The Sun. — London, England, 1861-08-23 00:00:00

~IINEATR YAL, HATMARXET, Lesser!, Mr. J. B. Buok.stcno. Trus EVENING, the performances will commence With THE BALANCE OF COMFORT. Miss M. Oliver. After which, a new Comedy, entitled MY LORD AND 11Y LADY ; or, It Might have beenVirorse. Mr. C. Mathews, Mr. Andrews, Mr. Buckstone, Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Wilkins, &c. Followed by HE WOULD BE AN ACTOR. To conclude with a Ballet, BACCHUS AND ARIADNE. THE CHRISTENING. Miss Fanny Wright, the Leclercqs, Mr. Webster, Jrc. Commence a NRW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. 113th Night of "The Dead Heart." THIS EVENING, the great Adelphi drama, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Toole, Fisher, Billing ton, Eburne, Smith, Romer ; Miss Woolgar and Miss Kate Kelly. To conclude with (31st time) THE PRETTY HORSE BREAKER. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. Paul Bedford; Miss K. Kelly, Miss Woolgar, Miss E. Thorne, Miss Laidlaw, and Mrs. Chatterley, Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manager—Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING will be performed the new and original comedy, entitled WOMAN ; or, Love against the World. Characters by Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Herman Vezin, Robins, Mrs. Charles Young, Mrs. Weston, Miss Murray. and Miss Lydia Thomson. To conclude with the Farce of MAGIC TOYS. Valentine, Miss Lydia Thomson. Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence a 7 Box-office open daily from 11 till 5. CA N TERBURY HALL CONCERTS, AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. Two Grand Selections from Operas, including UN BALLO IN MASCHERA, arranged and conducted by Mr. Jongh mans. Mr. Wood and his talented little Son. The extraor dinary comic duet, " The Nerves," by Harvey and French, Mr. Marshall in " The Excursion to Brighton," " Selina Sly," and "In the Park." And Miss Harriet Coveney Every Evening. Admission—Hall, 6d.; Stalls and Balcony, Is. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.AND N.-) FINE ARTS GALLERY.—SAM COWELL,' the Prince of Comic Vocalists, will make his First Appearance since his return to England on MONDAY, the 2d of September. Admission---Hall, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, is. o X FOR D, 8, OXFORD-STREET. The architectural beauty, elegance of ornamentation, and brilliancy of lighting' of this noble building - , render it one of the sights of London. Open Every Evening. The pro gramme is varied, and includes Selections from "La Tra viatq," "Un Ballo in Maschera," &c., (by a full company of principals, powerful band, and chorus). Solos by Miss Bryant on the Piano Forte, and by Mr. Russell on the Trombone. Old English Ballad, by Miss Green, Scotch Duets by the Misses Stuart, and other vocal and instrumental music of the highest order. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. T P he Comic portion of the entertainment is support ed by Messrs. M. . Foster (In his " Life Sketches"), Sam Collins, Harvey, Hall, and French (the Nerves), E. Marshall , a nd W. and vat l Boxes, sixpene,e ; Balcony and Stalls , one shilling. Private 10s. 6d. T " HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. T Day ._Morning, 3h. 38m.—Afternoon, 3h. 54m, ' 4h. 24m, To-moßuovr.-Morning, 4h. 9 m. — Afternoon, THE NVEA.THEIt.—Sux OFFICE, AUGUST 23, 1861 THEAMOMETEE, IN THE SHADE. 69—highest since noon yesterday. 53—lowest this morning and during the night. 70—this day at noon. BARoxrrza-30.12. WlND—West-North-Westerly—light; with fine weather, r ',.'-I'''. it ~....., - ...' i., ;,,;,,, /A:TI ^-• - - A A-- `...'*'' 1- '...". -....' '''' ......:::"* -12 . ' '---?:, ).",.. . 'it "" r ..• . ' THE SUN. LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1881. Austria has done what was expected—she has asked time. Her political debt to Hungary she cannot deny, or she would most certainly have done it. Utterly bankrupt in argument as in purse, she therefore says, six months hence perhaps we may discuss the matter again. It is, however, curious to notice the statements of the Rescript No , 11. with which the HAPSBURG and his Germans dissolve the Hungarian Diet :-1. The Diet has not obeyed the requests addressed to it. 2. No benefi cial action can be expected from the Diet. 3. It has misunderstood its mission. 4. It has declared that unless its demands are assented to further negotiation is impossible. 5. These demands are inadmissible. Therefore, 6. We find it necessary dissolve the present Diet. Such is the style in which two or three men in Vienna lecture several hundred men at Pesth—the style which a few amateur constitution-mongers assume towards the representatives of the oldest constitution in Europe ! The Hungarians could easily fill up these brief notes. They have not obeyed illegal injunctions, especially one to send representatives to a Vienna Reichsrath, and thus to merge the kingdom of their forefathers in a German Archduchy. They could be guilty of no act "beneficial" to the supreme authority of a despot, and subsersive of their country's right to require his obedience to their constitution. They have not " misunderstood" but per fectly understood their mission—namely, that for which their constituents elected them—to preserve intact all their country's rights and privi ges. They have reduced their demands to the lowest pOint which fidelity to their country per mitted, and it is those, therefore, who refuse those demands who break off the negotiation. These demands may be " inadmissible" by conspirators against the liberties of Hungary; but not a single reason can be shown why any one of them is not strictly admissible, nay, binding, on the Kiag of HUNGARY, in law. And, therefore, if the Emperor of AUSTRIA, a s King of HUNGARY, dissolves the Diet on this account, it can only be because he sets himself above all law ; because he refuses to appeal to any compact, treaty, statute, or custom, and simply says, eat pro rations voluntas. No doubt the other despots, and despotieally minded rulers of Europe, admire this firmness in the cause of a monarch's supre mac y over law, yet ev en th e wiser of them may regard it as a kind of Balaklava charge- It may be easy to dismiss the present Diet, easy to charge M. DEAK'S guns and silence the gunners in that particular spot, but the Ans. trian Government has yet to make good its retreat. and that after having lost everything worth a Government's possessing in Hungary, unless indeed occupation by a hundred thousand foreign soldiers be any honour to the Vienna Government. How the Diet received the rescript is briefly told us in the telegram. Indeed there could be little doubt that it would be so. They did not feel them selves vanquished, but honoured. They were quite prepared for a dissolution ; they had countee, on it. They had fulfilled their mission they had placed on record incontrovertible proof both that they understood their country's rights, and that nothing should deter them from their assertion. 'hey had unanimously voted their last solemn appeal to every Hungarian and to every free= n throughout Europe ; they had shown to all the Nrorld that they were ready to obey law on their part, in return for obedience to the law on the 1 / 4 t their KING ; and nothing remained but to shoe that physical force might dissolve their meet ing,ba t could not make traitors of them. This they did. only the Lower Hous?, but the Upper one p a a uresolution by acclamation, declaring energ6 f 'le%liy that the dissolution of the Diet was illegal, and do rymneing also other illegal and w;olent nets committed by the Go vernmen t ? So : , uocv the Seu mtrtu NOS and RECHBERGS have again fall P i a ... They may do what they can, and they cart do They garians c an harrass and vex a good deal. oaths in violence, who re fus3 illegal taxes, by quartte". rlng soldiers on ri the six e a them; they can spen d they can cause indefinite amount and indefinite eajollerY amount ; of annoyance, suffering, a n d When, however, they have done all this , what will they 'r ;aye gained ? Will they have advanced one tep towards the amalgamation of Hungary under one Government with the archduchies Will they not rather have rendered such amalgamation less and less possible ? All history shows that the Hungarians may be easily won, but cannot be co-erced. They may be broken and despondent for a time; they may take a few years to staunch their wounds and to regain their strength, this has been repeated a hundred times in their annals ; but the national spirit never has died, we believe never will die. Against the persistent cruelty, persecution, illegalities, and tyranny of the HAPSBURGS, Hungary has opposed her determina tion to be Hungary and not Austria. She would be loyal to the Emperor of AUSTRIA, she would spend her money, she would shed her blood for him as her King, but she would not merge in his Archduchy. The Reichs-rath is nothing to her —she is a .Reich by herself, and will have her own Rath, leaving the Archduchies, and the other provinces to do as they please. We do not expect any disturbance at present, anything at least like armed rebellion. It may take place, but we imagine that the Hungarians are better advised. A civil war would be useless now, because they are unarmed, and Hungarian regiments are carefully removed to a distance. On the other hand the vexations of Austrian tax-col lecting are not greater than the sufferings war must entail. The deputies will be dispersed all over the country to advise it to passive resistance. M, PEAK'S address has been circulated by the hundred thousand, is everywhere eagerly read, and will fire the soul of the whole people. There will be emulation not in attacking, but in embarrassing the Government ; and then next year, or the next, or some year, another Solferino may give Hungary all she asks, and perhaps much more than would now content her. The Right Hon. Sir ROBERT PEEL has made his debut at Dublin as Irish Secretary. And cer- ,ainly nothing could have been more marked and more gratifying in every way than his reception. The cordial cheers which greeted the right hon. baronet on Wednesday afforded the most conclu- sive evidence of the popularity of his appoint• ment. And it tells a tale of the change of days in Ireland when we note that Sir ROBERT was greeted not entirely for his own sake, bat in some measure for his illustrious father's also. No bitter remembrance now of " Orange Peel" on the other side of St. George's Channel, any more than of " Scorpion STANLEY" or of old " Buccaneering WELLINGTON." The asperities of party war- fare, as we took occasion to intimate in other words yesterday, have long since given place to the amenities of more civilised discussion. Our leading Politicians can be vigorously rhetorical with out necessarily reverting to Billingsgate. They can indulge in irony upon occasion nowadays without exaggerating it, as their predecessors were wont to no, into vulgar vituperation. We have come to politer times than those when the dandies set the fashion (among other things) by tooling their drags down to a prize fight, and when a royal creature like him who was successively Prince of WALES, PRINCE REGENT, and King GEORGE THE FOURTH, was looked upon (save the mark !) as a Gentleman, nay, as the Model Gentleman, the Paragon of all Gentlemen!! The venerable ex-Chancellor BROUGHAM—he who, as HARRY BROUGHAM, barrister-at-law, robed in his stuff gown, M.P. for the West Riding of Yorkshire, and so forth, stood forth against that " Royal Slanderer" as the advocate in the cause of of the unfortunate CAROLINE—Lord BROUGHAM, we say, has had the happiness of surviving to be hold the change of days, the change of manners, the change almost, we might add, of the national cha racter (at any rate the amelioration of it) to which we are now alluding. He has just seen the fruit of this change, of this transformation and advance ment, at once brought very vividly before him, in the eighty-third year of his age upon the occasion of his first visit to the capital of the sister country. There en Wednesday—only the day before yester day—at the last meeting—the closing meeting of the Social Science Association at Dublin, Lord BROUGHAM heard his own illustrious name asso ciated with that of the late Sir ROBERT PEEL, the great Sir ROBERT PEEL—and he heard these two names, when thus coupled together, greeted with acclamation by a Dublin auditory. It is true that the orator from whose lips the eulogiums fell was Professor PILLANS. But the hearers, who gave the encomiums welcome, were in the mass unmis takably Irishmen. And it was when the learned Professor himself, also an octogenarian, and there fore one privileged to speak with authority, it was when Professor PILLANS said of Sir ROBERT, " to him we are indebted for a great deal of the im provement in Ireland," that the applause of his Irish hearers was loudest and heartiest. A resolution was immediately afterwards pro posed by the Lord Justice of Appeal, seconded by Mr. LENTAIGNE, and formally put to the meeting by the new Irish Secretary, the present Sir ROBERT PEEL, the third Baronet. This resolution being simply—" That the marked thanks of this meeting be given to Lord BROUGHAM for his services as President of the Social Science Association." It was when Sir ROBERT PEEL rose to put this resolution to the meeting, to be carried, as it was as a matter of course, by acclama tion, that he himself was received with suc h prolonged applause by a Dublin assembly, thus giving him welcome upon his first appearance in his character as Irish Secretary. So cordial, in truth, was this welcome that, after commenting, in befitting terms, upon the claims of Lord BROUGHAM to popular gratitude and admiration, Sir ROBERT PEEL acknowledged, towards the close of his re marks, "I cannot refrain, ladies and gentlemen, from sa ying one word as to the kind manner in which you received me when I rose. It may be misplaced to make an allusion of this nature on such an occa sion as the present, but I cannot refrain from thank ing the hon. gentleman who spoke in the early part of the discussion for the remarks he made with re ference to the public services of my father. No doubt, in this country my father's services have, happily for me, left behind them a very grateful recollec tion, and one of the most earnest desires I shall have will be to endeavour to render myself, so far as my humble abilities will render me capable of doing, in some way worthy of thegreat fame that he has left behind him. And, though at a long distance removed from him, yet I will still endeavour to the best of my power to devote my abilities in the same course which he so eminently and carefully pur sued." Often as Sir ROBERT PEEL has spoken well and to the purpose before now, he has never yet spoken so admirably well to the purpose as in those words addressed by him to that Dublin meeting on Wednesday. They reflect honour upon him in every way. They do credit to his modesty :n presence of his great father's over shadowing reputation. But they evidence also, at the same time, a noble ambition on his own part — one, the cherishing of which befits the heir to that, illustrious name and the heir also to that historic reputation—so far at least as there can be said to be anything heritable in a reputation. Certain are we that there is not an Irishman—there is not an Englishman amongst us all but will exult if, in the lapse of time, Sir ROBERT PEEL the third, folloW- TIM SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 23 1861. ing this laudable ambition bf his, can only contrive by his abilities, his energies, and his presence to realize it. The news from the " seat of war" is not of much moment. Vigorous preparations continue on the part of the North. Skirmishing goes on in the usual style. It was, it appears, not the Federalists, but the Confederates, who wantonly burned down the village of Hampton, not far from Fort Monroe. The privateers are as active as ever, and the coast blockade as inefficient. RCLELLAN seems to rise in popular estimation in proportion as he enforces discipline, which, so far, looks well for the North. A well-trained army soon becomes conscious of its difference from its former self, and learns to com mend what at first seemed a hardship. ,Mr. CHASE is busy among the New York bankers ; and as money is thrown back into their coffers by the stagnation of trade, he may be able to get out the Government loans on the almost usurious terms at which they are offered. Meantime not only they, but we, are feeling the effect of the war. Besides the injury to trade be- tween this country and America, caused by the MORILL Tariff, Liverpool is at last clearly per ceiving the difference in her stock of cotton. The circular of N EILL BROTHERS, to their correspon dents makes this very apparent. The stock had diminished, in about a month. from 860,000 bales to 639,000. Between this time and the end of the year in 1860, not less than 843,000 bales were required ; and hence it is evident that last year's rate of consumption and re-exportation cannot be sustained. Indeed the spinners are entering into an understanding not to " light up" during the winter, which, of course, means short time. None can be expected from America, for the war threatens to be a protracted one ; and in about a week we ought to begin shipping the cotton from America in the ordinary course of things. Accord ing to the Messrs. NEILL, we are little likely to:get any, since both parties think it to be their interest to prevent our doing so. They write thus : Strange and almost incredible as it may appear, it is nevertheless the fact that it is the deliberate intention of the American Government—both North and South—to seal up the new cotton crop, so that not a bale of it (which they can prevent) shall leave the plantations during the con tinuance of the war. The North believes that the need of money will bring the South to terms ; the South is just as firm in the faith that the need of cotton will bring the North to terms, or lead the European Governments to interfere. How long these efforts will be successful it is impossible to say. No doubt some cotton will reach the ports, creeks, and bays along the coast —notwithstanding all the recommendations of patriotic factors—and escape the blockade, in spite of the vigilance of the whole United States fleet. But it is clear that any supply that can thus reach us will be of very trifling importance." They quote the following card to show how determined the South is to keep its cotton to itself, in the belief that it will tempt England and France to break the blockade:— " A CARD TO COTTON PLANTERS. " The undersigned cotton factors in the city of New Or leans, in view of the interest of all parties, recommend to their various customers and correspondents not to ship any portion of their crops of cotton to this city, or to remove it from their plantations, until the blockade is fully and en tirely abandoned, of which due notice will be given." This is signed by 141 firms, said to be all the cotton factors in New Orleans, and who control considerably more than one-half of the entire cotton crop. " Office Board of Underwriters, " New Orleans, July 23, 1861. With such a temper in both parties in America it is little likely that American cotton will reach this country in any quantity, and the suggestion is that its price will soon be so high as to throw the spinners on Indian cotton, and to tempt larger importations from that quarter. We only hope, so far as the cotton and slavery questions are con cerned that the blockade may last for yea's. Nothing would be ultimately better for Manchester, for the negroes, and for us all. There would be a little difficulty for a time in Manchester, but it could be for a time only, to be followed by depend ing no longer on American slavery, but on inter tropical free labour for our indispensable cotton supplies. THE BARON DE VIDIL'S SON. It will be seen that the young man has refused to giTe evidence against his father, and he has been sentenced to the mild punishment of a month's imprisonment in the Queen's prison. It would seem from this that he is aware that if he told the truth the consequences might be very painful to his father; and, atrocious as the act of the latter might be, public opinion, concurring with that of the judge, will doubtless view leniently what in other relations must be regarded as one of the most serious of offences against society. The punishment is, undoubtedly, very light ; justice demands that the Baron, if of sane mind, should not escape ; and yet, probably, every father and every son feels compelled to sympathise with the young witness who refuses to aid in bringing down penalties on a most unworthy parent. If a good father could forgive his " prodigal son" the worst he could do, a good son will be allowed to show the extreme of forbearance towards an unnatural father. The Austrian Ambassador and the Countess Apponyi have left Chandos House for Austria. During his excellency's absence Count Wimpffen will act as charge d'affairs. FRENCH LAW ON WILLs.—A case relative to the wills of the late Lord Henry Seymour was yesterday sub mitted to the Civil Tribunal. By a will made the 19th of June, 1856, he " gave and bequeathed to Frederick Sey mour 200,000 f., and is the event of his death to his eldest daughter, Mary Seymour," and all his property not other wise specified to the hospitals of London and Paris. Ho made another will, dated the 22d of June, 1858, which was almost the literal reproduction of the first one, but which made no mention of the bequest to Frederick Seymour or his daughter. Mr. Frederick Seymour being dead, his daughter, now Mrs. Biddulph, and her husband, yesterday brought an action against the executors of the deceased nobleman, and also against the hospitals of Paris and Lon don, his residuary legatees, to obtain payment of the 200,000 f., and they based it on the ground that, as the legacy was not expressly revoked in the second will, it must take effect. But on the part of the hospitals counsel con tended that the omission must by law be held to prove that the testator did not mean to make the legacy ; and, besides, they stated that he had left a written declaration to the effect that he annulled all bequests made previously to the 22d of June, 1858. The tribunal decided that the suit o Mr. and Mrs. Biddulph must be dismissed with costs. Galignani' s Messenger. STATE OF THE IRON AND COAL TRADES.—In the iron trade in this district there is more stirring; the in creased demand is principally for merchant bars and sheets; for the last named some fair orders have come in during the week. In the coal trade the demand is increasing, and large quantities are now being sent off by rail and water into the midland districts as well as the London markets. Since the introductim of railroads into South Staffordshire and East 'Worcestershire a vast impetus has been given to this trade. It is now no longer depen dent upon home consumption, and generally speaking, colliers have little to c om p lain of as it regards shortness of trade. Collieries which have no branch rail roads connecting them with the main lines find some diffi culty during the summer months of keeping their pits fully in gait, but this is on l y of comparatively short duration. First-rate samples of white iron stone and gubbin, the produce of the district, are in good request, and are realising from lls. to 15s. per ton. Life • rior sorts of ironstone are being sold at lower rates ; these serve as a mixture with the richer ores, and are found very useful. A considerable quantity of surplus labour has bet n drained off into the agricultural districts during the last week, but when harvest operations are over, and the vari ous parties return, they will not, we fear, find the l abour 'market much improved.— Wolverhampton Chronicle, THE BOMBAY MAIL. By the arrival of the Bombay mail we have re ceived our private correspondence and files of papers from Bombay to the 27th of July, and from Cal cutta to the 16th of July. We take the following heads of intelligence from the Bombay Gazette of the 27th of July : Rain is falling abundantly throughout India; cul tivation is every where progressing most actively; and the prospects of the country as regards the fruitfulness of the season are of the brightest and most cheering character. Throughout the famine districts there is still an amount of existing distress demanding continued and most earnest efforts for its relief. There can not be any considerable diminution in the number of persons relieved by the Famine Fund before the end of October. Deaths from starvation only occur in those villages to which it has been found impos sible to extend relief. Cholera is now ravaging the famine districts, and threatens to decimate the population. The Finance Commission, appointed to examine the state expenditure of the Nizam, have com menced their operations in earnest at Hyderabad. Considerable reductions, both civil and military are to be effected. Mr. Ellis, of Madras, in an elaborate report on the Income-tax, has recommended a poll-tax, rang ing from 10r., the highest, to lr., the lowest, per annum. It is believed that Government have the recommendation under consideration. The Chambers of Commerce of Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay are to transmit to Galle, in time for the steamer leaving that port every fortnight, com mercial messages to be published for general infor mation on arrival in England. The British ship Louisiana, 1,264 tons, Captain Clever, and belonging to Charles Sanders, Esq., of Liverpool, was totally wrecked off Alibaugh on the 16th inst. Five seamen were lost. The Semiramis, 1.N., Commander Worsley, ar rived in Bombay from Zanzibar on the 17th July, and brought intelligence of the dangerous illness of Syed Majdid, the rtler of Zanzibar. All hope of his recovery was abandoned. The French are still making encroachments on the African coast. There seems to be none of the entente cordiale between the naval officers of the French and English squadrons. The French are said to have made claim to the protection of the whole island of Madagascar. Camps of exercise, or larger assemblages of troops, are to be formed at different stations in the upper provinces next cold season. Considerable changes are about to be made in the Bombay Native Army, which, on their completion, will consist of 30 regiments of infantry cf six com panies each. The regular line army is to be aug mented by the two Belooch battalions, Jacob's Rifle Regiment, and the Marine Battalion being brought on the strength. A large number of Indian officers have recently been elected for the Staff Corps. Mr. W. J. Turquand, of the Bombay Civil Ser vice, committi d suicide on the 12th inst., at Poonah, by shooting himself. He had been on Dewanee allowance for two years for insubordination. Indi cations of insanity were lately observable in his demeanour. He arrived in India in 1838. The Governor of Bombay is residing at Poonah. Extensive portions of both lines of the Great Indian and Peninsular Railway have been washed away by the heavy rains. Loud complaints are made by the public against the engineers. About 70 inches of rain have fallen in Bombay. The health of the town is improving. The English mail of the 3d July arrived in Bom bay in the evening of the 24th July. The previous mail brought us the Indian Bills of Sir Charles Wood, with which people generally express decided satisfaction. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. THE BOMBAY MARKETS. (From the Times of _lndia of July 27.) The English mail steamer, with London dates to the 3d inst., arrived on the night of the 24th idem. During the past fortnight copious falls of rain have taken place, while the up-country accounts continue to report favourably of the progress of the monsoon. Money keeps very easy, and the Bank of Bombay has reduced its rate of discount 1 per cent., and now grants ad vances at 3 per cent, against Government paper, and 5 per cent. on short dated private bills. Securities are rather easier in value, and not much sought for. We quote the Fours at 81, the Fives at 951, and the Five-and-a• Half per Cents. at 1021. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) CALCUTTA, JULY 24. Money market continues stringent. Discount—On Government securities, at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum. Securities—Five-and-a-half per Cent., 1 to 2 premium ; Five per Cent., 5 to 51 discount ; Four per Cent., 18} to ISt ditto. Exchange on London, for lirst-class bills at six mouths' sight, 2s ON to 2s Oid. per rupee. Freight to London—For seeds, £3 is 6d per ton. COLOMBO, JULY 24. Freights for England—Coffee in casks, £4 per ton ; coffee in bags, £3 per ton ; oil, £3 5s per ton. COCHIN, JULY 24. Cocoa-nut oil, 83r. per candy ; coir yarn, mixed, 35r, per candy ; coir rope, 32r. per candy. KURRACHEE, JULY 20. Freight for England, £2 2s. 6d. per ton. Rained all over Scinde and Kutch. THE MURDER AT DlTTON.—Between four and five o'clock yesterday (Thursday) afternoon the body of Thomas Harvey, who murdered his mother at Ditton, near Cambridge, was discovered hanging on a lofty and wide spreading tree, hardly 100 yards from the back of the pre. raises where the deed was done. The tree is situate in a field in the occupation of Mr. Stephen Smith. A thrashing machine has been at work in the field all the week. This afternoon Mr. Smith thought he saw one of his men in the tree. On closer inspection he detected the body of the murderer hanging among the foliage on a bough nearly 40 feet from the ground. Every precaution was taken to get down the body without injuring it. It was lowered by a rope to the ground, whence it was conveyed to the Plough to await an inquest. TOMBSTONE FOR FLORA MACDONALD.—Captain JOhn Macdonald, of her Majesty's Bengal Staff, grandson of Flora Macdonald, has given instructions to Mr. D. Davidson, monumental stone engraver, Inverness, to execute a tomb and slabstone of fine Italian marble, to mark her last resting-place in the churchyard of Kilmuir, Isle of Skye. The tombstone is four feet by two feet six inches, and is to be encased in a framework of beautiful Gothic structure. The slabstone is five feet by two feet. On the perpendicular stone at the head of the grave the inscription is to be as follows:—" In the history of Scotland and England is re corded the name of her by whose memory this tablet is rendered sacred ; and mankind will consider that in Flora Macdonald were united the calm heroic fortitude of a man, together with the unselfish devotion of a woman. Under Providence she saved Prince Charles Edward Stuart from death on a scaffold—thus preventing the House of Hanover incurring the blame of an impolitic judicial murder." — Edinburgh Courant. --4 TEsT NEIN' b L" • CONSTANTINOPLE, AUG. 22. His Excellency Sir William Codrington arrived here to-day. Orders have been despatched to the Pashas of Tunis, Tripoli, and Egypt to send officers to con gratulate the Sultan on his accession. Mehemet Djemal Bey has gone to Odessa to congratulate the Czar. The Circassians have proclaimed a republic. PESTH, AUG. 22, Evening. The following is the text of the Royal Rescript in reply to the address of the Hungarian Diet, as read to both houses of the Diet to-day, by Field Marshal Count Haller, the Royal Commissioner : " Seeing that the Hungarian Diet has not obeyed the requests which have been addressed to it, and that we can hardly expect any further beneficial action from a Diet which, to the great disadvantage of all concerned, so entirely misunderstands its highly important mission, in such difficult circum stances, as to declare the way to be absolutely closed against any possible arrangement, because its demands, which, in their extent, exceed the bounds of admissibility, could not be acceded to ; we find it necessary to dissolve the present Diet. "We, at the same time, preserve to ourselves the right of assembling a new Diet, possibly within six months from this time." VIENNA, AUG. 22. The Royal Rescript, in reply to the address of the Hungarian Diet, will be communicated to both Houses of the Reichsrath to-morrow. An explanation of the negotiations hitherto car ried on with Hungary will also be submitted to the Reichsrath in the name of the Emperor. The Transylvanian Diet will be shortly convoked The Oesterreichische Zetung of to-day says :. " It is reported that the Croatian Diet may again take into consideration the question of sending re presentatives to the Reichsrath at Vienna." PESTH, AUG. 22. A collision between the military and civilians took place at Arad on the evening of St. Stephen's day, on account of national airs having been sung by the populace. Five of the people were wounded on the occasion. FRANCE. BOURSE, Aug. 22.—There is no change to notice in the tone of the market, if it be not the slight de cline of sc, Threes, for the Account, being now at 68f 45c, but this quotation, from the little doing, is scarcely more than nominal. Railways quiet, with but trifling variation. The following are the last quotations :- 4t per per Cents ... 98 Credit Foncier 1255 Do end month.... 98 Belgian:4l lOOl 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 45 Roman Bank Shares 2900 -- Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 736 25 , Spanish Threes 4B; Do. Account 737 501 Home Debt the advance of the Confederates, movid a body of New York 20th Rifles, under Colonel Weber, to the lower side of Hampton bridge, in order to protect Camp Hamilton and Newport News, upon which it was supposed the enemy were about to make an attack. He remained there until 11 o'clock, and had barricades erected, and strong guards posted at various points on the line of the creek. A portion of the Confederates attempted to force a passage over the bridge, but they were driven back. During the night several shots were exchanged between the Confederates in the town and the pickets of Colonel Weber's troops across the bridge. From Missouri we have advices to the sth. On th le 3d Gen. Lyon, with a Federal force, followed up the enemy and attacked them, when they again retreated. On the sth he returned to Spring field, on account of the exposed condition of that place. The enemy were advancing from different points, and Gen. Lyon had called in 2,500 Home Guards from the surrounding country. It was supposed that the Confederates were concentrating their forces at various points on their side of the river from the Point of Rocks to Alexandria. There were 8,000 or 10,000 at Fairfax Court house, a considerable force in the vicinity of Ed ward's Ferry, large bodies at other crossings, and several thousand at Leesburg. As yet they have only made minute reconnaissances in the neigh bourhood of the Chain-bridge. • The Confederate privateer M'Rae managed to run the blockade of the Mississippi on the 30th, and got to sea. RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1406 25 .. 1407 50 Northern ... 977 50 .. 978 75 New ditto 905 . „ Lyons and blediterranaan 1013 75 .. 1015 Geneva.... Southern ... 627 50 .. 627 50 Western ... 536 25 .. 537 50 Eastern Sardinian ... 365 .. 365 Austrian ... 495 .. 497 50 Lombard ... ... 526 25 .. 527 50 AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING The Ilambutg and American Company's mail screw steamship Borussia, Captain Trautman, from New York on the afternoon of the 10th inst., has arrived off Cowes on her way to Hamburg, for which port she has 120 passengers, and 58 for England. The Borussia spoke, on the 12th inst., in lat. 41 30 N., long. 64 40 W., the steamer Bavaria, for New York; at 10 p.m. on the same date, passed a large steamer, showing three rockets and one blue light, in lat. 42 0 N., long. 62 OW. On the 22d, off the Lizard, passed the Hamburg brig Rieirstieo, bound west; and, off Start Point, passed the Hamburg barque Elizabeth Ronnebeny. LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Steamship Company's vessel the City of Baltimore arrived this morning with advices from New York to the 10th. The Secretary of the Treasury visited New York on the 9th, and had a conference with the leading bankers. He explained his financial programme to them, and elicited their views with regard to the disposal of the various classes of Treasury notes which he is authorised to issue by the recent Act of Congress. The conference broke up without any formal understanding having been reached. Another meeting was to take place. Immense supplies of warlike stores were being despatched to the camp on the Potomac. In order to avoid the heat, all movements of troops took place at night. General M'Clellan was very ener getic in organising the army. The visit of Prince Napoleon to the Confederate camp had excited some remark. The Washington correspondent of the New lark. _Herald, writing on the 9th, says : "The supposed visit of the Prince Napoleon to Rich mond is the subject of much comment in intelligent circles. Such a visit under ordinary circumstances would be entirely proper on the part of this distinguished individual, who may at any moment be called to assume imperial power ; for, after crossing the ocean, it would certainly be inexcus able for him to - disregard any opportunity of comparing the relative moral and physical conditions of the two great divi sions of the country. But at this juncture, when the Go vernment has scarcely recovered from the blow inflicted at Bull's Run, when the rebels are putting forth, both at home and abroad, superhuman energies to secure a footing among the nations, and when the two great Powers seem to be watching eagerly to seize on the first pretext to set aside the blockade, it hardly appears consistent with that friend ship which we have a right to expect from our old ally that the representative of the French dynasty should lend to the rebellious cabal sitting at Richmond the moral encourage ment which his presence will afford. It is strongly hinted that the recognition by France of the Southern Confederacy will speedily follow this princely visit, and there are not wanting well-informed men in Washington who believe that in such an event the whole power of England would be thrown into the balance with our Government, in order that not only anarchy and rebellion on this continent should be speedily overthrown and the channels of commerce re opened, but that the needless, officious, and unfriendly in terference of France may be properly rebuked." The ignorance of the President respecting diplo matic etiquette is commented upon by the Wash ington correspondent of the New lark, herald as follows : "The absence of the Italian Minister, Chevalier Berti natti, from the President's dinner party to Prince Napoleon on Saturday has been the subject of much comment in diplomatic circles. It was proposed that the dinner should be en farnille, and it was supposed that for this reason diplomatic etiquette might be dispensed with ; but the foreign diplomats could not appreciate it in this way. Prince Napoleon being the son-in-law of the King of Italy, a family party to the Prince, to which the French Minister was invited, required also the invitation of the representa tive of Italy, but as Lord Lyons was one of the guests, Court etiquette required the invitation of the whole diplomatic corps. It is not presumed that the household of the Presiden t are entirely aufait in diplomatic etiquette, but the Secretary of State has not the same excuse, and it was his duty to see that any blunder in this respect was avoided. He took care to avoid it himself in reference to his own dinner party to the Prince the following day, and it is suspected he allowed the blunder to be made in order to exhibit his own familiarity with Court etiquette in contrast with the Presi dent's want of knowledge of such details. This blunder, in addition to the appo ntment to the mission to Turin of Mr. Marsh, whose opposition to the Italian struggle for freedom in 1349 made him obnoxious to Italy, and com mended him to Austria, is regarded as a marked affront to Victor Emmanuel." On the night of the 7th General Magruder, with 7,000 or 8,000 Confederate troops including artillery and cavalry, took possession of Hampton and burnt it to the ground. General Butler, on hearing of 'TON TRALE.I THE POPE AND COU.A.7 CAVOUES CONFESSOR. The following important report has been just issued by Messrs. Neill Brothers, of Manchester :- 11, Cross-street, Manchester, Aug. 21. Dear Sir,—Since the date of our circular of 22d ult., the stock of cotton at Liverpool has shown a steady decline. The quantity of American then held in warehouse and afloat was 860,000 bales. It is now 639,000 bales. For one week it increased by about 30,000 bales. This was about used up in the succeeding three weeks. They are again, therefore, buying more freely. During the past four weeks and four days, the takings from Liverpool for con sumption have been 180,000 bales, or about 39,000 per week. Adding 2,000 per week for Glasgow, &c., would make the total consumption of Ameri can cotton for the kingdom 41,000 per week, which was precisely our estimate. Taking consumption and export together, the figures have been 210,000 bales, against 216,000—a very slight discrepancy. In the remaining months of last year (24th August till 28th December) consumption absorbed 775,000 bales, and export 68,000 bales, in all 843,000 bales. It is impossible that the same rate of absorption should be maintained this year, for the whole available supply is only 639,000 bales, with out any prospect of its being replenished before the close of the year. Yet, the supply of American cotton will, no doubt, be sufficiently economised bo enable it to last till that date, or longer, by the gradual advance in price throwing a larger proportion of the consumption on Surat, of NI , hich the supply is happily unusually large ; and by a limitation of the hours of labour, there being, we understand, a pretty general resolve on the part of the trade not to " light up" at all this winter, or, at least, so long as the deficiency in the supply of cot- ton continues.l With regard to the probable continuance of the war we have merely to confirm what we said in our last. Many thought then that the North was not in earnest, and others that their immense pre parations would ensure them an easy victory. The opinion which we ventured to give, that " the Go vernment and people of the North vastly under-rate the difficulties before them, and equally over-rate their own strength and endurance," has had a very emphatic confirmation in the result of the first great battle. The believers in an early conclusion of the war, however, still cling to the same idea, but upon the very opposite grounds. The general idea now is that the North will be forced to yield by the de moralisation of her army, the impossibility of raising money, and the evident futility of the attempt to conquer the South. We beg to caution our friends against being led away by this kind of argument into any hope of an early peace. Money never was so abundant in the States as it is at present. The deposits held by the New York bankers at last ac counts amounted to 93,687,000 dols. against an average of 77,721,000 dols. at the corresponding dates for the past five years ; and the specie or bullion to 46,900,000 dole., against an average of 21,249,000 dols. The difficulty is to employ the money in safe securities, and, as this difficulty is increasing, it is probable that the high terms which the Govern ment will be ready to pay will tempt capitalists to take the earlier loans. We have no doubt that the reasons now urged for an immediate peace will ultimately bring it about. The North will have to learn the limited extent of her powers as compared with the gigantic task she has under taken. One, and perhaps two, defeats will be in sufficient to reverse the false education of a life time. Many lessons will probably be necessary, and, meantime, any success the Northern troops may obtain will again inflame the national vanity, and the lessons of adversity will need to be learned over again. More effect will probably be produced by sufferings at home—by the ruin of the higher classes, and pauperisation of the lower, and by the general absorption of the floating capital of the country. But this will take time to show itself, and to work its effect in the creation of a peace party strong enough to have weight with the Go vernment. In the meantime the war must go on, as there is not the smallest chance of the South sub mitting. That the latter is preparing for a protracted war is evidenced by the following documents : " A CARD TO COTTON PLANTERS. " The undersigned cotton planters in the city of New Orleans, in view of the interest of all parties, recommend to their various customers and corre spondents tot to ship any portion of their crops of cotton to this city, or to remove it from their plan tations, until the blockade is fully and entirely abandoned, of which due notice will be given." This is signed by 141 firms, said to be all the cotton factories in New Orleans, and who control considerably more than one-half of the entire cotton crop. " Office Board of Underwriters, " New Orleans, July 23, 1861. " At a meeting of this board held to-day, the fol zwing resolution was adopted, and ordered to be published : " Resolved, That no river insurance on cotton bound to this port, nor fire insurance on cotton in the city of New Orleans be taken until the blockade of the port is raised, and its free navigation resumed. Cotton on plantations may be insured against fire to the extent of three-fourths of its value, provided it is stored in lots of not exceeding 150 bales, and the lots at least 300 feet apart.' "JAMES H. WHEELER, Secretary." In the face of these decisions it need hardly be expected that much cotton will come through New Orleans during the continuance of the blockade, whether efficient or not, and it is quite probable that the same course will be taken at the other ports. To prevent cotton being sent to the North overland, the following order has been published, in addition to the stringent law already published against any transport of cotton into the Free States: " Headquarters Department, No. 1. "New Orleans, La., June 26, 1861. " GENERAL ORDERS, No. 13. " Communications of any kind, and on any pre tence, with the black Republicans is positively and peremptorily forbidden. Any citizen detected in communicating with them will be arrested and pro secuted. " By command of Major-General Twiggy, "D. BELTZHOOYER, Major La. Artillery, A.A.A.G.C.S.A." Strange and almost incredible as it may appear, it is nevertheless the fact that it is the deliberate intention of the American Gevernments—both North and South—to seal up the new cotton crop, so that not a bale of it (which they can prevent) shall leave the plantations during the continuance of the war. The North believes that the need of money will bring the South to terms; the South is just as firm in the faith that the need of cotton will bring the North to terms, or lead the European Governments to interfere. How long these efforts will be successful it is impossible to say. No doubt some cotton will reach the ports, creeks, and bays along the coast—notwithstanding all the recoil' mendations of patriotic factors—and escape the blockade in spite of the vigilance of the whole United States fleet. But it is clear that any supply that can thus reach us will be of very trifling im• portance. A week hence the time will have arrived (Ist September) when, under ordinary circum stances, the new shipping season should commence. What we wish our friends to understand and fully realise is that there is abselutely no prospect of its commencing then, or for months to come. Ordinarily we view the high prices of cotton as injurious to our customers and to the trade, and we condemn speculation which is so frequently un founded, and not required to attract a supply which would be certain to come in the natural course of trade. But we now beg our friends to understand that the only means of even slightly mitigating the fearful evils incident to a co; on famine are a great and timely advance in price, which will prove to merchants and growers in India and other distant countries that the scarcity is a real one, and induce them to gather up and ship cotton hither rather than leave it to be manufactured by the natives of those countries. Thus our distress may be mitigated, the wheels of trade may be kept in motion, even though at low speed, and partial employment may give food to thousands who would otherwise be destitute. A national benefit would also be conferred by all spinners who, by running their mills at half time, should reduce by so much their consumption of cot ton. If this were universally adopted, the present stock, instead of being exhausted in December, would last till May, and before then it is possible that peace may be restored.—Very respectfully yours, NEILL BROTHERS. _ According to the Prase the subscription to the Piedmontese loan has already produced more thrn a milliard (X 40,000,000). On the mobilisation of the Prussian army, two years ago, the fortress of Hohenzollern. was completely armed, but, as it is not of any importan removed strategi Cob c point of view, the cannon are now b eing to lentz. FATAL ACCIDENT AT STIOREDITCII.—On Wed nesday morning inquiry was gone into before Mr. H Rages Walthew, the deputy-coroner, at the London Hos pital, on view of the body of Charles Waller, ag e d e i g h t years. The deceased and another boy were amusin g them selves by playing on a la r g e piece of granite, weighing half a ton, in front of the p remises of Mr. Spencer, the stone mason, of Danston•streei, Kingsland-road, Sh ore di tc b , )oping the pon tremoved the i deemed which above-namedit insti tution, tution, where whe n h thee haddropped, former got down aiad to while pick he u p his companion' s ca p, was s t derous mass fell up on hid', crushin g th e b ones o f hi s l e ft i leg and arm. one n of h He was esenior surgeons to neces sary to amputate the leg, but deceased gradually became I exhausted, and died on Sunday mor • Lung, the day after the accident. Verdict, accidental death. The Court of Rome has just experienced a severe disappointment. It is much given to working by terror. Heretics, or other offenders against the Romish Church, are invariably represented as smitten with remorse and consternation at the ap- proach of death, and the last hours of life are described as opening to the deluded sinner a clear perception of the truth which he had denied. We are not without glimpses of the practice even herE. Every now and then names of eminence are quoted as testifying to the power of the Romish faith by the confessions which were made and the " recon- ciliations" which were sought at the moment when the world and its vanities were disappearing from view. Abroad, however, this machinery is worked to much greater purpose. We islanders must be pretty well given up even by the tenacious Church of Rome as a reprobate people, but it is very diffe rent when the offenders are actually within the fold—or?hodox Catholics and loyal liegeinen. Such an one was Count Cavour, who, though no heretic or dissenter, had dared to attack the Pope's tem poral power, and to inflict, for the sake of Italy, the most terrible mortifications on the Holy See. Cavour, however, in the midst of his projects and his successes, was overtaken by death ; and, if the expiring statesman could but be represented as having recanted his errors and deplored his sins, what a triumph would it be for Rome! At the very moment when all the capitals of Europe were re sounding with panegyrics on the departed patriot, the Papal Court could tell a different story, and could show that the unhappy Minister—a better judge of the truth than his ignorant eulogists —had died in repentance so deep and over whelming as might well deter any successor from following in his steps. Such a chance was not to be lost. Cavour in his last moments had been at- tended by a confessor, and had received the sacra ments. That confessor was a parish priest and a Franciscan friar, and in both capacities bound to canonical obedience. What if he were summoned to Rome and there dealt with ? Might not a good story be got out of him ? This idea was carried into execution. Shortly after the Minister's death Father Giacomo, the priest in question, received an invitation to repair to Rome, and there confer with no less a personage than his Holiness himself. The communication was couched in terms calculated to dispel anything like apprehension, and to convey, indeed, the impres sion of a compliment. So to Rome Father Giacomo went, and was at once presented to the Pope, from whom he presently gathered the nature of the de sign in hand. Nobody at Rome was under the least mistake as to the truth of the case. Nobody imagined that Cavour had made any kind of re cantation, or that any knowledge of such a fact was concealed in the breast of his confessor, or of any one else ; but a device had been conceived of terrifying the poor friar into some admissions, either by the authority of the Pontiff or the machinery of the Inquisition. Accordingly, the Pope, at his first presentation, accosted him angrily and abruptly with a demand for an imagi nary document. " Well, have you brought that recantation ? Before confessing the Count it was your duty to exact from him a formal retrae• tation of all that his hostility had conceived against the Holy See, and I wish therefore to have the account of that retractation in writing." Father Giacomo, though somewhat startled at this reception, replied with great sincerity that he had no such account to give and no such document to pro duce; that Count Caveur had died like a good Catho lic, to the edification of all around him ; and that, though he had confessed his sins, as all Catholics do, there was nothing in the occasion to take it out of the ordinary category, or to suggest that the seal of the confessional should be broken. To this simple statement he adhered. In vain the Pope fulminated his behests as the Vicar of Christ upon earth ; the good friar was proof against even this adjuration, and at last the Pontiff descended to a demand of another kind. " If," said he, " you have not got that recantation, you are bound to declare in writing that you have been false to your sacred duties." As Father Giacomo, however, was conscious of no offence, he was not disposed to indict himself as an offender, and the Pope was foiled at this point also. The Holy Office then took its turn of persuasion, but with as little success ; and after some days of moral torture and as much coercion as it was safe to apply, the friar was allowed to depart with a menace of ecclesiastical deprivation hanging over his head. ' These details, which we publish from an authentic source of information, carry instructive evidence both of the policy still practised at the Court of Rome and of the position to which that Court is at length re duced. As it is, no harm has been don© either to Cavour or his confessor ; but if Father Giacomo had been less hohest. or the Holy See less impotent, we might have had a noble cha racter defamed or a poor priest doomed to misery. Cavour would have been made his own traducer, and his own words, as uttered at a moment when no self-delusion was practicable, would have been quoted to show that all the work of Italian patriots was mere wickedness, and that nothing but a belief in Merode and Antonelli could be relied on to bring a man peace at the last. The Papal Court would never have been tired of " im proving" that death-bed scene. No arguments would have counterbalanced the confession of the chief actor. The assailants of the Pope's temporal authority would have been told, by aid of this example, that their proceedings were leading them to perdition, and that no man could oppose the Papal Government except at the peril of his soul: If the priest engaged in the affair had refused his co operation, little more, in the days of Papal power, would have been heard of him. As it was, Father Giacomo, though naturally alarmed when he found himself within the walls of Rome and in the clutches of the Inquisition, was too well pro tected to be in much danger. With a French gar rison in the city, and the eyes of Europe fixed upon the convulsions of the Holy See, even the Ministers of Pius IX, durst not venture upon violence, though we are told that the energetic intervention of the Sardinian consul was required before the good friar was permitted to return to Turin. The threat of deprivation has been executed, and Father Giacomo has lost his cure, but that will be of little account to him in a country where his conduct is appre ciated, and the vindictive act will recoil upon its authors. The marvel of the story is that such an attempt as this should hare been made at the present day- Whatever may be the infatuation of the Pope's ad visers, they can hardly have been at a loss to dis cern the folly of the game they were playing. They knew perfectly well that Cavour had made no re cantation, and that no evidence of such an occur rence was to be procured. They must have had it strong presumption that a Piedmontese priest would not be likely to libel the idol of the Piedmontese nation, and they must have been perfectly aware that in case of his obduracy they were powerless to coerce him. All the world knew that Cavour's confessor had been summoned to Rome, and every body was on the alert to watch the transaction. The good priest could neither be driven to submis sion nor spirited away. The only machinery avail able against him was that of official pomp and pre tension. He might, perhaps, be overawed by the actual presence of the Pontiff, or cowed by the au thority of the General of his Order, or terrified by the forms of the Holy Office. If he resisted this species of pressure, the Court of Rome was power less; and yet it acted as if the rack and the dun geon could be still employed for the attainment of its will. The design, from first to last, was so trans parent in its purpose and so hopeless in its charac ter that we can hardly imagine how men of ordi reason show ordi nary prudence could ever have entertained it. True, the object was one of high importance, but itwas in all probability unattainable, whereas tory t o failure the could only be attended by exposure and shame. rn ous with one more Rome has has not succeeded in blackening the reputa tion of Cavour, or in getting hold of a that Italian patriotism is syno n yas it was, and th a t le e g s s e o ; n but t t h p w p e o e o r r y l d r () h ul a a s i n b s e j e been s t t a u y gh . t b its pretensions are as likely to outrage of mankind in this days when not a Stat e had emerged f rom the stag nant depths of supers 19th tit centuryion.yi meass they were in . I►IANCHESTER BETTlNG—Yesterday. Lady Trespass and Virginia retain their positions for the Ebor Handicap, most parties here having laid against them. The principal business was done on Prologue, who finished at 10 to 1 (taken), and Voltella, about whom at the finish 11 to 1 was taken. There was some little money put on Stockade, but there were parties who never missed lay ing, whatever the price asked. There was a current repot t that the horse had broken down, and he finished at 50 to 1 (offered). The only animal supported for the St. Leger was Imaus at 20 to 1. There were offers made to take 9to 4 about Kettledrum, but no one was disposed to lay more than 2to 1. Closing prices : EBOR HANDICAP. 6to 1 agst Lady Trespass (taken) 6to 1 agst Virgilius (taken) 9to 1 agst Cape Flyaway (taken) 10 to 1 agst Prologue (taken) 11 to 1 agst Voilella (taken) 16 to 1 agst Bally Edmund (offered) 20 to 1 agst Rising Sun (offered) 50 to 1 agst Stockade (offered) TUE ST. LEGER. 9to 4 agat Kettledrum (wanted) 11 to 1 agst Lady Ripon (offered) 16 to 1 agst Dictator (offered) 20 to 1 agat Imaus (taken) 20 to 1 agst Big DO (offered) PROSPECTS ;^