703 to 8 7 55; Shaws, 75s to 80s; Lincolns, 70s to 80s ; Blues, 70s to 805 ; Kent and Essex qualities, 70s to 85s per ton. WOOL. The sales continue dull at ld to 2d per lb beneath the previous series. The following prices have been realised during the past week :—Sydney—Clothing, is 3(1 to is llid ; scoured, is 4d to 2s 3d ; handwashed, is 31 to Is Gd ; skin, is 2d to sd; grease lid to is lid. Port Philip and Portland Bay—Clothing, is 2id to is 9id ; scoured, is 2id to is llid ; lamb's, is 3d to ls lld; handwashed, is -lid to is 6d ; locks, lld to is Rd ; grease, 8 to is 10. Australian —Clothing, is toss 11?;(1. ; super, 2s to 2s 2,1; handwashed, is to is 6 i d ; skin, 1 - oi. Ade laide—Clothing, Did to is 5d ; handwashed, is Id to is 5d ; slips, is to is 2d ; skin, lid to is 4id. Van Diemen's Land—Clothing, is 3d to is lld ; super, 2s ld ; skin, lld to is 2d. Cape—Clean sheep's, lld to is 7id ; scoured, llid to is 6d ; lamb's, is to is 8d per lb. The private market is very dull. The imports have been 2,100 bales, chiefly from our colonies. The following are the current rates of English wool : South Down flocks, is Oid to is lid ; mixed togs and ewes, is lid to is 3id ; half-bred hoggets, is 2id to is 3d ; do. ewes and wethers, is ld to is 2d ; Swinton fleeces, mixed,ls ld to is 1d ; Kent, fine, is ld t o is 12d ; Lei cester fleeces, is Old - to is id; flannel wool, is Od to is blanketwool, Bid to is Old per lb. LDS. Less doing in most kinds of There is a moderate busin seeds at our quotations. Turnip,White, per bash. 22s to 258 Swede .. •••• .. •• —s Austard, Brown ••• • .. 12s 20s /bite, new•• •• 88 Ile rq.res,virinter, new.. 7a 6d Ss 6d Canary, per quarter • . 56s 63s Rye grass •••• • • • ••• • • 24s 30s Clover,RedEng. (cwt.) —s —a White . 1 . • • —S Carraway (new) • • .... 42s 44s Coriander • • • • ........ 263 3Cs Elempseed, per quarter 54s 60s Linseed, En• b .,lowing.. —s s Crushing • • • • .. 73s 79s Baltic • • • • .... •.• —s —s Odessa •• • • • • .. —s —s Linseed Cake, pr. ton — English • • . —l3/ Os 14/ Os ; Foreign,per ton 12/ Os 13/ 13s Rape Cakes, pr ton 6/ 5s 6/ lOs ; Rapeseed, New, pr qr., 908 94s Foreign Red.. •• —s —a White.. •. —s —s Trefoil, new...• 40s 46s TALLOW. Our market is still very firm, and the quotations are considerably higher than on Monday last. The quantity of tallow forwarded from Russia this year is fully 10,(X).0 casks less than in 1854 . To - day P . Y.C. on the spot ig quoted at 66s 6d per cwt. Tows tallow is scarce, and worth 67s nett cash. 1851. 1852. 1853. Stock this day Price of Y. C Delivery last week • • Ditto from June 1.... arrivals last week.. 69,876 52,696 29,131 r 29,419 i ' 375 3d to 42s 3d , 550 9dto 656501 to —s Od to 43s 6d 56 Od 6Od 3,087 2,887 2 5 ,351 2 , 871 41,586 39,024 48,23 1 33,187 75,554 i 4,812 9,880 2,218 74,939 : 31,092 54,047 26,608 39j 6.1 I al OA 593 6d 679 Od 1 Ditto from Junel .... Price of Town ~!..! 22,073 66s 3d to —s Od 3,644 55,602 2,625 29,960 69a ad London N. West. Caledon... E. Un. & E. C..... Gt.Nrtti*,. E. Count. Caldonimu. Do. Gt. Weso Yk. New, Berw. Y. &N M Do Eastor 'et* & Co 'orfolk. L.& N. W & Midld Stckton A Darlingt, Midland. , En. Coun. E. Count, no Do L. & N. W, t Nor ca r s t b h & Yorksh. T. Brassey .MClean ~`tockt. & ' Darlingt 1)0 qtw( PREFEREN , 100 Oberdeen 100 N 0.2, 7 l.i,.. ti r y i,4 t . h k an E d x Ty . 4 n , p i 1 0 0; e. pref. (hascl.atsOZ , 4.). 4 p. c. Shares ~, ,100 _,aledonian..£lo 'nester & Frolyhoa , mar. 5 per cent..,. all A)0. do. Pref. No. 2.. all 00. do. Prof. No. 2.. Oorit &Bandons.!,p.c, alt T hin.Prth .6t A I)er. J. 2 . Anglian Cie. A Sh, 100 Do. do. Cls. B6p. c. 100 Do. do Cis. C 7 p. C. all Elastorn Counties Ea- all itonsion,s p. c. no. No. 2 . all ')o. New 6 p. c. St all vast Un., A. 6 p. c all - ,)o. 51., 10 per cent• F all Do. 101. Dei;entr.gb. all Do. do. 4 por cent... [OO Fast Lanca4.. 6 p.ct , all F.&W. York. J. stht 1.00 g:I. Prth.&Dun.4p.e. all Furne,43 Alas. & S.W. G. 5 p." 1 100 '.:neat Northn. sp. 100 Do. sp. 0. Redeem at 10 p. c. prem.... 100 Do. 41 p. c 7z Do. 5 p.c. Scrip, Red. 0 St. St. 16' 5 St. 10 I,t 5 p. c. all Gt.N. of Scot. lat Pre 100 Gt. S. W. (Ireland ) 10 .Do. 4per c. Pra. 5 it. Westn. (Berke Rants Ex. 5 p. c) 100 Do. con. red. 44 p.c 100 DI. cou. red. 4p. 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 10(j Do. Birm. Gua. Stk all Do. Ches. Qua. Sh all Do. do. do al , Do. do. do ..........• 6 Lan. &York. F. 100 Do. 6 p. c. 100 Lon. &Brigh. G. 5 p.c. 100 Do. Pref., 5 p. c. St. 101 , Do. New Guar.6 p. c. 100 Do. do. 5 per cont. 100 Lon. &N. W., Coy. di Nuneat on 5 p. ct tO3 Lou. & S.W. 7 per ct 4.11 Lowly. &Coley. Sh 0.0 Londy. & Ennis. ; all 'flan., Shef., & tin. New, .£lO 4 Do. £6 all Warypt & p c all Do. 4i per cent 10 Do 10(1 ' Tid. Consol.6 100 Do. Consol. Bristol 1.0 3i . 1 25 i 0 .01; Pirm. 6 per cent LOO IDo. 4, p. c. Pref. S all 1 . )o. Pref. 41 per c/ ,, all IDo. 51. Pr f 4 p. C. 100 Ditto L. &H. Prof. SI ali Norfolk Del:mann, !00 Do. Prof. 4p. c. 100 Do 5 p.c. Ext.. . 100 Do. F per et. pre ( ' 100 Do. Way. Val. 5 p !00 ,North British 1 1 00 'N. E. Pg3rw, 4 lax, 1' 5 Do. do. do 13 Do Leeds 6 p.c 9 Do. do. Quarters 4 10 Do.ll9rkii,& P4:t all North Staffordshir . 100 Oxford, Worcester. WnlvArh .Xl5, op 81 Do R. Prof. 101. Sh. all Scot. Cent.,New Pr. all South Devon 14 Do. fixed, 4 per con all S. Eastern (Readi , , Ann.) of X 1 Os. Ad, 100 Do. 4? per cent all 'Do. Fixed .q p o sh. all S. Wales Gus.. 4p. c, all Do. %10. 4 p. all I S.Yorksh.4p.c.Goar. all 'Stock & Dar, , 5 p. c. 5 15 Do. do. do V. all -.4 tock. & Hartl. g. r p. c. till July 1, SF. NN 7 aterf(l,&Kilk. 6 pc tO 5 St, 25 PM Ague. I'ria . ..... all Anglo Austrln. Gold zll Anglo Californian ... 6 tustrzlian all kustralian Cordillera all itve Maria all Baden (Gd. Duchy of all Blcona.rvon Iron an(' Coal 14 British Iron 26 grazilianlmp.(issue ,- at £5 pm.) all go. Comes k Cuiab 15 Do. St. Johr Del "Re, Clarendon Cons. Mm Co. of Jamaica all Cobra Copper 1 Colonial Gold all Copper Min. of Bug all Do. Prof. 7i p. Gem 1C Copiapo. 1 Fortuna all general all gt.NuggetVeinßog. all great Polrooth MINES. all Gt Wheal Vor Unitedi all Liberty all Linares 1i Lusitanian all Nlariquita all VNew Granada all Nouveau Mondo all Pontgibaud Silver Lead Min. & Smelt 1 Port Philip all Quartz Rock all Rhymney Iron all Do. New 12i Santiago de Cuba all South Amstralian all Do. Scrip... Do. 10 per cent Pref 0 rin Croft all United Mexican . all Waller all West Mariposa 12s. Worthing Mining of Australia all Yuba...: . . MISCHLL, 174 Australian Agric•.tlt. sell Ansl,raln. Royal Mai 8. Berlin Water Work'. 40 Brit. American Lan( 42 , Canada ,130 Canada Gov. 6p. ct Jan. and Jaly all Crystal Palaco 5 Do. Preference.. all Crystal Pal. of Franc , Duston Iron Ore 11 Eastern Steam all En. &Ana Cop Sin Co 24 Electric Telegraph all Electric Teleg. of Ir. all Gen. Iron Se Collier' 14 Gen. Steam. Navigat. all General Screw Steam 10 Irish Beetroot Sugar 10 Magdalena St. Navig all Aediteran. Elec. Tel. 9 Kexican&S. &aerie') all Nat. Pat. Steam Fue 5 Netherlands Land.... all Do. 1 Do. 8 pePissatld 1 N. S. W. Coal 41 Inter. Steam Navigat. Co. 20 New B. &N. S. Land all N. B. Australasian... 15 Nrth of EuropeStaare all Oriental Gas 2s. Do. " New Shares" all Peel Rr. Ld. & Minrl. all Peninsular & Orients; 10 Do. New all Portland Iron Co 60 Royal Mail Steam all Scot. Austral. Invest Ditto New all South Austral. Land all Submar. Tel. Scrip all Do. Registered. 5 rust di L. Co.U.Can. 28i 'fp DODleleji JAW 20 dis ?,5 20 x d 118 f x d pz 130 2 29 1061 4 TOTAL 81:TPPLI, Naval and Military Intelligence. Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Graham, of the Ist Royal Regiment of Foot, who landed at Portsmouth invalided from the Crimea yesterday week, died at the Royal Naval Hospital, at H as l ar , on F r id ay n i g ht, age d 46. The gallant deceased left his sick bed to lead on his men to the assault of the Redan, at Sebastopol, on the Bth of September, by which exposure he incurred illness which has terminated fatally. He was sinking rapidly when the ship arrived. He had see n 30 years ' f u ll pay serv i ce in the army. His col:emissions bore date :—Ensign, May, 1826 ; Lieutenant, April, 1827 ; Captain, August, 1883 ; Major, May, 184 4 ; Brevet Lieutenant-C o l one l : June 20, 1851 ; Lieutenant-Colonel, June 25, 1855. Her Majesty's steam-frigate Penelope, 18, Captain Sir William Wiseman, after a refit, left Portsmouth harbour for Spithead on Saturday, and was to leave the latter roadstead yesterday evening for the Gambia, Sierra Leone, Ascension, and the Cape of Good Hope, taking a mail for the latter colony, and despatches for the Com manders-in-Chief on the coast of Africa and Cape sta tions. She also took out - Major Ord, of the Royal En gineers, to inspect the state of the forts on the Gold Coast, and as a commissioner to adjust certain "difficul ties" between the sable monarchs of certain territories and their belligerent neighbours an subjects. His Imperial French Majesty's steam gun-boats La Lance, Capitaine de Tonquibres, and La St. Barbe, Capitaine Payron, arrived at Spithead yesterday from the Baltic, last from Ramsgate for Cherbourg. They put in from strong headwinds, and intend to start again this morning, weather permitting. The officers landed at Portsmouth, and were presented to the Port-Admiral by Chevalier Vandenbergh, who afterwards entertained them at the French Consulate. The Dapper, steam gun-boat, arrived at Portsmouth on Saturday night from the Baltic. By the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Sultan, which arrived at Southampton yesterday morn ing with the Peninsular mail, we, have the following items of naval and military intelligence from Gibraltar: —Her Majesty's steamship Horatio, 10 days from Malta, left Gibraltar for England on the 21st ult. The British steamer Azoff, 10 days from London, with huts, &c., for Balaklava, arrived at Balaklava on the 20th ult. The steam transport Jackall, having had her machinery repaired, sailed from Gibraltar for the Crimea on the 22d ult. The British steam transport Niagara, with in valids, passed Gibraltar for England on the afternoon of the 23d. The British steam transport Levant, 11 days from Lo westoft, with railway materials, for Balaklava, arrived at Gibraltar on the 23d. The Levant was obliged to put into the Tagus from stress of weather. The screw steam transport Imperatrice, seven days and seven hours from London, with medical stores for the Crimea, arrived at Gibraltar on the 22d ult. During the voyage she experienced very severe weather. The steam transport Pacific, five days and sir hours from London, with Government stores for Balaklava, also arrived at Gibraltar on the 22d. The British steamer Black Sea, 10 days from London, with railway store:; for Balaklava, arrived at Gibraltar on the 23d ult. The British steam-transport Robert Lowe, 27 days from Ba laklava, 15 from Constantinople, and eight from Malta, with invalids for Portsmouth, reached Gibraltar on the 24th. The French line-of-battle ship Tage, of 100 guns, Appeared off Cadiz on the morning of the 21st nit., die masted, and was towed into that port by a steamer. The Tage bad thrown overboard all her guns but four. A heavy squall at the mouth of the Straits is supposed to be the cause of the disaster. The steam gun-boats Badger and Redwing, from the Baltic, last from Spithead, arrived at Plymouth on Sa turday, and went up Hamoaze. They are to be refitted in the Keyham docks. • No more launches will take place this year at Pem broke, but there will be several early in the spring. The newly-erected wooden barracks will shortly be ready for occupation. The Rhadamanthus, Master Commander Belam, from Malta and Gibraltar, after landing 75 convicts from the latter place at Portsmouth, arrived on Saturday morning ;*t Woolwich, and will be taken into basin to ship ma chinery and boilers for the western yardr. The steamer Caradoc, Lieutenant Chandos Stanhope commanding, has gone down to Greenhithe for the ad justment of her compasses, and will return to Woolwich to-day prior to her departure for Marseilles. The inter nal fittings of the Caradoc are not terminated i❑ conse quence of some changes considered necessary for the accommodation pf the numerous suite of Lord Canning. Iler ladyship, accompanied by one of the aidee-de-camp, Captain Bouverie, went down to Woolwich on Thursday last, and inspected the cabin appointments. The Admi ralty upholstery contractor has since received orders to fit up the salon and sleeping berth according to Lady Canning's instructions, and the officers of the ship must necessarily be provided for in the forepart of the vessel. The Caradoc, after landing her passengers at Alexandria, will proceed to the Black Sea. There is a considerable increase in the arrival of shot and shell at the Arsenal wharves at Woolwich, which are daily crowded with vessels of large burden, discharging their cargoes, thereby augmenting the already incredible quantity in piles and heaps. A number of mortar car riages are being fitted for eventual service, and for some days past a daily proof of 10 11-inch mortars has taken pace at the butt. The same diligence prevails in the dockyard in fitting out a number of gun-boats. A for midable fleet of these useful vessels will be in readiness to sail thence in the ensuing spring. The Magpie, gun-beat, Lieut.-Commander B. C. J. Pim, arrived at Sheerness, from the Baltic on Friday last, at 4 p.m. She is ordered to proceed to Plymouth, but, owing to defects, cannot have at present. The Merlin, 6, paddle-wheel steam-vessel, Capt. B. J. Sullivan, C. 8., arrived at Sheerness, from the B:►ltic, on Saturday, at 6.45 a.m., and left yesterday morning on particular service. The Sanspareil, 70, screw steam-ship, Capt. W. J. Williams, came into Sheerness harbour on Saturday at 8.45 a.m., but owing to the heavy wind and rain, nothing was done. D.)ekyard lighters are already laden with her lower deck guns and gun-carriage., and will be sent alongside this day. The steam-vessel Adder, Master-Commander J. Mun- cham, left Sheerness on Saturday at 6 a.m., with Mr. John Jackson, Assistant-Master-Attendant of the yard, to proceed to render assistance to the gun-boat Hind, and to make the necessary arrangements for her being got afloat next spring tides, if practicable. The Basilisk, 6, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, Cot-annul . . , . . der Robert Jenner, arrived at Sheerness from the Baltic yesterday, at 9 a m., with the Watertank schooner in tow. The Basilisk and schooner Tank remain in harbour. A. telegraphic order has arrived at Sheerness for the Belleisle, hospital-ship, to proceed to the westward. Mr. Brookman, master of the steam-tender (to Waterlo() Wildfire, was sent on board in pilot charge of her, and The left at daylight on SaturJay morning for Portsmouth and Plymouth. On Saturday evening, during the heavy weather, the boat of the Thistle gun-boat was capsized in Sheerness harbour, and had it not been for the watch on beard the steam-vessel Myrtle, Master-Commander Bourchier, who also heard the cries for help, the engineer and three of the crew of the Thistle must have been drowned ; as it was, the Myrtle's boat was lowered and manned, and they succeeded after some time in finding three persons ; they still heard distant cries for help, when Commander Bourchier fortunately succeeded in lighting a blue light, by which they found the fourth person, one of the boat's crew, hanging on to the moorings of one of the vessels riding on the Lapwell, he having drifted a considerable distance with the tide and wind. All were taken on board tne Myrtle in a very exhausted state, and were some time before they sufficiently recovered their senses to make any statement of the accident. It appears that a sea broke into the boat and immediately swamped her. Capt. Englefield's company cf Royal Artillery, now in garrison at Sheerness, are ordered to proceed to Malta for service in the Crimea, when required ; and not to Ceylon, as formerly reported. Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to grant a pension of 1001. a-year to Lieut.-Colonel Mauleverer, C. 8., of the 30th Regiment, for distinguished service at the siege of Sebastopol. The following appointments, made at the Admiralty yesterday, appeared in our late edition of Saturday : SURGEONS. James Holt, to the Sampson. Edward Adams, to the Heela. ACTING ASSISTANT-SURGEON. George F. Elliott, to the Sampson. GENERAL GUYON. The following letter has been addressed to the editor of the Times :- . _ Sir,--I am highly honoured by your insertion of my appeal in favour of Defoe. The private is less important than the public ; that to which I would now call your attention may be truly said to partake of botli:,,Al rewly you have thrown such a light from the East as bath awakened the dormant West. Had your remarks been earlier attended to, what calamity and disgrace had been spared to England ! Had a Williams or a Guyon com manded_ our armies,howmany thousands had nowfill d their ranks who now fill their graves. It is about thislatterge.n badl that I now am writing. General Guyon _sca t s a lwa held in high estimation for courage and men he ed and ob two uncles in the British navy who . of the Gene tained an equal reputation. The catnpal a a n n d d . Ithde ral in Transylvania is celebrated ranktgh the whole of in Asia. Turkey Europe, and acquired for him a has been induced by the threats of f English Ministry is bold Austriam ma chinations of Russia to divest him ? _ _ ... . .doubt whether any member of the l ase the House f ans and honest enough to displease e word "element," (3 II 1 -- burg. Excuse my use . of the awns, when I express my fears that common upon all occasions, ote t: l the German e lement is m ore p nia among u s th an ever I't was heret ofore. However, all I desire is that before the public what you know you will lay . _ . _ or believe . id to the fitness ot lieneral liuyOn to serve our in regard by being placed ' 1 common c ountry . In a station where he may effectually serve our allies.-- WALTER am, sir, eze., WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR. 1855. TOE CONVICT BANKERS. —There is no foundation for the statement whi.A), has been going the round of the papers, that Strahan, Paul, and'Bates, the bankers, were about to be sent to Gibraltar to suffer the sentence of the Criminal Court. Gibraltar is not by any means an easy station, but may be reckoned perhaps one of the most penal and hard-working, as well as being by far from the most healthy. The convicts are now in Newgate. They will, in the first instance, suffer the usual period of separate confinement, which is, we believe, a year. After that they will probably be transported to a penal settle went for the remainder of their sentence ; but no deci sion will be come to until after the customary probation of seiarate confinement.—Observer. LITERATURE. Minnesota and the Far West. By Laurence Oliphant. Blackwood. It lives pleasantly in our recollection how an English gentleman in the person of Mr. Beste con ducted us very recently along the track pursued by himself and his family down to the beautiful Wabash bottom in the recesses of Indiana. An unfrequented " location" not far from the N ew Harmony, sacred to the memory of the socialistic day-dreamiugs Robert 0 wen—immediatelysouth of Lake Michigan, northward of Kentucky, and exactly mid-way between the states of Ohio and Illinois. Mr. Oliphant now in his turn carries us away with him at a tangent across the boundary line of Upper Canada, and away farther north and farther west than the lively and observant celebrant of the " Wabash," beyond lowa and Wisconsin, even to the innermost districts of " Minnesota." It appears a strange time to have chosen for a journey so far removed from the scene of the great struggle, raging at this most imminent juncture on the confines of ancient Europe and hoary Asia, between the armies on the one hand of barbari sm and on the other of civilisation. Nevertheless, it may seem stranger still to find the author of this curious volume advancing a plea for the attention of all observant readers on the very score of its theme being so widely remote from the mighty interests concentrated within the frontiers of the Crimea, and until very recently almost exclusively confined to the immediate vicinity of that minute point of the Crimea occupied by the blood-stained ruins of Sebastopol. Howbeit, the writer is, after all, not so far wrong in surmising that "at a time when the greatest powers of Europe have combined to resist barbarian aggression, and public interest is concentrated upon the East, the rapid advance of civilisation in the West possesses claims upon our notice which are in danger of being over looked. To obviate which, so far as that may be at all practicable, these twenty-five chapters of Travel in America have been penned, and printed, and published. They are acceptable. Coming to us when or how they might, they could scarcely fail to be so under any circumstances—for, in asmuch as they are the record of the notes jotted down from day to day by an intelligent wanderer like Laurence Oliphant, a vigilant wayfarer to whom English stay-at-homes are already so largely indebted for the insight afforded by him here into the state of affairs on " The Russian Shores of the Black Sea," there, into the actual condition of "Nepaul and the Nepaul ese." Erratic as ever he has shown himself to be, Mr. Oliphant threatens to take yet more eccentric flights hither and thither about this " terraqueous • globe" or " orb terrene"—so that in time the trail left upon Mercator's Chart by his pencilled pere grinations may be more wildly zigzagged than the famous scrawl by which another Laurence (the Rev. Sterne to wit) indicated the episodical course pursued by his excursive pen while inditing the meandered and circuitous narrative of " Tristram Shandy." Already Mr. Oliphant, as our readers have been herein reminded, has strayed along the mountainous province of Nepaul between—on the one side Thibet and on the other Delhi, Oude and Bahar : or, to indicate the geographical situation otherwise, between the broad lines scored upon the Asiatic continent by the currents of the Ganges and the Burhampooter. Presto! a flourish of Mr. Oliphant's pen ! a smack of his courier's whip ! and we are with him—no longer in Hindostan, but traversing slowly and watchfully the rocky coasts of Muscovite possessions border ing the Euxine—looking in at Anapa, at Odessa, at Kherson, at Sebastopol. Another flourish cf the goosequill, another crack of the magic thong, and hey ! we have leapt the Atlantic at a bound, and are careering far away into the interior of the vast American continent. This time we are neither in Nepaul, nor in the Crimea—we are in Minnesota. The scene is neither Asiatic nor European—it is in the new world—we are crossing the great inland seas dividing Canada from the United States—we are piercing the green depths of the giant forests of America. Yet, lo ! and behold ! when we turn to the close of our author's preface, we find it dated neither from New York nor from Liverpool, neither from Quebec nor London--but, wonderful to tell, simply thus—" August, 1855, Constantinople !" For the brief and imperfect manner in which he ac knowledges ho has here to his own thinking described the condition and prospects of the " Far West," Mr. Oliphant observes apologetically —" I have only to plead the more pressing inte rests which have since attracted me to another part of the world." So—while he is roving, maybe at this moment, in the footsteps of the great Anglo-French expedition against the legions of the Northern Autocracy—sauntering possibly among the smouldering embers of Sebastopol, or peering, perchance, among the violated museums of Kertch—we may here follow in imagination his recent prog ress from Toronto across Lake Simcoe, across Lake Huron, across Lake Superior, almost to the fountain-heads of the Mississippi, and thence float back along the flow of its ample current as far as the point where the boundary lines of lowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin may be said to concentrate, under the southernmost bend of the coast of Lake Michigan, over the channel connecting Lake St. Clair arid Lake Erie, eastwards again to the vi cinity of Lake Ontario to a spot about equi distant from Niagara and Buffalo. Such is a rapidly-sketched outline of the track taken by Mr. Oliphant in his wanderings in the Far West, and his pouderings about Minnesota. Rovings recounted, as we have remarked, in five-and-twenty chapters, those five-and-twenty chapters being grouped into three parts—the first part relating to Canada, the second to Lake Superior, the third. (from which the work derives its title) to Minnesota. As a commentator upon, or censor of, things Cana dian, our author may be regarded as having been to a certain extent qualified by the official position among them occupied by him until very recently in his capacity as Civil Secretary and Superinten dent-General of Indian affairs in Canada. Whence may be traced at once the value and interest dif fused over his strictures upon Canadian Politics, Canadian Society, Canadian Statistics, Canadian Backwoods, and for that matter, too, upon the broad principle of Reciprocity, as well as through the course of his animated descriptions of a bark canoe voyage down the Severn, of a ride to the Indian village of Saugeen, and of the Annual Dis tribution of Indian Presents at Monitonlin. About the liveliest portion of Part Two—that relating to Lake Superior—is the account given of " Bed and Board in the Far West," as experienced, by our writer in the remote state of Wisconsin. The concluding division of the work, being the one de dicated to a detailed description of Minnesota, will charm alike the humorist and the lover of na ture, with its graphic pictures of scenes and inci dents, comprising among their number the Savannahs (wondered at of yore with such a fish-eyed wonder by old John Willett as the " Salwanners —in America where the war is"), and the Sandy Lake, and the .Sa u k the Rapids, and the Falls of St. Anthony , a nd Bluffs, and the Prairies and the Head. or the Mississippi. Many a passage, comic of pictu resque,Black- will be recognised by the Waters of reprint in a collec tive volume before us being, more nor less, after all, thanedfact, nothing t iv e littlefor m (prettily w o dt of that series of with sixteen grace fulunder the modest title half-a-dozen contributions under the North-West Stat en of " Notes on Canada, an d in the six ea e i m llu b s e t l r l a is t h ions a a numbers of Aprillast from last to September. Maga, rang ing of America" substantial volume of upwards Thus re-issued in a w hich appeared of accompanied by a map, as well mentioned sixteen engrav i ngs, as 3byoOtphea and re - ch ristened more e p i grammatically and euphon i ou sly by the name o f " Mi nnesota, " this g a es lr e e a ta dy ve' new book of travels by Laurence Oliphant, while it ma y win for him many new admirers, will fail, am ong the old, in any way to deteriorate the ex trinsic interest or intrinsic worth of his reputation. DREADFUL RIBAND OUTRAGE. followingaU c t o n m as m io u e ni S e t a a t r ion of u S n a d tu er rda d y at e e on o t f ai m ns oa t te b : The B • 1 Friday n i g h t " On this day Mr. Ramsbottom, with Mr. Beacham, was fired at, after taking possession of land in the King's County, within three miles of this town. "He bad shortly before parted with the Sheriff and police. Mr. Beacham was shot through the neck with a ball, and several slugs lodged in his face and breast. A have just seen Dr. Fry, and he says it is very whether Mr. Beacham will live until morning. )3 °ham is " Mr. Ramsbottom is an agent, and Ilfr. . ea an assistant. The shot was intended for Mr- Rams' bottom, but Mr. Beacham was next the tr m!rl vino doubtful fired, and Mr. Ramsbottom, although walking in line s escaped." ----------=---- ------- THE JERSEY REF SOUTHAMPTON, N ov. 3. Several of these exiles, who had been ordered to quit by the Jersey by the 2d of November for printing, editin g, mail w D it e h ip 2 a 9 tch oi publishing the objectionable journal entitled L' li and arrived at this port from that island this m • " me, ScoauptthaiNaVßesutebront. DespatchCToinhepanys the refugees, 17 of whom were landed names of those who have arrived at Guernsey. The .--Dr. Barbier, Zeno Swiclosl at Southampton are : gessrs. Thine and lady, $a y es Victor Vincent son, Collett and lady, Ami yes and lady, Bawois and and liolziatte. Zeno lsetfetamje-rshsecprmng swi l er, Sarnet, Tafrey, Fychau,, the printing ;materials , th e oslawski is the proprietor of from Jersey with him , e whole of which he brought fug the day by the .The party left for London dur. London and South ! Weatern Railway.' . em ►te, I. o f the -ely )nts ;ed. ock will ton tter a, I nes and race fifty -ices this now n it, , be old .ene- un s to or.e. will lit ed ) be le of r the ,se of ;. 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