The Sun. — London, England, 1861-10-30 00:00:00

Min ittONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS. CITY, Two o'CLocK. 0 wing' to the extraordinory abundance of money and the low terms upon which the best bills can be negotiated, the possibility of a reduction in the minimum Bank rate is attracting some attention, notwithstanding the unsatisfactory position of financial affairs in Paris. The next weekly return is expected to show a large decrease in the Other Securities, and unless the authorities -offer increased facilities, it can scarcely be supposed that they will be enabled to replace the bills arriving at maturity on the 4th pros. The trade receipts of the Great Western Rail way of Canada for the week ending the 18th inst. exhibited an increase of £1,251, compared with the corresponding period of 1860. About £56,000 in bar gold was taken into the Bank of England yesterday. _ The foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon exhi bited no important variation. Gold is now about 2-10ths per cent. dearer in London than in Paris, and 4-10ths per cent, higher here than in Hamburg. i The suspension has been announced of Messrs. Barnard, Rosenthall, and Co., braid and trimming manufacturers, with liabilities estimated at between £60,000 and £70,000. The assets will, no doubt, prove considerable. The Tyne has arrived at Lisbon from the Brazils, with £119,238 in specie, for England. The first half-yearly meeting of the Trust and Agency Company of Australia has been convened for the 14th proximo. _ _ . Increased quietude was exhibited in the Liver pool Cotton Market yesterday, and prices continued firm. The sales were 7,000 bales. At the half-yearly meeting of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, held to-day, a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum was declared, free of income tax. At a meeting of the proprietors of the East India Railway Company to-day, the director's report, which was of a favourable character, was unani mously adopted. The half-yearly meeting of the Great Western Railway of Canada, also held to-day, was adjourned for six weeks. The prospectus of the Roodee Iron Shipbuilding Company has just been brought before the public. The proposed capital is £lOO,OOO in £lO shares, and the premises it proposes to purchase have been long known as a shipbuilding yard under private management. The proprietor has consented to receive the purchase money in shares of the new company, the ultimate success of which is confi dently anticipated, owing to the steadily increasing demand for iron vessels now so requisite for the development of trade. The market for Public Securities opened this morning with an improved appearance, and a steady business was transacted at a rise of k per cent., Consols being 938 i for money and the 7th prox.; New Threes are steady at 91k t ; the Reduced at 914 -f, ; Exchequer Bills, June, 15s. prem. ; India 5 per Cent. is 1054, ; and Bank Stock is firm at 229 and 231. Business in the Foreign Market has been mode rately active. Mexican Stock has shown increased buoyancy, but the other securities are generally de pressed. Turkish 6 per Cents. are flat at 79f 801 ; ditto, 1858, 681 ; Mexican have advanced to 261 and 271; and Venezuelan to 20 ; but Brazilian have receded to 1001 ; Buenos Ayres to 821 85 ; Equador to 15 ; and Sardinian to 811. The operations in the Railway Share Market were not of a very extensive character, a firmer tone, however, prevailed. Great Westerns, Lanca shire and Yorkshire, Midlands, and West Mid lands advanced 55., Eastern Counties, 10s., Man chester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 155., and Caledo nians, £l, North-Westerns and South-Eastorns, however, declined ss. The Foreign and Colonial lines have been in fair request. Great Luxembourg improved I ; Bahia and San Francisco ; Great Western of Canada 4 ; and East Indian 4. Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares con tinued in steady request. London and Westminster improved to 701 71; Chartered of India, London and China, brought 32 and 321 ; Berlin Water Works 51-; Crystal Palace Stock 351 ; and South Australian Lana 34. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 3 per Cent.'Reduced Annuities 9l / # 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities New 3 per Cent. Annuities 9lk i India Stock . Ditto 5 per Cent. Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent. — Ditto 5 per Cent. 9B/ 8 Ditto 51 per Cent. )itto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863 98/ Consols for Account, Nov. 7 India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent .... 1051 5 March. I June. Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2d..... atto £5OO .. — Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian, 5 per Cent Ditto 41 per Cert., 1860 92i Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent B2i Ditto Account Equador New Consolidated Mexican, 3 per Cent Ditto Account Peruvian 41 per Cent Ditto (Uribarren), 41 per Cent. .. 941 Russian 5 per Cent. 1822, fi St • • Ditto 41 per Cent. Sardir 4 - 5 - Cent. 811 oat dinian 5 per Cent. Turkish 6 per Cent .. 794 Ditto Account Ditto New Loan Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. Ditto Account Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2i per Cent., Exchangel2 Guil. Ditto Certificates. 4 per Cent... Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861 TWO O'CLOCH. Consols, Money Ditto Account COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—YESTERDAY. Amsterdam Ditto Rotterdam — 12 12 1f Antwerp Brussels — 25 67} 25 70 Hamturgh Paris Ditto Marseilles — 25 67f 25 72f Frankfort on Maine — 1192 1191 Vienna Trieste Petersburgh — 328 328 Berlin • Madrid Cadiz Leghorn Milan Genoa Naples Palermo Messina Lisbon Oporto Rio Janeiro New York — • ' F oreign Gold in Bars (Standard).... per oz. L 3 17 9 Mexican Dollars Silver in Bars (Standard) 0 5 01 South America n Doubloons OOO „ 0 0 0 48$ 481 25 77i 25 77} 25.._77± 481 481 25 85 25 82i 25 82k 391 118 k 119 52h 52i 391 118 k 118 f 52 52 THE PRICE OF GOLD The quotation of gold at Paris is about 5 per mille prem., and the short exchange on London is 25.321 per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3 17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is about 1-10th per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advises from Hamburg the price of gold is 429 per mark, and the short exchange on London is 13.71 per £1 sterling. Standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, about 4-lotbe per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg. The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is 1071 to 1071 per cent., which, when compared with the Mint par between the two countries, shows that the exchange is against Engla nd . But, after making allowance for loss of interest and charges of transport, the present price leaves no profit on sending gold to the United States. The suspension is announced of Messrs. Barnard, Rosenthal], and Co., braid and trimming manufacturers, of Cheapside. DISCOVERY OF GOLD IN IRELAND. —We (Derry Sentinel) have received three specimens of auriferous quartz, found on the shorn of Lough Swilly, on the 16th inst. It is considered to be exactly similar to that of the gold-pro ducing countries. The specimens in question were taken from Government land, which is not likely to be explored by miners, but there is little doubt that plenty of the same kind of rock is to be found in the bold heights of that neigh bourhoad, and would probably remunerate those who have time and means to search for it. The locality where the quartz was found was within ten miles of this city. The vein from which the specimens were taken was from nine to twelve inches thick, twenty or thirty feet hi g h, and run ning through a block of headland of considerable depth. It will be singular if, some time o r o th er , th ere w ill be gold diggings in Donegal. LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Railways. raid) Leasing Closing Business Co.'s Price. Done. Bedford and Bletchley 100allD Ln 94 98 Bulkinghamshireo 53 54 Chester & Holyhead... 100 D 0..... Do. 54 percent 100 Do 122 124 Clydesdale Jtmc Colchester, Stour Val all E.U.&E.Ci 155 161 Do. 5 100 00 C p a o led e o . n . :110 1 1 1 1 0 1 3 3 E. U 1 A n n i c on l , n H s r A g v i S c h P e S r h c s laCl4ll I , } G : t .c .N ou or n t t h s: ll3 4 l 1 4 34 E.1 Do. Woodbridge.. 100 I Gls.Barr.&Neils.Drci. 100 I Caledon.., Do. new ..... Gloster & Dean Forest all iGt. West. Hrtlp'l Dock t Rail all IYk.N.StBr Hull and Selby. all Yk.N. Md. 109 111 Do. halves. Do. quarters... ..... all IDo. Lanc.&Carl. gua. 5 p.c. 100 !Ln&N.W. 198 202 London & Greenwich. 100 iS.Eastern 59 61 Do. Preference 100 1D0....—.. 110 115 Lon.,Tilbury,& S -end 100 IPeto &Co. 84 86 Lowestoft gua. 4 p c.. 100 Norfolk.. Do. 6 per cent lOO Do. Mnc., Bxtn.,&Matlock all L NW&M 34 Si Mid. Bradford'Prefer ence Stock ... ... 100 Midland.. 94 96 Newmarkt,Bury . E ... gua. 5 per 5. 5.6 E.Counts. p p Northm&Eastn. sp: c. all Do.. 55 57 Do. 6p. c. Do. Fixed 5 . p, c:,.. all IDo. North Western. •,,, all (Midland 15 1 185 Preston and Wyre. t all ' L& NW I Do. Shares . & L.Yk. A all Do. Roystn.Hitch., ........ 100 IGt.North. 131 132 Shrewsbry& Hereford, 100 IT.Brassey LSO 122 Do. do. 1 I Do. 1 lip S.-Staffordshire all 161`Clerkn... Wilts and Somerset lOO Gt. West. 69 91 rilaiblvdon&Croydn, ,Lidißrptin si gi SHARE MARKET-(TB IS DAY.) ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Hallways. paid,' Closing Business Price. Done Belfast and Ballymena Volßir., , and Str. Val; , Birk., La., and Ch June Blyth and Tyne Bost. Sleaf: andAlid.Co Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Carmarthen & Cardigan Cork and Bandon Cork, Blrock., krassag,e , Cornwall A gets no divaDo A Do B s untim pc pere.n. hasbeenT d. toB 1 Dublin & Belfast Juno I Dun., Perth, ezAb. Juno East Ano•lian Eastern Counties (Eastern Union, A stock! Do do B do Do Nw A, late Elnds East Suffolk Edinburgh & Glasgow Edin. Perth, & Dundee Forth & Clyde Junction Furness Glasg. and S. Western Great Nthn. of Scotland Great Northern Do do A stock Do do 11 do Gt. S. W. of Ireland Great Western Do Str Val gua. stock Trish South-eastern Lancashire t Yorkshire London and Blackwall Lon.. Bright.. & S Coast Lond., Chat., and Dover I Lond. Az Nth. Western 'Lond. & Sth. Western L'derry it Coleraine L'derry & Ennintllen Man. Shef. Sy Lincoln Maryport and Carlisle Do do shares 'Metropolitan Midland Do new Do Birming. & Derby Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do 4 shares Mid Kent Do, Cray Line Newcastle and Carlisle Newry tit Armagh, def Newry, Warnpt. & Roe Norfolk . ........ North British Nor.Dev.Rail&Dk.stoct Do 4. 3tk ; A recs nod, until 6pchas beenpd. B Do B hock Nth. Eastern—Berwick Dodo , U.N.E. purchase Do Leeds Do York North London .. Do new. North taffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Not. & Grantham Rail reebles • • • Portsmouth Rhymney .. • • • • • • Scottish Central scot N. E., Aber. stock Do Scot. Mid. stock Shropshire Union Sittingbourne & Sheer. South Devon 1 S.-Durham & l,anc. Un South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines, Wok,. and Wok, Stockton & Darlington Do do _ Do New (1860) afi Vale 1)o Pref. No 1 1' ilnmeellavenDk&Rail Utter Do .. ... Vale of Neath Victor laSta. and Pim Wateriord & Kilkenny Waterford & Limerick West Col nwall West London Do Ist class Do 2d class .. .. .... I l iVestFlarpepool Harbr and Rail - .1 West Midland—Oxford I Do. Newport Do. Hereford 48 50 44 46 88 90 PREFERENCE SHARES. 73 8 5t 94 9661 105 1051 5 6 41 42 10i 11 19 194 541 551 47 49 33 35 89 91 281 20 104 106 1114 1121 109 111 129 131 103 105 71 71i 55 68 1054 106 57 59 115 116 45 47 91 93 04 10 11 45 46 5 8 127 1271 . 98 100 pl 8 6d 62 64 621 62/ LOU 1011 id p 58 59 90i 91 94 06 44 101 10/ 89 00 120 122 38 39 95 97 45 46 36 38 774 78 60 62 94 96 4 6 37 38 7 4 8 4 p 5 6 p 556 566 2 3p I d kr, 12i 13 51 61 oist. Share) Railwa Paid Closing Business y & Price. Done. Blythe and Tyne 10 per, c. pref. (issued at £5 , (Iris. & Exet.4 p.etstock Do. do. do. Shares Caledon £lO, 45 per cell , Do. Quar. Shares, No. 2. Cork & Bandon, 55 p. c. Cornwall. 5 per cent 'Dun.Perth&Aber.Jun. IDo Ist Class Pref E.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. c. No. I Do. do. Do. New 6 per ct. stock. Eastern Unfon,4 per et. Do. 5 per cent. guar... E din G las. sp. c. shares Do. 4 p. c gua. S. & D. Edin. Perth& Dun. 4 p.c Furness, 5 per cent .... Glas.& S. West.g.a. 5 p.c, 'Great Northern, 5 p. et. Do.sp.c.Redm., 10 p.e.pm Do. 45 p. c. do. do. Do. sp.c. Redm. 5 p.c. pm Nh.of scotld. Ist pr t.6n. & W (Ireland) p. ct. pref. stock G reat West. (Berks an Hants) Ext. 5 p. et... to. Redeem able, 4i p.et Do. Redeemable. ¶p. et Do. Irredeemable, d 0... Do. 5 p.et. 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 gm. shares Do. do. do. Do. do. do. Lan. t Carl. 4i pc. pref Lan.&York 6 p. c. stock Do.Barnsl.st.£s3s 10d pc Do. 6 per c. (E. Lan.) Lon.ct Brig. 5 pc. u. No. ' Do. 5 p. c. No. 2 Do. gua. 6 p. e. Do. do 5 p.c. NO. 4 Do. do. 4 per cert , •. I Do. do. 41 p. c. shares Do. 7 p. et. Pref. stock Do. 6p.c. do. (W.E.&C.P ) Do.4p.e.S.(dtv.def.til '65) Do. 4 per cent. Pref ton. Chat. and Dover f Do.W. A reelv.n 3 div Ex.A til6p cis pd on no. B B. & Brom ex. Do. Metropolitan Ex 13 I.on. and N.W. Coy. and Nuneaton, 5 p. ct..... Lon. & 5.W,7 p. ct. stock Do. 4?, per cent . . (Prtsm. perpl anns. of 2s. 6d . ... I Londondy. & Cole. 4 sh Londony. & Ennis. sh Man. Sh. &Lin. 6 per of Do. £6 Do. 34 per cent Do. redeem. 6 per cent Maryport dr Car., 4 p. c Do. 44 per cent. Mid. Con. 6 p c. stock Do.Con.Bris. & Bir. 6 r..c Do. 44 p. c. pref. stock Do. 44 per cent Do. Lela dr Hit. pref. st Norfik sp. c Ex. st. 1846 Do. 54 p. c. Pref. do 1847 ] Do.sWay. Val. Ex.stlB47i North British, 5 p. o. Do. New, gua. 5 p. o. Do. Bor. [Tn. g. pf. shs Do. do do Nth.Dev.Rail. & Dck.Co. N-East.Cons.Pref. 4 p. c. Do. 44 p c. redeemable.. Do. G.N.E. 4 per C. pref. Do. Berwick, 4 p.c. Pref. Do. Leeds, 6 p. 0. No. 1 Do. do. Quarters, 1848.. Do. York, H. .t S. Purch. North Staffordshire.... Rhymney Guaranteed. Scottish Central, new pt Scottish North-Eastern 33 p. c. pref. stock I Do.Aberdeen,gma.6p.c Do. 7 p. c. pref. stock South Devon, Ann. 10s. Do. Fixed 43 per cent. South Eastern (Reading Ann., 1.0.6) Do. 43 per cent. Do. Fixed iip.c. Ist is. outh Wales, g , tia. 4 p. c. Do. 43 per cent. Do. 5 per cent' S.-Yorkshire, 4 p. c. gua Stock. t Dar. A 5 p. c Do. B 6 ner cent Do. C 6 per cent Watrfd .4Elkilkny, 6 p. c W.Mid -Oxf Ist Gua stk Do. 2d do Do. Newport 5 p.c.pf.red. Do.Perpet. 6 p. c. pt 1866 Do. till 1869, Ist is., 100 102 20 21 5 1 ei 100 102 110 115 106 110 107 109 106 108 123 125 80 82 1110 112 89 91 79 81 114 116 109 111 101 103 106 108 97 99 98 100 87 89 88 10 101 103 96 10 166 176 10 106 74 76 196 206 91 10} 146 156 j 135 137 112 115 112 115 136 138 112 115 101 103 !150 155 127 130 "3 75 91 92 93 95 i 1p id p 13} 14 122 125 65 tOi P I IP 136 188 100 102 91 93 109 111 107 109 1 • li p 90 9Z. 99 101 08 100 Id p i d ip 22 z 3 132 136 10 101 234 24 100 102 100 102 98 100 84 86 27 28 32 33 32 33 45 48 124 126 118 120 100 102 1118 122 1115 118 100 100 100 16 13 4 100 100 100 THE:7SUN,, LONDON; WEDNESDAY gvgNING, OCTOBER:' j (ne 1861. BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Paid. all 100 all all all all 51 6i 70 75 65 70 65 70 4i 5i 100 100 100 all Closing Price. 99 100 3 4f d f fd 19# 20 d 1014 102} 99 101 100 k 101 i 100 101 19 20 58 61 48 52 33 35 39 42 3t 34 31 34 99 100 98i 99i Of 10 tot v 6 100 89 92 88 90 98 99 91 93 4 6 3 5 101 102 #dj d —d 95 97 # # d WAYS. 6) 6} - P I iP i 1 94 104 3f i 1 4 ip 23 24 8 24 194 204 38 39 -- - 84 •& 39i 404 51 63 4 3 d 6 1 8 1 8i 9 I * d I ; 24* Zs* 71 71 91 101 201 211 'ES. 1d la 471 481 1 2 dis. 34 36 6 8 1 22 24 11 8 7 pr id 2 4 1 1} pr Id 6i 61 Railways. Atlantic & Sr Lrwrence Bom.,Baroda&.Cent Ind Gu. 5 per cent........ Do Do. Buffalo and Laiie Huron Do. New Do. Preference ...... Buffalo,Brant&Godrich 6 p. ot. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 Do. do. July 1, 1873 Do. do. June 1, 1874 Cleutta.&S.Eastn. (Lim) Cape,Eastn.Prov. (Lim.) Cape Town & Dock Scrip Ceylon Guarantd. 6 p. c. Demerara... Eastn. Bengal gu. 5 p. c East Indian, gu. 5 p. c. Do. F Shaiee Ext.. Do. Jubbulp ore Do. 44 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. In diarentn.gua.sp.c. Do. New gua. 5 p. c... Gt. South.of India (Lim) , I guaranteed 5 per cent. Do. do. IGt. W. of Canada Shares Do. New .. . .... . Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't IDo. 5i 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. o. Extension Do. 5 Melb.Corp. 6 p. o. Bnds. Newßrunswick Canda Ry.&Land(Lim.)g.6pe Class A Capital Share Do. do. Land d 0........ Do. do. B Capital d 0... Do. do. Land do. .... Oude (Limited) ........ 1 Scinde .......„. li . e j Do. Punjaub .... r , 1,1 Do. Do. .... —.. R 5. Do. Indus. St. Flo. tg. Trinidad (Lim.) Scrip.. FOREIGN Algerian Antwerp & Rotterdam. Ardennes Bah. &S. Fran.. Lim. 7 p.c. Belgian East. Junction Beziers to Graissessac.. Carmeaux Mine & Rail Cupiapo ................ Ditto Extension .... Dutch Rhenish ........ Eastern of France .... Grand Rua Guar. 6 p. c. Do. do. Great Central of France Gt. Luxem., Con. ahs... 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. Parl's & 0r1ean5........ Recife & S. Fran. (Perm) gua. 7 p. ct. Riga & Dunaburg Royal Danish Royal Swedish Do. 7 per cent. Pref Sambre & Meuse . Do. 5i per oent. Pref San Paulo, Urn, g. 7p. c S.Aust &Lomb Venetin Southern of France S. East Polrl 7 p ct West Flan ro ...... Do. 5i p. o. eference W. & N.W. of France Western of Austria Western of Switzerland Wiesbaden . Do. 8 per cent Pref Zealand BRUISE Alfred Consols (Philack) British Iron Clifford Devon G. Cons. (Tavist ) East Bassett (Illogan) East Caradon . ... E. Russel (Tavistk.) Gam.ltSt.Aubyn(Gwen.) Great South Tolgus G.Wheal Alfd. (Philack) G. Wheal Vor (Helston) Grenville Herod's-Foot Hingston Downs Lady Bertha Margaret (Gny Lelant) North Downs North Frances (Illogan) N. Wh 'I Basset (1110 4 - an) North Wheal Crotty Par Consols (St. Blazey) Providence (tiny Lelnt.) Sortridge Cons. Min. Co. South Caradon(St.Cleer) S. Carn Brea (Illogan) S. Dev. Iron &Gen., Lim S.Wheal Fran. (Illogan) Stray Park Tamar Silv.& Lead Min Tin Crort Vale of Towey (Carm.)l West Basset (Illogan)..; W. Caradon (Liskeard) West Seton ............1 Wheal Basset (Illogan)1 IWheal Buller (Redruth), Edward (Cale.); Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) Wheal Mary Ann (➢ien.) Wheal Treiawney (Lis.)! FOREIG Australian BonAccord Copper,Lim. Brazil St.J.del Rey,Lim, Do. Land and AllmngCo. Clarendon Con &MIX° Cobre Copper Copiapo . DunMoun.Cop.Ming.Co Fortuna. General Gt N. Cop. of S. Austr Kapunda (Limited) Linares Lusitanian , Mariquica IN.RhineCopof S.Aus.L IPontg . ibaud Silver,Lead Miriing and Smelt 5 Tort Philip 1 Scotti®h Austrin. (L.).. 1131.81 United Mexican ........ 1 ' Worthing (Limited).... Do — ••• (Business done NEWMARKET RACES.—(This Day). (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) GLASGOW STAKES. Old Calabar .. Ballerino HANDICAP. HALF-A-MILE. Minette filly Paradox .... Twenty-three ran. SELLING PLATE. Weasel 1 Nerio £5O PLATE. Waterwitch .. 1 Carbineer Three ran. MATCHES. Amy beat Lady Blanche. Jacintha beat Birdcatcher. Fnn Acceptances for the First-cl handicap) of 25 sous each, [ass Nursery Stakes (a free for two year olds. D.M. st lb Coulon 7 13 Feu do Joie 7 12 Victrix Donna del Lago 7 11 Carisbrook Melek Clementi Acceptances for the Second- , handicap) of 25 sovs. each, _ st lb Hadji Stavros 7 6 Mayflower Keane Flutter colt 6 10 Real Jam 6 9 Spark Dioncea class Nursery Stakes (a free , for two-year-olds. D.M. at.lb. Farfalla Alerte Blackcock . Brahmin .. 8 4 Zetland Tiranirhiffier 7 12 Knight of St. Michael 7 4 _ st. lb. Pigeon .... 7 2 Buckenham 6 13 Constantine Gorse Callipyge 6 4 Sappho Tube Rose .. 6 0 LAW . 11 1 72 BLLIGENCE—(This Day.) SHERIFFS' COURT. (Before Mr. Sergeant Wheeler.) BREAKING DOWN A SET-OFF.-VERDEN3IIA-LTEN V. PREGGEN. This was an action to recover £lO, the balance of an I 0 U for £2O. Mr. Beard, for the plaintiff, said his client was a licenced victualler, and had lent defendant (the son of a licensed victualler) the sum of £2O. £lO had been repaid, and de fendant had pleaded a set-off as to the remainder. Mr. Buchanan, for the defendant, said he would admit the I 0 IT, and proceed to prove the set-off. Defendant was then called, and deposed to having trans acted business on account of plaintiff. He had tried to ob tain loans from various brewers and distillers for plaintiff, and he (defendant) was to have so much commission for doing so. The defendant was subjected to a most searching cross-examination by Mr. Beard, the result of which was that his Honour summarily found for the plaintiff with costs, IMPORTANT TO HOUSE AGENTS.--WILLIAMS V. NORMAN. This was an action to recover a sum of money paid as deposit for a house, the business not having been completed. Defendant (the house and estate agent, of Little Britain,) admitted receiving the deposit, but he received it on account of Mr. Hill (a client), and plaintiff well knew it. Defen dant was willing to pay back the money, but must have the authority of his client. His Honour observed that it was perfectly clear defen dant had received the deposit on behalf of Hill. Defendant was responsible to Hill for this money, and could not rid himself of it without Hill's authority. If plaintiff had any cause of action it was against Hill. In this case there would be a verdict for defendant. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. —(This Day.) MAR LBOROUGH-STREET. STEALINGIAHORSE AND CART—WELL KNOWN THIEVES. William Ryan, of 3, Pear-street, Westminster, and his wife, Elizabeth Ryan, and Mary Kennedy, of 16, Pye-street, `Westminster, were charged with stealing a horse and cart, the property of Mr. Frederick Isaac, traveller, of Pleasant row, Deptford. Sergeant Cole, 23 C, said that on the previous evening he saw a horse and cart standing in front of Mr. Norman's toy warehouse, at the corner of Greek-street, Soho, the male prisoner being near it, and the females on the opposite side of the way. The male prisoner and Kennedy afterwards jumped into the cart and drove off as fast as they could. He (Cole) pursued them, and when near them Kennedy said " Here's the slop." Kennedy then jumped out, and he (Cole) seized the pri soner Ryan and held him down on the ground till assist ance came ; Ryan's wife striking him about the face in a violent manner. The male prisoner then said the cart and horse were his own property, but on his telling him that he would go and see, he said they were not, and asked him to let him go. Kennedy had only just come out of prison for stealing a watch, and the male prisoner Ryan was a thief. Sheen and Oliver, of the B division, attended and said that Kennedy had been convicted of stealing a watch, and had nine months, and was only just out, and the man bad three months for being found in enclosed premises. They were both very bad characters. Mr. Frederick Isaacs identified the horse and cart as his property, and said they were of the value of £lO. Mr. Beadon said he should discharge the female pri soner Ryan, as far as stealing the horse and cart were con cerned, as no jury would convict her, but he should sen tence her to one month for the assault, but the others would be committed for trial. During the time the depositions were being taken Ken nedy kept up a dismal whining. THAMES. ROBBERY AT A PUNCH AND JUDY SHOW.—Wm. Hall, a notorious thief, aged 20, of a, Dunk-street, Mile-end Old-town, was brought before Mr. Woolrych charged with stealing a purse containing two half-crowns from the per son of a young lady named Clara Bridge, of Fisher-street, Barking. Yesterday evening the prosecutrix was looking at a Punch and Judy exhibition at the corner of Arbour-square, ComMercial• read, and the prisoner managed to relieve her of her purse and money. She was so diverted with the antics of the arch rogue Punch that she neither suspected or knew of her loss until a man named Wm. Hall touched her on tb e shoulder, and said "Have you lost anything Miss?" She immediately missed her purse and money. The prisoner was then talking to and handing something to a confed erate, and Hall seized him and said " You are my prisoner." The prisoner put himself in a fighting attitude, on which Hall threw him on his back and kept him down until a police-constable arrived. In answers to questions by Mr. Woolrych, Hall said that ho was a coal-whipper and labourer, dwelling at No. 5, Hill-place-street, Upper North street, Poplar, that he mixed with the crowd looking at Punch and Judy, and saw the prisoner try the pockets of half •a-dozen females, and at last dip his hand into the pocket of Miss Bridge and take something out. Miss. Bridge said she recollected the prisoner standing by her side and touching her dress. Allway, a police-constable, No. 386 K, said he searched the prisoner and found upon him a half-crown piece, two shillings and twopence. The purse was not recovered. The uncle of the prosecutor said if the money taken from the prisoner was not given up to him, he should like it to be presented to the witness Hall, who ha behaved re markably well. Several police constables said the prisoner had been sum marily convicted three times for picking pockets, and was once in custody for stealing a watch in Whitechapel, and discharged. The prisoner was the worst thief in the dis trict. The prisoner—lt is very hard to be punished for such paltry things, a handkerchief on one occasion, and now a purse and ss. Mr. Woolrych—Do you plead guilty or not guilty ?, The prisoner—l am guilty, settle it here. Mr. Woolrych sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned for six months and kept to hard labour. The money taken from the prisoner was not of the same description as that in the purse, and it would be given up to him. He awarded ss. from the poor-box fund to the witness Hall, whose con duct was highly creditable to him. THIS DAY'S SILIPPING. LONDON, Oct. 30.—Wind this day at noon—Easterly; moderate breeze, and fine weather. NEWPORT, Oct. 29.—Wind E.—Sailed—Morning Star, for Grenada. CARDIFF, Oct. 28.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—Connecticut, for Shanghai. GLOUCESTER, Oct. 28.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—English man, for New York. PLYMOUTH, Oct. 29.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—Norfolk, for Melbourne. QUEENSTOWN, Oct. 28.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—J. B. Patina. from Montreal for Liverpool ; Incolor, from Per nambuco. CORK, Oct. 28.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Lucia, from New York. KINSALE, Oct. 28.—Wind E.—Arrived—Seaton ; from Garrucha for Newport. LIMERICK, Oct. 28.—Wind N.E.—Saded—British Tar, for New York. BELFAST, Oct. 28.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Jonathan May, from Philadelphia. SHIELDS, Oct. 29.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Paragon, from Quebec. GRIMSBY, Oct. 29.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—Anne Marie, for Hayti. HULL, Oct. 28.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Marie, from Miramichi. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday Morning. Arrived.—Euroolydon, from Sunderland. No railings. (BY SUBMARINE AND MAGNEITIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning. Sailed.—Granite City, for Sydney; Nereid, for Sierra Leone. DEAL, l iVecluefsday Nor:l4lg' No arrivals. UT.ERATU.RE. County Society. A novel. 3 vols. Hurst and Blackett. This work is evidently that of a beginner, as it is very prolix in its descriptions, and rather exag gerated in some of its details, it bears, how ever, the appearance of much talent in some of its sketches, and, therefore, we may fairly expect on a future occasion that we may meet with something superior to this production. Redundancy of style is always easy to correct with time and experience, and here and there is conspicuous some character that goes far to redeem the overdrawn descriptions met with occasionally. The hero Eveleyn is a very strange young man, who meets with many rebuffs and great mortification in his attempts to enter the society of the elite. It must be acknowledged, however, that on many occasions his brusquerie of style and vehemence of action, seem to bear out the opinions of those who eliminate him from their charmed circle. For instance he caused a gentleman to be thrown down in the hunting-field because he had offended him, and another time he endeavoured to trip up in the danee the brother of a young lady who re fused to dance with him. Such solecisms of etiquette, to say nothing of such want of good feeling, were enough to sanction the de cree that ostracised him from the ranks of the county magnates. He improved, however, afterwards, and he is to be pitied for his mistaken ideas of duty. He married Mrs. Aylmer from a feeling that he ought, and no sooner were they united than she commenced to prepare for death. Hai she possessed right views she would not have undertaken new engagements when so near to the " putting off the flesh that clothes mortality." Mr. Levinge is quite a model villain of the old school of romance, deluding one girl with a false marriage and then forming an engagement with another. The scene in the church when Zizzi, the Greek girl, whom he has betrayed, rushes in and forbids the marriage after the ceremony had actually com menced, is very striking, and the most dramatic passage of the book. He, whom conscience could not daunt, was overwhelmed by the public disgrace which fell upon him. He soon after left the coun try and died in a distant land, an alien from his fair inheritance, and an outcast from home and all social and friendly ties. Kate Howard is a pleasing maiden, but she does not show much discern ment in admiring such a man as Levinge. She is married to Evelyn after his first wife's death, and therefore the unfortunate hero and heroine are at last united; and as Evelyn has im proved greatly they have a fair prospect of happi ness. Mr. Howard, very unfortunately for him, was entangled with some of his nephew Leving's very crooked affairs, and he was nearly ruined in consequence. Those who like such narratives as convey a great deal of information in the course of their recital, will be pleased with this novel of " County Society," as it imparts a vast amount of one sort or another of intelligence, with its complicated events, extraordinary charac ters, and impressive descriptions. It can, therefore, lay claim to some-consideration from the reader, as it is the result of thought, and is evidently written con amore with the excitement and enthusiasm that so often appertain to the beginner. " County Society" is novel in some of its ideas, and in spite of its exaggeration it possesses enough merit to render it a fair romance for the average readers of fiction:and habitues of the circulating library. The Home at .Rosefeld. By _Edward Copping. 3 vols. Hurst andßlackett. This is a story of domestic life, very pleasing in its style, although full of melancholy. The hero and heroine, Frederick and Ruth Selwin, are brother and sister, and tenderly attached to each other. They have been left orphans at a very early age, under the care of a maiden aunt, who is devoted to their welfare. Aunt Susan is one of those favour able specimens of the maligned class disrespectfully termed " old maids," that are sometimes met with, devoting all their time, care, and thoughts to those around them. The Aunt Susan in question supplies a mother's place to the young orphans at much personal sacrifice, and bestows on them in after life the same affectionate care with which she tended their childhood, ever ready to join in their joys and to soothe their troubles or annoyances. Unfortu nately all her care cannot protect her darlings from sorrow and disappointment. The only cloud over the house at Rosefield when we are first introduced to it is the morbid temper of Frederick, whose fits of gloomy despondency are a grievous perplexity to his loving and sunny-hearted little sister. Ruth is a charming character, and engrosses the reader's interest throughout the tale. Although active and courageous in time of need, she is pos sessed of a sensitive and deeply affectionate nature, which is quite unfitted to bear the roughnesses of life, and more especially any neglect or coldness from those she loves. The quiet life at Rosefield is interrupted by the arrival of a stranger cousin, and the romance of their lives begins. A series of events assemble at Paris Frederick and Ruth, George the cousin, and his sister Hester, a very beautiful, but haughty, wilful, and self conceited girl. Ruth, far from the loving sympathy of hor Aunt , Susan, finds herself for the first time slighted and despised, her humble attainments ridiculed, her brother's love chilled into indifference, her lover's attention sunk into neglect. Meanwhile Frederick, who almost worships the ar rogant and unfeeling Hester, is the victim of her caprices. We leave the reader to learn from the history itself how this game of cross purposes is played out, and the various alternations of joy and sorrow, hope and suspense through which its actors have to pass. The more serious and melancholy portions of the tale are relieved by the sayings and doings of John Plumber, the Rosefield gar dener, his intractable donkey Tom, and his still more unmanageable son Bill, who puts a climax to his delinquencies by marrying at the advanced age of nineteen the substantial housemaid of nine and thirty. The story is somewhat spun out, especially towards the close, although the un certainty as to Ruth's ultimate fate is skilfully maintained, and the reader is left in doubt until near the conclusion. Some of the conversation of Watts might also be dispensed with, and the story compressed into two volumes with ad vantage. Its principal merit is the simplicity and ease of its style. In these days when abstruse theories and perplexing controversies lay in am bush in works of fiction to start upon the wearied reader seeking amusement, and bid him analyse systems of philosophy or discuss social problems, it is refreshing to meet with a novel which attempts nothing more than to tell an interesting tale, to portray character, and to beguile pleasantly a few idle hours. Those who are attracted by such a programme, and who are contented in the absence of great ability or startling effect, will do well to pay a visit to the " Home at Rosefield." SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday.—The Union Company's screw steamship Dane, Capt. Hoffman, sailed hence to-day for Madeira, taking out 33 passengers, among whom were Lady Beaumont and Mr. Copeland, a son of Alderman Copeland. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Tagus, Captain W. B. Hall, sailed yesterday with the mails and 33 passengers for Vigo, Oporto, and Lisbon. THE NEW BLACKFRIARS BRIDGE.—The levels of the new bridge over the Thames at Blackfriars, in the stead of the present unsightly and dilapidated structure, have been taken. The intended structure will be 6 feet 10 inches lower in the centre and 2 feet 9 inches lower at the side arches than the present bridge, and the incline will there fore be easy. The width of the bridge will be 80 feet within the parapets, being nearly double that of the present bridge. In construction it will be similar to that of 'Westminster, but with only three spans to cross the river. REPEAL OF 100 ACTS OF PARLIAMENT.-011 Friday the six new criminal statutes relating to offences against the person, malicious injury to property, larceny, forgery, coining, and accessories and abettors, will come into force, and from Thursday as many as 105 acts and parts of acts on the criminal law will be repealed. RESULT OF THE MIDDLESEX REVISION.—After the holding of 23 separate courts this extraordinary revi sion of the lists of county voters has been brought to a close, and has resulted in a political gain on the register to the Liberal party, in the place of an anticipated considerable loss. We read in the Nationalitie :—" The police, on searching a man just arrested at Milan for swindling, found upon him a consul's diploma and a commission as cabinet courier, both signed by the ex-King of of Naples." Sir Henry Storks, Sir George Buller (major. general commanding), Capt. Hylliar, and other persons in command dined with the Emperor of Austria during his brief stay at Corfu, and in commemoration of the event one of the principal fortified outworks has been christened " Francis Joseph." IMPORTANT ALTERATION IN THE CRIMINAL LAW. " CONSPIRACY TO MURDER."—On Friday next, Nov. 1, the new act on offences against the person will come into opera tion, containing an important provision with respect to "conspiracy to murder," a subject which excited a good deal of interest about three years ago. The 4th section of the new act (24 and 25 Vic„ c. 100) states that " all persons who shall conspire, confederate, and agree to murder any person, whether he be a subject of her Majesty or not, and whether he be within the Queen's dominions or not; and whosoever shall solicit, encourage, persuade, or endeavour to persuade, or shall propose to any person to murder any other person, whether he be a subject of her Majesty or not or whether he be within her Majesty's dominions or not shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court to be kept in penal servitude for any term not more than ten and not less than three years, or to be imprisoned for any term not weeding two years wit); 91' Witilolo Lard 1,411v1i1r." BRUTAL CONDUCT OF AUSTRIAN OFFICERS NEAR VICENZA. In a late number of the Opinione of Turin there appears the following account of an onslaught made by eight Austrian officers on a young Italian lad, Alessandro Finatto, the son of the postmaster at Vicenza. The truth of the narrative, which ap peared in the private letter to which general pub licity was given in the Opinione, has been amply confirmed from other quarters : " VICENZA, Oct. 10. " I will begin by telling you of the sanguinary scene that happened here yesterday. You know that during the last few days the Austrian army has made some manoeuvres on a grand scale, so that it is needless to inform you that, besides the damage to the vineyards and the arable land, all the cost of military transport, as well as the quartering of the men, had to be defrayed by the communes. " Montecchio Maggiore was one of the localities designated for these exercises, and for a fortnight above 9,000 soldiers have been billeted on the houses. I leave you to imagine the damage to the fields, trampled on by horse and foot, just as if it were an enemy's country. The postmaster of this place is one Biasio Finatto, and it happened that when he returned from Vicenza he found an order at his house from the commune, ordering him to take two officers of the regiment Prohascka to a neighbouring place. The order was to depart im mediately, withoat giving him time to rest even his horse. "The poor man, being tired with his previous jour ney, sent his only son, Alessandro (a young man aged 19, full of life and vigour) to accompany them, and the two o ffi cers b a d e him come and pick them up near the Café Panciera, the usual place of ren dezvous for all the officers of that regiment. " Young Finatto was exact to the appointment, but, instead of the two officers, he found no less than five, who insisted on all getting into the car riage. He refused to take them, alleging in self defence the communal order, which only mentioned two, not five; and that, besides, his weary horse was incapable. One of the two first officers, Count Bari, of Milan, either a captain or lieutenant, who heard the post-boy's refusal, got out of the carriage, in which he was already, went up to him, and gave him a blow with the back of his hand. "The lad felt his blood boil in his veins, and re torted by hitting him in the face with his clenched fist. The count tried to draw his sword, but the lad quickly seized it, though cutting his fingers, forced the blade back into the scabbard from which it was half drawn, and so held it until the count's four comrades (I believe all Austrians by race) brutally attacked the unarmed lad with their drawn swords. The names of three are known—Lieutenants Counts Wurmbrand and 011 mayer, and Sub-Lieutenant Vachs. The first wounded him mortally in the neck, the second cut his arm, the third cut through Ms elbow, and they continued to shower blows on the unfortunate man, who managed, however, to get on his feet and run for shelter from their brutal cowardice into the café. Inside there were about 30 officers, some of high rank in the same regiment, who continued playing cards with out moving, permitting this enormity to be com mitted. Three more joined the first five in cutting with their swords at the poor lad, who, tottering, mortally wounded, tried to reach a door, which, opening on an inner court, offered a hope of escape. Then all present, roused from their impassibility, jumped up from the card-tables to bar the way and drive the fugitive back into the middle of the room, where the unfortunate man's strength failing him he fell half dead under one of the tables. But their barbarity did not end here • for while his eight assailants pricked him wit h their sword points as if he had been a truss of straw, others called out the patrol from the nearest guard-house, perhaps to strike terror into the inhabitants, and ordered them to take the half alive body to the guard-house and keep it in close arrest. " The occurrence soon came to the ears of the father and sister, who tried to learn the truth ; but the sentinels crossed bayonets before the two unhappy people, who demanded with tears a son and a brother. Some people interfered, and the communal secretary at last obtained a hearing for them. You can imagine the despair of both on beholding him lying half dead on the bare ground, bathed with his blood, his eyes half closed, neither knowing nor hearing them. They called for a doctor, and soon fetched Dr. Cora, the parish doctor; but he was refused admittance, so they were obliged to ask for another permit from the general, who granted it on condition that the medical examination should be made in the presence of two regimental doctors; thus with orders and permits two good hours passed before the doctor could do anything for the dying man. The wounds were bound up as well as possible ; out of 19 four were declared mortal.; and then a litter was sent for, on which, after procuring a further order from the general, the patient was carried to his home. " The general in command has withdrawn the eight offenders from the indignation of the furious people, who would have tried to make an example of them, and sent them secretly I do not know whether to Verona or Vicenza. The young man is not yet dead, owing to his youth, but the doctor in charge of him has no hopes for him. "No particulars of this occurrence can be con tradicted. I have told the simple truth. This lamentable deed took place yesterday, Oct. 9, at six o'clook p.m." 1281 8 f I) 101 f P i 6 l V 6} JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 190 Agra&UnitedService Bk 50 85 67 40 Australasia all 61 63: 25 Bank of Egypt all 201 211 100 Ba-ik of London 20 (Bank of Turkey 3 4 Id 50 British North American all 53 65 20 Chtd.Bank of India, &c. all 201 205 205 25 Ch. Mer. of In. L on.& Ch. all 81 33 100 City 100 Colonial 20'11 Com. Bank of Canada.. all - 100 Commercial of London. 20 -- - 20 Eng., Scot., & Aus. Ch.. all 161 171 20 Gen. Bk .of Switzerland all - - 20 Lon. Char.Bkof Austral all 2* 241 20 Do. new lO 3 85 50 London and County 50 London Joint Stock 20 London and S.African - 10 pr 100 London & Westminster 20 70 72 70/ 100 Nat. Prov. of England 42 - 20 Do. new l2 - 50 National Bank ........ 25 - - 2G New South Wales.-- all - - 25 Orient. B. Corporation . all 51 52 20 Ottoman Bank... all 17/ 18 171 100 Provincial of Ireland.. 25 - 10 Do. new - 25 South Australia ~ all - - 25 Union of Australia 50 Union of London - 100 Unity Mutual 6 O - COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. - Can. Gov. 6 p.c.Ja. &July - 1877-9... - ... . 100 107 112 - Do 6p. cent.lBBo-21 100 - - - Do. 6p. cent.lBB3-4 100 - - - Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug. 100 106 108 - Do. 6p. c. Mar. & Sept. 100 106 108 - Do. 5 per cent lOO 100 f 1011 1011 Cape G.Hope, 6 p c,lBBO 100 106 108 Do. 1890 100 107 108 - N.B. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 108 109 - Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. 100 - N. S.W. Gov. sp. c., 1866 100 98', 100 - Do. sp. 0..1871 to 1876 100 98 99 - Do. p.c., 1888 & upwds 100 98 99 - Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c sterling, 1875 lOO 1081 109/ - S. Au5,G6p.c.1873.& up lOO -- Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&Julyi 100 - - - Do. do. 6 p.c. Ap.&Oct 1 100 103} 1041 DOCKS. stock Commercial lOO stock Do. 4 per Cent.Pref.Min. 100 stock East and West India stook Londo stock .St. Katharine lOO 63 65 stock Southamptoni stock Victoria..l 20 I Do , New.-..--- 2 11 5 d MISCELLANEOUS. 12251001 1 05000 0 0 A ADAABB .e n outt&rli. g .aalict l inn.rn o m. att-::ll.vvecallagiTßemn.axeT.tAiiLemtceergali.r A. (Lim.) a.i i iLt. n tiue.it( t mi.red . ad.d). .. l))) l aaa a aal I:11 1 91; 1 1 22_ 1 159: 5 2: 1 16228 6 1 54 8132 5 1:00 0 : ccCE. B ohr r oyp i a. British LL L : a ra.m. n d), alla4lo 3 25 25 Canada Do. l itt s . l a o l o l - s s2 t to: ED D Preference 6dpi at pigne r .p . 100 88 " 384 1 at. Electric Telegraph .... 10 1 0 111)0055r 11177 'air7l;B;AP/ Pref. . ona m 7af Ettndiaelsdpc Palace ..cBr.eaic..l2:::;C.n.. Canal . 1. 1 1aa 00 0 coll 1 6 10 - 1_ 2 : 8 1 6 :2_ 1 4 7 0 0 25 Do. New .... . ....... 15 94 06 5 English &Aus. Copper, all 3" ' - I 3 - } 16 Gen. 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(c L ky a no d : all 33 85 Re is ( t i ered im)lst id I p 20 Tr.& Ln. Co. of Upr, Can. 5 - 1 id pr 100 as Dienignifi Laud gip k 2844 9,, 10 114 1.14.0 9.18.9 li 10.6.7 41 61 1 2 33 34 3 1 5.6.0 all 18.18.9 261 41 I 9 1 13 s 6d i 1 1 2 27 32 360 370 67 72 261 26i 21 21 11 13 41 5 35 41 41 5 2f 3f 4 5 if 2 7f 84 42 44 i I 290 300 44 6 i i 105 110 30 32 11 If 6 6f if 15 161 37 39 300 310 80 85 75 85 1f 2 6 13 14 11/ 15/ 10 91 10} 7i EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE AT THE GENERAL POST OFFICE. The following extraordinary statement appears ,n a contemporary Yesterday (Tuesday) morning an investigation into the extraordinary delay of upwards of 500 bankers' parcels at the General Post-office, and the whole of which ought to have been forwarded to the several parties to whom they were addressed by the first delivery on Saturday morning last, but which were detained more than 12 hours, i. e., until nearly six o'clock in the evening, was resumed, the investigation into this unheard-of case, we under stand, having been commenced on Monday. From the several sources at his command, our reporter this (Tuesday) morning gleaned that it appears evident from the statements made by some of the officers on duty on Saturday morning at the arrival of the mails and the opening of the bags, that the whole of the correspondence was duly received at the office, and placed in bags (as is the custom), to be sent round to the stampers and sorters, to prepare for the letter-carriers. From some cause, perfectly inexplicable, two of these baskets, con taining bankers' parcels (enclosing hundreds of thousands of pound notes, bills, &c.), were com pletely overlooked, having been pushed under the " road" where the letters are sorted, and thus, it seems, they were forgotten. As a matter of course the bankers, merchants, and " though last not least" the authorities of the Bank of England, who had five packets, as we are informed, addressed to that establishment, very soon after the first delivery had taken place without the arrival of the more valuable part of their correspondence, instituted inquiries into the reason of the delay, but the only answer they could obtain from the Post-office authorities was, " That the whole of the letters, &c., which had arrived had been sent out for delivery." Upon this the telegraph was set to work, but each succes sive telegram from various parts of the United Kingdom brought a reply, to the effect that the parcels had been despatched to London through the Post-office in the ordinary way. The Post-office authorities of course became alarmed, fearing that another wholesale plunderer had been following his nefarious vocation ; whilst as the day wore on, and no tidings could be obtained of any of the packets, the consternation in the City became intense. Mes sengers and detectives were despatched in all direc tions, and various means employed to trace the missing valuables, but up to five o'clock p.m. with out effect. At that hour, however, the evening duty commenced, and in rumaging the office for baskets to carry the newspapers in, the two were found, the contents being quite safe. They had apparently been pushed out of sight, and they were overlooked by stampers, sorters, and other officers. On e of the w ' a s luofficersked up of the un es t ablishment,su s picion on Saturday nam s d Pritchard, for 12 hours — indeed,hepoor fellow, until ti we the hear, fi n h d a i d n gn not tf beenthe Ipornog perty. The in the service, and was attached to one of the walks of banking impoitance. Wheeler, a messenger, whose duty it was to attend to the packets, has been suspended. The most strange part of the business, officially, is how it could have happened in the first instance that no remark was made as to the non arrival of any bankers's parcels on Saturday morn ing, and how it happened that none of the nume rous inspectors and overlookers of this duty did not take care, as it is their duty, that nothing—not even a newspaper —was either designedly or accidentally left behind. We hear the bankers have determined to call upon the authorities for a full explanation. FATHER PASSAGLIA AT FLORENCE,—A corres pondent writes from Florence on the 24th to the Temps : " I have seen the Abbe Passaglia. He arrived here on Monday at 2 o'clock, and left this morning with Canon Reali for Bologna, whence he goes to Turin. I had a hur ried interview with him in company with seven or eight persons, laity and ecclesiastics. He was astonished at the enthusiasm of which he was the object upon his route. At Rieti, Narni, Perugia, and Sienaa, he recounted, the people cried out to him, ' Viva Passaglia I' Viva L'ltalia Una! ' Then,' said he, I saluted these brave people, and I said, 'Yes, yes, one, but catholic I ' and they replied, "Yes, yes, catigolio i" it was lib a tliPloglie betwOon vs."! 711 E PERENNIAL COTTON TREE OF PERU. (From the London American of this day.) It may appear anomalous to many that while we profess to be an unswerving advocate of American interests we should say anything to deprecate the products of the United States. Let it be remem bered, however, that although oar columns are almost exclusively devoted to such affairs as are udinrietcetdlysotratreeslatively important to the people of the polies, no matterlve o a f r decidedlyewhat origin. o p T p o h s e e c d u t l o t i a v l a l t m i oonn of f mt h o e n ocotton, ipsoplant pue m eTnh a dh y eea dsf b e e twahl c emh o u n omn s s i tad d nr e eeu r ndf e ta d tichr t e a oul n uyr se arupon Americanpdoofbn bales, hltehaset, article Southern e d s e . more or less, contributed by India—the little more than specimens received from Jamaica,San Domingo, Africa, Southern and Central America can by no means be considered in the light of competition. For all the effect that the cotton of these countries has had upon the market, thus far the rebel States may still consider themselves without a rival. Had their greed of gain, and lust for power and dominion been commensurate with a moderate knowledge of the world outside, they might still have con tinued for an almost indefinite period in undis turbed possession of this rich field of industry. Now their downfall is certain. Necessity , will accomplish what principle has too long neg lected—Lancashire will depend no longer upon South Carolina, nor Lyons upon Louisiana, nor Lowell upon Alabama. The capacities of British India will be carefully consulted, the rich soil a Honduras will be anxiously questioned; San Domingo will be inquired after, and Jamaica will respond to her fullest extent. These are fields whose possibilities for cotton growing are not by any means novel. The first two, properly looked after, might supply the world ; the others with several portions of Africa and Australia will doubtless become valuable auxiliaries. Our purpose at this time is not to extol any one of them, but to call attention to a species of cotton which is just now exciting a good deal of attention in the United States—a cotton tree which may be grown in any climate where Indian corn will ma ture. It is known botanically as the Gossypium Arboreunz, is a perennial, and was brought from Peru by Mr. Kendall, a native of Maryland. Mr. Kendall found it growing wild in the cold, rough mountainous districts, as well as in the sultry lowlands of that country, and, upon his return to the United States, he transported a number of the plants. The experiment inaugurated by him has pro duced the most satisfactory results. His cotton trees thrive as well on his farm in Maryland as do the annual plants in Georgia and Mississippi. A few evenings ago Mr. Kendall delivered a lec ture before a scientific audience in New York, upon his Peruvian cotton tree. He gives an in teresting account of his valuable discovery : " Several years ago, while an employe i n th e P a t en ) Office," says Mr. Kendall, "I received and accepted a tempt ing offer from a Chilian gentleman of wealth, Senor Also gara, to conduct certain matters on his estates. One holiday morning not very long after my arrival at my temporary South American home, I set out on horseback along the Course of a modest little river called the Chipura, and forming the boundary between semi-civilisation and the territory of the Ypurian savages. Resolved to explore as much of my patron's domain as the brief May day would allow, I pushed briskly forward over the already frozen ground, covered fetlock deep with newly fallen snow, fol lowing the windings of the stream, whose ledgy banks of dark rock generally thrust back, as it were, by alluvial bot toms from one to Vireo hundred yards distant, indicating that the Chipura had one day been a river of ten times its present volume. After a ride of some two hours, in doubling en abrupt turn where the rocks approached very near the water, I came suddenly into full view of an object some 200 yards distant, which presented the most magnificent spectacle I had ever seen—a perfect cone or pyramid of pure, brilliant snow, elevated at its base per haps seven feet from the ground, upon a shaft of whitish bronze ; the whole structure cut clear and sharp against the dark wall of rock in the back ground. I had in northern countries, after a calm fall of snow, seen many a white pyramid, having an internal structure of pine or spruce, but knowing that in the present instance the snow had fallen during a violent gale, and observing that none of the pines about me bore any traces of it,upon their branches, I rode forward in semi-bewilderment to investigate the phenomenon. _ _ _ " It resolved itself, as I drew near, in a most perfect speci men of the Gossypium Arboreum, the perennial cotton tree. Its foliage had long been shed, but the pods remained, having fully burst, and turned out their spotless samples in almost perfect roses, covering the entire structure with a dense mass of spotless, glossy cotton. I had often seen and examined indifferent specimens of the perennial cotton shrub, but I had never seen anything even approaching in perfection that solitary tree. " The remainder of that, and many a saint day there after, was devoted to intimate companionship with, and diligent study of the habits, peculiarities, and general economy of the beautiful solitaire of the Chipura. "In its native condition, and in the higher southern latitudes, the average size and altitude of the Gossypium Arboreuns equal the medium peach tree of North America—say eight inches in diameter at two feet from the ground, and in height twenty feet ; in its general structure more nearly resembling the white mulberry than any other tree with which I am familiar. The leaves are abundant, distinctly denticulated, and of a glossy, silvery green. Flowers profuse, very double, varigated, and in size about a third smaller than the perfected hollyhock, tho tree when in full bloom pre senting one of the most beautiful effects ima g in a bl e . The bolls at maturity are twice the size of those borne by the herbaceous plant, and wherever it approached the colder regions, I found the fiber finer and the length of the staple increased. " The perennial cotton tree is propagated from seed, or more readily from cuttings simply thrust into the ground, and possesses this peculiar advantage in any country over the herbaceous plant. It may be planted oat as an apple, peach, or pear orchard, and the field cropped with any of the cereals, until the tree, having reached its maximum standard, should entirely occupy the land. It bears cutting as kindly as any known tree, and in field culture may always be kept so pruned that its produce shall be within reach of the hand." Mr. Kendall reports that he has seen one tree capable of producing not less than one hundred pounds, and in relation to its adaptability to Northern latitudes, says : " Two-thirds of the present free States of the Union possess the requisite of soil—several of them in an eminent degree ; and there is no well-founded reason why they should not afford an unlimited supply of cotton, equalling in quality the best south ern staple, and at a clear profit to the producer of fifty per cent. above the average proceeds from the usual farm crops ; and that, too, without materially lessening the breadth of land now devoted to grass and grain, or seriously inter ferinc, with the routine of farm economy as at present con ducted." This discovery is likely to be of immense advantage to the world at the present time. If only a fair percentage of all that is claimed for it proves true it will not only do much to make cotton more abundant, but cheaper. It is stated that two thousand pounds may be pro duced on an acre of land, while five hundred pounds from the herbaceous plant is considred a large yield. The fibre even when produced—as it generally is in Peru without care or culture—is declared to be superior to that of the best upland staple of the rebel States. HEALTH OF LONDON .DURING THE WEEK. (From the Registrar-General's Weekly _Return.) The deaths iu London declined to 1,065 in the week that ended October 19 ; they increased but very slightly in the week ending last Saturday, when the number was 1,087. Scarlatina is frequent at the present time, and fatal cases of it are nume rous among children ; but generally the population appears to be in good health, and the mortality from all causes is considerably below the average. The deaths from scarlatina rose last week to 96, those from diphtheria were 11; while the corrected average for corresponding weeks is 86 for the two diseases together. There were 10 from scarlatina in Chelsea, 4 in the sub-district of Mayfair, 8 in Islington, 9 in the two Waterloo-road sub-districts of Lambeth, but only one in the whole of the re maining portion of that district, which comprises Lambeth, Kennington, Brixton, and Norwood. No fatal cases of scarlatina were returned in Clerken well, Shoreditch, Newington, Clapham, Battersea, Wandsworth, or Camberwell. There were 7in Pancras, lin Marylebone. The deaths from typhus rose to 62 in the week. There were 5 from small pox,ye a r s. and 10 from measles. A man died at the referred to the h ea d " typhus " in the tables, 32 were cau se d by typhus adovafntchee d s a 2 ge de o a f t 9 h s s and typhoid. fever, 16 by " fever," 2 by gastric fever, 1 by con tinued fever, 1 by infantile, and 1 by billions fever. Mr. Mears, the registrar of the Waterloo-road sub district (Ist ) part , recorded 6 deaths from scar latina out of 9 deaths from all causes. He considers that the .rapid propagation of the disease in his neighbourhood is much aided by the overcrowding of small houses, in consequence of the extensive clearance effected for the Charing-cross railway. Mr. Armstrong, registrar of St. Mary, St. George in-the-East, states that scarlatina has been very prevalent during October in that part of his sub district, the northern, which is the most densely populated. Last week the births of 945 boys and 877 girls, in all 1,822 children, were registered in London. !_n_ the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1851 6u the average number was 1,654. ALDERMAN SALOMONS, M.P., AND HIS CON STITUENTS.—Last evening a crowded public meeting of the electors of the borough of Greenwich residing at Woolwich Plumstead, and Charlton was held at the Literary Institu tion, Nelson-street, Woolwich, at w hich an address was delivered by Alderman Salomon, M.P., on various pill° questions of the day. 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