The Sun. — London, England, 1856-10-30 00:00:00

720 N E Y MARKET ANL COIVEIXR.CYAI4 FRiT.T.Lit4ENek CITY, Two ~'t The Liverpoe:i Cotton Market yesterday closed quietly, without any material change in prices. The sales were estimated at 7,000 bales, 2,000 of Which were taken by the exporters. Letters from Paris, relative to the Greek Loan, of which the powers interested are demanding re imbursement, mention that, of 60,000,000 f. advanc ed, Greece touched very little of it. The loan was ab sorbed by the expenses of the auxiliary Bavarian Corps, at the installation of the Bavarian Regency, end by the indemnity accorded to Turkey for the cession of the province of Phtiolide. Of the 60 Millions, Greece only received 8 millions for her benefit. The activity of the Greek people, since 1833, is shown by the fact that the revenue of the state, which for years continued at 7 mil lion francs, has risen to 16 millions in 1856. The advices recently received from Russia dwell a t some length upon the proposed network of rail ways, the concession for which is stated to have been granted to a French company. The precise terms have not yet transpired, but according to rumour they are fortunately not likely to be of a character that will attract subscribers in any of the European money markets. We say fortunately, because the extent of foreign enterprise which has already been undertaken has greatly contributed to the extraordinary pressure for money which now generally prevails. It is expected that the capital required is about forty millions sterling, on which it is imagined the Russian Government will offer 44 or 5 per cent. per annum guaranteed interest. Although there is no immediate chance of the pro ject floating at a premium, it is feared that when ever the money market becomes easier, and a favourable opportunity presents itself, parties will be tempted to support it, Such a contingency would be very discouraging, and tend to prolong the inconvenience which is at present experienced. It was only a few days ago that the great Credit Mobilier Company, notwithstanding the heavy liability which it had already incurred, undertook the construction of the Spanish Railway ; and it. is Much to be feared, unless some check is soon inter- Posed, that the financial distress of France will in crease to a very serious extent. Louis Napoleon, almost immediately after the conclusion of peace, prohibited the formation of new joint-stock corn Parries during the present year ; and it is evident that further interference will be necessary in order to relieve the Paris money market. The East Indian Money Markets, according to the advi ces b rought by the Overland Mail, con tinue in a satisfactory state, but the recently pro- Pose d 4 4 per Cent. Government Loan does not appear to have received much support. Notwith standing three weeks had elapsed since the notice s ! of the project was announced not more than about 18 P000 rupees had been paid into the Calcutta Treasury, most of which was tendered by Govern officiaLs. Money was cheap, and obtainable for legitimate purposes on reasonable terms. The 1 rate of exchange at Shanghai on London was 7s. 6d ,. . to 7s. 7d. for 6 months' bills. he business transacted in the English Stock Market has been small, but the quotations are de ?idedly fi rmer. There has been no increase in the 14 Me transactions, and the speculati ve d ea li ng ‘lB limited, but th e genera l t one o f th e market nae improved. Consols for money and the 6th • proximo have been 92k -, and 92k and 1 They are now about 921 4, and •i 92 93 for December. The New 3 per Cents. s are 91i to 92, and the Reduced 91i 4. Exchequer Bills have declined to par and 4s. premium, and the Bonds are 984 I. Bank Stock is 212. Foreign Stocks are neglected. Turkish 6 per 2 Cents. have improved to 8911 and 90 I, while the 4 per Cents have been 99g. Portuguese 3 per S. Cents. are 431 to 44. Buenos Ayres 864, and 2 Dutch 2i per Cents. 641. 2 The following are the nominal prices of Foreign 5 Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6i 74 ; Mexi 2 - 1 . 3 , 411 . 21 11 ; Peruvian 41 per Cents., 75 7 ; ditto 43 der Cent s ., 5 4 6 ; Portuguese 3 per Cents., ; • Russian 5 per Cents., 106 8 ; ditto 44 per Cents., 9 5 7 ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 411 ; ditto 1 , beferred, 231 24; ditto Certificates, 54 6; ditto 2 Passive, 61 LI . The la s t week ' s railway receipts, ascertained up to this day, are in round figures as under 1856. 1855. Great Western Xorth-Western Sonth-Western Brighton .. 16,088 14,469 Midland ******************************** 30,737 28,907 gotith- Easte ... r . n . ********** ****************** 21,883 20.728 Caledonian Great Northern Litcashire and Yorkshire 13ristol and Exeter 6,743 6,537 Last Lancashire L 6,634 5, 61 7 ancaster and Carlisl 6,632 6, 395 ~.Manchester, Sheffield e , and Lincoln 10,060 9,609 A nrth Lo n d on Nor th Stafford T aff - Val e 4,707 3 , 594 Aster 1,535 1,511 4cdrinburgh and Glasgow ****** 6,002 5,040 Great Western of Canada 16,294 12,718 " Ju tch Rh en i s h to The transaction s i n th e R a il way Share Market ~( 143 ' have been very small. This being what is to " ticket day," the dealers have principally be et' occupied with the necessary arrangements for the h alf -monthly settlement to-morrow, the 31st. Sore of the principal shares have shown an im provement, viz.-Great Northern, 10s. ; Great Western, 7s . 6th ; South Western, 15s. The French sad Canadian lines are dull, but prices rule steady. _ln J o i nt - Stock Bank Shales very little business has been effected, and prices are without material a lteration. Miscella neous Shares are inactive. Canada Government 6 per Cents., however, have slightly iMproved. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONR O'CLOCK. (From the o.fßctal List.) Rni , nesb do. C. Rank Stock ..................................... 212 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities .............. 91$ Cent. Consols Allrillitieft ............... -.h 4 Neer per (*.ant. Annuities .... ....... . ..... . 911 1 2 Long Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1860... 12 15-16 - Ditto 30 Years, expire sth Jan.. 1860 34 LI a Ditto 30 Years, expir e sth A.pril, 1885... 18] IzAis Ronda. £lOOO ..... .. . ... . Consols ........ .. Ditto, under £1000.,•,.................. . 5 6 tor Account .. Exch equer Rills, 2 1 e . ....................... 921 I i C 100 0....... . ..... .... ..... - , ............... 4 p par 4rnaiV.s6o ............. . ............................ 4 5 1 l .... .............................. 4 5 1 6 p Ditto Bonds, 1 858, 34 per Ce nt..., 98i Ditto, 1859 ......... ..... .................... 98$ PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLO( EE. Buenos A yres Bonds, 6 per Cent. ............ -- Ditto Account .... .......... . ... . ..... .. .. 864 Portuguese Bonds, 5 per dent., Con. 1 8 . 41 . . 3 per Cent, 41 7 4 Ditto 1853, 6 par cent Turk i b i, fiends, rDitto account, November 14 ......... 9O. 90 i x d Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. 99it . i , en , „ tb e arove ,-,.hir ii‘ tnndon, Dutch Exchange, 2i per Cenl., 12 Guild ers 64 O'L 921 4 ermQ ,, is money TWO OCK. C Ditto Account, December 2or 20t L no Loo observed in the heavens on Vier - T ( l4 evening, about half-past 9. It is described as being very ..," 4 , 11 t- A brilliant flash of light was observed again I ,",„. 111 1Zht in the west, about the same time. 'IIELBouRNE. July 2.s.—The gold production bad im- Pro t ve d ; 52,568 ounces had arrived by the escort for periods ending July 19. -A- coirespondent of the Times, this mornitw; cautiors l ' e rsong against crossing Paddington-green at night. Thieves, be says, abound in the neighbourhood. COAL NEAR LONDON. —Mr. Burnell, civil engineer, uas written to the Times on this subject, and says the r e port moat likely o r i g i nated from a commun i cat i on he ddressed oni to the Brightonrelative es he has made near Horsham. The Prussian Government has recalled ti,le shop Danzig, w hi c h f or a time v. - as stationed at the Sulina month of the Danube. An edition of the Dispatch will henceforth be pub lished every Friday, containing particulars of important events, and price of the markets, funds, &c., up to the moment of going to press, and may be received at the ro ost distant parts of Scotland and Ireland on the Satur do ay. The pages of the Dispatch, will be so extended as allow the introduction of nearly six additional columns ne ,: 9 :llla ntitY. and the principal articles will be set in a vertichar type that will not fatigue the eyesight. Ad in in to insure the insertion of their advertisements f th e four editions, should forward them on ;.°,I, or at latest before 10 o'clock on Friday morn "lfriiiB/344C4 New, 139, Flettltreet. TILE SUN, LO N DON, THURSDAY EVEN, G, OCTOBER 30 1856 ,- A R 1; RK ET 3 ILAll.;w* A YS. .1 liarvvrAYl, Closing Prices yesterday. 4k - 8 -- 8i 17 - 18 l 5 - 16 12 - 13 92 - 93 54# 55 33 - 35 , .. ..... ... •.0 •e M• 9 i 10i 16 - 17 - ge 35 37 23 '25 - 6 804 - 814 514 - 52 32 - 33 8 - Si 92 ! 93i S 1 83 120 125 114 116 1 64 64i F 8 62 71 - 74 5t EA 54 93 944 sl 7 105 107 1021 103+ par p par I p [lOl 105 3.1 34 1 id 78 - 78, 51 - 53. 14 - 15 48 - 0 5 Si - St 36 A 37; - 801 24ia 176 - 18 56 57 93 97 *II 6 f - 10 11 26 - 28 1 01 10 24 - 25 69 71 47 49 1 64i 15 9i —• 70 77 79 5 - 3d 2 -- 1 1 4 le 36 38 18A - 19 5 54 i'` ii 6 8 2 - 4 5 - 5i 7 - 9 Business done this day 64i 4 101. 3 / 4 1(; , 0 100 all 100 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS RAlLwelre. Leasin t - Compans. Ctr.lirs; yesterday. Bedford anw filet chley Bnekghamsh. Clydesdal, . Col. Stour Vy. E. Lin. g. 6 pc. E. Dn. H. Ski. Glas Barr. & Neils. Direct Do. New...... Glstr. a; Dn. Fr Hrtlpl. Dk. & Railway Hull & Selby Do. Shares. Do. Shares. Lon.& Greenw Do. Preference Lon., Til., & S. Do. Bark. Sh. Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Do. 6 per ct. Manch. Bxtn. and Matlock Middlcsbro' & Redc.g 6 p.e. Midld.BradM Newmarket Bury E. G.spc N.&Est.sp.c. Do. 6 per et. Do.'Fixeds p c Prest. & W yre Do. Shrs. A Roystn.& Hit. Shef.Roth.and Goole g. 5 p.c Shrews. &Her, S. Staffordsh. 1 Wear Valleygr 6 per cent._ Do 1 London k N. West. L. &N. W. Caledon... E.U.&&C Gt.Nrtnn. E. Count. Caldonian. 95 - 97 98 - 102 12 - 14 134 - 133 4 4i ••• """ • • • Do Gt. Vrestn Yk. Now. Borw. Y. &Milo Do Do ••• ...... 106 - 107 S. Eastern Do Pet° & Co Do Norfolk Do 12i - 13 221 -23 i 108 - 112 1 PI e. '''''' .• • L.& N. W. & Midid. Stckton Darlingt. 2f - 91 - 93 En. Conn. E. Count Do P - i 55 - 57 Do L. & N.W Do GtNorthn Lancash & Yorksh. T. Brassey M.MClean Stockt. & Darlingt Do ••• ••• 134 -13 g 71 3i 3 d :tusiness this day Wilts&Oomrst GitWestn., 32i 90 -; 92 CRIMINAL COURT.—(This Day.) OLD COURT. (Before bile Lord Chief Baron Pollock.) THE CRYSTAL PALACE FRAUDS. William James Robson, 35 years of age, late a clerk in the Crystal Palace Company, was this morning ar raigned for f rau d an d forgery. The pr i soner , w ho looked remarkably well, app ears to h ave rega ined his self-pos session. He walked w ith a fi rm qu i c k step to the front of the dock, an d l e i surely and minutely scru ti n i se d th e audience. Eight indictments, containing several counts in each, were read to him, to all of which he pleaded not guilty in a cheerful tone of voice. Arrangements had been made by the Sheriffs in anti. cipation of the assemblage of a large crowd of persons eager to gain admission to the court and obtain a glimpse of the prisoner, whose doings has excited much of the attention.of the public and given a degree of notoriety to his name, but they were superfluous, the avenue of the court being no more crowded than on ordinary occa sions. Mr. Gifford said he was instructed to defend the pri soner, who had recently been committed for trial on two charges of felony. Six others had now been preferred against him, with respect to which the prisoner had had no notice either of the nature of the charges or the evidence by which they were to be supported. Under these circumstances he (the learned counsel) hoped his lordship would consent to the trial being postponed till the next session. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine, for the prosecution, objected to the postponement of the trial. At the examination before the magistrates an intimation was given to Mr. Robson. The Lord Chief Baron--Who is Mr. Robson ? Mr. Sergeant Ballantine—The prisoner. (Laughter.) An intimation was given to him that other charges would be preferred against him, and at his request he was committed on the two charges that had been heard. He (Mr. Sergeant Ballantine) objected to the postponement, on the ground of the serious illness of Mr. Fasson, registrar for the Transfer-office, a principal witness, which might prevent his attendance next ses• sion to give evidence against the prisoner. The Lord Chief Baron—l cannot entertain the appli cation, so as to make an order, unless the facts are reduced to affidavits. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine—That of course applies to both sides. The Lord Chief Baron—Yes. I cannot do otherwise, except by the consent of all parties. Mr. Gl-ifford said the affidavit should be furnished. He would renew his application later in the day. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine suggested to the prisoner's counsel that the prisoner should be tried on Saturday. Mr. Gifford said there were eight indictments against the prisoner, of six of which he had had no notice, nor the evidence by which they were to be supported. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine said the prisoner had notice on Saturday last of the nature of the charges to be pre ferred against him. Mr. Gifford said yes, but no particulars of the evidence by which the oharges were to be supported. It was that he mostly complained of. The subject then dropped. Shortly before two o'clock Mr. Gifford, who had put in his affidavits asking for an adjournment of the trial to the next session, on the ground that the prisoner had not had time to prepare his defence, renewed his appli cation to that effect. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine said that he bad hoped to be able to consent, and was anxious that the trial should be postponed as asked by the prisoner, but he had been in formed that witnesses had been brought from all parts of the country to give evidence on the trial, and it would be inconvenient for them to attend next session. He suggested that the trial should be postponed till Saturday. Mr. Gifford asked his lordship to allow him to read the affidavits he had put in. The Lord Chief Baron—Certainly not at present. All I can now do is to say the case shall not be taken to-day. Mr. Gifford said he would apply to the Court again by-and-bye. been delivered. He made the acquaintance of Neary in July, 1853, who was then in the habit of coming I to Mr. Fossey's house, on one of which occasions Neary prop osed to Mr. Fossey that they should conspire to rob Walker. Fossey became bankrupt in December, 1855, or January, 1856, and in February witness com menced business on his own account, within 100 yards of Foesey's premises. He was unable to say if he sent a circular to the prosecutor, but he had dealt with him to a small amouot within the last two months. He first informed Walker of their frauds in August, after he (witness) had been established in the business the previous February. [We shall give the result id Our late edition.] NEWT , lARKET RACES.—(This Day.) -- --~-. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS. Stormsail Pope Joan Four ran. 501. HANDICAP PLATE. A.F Knight'of Avon Vandermeulin. .. Tyre . Fourteen ran. Won by three quarters of a length HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES. Dewdrop King of Forest.. Fifteen ran. SWEEPSTAKES OF 60 SOVS. Dead Heat with Bel Esperanza and South• Western, Somerset .. Four ran. GLASGOW STAKES. :Messenger Mohawk Keopsake Bel Oiseau Four ran. SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS. Spinet. Susan Lovell Four ran. SWEEPSTAKES OF 50 SOVS. ALD Augury Bannock.burn LATEST BETTING. FIRST-CLASS NURSERY STAKES. sto 1 agst Peeping Tom 100. to 15 agst M.D. 8 to 1 agst Somerset 8 to 1 agst Moose Bto 1 agst Admiral Lyons 10 , to 1 agst Jewess filly SE COND-CLASS NURSERY STAKES. 5; to 1 agst Imperieuse (taken) DERBY-1857. 1000 to 30 agst Ack worth (taken) 1000 to 10 agst Pyrrhus the Second (taken) 1000 to 10 agst Messenger (taken) 1000 to 5 eget Bel Oiseau (taken) WEDNESDAY. Optional Selling Plate of MK, for three year olds and upwards. The winner to be sold by auction, kc. Cambridgeshire Stakes Course (1 mile 240 yards). Mr. Mellish's Noisette, 6 yrs (501.), Bst...(Fordbam) 1 Mr. Flinteffs Blossom, 5 yrs (50/.), 7st 121b(T. Cliff) 2 Mr. Stevens's Questionable, 4 yrs (501.), 7st 71b (Prior) 3 Mr. R. PAnson's Berezina, 4 yrs (501.), 7st 71b No betting. (Charlton) 4 Won by abead ; bad third. Owing to the dense fog Berezina nearly ran over the chains at the Red Stand. The winner was bought in for 80 guineas. Sweepstakes of 19 says each, for three year olds and upwards. The winner to be sold for 40 says, if de manded, &c. T.Y.C. (5 furlongs 140 yards.) Lord Wilton's Dramatist, 3 yrs, 7st 71b (Cresswell) 1 Mr. Mellish's Tame Deer, 3 yrs , 7st 71b (F or dh am ) 2 Mr. Whittaker's Teddy, 3 yr s , 7st 71b (B ear p ar k) 8 Corin, Sulpitia, a n d dary Ann also ran. Betting--5 to 2 agst Dramatist, 4to 1 each agst Teddy and Tame Deer. Won by two lengths, the same distance between the second and third. The winner was claimed by Mr. Mellish. Sweepstakes of 10 sot's each, for three year olds and up wards. The winner to be sold for 150 sous, if de manded, &c. T.Y.C. 5 furlongs 140 yards. 5 subs. Mr. Harrison's Spinster, 3 yrs, 7st 71b (Bearpark) 1 Mr. T. Walker's Oltenitza, 3 yrs, 7st 71b...(Kendall) 2 Mr. Gulliver's Frederick, 4 yrs, Bst 21b (Prior) 3 Imposture and Pyirha also ran. Betting•-6 to son Oltenitia, 3to 1 agst Spinster. Won on the post by a head ; three lengths between the second and third. The sport was most unexpectedly suspended. A. dense fog prevailed during the morning, rendering it impossible for the spectators to see objects at a distance of 20 yards. The first race, for which four horses started, was run at the time appointed, but the jockeys were unable to distinguish the course. One of the horses, Bere. zina, went nearly over the chains at the Red Stand, and the other three narrowly escaped coming into contact with the posts and rails. The second event took place at an interval of about an hour, on the flat, but the fog had not cleared up, and the spectators were not able to see the horses until they were close upon them. Still a third race was run, with manifest danger to jockeys, horses, and spectators, and the Stewards then, very properly, ordered a discontinuance of this pursuit of sport " under difficulties." The races have never, we believe, been thus postponed at Newmarket through inclement weather within the memory of the oldest turfite. In 1836, on the first day of the Houghton Meeting, men were employed to clear the snow off the Criterion Course ; and in 1846, so dense was the fog that the Course was marked out by sawdust. Oddly enough, another lapse of ten years takes place before the sport is again interrupted by unpropitious weather. The eight undecided races were postponed, until this day (Thuraday;, and the unclosed Plates and States for this day are withdrawn. Nottng. Bost. and Astn. junot, fast & Ballymena. Birming. Wolverb Stour Valley Birkeand. Lancsh. fi Cheshire Janet ..... . Do. Chesh. 6c Birk., Do., do. ..... ••••• Blackburn Blyth & Tyne origina £25 (issd. at £45 ,Bristol and Exeter Caledonian. ....... Chester & Holyhead. Cork and Bandon Cork, Black, dr Pass Cornwall Do. A Do. B Dublin&BelfastJanc Dan. P. c. Joe East Avglinn ....... „ Eastern bounties.. Fast. Trnion, A Stk Be., B. Stock ... .. Do., New A. ..... . ..... East Kent East Lancashire Edinburgh 4 Glasgo,, Edinb. and Peebles . Edin.Prtb &Dunde. Forth & Clyde Jana. Furness ....... ...... Do. Extension.., Great N. of Scotlnd. Great Northern Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Gt. Sth. &West.(lre.) Great Western Do. Stop!. Val. Rail' Gna. Stk Irish South-Eastern Lancaster & Carlisle Do., Third 5........ Do. New Thirds LAncash.andYorksh. Do., Nst. Riding Un. Do. Sontlar or t London & Blackwall Lond. Bright & S.Cst. Loud. and N. Westn. Do. Fifths rD0.101.5h.,M&8 . ..0 Do. Eighths London andS. WAstn. Lndn irry&Croleraine undn Ennisk. Sfanch.Shef. &Lind!) Man. & Lin. Un Aetropolitan Do. J L. Ricardo's arrangement Midland 100 'o. Rirmng. &Der)) , G. West. (Irk) all Half Shares ' l Yewcastle & Carlisle, all iwpt.Aberg. &Hrfd Si NI ewry &Enniskille' sll Nrewry, Warrenpoint 4.nd Rostrevor t)O forfolk gorthn.Counties Tin North British th Devon Rail & Dock Stock )0., A Stock Do., B Stock N. tastern—Berwit k Oa. do. Extension Dodo. G.N.E. ?Inch Do. Leeds Do. York North London ..... N.&S.Wstrn. s Ham stand, and City jll 'North Staffordshir, orth Western.... & S. West rn. Jun )x., Wore., &VO1•9. -rxtemottth ........ Rhymney s , ottigh Contra) Scot. N E. Abrdn St. Do. Scot. Mid. St nAhire TTni SitinzbournekSheer. Devon ..... South Eastern: _oath Wales ....... Yrksh. 4 Riv. Du: 000000000000000000 0000 . all , •aines,Wok. & Wol tookton & Darling 14 Do., do., 1554 3 Do., do., 1855 Atoekten Cs Hartlep rail Vale )o. Pref., No. 1 )2 rhames Hay. D.& R all Vale of Neath ..... . all Waterfd. & Kilkenn all Waterford&Linierie all West Cornwall__ all West End of Loud°, and Crystal Palace all Do. A Do. B West London..., Do. First Clans Do. Second Class I Wimbledn & Croydon! FORRIGN. Antoivory,ci.,,Lt Ardennes • seigian Eastn. June 73eziers to Graissesss Bombay, Baroda, and Cm India, g. 5 p. c Do. Buff. & Lk. Hur. Ry. Canneaux & Toulousel Coal Mines and Ry. Ceylon A shares._ Do. B. do ►emerara t tel Rhenish (Eastern of France Do. New Eastern Bengal ... . East Indian A and B g. 5 p. ........ Do. Ex. C, gu. 5 p. c Do. do. D, gu. 5 p. c. D 0.4 13. c.Bnds.,'s7 Do. do. do., '59, do.. Euphrates Valley ... Geelong & Melbourne guar. 5 per cent Gd. Trunk of Canada Do. Cert. of Doben. con. into Stk. till'6: Do. Comp. 6 p. c., do Gt. Central of Franc Gt. In. Pen. g. 5 p. c. Do New, guar. 5 p. c Groat Luxembourg,.. Gt. W , :stern of Canadr Do. New Do. Bds., payable 's l i Do. do., '76, p. '6O Do. do., '73 do. Do. do., '73, without option Italian Junction Lake Conet. & Barl Lierre and Turnhote Lombardo Venetian. Lucca di Pist. 5 p. c.p. Lyons and Geneva Lyons at Mediterran viadras, guar. 4. p.c Do. do., 5 p. c. Do. 4i p. c. Eaten Do. 3d Ex., g. 5 p. c' Maria Antonia ... Do. do. New sTamur & Liege Do. do., 6 p. c. Prof northern of France sTorwegianTrunkPre Paris and Lyons . Paris and Orleans... Recife & San. Fran., (Pernam.) g. 7 p. c. Rome and Frascati.. Danish goial Swedish Sambre and Meuse... Do. 54 p. cent. Pref. Scinde, guar. 5 p. c. Do. 4outhern of France R. Andrew's and Quebec (A).,. West Flanders Do. 6 per c. Pref W. &N. W. of Franc, Western of Austria West. of Switzerland Wiesbaden Do. 8 per cent. Pref. 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Do. 5 p. c. red. pref Do. Birm. Pref. Sh Do. Chester 8 p. c.P.S Do. do. 5 p. c. do Do. Birm. Gus. Stk Do. Ches. Gus. Sh Do. do. do bo. do. do ....... •. Lan. &York. F. £2O Do. 6 p. c. Stock Lon. &B. G.5pc.N0.1 Do. P., Spa. St.No.2 Do. New Gnar.6 p. a Do. do. 5 p. c.,N0.4 !ion. &N. W., Coy. dti Nuneaton 5 p. at Lon. & S.W. 7 per at late 3d Shares uondy. & Color. Londy. & Ennis. t ) 911 L.,6 p. Cent Do. do. do. £6 ... Do. do. 34 per cent. Warypt.&Carl.4 p Do. 4 per cent Do. do. Kid. Consol.6 p.c.St Do. Con.BrXr. 6pc Ds. 4i p. c. Pref. Ditto L. & H. Pref. St New., Aber., &c., pr. sp. c. red. 5 p.c. pm. Do. Perpet. 6 p ct. with optn. till '66 Norfolk Debenture Do. Prof. 5 p. 0. St Do. 5 pc. Ext.,1846 Do. 5i per c pf. ,1847 Do. Wv. V.5pc.,1847 North British T. E. Perw, 4 p.o. P. Do. do. do Do Leeds 6 p.e :No.l Do. do. Qr5.,1848... Do.YorkH.&g. rm.. North Staffordshire.. Ox,Wo o kW., 6 pc._ Do. 6 p.c. Redeem. Soot. Cent. ,New Pref Sc.N.E. Aber. g 6 pe Do. do., 7 p. c. pf. st. D0.d0., 3i p.c. pf. st. - South Devon Do. fixed, 4,a per cent S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. Do. 4a per cent Do. Fixed 4a p c sh 3 Wales Gus. 4p. c Do. do. 4a p. 3.ltorksh.4p.c.Guar 3tock.&Dsr., 5 p. c Do: do. do stock. & Hartl. g. 5 p. a. till July 1, '56 Waterfd. Sr Kilk. 6 p c PREFERENCE SHARES. FRAUD AND CONSPIRACY. George Finny, a timber merchant, and William Neary, clerk to the prosecutor, were indicted on a charge of fraud and conspiracy, for the purpose of defrauding Mr. Walker, a corrugated iron manufacturer and a Govern ment contractor, carrying on business at Millwall, Poplar. Mr. Sergeant Ballautine, Mr. Bodkin, and Mr. Po land were counsel for the prosecution ; Mr. Sergeant Shee and Mr. Metcalf defended Fossey ; Mr. Sergeant Parry and Mr. Ribton defended Neary. The prisoner Neary was confidential clerk to the pro secutor, who had full confidence in him, and many of the details of the business were entrusted to him. He first entered Mr. Walker's employ about six years since. He left him in 1854, not, however, on account of any fault, and re-entered his service in 1855, upon his ear nest application, and being in a state of great poverty. In 1854, the prosecutor being unable to meet his liabi lities, called his creditors together (amongst whom was the prisoner Fossey, to whom he was heavily indebted)) and they ultimately agreed toaccepta composition of 15s, in the pound. The business was continued, and Mr. Walker and Mr. Fossey still continued dealing with each other down to June, 1856, Neary at the time being in the prosecutor's employment. A quarrel took place between Walker and Fossey, which resulted in a claim upon Walker, by Fossey, of between 5,0001. and 6,0001., which was still pending in Chancery, with the exception of a portion of the amount, which was under the consideration of a gentleman of high standing at the bar. During the law proceedings the prosecutor discovered that Neary was in constant communication with Fossey, and he at once dismissed him from his ser vice, Mr. Walker, according to the learned sergeant's statement, " not choosing to have about him a traitor, who was eating his bread and receiving his wages." Fossey, who is a timber merchant, supplied Walker with timber for the construction of Crimean huts for the Government. At first Fossey carried on business alone, but he was afterwards joined by a relative named Steele, and it was from young Mr. Steele, who bad been a clerk in Fossey's employ before his father joineJ him, that Mr. Walker received the astounding information which led to this prosecution. From the communication it appeared that Neary and Fossey met every night, drinking and smoking together, and that at these meetings they con certed delivery orders and fabricated false documents with a view to their being brought into Mr. Walker's books, to obtain money from Walker in cases where no goods had been delivered, and in others where there bad been falsifications in the accounts. In one month the frauds perpetrated on the prosecutor in this way amounted to 300/. Mr. T. J. Steele, jun., 21 years of age, said that the prisoner Fossey was his uncle. Witness was now in business as a timber merchant. Fossey directed him to go to Walker's and obtain payment on an account amounting to 8001. 4 put he objected, on the ground that there were so many discrepancies' in the account that he would rather Fossey should settle it himself, and as Fossey knew the discrepancies to which he (witness) alluded to, no remark was made on it. Fossey said he considered he was justified in making the overcharges, to secure himself as much as he could, because, he thought, Walker would stop payment. The witness was then examined at great length on the details of the frauds alleged to have been committed. He proved the forwarding to Mr. Walker of a number of de livery notes for goods which had never been supplied. The transactions involved frauds to the amount of several hundred pounds, and had been going on nearly the whole of the time Neary had been in the prosecutor's employ. On a cross-examination of the witness, Mr. Sergeant Shee produced the prisoner Fossey's book, containing the entries made by witness, which gave rise to a short discussion between the learned counsel as to who should put the book in as evidence. In the course of which, The Lord Chief-Baron said it was quits clear that the witness was in the wrong place. It was clear that the witness ought to be in the dock, but it was not quite so clear that the prisoners who were there were in their proper position. Cross-examination continued—He bad frequently spoken to his father on the subject, but not to the ex tent to which the frauds were carried. His father paid Fossey 1,0001. to join him, on condition that when wit ness came of age he was to take his place. He bad fre quently discussed with his father the propriety of his in vesting the 1,0001., because, he (witness) thought, it was a good opening, and he should do well. By Mr. Sergeant Sbee—And all this time you knew father, that Fosse), was a seindler and a thief ? an w d ith my him for I Fo k s n s e e w y, it re w m a c s n vi st r r o a n t g ed , sticking it on. (Lavg hter.) be f W o r r i e t n e h s e s Y joinedes; Mr. Sergeant SheE—There was a systematic " sticking it on ?" (Laughter.) Witness—Yes. Examination continued--Notwithstanding the com munications he male to his father, no one told Walker of the " sticking oh" system. His father, with a full knowledge of the circumstances, invested his 1,0001. with Fossey, in order tlat he (witness) might succeed him when he came of age. H e explained to his father that `sticking it on" avant charging for goods that had never SPORTING NOTES. FOG-BOUND. The oldest inhabitant has had his memory sorely taxed to recollect when Newmarket Races were before postponed, and of course the circumstance is not within his recollection. He is certainly a most aggravating authority, and should be made President of the Know- Nothings. My remembrance cannot furnish me with an instance of the sports at head-quarters having been before suspended on account of the skiey influences. In 1836 the snow had to be swept ofl• the course before the races could be run ; in 1846 the course had to be tracked out with sawdust ; and now, in 1856, the races had to be entirely stopped. What will happen in 1866 the imagination may help the reader to guess. The first race which was run over the Cambridgeshire course was seen by few people. Not even the horses could be ob served looming in the distance, and the whole lot of ,them narrowly escaped running slap into the Red Stand. Two more races were held on the "flat," and then the " Admiral" gave orders for the sport to be discontinued, much to the annoyance of a popular baronet, who wished to have his match run off. The people then left the heath, and got back into the town as best they could through the fog and mist. I have not time to enter into particulars of the Cam bridgeshire running. My pick—Vengeance and Elo quence—were second and fourth. Mr. T. Parr, and Messrs. T. and S., to whom Malacca really belongs, are the principal winners. The reports about Vengeance being sold were, after all, founded on truth, and the reader may be prepared to hear of his removal to Findon. This change of ownership superstitious people seem to fancy accounts for the horse's running second, for his present proprietor, like Mr. Peeryburgh, who was al ways very near making a joke, has throughout the season been very nearly pulling off a " great thing," but has been destined to obtain the barren honours of econd place. Pole Star did not go very well in the market, and took no prominent part in the race. The delay which was caused in getting the horses off was most vexatious. Some of the jnckeys were must refrac tory, and I hear that tw• of them have been fined 201. each. The Nursery Handicap was published last night, and it caused much dissatisfaction. Of the seventy-nine entered thirty-one have been left in, and they have been divided into two classes. For the first class I fancy Farmer's Daughter filly and Gaberlunzie. For the second class Companion and Rowlade. The unclosed stakes which stood for to-morrow (Thursday) have been withdrawn to make way for the races not decided to-day. In all probability, therefore, the meeting will extend over Monday next. A FRESH MAN, Newmarket, Wednesday night. OMAR PACHA AND THE PRINCESS DADIAN . The following letter hats been addressed to the Editor of the Times Sir,—The letter from Lieutenant Cadall that ap- peared in your paper of Friday l as t h as induced me to make further inquiries with regard to the matter at issue. " I find that the handsome furniture of the Princess Dadian reached Redoubt Kaleh on the 19th January, and I am acquainted with four trustworthy and credible persons who saw it there, in the house of Omer Pasha, or under the care of his servants. " The hypothesis that it was destroyed at Sugdidi by the enraged soldiery must therefore fall to the around. As I have already stated, it was carefully forwarded to head -quarters, and arrived in excellent preservation. " In reply to Lieutenant Cadell's charge, that I was ' not correct' in my account of his personal movements, allow me to say that I only intended to give such an outline of them as would show that he was absent from head -quarters, and therefore uninformed of what Was passing there at the period of which I was about to speak. I was perfectly acquainted with the manner in, which his time was spent, and I knowingly com pressed the events of some days into the words, " having obtained leave of absence," because those events were immaterial.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servant, !Londpni Oct. 2s. ,!‘ LI IT RATURE. Rittory of the Consulate and the Empire of France under _Napoleon. By M. A. Thiers. Vol. XIII. Willis and Sotheron. 1 Volumes 14 and 15 will complete this great his -2 tonic masterpiece. The labours of M. Thiers are consequently rapidly approaching their termina tion. This remarkable instalment (the antepenul 1 timate I) brings us in fact within view of the 2 grand and overwhelming catastrophe—the pathetic 3 and heroic close of that wonderful narrative which llas been happily termed the Fairy Tale of Modern History, the downfall and death 2 o f tho grea t E mperor an d Ki ng Napo leon ! Within view of it—are wo not ?—that grand and overwhelming catastrophe consummated in the little death-chamber at Longwood, and commencing at Waterloo--nay ! rather should it be 3 said dating back much earlier, from the rupture with the Pontiff, from the seizure of the Peninsula, from the invasion of Russia, from the divorce from Josephine. Those arch-errors, to say the least of them, which brought down the avenging blade • of Nemesis, by snapping asunder the death-thread of the later Damocles ! Already two out of these four enormous blunders on the part of Napoleon have been described in earlier chapters by the master-hand of M, Adolphe Thiers—the result of the occupation of Spain being here illustrated by fresh anxieties, mingled with new glories and new disasters—that of the putting aside the Bride of Love for the Bride of Ambition being in its turn illustrated by the record of the birth and baptism • of that young Astyanax the King of Rome ! Be. yond all question one of the most enthralling and masterly portions of M. Thiers' narrative of the War in Spain is that in which he here relates the memorable siege and capture of Tarragone—a victory by which General Sachet won for himself the glorious baton of one of the Imperial Marshals of Napoleon. As for the account given in the previous chapter or book of this great history by M. Thiers of the advent of the King of Rome, we may declare it at once to be penned in words worthy of having fallen from the golden style of Tacitus. Are we, in so speaking, guilty , in its re gard of any hyperbolical exaggeration ? o Let the subjoined excerpt from the volume =Wei our hand suffice of itself to demonstrate conclu sively to the contrary. It is the passage in which the annalist depicts the heroic Founder of the Napoleonian Dynasty holding aloft in the presence of the grand dignitaries of his empire the infant King of Rome in the cathedral of Notre Dame. "On the following day, the 9th of June, Napoleon, accompanied by his wife and his family, conducted his son to Notre Dame, and presented him to the ministers of reli g i on . A hundred bishops and twenty cardinals, the Senate, the Legislative Body, the mayors of the large towns, and the representatives of Europe filled the sacred enclosure, where the imperial infant was to re ceive the waters of baptism. When the Pontiff had. concluded the ceremony, and given the King of Rome into the hands of the governante of the children of France, Madame de Montesquiou, the latter transferred him to Napoleon, who, taking him in his arms and ele vating him above his head, presented him in this manner to the magnificent assembly which assisted at the cere mony with a visible emotion which speedily became general. This spectacle moved all hearts. "How great is the mystery which surrounds human life. How grievously would the spectators have been surprised if, behind this scene of prosperity and gran deur, they could suddenly have beheld a crowd of ruins, torrents of blood and fire, the flames of Moscow, the ice of the Beresina, Leipzig, Fontainbleau, the Isle of Elba, Saint Helena,[the death of this august infant at 18 years of age, in exile, unpossessed of a single one of those crowns which were now accumulated on his head ; and could they have beheld, besides, all those other revolu tions by which his family was still to be raised up after having been overthrown." It is in the very book (xli.) recounting the par ticulars of the birth and baptism of Napoleon's son, that the biographer of Napoleon describes at considerable length, and with minute particularity, the rupture between the Pope and the Emperor, a rupture from which the paling of the star of the great Bonaparte may be incontestibly asserted to have commenced. The Council is the significant title of this portion ef the narrative, meaning by that phrase the National Council, through which Napoleon hoped, but hoped in vain, to overcome the resistance of the S overe i gn ontiff. Very striking indeed is M. Thiers' account of the unex pected issue of this notable assemblage (dating from the 17th of June, 1811), when the Prelates, scarcely collected together a few hours, manifested the sentiments with which they had become in spired—sentiments of sympathy for the sufferings of Pius, and of aversion for the despotism of Na poleon ! About the most startling manifestation of which sympathy was that evidenced through the lips of the uncle of Napoleon himself. Refer ring to which M. Thiers says : " Immediately after the sermon, Cardinal Fesch, with the mitre on his head, ascended the throne, which was decked out in the customary manner for this ceremanYs snd took the oath prescribed by Pius IV.:—I acknow ledge the Holy Catholic and apostolic Roman Church, Mother and Mistress of all the other churches ; I promise and swear sincere obedience to the Roman Pontiff, suc cessor to St. Peter, Chief of the Apostles, and Vicar of Jesus Christ." No marvel that a council thus inaugurated be came before long tedious and distasteful to the haughty Lord of Europe, or that weary at last of the religious contest involved in it, Napoleon be came only solicitous in the end to get rid of the assembled ecclesiastics. Within the compass of this same forty-first book besides the record successively of the birth and baptism of the King of Rome and of the assembling and scattering of the National Council—M. Thiers relates events as remarkable in their way as the transference by Napoleon of the portfolio of foreign affairs from the Duke of Cadore to the Duke of Bassano ; as the permission accorded by Napoleon to Bernadotte to accept the proffered crown of Sweden, a crown proffered to the Prince of Ponte Corvo solely with a view to the coiciliation of the Emperor of France, or as as he might then have been termed more correctly, the Emperor of Europe ; above all, as the gradual preparation for the final rupture between Napo leon and the Russian Autocrat. Tarragone, the theme of the forty-second book, follows in due course: an important section of the History, in which we learn not merely the particulars of the siege and seizure of that great fortress by the French soldiers under General, afterwards Marshal Sachet, but besides this—of the return of Joseph to Madrid, of the temporary relief of Ba dajoz by Marmont and Soult, of the recapt ure o f Figueres, of the revictualling of Cuidad Rodrigo, of pt i h el e desperateo ultimate n ( )Wellington,r o f r a a I naosd o sh n aoiufs t Ihttioeceol. of t he tht departure of fpi ulterior Britishtnnuuor nomination r iyfno, forces ri B cßo l . en 2 us sbsu b yi e haN f )d , o under f his brother, King Joseph, as the Commander-in- Chief of the whole of the imperial eomes forces of France in e oo t k h — e t i h 3e e n b in e e g il in ia n . ing F o ie f a t i h ly e end—the e b tive of the commencement of Napoleon's ee forty-third book—the r e; m aEs e sv m aigl o e r able and, for c d b o y i s n a t , s h t o e r f o e u v t s e h June, 1812 —the momentous crosesni him, the whol of ly downfalldescrip- F of ort a u e ne lV s joefmtheer of the 2_4th . Whereupon M. Thiers closes this vo lume of his " History" witiathese sad and solemn reflections th :— ; die thirteenth Goa r t i h o e e li m u s b a r ]. w ann a ing s :hhi c insa a d s a t enmwp Thus towards the interior of Russia at the head of four hun dred thousand men, followed by tw tw o o hundred b f thousand re o. o oe t l; h s e toh r n s e . g vToehrnluds at aE t the s ame i s oi Napoleon marched his l return . from Austria, had reflected a moment taken pains to bestow peace with hereditary stability, to assume ' the character of a man of domestic tastes, to appease all enmities, to eva cuate Germany, and to force England to make peace ; h s same man, we say , was now advancing to the north, leaving behind him France ' exhausted and disgusted with amurderous glory, a ll i n d e p en d en t minds indign ant at his political tyranny, and Europe weary of the yoke he had laid upon her - whilst all those fe elin g s were sul lenly cherished in ' the ranks of the army which he took with him, an army composed of troops of all na tions, only held u n it e d by his genius and hi s prosperity. What would become, in the midst of the distant tracts of country it now traversed, of this vast army of six hun. dred thousand men, following one star, if this star should suddenly pale from before their sig ht? This problem, to our misfortune, has issn solve d for the world in a ma t . ner it can never farget ! Bu t it still remains to inform it, by the e d t led narrative of events, of that of which dby the clamour of a t • errible it has only been informed and he roic • recital we are catastrophe. In this sad about to engage. Glory we shall meet with at every step ; but of good fortune not a trace beyond the Niemen." It is the grand and awful voice of th e Ch orus of a Greek Tragedy a voice full of t ears and ten d erne ss, poignant with the accents of pathos and thrilling with the tones of lamentation. The telegraphic accounts from China are to the 18th of September, and report a renewal of the adverse move ment of the rate of exchange at Shanghai, the quota tions having advanced from 7s. 2d. to 7s. 6d. This, however, was owing to the last mail having brought only a small amount of silver, that of the 3d of July, with 456,4371., not being yet due. At Canton there had been a favourable turn, the quotations having re dceadteedwferroemls4:s. 4s.ooo4,od.otoolb.:and of pe 100 silkc e . The export of tea to season's supply Prices of silk, on account of the advices from this s id e , were 30 dole p er p i cul higher. The sett l eme nts to date of tea wasextd l t 9, o oo b o e bales.very short.Th had been between 32,000 and 35,000 bales. Aare, The Morraonites have taken a beereshop at West H npeuarryßasoew,oaindexipnoteennddicrogr, theirverting peculiar into religious chapel, for a the TH': all all 100 100 5,3 1001 all' 100 31 1* ....' ••• 100 ..• -'• . 9. --"" - 4 - 4 - 5 6 - 106 - 93 - 11t- 41 t p - 1 2 , ... "." .. ••• ... es ii - ii 2 116 109 - 111 103 - 105 61 - 63 10 - 101 ••• '""' 6 6A 93 95 86 88 86 88 98 - 100 9 101 17 10 101 68 72 19i 20: 9 —10 i 14 151 id 136 - 138 *. '. M. 135 - 137 114 -- 116 ... -"' ..., - 158 - - 66 - i 7O ••• '''' sips '"' - 138 - 100 1 - li 102 -104 92 - 94 i. id 1105 - 107 66 - 65 16 - 16 23i - 24 98 - 102 9i - 10 28 2- 3 p -3; MINES. 1 all tagua Fria . . I.os all inglo Californian 20 7 lustralian — 1 1 all Baden (Gd. Duchy of) 60 all Blamar. Iron & Coal 20 14 British Iron 5 7 35 264 Brazilianlmp.(lesued at £5 pm.) 30 all Do. Cocaes & Cuiaba 3 t 3 f 20 15 Do. St. John Del Rey 18 20 1 'Clarendon Cons. Min . Co. of Jamaica P 413 40 all Cobre Copper 5 IA Colonial Gold — St. all Copper Min. of Eng 32 36 17 28 15 25 all Do. Prof. 7i p. cent 26 _ ••• le Copiapo . 15 id 2 all Fortuna ••• 20 all Gene - tal 1 all \ Gt.NuggetVeinßeg 41 all Great Polgooth. 1 all Liberty — 8 3 all 'Linares 7 5 all ,Gt Wheal Vor United 2 3 5 1 3 / 4 Lusitanian id 1 all IMariquita § 1 all ;New Granada — 1 all Nouveau Monde 20 5 all . ••• 2 r -1 all ; Quartz Rock • .4 • Port Pa atgi Philip La. Min. 9 -- 11 50 all tßhymney Iron 22 15 all IDo. New 5 7 30 141 Santiago de Cuba-- 1 1 • . 6s. Sort. Cons. Min. Co. 21 —3/ 1 all South Australian * 0 1 all Do. Scrip 1 all Do. 10 per cent Pref 41 Tam. S. &L. Min. Co. 10 9 rin Croft 3l 3 1 28] all United Mexican 34 4 1 all Waller 1 all West Mariposa I 1 128 Worthing Mining of Australia MISCELLANEOUS. 25 19 Australian Agricult. 23 25 10 all Australn. Royal Mail ... • 10 all Berlin Water Works 51 5 1 50 40 Brit. American Land ... 100 321 Canada ll5 120 St. 100 o.Go.6p.c.Jan&july 1124 113 113 12i St. 100 Do. 6 p.c. Feb & Aug ... ••• St. 100 D o . 6 p c. M ar & S ept . . • 5 all Crystal Palace.. 5 all Do. Preference 5 5 t 4 a , l Crystal Pal. of France ••• 1 $ Duston Iron Ore ••• ••• 20 15i Eastern St eam — • • St .100 Electric Telegraph._ 92 94 1 all Electric Teleg. of Ir. . • 5 all En.bAus Cop Sm Co 1 25 all Gen. Iron Sc Collier ... ••• 15 14 Gen. Steam N av i gat. 16 all General Screw Steam 12 —l3 4 all Lond. Gon. Omnibus 31 31 3j 20 10 Magdalena St. Navig _ 10 all Moditeran. Ele c . Tel. • 8 fi 10 all Mexican&S.Americn• 21 25 5 Nat. Discount Co. A 1 25 1 Do. New _ 10 5 Netherlands Lanl 1 10 all Do. Do. 5 3 Do. 8 pcPissatld id p 100 80 New B. & N.S. Land 18 22 N.S.W. Gov. sp.c.D. 1 a l l — N. B. Australasian $ 20 17i Nrth.ofEuropeSteam 2 d 1 all Oriental Gas 1 —1/ 1 2s. Do. "New Shares •' p — pm 5 all Peel Rr. Ld. & Minrl. 21 2 21 50 all Peninsular& Oriental 67 6 50 10 Do. New 4 5 p 100 60 Royal Mail Steam 1 all Scot. Austral. Invest 1 1 all Ditto New ll 25 all South Austral. Land 34 6 1 al: linlimar. Tel. Seel)... 1 1 all Do. Registered..._ - 1 20 5 Trust& L. Co.U.Can• 100 28i Vint Diemen'. Lana 15 „ T; ••• ••• V.G4.6p.c.,J843[Ju1Y NO too too 100 100 100 44 100 all all 100 - 100 100 100 ant St. St. St. St. St. 100 100 100 100 100 55 4i 11051 COLONEL TURR AND THE ENGLIBH FOREIGN OFFICE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SVN. yesterday received an intimation from the Foreign-office, to present myself here this day, at 2 p.m., in relation to a passport for which I applied a month ago. I was received by Mr. Lenox Conyngham, who informed me that Lord Clarendon has refused me a pass port for the following reasons : lat. That I have been naturalised in consequence of a statement that I have been five years resident in Great Britain, and that this statement is incorrect. 2d. That last year I entered Wallachia, and was there arrested by the Austrians on a charge of military delict, in consequence whereof misunderstandings and collisions were occasioned between the English and Austrian Go vernments. It was added that immediately after my release I proceeded from Constantinople to the vicinity of the Austrian head quarters ; and that this movement on my part led to a protest from the Austrian authorities,. 3d. That I had declared it was my intention to reside henceforth in England—a declaration inconsistent with my application for a passport to Constantinople. On these grounds, and with a view to prevent any collision with Austria, the passport for which I applied was refused. With regard to the first allegation, it is well known to many Englishmen that from 1850 to 1858 I resided in England, although it is true that I spent several months of each year at Turin, in Switzerland, or in Paris. With regard to the second head, it is known to all that my arrest was owing to no fault of mine, but that I fell into a trap laid for me by Austria. If the incident had any consequences unpleasant for the British Govern ment, my four months' imprisonment certainly had nothing pleasant for me. My visit to Rustchuk (which by the bye was not near the Austrian head-quarters), after my liberation, was un avoidable, because I had in the first place to give expla nations respecting my accounts to Mr. Calvert, agent for the Land Transport Corps, and to recover my baggage, the greater part of which went a-missing during my confinement. Besides, Austria had no right to protest about the matter, inasmuch as my sentence was simply exile from the Austrian territories, and Rustehuk is in Turkey, separated by the Danube even from Wallachia and Moldavia, which are only occupied, not possessed, by Austria. How my projected journey to Constantinople can compromise England is to me inconceivable, seeing that my object is simply to obtain employment on the rail way works contemplated or in progress. I must main tain myself by my industry ; unless, indeed, the English Government is willing to allow me a couple of hundred a year to remain here in idleness. There is little danger of my venturing into the Austrian dominions, unless a time should come when I can do so, sword in hand — and then no Austrian passport would be required. E. TURR. P.S. I subjoin - a note of the time I have had my head-quarters in England : In 1850 7 months. In 1851 5 ~ In 1852 In 1853 6 ~ In 1854 (in Malta) 3 ff (From September, 1855, till March, 1856, I was em ployed in the army of the East, or in an Austrian prison.) In 1856 3 months. SUSPENSION OF FOX, HENDERSON, AND CO. The suspension took place yesterday of Messrs. Fox, Henderson, and Co. The event has been prematurely announced in several quarters, but, as will be seen from the date of the following circular, it did not formally occur until yesterday morning, some embarrassments which were privately known to have existed at the beginning of the week having been temporarily adjusted. During the past year the firm have experienced occasional difficulties, which were greatly increased by the reckless circulation of reports affecting their credit. By great efforts they were enabled to maintain their position up the present time ; but the renewed pressure in the money-market, and the discovery of losses from heavy foreign contracts just finished have now compelled them to call their creditors together. It is understood that upon the completion • of their annual stock-taking and balancing the house have found that they have suffered to the extent of about 70,0001. by the construction of the Zealand (Danish) Railway. This, combined with unprofitable results from some other works, and the impossibility of realising or of obtaining sufficient advances upon the large amount of shares and debentures they hold in the various under takings with which they have been connected, has left them in a position in which they could make no further sacrifices without jeopardising the ultimate liquidation of their general liabilities. They have , therefore, taken the advice of th e p ers o n s mo s t l arge ly interested, and have resolved to suspend. It appears, however, to be the general feeling that an extension should be granted them, and that they should be allowed at once to resume, upon a full and satisfactory exposition of their engage. ments and assets being submitted. Their total debts are stated to be about 320,0001., of which about half are unsecured : " London-works, Birmingham, Oct. 29. " Sir,—lt is with the deepest regret we have to an nounce to you that we have been compelled to suspend our payments, and have therefore to solicit the favour of your attendance at a meeting to be held on Friday, the 7th of November, at 1 o'clock precisely, at Dee's Royal Hotel, iu Birmingham, to consider and determine the most effectual and speedy mode for the adjustment of our affairs. " A statement of our assets and liabilities will in the meantime be prepared for the consideration of the meet ing, and we trust that the propositions then submitted will, under all the circumstances, be considered satis factory. " We remain, sir, your obedient servants, " Fox, HENDERSON, and Co." LOSS OF LIFE AND ACCIDENTS FROM THE FOG. Yesterday a dense fog prevailed in the metropolis and suburbs, in consequence of which several lives were lost, and many persons 'sustained injuries. Travelling by railway was attended with danger, and most of the river steam-boats ceased to run. The fog continued during the night. Several serious accidents took place on the railways, and many persons in the streets received in juries from being knocked down and trampled upon by the horses. About 10 o'clock last night a man carrying a lighted flambeau was knocked down by a vehicle in the Waterloo-road, and was much hurt. Serious acci dents took place on the London and South-Western Railway. At Wimbledon a man named Houghton, who bad been for some time employed as signalman, en deavoured to signal the 11 a.m. express down train, and was in the act of crossing the metals, when the engine of the train struck him on the lower part of the abdomen, hurled him over the rails, and his body was then forced a distance of at least 15 yards. The next fatal case was that of a man named Watkins, who was employed at the points near the Wandsworth station. He was crossing the metals to display the signals,:and, not hear ing the train approaching, was knocked down and in stantly killed. The railway guards describe the fog as having been more dense than for some years past. In deed, the prevalence of the fog led to a circumstance probably unprecedented, several of the races at New market having been postponed in consequence of it. There was a report last night that a clerk on the Great Western Railway lost his life near Reading, from being unable to see his way across the rails. In addition to the loss of life caused by the fog, much damage was done to the river craft by collisions. The engine of the goods train on the North-Western Railway ran off the line within a few miles north of Wolverton, tore up ' the rails, and intercepted the whole of the traffic. The accident was accompanied by the deaths of the engine driver and stoker. Fortunately none of the passengers have sustained injury, although not less than seven trains have been detained on their route. Serious apprehen sions were entertained for the safety of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, who, it was alleged was a passenger by one of the intercepted trains, but such was not the case. About 2 o'clock this morning the fog began to diminish. The private letters from Paris yesterday were again of a better character. Some rumours of large failures at Lyons bad been positively contradicted, and the im pression was favourable as to the position of the Bank of France. A BAILIFF IN DIFFICULTY.—An alarming scene oc curred at Lyons on Saturday. As two gardes du com merce (bailiffs), who had arrested a young man for debt, were conveying him in a cab to the debtors' prison, the vehicle in the Rue imperials became jammed in between two carts containing stone for building, and the spring broke. The debtor, taking advantage of the confusion which ensued, jumped from the cab and took to his heels ; the two gardes du commerce ran after him as fast as they could, but the cabman, thinking that the three were swindlers, in his turn ran after the last two, shouting out as loud as he could "Stop thief !" After a long chase one of the guardes was captured, and a scene of cross purposes ensued between him and the cabman —the latter calling him a swindler and other opprobri ous names—the former spluttering out, as well as his passion would let him, an explanation of who he was and what had happened. The bystanders at length told the garde du commerce that he might easily prove his honesty by paying the man not only his fare but the da mage done to his cab, which he also claimed ; but it so happened that the unfortunate officer had no money about him. He was on the point of being hauled off to prison amidst the jeers of the crowd, when his comrade came up, and, confirming his tale, procured his release by paying the cabman's demand. As to the debtor, he got clear off. ~h-, 100 100 100 20 20 35 10 22 all 5i 4a