The Sun. — London, England, 1864-10-31 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK, 'There is no difficulty in getting first-class three months' bills discounted at Bf, per cent., and a pro portionate concession ii.made in favour of securities having a shorter period to run. These facilities have naturally led to a marked diminution in the inquiries for accommodation at the discount-offioe of the Bank, 9 per cent. being still in force there as the minimum rate. The general market con tinues tolerably active. There were no bullion operations of importance at the Bank on Saturday. In the manufacturing districts during the past week there has been a more cheerful tone. Prices of both cloths and yarns have slightly advanced at Manchester, while a steady business has been re. ported in the woollen trade of Leeds, Bradford, and Huddersfield. The hosiery trade at Leicester has continued active, while in Birmingham, Sheffield, and Wolverhampton there has been little change of importance. The following official notifications have been posted in the Stock Exchange : VENEZUELAN DEBT LOAN, 1862. Messrs Baring Brothers and Co.'s agents in Venezuela, tinder date Bth Oct., advise that they have collected for 65 per cent of the import duties for one week only from the Custom house of Fuerta Cabello, 1,910.49 dal; and from that of La Guayra, 10,594.79 dole; togother 12,505.28 dols. Messrs Baring Brothers also regret to state that their agents on applying at the Custom-house for the 65 per cent import duties for the following week were informed that a revolution having broken out in Guayana, the Government have resolved to suspend the 55 per cent. for a short period to enable them to raise sufficient means to speedily check the outbreak. The amount retained at the La Guayra Custom house is stated to be about 30,000 dols. VENEZUELA LOAN, 1861. The General Credit Finance and Company of London (Limited) are in receipt of advice by this mail from their agents in La Guayra, dated the Bth inßtant, of the following duties connected on account of this loan, viz. : From Puerta Cabello ... 7,066.82 dole. Amount previously advised.. 83,957.83 „ Total amount collected...... 91,021.65 ~ DEBT OF EQIIADOR. The mail from Guayaquil has brought a remittance of £396 Os 7d on acccunt of the dividends cn the Debt of Equador. Two O'CLOCK, There has been an advance of 1, per cent. in the Consol market, the latest prices being 894 for trawler, and 891 _a for the account. Business has been very dull, but purchases have preponderated, and hence the improvement. More confidence is expressed with regard to monetary prospects, and there are no fresh failures to create uneasiness. The New Threes and Reduced are 87i ; India 5 per Cents., 1051 1. The Foreign Market presents a rather steady appearance, and there is very little business. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 711 72; do. Conso• lides, 50k 4 4; Mexican, 26! 27; do. New, 251 e ; Greek, 22 1 ; Spanish Passive, 311 ; do. Certifi cates, 14 1 ; Portuguese, 461 ; Russian, 87i 88 ; and the Confederate Loan, 60 62. In the Railway Share Market the dealings have been to an average extent. Lancashire and York shire have improved £1 lOs ; Great Northern A Stock, £2; Caledonian, North Western, and South Eastern, each £1; and Metropolitan, 10s. The Foreign and Colonial lines remain without any material alteration. Bask and Miscellaneous Shares are dull, and in Most instances show little or no change in values. BUITISII FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 3;per Cent. Consols k h Do Account, Nov. 12 B9l 3 per Cent. Reduced New 3 per Cent. B7l i New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894.... — Do 5 per Cent., Jan. 1873 Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 — Do for 30 yrs, expire s th April, 1885 — Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 — Mhrch. June. Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 4 & 3/ per Cont. 4 3 dis Do £5OO - Do £lOO and £2OO Bank England Stk, 51 per Ct. .... 239 Do Account.. — INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. India Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874.... Do Account Do 5 per Cent. July, 1670 .......... 10 5 i I Do 4 per Cent., Oct, 1888............ Do Certificates Do Account . Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) — Do 4} pei Cent Do Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent Cent Do 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 Do 51 per Cent., May, 1879 — Do 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 Do IJondell,OUo 8 5 11 dis • Do ender Xl,OOO •••• FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLO CS. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. Brazilian b per Cent •••••••• Do 4i per Cent., 1852-58-60 ,1863 B2} - Buenos Ayres 6 per, Cent Do Account.... Chilian 6 per Cent. — Do 41 per Cent - Colombian 6 per Cent Cuba, 6 per Cent. - Do 5 per Cent, 1864 Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 Do 5 per Cent, 1864 Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Do, Provisonal Land Warrant — Egyptian 7 per Cent 951 6 Do, Second Issue Do £lOO Bonds GreekTPerCent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons Do Account Do Coupons De Account _ _ ..... _ Guatemala 5 per Cent. — Do 1839 and 1859 Italian 5 per Cent.(Maremmana Railway) 70} blexicau 3 per Cent,.... Do Account Do 1864 Do 6 per Cenf. Anglo-French — die Ditto Scrip, £33 paid.... — dis Do French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c.. — dis x d Moorish Imperial 6 per Cent New Granada Do 2 per Cent. Do Deferred ..... ... Do Land Warrants (Hectares) — Do Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1864 — Do do Aug., 1866 — Peruvian 4j per Cent .. Do 3 per Cent. ( Uribarren) ... ... — Do 41 per Cent., 1862 — Do Account.... Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Do Account • • Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3.. 44 Do Account Russian 6 per Cent., 1822, £ St — Do 4} per Cent., 1850 .. Do 1860 Do 3 per Cent 1859 54 Do 5 per Cent, 186 2 Do Anglo-Dutch .... — Do Scrip, £55 paid — Pm Sardinian 6 per Cent • — Do Account Spanish 3 per Cent - Do Account 47 Do New Deferred — Do Account Do Passive Do Account 3l 1 1 Splnikh Cert. of Coup not funded .. — Do Account — Swedish, 4 per Cent. — Do Scrip, £6O paid — pm Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 B9 Do Account Do 6 per Cent. 1858 ...... •••• 1)o Account 691 Do £l.OO Bonds — Do 6 per Cent. 1 862 Do Account .. 714 8 Do £lOO Bonds 72 it Do 1863 .. Do Guaranteed, 4 per Cent..... — Do 1863 Scrip, £4O paid ............ I r t•nozuela 3 per Cent. ................ Do Account — Do 6 per Cent., 1862 .. 1)o Account 55 3 Do 6 per Cent., 1861 — Dividends on the above payable in London kustrian, 5 per Cont., Ex. 10 Florins. 3elgian 44 per Cent., Ex. 25f... 99 )uteh 2/ per Cent., Ex. 12 Gull _._ ... Do 4 Pei. Cent. Certificates French Rentea, 2 per Cent talian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Es. 25 francs.. -- Do iceOunt ?eruvian Dollar Bonds, 4i per Ct. Ex. 4s. ?ieitnontese, 5 per Cent., Ex. 25f THREE O'CLOCK. )nisols, Money B9l Uo Account GARIBALDI'S YACHT.—A Liverpool gentleman, n correspondence with General Garibaldi, has received in brmation from Caprera that the general has declined to re eive the yacht which was sabicribed for in Liverpool as a estimonial, and which has already sailed for Garibalas wand home. 3har. 100 Sk 20 20i 10 suck Stook 20 stook 10 stook stook stock stock stook stook stock stock stoc► stock SHARE MARKETS—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOLS. Share! Railways. Paid.' l 13.14, et et st 50 20 , 3 ir.,V01., and Str. Val. Blythe and Tyne. Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall Do A A gets no dl v till 6p c.p an.has Do. B been paid to B. Dublin (tz Belfast June.l Dun.,Perth,&Ab. June. Edinburgh & Glasgow. Ulasg. and S. Western. Great Eastern, Ord. stk l Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian s t I GreatNorthof Scotland Great Northern Do A stook Do B do Gt. S. and W. of Irelan Great Wester' ,Original Do Str Val &ua sto •xl Do. South Wales 'Do. Weot and. -Oxford Do Newport Do Hereford Lancashire & Yorkshire; London and Blackwall; Lon., Brlght.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western , Lon. & Sw.th Western Man., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Dot shares Metropolitan Midland Do Binning. & Derby Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland DC. 4 shares 1 15Tid Kent North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds Do York Do Carliale Do. Stook. AL Darling* Do do 1855-58 Do do 18;)(•61 .... North London Do N ew Do New, 1861 North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Soot tish Central Soot N. F Aber. stook] Do Soot. 'Mid. stook Shrews. and Welohpooi Shropshire Union South Deyon ........ South Eastern Staines, Wok.,andWok I Taff Vale. . ..... Do C Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny ! West Cornwall W. Hartlepool 32 34 Closing Businesi Price. done. 82 €4 1251 1261, 51 61 31 33 16 17 85 1 , 7 105 107 431 44/ 6} 7i 131# 132# 1141 144 120 13! 8) 91 75} 7 54 55 39 42 91 101 1141 1141 6d 67 103 105 37 39 1151 116 95 07 65 66 112} 713} 33 1335 :03 105'1 52 631 241 i5l LOS 109 C6S 67} 96i 97i SG S 7 9 lei 7i 84 ( 118 123 1 p 76i 77} 10 21} t3l 133 56 68 SG 18 831 84 8 9 155 160 34 46p 98 100 85 127 i 45,1 I 118 9 7a 0 7 a 55 41 40 115* 16} 17 161 17 97 1124 } 13 134 i 105 1094 9 671 97i 841 5 BUITISH POSSESSIONS. Paid Closing Prioe. Railways Itlantio & St Lawrenc. lom.,Baroda&Cent In. Gu. 5 per oent... ..... Do. P. 6hares...•••• • tiuflalo and LaKellurox Do. Preference .• • • lutralo,Brant,&Godricl p. ot. bds. Aug. 1, 1871 Do. "do. July 1, 187 . Do. do. June 1, is; neutta.siS.Eastn. (Lin ;apeTown tt Dock Seri Demerara 7 p.a. per. pf iiiastn. Bengal gu. b p. East Indian. em. 5 p. c Do. do. J Ext Grand Trunk of Canatip Do. Equip. Mort. Bonds 1 charge ti per cent Do. Ist fret. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. 2d Pref. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. 3d ef. stock Do. do. deferred Do. 4th I'ref. stock Do. do. deferred Ut.lndiarenin.gua. s p.c Do. Gu I. 5 per cent Do. New gua. 5 p. 0 It. South.of India(Lim guaranteed 5 per oent. Do. 41 per oent Do It. W. of Canada Share, Do. New ..... Do, 6 p.o. '73 with't opt . Do. 5i p. o. do. '77-8.... Indian. Branch Limited iladras gear., 5 p. o. Do. 4f p. o. Extension Dc. 44 d 0........ Do. Fifth Extension. Nlelb.Corp. 6 p. o. Buds & Hobson's Bay. Newßrunswicdczt Cand, Class A and 8.. N.Rl.C'daB po let I bdc• Sande Do. Do. do t43 Do. Punjaub p 4 Do. Indus.St.Flo4) COLONIAL GOVERN British colurttbia, 6 per t Cent., Dee. 31, 1872.... Do. do. 1883.... tt.l ui • 1877-81 ... Do. I p.c. Feb.& Au, Do.A p. (3.3 far.& Sept Do. 6 p. o. Jan.&July. Do. 5 Inscribed stoc; 'ripe o.llope, 6p 0.187: Do.Ap &Oct. 18.9. Do. 181 )o. Jan. & July. 1891. :eylon, N0v.186 4 1, 6 p Do. 1878, do. Ifauritius 6 p.cent.lB73 Do. 1878 Do. 1882 iatal Gov. 6 per cont 1.8.G0v. 6 p.c..) a.&Jul v: S.W. Gov. 5p 3., 18 Du. p. c.,18i1 to Do. d0.,1888 & upwth iew Zealand 6 p cent Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. c sterling, 1875 lueensland Gcv. 6 p. i.Aus Gov. 6 'Leif 68- Do. 1.78 dtuovard , Vto.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&J ul) Do. 10 6 p.a. An.&Oct.. BRITISH MINES. 2 ;am brian Consol. Gold - Chiverton • - .nnord Amalgamated.. - )evan G. Con.. (Taoist. - Drakewal's , nest Bassett (Illogan).. - East Caradon ...... - .;ast Carn Brea... - cast Grenville .. ••• • • - East Lovell ...... - iv. W'lltussel (Tavistk. aram..tSt.Aubyn(Gwen 4 Great Laxey, 1.1 m...: Treat South Tolgus - ;. Wheal Vor (llelston - irenville.. - iercd's-F00t...... . , ...... - I ingston Downs - rlarg,aret (tiny Lelan. - arke Valley.. .lyndv Iron Ore (Lim. - 'dew 6etun , :orth Doyens - North Roskear - liabN et (1 110.-vsL - iorth Wheal Crotty - Prosper Ifni 'rovidenee( Uny Lein'. - ,outhCaradou(St.Cleer Wheal Fran. (Mogan Stray Park ein Crott Nest Basset (Illogan).. CrV radon (Liskeard West chiverton West Soton rVhevl Basset (Illogan Wheal Bulleratedruth, Wheal Ludcott Mary Ann (Men. Wheal 3eton . . Wheal Treiawney (Lis. Wheal Union 3.5. P. PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Eastern, E. C., Norfolk 5 per cent. Ext., Ureat N orthern, 46 per cent., red. at 10 per cen. Ditto, 5 per cent., redeemable at 5 per cent. Great Western Orig. 46 per cent pf., 97 (t. Western, Wt. Midland, Oxford 2d guaranteed stock, 115 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOOKS. Great Eastern 5 per cent. pt., Ditto, new per cent pf., 91 Great Northern, 5 per cent, irred., 108 London, Brighton, &c., 46 per cent., 1858, 98 London, Chatham, MI, Metrop. Ext., B 6:per cent., 93j LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. East Lincoln, gua. 6 per cent.. 1326 Northern and Eastern 51aer cent., 53 FORE] GN RAILWAYS. Dutch Rhenish, 19; 20 Great Luxembourg, 11 - lot San Paulo (lim.), gua. 7 per cent., Ditto (all), 18# South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 206 '46, 101 . pm., - , 1054 6 FOREIGN MINES, Alamillos, limited, 12 2 General, 231 Mani. Aureos Brazil Gold Min. Co., 12 St. John del Rey (Urn.), 32 302 United Mexican lira;, 42 ff BANKS. Alliance (Itm.). 341 4 4 Ditto, new, issued at 20 pm., 18} 19 Anglo Austrian, t I Australasia, 69: British and Californian, lim., 4} Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 821 2 City, 110 a Consolidated Bank, Rm., 10 1 English, Scotch, and Australian Chartered. 191 20 European Bank, lira., 9i f Imperial Bank (lim.). 31 Imperial Ottoman, 151 a Land Mortgage Bank of India, Um., 41 London B o3k of Mexico and S. America. lim., London Chartered Bank of Australia, 231 London and County, 71 London Joint Stock, Ditto, new. 11t London and 11 estminster, 94} Mercantile and Exchange, lira., 9 } National Provincial:of England, Ditto, new, 42 Ditto, ditto. 381 New South Wales, 42 11 Oriental Bank Corporation, 531 South Australia, 33 MISCELLANEOUS. City of London Real Property, lint, 2 11 City Offices, Bin., lg 2 Ebbw Vale, 4t' ' 1 Egyptian Corn. and Trading, lim., 41 Financial Corporation, Gen. Credit and Finance of London, lim., 61 Hudson's Bay, 16i 16 import,' Mercantile Credit A iPO., 11m., ( a 1 International Financial s ociety, lira., 6.1 Joint Stock Discount, lim., London Association, Um., 22 54 56 4011 i(2b Idle 1p 41 5 7 8 93 100 8) 91 102 103 102 I'- 3 19 20 83 92 67 70 59 dl 63 65 55 57 51 53 96 50 28 30 26 28 102 103 pr tp Pr ip 29 100 9 94 114 11. CO 92 77 81 Id 10) 101 13 95 88 00 8 CO S 6 80 83 100} NO} 100 101 i Id ip 10) 101 95 97 Business dont MENT SECURITIES. 96 98 94 96 93 96 80 85 78 8: 104 106 104 106 i(5 107 107 10 LOS 105 119 112 102 105 101 107 105 108 102 IC4 93 96 97 99 95 97 94 96 100 104 96 93 10) 102 108 108 104 i 1056, 04 51 1011 105} i Lou 100 100 100 100 100 2.1.0, 3.4.0 2.7.0. 2.13.6. 8.13. 78 5.13 i.:i ~ 291 3.1+.6 2.8 0 to 0.7 ' 123.1 - s.i 30.17. E TEE SUN, LONDOIV, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 31, 1864. MARKETS—This Day. MARK-LANE. Very little change took place in the value of wheat inthe country markets held on Saturday. In some quarters the trade ruled steady, but the total amount of business trans acted was very moderate. Most descriptions of spring corn met a slow sale at late rates, The flour trade was quiet on former terms. Advices from New York report rather more firmness in the trade for wheat and flour, but the demand for export continues small. On the Continent the corn trade gene rally is quiet. The arrivals of English grain up to our market last week were very moderate. The imports from abroad amount to 15,132 qrs of wheat, 493 barley, 35,221 oatr, 1,355 b3ans, 1,992 peas, 45 taro, 20,799 linseed, 6,640 rapeseed, 8,832 404 sundry seeds, 200 sacks and 615 barrels of flour. Fresh up to our market, to-day, the arrivals of home grown wheat, coastwise and by land carriage, were very moderate. Although the show of samples on the stands was limited, the trade for red and white samples both from Essex and Kent ruled tar from active. At the close of business, however, the balk of the supply had been dis posed of, and last Monday's currency was steadily sup ported. There is no change, consequently, to notice in prices, compared with last week. The condition of the pro duce was good. There was a full average supply of foreign wheat on the stands. Millers showed no disposition to operate beyond immediate wants, and the total amount of business trans acted was very moderate. Good and fiae American wheats were firm in price, and other descriptions supported pre vious quotatione. Floating cargoes of grain were in but moderate request, yet prices on the whole, ruled tolerably firm. With most descriptions of barley the market was moderately supplied. Fine malting qualities were firm in price; otherwise, the trade was quiet, at late rates. Malt changed hands slowly, and prices were somewhat easier. There was a fair supply of oats on offer, and the trade, on the whole, ruled steady at full quotations. Beans were in but moderate supply. The trade, how., ever, was very quiet at about stationary prices. Peas met a slow sale on former teams. The show of samples on the stands was small: The demand for flour ruled inactive at late rates, CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wheat-Essex and Kent, red, 1863, per qr 363 to 103 Ditto, 1861 Ditto, white, 1863 4OB 44s Ditto, 1864 Norfolk and Lincoln, red, 1864 Ditto, 1863 Talavera, 1864 Rye- 3OB 35s Barley-Grinding 223 258 Malting, new Malt-SuffolY and Norfolk OO5 633 Brown Kingstown and Ware 6os C3B Chevalier Oats -Yorkshire and Lincolnsh - ., Feeding l9s 228 Potato Youghal and Cork, black lBB 228 Cork, white l9s 23s Scotch, Feeding, 2os 238 Beans-Tick Pigeons, Peas-Grey Maple White .. ... 36s 408 Boilers .. .36s 40s Flour-Town-made, per 2801 b Suffolk ... 2Bs 30s Stockton and N0rf01k...«............ 26s 283 American, per barrel .-.. 195 25s English wool trade. Business, however, has not materially decreased ; but a few descriptions, chiefly skin, have changed hands somewhat more freely at full quotations. In prices. compared with last week, no quotable change has taken place. In colonial wool, by private contract, very little is doing, yet prices rule stationary. The arrivals of colonial wool since the close of last sales have amounted to 71,530 bales, consisting of 17,860 bales from New South Wales and Queensland, 11,860 Victoria, 1,852 Tasmania, 4,984 South Australia, 198 West Australia, 9,152 New Zealand, and 25,138 bales from the Cape of Good Hope. Current prices of English wool per lb. s d Fleeces —South Down hoggets 1 11 Half-bred do Kent fleeces. 1 11. South Duwn ewes and wethers 1 11 L9ic , stor do. Sorts—Clothing Combing .. 1 8 s d 2 0 2 2 2 0 2 0 2 2 SEEDS. 2 2 Very few transactions have taken place in agricultural seeds. For prices, however, no change of importance has taken place. Linseed and rapeseed met a slow sale, and the value of East India has slightly declined, There was an improved demand for cakes, and the prices of prime qualties have advanced 5s pe r t on. lurntp,White,p.bus.2Gs to 22s Swede -8 -8 Mustard, Brown -s -- White, Tares, Spring...... —S , New winter, bush 8s Ds Canary, per quarter —s - s Rye grass Clover, Red Eng.,ot. --s —s White Foreign Red -s -8 White —s —s Trefoil new —s Carraway 343 353 Coriander 228 25s Irempseed, per qr 563 60s Linseed,Eng.sowing Ots 68s Crushing Baltic -s —s Odessa Linseed Cake, p ton —s —s English ..£10 Os .£ll Os TALI The tallow trade is firm to. ward tendency. The quotati, 40s 6d; town tallow is twills, fat, 28 2d per Sibs. Poielg - n £9 108 £lO 15e Rape Cakes,p tome t 108 £5 108 Rapeseed, new,pr qr 70s 768 ' Ow. day, and prices havo an up ion for P.Y.C., on the spot, is ig at 41s 9d net cash ; rough Particulars. 1850. 1861 1862. 1863. 1864. Stock this day.... 58.6t7 38.758 43,606 63.881 50.789 Price of Y.C. 6180 a :o Sla 91 to 17801 to 44801 to 40s6d to t Gls 3d —8 Od —s Od —s Od 00s Od Delivery lastweek 2.344 3,325 1,6Q6 1,565 2,82) Ditto from June 1 43, 1 59 65,024 3,2161 28,161 31,895 Arrivals last week 8,829 7,415 787 8,062 4,868 Ditto from June 1 71,982 47,001 38,255 54,+94 87,663 Price of Town .... 63s 3d 55s 47s 9d 45s 9d 44s 32 Mr. Leatham, M.P,. on Female Education. On Thursday night Mr E. A. Leathery, M.P., presided at the annual soiree of the Huciaterefield Female Educational Institute, which was he.!d in the Gymnasium Hall, Huddersfield. There wit.' a large attendance. The SECRETARY (Mr David Johnston) read an extract from the report submitted to the business meeting in May last. The number of annual sub scribers is 104, who subscribe the sum of £92 163 6d. Thtre are 78 pupils paying 3d per week, contribut ing £3l is Bd, and 49 pupils paying ld each, con tributing £7 143 11d. The average weekly attend. mice at the classes is 245. The ages of the pupils are as follow :-51 under 15 years of age, 55 above 15 and under 20 years, and 21 above 20 years. Amongst the pupils there ai-e eight married women. Mr. LEATIIAM, who was received with loud ap plause, said he thought it was pretty generaly admitted that those who took part in proceedings of this description, if they happened to have any thing in their heads of which they wished to make a present to the public, were perfectly at liberty to look upon these occasions as the most fitting oppor tunities for so doing. Indeed, so general had the practice become that public speakers seemed to vie with one another in the courage with which they trespassed upon every conceivable topic which might happen to be uppermost in their own or in the public mind, provided only that these topics had nothing whatever to do with the object of the meeting. Nor was this curious phenomenon confined to educational meetings. He had noticed in the reports of agricultural dinners that instead of soaring into high flights of eloquence in praise of the glories of fat stock and on the best manure for? turnips, the speakers launched away into criticisms upon the foreign policy of the cluntry, into tirades against the Yankees; and now and then they had denunciations of some unfortunate clergyman who happened to have formed the opinion that a tippet had become an article of clerical attire, or some pre late ehe had quarrelled with Moses and could not be induced to believe in Noah's ark. (Laughter and applause.) Precisely in the same way the celebra tions of the votaries of social science appeared to be made the occasion for transferring to the public the annual sweepings of noble brains. Indeed, Sterne never uttered a greater truth than when he said that when a man had one resolved upon a subject, then for a text, Mesopotamia, Cappadocia, Asia, Pontes, Phrygia, or Pamphylia, was as good a test as any in the Bible. (Laughter and applause.) He was afraid he should be considered as a rash invader if he attempted to keep pretty close to the question and to say a few words apropos of the occasion. This much he would say, that if they would kindly look over the offence this time, he would promise in future to be as illogical, as discursive, and as irre levant as the most fastidious person now present could desire. (Laughter.) If they would permit him, then, he would make a few observations with refe rence to female education. And in the first place he thought it was a matter of great congratulation that they possessed in Huddersfield a recognised and successful female Mechanics' Institute. (Ap plause.) He was quite sure that the establishment and successful working of such an institute must tread with very considerable emphasis upon the corns of prejudice. There were some people whose moral and intellectual feet were so tender that they screamed out if anybody came within a yard of them with these institutes. There must have been a whole chorus of screamers when that institute was set up not that the screamers were not very sensible people but then they were told that if the very sensible pee)n ple of another day had had their own way, we should still have been thumping acorns, and, doubtless when our forefathers renounced their time-honoured acorn diet, and turned out of their ancestral huts in favour of the pigs, the very sensible people of that time regarded that gigantic innovation with very grave disapproval. Now, what was it that the very sensible people of Huddel sfield had to Fay against this institute and in favour of female ignorance ? They said that such an institute was out of place; that it was an anomaly and an impertinence; that the young people who attended !t had much bet ter stay away ; that they were much better with out the instruction they got there; that it only turned their heads; that it only in capacitated them for their work ; and that it only took away their attention from those domestic affairs on which they ought to bo engaged. That was a very old argument; it was as old as the hills. It was as old, at all events, as Sidney Smith, who had this very neat way of putting it— not by any means that he was expressing his own opinion —that if a woman were once permitted to taste of the fruits of the tree of knowledge, the rest of the family would soon be anxious to be fed with the same ethereal and unsatisfactory diet. That was the assertion with modi fications, that had been applied to the education of almost every class of women in the country, and the consequence had been that there had arisen a great controversy on female education, and that as it was the nature of ex tremes to breed extrerees, a set of philosophers had cropped up to maintain that boys and girls ought to be educated precisely alike. After expressing his entire dissent from this doctrine, Mr Leatham combated the statement made by many objectors that the possession of a good education would induce the females of the lower ranks to assume airs unsuited to their rank he life. He contended that when the system of female education had become general among the operative classes no young woman would take airs to herself because she could read a paragraph fluently in the newspaper, or do accounts, or write a neat hand, any more than she would take ails to herself now because, like a royal prinue, she had all her fingers on one hand, or that Providence had been pleased to grant her a nice, comely, cheerful, healthy countenance. (Applause) Another absurd objection was, that a well informed woman made a bad wife to a working men aad a bad mother to his children; that the time of such persons would be taken up by pursuits which are foreign to domestic matters ; that they would neglect John's potatoes for a poem, and John's babies for a romance. Who ever heard of a woman neglecting her own child for a romance ? and what romance was ever written which, in her opinion, would compare with the poetry which sparkles in the eyes of her own little boy ? The opponents to female education seemed altogether to forget the share which the wife had in making the man. (Hear, hear) Ht eid not hesitate to say, although it might be derogatory to his own sex, that nine out of every ten men who married poung were very much what their wives had made them. (Hear, hoar, and applause.) The influence which a woman, patient, orderly, virtuous, religious, and intelligent might have over her husband for good was in calculable. (Hear, hear.) Some men were made of hard, unyielding, unpromsivg materials ; but a good woman would go chipping away like a patient sculptor ; it might take years and years, it might take half a lifetime, but in the end she would work the rude block into shape, and there was many a noble and manly fellow now living who could tell that but for woman and God's blessing upon her work there would not have been much manliness or nobility left in him. (Applause.) He had said nothing o the influence of the mother upon the future of her off spring, because no one would deny that their earliest ins. pressiona were those that were the moat durable, and it was to the mother that they must mainly look for this. He maintained that it was a high and noble calling that of the working-women of England. (Applause.) They had en • trusted to them much of the happiness of the present generation of working men, They would mould much of the character of the next, and upon the character of the working population the character of the whole nation must more and more depend ; the part which the people would take and the place which the country would fill in history. This was a consideration which had been too much lost sight of in the past. It had been assumed that the happi ness and prosperity of the nation was vested in the hands of a few, but all experience from day to day was teaching that it was not in the Court or in the palaces of the great, but in the cottage, that we must seek for the birthright of prosperity. Beneath those lowly rafters lies the cradle of dominion, and from that humble threshold proceeds the majesty of States. (Cheers.) If there was a particle of truth in this doctrine, they should recognise at once the necessity of those efforts and the importance of these institutions. (Applause.) There never was an epoch when these considerations were forced upon them with greater power. This was no jog-trot age, when the river of history rolled smoothly on—it was broken at every turn into a thousand cataracts; they lived amidst people of gigantic passions and in the presence of stupendous events. Hitherto our path amongst nations had been one of prosperity and security; but standing as we did in the midst of so many and so great catastrophes, where was the man who would have the courage to say that it might not become overcast, perplexed, and strewn with peril ? But whatever might be the future which awaited;this country, they, at all events, may take courage, certain that their efforts, under the blessing of Providence. must conduce to the welfare of their fellow. countrymen ; that they would assuage the calamities of war itself, and would crown with a still brighter lusturo the victories of peace. (Cheers.) A vote of thanks to Mr Leatham for presiding terminated the proceedings, FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Saturday, about 5 p.m., the train from Dublin to Galway ran off the line near Ballinasloe, when a carriage was overturned and two mon were killed—Mr Glenville, a builder, and T. Henry, a a servant of the company. METROPOLITAN CATTLE. The supply of foreign stock here to-day was less eaten sive than on Monday last, and the demand for it ruled steady at full quotations. From our own grazing districts the receipts fresh up this morning were only moderate ; but the supply from Ireland was seasonably good. The arrivals from Scotland were again limited. For nearly all breeds there was a good demand, at an advance in the quotations compared with Monday last of 2d per 81bs. The best Scots and crosses realised 5s 4d to 5s 61 per Blbs. The general quality of the stock was but moderate. The arrivals from Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Northamptonshire, comprised 2,000 short-horns, &o. ; from other parts of England, 600 various breeds; from Scotland, 70 Scots and crosses; and from Ireland, 600 oxen and heifers. With most breeds of sheep we were but moderately sup plied, and the quality of the stock was inferior. Prime Downs, half-breeds, &c., sold fully at an improvement in value of 2d per Bibs, Otherwise the mutton trade was steady, at full prices. The top figures were 5s 6d to 5s 8d per Sibs. _ Calves, the supply of which was limited, sold at Thurs day's decline in price, The highest quality was 4s 101 per Blbe, _ There was a fair average business doing in pigs, at ful prices—viz., from 3s Gd to 4s 10d per 81bs. Per 81be. to sink the offal. e. th e. d. i e, d, e d Cm. &inf. beasts 3 4 4 0 Prirciecrs-wool d 0.5 0 5 4 Second quality do. 4 2 4 8 Pme.S'thdowndo.s 6 5 b Prime large oxen 4 10 5 2 Large orse. calves 3 10 4 4 Prime Scots, Sc. 6 4 6 6 Prime small do 4 6 4 10 Ursa. & inf. sheep 3 8 4 1 Large hogs 3 6 4 0 Second quality do. 4 6 4 10 Small porkers 4 2 4 10 Lambs....os Od to Os Od. Suckling calves, 168 to 20s ; and quarter-old store pigs, 20a to 2is each. TOTAL BUPYLT. FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts Sheep Calves Pigs Beasts ... Cows Sheep Calves Pigs 390 The total imparts of foreign stock into London, last week / amounted to 15.032 head. In the corresponding week in 1863, we received 13,625—in 1862,10,424—in 1861, 11,423 —in 1860, 8,599—in 1859, 7,120—in 1858, 473. IMPORTS INTO LONIA)I 4 4 LAkil WEEK. From Antwerp Bremen ~ 662 .. Boulogne .. Calais Dordt. 6l .. Dunkirk Gibraltar Hamburg Harlingen Medemblik 143 .. 1795 11 .. Oporto 6l .. .. ~ Ostend — .. ~ 2 .. Rotterdam Tonning 2398 1606 .. 123 .. .. Vigo — .. .. Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs _ ---..--• .. 28 .. - 66 .. - .. - - - 4 .. - .. - .. 165 - • • --- • . - • • 41 622 • • .--- • • -- • • --- - .. - .. -- .. 11 Total ....4,725 .. 8,510 .. 123 .. 804 .. 78,1 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1863.. 3675 .. 8,235 .. .. 494 .. 1221 1862 lBB4 .. 9,524 .. 10 .. 437 .. 460 1861 1136 .. 8,563 .. .. 253 .. 468 1860 A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in the Great Metropolitan Cattle Market on Monday, Nov. 2, 1863, and this day, Monday, Oct. 31, 1864, Per 81b. to sink the offal. Nov. 2, Oct 31, 1863. 1864. Coarse and inferior beasts.... 3 4to 3 8 3 4to 4 0 Second quality do Prime large oxen .. 4 6 410 410 5 2 Prime Scots, &c 4lO 5 0 5 4 6 6 Coarse and inferior sheep: 3lO 4 2 3 8 4 4 Second quality do .. 4 4 4 8 4 6 410 Prime coarse-woolled do 4lO 6 4 5 0 6 4 Primo Southdown do. Lambs Large coarse calves .. 3• 6 4 2 310 4 4 Prime small do. Large hogs Neat small porkers Beasts .. Sheep ad lambs .... 19,160 20,960 Calves WO •0 160 329 Pigs 440 390 SUPPLIES ON SALE, Nov. 2, 1862.—Beasts, 6,420 — sheep, 24,630—calves, 282—pigs, 430. Nov. 1, 1861.—Beasts, s,46o—sheep, 20,700—calves 219—pigs, 380. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. These markets are moderately, but far from extensively, supplied with town and country killed meat, The trade for descriptions is by no means active, yet very litale change has taken place in prices, compared with Monday last. Per 81b. by the carcase. sd ad Inferior beef .. 2 10 3 2 11iddling do. .. 3 4 3 8 Frime large do. 3 10 4 0 Do. small do. .. 4 2 4 4 Large pork .... 3 6 4 0 Inferior mutton. 3 8 4 0 tided Middling mutton 4 2 4 4 Prime do .. 4 6 4 8 Vaal Small pork 4 2 4 10 Lamb BOROUGH HOP. Our market is seasonably well supplied with English hops. The amount of business doing is of full average extent, and fins samples command high prices. Medium qualities move off freely, and the quotations have an up ward tendency. For inferior produce the trade is quiet on former terms. The import into London last week-30 bales from Ostend, 144 Rotterdam, 182 Hamburg, 158 Antwerp, 19 Dunkirk, 10 Boulogne, and 60 Now York. per cwt. New Mid and East Kent New Gold ngs .. 12.'s to 195 s New Weald of Kent New Sussex BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. The supplies of home-grown potatoes on sale at these markets are tolerable large. With foreign produce, how ever, they are very moderately supplied. In most descrip- tions a fair business is doing, and prices rule firm. The imports into London last week amounted to 42 bags from Rotterdam, 90 Boulogne, 7 Calais, 30 Dordt, 50 Hamburg, and 25 barrels from Montreal. Yorkshire Regents 6os to 90s per ton. Flukes Kent and Essex Regents Rocks Scotch Regents Foreign WOOL. There has been a slight tendency to unproven - Ant in the Mr. Grant Duff at Elgin. Oa Thursday Mr Grant Duff, M.P., gave his annual address at Elgin. There was a very large attendance. Oct the motion of Mr ALLAN, corn merchant, Bailie Urquhart was called to the chair. Upon the Dano•German question Mr GRANT DUFF repeated his well known views, sympathetic with the guilt Liberal party of Germany. This led him to otpress the belief that the principle we had seen applied—that of nationalities—would lead :c still greater changes in the map of Europe. Por tugal wLu!d in all likelihood be in some way united with Spain, and Prussia would incorporate the smaller German Powers. He did not altogether admire the doctrines of nationality, holding it of more consequence that people should be well go verned than the question by whom they should be governed. Still, the working of the principle must be considered inevitable, nor did he think they shoald:regret it, considering what it had done in Italy and was likely to do for Germany and Scan dinivia. It was an advantage that the flank of Germany should be protected against France. Al luding casually to the Garibaldi demonstration, he sold there was more in it than appeared :—' "I do not think the extraordinary enthusiaexa which was exhibited is at all sufficiently explained by referring either to the noble character of the person who was the object of it, or to the exceptional exploits which he had performed. These of course had their share ; but there was more in it than that. I think it ought to remind even Conservative statesmen of the same troths which 1848 proclaimed so loudly, namely, that under the surface of European, nay, even of English, politics there are vague aspirations and desires working which it is well not entirely to ignore. The crowds in the streets of London that day made me think of those striking words of Mr Carlyle in his Litter-day pamphlet— " Democracy sure enough is here; one knows not how long it will keep hidden underground even in Russia; and here is England, though we object to it resolutely in thn fnrm of atrost barrioadoa and in surrectionary pikes, and decidedly will not open doors to it on those terms, the tramp of its million feet is on all streets and thoroughfares, the sound of its bewildered thousandfold voice is in all its writ ings and speakings, in all thinking and modes and activities of men ; the soul that does not now with hope or terror discern it is not the one we ad dress on this occasion." There are politicians, and Liberal politicians too, who seem to forget that there ever was a year 1848, or, if they don't quite forget it, they think that many of its most characteristic events were mere accidents, and ay mptoms of mighty forces working below our feet. That is not my view. That is not the impression which I brought bac k some months ago, even from the country in Europe which is generally supposed to be that in which the popular element is least active. The hon. gentle man then expi eased himself in favour of a non- intervention policy, pointing out that if we had suecseded after an arduous war with Russia, we would have injured ourselves by strengthening the reactionary and barbarous party in Russia. Nor were they so strong in Europe as formerly, owing to the spread of railways enabling European Powers more easily to move their troops. We were more a Cosmopolitan Power, and he referred to what a native Indian had said to him, that another out break like the mutiny of 1857 might not be so far off, the Hindoo and Mahomedan communities being willing to seza our first European difficulty to shake off our power. But, he said, " Tnere are two English influences at this moment which are doing more to conquer for us that mighty empire than could all Armstrong's guns and all Whitworth's guns, aye, and against which all Blakeley's guns cannot protect her. The one is the spectacle of what free trade has done for us, and the other is the book by Dr. Gneist, of Berlin, upon our institutions.. " _ _ The hon. gentleman proceeded to note with satin. faotion Lord Stanley's remarks on the Eastern ques tion, and to take a favourable view of the Franco- Italian treaty. lie did not think either. Austria or Spain was likely to interfere with the Pope; Spain especially, owing to the prevalent utter want of faith which had been eaten oat by the Inquisi tion, was likely to prove a poor support. In con clusion, although, without more energetic popular opinion, necessary in this country to carry any great measure, reform and many other questions might be !sr off, yet there were several minor reforms which he thought might be reached, and which he had often urged—namely, improvement of the diplo matic service, reorganisation of public schools, emancipation of the universities, reform of chari tatla foundations, and reform of the law, with a view to its eventual codification. MANSION-HOUSE.—On Tuesday next the chair man (Mr T. Burrower) and members of the General Pur poses Committee and the aldermen and deputies of the several wards will be entertained by the Lord Mayor at a banquet in the Egyptian-hall, and on Friday a converse :done will be given by the Lord Mayor in the same place. A large number of invitations have been issued.—My Tress. THE SCOTCH STREAMS.—A constant drizzling rain which prevailed all Thursday and Friday has again swollen the Tweed and Teviot, so as to put angling for a day or two entirely out of the question. On Friday afternoon the rivers were rapidly increasing in volume. In Perthshire the weather since Wednesday week has been very disagreeable. Rain has fallen heavily almost daily and has in a great measure suspended out-door labour. All the rivers and streams, which have been remarkably low during the whole summer, have been in a high state of flood for a week past. The salmon spawning tributaries of the Tay have not presented such a stock of fish at this season for a long series of years. In consequence of the flooded state of the rivers, salmon have got easily to the spawning grounds in the upper waters, where they may now be seen literally swarming. The abundance of salmon may be inferred from the fact that in the course of two hours two gentlemen saw upwards of 200 fish leap ono of the dam-dykes on the Earn a few days ago. The rivers are well protected by large bodies of watchers ; and at any rat e it is impossible for poachers to do much mischief at present, owing to the swollen state of the streams.—Scotsman. LIFEBOAT DEMONSTRATION AT BOSTON. —A grand demonstration took place at Boston, on the 21th inst., on tho occasion of the naming of the Herber. Ingram life. boat. Tho mayor of the town, Mr M. Staniland, M.P., Mr J. 11. Thomas, J.P., and the volunteers, with their band, took an active part in the proceedings. The cost of the lifeboat was subseribcd by the fiiends of the late Mr Herbert Ingram, M.P. for Boston---his widow and children contributing liberally to the fund. POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—This day, MARLBORO UGH-STREET. ASSAULT ON A WlFE. — Georgo Williams, an elderly man of respectable appearance, described as a jeweller, was charged before Mr Tyrwhitt with assaulting his wife, Elizabeth Williams, at 42, King-street. The complainant said—l have been married to the do■ f a jant since 1825. Last night about 12 I was in bed when my ho band caught up a box and struck me on the head a severe blow, cutting it and causing it to bleed—the on'y cause for it being that a little boy I have the ears of knocked down a board on which there were some of his tools —the child having done so while playing. I should be very sorry to hurt my husbs nd, as he is an aged man, but I had given him no provocation, and ho would not give me time to make an explanation. He also bruised my arms. Mr Tyrwhitt—Was yout husband sober ? Wife—l don't think ho vem quite sober. D,fend‘nt—l am very sorry. I was provoked a great deal. My joweller's box was knocked down and all my tools scattered about. I took up tha lid of a box belonging to my wife to smash it, and she rose up and received a blow on the head—but it was an accident. Mr Tyrwhitt—rlas he ever assaulted you before P Wife—He has ; but I don't want to hurt him. Mr Tyrwhitt—The best thing I can do is to make the defendant find bail. It will be the best thing for both of you. The defendant was then ordered to find bail to keep the peace towards his wife for three months. DETERMINED STREET RODBERY,—Thomas M'Carthy, a rough looking lad, was charged with stealing a suit of clothes from a boy named George Turner, in the employ of Mr Henry 13 . ffen, tailor, of Harvey's-court, Strand. It appears that the boy Turner was waiting at the corner of Tottenham-court-road yesterday morning about 11 o'clock for an omnibus to Camden -town, when the prisoner ran up to him and seized a parcel containing a suit of clothes, which Turner was about to take to a customer, and made off with it. The prisoner was followed by two gentle men and caught, having thrown the parcel away while running. A constable said the prisoner eras sentenced to 12 months' hard labcur at the Middlesex Sessions for picking pockets in 18G3. The prisoner was committed for trial. Thomas Smith, a lad, was charged by Sergeant Coathupe, of the Detective Department, Scotland-yard, with attempt ing to pick the pockets of several females in Goodgc-street, Tottenham-court-road, on Saturday night. lie was remanded. NVESTMINSITR. PLACING RAILWAY PASSENGERS IN IMMINENT DANGER.—Charles Murray, a young man about 17 years of age, was brought before the magistrate, charged with placing the lives of railway passengers to the Victoria Station in imminent danger by throwing, with many °Chore not in custody, stones at the railway carriages. Cornelius Fray, inspector of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, said—l was on duty on Wednesday last, between 12 and 1, at the Victoria Station, when a gentleman who had arrived by the train complained that stones had been thrown at the carriage in which he had just travelled., I immediately went down the line, and on proceeding a short distance saw the prisoner and others throwing stones at a train coming into Victoria Station from London-bridge. Mr Selfe—Where were the stones thrown from ? Witness—From a field alongside the line. Mr Sdfe—Was it a passenger train ? Witness—lt was, and there were many persons in it. Mr Selfe—Had you a good opportunity of seeing the prisoner? Witness—l watched him and the others for about an hour, and stones were repeatedly thrown at railway car riages. The station-master and myself afterwards watched them for an hour. We could not get near enough to the accused and the others, for some time, to endeavour to capture them, and when we were approaching they ran away. Mr Selfe—How many were there? Witness—Thirteen or fourteen others, but less than him. John Parish, 146 B, officer on duty at the Victoria Station, proved apprehending the defendant last night cn a warrant from Effingham-street, Pimlico. Inspector Fray said there had been much trouble in ap prehending him, he had been away to Kentish Town and traced to Effingham-street. Defendant's mother declared that she was sure he was perfectly innocent, and there was a man there could prove it. The man was called, but his evidence went for nothing. Mr Selfs—How often did defendant throw P Inspector Fray—l counted four times. Defendant was remanded. It was arranged that bail should be taken for his ap pearance. MARYLEBONE. ►SHOCKING BRUTALITY TO A HORSE.—A ram named John Bo‘sin, in the employ of a salesman of Spite'fields, named Potter Oyler, was charged at the instance of the Royal Scciety fur the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, with cruelly beating a horse at the Great Western Railway Station, Paddington. It appeared from the evidence of several witnesses that attention was called to a waggon drawn by two horses. The waggon was heavily laden with turnipe—the load being so great that the horses were unable to mov 'the vehicle, when the defendant commenced beating one of the horses with the small end of a large whip in a most brutal manner. The animals still being unable to move the waggon, the prisoner took the butt-end of the whip, which was ferruled, and continued beating the same animal between the ears and about the nose—in fact, all over the head. The effect of this brutality was to fell the animal to the ground. Blood was flowing front the nose and ears. Whilst the horse was down the prisoner still continued his cruelty The horse trembled and twitched greatly; and when pri soner was remonsti ated with he made use of most disgusting language, and threatened to serve the witnesses the same. Mr Yardley said the case had been fully proved. The prisoner had been guilty of hocking cruelty. He would pass such a sentence upon him as would, he hoped, be a lesson to him for the rest of his life. He must be impri soned for 14 days, with hard libour. Prisoner—Won't you put a fine on ? Mr Yardley—No. flu was then removed. TIIAMES, UNMANLY AND SAVAGE ASSAULT ON A FEMALE.— John Lewis, a man about 30 years of age, a hawker, was brought before Mr Partridge, charged with assaulting Ann Spicer, a girl about 17 years old. The con4lainant stated that she was living with her parents at No. 4, Clayhallsplace, Red Ford, Buw. On Saturday night she was in the Bow road with another girl, and the prisoner came towards them and gave each of them a printed tract. They thanked him and passed on. He demanded a penny for his tracts from each of them. Her companion returned her tract to him, and she was about to do the same when he swore at her, and said he would have a penny. She was frightened, ran away from him, and threw the tract on the ground. He soon overtook her and gave her a "punch" with his fist on the eye and knocked her down. He then kicked her three times on the side and hurt her very much indeed. She screamed, and called out " Murder," and he said if she made the least noise he would pull her heart out, She did continue to make a noise, and her companion fetched a police-constable, and gave the prisoner into custody. Charlotte Bannister, a girl of 13, confirmed her friend's statement. James Prescott, police sergeant, No. 1 K, stated that on Saturday evening he was called by the last witness and saw the girl Spicer crying, surrounded by 20 or 30 respectable persons, who were indignant with the prisoner, and said he had shamefully ill-used the complainant. Several persons in the crowd said the prisoner had pushed tracts in their laces, and because they would not buy them loaded them with abuse. They were four blackguards all acting in a similar disgraceful manner on Saturday evening. The prisoner made a lame defence, and said he had a " drop taken" on Saturday night. Mr Partridge eaid the prisoner was a most unmanly souundrel, and sentenced him:for an " aggravated assault' to three months' imprisonment and hard labour. , SHAM ANTIQUITIES AT THE EMBANKMENT.— Mr Chubb writes :—A friend has just called in to show me three bronze keys of Roman manufacture which h€ purchased from a navvy who had dug them out at the Thames Embankment. On examination I found them to be recent castings, with the moulding sand in the inter stices. I understand that a number of these and similar antiquities are on sale by the industrious navvies at the embankment.—. Builder. MURDEROUS OUTRAGE UPON A SHERIFF 'a OFFICER.--A sheriff's officer entered the house of a Mrs Robinson and her eon, living at Edge-lane, Liverpool, yesterday moaning, in order to serve a writ of execution. The son rushed down stairs, and with a cavalry sword cut open the officer's head and wounded him in the legs, while the mother attacked him with a poker and dealt him some dreadful blows on the head. The officer's hat only saved his life. Tho Robinsons have been committed for trial. NUVEL SALE BY AUCTION.—On Tuesday, at the sale of the premises at the corner of Newcastle-street, Strand, known as Sams' II itel, and which is to be cleared away to make room for the site of the Strand Hotel, the auctioneer put up to auction the hoarding which is to be erected round the premises, and which is to be used as an advertisement board by the purchaser. There were several competitors for the property, which, after an active com petition was knocked down for £2O. THE HALSTEAD MURDER.—Emma Howard, alias Padney, who was tried at the last Essex assizes for the murder of her child at Halstead by drowning it in the river at that town, but who was acquitted on the ground of insanity, has been removed from Springfi Ad gaol, near Chelmsford, by erder of the Secretary of State, to Broad Moor CI iminal Lunatic Asylum, Berkshire, At this estab lishment the unhappy prisoner will be detained during her Majesty's plea aura. Mr John Bright on the American Conflict, The following is the text of the letter addressed by Mr John Bright to Mr Horace Greeley : Rochdale, Oct. 1, 1864. Dear Sir,—For more than three years the people of this country have watched with a constant interest the progress of the great conflict in which your people have been en gaged ; and, as you know, some have rejoiced over the tem porary successes of the enemies of your Goernment, end some have deeply lamented over them. At this moment we tarn our eyes rather to the political than to the military struggle; and there is, with us, the same difference of opinion and of sympathy as regards your coming Presidential election that 1: as been manifested in connection with your contest in the field. All those of my countrymen who have wished well to the rebellion, who have hoped tor the break up of our Union, who have preferred to see a Southern Slave Empire rather than a restored and free Repeblic, so far as I can observe are now in favour of the election of General M'Clellan. A'l those who have deplored the calamities which the leaders of secession have brought upon yJur country, who believe that slavery weakens year power and tarnisbee your good name throughout the world, and who regard the restoration of your Union as a thing to 1)0 desired and prayed for by all good men, so far as I can judge, are heartily longing to the re-election of Mr Lincoln. Every friend of your Union, probably in Europe, every speaker end writer who bas sought to do justice to your cause since the war began, is now hoping with an intense anxiety that Mr Lincoln may be placed at the head of your Executive for another terra. It is not because they think Mr Lincoln to be wiser or better than all other men on your continent, but they thi n k they have observed in his career a grand simplicity of pur pose and a patriotism which knows no change and which does not falter. To some of his countrymen there may ap pear to have been some errors in his course. It would be strange indeed if, in the midst of difficulties so stupendous and:so unexpected, any Administration or any ruler should wholly avoid mistakes. To us, looking on from this dis tance, and unmoved by the passions from which many of your people can hardly be expected to be free.-regarding his Presidential path with the calm judgment which be longs rather to history than to the present time, as our out side position enables us in some degree to regard it— we see in it an honest endeavour faithfully to do the work of his great cfflce, and, in the doing of it, a brightness of per• sonal honour on which no adversary has been yet able to fix a stain. I believe that the effect of Mr Lincoln's re-election in England and in Europe, and indeed throughout the world, will be this—it will convince all men that the integrity of your great country will be preserved, and it will show that Republican institutions, with an instructed and patriotic pnple, can bear a nation safely and steadily through the most desperate perils. I and one of your friends in England who have never lost faith in your canna_ I have spoken to my countrymen on its behalf; and now in writing this letter to you I believe I speak the sentiments and the heart's wish of every man in England who hopes for the; freedom and greatness of your country. Forgive me for this intrusion upon you; but I cannot hold back from telling you what is passing in my mind, anti I wish, if possible, to send you a word of encouragement, — Believe me always, with great respect, yours very truly, Joratzf BR IGHT. Horace Greeley, E s q., New York, U.S. Lord Mayor Lawrence. The present Lord Mayor has fulfilled all the claims that custom had to make upon him, and in less than 12 days hence will have handed over all the symbols of office to his successor. It has not been a brilliant mayoralty, for the simple reason that it has been a quiet time in things extra civic; there has been no famine, no flood, no great ri ings, no national or international celebrations—and some or all of such events are needful to give full scope to the official capabilities and personals aspirations of a Lord Mayor. But every duty of the office has been well per formed, and the citizens could never bestow their thanks more consistently than upon the gentleman who is fast ap proaching his official demise at the Mansion House. The usual banquets have taken place, and one, the dinner to the dignitaries of the Church, having been postponed from its usual data on account of affliction in the family of the Lord Mayor, took place a few days since, and successful beyond expectation—satisfactory evidence of the personal esteem in which the Lord Mayor is held. But amongst the round of banquets there occurred one by means of which the present Mayoralty acquires distinction. On Friday last the Masters and Wardens of the Livery Companies dined to gether at the Mansion House, and for the first time for many a long year there was established between the munici pality and the guilds something like a bond of friendly union. It has been a matter for regret that, between the Corpora.. tion and the Companies there was "a great gulf fixed ," the Lord Mayor has made an honourable attempt to bridge the gulf across, and has, we believe, succeeded so far that it only needs further efforts of the same kind to establish the relationships that once existed between the twin powers of commercial and civil rule. That this undertaking was prompted by a proper recognition of the value and import ance of the guilds was made evident in the Lord Mayoi '6 address on proposing the toast of the evening. Perhaps even many of the Liverymen whoheard him learnt something new of the utility of the companies, and the necessity for preserv ing them intact and in closer communion with the sources of civic authority than has been the wont for a long tints past. Let us hope that this was but the first of a series of demonstrations in favour of homogeneity in all the details of civic government, and that the guilds and the Corporation will hereafter understand each other more perfectly than they have done. We began this for the purpose ef express ing, on behalf of our fellow-citizens, a sense of thankfulness for the services rendered by the Lord Mayor during his terra of cffice, and we have gone a long way round. Nevertheless, it is meet that there should be something said at such a time, and we are happy in the privilege of being able to testify that the Lord Mayor about to retire from office has given abundant satisfaction in the disposal of the trust re posed in him.—City Press. SHIPPING -THIS DAY, LONDON, Oct. 31.—Wind this day at noon—North- Easterly; moderate breeze and fine weather, but rather cloudy. PLYMOUTH, Oct. 30.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—lieroine, from Patras for London. FALMOUTH, Oct. 30.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Favorite from Rio Janeiro—Tre Hermance, from Guayaquil. Sailed —Helen Denny, Kenilworth, and Hansa, for the West Indies. SWANSEA, Oct. 30.—Wind S.E. — Arrivcd—Annie Holy, berg, from Hong Kong. RAMSGATE, Oct. 30..—Wind N.B.—Arrived—Lac:fa, from Havannah. CARDIFF, Oot. 30.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Albert the Good, from Itio Janeiro. KINSALE, Oct, 29.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Periclosi from Cuba for Queenstown. (lIT MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVE4END, Monday Morning. Arrived, Oct. 30—Elizabeth, from Petersburg —Mary Pring, from Dantzio—Herman, from London—Crapaud, from Guernsey—Wilhelmina, from Hernosand—Elizabeth Ann, from Dordt—Roe Riddern, from. Sundswall— Souvenir, from Bruges—Belt, front Gothernburg—Scan. dinavian, from Sarpsborg. 7 ,..Arrived, Oct. 3i—Dorothy Jordan, from Memel. DEAL, Monday Morning. Passed, Oct. 30—Glennarck, for Canterbury—Cioh I Nor, for Bermuda—both from London. Passed, Oct. 31—Fiery Cross, from London, for Bong Kong. A DELICATE AlissioN.—Another remarkable letter is published in the American papers frorri Francis P. Blair, bearing date at Silver Spring, October 5 1854, which permits us to see something of what is going on behind the scenes in tke intrigues of the Presidential campaign. This letter was not captured by Confederate cavalry, but is given to the public by Mr Blair himself, to set Mr Lincoln right on the question of his having offered a oomreand to General M'Clellan if that gentleman would but with draw his claims as a candidate for the Presidency. Mr Blair tells us that he went to New York as a self-al pointed commissioner in the interests of harmony among the friends of the Union, just as Kirk, alias Gilmore, and the melan choly Jacques went to Richmond on the blessed errand of peace, and, like Kirk and Jacques, he had no authority to speak for Mr Lincoln at all. Oh, no 1 The President had no knowledge whatever that he had left Silver Spring, and what tie said to the New York editors and politicians was wholly on his own personal responsibility. Some tender in terviews he held with the amiable Bryant, the philosophic Greeley, and the incorruptible Bennet, and with General M'Clellan he had the pleasure of a long and free converse, tion, in which he gave the general to understand that if he would resign all aspiration for the Presidency, and wrote to the President asking a command, that command would be given him. Gen. M'Clellan promised to p nder the pro positions of Blair, but pleaded the domestic trouble of a sick child in the country as a probable bar to a second interview. Nlr Blair returned to Washington and made known to Pre sident Lincoln the results of his mission, who received them kindly and courteously, but without indicating approval or disapprobation. It seems clear enough that Blair did not make this offer to M'Clellan without an assurance from some quarter that it would have been ratified at Wat,Ling ,on in case it was accepted ; but M'Clellan was astute enough to decline. That's all.-2hc DEATH of THE MARQUIS OF BRISTOL —The Marquis of Bristol, after lingering hopelessly some days, expired at five o'clock on Sunday morning at lekworth Hall. His lordship was in his 61th of Earl Jermyn, the late m arqu i s ' s eldest aor , t o the House of Lords, a vacancy will ari s e i n th e re p r esentation of West Suffolk. year. By the elevation COLONEL CRAWLEY.—Friday night's Gazette contained the announcement of the promotion of Lieutenant Colonel Thomas R. Crawley, of the 61.1 Drcgoone, to a full c.oloneley, the rank dating fr SePte all 100 (100 1100 < 2 : 110 100 104 t lgi 1021 101 i 102 1i