The Sun. — London, England, 1863-10-22 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Business in the Discount Market has been some what impeded by the uncertainty felt regarding the policy the Bank of England directors may pursue at their meeting to-day. The general im pression seems to be that no immediate change will be made, in the mean while a certain degree of reserve is manifested, and the rates are almost nominal. A further sum of £48,000 in gold was taken into the Bank yesterday. The biddings for £300,000 in bills on India took place yesterday at the Bala of England. The pro portions allotted were—to Calcutta £160,000, to Bombay £120,000, and to Madras £20,000. The minimum price declared was, as before, ls. 111 d. per rupee CIL Calcutta and Madras, and ls. 116 d. on Bombay. The applications within the limits amounted to £3,170,000. Tenders on Calcutta, at ls. 111 d., will receive about 30 per cent.; on Bom bay, at 25., about 6 per cent. ; on Madras, at le. UV., about 93 per cent.; and all above these prices in full. The last week's railway receipts ascertained up to this day are in round figures as under : 1863. 1862. Great Western North-Western South-Western Brighton Midland 44,415 41,615 South-Eastern Great Northern Lancashire and Yorkshire.. 34,480 32,320 North Eastern Bristol and Exeter Great Eastern 9 3,643 33,356 Manchester, Sheffield, and LincolL 16,425 14,102 North British These returns, with a few exceptions, are of a sa tisfactory character, On the North Western there is an increase of £5,829; on the Midland of £2,800 ; on the Great Northern of £2,446 ; on the Lanca shire and Yorkshire of £2,160 ; on the North Eastern of £3,798 ; on the Great Eastern of £287 ; on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln of £2,323; and on the North British of £914 ; while the Great Western shows a decrease of £899 ; the South Western of £1,142 ; the Brighton of £1,571 ; and the South Eastern of £915. Two O'CLOCK. At Paris, this day, according to Mr. Rmter's telegram, the French 3 per Cent. Itentes were 671 00c to 67f 05c. Inanimate. At a general meeting to-day of the proprietors of the Oriental Bank Corporation—Mr. H. G. Gor don in the chair—an ad interim dividend of ia 15s. per share, or at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum was declared payable on the 2d November next. Dulness is still the principal feature of the mar ket for the English Funds, foreign stocks and new schemes engaging almost the exclusive attention of the investing classes. After the official hours of business yesterday Consols receded k—viz., to 924 9 34 for money, and to 93 k for account. The present quotations, however, show a recovery to 9 3 for money, and to 93k 4 for the account. The New Threes and Reduced are 91f- ; Exchequer Bills are ls. dis. to 2s. prem. ; India 5 per Cents., 1094 ; and Enfaced ditto, 107 k. Increased buoyancy prevails in the Foreign Market, and business is rather active. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 71/ 4 ; ditto, Consolides, 5 3/ ; Greek, 30 31; do., Coupons, 14/ n ; Spanish Passive, 35-2-b ; do. Internal, 301 31 ; do., Certifi cates, 131 k ; Mexican, 42/ 4 ; Portuguese, 49 4; do. New Loan, / 1/ prem. ; the Brazilian Loan, / 1 prem.; the Confederate Loan, 64 66 ; Italian, 72/ k; and Russian, 921 932 1 1 .. The dealings in the Railway Share Market have been extremely limited, and prices have been fur. ther depressed. North-Eastern (Berwick) and South-Eastern have declined 65.; Brighton, and London, Chatham, and Dover, 10s.; and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, and Metropolitan, 15s. ; While Great Eastern and Lancashire and York shire have improved ss. In the Foreign and Colonial undertakings prices continue without change of importance. Bank Shares are dull. London and Middlesex have declined to 71. Alliance of London and Liverpool are steady at 45 ; Imperial Alliance at 18k I. India Land Mortgage shares are quoted 3 to 3/ prem.; Anglo-Austrian, par to / press; and East London, 31 44 prem. In the Miscellaneous Market General Credit and Finance shares are at 5 ; London Finance at 15fr 1- ; Hudson Bay at 8-1; and Discount Corporation at 81 91 prem. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 236 4 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities• 93 A 21 31 21 New 3 per Cent. Annuities New 31 per Cent. Annuities New 21 per Cent. Annuities — 5 per Cent. Annuities einnuities, 30 yrs, expire 6th Jan., 1880 — Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l4l Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 — India Stock, 1874 Ditto 5 pet Cent. 1870 lO9l 1 Ditto 4 per Cent. 1888 ... Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent...... Cent......— Ditto 5 per Cent Ditto 5i per Cent Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct., 1863 Ditto ditto April, 1864 100 99/ Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 1001 1 Ditti, bonds £l,OOO — Ditto under £l,OOO Bank Stock for Account Consols for Account, Oct, 8.. India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent — Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 21 per Cent par 2 pm 1 dis Ditto 4:500 Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent Ditto, 1839 and 1859 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 3 per Cent. Colombian 6 Scrip, £l5 pd a, 6 per C en t . Ditto 3 per Cent. Danish 4 per Cent., 1863 Ditto 3 per Cent., 1825 Dutch, 2i per Cent „Ex. 12 Guild ers - Ditto, Provisonal.Land Warrant Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent - Egyptian 7 pe r Cent Ditto, Second Is sue - 100 i Guatemala 5 per Cent. Ditto 3 per Cent~ 1859 Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupon s .— Ditto Account Ditto Coupons Ditto Account .. 14/ a Italian 5 per Cent.(Mareminana Railway) 81i Mexican 3 per Cent .... a i Ditto Account Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada Ditto Deferred 9 t.; Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) — Peruvian 3 per Cent. Ditto Account — Ditto 41 per Cent., 1862 Ditto Account P ortuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 'Ditto Account . Ditto'3 per Cent., 1556, '7, '9, '6O, 62.. Ditto' Account Russian 5 per Cent.,111822, £ St — Ditto 4; per Cent 1850 9Ol Ditto 5 per Cent, 1862 93g f 21 31 ardinian 5 per Cent B .. Di tto Account .. Pat iish 3 per Cent ' 3 itto A bitt Ditto°ccount New Deferred r 'Ditto 4 . 4 ; * „ 've ........... Spanish Le r unt • 35/ i Ditto A, of Coup not funded — :Swedish, <7;;„'', t l3l Turkish 6 pe - r r `-ent. — ve _ Ditto At:coo t -In ' 18 ° 4 — Ditto 6 per c ent. 1858 . Ditto Acco,, Ditto, .f.aoo if,„ *— • • ************** * , ............. 701 Ditto 6 per ... Cent, 18,, . ......... Ditto Account . " • ......... Ditto Guararteea:Z ................. Per Cent.. ......... 4 Ditto Account.... Ditto 6 per Cent. ........... -- Venezuela 3 per Cent .. 5 9 10 8 o c i .... Ditto Account. .................. ... Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 ................ Ditto Account ...... ........... Di v idends on the above' .........le Lon . ••• 6 li Austrian, 5 per Cen t. . E x. 10 Florin s , uon. Belgian 41 per Cont. , Ex. 25c. .. rins. Doton `,.! per Cent., Ex. 12 Gull ........ .. ... Ditto 4 per Cent. Cert ificates . ...... French Itentes, 3 per Cent.. Ex. . Italian, 5 per Cent., 1661, Ex. 25 francs.. -- Ditto Account.... ...... TW 0 0' CLocii . Consols, Money Ditto Account Igo., Closing ibart Railways Paid, Price. Business done 100 A ttantio & Lawrenct all 63 65 stk ISom.,Baroda/z.Cent Inn 100 106 107 Gu. 5 per cent. 20 Do. New . . 8 1 14 p 20 Do. E. Shares. 20/ Buffalo and Lase Huron all 6/ 10 Do. Preferunce 100 Buffalo,Brant,&G' odrich too p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 100 Do. do. July 1, 1877 100 100 Do. do. June 1, 18;4 100 st Cleutta.NS.Eastn.(Liii ; 100 106 107 106 54 st Cape Town Dock Scrii 100 1( 4 106 stock Mastn. Bengal gu. sp. t 100 108 109 stock Last Indian. gu. sp. c. 100 107/ It 8/ 1081 8 20 Do. do. G Ext lO 14 14p 20 Do. do. H do. stock Grand Trunk of Canada 100 215 /31 221 100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds all 76 18 100 Do. no. deferred all 63 65 100 Do. 2d Prel. Bonds all 71 72 71 704 100 Do. do. deferred all 54 57 100 Do. 3d P, cf. stock. 100 Do. do. deferred.— all 41 43 100 Do. 4th Pref. stook, all 31 33 314 100 Do. do. deferred all 26 28 stock OtlndiaPenut.gua.sp.c 100 1084109 y 1084 20 Do. New gua. sp. o l2 14 11, 20 Do. January, 1862 8 14 14, stook Gt. South.of India(Lim, guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 106 107 204 Gt. W. of Canada Sharer all 10k 101 104 SO/ Do. New 100 Do. 6 p.o. '73 with't opt all 96 98 100 Do. 54 p. o. do. '77-8.. - all 88 90 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 44 P stock Madras guar., sp.c. .. 100 106 107 stock Do. 44 p. c. Extension 100 101 102 stock Dc. 4* d 0........ 100 ES 100 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 -- 'stock Melb.Corp. 6p. o. Buds. 100 50 Melb. & Ilobson's Bay. all 68 19 100 Do. 7p. a. Mortg. Bds. alt 20 Newßrunswick b Candy: Class A and B. all 3 5 N.ll,l.C'da6 pc Ist pt bds 100 82 64 stock &Ando ........•• 1 (100 1065 1074 tot 5 Do. Delhi ; ' 100 106 107 ( Do. do 2 / 5p 20 Do. Punjaub all p st Do, Do. ........ f ir ,g , 100 106 107 106 s ock Do. Indus. St . Flo.) k . lOO 102 104 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. —t an.lauv. op.e.Ja..W ut) 1877-84 j Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug. 100 1( 2 104 I Do. 6p. c.Mar. & Sept. 100 102 164 Do. Ip. c. Jan.&July. 100 92 94 93 Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 92 94 Cape G. Hope, d p c,187 100 108 110 Do.Ap &Oct 1880 100 109 11l , Do. 189( 100 110 112 Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 113 115 Ceylon, Nov./878, 6p c 100 113 116 Mauritius 6 per cent .. 100 107 108 Natal Gov. 6 per cont.. 100 0.7 1(9 ,N.B.Gov.6p.c.oa.&Jull 100 1.08 105 ! Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. 100 S. W. Gov. 5 p C., 186 t 100 1014 1024 Du. sp. c.,lBti to ll 57( 100 102 103 Do. d0.,1888 &upwds 100 102/ 103 1024 'New Zealand O p cent. 100 109 111 102/ Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. sterling, 1875 • 100 104 106 'Queensland Gcv. 6p. c. 100 111 113 IS. Aus G6p.c.1878.& up.. 100 112 114 113 Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. JadzJuly 100 108 110 Do. io 6 p.o. An.AkOot._ 100 noi in uoi BRITISH MINES. 2 } Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 , k.:liflord Amalgamated.. 39 I Devon G. Con.. (Tavist.) 1 545 655 I East Bassett (Illogan).. 30 73 76 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd. 59. id Par East Caradon ...... } 261 271 - East Cam Brea.... - E. W'lltussel (Tavistk ); 8.6.6 24 34 - iGam.&St.Autlyn(Gwen ) 581 13 ti s Great South Tolgus l7s 41 , !G. Wheal Vor (lielston, 40 94 10/ !Grenville 6.16. ( 5/ 54 I Herd's-Foot . 8.12 14 36 Hingston Downs 4.'8.0 11 25 Lady Bertha !Margaret (Uny Lelant 9/ 18 20 IMarke Valley.. 4 Myndy Iron Ore (Lim ) 21 14 1 d New Setun I9I 95 105 - • North Downs 2/ 15 2 N.Wh'i liaseet(lllogan 2.17.0 24 3/ )Par Wheal Crotty Par Consols (st. Blazey, 1/ 20 Providence(Uny Lelnt.) 10.6.7 3 45 'South Caradon(St.Cleer, 11 415 425 S. Cam Brea (Illogan) 5.15.6 1 14 IS.Wheal Fran. (Mogan, 18.1,9' 60 65 Stray Park 11 y ['mar Silv.ez Lead Alin 44 / 4 fin Crort 9 19 20 West Basset (Illogan) l/ 94 104 W Cr rzdon (Ltskeard) 5 20 22 West Seton Wheal Basset (Illogan) 54 72/ 775 Wheal Buller(ltedruth) 5 20 SO Wheal Kitty(U.Lelant) 2.0.6 WhealLud(ott -- Wheal Mary Ann (Lien ) 8 6/ 94 Wheal 3eton 584 175 IES IES , Wheal Treiawney (Lis ), 7 21 23' 1 Wheal Union 1 3.17 24 3/ SHARE MARKETS---This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOtIIi.S. Closing Business Share Railways. Pai d, Price. I done. ' 13.14. Bir.. Wol., and Str. Val. Blythe and Tyne. ... • Bost.,Sleat.,andAlid.u o. Bristol and Exeter ...• Caledonian ......... ..• Cork and Bandor Cornwall . ( wets no (by / / ill fip c.p an.has them paid to B. Dublin& Belfast June. Dun.,Perth,&Ab. June. Edinburgh & G 1 asgow. Glasg. and S. Western.: Great Eastern, Ord. stkH Ditto A stock Ditto East A n,(l,l:an st GreatNorthof Scotland Great Northern Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. ant W. of Irelan, Great Western Do Str Val gua. stock LancashLee & Yorkshire London and Blackwal , Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & Scr.th Western Man., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. shares.. Metropolitan Midland Do New Do Birming. (4z Derby Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. shares Mid Kurt Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwiok Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds Do York Do Carlisle North London Do New North Staffordshire 'N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock Do Scot. Mid. stock Shrews. and Welohpool Shropshire Union South Devon ,South Eastern ;South Wales York. and River Dun Staines, Wok., and Wok. Stockton Darlington, Do __ Do New, 1880 Taff Va1e.......- Do B Do C • Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford .3; Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har. &R West Midland -Oxford Do Newport' Do Hereford B Ei 84 86 119 120 7 7} N 10 16 17 97 91 108 110 50 51 47 49 8 10 1251 1281 1294' 11.4 136 100 it 2 651 G 53 1110 111} 71 73 111 112 44 10 104 102; 101 102 47 48 131 132 128 14 11'd 06 98 65i 66 26 28 101 i 1011 57} 58 88 88i 119 121 1 2 p 78 79 11% ill 124 126 44 46 100 102 0 62 324 334 954 06 98 100 i 0 364 37} 84 94 7k 7 i P 152 157 41 51 51P 86 PO 170 180 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. PREFERENCE SHARES. Caledonian Quarters, No. 2, 1034 3 Great Eastern, E. Counties, Ext. No. 1, 1114 Great orthern, s:per cent., red. at 5 per cent. pm., 1074 9 Great Western, 5 per cent. red. prf., 103 Mid. Consolidated, 6 per cent, stock, - Ditto. Bristol and Birm., 6 per cent., 138 North Eastern, Cons. pref., 4 per cent.. 024 South Eastern 44 per cent., 100 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern, 5 per cent., pf., 104 London and S.-W estern 44 per cent., 103 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Preston and Wyre, 454 Shrewsbury and Hereford, 136 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, o 8a Bahia and San Dutch Rhenish, 184 Francisco (lim.) gua. 7 per cent., 191 1 Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidin), 124 San Paulo (lira.), gua. 7 per cent., Ditto (all), 22! Turin and Savona, Ditto (all), 15i Western and North-Western of France, 201 FOREIGN MINES. Cape Copper, lim.. 38 Kapunda (lim.), 1 4 Scottish Australian, lim., United Mexican (liin;, off JOINT-STOCK BANKS.' tillianeeßankot London and Liverpool (Um.) , 45 Australasia, Ditto, new, 371 Brazilian and Portmr,uese, lim., 81 Chartered Bank of British Columbia, 12} 12 Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 38 Consolidated Bank, lim., 10k Hindustan, china, and Japan (lim,), 291 Imperial Ottoman, 18k Loudon Joint Stock, 36) London and Middlesex, lim., 77} London and South African, 27/ L011(161 . 1 and Westminster, 80 New Zealand, lira , 3j Oriental Bauk Corporation, 60 Provincial of Ireland, Ditto, new, 37 Scinde, ruujaub, and Delhi (1im.),;61:i MISCELLANEOUS. Anglo-Mexican Mint, Berlin Water Works, lira., gi Copper Miners of England, pt. 7.1 per cent., 21 Egyptian Commercial and Trading, lira., 4;1 Gen. Crc dit and Finance of Lonaon, him, 5 Iludson•s Bay, si Joint •stock Discount, 6: London Finanaial Association, lira., 151 1 London General Omnibus Company ( 1 ' . South African Mortgage and I nve • ' -.m.h 2 1 ..c.; lira., 71 CRYSTAL PALACE.-7 ch at dusk this day, havink t groat poultry show closes wards the number ,reelt very successful, both as re are consider- visitors and the sales effected, which in advance of previous shows, the prices ~ed ranging from £l. to £25 per pen. One Shilling day, Wedues(s ay, Oct. 21.—Admissions on paymen.ta 2,99; ditto, by season tickets, 1,365; total visitors, 4,358, 111 44} 1021 loti I 47f THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCPOBER 22, 1863, POLICE INTELLIGENCE — This Day. MARLBORGUGH-ST.REET. THE OUTCASTS IN THE PARKS.—Mr. Rogers, one of the officers of St. George's parish, waited upon Mr. Knox this morning, and stated in reference to the above subject that he had, on the part of St. George's parish, been in communication with the Commissioners of Woods and Forests and the Commissioners of Police, and ascertained that a correspondence had been going on between them, the Commissioners of Police being aware of the alarming extent of the nuisance, and that steps were about being taken for the purpose of suppressing the evil. Mr. Knox said he was very.glad to hear it, for the evil required suppression, for the sake, not only of the poor creatures—two of whom were before him the previous day and than whose appearance nothing could be more de plorable—but for the protection . of the public. The number udmitted to the infirmary of St. George's Workhouse has been rather understated —the number altogether being 47—one female stating that she had not left the park for five weeks living there night and day. CAUTION TO LICENSED VICTUALLERS—PERMITTING BAD CHARACTERS TO ASSEMBLE IN A PUBLIC-HOUSE. — Mr George Axtell, of the Horse and Groom, Castle-street, Leicester-square, appeared to answer the complaint of the police of permitting bad characters—(to wit, thieves and prostitutes) —knowingly to asbemble in his house, contrary to his license. Gordon, 323 A, proved visiting the defendant's house and seeing eleven girls he knew as prostitutes, and five young men about 18 years of age, two of whom he knew to hare been convicted of felony, and two to be always in company of the little prostitutes frequenting Leicester-square. He (Gordon) spoke to the defendant, asking him to turn the persons out, but he said they were doing no harm, and de clined to do so. Defendant said he had only had the house three months, and did not know what sort of characters the persons were. Mr. Knox said that the officer informed the defendant what sort of characters he had in his place, and then he said they were doing no harm. _ _ . Mr. Knox fined the defendant 405., and advised him to be cautious for the future, as the police would very properly be on the alert. The defendant paid the fine. TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts 922 Beasts 450 Cows l4O Sheep and lambs .... 1,240 Sheep and lambs .. 4,630 I Calves •••••• • • • • • • 225 Calves 320 Pigs Pigs, 4OO LITERATURE, Rachel Ray. A Novel. By Anthony Trollope. Two vols. Chapman and Hall. As charming a story as any yet penned by An thony Trollope, " Rachel Ray" is, after all, nothing more pretentious than a faithful delineation of life as it actually is in an English country town and its suburbs. Tne work as a work of art is wholly unambitious, but it is, from first to last, we cannot help repeating it, charming. It is like ono of those masterly little sketches by a great artist dashed down with a few apparently careless and unstudied touches of coloured crayons upon a rough-grained neutral-tinted drawing-board--sketches so glowing into life and beauty under the rapid hand of the artist, that they even win from us a more instant and cordial admiration for the consummate skill with which they have been wrought than that same artist's more elaborate compositions, in more endur ing materials, in oil, or in water colours, or as in the instance of Maclise's later masterpieces in that we medium—that medium of perennial fresh ness and beauty—water-glass. As it appears to us, Mr. Anthony Trollope, so to speak, has worked (with how facile and untiring a pencil !) in each end all of these materials. He has so worked, in mediums of such diversity and with such a ready adaptation of his powers to the re quirements of each, that he has already become one of the most voluminous as well as one of the most popular novelists of his day. There are characters, moreover, which he has conjured up into imagi nary existence that may take their place, side by side, with the happiest creations of the most rarely gifted among his contemporaries. The Archdeacon Grantley of Anthony Trollope may be ranked un hesitatingly, as a kindly and humorous creation of this exceptional]kind, even with the Mrs. Poyser of Mary Anne Evans and the Colonel Newsome of W. M. Thackeray—with the Captain Cuttle of Charles Dickens, and Sir Bulwer Lytton's spindle shanked and red-umbrella'd Riccabocca. " Bar chester Towers," " Dr. Thorne," and the earlier volume of " The Warden"—the last-mentioned being the book that first riveted public attention upon the genius of Anthony Trollope, to the instant recognition of its delightful freshness and originality —those three purely clerical stories may be re ferred to here as comprising within them the first epoch of our writer's career as a novelist. An inter mediate period there has elapsed since then, in which various highly entertaining but, as it seemed to us while reading them, far more carelessly written narratives, narratives, for the most part, of a manifestly ephemeral character, were scrawled off with wonderful rapidity—about the best of these, to our thinking, being onr author's romance of " Castle Richmond," Afterwards have appeared in various forms, now as a serial tale in monthly parts, now as a periodical contribution to one of the popular magazines, now as a separate and com• plete publication, works of a far more highly elabo rated character, brilliant fictions such as " Orley Farm," and " Framley Parsonage." In " Rachel Ray " we have no such ingenious complication of plot, or subtle analysis of character as are recog nisable in those Uri majores of Anthony Trollope, The novel, for one thing, is of lesser dimensions. The plot of it, for another, is the simplest well imaginable. Incidents of a momentous character there aro none. Throughout the whole of the two volumes, it is nothing less than refreshing, in these days of sensational writing, to find not one solitary mystery. The scene is laid entirely in Devonshire. Principally in the little county town of Baslehurst. The course of the events related in the narrative, only once, for a very brief interval, taking us in one brief chapter of the second volume 40 miles by railway from the imme diate neighbourhood of the little town of Baslehurst —namely to the city of Exeter, the capital of De vonshire. Otherwise, from the opening of the tale to the close of it, we loiter about the streets of in the houses of Baslehurst—sauntering now into the village of Cawston, in quest of the simple-hearted Rector, old Mr. Comfort—driving with Butler Corn bury (before the close of the story M.P. for Basle burst) along the beautiful highway leading to Corn. bury Grange, the old Squire's residence—and becoming more and more pleasantly familiar with every nook and corner of the pretty little cottage at Bragg's End, in which resides the heroine of the fiction, sweet, charming Rachel Ray : together with her widowed mother, Mrs. Ray (far more simple hearted even than her favourite clergyman, Mr. Corn fort) —and besides Rachel's widowed mother, her widowed sister, Mrs. Prime, grimly, acidly, cynically evangelical. The homely, natural, lifelike, delicately pencilled portraits of the women here cluster. ing together in Baslehurst, are among the happiest of Mr. 'lrollope's delineations. There is a touch of the immortal Mrs. Poyser, already mentioned above, in the little incidental outline of Mrs. Sturt, the farmer's dame, on the opposite side of the green, at Bragg's End, to the Ray's Cottage. Mrs. Sturt relieving her sympathetic heart while mourning over Rachel's temporary estrangement from her lover, Luke Rowan, with such old Devon shire rhymes as—" It's passing sweet when two hearts meet. Bat it breaks the heart when true hearts part." The Tappitt's, too, are capitally drawn— not only the coarse, bluff, hard-headed, not to say pig-headed, old bully of a father, Mr. Tappitt, brewer, of Baslehurst, a s act i ng partner or repre sentative of the firm of Bungall and Tappitt, but his " womankind'' as well. Mrs. Tappitt, that most bungling of match-making, or any rate to that end manoeuvring mammas—who, in her florid and roundabout person is a sort of casual justifica tion of Nathaniel Hawthorne's horrid portrait of the English dowager. And, with Mrs. Tappitt, the mamma, the three Miss Tappitts her daughters —Martha, the staidest, and eldest, who is all for justice and common sense, Augusta, who having vainly set her cap at Luke, becomes scornful, not to say spiteful in temperament for ever afterwards, as the consequence of her failure in that same laudable effort, and the best of • the bunch, the flower of the flock, cheery Cherry Tappitt, the truest friend amongst them all, that is amongst the Tape pitt family, to Rachel Ray. For charming, little, innocent, tender love scenes, we know nothing prettier, in that way, than can be found in this same homely tale of the loves of Rachel Ray and Luke Rowan. Instance the sunset scene under the elms near the stile of the old churchyard at Baslehurst Or that other scene upun the landing of the brewery h o use in the mid st o f the Ball, whithe r our unso phisticated heroine Rachel has been chaperoned by charming Mrs. Butler Cornbury of the Grange, nee Patty Comfort. Or the parlour scene in the c ottage at Brag i's n deed) her End when R ac h e l no d s ( w i t h a very little nod g acceptance of Luke as her betrothed. O r after the lengthened and heart wearying estrangement of the lovers, their final meeting in Mrs. Sturt's back parlour at the farm house on t h e opposite side of the green : that dear little delightful back parlour, looki ng out upon t h e farm kitchen-garden with its roses and cabbages. The ball at the brewery-house, the contention be tweenllow= about th e b rewer y Tappitt and business, and the stormy electi on f or th e borough, when the Jew tailor, M r . H ar t, from ever so manyhouses i n Sh ore di tc h , houses in R egent - street, i s and ever so many othe r defeated by a majority o f one by th e young squ i re Butler Cornbury,ry, who h as taken Betty Comfort to wife, and is now M.P. for Baslehurst ! These are among the most important incidents . or occurrences of any note, here record ed in this glibly alluring little narrative. As among th e f ew more pa ssages in the tw o vo l umes , serious and thoughtful we are tempted hero to transcribe from the pages of electioneering part of the Rachel Ray, from the story of course, the following : NOBL E DEFINITIO N OF A RADICAL. A radical is not necessarily a revolutionist or even a re publican. He does not, by reason of his social or political radicalism, desire the ruin of thrones, the degradation of nobles, the spoliation of the rich, or even the downfall of the bench of bishops. Many Yertng man is frightened away Irma the just conclusions o f his mind and the strong convictions of his heart b 7 dread of being classed with . those who are jealous of the favoured ones of fortune. A radical may be as ready as any aristocrat to support the crown with his blood, and the church with his faith. It is i n this that he is a radical ; that he desires, expects, works for, and believes in, the gradual progress of the people. No doctrine of equality is his. Liberty he must have , and such position. high or low, I for himself and others, as each man's individual merits will achieve for him. The doctrine of out ward equality he eschews as a barrier to all ambition, and to all improvement. The idea is as mean as the thing is impracticable. But within,--is it in his soul or in his heart ?—within his breast there is a manhood that will own no inferiority to the man hood of another. He retires to a corner that an earl with his suit may pass proudly through the doorway, and he grudges the earl nothing of his pride. It is the earl's right. But he also has his right ; and neither queen, nor earl, nor people shall invade it, That is the creed of a radical. Connected also with the electioneering part of the work is the subjoined most humourous picture, from-the-life, of the— HORRORS OF A PUBLIC DINNER AT AN INN. A horrid mess concocted of old gravy, catsup, and bad wine was distributed under the name of soup. Then there came upon the table half a huge hake,—the very worst fish that swims, a fish with which Devonshire is peculiarly in vested. Some hard dark brown mysterious balls were handed round, which on being opened with a knife were found to contain sausage-meat, very greasy and by no means cooked through. Even the dura ilia of the liberal electors of Beslehurst declined to make acquaintance with these dainties. After that came the dinner, consisting of a piece of roast beef very raw, and a leg of parboiled mutton, absolutely blue in its state of rawness. When the gory mess was seen which displayed itself on the first incision niade into these lumps of meat, the vice-president and one or two of his friends spoke out aloud. That hard and greasy sausage-meat might have been all right for any thing they knew to the contrary, and the soup they had swallowed without complaint. But they did know what should be the state of a joint of meat when brought to the table, aad therefore they spoke out in their anger. Tappit himself said nothing that was intended to be carried beyond the waiter, seeing that beer from his own brewery was consumed in the tap of the Dragon; but the vice-president was a hardware dealer with whom the Dragon had but small connection of trade, and he sent terrible messages down to the landlady, threatening her with the Blue Boar, the Mitre, and even with that nasty little pot-house the Chequers. "What is it they ex pects for their three-and-sixpence ?" said the landlady, in h e r wrath; for it must be understood that Sharpit knew well that he was dealing with one who understood the value of money, and that he did not feel quite sure of passing the dinner in Mr. Hart's bill. Then came a pie with crust an inch thick, which nobody could eat, and a cabinet pudding, s o called, full of lumps of suet. I venture to assert that each liberal elector there would have got a better dinner at home, and would have been served with greater comfort ; but a public dinner at an inn is the recognised relaxation of a middle-class Englishman in the provinces. Did he not a t te nd such banquets his neighbours would conceive him to be constrained by domestic tyranny. Others go to them, and therefore he goes also. He is bored frightfully by every speech to which he listens. He is driven to the lowest depths of dismay by every speech which he is called upon t o make. He is thoroughly di sgus t e d w h en h e i s ca ll e d on to m ake no speech. He has no point of sympathy with the neighbours between whom he sits. The wine is bad. The hot water is brought to him c>ld. His seat is hard and crowded. No attera:dt is made at the pleasures of conversa tion. n y lie is continually call e d upon to s t an d u p th a t h e pre tend to drink a t oas t i n h onour of some person or institution for which h e cares not hi ng; for the hero o f t h e m t i ve as to whom h o i s pro b a b ly i nd i fferent ; f or t h e cehung. ricnh, which, perhaps, he never enters; the army, which he regards a s a h ot b ed of aristocrat i c in solence; or for the Q ueen whom he reveres an d l ove s by reason of his nature as an E ng li s h man , b u t ag ai ns t whose fulsome praises as repeated to him ad nauseam in the cha i rm an's speech his very soul unconsciously revolts. It is all a bore, trouble, ennui, nastiness, and discomfort. But yet he goes again and ag a i n, —b ecause i t is the relaxat i on natural to an Englishman. There is something gravely farcical in Mr. Anthony Trollope's description of that exceedingly low c hurch parson—low eneugh to reach the level of dissent --sleek, worldly -prudent, short, unctuous M r . prong. Of a less obtrusive kind, Mr. Prong is of the genres Chadband. The almost, so to speak, ecclesiastical love scenes between Mr. Prong and Mrs. Prime during th e anx i ous per i o d f or bothf their temporary b e t ro th a l (f or th e i r wooing never coni es to anything, but is before long altogeth er ), th ese hi g hl y re li g i ous a e scenes between Mr. Prong and and Mrs. p rime, afford the funniest, oddest contrast nd prope'r?, well conceiva ble, to the charming love scenes already refseerlryed t to, e together, sometimes very lo Luke and Rachel i n the ball room, in the farm parlour, or near the churchyard closely together, bringing Ai r . Prong and Mrs. P r i me being even at their stile. m oments about as " snug " in their wooing, a h s a u ndreary and h is enamorata, when seated at happiest s a poire di t s p iance from each other of several arm's lengths in the memorable dairy scene on the greensward! The masterful character of t h e young hero of the t a l e i s admirably well pourtrayed. His g a y , i mpulsive self-confidence h ove ring at tim es on t he very verge of conceit, never once becomes distasteful. His contention with old 'l'appitt, driving the latter at moments though it does into a state of almost frantic irritation, never once leads hi m on to the ruflimg of his own temper. Th e only th.ng the reader i s at all disposed to quarrel with him about is the hardn ess , so t o sa y, of his stub born silence to p oor Ra chel during the tedious, an& for her, most painful interval of their estrangement. As such a charming love tale should, all ends happily y with Rachel Ray and her surroundings. We close the book thankful to the hand that has written it for the sweet homely _ f ever y day lif e , h ere so very graphically pictures 0 and delightfully delineated. THAMES. JuVENILEDELINQUENCY.—Edward King, awell-drossed and intelligent boy 14 years of age, was br3ught up on re mand before Mr. Partridge charged with stealing a half sovereign. Mr. R. Tindal Terry, the uncle of the boy, and dwelling at No. 12, Arbour•square, Stepney, said the prisoner had frequently plundered his father, and a few days since he stole a half-sovereign, which he said he had taken from his father's bed. Mr. Partridge said the prisoner had been in custody a week, and he hoped he was a better boy. He asked him if he would promise to behave better in future if he discharged him. The boy—Yes, sir, I will. Mr Terry thought the boy was quite incorrigible, and said he had robbed his father four times. The father, who was a cripple, had been knocked down in the streets, and had £6O a year to live upon ; but he had better pay half of that money to keep the boy in a reformatory than have him at home. Mr. Partridge declined to send the boy to a reformatory. and said if he was brought before him again on a similar charge he would do so, and order the whole of the expenses of his maintenance to be defrayed by the father. MARKETS--This Day. MARK-LANE. IMPERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES. —Wheat, 40s 4d ; barley, 34s Od ; oats, 18s 8d; rye, 29s 2d ; beans, 36s sd; and peas, 34s 7d. THE SIN. WEEKS' AVERAGES. Wheat, 42s 8d ; barley, 34s lld ; oats, 20s Id ; rye, 31s Id; beans, 38s 2d ; peas, 36s 3d. ENGLISH GRAIN Sold) LAST WEEK.—Wheat, 99,819; barley, 88,352 ; oats, 11,931; rye, 4:1; beans, 4,254; peas 1,723 quarters. METROPOLITAN CATTLE. Our market to-day was but moderately supplied with beasts, chiefly in middling condition. The few prime breeds on offer moved off steadily, at Monday's currency, the top figure being ss. per 81b., otherwise the beef trade was heavy at late rates. There was a good consumptive in quiry for sheep, and previous quotations were well sup ported. The best Downs realised ss. 4d. to ss. 6d. per Sib. A few choice calves produced 4s. Bd. per Sib; but inferior qualities of veal were a dull sale, at Monday's currencies. Pigs and mulch cows were very dull, and rather drooping. Per Slb. to sink the offal. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Crse. &inf. beasts 3 2 3 6 Primecrs-wool d 0.4 8 5 2 Second quality do. 3 8 4 2 Pme. S'thdowndo.s 2 5 4 Prime large oxen 4 4 4 8 Largo orse. calves 3 4 4 2 Prime Scots, &c. 410 5 0 Prime small do 4 4 8 Crse. & inf. sheep 3 8 4 0 Large hogs 3 6 4 0 Second quality do. 4 2 4 6 Small porkers 42 4 4 Suckling calves, 12s to 20s and quarter-old store pigs, 20s to 26s each. MEAT MARKETS. NEWOITE AND LEADENH.ALL.—The supplies of meat are moderately extensive, and the trade rules steady, as follows :—Beef, from 2s 3d to 4s Od , mutton, 38 4d to 4s 6d; lamb, Oa Od to 08 Od; veal, 3s 4d to 4s 4d ; and pork, 3s 2d to 4s 4d per 81bs, by the carcase. SOUTHALL, Oct. 21. The show of fat stock was moderately extensive, and the trade ruled steady, at, about previous quotations, as follows :—Beet, from 3s 6d to 4s 10d; mutton, 3s 10d to 5s 4d; veal, 3s 8d to 4s 4d; lamb, Os Od to Oa Od ; and pork, 3s 6d to 48 4d per bibs, to sink the offal. ROMFORD, Oct. 21.—Prime beasts and sheep sold steadily, at full prices. Otherwise, the trade was in a sluggish state. Bed, from 3s 4d to 5s Od ; mutton, 3s 3d to 58 4d; veal, 38 6d to 4a 4d ; and pork, 38 6d to 4s 4d per Sibs ; suckling calves, 12s to 208 ; quarter-old store pigs, 208 to 258; and milch cows, £l4 to £lB each. HAY MARK TS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 5s Od ; clover, £4 Os to £5 10a Od ; and straw, £1 63 to £1 12s per load. Trade dull, CUMBERLAND.—MeB.4.OW hay, £3 Os to £4 8s; clover, £4 Os to £5 lOs Od ; and straw, £1 6s to £1 12s per toad. Supply moderate. W ILITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 5a ; clover, £4 Os to £5 12s; and straw, £1 6s to £1 l2s per load. A slow trade. The Marshals and Generals of France, By the death of Marshal Count d'Ornano the number of marshals of France is reduced to ten, of whom six. served in an inferior rank under the first Napoleon. The ten marshals now existing were created by the present Emperor. One of them is Minister of War, another Minister of the Emperor's household, six hold important commands, one is placed at the head of the Imperial Guard, and Mar shal Furey, the last promoted, is expected shortly in France from Mexico. General Count Schramm, now Lieutenant-Gene ral, was promoted to the rank of General of Brigade by the first Napoleon. Hs is the last of his generals with the exception of Count de Lagrange and the Duke de Ftzensac. Among the Generals of Division in active service there exist none promoted to that rank by the Go vernment of the Restoration, and but two—the Mar quis d'Hatitpoul, grand referendary of the Senate, and General Count Schramm—appointed by the Government of Louis Philippe. The other Generals of Division and of Brigade were all promoted by the present Emperor. _ _ Among the Generals on the list of the reserve are three Generals of Division—Count Lagrange, the Duke de Fezenzac, and the Duke de Mortemart— appointed by the Government of the Restoration, and 20 by the Government of July. Among the Generals of Brigade of the second sec tion of the Staff there are five appointed by the Go vernment of the Restoration, and 64 by the Govern ment of Louis Philippe. All the others were promoted by Napoleon 111. Nine Generals of Division, having acted as Com manders-in-Cnief, are maintained until their death in the first section of the reserve by the law of the 4th of August, 1839. They are the Count de Schraarn, the Marquis d'Hautpoul, Guesviiler, Charon, Herbillon, Camon, Thiry, Dalesmes, and the Count do ralikao. W these nine generals six are =Moro, A very praiseworthy attempt is now being made to establish a Court Milliner's and Dress-making t t h ra e c a t id a ot s . u c i h t a a b r l i e t a charitable building,contri beuntgioangse. is C Company o p p a o n p B y e ' d w t 11 o a n t sthe t highest talent in the management of the business, and to give adequate wages and good apartments to the workers, in addition to which an appropriate library is to be fitted up, and every inaucernent held out to those employed to cultivate a taste for home recreation and domestic enjoy ment. The Countess of Errol, Lady Alfred Churchill, and a number of the beau monde have given in their names a s mem bers of the honorary committee, and from present ap. y liment. rea son to believe the greatest suc pearances there is ever cess will attend the e x p e Full benefit of reduced duty obtained by pur chasing Horniumn's pure Tea; very choice at 3s. 4d. and 4s. "ugh Standard" at 4s. 4d. (formerly 4s. Bd.), is the strongest and most delicious imported. -Agents in every town supply it in packets. Descent of the Giant Balloon. T h telegram, d a t e d H anover, Oct. 21, has been received "Thewounded persons f r om M. Nadar's b alloon have been conveyed to this city, and placed u nder the care of th e F rench L egat i on. efollowing g : L The King o f Hanover sent an aide-de-camp to inquire after their wants. M. St. Felix has sus. tained a fracture of the left humerus, besides con tusions on the face. M. Nadar has both legs dislo cated. 'Madame Nadar has sustained a compress i on of the thorax and contusions on the l eg . ,, By a telegram received last even i ng , we are informed that Al, Nadar h as te l egraphed from th a t it is unnecessary t o sen d me di ca l Paris. Althou g h th e i n j ured per n all was goi ng on well. Hanover, saossisstwan were re e fomffering, La France of last evenin g sa y s, that M. Godard , suffering, one of the passengers accompanying M. Nadar' opened the balloon with an axe to allow the gas to escape. OCCUPATIONS OF EMIGRANTS.-It appears from the official ret urns that last y ear 2,438 agricultural labourers, 2noa2rtabl &c., ern; gra t e d ( as compare d with 1,2 89 gardeners, in 01), bakers (137 in 1861) , 179 1861),black -27 bookbi n d ers an d sta lB s t i n : n i e h ; (9 an idn farrierslB6 ) , boot3o (9 o 6in and ahoem a k e r s (179 in 1861) , 42 braziers, tinsmiths, whitesmiths, &c. (26 in 1861), 19 brick and tile makers, potters, &c. (12 in 1861), 499 brick layers, masons, plasterers, slaters, &c. (363 i n 1861) , 27 builders (16 in 1861), 124 butchers, poulterers, &c. (68 in 1861), 46 cabinetmakers and upholsterers (34 in 1861), 938 carpenters and joiners (626 in 1861), 10 carvers and gilders (6 in 1861), 750 clerks (458 in 1861), 78 clock and watch makers (78 in 1861), 17 coachmakers and trimmers (8 in 1861), 135 coal miners (69 in 1861), 46 coopers (28 in 1861), 8 cutlers (6 in 1861), 120 domestic servants (54 in 1861), 12 dyers (4 in 1861), 33 engravers (9 in 1861), 226 eng i ne ers (95 in 1861), 4,127 farmers (3,207 in 1861), 1,667 gentle men, professional men , merchants, &c. (888 in 1861), 26 jewellers and silversmiths (24 in 1861), 23,619 general labourers (17,913 in 1861), 4 locksmiths, gunsmiths, So. (1 in 1861), 92 millers, maltsters, &c. (26 in 1861), 26 mill wrights (9 in 1861), 1,720 miners and quarrymen (1493 in 1861), 378 painters, paperhangers, plumbers, and glaziers (220 in 1861), 28 pensioners (10 in 1861), 93 printers (51 in 1861), 11 ropemakers (4 in 1861), 32 saddlers and harness makers (10 in 1861), 7 sailmakcrs (none in 1861), 49 sawyers (40 in 1861), 765 seamen (245 in 1861), 90 ship wrights (13 in 1861), 1,268 shopkeepers (1,146 in 1861), I_ 6 _ o _ general smiths (83 in 1861), 568 spinners and weavers ( su l 2 r 6 . in 1861), 22 sugar bakers, boilers, &e. (16 in 1861), 2 t s allow veyors (14 in 1861), 406 tailors (232 in 1861), chandlers and soapmakers (4 in 1861), 22 tannetr:leti; ghta cur riers (21 in 1861), 10 turners (10 in 1861), 64 '61861), 1,050 (21 in 1861), 9 woolcombers and sorters (12 ill d. 7,7 28 not rd: other mechanics not specified (537 in 1861), a h n e other sex, distinguished (3,930 is 1861). As regard%tand farm 8,983 were were returned last year as. domes L ntlewomen and vants, nurses, &C. (4,662 in 1861), 179 , , gdressmakers, and governesses (64 in 1861), 37 -- 8 `uil 4 liner :ried women (9,1(16 needlewomen (169 in 1861), 12,85 undistinguished 'll remaine d (" in 1861), andl4,6 of in 1861), 5 shopworn= (5 in 1861 ), s U 4 jr m mechanics not before specified (4,941 in 18 61 ) ,of girls under boys tinder 12 take n abroad in 1861). The number. • • (2,221 in 1861); 12, of undistingnUed as to age or and the number childre nabro77ll9lo"(4,7y7e2arinvilaB6l)s;3Bof infants, 3,510 D A VIS' STRAITS FISIIING.-Tho N arw h a l , arr i ve d as:Dwunasd ices:sl494T(lue9;d2a4yS in witlllBo6nl. one fish, reports that the Diana, of Hull, had got four fish, and the Brilliant, of Kirkcaldy; three fish. The Dundee ships are reported as follows :- Caruperdown, six fish; Wildfire, five fish ; Tay, three fish; E m ma, one fish ; and Polynia, clean. No further accounts from Inc Dundee, which, when last seen, was icebound, and had sustained some damage by the pressure of the ice. The Peterhead ships had not been seen, and their success is, i therefore, unkuOWn. The War in Japan—Captain Josling and Commander Wilmot. The following epitom e of the services of the above young officers of her Majesty's ship Euraylus, 35 guns, and flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Kuper, C. 8., who lost their lives at K.ayosima, Japan, may be interesting Capt. John James Stephen Joslin Was only 37 years of age, and entered the navy over 23 years ago, 19 years and 9 months of which had been employed in active sew service. He was acting lieutenant of the Scout, 14, Corn. Loring, in the East Indies, in 1847 ; and sortior of the Thetis, 38, Captain K uper . , C. 8., in the Pacific, from July 1850, to the spring of 1854, when he joined the Eurydice, 26, C ap . tain Oznmanney, in the White Sea, and r e _ inclined in her until promoted to commander, Nov. 2, 1854. As commander he served in the James Watt, 91, at Devonport, from May, 1856, until June, 1857; in the Princess Royal, 91, in the Mediter ranean, from Feb., 1858, until Dec., 1859, when he joined the Queen, 86, and again served on the same station until advanced to the post rank, Jan. 31, 1861. He was appointed to the Euryalus, 35, screw frigate, flag•ship of Rear-Admiral Augustus L. Kuper, C. 8., Feb. 10, 1862. Commander Edward Wilmot was only 30 years of age, and since he entered the navy, in 1845, had em ployed the whole of his time at sea. He was mate of the Prince Resent, 90, employed on particular ser vice, from June, 1852, until the spring of 1853, when he was appointed to the royal yacht Victoria and Albert, and remained in her until September follow ing, when his captain, Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, G.C.H., obtained flag rank. He was advanced to the rank of lieutenant, Sept. 26, 1853, and after a few months' employment in the Excellent, gunnery ship, at Portsmouth, joined the Royal Albert, 121, June 24, 1854, and was employed in the Medi terranean until Aug., 1858. He was lieutenant of the Indus, 78, flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Sir Houston Stewart, K.C.8., on the North American and West India station, from Nov., 1858, until the spring of 1859, and was flog-lieutenant to Rear- Admiral George Rodney Mundy, C. 8., in the Hannibal, 89, in the Mediterranean, from May, 1859, until advanced to the rank of commander, Dec. 24, 1861, As commander he served in the Agamemnon, 89, on the North American and West India stations from Jan., 1862, until paid off in October following; and his appointment to the Euryalus was on Jan. 29 of the present year. Causes of the late Earthquake. To our minds the inferences to be drawn are 1. That every earthquake is not absolutely the same in its development. 2. That an earthquake is in variably the result of an equalisation of force from some central portion of the earth, where such force has accumulated, to the surrounding parts. 3. That the force may in some cases take the form of elec tricity, and that the shock felt may be, in truth, a subterranean electrical storm causing no neces sary disruption of the earth's surface, but instanta neous and widely radiated shock or vibration. 4. That the force may be developed in the form of heat as well as electricity, giving rise, in the central point, to volcanic explosion and disruption of the earth, with vibration communicated to surrounding districts. 5. That earthquakes which are due to accumulation of heat, from suppression, may occur without any special antecedent atmo spheric phenomena. That earthquakes due to elec trical discharge may, as Dr. Stukeley explained, be preceded by special atmospheric variations indicat ing disturbance between the electrical forces of the earth and of the watery vapour above; and may end in a discharge from the earth, upon its coming in contact with clouds negatively electrical, followed by a vibration instantaneously felt through a large tract of the earth's surface, but not of necessity pro ducing either breakage, v)icano, or geyser. _ _ _ _ . The earthquake of Monday was probably of this last-named character.—Social Science Review. FREE NEGRO " GENTS" AT SIERRA LEONE.-- "It is a political as well as a social mistake to per mit these men to dine in the main cabin, which they will end by monopolizing: a ruling race cannot be too particular about these small matters. The white man's position is rendered far more precarious on the coast than it might be, if the black man were always kept in his proper place. A European without stockings or waistcoat, and with ragged slops hanging about his limbs, would not be admitted into the cuddy ; an African will. Many of the fellows come on board to make money by picking a quarrel. And what does one think of a dusky belle, after dropping her napkin at Govern ment House, saying to her neighbour, 'Please, Mr. Officer man, pick up my towel,' or of such a dialogue as this. The steward has neglected to supply soup to some negro. who at every meal has edged himself higher up towards the top of the table, and whose conversation consists of whispering into the ears of an adjacent negro, and of hysena-like guf faws. ' I say, daddee, I want my soop ; all de passenger, he drink 'im soop; me no drink my soop: what he mean, dis palaver ?'—The words are uttered in a kind of scream ; the steward cannot help smiling, and the nigger resumes : 'Ah, you laff I And for why you Taff? I no laff ; no drinkee soop I' Here the dialogue ends, and the ladies look their acknowledgments that travelling does throw us into strange society." THE DELIGHTS OF WORD HUNTING.—There are few more instructive occupations than dictionary making; and Dr Lowden did his work honestly. None of his neighbours in scarlet and top-boots hunted a fox with a more keen relish for the sport than this crippled old man chased the words up and down, out of one book and through another. When they broke cover from the mother tongue, he worried them out of one language into another, never suffering himself or Ralph to rest until he had run them to earth in their original roots. Then, proudly as an Indian hangs another scalp in his wigwam, he placed the woirllue. his dictionary, where he felt it must remain forrevehrad , trious or ignoble according to the parentage be dis covered for it.—Arnold's Story of italph and St. Stephen's. o r, St. Sepulchre' Con the morning SHIPWRECK AND Loss OF L TFE .— p a cket, of Liver of Sunday last the brig Aatigna to Workington, with pool, Colman master, from De merara F e total wre ck by a cargo of greenheart timber, be it s , within sight of striking on a sandbank in the SelwaY on the part of the captain is her destination. - A mista ke said to have been the c ause of the dtiesapstrc.es seemed d th se e vessel struck the dange r of her going imminent that the cre w at once took to the boat, but in vain t h e captain to leave the vessel, aryl endeavoured to induc e 'thout him, arriving at Southerness at with at length put off . Mon d a y nothing could be seen of the vessel, 10 a.m. On reason to believe that the captain perished there is ever"' awnidthher. The Antigua Packet was owned by Messrs. S a t c liff and Co., of Liverpool. There is little chance of which was a valuable one. v reeerinm the cargo, DESTRUCTIVE DROUGHT.—A Smyrna letter of the 6th has the subjoined intelligence :—The de structive drought, which has done so much harm to all our cr ops, still continues, and in many parts of the town there is a positive water-famine. The figs have suffered greatly f ro m this cause, and the season's crop will in consequence be far below the average both in quality and quantity. The cotton crop will suffer to an equal or Ferhaps greater extent. The continued activity of the brigands has induced our Governor-Genoral to mak e a vigorous move amongst his subordinates in the interior towards suppressing the evil. With this view, he has addressed to the mudirs and other local chiefs stringent orders to use their most strenuous en d eav ours to arrest every armed vagabond who cannot g i ve a satisfactory account of himself, and to send him down to Smyrna for examination. The province has for months been in a state which is a positive disgrace to all government—notwithstanding the honest and energetic efforts of Ahmet Pasha, within the immediate nei-hbour hood of Smyrna, to put down the evil. The light-house administration is fast completing its service of lights for these waters. and will, it is expected, have the line of this bay, and hence round the strait of Myteline ' fully function idg in the cour se o f next week. The service will be a great boon for our own immediate navigation, the accidents to which from the want of such beacons, especially near the castle and on the llamas bank, have of late years become nutuerous and costly, if not fatal, in proportion to our ex tending trade." THE MURRAIN.—The following intelligence comes from Mostar (Herzogovina), Oct. 2 The ravages of the murrain have bean very serious among th e cattle in the district. At Brood (Turkey), out of 1 2 . , 2 e u . oxen only 100 remain. Throughout all Bosnia and t i - ! 0 zogovinathe mortality amongst the cattle of all de al % pe :_ le. has been equally heavy,causing immense loss to who, P Much blame is attributable to the local suthorosa of w; t h le ° take no adequate precautions to preve nt the i:ro the rivers disease. The cattle which died were thrawoitilroe all animals Save and Unna, and other streams ;of became diseased. drinking of the p oisoned water qhneicAustrian frontier,and The niurrain is now raging along the At retrova a serious the cattle are dying in great ntunthee inhabitants, which is epidemic has broken out amongpure water. The Catholic ascribed to their using g Bishop of Herzegovina, B a racie, died last week i n th e Siroki-Brigh co ag e of 67 years. The deceased prelate was en ardent atl : th o re rter of Austrian intlaence, and was rewarded for convent, s e:a his s eal P w ith the decoration o f Comman der of tile Iron Cr9"l SPORTING INTELLIG.ENCE.—This Day CITY BETTING—Tins DAY. CAMBRIDGES HIRE. 4to 1 apt Limosina (taken) 6to 1 agst Catch-'em Alive (taken) 10 to 1 Carnival (taken) 12 to 1 agst Exchequer (taken) 14 to 1 Port Royal (taken) 30 to 1 agst Giraffe filly (taken) 33 to 1 agst Despair (taken) 33 to 1 agst Cairncastle (taken) 50 to 1 agst Comet (taken) 50 to 1 agst Gemma (taken) 50 to 1 egst Waldga (taken) 100 to 1 agst Birdhill (taken) 100 to 1 agst Hubert (taken) 100 to 1 agst Soapstone (taken) Edict of General Mouravieff. -4) Generai Alauravieff has recently issued the fol lowing edict:- - -. . p r otect th e quiet of the peaceful citizens o f th e capi tal c o y mi na) i men, who have n future from the presence of malicious visited the takence. part in the troubles which have re centlyzatry, I recommend to your excellency the strict and immediate " 1. All owners of hot ea l execution of the following orders.-- , shalles houses of entertainment, and witl :Je commanded, independently persanal. similar establishments which . they are already ac• of the published decre p e erso,s are without passports, for whose quainted, referring to when their"' allotted, . n t qg o 1 II iidrierec theirt whither houses,s tri ct a theirno dr capture 25 to 100 roubles exact attention towards all visiting them. They are further tory and when repair, rec e e s , pe t c h i e a r l e ly by arousing ataii:snces are of fre tgeuneanntt s oe cul. see that no anything occurs to excite suspicion, it is Pici°ll; i mmediately to be notified to the police. "2. They are to make it their busineystsataoe illegal meetings and assemblages take people who live upon their premises, and, if sue, among the such occur, to give information thereof at once. " 3. If any such proprietor of similar establishments f a n to observe the abovementioned duties, and in conse rieene of such default persons in any way susp icio us and wh: have taken part in the insurrection are discovered up on his premises, or if illegal assemblages for prohibited pur poses shall have taken place, in addition to the personal punishment inflicted upon such proprietor, he will be sentenced for the first offence to a penalty of from 100 to 20C roubles, for each person thus found in his dwelling. Upon repetition of the offence, in addition to the pecuniary fine, his business shall be closed for a period varying from one month to three months. Upon the third offence the fine will be inflicted, the house closed, and the caution mone y d e p os it e d by the pro prietor be appropriated to the support of those injured by the rebellion. "4. The attention of all proprietors of houses must be called to the fact that they also have to fulfil all the abovementioned duties with reference to their tenants, and that, if they neglect these regulations, and person.* be found in their houses who are either suspicious, or have taken part in the insurrection, without their giving infor mation of the same to the police, independently of their personal responsibility, they will be mulcted in a fine of from 100 to 200 roubles for every such person discovered upon their premises, and the house will be occupied as quarters, without payment, for from one month to three months. Upon the second offence, in addition to the fine, the period during which the house is to be occupied as free quarters will be doubled, the letting of the premises to be forbidden, and the time during which it is to be taken pos. session of as free quarters extended to a year. "5. Proprietors of confectioners' shops, coffee-houses, taverns, restaurants, and similar places, are in duty bound also to observe the above regulations; and in case suspicious persons show themselves, or an assemblage should take place upon their premises, at once to notify the the same to the police. In case of neglect they shall be treated in the manner ordered by Regulation 3. "6. The above prescription shall have force imme. diately after publication in the official paper, wherefore the proprietors of hotels and guest-houses, equally with the owners of private dwellings, are to be informed that, to escape every responsibility for themselves, they must point out to the police, at the latest within three days, all such persons as have aroused any kind of suspicion. They are in especial to consider it their strict duty to capture and deliver up to the police participators in the irtsurree. tion, pursued and sought by the Government. " I request your excellency to take steps for the imme. diate execution of these regulations, and to report to me at t once what are the steps that have been taken. "General of Infantry, "Mountaisrr ll.'l Liverpool Cotton Market--This Day, (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) The Market opens quiet. Sales, probably 7,000; bales. A Ladle-full of Punch, CRUEL TREATMENT OF AN INVALID.—A helpless in. valid, whose case required peculiarly gentle treatment at his attendants' hands, was the other day at Brighton placed, by his doctor's orders, in a Bath chair, and, in this position, he was pulled about by two of his servants. Batharous I A REGULAR G UY.—The British Arohosologists divers'. fled their proceedings at Leeds with excursions, one of which was a visit to Farnley Hall. There, according to a content. porary,—" Mr. R. EL Fawkes, received his visitors with, great couttesy, and appeared to take much pleasure in, showing them his fine collection of pictures." The above quoted report goes on to mention, amongst the paintings of Mr. Fawkes, several " choice works by Guido." m ay we ask if they included a portrait of one of the proprietor's ancestors, executed by himself ? GOOD GIRLS.—Some kind little Milliners have, o u t o f their scant earnings, subscribed, we observe, in aid of the victims at Warsaw. This is indeed a pretty illustration of the Needle being true to the Pole. THEATRICAL INTELLIGENCE. —111 consequence of his recent triumph on the Parisian stage, Mr. Charles MathOwß is to receive the title of Master of the French-ROlos. SHIPPING—This Day, LONDON, Oct. 22.—Wind this day at noon --West ; light breeze, and fine weather. FALMOUTH, Oct. 21.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Onyx, from Mauritius. Oct. 22— Arrived—Norfolk Hero, from Smyrna; Black Cat, from Naples; Armand and Louise, from Havre for St. Thomas. CLYDE, Oct. 20.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived—lndiana, from Quebec. Sailed—Aboukir, for Port Chalmers, N. 8.; City of Petersburg, screw stea __ —mer, for Nassau. OFF FALMOUTH, Oct. 22 .—Arrived—Cid, from Ria Janeiro. CAR➢IFF, Oct. 20.—Wind S.W.—Arrived--Asbaume, from Bilboa. Sailed—Suez, for Singapore; Regina, for Demerara. PORTSMOUTH, Oct. 2 1.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Lady Eglinton, screw steamer, from Dublin, and proceeded for London. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, ursy M Arrived, Oct. 21—S an Spiridin, from Th New daYorkorning.. Arrived, Oct. 22—Hezon, from Cronstadt ; Chanticleer, from Stettin ; Aiatamora, from Cronstadt ; Richard, from Wyborg ; Undo, from Krageroe. DEAL, Thursday Morning. Passed—Nora, screw steamer, and 5,793 pendant, frail the west ; Windermere, from Quebec—all for London. About 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, a quarter of a fulTe front the middle buoy at the back of the Goodwin Sto u 7 the galley Arrow, or Deal, fell in with the screw steamer Albert, of GUernsey, having in tow a ship, name unknLi ts 500 to 600 tons, copper bottom, coats carried w set. The m aster o f th e Alb er t s t a t e d that be she a wreck abandoned early in the day, and then To all ap- B t ain d tho signal lamp burning by the bow above wa4 r e • s t ea mer was pearance the vessel had been in collision. d wv iards tho trying to tow the wreck round the South St i T ovins to aas j et , main. Otbor steamers went out from the but nothing can be seen of them this mor Foreign Mail racket List. ---- _,,..... MAILS .1.w.5 to southainp xi. Nov 1, Australia and Mauritius, v v i i il D i a rseilles ..No v. 13, Britvisiha p:c:e s t e . i . l .. .. 0 0 27. Brazil and Cape Verds,b9 . d s t ti ed •• 4. Asa awn, all • ena..Ut 29 Cape of Good 110P 0 , , pa re, via Southanipton.N Oct, ; 9 s China, Penang - , slid 6in ki ..................... Falkland I slandsB ... C.l;iiipton • . .... v llnnd Portugal Gibralt ar i i a a( n C o a . : . a l (Calcutta), i a l : v t . n ali : • ..:7 ..ica : I . ,3,,s. : l.o e s, Y rt.s i hve o :li n ' al: it ..e smp vi . i i ti a S r :A e l: : a !I t n le'. illl P . 0:81• 11 1. s i : ........................... t:11: .......... : ............ let. • 241: ..... .. aut, p; g ypt, u MI CA, via . 6outhamptou Oct. 25. Oct. 21. Newfoundland .. O u rs r . t° ,L nd .l3 N rit ig is o h. :A...nt. s e s ric...a . , ..... Brit. packet.... Oct. 22, aßei ra by U.S. packet.... . _ Bahamas, via New York W.C. of Africa, in .i'cru, } Oat. 22. and T by en C eri an tr a e dian packet. Oct. 23. Nov. 10. An e l x parts icA'— of" . Indies, iVe,;.. .Oct. 29. California. and including Chili, British Columbia.. Oct. 29. Arrangements have just been made by which the London and Westminster Bank have taken over the business of the London and Middlesex Bank (Limited), and have undertaken to pay all its liabilities. HAMBURG, 20.—A national gendarme and a post office clerk were hanged yesterday at Warsaw. Th. Russian Government threatens the severest punish ments against those who pay taxes to tue National Government, 6.4.0 4.15.4 12.10 MI 111 i 132 1 128 i 9511 :;~i