The Sun. — London, England, 1861-11-04 00:00:00

THIRD EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock. TATTE.RSALLS'-(T11.1S EVENING). LIVERPOOL CUP. 10 to 1 agst Lady Ripon (taken) 100 to 8 agst Gabriel d'Estreis (taken) 100 to 7 agst Russley (taken) THE DERBY, 1862. 11 to 1 agst Buckstone (taken) 12 to 1 agst The Marquise (taken and offered) 13 to 1 agst Old Calabar (taken) 25 to 1 agst SVingrave (taken) 25 to 1 agst Caterer (taken) 30 to 1 agst Ace of Clubs (taken) 33 to 1 agst Spite (taken) 40 to 1 agst Malek (taken) 40 to 1 agst Nottingham (taken) 40 to 1 agst Typee colt (taken) 1000 to 15 agst Lord Burleigh (taken) 1000 to 15 agst Hubert (taken) 1000 to 10 agst Berkeley (taken) ARRIVALS AT WORCESTER. Doefoot, Voltella, Diadem, Kibworth Lass, East Sheen, Orion, Sister to Man-at-Arms, Mayflower, Miss Julia, Miss Pennell, Heads and Tails, Lord of tho Manor, Moun tain Daisey, Newstead, Caracole, Enatis, Stanton, Queen of Spain, Bubbles, Summer Breeze, Leveret, Terry Land, Rossmore, Miss Eleanor, Queen Bess, Fisherman, Louise Leclercq, Fitzavon, Billy Dwindles, Doubtful, Sweetmeal filly, Sherborne, Bloodhound, Waterford, Nemo Ripon, Atherstone, Monmouthshire, Medora, Chatterbox, Sycsphant, Forest, Hind, Paradox, Joey Jone, Mermaid, Nutbush, Zodiac, Mutineer, Woman in Red, Antioch, Ataman, Tumbler, Cockscrew, Blackrose, My Mary, and Madlle. Champigny. 4101VEY MARKET AND CITY 111.E1V8. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. The progress of business in the manufacturing districts during the past week has continued inac tive, and little change of importance can be re corded. At Bradford, however, there has been a fair demand for fancy cloths on French account. '1 he woollen trade at Leeds has been dull, and at Manchester prices of both yarns and cloths have tended upwards. A moderate business has been done in worsted hosiery at Leicester, and at Not tingham a fair inquiry has been experienced for cotton fabrics. At Birmingham, Sheffield, Wolver hampton, and most of the hardware districts there is no material alteration to record. Business in the Liverpool Cotton Market on Saturday was extremely dull, and prices fluctuated considerably. The sales were barely 2,000 bales. At the Bank of England, on Saturday, there were no bullion operations of public interest. The Niagara, which left on Saturday for Halifax and Boston, took out £25,400 in specie. The traffic receipts of the Northern of France Railway from the Ist of January to the 21st ult. amounted to £2,019,028, showing an increase of £86,226 compared with the corresponding date in 1860 ; and on the Paris and Orleans Railway the returns for a similar period were £2,273,139, or £157,825 more than last year. Within the last day or two the demand for money has been slightly augmented, but this was fully expected owing to the preparations for the numer ous mercantile bills due to-day, the Bth of the month. The liquidation of these engagements is making satisfactory progress, as up to the present time no embarrassments of importance have been recorded. Owing to the extreme caution with which the mer cantile community have recently conducted their operations, and the facilities offered to them for obtaining accommodation, credit is remarkably well maintained, and the settlement of accounts is gene rally completed without much difficulty. Although the inquiries have temporarily increased, the rates continue easy, and 21 per cent. is still the average charge for first class securities. At the meeting of the National Savings Bank Association the report presented stated as follows: The business of the Association shows a steady and progressive increase, the more encouraging as having taken place in unfavourable times; it has produced during the past year £4,278, as against £3,300 the preceding year, and £1,960 the year previous ; while your directors have succeeded in reducing nearly every item of expenditure below that of the preceding year. The attention of your directors is still earnestly directed to the object of retrenchment where it can be judiciously effected. The number of branches open is 80, four having been closed as not being sufficiently remunerative. The depositors during the year have increased 9,934, the number being 31,423 as against 21,489, or at the rate of 191 per week. The amount de posited was £53,060. The subscribed capital is £20,872, and the number of shareholders 772. The investments of the association have been made with all care and consideration as to security, and no loss has occurred during the year." The Market for English Securities opened steadily, but sales on speculative account having taken place a decline of 1 per cent. has ensued, Consols which bad been 93/ F I being now 93 931 both for transfer and the 7th inst. The quotations for the Decem ber account are 931 1. The New Threes and the Reduced are steady at 911 e ; Exchequer Bills, June, have risen to 16s. and 17s. prem, ; Bank Stock has declined to 228; India ditto is firmer at 2261 and 227; ditto 5 per Cent., 1051 ; and the Bonds, 12s. to 15s. prem. In the Foreign Market the principal movements have been the improvement in Buenos Ayrian and Venezuelan Bonds, the former having advanced 21 per cent.---viz., to 881, and the latter to 221 ft, being 1 per cent. higher. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 791 80 ; ditto, 1858, 67 8 ; Mexican are firm at 281; Sardinian at 82, and Italian remain at 1671. A moderate amount of business was transacted to-day in the Railway Share Market, in some instances, however, prices are a shade flatter. Eastern Counties and Lancashire and Yorkshire, receded 55., and Great Northuns, £l, Midlands, however, advanced about 55., and North Westerns, and South Easterns realised previous rates. The Foreign and Colonial lines were in fair request. South Austrian and Lombardo-Venetian have improved about /. Great Luxembourg, Bahia, San Francisco, Recife and San Francisco, San Paulo, East Indian, and Calcutta, and South Eastern were a shade flatter. Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares con tinued in fair demand. Ottoman Bank brought 174 ; London and Westminster, 70 to 701. Electric Telegraph improved to 964, 96i; and Oriental Inland Steam to 6. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities ma _a a 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities New 3 p er C ent. Annu it ies 9 ll i 1 Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 — Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885.. 1 5 9-16 I ndia Stock . . 2261 7 Ditto 6 per Cent. * ." Ditto Loan Scrip 4 5 per cent .. Ditto Enlaced Alper, 4 per Cent Ditto 5 pe r c (nit. 9B 1 Ditto 54 p er Cent. Ditto Debentures 4 1041 5 Ditt o , Per Cent., Oct., 1863 981 Ditto Bonds £lO 185900 ******* Ditto under £l,OOO ****************** Coasols for Account, 1\7 0 . .; . *. l 7 March I June. 17 15 pm Exchequer Bills, £I,OOO, 2d. Ditto £5OO .. •• • ' ....... Ditto Small ................ woREIGN FUNDSCLOSIN G p it , . ICES 16 pm B raz ilian, 5 per Cent .. . ....... _ `to 41 pet Cert., 1852_ , -. & ........ Ditto, 5 per Cent., 1839 1859..., . ... 92 / Buenos Ayres, 6 per . 91 Cent..........,.... 90 Ditt o Account ,, ............. 88/ Ditto Deferred Mexican, 3 per Cen t ....... ...... —29 30 Ditto Account Po r tuguese 3 per Cent. , 1853 . — Ditto Account Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, and TO 47 Ditto Account Russian 5 per Cent. 1322. £ St Ditto 4/ per Cent. . ... Ditto 41 per Cent, 1860 Ditto 3 per Cent. 1859 59/ ex div Sardinian 5 per Cent Spanish 3 per Cent — Ditto Passive Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded....... 6 5 Turkish 6 per Cent .. Ditto Account litho New Loan Ditto Account Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. Venezuelan 3 per Cent Ditto Account Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 21 per Cent , Exchange 12 Guil. Ditto Certificates, 4 . per Cenf... 4 Italian, 6 per Cent. , 1861 THREE O'CLOC.H. CConsols 9 Money 93 k Ditto Account, Dec .5 93 it stock 20 stock stock stock 50 stock stock stock stock stock 261 I:3k 100 stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock 101 10 stock stock stock 211.6 d. 12i 12i stock stock SPAI?E MARKET-(7HIS DAY). 100 102 201 21 151 8} 100 102 110 115 10 110 107 109 108 108 123 126 80 82 110 112 89 91 79 81 114 118 109 111 101 103 107 109 all ) 100 97 99 98 100 87 89 88 DO 101 103 96 10 166 176 106 101 74 76 20 206 10 10} 15 154 ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Share Railways. i s aid. l Closing Business Price. Done 50 Belfast and Ballymena all 13.14 Bir., %Vol , and Str. Var all 74 8 stock Birk., La., and Ch June. 100 25 Myth and Tyne all 10 Boet. Sisal'. and Mid.Co all 64 64 stock Bristol and Exeter stock Caledonian loo 1014 1064 10 Carmarthen sr all 50 Cork and Bandon all -- 20 Cork, filreck. ,t Passage all 2 0 Cornwall .. ~ 10 D o A ( A gets no div all 10 all D o B until 6pc peran hasbeenT d. toB 50 Dublin & Belfast June all 41 42 25 Dun., Perth, diAls.Junc all 104 11 stock East Anglian... lOO 19 20 stock Eastern Counties lOO 514 5 5 4 54 5% stock Eastern Union, A stock 100 47 49 steex Do do Bdo 100 33 35 25 Do Nw A, late EU3ds. 13 4 stock East Suffolk stock Edinburgh & Glasgow 100 90 91 stock Edin. Perth, & Dundee 100 294 304 10 Forth & Clyde Junction all stock Furness stock Glass.. and S. Western 100 104 106 10 Great Nthn. of Scotland all 9 110 stock Great Northern 109 100 1( 4 stock Do do A stock stock Do do B do 100 103 105 103 stock Gt. S. & W. of Ireland stock Great Western stock Do Str Val gua. stock 100 55 58 12 Irish South-eastern all stock Lancashire & Yorkshire 100 106 1064 1064 1 4 6 1. stock London and Blackwall 100 57 59 stock Lon., Bright.. & S Coast 100 115 117 stock Lond., Chat., and Dover 100 45 47 46 54 stock Lond. & Nth. Western 100 91 Dl4 91i * stock Lond. & .th. Western lOO 93 04 93 / 4 25 L'derry & Coleraine all 25 L'derry & Enniskillen all 10 11 stock Man. Shef. & Lincoln lOO 47 48 474 7 50 Maryport and Carlisle all 124 Do do 4 shares..., all 10 Metropolitan 74 5 6 54 stock Midland 6.4.0. Do new 1.4.0. 14 stock Do lairming. & Derby 100 99 101 50 Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland all 25 Do 4 shares all a 5 Mid Kent. all 10 Do, Cray Line 100 Newcastle and Carlisle all 10 Newry & Armagh, def 9 8 6 d 20 Newry, Warnpt. & Roe all stock Norfolk 100 62 64 634 stock North British. stock Nor.Dev.Rail&Dk.stock 1 00 stock Ds k 3tk ; A recs no d until 6pchas beenpd.B 1 00 stock Do 13 stock .. 100 stock Nth. Eastern—Berwick 100 1014 1014 1014 25 Do do , G.N.E. purchase 16 13 4 d stock Do Leeds 100 584 59 681 984 stock Do York stock North London 10 Do new 6 19.16 4 North Staffordshire 174 44 44 i 10 N. and S. W. Junction all 104 104 stock Not. di Grantham Rail lOO 90 91 904 10 Feebler „.„ all 20 Portsmouth 10 all stock Scottish Central stock Scot N. E., Aber. stock 100 38 49 stock Do Scot. 311 d. stock lOO 95 97 stock Shropshire Union lOO 45 46 45 10 Sittingbourne & Sheer. all stock South Devon 100 37 39 38 25 S.-Durham & Lanc.Un. 224 stock South Eastern. stock South Wales stock S. York. and River Dun 100 94 90 20 Staines, Wok,. and Wok all 5 6 25 Stockton & Darlington all 37 88 874 25 Do do l3 74 84 p 25 Do New (1860) 5 5 6 p stock 1 ail Vale stock Do Pref. No 1 lOO 25 t` fiamesHavenDk&Rail 22 50 Matti* all 554 56 25 Do ...... 20 24 3 p 12 10 Do .... 2 4d 1 , stock Vale of Neath 10 Victoria Sta. and Pim i all 124 13 stoca Waterford & Kilkenny , 100 50 Waterford & Limerick i all 20 West Cnt nwall 20 West London all 10 Do let class all 20 Do 2d class .. all stock West Hartlepool Warbri and Rail lOO stock West Midland—Oxford 100 48 90 stock Do. Newport 100 46 48 stock Do. Hereford 100 88 90 89 PREFERENCE SHARES. Share Railways. Paid Closing Business Price. Done. Blythe and Tyne 10 pert c. pref. (issued at £5 & Exet.4 p.ctstock Do. do. do. Shares Caledon .£lO, 41 percent Do. Quar. Shares, No. 2. ' Cork & Bandon, 51 p. c. Cornwall, 5 per cent Dun.Perth&Aber.Jun Do Ist Class Pref E.Ang - n.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.l Do. do. No.. , Do. New 6 per ct. stock. Eastern Union, 4 per ct. Do. 5 per cent. guar... Edin.&Glas.sp.c. shares Do. 4 p. c gua. S. & D. Edin. Perth& Dun. 4 p.c. l'urness, 5 per cent .... Glas.& S. West.g.a. 5 p.c, Great Northern, 5 p. ct. Po.sp.c.Redm.,lop.c.pm Do. 44 p. c. do. do. Do. 5p o. Redm. 5 p.c. pm Gt. Nh. of Scotld. Ist pf W (Ireland) 1 j p. ct. pref. stock Great West. (Berks an Rants) Ext 5 p. ct Lo. Redeemab, 44 P•ct Do. Redeemable, p. ct. Do. Irredeemable, do Do. 5 p.ct. Redeem. Pref. Do. Birm. Pref. Shares. Gt. W. Ches. 8 p.c. ptsh Do. do. 5 p. et. pref Do nirmg.gmar. stock Do. Chester gua. shares Po. do. do. Do. do. do. Lan. & Carl. 41 p c. pref, Lan.&York 6 p. c. stock. Do.Barnsl.stXs3s 10d pc Do. 6 per c. (E. Lau.) Len. & Brig. 5 pc.gn. No Do. 5 p. c. No. 2 Do. gua. 6 p. c. Do. do 5 p c,. No. 4 Do. do. 41 per cent , Do. do. 41 p. c. shares Do. 7 p. ct. Pref. stock Do. 6p.c. do. (W.E.&C.P ) Do.4p.c.S.(div.dettil '65) Do. 4 per cent. Pref ton. Chat. and Dover Do. W. /"A rceiv. no div Ex.A til 6pcis pd on Do. B B. & Brom ex. Do. Metropolitan Ex B Lon. and N.W. Coy. and Nuneaton, 5 p. ct ton. & S. W, 7 p. et. stock Do. 41 per cent .. Do. (Prtsm. perpl anns. of 2s. 6d. Londondy. & Cole. 4 sh Londony. & Ennis. sh IMan. Sh. &Lin. 6 per ct Do. £6 Do. 35 per cent Do. redeem. 6 per cent Taryport & Car., 4 p. c Do. 41 per cent. Mid. Con. 6 p c. stock Do.Con.Bris. & Bir. 6 p.c Do. 41 p. c. pref. stock Do. 41 per cent ... Do. Leic. & Hit. pref st Norflk 5 p. c. Ex. st. 1846 Do. 51 p. c. Pref. do 1847 Do.sWay. Val. Ex. 5t.1847 'North British, 5 p. o. ' Do. New, gua. 5 p. c.... I Do. Bor. Un. g. pf. shs Do. do. do Nth.Dev.Rail. &Dck.Co. N-East.Cons.Pret. 4 p.c. Do. 41 p c. redeemable.. Do. G.N.E. 4 per c. pref. Do. Berwick, 4 p.c. Pref. Do. Leeds, 6 p. e. No. 1 Do. do. Quarters, 1848.. Do. Tork, H. & S. Puroh. North Staffordshire..., Rhymney Guaranteed. Scottish Central, new pf 'Scottish North-Eastern 34 p. c. pref. 5t00k.... Do.Aberdeen,gua.6p.c Do. 7 p. C. pref. stock South Devon, Ann. 10s. Do. Fixed 41 per cent. South Eastern (Reading Ann., 1.0.6) Do. 41 per cent Do. Fixed lip.c. Ist is , outh Wales, gua. 4 p.c. Do. 44 per cent. Do. 5 per cent' S.-Yorkshire, 4 p. c. qua Stock. & Dar. A 5 p. c Do. B 6 percent Do. C 6 percent Watrfd & Kilkny, 6 p. e W.Mid -Oxt lst Grua stk Do. 2d do Do. Newport 5 p.c.pf.red. Do.Perpet. 6 p. c. pf 1866 Do. till 1869, Ist is. ,135 137 112 115 112 115 136 138 112 115 101 103 1150 155 127 130 '.'3 75 91 02 193 95 id p I 1113 13i 14 123 125 6 f , 65 :0 IP 1011 11 lei 1136 138 1 100 102 10s. 10 1.0. 100 100 100 all all 91 93 109 111 107 109 1 lip 90 9t, 99 101 08 too id p d ip 22 23 132 138 10 101 23i 24 100 102 ,100 102 98 100 84 86 27 28 32 '33 32 33 45 48 124 126 118 120 100 102 120 122 118 118 1011 10Di LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. I Paid] Leasing Closing Business Railways.Co.'s Price. Done. Bedford and Bletchley all !Da &N.W .. .. 1 1 0 00 0 D D 0 0 . .......... : .. 9531 1496 cßh?stien;hlaHmoslhyihreca.a... Holyhead... Do. 54 percent 1 00 iDo. 122 124 122 Do. 5 100 Do. ...... 111 113 111 1 Clydesdale June " 1 100 ;Caledon... 101 103 Colchester, Stour Val.; all 'E.U.&E.O 154 16} E.Lincolnsh. g 6 per c.l 100 ,Gt. North. 131 134 E.Union,HarwichShs.i alt E.Counts. 4 41 Do. Woodbridge... .1 100 .. Gls.Barr.&Neils.Drct. 100 Caledon.., Do. new lOO Do. ...• Gloster &Dean Forest, all Gt. West. Hrtlp'l Dock & 8ai1.. 1 all IYk.N.&Br Hull and Selby. *, all ;Yk.N. Md. 109 111 Do. halve s . 1 all 'Do. .• •. Do. D. q f s quarters. . .. .... . preferencea, rrt cent..... r e n s ..: . e . ; . n . : d. .. 1 all 1 , Do . .. : a 000 n :i o c .. : T & i C ib a u r r 1 . 3 ct u a s . sp. c . 100 !Ln& . N.W . . 197 200 Lillinlwed.e:anntoxtitttnGg. Greenwich . 100 iS.Eastern 60 62 i l 100 IDo. ... ~. 1 84 1 86 u&a.3l,l4atiloCk 1 1 0 0 0 0 D Pe o t . o &Co. 84 86 85 Meidn.cellrsatdicicok'rEl.. ! . .e . f . er . -. 100 11,0011 i iN L o is rf w Ol a k 3 . . i . ....- 34 L- 31 arkt,BuryEx. Newm "Midland.. 94 96 gua. 5 percent. 5 . 5.6 E.Counts. pi P Northn.&Eastn. s . r; * p Do. 6p. c . - •C . all IDo.. 66 57 66 Do. Fixed 5 . p . ...... all Do. North Western. .. ;•. 1 .. all Do. I' D r o e . s i t o s n h aand .............. all a a l l l L M a id N la w nc 151 161 i l 100 , _G D4z . t o _ ._ l: N r . ' T a o' k r . . t . Roystn.llitch.,&Shep '.1.' . 3 ssey 120 122 h .l l —il 132 = Shrewsbry& Hereford 100 Do. do. 1 bPo. 1 14p 41 S.-Staffordshire all lisi'ci ern Wilts and Somerset lOO Gt 176,; . t 90 92 911 1 Initlbled9ll4CMClD4 1 4 1 1 1 1.413ne9i 81 H THE SUN, THIS DAY'S MARRETS. CORN EXCHANGE. I he leading country markets held on Saturday were very moderately supplied with wheat, and the trade generally held steady, at about previous quotations. Malting barley sold somewhat freely at extreme rates; and other articles fully supported previous currencies, Most of the Continental markets have been dull for wheat, and prices had been with difficulty maintained. Spring corn, however, continues very fair. In the United States no change of importance has taken place in the quo tations. The arrivals of English grain up to our market last week were small. The imports from abroad were 27,151 qrs. of wheat, 5,798 barley, 33,334 oats, 56 beans, 1,260 peas, 1,040 linseed, 878 rapeseed, 1,430 maze, 533 sundry seeds, 841 sacks and 1,797 barrels of flour. Fresh up to this morning's market, the arrivals of English wheat were decidedly small, but the general quality of the samples was very good. Although the demand both for red and white qualities was far from active, the trade must be considered firm, at the full prices of this day se'nnight, to, in some instances, is per quatter improve ment. The show of samples of foreign wheat was rather exten sive. Importers were firm in their demands, and last week's currency was well supported. _ . In floating cargoes of grain only a moderate business was doing, yet the quotations ruled firm. Malting barley moved off slowly, at barely late rates. Grinding and distilling sorts were quite as dear as on Mon day last. The supply on offer was very moderate. For malt we have to report a slow inquiry, on former terms. Good and fine oats were firm at full quotations, but in ferior parcels sold slowly at about previous rates. The show of beans was small, and all qualities changed hands at full prices. Peas—the supply of which was limited—met a steady sale at full currencies. The flour trade was steady, and prices wore well main tained. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wheat—Essex and Kent, red, new Ditto, old —s —s Ditto, white, new 62s 68s Ditto, old —s —s Norfolk and Lincoln, red, old --s a Ditto, new Talavera, new 38s t3a - LONDON . Rye- Barley—Grinding 27s 34s Mailing 36s 43s Malt—Suffolk and NorfOlk 528 68s Brown Kingstown and Ware s2s 70s Chevalier 7os 728 Oata —Yorkshire and Lincolnsh., Feeding 2ls 25s Potato Youghal and Cork, black ... 193 25s Cork, white Scotch, Feeding 23s 28s Beans—Tick Pigeons, Peas—Grey Maple White 448 46s Boilers Flour—Town-made Suffolk Stockton and N0rf01k........ METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. The supply of foreign stock on offer in to-day's market was seasonably large, and in fair average condition. From our own grazing districts, as well as from Ireland, the receipts of beasts were somewhat extensive as to num ber, but deficient in quality. Prime Scots, crosses, short horns, &c., commanded a steady sale, at in some instances an advance in the quotations of 2d per 81bs, the best Scots having realised 5s per 81bs ; otherwise the beef trade was in a sluggish state, on former terms. The arrivals from Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Nor thamptonshire amounted to 2,700 short-horns, &c. ; from other parts of England, 400 various breeds; from Scotland, 28 Scots ; and from Ireland, 700 oxen and heifers. With sheep we were but moderately supplied, and their quality was inferior. Prime Downs and half- breds com manded a steady sale, at an advance in the quotations of 2d per Sibs, and other breeds moved off freely, at full prices. The best Downs were worth 6s 8d per 81bs. Notwithstanding that the supply of calves was very moderate, the veal trade was in a sluggish state, at last week's currency. The top price was 5s per 81bs. There was a good business doing in pigs, the supply of which was tolerably extensive, at full prices. Per Slb. to sink the offal. s. d. s. d. Crse. &inf. beasts 2 10 S 2 Second quality do. 3 4 3 10 Prime large oxen 4 0 4 6 Prime Scots, &c. 4 8 6 0 Crse. & inf. sheep 3 2 3 6 Second quality do. 3 8 4 4 Lambs, Os Suckling calves,f2Os to 30s 22s to 325. TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts Sheep and lambs.... 20,700 Sheep Calves Pigs. f' 38J 1 Pigs The total imports of foreign stocK into London, last week, amounted to 10,420 head. In the corresponding week in 1860, we received 8,599—in11859, 7,120—in 1858, 4,513 —in 1857, 6,244—in 1856, 6,201—in 1865, 5,179 head. IMPORTS INTO LoNDO/4 L..Asrl WEEK. s. d. s. d Primecrs-wool d 0.4 6 5 2 Pme. S' thdown d 0.5 4 5 8 Largo orse. calves 4 0 4 6 Prime small do 4 8 5 0 Large hogs 4 0 4 6 Small porkers ..., 4 8 5 2 Id to Os Od. and quarter-old store pigs From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. Rotterdam .... 298 .. 1673 .. .. 230 .. 79 Harlingen .... 166 .. 1166 .. 13 .. 342 Hamburgh.... 112 .. 877 .. .. 47 . -- Dordt - Amsterdam — 730 • • • . Bremen Boulogne 4 .. Tonning .. 352 .. 352 Medemblik .... 14 .. 2578 1 .. Antwerp . • -- Nieu Diep 22 1193 9 Total ....1,136 8,563 .. 253 463 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 860 2167 5,882 . 2.. 129 .. 202 .. 219 859 .. 1768 .. 6,128 .. 77 244 .. 106 858 1137 3,255 16 .. 411 .. 94 857 1099 4,230 .. 99 ~ 759 57 85R ..... 555., -- • • ."". • • ""' • • '''"' • • A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in the great metropolitan cattle market, on Monday, Nov. 6, 1860, and this day, Monday, Nov. 4, 1861. Per 81b. to sink the offal. Nov. 5, Nov. 4, 1860. 1861. Coarse and inferior beasts.... 210 to 3 0 210 to 3 2 Second quality do Prime large oxen 4 0 4 8 4 0 4 6 Prime Scots, &c. 4lO 5 0 4 8 5 0 Coarse and inferior sheep Second quality do. Prime coarse-woolled d 0..... 410 5 2 4 6 5 2 Prime Southdown do. .. 5 4 5 6 5 4 5 8 Lambs Large coarse calves Prime small do. Large hogs Neat small porkers 4 8 5 4 4 8 5 2 Beasts Sheep and lambs 18,700 20,700 Calves .. 149 219 Pigs .. 300 380 SUPPLIES ON SALE, Nov. 7, 1859.—Beasts, 5,360; sheep and lambs, 23,820 ; calves, 168 ; pigs, 460. Nov. 8, 1858.—Beasts, 5,645 ; sheep and lambs, 24,550 ; 1 calves, 129;; pigs, 300. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The supplies of meat on sale here are only moderate. Generally speaking, the trade is firm, and the quotations are well supported. Per 81b. by the carcase. s d s d sdsd Inferior beef .. 2 6 3 2 Middlingmutton 3 10 4 2 Middling do. .. 3 4 3 6 Prime do .. 4 4 4 6 Frime large do. 3 8 3 10 Veal 3 4 4 4 Do. small do. .. 4 0 4 2 Small pork .... 5 2 5 6 Large pork 4 2 5 0 Lamb Inferior mutton. 3 2 3 8 , BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. Only moderate supplies of potatoes have been on sale at these markets. Good and fine qualities have sold steadily at very full prices; otherwise, the trade has ruled slow at former currencies. A few samples of foreign potatoes have been on offer. Scotch Regents York do. Kent and Essex ditto llos to 1355. ~ BOROUGH HOP. Good and fine hops moved off freely at very full prices. The supply of inferior qualities being large, owing to the largo importations from the Continent, the demand for them rules somewhat inactive ; nevertheless, the quotations are fairly supported. Last week's imports were 170 bales from Dunkirk, 73 from Calais, 189 Boulogne, 466 Ostend, 1,053 Antwerp, 316 Rotterdam, 155 Hamburg, 48 Bremen, 276 Harburg, and 6 from Havre. New Mid and East Dents, 180 s to 220 s per cwt. New Weald of gents 147 e 185 s » New Sussex l3se 155 s ~ SEEDS. Linseed and rapeseed continue to command very full prices, but as regards other kinds the trade is in a sluggish state at late rates. Cakes move of steadily at full quota tions. Turnip,White,p.bus.26s to s Swede —B —s M u stard, Brown. l3s 14s White, new....Ssed 9s6d T a res, Winter 7s 6d Os Old per quarter 31.8 4 s C4nary, per quarter 30s 50s Rye grass, new —s —s Clover, Red Eng., et —s —s White F ore ign Red.. •• —s —s White. —8 —s Trefoil, new. WOOL. Carraway ...... 22s to 25s Coriander l4s 188 Hempseed, per qr 45s 46s Linseed,Eng,.sowing 72s ;76s Crushing 6os s 70s Baltic Ms 589 Odessa Linseed Cake, p ton —s —s English £lo Os.£ll 108 Foreign £olos 11 15s Rape Cakes,p ton 51 10s 61 Os Rapeseed. new, pqr 60s 62s We have to repot t a 'limited inquiry for all kinds of Eng lish wool, yet very little change has taken place in prices, compared with last week.. Colonial and foreign parcels, owing to the approaching public sake which COMO= 911 the 7th inst. are much neglected. There:were no imports of wool last week from the colonies. TALLOW. The market is less firm, and prices have a downward tendency. To-day P.Y.C. is quoted at 51s 9d per cwt. on the spot ; rough fat is 2s 10d per 81b. 1857. 1858. 1859. 1860. 1861. Stock this day.... :24,092 21,178 45.208 58,617 38,738 Price of Y.C. 53s 3d —s Od —s Od 61s 3 d — s Od I 5380 d to 49s 9d to 59s 3d to Ole Odto 57s 9d to Delivery last week 328 2,825 1,886 2,381 3,325 Ditto from June 1 46,529 46,152 33,506 43,459 65,024 Arrivals last week 5,069 9,0 , 4 3,478 8,829: 7,415 Ditto from June 1 57,503 45,763 66,633 74,982 47,06! Price of Town .... 56s 6d 53s 6d 628 6d 638 3di 556 9d STATEMENT OP TALLOW SHIPPING AT ST. PETERSBURG. Tallow despathed from Cronstadt 1861. 1860. 1859. from Oct. 9, 0. S. (estimated at 25 Casks. Casks. Casks poods to the cask) 51,399 116,298 7 3 ,863 In ships loading and li g ht ers 15,628 5,117 101,83 Total loaded offfrom St. Petersburg, 6!,027 121,415 84, 0 46 Oct. 11 O.S 6,132 3,977 Do. after , this data Total at the close of the navigation 127,547 88,022 London Liverpool Bristol 867 3,191 8,105 Other English ports Ireland 6,699 13,738 5 , 448 Scotland 1,785 5,902 2, 007 Germany France 1,798 3,697 14 51,399 110,298 73,863 LA TV INTELLIGENCE—(This Day. ) COURT OF CHANCERY. (Before the Lord Chancellor.) APPEAL..- PAULEY V. TURNBULL. This is an appeal from a decision of Vice-Chancellor Sir John Stuart. Mr. Malin, Q.G., was heard for the appellant. This is a suit for specific performance of a building con tract. The defendant pleaded that the contract was void by fraud, unfair dealing, and abuse of powers therein con tained. The caso is reported in tho " Jurist," new series, p. 192. . The Vice-Chanceller ordered £2,781 to be paid to the defendant in respect of houses already built, and directed inquiries as to extra work performed and money ordered to be paid by the architect in the course of building houses on the Gartan-road. The defendant objected, and appealed on the ground that the architect should have ordered payment as the work was completed. Mr. Malins, Q.C., in support of his argument, cited the case of the Liverpool Water Works (" De Gex and Jones' Reports," p. 324). His Lordship mentioned the cases of the Taff Vale Rail way Company and the Great Western—" Kemp and Roe" (" Chancery Reports," p. 358)—as cases in point, showing the powers exercised by architects and engineers in such contracts. Mr. Craig, Q.C., followed on the same side, and read the evidence produced, to show that the whole works were completed, and also the extra works, at the time the de fendants relinquished possession. The case is not concluded. (Before Vice-Chancellor Sii. William Page Wood.) PETITION BY ORDER-IN RE ENGLISH AND IRISH CHURCH AND UNIVERSITY ASSURANCE SOCIETY. His Honour said,—l have read the papers during the vacation. This is a common order. His Honour ordered costs to be paid to parties properly appearing in the suit. No costs to voluntaries. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Before Justices Wightman i Crompton, and Blackburn.) WHITMORE AND OTHERS, ASSI GNEES OP I. E. COLRIDGE V. CLARIDGE. Mr. Huddlestone applied on the part of the defendants pursuant to leave given to move that the verdict given, when the case was heard at the assizes, for the plaintiffs' for £1,873, be entered for defendant. The action was brought to try the validity of a bill of sale, given by the bankrupt on his brother, a farmer in Worcester. The bankrupt fell into difficulties in 1859, and applied to Messrs. Weaver to raise menu to:pay out two executions ; but the money not being forthcoming, the bankrupt applied to his brother, the defen dant, who through his banker paid out the execution, and made some additional advances, taking as security two bills of sale of the whole of the pei sonal property of the bank rupt on the two farms. It was proved at the trial that the money was actually paid, and the learned judge left the jury to draw their own inference. The Court granted a rule to show cause. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. (Before the Lord Chief Baron, and Barons Bramwell, Channell, and Wilde.) THE REV. MR. HATCH V. LEWIS. Mr. Sergt. Ballantine this morning showed cause against the rule obtained by Mr. Sergeant Shee, on the last day of Trinity Term, on the part of the plaintiff, calling upon the defendant to show cause why the plaintiff should not have judgment for his full costs under the 15th and 16th Vict., cap. 64, the action being a fit and proper one to be tried in a superior court, notwithstanding the verdict for theplaintiff was under £2O, viz., 40s. It will be recollected that Mr. Hatch had been convicted of an indecent assault upon two children named Plummer, but on one of the children being indicted for perjury a verdict of guilty was returned, and the result was that Mr. Hatch received a pardon, and the elder child was sentenced to a short term of imprisonment. Mr. Hatch then brought an action against the Messra k Lewis, solicitors, of Ely-place, for heavy damages, for alleged negligence on the first trial. The case was tried in this court in May last, and instead of estimating the damages at £5,000, which was the sum set down by Mr. Hatch, the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for 40s. Application was then made to the Lord Chief Baron who tried the cause to certify that it was a pro per one to be tried in a superior court in order to enable the plaintiff to get his costs, but the judge refused. The learned counsel contended that the rule which had been obtained by the plaintiff, was practically an appeal against the refusal of the Lord Chief Baron to grant his certificate, and that the action brought was altogether an experimental one for the purpose of getting money from gentlemen who had served him well. _ _ _ Mr. Lush followed on the same side, and was addressing the Court when we went to press. POLICE iNT.ELLIGENCE.—( This Day.) MARLBOROUGH-STREET. SINGULAR CASE OF ROBBERY.—Charles Antey, a young man in the employ of Mrs. Peake,. coachbuilder, of Lisle street, Leicester-square, was charged before Mr. Beadon with stealing the half of a £5 note and 10s., the property of Mr. Charles Sanders, of Stockwell-park-crescent, coach. builder, and who also occupies part of Mrs. Peake's pre mises. Mr. Sanders said—On the 18th of October I missed the half of a £5 note from a letter, the letter having been placed in the loft where the prisoner was at work. I received an anonymous letter last week as follows : " Sir, —I have got the half of a£s note, and you shall have it on payment of 605., which I consider fair, as it will square accounts a little. I could get £4 for it from the Jews, as I have inquired ; so I have given you the chance of getting a£s note for £2 10a. You can put the money in a place chalk-marked on the right side of the stairs, and I will put your half-note there." Mr. Sanders—ln consequence of this notice I, in corn parry with Sergeant Joy, 9 0, marked 10s. in silver, tied it up in a piece of paper, and pl ace d it i n th e recess o n the staircase, in accordance with the anonymous letter. I went on Saturday and examined the place, and the packet was gone. I afterwards saw Sergeant Joy search the prisoner and find some of the marked money on him. The prisoner said he hoped I would not press the charge, and that he had done it because he wanted money. Sergeant Joy, 9C, said—l was called in on Saturday afternoon to Mrs. Parkes in Lisle-street, and stopped the prisoner. I asked him what he had about him, and he re plied " Nothing," but on my telling him that I must search him, he pulled out three of the marked shillings which I had marked on the previous night. I then asked where the rest of the money was, and the prisoner went up into the loft and pulled off his boots and stockings and in the latter were two marked half-crowns and a florin. Pri soner admitted he wrote the anonymous letter, and said it was to get 50 shillings from Mr. Sanders as he was badl y off. Mr. Beadon—Then that admits the possession of the half-note. Mr. Sanders—The half note was sent by a gentleman at Bideford, Devon, and the letter from which it was taken also contained two halves of £lO notes sent by the Rev. Mr. Baines. The prisoner was committed for trial. iVIONDAY EVENING, NOVEVII3ER 11861. Mr. Woolrych said the defendant engaged in a row, and in a most reckless manner struck at the policeman. He sentenced the prisoner to one month's imprisonment. ASSAULT ON A TRADESMAN.—CorneIius Driscoll, a respectable-looking man, was brought before Mr. Wool rych charged with assaulting George Baddy, a builder of High .street, Shadwell. The complainant began by stating that the prisoner com mitted a most gross, fearful, and savage assault upon him and then proceeded to state that he had dealt with the pri soner for colours, and there was an account between them. He believe he owed the prisoner about £G. On Saturday evening he was paying his men, and the prisoner demanded payment of debt owing to him. He requested the defend ant to seek his legal remedy which any respectable man ought to do in a disputed account. The prisoner then struck him on the jaw with his fist, and dislodged one of his teeth. He believed that the prisoner had a sharp instrument in his hand when he struck him, for he bled copiously after he re ceived the blow. The complainant then produced the shirt he was wearing at time he was assaulted. It was covered with blood which flowed from a cut lip. The prisoner said Mr. Boddy abused him most grossly when he asked for his debt, and called him an Irish vagabond. Mr. Woolrych asked the complainant if he applied the offensive term Irish vagabond to the complainant, and he said he might have done so. ➢Tr. liroolrych fined the prisoner 155., which he paid. LORD LYONS AND MR. SEWARD. The correspondence between Lord Lyons and Mr. Seward referred to in the telegram is as follows : 14, 1861* LORD LYONS w TO As M HI R N . Q S TO E N NA O R ct D. . Sir,—Her Majesty's Government were much concerned to find that two British subjects, Messrs. Patrick and Rah ming, had been subjected to arbitrary arrest; and although they had learnt from a telegraphic despatch from me that Mr, Patrick had been released, they could not but regard the matter as one requiring their very serious consideration. Her Majesty's Government perceive that when British subjects as well as American citizens are arrested, they are immediately transferred to a military prison, and that the military authorities refuse to pay obedience to a writ of habeas earpus. Her Majesty's Government conceive that this practice is directly opposed to the maxim of the constitution of the United States, " that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law." Her Majesty's Government are willing, however, to make every allowance for the hard necessities of a time of internal trouble ; and they would not have surprised if the ordinary eecurities of personal liberty had been temporarily suspended, nor would they have complained if British subjects falling under suspicion had suffered from the consequences of that suspension. But it does not appear that Congress has sanctioned in this respect any departure from the due course of law ; and it is in these circumstances that the law officers of the Crown have advised her Majesty's Government that the arbitrary arrests of British subjects are illegal. So far as appears to her Majesty's Government, the Sec retary of State of the United States exercises, upon the re ports of spies and informers, the power of depriving British subjects of their liberty, of retaining them in prison, or liberating them, by his own will and pleasure. Her Majesty's Government cannot but regard this despotic and arbitrary power as inconsistent with the constitutiod of the United States, as a variance with the treaty of amity subsisting between the two nations, and as tending to pre vent the resort of British subjects to the United States for purposes of trade and industry. Her Majesty's Government have therefore felt bound to instruct me to remonstrate against such irregular proceed ings, and to say that, in their opinion, the authority of Congress is necessary in order to justify the arbitrary ar rest and imprisonment of British subjects. I have the honour to be, air, with the highest considera tion, your most humble servant, LYONS, The Hon. William H. Seward, &c. THAMES. MURDEROUS ASSAULT ON A POLICE CONSTABLE..-- William Warner, a labourer, was brought before Mr. Woolrych, charged with assaulting and wounding Police constabl© Hine, 184 H, who appeared in Court with sur gical plaisters on his head, and in a weakly condition from loss of blood. Last night there was a serious disturbance among a num ber of drunken ruffians in Church-street, St. George-in-the- East, and the Police-constable Hine endeavoured to suppress it, and was very roughly used, He was kicked and knocked down, and his hat fell off. He got up, and was pursuing one of his assailants into a house, downas inflibcyted a with in which the prisone r was a lodger , when he was again bled profusely, and was conveyed to the station house h a tremendousvok er. Heow on the head, blow corn pletely disabled. The surgeon of the division forbade the " which eked w constable going on duty again this morning, but the case took a favourable turn, and he attended to give evidence, and swore positively that the prisoner was the man who struck him with the poker. A policeman, 115 11, who as• sisted in quelling the riot, was also ill •used. The prisoner complained of the terrible puuialanient he waved from the police. MR. SEWARD TO LORD LYONS. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, Oct. 14, 1861. My Lord,—l have the honour to acknowledge your lord ship's note of the present date. In t hat paper you inform me that the British Government is much concerned to find that two British subjects, Mr. Patrick and Mr. Rahming, have been brought under arbi trary arrest, and that although her Majesty's Ministers have been advised by you of the release of Mr. Patrick, yet they cannot but regard the matter as requiring the very serious consideration of this Government. You further inform me that her Majesty's Governmen perceive that when British subjects, as well as American citizens, are arrested, tney are transferred to a military pri son, and that the military authorities refuse to pay obedi ence to a writ of habeas corpus. You add that her Majesty's Government conceive that this practice is directly opposed to the maxim of the constitution of the United States, that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or prcperty without due process of law. You then observe that her Majesty's Government are nevertheless willing to make every aliowance for the hard necessities of a time of internal trouble, and they would not have been surprised if the ordinary securities of personal liberty had been temporarily suspended, nor would they have complained if British subjects, falling under suspioion, had suffered from the consequences of that suspension. But that it does not appear that Congress has sanctioned in this respect any de parture from the due course of law, and it is in those cir. cumstances that the law officers of the Crown have advised her Majesty's Government that the arrests of British sub jects are illegal. You remark, further, that, so far as appears to her Majesty's Government, the Secretary of State for the United States examines upon the reports of spies, and assumes the power of depriving British subjects of their liberty, or liberating them by his own will and pleasure ; and you in -1 form 'Le that her Majesty's Government cannot but regard this despotic and arbitrary power as inconsistent with the constitution of the United States, as at variance with the treaties of amity subsisting between the two nations, as tending to prevent the resort of British subjects to the United States for purposes of trade and industry. You conclude with informing me that upon these grounds her Majesty's Government have felt bound to instruct you to remonstrate against such irregular proceedings, and to say that, in their opinion, the authority of Congress is neces sary in order to justify the arbitrary arrest and imprison ment of British subjects. The facts in regard to the two persons named in your note are as follows : Communications from the regular police of the country to the Executive at Washington showed that disloyal Or sons in the State of Alabama were conducting treasonable correspondence with Confederates, British subjects and Ameriean citizens in Europe, aimed at the overthrow of the Federal Union by armed forces actually in the field and besieging the capital of the United States. A portion of this correspondenee, which was intercepted, was ad dressed to the firm of Smith and Patrick, brokers, long established and doing business in the city of New York. It appeared that this firm had a branch at Mobile, that the partner, Smith, is a disloyal citizen of the United States, and that he was in Europe when the treasonable popers were sent from Mobile, addressed through the house of Smith and Patrick, in New York. On receiving this infor mation, Wm. Patrick was arrested rnd committed into mili tary custody at Fort Lafayette by an order of the Secretary of War of the United States, addressed to the police of the city of New York. These proceedings took place on the 28th Aug. last. Representations were thereupon made to the Secretary of State by friends of Mr. Patrick, to the effect that notwith standing his associations he was personally loyal to this Government, and that he was ignorant of the treasonable nature of the corraspondence which was being carried on through the mercantile house of which he was a member. Directions were thereupon given by the Secretary of State to a proper agent to inquire into the correctness of the facts thus presented, and this inquiry resulted in the establish ment of their truth. Mr. William Patrick was thereupon promptly released from custody by direction of the Secre tary of State. This release occurred on the 13th of Septem ber last. On the 2d day of September the Superintendent of Police, in the city of New York, informed the Secretary of State, by telegraph, that ho had under arrest J. C. Lahming, who had just arrived from Nassau, where he had attempted to induce the owners of the schooner Arctic to take cannon to Wilmington, in North Carolina, for the use of the rebels, and inquired what should he do with the prisoner. J. C. Rahming was thereupon committed into military custody at Fort Lafayette, under a mandate from the Secretary of State, This commitment was made on the 2d of September. On the 17th of that month this prisoner, after due inquiry, was released from custody, on his executing a bond in the penalty of 2,500 dais., with a condition that he should there after bear true allegiance to the United States, and do no act hostile or injurious to them while remaining under their protection. I have to regret that, after so long an official intercourse between the Governments of th e United States and Great Britain, it should be necess ar y now to inform her Majesty's ministers that all executive proceedings, whether unless Secretary of 'Par or of the Secretary of Sta e, are,the President or revoked by the P resident, proceedings of President of the United States. Certainly it is not necessary to announce to the British Government now that an insurrection, attended by civil and even social war, was existing in the United States when the proceedings which I have thus related took place. But it does seem necessary to state, for the information of the Go vernment, that Congress is by the Constitution invested ' with no executive power or responsibility whatever, and, on the contrary, that the president of the United States is, by the Constitution and laws, invested with the whole execu tive power of the government, and charged with the supreme direction of all municipal or ministerial civil agents, as well as of the whole land and naval forces of the Union, and that, invested with those ample powers, he is charged by the Constitution and laws with the absolute duty of suppressing insurrection as well as of preventing and repelling invasion; and that for these purposes he constitutionally exercises the right of suspending the writ of habeas corpus, whenever and whereiPQM all,d in, whatseeyer extent the public safety, endangered by treason or invasion in arms, in his judgme: requires. The proceedings of which the British Government com plain were taken upon information conveyed to the Presi dent by the legal police authorities of the country, and they were not instituted until after he had suspended the grea writ of freedom, in just the extent that, in view of thet perils of the State, ho deemed necessary. For the exercise of that discretion he, as well as his chief advisers, among whom are the Secretary of War and Secretary of State, is responsible by law before the highest judicial tribunal of the Republic, and amenable also to the judgment of his countrymen and the enlightened opinion of the civilised world. A candid admission contained in your letter relieves me of any necessity for showing that the two persons named therein were neither known nor supposed to be British sub • jects when the proceedings occurred, and that in every case subjects of her Majesty residing in the United States, and under their protection, are treated during the present trou bles in the same manner and with no greater or less rigor than American citizens, The military prison which was used for the temporary detention of the suspected parties is a fort constructed and garrisoned for the public defence. The military officer charged with their custody has declined to pay obedience to the writ of habeas corpus, but the refusal was made in obedience to an express direction of the President, in the exercise of his functions as commander-in-chief of all the land and naval forces of the United States. Although it is not very important, it certainly is not entirely irrelevant to add, that, so far as I am informed, no writ of habeas corpus was attempted to be served, or was even issued out or applied for in behalf of either of the persons named ; although in a case not dissimilar the writ of habeas corpus was not issued out in favour of another British subject, and was disobeyed by direction of the President. The British Government have candidly conceded, in the remonstrances before me, that even in this country, so re markable for so long an enjoyment by its people of the highest immunities of personal freedom, war, and especially civil war, cannot be conducted exclusively in the forms and with the dilatory remedies provided by municipal laws, which are adequate to the preservation of public order in time of peace. Treason always operates, if possible, by sur prise, and prudence and humanity therefore equally require that violence concocted in secret shall be prevented, if prac ticable, by unusual and vigorous precaution. lam fully aware of the inconveniences which result from the practice of such precaution, embarrassing communities in social life, and affecting, perhaps, trade and intercourse with foreign nations. But the American people, after having tried in every way to avert civil war, have accepted it at last as a stern necessity. The chief interest, while it lasts, is not the enjoyments of society, or the profits of trade, but the saving of the national life. That life saved, all the other blessings which attend it will speedily return, with greater assurance of continuance than ever before. The safety of the whole people has become, in the present emergency, She supreme law; and so long as the danger shall exist, all classes of society equally, the denizen and the citizen, cheerfully ac quiesce in the measures which that law prescribes. The Government does not question the learning of the legal advisers of the British Crown, or the justice of the deference which her Majesty pays to them. Nevertheless, the British Government will hardly expect that the President will accept their explanations of the Constitution of the United States, especially when the Constitution thus ex pounded would have upon him the sole executive responsi bility suppressing the existing insurrection, while it would transfer to Congress the most material and indispensable power to be employed for that purpose. Moreover, these explanations find no real support in the letter, much less in the spirit of the Constitution itself. He must be allowed, therefore, to prefer to be governed by the view of our organic national law which, while it will enable him to execute his great trust with complete success, receives the sanction of the highest authorities of our own country, and is sustained by the general consent of the people for whom alone that Con stitution was established. I avail myself of this opportunity to offer to your lordship a renewed assurance of my very high consideration, The Right Hon, Lord Lyons, &c. "Wm. H. SEWARD. LEIGH BUNT'S LAST EVENING AT HOME. (From the Dublin University Magazine.) A happy circumstance brought me into brief but intimate communication with Leigh Hunt shortly before the close of those seventy-five years, the abundant fruits of which have secured for him the reputation of one of the most charming writers, whether of prose or verse, in our English literature. Our intercourse, though narrowed in point of time by his tranquil death, at Putney, on the 28th of August, 1859, had already ripened, as I have said, into nothing less than intimacy. His regard had rapidly be come, as indeed the ending of every letter to me cordially intimated in so many words, that of an affectionate friend ship. In one of these penned as recently as the first day of the very month of which he was fated never to see the ter mination, he wrote in my regard thus delightfully :—" It is like one of the friendships of former days come back to me in my old age, as if in reward for my fidelity to their memory." My identity as the survivor is, lam perfectly aware, a circumstance in itself utterly valueless, insomuch that I care not for one instant to indicate it, although writing here apparently so egotistically in the first person, though, in point of fact, doing so for the mere facilitation of my remembrance. A communication from the dear old poet-essayist, penned on Monday, the Bth of August—(it was the last scrap of our correspondence I was ever to receive)—closing strangely, it seemed at the time with a solemn benison that sounds to me even now almost like an unconscious farewell—" All blessings attend you, prays your affectionate friend, Leigh Hunt ;" began with a pleasant summons to him on the fol lowing evening at his house, in what he had characteristi cally designated in a previous note, " the not very attractive suburbanity" of Hammersmith. " To-morrow (Tuesday), by all means," he now wrote ; adding whimsically, as will be seen forthwith, "and the (that ?) evening will suit me better than any other, for a very curious extempora neous reason, as you shall hear." The reason proving that after that evening, had I called, I should have found he had then taken his depar ture, bent upon a temporary removal in search of health to the opposite bank of the Thames, sojourning there as the cherished guest of the valued friend under whose shelter ing roof-beams he so soon afterwards expired. On Tuesday evening, then, the 9th of August, 1859, I am with Leigh Hunt for the last time in our earthly meeting. It is (unknown to himself), his own last evening in his last home residence, one that having been subsequently deserted by his family, may now, without any breach of delicacy be indicated for the satisfaction of those curious as to the last abode of the author of " The Town," as the little villa, No. 7, Cornwall-road, Hammersmith. As I enter the inner sitting-room, I find my host seated in his easy-chair, in his accustomed corner, musing sadly in solitude. Although to the very close of his life he re tained undimmed the most vivid appreciation alike of the beautiful and the whimsical—and I know not which, if either, of these two seemingly incongruous faoulties held in his nature any thing like a distinct predominance- 7 -I could not but note especially his eager solicitude upon every opportunity to discuss the more solemn themes of time and eternity, above all of the dread and holy mysteries of the hereafter. A few evenings previously, when left alone together, we had talked on thus late into the night; and now, again his thoughts reverted evidently with an awful joy to the same " high argument." It is manifest enough to me now, that these were but the instinctive flutterings of his spirit, as it felt the jarring back of the bolts of life, towards what Young has nobly termed in his " Night Thoughts," Death, that " Dark lattice letting in eternal day." Leigh Hunt, though now nearly one lustre beyond the allotted age of man, evidenced the same insatiable appetite as of yore for all the sugar .plums of life, "lumps of flowers," and snatches of melody. A primrose was yet to him ever something more than a primrose, even though it had been the ono whose delicate stalk was held between the lips of the vulgar ruffian, Blastus, in Douglas Jerrold's story of " St. Giles and St. James." Yet, strange to say, Leigh Hunt—like Wordsworth himself, who thus first phi losophised poetically over the infinite suggestiveness of beauty latent in the primrose—Leigh Hunt, like William Wordsworth; was nevertheless totally deficient, as he assured me, in the sense of smell, detecting no perfume whatever, even from petals the most odoriferous. He, whose verses are actually fragrant with flowers I Instance this, his delicious apostrophe to the vernal month,. that month of love and verdure, of cowslip and daffodil, that delectable season, of which Shakspeare's Touchstone war bles " In spring time, The only pretty ring time, When the little birds sing Hey ding-a-ding-ding, Sweet lovers love the spring." Instance this floral fragrance peculiar to Leigh Hunt' s poetic effusions, the metrical apostrophe to th e youngling is With that mel like a breath l m ili o u n o t u h s of c o t h u e p l t e w t, e l t v h e e , t c h o e n c a l apostrophe w e h n i d e h i n wafted from the hedge-rows : May, thou merry month complete • May, thy very name is sweet 1" His imaginative sense of perfume, however, must have borne some analogy to the faintly adumbrated sense of colour prevailing among the colour-blind, among those who, wandering through a garden, recognise only by a difference of outline the distinction between the roses and the green leaves clothing the bu®h upon which they are blooming ; who Call there discover even no diversity of hue, later in the season, between the autumnal verdure and the scarlet berries. It . was a distinguishing peculiarity with Leigh Hunt, that in regard to whatever of the beautiful his fancy touched, one might say of it, as he himself said of Paganini's affec tion for his violin, that "he loved it like a cheek." Nay, if ever he had, moreover, in his colloquial criticisms, to note some fault or blemish in the thing he loved, it was always with the gentle apology, with the courtly extenuation of Tasso " Non era pallidezza, ma candore P' So, likewise, when ho was writing, particularly is p ew ' upon suythiug wlatover tko aivim F liCe " tterowning merits of the Beautiful, it was ever with him, as it once upon a time actually chanced with Keats, while in the act of scrawling a letter to ono of his familiar corres pondents (" Life and Letters," vol. ii., p. 18), when he suddenly broke off with, " Talking of pleasure, this mo ment I was writing with one hand, and with the other hold ing to my mouth a nectarine. Good I—how fine ! I went down soft, pulpy, slushy, oozy, all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large beautiful strawberry.' Leigh Hunt, when writing, always , one might say, held in his other hand th e nectarine. • And the fruits this poetic gourmand loved the most, were they not the choicest glories of what he has daintily termed the " human orchard ?" Where—it is in his charming little poem on " Sudden Fine Weather"—he cries out de liciously— " Your finest fruit to some two months may reach : I've known a cheek of forty like a peach!" As he wrote, likewise so he read, with a hand and an eye o f tender appreciation. The volumes, the leaves of which he had turned, bore upon their pages abundant evidence of this in little pencilled ticks of applause or, objection, and the quaintest marginal annotations, penned in his elegant Italian caligraphy. These jotted lines and notes upon the margin he himself compared to loving pinches upon the cheek, that left each of them an impress like a dimple; giving the future reader, moreover, the companionship of this sympathetic appreciation. One of these well-fingered books, a very wall of fruit, with a bee-made cicatrice here and there upon the ripe green-gages and apricots—a volume he dearly loved, and had read through four times—he has notified it, " with in creasing admiratin" (it is M. Abel Remusat's translation of the veritable Chinese Novel, " lu-kiao-1i ; or, the Two Fair Cousins")—Leigh Hunt lent me, this last night of our meeting, shortly before we parted, bidding me, as he did so, preserve it tenderly for him, as one of the many million atoms of the apple of my eye. I have it still—a posthumous gift from him, proffered to me from his death-bed, if I cared to keep it in his remembrance. It illustrates, by a two-fold attraction, what has here been said about those dimpling touches ; touches here imparted to the cheek of the Chineso Chronicler, by Leigh Hunt's own hand, and by that of his loved and honoured friend, Thomas Carlyle. Such fantastic touches, some of them ! As, when a personage in the text called " Old Touchi" is spoken of incidentally. Whereupon, quoth Leigh Hunt in the margin, "Head of the genus zrri tabile !" Again, where mention is made (i., 120), in con nection with the Imperial College, of one " Examiner Li," the once editor of the journal of that ilk, as the Scotch would say, cries out, with mingled exultation and surprise, upon the margin, "Myself I by title and name !" More thickly, however, than the margins of his books, the pleasant hours of his converse were sown with whimsi calities. He could not speak of even one of his own infir mities, without rendering it the theme of a joke and a pro vocation to laughter. The loss of his teeth, casually men tioned by him, caused him to exult at having made that ad ditional advance towards being etherialised. Who does not remember his sudden bursts of fun, even at moments when he was most thoroughly in earnest I' In stance this, where, in his discursive metrical thoughts " On Reading Pomfret's Choice," while insisting upon the ex quisite cruelty involved in that seemingly all-pleasant pas time of angling, he unexpectedly puts the argument (an argument he has just before been enforcing, almost with tears in his eyes), thus fantastically to the more infatuated 'rotaries of Izaak Walton's craft : " Fancy a preacher at this sort of work, Not with his trout and gudgeon, but his clerk. The clerk leaps gaping at a tempting bit, And, hah 1 an ear-ache with a knife in it 1" 'Twas the delightfullest, oddest, whimsicallest verse, well imaginable at times, that of our dear Leigh Hunt ; and at other times so trembling through and through with the ten-. derest thrills of sensibility. Now warbling, as "A Lover of Music to his Pianoforte," as he well might, he who could sing so sweetly himself to a few careless touches upon the keys of that instrument : " Mirth flies to thee, and Love's unrest, And Memory dear, And sorrow with his tightened breast, Comes for a lear." Now carolling with the boisterous elvish glee of a Robin Goodfellow, in honour of the übiquity of that Protean glory of the Winter season—Christmas : "Now he's town gone out of town, And now a feast in civic gown, And now the pantomime and clown With a crack upon the crown, And all sorts of tumbles down." The very quintessence of this Puck-like naughtiness of the old poet's muse being distilled, by the way, into the aromatic ink with which he penned his Chorus of Fairies Robbing an Orchard—singing, shamefully, with an inter jected smack of the lips— " Stolen sweets are always sweeter, Stolen kisses much completer, Stolen looks are nice in chapels, Stolen, stolen be your apples," And, as if even this were not enough, murmuring yet further, sotto voce, with an audible chuckle, and a relish that almost makes one long to go clambering over the moon lit wall alter the golden pippins— " When to bed the world are bobbing, Then's the time for orchard robbing Yet the fruit were scarce worth peeling, Were it not for stealing, stealing." Ever on the alert for a drollery, whether he were sitting pen in hand, at his desk in solitude, or talking inter mittently, in the familiar intercourse of friend ship, he was so, none the less, upon the occasion of our final meeting, of his final tarrying in that latest of his many suburban London residences—the one already particularized as thus rendered in a manner classic ground, in the Cornwall-road at Hammersmith. And I well remember, in the very midst of the sadness of this his last evening in the dear home which he was never to see again, and of the eternal parting from which he seemed to have a mournful premonitory consciousness, I well remember the zestful enjoyment with which an accidental circumstance recalled to recollection his solemn recantation in the Examiner ! His solemn recantation—that is, shortly after his release from his two years' imprisonment in Horse monger-lane Gaol—of everything he had previously written in that journal against his Royal Highness the then Prince Regent—a recantation, ending, after a long catalogue of similar declarations, he was this, and he was that, and he was the other, and—he was thin! Throughout the evening, at intervals, but more heavily and continuously towards the close of it, the rain fell dole fully, with a subdued monotone in the sound that harmo nised!only too well with the evident sadness filling the old poet's imagination. In one of the momentary pauses of the conversation amongst us all, pauses that gradually, as the twilight darkened over the rooms, became, from mere sym pathy, not unfrequent—Leigh Hunt having just remarked that he had got a bundle of his books together, to take with him as "a bit of home"—there came, modulated by the dis tance, through the rain and the silence, the sound of an itinerant's organ down the road, playing (of allmal-d-propos airs in the wide world I) Sir Henry Bishop's plaintive na tional melody—as much a national melody, in its way, as even " Rule Britannia"—the national melody of the Eng lish domestic affections, " Home, sweet Home." Almost immediately afterwards the wheels came and went that bore Leigh Hunt from his home to his death-place. Like an old soldier upon his last march, he had wrapped his cloak about him and gone forth, with his heart-strings torn and bleeding, I believe, from that apparently trivial separa tion from those he loved : from his dear daughters and his little grandchildren. Standing by the garden gate, in the rain, I hear his cor dial voice still ringing back to me, as he drives away, almost cheerily calling me by name, in accents of farewell. As I write these last sentences, there lies before me, in aid of my remembrance, the only truthful effigy of those vene rable and thoughtful features : the large black eyes, still lustrous to the last ; the long white hair, the reverse of gray, being silver, with an occasional thread or two of the original black intermingled. As I close this memorial of " Leigh Hunt's Last Evening at Home," my hand is laid upon a lock of his white hair. THIS DAY'S SIIIPPING. LONDON, Nov. 4.—Wind this day at noon—South- Westerly. There was a frost this morning, but the weather has since changed, and it is now mild with rain. SHIELDS, Nov. 2.—Elowing a gale from N.N.E., w ith heavy sea. D UN KIRK, Nov. 3.—The Prince Albert, of Wi s h eac h , bound to Calais , with ra p eseed, came in , last night in a s i n king state. Every exertion is being made to k eep her afloat. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Monday Morning. Arrived—Jenny Jones, steamer, from St. Brieux ; Gio vanni, from Odessa; Halcyon, Enterprise, Rebecca, and Encouragement, from Plymouth. No railings. (BY SUBMARIIIR AND MAGNETIC TBLEGE.APH.) GRAVESEND, Monday Morning. Arrived, Nov. 3.—Burmah, from Foo-chow-Foo ; Gari baldi, from Akyab ; Panther, from Boulogne; Tiger, from Toning; Ariel, from Algoa Bay. Arrived, Nov. 4.—Schoambes, from Bremen. DEAL, Monday Morning. Passed, Nov. 3—Vesta, steamship, for Malta ; Catherine, for Port Natal; Bloomer, for Rangoon; Island Queen, for Salcombe—all from London. Passed in tow, Nov. 4—Coria, from Hudson's Bay, for London. Pa , sed, Nov. 4—Panice, from London, for Liverpool; Atlantic, from Quebec, for London; Gleaner (Yarmouth) , and Coaxer, from the north, to the west. Sailed—The Homeward Bound, for the River. OPENING OF THE NATIONAL GALLERT.--01 Saturday the National Gallery, Trafalgar-square, which has been closed some time for alterations, was reopened to s e d a n t fi d e E T: d n a y e a r 1 3 0 e i a .,n l g .. , the public. Daring the recess the collection of paintings bequeathed to the nation by the late W. Turner (125 in number) have been removed from the South Kensington to the Museum to the National Gallery, and are arranged in the w gre ed at wo w d es a t: lery. The National Gallery will now be opened a n ro d oni Sa , ttu 7 d i a ch ys i , s T no hu w rs lia da nl y public four days in the week, viz., Mondays, T uodavg set a part for students. The nomination of sheriffs for the E n gland and Wales for the ensui ng counties of take place on Tuesday, the year will, it is expected, Exch eque r . 12th in i st • if in thy, Court of