The Sun. — London, England, 1863-10-13 00:00:00

XONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Discount firms are finding good employment for their money. The demand for accommodation is general and very active, and brokers are enabled to obtain the full charge of 4 per cent. for the best short-dated bills. Besides the want of capital for trade which continues to show favourable signs of expansion, large sums are being daily absorbed for the new loans and joint stock companies. The opinion, therefore. that money must ere long be dearer is founded upon good data. The directors of the Land Mortgage Bank of India will proceed to make the allotment as early as possible, but in consequence of the unprecedented number of applications, a delay of some days must necessarily elapse before the letters can be posted. The report of the intended appearance of a similar undertaking is incorrect. The progress of business in the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets during the last few days has been moderately active. Tea, sugar, and coffee have each been in fair request at fully late prices. Rice has been dull, while the operations in the tal low market have been on a limited scale for both present and former delivery at about previous quo tations. The Committee of the Stcck Exchange have ap pointed the 16th inst. for a special settlement in the shares of the following undertakings; the first two are only to be officially marked :—The scrip of the 6 per cent. Colombian Government Loan ; the Lon don and Paris Hotel Company ; the Clarence Hotel Company; the Nice Hotel Company, and the A shares of the Commercial Navigation Company of India. Two O'CLOCK. No alteration has occurred this morning in the English Stock Market, although the business trans acted bas been rather large than for the past two days. Console, however, are somewhat heavy, at their former values, being 92i 93 for money, and 93 k k for the account. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 914 ; Bank Stem is 233 235 ; Exchequer Bills remain at par to 3s. prem. ; and tin, 30 Years Annuities, 144. The 5 per Cent. India Loan is 108 i 109 ; the 4 per Cent. Enfaced Paper, 94 ; and the Debentures are 991 1001. There is more quietude and steadiness in the Foreign Market to-day, the operations being very curtailed. Turkish 6 per Cents. 1858, are 701 ; do., 1862, 71/ ; do., Consolides, 531,- ft, ; Greek, 331 34; do., Coupons, 15.-1 161 ; Mexican, 42 k; Spanish Passive, 34 . 1 35; do., Certificates, 13i 14k; Internal Passive, 30 k ; Portuguese, 491; Italian, 724 ; Russian, 931; Egyptian, 1001 101 ; the Confederate loan, 63 63 ; and the Colombian Loan, par to prem. I❑ the Railway Share Market the operations have been of the most limited description, and prices have generally shown a downward move ment. Caledonian and South Eastern have receded 6 8., and Stockton and Darlington, 10s. The Foreign and Colonial undertakings have been in very limited favour at barely previous rates. Bank Shares have remained inactive. Hindus tan, China, and Japan have receded to 271; Lon don Joint Stock, to 361; Standard of British South Africa, to 23,1 ; India Land Mortgage Bank are quoted 33 I prem. ; Anglo-Austrian, f, 1 prem. ; Privileged Bank of Austria, par; and East Lon don, 11 to 2 prera. In the Miscellaneous Market Royal Mail S team shares are steady at 74 75 ; and Discount Corpora tion are quoted 3t 31 prem. BRITISH FUNDS —ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 924 3i 2i New 3 per Cent. Annuities New 3i per Cent. Annuities New 2i per Cent. Annuities.... 5 per Cent. Annuities Aunuities, 30 yrs, expire nth Jan., 1880 — Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885. 141 Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908. India Stock Ditto 5 pei Cent Ditto 4 per Cent 9Bi Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. Ditto 5 per Cent Ditto 51 per Cent Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct., 1863 Ditto ditto April, 1864 991 Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 10012 Ditto Bonds £l,OOO — Ditto under £1,000.. Bank Stock for Account Console for Account, Oct, 8 93} India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent — Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 21 per Cent 3 pm par Ditto £5OO Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Ariatrian Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto 1859 Brazilian 5 p er C ent Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) Chilian 6 per Cent. — Ditto 41 per Cent. Cabo, 6 per Cont. Ditto Account.... — Danish 4 per Cent., 1863 Ditto 3 per Cent., 1825.. Dutch, 25 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guilders Ditto, Provisonal Land W arran t Egyptian 7 per Cent lOl 100/ Ditto, Second Issu e - .. quado r New Consolidated. 1 per Cent.. Greek 5 pe r C ent , , 1824-s,lex-Coupons.. 331 4 , 44 Ditto ACcount — 5 1 , Ditto Coup ons l6 15 164 Ditto Account — Guatemala 5 per Cent. Italian O per Uent.(Maremmana Railway) Mexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent .... New Granada Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) 74 Peruvian 3 per Cent. Ditto Account.....,, • • Ditto 4i per C en t. , 18 62 .. 87/ Ditto Account. — Ditto 3 per Cents, 1859 Portuguese 3 I?er Cent., 1853 Ditto Accormt — Pitto Apes Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62 494 Ditto c itusa ,_ _ Jeount Ditto 'au a per Cent., 1822, £ S t It Per Cent 1850 _ Ditto 90/ Ditty, 5 ce n t. ln 931 Sardinian h er p e C ent . . i) Ditto Account .. ••................. 1 Spanish 3 per Cent ......... 'ditto A ccount .. .. Ditto New Deferred.'............ Ditto Account ... _ Ditto Passive Ditto Account ............. .. . Spanish Cert. of Coup no t ...... Ditto Account — Swidisla, 4 per Cent. Tv.rkish 6 p er C en t. 1854 92 Bat() Account~ :Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 Ditto Account — Ditto, £lOO Bonds 711 1 Ditto 6 per Ce nt. 1862 Ditto Account Ditto 6 per Cent. 1863, £59 lOs Od pd — Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. Ditto Account.... — Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 Ditto Account Dividends on the above payable in London. Dut c Belgian 4/ per Ce n t., E x. 25f. .. _ h 25 per Cent., E x , 12 Guil Ditt o 4 per Cent. Certificates French Rentes, 3 per Cent .Ex 25f 67 f4 75c Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs 721 Ditto Account. ~ -•o rißois TWO O'CLOCK. m Ditt o ' oney. 025 3 Account .................. SHIPPING—This Day, LospoN-, Oct. 13.--Wind this day at noon—South- Easterly ; moderato breeze, and cloudy weather, with rain. (* (AGXtTIC TELEGRNPII.) GIIAVESEND, Tuesday Morning.. Arrived.. Oct . 12—Maitland from Quebec ; Blucher Finkm, and Earl Grey, trorn Riga ; Anna, from Helsingborg ; Marys, from Cronstadt; Johanna Attena, Sylpluden, om St. Petersburg. r Arrived, Oet..l.:_l—cynclo EillY, fro from Ho Rouen ; Active from Stockholrrl ,11 I n A ndreas, fm lmstadt ; Ocean, from Vevier ; Sundbwall. 1 : 10 , Trie s d ay Morning. Anchored— Chanticleer, fror n t n, otrnr Jamaica ; Mar garet Mit c h e ll, f r om London, for New Passed—Harra Soekit, from Alty a b , l i ! or kLondon. Liverpool Cotton Market--LThi s Day. Sales, about 2000 bales. About id. advance , Import, 3,440 ; p rev i ous ly, 1,478. gqn, SHARE MARKETS--This day, ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOR 8. I i Closing Business Share! Railways. Paid. Price. done. fir.. Wol., and Str. Val Blythe and Tyne. Bost.,Sleat.,andlUid.Co Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall A. gets no div Do A Do. B till 6p e.p an 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 GreatNorthot Scotland Great Northern Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. an IW. of Irelano Great Western Do Str Val gua. stock Lancashire & Yorkshire 'London and Blackwali Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat, 11Rd Dover' Lon. & Nor' h Western ILon. & So'.th Western Man., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle Do shares Sletropolitan Midland Do New Do Binning. & Derby Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. 4 shares Mid Kert Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwici. Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Lecds Do York Do Carlisle North London Do New North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot N. It, Aber. stock Do Scot. Mid. stock Shrews, and Welchpoo: Shropshire Union South Devon ... South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines, Wok.,and Wok. Stockton & Darlington Do Do New, 180 G Taff Vale.. /Oa Do B Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny %Vest Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.tlt West Midland -Oxford NewportDo Do Hereford B Bis Si 81 E 4 6 1161 11,j 7 7i 39 10 15 17 97 03 108 110 51 52 49} 401 7:1 81 1251 127 129 V 4 136 100 IG2 tsi 66 1101 1111 71 73 111 i 1121 43s (4► 1021 1021 101 IC2 45 46 130 131 127 f 28/ 14 1L 98 65} (61 26 28 1011 102 57i 58 88i 68,1 117 12 • ) 1 2 78 79 114 14 124 126 44 16 100 102 N 52 32i 33i c 6 06i 98 100 94 10 304 374 84 91u 7} 71 f , 152 157 4t 5f 2/ 34 pi 86 DO 160 170 26 28 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. ihar, Closin hallways Paid. Price. Business done 100 atlantic &St Lairei.:( all 62 e 4 i 3 Atk flom.,Baroda&.Cent Ind lot, It 1074 107} Gu. 5 per cent. 20 Do. New 20 Do. E. Shares 204 Buffalo and Laxe Huron all 6 6.1 10 Do. Preterence huffalo,Brant,&Godric 100 B / 101 , 8 p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 100 Do. do. July 1, 1870 100 100 Do. do. June 1, 15.9 100 st Clcutta.cvS.Eastn. 100 116} 117 f st Cape Town & Dock Seri] 100 lf 4 106 stock Eastn. Bengal gu. sp. 100 1084 1094 stock h;ast Indian. gu. sp. c. 100 1074 ISi 108 20 Do. do. G Ext lO 14 14p 114 20 Do. do. H do. stock Grand Trunk of Canada too 224 3 ) 100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds all 76 78 76 100 Do. ao. deterred— all 62 6 100 Do. 2d Pref. Bonus all 69 71 100 Do. do. deferred all 55 58 ' 100 Do. 3d I' , ef. stock 100 Do. do. deferred. all 42 41 100 Do. 4th I'ref. stock.., all 50 32 30! 100 Do. do. deferred all 25 27 stook Gt.lncharemn.gua.sp.o 100 108 109 1184 8 20 Do. New gua. sp. 12 a 11; 20 Do. January, 1862 8 11 111 stock Gt. South.of India (Lim) guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 106 107 204 Gt. W. of Canada Sharer all 10 ! )0 i lot 20 Do. New 100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt all 98 98 100 Do. 54 p. c. do. '77-8 all 88 90 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 p stock Madras. guar., sp. c. stock Do. 44 p. 0. Extension 100 101 102 stock Dc. 14 do lOO C 8 100 20 Do. Fifth Extension 2 -- stock Melb.Corp. ap. o. Bnde loo 50 llelb. & Hob3on's Bay all 58 89 59 100 Do. 7p. c. Mortg. Bds all 20 N ewßr unswick Can& Class A. and B all 3 5 N.lll.C'da6 no Ist pt hcle 100 82 84 stock Soinde (100 1064 1074 107 at tDelhi.- I 4.: 100 106 107 Do. do 2 4 gp 21 20 Do. Punjaub .... (5 all ——p st Do. Do. •• •• lbu IC. 107 sock Do. Indus. St. Flo.) 000 102 114 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. 6 p.c.Jo. 1877-84 ..... 100 103 105 , Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Au g 100 101 1 Do. 6p. c. Mar. & Sept. 100 tOI 1(3 D 0... p. c. Jan.&July. 100 12 04 ! Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 92 91 .Cape G.llope, 6p 0,1873 100 108 110 Do.Ap & Oct. 1880 100 109 111 Do. 1891 100 110 112 Do. Jan. & July, 1891 100 113 115 iCeylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 100 113 In !Mauritius 6 per cent lOO 1 4 /7 108 Natal Gov. 6 per cent 100 11 ( ) 112 N.13.G0v. 6 p.c../ a.&July 100 to t 105 1 Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct 100 - IN. S.W. (.4ov. 6 p e., 18m 100 101 102 I Do. sp. c.,18/.1 to Vat 100 102 103 1 Do. d0.,1888 &upwds 100 102 103 1021 2 -- 'New Zealand 6 p cent 100 110 112 iNova Scotia Gov. 6 p. c. 1 sterling,, 1875 lOO 104 106 Queensland Gcv. 6p. c lOO 1:1 113 16. Aus G6p.c.1878.& up lOO 112 114 - ,Vto.Gov. °p.c. Ja.&July 100 108 110 Do. to RD.°. An./tOot.. 100 1101 11011110 BRITISH MINES. 2 Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 iga uhtlord Amalgamated 36 , 3 , 8 Devon G. Con e . ( . Tavist. ) 1 5i5 -- East Bassett (Mogan). 30 74 77 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd. 52. id Par d. East Caradon ...... 2.14.6 28 29 last Cam Brea.... . . 3.4.0 75 7* E. WI Russel (Tavistk.) 8 6.6 21 35 Gam.ezSt.AuDyn(Gwen.)i t.B 13 lo 15.1 . reat South Tolgus 17 s 5 ( . Wheal Vor (11elston, 40 91 105 Grenville . Fiend's-Foot 8.12 86 :38 11 ingston Downs 4.: 8.0 2 25 Lady Bertha Margaret (Uny Lelant sh 22 24 Nlarke Valley.. 4 llyndy Iron Oro (Lim ) 25 15 f New Setun l9, 100 110 -- North Downs 25 14 2 Baseet(lllo4au, 2.17.0 2f 35 N'orth Wheal Crotty Par Consols (St. Blazey) 15 4 5 20 erovidence (Uny Lelia) 10.6.7 f 3 45 I SouthCaradon(St.Cleer; 14 1415 425 S. Casa Brea (Illogan) 5.15.6 15 2 Fran. (Mogan, 18.1:-.9 60 65 Stray Park 5 ramar Silv..t Lead Min. 44 4 6 Pin Croit 9 19 20 West Basset (Illogan) l4 95 105 W Cf radon (Liskeard) 5 21 23 West Setort. Wheal Basset (Illogan) 55 725 775 Wheal Buller(Redrutb) 5 25 SO Wheal Kitty (I/Lelant) 2.0.6 WhealLud,ott Wheal IllaryAnn ;Lien ) 8 85 94 (Wheal 3eton 585 195 205 Wheal Treiawney (Lis.) 7 25 23 Weal Union 3.17 25 35 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Northern, 5 per cent., red. at 5 per cent. pm., 1071 Midland 41 per cent. pf. stk. rd., 103 LINES LEASED Ar FIXED RENTALS. Lancaster and Carlisle,:2lo4 London, Tilbury, and Southend, 09 Preston and Wyre, 44} Ditto, shares, A, 22} Wilts and Somerset, 03 FOREIGN RAILWA/S. Bahia and San Francisco (lirn.) gua. 7 per cent., 201 Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidin), 121 San Paulo (lrn.), aim 7 per cent Ditto (all), 221 FOREIGN MINES. St. John del Rey (lira.), 551 JOINT-STOCK RANKS. Agra and United Service (lira.), 120 AustralaSia, 77 6 Ditto, new, 38 Bank of New Zealand, 13 1 Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 38 Consolidated Bank, lira., 104 Continental, lim., 10 English and Irish (lim.), 91 Hindustan, China, and Japan (lim.), 271 Imperial Bank (lira.), 231 London and Brazilian (lim.), 481 Loudon, Buenos Ayres, and River Plate, 491 London and County, 51f London Joint Stock, 36/ London and South American, lira., 31 Metrop. and Prov. Bank (lira.), 181 New Zealand, lira , 2 Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi (Um.), 6 1 Standard of British South Africa (Brill), 231 MISCELLANEOUS. Berlin Water Works, 1im.;91 Ceylon Company, 7a Gen. Cr( dit and Finance of London, lim., 41- International Financial Society, lim., 9 8 Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour), Ditto, 6 per cent. Bonds rd. ,870 issued 90, S 9 Joint •stock Discount, 6} 8 London Financial Association, lim., 138 Oriental Inland Steam, Urn., 3 Royal Mail Steam, 75, The Price of Gold. The qnotatior, of gold at Paris is about per mille pm., and `..:liange on Lond on i s 25.25 per £1 sterling. O n the eo m short parn these rates with the English Mint price of A 3 17s. per ounce for standard gold, it appear that gold is 3-10 the rer cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 425 per mark and the short exchange on London is 13.6} per £1 sterling. :!,tandard gold at the English Mirt Price is, therefore, about 6-10ths per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg. The course of exchange . at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is 154 to 1531 per cent., and the premium on gold is about 33 per cent. At these rates the re i s profit on the importation of gold from the United States. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 13, 1863. LAW INTELLIGENCE.--This Day. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn,) IN BE BAYER---A BETTING MAN IN A DIFFICULTY. This bankrupt was described as of Notting-hill, out of business, and this was a meeting for last examination and discharge. . On the case being first called on the bankrupt did not answer, and Mr. Godfrey, from the office of Mr. Aldridge, said that he understood that the bankrupt was a betting man, and had gone to the races ; and after waiting for up wards of half an hour his Honour ordered an adjournment sine die, but shortly afterwards the bankrupt entered the court and declared that he had been about the place all the morning, into Mr. Commissioner Holroyd's Court, round about, and was rot aware that his Honour was sitting in this (Mr. Commissioner Fonblanque's) Court; besides, he was almost dead and almost blind. _ _ His Honour said that eyesight had very little to do with it, and he might have heard his name called, After further delay, Mr. Aldridge having arrived, his Honour consented to hear the case. Mr. Aldridge said the bankrupt was a betting man, and he had been required to furnish a cash account from January, 1P63, and he now accounted for £3O won on Maccarorii, and losses to about the same amount. He (Mr. Aldridge) did not see that any further information could be obtained. The solicitors to the petitioning creditors were of the same opinion. The bankrupt, in answer to questions by the learned Commissioner, said he only betted slightly, and did a little on commission. He was not a professional betting man, but did it because he was out of business. He had been in trade as a corn and seed merchant, and failed in 1859, owing £15,000, and he assigned property which realised £4,500, but some of the creditors would not accept the com position ; others had received 4s. 61. in the pound. His Honour, under these circumstances, considered the bankrupt was entitled to his discharge. BE CkTON. This bankrupt is a cheneille and umbrella manufacturer, of Chester-street, Spitalfields, and this was a meeting for examination and discharge. Mr. VT, R. Buchanan, Basinghall-street, was for the bankrupt, who passed without opposition, LITERATURE. The Aneid of Virgil In English Blank Verse. By John Miller. One vol., pp. XB. Macmillan and Co. The circumstances under which this remarkable translation of Virgil's great epic nasterpiece, has been written and published are very peculiar. It was penned as the solace to a bitter grief, by one who has conspicuously evidenced, ttrough this very medium, his ripened scholarship, and his many rare natural endowments. A foot tote upon one of the fly leaves briefly apprizes the reader that the work afforded its author three years' daily occupa tion. It appears now posthumously. As in the instance referred to by us only yesterday, when reviewing the posthumous publication of a volume of poems by Mr. Francis Weedon, a young rean-of letters, prematurely deceased about a year or two since, after the manifestation, by him, of very considerable abilities as an aspirant to literary distinction—so also in the more notable in stance before us, the generous hand of encourage ment appears to have been extended by Lord Macaulay with a view to hearten onwards, thereby, a comparatively humble fellow labourer. It is true that the name of that great critic, poet,historian, and essayist is not here once mentioned, as that of the one who thought so well of Mr. Miller's daring enter prise, in undertaking to produce, as he has here pro duced, a complete translation into English blank verse of Virgil's lEneid. Macaulay's name, we say, is not here actually given as the promoter or approver of that bold enterprise. But it is, nevertheless, quite plainly enough intimated. No one can be in one instant's doubt, as to who it is, the editors of the volume under notice actually means, when they re mark, in the course of their few introductory obser vations upon Mr. Miller and his translation, that " he had been moved by the favourable judgment of a late noble critic, justly celebrated as among the ablest of his time, to contemplate its publication.' These little unlooked-far revelations of Lord Macaulay's readiness to allow the claims of a gene rous literary brotherhood to be recognised, are, we cannot but think, very charming indeed to contem plate. They betoken the large sympathies of the great-hearted man, as well as the keen and ready perception of merit of ail kinds and of all degrees, by one whose radiant genius as a critic was so peculiarly formed to appreciate it. In its way, Mr. Miller's translation of " The ./Eaeid" of Virgil into English blank verse is as extraordi nary a performance as Mr. Worsley's recently com pleted English version of "The Odyssey" of Homer Essentially diff ere nt o f in the Spenseria ta stanza. their kind as are these two productions, there is, it appears to us, something very kindred in the endow ments of the two men by whom they have been produced. Mr. W o rsley might, we are satisfi e d, quite as readily (had he chosen to do so) have syl labled his translation of " The Odyssey" in flowing and melodious blank verse, as Mr. Miller has here done by "The YEaeid.” Of this many of that young poetic scholar's other metrical writings 'yield to us, as it seems, the fullest possible evidence. m And so again vice versa might it be said on th e other hand, that had Mr. Miller so listed, he, upon his part, might as easily have done by " The iEaeid" as Mr. Worsley has done by "'The Odyssey"— turning it, that is to say, from the original into the stately and elaborate stanza glorified by the genius of Spenser, and thence called after Spenser's name. That it is, in fact, precisely as we hav e sa id, l e t th e exquisite Prefatory Stanzas in i this volume, be tween pp, xi. and xxiii. (each inclusively) attest. Spenserian stanzas they are—surpassing, for that matter, in their facile grace and beauty even the ablest penned by the accom plished translator of "Tae Odyssey," And in saying this, we speak not here in any way invi diously —for it should be borne in mind that these Spenserian stanzas by John Miller are the original utterances of his own thoughts and feelings, whereas the Spenserian stanzas referred to, as from the hand of Philip Worsley, are penned throughout by that gifted writer under the weight of all the responsibilities appertaining to a conscientious translator. Turning, however, to the text of this careful translation into English Blank Verse of Virgil's ornate and lovely masterpiece, as it has been here penned deliberately by the able scholar, who expired, it would seem, very soon indeed after its completion, we find it to be as conscien tious as a version, and yet for the most part as unfettered to a slavish conformity to the original, as even the best parts of Mr. Worsley's masterly version of the Odyssey. It would appear, indeed, that Mr. Miller, while turning the har monious verse of Virgil into English, endeavoured as sedulously to avoid dwindling to the mere, line for line, word for word, bald literalness peculiar to same of the translators of the " lEueid," as to avoid expanding to the equally reprehensible paraphrase of others. His vigilant glance is turned alternately, equably, intermediately, here to the Scylla, there to the Charybdis. He steers his bark, as a translator, with consummate adroitness and apparently with an easy precision, as remarkable for its nicety as for its precision, that as he passes be tweeen the two perils where his predecessors have so often suffered shipwreck, he is almost always, so to speak, eqaedistant from each. In one of our weekly contemporaries on Saturday, we observe a fragmentary passage of Mr. Miller's version of the eF e aeid" contrasted with the parallel passage from six other earlier versions of the same celebrated ori ginal. These half dozen being in effect the Earl of Surrey's (1557), Ph ear and Twine's (1607), Dry den's (1685), Pitt's ( 1 740), with two others fur more modern, namely, the French of M. Delille and the English of Dr. Kennedy, well known, this last, to , the present generation as the learned head-master of Shrewsbury. The particula r p ass age (a very brief one) selected for this telling contrast or comparison, is no other than that furnished by the opening lines of the second book of the Afeaeid :" lines thus faithfully translated by Mr. Miller, as quoted by the Athenceum Silent were all and turned their eyes intent, When sire .iNneas from his high couch began: 0 mighty Queen, thou ord eres t t o rene w Unutterable sorrow ; how the Greeks The Trojan splendours and that hapless realm O'erthrew ; those dark calamities which I Both saw and largely shared, We are tempted to transcribe the very same passage thus given by our contemporary, because, in the first instance, we would fain add to the series of contrasts supplied by the Athenceum, another still more apposite in its significance than any of the six already enumerated, to wit the following ; JOHN OGILBY, 1650. All silent and with deep attention sate, Then thus the Prince spake from his bed of State : Unheard-of griefs, great Queen, L You bid renew; How Troy's unhappy Realm the Greeks o'erthrew ; Whose sad destruction I myself have seen, And in her loss have no small share r been. As literal even as old Jo hn O g il by's, John Miller's version previously given above, reads, it will be allowed, quite as flowingly. And yet—(this being in truth our chief reason for referring to.identically the same passage selec ted b y our Contemporary for quotation)—and yet t here are flaws in M r . Mill er ' s version that we find n ot even.in Old J o h n O g ilb y . That very second line of the second book moves not o nward with the trailing sweep Of th e Vi rg ili an toga: There being bes ides that, a jumble, so to sp e ak, in the music of the blank verse in the echoing sug gestion of an unintend ed rhyme, fu rn i s h e d b y the close of the third line a nd the opening of the sixth in the words renew and o'erthreto. Au unlucky fragment in effect, it certainly does appear to us to be—to have been thus selected from this version of the with a view to its espe cial commendation. Rather than that passage in particular we would give by preference almost any other. Opening the volume hap-hazard, let us say, for example, this fragment from the ni n th b oo k— Euryalus rolled in death ; O'er his fine limbs went forth his blood, and back Upon his shoulder drooped his neck declined: As when a purple flower cut by the shar e Pales all away in dying' o r as wh en With weary neck the poppies droop their head With chance o'eicharged with rain, Enough, however, if we add after that one flivour ens morsel, as we may call it, from this ripened fruit of the poetic and scholarly labour of John Miller, the last, and not least gifted among the many translators of Virgil Who have already lived awl died and flourished—enough if we add that, regarded apart from its high merit as a translation, if it can possibly be so regarded, that is apart from those peculiar mErits, it is intrinsically, so to speak, as an English poem, pure and simple—a work that may he read throughout with delight and re membered afterwards with a long-enduring ad. miration. KARKETS--This Day. HAY MAIi.K2TS. : ,, lITITFITILD.-31eadow hay, £3 09 to £4 lOs Od ; clover, £4 Os to £5 178 d 6; and straw, £1 Os to £1 14s per load. Trade dull, CITMBERLAND.—MPOAOW hay, £3 Os to £4 103; clover, £4 Os to £5 17. ; and straw, £1 8a to £1 14s 1-or load. A slow demand. \VIIITECIIAPEL —Meadow hay, £3 Os to Xi 10s ; clover, LI Os to £3 Os; and straw, £1 7s to £1 14s per load. Trade inactive. COLON lAL. TEA.—A firmer tone has prevailed, and good and fine qualities of Coogou have fully sustained previous prices. Suomt.—A rather active business has been done in West 1 0 6,, and late prices are well supported. In the refined market there are a few inquiries at previous quotations. COFFEE.—The demand for colonial descriptions has been steady, and, in some instances, a slight advance has been maintained. The stocks on hand, compared with those of l as t year, still show an increase. 1 - lien —A limited amount of business has been done, without any material change in prices. TALLOW.— The market has continued without material c h a nge as regards prices. P.Y.C., on the spot and for D e cember delivery, is quoted 4Gs per cwt. The French Chambers are to meet on the 9th of November. The real business will not commence till a month later. WRECK OF A STEAMBOAT ON TEES BAR.—It was reported yesterday in The Sun that the steamer Energy, of Middlesboro', had been totally wrecked on Tees Bar cn Saturday last. We also added, on the authority of t h e Rev. John Lawson, hon. secretary of the Seaton Carew branch of the National Lifeboat Institution, who wrote late o n Saturday evening, that although apprehension had been en tertained in the morning that the crew of three men of t h e steamer had been lost, yet that it was subsequently dis covered that the poor men had been picked up by a Prus sian vessel far out at sea, and that they had afterwards brought into the Tees. Some of o ur morn i ng contemporaries of to-day report that the crew had perished, but, such is fortunately not the case. a hli, WRECK Iy OF A DUTCH VESSEL ON THE GOODWIN SANDS.—WALAIER, KENT, Monday Night.—Yes while it was bl ow i ng h ar d f rom the S.S.W., and a heavy sea was running, s i gna l s o f di s t r e s s were observed to h t e erad fi va i y i ' n g from a vessel on the Goodwin Sands. The Weimer lifeboat, of the National Lifeboat Institution, was at once mann ed, and put off to the help of the crew. On arriving at the Sands, it was found that the vessel was the Ketch „ sn i ps " of Amsterdam, and that she was leaking fast, both her primps being choked. The captain, fearing his vessel would break up, requested the lifeboat to remain by hi m till his vessel was in safety. The lifeboat assisted in gett i ng the Ketch off the Sands, and the Ramsgate steam tug aMicing soon afterwards, th e ca pt a in employed her to tow Retch into th a t h ar b our, w h ere s h e arr i ve d about 11.30 ann ., with los s of anchor and chain. Nov WORK ON MEX ICO —A mong the new pub- h li ca tions promised by Messrs. Maxwell and Co., is one that will be anxiously looked for by both the general reader from the nature of its topic and iutearneds interest r e ea p t o e l d i tifcoiran it, theevents actually in progress and gradually approaching a climax. This is no less than a work o n Mexico by M. Michel Chevalier, who holds the highest rank in France as a political economist, and is be sides known to Europe as an acute thinker and an elegant writer. To his other qualifications for this particular task, Chevalier adds that of a personal acquaintance with the country; therefore it—" Mexico, Ancient and Modern," the title of the volume now in the printer's hands—will form a delightful text-book of information when that part of the world becomes the great topic of discussion, both in the press and at the clubs, as must be the case more and mere before the Archduke Maximilian is definitively seated on the throne of Montezuma. The past, the present, and the future are handled in an easy and lucid style, by one whose claim to the three-fold title of historian, politician, and philosopher will not be disputed, SLANG --In the present day, slang is assimilated with lamentable facility. It enters largely into the composition of Parliamentary wit; it helps to point the style and e nforce the arguments of writers in the press. People now are not courageous—th ey are " p l uc k y ." iNo things eve r long — it is " l engt h y. " We form resolutions not immediately, but "right away ;" we enter into engage ments "on our own hook." Th e d es i re to wr i te i n a popu lar style is the cause of this, and the public encourage it. Slanginess is considered smart, and indicative of a knowledge of affairs and socic-Cy. It is amusing to observe the complacency and quiet self esteem with which most men will utters cant phrase of the day, as if they had themselves invented it on the spot, and it were something superla tively brilliant and felicitous. "Neither you, nor I, nor any other 11 1514" has induce d many a foolish fellow to think hi mse lf a b or n wit. " How's y our poor f eet ?" a year ago cheated half the natives of Cockaigne into the belief that they were gifted with a special genius for repartee. The heaviest face kindled with unwonted delight, the dullest voice chuckled with conscious fun, as the words came forth. And every one s laughed, and was , fully persuaded that he had heard the arcasm for the first time, and was delight fully surprised at its readiness, p o i nt, and applicability. This, howeve r, is a habit of the uneducated, and has not yet infected the higher classes of ou r per i o di cal literature, though it is unpleasantly conspicuous in the cheap comic journals.- - the Year _Round," just pub lished. H. W. BEECH ' D THE R E V. J.,. S .6_ , EFINED TASTE is thus commented upon by the Spectator :—He stated the other day, at Glasgow, that wine was early regarded as a nuisance by himself and his brothers, that he hal never seen rum in his father's house, that a man who is a Christian is in blossom, that he himself is in blossom, that he has said offensive thtngs because h e h as sa id t hi ngs "folk needed and didn't want, that Abraham didn't put Isaac on the altar "half so quick" as he will put his sons on the altar of his country, and, therefore, we conclude, that he is twice as much the friend of God as Abraham. We have no w i s h to undervalue a father's sacrifices in sending one son after another to this war, and, no doubt, Mr. Beecher thinks it holy; but he certainly takes a very offensive way to persuade Englishmen that it is so. It is not easy for us to swallow conceit and rhodomontade as bad as ever Di c kens mimicked. " Wh en i t b ecame ev id en t that the Great Dragon (slavery) must be destroyed, with hands outstretched and swords of fire in their hands, they rose like one man, and with a voice which reverberated throughout the whole world, cr i ed, Let it, with all its attendant horrors, go to hell r" NOW is that one of " the offensive things which people needed but didn't want ?" We at least do not feel guilty of needing any denunciation of slavery, but this tumid and exasperating nonsense strikes us as an offensive thing which we don't want and don't need, and which, if given without either need or want, gives us the most painful of all se nsations —fruitless intellectual retching. LABLACHE.—Of all the great artistes of our day, in every sense of the word, either as regards rotun dity of body, ditto and power of voice, intellect, talent and genius a s a n actor, grandeur, and conception of characters —either grave or gay—downright, earnest, and good vo calisation, with genuine and unaffected fun, combined with much sterling sense and depth of vocal organ—give us Lablache I He was an artiste that an y country m i g h t b e proud of, and the " Lazzaront" may very well smile at us more northern "chanters' for Naples having given birth to so excellent, so grand, an " en-chanter." To add to which, Lablache's mind was pure, enlightened, and noble; his feelings hospitable, his hand generous, and his heart good ; by this tribute we mean nothing to the disparage ment of other artistes, such as Braham, Rubini, Donzelli, Mario, Ivanhoff, Tamberlik, Dupres, Sims Reeves, Santley, Ronconi, Staudigl, Pischek, Tanaburini, &c., most of whom we knew, many intimately — to whom be all honour due — and who, as sterling artistes themselves, we are sure, will agree with us in saying, that with Lablache died the greatest basso singer that ever lived.—Tree Orchestra. SINGULAR SUICIDE OF A HIGHLANDER. —On Sunday evening about a quarter past seven o'clock, a nrivate, named William Nicol, belonging to the 92d Highlanders, stationed in the Castle, at Edinburgh, com mitted suicide in St, Margaret's Loch, Queen's-par k, Whilst taking a walk with th r ee of his companions--t° the men and a boy—deceased p r oposed to bath e in loch. The night being dark, his companions—named respectively St ra thdee, Dove, and Nicol — laughed at t he foolish pro posal, but Nicol insisted on carrying out his hat, w pulling off his tunic and throwing dow n his featheredish, and walked into the water. The boy N icol, who, a lthough a namesake, is no relation, called to him, asking if the water was cold, and he replied 66 y ea ." Strathdco then called , out if ho intended return in g , but no ans wer being received, ho stripped and waded in to tr y and rescue Nicol. Ile wen t u p to tho waist, k ee p in g shouting, but was obliged to re turn to the e mbankment on account of the coldness of t h e water. On his return Nicol went into the water, while Dove ran to the gamekeeper's lodge at the eastern entrance to the park for the purpose of getting a lamp and boathook, but nothing of the kind was in the house. The old man gave Dove a piece of candle and a few matches, with which he returned to the search for Nicol. A message was sent to Holyrood Palace, and the guard was turned out. A mes sage v‘ s next despatched to the police-office, and a boat hook and ropes were immediately sent down. In the mean time a raft was got . and search made for the missing man, After a search of two hours the body was found. Deceased was 37 years of age, had been nearly 20 years in the army, an d wore four medals--Crimean, French, Turkish, and Indian —also two good •conduct badges. Having returned to this country from India only three or four months ago, it is supposed the deceased committed the rash act from the effects of sunstroke, The Great Eastern—Meeting of Shareholders in London, The adjourned special general meeting of the shareholders in the Great Ship Company was held at the London Tavern yesterday. A report pre pared by the committee appointed at the last meet ing was read. The following is an extract`:—" The Committee state that they have directed their atten tion to the folio wing To the exact financial state of the company. 2. To the state of the ship. 3. To the means of profitably employing her ; and lastly, 4, To an inquiry into the moans of relieving the company from financial difficulties. O❑ the first head the committee state that they have come to the conviction that the statement of the chairmen that a peremptory sale was inevitable in 14 days, unless X 30,000 was raised on or before Friday next, the 16th, was a mistake.' As to the state of the ship the committee say Without entering minutely into the details obtained from the captain and your engineer, your committee are of opinion, from the information afforded by both, that every repair and alteration required to fit the ship for sea may be efficiently completed for a comparatively small sum; the hull of the ship is sound and seaworthy, and capable of performing any duty assigned to her; the engines are in good condition, but the boilers want thorough overhauling." With regard to the best means of employing the ship the committee say—" Three voyages to India or Australia (one and a-half each year) would give a little more than 70,000 miles, subject to the expense only of six loadings and discharges; six set of port and pilot dues; six set of agencies ; six coast and harbour risks instead of 18, and only two years victual ling, wages, insurance, staff, expenses, and interest instead of three. There would be but little com petition in the rates of passage and freight. Passengers and cargoes would be available to any extent, and the result, under proper and efficient management, cannot for a moment be doubted." After examining the plans for relieving the company from its difficulties, the committee thus conclude : " Here is our policy—here are our plans-1. Economy at home. 2. Placing the ship on the longest voyage, where there can be the least competition and the highest receipts—the share holders contributing what may be required for the liquidation of the existing debts and outfit, which will be amply provided for by the suggested contribution." After some discussion, the report was unanimously adopted, and it was decided to summon another meeting for the 3d of November to fill up vacancies in the Board of Directors, and for the transaction of other business. IN RE LANE This bankrupt was a journeyman bricklayer. The debts were only £33. Assets—bad debts, £l2. The bankrupt stated that his expenses last year was £6O. BE FRANKLA.ND. This bankrupt was an oilman in Brewer. street, Somers town. Debts, £lB2, assets, nil. The bankrupt passed. RE J. R. WILLIAMS. This bankrupt was a licensed victualler and potato sales man in the Borough Market, and this was a meeting for last examination. The accounts, by Mr. Barnes, show— Debtor to creditor, £1,170; ditto, holding security, £2,091. Creditor, good debts, £212; property, £2 860. An adjournment was taken for investigation of the accounts. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. BOW-STREET. EMBEZZLEMENT BY A COLLECTOR,—CharIes Jones, clerk and collector to Messrs. Deeds, wholesale leather sellers, of New Oxford-street, was brought up on remand, charged with embezzling various sums of money, the pro perty of his employers. The prisoner, it will be recollected, had been in the service of the firm mentioned for about a year, and his duty was to collect money due to the firm in the usual manner. On the sth of September the prisoner was paid £4, and £6 3s, 6d. on account of his employers, and no entry of the sums was ever made in the proper books. On this case he was committed for trial. Sergeant Lambert, of the E division of police, said he had now to prefer another charge against the prisoner, viz., of robbing a former employer, Mr. Doumaril, of 14, Thavies Inn. He had, gime the prisoner had been in custody, made certain inquiries, and from information he had received he had discovered property to the amount of £2O or £3O, which had been identified by Mr. Doumaril as his property. It consisted of boots, shoes, Brc. The prisoner had been en gaged by that gentleman also in the capacity of traveller. He (Sergeant Lambert) had to ask for a remand in this case. The application was granted, and the prisoner was ordered to be brought up again this day week. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. ROBBING 1 LICENSED VICTUALLER.—John Campbell was charged before Mr. Knox, with stealing at the Thir teen Cantons, King-street, Soho, St. Ann's, a coat, pocket book, and other articles of the value of £3, the property of Mr. Henry Hailey, licensed victualler. Mr. Hailey said that about 12 o'clock on the night of the Ist July, he took off his coat, in the pocket of which was his pocket-book and other articles and left them in the bar. Shortly after he missed the articles. Susan Smith, of 22,Compton-street, deposed to seeing the prisoner leave Mr. Hailey's house on the_night of the lit of July with a coat under his arm. William Clayey, 55 F, said he was present at the court on the 10th Sept., when the prisoner was convicted of felony, and sentenced to a month's imprisonment. Mr. Knox committed the prisoner for trial. THE BUSINESS OF THE COURT.-0 wing to the admirable arrangements commenced and carried out by Mr. Knox of beginning the business of the court at 10 o'clock every morning, the night charges are now disposed of much earlier than they used to be, and persons having to attend the court, whether as applicants, prosecutors, complainants, or witnesses, are not kept waiting on about the court un necessarily. To the members of the police force it is a great boon, as these who have been on night duty are enabled to reach their homes much earlier; and not the least of the advantages of the present punctuality of com mencing the proceedings is the fact that the pavement in front of the court is not occupied half the day by a crowd of persons anxious to hear the fate of their friends or acquaint ances. THAMES. Thump KISSING.—A DOUBTFUL C 4.5 .—Eleanor Birthright, a very intelligent and respectable young woman, the wife of a labourer who is at present dwelling at 1, Lee street, Stratford, appeared on her recognisanoes before Mr. Partridge to answer the charge of assaulting an aged Irish man named Jeremiah Cronin and breaking his leg. The affray which led to the present investigation occurred on the 6th of August last, at 1, Payne's-buildings, Old Ford, Bow, where the prisoner and her husband occupied a room. The landlady of the house was the daughter of the man Cronin, and between her and the prisoner there was a quarrel. The old man came by while the " debate," as he called it, was going on, and said, " What is this about ?" The prisoner said, " What is that to you, you old —?" He replied, "If I was the landlord I would soon have you out." The prisoner said " You would, would you, you old —I " His old woman (wife) was alongside of him, and the prisoner put her out of the passage of the house down several steps, and she was only saved from injury by falling • on a buy who was passing. The prisoner then came back and put her hands on the shoulders •of the old man and shoved him down the steps. He fell on the pavement and put his hip out. He was raised by the bystanders and carried to the London Hospital, where he remained under medical treatment until Tuesday, the 30th ult., He was carried into court by policemen and seated in a chair, and it is probable from his advanced ago (upwards of 80 years) he will be a cripple for the remainder of his days. Several witnesses, including the prosecutor's wife, con firmed his statement, and gave their evidence in a very exaggerated style. Mrs. Cronin refused to take the book in her hand when it was tendered to her, and said she took the oath on a former occasion. Mr. Partridge said she must take the oath again ; and when it was administered to her, and she was desired to kiss the testament, she spread her thumb over the book and kissed that. The prisoner respectfully called the magistrate's attention to the evasion; and said, " Please, sir, she kissed her thumb." The old woman scowled at the prisoner, groaned repeatedly as if she was in great distress of mind, and said she had not kissed her thumb. Mr. Joseph Smith, Mr. Charles Young, soli citors, and the captain of a ship, seated at the table, said the witness had kissed her thumb. She was desired to kiss the book, and again kissed her thumb on the book. Mr. Par tridge said the silly artifice of the woman would not ab solve her from her oath, and after she had kissed her thumb a third time amidst derisive laughter in court, the Magis trate said—You must take the oath in a proper manner. After sundry groans and looking about her, she found there was no escape, and kissed the book. Her evidence con firmed that of her husband, but was different in some mate rial particulars to the evidence she gave two months ago. The prisoner cross-examined the witnesses with much tact.the They answered her snappishly, b ut s h e i nvo l ve d ushseeradwtahi sne guiltyo manyf fens ov c fe o t u ehx t e r p a vr d el e i s c ia e t i i na o ne n ea s . ai op T ru l I nt e e tdaprisoner oldde r e a d ant t as h nh a de t his witnesses. There was a row going on, in which she had no wish to join. She made her appearance, and the old man called her "a English ," and said the English had sold his country. She said " Mr. Cronin, I know nothing about these matters," and ho struck her a blow on the eye. The old man and his wife then dashed at her, and i:. trying to shake them off ail three rolled down the steps together. She was very sorry the old man was injured, but she was not the cause of it. The occurrence was quite accidental, and all the violence was on the other side. Mrs. Birthright made her defence in a clear, melo dious voice, and with great propriety. She left a favour able impressior on every one. Two respectable witnesses confirmed her in every particular. They saw the old man strike Mrs. Birthright and lay hold of her, and the three fell down the steps. Another witness stated that overtures had been made to the prisoner on the part of the Cronies to settle the matter for £5, and she refused to give any money to them. Mr. Partridge said it was a very doubtful case indeed, and one that he should send before a jury. He remitted the case to the Middlesex Sessions, and took bail for the pri soner's appearance there, herself in £3O and two sureties of £l5 each. Bail was tendered and accepted. 65 i 111 ioi 111 1 1302 128 THE INDEPENDENCE OF POLAND, Last evening a public meeting in connection with the National League for the Independence of Poland was held in the Cambridge Hall, Newman-street, Oxford-street, Mr. Edmond Beales, barrister-et law, presiding. The Chairman, in opening the pro ceedings, expressed his pleasure at presiding oyer a meeting sympathising with those gallant men who were wonderfully and determinedly struggling in Poland for all that is worth living for and worth dying for. (Hear, hear.) He did not wish to de tain the meeting, but he could not help referring to the important speech recently delivered Earl Russell at Blairgowrie. There were two points in that speech—first, it was admitted that Russia had forfeited all the right, if sh© ever had any, to the sovereignty of Poland ; and the next point was the recognition of the belligerent rights of the Poles. One decla ration of the noble lord he cordially concurred with, but another declaration he was decidedly op posed to. The noble lord said it was not obliga tory on the country, nor was it to the honour or interests of England, that we should go to war for Poland. He was sorry to hear such a declaration from the lips of any Englishman, especially a Rus sell. It was uncalled for, because the Poles had never asked us to go to war for them ; they had de• precated any armed intervention on their part, being desirous to achieve their own freedom. The Treaty of Vienna, by which Poland was par titioned, was a scandal and a reproach to all those who had stood by passively and allowed Poland to be s wept out of the map of Europe. (Hear, hear.) Earl Russell said that those other nations who had stood by were accessories after the fact. The partition of Poland was one of the greatest of political crimes, and therefore he thought that no man with common sense could say that it was not obligatory on us to see that the conditions of the treaty were .fulfilled, and, if they were violated, to enforce them. Rus sia had deliberately and systematically violated all those conditions, and therefore the belligerent rights of the Poles should be recognised. Having con demned in strong language the conduct of Russia towards the suffering Poles for her own aggrandise. ment, he concluded by expressing a hope that Lord Russell's words should be embodied in a de spatch, and sent to the Court of St. Peters burg. (Loud cheers.) Dr. P. W. Perfitt then delivered a long address on the history, partitions, and present condition of Poland, and moved the fol lowing resolution :—" That this meeting cordially approves of the objects of the National League for the Independence of Poland, and pledges itself to support the 'Rogue by all the pecuniary and other means in its power." Mr. Eglinton, a working man, seconded the motion, which was put and carried with acclamation. Mr. J. A. Nicolay then pro posed the next resolution, to the effect that Russia, having far nearly fifty years delibe rately and systematically violated, !nd h av re.tous par tition the ing now deliberately and finally conditions upon which the iniquitous tition and spoliation of Poland in the last century were more or less condoned and sanctioned by Great Britain and other European powers by the Treaty of Vienna, has forfeited every semblance of a legitimate title to sovereignty over Poland, and that it vitally concerns the honour and good faith of Great Britain as a party to that treaty to declare such forfeiture openly and officially, and at once to recognise the belligerent rights of the Poles. Mr. Stainsby seconded the resolution, which was also agreed to. A cordial vote of thanks to the chairman closed the proceedings. A SCENE AT " BELL'S LIFE" OFFICE.—The un mitigated sconndrelism of a certain class of the Patron s of the noble art" seems to have reached its climax on the occasion of the late fight between Gannon and Baldock, for £lOO aside. The police twice put a stop to the brutal exhibition, and the referee (editor of Bell's Life) ordered the men to meet at his office on the next day. The meeting is thus reported by the editor :—" On Thursday the representatives of the men treated us to one of the usual levees which our position compels us to hold, in which loud voices and unabashed falsehood were used as the instruments to blind our eyes to justice, and it was not till our room was cleared of all save one representative of each man that we could get on any thing like terms, or ascertain the point at issue, which turned out to be that Gannon's friends accused Baldock of wilfully giving himself up to the police; while Baldock's backers as strenuously denied this fact, and declared the man could not get away from the police. Evidence was laid before us by G annon ' s f r i en d s, w hi c h, cou pl e d w ith inquiries we caused to be made, convinced us that their accusation was founded 'on fact, and the referee, on Friday morning, when the parties again met at our office, awarded the money to Gannon. Directly this decision was given, our office was filled by a band of ruffians, at the head of whom were Ward of the Ironfounders' Arms, Greenwich, Young Billy Shaw, Tom Tyler, and Baldock himself, who assailed us and our reporter with the vilest abuse, and Baldock and another of his friends, a pedestrian named Myers, we believe, with frightful oaths declared that they would take the life of our ring reporter the first time they caught him in the streets. Young Tyler ; and Ward were no way bchindhand in their threats, and the scene altogether was of such a nature as we n everw l t nessed before, and will take care shall not occur agfu e as our office. Finally we were compelled to 61101 t n sistance of our whole staff of compositors .t:rdicielpeaarrtutht: room, but the company did not take their pon every without threatening to wreak their vengeft earliest op one who did not think with them, at the affair, we are portunity. Before taking leave of . oturnal to state that requested by the proprietors of this J only exercised by a unless the present system of terrorism, forteease P b u y t an end to, Whi c h certain clique, is at once and the parties most cqn be done w ith the greatesselves—Bell's Life in lonclogn interested—the pugilists themselves—Bell's ing, and every effort will will cease to be the organ of be used on our part to P n t. an end to a sport Whi c h , as at p res ent carriel on, cannot be defended on any ground whatever. Whether gentlemen will ever again be persuaded to venture to th e ring ride i s a problem yet to be solved;' SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 o'CLiocx. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. NEWMARKET RACES—Tins DAY. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. CESAREWITCH STAKES. LIONESS LIMatiINA Twenty-four ran. JACK OF HEARTS . Twenty-four ran. Won by three parts of a length ROYAL STAKES. Columba Barter 2 HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES. Merry Maid 1 Gunner Eight ran. TOWN PLATE. F prima ..... Peterbhata ... • 2 Six ran. SELLING HANDICAP. - - - Norroy ...... Prince le 800 Knave of Trumps ............ Twelve ran. CLEARWELL STAKES. Crisis .................................. . ......... 1 Planet Eleven ran. Al - ger at W arsaw. The Execution of William IVAttsAw, Friday. The execution of Alger , one of the workmen employed in the factory of Evans and Co., for manufacturing grenades, took place in the court-yard of the building yesterday. Ali the workmen of the factory were compelled by tho police to be witnesses of the fate of their comrade. At half: p ast nine the condemned man, under military escort, entered th e fac tory yard, the gates of which were immediately C l osed against the crowd collected in the street. Only two or three favoured persons were admttted—among others the Eng lish consul general, Col, Stanton, and Mr. Ran, the part ner of Messrs. Evans, Messrs. Evans Brothers having re turned to England two years ago. At ten o'clock precisely firing was heard. Two rounds were fired subsequently at a certain interval, the first probably not having taken effect. The corpse was then carried away, and the persons col lected in the streets were very shortly dispersed. It is un derstood that Alger met his fate with determination, and rejected an offer of pardon upon condition of denouncing his accomplices made at the place of execution. He leaves a wife and two children. The proprietors of the factory were condemned by Gen. Berg to pay a fine of 15,000 roubles, bat the English consul protesting against the injustice of the order and representing that, owing to Mr. Evans' absence in England at the time the manufacture of the grenades took place, it was impossible that he could have any com plicity in the affair, the decree was cancelled. To obviate the belief of this unusual lenity being in any way owing to foreign interference, the chief of the police published the following order in the _Police Gazette : " It was announced in the Dziennik Powsz6chny of the 6th of October that a fine of 15,000 roubles had been im posed upon the proprietors of the iron foundry carried on by Messrs Evans and Co., for having permitted the.prepara tion of hand grenades, despite the regulations of the state of siege, and the factory would remain closed until the afore said fine was paid. Upon the representation, however, of his excellency the chief of the third division of gendarmerie, Major-General Trepow, that Mr. Evans and the other par ticipators in the foundry, as quiet citizens, were not aware of the manufacture of the grenades (the number of which was only small); that the workmen in the factory took nq share whatever thorein ; and further, that the regulations of the state of siege, rendering employers responsible for their workpeople, had not at that time been published, his excel.. lency the ad interim governor, Gen. Berg, has been pleased to order that Mr. Evans be relieved from the payment of the fine of 15,000 roubles, and that his factory be again opened for the transaction of business. (Signed) "Major-General LEWSZU." FOREIGN THEATRICALS. Mlle. Marie Battu has signed an engagement with the Grand Opera, and will make her debut next week in Res. Elea " Moiee." _ _ Mme. Penco has accepted an engagement for the Opera at Cadiz and Seville for a limited number of nights, Mmes. Plessy and Bressant have rammed to their posts at the Frangais after a brilliant tour. Mile. Vaneri, who was so favourably received last year in London at the Italian Opera, has declined all engagements here, and has left Paris for Italy, where she has accepted the offers made her by the managers of some of the largest theatres. Ernest Depas, a Belgian composer, whose performance of some trios for the pianoforte, the violin, and violoncello se cured for him so much admiration last year, and whose original and graceful productions made a great impression, revisits Paris early in the season. An instance of remarkable musical precocity, equalled only in the instance of Mozart, is the theme of general con versation in Paris. A boy of ten years of age, aged 16, has composed a mass which has been executed with great suc cess. The young composer consented to allow the mass to be performed at the end of the month in one of the largest churches for the benefit of the Poles. These young persons are the grandchildren of. Biagioli, the commentator , of Dante and Petrarch, who so long resided in London, and was so highly esteemed by the English aristocracy. At a recent performance of " Faust" at Pesth, Madlle . Carina, who played the p art of Marguerite, was not a little embarrassed on open in g the casket containing the jewels left by Mephistophiles, to find it empty. They had been placed in the box as usual, but lhad been stolen before being brought on the stage. The thief, who has not been disco vered, must hav e been greatly disappointed on finding that the value of Satan's present did not exceed a few florins Lord Stanley of Alderley arrived at his house in Dover-street yesterday evening from Alderley Park ) Cheshire. The Right Hon. Sir George Grey left his seat, Faliodon, Northumberland, yesterday, for Scotland, to at. tend the Queen. The marriage of the daughter of Victor Hugo with an English officer of distinction is announced. The poet has lived for the last 11 years at Jersey. The Right Hon. Sir C. Wood Bart., M.P., has arrived in town from his seat, Hickleton Hall, Yorkshire. A FOREST GIANT.—A tree has recently been cut down in California, the circumference of which was 90 feet, and its height 325 feet. The bark was in some places 4 feet thick. The tree contained 250,000 feet of solid timber. Its age was 3,100 years. The wood was sound and solid. A RIDDLE OF THE SPHINX.—Being a wonder fully enigmatic sentence taken from a second edition of a recently published book called " The Rosicrucian."—The absorbed (however materially) Londoner hurries by in as equal unconsciousness as, perhaps, the very imitative Bel zoni complacently fixed it, who sculptured deep, as his " forehead-mark," because he found it dominant (although in secret) upon the freizes of Egypt, upon his Piccadilly " Egyptian" Hall, a "symbol" which the quicker-eyed and thoughtful adept, taught in his great experience, passes not—in its unutterable mystery as a possibility—without at shudder ! THE COAL TRADE TO LONDON.—Daring the month of September last 442,562 tons of coal and coke we" . entered at the Coal Exchange as having been conveyed u/ London by rail, sea, and canal. Of this immense tonna ge, which exceeds that of the corresponding month of 166,::4g 36,591 tons 2 cwt, and 274,187 tons were seaborne, 6ai tons were conveyed by railways having access to thosiw°lestri°; polis, and 887 tons by canal. The railway traflitern the following proportions :—London and Ne rth. vires 2oB tons Railway, 85,781 tons 12 cwt; Great Aland,Norther 10,782 1 cwt; Great Eastern, 12,701 tons 2 cwt ; s g outh . Western, tons 19 cwt; Groat Western, 6,714 tons; ~„ cwt; and Til -1 1,722 tons; Chatham and Dover, 535 tozipsii; in September, bury and Southend, 53 tons. The P , i _f g us t month's entry 1862, was 145,173 tons, 8 cwt, 80 lu' t Of the 274,187 tons of was 22,324 tons 12 cwt in excen oweastio i n 2 3 2 Ships, seaborne, 91,770 tons came fr° l3 4 4 s hips, 63,964 tons f ront 84,747 tons from Sunderlan d in r in 197 ships, 19,688 tons Hartlepool and West HAWS ) 9 tons from Middlesborough from Yorkshire in 28 ships, and 1 33 12 ships, 1,364 tons from Daft h i in 2 ships, 7,659 to ns o f from Seaham in 82 sh fr ill tor : l3o in 21 ships, 569 tons from _. Welsh in 18 ships, Froman. 1 to Sept. 30, 1863, ships, , 2 tons small in 5 ships, 1,661 tonac . 2,341 tons from Scotland 'TM,' ilil ....._ an increase of 13 gg , 8 tons over the coal, in 2 s hips. -.-- month of Septem ber ' 1 i n 8 , tons 18 owt, threltooota3B7 tons 12 cwt more than for the same period of 7862, when the tonnage was 3 , 62 0,937 tons 6 cwt. As cora ith the first nine months of last year the seaborne pared w fouling° h as decreased 501 ships and 84,320 tons (2,467,614 tons against 2,353,291 tons in 1863), while on the other han d the railways have brou g ht this year 1,237,153 tons 18 cwt, against 1,052,224 tons 16 cwt in 1862, or an increase of 154,920 tons 2 ewt, INTERESTING DISCOVERY. —Au interesting archaealogical discovery has just been made at Ornolac, near Ussat-les-Bains (Ari Age), On taking down a bell to make certain repairs in the steeple of the church, it was found to bear the date of 1079, and must consequently be one of the oldest bells in Christendom. There is indeed a bell at Larroque•d'Olmes bearing the date CCCLXXXV, but the letter M is supposed to have been accidentally omitted, as the use of bells was only introduced in the sixth century. The bell abcvo mentioned at Ornolac is the only one loft of three which the church poss9ssed before the first revolution, when the other two were destroyed. Ornolac is undoubtedly a place of great antiquity, as numerous an cient medals and coins have been found there. Not long since M. Bonne', the cure of the village, found a medal with Hannibal on horseback on the obverse, and an inscrlP tion in Punic characters en the reverse. 13.14. 19.16.4 12.10 1181 `.. 1 1 i 112 i 1021 1011 45i 96 51