The Sun. — London, England, 1856-11-01 00:00:00

"`'ONE MAR KET ~.es ;_ ,Rfiri AL fl LLFYM if:o4 ;TITT, Two :. 33'1)C ate i,iverpool Cotton "Market yesterday closed quietly, but with firmness. The sales amounted to 8,000 bales, 2,000 of which were taken by the exporters, and 2,000 by the speculators, T. he Rail way Share Market closed at a slight improi•enient. The advices from New York, per steamer Arago, report a general decline in the market for specula tive securities, the accounts from Europe relative to the monetary pressure having exercised_ an un favourable influence. It will be seen by the subjoined analysis of the .°lll k of England Return, completed for the week en ding the 25th i ns t., that the general position of the national establishment has improved, notwith lbtanding a further slight declension in the stock of The expected arrival of the James ..: 81 nes with nearly 700,000!. allays any appreben 'On of a further immediate reduction, especially as it is known that other vessels must also be near at h and from the same quarter. The reserve of notes has increased about half a million sterling, and a similar decline has taken place in the other securities. The Bank has evidently been a seller or lender of s t oc k, as there is a large decline in the Government Securities. The changes, although the very large, are encouraging. Subjoined are principal items Active Circulation Decrease 13ullion 9,637,596 Decrease Rest Increase Public D epos it s 1 , Increase Other Deposits 436,457 Decrease SeVee - Day and other Bills 939,449 Decrease ..... 45,743 Government Securities Decrease Other S ecur i t i es ,545,3155 Decrease !cotes unemployed Increase The official return of the exports of bullion from the port of London for the week endicg, Thursday last is as follows Golf' Coin I P y, „ Ears Petersburg ... 281 Ozs. Silver Coin Hamburg ... 1,214 OZ 3. There is an exceedingly active demand for money, 4lid it is feared that the payments of the approach ing "fourth" of the month may U attended by lotne inconvenience. Already it is rumoured that two commercial firms are embarrassed, but it is Premature to announce further particulars, as they buy be enabled to coninue their business through the assistance of friends. This is a close holiday at the Stock Exchange, as the striking of the half-yearly balance at the Bank of England necessitates the closing of the transfer offices. Consols are nominally 92a ;/ for money, and 931,- 1 for December. tRITI 511 FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES YESTERDAY. (From the Official List.) u', done ba nk Stock tn. n ... 214 ;4) , C:al. iteduced Annuities i t l s / Cent Consols Annual.. 2isßii7i 1 , 1 . ' 2° 1 per rent. Annuities s '''' 2 i per Cent. Annuities , Per Cent. A nnu i ties ll4l 14,p.ng Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1860... r,,,,tt0 30 Years, expire sth April, 1885 l7l -.`„,'Llt P onds, .Cloc , ~, Ditto, under £lOOO par ,•nsols for Account 92i a i a Eteheqner Bills, 24d. £lOOO t:500 par Small Ditto Bonds, 1858,3 i per Cont.. 98:1. ow!, P --..rIGN FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES YESTERDAY. Irazilidti Bonds, 5 por Cent. 991 Russian Ponds, 182'2, £ St., 5 per Cent — Ditto 44 p er Cent. . !Sard inian Bonds, 5 per Cent. ~, Ditto A.econnt 4p , 1 - ,I F i Isouds, 3 per Cent — Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account '.rltik.h Ponds, 6 Par cent Ditto account, November 14 91 90H 1.; 90i 1 x d Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent, 99S 100 Ditto Account loos : 4 - Venezuela ponds, 41 per Cent Dividends on the above payable in Londot. 13' rensh Rentes, 4, 1 ,. per Cent. Ditto 3 per Cent. FRIDAY. 3 P. 31. Con.ols, money Ditto, account, November 6 924 t DIVISION OF COSSACKS OF THE SUUr AY. TO THE EDITOIt OF THE 2A, Whitehall-yard, Oct. 31, 1856. SlR,—.The accompanying letter, addressed, by order of the Secretary of state for War, to Major-General Count Zamoyski, late commanding the Polish Division of Cossacks of the Sultan, having reached him after its l is bandmenr, when many of the &Beers and men belong '?g to it were dispersed over different parts of the Con tinent, and their address being unknown, I venture to r equest you to give it publicity in your widely-cireulated Journal, and thus Le the means of conveying to them a com munication which will be received and ever remem red by them with pride and gratitude. I am, sir, your obedieni servant, C. SZULEZEWSKI, Major, Agent for the Division of Cossacks of the Sultan in England. (Copy.) War Department, Sept. 15, 185(3. Sir War submitted to Lord Pannaure your letter, "ated the 12th August, with its enclosures, reporting the satisfactory conclusion of the measures for disband ing the P o li sh divisions of the Cossacks of the Sultan, lio ate in her Majesty's pay, I have the pleasure of convey• t ° You, by hi s l or d s hi p ' s or d er , th e ex p ress i on o f turd Panmure's entire approval of manner in which that dan uty has been carried out. He lordship deems this also appropriate occasion to convey to you, and, through 3. ° 11 , to the officers, noE-commissioned officers, and men lately under y our command, the thanks of her Ma j esty ' s Government for the readiness with which they embraced an occasion for taking service under the British stan dard, anti the zeal and energy displayed by all ranks in the discharge of their duties. The discipline and soldierly demeanour of this force has been such as to reflect the highest credit on its offi cers. Lord Panmure is well aware of tho eagerness with Which all ranks desired an opportunity of shewing them selves worthy of Her Nlajesty's confidence by their con duct in the field. To you, Count, pre - eminently, is due the credit for the successful realization of a plan which promised to add many brave men to the force of the Allies in the war, now happily concluded ; and I am charged by Lord Panmure to request your acceptance personally of thi s assurance of his Lordship's high sense of the a bilit y and zeal with which the duties undertaken e by you were discharged. —I atn, &c.) F. PEEL Major-G eneral Count Zamoyski, lat e Commanding. the Division of Cossacks of the Sultan, Scutari. LLOYD'S SHIPPING., --(This Day.) breeze and hazy, LONDON, Nov. I. Wind this d ay at noon, W. ; lighl COWES, Oct. 31..—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Nordsk, from Arica. .ov, YARMOUTH, Oct. 31.—Th e Dent Scents, of and for Bordeaux, from Sunderland, is being t owed in a derelict, E.—A rr i ved —a after being on Hasborough sand, STARCR SS, Oct. 31.—Wind N.N . Jestic, from Rio Grande. P JERSEY, ernambuco. Oct. 30.—Wind S.—Saile d—Banav ala, for NEWPORT, Oct. Ti. E.—Arri ve d -4ano Rid stone. from Malta, for St. Th omas. h HO Li ver HELYA pooD, Oct. 31.—Wi .tt icnd N.W.—Arrived—Piedad, em l, for Porto o. (PER ELECTED TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Saturday Morning, Arrived —Adelaide, Fanny, Violet, Arethusa, Peter and Ilebeeca, and Koh-i-Noor, from Cardiff; Venus, Swansea ; 13 rothers, Nen,th. Sailed Effort and Maria Whitfield, for Sunderland. LIVERPOOL, Saturday Morning. Wind N.E. Arrived—South Esk, from Alexandria. Sailed—Sappho, for Newfoundland. QUEENSTOwN, Oct. 30. - Wind S. , , Arrivod- 4 Gra7hollnd, from :` , ..lalaga; Horidtt, Newfoun DUBLIN, Oct X3l Wind N.W. Q A rrived—Eini Beet, from Memel; Old England, from uebec. KINGSTQWN, Oct. 3: Wind N.N. Arrived—N ew John Tanbman, from Daiazic. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Saturday, W ind calm ; tid e near l y l ow water ; Cloud 10.0 a.m.y Arriv e d — City of Rotterdam (s), from Dunk. (s), for Osten,' ; Brenda, Conctantinople. DEAL, Saturday, 9,43 a.m. Wind I C.W., light, and foggy. Anchered d - -lienneth, from Malaga, and Laucefield, Irc)114 P '4 0 . 13 1 both for Losacl9l3. CRIMINAL COURT.—(This Day.) OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Erle.) THE CRYSTAL PALACE FRAUDS. William fames Robson, was indicted on eight charges 1 for larceny, in stealing a number of Crystal Palace shares, the property of the directors of the company, and also with forgery. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine, Mr. B.: , dkin, and Mr. Haw !' kips were counsel for the prosecution ; Mr. Gifford and Mr. H. F. Lewis for the prisoner. ~_.. Mr. Gifford said the prisoner wished to retract his plea of not guilty to the three indictments charging him with larceny. _ _ . His. Lordship consented, and the plea of not guilty was retracted and that of guilty recorded. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine, in stating the case to the jury, said, although the prisoner now at the bar had pleaded guilty to three indiotments involving him in penalties for having committed larceny upon the pro perty of his employers, he felt it his duty to state to them the circumstances of the present charges, with a view of putting them and the court in possession of the mode by which the frauds had been committed by the prisoner. In stating to them the history of these tran sactions, it was necessary for him to refer to the general conduct of the prisoner. It appeared that the prisoner was a person of great intellect and considerable powers of mind, and possessed of an education far beyond his rank in life. He entered the service of the Crystal Palace Company as a clerk at 11. per week. The prisoner was .one of those persons who, from the intelli gence he possessed, might, by honesty and straight forward conduct have risen to the highest position in this great commercial country. Unhappily, though possessing these abilities and advantages, and entering into life which most people would have grasped at with avidity, he was not content with that, but sought to ob tain wealth rapidly, and to obtain those ends which could only be obtained, in a person like him by honest industry, by a quick leap. The prisoner now stood before them a felon on his own confession, and had to undergo a trial for one of the gravest charges known to our laws. The prisoner, shortly after he was taken into the service of the company, was promoted, awl his salary increased to 1001., and in a few months after he was promoted higher, to Mr. Fasson's office registrar at a salary of 1501. per annum. That gentleman suffering from ill-health, and finding the prisoner to be a man of intelligence and ability, and believing him also to be a man of integrity and hoidesty, left a great part of the management of his office to him, and in that manner he possessed facilities which he had applied in a manner to the injury of the comp•.tny and his own ruin. The learned gentlema❑ having stated the facts of the case, called the following evidence : Ga,rge Sydney Clements examined by Mr. Bodkin— I am a stockbroker and know the prisoner, and was in the :anbit of doing business fur him. In January I sold 100 shares of the Crystal Palace Company, 50 to Mr. Lowe, and 50 to another person ; this realised 2951. and a few shillings. I paid the amount to the prisoner. 15Ir. Gifford objected to reception in evidence of the alle ; ;ed transfers. Witness examined—lt was either brought or sent to one by the prisoner. I can't swear to the writing of the narae of John Johnson on it. The name of the attesting witness to the transfer was W. J. Robson, which I believe to be in the prisoner's handwriting. I delivered it to the person who represented the buyer. Mr. George Fasson, registrar of the company—The prisoner entered the service of the company in the early part of the year 1853, and continued until September la ,t:. On 30th June, 1854, he was appointed chief clerk in /the transfer office, at 1501. per annum. The transfer hooks were under the custody of the prisoner. For each proprietor's share there was a certificate issued i❑ the first. instance ; these certificates were accessible to ,he prisoner. On the morning of the 17th September something occurred between myself, Mr. Grove, and the prisoner : he was charged with passing transfers through the books without showing the title of the transferor. He said it did appear irregular, but he could make them right. I asked him could he do so then ? He replied "No ;" the documents were at his private residence at Kilburn, where he said he would produce them to me if I would accompany him there. I went with him, and on arriving at liill;urn he left the room into which we had been shown two or three times with a view to his procuring the transfers ; the last time he did so he did not return. I did not see him again until in custody at the police -court at Lambeth. I afterwards made a search in the office occupied by the prisoner at the Crystal Palace, and a document w as found there bearing the prisoner's signature as witness to a transfer of A shares by Henry Johnson. There was no Henry Johnson registered as a shareholder of the A shares in question. Henry Johnson, of Birmingham, con- tractor, is not registered in respect of these shares, numbered 145,052 to 145,101, but he is of others. When a, person had shares transferred to him, he or his broker would deposit the deed of transfer at the corn pany's offices to have it transferred, and it would be the duty of the prisoner to see it properly registered in the books. There was no entry of the date or number of ,his transfer in the books. Cross-examined-by Mr. Gifford—There was formerly a " numerical" register, but it had not been entered up, and bad been in disuse for the last two years. This re gister was kept by one of the junior clerks who hap pened to be disengaged. At every general meeting a register of shareholders was presented. Witness looked to the result of it, but he had made no examination of the details. The prisoner was appointed chief clerk of the transfer office towards the end of June, 1854. Mr. Henry Johnson examined, said—l am a contras or and builder residing at Birmingham, and am a rela- tive of the prisoner's. The signature to the transfer produced is not mine, and he never gave any person authority to sign it for me. The attestation was in the prisoner's handwriting, Cross-examined by Mr. Gifford—l never had a con• versation with the prisoner as to taking shares in the Crystal Palace Company and transferring them to the prisoner. There bad been some money transactions between them. Mr. George Grove, secretary to the company—l am well acquainted with the prisoner's handwriting. I believe the name of Johnson. as well as that of Robson , in the transfer produced to be in the handwriting of the prisoner. Sergeant Coppin examined—l apprehended the pri. goner at Copenhagen on the 7th of October. I told him I had come to him about the Crystal Palace affair. He said, "I know I have done wrong, and I must suffer the law." I asked him if he was willing to go back to London with me. Ho replied, " Yes, I shall be glad to get back." On their way home to England I said to him that I had heard he was 20,0001. deficient. He replied, " I don't think it is so much as that—l think it's about 10,0001." The transfer was put in to be read on evidence. Mr. Gifford urged a legal objection to its introduction, because to use it the attesting witness should be called. Mr. Justice Erie overruled the objection. It was not ,endered as a valid document, but a forged intrument, and the attestation was the foundation of the charge. He had taken a note of the objection, if it was found necessary to raise any objection upon it. The document was then hereafter put and read. Mr. Johnson was recalled and examined by Mr. Gif- ford—The prisoner never said to me, " I don't wish my name to be used on the Stock Exchange, and might I use yours ?" I never said to him, "Do as you like." Nothing was ever paid to that effect or of his taking shares. This was the case for the prosecution. Mr. Gifford submitted for the prisoner that the docu ment was not a forgery within the indictment. It was an incomplete document. After some remarks from his Lordship on the line o defence, Mr. Sergeant Ballantine said it was not a valid obj ec tion, and sail that to make all right he had sent for Mr. Lowe, to whom the shares professed to have been transferred. His lordship said the learned counsel had better ad dress him on some other point in the meantime. He was extremely clear on the point raised and was against the objection. Mr. G ifford said he had no other points to offer on behalf of the prisoner. He must wait for the evidence. His lordship said that the document came within one of the counts, viz,, a forger "of a deed of transfer" of shaAretst,i,asnrdecin,oletat odfeed requiring to be under seal of the company. recalled. Ile raid I have borrowed o j n c' e b y ns :o n' a le C t o s n: ig4i : able extent from the prisoner. I can't recollect it. I saw him in Lombard -street, and something was said about the repayment of the money. .t.I don't remember the prisoner saying anything to me about his selling my shares, with which to repay the money he had borrowed to advance to me. The last conversation they had about money matters was not in Lombard-street. Prisoner never said anything to me about his not liking his name to appear on the Stock Exchange. I borrowed between 700/. and 8001. of him. I was not aware of his intention to sell shares. I recollect telegraphing from London to Birmingham in 1854. Nothing was then Ba ia by the prioner about selling or trusierribg bar I can't give any idea of what passed between us on that occasion. I was never aware until now of my name being registered in the Crystal Palace Company's register, or of my being treated as a shareholder. When I sent the telegraphic message at the telegraph office, Lombard street, I asked the prisoner to lend me 1001. He said he would endeavour to obtain it. I can't recollect if I went with him to 3, Adelaide place, London-bridge. I tni..fht have done so. I afterwards obtained the money from the prisoner at the telegraph office in Cornhiil. He left me whilst he got the money. By Mr. Sergeant Ballantine—l have never claimed interest on any shares in the Crystal Palace Company, nor am I aware that any dividend had been paid on my behalf. lam brother-in-law of the prisoner. Mr. Gifford then proceeded to address the jury for the prisoner. He asked them to try this case, as far as they could, on the evidence before them, and not with reference to any other case. That the prisoner had been guilty of an offence against his em ployers could net be denied, and for which he must receive punishment all well knew. His learned friend on the other side had produced much evidence, but whether for the purpose of raising the character of the Crystal Palace Company on the Stock Exchange, or of enhancing the punishment of the prisoner, he could not say ; but he asked the jury not to come to a hasty conclusion of guilt against the prisoner on a charge which he had always denied, and to which he now pleaded not guilty. He had no desire to impute anything like a shadow of participation in any fraud by Mr. Johnson; but he put it to the jury whether, considering the con nection between the prisoner and Johnson, it did not lead to the belief that the prisoner considered he might use Johnson's name on the Stock Exchange with out injury to any party. The learned Judge having summed up, The jury found the prisoner guilty of forgery, and also with uttering the same, knowing it to have been forged. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine said he had no intention of proceeding with the other indictments without his lord. ship wished it. One of the indictments charged the prisoner with forging a dividend warrant, which was of a nature different from the general class of forgeries. If his lordship thought he had heard sufficient from the last case to form an opinion of the prisoner's conduct, he (Mr. Sergeant Ballantine) had no desire to proceed fur • ther. Mr. Justice Erie said he thought sufficient had been done. He could not see how forging a dividend war rant could be different from forging any other document. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine said that with that intima tion from his lordship he would not proceed with the other cases. He thought it right, however, to state that the prisoner's statement that his deficiencies amounted to 10,0001. was overstated. There was every reason to believe it was under that sum. Mr. Justice Erle, in sentencing the prisoner, said— You stand convicted of felony, and the inquiry on this occasion shows to me that you have practised crime for a considerable period of time. You have practised it in a breach of that trust which was placed in you by your employers. You have practised it so as to throw doubt and uncertainty on important mercantile instruments, and you have obtained large sums of money by the course of crime you have so pursued. It is my duty to give a warning, by the sentence I shall pass on you, that the apparent course of prosperity derived from crime in reality leads to misery and destruction. For the forgery of which you stand convicted I order you to be transported for 20 years, and in respect to the larceny, of which you have pleaded, I sentence you to be trans ported for 14 years, concurrent with the first sentence I have mentioned. The prisoner listened attentively to the learned Judge during the delivery of the sentence. His face was slightly suffused. He drew himself up to his full height, mo mentarily surveyed the court with a slight scornful smile, and then walked from the dock. MARKET NEWS. —(This ray) COVENT GARDEN'. About average supplies of most articles were on sole to day, and the demand ruled steady, as follows : FRUIT. Pineapples,per lb. 3s Od to Os Colonia I do., ea. Os Od to Os Od Grapes, per lb. is Od to 4s 01 Foreign do Os 8d to is 8d Melons, each 2s Od to 5s Od Peaches, p. d0z.... 3s to 8s Od Nectarines, do. 2s Od to 8s Od Apples, p. h. sv. 6s Od to 83 Od Pears, per doz. 3s Od to 63 Od Oranges, per 100 30s Od to Os Lemons, p. doz. is Od to 2s Od Apricots,p. doz. 2sod to 63 Odi Cherries, per lb. 0 . 3 to Os Odi VE GET Filberts, per 1b...10d to is Od Cobs., p. 100 lbs. 105 s to 1153 Almonds, p. lb. Os Od to Os Od Walnuts, per 100 Gd to is Od Figs, per doz is to 3s Od Strawberries, per pottle Od to Od Gooseberries, per half sieve ....Os Od to Os Oil Currants, p. do. Os Od to Os Oil Plums, per do. 2s Od to 5s Oil Green gages,do. 4s Od to 7s Od Raspberries, p. potl. Od to Od 'ABLEb. Shallots, per lb. 44 to Gd Horseraddish, p. bun. 2s to 5s Parsley, per do. 2d to 4d Celery, per do Os 9d to 2s Ocl Beet, per doz. is Od to 2s Od Parsnips. per do. is Od to Os Smal: salad, p. pun. 2d to 3d Mr.shrooms, p. potl. 28 to 4s 6,1 :artichokes, each ...4d to 8d Cab. lettuces, per score is Oil to Is 6d Endive, per do.. 1s Od to is Gd Radishes, per doz. hands is to 2s Od Tomatoes, p. hf.sv. 4s to Gs Od Walnuts per 100...0s 8d to is i Chillies, per 1001 s Od to is Gd apsicums, per 100 is Od to 2s hubarb, p. bundle Od to 01 Asparagus, per 100 Os Oil to 03 Sea kail, per pun. Os Od to Os Greens, per doz bunches 9d to 2s 03 Cabbages, per doz 9d to is Gd Savoy do., p. do. ls Od to 2s Gd Cauliflowers, p. do. ls Od to 2s Brocoli, per do. Os 9d to is Gd Old potatoes, per ton Os to New do., per do 60s to 100 s Peas, per quart 9d to is Od Turnips,p. do z.bun.2B to 3s 6 Carrots, per bunch...4d to, Gd Cucumbers, each 2d to Is Od Garlic, per lb 4d 'to Os Gd Spinach, p. sieve is '64 to 2s o(.' Sorrel, per sieve Od to 0. Brussels sprouA,s, per do 1s 6d to 2s 6cl French beans, p. do. ls 6d to2s Old onions, p. bus. 3s Gd to 7:31 New do., per bunch Od to Oat Leeks, per d 0......... id to 241 NEWGATE AND LEADENH ALL. Turkey Poults, 53 Od to 7s Od ; Geese, 5s 6d to 7s each ; Ducks, 2s Od to 2s Od ; tame rabbits, 10(1 to is 6(1 each ; wild do., is to is 6d ; Pigeons, 6(1 to 8d each ; large Surrey Fowls, Os Od to 03 ; middling, is Od to 2s 9(1; Chickens, is Gd to 2s 0(1 ; Capons, 3s Gd to 4s Od ; Hares, 2s 61 to 3s 6d ; Grouse, 2s 3d to 2s Gd each ; Pheasants, 2s 9‘l to 3s 3d ; Partridges, is 3d to is 6d ; Guinea Fowls, is 9d to 3s Od ; Roasting pigs, 6s Od to 8s Od each. Ostend fresh butter, 12s Od to 13s ; English do., 12s 0(1 to 15s 6d per dozen lbs. ; English eggs, 93 to 103 01 ; French do., 6s to 7s Od per 120; Leverets, Os Od to Os each. NEWPORT. Beef, from 3s Od to 4s 6d ; mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 8d ; veal, 4s Od to 5s Od; pork, 48 Od to 53 4d per Ms., by the car case. WHITEC,HATEL. Beef from 28101 to 4s Gd ; mutton, 3s 4d to 4s sa ; veal, Ss 10d to 4s 8d ; pork, 33 6d to 53 41 per Blbs., by the car case. BILLINGSGATE. Turbots, 2s 6,1 to 20. s ; Brills, 2s 0,1 to 12s each ; Salmon, is Od to is Gd per lb ; Cod. Fish, 2s rd to 15s each ; Soles, 4d to 2s. Gd per pair ; Eels, Sd to Is per lb ; Lobsters, 64 to 2s 6(.1 ; Crabs, hd to 2s 6(1 ; Whitings, 41 Od to 12s per doz. ; Conr,non Oysters, 12s to IGs ; Natives, 40s to 45s per bsh. ; blackerel,4os to —s per 100 ; Smelts, is 6d to 2s 6d per doz. ; Skate, 6d to Od per lb; Shrimps, is 6(1 to 2s 6d per gallon ; Bloaters 4s Od to Ss Od per 100 ; Fresh Herrings, Gs to Os per 100 ; Scotch do., Od. ; Sprats, Os Od to Os Od pei bushel ; Doreys, 2s @(.l to 103 each ; Haddocks, 6s to 15s per doz. ; I'ike 6d ; Sturgeon, 6(.1 per lb ; Prawns, 5s Od to Os; Mullets, 2s 6(1 to Od each; Plaice, 4d to is Od each; Halibut, 6d per lb ; Flounders, is 6d to 2s Od per doz. ; salt fish, Od to Od per lb. DREAD The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from 9d to 9,id; of household ditto, 7id to 8, d per 4 lb loaf. HIDES AND SKINS. Market - hides, 561 b to 641 b, 4d to 4ld ; 641 b to 721 b, to 44d ; 721 b to 801 b, 4id to 5d ; SOlb to 881 b, 5d to 50 ; 381 b to 961 b, 56d to sa ; 061 b to 1041 b, Gd to 6id ; 1041 b to 1121 b 6/d to 60 ; upwards, —d to —d ; Horse hides, 7s Od. to 03 0d; calf skins, light, 2s 6.1 to 4s Od ; ditto, full, 8s 6d to Oa Od ; Polled Sheep, fis Gd to 7s Od ; Kents, 4s 3d to 5s oa ; Half-breds, 4s 3d to 5s Od; Downs, 3s Od to 4s Od; Sheaslings, Os Od to Os Od ; Lambs, Os Od to Os Od. NEWMARKET RACES.—(This Day.) i (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) MAToH—Clarissa colt beat Mohawk. SWEEPSTAKES. T.Y.C. Squire Watt Jesuit Game Pullet Six ran. HOUGHTON HANDICAP Katherine Logie Kestrel Falcon... Twelve ran. HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES. R.M. Lzdy Meauky's colt .......................................... 1 Farmer's Daughter filly Pauli Monti ..................................... Eight ran. HAY MARKETS. SMITIITIrLD.—Meadow hay, 21103 to 4110 s ; clover do., 31 10s to 51 10s; and straw, 11 5s to 11 Ps per load. A moderate supply, and a sluggish demand. CUMBERLAND. —Meadow hay, 'll 12s to 41 12s ; clover do., 31 lOs to 51 lOs ; and straw, 11 6s to 1/ lOs per load, Both h a y an d straw moved off slowly, at our quotations. WHITECIIAPEL.—Meadow hay, 21 lOs to 41 lOs; clover do., 31 lOs to 51 12s ; and straw, 11 5s to 11 93 per load. Supply good and trade dull. The Edinburgh, Courant beliews that the illness of Professor Wilson proceeds from the effects of a slight congestion of the brain, which has induced nervous para lysis—the muscles of the eyes, neck, and arms being chiefly affected ; otherwise his general health is good. A daring burglary was committed on Thursday near Troway, in Derbyshire. Mr. Oakes, the owner of the house broken into, was threatened with instant death if he made the slightest noise. The villains remained some hours in the house regaling themselves. The following day they were apprehended and fully committed for trial. Yesterday, at a meeting of the Marylebone Poor-law guardians, the parish solicitor was ordered to draw up a case for the consideration of counsel, as to whether the Poor-law Board have power to dismiss the master of any workhouse independently of the board of guardians. Thomas Battersby was on Thursday sentenced by the Common Serjeaut to four years' penal servitude, for uttering forged receipts with intent to defraud the South Eastern Railway Company. A late officer of the Bettie fleet has written to a con tereperary, in reference to the remarks of Sir P. Peel nn the conduct of fir C. Napier. Re says :—" Being one of those who spent the entire of last summer before the fortress of Cronstadt, I had ample opportunities of seelng the dangers likely to occur to any one rash enough to try to force a passage into the Neva, and I have no hesitation in saying no one but a madman would attempt it. Not more than one or two vessels could go in abreast, and they would be immediately sunk. I should like to know how the others would then get past. Cron stadt might have been shelled last year ; but when Commander Boyd, of the Royal George, showed how it might be done, he was immediately silenced. No doubt the same policy saved it that saved Odessa. If Duke Constantine and the youngest midshipman to:d Sir Robert Peel what he says they did, I have no doubt they told it with 'their tongelee stuck in the tide of their mouths." METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS. A special meeting of the Metropolitan Board of Works was held yesterday in the Council-chamber, Guildhall, for the transaction of various matters of emer gency ; Mr. J. Thwaites in the chair. MINUTES OF THE BOARD. The CLERK (Mr. Won'sYou) read the minutes of the proceedings of the last board-day. Mr. LESLIE (in pursuance of notice) asked whether the minutes were true copies of the proceedings ? The CLERK —lf the question of the hon. member moans whether the minutes are a faithful record of the proceedings, I answer, "Yes ;" but if he means to ask whether the minutes embody copies of all the documents that were handed in, I say they do not, and that that is never done. Mr. LESLIE—The minutes state that I banded in a, protest, but it does not state that I read it in open court. The CHAIRNA.N—The board have a very distinct recol• lection of your reading it. (Laughter.) The CLERK—The fact of the protest being given in was entered on the minutes, but the protest itself was not considered as one of the acta monumenta of the board. Mr. LESLIE said, it was the custom of Parliament to enter protests in ext ens°. The CLERK said the protest would be bound up with the other papers. The minutes were then confirmed. FINANCIAL ACCOUNT. Balance in hands of treasurer, Oct. 27, 1856 £7,131 1 10 Checks drawn, but not presented 4Bl 6 1 Available balance 6,649 15 9 Amount of deposit account Total general balance £114,171 17 11 GRAND JUNCTION AND GROSVENOR CANAL COMPANIES. The report of the engineer on the failure of these coin. Fanies t) give three clear days notice of their intention to run off water from their works into the metropolitan sewers, by which great risk to the lives of the men em. ployed in the sewers was incurred, being read, it was ordered that the engineer should communicate with the companies and make the necessary arrangements with them. APPLICATIONS FOR LEAVE TO ALTER PREMISES, &c. The board was engaged a considerable portion of the day in deciding upon applications made by persons for the consent of the board to various alterations being made in the construction of their premises. Mr. W. P. Kuck applied for leave to construct an iron bridge from his sugar-house to his warehouse in Thomas street, St. George's-in-the-East. Several members of the board strongly objected to the application being acceded to, on the ground that the for mation of bridges across the streets would obstruct both light and air, which it was one of the duties of the board to promote in every practicable way, more especially in the thickly populated districts of the metropolis. After a full discussion, the application was refused. Consent was given to several applicants for leave to build shops on what were formerly called the gardens, but which are now technicaly designated the forecourts of their houses. Some very forcible remarks were however made by Mr. Deputy Harrison as to the prejudicial tendency of the practice of erecting buildings on these open spaces, which at present distinguished the long lines of streets in the suburbs from the close pent•up avenues of the metropolis itself. If the practice were to be fully carried out, the present fine open roads would be converted into so many tunnels. A. letter from Mr. G. 'W. F. Cook, vestry clerk of St. Pancras, requesting that copies of the printed minutes of the board might be supplied to the vestry, was read. Mr. WILKINSON moved that the request be granted. ➢Zr. WRIGRT, who had given notice of a motion that copies of the minutes be sent to all the local boards, seconded the motion. After some discussion, chiefly on the question whether the vestry of St. Pancras should be required to make special application to the 11Ietr ipolitan Board for copies of the minutes on each and every occasion, or whether suck copies should be sent to the vestry by the Board, Mr. LESLIE moved as an amendment —" That all the district boards and vestries should be supplied with a c)py of the minutes on the day of publication." The amendment, on being seconded, was carried with- out a division ; and it was generally understood that it would not at all compromise the dignity of the Metro pol►tan Board if the courtesy of forwarding copies to the different district boards were to be observed. PLACES OF PUBLIC RECREATION. Mr. Hows brought forward a motion to vary the order of the board of the 4th of June : 1856. The order was in these terms : " That this board acknowledge the importance of re taining open spaces in the metropolis, and the great permanent advantage which would accrue to the northern suburb by the preservation of Hampstead•heath, and its appropriation as a place of recreation for the public, but is of opinion that improvements of much greater neces sity and advantage to the general public are more urgent and desirable, and therefore resolve not to entertain the question of the purchase of land for the purpose of that work; and, moreover, it is the opinion of this board that the powers conferred by the Metropolis Local Management Act do not authorise them to tax the rate payers for such objects." Since the passing of this resolution an act of Parliament had enlarged the powers of the board, and he was of opinion that it was necessary to rescind the latter portion of the resolution before the board could take any steps in furtherance of the object which they all must be anxious to promote—namely, the formation of parks in the vicinity of this vast metropolis for the healthy re creation of the people. He therefore begged to move that all the words in the resolution atter the words " place of recreation for the public" be omitted. Mr. SEELEY seconded the motion. Mr. TURNER also supported it ; and Mr. H. L. TAYLOR was not opposed to the formatio❑ of parks in and near the metropolis, but the expense ought not to be borne by the ratepayers. It was a most legitimate charge on the Consolidated Fund. Mr. DOULTON said the whole question appeared to him to be, not whether the board had the power to direct the formation of parks, but whether they ought to vote away the money of the people living in the metropolis for such objects. He did not think it was desirable at the present time to carry out such works. Mr. HAWKER also was of opinion that there were many objects of far more importance to the public that ought first to engage the attention of the board. Mr. COLLINSoN said there had been an immense agi tation among the people on the subject of places being 'appropriated for public recreation. He believed it was the intention of the Legislature that the board should make due provision to meet this popular demand, and not merely confine its labours to the drainage ques tion. Great things were expected from them, not only in regard to the sanitary but the social position of the metropolis, and much in respect to the promotion of both depended on the activity with which the board exerted itself in carrying out great public improvements. He believed it to be a fact, and one most important to be borne in mind, that crime and misery were fostered by the want of proper means of recreation among the people. Mr. LESLIE opposed the motion, and doubted the competency of the present Court to rescind the former resolution of the 4th of June last. They had been told that there was no place of recreation on the north side of the metropolis, but was there not Hampstead•heath Mr. D'IFFANGEB thought the vote of the 4th of June ought to be rescinded. It was true there were other important works to carry out, hut they were not o f a pressing nature ; whereas the question of securing Hampstead-heath was most pressing and urgent. The heath itself, it was true, might be preserved, but without the surrounding land the beauty of it would be entirely annihilated, and they knew not how soon that land might be built upon. It would be to the eternal disgrace of the board if they were to suffer that spot to escape from their hands. Parliament had given them the power, and now was the time for action. Mr. Deputy HARRISON considered it a very irregular course to bring forward the subject of - Hampstead-heath on such a motion as the present. He should oppose rescinding the resolution of the 4th of June. There was no necessity for doing so. The board was perfectly right at the time the resolution was passed. Parliament had since given them additional powers, which it was quite competent for them to carry out, notwithstanding any resolution they might under another state of circum stances have adopted. After some further discussion the motion was put and negatived, there being on a division 11 for and 12 against it. The board adjourned at 5 o'clock. The King of Sardinia left Genoa on the mornin , of the 26th for the royal villa of Polonzo. The departure from Genoa of th e Empress Dowager of Russia is thus described by the On the 2 C s o t r i r l , i cr a e t i s if ix erc i a n ,n f: i the o e f ve t n b i : i t i t g., t t 7 h w e n :_c Czarina em. barked on board the C arlo Albe rto, which bad been magnificently d ecorated fo r the occasion with a profusion of flowers, &c. At t en o ' c l oc k left the fireworks, port amidst andidst a display of arrived at th e illuminations steain er and Villafranca at 9.30 in the morning. H ere she was received by the military and civil au th or iti es of the place. At ten o'clock the Empress m a d e h er entry into Nice in an open carriage. Prince Eugenie do Carignan accompanied her Majesty to the Villa Avigdor, and then proceeded to the Go vernment palace. An irateu.se crowd fined the OrtoW." AUSTRALIA. LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY. By the overland mail advices have been received from Melbourne to the Bth of August. These advices were brought by the iron clipper ship Ellen Bates (belon g ing to Mr. Edmund Bates, of this port), which left Melbourne at 7.15 a.m. on the Bth, in company with the royal mail ship James Barnes, Capt. M'Donnell, for this port. She ar rived at Bombay on the 2d October, after a capi tal run, and upon her arrival her commander, Capt. Ellwood, forwarded a file of Melbourne papers up to the time of her leaving, per overland. ' mail, to Thos. Court, Esq., secretary to the Liver pool Underwriters' Association. The dames Baines had on board 173,539 ounces of gold, equal to 694,1561. The Ballarat, True Briton, Annie Wilson, and Royal Sovereign, from London, and the Redan, from Liverpool, bad arrived at Melbourne. The William Money was to sail on the 12th August, and the Lightning on the 26th, with the English mails, both for this port ; and the True Briton, for London, Sept. 7. The latest English advices were to 6th May, the royal mail-ship Red Jacket, with the mails of the 20th, not having arrived when the Ellen Bates sailed. The dates by the present arrival are :—Mel bourne, Aug. 8 ; Sydney, July 30 ; Adelaide, Aug. 1; Hobart Town, July 28 ; Launceston, July 29 ; and New Zealand, July 5. From the summary prepared by the Melbourne Age, of the sth of August, for the James Baines, we make the following extracts : We are now on the eve of the general election—the first under the new constitution. The day is fixed for the issuing of the writs for the Upper House, the elec tions for which are to take place during the present month. The elections for the Lower House follow, and will probably occupy the whole of September. The new Parliament is expected to meet in October. Mr. G. V. Brooke and Mr. and Mrs. Heir are starring it at Sydney, where an opera company, with Mies Har land and Messrs. Sherwin and Farquharson for prin cipals, are meeting with only moderate success. Mr. Brooke returns to Melbourne after the conclusion of his engagement. THE YIELD OF GOLD. The yield of gold for this last month has been rather under, than over, the usual monthly average. The re ceipts by escort for the last four weeks have been as fol lows : Oz. For the week ending July sth 12th If 45,034 I, 19th Of ~ 26th Total The following shows the returns fotuthe four weeks of the previous month : Oz. For the week ending June Ist If If 14th 2 , 21st 1) 28th Total 173,385 While in the corresponding month for the year 1855 the returns were 891,600 oz. This defioiency, however, is to be primarily accounted for by the unusually wet weather for the last few weeks, which has impeded mining operatiOns to a very great extent. This has been especially the case where mining is pursued by individual diggers under the old system. The diggers in many instances are quite unable to overcome the water, unless by associated parties and an improved system of operation. As it is, the individual diggers have had to abandon their old ground and go in search of new, so long as the wet weather holds out. Puddling and quartz crushing operations have, however, been progressing as usual, and greatly helped to keep up the escort returns. Exaggerated reports of the discovery of rich diggings in the neighbouring colony of New South Wales have also been the means of affecting the gold returns and drawing off a great number of our diggers. The late accounts from that district, however, have been rather unfavourable, and a great many are returning, quite die. appointed. Our emigration outwards has been more than counterbalanced by the immigration of Chinese, who are arriving in great numbers overland from Adelaide, in order to escape the tax of 10/. per head which is levied on all Chinese arriving at our ports. Under the head of mineral resources, we have now to mention the discovery of a coalfield at a short distance from Melbourne. Nothing very definite, however, is yet ascertained about it. Under the same bead we have to report the discovery within the last few days of an extensive field of stream tin at Tarradale, in the neighbourhood of Castlemaine. It is found to be similar to that discovered at the Ovens, and is associated with granite, as at the latter place. This is an article of considerable value, and already figures largely in our exports, and is likely to prove of the greatest importance to the colony. The demand for gold has been in excess of the supply for some days, and the price bas advanced in conse quence. For Ballarat gold, 31. 17s. 9d. to 3/. 18s. ; for the Ovens, 3/. 17s. ; and for Castlemaine and Bendigo parcels, from 3/. 16s. to 31. 16s. 6d. TRADE AND COMMERCE. Though blessed with a lovely climate during the greater part of the year, we are as querulous on the ap pearance of bad weather as the denizens of the foggy land of our fathers, but for a widely-different reason. Al few days' rain serves to render our anbridged rivers im passable, our roads bottomless with mud, and thus almost entirely to suspend the traffic between the metro. polls and the interior. An excessively-rainy winter has, for months, all but cut off communication with the Diggings, and run up the rates of dray-hire to such an exorbitant height as to prohibit its use as a means of conveyance, except in very emergent cases. The conse quence has been that trade in Melbourne has been sluggish, and merchants have been holding over their stocks, under the impression that when the weather im proved such a demand would arise for their commo dities as to justify them in refusing the low prices then ruling. in this they were probably not altogether mistaken, for during the last fortnight there has been a marked improvement in the weather, a slight decline in dray hire, and an increased activity in trade ; but the amount of stocks on the diggings have been underrated, and large supplies of staple articles of food have mean while been conveyed up the Murray into the very heart of the province by the enterprise of the merchants of Adelaide. Still business is sound and steady, and, in consequence of judicious exports from the home coun try, no longer exhibits those violent fluctuations which were formerly the characteristic of the Melbourne trade. The return of imports and exports for the four weeks ending the 26th ult. have been as follow : Imports. Exports. For the week ended July 5 X 193,618 For the week ended July 12 261,150 For the week ended July 19 244,650 For the week ended July 26 121,183 ....., 80,561 The imports it will thus be seen have been much in excess of the exports. At the present moment there is great excitement in the flour market, owing to advices from Valparaiso to the effect that the crops had been destroyed by severe weather. Though this statement hai been doubted by many, it has had the effect of raising the price of flour fully Si. per ton. These reports have been brought by the Ingeborg, from Chili, and made current by Messrs. Bright Brothers, whose honour as merchants is unim• peachable. NEW SOUTH WALES. We have received Sydney papers to the 30th July. The Empire remarks : " Though the re turns for the census of 1855 are not yet prepared for publication, we learn that the important work of numbering the people' has been completed. The grand total is much smaller than the result was generally expected to exhibit. The aggregate of the population is set down at 268,737 persons, of which number 2,542 are ' unclassified,' being on shipboard or in other :respects undenizened. The census returns taken on the Ist March, 1851, gave a general total of 187,243, so that the population has increased during the last five years by 81,494 persons. We understand the returns in taking the present census have amounted to 44,094, of which 2,455 abstracts have been made in bringing out the result. We mention these facts as curious of themselves, and as showing the complicated labour involved in what to many might appear a work of great simplicity. The Legislative Assembly was to meet, pursuant to adjournment, on Tuesday, sth August. Several country members had arrived in town before the 29th of July, and the attendance was likely to be numerous, We have received the Madrid journals of the 26th. A grand dinner was to be given on that day by the Minister of War to Count de Benkendorff, prior to his departure. The ministers, the marshals, the high officers of the palace, and other important personages were invited to it. Reports of a minis terial crisis were again current. According to one account M. Barzonallana, the Minister of Finance, and Moyano, Minister of Public Works, were about to retire, and according to another the Mi- Bentley's Miscellany.—Mr. Jolly Green favours Lister of Finance alone, and to be replaced by M. us with a lengthy account of " The Final Ascent Lozano. The cause of these- changes is said to of Mont Blanc," performed by himself while asleep. be a disapprobation on the part of the majority A more interesting article follows, on "The News of ministers of the financial plans proposed by the paper in France," which traces the origin and minister. (These -rumours have been contradicted progress of the French journals. The first which by telegraph.) Baron del Asile, the Danish repre- ever appeared in that country is stated to have been sentative at Madrid, is seriously ill, and fears are projected by a physician named Renandol, and to entertained for his life. M. Bravo Murilo, for- have been first published on the 20th of May, 1631, merly presidentof the council, who has just arrived under the title of the Gazette. After giving a from Paris, is also seriously ill. The Espana re- sketch of the chief journals which have appeared in presents as positive the nomination of General I the capital from that time to the present, the paper Zarco del Valle as Spanish ambassador at St. Pe- conc'udes with a remark of this same Renandol, tersburg. The relations of Spain with the Holy ; the founder of the French press:—" La Presse See are on the point of being settled. It is expected tient cola de la nature des torrents, qu'elle se that Mgr. Brunelli will again fill the ,functions of grossit par la resistance." "The Remains off 'Papal Nuncio, a post which he occupied before the , John 'Byrom " ftirnish the' subject for a brief breaking out of th e revo l u tion of 1854. . memoir. Our Continental nhbours euPP I Y. General Messina has given in his resignation , s , other topic in AkThe" French Almanacs; or, Paris Chief of the Stiiff. The General hai been replaced iu 1856. e - The writer remarks -that they ap p e ar to have' the e'til intitiencea which General any, MAGAZINE DAY. I Blackwood.—Mrs. Oliphant carries the chief per sonages of her story at last to the long-talked of Oldwood Lodge. Charley, however—a very "big" personage in this Tale of " The Athelings," if we are to judge of his size by the frequent repetition of that adjective in his regard throughout the fic tion--being left at home at Bellevue, while the rest of the house go a•pleasuring to the sylvan bequest of poor old Aunt Bridget. There they speedily make acquaintance with the Hon. Anastasia Rivers, a sort of an aristocratic double of Aunt Betsy in "David Copperfield"—with the exceedingly High Church clergyman of the parish, who carries his head in the clouds, and talks over the noddles of his rustic congregation—with Hannah, the old maid's old maid, whimpering for her dead mistress, and doating on the dumb twins (for they have never once opened their lips yet that the readers of " The Athelings" have yet heard of) Belle and Beau—above all, with the mysterious Rachel's mysterious brother Lewis, a young gentleman quite a king in his own conceit, although occupying a most equivocal position in the narrative as the reputed bastard of the licentious Lord SYinterliourne. It is easy enough to conjecture the ultimate turn to be taken by our authoress in the unravelling of the tangled plot of " The Athelings." Of course—Charley the big boy is destined with his legal lore to unferret the vermin Evil of the story. Of course—Lewis will turn out to be the rightful heir, and his sup positions father the wrongful heir to the title and estates of Winterbourn. Of course—Marian is to be his wife, and Rachel probably the wife of Charley. Of course all this, and a great deal more quite as obvious and inevitable, is to be the case— unless Mrs. Oliphant is determined to violate every one of the exceeding " probabilities " she herself has marked out in the ingenious scheme of this very charming tale of hers about " the three gifts" of the three Athelings. Al earlier paper in the November number of Blackwood is capital —a fine arts criticism, suggestively entitled "Mr. Ruskin and his Theories—Sublime and Ridiculous !" Full justice is done to the undeniable abilities evidenced throughout the whole of his eccentric and remark able career by that most eloquent sophist, John Ruskin the Oxford Graduate. The reviewer appreciates the genius without being blinded by the extravagances and errors of the not able author of " Modern Painters." The now familiar and apparently all but intermi nable serial of " The Scot Abroad," introduces its readers this month to such " men of art" coming under that category, as Allan Ramsay, the son of the " Gentle Shepherd!" and as Sir Robert Strange, incomparably the greatest of all our native engrav ers. "Scandinavia" is the theme of a geographi cal disquisition, suggested by recent volumes given to the world by the Rev. Messrs. Newland and Metcalfe. " A Cause Worth Trying"—is an arti cle worth reading—a genuine magazine article, full of interest, an interest, indeed, instantaneous and sustained, novel and enthralling. " Touchiag Temporalities" is a sort of half-comical, half-scho larly goSsip de omnibus rebus, &c., indulged in through the medium of a " Letter to Irenmus," by his indefatigable correspondent, with the teeth and-lips-puzzling name of Tlepolemus. Another group takes place immediataly afterwards between imaginary interlocutors, such as Albany, Temple, and Chatterton, about the sights, scenes, and per sonages arresting the attention of the autumnal visitors to " Baden-Baden." Among those visitors, who can mistake the following callotype of Albertus Magnus— ALBERT SMITH. Who, asks Albany of Chatterton, is yonder— " The short man with the rolling gait, bushy beard, aquiline nose, and quick grey eyes, now approaching us, who seems to catch and comprehend at a glance the spirit of the whole scene around him ! " CHATTERTON.—What ! you, a denizen of London town, not know the Lord of Egypt's western hall, the mighty climber of the monarch-mount, in whose great praise the deadest of dead walls becomes resuscitate, and finds a voice ? , --not know Albertus Magnus-Albert Smith ? _ . . " TEMPLE.—' Facit indignatio vereurn.' Euge Poeta ! " ALBANY.—He here ? —then will there be a wagging of beards in Piccadilly ere Christmas." Subsequently, and as a crowning, crashing criti cism—a worthy pendant to the introductory re view anent Ruskin—comes a serio-comic paper headed " The Art of Cavilling." A glorious onslaught it is upon a couple of very absurd fel lows—one of whom has recently propounded the question, " Who wrote the Waverley Novels? " and the other of whom asks, with the pert vivacity of a decidedly priggish mind, " Was Lord Bacon the author of Skakspere's Plays ?" The reply vouchsafed by Maga to each of these exceedingly ridiculous inquiries is really and truly something quite delightful. Upon the later of these twin in terrogatories, the reviewer in Blackwood observes, among other things, as follows : " Putting these same Plays out of the question, there remains little by which we can prove the genius of Shakespeare, says Mr. Smith. Extremely true ; and putting aside the Nile and Trafalgar, Waterloo and Torres Vedras, together with a few other trifling inci dents, we might find ourselves somewhat in difficulty to prove the genius, for example, of Nelson and Wellington, these two tangible men of iron, though they do, to our certain knowledge,lie alone together in their glory, the one sailor and soldier of a national apotheosis, under the echoing dome of St. Paul's. What if Shakespeare's Plays were Shakespeare, even as Waterloo and San Sebastian were the Duke,' whom, the 9ther year, we all went forth to bury like a king? But then Shake speare never was a wonderful youth, like poor young precocious Keats, or hapless Chatterton, those unfortu nate children of fame, whose early ever•ripeoess left nothing but a feverish promise of glories unattained. We do not even know that he was a clever boy, that riotous young English rogue, who committed a trespass in Sir Thomas Lucy's park ; and how, then, asks the writer of this Letter to Lord Ellesmere, could Shakespeare have written Shakespeare's Plays ? "It is a puzzling question ; and we are afraid we could not clear it up, did the universal house of Smith, in one astounding chorus, demand an explanation. We cannot tell how he did it, most sage inquirer. We are absolutely certain we could not do it, if you put us upon our honour ; neither could you, if you tried until the end of time ; and neither, we are convinced, could Fran cis Bacon, had the prize been, not the chancellorship of England, but the imperial throne of all the world." Admirable—this—is it not, good reader ? and wor thy of our sage, old slashing, crashing, daring, de fiant, perennial Blackwood? Dublin University —" The Fortunes of Glen core" is drawing to a close. In the present portion the unfortunate Charles does not appear in the scene, but we are informed that he is involved in great trouble on account of his having fought a duel with a young Austrian. His father is the same morose and. incomprehensible individual that he has ever hitherto appeared. It is amusing to note the difference between the two friends of the recluse Upton and Harcourt ; the ono crafty and cautious, the other impetuous and violent in his demeanour. The papers on " Cyprus" are brought to a conclusion in this number; many curious ac counts are given of the peculiarities met with in the island. The various traditions and histories relating to the monuments and places of note im part an interest to the narration. The details of the " Sponge Fishery" attract attention. It is a dangerous life that of the divers ; no habitual diver reaches the age of fifty, while many are early cut off. The story of "My Own Funeral" is a strange one, and those who like the startling will be pleased with it. The narrator describes how he was carried in a trance to a dead-house ; but, recovering, he dis guised himself, and actually attended his own fune ral ; he there learns who were true and who false friends, and amazed every one by his sudden re appearance on the stage of life. " The Retreat of the Glaciers" contains some remarks on the Alpine scenery ; it is observed, that " it is to be regretted that, out of the hundreds who annually visit the 'glaciers of Switzerland, but few are in the least ac quainted with their nature." "John T wilier" is a quaint article, descriptive of a man who was always essaying to perform great things, but con tinually failing from attempting too much in an indefinite manner. " Cloak and Feather Ballads" are peculiar verses, characteristic of the epoch of the cavaliers. The political readers will find ample subjects for their entertainment in several elaborate articles, as " Spain," " Sardinia," &c. The poem entitled "Caesar" is not remarkable in any way, being uninteres t ing. The recent work on the " Border Lands of F rance and Spain" forms the subject of a paper, in which that interesting work is descanted upon, and some extracts are given of the most important parts of the volume. depressed politic:3, finances, and rents alike. The present, he exclaims, in our times is dull and un imaginative, and the prophecies for the future are positively mute. The more personal paper that follows, " What We are all About," does not draw a much more lively picture of affairs in this country. It begins by asking, " there a Government or not ?" and, after sur veying the state of things in Europe, ends with some very wise advice to Lord Palmerston's successor, namely, to think twice before he threatens, and never to utter threats he is unwilling to fulfil. Mr. Harrison Ainsworth continues his story of " The Spendthrift," and leaves his unfor tunate hero in a very ominous position. A paper, with the curious title of " Thanatos Athanatos," is rightly call e d " a me dley ;" how e v er , it contains some well expressed thoughts and appropriate quo tations. The " Steward's Bargaia' is a long and not particularly attractive story. A paper on " Thomas Carlyle," by Monkshood, will be found interesting. ni f m esn i :l n c i y cli o t f a v r o i y a ; offersn t d h e ho means ahe voluntary Colburn's United Serviee.—A-n instalment of an improvementnn usinmcobrfoeefaarsptehopefeloxyfseisynrutsgthgtieeogninet o a tldh r f ar t ea s a l ; e l m e irtum u o ‘ g l y,t a O h, t ,a i n ' e n practical nature, in a more succinct manner than its voluminous head i ng would lead the reader to anticipate. "Au Art ill ery . O ffi cer," i n " considering the late war with Russia, arrives at this conclusion among others—that the long and stubborn defence of Sebastopol by the Russ partook infinitely more of a passive than of an active or daring character, and that his deeds, when calmly considered, will be deemed as nothing compared with the active hardihood and the resolute courage of those who attacked and who persevered, often and long, un der the most appalling sufferings—a . conclusion warranted by all we know, and which has our entire concurrence. An exposition of the . " Oude" question leads to the expression of an opinion that the deposition of the Oude dynasty was an , act of justice. " Russell's History of the War' • re viewed "by Philip Dixon, Captain Royal Arti▪ llery, and Brevet Major," whose envenomed strictures, we doubt not, will be duly disposed of. Most of them are of a common-place character. " Sketches of French Admirals " are continued. " The Cape Military Colonists " offers no great encouragement to the advocates of military colonisation, and forc ibly demonstrates the absurdity of expecting from a number of turbulent and worthless foreign re cruits what could hardly be anticipated from our own loyal and orderly veterans. "Shades of Wel lington and Napier, what singular military mis takes we do make now !" " The Fight for the Quarries " is one of those stirring narratives of in dividual experience, apparently in the ranks, which will infallibly be put under contribution by the future popular historian of the Siege of Sebastopol. Here is a reminiscence : ehs, f fiteoi fooc principle A PRAYER GRANTED. " Why, Dick, what's the matter r I never saw such deep despair, such wordless hopelessness, such a foretaste of doom, io any human face before. He shook, his teeth chattered, and I saw the heavy dews of night had penetrated his very bones. A fatal illness seemed stealing over him. " Matter !' be answered with a sob, stretching forth his arms, and turning his sad sunken eyes to the sky ; "I'm wearied to death. I'm sick, sick to death, and r wish to God that I was dead, and all was ended ! ' "Now, Dick was neither a skulker nor a grumbler. Indeed I rarely have known a blither, cheerier fellow. But the deadly illness, and much privation—besides that, he bad a wife and child at home—had broken poor Dick's spirits fairly down, and he spoke with all the sincerity of a man that had left off hoping. " ' Come, cheer up !' I began but did not finish.' " Before the words were out of my mouth he lay a horrible spectacle several feet away from me. sang smash ! and a ball struck him full on the forehead, pashing the skull into a hideous pulp, and rolliog over and over my poor comrade, found the rest he sought for. I certainly thought it an awful manner in which hia prayer was granted." Awful indeed, but furnishing a moral even more applicable to our rulers than private individuals. Death to him would appear a release from into lerable suffering. " Reminiscences of the War in the East, by a Military Chaplain" are continued and " A Few more words offered on the Euphra tes Railway ;" beside which there are a number of professional articles. The " Retirement of Sir Charles Yorke," and the expected advent of Col. Forster as his successor, are to the Editor's taste, as his remarks on " The F'oet at Maples" are to ours. Frazer.—A lengthened dullness, long drawn out, is this seasonably-dreary November number of Frazer—" Regina," as the old " Town and Country Magazine" before us loves to call herself—Regi.ti% this while, at least, of all the magazines born out of the month of Fogs and Suicides ! For "Poetry," we have palmed off upon us a pre-poste rous littleprosy quip in rhyme called " In Ric:ha - loud Park"—eight lines in all ! very newly comparing fern, oak, ivy and holly to Youth, and Manhood, and Age, decorated with Love and Endurance. While a little further on, "The Brothers " are cele brated by N.N.S.—in stanzas that would be irre deemably inane, were they not occasionally gal vanised by a passing conceit into the contortions of the spasmodic. Fancy a " monthly," the con spicuous attractions of which are papers as alluring in subject as—" Glasgow down the Water, as the " Memoirs of Frederick Perthes," as the second and (fortunately) concluding part of the "Journal of a Tour in the Crimea," as " Communication with the Far East," as " Mansfield's Paraguay," and as " Sketches on the North Coast" by a Natural —no, by a Naturalist ! The lapidary at least may discover something of interest for him. in the second chapter upon " Ancient Gems "—a paper relating especially to lapis lazuli, to agates, to the onyx, the sardonyx, the malachite, and the cornelian. "Meg of Elibank " is the name of the " light article " in the number—pleasant reading enough in its way, were it not occasionally incoherent. The criticism of the month is the one relating to "Jami, the Persian Poet." And the " political article " of Frazer for November is a ra ther tedious reply to the inquiry—" What are the United States Coming To ?" The real and actual reply to which interrogatory will be given through the ballot-box by the aggregated voters of those same States upon Tuesday next, the 4th of this ppresen t ortportion o momentous o t m n i e s n tous concludingmont h contribution November. to The o"Re gina,"ut. whichf referring cameto ftohreththe thirteen gran d Eng l ish ao d pow Colonies, erful democracy at present known by the collective title of the - United. States—the New England Colonies, Georgia, the two Carolinas, Virginia, and Mary land, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Penn sylvania—might have proved sufficiently interest• ing in its way, but that the manner of its composi tion is, in truth, so insufferably dull and common place. MISCELLANEOUS. The National Magazine has an attractive cata logue of names among its subscribers. Sir David Brewster contributes a series of papers on the Stereoscope, and Dr. Doran a sketch. of the Eng lish Queens of France ; while in the department of fiction Wilkie Collins, Miss Mulock, and Holme Lee each supply a tale. Westland Marston, one of the projectors, gives us the history of " A Case of Libel." Sydney Dobell has a sonnet in his usual style on the death of Dr. Brown. There are numerous miscellaneous contents of vary ing merits. Tait's Magazine has its usual political papers and light and lively tales. The most remarkable feature in it is an article entitled " The Lost Faculty, or the Sixth Sense," by which it designates the power to see the beings of the. spiritual world. A paper on th e p ro fit an d loss of Insurance Companies will be interesting to men of business. The Obit uar y con t a i ns a memoir of S ir John Ross.—The Eclectic Review 1195 moreal subjects of genera l i n t eres t than P su its ordinary f au lt b e i n g th a t it is of limited.tott) entirely and sectarian a character, a devoted to the discussion of ' topics, which is to be regretted, as i t often mani fests. much ability. A memoir o f Goethe, and Literature," will be found co ntroversial s t " Studies of Foreign valuable paper Mathematical attractive,fin find much to nwihnitleer interest te and m mor© ilstudiousterhni n paper on " Ancient and 31 ,, od_ agazine takes a Science." The C7burchntall.d fiat has several articles review of Church progress, in re a a v d a e on characteristic top nialit's valuable Cyclo pedia maintains its lec.sh..ahra.ctiesrs,neaansdimtnhletanpeoopuulslyar, I has reached the time of The unfortunate goods train t o which the serious aczid ent oc , curredman Thomas Pike, who was stok er to the on Wednesday a fternoon, died l ast Thursday. g n inquest was opened yesterday, but was adjourned • 1113 ti 1' alit tti Pii "day: "'' '• - THE C O ASTGUARE I . -- Larg B numbers 'or thcosiS. fib - MK vic defending, e , not wishing to b e un d er th e seini.mariti me men , h ave service, mart i a l law" of the Admiralty, an d rece i v i ng l ess w ages and emolu m e n t s than while under the Castoms. That a coast defence is useful is not to be denied, but it life -ptrheseerpvuinbgii,c la is to be deplored that the public service should lose the said men, whose praise the press of almost every week have to record, while it is a matter of question whether the revenue will be sufficiently protected under a martial marine power.—Civil Service Gazette. LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAllMAY.—Traffi° re• turn for the week ending Oct. 26,1856 ... :.. £22,460.1.4 0 )19,9 15 -- 2 7 Corresponding week l as t y ear . H ..: SCOTTISH CENTUJ, RAILNi'At. .I.ly a fac ratan for the N/tl,„ek ending Oat. 26, 1356 ....". .. ..'.. .. '..; .. '.....P4013 5' 7 14vdotooPODAtmg neck Wit YONatirterliii/itsfirfrtr Pila v q _Se