The Sun. — London, England, 1864-08-31 00:00:00

MONEY -MARKET AND COBIMENCIAL INTELLIGENCE, CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCX: Notwithstanding the good supply of money on offer in the general discount market, the rates for short-dated paper continue at 7 and 71 per cent. The demand for accommodation to-day has been of a moderate character, but the brokers, who do not believe in cheaper money, appear indisposed to enter largely into long transactions. In the Foreign Exchange yesterday afternoon there was no material alteration. There were no bullion movements at the Bank yesterday. At a meeting of creditors to-day of Messrs. Ford, Curtis, and Curtis, ship-provision merchants, a conimitee was appointed to investigate the ac• counts, and to report to an adjourned meeting, to be held on the 6th of September, as to the best course to be adopted for realising the estate. A meeting of the creditors of Messrs. Woodward and Podmore will be held on Thursday next. The mail from Guayaquil has brought a remit tance of £5ll on account of the dividends on the debt of Ecuador. An instalment of £3 per share is payable on Thursday, the Ist September, on the scrip of the Societe Generale de I'Empire Ottoman. Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co. have announced that they have received adv:ces from their agents in Venezuela, under date of ; the 9th inst., of their hay. ing received the undermentioned collections on account of 55 per cent. of the import duties assigned to the bondholders, viz., 1 week from Custom House of Puerta Cobello, 5,020 dole. 74c ; and two weeks from that of La Luayra, 38,727 dole 83c ; together 43,748 dole 57c. Messrs. Baring Brothers have also received the following remittances on account of New Grenada dividends, viz,, from the Custom House of Santa Marta £1,793 4s 3d, and from San Jose de Cucuta £1,352 13s ld ; together £3,145 7s 4d. Messrs. Baring Brothers have also received by this mail on account of Mexican dividends 64,479 dole 56e. Two o'CLocK. A very unfavourable feeling still prevails in the English Stock Market, and the Funds are now at an exceedingly low price, Consols for money being 881, and for the account 88! I. There appears to be no valid reason why. English Government secu rities should be at such reduced figures. Political relations are satisfactory, and there is nothing to fear from monetary prospects. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 87t 88 ; the Annuities, 1873, 105 ; Exchequer Bills, 255. to 153. dis. ; and India 5 per Cents., 1031, 104. Very little fluctuation has occurred in the Foreign Market, and business is extremely dull. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 70! ; do. Consolides, 501 ; Mexican, 281 I; do. New, 251 i 26 ; Greek, 23i 241; Spanish Passive, 311 ; do. Certificates, 13! ; Russian, tiSk ; and the Confederate Loan, 74 75 ex div. In the Railway Share Market business has cone tinned rather dull, but prices have not varied to any important extent. Lancashire and Yorkshire have receded about £l, and Great Eastern, and Manchester, Sheffield, and London each 55.; while North Eastern (York), have advanced ss. The Foreign and Colonial lines show little change of importance. Bank and Miscellaneous shares are neglected, but prices in some instances are a shade firmer. Lon don and Westminster realise 98 ; Imperial Bank, 351; Credit Mobilier, 12 121 ; and Credit Foncier, 12,1 12k. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 per Cent. Consols Do Account, Aug. 8 3 per Cent. Reduced BS 71 ( New 3 per Cent. B7l 8 71 New 2 i per Cent. Jan. 1894 — Do 5 p e r Cent., Jan. 1 8 7 3 lO5 Aunuities, 30 yrs, expire nth Jan., 1880 — Du for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Do (Red `ea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 — Dl4r ch. June. Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 & 31 per:Cent. Do £5OO Do £lOO and £2OO Bank England Stk, 51 per Ct. Do Account INDIPaN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. India Stock, 10i per Cent., April 1874 212 Do Account Do 5 per Cent. July, 1870 1)o Account.... Do 4 per Cent., Oct, 1888 Do Certificates Do Account Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.).. Do 4t pei. Cent. Do Eiliaced Paper, 4 per Cent Do 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 Do 51 per Cent., May, 1879 Do 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 Do ISondsia,ooo — Do under £1,000.. FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. lirazilian 5 per Cent Do 4k per Cent., 1852-58-60 -.... Do 1863 OOOOOOOOO Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent .............. C hilian 6 per Cent. .................... —. Do 4k per Cent Colombian 6 per Cent ..... Cuba, 6 per Cent. Do 5 per Cent, 1864.... Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent.. —. Do, Provisonal Land Warrant.... --. Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 Do 4 per Cent, 1863 Egyptian 7 per Sent ^ Do, Second Issue Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons 23i Do Account .•••• 24 31 41 Do Coupons — Do Account.... ............. , 3 -- Guatemala 5 per Cent. Do 1839 and 1859 ........ — Italian b per Cent. (INlareramana Railway) Mexican 3 per Cent Do Account Do 1864 Do French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c — Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French Ditto Scrip, £23 paid Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada — Do 2 per Cent. — Do Deferred Du Land Warrants (Hectares) .. Do Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1861.. Do do Aug., 1366.... Peruvian 41 per Cent 1)o 3 per Cent. (Gribarren) .. — Do 41 per Cent., 1862 Do Account — .. Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 .......... Do Account ....... • • --- Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3.. Do Account ..... -- Rumian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ 5t........ --- Do 41 per Cent., 1850 . ........ .. Do 1860 ... .......... Do 3 ner Cent 1859 ...............•• 55 Do 5 per Cent, 1862 B6l I Do Anglo-Dutch .... Do Scrip, £4O paid — nni ...... _ Sardinian 5 per Cent — Do Account Spanish 3 per Cent Do Account Do New Deferred Do Account Do Passive Do Account Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded — •- Do Accoun'i l3l Swedish, 4 p ir Cent Do Scrip, £6O paid — Pra Turkish 6 par Cent. 1854 — Do Account Do 6 per Cent. 1853 Do Acco tint Do £lou Bonds ........ 3)0 6 Per Cent. 1362 Do Account .................... _77 . Do £lOO Bonds Do 1863 : Do Guaranteed, 4 per Cent Venezuela 3 per Cent. - .Do Account 22- Do 6 per Cent., 181i2 Po Account — .............. ...... dis Do Scrip £45 paid Dividends on the above payable in London Austrian, 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins. —. Do Account .. Belgian 41 per Cent., Ex. 251 Datch 2: per Cent., Ex. 12 Gull - 4Do 4 per Cent. Certificates Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, E. 25 francs , Do Nicejunt French Rentee, 2 per Cent. Feruvian Dollar Bonds, 4. per Ct. Ex. 4:3. Piechnontese, 6 per Cent., Ex. 25f TWO O'CLOCK. Commis Money . 88a Do Account.... • .... BSk PUNISHMENT BY WHlPPlNG.—Punishment by whipping is on the increase. Last year tha number of prisoners flogged was 388. CONIMITMENTS BY COUNTY COURTS.—Last year there were 27,861 warrants of commitments issued, and 8,588 persons actullly committed to prison. FED.; IN TEE COUNTY COURTS.—The amount of fees received Isot year in the county courts was £263,400. SHARE MA RKE''',"s_Thi s d a y. - ORDINARY ~ t IAIZES AND STOOLS. hare RO.iways. paid. Closing I Business Frioe. done. Wol., and Str. Val. Blythe and Tyne. Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall Do A A to no dig (ip e.p Do. B ~..0-e been paid t' p Dublin & June. Dun.,Perth..`,.Ab. June. Edinburgh & Glasgow. Glasg• cod S. West.2rt Gren'..Eastern, Ord. sit r•ltto A stock Ditto East a.n,c-, Han sl GreatNorthof Scotland Great Northern Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. and IV. of Irelan, Great Western Do St: Val mu,- stool- Lancashire & Yorkshir, London and Bl^,,kwal; Lon., Bright. „t S. Coast Lon., Chr and Dovei Lou. fr.. North Western Lo„ & So'...th Western :lan., Shot., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do shAres Metropolitan Alidla;d Do New :: Do Birming. & Derby Mid. Gt. W. of Ire'ant, Do. shtties Mid liezt Do Cray Line North BritiSh Edin., Perth, & Duudet Nth. Eastern—BerwiT, 1):), G.N.E. purcha.3, Do Leeds Do York Do North London Do New North Staffordshire . • N. and S. W. Junction. Scottish Central Soot. N. E., Aber. stoat, Do Scot, Mid. stook Shrews. and Welohpoo, Shropshire Union South South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun staines,Wok.,andWok Stockton St Darlington Do Do New, MG Taff Vale.. Do B ... Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria eta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.&R West Midland —Oxford Do Newport Do Hereford 13.14.' E 6 6.8 125 126 6 7 32 34 16 17 89 01 112 114 11 47i 7 74 131 131 146 148 131 133 tO 4+2 CBl 69,E 116 116) C 5 67 10: IC3 SO 41 1161 /16 V 8 D 9 6) (6 MI 114 135 1351 106 ICB 51ft 65i 254 261 1051 ICO 61 C 5 93 84 126 129 75 77 11 Ili 126 130 57 59 25 L 7 87 87i 101. 103 7 8 26 37 10} 11l 8 0 p 165 170 6 7 t. 3 4 p 101 103 31 36 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Closing Share RRilwaye Paid. Price. Business done 100 Itlantio &St Laiirenta all 58 60 Sk Bom.,Barodact.Cent Inc] 100 101 102 Gu. 5 per cent.. 20 Do. New . ..... 8 20 Do. E. Shares 74 4 dis p 204 Budalo and Lake Huron all a 54 10 Do. Preference . all 7 3 / 4 8 3 / 4 foo Buffalo,BrantotGodric.l, 100 75 80 p. at. bds. Aug. 1, IST, 10 0 Do. do. July 1, 187. 100 75 10 ;00 Do. do. June 1, 1874 100 75 80 st Cleutta.aS.Eastr..(l,lnl 100 97 99 et Cape Town W Dock Seri; 100 94 96 stock Elwin. Bengal gu. sp. 100 102 104 Stook lwast Indian. gu. sp. 0. 100 101 102 1 01 4 20 Do. do. U Ext V) 191 101 20 Do. do. II do. stook Grand Trunk of Canada 100 19 29 100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds all 71 73 100 Do. do. deferred all 60 63 1 0 .0 Do. 2d Pref. Bonds all 65 67 1 .00 Do. do. deferred all 55 57 100 Do. 3d Pref. stock 100 Do. do. deferred all 43 45 100 Do. 4th Pref. stook all 27 29 100 Do. do. deferred all 26 28 stook Cit.lndiarentn.gua.sp.o 100 102 103 20 Do. New gua. sp. c l2 par 4p Do. January, 1882 stook Gt. South.of India (Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 99 101 20 3 / 4 Gt. W. of Canada Share s all 04 10 20 3 / 4 Do. New .. ...... 18 103 104 100 Do. S p.o. '7 3 with't opt. all 89 91 100 Do. 54 p. c. do. '77 -8 all 82 84 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 3 / 4 d 4p stook Madras, guar., sp. 9 3 / 4 1004 1104 stook Do. 44 p. a. Extension 100 03 95 stook Dc. 44 do lOO 89 91 20 Do. Fifth Extension 2 stook Melb.Corp. ap. o. linds lOO 5o Melb. Ec llobson's Bay all 58 CO 100 Do. 7p. o. nortg. Bds all 20 Newßranswiok Grinds Class A and B all 2 5 N.lll.C'da spo Ist plbde 100 80 84 stook .dude —• • ) (100 993 101 stock Do. Delhi... I •• ' 100 99 3 / 4 100 ) 20 Do. do ' ': 24 4 :9 2 4d par st Do. Punjaub I all 9)5 1004 Do. Do. • - stook Do. Indus. St. Flo.) tlOO 95 97 , COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. - t_;.b.Uoy. 6 p.c.J Jr J uiy 1877-68 lOO 96 99 96} Do. p. 0. Feb: & Aug. 100 96 99 Do. op. o. liar. & Sept. 100 98 102 Do. 6p. 0. Jan.&July. 106 84 86 Do. 5 inscribed stock 100 84 86 Cape G.llope, 6 p 0,1873 100 104 106 Do.Ap & Oct. 1880 100 107 109 Do. 1890 100 109 111 Do. Jan. & July, 1891 100 107 10/ 1091 , Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 100 110 112 Mauritius 6 per cent lOO 103 105 101 Natal Gov. 6 per cent 100 104 107 6 p.c.J a.&July 100 97 100 Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. 100 N. S.W. G ov. 5 p 180( 100 97 99 Do. sp. to 1676 100 96 98 97 - I Do. d0.,11388 & upwds 100 96 98 96 - INew Zealand 6 p cent 100 - Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. j sterling, 1875. lOO 99 102 !Queensland Gcv. 6p. c. 100 100 103 S. Aus G6p:c.1878.& up 100 106 108 Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 1014 - Do. lo 6 D.°. A.n.&Oct.. 100 109 110 1081 BRITISH MINES. 2 Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 / chilord Amalgamated 30 32 30 Devon G. Con.. (Tavist ) 1 580 590 East Bassett (Illogau) 30 67 60 East Clogau Gold Lid. East Caradon ...... 114.6 27 28 'tact Caru Brea... ... . . 3.4.0 71 7/ ,E. W'l Russel (Tavistk.) 8.13.6 5 54 - ;Gam.&St.AubyinGwen 581 5 7 0 rent South Tolgus 17s 2 24 1 IG. Wheal Vor (Holston 40 27 28 Grenville . ;ler:J.:Ps-Foot ...... 8.12 68 40 tiingston Downs 4.18.0 4} Lady Bertha gargarct (tiny Lelaut 9i 7 9 Alarke Valley.. 4 Nlyndy Iron Oro (Lim 24 1t d New Seton l9l 75 85 •-• North Downs 3 11 11 N.Wh i l Basret(lllogan 3.1.0 2 21 North Wheal Crotty Par Cons Ole (St. Blazey: Providence (Uny Lelnt.' 10.0.7 40 42 401 South Caradon(StCleer, 14 :00 520 51517} S. Cara Brea (Illogan) — .Wheal Fran. (Mogan, 19.19 424 474 — Stray Park 30.1 8. 7.6 3O - l'amar Sil v.& Lead Diin. - 'Du Crolt 9 38 19 West. Basset (Illolan) l4 8 9 WCr radon (Liskeard; 9 91 10 .-- West Seton Wheel Basset (Inman) 51 92 65 Wheal Buller(Redruth) 10 18 20 Wheal Kitty (U.Lelaut) 2.0.6 WhealLudeott Wheal MaryAnn(lAen ) 8 14 16 Wheal Beton 5 84 210 215 Wheal Treiawney (Lis.) 7 19 2 21 I Wheal Union 1 4 11 •ES LEASED A -11 FIXED RENTALS. Blanchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 3i FOREIGN Cape Copper, Bra., 101 BANKS. • Anglo Austrian, if Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 391 Consolidated Bank, lira., 10,1 European Bank, lira., 131 14 Imperial Bank (Urn.). 35i Imperial Bank of :Mina, India,!and Japan, lim., 8 International Bank, lira., 181 Land Mortgage Bank of . India, lira., 5,1 London Bank of Mexico and S. America, Jim, 61 London, Buenos Ayres, and River Plate, 65 London and County, 73} London and South African, 24 London and 11 estminster, I 8 South Eastern, Rm., 9 MISCELLANEOUS. Australian Mort. Land and Finance, UM., 3 City Offices, Credit Foncier, 111 124 Credit Mobiticr, lit 12 Crystal Palace, 33 East India Irrigation and Canal, 5 Gen. Credit and Finance of London, lini., Imperial Mercantile Credit A sso., lim., 81 Loudon Financial Association, lim., 2fl Societe Financiere d'Egypte, lim., SHIPPING—T: c aS DAY, ....-----....,.....____ (B Y M4W . - A'ETIC TELEGRAPII;) , GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning. Arrived, Aug from Port Natal—Pallas, • from Archan4a ; Isabella and Lernvig, from Taganrog— !r..n Licata—Reliance, Triumph, Mellon, and Zunm, rroni Guernsey—Sir W. Poultney, from Cronstadt —C`..Levalier, from Lisbon—Alexandria, from Yokohama. DEAL, Wednesday Morning. Passoe—Gaza and Matilda, from the west, for London— Arbutus, from Barbadoos, for London—Fort Regent and Marlborough, from Calcutta, for London— Moffat, from the Cape of Good Hope. for London—Victor, of Sunderland, from the west, for tho north—Aphodis, from the north, for the west--Tanning, screw steamer, from London, for Ton ning. ST. THOMAS'S HOSPlTAL.—Yesterday afternoon a numerously attended meeting of the governors of this hospital was held at the Terminus Hotel, London bridge, to elect a treasurer in the room of Mr R. Baggallay, resigned, and fur other business. The president (Alderman Sir J. Musgrove) presided. Mr W. Tito, M.P., proposed a vote of thanks to Mr Baggallay on his retirement from the office of treasurer. The motion was seconded by Alderman Finnis, and unanimously approved. Mr Tite, M.P., then proposed Mr Francis llicks for the office of treasurer, Alderman Finnic seconded and Mr Gray supported the nomination, and Mr Hicks was unanimously elected to the °dice. Sarah Collier reside at No. 9, Cross-street. De ceased and his wife occupied the first floor back-room. During the ten months I have known them, they fre quently quarrelled. Wilkinson got tipsy at least once a week. They only quarrelled when he was so, and then she never said anything to him if he was good-tempered. Last Sunday evening Wilkinson came in between six and seven o'clock and asked me if I had seen his wife. 1 told him I had not. About half-past seven a person came to me and told me a lady wanted to see me in Hatton-garden. When I went out I found it was deceased. She said, " Have you seen my husband, directly we came out of the station my husband struck me in the face." She then told me that he had kissed her niece, and that Chipperfieldihad kissed her, and that had led to the quarrel. She said, " I'm afraid to come in yet, as lam sure he will knock me about. I will go to a friend's house and stop for two hours," At a quarter past 10 she again sent for me, and when she found her husband was not within she came into my room. She went and looked at her children,:and then came out and went into bed with my aunt, to avoid meeting her husband until the morning. We slept quietly until about a quarter past 12 when I heard Wilkinson going up-stairs. He_ knocked at my door, and asked if his wife was in my room. I told him she wus not, and he then went to my aunt's room, and pushed the door open. In a few seconds 1 heard a noise as of a quarrel. He was using oaths. I went in, and there saw the deceased on the floor on her knees, and Wilkinson near her. He was using dreadful language, and I saw him strike her three times on the head with his fist. He then got up from a box on which be was sitting and kicked her in the stomach. The moment he did it, deceased seemed very ill ; I asked her if he had hurt her, when she said, "I'm very bad, he has given me my death blow." I held up her head, and she vomited up a little blood, Directly Wilkinson saw this he became altogether changed, and as sisted me to raise her up. 1 bathed her temples, and Wil• kinson then assisted me to get her to her room. He cried very ranch, and then he run for a doctor. Mrs Wilkinson diet within the hour after she had received the kick. By a Juror—They had had a quarrel on Friday night, Before he kicked her the said " For God's sake, don't kill me." Ho then said, " I'll give it you, you --." She never spoke after she received the kick. Dr. Clarke, 115, Holborn-hill, said he had made a post mortem Examination and found that death had been occa sioned by hemorrhage, caused by a rupture of the spleen, The coroner said there could be no doubt of the canoe of death, viz., the rupture of the spleen, and that injury had been produced by a blow. A juror said it was of the utmost importance that the accused man Wilkinson should be present while the evi dence against him was being given. The Coroner entirely agreed with the juror. He found it would become necessary at that stage of the inquiry to adjourn until next Friday morning, and during that perfod he would communicate with Sir George Grey. in order it possible to obtain the order of the Home Secretary for the prisoner's attendance at that inquiry. The jury and witnesses wore then bound over to attend again next Friday. LAW INTELLIGENCE,-.-This Day, SHERIFFS' COURT. (Before F. Gibbons, Esq.) A MAN COMPELLED TO PAT A DEBT DE DOES NOT OWE, JONES V. PINKING. This was a judgment summons, and his honour put the usual questions to the defendant, who said he was not the person who owed the money. There must have been a mistake. His Honour said that whether there was a mistake or not defendant must pay. Defendant—l do not owe the money. His Honour—You must pay whether you owe the money or not. This is a claim for 153. 41., and it has been decided that!you must pay. Defendant—But I never of the matter before to-day. I was not served with the original summons, so I could not attend to it. His:Honour said he could not help that, the defendantihad not appeared on the original suz,mons, and must go to prison for five days. The commi!.inent would like in the office a week before it issued. Defendant very '.naturally declared that ho would not pay, athe money, and left the court compl a i n i ng o; h he a did grog n:t injustice of such a law. t A C M' AIISSIONER FOR TARING OATHS IN COMMON LAW. GAINSPORD AND OTHERS V. PHILLIPS. This was an action to recover £3l Bs. bd., for carpets, &c., supplied to defendant, who is an attorney, of 12, Abchurch lane, and also is one of the Commissioners for taking oaths in Common Law. Mr Wray, for the plaintiffs, deposed to the goods having been supplied, and a promise to pay. Hi:, Honour found that no one appeared on behalf of the dr_andant, and the usual order was made. QUEEN VICTORIA AND THE DAHOMIAN SLATE GIRL— , In speaking of slavery, I cannot omit to mention the warm interest that our gracious Queen has evinced towards a liberated Dahomian slave girl. Some years since Commander Forbes, of the Royal Navy, was sent to the savage ruler of that country for the purpose of trying to prevail on him to change his policy of government. The King was greatly impressed by the gentlemanly bear ing of the gallant officer, and as a token of his royal re gard for him, made him a present of a young slave girl. Commander Forbes brought her to England in his ship the Bonetta, and had her christened by the name of Bonetta Forbes. When the Queen heard the strange and eventful history of the girl, she at once adopted her as a protdgd, and had her educated at Melville Hospital at her own expense, and always took a deep interest in Miss Bonetta's welfare, even going so far as to have her occasionally at Court. When afterwards the young girl married Mr Davis, a coioured merchant, residing on the Gold Coast, the Queen took a most lively interest in the event, and made Miss Forbes several handsome wedding presents. I lately saw by a news paper that a further mark of favour was conferred on Mrs Davis, who has given birth to a daughter to whom the Queen has stood godmother by prosy. At the same time the Queen presented to her godchild a beautiful gold cup, with a salver, knife, fork, and kpoon, of the same precious metal, as a baptismal present. The cup and salver bear the following inscription —" To Victoria Davis, from her god mother, Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, 1563." Does not this incident speak volumes for the good ness of our beloved Queen, who amongst her multitudinous cares can still remember an African girl.— Colburn's United So rice Magazine. Nearly 10,000 clothworkcrs, at Biella, in Piedmont, aro now on strike fur a decrease in the hours of labour, and an increase of wages. This sue• pension has lasted upwards of a fortnight, and Govern ment contractors are embarrassed, as they are unable to get their orders executed. The men are now at the end of their pccaniary resources, and will shortly be cbliged to cede. A sum of :12,000f has, however, just been received Irons Marseilles to be distributed among them. Th© local jour nals state that no one knows by whom this money has been sent, Last night, or rather his morning, at a few minutes past twelve o'clock, the prisoners came out of the Green Dragon publichouse in :sigh-street, Poplar, and began shouting and bawling. They were desired by a police constable named Owen, No. 305 K, to move on and go home. Conner, who was mad with drink, began to pull off his guernsey shirt, and said he had left his ship to have a spree, and would fight my one, or fight all the world. He was taken into custoly by another constable, named Sorrell, No. 410 K, whorl ho kicked violently on the legs, and nearly disabled him, Sorrell took his staff from his case and gave Connor out blow, and succeeded in taking him into custody. George Osborne, No. 129 K, took Ward into custody, and tle female said he should not go, and pulled him away. A scene of great disorder ensued, and the screams and shorts of the woman, who used very bad language, were frighful. At last, and with additional assistance, the prisoners vero all secured. A crowd of 200 persons assembled in the tligh- street, and the disorder was very great. Respectableand quiet inhabitants complained of the disturbance, Mr Paget said that Connor had seriously injured the constable he had kicked, And he should sentence him to one month's imprisonment azd hard labour. He sentenced the woman Hughes to seven days' imprisonment and hard labour, and discharged Vard, who had not offered any re sistance to the police. MARKET B--T his Day. HAY BIARKZTS. Tho amounts of Englieh wheat fresh up to our market to-day were but moderate. The demand, however, for all qualities ruled inactive, at Monday's quotations. The quality of the produce was very good. Most descriptions of Foreign wheat were in fair supply ; but the amount of business transacted in them was very moderate, at previous rates. Floating cargoes of grain moved off slowly, at previous quotations. The supply of barley on the stud was small. For all quotations, the trade was firm, and Monday's currency was well supported. The malt trade was quiet, on forber terms. With oats, the market was well s u pplied, and the trade for all quotations held somewhat active, at very full prices. Beans and peas were firm, at fully late rates. The demand for flour was stee,dy, and prices ruled tolerably steady. ARRIVALS THIS wzRIC. Wheat. Barley, Mit t . Oats. Flour. English ,, 1,170 230 1,410 200 1,130 Irish .. Foreign 11,810 1,120 43,740 3,090 eke. 1,340 brls, BOROUGH Hof. Now hops are selling at £6 to £9 per cwt. Last year's hops move off steadily, at full price;, Old hops dull. WHITEWIAM. The supply of meat on sale is moierato, and the trade rules heavy, at the annexed quotations : Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s 4d ; mutton, 3s 8d to 4s 8d ; veal, 3s 6d to 4e 8d; and pork, 38 ci to 4s 41 per Sibs by the carcase. GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATIpN COMPANY.---The seventy-ninth half -yearly me 3 tivg of the share. holders in this company was held yesterday, at their offices, 71, Lombard-street, John Wilkin, 4 * , in the chair. The report of the directors, and a stateuteat of the accounts for the half-year to the 30th Jane last, were read to the meet ing and unanimously adopted. Th) customary dividend of 14s per share, being at the rate of tO per cent. per annum was declared, and the cordial thanks of the proprietor, were voted to the chairman and directors 1-0 their continual ex ertions in the management of the cokwany's affairs, after which the meeting separated. TILE " INSPECTION" AT DEPOT.—The barracks were on a hill commanding the town, which had been fashioned irresolutely into a sort of fort—and when the sun was shining, little lengths of Emmet ribbon were seen to unwind themselves on the walls, lie a cheerful edging to a dull grey surtout, attended also ly lively drumming, and the winding of trumpets. In this sort of clumsily dis guised reformatory, the soldiers toolt their punishment, were drilled, snapped at with wordy ; of command, and, above all, "inspected." Which drealful operation was now just being performed. It was a d e pot, and samples of several regiments were herded together for training and exer cise. Major-General Shortall had been down, a gaunt, cheeked man, with what used to be terrcedthemutton-crheod whisker, and who was determined to do his all to save t h e service from the destruction to which was hurryi ng —by keeping his upper lip clean and bare. The men h ad b een scrubbed, pipeclayed, French polished, burnished, holy stoned even ; had been reviled and sworn into perfect cleanliness, before General Shortall was taken down the ranks. With a scowl of distrust, as though each private was busy hiding some breakage or stain, and might, after all, skilfully evade detection of his crime, the general walked down by a row of chests and faces, pried into but tons, twitched open cartouche-boxes, mad pulled at straps sourly, then walked up a row of backs, poked, probed as if ho were making a surgical examination, and finished off a line with au air of disappointment. Colonels and captains walked with him in agitation. In the evening General Shortall was to dine with the mess ; so also, was Sir Charles Longman, the generic territorial person of quality, and one or two gentlemen. It was a sort of little festival. The general, in a grudging sort of fashion, had allowed some commendation to be wrung from him, in which the words "CfliCiGilt" and "soldier-like" were distinguiehable. So there was a weight of care off the minds of the superior officers, Like two kings at a conference, Sir Charles Long man and General Shorten met on the rug, as at a free town. Colonel Ifenhow presented them to each other. The gene. al said he had known a Longman in "my old regi ment" in Jamaica, and Sir Charles, promptly fixing his glass in position, and painfully investigating the general all over, said, doubtfully, "that he—er—didn't know." They went into dinner thou, in a sort of clanking procession.— "I'Vever Forgotten," in Charles Dickens's All the Thtr Round." MANCHESTER, Aug. 30.—The market has been very firm. A fair business has been done in ship ping yarns, but it falls short of what had been an. ticipated after receipt of the very favourable tele grams to hand here yesterday from the East. There has been a good deal of enquiry for yarns suitable to India, it is true, but it has not led to much bus:- fleas. A little business has been doing for Germany and also for the markets of the Levant. Although the market for these yarns is not so brisk as it was hoped it would be, yet a wrong impression might be conveyed if it was not stated that it has recovered a'good deal from the extreme depression felt at the commencement of lest week. The market for home trade yarns is also a good deal steadier to-day, and there has been rather more business than could be effected last week, but spinners are rather free sel lers at about last week's terms. Sellers say, though things are better than last week, still there is not a good business going on—people do not buy freely. Spinners have been offering yarn rather freely, and it is thought this may be a reason why buyers hold back. Sellers in the cloth market are a good deal disappointed, like those in the yarn-market, that the India telegrams received yesterday have not produced a better effect. The advices were so decidedly bettor that they were in hopes buyers here would be induced to enter the market more freely, but this has not been the case. Buyers are not only quiet, but seem indisposed to make offers to any extent. Some little business has been done in light T cloths, shirtings, and madapollams, chiefly for Bombay, to meet immediate require ments; but there has been no general desire to buy manifested, and offers that have been made, as a rule, were at prices too low to be accepted by manufac turers, who still hold pretty firmly to their quota tions. The general feeling of the market to-day shows some little improvement, and some sales have been made for various quarters, but they have been The aggregate business of the day has been considerable in amount, and the improvement in prices very small. As a rule, the prices of cloth may be quoted as about in the same position as last week. LEEDS, 30th.—There has been a numerous attend anfee in the cloth halls to-day, though only little business has been done. To some extent buyers' operations are prevented by the scarcity of some kinds of goods. Superfine plain cloths can scarcely be met with, and the best unions are so rarely offered that there are cases in which an advance of 6d and 63-cl per yard has been gladly given. As to wools and blacks and blues, the dearth is such that ac tually goods of that description have been bought in the West of England to enable merchants here to supply orders of pressing importance which had been received. Of seal skins, black and brown, tbere,is likewise by far too small a quantity to en enable buyers to enter into transactions with confi dence. The demand for such goods is not by any means exhausted, but the manufacturers regard the fall trade as over, so far as they are concerned, and will make no more such heavy cloths except to special order. Their occupation now is principally the preparations of samples for the spring trade, and already sample ends in some variety have been for warded to the merchants. It appears quite evident that fancy diagonals in mixtures for mantles will occupy a prominent position in the trade of the next season. For men's wear there are out different pat terns of fancy coatings, but it is the opinion of come petent persons that more plain goods will be worn next spring than anything else, notwithstanding that they will be extremely dear, both because the raw material has commanded the highest prices at the sales, which close to-morrow, and because indi• go is an ',important article in the dyeing process, which has greatly increased in price. There have been some deliveries to-day of double milled wit neys, pilots, &e., from the White Cloth-hall, but the demand for winter goods will now gradually be come extinguished. NOTTINGHAM, 30th.—Business was quiet at this exchange hall to-day, and there was only a small attendance. The improved advices from Liverpool caused sellers to ask full rates for lace yarns, but only few transactions were effected. Hosiery yarns met a quiet sale, and previous rates were for the most part made. In silks not much change to n ote. Brown nets a slow sale, at about previous prices. ROCHDALE, 29th.—There was a good market to-day for flannels, and the manufacturers aro able to secure the full prices of last week. The greatest demand is for middle and low qualities, of which there is little stock in the hands of producers. The manufacturers of both plain and fancy goods are fully employed. Yorkshire goods sell well, but the high prices demanded rather check sales. The local wool trade is active, and prices very firm. THE RELATIONS BETWEEN SPAIN AND ITALY.— A Turin letter of the 25th says:—" Within the last few weeks the relations between Spain and Italy have assumed a more friendly character. You are aware that the two Governments have each a chargé d'affaires, who constantly maintains official intercourse with the court to which ho is accredited. Not long since a consular agent of the Kingdom of Italy, in a small town in Spain, thought proper to put over his door the words Italian Consulate,' instead of Consulate of King Victor Ilar manuel.'. The Spanish (..;onservative party were greatly irritated by this change, and a complaint was addressed to Queen loabellit's Government. Some rigorous measure was expected, and certain parties did all they could to pro voke it, but the Spanish Ministry gave proofs of its tole. rant spirit by taking no notice of the affair,• and the in scription put up by the consul still remains. This fact, though of little importance in itself, neverthless indicates friendly dispositions on the part of the Spanish Govern ment," • TRIAL TRIP OF A STEAM RAM.—We learn by electric; telegraph that an unofficial trial trip of the Scorpion, one of the Birkenhead rams, was made yekierday. The speed attained was about 12 knots an hour. She answered her helm splendidly. The results are coneidered e. - iegedivglY eatiElactory, tp.V.4 L 2.10 25 15 THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 31, 1804. The Tragedy in Hatton-Garden. CORONER'S INQUEST-THIS DAY. This morning Dr Lancaster, the coroner for the central division of Middlesex, held an inquiry at the Three Tuns Tavern, Cross-street, Hatton-garden, on the body of Eliza Wilkinson, who met her death on Monday last, under the circumstances already published in The Sun. The jury having visited the body, _ _ Jane Freman said she rekided at the White House, Sheppard's-bush, and was sister to the deceased. She was about 27 years of age, and was married to Henry Wilkinson, a stonemaspn, whose father kept the Reindeer, at Lincoln. They had been married 10 years, and There were two children living, one aged four, and the last about 12 months, They lived very happily together, but the deceased had told her she had had words with her hus band, but witness told her she believed ono was as bad as the other. Sho was not in the habit of drinking, but the husband occasionally got intoxicated. He did not neglect his home, on the contrary he always acted with the greatest kindness to his wife. • William Chipperton said, I reside at Shrewsbury-cottage, Angel-lane, Hammersmith, farrier. I have known deceased and her husband about six months. I met them first at Shepherd's-bush. I met Wilkinson at that place on Sunday last about half-past two, We had some ale, and then I, Wilkinson, and his niece came to London. Whilst wo were in the train Wilkinson invited me home to tea. I went and stopped in the house till six o'clock, during which we had one pot of ale. Wilkinson seemed to have had a little drop too much, but he was not intoxicated. The deceased and her husband seemed on excellent terms, as they were playing and chaffing together the whole of the afternoon. When I and the niece left Wilkinson and his wife accompanied us to the train. As we were early we stopped at a publichouse and got a pot of sixpenny ale. After that all four went to the station in Farringdon-street. We were all laughing and chaffing together. When the train came up we all shook hands together. Wilkinson kissed his wife's niece, and turned round and said to me, "Don't be jealous, old fellow--kiss my old woman," which I accordingly did. lam keeping company with the niece of the deceased. I never noticed anything strange in Wilkinson's manner when I kissed his wife, but she coloured up very much when he (Wilkinson) kissed her niece. I never saw him ill-treat her. Deceased was very jealous of her husband. She had no cause to be so. I and the niece went off in the train, and got to the sister's house at Sheppard's Bush at half-past 7. After we had been in the house about 20 minutes, Wilkinson came in. I asked him what brought him down so soon after us, and he said, " My old woman's been blowing me up, and I've come down to get out of the way." Wilkinson re • turned to London by the twenty minutes past ten train. He drank about three small glasses of rum, one of brandy and some ale. He was intoxicated when he went away. He said nothing further about his wife than I have mentioned. I have heard that they have had quarrels, and once deceased pointed to her husband's nose, which she said she had scratched. By a juror--I never knew the deceased kiss any other man but her husband, and I should not have kissed her had the husband not told me to do so. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. - WESTMINSTER. A WOMAN ENDEAvOURING TO STRANGLE HERSELF IN A POLICE STATION.—Mary Ann Paget, a woman about 40 years of age, was charged with being drunk and incapable in the street. There was also a subsequent charge against her for endeavouring to strangle herself in the police sta tion. John Boyle, 284 B, said that at half-past 1 o'clock this morning he found the defendant in St. George's-road, Pim lico, drunk and incapable, and took her to the station-house, where the charge being entered, she was locked up. Joseph Robes, 142 B, said defendEnt was brought in at half-past 1 o'clock. Shortly after she bad several fits, and a she Erm him she became ve dto r o y e vi r ol N e v n a t s a s en nd t j u fo m r p . ed D u i p re f c r t o ly ra the floor. Witness then conveyed her to a cell, when she suddculy took off a gar ter, and placing it round her, while she pulled the ends with great force. She was directly afterwards found black in the face. An attendant was left with her during the night to prevent a repetition of the effer ce. Mr Arnold—Did the defendant say anything when you prevented her destroying herself ? Witness—She said she v(Juld do it again. Mr Arnold—Lid anything transpire as to the cause? Witness—lt was stated that the defendant had lived at 54, Lillington•street, and that her husband had sold up her home and deserted her. Mr Arnold—l must remand her fog a week, MARLBOROUGII-STREET. STEALING NARKED MoNEy...—,j 4 h n gawkes, a boy in the employ of Messrs Massey and Co. military cap makers, No. 7, Great Newport-street, was charged before Mr Tyr whitt with steeling some marked mcney from the desk of his employers. From the evidence of Mr John IV:ight, foreman to the prosecutors, who stated that in consecuence of money being missed almost daily for the past six sveks, he, on the pre vious night, marked 9s 2d, and pitted it in the till. On going to the premises that morning hi missed all the money, and hearing that the prisoner, who wi g employed as errand boy, had come half-an-hour before /is time, he asked him why he had done so, when he said hehad woke earlier than usual. He then asked the prisone i what mosey he had about him, and he took from his pocket two sixpences, stating that that was all he had, and on lcoking at them he (witness) found they were two he had marked overnight. He then sent for a constable, end gav e the prisoner into custody, and on making a search th 3 remainder of the marked money was found under some rood in the kitchen. The prisoner, who pleaded guilty, azd said he took the money to buy a pair of boots, was tomm i t t e d f or f our months with hard labour. COMMITTAL WITHOUT A FINE FOR ASSAULTING A LICENSED VICTUALLER.-Wm. Allen, 14, Prince's-row, Newport-market, was charged with assaulting Mr Thomas Lindfield, of the Queen's Head Tavern, 412, Oxford-street. Mr Lindfield said that on the previous night the prisoner and another man came into his houseand called for some drink, hut seeing they were both drunk he refused to serve them, and requested them to kayo. Ihe prisoner's com panion did so, but the prisoner refused, and on his (Mr Lindfield) putting him out of his house, so as to prevent a disturbance, the prisoner struck him a violent blow in the face and eye, and but for tie interference of a neighbour, Mr Schwabe, the prisoner no doubt would have inflicted serious injury upon him, he behaving in a very viclent manner, and it requiring two constables to take him to the station. A constable proved seeing Mr Lindt eld's face bleeding. Mr Tyrwhitt committed the prisonw for a month, with hard labour, without the option of paying a fine. TEAMES. A NIGHT SCENE IN POPLAR,--William Connor, a sea man, Richard Ward, workman, and Ann Hughes, a seam stress, who gave another name, last tight were brought before Mr Paget, charged with being drunk, disorderly, and assaulting police constables in tht execution of their duty. 1., The Credit Fonder and Credit Mobilier Companies. Conjoint reports have been issued to the shareholders of the Credit Foncier and Credit Mobilier Companies respect ing the result of the operations since their establishment, and also the proposal for their amalgamation. The balance sheet of the Credit Foncier states that the total net profits from March last reach the sum of £42,219 5s 11d, equal to 180 per cent. per annum on the amount of capital called up. The directors propose this amount to be dealt with as fol lows :—To forming a reserve fund, £20,000; paying a dividend and bonus of per share, free of income-tax, (equal together to 84 per cent. per annum), which will absorb L 20,000 ; paying income-tax on dividend, £5OO ; the balance amounting to bo carried forward £1,719 5s lld. The balance sheet of the Credit Mobilier from about the same period gives the net profits at £12,014 lOs 2d, equal to 205 per cent. per annum on the amount of capital called up. The directors propose this amount to be dealt with as follows :—To fuming a reserve fund, £:0,C00 ; to paying a dividend end bonus of £2 per share, free of income tax (equal together to 95 per ceLt. per annum), which will abs orb £20,C00; to paying income tax on dividend, £500; the balance, amcunting to £'1,114 lOs 2J, to be carried forward. %The new company is to be styled the Credit Foncier and DLebilier of England with a fixed capital of £2,000,000 in 100,000 shares of £2O each, which the directors propose is • suing as follows, viz.: -20,000 shares will bo issued at par to the holders of and in exchange for the existing 10,000 Credit Foncier and 10,000 Credit Mobilier shares-31,000 shares to be issued to the holders of the 10,000 Credit Foncier shares, being three new shares for one share now held in that company—which will be issued as follows, viz.:---two of such shares at £2 13s 4d per share prem., and for every two shares so taken one additional share at par-30,000 shares to be issued to the holders of the 10,000 Credit Mobilier shares, being three now shares for one share now held in that company, which will be issued upon the same terms as to the holders of the 10,000 Credit Foncier shares, viz., two shares will be issued at £2 13s 4d per share premium, and for every two shares so taken one additional share at par—and the remaining 20,000 shares to be issued to the general public at £2l3s 4d per share pm. This issue will yield in premiums the sum of £lOO,OOO, which, with the £40,000 already put to the reserve fund from this half-year's profits, will make that fund amount to £200,000, or £2 per share on the whole 100,000 share s which will then have been issued. The instalments for pay ing up the new shares are arranged to extend over a period of seven months, so as to make the payments as little burdensome as possible; but as all the 100,000 shares will participate in the next dividend pro rail; according to the amount paid up, the option has been reserved to the share holders to pay up the instalments at any time, or at once, up to the £5 per share. The paid-up capital will then amount to £500,000, and the reserve fund to £200,000; and with this result the directors believe they aro justified in anticipating that the influence of the new company will be materially augmented. STATE OF TRADE. 142/ 3 681 8 1 I 1151 1 1 112 ; ?1 121 95} 6 6,5 i 1071 1 3.314 i P 106 61 64} 931 I 811 4 IRELAND, DUBLIN, Aug. 30. A most brutal and unprovoked murder was com mitted in Omagh on Saturday evening last. The vie. tim is Mr J. M'Crossav, a solicitor of considerable repute in the county of Donegal. The circumstances are as follows:—At the last Omagh Assizes Mr M'Crossan was solicitor for the plaintiff in the case of Doyle v. M‘Longhlin, coach builder. It was the only record at last assizes. A verdict of £8 damages and 6d. costs was found fcr the plaintiff. M‘Loughiln, the defendant, not paying the damages and costs, at, execution was brought against him. and the sub-she;a Mr C. M'Crossan, brother of the deceased, was on S a turday last about to proceed with the execution. 111‘Lo.'ighlin resisted, and his place, which is situated street, O mag h, shut up Cis.Ple against the approach of th.si sheriff and his bailiffs. The sheriff, seeing that '6.' l state° was nffatd, sought the advice of his brothel;. who went to him, and while speaking to the sub-she:Hi' on the stree t at MiLoughlin's house, an iron rod, , 5 feet 8 inch es in length, having a hook with a barb al; the point, was thrust by M'Loughlin out of the win dov on the upper story, and pludged into the throat of Mr M'Crossen, lifting him off the ground, and inflicting a dreadful wound. The carotid artery was cut, and the blood gushed out in profusion. All the remedies which medical skill could devise were applied. During the night, and up to Sunday afternoon, some hopes, though faint, were entertained of his recovery, but about 1 o'clock p.m. he fainted, and a change for the worse set in, which became more serious, until he finally expired, after intense suffer ing, et 5 o'clock yesterday morning. A report of the brutal outrage was at once conveyed to the con stabulary, three of whom were quickly at the scene of the unfortunate occurrence. Constable M'Caughan immediately ascended the win low, forced his way into the house, and arrested M'Loughlin. • FISHING WITHIN THE LIMITS.—On Saturday, at twelve o'clock, in the Townhall, Berwick, before the Mayor and Mr Alderman Fleming, Pierre Malfoison, No. 652, and Elie Marie Nakire, No. 767. French fishermen, from Boulogne, were charged by Alfred Frederick Mares eau; commander of her Majesty's gunboat Louisa, with having fished, contrary to the statute, within three miles of the English coast. He said—l was cruising last night along the coast from Holy Island to Berwick. About half past two o'clock I saw a number of French boats fishing within the limits among the English ones. At that time it was quite moonlight. I boarded the boats of the prisoners, and there being too heavy a sea to tow them in I took the captains out. The crew were in the act of hauling their nets; they said that owing to the wind and darkness of the night they were driven in. The wind would drive them in a little, but not to the extent they were ; the sea would, if anything, carry them out. He generally made an allowance for the wind. Geo. Maxwell, pilot, Holy Island, said on Friday evening he saw a number of French fishing boats in the bay. Two were boarded, the bearings were taken, and the boats were found to be within the three miles. The tide was half flood. The prisoners were each fined £O, which was paid. Tuesday morning, before Mr Alderman Fleming and Robert Thompson, Esq., Captain Marescourt, of H.M. gunboat Louisa, charged Deforge Joan Baptiste, Fe. 762 ; Ramcz Jacques Francois, No. 749; and Leerivain Augustin, No. 707; all from Boulogne, with fishing within the limits on Monday night. He was cruising on Monday evening between Berwick and Emanuel Head and Holy Island. He towed three French boats out of the line. There were about 80 French fishing boats lying about with their heads towards the shore. About 11 o'clock he came across the boats of the three defendants, and found they were within a mile of the shore. At that time it was moonlight. The wind was such that they might have easily got out ; but instead of doing so they kept the heads of the boats inwards. Several boats, when they saw him, tacked about. This was, he said, a most deliberate case of illegal fishing, for they ran as it were right under his nose. Ho further stated that he would likely be before the fishery commissioners next year, and he would most certainly state that the present punishment was not adequate to repress illegal fishing. There was no use, he considered, having a law, unless it was upheld. The pilot, George Ma: Atwell, gave confirma tory evidence, stating that at the time the prisoners were caught he could see twelve miles along the coast. The magistrates fined the prisoners each £lO, or in default of payment to be kept in custody till their boats would be brought in, which would then bo detained for fourteen days. The Bench were of opinion that the ends of justice were not attained by merely fining them, as one night's fishing, they remarked, would cover two or three years fines; and in future they determined to detain their boats. The money was paid in this case, and the prisoners were discharged.— Berwick lVarder. lIIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALFRED —We understand that the Racoon, with Prince Alfred and the Duke of Roxburghe on board ; has arrived at Ice land. The prince will make a few visits and return early in September to this country. His Royal highness, who is an expert angler, killed 62 salmon during his short stay in Norway in the Duke of Roxburghe's fishing waters. The first afternoon he killed six fish, and on the following days eighteen minion each day, and on the fourth day, after going a little further up the water he killed twenty salmon. All of them were large fish, weighing from 16ibs to 271bs each.—Eninburgli , Courant. 'THE IiOUSE OF COMMONS.—A SKETCH.—By half-past four the House has sacrificed enough to the:decent fiction of private legislation. The time for pub lic business has arrived, and the seats begin to fill rapidly. The Ministers arrive to submit themselves to the battery of questions by which their constitutional responsibility is supposed to be carried out. Of late this has been the moat exciting period of a House of Commons' sitting. The se curity of Ministers has depended on the skill with which they have been able to keep their secrets from the Opposi tion, and the hopes of the Opposition have turned upon the possibility of luring or taunting the Ministers into some in- cautious revelations of their misdeeds. The portion of public business at half-past four has consequently taken the form of a sharp tournament of question sad answer, in which a good deal of ingenuity is sometimes displayed. Each Minister has his own peculiar mode of parrying the thrusts which are pointed at him. Mr. Layard gets angry and stands upon his dignity, which is un doubtedly the worst plan. Mr. Milner Gibson says some thing wholly beside the question, and at the same time Br i i ;les in so bewitching a manner that a questioner who shall h ttempt to pursue his inquiry would feel himself the most bru:".9.l of mankind. Mr. Gladstone plunges into a labyrinth of words, through which his listeners despairingly give up all attempts to follow him—and when the torrent stops ho leaves th;nl so bewildered and dazed that they are fain to abandon all further questiens till their intellects have boen tranquillised by a few minutes' repose. But Lord Palmerston is by far the greatest master of the foil. A keen perception of what the point really is—a firm deter mination not to seem to see it—and an audacity in making bad jokes, and returning impertinent answers, which often, often as the exhibition of it has been repeated, seems every . . time to take the louse by surprise as a refreshing novelty, all these qualities constitute him the most perfect adept in the use of language upon Talleyrand's principles that the present genet,ation has witnessed. It is a game in which the Opposition N;ory seldom win.—Qua7 telly Review. CRACOW FRom. KOSCIUSZKO's MOUND.—To see Cracow to the greai.est advantage, you must climb to the top of Kosciuszko'i; mound, two English miles with out the walls. You then d, :cover that the city is built at the spot where the two rivers, the Rudawa and the Via tale, converge, and that a range o: wooded hills, terminat ing in the mound on which you are tending, runs up into the triangle formed by the convergence of the two rivers. This mound, raised by patriotic hands in Oem"Y of their greatest national hero, was ruthlessly seized :Ipon by the Austrians and converted into a fortress when the)' violated the treaty of Vienna by destroying the liberties cf C. acow, which, by th 3 stipulations of that treaty, was to re main a free town for ever- The traveller who has taloa.' the trouble to mount to the top of the mound has but to look around him and he will at once see that the Aus trians have not been idle since 1848, As the Russians have rendered the citadel at Warsaw impregnable, and the Prussians have done the same by Posen, it would appear that Austria is bent on turning Cracow to the same account. It will be many years before the works are anything like finished, and, until iheir completion, Cracow is any day at the mercy of the Russians pouring in through the gates of Michalowice on the top of yonder hill, and less than five English miles distant, Im mediately in front of the spectator is spread out the picturesque old city, out of the centre of which, as from a forest of churches, raises itself up majestically the castle hill, with its royal residence and cathedral, big with the memories of Poland's departed glory, Now, the Pole who would visit the tombs of S Kosciuzko, and Poniatowsky, or would go to worship in his own cathedral, if; only admitted at certa n hours of the day by a little wicket gate in the fortifications, and has to thread his way through frowning cannon, which command the approaches. When the national feeling is thus cruelly wounded, is it wonderful that the Pelas should be dissatisfied with the Austrian Government ? During the 15 years which have elapsed since they laid violent hands upon Cracow, I would defy the Austrians to point to a public work of theirs which hail fur its object the development of the material resources of the country. The railway which connects Cracow with Lemberg, and that now in course of construction from Lemberg to Czarnowi z, in the Dukov, ina, is the work of Prince Sapielm, to whom the province of Galicia owes what little commercial prosperity it can boast of. Were the Austrians driven across the Carpathians to-morrow, the only trace they would leave behind of their occupation of the country would be a few dozen glaring red brick forts in a more or less forwarit etato of preparation.—Bu l Ack's ExpericaCT.B, Manchester Betti%--Yesterday, There was only a small attendance at the rooms to-day, and business was exceedingly tams. The only horses in request for the St Leger were Baragah and Ely, both of whom were supported at 100 to 7 and 100 to 6 respectively. For the Derby, 20 " ponies" were taken about Breadalbane, and 50 to 1 in hundreds about Brown Dayrell. DONCASTER ST LEGER. sto 2 agst General Peel (offered) sto 2 agst Blair Athol (offered) 10 to 1 agst Miner (offered) 100 to 7 aget Baragah (taken) 100 to 6 aget Ely (taken) 25 to 1 agst Meter Richard (,•ffered) 33 to 1 agst Breess (offered, take 40) TIIE DERBY. 20 to 1 agst Breadalbane (taken) 50 to 1 agst Brown D.tyrell (raL;en) RACING FIXTi s):FT rILES FOIL 1854. Weymouth 1 Budea-13,1 , 1 ea Warwick September.... 6 Bridgwater 8 Leicester.. Doncaster .. 13rovon Richmond lloyul Caledonian Hunt. 21 Monmmeh .., Manchester Autumn 23 NewmarketFirst October z 7 OCT , Bedford Edinburgh and Lothians Club.... .. 5 Newmarket second Oct. 10 , BER Lincoln Kelso .. Gloucester Newmarket lloug on 2l NOVEMBER. Worcester Autumn .... 1 f Leaminglon&War.ilunt 22 Shrewsbury A u t u mn .. _l4.j_ IRISH. SEPTEMILER. Curragh ..... .: 6 , 7, 8 OCTOBER. _ Carragh ......SIN STEEPLECHASING FixTuitEs FOic 1864. NoirtmßEß. Leamington and Warwickstare Hunt 22 LONDON GAZETTE —Last Evening. At the Court at Windsor, the 27th day o f !i.ugust, 1861. Present—The Queen's Most Excellent Maj es ty in Council. It is this day ordered by her Majesty in Council that the Parliament which stands prorogued to Thursday the 13th day of October next, be further prorogued to 1 - o,id ay , th e 11th day of November next. WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, Auci. 30. 3d Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Captain Thomas/Sutton , Kirkpatrick, rrom the Military Train, to-b e C aptain vice Elliot, who exchanges. 10th Hussars—Henry John Lindley Wood, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice John Cecil Russell, p ro .. moted. 20th Hussars—Lieutenant Henry Edward Keneit to be In structor of Musketry. Royal Regiment of Artillery—Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel William James Smythe to be Colonel, vice John Noble A. Freese, C. 8., retired upon full- pay— Captain and Brevet-Major Stapylton Robinson to be Lieu tenant-Colonel, vice Smythe—Captain and Brevet-Col. Michael A. Shrapnel Biddulph to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Frederick J. Travers, retired upon half pay—Second Captain Henry Sheridan Elliot to be Captain, vice Brevet Major Robinson—Second Captain Henry Plantagent Prescott Phelips to be Captain, vice Brevet-Colonel I3id dulph—Lieut. Fitzroy Somerset Talbot to be Second Captain, vice Elliot—Lieut. Francis Duncan to be Second Captain, vice Phelips—Gentleman Cadet D'Arcy Bow man East, from the Royal Military Academy, to be Lieutenant, vice Duncan—Gentleman Cadet Albert Beauchamp Astley Cooper, from ditto, vice Alexander Day, who has been permitted to resign his Commission from the 17th August, 1864—Gentleman Cadet Henry Vaughan, from the Royal Military Academy, to be Lieu tenant, vice Richard Thomas Roberts, who has been permitted to resign his Commission from the 2.1c1 August, 1864—Second Captain Hubert Le Cocq to be Adjutant, vice Maclachlan, promoted—Second Captain Erancis Duncan to be Adjutant, vice James Barton, who resigns the Adjutancy only. Coast Brigade of Artillery—Second Captain James Scott to be Captain, vice /11‘Gillivray, placed upon temporary half-pay—Lieutenant Robert Kettle to be Second Cap tain, vice Scott—Quartermaster-Sergeant John Revill to be Lieutenant, vice Kettle. Corps of Royal Engineers—Second Captain and Br eve t Lieutenant-Colonel Gerald Graham to be Captain, vice Andrew Clarke, seconded—Lieutenant William New some to be Second Captain, vice Brevet Lieut,-C o l one l Graham—Gentleman Cadet Henry Rhodes Gilbert Georges, from the Royal Military Academy, to be Lieu. tenant, with temporary rank, vice Newsome—Second Captain John Mervin Cutclifis Drake to be Instructor of Musketry, vice Captain Lempriere, who has been at tached as Captain Instructor to the School of Musketry, at Fleetwood. Military Train—Captain Philip Herbert Elliot, irom the 3d Dragoon Guards, to be Captain, vice Kirkpatrick, who exchanges. . 9th Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant Wiliam James Massy to be Captain, by purchase, vice Brevet-Major John William Percy, who retires—Ensign Henry Augustus Brudenell Bruce to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Massy—Herbert Conor, Gent., to he Ensign, by pur chase, vice Bruce. 21st Foot—Lieutenant Juhn Dunbar, from the i:Bth Foot, to bo Lieutenant, vice Coate, who exchanges. 22d Foot—Ensign John Banks Linley to be - Lieutenant,t y purchase, \ ice Haworth Peel Massy, who retires ; George Arnold Chtistian, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur chase, vi;e Liuley. 534 Foot—Gentleman Cadet Richard Godman lemplo Cot• ton, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purcbsee, vice John Seymour Wynne Finch, transferred to the 60th Foot. 57th Foot—Ensign Archibald Kennedy Douglass to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice John Parkinson, who re tires; Ensign Kenneth Douglas, from the 50th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Andrew Balfour Duncan, deceased ; George Garnett, Gout., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Douglass. 68th Foot—Lieutenant Edmund Eyro Coot; from the 21st Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Dunbar,who exchanges ; Staff Assistant-Surgeon Hunt Johnson Bailey to be Assistant-Surgeon, vico William Barry, placed upon half-pay. 60th Foot—Ensign the Honourable Ralph Alborcromby to bo LieutPuant, without purchase, vice John Miller, deceased—Ensign John Seymour Wynne, Ficch, from the 53d Foot, to be Ensign, vice the Honourable Ralph Abercromby. 63d Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Joseph Edward O'Loughlin, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vico Alexander Thorburn McGowan, whose transfer from the Staff as stated in the Gazate of 28th June, 1864, has been can- celled. 72d Foot—Paymaster Christopher Myers Dawes, from the Royal Lancashire Artillery Militia, to bo Pa) master, vice George Fowler, who has resigned. 99th Foot—Ersign Charles John Greenham to be Lieuten ant, by purchase, vice Henry Richmond Sayce, who re tires—Arthur Collingwood Jenkins, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Greenham. 4th West India Regiment—Lieutenant Thomas John Gray, to be Captain, without purchase, vice Parr Wm. Kingsmill, deceased—Ensign Wm. Fowler to bo Lieu- tenant, without purchase, vice Gray. sth West India Regiment—Captain Henry John Fano has been permitted to retire from the service by the sale of his commission. UNATTACIIEN—Lieutenant John Mould, from the 7th Hussars, to be Captain, without pui chase. BREVET. Colonel John Noble Arbuthnot Freese, C,8., on the Retired Full-Pay List of the Royal Artillery, to be Mojor- General, the ratik:teing honorary only. Lieut-Colonel Willie - in Robert Maxwell, Royal Marines, having completed the qualifying service in the rank of Lieut-Colonel, to be Colonel, under the Order in Council of Nov. 13, 1858. _ _ _ Pay Master George Pringle, of the Royal Engineers, to have the honorary rank of Captain. MEMORANDUM.—Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel William Brookes, half-pay, late 75th Foot, has been per mitted to retire from the service by the sale of his commis sion, under the conditions of the Horse Guatds' Circular Memorandum of the 15th February, 13'31. The G uz:tte contains a number of prutnetions and altera tions of rank amongst the officers of the Stiff Corps and of her Majesty's Indian Military forces. BANKRUPTS. The following are the only bankrupts of commercial im portance in the Gezette : John Simpson, builder, Bromley John Turnham, licensed victualler, Edgware-road John Harries, picture dealer, Green-street, Leicester square Philip Lander, stone mason, Kensal-green William Coney, builder, St. John's-wood George W. Thomas, ship owner, Bromley Hugh Brown, merchant, 27a, Bucklerebury, City Thomas Evans, cowkeeper, Lambeth William Collins, shoe dealer, Hackney-road Charles Millington, publican, Haverstoek-hill Hugh William Hagart, commission agent, Holborn Thomas Peters, tobacconist, Birmingham William Thiele, decorative artist, Paddington SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. Alex. Ross, con►ractor, Arrocher Alex. Grant, printer, Edinburgh. ,krehibald Robertson, spirit merchant, Stirling A ; and L. Clark, ironmongers, Glasgow Hus.. l l Campbell, grocer, Port-Glasgow J o h n .Davidson, stationer, Glasgow D on dd Archibald Macleod, land surveyorpingwan Course of Exchange,---Yesterdays Amsterdam a Short. 11 18 11 19 Ditto Rotterdam — 12 1 12 li Antwerp -..— 25 65 25 70 Brussels — 25 65 25 70 llamburgh Paris ... . Ditto Marseilles Frankfort on Maine.. 1?„04 1201 Vienna Trieste Petereburgh .— 31 31a Berlin — Madrid Cadiz — 'l7;, 25 80 Leghorn - 25 7 5 25 so Milan - 25 7 7 i • Genoa 2 -, 2.5 80 5 7/ .: 25 Et) 25 tiz Napes Palermo 2 5 771 25 80 MisQina .5 77t 25 80 ' M',- Lisbon ........... . -- 61 514 i MI Oporto ............ Foreign G o ld i n B ars p --- 0 0 0 Silver in B a r s (St an dard). —............---................ I ...° ..er oz., £3 17 9 (Standard) PRINCE HUMBZUT AND THE DUKE OF SUTIIER. "ND-It is said that the Dike ef Sutherland has offered the use of his town mansion to Prince Humbert, the heir apparent to the throne of Italy, on his arriv4l in LQridon.—Ediabetrgit Ga nia i