The Sun. — London, England, 1863-08-19 00:00:00

.ham- dedon led on. )f the ONEY BURKE; AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE o'CLocK. Although the supplies of money in the general discount market have been reduced by the absorp tion i❑ the agricultural districts, there is still an abundance for the ordinary requirements of trade. Discounters are nevertheless enabled to enforce full rates, and very little business is negotiated under the Bank minimum of 4 per cent. The demand is generally active. A sum of 50,000 sovereigns was withdrawn from th e B ink yesterday for exportation to Cons:an tiuople. , The Per; w hi c h l eaves to-morrow for India and China, will take out 4 '61,571 in specie. In the foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon there was an advance in the rates on Holland. The condemnation of the ship Peterhoff by the AlimirAlty Prize Court at N,ew York is just now attracting a great deal of attention in mercantile circles here. Messrs. Bennet and Wake deny, in Coto, the allegations put forward by the Eederal authorities, that the vessel had on board any con traband of war; that her papers were simulated; and they assert that the evidence adduced was in direct opposition to the verdict recorded. It is universally believed that the seizure of the Peterhoff bad been premeditated, because she had been pre viously connected with Confederate ports, and a desire had long ago been manifested by the Wash ington officials to obstruct the British trade with IVlatamorae, Two O'CLOCK. With a very limited amount of business the Funds to-day have continued in a tolerably firm position, the market, though exceedingly dull, being rendered healthy by a variety of favourable cir cumstances, all tending to induce confidence in the future prospects of home affairs. Consols for trans fer are 94 1, and for the account 931 '4. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 931 ; and the 30 Years' Annuities, 15 1-16. Bank Stock is quoted 2381; the India 5 per Cent. Loan, 1081 4; and Exchequer Bills remain at ls. dis. to 2s. prem. Increased heaviness has prevailed in the Foreign Market, and business is rather quiet. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1858, are 72 1; Ditto, 1862, 681 69 Ditto Consolides, 481 49; Mexican, 381 4 ; Greek, 331 1 ; Ditto Coupons, 15 , 3- ; Spanish Passive, 338 341 ; Ditto Certificates, 12?,-, d ; Italian, 711 Portuguese, 481 ; Russian, 93; Egyptian, 104 1 3 ; Granada, 151 16; and the Confederate Loan has dropped to 29 27 discount. In the Railway Market the dealings have been very circumscribed, but in several instances prices have slightly improved. South-Western and Mid land have advanced as., and South Eastern 10s., while Lancashire and Yorkshire have declined ss. The Foreign and Colonial lines continue inactive at previous quotations. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are in moderate request at fully previous prices: Bank of Australia have improved ss. ; Bank of New Zealand, Os. ; Union of Australia, ss. Hudson Bay Company shares realise 3 ; General Credit and Finance, 33 a ; and National Discount Company, BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Bank Stock 23Bi 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per C en t. C onsols Annuities 93 93k t New 3 p er C ent. Annuitiesg New 24 per Cent. Annuities 6 per Cent. Annuities Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 — Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l5 1-16 IDitto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 — ndia Stock ............ Ditto 5 pei Cent Ditto Enf ace d P aper, 4 per Cent 108 i Ditto 5 per Cent. ........... Ditto 54 per Cent Ditto Deben.tures 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863 -.- Ditto ditto April, 1864 Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 Ditto Bonds El,OOO Ditto under £l,OOO ............. — Bank Stock f or A ccount consols for Account, Sept. 9 ladia Stock for Account, 5 per Cent — March, per Cent. Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO .. 2 11 dis 2 pm Ditto X5OO .. 1 di s 2pm I Ditto Small .......... 1 di s 2pm Austrian FOREIGN FTJNDS— CLO SING PRICES. Bonds, 5 per Cent............ Ditto 1859 .............. Brazilian 5 per Cent ............... Ditto, 1839 a n d 185 9 .... 1031......... Ditto 4f per C ent., 1852 -58-GU . ...... 931 Buenos Ay res 6 per Cent....... Ditto 1 pe r C ent. (Deferred 3 per •... (Milian 6 p er C ent.... Cent.) Ditto 4 - 1 per Cent.................. ................ EEquador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent.. gyptian 7 per Cent .................. 1041 Ditto, Second Issue- ............... 104! Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons.. —4} DDitto Account ......... ............ 331 itto Coupons ...................... 15Z Italian Ditto Account, ..................... Mexics per Cent.(Marennana Railway) 79 8i Dittan 3 per Cent .................. o Account, ................... NAloorish Imperial 5 per •Cent .......... 96 ew Granada ........................ 113 i Ditto 2 per Cent. • .............. Ditto Deferred PDitto Land Warrants (Hectares) eruvian 3 per Cent. .. . ....... Ditto 4i per Cent., 1862 Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1.853 DittoDtto Account Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, 'GO, 62 -- Account Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, X St" Ditto 41 per Cent 1850 ............. Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859 Ditto 5 per Cent. 1862 Sardinian 5 per Cent Ditto Account ...... S panish 3 per Cent • - Ditto A ccount ... Ditto Account. ................ June, 24 per Cent. - - Ditto Account 34 a 3/ ASpanish Cert. of Coup not funded — Ditto Account l2l a a Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 — Ditto Account Ditto 6 per C en t . 1858 924 3 ...,Ditto Account.... Ditto, 5...100 Bonds 72- Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 Ditto Account . Dit to G uaranteed, 4 per Cent - -Venezuela 3 pe r C ent. Ditto Account Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 Account..... Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian 44 per Cent., Ex. 25f. ...... Aiuteh 24 p er C ent., Ex. 12 Guil ....... . . Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates Italian, 5 per C ent., 1861, Ea. 25 francs — flitto Account Consols, Money THREE O'CLOCK. Ditto Account 93/ 93/ 2 LORD PALMERSTON AND THE PEERAGE.—No Prime Minister of late years (it has very recently been calculated) has been so lavish of the honours of the Crown as Lord Palmerston. The new baronies of Houghton And Annaly will be the 29th and 30th peerages of the datiotend Xingdom created at Lord Palmerston's recommen fa__ and of these 30 peerages, 18 are cases in which new stance s fatuities li avo been ennobled the others being either in stances or Irish nobles being made peers of the - United ages. Th e :dciaiT, or of new titles added to existing peer ,the earldo ms or , 10 , D ; s, strictly speaking, to the peerage are Eversley, and the "A. ;ell and Cromartie, the viscounty of Brougham (new patearenies of Annaly, Aveland, Belper, Houghton, Llanover,T' chesham, Ebury, Fitzhardinge, Taunton, Wensleydale,P'ns, LyAreden, Macaulay (extinct), ruadeand "Westbury. Lords Ward and Cowley have been Earl of Kenmare and Lorearl'' ; and th e I r i s h peers , th e Scottish peers, th e E arls o f Talbot de Malahide, and the yiinnaird, hav e b een rna Fife and Seafield and Lord Kingdom. ae barons of the United DEATH OF A LUNATIC FRCM Ft Mr. Humphreys held an Green-lanes, Tottenham at the Manor inaues RE.—Yesterday house Tavern, Green death of Mrs. Caroline Annette Marshamn, respectin g the deceased was an irunite of Dr. Eirkett's lunatic 44. The Northumberland House, Green•lanes, and sheawtic Asylum, freia a whitlow in the finger. On Wednesday assufferin g 'She got out of bed to shake something into the o.eveningre.grat last 'which the light was kept for safety, when the handkerchief 'which wrapped up her finger became ignited. She wasi severely burnt, and, though Dr. Allen, the medical at tendant, was speedily on the spot, she expired in few hours. A verdict o f "A cc id en t a l death from burns" w as returned. 4 : S TA T E OF THE PRESS IN PRUSSIA.—The Associa .,o4 ; for the Defence of the Liberty of the Press has Jj,ll,strPublished a list of the warnings given to Prussian u!'als dnring the, months of June and July. It appears that nr)les„ th, - • n•• were given s of which,66 were given once Gay, u SO N. arntu,s nd one tour tiln€s. Thu Elberfeld et t 7 e ie, one thria , , a which did not receive a w,ruiru-r ei• '• is the only paper . . of '-' Plibl - i -Journals Lerlih. 1 4hlag• tuo prutcat et the :14 I wing : 17. as re- C COM" iat her Royal rincess p.m., yacht royal ;'ed at ;ceded ty ar- Lilway Igians ichess 111, all e dis- ley to le rest tigueo erday scum' the :isfac ;;:i in a lying iantry SHARE 11ARKETS—This day. Share Paid. 13.14. Wol., and Str. Val. Blythe and Tyne. Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall Do A A vets no diN till Gp c.p an.haF Do. B been paid to R Dublin a Belfast June. Dun Perth,&Ab..lunc. lEdinburg - h & Glasgow. Glasg. and S. Western. Great astern, Ord. stii Ditto A stock !Ditto East Anglian st GreatlCorthot Scotland Great Northern Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. an I W. of trelan Great %Western Do Str Val pia. stock Lancashire 4.- Yorkshire London and tllackwaL Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & Nor' h Western Lon. & Sw.th Western Man., Shet., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do; shares 11f etropoli tan Midland Do New Do Birnaing. & Derby Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee, Nth. Eastern—Berwick 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. E., Aber. stool , Do Scot. Mid. stock Shrews. and Weiclipool Shropshire Union !South Deyon South Eastern 1 9.16.4 jSouth Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines,Wok.,anclWok Stockton t Darlington Do Do New, 1886 Taff Vale.. Do B Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pita Waterford & liilketiny West Cornwall ....... %V. Hartlepool H ar. &i . West Midland -Oxford Do Newport Do Hereford 8 8} 81 81 86 i 8 1101 J2O/1 _ - 7 74 40 41 16 17 94 95 nt 113 51 62 49 51 24,1 151 125 126 125 22 210 100 C(2 65 664 1137, 114 74 75 113 113 43 14 102 1021 103 101 43i 14 In 14 129 i 2.4 14 11D VS 100 54 /5 25 26 102 1021 57} 5s 8? BSi 119 121 10 82 111 Ili 122 124 46} 474 100 102 N 62 30 32 9-li 441 70 72 101 103 0 10 37 38 9 10 74 8i r 155 160 5} n 1 , 3 si p 12.10 89 91 158 162 27 29 45 46 39 41 104 106 ORDINARY SHARES AND STOufs.S. Closing ) Business Price. done. lin 75 41 431 1021 1 103} 1 1 12vi I Olt i 11 BRITISH POSSESSIONS l ' O a O rt ian ti ß :s l St il 7t a rawienec Closing P a a i ld Price. Business dons 60 dk Bo rn.,Barodatt.Cent Ind 20 ( Gu. 5 per cent. . lOO 107 108 1071 20 Do. New 1 IA p Do. E. Share; • • 73 11 la p 41 °°4 13 u D f 1 buffaloo a . lo P , r 7 cl a e r n Lu t ua l e G e lio. rOL r . , 1 1 1 , 571 /„ 6 1D. et. bds. Aug 1, 1871 Do. do. July ' 1, 187., 100 100 Do. do. June 1, J 4 100 st Cleutta.&S.llastn.( ) 100 10711(83 st Cape Town & Dock Seri) 100 1(1 103 . 102 1 stock Eastn. Bengal gru. sp. c 100 109 110 stock Last Indian. gu. 5 .c. ton 108 1 9 1 0 81 1 1 20 Do. do. G Ext..... 10 la 13p 20 Do. do. II do. .. 10 la 16. 111 stock Grand Trunk of Canada tut, 19 20 100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds.. all 70 12 100 Do. co. deferred...... all 52 55 100 Do. 2d Pref. Bonus— all 63 65 100 Do. do defer. ed...... all 45 48 100 Do. 3d P ef. stock ... all 42 44 43 100 Do. do. deferred.— all 33 16 100 Do. 4th Pref. sto .k... all 23 25 25 100 Do. do. deferred...... all 20 23 stock Gt.lncliaPenin.-rua.sp.c. 100 108 109 , 139 20 Do. New gua. ' s p. e... 12 1 16; 20 Do. January, 1862 .. 8 1 11 stock (it. South.of India (Lim) guaranteed 5 per cent. too 107 1(8 201 Gt. W. of Canada Shares all 101 10; 204 Do. New .. ....... 18 10 030 81* 100 Do. 6 p.o. '73 with't opt. all 95 98 100 ' Do. 51 p. c. do. '77-8.. . all 00 u 2 901 1 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 stock Madras guar., sp.c. .. 100 107 rib 1071 stock Do. 41 p. c. Extension 100 1011 1026 stock Dc. 4« d 0........ 100 48 IGO 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 stock klclb.Corp. rti p. o. Bnd.. 100 50 Meth. & Ilobson's Bay. all 57 59 53 1 100 Do. 7p. c. slortg. 8.18. alt 20 Newßranswick CS.odi Class Aan B all 3 5 N.ltl.C'dali pc Ist t hdis 100 83 85 stock 3cinde .......... (100 1074 1081 108 / st 5 Do. Delhi lOO 1074 1083 ( Do. do 2 it) 20 Do. Punjaub t: all ——p st Do. Do. ........ , t,F2 I(Ju 1074 1(81 stock Do. Indus. St. Flo.) 000 103 105 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. p.c...1 a &J 1.1.1) 1877-31 Do. 6p. c. Feb.& A to,. 100 I. 2 .04 Do. p. c. Mar. & Sep. 100 t 5 1(7 - Do. Ip. c. Jan.&July. IDu 941 151 951 44 ! Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 94 96 ;Cape G. Elope, 6 p c. 1872 100 108 110 Do.Ap &Oct. 1880 100 112 114 - - I Do. 1891 100 113 115 , Incr. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 112 115 :Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 100 113 11f .31au , itius 5 per cent .. 100 106 107 :Natal Guy. 6 per cont.. 130 110 112 N.B.Gov. 6 p.o.d a.&Jul) 100 iGSI 1063 Do. p. c.Ap. & Oct. 100 - N. S. W. G ov. 5 p 2%, 180. 10 0 100 1 101 3 Do. sp. c.,18,1 to L:, 100 1014 102 Do. d0.,1888 &upw di. 100 1014 1023 1021 1/ New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 110 112 Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. sterllng, 1875 lOO 1051 1061 Queensland Gev. 6p. c lOO 1:1 113 —IS. AUB G6p.c.1878.& up lOO 110 112 - Vla.Gov. G p.c. Ja.&Jul) 100 108 110 io 613. c. An.&Oot.. 100 1131 114 1131 1 / MINES. 2 (Cambrian Consol. Gold s 1 4 3cl ; ulitlord Amalgamated — 33 35 34 4 Devon G. Con.. (Tavist , 1 560 680 I East Bassett (Illogan) 3O 79 81 1 I East Clogau Gold Ltd. 53. id par East Caradon 1.14. ., 27 28 271 a 1 East Carn Brea... 3.4.0 73 8 E. 5101 Russel (Tavistk. 8 6.6 3 35 tiam.&St.Aubyn(Gwen.)j .8, 7 10 Great South Tolgus l7B 31 32 G. Wheal Vor(ilelston 140 64 71 Grenville . Fierc.d's-Foot lB (0 tlinfr,ston Downs 4. 8.0 14 2 Lady Bertha Margaret (lJny Lelant vk 32 34 —Jlarke Valley.. 4 NI yndy Iron Oro (Lim ; 2/ 14 a d New Setun 192 100 110 North Downs 25 2 21 N.Wh'l Basset (Illo„tan 2.17.0 24 31 North Wheal Crotty —ar Con sols (F,t. Blazey; l 15 4 5 20 erovidence (Uny Lelnt. ; 10.0.7 11 43 South Caradon(St.Cleer, 11 415 425 S. Cam Brea (Illogan) 5.25.6 14 24 Wheal Fran. (Illogan 18.1 -.9 60 10 Stray Park I 28.9. 39 41 5 famar Silv.& Lead Pdin I 44 1 1 fin Cron ' 44 2i 22 West Basset (Illogan) ll 101 111 W G radon (Liskeard, 5 21 23 West Seton Wheal Basset (Illogan) 54 60 65 4v heal Buller (itedruth) 5 45 50 54 heal Kitty (I.i.Lelaut) 2.0.6 WhealLud ott Wheal MaryA.nn , ,Meu ) 8 11 13 Wheal Seton 5Bl 215 125 - heal Treiaminey 7 15 17 I Wheal Union 3.17 24 31 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Eastern, E. Counties, Ext. No. 1, 1122 Ditto, No. 2, 11 12i Great Faste. n, E. C. 6 per cent. pref., 1321 Great Western (Berke and Hants Ext.) 5 per cent , 61 Lancaster and Carlisle, 4i per cent pt., 103 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS, Great Eastern, 5 per cent., pf., 1071 London, Brighton, & c., la per cent., 1856, 102/ LINES LEASED A.l' FIXED RENTALS. Chester and ITo'yhead, London, Tilbury, and Southend, 98& Manchester, Buxton, and Mstlock, 4 Nottingham and Grantham R. & C., 951 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Copenhagen, lira., 2 liunaburg and .1 itepsk, Hm., 91 Dutch Rhenish, 171 Great Luxembourg, 131 14 Namur and Liege gua. 14f. per annum, 9 8/ San Paulo ;limo, gua. 7 per cent., 9} Ditto (a 1), 221 Turin and Savona, 21 FOREIGN MINES. A lamillos, limited, East del itey Mont. Aureos tsraz. Gold Min. Co. (11m.), 2 Vallanzasza Gold, lira., Yudanamutana. of S. Australia (lim.), 2i JOINT-STOCK RANKS. Agra and United Service (Urn.), It 6 15 Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool (11m.), t A ustralasia, 771 Bank of Egypt, 26& Bank of New Zealand, 101 Brazili ,n and Portugues, lim., 21 3 Chartered !I.er. of India, Loudon, and China, 553. 5 City, 108) 8 Consolidated Bank, lien., 10k 10 English. SoocL, and Australian Chartered, 22} 2 Imperial Ottoman, Is London and County, 47 4 61 London and Westminster, 774 National of Liverpool, limited, 8i 8 National Provincial of England, 12511 Ditto. new, 26 Oriental Bank Corporation, 58 Union of Australia, 53; DOCKS. gt. Katharine, 63 MISCELLANEOUS. Anglo-Mexican Mint, ltia Australian Agricultural, Bombay Gas. limited, 21 Ceyloa Company, bi E ast India Irri g ati o n and Canal, 5 0., Eg'Yptian Commercial and Tradin o Electric Telegraph, 1024 glish and Australian Copper, 1 „ ' Gen. Cr( clit and 1, inane of Laudon, lim., Hudson s Bay, 3 "I International Financial Society, lim., Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour), I,ond on Pi Per cent. Bonds rd. 870 issued 0 0 , 7111 ) .onion C nan: igl Association, lim., National L ent ral Omnibus cm,upany (iluL). ' 4 - Discount Company, , 0 Oriental Inlatnt steam, H l 7' - (;xlirilaaLLl.lld, 44(1 11111, ' 12.5} LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day, COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Fane.) RE BO UCICAULT. This was an adjourned meeting for last examination, and it was objected that the opposition was not bone fide by Mr. Patrick, who clainied to be a creditor for £2,133, but in reality on the part of Mr. Webster; and Mr. Linklater, on the part of the assignees, protested against those proceed ings being made the vehicle of discussing private matters. Mr. Lawrance said that it was quite a matter of indiffer ence to his client, who opposed, as he was then prepared to pass on the accounts he had rendered, and which were not disputed by the assignees. Mr. C. E. Lewis called Patrick, the opposing creditor, who most distinctly denied that he had been influenced by Mr. Webster in the course he had taken in the proceed ings, but in cross-examination by Mr. Linklater he said that shortly before the bankruptcy he had issued execution against the goads, and the bankruptcy was in consequence of that execution. Previously to that he had bcen in treaty for an arrangement by which he and other creditors were to be paid 20s. in the pound. It was part of the arrangement that the mortgage creditors should forego their claims until the other creditors had been paid in full, but he ultima'ely did not ascent, and he did not believe that, had the arrangement been carried out, all the credi tors would have been paid in full. Mr. Linklater said the assignees were most unfairly ac cused of rowing in the same boat with the bankrupt. They were acting wholly independent of Mr. Boucicault—all they were anxious for was to make the best of the estate for the benefit of the creditors. A discussion then arose as to the production of some accounts between the bankrupt and Mr. Webster, the former alleging that the latter was indebted to him to the extent of £1,200. Mr. Linklater strongly protested against the assignees being called upon to produce accounts at the demand of an individual creditor, and it was A B C law in the Bank ruptcy Law, that one creditor should not be allowed to interfere in order to cut down or diminish the estate, which was the object of the opposing creditor to show that the alleged debt due from Mr. Webster was not due, but the assignees would ask the Court to give them power to try in another Court. Mr. Lewis contended that he was entitled to call for the account, or it would b.-; impossible to test the accuracy of the balance sheet. Mr_ Lawranee, for the bankrupt, said that the collateral question as to whether the debt was due or not ought not to interfere with the bankrupt passing on his accounts. The assignees were in an independent p-sition, and best able to form a judgment on that point. He could not see what earthly right a creditor had to raise a public discus sion on matters which could not be determined here. His Honour, however, ordered that the document should be put in, which was done, but the bankrupt said he had never seen it, and he still maintained that his original state ment was correct. The examination of the bankrupt was continued, and his Honour, in very complimentary language, expressed his strong opinion that the bankrupt was fully entitled to his discharge. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—This Day, OLD COVET. (Before Mr. Justice Keating.) Wm. Balland, ironmonger, surrendered upon an indict ment, charging him with secreting property belonging to his creditors, within 60 days of his bankruptcy. _ _ The prisoner, it appeared, had resided atDockhead, Ber mondsey, where he had for upwards of 20 years carried on the business of an ironmonger. Some time in June last a Mr. Udall, of Birmingham, from whom the prisoner had from time to Lime purchased goods, called upon him in re ference to an account of about £6OO which the prisoner then owed him, and for which he had given bills. At that time it was observed that the prisoner had a large stock in his premises, and in consequence a much larger amount of goods were supplied to him, which it .vas found afterwards he had secretly removed to a shop in the York-road for the purpose of another business, and after this prisoner had by those means obtained the goods and disposed of them, he sought the relief of the Court of Bankruptcy, where the Commissioner, after examination of the manner in which the goods had been removed, directed the present prosecu tion. At the conclusion of the evidence the learned Judge left it for the jury to say whether at the time of the removal of the goocs there was an intention to defraud. The jury retired to consider their verdict. and after about an hour's consideration returned a verdict of not guilty. In the case of Eliza Robins, charged with administering poison to two of her children in tarts, the poison being white precipitate, the grand jury ignored the bill. THE CHARGE OF ENLISTING SOLDIERS FOR POLAND. In the case of Mr. Alfred Styles, committed for trial by Mr. Hall, at Bow-street, on a charge of having unlawfully attempted to enlist soldiers in this country to aid the Foiish insurgents, the bill will not be preferred before the grand jury at the present session, the defendant being out on bail. It will not be preferred until the September session, THIRD COURT. (Before the Common Sergeant.) George Upson, charged with burglary in the dwelling house of Mr. Goldsworthy in Portland-place, and stealing a quantity of jewellery, the property of two visitors, was tried and convicted of stealing, but acquitted of the bur glary.—Sentenced to three years' penal servitude. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. THE IRISH ~ NATIONALISTS." MARLBOROUGH -STREET. A SOLDIER RUFFIAN.—DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT. Charles Humphreys, a private of the Ist battalion of the Coldstream Guards, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with most disgraceful conduct to a married woman named Mary Ann Alsop, living at 32, Queen-street, Edgware-road, and the prisoner was further charged with assaulting Joseph Alsop, the husband of Mrs Alsop. (From the Dublin Express.) A monster meeting of Irish " Nationalists" was convened on Saturday, on the heights of Slievena mon Mountain, in the c oun ty o f Tipperary, a loca lity rendered historical during the Repeal agitation of 1848. On the highest point of the mountain is a rock which, ever since that period, has been known by the name of " Meagher's Rock," and this, it was determined, should b e t h e ra ll y i ng point. The un favourable character of the weather prevented large numbers who would otherwise have attended ; but about 700 were present, principally of the labouring class. On the topmost pinnacle of the mountain was a flag of red, white, and green, on which an Irish harp without the crown was depicted. At about four o'clock Charles J. Kickham, Esq., of Mullinahone, was called on to preside. The CHAIRMAN rose amid loud applause. He said that the object of the meeting was, in the first place, to renew their vows never to cease until they had achieved the independence of Ireland. (Great cheers.) In the mean time, the nationalists of Tip perary were ready to give aid to any non-parlia mentary movement which was likely to do good to the poor, oppressed, and down-trodden tenants-at will of Ireland. (Hear, hear.) He did not believe that the cause of Irish nationality could be served much by speech-making, if Irishmen would serve their country, they must earn for themselves a very different character. They must copy the examples set by other oppressed people, and begin in earnest to woo the goddess Freedom in the only way in which she ever would be won. A VOlCE—Hurrah for the Poles, as an example (Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN continued—He would be told that this was dangerous, but the goal could never be won without .danger, sacrifice, and suffering. he solemnly declared and believed the dungeon and the scaffold were mercies compared with the cup of gall and wormwood which the Irish patriot was forced to drain, and the bitterest drops in which were poured by hands which his heart told him ought to be the first stretched out to aid his efforts and to bless them. Let us learn to look our situation steadily in the face The Irish race is strong in America ' in the Colonies of England, and in the heart of England itself. Let us be in earnest, and we shall be as strong at home. The chairman then referred to the names of the men of 1848—to Mrs. Alsop said that about 12 the previous night she was standing at the coroner of North Audley-street talk ing to her husband, and his sister, and two friends, having been out to spend the evening with them, when the pri soner passed by and put his arms round her neck, and then thrust one of hid hands up her clothes. Her husband told the prisoner not to do it again, when the prisoner up with his fist and knocked him down. Joseph Alsop, the husband, said that on telling the pri soner not to repoat his conduct the prisoner gave him a violent blow on the nose, knocking him down and smother ing him with blood, and rendering him insensible. Maria Alsop, the sister of the last witness, gave carro boratory evidence, and Mr. Charles Brooks, of No. 1, North-row, Grosvenor-square, said that he saw the soldier strike the husband, and seeing that it was a most cowardly and unmanly assault he went for a constable. Michael Doheny—may his memory be ever green among us ! fbr braver Irishman Tip perary never nursed, and a nobler heart than his never crumbled into dust—(cheers)—to the gifted young tribune, Thomas F. Meagher, and to the descendant of the ancient Feenian chiefs, the gallant O'Maliciny ; and he hoped that ere long the modern Feenians would assemble in their might with the tried and trusted 0' Mahony at their bead. (Cneers.) Mr. GILL, of the Tipperary Advocate, proposed the following resolution—" Resolved, That Parlia mentary agitation in this country be discouraged and discountenanced, inasmuch as all hopes of re dressing the wrongs of Ireland and saving her from utter ruin through the agency of the London Parliament are now and for evermore senseless and illusory. By all true Irishmen these wrongs are felt more keenly than words can describe, though means of redressing them for the pre sent we have not in our hands; but we watch and wait for their coming with eager hope, resolved, as God may aid us, to grasp them when within our reach, and to use them as the means of our salva tion." Did they demand anything unreasonable ? No. They merely demanded what was given to every English colony—self-government, self-legis lation. Yet they were denied it—(hear)—and lately Lord Palmerston said in his place in the House of Commons, that he would not interfere between Irishmen, but would let them fight their battles out between landlord and tenant. (Hear.) No; Eng land cared nothing for Ireland, and the British Minister did not care if 20 landlords were shot a day, if 50 peasants were hanged for every one of them. A VOlCE—There would want to be more of them shot. (Hear, hear.) Another VOICE—SO there will. (Cheers, and cries of " Down with the landlords.") Mr. GILL—And the proof that they do not want to prevent them is, that they never would have supplied the police with swords, belts, and long rifles if they wanted them to catch thieves. No ; they want the police for the purpose of shooting down the remnant of the Irish population. (Hear, and yells.) That is what the police wear the rifles and swurds for, and not to detect the murderer and the assassin. The speaker then referred to the Irish aristocracy, whom he characterised as a set of bloodthirsty hounds, the meanest creatures in the form of bipeds on the face of creation, having no idea of freedom or fatherland. But, thank God, there was hope for Ireland still. He saw a thousand honest hearts at that meeting, with the representatives of 50,000 more. He called upon them to counsel their comrades W and brothers to stay at home, and not be flying to America. A VOICE : They will come back. (Hear.) Mr. GILL : They will come back with a vengeance. He concluded amid loud applause. The resolution was seconded by Mr. RODERICK KICKHAM. Mr. FINNERTY, a young Nationalist, who stated he had come from the north riding of Tipperary, next addressed the meeting i❑ a vehement speech, and called on Irishmen to imitate the example of Poland. Mr. Gill had denounced the Irish aristo crats. They did not want such men. They wanted men whose hands were hardened by manly labour, whose hearts were stout and brave, and whose hands would not be blistered by the pike-handle. (Cheers.) He was not there to counsel the Irish people to rush into a senseless resolution, or follow a wild goose chase, but Irishmen should remember that no nation ever earned independence without spilling more or less blood. (Great cheering.) If after years of petitioning the British Parliament— if after years of sending repres.mtatives and misre presentatives to Parliament, they had won nothing, how was it to be won ? MARK-LANE. A VOICE—By the pike. Mr. FINNERTY—We are unarmed, but scythes can be turned to some use if they provoke us too far. (Hear.) The speaker concluded by calling on nationalists to rally round the green flag till they planted it for ever above the red on tne highest parapets of Dublin. The resolution, having been put by the chairman, was carried by acclamation. currency. tations. Powell, 214 D, said the prisoner was quite sober. Prisoner said that he was called over by some of the party, and then told to " take his hook " (explained to mean to leave). Mr. Tyrwhitt said the prisoner seamed to think that ho could do as ho liked with the female, and when he found that he could not he knocked the husband down. It was a most shameful attack on the woman. The prisoner was then committed for 14 days for the assault on the female, and ordered to pay 40s. or a month for the assault on her husband, but subsequently Mr. Tyrwhitt altered the term of imprisonment for the assault on the husband to 14 days. We have been requested to state that the address of Mrs. Kenny, whose case appeared in the papers during the last few days, is 39A, Curzon-Street, and not 39. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGItTST 19, 1883, INLAND REVENUE. MARKETS—This Day. ev The annual report of the Inlandn as Revenue it e does Com a missioners is always of interest, giving view of the chief taxation of the country, for this Board collect forty millions a year. In the year ending with March, 1863, the Excise duties pro duced a net sum of £17,317,396, a decrease of £957,904 as compared with the previous year. The quantity of homemade spirits charged with duty declined 184,958 gallons, but the duty still reached the large sum of £9,399,707. The consumption of spirits in Ireland in 1838 was no less than 12,000,000 gallons, producing, by a 25. 4i. duty, a revenue of £1,434,000; is 1862 the consumption was little more than a third of that quantity, hut the duty being 10s. the revenue reached £2,000,000. The consumption of spirits is at present temporarily de pressed by the distress in impOrtant districts of the country ; but no doubt wine, beer, and tea are all to a certain extent displacing spirits. Comparing the years 1853 and 1862, it will be found that the consumption of British spirits fell from 25,000,000 gallons to 19,760,000, but the consumption of wine rose from 7,000,000 gallons to 9,800,000, of beer from 17,700,000 barrels to 19,400,000, and of tea from 58,800,0001 b. to 78,800,0001 b. The taxa tion on these articles differs greatly ; on a pint of beer it is a farthing, on a quarter of an ounce of tea less than a farthing, but on a glass of gin it is more than five farthings. The dis• tillers find abroad some compensation for a lessened demand at home. There was a large increase in the export of British spirits last year to the West Coast of Africa, to Italy, and to Turkey; with this last country it is the creation of a new trade, and is owing to the war in America having stopped the supplies from that country. Passing next to the item of malt, we find a decrease of £476,394 in the produce of the duty ; but it was not to be expected that the quantity made last year would equal the extraordinary amount of 1861 ; the barley of 1862 was in many districts of inferior quality for malt ing purposes. The hop duty, like the paper duty, is no more, but the alteration in brewers' licences has brought an addition of £223,870 to the revenue. The licence duty produced the large sum of £1,910,150. Auctioneers paid £47,540; wine re tailers, £11,226; and the 5,154 licences taken for refreshment houses brought £4,475. Proceeding now to the second great branch of inland re venuees- namely, stamps, the net produce of which rose .£386.206, and amounted to £8,966,803, we find the probate duty advancing to £1,325,359, the legacy and succession tax to £2,374,436, and duty on fire insurance to £1,580,637. The fees paid the Divorce Court (the payment being by stamps) amounted to only £2,420. The duty on playing cards has been reduced from ls. to 3d. a pack, in the hope of suppressing the enormous evasion of the tax. The third and last branch of the inland re venue—land, assessed, and income taxes—pro duced last year £13,626,549. The net receipt of income-tax on schedule D fell from £3,263,926 in the preceding year to £3,233,766, but the whole tax showed an increase of £11,381. In 1861 there was a fresh assessment under schedule A and B, the previous assessment having been continued generally since 1857. The assessment of land was increased £1,982,000 (comparing 1861 with 1860), of houses £3,976,000, of railways £851,000, and under schedule B the assessment was increased £1,717,000 in England alone. The assessed profits of trade and professions in the United Kingdom were £94,739,000 in 1860, and £99,372,000 in 1861; the increase in Westminister was from £3,619,000 to £4,081,000, arising, in a great measure, from more correct charges on the west-end tradesmen and on persons making enormous profits by public enter tainments and exhibitions. In the city of London the assessments rose only slightly, from £15,405,000 to £15,578,000—an amount considered strangely below its proper rank as a contributor to the in come tax. A comparison in regard to the whole tax may be advantageously made by taking 1842 and 1852, in which years the area of taxation was limited to incomes of £l5O and upwards, and 1853 and 1861, when the area of taxation extended to incomes of £lOO a year. Between 1842 and 1852 the aver age annual increase in value was only 1.13 per cent. ; between 1853 and 1861 it was MO per cent. Deducting from the assessment in 1861 the amount charged in respect of incomes under £leo a year, so as to get a fair comparison with 1842, the increase in the assessment of 1861 was 31 per cent. over 1842, On lands the increase in the assessment was 10.85 per cent ; houses, 50.4 per cent ; mines, 109.32 per cent ; on iron works, 93.02 per cent ; on railways 439.28 per cent. The profits of trades and professions charged in 1852 were only 1.70 per cent. higher than those of 1842, the average annual in crease being but 0.17 per cent; but the profits of 1861 exceeded those of 1853 by 19.33 per cent, the annual rate of increase in this last period being 2.42 per cent. A moderate supply of new English wheat was on sale here, to-day, in good and fine condition. Both for red and white qualities there was a fair demand, at Monday's de cline in the quotations of 3s. to 4s. per quarter. There was a full average supply of foreign wheat on the stands. The amount of business transacted was very moderate, yet no further changa tock place in prices. Floating cargoes of grain moved off slowly, at late rates. The show of new home-grown barley was small, and with old and foreign parcels, the market was scantily sup plied. The trade, however, ruled inactive, at . , Monday's Malt changed hands to a limited extent, at late quo- A fair average supply of oafs was on sale, and the trade ruled heavy, at barely stationary prices. No change took place in the value of beans and peas ; but the demand for them was in a sluggish state. The top price of town-made flour was 43s per 2801bs. Country marks and American barrels sold heavily, on rather easier terms. AILILIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. liarlev. Malt. Oats. Flout. English.— 340 170 1 410 ' 250 Irish.. — I 780 -- Forsign 7,710 3,040 6,b50 14,310 brls and 70 sacks. WESTMINSTER. CHARGE Or EMBEZZLEMENT BY S SllOrMAN.—Edward Chapman, a young man, was charged before Mr. Arnold with embezzling v ar i ous sums o f money belonging to Mr. James Rackstraw, fi s h monger , S ust es-place i Brompto n , hi s employer. _ _ The prosecutor stated that the prisoner had been in his employment some weeks, and left about a week ago. He had since found out that the prisoner had been in the habit of receiving money and not accounting for it. Two sums of 18s 91 and 7s 8d were received tfrom Mr. Preston Lum ley, of the Lily Arms, North End, and two sums of lOs 10d and £1 2s 6d were received from Mr. Tale, of Bolton, near Br omp t an, which he had not accounte d f ol . Th ere were r Arnoldother charges aga i ns t th e pr i sone r. M observed that the present charges were quite sufficient. Evidence of the payment of the above sums having been given, t o dPy°, 1 andlcenaSatna t2esd3 that adtennol s e e p d r i t s o o t n a e k r i n o g b s t ehre,eprisoner a i d n t a o gcouosd m Later and a good place. The prisoner Was fully committed. THAMES. ONE o'C Locß.. zn}7, Monmxo.—George Tapes, an engine•keeper, Was brought before Mr. Woolrych, charged With an assault upon Jam esbusiness. a publican out of . - Tho complainant said lie was in the at the Ki ng ' s A r ms tavern clock thi s morning, an d saw Mile-e ud - road at one o' the defendant there makin g a noise and very quarrelsome. The prisoner called him a sneak and struck him, He closed with the prisoner. They went outside the house and fell. The prisoner laid hold of the heir of his head and put him to great psin and inconvenience. Edward Coney, 417 K, saw the two men fi g hti ng a t one o'clock this morning an d parted them. Mr. Lewis Wilhelm Strauss, the landlord of the King's Arms, said the and got too much pri to drink.soner was generally a very quiet man, Mr. Woolrych said the prisoner ought to have been in bed at one o'clock in the morning. lie fined the prisoner 55., which he paid. THE SUN ONE OF THE SMALLEST OF THE FIXED STARS.—If the distances imputed to several of our stars from parallax be true, recent photometrical researches show our glorious luminary to be a very small star indeed ; and (it has been reverently remarked upon this), to the human understanding- thus enlightenei, more: than cver mewl the Leavens &clan the filer' of God, Desperate Encounter with a Burglar. Early on Monday morning Mr. J. Brass, shoe maker, of the London-road, Worcester, was aroused by a noise in the lower part of his house; and Lav ing a suspicion that some one had broken into his premises, he got up and dressed himself, and, armed with a stick having a knot at its end, left his bed : room to search the house. He had Rot gone far, however, before he saw a man in the lower floor, with a lighted candle in his hand. The noise made by Mr. Brass had attracted the thief's attention, and seeing that he wasobserved, he knocked out the light and made for the window to effect his escape. Mr. Brass was, however, too quick for him ; and as the man was getting out of the window dealt him a heavy blow on the back with the weapon with which he had armed himself. This brought the vagabond to the ground, and then Mr, Brass seized him. A frightful struggle ensued, the burglar grasping Mr. Brass by the throat and endeavouring to overcome him. Nevertheless, by dint of courageous and steady perseverance Mr. Brass succeeded in keeping the upper bend, and in self defence gave the fellow a tremendous thrashing, is spite of his calls for his " pal" to come to his assistance. The encounter continued until the arrival of Police-sergeant Holmes and a city constable, into whose custody Mr. Brass delivered his antagonist, and went with them to the station-house. Another struggle was, however, yet in store for him, for as they passed through the London- road turnpike the min darted in front of his custodiansand was making off. Again Mr. Brass pursued him, and in a few strides Was sufficiently near to arrest his progress by another blow, and he was ultimately secured and handed over to Superintendent Philips, the burglary having been committed outside the city boundary. For some time the fellow refused to give his name, but ultimately said he was John Brown, of Thomas street, Worcester. On Monday he was brought before Mr. H. B. Tymbs, at the office of the county magistrates' clerk. He presented a very sorry figure, one eye being entirely closed, and his face exhibiting si g ns of the effectiveness of Mr. Brass's blows. The case was merely opened, and prisoner remanded till Friday. He had effected an entrance to the p rem i ses b y removing . a pane of glass from the kitchen window, and cutting through the shut fel s with a sharp chisel. Having succeeded thus far he got i n, an d i n m ounting a table which stood under the window, he knocked something oil which, falling to the ground, broke a plate, and oc casioned the noise that awoke Mr. Brass. He was also prepared with a sharp knife. THE SURVIVORS OF THE BATTLE OF THE NILE, fought on the Ist of August, 1793.—0n1y seven now sur vive, namely, Admiral Sir James Gordon, G C. 8., Gover nor of Greenwich Hospital; Captains John Pearse, John Forbes, and John George Phillips; Commander Richard Lock Connolly (all the above were midshipmen in the battl e ) ; First Lieutenant of Royal Marines John Scobell, and Surgeon George Bellamy, M.D. PitoßEsSoii. FARADAY, it seems, has been recently emulating Mr. C. Kean in the character of a parson, the learned Professor having preachgd ou Slinclay altemoon iu the Cilassite Church, Dundee. BOROUGH HOP. The accounts from the plantations being more favour able, the business doing in our market is small, at about previous rates. WIIITECHAPEL. The supply of meat on sale is only moderate, yet the demand rules inactive, as follows :—Beef, 2s 6d to 4s Od; mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 2d; lamb, 5s Od to 5s 8d ; veal, 38 44 to 4s 2d ; and pork, 38 44 to 4s 44 per 81bs by the carcase. SHIPPING—This Day. LONDON, Aug. 19.—Wind this day at noon--South ; light breeze, and cloudy. There has been a good deal of rain during the morning. CARDIFF, Aug. 17. Wind W.—Arrived—Hannah, from Montreal; Friends, from Santander. Sailed—Revel, for New York. MILFORD, Aug. 17.—Arrived—Teneriffe, from N ew . port for Bilboa. COWES, Aug. 18—Wind W.—A r.ved—Wm. West, from Callao, (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning. Arrived, August 18--Vine, from Dantsic; Lavinia, from Algoa Bay. Arrived, August 10—Christiana, from New York; Helen Richard and Lane scape, from Croustadt. Sailed, Aug. 19—Rainbow, steamer, for Calais; Sir R. Peel, steamer. for Dunkirk ; Triton. for Boulogne ; Star of Tasmania. for Otago; Verulaul, for - A.clelaitte ; & t itans, for Quebec; Phenix, for Quebec. DEAL, 'Wednesday Morning.. Passed—Julia (brig), f rom t h e wes t; Sea Nympa (sh i p) , from the west; Ainieilia, from Quebec; Merm aid (shi p ), from the west; Leopard of Jersey, from Antigua; .. I4ady Douglas, from Moulmein • Katmai, from Dementia., Keut, from Melbourne; Fume (barque), and Palestine, from tho west; Orontes, from Antigua—all for London; Charles r jutrim, from London, for Boston. Anchored—Balder, from Shedlac, for orders. The Price of Gold. The quotation of gold at Paris is about 1 per mine pm., ar i d the short exchange on London is 25.30 per .£1 sterling. o n comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3 17s. 100_ per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is about 4-10 the cer cent. denier in London than in Paris. By advices from lla.mburg the price of gold is 425 per mark and the short exchange on London is 13.6 i per £1 sterling. tandard gold at the English Mint price is, therefo re, a b out 7-10tlis per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is 141 to 1411 per cent., and the premium on gold is about 281 per cent. At these prices there is scarcely any prat on the impolatiou of told frog l the Uuited States THE MEXICAN THRONE. VIENNA, Aug. 14. The Presse of to-day publishes a leader, from which the following are extracts : "News is current throughout the city to-day that Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian is upon the point of accepting the Imperial crown offered to him by Mexico. We have recently pointed out what ap pears to us the danger of this political plan, and we need, therefore, hardly repeat how greatly one should regret the confirmation of this intelligence. To those persons who come before us with an affec tation of loyalty, and declare the press has no right to interfere in the matter, that is a purely private concern of the Archduke, and that we have no busi ness to attempt to restrict his personal freedom, we reply that they do n 't k now what 'they are talking about. Independently of the fact that we have not the presumption to suppose our disapproval will prevent the Archduke from accepting the crown if he feels inclined, we are yet unmistakably of opinion that the personal interest of the Archduke is not alone concerned in his taking his seat upon the Mexican throne. We should have to recollect, under any circumstances, that the ruler of Mexico was the brother of the Emperor of Austria. Any misfortune that might overtake him would be a misfortune for the Imperial family ; insult to the Emperor of Mexico would be insult to Austria. We believe that too little is as yet known of the real foundation upon which this Mexican throne is to be erected, or there could not possibly be any idea of its occupation by an Austrian Archduke. Even at the Tuileries it has not been definitely decided whether to recognise the Mexican Assembly of Not ables, drummed together by Forey, as competent, or whether to ratify their decision by an appeal to universal suffrage. The latter course is the most probable, so that the future possessor of the Mexi- can throne may feel the leaden weight of French protective rule as long as possible. Nobody will convince us that a real election, an honestly meant nomination of a ruler agreeable to the chief parties in the land, is intended. The scum which has hurried to salute the French stan dards since the occupations of Vera Cruz does not even represent a majority of the Mexican population, far less its active and living elements. Its utterance cannot, therefore, be regarded as the view and expression of will of the influential citi zens of the 15 States. We have often stated that Aimonte and his tail—the Generals and Bishops expelled by Juarez—belong to the Uitramentane party of an old Conservative minority; that they and their followers are powerless and destitute of the prospect of a productive political future. They are not only incapable of forming the support of a new throne because they acknowledge High Church principles and refer with pride and insolence to their blue Castilian blood, not only because they profess ideas which we in Europe are accustomed to style retrogade, for more fanatical elements have esta blished new empires ; more than one Royal throne in the Pyrenean peninsula, more than one Prince dom in the Levant has been set up by the outcasts of the Crusades. Bat their incapacity is due to the fact that they are foreign in blood and civilization to the great mass of the inhabitants of the country. Almonte and Co., the aristocratic ruins of the party of Santa Anna, the allies of the FrEnch invading army, are the last remnant of the pure-blooded Creoles of European descent who after 40 years of an embittered conflict of races with the natives of the country, with the highly civilised descendants of the ancient peoples subdued by the swords of the conquestravora have finally been obliged to call upon a stranger for protection and for help They have received this aid, and now, although a fast disappearing small minority, not amounting to a sixteenth part of the population of the country, although in right of their blue blood, certainly en titled to style themselves the Notables, they arro gate the right of handling over Mexico to a Regent. So long as foreign soldiers cross the seas, and, as in the Spanish time, support the mastery of these Creoles, they may maintain themselves and the man of their choice, but not an hour beyond. Were the question really one of principles, were a greater or less portion of freedom at stake, compromise might be possible and final reconciliatio❑ not unlikely. But the lordship of a foreign Prince will never strike firm root into this elementary struggle of two separate races. He would never be forgiven for belonging to the sons of the pale faces who de stroyed the temples and palaces of Mentezuma, and have rendered desolate the towns and republics of Anahuac.—Reuter's Express. OUR FORCES IN NEW ZEALAND. Governor and Commander-in-Chief—Sir George Grey, K.C.B. Aide•de.Camp—Captain Francis B. Bulkeley. Commanding the Forces—Lieutenant-General Duncan A. Cameron, C.B. Assistant Military Secretary—Lieutenant-Colonel W. G. Hutchings. Major of Brigade—Major James Paul. Aide-de-Camp—Major John C. Deputy-Quartermaster-General—Lieutenant-Colonel D. J. Gamble. Commanding Royal Artillery--Captain H. Mercer. Commanding Royal Engineers—Colonel Thos. Rawlings Mould, C.B. Garrison Adjutants—Lient. John Glancy and Lieut. E. Gould Halsted. Deputy Commissary-General — Humphrey S. H. Jones. Assistant Commissary-Generals—Henry Bartlett, Henry Maule, and James Bailey. Deputy-Assistant Commissary-Generals—Alex. Clerk, Vim. H en ry Newland, Ed ward Cattell, Francis Jnnes, W. Oakley Chialett, John Draper, Edwin Dunn, and George James Neill. Deputy-Inspector-General of the Medical Department — James Mouat, C.B , V.C. Staff-Surgeon—James Hamilton Bews. _ _ Staff Assistant •Surgeons-1;;;S. Grace. MTh, Alex. Thomson, M.D., E. D. Tomlinson, and George Elm Bl Y Will, Assistant-Superintendent of Stores and Barrack-Master —J. 0. Hamley. Deputy Assistant-Superintendents of Stores—William Marvin, A. R. Tribe, and Joseph Rainsford, Purveyor—H. de B. Adams. Deputy Purveyor—George W. Warwick, Purveyor's Clerk—T. F. Gooch. Chaplain—Rev. L. Farlsly, R.C. Second Battalion of the 14th (Buckinghamshire) Infantry —Colonel W. Wood, C 8., K.H., Lieut.-Col. C. W. Austen. Second Battalion of the 18th (Royal Irish) Infantry— Colonel Sir J. F. Fitz Gerald, G.C.8., Lieut.-Col. Allied A. Chapman. 40th (Second Somersetshire) Infantry—Colonel Richard Grooves, Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Leslie, C.B. b7th (West Middlesex) Infantry —Colonel Sir J F. Love, K.c,8., K.H., Lieut.-Col. Henry J. Warre, C.B. 65th (Second Yorkshire, North Riding) Infantry—Col. R. B. Coles, Lieut • Col. Alfred F. W. Wyatt, C.B. 70th (The Surrey) Infantry—Colonel Sir U. W. Path 5.C.8., K.H., Lieut.-Col. T. J. Galloway. Royal Engineers—Sixth Company. The Eclipse, 4, screw gun-vessel, 200-horse power and 700 tons, Commander Richard C. Mayne, has of late been doing good service. She was off the Katikara river, June 4, and at Manukau on the 6th. The Himalaya, 6, iron screw troop-ship, 700 horse-power, and 3,453 tons, Captain Edward Lacy, embarked at Ports mouth, July 28, 33 officers, 38 sergeants, 21 drummers, 38 corporals, 662 men, 64 wives of soldiers, and 92 children of the second battalion of the 25th King's Own Borderers, and sailed on the following day for Ceylon, and it is reported that on her arrival at that place she would embark the 50th Queen's Own, for service at New Zealand. Several men of the first and second battalions of the 4th King's O w n, 36th Royal Sussex, 19th and 81st Regiments at Chatham, have volunteered their services into the second battalion 18th Royal Irish, 40th, 57th, 65th, and 70th Regi ments, and al,o for the 31st, which regiment is ordered from China to New Zealand. A number of men from the diffe•• rent depots at Colchester have also volunteered their ser vices in the above regiments. Deputy - Assistant Commissary-Gcneral Ivan Graham, lately serving at Guernsey, is under orders to proceed to New Zealand. THE HOP PLANTATIONS,—ROCHESTER, Aug. 18. —Most of the plantations are looking decidedly better, the late gentle showers having done much to bring about this improvement. In the rich hop •growing districts in the centre of the county the plant has article surprising progress within the last few days, and a general belief is entertained that the yield will be much larger than was calculated upon a week or two since. The agreeable change in the weather has Caused the hops t) grow rapidly, end so great has been the improvement that many plantations which appeared a few weeks since in an altogether hopeless condition now show signs of yielding a moderate crop. This improvement, however, is not general, and there are some hundreds of acres upon which the hops grown will not pay the expense of picking. In some of the best plantations a yield of from 15cwt. to 1 ton per acre is confidently antici pated, but these will be extreme cases. The probable ave rage is likely to be about 4cwt. to &wt. per acre. Should the present hue weather continue picking will COMIXteIICC, in parts of limit in about a fortnight, SECOND EDITION, SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 o'CLocR, AMERICA. LONDONDERRY, Aug. 19. The Montreal Ocean Company's steamship Damascus, from Quebec on the Bth inst., has arrived here. Her news has been anticipated. THIR 1 EDITION SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. YORK RACES—Tms DAY. LY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. GREAT EBOR HANDICAP. Golden Pledge Trust ..... 2 Crow Captain 3 Eleven ran. EBOR sr. LEGER. Physalis colt . Prince Lee 80 0 .. 1 2 LONDESBOROUGH CUP. Bertha ............................................ 1 BCellarius .......................................... 2 alderston ........................................ 3 Ten ran. EIGHTH BIENNIAL STAKES. Linda ...................................... 1 Appenine Prince Arthur ................................ ...... .• 2 Ten ran.: RAWCLIFFE STAKES. Saragossa 1 Vanessa Alcoyne Four ran. HOPEFUL STAKES. Newmarket LOTTERY STAKES. Changeable .. 1 Sledmere 2 Four ran. HER MAJESTY'S PLATE, Dictator Caller Oa 2 Four ran, PRINCE OF WALES' STAKES. King George Physalis colt Four ran. GLASGOW STAKES. Mahometan . FILLY SAPLING STAKES. Linda Maid of Masham f 2 Four ran. LATEST BETTING. ST. LEGER. 1000 to 100 agst Golden Pledge (taken freely) Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS:DUB. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton Aug. 18. via Marseilles .. bept. 12. Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet . Sept. 3. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Aug. 29. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. Aug. 18. via Marseilles ...Aug. 27. Falkland 1 5 1 and5...... _ Gibraltar, via Southampton Aug. 18. India (Calcutta), an d Ceylon, via Southampton Aug. 18. lndia Bomba via Marseilles Aug. 27. (y), via Southampton Aug. 25. via Marseill es Aug. 20. Portugal...• Sept. 3. Malta, -Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Aug. —•— Newfoundland via Marseilles ........ Aug. 13. .................. Aug. 19. Oporto and Vigo' ............... U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Aug. 19, by U.S. packet.... b Canadian pack et . Aug. 21. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and T y eneritre Aug. , Bahamas, via New York .... Aug, 27. Mexico.. All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Y ru California. and British Columbia.. e ,l Aug. 28. MR. GREGSGN, M.P. FOR LANCASTER, has pre sented that borough with baths and washhouses, recently erected there, at a cost of about £5,000, FUCHSIAS IN BLOOM.--Fuchsias require a little shade when in bloom, and then it it as well to dis continue syringing. Nevertheless, they will bear any amount of light if at the f ame time they are well ventilated, and they will enjoy water over-head, but it splashes the pollen about on the foliage a little. Our trial fuchsias have had such a blaze of sun on them this summer as ought to have killed them outright, if all be true that is told in the bcoks. Bear in mind that if you expose plants to intense sun they must have a thorough draught of ventilation at the same time, else scorching is sure to take place—Hibberd's Gar. dozers' Magazine. ALLEGED MURDER OF AN OLD MAN IN WILT.. SHIRE.—An old man named Fullbrook was found dead a few days ago in a stable. at Minety. and a man named Taylor is now in custody of the Wiltshire police charged with wilful murder. A deal of evidence has been adduced against the prisoner before the Malmesbury magistrates, and the case is not yet closed. It appears that in the neigh. bourhood`of the Minety Station of the Great Western Rail way there is a small publichouse called the Red Lion, and the deceased was engaged there at times, for which he re ceived his meals, and was allowed to sleep in the stable. A few mornings ago he was found in the stable dead. Mr. Law rence, surgeon, of Malmesbury, examined the body, and found that there was a severe bruise over the left eye, besides a bruise below the right collar-bone; and on a post mortent examination discovered that there were injuries to the head sufficient to cause death. On the day before the deceased was found dead he was seenby a policeman with a black eye, and when asked how he came by it he told the officer the prisoner struck him very violently and caused it. Witnesses have been examined who swear that one night prisoner re turned from Mahnesbury intoxicated, and that he struck the deceased a tremendous blow. It also appears that the pri soner has previously been charged with serious and violent assaults. Though the Coroner's jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased died from injuries inflicted on his person, but by whom and how there was no evidence to show, the police authories are not satisfied with the verdict, and they have therefore detained the prisoner in custody, Active inquiries are still being made, and, as already stated, the proceedings before the magistrates have not terminated. THE CONFEDERATE STEADIER GEORGIA.—The English brig Kanegona, Capt. Romerell, from New York, which arrived at Rio Janeiro on June 14, reported to the Jornal do Contmercio that on the 11th of that month, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, she was boarded by a steamer bearing the British flag. On being boarded the captain was questioned on a variety of subjects —among other things, in reference to what American vessels had left or were to leave Northern ports for Brazil. Capt. Romerell could give no information of value. After examining the ship's papers the boarding officer told Capt. Romerell that he belonged to the Confederate steamer Georgia. He then drank a cup of wine, and said that his ship's crew were greatly disap pointed in not having captured some rich prizes since their seizure of the George Grisw4d, while the Alabama and Florida were committing so many ravages, He th en , politely tcok his leave. ASSAULT ON MADAME DU CHAILLI3.—A gentle manly-looking man, who gave the name of John Benson, and described himself as a commercial traveller, was charged before the Ramsgate magistrates last week with in decently assaulting Catherine du, Chaillu on the 10th inst. The complainant, who is the wife of the celebrated discoverer of the gorillas, said that on the day in question she went to bathe from a machine, and was accompanied by her servant and a lady friend. On getting into the water the prisoner, whom she had never seen before, was bathing from another machine. lie came towards her, and putting his arm round her waist, pulled up her bathing dress and misconducted himself towards her. On returning to her machine the pri soner, who was perfectly naked, followed and put his foot on the machine. She had no conversation with him while she was in the water. He left her in consequence of a gentleman calling out. Louisa Kirby, the lady's maid re ferred to, deposed to haviug witnessed the assault, and to hearing her mistress scream. Mr. James Dentry said that as he was bathing he saw the accused place his arm round Madame du Chaillu, and put his hand beneath her bathing.. dress. He immediately shouted out, upon which the pri soner made off. Ho watched him into his machine, and on getting ashore the witness gave him into custody, when he wanted to bribe the policeman to let him off. For the de fence, it was acknowledged that the prisoner had committed the assault, but it was urged that he did so under the im pulse of the moment and that no one could more regret what had occurred. A paper was read, in which the defendant, attar expressing his contrition for the offence, offered to pay any sum of money to any charity that the bench might think fit to direct. It was also stated that the prisoner had a wife end seven small children, and that he had always borne a very good character. The magistrates, after a little consideration, fined him £2O, adding that, but for his wife and children, they should have sent him to prison without the option of a fine. ATESTIMONAL TO ME. HENRY BERKELEY, M.P. FOR BRISTOL, for so many years past the earnest advocate of the Ballot in the House of Commons, is understood to be now actively in preparation. NEWOTEAD ABBEY, it is now stated by its pro. prietor, Mr. W. 11. 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