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

11M.... -- 1110NEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Discount firms are finding good employment for their money. The demand for accommodation is general and very active, and brokers are enabled to obtain the full charge of 4 per cent. for the best short-dated bills. Besides the want of capital for trade which continues to show favourable signs of expansion, large sums are being daily absorbed for the new loans and joint stock companies. The opinion, therefore, that money must ere long be dearer is founded upon good data. The directors of the Land 11Iertgage Bank of India will proceed to make the allotment as early 11 8 possible, but in consequence of the unprecedented Lumber of applications, a delay of some days must necessarily elapse before the letters can be posted. The report of the intended appearance of a similar undertaking is incorrect. The progress of business in the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets during the last few days has been moderately active. Tea, sugar, and coffee have each been in fair request at fully late prices. Rice has been dull, while the operations in the tal low market have been on a limited scale for both present and former delivery at about previous quo tations. The Committee of the Stock Exchange have ap pointed the 16th inst. for a special settlement in the shares of the following undertakings; the first two are only to be officially marked :—The scrip of the por cent. Colombian Government Loan ; the Lon don and Paris Hotel Company ; the Clarence Hotel Company; the Nice Hotel Company, and the A shares of the Commercial Navigation Company of India. Two O'CLOCK. No alteration has occurred this morning in the English Stock 'Market, although the business trans acted has been rather lsge than for the past two days. Consols, however, are somewhat heavy, at their former values, being 92i 93 for money, and 93 1 1 for the account. The New Threes and P.educed Annuities are 911 -2-; Bank Stocir. is 233 235 ; Exchequer Bills remain at par to 3s. prem. ; and the 30 Years Annuities, 146. The 5 per Cent. India Loan is 1081 109 ; the 4 per Cent. Enfaced Paper, 981 ; and the Debentures are 99i 1001. There is more quietude and steadiness in the Foreign Market to-day, the operations being very curtailed. Turkish 6 per Cents. 1858, are 701 ; do., 1862, 714 ; do., Consolides, 531 1 1; Greek, 331 34; do., Coupons, 151 164; Mexican, 42 i; Spanish Passive, 344 35; do., Certificates, 13i 141-; Internal Passive, 30 4; Portuguese, 491 ; Italian, 721 ; Russian, 934; Egyptian, 1001 101 ; the Confederate Loan, 63 65 ; and the Colombian Loan, par to Prem. In the Railway Share Market the operations have been of the most limited description, and prices have generally shown a downward move ment. Caledonian and South Eastern have receded 63 ., and Stockton and Darlington, 10s. The Foreign and Colonial undertakings have been in very limited favour at barely previous rates. Bank Shares have remained inactive. Hindus tan, China, and Japan have receded to 272; Lon don Joint Stock, to 361 ; Standard of British South Africa, to 23! ; India Land Mortgage Bank arc quoted 31 I, prem. ; Anglo-Austrian, I 1 prem. ; Privileged Bank of Austria, par; and East Lon don, 1* to 2 prem. In the Miscellaneous Market Royal Mail Steam shares are steady at 74 75 ; and Discount Corpora tion are quoted 31, 31 prem. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Dank Stock 233 5 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 Per Cent. Consols Annuities Nero 3 per Cent. A nnu iti es ‘ ,. -L `ew 31 per Cent. Annuities ." ew 21 per Cent. A nnu iti es 0 per Cent. Annuities 4 unnities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880.. Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885. 141 Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908. India Stock DitttDit o 5 pet Cent Ditto 4 per Cent.. Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 p er Cent —_ Ditto 5 per Cent _ Ditto 51 per Cent Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct., 1863 Ditto ditto April, 1864 99i Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 100} Ditto Bonds £l,OOO — Ditto under £1,000.. Bank Stock for Account Consols for Account, Oct. 8.. 93i India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent — Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2/ per Cent 3 pm par Ditto £5OO Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto 1859 991 13 razilian 5 per Cent Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 B uenos Ayres 6 per Cent Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) Chilian 6 per Cent. Ditto 4} per Cent. Cuba, 6 per Cent. Ditto Account.... Danish 4 per Cent., 1863 Ditto 3 per Cent., 1825.. Dut ch, 2i per Cent., Ex. 12 Guilders Ditto, Provisonal Land Warrant 4,l,'Yptian 7 per Cent lOl 100} Ditto, Second Issue - G.. xi quador New Consolidated. 1 per Cent.. Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons.. 33i 44 Ditto Account Ditto Coupons Ditto Account Pruatemala 5 per Cent. Italian b per cent.(Maremmana Railway) Mexican 3 per Cent . Ditto Account ......... ............ 2 Moorish Imp er i a l 5 per Cent .... New Granada ................ Ditto 2 per Ce n t. Ditto Deferred 9f Ditto Land Warr a nt s (H ec t ares) 7± Peruvian 3 per Cent. D itto Account .. -- • Ditto Acco • Ditto 41 per Cent., 1862 unt Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859 .. PoDr t uguese 3 per Cent., 1853 itto Ditto 3 Account .... Ditto A per Ce nt " 1866, '7, '9, '6O, 62.. 491 . . . . ...... • • Russian 5 per Cen.t.., .X . St — Ditto 4i per Cent 1850 .. 901 Ditto ........... . 1860 .. Ditto 5 per Cent. 1862 ........ Sardinian 5 per Cent Ditto Account. Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Account .......... Ditto New Deferred ... Ditto Acc0unt.............. .... Ditto Passive Ditto Account Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded Ditto Account S wedish, 4 per Cent 92 aurttish 6 per Cent. 1854 Ditto Account .. D itto 6 per Cent. 1858 Account Ditte, £lOO Bonds D itto 6 per Cent. 1862 D itto Account D itto 6 per C ent. 1863, £59 10s Od pd — V ,_e to Guaranteed, 4 per Cent nezuela 3 per Cent. Ditto Account.... Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 Ditto A ccount .. Dividends on the above payable in London. Bel gian 41 p er Cent., Ex. 25f. ........ vetch 2i per Cent., Ex. 12 Gull — _ Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificatks iFtareiniaculi Rentes, 3 •per Cent., Ex. 25f 67f 75c , per Cent. 1.861, Ex. 25 francs 72i Ditto 4- ccount .. Zonsols TWO O'CLOCK. Ditto,c e o °ll "uteY . 92i 3 „_, .................. Day, LONDON, Oct. 13.---Wind Easterly; moderate br this day at noon—South rain. eeze, an d cloudy weather, with -....____ (HY NIAHNETIC TELEGRAPH.) G'ltAvv.s'ENo, Tuesday Morning. Arrived. Oct. 12—Miiitand, fr om Quebec ; Sylphiden) lilucher Finkin, and Earl Grey, trom Riga ; heluingborg ; Marys, from p' prom Johanna Attena, Anna from rota St, Petersburg. _ Arried, Oct. 13—Unclo Billy, from Rotten ; Active, front 1-lolaultadt ; Ocean, frool Scotkholm ; llelen Andreas, front - Vevier ; Sundsvall. DUL, Taesday Morning. An chored —Chanticleer, from Lo_ndon, for Jamaica ; Mar garet Mitchell, from London, for Nqwport. Pas sed—Flarra Seekit, from Akyab, for London. Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. - Sales about 2000 bales. About id. advance spin. Import,, 3,440 ; preyiously, 1,478. SHARE MARKETS—This day, ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Paid.' Closing 1 Bu s i ne s b Share Railways. Price. ( done. . 1 Bir„ Wol., and Str. Val. Caledonian lt c B I o r °l Y f r B s t tt tl . eS l i, l andena Bandon? I x yd e ni i t Cornwall A gets no dil Do Do. B fill 6p c.p been paid to 11. Dublin & Belfast June.' Dun.,Perth,& Ab. June,l Edinburgh & Glasgo w .' Glasg. and S. Western. Great Eastern, Ord. stk Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian at GreatNorthof Scotland Great Northern.— • • Do A stock Do if do Gt. S. and W. of Ireland Great Western Do Str Val Yorkshire stool, Lancashire & London and Blackwah Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & Nor'h Western Lon. & See.th Western Man., Slid., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle Do * slimes Metropolitan Midland Do New 8 t F4} 81 84 F 6 118 k /191 1181 7 74 n 40 10 17 07 TJ 108 110 51 52 48i 49i 74 64 1251 i26i 127 129 134 136 100 it 2 • fsi 66 110/ 111: 71 73 1111 112 43t til 102} 102: 101 1(2 45 16 130 131 127} i2B; 14 11.;, , 96 08 Do Binning. S 6 Derby .lid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. 4 -- sliitie; Beat .. Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eaatern—Bcrwie►, Do, G.N.E. purehas( Do Lecds 55401 26 t 8 1011 102 57 58 88 882 D 800 York INorth London Do New North StatTordshire N. and S. IV. Junction Scottish Central 117 12) 1 2 78 79 11} 111 124 126 44 46 100 102 (Scot N. E., Aber, stock Do Scot. Mid. stock Shrews. and Welchpoo, Shropshire Union South Dev on ( South Eastern South Wales IS. York. and River Dun Staines, Wok.,and Wok Stockton & Darlingtot, Do Do New, 1.86 G Taff Vale.. . ....... Do B 50 52 32} 33} 06 061 08 100 t 4 i 0 366 376 86 96 o 7i 72 p Ib2 157 4 65t 21 3i 131 Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria eta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall I W. Hartlepool Har.&R West Midland -Oxford Do Newport Do Hereford 86 DO 165 170 20 28 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Closing share tt 100 Utantie &St LawreLawrence, all 62 44 63 liom.,Baroda.Cent Inn *tk lOO it6j 1071 1074 Gu. 5 per °cut— ...... 20 Do. New 20 Do. E. Shares.. •tOl Buffalo anu Laaeliuron all 6 61 10 Do. Preference .... all 84 94 100 Buffalo,Brant o tGodria to , p. et. bds. Aug,. 1, 1872 100 Do. do. July 1, 1873 100 100 Do. do. June 1, M7l 100 st Cleutta.&S.Eastn.(l.lt,, 100 1061 1071 st Cape Town t Dock Sem 100 lt 4 106 stock itastn. Bengal gu. sp. t 100 108) 1091 stock East Indian. gu. sp. c. 106 107 181 108 20 Do. do. G Ext lO 14 lip 114 20 Do. do. H do. stock Grand Trunk of Canada Diu 224 23j 100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds all 76 18 76 100 Do. ao. deterred all 62 61 100 Do. 2d Pref. Bonus all 69 71 100 Do. do. deferred all 55 58 100 Do. 3d Pi et stock 1 0 0 Do. do. deferred all 42 41 100 Do. 4th I'ref. stock... all 30 32 30 1 1 100 Do. do. deferred all 25 27 stook Gtlndlarenta.grua.sp.e lOO 108 109 1084 8 SO Do. New gua. sp. o l2 14 11t 20 Do. January, 1862.. 8 1,4 stock Gt. South.of India (Lim) guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 106 107 204 Gt. W. of Canada Shares all 101 f 0 104 204 Do. New 10u Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt all 96 98 100 Do. 54 p. c. do. '77-8.... all 88 90 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 4 4 p stock Madras. guar., 5p.0. .. 100 106 lu7 stock Do. 44 p. c. Extensior 100 101 102 stock Dc.4* d 0........ 100 18 100 2 0 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 -- stock llelb.Corp. 6p. c. Buds. 100 50 Nlelb. k lobson's Bay. all 58 19 59 100 Do. 7 p.c. tlortg. Bds. all SO Newßrurt...swickt.t Cam's, Class A and B. all 3 6 N.ltl.C'da6 pc Ist pi bds 100 82 84 stock &hide .... •• • • (100 1065 1074 107 at 5 Do. Delhi i i.tu 103 106 107 ( Do. d 0..........„ z 2 4 115 21 20 Do. Puujaub all ——p st Do. Do. s'oek Do. Indus. St. Flo ) k.lOO 102 104 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. ts p.e.J a AtJ ul! 1877-84 —; Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug. 100 101 1(3 Do. dp. 0. Mar. & Sept. 100 tOt 163 Do. Ep. c. Jan.&July. 100 P 2 94 Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 92 94 Cape G.Hope, 6p 0,1873 100 108 110 Do.Ap &Oct. 1380 100 109 111 Do. 1896 100 110 112 iDo. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 113 115 Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 100 113 315 Mauritius 6 per cent .. 100 107 108 Natal Gov. 6 per cent.. 100 tvi 112 N.B.Gov. p.0.,1 a.&.1u1) 100 10t 105 Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. 100 - IN. S.W. Gov. 5 p 1.,180( 100 101 102 Do. Ip. c.,18,1 to LI( 100 102 103 Do. d0.,1888 &upwdo 100 102 103 1021 2 'New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 110 112 i Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. sterling, 1873 lOO IC4 106 Queensland Gcv. 6p. c lOO 1:1 113 iS. Aus G6p.0.1878,1t up lOO 112 114 - Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.4l&July 100 108 110 Do. to 6 0.c..A.u..t00t.. 100 110} 11011110 BRITISH MINES. 2 (Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 f fd R;liflord Amalgamated.. 36 38 Devcn G. Con..,"ravist. ; 1 515 655 East Bassett (Illogan).. 30 74 77 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd. 52. 5d par. East Caradon ...... 1.14.6 28 19 East Cam Brea... 3.4.0 7% Vi E. Wllt,ussel (Tavistk.) 8.6.6 27 35 - IGamASt.Autrin(Gwen.) 584 13 15 !Great South Tolgus.... 17s 54 57 'G. Wheal Vor (1Ielston) 40 94 104 !Grenville 111er:4'8-Foot 8.1'4 36 38 Hingston Downs 4. 8.0 2 25 I Lady Bertha Marke Valley.. 4 Myndy Iron Ore (Lim ) 24 15 7c; New Setun 192 leo no - - North Downs 24 11 2 N.Wh'i Basset (Mogan 1.17.0 27 3% N'orth Wheal Crafty l'ar Consols (st. Blazey) 15 4 5 20 t'rovidenee(Uny Lelnt.) 10.6.7 13 45 "South Caradon(St.Cleer 15 415 425 S. Carn Brea (Illogan) 5.15.6 11 2 - '.Wheal Fran. (Mogan, 18.1,9 60 65 (Stray Park 5 nimar Slim& Lead Min 44 4 - fin Crort 9 19 20 I West Basset (Illogan) l5 95 105 1W C radon (Liskeard) 5 21 23 I West Seton Wheal Basset (Illogan) 55 724 774 Weal Buller(tedruth) 5 25 30 Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) 2.0.6 WhealLudcott Wheal Mary Ann (Men ) 8 8% 96 Wheal Cleton 584 195 205 ViTheal Treiawney (Lis ) 7 21 23 Wheal Union 3.17 I 21 3% PRER SARES. Great Northern, 5 per F cent., E red. , H at 5 per cent. pm., 107} Midland 4I per cent, pf. stk. rd., 10 3 LINES LEASED Al FIXED RENTALS. Lancaster and Carlisle,:2lo4 London, Tilbury, and Southend, 99 a Preston and Wyre, 44fr Ditto, shares, A, 22} Wilts and Somerset, v 3 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San Francisco (tim) gua. 7 per cent., 20 Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidi n), 12& 1 San Paulo him.), mt. 7 per cent., Ditto (all), 221 FOREIGN MINES. St. John del Rey (lim.), 551 JOINT-STOCK RANKS, ikgra and United Service (lim.), 120 Australasia, 77 6 Ditto, new, 38 Bank of New Zealand, 13 / Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 38 Consolidated Bans, lira., 101 / Continental, lim., 10 English and Irish (lim.), 91 Ilindustan, china, and .Japan (lim.), 27/ Imperial Bank (Jim.), 231 London and Brazilian (lim.), 481 London, Buenos Ayres, and River Plate, 494 London and County, slt London Joint Stock, 3 61 London and South American, lim., 31 Metrop. and Prov. Bank (lim.), 181 New Zealand, lim., 2 Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi aim.), 6 Standard of British South Africa (lim.), 23! MISCELLANEOUS. Berlin Water Works, lira., 9} Ceylon Company, 7/ Gen. Credit and Finance of London, lim., 9; International Financial Society, lim., 9 1 Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour), 4i Ditto, 6 per cent. Bonds rd. ,570 issued 90, -89 Joint stock Discount, 64 London Financial Association, lim., 130 I Oriental Inland Steam, lim., 3 Royal Mail Steam, 75 4 The Price of Gold. The quotation of gold at Paris is about per mille pan., and the short exchange on London is 25.25 per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3 I7s. 1014 per ounce fbr standard gold, it appear that gold is about 3-10 the f er cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 425 per mark and the short exchange on London is 13.6} per £1 sterling.. standard gold at the English Mirt price is, therefore, abut 6-10ths per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg, The course of exchange at New York on London fop bills at 60 days' sight is 15:1 to 1531 per cent., and the premium on gold is about 38 per cent. At these rates there is twat on the Importation of gold from the United states. 13.14. t9.1&4 12.10 THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 13, 1863. LAW INTELLIGENCE.---This Day. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.) IN RE BAKER-•A BETTING MAN IN A DIFFICULTY. This bankrupt was described as of Notting-hill, out of business, and this was a meeting for last examination and discharge. On the case being first called on the bankrupt did not answer, and Mr. Godfrey, from the office of Mr. Aldridge, said that he understood that the bankrupt was a betting man, and had gone to the races; and after waiting for up. wards of half an hour his Honour ordered an adjournment sine die, but shortly afterwards the bankrupt entered the court and declared that he had been about the place all the morning, into Mr. Commissioner Holroyd's Court, round about, and was of aware that his honour was sitting in this (Mr. Commissioner Fonblanque'e) Court; besides, he was almost dead and almost blind. His Honour said that eyesight had very little to do with it, and he might have heard his name called, After further delay, Mr. Aldridge having arrived, his Honour consented to hear the case. Mr. Aldridge said the bankrupt was a betting man, and he had been required to furnish a cash account from January, 1563, and he now accounted for £BO won on Maccaroni, and losses to about the same amount. He (Mr. Aldridge) did not see that any further information could be obtained. The solicitors to the petitioning creditors were of the same opinion. The bankrupt, in answer to questions by the learned Commissioner, said he only betted slightly, and dil a little on commission. He was not a professional betting man, but did it because he was out of businees. He had been in trade as a corn and seed merchant, and failed in 1859, owing £15,000, and he assigned property which reaiised £i,500, but some of the creditors would not accept the com position ; others had received 4s. 61. in the pound. His Honour, under these circumstances, considered the bankrupt was entitled to his discharge. RE C tTON. This bankrupt is a cheneille and umbrella manufacturer, of Chester-street, Spitaifields, and this was a meeting for examination and discharge. Mr. W. R. Buchanan, Basinghall-street, was for the bankrupt, who passed without opposition, LITERATURE, The ../Eneid of Virgil: In English Blank Verse. By John Miller. One vol., pp. 508. Macmillan and Co. The circumstances under which this remarkable translation of Virgil's great epic masterpiece, has been written and published are very peculiar. It was penned as the solace to a bitter grief, by one who has conspicuously evidenced, through this very medium, his ripened scholarship, and his many rare natural endowments. A foot note upon one of the fly leaves briefly apprizes the reader that the work afforded its author three sears' daily occupa tion. It appears now posthumously. As in the instance referred to by us only yesterday, when reviewing the posthumous publication of a volume of poems by Mr. Francis Weedon, a young man-of letters, prematurely deceased about a year or two since, after the manifestation, by him, of very considerable abilities as an aspirant to literary distinction—so also in the more notable in stance before us, the generous hand of encourage ment appears to have been extended by Lord Macaulay with a view to hearten onwards, thereby, a comparatively humble fellow labourer. It is true that the name of that great critic, poet, historian, and essayist is not here once mentioned, as that of the one who thought so well of Mr. Miller's daring enter prise, in undertaking to produce, as he has here pro duced, a complete translation into English blank verse of Virgil's .1E aeid. Macaulay's name, we say, is not here actually given as the promoter or approver of that bold enterprise. But it is, nevertheless, quite plainly enough intimated. No one can be in one instant's doubt, as to who it is, the editors of the volume under notice actually means, when they re mark, in the course of their few introductory obser vations upon Mr. Miller and his translation, that " he had been moved by the favourable judgment of a late noble critic, justly celebrated as among the ablest of his time, to contemplate its publication." These little unlooked-fer revelations of Lord Nlacaulay's readiness to allow the claims of a gene rous literary brotherhood to be recognised, are, we cannot but think, very charming indeed to contem plate. They betoken the large sympathies of the great-hearted man, as well as the keen and ready perception of merit of all kinds and of all degrees, by one whose radiant genius as a critic was so peculiarly formed to appreciate it. In its way, Mr. Miller's translation of " The .2E aeid" of Virgil into English blank verse is as extraordi nary a performance as Mr. Worsley's recently com pleted English version of "Toe Odyssey" of Homer in the Spenserian stanza. Essentially different of their kind as are these two productions, there is, it appears to us, something very kindred in the endow ments of the two men by whom they have been might, we are sa ti s fi e d, produced. M r . W ors l ey quite as readily (had he chosen to do so) have syl labled his translation of " The Odyssey" in flowing and melodious blank verse, as Mr. Miller has here done by "The .2E acid." Of this many of that young poetic scholar's other metrical writings yield to us, as it seems, the fullest possible evidence. And so again vice versa might it be said on the other hand, that had Mr. Miller so listed, he, upon his part, might as easily have done by" The .2E neid" as Mr. Worsley has done by "The Odyssey"— turning it, that is to say, from Coe original into the stately and elaborate stanza glorified by the genius of Spenser, and thence called after Spenser's name. That it is, in fact, precisely as we have said, let the exquisite Prefatory Stanzas in this volume, be tween pp. xi. and xxiii. (each inclusively) attest. Spenserian stanzas they are—surpassing, for that matter, in their facile grace and beauty even the ablest penned by the accom plished translator of "The Odyssey," And in saying this, we speak not here in any way invi diously —for it should be borne in mind that these Spenserian stanzas by John Miller are the original utterances of his own thoughts and feelings, whereas the Spenserian stanzas referred to, as from the hand of Philip Worsley, are penned throughout by that gifted writer under the weight of all the responsibilities appertaining to a conscientious translator. Turning, however, to the text of this careful translation into English Blank Verse of Virgil's ornate and lovely masterpiece, as it has been here penned deliberately by the able scholar, who expired, it would seem, very soon indeed after its completion, we find it to be as conscien tious as a version, and yet for the most part as unfettered to a slavish conformity to the original, as even the best parts of Mr. Worsley's masterly version of the Odyssey. It would appear, indeed, that Mr. Miller, while turning the har monious verse of Virgil into English, endeavoured as sedulously to avoid dwindling to the mere, line for line, word for word, bald literalness peculiar to some of the translators of the " sEneid," as to avoid expanding to the equally reprehensible paraphrase of others. His vigilant glance is turned alternately, equably, intermediately, here to the Scylla, there to the Charybdis. He steers his bark, as a translator, with consummate adroitness and apparently with an easy precision, as remarkable for its nicety as for its precision, that as he passes be tweeen the two perils where his predecessors have so often suffered shipwreck, he is almost always, so to speak, equedistant from each. In one of our weekly contemporaries on Saturday, we observe a fragmentary passage of Mr. Miller's version of the " eßaeicl." contrasted with the parallel passage from six other earlier versions of the same celebrated ori ginal. These half dozen being in effect the Earl of Surrey's (1557), Filter and Twine's (1607), Dry den's (1683), Pitt's (1740), with two others far more modern, namely, the French of M. Delille and the English of Dr. Kennedy, well known, this last, to the present generation as the learned head-master of Shrewsbury. The particular passage (a very brief one) selected for this telling contrast or comparison, is no other than that furnished by the opening lines of the second book of the " sEneid :" lines thus faithfully translated by !,jr. Miller, as quoted by the Athenceurn Silent were all and turned their eyes intent, When sire /Emu from his high couch began : 0 mighty Queen, thou orderest to renew Unutterable sorrow ; how the Greeks The Trojan splendours and that hapless realm O'erthrew; those dark calamities which I Both saw and largely shared, We are tempted to transcribe the very same passage thus given by our contemporary, because, in the first instance, we would fain add to the series of contrasts supplied by the Athenceum, another still more apposite in its significance than any of the six already enumerated, to wit the followin g JOHN OGILBY, 1650. All silent and with deep attention sate, Then thus the Prince spake from his bed of State : Unheard-of griefs, great Queen, you bid renew; How Troy's unhappy Realm the Greeks o'erthrew ; Whose sad destruction I myself have seen, And in her loss have no small sharer bee n . As literal even as old John Ogilby's, John Miller's version previously given above, reads, it will be allowed, quite as flowingly. And Yet . — (this being in truth our chief reason for referring to identically the same passage selected by our contemporary for quotation)—and yet there are flaws in Mr. Miller's version that we find not even in Old John Ogilby. That very second line of the second book moves not onward with the trailing sweep of the Virgilian toga: There being besides that, a jumble, so to speak, in the music of the blank verse in the echoing sug gestion of an unintended rhyme, furnished by the close of the third line and the o p enin g of the sixth in the words renew and o'erthretv. An unlucky fragment in effect, it certainly does appear to us to be—to have been thus selected from with a View to its this version of the Xaeid, espe cial commendation. Rather than that pavan e i n particular we would give by preference almost any other. Opening the volume hap-hazard, IA its say, for example, this fragment from the ninth book—. Euryalus rolled in death ; O'er his !*ins limbs went forth his blood, and back Upon his shoulder drooped his neck declined : As when a purple flower cut by the share Pales all away in dying; or as when With weary neck the poppies droop their head With chance o'eicharged with rain. Enough, however, if we add after that one flavour ous morsel, as we may call it, from this ripened fruit of the poetic and scholarly labour of John Miller, the last, and not least gifted among the many translators of Virgil who have already lived and died and flourished—enough if we add that, regarded apart from its high merit as a translation, if it can possibly be so regarded, that is apart from those peculiar merits, it is intrinsically, so to speak, as an English poem, pure and simple—a work that may be read throughout with delight and re membered afterwards with a long-enduring ad miration. MARKETS---This Day. -- HAY MARK2TS. S MITIIPIELT).-I‘IeaCIOW hay, £3 OR to £4 10s Od ; clover, £4 Os to £5 17s dG ; and straw, Gi to £1 14s per load, Trade dull, OuAtasERLAND.•--Ileadone hav, £3 Os to £4 103; clove*, £4 Os to £5 17, Gd ; and straw, £1 8s to £1 14s per load. A slow demand. Wort'EctrA,PEL —Meadow bay, £3 Os to £4 103 ; clover, £/ Os to £6 Os; and straw, Ll 7s to £1 14s per load. Trade inactive. COLONIAL. TEA —A firmer tone has prevailed, and good and fine qualities of Coagou have fully sustained previous prices. SUGAR.—A rather active business has been done in \Vest India, and late prima are well supported. In the refined market there ars a few inquiries at previous quotations. COFFEE.—The demand for colonial descriptions has been steady, and, in some instances, n slight advance has been maintained. The stocks on band, compared with those of l as s year, still show an increase. E icE —A limited amount of business has bean done, without any material change in prices. TALLOW, ---The market has continued without material change as regards prices. P.Y.C., on the spot and for December delivery, is eitleted 46s per cwt. The French Chambers are to meet on the 9th of November. The real business will not commence till a month later. WRECK OF A STEAMBOAT ON TEES BAR.—It was reported yesterday in The Sun that the steamer Energy, of Middlesboro', had been totally wrecked on Tees Bar on Saturday last. We also added, on the authority of the Rev. John Lawson, hon. secr e t ar y o f th e S ea t on C arew branch &f the National L;feboat Institution, who wrote late on Saturday evening, that although apprehension had been entertained in the morning that the crew of three men of the s teamer had been lost, yet that it was subsequently dis covered that the poor men had been picked up by a Prus sian vessel far out at sea, and that they had afterwards been sa fely brought into the T e e s . S ome o f our morn i ng contem poraries of to-day report that the crew had perished, but, such is fortun a t e ly no t th e case . iiT haEppci K I' Y OF A DUTCH V ESSEL ON THE G OOD W IN R sANDs....-WALMER, KENT, Monday Night.—Yes terday, w hile it was blowi ng h ar d f rom t h e S . S.W., an d a heavy e sin was running, s i gna l s o f di stress were o b ser v e d to rday, from a vessel on the G oo d w i n S an d s . The Weimer be flying lifeboat, of the National Lifeboat Institution, was at once manned, and put off to the help of the crew. On arriving at the Sands, it was found that the vessel was the Ketch Snips," of Amsterdam, and that she was leaking fast, both her pumps being choked. The captain, fearing his vessel would break up, requested the lifeboat to remain by him till his vessel was in safety. The lifeboat assisted in the Ketch off the Sands, a n d th e Ramsgate steam soon afterwards, th e cap t a i n emp l o y e d her to tow the Ketch into that ha r b our , w h ere s h e arr i ve d a b ou t i. 30 a.m., with loss of anc h or and chain. tguegtti:rgriving i N E W WORK ON MEXICO—Among the new pub lications promised by M essrs. M axwe ll an d C o., i s one that w ill be anxiou s ly l oo k ed for by both the genera l reader and the politician, from the nature of its topic and the interest created for it by events actually in progress and a pproaching a c li max. This is no less t h an a work on Mexico by M. Michel Ch eva li er , w ho holds the gradually highest rank in France as a political economist, and is be sides known to Europe as an acute thinker and an elegant writer. To his other qualifications for this particular task, M. Chevalier adds that of a personal acquaintance with the country; Ancient and Modern," the title o f the th re e fo v re olu it i; " nMoewxiinnn'the printer's hands—will form a delightful text-book of information when that part of the world becomes the great topic of discussion, both in the press and at the clubs, as must be the case more and more before the Archduk e Maximilian is definitively seated on the throne Montezum a . T he past, the present, and the future handled in an easy and lucid style, by one ethr on are da y,disputed , claim to the three-f old title of historian, politician, and philoso p her will the not be present SLANG.--la slang is assimilated with lamentable facility. It enters largely into the composition o f Parliamentary wit; it helps to point the style and enforce the arguments of writers in the press. People now are not ." lengthy." courageous —they are "plucky." No thing is ever long—it 18 We form resolutions no t i mme diately , but " right away ;" we enter into engage ments "on our own hook." The desire to write in a popu lar style is the cause of this, and the public encourage it. slanginess is considered smart, and indicative of a knowledge o f a ffairs and soeicty. It is amusing to observe the complacency and quiet self esteem with which most men will utter a cant phrase of the day, as if they had themselves invented it on the spot, and it were something superla tively brilliant and felicitous. "Neither you, nor I, nor an other man," has induced many a f oo li s h fellow to think y himself a born wit. "How's your p oor f eet r' a year ago cheated half the natives of Cockaigne into the belief that they were gifted w ith a special genius for repartee. The heaviest face kin dled with unwont e d d e li ght, the dullest voice chuckled with conscious fun, as the words came forth. And every one laughed, and was fully persuaded that he had heard the sarcasm for the first time, and was delight fully surprised its readiness, point, a n d app li ca bili ty. This, however, i s a habit of the un e d ucated, and has not yet infected the higher classed of our periodical literature, though it is unpleasantly conspicuous in the cheap comic 1 Dickens's All the Year _Round," just lourna pub lished, s.— THE REV. W. BEECHER' S R EFINED TASTE is thus commented upon by the 'Spectator :—He stated the other day, at G l asgo w, that wine was early regarded as a nuisance by himself and his broth ers, that he had never seen rum in his father's house; th a t a man who is a Christian is in blossom, that he himself is in blossom, that he has said offensive things because he has said things "folk needed and didn't want," that Abraham didn't put Isaac on the altar " half eo quick" as he will put his sons on the altar of his country, and, therefore, we conclude, that he is twice as much the friend of God a s Ab ra h am . We have no wish to undervalue a father's sacrifices in sending one son after another to this war, and, no doubt, Mr. Beecher thinks it holy; but he certainly takes a very offensive way to persuade Englishiuen that it is so. It is not easy for us to swallow conceit and rhodomontade as bad as ever Dickens mimicked. " Wh en i t became evident that the Great Dragon (slavery) must be destroyed, with hands outstretched and swords of fire in their hands, they rose like one man, and with a voice which reverberated throughout the whole world, ' cried, Let it, with all its a tt en d an t horrors, go to hell " /cow is that one of " the offensive things which people needed but didn't want r' We at least do not feel guilty of needing any denunciation of slavery, but this tumid and exasperating nonsense strikes us as an offensive thing which we don't want and don't need, and which, if g i ven without eith er need or want, gives us the most painful of all se n s a tions—fruitless intellectual retching. LABLACHE.—Of all the great artistes of our day, in every sense of the word, either as regards rotun dity of body - , ditto and power of voice, intellect, talent and genius as an actor, grandeur, and conception o f c h arac t ers —either grave or gay —downright, earnest, and good vo calisation, w ith genuine and unaffected fun, co m bi ne d w ith much sterling sense and depth of vocal organ —give us Lablache I Ho was an artiste that any country might be proud of, and the " Lazzarom." may very well smile at us more northern " chanters" for Naples having given birth to so excellent, so grand, an " en - chanter." To add to which, Lablache's mind was pure, enlightened, and noble ; his feelings hospitable, his hand generous, and his heart good ; by this tribute we mean nothing to the disparage ment of other artistes, such as Braham, Rubini, Donzelli, Mario, Ivanhoff, Tamberlik, Dupres, Sims Reeves, Santley, Ronconi, Staudigl, Pischek, Tarnbutini, &c., most of whom we knew, many intimately—to whom be all honour due — and who, as sterling artistes themselves, we are sure, will agree with us in saying, that with Lablache died the greatest basso singer that ever lived.—The Orchestra. SINGULAR SUICIDE OF A IIiGHLANDER.—On Sunday evening about a quarter past seven o'clock, a private, named William Nicol, belonging to the 92d Highlanders, stationed in the Castle, at Edinburgh, com mitted suicide in St, Margaret's Loch, Queen's -park. Whilst taking a walk with three of his companions—two men and a boy--deceased p ro p osed to bathe in the loch.y The night being dark, his companions—namedrespentivelo. pose, Str a thdee, Dove, and Nicol — laughed at the foolish pro l but Nicol insisted on carryi n g out his wish , his feathered pulling off his tunic and throwing down .l who, althoughhat a , walked into the water. T he boy N . lOO ;skins. if the water namesake, es no relation, called es. le , him, a., g thcl eel then called 46 y -tr was cold, and he replied, but no answer being received, out if he intended returnin in g' ho stripped and waue- to try and rescue Nicol. He went but was obliged to re up to the waist., keep i n g shouting, t ur n to the embankment on account of the coldness of the water. v . On his return . '- went into the leo water, whil e ]love ran to the gamekeepers lodge at the easter n entrance t o the park for the pu r p ose of getting a lam p and bo athook, b u t n othing of th e kind was in the house. The old man Dove a piece of candle and a few matches, with which 're -vied to the search for Nicol. A message was sent he retes. , Palace, and the guard was turned out. A mes to Holyroe.ct • gtspatched to the police-office, and a boat sage was next . , r‘ immediately sent down, In the mean hook and ropes we,- . search made for the missing man, time a raft was got at e body was found. Deceased After a search of two hours ts., lv 20 years in the army, was 37 years of age, had b een neak., ncli, Turkish, and and wore four medals—Crimean, - wing returned Indian —also two good -conduct badges. he mths ago, to this country from India only three or four in,. sn the j it is supposed the deceased committed the rash act fro. effects of sunstroke, The Great Eastern—Meeting of Shareholders in London, • ___. OP" The adjourned special general meeting of the shareholders in the Great Ship Company was held at the London Tavern yesterday. A report pre pared by the committee appointed at the last meet ing was read. The following is an extract(:_" The Committee state that they have directed their atten tion to the following:-1. To the exact financial state of the company. 2. To the state of the ship. 3. To the means of profitably employing her ; an d lastly, 4, To an inquiry into the means of relieving the company from financial difficulties. On the first head the committee state that they have come to the conviction that the statement of the chairman that a peremptory sale was inevitable in 14 days, unless £30,000 was raised on or before Friday next, the 16th, was a mistake.' As to the state of the ship the committee say Without entering minutely into the details obtained from the captain and your engineer, your committee are of opinion, from the , information afforded by both, that every repair and alteration required to fit the ship for sea may be efficiently completed for a comparatively small sum; the hull of the ship is sound and seaworthy, and capable of performing any duty assigned to her; the engines are in good condition, but the boilers want thorough overhauling." With regard to the best means of employing the ship the committee say—" Three voyages to India or Australia (one and a-half each year) would give a little more than 70,000 miles, subject to the expense only of six loadings and discharges; six set of port and pilot dues; six set of agencies; six coast and harbour risks instead of 18, and only two years victual ling, wages, insurance, staff, expenses, and interest instead of three. There would be but little com petition in the rates of passage and freight. Passengers and cargoes would be available to any extent, and the result, under proper and efficient management, cannot for a moment bo doubted." After examining the plans for relieving the company from its difficulties, the committee thus conclude : " Here is our policy—here are our plans-1. Economy at home. 2. Placing the ship on the longest voyage, where there can be the least competition and the highest receipts—the share holders contributing what may be required for the liquidation of the existing debts and outfit, which will be amply provided for by the suggested contribution." After some discussion, the report was unanimously adopted, and it was decided to summon another meeting for the 3d of November to fill up vacancies in the Board of Directors, and for the transaction of other business. IN RE LANE This bankrupt was a journeyman bricklayer. The debts were only £33. Assets—bad debts, £l2. The bankrupt stated that his expenses last year was £6O. BE ERANKLAND. This bankrupt was an oilman in Brewer. street, Somers town. Debts, £lB2, assets, nil. The bankrupt passed. RE J. R. WILLIAMS. This bankrupt was a licensed victualler and potato sales man in the Borough Market, and this was a meeting for last examination. The accounts, by Mr. Barnes, show— Debtor to creditor, £1,170; ditto, holding security, £2,091. Creditor, good debts, £213; property, £2 860. An adjournment was taken for investigation of the accounts. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. BOW-STREET. EMBEZZLEMENT BY A COLLECTOR.—CharIes Jones, clerk and collector to Messrs. Deeds, wholesale leather sellers, of New Oxford-street, was brought up on remand, charged with embezzling various sums of money, the pro. perty of his employers. The prisoner, it will be recollected, had been in the service of the firm mentioned for about a year, and his duty was to collect money due to the firm in the usual manner. On the sth of September the prisoner was paid £4, and £6 3s. 6d. on account of his employers, and no entry of the sums was ever made in the proper books. On this case he was committed for trial. Sergeant Lambert, of the E division of police, said he had now to prefer another charge against the prisoner, viz., of robbing a former employer, Mr. Doumaril, of 14, Thavies Inn. He had, since the prisoner had been in custody, made certain inquiries, and from information he had received he had discovered property to the amount of £2O or £3O, which had been identified by Mr. Doumaril as his property. It consisted of boots, shoes, Sce. The prisoner had been en gaged by that gentleman also in the capacity of traveller, He (Sergeant Lambert) had to ask for a remand in this case. The application was granted, and the prisoner was ordered to be brought up again this day week. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. ROBBING A LICENSED VICTUALLER.—John Campbel' was charged before Mr. Knox, with stealing at the Thir teen Cantons, King•street, Soho, St. Ann's, a coat, pocket. book, and other articles of the value of £3, the property ol Mr. Henry Hailey, licensed victualler. Mr. Hailey said that about 12 o'clock on the night of the Ist July, he took off his coat, in the pocket of which was his pocket-book and other articles and left them in the bar. Shortly after he missed the articles. Susan Smith, of 22,Compton-street, deposed to seeing the prisoner leave Mr. Hailey's house on the night of the Ist of July with a coat under his arm. William Clayey, 55 F, said he was present at the court on the 10th Sept., when the prisoner was convicted of felony, and sentenced to a month's imprisonment. Mr. Knox committed the prisoner for trial. THE BUSINESS or THE COURT.—Owing to the admirable arrangements commenced and carried out by Mr. Knox of beginning the business of the court at 10 o'clock every morning, the night charges are now disposed of much earlier than they used to be, and persons having to attend the court, whether as applicants, prosecutors, complainants, or witnesses, are not kept waiting on about the court un necessarily. To the members of the police force it is a great boon, as those who have been on night duty are enabled to reach their homes much earlier; and not the least of the advantages of the present punctuality of com mencing the proceedings is the fact that the pavement in front of the court is not occupied half the day by a crowd of persons anxious to hear the fate of their friends or acquaint ances. THAMES. THUMB KISSING.—A DOUBTFUL CASE.—Eleanor Birthright, a very intelligent and respectable young woman, the wife of a labourer who is at present dwelling at 1, Lee street, Stratford, apreared on hex recognisances before Mr. Partridge to answer the charge of assaulting an aged Irish man named Jeremiah Cronin and breaking his leg. The affray which led to the present investigation occurred on the 6th of August last, at 1, Payne's-buildings, Old Ford, Bow, where the prisoner and her husband occunied a room. The landlady of the house was the daughter of the man Cronin, and between her and the prisoner there was a quarrel. The old man came by while the " debate," as he called it, was going on, and said, "'What is this about ?" The prisoner said, " 'What is that to you, you old He replied, "If I was the landlord I would soon have you out." The prisoner said " You would, would you, you old —I " His old woman (wife) was alongside of him, and the prisoner put her out of the passage of the house down several steps, and she was only saved from injury by falling on a boy who was passing. The prisoner then came back and put her hands on the shoulders of the old man and shoved him down the steps. He fell on the pavement and put his hip out. He was raised by the bystanders and carried to the London Hospital, where he remained under medical treatment until Tuesday, the 30th ult, He was carried into court by policemen and seated in a chair, and it is probable from his advanced age (upwards of 80 years) he will be a cripple for the remainder of his days. Several witnesses, including the prosecutor's wife, con firmed his statement, and gave their evidence in a very exaggerated style. Mrs. Cronin refused to take the book in her hand when it was tendered to her, and said she took the oath on a former occasion. Mr. Partridge said she must take the oath again ; and when it was administered to her, and she was desired to kiss the testament, she spread her thumb over the book and kissed that. The prisoner respectfully called the magistrate's attention to the evasion, and said, " Please, sir, she kissed her thumb." The old woman scowled at the prisoner, groaned repeatedly as if she was in great distress of mind, and said she had not kissed her thumb. Mr. Joseph Smith, Mr. Charles Young, soli citors, and the captain of a ship, seated at the table, said the witness had kissed her thumb. She was desired to kiss the book, and again kissed her thumb on the book. Mr. Par tridge said the silly artifice of the woman would not ab solve her from her oath, and after she had kissed her thumb th a t a third time amidst derisive laughter in court, the Magis trate said—You must take the oath in a proper manner. water sundry groans and looking about her, she found there mate rial hep no escape, and kissed the book. Her evidence con firmedof the particulars of f h t e e r t t e e husband, v,ide Ti b e t; t she w a s gave different two in monthssom some ago. risonueurswcross-examined the witnesses with much tact. They a th h e e m wa i a nguil guilty many coarteradvdiiheletiroirpTilashelyp,riabountershdeeniinevdoltvheadt used the offensive expressionse° sworn imputed to toby her, the oldo r that she andsh e his witne 'I her she ularodw going on, in which she had no mo sses. o joir. old man called her "Et uxi e herr appearance, and the and said the English had sold his country. St e 18 1: Wi h fe e shuck her a u 'd d " Mr. Cronin, I know nothing about these matters," blow on the eye. The old man and his a at her, and is,. trying to sh a k e t h em off all threetr holll dashed ed a down the steps together, She wa s very sorry the old injured, but she was not the cau se o f it, The occurrencelll was was quite accidental, and all the viol ence was on the other side. Mrs. Birt'aright made her defence in a clear, melo dious voice, wad with great propriety. She left a favour. able imprec,sion on every ono. Two respectable witnesses confirmed her in every particular. They saw the old man strike .ors. Birthright and lay hold of her, and the three fell down the steps. Another witness stated that overtures had bean made to the prisoner on the part of the Cronins to settle the matter for £5, and she refused to give any m oney to them. Mr. Partridge said it was a very doubtful case indeed, and one that he should send before a jury. He remitted the case to the Middlesex Sessions, and took bail for the pri soner's appearance there, herself in £3O and two sureties of £l5 each. Bail was tendered and accepted. Pi i 65i i 111 10; 111 112 102 101 451 130/ 128 a 96 6, THE INDEPENDENCE OF POLAND, Last evening a public meeting in connection with the National League for the Independence of Poland was held in the Cambridge Hall, Newman-street, Oxford-street, Mr. Edmond Beales, barrister-at law, presiding. The Chairman, in opening the pro ceedings, expressed his pleasure at presiding over a meeting sympathising with those gallant men who were wonderfully and determinedly struggling in Poland for all that is worth living for and worth dying for. (Hear, hear.) He did not wish to de tain the meeting, but he could not help referring to the important speech recently delivered by Earl Russell at Blairgowrie. There were two points in that speech—first, it was admitted that Russia had forfeited all the right, if she ever had any, to the sovereignty of Poland ; and the next point was the recognition of the belligerent rights of the Poles. One decla ration of the noble lord he cordially concurred with, but another declaration he was decidedly op posed to. The noble lord said it was not obliga tory on the country, nor was it to the honour or interests of England, that we should go to war for Poland. He was sorry to hear such a declaration from the lips of any Englishman, especially a Rus sell. It was uncalled for, because the Poles had never asked us to go to war for them ; they had de precated any armed intervention on their part, being desirous to achieve their own freedom. The Treaty of Vienna, by which Poland was par titioned, was a scandal and a reproach to all those who had stood by passively and allowed Poland to be swept out of the map of Europe. (Hear, hear.) Earl Russell said that those other nations who had stood by were accessories after the fact. The partition of Poland was one of the greatest of political crimes, and therefore he thought that no man with common sense could say that it was not obligatory on us to see that the conditions of the treaty were fulfilled, and, if they were violated, to enforce them. Rus sia had deliberately and systematically violated all those conditions, and therefore the belligerent rights of the Poles should be recognised. Having con demned in strong language the conduct of Russia towards the suffering Poles for her own aggrandise ment, he concluded by expressing a hope that Lord Russell's words should be embodied in a de spatch, and sent to the Court of St. Peters burg. (Loud cheers.) Dr. P. W. Perfitt then delivered a long address on the history, partitions, and present condition of Poland, and moved the fol lowing resolution :—" That this meeting cordially approves of the objects of the National League for the Independence of Poland, and pledges itself to support the league by all the pecuniary and other means in its power." Mr. Eglinton, a working man, seconded the motion, which was put and carried with acclamation. Mr. J. A. Nicolay then pro posed the next resolution, to the effect that Russia, having for nearly filly years delibe rately and systematically violated, and hav ing now deliberately and finally' rejected . the conditions upon which the iniquitous par , tition and spoliation of Poland in the last century were more or less condoned and sanctioned by Great Britain and other European powers by the Treaty of Vienna, has forfeited every semblance of a legitimate title to sovereignty over Poland, and that it vitally concerns the honour and good faith of Great Britain as a party to that treaty to declare such forfeiture openly andefficially, and a t once to recognise the belligerent rights of the Poles. Mr. Stainsby seconded the resolution, which was also agreed to. A cordial vote of thanks to the chairman closed the proceedings. A SCEN E AT " BELL'S LIFE" OFFICE.—The un mitigated scoundrelism of a certain class of the o f the noble art" seems to have reached its climax on Pa t tr : e nß occasion of the late fight between Gannon and Baldock, for £lOO aside. The police twice put a stop to the brutal exhibition, and the referee (editor of Bell's Life) or d ere d the men to meet at his office on the next day. The meeting is thus reported by the editor :—" On Thursday the representatives of the men treated us to one of the usual levess which our position compels us to hold, in which loud voices and unabashed falsehood wer e used as the instruments to blind our eyes to justice, an d it was not till our room was cleared of all save one representative of each man that we could get on any thing like terms, or ascertain the point at issue, which turned out to be that Gannon's friends accused Baldock of wilfully giving himself up to the police; while Baldock's backers as strenuously denied this fact, and declared the man could not get away from the police. Evidence was laid before us by Gannon's friends, which, coupled with inquiries we caused to be made, convinced us that their accusation was founded on fact, and the referee, on Friday morning, when the parties again met at our office, awarded the money to Gannon. Directly this decision was given, our office was filled by a band of ruffians, at the head of whom were Ward of the Ironfounders' Arms, Greenwich, Young Billy Shaw, Tom Tyler, and Baldock himself, who assailed us and our reporter with the vilest abuse, and Baldock and another of his friends, a pedestrian named Myers, we believe, with frightful oaths declared that they would take the life of our ring reporter the first time they caught him in the streets. Young Tyler and Ward were no way behindhand in their threats, and the scene altogether was of such a nature as we never .s wit nessed before, and will take care shall not occur abta as i . our office. Finally we were compelled to surrnoo:l: the sistance of our whole staff of compositors room, but the company did not take without threatening to wreak their vengeance earliest op thei to pon departureev e y one who did not think with them, ac the we are eortunity. Before taking leave of this to state that requested by the proprietors of thi ni e exercised by a unless the present system of terrorism, put an end to, which certain clique, is at owe and for eve r ease s Life in Io;Won by the parties mo s t can be done with the greatessetives_.bB interested--the pugilists then 3 ring, and every Effort •of the will will cease to be the organ be used on our part to put an end to a spelt which, as at present carried on, cann ot be defended on any ground whatever. Whethe r gentlemen will ever again be p ersua d ed to venture to the rin g ride is a problem yet to be solved," , rams. A .......• SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.--This -Day. NEWMARKET RACES-THIS DAY. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRkPIis ROYAL STAKES. Columba Barter • • HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES. Merry Maid Gunner Eight ran. TOWN PLATE. Equinox Petert,harn Six ran. CESAREWITCH STAKES, LIONESS LIMO.t•INA 'l' wen v- four ran. The Execution of William Alger at Warsaw. IV A its , Frid ay. The execution of Alger, one of the workmen employed in the factory of Evans and Co., for manufacturing grenades, took place in the court yard of the building yesterday. All the workmen of the factory were compelled by the police to be witnesses of the fate of their comrade. At half.past nine the condemned man, under military escort, entered the fac tory yard, the gates of which were immediately closed against the crowd collected in the street. Only two or three favoured persons were adruttted—among others the Eng lish consul general, Col. Stanton, and Mr. Ran, the part ner of Messrs. Evans , Messrs. Evans B rot h ers hav i ng re turnedtwo vi to ns E fi n e g a l r a d n . England Twolo e unfis were years ago, fired su b sequently at a. At ten o ' c l oc k prec i sely firing certain interval, the first probably not having taken effect. The corpse was then carried away, and the persons col lected in the streets were very shortly dispersed. It, is un derstood that Alger met his fate with determination, and rejected an offer of pardon upon condition of denouncing hi, accomplices made at the place of execution. lie l eaves a wife and two children. _ The proprietors of the factory were condemned by Ci en. Berg to pay a fine of 15,000 rouble?, but the Englim, consul protesting against the injustice of the order and representing that, owing to Mr. Evans' absence in. England at the time the manufacture of the grenades took place, it was impossible that he could have any com plicity in the affair, the decree was cancelled. To obviate the belief of this unusual lenity being in any way owing to foreign interference, the chief of the police published tho following order in the Police Gazelle : " It was announced in the _Dzienng: Potenteliny of the 6th of October that a fine of 15,000 roubles had been im posed upon the proprietors of the iron foundry carried on by Messrs Evans and Co., for having permitted the prepara, tion of hand grenades, despite the regulations of the state of siege, and the factory would remain closed until the afore said fine was paid. Upon the representation, however, of his excellency the chief of the third division of gendarmerie, Major-General Trepow, that Mr. Evans and the other par, ticipators in the foundry, as quiet citizens, were not aware of the manufacture of the grenades (the number of which was only small); thit the workmen in the factory took no share whatever therein ; and further, that the regulations of the state of siege, rendering employers responsible for their workpeople, had not at that time been published, his excel•, lancy the ad interim governor, Gen. Berg, has been pleased to order that Mr. Evans be relieved from the payment of the fine of 15,000 roubles, and that his factory be again opened for the transaction of business. (Signed) "Major-General LE Z U." FOREIGN THEATRICALS. Mlle. Marie Battu has signed an engagornent with tho Grand Opera, and will make her debut next week in Ros, eini's " Melee." Mms. Penco has accepted an engagement for the Opera at Cadiz and Seville for a limited number of nights. Mmes. Plessy and Bressant have returned to their posts at the Frangais after a brilliant tour. Mile. Vaneri, who was so favourably received last year in London at the Italian Opera, has declined all engagements here, and has left Paris for Italy, where she has accepted the offers made her by the managers of some of the largest theatres. Ernest Depas, a Belgian composer, whose performance of some trios for the pianoforte, the violin, and violoncello se cured fur him so much admiration last year, and whose original and graceful productions made a great impression, revisits Paris early in the season. An instance of remarkable musical precocity, equalled only in the instance of Mozart, is the theme of general con versation in Paris. A boy of ten years of age, aged 16, has composed a mass which has been executed with great suc cess. The young composer consented to allow the mass to be performed at the end of the month in one of the largest churches for the benefit of the Poles- These young persons are the grandchildren of Biagioli, the commentator of Dante and Petrarch, who so long resided in London, and was so highly esteemed by the English aristocracy. At a recent performance of "Faust" at Pesth, Madllc. Carina, who played the part of Marguerite, was not a little embarrassed on opening the casket containing the jewels left by Mephistophiles, to find it empty. They had been placed in the box as usual, but had been stolen before being brought on the stage. The thief, who has not been disco vered, must have been greatly disappointed on finding that the value of Satan's present did not exceed a few florins Lord Stanley of Alderley arrived at his house in Dover-street yesterday evening from Alderley Park, Cheshire. _ _ _ The Right Hon. Sir George Grey left his seat, Fallodon, Northumberland, yesterday, for Scotland, to at. tend the Queen. Col. and Lady Caroline Towneley are receiving a succession of visitors at Towneley Hall, Lancashire. The marriage of the daughter of Victor Hugo with an English officer of distinction is announced. Tha poet has lived for the last 14 years at Jersey. The Right Hon. Sir C. Wool Bart., M.P., has arrived in town from his seat, Hickleton Hall, Yorkshire. A FOREST GIANT.—A tree has recently been cut down in California, the circumference of which was 90 feet, and its height 325 feet. The bark was in some places 4 feet thick. The tree contained 250,000 feet of solid timber. Its age was 3,100 years. The wood was sound and solid. A RIDDLE OF THE SPHINX.—Being a wonder fully enigmatic sentence taken from a second edition of a recently published book called " The Rosicrucian."--The absorbed (however materially) Londoner hurries by in as equal unconsciousness as, perhaps, the very imitative Bel zoni complacently fixed it, who sculptured deep, as his " forehead-mark," because he found it dominant (although in secret) upon the freizes of Egypt, upon his Piccadilly " Egyptian" Hall, a " symbol" which the quicker-eyed and thoughtful adept, taught in his great experience, passes not—in its unutterable mystery as a possibility—without 11 shudder I THE COAL TRADE TO LONDON.—During the month of September last 442,562 tons of coal and coke were entered at the Coal Exchange as having been conveyed to London by rail, sea, and canal. Of this immense tonnage, which exceeds that of the corresponding month of 1862 by 36,591 tons 2 cwt, and 274,187 tons were seaborne, 167,496 tons were conveyed by railways having access to the metro polis, and 887 tons by canal. The railway traffic was in the following proportions :—London and North-Western Railway, 85,781 tong 12 cwt; Great Northern, 49,208 tons 1 cwt; Great Eastern, 12,701 tons 2 cwt; Midland, 10,782 tons 19 cwt ; Great Western, 6,714 tons; South -Western, 1,722 tons; Chatham and Dover, 535 tons 12 cwt ; and Til bury and Southend, 53 tons. The supply in September, 1862, was 145,173 tons, 8 cwt, so that last month's entry was 22,324 tons 12 cwt in excess. Of the 274,187 tons of seaborne, 91,770 tons came from Newcastle in 232 ships, 84,747 tons from Sunderland in 204 ships, 53,964 tons from Hartlepool and West Hartlepool in 197 ships, 19,688 toss from Seaham in 82 ships, 6,509 tons from Middlesbor oag o b i in 21 ships, 569 tons from Blyth in 2 ships, 7, 659 to pe , Welsh in 18 ships, 2,583 tons from Yorkshire ill_ 2B _2 l Du ff 2,341 tons from Scotland in 12 ships, 1,364 tons t i o r:Z onait in 5 ships, 1,661 tons cinders in 8 ships, and I,3toes over tha coal, in 2 ships. This is an increase of 13,98sSept. 30, 1863, month of September, 1862. From San. 1t324 tons 18 cwt, the total supply from all sources was 21 same period of or 100,387 tons 12 cwt more than for ta° „QT tope 6 cwt. As COM -1862, when the tonnage was 3,520:_. ear the seaborne ear 1,237,153 to 18 84,3201 tons (2,467,611 pared with the first nine months tonnage has decreased 501 ships and interesting hilo on the other i „ .., tB63 io N y w tons against 2,383,291 tons tb hand the railways have brougu e 'l t i n 1862, or an increase of cwt, against 1,052,224 tons Id w 184,929 tons 2 cwt. -- An prscoVER Y • INTERESTING r y has just been mad e at arch re alogical discosvßeains (Arige) • On taking down Omolac, near Ussa! -lea repairs in the steepleof a bell to make certain of 1079, and the church, it was found to bear the dat e must consequently be one o f the old est bells in Christendom. Th ere i s i n d ee d a b o ll at Larroque-d'Olmes bearing the d a t a CCC LXXXV , supposed tho letter M isto have been accidentally but of bells was • m at e d, a s the use only introduced in the sixth The bell above century Th e at Ornolac is the only one left of three which the church possessed before the first revolution, when the other two were destroyed. Ornolac i s undoubtedly a place of great antiquity, as numerous an cient medals and coins have been Lund there. Not long since M. Bonne], the cure of the village, found a medal with Hannibal on horseback on the obverse, and an inscrip tion in Punic characters on the reverse. 14,, Arroyo, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of the Provisional Govern ment of Mexico, has addressed a circular to all the European Cabinets. The document recapitulates the events which have taken place since the occupation of the capital, the meeting of the Assembly of Notables, and the decision come to with regard to the future form of government for the country, mc., and COn ; eludes by expressing a firm reliance on the moral co-operation of the various Governments friendl y o Mexico. I •--~~ f' 1 1 ~~ 4