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

ZIONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The general discount market appears somewhat firme r this morning, with a slight increase in the demand. Yesterday there was an easier tendency, and in the course of the afternoon a few bills were negotiated at 31 per cent., but to-day the rates have reverted to their former point, and 3i per cent. is again quoted as the general charge. A further sum of £2,900 in gold was taken into the Bank yesterday. The Delta, which carries the Bombay mails,will take out £203,110 in specie. The John Duncan laws arrived from Otago with £189,332 in gold. The usual dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum was declared at the half-yearly meeting of the General Steam Navigation Company yester day. Two O'CLOCK. At the ordinary meeting to-day of the Southamp ton Dock Company—Col. G. Barlow in the chair— the report, which was adopted, stated that the accounts showed a net revenue after payment of the interest on the debenture debt, of the dividends on the preference stocks, and of all working ex penses, &c., for the six months ending the 30th June last, amounting to £6,844. A dividend was declared for the half-year of £2 per cent., payable on the 2d September next, being at the rate of four per cent. A remarkable degree of dullness is apparent in business at the Stock Exchange, the members being almost exclusively engaged in settling the account in foreign securities and railway shares. Scarcely any new speculative operations are reported, and the official lists consequently present an unusually blank appearance. The few bargains entered into have not influenced prices very materially, and Consols are 931 - - for transfer, and 931 f, for the oth proximo. The situation of monetary affairs, with quietude in discount circles, and a flow of gold into the Bank, is in favour of prices, although it has no effect in promoting transactions. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are again 037-, 9 ; the New 2: 1 4 per Cent. Annuities are 77; and Exchequer Bills ls. dis. to 2s, prem. The India 5 per Cents. Loan is 10S1; and the 51 per Cent. Enfaced Paper, 1161. There is very little business in progress in the Foreign Market, but prices are generally firm. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1858, 721 g ; do., 1862, 69 1 ; do., Consolides, 51 s ; Greek, 34 1 ; do., Coupons, 161,- Z ; Spanish Passive, 334 341; do., Internal, 271 1; Mexican, 3841 ; Portuguese, 49 ; Rhseian, 821 I; and the Confederate Loan has risen 1 per cent., viz., to 23 21 dis. Business in the Railway Share Market has been confined chiefly to transactions in connection with the settlement. Prices, however, have in several instances shown a slight advance. Caledonian, Lan cashire and Yorkshire, and South Eastern, have each improved 55.; and North Eastern (Berwick), 108.; while Midland have receded 55., and London and Blackwall, 10s. In the Foreign and Colonial undertakings the variations in prices have been unimportant. Turin and Savona have improved about 55.; Great Wes tern of Canada have declined ss. Bank and Mi sce ll aneous Sh ares genera ll y con tinue in moderate favour, at about previous rates. London and Westminster are dealt in at 77i 78 ; and Loridon and County, at 491. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 93a 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9 34 New 3 per Cent. Annuities New 21 per Cent. Annuities 5 per Cent. Annuities -- Annuities, 30 yrs, expire Zth J an., 1880 — Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 — India Stock Ditto 5 pet Cent Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent Ditto 5 per Cent ititto 51 per Cent Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863 Ditto ditto April, 1864 Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 Dittu Bonds £l.OOO — Ditto under £1,000.. Bank Stock for Ac count Consols for Account, Sept, 9 India Stock for Account, 5 p er C ent..., March, 1 2} per Cent. Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO .. 2pm Ditto £5OO .. 2pm Ditto Small June, 2 per Cent. FOREIGN FUNDS —CLOSING PRICES. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto 1859. .. ..... Brazilian 5 per Cent ................ Ditto, 1839 and 1859 .. Ditto 4} per Cent., 1852-58-60 Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent Ditto Account Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) Ali Tian 6 per C ent . Ditto 4/ per Cent. .. 87 Danish 4 per Cent., 1863 Ditto 3 per Cent., 1825.. Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Egyptian 7 per Cent lOl/ Ditto. Second Issue Greek j 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons 34h 4 Ditto Account Ditto Coupons l6/ Ditto Account Italian 5 per Cent.(Maremmana Railway) Mexican 3 per Cent .... Ditto Account 3Bi Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada Ditto 2 per Cent. Ditto Deferred Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) Peruvian 3 per Cent. Ditto 4i per Cent., 1862 Ditto Account • • ' Portu.nese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto Acc0unt........ Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7,'9, '6O, 62.. 49 Ditto Account Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, St Ditto 41 per Cent 1850 B9 Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859 i Ditto 5 per C en t. 1862 Sardinian 6 per Cent Ditto Acc..ou.nt Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Ace,aunt Ditto New Deferred .oitto Ar.:count Ditto Passive Ditto Account 344 Spanis'a. Cert. of Coup not fancied Dino Account.. Tuecish 6 per Cent. 1854 Di tto Account.. 93 Ditto 6 p er Cet 18 D 72 3 litto Account 5B Ditto ' £lOl, Bonds 75 Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 Ditto Account .. Ditto Guaranteed "• per Cent — Venezuela 3 per Cent. Ditto Account Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 .. Dittoitto Account . ." .................... 6 per Cent. 1863 £l9 16s 8d pd. 3/ dis Divi dends on the above payable in London. ButterpePeCreenetz . l,t. L E . x l . 2 2 G s u f il tt2tlvrnenit itpey Cent. C er tifi cates Italian, b ens ',„., e 3 per C ent., Ex. 25f — Ditto •••••', nt., 1861, E x. 25:francs 7ll • . THREE O'CLOCK. Console, ;Money ................ nt ................. The Price of Gold. The quotation of gold at the short ex c h ange on London 1-----747------ ar s is ab out 1 per mille pm., and is 25.30 per 41 sterling, On comparing these rates with then 2n Mint price of 23 rs. Witt T)er ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is about 4-1 Otha per cent, dearer in London than in Paris. By adi lees from Hamburg the price of gold is 425 per mark "d the short exchange on London is 13.4 persterling. Stands rd gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, about ' lOthF. per cent. dearer in L ondon than in Hambur g - The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at sight is about l e 3 n 9 t to 1 A 3/ t h pe e sre cepnritc.;: utdh theere ipremium 1 imp c ortation of gold from the little e te i d f profit on the any 6 o o n d r: a o y l s c; about 26 Staf es. NELSON LEE AND TILE DRAMATIC COLLEGE.-- lir ' J. W. Ans" ,secretaryo to the Dratowie Col lege, has forwarded the f o llowing letter to Mr. Nel son Lee - Dear Sir,—l have be e r , their r ted by the coun c il to convey t° You an express i on o f he opinion in relati on to the benefits the College has obtained . from your services, and I think I cannot better dm of their minutes, viz.: ;al. ebreeerneadceerihveadviinrgomb 'wardi ng the following copy le:.',einchardon s services of - -1. • made to, , the shoo great e a a n t d l benefit l,.on i which bw elpe N. Nelson Lee menagerie, and to the important his isvaluable ideas and gene in seeing to their construction, -- aneJ, it was u nanimously re.-,olved zal mlrlagement, as well bcf.ge as on t t h t e h d e ay th s aonflpsereifortmhe council be voted to him for his devotion tha to the interests of the Qoilegi thuswinced,,, 27 29 46 47 39 41 104 106 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. ;hart Closing Railways Paid. Price. Business done 100 ; itlantie - & St Lawreno all 62 (4 stk R o ln.,Baroda&-Cent Inc 10u 1071 1081 1081 Gu. 5 per amt... ..... 20 Do. New . 8 1 IA p 20 Do. E. Shares. 7/ 1/ ID P 201 Buffalo and Laxe Huron all 51 6 6 10 Do. Preference . all 71 81 100 Bulfalo,Brant,&Godria lOU - 6 p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1871 1 00 Do. do. July 1, 187:1 100 - - 100 Do. do. June 1, 1874 100 - - st Clcutta.&S.Eastn.(Eit; ) 10 0 107 1 ICB I st Cape Town & Dock Scrii 100 105 107 : stock Eastn. Bengal gu. sp. 100 109 110 p. stock Last Indian. gu. 5 c. 100 108 1 , •9 1 0 8} 20 Do. do. G Ext..... 1 0 1 1 1 1p 20 Do. do. H do. .. 10 1 lap 111 stock Grand Trunk of Canada No 191 201 100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds.. all 72 14 100 Do. ao. def erred-- all 54 57 100 Do. 2d Pref. Bonus.. all 63 do 100 Do. do deferred- all 46 49 100 Do. 3d P. ef. stock ... all 45 47 100 Do. do. deferred- all 36 38 100 Do. 4th I'ref. stock... all 25 27 100 Do. do. deferred...... all 22 14 231 stock Gt.lnchaPenm.g - ua.op.c. 100 108 109 104 20 Do. New gua. sp. 0... 12 1 14; 20 Do. January, 1862 .. 8 1 11 stock Gt. South.of India (Lim) guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 107 ICB 1071 201 Gt. W. 01 Canada Sharer all 10 )04 10} 201 Do. New • 18 101 10 71 100 Do. 6 p.o. '73 with't opt. all 96 98 971 100 Do. p. c. do. '77-8.. all 90 e 2 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 a 1 stock Madras. guar., 5p.0. .. 10U 107 108 lois stock Do. 41 p. C. Extension 100 1011 102.1 1011 stock De. 4A do 100 i 8 ICO 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 - - stock 3lelb.Corp. 6p. o. Bladt• 100 - - So llelb. & Hobson's Bay. all 57 59 5 " 100 Do. 7p. c. Mortg Bds. alt - Newßruclwick eand,. Class A and B . all 3 5 N. 111.C'da5 p c I st pt b dE 100 83 85 stock Scinde •• •• •• •• (100 1071 1084 St 5 Do. D e lhi ' 100 1074 1081 Do, do ' LTA a 2 / $ 2 l 20 Do. Punjaub e; all --P st Do. Do. , , lvo 1071 It 8) 1071 S -lock Do. Indus. St. % 103 105 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SBOURITIEr, - ho.uov. p.c.J &J ut) - 1877-84 Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug. 100 tt2 104 Do. dp. c.ylar. & Sept. 100 ICS 107 Do. tp. c. Jan.&July. 10u 941 051 90 Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 92 94 931 - ICape G.Ltope, 6p c,1871 100 108 110 Do.Ap Oct.& 1880 100 112 114 Do. 18P 100 113 115 - Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 112. 115 - Ceylon, N0y.1878, 6p c 10u il3 115 - Mauritius 6 per cent .. 100 1061 107/ 107 - Natal Goy. 6 per cent.. 100 au 112 - N.B.Goy.6p.o.Ja.&July 100 1051 1061 1051 - Do. op. c.Ap. & Oct. 100 - - N. S. W. G oy. 5 p 18., 100 1001 1014 - Do. p.c.,18 to Lit 100 1014 102; - Do. d0.,1888 &upwds 100 102 103 1021 - ,New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 110 112 - (Nova Scotia Goy. 6p. c. - sterling, 1875. lOO 1051 1064 - Queensland Gov. Hp. c. 100 1:1 113 - S.Aus G6p.c.1878.& up.. 100 110 112 112 11 • Vic.Goy. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 108 110 - 'Do. to io.c. A.n.&Oat.. 100 1131 114 1131 1 BRITISH MINES. 2 leambrian Consol. Gold 1 36 38 - luhtlord Amalgamated.. East Bassett (Illoganl.. 3 !Devon G. Con: f favist., .td pare 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd., 52. a 11. 29 East Caradon ...... 28 3 / 4 3 / 4 0 5 7 6 9 0 6 81 East Cam . 1 3 . 4 . 0 8 8 4 E. W'lltusselaavistk.;l 8.6.6 3 5 4 Gain.&St.Aubyn(Gwen.) 1 .8 4 7 10 Great South Tolgus.... 17s 3 3 / 4 31 G. Wheal Vor (11elston 40 p 7 5 Grenville .. 6.16. t 64 Flerc..d's-Foot .. 8.12 t 8 40 ingston Downs 4.18.0 n 2 Lady Bertha Margaret Lelant, 94 32 31 .Marke Valley. 4 Myndy Iron Oro (Lim ) 2J. 1 3 / 4 New Setun North Downs .. .. . Baseet(lllo.fan 2.1 - 3 4 North Wheal Crotty 2.4. V 84 3 4 Par Consols (et, Blazey) 1 3 / 4 4 6 20 Providence (Uny Lelnt.) 10.6.7 t 1 43 South Caradon(St.Cleer, 14 415 425 —3. Cam Brea (Illogran) 5.15.61 14 24 z. 7 .Wheal Fran. (Illogan) 18.1-..0 60 70 5 s r t a r m a yarPsairivkA. Lead - fin Cron .... ~ . 'W C' radon (Liskeard) 5 21 23 West Seton •• • • 47 3 / 4 235 145 Wheal Basset (Mogan) 5 3 / 4 60 65 Wheal Buller (Redrutli) 5 3 5 45 Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) 2.0.6 Whealliadcott Wheal MaryAnnisUen ) 3.178 2 12 4 3 11 4 114 Wheal Seton 584 21 5 12 Wheal Tretawney (Lis.) 7 15 1 7 Wheal Union PREFEMENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. London, Chatham, &c., Metrop. text., 13, 6 per cent., 108 LINES LEASED Al` FIXED RENTALS. London and Chatham 4, per Cent., 94 London, Tilbury, and Southend, 97} Wilts and Somerset, 93i FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San Francisco (lim.) gua. 7 per cent., 24-1 N Rail of Buenos Ayres, gua. 7 per cent.,710 4 Recite and San Francisco (lim.), gua. 7 per cent, 17i Sambre and Meuse, WI San Paulo (lim.), gua. 7 per cent., Ditto (ad), 22/ Turin and Savona, 21 'FOREIGN MINES. Cobre Copper, 29 k Port Philip, 1% St. John del Rey aim.), 55 Yudanamutana of S. Austrillla (lira.) , 3 it JOINT-STOCK BANKS, I ia, 763 3 7 Alliance Bank ko fL o ndon and Liverpool (Urn.), 36 5f Ditto, new, 311 Bank of Egypt, 261 Brazilian and Portuguese, lien., 33 4 Chartered Bank of British Columbia, 12 Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China., 30k130 Chartered of India, London, and China, 553 City, 108 English, Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 22k Hindustan, china, and Japan (lird.), 23k Imperial Bank (lim.), 221 Imperial Ottoman, 173 183 London and Brazilian (lira.), 43 f London and County, 49 83 93 London and South African, 26k London and Westminster, 77, , , 8 7 Oriental Bank Corporation, 571 Standard of British South Africa (Um), 19 183 Ditto, new, 133 Union of Australia, 51k 4 Union of London, 351 DOCKS. ~' br. cued to marks )where ed the y day. ith her roburg, Queen Satur- .fter a fficers ►r, the d the iperor The msion would were their 12 ex of St. Prus- 1, de were nove- Lguay 3 Im- ?sent. [bled. ap of . 23. SHARE MARKETS--This day. ORDINARY. SHARES AND STOCKS• Paid.', Cl os i ng Business Price. Share Railways. clone. Bir.. Wol., and Str. Val Blythe and Tyne. Bost.,Sleat.,andMid.Co Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall Do A (A meta no div till c.p Do. B been6p paid to an.haF, B. Dublin . Belfast June. 1 Dun.,Perth,&Ab. Junc. I Edinburgh & Glasgow.l Glaeg. and S. Western. Great Eastern, Ord. stk 8 8i 81 81 86 1201 1211 7} 71 40 41 16 17 94 95 111 113 51 62 49 61 24} 251 Ditto A stock Ditto E astAnalian st GreatNorthof Scotland Great Northern...• • • • • Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. anti W. of Ireland Great Western • • • • Do Str Val gua, stock Y Lancashire &Yorkshire London and lilackwall Lon., Bright,& S. Coasts Lon., Chat, and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & So'.th Western Ban., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do # shares Metropolitan Midland Do New 1251 1264 125 12. 1 4 P 5 190 100 102 C6l Of 1141 115 73 74 113 115 41 43 102 i 103 103 104 44 45 111 t, 12 129! kali 14 1b 99 101 Do Birming. & Derby slicl. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. i shares Mid Kert Do Cray Line North British iEdin., Perth, & Dundeel INth. Eastern—Berwick; Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds Do York Do Carlisle.. North London Do New North StaiTordshire N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central 541 Lsf, 25 26 103 104 58 59 E9l 90 120 125 80 82 111 12i 122 124 46 47 100 102 Scot N. E. ' Aber. stoch Do Scot. Kid. stock 1 Shrews, and Welchpooll Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines,Wok.,and Wok. Stockton & Darling - ton Do Do New, Is6c, Taff Vale.. . Do B Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of heath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.&R West Midland -Oxford Do N ewport' Do Hererord 60 52 30 12 961 J 62 70 72 101 103 9 10 87 38 9 10 t N P 155 160 5i 61 3 B}p 89 91 158 162 MISCELLANEOUS. Crystal Palace, 391 Gen. Cr( dit and FillallCO of London, Um., Gene:al Steam Navigation, 291 Hudson's Bay, International Vinancial Society, lirn., S g London General Omnibus Company 2 Oriental Inland Steam, lim., 4 Quebrada Land, Rail, and Mining, lim., 31 The French Minister of Public Instruction has addressed a circular to the Prefects, recommending th em, as far as they are concerned, to adopt the necessary meas ures for ab r id g i ng , as much as possible , the exami nation o f project s d ra wn up bb the local authorities for the constructi on of Fcho o 1 s . A. great number of com munes having applied for assistance. the Minister at the same time requests the Prefects to poi:at out to him the applications of that kind which have not yet been decided on, in order that those in arrear ;nay be inimediately attended to, 13.14. , 9.18.4 1 Victoria, 1001 5111 1 1191 if 73 113 f 43 2 103 2; 1034 3 12 112 121 1291 E 5 q 51 1031 95g 7} THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 26, 1863. LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. Mr. Commissioner Fane was the Commissioner of the day, but there were no examination meetings on the list. (Before Mr. Registrar Bingham.) IN RE COOPER.-SINGULAR CASE OF SECOND DANE, RUPTCY. This bankrupt was a grocer at Woolwich, and this was a meeting for choice of assignees. The bankrupt passed his last examination and obtained his order of discharge, but it now appears that he had improperly disposed of some pro perty, and a dispute arising between the parties and the bankrupt, the latter again petitioned the court, so that the property may be brought into court. Mr. Drew, Basinghall-street, the solicitor, said that he had no doubt the property could be recovered, but a question may arise as to which class of creditors will b 3 entitled to the benefit. MARKETS—This Day. MARK-LANE. The supply of new English wheat received fresh up to this morning's market was very moderate. However, both red and white qualities met a heavy sale, at fully Monday's decline in the quotations of is per quarter. With foreign wheat the market was well supplied. The trade for all descriptions was very dull, and Monday's cur • rency was with difficulty supported. Floating cargoes of grain sold heavily, at about Mon day's currency. The supply of old barley was very moderate, and the show of new produce was small. The demand generally was in a sluggish state, and prices had a drooping tendency. Fine malt was tolerably firm in price, but inferior parcels were a dull inquiry. A limited business was transacted in oats at Monday's fall in prices. With foreign qualities the market was well supplied, Beans and peas met a slow sale, at about previous rates. Both English and foreign flour was in slow request at Late quotatiot s. The supply of barrels was large. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flout. English-- 610 — I 740 I 370 , i 120 [rich.._ _ , —f - P0reign,.....17,150 2,020 ? , 23,280 , 13,710 brls POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. BOROUGH HOP. We have to report a quiet trade for all kinds of hops, but without leading to any change in the currency. The accounts from the plantations are in favour of an average crop, WHITECHAI'EL. The supply of meat is moderate, and for prime qualities the trade is firm. _ _ _ Beef, from 2s 6d to 4s Od ; mutton, 3s Od to 4s 4d ; lamb, 5s Od to 58 6d ; veal, 3s 6d to 4s 4d ; and pork, 3s 4d to 4s 4d per Sibs. ty the carcase. SELIPPING — This Day. LONDON, Aug. 26.—Wind this day at noon —South- Easterly; moderate breeze, and cloudy weather, with showers. TROON, Aug. 'M.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Borneo, from Miramichi. SHIELDS, Aug. 25,—Wind S.S.E.—Arrived—Emily Wylde, from Huelva. BRIDGEWATER, Aug. 24.—Wind S.W.—A rr i ve d_ Louisa, from Richibuoto. HATLEPOOL, Aug. 24.—Wind variable.—Arrived— Julius, from Richibucto. HULL, Aug. 25.—Wind W. — Arrived—Palmatta, from Miramichi; President Von Blumenthal, and Victoria, from Quebec. ABERDEEN, Aug. 24.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Clarinda, for Quebec. FALMOUTH, Aug. 25.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Thomas Rowell. from Quebec. OEF PORTSMOUTH, Aug. 25.—Wind S.W.—Arrived— Mrgaret Cairns, from London for New York. GRIMSBY, Aug. 25.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Norden, from Quebec. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning. Arrived, August 25—Caroline, from Jamaica; John Duncan, from Otago; Castor, from Bioheborg ; Skein, f rom Quebec ; Earl of Carlisle, from Smyrna. Arrived, August 26—Gjemle, from Pugwash ; Goethe, from New York; Isabella, from Dantsic ; Constancia, from Odense. Sailed, Aug. 26—Woodbine, for Rockhampton; Bombay, for Auckland ; Ardberg, for Sydney ; Hotspur, for Sydney ; Excelsior, for Cape of Good Hope ; Laura, for Demerara. DEAL, Wednesday Morning. Passed, August 25—Ayrshir, from Quebec, for London. Passed, August 26—Avoca, screw steamer, for the Medi terranean. Anchored—Guillelmon, from London, for Montreal. - - _ THE SPANISH ELECTIONS. MADRID, Aug. 21. The following is the circular issued by the Minis er of tee Interior relative to the elections : " I have submitted to the Queen our Sovereign the questions addressed to our Ministry by the governors of various provinces relative to the appli• cations from electors of different political opinions to be authorised to assemble and consult each other on the occasion of the coming election of deputies to the tiortes. Her Majesty, desiring that the authorities should have a general rule for their guidance in this matter, has been pleased, in con cert wi►h the Council of Ministers, to decree as follows : " 1. The governors of provinces will grant the permission to electors of deputies whose names are borne on the legally approved lists to assemble and deliberate on the course they may wish to pursue in the coming elections. "2. In granting the authorisation for those assemblies the governors will require from the applicants a statement showing the place, the day, and the hour where they may wish to assemble, this statement being sent in before the projected meeting, and at a proper time. The governors will warn the applicants that they shall abstain flora con stituting such assembly until after the following conditions shall have been fulfilled to the entire satisfaction of the official who may be delegated to perform this duty. " 3. Those persons only will be admitted to the place of assembly who can furnish instant and satisfactory proof that they are electors. It they are electors of the district or districts of the locality in which the meeting is being held, this must be specially mentioned, and confirmed by the production of the respective electoral lists. Should an elector not belonging to the district wish to be present at the meeting, he shall identify himself and furnish proof positive that his name is actually borne on the , electoral lists of the district. " 4. The public authority or a representative of the same will necessarily preside over the assembly until it has been regularly established, and is at liberty to continue to do so should such a proceeding be considered expedient. "5. During the sittings of such assemblies, and until they shall have terminated, an agent of the authorities will be stationed at the entrance to prevent such persons from entering who are not entitled to do so. " 6. The assembly will be dissolved if questions foreign to the elections are discussed or introduced, and in the event of any infringement of the law or disturbance of public peace. "May God save your lordship and grant you long life. (Signed) " VAAIONDE. "To the Governor of the Province of "Madrid, 20th August, 1863." SERIOUS INJURY CAUSED BY A FLY.—Mr. M. P. Crofton, of the City water-works, met with a seri ous and alarming injury on Saturday under very novel cir cumstances. While reading at his table on Saturday even ing he felt something like the bite of a midge on the back of his hand, and on looking at it saw a small greyish fly not unlike a midge on the spot in which he felt the bite. The Intruder was instantly killed, and though the irritation of the bite continu e d t o b e f e lt, ver y littl e no tice was taken of it consulted,an much till inflammation, morning, when the part bore all the appearance of active accompanied with deep discolora tion was d andpaina 1 :1 nd examining throbbing. th p S a u r r t g a e Surgeon Nam series of little ara versicles were visibl e , an d the subcutaneous tissue was f oun d to be congested and n ear l y purple. Act i ve reme di es we re applied, local pout:icing a n d other surgical treatmen t wer e resorted to, but yesterday the symptoms had so increased that it was found necessary on consultation to make several incisions into the hand and to cauterise the arm, making a complete circle of cauterised surface round the limb. For some hours considerable anxiety was felt as to the ultimate result, and the medical attendants found it necessary to pay several visits in the course of the day. On inquiry last night we learned with much satisfaction that the alarming symptoms had considerably abated, and that the apprehen sions felt as to the possible results had passed away under the active treatment resorted to. It has been suggested that probably the little itasect had been regaling himself on some putrid flesh before he came to quaff some of Mr. Crof ton's claret, and that in making the incision to procure the requisite access to the ruddy liquid, he inocculated, and in fact poisoned the current. A remarkable feature in the case is that Mr. Crofton is a gentleman of robust habit, but of great strength of constitution--active, red-blooded, and abstemious—just the man whose blood ought to resist poison, if not of a most virulent character.—lreenian's Journal. CONVICTION UNDER THE NEW POACHING ACT.— At the Rotherham Court-house, on Monday, a young man named William Beighton, of Kilnhurst, was charged with having unlawful possession of game. The information was laid by a policeman, who saw defendant, accompanied by a dog, passing through Swinton. Knowing his character, he searched him, and found in his possession a dead rabbit. In answer to the Bench, the defendant said he bought the rabbit of a man whom ho met on the road. Ile was fined 40s. and costs, or in default 11 taye' in:Trieoutnent, BOW-STREET. FORGING A BILL OF EXCHANGE.—WiIIiam Pottage was placed at the bar, on remand, charged with forging and uttering a bill of exchange for £67, with intent to defraud Mr. Welfare, of the firm of Foreman and Welfare, Oakley-street, Lambeth. The bill purported to be accepted by Mr. William Bew, of 62, Aldermanbury, merchant, end to be endorsed by Mr. E. Weston, of the Music Hall, Holborn. and by Mr. Weston, of Newington-causeway, gas chandelier manufac turers. Mr. Lewis Welfare said he resided at 72, Oakley 'street, and discounted the bill of exchange produced for the pri soner in the early part of July. He could not state the exact amount advanced, but he thought it would be about £64 3s. Bd. Mr. Henry—• What conversation had you about the bill. Witness—When the bill was brought to me with merely the name of Mr. Bew, I said that, although I considered that:gentleman a highly respectable person, I thought the names of two others might be placed to the bill, and I men tioned the names of Mr. Weston, of Holborn, and Mr. Weston, of Newington. The prisoner took the bill away, and the next day he returned with it, bearing the signa tures of those two gentlemen. Cross•examined—At the time the bill was being dis counted, I held a bill supposed to have been drawn by Mr. Weston, the gasfitter, and accepted by Mr. Weston, of Holborn. It was brought to me for discount by the pri sonetAand I discounted it for them, with his endorsement. A day or two prior to the £5O bill becoming due, the pri soner called upon me and said it was not convenient for Mr. Weston, the acceptor, to meet the bill, and it would be an obligation to hold it over. I demurred, and the prisoner then replied, " Well, if you don't like to do that, I've a bill for £67 which you can discount. At that the prisoner took up the £5O. The reason I wished the names of the Westons to be placed on the £67 bill was because I told the prisoner I was giving up a bill for £5O with the names of the two Westons, whom I knew to ho good. And he said he knew both of them. Mr, John Henry Weston, of Newington-causeway, gas fitter, said his signature to the bill was a forgery. The pri soner was formerly in partnership with him, and was well acquainted with the appearance of his signature. He be lieved the endorsement on the bill to be in prisoner's hand writing. Mr. Edward Weston, of the Music-hall, Holborn, also examined the bill, and said his signature to it was a forgery. He was totally unacquainted with the prisoner. He was not at all related to Mr. Weston, of Newington. He had lately done work for Wm at Highgate to the amount of £2,500, and that would perhaps account for the presumption of relationship. Inspector Tanner, of the detective police, said that was the whole of the evidence he had to offer in the present case, but he had a second charge of forgery against him, but the prosecutor in that charge (Major Stranson) was confined to his bed by illness. Mr. Henry said in that case he would remand the pri soner, as the next Old Bailey sessions would not come on for two or three weeks. ➢lr. Lewis said the prisoner would reserve his defence. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. PARISH PROSECUTION OF A NOTORIOUS BROTIIEL KEEPER.—Elizabeth Middleton, a middle-aged woman, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with keeping a brothel at 20, St. Martin's-street. Sergeant George Appleton having proved that the pri soner was the person named in the warrant upon which he apprehended her, The clerk to Mr. Dangerfield, vestry clerk of St. Mar - tin's, by which parish the prosecution was instituted, asked that heavy bail might be required, as the house kept by the prisoner was a very bad one, and she had set the authorities at defiance and taken no notice of their warnings. Mr. Tyrwhitt, committed her to the sessions, and fixed the bail at two sureties in £4O each, Prisoner said she would shut up the house, and pay all the expenses, if she was allowed to go. Mr. Tyrwhitt said she would go to the sessions. A WIFE BEATER PROPERLY PUNISHED.—Edwin Toy, of 7, Brown. street, St. George's , cabinetmaker, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with assaulting his wife, Peaelope Sarah Toy. The wife said that on the previous night her husband (the prisoner) locked the room door, put the key in his pocket—as he always did when he ill-used her—and then aimed a violent blow at her head, but she put up her hand to save her head, and upon it received the blow. She then went and sat down by her children's bedside, when her husband gave her another blow on the head, which rendered her insensible for a time, and on her recovering, sae insisted on his letting her out of the room, and he did so, she being smothered with blood from a wound on her head. Mr. Tyrwhitt aeked the wife whether her husband kept her, and she said that her mother chiefly did. VT. Hellican, 171 C, said the complainant came up to him with blood pouring from a wound on the head, and told him that her husband had assaulted her. He then went towards the house and met the prisoner, and took him into custody. The prisoner said his wife made accusations of such a nature against him that he could not keep his hands off her. Mr, Tyrwhitt committed the prisoner for six months, with hard labour, and said that he would have to find bail when he came out of prison. WESTMINSTER. A SUICIDAL MONOMANIA.—Mary Lockey, a good-look.. ing young woman, was charged before Mr. Arnold with threatening to commit suicide, under the following singular circumstances : Cree, Principal Warder of the Female House of Correc tion, Tothill-fields, stated that, on the 25th of July, the prisoner was brought into the prison for damaging a plate glass at a public house. At the termination of her impri sonment she was sent to her friends at Birmingham. She, however, stayed no time there, as she came back as soon as the officer. On another day, when put in the cell, she broke 16 panes of glass and other things. . In answer to the Magistrate, the warder stated that, while in prison, they were compelled to put her under re straint, lest she should commit suicide. She has declared that she would kill herself, as everybody was against her. Mr. Arnold observed that he thought the best way was to communicate with the parish authorities. Is the sur gem of the prison present P Dr. Lavies, medical officer of the prison, said that he had seen the prisoner, and he believed her to be a badly disposed girl. She talks rationally, but witness is of opinion that she is of a suicidal disposition, and, if not watched, will do some mischief to herself. Mr. Arnold remarked that he thought the best way to deal with the case was to remand her. She was then remanded, and Mr. Arnold directed that she should be closely watched. THAMES. SLOP-WORKERS AND PANcernnoxEr.s.—Sarah Jones, a poor, half-starved-looking woman, 31 years of age, and lately dwelling at No. 2, Upper Well-alley, Wapping, was brought before Mr. Woolrych, charged with illegally pawn ing 11 cotton shirts, the materials of which had been given to her to make up by another woman, a seamstress, named Maria Dowden, of No. 65, King-street, Stepney. The case was clearly made out, the deliver:, of the mate • rials to the prisoner proved, and the 11 shirts, which were in an unfinished state, were produced by a pawnbroker's assistant, who had received them of the prisoner. The prisoner, in her defence, said her husband hid de serted her for four months, and, wanting food, she pawned the shirts at four different times. Mr. Woolrych said the prisoner had only increased her miseries by her acts of dishonesty, and now she would find it difaottit to obtain any work again. He strongly con demned the pawnbroker who received the shirts in pi, sage, and he emist have known they did not belong to the pri soner when he did so. He had frequently been called upon to censure this system of taking in slop-work and un finished work from poor needlewomen. It encouraged felonies. The pawnbrokers who took in unfinished work were no better than receivers of stolen property, and ought to be treated as such. It was illegal to accept in pawn unfinished materials in the course of manufacture. He fined the prisoner 175.:9d., the value of: the shirts, and ss. in addition, and in default one month's imprisonment. He ordered the pawnbroker's assistant to restore the shirts to Mrs. Dowden. AN UNFEELING MOTHER AND UNFEELING POLICE.— A dissipated woman named Mary Kelly, was brought before Mr. Woolrych, charged with being drunk, riotous, and dis orderly last night at a late hour in High-street, White. chapel. Jahn Chattey, No. 284 H, said the prisoner acted in a most violent and disorderly manner, swore and raved and threw her infant on the ground, and said she would have no more to do with it. Mr. Woolrych said the prisoner was a vile unfeeling woma n, who had debased herself by the horrible vice of drunkenness below the lust of a beast of the field. It was a calamity for the poor child to have such a mother ai the prisoner. lie fined her Bs., and in default to be imprisoned for five days. Soon after wards Roche, the gaoler of the court, said the prisoner was in great pain. Her breasts were full of milk, and she had not suckled her child all night. She wanted relief, and there was no doubt the child, which she had abandoned when she was drunk, and not restored to her when she became sober, required that sustenance which the mother alone was able to afford. Mr. Woolrych directed Roche to set the woman at liberty instantly, lie could not take upon himself the grave re sponsibility of holding her in custody another moment, and he hoped she would attend to her infant in a proper manner. Roche opened the door of the cell in which the prisoner was confined, and she hastened from the court with all possible speed in search of her child. The unpublished works of the Duke de le Roche foueault are about to be given to the world. They were dis covered amongst some racord3 of the family by lq ; de Bar thelemy, well known as an antiquary. SAY IT! THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN LONG-" IN POPULOUS CITY PENT!" To men who may be bricked up for nine or ten months of the year in the streets and closes of a great city—say, with Goldsmith in Garden Court or with Johnson in Staple Inn—the story of life which has been spent in the green woods, on the open moors, and by the sea-shore in search of rare or beautiful birds, has on the nerves the freshening effect of a drive into the country or a plunge into the sea. We enjoy such a tale like a rouse of wine. Indeed, this life in the woods or by the sea-shore seems the point at which reality shakes hands with romance. Is not Alexander 'Wilson as strange a figure as Robinson Crusoe ? Are not Audubon's wanderings on the prairies and savannahs as delicious as any adventure of the Pathfinder ? Are not the writings of Yarrell, Maegillivray, White, and Waterton among the choicest bits of our mental entertainment, as entrancing to the young as the best romance of Scott, the keenest humour of Dickens? In the very name of ae orni thologist there is a charm. He is a lonely man, who loves Nature and has an animal delight in a'r and colour. With a gun slung on his back, with a wallet on his thigh, and an inkhorn in his belt, he sallies forth into the copse, he jumps into his boat, and for weeks and weeks he may be lost to the sight of man. 'When he comes back into the world, it is with rare spoil of knowledge, won from Nature in her most secret haunts. No rcof domes in his workroom, which is wide as the land and open as the sky. His feet are among the young ferns—his nostrils filled with the scent of trees and flowers—his eyes are soothed by the green earth and the blue vault—his ears lulled with the sighing of leaves or roused by the whirr of wings. Beauty lies about him at every step. I❑ almost everything that man does there is some near limit of scenery. The judge is confined to his court. The secretary must attend to his cffice. The journalist is chained to his desk, The physician sees little beyond his patient and his brougham. The preacher has but his pulpit and his Sunday audience. Even in the more stirring occupations of war and trade, there is an order, a discipline, a sequence, which in the course of time palls upon the sense. A 'sailor tires of the sea. A soldier longs to lay down his sword. A mer chant prays for the hour when his ships shall have come home and ho may take his rest in peace. But we have heard it said, that a man who has once become a freeholder of the woods—like Macgillivray or Gould—who has watched all day for a grebe by the lonely English tarn, or bagged his bird of paradise on the coast of New Guinea, will never tire of his sport so long as he can hold a gun. The canoe, the fowling-piece, the forest glade, the hill-top, are to such a man health and life. He pines in cities. In society he is dreaming of the loch and the heather ; at his club-room he is musing of the log-hut in the backwoods or the camp-fire by the Yarra-Yarra. He is the lion who has lapped up blood, the Howaojee who has tasted of the Nile, the poet who has eaten of the insane root. His life is not es that of other men ; ha is set apart ; his career is not a profession, but an adven• thenceum. . The Fine Arts' Plasterer ! The eighteenth century was far advanced before our house-building had fallen to that most ignomi nious style of domestic architecture seen in Harley street and Weymouth-street, in which every species of ornamentation was ruthless:y suppressed; in which the windows and doors became mere holes cat out of a dead wall, and the roof retired from view behind the long monotony of the parapet. From this wretchedness John Nash and stucco delivered us. Whatever the faults, either of the architect or of his material, let this be recollected to their credit. In the year 1812, the idea of creating the Regent's Park out of Marylebone fields saved that fine piece of open country from being covered with houses in continuation of the streets in the neighbourhood ;of £the New-road; and Nash was employed to build the terraces bor dering on the park. It was the commencement of a new era in London architecture—the era of stucco —the age of plaster columns and compo cornices. Regent-street, the Quadrant, the Circuses, ater loo-place, Pall-mall East, and Carlton-house-terrace sprang from the same ingenious brain. George IV. is understood to have patronised the new style. There was something in the showy, untruthful character of Nash's grand effects very similar to the unreality and pretence of " the first gentle man in Europe." Nash put a false surface of stucco on the face of London as George put a false head of hair upon his baldness. Bat Nash's decoration, however low in point of art, was acceptable as a stage of transition from worse to better. It was a step forward out of the blank negation of Harley-street. It was art of some sort, as distinguished from mere construction. Meretricious as it often was—a thing of sham and " make-believe"—it yet marked an advance beyond the soulless utilitarianism of the reign of George 111. It conceded the principle of beauty. And poor as were the details of such building, the effect in mass was sometimes extremely good. Nash understood the art of grouping his churches and houses, with a view to the general appearance ; and the semi circular sweep of the Quadrant, as it was originally built with the colcnnado over the pavement, was certainly the finest thing we had in London. But, after all, Nash was a plasterer, and his productions seemed generally to partake of the meanness of the material in which he worked.—Saturday Review. A FOOLHARDY ADVENTU.RE.—Two adventurous gentlemen residing in Plymouth recently engaged the White Horse, a waterman's boat of large size for that class of craft, and expressed their determination of making a trip to Jersey and back in her. Having laid in a stock of provisions they in company with Richard Roberts, the owner of the boat, sailed from Milbay on Sunday, the 9th inst., at 6 a.m. They reached the Start about 11 o'clock the same morning, and arrived at Guernsey in the afternoon of the following day, when they were becalmed. The arrival at that place was welcomed by a large number of persons, who expressed their astonishment at their perilous under taking On Tuesday morning, at 8 o'clock, the little party set sail for Jersey, which place they reached early in the afternoon, They remained on the island until the following Friday morning, when the White Horse again got under weigh for the homeward voyage. The boat had been at sea several hours when very rough weather sot in, and she was driven from her course. The gallant trio, however, made Salcombe in 24 hours after leaving Jersey. They, finding their voyage somewhat wearisome, landed in Sal combo Harbour, and proceeded via Kingsbridge to Ply mouth by train. In consequence of contrary winds the waterman was obliged to remain at Salcembe for two days. On Tuesday morning last there was still a strong breeze blowing from the north-west; but being tired of waiting, Roberts resolved to set out for Plymouth that day. He accordingly did so; but the roughness of the weather soon after,carried away the sprit of his boat. No other damage was occasioned, however, and he arrived safely in Ply mouth Sound in the afternoon. Roberts states that when about five milbs from Stdcombe, a fish six feet in length, known as a long-nose, was washed into his boat—a visitor more free than welcome, seeing that his mode of entrance was highly alarming to the solitary seaman.—West em Morning News. A YEAR'S RAILWAY WCRK.—In the year 1862, the enormous number of 180,429,071 passengers travelled on the railways of the United Kingdom, besides 56,656 season-ticket holders, who of course travelled very many times ; and besides, also, 262,334 horses, 386,864 dogs, 3,094,183 cattle, 7,800,928 sheep, and 1,989,892 pigs. The passengers were more than in 1861 by about 7,000,000. They paid £12,295,273 for their fares. The first-class pas sengers paid £3,332,380 ; the second-class, £1,018,2 01 ; the third-class, £4,639,250. 12,80 in every hun dred weight first-class, 28.75 second-class, 53.45 third-class. The proportion of third-class passengers is rather increasing, and of second-class rather diminish ing. Thirty-five passengers were killed (9 of them owing to their own misconduct or want of caution), and 536 were injured. This is less than half the number who lost their lives in IS6I by railway accidents. The passengertrains travelled 57,542,831 miles nearly , and the goods trains as many more. The passenger traffic supplied 47 . 1 6 per cent. of the total receipts of the companies, and the goods traffic the larger half, 52.24 per cent. T he receipts from all the nearl £3,000,000 traffic amounted to £29,128,558, being y more than the interest of tho National Debi, and en ins crease of £563,000 over the receipts of 1861 ; but th e length of lino open increased from 10,865 miles at the end of 1861, to 11,551 miles at the end of 1862. Th e working expenditure amounted to 19 per cent., an d left the net receipts £14,320,694, nearly £130,000 more than in 1861. In the year 1862 the companies paid £220,970 for law and parliamentary expenses, £158,169 as compensation for personal injuries, £68,540 for damage and loss of goods, £e75,067 for Government duty, and £596,110 for rates and taxes. It took £2,708,638 to maintain the way and works, arid £1,242,714 to maintain the carriages and waggons, £3,966,005 to provide locomotive power, and £3,987,637 to conduct the traffic. The total sum raised by shares and $". the year l oa ns reached i',.385,`218,4:373 at the close ,) HERRING FISHING. DUNBAR, August 24.—This morning about 100 boats came in. On Saturday and to-day fewer boats came in than on any other day of the week. The fishing on both days was very good—all the boats having quantities risingto 20 trans per boat, and all of g oo d qua li ty, t h ere b e i ng no s p en t s . The fishing is close off the harbour both to the east and west. From the position of the shoal now on the coast, there is every likelihood of the fish ing yet reaching an average. Yesterday, a boat entered the harbour with a large shot, which was sold and delivered to one of the Irish vessels now in the harbour. Prices are steady at from IS. to 20s_ per cran. ANSTRUTIIER, Aug. 22.—The week ending to day, which is usually considered the b es t fishing week in the season, has turned cut very unsuccess fully here, only about 3,000 craps having been landed. Up to this date, we have not been so short-fished for a number of years back ; and as compared with this date last year, there is a fall ing off of more than 7,000 trans. Everything Promised well for this week, the weather and tides being very favourable, but the catch each day was very partial, and not general among all the boats. Prices have ranged during the week from 15s. to 245. per cran ; the medium price being 17s. The quality has also been a good deal mired with spent fish, which is not reckoned a good sign at this period of the fishing. WICK, SATURDAY, AUG. 22. We have still a poor account to give of the her ring fishing in this district. The week has added abcut 24 crane to the previous average, but there was only 23 crans for the first four weeks, making now at the eed of the fifth week of the fishing 47 crane. A full fishing is not now looked for, but with moderate weather it is yet quite possible to get up to the average of the past five years—viz:, 84 crane. Even that would entail not a little hardship and loss to many fishermen, but may prove more acceptable to curers than a larger catch. There are now only two weeks of the season to run, unless crews are induced to prolong the time a week. The past few seasons have proved that a greater body of fish was on these shores after the sth September than during the previous seven weeks; and should the time of the fishing be extended, there is no reason that we can see why four or five thousand men, many of them deeply in debt, should run home just when the fishing is only in a manner beginning. We know that the hired hands are the great bug bear ; but curers, by calling a meeting of their body, and passing resolutions not to pay off hands before the 12th, the matter could be carried out with profit more particularly to the fishermen them selves, including the hired hands, as these must be allowed a week's pay extra. This week, as gene rally throughout the previous part of the sea son, the fish got were mostly in large hauls, of 20 to 70 crane, while more than half the fleet were generally clean. Both at a great offing and near to land has this been the case, and it is likely to continue during the season. A few boats have caught upwards of 200 crane, whirs; many are under 10 crane, and several have not 5. The fishing at Orkney, so heavy last week, has this week taken off, and curers have got time to put their fish in order, many having had to rouse in bulk for want of barrels. Lybster and Helms dale aro nearly keeping pace. Neither are up to an average fishing, but both are ahead of Wick. At Fraserburg and Peterhead the fishing has this week been interrupted by stormy weather, and the average at these stations is about the same as that given in our paper of Thursday —viz., Fraserburgh, 56 crane, and Peterhead, 39 The stations in the Banff district have also been equally unsuccessful from a like cause. Further up ',the Firth, however, at Lossiemouth, Burg. head, and Hopeman, this week's fishing has added about 20 crans to their former average, which is now 80, 73, and 100 crane respectively. We have accounts this morning that at Lybster there is a good fishing, but at Dunbeath and Helmsdale very little. Markets.—Sales are still languid, not withstanding the scanty fishing. It is evi dent that Continental markets are not in a satis factory state. Prices here and on the other sido of the Firth continue at 245. for full-crown brands, and 20s. for spents, without any indication of an advance. A few barrels are being branded daily, and shipments are being made, mostly to Stettin, the Elbe, and a few to Ireland. Those yet caught have been mostly sold ty early contracts, and few consignments by curers are made. In Dantzic there is still a large catch of last year's catch unsold. The sales of Lewis fish are turning out unsatisfactory, aid scarcely a single curer at Stornoway this season will escape a loss, though some few small parcels of fine quality brought a high figure, It is a poor business that pays neither em ployer nor employed. Few fishermen have made anything of it this year from their scanty catch. The herring trade seems to be in such a state that it would be better if the fish, like the grouse, were to have a jubilee year, and fishing operations were to cease and determine for 12 months, till all the old stock was eaten off.—John o' Groat Journal Herring Circular. A " SENSATION" NEWSPAPER.—The Debats o Sunday says:—" It appears that the telegraph has determined to send us regularly with all the gravity in the world summaries of articles publisher) by an eccentric New York paper called the Herald, We &onside:. it i our duty:, therefore, to warn our readers that the Ho aid swh jatou i s sensation on the other side of the Atlantic a r nal,' an expression that may be rendered into French by the following periphrasis—a jour nal which acquires a great reputation by the fertile imagination and the fancy it displays in publishing news, wh i c h facts do not always con firm, under some pompous heading, such as Latest Intel ligence,' Important O cc urrence.' This kind of Jour na l is doubtless not peculi ar to America, butit flourishes and is developed in an excep tional manner in the Lana of Barnum. Moreover the Helts d is neither an official nor even an officieux journal. assertions are not only unworthy of credit, but they do not deserve the slightest attention of any k i n d w hatever." CONVICTION FOR HAYMAKING ON SUNDAY.—At the Atherton petty sessions, on Monday, Peter Cleworth, farmer, of Leigh, and thirteen ot2iers were con victed of making hay on the Sunday. The co.se had been adjuurned for a month, to enable the magistra tea tc: eon eider the state of the law on the subject. The Chairman of the Bench (Mr. Silvester), told Cleworth that Lilo magi strates had considered the case, and had decid.ed that the defendants were guilty of a desecration o f the Lord's-day and a pena lt y o f s s . a nd costa w ould be i nflicted. —Mr. Clewo r th : I d on 't i n t e nd to paY• I am advised Witt your decision is not legal.—Mr. Silvester ; You are ver . v foolish, for a distress warrant w ill be granted against y our goods, and you have no appeal. —Charle s Bennett, a collier, who had assisted the defendant, , was als o fi ne d s s. and costs, " aiding an d abetting. He and several others were told that if they would pay the costs (6s. 61) no conviction would be recorded against them. They, pr otesting against. paying anything for h owever , refused, saving produce frc . )m injury.. It is understood that distress warrants will be issued against those defendants who are householders, and the others will be confined in the stocks. CAUTION TO FRAUDULENT BANKRUPTS.—At the South Lancashire Assizes, yesterday, Samuel Nash , a baker and flour dealer, who became a bankrupt at Liverpool in March last, was indicted before Mr. Jus tice Blackburn, for having fraudulently concealed a par tion of his estate, with intent to diminish the amount avail able for division amongst his crditors. The bankrnpt's debts at the time of his failure amounted to £613, and ex ceeded by £522 the value of the assets disclosed upon the face of the Lalance-sheet. He submitted a considerable d e f iciency, and when the errors in his accounts were cor rected that deficiency was increased to .£350. It was proved that in the month of February the bankrupt was the owner, or reputed owner, of 150 shares in a building society that he had drawn out a sum of £195, which was due upon those shares, and that the money thus received by him had never been accounted for to the assignees as part of his state. The prisoner was found guilty, but as the statute did not allow a sentence of hard labour, ho was ordered to be imprisoned m erely for 20 months. The MS. of Mr. Linea Arabic-English Lexicon is now copied out and ready for the press. EFFECT OF TUE LIGHTNING AT DEPTFORD.—Last evening, about half-past 6, the Catholic Church in High street, Deptford, was struck by lightning and the cross carried away, much brickwork in the interior damaged, and several windows broken. The electric fluid spread to the adjoining houses; and Mr. J. Lenton Pulling, solicitor, who happened to have a dinner-knife at the time in his hand, received a slight chock. Fortunately, however, no further damage was done, though much alarm was caused in the neiglibcurhovd, lECOND EDITION, SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 O'CLOCK. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.--This Day, STOCKTON RACES—THTs DAY. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. HARDWICKE STAKES. Appenine Syren Wee Aggie .. Six ran. EGHANI RACES—Tms DAY. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. TOWN PLATE. Don't Come Late Duke of Cambridge Queen Elizabrth Thirteen ran. THIRD EDITION SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK. PORTING INT ELLIGENCE.--This Day. STOCKTON RACES.-TIIIS DAY. liY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH, GREAT NORTHERN LEGER. Borealis Change... . ............................ 2 . ................. 3 Miss Armstrong Six ran. EGHAM RACES-THIS DAY, BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. BARON'S STAKES. Wild Huntress Dilston . 0 Maid of Morn 0 Eight ran. RAILWAY STAKES. Magician Maubourquet Three ran. SURREY AND MIDDLESEX STAKES. Gibraltar 1 Detective Six ran. DYING STRAINS.—Chopin, feeling the approach of death, wisheu to bid a last farewell to the instru ment which had given utterance to his poetic inspirations, and had been the means of his great success. A piano was brought to his bedside. With icy hands and clouded vision, he attempted to draw a few scunds from the instrument. A sweet and touching melody, deeply expressive of regret, was whispered forth ; but the musician was unable to complete his pathetic improvisation. He fell back on his bed of suffering and expired a few hours afterwards. Lablache, the incompar able artist, the worthy manila r excellence who is still regretted by the musical world, attempted to sing upon his deathbed : in order, as he said, to die as he had always lived, devoted to his art. " Go," he said to one of his children, "go to the piano and accompany me." The son, struggling to conceal his emotion, obeyed his father's last request. Lablache then sang the first verse of the English romance —"Home, Sweet Home." At the second verse, the singer's throat contracted, and not a note could issue from it. "Ah I" said Lablache, " I can sing no longer. lam a lost man I" He died that very night.—.Dickcns's "All the Year _Round." YANKEE POLITENESS.—As the Revenue cutter Victoria, Commander Smith, was taking a cruise round the Shetland , lslands last week, a vessel was observed about two miles off the land, barque rigged. The Victoria stood for the vessel and hailed her, but got no response. As it was very evident that those in charge had very little respect for her Majesty's " bunting," Commander Smith ordered out a boat, and at once pulled alongside, when the following colloquy took place :—Commander Smith : " Why don't you show your flag P" Stranger : " I guess I ain't got any." Commander Smith : " Where have you come from ?" Stranger : " What's that to you ?" Commander Smith: " Will you give us a rope and put your ladder down ?" Stranger : I shant ; you may get up if you can. I don't want any d—d Britishers in my ship. Ha, ha, ha!" Looking over the quarter at Commander Smith (who weighs at least 16 stone), the captain of the strange vessel sung out, " I guess that'll fix Ibur flint." Brother Jonathan was mistaken, however, in the muscular powers of "Old Cock Smith," as Prince Alfred styled him ; for before the Yankee could say Jack Robinson, Commander Smith stood alongside of him, and though he fumbled about the butt-end of his six-shooter," he felt it was no go ; the cool bearing of the " Britisher" soon silenced the bluster of the Yankee, who had to produce his papers for inspec tion, together with his victualling note, after which the Victoria left the barque to pursue her course.—John o'Groat Journal. HORRIBLE DISCOVERY AT VICKSBURG. A Vicksburg correspondent writes :—" A horrible discovery has just been made, on the rebel line of fortifica. tions. Quite a number of men have been engaged in re pairing the rebel fort that was blown up on the night of the 3d inst. In the course of their operations they have exhumed 60 or 80 dead bodies found buried in the ruins of the fort. It seems that while our miners were at work making an entry into the side of the hill that was crowned by the rebel fort, a strong working party of rebels were set to work sinking a counter-mine in the fort. This party, consisting, it is said, of more than a hundred men, were in the mine when ours exploded, and those of them who were not killed out right were buried alive. Some of the exhumed bodies are terribly lacerated and mangled, while others have not a mark or bruise upom them. Two heads, one that of a negro, have been dug up. They were completely severed from the bodies, the latter not having yet been found. The bodies are found in almost every conceivable position —some stan di n g erect, others sitting or lying, and in one instance the body was head downward, as if it had been caught in that position by the crumbling earth while falling headlong into the pit below." A MELANCHOLY DETAIL OF THE AMERICAN WAR.—The following advertisement, dated from the Chief Assistant-Quartermaster's Office, appears in the Washington Inteiligencer of the 10th inst. :—" Sealed pro posals will be received at this office until Tuesday, August 18, 1863, at 12 o'clock M., for furnishing to the United States 2,500 head-boards or tablets for graves of the follow ing description, viz.—All to be of good black walnut, clear of knots and splits, four (4) feet in length, ten (10) inches wide, and one and three-eighths (I) of an inch thick, with five-eighths (a) of an inch thick, at least twenty (20) inches in length, each of said head-boards or tablets to be well oiled and lettered with the name, rank, regiment, and company, with the time of decease of such com missioned officers or soldier as the Assistant -Quartermaster of his agent ma y direct, and in ail respects t o cor r espond witha sample to be seen at this office." Among the condi tions Proposal from disloyal eiedli,gt ‘ and an oath of allegiance to the United parties li States e t hGceounfvsoeil Government noe n must accompany each pro position." REMARKABLE PRIZE.—On Friday morning the fishermen of Cadgwith, near the Lizard, secured and brought to Falmouth a large whale, commonly known as a " firmer," which they captured near the first-mentioned place, floating dead. It measured 74 feet in length and 36 beet in girth, and was landed on the gridiron of the Fal mouth Docks on the day of the opening of the Cornwall Railway, to the great amusement of the folks from the in terior of the country. WHALE HUNT IN ORKNEY.—GREAT CAPTURE. —At Holm, on Monday evening, all the boats had a grand whale hunt, when they drove ashore the whole flock of 79 or 50, and killed them in a bay at the east end of Liolm. They were sold by roup on Wednesday, and fetched fair prices, bringing upwards of £2OO to the caP turers. Some 20 boats, with 80 men, were engaged in the capture, and all made a good night's work of it. The chase lasted five hours before they got the whales stranded. Another edition of Admiral Smyth's book, " The Cycle of Celestial Objects," is in preparation. CREW PICV , ED UP AT SEA.—The ship Lotus, now at Greenock, fell in with the waterlogged barque Cambria, of Bremen, bound from Quebec to Greenock, on the 12th of August, in let. 45, long. 41. Three days previously she had struck an iceberg and got her bows completely smashed in, but her cargo of deals kept her afloat. The crew, 12 in number, were taken on board the Lotus by Captain Fry, who treated them with the greatest kind ness until they were landed here. The wreck was set on fir©, as it was lying in the track of vessels crossing the Atlantic. On Friday, a beerhouse-keeper, named James Manning, residing at Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, was committal by the Bromsgrovo magistrates for trial on a charge of cutting and wounding under the follow ing circumstances :—lt appears that on Wedn , sday some Irish reapers, and among them a man named Anthony Tummey were at Munning's bacrhouse, when a dispute arose between Tummey and the landlord, and the latter, wishing to deprive TUMllley of his sickle (which he had at the time round his neck), seized hold of the handle, and pulled it so violently as to inflict a frightful wound, cutting through the main arteries of the neck, The poor fellow was promptly attended by a surgeon, but he lies in a N ery precarious state. FRENCH 'MINISTER OF -MARINE. The Minister of Marine has made a further distribu tion of one second-class gold medal, and three first-class and sixteen second-class silver, for acts of courage and devotedness in saving lives from drowning in cases of ship wreck and otherwise. 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