The Sun. — London, England, 1863-10-09 00:00:00

ONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. A firmer tone is apparent in discount circles to day on account of the advance made by the council of the Bank of France in their minimum potation from 4to 5 per cent. This important measure has naturally induced greatercantion among capitalists here, who are less disposed to employ their resources at the current quotations until the tendency of off Airs can be more clearly defined. The demand, however, was not increased, and instances are still recorded of superior bills being negotiated at 3i per cent. The return from the Bank of England, compiled to Wednesday last, is again of an unsatisfactory character. The reserve of notes and bullion have been diminished to a large extent, while the active circulation has been increased. Annexed is an analysis:— Active Circulation .. Increase .. • • Bullion .. • • •• Decrease Rest .. •• • • Increase .• • . Public Deposits Increase .. Other Deposits.. .. Decrease .. Seven Day and other Bills .. Decrease .. Government Securities Decrease . 00 57 • 00 0 00 Other S 0 ecurities 22,591,537 Increase 78,418 Notes Unemployed 7,051,715 Decrease 659,725 The monthly return of the Bank • of France, pub lished this morning, is of an unfavourable character and shows, by the straightened position of the este. blishment, the necessity which urged the Council yesterday to raise their rate of discount. A decrease is exhibited in the cash in hand amounting to £ 1 ,733,333, the Treasury balances have been dimi nished by £146,666, and the advances on loans £124,000. An increase has taken place in the cur rent accounts of £75,000, in the bank notes £560,000, and in the bills discounted of £2,320,000. Concurrently with the advance in the French rate of discount, the quotation at Frankfort has been raised from 3to 3 , 3- per cent. It is not improbable that greater firmness will now be experienced in some of the other continental money markets. The bullion operations at the Bank yesterday comprised the influx of £22,000 in bar gold, and the withdrawal of 100,000 sovereigns for transnission to the Brazils by the Oneida, which leaves to-day with a total of £128,218. The directors of the Bank of Otago have re solved to reduce the nominal amount of the shares of that bank from £lOO to £2O. The Metropolitan and Provincial Bank have re solved to open a branch in Macclesfield. The large supply of Mexican dollars by the Tasmanian have been sold at 58. 3d. per oz., show ing a slight decline in value. .. £21,768,375 •• 250,475 • . 14,856,037 .. 421,848 • • 3,736,695 • • 8,100 • . 9,510,057 .. 239,571 .. 12,89,3642 • . 823,818 777,032 • • 17,815 .. 11,141,227 The Hansa, from New York, has brought X 50,000. The new Brazilian loan has been most favourably received, but the circumstance was generalfy con templated, owing to the influential and substantial support which had been accorded to the proposition before the issuing of the prospectus containing the terms of the proposed loan. The price of issue is considered to have been fixed upon the fair prin ciple of giving the subscriber an adequate margin for profit in relation to the prices current for exist ing stocks. That the loan will be successfully floated is certain, the applications being already both large and of an influential character. Two O'CLOCK. During the later hours of business yesterday a kind of panic prevailed at the Stock Exchange, the advance in the rates of discount at Paris, and Frank fort being added to the adverse circumstances pre viously affecting the markets. Sales were forced, especially in the foreign department where consi derable excitement still prevails, and Consols closed heavily at another decline ofd per cent. No fur ther change has occurred to-day, but the quotations continue heavy at 921 93 for transfer, and at 931 for the November account. The New Threes have receded to 91g 6 :, and the Reduced Annuities to 911 g ; Exchequer Bills are firm at par. to 3s. prem.; India StocK is marked 224 ; the 5 per Cents. are 108: ; ditto 4 per Cents., 1001, and do., Enfaced b per Cents. 108. There has been and is still a very perturbed mar ket for Foreign securities. Greek have been 324 4 ; they are now 33/ 34k, or la lower than yesterday afternoon. The Coupons have been 14 15, and have rallied to 151 drop of lf per cent. Con siderable fluctuation has also taken place in Mexi can : business has been recorded at 41 4, and the latest prices are 42 4 f or it, per cent. worse than yes • terday. Turkish Consolides have advanced to 52; 6 3. Spanish Passive, after touching 33/ 34, have rallied to 34 -1-; the Internal have dropped lf, viz., to 281 ; and the Certificates are 134 I, and they have been down to 13 I. The Confederate Loan has advanced to 25 to 23 die., and is now nominal at these quotations. Basiness in the Railway Share Market has been rather dull, and a further decline has taken place in prices. Lancashire and Yorkshire, North W estern and Metropolitan have each declined £1; South Eastern, 15s. ; Caledonian, 10s. ; and Great Eastern, Great Western, Midland, and North Eastern Ber wick ss. The Foreign and Colonial lines have remained without material change. Great Western of Canada are quoted 104 4 ; Grand Trask of Canada, 22 ; and East India, 1071. Bank Shares are also at slightly reduced prices, London and Westminster being dealt in at 79; London Chartered of Australia at 294. Indian Land Mortgage Bank are quoted 3f ; Anglo-Austrian, I prem prem ; Royal Privileged 14 B ank of A ustr i a par to prem. ; and Eas t London to 2 prem. In the Miscellaneous Market the operations con tinue restricted, and quotations, in most instances, are a shade flatter. London Financial are marked 131 ; International Financial, Of 10; General Credit, 4* t. BRITISH FUNDS —ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 921 3 New 3 per Cent. Annuities India Stock Ditto 5 pet Cent lOBl Ditto 4 per Cent ... 100 k Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. Ditto 5 per Cent lOB Consols for Account, Oct. 8 93k 3 India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent — Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2/ per Cent 3 pm par Ditto £SOO Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent — Brazilian D 5 itto 1859 per Cent Ditto 44 per Cent., 1852-58-60 B uenos Ayres 6 p er Cent Ditto Account ~... Ditto 1 per C en t. (D e f erred 3 per Cent ) zgirptian 7 per Cent lOl Ditto, Second Issue" Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons --- . Ditto Con Ditto 332! 41 3/4 34131 oupon s Ditto Acco un t ** Mexican 3 per Cent . ... Ditto Account, Peruvian aper************ 421 1 1 2 1 211 Ditto Acc ount *C eat. Ditto 43 per ce ................. Ditto Acc ount . nt, 1862 Portuguese 3 pe r c' e . ,V**,, a ••_ .. Itussian 5 per Cent ig•zo'' D ,7 , — Ditto 5 per Cent, 1 8 12 "' ""' 't ...... - • Sardinian 5 per Cent 86 2 • 93 / Ditto Account. Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Account, - Ditto New Deferred ......... Ditto Passive Ditto Account 1 31 4 4 Spanish Cert. of Coup not fun .. de 1ci . ...1.l u r 4 :l 13 4 Ditto Account ...... . .. ....... s Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 -- Ditto Account.. Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 Ditto Account ...................... 70; 4 691 704 Dividends on the above payable in L ondon. Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 2 5 francs..._ Ditto Account.... TWO O'cLe t e x. consols, Money Ditto Account 93k 1 Closing , 3h ar( Railways Paid. Price. Business done 100 atlantic &St Lawreit6( all 63 e 5 Bom.,Baroda&Cent Ind 100 1061 107# 1071 Gu. 5 percent... 20 Do. New . ...... 8 1 la p 20 Do. E. Shares 201 Buffalo and Lake Huron all 6 61 10 Do. Preference . all 81 9/ Bulialo,Brant,&Godria 100 100 6 p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 100 Do. do. July 1873 100 100 Do. do. June 1, 1874 100 st Clcutta..&S.Eastn. (Lin ) 100 1( 64 1074 at Cape Town J.,- Dock Scrir 100 1( 4 106 106 stock Eastn. Bengal gu. sp. c 100 1081 1091 stock East Indian. gu. sp. c. 100 108 1 0 9 108 474 20 Do. do. G Ext...,. 10 15 11p 20 Do. do. H do. .. 10 1 lsF stock Grand rrunk of Canada 100 22 23 22 100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds.. all 76 73 100 Do. ao. deferred.— all 62 61 100 Do. 2d Prat. Bonds.. all 69 71 100 Do. do. deferred...... all 55 58 100 Do. 3d P, ef. stock ... all 51 54 100 Do. do. deferred..-.. all 42 41 100 Do. 4th Pref. stock... all 31 33 100 Do. do. deferred...... all 26 28 stock Gt.lncliaPonin.gua.sp.o 100 108 109 1084 20 Do. New gua. sp. 12 14 11 20 Do. January, 1862 .. 8 11 13p stook Gt. South.of India (Lim; guaran 5 Canadaer cent. 100 1061 1071 201 Gt. W. ot Sharer all 101 lok log 20 4 Do. New 100 Do. 6 pos. '73 with't opt all 98 98 100 Do. 51 p. c. do. '77-8.... all 88 90 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 4 4 p stock Madras. guar., 5P.0. .. 100 1064 1071 (064 stock Do. 1i p. a Extension 100 101 102 102 stock Dc. 4* do —.. 100 18 100 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 -- stock Melb.Corp. ap. c. Buds. 100 50 slelb. & Llobnon's Bay. all 58 19 100 Do. 7p. c.. Mortg. Bds. alt 20 Newßr unswick & Canda Class A. and B all I 5 N.lll.C'da3 pa Ist pt bds 100 82 84 stock Sande .......... (100 1061 1071 107 at Do. Delhi d .4.: 100 1061 1071 Do. do ' a . t C „, 2 4 4p 24 20 Do. Punjaub all ——o at Do. Do. ........ , 100 1064 1071 106 stock Do. Indue.St. Flo.) :‘lOO 102 104 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. can.(ior. 6 p.c.J s. &J la) 1877-84 .. 100 104 105 104 1 Do. 6p. c.Feb:& Aug 100 102 104 Do. ,5 p. c.Mar. & Sept. 100 102 104 101 Do. sp. c. Jan.&July. 100 93 04 Do. 6 Inscribed stock 100 92 94 Cape G.Elope, 6 p c. 1873 100 108 110 Do.Ap &Oct 1880 100 109 111 Do. 1891 100 110 112 Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 113 115 Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 100 113 115 Mauritius 6 per cent .. 100 107 108 109 k Natal Gov. 6 per cent.. 100 /19 112 N.B.Gov. 6 p.c. d a.,kJul) 100 101 105 Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. 100 - it S. W. Gov. 5 p 186, 100 101 102 Du. sp. e.,1871 to 1870 100 102 103 Do. d0.,.1888 Jtupwcl6 100 102 103 - New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 110 112 Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. sterling, 1875. lOO 104 106 'Queensland Gcv. 6p. c. 100 (Ii 113 G6p.c.1878.& up.. 100 112 114 VIc.GoV. 6 p.C. Ja.JzJul) 100 108 110 Do. in v.o. A.n..knot. 100 1104 1114 t BRITISH 2 'Cambrian Consol. Gold! 1 1 18 Rui.itlord Amalgamated.. 37 19 374 Devon G. Con.. (Tavistql 1 545 655 I East Bassett (Illogan).. 30 77 79 1 'East Clogau G old Ltd. ss. 4d Par East Caradon 2.14.6 281 294 East earn Brea... 3.4.0 75 74 E. W'l Russel (Tavistk.); 8.6.6 3 31 - Gam.&StAtthyn(Gwen.)' 581 13 15 Great South Tolgus l7s 44 55 G. Wheal Vor (Ileleton) 40 9# 101 Grenville . Herd's-Foot ... 8.12 16 38 Hingston Downs 4 . 18.0 2 21 Lady Bertha Margaret (tiny Lelant, 94 23 25 Marke Valley.. INlyndy Iron Oro (Lim ' 21 14 d New Setun l9) 100 110 -- North Downs 24 11 2 --N.Wh'l Basset(lllogau, 2.17.0 2 34 North Wheal Crotty Par Consols (St. Blazey) 11 4 5 20 Providence(Uny Lelnt.) 10.6.7 43 45 , SouthCaradon(StCleer, 15 415 425 8. Cant Brea (Illogan) 5.15.6 14 2 1S .Wheal Fran. (Mogan, 18.15.9 60 65 !Stray Park 28.9. 36 38 5 { ramarSilv.& Lead Min 4l 4 4 Pin Croft 9 191 201 I West Basset (Illogan) ll 94 101 W CF radon (Liskeard) 5 21 23 West Seto n Wheal Basset (Illogan) 51 721 771 Wheal Buller (Redruth) 5 25 30 Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) 2.0.6 WhealLudcott - Wheal MaryAnn(Men )1 8 51 94 Wheal 3eton 5Bl 195 205 Wheal Treiawney (Lis.) 7 171 121 1 Wheal Union 1 3.17 i 2 3 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Western, 4 per cent. irred , 92 south Eastern (Reading Anne., £1.0.6), 21 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. London, Brighton, itc., 4i per cent., 1858, 103} South Eastern 5 per cent., 101} 4 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Recife and San Francisco (lhm), gua. 7 per cent., 19 San Paulo (lim.), gua. 7 per cent., Ditto (all), 22i I Turin and Savona, Ditto (all), 16} FO3EIGN MMES. Alamillos, limited, # Fortuna (Um.), 4 Linares, 7 • Port:Philip, United Mexican (11W, 6; Yudanamutana of S. Australia (lim.), 21 JOINT-STOCK Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool ( 1 1-m.), 403 Ditto, new, 20 191 Bank of u tago, lim., 11 Brazilian and Portuguese, lim., 83 Chartered Bank of British Columbia, 111- Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 38i 9 City, 110 Consolidated Bank, lira., 10} English, Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 233 Hindustan, china, and Japan (lim.), 273 Imperial Ottoman, 183 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 291 London and Couuty, 52 London Joint Stock, 36# London and Northern (Jim.), 113 London and South African, 27i London and Westminster, 79 Metrop. and I'rov. Bank (lim.), 18 National dank, 16 Provincial of Ireland, 92# Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi (11m.►, 61 Union of Australia, 57# 8 DOCKS. St. Katharine, 641 MISCELLANEOUS. Anglo-Mexican Mint, 22 Crystal Palace, 391 Ditto, pref., 117} Electric Telegraph, 106 Gen. Crt dit and Finance of London, Um., 41 Hudson's Bay, 81 ff International Financial Society, lim., 10 9i Joint •stock Discount, 61 London District Telegraph (Um.), 11 London Financial Association, lim., 131 London General Omnibus Company (Urn.), 21 1 Oriental Inland Steam, Him, 3t -- FLORAL B ARO' ETERS.—Chickweed especially is weather-telling. If the flower is fully open no rain need be feared, for some hours, at least; if however, the little flower is partially closed, the weather is generally rainy; if it becomes quite shut up, then a waterproof and an umbrella are necessary out-door appendages. The various sorts of trefoil will usually close, their leaves at the approach of bad weather. Tulips, and several other flowers with yellow colouring in them, shut up before rain. The wild sorrell will completely double its leaves up before a storm. Innumerable plants and flowers might be cited that the weather invariably affects, and that will never mil lead the observer. SHARE MARKETS—This day, Share i Railways. Bir.. and Str. Val. Blythe and Tyne Bost.,Sleat.,andMid.Co Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall ti II c.p aniv• A B ets no div Do A ~ Do. been paid to B. Dublin & Belfast June. Dun.,Perth,&Ab. June. Edinburgh & Glasgow.: Glasg. and S. Western. , Great Eastern, Ord. stk Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian st I GreatNorthot Scotland Great Northern Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. and W. of lrelano Great Western Do Str Val gua. stock Lancashlte & Yorkshire LondOn and Blackwall Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & Nor'h Western Lon. & So*.th Western Man., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do t shares... .. Metropolitan Midland Do New Do Binning. & Derby Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland 13.14 8 8! 81 8f F 4 f 6 119 120 Do. shaies Mid Kent Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwios Do, G.N. E. purchase Do Lecds Do York Do Carlisle.... North London Do New North Staffordshire 1P.15.4 1 N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock Do Scot. Mid, stock ;Shrews. and W elchpool 'Shropshire Union I Soutfi Devon ,South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun staines,Wok.,andWok Stockton & Darlington Do Do New, 1866 Taff Vale.. Do B Do C Ulster Do Do Yale of heath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford .t Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.&R West Midland -Oxford Do Newport Do Hereford 76 8 39 10 16 17 081 9/4 110 112 511 326 491 506 5 7 120 127 127 129 134 130 100 102 Es} 60 112 112. 721 731' 112 113 44 (6 102} 103 101 102 451 161 130 131 128 :28; Jh 97 99 631 661 26 f 8 101} 102 57 581 138 i 89.,; 117 12) 1 2 p 79 81 11} 1, 124 126 44 46 100 102 N 62 324 334 964 07 £ll IGO • 01 84 37i 84 94 0 7# 7 1 152 157 ▪ t • p 86 90 100 170 26 28 ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. p a i d. , Closing Business Price. I clone. 511 f , St 81 6 Si i 111 10f 441 102 i 2 1012 129 i 1271 8 554 , 1014 1 / 98i 9 961 6 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. WESTMINSTER. A "MOTHER."—Margaret Sullivan, a miserable-looking woman, was charged with unlawfully knocking and ring ing at the house of Mr. Cairns, 18, Chester-terrace, Pimlico. The first witness against the defendant was her own daughter, an exceedingly clean, wholesome-looking girl, who said that she was servant to Mr. Cairns, and had given her mother into custody last night for knocking and ring. ing there during her master's absence. Mr. Arnold—You have given your own mother into custody for coming to you at your situation. How is that ? Witness—She comes to the house often, abuses me, and tears my clothes off my back. Defendant—Remember, Ellen, I am your own mother. Don't say anything against your poor mother. Mr. Arnold (to the daughter)—You say she abuses you and tears the things off your back ? Daughter—She does. She lays wait for me in the street, and I am afraid to go out. Mr. Arnold—What is your age ? Daughter—l am 17. Mr. Arnold—How long have you been in your present place. Daughter—Three months. I have got my own living at service ever since I was 12 years old, and I wish to do so in peace, but my mother will not let me. She wants me to come home, but she has no home for me. Mr. Cairns, the gentleman employing the girl, said she was a well-conducted, industrious servant. He had told the defendant she might visit her daughter at proper times, but she constantly came drunk and created a disturbance. As the girl was deserving he was anxious to see her pro tected. Thomas Boucher, 263 A—The prisoner was drunk last night when I took her into custody. Defendant—l was hungry, and went to ask my daughter to give me a sixpence. Mr. Arnold—l am glad to find your daughter does not follow your wretched and miserable example. Enter into recognisances of 40s. to keep the peace for six months. It yon go there again I will severely punish you. THAMES. COCK AND NEPTUNE-COURT.—A great many sailors have been lately plundered and ill used in a vile place called Cock and Neptune-court, Wellclose-Square, and near a public house of the same name. The nefarious doings in this iniquitous place have been the subject of our complaint for some time, and the East London Association for the pro secution of crime have interfered, and intend to prosecute the keepers of some of the dens in the court. A woman named Margaret Macarthy was brought before Mr. Par tridge charged with robbing a sailor unwed William Clary, at No. 10, Cock and Neptune-court. The sailor, a lad belonging t o the ship Lucerne, in the St. Ka therine Dock, went into the Cock and Neptune with a shipmate to obtain a pint of beer, and he was, invited by the prisoner to go home with her. He refused to do so, and told her he had got no money. On leaving the public house the prisoner dragged the lad into the house No. 10, Cock and Neptune-court, where he was immediately stripped of his blue Geurnsey frock and his boots, and turned out of the house. He had walked about all night without any boots on, and could not return to the ship. Adam Carr, 40 11, said many sailors were plundered every night in Cock and Neptune-court, and the outrages there were so frequent that the inhabitants of the district intended to adopt measures to get rid of the nuisance. Four sailors were robbed in the court last night. Sailors had been thrown from the windows of the dens in the court after they were stripped. Every house was filled with thieves, bullies, and desperate prostitutes. Mr. Partridge remanded the prisoner, and directed the police-constable Carr to ascertain what had become of the lad's frock and hoots. MARKETS—This Day MARK-LANE. Tho supply of English wheat on sale here to• day was but moderate. Both red and white qualities, however, sold heavily, and the quotations were barely supported. The supply of foreign wheat on the stands was large. The de mand for all descriptions was in a sluggish state, and prices had a downward tendency. Floating cargoes of grain moved off slowly, at about pre vious rates. With barley the market was fairly supplied, and all de scriptions met a dull inquiry, at fully the late decline in prices. _ The malt trade was dull at drooping prices. The supply of oats was very large, and the trade:for all qualities ruled heavy on rather easier terms. Beans and peas were in fair average request at late quo • tations. The flour trade was dull, and barrels were rather cheaper. ARRIVALS THIS "VEER. Wheat. Barley. Malt Oats. nom. English.— 1,410 2,170 B5O I 220 1,620 Irish . — 400 Foreign—. —27,020 8,970 60,680 206 sks, 15,30 u brie. NEW GATE AND LEADENHALL. The supply of meat on sale is moderately large. Good and fine qualities move off steadily at full quotations otherwise, the trade is dull. Per 81b. by the carcase. sited Inferior beef .. 2 8 3 0 Middling do. .. 3 2 3 6 Prime larg e do. 3 8 3 10 Do. small do. .. 4 0 4 2 Large pork .... 3 8 4 2 Inferior mutton. 3 4 3 8 BOROUGH HOP. Our market is well supplied with new English hops. Good and fine samples move off freely at extreme rates; but inferior are on slow request at full prices. New Mid and East Kents £5 12s to £7 10s per owt. Weald of Kents Sussex . a dad Middling mutton 3 10 4 2 Prime do .. 4 4 4 6 Veal Small pork Lamb TIL COLONIAL. L—The public sales have proceeded with rather mor e an imation, and tained. previous prices have been generally sus- SUGA.R. —A large amount of business has bean done in West India descrlytions, and advanced prices have been obtained for good grocery qualities. In the refined market also a further rise may be quoted, owing to the small quan tity of goods on offer. COFFEE Business has continued rather dull, and prices have shown a slight decline, particularly for inferior qua lities of colonial. limited transactions have been reported, at g s ; bare been moderately active for forwards delivery, and quotations e fao it br h lito'u i li b ibtc i Lo t i VOy p r es entr? ill iYf firmness, cihueadtaneadtri P un .Y.C. on the spot being marked 445, and last three months delivery 44s 9d per cwt. A BRONZE PHEASANT as a mach to the Golden and Silver Pheasabts.—The French sportsmen think of introducing the bronze pheasant of Japan,and hope that it will cross with the present pheasant of Europe, and introduce a hardier breed of birds, which will increase in quantity and become hardy denizens of woods and forests, even during the severest winters. TESTIMONIAL TO MR. BLANCHARD JERROLD.— A committee has been formed for the purpose of raising funds in order to present a testimonial to this gentleman, in acknowledgment of the ability and success with which he has taken his father's place as one of the foremost cham pions of the rights and interpreter of the wants and aspira tions of labour. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCI I OBER 9, 1863. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS—This Day The opposed applications for licenses for music and dancing were taken to-day, There was a very full attend ance of magistrates. THE STRAND MUSIC HALL. Mr. Morris Roberts Syers applied for a license for music and dancing for a building No. 345, Strand, called the Strand Music Hall. Mr. Sleigh appeared for the Strand Music Hall Company, and Mr. Poland opposed. The learned counsel having entered at some length into the objects for which the building is intended, called The Architect, who gave a full description of the pro perties of the New Music Hall, and stated that the cemple tion of the building had been prevented by circumstunces over which there was no control. He felt certain that everything would be so far perfected that the 11%11 would be in a state to be opened to the public in January next, if not sooner. Mr. Poland hoped the licence would be refused. The hall was surrounded by places of amusement of all descrip tions rendered to the Strand Music hall unnecessary. The Chairman thought it unadvisable to grant a license to a building which was at present in a very unfinished state, that no proper idea could be formed of its arrange ments. The application was then put to a show of hands, when there were seven held up in favour of the license, and eleven against it. The license was accordingly refused. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. SYSTEMATIC ROBBERY AT CROSSE AKIO BLACKWELL'S —Henry Frost, a carpenter, employed at Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell's sauce and pickle warehouse, Soho-square, in doing some repairs, was charged before Mr. Knox with the following robbery : It appears that the prisoner was seen by one of the men to remove a bottle of jelly from a case and take it towards the bench where he was at work. Information was then given to Ackrill, 48 F, a large quantity of property having been missed, and on Ackrill going to the place where the prisoner was at work and taxing him with the robbery, he said " It's all right. I'm sorry for it, but it's over now.' Ackrill then took the prisoner to the station, and afterwards went to his lodgings in Lambeth, where he found a large quantity of property, showing that the prisoner had robbed the firm to some extent, and there is little doubt that the prisoner had been doing so nearly every day he was em ployed on their premis,m. All the property produced by Ackrill having been idea tied by Mr. Thomas Francis Blackwell, one of the firm, Mr. Knox committed the prisoner for trial, but he will be again brought before the magistrate. THE EARTHQUAKE. Communications giving the results of personal experiences of the earthquake on Tuesday last still come to hand from the provinces. We subjoin a few of them : KENT.—Mr. Char:es Dickens, writing from Gad's-hill-place, Higham-by-Rochester, Kent, thus communicates his experience of the shock:—" I was awakened by a violent swaying of my bedstead from side to side, accompanied by a singular heaving motion. It was exactly as if some great beast had been crouching asleep under the bedstead and were now shaking itself and trying to rise. The time by my watch was 20 minutes past 3, and I suppose the shock to have lasted nearly a minute. The bedstead, a large iron one, standing nearly north and south, appeared to me to be the only piece of furniture in the room that was heavily shaken. Neither the doors nor the windows rattled, though they rattle enough in windy weather, this house standing alone, on high ground, in the neighbour hood of two great rivers. There was no noise. The air was very still, and much warmer than it had been in the earlier part of the night, Although the previous afternoon had been wet, the glass had not fallen. 1 had mentioned my surprise at its standing near the letter i' Fair,' and having a tendency to rise. It is recorded in the second volume of the Philosophical Transactions' that the glass stood high at Oxford when an earthquake was felt there in September, 1683." SOUTHAMPTON. -Our own correspondent writes that Captain Goodridge, the commander of the mail packet Southampton, left Havre for this port at midnight on Monday, and when about 30 miles from Havre he experienced, as he was standing on the bridge of the steamer, a peculiar shock. He thought at first that something was the matter with the engine, and went below to inquire. He then looked at his watch, and found that it was about 20 minutes past three. At West End, a few miles to the north-east of this town, the earthquake was felt. In one gentleman's house the crockery rattled to such an extent that some of the inmates got up to see what was the matter. At Warsash, near Fareham, in Hants, the shock was so obviously felt, that some of the inhabitants, as soon as they got up the next morning, declared that an earthquake had taken place during the night. Air. Stroud, the toil-keeper of the Southampton Pier, states that he was standing in the toll-house on Tuesday last, and once during the day he felt the house rock in such a peculiar manner that he remarked to a gentleman standing by that the motion was like that of an earthquake. This is important, as it shows that beside the grand shock on Tuesday morning, the earth sensibly trembled at a different hour. It is surmised that the earthquake is coincident with an eruption of some volcano. It would be a matter of great importance if the time of the shock at a few places could be accurately ascertained, so as to know the direction and speed of the earthquake. The most likely persons to give information on this point would be the engine-drivers who were travel ling between 3 and 4 a.m. ou Tuesday. Earth quake shocks also cause clocks and watches to stop; and if in any instance such has been the case, this would give the necessary information. The (Met of an earthquake at sea is oftentimes most curious. The shock is as if the ship struck suddenly on a rock. This can be only effected by the earthquake wave as it proceeds onward driving the sea violently against a ship and suddenly stopping it. During yesterday the wind here shifted to all points of the compass. MANCHESTER.—A correspondent at Manchester says the shock during Monday night was distinctly felt by a number of people in that neighbourhood, but apparently not so sensibly as in some other parts of the country. A similar shock is spoken to by several people as having been felt at about ten minutes to eleven o'clock on the previous Friday night. One gentleman describes the tremor of the earth as something like that he has felt at a railway station when a heavy train has been passing, and he says the shock was accompanied by a great noise and the shaking of the doors and windows. BEESTON.—Mr. J. Lowe, writing from the Ob servatory at Beeston, says :—" A smart shock was felt here at 3.30. Many persons awoke from the shaking of their beds and windows. At the time the sky was cloudless, the wind west, baro meter stationary, and the temperature 31 deg. The motion of earthquake pendulum at this observation was from W.N.W. to E.S.E., and the displacement of chalk by the 30-feet rod was half an inch, the index needle moving the chalk so as to leave an oval, or rather a lengthened.oval hole. There must have been at least two shocks, as numerous letters describe the time as both 2.35 a.m. and 3.30 a.m. ; that the latter was the time of a severe lateral shock is certain, as the zero pencils on my atmospheric recorder marked the paper in a remarkable manner at that hour. Information as to the extent of the shock is chsirable, as in all probability the earth quake of this morning was of a severe nature." HEREFORD.—The Rev. II C. Key writes from Stretton Rectory, Hereford---" At 3,23 a.m., Green wich mean time, or very nearly so, a smart shock of an earthquake was felt in this neighbourhood. Its duration, as far as I could judge, was about eight seconds; some persons say more. The effect was that of a very heavy and long train rushing furiously through a station, but the jar or shock experienced was greater than any I ever felt pro duced by a train. The bed on which I lay was violently shaken, and the iron bars of the shut ters of the room (the shutters being closed but not barred) rattled loudly against the shutters, and I found that it required a considerable amount of ' shaking with the hand to effect this. The sound at first increased rapidly With a gradual crescendo 1 for two or three seconds, until the crash was felt (which lasted for about one second and a half, and consisted of two concussions), and then subsided as gradually for some seconds more, until it died away in the distance. It appeared to me to equal the loudest peal of thunder I ever heard, but it was fuller and deeper and grander than thunder. In about three minutes afterwards a second faint rumble was heard. The night was beautifully still and clear, and not a sound was heard from any animal either before or after. The direction of the wave of concussion appeared to be from a little W. of S. to E. of From Cliff or d, i n Here fordshire, a correspondent states that at about half past two his family were aroused from their slum bers by the smart shock of an earthquake, preceded by loud rumbling noises, which continued for seve ral minutes. The house rocked steadily to and fro, and then settled itself with a violent trembling. The hoarse, volcanic - like groanings echoed b ac k from the mountains on the o pposite side of the valley like the peals of departing thunder, and then all was still. TAITISTOCK.—Mr. W . . F. Collier, of Woodtown, Tavistock, writes :—" The shock of as earthquake was felt here by me at 3.2 5 a.m. It commenced with a cracking noise, and the house a p peare d to of two or three tremble. Then, after an interval seconds, the trembling recommenced, and continued for about fifteen seconds, g r adually increasing in severity until it ceased. The 'louse was violently shaken, so much so as to awaken and alarm all the inmates. It was accompanied by a loud rumbling noise underground. The weather was exceedingly still and calm at the time, th e atmospher e c l ear , an d no rain was falling. This house is on the borders of Dartmoor, and the shock which I now describ e is the third distinct shock o f an earthquake which the last I have felt here within five years. This shock, however, was far more intents, than any pre vious one, and was sufficient to create considerable alarm. My brother, w h o lives two miles from here, felt the stock precisely at the same time, and describes it exactly as I do." ANOTHER NEW META L I ) lscovEßED—being a fresh victory gained by sp ectr um_ analysis.-111M. Reich and Ritter of Freiberg 11 -lye by its means discovered a new metal, which they have earned Indium, as it is dis• tinguished by a very brilliant blue ray. GOETHE'S Room—THE LONG LOST SKETCH OF IT DISCOYERED.-,=.-AMODg the papers left by the Countess Auguste Stolberg, th e long-missed sketch of Goethe's room atFrankfort, drawn by the poet himself, has been found. Its present possessor, States Councillor liege witsch at Kiel, has placed it in the hands of the Frankfort " Hochstift," and the room will be restored, together with the entire Goethe house, accOrding to this precious plan, Cotton Supply Association. At the weekly meeting of the Executive Com mittee on Tuesday, a sample of a bale of cotton just sent from Fiji was submitted for examination, and valued at 29d. per lb. The people had been discouraged in the cultivation from not finding a market for their small quantities ; but now that they can obtain slates, books, knives, scissors, calico, &c., from the merchants in exchange for their cotton, the natives in different parts of the group, under the guidance of the white inhabitants, are entering more largely into the growth of cot ton. A sample from New Granada, S3uth America, grown from New Orleans seed sent out by the As sociation, was examined, and valued at 22d. per lb. ; a sample of cotton from the West Indies, grown from Egyptian seed, was valued at 29d. per lb.; and a sample of Bellary cotton at 16d. per lb. A letter was received from Mr. Consul Grierson, L teakia, N. Syria, forwarding a sample of cotton gathered from the growing planto, and stating that the extent of laud under cultivation is four times greater than formerly, but the staple is not improved. A letter was read from Mr. Consul Hutchinson, Rosario, reporting that the Egyptian seed forwarded to him by the Association has been distributed amongst thirty-three cultivators in various parts of the Argentine republic. The sowing season is the month of September. A letter was received from the honorary agents of the Association in Calcutta, enclosing reports from parties to whom seed has been distributed. One of them states that all the seed sown with scarcely an exception germinate freely. Letters were re ceived reporting that the Bombay, Baroda, and Central India railway is at present open from with Ahmedabad, in th e nor th, to B ulsar, a distance of 1 85 4 -- miles, passin g th roug h B roach, Baroda, and Surat. The rema i n i ng 125 miles to Bombay were nearly rea d y f or open i ng when the monsoon came on in J une , an d i t i s expected the opening thr oug h out w il l not be delayed beyond the end of the year. Th e G reat Indian Peninsular line is open, with the excep ti on o f the gap of nine miles a t the Thull Ghaut, from B om b ay to Mulkapor e , i n Berar, in a north-ea s t di rect i on 294 miles, and f ro m Bombay to Sh o l apore i n the south-east 276} w iles. Mulkapore i s w i t hi n t h e li m i ts of the great Berar cotton field, and co tt on can b e read i ly con veyed to that and o th er po i nts on the railway (nersee, on the S.E. li ne ) f or transport to Bombay. i t is expected th a t t h e gap in the railway system a t the Thull Ghaut will be closed by th e com pletion of the li ne over the Ghaut in the course o f next spring, a n d a b out the same time a fur ther portion of th e ra il way will be opened towards oon a rawuttee.—A n extract from a despatch re ceivedfrom her M a j esty ' s Consul-General at Alex andria states that th e Vi ceroy was much pleased his visit up to Sicot. Both sides of the river, now, at its highest po i nt, were covered with cotton grounds, not of large dimensions, but in parcels of an acr e and half an acre, indicating that every pea sant was occupying h]raseif with growing the plant. — Consular d espatches forwarded by the F ore ign-office were r ece i ved from the Acting Consul Mr. Tait, Coquimbo, J u l y 23, reporting that no cot ton i s grown withi n hi s consular district ; and from Mr. Consul Moore, Jerusal em, A ug. 26, stat i ng that the area planted with c o tt on th i s year is fußy four times as great as the area planted in 1862. The probable produce of the ensu i ng crop will be about 4,100 t Egyptian been 001 b. The i n di genous seed has been used; u g yptian seed ha s b een received, nor has any im provement in the c u lti vation and management of the an introduced. Th e qual i ty will, therefore, p 25 be usual inferi or ki nd, and the greater part is the ed to the nearest p orts of France and Italy, Model plantations, conduct e d b y E ngl i shmen, with i \osdb ofei shipped p native labour, seem necessary to extend the culti vation, these can o n l y b e expected when there shall greater securit y than at present exists in Palest i ne , as well as a b etter definition of the tenure of land by Europea ns i n Turkey. Mr. Consul- General Cumberbatch, C onstantinople, Sept. 8, stated no cotton is grown in the neighbourhood of Constantin o p le . Consul that He enclos e d a report f rom M r. Vice "d I Blunt, Ad r i anople, July 3, who repre sents ts . the u area planted with cotton in the provinces osefnAdrianonle, Phillipopoli, and Selimo to be 3,625 acres, being 1,975 acres more than in 1862. There wo uld have b een a stilt greater increase b the apprehensio n t h at the autho ritiesTuht for were distributing seed with t h e i ntention of seizing ga part of th e produce. A very small quantitynative seed ha s b een planted ; Egyptian has been chief l y used, and about 4,0001 b o f Ameri can obtained from Dram; in M ace d on i a. It is si feared that, on account of the late sowing and the very unusual drou g ht, the results will no t b e s o suc were anticipated. T he report enclosed represents th e production of. this year f e r e u s m sfu n l o a d s osto The account f rom Enos anticipates a u to be double that of last year, about 20,000 ekes or u s s 6 d ,B e 2 r O u b l b l . 0 , increase, and a more general use of exotic seed. The Acting C onsul (Mr. Bidwell), r o e P anama , writes that in the int er i or of that state considerable about 700 acres are no w Planted with co tt on , an d that o u t h I more or le ss , over 0101 n Sea Island see d h as b een remarkably productive ; c o t ton having been col lected three times, at intervals of three months. The plant, which in the United S tates is an annual, ap pears in Panama to be a perennial, since that which was sown thirteen months ago is still in a flourishing condition. '-'his may be partially ex plained by the absence of f rost. The American Consul having planted so me upland seed, was en abled in three months to send a sample of cotton to which wa s f avourably reported on, bis government, and a further quantity of see d has been sent for gratuitous distribution. The authorities of the United States evince the utmost desire to promote the growth of cotton on the Isthmus ; natives, as well as foreigners, are anxious to obtain seed, and it is estimated that about 3,000 acres will be placed under cotton on the Pacific side of th e I st h mus b y the end of next y ear. Pi le cultivati on i s qu i te i n i ts infancy; the great difficulty is the want of labour, and it is not probable that there will be any exports of i mpor t a nce at present..--A letter, recognising the exertions of the Association,, son.— is cla tion, was re a d f rom th e Operative Sp inners Society Pro t Th . con cluded the b us i n ess of the meeting. Opening of a New Catholic Church at Bath. A now Catholic place of worship was consecrated on Tuesday, and opened on Wednesday with considerable ritualistic pomp and ceremony 14 the c ity o f B ath, Th ere was a large gathering o f eccle siastical dig,nitaries, and the service was as imposing as great Catholic religious ceremo nials usually are. The now church is a spacious and hand some one, and adds to the architectural beauty of Bath. The architect is Mr. Ansom, of Clifton. Immediately fol lowing the service at the church was a luncheon at the Assembly Rooms. Amongst those who partook of it were the Right Hon. Lord Clifford, who presided ; Lady Clifford, Dr. Clifford (Bishop), Dr. Morris, Dr. Ullathome, Dr. Manning, Dr. Vaughan, Mr. R. Berkeley (Worcestershire), Mr. and Mrs. Shuttleworth, Miss Bateman, Mr. Charles Clifford, Mrs. Charles Stapleton, 11Ir. E. and Mrs. Weld, Mrs. Worsley, together with a large number of monks and priests, and members of the Catholic church. The health of his Holiness the Pope having been drunk, the chairman proposed that of her Majesty and the rest of the royal family, remarking that it was during the present reign that the fires of persecuti on w hi c h existed in the days of her Majesty's predecessors had been finally trampled out and Catholic emancipation had becom e not merely a legal technicality, but an actual rea lity. Inre sponding for the "Catholic Hierarchy of England,', Bishop Ullathorno said ho recognised the hierarc h y as a great institution. It was the restoration of the nor mal government of the church. When the hierarchy was established, ten or twelve y ea rs ago, questions arose, how was it to exist P How was this gre at mu lti p li cation of bishops to find employment ? How were they to sustain an advance of that magnitude in this country ? Why, the facts of the last ten years had given a response which had satis fied all minds. Already they found that the 13 prelates had almost more work in hand than they could manage, and they found on every side churches rising, clergy multiply ing, seminaries increasing, and the whole country was being covered with the action of the hierarchy. The announce ment of the establishment of that hierarchy was received with a groan by a a great portion of this country, and now they found the very press engaged at that moment in exalt ing the head of that hierarchy as a man who was an orna ment to the country. Let them congratulate their brethren that they had conic completely to their senses ; let them also congratulate th em t h at they had begun to discover that Catholics were " an important body in this country," and let them congratulate themselves that the Catholic vote was of i m portance in the politics of the country. A number of other toasts followed. In the evening there were vespers in the church, and a sermon preached by Dr. Manning to an attentive congregation.— Tiestolt ,Dal!:i Press, The Scandalous Outrage on a Lady. (From the Morning Post.) BIARRITZ, Oct. 5. You will recollect th e a ff air of the Countess Przezdiecka, whose hair and eyebrows were burnt by the explosion of some detonating powder, which had been concealed in the seal of a letter sent to her by an unknown enemy. It has now transpired that the writer of this letter was a Russi an lady, the wife of a colonel of the Imperial Guard, residing at St. Petersburg. The matter has been brought before the local magistracy, and will probably be settled at the next. criminal sessions at Bay onne. The Cracow journals announce the arrest, i n Podolia, of Princess Johanna Czartoryski and her mother. It has been remarked here that this news has produced a most painful impression on the Emperor and Empress, who had formerly received the princesses at the Tuileries. HER MAJESTY'S IRCN STEAMSHIP VALIANT, Of 34 guns and 4,063 tons, will be launched from Messrs. Westwood and Baillie's yard, at Milwall, on Saturday, the 17th inst. The Duke of St. Albans, Viscount Newport, the Eari of Durham, Lord Rendlesham, Captain Douglas Lang, and Lord George Manners were recently elected members of the Jockey Club. THE NEWCASTLE MURDER. The detective police at Newcastle-on-Tyne seem at last to have discovered the person who is supposed to have mortally stabbed the Irishman, Martin Luskey, in Scotswood-road, in that town, on Saturday night. He also turns out to be an Irishman (not a pitman, as was thought), and his name is reported to be Terence Quin. His companion, named M'Gurk, the person who was carrying a bandbox, which was knocked out of his hands by Luskey, just before he (Luskey) was stabbed, has made a statement which impli cates Quin as the person who did it. Quin appears to have fled to Ireland. A LARGE SHIP WRECKED OFF MARGATE.— GRAVESEND, Thursday.— The Leda, steamer, Captain Castles, from Dublin, which arrived in the river this morning, reports seeing a large ship wrecked off the Brake Sands. She appeared to be an American, with her decks and round stern washed out of her. Several Deal boatmen were making for the wreck when the Leda passed. No signs of any living person could be seen belonging to her. It blew a heavy gale last night and this morning from the eastward, accompanied by heavy rain and thunder. ALEXANDER SELKIRK, the original of De Foe's noble creation of " Robinson Crusoe."—A Scotch warehouseman of the name of Hutchinson, in Warwick street, Regent-street, has recently come into possession of the two Setkirk relics, the cup and the chest. The former, which is made of a cocoa-nut, rudely carved, was put upon a stalk and mounted with silver by Sir Walter Scott, and so almost loses its identity and interest ; but the latter is a curiously-dovetailed piece of ingenious workmanship by the " monarch of all he surveyed." These relics, up to the present time, have been in the possession of Selkirk's de scendants in Largo, Fifeshire, where he was born. THE VOLUNTEERS AS JURYMEN.—A novel point was raised before the Kent county magistrates at Bromley on Monday as to whether a person holding a com mission as an officer in a Volunteer Rifle Corps was exempt from serving as a juryman at the county sessions and assizes. It appears that the name of a lieutenant of one of the local corps had been omitted from the jury list, and the overseer, on being questioned, said that exception had been claimed, and the omission made by him, on account of the gentleman referred to holding a commission, as stated. On referring to the list it was ascertained that the name of the commanding officer of the same company was inserted, and Colonel Lenuard, one of the bench of magistrate, having remarked that he, although colonel of a Militia regiment, would not be exempt, the name of the lieutenant was ordered to be placed on the list. TRIAL OF NEW LlFEBOATS.—Yesterday some har bour trials were made in the Regent's Canal Dock, Limehouse, with two new lifeboats belonging to the Na tional Lifeboat Institution. There were present—Mr. T. Chapman, F.R.S., Sir E. Perrott, Capt. De St. Croix, Mr. R. Lewis, Mr. W. H, Harton, Capt. D. Robertson, R.N., and several other gentlemen. Both boats underwent the usual trials, of self-righting and self-ejecting the water, of the craft of the National Liteboat Institution. One of the boats, which is 33 feet long and rows ten oars, double banked, is intended for Teignmouch, Devon, to replace an old and inferior boat there. She is an experimental boat, being built of iron, and being the first lifeboat on the self righting principle which has been made of that material. She was built by Mr. Hapworth, the iron shipbuilder at Millwall, under the immediate superintendence of Mr. J. Prowse, of her Majesty's Dockyard, Woolwich, purveyor to the institution. Her cost was raised at the British set tlements at Hong-Kong and Shanghai in 1862 by Mr. W. H. Harton, a member of the general committee of the Lifeboat Institution, in conjunction with Messrs. Gilman and Co., of Hong-Kong, for the express purpose of present ing a lifeboat to the society, to be stationed on the English coast. In compliment to the subscribers who thus remem bered an important work in their own country when far away from it, she has been named the China. A new and commodious boathouse has been built for her at Teign mouth, and she has been supplied with a new transporting carriage. The other boat which was tried yesterday is 30 feet long, and rows 10 oars double banked, and is to go to Swansea. She was built by the Messrs. Forrestt, of Lime house, lifeboat builder to the National Institution. The Great Western Railway and the other connecting railway companies have, as usual, readily given a free conveyance to each of the boats to their destinations on the coast. A YANKEE BOOBY—(worse than Dogberry)— fairly " written down An Ass"—by Consul Nathaniel Hawthorne, in his new book of " Our Old Home."—One day a queer, stupid, good-natured, fat-faced individual came into my private room, dressed in a sky blue cut-away coat and mixed trousers, both garments worn and shabby, and rather tob small for his overgrown bulk. After a little preli minary talk he turned out to be a country shopkeeper (from Connecticut I think), who had left a flourishing business, and come over to England purposely and solely to have an interview with the Queen. Some years before he had named his two children, one for her Majesty and the other for Prince Albert, and had transmitted photographs of the little people, as well as of his wife and himself, to theillustrious the godmother. The Queen had gratefully acknowledged favour, in a letter under the hand of her private secretary. Now the shopkeeper, like a great many other ec retary. Americans, had long cherished a fantastic notion that he was one of the rightful heirs of a rich English estate; and on the strength of her Majesty's letter, and the hopes of a royal patronage which it inspired, he had shut up his little counts and come over to claim his independence.of h On the y store voyage a German fellow-passenger had relieved him money on pretence of getting it favourably exchanged, and had disap peared immediately on the shi p 's arrival, so that the poor compelled to pawn all his clothes except the re markablyfellw was o shabby ones in which I beheld him, and in which (as he himself hinted, with a melancholy yet good-natured smile) he did not look altogether fit to see the Queen. I agreed with him that the bobtailed coat and mixed trousers consti tuted a very odd looking court dress, and suggested that it was doubtless his present purpose to get back to Connecticut fastas as possible. But no; the resolve to see the Queen was as strong in him as ever,and it was marvellous the pertinacity with which he clung to it amid raggedness and etarvation,and the earnestness of his supplication that I would supply him with funds for a suitable appearance at Windsor Castle. I never had so satisfactory a perception of a complete booby before in my life; and it caused me to feel kindly towards him, and yet impatient and exasperated on behalf of com mon sense, which could not possibly tolerate that such an unimaginable donkey should exist. I laid his absurdity before him in the very plainest terms, but without either ex citing his anger or shaking his resolution. • Oh, my dear ma n,' quoth he, with good-natured, placid, simple, and tearful stubborness, • if you could but enter into my feel ings and see the matter from beginning to end as I see it To confess the truth, I have since fell I was hard-hearted to the poor simpleton, and that there was more weight in his remonstrance than I chose to be sensible of, at the time ; for, like many man who have been in the habit of making pl a ythings or tools of their imagination and sensibility, I wa s too rigidly tenacious of what was reasonable in the affairs of real life. And even absurdity has its rights, when, as in this case, it has absorbed a human being's entire na ture and purposes. I ought to have transmitted him to Mr. Buchanan, in Loudon, who, being a good-natured old gentleman, and anxious, just then, to gratify the universal Yankee nation, might, for the joke's sake, have got him admittance to the Queen, who had fairly laid herself open to his visit, and has received hundreds of our country men on infinitely slighter grounds. But I was inexor able, being turned to flint by the insufferable proximity of a foul, and refused 'to interfere with his business in any way except to procure him a passage home. I can see his face of mild, ridiculous despair, at this moment, and ap preciate, better than I could then, how awfully cruel be must have felt my obduracy to be. For years and years , the idea of an interview with Queen Victoria ha d haunted his poor foolish mind ; and now, when be really ‘,. stood on English ground, and the palace-doer was tg" ) : 1 ajar for him, he was expected to turn back, a heart ed Peo7ann bamboozled simpleton, merely because an d ir his demand Consul refused to lend him 30s. (so low had the rail for ultimately sunk) to buy a second-class ticketora t imes after- London He visited the Consulate 89ellovieci him in the wards, subsisting on a pittance thattfo Cennecticut, assail hope of gradually starving him be v e e k ry opportunity, lcoking ing me with the old petition t °roug hly good-tempered, shabbier at every visit, but still rough his tears, not Without mildly stubborn, and smiling t or his dierousnes u,NU position a perception of the la STHEtiI Finally he disappeared altogether. DEFEAT. ANOTHER Ceased RATE has decided on . of paw n" a meeting rural parish At having no more eoall?,u l ,'.,lY !_' o ll , u . o u n ' m u enure rate was held on SeptemberL(4T summarily rejected. W. Johnson,. q., Denshanger eehma n, was the principal House, a eta" oPpolient,—Hants Indepoedent, SECOND EDITION SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 O'CLOCK. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. NORTHALLERTON RACES-THIS DAY. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. TWO-YEAR-OLD STAKES. Harvest Mell Lady Douro colt Eola ...... 3 Four ran. JUVENILE STAKES. Wisdom Sir Watki n _ Four ran. GREAT NORTH RIDING HANDICAP. Michael Sectt .... Upperha n d Hyp4 rraneatxa Seven ran. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE, GconMEpaAnTy'ssAteSTEerß E. B N ienheim arriv e d a t Yesterday this Harwich, with a consignment of 746 head of cattle end a general cargo, at 9 a.na-, after encountering a heavy gale having left Rotterdam at 6 30 a.m. on the previous evening ' making her second experimental voyag e in and out between ' Rotterdam and liarwich, and in connection with the Great Eastern and D etch Rhenish railways, d ur i ng the week.. At Harwich, under the new regulations, the cattle were lai ided place I in sheds built for the purpose, aLd examin e d by the veterinary surgeon of the Board of Trade. After resting were conveyed in special trains from Harwich to Strat ford is two hours, and from thence by the North Landon Junction line direct to the New Metropolitan Marin3t in the Caledonian-road, thus avoiding the necessity that pre viously existed of driving them from the docks th rough the , streets to market. Two new steamers are being built for this route in addition to the Blenheim, and three other steamers are to be constructed for the passenger service. CHARING-CROSS. Yesterday workmen commenced the demolition of a 3ar ge number of houses and shops in the Borough-marker, and portions of the Borough-market Distillery, lately belonging to Messrs. Vickers, and great pi ogress is being made with the clearance of all the properties required for the ca.ten sion of the line into Cannon-street. BRISTOL AND NORTH SOMERSET. The first sod of this line was turned at Clutton on Wed nesday by Mrs. Milward, wife of the Rev. Prebendary Milward ; and yesterday the first rail of the line at the Bristol end was laid by Mrs. L. V. Hare, Mayoress of that city. There were great rejoicings at both places. The line from Radstock to Bristol, including a branch to Camorton, will be 22 miles in length. Messrs. Bethel and Waltaa are the contractors. The cost of the undertaking is estiuthated at £270,000, and it appears that arrangements have been made for completing the line within two years. GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. The traffic receipts on this company's line for the 'week ending Sept. 19 amounted, for local passengers, to £6.(621; for foreign passengers, to £1,649; for emigrants, to £385; for mails, &c., to £575 ; for local freight and live stock:, to £7,273; for timber and lumber, to £839 ; for firewood, to £301; and for foreign freight and live stock, to £l,BO9 — total, £19,454; against £15,130 for the corresponding week of last year, showing an increase of £4,324, of which £2,203 was for local passengers, £928 for foreign passengers, and £1,144 for local freight and live stock. The total traffic receipts from the lat of July to the above date amounted to £184,747, and for the same period of 1862 to £151,464, showing an increase of £33,283, or nearly 22 per cent. ELECTION OF AN ALDERMAN. Yesterday afternoon a very numerously-attended meet ing of the inhabitants of the Ward of Aldgate we, held in the Ward School Committee-room,in Mitre-street,Minories, for the election of an Alderman of the Ward, in the stead of the late Mr. Alderman Humphery. The LORD M.A.YOR presided, and in opening the proceed ings bore testimony to the faithful and zealous services: per. formed by the late Alderman Humphery during the many years he had represented the ward, and also during the 20 ears he had held a seat in the House of Commons. Mr. J. G. JONES then nominated Andrew Lusk, Esq., for the vacant office, a gentleman whom he said was worthy to be a successor to the late Alderman, and worthy of their confidence and esteem. He had long resided in the ward, had passed through the various parochial offices, and had for many years been an active member of the Court of Com mon Council. He had also been elected to the important office of Sheriff of London and Middlesex, and was in every respect worthy of their confidence. He therefore proposed him as their future Alderman, believing that if elected he would perform the duties of the office zealously, faithfully, and efficiently. The Rev. Mr. DiciaNsorr seconded the nomination., and spoke highly of Mr. Lusk's labours in the cause of °clues tion. There was no other candidate, and the Lord Mayor de• clared Mr. Lusk unanimouslyelected Alderman of the Waxd l Mr. Lust having returned thanks, A vote of condolence with the widow and family of the late Alderman Humphery was then agreed to, and the pro, ceedings terminated with a cordial vote of thanks to thq Lord Mayor for presiding. A Ladlefull of "Punch," THE BEST FRUIT FOR PRESERVING LOVE, --Rabe was talking glowingly about "love-apples." " That's strange!" exclaimed Charlie, her accepted lover. " Why should love' bo associated with apples F' On the contrary, I thought that love always went iu pairs." Kate funned approvingly. T 3113 LAND OF LlBERTY.—lnstead of Habeas Corpus in the United States, which has been suspended, it is now, in the case of the prisoner who has been arbitrarily arrested, Abe who has corpus. SO3IETHING FOR THE ANTIQUARIES.—Mrs. Fondlechick was much amused the other day by reading in a paper that a medal had been found at Oswestry, bearing' the legend "Augustus Imp." " Bless me," she said, " that's what I say to cry troublesome little Gassy twenty times a day. Well it shows that Greek mothers had their troubles, like us." Her husband, who collects Queen Anne farthings, rushed out of the room. BANE -NOTES ♦ND QUERIES.—What is the meaning of "a Cool Thousand ?"—Allusion is made in this phrase to the thousands that are kept cool in the Bank cellars. SHIPPING—This Day, LONDON, Oct. 9.—Wind this day at noon—North- Easterly ; moderate breeze, and cloudy weather, with rain. PLYMOUTH, Oct. B,—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Cato, from Dalhousie for Newcastle; Woodbine, from London for Moulmein. QuEENsTowti, Oct. 7.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Edward Ilawkins, screw steamer, from Matamoras. Sailed.—Ale verge, steamer, for Quebec. KINGROAD, Oct. B.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Elizabeth Hamilton, from New York. PORTSMOUTH, Oct. S.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—ltub en4 for New York. CARDIFF, Oct. S.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Derwenit• from Montreal ; M ary , f rom G arruc h a . Sailed—N ljrtb for St. Thomas per FALMOUTH,. Oct. S.—Wind S.N.—Arrived ---G O'Grundy, from Jersey. - WHY MEAT IS DEAL—We have a ll heard in. cidentally of a fatal disease among 511i:on:al it c y a t t t h l o e : but few will be prepared for the enormorhome beastn. I\l 7 . has been going on for years, decidateplier6rot:ftoiheressottuohrtaanlble:e7Bf4 t , 0 1 S I,iB„6:ing this trernenadviZ Gamgee tells us that in the y 9 o 3 : B r ,ie . per ished of diseame, and 0 : : a y r i o l o : dfl the io r tariff,corn ana horned cattle, worth £3,805, edainndg. which Wast Which gave Sir that during the six years 2,255,000, valued at £ 25 , 934,65 :;hi5k we need not complain mortality into con a si p d e o u r n a y tio; at having to pay Promises of we used to do. The redact: o e t h ave cattle, e , 1 madel haan R. Peel such undying/a:le England the market ° • iled to fulfil the the latter item, a respect tow r a t uch as we imported as far as the consumers are concerned, inasmuch hitherto putted What wa did not free tradersun fort i a n t e r l y e s p t o tally bargain for— a has actually un known to our stock breeders, beasts ras d four times as many b havebbeen imported into 0 til l. ese islands,— Once a Week. cowD EN CLARRE'S r, Ap st, which , - , STROPHE TO SHA is:- sptßE ' s AUTOLYCUSI---." Th o u of ' rince q ail:ll6llsec e ni rogue s —thou type of a ll th ' mble- p fing,red race r Master .kutolycus I that rogue of rogues I that arch-rogue I that knave of knaves I in. that • exhaustible wag of a pedlar I that scampering ri p of a wayfaring huckster : With what a light hang h e di `poses 1 'poses of momentous considerations. How g r he relates that ' having flown over m knavish pr o f ess i ons, he settled down in rogue.'Ha has any a p osi tive and un m i t i gated contempt for right and justice, as being,_ indeed, but poor and very shallow affairs --and dull. Laughing he shouts, ' What a fool Honesty is 1 and Trust, his Sworn brother, a very simple gentleman.' He plumes himself upon his high-bred rascality in a strain of devout thankfulness, as he contemplates the simpleton-innocence of the two shepherds:—' How blest are we that are not simple men I yet Nature might have made me as these are; therefore I'll not disdain I' I am glad thou Is ast not hanged, my Autolycus I" THE ROYAL MARINE CORPS being abont 1,000 short of 18,000 men, the number voted last rar,rle.nerconse quence of dismissals and various casualties, districts, parties have been sent out to Lincoln and other 'ST