The Sun. — London, England, 1863-08-31 00:00:00

XONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. A free inquiry in the general discount market Im parts continued firmness to the quotations. Duri ng the next few days arrangements connected with the va r i ous commerc i a l bill s d ue on t h e 4 t h will create activity, and the rates fur a time may s how additional firmness. Subsequently, however, 8 , 3 : ril l 3 tOrnS of uneasiness are anticipated, owing to the favourable. tendency of the epecie movement, a nd other considerations calculated to influence the Market in that direction. It has been officially notified that the Union lank of England and France and the Belgian and Netherlands Bank are to be incorporated into one establishment, under a comprehensive title, with a capital of two millions sterling. A further sum of £44,000 in gold was taken into the Bank on Saturday. The Oneida has been announced from the Brazils with £42,614, The accounts from the manufacturing districts re ceived this morning for the past week have been generally satisfactory. The dealings in cloths and yarns at Manchester have been moderately active; the high rates demanded, however, have in some measure checked operations. In the woollen dis tricts of Leeds, Bradford, Halifax, and Hudders field there has been a steady inquiry for autumn and winter fabrics; while at Birmingham, Shef field, and Wolverhampton, symptoms of increased diminution have been apparent in several depart ments. Two o'CLocii. A very small amount of business has been nego tiated to-day in the Market for the English Funds, end the extreme apathy of speculators, as well as tho investing public, has created a little heaviness. The support given last week by several pur chases in succession has been partially exhausted, and hence the reaction of about 1 per cent., Consols being 931 1 for money, and 93: s for the account. Business has been transacted in the New Threes at 931 4 ; and the Reduced Annuities at 93a I; India Stock is 1081 ; and Exchequer Bills, ls. dis. to 2s, prem. Continued animation prevails in 'the Foreign Market, and although in one or two instances less firmness is apparent the general tendency of quo tations is in an upward direction. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1858, 721 1 ; do., 1862, 691 701; do., Conso lides, have receded to 511, 521 ; Mexican to 391; but Greek have risen to 361 ; ditto Coupons to 171,18 ; Spanish Passive to 34 i; ditto Certificates to 131 ; Portuguese to 491, 50 ; and the Confederate Loan is 2 per cent. better, being 25 to 23 dis. In the Railway Share Market the dealings have been very restricted, and in several instances prices have been rather flatter. Great Western, Lanca shire and Yorkshire, South Western, and Midland have each receded ös., and Great Eastern 10s. The Foreign and Colonial undertakings remain inactive, without any material change to record in values. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares continue dull, at about previous quotations, with the exception of International Financial shares,which have improved to 101 d ; and General Credit and Finance, which have risen to 4 1; Hudson Bay Company are heavy, at 41 and London Financial steady, at 121. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Bank Stock — 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3lper Cent. Consols Annuities New 3 per Cent. Annuities New 2i per Cent. Annuities — 5 per Cent. Annuities - Annuities, 30 yrs, expire bthJan., 1880 — Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 — India Stock —. Ditto 5 pet Cent loB} Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent — Ditto 5 per Cent Ditto 51 per Cent Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863 Ditto ditto April, 1864 Ditto ditto Aug. 1861 or 66 Ditto Bonds £l,OOO l6 pm Ditto under £1,000.. Bank Stock for Account Consols for Account, Sept, 9 ladia Stock for Account, 5 per Cent -- _ March, June, 121 per Cent. 21 per Cent. Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 1 dig 2pm Ditto £.500 1 dis . 2pm Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent — Ditto 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent Ditto Ditto, 1839 and 1859 — Ditto 4 1 543 1 per Cent., 1852-58-60 D itto Account Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) Chilian 6 per Cent Ditto 41 per Cent Danish 4 per Cent., 1863 Ditto 3 per Cent., 1825 Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — EgYptian 7 per Cent — Ditto, Second Issue Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons — Ditto Account 36 i i f. 1 - 1 i Ditto Coupons Ditto Account 17/ 1 1 / 1 18 171 Italian 5 per Cent. (Alarenunan.e. Railway) 79} Mexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account New Granada — Ditto 2 per Cent. Ditto Account lO Ditto Deferred — Peruvian 3 per Cent. Ditto 41 per Cent., 1862 .. Ditto Account .. 88 Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto Account.... Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 6 2 — Ditto Account 491 50 Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St 96 Ditto 41 per Cent 1850.. . 891 Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859 .. 92 Ditto 5 per C en t, 1862 Sardini an 5 per Cent .. Ditto Account SSpanish3 per Cent D itto Passive Ditto Account 34) Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded .. 34} 1 15 Di tto Account l3 ± 6 j: 'a rki s h 6 per Cent. 1854 Ditto Account.. 9l Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 .. 72 ! 1 i Ditto A ccount Ditto, £lOO B on d s • Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 - Venezuel a Ditto Acc o un t per Cent. : 1 . 8 . 6 ! 2 2 -41 Ditto 6 per Cent. Ditto Account ........... : ....... :: -- Dividends on the above ............ .i n Lon do n. Belgian 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f. - iitttult 2i per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil 64 10 Ditto 4 per C en t. C ert ifi cates 1 French R en t es, 3 per Cent., Ex 2 2i sf Dalian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs — Ditto Account.... ...... THREE O'CLOCK . Conlols, Money Ditto Account - - Mrs. CROWE has in the press a new novel, entitled " Ileathside Farm." APDowELL's statue of Lord Plunket— a statue in which the orator is represented in the act of ad dressing an audience, with, on the base of the statue, in scribed "Plunkett erected by the Bar of Ireland"—will be in a very few days erected in the Hall of the Four Courts, Dublin. AN AMERICAN DUEL.—A New York paper says : —" .Tersey has been the scene of another duel. The actors were a young officer of artiller o naval officer — an d a lieutenant in the Bt son h Infantry, eminent an fantry, a‘de tachrnent of which quartered on G overnor ' s is at present Island. Both gentlemen are familiar to the best society in the metropolis and elsewhere. The cause of the challenge is understood to have been given in a conversation on Governor's Island l when it is said the lieutenant refer red to uttered a sentiment reflectin g on the character of women i n general, although no name was mentioned. The artillery officer saw fit to resent the expre ss i on on the ground of its being an insult not only to the feminine race, but to his nearest and dearest relatives of that sex. It is hinted also that the obnoxious speech of the, lieutenant was made particularly poignant by reason of , , lady i n the case".-.- a W as hi ng t on lady—who had, according to ru mour, discarded the attentions of the infantry officer to smile upon those of his companion. The tcl: and the meeting oc curred given by the latter was promptly respon ded c urred upon the Jersey shore as o stated. Pistols we re th e weapons. Three shots were exchanged without effect. The r esu l t of the fourth w more sanguinary. The ch a ll enger, struck in the heck by the bullet of his adversary, f e ll b leeding an d s enseless,but reviving within a few moments, inquired with undaunted pluck whether the ti me h ad arrived for "another round." His strength. however, failed to match his for tll Happily a courage, and the d uel was Pronounced at an en d. He parties e co ncerned, we are ena b led to say that the su ff erer in h affair is rapidly recovering. SHARE MARKETS—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOC,B.S. Share Railways. I Bir,, Wol., and Str. Val. Blythe and Tyne. Bost.,Sleaf.,audßlid.Co , Bristol and Exeter ..., Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall i ~ A gets no div Do.D° --1 been paid i -`-' to 13.1 Dublin & Belfast Junc. i Dun.,Pertholz, A b. J unc. 1 Edinburgh & Glasgow.l Glasg. and S. Western. Great Eastern, Ord. stk' Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian st. GreatNorthot Scotland Great Northern Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. an l W. of Ireland Great Western Do Str Val gua. stock Lancashire & Yorkshire London and Blackwali Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat, and Dover Lon. & North Westenal Lon. & So'.th Western !Man., net, & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Dot shares . • Metropolitan Midland Do New Do Binning. At Derby Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line North British Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do, G.N.E. purchase Do .Lecds Do York Do Carlisle.. North London I Do New 'North Staffordshire and S. W. Junction. iSeottiall Central Scot 11. E., Aber, stock Do Scot. Mid. stock Shrews. and Welchpool ,Shropshire Union Sonia Devon ,South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines, Wok., an d Wok Stockton & Darlington Do Do New, 1866 ,Taff Vale. Do B I Do C 'Ulster Do Do Vale of heath Victoria eta. and Piin 1 'Waterford & Kilkenny' West Cornwall. IW. Hartlepool ar. &R. , Wait Midland -Oxford Do Newport' Do Hereford' 13.14: raid. Closing Business Price. done. 8 Bi R% 81 85 87 121 i 122 851 6i 71 71 3g (0 10 17 951 9' 111 11 3 501 514 19 61 24/ E5l 124 125 125 12 1 1: 4 2 136 28 C6l 67i 113 1131 74 75 113 115 41 43 101 1011 103 101 44 45 12},124 127 ,274, 14 I:fd 99 101 55 f s.} 25 26 101 1011 58 59 E 9/ 90 120 125 2 1 P 80 82 111 12i 122 124 40 17 100 102 50 52 30 32 96i J6l 70 72 101 103 0 10 37 38 9 10 7 i 8 4 P 155 160 5i tot I. 3 31 p 89 91 158 362 27 29 46 47 39 4t 104 106 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Closing Shari Railways Plod. Price. Business don( 100 It'antic &St Lawrenet all 62 C 4 631 ilk t Borri.,Baroda&.Cent Ind 100 1071 1081 1071 20 Gu. 5 per cent. Do. New 20 Do. E. Shares (04 Buffalo and Lase Huron alt 51 61 1 Do. Preference .. 111 72 61 100/ Bullalo,Brant,&Godrich. 100 _ 6 p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 187 . 4 100 Do. do. July 1, 187:1 100 100 Do. do. Juue 1, 1874 100 et Clcutta.&S.Eastn. (Lin ) 100 1071 1 1 )84 at Cape Town & Dock Seri] 100 106 108 stock Eastn. Bengal gu. sp. ( 100 109 nu stock East Indian. gu. sp. c. 100 108 1,9 1081 20 Do. do. G Ext lO la lip 20 Do. do. H do. stock Grand Trunk of Canada 100 201 214 21 100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds all 74 76 751 100 Do. ao. deferred all 58 62 100 Do. 2d Pref. Bonds all 6i3 68 671 100 Do. do. deferred all 50 Si 100 Do. 3d P. ef. stock 100 Do. do. deferred all 36 38 100 Do. 4th Pref. stork all 26 28 271 61 100 Do. do. deferred all 23 75 stock GLlndiarenin.gua. s p.c lOO 108/ 1091 109 81 20 Do. New gua. sp. o. 12 1 111 20 Do. January, 1862 8 1 11 stook Gt. South.of India (Lim) guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 107 108 20/ Gt. W. otCanadaSharek all 101 101 101 201 Do. New • 18 101 10 71 100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. all 96 98 100 Do. 51 p. c. do. '77-8.... all 90 (2 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 stock Radii's. guar., 5 P.e. •• 100 107 108 1071 stook Do. 44 p. c. Extensiou 100 1011 102 1024 stock Dc. 44 d 0..... ... 100 l 8 100 99 100 8:822000002k NtilmiD; D e c b: 78cer& F gp,oudA i f . r puiac h w inm6bp E caisepool ,rj3nsoat t t.g., e .B : Ba s ßßn i n o acidd n yss; . all " s_B " 6_o all 3 6 stock Soinde (100 1071 1081 pt bds 100 83 85 at f Do. Delhi lOO 1071 108/ 20 Do: P Do. do u 2 4 P njaub t `ll 7 all ! P st Do. Do. ....., , .• .10u 1074 1081 10S (dock Do. Indus. St. Flo.) 1100 103 105 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. - or. p.e.J .19.1 ui) 1877-Si ' Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug 100 It 2 104 Do. .1 p. c. Mar. & Sept. 100 1(5 IC7 1061 Do. Sp. c. Jan.&July. 100 94 95 941 i Do. 6 Inscribed stock 100 92 94 Cape G.Hope, O p c,187:, 100 108 110 Do.Ap aIL Oct 1880 100 112 114 - ; Do. 189 t 1 00 113 115 'Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 112 115 Ceylon, Nov.le7B, 6p c 109 113 116 Natal Gov. s v 6 B pe p r er ce co nt nt. ... 1 100 00 10 107 131°82 1071 N.Dl3o.G.odv.pls.pc..cA.Jpa..l.louclt). 1 1 00 00 I_os 1 70 9 1 6 4 N. S.W. G ov. 5 p 1.,1861 100 1001 1 Do. sp. c.,1244 to 1: - .71 100 1014 102) New D 7;o . d e a o l . , a l n BB a fle p u pewe ceant. o ° o ° 1 1 ° 1 2 1 Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. sterling, 1875. lOO 1051 106 y 103113 1021 1 Queensland Gcv. 6p. c. 100 t; 1 113 S.Aus G6p.c.1878.& up.. 100 110 1 12 - I Vic.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 108 1 10 Do, io Sox. An.&Oet.. 100 1131 1141 1 114 131 BRITISH MINES. 2 leambrian Consol. Gold 1 Ad (Amore! Amalgamated.. 33 55 33 4 Devon G. Con.. (Tavist., 1 560 6SO East Bassett (Illog-an). 30 79 81 1 East Cl ogau Gold Ltd.. si. 1(1 gar; East Caradou ...... ....I 1.14.8 274 181 28/ East Cam Brea. 11. W'lltussel (Tavistk )i 8.6.6 34 4 Gana.&St.Aubyn(Gw en ) :81 7 10 G u r e e r n c4 vili . e .i.oo . .. t ......... 6 8 .1 1 6 2 . r, Great South Tolgus l7s 34 4 • G. Wheal Vor alelston) 40 64 71 4 15 3 6 40 4 Hingston Downs.. . .„ 4.18.0 Margaret (Guy ..... si 29 2 i 20 Lady Berth a .. ~ .. 24,6 - .NnlarynkdeyVlraollneyo (Lim.',. re 44.3.0 61 61 New Setun ,,, 14 c; Lui 100 ry North Downs 23 21 24 N.Wh '1 Basset (111c..2, , an 2.17. t 24 34 North Wheal Crofty 2 . 4 .9 34 4 - j ['ar Consols (St. Blazey 1/ 4 6 20 providence(Uny LOW.) 10.6.7 41 4 3 ' South Caradon(StCleer, 14 410 420 'S. Cant Brea (Illogan) 5.15.13 14 2 S.. Wheal Fran. (Illogan, 18.15.9 55 65 I Stray Park 5 Tamar Silv.& Lead Min 4l 4 - fin Crort 9 191 204 West Basset (Illogan) ll 101 111 C. - radon (Liskeard) 5 21 23 West Seton ' I Wheal Basset (Mogan) 5/ 65 70 IWheal Buller(Redruth) 5 35 45 c Wheal Kitty (U.Lelmt) 2.0.6 -- WhealLadcott Wheal Mary Ann (Men ) 8 11 13 - Wheal Seton .. 581 215 225 - Wheal Tretawney (Lis.) 7 15 17 Wheal Union 3.17 2f 31 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Forthern, 5 per cent., red. at 5 per cent. pm., 1071 Great Western, 44 per cent. pref., 104 London, Chatham, and Dover 5 per cent. pref., 1(0i . PREFErtENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern, s'per cent., pt.. 105; London, Chatham, &c 6 per cent. 2d pf., 7.5 , 1 M e tropolitan 5 per cent., S LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Chester and Holyhead, Ditto, 5 per cent., 116 East Lincoln, gua. 6 per cent., 1391 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, SI Bahia and San Francisco (lim.) pm. 7 per cent., 201• Great Luxembourg, 14 * Recife and San Francisco gua, 7 per cent., 171 San Paulo aim.), gua. 7 per cent., Ditto South Aust r i an an d Lombardo Venetian, 22} (ail), 221 Turin and Savona, 21 Cobre Co FOREIGN MlNES.pper, 30i 2 1 General, 201 Mont. Aureos Braz. Gold Min. Co.(ulm.), 2} Port Philip, it St. John del Rey (Rm.), 55 Yudanantutana of S. Australia (litr.), 2): JOINT-STOCK RANKS. Alliance Bank of London and Lilerpool (Um.), 36 1 Australasia, 77} Ditto, new, 313 Bank of Egypt, 261 7 Bank of Wales, 1im.;21 Bank of New Zealand, 11 Braziliin and Portuguese, Jim., t• Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 301 Consolidated Bank, 1im.,193 ; English, Sco,ch, and Australian Chaitered '221 Imperial Ottoman, 19 183 ,„ London Chartered Bank of Australia, 28 London and County, 483 n London and South African, 27 / London and South-Western (lln.), 9 London and Westminster, 774 f 74 Provincial of Ireland. Ditto, new, 37 Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi ping, 54 Standard of British Smith Africa aim), 20.1 191 Union of England and Prance (im.), si 9} Union of London, 351 MISCELLINEOUS. -- - Crystal Palace, 90 Gen. E gyptian commercial and Traan 6 g n, ,rim.,., 4 3} Credit and Finance of London , i 4 Hudson's Bay, 43 International Financial Society Jim ' , "11 Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavotri, Joint Ditto, per cent. Bonds rd IS , ° issued 90' 711 i -stock 6 Discount, ffk London Pinanzial Association,lim., 1 ,1 1, 2 f, OrientalQL o b d r o a n d Oa, Land daa snOtameialn,r,riaittilimleno,nafigu,nlYira(73.4/, Submarine Telegraph scrip. The course of exchange atk on London for bills at 60 days' sight i s about 139 to 1:44 per cent., and the premium oil gold about 26i per cent these prices there is little if any profit on the importatO of gold from the United States. .A; 6.4.0 19.15.4 12.10 THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 31, 1863. MARKETS--This Day. is 3d to is 10d; scoured and handwashed, is 3d to 2s; un washed, 6d to is 2d. NEW ZEALAND.—FIeeces, is 2d to 2s 2d ; lamb, is ld to is 9d; scoured and handwashed, is Id to 2s; unwashed, 6d to is ld. CAPE.—Fleeces, is Id to ls lld ; lamb, is to is 8d ; scoured and handwashed, lld to is lld ; unwashed, Gd to 10id ; locks tad pieces, 9d to is 4d per lb. POLICE INTELLIGENCE —This Day. BOW-STREET. A Row IN' THE MARKET.—John O'Connor, Bridget O'Connor, his wife, and Edward Macnamara, her father, were charged with creating a disturbance in Covent-gar den Market, and assaulting the police. It appeared that about 3 o'clock on Saturday afternoon the prisoners, with some others, were in Covent-garden Market drunk and annoying the passengers and tradesmen by creating a disturbance there. The female prisoner went up to the stall of Mrs. Deacon, a saleswoman, to buy some onions, but, as she was very drunk, Mrs. Deacon refused to serve her. The prisoner then spoke to one of the men, who went up to Mrs. Deacon and tried to strike her, but she get away from him, and ran into one of the shops in the market, where she remained till a policeman came up. The female prisoner was then making a great disturbance and trying to get at Mrs. Deacon. The constable took her into custody ; and, as he was removing her, her husband sprang upon him from behina, seized him by the throat, and flung him on the ground with such vio lence that he has since been ill and unable to do duty. Macnamara also struck the officer, and so did the other three men. By this time a crowd of nearly 1,000 persons had assembled, and the disturbance became terrific, the prisoners and their friends urging the mob to ill-treat the police. Ultimately, by the united exertions of half a dozen con stables, the prisoners were removed to the station-house. The other three got away. These facts were proved by a number of witnesses prin cipally tradesmen in the neighbourhood. The prisoners insisted that they were quite sober and had had nothing whatever to drink. Mr. Henry fined John O'Connor £5 or two months, Bridget O'Connor or 14 days, and Macnamara Li or three weeks. ATTEMPTED FELONY.—Edward Welsh was placed at the bar charged with attempting to steal a watch. Sergeant Thompson, of the detective force, said he was in Holborn on Saturday night, when he saw the prisoner go up to a gentleman, and, pushing against him violently, he felt in his pocket with his right hand. He did not succeed in obtaining anything, but proceeded towards Queen-street, where ho again went through the same movement before another gentleman, and succeeded in getting the watch out of his waistcoat pocket, but the gentleman seized him with the property in his hand and took it from him. He then seized prisoner, but the gentleman refused to prosecute a s he was going out of town. Prisoner resisted capture very much. Police• constable 131 F corroborated the statement of the first witness. Ackrill, 48 F, said ho knew the prisoner to be the asso ciate of thieves, and also that he had been in prison for three months for a felony. He had bean at work for about a month until the last week, when he absented himself from his employment. He had told him (witness) that "he'd turned up thieving," but he still continued to asso ciate with the most expert and well-known thieves in the neighbourhood. Committed for trial, MARK-LANE. In the country markets, held on Saturday, rather more business was done in wheat, and good and fine qualities changed hands at full prices. Spring corn of all descrip tions met a slow sale, at late rates. The floar trade was very quiet, at the late decline in the currency. Advices from New York state that wheat was in fair ex port demand, but that the flour trade was dull. On the Continent the inquiry for wheat and spring corn is far from active. There was a slight increase in the receipts of English grain at our market last week. The imports from abroad amounted to 32,291 quarters of wheat ; 2,837 barley ; 35,442 oats ; 6,680 linseed ; 1,351 oilseeds ; 3,816 maize ; 477 aacks, and 31,167 barrels of flour. Fresh up to Mark-lane, to-day, the receipts of English wheat were moderately large, and the condition, generally speaking, was good ; indeed, many parcels came to hand in excellent condition. The demand, both for red and white qualities, ruled steady, and last Monday's quotations were well supported. This improved feeling was mainly attri buted to the prevailing changeable weather in Yorkshire and Scotland, which has, to some extent, retarded the harvest in those parts. There was an extensive show of nearly all kinds of foreign wheat on the stands, The amount of business transacted was very moderate; nevertheless, importers and holders were firm in their demands. Compared with this day sen'night the currency exhibited no change. Floating cargoes of grain moved off slowly at late rates. A few parcels of new barley were on offer, but their quality not being first rate the demand for them was in a sluggish state, at 35s to 37s per quarter. Old home-grown, including foreign qualitcs, met a dull inquiry at previous quotations. Good and fine malt moved off steadily, at full prices; but inferior soris were in slow request, at late rates. Thera was an extensive show of foreign oats on offer; but the supply of home-grown qualities was smali. The trade, generally, was dull, at the late decline in the currency. Beans—both English and foreign—were in short supply, but slow request, at late rates. Peas moved off slowly, but no change took place in their value from Monday last. In the flour trade there was no activity. Prices showed no recovery from the late decline. There was a good supply of barrels on offer. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wheat—Essex and Kent, red, 1863, per qr 393 to 45s Ditto, old 3Bs 43s Ditto, white, 1863 4os 47s Ditto, old 4os 463 Norfolk and Lincoln, red, old —s 8 Ditto, 1863 Talavera, Rye— Barley—Grinding 258 26s Malting oos 003 Malt—Suf f olk and Norfolk 6os 688 Brown Kingstown and Ware 6os 68s Chevalier 66s CBs Oats —Yorkshire and Lincolnsh., Feeding 195 23s Potato Youghal and Cork, black Cork, white Scotch, Feeding 8 —8 Beans—Tick, old 360 41s Pigeons, Peas—Grey Maple White 36s 38 8 36s 38 8 Boilers Flour—Town-made, per 2801 b Suffolk 285 .'.05 Stockton and Norfolk 27s 29s American, per barrel l7s 218 METROPOLITAN CATTLE. There was a full average supply of foreign stock on offer in to-day's market, in but middling condition. Sales pro gressed slowly, and, ra some instances, prices had a droop . ing tendency. From our own grazing districts the receipts of beasts fresh up this morning were seasonably large as to number, but their general quality was only middling. Prime breeds commanded a steady inquiry, at full prices. Otherwise the beef trade was in a sluggish state, on rather easier terms, and a clearance was not effected. The arrivals from Lincolnshire. Leicestershire, and Northamptonshire comprised 3,000 shorthorns, &C. ; from other parts of England, 600 various breeds ; from Scotland, 11 Scots ; and from Ireland, 380 oxen and heifers. The show of sheep was moderately extensive, but the condition of most breeds was by no means first rate. Downs and half-breds were in fair r equest, at last week's currency, the top figure bring 5s 2d per 81b, but other descriptions of sheep were very inactive, at slightly depressed rates. The demand for lambs was heavy, at from 5s to Gs per Blbs. These quotations show a decline, compired with this day se'nnight, of from 4d to 8d per 81bs. Calves were in moderate supply and sluggish request, at previous currencies. The pork trade was in a sluggish state, on former terms. Per Slb, to sink the offal. s. d. s. d. Crse. & inf. beasts 3 4 3 8 Second quality do. 3 10 4 4 Prime large oxen 4 6 4 8 Prime Sei.ts, eic. 4 8 4 10 Urso. & inf. sheep 3 G 4 0 Second quality do. 4 2 4 6 s. d. s. d. Primecrs••wool d 0.4 8 4 10 Pme. S'thilown do .5 0 b 2 Largo crse. calves 3 6 4 2 Prime small do 4 4 4 8 Large bogs 't 6 4 0 Small porkers 4 2 4 6 Lambs, 5s Od to 6s Od. Suckling calves, 12s to 20a ; and quarter-old store pigs, 18s to 26s each. TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SIIFFLY. Beasts .. Cows — i Sheep and lambs ....10,320 Sheep and lambs Calves 353 Pigs Pigs. 320? The total imports of foreign stock into London, last week, amounted to 16,797 head. In the corresponding week in 1862,w0 received 11,579—in 1861, 13,988 —in 1860, 13,707 —in 1859, 12,659—in 1858, 10,673—in 1857, 11,404 head. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEEK. From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. Rotterdam 632 .. 4393 33 .. 911 .. 88 Harlingen 291 .. 783 .. 148 .. 91 .. 473 Hamburg 5 .. 817 .. 187 Boulogne. Medemblik 62 .. 2264 .. .. 2 Calais Vigo .. Olop Amsterdam 8 .. 838 .. Antwerp. .. .. 44 .. Ostend .. .. 24 .. -- Bremen ........ 252 .. 25 , Dordt. 244 .. 787 .. 93 .. 11 .. Tonning. . 1134 .. 1783 .. 303 Total ....2628 .. 11,720 .. 577 ..1124 .. 748 The yearly comparisonofweeklyimports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1862 1435 .. 8,144 .. 476 .. 531 .. 993 lB'l 1849 .. 7,248 .. 481 .. 691 .. 819 1860 2046 .. 10,176 .. 1)8 .. 658 .. 609 1859 1824 .. 9,69 9 .. 280 .. 473 .. 380 1858 A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in the great metropolitan cattle market, on Monday, Sept. 1, 1862, and this day, Monday, Aug. 31, 1853. Per 81b. to sink the offal. Sept. 1, Second eaorns Coarse e d and dd qualityinferior in Second quality do Prime large oxen 4 0 4 4 P ira m e e S eso c oa o ur t tB s h f wo e c w r .l i oon o i r ide s do h . e d 7 . .... 5 :3 2 6 0 8 4 45 3 10 8 46 2to 3 4 Prime 48 5 0 Lambs Large coarse calves Prime small do. Large hogs Neat small porkers 4 4 4 8 Beasts Sheep and lambs ..•• 25, 6 s'o Calves Pigs 405 Aug. 31, 1863. 3 4to 3 8 310 4 4 46 4 8 4 8 410 36 4 0 42 4 6 4 8 410 60 5 2 50 6 9 36 4 2 44 4 8 36 4 0 42 4 6 6,870 27,660 363 320 easts, 5,370- 740. _ SD rrmns ON SALE, Sept. 2, 1861.—8 sheep and lambs, 30,35^—calves, 280—pigs, SEPT. 3, 18 60.—Beasts, 6,o9o—sheep and: —calves, 300—pigs, 280. lambs, 30,100 NEW GATE AND LEADENITALL. But moderato su2pliesof ine:tareonsale at there markets. On the whole, the demand rules steady, at our quotations. Per Sib. by the carcase. Inferior beef .. 3 0 3 " 1 2 Middling do. .. 3 4 3 6 Prime large do. 3 8 3 1 0 Do. small do. .. 4 0 4 2 Large pork .... 3 6 4 0 Inferior mutton. 3 4 3 8 BOROUGH HOP. Advices from BEd and East Kent, many parts of Sussex, and from Worcester, continue favourable, and the crop in this country is likely to prove a fair average. A few parcels of new produce continue to reach this market for which the quotation is £7 103 to £8 per cwt. A sample of new Ba varian hops has also been offered. Last year's, as well as old hops move off slowly, yet prices rule stationary. The imports, last week, amounted to 8 bales from Hamburg, 8 Ostend, 59 pockets Antwerp, and 460 bales from New York, ',dad Middlingmutton 3 10 4 2 Primed .. 4 4 4 6 Veal . 3 8 4 6 Small pork ~ .. 4 2 4 6 Lamb BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. Fair average supplies of home-grown potatoes are on sale at these markets. Generally speaking, the demand rules steady, said last week's quotations are well supported. Kent and Essex Regents 80s to 110 s per ton'. Do. Shaws 6os to 858 WOOL. Since the close of the public sales of colonial wool, a fair amount of business has been transacted in home-grown produce, and the value of all kinds has been well supported. At The recent auctions, from 26,000 to 40,000 bales were taken by foreign houses, and the following prices were paid by home and foreign buyers : AUSTRALIAN.—FIeeces, Is 4d to 2a 3d ; lambs, Is 3d to 2a; scoured and handwashed, Is 3d to 2s Gd; unwashed, 8d to is 2d; locks and pieces is to is 81. PORT PHlLlP.—Fleeces, is 4d to 2s 3d ; lambs, is 3d to 2s 4d ; scoured and hendwashed, Is 41 to 287 d; unwashed, 8d to is 3d; locks and pieces, is to is VAN DIENIEN'S LAND.—Fleeces, is 3d to 2s 2d; lambs, Is 3d to 23 Gel : scoured, Is 3d to is 10d ; unwashed, 7d to Is ld ; locks and pieces, is Id to is 7d. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN—FIeeces, is Gd to is lid; lamb, LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day. SHERIFFS' COURT. ARE BILLIARDS A LAWFUL GAME?-CLAYTON V. GOLD- INGS. This was an action to recover 12s. 6d. for certain games of billiards, plaintiff being an hotel keeper, and defendant a commercial traveller. vv His Honour--I think you are out of court, Mr. Clayton, on your own particulars. Plaintiff—How so ? His Honour—You say " Games of Billiards," and I am not sure that it is a lawful game. Plaintiff—We are obliged to have a license, and I believe it has been laid down that a licensed ♦ictualler can recover for his tables, but I have not brought the book with me. His Honour called for the Act of Parliment 8 and 9 Viet., but it was not in court, and it was suggested that plaintiff could recover for the use of the tables. His Honour—But he calls it " Games of Billiards," and I hold that it is an unlawful game. Piaintiff.—The point was settled in this very court some time ago, and then I recovered a verdict. Mr. Buchanan—l was in that case, and the subject mat ter was of a very different kind; that action was for the hire of a table by a marker. His Honour—Yes, that is another thing altogether. Plaintiff—But we are required to take out a license for billiards, end it would be bard if we cannot recover. His Honour—lt is a game of skill and chance, and may bo called gambling, but defendant does not appear. How long would ho have the tables before 12s. 6d. would be due ? Plaintiff—Oh I 12s. 6d. could be run cff in two hours. His Honour—Well, as defendant is not here, you will recover for the use of the tables, but I do not decide that billiards is a lawful game. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT MANCIIESTER--SATuRDAy. There is very little doing on the Doncaster St. Leger. Occasionally a bet is booked, and from the day's quota tions, the favourites do not appear to he very firm; but a very little money brought into the market would make a great difference with any of them, of course a few outsiders excepted, Closing prices:— DON CASTER ST. LEGER. sto 1 agst Lord Clifden (offered) 11 to 2 agat Queen Bertha (taken) 13 to 2 agst Ranger (offered) 13 to 1 agat Golden Pledge (offered) 40 to 1 agat National Guard (offered) 40 to 1 agst Blue Mantle (offered) 40 to 1 agat Mogador (offered) 50 to 1 agst Saccharometer (offered) 50 to 1 agat Pratique (taken and offered) 500 to 7 agat Dr. Syntax (taken) 1000 to 10 agat \Volga (taken) 1000 to 5 agst Double X (taken) SHIPPING—This Day. Loxpos, Aug. 31.—Wind this day at noon —South- Westerly; strong breeze, and cloudy weather, with showers. PLYMOUTH, Monday Morning. His Prussian Majesty's gunb o at B a silisk, Capt. Schan, ft-on! Dantzic, last from Lowestoft, for the Mediterranean, put Into the Sound this morning short of fuel. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, M on day Morning. D Arriv e d, A ug. 30—Magnet, from an tzic ; Der Ecluchs, from Onega ; Leat, from Quebec ; Gem, f ro m Antwerp ; Glorian a , from Riga; Medkurring, from T orn ea ; Newton, Droback from Gefle; Glen, from Ghent ; Rainbow, from Cronstadt; Swan, ftom Dantzic • Adagio, from Colberg; Elizabeth Mary, from Dantzic ; Caunder, from Dantzic ; Passed Aug, 30 Esq, steamer, from Guernsey,' Arrived, Aug. 31—Diadem, from Cronstadt; Commo dore, from Calcutta ; Atalanta, from Quebec; Comet, from ; Harburgen, from Archangel. DEAL, Monday Morning. don, for Bordo ,• Adler, Prussian steamer, from Yarmouth, Henry, from London, for St. JoAn's ; East, for Plymouth ; Blitz, gunboat steamer, from Yarmouth, for . i ., Pl y m outh; Carl 15th, from London, for Rio Janeiro; —Ageneria, screw-steamer, from Lou. for Bombay ; Caster of Scarborough, from west, for north. Sailed.—Western Emperor and Amada, for Liverpool, in tow; and all the outward bound on the 30th. from London, Preparations are making for a grand choral gathering at York Minster, on October 13, somewhat simi lar to that at Peterborough. SUNDAY EXCURSION TO THE CRYSTAL PALACE. —The second and last Sunday excursion this season of members of the Cryst a l P alace Share Clubs too k place yes • terday to the Palace, an d was attended by and their families, . 7,000 artisans THE AMERICAN MAILS, The extra Cunard steamship Hecla, from Now Y or k on t he 19th inst., passed the harbour of Q ueenstown yesterday a ft ernoon . She brings 83,200 dols. in specie, and 90 pass engers, four of whom she landed. Her news had been anticipated by the Arabia, via Halifax. The royal mail steamship Scotia arrived at Queenstown at 6 a.m. yesterday. She embarked mails, passengers, and the latest telegrams, and proceeded for New York at 4 p.m. All well. A twine spinnerin Devonport dockyard attempted suicide by banging himself in the ropery on Friday. Ho was, however, discovered, and cut down before life was ex tinct. The unfortunate man had just received intelligence that his son, who was employed in the ropehouse, had been detected stealing lead. NARROW ESCAPE OF AN EXPRESS TRAIN.—John Allbuary, a butche r , li v i ng at Agnes -place, Plum stead, was summoned before Mr. Maude, at Woolwich, for endangering the safety of the passeng ers on t h e N o rth Kent Railway. Mr. Stevens appeared for the prosecution, on be half of the South-Eastern Railway Company. Wm. Agate said—l am a platelayer on the North Kent line, and live at 6G, Orchard-street, Plumstead. On the 12th jest. , just be fore 2 o'clock, I was on the line, a qu arter of a mile above Abbeywood station, and saw the defendant in the lane, with a horse and cart at the crossing. I W as a quarter of a mile from him, and I could see a train coming up to the Abbey wood station. I saw the defendant open the gate and bring the horse and cart on the line. He walked behind the cart, and closed the downside gate after him. He then walked across the lane, and opened the gate on the up side, leaving the horse and cart standing on the railway. While he was opening the gate, the horse, which appeared frightened, turned round with his head towards Abbey -wood station. Whilst bringing the horse round the gate blew to him, and the defendant opened it a second time. The driver of the approaching train blew his whistle and turned off the steam, put on the break, and was only 90 yards off when the de fendant got his cart off the line. Joseph Bashford, foreman of platelayers, living at East 'Wickham, said—l no ti ce d th e horse and cart on the line. I held 1, -P my hands to give the driver of the train the "danger signal" and heard the driver blow his whistle as the train passed through the sta - tion. As Boon as the train had passed and the dust dis appeared, I proceeded to the spot and obtained defendant's name. I said he ought not to have come on the line when a train was in sight, and he said he could not see the train because his sight was bad. At the crossing the line is straight and a person can see a mile and a half. Predk. Wilton, engine driver, said it was an express from Dartford to Woolwich Arsenal, and not appointed to call at Abbey -wood and other intervening stations. On approaching the Abbeywood Sta tion within 200 yards, the trai n was g oin g 3 3 miles an hour. He observed a horse and cart on the line about a quarter of a mile beyond the station, and immediately shut off the steam, and the fireman put his break on. The speed was reduced to 20 m il es an hour, an d when within 80 or 90 yards of the accommodation crosing, defendant had gut his horse and cart clear off the line. Ilad he not seen the platelayer's signal and reduc e d the speed, the train would hav e b een on the cart before it was off the line. The defendant said, ". My eyesight is bad, and I did not see the train or hear it coming until I went to pull the horse's head round." Mr. Maude said it was too serious a case for him to deal with. Ile would adjourn the case till Wednesday, in order that the deposi tions might be laid before the railway company, and if they insisted upon, it, he would commit thp defendant for trial, SEEDS. New white mustard seed is in moderate supply and slow request, at Os to lOs per bushel. New rape, trefoil, and carraway are unaltered in price from last week. Cakes move off slowly, at late rates. rurntp,white,p.bus.lls tol4s ) Carraway 2Bs 32s Swede -s -s ' Coriander -s -s Mustard, Brown .. -s -s 11 empseed, per qr -s -s White, Tares, ;New ..... .0s Od Os Od S Crushing Old per quarter - s —s . • .8 -s Linseed Cake, p ton -s -s Baltic -8 -s Csmary, per quarter 3iis 5'. , s Odessa -s -s R a l c ) o e r e c i ;1 2 - , k n e s , p C it l y o e v c g T T , a i s t s ed n E e n w g. , et. -s -s Engl is It -s Rapeseed, new,p : ( 9 l :. ° 6 B : l° 6 - 1 : tOTI.C6 Os .£6 lOs White. -s s s Whit e .A:9 108 .£lO Its Foreign Red- . - s Trefoil, new —S -S TALLOW. The tallow trade continuos dull, at the recent decline in the currency. P.Y.C. is quoted at 42s to 42s 3d per cwt. on the spot; and 413 to 4133 d for October to December de livery. Town tallow is quoted at 41s 3d net cash. Rough fat, 2s I.ld. per Sibs. Particulars. Stock this clay—. Price of Y.C. Delivery last weekl Ditto from June 1 Arrivals last week Ditto from June 1 1 Price of Town ISSO, 1801. 1860. 1862. 1863. 19,957 39,851 ) 45.897 35,355 ) 41,622 1686.1 to 52s Od to47sel to 48sO1to'12s 0(1 to 57s Od —s Od. 48s 3d 42s 3(1 1,647 2,077 5,301 1,354 1344 16,322 23,762 28,757 18,974 12,21(1 1,731 2,775 9 ,248 11 5 1,132 24,229 36,221 17,871 15,1.99 16,129 58s Od 54s 3d 49s 3d) 50$ Od 438 Od WESTMINSTER. SINGULAR CASE *UNDER THE MATRIMONIAL CAUSES ACT.—A respectable hard-working looking woman, about 30 years of age, applied to the magistrate for a protection order under tha Matzimonial Causes Act. Applicant said that her husband had left her two years ago, and had done nothing since then towards her support, which now induced her to apply to a magistrate. Mr. Selfe—What induces you to come here now P Applicant—Because I am afraid my husband will come home and take all my little things. Mr. Selfe—Do you know where your husband is ? Applicant—Yes, he went to Northampton, where, I be lieve, he still remains. Mr. Selfe—Under what circumstances did he leave you to go there ? Applicant—He left me on. a visit to his friends there; he was merely to stay a fortnight or three weeks, • Mr. Salle—And never returned ? Applicant—Never returned. Mr. Selfe—l am afraid that I cannot help you. It can not be called desertion if your husband did not mean it to be so, but always had an intention to return. Applicant—He did not intend to return. He is living a very bad life there. He is cohabiting with another woman. Mr. Selfe—That alters the case. Applicant—l am afraid that the very moment he gets into trouble he will come home to me again and take all I possess. It would be two years on the 10th of next month since he deserted me. Mr. Selie—And you have since supported yourself by by our own industry. Applicant—Yes. Mr. Selfe --You may have the order. Applicant having been sworn, want into the clerk's office to give the necessary instructions for the order ;',but shortly afterwards again came into court, a diMculty having pre sented itself, which the clerk had communicated to the magistrate. Mr. Sclfc—l understand that the property by which you wirsh the order to protect has not been obtained by you since your husband's departure, but is the same with which he left you. Appiicant—Yes, your worship. Mr. Selfe—Then, I have no power to assist you. The property which an order is to protect must have been ac gulled by a wife after the departure of her husband. Applicant—l bought all these things out of my own hard earnings before I married my husband. Mr. Selfe—Then, they became his when you married him. You endowed him with all your worldly goods, Applicant—lt is a very hard case. Mr. Selfe—lt may be. but I cannot help you. Applicant then left, much disappointed. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. CAB AND RAILWAY VAN THIEVES.—AIfred Johnson, 11, St. John's-terrace, Hackney-road, and George Timothy, of 15, Vincent-street, Shoreditch, were charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with being concerned with a man named George Jones, convicted in June last, in stealing a box from the roof of a cab, while in Park-lane, on the 16th of May last. The prisoners are both well known to the police as " dragsmen" (stealers of luggage, &c.), from cabs. John son has been twice convicted, each time receiving a sen tence of 12 months' imprisonment, and Timothy has once been convicted and sentenced to two years' imprisonment; their companion Jones was sentenced to three years' penal servitude. A number of notorious thieves, &c., were in waiting outside the court to learn the fate of their com panions (tbe prisoners). Sergeant Cole, 23 C, deposed that at S o'clock on Satur day, the 16th of May last, he saw the prisoners with a man named George Jones, who had since been convicted, near the Circus, in Oxford-street. He followed them—they being in a cart with a fast-going horse, and Jones driving— into Grosvenor-square, where a four-wheel cab with a box on the roof passed them. They pulled up close to the railings. I stopped for a moment and then followed the cab into Park lane, where the cab pulled up in consequence of a stoppage, and Jones drove the cart close behind the cab, and Johnson then walked along the shaft of the cart towards the cab and lifted up the box about five inches fron the roof, when two soldiers happening to pass, and making a remark about Johnson being "after the box," ho walked back along the shaft and returned to the cart, and Jones drove off as fast as he could towards Oxford-street. He (the sergeant) fol lowed them as far as the Edgware-road, when, having got the assistance of two constables, ho continued the pursuit in a Hansom cab to Oxford-square, and then jumped out and laid hold of the horse's head. Jones then began whip ping the horse, and afterwards all three jumped out of the cart and made off, but he secured Jones and the horse and cart, the prisoners managing to keep out of the way till yesterday, when I say them at the Spital•square Station, and identified them as the persons who escaped from the cart. Doughty, 87 11, said he apprehended Johnson on the 23d of May in Bethnal-green. Johnson called for assist ance, and some of his companions violently assaulted him (Doughty), Johnson's brother taking his staff away from him, and throwing it away. His neck was twisted round, and he was very much hurt. Johnson then escaped, hut yesterday morning he took him again. Kenwood; 194 11, having proved apprehending Timothy yesterday morning, Mr. Tyrwhitt committed the prisoners for trial. Sergeant. Cole said there were convictions against each prisoner which would be proved. THAMES. A GERMAN Row.—Five bakers, natives of Germany, were brought before Mr. Woolrych, charged with being drunk and disorderly on Saturday night at 12 o'clock in Fieldgate-street, lirhitechapel. The names of the prisoners were given by police-sergeant Barnes, 10 11, as follows : Heinrich Blucher, 13.einrich Rosenburg, Heinrich Kruk, Heinrich Heft, and Wilhelm Davis. Mr. Woolrych—Davis is an Englishman. Sergeant Barnes—Nei., he is a German. Two police constables of the H division, namtd Wood and Mitchell, said the German bakers and sugar bakers, after leaving their houses of call on. Saturday night at 1 , 4 o'clock, began to quarrel and ligbt. Upwards a ou y llinn• them were swearing at each other, shouting They went up to the Germans, and told thern an to d , at ; the but they refused to do so. The tumult was very i bre retreated poop.« . tradesmen hurriedly closed their shops, and armed with to their homes, for some of the Germans we r e _ f the prisoners atcld-isepers'e., knives. They succeeded in capturing three e re leading them —Blucher, llosenburg, and Kruk —and were the foremost off to the station-house when other ~e r a i lV u o t a ci . t of e i A rn y t a P h s t e s t u i r s C e o k e c a b r y e s of whom were Hert and Davis, mat their countrymen, and the polieetina the rioters were dis. Davis. Additional aid was se t n ak , persed, and the prisoners were for,n to the station-house. The police constables engaged g i sntahttheuerti Germansye. ni there;said zhot nNvas the any p' 1? in the riot. dayb n sntn deniedsimger'hinotsyu'sdbo'iFarlttlih.eeri were bread bakers, and fleet was a sugar baler. Y o rows °° i interpreter,re °6 last said ' At e . N li s T rl s :ti n e e n r : L il o Mr. Woolrych fined Davis 20s. for the ase,ault on Wood, the police constable, and the others to find a surety each in the sum of £2O, to keep the peace for six Inonths. Hert introduced Mr. Dutus, a shoemaker and linnuist, of Leman-street, as his surety, and he was accepted, Ile ethtr pcisoneis were committed to prison. • 51 5O 671 i 7 113 k I i 43; 4 1011 103; 3 121 2 11 7 1 3 261 101 94f Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. The steamship Palekari, 1,116 tons burthen, Capt Peters, went down to WoolWich on Saturday to ship 340 tons of shot, powder, and other stores for Malta. The Palekari has a private cargo of merchandise for Athens, Syria, and Smyrna and is expected to sail from Woolwich on Tuesday. Tho unfavourable report made recently by the dockyard officials at Chatham of the condition of the iron paddle-wheel frigate Recruit, G, 1 50-horse power, Commander G. F. Cottam, and the marked failure which took place on the occasion of her recent trial trip, as reported in The Sun, has induced the Admiralty to abandon their intention of de spatching her to the %Vest Coast of Africa, an order having been reeetved at Chatham on Saturday, directing her to Le placed iu the first division of the steam reserve, without any of her bulkheads or other internal fittings being in any way disturbed. From the time the It. ;ruitpawed into the hands of the Admiralty from the t'russian Government, for whom she was built by Mr. Scott Itussell, it was tuund that her dekctive sea-going qualities, combined with her small sin, rendered her altogether unfit for anything but thu lightest duties, and for several years she was employed on surveying duty in the Daruk‘. Since then she underwent a thorough refit and overhaul at Chatham, and was fur nished with new boilers. In addition to her ordinary sea stores, guns, shot, &c., the weight of her engines, spare gear, and boilers, T.dth water, is just 160 tons, Bc:wt., which is an incr,,ase of 4S tons on the return made in 1855, an in crease of seven tons being on the boilers alone. This cir cumstance will account for the failure of the vessel on her late trial. - - - - The Clio, 22, screw steam corvette, 1,472 tons, 400-horse power, Captain Thomas Miller, recently returned from the Pacific station, was paid off in the basin of Sheerness dock yard on Saturday. Capt. C. Wise, A.D.C., the superin tendent of the docks, who conducted the operation,expressed his approval of the discipline and older manifested by the crew. The best possible good feeling has existed between the officers and men during the whole commission; indeed, it is believed that were the pennant to be again hoisted, the crew would remain in the ship almost to a man, and many have signified their regret at leaving. Mr. Ailis, the ship's caulker, and Mr. Yelland, boatswain-mate, have each received a silver medal for long service, and a gratuity of £l5 for exemplary conduct throughout the ,commission; Mr. Fowkes, quartermaster, also has received the long ser vice medal, and a gratuity of £lO. The detachment of ma rines which belonged to the vessel were conveyed the same day to headquarters at Chatham, by the Wildfire, tender to the Formidable, flag-ship at Sheerness. On the previous day the ship's machinery and engine-room were inspected. Capt. W. K. Hall, commanding the Sheerness steam re ceive, and Mr. W. Ramble, inspector of machinery afloat, complimented Capt. Miller and the chief engineer, Mr. Owen, on the first-rate condition of the engines and general cleanlinees of the engine-room, which they observed could not be surpassed. The Clio will be placed on the 3d division of the Sheerness steam reserve. Forty fitters and smiths belonging to the Royal gun fac tory in Woolwich Arsenal were on Saturday dismissed from their employment, and a further reduction is announced. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :—Edwin Wiae, master, to the Cumberland, for the Tamar; Arthur W. W. Babington, surgeon, to the Ha wke ; Dr. W. Lockhart, assist.-surgeon, to Hasler Hospital; Frederick L. W. Wright, assist.-surgeon, to the Cumberland ; Cuthbert R. Rodham, assist. -paymaster, to the Mmander ; George Nixon, master's assistant, to the Euryalus ; 'William Anderson, chief engineer, to the Asia, for the Odin, when the latter ship was paid off; T. H. Dawkins, acting engineer, to the Asia, as supernumerary; W. F. Tunes, engineer, to the Dauntless, for the Tender; William B. Akaster, master additional, to the Cornwallis ; William H. Alland, master in command to the Medusa; William Horn, second master, to the Medusa; F. K, Fesenmeyer, assist.-paymaster, to the Cumberland ; W. G. N. Burney, assist.-paymaster in charge, to the Medusa; George V. Hart, assist.-surgeon, to the Medusa; Richard Harris, engineer, to the Medusa ; Frederick Pugh, Wm. M‘Naught, and George T. Stronach, assist.-engineers, to the Medusa; and E. E. Richmond, clerk, to the Hogue. THE ARMY. A general order from the Horse Guards has been received at Chatham garrison, announcing that his Royal Highness the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, with the concur rence of the Secretary of State for war, has been pleased to award silver medals, with gratuities, to various non-com missioned officers and gunners of the Royal Artillery for lorg service and exemplary conduct. Medals and gratuities of £l5 each were awarded to Master-gunners Thos. Ander son, Thomas Birks, Edward Dewey, Joseph Hunter, James Hunter, John Knox, Jacob Little, Jas. Piper, lt. Redfern, Charles Smith, John Williams, Wm. Taylor, and William White; Battery Sergeants•iunjor Walter Gibson, R. Hall, Robert Murray, R. Lakin, John Doulon, John 11PGlashan, John Moore, Wm. Wishart, and David Montgomery; Ser geants-Major David Humphreys. Chas. Clarke, and Lee Bucklaud ; Quartermaster-sergeants Thos. Gibson and Wm. Massey ; Farrier-sergeants George Horton and Robett Wilson; Drum-major James Lawson; Sergeants William T3panh, Snrnnpl Milligan, Thos. Watt, Wm. Brett, Graz.- vile Smith, John Powell, John Smith, Joseph Smyth, P. Walsh, Hugh Thomson, Richard Coghlan, David Corbett, James Gilbertson, William Ingram, John Lythgoe, James Magihon, and James A. Menzies. Medals and gratuities of £lO each were awarded to Master-gunners Thomas Keown, James King, Joseph Thornley, John Agnew, and Charles Wildbore ; Battery Quartermaster-sergeant Thomas Cribb; Battery Sergeants-major Thomas Finlay and Charles Bon cell; Staff Collar-maker Thomas Fairchild; Sergeants William Legerwood, William Rhodes, William Newatead, William Dodd, Ephraim Blythe, Hugh Murray, David Bannister, Jabez Chapple, William Deans, Thomas Inglis, W. M'Donald, and James Rolle; Corporals Henry Allen and Thomas Johnson. A large number of other non-com missioned officers and gunners received medals and gratui ties of £5 each. Ironclads on the Mersey. Though it is well known that several ironclads are in course of construction in various parts of the kingdom for foreign Governments, and though one has already sailed for Russia and another for Denmark without occasioning sur prise, the public suspect that any vessel of war built on the Mersey must be intended for the Confederate Government. For a considerable time past mysterious assertions have been circulated respecting two ironclads building in Messrs. Laird's yard, and Federal spies have never lost sight of them. A few days ago it was currently reported and be lieved that one of these vessels had slipped away to sea clan destinely to join company with the Florida off the Irish coast. That such was not the case a visit to Messrs. Laird's yard made evident. There at present lie the two suspected vessels side by side, with the French flag floating over the one nearest completion. Messrs. Laird make no mystery about El Tousson and El Mounassir, as the ships are named. They are undoubtedly built on French account, and it is understood that the French Vice-Consul has given the Col lector of Customs satisfactory explanations respecting them. El Tousson, which was launched some time ago, will b e ready for a trial :rip in a month or six weeks. El Mounassir was only launched on Saturday, but already a portion of her machinery is on board. Perhaps there are not two more formidable frigates afloat. They are 230 ft. over all, 42ft. beam, with 19tt. Gin. depth of hold. Tonnage, 1,830 0.m.; horse power 350. They will combine speed with good sea going qualities. They are very fiat-bottomed, with exceed ingly fine ends, and will sit low in the water. Their draught when loaded will be about 15ft ; estimated speed, 11 knots. The stem is so formed that the vessel may be used as a ram, and the stern which overhangs affords protection to the screw and rudder limn shot or collisions. The rig is that of a barque, the masts, which are telescopic, and the lower yards, being of iron. The armour-plating On the sides of the vessel is 41 inches thick amidships, and rather less at the ends. The plates, the join ing of which together is imperceptible, are fitted into a teak backing of great strength, The deck is of Sin. teak, protected with iron. The bulwark let dui= in case of action iu order to allow the turret guns to fire over them. They have two c yli n d er i ca l turrets on captain Coles' prin ciple —one before and the other abaft the engine-room, heavilY plated. These turrets are made for two o guns each. The pilothouse is formed of teak aud iron. At either end o f the vessel are raised decks, which a fford excellent accommo dation for the officers and crew. In the captain's cabin provision is made for two heav y stern guns, a n d h eavy guns can be trained from the forecastle deck. These vessels have capacity for 300 tons of coal. :All the machinery is below the water line. Several e xperienced naval of f icers who have inspected the vessels have expressed opinions most gratify ing to their designers. In the adjoining dock is her Majesty's steam frigate Agin court, of 6,720 tons. This vess e l i s b e i ng constructed in a dock which was adapted specially for the purpose, and is now one of the finest in the kingdom. It is about 400 ft. long, with an entrance of 75ft. wide, and a depth of water on the blocks of 24ft. at average spring tide, or 26ft. at a high gyring tide. Rapid progress has been made during the summer months—about three-fourths of the iron-work of the hull is now fitted in place, and a large proportion of this completely riveted and finished off, co that the carpenters have commenced with the woodwork, some six or seven streakes of the teak backing for the amour plating are fixed on amidship, and various checks, waterways, planking, 4Sze, are being prepared for the different decks. Tho forginge fur the stem and stern frames have, as usual in these very large ships, required a longer time to make than was ex pected, but the lower part of the stem has now been in its place for some mouths, and the stern post, weighing some 35 tons, was finally erected last month. The remaining parts of the stern and the rudder-post will be complete in a few weeks, and then the extreme bow and stern of the vessel will be rapidly clused.in. Large quantities of the 51-inch armour plates have been received, and as all the machinery for preparing and fitting them has been com plete and at work for tome time, it is expected that rapid progress will be made with fixing them to the sides of the frigate. The winter weather will not have the effect of in terfering with the progress of the work to the extent usually to be feared in this climate, as the whole ship and dock is covered over with a shed, under which are placed the travelling cranes and other appliances for carrying on the work. • SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 o'CLocK. ITALY. A correspondent of the Opinione of Turin, writ ing from Naples, states that the extreme party there are selling what they call Venice bonds at two francs each, for a revolutionary fund, and that upwards of 19,000 of these bonds have already been disposed of. THIRD EDITION SUN OFFICE, .EVEN O'CLCCK. SPOB, PING IN TELLIGENCE. —This Day, LICHFIELD RACES—TiIIs DAY. EY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH, CITY STAKES. Sir Watkin ..... Jewel ................... Four ran. STAFFORDSHIRE STAKES. Erin-go-Bragh ............ -- Wynustay ......... Sails, Four ran. TAAIWORTH PLATE. ******** ••• * :: ....................... 1 ........... . '2 ................. 3 Pony Peru, WELTER CUP. Golden Drop Keane Four ran. CHAMPAGNE STAKES. Dawdle Practitioner Pretty Girl filly Eight ran. TATTERSALL'S—Tms EVENING. ST. LEGER. 9 b 2 agst Lord Clifden (offered) sto 1 agst Ranger (offered) 6to 1 agst Queen Bertha (taken) 100 to 8 agst Golden Pledge (taken and offered) 30 to 1 agst Blue Mantle (taken and offered) 33 to 1 eget National Guard (offered) 33 to 1 agst Donnybrook (offered) 40 to 1 agst Mogador (offered) 50 to 1 agst Saccharometer (offered) 1000 to 5 agst Pratique (offered) DERBY. 20 to 1 agst Blair Athol (offered)) 40 to 1 agst Claremont (taken) 50 to 1 agst Coast Guard (taken) ARRIVALS AT EXETER. Costa, Mcestissima filly, Cachuca, Hengist, Oberon, Vcr. bens, Lady di Vergy, Faith, Barmaid, Outlaw, Tonio, Heber, Dictator, Pelios, Princess Vocqsal, Golden Dust, Surbiton Hill, Ring, and Rappel. THE MOORS AND FORESTS. (From the Inverness Courier.) We have little to add to the reports from the moors and forests which we have already given. The sport is generally above an average. Disease is an exception, and its prevalence is very irregular. For instance, the following statement refers to a shooting south of the canal, where the disease was expected, and in the midst of an affected district— " Our grouse, as I expected, are numerous, and very good and healthy. We have been out six days, two guns shooting together, and have killed on an average each day 23 brace of grouse, besides hares and small game, including four brace of woodcocks in one day. Black game is a little better than last year; the grouse are very strong." On the other hand, some very unfavour able accounts have been published. We observe by a letter in the Held that Captain. Horatio Ross lays it down as an invariable rule that disease recurs at regular iutet vals of 7 years. The experience of the last few years, and particularly of the current sea son, in this neighbourhood, does not warrant any such position, as disease has appeared and disap peared in this county with an irregularity and mystery which it has baffled sportsmen and keepers to anticipate or guard against. In a pri vate letter Captain Ross alleges what is very likely to be the case, namely, that few people know at the commencement of an attack when the birds are diseased. He says, "If I see even one feather near the tail of a particular colour, I am certain to find the worm in some part of the en trails. I have seen my keeper wrong a dozen times this year. He has fancied the bird all right, and on dissecting it it was diseased." By accumulation of minute evidence of this sort something may be ultimately discovered which may throw light on the subject. _ _ _ Among notes of sport we have received the fol lowing :—At Easter Kyllachy, Mr. Kidston and Mr. Ellis shot 32 brace of grouse on Monday week; 231; brace on Wednesday ; and on Thursday 18 brace. On Monday, 24th inst., Mr. E. A. Latham, M.P., Mr. Tow, Coul Cottage; Mr. Fenton, and Mr. Macleod of Cadboll, shot 49 brace of grouse, 1 snipe and 4 hares, on the Alness moors. Mr. .Fraser, of Bunchrew, at Upper Dunean, on the 12th b a gged 16 brace of grouse, and on the 14th, 16 brace. On Thursday Major Wardlaw of Bell maduthy shot 9 brace of grouse and 2 black game. Up to Monday Messrs. Bulteel and Hartman, at Dunmaglass, shot 320 brace of grouse ; and up to Tuesday Messrs. Macdonald, Morris, and Mackil lop had bagged, at Wyvis, 450 brace. A correspondent, writing from Ballater, says-- "Your sporting readers will, no doubt, like to hear that the finest stag ever seen in this part of the Grampians was killed on the 11th by Mr. Naylor Leyland, on Ben-na-Burd, which is part , of the forest belonging to the shooting of Corindaven Lodge. It had a fine clean head of 15 points, and was a remarkably h e avy animal. Mr. Naylor Leyland's sport since he has been down is as fol lows :—August 11, two stags, one of eight, the other of 15 points, both with clean heads. 12th, 19 brace of grouse and 2 hares, in two hours' shooting. 13th, 414 brace of grouse, in an afternoon's shooting. The grouse are plentiful and well grown ; and there are more clean heads in the forest than ever remember at so early a period of the season. This shooting has been rented for the last 20 years by Captain Leyland, who shoots it every season." Lord Cowper arrived at Cluny Lodge, Glenmoris ton, on the 20th, and has already had good sport. On the 22d he brought down two stags. On Fri day the Hon. H. Cowper killed three stags. Up to Saturday last Captain Horatio Ross and party had 22 stags. The Earl of Stamford shot at Kinrara a fine stag with a head of 11 tines ; Sir A. Chichester, Bart., one at Glenelg ; and Mr. H. Akroad, Aultnaharra, two stags, one of which had a fine royal head : these four heads have been for warded to Mr. W. A. Macleay, bird- atuffer, for pre servation. On Monday, at Guisachan, Mr. Majori banks succeeded in bringing down a stag with R head of eight points. Mr. Basset also shot one at Kinlochewe. The animal had a beautiful head of 11 long, beautiful tines; the horns which were of 32 inches span, were perfectly clear of velvet. The other day at Lockmore, Colonel Baker brought down a fine stag with a head of eight points. At Invereshie, on Tuesday, Henry Chap lin, Esq., shot a large stag, with a royal head of the following dimensions, viz.:—Span, 31i inches ; length, 341 inches; thickness,s4 inches. The whole of the 12 tines are very long and much tapered, and the surface of the antlers is as rough as those of a wood deer. The head has been sent to Mr. Snowie to be preserved. At Guisachan, on Friday, Mr Pallente shot a stag while on a visit to Mr. D. C. Marjoribanks ; Mr. J. G. Leigh brought down a fine animal with a royal bead at Strathconon ; Lord Lovat and the Master of Lovat chat five stags in Gleustrathfarar last week. M. NADAR'S AERIAL MACIIINE.—M. Nadar's newly-invented aerial machine, which is occupying consi derable attention in Paris, is already nearly half finished Its dimensions are so enormous that it will have accommo dation, it is declared for lucre than a hundred passengers. The first aerial journey is to be to Baden. N. Nadar wil call his balloon " Quttod-Meme." __ _. .....,......... By advices from Ilanaburg the priced gold is 425 per mark f and the short exch ange on L on don is 13.61 per .C 1 sterling. tandard gold at the Flglisli Mint price is, therefore, about , 7-10 ` 11s Yei: Cent. dearer 111 London than in Hamburg, ~; _~ p . "> Eli