The Sun. — London, England, 1861-08-10 00:00:00

HONEY AAR_ YET AND CITY NEWS, CITY, Two O'CLOCK. There is rather more inquiry for discount accom modation, but the quotations, although exhibiting a firmer tendency, have not undergone any change of importance. Business in the Liverpool Cotton Market yester day continued moderately active, and prices steady. The sales amounted to about 10,000 bales. The directors of the North London Railway re commend a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. for the past half year. A call of £2 per share, amounting to £47,870, becomes due on Monday on the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway new shares. About £72,000 in gold was sent into the Bank of England yesterday. The foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon exhi bited a slight advance in the rates on Paris and Vienna. The Ellora, which leaves on Monday with the /3embay mail, will; take £2,000 in gold for Alex andria, and £53,435 in silver for Bombay. Since Monday last the imperts of specie have b een about £378,800, and exports £224,500. The English Stock Market has been very quiet to day but rather more firmness has been apparent, and Consols are about per cent. better than they Were at the close of business yesterday, the latest quotations being 901 f o for money, and 901 I for the 10th proximo. The New Threes and the Re duced are steady at 901 ; Bank Stock has receded to 2341 ;',lndia Scrip firm at 1001 ; Exchequer Bills, 15s. to 10s. dis. ; ditto June, 3s. dis. to par. Very little business has been reported in the For eign Market, and prices, in some instances, are flatter. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 79 4 ; ditto, 1858, 6 94 to 701; ditto £lOO Bonds are steady at ' 2 a ; Mexican at 228 ; Peruvian, Uribarren, at 90 ; and Portuguese at 461. In the R a il wa y Sh are M ar k et t h e operat i ons h ave been of a very limited character ; a firmer tone howeve r has been apparent. Eastern Counties, North Western, and South Eastern have improved 58 ., and Great Western 10s. South Western and London, Chatham and Dover have declined ss. The Foreign and Colonial lines have continued inactive. South Austrian and Lombardo-Venetian have receded to 16! 1, Eastern Bengal to 19, and East Indian advanced to 100. Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have remained inactive without any material change in quotations. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. sank Stock 234 k :I per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9oi 1 New Cent . Conscas Annuities India St 3 peock .r Cent. Annuiti es Ditto 5 per Cent. ... Ditto Loan Scrip, .5 per cent Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863 Ditto ditto April, 1864 961 1 onsols tofor Account, Set. 10 ludia Sck for Account t 5 per Cent .... 1001 it .. Mar. 2d. p. day June 31 la. ct Ex chequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2d ll 15 dis 3 dis par D tto £5OO lO dis par Ditto Smal IlezicalFOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES l er Cent r e bi tt? Account nivian 41 per Cent Ditto (I.llibarren), 41 per Cent. PO ) ll „gilese 3 per Cent., 1853 - T Liu) A.ccount 4. 1(1811 6 per Cent • Ditto Ditto Account New Loan ,r, 1) 44 ) A L ccoun b `'ltic £ l OO Bonds' 1),,,,_ Dividends on the above payable in London. P e 'l 2 i per Cent., Exc 4± per ravian Dollar Bonds, Ct. Ex. 4s. 83 C onsol s TWO O'CLOCK. Money Ditto Account .. 901 11 90 COTT s( 4 , te - 1 1 SE OF EXCHANGE.—YESTERDAY. -,,- rda tu It o jj •l t r t e. An ' 4alll l2 0f 12 11 trt, tw erp / 14 2B els bitto . 25 67/ Paris riltnrgh. Frr.azkeiflLe s . 13 10 13 10± 25 45 Short. 25 35 liars • .. 3 Months. 25 671 25 72/ 25 67± 25 75 Vie r ,„'" on Maine — 1191 119± TrieZ:• — 14 0 14 10 ?et ...... 14 0 14 10 , ersbur • L • 33i 331 t er ,_ . gu linir.i, cad; Tl a • Lel 'Vil a _ " t .......... 0 , 11 ...... kx......... i\r'a;eB ?alerr., Ives —0 n Liab s o ina n Rte New,..' York Janeiro "ew- - 1. . • • • 'Vreig,n Gold in Bars (Standard).... per oz. £3 17 9 il ver in exie an Dollars , I 2 , 0 0 0 2 Bars (Standard) South American Doubloons 48b 481 25 75 25 70 25 70 48f 48f 25 80 25 75 25 75 39} 117 t 118 621 52f 394 1171 117; 524 THE IVEATILER. EATHER EXPECTED - TILL TO-MORROW OR NEXT DAY. North Britain North-westerly wind, moderate; fine. :east Coast Similar. South Coast Similar ; cloudy, and fine. Ireland .. North-west to Northerly, cloudy; fine 811 ARE MARKET.-(TIIIS DAY). ORDMARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Closing Business Share Railways. Paid.; Price. Done 60 ,Belfast and Ballymena , all 13.14 Bir., Wol , and Str. Val.' all 71 84 stock Birk., La., and Ch June lOO 84 85 25 Blyth and Tyne all 10 Bost. Sloaf. andMid.Co all 6 7 stock Bristol and Exeter 100 91 92 stock Caledonian 10 Carmarthen & Cardigan all 60 Cork and Bandon all -- 20 Cork, lilrock., ,t Passage all 20 Cornwall .. . A gaits no div 10 Do A 10 Do B (hauntils b e 6 e I n CT d pe B r t o a n. all 1 ( all - 50 Dublin & Belfast Juno all 42 44 25 Dun., Perth, &Ab. Juno all 84 9 stock East Anglian lOO 164 174 stock Eastern Counties lOO 464 474 47 61 74 stock Eastern Union, A stock 100 39 41 steno Do do B do 100 28 29 25 Do Nw A, late EU3ds. 134 stock East Suffolk stock Edinburgh & Glasgow j 100 87 89 9 7 stock Edin. Perth, & Dundee 100 274 284 10 Forth & Clyde Junction all stock Furness i 100 stock Glasg. and S. Western 100 105 108 10 Great Nthn. of Scotland all 132 134 stock Great Northern lOO 1054106* 105 stock Do do A stock stock Do do B do stock Gt. S. &W. of Ireland 100 104 106 stock Great Western stock Do Str Val gua. stock 100 58 62 12 Irish South-eastern. all stock Lancashire & Yorkshire 100 110 1104 stock London and Blackwall 100 50 92 stock Lon., Bright. & S Coast 100 114 116 115 stock Lond., Chat., and Dover 100 47 60 44 stock Loud. &Nth. Western 100 924 921 1 , 5 , 11 stock Loud. & sth. Western lOO 93 05 25 L'derry & Coleraine all 25 L'derry & Enniskillen all 10 11 stock Man. Shef. & Lincoln.. 100 44 144 50 Maryport and Carlisle.. all 124 Do In 4 shares.... all 10 Metropolitan 74 4 3 d stock Midland 6.4.0. Do new stock Do Birming. & Derby 100 94 96 50 Nfld. Gt. W. of Ireland all 25 Do 4 shares all 25 Mid Kent all 10 Do, Cray Line . all 100 Newcastle and Carlisle I all 10 Newry & Armagh, def 9 8 6 d 20 Newry, Warnpt. & Ros all !tock Norfolk ... 100 56 68 lock North British llOO 614 611 614 2 lock Nor.Dev.Rail&Dk.stoca 100 ,took 1) , , & stk ; A revs no d. until 6pchas beenpd.B 100 took Do B stock lOO took Nth. Eastern—Berwlek 100 1044 1 0 41 25 Dodo, G.N.E. purchase 15 134 4 1 o took Do Leeds 100 60 604 took Do York ........ lOO 924 03 924 2 took North London 10 Do new 5 P. 16 4 North Staffordshire 174 41 44 10 N. and S. W. Junction j all 104 11 took Not. & Grantham Rail lOO 87 83 10 Feebles all 20 Portsmouth 10 Rhymney ' - all took Scottish Central Lock Scot N. E., Aber. stock 100 35 36 Lock Do Scot. Mid. stock lOO 88 90 took Shropshire Union ... 10 Sittingbourne & Sheer. all lock South Devon .... 25 S.-Durham & Lanc. Un 224 took South Eastern ...• 100 804 81 801 1 1 took South Wales .... • lock S. York. and River Dun 100 94 96 20 Staines, Wok,. and Wok all 4 7 25 Stockton & Darlington all 39 40 25 Do do l3 94 10 p 25 Do New (1860) 3 54 64 p ,ock Taff Vale .—. • ock Do Pref. No 1 lOO 25 ThamesHavenDk&Rail 22 50 Ulster .. " 25 Do ....... ......... 20 24 341) 10 Do . : ock Vale of Neath 10 Victoria Sta. and Pim all 111 12 ocx Waterford & Kilkenny 100 50 Waterford & Limerick all 20 West Cornwall I all 5/ 64 20 West London ; all 14 10 Do Ist class all 20 Do 2d class .. , all ock WestHartlepool Harbr, and Rail lOO ock West Midland—Oxford ; 100 43 45 ock Do. Newport 100 41 43 ock Do. Herefordl 100 85 87 stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock 6.4.0. stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock 9.16 1 stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock 18:8. all all all all all stock stock 12 10 stock stocx stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock 100 stock 50- stock stock stock stock etock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock THE SIJN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVNING, AUGUST 10, 'lB6l. LAW INTELLIGENCE.—iThis Day.) ;witness done COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Fare.) WINDING UP OP THE " DISTRICT SAVINGS BANK." 911 i To-day was appointed for hearing a petition for winding up the affairs of the "District Savings Bank" on account of the loss of capital and discontinuance of business. None of the facts or circumstances were gone into, as Mr. Roxburgh, who appeared for the petitioner, Mr. Geo. Hy. Laws, who was a shareholder of 1,000 shares, said that he was very glad to say that a well-established company had agreed to take the business at a price to pay the creditors of the company in full. Ho (Mr. Roxburgh, therefore, had to ask for an adjournment, to enable the parties to complete an arrangement which must be highly desirable, as the creditors would be paid in full. Mr. Cotterell, for the Company, assented, as did Mr. Bayley, for a contributory. Other gentlemen appeared representing parties interested, and a discussion arose as to the terms on which the order for adjournment should be made. Mr. Roxburgh and Mr. Bayley urged that to whatever day it is adjourned, no fresh petition shall be allowed, or that the present petition should take precedence. His Honour said that he had no power to prevent any party, entitled so to do, presenting a petition if he thought fit—all he could do would be to adjourn the case generally till the 10th of October, with leave to apply at any time previously. 96 51 6 94 The effect of this will be that in the event of another petition being filed, it may probably frustrate the professed object of the present adjountment, POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.) MAR LBOROUGH-STREET. ROBBING A COFFEE-HOUSE KEEPER.—Raffaello Tra bucco, residing in Trevor-square, Brompton, artist, was charged before Mr. Mansfield with stealing a silver watch, value £5, the property of Thomas Howard, coffee-house keeper, 51, Haymarket. Mr. Howard said that on the Bth of July the prisoner came into his coffee-room about 5 o'clock and asked for a cup of coffee. He (Mr. Howard) was alone, and took the prisoner the coffee, before doing so laying his watch and chain on a marble table. He was called away to attend a person upstairs, and on his return the watch and chain were gone. Those produced were his property. Prison: said he was an Italian, and one of Garibaldi's officers, and with much vehemence asserted that he had bought it o!' Mr. Howard for 20s. Mr. Howard denied this. 5i 51 - P 1 1 4 4 I 10 11 4 31 21 21 22# 23# 7 1 7i James Edwards, 43, Frith-street, Soho, in the employ of Messrs. Sitttmonds, pawnbrokers, said he took the watch in pledge on the 10th of July. He lent 12s. on it, and it was a very common watch. 8 8} 19 N 88 39 Butcher, 137 C, said he went to Trevor-square, and after waiting for an hour met him in the street. Prosecutor told him the charge, and prisoner said lie could get him his watch in the morning if he let him go, but not without, and that a friend of his who had gone to America had taken the chain. On telling him that b e must take him into custody he gave him the ticket of the watch. He wished for a remand, as he believed he had defrauded a German of £6O. 8 9 396 6 4066 55 67 61 6,1 5i (3 Si RI 2 i 111 ,1 24 25 8} 1611 6j 6i 9t 9} 204 21i I li l 2i Mr. Mansfield remanded the .'prisoner, who is said to be a lecturer, frequently attending Hyde -park, till Wednes day next. THAMES. THE FOOTMAN AND THE LADY'S MAID.-Wm. Wood land, footman to Sir Edward Ryan, the eminent lawyer and member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, of No. 5, Addison-road, Golden-lodge, Kensington, appeared before Mr. Woolrych on a summons to show cause why he should not be adjudged the putative father of an illegiti mate male child, born on the 10th Jrtly last, and which the mother, Augusta Moon, of 23, Back Church-lane, White-- chapel, carried in her arms. Mr. Jox son, from the office of Mr. Charles Young, soli citor, appeared for the complainant, a very interesting and pretty yoang woman, who was maid to Lady Jocelyn. Last summer her ladyship 1( :t her house in Hastings to Sir Edward Ryan and family, and the complainant was left in chargo of it. She formed an intimacy with Sir Edward's footman, and lis tened to the tender arguments of the gallant gay Lothario in plush, and surrendered herself to her admirer without applying to the church to sanctify the union. The conse quence of this intimacy was the birth of the " little one" in the classic locality of Back Church-lute, on the 10th of last July. Mr. Gomm—l believe the defendant will admit the pater nity. The defendant said he would admit the intercourse be tween him and the complainant, but not that he was the father of the child. Mr. Gomm—He admitted he was the father of the little stranger" before me and the officer Taplin, The defendant then made some further admissions. Mr. Woolrych—l am not going into a physiological in quiry. I adjudge Woodland to be the father of the child, and to pay 2s. 6d. per week, and 235. costs. EXTRAORDINARY CASE OP CUTTING AND WOUNDING. Walter Adolphus Mason, a tall, sallow-faced man with a large moustache, was brought up •on remand before Mr. Woolrych, charged with cutting and wounding Walter Griffiths, who appeared in court with his right hand in a sash. It appeared that the prosecutor is the second mate of the Nedagdude, an English ship with a Russian name, which sails cn Monday. The prisoner is the second mate of an American ship. They were lodging at a seaman's board ing house in Prince's-square, Ratcliffe Highway, up to Thursday morning last. At an early hour that morning, Griffiths was in bed, and the prisoner who was dressed, suddenly threw himself upon him, took out a knife, and said " You were out last night very late. You are fined five shillings." The prosecutor said he would not pay any fine, and had a right to stop out as late as he pleased. The prisoner immediately raised his knife and made a blow at Griffiths's throat. The prosecutor put up his right hand to ward off the blow, and caught the knife on his hand, which was severely cut. The knife flew out of the prisoner's hand and struck the wainscot at the side of the bed. The prosecutor's hand 'was seriously wounded, and he was sent to the London Hospital. He lost a good deal of blood. The prisoner asked the prosecutor if he was not "sky larking" with him ? Griffiths—No, you were not. Mr. Woolrych—Where did he take) the knife from? Griffiths—From his right side. Mr. Carter, house surgeon of the liondou Hospital, said the palm of the man's hand vas cut very deeply. He believed the wound was inflicted in, the way stated by the prosecutor. The knife, stained with blood, with which the wound was inflicted was prgduced. It was found under a carpet in the lodging -house. Mr. Woolrych committed the pri sonar for trial for un lawfully wounding, and bound over the witnesses to prose cute. THE AMERICAN BLOCKADE. Monday. The M r. N p v r o o s o e i c r y u e t o h r - - I M c y a n s n h o i t p h s e a l i p l o it. rt The law must take its course. 2.1118 DAYS LONDON, Aug. 10.—Wind this tlay at noon, South- Westerly ; moderate breeze, and fine weather. SWANSEA, Aug. 9.—Wind W. —Arrived—Marshal Pelissier, from Coquimbo ; Au ustirie Schneider, from St. Jago de Cuba. TORBAY, Aug. 9.—Wind S, W._Arrived—Flora, from Poule for Newfoundland. CoWEs, Au g. O.—Wind W.—_Arrived—S axon i a , screw stearer E , s i A rom u New York. DOVER Aug 9.—Wind \V. — Arrived—United, from Iceland ; Nixen, from Newcastle for Port en Basseni, with loss of two anchors. PILL, Aug. 9.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Uncle Joe, for New York. LIMERICK, Aug. 9.—Wind S . W.-- Arrived—Lady of the Lake, from Miramichi. FLEETWOOD, Aug. B.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Neptune, for Quebec. --- - BELFAST, Aug. B.—Wind S.W.—Sailed•—Cora Linn, for St. John's, N.B. WARRENPOINT, Aug. B.—Wind N. W.—Sailed—Henry Cort, for Quebec. _ LEITH, Aug. 9.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—:Royalist, for Quebec. SHIELDS, Aug. 9.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Henrietta, from Quebec. (BY SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning. Arriv from ed, H A a u m g. bu lO r. — g ßichard, from Miramic ; Metropo a DEAL, Saturday Morning. ; Silvestrain, froPassedßombay Sam ; mem u Montmorency,i r , s N h 19137 from Y York k H ongkong—all for London; Lady Combermere, from the northward, for the westward; Maria, Chase, Nasmith ) Atl anta, an d Daniel Jacobi—all from London, for New work; Lydia, for Mauritius; Sydney Griffiths, for Portland B ay; Ring floeardLerisbfoornß; osctiotniz;eMn,enstoor,ew m for St. H erman Albert, B orde ax—all from London; Choice, for Singapore; B a lf our, for Bar celona; Pomona, for Moulmein —all from Shiefds ; H.M.S. Himalaya, with nearly all the outward bound, .for the west ward ; and the Swedish line-of - battle ship, fro m Stockholm, for Sheerness. _ . . _ The bark Queen, at anchor in the Downs, was run into by the American ship Martha Ward, and sustained sundry damages. THE Loss OF THE BALTIC.—The particulars of the loss of this fine steamship, belonging to Me Bars. T. "Wil son, Son, and Co., of Hull, have already been .reported. At the Police-court yesterday morning Mr. T. H.. Travis, the stipendiary magistrate, read a letter which he had received y this vessel was 'had carefully consideredf rom the Board theo i o r f c u T m r a s d t a o , n c s e t s a t u i n n g d e t r h w a t h i t c h h e lost. " The default," it says, " of the master in leaving the ship when in such a position, and under such circum stances, in charge of a thoroughly incompete cut person, ap peared to them to be so gross that to mark the disapproval of his conduct they have deemed it right to cancel his cer tificate, without naming for the present any time at which application may be made for its return." The Fort Pickens correspondent of the New York World, who writes under date of July 7, is respon sible for the following very doubtful statement : " Through a third party I have been endeavour ing for some time to obtain something like the sub. stance of a report of our blockade, made to the Bri tish Admiralty by Admiral Milne, the Commander•. in -Chief of her Britannic Majesty's naval forces here. I had learnt three things from undoubted authority—first, that Lord Paget had instructed the admiral to detail vessels to look after the cutting off of egress to the Southern ports; second, that the admiral had obtained one or two copies of Commo dore's Mervin's official orders ; third, that his ad miralship was reported in , Havannah to have laughed at the idea of the United States being able to cut off maritime communication with the harbours of revolted States.' It seemed to me that the reply of the Commander-in-Chief to the First Lord of the Admiralty would be a document of great importance to you, and I left no means un tried to procure it. Owing to the industry of a subordinate officer of one of our gunboats, and to the kindness of one of our most loyal citizens in the Cuban capital, lam enabled to give you the body and soul' of Admiral Milne's letter. Leaving out the ♦erbiage, here is its substance. " I regret that it is my duty to discuss, in a measure, the nature of this so-called blockade. Representatives of the United States meet me with two statements, the force of which it will be for your lordship to decide. lam told by some that there is no pretension on the part of the United States of a blockade existing; that the Go vernment is merely closing its own ports, to do which they claim to have a perfect right. In direct conflict with this are all the official notifications of United States' officers. Capt. Adams, for instance, writing on board the Sabine ; on May 19, says, in a letter to General Bragg : " This (Pensacola) port is now strictly block aded, &c. " Commodore Mervin's announcements—l have not seen any of them—are said to be similarly worded, and lam told that the President of the United States publicly promulgated the blockade of all the ports south of Baltimore' (which is in the State of Maryland). "'A prominent feature of this alleged blockade is the complete absence of uniformity, order, and regularity which has characterised it. The distance of several rendezvous of the naval fleet from Wash ington, the difficulty with which communication is kept up, and the immense extent of the coast line to be guarded, are represented as the causes which necessitated the United States Government to leave the date of blockade and the commencement of it to the discretion of the commanders of men-of-war. No date was laid down on which the cessation of general commercial intercourse was to stop, and ports situate within a day's sail of each other have been for weeks blockaded, and not blockaded, at the same time. " "rhe confusion arising from this state of things can be imagined by your lordships. On the 19th of May, as you will see by the enclosed circular, the blockade at Pensacola began ; yet, up to the 30th of that month, vessels freely obtained admission, some had leave to do so, others were not even overhauled, and others, still, seemed to defy the cruisers. One barque ordered off from the Pensacola entrance, through an un known instrumentality, found out that Mobile was not guarded, and immediately sailed for and arrived at that place, where her cargo was disposed of. Five or six brigs, two barques, and some fifteen or twenty schooners, also warned off by the fleet, moved to other harbours and easily gained admis sion. " ' A grace of fifteen days was given to vessels under certain circumstances, which we"e so con fusedly explained that no one I have seen thus far could properly understand them. Three British ships, laden with cotton, in the harbour of Mobile, were compelled to pack up and go away to fulfil this requirement. while under almost similar cir cumstances four barques and brigs were permitted to commence loading at another point, on the twentieth day after the announcement of the blockade. " ' The frequency of vessels escaping the vigil ance, or rather the lack of vigilance, of the United States' squadron are too numerous to be even named. I sent Capt. Von Donop, of the Jason, to look after the interests of our shipping, and to the efficiency of the blockading ships in several ports. He mentions numerous cases of ships, barques, and brigs escaping the cruisers. I learn that while a large American frigate, fully as formidable as the St. George, apparently, was under steam, off Charleston, a complete flotilla of small ocean coasters continued to pass in to the city, and out again, either regardless of or insensible to the presence of war ships. " The numerous facts establishing the pc: feet inefficiency of the men of war in regard to the stopping of commercial intercourse with ports before which they have appeared could be elabo rated to a great length. But even now [the Ad miral, permit your correspondent to say, is writing about the 2d of June] St. Marks, an important port, is not at all cut off from maritime trade, as one of my fleet saw all sorts of vessels enter and depart from it, without being impeded. Apalachicola was thronged with craft until a few days since, and four other ports are stated to be open to-day. " A regular steamer communication is constantly kept up between Savannah, an important harbour in the State of Georgia, and some other port.' " METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS. The ordinary meeting of the board was held yes terday at the offices of the board, Spring-gardens; Mr. Thwaites in the chair. The CHAIRMAN opened tenders for making sewers and subways in connexion with the Soutl, wurk and Westminster communication. The tender of Mr. Down (L 7,983) was accepted. Tenders were also opened for constructing sewer and making up the road along Victoria-park ap proach. The tender of Mr. Thomas Pearson, viz., £2,481, was accepted, subject to the usual inquiries. A report was brought up from the sub-architect, in which he proposes for the accomplishment of the widening of Great Turnstile, Holborn, that the whole of the houses on the west side of Great Turn stile, and two printing warehouses in Tichborns court, should be cleared away. The width of the new street would be 47ft. Gin. at the north end, gradually increasing to 50ft. in the centre. He also stated that on the west side of the new street, and south end of the Robin Hood public-house, there would be a piece of building land, with a frontage of bOft. and an average depth of 36ft., and this he arranges into plots for five houses, for a set of offices suitable for solicitors and barristers. He considers that the cost, together with the expense of forming carriage and footways, and lamps, will be £28,800, which sum would include the return which might be obtained from the sale of vacant building ground and old materials. He further considers that a more complete improvement would be effected by clearing away the five houses and two shops on the west side of Newman's-row ; by doing which the width of the new street would be equal along its whole length. A motion was made and agreed to that the archi tect's report and plans be referred to the Works and Improvements Committee for report. The board then adjourned for the holidays. METEOROLOGICAL REPORTS, _ . tw:._l3.. i)a - an Bay, _ E.._ i I . tt d B. 31. D. F. !C. I. S. I\' - a --- i" ---- ---:—_.. 1 1 , eith . ▪ ....... 29 . 88 80 58 W. S. W. 5 3 c. 2 li, . , . A tvgi o i .. ••••• 29 95 84 59 W. 1 2 b. 1 7,Nro asa : .... 29 S 9 61 59 W. 4 3 b. 1 Wtr„ shj '" . .. • . 2999 59 57 S.W. 3 7 o. 3 q'll,elei s •• • 29'96 62 61 2 2 b. 2 f B : l Wa y ...... 29*95 61 57 W. 3 1 b. 2 ti t rboro . n . ~• • • 3 0 .02 65 64 S. S.W. 2 8 o. 1 veri x , -ga.. 30.01 63 58 N.N. W. 1 1 b. 1 ttl e .ol .. i 4. 11ti . • • 30 . 03 63 61 S. W. 1 9 0. 1 l a , er i , t Q r .... 30'04 60 59 N.W. S. 3 9 m . 3 1 0 440 1ith 0 ... 30'02 63 62 N 1 9 f, 1 t., 1 :10 1 , .•• .. 30 . 07 63 61 N.W. 3 2 c. 3 trep ..... 30• 0 w 63 60 W. 1 sc. I, 1 14 00 • ...... 30'08 70 65 E.N.E. 2 1 b. 1 I,° l ll 4 ,uth .. 30•12 83 62 S. 3 9 o. 1 4 1 11.0 111 :. • • 30:13 63 61 W. S.W. 1 ? o. 2 z i . l lM 60 62 W.N.W. 3 7 li'.. t 24 1 1 1 4. NATI 0 N . —B. Barometer, corrected and reduced ti4 f I4N ATION.-B. Barometer, corrected and reduced Ni ki hrg at mean sea level ; each 10 feetof vertical rise g ti f about 1-100th of an inch diminution,. and each 10 . ° Nrs 32 deg causing nearly 3-100ths increase. E `,ll,2eci thermometer in shade. M. Moistened bulb (for zorration and dew-point). D. Direction of wind (true— (ltoal4i‘glietic_) F. Force (1 to 12—estimated). C. Cloud f :— b., blue sky ; c., clouds (detached) ; t ver e ° L; h., hail ; 1., lightning ; in., misty (hazy) ; 0., rAt a C' (dull) ; r., rain ; s., snow ; t., thunder. letter 44 (C. a ugments—thus, r.r., much rain. S. Sea disturb- Lo 9). PERCHLO.RIDE, OF IRON. 1y a •have several times had occasion to mention !ng e i n dl i ea for the very painful case of a toe-nail grow ing the flesh, but none so curious . as the follow the mil Published by Dr. Wabu, chief . physician to teßi'Aiiitary hospital of Nice, as having been suc -1:14.,,4dY practised upon himself. He states that in tligt, towards the end of 1858, been for some time 4 10 h abit of wearing a pair of shoes which were c h af t ;" toe short, he more than once felt a violent to 01 : 111 the grea t t oe o f his left foot comi ng i nt o ks,rkf ti et 'with the extremity of the shoe. The pain 4 etit 411 3" increased, and at length became perms katy,';'cv,hen he was obliged to stay in bed. On - ' n 'hg the member, he found both the nail and side ma • e r lz perfectly healthy, but the flesh on one Nthi the toe had grown up like a . cu h shion, under t ot c:11 there was a long erosion, wino suppurated of 4 u l b d ; eta blY, and was the seat of pain. Unwillin , Ei th - J e ct himself to the torture of a partial avulsion u teri;e nail, the doctor at first endeavoured . to r ca e abe t e the lace, first with Vienna paste (quicklime) im ) ea ` a i ° ' as aa eaustica), and then with potassa caus tWei aloe These cauterisations, repeated ten or t ti ,irai v il e i t is A raes, led to no result; the cushion no doubt ten s tc'ed in thickness by the action of the Caustic., 0 1.8 Ek e , tiSS UeS were speedily reproduced, and matk '4l that as before. At length the idea struck e3 ther -at t he Part might be completely thied, or in 1 01 a tWords tanned, or mummified by some power tesel:Lingent ; and after some consideration he aPpli e y,to try the perchloride of iron, which he f P r i ble b; i n Powder, insinuating it as deeply as pos.. Jett , dieen the border of the nail and the erosion. lett, e s a tely a local pain of no great intensity was 11°1 4: °4et her with much heat; and a quarter of an Pain, rtherarcls, the doctor could walk without 41(l oth a thi ;_ 1 , 1 g he had been unable to do for many Part, a. ula the following day he examined the li tri ed a and found the flesh as hard as wood ; he Be,e'hd application, which however, he be oeetl 'lave been quite useless, the first having Acient to eff,ct a radical cure. kr. G v . thr le.llioheatr.e ito•yal3i,rookewill make his appearance at Drury-lane, early in October.—Era. la r • ns• Robin, who so Sears ago was so PoPu ;ylll,:iceadillY, has secured from Mr. Arthur Smith the 2 , tan Hall pi din -4 404 i n. , °ea y, and intends commencing his Liondon early in Istovember.—Era. fio died than a Irkable n often nerston fortune ie high . those ~ ebrated r their nisters, Dissen stamp, must There pie are i g ht be giving tion to brother tg over world, streets poor ], and of St. Villiers rely to iffieult , udging D souls. rise to w men erested enying Tid his n won- coun th and Duse of .endont served a years in all and in o much e other ) easily of the Earl of eldest Essex), family, er was, ode and hildren Dharlee , e-trade of the who is wife of ontaga xnuary, )xford, rwards 'bishop ic as a mever, ectures ty true ture to 3 says, in the e Iwo lw that Le, was fellow -1 ques- Villiers did he power al facts Imitted he was in 1841 y of St. he was , etor of He dis- in the )rdially effected he left f Low lot cal d him to the .Irstood ied too to the as we 9 dwell ald not i it was ;h doc- Etomatt avoid well to ness of an d roolish men of vigor senterS turned &every Evan thy. tr than ted by ;le. It ily last 1. He e than I to be ham is which reatest, n most mi the gelical in who vast a sphere nirers, idered, s died three Ho W- occa- eem of iterest melt as is the re and ighout ters of [lurch eldosi f such )arture lay, at ing the nory Of =skin iced by ,rated to , (lona' n panY , luranne vt , and te had ;eneral tat the ) erated [ fund) e fund sera of t that, from widow ce, tho be de welfare I s tood gf and PREFERENCE SHARES. 101 103 20 21 51 la 99 101 108 112 105 108 105 107 105 107 122 124 78 80 109 111 90 92 75 77 115 117 110 112 1102 104 106 108 97 99 95 97 87 90 87 8) 100 102 94 10 165 176 104 10/ 75 77 20i 214 10i lot 114 151 112 114 112 114 134 137 112 114 99 101 148 153 125 153 71 74 95 100 13i 14 120 125 i AP I 65 70 I iPI IN IN stock stock stock stock stock stock 101 10 91 93 110 112 j 108 110 , 1 li p, 100 100 100 all all 91 93 101 103 101 103 IP }d p 22 23 132 134 10 1b 23 23i 97 99 97 99 98 100 83 86 264 274 314 324 314 324 45 48 124 126 'llB 122 100 103 120 123 115 117 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Railway : . Paid ILe ' CI as ong I °sng' BDoneusiness C Price i . . I ' i 8 -- Bedford and Bletcliley all Ln &N.W • • • • Bulkinghamshire .... 100 Do ...... • 94 96 Chester & Holyhead... 100 D 0... 52 53 Do. 54 percent 100 Do ll9 120 Do. 5 ~ lOO ,Do.. Clydesdale June lOO Caledon... 101 103 Colchester, Stour Val all E.U.&E.O 15 16 E.Lincolnsh. g 6 per c l ICC Gt. North. 132 134 E.Union,HarwichSlis all E.Counts. 11 41 Do. Woodbridge , 100 ; . I _ Gls.Barr.& Neila.Drct lOO Cale . don...i Do. new ...... Gloster & Dean Forest all Gt.lie;t... Hrtlp'l Dock & Rail all IYk.N.&Br, Hull and Selby. 1 all Yk.N. Md. 112 114 Do. halves. - . Do. quarters.. ..... ' all Do. ...... Lanc.&Carl. gua. 5 p.c. 100 ILn&N.W. 194 196 London & Greenwich.l 100 'S.Eastern 59 61 Do. Preference ....! 100 Do. .. . . ... 112 117 Lon.,Tilbury,& S -end: 100 Peto &Co. 83 86 Lowestoft gua. 4 p c.. I 100 Norfolk s Do. 6 per cent lOO IDo. — Bine., Bxtn.,&Matlock all L NW&M 31 3 4 Mid. Bradford Prefer ence Stock lOO Midland.. 93 95 Newmarkt,BilryEx. ) _ ~ 56- ,E.Counts. 4 1 p gua. 5 percent..... 5 Northn.&Eastn. sp. C. all IDo. 55 57 p Do. 6p. c. - - Do. Fixed sp. C..... all ,Do. North Western ... all Midland 151 161 Preston and Wyre. 1 all L& NW} & L.Yk. Do. 4 Shares A. all Do. . Itnystn.Hitch., & Shep 100 G t.Nortii . . 131 133 Shrewsbry& Hereford 100 T.Brassey in 122 Do. do. 1 Do. 1 lip S.-Staffordshire all M.'Clean... _ _ Wilts and Somerset lOO Gt. West. 88 go winabledon&Croydn kli L.darrtn 8/ gi, 2.14.6 7.4.0 64t 17s 6.8.6 8.12 4.11.6 1.10.6 3 114 1.14.0 9.18.9 lk 10.6.7 11 5.9.0 all 18.18.9 261 4i 9 138 6d 17:il 15 all all 5 1 !SI •ff all 1 10a. all all 345 355 75 78 24 tti 3 3 12 141 3 36 4 5 1} 11 33 35 1; 2; 42 44 41 5 3 34 3 3; 6; 7; 8 9 34 36 2i * I 110 120 30 32 1i 5 54 15 17 i 40 42 290 300 75 85 85 95 1i 17 f 5 6 84 104 13 14 1 ti 1 341 3 51 i 11 dis. 36 38 6 8 I 1 2 2/ 22 24 i IP 1 11 61 71 p I Ad I fd 2 4 1 1 pd 4i 41 i i 'OCK BANKS. 100 Agra&UnitedService Bk 50 86 88 1 40 Australasia all 61 62 I 621 25 Bank of Egypt all 191 201 100 Bank of London 20 Bank of Turkey 3 1 id 50 British North American all 52 63 20 Chtd.Bank of India, &c. all 20 104 25 I Ch.Mer. of In. Lon.& Ch. all 32 34 100 'City 100 Colonial ........ 20'11 , Com. Bank of Can ada .. all 100 Commercial of London. 20 20 , Eng.. Scot., & Aus. Ch.. all 161 17 20 Gen. Bk .of Switzerland all 20 Lon. Char.Bkof Austral rll 221 231 20 I Do. new lO 2 24 50 I London and County 50 I London Joint Stock 20 London and S.Alrian lO 2 100 ;London & Westminscter 20 66 67 71 100 Nat. Prov. of England . 42 --., 20 Do. new l2 50 'National Bank .... ... 25 20 New South Wales.-- all 25 Orient. B. Corporation . all 49 50 501 50 20 'Ottoman Bank ...... ••. all 18 19 181 1 100 Provincial of Ireland .. 25 10 Do. new . ! all _ 25 I South Australia .c , ... all _ 25 Union of Australia ....! all 38 40 50 Union of London i 12 251 261 261 100 ,Unity Mutual... ..... 6O , ..._ COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Can. Gov. 6 p.c.Ja• &July 1877-9 lOO 106 109 Do 6p. cent.lBBo-2 100 - - Do. 6p. cent.lBB3-4 100 - - Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug. 100 105 107 Do. 6p. c. Mar. & Sept. 100 107 109 1109 Do. 5 per cent lOO 98 99 981 esslr2s2oooo - 1050000kkko , vsT C ADAA _B, tar British e p nll.sta.B e tdionrs ar G ol, ht:ii_ii . ap .111 H AI ope , 6 p 0.1880 100 107 109 Do. 1890 100 107 109 N.B.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 1041 105/ Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. 100 N. S. W. Gov. sp. c.,1868 100 971 981 Do. sp. c.,1871 to 1876 100 974 984 Do. p. 0., 1888 & upwds 100 971 981 9/1 Nova Scotia Gov. Bp. c sterling, 1875 lOO 1041 1051 S. Au5,G6p.c.1878.& up lOO Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 I Do. do. 6 p.c. Ap.&Oct lOO 1051' 106 1051 f DOCKS. __ stock 'Commercial lOO stock Do. 4 per Cent.Pref.Min. 100 stock East and West India Katharine , 100 62 64 stock Southampton lOO ...,.... 100 193 96 20 ID°. New .............--.... 2 I 1 1 1 d MISCELLANEOUS. 10 Anglo-Mexican Mint ..1 all 131 14 0 r,.aic .01, 1 nnmfteß ._ ieli M t.nrieg rii(gd l eLB .. al)s2,3 z S cin.mu. t s( m .iLmttu. .a ( : l dnt ag . d .). : aaaa4l - 111180:11 2_2_11 1 8808 1 832_10030 24 52 1 00 0 Berlin Dß .04. ic.x. Waterag.. Tel. (Limited) . i m m i i t m e d o ) all 41 41 all 30 35 321 Canada Land .. ... .. . all 105 107 10 Chan.lslands Tel. (Lira.) all st. Cop 25 Do. Pref. 71 per cent. all st. Crystal Palace 1 1 : 0 10 0 1 9 8 3 : 5 1 4_ 30 31 : 3 311 21 fi s t t .5 . D EE nl o e . geltirsi t: Preference &TeA Telegraph a : poh : pl nn r. ... .... , 100 102 ICS st. Do. 6 p ct. Per pet Deb . . 100 103 105 20 E.lndialrrign. & Can a l 1 i d Ap 25 Do. New ............. 15 16 Gen. Steam Navig,ati ni 14 1 Great Ship limited)... all I 'll Do. 171 pct Prefer ence all 1 5 Lou. District Tel. (Lim.) 34 1 I i 4 L.G. Omnibus Co. (Lim.) a ll t I / 20 Madras Irr. and Canal.. 1 I 1 10 Med. Exten. Tel. (Lim.) all 3 4 25 National Dis. Co. (Lim.) 5 11 1 d 20 Nerbu.Coal&lron (Lim.) 5 1 0 , 4 10 Netherlands so a st n ia d a adni sd. a a til l ol l — 4 — l 7 5 10 I li 100 1 5 1 1 Orien t al D NN o •.()Bß B s .rAl l e . ue w Ns. It° G rrva a ealf s aS. .s( SharesLi a i n nt (Lim.).ei m d) . ) lai a a osl l l oBl l l s . - 64_97 1 51:04: 484 30 10 12 e Nn a e & eyw ln lr .l on el.,g.4lp.c all 18 19 all 17 18 all 5 51 1 8 : 255 : 501 R °l tRPP eer o ehDpine y dYnool. a n ISEt.. l l&N M :LleO a nn i v.rd l i S S e&tn t e3 l e t i a a la a im m l n n Steam.(LL a tim n in di all6o 3 4 2 9 5 34 1 s2tls. Submarine l t n rT . a l e n l . v s . ( c L e i p m . . ). 100 a11 123 128 1 I Agency of 1002 11 2 001_ vu D T ar. o .A D. Trust Kt u d t d or Ition.raeon2ll:nmac. and i n. a eo s ,l ( to l t i uc e : dr op oe a n). Registered i .n . e : 5 ja a :1 11 5 11 84. . . . .p di : ;pi; Blythe and Tyne 10 per , c. pref. (issued at .£sf Etris. & Exet.4 p.etstoot Do. do. do. Shares Caledon £lO, 45 per cent Do. Quar. Shares, No. 2. Cork & Bandon, 54 p. 0. Cornwall, 5 per cent I Dun.Perth&Aber.Jun. IDo Ist Class Pref E.Angn.Class A 7 &sp.c Do. do. Class B 6 p.c Do. do. Class C 7 p.c E. Coun. Ex. 5 p. C. No. I Do. do. No. Do. New 6 per et. stock. Eastern Union, 4 per et. Do. 5 per cent. guar... 11CdinstGlas. sp.c. shares Do. 4 p. c gua. S. & D. Edin. Perth& Dun. 4 p.c . I Furness, 5 per cent .... Glas..k S. West.g.a. 5 p.c, Great Northern, 5 p. et. Po.sp.c.Redm., 10 p.c..pm Do. 44 p. c. do. do. Do. sp.c. Redm. 5 p.c. pm Gt. MTh. of Scotid. Ist pf 5 Gt. Sn. & W (Ireland) I p. et. pref. stock Great West. (Berks an , Hants) Ext. 5 p. et 120. Redeemable, 44 p. et Do. Redeemable, 4 ]). ct. Do Irredeemable, do Do. 5 p.a. Redeem. Pref Do. Birm. Pref. Shares 'it. W. Ches. 8 p.e.pf.sh Do. do. sp. et. pref Do Birmg.guar. stock Do. Chester gua. shares f o. do. do. Do. do. do. Lan. & Carl. 45 p c. pref Lan.&York 6 p. c. stock Do.Barnsl.st.f.,s 3s 10d pc Do. 6 per c. (E. Lan.) 1 Gen.& Brig. 5 pc.gu. No. , Do. 5 p. c. No. 2 Do. gua. 6 p. c. Do. do sf. c. No. 4 I Do. do. 4 m . per c". Do. do. 4 p. c. shares , Do. 7 p. et. Pref. stock I Do. 6p.e. do. (W.E.&C.P ) Do.4p.c.S.(div.def.til '6s' Do. 4 per cent. Pret Lon. Chat. and Dover (Do.W. A rceiv. no div Ex.A tll 6 p cis pd on Do. B B. & Brom ex. Do. Metropolitan Ex B L.on. and N.W. Cov. and Nuneaton, 5 p. ct Lon. & S. W, 7 p. ct. stock Do. 44 per cent Do. (Prtsrn. perpl anna of 2s. 8d Londondy. & Cole. sh Londony. & Ennis. sli \lan. Sh. &Lin. 6 per et Do. 31 per cent Do. redeem. 6 percent 7 , Taryoort & Car., 4 p. c Do. 46 per cent. Mid. Con. 6 p c. stock Do.Con.Bris. & Bir. 6 D.C . Do. 46 p. c. pref. stock Do. 46 per cent Do. Leic. & Aft. pref. at Norfik 5 p. c. Ex. at. 18461 Do. 56 p. c. Pref. do 1847 1 Do.sWay. Val.Ex.st.lB4 7 North British, 5 p. o. Do. New, gua. .5 p. o Do. Bor. ITn. g. pf. she Do. do. do Nth.Dev.Rail. & Dck.Co. N-East.Cons.Pref. 4 p. o. Do. 46 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. York, H. & S. Purch North Staffordshire I Rhymney Guaranteed Scottish Central, new pf 'Scottish North-Eastern I 36 p. C. pref. stock Do.Aberdeen,gua.6p.c I Do. 7p. c. pref. stock South Devon, Ann. 10s. Do. Fixed 4i per cent. South Eastern (Reading Ann 1' 06) Do. 4i per cent. Do. Fixed iip.c. Ist is. outh Wales, gua. 4 P.C. Do. 'I per cent. Do. 5 per cent' 5.-Yorkshire, 4 p. c. gua Stock. &par. A 5 p. c I Do. B 6 ver cent Do. C 6 percent Watrfd ICilkny, 6 p.c W.Mid -Oxt Ist Gua stk Do. 2d do Do. Newport ip.c.pf.red. Do.Perpet. 6 p. c. pt 1866' Do. till 1869. Ist is. BRITISH POSSESSIONS. R3iiwaya. Atlantic & St Lawrence, Bom.,Baroda&.Cent Ind Gu. 5 per cent..... Do, Do. Buffalo and Labe Huron Do. New Do. Preference Buffalo,BrantAGodrich ! 6 p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 1572 Do. do. July 1, 18731 Do. do. June 1, 1871 Clcutta. S.F.astn. Cape,Eastn.Prov. (Lim.) Cape Town tt Dock Scrip Ceylon Guarantd. 6 p. c Demerara Eastn. Bengal gu. 5 p. c : East Indian, gu. 5 p. c. Do. F Shares Ext Do. Jubbulpore Do. 44 p c. Debentrs Do. 5 p. c. Deb., 1864 Do. 1865-1870 Grand Trunk of Canada Do. 6 per cent. Pref Do. 2d Pref. 6 per et Do. 6 per ct. Debentr Do. 7 per cent. 1862 Do. do. 1867 Do. do. 1872 G tlndiaPenin.gua.sp.c Do. New gua. 5 p. c... Gt. South.of India (Lim , guaranteed 5 per cent. Do. do. Gt. W. of Canadahares Do. New Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt Do. 5i p. c. do. '77 do Do. p. c. do. '7B do Madras guar., 41 p. c Do. do. 5 per cent Do. 4 p. o. Extension Do. 5 Melb.Corp. 6 p. 0. Bnds. Newßrunswick x Canda Ry.ttLand(Lim.)g.6pc Class A Capital Share Do. do. Land d 0........ Do. do. B Capital do. .. Do. do. Land do. ...... Oude (Limited) ........ 1 Scinde ...... •• • • 4 ...; Do. Punjaub .... os El Do. Do. ........ t'a Do. Indus. St. Flo. a,f 3 ',. Trinidad (Lim.) Scrip.. RAIL' Closing Price. Paid. 57 81 94 95 4i 5 d 6 7 75 80 65 70 65 70 4 1 61 11 li d id pr , 19 19Id 99 100 97 99 99 100 99 100 18 19 68 CO 32 33 95 06 lid 93 95 9; 101 101 101 93i 94 1 86 98 83 85 93i 94a 86 88 5 7 4 6 99 100 lid 1 d 90 92 4 1d 'AYS. FOREIGN Algerian .... Antwerp & Rotterdam. Ardenne5........... Bah.&S.Fran-Lim .7 p.c. Belgian East. Junction Beziers to Graissessac..l Carmeaux Mine Rail' C0piap0................ Ditto Extension .... Dutch Rhenish ........ Eastern of France .... Grand Rue Guan 6 p. c. Do. do. ,Great Central of France Gt. Luxem., Con. slis Italian Junction Lierre & Turnhout Lyons ,5z Geneva, Namur & Liege Do. 6 p. c. Pref. Northern of France Do. New Shares Norwegian Trunk Pref. Paris,Lyons, & Mediter Paris & Orleans Recife & S. Fran. (Fern ) qua. 7 p. ct. Riga & Dunaburg Royal Danish Royal Swedish Do. 7 per cent. Pref Sambre & Meuse Do. 5i per cent. Pref San Paulo, lim, g. 7 p. c S.Aust.&Lomb Venetin Southern of France S. East Portugal 7 p ct West Flanders ..... Do. 5i p. c. Preference W. & N.W. of France West , rn of Austria Western of Switzerland Wiesbaden Do. 8 per cent Pref Zealand BRITISt 'Alfred Consols (Philack) ( British Iron Clifford I Devon G. Cons. (Taoist ) East Bassett (Illogan) East Caradon ..... E. WI Russel (Tavistk.) Gam.&St.Aubyn(Gwen.) 'Great South Tolgus G.Wheal Alfa. (Philack) G. Wheal Vor (Helston) Grenville ... Herod's-Foot Hingston Downs Lady Bertha Margaret (Uny Lelant) :North Downs North Frances (Mogan) N. Wh'i Basset (Illogan) North Wheal Crotty Par Consols (St. Blazey) Providence (Uny Lelnt.) Sortridge Cons. Min. Co. South Caradon(St.Cleer) IS. Carn Brea (Illogan) S. Dev. Iron &Gen., Lim S. Wheal Fran. (Illogan) Stray Park 'Tamar Silv.& Lead Min ;Tin Crott Vale of Towey (Carm.)i West Basset (Illozan) 1 W. Caradon. (Liskeard); (West Seton Wheal Basset (Mogan) L Wheal Buller (Redruth) 5 Wheal Edward (Cals.)l 71 IWheal Kitty (U.Lelant) 1.7:4 Wheal Mary Ann (Men.), 8 Wheal Tretawney (Lis.)l 7 FOREIGN MI Australian BonAccord Copp er,L im. Brazil St.J.del Rey,Lim Do.L an d and AlinmgCo. Clarendon Cons.MinCo , Cobre Copper Copiapo I DunMoun.Cop.Ming. Co Fortuna. ; General Gt N. Cop. of S. A us t r 'Kapunda (Limited) Linares Lusitanian Mariquira N.lllrineCopotS.Aus.L ipontgibaud Silver,Leadl Mining and Smelt 1 ,Fort Philip Scottish Austrin. United Mexican ,Worthing (Limited) Do — ... COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. A special Court of Common Council was holden yesterday, in the Council Chamber, Guildhall, the Lord Mayor in the chair, for the purpose of fixing the City's seal to commissions for the union of bene fices under the Act of Parliament, 23 and 24 Vic., c. 142, and for amending several commissions, sealed on the 7th of March last. The proposed revised unions are as follows, viz. :—The petpetual curacy of Allhallows Staining, and the rectory of St. Cathe rine Coleman ; the perpetual curacy of St. Catharine Cree, and the donative perpetual curacy of St. James's, Duke's-place; the rectory of St. Dionis Backchurch, and the rectory of St. Margaret Pat tens, with St. Gabriel Fenchurch ; the rectory of St. George, Botolph-lane, with St. Botolph, Billings gate, and the rectory of St. Mary-at-hill, with St. Andrew Hubbard ; the rectory of Allhallows, Lom bard-street, and the rectory of St. Benet, Grace church-street, with St. Leonard's, Eastcheap. The LORD MAYOR, on taking the chair, said that some months back the Bishop of London i ssue d c ommissions fer the unity of certain benefices in the City, 21 in number. Two or three meetings had been held during a week at the Mansion-house, and the work was proceeding in a satisfactory man ner, and there were already 15 ripe for reporting favourably upon. With regard to five, however, there were certain difficulties in the way, and the Bishop of London had been recommended to issue fresh commissions, which he had consented to do. He said it was necessary to lose no time, as the bishop :was about leaving town, and he himself should like to see the work finished when he went out of office. Therefore the ccurt had been called . specially to affix the City seal to t he commission._ The seal was fixed accordingly, and the court ' adjourned. 1 It is announced that at the close of the present year, Sir J. W. Lubbock, Bart., will retire from mercantile business. Mr. Nevile Lubbock will join the old firm of Cavan Brothers and Co., and the business of Cavan Bro• there and Co. and that of Sir J. W. Lubboek and Co. will in future be conducted under the firm of Cavan, Lubbock, WI Co., At 29, rinebury-circus. 100 100 100 stock 100 I 100 100 100 100 100 stock MD 3.2.101 GENERAL SCOTT AAD TRE STRATEGY OF THE WAR. (From the New York Times, 'fitly 26.) On the Tuesday preceding the battle, General Scott, at his own table, in presence of his aides and a single guest, discussed the whole subject of this war, in all its parts, and with the utmost clearness and accuracy. He had a distinct and well-defined . opinion on every point connected with it ; and stated what his plan would be for bringing it to a close, if the management of it had been left in his hands. The main object of the war, he said, was to bring the people of the rebellious States to feel the pressure of the government ; to compel them to return to their obedience and loyalty. And this must be done with the least possible expendi ture of life compatible with the attainment of the object. No Christian nation can be justified, he said, in waging war in such a way as shall destroy 501 lives, when the object of the war can be attained at a cost of 500. Every man killed beyond the num ber absolutely required is murdered. Hence he looked upon all shooting of pickets, all scouting forays not required in order to advance the general object of the war, all destruction of life on either side which did not contribute to the general result, as so many acts of unjustifiable homicide. If the matter had been left to him, he said, he would have commenced by a perfect blockade of every Southern port on the Atlantic and the Gulf. Then he would have collected a large force at the capital for defensive purposes, and another large one on the Mississippi for offensive operations. The summer months, during which it is mad ness to take troops south to St. Louis, should have been devoted to tactical instruction ; and with the first frosts of autumn he would have taken a column of 80,000 well-disciplined troops down the Missis sippi, and taken every important point on that river, New Orleans included. It could have been done, he said, with greater ease, with less loss of life, and with far more important results than would attend the marching of an army to Richmond. At eight points the river would have been defended, and eight battles would probably have been necessary; but in every one of them success could have been made cer tain for us. The Mississippi and the Atlantic once ours,the Southern States would have been compelled by the natural and inevitable pressure of events to seek, by a return to the Union, escape from the ruin that would speedily overwhelm them out of it. " This," said he, "was my plan. But lam only a subordinate. It is my business to give advice when it is asked, and to obey orders when they are given. I shall do it. There are gentlemen in the Cabinet who know much more about war than I do, and who have far greater influence than I have in deter mining the plan of the campaign. There never was a more just and upright man than the Presi dent ; never one who desired more sincerely to promote the best interests of the country ; but there are men among his advisers who consult their own resentments far more than the dictates of wisdom and experience, and these men will probably decide the fate of the campaign. I shall do, or attempt, whatever lam ordered to do. But they must not hold me responsible. If I am ordered to go to Richmond, I shall endeavour to do it. But I know perfectly well that they have no concep tion of the difficulties we shall encounter. I know the country—how admirably adapted it is to de fence, and how resolutely and obstinately it will be defended. I would like nothing better than to take Richmond. Now that it has been disgraced by becoming the capital of the rebel confederacy, I feel a resentment towards it, and should like nothing better than to scatter its congress to the winds. But I have lived long enough to know that human resentment is a very bad foundation for a public policy; and these gentlemen will live long enough to learn it also. I shall do what lam ordered. I shall fight when and where lam commanded. But if lam compelled to fight before I am ready, they shall not hold me respon sible. These gentlemen must take the responsi bility of their acts, as I am willing to take that of mine. But they must not throw their responsi bility on my shoulders." This is the substance, and very nearly the lan guage, of a portion of Gen. Scott's conversation on the occasion referred to. It proves conclusively that he was opposed to the advance on Richmond by way of Manassas at that time, and also that the administration was almost certain to overrule his objections and command a battle. Now, we have not the slightest wish to see anything like a break-up of this administration. Such an event, in the present condition of the country, could only be fruitful in disaster. But it is indispensably necessary for the President to decide, peremptorily and finally, between General Scott and those who would overrule him. The great interest of the country now lies in its army. Its military department is the dopartmt nt of over whelming interest and importance. Its finances and its foreign relations are in good hands; and there should not be a moment's hesitation in placing at the head of the War Department some man of larger views, of more Experience, and of more com manding personal reputation than the present in cumbent. And, above all, the country should know at once whether it may still lean upon the great military genius and experience of the lieutenant general of our armies, or whether we are to be thrown back upon the new crop of generals and statesmen who are striving to grasp the power that rests in his hands. SUIT AND SE.RVICE. Another lord had to find a spindle-full of raw thread to make a false string for the king's crossbow ; another, a currycomb when wanted; another, an es quire:with a purple lance and an iron cap; while brave old Egremont Castle was once held "by the service of one knight's fee, that the lord should march at the king's command in the army against %Vales and Scot land." Three " fletched" arrows, feathered with eagle's feathers, made up all the service to he ren dered by one lord; two arrows with peacock's fea thers, that of another; a loaf of oat bread, value half a farthing—value stamped thereon—and three barbed arrows feathered with peacock's feathers, whenever our lord the king should hunt in Dartmoor Forest, the service to be rendered by the Lord of Loston ; one footman, a bow without a string,and an arrow with out feathers, the service to be rendered by another lord; litter for the king's bed, and hay for the king's horse, together with the services of an esquire for 40 days, duly equipped with a hambergell or coat of mail, redeemed the broad lands of Brokenhurst ; the like services of pro viding hay for the king's horse, straw for tLe king's bed, and rushes for the king's chamber, make good the title to many a noble manor through out England. A pair of gloves turned up with hare skin, a pair of scarlet hose, a coat or cloak of grey furred skins, two hogsheads ofred wine, and 200 pears of the kind called " pernaeines"—to be paid at the Feast of St. Michael yearly; a sextary (about a pint and a half) of clove w ine or July flower wine ; 200 pullets, a cask of ale and a firkin of butter; 24 pasties of fresh herrings on their first coming in ; two white doves and two capons ; a pound of cum min seed, two pairs of gloves, and a steel needle ; a hot simnel sent up every day for the king's din ner ; a pot-hook for the king's meat ; a gallon of honey; ene tablecloth and one towel yearly; several rents of gloves and capons, and tuns of ale, and firkins of butter; a nightcap—value one half penny ; a snowball in June and a red rose at Christ mas ; two white hares yearly—rather a troublesome tenure, as white hares were at all times exceedingly rare in England; taking care of the Kin g ' s h awks, or breeding them in independent mews ; are among the most frequent services to be rendered for. the gift of an estate, " with all th a t grow on it as high as heaven, and all that was within it as low as hell." They show the great scarcity of money and the slack • ness of commerce in those days, and carry one down to the ver y rudiments of society, when all barter was in kind, and when there were but two estates in the realm—Royalty and the nobles—who divided the earth and the villeins be tween them.—Dickens's "All the Year _Round." A ROMAN SCHOOL,--A letter from Rome tells the following story :—" A very shocking affair took place last Saturday evening in that great institution of the indus trial training schools of San Michele, in this city, from the presidency of which the esteemed Tosti was lately re moved, with much harshness and injustice, to make room for Monsignor Milella, a creature of Antonelli's, and one of the corrupt ministerial clique. The boys and grown lads of this school, having resented the dismissal of their beloved late director, and having been further exasperated by the reduced diet and incre ased tediousness of their w T i s t e h pre scribed routine on a late o ccation, I think about six weeks inspect t a h n e d m , saluted afterwards en him cries of " Viva ago, when Mile . l l la ca c r a d m in e al t s o " Viva Vittorio Emanuele," that the y mi g ht a fa n r g a e s r h to im cry, the more. In consequence of this demonstration, 13 of them were expelled, and since then the masters and scholars have been at war. On Saturday one of the prefetti, or head masters of a division, who is a Neapolitan priest, a man of violent temper, beat a boy for some fault with a large key. The boy resisted, and several of his companions, hav ing sticks, it is said, concealed under their clothes, attacked the master, with another priest who came to his aid. It is horrible to relate, but this priest and teacher of children then drew a dragger or knife he carried about with him, and wounded three of them. The whole school was up in insur rection by this time, andfighting against all the masters; but they, being unable to subdue so many at °nee, sent for the Pontifical carbineers. About 50 of that force soon entered the premises, and having quelled the riot, kept guard over the establishment all night. The stabbing schoolmaster is a good deal knocked about by the furious onslaught of the boys. More than 70 of them have left the school, which ma y n ow perhaps be closed, though formerly, under better management, it did much good, TSE COAL-PIT ON FIRE ~~...,,~ GLASGOW.—Ou Wednesday at half-past 9 •o'clock every available means was being made, and con tinued to be energetically made, by the workmen connected with the pit and others who praiseworthily tendered their services towards the extrication of the poor sufferers below from their perilous position. Much praise is due to Andrew Hunter, ironstone miner ; Robert H u t c hi nson, coll i er ; James Harris, fireman, in the employ men t o f M r. Ni s b et, coal master, and Richard Graham, all of whom descended the shaft twice and searched for the unfortunate men, and succeeded in getting th em d rawn u p. Others also assisted in this way whom we are unable at present to name. .During th e rema i n d er of the night, and sometimes in the midst of heavy showers of rain, stretcher after stretcher was to be seen car ried along, bearing the bodies of th e d ead alternately with the living. The medical gentlem an name d on Thursday, besides Drs. Millar and Condon of Hamil ton, and Dr. Forrest of Motherwell, who arrived at a later period of the evening, had an arduous task to perform in ministering to the wants of the men immediately after being brought to the surface. They passed and repassed from one house to another, devoting their p ro f ess i ona l s kill, and applying the best of restorative s f or th e resuscitation of many apparently more dead than in a dying condition. Death after death was reported amid the sorrowful ejaculations of the bereaved relatives, and altogether the scene presented to the beholder was heartrend ing, and beyond the power of description. Captain Mackay and the other members of the county police force had a difficult and yet painfal duty to discharge among the different families in preserving order. By half-past 12 o'clock on Thursday morning the whole of the men, to the number of 50, who were ascertained to have gone down the pit at an early hour to their work on Wednesday morning, were brought up to the surface. Eleven were then found to be dead, viz.:—Claude I\i ielson,aged 41, Cas sey, D av id an d Al exan d er Hamilton, John and Thomas P o tt ers , H ug h an d J o h n Craig, Thomas Miller, Thomas Currie (a boy about 16, it being his first day in the pit as a driver), and M'Clutchie Baxter, the bottomer, besides another named Neil Thomson, who died during Thursday forenoon. The parties named Hamilton, Potters, and Craig, being two of each name, wer e b ro th ers i n one family respectively, which makes the casualty the more affecting. There were thus 38 workmen rescued ; but many of them are now lying in a very preca rious state, and some not expected to su rv i ve. At a late period of Wednesday evening and e ar l y on Thursday morning, the bodies of those who w ere dead were removed in carts to their several homes, situate in Larkhill, attended with expressions and lamentations of their sorrowful and bereaved rela tions and friends. Captain Mackay placed several of his c ons t a bl es i n c h arge o f th e colliery during Thursday. So far as we can learn, the catastrophe is supposed to have been occasioned by the accumu lation of soot in the air-shaft from the rarefying furnace below, and this conjecture gains ground when it is considered that only five minutes previ ously three meu ascended and saw nothing—the soot being of such a nature as to ignite instantane ously, and make the shaft a column of fire. Un fortunately, the person in charge at the tube, M'Clutchie Baxter, who acted as bottomer, is dead, and his evidence is placed beyond the reach of all. His was the last body extricated from the pit, and from the rigid appearance it presented, the right arm being extended at full length, and the other arm and the knee contracted, it seemed as if he was among the first who died and the last found. The mine, which was so praiseworthily started from the workings of Messrs. Simpson & Co.'s pit, was stopped when the men were being so rapidly got out, as it was only in the event of the woodwork or bratticing in the shaft giving way, and the consequent closing in of the pit, that it would have been required. The dis tance to drive this mine was only 30 feet (instead of 60 yards, as formerly stated), and this could have been accomplished in eight or 10 hours. Messrs, Simpson and Austine, coalmasters in the vicinity, were most active and unremitting in the manage ment of the proceedings, as well as Mr. Binnie, the manager of the Summerlee pit. Alexander Ross, manager to Mr. Nisbet, coalmaster ; Mr. Barr, manager at Merryton Colliery ; Mr. T. Hepburn, builder; Mr. Eadie, baker, were all of them un wearied in their exertions on behalf of the sufferers. Dr. 'Weir, Larkhall, medical officer of the works, was also in constant attendance. Early in the morn ing, Captain Mackay and Superintendent Dewar„ with some constables, were again present and giv ing directions. At 10 o'clock on Thursday morning two men descended the pit to ascertain what state.: the pit was in below when they found that the coal workings were on fire, and the smoke being so dense they were compelled to relinquish their efforts, and came up again exhausted. Mr. Walter Neilson, Mr. Wm. M'Cre a th, accompanied. by Dr. Sloa n , Coatbridge, were also present at the place, They had the pit mouth covered over with wood and clay in order thereby to extinguish the serious confla gration below. We understand that the lessees, Messrs. Wilson and Co., have given instructions for the burial of the dead, and payment of all expenses connected therewith, besides rendering every as sistance to the survivors and those lying in a pre carious condition. Such an act of kindness will be most acceptable under the deplorable circumstances cf this lamentable occurrence. EXTRAORDINARY ATTE3IPT TO MURDER A FATHER. A frightful attempt at parricide formed the sub jectest, e o r n i a I Thursday tGreatap peared G r i m f s r b o y in , e that a young man , a b out 28a shoe maker, named Benjami n B etts, living wt L h i e n c e e o f v l nimds evidence n g i r e i ' ith his father, John Betts, the sexton of the parish, having received some religio us " i mpress i on " at the baptist chapel on Sunday, labou re d un d er a highly nervous state of excitement, b e t ray i ng evident symptoms a deranged mind, but from which his family did not apprehend any serious results. However, on Fri day night, he told his father that he would not sleep in the same chamber with Hollingshead, a lodger, for he was a "fiend," but would sleep with him, to which the father assented, and about eleven he retired to his father's chamber, leaving the latter up reading, At one o'clock the son came down stairs to his father, who was still sitting up, and said he was hungary. After eating something both went to bed, the son taking with him two of his shoemaker's knives. The father, not fearing any danger to himself, did not oiefferiroenttuoorftehadkis n take oi them f away. Both then undressed, and got into bed. The du r son did not betray any ill-feeling to war d s his father, anythinging a to lea s d ho t r o t a ti s m u e sp , the son got out o bed, locked the chamber d oor , and a He afterwards got out t w i ce, and inten tion. say After on getting into bed the last time, which was about _ three o'clock and quite dark, the father being awake, he seized upon the old man, and began stabbing him with one of the knives. A closed stre, ggle ensued, in whi c h b oth fell out of bed, and the struggle was continued on the, floor, the son making his stabs at randoth. The father, at last, gettin g th e uppermost, obtained a mastery,by seizing his son's arm and wrenchinc , thr knife out of his hand. B oth then got up and ' p and sat on the bed. The old man opened the chamber door as soon. as Possible, and ran down stairs to a neighbour's house, John Mumby's, for assistance. There being no light in Bett's house, Mumby obtained one from his own, when a fearful spectacle presented itself, the house being like a slaughterhouse and the old man being literally covered with blood, which was running down from several severe wounds in his side and legs. Seeing that he was beginning to faint from loss of blood, Mr. Mumby asked forsome brandy, which the son (who had come down stairs) got, ana gave to his father, showing every anxiety to render him assistance. There being a frightful cut in the thigh, from which the blood was flowing rather fist; Mr. Mumby took off his garter and tied it tightly above the wound, which stopped the hemorr hage. Mr. Cupiss, surgeon, was then sent for, who shortly arrived and dressed the wound. o n examination he found several stabs in the side, which, taking an oblique direction alo ng ti ae ribs, were fortunately not of a dangero us characiter, and a l s o several stabs in the thighs an d l egs. The old man lost a great quantity of blood, and is in a very weak condition, but is now progressing favourably. The son, whilst attending to his father said he had let the devil out of hi m , and if he hadnoth done so e would have gone to hell • ,but if he had only killed that " fiend," pointing to the would have been cat, he saved. Mr. Mumby took road, and walked about to . him into the calm him until the arrival of two policemen, into being locked up he commenced whistling and sing ing hymns. He was remanded. THE FRENCH AND TILE ENGLISH.--The documents of 1859 show that the mortality Fa that year in Great Britain was at the rate of 2.196 per cent., in France 2 . 670, but this latter is considerably above the average of that empire owing to the prevalenc/3 at that time of epidemics. The mar• per cent. in France d ringsy dysentery, rtaertye,indiGphrtehaetrißar,itanaind s w om as e other 1.638. The birth rate in . Great Britfilion. was 3.482, in France ar.d the birth rate being lower in France than in Great P. 2.778. Thus the marriage rate —ritain and the death rate higher, the natural increase of population is less in France than in Great Britain.. The bi•ttlas in France in 1859 were 1,011,787; there is no record of the births in Ireland, but it is estimated that 'the births i n the United Kingdom ns amounted to nes7,:i y u the same number ; but the deaths France yerP, 972,55 6, while the deaths in the Unitedliang d°l4 " ere estimated at not exceeding 661,171, fewer deaths ) ;.03/ 300,000, with about an equal number of births. Share Railways. i Paid Closing Business Price. Done. stock stock stock stock stock 10{ 10 stock stock stock 2s. 6d. 124 12 1 stock stock stock all 1 100 96 5 1164 stock Shard 100 stk f 20i 204 10 100 100 100 17i 20 stock stock 100 - 100 100 stock stock stock stook stock