The Sun. — London, England, 1861-08-27 00:00:00

MONEY DIARKET AND CITY NEWS. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. During the last few days business in the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets has been moderately active. Sugars have fully maintained previous prices, while coffee and rico have been in more request, at slightly enhanced rates. Tea and salt petre have shown little variation in values, while there has been a more active inquiry for tallow, at slightly higher quotations. In the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday there was a very extensive demand, especially on specu ation, and prices of American advanced about : Id. per lb. The sales amounted to 30,000 bales. A moderate demand for accommodation is re ported in the general discount market, and, owing to the continued abundance, the rates still exhibit a downward tendency, which it is thought will soon induce the Bank authorities to reduce their mini mum quotation to 4 per cent. A small supply of gold, viz., about £4,000, was sent into the Bank of England yesterday. The particulars have been advertised of a num ber of Greek bonds which have been drawn for redemption. The traffic receipts of the Great Western Rail way of Canada for the week ending the 10th inst. exhibited a decrease of £1,537 compared with last year. Late yesterday afternoon an advance of s per cent, took place in the English Funds, and this morning, purchases having been resumed, a further improvement of } per cent. has been established. Consols are now 921 y for money, and 92! I for the 10th proximo. The increased firmness of the Rentes has added to the general buoyancy of quotations. • The New Threes and the Reduced have further advanced to 92i ; India Stock remains at 220 ; ditto, 5 per Cents., 1034 e ; and the New Loan Scrip has risen to 1034 1041 ; Exchequer Bills, March, are Gs. to 2s. dis. Very little business has been reported in the Foreign Stock Market, and prices show no impor tant variations. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 781 794 ; ditto 1858, 691 4 ; Peruvian are firm at 99 ; and Dutch 21 per Cents. at 641; Equador Bonds are steady at laq-. Messrs. Bell and Sons give the following quota tions in American Securities : Redeemable. Prices United States 6 per Cents 1867-1868 80 Do. 5 per Cent Bonds Kentucky 6 per Cent. Bonds lB6B-72 68 70 Maryland 5 per Cent. Bonds 65 70 Pennsylvania 5 per Ct. Stock 70 72 Pennsylvania 5 per Ct. Bonds 1877 68 70 Virginian 6 per Cent. Bonds 46 47 Boston 41 per Ct. Strlg. Bonds 83 85 Illinois Central 7 per Cent. Illinois Central 6 per Cent. Do. shares, 80 dols. paid Michigan Central 8 per Cent 1869 80' 82 Do. do. shares New York Central 6 per Ct , not convertible.... - Now York Central 7 per Ct , convertible, from June 15, 1857-59 Do. do. shares New York and Erie, 7 per Ct., Ist mortgage Do. do., 2d mortgage De. do., 3d mortgage Do. do. convertible Do. do. shares Panama 7 per Ct., Ist mort • gage Str. Bonds, not cony.. Do. do., 2d do. 1883 82 84 1864 1867 1859 1883 1862 186:5 1872 89 91 68 70 92 94 92 94 78 79 50 55 20 21 98 100 97 98 The dealings in the Railway Share Market have been to a fair extent, and prices continued to ex hibit increased buoyancy. North Eastern (Ber wick) have advanced 55.; Eastern Counties, North Western, and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 10s. ; South , Eastern, 15s. ; and Great Western, Lancashire and Yorkshire, and Midlands £l. London and Brighton remain heavy at 116 k. In the Foreign and Colonial undertakings the dealings have been limited; prices, however, have also slightly advanced. South Austrian and Lom bardo-Venetian realise 171 ; Grand Trunk of Canada, 20 to 20i ; East India, 1011 ; and Great Indian Peninsula, 98 and 98Z. _ Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares show no material change in values. Oriental Bank realise 50 . 1 51 ; Union of London, 261 ; and Electric Telegraph, 93i. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 92/ I 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities New 3 per Cent. Annuities 92 a I i Ir.Jia Stock . Ditto 5 per Cent. Ditto Loan Scrip, . 5 per cent Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent — Ditto 5 per Cent. Ditto 52 per Cent. Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863 Ditto 1859 Consols for Account, Sept. 10 India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent Mar. 2d p.day. June 3/ p.ct Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2d 6 dis D tto £5OO .. 2 dis Ditto Small L -- FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian 5 per Cent Ditto 41 per Cent., 1860 Chilian 6 per Cent Ditto 41 per Cent .. 821 Equador New Consolidated Peruvian 41 per Cent... Ditto Account Turkish 6 per Cent .. Ditto Now Loan Ditto Account Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 21 per Cent., Exchange 12 Guil. WO 641 T O'CLOCE Consols, Money 921 a Ditto Account THIS DAY'S MARKETS. HAY MARKETS. y, £2 Os to £5 Os Od ; ShinifFlELD. — Old Meadow ha new do., £2 Os to £4 Os ; old clove, do., £3 10s to £6 Os ; new do., £3 lOs to £5 Os; and straw, £1 4s to £1 10s per load. A fair demand. CIIMBERLAND.—OId Meadow hay, £2 Os to £5 Os ; new do., £2 Os to £4 Os : old clover, £3 lOs to £6 Os ; new do., £3 lOs to £5 Os; and straw, £1 4s to £1 12s per load. Trade steady. WHITEC7IAPEL.-01c1 Meadow hay, £2 Os to £5 Os Od; new do., £2 Os to Os ; old clover, £3 lOs to £6 Os Od ; new do., £3 lOs to £5 Os , and straw, £1 4s to £1 12s per load. Both hay and straw were in fair request, at full prices. COLONIAL. TEI.—A fair amount of business has been done in the finer descriptions, and prices have remained steady. SIIGIU.—OnIy limited transactions have been recorded, and there is no change of importance to notice in values. The refined market has been moderately active, at fully pre vious quotations. COFFEE.—A rather large business has been reported in good and fine Plantation Ceylon, and prices have shown a slight upward movement. RICE.—The operations have been to a moderate extent, and fully late rates have been maintained for all descrip tions. SALTPETRE.—Business has been dull, and prices are un altered. TALLOW.—The market has been rather buoyant, and in some instances a slight improvement has taken place in prices. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted 475, and last three months, 47s 6d per cwt. ET—AUG. 26 the close of the market Walls End. s. d. Keiper Grange.... ..17 0 Trimdon Thornley.... 15 6 Hetton South Hartlepool.... l6 9 Byron .....17 0 Tunstall Peases "West .14 6 Hedley 16 0 Thorp e l6 6 Wharnclifte Haswell lB 6 South Hetton 18 6 Hartlepool.... lB 0 Heugh Hall 16 6 Kelloe . .17 6 Cassop l7 6 Stewart's.... lB 6 Acorn Close l6 6 South Kelloe.. l7 6 Brt ddyll's Hetton 17 3 Russel's Hetton l7 0 Peusher Whitworth 15 3 1 Hilda . l5 3 [65; 8013, 118. COAL MAR (Prices of Coal per Ton al s. d. Bate's West Hartley..ls 6 I3yass's Bebside West Hartley .16 6 H ar tlepool West Hart. ley ................. 15 9 Carway and Duffryn Malting ........... 24 0 Do. Anthracite.. 21 6 Holywell ............ 15 6 Tanfield Moor Butes ..12 9 North Pelton ....13 0 Wylam 15 0 West Wylam 13 6, Hastings Hartley l6 6 Walker Primrose 12 3 Lambert's West Hart- ley 16 3 Carr's Original Hartleyl6 6 Huddle's West Hartleyl6 6 West Hartley Eden Main ........ • 17 0 Walls End. Eden ................16 6 Belmont ........... .16 0 Thornley l5 0 Ships at market, THE 31,41 LS. MAILS DUE. Australia, Ceylon, and Mauritius (via South ampton) .. Do. Brazil and Cape Verds Buenos Ayres, Monte Video, &c. Cuba and • Mexicl • • • „ Aug. 28 Canada, &c. (via L'derry) . . Aug. 28 . Cape of Good Hope, &c. Sept. 1. China, Penang, and Singapore (via S'ampton) Sept. 1. Do (via Marseilles) Aug. 26. Gibraltar (via Southampton) .. Overdue. lndia (Calcutta), Ceylon, &c. (via Southampton) Sept. 1. Do. (via Marseilles) Aug. 26. India (Bombay), (via Southampton) .. Overdue. Do. (via Marseilles) .. Aug. 26. Sept. 1. Sept. 18. (via 111arseilles) Sept. 12. . Sept. 3. Lisbon el , •• • 9 ell 111 PREFERENCE SHARES. .J' —.c:::r. ISBA.RE MARKET.-(THIS DAY). GRDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Ra il wa ys. Closing Business Paid. Price. I Done 'Belfast and Ballymena Bir., Wol , and Str. 'Val. Birk., La., and Ch Blyth and Tyne Bo: t_ Slcaf. andMid.Co Bristol and Exeter , Caledonian Carmarthen ,t Cardigan Cork and Bandon Cork, lilrock., ,t Passage Cornwall .... Do A f A gets no div. t Do B u 6pc peran. f hasbeenl d. toB Dublin ,fz Belfast -June Dun., Perth, drAb. J June East Anglian Eastern Counties ,Eastern Union, A stock Do do B do _ . 71 81 84 85 6 7 92 93 103 103 i 5 6 Do Nw A, late El.l3ds l Last Suffolk Edinburgh Sc Glasgow Edin. Perth, & Dundee Forth & Clyde Junction Furness I Glasg. and S. Western Great Nthn. of Scotland Great Northern ...... Do do A stock Do do B do Gt. S. tt W. of Ireland Great Western Do Str Val gua. stock Irish South-eastern I Lancashire & Yorkshire London and Blackwall Lon., Bright.. & S Coast Lond., Ch at., and Dover Lond. &Nth. Western 'Loud. & ;nth. Western L'derry & Coleraine L'derry & Enniskillen Man. Shet. & Lincoln Maryport and Carlisle Do do shares Metropolitan Midland Do new Do 'Riming. & Derby Slid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do shares Mid Kent.... • • •• •• •• •• Do, Cray Line Newcastle and Ctrlisle Newry Az Armagh, def Newry, Warnpt. do Ros Norfolk . ...... North British Nor.Dev.Rail&Dk.stock Do k ttk ; A revs no d., until 6pchas beenpd.B Do B stock ....: Nth. Eastern—Berwick Dodo , purchase Do Leeds Do York North London I Do new !North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Not. &Grantham Rail feebler Portsmouth Rhymney Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock Do Scot. Mid. stock Shropshire Union Sittingtourne & Sheer. South Devon . . • • S.-Durham & Lane. Un ' South Eastern ...... South Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines, Wok,. and Wok Stockton & Darlington Do do _ Yo New (1860) sit Vale Do Pref. No 1 I t' VmesHavenDk&Rail Du .......... ...... .. Do . : . . Vale of Neath Victoria Sta. and Plm Water! ord & Kilkenny Waterford & Limerick West Cot nwall West London Do let class Do 2d class West Hartlepool Harbr and Rail West Midland—Oxford Do. Newport' Do. Herefordt 41 43 si 9 17 18 50 51 39 41 28 30 861 871 28 29 106 108 132 134 107 1(9 98 09 129 131 105 106 67! 68i 58 62 109 109} 58 a 116 118 48 61 924 93 95 96 lin Ile 44 46i 4 B 127 1271 11 11 p 99 101 8 6d 56 68 62 63 103 k 104 60 60k 91,1 92i 93 96 4i 41 i 10i i 88 92 116 118 35 36 89 91 45 4: 81i 811 ' 64 66 94 97 4 7 38 39 8 i 6 Oi P 5 p 554 564 2i 3ip lel P 111 12 51 61 44 48 42 13 85 88 Share) Closing Business Share Price. Done. Blythe and Tyne 10 per c. pref. (issued at £5 , Bris. & Exet.4 p.ctstocl Do. do. do. Shares Caledon £10,44 percent Do. Quar. Shares, No. 2. Cork & Bandon, 54 p. Cornwall. 5 per cent IDun.Perth&Aber.Jun. Do Ist Class Pref lE.Angn.Class A 7 &sp.c Do. do. Class B 6 p.c... • Do. do. Class C 7 p.c E. Coun. Ex. 5 p. a No.l Do. do. No. " Do. New 6 per ct. stock. Eastern Union, 4 per ct. Do. 5 per cent. guar... din.&G las. sp.c. shares I Do. 4p. c gua. S. &D. Perth& Dun. 4 p.c. Furness, 5 per cent .... Glas.& S. West.g.a. 5 p.c, Great Northern, 5 p. ct.l Vo.sp.c.Redm., 10 p.c.pm Do. 44 p. c. do. do. Do. sp.c. Redm. 5 p.c. pm Nh. of Scotld. Ist pf 5,Gt.Sn. & W (Ireland) 1 p. et. pref. stock Great West. (Berks an Hants) Ext. 6 p. et t: o. Itedeemable,44p.ct. Do. Redeemable, 4 p. et. Do. Irredeemable, do Do. 5 p.ct. Redeem. Pref Do. Birm. Pref. Shares Gt. W. Ches. 8 p.c. pf.sh ' Do. do. 5 p. et. pref Do Birmg.guar. 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.Es3s 10d pc Do. 6 per c. (E. Lan.) Lon.& Brig. 5 pe.gn. No.l Do. 5 p. c. No. 2 Do. gua. 6 p. c. Do. do sf. c. No. 4 Do. do. 4 per cent , . Do. do. 4 p. c. shares Do. 7 p. et. Pref. stock Do. 6p.c. do. (W.E.&C.P ) Do.4p.c.S.(div.def.til '651 Do. 4 per cent. Pref Lon. Chat, and Dover Do.W. A rceiv. no div Ex.Af til6p cis pd on Do. B B. & Brom ex. Do. Metropolitan Ex B Lon. and N.W. Coy. and Nuneaton, 5 p. et Lon. & S.W, 7 p. et. stock Do. 4i per cent .. Do. (Prtsm. perpl anns. of 2s. 6d..... ..... .... Londondy. & Cole. i sh Londony. & Ennis. sh 1 'llan. Sit. &Lin. 6 per et Do. .£6 Do. 34 per cent Do. redeem. 6 percent :Jaryport & Car., 4 p. c Do. 44 per cent. Mid. Con. 6 p c. stock Do.Con.Bris. & Bir. 6 p.c Do. 4a p. c. pref. stock Do. 44 per cent Do. Leic. & Hit. pref. at Norflk 5 p. c. Ex. st. 1846 Do. 5a p. C. Pref. do 1847 Do.sWay. Val.Ex.st.lB47 INorth British, 5 p. o. Do. New, gua. 5 p. 0 Do. Bor. Lin. g. pf. she Do. do. do Nth.Dev.Rall.& Dck.Co. N-East.Cons.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. s. No. 1 Do. do. Quarters, 1848 Do. York, H. & S. Parch. North Staffordshire Rhymney Guaranteed. Scottish Central, new p 1 Scottish North-Eastern 34 p. c. pref. stock.... Do.Aberdeen,gua.6p.c. Do. 7 p. a pref. stock South Devon, Ann. 10s. Do. Fixed 44 per cent. South Eastern (Reading Ann., 1.0.6) Do. 44 per cent Do. Fixed 1 ip.c. let is iouth Wales, gua. 4 p. c Do. 44 per cent Do. 5 per cent' S.-Yorkshire, 4 p. c, gua Stock. .15 Dar. A 5 p. 0 Do. B 6 Der cent Do. C 6 percent Watrfd & iCilkny, 6 p. c W.Mid -Oxf lst Gua stk Do. 2d do Do. Newport 5 p.c.pf. red. Do.Perpet. 6 p. c. pf 1866 Do. till 1869, let is. LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Railways. Paid Co.'s Leasing Closing Business Co.'s Price. Done. Bedford and Bletchley all Ln &N.W • • • • Buckinghamshire . 100 Do ..... 94 96 Chester & Holyhead 100 D 0:....... 52 53 Clyd DD es oo dale June lOO D. 54 percent 100 Do o 119 121 109 211 100 'Caledon lOl 103 Colchester, Stour Val. all E.U.&E.O 15 16 E.Lincolnsh. g 6 per c.l ICO Gt. North. 132 134 E.Union,llarwichShs. alt E.Counts. 44 Do. Woodbridg,e....l 100 Gls.Barr.&Neils.Drct. 100 Caledon , Do. new............ 100 1 1)o. Gloster & Dean Forest all Gt. West. 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West. 1.4 Brea, stock stock stock 1101 103 20 21 51 01 99 101 108 112 105 108 107 109 106 108 122 124 80 83 109 111 90 92 75 77 116 118 110 112 102 104 106 108 97 99 96 98 87 8) 87 8J 100 102 94 10 16i 174 10} 10/ 75 77 204 214 104 10, 154 151 110 113 110 113 133 136 110 113 160 102 148 153 127 130 71 74 94 97 I 13i 14 120 125 P l 65 70 I I iP [32 134 [O2 103 91 93 109 111 108 110 1 I} p 88 go 99 101 101 103 P # P 22 d 23 132 134 10 104 23 231 97 99 97 99 98 100 83 86 26 27 31 32 31 32 43 46 ;124 126 119 121 102 104 121 123 'll6 120 31 31 94 96 1 i 1 . 1) 55 57 15 lei 129 131 120 125 1 lip 88 90 Sit gi stock 50 stork stock stock stock stock 26 134 100 stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock 1 1 stock stock stock stock 10{ 10 stock stock I stock 2s. 6d. 124 124 stock 6 stock 49i 50 69 i 81 91 1091 4 1 4 10 1164 934 3 4 124 1 11 p 100 - 1.4.0. 100 all all all all all 100 100 100 'lO 13 4 100 100 100 10n 2 P 92} 2 100 all all all all all all 'lOO 100 100 100 all all 57 p 130., i 4 T SUN, LONDO N 1; TUESDAY NR G, AUGUST 27, 1861. LA TV INTELLIGENCE.—(This' .Day.) THE HARVEST. (Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.) This bankrupt was described as of Lincoln's-inn-fields, bookseller, &c., and this was a certificate meeting. The accounts by Messrs. Hart Brothers and Hayles shows debtor to creditor £2,117; to ditto holding security £8,557. Creditor by good debts £658 ; property £9Bl. Debts in the hands of creditors, £917. There was no opposition. Mr. C. E. Lewis (Harrison and Lewis) for the bank rupt, said that he (banlwupt) had been in business for 36 years, and although it w,.s true that there was a deficiency for some time, he had continued business with the sanction of creditors to the extent of £B,OOO. A great cause of the failure was the trade unions and combinations, whereby the expenses had been increased 25 per cent. His Honour said that these combinations were highly injurious, but the bankrupt ought not to have gone on so long. Mr. Lewis said that no creditor complained. His Honour said that, ender the circumstances, he would grant a certificate of the second class. POLICE I.II ( TELLIGENCE.—( This Day.) MARLBOROUGH-STRE ET. MURDEROUS ASSAULT ON A WOMAN.—Michael Denny, a boy living at 66, King-street, was charged before Mr. Mansfield with being concerned, with a woman not in custody, in assaulting a female named Honorah Harty. A certificate was handed to the magistrate as follows : "Middlesex Hospital, Aug. 26. " This is to certify that Honorah Harty has received a scalp wound. " W. WILKS, House Surgeon." Prosecutrix said she lived in Archer-street, and was having a few words with prisoner's mother, when he came up and kicked her in the back severely. Mr. Mansfield—Why did he do it ? Prosecutrix—From animosity and to help his mother. His mother then came up and struck me a severe blow on the head with a horse shoe, cutting my head very badly and smothering me in blood. (The prosecutrix had her head bound up, and her dress was bespattered with blood.) Mr. Mansfield—The best way will be to have a remand till Monday next to see how the woman gets on, and I will grant a warrant for the apprehension of the woman free of charge. George Kelly, 71, Castle-street, wheelwright, was charged with assaulting Allcock, 114 E, and fined £5 or a month, and Anne Jones was fined 10s. or seven days for assaulting Richard Cook, 96 E. During the past fortnight the harvest has been rapidly proceeding throughout the country, the weatlier having for some days been all that could be desired for the ingathering of the crop. Very great diversity of opinion is expressed by agricul tural authorities as to the quality of the wheat crop., There can, however, be little doubt that the extraordinary severity of the frosts last winter, with the heavy rains which fell both last autumn and in the spring, have in some districts greatly injured the wheat. Both quantity and quality will, in clay districts especially, be defective, while in other parts of the country the quality will be ex cellent, though, with few exceptions, the crop will by no means be a heavy one. Under these circumstances denoting the remark able variability of this year's crop, it is premature to speculate on the probable average of the yield. The most sanguine will scarcely predict more than an average. We incline to think that it will be below the average. Of the destructive progress of the potato disease both in this country and in Ireland, there can be no doubt. The potato crop is very bad in nearly every part of the kingdom. Trade meanwhile is in a depressed and languish ing condition. In Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds, Birmingham, and all the great hives of industry, our commercial prospects are far from satisfactory. Both the failure of the potato crop and the de pression of trade necessitate increased consumption of wheat. The working millions eat more bread be cause they have fewer potatoes, and also because having lower wages or less employment they are obliged to buy less animal food. Under this state of things, our contemporary, the Times, inserts a suggestive paragraph on " the im portance of a good harvest" on one day, and writes a smart article on the same subject on the day fol lowing. We beg leave to say a few words on the paragraph and the article. We give the former, and assume its correctness : " THE IMPORTANCE OF A GOOD HARVEST. " The cost of the imports of grain of all kinds, as well as flour for the last seven years, were in the year 1854, £21,760,283; 1855, £17,508,700; 1856, £23,039,422 ; 1857, £19,380,567 ; 1858, £20,152,641 ; 1859, £18,042,063, making a total in six years of £119,833,676, and an annual average of £19,980,613 paid for foreign grain and flour, while in the year 1860 the cost amounted to the enormous sum of £31,671,918, mainly owing to the bad harvest in England ; but these figures do not represent by any means the full extent to which we are still subjected by the harvest of 1860. They only show what a large sum of money we have paid ; but the payments in that year were not near so heavy as they have been since. The official infor mation brought down to the end of April makes the value of the grain and flour imported in the first four months of 1859 £4,384,045 ; 1860, £3,913,001 ; and 1861, £12,435,435, by which it will be seen that we have been paying for the first four months of the current year at the rate of £37,306,305 per annum or £8,522,434 more for breadstuffs than in the same period of 1860." Now let it first be observed that we consider a good harvest a great blessing. We plough and sow and reap hoping for a harvest. The more abun dant the harvest, the more productive is our labour. Every man, high or low, prefers having good bread rather than bad ; good and cheap bread, rather than bad and dear bread. But when the importance of a good harvest to England is estimated in a financial way, and we are told the' we are subjected, in 1860, to the payment of theenormous sum of £31,671,918, mainly owing to the bad harvest in England, it is probable that many readers of this statement mag nify the evil of this state of things, and conclude that the country must necessarily suffer from the expenditure of this " enormous sum " for food. Enormous as this sum appears, let it be remembered that it is only one pound a head ; and let it be also remembered that the income tax, on merely the higher and middle classes of this country, produces a million sterling for every penny imposed as a tax. But taking one year with another, a great country in a healthy condition of trade, can never suffer much by hav ing to pay something extra for the food which its people need. How do we buy food ? Let it be sup posed that we pay the total amount in gold and silver. What then ? We barter somethinc , which we do not want for sometling else which . we do want. "It is said," observes M. Bastiat, in his Sophismes Economiques, " if the foreigner inun • dates us with his produce, he will carry away all our money. But what does that signify ? Man is not nourished by money. He does not clothe him self with gold. He does not warm himself with silver. What does it signify whether there be more or less money in the country, if there be more bread in the safe, more meat in the larder, more linen in the press, and more fuel in the cellar ?" But we do not produce gold and silver in Eng land. We buy gold and silver money with our goods. If we have more gold to give for foreign corn, we must give more goods for the gold which we give for the corn. We exchange, therefore, our superabundance of goods for the requisite supply of food. But, if we are to believe the slashing, dashing writer in the Tines, all the great events of the world depend upon a good or bad crop of wheat. "What," says he of the thunderer, " does the peace of the world depend on at this moment ?" Not, says he, upon America nor France, nor Mr. Lincoln, nor the Pope, nor the Emperor of Austria ; " it depends wholely and solely, according to human calculation upon a few days more sunshine." " Yesterday was worth at least two millions to England alone. The day before yesterday was worth quite as much. Every ray that embrowns our rust ling fields, every zephyr that ventilates the mass of tali stalks, has its money value. It is a question to us of at least thirty millions. That is, however, the smallest matter involved in it. A bad harvest, such as is still quite possible, although we are all hoping that we have passed the danger, coming upon the heels of the failure of last year, would mean famine prices, restricted employment, suffering among the masses, discontent, disaffection, agitation. It is not only that we should have thirty millions more to pay, but that we should also have at least thirty millions less wherewith to pay them. Not vainly did the old apophthegm link peace and plenty to gether, although it falaciously transposed the two words, and accepted as the effect what is more cer tainly the cause. In this country at least plenty has never failed to produce contentment, and con tentment has never failed to produce peace. The trade of the agitator has never yet thriven in Eng land while wages were good and food cheap. Thanks to our open ports and our extraordinary commercial prosperity, we have tided over one bad harvest, and have scarcely felt it. India and China have kept our looms working, and America and Russia have kept out famine. Let us pray that we may not be put to the experiment of a second year of trial. But we are not alone. We might have disagreements among ourselves, but should hardly hope to find relief by rushing unprovoked into foreign war. Such, however, is not the habit of all nations. France depends upon her harvest quite as much—perhaps even more, than we do. That the harvest of 1861 in France will be rather deficient seems to be already ascertained ; but to gather in even the deficient harvest, and to avoid a catastrophe our accounts require ten, days of fine weather. Talk of the Sun of Austerlitz ; the fortunes of France hang much more immediately upon the sunshine of the next few days of August. Floods in France just now mean war in Europe end revolutionary devas f tation everywhere. Let others examine micro scopically the warp and woof of the policy of Princes, and balance the resources of nations; just at this moment we would trust more in a weather cock and a barometer than in all the promises of man. A good harvest in Europe will be not only a pledge of peace here, but will give a hope of peace to America. There are evident signs that the State resources at this moment are not abundant on either side. " Some thirty millions of English gold might seasonably light up the fires anew, and give an impetus to the flagging resentments of the Northern States, as well as to the commerce of the Atlantic cities. Sunshine—a few days of this baking sunshine—will relieve us from the necessity of paying this tribute, and will enable us to eat our own bread and keep our own money." "If France should be only a little short, and if England should have an average crop, there will be good chance of peace in Europe for the twelve months yet to come. Occupied time and full bellies will keep the world from quarreling. But the Heavens—even the material Heavens—have more to do with it than the passions or the machinations of men. There is more war in a day's rain than in an Emperor's most ambitious project, and more peace in a morning's sunshine than even in a treaty of commerce." All this is readable, amusing nonsense. A rich commercial nation, under an equitable financial system, would be just as well able to buy food for its people when a bad harvest occurs, as the editor of the Times is to pay his baker's bill when bread is dear. But there is truth in what the Times says, though the writer " meaneth not so." He affirms that " a bad harvest, coming upon the heels of the failure of last year, would mean famine prices, re stricted employment, suffering among the masses, discontent, disaffection, agitation." Let " sunshine" enable us " to eat our own bread and keep our own money," and all will be right. Now, why cannot England buy bread for its people without inconvenience? This is the reason why. If wheat comes into the country. it may answer the purpose of the foreigner to take gold, THAMES. TOBACCO SMUGGLING.—James Wallraven, the steward of the Dolphin, steamship, was brought before Mr. Wool rych, charged with smuggling 2lb. of foreign manufac tured tobacco. Giles Hedges, a Custom-house officer, stated that last night he searched the prisoner as he was leaving the Dolphin at Irongate-stairs, and found upon him 211 b of cigars and tobacco. The value and duty was £1 3s. 6d. The defendant admitted he had smuggled the tobacco and cigars, and was fined £1 3s. 6d., which he paid. FURIOUS DRIVING— DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—John G. Fell, stated to be a ladies' hat maker and man milliner, was brought before Mr. Woolrych, charged with furious driving. Numerous witnesses deposed that the prisoner was driving a horse and light chaise cart in a furious and reckless man ner last night in the Mile-end. Another horse and cart was driven in a similar manner. The parties were actually racing, although the road was crowded, and the band of a rifle corps was playing a tune at the time. A man was knocked down by the first horse and cart, and the prisoner then drove over him and run down a girl aged 11, who was seriously injured. After a severe struggle he was secured. Mr. Woolrych commented in severe terms on the scan dalous conduct of the prisoner, and fined him 40s. for furious driving. Actions will be brought against him by several persons. STVINDLINc BY A PRIEST. An interdicted priest of the name of Vidal, about thirty years of age, was on Saturday tried by the Tribunal of Correctional Police on the charge of swindling. Ile belongs, it appears, to the diocese of Toulon and Frejus, but in 1857 was placed under interdiction of his bishop for having been concerned with a commission agent in usurious money lending. He came up to Paris in November of that year in a state of such extreme poverty that his soutane was in rags—so much so that boys followed him in the streets—and he could obtain no other lodging than a garret, which was given to him from charity, and in which he slept on a mattress without any covering. In short he would probably have died of starvation but for two old women, both of them concierges, who kindly supplied him with two meals a day. Not withstanding this he contrived to find fifteen per sons who each advanced 100 fr. to enable him to establish a periodical called Les Conferences Eccle siastigues, and he afterwards found other dupes, who gave him money to start another journal called L'Auxzliaire du Clerge des Vales et des Campagnes. In connection with these publications he engaged in a singular traffic. It is the custom, it appears, for pious persons to pay priests to say masses for particular "intentions," as the phrase is, and that it often happens that one single priest accepts payment for as many as 10,000 or 12,000 masses, the sum given being generally 1 fr. per mass. As it is impossible that he can get through so many in a reasonable time, he is under the necessity of transferring a portion of them to other priests. Instead, however, of doing so di rectly, the practice is for a clerical bookseller to find priests willing to say the masses, and, receiving the money paid for them, giving in return a present of books. Thus, supposi ng a priest had been paid for 1,200 or 1,500 masses more than he can celebrate himself, he carries 1,200 fr. or 1,500 fr. to the book sellers, and receives 50fr., 100 fr., or 200 fr. worth of books; the bookseller, in his turn, getting priests to say the masses as cheaply as he can. By means of this system, Vidal committed swindling. He represented to a bookseter, named Gauguet, that a vast number of priests had taken subscrip tions to his periodicals on condition of paying them in masses for " intentions" to be indicated by him; and Gauguet autiorised him to have 14,000 fr. worth of masses said, the sum to be paid in books. But though Vidal received books to the value of about 7,000 fr., he had nothing like that amount of masses celebratel, and therefore was charged with swindling tie tradesmen. He, it is true, gave him a list of the priests by whom he pretended that the greater part of the masses had been performed, but it turned oat afterwards that he had put down 360 as said by one priest, when )nly 60 had been cele brated ; 186 by another, instead of 18 ; and so on. In addition to this, it was proved that defendant had formed what he called Caisse des Economies du Clergee, the object of which was, he said, to re ceive in deposit funds belonging to clergymen at 5 per cent. interest ; and he obtained about 140,000 fr., the greater part )f which sum he appro priated. It was likewise shown that he had bought a large house and garden on the Boulevard Mont parnasse for 175,000 fr., but had only paid about 24,000 fr. of the amount; Set he represented the house as a guarantee for the advances made to his Caisse. The tribunal condemned him to three year's imprisonment, 500 fr. fine, and five years' interdic tion of civil rights. EXPORTATION OF COTTON FROM LIVERPOOL TO NEW YORK.—Lost week no less than 15,000 bales of Surat cotton were sent from Liverpool to North America, via New York. Such an occurrence is, we believe, un precedented. ANOTHER CRINOLINE ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday a married woman, named Baylis, living in Bridport, near Worcester, was very seriously burnt. She had been wash ing her daughter's child by the kitchen fire, :and was washing her own face, when her dress, which was expanded by crinoline, caught fire, and she was immediately enve loped in flames. She ran into the street shouting for help, her clothes a mass of flames. H e l p was imme diately given by her neighbours, a blanket was thrown over her, and she was carried into her house, where the remains of the burnt clothes were cut off. A surgeon was immediately sent for, who rendered every assistance, in his power, but the poor woman now lies in a very precarious state. HULL STEAMERS.—By a private letter dated the 18th of August from 'Windom, on the Courland Coast, about 120 miles from Riga, addressed to Messrs. Good, Floodman, and Co., Hull, we learn the sad tidings t hat part of a broken nameboard has been found (probably that at the bows), on which, in gilt letters on a blue ground, were the letters "AR SO N," evidently part of the nameboard of the lost Z. C. Pearson. This solo relic of this splendid vessel was washed ashore on the 17th, and the letter contains an expression of the writer's belief that, considering the time that had even then elapsed, there could be no hopes enter tained of the safety of those on board. The fact that the bow-board has been found tends to confirm the statement previously made that the steamer wa s lost from collision. HAILEYBURY COLLEGE.—This building, in which so many of the civil servants of India were trained under the old regime, to be sold by auction by order of the Secretary of State in Council. The college is situate near to Hoddesden end Hertford. It is of quadrangular form, and contains accommodation for upwards of 100 persons in separate rooms, with houses and gardens for the prin cipals. It is surrounded by 55 acres of land, laid out in paddocks and cricket grounds. The college took its name from a former chairman of the East India Board of Direc tors, BRITISH i'OSSESSIONS, Paid. 97 98 6 7 75 80 68 70 65 70 5 5i 5 7 4 6 /100 15 all 100 1 AIL ,WAYS . 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If gold be drained out of the eountry, the paper cur ' rency of the country is immediately contracted, discounts are raised, prices are lowered, trade is depressed, panic arises, and then succeed " re stricted employment, suffering among the masses, discontent, disaffection, agitation." These effects arose in 1819, 1825, 1847, and 1857. Why, Lord Liverpool affirmed at one time when the distress of the country from a dearth of money was exces sive, that the distress arose from the harvests being too good. Over-production of food, he said, was ruining the country. Again, at the beginning of this century the harvests were much worse than they have been since. In 1800 the scarcity of wheat was extreme. We had then paper money and no gold. We bought bread for our people with our commodities, there was no commercial depres sion, and the speech from the throne, in the follow ing year, refers to "the continued prosperity of the country." It is not the loss of a few days' sunshine that half ruins England. It is the action of bullionist moon shine, of the ridiculous, contemptible currency crotchets of Peel andOverstone which have been, for forty years, a greater curse to this country than plague, pestilence, or famine. The self-condemned fallacies of Peel—condemned by panic after panic, and one order in council after another—would long since have been thrown to the winds had not the gold discoveries of California and Australia bolstered up their decrepitude. Let us tell our sunshiny and bucolic friend of the limes another thing. We have learned a good deal from the Americans. They may probably after all give us a lesson in paper money. They are now about to issue Treasury notes, of small amount, made a legal tender, and receivable for taxes. If properly managed, these notes will be of great use to the Federal States. And with them —come bad har vests or good—they may, as England did from 1797 to 1815, carry on a great war.—Derbyshire Courier. STATE OF HUNGARY. (From the Times•) PESTH, AUG. 22. This has been the day of the greatest political excitement 1 have as yet witnessed in Pesth. Ge neral Count Haller arrived here at 4 o'clock this morning, armed with the Rescript. The Chamber was summoned for noon, and long before that hour crowds were streaming towards it. So crowded within and so besieged without I never yet saw it. The galleries were filled with spectators of a higher class than has been during this latter part of the session. A number of foreigners were present, and among them, in the front row, were the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, who arrived hereyesterday, just in time for the decease of the Diet. The pro ceedings commenced by a secretary reading the introduction of Count Haller to the Chambers, and his authorisation as Royal Commissioner. It was signed by the Emperor and by Count Forgach, and said that the Diet should submit itself to the commands of the Count Haller aforesaid, the enumeration of whose title, offices, and decora tions, comprised in the document, excited some merriment. President Ghyczy then said that his Excellency the Royal Commissioner bad requested the Presidents of both Chambers to call upon him early this morning at the Palace at Buda, to receive communication of the Royal Rescript, and that he had then given them to understand that, unless the Diet submitted and obeyed he should be compelled to employ military force. At this there were murmurs in the Chamber. The President then produced the Rescript and gave it to a Secretary to read. It so happens that the gentleman in question has, in reading anload as is necessary for him to be heard all through the Chamber, a voice both hard and harsh, and it seemed to grate upon the ears of the audience as it enounced the dry and by no means conciliatory sentences of the Rescript, which was repeatedly interrupted, as had been the reading of Count Haller's introduction, by deep and angry murmurs on the part of the Deputies. The follow ing are the terms of the Rescript : " Francis Joseph I.,by the grace of God Emperor of Austria, King of ungary, Bohemia, &c. " To the faithful Magnates and Representatives of Hungary and its annexed States, who, on the 2d of April, 1861, were by us convoked in Diet, health and greeting. " Dear and loyal Subjects,—Forasmuch as the Hungarian Diet, nowfor the last five months assem bled, has not corresponded to the invitations ad dressed to it, and as we, to our heartfelt regret, can not await, from such a Diet, useful activity in the interests of our Kingdom of Hungary—from a Diet which, in these extraordinary times, and to its own greatest injury, , has so greatly mistaken its high vocation ; forasmuch as the said Diet has itself de clared broken asunder the threads which might have led to a settlement of affairs—and that merely because demands have not been complied with, the extent and import of which rendered them wholly inadmissible ; we, therefore, feel ourselves compelled to dissolve the Diet called together on the 2d of April, and hereby do accordingly dissolve it, and reserve to ourselves to call together a new Diet, according to circumstances, in the course of six months. " Whereupon we remain, with our Imperial and Royal Grace, &c., " FRANCIS JOSEPH. " Done in our mperial capital of Vienna, in Aus tria, Aug. 21, 1861." M. Bernath, the old and respected Deputy of the Left, who proposed the unanimous adoption of Deak's Address on the Bth inst., rose when the read ing of the Rescript and the noises which greeted its conclusion had terminated, and remarked that what before had been but an accredited report had now become a dismal fact, and the Diet was dissolved without any practical result having been derived from the session. He should have to invent words to express the grief of the nation, but, as it was, they they could but submit to the command. M. Bernath having inadvertently used a word which expresses more than mere submission, and may be better translated as a bowing of the knee, this, in the excited state of the Chamber, led to an indignant outcry, with exclamations of " No, no! Never !" "We do it only by compulsion !" and the like. M. Bernath explained ; and Deak, who had been received, as well as President Ghyczy and Baron Vay, on their entrance into the Chamber with loud applause, now rose amid en thusiastic shouts of " _Eljen Deak!" He said that, after the reading of the Imperial Rescript, and after what had been heard from the respected Presi dent concerning the dissolution of the Chamber (this referred to the menace of employing force), further discussion was out of the question. They could not oppose resistance to military force. " Let us hold fast by the Protest," he concluded, " which both Houses adopted yesterday." Whereupon the whole Chamber rose in a perfect tumult of excite ment, and, as if inspired by the bold and fearless tone in which Deak had spoken, Eljen Beak ! _Eljen a haza ! " Hurrah for Beak ! Hurrah for our native land !" were shouted by both Deputies an d galleries with loud accompaniment of clapping of hands. The President rose to speak, ringing his bell—to which I must say, to the credit of this very young Parliament, I have never yet witnessed even a brief disobedience. While the minutes of the sittin g were being drawn up by the secretaries the President made a few valedictory remarks, in the good taste and tone which at all times secure respectful attention and the sympathy of his audi ence. No Hungarian Parliament, he said, had ever laboured under such difficulties as the present one. The demand of the nation for its rights is loud and general. Passing to personal affairs, he thanked the Chamber, in his own name and in the names of the vice-presidents and secretaries for the support it had afforded them, and expressed his conviction that each and all of them had fulfilled their duties to the best of their abilities. The minutes of the proceedings were then read and approved, and the House rose for the last time. Beak was one of the first to go out, and as he passed through the midst of his brother Deputies he was greeted and cheered, and everyone was eager to get a word from his mouth or a grasp of his hand. Through the outer halls and down the wide staircase, and through the garden in front of the building, he was still pursued by the applause and good wishes and greatful expressions of his countrymen. Any man might be proud of such a triumph, of such heartfelt praise and general sympathy, so pure and genuine, and so completely spontaneous, unsolicited by any meretricious glitter of accomplishments, and offered as a tribute to worth, patriotism, ability, and integrity. Deak's admirers love to speak of him as the Hungarian Cavour, with whom he cer tainly has some points of similarity ; and to-day's scene forcibly reminded me of similar triumphs of the great Piedmontese statesman, witnessed in days when none anticipated the heavy loss Italy and Europe were so soon to sustain. The Magnates met to-day somewhat later than the Deputieg. The Rescript and the minutes of the proceedings of the Lower Chamber were communi cated to them. Count Louis Karoly, who is ober gespan of the county of Nyitra (the dissolution of which committee is daily expected, by reason of the resolute manner in which it has ignored the unconstitutional Central Government) rose and said it was the time to adhere in !every respect to yes terday's protest, and, that as the Chamber was threatened with forcible dissolution—a perfectly unmerited menace—he proposed to submit to the command. He concluded his short speech with a cheer for Hungary, which met with ready and hearty response. The House then separated. In yesterday's sitting of the Lower Chamber, Deputy Bonis, after proposing a vote of thanks to the President for his exertions in the service of the Chamber, a vote which was unanimously agreed to, made some remarks as to the narrow li m it s within which. the Chamber, owing to its incom pleteness, had been compelled to maintain itself with respect to legislation, and concluded thus : " We know already, and that not merely by re port, that the hours of the House of Representa tives are numbered, and that its dissolution is at hand. But as it cannot be legally dissolved until the taxes are voted and the accounts examined, I call the attention of the hon. House to the neces sity of taking its measures previously to dissolu tion." M. Deak then rose amid loud applause both from the Chamber and the galleries—the participa tion of the latter proving an unusual degree of ex citement, for I have observed, in all the sittings of the Hungarian Diet at which I have been present that the spectators abstained from the practice to lerated in some Southern European Chambers of making demonstrations of their feelings of appro bation or disapproval. 'theta was a gale of wind blowing, and the canvass awning over the skylight of the Chamber had got loose and flapped to and fro, making so much noise that the first part of M. Deak's speech was scarcely audible in the gallery. It is reported as follows : " The dissolution of the Diet is to be anticipated, and is more than probable, although we as yet have no official news of it. If affairs were Constitution ally conducted, one would know beforehand the period and the manner in which the diet would be closed. But, as experience shows that this matter is not constitutionally treated by the supreme power, so we are ignorant at what moment the dissolution may happen. In accordance with the hon. deputy who last spoke: I hold it to be important and even necessary that, in these last moments of the Diet, we should utter our protest againbt all that hitherto has. been, or hereafter may be, illegally done. And since to-day is ours, while to-morrow is still in the hands of destiny, we should not delay and postpone that which to-morrow, perchance, we may be unable to do. (General movement of assent.) I abutain from further details, but I hold it necessary that the House should resolve on a Protest, and, with its permission I will read the project of one which appears to me suitable." There wore cries of " Hear," and M. Deak read as follows : "As the Diet can legally work only upon the basis of the Hungarian Constitution, it did not delay to re-establish and fully secure that basis. " The integration a the Diet prescribed by law, and the re-establishment of the responsible Ministry as well as of the suspended laws, were before all things essential to enable the Diet to occupy itself with legislation. Those measures therefore have we before all things urged, but our reiterated addresses remain without result, and so the scope of action of the Diet was limited to the protection of the rights of the country, whose energetic defence was its right and its duty even in its incomplete state. "The most high Rescript has in fact broken the thread of the mutual parliamentary negotiations, since by essentially and arbitrarily transforming our hereditary Constitution in contradiction with the fundamental treaties, it sought to restrict our deliberations within the limits and to the ground of the Imperial Patent, whereto we cannot legally resign ourselves. " That most high Rescript convinced us that his Majesty had not the intention to re-establish our Constitution in the sense of the Pragmatic Sanction, to which we, however, can never be unfaithful. And our said conviction will be further strengthened if, instead of the integration of the Diet and re-estab .. lishment of parliamentary government, p;ese;ib;d by law, there shall ensue such a dissolution of th© Diet as. is in contradiction with the prescriptions of the law. " According to the 4th Article of the Laws of 1848 the Diet cannot be' dissolved until the accounts of the expired year and the Budget for the coming one have been laid before it and been resolved upon by it. " But this law is not and cannot be fulfilled until the responsible Ministry is re-established and the Diet integrated ; for, until that be done, no legal. Government exists to lay the Budget before the Diet, which itself is incapacitated from passing a Budget by refusal of that integration strictly re quired by the law. " The article of law referred to also orders that the new Diet should meet within three months or the dissolution of the old one. If, therefore, the Diet, after the dissolution, is not called together again within the legally prescribed time, the prescription of the law will hereby be again violated. " We are, therefore, compelled to regard before hand as unconstitutional, and as a further continua tion of the absolute system persevered in for 12 years, every illegal proceeding of the kind. We are certainly unable to resist force, but we solemnly protest against all that in such a manner may be done, and declare—that we firmly adh ere to all our legitimately existing laws, and there fore to the laws sanctioned in the year '4B, and vihich have not been altered by the Diet ; that vie will regard as a breach of the Constitution every act of the authorities that is in contradiction to them." Having read this protest,. M. Deak moved its adoption, and laid it on the table. " I consider it unnecessary (he continued) to state the motives of the proposition. Our only weapons are the law and justice of our cause. It is an old saying, and one which, as history shows, hardly ever deceives, that in the end victory is always for the just cause, and thereupon must we build all our hopes. In order safely to tread that ground, we must not and cannot ever, 'under any pretext, quite the footing of perfect "legality, for that is the only field which, without armed power and against armed power, we shall b e able, to maintain. (Much applause.) The now Diet will probably be dis solved; all those who were representatives of the people become simple ci.'cizens of our common. country. I return to pri vate life with the pure conviction that, as the people's representatives, we have done, to the best of our knowledge and con- science, that which we owed to electors and to our selves, and at the same time I cherish the persua sion that in this respect the jurisdiction and also individual citizens will faithfully follow the example of the Diet., (Applause.) While hold ing fast by the basis of the law, abiding by it, and never departing from it , they will neither grant nor obey anything which is against the law, or which deviates from it in any way whatever. The jurisdictions (M. Beak referred to the p r ovincial councils and authorities) will work, so long as they exist, in the sense of the law they will not commit suicide, they will wait with tranquillity the blows of fate. Individual citizens ought to adhere to the law. The law gives'such tranquillity to the mind that, so long as one holds by it, one can calmly look forward to the most grievous events, and thereby is that quality called forth which is the chiefest in respect of suffering—namely, to endure with dig nity. That is only to be acquired through the con sciousness that we;ure acting strictly according ,c;' law; I recommend my project to the hon. House. TIIIiS DAY'S SKIPPING. LONDON, Auc , 27.—Windthis day at noon esterly ; light': breeze, and fine weather , but rather cloudy. —North- Puntorra, Aug. 26.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—York shire, from London, for Melbourne. STOCKTON, Aug. 26.—Wind W.— A rr ived—Tapo, from Quebec. HULL, Aug. 26.--Arrived—Halcyon, from St. John's, New Brunswick ; Clhance, from Miramichi. GRIMSBY, Aug. 26.—Arrived—Salvator, from Quebec. PORTSMOUTH, Aug. 26.—Wind W.N.W. to NAV,— Arrived—H.M.S. Antelope, from Woolwich. CARDIFF, Aug. 213.—The'Enterprise, of Dublin, has put in with considerable damage from collision with an Aus trian barque. YARMOUTH, Aug... 26..—The vessel which struck on th e Cross Sands last nzght is the Francois and Marie, from Wyburg to Rochefort, will discharge and put into dock. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) S OuTHAMPTON, Tuesday Morning: Arrived—Hammoni a, steamer, from Hamburg ; from Carentan ; Havr e, steamer, from Havre. Sailed —Argyll, stet imer, for Carentan. (BY SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning , . Arrived—Britain's Pride, from B ar badoes; Carn c from Saguenay ; raiais, from Montreal; St. Clair, f rom Dantzic ; Emanuel, from Dominica; Start, steamer, from Brussels. Sailed--Seine, for Boulogne. DEAL, Tuesday Morning. No arrivals. 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