The Sun. — London, England, 1856-07-10 00:00:00

Prfr - ' MONEY MARKET AND COMMEECtAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocx The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed quietly, but steadily, and, compared with Friday's range, prices of all kinds were unchanged. Surats, from their scarcity, were a point dearer. The sales were estimated at 7,000 to 8,000 bales, of which 500 have been taken for export, and 1,000 on spe culation. The sales include 370 • Pernam and Maranham, at 61d. .td 72d. ; Bahia, 61 to 6 7-16 d. 600 Egyptian, 6d. to 8-W. ; and 800 Surat, 4d. to 4id. per lb. In the Railway Share Market an improvement took place, but no great amount of business was done. A.3counts from Lyons state that a rise has taken place in the price of tallow in that market. On the Bth i nst. the price quoted was 133 f., and offers of 132 f. were refused by the holders. Former prices ruled at llBf., 1201., 1221. Holders of best quali ties are d eman di ng 136 f. an d 137 f. Th e can dl e j roan ufactur,9o..at Lyons, in consequence of this rise, have !ordered largely from Marseilles and Lonion. '4,Che market at Paris likewise exhibits a tend, Du CY tSq rise, particularly for the finer quali ties ( )f Account 4 from Hamburg state that, daring the last month there have been numerous arrivals at that port;: - ..tf American vessels laden with rye, which is immediately landed and conveyed by railway to the Silesian provinces of Prussia, where a scarcity of this artiicle exists. Amongst these vessels, one had come dlirect from Philadelphia with a cargo of 1 6,735 bushels of rye, which was all sent by rail- Iviay to Pr4ssia. The mairFsiiip, Oliver Lang, from Victoria, has are ived off/Holyhead, but the amount of gold she hrivap i s viiot yet known. 11. 1 he Money Mb.rket at the present moment is in viither anomalous position. In Lombard-street tiv. o and four months' bills together have been dis estinted at 3e, and four months' bills alone at 4 Per cent. ; and the supply of capital is so abundant tha t there is some difficulty in finding full employ taei it for the means at the disposal of the bankers and otherS. Notwithstanding this, however, the Rank of England minimum rate remains at 4 i per cent., no alteration having been made at the "parlour" meeting held to-day. It 111 , therefore, clear that some unfavourable lYniptoms in connection with monetary affairs have manifested themselves. The eflux of specie to the Continent (although at present limited), the posi tion of the foreign exchanges, and the large pur alkalies of silver now being made for the Continent are no doubt among the circumstances which have influenced the Directors iu maintaining their pre sent rate. Perhaps the next Bank of England ret urn —viz., that to be published in the Gazette to morro w—will show a falling off in the bullion as large tEL have been transmitted to the Continent, and the receipts of gold from Australia, &c., have been The progress of the Money Market for the ne=t two or three days will be anxiously watched, si nce opinion seems now generally divided as to lr hetberithe minimum will be reduced, or otherwise, In the course of the next few weeks. The feeble condition of the Paris Bourse, and 111 e announcement yesterday of the stoppage of a French banker, hav e incr e ased the fl a t ness o f line English Funds. Still, it cannot be said t hat prices have a downward tendency. Beyond an or 3 per cent. there has been no important variation during the last few days, and, all things eensideied, the market is very firm. This being "coconut day, the dealers are occupied in making the usual arrangements. Consols for money have b e e n 95 11 951 , and' since again at the former :alum For August they are 96 to 96k. The. New Threes are 96 to 97. The Reduced 95i t 0 96i.' Bank Stock is 2181. Exchequer Bills are heavy, at 16s. to 19s. premium. .The Peru v i an D o ll ar B on d s, as t h ey are called, have attracted attention during the last day or two, and an advance to 61 has occurred this morning. This security bears 44 per cent. interest, payable in America, and as the dividends are derived from the Proceeds of the guano, just the same as those of the q per cents., payable in London, and now worth about 82 or 83. Making allowance for the ex change between England and America, it is con sidered that there ought not to be so great a difference in the value of these two securities. The Dollar Bonds being therefore considered cheap, are in demand, and hence their upward move ments. Turki s h 6 per C en t s . h ave rece d e d to . o ta 7, and they were marked at one period as I t s 10 4 The 4 per Cents. r u l e d u ll, a t 1061. ussian 5 per Cents. are 1121, Sardinian 92 to 928, and Spanish Th rees 46 . 1. M ex i can S toc k i s 43 ) Buenos Ayres 88, and Dutch 4 per Cents. 971. The last week's Railway Receipts, ascertained up to this dap,-are in round figures as under : The f o ll ow i ng are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks: --Grenada Deferred Bonds, 7-1- 4 ; Mexi can' 22 4 3 ; Peruvian, 81 83 ; ditto 3 per Cents., °7 9 ; Portu g uese 4 per Cents., 49 51 ; Russia n 5 Sreew,s., 112 114 ; ditt o 4i per C en t s., 98 10 0 ; ‘,, ani sh 3 per Cents., 46i ; ditt o D e f erre d, 4 '4 i; ditto Certificates, 61 ; ditto Passive, 6.7 7. 1856. 1855. . £29.968 £26,060 66,148 63.6:3 20 250 16,887 17,097 15,761 30,374 27,867 21,623 20,724 (heat Western .. Nor t h - estern ........ Bouth-WWestern Brighton . Midland .. Caledoouth-Eastern ... - n:- G reat No there Lancashire and Y or k s hi re ristel and Exeter Cheater and H o l y h ea d N Ma nchester, Sh e ffi e ld , an d Lincoln li orton Gen. Omnibus Company lO, h Stafford North L n ondon D —l ,Trd, Worcester, and Wolverh 4,3S e iralit and Ballymena e r t i l n burg4nnci Gla , gow G r aB g" South-Western at Wee rn of Canada 10,650 —LandTru of Canada The Ri l l:way Share Market is quiet and prices e xhibit s on rcely any change. Some of the principal 'flee are, ; Ge ightly depre-sed, but there is no general la .eveta eoil , of importance. Foreign and colonial are &Air, except East Indian, which are at a a light aeance. Riga are marked 51 b e i ng bigh er. " Baukiig Shsres are firm, and the Ottoman have further improved. National discount are A better. 11,812 20,655 21,869 6,702 5,948 9,171 6,934 2,380 3,843 938 4.681 6.367 6 855 2,928 earnsis FUNDS TIM , t)A‘ • CLOr H. !from. MI OlXer,tal ,•... done. Ban Stock 3 ,,, Per Cent. 0318018 AllnlitiOg ° sl 4 5i i ' , vi 3 per Cert. Annni t , g .., ... %. 11 , eve 2i per Cent. A muiUes 794 14(',"4 AnnO*6ies, expire i; - ,1 .i - n• ' g6O 3 545 Dive 3 , 1 Yeats, expire sth April, 18E5 lB 3 1 ., India Stock . ..... kri('l',•"°'ll-,•i:1.('!;(1 —,(,0 12r.-1,,,,. t urn ConeO'S or Accomr 22 , 7ia Aug 961 6 Bxeh,qter Ilille, 20 O) .......... £ AO R 4e31 p l 6 20 p ~.. ... l7 p ... D itto Bonds', 1858, :3 per Cent: lOOl PR ICES O F FOREIGN .FUNDS AT ONE 0'.,11,0 K. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per . Cent. Ditto Small lO2l ~, D itto Now, 1852, 43 Per Cent. . isttenos Ayres Bonds;' 6 per Cent. B3 kerioan 3 per Gent — ,Ditto Account rortugtese Bonds, 5 per Cent., Con. 1841 49 Ditto 4 p3r Cent ~ Rt tit ia t u o 11°n4s ; 1322 ' .1 St 5 per Cent."' —ll2i AccOunt .. . 92 Sud ittian Bonds,. 5 per . Cont. T 4 liPi.nlsb Committee Cert. of Coup. nit fun. 6.f ri rk ito l, A lio 6e n o do ixnt 6 per cent Ditt o Guaranteed, 4 per C znt. D itto Ae q —ount onMk Dividen is the above ,ayable in London. Ditt o brach Eichange, 21. per Cent., 12 Guilders 4 nor C ent . Certhicaes . ?eruria' n Dollar Bonds, 41 per Cent. TWO O'CLOCK. 95/ i 96 V6i 44j p Consols (Honey) Ditto Account Ditto Scrip.. LONDON AND SOUTEI-EASTERg RAlLWAY.—Traffic re tUrn for the wee k ending July 5, 18'56 £21,623 13 5 Oarresponding week last year.. Increase in. 1856 ......... an 18 5 ~~~ i 0 .4t St. 2Cq !no ioo 10 too 1W 100 100 20 20 3nARJ MARKETS, (TMIS DAY.) RAILWAYS. RAIL WA YS. Closing Prices yesterday A A.mbg. Nottng. Bow and Bastr, Jrinet R.llfast Birming. Wolverh Atom. Va11ey..... Birkeand. Lan..61.. Cheshire Janet._ Do. Cl'esh. ti Birk. 11)o., do. ..... itlytl. &Tyne origins £25 (issd. at £4 Bristol and ltaetei... Caledonian. Chester & Holyhmvi Cork and Bandon Cork, Black, & Pas oorn;vall Do. A Do. B Drb,iudtholfastJtm, Dun. P. dg Jn East Auglis.n.... Eastern Counties. Tninn A. St= Be., B. Stock Do.. New - East Kent PAitt Lancashire Edinburgh& Glasg, 'Mint). and Peebles Edin. Prth &Durvi e'orth & Clyde Jun Furness [)o. Extension %wove &S. vir- , at Great N. of Scotlnd :Northam, Do., A. Stock. 1/0., B r.tock, :";tll . kWest.i. iri treat Western....., Val Ra Gua. Stk ir~Bh South-Eastern w'aste , & earl is I. Do., Third 5..,. .,., Do. New Thirds hancash.andYork2: Wst,., adding 17r, Do. South ors Imadon & Black vpol Loud. Bright &S.Cs! Loud. and N. Westri i)u. Fifths . ..... I)o.)O tih. I Do. Eighths.. London mid F 1 West T.. Lon. Tilby. & South , Barking Sh (Lndndrry& Col erni n Ludwirrr. & Ennill Nianch.Eiite.f. k Lincb Do., Mt n. & Lin. Ur Nre trop oli tan .. ...... .. Midland Do. &Dorb , 7 est.(lto. ►o. Half Shares Iv:naafis& Carlisle Kwpt.Aberg.&HrP awry & Enniskille Vewry, Warrenpo . ni and Rostrevor...— lorfolk . ' 4 orthn.CountiesiTh North British._ Nth Devon Rail. & Dock Stock .. Do., A Stock_ Do., B Stock 4.Eastern---Berwi , s Do. do. Extension Do.do. G.N. E. :Pure , Do. Leeds Do. York INorth London .IzS.Watrn.,Elatn stead, and City Jr. North Staffordshir North Western Y. & S. Westrn. Juni ►a., Wore., a woh. Aottish Coutral 4 .cottish Midland .? • epshiro ',hal ma 4entii Devon 3oath Fasten '•)Uth Wales •;„ Vrkhh. 4 Riv. nhi 4.,, st oo . t or i t ing. 1 , 1., do., 1851 Do., do., 1855 dt p ....... Prof., No. 1. l l'hames hay. D.& 1 , . Vale lf Nonth... & Kilkone ''i , *• , .terforldsLinier • West Cornwall.. . Wost End of Lond Crystal Palac. Do. B._ West L0nd0n..... I Wimbledn Croy(' ni • ) K. ilt Lt C.l Arfl curies Atlam& Saw. leased at 6 p. c. by Gd.Tnk. of Canada ,„. tolg•rut Faitn. Juni ;lesion to Graissf , ssf. 11-Inbay, Ba.roda, an Ca ..India, g 5 p. c, Do. - - Buff & Lk. Hur. Carmeaux & Toulouse Coal Mines and Demerara l)ntob Rhenish Eudora of Franco Do. New east Indian, g. 5 p. Do. lrx. B, gu 5 p. c. Do. Ex. C, gu. 5 p. c iDo. do. D, gu. 5 p. c. D 0.43 p.c.l3nds.,'s' ' • .1. do. do., '59, d• Geo ong t Melbourn' guar. 5 per c nt. . Cl. Tk of Canad Ccrt. of Debon. con. into Stk. WV ( 3 Do. Comp. 6p. c., . Gt. CeLtral of riArt i rk Tn. Pen. g. 5 p. o. 'Do New, gu tr. 5 p. c IGre , t.t Luxembour Constituted Shan I Gt. Western o f Cane'? chares Do. Now , Bds., payable '5 Go. do., '76, p. '60.. Jo. do., '73 do. COG. do., '73, withon option Lake Coast. j Bast Lierre and Turnhout Lombardo Venetian. Lucca 'a Pist. 5 p. c. p Lyons and Geneva Lyons 4 Nroditowr , ‘ Madras, guar. 4 p.c Go. New do., 5 p. c Po. 4i a. c. Exton Do. 3d Ex., g. 5 p. c Waria Antonia ;o. do. New Cainur cis Lif ge ( •nterast)...: bo. (ox in terot) Do. do , C p. c. Pref iorthern of Fran. figrwogianTrunkF, Paris and Lyons.. Ditto Bonds , Paris and Orleans Recife & San. Fran.,' (Pernam.) g. 7 p. c, Riga & Dunaburg at 801. per share._ Rome and Frascati.. .yal Danish -ambre and Manse. 54 p. cent. Pref. icinde, guar. 5 p. c D 0... • ;onthern of Franco.. it. Indrew's .enebee (As ~.... ..• Ast Flanders - )c , 54 per e. Pref... V. &N. W. of Pranc. west. of Switzerland Wiesbaden .. , 11 , !N! cin ;::r:?~c:;, Bank of Egypt Bank of London (101 Bk.& Ln. C ,ritish N. America„ 'lhartd. Bank of As:: !;hrtd. Rr.k. of Anstriia, & Chin; City Colonial Commercial of Loud ng.S, a ot. & km; Cht Loud. Chart. Bk. o Australia ....... Ditto New Gendon and County:. Lna. &E. Bnk F. C )rp. London Joint Stook. Loudon and Paris.... 1 40nd. & Westminste , National Pro, of Eng Do. Now iation?l of Bauk ?Tow Sonth Oriental Bank )1' 'Prporiitioa, ....... Ottoman Bank ...... ey6vineial of Ireland !Jo. Now i kus ti &Go h a 0 , Royal British ........ .1 4 int', X ustralis tniL a of A.nstr , ll‘ f Lowintl Western Blkoflionu 29 31 4J 58 Si 9i 194 - 20 17i - 18 13 14, 96 98 61a 62 16a 17, 11 13 2 3p 10 - 11 18i - 19$ 101 10$ 36 38 25 27 - 88 63 - 65 38 - 39 94 - 96 8 - 84 95 - 961 77 791 130 132 110 1 2 621 63j 73 76 - rh - 76!' 98 - 98 09 111 .081 -• 1094 - 2 p P 11d LO7 - 108 ••• . 31i 35 Ad par 84 84 54 55 ••• s. ... 15 16, 57 - 59 3i - 3 ? 37i 38 87# - 88# 34 2# 21 - 9 - 20 63# 64 91 96 4i - 4i 6t - 6i 11 12 31 33 109 111 79 - 81 50 If•. 15i 16,. 741 - 79 81 4 2 15 17 37 38 • •• 20 -20 A 5 66 '23 25 61 7 6 8 . 3 - 4 - 5iP rIG.N. 5 - 6 gi i 2i - 3 2$ - 2$ 53 , 5,1 2i - 2i 37i 38,1 Lli 24 -24 i 23 - 24 •s '..... .. 21i - 25. 4 .' 14i -14 i 84 - 86 7 - 'lip 222 - 23 2 - 2jp 51 - 6h 26 26! 3 - 100 - 102 125, 1 30 1M - 12) 111 112 ••• '''' ...( tr 12 - 13 r 211 -21 i 3} - lip 2ir 91 9i 8. 9 20. E 21 43 : -45 i 86 9 6) 60 5i 56 - lip 51 . ... 5:1)1 2O • 214 1k It 111 - 12 9i - 104 3 - 3k ..• - pm 5 6f :;'6 i:4 io ~~.. 1103 105 1} 14p 71 - 73 i - 1 P 73 - 75 18 19 21 - 22 1 - 2p Par 2P 48 50 41i - 42i 1 4 4,pl . 4 ' , ."'". N 7 . 3 i . 6 8 10 - L.26 Business done this day ; E •rVr THE SUN, LONDON THURSDAY EVEN !MG LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. RAILWAYS. liewilz.z 4".crapan Bedford and Bletchley ... Buckgharrish. Clydesdale .1.. Col. Stour Vy. Sud. and Hal. E. Lin. g. 6 pc. E. Un. H. Sh. Glas. Barr. & Neils. Direct Do. New...... Glstr.es Dn. Fr Hrtlpl. Dk. & Railway Hull & Solby Do. Shama. Do. Shares. Lon.&Greenw Do.Preferenze Lon., Til., & S. Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Do. 6 per ct. Manch. Batt( and Matlock Middlesbro' & Redear. Midid.Bradf Newmarket Bury E. G.spe N.& Est.s Do. 6 per et. Do. Fixeds p c Prest. - Do. 6 Shr A Royetn.& hit. Shef. Roth Gooleg.s p.c. Shrews. &H er S. Staffordsh. I7ear Vail tvgr 6 per Do , c 7 , Londm N. We • L.SrY. W. Cal 01103 E. Un. S , E. C IGt.Ni ter. lE. Count. I Caldonisn. IDo .., at. Vresa Yk. Now. & Berw. Y. &NAi Do Do S. Easte-•T Do Peto & Co. Norfolk Do L.& N. W & Midi& Stckton &, Darlingt. Midland En. Coun. E. Count. Do.. L.&N.W Do I (fit Lauctue.a & Yo.k9b.. T. Brassoy M. Melear Stockt. Daeing , )o„ . 1 , o 3 r ;!rtttli yes'erhr. this 'lv e 5 100 10) 105 112 - 14 136 - 139 4 4i .o "" liri - liB 12 - 231 - 213 118 - 122 - 94 f 6 a' 56 b 8 135 •-• 158 7.; -- 7* 3 2id 1081 1181 23 14 - 94 i'LLEVEcI.r.,b 4 ).6 SilAtt.6l 120 - 118 ;"i 2 ii 101 - 103 16 - 17 - l‘erdeen Deben. - Do. 6 per cent. Do. No. 2, 7 p. 0 Myth and Tyne lOpe c. pref. (iesd. at 501 & Ex. 4 p. c. St. Do. 4 p. c. Shares lale(loniAn £l.O 'hes. & Flo. Ga. 5;- n• Do. do. Pref. No. 2. Do. do. Pref. No. 2 Cork dcßandonsLp.c. luu.Prth..6l A ker..). 7.1. Anglian Cls. A SI , Do. do. Cls. B 6 p. t; Do.' do Cls. C 7 p. c Tas.Clo.Ex,spcltio Do. No. 2 . Do. New 6 F . c. F . i'ast Un., G. 6 p. Do. 5/., 10 per con. Do. 101. Dehentr.S. Do. do. 4 per cent. Fuist Lanca , h. 6 p. et PI. ;kW. York. 1. 50 , & Gl. 5 p.c. sh FA. Prth.&Dun.4p..: Furness U)! ._ 11 2 00 - les 1 • --- p '3 - • -;!, 137 - 13f.1 79 - 80 Glaa. &5.W.G.5 p.c ()teat Northn. 6 p. 90. 6 p. 0. Redeem at 10 p. c. prom. Do. p. c Do. 5 p.c. Scrip, Red at 5 p. c. pm.., 18 - I'lo - 112 1105 - 107 - ip Gt.N. orScot. I sure Gt. S. &W. (Ireland Do. 4per o. Pr. % S It. W.( %SL Exspc )0. con. s ed. 4 ' Do. L on. lad. 4 p. c Do. irre, 40. c. Do. 5 p. c. red. prof Do. L:rm, Pze'. S Do. Oh ester S p.o. P.' Do, do. 5 7). c. do Do, Bhm. Gas. Sti Do, Ches. Qua. Sh.. Do, do. do ... 6-64 96 98 89 91 90 92 00 • 102 1011 1i 17 1e 75 77 20 —20 i 10 101 15 156 •••• 38 140 Do. do. do Lan. &York. F. £ Do. 6 p. c. Stock Lion.&Brigh. G. 5 p.i . ..)o. Pref., 5 p. c. S. Do. New Guar.6 p. G Do. do. 5 per emit Lon. &N. W., Coy. Nuneaton 5 p. et mi.& S. W. 7 per et late 3d Shares ... eip• ... ••.. . too 153 - 162 Sh Loney. Li Ennis.' -4- M.,F1.,k T. 6p. Cent i)o. do. do. .E 6 ... ..... •• ' a 1 • . 4 Do. do. 34 per . Warypt.&Car!.4 a c D.,. 41 per cent.... Do. do. tf id. Coneo.6 p.c. Do. Con.Br.rr. 94. 4a p. c. Pref. '.'3 140 0. - 103 91 - Ditto L. & FI. Fret SI Now., Abar., dtc., pr. p. c. red. 5 p. c. pm. Do. Perpet. 6 p et. with opts. till '66 Norfolk Dote:: ve I •Do Pref. sp.c.St c 1 Do. 5 p.c. Ext ..... . Da. 5i per ct. De. Way. Val. 6 p c North British - 2p V. E. Perw, 4 p.c. P Do. do. do Do Leeds 6 p.c No. Do. do. Quarters ... 05 —lO7 147, 1 -- e Do. York it& ' 4 . p , r North Staffordshirt,, 10x, Wo. 3r. Do R. Pref. 10/. SI,. Scot. Cent., New Pref ISouth Devon -- id 'CT 109 15 - 16 Do. fixed, 4i per cell. I S. Eastern (Readi knu.) of £1 Oe. CO. ;Do. 4 i per cont.._ 'Do. Fixed 4i p c eIA. .4 Wales Gua. 4p, c. DD. do. 41 p. C.... I.Yorksh.4p.e.Guar. S'tnelt, & Dar., 5 p. o. 'Doi; do. , ft') Stock. k Hartl. g. E p. c. t 1 July 1, '56 Witter fc' • & Kilk. G 111 231 - 2:1: C 2 - 105 10i -- 10t4,. 'OO too . - all all ... "" r q -- Sip •• - • - MINES. 1 all ;Agin Fria .... 10320 7 all q u u s g t l r o a C i j a a l t i l forniau _.-- 1 . 1 . 1 all ißaden (Gd• Duchy of) .... ••• 50 all Therm. Iron & Coal ... ... 20 14 British Iron 4 6 35 26i Brazillanirap.(iEsued iat £5 pm.) 40 all 'Do. Cocace & Culaha 31 3 i 3} 20 15 'Do. St. John Del Rey 22 " 24 1 i Clarendon Cons. Min Co. 'of Jamaica A fp . 19 all Cobra Copper ' 65 67 • 5 lA Colonial G01d.., ..... 4,,. au ' ,Copper Min. of Enf,! 3O 35 25 all Do. Pref. 7b p. can, l 25 . 27 le Copiapo. l6 -- 18 2 li Fortuna is p 23 al! Genual l4 10 1 all Gt.NuggetVeinßez ), I i 4,f all Great Polgooth ..., • i -- 1 5 all Gt Wheal Vor United 1 id 1 all Liberty h i 3 all Linares . 8 i 9 5 14 Lusitanian 1 I ) 1 I 1 all Mariquita. 8 1 all Now Granada i 1 all Nouveau Monde i - 4 , n all Pantgi.So & Le. Min ll. • 124 5 1 'Port Philip I all Quartz Rock • i I 10 all lthymney iron 26 • `.B . 15 all 'Do. New 8 10 30 lAi Santiago de Cuba 3 3i . . 6s. Sort. Cons. Min. Co. 23 24 1 all •ioutt Australian. 4 • 4 . I 1 all D°. Scrip i 1 all IDo. 10 per cent Pref ... ... ..., 4 [Tam. S. &L. Min. Co. l 1f 2 i . 10 j all riu Croft .... .... 41 4i - le' all United Mexican 34 - 4 1 all Waller ••• ••• 1 all West Mariposa .. .. 1 12s. Worthing Mining of Australia MISCELLANEOUS. 26 19 Australian Ar , rleWt. 29 31 292 ,11 Anstrs.ln. Royal Me 5f 50 i t_t t ri l t. o. Aze e r . i: an n sr La Ta n i : 10 all Berlin Water Work, 153 „ 6 too 3 Canada eszr - 30 1.15: 115 d d St. 100 Do. 6 p.c. Feb & Aug st. 100 Dc.6p c. Mar & Sept * 5 Crystal Palace.. 2l 23 5 all Do. Preference........ 3t 6 4 al Crystal Pal.of France 1 1 Dnston iron 20 15 Eastern Steam ~..,, St. 100 Electric Telegraph... 92 94 all Electric Teleg. of Ir. 5 a ll En.daus Cop Sm Co 11 25 all Gen. Iron Sc Collier 14 Gen. Steam Navigat, 16 all General Screw Steam .„. 4 all Lond. Gen. Omnibus 41 —4/ Magdalena St. Navig 2 1 C_. 0 \teditoran. Elec. Tel 8 10 10 9 kilezi can &S, &merlon. 4 —4, 25 5 Nat. Discount Co. ... 11 1.81) 6i 1 all Nat. Pat. StOam Fuel _ 10 5 Netherlands 2 23 2I a ll Do. Do. 5 2 Do. BpcPissatld 100 80 New B. & N.S. Lane 22 24 N.S.W.Gov. sp. c. D ••• ••• x d a ll N. B. Australasian, W I h Nrth. of EuropeS team - 1 all Oriental Gas 313 1 2s, Do. "Ne w Shares" t RP pm all Peel Rr. Ld. & Mine. 3 50 all Peninsular& Oriental 66 68 67 50 10 Do. New 100 60 lioYal Mail Steam 72 74 1 All Scot. Austral. Tared l3 1 1 Ditto Now A it 25 an South Austral. Lard 37 - 38 at Sub mar. Tel. I al Do. Re:istered.... S 0 5 rrnst4 L. 00.17. CUL, 100 . ).Vvi Fait 163.. 173 • • ir.Go,6p.colanZanly .1S Ott LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. IN RE C. J. RARE-CERTIFICATE MEETING. To-day was appointed for the certificate meeting under the bankruptcy of Mr. C. J. Mare, the eminent shipbuilder, at Black wall. Mr. Lawrence appeared for the assignees, and said that on their behalf he should only have to call his Honour's attention to the figures of the account ; but Mr. Linklater, who appeared for the bankrupt, had an application to make for au adjournment. Mr. Linklater said he bad to apply for an adjourn ment, and stated that a meeting bad been held for the purpose of affecting a compromise, but there was some dissension on the part of the creditors present, and his Honour not having the power to adjourn the meeting another had been called, which would take place in about three weeks. It was, therefore, requested that the meeting should be adjourned until after the return of his Honour (in October next) ; but if this was not a legitimate ground for asking for an adjournment, there was another reason which ought to have great weight, which was, that the assignees bad been car rying on the business, and the estate had not yet been realised, and that in cases of such magnitude that the Court should be aware of what amount the dividend would be. Mr. Lawrence left the case entirely to the Court, and wished it to be distinctly understood that they were only anxious to facilitate the realisation of the property, and were quite ready to go into the question now if the Cuurt thought proper. Mr. Waller argued that the adjournment should not take place, or if it did that it ought to be on conditions, and a long discussion ensued as to the alleged buying up debts by the bankrupt, but which was most positivelyde nied by the bankrupt ; but he said that on creditors call ing upon him he ha& statQd that he believed that the estate would pay 7s. 6d. in the pound, and he had offered 53. down, and a bill at 12 months, accepted jointly with his brother. Mr. Quilter had bought some debts, but he had nothing to do with it. Mr. Lawrence insisted that Mr. Quilter had acted en tirely in his individual capacity. Mr. Linklater also said that Mr. Quilter might have carried the i majority at Ole - meeting, if be had thought proper, but he would not interfere with the general body of the creditors. His Honour said he should hold the meeting at the Bankruptcy Court, but the bankrupt could be examined. He was accordingly sworn, and after an examination the adjournment took place. CRIMINAL COURT.—(This Day). (Before Mr. Justice Williams.) Edward Towers, 18, Henry Howard, 23, and William FleckAare, 37, were indicted for a burglary in the dwell ing-house of Isabella Humphreys, and stealing 1351. in money and several articles of plate and other property, tke indictment alleging that they used personal violence to the prosecr.trix it the time of committing the robbery, and John Payton, an officer eniployed at the convict es tablishment at Portsmouth, was charged with feloniously receiving a watch, part• of the stolen property. This case was likely to occupy the Court the whole of the day, avl the circumstances were of an extraordinary character. The prosecutor, whore an aged lady residing at Stamford-hill, it appeared, was in the habit of keep. ing considerable sums of money in the house, and this fact, it would appear, bad come to the knowledge of the prisoner Harwood, through his having married a female servant who was formerly in the service of the prosecutrix, and there could be no doubt that a regular plan was concocted to rob the house. The burglary was effected on the night of the 24th of April, and four men were concerned in it. They effected an entrance into the house by breaking through a wall at the back of the house, and upon the servant coming down stairs nhe was knocked down, a knife was held to her throat, and she was threatened to be murdered if she did not state where the money vva. The prosecutrix was also attacked in her bedroom, tied in the bed, a hand kerchief placed on her mouth, and several pillows over her head, and was ❑early suffocated. There was a good deal of circumstantial evidence to show that the prisoners Towers, Harwood, and Fleckhart were three of the men concerned in the robbery ; and as regarded the other prisoner, Payton, it was suggested that a convict named Stork, who had been under his charge, was the fourth man, and that he had obtained from this man a watch, that was part of the stolen property. The case was proceeding when we went to press, and was likely to occupy the court till a late hour, NEW COURT. (Before the Common Sergeant.) William Connell, 40, brassfounder, was indicted for he manslaughter of Martha Cannel!, his wife. Mr. Platt prosecuted, and Mr. Tindall Atkinson de fended. The particulars of this case have very recently ap peared. The prisoner, who was spoken of as being a most kind and respectable man, lived with his wife, who was a very dissipated character, in an attic in Rey street, Clerkenwell, and upon the morning of the 17th of June he came home and found his wife upon the side of the bed, and by her side was a man who is named Trigarthy, a carpenter, living at No. 7, Peter's-terrace, Saffron-hill, in such a position as to leave no doubt but that he had been taking improper liberties with her. Upon this prisoner beat the man ; and an they were going out of the room the deceased woman got a wound upon the head, which it was al leged the prisoner did by throwing a garden-pot at ber. N . ...thing serious resulted from it until about a week afterwards, when tetanus set in, and she died upon the 29th, in the Free Hospital, Gray's-inn-lane. The Common Sergeant, having beard the evidence, said it was not such as the ptisontr ought to be con victed upon, and he was thereupon acquitted. Herbert Croft Ryland was indicted for uttering a forged cheque for 5551., purporting to be a cheque drawn by his uncle, a Mr. Evans, hop merchant, upon Messrs. Maitermaa. Mr. Bodkin and Mr. S:eigh prosecuted. The facts have very recently appeared in the .police columns, under the head of the Mansion house. The jury acquitted the prisoner. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(this Day.) LONDON, July 10.—Wind this day at noon, W. ; light breeze and fine. PORTSMOUTM, July 9 =Wind W.S.W., squally.— Ar rived.—Chanticleer (s.s. tpt), from Balaklava ; King B daklava ; East Anglian (s.s tpt.), Devonport. PLYIIOUTII, July o.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrived—Thorn hill, from Liverpool, for Quebec, making a little water. FALM•UTII, July o.—Arrived—Buma Ma.ta, from Ha vana. colvEs"; July 9.—Wind W.—Arrived—Clio, from Ak yab, and sailed for Bremen ; Bonita, Pernambuco ; Don Francisco, Havana. TORBAY, July 9.—Sailed—Alipore, for the Cape of Good Hope, with the rest of the wind bound. PADSTOW, July B. The brig Lord Mill, of Sunderland, :got On the, rocks in entering the harbour and received damage ; she is now alongside the pier. OFF tvE.—Europa, from Sydney. FISIIGUARD, July 3.—The Truo Briton, of Cardigan, and the Sarah, of Woodbridge are a total wreck; the crew of the former saved, and master and two hands of the latterlost; part of cargo saved by salvers. OFF BARDSRY.—Vocalist, from Liverpool, for Sydney, N.S.W. HOLYIIE S.D, July 9.—The Isaac, Webb, of and for New York, from Liverpool, with 300 passengers, which was on shore off Almwich yesterday, is badly bilged and must dis chargo. (PIA ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) ..._ PORTSMOUTH, July M. Arrived—The steam transport Jason, from the East, with Royal Artillery, whom she is ordered to land at”Woolwich. LIYEKPOOL, Thursday Morning. Wind W.N.W. Sailed—Factory Girl, for Valparaiso. QUEENSTOWN, July 8. Wind N.N.W. Arrived—Violet, from Malta; Simeon Hardy, Barba does ; Orion, Galatz ; Victoria, Rio Grande ; White Cloud, Cardenas ; Fury, St. John 's, N ew f oun d land ; Hes. perus, Galatz. DUBLIN, July 9. Wind W.N.W. Arrived—Tuscarora, from St. John's ; .Nagade, Memel. (BY SUBMARINS AND BRITISH TELEGBAP GRAVESEND, Thurslay, 10.28 a.m. Wind 'W. ; tide three hours' ebb ; fi ne. Arrived July 9.--Venus, from Monvona ; Expounder, St. John's, N.B. Arrived July 10.—Czar, from Santa Cruz; Fernandez, Port Beanford ; Lady Hilda, Barbadoes ; Sir George Pol lock, Sierra Leone ; Europa, Sydney. Sailed.—Sonata for Adelaide; Paris and Londcn stea mer, Paris. DEAL, Thursday, 10.17 a.m. Wind calm ; fine. Pa s sed—City of Peterborough, from . Colomb o ; L a dy Biwa Bruce, Colombo; Peninsular, screw steamer, 172 Transport, Balaklava ; Cambria, Trinidad ; Walsoken, Ceylon ; Marli, Granada ; Grecian, Jamaica— all for Lon don; Acorn, London, for Algoa Bay ; Champion, Loudon, for Malta ; Vesta, screw steamer, London, for Opoito ; Jovan Augusta; London, for Malaga, Anchored—Auguste, from Sicily, for Newcastle; Omar Pasha, London, for Newport. Sailed—Australia, for Callao? FALL IN THE PRICE OF PORTER.—Yesterday, the brewers of Cork reduced the price of porter from 40s. to 355. a cask, which leaves the retail price 2d. a pint. This reduction, we believe, is coneequent upon a similar WOVelunt, adopted last week by the Dublin brewers. 1091 1091 bi 1061 7i 884 8 19 64i i 4 131 i 14 743 33 St. St. 6 S fi St. 00 00 00 LOO 00 no pm Pm 1191 231 4 V .4 JULY 10, ISsti, LIVERPOOL RACES.—(This Day.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) HANDICAP PLATE. Remedy .... Breeze . Eight ran. LATEST BETTING. LIVERPOOL CUP. 7to 4 agst Typee (taken) 6to 1 agst Brother to Grey Tommy (taken) 13 to 2 bar one 20 to 1 agst Goldhill (offered) Wild Huntsman was scratched at 1.15. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(This Day.) The Speaker took the chair at 12 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Butterworth Estate Bill W 149 read a third time. VACCINATION BILL. On the motion for reading the orders of the day, a discussion took place relative to the position of the Marquis of Blandford's Formation of Parishes Bill on the paper, and the noble marquis asked that it should be restored to its proper place at the head of the list. It was ultimately arranged that the orders should be pros ceeded with as they stood in the list. Mr. COWPER addressed the house relative to the course he should pursue with respect to the Vaccination Bill. He said that already they bad had considerable legislation on the subject, three acts being now on the statute book. It was generally admitted that the legislation on this sub ject had hitherto been unsatisfactory, and it was felt that the present law from its defects could not continue, and he had been induced in conseqUence to deal with the subject. The present law provided that public Vaccina tors should be appointed throughout the country, but no provision was made for the appointment of persons competent adequately to discharge these duties. The country was unequally divided into districts, the system of registration was defective, and the remuneration to the medical officers was not sufficient. One scheme propounded some time since for altering the defects complained of was, that the Board of Health should take under its care the management of vaccination, but to that he objected, for although cminected with the Government by virtue of the office he held, he was op posed to centralisation (hear, hear) and was desirous that local self-government shou'd be continued. (Hear, hear.) The question was, bow to legislate on this sub ject, and but two ways only presented themselves—one was to make the present law efficient or enacting a fresh one, and, after consideration, he was of opinion it was better to adopt the latter course. He proposed, amongst other alterations by this bill, that practitioners soliciting appointments as public vaccinators should show their qua'ification for the office, from havin g attended the Small-pox Hospital or otherwise studied and had experi ence of the disease, and be properly recommended. He also proposed to alter the vaccinating districts, and to adopt the existing registration districts. He had pre pared a scheme for registration which, he thought, would have been found successful, and it would have been compulsory on the part of the registrar to make a return of the children vaccinated to the Board of Guardians, who should give notice to the people and warn them against neglecting vaccination ; and where it was found necessary to proceed against parents for neglecting it, the expenses of the prosecutions should be paid out of the poor rates. The right hon. gentleman next referred to what were called the compulsory clauses of the bill, to which so much opposition hal been raised, and after reminding the house that the cornpulscry clauses were not introduced merely to compel persons to do a certain thing for themselves, but as a precaution against the spread of one of the most contagious diseases that existed, and a protection to the public, he said from returns furnished in connection with the Small-pox Hospital he found that the mortality from that disease, without vaccination, amoun t e d to one in three o r four. After some further remarks; he moved that the ordtr for going into committee on this bill be discharged, and the bill withdrawn. (Hear, hear.) Mr. T. DUNCOMBE concurred in the course pur sued by the Government, and suggested that the subject should be further investigated by a select committee before legislation was attempted. After some remarks from Mr. Henley, Sir G. Grey, and Dr. Michell, the latter of whom objected to vacci nation, and said that if euiall-pox were properly treated the mortality would not be more than three per cent. The order was discharged, and the bill withdrawn. NUISANCES REMOVAL, &c. (SCOTLAND No. 2) BILL. This bill passed through committee after some discus sion and various amend men t s o f th e c l auses . Unlawful Oaths (Ireland) Bill, Railway Acts (Ire- land) 1851 Continuance Bill, and the Turnpike Acts Continuance (..reland)' Bill, passed through committee without amendments. ASSESSED TAXES ACTS. The report of the committee was brought up, read, and agreed to. APPELLATE JURISDICTION (HOUSE OF LORDS) (SALARIES AND RETIRING PENSION) BILL. The report of the committee relative to the payment of the salaries &c., under this bill, was brought up and read, and the resolutions on which to found a clau,e in the bill were agreed to. FORMATION &c. OF PARISHES BILL. On the motion of the Marquis of BLANDFORD, the committee on this bill was resumed. Clause 9 was omitted, the Marquis of Blandford inti mating that it was his intention to substitute anottier for it on bringing up the report. Clauses 10 to 17, after amendments, were agreed to. Oa the motion of the Marquis of 13LANDFORD, clause 18 and 19 were omitted. Others to be. subtt'- tuted for them on bringing up the report. Clauses 20 to 24 were amended and agreed to. O❑ clause Sir G. B. PE(3IIELL moved—" Provided also, that when the patronage of any church or chapel to which a district shall have been assigned is vcsted by any of the church building acts, or by this act, or by any local act, in the incumbent of the original parish district or place out of which such district has been taken, the person bolding the incumbency of such original parish, district, or place at the time of the passing this Act, shall not be deprived of the patronage of such church cr chapel by any assignment of the same during his incum bency without his consent.. After some discussion the proviso omitting the words referring to the Church was agreed to. [LEFT SITTING.] MARKET NEWS.—(This Day. CORN EX CHANGE. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the week ended July 10,1856, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Watts per Imperial Quarter. wuerr. BARLEY. OATS. I RYE. I BEANS. ) PEAS 74i 71 31s 71 26s Id tis lid 44, 51 43s 01 TIIE SIX WEEKS' AVERAGE. WHEAT. BARLEY, OATS. I BIE. BEANS. PEAS. 703 2! 58i 91 214 91 ( 453 101 433 3cl 413 3d QUANTITIES OF GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK. Wheat, 91,313; RitrleY, 2.74); Oats, 10,0 s ; Rye, 48 ; Beans, 2,779, Peas, li7 quarters. MEAT MARKETS. NEWGATIC AND LEADENHALL.—The demand for each kind of meat ruled steady, as follow : —Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s Gd ; Mutton, 3s 8d to 5 , 3 Ud ; Lamb, 4s Gd to 5s 6d ; Veal, 3s 10d to 4s 10d ; Pork, 3s 6d to 4s 8d per Blbs, by the carcase. SOUTHAI,L, July 9. —To-day's market was but moderately supplied with most kinds of stock, which sold steadily, at full prices. Beef, from 3s 4.1 to 4s 101; Mutton, 3s 8d to 5s 2d ; lamb, 4 3 10d t o 5 3 10 d ; V e il; 4a Od to 5s Od ; Pork, 4s 03 to *s Si ner 81bs, to sink the offal. ROMFORD, July 9.—We kad a good trade to-day, as follows :—Beer. from 3s 4d to 5s 0d ' • Mutton, 33 10d to 5s '4d • Lamb, 5s 01 to Gs Od ; V ea l, 4s Od to 5s 2d; Pcrk, 'c;s 8d to 4s 8d per Sibs, HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—OId meadow hay, 31 5s to 5/ 15s ; new do., 3/ Os to 4/ Os; old clover, 4/ lOs to 6/ 15s ; new do., 4/ to 5' ; and draw, 11 12s to 11 16s per load. A moderate demand. CUMBERLAND.—OId meadow hay, 3/ 8s to 5/ 153; new do., 3/ Os to 4/ 03; old c l over , 4/ 'lO3 to 6/ 123 ; new do., 4/ to 51; and straw, 1/ 12s to I/ 16s per loa 1. Trade steady. WHITECHAPEL. —Old meadow 3/ 53 to 5/ 123; new do.. 3/ Os to 4/ Os ; old clover, 4/ lOs to 6/ 15s ; now do., 4/ to 5l; and straw, 1/ 12s to 1/ 16s per load. A slow trade RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. GREAT NORTHERN RAlLWAY.—Traffia return for the week ending June 29, 1853 £21,257 6 7 Corresponding week last year 20,655 16 3 LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY. —Traffic re turn for the week ending July 6, 1856 £24,897 19 8 Corresponding week last year 21,869 10 5 CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for the week ending July 6, 1856 £7,135 2 6 Corresponding week last year 5,948 9 11 increase in 1856 . . £1,186 12 7 CORK AND BANDON RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for week ending July 5, 1856 Corresponding week last year 261 13 6 ... LONDON GENERAL OMNIBUS COMPANY. —Traffic re turns for the week ending June 28, 1856 ..... R 10,007 310 EXTENSIVE FIRE IN THE CITY -ROAD.—Yesterday afternoon a fire of an extensive character happened in the premises belonging to Messrs. Green and Co., ca binet-makers and timber-merchants, East-road, City road. The premises were of considerable extent, com prising various workshops, &c., in which cabinet works were deposited, whilst many piles of timber filled the open yard. The fire WAS discovered shortly after the men had gone to theirdinner, and appeared at that time to be confined to the timber in the yard near the front house. Hence, however, it soon spread to the piles of timber adjacent, and to the workshops. The firemen, though exposed to great danger, exerted themselves with intrepidity and vigour, and by seven o'clock the flames were sufficiently subdued todremove fears of any further extension. The loss, which is considerable, will fall upon the Monarch Fire-office. The adjoining premises of Mr. Houchin, engineer, and Mr. Gearis, iron -founder, sustained damage by fire and water, but not to so Seri ous an extent as to put a stop to their business. TEE NATIONAL GALLERY AND RUE N.EW "GLOVANM BELLINI." TO THEI EDITOR, OF THE SUN. SlR,—This morning I paid a first visit to the new " Giovanni Bellini." Imagine, instead of the limpid, sunny, and gem-like surface of Giovanni Bellini, a besmeared, dull-purple, rotten-looking daub, stippled up to the highest pitch of , the " trade," and you have a faint idea of what you will realise in all its offensiveness by a visit to the western room of the National Gallery. There is nothing in this picture upon which to fix a l'elief that it ever was a work of moment ; but whatever its former pretensions, reduced as it is now, with out a square inch of the flesh, or the sky, or the landscape, and with scarcely more of the drapery in even a proximately original state, it is not less a libel on the intelligence of England than on the Great Patriarch of the Venetian school. I shall scarcely be-suspected of partiality for the indivi duals, whether separately or collectively, now at the head of the National Gallery ; but should the surprise which I felt on my first glance at this, their latest triumph, be insisted on as an involuntary homage to their former achievements, I shall not dispute the claim. On leaving the Gallery I met an acquaintance who had already paid a visit to the "Giovanni Bel lini." A less experienced student of National Gal lery economy than myself, he was somewhat ruffled upon my informing him that the taxpayers of this country had been mulcted in the sum of 1,0501. for a daub, the summary ejection of which from the Gallery would be a gain, even at the sacrifice of its purchase money, and a fee for its removal—for a bad picture is worse than none. He exclaimed, " Are these men (meaning the purchasers of the mad, or do they take us for fools ?" Sir C. Eastlake has certainly little reason to respect the wisdom of a people who per sist in retaining him in the directorship of their National Gallery, in thee teeth of his reiterated ad missions of his incompetency for the office. With regard to the first clause of my impatient compa nion's exclamation, areference to the spurious or be daubed Holbeins, Titians, Paul Veroneses, Manteg nas, Botticettis, &c., from abroad, to say nothing of home " restorations," soon convinced him that if the meu are insane their madness has at least the virtue of " method ;" for a more methodical selec tion of bad and vamped-up objects than theirs would tax even the most imaginative to conceive. Yet our msthetical director complacently an nounces, at pages 53, 54, 55, and 56, " Estimates, &c., Civil Services for the year ending March 31, 1857," that his " Adoration of the Magi" is " en the whole well preserved ;" that his Mantegna is " happily not touched by restorers ; and that his Retticelli is in " excellent," and his Giovanni Bellini in "perfect, preservation." The judgment which I have pronounced upon this new " Giovanni Bellini " is the result of as much consideration as a work in such a condi tion deserves. The intelligent will endorse it ; those of the opposite category are unworthy of a thought. I will maintain that judgment and make it prevail.--Yours obediently, 27, Soho-squar e , July 7.MORRIS MOORE. TIIE STEAV-BOATCOLLISION ON TIDE MERSEY. INQUEST ON THE BODIES. LIVERPOOL, JULY 9. The inquest on the bodies of the eight unfortunate Irish men who died from injuries sustained in the collision of the iron steam-boats Mail and Excelsior, on the Mersey, ou Sunday morning, was continued to-day before Mr. F. P. Curry and a respectable jury, in the Crown Court, St. George's-hall. _ _ Mr: Blair, barrister, instructed by Messrs. Duncan, Squarey, and Duncan, watched the case on behalf of the owners of the Mail; Mr. Aspinall, instructed by Messrs. Lowndes, Bateson, and Robinson, fur the owners of the Excelsior; Mr. T. S. Raffles, instructed by Mr.' John Yates, jun., for the representatives of the deceased; and Mr. Bremner, attorney, for Brewer, the pilot who was in charge of the Excelsior at the time of the collision. Captain Cooke, superintendent of the pilots of Liver- pool, and Mr. Hodgson, Harbour-master, sat on the bench, assisting the coroner and the jury with models and charts showing the positions of the ♦essels as the evidence pro ceeded. The court was crowded, and the greatest interest was manifested throughout the hearing. The jury having been to inspect both vessels, for the purpose of making themselves acquainted with the posi tion of the lights, Joseph Bailey, the captain of the Mail, was sworn. He said—l am master of the iron screw-steamer Mail, 194 tons register, plying between Dublin and Liverpool. The crew, including officers, consists of 16 men. There are two en gines of 30-horse power each. W 6 sailed from Dublin on Saturday, at 1 55 p.m., with 76 deck-passengers, eight cattle-dealers, and four cabin-passengers. We had a fair wind, but took the sails in. The chief-officer (White) was on the first nightwatch, which consisted of chief-officer, carpenter, and two sailors on the look-out on the forecastle. One of the sailors was at the helm. When the night set in, we had our usual lights all right. We approached the Me:sey by the Rock channel, all going well till we got there. We rounded the Rock light at 1 30, half an hour after entering the channel. At that time the boatswain, Thomas Gurney, was in charge of the helm, and all hands were then on dezle, in accordance with custom on coming into port. We kept as close to the Cheshire shore as we could get. Immediately after rounding the Rock light the chief officer reported a steamer coming down the river, about half a point on our port bow. We were going at full speed at that time. I then distinctly observed the three lights of the steamer. The head of the Mail was S., a little westerly. I was standing close to the man at the wheel, in the centre of the vessel, which was the most commanding place for a look-out. The strange steamer was then about a wile off. It was a little cloudy, not to say dark. Tho position No. 3 on the Admi ralty Regulations is the nearest approach to the positions of the stainers. My lights were properly placed, and had been trimmed about half an hour before. Ido not know, of my own knowledge, that they had been trimmed so recently, but was told so. The other steamer was coming stem on, a little on the port bow of the Mail. Immediately I saw her I gave directions to port the helm, and it was ported. I was standing alongside the man at the wheel. The ves sel immediately answered to the helm. The effect would be to allow the other vessel to pass on the port side. The chief officer reported a ship at anchor right ahead, and I gave orders to steady the helm in order not to pass over her, and the moment we had cleared her on the east, or Lancashire side, the helm was again put to port. I lost sight of the red light ( o n the po r t side) of the steamer; and knowing from that that he must have star boarded his helm, I gave orders to " slow " and " stop " at one breath. I then saw the other steamer coming right on our port bow about a quarter of a mile off. My chief offi cer was close by the foremast, on the spar deck, which I should think is six or seven feet above the main dock. I heard the chief officer hail the steamer to port his h( lm. There was no reply. The way of the Mail was deadened a good dea'. We had not time to reverse, as the collision oc curred within about a minute after the engines were stopped. At that time I believe the other steamer W.:B going full speed. She struck us on our port bow, and run the cutwater to within three or four feet of our fore mast, tearing up the deck and cutting through the iron nearly to the water's edge. The windlass was upset, and forced through the hatch ou to the people below. I went and rendered every assistance below. The moment she cut into us we hailed to know her name, and the an swer was, " Excelsior." The collision took place near the Cheshire side, about a quarter of a mile from low-water mark. At the time of the collision it was within 5 minutes of high water. We might have gone closer in, but vessels lay at anchor, and we could not do so with safety. The bower anchor and chain of the Excelsior got over our pa.vel-bit o and became entangled. They hauled up 15 fathoms of their chain, unshackled it, and left it with us before they could get free. They also left their bower anchor with us. After getting free the Excelsior stayed a short time off the old magazines, at New Brighton, and then went on. The collision took place about three minutes after we had passed the vessel at anchor. That vessel was the brig Maria. When the vessels struck the Mail was heading right for the Cheshire shore. I saw then the Excelsior's green light, and that only. After the vessels had got clear of each other I saw that six of the deck pea• servers had been killed and a number of others very badly hart. I went to •Clarence Pier-head, and landed them before going into dock. The dead bodies were taken to the dead-house, and the wounded were removed to the Northern Hospital. I have had to do with steatn vesiels about 25 years, durlng five of which I have had command of one. I had not a pilot on board at the time. I have not a certificate to pilot my own vessels. When a pilot hails me I take him. lam riot compelled to take one if he'does not offer his services. - I have a master's certificate of Service from the Board of Trade, and also one for competency. No pilot offered to take charge of my vessel, or made a signal for•that purpose. This witness was under cross-examination when our par cel was despatched at 5 p.na. Several other witnesses would be heard, and the case would then be adjourned until Sa turday at 10 a.m. The body of one of the deceased, Michael Dovan, who, with another man on board the Mail, was in charge of 150 sheep, was removed to Dublin to-day; and this morning the remaining seven bodies in the dead-house at the Princes-quay were buried at the parish burial-ground (St. Martin's) The funeral was followed by a ♦ery large con course of people. The Viceroy of Egypt has given to M. Benedette, act ing as consul-general of France at Cairo, 30,000 fr. for the victims by the late inundations. SHE FRENCH LOSSES IN THE CRI3IEA.—The Honiteur l'Annee contains an article on the suhj ct of the losses suffered by the French army in the Crimea. According to the statement of this paper, apparently founded on official information, the number of deaths, as set forth in two tables, embracing respectively from May 1, 1854, the date of the landing of the army in Turkey, and from that to March 30, 1856, when peace was signed, was as follows :—Officers of all grades, 1284; non-commissioned officers, 4403 ; and rank and file, 58,805—0 r in all, 62,492 men ; in the Baltic, during the expedition of 1854, there died 1059, and in France 13,635 —making a total of 21,028, which, added to the deaths in Turkey and the Crimea, give a sum of 83,520. TREMENDOUS FELT.—Miss Kate Cook has announced for her forthcoming benefit at Astley's that she will take a flying leap over a lady in full dress, and clear the en tire body without touching a single flounce. The dis tance, measured from skirt to skirt, is calculated to ex ceed by two or three yards that of the longest l eap on record. There are wagers to a considerable amount, both in sporting and equestrian circles, that the daring youn g lady will not be able to accomplish the difficult task. She has been strongly advised by all her friends to abandon the foolhardy undertaking, and to jump over , sixteen hoops, or half-a-dozen elephants, or a Green • with hotel bill, or any other bulky object, instead. — "Mao LITERATURE. - Little Dorrit. No. VIII. By Charles Dickens. Tattycoram runs away from the House of Mr. Meagles, at Twickenham—taking refuge (!) with Miss Wade in a dilapidated mansion in Mayfair whence those two amiable females subsequently take their departure together mysteriously. Would that neither of the young hags could ever trouble • the readers of " Little Dorrit" by any subsequent reapparition ! Such, however, of course, is inevit able : at any rate when they do ultimately appear again we may hope at least that it may then at length be revealed, why on earth they were either of them introduced, at all into the narrative ! Meanwhile, turning from the contemplation of that abominable Miss Wade, and her perfectly congenial handmaiden Tattycoram—we may now briefly enumerate some other of the striking incidents narrated iu the present instalment. Foremost among these, Harry Gowan is the accepted suitor for the hand of Pet, other wise Minnie; more than this they are formally bethrothed ; more even than this they are actually on the eve of being married. As the natural consequence of all which, we learn in due course all about " Nobody's Disappearance." It is the title of the twenty-eighth chapter of Part I. of " Little Dorrit "—one of the love liest and most loveable - love-passages ever penned by novelist ! A chapter so sweet, so fresh, so tender, so graceful, that as we read it the tears brim up into our eyes spontaneously. Charles Dickens, even glorious Charles Dicken s , h as b u t very seldom written anything more beautiful. It is a love scene full of nature, full of poetry, full of pathetic truthfulness. There is not a syllable in it either hackneyed or conventional. It has no where about it the faintest vestige of mere senti mentalism—a thing unendurable alike to gods and men—and by this time happily restricted to the Rosa-Matildas of literature. Hero is the scene of Arthur Clennam's interview with Minnie : "A tranquil summer sunset shone upon him as he ap proached the end of his walk, and passed through the mea dows by the riverside. He had that sense of peace, and of being lightened of a weight of care, which country quiet awakens in the breasts of dwellers in towns. Every thing within his view was lovely and placid. The rich foliage of the trees, the luxuriant grass diversified with wild flowers, the little green islands in the river, the beds of rushes, the water-lilies floati ng ou th e sur f ace o f t h e stream, the distant voices in the boats borne musically towards him on the ripple of the water and the evening air, were all ex pressive of rest. In the occasional leap of a fish, or dip of an oar, or twittering of a bird not yet at roost, or distant bark ing of a dog, or lowing of a cow—in all such sounds there was the prevailing breath of rest, which seemed to encompass him in every scent that sweetened the fragrant air. The long lines of red and gold in the sky, and the glorious track of the descending sun, were all divinely calm. Upon the purple tree-tops far away, and on the green height near at hand up which the shades were slowly creeping, there was au equal hush. Between the real landscape and its shadow in the water, there was no division ; both were so untroubled and clear, and, while so fraught with solemn mystery of life and death, so hopefully reassuring to the gazer's soothed heart, because so tenderly and mercifully beautiful." In the subsequent chapter in which " Mrs. Flint winch goes on Dreaming," there is a brief but won derful description of a wild stormy twilight in the City, forming a marvellous contrast in every way to this exquisite sketch of the summer's evening at Twickenham. It is immediately anterior to the abrupt reappearance of the assassin Rigaud, with his moustache going up and his nose coming down as he grins upon poor dazed Affery shut acciden tally out of the house-upon-crutches by the bang ing -to of the street door by an unexpected gust of wind. Hero is the description alluded to, imme diately before Affery is swung out into the paved forecourt by the wind aforesaid— " She stood at the open door, staggering herself with this enigma, oa a rainy, thundery evening. The clouds were flying fast, the wind was coming up in gusts, banging some neighbouring shutters that had broken loose, twirling the rusty chimney-cowls and weathercocks, and rushing round and round a confined adjacent churchyard as if it had a mind to blow the dead citizens out of their graves. The low thunder, muttering in all quarters of the sky at once, seemed to threaten vengeance for this attempted desecration, ard to mutter, Let them rest ! Let them rest !' " The number altogether ends this month in a sort of wild, wierd, grimly, ghostly disorder. Affery having just fetched old Flintwinch of the cut-down aspect from a neighbouring public-house, where he has been carousing 1 Rigaud the murderer, muf fled in a large cloak, and looking eagerly for them over his hooked nose and ragged moustache, as he awaits their cowing in the dark gusty doorway of the house upon crutches ! Mrs. Clennam calling from her room up stairs in the darkness—bewil dered by so many strange sounds and footsteps— " Who is it ? What is it ? Why does no one an swer Who is that, down there ?" And so the number terminates ? What is it all coming to What is going to happen ? Tile reader is left breathlessly expectant, but at the same titnn ut terly bewildered. It should be observed, before putting the present number aside that there are introduced here and there in the course of it, quite incidentally, some little sketches of street sceneryand street character that Boz alone, we do believe, could ever have thought of, or, having thought, could possibly have described. Here, for example, is Boz's description of— MAYFAIR. I " It was now summer-time ; a grey, hot dusty evening. They rode to the top of Oxford-street, and, there alighting, dived in among the great street - a of melancholy stateliness, and the little streets that try to be as stately and succeed iu being more melancholy, of which there is a labyrinth near Park-lane. 'Wildernesses of corner-house's, with barbarous old porticoes and appurtenances ; horrors that came into ex istence under some wrong-headed person in some wrong : beaded time, still demanding the blind admiration of all en suing generations and determined to do so until they tum bled down ; frowned upon the twilight. Parasite little tenements with the cramp in their whole frame, from the dwarf hall•door on the giant model of his Grace's inthe Squaro to the squeezed window of the boudoir commanding the dunghills in the Mews, made the evening doleful. Iticketty dwellings of undoubted fashion, but of a capacity to hold no Ling comfortably except a dismal smell, looked like the last result of the great mansions' breeding in and-in ; and, where there little supplementary bows and balconies were supported on thin iron columns, seemed to be serofu. lonsly resting upon crutches. Here and there a Hatehment, with the whole science of Heraldry in it, loome i down upon the street, like au Archbishop discoursing oa Vanity. The shops, few in number, made no show ; for popular opinion was as nothing to there. The pastry-cook knew who was on his books, and in that knowledge could be calm, with a few glass cylinders of dowager peppermint drops in his win low, and half a dozen ancient specimens of currant • jelly. A few oranges formed the greengrocer's whole conces sion to the vulgar mind. A single basket made of moss, once containing plover's eggs, held all that the poulterer had to say to the rabble. Everybody in those streets seemed (which is always the case at that hour and season) to be gone out to dinner, and nobody seemed to be giving the dinners they had gone to. Ou the door-steps there were lounging, footmen with bright parti-colored plumage and white polls, like an ex-- tinct race of monstrous birds ; and butlers, solitary men of re- - - cluse demeanour ; each of whom appeared distrustful of all other butlers. The roll of carriages in the Park was done for the day ; the street lamps were li g hti ng ; and:Wicked little grooms in the tightest fitting garments, With twists in their legs answering to the twists in their minds, hung about iu pairs, chewing straw and exchanging fraudulent secrets. The spotted dogs who went out with the carriages, and who were so associated with splendid equipages, that it looked like a condescension in those animals to come out without them, ac companied helpers to and fro on messages. Here and there was a retiring public-house which did not require to be sup ported on the shoulders of people, and where gentlemen out of livery were not much wanted." What a capital notion that is, too, a little later on, of ono of the parasite streets in this locality, being "long, regular, narrow, dull, an d g l oomy ; like a brick an mortar funeral !'' Ana that glimpse of a " little area gate, where a dejected youth stood, spiking his chin on the summit of a precipi tous little shoot of wooden steps J" What a comi cal account that is, moreover, given by Didkeus of the Court pensioners "located " in Hampton Court Palace, with a record of their various ways and means Hear him— " The venerable inhabitants of that venerable pile seemed iu those times to be encamped there like a sort of civilised gipsies. There was a temporary air about their establish- ments, as if they were going away the moment they could get anything better ; there was also adissatistied air about them selves, as if they took it very ill that they had not already got something much better. Genteel blinds and make-shifts were more or less observable as soon as their doors were opened ; screens not half high enough, which made dining rooms out of arched passages, and warded off obscure corners where footboys slept at night with their heads among the knives and forks ; curtains which called upon you to believe that they didn't hide anything ; panes of glass which requested you not to sec them ; many objects of various forms, feign. in. to have no connection with their guilty secret, a bed ; disguised traps in walls, which were clearly coal-cellars ; af fectations of uo thoroughfares, which were evidentl y d oors to little kitchens. Mental reservations and artful mys' cries grew eyes of their of things. sCallersn looking st ea dil y into the not to sm e ll coo ki ng three out receivers,ese t hin pretended feet off; people, confronting closets accidentally left open, pretended not to see bottles; visitors, with their heads against a partition of thin canvas and a page and a young female at high words on the oth er s id e, ma d e b e li eve to bo s itti n g in a primeval silence. There was no end to the small social accommodation-bills of this nature which the gipsies of gentility were constantly drawing upon, and accepting for, one another." Among which class of civilised Bohemians don't we hear tell of one "courtly old lady, formerly a Beauty, and still sufficiently well favoured to have dispensed with the powder on her nose, and a certain impossible bloom under each eye"— and of " another old lady, dark-browed and kigh nosed, and who must have had something real about her or she could not have existed ; but it was certainly not her hair, or her teeth, or her figure, or her complexion !" These " pen by the way" being apropos of Arthur Clennam's introduction to the lady-mother of the objectionable owner of the objectionable dog—to wit, Harry Gowan. Capital descriptions all of them, these about Mayfair and Hampton.. 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