The Sun. — London, England, 1863-08-26 00:00:00

1' rbr. v• 23. , nued to a marks Lowhere ted the ry day. ith her Dob urg, Queen Satui- after a officers •or, the nd the mperor n. The Lensioa would 9 were ) their ,rn ex of St. ) Prus- de a were move- •aguay ?,e resent. nbled. nip of before pen in ne. back, morn- gape resent In the them- i that ce her have )iana Pen- amity night, e left duke select e and Co of is ex- ►nada, t, the ONEY MARKET AND COMALIERCIAIA INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The general discount market appears somewhat firmer this morning, with a slight increase in the demand. Yesterday there was an easier tendency, and in the course of the afternoon a few bills were negotiated at 31 per cent., bat to-day the rates have reverted to their former point, and 31 per cent, is again quoted as the general charge. A further sum of £2,900 in gold was taken into the Bank yesterday. The Delta, which carries the Bombay mails, will take out 1:203,110 in specie. The John Duncan has arrived from Otago with £189.3.32 in gold. The usual dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum was declared at the half-yearly meeting of the General Steam Navigation Company yester day. Two O'CLOCK. At the ordinary meeting to-day of the Southamp ton Dock Company—Col. G. Barlow in the chair— the report, which was adopted, stated that the accounts showed a net revenue after payment of the interest on the debenture debt, of the dividends on the preference stocks, and of all working ex penses, &c., for the six months ending the 30th June last, amounting to £6,844. A dividend was declared for the half-year of £2 per cent., payable on the 2d September next, being at the rate of four per cent. A remarkable degree of dullness is apparent in business at the Stock Exchange, the members being almost exclusively engaged in settling the account in foreign securities and railway shares. Scarcely any new speculative operations are reported, end the official lists consequently present an unusually blank appearance. The few bargains entered into have not influenced prices very materially, and Consols are 931- 4 for transfer, and 931 for the 9th proximo. The situation of monetary affairs, with quietude in discount circles, and a flow of gold into the Bank, is in favour of prices, although it has no effect in promoting transactions. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are again 93;1 1 ; the New 21 per Cent. Annuities are 77; and Exchequer Bills ls. dis. to 2s. prem. The India 5 per Cents. Loan is 1081; and the 51 per Cent. Enfaced Paper, 1161. _ . There is very little business in progresi, in the Foreign Market, but prices arc generally firm. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1858, '72i ; do., 1862, 69 a ; do., Consolides, 51 ; 1 ; 7 3 ; Greek, 34 4 ; do., Coupons, 16k ; Spanish Passive, 331 34/ ; do., Internal, 271 ; Mexican, 381 d ; Portuguese, 49; Russian, 92k I; and the Confederate Loan has risen 1 per cent., viz., to 23 21 dis. Business in the Railway Share Market has been confined chiefly to transactions in connection with the settlement. Prices, however, have in several instances shown a slight advance. Caledonian, Lan cashire and Yorkshire, and South Eastern, have each improved Ss. ; and North Eastern (Berwick), 10s.; while Midland have receded 58., and London and Blackwall, 10a. In the Fortin and Colonial undertakings the variations in prices have been unimportant. Turin and Savona have improved about bs.; Great Wes tern of Canada have declined Ss. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares generally con tinue in moderate favour, at about previous rates. London and Westminster are dealt in at 771 78; and London and County, at 494. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities - 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities New 3 per Cent. Annuities New 21 per Cent. Annuities 77 5 per Cent. Annuities Annuities, 30 yrs, expire nth Jan., 1880 — Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 — India Stock Ditto 5 pet Cent lOBl Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent — Ditto 5 per Cent Ditto 51 per Cent Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct., 1863 Ditto ditto April, 1864 Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 D ittu Bonds £l,OOO — 1 Ditto under £l,OOO Bank Stock for Account .... Consols for Account, Sept, 9 1 adia Stock for Account, 5 per Cent — March, I June, 2h per Cent. 2/ per Cent. Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO .. 2 pm Ditto £5OO .. 2pm Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS —ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent ...... -- Ditto 1859, ...... ............. Brazilian 5 per Cent .......... ......... Ditto, 1839 and 1859 ......... -- . Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 •941 Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent ..... Ditto Account.... ......... Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) ,: hi Han 6 per Cent ... — Ditto 41 per Cent .. 87 Danish 4 per Cent., 1863 Ditto 3 per Cent., 1825.. Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Egyptian 7 per Cent — Ditto, Second Issue Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons 34b 4 1 Ditto Account — Ditto Coupons l6l Ditto Account Italian 5 per Cent. (Marecumana Railway) Mexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account Moorish imperial 5 per Ceut New Granada ..._. . ... Ditto 2 per Cent. Ditto Deferred Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) — Peruvian ;.? per Cent. Ditto 41 per Cent., 1862 Ditto Account — Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto Account...... Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, Ditto Account '6o, 62 49 -Russia n 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St Ditto 41 per Cent 1850.. Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859 i Ditto 5 per Cent, 1862 Sardi n i an 5 per Cent Ditto Account S panish 3 per C ent D itto Account-- Ditto New D e f erre d — I) itto Account Ditto Passi ve Ditto Account — Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded Ditto Account — Turkish 6 er Cent. 1854 — Ditto Account.. — Ditto 6 per C ent . 1858 Ditto Account Ditto, £lOO Bonds 75 Ditto 6 per unt Cent. 1862 Ditto Accol 9 Ditto G uaranteed, 4 per Cent —. Venezuela 3 per Cent. Ditto Ditto Account Dit 6 per Cent 1862 . • Account " ~.. Dividends on the above payable in London. Js‘elgian 4k per Cent., Ex. 25f. utch. 2i per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil — trench Ditto 4 per Cent Certificates Rentes, Per Cent., Ex. 25f — Italia, 6 fla t° z l e e o r Cent., 1:,'61, Ex. 25:francs — Consols, Money t TWO O' CLOCK. Ditto:kccoxt ........ , 93 t i Th e trice of Gold. The quotation of the short exchange on comparing these rates with this 25.30 g cl ki at Paris is abou perer mille pm., and tandard 17s. lOid , per ounce for s .£1 sterling. On this 23p Mint price of 23 gold, it appears that gold is 13.01 per By advices from tiamburg the proindon:ohlTiisll42ls'spries; about 4-10 the I.er cent. de a , er in London and the short exchange on Lxoni:toettei:si r.tandard gold at the English c)lamburg tracen inleitherefore, about .£1 ster m li a n r g k . -lOths per cent, dearer in Loudon The course of exchange at New on - co days' sight is about 130 to 139 i per k en l a nd d on for bills at on gold about 26i per cent. At these pric.cs the-P7rnium importation of g .. r there is little if any profit on the fold rota the United States. NELSON LEE AND TILE DRAMATIC COLLEGE.-- Mr. J. W. Asecretary to the D ratnvia l egs, has forwarded usri' the follo;ving letter to M r. Col. Nelson Le e : --Dear Sir,--1 have beer. directed by the council to convey of their opinion in relation to the ti::'% % a th il e7o P lV;e i° h il asobtained frotmheydouurtystehrvanicebsy, faaurd. hi n , v „ K I cannot better discharge their minutes, viz.: . 4. „ : ;" t i et: the a eli following vhear ino h " -"efee lace • been made to the great benefit which and drofrtime Menagerie r s y show and Wombwell's in ' See ing to their construction, his value R important icha rds o s u e ' ices b o le f i A d l e r a , Nelson Lee A l a da s of perform nian g ' ciale at, as well before as on upalleil be vot, d t 0 hito ailee ' it li e ns unaziraously rcn,)lved that the y thanks of the the college thus vineerl." tor hi 3 devotion to the intereete of . 24. SHARE MARKETS—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCA S. Paid.. Closingßu d B o l n u e e . B'' Railways. Price. Bir., Wol., and Str. Val. Blythe and Tyne. Bost.,Sleat.,andMid.Co Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall Do A A gets no dig till 6p c.p I Do. B been paid to B. Dublin Belfast J Dun.,Perth,& Ab. June. Edinburgh <IL Glasgow.' Blasg. and S. Western.' Great Eastern, Ord. stk Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian st GreatNorthof Scotland Great Northern..... • • • Do .A stock Do B do Gt. S. and W. of Ireland 'Great Western ... Str Val gua. stool: Lancashire t Yorkshire London and Blackwali Lou., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & Scr.th Western Man., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Uo shares Metropolitan Midland Do New Do Binning. & Derby I:Tid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. shares Mid Ker t Do Cray Line North British Ellin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Lantern—Berwicii Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Lecds Do York Do Carlisle... North London Do New North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot. IN. E. ' Aber. stock Do Scot. Mid. stock Shrews. and Welchpoo , Shropshire Union South Devon ( South Eastern 'South Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines,Wok.,andWok Stockton & Darlington Do Do New, 188 G Taff Vale.. ........... Do B Do C ............... Ulster ............. DDo o ........ ......... Vale of Neath. ..... Victoria sta. and . Pim.... Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool liar. &R West Midland -Oxford Newpori Do Hereford BRITISH P Railways It!antic ez St Lawrenct aom.,Barodatt.Cent Ind Gu. 5 per oent ...... Do. New Do. E. Shares.. Buffalo and Laxe Huron Do. Preference Buffalo,BrantottGod rid) 5 p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1671 Do. do. July 1, 187:7 1 Do. do. June 1, L!, , ;4 Cleutta.& S. Eas tn (Lill Cape Town & Dock Seri/ Eastn. Bengal go. 5 p. c East Indian. gu. 5 p. c. Do. do. G Ext Do. do. II do. .. Grand Trunk of Canada Do. Ist Pref. Bonds.. Do. ao. deferred...... Do. 2d Pref. Bones.. Do. do deferred...... Do. 3d Pi ef. stock Do. do. deferred...... Do. 4th I'ref. stork... Do. do. deferred...... Gt.lndiaPenin.gu a.sp.c. Do. N gua. r Do. January, 1862 Gt. South.of India (Lim) guaranteed 5 per cent. Gt. W. of Canada Sharer, Do. New Indian '73 with' t opt . o p . do. 56c B :e ranch Limited 151adras guar., 5 p. c. D o . 4 p. C. Extension. De. 4t do Do. Fifth Extension. Melb.Corp. C p. c. Bnd, Melt). & llobson's Bay. Do. 7 p. c. Blortg. lids. Newßruniswick W Land;. Class A and B. N.ltl.C'das pc Ist pt bdE Scinde Do. Delhi.. ...... Do. d 0.... • • ' Do. Punjaub • • Do. Do. •• • • • Do. Indue.St. Flo.) 8 8J 81 i 1 86 r 8 120 121 7 74 40 41 16 17 94 05 111 113 5t 52 40 51 24 L'5,4; 125 k 1251 1251 12'it PS 140 100 IC2 CG . I Gib - 14 1143 73 74 113 115 , 12 44 102 i lu3 103 101 143. 111 12 129! 1301 14 11-, 99 101 54.1 L 5 25 26 1021 IC3I 58 59 E 9 89i 120 125 11 14 I , EO 82 11! - -1 /Z 1 122 121 46 47 100 102 50 62 30 32 961 065 70 72 101 103 9 10 87 38 9 10 7 1 8 E• 155 160 51 , 3 3i p 89 91 158 162 27 29 46 47 39 41 101 106 ,SIONS. Closing Price. — 62 - C4 - 107 i I.CB 1 16 p 1,1 lu P 5} .51 71 8i 1074 1084' 104 106, 109 110 118 1.9 1 lip 1 1 4i , 194 201 72 74 54 57 63 66 46 49 45 47 36 28 25 27 22 24 108 101 1 1 14; 107 ICS 10 106 10 gill 95 98 90 v 2 I 1 p 107 it.B 1014 1024 18 1(0 57 50 3 6 83 E 5 1074 IoBb 1074 1081 E iP - - P 1074 1(81 103 105 COLONIAL GOVER. (1.3.br0v. et p.c..). 4z.J 1877-81 • • • Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Aue Do. 6 p. c.M ar. & Sept. Do. 6 p. c. Jan.&July. Do. 5 Inscribed stock Cape G.Hope, 6 p c,187:, Do.Ap & Oct. 1880 Do. 189( Do. Jan. & July, 1891 Ceylon, N0v.1678, 6 p c iMautittua 0 per cent Natal Gov. 6 per cant IN.B.Gov. d p.c..) a.&J 01) Do. dp. c.Ap. & Oct. N. S.W. Gov. 5 p ls„t Do. sp. c.lB, to rii( Do. d0.,1888 aup wd !New Zealand 6 p cent. Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. c sterling, 1875 ,Queensland Gcv. 6 p. C io.Aus G6p.e.1873.8L up Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja,tJul) Do. to *ln.°. Ao.aOck.. MEN 100 100 100 100 100 T SECURITIES. 103 105 1(2 too 1(5 107 941 051 02 C 4 108 110 112 114 113 115 112 115 113 11F 106 107 110 112 1 1051 1064 1001 101; 1014 1021 102 103 110 112 105} 100; t:1 113 110 112 10S 110 113 i 114 IC3I 1131 BRITISH MINES. lid 6 d t 6 2 ICarnbrian C onso l . Gold 1 _ 7 3 , lu ord Amalgamated 5 Devon G. C on ,. (Tavis t.) 1 _• 60 680 78 80 East Bassett (Ill ogan ) 3" t A , . 1 . 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd 52. 1 1- ` ,'" East Ca.radon ..... t14 . ,281 29/ 25 -- East Cara Br ea. (Tavistk , 8 6.6 3 4 4 Garn.dzSLAuoyn(Gwen ; 1.8: 7 i 0 Great South Tolgus l7B 3 31 G. Wheal Vor (Hatton 40 64 71 Grenville H erz.-d's- Foot ....... „ 8.12 1 8 40 t-1 ingston DOWliti Lady Bertha ... Alargaret (Orly. Lela 9. 32 31 31arke Valley. .... 4 Myndy Iron Oro (Lim.; 2); 14 2 6 - New Setun - North Downs .. N. Wh'i Basset(lllo4an 2.17. c 21 34 Sorth Wheal Crotty Par Consols 05. t. Bla zey; 11 4 4 3 5 20 Crovidenee(l.lny Lelnt.) 10.6.7 11 43 South Caradon(St.Cleer) 11 415 425 S. Carn Brea (Illogan) 5.15.6 n 24 ;...4.Wheal Fran. (Illogan, 1 8.1-.9 60 70 ................. 28.9. 3 9 41 ..... S c l ramar Silv.,Sz Lead Min. 41 fin Orolt 21 :!. West Basset (Illogan) , . 0 W C! radon (Liskeard' Si 1 tii 21 23 West Seten Wheal Basset (Mogan; 5/ 60 Y 45 c 5 ;Wheal Buller(Redrutll) 5 3 5 j ‘S 7 heal Kitty (U.LelAnt); 2.0.8 ...... ".. W healLtzdcctt I W heal 3laryAnn !Men.); 8 12 4 Wheal Seton ..' 581 /215 „:25 _- ;Wheal Union 3.1 77 21 3171 f vti' ea] Treiatvney (Lis ) 15 17 LINES LEASED Al' FIXED RENTALS. London, Tilbury, and Southend, 07} Wilts and Somerset, FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San Francisco (11m.) pua. 7 per cent. , 201' - 1 N Rail of Buenos Ayres, qua. 7 per cent.,"_loi Sambre and Meuse, 704 San Paulo (11m.), qua. 7 per cent., Ditto (a'l), 22: Turin anti Savona, 21 FOREIGN MINES. Port Philip, 11 St. John dcl Rey (11m.), 53 Yudanarautana of U. Australia JOIN T-STOCK RANKS. Australasia, 76} Chartered Ban , ' of India, Australia, and China, 3O English, Scotch, and Australian Chartered, ak Imperial Bank film.), 22 k London and Brazilian tlim.), 43 London and County, 49 Si 9} London and South African, 26i London and Westminster, 774 8 Standard of British South Africa (11m1), 19 181 Ditto, new, 13} Union of Australia, 514 4 Union of London, 351 DOCKS. Victoria, 1001 MISCELLANEOUS. Crystal Palace, 391 Gene, al Steam Navigation, 294 International Financial Society, lira., 81 Oriental Inland Steam, lim,, 4 Quebrada Land, Rail, and Mining, lira., RACING FIXT ICES FOR 1863. Egham 25 Stockton SEP TB: Devon And Exeter Derby Summer Weymouth Rings Lynn Warwick Leicester lO Doncaster 15 UST. Oxford Lichfield IMBER. Wordsley gl Brecon 2l Richmond 22 Monmouth 24 Manchester Autumn 25 Newmarket Ist Oct. 29 Edinburgh, &c. Club 30 'OBER. OCT, Covent r 6 y Bedf or d 6 Caled on i an Hunt , t Isiewmarket S. es, ''' 12 Worcester NoVE. 3I Lincoln Autumn ........ 20 Kelso ... . .... 21 Glouce,uer ........... 22 Newmarket, Houghton. .. 26 :5113ER. Shrewsbury Autumn.... 16 IRISH. SEPTEMBER. 21 Curragh .... 23 Carlow • ................ 9 I Jenkira 1 Limerick wn Park Listowel to ..... ........ lo t OCT Curragh ......... . , 11E11. 20 1111 g ;3 113 I 43 2 103 1034 1 . 2 111 ;291 65 4'4 5i 103} 932 7} Bonin egs don, THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUSI 26, 1863. LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. Mr. Commissioner Fane was the Commissioner of the day, but there were no examination meetings on the list. (Before Mr. Registrar Bingham.) IN RE COOPER.-SINGULAR CASE OF SECOND BANK- RUPTCY. This bankrupt was a grocer at Woolwich, and this was a meeting for choice of assignees. The bankrupt passed his last examination and obtained his order of discharge, but it now appears that he had improperly disposed, of some pro perty, and a dispute arising between the parties and the bankrupt, the latter again petitioned the court, so that the property may be brought into court, Mr. Drew, Basinghall-street, the solicitor, said that he had no doubt the property could be recovered, but a question may arise as to which class of creditors will b 3 entitled to the benefit. MARKETS—This Day. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. BOW-STREET. FORGING- A BILL or EXCHANGE.—WiIIiam 'Pottage was placed at the bar, on remand, charged with forging and uttering a bill of exchange for £67, with intent to defraud Mr. Welfare, of the firm of Foreman and Welfare, Oakley-street, Lambeth. The bill purported to be accepted by Mr. William Bew, of 62, Aldermanbury, merchant, and to be endorsed by Mr. E. Weston, of the Music Hall, Holborn, and by Mr. Weston, of Newington-causeway, gas chandelier manufac turers. Mr. Welfare said be resided at 72, Oakley-street, and discounted the bill of exchange produced for the pri soner in the early part of July. He could not state the exact amount advanced, but he thought it would be about £6 3s. Bd. Mr. Henry—• What conversation had you about the bill. Witness —When the bill was brought to me with merely the name of Mr. Bew, I said that, although I considered that:gentleman a hiz - hly respectable person, I thought the names of two others might ba placed to the bill, and I men tioned the names of Mr. Weston, of Holborn, and Mr. Weston, of Newington. The prisoner took the bill away, and the next day he returned with it, bearing the signa tures of those two gentlemen. Cross-examined:-At the time the bill was being dis counted, I held a bill supposed to have been drawn by Mr. "Weston, the gasfitter, and accepted by Mr. Weston, of Holborn. It was brought to me for discount by the pri soner, and I discounted it for them, with his endorsement. A day or two prior to the £5O bill becoming due, the pri soner called upon me and said it was not convenient for Mr. Weston, the acceptor, to meet the bill, and it would be an obligation to hold it over. I demurred, and the prisoner then replied, " Well, if you don't like to do that, I've a bill for £67 which you can discount. At that the prisoner took up the £O. The reason I wished the names of the Westons to be placed on the £67 bill was because I told the prisoner I was giving up a bill for £•5O with the names of the two Westons, whom I knew to be good. And he said he knew both of them. Mr, John Henry Weston, of Newington. causeway, gas_ fitter, said his signature to the bill was a forgery. The pri soner was formerly in partnership with him, and was well acquainted with the appearance of his signature. He be lieved the endorsement on the bill to be in prisoner's hand. writing. Mr. Edward Weston, of the Music-hall, Holbcrn, also examined the bill, and said his signature to it was a forgery. He was totally unacquainted with the prisoner. Ho was not at all related to Mr. Weston, of Newington. He had lately done work for Wm at Highgate to the amount of £2,500, and that would perhaps account for the presumption of relationship. Inspector Tanner, of the detective police, said that was the whole of the evidence he had to offer in the present case, but he had a second charge of forgery against him, but the prosecutor in that charge (Major Stranson) was confined to his bed by illness. Mr. Henry said in that case he would remand the pri soner, as the next Old Bailey sessions would not come on for two or three weeks. Mr. Lewis said the prisoner would reserve his defence. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. PARISH PROSECUTION OF A NOTORIOUS BROTHEL KEEPER.—Elizabeth Middleton, a middle-aged woman, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with keeping a brothel at 20, St. Martin's-street. Sergeant George Appleton having proved that the pri soner was the person named in the warrant upon which he apprehended her, The clerk to Mr. Dangerfield, vestry clerk of St. Mar- tin's, by which parish the prosecution was instituted, asked that heavy bail might be required, as the house kept by the prisoner was a very bad one, and she had set the authorities at defiance and taken no notice of their warnings. Mr. Tyrwhitt, committed her to the sessions, and fixed the bail at two sureties in £4O each. Prisoner said she would shut up the house, and pay all she expenses, if she was allowed to go. Mr. Tyrwhitt said she would go to the sessions. A WIFE BEATER PROPERLY PUNISHED.—Ed Win Toy, of 7, Brown street, St. George's, cabinetmaker, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with assaulting his wife, Penelope Sarah Toy. The wife said that on the previous night her husband (the prisoner) locked the room door, put the key in his pocket —as he always did when he ill-used her—and then aimed a violent blow at her head, but she put up her hand to save her head, and upon it received the blow. She then went end sat down by her chlldren's bedside, when her husband gave her another blow on the head, which rendered her insemible for a time, and on her recovering, she insisted on his letting her out of the room, and he did so, she being smothered with b;ood from a wound on her head. ➢lr. Tyrwhitt asked the wife whether her husband kept her, and she said that her mother chiefly did. W. Hal'lean, 171 C, said the complainant came up to him with blood pouring from a wound on the head, and told him that her husband had assaulted her. He then went towards the house and met the prisoner, and took him into custody. The prisoner said his wife made accusations of such a nature against him that he coula not keep his hands off her. Mr. Tyrwhitt committed the prisoner for six months, with hard labour, and said that he would have to find bail when ho came out of prison, WESTMINSTER. A SUICIDAL MONOMANIA.—Mary Lockey, a good-look ing young woman, was charged before Mr. Arnold with threatening to commit suicide, under the following singular circumstances:— Croe, Principal Warder of the Female House of Correc tion, Tothill-fields, stated that, on the 25th of July, the prisoner was brought into the prison for damaging a plate glass at a public house. At the termination of her impri sonment she was sent to her friends at Birmingham. She, however, stayed no time there, as she came back as soon as the officer. On another day, when put in the cell, she broke 16 panes of glass and other things. In answer to the Magistrate, the warder stated that, while in prison, they were compelled to put her under re straint, lest she should commit suicide. She has declared that she would kill herself, as everybody was against her. Mr. Arnold observed that he thought the.best way was to communicate with the parish authorities. Is the sur geon of the prison present ? -Dr. Lavies, medical officer of the prison, said that he had seen the prisoner, and he believed her to be a badly disposed girl. She talks rationally, but witness is of opinion that she is of a suicidal disposition, and, if not watched, will do some mischief to herself. Mr. Arnold remarked that he thought the best way to deal with the case was to remand her. She was then remanded, and Mr. Arnold directed that she should be closely Watched. MARK.-LANE. The supply of new English wheat received fresh up to this morning's market was very moderate. However, both red and white qualities met a heavy sale, at fully Monday's decline in the quotations of is per quarter. With foreign wheat the market was well supplied. The trade for all descriptions was very dull, and Moaday's cur rency was with difficulty supported. Floating cargoes of grain sold heavily, at about Mon. day's currency. The supply of old barley was very moderate, and the show of new produce was small. The demand generally was in a sluggish state, and pricas had a drooping tendency. Fine malt was tolerably firm in price, but inferior parcels were a dull inquiry. A limited business was transacted in oats at Monday's fall in prices. With foreign qualities the market was well supplied. Beans and peas met a slow sale, at about previous rates. Both English and foreign flour was in slow request at late quotatioL s. The supply of barrels was large. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat Barley. Malt, Oats. Iriont. English. ; .... 610 I J 740 i 370:1 120 1ri5h.......... - N'0ruign......17,150 2,020 , , 23,080 13,710 brls BOROUGH HOP. We have to report a quiet trade for all kinds of hops, but without leading to any change in the currency. Th e accounts from the plantations are in favour of an average crop, TvrHITECHAPEL. The supply of meat is moderate, and for prime qualities he trade is firm. Beef, from 2s Gd to 4s Od ; mutton, 3s Od to 4s 4d ; lamb, 5s Od to 58 Gd; veal, 3s Gd to 4s 4d; and pork, ;is 4d to 4s 4d per 81bs. Ey the carcase. SHIPPING—This Day. LONDON, Aug. 26.—Wind this day at noon —South- Easterly; moderate breeze, and cloudy weather, with showers. . _ mi T ra n na o i o:v h , i. Aug.26. — Win_d S.W.—Arrived—Borneo, from SHIELDS, Aug. 25,—Wind S.S.E.—Arrived—Emily Wylde, from Huelva. BRIDGEWATER, Aug, 24.—Wind Louisa, from Richibucto. HATLEPOOL, Aug. 21.—Wind variable. —Arrived— Julius, from Richibucto. HULL, Aug. 25.—Wind I V. — Arrived—Palmatta, from Miramichi ; President Von Blumenthal, and Victoria, from Quebec. ABERDEEN, Aug. 24.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Clarinda, for Quebec. FALMOUTH, Aug. 25.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Thomas Rowell, from Quebec. OEF PORTSMOUTH, Aug. 25.—Wind S.W.—Arrived— Alrgaret Cairns, from London for New York. GRIMSBY, Aug. 25.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Norden, from Quebec. (Br MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Wednesday Mo rn i ng. Carlisle,Castor fr f o r m o n m sm Bi y c r ) n he a b . org ; Skein, Arrived, August 25— Caroline, from Jamaica; J o h n Gjemle, from Pugw as h ; G oethe, i D ro u Am n r c rQ a i v n ue , edb l , r e o cA n ; i u gE O uas t r a ti g 2o o from New York ; Isabella, from Dantsic; Constanci a , f rom Odense. Sailed, Aug. 26—Woodbine, for Rockhampton; Bombay, for Auckland ; Ard berg, for Sydney; Hotspur, for Sydney ; Excelsior, for Cape of Good Hope; Laura, for Demerara. DEAL, Wednesday Morning. Passed, August 25—Ayrshirv, from Quebec, for London. Passed, August 26—Avoca, screw steamer, for the Medi terranean. Anchored—Guillelmon, from London, for Montreal. THE SPANISH ELECTIONS. MADRID, Aug. 21. The following is the circular issued by the Minis. :er of the Interior relative to the elections : "I have submitted to the Queen our Sovereign the questions addressed to our Ministry by the governors of various provinces relative to the appli cations from electors of different political opinions to be authorised to assemble and consult each other on the occasion of the coming election of deputies to the :tortes. Her Majesty, desiring that the authorities should have a general rule for their guidance in this matter, has been pleased, in con cert with the Council of Ministers, to decree as follows : " 1. The governors of provinces will grant the permission to electors of deputies whose names are borne on the legally approved lists to assemble and deliberate on the course they may wish to pursue in the corning elections. " 2. In granting the authorisation for those assemblies the governors will require from the applicants a statement showing the place, the day, and the hour where they may wish to assemble, this statement being sent in before the projected meeting, and at a proper time. The governors will warn the applicants that they shall abstain from con stituting such assembly until after the following conditions shall have been fulfilled to the entire satisfaction of the official who may be delegated to perform this duty. " 3. Those persons only will be admitted to the place of assembly who can furnish instant and satisfactory proof that they are electors. If they are electors of the district or districts of the locality in which the meeting is being held, this must be specially mentioned, and confirmed by the production of the respective electoral lists. Should an elector not belonging to the district wish to be present at the meeting, ho shall identify himself and furnish proof positive that his name is actually borne on the electoral lists of the district. " 4. The public authority or a representative of the same will necessarily preside over the assembly until it has been regularly established, and is at liberty to continue to do so should such a proceeding be considered expedient. "5. Daring the sittings of such assemblies, and until they shall have terminated, an agent of the authorities will be stationed at the entrance to prevent such persons from entering who aro not entitled to do so. " G. The assembly will be dissolved if questions foreign to the elections are discussed or introduced, and in the event of any infringement of the law or disturbance of public peace. "May Gal save your lordship and grant you long life. (Signed) " V.towNDE. "To the Governor of the Province of . , . . . " Madrid, 20th August, 1863." SERIOUS INJURY CAUSED BY A FLY.—Mr. M. P. Crofton, of the City water-works, met with a seri ous and alarmi ng i n j ury on S atur d ay un d er v e ry novel cir cumstances. While reading at his table on Saturday even ing he felt something like the bite of a midge on the back of his hand, and on looking at it saw a small greyish fly not unlike a mid ge on the spot in which he felt the bi te. The intruder was instantly killed, and though the irritation of the bite continued to be felt, very little notice was taken of it till next morning, when the part bore all the appearance v n s s w u l e t r e e n of acti ve inflammati on , accompan i ed w i th deep discolora tion and m uc h pain and throbbing. Surgeon M‘Namara wasers e d, visibly,nd on and the examining subcutaneous t7he part a s aeries o was f found little to be congested and n ear l y purple. Active remedies were applied, local poulti c in g and other surgical treatment were resorted to, but yest er d ay the symptoms had so increased that it was found n ecessary on consultation to make several incisions into the hand and to cauterise the arm, making a complete circle of cauterised surface round the limb. For some hours considerable anxiety was felt as to the ultimate result, and the medical attendants found it necessary to pay several visits in the course of the day. On inquiry last night we learned with much satisfaction that the alarming symptoms had considerably abated, and that the apprehen sions felt as to the possible results had passed away under ate active treatment resorted to. It has been suggested that probably the little iascct had been regaling himself on some putrid flesh before he came to quaff some of Mr. Crof ton's claret, and that in making the incision to procure the requisite access to the ruddy liquid, he inocculated, and in fact poisoned the current. A remarkable feature in the case is that Mr. Crofton is a gentleman of robust habit, but of great strength of constitution—active, red-blooded, and abstemious—ja4 t he man whose blood ought to resist poison, if not of a most virulent character.—Rconan's Journal. CONVICTION UNDER THE NEW POACHING ACT.— At the Rotherham Court-house, on Monday, a young man named William Beighton, of Kiluhurst, was charged with having unlawful possession of game. The information was laid by a policeman, who saw defendant, accompanied by a dog, passing through Swinton. Knowing his character, he searched him, and found in his possession r, dead rabbit. In answer to the Bench, the defendant said he bought the rabbit of a man whom he met on th.e:road. He was fined 40s, and costs, or in default 14 elgye imprisonment. • THAMES. SLOPWORKERS AND Pa.wraißoKEr.s.—Sarah Jones, a poor, half-starved-looking woman, 31 years of age, and lately dwelling at No. 2, Upper Well-alley, Wapping, was brought before Mr. Woolrych, charged with illegally pawn ing 11 cotton shirts, the materials of which had been given to her to make up by another woman, a seamstress, named Maria Dowden, of No. 65, King-street, Stepney. The case was clearly made out, the delivery of the mate • rials tL the prisoner proved, and the 11 shirts, which were in an unfinished state, were produced by a pawnbroker's assistauL, who had received them of the prisoner. The prisoner, in her defence, said her husband Ind de serted her for four months, and, wanting food, she pawned the•shirts at four different times. Mr. Woolrych said the prisoner had only increased her miseries by her acts of dishonesty, and now she would find it difficult to ebtain any work again. He strongly con demned the pawnbroker who received the shirts in pl. dge, and he must have known they did not belong to the pri soner when he did so. He had frequently been called upon to censure this system of taking in slop-work and un finished work from pcor needlewomen. It encouraged felonies. The pawnbrokers who took in unfinished work were no better than receivers of stolen property, and ought to be treated as such. It was illegal to accept in pawn unfinished materials in the course of manufacture. He fined the prisoner 176.:9d., the value of; the shirts, and ss. in addition, and in default one month's imprisonment. He ordered the pawnbroker's assistant to restore the shirts to Mrs. Dowden. AN UNFEELING MOTHER AND UNFEELING POLICE.— A dissipated woman named Mary Kelly, was brought before Mr. Woolrych, charged with being drunk, riotous, and dis orderly last night at a l a t e hour i n High-street, White chapel. John Chattey, No. 284 H, said the prisoner acted in a most violent and disorderly manner, swore and raved and threw her infant on the ground, and said she would have no more to do with it. Mr. WoolrYch said the prisoner was a vile unfeeling woman, who had debased herself by the horrible vice of drunkenness below the lust of a beast of the field. It was a calaniity for the poor child to have such a mother as the prisoner. Ho fined her Bs., and in default to be imprisoned for five days. Soon afterwards Roche, the gaoler of the court, said the prisoner was in great pain. Her breasts were full o f m ilk, and she had not suck led her child all night. She wanted relief, and there was no doubt the child, which she had abandoned when she W3B drunk, and not restored to her when she became sober , required that sustenance which the mother alone was able to afford. Mr. Woolrych directed Roche to set the woman at liberty instantly, He could not take upon himself the grave re sponsibility of holding her in custody another m omen t, an d he hoped she would attend to her infant in a proper manner. Roche opened the door of the cell in which the prisoner was confined, and she hastened from th e cour t w i t h a ll possible speed in search of her child. The unpublished works of the Duke do la Roche foucault are about to be given to the world. They were dis covered amongst some records of the family by M. de Bar tb.O.leroy, wall kzlown AO an antiquary, SAY IT! THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN LONG-" IN POPULOUS CITY PENT I" To men who may be bricked up for nine or ten months of the year in the streets and closes of a great city—say, with Goldsmith in Garden Court or with Johnson in Staple Inn—the story of life which has been spent in the green woods, on the open moors, and by the sea-shore in search of rare or beautiful birds, has on the nerves the freshening effect of a drive into the country or a plunge into the sea. We enjoy such a tale like a rouse of wine. Indeed, this life in the woods or by the sea-shore seems fhe point at which reality shakes hands with romance. Is not Alexander Wiesen as strange a figure as Robinson Crusoe ? Are not Audubon's wanderings on the prairies and savannahs as delicious as any adventure of the Pathfinder? Are not the writings of Yarrell, Macgillivray, White, and Waterton among the choicest bits et our mental entertainment, as entrancing to the young as the best romance of Scott, the keenest humour of Dickens? In the very name of au .orni thologist there is a charm. He is a lonely man, who loves Nature and has an animal delight in a'r and colour. With a gun slung on his back, with a wallet on his thigh, and an inkhorn in his belt, he sallies forth into the copse, he jumps into his boat, and for weeks and weeks he may be lost to the sight of man. When he comes back into the world, it is with rare spoil of knowledge, won from Nature in her most secret haunts. No roof domes in his workroom, which is wide as the land and open as the sky. His feet are among the young ferns—his nostrils filled with the scent of trees and flowers—his eyes are soothed by the green earth and the blue vault—his ears lulled with the sighing of leaves or roused by the whirr of wings. Beauty lies about him at every step. In almost everything that man does there is some near limit of scenery. The judge is confined to his court. The secretary must attend to his office. The journalist is chained to his desk. The physician sees little beyond his patient and his brougham. Tne preacher has but his pulpit and his Sunday audience. Even in the more stirring occupations of war and trade, there is an order, a discipline, a sequence, which i❑ the course of time palls upon the sense. A sailor tires of the sea. A soldier longs to lay down his sword. A mer chant prays for the hour when his ships shall have come home and ho may take his rest in peace. But we have heard it said, that a man who has once become a freeholder of the woods—like Macgillivray or Gould—weo has watched all day for a grebe by the lonely English tarn, or bagged his bird of paradise on the coast of New Guinea, will never tire of his sport so long as he c iii hold a gun. The canoe, the fowling-piece, the forest glade, the hill-top, are to such a man health and life. He pines in cities. In society he is dreaming of the loch and the heather ; at his club-room he is musing of the log-hut in the backwoods or the camp-fire by the Yarra-Yarra. He is the lion who has lapped up blood, the Howaajee who has tasted of the Nile, the poet who has eaten of the insane root. His life is not as that of other men ; ha is set apart ; his career is not a profession, but an adven• ture.—eltheneeutn. The Fine Arts' Plasterer ! The eighteenth century was far advanced before our house-building had fallen to that most ignomi nious style of domestic architecture seen in Harley street and Weymouth-street, in which every species of ornamentation was ruthlessly suppressed; in which the windows and doors became mere holes cut out of a dead wall, and the roof retired from view behind the long monotony of the parapet. From this wretchedness John Nash find stucco delivered us: Whatever the faults, either of the architect or of his material, let this be recollected to their credit. In the year 1812, the idea of creating the Regent's Park out of Mary lebone fields saved that fine piece of open country from being covered with houses in continuation of the streets in the neighbourhood :of [the New-road; and Nash was employed to build the terraces bor dering on the park. It was the commencement of a new era in London architecture—the era or stucco —the age of plaster columns and cempo cornices. Regent-street, the Quadrant, the Circuses, AN ater loo-place, Pall-mall East, and Carlton-house-terrace sprang from the same ingenious brain. George IV. is understood to have patronised the new style. There was something in the showy, untruthful character of Nash's grand effects very similar to the unreality and pretence of " the first gentle man in Europe." Nash put a false surface of stucco on the face of London as George put a false head of hair upon his badness. But Nash's decoration, however low in point of art, was acceptable as a stage of transition from worse to better. It was a step forward out of the blank negation of Harley-street. It was art of some sort, as distinguished from mere construction. Meretricious as it often was—a thing of sham and " make-believe"—it yet marked an advance beyond the soulless utilitarianism of the reign of George 111. It conceded the principle of beauty. And poor as were the details of such builsliag, the effect in mass was sometimes extremely good. Nash understood the art of grouping his churches and houses, with a vie* to the general appearance ; and the semi circular sweep of the Quadrant, as it was originally built with the colonnade over the pavement, was certainly the finest thing we had in London. But, after all, Nash was a plasterer, and his productions seemed generally to partake of the meanness of the material in which he worked.—Saturday Review. A FOOLHARDY ADVENTURE.—Two adventurous• gentlemen residing in Plymouth recently engaged the White Horse, a waterman's boat of large size for that class of craft, and expressed their determination of making a trip to Jersey arid back in her. Having laid in a stock of provisions they in company with Richard Roberts, the owner of the boat, sailed from Milbay on Sunday, the 9th inst., at 6 a.m. They reached the Start about 11 o'clock the same morning, and arrived at Guernsey in the afternoon of the following day, when they were becalmed. The arrival at that place was welcomed by a large number of persons, who expressed their astonishment at their perilous under taking On Tuesday morning, at 8 o'clock, the little party set sail for Jersey, which place they reached early in the afternoon, They remained on the island until the following Friday morning, when the White Horse again got under weigh for the homeward voyage. The boat had been at sea several hours la hen very rough weather set in, and she was driven from her course. The gallant trio, however, made Salcombe in 24 hours after leaving Jersey. They, finding their voyage somewhat wearisome, landed in Sal combe Harbour, and proceeded via Kingsbridge to Ply mouth by train. In consequence of contrary winds the waterman was obliged to remain at Salcombe for two days. On Tuesday morning last there was still a s trong breeze blowing from the north-west; but being tired of waiting, Roberts resolved to set out for Plymouth that day. He accordingly did so; but the roughness of the weather soon after carried away the sprit of his boat. No other damage was occasioned, however, end he ar rived safely in Ply mouth Sound in the afternoon. Roberts states that when about five miles from Salcombe, a fish six feet in length, known as a long- nos e, was washed into his boat -- a visitor more free than welcome, seeing that his mode of entrance was highly alarming to the solitary seaman.—Western Horning News. A YEAR'S RAILWAY WORK.—In the year 1862, th e en ormous number of 180 , 42 9,071 passengers travelled on the railways of the United Kingdom, besides 56,656 season-ticket holders, who of c ourse travelled very many times ; and besides, also, 262,334 horses, 386,864 dogs, 3,094,183 cattle, 7,800,918 sheep, and 1,989,892 pigs. The passengers were more than in 1861 by about 7,000,000. They paid £12,295,273 for their fares. The first-class pas sengers paid £3,332,380; the second-class, £1,018,22 1 ; the third-class, £1,639,250. 12,80 in every hun dred weight first-class, 28.75 second-class, 53.45 third-class, The proportion of third-class passengers is rather increasing, and of second-class rather diminish ing. Thirty-five passengers were killed (9 of them owing to their own misconduct or want of caution), and 536 were injured. This is less than half the n umber who lost their . lives in 1861 by railway accidents. The passenger trains travelled 57,512,8;1 miles, and the goods. trai ns c y t s many more. The passenger traffic. suppliedth. p L m 3 , 0 8 0 1 0 1 , O the 0O t 0 7 1.hr d r 0 00ds traffic e . of the total receipts of the companies, and . the larger half, 52'24 per cent. Th by e in T g ece n iP ea s rly traffic amounted to £29,128, 558, more than the interest of the National Debt, and an in crease of £563,000 . over the receipts of 1861; but the length of lino open increased from 10,865 m i les at the end 'of 1861, to 11,551 miles, to 49 , per cent., and left at the end of 1862, The working the net receipts £ 14,820,694, nearly L . 100,000 m ore than in expendituro a mounte(. 1861. In the y ear 1862 the companies paid £220,970 f or law and parliamentary expenses, £leB,lC9 as compe nsat i on for personal injuries, £68,540 for damage and loss of goods, £375,067 for Government duty, and £596,410 f or rates and tax es. It took £ 2,708,638 to maintain the way and works, an d £1,242,71 4 to maintain the carriages an d waggons, £3,966,005 to provide locomotive power, and £3,987,637 to conduct the traffic. The total sum ra i se d by Blau eaand loans reached £385,218,438 4t, the close of the year 1662. HERRING FISHING. I DUNBAR, August 24.—This morning about 100 boats came in. On Saturday and to-day fewer boats came in than on any other day of the week. The fishing on both days was very good—all the boats having quantities rising to 20 crane per boat, and all of good quality, there being no spents. The fishing is close off the harbour both to the east and west. From the position of the shoal now on the coast, there is every likelihood of the fish ing yet reaching an average. Yesterday, a boat entered the harbour with a large shot, which was sold and delivered to one' of the Irish vessels now in the harbour. Prices are steady at from 1&. to 20s. per cran. ANSTRUTIIER, Aug. 22.—The week ending to day, which is usually c ons id ered the best fishing week in the season, has tu rne d out very u;isuccess fully here, only about 3,060 crans having been landed. Up to this date, we h ave not been so short-fished for a number of years back ; and as compared with this date last year, there is a fall. ing off of more than 7,000 crans. Everything promised well for this week, the weather and tides being very favourable, but the catch each day was very partial, and not general among all the boats. Prices have ranged during the week from los. to 245. per cran; the medium price being 17s. The quality has also been a good deal mixed with spent fish, which is not reckoned a good sign at this period of the fishing. WICK, SATURDAY, AUG. 22. We have still a poor account to give of the her ring fishing in this district. The week has added abcut 24 crans to the previous average, but there was only 23 crans for the first four weeks, making now at the had of the fifth week of the fishing 47 crane. A full fishing is not now looked for, but with moderate weather it is yet quite possible to get up to the average of the past five years—viz , 84 crane. Even that would entail not a little hardship and loss to many fishermen, but may prove more acceptable to curers than a larger catch. There are now only two weeks of the season to run, unless crews are induced to prolong the time a week. The past few seasons have proved that a greater body of fish was on these shores after the sth September than during the previous seven weeks; and thohld the time of the fishing be extended, there is no reason that we can see eehy four or five thousand men, many of them deeply in debt, should run home just when the fishing is only in a manner beginning. We know that the hired hands are the great bug bear ; but curers, by, calling a meeting of their body, and passing resolutions not to pay off hands before the 12th, the matter could be carried out with profit more particularly to the fishermen them selves, including the hired hands, as these must be allowed a week's pay extra. This week, as gene rally throughout the previous part of the sea son, the fish got were mostly in large hauls, of 20 to 70 crans, while more than half the fleet were generally clean. Both at a great effing and near to land has this been the case, and it is likely to continue during the season. A few boats have caught upwards of 200 crane, while many are under 10 crans, and several have not 5. The fishing at Orkney, so heavy last week, has this week taken off, and curers have get time to put their fish in order, many having had to rouse in bulk for want of barrels. Lybster and Helms dale are nearly keeping pace. Neither are up to an average fishing, but both are ahead of Wick. At Fraeerburg and Peterhead the fishing has this week been interrupted by stormy weather, and the average at these stations is about the same as that given in our paper of Thursday —viz,, Fraserburgh, 56 crans, and Peterhead, 39 The stations in the Banff district have also been equally unsuccessful from a like cause. Further up ithe Firth, however, at Lossiemouth, Burg. head, and Hopeman, this week's fishing has added about 20 crane to their former average, which is now 80, 73, and 100 crane respectively. We have accounts this morning that at Lybster there is a good fishing, but at Dunbeath Helmsdale very little. Markets.—Sales are still languid, not withstanding the scanty fishing. It is evi dent that Continental markets are not in a satis factory state. Prices here and on the other side of the Firth continue at 245. for full-crown brands, and 20s. for spents, without any indication of an advance. A few barrels are being branded daily, end shipments are being made, mostly to Stettin, the Elbe, and a few to Ireland. Those yet caught have been mostly sold by early contracts, and few consignments by curers are made. In Danizic there is still a large catch of last year's catch unsold. The sales of Lewis fish are turning out unsatisfactory, aid scarcely a single curer at Stornoway this season will escape a loss, though some few small parcels of fine quality brought a high figure, It is a poor business that pays neither em ployer nor employed. Few fishermen have made anything of it this year from their scanty catch. The herring trade seems to be in such a state that it would be better if the fish, like the grouse, were to have a jubilee year, and fishing o p erat i ons were to cease and determine for 12 months, till all the old stock was eaten off.—John o'Groat Journal Herring Circular_ A "SENSATION" NEWSPAPER.—The Debats of Sunday says:—" It appears that the telegraph has determined to send us regularly with all the gravity in the world summaries of articles published by an eccentric New York paper called the Herald. We consider it our duty, therefore, to warn our readers that the Herald is what is called on the other side of the Atlantic a ' sensation jour nal,' an expreasion that may be rendered into French by the following periphrasis —a journal which acq u i res a great reputation by the fertile imagination and the fancy it displays in publishing news, which facts do not always con firm, under some pom pous heading, such as Latest Intel ligence.' .' Important Occurrence. This kind of Journal is doubtless not peculiar to America, but it flourishes and is developed in an exceptional manner in the land of Barnum. Moreover the Herald is neither an official nor even an oficieux journal. Its assertions are not only unworthy of credit, but they do not deserve the slightest attention of any kind whatever." CONVICTION FOR HAYMAKING ON SUNDAY.—At the Atherton petty sessions, on Monday, Peter Cleworth, farmer, of Leigh, and thirteen others were con victed of making hay on the Sunday. The case had been adjourned for a month, to enable the magistrates to con sider the state of the law on the subject. The Chairman of the Bench (Mr. Silvester), told Cleworth that the magi strates had c ons id ered t h e case, an d bad decided that the defendants were guilty of a desecration of the Lord's-day and a penalty of Ss. and costs would be inflicted. --Mr. Clew or th : I d on 't i n t e nd topaY• lam advi se d t hat your decision is not legal.--Ur. Silvester ; You are very foolish, for a distress warrant will be gjrted against your goods, and you have no "Pea appeal.—Charles Bennett, a collier who had assisted the defendant , was al so fi ne d Ss. , and costs, " aiding an d abettmg.,' He and several others were told that if they would pay th e costs (6s. 6d.) no conviction would be recorded against them. They, however, refused, protesting a gainEh , paying anything for saving produce from injury. It i s understood that distress warrants will be issued against those defendants who are householders, and the others will be confined in the stocks. CAUTION TO FRAUDULENT BANKRUPTS.—At the South Lancashire Assizes, yesterday, Samuel Nasb, a baker and flour dealer, who became a bankrupt at Liverpool in March last, was indicted before Mr. Jus tice Blackburn, for having fraudulently concealed a pr.- tion of his estate, with intent to diminish the amount avail able for division. amongst his crditors. The bankrupt's debts at the time of his failure amounted to £613, and ex• ceeded by £522 the value of the assets disclosed upon the face of the balance-sheet. He submitted a considerable deficiency, and when the errors in his accounts .were cor rected that deficiency was increased to £350. It was proved that in the month of February the bankrupt was the owner, or reputed owner, of 150 shares in a building society that he had drawn out a sum of £195, which was due upon those shares, and that the money thus received by him had never been accounted for to the assignees as part of his state. The prisoner was found guilty, but as the statute did not allow a sentence of hard labour, he was ordered to be imprisoned merely for 20 months. The MS. of Mr. Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon is now copied out and ready for the press. Another edition at Admiral Smyth's book, " The Cycle of Celestial Objects," is in preparation. The rules and regulations laid down by the War Dcpartment for the prevention of accidents by the bursting of cast iron ordnance, have been attended with such satisfactory results, that since their issue f r om the War-cflice on the let of April,-1861, not a single case has been reported at the Ordnaru esta blishment, Chatham. SEC IN I EDITION. SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 o'CLocri. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.---This Day, 0- -- STOCKTON RACES—THIS DAY. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. liARDWICKE STAKES. A.ppenine Syren Wee Aggie _ 3 Six ran. EGHAM RACES—Tars DAY. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. A TOWN PLATE. Don't Come L a t e Dute of Cambridg e 3 Queen Elizab:.th Thirteen ran. LONDON GAZETTE---Yesterday. et. • BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, AUGUST 25. The Ri g h t Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy C ounci l for Trade have received, from the Secretary of State tor Foreign Aff a i rs, a translation of a Spanish Royal Decree forwarded by her Majesty'A Charge d'Affaires at Aiadrid, opening the port of San Vicente do Ja Barquere, in the province of Santander, for the direct importation from abroad, of mineral and vegetable coal, wood, fire brick, and blonde or sulphur of zinc. commercial i of co The following are the onKlyltba-UnfrlupSts. portance in the Gazette m. Thomas Huggan, engineer, Dublin Frcdk. Taylor, bill broker, Greenwich Abraham Oeal, baker, Deptford James P. Martin, clerk, Peckham George Kerrison, grocer, Norwich Nehemiah Sharp, yeoman, Widely, Hants James Naylor; shoemaker, Carlisle John Pr, pper, provision dealer, Wakefield Charles Bailey, fruiterer, Leicester Wm. Wilkinson, printer, Salford Abraham Gledhill, cutler, Sheffield Wm. Hunter, draper, Preston John Orton, butcher, Chelmsford Henry Clark, doctor of medicine, Strand , Wiliam Wakefield, grocer, Gloucester Edward Falvey, coal merchant, Paddington Elijah Maidrneut, baker, Camberwell Joseph C. itossiter, dealer and chaptven, Moorgate-street James Hill Oheatle, brushmaker, Birmingham James Woodgates, coffeemill maker, Birmingham Thomas Blackinore. shoemaker, Aller, Someractrthire SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. James M'Gibbon, grocer, Glasgow James M•Lay, jun., rope manufacturer, Glasgow Wm. M'Lean, auctioneer, Dundee Course of the Exchange—Yesterday. Amsterdam • Short. 11 17 11 18 Ditto Rotterdam .. • 11 191 11 191 Antwerp — 25 522 25 60 Brussels — 25 524- 25 60 Hamburgh — 13 Si Li 8 1 Paris Ditto --25 55 25 60 Marseilles Frankfort on Maine --.. 1191 1 04 Vienna Trieste Petersburgh —35 i Berlin Madrid Cadiz Leghorn 'AI i 1 an Genoa Naples Palermo .. Messina ............ Lisbon...... 0p0rt0 ........ .............. 25 65 25 70 - 25 65 25 70 25 65 25 70 25 65 25 70 - 25 65 25 70 - 25 65 25 70 - 52/ 624 521 52k DYING STRAINS.—Chopin, feeling the approach of death, wisheu to bid a last farewell to the instru ment which Lad given utterance to his poetic inspirations, and had been the means of his great success. A piano was brought to his bedside. With icy hands and clouded vision, he attempted to draw a few sounds from the instrument. A sweet and touching melody, deeply expressive of regret, was whispered forth ; but the musician was unable to complete his pathetic improvisation. Ile fell back on his bed of suffering and expired a few hours afterwards. Lablache, the incompar able artist, the worthy manparexcellence who is still regretted by the musical world, attempted to sing upon his deathbed : in order, as he said, to die as he had always lived, devoted to his art. " Go," he said to one of his children, "go to the piano and accompany mi." The son, struggling to conceal his emotion, obeyed his father's last request. Lablache then sang the first verse of the English romance --" Home, Sweet Home." At the second verse, the singer's throat contracted, and not a note could issue from it. "Ah I" said Lablache, " I can sing no longer. lam a lost man I" He died that very night.—biekens's the Year Round." YANKEE POLITENESS.—As the Revenue cutter Victoria, Commander Smith, was taking a cruise round the Shetland Islands last week, a vessel was observed about two miles off the land, barque rigged. The Victoria stood for the vessel and hailed her, but got no response. As it was very evident that those in charge had very little respect for her Majesty's "bunting," Commander Smith ordered out a boat, and at once pulled alongside, when the following colloquy took place :—Commander Smith : " Why don't you show your flag ?" Stranger : " I guess I ain't gotany." Commander Smith: " Where have you come from ?" Stranger : " What's that to you ?" Commander Smith : " Will you give us a rope and put your ladder down ?" Stranger : I shant; you may get up if you can. I don't want any d—d Britishers in my ship. He, ha, ha I" Looking over the quarter at Commander Smith (who weighs at least 16 stone), the captain of the strange vessel sung out, "I guess that'll fix your flint." Brother Jonathan was mistaken, however, in the muscular powers of "old Cock Smith," as Prince Alfred styled him; for before the Yankee could say Jack Robinson, Commander Smith stood alongside of him, and though he fumbled about the butt-end of his six-shooter," he felt it was no go ; the cool bearing of the "Britisher" soon silenced the bluster of the Yankee, who had to produce his papers for inspec tion, together with his victualling note, after which tho Victoria left the. barque to pursue her course,—.Tekta o' Groat Journal. HORRIBLE DISCOVERY AT VICKSBURG. A Vicksburg correspondent writes :—" A horrible discovery has just been made on the rebel line of fortifica tions. Quite a number of mon have been engaged in re pairing the rebel fort that was blown up on the night of the 3d inst. In the course of their operations they have exhumed 60 or 80 dead bodies found buried in the ruins of the fort. It seems that while our miners were at work making an en t ry into the side of the hill that was crowned by the rebel fort, a strong working party of rebels were set to work sinking a counter-mine in the fort. This party, consisting, it is said, of more than a hundred men, were in the mine when ours exploded, and those of them who were not killed out , right were buried alive. Some of the exhumed bodies are terribly lacerated and mangled, while others have not a mark or braise upom them. Two heads, one that of a negro, h ave been dug up. They were completely severed from the bodies, the latter not having yet been found. The bodies aro found in. • almost every concsivable position —some standing erect, others sitting or tying, and in one instance the body was head downward, as if it had been caught in that position by the crumbling earth while falling headlong into the pit below." A I . II ELANCIIOLY DETAIL OF THE AMERICAN `'S T AR.--The following advertisement, dated from the Chief Assistant-Quartermaster's Office, appears in the Washington Inteiligencer of the 10th inst. :—" Sealed pro posals will be received at this office until Tuesday, August 18, 1863, at 12 o'clock M., for furnishing to the United States 2,b00 head-boards or tablets for graves of the follow. ing description, viz.—All to be of good black walnut, clear of knots and splits, four (4) feet in length, ten (10) inches w id e , and one and three-eighths (I D of an inch thick, with five -eighths (a) of an inch thick, at least twenty (20) inches in length, each of said head-boards or tablets to be well oiled and lettered with the name, rank, regiment, and Company, with the time of decease of such com missioned officers or soldier as the Assistant-Quartermaster of his agent may direct, and in ail respects to correspond with a sample to be seen at this office." Among the condi tions specified is the following :—" Proposal from disloyal parties will not be considered, and an oath of allegiance to the United States Government must accompany each pro. position." REMARKABLE PRIZ E.—On Friday mornicg the fishermen of Cadgwith, near the Lizard, secured and brought to Falmouth a large whale, commonly known as a "finner," which they captured near the first-mentioned place, floating dead. It measured 74 feet in length and 36 feet in girth, and was landed on the gridiron of the Fal mouth Docks oh the day of the opening of the Cornwall Railway, to the great amusement of the folks from the in terior of the country. WHALE HUNT IN ORKNEY.—GREAT CAPTURE. —At Holm, on Monday evening, all the boats had a grand whale hunt, when they drove ashore the whole dock of 79 qr SO, and killed them in a bay at the east end of Holm. They were sold by roup on WednCsday, and fetched fair prices, bringing upwards of £2OO to the cap tutors. Some 20 boats, with SO men, were engaged in the capture, and all made a good night's work of it. The chase lasted five hours before they got the whales stranded. EFFECT OF THE LIGHTNING AT DEPTFORD. -- La s t evening, about half-past 6, the Catholic Church In High street, Deptford, was struck by lightning and the cress carried away, much brickwork in the interior damaged, and several windows brsken. The electric fluid spread to the adjoining houses; and Mr. J. Lcuton Pulling, solicitor, who happened to have a diuner-knife at the time in hi s hand, received a slight shoci.. 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