The Sun. — London, England, 1856-10-09 00:00:00

~- 'A N aearel cless 3 ' I ve ; ‘ t o ce I I;e4 (I°l 1 7 it i° In A'l'D rails of Gbe ° fire, ,1 ises 0, a L Wow i Place 0 AO Y' ib ra ,try 19 intr./ toes 0, . 0 11 lorav at thel and P" autb(r It Wi l ', niouPC' e end t ° Dr sail' IraWl )r con ) ; ttail) Lys till a act 0 sever .a ated by ' Whe t i finaw peedili take do ired il l smente t is the t sittia' nation actual by the Minis' ays :' we are ssipate 3 past ; to the ost in' s exist u ti rely latioh, by the ioh we )assiog ticieuD 1 more 1 trials MONEY MARKET AND coramERcIAL INTELLIGENOE;. r - CITY, Two o'CLoci:. The Liverpool Cotton Market, yesterday, closed very quietly, but firmly, and prices were a shade dearer. Tbe sales were estimated at 10,000 bales (1,500 of which were taken for export and 2,000 on specula'cion), comprising 480 Pernam and Maran hal.-n, at 01. to 7id. ; 200 Bahia, 611. to 62d. ; 200 Egyptian, 7d. to lid. ; 1,500 Surat, 4iid. to 51d. ; and 160 Sea Islands, 111 d. to ls. 4d. per lb. The Railway Share Market manifested an active appearance, at a slight improvement in prices. Further accounts from Leipzic relative to the business of the great autumnal fair of merchandise, state that the fluctuations in the market generally, which existed at the commencement of the second week of the fair, had subsided on the 3d inst. It was apparent that the result would not be so favourable as was at first expected, in conse quence of the unsettled state of the money market, at the same time the prices realised upon silks, leathers, and other goods in demand were all higher than during any previous fair. At the above date there were few large parcels of wares for sale, and the principal business of the fair was considered to have terminated, on account of the majority of buyers and sellers hav ing departed to their respective countries. Silk stuffs were particularly in request for the north of Europe, and the high prices were fully realised. German fabrics were less in demand, on account of the absence of buyers for the South American trade, where silks of that manufacture find a good market; and the commercial advices received lately from there state that silks were selling at lower rates than the European currency. On account of the scarcity of specie foreign buyers had to submit to a discount of 8 and 9 per cent. on bills at two and three months. The condition-of monetary affairs in France ap pears to be getting worse, notwithstanding the plausible statements of M. Magne, the Minister of Finance. Unless a favourable change immediately occurs, it is thought that Government interference must be resorted to ; and even those who a few days ago considered a cessation of specie payments by the National Bank quite improbable are now of opinion that such a measure may be found neces sary, notwithstanding the disturbance and incon ♦enience which it would occasion. Silver is exceedingly scarce, and the speculation in the article continues. The press has therefore been forbidden to advert to the crisis, and the money-changers have been requested not to expose the terms in their shop windows on which they are willing to purchase silver. These are unwholesome indications, and appear contradictory to M. Magne's statements. The question asked is, what can the Bank do ? But no one appears in a position to solve the problem. An Imperial decree is expected, but its terms cannot be anticipated. Under these circumstances consi derable anxiety is felt to ascertain the advices lately received by the mails and submarine tele graph. Meanwhile purchases of gold, alleged to be on account of the Bank of France, continue ; and the daily withdrawal from the establishment In Threadneedle-street, in the absence of Australian remittances, must be seriously telling on the stock of the precious metals. The knowledge of this fact gave rise to our expectation that the directors might have resorted, at their meeting to-day, to some further measures of restriction, but after a pro tracted sitting, when the present position of affairs was, no doubt, fully considered, they separated without making any change. The English Funds, yesterday afternoon, closed officially at the highest prices, but subsequently a reaction took place. This morning there has been a partial recovery, but the market is still some what feeble. Consols for money have been 911 eft f, and 911 with several intermediate changes. For account they have been 911 - . 4, 911 4 f and 91/, 92. The present quotations are 91g a, and 91i 92 respectively. Exchequer Bills are flat, being 4s. to Bs. premium ; and the Bonds 981 A. East India Bonds are 7s. prem. The failure of a Consol dealer has been " de clared" this morning, and the liabilities are sup posed to be heavy. Turkish 6 per Cents. have had a material fall, the lowest point realised having been 951. They are now rather firmer, being 95 to 951, being still, however, very heavy. The 4 per Cents. are 921. Spanish 3 per Cents. are 42, and the Deferred 24. Russian 5 per Cents. have been 1071, and the 41 per Cents. 97i ; Mexican Stock has declined to 211 22 ; Equador New Consolidated are 14 ; Brazilian 5 per Cents., 1001 ; Dutch 21 per Cents. 641 /, and the 4 per Cents. 95k. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 617 ; Mexi can, 21 221 ; Peruvian, 76 78 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 54 56 ; Portuguese 3 per Cents., 43 45 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 106 108 ; ditto 44 per Cents., 96 98 ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 411 24 ; ditto Certificates, 5i ; ditto Passive, 6L The last week's rail way receipts, ascertained up to this day, are in round figures as under : 1856. Great Western North-Western South-Western 1855. £28,383 65,495 16,366 18,018 32,001 24,759 11,863 27,084 20,718 7,404 6,623 9,662 7,015 2,077 2,993 3,592 1,352 6,317 5,749 4,530 10,085 45,794 Brighton Midland 19,257 33,413 South-Eastern Caledonian Great Northern Lancashire and Yorkshire Bristol and Exeter Chaster and Holyhead Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln North Stafford 24,995 13,559 27,574 22,567 7,252 6,941 10,114 7,175 North London 2,363 Shrewsbury and Chester Taff Vale Ulster Glasgow and South-Western Edinburgh and Glasgow Grand Trunk of Canada Great Western of Canada Northern of France 3,333 4,690 1,321 7,131 5,780 5,064 13,785 42,512 English Railway Shares are dull, but not gene rally lower. In one or two instances there has been a little fluctuation, but it does not require special comment. Some of the Foreign have im proved. Paris and Lyons are 10s. to 15s. better, but Sambre and Meuse, on the contrary, rule ss. cheaper. The Canadian lines are firmer. Mines are at nominal prices ; Banks are flat ; and the Miscellaneous have undergone no changes of importance. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) 80i1n. , • (10+ , 0. 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities India Bonds. Xlnoo ' ... ...... 7 Ditto, under 21000 ************** . * ........*.............. 7 P Consols for Account .......................... E teliequer Bil 3 s, 24d. £lOOO . ....... . .E5OO ............. . ' .................. 6 9 Ditto Bonds, 1858, 3i per Cent..,,,,,,,., 98# i p Ditto, 1859 ................... . ............... 981 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto Account loo.} Equador New Consolidated l4 Mexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account ............... 22 Russian Bonds, 1822, 2 St., 5 per Cent._ Ditto Account Ditto 4,1 per Cent. . ..................... 97 4 Op Anis]] Bowls, 3 per Cent ................. — 42 Ditto Account Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Gent. Ditto Account T irhiah Fonds, 6 per cent Ditto Account 'Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Ccut. Dividends on tho above payable in Undo - , Dutch Exchange, 2i per Cen ;., 12 Guilders C 1 Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates TWO O'CLOCK. 918 $ .911:12 COTISf money Ditto Account , THE PRINCE IMPERIAL AND HIS ENGLISH :NI ATD.7The Prince Imperial of France, who.te infautine chubbiness and vivacity are all that the fond es t f a th er co uld desire, is said to have taken a wondrous fancy for a little English maid procured for the Empress by the Duchess of Hamilton. The little fellow prefers his waiting maid to his three gouvernaotes and his two nurses, though the provincial costumes of the latter are calculated to win his childish fancy. The caresses of his Imperial parents are the only things that can console hint whenever the young representative of the English alliance happens to be absent. 31.1AR11, MARKETS. +:TillS DAY.) TAY& Atn.WATB. Closing Prices yesterday. Shr. Paid 1 - 2 &' 50 *ll *ll YI ali 27; all 25 all all ,1.4.7ukT. Rasta. innc.t... Bel f3s 1 , :3,71ymenp... Bina !mg. olvcrh & 3tollz Valley Birk Nihd. Lan...sL 4 Choshire June ...... U. 0103 k... di Birk. IDo., do. ...... ißlaekbnrn 6Cry - ne or:giva £26 (issd. at Bristol and Exeter._ Calodonian. ,Chester es Holyhead !Cork and Bandon..: !Cork, B:aok, di Pass ICornwall Do. A Do. B Dublindtßolfast,Junc Dun. P. et Al),,r. East , Eastern Conntioe.. East. Union, A. Bti Be., B. Stock Do.; New A....... East Kent East Lancashire Edinburgh & °lmmo% Edinb. and Peebles.. Edin. Prth Dunde. Forth At Clyde Jun.% Furness . Do. Extension.. Great N. of Scotind Great Northern Do., A. Stock !Do., B. Stock 'Gt. Sth. &Wost.(lre ) Great Western Do. Stour Val. Rail Gun. Stk Irish South-Eastern. Lancaster k Carlisle Do., Thirds.. Do. New Thirds Lancash. andYorksh Do., Wst. Riding Un Do. South] or t Lond : • d. & Blackwall and ßri&ht N. & W S t • i C s t s n t ILo Do. Fifths Do.lol. Sh, WO_ C Do. 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Lierre and Turnhout Lombardo Venetian. Lucca & Fist. 5 p. c.p. Lyons and Gensva Lyons Zs Mediterren Wadras, guar 4? p.c Do. New' 0,. 5 p. c Do. 4'l p. c. Eaten Do. 3d Ex., g. 5 p. c `saria Antonts Do. do. New "ismur Virgo Do. do., 6 p. c. Prof No..thorn of France. lorwegianTrankPre Paris and Lyons Paris and Orleans Recife & San. Fran , (Pert mu.) g. 7 p. c, Rome and Frascati Royal Danish Royal Swedish ... iambre and Dense, 1,0.5 p. cont. Pref. ici , zde, guar. 5 p. c D 0... ;anthem of Franca Andrew's an Quebec (A) ..... West Flanders,.,,,„ Do. 6A' per c. Pref... W. &N. W. of Franc , 'Westein of Austria... West. of Switzerland Wiesbaden • ..... Do. 8 per cent. 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N ........... 22 ; NAti:ml,l BaTik all I "ir.olv South Ws - se all I OrlentAl Bk. Corn: 15 Ottoman Lank ... z. 7. Provincial of Irelt:;, all Do. NOW 1 B &0 0 .4outh Australia ... ail UrlfiGa of Australia. . 2 DO. New 10 PniOn of Londo, wootoruNt of Lond; 103 -- 105 3 - 2ict 63 65 • •• •. P lk - su 68 15 16; 19 1i id ... - - • 1 - 3P ...a' ....I ""• ve. ••• 46 38 3 2td 35 - 37 64 - 66 7i - 8i S.. -- •-•,11 Business done this day 100 all 100 all dt. 50 4t. St. 100 3 100 100 ril SUN. LON DON, THURSDA Y EVE OCTOBER 9 56 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. LAW INTELL IGENCE.—;This Day.) Sporting Intelligence. RAILWAYS. Lerann! Co npan3. CloFfn. ^rtes• yesterd ty. , tutines , this .lay COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Evans.) THE ROYAL BRITISH BANK.-SECOND ADJUDICATION IN CHESTER AUTUMN MEETING.—WEDNESDAY. The Gratd Stand Stakes (Handicap), of 10 soya each, with 50 added ; for 2-yr-olds ; winners extra. 7 1. - ,ndou N. West. L. &N. W. Caledon... E.O &E.O Gt.Nrthn. E. Count. ICaldonian. furlongs. 11 subs. Mr. J. Merry's colt, by Touchstone out of Dipthong, Est 81b (Snowden) 1 Mr. Ellison's Evelyn, 7st (Charlton) 2 Mr. Wilson's Princess of Orange, Est 12Ib ...(Bullock) 3 Mr. Copeland's Silkmore, 6 s t 61b (Stagg) 4 Mr. Drewitt's The Borderer, Est 101 b (Fordhatn) 5 Mr. Howard's Martinet, Bst 71b (Welly) 6 Betting-2 to 1 agst Evelyn, 3to 1 agst Dipthong colt, 4 to 1 agst Martinet, and 6 to 1 agst Princess of Orange. Won by a length ; two lengths between the second and third ; bad fourth. Plate of 50 sovs (Handicap). Three quarters of a mile. Mr. Dawson's Little Cob, by Sweetmeat, 2 yrs, sst 31b (carried sst 41b) (Bullock) 2 Mr. S. Stevenson's Janet Pride, 3 yrs, 6st 101 b (Fordham) 2 Mr. H. Hunt's Magistrate, 2 yrs, sst 101 b (Challoner) 3 The following also ran :—Elastic John, Bright Eye, Lima, f by Sir Hercules. Betting—Even on Janet Pride, 4 to 1 agst Little Cob, and 7to 1 agst Magistrate. Won by a head ; three lengths between the second and third. The Wynnetay Handicap of 100 sovs, added to a Sweep stakes of 5 sovs each, for two and three-yr-olds ; the second to receive 60 sovs out of the stakes, and the third to save his stake ; certain winners extra. Seven 94 - 99 91 - 162 12 - 14 137 - 140 4 ... 4i • es "'' Do Gt. Westn Yk. Now. Berw. Y.I6NM. Do.. Do 107 S. Easton Do 13 -13 i 23 -24 10$ - 113 i 1 P Peto k Co Do Norfolk Do I L.&N.W tz Midid ' %Atom & Darlingt. .. ..... ••• 2 - 92 - 94 En. Conn. E. Count Do Do L. & N.W Do Gt Northn Lancash& Yorksh. T. Brassay ILMClean Stockt. & Darlingt Do p In 56 58 foe """' ... furlongs. 28 subs. Mr. J. Merry's colt by Touchstone, out of Dipthong, 2 yrs, sst 11Ib (inc. 71b extra) (Snowden) t Mr. Barber's Miss Harkaway, by Tattoo Sykes, 6st 4lb (Dales) t Mr. J. Windsor's Sir Humphrey, 2 yrs, 4st 101 b (car. 4st 121 b) (Challoner) 0 3 Mr. G. Forster's Underhand, 2 yrs, Est 81b (Bullock) 0 4 Lord Ribblesdale's Greying, 2 yrs, Set 41b (car. 54 51b) (flibberd) 0 5 Betting-7 to 4 agst Miss Harkaway and Greying, 4to 1 agst Dipthong colt. In taking the preparatory canter, the Dipthong colt jumped the rails and unseated his jockey. A fine race from the distance with Dip thong colt, Miss Harkaway, and Sir Humphrey, ended in a dead heat with the first named two ; Sir Humphrey was beaten only a head from them. The others were tailed off. Deciding Heat.—The colt, by Touchstone out of Dip thong, walked over, and llVlessrs. Merry and Barber divide the stakes. The Selling Race of 5 sovs each, for two-year-olds and upwards. Three•quarters of a mile. 3 subs. Mr. E. Buckley's Jane, by Mickey Free, 2 yrs ($01.), sst 91b (car. Sat 121 b) (Fordham) w.o. The Chester Handicap Stakes of 200 sovs, added to a Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each. Certain penalties for winners. The second to receive 50 sows out. of the 134 = 7i - 8# 3t - 30 90 31 i - 92 - 2i 10tWestr. stakes. Mile and seven furlongs. 41 subs. Mr. Morris's Gamekeeper, by Birdcatcher, 5 yrs., 6st 111 b (Quinton) 1 Mr. Howard's Saraband, 4 yrs, 7st 61b ...(J. Goater) 2 Mr. Copperthwaite's Early Bird, 5 yrs, Bst (Aldcroft) 3 The following also ran :—Pantomime, Uzella, Miss Harkaway, and Tame Deer. Betting-3 to 1 agst Early Bird, 7to 2 agat Uzella, 4 to 2 agst Saraband, 9 to 2 agst Gamekeeper, 5 to• 1 agst Pantomime. Won by two lengths ; same distance between the second and third ; Pantomime was a bad fourth ; Uzella was fifth ; Miss Harkaway sixth, and Tame Deer last, beaten off a long way. LATEST BETTING CESAREWITCH STAKES. 10 to 1 agst Fulbeck (offered) 12 to 1 agst Middleton (taken) 100 to 6 agst Cotswold (taken) 20 to 1 agst Barfleur (taken) 20 to 1 agst Merlin (taken) 20 to 1 agst Polestar (offered) 25 to 1 agst King of Scotland (taken) 20 to 1 agst Spee the Plough and Absolution coupled (taken) In the early part of the day 16 to 1 was taken about Polestar. THE DERBY. 10,000 to 100 was taken about Magnifier winning the Derby, Bullock to ride. SALE OF BLOOD STOCK IN FRANCE. The sale of horses in training, brood mares, yearlings, kc., belonging to M. Aumont, will not take place, as appointed, on Saturday next, the greater portion of the stud having been disposed of by private contract.. CESAREWITCH AND CAMBRIDGESHIRE STARES.— TOITATT WM. GRAY's advice for the above events is now ready. Lance for the Portland Stakes, at Doncas ter, and eleven other winners is something extraordinary, but the advice on the above races will astonish all, as 1,000 to 1 can be obtained about the double event. I am positive one, if both, does not come of. Recollect, I named Mr. Sykes and Crown Pigeon last year (first and second). Apply early, or the long price will be lost. Terms : —To the Cambridgeshire, 7s. 6d. ; one week, ss. ; single race, 2s. 6d. ; to the end of the season, 108. 6d.—Address, 15, Charing•cross. AQUATICS. THAMES SUBSCRIPTION CLUB. This aquatic reunion is rapidly progressing in popular favour and the number of its members. The monthly dinners and meetings are held at the Freemasons'Ta vern, Lincoln's inn-fields ; and at the last one several new members wero added to the list. It is no doubt al ready fresh in the minds of our aquatic readers that the club was formed upon the principle of the Royal Thames Yacht Club, house dinners preceding the meetings, and was instituted for the purpose either of giving prizes among its own members, lending a helping band to poor and deserving watermen, or presenting prizes to other regattas. Accordingly following out the last of these, the members gave a coat, badge, and freedom to be rowed for at the late Royal Thames National Regatta ; and at the above meeting G. Hammerton, the successful competitor, who is serving his apprenticeship under Jem Messenger, the champion of the Thames, at Teddington submitted his prize to the inspection of the members, who congratulated him on being the fortunate possessor, and he was dismissed with several marks of their appro val of his plucky conduct, skill, and respectful behaviour on all occasions. SEWAGE OF THE METROPOLIS. A very interesting and able lecture was delivered last night at the Literary and Scientific Institution, Great Smith-street, Westminster, by Alexander Wright, Esq., member or the Metropolitan Board of Works, and civil engineer, &c. ; David Wallock, Esq., in the chair. The lecture was divided into two parts—first, as to the che mical properties of manure ; second, the engineering difficulty to dispose of it. The lecturer spoke of the high value entertained by many eminent ingividuals in this country of sewage, and that it would be highly beneficial to save the same anddisperse it on the land, but put forth the immense labour and expense in so doing, i❑ conse quence of the great feeling we entertain of cleanliness in flushing our clivets and drains, and the immense quan tity of rain water mingling with, and carrying away, the excremont of the metropolis, thus deodorising and leaving cumbrous the same for manure ; and spoke of chemical science producing, for about sa. per ton, an an admixture of ammonia and phosphates from coal, applied with chalk, a manure at one-tenth the labour and expense for the land. The next point, as to the engineering difficulty, he said, if it was proved we could do without saving the sewage an immense expense might be saved. As the eminent Bazalgette shows the an cients never intended the streams which now run into the Thames to convey soil, but the rain water from the hills about London ; he designs a sewer to be made at the base of the hills, and convey as far as Woolwich on each side of the Thames, and the present sewers to run into a large tunnel], constructed by the river side, and form a boundary and esplanade on its banks as far as London-bridge, the same to join at Wool wich, and be puin2ed up and carried off to sea by the immense body of water coming through the main trunk from the hills, leaving then an opportunity for future ages still to make use of the sewage for the land if to their advantage. This scheme would coat 4,770,5801. But another question was started as to the effect it would produce if the rain water was withheld from its natural bed, the river, and if it would not affect the tidal influence. The able lecturer closed his discourse at 9 o'clock, having been favoured with the presence of several members of the Metropolitan Board and a large meeting of the ratepayers of the district. After a warm eulogy upon his ability and a vote of thanks the meet ing separated. Bedford and Blot Al ey Bnclrghalush. Clydemla I 0 .1, . Col. Stour Vy. E. Lin. 7..6 pc. E. Un. H. Sh. Glas. Barr. & Boils. Direct Do. New Glstr.dg Dn. Fr Hrtlpl. Dk. & Railway Hull & Selby Do. Share , Do. Shares Lon.&Greenw Do. Preferonco Lon., Til., & S. Do. Bark. Sh. Lowestoft gr. 4 per cont. Do. 6 per et. Manch. Than. and Matlock Middlesbro' & Redc.g 6 p.c. Midld.Bradfa Newmarket Bury E. G.spc N.& Est.s P.C. Do. 6 per ct. Do. Fixeds p c Prost. & W yr , Do. Shrs. A Roystn.& Hit. Shef.Roth.and Gooleg.s p.c. Shrews. &Hor. S. Staffordsh. Wear Valloygr 6 por cent D 0.... Wilts&Gomrst PREFERENCE SHARES. BlythandTyne lope o. pref. (issd.; t 501 Bris.&Ex.4p.o.St Do. 4 p. c. Sherr ICAIOdn. £lO 4 p.c. Ohes. &Ho. Gu. 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New 44 —5 1 p 100 60 Royal Mail Stem 1 all Scot. Austral. Invmt. 1 1 all Ditto New ip 25 all South Austral.i.r.rd 34 35 351 1 ail: Submaz*. Scrir... 1 all Do. ' 1 20 5 TrustaL.Cl).lJ.Cab. -.- IJO 2F4 Vas Diman'y 1,41 " 144 154 V.Q),6pA,JAZIIIJuI7 !!! BANKRUPTCY. This morning Mr. Linklater attended before his Honour to open another petition in bankruptcy against the Royal British Bank. The present proceedings were taken at the instance of Mr. Tressam Burke, of Gresham street, india rubber manufacturer, and were founded on the 7th and Bth Victoria, c. 111, commonly known as the Winding-up Act, by the 4th section of which it is enacted that "if any commercial or trading company, or any joint-stock company, shall commit any act of bankruptcy, a fiat in bankruptcy may issue against the same, and may be prosecuted in like as against other bankrupts." Mr. Linklater submitted that this act had not been repealed by the Bankruptcy Law Consolidation Act. His Honour asked if there had been any other case like it before ? Mr. Linklater was not aware that there had. The usual forms were gone through, and an adjudica- tion took place. Mr. Linklater said that the matter was now taken out of the hands of the official manager. Mr. Johnstone, the messenger of Mr. Commissioner Holroyd's Court, at one proceeded to take possession. IN BE 2IIDDICOMBIL This bankrupt was described as of Bridge-street, Southwark-bridge-road, ironmonger, and to•day was ap pointed for his last examination. _ Mr. Chidley appeared for the assignees, and did not oppose, and the bankrupt passed. . IN BE WILSON. This bankrupt was described as of High-street, Kings land, painter, and made up to pges his examination. Mr. Chidley, for the assignees, did not oppose, and the bankrupt passed, POLICE INTELLIGENCE.— (This Day.) MANSION-HOUSE. Philip Cliford, a tramp, a tall, wild-looking fellow, with a profusion of hair, was placed at the bar before Mr. Alderman Wire, charged with breaking a pane of glass, value Bs., in the shop window of Mr. Joseph %STybrow, grocer, 17, Sparrow-court, Minories. The complainant stated that, this morning, about half-past 8 o'clock, the prisoner, who was drunk in Sparrow-court, and as he passed his shop in company with another man, he pushed his head through the glass and broke it ; he ran out and secured the prisoner, but the other man ran off and escaped. The prisoner, in defence, said that he had just "come off the road" on tramp, and having met with a friend he had a little too much to drink ; he denied that he put his head through the window, and said it was the other man who pitched him through. (Laughter.) Alderman Wire fined him Bs., the damage, and is. for being drunk, or 10 days' imprisonment. The prisoner was locked up. GUILDHALL. The business of this Court commenced this morning shortly after 9 o'clock, and by 12 o'clock, the usual time at which the business commences, the whole of the cases were disposed of. The police magistrates of the City, or rather we should say the presiding aldermen, appear to imagine they are privileged to play such fan tastic tricks as they please, in connection with the busi ness of the Courts, and from the continual changes they ridicule ofthe of all th ose w h o h ave ir f m or ak t e he zi se th lv e es h t o h u e r opening, they have earned busi ness to transact there, and the sobriquet of " Civic Jim Crows." It is to be hoped that in the new London Corporation Bill, Sir G. Grey will make provision for the appointment of stipendiary magistrates for the City police courts, and fix the hour for commencing business at not later than 10 o'clock a.m. If the aldermen of London would only condescend to put a notice up in the Court announcing the change of hour the day before the change is to take place, much inconvenience and disappointment would be avoided ; but ,then who ever heard of the condescension of an alderman when wrapt in civic robes and ermine, and perched on the judicial bench. Alfred Moger, aged 20, a porter in the employ of Messrs. Crowden, Garrord, and Co., of Falcon-street, Aldersgate-street, brush manufacturers, was placed at the bar before Sir H. Muggeridge, on remand, charged with stealing a quantity of brushes, value 71., their pro perty. Mr. Wontner appeared for the prisoner. The prisoner had been in the prosecutor's employ about seven months, and during that time he had continually plundered his employers, and pawned the goods as his property. The prisoner was committed for trial. MARLBOROUGH-STREET; DRUNKENNESS AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—Mary Ann Ilrest, a young woman of decent appearance, was brought before Mr. Bingham, charged with having attempted to commit suicide in a cell at Vine-street station-house, where she was locked up for being drunk and disorderly. Kelly, 67 C, stated that on the previous evening he WAS on duty at the station-house, when the defendant was brought in much the worse for drink. He locked her up in a cell by herself, and at eight o'clock, in con sequence of hearing a noise proceed from her cell, be visited her and found her in the act of strangling herself with her pocket-handkerchie f , which she bad tied tightly round her throat and secured to the bolt of the door. She appeared to be in her last gasp, and be at once cut her down, and a medical man was sent for, who advised her instant removal to the workhouse. The prisoner said she was so very much intoxicated at the time that she realiy bad not the least recollection of what had occurred. Mr. Bingham said he could not express much surprise that a woman so given to drink as the prisoner appeared to be should make such an attempt, as it was a proba ble proceeding to one, no doubt, so unhappy. The most charitable thing be could now do would be to take care of her for seven days, and he should commit her to prison for that period. THAMES. SINGULAR CASE OE ROBBERY. — JuIia Welch, a woman of the town, was charged with stealing a silver watc'a and a gold guard chain from a Swedish seaman, named Christian Janson, belonging to the British merchant ser vice. It appeared from the evidence of the seaman that about S or 9 months ago he was inveigled into a lo w brothel, No. 7, Crown-court, Glasshouse-street, Whitechapel, where he met with the fate of all mariners who enter the infamous houses in the district of this court—he was ill used, robbed of his money, and stripped of his clothes. He was compelled to go to sea, directly afterwards, and the wretches who plundered him were never brought to justice. A few days ago the sailor again arrived in London, and he was paid off with his shipmates on Friday last at the Sailors' Home, in West-street, Wellclose-equare. On Tuesday evening the prisoner met a man in the street who expressed the greatest sympathy and re s p ec t for him. The sailor said h e had been robbed on the ter mination of a former vo y a g e, a nd feared he should said a e e d berob bed cou l dwoobu obtain ad a again, take a i n him to a resp ec t a bl e h ouse, where bl o dging, and be well p rov id e d f or. The, o n which his new acqua i ntance sailor accompanied his quondam friend through a laby rinth of courts and alleys in the neighbourhood until they reached Crown-court, when the sailor was con ducted into the very house and the same room where he had been robbed eight or nine months ago. The prisoner was in the room, and asked him for some money. The sailor said he would give her non; and recognising the room in which he had been formerly robbed endea voured to force his way out of the place. The prisoner immediately put her arms round his neck and endea voured to detain him. He struggled with her, and the man who first accosted him in the street called out have you your watch and guard right ? and the prisoner laid hold of both and took them from him. The sailor tried to recover his property, on which the prisoner threatened to punch his eye out, and the man, her bully, struck him. The sailor then escaped from the house as soon as possible. Yesterday evening Kelly, a police constable, No. 120 H, found the prisoner at home in the act of concealing a gold watch and guard, which he took from her. He also found upon her 13 duplicates relating to property pawned, butcould not trace the sailors' watch and guard, but the police constable hoped that he should be enabled to trace the sailor's property if time was given him. Kelly added that the prisoner was the most notorious thief in the neighbourhood. The pritoncr was remandei till Saturday. The granite roadway between Duncannon and Agar streets, West Strand, is at present undergoing repair by the entire removal of the old p avement and re l ay i ng th e foundation and resetting the stone work in cement. SHERIFF-SUBSLITUTESHIP OF RENFREW.—Mr. Alex. St rac h an , writer in Glasgow, has j us t b een a ppointed Sheriff S u b s titute for Renfrew, in pl ace o f M r. 'Tennant, resigned.—Ccfledonzali Mowry, LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LONDON, Oct. 9.—Wind this day at noon, N. ; light breeze and hazy weather. PLYMOUTH, Oct. B.—Wind N.—Arrived—Thomas Mansell, from Corinna ; Plantagenet, London, for Syd ney, N.S.W. Sailed—Marian, for Australia; Halifax Halifax, N.S. FALMOUTH, Oct. B.—Wind variable.—Sailed—Cheras ker, for Bremen. WEYMOUTH, Oct. B.—The Hcrrocks, from Malden to this port, has arrived hero leaky, having been on shore. POOLE, Oct. B.—Wind E.S.E.—Sailed—Prince Eu gene, for Newfoundland. PORTLAND ROADS, Oct. 6.—Arrived—Mayville, from Bordeaux, for Leith, making much water. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday Morning. Sailed—Blue Jacket, for Constantinople; Ellen, Sun- derland. LIVERPOOL, Thursday Morning. Wind SE. Arrived—Bonin, from Benin; Cosmopolite, Bordeaux ; Ajax, Archangel ; Ritas, Santander. Sailed—Giove, for Naples; General Parkhill, Charleston; Eleanora, Genoa ; Star of the West, Boston. QUEENSTOWN, Oct. 7. Wind NE. Arrived—Snn, from Calatz ; Martha Millse, Alexandria; Ernest and Elise, Taganrog. Sailed—Nebraka, for Antigua. WATERFORD, Oct. 7. Wind E.N.E. Sailed—Josephine, for Cape of Good Hope. DUBLIN, Oct. 8. Wind N.W. Arrived—Rugie, from Memel; Thalia, Bordeaux. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, • Thursday, 10.17 a m • Wind N.E. ; tide two hour's ebb ; cloudy , : Arrived, Oct. B—Fronde, from Cronstadt ; Industra, Flusum ; Star, St. Petersburg ; Juliana, Dantsic ; Ste phen Watson, Cronstadt ; Cretins, St. Petersburg. Oct. 9th—Noord Star, from St. Petersburg; Robert Adamson, Brilliant, Ca rl Johannes, and Frithoff, Cron stadt ; A ugusta, Dantsic ; Orion, Carlshamn ; Seblume and Albert von Panhnis, St. Petersburg; Baron Osy, steamer, Antwerp ; Foyle, steamer, St. Petersburg ; Earl of Auckland, steamer, Rotterdam ; Rainbow, steamer, Rotterdam. Sailed—Canning, for Melbourne; Appleton, Melbourne; Alnwick Castle, Sydney ; Thames, steamer, Hamburg. DEAL, Thursday, 9.55 a.m. _ . Wind N.N.W., hazy. Passed—Waterloo, from Shields, for Venice ; Anti podes, Foo-Chou-Foo, London ; Rhea Sylvia Meditorra nean, London ; Eliza, Chatham, Bristol ; British Empire, Shields, Callao. Passed, Bth—Maria Engracia, for Santander ; Lanca shire, China ; Formosa, Singapore; Danube, New Or leans ; Wm. Tucker, Leghorn ; Senator, Ancona ; London, Kunachee ; Nithsdale, Valparaiso—all from London. THE DUBLIN BANKS.—The private banks in this city have raised their rate of interest on deposits from 21 to 3 per cent. HINCKPORD CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION. -- CASTLE HEADINGHANI, OCT. 7.—The annual meeting of this as sociation took place last night, when a large party of the gentry and yeomanry of the county of Essex dined together at the Bell Inn. The meeting this year derived some additional interest from the fact that Sir John Tyrell having announced his intention to resign his seat in Parliament, the chair was taken by Mr. Dacane, the new candidate for the representation of the northern division of Essex, who, in the course of his speech, said he had fought and bled in the cause of Conservatism, and was ready and willing to do battle again whenever an opportunity occurred. THE ROYAL BRITISH BANK. —Yesterday the interim manager, Mr. Harding, attended at the Strand branch of this bank, and was occupied with his clerks from 9 o'clock until 6 in receiving and examining into the claims of the depositors and customers which he pro poses to prove. About 300 depositors attended during the day, and lodged a description of their claims upon deposit and drawing account, and about 50 more sent in a filled up form in writing to that effect. A large num ber of the depositors, it is stated, intimated their desire for a compromise, and in their willingness to accept a composition ranging from 10s. to Ns. in the pound, but there were none below Vs. AIT GOSSIP. ART ON THE CONTINENT.—We recently mentioned that the annual exhibition of French artists will take place next year in the galleries of the Palaii de l'lndus. trio till the galleries of the new Louvre be finished. We have now to add that, by order of the. Emperor, the exhibition will commence on the 15th of May and close on the 15th of July. The Academie des Beaux Arts at Paris has awarded the prizes for historical painting. 'The first grand prize was gained by X. Clement, pupil of Messrs. Drolling and Picot. Seeold grand prize to M. Delaunay, pupil of M. Flandrin ; and the second class grand prize to M. Michel, pupil of M. Picot. This men tion of the relationship of master and scholar, always formally made in France, reminds us of the schools of the great eras of painting in Italy. An imperial decree describes the erection in Paris of a monumental column in honour of the army of the Crimea, and our readers may be quite sure that French valour will be illustrated, as it should be when the nation is the illustrator, by French art. A colossal bronze statue of General Le- ! courbe, by M. Etex, will be inaugurated with much! L military pomp next month a t Lous-le-Saulnier, ,the na- I tive place of the general. The Revue des Beaux Arts, in alluding to the legiti.l mate success of the exhibition of pictures at the Crystal Palace, rather amusingly promises its readers an an swer to " the question often asked, why the French sell each a small number of pictures in England 'I" A bronze statue of Joan of Arc, by M. Paul, has been provision ally erected in the Champs Elysees. Its ultimate desti nation is the village of Domremy. The pendant to Kiss's Amazon, at Berlin, which is intended to be placed on the other side of the entrance to the Museum, is in pif o gress under the hand of the sculptor Albert Wolff. It represents a naked youth mounted on a horse, and con tending successfully against a lion that has attacked him. Preparations are making at St. Petersburg for the erection of an equestrian statue to the late Emperor Nicholas. The site is to be the square which lies be tween the cathedral church of St. Isaac and the palace of the Grand Duchess Marie ; and the pedestal will ex hibit on its sides bassi-relievi representing four leading incidents in the reign of the Czar. The sculptor com missioned is the Baron Kloodt. An exhibition of paint ings and other objects of art, now open at Amsterdam, is said to be very remarkable. Mr. C.ypel, the cele• brated Beleian sculptor—who executed gratuitously the statue of Vandyke erected on the Place du Musee at Antwerp, and which was inaugurated before the King of the Belgians during the recent fetes—has been nomi nated a chevalier of the order of Leopold by his Majesty, and the city of Antwerp has made him a rich presenta tion of plate. Another statue has been added since the prorogation of Parliament to those already placed in St. Stephen's Hall, namely, one to Charles James Fox, executed by Mr. Bailey, B.A. TELEGRAPHIC EXPERIMENTS. The following letter, describing some experi ments connected with the projected telegraphic communication between New York and London, via Newfoundland, has been handed to us for pub lication : " London, Oct. 3, Five o'clock, a.m. "My dear Sir,—As the electrician of the New York, Newfoundland, and London Telegraph Company, it is with the highest gratification that I have to apprise you of the result of our experiments of this morning upon a single continuous conductor of more than 2,000 miles in extent, a distance you will perceive sufficient to cross the Atlantic Ocean, from Newfoundland to Ireland. "The admirable arrangements made at the Magnetic Telegraph-office in Old Broad-street, for connecting ten subterranean gutta percha insulated conductors, of over 200 miles each, so as to give one continuous length of more than 2,000 miles during the hours of the night, when the telegraph is not commercially employed, fur nished us the means of conclusively settling by actual ex periment the question of the practicability as well as the practicality of telegraphing through our proposed Atlantic cable. " This result had bee❑ thrown into some doubt by the disc very, more than two years since, of certain pheno mena upon subterranean and submarine conductors, and had attracted the attention of electricians—particularly of that most eminent philosopher Professor Faraday, and that clear-sighted investigator of electrical pheno mena Dr. Whitehouse—and one of these phenomena, to wit, the perceptible retardation of the electric current, threatened to perplex our operations and required careful investigation before we could pronounce with certainty the commercial practicability of the Ocean Telegraph. " I am most happy to inform you that, as a crowning result of a long series of experimental investigation and inductive reasoning upon this subject, the experiments under the direction of Dr. Whitehouse and Mr. Bright, which I witnessed this morning, in which the induction coils and receiving magnets, as modified by these gentle men, were made to actuate one of my recording instru ments, have most satisfactorily resolved all doubts of the practicability as well as practicality of operating the telegraph from Newfoundland to Ireland. " Although we telegraphed signals at the rate of 210'241, and according to the count of one time even of 270 per minute upon my telegraph register (which speed you will perceive is at a rate commercially advantage. ous), these results were accomplished, notwithstanding many disadvantage) in our arrangements, of a tempo• rary and local character—disadvantages which will not occur in the use of our submarine cable. " Having passed the whole night with my active and agreeable collaborators, Dr. Whitehouse and Mr. Bright, without sleep, you will excuse the hurried and brief cha racter of this note, which I could not refrain from send ing you, since our experiments this morning settle the scientific and commercial points of our enterprise satis factorily. " With respect and esteem, your obedient servant, (Signed) "SAIL. F. B. MORSE. " To Cyrus W. Field, Esq., Vice-President of the New York, Newfoundland, and London Tele graph Company, 37, Jerinyn-street, St. James street." MARKET NEWS.—(This Day.) . CORN EXCHANGE. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORP For the week ended Oct. 9, 1856, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors In the different Cities and Towns in England and Wale s per WHEAT. I mperial Aa I 1 I L lturtir. OATS. TEAM. Lys. SEAMS. 65$ 01 4 2s 101 25s lid 425 Od 44s 101 43s 9d THE SIX WEEKS' A VERA-,E. WHEAT. I BALLET. I OATS. I LIE. I BEANS. 1 PEAS. 87s 1 01 455 3d 1 26 s 8d 43s 71 1 45s 4d 41s 10d QUANTITIES OF GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK. Wheat, 132,99 G ; Itarley, 56,398 ; Oats, 12,755; Rye, 888 ; Beans, 4,548 ; Peas, 1,754 quarters. MEAT MARKETS. NEIVGATE AND LEADENHALL.—AII kindsof meat moved off slowly, as follows :—Beef, from 2s 8d to 4s 4d ; Mutton, 3s 2d to 4s Gd ; Veal, 3s 41 to 4s 4d ; Pork, 3s 4d to Os 4d per Blbs, by the carcase. SOUTHALL, Oct. B.—To-day's market was moderately supplied with each kind of stock, in which only a limited business was transacted, at barely stationary prices. Beef, from 3s id to 4s 6d; - Mutton, 3s 81 to 49 10d; Veal, 3s Sd to 4s ; Pork, 3s to 4s 81 per Sibs, to sink the offal. Roltroup, Oct. B.—We had a slow tra le here to-day, as . follows :—B ee f, f rom 3 s 2d t o 4 s 6d ; M u tton, 3s 4d to 5 s Od , Veal, 3s Gd to 4s Gd; Pcrk. 3s 81 to 4s 104 per 81bs. Quar ter old store pigs, 22s to 2Ss. HAY MARKETS. SMITHPIELD.—Meadow hay, 21 155 to 4/ 15s ; clover, 41 Os to 5115 s ; and straw, 116 s to 1 1 12 s per load. Trade dull. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 2/ 18 s to 41 16s; clover, R 41 Os to 5/ 12s ; and straw, 11 _s to 11 1 2 . per load. A moderate supply and a sluggish &Wand. WIIITECUAPEL.—Meadow hay, 2/ 15s to 41 15s; clover 41 Os to 51 153 ; and gra*, 11 8s to 11 12s per Wad. A glow trade. 6i 103/ 1001 1 ;100 1100 all 100 all all 10 3 0 4 100 all all all 100 100 100 100 100 St 2 "I 13i 20 I St: 12i 12. St. 121 12 12 1 St. St. St. 10 10 St. Bt. Bt. St. Bt. St. aii 1 20 25 25 124 Pm 118 LITERATURE. Little Dorrit. No. XI. By Charles Dickens. Hoy ! Presto ! " Book the Second Riches." The Dorrits of the Marshalsea are no longer in the Marshalsoa, but gallavanting about Europe, die porting themselves among the Alps, maundering across the plains of Lombardy, killing time among the lagunes of the Adriatic, under the shadow of St. Mark's, in the gondolas of Venice. Old Mr. Dorrit no longer receiving halfpence from a lime splashed plasterer like honest Plornish, but wrapped in costly furs, and tended by an elegant valet, and preceded in his wanderings hither and thither by a magnificent Courier, who in the old days would, as our historian remarks, have been regarded by the inhabitants . of the ._Marshalsea as a very fine Foreign Gentleman: The Family roll over the Continpt, moreover, in a couple of resplendent carriages— Mr. Dorrit, Miss Dorrit, Miss Amy Dorrit, and (a new character, a sort of chaperon to the young ladies, an expensive luxury, enjoyed as such at the costly rate of 4001. per annum) one Mrs. General—in the great travelling-carriage. Frederick Dorrit, Esquire, late of the Clarionet, and Edward Dorrit, Esquire, otherwise till very recently Tip, in the chariot—the fourgon coming afterwards, in due course, with the heavy baggage and a couple of ladies' maids, and a brace of superb footmen (hair powder and all), and a pair of valets (including the one already mentioned)--altogether as these retainers, are here happily designated " a strong body of inconvenience." Yet changed though their " surroundings" really are thus marvellously, the Dorrits are still, one and all, precisely as they were in the old squalid hand to-mouth times when the Head of the House was the Father of the Mar. shalsea. Fanny giving herself precisely the same airs—Frederick just as comatose—Tip as vulgar to a T—the father as pompous as usual, with his " hums " and his " has " of empty importance-- Amy just the same dear, little, shy, gentle, timor• ous, domesticated-angel-guardian 1 At the Con vent of the Great St. Bernard, these wealthy Eng lish travellers " come upon" Minnie and Harry Rowan—then upon their wedding tour—and strangely also, with them, i" upon" that grim " hell-kite" of the tale, the ghoul-like Rigaud, lat terly modified into a M. Blandois, a sort of a roving Chevalier d'lndustrie I Separating from them, however, after a night passed with these chance acquaintances in the Convent, the Dorrits descend from the mountain tops into Italy in the grand cavalcade already particularised. An incidental chapter introduces the reader especially and for mally to Mrs. General, the expensive Chaperon. The Third Chapter of Book the Second carrying the whole party in a grand clatter onwards—like a fragmentary reflection of " Pictures from Italy." And the fourth settling them clown for the time being in a Venetian Palace, whence Little Dorrit writes an affectionate and charac teristic letter to "Dear Mr. Clennam,"—a letter bringing to an end the present instalment. Con spicuous among the "good things" in this eleventh number is the mention made casually of Mr. Tip's travelling costume—one, we are told, of "the very fullest and completest," insomuch so that " The world seemed hardly large enough - to yield him an amount of travel proportionate to his equipment; The whole description of Mrs. General " driving► the proprieties four-in-hand" is capital. Admir able, too, in a very different way is the limning of the Alpine scenery with the ascending Night com ing up the mountain " like a rising water"--.and when it had risen at last to the walls of the old convent, appearing as " though that weather-beaten structure was another Ark, and floated away upon the shadowy waves." Deliciously ridiculous le Miss Fanny Dorrit's indignation at "Amy's good natured care for Minnie Gowan nee Meagles when the latter has chanced to faint away aild be carried to her bedchamber. " See," observes Miss Fanny, " what is involved in this Can we ever hope to be respected by our servants Never. Here are our two women, and Pa's valet, and a footman, and a courier, and all sorts of dependents, and yet in the midst of them we are to have one of our selves rushing about with tumblers of cold water, like a menial ! Why, a policeman," exclaim, Miss Fanny, "if a beggar had a fit in the street, could but go plunging about with tumblers, as this very Amy did in this very room before our very eyes last night I" Consequent upon all which morbid jealousy as to the maintenance of the family dignity, we have the most humorous description of all in this eleventh number—the in cident where a very genteel lady, accompanied by her son (no other than our old absurd friend Spark , ler and his mamma, Mrs. Merdle, otherwise " the Bosom"), take unceremonious possession (during their temporary absence on the Great St. Bernard) of a salon appertaining to the Dorrit family, in the hotel at Martigny. The innkeeper's protestations of anguish at this untoward casualty furnish the key to this very laughter-moving description. He, the innkeeper, hat in hand, on the return of the Dorrit Family, declaring to the courier " that he was blighted, that he was desolated, that he was profoundly afflicted, that he was the most miserable and unfortunate of beasts, that be had the head of a wooden p:g," and the Mr. Dorrit's wrath drowns the innkeeper's apologies in an out burst of indignation. The said haughty aristocrat being appeased by Mrs. Merdle's elegant protesta tions of regret--having been previously propitiated through the medium of Tip, by the stenographic explanations of Sparkler, who assures that young gentleman, under the exclamation of " old feller ; you !" that "Lady--a mother of mine in point of fact [as if the ridiculous wretch had two 4--swishes no Row :" adding, that the said Lady " Being a re markably fine woman, et cetera" —was too many for this " chap,"—meaning the desolated innkeeper. The whole affair ending, of course, after all, some how satisfactorily, until Mrs. Merdle and the Spark ler are transfixed in a dumb recognition of Miss Dorrit. Until, in fact, the Bosom pulls the partially paralysed son of it, into their travelling chariot. " He was no sooner within," says the historian, " than the pad of the little window in the back of the chariot disappeared, and his eye usurped its place. There it remained as long as so small an object was discernible, and probably much longer, staring (as though something inexpressibly sur prising should happen to a cod-fish) like an ill executed eye in a large locket." Gazing through which preposterous eye of Mr. Sparkler upon the Dorrit Family, we leave them for a while in the midst of their Continental wanderings. LONDON-BRIDGE TRAFFIC. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Your correspondent is the exponent of a large clas whose endeavour it is to facilitate the traffic over London-bridge. Having devoted much time to this im portant subject, permit me to remark that in my opinion no adequate relief can be afforded by any of the plans proposed, whose basis it is to force over the bridge more than its legitimate traffic, end hence plethora ensues. The only relief can be obtained by diverting the traffic that does not legitimately belong to the bridge. At pre sent it is the route to the Great Northern and North- Western Railways, Camden-town, Highgate, Hamp stead, &c., as well as to a considerable section of the western districts of the metropolis. The object of my proposed new street for Southwark, which is parallel to and contiguous to the river, is to abstract the whole of this traffic. It would allot to the several bridges their respective proportions, and Victoria-street would form part of the new route to Euston and Sings-cross sta• tions ; thus London-bridge, relieved of near two thirds of its traffic, would be found ample for the requirement . , and the public would not then have to complain very severe inconvenience and loss of time which they have now to submit to. I enclose a memorial to the Metropolitan Board of Works from the Brighton and South-Western Compa nies,When it which confirms my ♦iew of this subject. of is considered that between 10,000,000 and 11,000,000 passengers arrive and depart from this terminus, the opinion of the directors ought to be conclusive. N o bes an i y de u e nP w r h ei ic tio h dfi t tc h he my testimony to the further evidence is needful to enable mind to decide upon the subject; police carry out the e how the vast mul titude of the other companies are coincident, from whom memorials will be presented. (into de w Without more y e cannot rly effective m conclude anne without t n h on whichad g traffic arrangements. It is surp , tru y, ti se t r u io d u e s g d et et o ri v m er en th c e_b y rid o g ur e a f T ro e m ry THOMAS TAYLOR. 4, Euston-grove, Easton-square. ( C o Coastwp ( C opy.) y .) ,an ß d ai L lw on ay d , on sc apnt.d6B.righ " To THE METRO POLITAN BOARD OF WORKS. " G e ‘ i S i t ° le u rn ttho en E ,— aasn l rS e noltu d t i a r hi e i ctors of the South-Eastern and Londtn, Brighton, and South Coast . Railway Com panies haying been requestr'd to express an opinion on the subject of the proposed new road or street in South wark, between London -bridge and the West-end, pro• posed to be formed with a view to the convenience of the public using the lines of railway terminating at the Loudon-bridge station, have considered the plan sub mitted to them by Air. T. Taylor, showing a street ex tending (by one or other of two routes) from High-street, Borough, to oppo s it e St am f or d- s t reet Bla.ckfriars - road , and they d es i re us to express to you that, i n t h e ir opi nion, the proposed new line of street, intersecting as it would do the main line.; of communication by thebridges to and from the west end and those parts of the city of London lying north of the Thames between Southwark and Westminster-bridges, and also as forming part of_ an almost direct line of communication between London bridge and the principal metropolita n .railway stations, IN e are, &c., i: f t i v t e 6 l l i , r,e n t calculated enormousto relieve raffi l e : n n andd oarberai d tl g y e otf o o ftehaceopnpoorumtbi economise the time and promote the convenience . ,_,„ availing themselves of tlo , is s. te s ra u E s.— s, .... • 0 r SLIGHT, i Secretaries." 1 100 1.00 100 1)0 100 100 'lOO all all 100 100 1631 el WO 100 31 1, 100 100 100 20 C GN. 8i & 90j 1 94 i 102 i 75i i 22k I 201 3i 22i 61 40 261 3