The Sun. — London, England, 1856-08-11 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERfiIAL INTELLIGENCZ, CITY, Two O'CLOCK. The Liverpool Cotton Market on Saturday closed with a quiet though firm feeling, and prices of a]l kinds were well supported at the full rates of Friday. The sales were estimated at 7,000 bales, 500 for export and 500 on speculation, comprising 400 Egyptian, 61d. to Sd., and 1,500 Surat, 4&d. to 51d per lb. The Railway Share Market was very firm, although transactions were rather limited. The Paris commercial report for last week states that a slight improvement had occurred in trade generally, with decided indications of a return to active business amongst the manufacturers. Some Parisian export houses have received new commis sions from England and the United States, and those in connection with Spain have had notice to complete the orders which had been suspended dur ing the recent political disturbances in that coun try. Some agents from the Departments have been purchasing largely for home consumption. The retail trade continues dull in the absence of the wealthy inhabitants at this season. The dealers in novelties are beginning already to lay in stocks for the W:inter season. In the article of silk there is some aelLivity, and advices from Lyons and St. Stephen's state that the raw material is still dear. The high fdrice of fabrics, on account of the dearness of the ravr material, is not confined to silk, for the manufacturers of cotton, woollen, and other fabrics make the same complaint, and look forward with confidence to some modification in the tariff, which will admit these articles from foreign countries at a lower rate, so that they may be enabled to pay their workmen sufficiently, for at present some factories were forced to reduce their wages that they may obtain even a small profit. The commercial advices from the Brazils mention that trade in Buenos Ayres was in a heavy condi tion at the latest date, principally owing to the limited stocks of produce. The supply of manu factured goods was not greater than the demand, and prices consequently were maintained. At Rio the import markets were rather active, and in Bahia a moderate business had recently been trans. acted in most articles. The Directors of the Great Western Railway Company have announced a dividend at the rate of 24 per cent. for the half-year, after the payment of which there will remain a balance of 6,778/. 18s. 4d. The arrival of the steamer Niagara off Liverpool is telegraphed. She brings $371,332 in specie. There is a firmer market for English Se eurities to-day, and compared with the latest official prices of last week an improvement of fully 4 per cent. has occurred This has not been produced by any increase in the specula tion, but a few real purchases being made, together with the continued favourable weather for harvest operations, have imparted a degree of buoyancy to the market. Consols for money have been 95 to 951 and 95H, while the account prices hare risen to 95 1 1. The New Three per Cents. are 96 to 961, and the Reduca, 95 8. Exchequer Bills are 8s to 12s premium, being firmer, and the Bonds are 100/ India Stock is 236. In the Foreign 1111,rket the transactions have been very limited, but there is an improving ten dency in the quotations. Turkish 6 per Cents. are marked 104. Peruvian Dollar Bonds, 60k, and Sardinian, 921. Russian 5 per Cants. have been 1118, and Mexican, 223- The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 71 ; Mexican, 22i ; Peruvian, 81 83 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 57 59 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 49 51 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 111 13 ; ditto 41 per Cents., 98 100 ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 441 54 ; ditto Deferred, 24 4 ; ditto Certificates, 6 ; ditto Passive, 6i 7. Railway Shares have all advanced, but the mar ket is by no means active. Great Northern, Great Western, North-Western, and South-Eastern are all fully per cent. higher than on Saturday. En the Foreign market, Sambre and Meuse have ad ♦anced. Rig,as continue heavy, .pending the investigation into the affairs of the company by the Stock Exchange Committee, and there have been several transactions in French Shares, which have recently been neglected. The Indian and Canadian are without material change. Joint-Stock Banking, as well as Mining Shares, - are very inactive. Miscellaneous Shares are sup- 5 ported. 20 Barris H FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From tit; (Iticsal List.) rtnoneat done. 3 par Cent. Reduced A.nnuities ..., 951 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 95i 5 1 New 3 per Cent. Annuities Lone• Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1860... 3 7.16 Ditto 30 Years, expire 10th Oct., 1859 3 3-16 Ditto 30 Years, expire sth Jan., 1860 34- India Stock India .91,,d5, Z. 11101) Ditto, under £lOOO 9 p Courois :or Account Exchequer Bills, 2.d. 41000 2500 l'2 8 p Small Ditto Bonds, 1858, 31 per Cent. 1 Ditto, 1859 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE tYCLOcE. Mexican 3 per Cent — Ditto Account Russian Bonds, 1822, 2 St., 5 per Cent lll3 Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. - Ditto Account T irki,!) Sonds, 6 ii,r cent — giDitto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. Ditto Account Di ,,, eniF , (~, the above pvahlo in London. Pirnvian Dollar Bonds, 41 per Cent. r Consols, Money rDitto, Account TWO O'CLOC G. 951 i 95 . 1 B VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL ON EDUCATION.— Her Majesty, by an act of Parliament passed on the 29th ult. (the 19th and 20th of Victoria, chap. 116), is empowered to appoint any member of her Privy Council to be Vice• President of the Committee of Council on Education, at a salary not exceeding 2,0001. a year. Yesterday morning the Right Rev. Dr. C. Baring, who has been appointed Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, and the Right Rev. H. J. C. Harper, who has been appointed Bishop of Christ Church, New Zealand, were consecrated in the private chapel of Lambeth Palace. ABOLITION OF TEE OFFICE OF CIIRSITOR The office of Cursitor Baron is abolished by an act of the late session, and any duty of the office may be per- formed by the Court of Exchequer, or any Baron of the Coif, or any officer of the Court as the Court or the Lord Chief Baron shall from time to time direct. FATALITIES FROU LIGHTNING.—During a thunder. storm on Friday night, at Poynton, near Stockport, a young man named Bowden, aged 19, standing near one of the coal pits of Lord Vernon, was struck dead by lightning. Another man who was standing near him was also struck by the lightning, and died soon after afterwards. A third man was knocked down, and the soles of his shoes were separated from the upper leathers, but he sustained no personal injury. A BRAVE Yount. l -The Lincolnshire Chronicle says : —"On the afternoon of Tuesday, an infant accidentally fell into the Witham through the railings of Waterside South. Several persons witnessed the calamity, but a lad of about 14, named John Bolder, living in Grantham street, was the first to take prompt measures for rescuing the little unto! tunate. Divesting himself in a moment of some of his clothed, he leaped into the river, and seizing the drowning child, manfully held it above the water, going down himself several times in his successful efforts to save it. At one time it was feared that both would be drowned, but happily Bolder was a strong swimmer. This laudable and courageous act in a lad deserves the highest praise, and one of the Royal Humane Society's medals might bore be properly disposed of." TEE BELL FOR TILE NEW PALACE AT WESTMINSTER. —The casting of the great bell for the Clock Tower of the New Palace at Westminster was accomplished on the 26th ult., at Norton, near Stockton-on-Tees, by Messrs. Warner and S .ns, of th 3 Crescent Foundry, Jewin-street. The mould had been in course of prepa ration for six weeks, and two reverberatory furnaces, capable of melting ten tons of metal each, had been built expressly for the purpose of casting this monster bell. The whole of the previous night the workmen were busily employed, and early in the morning, the furnaces having attained the requisite heat, the doors wero opened, and the operation of charging or putting in the metal commenced. The latt er o p era tion occupied about an hour, and in less than two hours and a half the whole of the metal required, 18 tons, was in a state of perfect fusion. At a given signal the furnaces were tapped, and the metal flowed from them into a pool prepared to hold it, before being admitted into the bell mould ; the shutter or gate was then lifted, and the metal allowed to flow. In five minutes the casting of the bell had been effected. LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY.— Traffic return for the week ending Aug. 2, 1856 223,207 18 5 irresponding week last year 22,190 16 4 Total of the half-year to this date, 18 56 93,014 5 1 Total of the 11011'1 1 m to thin 440 1 18.50 mu, 65,285 )4 9 STTARI MARKETS. D A Y.) RAIL tv YS. ir. kaid. nAILWAYS. Cosing Prices Saturday 12 A.mbg. Nottna.. host and Eastn. Junot... tO all 80l fast & Tlallymena. 13 all Birmiug. Wolverh Stour Valley 31 all Birk eand. Lana.Bl Cheshire Janet ni all Do. Chesh. d; Birk. 22 all Do., do. 25 all Myth &Tyno origina 425 (issd. at 445 St. 100 Bristol and Exeter... St. 100 Cal , ...clonian. 50 all Chester Cs Holyhead. 50 all Cork and Bandon.. 20 all Cork, Black, 4a Pass 20 18 Cornwall 10 all Do. A 10 8 Do. B 50 45 DublindsßelfastJnne 25 all Dan. P. es Aber. Jac. St. 100 East Anglian 20 all Eastern Counties.. St. 100 East. Union. A MI St. 100 Ps., B. Stock 25 8i Do., New 25 10 East Kent St. 100 East Lancashire St. 100 Edinburgh dr ()lug° 10 all Edinb. and Nab! e 3„ , Bt. 100 gdin.Prth dlDturie 10 all Porth & Clyde Jun.% 60 all Furness W all Do. Extension....... St. 100 Glasgow& B. West,a -10 all Great N. of Scotlnd it. 100 Great Northern St. 100 Do., A. St 100 Do., B. Stock St. 100 Gt. Sth. &West.(lro St. 100 Great Western St. 100 Do. Stour Val. Rail Gua. Stk 12 all Irish South-Eastern 50 all fAneaator & Carlisle MI 144 Do., Thirds L6t, 12 'Do. New Thirds St. 100 Lancash. andYorksh 3 Do., Wet. aiding Un 10 all Do. South' ort Lli all London & Blackwall 3t. 100 Lond.Bright&S.Cst. it. 100 Lond. and N. Westn. :0 16 Do. Fifths .0 5i Do.101.8h.,11&B...0 .2i 26 Do. Eighths it. 100 London and S. We.tn. .0 1 Lon. Tilby. & South. Barking Sh 5 all LndndrrydiColeraine 5 all Lndndrr:T. & Ennirk. It. XlOO Manch.SheL&Linelni 2s' 82s. Do., Man. & Lin. Un 0 1 Metropolitan.,....... t. ,100 Midland t. 100 Do. Birmng. & Derh 0 all Maid. G. West. (Ira, 5 all Do. Half Shares I all Newcastle & Carlisle, all Nwpt.Aberg. &Rrfd Fi Newry & Enniskills ) all Newry, Warronpoini and Rostrevor 1400 Norfolk I 3 Northn.Counties Un . 100 North British t. 100 Nth Devon Rail. 8: Dock Stock 100 Do., A Stock 100 Do., B Stock . • 'lOO N.Eastern—Berwie 23i Do. do. Extension 16,3 Dodo. G.N.E. all Do. Leeds . 100 Do. York 100 North London 31 is N.&S.Watrn.,HanlP stead, and City Jo., 17. North Staffordshire all North Western all N h, S. Westrn. Juno. K; Dr., Wore., & Wolv. 14 , -'ortamouth LOC Scottish Central..... 3cottisliblidland 100 Airopshire Union all south Devon 110 South Eastern 100 South Wales . 15 ;. Yrksh. c Riv. Dun Pi Do all itaines, Wok. &Wok all Stockton & Dar ing, 10 Po., do., 1551 1 Do., do., 1855 15 Steakten Hartlep 110 rag' Vale 100 ;10. Pref., No. I"uimes liay. D.& R all Vale of Neath all Waterfd. & Kilkenu) all Watorford&Limerici all West Cornwall. all West End of London and Crystal Palace all Do. A 3 Do. B all West London all Wimbledn &Croydon FOR: Antwerp&B,ott , zdt m Ardennes Atlan.& St.Lw. leased at 6 p. c. by Gd.Tnk of Canada Belgian Eastn. June 2.oziers to Graissessa Bombay, Baroda, an Cen. India, g. 5 p. c Do. Buff. & Lk. Hur. Ry. Carraeaux & Toulouse Coal Mines and Ry. Demerara Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France Do. New East Indian, g. sp. , Do. Fa. B, gu 5 p.c. 'Do. Ex. C, gu. 5 p. c IDo. do. D, gu. 5 p. c. D 0.4, p.c.Bnds.,'s7 Do. do. do., '59, dr Gee ong Aa Melbourne guar. 5 per c , nt. . Ckl. Tk of Canad aAi )o. Cert. of Dcben, con. into Stk. Do. Comp. 6p. c„, de. Gt. Central of Fran Gt. Tn. Pen. g. 5 p. c. Do New, gulr. 5 p. c. ireat Luxemboup Constituted Share Gt. Western of Canad Shares Do. New Do. Bds., payable Do. do., '76, p. '6O Do. do., '73 do. Do. do., '73, withou' option Lake Const. & Basle' Liorre and Turnhout Lombardo Venetian. Lucca at Pist. sp. c,p . Lyons and Geneva Lyons & Mediterran. Andras, guar. 4 p.c Do. New do., 5 p. c Do. 44 p. c. Eaten Do. 3d Ex., g. 5 p. c liaria Antonia .... Do. do. New laranr tit Liego (wit' interest) no. (ox intorcnt)... Do. do., C p. c. Prof Northern of France NorvrogianTrankPre ?aria and Lyons litto Bonds Paris and Orleans... Recife & San. Fran., (Pernam.) g. 7 p. c. Riga & Dunaburg ie. at 80/. per share Rome and Frascati .oval Danish iambro and Meuse ;)o. 5 p. cent. Prt" ' i'cinde, guar. 5 p. c Do. southern of France R. Andrew's and Quebec (A) „. West Flanders 'Do SA per c. Pref W. &N. W. of FrAnct West, of Switzerland Wiesbaden Zealand ... ,TOINT-S 1 11 Australasia 12 Bank of Egypt 50 Bank of London all Bri. Col. Bk.StLn. C all , iritish N. American 5 Chartd. Bank of Awe 6 Chrtd. Bnk. of India Australia, k Chine 50 City 25 ilicfonial 20 Commorclal of Loud all lilug.Scot.&4uo.Cht all Loud. Chart. Bk. o ttustralis 15 Ditto New 20 London and Conn: y:. 50 Lind. &D. Bnk g. Corp, 10 London Joint Stock. 10 London and Paris...., 20 Lond. & Westniinstei 35 National Pre.ef Eng 10 Do. New 221 National of Bank ... all New South Walez.... all Oriental Bank )f Corporzt!on 10 Ottoman Bank 2„ Frovincial of Ireland all Do. Now 1 R Aus B &Go lm Cc 50 Royal British. all ionth Australia all Union of Aurtralht 2i Do. Nor 10 Union of 1 . 0 .4 n7d " 0n SC O Western J3k, of Lond 4f - 4 ••• ''..... . $/ 9.1 19j - 20 16 - 18 13i - 14, 94 - 96 594 - 60 161 - 17: 13 - 15. • es '''" ein 4 -5, 10 - 11 17 - 18 9- 10, 35 - 37 24 - 26 86 - 88 61 - 63 39, ••• ... .. 94 - 96 7? - 97,1 - 82 - 84 - 133 •- 135 [l9 121 C3l - 63 60 • 65 72 - 75 6 - 7 6 - 7 • 98 - 98 74 7# 107 - 108 [o7k —107 i 1 lip - P d LO9 - 110, ••• 34~ - 35 1 - 834 - 84'J 55 - 57 •N ~ •.. • . -- s c 14 - 15; 54 - 56 3i - St 36 ~. 37 86 - 87 - .34 184 - 18 61 62 95 - 97 6 i -7, 11 - 31 - 33 tOS - 110 77 - 79 49 - 51 154 16i 7 3 1 -74 f 80 - 82 4 - 2 11 - 15 - 17 37 • 38 •s .'". 193 - 203 6 4 - 28 • 30 63 - 73 6 - 8 2 - 4 5f- 53 LION. 8k -- 8i - 53( - 2 2 - 3 2 - 2i I 5/ - 5 - • 21 - 211 36i - 374 13A -1! 23i - 23 2/ 3 22 - 23 .. - .. 231 - 13 - 33& 83 - 85 8 - 81: 221 -22 i - 2hr 53 - 53 25j - 2NI 21 - 3 99 - 101 120 - 125 120 - 125 110 112 - •••" 5i --1 DIP 11 -12 h ... - 21# - fi i 24- 3P ii - lip 2.i - 2g si Qy 8 9 20 - 20, 41,1 -41 i 84 - 9. 57 - 5'4 55i •- 66 1 - liP 11 ... liiH 19 - 20 1 - 13 - 13, - 3i •41•1 ••• •••• ..... pin .•• - - 4k - 11 94 - 9i 374 -. 38 19 - 20 BANKS: lu2 -- 104 - fl 69 - 71 p 1 i -1 p 71 = iid 17 L 18 21 ."; 22i; It - lip 1 - 3p ... ...d • . e •• 48 - 50 40i -- 41, 1i -- 36 40 3G - 38 68 - 69 Business done st this day Ca 25 20 20 50 100 100 20 40 10 20 100 TEE SUN, LONDON, MON DA. Y _EVENING, AUGUST 11, 186,6. , RAILWAYS. Redford au,- Bletribley 100 Buckghaueth. 100 Clydesdale .10. • all Col. StouriTy. Sod. and Hai. 100 E. Lin. g. 6 pc. all E. Un. H. 100 Glas. Barr. & Noils. Direct 100 Do. New__ l Glstr.ds Dn. Fr all Hrtlpl. Dl;. & Rail way all Hull & Selby all Do. Shares, all Do. 3 Shares. all Lon.&Greenw all Do. Preference 100 Lon., Til., &S. 100 Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. 100 Do. 6 per et. all Manch. Bxtn and Matlock all Middlesbro' & Redcar 100 Midld.Bradfd 54 Newmarket Bury E.G.spc all N.& Est.s p.c. all Do. 6 per et. all Do. Fixeds p c all Prost. & y:e all Do. Shrs. A 1.00 Roystn.& Hit. 18$ Shcf.Roth.and Gooleg. 5 p. c. all Shrows.&ller, 101 S. Staflordsh. all Wear Valleygr 6 per cent.,, all Do. 100 I Wiltsktlomrst Compan. London k' N. Wo-t. Caledon E. Un. & E. C Gt.Nrt E. Count. Clddonian. Do at. II estn Yk. New. & Berw. Y. &Nit , Do 'S. Easterr Do Foto $ Co. Norfolk, Do L.& N. W. & Midi& Stck ton & Darlingt. Midland.. En. Conn. E. Count Do 1 4!‘ N.W Do IGt Northn Lancash& Yorksh. T. Brassoy Nl.Melean Stockt. & Darlingt Do qtWostn. C'omtn Saturl ty. 98 - 100 1.00 - 105 12 - 14 139 - 141 4 ... 4i 2S - 30 OS - 109 12i - 23. - 21 3 / 4 112 - 115 11.0 .... ••• 26 - 2i 94 - 96 58 } - 7 - 60 to ''.. ••• ~ .. ... 138 - iii 7 - 21 3 - 214:1 34 - P 5 91 -- 93 FREFERENOB SH.A.RE6. IW berdeon Deben. 100 Do. 6 per cent. 100 Do. No. 2,7 p. a ah , ilythandTyne lOpm c. pref. (issd.at 501 LOO iris. & Ex. !p.c. St 5 Do. 4p. c. Shares 1 00 Jaledonian £lO all ',hes. &Ho. Ga. 5i pc all Do. do. Pref. No. 2. all Do. do. Pxef. No. 2. all Cork aßandonsip.c all Dun.Prth Aber. J 2 E. Anglian Cls. ASh LOO Do. do. Cls. B6p. c. 100 Do. do Cls. C7p. c. all Ras. Co. Ex, spc No.l all Do. No. 2 . all Do. New 6 p. 0. St all East Mt., G. 6p. c. all Do. 5/. 10 nor cent all Do. 16/. Debentr.Sh. al. Do. do. 4 per cent.. WI ;last Lanca , h.6p.cts all York. J. sthi. 3 Odin. & Gl. 5 p.c. sh LOO ed. Prth.&Dun.4p.c all Furness. 1,) , J 'alas. & S.W. G. 5 p.c . LW Great Northn. sp. c MO 'Jo. sp. o. Redeem. at 10 p. c. prom... LOG 1)0.4 zp. e. 74 Do. 5 p.c. Scrip, Red at 5 p. c. pm... all 3t.N. of Scot. lst Pre 00 Gt. S. dt W. (Ireland 13 Do. 4per c. Prof. S 6 it.W.(3.kr.H.F.xspc 100 Do. con. red. 44 p.c. 100 )9. con. rod. 4p. c 100 Do. irred. 4p. C. 100 Do. sp. c. red. prof all Do. firm. Prof. S all Do. Chester Bp. c. P.S all Do. do. 5 p. c. do.. 100 Do. Birm. Gua. Stk all Do. Ches. Gua. Sh.. all Do. do. do all Do. do. do 6 Lan. &York. F..£2' 100 Do. 6p. c. Stock ~ 100 7 40 n. &Brie'. G. 5 p.c. 100 Do. Prof., sp. e. St. 100 Do. New Guar.6 p. 1.00 Do. do. 5 per cent . 1.00 Lon.&N. W., Coy. 4' Nuneaton 5 p. et 100 on. & S.W. 7 per ct late 3d Shares all .cndy. & G'oler. .11 Londy. & Ennis. sh 101 L. 6 p. Centl 42 Do. do. do. £.6 .00 Do. do. 34 per cent. all kfc,rypt .& Carl.4p all Do. ,“ per cont 10', Do. do. 00 \lid. Consol.6 00 Do. Con.Br.fir.6r 00 D. 4i p. c. Pref. 00 Ditto L. &H. Pref. S, 311 I New., Abor. , tr.c., pr. r sp. c. red. 5 p.c. pm. 4 Do. Perpet. 6 pc t. with optn. till '66 .tl3 Norfolk Debenture ' 00 Do.Praf. sp. a. St., a tOO Do. 5 P.C. Est 00 Do. 5i por ct. prof 1.00 Do. Way. Val. sp. c 100 North British 100 N. E. Borw, 4 p.c. P 83 Do. do. do 20 Li Do Leeds 6 p.c 12 9 Do. do. Quarters 15 10 Do.Yorkll.& 3. Pur .?,0 all North Staffordshire. R. 100 9x,W0. , ,, , ,W.15/6pc LO all Do R. Pref. 10/. Sh. 1i all Soot. Cent. ,New Fref 15 all South Devon ,0 all Do. fixed, 4i per cent o.t all S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. It. 100 Do. 4i per cent .0 all Do. Fixed di pc sh t. 100 3 Wales Gua. 4p. c t. 100 Du, do. 4i p. c 10 all S.Yorksh.4p.c.Guar 15 all 'ltock.& Dar., sp. c 15 15 Do; do. do .2i all Mock. & llartl. g. 5 p. c. till July 1,'56 5 4i Waterfd.& Kilk. 6p c 25 1 8i 8 130 20 I 40 111. 5 St - 90 120 - 118 101 - 103 16 - 17 ... '' .1 5 - 6 -6; 107 100 - - 112 105 - 1 p 13i 13' - :16 = eI 5 - 121 [l2 - 114 LO5 - 107 i - ip 89 - 89 - 99 • 114 104 75 201 =- 10a 15., _„4 ...-- ... .60 - 165 126 - 128 $ -• 4 ,- . 60 - 68 - 141 [Ol - 103 91 - 93 1i- 2 p ,•• -- ... LO4 —lO6 98 99 1 id •• i .• i d 1112 : 114 ••• -- ••• 15 - 16 24i -- 25 102 -- 105 10} -10 i • • • .. .M •.• ..•• .. 3 .... 3ip ii : ill MINES. all Agua Fria all ?inglo Califoznian 7 knstrallan all IBaden (Gd. Duchy ofY all Blfoliar. Iron & Coe: 14 ;British Iron 262 Brazilianlmp.(iesned at £5 pm.) all Do. Cocaea & Cuiaba 15 Do. St. John Dol Rey Clarendon Cons. MM. Co. of Jamaica all Cobre Copper ,Colonial Gold all iCopper Min. of Eng all Do. Prof. 76 p. cent Copiapo. Fortuna all Glenc - tal all Gt.NuggetVeinßeg. all I Great Polgooth. all Gt Wheal Vor United all , Liberty all Linares.. 11 Lusitanian . all , Mariquita.. ...... all New Granada all 'Nouveau Monde all ;Pontgi.Sil.& Le. Min 1 (Port Philip all Quartz Rock all Rhymney Iron all Do. New 14i ,Santiago de Cuba 6s. 'Sort. Cons. Min. Co all South Australian all Do. Scrip... all 'Do. 10 per cent Pref Tam. S. & L. Min. Co. all Fin Croft .......... all United Mexican ; di Weller all West Mariposa 12s. Worthing Mining of Australia I s '''' ::: 1 - li - •• 5 - . 7 2/ - 31 33 - 4 19 - 21 51 - 56 32 36 26. 16 18 id 14 15 2i lid = id I 6 10 HAI 2G 28 7 9 a TT. 11 - li 3t - 41 34 - 4 'ii - I woo ''" sop NESCELLANEOITS. 19 Australian Agricult. all Australn. Royal Mail all Berlin Water Works 40 Brit. American Land 3.:3 Canada 0 C. Go. 6p.c. JanSaaly 100 Do. 6 p.c. Feb & Aug 100 Do. 6p c. Mar& Sept all Crystal Palace.. all Do. Preference all Crystal Pal. of France Ruston Iron Ore 153 Eastern Steam 100 Electric Telegraph_ all Electric Teleg. of Ir. all En.daus Cop Sin Co all Gen. Iron Sc Collier 14 Gen. Steam Navigat. all General Screw Steam all Lond. Gen. Omnibus 10 Magdalena St. Navig all liediteran. Elec. Tel. 9 SlexicankS.Americu. 5 Nat. Discount Co all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel 5 Netherlands Land._ all Do. Do. 3 Do. 8p c P iss atl 80 New B. di N.S. Land N.S.W. Gov.sp.c.D, all N. B. Australasian,,. 15 Nrth. o! E urope Staa re all Orient‘l Gas 2s. Do. "New Shares" all Peel Rr. Ld. & Minr7. all Peniusular&Oriental 10 Do. New 60 Royal Mail Steam all Scot. Austral. Invest alDitto New South Austral.liand all Submar. Tel. Scrip... all Do. Registered .... 5 Trust ess L. Co.U. Can. 28 Van Diemen's Land t r eQ /961).v Jan& init 2G - 27 6 - 60 26 - 129 14 - 115 4 - ii 54 - 54 In 9.7 .~~ _ ii 1 3/ -13 i 4A -- 4# •" 8 .... 1 . 6 3i- 3i 1 - lipi ••• -•-• ... li -. 2 4t -4/ 216 i ---• OP -. 2 -- 13 3 1 -- 144 lk * OP 64 66 4 -- 5p 70 -- 72 lA a - iP 36 -- 37 - 1 4 -7 it 16 - 17 kiMnagz. this • , a, MARKET NEWZ.—(This Day.) CORN EXCHANGE. Most of the Continental markets have become inactive for all articles of produce, and the quotations have ruled in favour of buyers. Steady shipments of produce continue to be made from America. Very limited supplies of home-grown produce were re ceived up to our market last week. The imports of foreign were 27,455 quarters of wheat, 6,185 barley, 23,528 oats, 350 beans, 10 peas, 1,570 linseed. 255 rapeseed, 2,445 In dian corn, and 11,839 barrels of flour. The quantity of English wheat received fist up to-day from all quarters, coastwise and by land carriage, was very limited ; and the show of samples of both red and white was small. The attendance of millers was by no means extensive, yet factors commenced by asking higher prices for both red and white. On the whole, in consequence of the very small quantity brought forward, the demand ruled steady, at lastjMonday's decline in the quotations; but a few very fine samples realised an advance of from ls. to 2s. per qr. We were rather heavily supplied with foreign wheat, fresh as well as ex granary. The amount of business doing in all kinds was limited; nevertheless we have no change to notice in prices. Floating cargoes of grain were dull. Several parcels of 'new barley changed hands, at 47s to 50s per quarter. Old parcels wore dull, and prices were barely supported. . _ Malt was dull, and inferior qualities were the turn lower. Good sound oats sold to a moderate extent on former terms; but low middling parcels wore dull, and lower to purchase. The sales for beans ruled very inactive at drooping prices. New white and grey peas were on sale in good eondi tion. Old pease were dull, and is to 2s per quarter lower, The amount of business doing in flour was very mode. rate, yet prices were supported. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE Wheat—Essex /8 Kent, Red •••• new 68sto 698 Ditto.• •• .... old 65s 703 Ditto, White new 67s 70s Ditto.• •• .... old 708 76s Norfolk and Lin coln, Red, old —s —a Ditto new •••• 581 66s Rye—Old •••• .......• 40s 413 New 425 443 Barley—Grinding ....• 37s 403 Malting ......... 42d 43s Chevalier.... • . 43s 458 Malt—SuffolkandNor r w ik t ! 1 . i .a . . n . •• 69s 74s .61 Malt—Chevalier .. •• 76s to 77s 'Oats Yorkshire and Llncolnsh., Feed 24s 263 Potato •• .. 25s 28 3 ma Youghal mad Cork Black. .. .• • • 2I s 23 Cork, White ..... 223 263 Scotch, Feed. .. .. 26s 2 - 9 - ; Beane—Tick 36s 39s Pige0n5.......... 42; :15; Peas—Grey .......... 36s 403 Maple. •• •••• .• •• 443 453 • White 443 483 Boilers .....• •• •• 43s 48s Flour—Town-made... 60s 64s Suffolk .......... 44s 453 Btocktn & Norfolk 453 46s METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. Since Monday last the imports of foreign stock into London have been tolerably extensive —the total arrival amounting to 7,216 head. In the corresponding week in 1855 we received 9,566 ; in 1854. 8,933 ; in 1853, 8,101; in 1852, 8,695; in 1851, 6,606; and in 1850, 7,289 head. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WSSK. From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. Rotterdam lll 1,220 ... 13 180 flamburgb 22 271 54 Elarlingen 126 290 ... 20 158 ... 402 Dordt B2 185 ... 103 Ostend Tonningen. 422 412 ... 29 Medemblik B6 1,400 Nieu Diep 1 100 ... Calais -- Kampen 5 ... Corunna l4O Antwerp „• Amsterdam 49 Bremen 21 ... 355 ... - ••• ". ... 139 ... 28 475 ... - 2 ~. - ... T0ta1....1,205 ... 4,690 ... 165 ... 663 ... 493 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs L 855 1,736 ... 6,099 ... 1 7 5 ... 528 ... 1,028 1854 1,525 ... 5,814 ... 161 ... 704 ... 599 1853 1,209 ... 4,696 ... 8 85 ... 622 ... 691 1 1 852 ,267 ... 5,704 ... 7 8 7 ... 567 ... : , 70 .851 9lO ... 7,169 ... 5 39 ... 688 ... 367 .850 1,192 ... 4,831 ... 69 6 ... 495 ... 72 The import of nearly all kinds of foreign stock exhibit very little improvement either in point of weight or qua lity. Advices from Holland state that the business doing in stock on French account is comparatively small. There was only a moderate supply of foreign stock in to-day's market, and its general quality was inferior. From our own grazing districts the receipts of beasts fresh up to-day were moderate, and of but middling qua lity. There was a slight improvement in the demand for nearly all breeds, and in some instances prices were 2d per Sibs higher than on Monday last. The best Scots were worth 4s 10d per 81bs. The arrivals of beasts from Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Northamptonshire amounted to 1,800 shorthorns; from other parts of England, 400 of various kinds ; from Scotland, 14 Scots; and from Ireland, 200 oxen. There was a fair average show of sheep in the market, but their quality was only middling. Most kinds sold slowly, at last Monday's currency, the top figure for Downs being 5s 2d per 81bs. • The supply of lambs was moderately good, and the lamb trade ruled film, at Friday's advance in the quotations. The best lambs realised Gs per Blbs. We were fairly supplied with calves, which changed hands to a fair extent, and prices were a shade higher. The pork trade was dull, at last week's carreLcy. Per Slbs to sink the offal's. a. d. s. d. .n.ferior Beasts.... 3 2to 3 6 S. (I. s. (1. ( PrimeSonthdown 410 5 2 ~ Large crse. calves 3 6 4 2 ,' l Prirne small d 0... 4 4 410 Largo ho g s l 'l 2 310 Small porkers ... 4 2 4 8 Suckling calves-23 0 30 i /Quarter old pigs. 22 0 18 0 kl to Gs 01 FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts ............ ...... 4,004 1 8ea5t5•............ •• .... • 1,100 Sheep and lambs ...... • • 96,360 Sheep and lambs .......... 3,800 Calves ..........•• •• •• .. 460 Calves.... ...... •...... •• 350 Piga ...........• .• • ... •• 380 Pigs. ..• . .. .. 90 A. statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in the Great Metropolitan Cattle Market, on Nfonclay, Aug. 13, 1855, and this day, Monday, Aug. 11, 1856. Senna quality.... 3 Prime large oxen 4 Prime Scots, dtc. 4 InAmiorSheep 3econd quality ...4 - - - - Primo crsc.-wiled. 4 Per Sibs, to sink tho ofrals. Aug. 13, 1855. lug 11,1856 s. d. a. d. ; s. d. s. d. Coarse and inferior beasts ... 4 oto 4 2 1 3 2to 3 6 Second quality ditto 4 4 4 613 8 4 0 Prime large oxen 4 8 4 10,4 2 4 6 Prime Scots, &c 5 0 5 4'4 8 410 Coarse and inferior sheep 3 6 3 83 8 310 Second quality ditto .. 310 4 214 0 4 4 Prime coarse woolled ditto 4 4 4 B'4 6 4 8 Prime Southdown ditto 410 5 2.4 10 5 2 Lambs ... •.. 4 8 6 fik 8 6 0 Largo coarse calves ... 4 2 4 6 1 3 6 4 2 Prime small ditto ... 4 8 5 24 4 410 Large hogs ... 3 6, 3 10 1 3 2 310 seat small porkers 4 0 4 2 4 2 4 8 Beasts... 4,237 4,004 Sheep ... 23,290 28,860 Calves... 301 4EO rigs 686 380 SUPPLIES ON SALE, Aug. 14,1854.—Beasts, 4,833 ; sheep and lambs, 32,790; calves, 443; pigs, 410. Aug. 15, 1853.—Beasts, 5,021; sheep and lambs, 32,23; calves, 355 ; pigs, 360. NEWGA.TE AND LEADENHA.LL. We have a slight increase in the supplies of most kinds of meat compared with Monday last. Prime beef, mut ton, lamb, and veal move off steadily, at very full prices. Otherwise, the demand is in a sluggish state. Per Bibs by the carcase. 8. d. B. d. s. d. s. d Beef, inferior 210 3 2 Mutton, Inferior 3 4 3 6 Do., middling 3 4 3 6 Do., middling 3 8 4 2 Do. prime large.. 3 8 3 LI Do., prime 4 4 4 8 Do., do. small ....4 0 4 4 Veal 3 4 4 8 Perk, large 3 6 4 0 Pork, small 4 4 4 6 Lamb, 4s 4d to 5s 6d. BOROUGH HOP. We continue to receive favourable accounts from the plantations, and the duty has been done at 250,0001. For all kinds of hops the demand is hoavy, and prices are barely supported. Mid and East Kent pockets, 3/ Ss to Cl 6s per cwt ; Weald of Kent, 315 s to 51 Os ; Sussex, 310 s to 41155. The holders of wheat in the country markets held on Sa`urday were somewhat firmer for wheat than in the early part of the week. Barley was steady, at full prices; but all other kinds of produce met a very dull inquiry. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. Very favourable accounts continue to reach us respect ing the general appearance of the potato crop. Our mar kets are very extensively supplied, and, although the de mand is steady, prices rule very low, viz., from 2/. 15s to 41. 5s per tan. The imports from the continent have wholly ceased for the present. WOOL. The biddings for good and fine wools at the public; sales held since our last report have been rather active, at fully the opening quotations; but inferior parcels have ruled heavy. The following prices have been paid :—Australian —Clean sheep's is 7'd to 2s lid; scoured 2s 2d to 2s 61d; lambs', is 11.1 to is I'& Port Philip—Clean"sheep's is 6d to 2s ; snow white, 2s Cid to 2s 6d hand washed is 8 to is 91d ; is 7d to 2 s 2d ; locks, &c., is 2d to is 9d ; skin is dtois 9d ; gr ease 100 to ls ld. Van Diemen's Land—Clean sheep's is 8d to 2s 6 ; lambs' is 8d to 2s ; looks, &c., 10d to is 31d. Ad e l a id e —Clean sheep's, is 241 to is 6d ; pieces is 31d. New Zealand—Clean sheep's is 4d to is lld ; handw a shed, i s 6d to is 8d ; lambs', ls 101 d. Privately, th e d eman d i s heavy. Last week's imports were 496 bales from Swan River, 1,222 from Melbourne, 27 from Ostend, and 19 from Hambro'. The following are the current rates of English wool : Down teg3, is 3d to le 4d ; Down ewes, le 2d to le 3)d ; half-bred hogs, is 2d to is 3; Kent fleeces, is 2cl to is 3d; Leicester do., is ld to le 3d ; combing skin, is t o is 4d ; blanket wool, 9d to le ld ; and flannel wool, is to la 5d per lb. SEEDS. Linseed is without alteration. Linseed cakes are rather scarce, and prices are rather firmer than last week. Rape cakes are also in good demand. The stocks of rape and oilseeds aro very small, and a few sales of Calcutta rape have been made at 65s on the spot, and 63s for arrival. Turnip,White,per bush. 225 to 25s Swede —s idast,srd, 8r0wn...... 22s 24s White, new • .. 105 1 l• rares,Winter, new.... 6s Od 6s 6d Old— • ... —s —3 Canary, per quarter .. 565 625 Rye grass • • • • •• • • —5 OloTer,RedEng. (cwt.) —s White • • • • .... • • —s Foreign Red • • .. 61 6/ 55 White.... —s —s Carraway .. 42s 44s Coriander 25s 28s 'lmputed , per quarter —s —s Linseed, Eng.iowing.. 63s s Crushing .... •• .. 52s 56s Baltic —s —s Odessa ..-5 —s Linseed Cake, pr. ton— English .. . ..101 5s 10/ lOs Foreign, per ton 91 Os 111 5s Rape Cakes, pr ton 515 s 5110 s Rapeseed, pr qr. ...... 82s 849 Trefoil. new.........• —s —3l TALLOW.. There is a moderate business doing in our market, and prices are well supported. The quotation for P.Y.C., on the spot, is 53s per cwt. Town tallow, 51s 9d nett cash. Rough fat, 2s 10d per 81bs. 1852. 1853. 1854. 1856. 11,738 53$ Od to 2,033 21,556 1,566 15,585 640 84 POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.) MANSION-HOUSE. CIIABGE OF STABBING,-Michael George Ryan was charged with attempting to stab, with a dagger, Mr. Mackay, proprietor of Mulling's Hotel, in Ironmonger lane. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner, who is an Irishman, and about to emigrate to Buenos Ayres by the John Scott, went, in company with a friend who is going to emigrate with him, to the prosecutors' hotel, on their arrival in England, and took up their abode there. On Saturday night, or rather towards Sunday morning, the prosecutor stated that he met the pri• soner on the stairs and made a remark to him which drew a rejoinder from him, and ultimately the prisoner drew a dagger, made a thrust at the prosecutor, who fortunately parried the blow, and escaped without injury. The defence was that the proprietor, who was unknown as such at the time to the prisoner, was on the stairs in anything but a sober state, and threatened to throw the latter over the stairs, on which a scuffle took place, and recourse was had to the dagger. It was a formidable article, of finished make, with a white handle, and had been pur chased in Dublin by the prisoner, considering it would be useful in South America. The evidence was exceed- ingly conflicting, and occupied a considerable time in investigation. The Lord Mayor made some strong and just remarks against the use of the knife, and, as the ship in which the prisoner r►nd his friend, who was in court, was to sail on Wednesday, and considering the conflicting character of the evidence, impounded the dagger, and discharged the prisoner on his entering into his own re cognisances in 201. to keep the peace for twelve months. The required recognisance was entered into, and the prisoner left with his friend. SOUTHWARK. ATTEMPTED SIIICIDE.—EmiIy Davis, a decent-looking female, about 0 years of age, was brought before Mr. Combo, charg ,- %1 with attempting to commit suicide by taking a large quantity of laudanum. Thomas Curtis, police-constable, 78 L, said that on Wednesday night he saw the prisoner lying on the pave ment in Stamford-street, insensible. Thinking that she was under the influence of liquor he attempted to rouse her up, but he found it was utterly useless, and she seemed as if she was dead. He immediately obtained the assistance of other constables and carried her to a neighbouring surgeon's, when it was suspected that she had taken poison. The stomach-pump was instantly used, when a large quantity of laudanum was ejected from the stomach, and in a short time she sufficiently re covered to be conveyed to the workhouse, where she had remained until the present time, when he took her into custody for attempting to commit suicide. The officer added that she was still in an extremely weak state from the effects of the poison. Mr. Combe asked the prisoner why she attempted such a rash act ?—She replied in a very weak voice that she did not know. She was very ill and unable to speak. - Mr. Combe inquired of the constable whether he knew anything of her l—lie replied that he believed her to be the wife of a respectable man, and that drunkenness had caused her to take the laudanum. At present he had not been able to find out anything more about her. Mr. Combo directed him to make further inquiries, and for that purpose he should remand her for a week, when she would raceive every attention from the medi cal officer and the authorities of the gaol. She was im mediately removed by the gaoler and taken to Horse mongerlane gaol. BATHING IN THE THAMES. Two young fellows were charged by Inspector White, Thames Police, with bathing in the Thames near Lon• don-bridge, at noon yesterday, nearthe steam-boats, and in the presence of large numbers of persons. Mr. Combe cautioned them, and ordered them to find bail. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. DARING ROBBERIES BY BOYS AT THE WEST-END. John Crofts, aged 14, "[Valiant King, aged 15, and Richard Piper, aged 17, were brought before Mr. Bingham under the following circumstances : Police-sergeant No, 4 C deposed that yesterday (Sun day) afternoon, while he was on duty in Mount-street, Berkeley-square, his attention was called to the three prisoners, who were standing against the door of Lady Fisher. The prisoner Crofts bad a screw-driver in his 'right band, and when they saw witness they ran away. Witness having received information of the prisoners having taken off several brass escutcheons and figures off the doors of the nobility, he pursued them with one of the shopkeers, when they succeeded in securing the whole of the prisoners. When they were searched at the station-house 16 pieces of brass were found upon the prisoner Crofts. One of the figures had been take* from the hall door of Lady Emily P , >nsonby, and the whole of the other articles had been owned by the ser vants of noblemen and gentlemen residing in the vicinity of Berkeley-square. Latterly, great complaints had been made to the police respecting the numerous rob beries in the same neighbourhood. The property having been identified by the several witnesses, Mr. Bingham remarked on the conduct of the pri soners, and said that, to set an example to other boys, he should send them to prison for one calendar month eacb, with hard labour. Committed accordingly. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LONDON, Aug. 11.—Wind this day at noon, S.W.; ligh breeze and fine clear sultry weather. PORTSMOUTH, Aug. 10.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—H.M.S. George, from the Black Sea ' • Drabak (tpt.), Constanti nople ; H.M.S. Banshee, the Mediterranean, &c. • Minna (s. tpt.). Balaklava. Sailed—Blenheim Castle, for Cal cutta ; H.M.S. Brilliant, the West Indies. FALMOUTH, Aug. 10.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Revival, Pacific, and Hotspur, from Akyab, all for Antwerp ; Vreyhandel and Lydia, Rio Janeiro ; Adele, Bahia ; Re navala, Pernambuco ; No, Muovo Camago, Mazatlan, an d Netuno, Havana ; Santa Cruz, Matanzas, for Bremen ; Annie Scott and Queen, for Bahia. Off the port —Vrede and Admiral von Kongabergen, from Akyab, and both sailed for Rotterdam. COWES, Aug. 10.—Wind 2.W.—Arrived.—Edward, from Laguna. PORTLAND ROADS, Aug. 10.—Arrived—Port Glasgow, from Quebec. OFF DARTMOUTH—SaI:Mang, from the South Seas, for Hamburg. OFF TIIE START.—D. Gerhard, from Now York ; Pa dres Minde, Quebec. WESTPORT, Aug 9.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Amazon, for Quebec. HOLYHEAD, Aug. 10.—The Midas, from Liverpool to St. John's, Newfoundland, put in to-day, with the St. Helen, of Caernarvo❑ in tow, having carried away her foremast and raaintopmast. OFF DIINGENESS.—Withert, from Akyab, for Bremen ; Hesper, from Havana, for St. Petersburg; Sarah, New York ; Defender, Nassau. SCILLY, Aug. B.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—H.M.S. Os borne, from Portsmouth, for Cork. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SonTsamProN Monday Morning. Arriued.—Venus, from Llanelly ; Purvey - or, Svraege ; Mary Coles, Wales ; Industrious, Ireland ; Falcon,France ; Nerth Brighton, Quebec; Hermann, steamer, Bremen. Sailed...Heber, for Norway ; Billow, Aberdeen ; Flora, Sunderland. LIVERPOOL, Monday Morning. Wind S. Arrived.--Yousquiza, from Cadiz ; Hermione, Paria ; America, screw steamer, Corunna; Hastings, Quebec Off.—Owegia and Empire, from Now York; Malden, Quebec. gIIEENSTOWN, August 9. Wind S.W. Arrived—Wm. Fell from Galatz ; Sophia, Marionopol ; Orion, Trieste; Rapid, Smyrna; George Carl, New York; Ensgezindheid, Galatz ; Victory, Buenos Ayres ; ImpFra trice, Odessa ; Avon, St. John's, N.B. ; Josephine, Odessa; America, Monte Video; Triestino, Trieste. WATERFORD, Aug• 8. Wind S.E. Arrived—Demosthenes, from Ibraila ; Lady Campbell, Meramichi ; Zwei Gezuless, Galatz. (BY SIIBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH. ) GRAVESEND, Monday, 10.50 a.m. Wind W.S.W. ; tide 2 hours' ebb; fine. Arrived, Aug. 10.—Ganymede, from Kingston; Helen E. Booker, St. John's ; Europa, Sundswall ; Imsko, New York; Nithsdale, Callao; Anna, St. Petersburg; Vetus, Gefle ; Shepherd, Riga; Nymph, Mogador ; Gesina, St. Petersburg ; Erin, Drem ; Loven, Uleaborg ; Wood cote, Calcutta; Josephine Droback ; Daldon, Faro ; Admiral, Dieppe; Dependant, Nassau; Lively, Guernsey; Vesta, Hudeckswall; Alma, Calcutta; Hannah, Riga; Faaborg, Bogens ; Laurvig, Sundswall ; Eclipse, Ger genti ; Ino, Caen ; Appleton, St. Vinoent ; Dolphin, Philadelphia; Fortuna, Christiana; Eucharis, Nyland; D. C. Seaton, Cuba Cienfugos ; Alfred, Calcutta : - United States, Reroouski; Penelope, St. Petersburg; British Tar, Jamaica; Freya, Swartvig; Hetman Schertoff, Cron stadt ; Familien, Stockholm. Arrived, Aug. 11.—Sarah Boyd and Dudbrook, from New York; Haabit, Hudickswall ; Ambrosine, Calcutta; Emily, Cronstadt. Sailed, Aug. 10.—Achilles, for San Francisco. DEAL, Monday, 10.28 a.m. Wind W. by N. • fine. Passed—Mary Stoddart, from Barbadoes ; C. J. Brogen tedo, from New York—both for London. Anchored—Ronochan, from London, for Quebec ; Mo fino, from Ha-tlepool, for Genoa. PUBLIC CLOCKS.—In any settlement of the church rate question it is to be hoped all the public clocks will be handed over to the municipal authorities, or improve ment boards, for it is thoroughly scandalous that when a Church-rate squabble bursts forth in a town, the church clocks, which are those most needful to the working classes, are altogether stopped. Public clocks, properly so called, are fewer in England than in most countries. —Building Nowt. St. St. St. 25 xdJ 2; 51 dt. I 12 St d 23 13 20 16 St. St. St. St St. St. 9 I I 20 1 5 1 411 50 15 571 30 1 4,1 10 28i 1 1 13 1 1 x d 1 20 1 100 Do.. 102 i li 98i 4i 3f 1141 i i 6k In 2 8 4 4 8 4 10, 8 3 16, 0 4 4 6 4 8 Lamb, 4a TOTAL SUPPLY. I 40,308 Os 6d tO I —a Od 2,027 11,372 Stook this day Price of Y. C Delivery last week .. Ditto from June 1 Arrivals last week Ditto from "Tuna .... Prig of TOwn z .... 18,230 1 51s Od tc —s Od 1,644 15,561 1,606 10,466 523 9cl 1855. 33,571 42,202 1 GIB 3d to 55s 31 10l 67s 6d —s Od I 1 ,760 2,599 11,392 17,986 1,284 781 8,903 12,473 683 64 36. - - - SPORTING NOTES. PROMISES AND PERFORMANCES. All persons connected with the executive department of be Brighton Meeting hal cause for gratulation and trig imph. Their efforts were attended with complete i :cess. True, the supply of sport was not over-abut d ai it, but the racing was interesting, and in some re ape cts important. Two much-talked-about incidents slia; -ked the sport—the withdrawal of Lady Florence fro' n a race on Thursday, after her number had been ►lac !eel on the telegraph, and the running of Theodora f. ar the Champagne. In the first instance a " promise 'I w us given which was not fulfilled ; and in the second ti ter e was a " performance" anything but satisfactory. T he practice of scratching horses after their numbers h: we been displayed on the telegraph cannot be justified any pretence whatever. Not even the ducal maxim of a man's having a right to do what he likes with his oc rn—a maxim which is unscrupulously adhered to on th e Wel—cannot be adduced in support of such a pro• ci ieding. 800k -makers are the chief sufferers by the riractice, and I am surprised that one of the "brother hood" should be found to adopt an expedient so perni cious and discreditable. It has been suggested that for the future a law should be framed by which all bets on a race shall be declared void after the withdrawal of a number. This rule would effectually check a system which seems likely to become one of the foulest abuses of th e turf. In some instances, however, a number may be withdrawn from the telegraph, and a horse not start through an accident, as on Friday, when Fordham weighed for Termagant, who did not reach the course in time to go to the post. The public, however, know how to discriminate between a fortuitous circumstance like that which caused the withdrawal of Termagant's number and the caprice which caused Lady Florence not to run. Young Quinton's well-known honesty ought to have been sufficient to shield him from the aspersions which men in their haste and chagrin heaped upon his character after the race for the Champagne Stakes. Business has brought me into frequent communication with the lad, whom I have ever found well-conducted and straight forward. He is studiously solicitous to carry out the in structions of his employers and to consult their interest. Mr. Hargraves did justice to Quinton and credit to himself by publishing a statement of the bets which he had on the race. Now, too, for a little common sense. Manganese meets Mincepie for the One Thou sand and beats her with evident ease. Sher subsequently runs at Ascot and Goodwood, and people discover that she can't stay. At Brighton, however, she runs for a toile race, a distance which is evidently her forte, and wins. This is not surprising, and I only ask any person whether odds would not have been freely laid on Man ganese if she had not run at either Ascot or Goodwood ? Besides, too, before the race many experienced judges expressed to me their astonishment that Manganese was not made the favourite. Is it also unusual for owners of horses to give orders to their jockeys not to persevere when they find their animals beaten ? Do not we fre quently see jockeys against whom calumny has never whispered the slightest suspicion pull up as soon as they have called upon their horses and have discovered there is no "go " left iu them. My opinion is that Theodora was stopped by the severe hill at the finish. The great est enemies to the turf are those persons who cannot keep their temper when they lose their money, and who make charges which are unjust and unfounded. I scarcely know how to deal with the current week's sport. There's enough racing to satisfy the most ardent sportsman. I have one comfort, however ; I shall not be compelled to touch upon the events decided to-day at Lewes and Wolverhampton. Seriously speaking— or writing—there are too many race meetings, and the sooner some of them aro abolished the better. The Wolverhampton Gathering will not, I trust, be the first to be discontinued, for not only is it well and honestly conducted, but every exertion is employed by the Corn mittee to promote sport. I should like to se© some o -- -- --- ---- the minor meetings abolished in order to give it fair play. I will briefly touch upon the events to be decided here to-morrow and Wednesday. Bandalore or Prince Plans iblo ought to win the Patshull Handicap. Should Lam bourn put in an appearance for the Chillington Stakes, I shall unhesitatingly stick to his colours. Gemma di Vergy, who is also amongst the nominations for this event, has engagements at Reading. On paper the Cleveland Cup looks a pretty good thing for Pole Star. In her absence, however, Fisherman may manage to get home first. The Free Handicap ought to be won by either Bucksfoot or Gaudy. Harrie may win the \Vrot tesley Stakes, and The Unexpected will carry off the Foal Stakes. For the Holyoake Stakes I shall select Little Davie and Goldhill. The Stewards' Piate may go to either the Maid of Cadiz or Titormous. Mr. Topham does his best for Lewes, but he has not worked wonders in that locality. Next year, however, there is hope for him, for an arrangement has been made by which the meeting will be held on the days follow. ing the Brighton gathering. I shall not attempt to de termine the probabilities for to-morrow, for really the racing excites little or no interest amongst persons who are not actually assisting at the meeting. Reading Races seem likely to be attended with their usual success. Several . improvements have been ma d e for conducting with gteater facility the business of the meeting. The supply of sport is likely to be ample. Westminster ought to win the EastHampbtead Stakes. Should Pretty Boy start for the Berkshire Stakes I do not see anything formidable enough likely to enter the lists to defeat him. Libellist will, perhaps, be his most dangerous antagonist. Either Madame Clicquot or Gemma di Vergy seams likely to carry off the Abbey Stakes. For the Nursery my fancy points to Orianda. If Zaidee did not carry off the Ham Stakes by a mere fluke, she will experience no difficulty in winning the Reading Stake?. For the Whitley Stakes my " picks " are Katherina Logie and Sandboy. A. FRESH MAN. TATTERSALLS%-SATURDAY. The room was not numeieusly attended, and only the :ollowing transactions came under our notice : EBOR HANDICAP. 100 to 30 agst Warlock (offered) 7to 1 agst Coroner (offered) Bto 1 agst Yellow Jack (taken and offered) 10 to 1 agst Lady Tatton (taken) DERBY. 50 to 1 nest Sharpshooter (taken to 1501.) 1000 to 15 agst Omer Pasha (taken). THE INJ WIED JOCKEYS AT GOODWOOD.—Bartholo mew is better, but not quite out of danger ; Mundy is progressing most favourably. Racing Fixt AU res for 1856. rUST. Reading Ludlow 2 I 14 Yarmouth York lB I 20 I SEPTE I Radcliffe C)5 Derby 26 Egham 26 Stockton 2B ;11BER. Cardiff 24 Walsall 24 Manchester Autumn 26 Newmarket F 0 30 Warwick Sept 2 Lichfield Lincoln 10 Doncaster 16 Le1a... 4- er 94 OCTOBER. Kelso... Chester Autumn 7 Warwick Autumn 2l Bedford ..... ........ . I Wrexham Autum n NOV EMBER. • Worcester Autumn . 4 Liverpool Autrmit ......12 I Tarporley Hu n t Irish Racing Fii SEPTE ;tures for 1856. MBER. Curragh 2 Johnstown 93 Tramore Jenkinstown Park l6 Limerick 3O OCTOBER. Curragh 14 I Cashel ~ 28 Down R. Corporation... 21 1 SUNDAY MUSIC IN THE PARKS AT MANCHESTER. In consequence of the resolution passed by the Man chester town cou nc il, on W e d nes d ay, t h e committee for providing Sunday music for the people have given notice they will for the present withdraw the Sunday bands from the people's parks. SCAVENGING THE RIVER THAMES.—" Who shall scavengethe River Thames ?" It is a great highway up and down which thousands travel daily. Why should sight and smell be offended by bloated offensive =Hon oscillating with the tides in a midsummer sun ? Dead dogs, dead cats, and floating offal are not only offensive—they are injurious to public health. It must be the duty of some one to free the river from these horrid objects, just as it is the duty of parish scavengers to cleanse the streets. The c' 3 '" servators, who receive river toll s an d dues, are the parties who ought to be made to do this work. There should be scavengers' barges just as there are scavengers carts. All dead animals and floating refuse should he removed regu. lariy from the river at once, and be buried beyond the me. trortolitan district. The health and convenience will be worth the cost. In the harbour at Balaklava scavenger barges were established under the orders of the Sanitary Commission. All dead animals, garbage, and refuse were taken to sea and sunk. Whole carcases were slashed and cut so as to prevent any generation of gase s ; and, by daily scavenging, the harbour was kept clean and wholesome. We ask again, who shall scavenge the River Thames ? It should be done at once.—Thc /3uikkr. CO WES, ISLE OP WIGET.-Aug. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON REGATTA. MATCH FOR THE QUEEN'S CUP. The old days of yachting seem to have returned to lie. The yachts are again well matched, and nothing could exceed the excitement of this day, nor could a finer breeze have been wished for. The following vessels were entered Yachts. Tons. • 0 wnere. Ceci1e....... ......... s Conynghan 3 . Marqui L0tu5............... 188 ......... Earl V ane . Urania ........... 14 0 Gloriana ......... Si r A. Bannerman. Lalla Rookh 126 ... 134 ..... J osep h Gee, Esq. , Viking ...... Col. Stirling. Columbine ......... Capt. S m i th B arry. But the Glorian a , L a ll a Rookh, Viking, and Urania only started. The Viking's qualities had not been tried, and though she had many admirers the Gloriana was decid edly the favourite. On the starting gun being fired the, Lalla Rookh (which bad the southernmost station) rounds,/ off before the wind, and went away to the eastward before a fresh S.W. breeze. The Gloriana crowded van closely after her, followed by the Viking. The Ura n i a took the thing very quietly, got her sails up leisur e l y, and followed the other three at a respectful distance ; indeed appeared only to be entered to make one in mum. her, or perhaps for the chance of half a gale of wind, when she might have proved an awkward customer, particularly as the Gloriana, calculating on light winds, had landed four tons of her ballast. The struggle was between the Gloriana and the Lalla Rookh, the) former having passed the latter off Ryde, kept it for the :remain der of the race of fifty miles, and eventually beating by little more than one minute in the day's sail I The match for 200' sovereigns a side, between Lord Conyngham's yacht Cecile, of 198 tons, and Lord Vane's Lotus, of 188 tons, is also to come off tcemorrow. Two finer yachts no club can boast of ; and, as tyaey are well , natched for size, we Dope that they may be favoured Nith a spanking breeze to try their sailing qualities. THE CHALLENGE Cur.—The committee report favour ably of the progress they are making, and we find that lit is creating considerable interest arnone;st yachtsmen, MA.TCII FOR 100 SOVEREIGNS.- The following Engliele and foreign yachts have been entered to sail to-morrow (Monday) : Lulworth 9O tons—Joseph Wild, Esq. Arrow ll7 „ ...T. Ch am b er l ayne, Es. G l ance ...T. B ar tl e t t , E sq. q M osquito 69 „ ... A. J. Young, Esq. ildfire ...J. T. Turner, Esq. Cyclone Whirlwind BB „ ...F. Tynne, Esq. Aureraßorealis(Swe dish) . 286 „ ...David Carnegie, Esq. Vesta ...F. Marshall, Esq. Amazon ..,T. Groves, Esq. Extravaganza 57 „ ...Sir Percy Shelley. The Town Amusements commence at one o'clock, awa several "American sailing boats" have been entered %o sal. There are prizes for yachts' gigs and watermenes boats with four oars and two oars, duck hunts, dings' races, shipwright apprentices' boats, boats with rudde lea and beats without rudders, washing tubs, and evfiry other machine that will swim will be made to go ahead on this occasion. AUG. 10. Her Majesty embarked from Osborne, on board the Victoria and Albert, this afternoon, and at a quarter before five o'clock she steamed away to the 'westward, the Fairy and nine Government steam-ships leading, for the Channel Islands and Plymouth. It is very naughty of the Royal party sailing on a Sunday, but we suppose it was their only leisure day. THEATRICALS. GYMNASE.--A piece under the formidable dent:mica; Lion of "Les Vainqueurs de Lodi" is the latest novelty here, suggesting, in this overpowering weather, the hot work at the terrible bridge rendered memorable by the gallantry of Napoleon. This was, indeed, enough ta . keep the crowd at a respectful distance, and the eager ness was in fact not inconveniently pressing on the first representation. To the relief, however, of those asseiti bled, the piece turned out to be a subject taken from one of the prettiest of modern romances, " La Chartre use de Parme," in which a young French officer is saved from the deadly vengeance of his Italian hosts by the generosity and tact of the niece of the family in which he is billeted, who have arranged an ambuscade against the hated invaders of their country. Nicely written and prettily acted, this trifle goes off gaily, and the name of M. La Rounat was given out as the author with general marks of favour. VARIETES, —A series of tableaux vivants,Thurlesque and caricature, are presented here, with the aid of a plot of the very flimsiest description, in which a John Bull of the old school, who admires everything, is the lutt of the author's fun, such as it is. The title of this affair is " La Musee Comique", the idea of which is much better than the execution, for with a little taste the groupings might be made really attractive. It was, however, allowed to pass without opposition. HIPPODROME,—Our old friend "Le Piro de Franc- Boisy of the chanson, which, to say the truth, has be come a good deal of a bore, is here introduced in a novel form, being dramatised into an amusing equestrian bur lesque, the extravagance and comicality of which were much relished. The riding and the various exercises among which those of half a dozen Africans are very re markable, were als much applauded. These would bare given more satisfaction had the legendary buffoon -ries of "Le Sire" been somewhat curtailed, the general fault of these entertainments being their extreme length. The public will be glad to learn that the health of Mlle. Rac'eel gives some hopes of her re-appearance be fore them during the ensuing winter. Mlle. Judith has, upon reconsideration, withdrawn her re-iguation from the Theatre Francaie. The little difference with M. Got is not yet quite arranged, but this comedian is too valuable, and we hope too reason. able he his demands, to be lost to the Francais. M. Puget, from the Opera-Comique, has appeared at the Acaddmie in "Lucia" as Edgard°. He was hies "densely applauded, but the part has seldom been so indifferently sung in Paris, and at this theatre, we have before had occasion to remark, it has often b een sung very badly. Donizetti's beautiful opera is indeed here scarcly recognisable. Calzolari, Mme. &mice and a few other of the Italian artistes passed through Paris this week from London, en route for Moscow. The directors of the Adelphi are again in Paris, at tracted, it is said, by the glowing accounts given of the nautical effects at the Porte St. Martin in "Le Fils de fa Nuit." It appears, however, that the grand scene of the manceuvring of the ship, &c., h a s been long since done in London on a mere complete and extensive scale. It is inexplicable to us that some of the Loudon mane less do not come over to Paris—with their staff of scene•painters and machinists —to show how they do these things. In Paris we want very much a lesson in the art of scene-shifting. The time taken at all the theatres here to set a complicated scene would not be credited in London. A "comic pantomime"—not such imitations as we have bad in Paris, but a fac simile of a first.rate Christmas pantomime—would draw all Perla for months, and make the fortune of the entrepreneur. A German paper acquaints us that Mlles. Clara and Therese Ponta, both countesses by birth, have made their debut in Munich iu "Romeo et Giulietta" with vast success, and another contemporary gives a long list of counts and countesses, and other titled noblesse, who figure on the stage of the Italian Opera in London. We must observe that all such compliments are in the worst possible taste. When the vicissitudes of life oblige In dividuals of whatever station to appear before the pub lic, they should owe their sole distinction to their talents. All the rest, as Pope says—" is leather and prunello." THEATRICALS IN CHINA.--We read in the China Mail :—" The theatrical company lately in Hong Kong have removed to Canton, where their perfcrmancei are watched by the local government with more than ordi nary vigilance. The destruction of Fatshan, in 1854, is believed to have originated on the Inflammatory ad dresses of some of the players, and in consequence only fifteen companies are now licensed for the drama in the provinces of Kwangsi and Kwangtune—but half the number licensed when the government had less to ap prehend." ,sirrmmlNG MASTERS! UNDER TETE PARISH BATHS AND WASH HOUSES ACT IN EVERY TOWNSHIP, SEC TION XXXIV., IN FRANCE AND ENGLAND' TO THE EDITOR OF THE allE,—Thanks. Your journal of the Bth, stating the laudable exer tions on the behalf of temporary provision by able swim mers to guide the numerous children that bathe in the Serpentine, Hyde-park—said to be under two thousand, daily—appears so feasible, whereby to obviate the me., lancholy narrations, as well as to overshadow by solace the unremunerated parents of young ERSOII and others, in like Irish family affliction, as that of yesterday, for the absence of two or three good Newfou n dl an d dogs. Whence, "your advertisement" prompts the Coun tess CAROLINE Bellew, in right ought designate to the next ki n of Christopher FLEMING VI., Baron Slant Gen'vill, on extinction of the elder male branch over this Savoy, lineage trust feeling "en Fief-feminine" from Pembroke-Bigot Lacy O'Conner 'de Roderioo,' to offer her "twice fourteen days" as 1/. So.—contribution to the swimmers" provided by the Adjutant officer com manding at Knightsbridge, on his Colonel continuing to sanction two of his men dedicating their hour's instruct. tion to the lads under this suggestion, of " water pro tection police" till the parish authorities move, as the above heading by law now directs, to which all editors, in " homage to our sex and the Queen," will avail them selves of this initiative, in consequence of the society's dragomen and park-rangers not daring to take the water, which ought to be salt now, instead of the non•bnoyant fresh, so treacherous " boys, &c., under eight, as this Duck-in-field name enactment. Stockley-house, Regent's-park, August 11, 1856. " Approved of " by the Indian Crown Church. warden, 31at Jan., 1842. P. Blograz in Bun at"' 107 i 23k 12i f 10 9i 1 [Os 20 1 10 20 5 100 114 x a ad PM PM 852 10,952 404 as