The Sun. — London, England, 1863-08-15 00:00:00

- - - MONEY MARKET. AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, In the g CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCN. eneral discount market there is no alte ration of importance, the demand being well main tained, at 3i 4 per cent, for even the best three months' There was a general upward movement in the Foreign Exchanges yesterday afternoon. A further sum of £21,000 in gold was taken into the Bank yesterday. Since Monday last the imports of specie amounted to £470,000, and the exports to £338,000. Up to the 23d July Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co.'s agent in Venezuela had received for the bond holders' proportion of the customs' revenue for two weeks, 38,151 doll. 21c. from La Guayra. Only a small amount of the sum due from Puerto Cabello had been received at the departure of the last mail. Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co. have received £1,508 14s. 10d. from the Custom-house at Santa .Marta, on account of the New Granada dividends. The mail from Guayaquil has brought a remit tance of £333 12s. Bd. on account of the dividends on the Ecaador Bonds. The following remarks upon the accumulation of produce in the United Kingdom is from the circular of Messrs. J. Travers and Sons :—" The accumula tion of produce in the various warehouses through out the country since the commencement of the present year has been much larger than any one would suppose, looking at the satisfactory ex tent of consumption of nearly all the principal articles. Unfortunately, there are no data by which to arrive at exact information on the point except the statements which are furnished with the returns of the imported goods held in bond as being liable to duty. There can be little doubt, however, that the figures in those instances may be taken as affording a general indication applicable to the great mass of our trade. From these, it ap pears that in the first half of 1863 there has been an increase of 156,8351 b. in our stock of cocoa, of 4,133,6381 b. in coffee, of 500,272 gallons of rum, of 356,929 gallons of brandy, of 990,118 cwts. of sugar, of 26,975 cwts of refined sugar, of 37,812 cwts. of molasses, of 9,52 7,3151 b. of tea, and of 679,334 gallons of wine. To bacco, pepper, and fruits are the only articles of which our stocks have experienced any redaction since the Ist of January. So long as the American war lasts, this state of circumstances must be ex pected to continue, and prices are hardly likely to rally even though at home we are taking into use a fair increase of nearly all those articles the consump tion of which denotes a state of prosperity. On the return of peace, a rise must occur, since the deficien cies to be made up in America will cause orders to be sent to all parts." Two O'CLOCK. There has been no new feature in the English Stock Market, and business has been conducted on a very limited scale. There appears to be an almost entire absence of speculation, and the opera tions for transfer are also small. Consols are 93 k for money, and 931 4 for the account. The New Threes and Reduced are 93h 4 ; Exchequer Bills, ls. dis. to 2s. prem.; India 5 per Cents., 1081 ; and do. Bonds, 19s. prem.; India Stock is 224; and Bank do., 238 i. Foreign Stocks have been quiet, and although at one time rather lower, close with tolerable firm ness. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 68 g ; Ditto Consolides, 481 1 491; Mexican, 381- 1-; Greek, 331 ; Ditto Coupons, 151 16 ; Spanish Passive, 34 341- ; Ditto Certificates, 121 ; and the Con federate Loan, 25 to 23 dis. A moderate amount of business has been trans acted in the Railway Share Market to-day, and in one or two instances prices have slightly advanced. Great Eastern and Great Western each improved 10s.; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 55.; and South- Eastern, 15s. The Foreign and Colonial lines remain inactive, at about previous quotations. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares continue very dull. London and Westminster declined to 77-k. Crystal Palace Stock is steady, at 40i 1; Hudson Bay Company Shares have improved to 3 ; and International Financial ditto to 81. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Bank Stock 23Bk 2 per Cent. Reduced A nnu iti es 31 3 per Cent. Consols An nu iti es New 3 per Cent. Ann u iti es New 21 per Cent. Annuities........ 5 per Cent. Annuities Annuities, 30 yrs, expire 6th Jan., 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 Ditto 51 per Cent ............ Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct., 1863 Ditto ditto April, 1864 Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 Ditto Bonds £l,OOO Ditto under £l,000 Bank Stock for Account Console for Account, Sept. 9 India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent — March, 2 pu I Jane, 1 pe per Cent. r Cent. 2 1 Exchequer Bills, Zl,OOO .. 2 t Ditto 4500 Ditto Small .......... 1 die FOREIGN FUNDS--CLOSING PRICES. Brazilian 5 per Cent Ditto, 1839 and 1859 Ditto 4} per Cent., 1852-58-60 Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) Chi lian 6 per Cent Ditto 4k per Cent. Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Egyptian 7 per Cent lo4} 1 5 Ditto, Second Issue Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons.. Ditto Account 33i Ditto Coupons Ditto Account Italian 5 per Cent.(Maremmana Railway) Mexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account 3BA I Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto Account.... Ditto 3 per Cent., 1866, '7, '9, '6O, 62 — Ditto Account Russian 5 per C en t., 1822, St 48 Ditto 4k per Cent 1850 .. .. Ditto 3 por C en t., 185 9 . —5B/ Ditto 5 per C en t. 186 2 Sardinian 6 p er C ent Ditto Account Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Account Ditto New Deferred Ditto Account Ditto Passive Ditto Account 331 Spanish Cert. of Coup nut funded Ditto Account l2k Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854, Ditto Account.. 93 Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 Ditto Account 7ll Ditto, £lOO Bonds Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 Ditto Account 6Bl 8 jk Ditto Guarante e d, 4 per C ent. Venezuela 3 per Cent. Ditto Account •. 24 Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 .. Ditto Account . . 671 .... ............. Dividends on the above payable in London. hutch 2i per Cent., Ex. 12 Gull .. , ..... Italian, 6 per Cent., 1 861, Ex. 25 franc s.. -- Ditto Account.... 8.. ................ " TWO O'CLOCK. Consols, Money ....... Ditto ............. 933/i1 SHIPPING —This Day. and very fiLoNDew, ne Aug. 15.—Wind at N oon, S.; light airs . _ . _ - - FALMOUTH. Aug. 14.—Wind, S.—Arrived —Dan, from Havanna. PILL, Aug. 13.--Sailed—Wm. Graham and mrni. Yeo, for Quebec. CARDIFF, Aug. 14.—Wind, E.—Sailed—Q *o , n f„,. Bilboa. Arrived_ ' ; from St. Balder, from S. Thom as ' s - Cumber land, screw steamer, from Havana ; Georgina John's: SWANSEA, Aug. 14.—Wind, Elisa, from Mauritius. GLOUCESTER, Aug. 14.—Arrived---Carls, from N ew York; Cohla, from Montreal ; Meteor, from Miramichi. .........•,40 Arrived, (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAYR.d) GRAVESEND, Satur ay Morning. August 14.—Amant, from Sorted. . Passed--D DEAL, Saturday Morning. Weymouth --‘ 3 yal Stuart, from Madras, for London ; Dor -Ist:o:T' of lt ' from the north, for the west; Cadmus, q Yarmouth., ;from the north, for the west; Rival Ship, , for Amsterdam ; Rubicon, from London, Sate l d ta — ; fromsil'A•SDeeWoolwich, for the westward. Carling,' Lady LOU!/38, for 14/a ura , a for Autwop ; SHARE MARKETS—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCII.S. ce. Shar Itailwaye. 1 ri ( c l faidi Closing Budecinne.esa ; Bir., Wol., and Str. Val, Blythe and Tyne. Bost.,Sleat.,andMid.Co Bristol and Exeter Caledonian G'or a. and Bandon Cornwall Do A A vets no di\ Do. B till Gp e.p an. har 111 been paid to B. Dublin & Belfast June. fiun.,Perth,&Ab. June. Edinburgh & Glasgow. Glasg. and S. Western.; Great Eastern, Ord. stk _ . 8 8i Si 81 86 1 , 8 118 .110 7 61 Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian a t GreatNorthot Scotland Great Northern...—. • • Do A stock Do 13 do Gt. S. ant W. of Irelan, Great Western Do Str Val gua. stock Lancashire Yorkshirt. London and iilackwaL Lon., Bright.A S. Coast Lon., Chat., aad Dover Lon. & Nor'h Western Lon. & Siy.th Western Man., Slid., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Dot shares... Metropolitan Midland Do Neve Do Birming. tt Derby :Md. Gt. W. of Irelam Do. shares IMid Kent Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwioc Do, G.N.E. purchast Do Leeds Do York Do Carlisle North London Do New North Staffordshire N. and S. W.. Junction 1 1 Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock Do Scot Mid. stock Shrews. and Welchpool Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines,Wok.,andWok Stockton Darlington Do Do New, 1886 Tail' Vale. .. Do B Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria eta. and Pim Waterford it Kilkenny %Vest Cornwall W. II art lepc ol ar. (tR West Midlllnd -Oxford Do Newport Do -Hereford 13.14, BRITISH P Railways Atlantic & St Lawrence Born.,Barodat.Cent Ind Gu. 5 per cent... Do. New Do. E. Shares... Burial° and Lake Huron, Do. Preference ...... Baalo,Brant,&GodrieL 6 p. ct. bdfi. Aug. 1, 1872 Do. do. July 1, 1873 Do. do. June 1, 1874 Uleutta.&S.Lastn. (Lin ) Cape Town & Dock Scrii Eastn. Bengal gu. A p. ( East Indian. gu. 5 p. c. Do. do. G Ext..... DO: do. H do. Grand Trunk of Canada 1)0. Ist Pref. Bonds.. Do. uo. deferred.- Do. 2d fret. Bonus.. Do. do defer , ed...... Do. 3d 1' ef. stock ... Do. do. deferred...... DO. 4th l'ref. sto.k... Do. do. deferred...... (3t.lndiaPeniu.gua.bp.e Do. New gua. j Do. Jantia'ry, 1862 .. Gt. South.of India (Lim) guaranteed 5 per cent. Gt. W. of Canada Shares, Do. New Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. Do. 5i p. c. do. '77-8.. . Indian Branch Limited Madras guar., 5 p. c. Do. It p. c. ExWnsion Dc. 4,4 d 0........ Do. Fifth Extension. Melb.Corp. ts p. o. Bnd Melb. & llobson'a Bay Do. 7 p. c. Mortg. Bds Newßr unswick Cana, Class A and B N. Itl.C'dati pc Ist p 1 bdb Acinde • • .... Du. Delhi Do. do Do. Punjaub Do. Do. •• •• , Do. Indus. St. Flo.) ILONIAL GOVER. Uttii.liur. 6 p.c.J ,ILJ 1877-81 Do. 6 p. c. Feb..tc Aug Do. d p. c.Mar. 4; Sept. Do.!` p. c. Jan.&July. Do. 6 Inscribed stools Cape G.llope, 6 p 0,1873 Do.Ap & Oct. 1880 Do. 189 t Do. Jan.. July, 1891.. Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6 p c 'Mauritius 6 per cent .. !Natal Gov. 6 per cent.. N..8.G0v. 6 p.c. Jx..tJul) 1)0. 6p. o.Ap. N. S. W. Gov. 5 p I,lBos Do. 5 p. c.,18,1 to 167( Do. d0.,1888 &upwds New Zealand 6 p cent. Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. c. sterling, 1875. Queensland Gm 6 p. S. Aus G6p.c.1878.& up.. Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July Do. io fiD.O. AD.&OOt.. 6 7 40 11 154 104 94 95 111 113 494 604 47 40 244 .:54 123 125 1224 12:1 135 140 100 I(2 65L 064 11131 1131 706 77, 113 115 124 434 101/ 102,1 105) 10,6 43 11 114 111 129 129 i 1 I td 97 99 54 t 5 25 26 1011 1011 67} 58 82 8 118 120 141 E 2 8.3 111. Izi 122 124 46i 17i 100 162 50 02 30 32 92i 03 70 72 101 103 it 8 38 39 94 lOi 7 4 8 4 165 160 6f 6f t 3 p 84 86 156 160 27 29 451 461 39 41 104 106 SIONS. Closing nice. 60 („2 - 107 108 1 li 1p p 51 4 71 81 107 ICB ' 1( 3 105 109 110 ICB I'9 1Z 1 ,, p IZ, 19 10 69 71 52 55 62 65 45 48 42 44 33 36 23 25 20 23 ICB 109 1 14r, 1 107 ICB 101 11 10 04, - ;' 95 98 90 ta P 107 , u 8 1011 1024 t 8 100 55 57 3 fs 83 E 5 104 104 lu7t itBi IP - !1071 ICBiP 103 105 "1' 103 105 1(2 104 105 107 95 96 94 96 108 110 112 114 113 115 112 115 113 116 106 107 110 112 1051 Icoi 1001 1011 5 1014 1025 1011 1024 110 112 105 108 1:0 112 110 112 107 109 113 113; 50,1 f 491. 1131 75 3 / 4 111 102 la lon 11/ li 124 i 6.4.0 19.18.4 Bt 12.10 BRITISH MINES. 2 Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 c 1 , 4 uhilord Amalgamated 30 32 Devon G. Con.. (Taviet , 1 550 670 575 East Bassett (Illogan) 30 79 81 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd sa. Id par East Caradou 1.11.6 28 30 East Carn Brea.. E. Vir'l Russel (favistk ) 8.6.6 3/ 3! Gam.. St.Auhyn(Gwen ) :81 7 10 Great South Tolgus l7s 31 31 G. Wheal Vor (lielston) 40 61 7/ Grenville.. s- Foot ~ 8.12 58 40 liingston D0wn5...... 4.' 8.0 11 2 Lady Bertha Margaret (Ony Lelant) a* 32 at Mark e Valley. 4 Myndy Iron Oro (Lim ) 24 1/ New Setun l9l leo 110 North Downs 24 2 24 N. Wh'i Basset (Mogan, 2.17.0 21 3/ North Wheal Crotty Par Consols (st. Blazey:i 14 4 6 20 Providence (Uny Lelnt.)l 10.6.7 40 42 South Caradon(St.Cleer) I/ 415 425 S. Caen Brea (Illogan) 5.15.0 11 24 S.Wheai Fran. (Mogan) 18.1-.9 724 74 Stray Park 5 famar Silv.,k Lead Min 44 1 fin Croit 9 214 224 West Basset (Illogan) l4 114 124 W C' radon (Liskeard) 5 22 24 West Soton Wheal Basset (Mogan) 54 60 65 Wheal Buller(ltedruth) 5 45 50 Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) 2.0.6 WhealLudtott ....... 2.10.8 21 3 Wheal MaryAnni.r.den.) 8 11 13 Wheal Seton 584 .220 230 Wheal Treutwney (Lis.) 7 15 17 Wheal Unio n 1 3.17 21 3/ 31 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Western, 5 per cent. red. prf., 1011 North Eastern, Cons. pref., 4 per cent., 94 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS, London, Brighton, &c., ti per cent., 185 d, 102 LINES LEASED AP FIXED RENTALS; Manchester, Buxton, and M a tl ock, 4 Northern and Eastern, 5 per cent., 56 Nottingham and Grantham It. & C., 96 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, Elf Recite and San Francisco (lim.), gua. 7 per cent., 17 San Paulo (lira.), gua. 7 per cent., Ditto (a , l), 22i South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 211 1 Turin and Savona, 21 West Flanders, 7i FOREIGN BMES. Kapunda St. John del of Im.), 58i 7 Yudanantutana S. Australia (Rm.), 31 .1 3 JOIN T-STOCK RANKS. &gra and United Service (lim.), 115 . Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool (Um.), 36 Bank of New Zealand, 10 Chartered Bank of British Columbia, 10i City, 108 Consolidated Bank, lim., 10 9} 10} Imperial Bank (lim.), 20} imperial Ottoman, 18k London and County. 47 London and South African, 26 London and Westminster. 77i National Provincial of England, —. Ditto, new, 26 Union of Australia, 521 Union of London, 35i 6 51 East and West Indi a, 142 DOCKS, IS Atlantic Royal Mai A l L Ste CE am LL, 21ANEOUS. Berlin Water Works. lint, si 9 Crystal Palatse, 4oi 40 E, , giish and Australian Copper, 1 Hudson's Bay, 3 International Financial Society, Um., 81 National Discount Company lint., 91 Oriental Inland Steam, lim.,, 3$ Quebrada Land, Rail, ann Mining Urn., 21 3 THE BRAZIL NAILS. (Per the Navarre.) RIO JANEIRO, July 24. Exchange on London, 26k; on Paris, 363 to 355. Coffee, good first, 7,200 to 7,300 rein. The Navarre has on board 1,942 bags of coffee. The Royal Pack e t co Company's ship upon the 18t Oneida arriy:aialtStPeaemrnnbu August. 81i 92 3f Paid. all Business done 61 1071 a 108} 111 1081 i . _ -.,r-- THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, LILITcIUST 15, 1863. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT IN THE STREETS. —Henry Williamson, a clerk, who gave the address 25, !ternWing ton-street, City-road, was charged before Mr. Knox with disgraceful conduct to several females, and also with as saulting Mr. James Kean, a tailor, residing at 53, Maddox street, Regent-street. Mr. Kean said that he was turning the corner of Little Argyle-street, about 10 o'clock the previous night, when he saw the prisoner go up to a respectable female, and seize her in a most improper manner, turning her quite round. He followed the prisoner, and before he got to the end of Argyle street he saw him assault in a similar manner six more females, one of them an elderly woman. He then seized the prisoner, and said, " You scamp, you shall not go unpunished," and had a severe struggle with him, in the course of which his sleeve was torn, and he was struck twice and thrown down by the pri soner; but being determined that he should not escape, he retained his hold, and at last he was secured and taken to the station. The female did not go to the station, being too frightened at prisuner's conduct, and glad to get away. Police-constable Kettlewell, 3S C, said that hearing cries of "Police" ho went to Argyle-street, and the last Nritness gave the prisoner in charge for indecently assaulting females and assulting him (Mr. Kean). The prisoner denied the charge, but when at the station told the inspector that he had only raised the female's clothes about two inches. Prisoner said that all he had got to say was that he was drunk at the time, and was now very sorry. Mr. Knox said that if the females had been present he should have sent the prisoner for trial for his abominable conduct. As it was he should treat the case as one of drunk and disorderly conduct, and indict upon him the highest penalty he could, namely, 40s. or a month. EUGENE Dilelf_ROKlC:. This celebrated artist, says the Morning Post, had been ill for about two months with chest disease, and for a long time his life had been despaired of. He died in his 66th year, having been born at Charenton St. Maurice, near Paris, April 26, 1798, or, in the then current slang, 7 Flereal, An. VI. Charles Delacroix Constant, father of the future artist, was elected deputy for the department of the Marne in 1792; voted for the death of Louis XVI. ; was one of the most violent of the Thermidorians ; became Minister of Foreign Affairs under the Directory, and was succeeded by Talleyrand in 1797 ; was for a time Ambassador to Hol land, and died, in 1805, Prefect of Bordeaux. He was 68 when Eugene was born, his elder son being already a soldier and his daughter of marriageable age. It is somewhat startling to find that an infant of three years old had been all but drowned, all but burnt, all but poisoned, and all but hanged—himself being the execu • tioner ; but it is true enough of Eugene Delacroix. When in arms his nurse fell with him into the sea, and was only saved by the courage of some sailors, who probably were the cause of the calamity, the bonne being more attentive to them than to her charge. Then the child's cradle caught fire, and he received serious injuries. Thirdly, he was nearly killed by some verdigris incautiously left in his way ; and lastly, he nearly finished his carrer by hanging himself, to see what the sensations were, without taking care to have a chair near his feet when turned off. This fourth escape is the only incident of which there is a shadow of doubt, but anyhow he had as many " squeaks for his life" as Horace of old. His career at the College Louis le Grand was a brilliant one : here, by the way, he made friends with the since Dr. Louis Veron. His drawing .master, finding that his per formances were far superior to those of his fellow pupils, advised him to put himself under a great master—David, for instance. The old organist of Bordeaux Cathedral, a friend of Mozart's, gave lessons to his sister, and tormented his mother's life out to have him brought up to the musical profession. Dis aliter visum. At 18 the youth entered the studio of Baron Guerin, the professor at the school of the fine arts, who numbered Ary Scheffer and G6ricault among his dleves. The selection of Guerin was unlucky, and master and pupil soon found out the difference of their ideas on art. Eugene was even now a sharp observer, and possessed a powerful imagination; he could not follow in the steps of his master's classicism. The baron could make nothing of him : "But," said he, " let him stay here; he has got money, it is better that he should make daubs than debts' , (mieux vaut qu'il fasse des creates que des defies.) Still he gave Eugene no encouragement whatever. In 1822 the youthful artist sent to the Exhibition the now famous "Dante and Virgil in Hell." He begged Guerin to go and see it at his studio, in the Rue de la I'lanche, at the bottom of the Faubourg St. Germain, and, after much ungracious grumbling, the baron went. The old classicist was petrified. Here was a revolution. " What is it all about ?" "It is Dante visiting Virgil in Hell, my dear master—there are the souls of the damned —." "Not done sufficiently brown," sneered Guerin. " The thing is absurd," said the master, "exaggerated—absurd. Playing a Michael Angelo, are you? Your servant, sir." The picture was not rejected, however; it commenced undoubtedly a revolution in art, and it subjected its author to violent abuse, as well as to enthusiastic applause. Meeting Guerin one day, when in the height of his young triumph, Delacroix was received with anything but congratulation. " Puffed out, elated, I suppose ? After all, this triumph only proves —." " That you would have rejected the picture, my dear master, had you been a judge : you are always so kind to me." " Pooh! pooh! I never had any kindness for heretics. A day will come when your picture will be burnt on the Place de la Grirve." " They have occasionally burnt good things there, my dear master " Here, the chronicler says, the conver sation was broken off, for the baron was apparently in a state of incipient apoplexy. It was scandalously put about by Delacroix's enemies that Gericault had had a large share in Dante and Virgil, the redeeming points being those from the hand of the author of the "Shipwreck of the Medusa," the blemishes Delacroix's own. This was of course a false hood. Among all the criticisms to which Eugene was sub jected there was one honest and generous one by M. Thiers in the Constitutionnel. He nobly proclaimed the excellence of the work, predicted the future fame of the artist, praised the colouring and the style, which "combined the boldness of Michael Angelo with the fertility of Rubens." BaronGros also stood by him, and invited him to study underhim, an offer which was declined, perhaps happily, for the author of " Sappho at the Promontory of Leucas" could hardly help seeing a future rival in Eugene Delacroix. Thiers said that in Delacroix, Destoushes, Drollet, Cogniet, and Du bufe, he saw the rise of a new generation of artists who would do France honour. M. Thiers had a penchant for revolutions in art as well as politics. The " Massacre at Scio " (1824) produced a great sensa tion; it was the most dramatic picture to which the cen tury had given birth. The contrast between the splendour of the sun and the fierce hatred of man, the groups of half naked Greeks, the quivering flesh, the corpses scattered about, the infants pressing the bosoms of their dying mothers, were terrible in their reality. Henceforth there was deadly war declared against Delacroix. His opponents did what they could to exclude him from the exhibitions, but in vain, though one remarkable picture, "The Educa tion of the Virgin," was rejected. Many well-wishers, among them M. Sosthenes de la Rochefouald, urged him to altar his course, or he could have no Government en gagements. Luckily he had three or four hundred a year of his own, and he answered one and all with the Scrip tural " Etiam si omnes, ego non." In 1826 he produced "The Death of Marino Faliero," " Greece—the Ruins of Missolonghi" (for the benefit of the Greek revolutionists), and other pictures. In 1827 appeared " Tasso in the Mad house," and "Cardinal Richelieu Officiating in the Chapel of the Palais Royal, surrounded by guards "—a splen did picture, burnt, unfortunately, during the Revolution of February, 1848 , in 1829, " The Combat between the Giaour and the Pasha" (for the museum at Nantes), " The Giaour after the Combat," and several small pictures for the Gallery Colbert; in 1830, "Liberty Guiding the People on the Barricades" (at the Louvre) ; in 1831, "The Mur der of the Bishop of Liege" (from " Quentin Durward"), "The Wild Boar of the Ardennes," and " Boissy d'Anglas at the Sitting of the Frairial, An, III." The Revolution of 1830 terminated the artist's proscrip tion. M. Thiers procured for him the engagement to de corate the Salon du Roi, in the Palace Bourbon. His re presentations of Justice, War, Agriculture, and Industry adorn the ceiling, and his bold qualities had full play in this work. He also painted the five cupolas of the library, with four tableaux in each, and the two hemicycles at the extremities. Next Delacroix was employed to paint the cupola of the Luxembourg Library in the Champs Elysdes, and he selected his subject from the fourth chapter of Dante's "Inferno," decorating the hemicycle above the window with the picture of "Alexander Locking up Homer's Works in a Golden Casket," and " Justinian Writing his Code." He decorated also the ceiling and pentices of one of the waiting-rooms in the Hotel de Ville, with the history of the Theban Hercules and many mytho logical personages. At the Louvre he painted the ceiling of the Apollo Gallery with " Apollo Conquering the Python." Before this, however, M. Thiers had procured the ap pointment of M. Delacroix as attaché to the embassy sent in 1832 by Louis Philippe lo the Sultan of Morocco— Abd-er Rhaman. This was nearly the only foreign journey he ever took, for he never visited Italy for fear of losing his originality I He carefully studied African manners and costumes, and the fruits of his trip are to be seen in his " Moorish Scenes," his " Algerian Women' (now at the Luxembourg), his "Interior of a Court in Morocco," his " Arab Mountebanks," &c. The following pictures, with others, appeared between 1833 and 1838, " Charles V. Playing the Organ in the Monastery of St. Just," the " Death of Charles the Rash after the Battle of Nancy," the " Convent of the Domini cans at Madrid," the " Prisoner of Chillon," " Christ at Calvary," the Battle of Taillebourg" (in the Versailles Museum), " Christ in the Garden of Olivet" (for St. Paul's Church, Paris), " Justinian" (for the hall of the Council of State), the "Apparition of Mephistopheles to Faust," "A Wounded Herdsman of the Campagna Slaking his Thirst on the Brink of a Marsh," "A young Turk Caress ing his Horse," "The blind Milton Dictating ' Paradise Lost' to his Daughters," and " Sardanapalus Dying in the midst of his Wives," a gorgeous picture of Oriental luxury and voluptuousness which Delacroix called his" Waterloo," as it gave him a prominent place among artists, and beat down prejudices at once. It would be impossible to give an enumeration of all the pictures of this prolific artist ; they would occupy half a column of this paper, One or two remarkable efforts of his genius may be mentioned. In 1838 his " Medea" (now in the Lille Museum) produced a great sensation. Medea is represented as having poisoned Creusa, and flying with her children. She bears a poinard in her hand, and looks round to see if Jason is pursuing her, in which case she will kill the children. Her body is full of light, but her terrible eyes quite in the shade. The next year a half length of Cleopatra preparing for death was issued from Delacroix's studio. Cleopatra has received a basket of figs from her slave, and is thinking, her chin on her hand, when she espies an aspic among the figs, and there is no doubt what ' her thoughts turn on then— " fortis et asperas Tractare serpentes, ut arum. Corpora combiberet vewrnuar Deliberate morte ferocior." Nest w© have Hamlet contemplating thel e ombreick the attitude of the figures in harmony " The t o h - f Yor s , subject in spite of some negligence of desi g n. Shi p It is awful to contsm wreck" (1841) is a noble picture. death, draw prey to despair, to the horrors of hunger and , plate the calm sea, the deep silence, the halfaked men a well ing lots for the frightful chance of being.eaten: This derful pi c t ure represents th e dreadful ep isode in the second catnhteo third of d ' D , o ,y n t J h u e a r e n came ." " a T The calm;"sun on 4, the sev e n t h there rose red and fiery ;" on “ was no wind." " They gl are d u p on each other; all was gone, Water r, atnhdeywsinpoek, eanndofood, and you might se e The longings of the cann ibal arise, Alt We can ouly men ti on byname such well - known pictures 'k It romy be said of this flue picture that the arti s t has, apparently by d e sign, sacrificed correctness of design the nobleness and beauty of the character, to thr ee or ,and four bold and brilliant touches more or it:s:t harmonised, The picturo is a marvel for colouriDE, 1 as " Trojan's Justiae" (1840), " The taking :of Constan tinople by the Latins" (1841; " Rebecca taken off by the Slaves of Brian de Bois Gilbert in the Sack of the Castle of Torquifsat2° ; " " The Farewell of Romeo and Juliet," and " Margaret at Church" (all in 1846) ; " Christ at the Tomb," " The Duel of Valentin and Faust," " The Death of • Sarah," and the " Lion Devouring the She-goat" (1848), " Othello and Desdemona" (18-10), " The Rescur rection of La zarus ," " L a d y M ac b et h , " " Th e Good Sama ritan," " The Pilgrims of Emmaus," and " The Burial of St. Stephen," 1850-3. Eugene Delacroix will not probably retain with posterity the somewhat exaggeratedlie reputation which he has lat terly held i n F rance. has been considered equal to But his Rubens as a co l our i st. inaccurate drawing, hi s harsh and ung a i n l y effects, his ') crude, id though (it cided, light and shade, hi s rough and raexecution, aro not likely to win the fav our o f posterity lie may be said, i n short, to have mixed th e co l our of Rubenswith the im post() of Constable, without th e vuluptuouses kinds sof the one and the freshness of the other. H e c h ose all sub jects; he roamed at will from mytholo g y to Christianity, from t o may nature. be s c a a n l i l A t e y d ; from sea-pictures to flowers, irom history Ingres, yet happily spared over his 80th year, an idealist, Delacroix may be called, on the other hand, 'a cclourist. In epite of Delacroix 's want of correctness there is in his pictures a singular warmth, a brilliant light, and an almost oratuatic power : he has been honoured with tbo title of the " Victor Hugo of painters." It now remains to be added that Delacroix received the second medal in 1824, the first in 1848, and the grand medal of honour in 1855 ; that he was nominated in 1831 Chevalier of the Legion of Honour; that in 3846 he was made officer, and in 1855 commander thereof. In January, 1857, he was elected a member of the Institute in the room of Paul Delarocbe. WESTMINSTER. DARING ATTEMPTED ROBBERY IN A DWELLING HOC SE.—OO URAGEOUS CONDUCT OF A FEMALE —A man of respectable appearance, named Henry Cameron, was charged before Mr. Selfe with entering the house 132, Worcester-street, Pimlico, for the purpose of committing a felony. Georgiana Southwood, dressmaker, said that abcut half past eight o'clock the previous night she was going out on business when she saw two men on the steps lead ing to the street door in conversation with each other. She was absent about five minutes. On her return she saw one of the men standing at the porch of the door, and said to him " What do you do there ?" She had no sooner said so than she next heard the wide window-blind cracking. In s minute after she saw the prisoner look out of the window, and leap from there to the steps of the street door. Mr. Selfe—Upon seeing that what did you do ? Witness—l rushed up to him and seized hold of him by his collar. I said to him " What business haci you in my parlous ?" He struggled, and said "Let me go." He tried to get away, and in the struggle we both fell. I called for help, and kept my hold of the prisoner till some one came to my assistance. Mr. Selfe—Did the prisoner do you any injury ? Witness—He caught hold of my fingers and forced them back—he nearly broke them. Mr. Selfe—How did he get in ? Witness—He must have got in at the window, which was loft open. _ _ The Prisoner said he had boon drinking. Prosecutrix—You were not drunk or I shouli have smelt you when I had you down. _ _ _ Eva Lynn. a little girl about 12 years of age, proved having heard the prosecutrix call out "help," and who told her to go for a policeman. She went for one and met a cab man. She told him to go the assistance of the prosecutrix, and then went for a policeman. B 144, having staled that he found some lucifer matches on the prisoner, Mr. Sel.l:c said that he should remand him, and directed the police to make inquiries about him. The prisoner was remanded. THAMES. MURDEROUS ASSAULT.—Annie Johnsen, a tall, mas culine woman, very smartly dressed, was brought before Mr. Leigh charged with committing a violent assault on Ann Moore, the wife of a sailor. The complainant had received very serious injuries; her nose was broken and strapped up with surgical plaisters, and there were other contusions on her head and face. The case was a simple one, and deposed to by many wit nesses. The prisoner had an old grudge against the com plainant, who was passing along Phillip street, St Gcorge in-the-East, yesterday evening, when the prisoner, who wag standing at her door, went into her kitchen and brought out a poker, with which she attacked the complainant, and while using the worst possible oaths and imprecations struck her several times over the head and body. The last blow fell on the complainant's nose, and was dealt with such great severity, that the poker was broken in two, the complainant fell grievously wounded, and she was in• sensible for some time afterwards. The broken poker, in two pieces, was produced, and it appeared the complainant lost a good deal of blood. Mr. Joseph, Smith, solicitor, in defence, said the com plainant was the aggressor, and called a witness, Catherine Dayment, who admitted a poker was used. Mr. Leigh said a savage assault had been committed by the prisoner. He fined him £3, and, in default of pay ment,l2l days' imprisonment. MARKETS---This Day. COVENT GARDEN. The supply of fruit and vegetables is seasonably large. Generally speaking, the trade is slow, as follows : TRUIT. P. d. s. d. Pine apples 5 0 to 7 0 Colonial do., each 1 0 to 3 0 Grapes,per lb 2 6 to 5 o Foreign do 1 6 to 2 6 Melons . Nectarines, per dz 6 0 to 10 0 Apples, per ht-sv. 1 3 to 2 6 Pears, per do Oranges, per 100 0 0 to 0 0 Lemons, per 100 0 0 to 0 0 Gooseberries hi sve3 6 to 4 6 Strawberries pr pt 0 8 to 1 0 e. d. a d Raspberries,pr pt 0 4to 0 6 Cherries, per lb. 0 3to 0 6 Foreign ditto, punt) oto 0 0 Filberts, per lb .. 0 Bto 1 0 Walnuts, per 100 0 oto 0 0 Cobnuts, per lb .. 0 oto 0 0 Almonds, per bus 0 oto 0 0 Figs, per doz. .... 6 oto 8 0 Peaches.. . 10 0 to 20 0 Currants, per h.sv 4 6to 6 0 Plums, per d 0... 4 oto 4 0 I Greengages, pr do. 6 oto 7 0 VEGETABLES. Greens, dz bunch 1 oto 2 0 Shallots, per lb .. 0 6to 0 8 Cabbages, pr doz 0 9to 1 0 Horseradish, pdo 1 oto 2 0 Rid ditto 0 oso 0 0 Parsley, per ditto 0 3to 0 4 Savoy do., pr dz 0 oto 0 0 I Celery, per ditto 0 oto 0 0 Cauliflowers, pdz 0 9to 2 0 Beet, per doz. .. 1 6to 2 0 Brocoli, per bus. 0 oto 0 0 i Parsnips, per do. 0 oto 0 0 Potatoes, per ton 70 oto 110 0 Small salad, p. pn, 0 oto 0 0 New ditto, pr lb ..0 2to 0 4 Mushrooms,p ptl. 1 oto 1 3 Turnips, dz bunch 2 oto 3 0 Artichokes, each 0 oto 0 0 Carrots, pr do 4 6to 5 6 Cos lett, score .. 0 10 to 1 2 Cucumbers 0 4to 1 01 Mint and savory..o 3to 0 4 Garlic, per lb Sorrel, per sieve 0 oto 0 0 Radishes, dz hnds 0 oto 0 0 Green peas, h.-sv. 1 6to 2 0 Tomatoes, doz... 0 oto 0 0 Brus. sprouts,h.s. 0 oto 0 0 Chillies, per ditto 0 oto 0 0 Onions, doz. bri.. 1 6to 2 0 Capsicums, per do 0 oto 0 9 New Do., dz bun 0 oto 0 0 Rhubarb, per bun 0 3to 0 4 Spinach .. 0 6to 0 8 Asparagus, pr do. 2 oto 4 6 Turnip radishes 0 OSo 0 01 Seakale, per bun. 0 oto 0 0 POULTRY. Turkey poults, 5s to 7s ; geese, 48 Od to 75 Od each ; goslings, 4s Od to 6s Od; ducks, 2s Od to 3s 9d; ducklings, 2s 6d to 3s Od ; rabbits, is Od to 2s Od each ; wild do. , 9d to is Od ; pigeons, Os 4d to Os 8d each; Surrey fowls, 8s Od to 14s Od ; chickens, 5s 0.1 to 8s Od ; barn-door fowls, 3s Od to 6s Od ; capons, Os Od ; hares, Os Od to Os Od ; ptarmigan, Os Od to Os each; pheasants, Os Od to Os Od ; partridges,Os Od to Os Od ; woodcocks, Os to Os Od ; snipes, Os to Os Od; teal, O s Od t o O s Od ; wild ducks, Os Od to Os 0.1 ; widgeons, Os Od to Os Od ; plovers Os Od to Os Od each ; guinea fowls, Os Od to Os Od roasting pigs, Os 0.1 to Os 0 d each; Ostend fresh butter, 9d to Os Ild ; English , lld to is Id per lb ; E ng li s h eggs, 7a 6d to 8s Od; French do., 6s Od to 7s Od per 100 ; leverets, 2s 0.1 to 4s Od each. BILLINGSGATE. Salmon, Os 9d to is Od ,• trout, Od to Os ; eels, 5d to 8d ; prawns, Os; skate, 4d to 6d; sturgeon, and halibut, Od per lb. ; turbots, 4s Od to 15s ; cod, 3s Od to 4s Od ; brills, 2s Od to 5s Od ; doreys, hs Od to 6s Od ; mullets, Os 6d to is 6d ; lobsters, 6d to 2s 6d; crabs, 6d to 2s 6d ; plaice and garnets, 3d to is 6d each; soles, 3d to 2s 6d per pair; common oysters, 12s to 25s ; natives, 60s to —s per bushel ; whitings, 4s Od to 6s • haddocks, 4s to 12s ; smelts, Os Od to Os Od; flounders, Os Od per dozen; mackerel, 408 per 100 ; fresh herrings, 8s per 100; bloaters, Os to Os per 100; carp and tench, Os Od to Os per brace. WHITECHAPEL. Beef, 3s 2d to 4s 4d ; mutton, 3s 8d to 4s 8d; lamb, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; veal, 4s 8d to 5s 8d ; and pork, 3s 81.1 to 4s 4d per Blbs by the carcase. NEWPORT. Beef, from 3s 4d to 4a 4d ; mutton, 3s 8d to 4s 8d ; lamb, 38 8d to 48 6d ; veal, 58 Od to Os Od ; and rork 3s 10d to 48 4d p er Bibs. by the carcase. BREAD. 71Tdhtoe s it esagf bread o h f ou 'w s h e e h a o t l e d n do. 5 d i n to tb 7 d e HIDES AND SKINS. Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, 2id to 3d ; 641 b to 721 b, 3d to 3id ,• 721 b to 801 b, 3d to 4d ; 801 b to 881 b, 31c1 to 4id ; 881 b to 961 b, 4d to 41d ; 961 b to 1041 b, 4d to 6d ; 1041 b to p m er etr 4r loaf. .are from 1121 b, Od to Od. Horse hides 9s 6d to lls Od ; calf skins, light, 35 Od to 4 s Od ; full, 7s Ud to Os Od ; woolled skins, Os Od to Os Od ; half-breds, Os Od to Os Od ; Downs, 3s Od to 4d; lambs, 2s 9d to 4s 9d; shearlings, 3s Od to 3s 4d. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD. Old Meadow hay, £3 lOs to £4 lOs; new do., £3 to £4; old clover, £4 108 to £6 Os; new do., £4 fair demand. CUMBERLAND..—OId Meadow hay, £3 10s to £4 105 ; new do., £3 38 to £4 ; old clover, £4los to £slBs ; new du.; :f.14 Os to £5 Os; and straw, £1 83 to £1 168 per load. Trade steady. WHITECHAPEL —Old Meadow bay, £3 108 to £4 10e, new do , £3 Os to £4 Os; old clover, to l o e x t i og p O e s r ; lo n a e d w . d s o u , p , p i ly 4 m O o s d t e o ra L te. b Os; and straw, COAL b Mom of Coal per Ton al .ARKET. the dose of the market. s. d. Bates's\Vest Hartley..ls 6 Byass's Bebside West • Hartley ...17 3 Carway and Duffryn Malting . 12 0 Walker Primrose 12 9 TanEeld Moor l2 6 Eden Main .....16 3 West Hartley 17 3 Walls End. e. d. Haswell 18 0 Hetton 18 0 Tunstall . l5 9 Rid dell l5 9 Fraruwellgate.. l6 3 Hartlepool 17 3 South Hartlepoul 16 6 East Hartlepool 17 6 Triarden Hurtlepool 17 3 K elloe Russel's Hetton.. • ••• 16 9 Walla End. Braddyll's Hetton 16 9 E l olttit notton ~ .18 0 5)21 1U at market, S ; MO, 58. TRANSPORTATION TO AUSTRALIA. The Australian colonists now resident in England are all in a ferment a$ to the consequences of the publication of the report of the Royal Commission, recommending the transportation of all male convicts to Western Australia. The following petition has been prepared for presentation to her Mejesty by a committee recently appointed, and is receiving the signatures of all the leading people connected with Australia and New Zealand:— "Most Gracious Sovereign,—We, your Majesty's most loyal and faithful subjects, Australian colonists at present resident in England, and others interested in the Australa • sian dependencies, desire humbly to approach your Majesty with the expression of that devoted loyally to your Majesty's person and to the throne of these realms which so especially characterises the communities in question. " We humbly submit to your Majesty that, in consequence of the apparert failure of the laws respecting secondary punishment, and the frightful outbreak of crimes of violence during the last winter, your Majesty was graciously pleased to appoint a Royal Commission to inquire into and report upon the whole subject of secondary punishments. " That the report of the Commissioners has recently been laid before Parliament, with a very elaborate series of re commendations as to the treatment of a subject confessedly surrounded with the greatest difficulties. " That with the main body of the report your petitioners have no wish to interfere, but that a principal feature of the scheme suggested consists of a proposal, in the exact words of the Commissioners, that, with the exception of those who are physically or otherwise unfit for it, all male convicts sentenced to penal servitude for any term of years should be ultimately sent to Western Australia,' and your petitioners perceive in that suggestion, if adopted, all the elements of most serious evil, both to the colonies and to the mother country. " That the proposition 4 to pour out upon any separate community the vast volume of crime of a large empire is in itself one of a very astounding character, and can only be listened to upon the plainest evidence of its absolute neces sity, and of the course it recommends being rendered a benefit, and not a curse, to those exposed to the inevitable evils of such reception. " That the history of the Australian colonies shows that the introduction of felons confers no such benefit, in any degree commensurate with the innumerable and deadly in juries inflicted thereby upon the character and moral well being of a community ; and that it is the almost unanimous opinion of all colonists, except these pecuniarily interested in the large imperial expenditure thence arising, that no more fatal evil could befal the country subjected to such influences, and that it is almost impossible to imagine a more grievous or intolerable wrong- " That, embittered by recollections of the past, the pro posal to introduce these criminals will undoubtedly be met by the most resolute opposition by every one of the larger and more important colonies ; and that the consequent con flict; between the imperial and colonial authorities will pro voka an amount of ill-feeling which even the abrogation of the proposed scheme will not allay. " That your Majesty having been graciously pleased to grant to all the colonies of the Australian group, excepting Western Australia, local government and representative in stitutions, no other ground of disagreement but this suggests itself as likely to disturb the friendly relations between the colonies and the mother country, or to endanger that affec tionate connexion which it is the dearest wish of almost every colonist to pres3rve, and render still more close and cordial. " That these representative institutions, embracing re sponsible Ministries, based upon a very extended franchise, have assisted in the formation of an independent and self reliant spirit among the colonists themselves ; and we feel assured that no Colonial Ministry can retain office that does not adopt a very resolute, or perhaps defiant, tone upon a subject on which all men in the colonies think and feel so strongly. " That in former years, and when the colonies were much less populous than at present, laws were passed to prevent the introduction of such men, and assented to by Colonial Governors, although such legislation was known to be in derogation of your Majesty's prerogative, thereby leading to collision between the Imperial and Colonial authorities in a manner greatly to be regretted. " That the argument that the more distant colonies are not interested in a scheme limiting transportation to West ern Australia is entirely fallacious, in view of the distinct knowledge we possess that runaways, conditional pardon men, and expirees do constantly resort to the adjacent colo nies, and shock and harass theta with the most atrocious crimes. That the number of these convicts who have served their sentences, and annually becom e free, will be nearly equal to those arriving in Western Australi a , w hil e th e comparative paucity of natural resources that characterises that settlement on the one hand, anti the attraction of the goldfields and high price of labour in the adjacent colonies on the other, will cause a tide of emi g rat ion of expiree con victs to the free settlements directly in proportion to the number of prisoners transported. That it has been publicly acknowledged in Parliament, by the Under •Secretary for the Colonies, that expirees are tree to go where they please. That the co , onists, impressed by past experience, never will believe that there is any other intention than that of allow ing convicts to overrun the other colonies, and t reat i ng Western Australia as a mere depot. " That it is an obvious misuse of some of the finest noun , tries in the world, possessing the most salubrious and agree able climates, to which hundreds of thousands of your Ma jesty's most deserving subjects would joyfully resort if they had the means, to dedicate them to the reception of the greatest criminals. That ouch misuse tends to deter the immigration of the virtuous, and thereby closes the door to a very laudable and honourable career; and, practically, so gives the advantage to the felon as compared with the man unstained by crime, as to suggest the very dangerous idea that the labourer improves his condition by betaking him self to criminal courses. " That the almost entirely unanimous feeling of the colo nists on this subject is exhibited authoritatively in a petition recently addressed to your Majesty from a conference ap pointed by the Governments of the several colonies of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, and Tasmania, the strong tone adopted in which will, we believe, but feebly represent the feelings which will be inevitably p rovoked by the reception of the report itself. " That the deluging a limited population with the felons of a large State, the exposing unoffending colonists to out rages found intolerable in England, the burdening colonial establishments with great additional cost in gaols, courts of law, and police, the deterioration of national character con sequent upon such an importation, the implied assumption of interiority in being constituted a receptacle for crime, and the discouragement of virtuous immigration calculated to be so advantageous to all concerned, would constitute, on the whole, so gross a wrong and inflict so deep a wound upon the legitimate self-love of a rising people, and would form so marked a contrast with the benignant and equal rule for which your Majesty is justly f ame d, that we can sc a rcely believe that this dang erous proposition w ill be adopted. That your petitioners therefore humbly pray that your Majesty will be graciously pleased to witbhold your sanc tion from a policy calculated beyond all expression to injure an important and rapidly growing community ; to disturb the present happy homes hostile tone where hith er t o the most loyal of more than a millio n of y our Majesty's attached subj ec t s; to lead to t h e a doption of a spirit has pre vailed; and to embitter all relations with your Majesty's Australian subjects in the future. u And your petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray.” Railway from Moscow to Sebastopol, Subjoined is the ukase which basjust been signed by the Emperor of Russia for j railway from Moscow to s the construction of a be 953 miles in length. Tn bast o p o l. The line is to The nominal capital will be £22,500,000, and the period allowed for the com pletion of the work is six yearss from the date of its commencement. Sebastopol is to port, and the general terms of the be made a free concession are un• dcretood to be such as to indicatethe that the Govern ment have resolved to secure accomplishment of the project with a view to an early realisation would o confer upon of the commercial adva nta g es i t w y that it t h e country. It is to be assumed, however, is not likely to be int roduce d until and h the other y the existing political difficulties between 1105,i1,. Powers on the P olish q uestion have been so far adjusted as t o p ut an end to all idea of the e possi bility of war : CEASE TO THE IMPERIAL SENATE. In our unceasi n g solicitude for the Pr bolt to o r thedevelop ment prosperity of our Fatherland, we h ave sought those means fo of the railw a y s y stem which should answer the want, of the empire, With this view the concession of a railway from Moscow and Co., to Sebastopol propos ed b y Messrs. Dent, Palmer, Messrs. Fruhling an d Gosohen, Messrs. Anthony Gibbs and merchants co. , S o n, and Messrs. Joh n Hubbard and and • bankers, of London , through their representative, William Hope, has been examined by the Committee of Ministers, and sanctioned by us. By the construction of a line of railway from lloscow to S3bastopol, the Nicholas Railroad, already uniti ng our two ca w ill be prolonged to the best port in the Bl a ck Sea, ' and thu s will be establishe d, throughout the whole extent of country between the B altic and Black Sea, an uninter rupted a nd rapid communication, and a sure and constant outlet. for the articles of local production. In annexing to these presents the said concession. we order that it shall be put in execution. The Imperial Senate will take the steps necessary to this effect. ALEXANDER, Tzarskoo Selo, July 2 , 5 (Aug. 6), 1863. Dun: ON 4 4 RACE HORSES."—From a parlia mentary paper, yesterday issued, it appears that in the year ending th e 31 s t M a rch last the duty on ra ce horses atuounted to - - 6 / 422, being a decroue of on 9io pre vious year, Sir John Trelawny, M.P., at Tavistock, Sir John Trelawny, M.P., for Tavistock, addressed his constituents at the Bedford Hotel on Thursday evening, Mr. Pearce in the chair. The hon. baronet, after a few prefatory remarks, proceeded to refer to the question of reform, and said he thought that it aas useless, especially in the present disturbed state of public opinion, to expect from Parliament any extension of the suffrage to the itc of the working classes. He thought it was unwise to , continue the exclusion from the franchise, as it might have the effect of driving many of the best of our artizans, who desired to exercise their rights as citizens, to a place where the could obtain that privilege, and thus diminish the chances of the future prosperity of this country. The line he would draw for the admission of this class would bo the household suffrage. After alluding to the ballot, which there was no immediate prospect of being carried, and reminding electors that the question would be in their hands at the next election, the hon, baronet re ferred to the question of finance, and said there was some reason. for congratulation upon this subject, for there had been a diminution of the expenditure and an increase in the revenue of the country. It was gratifying also to find that, instead of being called upon, as was expected, to make up a considerable deficit in the Indian finances, the revenue of that country had balanced itself, and there was a prospect of a slight surplus. The prospects of our Indian Empire were rapidly improving, and the introduction of railways and the system of irrigation would be productive of most beneficial results. The withdrawal of troops from the lonian Islands would likewise be a means of further diminishing the ex penditure. He blamed Government on both sides for fre quently allowing grants of small sums to be passed without due inquiry. Persons would get up in the House and say money was wanted for this or that matter, and if the de mand proceeded from the Conservative side, the Govern ment, if they saw there was a strong opposition, languidly yielded the point. The sums asked for might be necessary, but what he objected was, that these demands did not come before the House in a plain, straightforward way, on the i recommendation of the executive, and atter careful inquiry as to the necessity of the sums asked for. (Applause.) He objected, as a rule, to mere arithmetical reductions, and adopted the principle of ascertaining before he voted whe ther sums applied for were or were not requisite for the effi ciency of the service, and would not vote for 75 instead of 80 simply on the ground that it was a reduction. He had voted against the purchase of the Enhibition building be cause he believed it would have led, as in the case of the Houses of Parliament, to an enormous outlay in addition to the sum first asked for, the sum in that case having risen from £700,000 to £3,000,000. The Galway contract contract he had voted against, believing it to be a corrupt proposal intended to curry favour with the Irish represen tatives; and he had opposed the Dover contract because it was a job of much the same character. Sir John next ex plained at some length the reasons why he had voted against Mr. Somes bill for closing publichouses on the Sabbath. He thought it was carrying the principle of interference with the liberty of a subject too far. No one more fully appre ciated, both on sanitary as well as moral grounds, the vast importance of adhering to temperance, but it was possible to ride the hobby too fsr. If the bill were adopted he be lieved that it would give rise to the strongest dissatisfaction throughout the country, and would occasion a repetition of those disturbances which resulted from the stoppage of the Sunday postage--an obnoxious measure that had to be re pealed soon atter it passed ; and he believed that if the Sun day Closing Bill had been passed not even a fifth-rate Mini ster would be able, or would consent, to hold the office of Home Secretary. Another ground of objection to the mea sure was that it proposed to exclude London from its one - ration, and for the same reason Liverpool and other large towns should also be excluded. It would be difficult also to work it, as no two magistrates would agree as to who was or who was not a traveller. The committee who, in 1855, recommended certain restrictions in respect to the sale of beer recommended, pari passu, the opening of museums and places of amusement for the working classes on the Sabbath. It was fairly argued that if the men were deprived of one source of recreation another legitimate one should he pro vided for them. That was opposed by a great many per sons, but if they took one proposition they ought to take the other. Sir John next referred to the subject of county rates, and thought some alteration should be adopted as to the mode in which these rates should be levied and expended. He thought that those who paid the rates should have some control over the expenditure of them; and he was also of opinion that large woodlands and certain dues from mines, which were sources of great weali h, ought not to be exempted from taxation. This would not involve any great organic change that would be likely to frighten Conservatives, and he counted upon the support of some of these at the next election. After some remarks on the competitive sy stem of nomination for Government appointments, w hich ought to be entirely open to any one properly qualified, and not made a matter of secrecy and favour, as it is now, the hon. gentleman spoke of several other measures that would be brought before Parliament during the next session. Referring to the Church-rate Abolition Bill, Sir John said he should leave the conduct of that question in future to younger and more energetic men, but would be happy to render any assistance. He enlarged upon the Irish Church question, which he regarded as a dangerous one, and de manding a speedy solution. He reviewed at some length the aspect of the Polish question, but said we must be care ful, while manifesting our sympathy for that oppressed race, that we did not get drawn into any serious complica tions that might arise. The hon. gentleman also explained his vote in opposition to the Burial Bill, which had sur prised many persons who did not understand why he voted against a bill which gave to Dissenters the right of burial in churchyards. He opposed the bill on the ground that it was unnecessary ; for it would simply have confirmed a right that already existed, Dissenters having the power to bury children in the churchyard if they had been baptised. But the bill placed Dissenters in an undignified position by requiting them to go cap in hand as it were to the minister and state which form of prayers and service they wished to be used ; and it would also place the clergyman in a posi tion of antagonism with persons in cases where he might have conscientious objections to the form of service pro posed to be used. After some further remarks, a vote of confiden , ce in Sir J. 41 on the un Trelawny was proposed and carried . raker u S t Y . motion of Mr. W. P. Mitchell, seconded ba'i yl; °r Statistics of Wesleyan Methodism. - --.- o — a t Sheffield, on M on d ay, At the Wesleyan Conf erereported the numeric a l s t at i stics the Re the v. a nd accr John W. G ed re i e te v rehurch members in the var i ous of ll di s t r i c t s , together with the increase or decrease an d th e n umbers on trial- T he following, we believ e , i s a correct statement : m e mbers. Increase. Decrease. On trial. • t 21,84 8 .. 834 .. _ .. 888 London district • • .., , , 7 .. ...... .. 165 .. 656 Bedford ll o 5,911 .. ,77. • . 10 .. 289 Kent 7,096 • • i ° Norwich 6,474 . ** 1 - 89 *.: 4 2 3 8 8 9 Oxford ....... Portsmouth 5. ,, 2. 15 •.. : .... 32 .. 253 Channe l Islands .1,366 .. 9 .. .. 55 D ev onport 7,788 . 64 . —.. 669 Cornwall Exeter Bristol . 10,275 .. 654 .. .• 7 86 Bath Swansea South Wales North Wales Birmingham Macclesfield .... 10,764 . ' • 133 .. 527 Liverpool...... 14,001 . : 743 .. .. 908 Manchester .. 25,624 .. 605 .. .. 2,116 Halifax ...... :.. 16,108 .. 70 .. .. 8 7 5 Leeds .......... 15 , 915 ' • • • 91 .. 970 Sheffield Nottingham 13,915 .. 105 .. .. 972 Lincoln ...... Hull .... York - Whitby 9,065 .. 141 .. .. 604 Newcastle .. 11,312 .. 390 .. —.. 730 Carlisle Isle of Man Edinburgh Total Last year - Increase.... 4,448 At the last Sheffield conference, 11 years ago, the total number of members was 281,263; the increase since 1851 has therefore been 48,441, STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, Aug. 14.—A fair amount of busi ness has been done in yarns today. The demand has been chiefly for India and China and the Mcdi.. terranean. The home trade have not bought much. A much larger business could have been done had spinners been disposed to accept Tuesday's prices, but most of them have been asking an advance, having sold heavily before. The improvement pre viously reported in the cloth market continues. We stated in our report of Tuesday that the market was active, and that a large business was done in cloths last week for India. Since Tuesday the market has been quite as active, and we continue to have a large business In all goods suitable for India, in cluding shirtings, jacconets, and longcloths. There is also more demand for printing cloths. The home trade, which has been languishing so long, seems to have revived considerably, and from houses in that branch we hear much more Encouraging ac counts of business. Some of them report a better demand for goods than they experienced for a long time past. The improvement has hardly made it self felt in the general wholesale market yet, owing t o t h e timidity of merchants, whose fears have led them to anticipate a sudden fall of prices, and have induced them as a con sequence to allow their stocks to run usually low before replenishing- There is a report of more doing fo r th e h ome trade to-dav, however, especially in pri n t ers and domestics: There is also more doing in fancy goods, and manufacturers now hold some rather heavy orders. Prices are tending upwards, and in some cases check business in cloths; but the market closes with a healthy feeling. CARDIFF, Aug. 14.—During the last few days a most extraordinary demand for coal has been ex.. perienced at this port, and considerable delay has already been occasioned to many ships in conse quence. Some of them have remained 15 days without a berth. Iron also continues in good de mand, and throughout the year a very steady i n , crease is manifest. Freights are now settled, an d we quote :—Alexandria, 235.; Aden, 35e. ; Born. bay, 265. ; Cape of Good Hope, 295. ; Constanti.. nople, 225. ; Hong Kong, 425. ; New Fork, 12s. to 15s. The coasting trade still continues dull, and freights are extremely low. NOTTINGHAM, Aug. 14.—There was a small attendance at this Exchange-hall to-day, and the business done in lace yarns was limited at fully late prices. For hosiery yarns the inquiry was by no means brisk, but recent currencies were well supported. In silks there is no material alteration s Brown nets a dull sale at unaltered rates. LONDON GAZE T TE—Yesterdan BOROUGH OF LUDLOW. The Gazette contains the Speaker's warrant for issuing 8, new writ for the election of a member to serve in Parlia, ment for the borough of Ludlow, in the room of Beriah Bot. field, Esq., deceased. FOREIGN OFFICE, AUG. 13. The following despatch has been received from Sir Fred. Bruce, her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Chief Superintendent of Trade in China : Peking, April 30, 1863 My Lord,—Referring to my despatch of Bth September, 1862, I have the honour to state that Mr. Medhurst, before leaving Shanghae, published the letter to him which formed inclosure in that despatch. The publication has done good, by clearing up the misapprehension that pre vailed, as to the real position of foreigners at the Chinese ports open to trade, and as evidence that her Majesty's Government will not agree to any system which does not respect the territorial rights of the Chinese Government, and its exclusive jurisdiction over its own subjects. This exclusive jurisdiction of China over Chinese, and of each foreign nation ever its subjects, is the foundation on which the international relations of China with the outer world i 4 based. I am glad to say that Monsieur Bertbemy enclosed to the French Government the paper containing my correspon dence with Mr. Medhurat as expressing the views enter tained by him cn this delicate question. They are fully concurred in by the Russian and the American Ministers. The British and American communities have appointed a committee to prepare a scheme for the municipal govern meat of the large part of the settlement inhabited by them, in conformity with these principles, and I hope that, with the aid of their experience, a system may be found which will meet the requirements of the place, and to which the Chinese Government will give its assent. The growth of Shanghae is wonderful; its population is estimated at 1,500,000, and it bids fair to become soon the most important city of the East. The Chinese flock to it on account of the security it enjoys, and the silk manufac ture which was destroyed by the Taeping occupation of Soochow and Hung-chow, is taking root at Shanghae. It is a subject of great satisfaction to me that our resolu tion to save Shanghae from the destruction that menaced it at the hands of the Taeping hordes, has not only been pro ductive of great benefit to trade, but has afforded a safe asylum and an escape from ruin to so large a body of the industrious and respectable native population.—l have, &o. FREDERICK W. A. BRUCE, The Right Hon. Earl Russell, li.G., WAR OFFICE, AUG. 11. The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for the appointment of Sir James Hudson, K.C.8., Her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten tiary to the King of Italy, to be an Ordinary Member of the Civil Division of the First Class, or Knights Grand Cross to the Most Hon. Order of the Bath; and of James Douglas, Esq., C. 8., Governor and Commander-in -Chief in and over Vancouver's Island and the colony of British Columbia, to be an Ordinary Member of the Civil Division of the Second Class, or Knights Commanders of tho said Most Hon. Order. ST. JAMES'S PALACE, Ave. 14. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Miss Emma Lascelles to be one of ber Majesty's Maids of Honour in Ordinary, in the room of the lien. Adelaide Cavendish, resigned. FOREIGN OFFICE, JULY 24. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Henry Michael Jones, to be her Majesty's Consul In the FCCieQ and Tonga Islands. AUGUST 1. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Ed ward Hall, Esq., now her Majesty's Consul at Comayagua, to be her Majesty's Consul at Sonsonate. Th e Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint Edward Kirkpatrick, Esq., now acting Consul at Coma. yagua, to be her Majesty's Consul at Comayagua. AUGUST 3. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Randal Callender, Esq., now her Majesty's Consul at Erzeroum, to be her Majesty's Consul at the Dardanelles. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint James Finn, Esq., now her Majesty's Consul at the Dar dandles, to be her Majesty's Consul at Erzeroum. FOREIGN-OFFICE, AUG. 7. The Queen has been pleased to approve Majesty the fiore as Consul at Sydney, Australia, for his King of Belgians. to approve of Mr. F. ' The Queen has also been pleased ofMr. .T. Monte- I S l Cat it es ug ol g p e o r i cial im-, Ruggles as America. Conso ns u 1 at Kingsten, Jamaica, for the United portance in the'Gaz The followinr , a George Newman, a George Bucking Robert Smith John Ashby, r:eSttht AN :e:on jorUP Ta, only bankrupts of co b—ootmaker, Walworth -ham uctioneer, Tunbridge Wellq plumber, Boston ricer,l n ili e ns t° to rd n-on-H u ll b b ak ut e e r h'er, Northampton j j jo o o h hhn n n l AC l ll : l9 -h iec e : r g., Wilts, spice merchant, Whitl a a John H a rrison Wilding, corn dealer, Bexley, K en t Cbarlos Townsend, surgeon, Birmingham William Reid, draper, Birmingham Henry White, plumber, Bilston Thomas Bradney, eatingbouse-keeper, "Wolverhampton Alexander MeConnel, draper, Guildford Charles Wileouibe, baker, Doulting Wm. Cowell, horse dealer, Thirsk Samuel Brown, quarryman, WalkleY Alexander Tre S g C ar O th T e C n H , GlasgowßAlilißUPTS Course of the Exchange—Yesterday. Amsterdam Short. 11 17 11 17i Ditto 3 Month, 11 18/ 11 19t Rotterdam — 11 18i 11 19t Antwerp .......... — 25 55 '25 60 Brussels — 25 55 25 60 flamburgh — 13 8i 13 9 Paris Ditto .. 3 Mouths, 25 55 25 62 Marseilles Frankfort on Maine —119 t Vienna Trieste Petersburgh — 361 36 Berlin Madrid Cadiz Leghorn — 25 621 2.5 70 Milan . ... 25 621 25 70 Genoa ,..- 25 621 25 67i Naples Palermo — 25 62i 25 671 Messina — 25 621 25 5 2 6 7/ Lisbon — 52 6 Oporto 62 52k Foreign Gold in Bars (Standing), per oz.. L3 17 9 Mexican Dollars - - Silver in Bars (Standard) South American Doublons ..... 0 0 0 AFRICAN CIVILISATION.—The Cape Argus an nounces that " the Kaffrarians are getting up a Derby." MR. BUCKLE'S FELLOW TRAVELLER. The writer of the article on the late Mr. Buckle, in the current number of Fraser, is Mr. Stuart Glenn ie (of Aberd een ) , who was Mr. Buckle's fellow-traveller in the East. LYNCH LAW IN Sr. JAMES'S Thurs day night a Frenchman, who had l ong b een watched, was detected actin g in a most di sgrace f u l manner towards some littl e girls in the inclesure of St. James's Park. A mob si as soon collected, who administered sum mary punishment, by beating him with sticks, tearing the water.coat He w from hism baas u back, and d threateningbymsoeto throw him into the soldiers, i n a cab, and thus enabled him to escape from further t vengeance, who placed him 4 11 a It nigh irect seck: left uis of sing robin ark 7e, in eron her for left Sir >bey, [ter een- hos Ilun- [all, icot-' !aVe n At and for her airal St. son rby. ood, Dias Dyal .tly at nt:i the ter- ore , all Ilia s of car- Share 100 itk 20 20i 10 100 / 100 100 stock stock stock 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 stock stook 10u -100 10 stook stock stock 20 stock 50 100 stock ock I SSR 100 ' 8 all 100 (lot, ' 100 2 all 100 ICti MEN 100 100 100 100 100 1031 2 103