The Sun. — London, England, 1863-08-07 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE o'CLoCK. The demand for money continues on a Moderate scale, the requirements for the agricultYrral districts being large, as usual at this period bf the year, and the rates for best three months' bills 34 per cent. Although a considerable quantity of gold was sent into the Bank of England during the week ending 'Wednesday IP..st the Gazette return, com pleted to that period, only shows a small addition to the metallic reserves, while the notes have also been trenehea upon to some extent. These alte rations are partly attributable to the necessary ex penditure in the agricultural districts on account of the harvest. There is a falling off in the other secu rities, owing to the large number of bills which arrived at maturity on the 4th, and the successful competition of the joint stock and private firms for the bills brought into circulation. Annexed is our usual analysis Active - Circulation .. 475,890 Increase .. • • £21,674,832 Bullion 14,843,985 • • •• •. 75 Increase .. Rest .. • • • • • • • • • s 9, 3,423,48 0 0 Increase .. • • • • • • 102,140 268577 Public Deposits •• .. • • 5 , • Decrease .. • • • • • • 52,014 Other Deposits.. .. 13,790,855 Decrease .. • • • • • • 651,017 Seven Day and other Bills .. 665 979 Increase .. 35,233 Government Securities .. 11,038,426 Increase .. 31,538 Other Securities 19,153,801 Decrease .. .. 220,251 Notes Unemployed 7,001,175 Decrease .. .. 363,940 During the last few days the operations in the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets have not been very extensive. Sugars have fully sustained pre vious prices, while good and fine descriptions of coffee have maintained their value. Rice continued dull, and only moderate transactions have been recorded. Saltpetre and tallow without any material change in prices. Two o'CLocK. At Paris, this day, a ccor di ng to Mr.... Renter's telegram, the Three per Cent. Rentes were 67f. 550. Very flat. At the annual meeting to-day of the British Electric Telegraph Company the proceedings were merely formal. Mr. Edward Cropper, the chair man, briefly reviewed the operations for the past year, and a vote of thanks concluded the meeting. A call of £5, making £lO paid, has been made upon the shares in the National Bank of Liverpool (limited), payable on the 26th inst. The committee of the Stock Exchange have authorised the shares of the. Consolidated Bank (limited) to be quoted in the official list. Less firmness is apparent to-day in the market for the English Funds, some speculative sales hav ing resulted in a decline of k per cent. Consols for transfer are 92i 93 for money, and 93} for the ac count. The New Threes and Reduced are 931; India 5 per Cents., 1081 1 ; do. Debentures, MI ; and Exchequer Bills, Is. die. to 2s. prem. There is no new feature in the Foreign Market, and business is quiet. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 671 4; do. Consolides, 488 ; Mexican, 363 ; 37; Greek, 321 1; do. Coupons, 151 ; Spanish Passive, 321 a ; do. Certificates, 121 e ; Italian, 71 ; Portuguese, 48 ; Russian, 921 ; Brazilian, 1011 ; and the Confederate Loan, 25 to 23 discount. The operations in the Railway Share Market continued very inactive, and the few bargains re corded show a farther slight depression. Great Eastern have declined 11 ; Lancash're and York. shire, and North Eastern (Berwick), 1, and North Western I. The Foreign and Colonial lines remain dull. Great Southern of India have improved to 107!, and Scinde to 108 i. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares remain without any material change in values. Bank of Austral asia realise 77 ; Colonial Bank, 381 ; Imperial Otto man, 18: ; Crystal Palace Preference Stock is quoted 1161; Hudson's Bay Company, 2! 3 and National Discount Company, 9. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 238 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities New 3 per Cent. A nnu i t i es New 3f per C en t . Annuities — New 2f per Cent. Annuities.. Annuities, 30 yrs, expire bth Jan., 1880 — Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth A.pril, 1885. Ditto (Red S ea Telegraph), Aug. 1908. India Stock Ditto 5 pe t C ent — lOB4 i Ditto Enfaced Pap , er 4 per Cent.... Ditto 5 per C ent . p Ditto 51 per Cent ....... —' D itto Debenture s , 4 per Ct., April, 1864 Oct., 1863 D itto ditto D itto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 Ditto Bonds Ll,000 Ditto under £ l ,OOO ....... Bank Stock f or Account .... Consols for Account, Sept. 9 .... 93k India St oc k for Account, 5 per Cent... i . March, June, I Each 2i per Cent. 24 per Cent. chequeritto Bills, £l,OOO .. par X5OO .. I 1 die 2 pin D Ditto Small .......... FOREIGN FUNDS —ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian 5 per Cent...,,,.... Ditto, 1839 and 1869 Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent — Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) Chilian 6 per Cent. — Ditto 3 per Cent. — Aquador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Egyptian 7 per Cent — Ditto, Second Issue Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons — Ditto Account 32i Ditto Coupons Ditto Account Italian 5 per Cent. (Maremmana Railway) Mexican 3 per Cent .... Ditto Account 364 74 64 Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada Ditto 2 per Cent. Ditto Deferred _ _ Peruvian 4} per Cent. Ditto 4f per Cent., 1862 Ditto Account.... Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto Account — Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62 — Ditto Account Russian. 6 per Cent., 1822, £ St 944 4 Ditto 4% per Cent 1850 Sardinian 5 per Cent Ditto Account 895 Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto New Deferr e d . . -- Ditto Passive. — Ditto Account Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded .. — _ Ditto Account 124 i i Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 — D itto Account,. Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 Ditto Account ... Intl Ditto 6 A per Cent. 1862 Dit .() mount 671 4 I, - vme miela i t o . ce per Cent. Ditto lttratteed, 4 per C en t 101 Ditto 614 14 234 Ditto A c C ent., 1862 Di v i det z• ( . )ll . .i: ............ Dutch 24 p er Cent _ n. e he above p a y a bl e in London. Ditto 4 p er Cent Ex. 12 Guil 644 Italian, 5 per Cent , .rtificates Ditto Accoun t • ' 86 4 Ex. 25 francs — • • .. Consols, Money Two O'CLOCK... Ditto Account ...............2.___:2: Liverliool Cotton. Alarket,This Da' (REUTER'S TELE ) Sales about 4,000 bales. No change, Week's sales 26,800, including 4 ,100 on spec. and 3,140 for export. Actual export, 5,066; stock,' 30,730. Quotations of r fair o.rleans, 25 ; Ylll)tilet"O'2oi. 24: ; Upland, 24. Estimated fairinaiddling Orleans, 2 2; Mobile, 214 ; Upland, 21 261itir;:—.teg, 211, Import s of the week, CLOSING OF THE THEATRES IN HOLY W EER _ -- A deputation of the English Church Union, a 1) dyo which po f Chu rch interest s a t heart, waited yesterday upon the Arch. bishop Canterbury with a memorial from the clergy, praying his Grace's influence to have the theatres closed in Holy Week. The Archbishop said he would do what he could to gratify th e memorialists. It is worthy of note that ithe Archbishop of Yolk did not sign the memorial, because prayer did not go fat enough, and that the Bishop of hilk_ o ndon also abst a i ne d, t hi n ki ng t h at hi s di re ct influence in wn diocease, in which the theatres are situated, would " More ealcaciorus, ma...n0. ,, . ,'.. ~` SHARE MARKETS---This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOUEsS; Railways. 8 iii 81 81 86 *8 1201 1201 Closing Business I Price. ( clone. Bir.. Wol., and Str. Val Blythe and Tyne. Bot„Sleaf.,and3lid.Co Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwali Do A (A gets no div Do. B till6p e,sp an.ha e been paid to 13. Dublin ,k Belfast June. Dun.,Perth,&Ab. Juno. Edinburgh & Glasgow. Glasg. and S. Western., IGretEastern, Ord, stk Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian at GreatNorthoi Scotland Great Northern...... • • Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. and W. of Irelaw Great Western Do Str Val gua. stock Lancashire & Yorkshire London and Blackwall Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & So-„th Western Man., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do f shares • . Metropolitan Midland Do New Do Birming. & Derby Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. shares Mid Kent ... Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds Do York Do Carlisle North London Do New ;North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock Do Scot Mid, stock Shrews. and Welchpooi Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines, Wok., an dWok Stockton & Darlington Do Do New, 186 G Taff Vale. . ... Do B Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall VV. Hartlepool Har.&R West Midland Oxford Do Newport Do Hereford 40 11 15 16 94 95 111 113 52 63 50 52 25 26 123 125 121 123 135 140 100 102 Es} 6511 113} 1131 76i 774 113 115 42 43 101 101} 105 i 100 i 44 45 11} 118 12s 28i 14 IL, 97 99 54i t5l 26 28 1011 102 i 594 604 891 90; 118 120 82 83 11! 121 122 124 46i 171 99 101 N 52 30 32 92 024- 71 73 100 102 72 8 38 39 9i 104 76 86p 156 160 51 5 3 3#p 79 81 158 160 27 29 45j 46i 39 41 104 106 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. ihar, itailways Closin,t Paid. Price. Business don. 100 Itlantic &,St Lawrenct all 62 64 stk Bom.,Baroda&.Cent hlit ( , 1. Gu. 5 per cent 20 Do. New 2 0 Do. E. Shares.. 4 Butialo and L ake H uron al, 54 6f 10 Do. Preference 100 Buffalo,Brant,&Godricl, ( 6p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 10: 100 Do. do. July 1, 1873 100 100 Do. do. June 1, ls:g 100 st Clcutta.&S.Eastn.(l.h. ; 100 1068 107 A st Cape Town & Dock Semi 100 1( 74 1084 stock Eastn. Bengal gu. sp. c 100 1084 1094 stock East Indian. gu. sp. c. 100 107 1 ' 20 Do. do. G Ext lO 14 lap 20 Do. do. H do. stock Grand Trunk of Canad: lug. 194 :04 20 100 Do. Ist Fref. Bonds all 70 72 100 Do. do. deferred all 52 55 100 Do. 2d Pref. Bonds all 64 66 100 Do. do. defer, - ed. 100 Do. 3d P, ef. stock 100 Do. do. deterred all 34 37 100 Do. 4th Pref. sto.:k all 23 25 100 Do. do. deferred all 21 23 Stook Gt.indiarenin.gua.sp.c lOO 108 109 20 Do. New gua. sp. o l2 1 161 20 Do. January, 1862 stock Gt. South.of India (Lim) guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 1064 107 1074 204 Gt. W. of Canada Shares all lak 114 10/ 20 4 Do. New 100 Do. 6 p.o. '73 with't opt all 97 100 100 Do. 54 p. c. do. '77-8.. . all 90 02 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 I 1 p stock Madras guar., sp. 0. 100 1(68 1074 1074 stock Do. 44 p. o. Extensior 100 101 102 stock Dc. 4A d 0........ 100 y 7 99 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 stock slelb.Corp. 6p. o. Bnd, 100 -- 50 & Hobson's Bay. all 54 56 WO Do. 7p. o. Ildortg. Bds. all 20 Newßrunswick Cand, Class A and B ... all 3 5 N.ll.l.C'da6 pc Ist P f bas 100 84 86 -to(), &dude . t4 (100 107 108 108 • at 5 Do. Delhi -; • 100 1064 107 I Do. d 0..... 1 2 4fp 24 20 Do. Punjaub . rt: all ——P sr Do. Do. , Kg. , 100 061 1076 ,:ock D. indus.St. Fl o• J t 10c 1028 1034 104 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECUItITIES. p.c.J a. &J 1877-SI Do. op. c. Feb. .t Au ; . 100 I( 2 04 Do. dp. c. iar..4 Sept 100 .06 1(8 Do. sp. c. Jan.&.luly. 10u 055 965 Do. 5 Inscribed stool. 100 94 96 Cape G. Hope, 6 p c.lBn lou 108 110 Do.Ap & Oct. 1881 100 112 114 Do. 189( 100 113 115 Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 lIS 113 1145 Ceylon, Nov.ls7B. 6p c 100 113 115 Mauritius 6 per cent .. 100 106 107 Natal Gov. 6 per cent.. 100 110 112 N.8.G0v.6 a.&Jub lOU 1055 1065 Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oci. 100 N. S.W. Gov. 5 p 100 100 101 Do. sp. c.,lBti to Li( 100 101 102 Do. d0.,1888 .3z upwdi 100 101 102 1025 I; New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 110 112 'Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. sterling, 1875. lOO 1054 1061 Queensland Gcv. 6p. c. 100 1.0 112 )b.Aus G6c.1678.& up.. 100 110 112 - Vlc.Gov. 6 p. p.c. Ja.&July 100 107 109 Do.io 6 p.o. An i &Oct.. 100 11251121 BRITISH MINES. 2 Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 id ulitiord Amalgamated.. 32 Devon G. Con.. (Tavist., 1 650 670 IF El s s t t B e a lo s g se a t u t( G ll o lo ld ga L l d ... 3502. 79 81 East Car a d on ..... , 2t d s 0 1 0 a ir 29 East Cart Brea. E. WlRussel (Tavistk , 8.6.6 3 4 4 it ! , 4 7 1 4 0 a rici r a m r e e e mn a i t: o;u:t1 u 1 G. Wheal Vor (Reif...ton 40 65 7 5 Margaret— t in gsto n ( ! j o n t D0wn5....,. n • L s . 5 6 3 1 6 8 : 1 5 2 0 63 6 Lady Bertha ... ... .. — 4 1 11 E y t r n k d e y Valley.. 4.3.0 (Lim. 214 6 61 N Ns e .ol w rv tiihSetun l9l 100 110 'l l)ow .Bas n se s t(lllo;an '2.17.t. 3 3 2 5 4 North Wheal Crotty 2.4.9 35 45 Consols('~t. Blazey li 4 6 20 Providence (Uny Lelnt.) 10.6.7 i 0 42 South Caradon(St.Cleer 15 415 425 S. Care Brea (Illogan).. 5.15.6 15 25 Fran. (Mogan 18.1 , .9 725 75 Stray Park 5 CarnarSilv.& Lead Min l4 e ; fin Croft 9 214 225 %Vest Basset (Illogan) l5 11 12 W Cr radon (Liskeard) 5 22 24 West Seton Wheal Basset (Mogan; 55 625 675 Wheal Buller(Redruth) 5 45 50 Wheal Kitty (I.T.Lels.nt) 2.0.6 WhealLudeott . ..... 2.10.8 25 3 Wheal MaryAnn(rden.) 8 11 13 Wheal Seton 584 220 230 - Wheal Treiawney (Lis.) 7 15 17 ;Wheal Union 3.17 34 4 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Western, 44 per cent. red., 101} South Wales, gua. 4} per cent., luA Ditto, 4 per cent., 92 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. London, Chatham, dm., Metrop. Ext., B, 6 per cent., 108 LINES LEASED Al' FIXED RENTALS. London and Greenwich, 62; Nottingham and Grantham R. & C., 97 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San Francisco (lira.) gua. 7 per cent., 201 Sambre and Meuse, 91 San Paulo ;lira.), qua. 7 per cent., Ditto (all), 221 Turin and Savona, 2} FOREIGN MINES. Cape Copper, lim., Mariquita, Santa Larbara Gold Mine (Urn.), St. John del Rey (lira.), 561 Yudanamutana of S. Australia (lim.), 3} 1 JOINT-STOCK RANKS. Alliance Bank of Australasia, 77 LondonaudLiverpool(u m 34}:} Bank of Egypt, 28 Bank of New Zealand, l'Ot Colonial, 38 Imperial Ottoman, 181 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 28k 8 London and N )rthern aim.), 9 London and Westminster, 774 8} Oriental Bank Corporation, 574 I DOCKS. St. Katharine, 614 MISCELLANEOUS. Crystal Palace, Ditto, pref., 116} Gen. Crtdit and Finance of London, lint, 21 Hudson's Bay, 2 3 Joint •stock Discount, 6 Madras Irrigation and Canal, 4 National Discount Company, lim., 9 SHIPPING—This Day. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Friday Morning. Arrived, Aug. 7.—Hollyhock, from St. John' s , New foundland ; Just, from Cape Coast Castle; Ada Florence, from Guernsey; Surprise, from Pomeron; Mangertorr, from Quebec ; York Town, from New York ; Williami na , from St. Kitt's; Margaret Ann, from Havre; Soblomst on , from Quebec; Lightning, from Cronstadt, Sailed —Kestrel steamer, for Havannah; Percy, steamer, for liobart T own. ' Passed DEAL, Friday Morning, Ab fq "nt 4 a (ba7k), from Trieste, for the north; Ensign, — Royal Charlie, from St. Vincent, for London ; rota Quebec; Glengariff, from Jamaica—both for London. The Governors of St Thomas' i stated, ha ve d efinitively pu rchase of th e Hospital, it s arranged propoaeu site at S tangate, on the bank of the Thames, :inged for the ad joining West ra i nster-bridge, for £95,000, 51 i 502 11 99 p THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 7, 1863. The Mediterranean Extension Telegraph Company. HALF-YEARLY MEETING.-(THIS DAY ) The ordinary half-yearly meeting of this company was held this day in the London Tavern; H. Moor, Esq., in the chair. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, informed the shareholders that their affairs had so improved that it became quite unnecessary for the company to apply to her Majesty's Government for assistance under their guarantee. The interruption in the Malta and Alexandria line he did not think would cause any serious diminution in the receipts for the current half-year, and with respect to the company s cable, it continued in the most excellent order. Since the last report the cable of the Italian Government had been successfully submerged, and the transmission of messages between Malta and Great Britain had been greatly accelerated. The directors recom mended the payment of the usual dividend on the preference shares, and the same dividend as last half year on the gene ral shaies. The directors under this arrangement would be able to add a sum £544 18s. 3d. to the reserved fund, which was at the rate of 10 per cent. on their receipts. The report was unanimously adopted, and the proceed ings terminated with the usual vote of thanks to the chair man. LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Fane.) A VERY HARD CASE-RE CRITTEN. This was an application for commitment under the Small Debts Act for non-payment of £9 13s. 2d., according to the law of the Court. The facts of the case were that the defendant was sued in one of the superior Courts for a sum of £2 13s. 2d., and judgment was recovered against him—the costs amounting to £7—and he was summoned to this Court under the Small Debts Act, and ordered to pay 10s. a-month ; and, not having kept up his payments, the present application was made for his commitment. The defendant's wife attended, and Mr, Denney kindly volunteered to state the case and oppose the application. He said that the defendant was a labourer at the Euston square Station, and the debt was contracted by bis wife without his knowledge; and, as he had his wife and six young children, it was impossible he could pay 2s. 6d. a week out of 20s. a week. Besides, the plaintiff ought to have sued in the County Court., and therefore was not en titled to costs. His Honour—He was only exercising his legal right, and creditors are not to be set at defiance. What can I do, I must commit him. Mr. Denney—Surely, your honour will not commit a man in such a case ; it would be a monstrous shame and a manifest injustice. His Honour—A man when he has contracted a debt is bound to pay it, Mr. Denney—lf he has the means, but you cannot com mit him without it is shown he had means to obey the order. His Honour—He ought not to have contracted the debt. Mr. Denney—He did not, it was his wife entrapped by a pedling traveller—in fact, a tallyman. His Honour—l can't help that ;if he does not know he must find it by sad experience. if a creditor t a k es h ars h measures I can't help it. I can't give way to sympathy, but administer the law as I find it. lt is a hard case. _...., The plaintiff was inexorable, and his Honour said he must commit for 10 days. _ _ _ Mr. Denney said the man would lose his place. Would his Honour make a fresh order, to give him an opportunity of paying ? His Honour—The time is past. He ought not to have consented to pay. The order was therefore made. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. GUILDHALL. Two respectably-dressed men, named Sparks and Gent, were placed at the bar, the former charged with stealing, and the latter with receiving, a quantity of fat, kno wing it to have been stolen. From the evidence of Smith. the detective officer of the City police, it appeared that he and another officer named Legge received information that a great deal of property had for some time been disappearing from the premises of Messrs. Benbow and Co,, 12, Little Britain. Certain cir cumstances transpired, and Sparks was taken into custody on suspicion of being the person who had stolen the fat, and then both officers proceeded to 27,Hackney-oval, where they took Gent, who carried on the business of a manufactu ring perfumer into custody. They told him of the robbery, and afterwards searched thelouse, when they discovered two tin cans which had contained fat. On being asked to explain how he become possessed of the property, he said he had bought it, in the regular way of trade, from a per son who had called upon him. They then took him into custody, and when they arrived at the station-house Sparks was brought from his cell, and Gent was asked if that was the person of whom he had bought the fat ; he replied that it was, and said he had no idea it had been stolen. Before they took Gent from his house his wife was about to make some observation, when he immediately checked her, and told her to be quiet, and say nothing. There were three or four boys at work in one of the back rooms filling pomade pots, but when he (Smith) searched the prisoner Gent's bill-file he could hardly find a single invoice or receipt for payment of materials with which he carried on his trade. Some further - evidence having been given the prisoners were remanded until Wednesday next. rates. MARKETS—This Day. MARK-LANE. Fresh up to Mark-lane, to day, a small supply both of old and new English wheat was received. The whole of the supply, however, was not disposed of, yet no material change took place in prices compared with Monday. The quotation for new was 48s. to 565. per qr. There was a full average supply of foreign wheat on the stands. Generally speaking, the trade was very inactive, and prices were barely supported. Floating cargoes of grain moved off slowly at about stationary prices. The market was very moderately supplied with barley. The demand, however, was in a sluggich state, at late In malt about an average business was transacted, on former terms. The supply of oats was moderately large. Nearly all qualities were in slow request, at barely previous quota tions. Both beans and peas met a slow sale at late currencies. The import of American flour being very large, viz., 57,770 barrels, the demand both for English and foreign qualities was inactive, and, in some instances, prices were somewhat easier. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flout. English.— 410 2O 760 I 80 320 Irish. - 14 'orsign.... -26,280 3,540 22,930 57,770 brls NEW GATE AND LEADENHALL. The supply of meat on sale is moderate, and the trade rules heavy at barely stationary prices. Per 81b. by the carcase. stisd Inferior beef .. 3 0 3 4 diddling do. 3 6 3 8 ['rime large do. 3 10 4 0 Do. small do. .. 4 0 4 2 Large pork 3 4 3 10 Inferior mutton. 3 2 3 6 8 d sd Middling mutton 3 10 4 2 Prime do 4 4 4 6 Vaal 3 10 4 4 Small pork . 42 4 6 46 5 4 Lamb BOROUGH HOP. The accounts from those parts of the plantations which have hitherto been comparatively free from blight are very favourable, but from other districts the reports at hand are discouraging. In the neighbourhood of Maidstone, Can terbury, and a few districts in East Kent and in most parts of Sussex, the bine is looking well. Since our last report the demand for nearly all kinds of hops has ruled inactive; nevertheless, prices have been steadily supported. The foreign import continues moderate for the time of year. Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. VALETTA, Aug. I.—Her Majesty's paddlewheel frigate Magicienne, 16, Capt. W. Armytage, -ar rived yesterday from the Piraeus and Calamata in three days. She brought as passengers Ensign Powell, 25th Regiment, and Miss Wedehouse. She will return to the Piraeus, after the arrival of the next mail from Marseilles, with despatches for the commander-in-chief and letters for the squadron, now in Greek waters. Her Majesty's screw frigate Orlando, 46, Capt. G. G. Randolph, left Malta har bour this morning with a mail for the Pima, tak ing as passengers Dr. Stothert, RN., to join the Liffey as chaplain and naval instructor; Mr. Roe, R.N., assist.-paymaster, to join the Firefly ; Mr. R. S. Lee, Mr. H. Hallett, Mr. M. S. Bree, Mr. 1 - 1- Grenfell, Mr. G. Dixon, and Mr. G. D. Lee. Her Majesty's screw line-of-battle ship Queen (76), Capt. C. F. Hillyar, now at the Piraeus, is to proceed home to be paid off. It is expeoted that the Or lando will be sent from the Piraeus to join the squad ron cruising o❑ the west coast of Greece. Her Ma jesty's screw corvette Malacca, 17, Capt.G. J. Napier, has received orders to proceed home immediately. It is reported that her presence is required in Eng land in reference to the proceedings of a certain courtmartial held some months ago in Malta har bour on one of her lieutenants. Her Majesty's screw gunboat Surprise, 4, Corn. W. H, Whyte, re turned yesterday from target practice outside the port. The injury to the screw propeller of her Ma jesty's corvette Cossack, 20, Cora. W. R. Rolland, proved to be a fracture of the shaft, which has been temporarily repaired in the naval dockyard at this island, and an entirely new shaft has also been made for her, to be fitted in case of any future accident. Her Majesty's gunboat Growler Lieut. Corn. J. C. Drew, returned into port to-day, from surveying service in the channel. She will leave again on similar service in a day or two. The Governor of Malta, Sir John Gaspard Le Merchant, and family left yesterday, in the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Pera, for England. It is expected that his Excellency will be absent about a month or six weeks. The English screw steamer Hawthorns, Capt. R. Donaldson, which is to be employed in repairing the Benghazi and Alexan dria cable, is still in port, but it is expected to leave on Monday or Tuesday for the scene of operations. There is an intention of surveying officer from her Majesty's ship Medina with the Hawthorns, to as sist at the operation, the Medina having taken some part in surveying the route previous to the laying of the cable. The Lords of the Admiralty at Portsmouth re 7 sumed their inspection yesterday by making a tour in the dockyard and visiting the site of the intended naval barracks, adjoining the north-east end of the yard. They landed from their yacht at the King's stairs, there being comprised in the party, in addi tion to the names given in The Sun of yesterday, Mr. Stansfeld, M.P., and Capt. Hall, private secre tary to the Duke of Somerset. On the landing place they were joined by Mr. J. E. Reed, Chief Constructor of the Navy ; Rear-Admiral Superin tendent George Elliott ; Sir Richard Mayne, Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police; Mr. Mallalieu, Inspecting Superintendent of the Metro politan Police in her Majesty's Dockyards; and by the heads of the various departments in the yard. Atter visiting the office of the Admiral-Superinten dent, where they spent some considerable time, they commenced their perambulation of the yard. These annual visits of the Board of Admiralty to the different dockyards have be come now a mere matter of form, and possess less public interest every succeeding year. Every thing is made ready for the announced visit, and on arrival their Lordships see everything through a coloured medium, which has been expressly prepared for their use. The only points of interest, there fore, met with during a long day's walk yesterday were their visits to the Royal Sovereign turretship ; to the workshop containing the furnaces and ma chinery for heating, bending, drilling, and planing the armour plates for ironclad ships; the arrange ments for the experimental coating of armour plates with cower or brass by an alkaline-electro deposit; to the ci r rock building at the north end of the steam basin, and to the site of the intended naval barracks. The Royal Sovereign is considerably advanced since our last notice, but she will not be out of the hands of the dockyard authorities before Christmas. The total number of the Royal Sovereign's armour plates is 133, and of these 104 are bolted on the ship's side. The inch iron deck plating, with its inch butts and straps, is all completed, and a few of the 6 hick oak planks which will form the outer casing of the upper deck are fixed in their places on the iron plating. The pilot house is complete both in its armour and internal fittings. The turn-tables and beds of the three after-turrets, which will carry one gun each, are complete, and the turrets themselves are in progress. All the armour plates for these turrets, with the exception of six, have been re ceived from the contractors. The foremost turret is complete in everything but its armour, and that has not yet been received from the contractors. These turrets, in their construction, very much re semble the Chalmers target. They are formed of a cylinder built up on h-shaped angle iron ribs, set up, 20 inches apart, on a turn-table. The inner skin of the cylinder is of half-inch iron, and out side this skin, and between the ribs in the 20 inches space, is' fitted in firmly with teak ten inches in thickness outwards from the iron skin. Over the outer surface of this series of iron cells filled in with teak are crossed, diago nally, wrought iron straps 4 by 1 inch wide, and outside this combination of iron and wood is placed 8 inches more teak, on which will be fixed the 54-- inch armour-plates. The turret will thus present a target face 25 inches in thickness. The two gun boats are placed pretty close together, and are oval in form. They measure each 3ft. Sin. by 25in. Iron ballast has been placed on the top of the turret i to represent the weight of the armour-plates it will have to carry, and in experiments made by Capt. Cole it was found that, with eight men at the winch handles, the turret made a complete circle in four minutes and 40 seconds. Yesterday, with the same number of men at the w inch handles, a quarter circle and the same disi"Ance back again was made in one minute. The Duke of Newcastle and a party visited the ship on Wednesday, and spent a consi derable time in the foremost turret e xamining the details of its construction and manner C f revolving, with great apparent interest. The ship is being ventilated on the plan of Dr. Edmonds, of her Majesty's shin Victory. The arrangement at the north end of the steam factory for the experimental coating of an armour-plate with copper is the greatest known attempt yet made in electro-metal lurgy, and that it is being now made is duo to the anxiety felt by the Controller of the Navy and the Admiralty to discover a means of preventing the oxidation from which iron-clad ships at present so severely suffer. Mr Walam of London, who is carry ing out the experiments at Portsmouth, laid before the Controller plans for enamelling iron with brass or copper with the use of an alkaline solution, the deposited metal to be of any specified thickness, brightness, or hardness. In accepting Mr. Walam's preposition, as an experiment copper was selected as the metal to deposit, and the arrangements are now so far complete that yesterday a trial plate, 1 6 feet in length, was exhibited covered with a thin deposit of copper to show its nature. In one part s! of the building, where the appa ratus is fix ed, i achines. It was just as it came from the drilling rn the armour plate for coating, uncleared, and rough, an d 4iin. in 15ft. in length, 31t. ' of metal was a thickness. Next to this hug sp in iece loft- in d piece of iron plate sal:: in thickness. and tin. length, 2ft. bin. In Vll' .gut of the pickling tank, This had just been taken all impurities being gone Sin. to w . idth and scrubbed with sand, iron, f a grayfibre. A few feet which was then seen fromih all the surface the clear i was a plate of similar from this c l ea nsed p w hi c h had j t he deposit in g , ust been removed from dirriemtions , but w tank, w here it had been placed four h ou rs. When r emoved, it was found to have re o linesf theftso re ceived a really beautiful and bright hard coating o f These three plates thus illustrated the cop Per• three stages—the uncleansed, the cleansed, and the electro- plated iron. The process of electro-coating by Mr. Walam's process, and the arrangements of his batteries and tanks, are as follows :—ln the upper story of the factory are erected the necessary batteries, in this instance composed of a series of five cells, containing a zinc surface of 720 square feet, and of copper of 1,500 square feet, the cells being charged with about 1,200 gallons of diluted sulphuric acid. F rom th ese b a tt er i es conductors— bands of copper 3i n , w id e an d gin. thick—lead down to the dep os iti ng tan k, w hi c h i s 17ft. l ong , 18in. wide, and sft. in height, and filled with a solution of cyanide of potassium and tartarate of ammonia. This t an k i s of i ron, and has an outer casing, which enables the solution to be heated by steam. The pickling or cleansing tank is nearly of the same dimensions, and fill e d w i t h a weak solution of sulphuric acid. The iron plate is placed in this tank fist for a certain time, then taken out and scrubbed with sand, and afterwards placed in the depositing tank, the solution in which completes the cleansing process and prevents the formation of any oxide between the hare iron and the deposited metal. The solution in the tank being heated next to 150 deg., the batteries are connected, and the copper is not only deposited upon the iron, but is driven into the open pores of the metal, and thus becomes a part of the plate itself, and forms an almost indestructible e namelled coating. The Duke of Somerset holds a levee at the Royal Naval Col lege, Portsmouth, this morning, and other members of the Board will visit her Majesty's ship Asia and the steam reserve, and inspect the Excellent, Duke of Wellington, and other ships. The screw corvette Cadmus, 21, 400-horse power, which has been taken into No. 4 dock at Chatham, for the purpose of undergoing some heavy repairs, is ordered to be fitted with a topgallant forecastle for the protection of the crew during inclement weather. A similar addition is likewise to be made in the fitment of the Scylla, 21, 400-horse power, which is being brought forward for the first divi sion of the Chatham steam reserve. One of the iron-clad steam-rams recently con structed at the Thames Ironworks for the Russian Government yesterday went down the river on her trial trip, preparatory to her departure for. Cron stadt. It is stated that her sailing was hastened materially by orders from the Russian Government, in consequence of the diplomatic question now wait ing a reply. The armour- casing of the ram is incom plete, and the remainder of the plates shipped on board, in order to finish the casing in their own dock yard on her arrival, On nearing the offing of Wool wich dockyard, at 645 yesterday morning, the officer of the watch on board the Marine Society's ship Warspite, Lieut.-Commander Sulivan, super intendent, perceived that the ram was making head-way, uncontrolled, towards the Warspite's quarter, and gave an alarm to that effect. The ram was in tow of a steamtug, the Napoleon. She had her own steam up, she was totally unmanage able, and, as anticipated, ran into the Warspite's port-side, striking her obliquely just abaft the fore chains, doing considerable damage, the principal part of the injury being under water. The ship has since been listed over to prevent her filling with water. The whole of the outside lining was crushed to a considerable length, the trenails knocked away, and both fore and main chains were also injured. One of her boats was also damaged. The starboard cathead of the ram was carried away, and she lost one of her anchors, which was afterwards recovered with the stock broken in the collision. The War spite will have to be docked for repairs, the cost of which it is calculated will exceed £l,OOO. Her Majesty's screw steamaloop Alacrity, 4, 475 tone, 200 horse power, Commander John K. E. Baird, was paid out of commission on the 3d inst. in Sheerness harbour by Captain C. Wise, Aide-de- Camp Superintendent of the dockyard. She was commissioned at Sheerness in December, 1859, and has since been employed in the Mediterranean under Vice-Admiral Sir William F. Martin, K.C.8., Commander-in-Chief of that station. Since the re turn of the vessel to Sheerness she has been stripped and dismantled, and is now placed in the third divi sion of the Sheerness steam reserve. ---- - The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Commander A. H. W. Battis combe, to the Snipe; Lieut. John S. Eaton, to the Adventurer; A. F. St. Clair, midshipman, to the Nile; Arthur Kinsman, midshipman, to the Virago ; William Billing, naval cadet, to the Nile; Edward W. Coleman, assist.-surgeon, to the Snipe; Robert Grieve, assist.-surgeon, to the Warrior; John Has lar, assist-paymaster, to tho Snipe; Jonathan M. Page, first-class assist.-engineer, to the Orontes ; Thomas Scott (a), confirmed as first-class assist.-•en gineer in the Pembroke; William Rumble, first class assist.-engineer, to the Cumberland, for the Wizard; Alexander Brown, promoted to acting first-class assistant in the Galatea ; and Robert Jago, second-class assist.-engineer, to the Ajax. COLONIAL. TEA.,—The public sales terminated yesterday, and the prices realised were equal to those Previously current in the priva'e market. SIIGAn.—A moderate amount of business has been done in West India descriptions, and fully former prices are current for good grocery qualities. In the refined market, however, rather lower rates are generally accepted by holders. COFFEE.—The dealings in colonial have been limited ; full prices, however, are maintained for superior qualities. 'MICE.—The market has continued dull, and quotations are nominally unaltered. SALTPETRE.—The demand has not been very extensive, and the few dealings recorded were at about pre'ious quo tatiods. TALLOW.—Business has again been dull, and but few operations have been recorded either for present or forward P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted 435, and last three months' 45s 6d per cwt. NEW CATHOLIC CHURCH. — Cardinal Wiseman presided yesterday afternoon at the laying of the first stone of a new Catholic church and Dominican monas tery at Southampton-road, near Haverstock-hill, beyond Camden Town. The ceremony was performed by the Archbishop Elect of the Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. There were present the general of the Dominican order, many other Dominican friars, several other priests, and a large concourse of laity. The ceremonies of the Catholic Church appointed for such an occasion having been gone through, the stone was lowered into its place. The Very Rev. Dr. Manning preached a sermon, in which he congratulated his hearers on the return of the Dominican Order to active missionary work in London, after centuries of absence. The church is to be Gothic, and Gilbert Blount, Esq., is the architect. BEWARE !—A new secret weekly has recently made its appearance in Rome, under the title of " Roma o &torte." MISS MARY ANNE EVANS'S " Romola," it has been well said by one of her r eviewers, must take a very high rank indeed ; no lower than such books as Bulwer Lytton's " Last Days of Pompeii" and " Last of the Barons." HEREDITARY LIGHTNING. — The following joke is ascribed to Washington Irving. A comrade refused, once, in a storm, to take shelter from rain under a tree, because he had promised his father, who had been struck by lightning when sheltering under a tree, that he never would do it, "Oh I" retorted Irving, "if lightning, runs in your family, you are quite right." A MAN AND A BROTHER.—Mr. Henry Grattol Guinness, once a rival of Mr. Spurgeon's, has recently become a Plymouth Brother, and, with a tardy sense of modesty has, in eo doing, renounced the title "Reverend." MYSTERIES OF THE METRIC SYSTEM.—The French geographical league of 3 geographical miles is not the same as the French nautical league of 3 nautical miles, the former being 25 leagues to the degree and the latter 20, whereas the English geographical league of 3 miles is identical with the English nautical one, being 20 to the degree. The French geographical league may be thus readily calculated. The circumference of the earth s 40,000,000 metres; this divided by 360 gives 111,111 i 1 metres for the length of a degree. Dividing again by 25 we have 5555'5 metres for the length of a French geogra phical league of 25 to the degree. In like manner the French nautical league is found to be 4444.4 metres. The mean of these two was termed, some years ago, the lieu& moyenne, and is of course exactly 5,000 metres, or half a rayriametre. The lieue de poste, now disused, consisted of 2,000 toises. There were other leagues, now swept away, too numerous to mention. The metric league at present in use in France is 4,000 metres. So there is nothing here against the use of the metre in France —on the contrary, the mention of the leagues with the easy manner in which they are derived serve to illustrate the convenience of the metric system. SHREWD OLD MR. HENLEY GULLED FOR ONCE! —Mr. Henley probably does not study " Household Words," says the 'Spectator, meaning, of course, by " Household Words" All the Year .Round. It is, however, much to be regretted that he has not laid to heart a paper which appeared in that periodical exposing the character of "the beat authority," for it is too clear that his acutness has been imposed upon by this " very best authority." Relying, no doubt, on its assertion, he has told the House of Commons a tale which would not have gulled the stu pidest and the youngest of the 106 petitioners whose wiles the worthy member sought to expose. Signatures to the petition of the Oxford Fellows against University Sub.. scriptions, he was informed, were obtained by some curious dodge, connected, we know not how, with the Princess's visit to Oxford, We venture to assert that the petition was set on foot, atd most of the signatures virtually obtained, if not actually affixed to it, before the Princess visited the university. The most amusing feature in the whole matter is not, however, so much Mr. Henley's error as the miscon ception which his tale betrays of the whole state of Oxford society. The bare idea of tutors, fellows, and heads of houses bustling about during the festivities of commemora tion to obtain surreptitiously the signatures of visitors bent on nothing but amusement, is almost as grotesque as any of the notions to be found in the pages of German or French travellers desirous of describing English life. That Mr. Henley should have been misled by his facetious in formants can only be accounted for by the fact that old gentlemen have a passion for snubbing the rising genera. Wm. The hundred and six petitioners have most of them the misfortune to be men of talent, and many of them the good fortune to be young, and and m eat of squires can hardly be expected to resist the temptation of telling any tale, however improbable, which tends to set down the con ceit of clover youngsters. The Tribunal of Correctional Police has tried the Black Doctor, J. H. Vries, on charges of usurping the title of doctor and of illegally practising medicine. A doctor named Ebra, who sometimes assisted Vries in his consultations, was charged at the same time, with illegally vending medicines to their patients. Among the papers found in the possession of Vries, and put in as evidence, was the prospectus of a work entitled " Clef de la Nouvelle Alliance," presented to mankind as "the revelation of a new era which shall for ever close the abyss of revolutions, and put an end to all the sufferings, wars, and catastrophes afflicting nations." In answer to questions from the Pre sident, Vries declared that he was merely the assistant of Dr. Ebra, whom he aided with advice, while the latter signed all the prescriptions ; he denied having ever sold medicines since his first condemnation, although he still had the drugs in his possession which were returned to him after his first trial. The evidence, however, clearly proved that, although Dr. Ebra lived in the same house, he was not always present at the consultations, and the fact of sup plying patients with medicine was established against both the defendants. One witness proved that Vries alone had attended a person named Piffetot, and had received from him 2,0001. with securities for the payment of 4,000 f. more. After hearing counsel for the defence, the Tribunal con demned Vries to 2,000 f. fine, with six months imprison ment, for •illegally practising medicine, and to 500 f. fine for selling medicaments ; Ebra was:also fined 500 f for the last named offence, and condemned to pay one-fourth of the ex penses of prosecution, the other three-fourths to be paid by Vries. Parian statuettes are illustrations of the perfection pro duced by untiring perseverance in removing defects in manu facture. So also are Herring's magnetic brushes and oo,bbe, which are now rendered so perfect in restoring the colour to grey hair, and eradicating the agony of neuralgia and nervte ous headache that failure is almost impossible. N.B.—Counr feits are being made. Offices. 32. Basinghall-Street, London. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. ATTEMPTED MURDER.—Thomas Beeks, a well dressed fellow, described as a musician, of 66, King-street, was charged, before Mr. Tyrwhitt, with the following assault with a knife on a young woman named Elizabeth M'Donald, with whom he cohabits, and who he has been charged with seriously assaulting on a former occasion. The complainant said—l have lived with the prisoner for some years, and since I last charged him here with as saulting me, when he was committed for a month. This morning about one o'clock I met the prisoner in Regent street, and we walked home together. When we got home he said, " Who was that young man I saw you with," and he then struck at me with a knife. I put up my arm and received the stab on my wrist, which was badly cut. I struggled with him, and wrested the knife from him, and in doing so I might have cut hi-u in self-defence. He then gave me in charge for cutting his face, and I was taken to the station, but the inspector, after hearing my statement, detained the prisoner, and sent for the doctor and had my wrist dressed. Mr, Tyrwhitt put some questions to the young woman, in answer to which she said,--I recollect pushing the pri soner, but don't remember cutting him. I was sober, but I cannot say whether he was. I interceded the last time I charged him, and he was then 1 , t off with a month. I am in the habit of getting him money by prostitution, and he receives it. Mr, Tyrwhitt— And he does nothing for a living ? Complainant—That is the case, your worship; and it has been going on for years. Prisoner (in an intimidating manner) —Did you not strike me with the knife first ? Complainant—l did not. Prisoner—Yes, you did. Mr. Tyrwhitt—Now, if you bully the complainant any where else, you shall not do it here. I suppose (to com plainant) he haunts you about at nights while you are in the streets? Complainant—Yes, sir. Mr. Tyrwhitt—He is ready to take watches or anything else when necessary ? _ . . Complainant—l have nut known him to do that, Emil Fitsch, 115 C, said—At a quarter past ono this morning I saw the complainant and prisoner both bleeding. Prisoner gave the complainant in charge for cutting his face with a knife, and said that she had cut her own wrist to make it appear that he had done it. The complainant had a fearful wound on the wrist, and it bled profusely. The surgeon (Dr. Tothill) said the complainant could not have done it herself. The prisoner had been drinking, but knew what he was about. The complainant was quite sober. Prisoner—l saw her drinking with a female I did not like. Mr. Tyrwhitt—l shall remand the prisoner for a week for the attendance of the surgeon. Prisoner was then remanded. WESTMINSTER. AN OLD OFF ENDER. —William Atkins, a man appa rently 60 years of age, was charged with begging, and assaulting a police-constable. William Woddup, an officer of the mendicity society, said that yesterday evening he saw the prisoner, with a piece of slato on which was written " hunger," beg of several passers-by, and receive a halfpenny. Knowing him he sou g ht the a i d of a police to be a desperate charact er , constable and gave him into custody. The prisoner then used most foul language, and conducted himself in a very disgraceful way in the street. A stretcher was fetched, but he then preferred walking, threw the constable three con secutive times, and was taken to the station with the help of some civilians. Police-constable Murnane, 117 B, proved the principal part of witness's statement, and described the assaults. He also said that prisoner struck him on the face and breast on the way to the station. He searched the prisoner and found 6d. in copper on him. William Hewitt, another mendicity officer, said that pri soner had been known to him 11 years, and had troubled the society since 1812. He and his wife had been each con victed many times—the prisoner nine, and his wife not ■o many times. The last conviction was three months for felony. Prisoner denied the accusation in tote, and Mr. Selfe, having commented upon prisoner's conduct, sentenced him to three months' hard labour in the House of Correction as a rogue and vagabond. __- ACCIDENT AT A VOLUNTEER REVIEW.-PLY MOUTH, Aug. 6.—A serious accident happened to-day, at a brigade review of the Devon County Volunteers, on Little Haldown Down, near Teignmouth. The grand stand broke down. No persons were killed, but severgl more or lens injured. THE ARMY• We are requested to state that Capt. Stewart, 2d Life Guards, and Capt. Taswell, Royal Artillery, severely injured, as stated in yesterday's Sun, at a cricket match at Woolwich, are progressing favour ably. By the appointment of Major-General Lord W. Paulet, C. 8., to the colonelcy of the 87th Royal Irish Fusileer Regiment, a pension for disti ngu i s h e d and meritorious services is placed at the disposal of Field -Marshal the Duke of Cambridge. An official notification has been received at Chat ham, from the Horse Guards, that the,examination of candidates for the medical department of the army will commence at Chelsea Hospital, on Mon day next, before Major-General F. W. Hamilton, C. 8., vice-president, and the other members of the Council of Military Education. The non-commissioned officers and men of the Royal Artillery stationed in the Chatham district have presented Sergeant Mllroy, of the first divi sion of the depot brigade, with a handsome silver tea service, as a mark of respect and esteem, on the occasion of his retiring from the corps of Royal Artillery after 23 years' service. A letter from Copenhagen gives some add i t iona particulars of the recent visit paid to the King o 1 Denmark by the King of Sweden and his two brothers, the Princes Occar and Augustus, at the 'Palace of Skodsborg, on the shores of the Sound :—" The august visitors arrived . about noon on the 22d ult., and were saluted by the Dan.i°.! and Swedish vessels at anchor opposite the palace. King Frederick of Denmark went in person to receive his ioy gey guests, and when the two sovereigns met on tiler _,,, al eere of embraced each other most cordially, amid the lee . '— to. sing the spectators. Though not travelling blo s a i d be at- Charles had expressed a desire that his visit te tended with as little ceremony as possfibrele.extreinely limited n umber of persons invited to Skodsborgwas th the r re Keg of of the Council, the oaly Minister present being the • icing of Sweden, which who had a convetwo Kings proposed aatit?n witncr der the lasted an hour and a i:alf. A. d O, proved the feelings of each other's health in terra% 7::, , in the evening Prince On the following day tween -mire and thence on friendship existing be thee g u ests to Ele, 1 Frederick accompanie d lir g ne burg. a Swedish steamer to . eeting attended by tta? principal at the banquet given el; the there was an agr landowners of icultui::9l3l Scano7sweden, in proposing several toasie f occasion, the King grepathies with the Danish Monarch and expressed his s y mpathies dwelt on the solidarity of the three nation, end (On?' Scandinavian 11Dg d om e in resisting foreign aggression." 'Frederick we t to M O n the 26th sing n cslmoe to return th e a two K i ngs proceeded from th at port to the v i s it, and t h r a ises o f Bakaohog, where they remained two day s , an d returned to Copenhagen on the 31st. AntrAL LOCOMOTION.--This is the name we must henceforth substitute for the more common one of ballooning, if we may credit what eye-witnesses relate of e xperiments performed a few days since in M. Nadar's photographic establishment. Following in the footsteps of those who first applied the screw • • principle to aerial pro pulsion, M. Nadar proposes the absolute suppression of the balloon, and the application of the inclined plane under the form of the helix or screw to the art of directing cars or vessels floating in the air. At the meeting M. Nadar stated that as early as 1768, that is, 15 years before the ascension of the first Montgolfiere, the engineer Pancton foretold the application of the screw to aerial locomotion. At the same meeting M. de La Landelle exhibited several models of aerial machines, constructed according to M. de Ponton d'Ainecourt's system, and which rose up automati cally into the air, each carrying a certain weight, thereby proving the certainty of the theory. Meanwhile, an Anglo- F renchSociety is said to have been formed for the purpose of building a gigantic balloon at an altitude equal to two thirds of that of Notre-Dame, and which is to carry 80 persons, with abundance of provisions of all kinds, and even a printing-press, A Lyons firm is said to have already de livered 12,000 metres of white sarcenet, at 7f. a metre for this purpose. This monster balloon is to be inaugurated at the great Baden horse races in September next. .~ THE CHANNEL FLEET. THE CRUISE OF THE WARRIOR. (abridged from the Scotsman.) A little after noon, on Tuesday, a large and fashionable party left the west pier of Leith on board the trim gun, boat Trinculo, which steamed out towards the fleet, and. brought up under the lee of the Warrior. A little before two the whole party was on board ; and soon after the anchor was weighed, the engines were turned ahead, and the Warrior moved majestically down the Firth, amid cheers from the war vessels she passed, and from the many tugs plying busily through the fleet, and especially clustering round the Black Prince—with double eagerness that there was on Monday no general admittance on board the Warrior. The party, which might number about 150, a large pro portion being ladies, dispersed throughout the ship, in all directions save upwards, to watch the various operations connected with the start. The heaving of the anchor was of course the main interest. The steady and well-timed tramp of the men marching aft with the tackle when walking the ship up to her anchor was very impressive. A more especial source of interest was the manning and working of the great ab c lart a o p nd a g t , an on the main d ec k, w h ere 200 or more s t a l war t fel lows—A.wan hl d while Bee round, with. s uy , nu i d d r:c l le e nurs and , clank and theamarinen again capstan clan l artillerymen, ogn tg hb eeandre te slimy a vanished chh rd marines— pressed ae minu cs dcb locable ofwedown e apthent iron-lipped chasm into the Cimmerian gloom of the table looker. Black and oozy the cable crept in, and with a long and unremitting sweep the men pressed manfully on the capstan-bars, till at len g th th e boat swain forward proclaimed that the toil the was sipe over,of th e e n dthecable was secured with toile wi p th r a slip, and capstan wasut onlyun manned. deck. for The anv notawnacshor over, b was weighed, b u t transferred Y to et th the p yet at s ome en n er manned, the cable was only slipped, and th e anchor was c onsiderable depth. The tackles on deck were soon and by steady hauling, the huge beam of the anchor at last to the cathead out of the green water, bla r c o k se dripping, and muddy ; There was much shouting, piping, an d clambering of 'fearless bluejackets on th e perilous looking platforms and footholds without, and in anoth er minute the great flukes of the anchor were lifted astern and secured, and before a motion was perceptible at the bow, the anchor was a-trip and the Warrior was a full mile from her moorings, sweeping under easy steam past the north side of Inchkeith. The Warrior's course was shaped towards a point be tween the Island of .May and the Bass Rock, thence back ward past the Bass, and on a course of S.W. by S., towards the anchorage sbe had lett. It must be said, however, that few on board save the officers on duty knew or eared whither the ship was steering, or how lung she was to be out on her cruise. The attractions of the quarter-deck were manifold and potent to the gay and lightsome many ; and not the less so to the inquiring and exploring few were those of the wonderful regions below. The opportunity, which so rarely presents itself, of observing and inspecting the internal working of a great iron-clad under steam, was eagerly seized by some on board. On deck vibration was scarcely perceptible. At the bow only the dash of the waves on the ship's side told that she was moving. Astern, the revolution of the screw-shaft and screw was distinctly felt, but not at all so as to be un pleasant. Even in the engine-room, on the iron platforms immediately above the massive cranks, revolving rapidly with alternate motion, the vibration was very slight. But the main interest of the cruise was concentrated on the upper deck. Over the whole of the quarter-deck, reaching as far forward as the funnels, an awning was stretched. The larboard side of the quarter-deck abaft of the bridge was cleared of guns and tackle, and screened off by bunting and light sail from the starboard side, which was set apart as the promenade and dancing-ground. Within the light and gaily-coloured walls of this apartment was laid a most substantial and handsome luncheon—pro vided by Captain the Hon. Arthur A. Cochrane, of the Warrior—of which all the party, including a number of officers from the other ships of the fleet, partook with the greatest heartiness and satisfaction. Among the officers on board were Captains Wainwright, of the Black Prince; Campbell, of the Royal Oak; Chamberlayne, of the Resistance ; Lambert, of the Liverpool ; and Schomberg, of the Edinburgh. Commander the Hon. Lord Elphin. stone was also among the party on board. The company were served by the officers' servants, stewards, and a number of boys, in the most handy and waiter-like fashion ; while without, and in somewhat too' close proximity, the ship's band played a number of more or less favourite airs. Luncheon over, dancing began on the quarter-deck without ; and waltz, quadrille, and galop fol lowed each other in quick succession, continuing so long as the band continued to play, and even during debarcation, as long as one or two couples could be mustered out of those waiting for the boat that was to reconvey them on board the Trinculo. The officers of the Warrior, and these from the other vessels who were on board, seemed not only thoroughly to enjoy the dancing, but positively to inspire their fair part ners with a perseverance and fortitude which, at the im pulse of a gold-laced cuff, made them proof against all fatigues. Across the deck forward was drawn a canvas screen waist high ; and behind this the crew was clustered in scores and hundreds on deck, on the gun-carriages, launches, bulwarks, shrouds, and every stand-point or foot hold which enabled them to witness and enjoy the gay scene abaft. The sight from the after-bridge was most novel and impressive. Below and astern a gay company sat against the bulwarks, and amidships, or promenaded outside the lines of the dancers. In the centre some two dozen couples at a time whirled gracefully to the music of the band; and beyond, the dark blue uniforms and honest cheerful brown faces of the seamen, were backed by the white bulwarks, by a wilderness of cordage, and by the bright sky, along which gracefully trailed long wreaths of silver cloud. Nothing could surpass the gaiety of the scene, the courtesy of the entertainers, the pleasure and interests of the guests, who were all safely landed at Leith about 7 o'clock; and the cruise of the Warrior will not soon be forgotten either by those whose voyagings are so often made in so much less pleasant surroundings, or by those to whom voyaging at all is rare, and much more rare with such singular conditions of enjoyment as were yester day so happily combined. DISTRIBUTION OF RAILWAYS, A curious paper has just been submitted to the Academy of large of Sciences by M. Lalanne, showing that the apparently fortuitous distribution of railways over the surface whieh may _ country is in reality subject to certain laws, which of railways, stated as follows :—l. The meshes of a network a triangular einy as their number increases, tend to assume te form groups of form ; 2. These triangles have a tendency ta on happens to re nucleus of a hexagon; 3. When a pen is a g heptagon some six each round a central point, which therefore is the place the hexagon, there generally so that the number where, which makes up the deficienc y , certain exceptional ing from each point; 4, There fhtehe country, towards which six really represents the averreagearneber of lines start points, such as the capital o r 5. In those districts where lines does not exceed c,oiieviveer ; in this case the number of more than six lines incomplete,ty: there are centres from which the network is Still instea of six ; in that case they diverge each other, thus leaving space for angles lines. This strange regularity, now ob servable three remaining networks of France, England, and North We in then upon a primordial law • o m n a l k y e th eq re u e al lineB serve which Buffon calls Amen - oa , dep f e reciprocal cl obstacles. Rivers, mountains, or even the mere inequality in the productive force of the reason 0 i s have contributed towards the formation of g ular meshes. Among the consequences which M. i'd fo ifi re e a ren ts, t " these re lialanne deduces from this th eory of his, there is this : t h a t the distance between two agglomerations of popula tion of the same order and near each other must be an exac t multiple of the distance between two agglomera tions of an inferior order. Thus, the average distance be tween two capitals of departments in France. is 87 kilo metres; that between two contiguous chefs-lieux d'arron dissements is 43} kilometres; and between two contiguous cantons, 14k kilometres; so that the distance between two prefectures is equal to twice the distance between two sub-prefectures, six times that between two cantons, and 24 times the average distance between two communes. Bank of England Return.—Yesterday. An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 32, for the week endingon Wednesday, the sth day of August, 1863: ISSUE DEPARTMENT. otes issued ,mow-..X4.676,0e5 Government Debt £11,C15,1C0 Other Securities .. 3 . 6 34,900 Gold Coin & Bullion 14,026,006 Silver Bullion £28,676,00 £28,676,0051 BANNING Di oprietors' Capi tal £14.653, 090 Rest Public Deposits (in cluding Exche quer, Savings' Banks, Commis miesioners of Na tional Debt, and Dividend Ac counts) 5,577.268 Other Deposits. - 13,790,855 Seven Day and other Bills 665,979 T VA IMINNT, G 0 Vernm eat Secu rities (including Dead W eightAn unity; Other, Securities .. 19,153,801 Notes Gold and Silver 817,18 0 Coln S-38,010,582 IL £38,010,582 .RSLIALL, COef Cashier. August 6,1863. The Price of Gold, The quotation of gold at DOB is about per mine pm., and the short exchange on London is 25.25 per £1 sterling. on oomparing these rates w ith the English Mint price of 1,3 178. 104 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is nearly 3.loths per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advices from Hambu r g the price of gold is 425 per mark and the short exchange on London is 13.51 per £1 sterling. Standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, about 3-10ths per cent• dearer In London than in Hamburg , The course of exchange at New York on London in still ill very fluctuating state, the latest quotation of the exchange b e ing about 144 per cent., and the premium on gold is about eu per cent. some gold has been received by the lest packets _~,_. _: ~- - .~ i. his cess l by was 10x Ider uke Ley, ady the her, laei the and earl aea raid rue -3 set fight dice ady. :.,ilia ;nce .rles des meh Ives the ired gis ling ad- ey's re a ards finer iian the rl of teas IL Less ger •gh, iild and Irs. and ook t of the MS. gh ated ree, the pies don lily lose afin and Lava t of leaf ors 35, ~+ Shz*~ 13.14. 1 p. 16.41 12.10 ei 7 1131 i 77 42; 104 i 106 112 2 57 8 874 8 n:.~ - ,