The Sun. — London, England, 1861-09-20 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND CITY IVEWS. CITY, Two &CLOCK. The - Bank of England return completed to the 18th inst. shows some very favourable features. The bullion owing to the arrivals from Australia and the Continent has been augmented to a con siderable extent. The reserve of notes also shows an important addition. In the other securities there is a slight diminution consequent upon the easier state of the Money Market. The other items of the balance sheet present little variation of importance, and they will be seen in the sub joined table. Active Circulation .. • • .. £19,836,180 Decrease .. • . • • • • 16,650 Stock of Bullion .. .. .. 13,999,792 Increase .. .. .. .. 350,390 Rest .. .. • . • • .. 3,790,874 Increase .. • • .• .. 2,604 Public Deposits .. .. .. 5,061,928 Increase .. .. .. .. 193,919 Other Deposits.. .. .. .. 12,442,850 Increase .. •• •• •• 85,170 Seven Day and other Bills .. .. 704,792 Increase .. .. •• 1,834 •• Government Securities .. . 2 _ 10,450,800 No alteration. Other Securities .. 17,289,032 Decrease • . • • •• •• 83, 513 Notes unemployed. .. .. 7,987,265 Increase .. 360,380 About £600,000 in gold was sent into the Bank of England yesterday. A call of El per share, amounting together to £46,154, becomes due to-day on the London and Blackwell Railway New Shares. Continued activity prevailed in the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday, and the recent advance was well supported. The sales were 20,000 bales. The market for American securities during the past week has been more animated. The subjoined remarks are from the circular of Messrs. D. Bell, Son, and Co. :—" During the past week there has been rather more activity in the market for Ameri can securities, and transactions to some extent have taken place in United States Five per Cent. Bonds, at 71 to 72 ; Virginia Six per Cent., 471 to 48; ; and Pennsylvania Five per Cent. Bonds, 71 to 72. Stocks are not freely offered for sale, and prices generally are firmly sustained." The reduction in the rate of discount does not appear to have stimulated the general inquiry for accommodation, the market still presenting an ex ceedingly quiescent appearance. At present there is no material alteration to report in the quotations demanded by the joint-stock banks and private establishments, but the tendency is downwards, and further concessions will no doubt be made in the course of a few days, owing to the competition excited by the abundance of money and the com paratively limited requirements of the mercantile community. During the last few days there has been more animation exhibited in the market for Foreign and Colonial Produce. At the public sales of tea just concluded full rates have been obtained for good and fine descriptions. Sugars have been in in creased demand at enhanced prices. Coffee has continued in active request, and high prices have been obtained for superior descriptions of planta tion Ceylon. Rice, cocoa, and spices have con tinued in fair request, but saltpetre and tallow have slightly given way. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted 475.; and last three months' delivery, 475. to 48s. per cwt. Intelligence has been received this morning by Messrs. Glass, Elliot, and Co., from Port Vendres, informing them that the Submarine Telegraph cable, lately laid between that port and Minorca, has been joined to the cable laid between Algiers and Minorca in September last, and that a direct communication is now established between France and Algiers. The dealings hi the English Stock Market to-day have been very limited, and the fluctuation has been merely fractional. A few sales took place at an early hour, and the improvement of a per cent. which occurred yesterday afternoon was no longer maintained. Consuls for transfer have been 93* y, and 931 for the account. The New Threes are fiat at 911 ,-1; the Reduced are firm at 911 4; India Stock has advanced to 223 ; ditto 5 per Cent. remains at 1034 104; ditto 5 per Cent. Enfaced Paper has risen to 961 I; and the 51 per Cent. is steaty at 103 1. Ir :the Foreign Market the only movement of importance has been the renewed buoyancy of Mexican Bonds, which have been dealt in at 24, and are now at 23 . 1 I. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 83i 4 ; ditto 1858, 681 69 ; Brazilian 41 per Cents. have improved to 911; Buenos Ayres Deferred are flat at 281; Russian 5 per Cents. are 994 ; Spanish 491 50 ; and Italian 5 per Cents. 70-1 1. In the Railway Share Market business has . con tinned inactive, and the few dealings recorded in the English undertakings show a further slight depression. Great Westerns, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, and Midlands have receded 55., and Lancashire and Yorkshire 15s. Eastern Counties, North-Westerns, and South-Easterns support pre vious rates. The Foreign and Colonial lines have been in limited favour. Recife and San Francisco, however, have improved £l, and Bahia and San Francisco 55.; East Indian and Great Indian Peninsula realised previous prices, but Madras 5 per Cents. declined 10s. Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are flat without material alteration in quotations. Australian Agricultural have declined to 29 and 29!, and Peel River Land to 48i. BRITISH FUNDS--ONE O'CLOCK. ¶per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9l/ i 3 per Cent. Consol s A nnu iti es New 3 per Cent. Annuities 9l 1 4 'Julia Stock. . Ditto 5 per Cent. Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent — Ditto 5 per Cent. 96 5 Ditto 5f per Cent 1034 i i)itto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863 Ditto 1859 Consols for Account, Oct. 10 94 4 March June. Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2d 2 pm 4 7 pm afro £5OO .. 4 7 pm Ditto Small - - FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian, 5 per Cent. • • Ditto 41 per Cent., 1860 ' 911 1 Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent — Ditto Deferred Mexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account New Grenada Active, 31 per Cent. Ditto Deferred 5/ Russian 5 per Cent. 1822, £ St . 99f Spanish 3 per Cent. Ditto Account Turkish 6 per Cent .. Ditto New Loan Ditto Account Ditto £lOO Bonds Dividends on the above payable in London. ALustrian's per Cent. Ex. 10 Florins 5ll Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, E.. 251. TWO 0' cLO C K . Consols ' Money Ditto Account SAILING OF THE EDINBURGH.—The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Steamship Company's screw steamer Edinburgh sailed onWednesday for New York. She took out a ship mail, and had besides 20 cabin passen gers. She also took out £l,OOO in gold on freight. It is expected she will carry out a considerable number of the passengers which left Liverpool on the 10th inst. in the Great Eastern, now lying disabled off Cork. THE NEW ZEALAND DIFFICULTY.—The Maories were petted and pamp ered as a wronged people, and allowed to play at having a king,The result h as ver ifi e d th e pro phecies of the colonists, who have been lately most unjustly charged by members of the Church party with fostering the very movement they alone condemned. It has been asserted that they desire the ex t ermination of the native xaee, than which nothing could be more opposite to their feelings and even self-interest. It is the co l onist who would gladly throw down the barrier, kept up by the clergy, and treat th e Maori as a brother -subject of a g lori ous constitu tion, and this is what the Protection Society !o vehemently oppose. The Maori would then be absorbed in the flood of emigrations; his nation woul d become an histo rical relic, his language a dead letter. The whole policy of k eep i ng them a distinct people would be rendered vain , and th e in calculable labour and expense the missionaries had been at, So, by translating the Scriptures, unnecessary. according to the missionaries, the Maori must have separate laws, language, and rights.—Once a Week. According to the Augsburg Gazette the Prussian Government ser i ous ly con t emp l a t es r eforming the Chamber f Nobles, " w hi c h , as a t presen t cons tituted ," tar that journal, " h as no t b een, an d never w ill b e anything el se than a n em b arrassment to all legislative act i on in the spirit of constitutional pr ogress , i ns t ea d o f b e i ng a moderating power." The Nationaletes of Turin, of the 15th, states that the Bishop of Mileto in Calabria has been convicted of conspiracy with the bri gan d s , an d con d emne d t o s i x mon th imprisonment, and a fuie of I,ooof. SHARE MARKET.-(THIS DAY). ORDD4ARY SHAKES AND STOCKS. 1 1 Closing Business Share; Railways. Paid. Price. Done 50 Beltast and Ballymena , all 13.14 Bir., Wol , and Mr. Val.! all 74 8 of ock Birk., La., and Ch June. 100 25 Blyth and Tyne all 10 Bost. Sleat. andMid.Co all 54 6 4 stock Bristol and Exeter , lOO 92 94 stock Caledonian 10 Carmarthen Ltz.Caidigari all 50 Cork and Ban don all `2 lO O D eo o r A k, i f ;l A rock., &Passage all 20 Cornwall .... 10 Do B 1 all 5 6 c rt p o er d a i n v : t all unt g il e 6 ts p all hasbeeni d. toB 50 Dublin & Belfast Juno all 41 43 25 Dun., Perth, tAb. June all 10 104 stock East Anglian lOO 17 18 stock Eastern Counties lOO 49 50 5 0 4 stock Eastern Union, A stock 100 42 44 stew , Do do Bdo 100 29 31 25 Do Nw A, late EU3ds. 134 stock East Suffolk stock Edinburgh & Glasgow 100 89 91 stock Edin. Perth, & Dundee 100 294 30 10 Forth & Clyde Junction all stock Furness stockw GreatGl a sg Nthn. and o f S. Western Scotland 100 11 i 105 107 100 108 109 stock Great Northern 100 100 102 stock Do do A stock stock Do do B do stock Gt. S. &W. of Ireland 100 103 105 stock Great Western stock Do Str Val gua. stock 100 57 59 12 Irish South-eastern all stock Lancashire & 'Yorkshire 100 1084 1081 1074 11 I stock London and Blackwall 100 57 59 stock Lon., Bright. & S Coast 100 114 116 stock Load., Chat, and Dover 100 48 50 stock Lond. & Nth. Western 100 931 On 934 stock Load. & Sth. Western,. 100 95 46 25 L'derry & Coleraine all 25 L'derry & Ennisaillen all 10 11 stock Man. Shet & Lincoln 100 45 47 45 4 I 50 Maryport and Carlisle all 124 Do do 1 shares al— l-10 Metropolitan 74 4 d stock Midland 6.4.0. Do new stock Do llirming. & Derby 100 100 102 50 Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland all 25 Do shares :7.11 25 Mid Kent. all 10 Do, Cray Line all 100 Newcastle and Carlisle all 10 Newry & Armagh, def 9 8 6 d 20 Newry, Warnpt. & Ros all stock Norfolk 100 57 59 59 stock North British. stock Nor.Dev.Rail&Dk.stock 100 stock Do & stk ; A revs nod. until 6pch as beenpd.B 100 stock Do B stock .. 100 stock Nth. Eastern — Be rwick 100 1011 1021 25 Dodo, G.N.E. purchase 16134 stock Do Leeds ........ stock Do York stock North London 10 Do new 5 19.16 1 North Staffordshire 174 44 41 13 10 N. and S. W. Junction all 101 104 stock Not. & Grantham Rail_ 100 88 00 8 9 10 Peebles all 20 Portsmouth 10 Rhymney.....- stock Scottish Central stock Scot N. E., Aber. stock 100 38 39 384 stock 13 . 0 Scot. Mid. stock lOO 95 97 stock Shropshire Union lOO 45 47 10 Sittingbourne & Sheer all stock South Devon 25 S.-Durham &Lane. ln 1 224 stock South Eastern ..... 100 79 794 794 stock South Wales stock S. York. and River Dun 100 94 97 20 Staines, Wok,. and Wok all 4 6 25 Stockton & Darlington all 38 39 25 Do do l3 8 9 p 25 Do New (1860) , 3 5 6 p stock 1 all Vale stock Do Pref. No 1 lOO 25 I' 4r.mesHavenDk&Rail 22 -- 50 Ulster . 25 Do ....... ....... 20 24 341 12 10 Do • stock Vale otNeath 10 Victor i a Sta. and Pim all 114 121 stock Wateriurd & Kilkenny'; 100 50 Waterford & Limerick all 20 West Cot nwall 20 West London all 10 Do Ist class all 20 Do 2d class .. all stock WestHartlepool Harbr and Rail .l 100 stock West Midland—Oxford 100 46 48 stock Do. Newport 100 43 45 stock Do. Hereford 100 88 90 stock stock 25 stock stock stock 10 19.161, 10 stock stock stock stock stock 10 stock 25 stock stock stock stock stock 12 10 stock 10 BLOCK. stock stock stock stock PREFERENCE SHARES. Share! Railways. !Paid Closing Business Price. Done. stock 20 stock stock Blythe and Tyne 10 per; c. pref. (issued at £5 Kris. & Exet.4 p.ctstoct Do. do. do. Shares ICaledon .£lO, per cent Do. Quar. Shares, No. 2. ICork & Bandon, 5i p. c. Cornwall, 5 per cent 'Dun.Perth&Aber.Jun Do lat Class Pref E.Angn.Class A 7 &sp.e ,Do. do. Class B 8 p.c Do. do. Class C 7 p.c h.Coun. Ex. 5 p. c. No.l Do. do. No. Do . New 6 per ct. stock. Eastern Unton,4 per ct. Do. 5 per cent. guar... ; E din. diG 5p.0. shares Do. 4 p. c gtia. S. & D. Min. Perth& Dun. 4 p.c Furness, 5 per cent Glas.& S. Wfst.g.a. 5 p.c, Great Northern, 5 p. Do.sp.c.Redm.,lop.c.pm Do. sp.c. Redm. 5 p.c. pm 'Gt. Nh. of Scotld. Ist pt' Gt Sn. & W (Ireland) , p. et pref. stock I -.mat West. (Berks an Hants) Eat 5 p. et ;I:o. Re deemab , e, p.ct I Do. Redeemable, rp. et. Do Irredeemable, do Do. 5 p.ct. Redeem. Pref Do. Birm. Pref. Shares ;tat W. Ches. 8 p.c. pl. sh Do. do. 5 p. et. pref Do Birmg.zuar. stock Do. Chester gua. shares Do. do. do. Do. do. do. Lan. & Carl. 4i p c. pref. Lan.&York 6 p. c. stock. Do.Barnsl.st£s3s 10d pe Do. 6 per c. (E. Lan.) .. Lcn.& Brig. 5 pc.gu. No.l Do. 5 p. c. No. 2 Do. gua. 6 p. a Do. do 51).c. No. 4 Do. do. 4 per cent Do. do. 4 p. c. shares Do. 7 p. ct. Pref. stock , Do. 6p.c. do. (W.E.&C.P ) Do.4p.e.S.(div.def.til '65) Do. 4 per cent. Prep Lon. Chat. and Dover /' Do.W. A rceiv. no div. Ex.A til6p cispd on Do. B B. & Brom ex. Do. Metropolitan Ex Bi I Lon. and N.W. Coy. and! Nuneaton, 5 p. Lon. & S.W, 7 p. et. stock Do. 44 per cent Do. (Prtsm. perpl anns of 2s. 6d...... ILondondy. dz Cole. 4 sh Londony. & Ennis. sh Man. Sh. &Lin. 6 per et Do. .t 6 Do. 34 per cent Do. redeem. 6 per cent 'ary port & Car., 4 p. c Do. 44 per cent. Mid. Con. 6 p 0. stock Do.Con.Bris. & Bir. 6 r.. 0 Do. 44 p. c. pref. stock Do. 44 per cent Do. Leic. & Hit. pref. st Norfik 5 p. c. Ex. st. 1846 Do. 54 p. C. Pref. do 1847 Do.sWay. Val. Ek.5t.1847 North British, 5 p. o Do. New, gua. 5 p. c Do. Bor. Un. g. pf. shs Do. do. - - do N th.Dev.R ail. & Dck.Co. N-EastCons.Pref. 4 p. Do. 44 p c. redeemable Do. G.N.E. 4 per c. pref Do. Berwick, 4 p.c. Pref Do. Leeds, 6 p. a. No. 1 Do. do. Quarters, 1848 Do. York, R. clz S. Puroh North Staffordshire Rhymney Guaranteed Scottish Central, new pt Scottish North-Eastern 34 p. c. pref. stock Do.Aberdeen,gua.6p.c Do. 7 p. c. pref. stock 1 1 South Devon, Ann. 106. 1 Do. Fixed 4 per cent South Eastern (Reading ) g Ann., 1.0.6) Do. 4i peicent Do. Fixed p.c. Ist is mouth Wales, gua. 4 p. c Do. 14 per cent. Do. 5 per cent' S.-Yorkshire, 4 p. c, gua Stock. & Dar. A 5 p. c Do. B 6 Der cent b.. v. 6 per cent Watrf d 'ana l y, 6p. W.Mid -Oxt let alga stk Do. 2d do I Do.lqewp ort Do.Perpet. 6p. c pf 1866; Do. till 1869 , Ist I. 99 101 20 21 5 ei 100 102 110 115 106 110 105 107 104 106 121 123 80 82 110 112 90 92 77 79 115 117 POO 111 101 103 100 107 97 99 98 100 88 90 89 81 101 103 96 10 164 176 104 10, 73 75 20 21 10 104 15 154 134 136 111 114 111 114 1 136 138 1111 114 1100 102 1150 155 127 130 72 74 93 91 96 98 Id p 13i 14 120 125 a --- 4) 65 70 a IP 134 136 100 102 91 92 110 112 109 111 1 90 92 99 101 101 103 P id *p 22 z 3 135 140 10 104 231 231 99 101 99 101 97 99 83 86 27 28 32 33 32 33 45 48 125 127 117 1 Q 22 118 121 117 120 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Leasing Closing Business Railways. Co. a Price. Done. Bedford and Bletchley all Ln &N.W Bmicing,hamshire .... 100 Do 93 95 Chester & Holyhead... 100 D 0... 52. 631 Do. 51 percent 100 Do ll9 121 Do. 5 „ 100 'Do. .. Clydesdale Juno .. . ... , 100 Caledon lOl 103 Colchester, Stour Val. all 11.11.&E.0 16 17 E.Lincolnsh. OS er a.', p Gt. North. 103 135 E.Union,HarwichSlis.' all 141.Counts.1 41 41 Do. Woodbridge... 100 Gls.Barr.&Neils.Drct. 100 Cale . clon , Do. new lOO I Do. ~.• • • Gloster & Dean Forest all 'Gt. West., Hrtlp'l Dock & Rail. , all Yk.N.& Hull and Selby Do. halves. Do. quarters ' all Do. L ane. &Carl. gua. 5 p.c. 100 Ln &N. W London & Greenwich.] 100 ,S.Eastern Do. Preference .... 100 D 0.... .. • _ ° tt.,Tilbury,& S -end, 100 ;Peto & • Co. Lowestoft gua. 4pc. .I 100 !Norfolk P°• per cent .; 100 Do.i a.,. , Bxtn.,&slatlock all L NW&AI Sint Bradford Prefer ence Stock __e wrearkt,BuryEx. ~„,gutt• 5 percent Do. trDo. ; "til. 51" ''''''''''''''''' and North Preston s D ti o r . Shares ry sz '''''''''''''' Bnystn.Hitch . : ( Ce. Do b do '' S.-Staffordshire Wilts and Somerset„ . . I TrimDledcin dicroys 'lO9 111 197 202 59 61 'llO 115 79 81 SI 3f 93 95 P 64 56 Midland 'E.Counts IDo. IDo. Do. Midland L/it NW 1 & L.Yk. i Do. IGt.North. T.lTtrassey Do. Gt. West. ILABreiII 15 16 130 132 118 122 1 lip 89 91 II 9 stock stock Mock stock stock stock 264 13 100 stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock 10{ stock stock stock 2sAd. 12 stock 6 stock 10s. 10 1.0. 'FIE .. BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Closing Price. 95 97 4 d ,WAYS. 6 6* , - 7 7D } Apr 9i 101 - - 4 3i 11 1 it 23i 24i 81 9 8 Ai 19i 20i 88i 89i 8,1 94 40 41 55 67 5 4 d 6/ 6 ti Ai t 6 1 If It + 25 26# 7 7i 91 10 21t 22i ES. i I 1 z Railways. I Paid. Gu. 5 per cent........ Do, - Do. Buffalo and L axe Huron IDo. New Do. Preference Buffalo,Brant,&Godrich 6 p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 Do. do. July 1, 1873 Do. do. June 1, 1879 Clcutta.&S.Eastn. (Lin.) Cape,Eastn.Prov. Cape Town lz Dock Scrip Ceylon Guarantd. 6 p. c. Demerara.. Eastn. Bengal gu. 5 p. c East Indian, gu. 5 p. c. =Do. F Shares Ext Do. Jubbulpore Do. 4 p c. Debentrs Do. 5 p. c. Deb., 1864 Do. 1865-1870 Grand Trunk of Canada Do. 6 per cent. Pref Do. 2d Pref. 6 per ct Do. 6 per ct. Debentr Do. 7 per cent. 1862 Do. do. 1867 Do. do. 1872 G t.lndlaPenln.gua.sp.c Do. New gua. 5 p. c Gt. South.of India (Lim) guaranteed 5 per cent. Do. do. IGt. W. of Canada Shares' Do. New ... ...... Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. Do. 54 p. c. do. '77 d 0... Do. 54 p. c. do. '7B d 0... Madras guar., 44 p. c... Do. do. 5 per cent .... Do. 41 p. c. Extension Do. 5 Melb.Corp. 6 p. 0. Bnds. NewßrunsVcic Canda lii.iLand(Lim.)g.6pc Class A Capital Share Do. do. Land go. : ...... Do. do. B Capital d 0... Do. do. Land do. ...... Oude (Limited) ........ 1 Scinde ...... •• •• p l.> Do. Punjaub .... 4e, Do. Do. ...... ce t! Do. Indus. St. Flo. g st , Trinidad (Lim.) Scrip.. FOREIGN Algerian Antwerp & Rotterdam. Ardennes Bah.&S.Fran..Lim.7 p.c. ,Belgian East. Junction Beziers to Graissessac.. Carmeaux Mine & Rail Copiapo Ditto Extension Dutch Rhenish ........ Eastern of France .... Grand Rus Guar. 6 p. c. Do. do. Great Central of France Gt. Luxem., Con. she... Italian Junction ...... Lierre & Turnhout .... Lyons & Geneva ...... Namur & Liege Do. 6 p. c. Pref. ........ Northern of France.... Do. New Shares ....... Norwegian Trunk Pref. Paris, Lyons, & Mediter. Paris & 0r1ean5........ Recife & S. Fran. (fern.) pia. 7 p. ct. lim Riga & Dunaburg Royal Danish ...... • • • • Royal Swedish D 0.7 per cent. Pref Sambre & Meuse Do. 51 per cent. Pref San Paulo, lim, g. 7 p. S.Aust. &Lomb Venetin Southern of France S. East Portugal 7 p ct West Flandern ...... Do. 500. c. Preference IW. & N.W. of France Western of Austria Western of Switzerland Wiesbaden ..... . Do. 8 per cent Pref Zealand . . BRTTIS Alfred Consols (Philack)i British Iron Clifford Devon G. Cons. (Tavist ) East Bassett (Illogan) East Caradon ...... E. W'l Russel (Tavistk.) StAubyn(Gwen.) Great South Tolgus G.Wheal Alfa. (Phil ack) G. Wheal Vor (Helston) Grenville I llerod's- Foot illingston Downs !Lady Bertha !Margaret (Coy Lelant) ;North Downs 'North Frances (Illogan) N. Wh'l Basset (1110 ,an) 'North Wheal Crotty , Par Consols (St. Blazey) Providence (Uny Lelnt.)l Sortridge Cons. Min.Co 1 South Caradon(St Cleer) S. Cam Brea (Illogan). • 'S. Dev. Iron &Gen., Lim. S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan), Stray Park Tamar Silv.& Lead Min Tin Croft Vale of Towey (Carm ) West Basset (Illogan) W. Caradon (Liskeard), ;West Seton Wheal Basset i t illogan) IWheal Buller( edruth)' Wheal Edward (Cale.)' Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant)' Wheal Mary Ann (Men.), Wheal Treiawney (Li s.)l etntmuriv Australian BonAccord Copper,Lim. Brazil St.J.del Rey,Lim Do. Land and Mlningr,Co. Clarendon Cons.MinCo Cobre Copper • • ITun Pi lifolm. Cop. Ming Co Australian IBonAccord Copper,Lim 17.6 pr ip 1 Brazil St.J.del Rey,Lim 15 394 40 Do. Land and Mining Co. all 14 Clarendon Cons.MinCo. ; dia. Cobre Copper all 33 37 Copiapo l6 6 8 Dunlloun.Cop.Ming.Co ail I ; Fortuna. all 13 24 General all 22 24 Gt N. Cop. of S. Austr 1 3 p 14 Kapunda (Limited) 1 1 14 p Linares all 7 8 Lusitanian i 2 4 ip Mariquita all 5 N.RhineCopofS.Aus.L 3 5 8 (1 Pontgibaud Silver,Lead: Mining and Smelt..., all 2 4 Port Philip 1 1 l id p 1/ 1 1 Scottish Austrin. (L.) ' 10s. id United Mexican all 5t 6 I Worthing (Limited) 1 all i I JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Agra&UnitedService Bk 50 84 66 'Australasia all 66 68 I Bank of Egypt all 20 21 'Bank of London Bank of Turkey 3 ; 3d British North American all 153 55 Chtd.Bank of India, &c. all '2O 204 Ch. Mer. of In. L on.& Ch. all -- 'City Colonial 25 37 39 Com. Bank of Canada.. all I Commercial of London. 20 Eng., Scot., & Aus. Ch.. all 163 175 Gen. Bk .of Switzerland all Lon. Char Bkof Austral all 24 241 24 5 • • Do. new lO 3 34 ILondon and County 'London Joint Stock London and S.African lO 4 pr London & Westminster 20 66 67 ,67 63 , Nat. Prov. of England . 12 Do. new • National Bank New South Wales.— all 34 36 355 Orient. B. Corporation . all 150 61 501 Ottoman Bank . 'Provincial of Ireland 25 Do. new'all ISouth Australia all Union of Australia Union of London Unity Mutual 6O 'OLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Can. Gov. 6 p.c.Ja. July' 1 1877-9 .l 100 109 114 Do 6p. cent.lBBo-2' 100 1101 Do. 6p. cent.lBB3-4; 100 Do. 6p. c. Aug. l 100 106 108 Do. 6p. c. Mar. & Sept. 100 109 111 Do. 5 per cent lOO 1004 1003 101/ 1 Cape G. Hope, 6 p c,lBBO 100 119 111 Do. 1890 1 100 109 111 N.B.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&Julyl 100 107 109 1084 Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. 100 N. S.W. Gov. sp. c., 1865 100 994 1004 Do. sp. c.,1871 to 1876 100 994 1004 Do. p.c., 1888 &upwde 100 99 100 994 Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. sterling, 1875 lOO 1074 1081 S. Au5,G6p.c.1878.& up lOO Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja. &July 100 Do. do. 6 p.c. Ap.&Oct lOO 1084 109 1081 - Fortuna. General Gt N. Cop. of S. Austr Kapunda (Limited) Linares Lusitanian blariquica 5 Port Philip 1 1 Scottish Austrin. (L.) t81•8f United Mexican • 1 Worthing (Limited) I Do. 100 100 20'11 100 ICan.Gov. 6 p.c.Ja. &July 1877-9 Do 6 p. cent.lBBo-2 Do. 6p. cent.lBB3-4 Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug. Do. 6 p. c. Mar. & Sept. Do. 5 per cent Cape G. Hope, 6 p c,lBBO Do. 18901 N.B.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&Julyl Do. 6p. a. Ap. & Oct. N. S.W. Gov. 5 p. c., 1866 Do. 5 p. c.,1871 to 1876 Do. p.c., 1888 & upwde Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. sterling, 1875 S. Au5,G6p.c.1878.& up Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja. &July Do. do. 6 p.c. Ap.&Oet.. 1 1C8i 109 1081 DOCKS. stock 'Commercial 1 100 ' - I stock IDo. 4 per Cent.Pret.Min 1 100 stock lEast and West India 1 100 120 123 stock ,London stock ISt. Katharine stock I Southampton lOO stock Victoria ..., 100 194 96 20 i Do. New , A .. 2 11 3 d MISCELLANEOUS. 1 1 0 u A A t n i g a l n o t - i s c l ß e x . i is ca n n . s M tm in ( t i d . 1000 ,Atlantic T e l. (Limited) a a a l li l li 1- 134 1244 25 Australian Agricultural 19 29 31 29f 9 10 Berlin Water (Limited) all 45 41 50 British American Land 40 50 B.&l.Mag. TeL A. (Lim.) all 30 35 20 Do. 8,7p.c.11111852 (Lim.) all lB 20 20 Do. C. (Limited ).... :... all 10 13 325 Canada Land .. . . ... all 106 109 10 Chan.lslands Tel. (Lim.' all at. Cop.Min.ofEng.&Smltg. all 25 Do. Pref. 75 per cent .. all 16 17 at. Crystal Palace ...... 100 34 35 341 st. Do. Preference .. . , ... lOO 104 1(6 at. Do. 6 p ct. Perpet. Deb. 100 104 107 20 E.lndia Irrig - n. & Canal 1 pr 1p at. Electric Telegraph .. • • 100 91 96 25 Do. New .... . ....... 15 5 English & Ails. Copper. all 35 31 15 Gen. Steam Navigate in 14 —-- 1 Great Ship lAmited)... all 5 1 Do. 171 pct Prefere nce all I 5 Lon. District Tel. (Lim.) 41 4 L.G. Omnibus Co. (Lim.) all 4 15 20 Madras Irr. and Canal.. 1 ll 24 10 Med. Exten. Tel. (Lim.' all 3 25 National Die. Co. (Lim.) 5 15 5 d 20 Nerbu.Coal&lron (Lim ) 5 0( 4 10 Netherlands Land all 5 Do.B p.c.Pret.iss.atl dis all t 1 100 N.Br.&NovaScotiaLand 81 510 1 N.B.Australasian(Lim.) all 5 1 4 1 Oriental Gas (Limited). all 16 1 Do. New Shares (Lim.). all 16 if 10 Orintl. In. Steam(Lim.) 10 1 4/ at. Peelß.Lnd.&Min.(Lim) 100 48 5o 4 6 i 50 Do. N ew - 5 0 Pen. & O i r n ie T nt e a L l g S .4 t i e p am .e all 67 1 6 1 7 71 4 1 6 83 9 4 20 Red Seat • all 164 175 all 46 5/ ney 2 6 1 0 1 50 52 1 5 10 05 R R ohl) ; ; a nii i n iv n 1 ( Lim ) 100 et. Scot. Austin. 25 1 S p o o u t h D Australian c L ri a p n d aa a 3421 6 ll 2100 1 TrA. Submarine ttuttnri.acsoi.ao(i ) 15 id pr 1 .4 0 Tr u ust andlu Agency l .g m .eSn-e s Y. . 0 ; i " p I ES Diemen m R e e T g a e: C e u r t::: d 28u 9 11 105 111 200 SUI, ,1140ND014, FRIDAY g SEPTIIBER 20, 1861. ;usiness done all 100 all all all all 100 100 100 all [lOO 15 all 100 ,AIL 98 99 4} 41 d 6 7 75 80 65 70 65 70 4k 6k i IP 19,E 20 d 1011 1021 99 101 100 )01 99 100 , 194 20f 63 66 56 60 35 38 40 44 32 34 32 34 99 100 d Id 98 99 91 DI 111 11i 6 98 89 92 87 69 97i fBi 90 92 5 7 1011 2 991 * & 11f 4 8 101 102 id, is POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(this Day.) RAILWAY INZELLIGENCE. CORK AND YOUGHAL. A special meeting of this company was held yes terday at the office, Gresham-house, Old Broad street. Sir C. P. Roney, the chairman, presided. The notice convening the meeting having been read, The CHAIRMAN said the meeting was convened for the purpose of authorising the directors to raise £lO,OOO, being the sum the company had to pay to the Cork Harbour Commissioners. The clause under which it was authorised in the Act of last Session was No. 41. The payment of the £lO,OOO would have the effect of concluding the differences between this company and the Harbour Commissioners. It was somewhat hard upon them that they had to pay this money, because they would get no consideration for it. If it had not been for the course adopted by the Cork Harbour Commissioners the Queens town line would have been opened in the early part of the present year, and the company would have had the benefit of the whole of the summer traffic to and from that desirable place. He then moved a formal resolution authorizing the directors to borrow on mortgage £lO,OOO, at interest not exceeding 5 per cent. per annum, to have priority over all other bonds of the company, and to be payable at the end of five years. Mr. LEWIS wished to know whether the holders of the new bonds would be placed in the same posi tion with regard to their title to payment as the Harbour Commissioners. The CHAIRMAN said, the Act of last session autho rized the issue of those bonds as a first charge upon the undertaking, and therefore the security was ample in every respect. The motion was carried unanimously. It was stated that the branch to Queenstown, and also the extension of the main line from Tivoli to the Cork station, which was opposite the station of the Great Southern and Western Company, would be opened for traffic in about five weeks from the present time. On the motion of Mr. LEWIS, a vote of thanks to the chairman closed the proceedings. BOW-STREET. Samuel Cooke, lately employed as keeper of the Com missionaire Barracks, Exchange-court, Strand, was placed at the bar on remand, charged with embezzling three sums of money received by him for work performed by members of the corps. On the former occasion prisoner was remanded for the attendance of Captain Walter, from whom he said he had received authority to spend what money he required. Captain Walker said—l have command of the Corps of Commissionaires. The prisoner entered the corps, and shortly after he was entrusted, during temporary absence of Sergeant-Major Platt, with receiving money, which he would afterwards have to account either to myself or Platt. I find he has received three sums of money which he has not at all accounted for. Sergeant Murphy—The money received by the prisoner was for the delivery of circulars. Captain Walter—Those sums ought to have been paid over to Sergeant Platt. Mr. Henry—Has he accounted to you for the money so received ? Captain Walter—He has not, and I can't find any entry of those three items ever having been paid in. The pri soner was allowed the basement of the barracks rent free, and received a small fee from each man. He received from that source about eleven shillings, and seven shillings a week for extra duty. He was without the slightest doubt a paid servant. He received the seven shillings a week for the office duty he performed. He had other privileges, which altogether gave him a very good salary. Prisoner—Did you not give me authority to spend what money I required, and did you not lend me £lO to go on with. Captain Walker certainly not. I lent you £lO to enable you to take the barracks of Sergeant Davis. Prisoner—l've paid the £lO into the Westminster Bank. Captain Walter—You have paid that sum in as rent. If not, then you have paid no rent at all, and there is about L 25 due from you on that account. Mr. Henry (to prisoner)—The charge against you is for receiving three sums of money, and not accounting for them to Sergeant Murphy. Prisoner—l say they are all entered, but not in Murphy's book. Capt. Walter gave me authority to spend whatever money I required. Mr. Henry—Capt. Walter distinctly states he did nothing of the sort. The authority you was had to spend barrack money for necessaries, but that was a totally distinct thing from money received from customers for duties performed. Prisoner—ls it at all likely that I, a wounded soldier, with is. 3d. per diem, should abscond for a small sum of money? Why, it would not have been worth my while to do so for £lOO. It would have been an act of madness. Mr. Henry—There's no doubt you did abscond. And as to the questions you ask me, you can put them to the jury. Prisoner—l went away for the day. I did not abscond. Captain Walter had gone into the country, and as there was a dispute, I knew it would be of no use speaking to anybody until he returned. Captain Walter—l did not go into the country until after you absconded. Mr. Blandford, cashier to Mr. Metchim, of Parliament street, proved the payment of on the 22d of July. Mr. Henry—There is no entry of the sum in any book. Sergeant Platt—Nothing of the kind. Prisoner—All I can say is, that is all the money I have received. Police-constable 49 F—When I apprehended the pri soner he said he was sorry he left the barracks. That he was getting drunk and did not like to return. Prisoner—l deny absconding; and as for the sums in dispute, I will pay them by instalments. I never intended to embezzle any money. The prisoner was fully committed for trial. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. DAMAGING PROPERTY ♦T A TAVERN.--TWO grooms named William Ashby and Ensor Clark were charged as follows : Mr. Warren, of the Running Horse, Chapel-street, May fair, said that the previous night the two defendants and a third man came into his house and were served with some porter. They then left, and returned in half an hour intoxi cated and created a great disturbance, got up a fight, smashed some decanters, upset a quantity of spirits, and did damage to the amount of nearly £2. He then got the assistance of the police and gave them into custody. One of the defendants said it was all done by accident, but Mr. Warren denied this. Mr. Beadon said the defendants had no right to go into a man's house, create a disturbance, and then destroy his property. He should order them to pay 30s. each (the amount fixed as the damage by Mr. Warren) or be committed for a month. THIS DAYS MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE. Fresh up to this morning's market the receipts of Eng lish wheat were very moderate. In both red mad white qualities sales progressed steadily, and late rates were well supported. The supply of foreign wheat was by no means extensive, and ths trade, for all derseriptions, rulod vious quotatioa. Floating cargoes of grain changed hands freely, at ex treme currencies. For barley, the supply of which was limited, there Was a steady demand, and in some instances prices had an up ward tendency. The malt trade was in a rather inactive state, yet no change took place in prices. Oats moved off steadily, at the full prices of Monday. The supply on offer was only moderate. With both beans and peas we were scantily supplied, and the quotations for them ruled firm. All kinds of flour were in steady request, and their value was well maintained. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. Eng1i5h........ 2,110 290 1,130 i 190 1 910 Irish 1 F0reign........ 14,280 120 , 40,390 ; sack 9,430 brie. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. These markets are seasonably well supplied with both town and country killed meat. On the whole the demand was steady, but by no means active, at our quotations. Per 81b. by the carcase. s dad sdsd Inferior beef .. 2 10 3 2 Middlingmutton 3 8 4 2 Middling do. .. 3 4 3 6 Prime do .. 4 4 4 6 Frime large do. 3 8 3 10 Veal 3 8 4 8 Do. small do. .. 4 0 4 2 Small pork Large pork .... 4 0 4 6 Lamb Inferior mutton. 3 0 3 6 BOROUGH HOP. The supply of new hops is tolerably extensive, and the demand for them may be considered steady at our quota tions. In yearling and old hops very little is doing. Duty, £115,000 to £120,000. Mid and East Kent pockets 200 s to 273 s per cwt. Weald s Sussex Yearlings COLONIAL. TEA.—The "public sales were concluded yesterday, and full prices were obtained for all good and fine qualities. SUGARS.—The demand for West India has been exceed ingly active, and high rates have been obtained for good and fine descriptions, the reduction in the value of money having caused a firmer tone on the part of importers. COFFEE.- 1 3u , iness in most descriptions has been active, and fine qualities of plantation Ceylon have realised en hanced rates. RICE.—The demand has slightly increased, and higher prices are demanded for all descriptions. SALTPETRE.—OnIy a moderate amount of business has been transacted, without any material alteration in values. TALLOW.—Business has remained inactive for both pre sent and forward delivery, and quotations generally show a downward tendency. THE WEATHER. :CTED TILL TO-MORROW OR NEXT DAY. Strong, southerly to west; rain. Strong, south to south-west ; rain. Fresh, westerly ; showers. South-west to north-wes ; rainy. ,OLOGICA' METEO .L REPORT This Day, between 8 and B. E. M. D. F. C. LS. 9 a.m. ! — Nairn 2942 56 53 S.E. 5 8 0 . 3 Aberdeen... ;29 61 54 53 S.E. 6 9 r. 5 Leith.......... • I 29'63 65 54 W. 3 3 2 Berwick c. ; 29'60 55 53 S.W. 2 7 c. 3 Ardrossan ' 29'63 55 53 W.S.W. 5 4 c. 4 Portri.sh Shields Galway 2 9 .69 55 52 W. 7 6c. 4 Scarborough 29/5 55 54 h. W. 2 8 0. 2 Liverpool 29/7 56 63 W. 3 9r. 2 Valentia. Queenstown ; 2911 59 58 W. 2 1 b. 2 Yarmouth 29'89 58 57 S.W. 3 6 o. 3 London Cover 29'92 64 60 W N.W. 3 4 n. 2 Portsmouth Portland Plymouth Penzance EXPLANATION.—B. Barometer, corrected and reduced to 32 deg at mean sea level ; each 10 feet of vertical rise causing about 1-100th of an inch diminution, and each 10 deg above 32 deg causing nearly 3-100ths increase. E. Exposed thermometer in shade. M. Moistened bulb (for evaporation and dew-point). D. Direction of wind (true — not magnetic). F. Force (1 to 12 —estimated). C. Cloud (1 to 9). I. Initials :—b., blue sky; c., clouds (detached) ; f., fog. ' • h., hail ; 1., lightning ; in., misty (hazy) ; overcast (dull) ; r., rain ; s., snow ; t., thunder. A letter repeated augments—thus, r.r., much rain. S. Sea disturb ance (1 to 9). A curious marriage is about to be celebrated at Prague. The bridegroom, M. Melis, is editor of the DaTibor, and the bride, Mlle.' Korschner, editress of the Lade. The officiating Canon Stule is editor of the Pozor; the bridesman, Jules Gregor, editor of the Harodui Lesty, and the two witnesses, Wawra and Dr. Gregor, are editors of the Om and the Ziva, EAST SOMERSET. The report of the directors states that satisfac tory progress has been made in the extension of the line to Wells, and that there is no reason to anticipate delay beyond the time fixed by the con tract for the opening of this extension of the com pany's railway. An agreement has been entered into with the Great Western Company for working the line when completed to Wells. The traffic re turns show an increase of £264, as compared with the corresponding half of last year. THIS DAY'S SKIPPING. LONDON, Sept. 20.—Wind this day at noon—South- Westerly; moderate breeze, and fine weather, but rather cloudy. GLOUCESTER, Sept. 19.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrived— James N. Hicks, from New York. PLYMOUTH, Sept. 19.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Charlotte, from Salina. SHIERNESS,' Sept.; 19.—Wind W.—Arrived—Fortune, from Quebec. Or PILL, Sept. 19.—European, from Quebec for Gib raltar. BELFAST, Sept. 19.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—lsland Queen, from New York. CARDIFF, Sept. 19.—Wind W.—Sailed—Angest Yore lanee, for Bilboa. DUBLIN, Sept. 19.—Wind S.—Arrived—Alma, from St. John's, N.B. QUEENSTOWN, Sept. IB.—Arrived—Thomas Fielding, from Cardiff for Quebeb; crew refractory, and refusing to proceed. OFF QUEENSTOWN, Sept. 18.—Arrived—Charles, from Quebec. SUNDERLANAD, Sept. 19.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—War Spirit, for Bombay. MALTA, Sept. 13.—The Cora (Italian brig), from Ta ganrog for Queenstown or Falmouth, which put in here on the 7th inst., was leaky, and is repairing. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Friday Morning. Arrived—Fly, from Gravesend. No sailings. (BY SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Friday Morning. Arrived, Sept. 19—Princess Victoria, from Dantzic ; Flanguer, from Archangel; Governor M'Donald, from Bathurst, R.G. ; Lucy, from Guernsey; Hovite Wickzer, from Ancon; Earl of Sunderland, from Cronstadt; Louisa, from Griefswalde; Epemacus, from Engelholm ; Arrow, from Cronstadt; Catterina, from Alexandria; A. Bradshaw, from Hudickswall ; Portia, from Cronstadt ; Aurora, from Sudvisthom ; Catherine, from Stockholm ; Emma, from Pumerand ; Minerva, from Gefle ; Magnet, from Amsterdam. Arrived, Sept. 20—Prospect, from Cronstadt; Emily, from Smyrna; Clyde, from Kurrashee ; Santiago, from Cronstadt ; Saucy Lass, from Harburg ; Auspicious, from Riga. DEAL, Friday Morning. Anchored—Victoria, brig, from Riga for Plymouth. Passed—Alliance brio. from the west for Londan ; Con test, from Lonoton for aroma; 6ampson, screw ..... bound to Genoa. Off Dungeness, Sept. 16—Burgomeister Prahn, from Sun dswall for Bideford. Off Dungeness, Sept. 13—La Jeune Esther, from Riga for the west. BANK OF RIVGLAN_D. An Account, pursuant to t] cap. 32, for the week ending of Sept., 1861: he Act 7th and Bth Victoria. on Wednesday, the 18th day ISSUE DEP Notes issued!...--L27,823,4451 A,RTMENT. Government Debt £11,015,100 Other Securities .. 3,634,900 Gold Coin & Bullion 13,173,445 Silver Bullion .... £27,823,445 £27,823,445 BANKING D: Proprietors' Capi tal £14,553,000 Rest Public Deposits (in cluding Exche quer, Savings' Banks, Commis missioners of Na tional Debt, and Dividend Ac- , EPARTMENT. i Government Secu- rifles (including Dead WeightAn- nutty) _ £10,450,800 Other Securities 17,289,032 Notes Gold and Silver Coin 826,347 counts) 5,061.928 Other Deposits 12,442,80 Seven Day and other Bills 704,792 £36,553,444 £36,553,444 .RSHALL, Chief Cashier. Dated September 19, 1861 The autumn races at Chantilly are to take place on Sunday next, 22d, and Sunday, the 20th October, and those of Paris on the 29th September, and the 6th and 13th October. The Chalons camp has been suddenly broken up sans tambour ni trompette—the usual farewell review was dispensed with. The reason for this haste is stated to be that with the autumnal change of weather the place had be • come unhealthy. SAVANS ON MONT BLANC.—Five German savans, and among them Professor PitPhner, are at present in the midst of the ice near the summit of Mont Blanc. ,They have not suffered from the cold, having taken all necessary precautions to guarantee themselves against it, but they have sustained great inconvenience from the atmosphere, and cannot succeed in satisfying their thirst. They took with them abundance of provisions, but could not eat with out pain, and only desired to drink. As a protection against the reverberation of the sun on the snow they wear a covering over the face, but their features have become so blistered that they can scarcely be recognised. According to the last accounts, they would not be able to live long at the height at which they are without being subject to great changes, physical and moral. They took up with them some animals, which have also suffered greatly ; a cat was incapable of making any movement, and a dog for some days had ceased to bark. Some pigeons appeared to suffer less. THE LIGHTS ON THE WELSH COAST.—At a meet ing of the Mersey Dock and Harbour Board yesterday (Thursday), Mr. Mondel, chairman of the Marine Commit tee, brought forward a proposition for the erection of a lighthouse on the Great Ormshead. The light, Mr. Mondel said, had long been considered a great desideratum on that part of the Welsh coast, and those well acquainted with the entrance to the Mersey—sailors, pilots, and others —were strongly in favour of the proposition. The subject has also received the sanction of the Commissioners of Lights, who made a survey of the coast last year. It was stated that the annual expense incurred, including main tenance, for the regular working of the lighthouse, would be £6OO per annum. After some discussion on the subject, it was referred to the engineer for consideration as regards cost, &c. A Paris letter in a Lyons journal mentions that M. Victor Sejour's new drama, L' Invasion, was prohibited by the censorship principally on account of a scene repre senting an interview between General Blucher and Mar shal Ney, after the battle of Ligny, which scene the marshal speaks of Prussia and her policy in very unmea sured terms. SERIOUS OCCURRENCE.—On Wodnesday an acci dent, attended with results doubly fatal, occurred in the neighbourhood of Sedgley, near Wolverhampton. Mr. Wm. Haden, nailmaker, had been to Dudley in a light con veyance, accompanied by a boy, and was returning home ward. At a particular point in the road an ass laden with brooms was coming from the opposite direction, when the horse took fright, and leaped to the right of the road over a fence and down an embankment. The occupants of the vehicle were of course pitched out, and Mr. Haden was so much injured that he died immediately; the boy escaped with comparatively slight injury. A minute or two after the lifeless body of Mr. Haden was picked up, Mr. Neale, a broker, of Dudley, passed by with some friends, and on being informed of the nature of the occurrence ho became much agitated. After the lapse of a short time he pro ceeded on his journey, but, his excitement increasing, it was deemed expedient to stop and take him into a house, where he expired almost instantaneously without uttering A word. 18.8. all all all all all 3.2.101 54.0 1 1 1 all ! 44 5 14 11 34 36 24 3 1 1 43 45 5 6 34 4 4 54 6 5 6 9 10 41 43 13s 6d' 16 i 18 i 44 46 330 350 80 85 75 SO 11 2 6 7 11 12 13 14 riSl 355 360 774 524 26 27 3t 11 13 31 4i 1 290 300 21 3i f 112 i 117} 30 32 1 1 11 52 . 61 16 14 14 WEATHER EXP: North Britain Ireland East Coast South England THE FRENCH EXPEDITION TO DARIEN. In April last M. Bonardiol, accompanied by several French engineers, proceeded to the Isthmu s of Darien for the purpose of surveying the route for a ship canal between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. They ascended the Savaua river for thirteen miles, and the Lara for nine, and had arrived at the Chuquanaqua, when they were compelled to return by the heavy rains. They met with no opposition from the Indians, and report very favourably of the line, the highest elevation they crossed being 150 metres. M. Bo nardiol and assistants have arrived in New York on their way back to France, and will return to the isthmus in December to complete the survey. The above route, from the Gulf of San Miguel to Caledonia Harbour or Port Escoces, via the Savana, Lara, Chuquanaqua, and Sucubti rivers, is familiar to the public from the writings of Dr. Edward Cullen, who discovered it in 1849. It was imperfectly surveyed in 1854 by a British, French, and American expedition, sent out at his instance, to assist the engineers of the Atlantic and Pacific Junction Company. It will be recollected that Mr. Gisborne, the engineer-in -chief of that company, on his return, in April, 1854, reported that a tunnel three miles in length would be necessary, upon which the company was imme diately dissolved. Five months afterwards, how ever, viz., in September, 1854, the Admiralty published the survey of Caledonia Harbour and Port Escoces, by Commander Parsons, of her Majesty's surveying ship Scorpion, in which a valley is plainly laid down immediately to the west of the mountain which Mr. Gisborne said should be tunnelled. This valley is precisely in the position assigned to it five years be fore by Dr. Cullen, who offered to guide Mr. Gisborne to it. That gentleman, however, so totally disbeli eve d its existence that he never took the trouble to search for it. After the return of the expedition, re iyeeta, Dr. Cullen applied to the British, French, and American government for a renewed survey, founding his demand upon the facts set forth in his pamphlet, entitled " The Mis managed Darien Expedition." At Paris he sub mitted his maps and plans, together with Parsons' survey, to the Emperor, who examined them, and referred the question to a commission of the Corps des Ponts et Chaussees. That commission gave the Emperor a most favourable opinion of the practicability of the canal without a tunnel. Owing, however, to the continual wars in Europe and elsewhere since 1854, the matter lay in abeyance until October, 1859, when Dr. Cullen, on his return from Bogota, had al third audience with the Emperor, who declared hiAecided convic tion of the practicability of the canal and his deter mination to cut it. Hence the expedition of M. Bonardiol and assistants. A BEGGAR BOY SHOT BY A YOUNG WOMAN. The sitting magistrates at the West Riding Court, Bradford, were yesterday (Thursday) engaged in investigating a charge of manslaughter against a young woman named Nancy Wood, daughter of Mr. Jacob Wood, a respectable dairy farmer living at Bolton-fold, near Bradford. The case was of a singular and peculiarly painful character. The prisoner, who is described as an industrious and well-conducted person, lived with her father and mother, and besides assisting in household duties worked as a dressmaker. Her age is 22 years. On Wednesday evening last, between 5 and 6 o'clock, she was at home with some children, when a youth of weak intellect named John Henry Fieldhouse, a pertinacious beggar from Bradford, entered the ' kitchen and asked for drink. Some coffee was given to him by a little boy, the prisoner's brother, after which the mendicant demanded bread. The pri soner ordered him to go away, but he did not do so, whereupon she took down a single. barrelled fowling-piece belonging to an elder brother, which had been placed across a kreel used in drying oaten cakes, and pointed the gun towards the deceased, who had then been in the house about 10 minutes. At that moment Mrs. Wood, the prisoner's mother, entered the house with two cans of milk, and on seeing her daughter holding the gun as described she gave it a slight blow or push with one of her hands, and it went off instantly, the con tents, which proved to be No. 8 shot, entering the right side of the beggar boy's chest, over the region of the heart. His death was instantaneous. Mr. J. N. Terry, who saw him shortly afterwards, stated that the heart was shot to pieces. The gun was produced before the magistrates, and Thos. Wood, the brother of the prisoner, stated that he used it for shooting sparrows, and generally kept it in the house unloaded, but on the last occasion when he had it out of doors he took it home loaded, and is on the bread Kreel, where it remained until his sister got it on the evening in question. The gun was much out of repair, and would go off both at full cock and half cock when slightly struck or shaken, as was shown in court. The trigger, for want of a screw, was tied on with a piece of band. Thomas Wood was unable to say whether he left the gun fully cooked or half-cocked, but he knew he left a percussion cap on it, and be stated that no one saw him load it, nor did be tell anybody that he had left it loaded. The prisoner was taken into custody by William Whitaker, a West Riding police-constable, shortly after the youth was shot, and the body of the deceased was removed to the Bolton Hotel, there to await a coroner's inquest, which will be held to-day. When apprehended the prisoner made no statement, nor did she say auything before the magistrates, but seemed greatly distressed. She was committed for trial at the assizes, and bail (two sureties in £5O each) was taken for her appearance there. OUR FEMALE SERVANTS. The complaint of the scarcity of good female servants is a topic that naturally crops out now and then in the reports and evidence collected and published by the Education Commission. We are reminded that, if servants are demoralized, some of the same causes have been at work among their superiors also. Intellectual have taken the place of domestic pursuits, and the upper and middle classes no longer exercise that constant supervision over their household affairs which they used to do. It is regarded as beneath their dignity, and they are incompetent for it ; for the highest ambition of a young woman is that which she least of all qualifies herself for—namely, to become a wife. Many influences have ope rated to change the character of domestic servants. There is the asserted growing insubordination and love of independence on the part of the rising gene ration ; the larger demand for women in other employments as well as in this ; the love of change and locomotion generated by the increased facility of communication ; and the multiplied temptations to gaiety which prove so attractive to the young. But the school itself, it is said, by a too ambitious course of instruction, often tends to raise girls above domestic service while imperfectly fitting them for it. The Rev. G. W. Proctor, of Devonport, in a communication made by him, refers at some length to the pupil-teacher system, acknowledging it to be a great improvement on the monitorial, but strongly objecting to the tempting and stimu lating girls in humble life to endeavour to attain the power of answering such difficult questions as have been proposed at the examinations for Queen's scholarships ; he says it furnishes them with an excuse for shirking common-sense every day do mestic duties, and fosters the idea of becoming the lady in the family. He states. that respectable Christian mothers of humble life, who would have their daughters live a modest, virtuous, useful life of indsstry, complain that the present system of female education is placing new and unlooked-for difficul ties in their way. It makes young girls impatient and dissatisfied with home restraints and home cir cumstances, more attractive to the seducer of higher social position, and more susceptible of the influence of his refinement of manner and tastes, and so more easily his victims. MISCELLANEOUS STATISTICS.—A volume bearing this title is issued by the Board of Trade in every alternate year. It has just made its appearance. It contains a mul titudinous host of statistical tables, collected chiefly from the various returns made to Parliament from time to time, arranged and classified as they relate to different subjects— population, pauperism, crime, revenue and expenditure, prices and wages, banks, railways, and other matters. Opening the book at random we learn that there were 10,780 miles of electric telegraphs open in the United King dom in 1860, with 51,221 miles of wires, and that they sent 1,789,257 messages for the general public, besides a much larger number sent for the railway companies, public offices, and newspapers. In the course of the year nearly 3,000,000 people visited the national museums, the palaces, the Tower, Greenwich Hospital, and Kew Gardens. , Seventy six persons lost their lives in the year by accidents in facto ries under inspection, 45 travellers by railway accidents, 536 persons by wreaks on our coasts. But it would be vain to try by selections to give any idea of such a collection as this. Unfortunately it shows, the imperfection of many of our statistical returns. The causes tried at Guildhall re turned year after year under the head of "Causes tried at Westminster ;" a return of the number of patients at " the principal London hospitals," taking no notice of University and King's College.hospitals; an annual return of the pro ceedings of the Divorce Court, giving such trivial particu lars as the number of motions and summonses, but never stating the number of divorces decreed—these are instances of defects that mightpurely be remedied. LITERATURE. BULWER'S LIBRARY EDITION. j As the volumes of this very beautiful edition of the tales and romances of our Great Novelist are lengthening out, now, from month to month, their already ample range upon our bookshelves, one gets to understand the more readily how it is that the writer of them has contrived to win for himself, during his own lifetime, a reputation so secure and world-wide. He has seldom, even if ho has ever, strictly speaking, traversed the same field twice. lie has adventured his genius in almost all the various departments of literature. That every one knows, who knows anything at all about his writings. But " that" is not all—" that" is not by any means the secret of the spread and of the permanence of his popularity. The same hand, before now, that has written a play, has written a prose fiction, has written a history, has written essays, has written poems didactic and descriptive. Instance this one of the most delightful Fames treasured up in the Walhalla of English authorship —one of the home-darlings of English literature—dear, honest, gentle hearted Oliver Goldsmith. There arc, per. haps, but few, comparatively speaking, out of the very many who know and live the name of that charming writer, who have ever realised the di versity of his achievements, what is vulgarly termed the versatility of his genius as a man of letters. There are plenty of other writers in our literature who have written more voluminously, but there are very few who have written more variously. What are the famous words Johnson wrote about him in the epitaph in Westminster Abbey ?—nullum fere seri bendi genus non tetigit, nullum quod tetigit non ornavit. It is only necessary to recall to mind that from the hand of this—No, far snore than " inspired idiot"—from the hand of this humble physician who hardly ever earned a fee, Doctor— " Oliver Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll, Who wrote like an angel, and talked like poor Poll 1" It is only necessary to remember that from the hand of that poor hard-working book seller's hack came a poem like the Deserted Vil lage, a play like She Stoops to Conquer, humorous and satirical essays like The Citizen of the World, and a bewitching little story in prose like the Vicar of Wakefield. To say nothing of other inimitable minor performances—trifles, compared with masterpieces such as those we have just enumerated—delightful effusions of the fancy like that sweetest little love-ballad that ever was penned, " Turn gentle hermit of the dale," or like those happiest, wittiest, specimens of the vers de societe—here, in the broad humour of the " Haunch of Venison," here in the delicate sarcasms sparkling all through the poem of " Retaliation." Another instance of varied powers and varied performances starts to recollection, again, upon the thought of that magni ficent cataract of hyperbolical compliments poured forth by Lord Byron upon the saddened heart of poor Richard Brinsley Sheridan towards the close of his brilliant but darkened life. "He has writ ten the best comedy (School for Scandal), the best musical drama (Duenna), the best farce (Critic), the best poetic address (Monologue on Garrick) and, to crown all, delivered the very best oration (the famous Begum Speech) ever conceived or heard in this country." Upon being told of which eulogium, and of who had uttered it, Sheri dan is said to have burst into tears. And no won der. But it is not so much the variety of the fields for intellectual exploit adventured into by the great writer—the Library Edition of whose Tales and Romances we are here referring to—that we really account for the world-wide diffusion and the already assured permanence of his reputation. It is, of course, very notable in his regard as a token at once of his industry and of his ambition—of the wide scope of his ambition and of the ready adaptability of his industry—that he has done so much and in so many different ways. He, too, in his turn possesses a claim to have echoed down to himself the panegyric pronounced by Lord Byron upon Mr. Sheridan. Of him, too, might it be said, as Dr. Johnson wrote of Dr. Goldsmith, nullum fere scribendi genus non tetigit, nullum quod tetigit non ornavit. Besides which—beyond the mere writing —there is his capacity as an Administrator also, which has been signally attested by the organisation 'of a great colony like British Columbia. The only epic poem of the age is his (King Arthur), the most successful drama (The Lady of Lyons), the most brilliant speech of the last few years (the one on Reform) — but, beyond all else that he has done (and here lies the secret of his popularity), there is that extraordinary variety of success achieved by him as a writer of prose-fiction in the one most frequented arena of his intellec tual enterprise, that of purely imaginative literature. For whatever else he has done, and however admirably—he has done this best of all— and the fame of Bnlwer is in consequence essenti ally an d peculiarly the fame of a Novelist, the rattle of a great master of Romance. Glancing through the series of his prose fictions, it is almost like a grave realisation for once of an aptitude like that of the players, according to the garrulous. record of Polonius :—Great " for either tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral- comical, histo rical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-comical," and so forth : " Seneca cannot be too heavy"—those are the metaphysics, "nor Plautus too light"— meaning the many provocatives, here, to laughter. To instance the variety alluded to, merely in a fragmentary way—there are the two last volumes, of this library edition, the volumes issued for August and September. " The Pilgrims of the Rhine," where the elves are dancing as visibly and audibly around the little central group of human beings of which Gertrude, the fated heroine, is " best beautiful" of all—as visibly and audibly the elves dance there about her as she goes as the little Grecian fairies under the moonlit trees in the Mid summer Night's Dream of Shakspere. That is the volume placed last month within reach of the sub scribers. And for the current month there is the first half of " Eugene Aram"—perhaps among all our author's works, in the mere styl e o f th e compo sition, the most perfectly written throughout. Cer tainly the one containing the most truthful delinea tions of Nature—the work presenting to the reader, here and there, veritable photographs of pastoral and sylvan scenery. It is remarkable, too, that in the mia:'lf all the pathetic and tragic interest of the story, - Chere gleams out at intervals in vivid contrast to the passion of the tale, a humorous extravagance absolutely irresistible in its way. Who that has read " Eugene Aram"—that impressive narrative of crime and love—has not preserved a remembrance of that grotesque personage, Corporal Bunting, own brother, surely, of Smollett's immortal Lismahagoe. Corporal Bunting, of the 41st, six foot odd (very odd) in his stockings. Don't we see him breaking into a trot on the Roman•nosed horse, in the wake of young Walter Lester, with that uncomfortable parcel containing the bridle perpetually getting (in the awkwardest way in the world) between the cor poral's seat of leather and his seat of honour." And that ! Don't we remember Corporal Bunting's historian, while describing his appearance, break ing off suddenly in wonder, as he comes in his de scription to" that part which neither Art in bipeds nor Nature in quadrupeds loves to leave wholly ex posed," breaking off suddenly in wonder thus, with —"And that part, ah, how ample ! Had Liston seen it, he would have hid for ever his diminished—op posite to head !" We are there with him again, that delightful Corporal Bunting while hehe is anglin g, in an earlier portion of the narrative, in the plea sant trout stream running through Grassdale. We are there with Walter watching his (the Cor poral's) artful and all confident devices to catch that speckled monster of a trout—first of all with the violet fly—afterwards with the memorable yellow dun—all in vain !We are there again and again standing beside him among the meadow sweet on the bank of the trout stream, under the shadow of the alders—knowing perfectly well what is to come, but never able to resist a laugh when it does come at last —the chagrin and amaze ment of the . disappointed and indignant angler ! The corporal is dexterously manipulating his rod and line with the last potent attraction quiver ing on the hidden hook : " The yellow dun sails aways in affected indifference ; that indifference whets the appetite of the hesitating gazer ; he darts forwards; he is opposite the yellow dun— he pushes h;s nose against it with an eager rudeness—he —no, he does not bite, he recoils, he gazes again with sur— prise and suspicion on the little charmer ; he fades back slowly into deeper water, and then, and then, suddenly turning his tail towards the disappointed bait, he makes off as fast as he can—yonder—y on d er , an d disappears No ! that's he leaping yonder from the wave : Jupiter! what a noble fellow I What leaps he at ?—A real fly! 'D—n his eyes 1 ' growled the Corporal." This, remember, occurring in that tragic tale of Love and Crime, the romance of "Eugene A ram ." It is only another example, however—(ShalEspere abounds in them, witness the Fool in Lear and the Gravedigger in Hamlet)—another example of that long since recognized truth revealing how are allied those contrasting powers of Genius tkti! *Lu win from us at pleasure, alternately c - Lime' together) our laughter and our tears. nearly lol f- FATAL COLLIERY ACCIPBAT , AT RINGLET.-- Two MEN KILLED.—About p a st eight o'clock OR gleY Wednesday morning, an acadent occurred at the Rin - fold Colliery, belongims- to Messrs. Knowles and Stott, by which two brother s, named Thomas Hardman Atherton an d James Athert on, a g ed 29 and 26 res pectively, were killed. Deceased, along with their feather, William Ather ton, were at wor k g ettin g coal, w y, aen a large quantity of t h e mineral fell, and killed the two son b ru i s ing their bodies in a fea' l 8 upon the spot, •ful co nveyed to their homes, andmanner. 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