The Sun. — London, England, 1864-10-03 00:00:00

TIONEY MARKET AND COMMZIMAL INTELLIGENCE, CITY, TWELTE:o'CLoCK. Toe Money Market to-day presents a very active llppearance. Merchants and others engaged th trade are now busily engaged in Providing for their bills, which arrive at maturity to•morrow (the 4th of the month); but notwithstanding thi 4 t there continues to be a goo d Supply ui capital afloat, discoun !ere. are very cavoions on entering into new easiness. The commercial failures that are daily occurring necessarily require them to be very Prudent and rese . :ved in all transactions, lest they themselves might be involved in difficulties, the etu l of which in the present state of affairs could not be so easily overcome. The Tasmanian left yesterday (Sunday) for the West Indies with £2,000 in gold and £5,430 in The failure of Messrs. Walker, Coteswortb, and t °lll P e tlY) East. India merchants, Liverpool, has " 11 added to the list of commercial embarrass 111,,!nts• The li a bili t i es are rec k one d a t a b out 4 ' 0 00,000 or £600,000. It appears that the firm had s hiPped a l arge quant i ty o f M anc h es t er goo d s , ell entte, and that a considerable amount has Y e t to be realised. Annexed is the circular issued to the creditors ;—. Liverpool, Oct. 1, 1864. Gentlercen,—We deeply regret that, in consequence o; thelle avY fall in p ro d uce , . and the failure of several firms - " 4 whom we are largely connected, we have been com - P el ied to s uspend payment. We have placed our books in e tt° 'lends of M essrs. Coleman, Ting:land, Youngs, and °' end we trust for your kind forbearance until a state nieut ei our affairs can be submitted to you.—We are, gen tlenun) your most obedient servants, WALKER, COTESWORTII, AND CO. Th e firm of MessrF.Julins Mendel and Co.,engaged Is the West India trade, has also failed, with liabili ties estimated at £40,000. Their circular is as follows 7, Sambrook-court, Basingball-street, E.C., London, Sept. 30, 1864. Gentlemen— We regret to have to inform you that, owing ' 0 heavy l osses occasioned by the recent failures and the °lll- arrival of remittance a from our West India correspon. !elite, we are under the necessity of suspending payment. Uar books have been placed in the hands of Messrs. Honey - 50 P li titophrys, of 14, I ronmonger -l ane , w h o w ill shortly 4 are and l a y b e f ore you a statement of our af f a i rs, t o w h om 7 'l4 kindness to furnish a statement of your claim. Re. 1 Questing Your forbearance in the meantime, we are, &o , JULIUS MENDEL AND CO, Two O'CLOCK. °al Y a small am oun t o f b us iness has been trans. acted to-day in the market for the English Funds, I however, are firmer in tone, owing to dimi ncished n„„i uneasiness with regard to commercial credit. 8 :' 8 for transfer are 841, and for the account '` l ; The New Threes and Reduced Annuities 13 1113 ; India 5 per Cents., 103 a 7_,; and the ° Qs, 238. to 163, die!, fe la the Foreign Stock Market there have been 17 alter ations, and prices generally remain firm. 111 ezican have advanced 1- to 27/ ; Greek have re. C cle de to 23 4 ; Spanish Passive, kto 31 4 ; but the tifici tes remain a t 13: 14. Turkish Consolides L av e g°rte down Bto 501 ; and the Confederate an is better, being 65 67. f.. 11 a the R i i, w y Share Market there has been a to mount of business transacted, and prices have tons t instanc es strongly degenera t e d. G rea t East" and North Eastern Berwick have each 15 8 111." cl ". ; Great Western, 53.; South E astern, •1 and Lincashire and Yorkshire and Midland, eac h LI. The Foreign and Colonial lines remain without m aterial a l teration. b Biitik and Mi scellaneous shares have genera ll y de s at slightl y enhanced prices. U n i on o f L on . a ell i h ave risen t o 49 ' 50; Imper i a l O ttoman , t o 16Z to . to 3 2 33 ; Metropolitan and Provincial , 20 ; Nati onal Discount to 12i ; and Joint Leek Discount to 4; 5. --- BRITISII FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. a GOVERN MENT FUNDS. per Cent. Consols 3 D ° ke count, Oct. 11 ‘,l:r _cent. Reduced E 6 t '`4 3 per Cent. B6/ ii I New 2i per Cent. Jan. 1891.... De 6 per Cent Jan. 1873 — Atnanities, 30 yrs " , expire nth Jan., 1880 — DODo for 30 yrs, expire sth April,lBBs — (lied Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 .• • - March. June. Rxohequer Bills £l,OOO, 4& 31 per Cent. —Do ' £soo • h Do _ oa rl £lOO and £2OO r‘k England Stk, 5a per Ct. _ " A ccount .... ..: .. . IND / ._ t rr i• ...,,, GOVERNaLENT SECURITIES. PLILA Stock, 10i per Cent., April 1874 2ll o Account Do , per Cent. J u l y , 187 0 1031 4 ' o per Cent., Oct, 1888 — D 0 Account Lo Certificates P.,0 1 per C ent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) — DVo 41 per Cent. ...... oEnlaced P a p er, 4 per Cent .. P 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 e 01 Per Cent., May, 1879 — L,o 4 per Cent Aug.B66 .. 2nd . . 9 .. 16 s ti3OUU .. Do under £l,000 FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. tictstrian Benda, 5 per Cent — as per Cent..., — Do 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 1863 )311. D o - ,, - Ilos Ayres 6 per, Cent — .',.,0 Account.... r ,uo £lOO Bonds - l i ,lian 6 per Cent. Co ", 0 41 per Cent ~- " e ' orubian 6 per Cent — , nba, 6 per Cent. - h 13 0 6 per C en t, 1864 L 'anish 3 per Cent., 1825 D 1) 0 5 per Cent, 1864 `loaclorlNew Consolidated, 1 per Cent — D I)° , Vrovi sona l L an d W arran t.. ri 44% Yptian 7 per C ent . . 0 n -.4 ~ lie, Second I ssue ... . — Do ul-ek Ac c 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupuns.. o Coupon s 4 231 ount D „Do Account — _ uuatemala 5 per Cent. .. Do 1839 and 1859 . Italian 5 per Cent.(Maremmana Railway; 7 2 1 Mexican 3 per Cent .... -uo 6 per Cent. Anglo-French MooDt Scrip, £23 paid risti Imperial 5 per Cent DDo 2 per Cent. oDeferred s Land Warrants (Hectares) — vo Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1861 — Do Peruvian Do do Aug., 1866 -- veruvian 41 per D o 3 per Cent. (Uribarren).. . — Do 41 per Cent., 1862 .......... Portuguese 3 -. e F r Cent., 1853 Do Account .• Do 3 per C ent., 1856, '7, '9, '60,,,62,'3.. 461 , r. Do Account 462 1 Atissian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St Do 41 per Cent., 1850 .. Do 1860 Do 3 per Cent 1859 .no 5 per C en t, 1862 B7l 8 7t Do Anglo-Dutch Do Scrip, £55 paid Sa rlinia.n 5 per Cent .... Do Account _ ''Panieh 3 per Cent 1 ,-, ) ,0 Account _no New Deferred 1)0 Account Do Passive 31 ,jl3O Account ""Pltnish Cert. of Coup not funded Do Account l3l Sw edish, 4 per Cent. 1 ,14 ° Strip, £6O paid — Pra Do or kiah 6 pe r C ent. 1864 _ Account 1)0 6 per Cent. 1858 00 Acc ount 69 ii ,b 0 e 6 Account Cent. 1862 D o £lOO B on d s.. 7 070i 70 D o 18G3 11...,0 Screed,Guarant 4 per Cent. 97i Do 1863 p,40 paid Venezuela 3 per Cent. Do Account .. Do 6 p er Cent., 1862 to Account l2l D 5 6 p er C ent., 1864 Dividenda on the above payable in London. Austrian, 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins. 111 Cent. Duch 2i per Cent. Ex. 12 Guil 6l „ Do 4 per Cent. dertificates .... r renoh. Rentes, 2 per Cent. It titan, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs.. ~, Do Account 661 ,r3nivian Dollar Bonds, 4i per Ct. Ex. 4s. -riedinontese, 5 per Cent., Ex. 25f TI I REE O'CLOCK. Consoiß Mormy . ll~4leQQlALtoettllte,.lit.lll ttttt 900 B Bl a SHARE MARKETS—This day. Lars Railways. 3.14. Bir., Wol., and Str. Val. et Blythe and Tyne. et Bristol end Exeter , ! all 100 100 82 C 4 121 122 it lCaledonian t_lork add Bandon 20 Cornwall I all 10 Do A 1 A fyets no div') 10 Da. B till 6pc.p an.has, i all been paid to I:.I 50 Dublin e.- Belfast June.l all t 5 Dun.,PerthotAb. Juno.l all at Edinburgh & Glasgow. 100 st , _llasg,. and S. Western.' 130 st Great Eastern, Ord. stk 100 st Ditto A stook ' 100 6 7 31 33 16 17 86 88 185 107 44 45 it Ditto East Itn, , :;llan at. GreatNorthot Scotian , ' it Great Northern ....... it Do A stock it Do B do 100 100 100 100 100 st Gt. S. ant W. of Trel,in 1 100 st Great Westerr,Original 100 St Do Str Val flea. :stot;& 100 bt Do. South Wales CO et Do. Nest Alid. -Oxiord 100 Do Newport 100 st Do Hereford' 100 et Lancashire & Yorkshire' 160 et London and. Blackwa!l: 100 it Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast it Lon., Chat., and Dovcr' st Lon.'& Noith Western st Lon. & So..th Western st Ilan., Shot., & Lincoln.' 50 Maryport and Carlisle.' I 2 Do t ehetroa.. st Metropolitan st Midland et Do Binning. & Derby 50 Mid. tit. W. of Ireland 25 Do. shares 26 Mid Kent st North British et Edin., Perth, Sc Dundee l 'et Nth. Eastern—Berwlak 25 Do, G.N.E. pureha6e st Do Leeds st Do York st Do Carlisle.. . 25 Do. Stoei ,- . dr Darling. 25 Do do 1855-58 25 Do do 144,41 st North London 10 Do New 11 Do Nevi*, 'BC , I. st North Staffordshire 10 N. and S. W. Junction 8t Scottish Central at Scot N. E., Aber. stoca st Do Scot. Mid. stock 10 Shrews. and Welohpooi st Shropshire Union at South Devon...._ at South Eastern 20 staines,Wok.,andWok st Fact Va1e.......... Do C 73t Vale Of Neath st Waterford & Kilkenny st West Cornwall st W. Hartlepool Har.&R 5 7 1 5i 1261 133 137 127 130 SO 02 071 68 40 47 35 40 91 111 113} 111 64 65 102 103 33 40 11 i 1101' 93 O 4 63} (43 105} 'CO) iLst , 291 09 ,01 51 63 24 ',5 105} 1066 16.13.4 100 100 100 433 i 61i 93i 94i 35 36 g io 7 8 120 125 1 lip 75 76 101 11 132 136 64 66 34 =6 811 8 ICO 165 3i 44 I) 97 99 31 38 41 I ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOKS. Paid. Closing I Business Price. I done. 1211 f 1351 61 I 68 8 i 8 106 51 82j 11 100 113 i 14 841 'O2l 3) 1106 6 i 11 101 931 4 016 106 5; 6 4 129 i t 9 8k BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Hallways Paid. C toeing Prioe. ttlantic & St Lawreno I tom.,Baroclat.Cent In I Gu. 5 per neut.. • 20 Do. E. Shares... cO.; iufialo and Laae burs 10 Do. Pretcronce ..•• • )0 y fuitalo,Brant,&Godrid i p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 187 De Jo. do. July 1, 18; DO so. do. June 1, IS st ;lent ta.&S.Eastn. st lapeTown Dock Seri DO Demerara 7 pm. per. pf ;self ilengat gu. a p. 001 Indian. nn. 5 p. 20 Do. do. J Eat.... ock -;rand Trunk of Cans , 0 Do. Equip. Mort. Bonds 1 charge ti per cent 00 Do. Ist tree. Bonds.. 00 Do. do. deterred...... 00 Do. 2d Pref. Bonds.. 00 Do. do. deferred...... 00 Do. 3d Piet. stock ... 00 Do. do. deterred 00 Do. 4th Pref. stock... )0 Do, do. deferred..... , ,o' , at.lndiaPenin.gua.sp.) 20 Do.,Gu , . 5 per cent .. 0 Do. IN ei,v gun. 5 p. 0.. R. South.of India (Lim i;uaranteed 5 per cent )ck Do, 41 per cent.... )ek D 0......... tui It. W. of Canada Start 10i Do. New .. )0 1)o. 6 p.c. '73 wlth't opt )0 )o. 5i p. o. do. '77-8.. 10 t ndian Branch Limited )ek Iladras guar., sp. c. )ek Do. 41p. o. Extensio) aok De. 44 10 Do. Fifth Extension xk %telb.Corp. dp. o. Bud, 50 \lelb. & Hobson's Bay. 10 iewitrunswicit tCa.nd. Claes A and 8.. ..... • i.iti.C'da.6 po lat pi bd , ket icinde .• .. • • oel, t)o. Delhi 110 )o. do • "' s t 00. Punj sub •• ‘.* ook FlOl9 COLONIAL GOVER':. ' British Columbia, 6 per, cent., Dec. 31, 18;2—. 1 Do. ' do. 188.1.... ;•n.l.w.~tp.oJa.CJul. 1877-S1 :-- ..... .... Irolo p. o. Feb.& Au., Do. A p. c. Mar. do Sept Do.: p. o. Jan.&July. Do. 5 Inscribed stock ape ()Mope, 6 p 0,187 Do.Ap &Oct. 18st Do. 18ts )o. Jan. & July. 1891. 7eylon, Novistii, 6 u 1878, do Afturitius 6 p.cent.lB73 Do. 1878 Do. tBB2 natal Gov. 6 per cont. i.B.Gov. 6 p.c. a.&Jul q.S.IV.Gov.pp . _ Du. 5 p. e.,187 to 1;,. Do. d0.,i888 tcupwdt slew Zealand 6 p cent 4ova Scotia Gov. 6 p. sterling, 1875. Zueensland G cv. 6 p. c Aus Coy. 6 68- Da. 170 tit ward itc.Gov. 6 p.c. JitatiJ ul) Do. io 8 p.c. An..liOct.. 56 SS 9) 4dis i r 41 Oi 71 81 9i 10) 92 91 100 101 100 101 19 19i 90 93 71 73 (0 32 55 68 55 57 53 58 40 48 29 31 27 29 tCO 101 id pr 1d r 99 100 9} 10 11 10i 8) 01 82 84 d 99 100 92 94 88 90 8 CO S 6 81 83 99 100 98 100 id par 98 100 95 97 T SECURITIES. 92i 2 90 90 BRITISH MID 'ambrian Consol. Gold Chiverton ,onoro Amalgamated.. wven G. Cone. (Tavist. Drakewal 8•••••••• ~ .,•tet Bassett (Illogan).. , last Caradon ...... sst• Carte Brea.. •• East Grenville .. East Lovell vt . '1 ItIISS6I aVltiLk. iamASt.Aubyn(G wen 4 Great Laxey, 1 reat Souto Wheal Vor(Ltelstot lrenville.. ler,d'a-Foot I ingston Downs ,largaret (tiny Lelia!: , Sarke Valley.. I !vnilv Iron Oro (Lirn. ,ew aetvn 'orth i)own,.„„„ North Roskear.. nrth Wheal Crotty . Prosper Uni:eol.... rovidenue(Uny oath Uaradon(St•Clee, '.NV heal Fran. (111o;;aL stray Park yin Croit .Vest Basset (Illouttn), •V Co radon (Liskeard West Chiver:on West Sewn ••••• • •Vheat Basset (Mogan Wheal Buller (Redrutl, WhealLa&ott Wheal Mary Ann ;Lien. 'bV heal Cleton •:V heal Treiawney (Lie. IVheal Union 2.1.0. 4.4. , 2.7.0. 2.13.6. .413. 78 5 33 1. 1 8., 2it 3 29i 1, 6 7.80 7.1. w 6.7 14is.. PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Western (Berke and Hants Ext.) 5 per Cent., 6k Ditto 1i per cent., pf. st. red.. 96 4 South Eastern (Reading Anne., £1.0.6), Ditto, Fixed 4y per cent., 08y LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Chester and Holyhead, Ditto, 5 per cent., 111 Nottngham and Grantham It. & C, 00i 1i Shrewsbury and Hereford, 1311 BANKS. Agra and 31 tsterman's (lim.), 128 Alliance (►lm.(. 42 1 31 2 Ditto, new, 41 Anet,lo Austrian, Brazilian and Portuguese, Urn., 121 British and Californian, Rm., 31 City, 1 0 Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 341 Consolidated Bank, Urn., English, Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 20 Hindustan, China, and Japan (lim.), 28 Ditto, new, 151 1 16 Imperial Bank (lim.). 32 3 2 Imperial Ottoman, 16) Land Mortgage Bank of India, lim., 4 London Bank of Scotland, lira., 8 London B ,nk of Mexico and S. America, lim., 5 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 231 3 London and County, 65 6 London Joint Stook, 42 ; 2 London and South African, 221 • London and South-Western, 204 London and 11 cstminster, v3l Merchant Bank, lira , 23 Dletropolitan and Provincial Bank, lim., 20 19 New Zealand Bank Corporation, lim., 11 Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi. lim., 104 South Eastern, lira., 6 Standard of British South Africa (lim)), Ditto (.£25), 27 Union of A ustralia, 51 1 Union of London, 49 MISCELLANEOUS. Anglo-Mexican Mint, 10 18. Berlin Water Works, lira., 8 Discount Corporation, 16 Egyptian Corn. and Trading, lira., 21 a Financial Corporation, Fore-street Warehouse, lirn., 8i Gen. Credit and Finance of London, lira., 61 a Hudson's Bay, 151 Imperil Mercantile Credit Asso., lirn., 61 7 61 International Financial :,ociety, lira., 61 Joint Stock Discount, Urn., 41 51 London Financial Association, lim., 21i a Ditto, tew, London tieneral Omnibus Company, 21 Lon oa Provincial Marine, 2i National Discount company, lim., 121 13:121 National Financial, Rm., 5k North Ili itish and Mercantile Insurance, 1im.,17 Nova Scoria Gold and Land, lain,, Dia) (€.l), It Panama, New Zealand, and Australian Jl. Mail, lim., Ditto, new, 3 Rio de Janeiro City Improvements, lim.. _— Ditto (.c ), 3 Royal Mail Steam, i s i 5 Societe Final ciere d'r.:gypte, lirn., 4} I Universal , urine, insurance, Um., 51 5 Business don, 1001 130 Irol 11 1001} 1 100} 531 4} 1001 f i 111 00 93 90 91 89 12 79 8 78 81 io4 106 107 109 ;08 110 .07 10J 102 105 1.9 112 101 104 03 106 ,03 105 V.O 115 03 96 07 09 95 07 04 06 9) 102 95 93 LO) 102 LO5 101 :05 1!6 105 i 1 5 584 5 77i 64 4 THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 3, 1864. MARKETS—This Day. MARK-LANE. The wheat trade in the country markets held on Satur day was very slow. The tendency of prices was, in some instances in favour of buyers, but the variations from the previous week were not important. Good and fine malting barley was in improved request, at full quotations; but in other articles very little was doing. On the continent, the corn trade generally is slow, and the amount of business d ing in produce at New York for export to Great Brita n is very moderate. But moderate supplies of English grain were received up to our market last week. The imports from abroad amounted to 28,812 quarters of wheat, 13,765 qrs barley, 122,218 qrs oats, 850 qrs rye, 700 qrs beans, 1,003 qrs peas, 210 qrs tares, 3,161 qrs linseed, 1,183 qrs rapeseed, 5,810 qrs rneiza, 640 qrs sundry seeds, and 500 sacks of flour. Fr..sh up to our market to-day the arrivals of home grown wheat was very moderate. Includtd in the supply were a few parcels left over from last week; but although the number of samples on the stands was tolerably large the quantity of produce represented was by no means ex tensive. Ia prices, compared with Monday last, no altera tion took place. : The market was well supplied with most descriptions o foreign wheat. The slight tendcncy to improvement in the market for home-grown produce led holders to demand full prices for all qualities; but the trade during the whole of business hours having presented a quiet appearance, The business transacted was at last Friday's currency. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL 'MEASURE. IVheat—Essex and Kent, red, 1863, per qr 36s to 403 Ditto, 1861 Ditto, white, 1863 4os 448 Ditto, 1864 Norfolk and Lincoln, red, 1861 Ditto, 1803 Talavera, 18611 44s 508 Rye— Barley—Grinding 228 253 Malting, new, 3os 358 Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk 6OB 668 Brown Kingstown and Ware 6os e6s Chevalier Oats —Yorkshire and Lincolnsh., Feeding l9B 228 Potato Youghal and Cork, black lBB 22s Cork, white Scotch, Feeding 2OB 238 Beans—Tick Pigeons, Peas—Grey. Maple White Boilers Flour—Town-made, per 2801 b Suffolk Stockton and Norfolk.. 26s 28s American, per barrel 193 258 METROPOLITAN CATTLE. There was a large supply of foreign stock on sale is our market to-day, but its general quality was inferior, Sales, therefore, progressed slowly at barely stationary prices. The arriyals of beasts fresh up from our own grazing districts were only moderate, and nearly all breeds came to hand in middling condition. Prime Scots, crosses, Here fords, Devons, and short horns moved off s'eadily at full quotations, but inferior beasts met a dull inquiry at last week's currency. The best Scots and crosses realised 5s 4d per Blbs. From Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Northampton. shire we received 2,500 short horns, &c. ; from other parts of England 900 various breeds, from Scotland 43 Scots and crosses, and from Ireland 550 oxen and heifers. We were tolerably well, but not to say heavily, supplied with sheep, the quality of which was by no means prime. For Downs and half-breds, as well as for the best Lincoln', Leicesters, &c., there was a good demand at fully previous rates ; otherwise the mutton trade was in a sluggish state at about stationary prices, the top figure was 58 Sti per Blbs. Calves—the supply of which was moderate—were in fair request on former terms, viz., from 43 to 5s per Blbs. We have to report an improved inquiry for pigs at quite last week's currency ; the highest price was 4s 10d per Blbs. Per 81bs. to sink the offal. e. d. s. d. s. d. s. d Ors°. &inf. beasts 3 4 3 8 Primecrs-wool de.s 2 5 4 Secondquality do. 3 10 4 6 Pme.S'thdowndo.s 6 5 8 Prhne large oxen 4 8 5 0 Large orse. calves 4 0 4 Prime Scots, &c. 5 2 5 4 Prime small do 4 10 5 0 Urse. & inf. sheep 4 0 4 6 Large hogs 3 6 4 4 Second quality do. 4 8 5 0 Small porkers..., 4 6 4 10 Lambs....os Od to Os Od. Suckling calves, 16s to 218; and quarter-old store pigs, 20s to 26s each. TOTAL SUPPLY. Beasts ... FOREIGN surrLy. Beasts Sheep Calves Pigs Cows — Sheep Calves ........ rigs. 690 The total imports of foreign stock into London, last week, amounted to 17,315 head. In the corresponding week in 1863,w0 received 17,820—in 1862,12,898—in 1861, 12,734 —in 1860, 8,713—in 1859, 7,697—in 1858, 7,180. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LA.bl WEEK. Beasts. From Amsterdam.... .. Antwerp — . Bremen ... 393 .. Boulogne ~. .. Calais - .. Dordt. B3 .. Dunkirk... Sheep. Lamb*. Calves. Pigs 191 .. .. _. .. 44 .. - 6 Ili Oa 175 ill 630 .. - .. --- .. --- .. -- • . 135 Hamburg 49 .. 491 .. . 44 .. Harlingen 356 .. 1174 53 111 654 Aledemblik 614 .. 11 .. Oporto 6l .. .. .. .. Ostend Rotterdam Tonning lBl3 .. 1456 .. 2U9 Total .... 3334 .. 10,561 .. 277 ..1168 ..1506 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambe. Calves. Pigs, 1863 2889 .. 10,388 16t9 .. 544 .. 1380 1812 .. 1071 .. 9,748 18i .. 488 .. 606 1861 bl27 .. 10,324 .. 183 .. 231 .. 1119 A. statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in the Great Metropolitan Cattle Market on Monday, Oct. 5, 1863, and this day, Monday, Oct, 3, 1864, Per 81b. to sink tho offal. Oct. 5, Oct. 3, 1863. 1864. Coarse and inferior beasts 3 2to 3 6 3 4to 3 8 Second quality do 3 8 4 2 310 4 6 Prime large oxen 4 4 4 8 4 8 6 0 Prime Scots, &c 4lO 5 0 6 2 5 4 Coarse and inferior sheep Second quality do Prime coarse-woolled do 4 8 410 6 2 5 4 Prime Southdown do. 0000 0 0 0 0 Lambs Largo coarse calves Prime small do Large hogs Neat small porkers.... Beasts .. Sheep and lambs Calves •••••• Pigs 390 690 SUPPLIES ON SALE, OCt 6, 1862.—Beasts, 6,050 — sheep, 25,150—calves, 167—pigs, 450. OCT. 7, 1861.—Beasts, s,79o—sheep, 22,170—calves, 154—pigs, 630. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. These markets are bat moderately supplied with town and country killed meat. For all good and prime qualities the trade continues to rule firm, at fully late rates; but inferior meat is in slow request, at about stationary prices. Per 81b. 1.)3 , the carcase. sdsd sclid Inferior beef 30 3 4 Middling mutton 42 4 4 diddling do. .. 363 10 Prime do ~ 46 4 8 Prime largo do. 4 0 4 2 Veal Do. mall do. .. 4 4 4 6 Small pork 4 6 5 0 Large pork 3 6 4 4 Lamb .. 0 0 0 0 Inferior mutton. 3 8 4 0 BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. These markets continue to be moderately supplied with home grown potatoes. For most qualities there is a steady demand, and prices on the whole are tolerably firm. Very few foreign potatoes rro on sale. List week's imports were 87 sacks from Dunkirk, 29 bags Rotterdam, and 9 bags from St Brieux. Kent and Essex Regents....BoB to 110 s per ton. Rocks ....50a to 758 II ....50s to COs „ Foreign If BOROUGH HOP. The supply of new hops, of English growth, on sale is tolerably large. For good and fine samples there is a steady demand, and last week's currency is well supported. For inferior produce the demand is by no means active, but in those instances in which factors feel disposed to accept less money sales are somewhat readily effected, and the business doing is seasonably large. In foreign hops very little is doing. The imports into London last week amounted to 281 bales from Antwerp, 45 Ostend, 25 Rotterdam, 3 Dunkirk, 22 Hamburg, and 100 bales from New York. per cwt. New Mid and East Kent ...... 100 s to 190 s New Weaid of Kent 9os to 130 s New Sussex New aildings Old Bavarian —B to —s SEEDS. The demand for tares was moderate on former terms Mustard seed met a slow sale, and the quotations had a drooping tendency. For linseed and rapeseed there was a fair demand at previous rates. The transactions in other seeds were on a limited scale at last Monday's currencies The inquiry for cakes ruled heavy, and the quotations do dined 55 per ton. lurntp,White,p.bus.2o to 22s Swede -s —s Mustard, Brown —a —6 White, Tares, Spring — s — e New winter, bush 9s 9sCd Canary, per quarter —B - s Itye grass, new —s —s Clover, Red Eng., et. - s —s White Foreign lied —s —s White —s —s Carraway 22s 28.3 Coriander 125 iss Ilernpseed, per qr sls 58s Linseed,Eng.sowing 76s 78 8 Crushing sBs 63s Baltic Odessa —s Linseed Cake, p ton —s English £lo Os£ll 10s Foreign £9 lOs £ll Os Rape Cakes,p ton£lloB £slos Rapeseed, new,pr qr G4s oss Trefoil now 8 WOOL. There is no improvement to notice in the state of the wool trade. In the manufacturing districts, it is stated that rather more favourable symptoms have presented themselves; but the maiket here for all descriptions of home-grown wool has, since our last report, been in a most inactive state. The amount of business transacted has con sequently been much restricted, and at prices showing a reduction, compared with the late highest point, of, in most instances, 3d per lb. For colonial wool, by private contract, the trade has ruled heavy, and the quotations have had a drooping tendency. The arrivals from the Cape and Aus tralian colonies, since the close of the public sales, have been large, amounting t) 53,906 bales. Current prices of English wool per lb, s Fleeces —South Down hoggets 2 0 Half-bred do Kent fleeces .`:oath DJwn ewes and wethers 2 0 LrAcF.stor do. . Sorts—Clot hing Combing . 1 8 s d 2 1 2 5 2 3 2 2 2 2 2 J. 2 31 TALLOW. The talow trade is very quiet to-day at about previous quotations. New P.Y.C. is quoted at 4!s per cwt. on the spot. Town tallow is selling at 41s GI nat cash. Rough fat commands 2s 2d per 8 lbs. Particulars. I S OO . 15e1 1862. 1 1863. 1864. -- Stock this itay.... 44.356 37,150 39.815 43.718 47.636 5453 a lo : 51s 3d to 1756.1 to:4ssod to 42s 01 to ;Iv — eel — a — 4 8 ,1 0 5 d 8 47 1 3 ,2 9 6 4 1 —26,1074 s 0(1 2 1,695 D P u r ie i ti c tivo e e o tryi f .o Y m i.acsJune ] 35,95 6 5.,170 26, ft 5 20,667 22,3.5 Axel/ills last week 2,289 3,u;7 2,7(3 i 3,175 8,376 Ditto from June 1 5 ,348 3 ,WO 27,668 1 26,678 2i,000 Price of Town .... 54s 61 52s 91 50s 0(1 145 6d 41s 31 ____ POLICE INTELLIGENCE,---This day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. ATTEMPT TO ROB MESSRS HUNT AND ROSKELL.— Thomas Juhnson, a young man wearing a moustache, and who refused his address, but described himself as a mason, was charged befare Mr Tyrwhitt with being found on the roof of the premises of Messrs Hunt and Roskell, jewellers, 156, New Bind-stret, for the purpose of committing a felony. Mr Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, ap peared for the prisoner. William Mitchell, porter in the service of Messrs Hunt and Roskell, said—On Saturday evening, between 7 and 8 o'clock, I was informed that a man was on the roof of the premises. I got assistance and proceeded to the roof, and after searching about for some time saw a dark object, which I at first thought was a dog, but afterwards found was the prisoner, on his hands and knees, looking through the sky light on the leads of a showroom. As soon as the prisoner saw me he rose up, and I then sized him by the collar and took him down, and gave him into custicly for trying to rob the house. The prisoner said he intended no harm, and that he was going farther on. By Mr LF;wis—lt was on the roof of one of the show rooms. The prisoner did not deny he had been to see a female on an adjoining house. _ Mr Tyrwhitt—Ara the premises apart from the house ? Witness—They are, but there is access from one place to the other. Another person in Messrs Hunt and Roskell's employ gave similar evidence. Mr Tyrwhitt, addressing the last witness, said—lt is pretty well known that you have valuable property in the place, and why do you not have the top railed round so as to prevent persona getting on the roof. You have means enough to do so. Inspector Silverton, C division—l received the prisoner in custody on Saturday evening, and on being told that he had been found on the roof, I examined the place and found he had entered from Barlow-mews, at least 100 yards dis tant—a girl, who was not then present, but would attend, having seen him climbing up by moans of a water pipe in the mews. The prisoner had left his hat on the parapet of the wall where he just got up, and then proceeded some hundred* of y ards over roofs to get at the skylight, and I traced marks from one place to the other. I also found an adjoining window open. Oa asking the prisoner his name he said it was Thomas Johnson, but he refused his address I wish for a remand, as I shall be able to give more evidence on a future occasion. Mr Lewis—l do not know whether your worship con siders there ought to be another examination. Mr Tyrwhitt—Considering the place 'where the prisoner was found, at a large jeweller's, I think some inquiries should be made. I will therefore remand the prisoner till Wednesday. Mr Lewis—Will you take bail, sir. Mr Tyrwhitt—l will not take bail at present. THAMES. A Row WITH TUE DOCTOR.—William Payne, a tall and powerful man, was brought before Mr Paget, charged with assaulting Mr Grant, a respectable medical gentle. man, of hiillwall, Poplar, and William Wcst, 153 K, a police-constable. On Saturday; night the complainant, after a fatiguing day and visits to a great many patients, had lain down on a sofa to seek a little repose, when he heard a loud knock at his door. On opening it ho saw the prioner, who re quested him to visit a patient who had fallen down an area, broken his neck, and was on the point of death, Mr Grant observing that the prisoner was in liquor. said he could not leave horne until a fee of 55. was paid. The prisoner said that the money would be pail directly the surgeon reached the house where the patient was. Mr Grant refused to leave home without his fee at such a late hour, and the prisoner became very noisy and violent, and attacked Mr Grant. He struck him and seized him by the throat, and, according to Mrs Grant's account, her husband was nearly strangled. The whole household, including Mr Grant's sister, brother, and wife, who were all injured, were barely sufficient to secure the prisoner, who was ulti • mutely given into the custody of West, 153 K, who observed blood on the neck of the surgeon. The constable walked the prisoner about thirty yards towards the station-house, when he became very violent, struck the constable on the face, aad laid on the ground. In this position the prisoner remained fur half-an-hour until other police constables arrived, and car ried him to the stationhouse. In answer to Mr Paget, the constable said no serious accident took place. He saw the man said to be injured. He was not injured. Mr Paget said no one had any right to knock at a gen tleman's door, because he happened to be a surgeon, and demand him to visit a patient elsewhere. Medical men generally did leave home and visit patients when called upon to do so, but there was no legal compulsion. He could not blame Mr Grant for refusing to leave home without his fee on the invitation of a drunken man. lie fined the prisoner 20s, which he paid. THE OFFICE OF SHERlFF.—Whatever might be the condition of things if it were impossible to find men willing to accept the office of Sheriff, it is very certain that socfety is under deep obligations to those who accept the office, for it is an integral part of the free constitution, under the shadow of which we enjoy our liberties and con solidate our wealth and power. T h e Sheriffs begin their offi c ial career by assisting at the election of a L or d Mayor an d royal authority bring, as it were , the Q uee n's for rowthne year and emtheuing'so that the representatives o f loyal statutes of the realm to bear witness to the t ati of the aspirations of independent citizenship. not merely as the shire v of royal power and prerogative, the e e between the king and the pe o p l e , that we reeve, i n termediaries the invalidity r epre But n it ve is s know the sheriffs best in these days, any more than we first think of them as public executioners, because charged occasionally with the responsible duty of disposing of a human life. It is as almoners, and as themselves fountains of almonry, that in these piping times of peace and prosperity and content we best know of the existence and movements of the sheriffs. Our love of organization is such, that, when we have exhausted our powers of invention in the organization of charities,we at last make a desperate clutch at some venerable legal office, and load it with responsibilities touching bread,coals, and blankets, the care of orphans, idiots, juvenile o ff e nders, and other active and passive claimants for charity, for whom there are splendid organisations nevertheless. The charitable part of the Sheriff's duties is of comparatively recent origin ; it Was not always the rule to stick a live Sheriff in a high-backed pew and preach at him, and compel a whole congregation to stare him out of countenance, in order that the Samaritan Society should be enabled to continue its useful career. The best part of the feature is that, like the more ancient and more formal por tion of a Sheriff's duties, it fits the office very well—the association of law and be=nevolence works very well in this case, and the Sheriff bleeds as patiently as a connubial partner submitting to the lancet for the process of trans fusion to the "other s ide." — City Press, THE GREAT NAPOLEON. —It has by numerous detractors been supposed that Napoleon owed much of his miraculous success to an unexampled galaxy of skilful lieutenants. Joinini shows that such wits not the case—that, almost always victorious where he himself com manded, Napoleon, if ho profited much by the gallantry of generals fighting under his immediate superintendence, with a few exceptions suffered almost equally from the un fitness of these same officers for independent command. Jonaini, speaking by the mouth of Napoleon, thus sums up his opinion of some of the principal French commanders,— " With the exception of Massena, Soult, and perhaps Da voust, there was none to whom I could entrust the com mand of a separate army. (The Viceroy, St. Cyr, Suchet, and Oudinot were promoted only at a later period.)"— Captain w. linollys in the Reader, CORFEDELtATE RIFLES. --A correspondent with General Sherman's army writes—" The Whitworth I rifle in use by the rebel skirmishers and sharpshooters is a weapon greatly to be feared, as persons nearly a mile and a halt from the rebel skirmish line have been wounded when they thought themselves safe from anything except solid shot and shell. One soldier was standing upon a log crossing a creek, about one mile and a quarter from the mart st rebel line of rifle-pits, and a comrade was talking with him, when one of these fatal messengers came crashing through b thighs, and with this m ortal wound ho sank into the water. An officer speaking of it says, ` They break the bone of a man's limb like a solid shot from a cannon.' Rebel deserters say that each division of the rebel front is furnished with about 50 of these rifles, which are used in their skirmish line," SPORTING INTELLIGENCE-. CITY BETTING,—THIS DAY. CESAREWITCII STAKES. 7to 1 agst Gratitude (taken) Bto 1 agst Thalestris (taken) 10 to 1 agst Calista colt (taken) 10 to 1 agat Mail Train (taken) 25 to 1 agst Beatrix (taken) 25 to 1 agst Alabama (off red) 25 to 1 agst Suspicion (offered) 25 to 1 agst Tattoo (offered) 30 to 1 agst Fanfreluche (offered) 3) to 1 agst Lady Frances filly (offo:ed) 40 to 1 agst Myrtle (taken) 50 to 1 agat Bever (taken) 60 to 1 agat Gibraltar (taken) 66 to 1 agst Welcome (taken) 100 to 1 agst Carisbrook (taken) CIMBRIDGESIIIRE. 25 to 1 agst Nuczzin 25 to 1 agst Accident 50 to 1 agst Brick ((gored) 100 to 1 agst Norbern The Awful Calamity at Belvedere. FURTHER PARTICULARS. Early on Saturday morning two gunpowder magazines, situated on the southern bank of the Thames between Woolwich and Erith, exploded with terrific violence, kil.iug eight or nine persons, if not more, wounding others, and carrying conster nation and alarm among the inhabitants of the whole neighbourhood for miles round. Although the scene of the catastrophe is distant about 15 miles from Charing-cross, the explosion was heard and felt more or less throughout the whole me tropolis, and even at places 40 and 50 miles from the spot. There is nothing in modern times to compare with the calamity i❑ the feeling of wide spread terror which it produced, or is . the in. tense interest which it has since excited, unless it be the memorable explosion at Geteshead_upon- Tyne, some eight or ten years ago. At first the prevailing idea was that the inhabitants of the metropolis and its suburbs had experienced the shock of an earthquake, but that notion was speedily dispelled, and by noon on Saturday the exact nature of the catastrophe and its locality were pretty generally known through out London. Later in the day the evening papers appeared, containing accounts of the matter, and were sold in incredible numbers ; but thousands of people, impatient to know the real truth, had rushed down to the scene itself by railway in the afternoon, to learn it for themselves on the spot. By the evening, therefore, it was the theme of every tongue, and probably for years past no intelligence of any domestic event has occasioned a more start ling sensation. The explosion occurred in a gunpowder depot be longing to Messrs. John Hall and Sons, and almost simultaneously in a magc.leee of smaller size used by Messrs. Daye and Barker, both of them located in the Plumstead-marshes on the margin of the Thames, two miles west of Etith, and about en equal distance from the village of Belvedere, on the North Kent Railway. Here, on about 20 acres of ground, separated for obvious reasons from the rest of the neighbouring inhabitants, but in the imme diate vicinity of the !eerie of their daily labour, lived a few workingmen with their families in three cottages engaged in a perilous calling. One was George Rayner, who acted as store keeper in the depot of Messrs. Hall, and who was a married man with a family, and another named Walter Silver, also married, acted in a similar capacity under Messrs. Daye and Barker. Each of these hed a cottage to him. self about 100 or 200 yards from the magazines, and the rest, who were men employed in the larger depot, occupied a cottage in common. The Mcsie.s. Hall have been engaged in the business of fabricating gunpowder for more than 50 years, and have exe cu'ed large contracts from time to time, both for our and many foreign G )vernments. They have a large factory in the neighbourhood of Faversham, in Kent, occupying about 200 acres of ground, part of the works at which were erected in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. There the work of manufacturing and packing gunpowder is conducted by a body of trained artisans, with all the safeguards and pre cautions suggested by experience, and within the last few years the proprietors have purchased a large tract of adjacent land in order the more com pletely to seclude their operations from the habita tions of men. Their magazine at Belvedere was a substantial building, about 50 feet Square, and con sisting of two floors. It was erected five or six years ago, at a cost of about £3,000, and around it were 18 acres of land, with the view to isolate the build. ing. For miles at that part of the river there is an embankment, which protects the low lying marshes from inundation. Bath their depot and that of Messrs. D.sye and Barker stood close behind the embankment, and each had a wooden jetty pro jecting into the river, to facilitate the loading and unloading of gunpowder. The quantity of gunpowder stored in Messrs. Hall's magazine at the time of the explosion and in two of their barges which lay if the jetty is variously estimated at between less than 2,000 and 1,000 barrels, each barrel containing 100 lb. They themselves state that there were about 750 barrels in the depot and perhaps 200 more in the barge. The quantity in the magaz;nes of Messrs. Daye and Baker has not been ascertained. It should be understood that these were places used entirel y for the storage o gunpowder and in no sense for its manufacture and that none but experienced men were employed at them. Rayner had been the storekeeper there of Messrs. Hall for 12 years, and accustomed to the manipulation of gunpowder from his boyhood. He was an intelligent and most efficient mac, and they had complete coefilence in him. Between their mills at Faversham and the magazine at Belvedere, a distance of about 30 miles, the gun powder is conveyed in sailing barges, each of them navigated usually by a couple of men, and two of these, as has been stated, were moored alongside the jetty on Saturday morning discharging cargo. The gunpowder, carefully packed in barrels, is borne on trucks with copper wheels along wooden rails, in order to preclude the possibility cf a spark from friction, and the operation is conducted with other precautions, such as the wearing of list slippers by the men engaged in it. By common consent, the explosion occurred at between 18 and 20 minutes before 7 o'clock in the morning, and it is presumed that Messrs. Hall's men were then unloading one of the barges. A clock in the house of Mr. Henry Hall, at South Darenth, about three miles from Dartford and seven from the powder magazines, was stopped by the explosion itself at precisely 18 minutes to 7. There were three distinct explosions immediately following each other, and the belief of persons =versant with the trade is that the first, took place on board one of the barges; that the terrific concussion produced by it tore asunder the larger magazine, and some of the burning fragments alighting in it caused an explosion infinitely more appalling, and which was instantaneously followed by the explosion of the smaller depct. At Erith and Belvedere, where the shock was most felt, the feeling produced by it is described as awful beyond description. At Woolwich, about four miles off, the first impression was that the powder works in the Arsenal had exploded, and the wives and Lmilies of the artisans at work there rushed to the spot in a state of consternation. They were not allowed to enter the place, and they stood teirer stricken in the square in front. Shortly after the explosion showers of letters, invoices, and other papers, which had been borne on the wind a distance of four miles, fell within the precincts of the Arsenal, and clearly indicated the scene of the catastrophe, but it was long before the people outside could be persuaded that their re latives were safe. Immediately after the calamity an immense pillar of smoke rose from the spot high into the air, thick, black, and palpable, with a huge spreading top, and about a quarter of an hour elapsed before it died away. S soon as it was sup posed to be safe to do so people from Erith and Bel vedere proceeded to the spot and ventured to explore the ruins in search of any one that might be living, Of the magazines themselves not a single stone re , mained upon another, the very foundations being torn up, and the site of that of Messrs Hell was I marked by huge fiisures and chasms in the earth, immense lumps of which had been scooped out and hurled about the adjacent field. The barges, with the jetty, had been split into fragments and blown into the air, and an enormous rent had been made in the embankment itself, exposing miles of country to the perils of inundation. Of the cottage of the foreman Rayner nothing was left standing but a bit of brick wall and a doorway. The lifeless bodies of the unfortunate man himself and of his son, a boy, were found close by, and his wife an d a child were dug out of the ruins alive, but hurt in various ways. A child, niece of Silver, the foreman at the other depot, was:killed, while he himself escaped with some slight injuries. Hi s wire, fortunately had gone on a visit to some fr:ends at Maidstone a few days ego, and had not re turned. The cltt3ge in which they lived is simply a ruin, and the whole inam(diate neighbourhood is covered with the cle 7 ais of the fallen buildirgq Those of the sufnrers, nine in nun,b2r, who ;t-eie still living were conveyed with as much care anal speed as possible to Guy's Hospital. ole of them died shortly after admission, the lives of two others were despaired of, and it is apprehended that the men in charge of the barges have perished, fur they were missing up to yesterday. The yawning gap is the embankment, about 100 yards in width, next demanded attention, and most fortunately Mr. Lewis G. Moore, an engineer connected with the Thames Embankment, and who resides at Erith, at once perceived and appreciated the emergency. Luckily, it was dead low water at the time of the explosion, but still only about four hours were available fur the rough repair of the damage against the approaching tide. A message was sent by Ur Moore to Mr Houghton, one of the contractors under the Metropolitan Board of Works, at Crossness Point, about a couple of miles off, and within 20 minutes after wards he had arrived upon the scene with 400 navvies, with all their to Is and barrows. A communication was also forwarded to the garrison at Woolwich, and by half-past. 9 o'clock detachments of Sappers and Miners and Artillery, to the number of about 1,500. under the command of Gen. Warde and Colonel Hawkins, reached the spot with all the necessary implements, and set about the repair of the breach with great good will, and after the true method of military engineering. They were followed speedily by the 5.11 Fusileers, who kept the grcund from intrusion, and later in the day by the Marines, both from the garrison at Woolwich. Before the troops arrived, the navvies, acting under Mr Houghtea and Mr Moore, wheeled large masses of clay is front of the breach, while others puddled it into a solid bottom, by which means the subsequent military ope:ations were facilitated, On their arrival the Sappers and Miners made horizontal arches at the back of the breach with bags of clay one upon another, and layers of earth in • tervening, these arches presenting a formidable front to the advancing tide, while the rest of the gap was being filled up and puddled by the navvies. Time was precious and there was a scarcity of barrows ; but the troops, adapting them selves to the emergency, formed themselves into lines from places where clay was available, and passed it along is lumps, from hand to hand, to the point of operationa t uith great ease and rapidity. About half-past 1 o'clock, when near high water, the work became extremely exciting. The whole force contended with the advancing tido inch by inch, knowing that, if it once made a breach, the repair of the mischief would be vastly more difficult than the work in which they wore then engaged, By 3 o'clock the embank ment was restored in this rough and ready, but most effi cient, manner, and the crisis had passe'. It withstood the succeeding tide, and was exposed to a severer trial in that of yesterday, which, with a stiff north-easterly breeze, beat heavily against it for a couple of hours. At one time, apprehensions as to its safety existed, and a party of Sappers and Miners, who had been telegraphed for, arrived from Woolwich to assist in the emergency. In case of failure, Mr Moore had taken the precaution to send for about a dozen barges, with a vi©w to have them leaded with clay and then scuttled in front cf the breach as a kind of breakwater ; but fortunately occasion did not arise for the expedient being carried into eff-ct. He spo>ks in enthusiastic terms of the hearty co-operation of General W arde and Colonel Haw kins on the occasion, and of the practical energy shown by the troops. In the course of the afternoon of Saturday Captain Harris, Commissioner of Metropolitan Police, went down to the spot with a detachment of the A Division of police, and yesterday again a still stronger force were on duty there aiding the local constabularly. The damage done at Erith in particular in the way of broken glass and the injury to property in other respects is lamentably great, and a public meeting of the inhabitants has been convened for this afternoon to decide upcn some course of action in the emergency. There is scarcely a house in the p'ace the windows of which have not been shattered less or more, and the inhabitants are experi encing much inconvenience. The windows of the old parish church have been blown in among the rest, as have also those in particular of a whole row of houses, 20 or 3) in number, situated on the brow of a hill Lading to Bexley and belonging to Mr. Everett. The explosion was heard and felt at Uxbridge, about 30 wiles off, and at Windsor, 'Paddington, and many other distant places. Mr. William Hall, the principal partner of the firm whose property has been destroyed, felt the concussion at the residence of Sir Norton Knatchbull, at which he was staying, in the neigh bourhood of Ashtord, and about 50 miles distant from the spot. For some minutes after the explosion the earth heaved and trembled with the effects of it in and about Erith and Belvedere, and the people were appalled and terror. stricken At Woolwich the usual drills and barrack duties were on SAlurday dispensed with as far as practicable, for the pur pose of rendering all possiule aid to the sufferers from the ex plosion. The effects in the garrison and town were destructive. The windows in the official departments, at private resi dences, and shops were shatttr,d ; frames and sashes were dashed in, and several persons were severely injured, In many houses ceilings and portions of the walls were shaken down, and people rushed from their houses in dismay. The whole of the medical staff of the gariieon and town hastened to the scene to render their assistance. Dr Dom villa, of the fligship Fisgard, who was the first to reach the place, was pulled dowa the river to the immediate locality in the ship's cutter. In the shock many persons were throv.n violently from their beds to the floor and their beds shook like ships at sea. In the Arsenal and dockyard serious fears were entertained that the large workshops would fall in, so groat and violent was the concussion felt by the Lwo shocks immediately fol lowing each other. In connection with the showers of paper a remarkable circumstance occurred. A lad named Eaves was standing near the Royal gun facto ries, in which he is employed, and picked up one of the torn pieces of paper which fell around him, He found it to be put of the page of a ledger, in which his uncle, a " foreman in the employment of Mr Hall, had that morning entEnd a memorandum. He had attached his signature at the foot, tegether with the date of the entry—namely, October 1, 1864. Zhe shock of the explosion was distinctly felt in every part of Chatham and Rochester, which are dis tant about 25 miles from the scene of the disaster. In Chatham dockyard the windows of nearly every part of the building were shaken and doors were forced open. The cloud of smoke which followed the explosion was distinctly visible from Fort Pitt and the Chatham Lines, and until the telegrams conveying intelligence of the occurenco arrived a general opinion was entertained that the Government powder magazines at Faucet bad exploded. The shock of the explosions was felt most severely in the more elevated portions of the neighbourhood. At Deptford, in the workshops of Mr. Stone, a large navy contractor, I% hich are under the arches of the railway there, the gaslights, to the number of about 150, were blown out simultaneously by the explosion. Sergeant Com, of the police division stationed at Erith, gives the following narrative of the circumstances :—He WAS getting up when he heard the explosion. He ran out and found all the back windows were broken, the sashes as well as the glasses. Ho looked in the direction whence the sound proceeded, and imagining from the smoke that one of the magazines had exploded, he went back, and, having quieted the fears of his wife, proceeded to the scene ct the disaster, prom - dog assistance by the way. Mr Churton and Mr Tipple, two medical gentlemen of the vicinity, were on the spot almost as soon as the police, and, with Mr Matthewson and other surgeons, did all that was possible for the sufferers. Oa arriving at the spot, having literally picked his way through the heaps of rubbish and masses of stones and brick that had been strewn about by the explosion, Sergeant Cox found the body of Mr Geo. Rayner in his own garden. He was much cut about the face, as if by splinters, and the back part of the head over the left ear was cut open, the brain protrudiag. He was quite dead. Sergeant Cox next saw Rebecca Wright, who was removed as soon as possible, under the care of the medi cal men. A son of Rayner, named Oliver, was next dis covered. his head was smashed in a tearful manner, and death must have been qui e instantaneous. Elizabeth Wright, aged 13 years, a daughter of the poor woman previously mentioned, was next found, and she was carefully removed to Guy's Hospital, but died a few minutes after her admission. She had sustained a compound fracture of the skull, a fracture of the lett thigh, and was severely burnt on the chest and upper extremity of the body, The bodies of Rayner and his son were removed to the Belvedere Hotel, and placed in a shed to await the coroner's inquest, and shortly after the body of a man, ap parently abut 60 years of age, was found in the mud of the river, and conveyed to the same place. Yesterday thousands upon thousands of people of visited the scene of the catastrophe, travelling mostly by the North Kent Rail say, and it required the aid of a strong body of police at the Erith and Belvedere Stations to maintain order and prevent accident. Long after dark the platform and grounds of the Belve dere and Erith Station were crowded with thousands of people waiting to be conveyed h.,mewat de. At 11 o'clock the trains were coming is rapidly to Lon. don-bridge, the passengers by which reported that a large number of persona were still waiting down the line. Th 3 Russian screw steam frigate Oleg of 57 guns arrived at Malta on the 26th September from the Piz us. The usual saluts wcro exchanged between her, the forte, and the English ilagehip. SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 O'CLOCK. ,TURKEY. Lottas from Scutari announce that the commis. sion for establishing the frontier line between the Turkish and Montenegrin territories has just resumed its labours, which had been for some time suspended. THIRD EDITION SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK. TAT TAIIR,SA LL'S---This Evening, er-- CESAREWITCH SLAKES. 6 to 1 opt Gratitude Cake 100 to 15) Bto 1 agst ThaTestris (taken) 9to 1 agst Mail Train (taken) 10 to 1 agst Calista colt (( &mil) 25 to 1 agst Alabama (taken) 2S to 1 agst l3eatrix (taken) 33 to 1 agst Tattoo (offered) 40 to 1 agst Itoly Poly (taken) 40 to 1 aget Myrtle (taken) 40 to 1 agst Lady Frances (taken) 5) to 1 agst Speculation (taken) CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES. 16 to 1 agst Gratitude (taken) 20 to 1 agst Tattoo (taken) 20 to 1 agst Mtn zzin (taken) 25 to 1 agst Prince Plausible (tal.en) 50 to 1 agst Blyard (taken) 50 to 1 agst Deerfoot (taken) ARRIVALS AT BEDFORD. Zeloo, Lady flylda, Damascus, Jessie, Bunch, Mirage, Sheridan, Cordelia, Tailor, Ethd, Goldylocks, Lancashire Witch, Dunkeld, Turn of Lucy, Fawn, and Concordi. The Literary Season. (Kern the Ath,enaum.) The literary season puts out its promises at an early date. Our holidays are hardly over ere the more enterprising firms are in the field NI ith our autumnal and minter read- ing. The promise is rich and good. Messrs Longman have the following nearly ready :•—The New Testament, illus trated with engravings on wood from the old mastere— Explorations in South-West Africa being an account of a Journey in the years 1861 and 1862 from WalviEch Bay, on ,e Western Covit, to Lake Ngarni and the Vietcria Falls, by Thomas Baines— Tuscan Sculptors, their Lives, Work F, and Times, with illustrations from original drawings and photographs, by Charles C. Perkins—The Life of Robert Stephenson, late President of the Institution of Civil En- gineers ; by J. C. Jettffreson and William Pole—Memoirs, Miscellanies, and Letters of the late Lucy Alkin; includ- ing those addressed to Rev. Dr. Channing, from 18:6 to 1842, edited by P. 11. Le Brereton—The Conversion of he Roman Empire : Eight S2rrnons preached at Boyle's Lecture in the year 1864, by the 111,v, Charles Meiivale —A Course of Lectures on the History of Music from the beginning of the lith to the middle of the 18th Century, delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in the Spring of 1864, by John llullah—Last Winter in Rome and other Italian Cities, by C. R. Wt.lcl —The Works of the late Sir B. Brodie, edited by Charles Hawkins—Outline Sketches of the High Alps of Dauphine, by the Rev. T. G. Bonney—Essays on Religion and Lite- rature, by various Writers, edited by H. E. Mannitig—Tho Hidden Wisdom of Christ, and the Key of Knowledge; or, History of the Apocrypha, by Ernest De Bunsen. Messrs Macmillan and Co. arc preparing for publication: —Spiritual Philosophy, founded on the Teaching of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, by Joseph Henry Green; edited, with 0, Biographical Introduction, by John Simon—History of England for Boys, by the Rev. Charles Kingsley—Lessons in Elementary Physiology, by T. H. Huxley—Elementary Lessons in Political Economy, by Henry Fawcett—A His tory of the Mathematical Theory of Probability, from Pas. cal to Llplaco, by I. Todhunter—Leonore, and other Poems by Georgiana Lady Chatterton—Ballads of Brittany, by Tom Taylor—The Poetical Works of John Clare, the Northamptonshire Peasant, including many Pieces hitherto Unpublished, with Memoir and Autobiogtaphy—Tbe Song Book, Voids and Tunes, from the best Poets and Musicians, selecied and arranged by John Hullah—A. Book of Golden Deeds, by the author of The Heir of Redo!) ffe—The Church of the First Days, by C, J. Vaughan, D.D.—The Gosrd of the Kingdom of Heaven : a Series of Lectures on the Gospel according to St. Luke, by the Rev. F. D. Maurice—The Progress cf D.wtrino in the New Testament, by the Rev. I', D. Ber nard—Oho Church of England and Common Sense; cr, a Working Faith for Thoughtful Men, by Harry Jones— Brief Notes on the Greek of the New Testament, for Eng lish Readers, by the Rev. Francis Trench. Messrs Chapman and Ball are devoting their energies in a large measure to the production of novels : The Breckes of Bridietnere, by Wbyte Melville—Which is the Wira:cr ? by Chas. Clarke—Quite Alone, by Geo. Augustus Sala_ and Lindisfarne Chase, by T. A. Trollops, are among their ancouncements. In the more solid departments of literature they are preparing A Life of Carl Maria Von Weber, by Herr Von Weber--The Life and Times of Voltaire, I.y P. Espioasse—History of the Ctitivation of Tobacco and Cot ton, by Col, Robert L. De Coin—The Chasseur d'Afrique, and other Tales, by H.2l : _Wahn3ley—Tho Muscles and their Story, by J. W. F. Blundell, bl. D.—and Through Macedonia to the Albanian Lakes, 1:y Mary Adelaide Walker. From Messrs. Sampson, Low, and Co.'s press, we shall have: Pictures of English Life, after original studies by B. Barnes and E. M. \Vhimperis, engraved by J. D. Cooper, with descriptive poetry by F. G.Watts—A History of Lace, from the Earliest Period, by Mrs F. Palliser—The Great Schools of England, by Howard Staunton, Esq.—Bees and Beehives, by the Times Beemaster—"Normandy : its Gothic Architecture and History; as illustrated by Twenty. five Photographs from Buildings in Rouen, Caen, Mantes, Bayeux, and Falaise ; a Sketch, by F. G. Stephens—" The White Wife, with other Stories, Supernatural and Legen dary," by Cuthbert Bede—The Gipsies of the Danes Dyke, by January Searlc—Brigandage iu Italy, from the Earliest Period tc the Present Time, by a Resident—A llistoi y of the Discovery and Exploration cf Australia, from the Eat 11- est Period to the Present Day, by the Rev. Julian E. Tani son Woods—and Canada West in 1t , .61 : a Handbook for Settlers, by H. T. N. Chesshyre. Messrs Smith, Elder, and Co, will produce : The Lako Country, by E Lynn Linton, with one hundred illustra tions on wood—The Cornhill Gallery, contaieing one hundred engravings from drawings on wood (from designs for the illustration of the Cornhill ling azine)—The Life and Letters of the late Rev. Fred. W. Robertson—Grimm's Life of Michael Angelo, translated by F. E. Bennett— Letters on England, by Louis Blanc—Celebrities of London and Paris, being a third series of Reminiscences and Anec dotes of the Court, the Camp, and the Clubs, by Corain Gronow—Our Tropical Possessions in Malayan India, by John Cameron, Esq —The Law of Life, shown in a Philo sophical, Religious, and Social Study of the Lord's Prayer, translated from the French of M. D'Espinassous, by Harriet E, Wilkinson—The Englishwoman in India—On Capital Punishment, based on Professor Mittcrnaaier's Die Toth-s -trafe, edited by John Macrae Moir. The new novels of this firm will include :—Darkest before Dawn, by the author of The Cruellest Wrong of All—Grayscourt, edited by Lady Chattorton—Once and Again, by the author of Who Breaks —Pays—By the Sea, by the author of Hester liirton Belial—Noel ; or, It Was to Be, by Robert Baker—Three Phases of Love—Dunmara, by Rath Murray--and The Heiress of Blackburn Foot. Messrs. Routledge and Co. have in the press :—Home Thoughts and Hume Scenes: Original Poems, by Jean Ingleleve, Mrs, Toni Taylor, Mies Humphreys, the lion. Mrs. Norton, Dora Greenvill, Amelia. B. Edwards, and the author of John Halifax, with 35 elaborate pictures drawn by A. B. Houghton, and engraved by the Brothers Da'ziel (uniform with Birket Foster's English Landscapes)—What Men have said about Women, selected from the Poets by Henry Southgate, with illustrations by Watson—G-o!den. Light, being Scripture Histories from the 0:d and New Testament, for the Young—with 80 pictures engraved by the Brothers Dalziel—A new edition of Lane's Arabian Nights, with many hundred illustrations by William air• vey, in 3 vols. A new volume of Poems, by Eliza Cook — Every Boy's Annual for 1865, with numerous illustrations — a n .: 4 , a volume of Fairy Stories, by George Cruikshank. M es srs, Bell and Daldy announce—The Gnostics and their Remaias, Ancient and Mediaeval, by C. W. King— The Customs and Traditions of Palestine, by E. Piet otti— a volume of Poems, by Samuel Ferguson, Esc' —a series of Facsimiles from the Original Studies by RafLelle and Michael Angelo, now in the University Galleries at Ox ford, etched by Joseph Fisher—and a volume on the Book of Conlinm Prayer, by the Rev. M. P. Sadler, entitled, Church Doctrine, Bible Truth. --This Day SHIPPING-THIS DAY, LONDON, Out. 3.—Wind this day at noon—North-. Easterly; strong bran and fine weather. FALMOUTH, Oct. 2.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Claudine, from Manilla. BRISTr:1„ Oct. 2. _Wind S.W.—Arrived—Minerva, from Illyannah. CAP.DIFP, Oc'. 2.—Soiled—Dcl3, for Rio Janeiro—John Baley, for New York. OFF FALMOUTII, Oct. 2.—Arrived—Hormingo, from Halifax. PLYMOUTII, Oct. I.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Vimeira, from London for Sydney. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH,) GRAVESEND, i\londay Morning Arrivs;3, Oct. 2—Alabama and Guido, from Dram—La Maria, from Brussels. Ariivcd, Oct. 3—Minorva, from Windau —Ben, from 1%1117.0. All all tOo 10( (lot 100 , 2 1 100 MEP 100 100 100 Wu 100 100 941 5