The Sun. — London, England, 1854-10-30 00:00:00

I MONEY MA lIK -E T .31.1 D :OLIMERO [AL TNT ,51.,L I GEM; E. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK The sales of cotton at Liverpool on Saturday were estimated at 7,000 bales, including 1,500 American taken for export and on speculation. The market closed steadily without change in prices. The sales comprised 6,000 American, 250 Peruam and Maranham at sid. to 71d., 100 Egyp tian at 51d. to 62d., 700 Surat at 3d. to 3id., and 800 Sea Island at Is. 2d. to Is. 7d. per lb. Rail way Shares were firmer. Wheat and barley are 2s. lower. The Corn Markets abroad were, at the latest date, generally on the decline, especially in Bel gium, and the decree of the French Government prohibiting the distillation of grain has an impor tant influence already. In Belgium and Holland the distilleries will be set more actively to work than ever, and barley is expected to rise consider ably in those countries, as the exports of spirits to Prance, now the duties are lowered, will be on a most extensive scale. In mercantile circles here such interference is deprecated as being inconsis tent with our free-trade policy ; and, however ne cessary or judicious in France, it seems to be the view that nothing should be done here. The poorer classes have a better chance of obtaining cheap food in France, and this goes far ha securing political tranquillity. Two or three ships have arrived from Australia, and they bring gold, but the amount is not yet known. The dates are not so recent as those already to hand. From the Continent the mercantile advices are of no permanent interest. The commerce of Bel gium during the first nine months of this year, compared with 1853, shows a slight decrease in the Customs duties. The imports of wheat give the total at 15,708,850 kilogrammes over the quantity to the same date in 1853. The arrangement made by the Government at Vienna with the French Association of Capitalists for forming railways in the Austrian empire seems to be very judicious, and such as can be carried out. The concession is for 90 years, and the lands ceded in the neighbourhood are given in perpetuity. A sum of 200 million francs is to be paid within 3 years for the concession and privileges. A mini mum interest of 5 per cent. is guaranteed upon the capital. The English Funds have been buoyant, and there is an advance of another kto per cent. The promising news from the Crimea, with the decline this morning in the price of grain and the abund ance of money, all have a favourable influence. Consols have been 941 to I for transfer, and 941 to 95 for account. The New 3 per Cents. have .b6en marked 931 to and the 3 per Cants. 93a to a. Bank Stock has risen to 211 and 213. Exchequer Bills have been 6s. to 95., and East India Bonds 10s. premium. There is scarcely any speculation in progress. Foreign Stocks are not at present very much influenced by the- advance in Consols, and the business has been of a general character, and ex tended in small amounts over different securities. Mexican Bonds have been quoted 23±, and Chilian 104. Brazilian new have been marked 981. Buenos Ayres Stock is worth 59. Russian Four-and-a-Half per Cents. have been done at 851, and Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents. at 61. Spanish New De ferred Bonds have been marked 181 to 1. The Turkish Scrip is still flat, at 2 to 28 premium. The following are the nominal prices of foreign stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 54 to 6 ; Mexi can, 221 to 23 ; Peruvian, 71 to 73 ; ditto, B per Cents., 51 to 53 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 40 to 42 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 95 to 97 ; ditto, 4A- per Cents., 84 to 86 ; Spanish New Deferred, 18 to 181 ; ditto, 3 per Cents., 37i to 38± ; ditto, Certificates, 51 to 50 ; ditto, Passive, 4a to 41. The railway " calls" for November are as fol lows : Date due. Call. . *Arica and Tacna *Belgian Eastern Junction Cork and Bandon, Preference 51 'Dutch Rhenish *Eastern of France, Bonds, 1854, Ito 10...4 4 125,000 Great North of Scotland, o , d Hampstead Junction Ox., Wor., & Wol. (Chip. Nor. Br.) 15...2 10 2,400 Ditto 6 per cent. Red. Pref 15...1 5 50,000 Peebles 7" .0 10 7. 000 _ __ ____ Thames Haven Whitehaven Junc., now 101. Pref 1...3 0 6,063 1,000 £831,637 *The proportion called by foreign com panies is 691,2331., but the holdings of English proprietors are not known Total called in 1864 £12,903,702 The railway meetings announced are the fol- lowing : Company. Date. Place. Carmarthen and Cardigan Nov. 6, Carmarthen. Demerara Oct. 31, London Tavern. • European and N. American Great Indian Peninsula Oct. 31, 3, New Broad-st. Bilk. & Gt. Lon. & War. (Ir.) Nov. 13,17,Gracechurch-st. London, Tilb., and Southend Nov. 10, London Tavern. . North-Eastern Nov. 3, York. In most of the railway shares there have been one or two bargains, but in connection with the " making up" prior to the settlement of the ac count. An improvement is perceptible in the quotations, and generally of to 1 per cent. The South Western, Lancashire and Yorkshire, South ' Eastern, and East Lancashire have most advanced. Caledonian and Great .Northern have also been • brisk. The French lines are quiet, but firm. In the colonial and foreign mince there have • been a few bargains, and at fuller rates for Cobre . copper and Nouveau Monde. • The Joint Stock Bank shares have been rather • higher. Crystal Palace are firm. The Land com panies' have been well maintained. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES • (From the Official List.) Eu=iness done. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 931 i • 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 941 i fi 41 . New 3 per Cent. Annuities Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 India Bonds, 1000 Consols for Account 14th illy. 94i 5 Exchequer Bills, 21d. 21000 £5OO 9 6 Small 9 6 • Exchequer Bonds 1858, Si per Cent. lOO 991 , Ditto 1859, „ PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS TUTS DAY. New Brazilianßands, 1829 & 39, 5 per Cent. 981 • Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 59 8 Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent Mexican 3 per Cent. Peruvian Bonds, 4i per Cent. • Ditto 3 per Cent ...... ......... Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. £St 95. Ditto 4. per Cent. Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent.. ...... .... . Spanish Bowls, 3 per Cent . — Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent l4 Ditto for the Account lB Turkish Scrip 6 per cent Ditto for the Account 2l 1 p Dividends on the above payable in Loudon. . Dutch Exchange, 2. per Cent. 12 Guil 6l Ditto 4 per Cent. Certifteates THREE O'CLOCK. - - Consols Ditto November Aee•mnt CHURCH 07 ENGLAND SCRIPTURE RE. R M.A., ADERS' ASSOCIA TION.—Yesterday morning the Rev . Short, M.., solicited the liberality of a most nume rou s t c ,e o h n fi r f eg of atio, at St. Bride's Church, Fleet-street, on society. The rev. ge ntlem an took for his text E he this PalanB' c. ii., v. 19, and in the course of his sermon said that • the ids of the society would not allow them to send sufficient labourers to carry the light of the gospel to those who were either unable, or unwilling, t o read the Scriptures themselves. The rev. gentleman's appeal was - met by a liberal subscription at the close of the service. .The Rev. W. M. Mungeatn, preached in the even ing on behalf of the same association, as did also the - Rev. C. J. Goodhart, at Park Chapel. Sermons were also delivered at St. John* and St. Pancras, James's Chapel, in aid of the same society. GREAT INDIAN PENINSULA RAILWAY COMPANY.—The tenth half-yearly report of the directors of this company to be submitted to the general body of shareholders on the 31st inst., states that since the last half-yearly meet ing the second section of the railway has been opened from Tannah to Callian, a distance of 12 miles, making 35 miles in operation between Bom ba y and Callian. Surveys hav e been finished in a complete and satisfactory 'manner for a distance of 600 miles from Bombay upon the north-eastern extension, being 450 miles beyond the point where former surveys were suspended. The direc tors have obtained the sanction of the East India Com- Pany to raise capital by the issue of debenture bonds, and the Indian Government will join with the railway compa n y in a joint subscription thereto, for the guaran tee of both pr i nc i pa l an d i nterest. Th e revenue accoun t show s the receipts from the opening of the line on April 18, 1853, to June 30, 1854, to have been 14,252/. 3s. Bd.; the expen ses in the earns period have been 7, 129/ . 19s. vu., leaving a balance, net profit, of 7,1224, 48, 25 St. 20 St. 81281 St. 25 50 20 st. St. GA 10 35 10 5 20 20 2i 100 17. all all 1 all 100 all 5 8 riX 16 , 10( all Ills. all 3 8 2s. all all 11 all Nberdeen.. Anabg. Nottng. lass, and £astn. Sunet... Belfast & Ballymena. Birming. Wolyerh. Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lancsh. Cheshire Junct Do. Chcsh. & Birk., ..£5O and £25 Cons. Do., £20... Blyth &Tyne origins ' £25 (issd. at £45, Bristol and Exeter Caledonian. Cainiarthea aid Car digan Chester & Holyhead Cork and Bandon Cork, Black, & Pass Cornwall Crieff Junction Dubliii&BelfastJunc Dundee Perth &Aber deen Junction .. Do. New East Anglian.„. I , :astcru Counties . . Eastern Union, A Stock De,., B. Stock.. Do., New A:.. Fast Lancashire. Edinburgb & Glasgow Edinb. and Peebles. „ Ellin. Path & Dundec Forth & Clyde June. Glasgow & S. Weston, u:reat Northern Do A' 5t0ck ....... Do., B. Stock. 'fit. Stll . &West. (Ire. Great Western ...... Do. Stour Val. Rai Gua. Stk.. Irish South-Eastern Lancaster & Carlisle Do., Thirds Do. New Thirds__ Laneash. andYOrksh . Do., Fifths Do., Wet. Riding Un Liv. Crsby.&South pt London & Blaekwal frond. Bright & S.Cst Loud, and N. Westn Do, Fifths Do. Eighths London andS. Westn Do., £5O Do., £4O t.ndndrry& Coleraine Lndnclrry. & Ennisk. 11aneh.Shef.& Lindy N., Man. & Lin. Uu. Midland Birmng. &Derb) Aidld. G. West. (Ire.) ` . )o. Half Shares ieweastle & Nrewink t. Bury Exten. N . wpt.Al - erg. &lira every & Enniskillen l'ewry Warrenpoint and Rostrevor.. 'iorfolk iorthn.Counties N'orth British ' , forth Devon, No. 1 Do., No. 2 • )0., A Deferred Do., B Guarantee , ' g. Eastern—Berwick Do, do. Extension .. Do.do. G.N.E. Porch. Do. LoAs Do. York N'orth London Do. New LlO.. si.&S.Wstrn.,l - lami ?- stead, and City Ju.. North Staffordshire.. North Western N. & S. Westin. June Nuneaton, Hinckley and Leicester Oxford, Worcester, fc Wolverhampton Portsmouth .3c ottish Central SeottishMidland IShrewsby. di Elerefd Shropshire Urnon Do. A, B, C,& D,fuli paid up at per ,3 th 13 • OVOII 4oath Eastern , outh Wales Yrksh. & Riv. Dui 30 taiues, Wok. EtWol tockton it Dar lit. . 4toektou (St liartlep . rff. Vale )o. £lO shares. Do. Pref., No. 1. Plia.mes Haven Do& and Railway - - Vale of Neath._ ... Waterfd. & Kilkenu A r aterford&Limeritl. West Cornwall ,Vest End of Londoi and Crystal Palace.. West London IWimbledn &Croyclol FOR Antwerp&Rotterdam Belgian Eastn. June Beziers to Graissossac Bombay, Baroda, and Central Ind ia,Scrip Central of Italy Demerara Dijon and Besancon Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France Do. New East Indian Do.. Extension Do. 4i p. c. Bds., pay '57, convertible Do. do. do., '59, do Gd. Junct. -of France Gd. Tk of CanadaA. is. Do. do Do. St. Lawrene• & Atlantis do. Do. Cert. of Deben., con. into Stk. till '63 Do. Comp. 6 p. c., do. Gt. Central of France tn. Indian Peninsula Do. New 5 per cent. Gt. Western of Canadal Shares Do. Bds., pa.yable's7, with option till '55 Do. do., '62, p. '56 Do. do., '76, p. '6O Do. do., '73, without option Hamilton & Toronto Do. 6 per cent. Lake Const. & Basle Lucca & Pistoj a 5 p.c pref Great Luxembourg Constituted Shares Do. Obligations Lyons and Geneva Lyons At Mediterran Madras Do. New 16 31? 4 , all Maria Antonia Do. do. Now . Melbourne Dk. & Namur & Liege (with interest) Do. (ex interest) Northern of France. D 0.20/. Shs.late Char leroi and Erquelines guir. 3$ p. c. & red. at 22y. dur. 88 yrs. front 1 Jan. 1854 Do. 201. 3 p. c Bds. (fray . B. & Ams. Shs. ) NorwegianTrunkPref Paris and Lyons Ditto Bonds Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen..... ParisCaen & Cherbrg Bonen and Havre Royal Danish Royal Swedish Sambre and Meuse Do. 54 p. cent. Pref Southern of France St. Andrew's and Quebec (A) West Flanders Do SA, per c. Prof_ Western of Francs West. of Switzerland Wiesbaden Zealand JOINT-STO I Australasia British Colonial Bank and Loan Company British N. American I Chartd. Bank of Asia Buk. of India, Australia, & China colonial Commercial of Lond English Scottish and Australian Lond. Chart. Bk. 0 Australia London and County London Joint Stock Loud. & Westminster National Provincia. of England Do. New National of Ireland Now South Wales Oriental Bank f Corporation Provincial of Ireland Do. New Royal Australn.Bkg & Gold Imp Co._ all South Australia all Union of Australia 24 Do. New 10 Union of London..,, 10 221 all ail 104 i 1 100 i 81 21 2 131 9i 53i } 62 li 694 8t SBA RE MARKETS. (T HI 6 _ D A Y.) it.A I LWA VS RAILWAIB. I(nosing Prices this day. Business done this day. 21 '22 4f -- 41 84 - 11$ 10 17 - J 8 95 - 97 604 - 691 13i - 11, 10 - 12 4 - id 6i - 7 lal 111 11,1 32 - 34 22 - 24 68 - 69 64 - 56 21 - 23 • • • .... 90 - 91 77 - 79 24 - 126 90 - 92 71 71 69 - 71 7$ - 82 8 - 10 8 - 10 72i -72 i 5f 5f ~• -. ...0 8 8i 103 105 Alli 101 i d id 4ip P 81 6 d 10 • • 9it 9 --- 4,1 23}7 69 691 40 - 42 gd 9i Bid 48 -- 50 3 34 33. ". 10 -1/ - 73 76 - 771 6 - 11 , - 3 4 H 14 - 14 531 - 53 - 55 -1. Ad - 41 - 6i - 7 32 - 34 94 - 96 60 - 62 7i - 8} 45 -47 13 14 621 - - 32 ,• ---- i i •• d 35 7- 37 - •• 3 -- 3A 18 19 41 - 23- • 6 - 7 • : i lUN. 6i - 62 - 11 4- Z , id-ip - r 3 - 33i - 333 id d .T' - Gil 711 - 8 - 6f 9 7d 1 lip A 41 3 1 - 19 ld pm - P 2 4p dig 41 - 5 2i - 3 1 - lip ... - ... id-IP 74 - $ 35 = 12i - 13 9 - 10 211 -22 i 47 49 38 40 221 131 2 a 2 par 1p 2 lid 71-8 ••• - pm 3i - 4 cl 6i rp 16 -- 11' K BANKS. 78 -- $0 i d par 1 id 30 - 32 $ 2i d 23 -24 40 - 42 43 - 45 6$ - 70 74 - *III ........7 flis TIIE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 80. 1854. = , et t 7.44 4-, 4 ik4rv-,11, SUL OFFICE, SZ.e o'Clock. TATTERS ALL'S. (THIS EVENING.) EPSOM AUTUMN HANDICAP. 6to 4 agst Scherz (taken). 6 to 1 agst Little David. 10 to 1 agst Hungerford (taken). Haco is struck out. WORCESTER HANDICAP.. 4to 1 agst Rataplan (taken). DERBY. 10 to 1 agst De Clare (taken). 12 to 1 agst St. Hubert (taken). 15 to 1 agst Rifleman (taken). 20 to 1 agst Wild Dayrell (to a good deal of . money). 40 to 1 agst Frederick (taken). 45 to 1 agst Westminster (taken). 50 to 1 agst Affghan (taken.) 50 to 1 agst Prince of Wales (taken). AUSTRIA. A Vienna correspondent of the Augsburg Gazette has given the following interesting information re lative to the Austrian army :-69,800 men, with 144 guns, are posted in the German provinces (in Aus tria), under the command of Gen. Count Wimpffen. The army, under Marshal Radetzky, in the Lom bardo-Venetian provinces, and on the right bank of the Po, consists of 117,000 men, with 160 guns. The " mobile" army in Galicia, the Bukovina, and the Danubian Principalities, with the re serves in Hungary and Transylvania, is composed of 30 infantry regiments, 10 battalions of Chasseurs, 16 regiments of heavy and 18 of light cavalry, 12 battalions of Border troops, 24 depot battalions, and 25 field and 18 reserve batteries. Th e t o t a l i s 225,800 men, with 200 field and 144 reserve guns. The troops are thus distributed. In the Danubian Principalities 24,000 men (this is much below the mark), in Hungary and Transylvania 58,000 men , in Gallicia and the Bukovina 80,000, and in the district of Cracow 63,000 men. The forces under Ban Jellachich and General Mamula consist of 25,400 troops of the line and 70,000 Borderers, with 72 guns. In the Federal fortresses in Ger many are 12,000 men, with 24 guns. According to this calculation, the military force of Austria is oomposed of 522,200 men, with 664 guns, and this is probably below rather than above the mark. LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. St. 20 St. 15 RAILWAY/. 2i 2i 6: 5 10 St. St. 5 Tedford and Bletebley 13uckgliamsb. Clydesdale Je. E. Lincoln gr. 6 per cent. Glas. Barr. & Neils. Direct. Do. New. ... Olstr.& Du. Fr i Hrtlpl. Dk. Railway Hull & Selby 00 100 LOO LOO 00 100 20 12i 25 20 10 25 10 20 20 20 25 ' Do. A Shares. Do. ' 4 Shares. Lon.& Greenw Do. Preference ! Loa. , Til., & S.' Lowestoft Sr. 4 per cont. Do. 6 per ct. Manch. &dn. and Matlock !Middlesbro' & ! &dear. .111.1.1d.Bradfd Northern awl Eastern sp. c. Do. 6 per et. Do. Fixeds p Prest. & Wyre Do. i shares. Roystn. k Shef.Roth ,r. Gooleg. 5 p.c. 3. Statiordsb • Wear Valleygr 6 per cent Do Wilts& Somrst PREFE Aberdeen.. IDo. No. 2, 7 p. Blyth and Tyne c. pref. (issd.: [Arming Compn»B. ;10per at 50l) Bris. & Ex. 4 p Do. 4 p. c. Caledonian £lO Chester & Holyhead Guar. 5 per coat_ Do. d.. Pref. N.. 2 De. de. Pref. Na. 2 Cork &Bandonsip.c Dundee Perth &Aber deen Junction EastAnglian (X3los 6 per cent Do. (X 5) 7 per cent 1)o. (£7l7s) 7 p. c Eastern Counties Ex-, c. xes." `lsaias Pre. , this day. 9G - 98 tension,s p. c. No. I Do. No. 2 . Do. New 6 r. c. St. Eastern Union, Scrip - 11 . - 1 13 - 13] 22 - 24 Guar. 6 per cent Do. 51., 10 ner cent. Do. 101. Debentr.Sh- Do. do. 4 per cent East Laucash. 6 p. ets. East and West York shire June. Fifths Edinb Prth. &Duudec 4 per cent. Glasgow & S.Westeri Guar. 5 per cent Great Northn. 5 p. c Do. 5 p. c. Redeem. , at 10 p. c. prem... Do. 4i p. c (It.N.of Scot. Ist Pre; t. Southn.&Westm. (Ireland) Eighths) Do. 4 per c. Pref. St Westn. (Berke & Hants Ex. 5 p. c).. Do. coo. red. 41 p.c. Do. con, red. 4 p. c DC, irred, 4 p.C. Do. Birm Pref . Do. Chester 8 p. c.P. Do. do. h p. c. do . Do. Biro. Gua. Stk. Do. Ches. Gua. Stk Do. Flo. do Do. di. do Lan. & York. F. £2( Do. 6 p. c. Stock London and Bright()) Guaranteed 5 p. o Do. Pref., 5 p. C. St Do. New Guar.6 p. C Lon.&N. W., Coy. & Nuneaton fi p. et London & S. Wester Con. Thirds • • • ^. ''''' —En 115 117 108 - 110 100 - 102 Londonderry& Coler Shares Londy. & Ennis. # Sii. Shef., & Lin. Shares, No. 1. ... Do. New, £lO t)o. £6 - Aarypt.ST,Carl.4pc 30. 4A per cent - Do Aid. Consol.6 p.c.St. Do. Consol. Bristol & Birm. 6 per cent Do. Pref. 4i per. cell 4orfolk Debenture . Do. Prof. 4 p. c. Steel. 00. 5 p. c. Est Do. 5i per et. pref Do. Way. Val. 5 p. c Nortk British N7'. E. Berw, 4 p.c. P, Do. do. d• Do. Leeds 6 p.c. /sr*. 1 De. do. Quarters '45 De. York Pb'r. North Staffordshire Oxford, Worcester, Itz Wolverh.£ls, 6 p.c., Scot. Cent., New Pret Do. 5 per cent South Devon Dir. fixed, 4a per cent 3. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. Do. 4. per cent...... 3.Y0 rish.4p.c.Guar. S Wales Gua, 4p. e. Do. do. p. c.... Stockton and Dar lington, 4 per cent Do. do. do. Stockton and Hartle- pool, guar. 6 p. c. till Ist July, 1856 Watorfd.kKilk.6p.c. 6 - 6A 98 - 100 90 - 92 93 - 95 1.(1 - 11 161 - 171 10 10 71 - 73 181 - 191 94 - 14 -1i Li id 1138 140 •• • '"" 21 - S p 11 - 12 11 -11 i i - ipl 138 140 L id S 7 - DO 104 - 106 92 - 94 3i - Si .. ... 1 id 116 a 16 •• " 112 - 114 . . 12 14 id par 23 234 99 101 17 19 ••• ---. 1 ... 2 d MINES. 1 all Agua Fria ..... la 11 1} 1 all Angle Auskin. Gold 10s. all Anglo Californian 20 6 Australian — 1 1 all Australian Cordillera • 1 all Australian Freehold. a 1 all Ave Maria — •. 1 all Baden (Gd.Dachy of, # 50 all Bleenarvon Iron and Coal 20 13.5 British Iron •• • • 8 4 7 35 *z46 Brazilianlmp. (issued at k 5 pm 2} $ 30 all Do. Cocaes & °niacin If —l4 11 20 15 Do. St. John Del Rey 28 —3O 1 1 Carsons's Creek •• ••• 1 Clarendon Goias. Min Co. of Jamaica • • 10 all Cobre Copper 45 48 4T 5 1 Colonial Gold # • St. all Copper Min. of Eng 52 55 25 all Do. Pref. 7a p. cent 2 4 p ... 16 Copiapo l2 14. 5 all English and Austin Copper Smeltg 11 13 2 3 Fortuna it 20 all General 1 all (.4.NuggetVeiußeg. 31 all Great Polgooth ••• 1 all Liberty...... .......... . a 3 all Linares. Si ••• 91 1 all Mariquita 7 —7 a 10 9 Mexieau&S.Amerie.n. 1 1 all New Granada I all New Linares Mining and Smelting Co 1 all Nouveau Monde 20 all Poutgiband Silver Lead Min. & Smelt. 15 16 5 1 Port Philip 1 all Quartz Rock 50 all Rhymney Iron 22 24 15 all Do. New — s 30 113 Santiago de Cuba 5 5i 1 all south Australian —1 a 10 73 Tin Croft ...... 281 all United Mexican g 3 i 34 1 all Waller — 1 1 all West Mariposa .4 1 12s. Worthing Mining of Australia ••• ••• 1 all Yuba MISCELLANEOUS 5 all Aubin Coal and Iran 25 176 %.ustralian Agricult. 40 4▪ 2 404 39i 20 6 Australsn•Pcific.Mah 10 all Australn. Royal Mai' 10 51 Berlin Water Works 2a 2d 50 40 Brit. American Land 5 1 lint. & Coln. Smeltg. and Reduction Co 100 326 Canada 9g 103 St. 100 Canada Gov. 6 p. ct. Jan. and Jaly 110 111 5 all Crystal Palace 3 31 31 4 all Crystal Pal. of France 20 6 Eastern Steam • ▪ •• 25 20 ElectricTelegraph(A) 15 —l6 1 all Electric Teleg. of Ir. 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat. 20 all General Screw Steam; 20 10 Irish Beetroot Saga] 20 alllo mNfaegaditaelraic E ena St. Navig. e 10 Tel. 1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fue' 10 5 Netherlands Laud a • I 2 1 N. S. W. Coal do Inter Steam Navigat. Co. ••• ••• 1 all N. B. Australasian 1 20 126 Nrth.ofEuropeStean , ... 4 - 1., all Peel Rr. Ld. & Minrl. si —.44 53 all Peninsular& Oriental 5 ) 45 Do. Do. ••• ...p 2 all Portland Iron Co 2 21 23 100 60 Royal Mail Steam 1 all Scot. Austral. Invest. 2 25 all South Austral. La nd 35 37 36 1 1 all 1: übmar• Telegraph • 1 1 ali Do. Registered. —• 1 100 Lo . van Diemen's Lam 124 London N. We,t. L. &N. W ..Ja tedon... . Nrthn. idonian. Do Gt. Weatn Yk. New. & Borw. Y. & N Mcl Do S. Eastorp' 'Do Pet. Ez Co. Norfolk. L.& N. W. & Mida Stckton & Darlingt. ilidland.. F. Count Do L.k N.W. &Lii&Yk D 0........ . CR North!) Gancash & Yorksh. M.MClean & Darlingt AWesto. 95 -MO 99 - 101. 138 - 13$ 102 104 51 52 25 -25 a 13 136 23 —24 111 113 211 - 21} 93 = 95 56 - CO 136 : lii 2# -- i~a 30 - 31 93 -- 95 ,ENCE SHARES. • R us's es• this day. 'IT A LY. A letter from Rome of the 20th, in the Moniteur, says :—" Not content with the bad success of his preceding embasies, Mazzini has again sent two agents to Rome ; one to observe, the other to act. They have pecuniary resources, and affirm that they derive them frem Russia. They announce a landing of arms sent in a vessel, which is said to have come from Tortosa and Alicant, and which, not having been able to effect a landing in Sicily, had returned to Alicant, from which it will visit the Roman coast." COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, Ocv. 28. There was no addition to the Royal dinner party yes terday. Her Majesty's private band attended after dinner in the Castle, and played the following selection : Sinfonia, "Eroica," Allegro con brio Beethoven. Finale (31 Act), " Freischutz" Weber. The Queen visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent at Frogmore•house this n orning. His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out shooting. His Serene Highness Prince Nicholas of Nassau and the Earl of Aberdeen arrived this afternoon on a visit to her Majesty. OCT. 29. The dinner party yesterday included his Serenejl' g ia . mess Prince Nicholas of Nassau, the Earl and Lady Emily Seymour. Of Aberdeen, The Queen's priv? „ir ba_l u d Castle, pik'ss in attendance in the and P erfw ark.",:tAtie following pieces : Overt , : Le Roi Etienne" - Beethoven. Selection, "Zweikampf" Airs de Ballet, "L'Enfant Protligue" Anber. The Queen and Prince drove out in an open carriage yesterday afternoon ; Lord A. Paget attended on horse back. The Princess Royal and Princess Alice took a carriage drive, also the younger members of the Royal family. The Queen and Prince, with the four elder Royal children, the Prince Nicholas of Nassau, the ladies and gentlemen of the Court, and the domestic household, at tended Divine service this morning in the private chapel of the Castle. The Hon. and very Rey. the Desn of Windsor officiated. .The Earl of Aberdeen was also at the service. _ _ _ I I Her Majesty having expressed a wish to hear the band of the Imperial Regiment of Guides, now in London, it arrived at Windsor to-day at 1 o'clock by a special train of the South-western Railway, a❑d played before the Queen and Prince and the whole of the Royal Family on the E a st-terrace. Her Majesty afterwards walked for some time attended by the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting. Baron Verdier, Capitaine d'Etat Major, and Baron Vidil, of the Regiment of Guides, whe have arrived with the band, will have the honour of dining with her Ma jesty to-day. A messenger with despatches from Constantinople ar rived-office o n S atur d ay n i g ht. ijor a d t j th o henFoßuss ellarriv e d a t hi s res idence in Rich. The Duke of Newcastle, with the exception of a two days' visit to the Queen at Windsor Castle last week, continues in town. His grace and department remove to the new War-office, in Whiteball-gardens, the first week in January. MUNICIPAL HOSPITALITIES.— On Friday night, James Baldwin Esq., the Mayor of Birmingham, entertained at dinner two hundred of his fellow-townsmen, at the Royal Hotel. ISTEW CHUROIT AT HALIFAX. The new church a c t Heptcustall, in th e par i sh of Halifax, was consecr ate, on Thursday by the Bishop of Ripon. SITTINGS OP TIM INSOLVENT DEBTORS COURT. The sittings of the court will be resumed on Wednesday. The Chief Commissioner (Law) is too unwell to attend court. FIRE Niicrt ST. JAS.iEs'S THEATRE.—On Saturday Seymour,Ko of imz,s property,. p aac. cb ca rpenter,ri ok g e . s out tre e te i n , a rsrty. morning, at a few minutes before three o'clock, a fire of a destructive character, and attended with a great loss WooLWICII, OCT. 2 7.—Quartermaster Moore, of the Royal Artillery, 3d battalion, died at his residence in Beresford-terrace, Woolwich, on the 26th inst. He had risen from the ranks by his scientific abilities to be quarter-master. the i3 gap James's. premises ssb.euss business e A s 3 1 r. at Thomas N o. 3, THE SATURDAY HALF-HOLIDAY.—The solicitors' clerks iotfelP:laLyvEniGineAgurAtthratina,srpeitißreeinkddGeit:h/aoturing to obtain a weekly half holiday on Saturday afternoon been occasioned in the town of that place, the Rev. Mr. Brown, has recently solem nised a marriage between two poor people belonging to the parish out of the canonical hours prescribed by act of Parliament. of jEex citement i n E Essex, has by Virgin, newly - app oi n ted .A . i f ca l r l e xw f . he Ox ford, left that city on Thursday last for the East, where his gratuitous services will be rendered as chaplain to the British forces. this S college, I C I eOgLel:llaGnEci •Th e curate Rev . of t E. Mary Owen, t Ni TUB CHOLERA AT OXFORD.—The ekolera, we are happy to say, seems to have taken its final leave of Oxford. During last week there has been but one now case and one death. The medical staff will be disbanded forth with. The expenses of this disease to the citizens of Oxford will, it is thought, be upwards of 2,0001. FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT. — On Saturday, between the hours of eleven and twelve, while a man named George Wright, carpenter, was en gaged in fitting a circular piece of timber to one of the windows of the Victoria Tower, his foot slipped, and he was precipitated from a height of eighty-four feet, falling upon a large iron beam. Tug BLOCICADE.—The letters from Odessa mention that several ships were loading linseed in the Black Sea, thus indicating the continued absence of an effective blockade. In the London market the disbelief in any complete exclusion of Russian produce from that region is such, that two cargoes now loading at Kertch, on the Sea of Azoff, have just been sold for arrival. FROM M ELECTION.— A correspondent writes that a petition is about to be presented, on the part of Mr. Donald Nichol!, against the return of Viscount Dun garvon for the borough of Frome, on the ground of car taiia acts of bribery and intimidation alleged to have been committed. DEATH OF MR. H. STUART, M.P. FOR BEDFORD.— We have the melancholy task of announcing the death of Mr. Stuart, one of the members for the borough of Bedford, which took place very suddenly on Wednesday night. We are informed that on that evening he at tended the Freemasons' Lodge at Bedford, which was named after him, and left at his usual time for his resi dence. When he was in the act of alighting from his carriage he was seized with a convulsive fit, and died in 10 minutes after he was carried into the house. He had for some time past been subject to fits of that nature, and had been under medical treatment. Mr. H. Stuart, who was born in 1804, was grandson of the third Earl of Bute, being the second son of the late Archbishop Stuart, of .Armagh, and Sophia, granddaughter of the celebrated William Penn. He was first returned for the borough of Bedford in the Cuneervative interest in 1837, but was unseated on petition, and Mr. Samuel Crawley took the seat until 1841, when, after a close contest, Mr. Stuart was again returned. At the subsequent ge neral election he was returned, with Sir Harry Verney, his old colleague, Captain Polhill being rejected ; and at the last general election he was again returned, with Mr. Samuel Whitbread, Mr. Chisholm Anstey being the Unsuccessful candidate.—Bedfor d Times. MISS MGR TINGA LE. The following letter, addressed by Mr. Sydney Her bert to Miss Nightingale, has been published : (Copy.) " Dear Miss Nightiugale,- - --Yon will have seen in the papers that there is a great deficiency of nurses at the hos pitals at Scutari. The other alleged deficiencies—namely, of medical men, lint, sheets, &c., must, if they have really ever existed, have been remedied ere this, as the number of the medical officers with the army ameented to ono to every 95 men in the whole force-being nearly doable what we ever had before; and 30 more surgeons went out there three weeks ago, and must by this time, therefore, be at Constantinople. A further supply went on Monday, and a fresh batch sail next week. As to medical stores, they have been sent out not only in profusion, but by the ton weight, 15,000 pair of sheets ; medicines, wine, arrow root, in the same proportion ; and the only way for ac counting for the deficiency at Scutari, if it exists, is that the mass of the stores went to Varna, and had not been sent back when the army left for the Crimea ; but four days would have remedied that. In the meanwhile stores are arriving. But the deficiency of female nurses is un doubted, none but male nurses having ever been admitted to military hospitals. It would be impossible to carry about a large staff of the female nurses with an army in the field. But at Scutari, having cow a fixed hospital, no military reason exists against their introduction; and I am confident they might be introduced with great benefit, for hospital orderlies must be very rough hands, and most of them, on such an occasion as this, very inex perienced ones. I receive numbers of offers from ladies to go out, but they are ladies who have no conception of what au hospital is, nor of the nature of its duties, and they would when the time came either recoil from the work, or bo entirely useless, and consequently, what is worse, en tirely in the way ; nor would those ladies probably even understand the neaessity, especially in a military hospital, of strict obedience to rule, &c. " Lady Marie. Forester (Lord Roden's daughter) has made some proposal to Dr. Smith, the head of the army medical department, either to go with, or to send out, trained nurses. I apprehend she means from Fitzroy square, John-street, or some such establishment. The Rev. Mr. Hume, once chaplain to the General Hospital at Birmingham (and better known as the author of the scheme for transferring the City churches to the suburbs), has offered to go out himself as chaplain, with two daugh ters and twelve nurses. He was in the army seven years, and has been used to hospitals, and I like the tone of his letter very much. I think from both of these offers prac tical effects may be drawn. " But the difficulty of finding nurses who are at all versed in their business is probably best known to Mr. Hume, and Lady Maria Forester probably has not tested the willingness of the trained nurses to go, and is incapable of directing or ruling them. There is but one person in England that I know of that would be capable of organis ing and superintending such a scheme, mad I have been several times on the point of asking you, hypothetically, if, supposing the attempt were made, you would under take to direct it. The selection of the rank and file nurses will be very difficult ; no one knows that better than your self. The difficulty of finding women equal to a task after all full of horror, and requiring besides knowledge and good will, great knowledge and great courage, will be great; the task of ruli ng an d i n t ro ducing system among them great; and not the least will bo the difficulty of making the whole work smoothly with the medical and military authorities out there. That it is which makes it so important that the experiment should be carried out by one with administrative capacity and experience. A num ber of sentimental enthusiastic ladies, turned loose into the hospital at Scutari, would probably a ft er a f ew d a y s be noses ala porte by rose whose business they would in terrupt, and whose authority they would dispute. My j question simply is, would you listen to the request to go out and supervise the whole thing? You would, of course, have plenary authority over all the nurses ; and I think I could secure you the fullest assistance and co operation from the medical staff; and you would also have an unlimited power of drawing on the Government for whatever you think requisite for the success of your mis sion. On this part of the subject the details are too many for a letter, and I reserve it fur our meeting ; for, what ever decision you take I know you will give me every assistance and advice. Ido not say one word to press you. You are the only person who can judge for your self which of conflicting or incompatible duties is the first or the highest; but I think I must not conceal from you that upon your decision will depend the ultimate success or failure of the plan. Your own personal qualities, your knowledge, and your power of administration, and, among greater things, your rank and position in society, give you advantages in such a work which no other person possesses. If this succeeds, an enormous amount of good will be done now, and to persons deserving everything at our hands ; and which will multiply the good to all time. I hardly like to be sanguine as to your answer. If it were yes, I am certain Mrs. Bracebridge would go with you, and give you all the comforts you would require, and which her so ciety and sympathy aluno could give you. I have written very long, for the subject is very near my heart. Liz is writing to Mrs. Bracebridge to tell her what I am doing Igo to town to-morrow morning. Shall I come to you between three and five ? Will you let me have a line at Si. ^". one Doint which the ar Office to let me know ? ' mere is -s as s will pardon have hardly a right to touch upon, but I trust you will pardon me. If yon were inclined to undertake the great work, would Mr. and Mrs. Nigtingale consent? This work would be so national, and the request made to you proceeding from the Government, which represents the nation, comes at such a moment that I do not despair of their consent. Deriving your authority from the Govern ment, your position would ensure the respect and con sideration of every one, especially in a service where official rank carries so much weight. This would secure you any attention and comfort ou your way out there, together with a complete submission to your orders. I know these things are a matter of indifference to you except as far as they may further the great object you would have iu view; but they aro of importance in themselves, and of every importance to those who have a right to take an interest in your personal position and comfort. I know you will come to a right and wise decision. God grant it may be one in accordance with my hopes.--Believe me, dear Miss Nightingale, ever yours, " Oct. 15. "SIDNEY HERBERT." WHO IS MRS. _NIGHTINGALE. (From the Examiner.) Many ask this question, and it has not yet been ade quately answered. We reply, then, Mrs. Nightingale is Miss Nightingale, or rather Miss Florence Nightingale, the youngest daughter and presumptive co-heiress of her father, William Shore Nightingale of Etubley•park, Hampshire, and the Lea Hurst, Derbyshire. She is, moreover, a young lady of singular endowments, both natural and acquired. In a knowledge of the ancient languages and of the higher branches of mathematics, in general art, science, and literature, her attainments are extraordinary. There is scarcely a modern language which she does not understand, and she speaks French, German, and Italian as fluently as her native English. She has visited and studied the various nations of Europe, and has ascended the Nile to its remotest cataract. Young (about the ago of our Queen), graceful, feminine, rich, and popular, she holds a singularly gentle and per suasive influence over all with whom she comes in con tact. Her friends and acquaintances are of all classes and persuasions, but her happiest place is at home, in the centre of a very large band of accomplished relatives, and in simplest obedience to her admiring parents. Why, then, should a being so highly blessed with all that should render life bright, innocent, and to a con siderable extent useful, forego such palpable and heart felt attractions ? Why quit all this to become—a nurse ? From her infancy she has bad a yearning affection for her kind—a sympathy with the weak, the oppressed, the destitute, the suffering, and the desolate. The schools and the poor around Lea Hurst and Enibley first saw and. elt her as a visitor, teacher, consoler, ex pounder. Then she frequented and studied the schools, hospitals, and reformatory institutions of London, Edinburgh, and the continent. Three years ago, when all Europe had a holiday on and after the Great Exhibition, when the highlands of Scotland, the lakes of Switzerland, and all the bright spots of the continent were filled with parties of pleasure, Miss Nightingale was within the walls of one of the German houses or hospitals for the care and reformation of the lost and in firm. For three long months she was in daily and nightly attendance, accumulating experience in all the duties and labours of female ministration. She then re turned to be once more the delight of her own happy home. But the strong tendency of her mind to look beyond its own circle for the relief of those who nomi nally having all, practically have but too frequently none to help them prevailed ; and therefore, whets the hospital established in London for sick governesses was about to fail for want of proper management, she stepped forward and consented to be placed at its head. Derbyshire and Hampshire were exchanged for the narrow, dreary estab• Bailment in Harley-street, to which she devoted all her time and fortune. While her friends missed her at as semblies, lectures, concerts, exhibitions, and all the en tertainments for taste and intellect with which London in its season abounds, she, whose powers could have best appreciated these, was sitting beside the bed and soothing, the last complaints of some poor dying, home less, querulous governess. The homelessness might not improbably, indeed, result from that very queru lousness ; but this is too frequently fomented, if not created, by the hard, unreflecting folly which regards fellow-creatures intrusted with forming the minds and 1 dispositions of its children as ingenious, disagreeable machines, needing, like the steam-engine, sustenance and covering, but, like it, quite beyond or beneath all sympathy, passions, or affections. Miss Nightingale thought otherwise, and found pleasure in tending those poor destitute governesses in their infirmities, their sor rows, their deaths, or their recoveries. She was sel dom seen out of the walls of the institution, and the few friends whom she admitted found her in the midst of nurses, letters, prescriptions, accounts, and interrup tions. Her health sank under the heavy pressure, but a little Hampshire fresh air restored her, and the failing institution was saved. Meanwhile a cry of distress and for additional comforts beyond these of mere hospital treatment came homefrom the East from our wounded brethren in arms. There instantly arose an enthusiastic desire to answer it. But inexperienced zeal could perform little, and a bevy of ill-organised nurses might do more harm than good. There was a fear lest a noble impulse should fail for the want of a head, a hand, and a heart to direct it. It was then that a field was opened for the wider exercise of Miss Nightingale's sympathies, experience, and powers of command and control. But at what cost ? At the risk of her own life—at the pang of separation from ail her friends and family, and at the certainty of encoun tering hardship, dangers, toils, and the constantly re newing scene of human suffering amid all the worst horrors of war. There are few who would not recoil from such realities, but Miss Nightingale shrank not, and at once accepted the request that was made her to form and control the entire nursing establishment for our sick and wounded soldiers and sailors in the Levant. While we write, this deliberate, sensitive, and highly endowed young lady is already at her post, rendering the holiest of woman's charities to the sick, the dying, and the convalescent. There is a-heroism in dashing up the heights of Alma in defiance of death and all mortal opposition, and let all praise and honour be, as they are, bestowed upon it ; hut t here is a quiet forecasting heroism and largeness of heart in this lady's resolute accum ulation of the powe of consolation and -her c ede voted application of them rs , which rank I i : li at least as pure. A sage few will no doubt condemn, sneer at, or pity an enthusiasm which to them seems eccentric or at best tsisplaced ; but to the true heart of the c-,entry it will speak home, and be there felt, that there is not one of England's proudest and purest daugh ters wit.) a' this nwinent stands on so high a pinnacle as Florence FATE OF THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. York Factory, Nov. 7, 1836. My dear Xing,—Here I am once again in the solitudes of the " Far West," cheerfully taking up the pen to write to you according to promise. London life is over ! Where now are the snug parties—where the theatres—your reflec tion—and the rest ? All gone—sunk into endless night. Such are the strange vicissitudes of this fitful world. When I parted with you at London Bridge I little anti cipated the heavy forfeit I was about to pay for a winter iu Loudon. But to my tale. The voyage down to Strom ness was as gentle and propitious as Cleopatra herself could have wished ; but from that place to this a more tedious, perilous, and disagreeable one was never known. Heavy gales of contrary winds opposed our passage across the Atlantic; and at the mouth of Hudson Strait we encoun tered interminable fields of massive ice, among which we were involved and knocked about for upwards of two months, with slender hopes of ever being able to extricate ourselves. The passengers and crew (95) had already been put upon half rations, when, happily, the Equinoxes co;r - iug on, we succeeded in forcing a passage through, and ultimately reached this place about the latter end of Sep tember. All the vessels received more or less dam age in the " strait," and yet their misadventures did not cease. The Rupert was barely able, with great difficulty, to land her passengers, when she broke from her anchors, ran out to sea, and has net since been heard of I Another, the Esquimau', was ordered to " Churchill" to winter, and had Mr. Lewis on board, on his way to take charge of that " Fort." She had not, however, proceeded far, when she encountered a violent storm, which drove her upon the coast near Cape Tatnam. She, too, ulti mately drifted out to sea, and was lost to sight. Such has been the unhappy conclusion of a voyage so auspiciously begun. The place of my destination is Cumberland House, an appointment with which I have every reason to be pleased. My family have already preceded me hither, and to join them I'll have to travel the whole distance on snow shoes, which I may add to the other evils resulting from my journey to London. Groat changes have happened here since you left. That incomprehensible disease, of which you heard so much while hero, bids fair to make the place untenable. It returned last spring with redoubled violence. All your friends in the interior are just as you left them. Now, my dear King, I long to learn how "affairs in general" have prospered with you,—whether you still fondly cherish your Arctic journey —whether subscriptions are fast filling up—and whether everything is cut and dry for a start. There are many here who would rejoice to see you among them again and again; but I fear all will not do unless the Hudson Bay Company sanction the un dertaking. There is a report, indeed, that they themselves intend to prosecute it next year. Peter Taylor is at Lac la Pluie, and fully expected you. Both he, as well as your other companions in adventure, are high in your praise, while Captain— is the theme of their aversion and con tempt. As no return from the °wintry this season, this letter will reach you Zia New York; and, I fear, will cost a heavy postage, without affording any adequate return. But I have fulfilled your wish. Rave you heard anything of Heron, or Stuart, and what is doing in the political world ? Write me all this, and in return you shall have from me all you may want, from a scull down to a peri winkle I I have hardly room to say that I always am, my dear King, yours most truly, To Dr. King, M.D. CHAS. Ross. Great Slave Lake, July 2, 1836. My dear King,—Both your letters of last September came duly to hand, and I was extremely happy to learn of your welfare. May you long enjoy that blessing is my sincere wish. Your determivation to accomplish the discovery of the North West Passage inspires me with the hope of seeing you the current season, and if your plans admit of your ei a l4 g this length to pass the ensuing winter, it wi l EnetOme most agreeable. Even if the upper estttilishment* should be your residence, sore very calamitous event must inter vene to prevent me from going to see you. It may, perhaps, be in favour of your enterprise, the late intimacy that has taken place between the Chipe wyan and Esquimaux tribes, in the course of the last sum mer, on the Thlew-ee-tiezza.t Amongst the latter there were many inhabitants of the Thlow-ee-cho ;: but the ma jority were those that frequent Churchill annually, to prove which they produced the articles they obtained freso the Hudson Bay Company's stores in the way of trade, and readily exchanged the same with their guests, by way of cementing their friendship. There can be no doubt of a successful issue to your undertaking, of which I feel so confident that I hail with pleasure the moment that will bring you once more among us, as I am equally certain that every attention will be directed to promote your views and be assured none shall moro willingly contribute thereto than your humble servant. I have not succeeded in obtaining the skeleton of a moose, but I have bright hopes of getting it as well as a skeleton of the musk ox by the noxt spring ; and if you do not make your appearance, I shall endeavour to for ward them to England to your address. I am much obliged to you for your kind wishes to my self and family, they are, thank God, in the enjoyment of health, and unite their wishes to mine for your welfare and prosperity.—Believe me, my dear Kiug, your sincere friend, (Signed) ALE/. R. M`LEOD. To Dr. King, M.D. Norway House, 12th August, 1836. Dear Sir,—l was very happy to receive your letter last spring, when I arrived at Norway House, always expecting to see you here again. I was here for about a month and a-half, looking earnestly for your arrival. I was at last obliged to join with the expedition again,U and I am now going to Red River, whore I shall remain until the first ice, and then travel to Athabasca to join with the rest. lil`Kay and Sinclair have joined it. Of the birds and in sects you requested me to preserve for you, I have get as many as I could. Dear Sir, I should have been very happy to have seen you here, and joined with yen with ►ll my heart, bat since it cannot be, I therefore must leave you, with my beet wishes for your temporal and eternal welfare.— I remain your sincere friend and humble servant, (Signed) PETER TAYLOR. To Dr. King, M.D. Athabasca Fort, 28th May, 1837. Dear Sir,—l was very sorry to hear that you could not get into the country last spring, for I was at Norway House waiting till you should be there ; and when I saw you wore not coming, I was obliged to eater into the service of the expedition. But. I was most sorry when I received your last letter that you sent by the last ship—though I hope I shall have the pleasure of seeing you in the north if you do come.—Your ever true friend, To Dr. King, M.D. (Signed) PETER TAYLOR. * Athabasca Lake. ± Fish River. :1: Great Fish River. II Mr. T. Simpson's Journey to the Polar Sea. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS•DAY.) LONDON, Oct. 30.—Wind this day at Noon, S.W. ; fine, clear weather, with a strong breeze. PORTSMOUTH, Oct. 29.—Wind, S.S.W. Arrived — Louisa, from Elamburgb, for Sydney, N.S.W.; Concordia, Altona, for Guernsey; Alexandria, Dautzic, for Poole; Commerce, Christiana, for do. ; Walmer Castle, London, for the Black Sea ; Harvest Home, London, for Sydney, N.S.W., leaky; Egypt, do. do., leaky; Resolution, Youghal ; Coronet, Quebec ; Warrior, London, for Ja maica ; H.M.S. Lizard, Sheerness. Sailed—Eurydice, for the East Indies. PLYMOUTH, Oct. 29.—Wind, S.W. Arrived—Reward, from Quebec ; Sea Nymph, Antigua ; William, London, for Melbourne ; Telegraph, Southampton, for Australia ; True Briton (store-ship), London, for Malta. DOVER, Oct. 29 . —Wind, S.S.W. Arrived—Nelson Packet, from Hamburgh. COWES, Oct. 2 9.—Wind, S. Arrived—Jane Picteryn Koerr, from Akyab ; Dolphin, Callao ; Thetis, Gothen burg, for Oran ; Y. E. D., Newcastle, for Constantinople ; J. A. Hazard, Cuba; Maria Eugenia, do., for Trieste. (BY SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Monday , 10.45 a.m. Wind, S. ; tide first hour's ebb; fine. Arrived, O c t. 29—Di napore, from Madras • Swan, Stock holm ; Yp res, D un ki rk; H aver i ng and Wonder, Antwerp; 11 clpom ene , Rotterdam; Camallas, Demerara; Walter Hood, Syd ne y ; Leeuwarden, Harlingen. Arrived, Oct. 30—Hanover, steamer, from Rotterdam; Stad Dordrecht, steamer, Dordt ; Raveisbourn, steamer, Antwerp; Fyenoord, steamer, Rotterdam; Caledonia, steamer, Hamburg ; Era, St. Kitt's ; Newcastle, Ostend ; Eagle, Rouen ; Leanne, Gravelines. Sailed—New Great Britain, for Port Philip; Advance, Havre ; Lady C. Barham, Jamaica ; Commodore, Ja maica ; Perseverance, Leer ; Lucy Sharp, Algoa Bay ; Louthe, Rio Janeiro. Thur., Monday, 9.55 a.m. Wind southerly, light, very fine. for North Star, London, f or lery ; Packet, Myth, for St. Va illiam Bryan, London, for Belize; Ashbu r t on, Anchored—Eliza, from Shields, Guernsey ; Leip s i c Akyab ; W Antwerp, for Cardiff. Sailed—Haddng 105 for days cutCalcutta, r f o omr London,W h a ni p o 6 x B . Passed—Alice Ma to u n de, fo f r ro ß m om A b l a g y o , a i ß n Bay, for London. i yacht, for Poole. Passed the a 1 r P o l o nai s e , , f fro m days out, lat. 19.30 S., long. 2.19 W. ; p assed barque Reportofbathrgeusehimp Granville, from London, for Calcutta, lat. 6.41 N., long. 23.54 W. ; passed barque Velure, lat. 8.47 N. long. 24.13 yr. ; passed barque Niagara, from Glasgow, for California lat. 13.2 N. long. 25.50 W. ; passed brig Wiltonwood, from Liverpool, for Ceylon, lat. 13.20 N. long. 25 56 W. passed brigs Favourite, f rom Newport, ' for Rio, and Af moors, from Swansea, f or C oquimbo, both in lat. 14.51 N., long. 26.22 W. ; passed Eliza and "'cites, from Callao for Cork, and Richard Barkley, from Valparaiso for Liver pool, brig Ellen M•Gregor from Vaaraiso for Bordeaux —all in lat. 27.36 N ., long. 33.3 4 W. ; passed barque Goethe, of Bremen, from Baltimore, lat. 47.41 . N., long. 53.51 W. ; passed barque Grange, from Jamaica, off the Start. DR. .RAE'S ON THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION TO TM: EDITOR OF THit TIMES. Sir,—Although the opinions which I hold on the sub• ject of Dr. Rae's report vo something beyond what you yourself have expressed, I trust that you will allow this letter to appear in your paper, if it is only for the pur pose of.eliciting the sentiments of others on a matter in which I am peculiarly interested—having had a brother on board Her Majesty's skip Terror. It appears to me that Dr. Rae has been deeply repre hensible either in not verifying the report which he re ceived from the Esquimaux, or, if that was absolutely out of the question, in publishing the details of that report, resting as they do on grounds most weak and unsatisfactory. lie had far better have kept silence altogether than have given u; a story which, while it pains the feelings of many, must be very insufficient for all. To say nothing of the difficulties which, in your article of Thursday, you have touched upon, there are others which seem to me so patent that I can only wonder they did not occur to Dr. Rae llitn , elf. 1. Where the Esquimaux eau live—where Dr. Rae's party could find abundant means—what should have prevented Sir John Frankliu acid his party from subsist t-ez 2. When they were forced— as, a anynoonedoubt, y believe the have been—to abandon their ship., can they would have encumbered themselves with forks and spoons and-silver plates, :ristea.l of reserving every inch of available space fur:Aures and articles absolutely neces sary for subsistence ? 3. Supposing that they died by starvation, is it likely that a large body of rnea .vould have died all together I Would they not have yielded one by one, each struggling on as far as he could, in the laepe of either finding some store of provisions or meeting some party sent out for their rescue I, sir, for one, have long given up all expectation of seeing my brother again in this world. But there are many who still cling to the hope of regaining their rela tions. My own belief is, that the ships have been aban doned and plundered by Esquimaux. I would only per suade myself that I am not compelled to believe the painful details which Dr. Rae has most unwarrantably published. But others believe that the crews may yet be subsisting smmewhere, and until Dr. Rae's report be verified they wiil not part with their belief for anything which he has said,. I enclose my card, and am, Sir, your obedient servant, E. J. It Oct. 26. SIR JOHN FRANKLIN'S FATE. (From the laamuter.) There is no longer any doubt of the melancholy death of Sir John Franklin and his companions. To the roll. call of perished hesoes, to the lists now daily swelling with noble names, of brave men battling against fearful odds, and dying in the performance of their duty, are to be added the names of the Arctic voyagers. The sad assurance might have reached us at a moment less die. tracted by other anxieties and sorrows, but it comes not . unfitly while the public sympathy is keenly awakened to the claims of all who imperil life for high and unselfish aims. Almost simultaneously svith the late of so many who left us six months since to perish in the tents at Varna, on the heights of the Alma, or before the walls of Sebastopol, we learn the fate of the devoted band who departed ten years ago to lace a far more terrible foe, and, after more then three years of unspeakable suffering, have left behind them but the memory of that unflinching enterprise arid endurance, that resolute perseverance, that moral and physical courage, that har dihood unappalled and discipline undisturbed by the most frightful dangers NN hick •.ve take to be peculiar to English seamen. The dreadful certainty of Sir John Franklin's fate has reached us at the time when we were busied listening to the details of the last expedition sent to explore the mystery of it. The court-martials on Sir Edward Belcher and his officers place before us vividly not alone the dangers and uncertainties of Arctic enterprise, but the sad inutility of even its most hopeful results. Twelve months of the year spent motionless in the ice, excepting perhaps an interval of three week's open water, and even when freedom returns, the intricate and still ice-locked straits and inlets only possible to be got through step by step, year by year I No doubt grave mistakes were committed in sht. , • '•-= • r,` xpedition, l and ft comes back cue recent,. we or & - ii by any mark s o f unus':., daring, at any rate in it s chi e f. B u t 'sje ! a y,. we are surprised to find Arctic discoverers themselves, who have spent their best years and energies in the zeal of such research, turn from it at last in even such despair and weariness as would seem to have inspired the doubtful resolution of the last commander. Of the charge against Sir Edward Belcher, and his dee fence, we now shall say nothing. The public opinion upon his conduct will be reserved till the fate of Capt. Collinon is known, and we prefer ourselves to wait for that light to read the proceedings by. Should Cellinson have also fallen upon the memorials of Franklin, as now appears not improbalsle, and retraced his steps in safety, there will be nothing left that need be urged with any particular warmth against Sir Edward Belcher. But should the fate of the last navigator remain much longer in suspense, should actual reverses have befallen him, should it appear that the help withheld might really with effect have been given, then certainly opinion will side with Captain Betiett, and a just indignation will be felt that his reluctance to quit those frozen shores till the third summer bad passed was not acquiesced in by his superior officer. Of the correctness of the testimony, oral- and circum stantial, which Dr. Rae has brought home, we limit our belief to the proofs of identity and death. The evidence is quite imperfect as to the '7l wirier of the death, or as to the shocking incidentt, assumed to have preceded it ; but for the rest, the pieces of silver plate, the crests and initials, the watches, telescopes, and guns, tell sufficiently the terrible story. It is also borne out by the Esqui inaux acebunts, which neither is there any reason to doubt, of the exhausted state of the little band. At once marvellous and met tifyie , is it, that in a vicinity so attainable, so known, so likely to be visited as the position of the magnetic pole, the lost wanderers could neither have been met with, or directed towards reach ing supplies. But unfortunately every effort at discovery or help, up to the period when all such ceased to be use ful, was directed to the sea and its shores, although the abandonment of the ships and betaking of the crews to land passage was a circumstance so naturally to be looked for. The Admiralty people were too romantic in their conjectures. Ships and men, it was thought, must have disappeared up one of those mysterious and perilous avenues that strike northwards towards the pole; and that the starving band should have been prosaically sought for on the bank of the Great Fish River was in the contemplation of none. Of none in authority. But let us do justice to Dr. King, who, with a humane perseverance worthy of bet ter success, has vainly urged upon successive Govern ments, ever since 1847, that the expeditions in search of our lost countrymen should take that exact course which we now see too late would have led upon their track. In 1847 he wrote to Lord Grey to point out the Great Fish River as the high and ice•free road to the land where the missing expedition was likely to be found. In the same year he implored to have his services joined to those of Sir James Ross and Sir John Richardson, using these remarkable words : " It is a service in which I can act independently of Sir James Clarke Ross, and independently of Sir John Richard son ; and Sir James Clarke Ross and Sir John Richardson , _ it is already arranged, are to act independently of each other. Sir James Clarke Ross's knowledge of Barrow Strait—Sir John Richardson's knowledge of the Mackenzie and the Coppermine Rivers—and my knowledge of the Great Fish River and its estuary, will be so many guaran tees that the work to bo done will be done well ; and this state of independence will insure a larg e amount of eff o rt, even though it were merely in a spirit of emulation." Two years later (some six or eight months before the date of the now ascertained calamity) he renewed his applications. He wrote letters to Lady Franklin to tell her she was ill advised, and, with all the vehemence of personal entreaty, besieged successive Secretaries to the Admiralty ; but Mr. Ward, Mr. Hamilton, and all the rest, returned him answers as cold and unsympathising as their chiefs, and the opportunity was lost which never was to return. Hear the Cassandra of this ill-fated business ! We quote one of his last appeals : " All that has been done by way of search since Febru ary, 1848, tends to draw closer and closer to the west land of North Somerset as the position of Sir John Franklin, River,ot wou ld ld ) to the and to the Great Fish River as the high road to reach i it. Such a plan as I proposed to their lordships would 1848 instance happiest con sequently momentth e u f t yo life i n i r f p me to go by my old route, th Gt e hrt G eair r u e ci a : t .r e d v lr j ::s r i l P r y s th em e p r t el t e o r s s av ee e . human life a second time on the soroesaof It is deplorable to th ink that in the Admiralty attempts to find our countrymen have been by far the least successful. Kennedy and poor Bellot were near upon the track, but theirs was a private expe. dition, and nut undertaken till a year too l a t e. W hen we discussed the su b j ect in this journal inawtaokuthilndegncoaltosftwenaoalrf. r u g o e n d sid th er e iu n g e t c h e a ss t it t y ho o o f ha th u e c n es r el a ffB n o4 t l9l ;h wa e en r d i of another expedition, we held that it shou ld have been planned on such a scale a s completlyrtoscour the track, both by land and sea, in which the clearest judgments might see the probabilities of success. More l t a h s a t n g t l w e : m years a l t i then iaodnal were passed beyond the time to w hi c h the ships victualled, and we believed it to be our hope. I t i s now proved to have been so. On the details o f w h at our lamented countrymen have suffered we forbe ar t o dwell. It was into no unknown s o. perils Sir John Franklin ventured. Nearly 30 years earlier, and again after a n interval of d. six tobresseavmene dee. years, his indomit a bl e spirit h a d b trous sc enes. The language contains nn the records of en terprise and endurance surpassing those of his two jour neys to the shores of the Polar Sea, and to them we have but to turn to obtain no dial or imperfect image of the ter ror of his final journey, or of what we may hope to have been the merciful assuagements vouchsafed to it. " At this period we avoided as much as possible conversing e u b p d o e n av t n h u e re h d ep to ele le s a sn d e t s b s e o c f on o v u e r s rie i t t t u o a n tion, and towards generallyour future prospects in life. With the decay of our s trength, in fact, our minds decayed, and we were no longera_n 1e b to bear the contemplation of the horrors that serr ou us. Each of us excused himself from se doing Ys n d Were de sire of not shocking the feelings of the oteliteellrse.ct We , though sensible of one another's weakne c s of intellect, us, an d the Supreme Being," punc tual and fervent in our addrrde:sews e re written, the writer blind to our own. Yet we were caa ca lmawned wreesriegnedto our fate, not a murmur esca p ed u When these affecting wo so nearly face to face with and his companiOdn! w ere another day in their reli e f m i g ht thtn h t av e e w of but anticipatedethe national sorro w w hi c h now makes a th k a es t h sacred the memory of Sir John Franklin. 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