The Sun. — London, England, 1856-09-24 00:00:00

ings Out his luck in a cri- ntleman he corn- 3 name, 1 county heat in io ery scarc e, )rior kiadp a l i m ite d changed I in price,' Le oat tria° was rather 1 "970 1 I 7,610 NV. )s in whic A ll L. owt. 01. in _Beef , •d ; vea l, :30 le carcaos MARKET MONET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocx. The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed firmly and with animation, and all descriptions were quoted 1-16 d. per lb. dearer. The sales were 12,000 bales, 2,000 for export and 3,500 on specula tion, comprising 380 Pernam and Maranham at bid. to Bd. ; 100 Bahia at bid. to cad. ; 100 Egyptian, at 6d. to 7d. ; and 1,000 Surat at 4id. to Sid. per lb. The Railway Share Market was quiet, but prices were a shade lower than on Mon day. A telegraph despatchic from Berlin mentions that adviCes had arrived from St. Petersburg announc ing the definitive revolution of the Russian govern ment relative to the construction of the principal railways throughout the empire, and that the con cession for this purpose has been granted to a society formed by capitalists of different countries, among whom are named the chiefs of the Credit Mobilier of France and Messrs. Baring, Hope, Stieglitz, and Hottinguer. The concession is for eighty-five years, and a minimum interest of 5 per cent. is guaranteed to the shareholders by the Russian government. The lines are to be finished in 10 years. The Moniteur of yesterday publishes two decrees .relative to the export and transport of cereals from Algeria to France. The first abolishes, up to the 31st Dec., 1857, a previous decree, interdicting the exportation of wheat and barley from Algeria to any foreign country ; and the second continues up to the same period the privilege accorded to foreign vessels of carrying grain, flour, rice, &c., between that colony and the principal French ports in the Mediterranean. Later advises from the Continent give further evidence of the increasing tightness of the various money markets, produced almost solely by the extraordinary demand for the precious mete ls. The policy adopted by most of the German Banks, viz., of raising the rates of discount, has been fol lowed by the Banks of Amsterdam and Holland. Others, it is expected, will also soon have to resort to restrictive measures, as the supply of capital in particular States is becoming exceedingly con tracted, to the serious inconvenience of the com mercial interests. In Franca the high rates which now rule for discount accommodation have a de pressing influence on most branches of business, and speculative transactions on the Bourse are very circumscribed. The foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon did not vary to any important extent, but the tendency was rather downwards. The market for English Securities still exhibits a heavy appearance, and the transactions are very limited. Besides the unfavourable condition of the Money Market, the Italian question now con tributes to the weakness of the Funds ; and al though, as before remarked, very little business is transacted, it is of an adverse character. Consols for transfer have been 93i and for account 93i to 94. Exchequer Bills continue firm at 14s. to 17s. premium, and the Bonds are 991. East India Bonds have been 17s. premium. India Stock is 230. Very few bargains have been reported in the Foreign Markets. Turkish 6 per Cents. have been 1011 I, but are now rather firmer, viz., 1011 to 102. Spanish remain without alteration ; the 3 per Cents. are 43, and the New Deferred 24k, Russian 5 per Cents. have been dealt in at 1074 ; ditto 4i per Cents, at 97 ; and Grenada Deferred at 7i. Mexican Stock rules firm at 221. Portu guese 4 per Cents. are 98. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks : Grenada Deferred Bonds, 7 to 7 ; Mexican, 22i to ; Peruvian, 79 to 81; ditto 8 per Cents., 57 to 59 ; Portuguese 3 per Cents., 44 to 45i ; Russian 5 per Cents., 107 to 109 ; ditto 4i per Cents., 96 to 98 ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 42i 3} ; ditto Deferred, 24} ; ditto Certificates, si 6 ; ditto Passive, 6} 7. The English Railway Shares, with the exception of Caledonian, Great Western, and North-Eastern Berwick, which are firmer, are mostly to per cent. lower, but without much activity in business. In the Foreign market there is no change of im portance, and the Colonial rule dull at about pre vious quotations. Rigas are steady. Most of the joint stock bank shares have been largely dealt in at reduced prices. Miscellaneous shares are also depressed. Canada land are 2/. to 31. lower. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES. (From, the O f ficial List; Rusin.... dons. 3 rer Cent. Console Annlitier ( 131 India Stock India Bonds, £lOOO Ditto, under £lOOO l7 p Consols for Account E (chequer Bills, lid. £IOOO £5OO l4 17 p qmall l4 17 p Ditto Bonds, 1858, 3A per Cent. 99i Ditto, 1859 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. lO2 Grenada New Active, 2} per Cent. Ditto Deferred 7* Mexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account Peruvian Bonds 4i per Cent BO Ditto Account Ditto 3 per Cent 57. Ditto Account 5B Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent., Con. 1841 Ditto, 4 per Cent. Ditto 1853, 3 per Cent 441 Russian Bonds, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent lO7l 8 Ditto 4i per Cent. Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto Account 9l Sp-nisi Bonds, 3 per Cent 43 Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account Turkish Bonds, 6 par cent Ditto Account 7 )itto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. Ditto Account , r ends; on the above nayable In London. Dutch Exchange, 2i per Cerk:;., 12 Guilders Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates 93 THREE O'CLOCK. Console, money 93/ ) 1 Ditto for Account, Oct. 8 93i 4 LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LONDON, Sept. 24.—Wind this day at noon, S.W.; fresh breeze and cloudy. PORTSMOUTH, Sept. 23.—Wind W. to W.S.W.—Ar rived—Lord Nelson (tpt.), from Constantinople. PLYMOUTH, Sept. • 3.—Wind W.— Arrived—Phari mond, from London, for Launseston. FALMOUTH, Sept. 23.—Wind W., strong gale.—Off the port—Marie and August, from Porto Rico. SOUTHAMPTON, Sept. 23. —Wind S. W.—Arri ved —Sul tan (s ), from Gibraltar. Sailed- -Norman, for Bahia. SWANSEA, Sept. 22. —Win d W.N. W.—Arrived—Pasco Grenfell, from Cuba. SHIELDS, Sept. 23. Wind S.—Arrived—Rosedale, from Quebec. HULL, Sept. 23.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived—Chase, from Richibucto. ABERDEEN, Sept. 22. —Wind S.W. — Sailed—Clarendon, for St. John's, Newfoundland. (PER ILEUM(' TFLFGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday Morning. Sailed.—Norman, screw steamer, for Bahia and Rio de Zaneiro. LIVERPOOL, Wednesday Morning. Wind W. Arrived—Shooting Star, from Bombay ; Edward Dona ted, Moulmein ; Ellen, Dalhousie ; Protector, Montego Bay ; Sardinian, Miramichi. Sailed—Rattler (s.), for Lisbon; St. Andrew's (i.e.), for Alexandria. QUERNSTONM, Sept. 22. Wind W. _ Arrived—Nugget, from New York. HOLYHEAD, Sept. 23. Wind N.W. Arrived—Augusta, from Kamiesch. WATERFORD, Sept. 22. Wind S.W. Arrived—Johanna, from Ibrail. (BY SUB)IA.RINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Wednesday, 10 a.m. Wind W. • bigh water ; tine. Arrived, Sept. 23.—British Tar, from Kamiesch. Arrived, Sept. 24.—Wm. Thornborrow, from Guernsey W. B. Sewall, Calcutta; Director, Montreal. DEAL, Wednesday, 9.56 a.m. 10 12i' St. i 10 I 9 1 .251 dt. 50 it. 5 5 20 10 Wind W.S.W., moderate. Passed—Bridget, frotn Ancona ; Majestic, Quebec ; Mary Ann, Alexandria—all for London. We regret to announce the death of General Sir Colin Ralkett, G.C.B , Governor or Chelsea Hospital, and Colonel of the 45th Regiment, which took place this morning. The weekly reviews from Amsterdam and Rotterdam produce markets state that the operations have not proved important, but that prices continue to be sup ported. The letters from Rouen mention the appear ance of increased activity in the market for manufac tures, piirchases generally having been made on a more extensive scale. :i.nWATe. Business dune this day ~.?:er~.:x~ . Ambs. Notte -- liekt and Eastb. Junct. Txrcting. Wclverh Stony Va11ey...... Birk eAhd. Lancsh. Cheshire Janet._ . Do. 'Mesh. is Do., d 0....... Myth &Tyne or igirqd £25 (issd. at £4. ) Bristol and Exeter... Caloklo u r;hester & .io:yiies o:rk and Bandon Cork, Black, 4 PV. C.:ornwan Do. A Do. B DubliiaßelfnatJune Min. P. tts . Ab Jne. Emt At; glian ... ... Eo.storn Counties wAst. Tizlien. A. St. D 4,., B. Stock r)o., New East Kent ;,..ftst Lancashire Edinburgh & Gimp - % Edinb. and Peebles Edin. Prtt da Dtide , Forth & Clyde June. Furness 54i i L i )0 all all all 10() 31 i 931 3 1141 64 i i 9151 16} Milllit . Leaxix.; num el{ b ht. Paul. Ren.ware. CompanE• this day. this day -• 'Redford and Isonrion filet:qfley ... N. West c. IGO Ruchgeamsh, L.&N.W 93 93 at 100 Ciydusdal,. : Caledon— 100 -- 105 ars all Col. Stour Vy. E. lln. & Sud. and Hal. E. C l2 14 it. 100 E. Lin. g. pc Gt.Nrtun 139 141 5 all E. 'Cu. H. So. E. Count 4 ... 44 it. 100 Glas. Barr. & Caldonian Neils. Direct it. 100 Do. New..... . Do V, all Glstr.t4Dn.Fr Gt. If estn 27 29 all Irk. Now. Railway__ & Berw. W.J all Hull & Selby Y. &NM , - 106 107 106 :5 all Do. Sham. Do r. all Do. 7 Shares. Do ••• ••• .23 all Len.kGreenw S. Ensterr Irk —13 i al: Do.Prefcrencr Do 23i 241 10,E Lon., TU., & Pato &Co 119 115 It [OO Lowomteft. c ry 4 per cent. Nerfili 4. 1;0 Do. r per ct. Do . all Manch. lixtn LAN. W• and Ittatlo,l & liidld. If . 0 all Middlcsbro' & Stckton& Redcar. . Darlingt. 100 Midld..Bradfc; Midland 9B 95 54 Newmarket Bury E. 0.5 p, En. Coml. ip pm 0 all N.&Est.sp.e. E. Count. 5/ id 58 all Do. 6 per et. Do all Do. Pixeds p c Do ••. ..• all Prest. k %kyr - L. &N. W — all Do. 6 Shp,. A De t Roystu.& Hit. GtNorthn 135 149 137 •; 83 Shot Roth.an,: Lancash& Goole g. 6 p.c. Yorksh. all Shrews.&Her T.Brassey Sk 8k 10i S. Staffordsh. M.MClean all WearValleygr Stockt. & 6 per cent... Darlingt. • all Do Do 32i 334 100 Wilts&Gomrst GtWestn 3O -- 32 1031 4 6 ; 10 St. St. PREFERENCE SHAJtEki. 321 i T7i 8 71 100 •11 [OO too too 33 i 79 80 79i 18i 55a 4a 5 15 704 j 4 k berdeen Dcben. Do. 6 per cent. Do. No. 2, 7 p. s. 11yth and Tyne lOpee a. pref. (level. at 501 3rie. & Er. 4 p. a. St Do. 4 p. c. Shares 'aledonian £lO & 110. Ga. 5i pc )o. do. Pref. No. 2. Do. do. Pref. No. 2. cork ilgßar.donsip.c Dun. Prth Aber. J. Anglian Cls. A Sh. Do. do. Cls. B 6 p. c. Do. do Cls. C 7 p. c. Co.E v, spc No. Do. No. 2 . Do. Now 6 p. a. St 'test Un., G. 6 p. c Do. 51., 10 per cent )o. 101. Deboutr.Sll. Do. do. 4 per cent.. .act Lancash. 6 p. ate &W. York. J. sthE & Gi. 5 p.c. oh. Prth.&Dun.4p.c Furness 1.01 _OO 'OO 100 0} 00 .00 00 00 flas. &5.W.G.5 p.c . ;rent Northn. 5 p. c 00. 5 p. c. Redeem. at 10 p. c. prem. 00. 4 p. e !)0.5 p.c. Scrip, Red at 5 p. c. pm... 4t.N. of Scot. Ist Pre lt. S. (Ireland; Do. 4per c. Prof. S It. W.( B. qz H.Exspc )o.con. red. 4i p.c. )o. con, red. 4 p. c. )o. irred. 4p. c. Do. 5 p. c. red. pref Do. Bum. Pref. Sh Jo. ChesterS p. c. P.S Do. do. 5 p. c. do Do. Birm. Gina. Stk Do. Ches. Qua. Sh.. Do, do. do Do. do. do ',an. &York. F. XI Do. 6 p. e. Stock • Lou &Brigh. G.sp.e. Do. Pref., 5 p. 0. S. . Do. New Guar.6 P.C . Do. do. 5 per cent . Lon.&N. W., Coy. az Nuneaton 5 p. et. _ on.& S.W. 7 per et late 3d Shares 'Antviern&Rott rd.•al Ardennes Atlan.& St.Lw. lensed at 6 p. c. by Gd.Tnk. of Canada Belgian Eastn. June Beziers to Graissessa Bombay, Baroda, an Can. India, g. 5 p. e Do. Buff. & Lk. Hur. Ry Carineaux & Toulouse Coal Mines and Ry. Demerara . . Jondy. & Color. Sh Londy. & Ennis.i h 14.,5..& L. 6 p. Cent Do, do. do. £6 ... Do. do. 31 per cent. garypt.&Carl.4 p c. DO. 4 k per cent..... Do. do. Nfld. Consol.6 p.c.St 1)o. Con. Br.Bir. 6pr Do. 4i p. e. Pref. 4 Ditto L. & H. Pref. St New., Aber., dge., pr. sp. e. rod. 5 p.c. pm. , Do. Perpet. 6 p et. with optn. till '66 Norfolk Debenture Do. Pref. 5 p. C. St , c Do. 5 p. c. Eat Dv. 5k per ct. pref Do. Way. Val. 5 p. c North British 7 7i Si - 4 ... ... flOO - 102 16 - 17 ... ""'" ... 4/ -5/ 6 - 61 107 - 112 95 - 100 1 i 12 -12 A ••• ...." . ••• •••• . ii - 79 i - 117 .09 - 111 .O 1 - 103 62 - 64 10} -10 i •H - 6 -6! 95 - 97 89 - 91 89 - 91 99 • 101 - 10+ 16/ -17 i 10 -10 r 73 -75 20{ -20 i 101 - 10$ 15 -15 i - A 138 140 :N ~`. s.. ••• .... ••. ••• "'""" so, .58 - 162 4 - i 66 - 70 L 313 - ISB 99 - 101 $9 - 91 1 lap] N. E. Bsrw, 4 p.c. P Do. do. do Do Leeds 6 p.o I Do. do. Quarters Do„York H. & R. Pnr North Staffordshire. Ox,Wo, kW.IS/6 pc Do R. Pref. 101. Sh. Soot. Cent. ,New Pref South Devon Do. fixed, 4,4 per cent S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of f 1 Os, 6d. Do. 45 per cent Do. Fixed 4i p c sh S Wales Gua. 4p. c Do. do. 4i p. c.... S.Yorksh.4p.c.Guar. Stock .8; Dar. , 5 p. c. Do. do. do I Stock. & Hartl. g. p. c. till July 1, '5( aterfd. & Kilk. 6 p c li - liii 2t - 2i 1 - li C)3 —l(5 91. VIS 1a 1 c id—lp - 5 (Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France Do. New East Indian, g. 5 p.( Do. A and B, do Do. Ex. C, gu. 5 p. c Do. do. D, gu. 5 p. c. Da.4i p.c.Bnds.,'s7 Do. do. do., '59, do Gee'ong k Melbourne guar. 5 per cent.. Gd. Tk of CanedaA iQ Do. Cert. of Deben. con. into Stk. till '6: Do. Comp. 6 p. c., do. Gt. Cehtral of Fran. at. In. Pen. g. 5 p. c. Do New, guar. 5 p. c. Great Luxemboury Constituted Share Gt. Western of Canada Shares Do. New Do. Bds., payable Do. do., '76, p. Do. do., '73 dol. Do. do., '73, withou' option Lake Const. & Basl. Lierre and Turnhout Lombardo Venetian. Lucca (St Pist. 5 p. c.p Lyons and Geneva .. Lyons et Mediterran Aadras, guar. 4i p.c Do. New do., 6 p. C Do. 4i p. c. Exten Do. 3d Ex., g. 5 p. !feria Antonia 8 2g 10 .0.1 90 89 100 f 91 1031 4 li a i •• ••• •• 1 .. d ... - lf - 2A, 35 ... 35 12 - 13 22 -22 i 14 21j - 22# rA4 .... ... 22i - 23 12 - 121 Do. do. New I.: " vamnr & Liege (wit , interest) )o. fez interest)... Do. do., C p. c. Prof siorthern of Fran..,, '~orwegianTrnnkPre Paris and Lynne..., all all 15 all 82 - 84 5} - 5 211 -21 i 1 - 12 i i 83} 3 23i all kegur. Fria . all tuglo Californian 7 kustralian all Baden (Gd. Duchy of) all Bla3nar. Iron 26 Co& 14 British Iron 26A Brazilianlmp.(issued at pm.) all Do. Cocaes k Cniaba 15 Do. St. John Del Re) A Clarendon Cons. Min Co. of Jamaica all Cobra Copper 1A Colonial Gold all Copper Min. of Eng. all Do. Pref. 7A p. oeut 1C Copiapo . 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Min 1 'Port Philip all Quartz Rock all i lthymney Iron all Do. New 14i.Santingo de Cuba Gs. iSort. Cons. Min. Co. all South all ;Do. Scrip... all ;Dn. 10 per cent Pref 4t Tam. S. &L. Min. Co. all Tin Croft United Mexican Waller all West Mariposa..... 1/ s Wathing Kitting ct , knatrklis 2B - 21 3} - 31 19 - 21 P in 56 51 30 35 26 28 16 18 as 14 15 • I Bid 7 8 id p i : I 9 - 11 23 - 25 a S lf - 21 2* 2i 1 - 14 3t -- 41 gi - 4 9t 104 3 i - I BANKS. 104 - 100 34 - 3fl 61 - 63 ... .... tee P 64 - 66 - ... -- - 1 . 6 i 6 191 -19 i, 4 d par, 1 - 3p ... ••• -- , , Ile. .... . 46 _-_ 48 39 - 40 2 i lid 36 67 69 7i 8b ..• .• 6 —4. d 105 9/ 9 62 i I.i 2 66 213 i 19 1 144 3i/ 21 11 39i 7i 8 7i 513 i 27 6/ 7 46 Pm pm T-ist-tV Gat/111'0W voNenctur% --4fih, -.-- -_ (Ftorn tie Daily News.) BRUSSELS, SEPT. 22. A cold, wet morning—one modelled on a Novem ter sunrise in Le...den—has not sufficed to damp the ardour of the delegates from various nations who have taken up their abode in this city for a few days, to discuss the grave subject of Customs Reforms all over the world, in an International Congress. Last evening a preliminary private meeting of the delegates was held at the Rotel do Suede, at which business of a formal characf er was discussed, and in which vice-presidents of the vari ous sections into which the Congress is separated were appointed. That sections are determined to work, and that the Belgian Customs Reform A— sociatiou keep clearly in view the elimination of telling facts, while they discourage mere ( ratori cal flourishes, are points which may encourage us to hope that, erg the Congress separates, it will have passed a series of importa:at re solutions ; and, more, will he ready to back them with- carefully arranged illustrative reports. The rapidity with which the Belgian Association has grown, the readiness with which the provincial manufacturing towns. of Belgium—as Vorviers, Liege, Charleroi, Huy, &c.—have identified them selves with the metropolitan organisation ; and, above all, the injury done to Belgian manufacturers by the heavy import duties on iron and coal, com bine to strengthen our hope that public opinion in this country will soon be brought to bear with irre sistible force upon the government. The Belgian Association has already poured no less than 140,000 printed reports, pamphlets, 'N., over the country. The ironmasters are up in arms, and while the ma nufacturers demand the total abolition of the im port duties on coal and iron on the one hand, these producers of native iron use their powerful influ ence upon the legislature to prevent the demand from being heard. Moreover, they pretend that the gentlemen who have called together the Inter national Congress now Bitting are simply a etuated by interest, being chiefly manufacturers, or rather merchants, who have everything to gain from the reduction or abolition of import duties on raw ma terials. These arguments are represented by such ironmasters as Dupont, of Fayt, and M. Mon cheur. Of course the members of the association have re plied to these taunts, and successfully ; being, in the first place, clearly able to retort upon their ac cusers, who appear to talk about the heavy com pensation the Government will owe them, should they listen to the free-traders. But the appeal made; by the association to the manufacturing towns of Belgium shows, by the answers it has called forth, the temper of the Belgian people with regard to Customs Reform. The resolutions submitted by the Central Asso ciation to the chambers of commerce of the pro vincial manufacturing towns ran thus :- 1. The free admission of raw materials. 2. An ad valorem duty of 10 per cent. on raanufac tured articles. Certain industries, however, now pro tected by prohibitive duties, may for a time and under exceptional circumstances be protected by a higher duty, to be fixed hereafter. 3. The classification of articles liable to duty in broad clasFes, so that the tariff may be reduced to the simplest possible form. The answers received from the more important commercial towns prove that the Central Asso ciation has the entire sympathy of the Belgian people. Bruges applauded the efforts made by the association for the wise reform of the Belgian custom-house, and hoped their labours would be crowned with success. Ypres and Dixmude passed resolutions in support of the propositions, and promised their aid to make them become law. Alost fully appreciated the object the asso ciation had in view in oalling together an Interna tional Congress in order to hasten the freedom of commerce throughout the world. The sympathies of Alost were with the movement, because no country had a weighter interest than Belgium in this liberty. Namur was in favour of reduced duties, but believed that they should be reduced gradually, in order to protect the interests of men &read/ embarked in commerce under the standard of rigid protection. Verviers declared that it had long pressed the Government to abolish the import duties on alimentary substances, coal and iron. Autwerp had Beim KI every occasion to urge upon the Government the simplification of the tariff, and the free admittance of all raw materials, in order to enable the Belgian manufacturers to compete with foreigners. These answers are proof positive that the Central Association is backed by the country, and that M. Corr Van der Maeren is destined to become the Cobden of Belgium. On Saturday evening the list of registered mem bers and delegates to the Congress contained no less than 561 names. Among these are the Lord Mayor ; Mr. Ewart, M.P., who represents the question of uniform weights and measures; Mr. C. Lawson, delegate from the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce ; Mr. W. Scholefield, M P., delegate from the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce ; Sheriff Mechi, from the Society of Arts ; the Right Hon. Milner Gibson ; Mr. Alfred Taylor, Messrs. Leone Levi, John Bennett, George Lawford, Jas. Yates, and Dr. Buchanan, delegates from the Deci mal Coinage Association ; Messrs. Titus Salt, H. W. Winckam, Jacob Behrens and J. Darlington, a deputation from the Bradford Chamber of Com merce ; Mr. J. K. Jefferey, from Liverpool ; Mr. E. Chadwick, Mr. H. G. Bohn, Sir F. Foster, and J. A. Turner, President of the Manchester Com mercial Association. In the list of foreign delegates I remark the names of M. L. Wolowski, of the French Institute ; Guido, from the Society of Arts et Metiers at Milan ; Dr. E. Engel, delegate from the Government of Saxony; Alfred Darimon, contri butor to La Presse, Ph. de Molinari ; F. Magemes ter, from St. Petersburg • Baron Edouard Cogels, senator, from Antwerp ; Dr. Michel Berend, of the Gazette de Cologne; M. E. de Rivero, consul general for Peru ; Peyer Imhoff Neher, delegate from the Swiss Government, and M. Cherbuliez in the same capacity; Dr. Maurice de Stubenrauch, member of the municipal council of Vienna ; L. de Dorlodot de Moriame, from Lodelinsart ; Liefmans Delagache, delegate for the Oudeuaerde Chamber of Commerce; Seb. Bertant, delegate for the Marseilles Chamber of Commerce ; Cad Antonio Sialoja, professor of political economy in the University of Turin, dele gated by the Count de Cavour ; H. P. Vankeuke lorn and Theophile Leotard from Amsterdam ; E. Van Voorthuysen, from Maarsin, near Utrecht ; Bischoff, delegate from the Aix-la-Chapelle Cham ber of Commerce ; G. Cipri, from Italy ; and Dr. D. D. Friedlander, from Heidelberg. This glance at the long list of names will suffice to prove the general interest taken by the practical men of various nations in the movement of the Belgian Association. In the li s t o f rep li es only one notable exception to the general expression of approbation appears to have been received, and this is from the Chamber .of Commerce of Brussels itself. The in creased-interest shown in the subject of customs reform may be proved by comparing the number of delegates who attend e d t h e congress o f 18 4 7 w i th that which the list of to-day exhibits. In 1847 there were 160 members, and on the present occa sion no less than 561 gentlemen have adhered to the proposition of the Belgian Association. At a little past 12, while the great fountain in the Grande Place was drenching all people who got to wind ward cf it, and while the dealers in second-baud furniture were dividing the attention of loiterers before the Town-hall with the picturesque flower merchants, the delegates from Holland, from Swit zerland, from Spain, and even from Russia, were seen picking their way through the mud to the Esca lier des Lions of the Town-hall. In the noble Go thic hall, decorated with the Belgian tricolor, some four or five hundred people had already as sembled. Various delegates were busily employed distributing pamphlets on the subject in which they were respectively interested. The decimal coinage advocates of England were especially active. The chair was taken by M. Cor Van der Maeren, who in a speech of some length thanked the foreign delegates for their presence on that occasion. He bade them welcome iu the name of prosperous Bel gium. Their present congress was widely different from that of 1847. We had advanced. Holland had abolished her navigation laws, and in England the opposition of the protectionists to an established law had ceased. France had modified her tariff and was about to erase the word "prohibition" from it ; and Sardinia, Spain, Germany, Portugal, Sweden, arc., had liberalised their customs dues. Something had been done, it must be confessed, in Belgium ; but a coalition of interested men had prevailed to retard the application of the good intentions of the Govern ment. Still the principle of free trade, or of a re duction of duties, had been allowed—the method of reduction was alone the question. And now the two great questions which the present Congress would have to deal with were--Ist. What were the obstacles in each country to the reduction of customs dues 'I 2d. What were the remedies applicable to the re strictions that existed in each country ? Nor would their inquiries be limited to these questions. There were the coinage and passport systems—both mat ters that restricted the free commercial inter course of nations. This remark was received with loud cheers. The hon. gentleman then referred to the meeting held at the Hotel do Subde last even ing, at which the 24 vice-presidents, representing various nations, were nominated. At this point, the secretary, M. Conoreru, read the names of the vice presidents, in which the names of Messrs. Oliveira, Henry Bohn, and Wink worth, figure with others, for England. The reading of the list over, the vice-presidents were requested to advance from the body of the hall, and take their places around the president. This was done amid general cheers. M. Cor Van der Maeren then announced to the meeting that 3/1. Brouck6re, burgomaster, of Brus- IfISCELLANBOUB. 25 19 kustrahsa A grlcult. 25 26 25 10 i 1 A.ustraln. Royal Mail . . . all Berlin Water Works 51 6 50 40 Brit. American Land • 00 3 i Canada ll4 113 115 C. Go.6p.c.JanSt.7aly Xl2l 1131 1121 131 13 St. 100 Do. 6 p.c. Feb & Aug St. 100 Da. 6p c. Mar & Sept 5 all Crystal Palace 2 21 2 5 all Do. Preference 5 51 51 4 a 1 Crystal Pal. of France 1 Duston Iron Ore 20 151 Eastern Steam. • • St. 100 Electric Telegraph 93 96 94 1 al Electric Tcleg. of Ir. 5 all En. &.kus Cop Sm Co 11 11 25 all Gen. Iron Sc Collier 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat. . • 16 all Getters! Screw Steam 13 131 131 4 all Loud. Gen. Omnibus 31 4 31 2( 10 Magdalena St. Navig 10 all Mediteran. Elec. Tel. 8 10 10 all Mexican&S.Americn. 41 41 4/ 25 5 Nat. Discount Co. - p 52 1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel 10 5 Netherlands Land ' 1 1i 20 all Do. Do. 5 3 Do. 8 pcPissatld p 100 80 New B. N.S. Land 23 25 N.S.W. Gov.sp.c.D. 101 j all N. B. Australasian — ZO 17,1 Nrth.ofEuropeSteam 2 1 4.i 1 all Oriental Gas ll 11 1 2s. Do. "New Shares" Pal all Peel Rr. Ld.& Minrl. 2 p 1 2t 50 all Peninsular& Oriental 67 69 50 10 De. New 5 6 p wo go Royal Mail Steam 73 I all Soot. Anstral. Incest. 11 11 Ditto New iP 25 all South Austral:Lard Di 561 36 e 1 al: Submar. Tel. Scrip... I • 1 1 all Registered — 1 20 5 Prust& L. Co. 1.1.0•11. 100 a 8 yrkv ni.men's Lath:.. 15i 16} V.O ).6Psc.JaniaulY •••• os THE SUN i LOND - ON; WEDNESDAY EIVE.NING SEPrir,MBEA 24, 18 5 6 . Ait It fit Ai I .ft T 3, trltti tgmfm AT Vtl;4o AIIitTAUL .7EII S DA To s:fs, ILaLt aenBnisil ihn kiloo o.` gress ; and the honourable gentleman proceeded to take the seat vacated by the active president of the Customs Reform Association. M. do Brouckdre then addressed the Congress, and expressed his plea . sure in doing so, seeing that while in 1847, when he last presided at a Reform Congress, t hey had to deal with theories, they had now advanced to a point when it became their business to consider the appli cation of principles generally accepted. He now de clared the Congress constituted and opened ; and he thought that their first act should be to return thanks to the active Association, under the auspices of which it had been called together. This proposition was received with loud cheers. The president then read the order of the day, and called upon the Dutch delegates to open the discus , sion. The first of these gentlemen who addressed • the Congress maintained that Holland might lay claim to be one of the liberal nations of Europe, because she had abolished her navigation-laws, had admitted corn free since 1847, and had abolished her old duties on the transit id goods. He con tended, therefore, that Holland had little to yield, and much to demand from her neighbours. And ho might add, that the prosperity of the country had fully justified the liberality of the Government. A delegate from Antwerp then rose and proceeded to show, amid the applause and the amusement of the Congress, that Holland was apparently a libe ral state, but in reality a protectionist—a highly protectionist—state. Protection and prohibition were, in truth, the law. She bad steadily conti nued to refuse concessions of railways between Holland and Belgium ; and was, in short, only in appearance a liberal state. In reply to this dele gate a second Dutch representative rose, and while dealing effectively with the colonial policy of Hol land, and allowing that it was most faulty, begged the Congress to believe that Holland was on the high road to a veritable state of free trade. The president then introduced Mr. Winkworth, who appeared for the Society of Arts ; and after having expressed a regret that Colonel Sykes could not be present, and that it therefore devolved upon him to represent the society alone, intimated that as he could not freely express himself in French, a friend of his would read a translation of his address to the Congress. This address, in which Mr. Winkworth went into a history of the Society of Arts, and then glanced at its influence in involving the great exhibitions of 1851 and 1855, included statistics showing the progress of British manufac tures since the establishment of Free Trade. Mr. Winkworth's address, at the conclusion of which the Congress gave the honourable gentleman three rounds of applause, was followed by a call from the president for Mr. Hertz, a delegate from Ham burg. This gentleman read to the Congress an amusing paper, in which he explained that Hamburg was necessarily a free port, since freedom was the only advantage it could offer to the world. It was a town that was also a state in itself, that had no in terior, no manufactures of its own to protect. But there were great abuses still in Hamburg. The little bourgeois had not the privileges which the great bourgeois enjoyed ' • there were still corpora tions of working men, with privileges that reminded us of the middle ages . ; there were closed trades, as the bakers and brewers ; and there was the octroi which levied enormous duties on the food of the citizens. The delegate concluded by hoping that Hamburg would get rid of her errors, and that the world would soon enjoy the commercial freedom which was the only attraction to foreign nations. The amusing manner in which this dele gate put his case, and more especially the contrast he drew between a little bourgeois and a great bourgeois, elicited frequent bursts of laughter. M. Cherbuliez, delegate from Switzerland, then addressed the Congress, in explanation of the Swiss tariff, upheld, according to the Speaker, simply to repair the roads—neither the cantons nor the federal government being able to pay the cost of maintenance. Before 1848 goods entered the Swiss territory free, but then they were liable to tolls that often prevented them from reaching Central Switzerland. This was the justification of their tariff. The speakerthen entered into details on the manner is which the tariff was arranged. Its ob ject was to lay the high duties on articles of luxury ; but no native industry was specially protected. The meeting rose before half-past four o'clock. THE AMERICAN CRISTh. (Front the _Daily News.) The more serious the news from America becomes the more necessary it is that English opinion should not be misled or perplexed by the misrepresentatlsns or mere ignorance of journalists, who ought to have more ho nesty or more knowledge than they have yet shown in their treatment of the existing American crisis. We bad oco , sion last week to point out some absurdities put forth by the Times. There have since bean more and worse—in the review of "Dred." and in the leading article of last Saturday. It seems to be the aim of the Times to make its readers believe that there has been a pitched battle on the political ground of Congress ; and another, of the physical force kind, on the soil of Kansas. This leading assumption is entirely untrue. The aggres sive party has made its onslaught, 'after halt a century of express preparation ; and the other party receives the attack as a summons to collect and organise its forces, and gird itself up for the conflict, which is now to begin in earnest. First, as to the political struggle. The Southern elec- tions have for many years been onducted with the sole view of sustaining slavery, and overpowering the num bers and the energies of the North ; whereas, the North ern elections have had every conceivable aim rather than that of attacking slavery and humbling the South. With the exception of a very few constituencies, the North has carefully chosen men who would nut trouble the South and imperil the Union ; so that Congress has in fact represented the pro-slavery element of Northern society almost exclusively. The most thorough aboli tionists, indeed, abstain from voting ; and thus, not only is Congress the representative of a state of opinion of soma years' standing, but it is the exponent of only a special element of public opinion on this particular sub ject. By one of those apparent accidents which open the sluices unexpectedly of ail revolutions, it was dis covered last winter that there was anti-slavery force enough in one House of Congress to resist the insults and aggressions of the South, and the immediate conse quence was, the election of Mr. Banks to the Speaker's Chair. A very fair resistance has been made for sew.• ral months, considering the inferiority in numbers of th• Republican members ; and that the President has met with any check at all from the federal legislature is quite as surprising as that free trade measures should make progress in an European Parliament returned under a Protectionist Ministry for Protectionist purposes. No doubt it is abundantly disgraceful to the Northern con stituencies that they should not have ma to this great question the first instead of the last in their political programme ; but, as a matter of fact, it has hitherto been so, and it can never b 3 so again. The struggle is now forced upon them; they cannot evade it ; they no longer think of evading it ; and the world will be shown, through the whole series of the coming elections, what their strength really is. Meantime, they have not yet been beaten ; for they have not yet gone out to the political war. A few members of Congress made a stand in a tentative spirit, and on a special occasi u. The scouts have given the alarm ; but the battle is not yet begun. The marshalling of the forces looks well thus far. Maine is the first New England State which can :influence the results of its elections, and the ether New England States usually follow its lead. The tidings from Maine are unexpectedly good. None hoped for more than a bare success for the Republican candiate for the office of Governor, and few expected that much, but Mr. Hamlin, the Republican candidate, has been elected by a majority of 11,000. As Maine leads New England, and the New England States lead the whole Nortb, it is reasonable to anticipate the irre sistible preponderance of the Republican party, and an anti-slavery strength in Congress proportioned to the numbers, the education, and the wealth of the North, and the importance of the vindication of its free labour. As for the military conflict, in which the Times as sumes the North to have been vanquished by the South, there has been no such measuring of strength. It is not true that the " vehementspirite of the pro-slavery and anti slavery parties went to Kansas to fight out the' quarrel. The pro-slavery force there in part consists of bands of so-called immigrants, who have gone with— not ploughs, teams, seed, and cattle—but rifles, revolvers and bowie-knives. ,They are, truly enough, the vehement. spirits of one party, but they are far outnumbered by the ruffians of Ow Missourian population, who, living at hand, have crossed the frontier for marauding purposes. To these two elements of the pro-slavery population in Kansas must be added the federal soldiery, sent by the President to take the side of the slave-power, for, his own personal objects. To meet this composite force what: troops has the anti-slavery power sent to Kansas 1 None whatever. The free-settlers of Kansas have been bona, fide immigrants, carrying with them wives and children,. farming stock and utensils, or tradesmen's wares. Those who did not go on their own resources. were despatchedi by the Emigrant Aid Society ;—aspeculative association organised for purposes of gain. When the immigrants were found to be exposed to injury from Southern ma rauders and border ruffians, certain citizens, individually or in companies, sent them arms, ammunition, and other resources, and organised more bends to follow them. These were intercepted--the arms and sup plies given to the marauders ; the men and women turned back after being stripped ; and the ferries stopped and rivers guarded to prevent all ac cess to the territory. A new route has recently been organised, out of reach of the Missourians; but it was not available prior to the late conflicts. Thus, instead of "vehement spirits," leaders of anti slavery enterpt lee, the free•soil party iu Kansas consisted of disarmed and plundered immigrants, cut off from aid and reinforcement by the interposition of Missouri be tween them and the free States. To speak of this as a first victory in the sectional warfare now beginning is as ab urd as it would be to say that Greece is conquer ing Turkey because a party of brigands has routed a company of merchants or drovers. Nobody doubts what the result would have been if any kind or amount of pro-slavery force had invaded any one of the free States, from Illinois to Maine. But the free settlers in Kansas did not go there as soldiers bnt as industrial adventurers. Tio,y obje - ..i but t.Tr. making their fortunes ; and, losing their game, the speculators have been shot as abolitionists. None knew better than they that abolitionism bird nothing to do with their enterprise, and that it never received any aid rr furtherance from the abolitionists. The North has yet to show what it can do, in the military as in the political field. When it is remembered that of the tw.:nty-six 'milieus of the United S.atee' population hem than half a million are slaveholders, and that those slave holders will scarcely suffice to restrain their own slaves, 1:1 case of commotion, there can be no serious doubt in any man's mind as to who will conquer when it once c ones to fair fighting. The inequality is so prodigious that it can hardly be seri .usly supposed that the South will encounter the enemy it has roused. The most conservative, ease-loving, apathetic, and timid of No: them cAizens are fairly stir red at last. The corning elections wili be toe first evidences of their awakened vigour, and the next necessity will be, apparently, for the South to caoose between the only two courses open to her ---session from the Union, cr soh inissior, to the primitive coi.ditions of Union, d veloped to meet modern requireolent'. 'rile first can scarcely praw.icable, for two reasons among otter.: that ti e North can interdict and prevent the eecission, it it so pleases; and that (as the South w.-11 knows) it is only her connexion with ;he anti-slavery North which preserves her from a servile war. If she cuts the cable, the n-xt hour the crew will rise, throw their tyrants overboard, and sail to rejoin the fleet. No Southern newspaper says this, nor probably any Northern one ; but every man— north, south, east, and we it—knows it. The reviewer of " Deed" in the Times exhibits an igno rance, geographical and historical, which is perfectly astonishing when he pleads, on behalf of the South, the concentration of the negroes there. He says the Nor thern States posted their negroes into the Middle States; and that these last are emptying themselves into the Soathern. So far from this being the case, the North has sent no negroes southwards. The tendency is all ti e other way. The coloured population of the North is abundant and prosperous beyond what European tra vellers have any means of witnessing. The census in forms us that their numbers do not diminish, even now, under the atrocious legislation of recent years, and not withstanding the large emigration to Canada and foreign shores. Travellers see only hotel waiters and shoeblacks; and they o include the " niggers" to be few, and employed only in menial occupations, unaware of the merchant and sbopkeeping class in which the real development of the social qualities of the race is to be seen. The North bas its "niggers" living at home at ease, and has not de ported them, as the Times reviewer asserts. The Middle States—by which we must suppose the reviewer to Meal' the impoverished States, in which slavery no longer answers—do certainly send a great number of slaves to the South ; but it is not their own plantation hands that they send, but a new progeny, bred for purposes of sale. A stock farmer does net rid himself of his stock in-trade when he sends a drove of cattle to the fair. Finding tillage unprofitable, he turned grazier ; and the stock he sends to the fair were bred for the purpose, and constitute his means of gain. Thus it is with Virginia and the rest of that group of States. The South has to deal only with the slaves she chooses to purchase and rear. Having chosen an unprofitable mode of living, through which she finds herself falling behind the world from year to year, her last desperate chance is to ste-p the conipetition of free labour with slave labour by en grossing the area of production, and hedging in the numbers and enterprise of the North. Her programme to this effect is before us, and we may perhaps present it to our readers some day soon. We need not show why the project is as hopeless as it is desperate. Our present purpose is simply to warn all who take an in terest in American affairs against supposing that any "victory" in " fair fight" has been obtained by the slave power. Ttie North is stirri , g, but it has not ye , taken up a position in either field—of politics or civil war. Sporting Intelligence. PONTEFRACT RACES.-TIIESDAY. The Tradesmens' Plate of 30 Bove, added to a Sweep stakes of 5 soya each. Two-yr-olds, 7st ; three, 9st. From the Wood end, three quarters of a mil e . _ _ _ _ Mr. Sidney's Sister to Nancy, 2yrs (30/.) (Withington) 1 Mr. Osborne's Walhalla, 2 yrs (301 ) (Challoner) 2 Polish (late Painter) and Perjury also ran. Won easy. The winner was sold for 401. The Stand Plate (Handicap) of 40 sovs, for three-year olds and upwards. One mile and a quarter. Mr. Sidney's Excitement, 4 yrs, 6st (Withington) 1 Mr. E. Gill's Bourgeois, 6 yra, Bst 71b (Aldcroft) 2 Thy following also ran :—L'Addio, Alfred, and King Brian. Betting—Even on Bourgeois, 3 to 1 agst Excitement. Won by a length. The Innkeepers' Plate of 25 soya, added to a Sweep stakes of 5 soya each ; for all ages, with certain allow- ances, &c., one mile, was won by Mr. Robert's Yeutick, beating Victory and Biron. The Cup Stakes (Handicap) of 5 Boys each, with 100 sovs added by the members for the borough, for all ages. The second horse to receive 20 soya out of the stakes. One mile and a half. Mr. Sidney's Excitement, 4 yr-t, 101 b (Witbington) 1 Mr. Andrew's The Martlett, 3 yrs, sst 41b.„(Bullock) 2 Lord Alfred, Catherine Parr, and The Scotehman als.) ran. I3etting-5 co 4 on Lor I Alfred, 5 to 2 agst Excitement, Gto 1 agst Tite Martlett. Won by a head. An objection was lodged by the owner of Lord Alfred against Excite. ment and Martlett for crossing. Tire Scurry Stakes (Handicap) of 3 goys each, with 20 added, for all ages (three quarters of a mile) was won by Mr. C. Marson's Typhon (Forster), beating The Med way, Lady of the Lodge, Yeutick, Peto, and Game Pullett. CESIBEWITCH AND CAMBRIDGESHIRE STARES.— YOUATT GRAY's advice for the above events is now ready. Lance for the Portland Stakes, at Doncas ter, and eleven tiler winners is something extraordinary, but the advice on the above races will astonish all, as 1,000 to 1 can be obtained about the double event. I am positive one, if both, does not come of. Recollect, I named Mr. Sykes and Crown Pigeon last year (first and second). Apply early, or the long price will be lost Terms : ---To the Cambridgeshire, 7s. 6d. ; one week, ss. ; single race. 2s. 6d. ; to the end of the season, 10s. 6d,—Address, 15, Charing•cross. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. It appears that considerable interest is felt in Canada respecting the intended opening on the let of Oct. of the section of this line from Brockville to Toronto, a diseance of 210 miles, which, with the exception of the Victoria bridge, will complete railway communication by the Grand Trunk line from Toronto to Portland. It is also in tended to open the section from Guelph to Stratford (29 miles) at the same time; tnus completing, with the 63 miles from Toronto to Guelph opened on the Ist of July last, 92 miles to the west of Toronto. The opening of the above sections will complete 850 miles of railway be longing to the Grand Trunk Company. Owing to the capabilities of the harbour of Portland for acoom tnodating very large steamers, the Canadians ex pect much benefit from the establishment of a line of steamers from Liverpool and the west of Ireland to Portland in connection with the Grand Trunk Railway. The company have also a railway from the main line at Richmond to Quebec, so that, whether Quebec or Portland be chosen as a packet station, the Grand Trunk will convey a large portion of the traffic through Canada to the west, and vice versa. The 92 miles of new railway to the west of Toronto, and the 210 miles about to be opened to the east of it, will com plete railway communication from Stratford to Brock ville, a distance of 302 miles. This, with the section from Brockville to Montreal, 125 miles, opened last Novem ber, will make a continuous line of railway 427 miles in length, from Montreal to Toronto and Stratford. GREAT NORTH OF SCOTLAND. The extension of this company's line from the present terminus at Huntly to Keith i 4 nearly completed, and it is intended to open it for traffic on the let of October. The Sheriffs' inauguration dinner will take place at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, on Tuesday next, the 30th inst., and will be carried out on a scale of almost unprecedented splendour. The number of guests invited by the sheriffs elect, Messrs. Mechi and Keats, amounts to upwards of 200 ORIENTAL INLAND STEAM COMPANY.—The prcspectus has been issued of the Oriental Inland Steam Company, with a capital of 250,0001., in 101. shares. The o bj ect is to establish an extended system of navigation on the rivers of India, especially the Ganges, Indus, and Gotia very, a , cl the mode proposed is to to employ steamers to tow trains of flat barges constructed for the service. The board of direction comprises several persons who have filled influential positions in connexion with public in provements in India. For many years the cultivation of a traffic of this description has been advocated as likely to achieve, in proportion to the expenditure re quired, results even far greater than those to be antici • gated from railroads, and such experiments as have already been tried seem to demonstrate that under proper management there could be little doubt of satis• fao ory returns. We understand that the directors of the Crystal Palace Company have received, by l e tt er , a confess i on from their absconded clerk, Win. James Robson, in which full par ticul rs are given of the manner and extent of his frau• dulent dealings with tne company's securities. The share holders will be glad to learn that the amount of the frauds to which the delinquent confesses does not greatly exceed that already publi•sbei. He alleges that his first embarrassments arose from an imprudent advance to a relative, and that they were subsequent v ag4ravated by unsuccessful speculations. If we are rilhtly informed, he also expresses willingness to devote his remaining funds towards the reduction of the losses inflicted by his malversations. Even if such an offer be bona fide made, however, it is difficult to see how the company could •entertain it, for they could not be parties to the coin pounding of the grave offence with which their dishonest servant is charged. His hiding place is bei?ved to be somewhere in London. The ()phi to is universally ex p ressed that the company are bound, both in law and equity, to make good to their utmost extent the losses su stained by innocent parties through the fraud of the CeL 2pAny's recognised officer. The securities irregularly iris ted, cornpxsing both ordinary and preference stock, con sist of shares which had been left in the company' s cuss ;ody, with a view to their safe keeping. by the re spe( !rive proprietors, Robson having obtained access to the box in which these shares were deposited, proceeded to p pt them into circulation.—Daily News. RAILWAYS. Closing Price this day. 4} - 4 8 -- s 17 - 18 15 - 16 12 - 13 92 541 - 55 151 -- 16: , . -- • CV 94 •- 154 - 9 - -9 , 33 - 23 25 7 - 5 80 - 82 33~ ~ 34 91 - P 3 Si - 93 -- 94 82 -- 84 .25 130 14 116 64 64 71 -- 75 54 64 54 64 95 . 96 6i 7 105 - 106 1024 -• 103 Par - J. par d 104 10402, 32 - 32, I - id 71 78 48 50 944 "".• • es its 48 - 50 34 - :41 38 ... 39 79 - 80 5i 5 a 84 8 174 18 544 t 54 91 96 51 - 10 5 61 1 - - 11 27i - 284 ill') 47 49 14/ 154 71 - 71 79 - 81 - 3 2 1 15 - 17 36i 37i 183 19i 53 6 24 - 26 63 -- zi 6 - 8 2 - 4 5 -- 5i • -- 7 - .9 Do. Extension.. Glasgow &S. NV,.st - Great N. of Scotlnd Ureat Northern Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Gt.Sth.AtWest.are Great Western...... Do. Stour Val. RA' Gua. Stk. Irish South-Easton Lancaster & Carlisi , Do., Thirds Do. New Thirds LAncash.andYork.s! Ws t. Riding Un Do. Southl ort London & - Blackwall, Lond. Bright &S.Cst Loud. and N. Westn Do. Fifths Do.101.813.,M&B ( Do. Eighths London andß. Woqn. Lon. Tilby. & South. Barking Sh (Lndndrry&Coleraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk Manch.Shet&Lineln Do., Man. & Lin. lin Metropolitan ...... Midland Do. Birmng. &Derb' Midi& G. West. (Ire.; Do. Half Shares , Newcastle & Carlisle . Nwpt.Aberg. &Hrfd Newry Si Enniskillen Newry, Warrenpoint and Rostrevor ...... . Norfolk Northn.Connties Un North British Nth. Devon Rail & Dock Stock Do., A Stock,,, 1)o., B Stock N.Eastern—Berwie Do. do. Extension .. Do.do.G.N.E.7enrob Do. Leeds .. Do. York North L0nd0n..... N.&S.Wstrn.,Ham , - stead, and City Jn .. North Stafford/shirt North Nirestern . N. & S. Westrn. Jun ' V., Wore., & Wolv. Portamouth . icottish ContrZ: Scottish Midland::: hropshire Union south Devon South Eastern.., ionth Wales . A. Yrksh. ds Riv. ........ I 4 i alnes,Wok. &W& 'Stockton Sz Darling Do., do., 1554 Do., do., 1855.. Atoziten & Hartlep Taff Vale.. )o. Prof., No. 1.. rhames Hay. D.& R. Vale of Neath....„.„ Waterfd. & Kilkenn Waterford&Limer;c l Wed Cornwall West End of Londor.l and Crystal Palace. Do. A West London... Wimbladn & Croydon 1 FOREIGN. JOINT-13! Australasia ........... • Bank of Egypt Bank of London ttri. Col. Bk.&Ln. C British N. America': Chartd. Bank of Asia Chrtd. Bnk. of India, Australia, & Chins City Coloniai Commercial of Load n g. Scot. &Ans. Cht. Loud. Chart. Bk. co Australia Ditto N0w.,,., Landon and County:. Lnd &E. Bnk g. Corp. London Joint Stock. London and Paris 1 Gond. & Westminste r National Pro.ef Eng Do. Naw National of Bank New South Walla Oriental Bank )f Corport*nn Ottoman Bank rrtvinele. of Inland Do. New P. Ans B &Go IM 04 (loyal British in u str a 1 ie, Mak, d of linetrlit.. Do. Nsw onion of London Western Bk of Loud MINES. 7 4 MO Vbritton SUN OPPIOR, o'Clook. LEICESTER RACES.—(This Day.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) COUNTY CUP STAKES. Caledonian Adam Two ran. LADIES' PLATE. Stork Mary C )pp Eight ran. TWO YEAR-OLD STAKES. Madame Clicquot Evelyn 2 Three ran. LEICESTERSHIIIE HANDICAP.' Prince of Orange Pantomime Eight ran. CITY COMMISSION OF SEWERS. Yesterday a court was held for the dispatch of publis business—Mr. Deputy Peacock occupied the chair. VALUATION OF TIM CITY. Mr. ABRAHAM said he wished to know whether it was likely that the surveyors would complete the re-valuation of the city, as it was well known that according to their contract it should have been completed by June last ? Mr. DAW (the chief clerk) said he was under the im- pression that the time specified in the contract did not expire until Christmas next. Mr. ABRAHAM said that the court had passed a reso• lution to the effect that the plans delivered in by the surveyors should be handed into the court and sealed up. That was necessary at the time, but there was no longer any reason why the plans, which should be of great use to the engineer, should remain sealed volumes. Mr. WATERLOW—How many of the wards have been surveyed ? Mr. DAw—Fifteen out of the 26. Mr. ABRAHAM then gave notice of his intention to move at the next meeting that the resolution of the court having reference to the plans delivered in by the Bur• veyors being sealed be rescinded. THE CITY OAS-WORKS, Mr. DAw read the following letter, wiCcii bad been referred t.) the medical officer (Dr. Lethehy):— " City of London Police, Chief Office, Aug. 15. "Dear Sir,—l feel it my duty to draw your attention to a very great nuisance in 'Ai hitefriars. A most intolerable smell is emitted from a chimney at the City Gas-works, where I understand an attempt is being made to destroy by fire the refuse of the gas-works. " Our men on duty in the neighbourhood complain that it seriously affects their health ; in fact we are compelled to change men to other beats to enable them to recoverfroin the poisonous effects of constantly inhaling this gas. Yes terday evening it was particularly bad, and was percept• ible as far as the Old Bailey.—l am, dear Sir, yours truly, (Signed) " S. HODGSON, Superintendent. " J. Daw, Esq., The Medical Officer then read the following ►eport : "TO THE HON. THE COMMISSIONERS OF SEWERS OF THE CITY OF LONDON. " Gentlemen,—A. complaint has been made to this court by the superintendent of the City police respecting a nui sance in Whitefriars. He states that a most intolerable smell is emitted from a chimney at the City of London Gas-works, and that it so seriously affects the health of his men who are on duty in the neighbourhood that h• is obliged to change them to other beats in order that they may recover from the poisonous effects of the gas. "In accordance with your request, I have examined into the matter, and have carefully inspected the works of the company. " Yoti will, perhaps, remember that this subject has already received the attention of the court, and that pro ceedings were taken not long since by the corporation of London against the company for the purpose of putting a stop to the offensive practice of discharging the foul lime from the gas purifiers into the River Thames. In conse quence of these proceedings the company were obliged to adopt, at a very considerable expense, a new mode of puri fying. By this means the foul lime is deprived of its vo latile matters before it is brought out into the river. The process by which this is effected is as follows :—The puri fiers are charged with dry lime instead of wet, as was for merly the case, and they also contain a mixture of saw dust and oxide of iron. The dry lime fixes the sulpha retted hydrogen of the gas, as well as certain cyanogen compounds, and that which the lime fails to arrest is re tained by the oxide of iron. Every day one of the purl. fiers becomes so foul from the fixation of impurities as to require a fresh charge and as the lime would evolve a most intolerable odour if it were at once exposed to the air, an arrangement is adopted whereby it is ventilated before It is taken out of the purifier. This is accomplished by re moving the oxide of iron, and then forcing a large quantity of atmospheric air through the foul lime. The air charged with sulphuretted hyd.rog,an and very offensive hydrocar bons is made to pass through chambers containing oxide of iron, and thence into a chimney which is 150 feet high. By this means the lime is rendered innocuous, and the sulphuretted hydrog en which it gives up to the air is ar rested ; but still thre are certain hydrocarbons which are not fixed by the process, and these by escaping into the air are no doubt amongst the subjects of complaint. " Again, the oxide of iron which is taken out of the purifiers before the process of ventilation is set on, is largely charged not only with an excess of sulphuretted hydrogen, but also with a quantity of stinking tarry matter. Iu this state it is carried to a room which overlooks the White friars Dock, and there, by exposure to the atmosphere. the hydrated sulphuret of iron undergoes a slow process of combustion, by which the mass becomes hot, anti in some cases actually takes fire. The iron is thus quickly restored to its original state, and is again fit for the process of puri fication; but while all this is going on a quantity of steam charged with offensive hydrocarbons is continually emir- Ing from the hot mass; and as the room in which it is placed is freely open to the external air, there is a constant iiiffusion of foul vapours into the surrounding atmosphere. This, I have no doubt, has sometimes been perceived by the police, especially at that part of Temple-street which bounds the Whitefriars Dock. " Another cause of complaint has arisen from the cir cumstances that by reason of the failure in the supply of the usual Cannel coal the company were compelled a few weeks ago to resort to the use of a coal which is named flethyl. This produces a tar of a most sickening odour, and although every precaution was taken to guard against the escape of its vapour, yet a little of the tar was always volatilised at the time of charging the retorts, and also when the spent oxide of iron was removed from the purifier and exposed to the air in the reviving room. "These are, I believe, the principal sources of complaint, and, in referring to them, I am bound to state that the company are exceedingly anxious to do everything in their power to mitigate the nuisances which are unfortunately inseparable from the process of gas-making. They have already appealed to the highest scientific authorities, and have gone to a great expense in carrying out the improve ments which have been suggested. But for all this, accord ing to the statements of the police, the smell from the works is intolerable ; in fact, I am informed by the in spector for that district that every man who has been on duty there has complained of it as a terrible nuisance. They say that the worst smells are perceived at night, when, as I understand, the oxide of iron is being removed from the purifiers to the reviving-room, and they add th a t the nuisance is greater now than it was before the new pro cess was adopted. The effect of the smell is to make the men feel sick, and sometimes vomit. They then complain of nausea and loss of appetite, so that they fall away in strength and condition. The inspector told me that he had occasion to pass the works with one of the serjeants about three weeks ago, and the smell from the place was so intolerable that it made both of them vomit. Such facts as these are so forcible, and are apparently so free from prejudice, that we cannot dispute them. " The questions, therefore, which arise oat, of the ease are these : "1. Are the operations at the gas-works conducted in a proper manner—that is, with a due regard to the public comfort, and with the adoption of the best practicable means of abating every possible nuisance? "2. Is the heart of a crowded city a proper locality for conducting a business which is admitted to be injurious to the public health ? " To the first of these questions I have already replied by saying that the company have done everything in their power, and everything which science has suggested, for the mitigation of the nuisances which are inseparable from the business. To the second I must give an equally emphatic answer, although it is in the negative ; for it cannot be doubted that operations which cast into the air all sorts of poisonous vapours, to say nothing of the clouds of stools which are continually emanating from hundreds of retorts, must be injurious to the public health, and ought to be removed as f..,r as possible from the city walls.—l have the honour to remain, gentlemen, your obedient servant, (Signed) Hr. LETHEBT, M. 8., "Professor of Chemistry, &c., in the College of the London Hospital, and Officer of Health for the City of London. "Guildhall, Sept. 23, 1856." Mr. Ross moved "That a copy of the report be sent to the City Gas Company." Mr. ABRAHAM said he did not think the motion sub mitted to the court by his friend went far enough. H 4 (Mr. Abraham) was of opinion, that instead of a copy of the report being sent to the gas company the matter should be referred to the general purposes committee, with instructions to them to take alegal opinion as to the power of the court to deal with it as a public and inju. riou s nuisance. (Hear.) Mr. Ross said he had no objection to alter his resolu tion to meet the view of Mr. Abraham. • The motion was then altered in conformity with the suggestion of Mr. Abraham, and carried unanimously. The court adjourned. THE Loss OF THE IMOGENE.—Not a particle of the cargo, which was valued at 60,000/. w as saved. There were two ladies, pas sengers, on b o ard, one of whom lost 2,0001., and the other 7001. —Liverpool Albion. We understand that the Division Officers of the In land Revenue Department are to have an immediate increase of 301. per annum to their salary.—Caledonian Mercury. It is stated that the silver phipmEats to India and China, by the mail from Southampton, on the 4th of October, will amount to a million and a quarter stet. ling. The rate of insurance has advanced from 35i. to 903. ROBBERY IN PLYMOUTH ClTADEL.—Between noon and midnight on Saturday the pay-office of the 66th Regi. went was robbed of 901. in Plymouth Branch Bank • England notes and 601. in sovereigns. 3,y) 206 100 100 IGO Leo 20 20 20 33. 100 3 ! 100 100 el 100 100 31 1s 17 al; all 1 /I 16 , Iv)i -1041 100 100 100 20 100! 50 100 100 100 1 ~__ _- 2 f ,) L