The Sun. — London, England, 1863-10-30 00:00:00

ONE Y MARKET AND CONWERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The discount market is firm to-day, the inquiry for accommodation having been a little more press mg. The settlement at the Stock Exchange has partly occasioned the activity now noticeable, but there is no doubt that the uncertain and unsatisfac tory state of affairs at Paris is the principal cause, and a more cauti ins policy is, therefore, adopte d . c , here. Th ree months ' bills are negotia bl e at %- per cent, and it is only in exceptionable instances that the concession to 3-1- per cent. is granted. The Bank of England Return for the week to Wednesday last shows changes which are not of great importance. The decrease, which has taken place !n the reserves of gold is partly negatived by the reduction effected in the circulation of notes, as well as in the discount business of the establish ment. Subjoined is our usual analysis Active Circulation .. • • • . £21,872,050 Decrease .. • • • • • • 205,315 Bullion .. • • • • •• .. 14,437,574 Decrease .. • • • • • • 207,695 Rest • • •• • • • • .. 3 ,145,727 Increase 5,202 Public Deposits 4,462,163 Increase .. 15,205165,,113248 6 . Other Deposits.. 24,328 Decrease .. • . Seven Day and othe r Bill s 728 , 3 58 Decrease .. Government Securities • •18,743 Increase 10,995,363 Other Securities 50,000 Decrease .. 19,693,489 Increas e Notes Unemployed ...• • • • . 292,967 6,547,360 47,480 We are informed that Mr. James Dickson, of Messrs. Lenox, Nephew, and Co.'s, of London, and Mr. 'Tames Pim, o f B urg h- quay, Dublin, have joined the board of the Mercantile Credit Company. the total applications for the shares amounted at the close to 125,000, whereas 10,000 only are to be allotted. The Metropolitan and Provincial Bank have made a call of £5 per share on both issues, payable on the 23d proximo. The mail from Guayaquil has brought a remit tance of £l,lOO on account of the dividend on the debt of Ecuador. Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co.'s agents in Venezuela advise that they have received for 55 per cent, of the import duties for two weeks—From the Custom -house of La Guayra, 69,204 dols. Bc. ; from the Custom -house of Puerto Cabello, 4,368 dole. 88c. Total, 73,572 dole. 96c. Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co. have received by this mail on account of New Granada dividends —From the Custom -house of Santa Marta, £300; from the Custom-house of Sabanills, £559 ; from the Custom -house of San Jose de Cucuta, £lO2 12s. sd. Total, £961 12s. sd. The alleged charges against four brokers of the Stock Exchange for carrying on speculative trans actions for a clerk in a mercantile firm, contrary to the rules of the house, have been adjudicated by the committee of that establishment. One of the parties was honourably acquitted of all blame, two others were censured for not using greater precau tion, and the complaint against the fourth ad journed for further investigation. The operations on the Foreign and Colonial Pro duce Markets during the last few days have been moderately active. Sugar has fully supported pre vious rates. Coffee and rice has been in fair request, while in cocoa, fruit, and spices there has been no material change to record in values. The tallow market has been more active, and quotations of P.Y.C. for both present and forward delivery exhibit an upward tendency. Two O'CLOCK. At Paris, this day, according to Mr. Renter's telegram, the French 3 per Cent. Rentes were 67f. 05c. Very firm. The English Stock Market exhibits great inac tivity and heaviness. The depressed state of the Rentes, and the incertitude respecting the Bank of France adds to the flatness inseparable from the transacting of only a limited business. Consols are 93 k for money and account. Tne New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 911 4; and Exchequer Bills are ls. dis. to 2s. prem. ; India Stock is 224; the 5 per Cent. Loan continues at 1091 4 ; the 4 per Cent. Loan, 1001; the Enfaced Paper, 1064; and the Bonds are 225. prem. In the Foreign Market there is no new feature of importance, and business is not very active. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1854, are 924 93 ; do , 1858, 70 I ; do., 1862, 711 ; do., Consolides, 53: Mexican, 411 a; Greek, 301 I; do., Coupons, 141 Spanish Passive, 35:. ; do., Certific ates , 138 t ; ; Italian, 72?, 4i Portuguese, 494 d ; do., New, 14 2 prem. ; and the Confederate Loan, 654 664. More animation has prevailed in the Railway Share Market, and !prices have, in most instances, shown an upward movement. Caledonian and South Western have improved ss. ; West Midland, London, Chatham and Dover, Midland, and South Eastern, 10s. ; Great Northern, £2, and ditto A Stock, £1 10s. The Foreign and Colonial lines remain at abon previous rates. Bank Shares continue in fair request. National of Liverpool realise 201 4 ; Union of Australia, 60i ; Imperial Ottoman, 18k -7,-; India L a nd M or t gage Bank Shells are quoted 3 to 31 prem. and Anglo Australia, Bto prtm., and East London 3 to 34, prem. In the Miscellaneous Market there has been little change of importance. Hudson Bay Company h ave declined to 89 ; R oyal Mail Steam alise ex div. ; Disc ount Corporation Shares are 771 quotedB 91 1, prem.; and M ercant i le Credit, 31 4 prem. BRITISH FUNDS —CLOSING PRICES. 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per C en t. C onso l s Annuities 93 / New 3 per Cent. Annuities annuities, 30 yrs, expire ith Jan., 1880 — India Ditto Stock, (Red S 18ea74 Telegraph), Aug.. 1908 2l 224 Ditto 5 pet Cent. 1870 Ditto 4 per C en t. 1888 lOOl Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. Ditto 6 per Cent ............ Dill,, Bonds £l.000 Consols for Account, Oct, 8...., 93 Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 21 per Ce nt — k Ditt o £SOO Ditto Small ...... 2 pm 1 dis FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Brazilian 5 per Cent •• . Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 • , Ditto Scrip 1863, Ll 5 paid '4,„,quador Nev; Consolidated, 1 per Cent l5/ 1011 - gVptian 7 per Cent Greek 5 per Cent. ) 11824-5, ex-Coupons 3O D itto Account Ditto Coupons — Ditto Account Italia n 5 per Cent.(Mareinmana Railway; 80 Mexican 3 per Cent D itto Account New Granada 1 Por tuguese 3 per C en t., 1853 Russia n 3 A p ec e o r u C n e t nt., 1866, '7, '9, '6O, 62 49 S9} Ditto an3sppee r r e C en en t t., 18 1 5 8 9 22, £ St — Ditto 5 ner Cent . : 1862 .. 581 ::,..„:11itlint.01,'a;t:5 per Cent ccount 93 bit to u p Per Cent it to A aklive .. Spa i4 ,-...c eourit ................ Di .• e e ,. t . 0 A, • count Coup not funded — Turki s h 6 — ° l 3,nt .. 131 Ditto Aeper Cent .. . iiu Ditto 6 peen.,. . . I:itto Acel -e t il t• 1.858 Ditto, £lO5 'go- •• • - 0 -i Ditto 6 per ce: t d l,,- . rs Ditto Account .• 'Q6l' Venezuela 3 per dc:,:,.. .................... 7 1 u4;:i).., ........ • Ditto 6 per Cent ,18, Dividends on ............... • • Austrian,s per Cen l t B . London. 5 per Cent., Cent., I,l l : ll°Da F Ya lo b r i i e n i s n . Ditto Account. ....... . ' Italian, 25 franca 72A 72/ Consols, Money ........... T aREE O'CLOCK . s T)itto Account ......... . 93 1 ..... Liverpool Cotton Market Day Sales of the week 63,820 bales, including 31 on specu'ation and 10,550 for export. Actual '530 ex_ port 15,473. Qaotations—Midomra, 291; Mobile, 294 ; land, 29/ ; estimated fair Egyptian, 293. U est PT mated st oc k, 163,560; Surats, 17 to 28; ; .mports of nib week, 23,124 bales. 'rile market to-day opens quiet, but steady. Sales probably 6,000 bales. SHARE MARKETS—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOck,,, Closing 1 Business Mare; Railways. Paid. Price. ! done. 8f at Bristol and Exeter .... 100 83 f 5 83i 13. 10 514 . l iß i l o il Yr s:t i. !, W S e 1 andi a . f . . , a a rin n . yd d n l et.r i ;L I : - a :0 1 : allal alll —8 8 i 14 st Caledon i an .. 100 120 121 12 0 1 20 2 50 'Cork and Bandon all 20 I Cornwall all 7 74 A gets no dive ) 10 Do A pe.pan.iia ; all 10 Do. B been paid to 11.1 i all 50 Dublin & Bellast Juno.' al. 39 10 25 , Dun.,Perth,&Ab. June,,' all 16 17 at :Edinburgh & Glasgow.; 100 PS ICO at I Glasg. and S. Westerr.j 100 108 110 at Great Eastern, Ord. stkl 100 50 61 502 i i : at Ditto A sto c k et Ditto East Anglian at! 100 7 9 at preatNorthol Scotland 1100 at 'Great Northern ' 100 129 130 130 st I Do A stock at : Do B do 1 100 I;i4 118 at Gt. S. an IW. of Irelann: 100 100 11.2 at Great Western ...... ' 100 66 665 at I Do Str Val gua. stock' 100 at Lancashitet Yorkshire' 100 'lll4 112 112 111 st 'London and 131ackwal.; 100 71 73 714 at Lon., Bright.,& S . C oast! 100 110 112 1111 at ;Lon., Chat., and Dover; 100 46 (7 1461 1 1 at ;Lon. & North Western 100 105 1054 1051 it k 5 at :Lon. & So'.th Western 100 101 i 1.2 1021 at 'Man., Shef., & Lincoln. 100 49 50 50 11 50 : 31aryport and Carlisle. all —-- 124 I Do t shares.. ...... all at 'Metropolitan all 130 131 131 30/ a Midland s a o t, al i D d o . G l3 t. irm w i . ng o' ' t 14.0 Do New 25 Do. i sh ares 25 Mid Kent 10 Do Cray Lin e at North Briti s h at lEdin., Perth, & D un d ee 100 25 17 at :Nth. Easter n —B erw i ck 100 1011 1022 1024 25 Do, G.N.E. purchas e 16.13.4 . ri at Do Lecda lOO 58 59 at Do York at Do Car1i51e.........„ 100 at North London f• Ireland D erb y 5 l 1_92789; I_ l , ) 3 3 . 0 0 129, 30 100 119 121 10 D o New ~ „.,. 16.4 North Staffordshire 10 N. and S. W. Junction all 114 1.2 at !Scottish Central at ;Scot N. E., Aber. stock 100 44 46 at I Do Scot. Mid, stock lOO 100 102 10 'Shrews. and Welohpool all at :Shropshire Union at ;South Devon lOO 325 334 at 'South Eastern at 'South Wales at IS. York. and River Dun 100 98 100 1 0 IStaines,Wok.,andWok all 91 ,04 15 'Stockton & Darlington all 364 374 15 Do l7 85 95 o :5 Do New, 1866 8 74 7 4 o at Taff Vale .. 10 Do B lOO 155 :60 8 41- 51 10 Do C 3 24 3# p 10 Ulster i 5 Do 2O —l 3 .10 Do 54 1t Vale of Neath it Victoria sta. and Pim lOO 170 .80 it Waterford & Kilkenny 100 t :West Cornwall lOO t W. Hartlepool Har.&R lOO t West Midland -Oxford; 100 t Do Newport 100 t Do Hereford 100 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Closin Ahar, hallways Fwd. Price. Ptn min eat , don 100 sd iantic &St Lawren, all 63 45 636 wr I G u . 5 ftom.,Baroda&.Cent Inc per cent... 20 Do. New . 1066 1076 E.Shares.. * 8 1 p 20 Do. 7 4 2 4 1 3 05 liufralo and Lake liur,u di 64 60 tO Do. Preference ~,„ I litalalo,BrantazGodricl, 10, '""1 p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 187'2 :00 Do. do. July 1, 1871 100 100 to. do. Juue 1, 100 St Cleutta.ar.S.hastn. lOO 115 107 at , ;apeTown Dock Seri/ 100 114 106 stock Fiaatn. Bengal gu. 6p. , 10u 108 109 stock halt Indian. gu. sp. c. 100 108 109 109 86 20 Do. do. G . 10 14 14p 20 Do. do. H do. .. 10 14 141 , stock Grand Trunk of Canada Lou 2s 226 22 100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds.. all 76 18 766 7 100 Do. ao. deferred— all 62 64 624 100 Do. 2d Pref. Bonds.. all 70 72 100 Do. do defer , ed...... all 54 57 100 Do. 3d P ef. stock ... alt 51 54 53 100 Do. do. deterred.— all 41 43 41i 100 Do. 4th Pref. 8 1.0 k... all 31 33 3 1 i 124 100 Do. do. deferred...... all 25 27 25 Stock (3 t.lnclusPenin.gua.sp.o. 100 1086 109. 1091 20 Do. New gua. sp. 0... 12 14 131 131 20 Do. January, 1862 .. 8 16 16f , stook Gt. South.of India (Lim, , ruaranteed 5 per cent. 100 106 107 208 Gt. W. of Canada Sharer all 101 101 206 Do. New .. ... . ... 111 1.4 94 , 1 0 0 Do. 6 p.o. '73 with't opt.. all 96 98 100 Do. 56 p. o. do. '77-8.. . all 87 89 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 f fp 'took Madras guar., sp. c. 100 1066 /076 1061 74 stook Do. 4t p. o. Extensism, 100 101 102 stock Dc. 4* d 0........ 100 18 100 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 aock otclb.Cor .%p. o. Bnd- 100 50 Hobson's Bay. all 58 60 100 Do. 7p. c. fdortg. Bds. alt 20 NewßrunlynoK Cands Class A and B all S 5 N.lll.C'da 6pc lst pt bds 100 82 84 -toes Soinde ...... ..) (loi , 1064 1074 et Do. Delhi 1 100 106 107 ( Do. d 0...... E 2 20 Do. Punjaub 1 all St Do. Do. .. -11 u 106 107 , ek 110. Ind us. S t. Fi n. ) 00 , 102 104 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT secußiTtEs. ti p.c.J ,zJui) - 1877-84 .. 1 , ,0 104 105 104,/ 5 Do. 6 p.c. Feb. & Auu. 100 It 2 104 Do. 6p. c. Mar. & Sept. 100 102 104 Do. Ip. c. Jan.&July. 100 93 94 93/ Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100- 92 94 Cape G.Hope, 6p c,187:4 100 108 110 Do.Ap &Oct. 1880 100 109 111 Do. 1891 100 109 111 1101 Do. Jan. & July, 1891 100 tl3 115 Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 100 113 111 Mauritius 6 per cent lOO 107 108 1071 Natal Gov. d per cant 100 It 7 1(9 N.B.Gov. 6 p.o.Ja.&July lOU ,34 It 6 Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. 100 N. S.W. Gor. 5 p 1,180 , 100 101/ 102/ Du. f, p. c.,18/1 to I,il 100 102 103 Do. d0.,1888 &upwds 100 102.8 103 103 New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 109 111 - iNvra Scotia Gov. 6p. c. sterling, 1875 lOO 104 106 Queensland Gcv. 6p. c lOO ta 113 fib. Aug Gtip.c.lB7B.& up IOU 112 114 1131 13 •••• I VlaGov. b p.c. Ja.dr.July 100 108 110 'Do. to 6 p.c. An.AtOct.. 100 110/ 11th no/ ni 110 f 111 10f BRITISH MINES. 2 ICambrian Consol. Gold 1 4 #d - lulitlord Amalgamated - 37 4 38 4 - Deven G. Cons,"favist , 1 615 455 East Bassett (Illoganh 30 63 72 1 East Clogau Gold. Ltd 53. id yar - East Caradon ..... 2.14., 261 971 - East Cam Brea... 1.4.0 61 74 - E. Wlttussel (Tavistk. 8,6.6 31 3f Gam.d/St.Aulayn(Gwen.; .8, 13 15 - Great South Tolgus 17s 41 - I G. Wheal Vor (Del:4ton 40 lu 11 - Grenville . - fier:.<l's-Foot S4 - ,iingston Downs 4. 8.0 14 21 - Lady Bertha - Margaret (1.3 - ny Lelaut I? 21 - Clarke Valley.. 4 (lyndy Iron Oro (Lim 2i. 14 g d - New Setun l9l 95 105 - • North Downs 2l 11 2 1 liasset(lllo.;an 1.17., 21 3 - North Wheal Crotty - t'ar Consols(St. Blazey , 14 - 20 Providenoe(Uny Lelnt ) 10.0.7 14 46 - South Caradon(St.Cleer 14 415 425 - 8. Carn Brea (Illogan) 5.15.6 - heat loran. (Mogan Is. , 44 60 a - Stray Park 5 Cumar Silv.,k Lead Miu 1 - fin Croit l9 20 191 - West Basset (Illogan) ll 91 101 W G radon (Liskeard 5 19 21 West Setou Wheal Basset (Mogan, 54 75 89 75 - Wheal Buller(ltedruth) 5 18 22 - Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant, 2.0.6 - - WhealLud, ott Wheal MaryAnn(lllen ) 8 111 121 - !Wheal 3eton . . 581 175 185 1811 - , Wheal Treiawney (Lis.) 7 20 22 IWheal Union 3.17 24 3 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Eastern, E. Counties. Ext. No. 1, 112 Great Western, 4 per cent. irred ' Great Wegern, 5 per cent. red. prf., 103* Great Western, Birmingham pt. stock, 130 orth Eastern, Cons. pret, 4 per cent., 92) Stockton and Darlington, A 5 per cent., 28,} PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. London, Chatham, dm, Metrop. ext., B, 6 per cent.. Ditto, 6 per cent., C, 7 LINES LEASED Al? FIXED RENTAL& Midland Bradford pret: stock, 98i Northern and Eastern 5 per cent., 56 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San Francisco (lim.) Qua. 7 per cent, Hi I 181 19 Buenos Ayres Great Southern, lira., 4 uttoman (Smyrna to Aidin), 12 FOILEIGN MINES. Cape Copper, lim., 9i Fortuna (Lim.), 1 United Mexican (lim;, 81 JOINT-STOCK RANKS. Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool (Um.), 46 Ditto, new, 25} 6 Australasia, 771 8 Ditto, new, 3) Bank of utago, lim., 11} Brazilian and Portuguese, lim., 8} Chartered Bank of British Columbia, 121 Chartered , kler. of India, London, and China, 72i Continental, ifm., 9} English, Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 24 3j Imperial Bank (11m.), 231 I, Imperial Ottoman, 8 18 London and Brazilian aim.), 50 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 30130 London and Colonial (Um.); 9 London Joint stock, 37 London and South African, 271 8 London and Westminster, 80 National of Liverpool, limited, 21:1 f New South Wales, 54 Union of Australia, 601 Union of London, 381 I :DOCKS.: East and West India, 1431 London, 691 MISCELLANEOUS. Crystal Palace, 37 Egyptian Commercial and Trading, lim., 4 Electric Telegraph, 107 Gen. Cr( dit and inane of London, lim., 54; Great Ship, Ern., 174 per cent..pf., udson s Bay, bi I International Ruancial Society, lun., 10} Joint .stook Discount, Ditto, new, 2.. London Financial Association, lim., 15! National Dicount Comp my, lira., 9 i Royal Mail Steam, 774 S 7 M. ATIBER'S " FIANCEE DU ROI DE GARBES," a in ac t i ve rehearsal at the Op e ra Comique, and " Les n roYelle," by IV, Berlioz, at the Theatre Lyrique. itock stook took dock 8 Lock 4toek 8 Ink 8.1.0 9.16.4 THE SUN, LONDON, FEIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 30, 1863, CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—This Day. OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Baron Martin.) OBTAINING GOODS BY FALSE PRETENCES. Henry harwoodand John Bryan, charged with obtaining 30 barrels of flour by forged orders, and William Day and William Reed were charged with receiving the same well knowing they were stolen. The Messrs. Bovill and Co., the parties defrauded, are wholesale dealers, carrying on business at Bolton's Wharf, Shad Thames, and on the 27th March an order was pre sented to them for the delivery of 30 tarrels of flour. The property was delivered in cart, and it was proved that in a short time afterwards part of the flour was.left at the promises of Day and Reed, tradesmen in Bermondsey. After the property had been obtained, the order was discovered to be a forgery, and on the matter be ing placed in the hands of the police, the four prisoners were taken into custody. Evidence having been adduced, Mr. Baron Martin said there did not appear to be the slightest case against Reed and Day. On the contrary, they appeared to have given straightforward answers to the police, and therefore it would the duty of tha jury acquit them. With respect to the other two, there was quite sufficient evidence to go on with the case. Mr. Cooper, who appeared for the prisoner Bryan, said he felt certain after the jury had fully considered the whole facts of the case, they would be of opinion that the two poor men at the bar Were the dupes of other parties, and that when they presented the order for the flour they had not the slightest idea it was a forgery. The jury acquitted Sherwood, but found Bryan guilty. Baron Martin sentenced him to seven years' penal ser vitude. account of himself he should take him into custody. He then stated that he was waiting for his mate. Witness then took him to the station-house. Mr. Selfe—Did he tell you where he came from ? Constable —Not till he got to the station-house. Mr. Selfe—Was anything found upon him? Constable--Only a key and a tobacco pipe. A few days ago there was a house roboery in Lupas-street. Mr. Selfe (to prisoner)—Lupas-street is a long way from Clerkenwell. What were you doing in Lupas-street ? Prisoner—l was waiting to meet a young woman. The prisoner was remanded forinquiries to be made about him. The Fine Old English Gentleman, (From the Daily Telegraph.) The " fine old English gentleman" is a type which, we trust, will never be ranked as extinct with dodos and ichthyosauri. Even clad in the old doublet and trunk hose, and wrapped round with Tory prejudices, the genial worth of the class was irresistible. They stood like pillars of the stete, propping up a world of rubbish and antiquated no tions; but so valuable in themselves, that people spared the superstructure a long time for their sakes. When that crumbled away, despairing Tories cried that the race was disappearing —it never could sur vive Reform Bills and Emancipation Acts; if old port and bigotry were to go, the " fine old English gentleman" must go too, like one of the victims of Mr. Darwin's " natural selection," for whom the conditions of existence had ceased to be available. But have we lost him ? Have modern legislation and modern ideas buried him and his fellows fathoms deep in the " new sandstone" of thought and things? Not a bit of it. Like the grand old boy he is and was, he holds his own with civilisation, and is to be found at his wonted diversions and virtues, as much an institution as ever. Time has taken off his full bottomed wig, and changed the cut of his flowered waistcoat. It has hung his hall about with breech loaders and fishing-rods, insteads of "pikes, and bows, and staves ;" and whereas " when Christmas came" the worthy old man wasapt to be found under his table towards the small hours, he " lives cleanly now, and forswears sack" beyond a j ustifiable degree; and is fit company for the ladies after dinner, which is more than could be said for his ancestors. It w as picturesque, perhaps, to see him at his great door serving out a share of his good things to the poor; but it is ten times better that these poor should be honest workmen nowadays, and not beggars, and that the English gentleman should keep up this part of his character by being an intelligent chairman of the board of guardians, or a sensible justice of the peace. In a word, the fine old fellow is changed, but changed for the better rather than the worse, and we only hope that he will long survive the process of such amelioration. We like to come across him ; it does us good, in the stormy atmosphere of politics and the confusion of wars, to catch a glimpse of his honest, beamy coun tenance, and his contented, substantial air. We like to b e ar of him from time t o ti me , f oun di ng museums and institutions at Liverpool, giving his hat-full of thousand -pound notes at a time to the poor of Lon his pleasure and p er f orm i ng hi s d u ti es the thoroughgoing oroughgoing way pe cu li ar t o hi s ki n d ; an d, life's jolly, easy, innoce n t, an d ye t earnes t b us i ness over,dinon. taking dying without a voice to speak ill of his silver hairs. We need these men—large-hearted, big limbed, manly-thoughted Britishers—and we do well to be proud of them, Tor it is an indigenous strain. They don't set the Thames of science on fi re with discoveries, nor take always kindly to those who do; they are largely given to Conserva tive politics, as being comfortably suitable to diges which is usually more or less disturbed by But, all in all, they are a worthy set, and when we lose them it is a melancholy tribute to n m ake a note of it." Such an one is just departed from among us in e J o e Weld, of Lulworth Castle," as his neighbours affectionately called him. Perhaps because he was as good a Catholic as he was landlord, friend, citi zen, and yachtsman, we are expected not to rank him with the class we have described. Saving the presence of Mr. Newdegate; the circumstance does not weigh with us in the slightest degree. The theory of the constitution is that a man's con science is his own business —the practice of society is to make it that of everybody else. We prefer the theory, and consider it essentially a matter of in different detail, of what particular communion a good, honest, truthful, and dutiful gentleman may be. And nothing is more obvious than the healthy set of public opinion towards this view of the matter. It is not the priestly view on either side, because its tendency is to disregard the dogmas and ru b r ics of this and that Church, and to select and stick to the points of a greement between them, w hich, after all , are as a hundr e d t o one . B u t i t is the view w hich, da y b y day, brings us nearer to the time when religion will be charitable, rational, and universal, and not the instrument of sacerdotal ambition or the apology for heathenish animosities. There are two sides to Catholic profession in 1863, when, logically, it seems an anachro nism. There is the priestly and propagandist side, with which we can have no manner of sym pathy, but an intensely contrary feeling; and there is the hereditary and reasonable side, upon which it comes to us invested with many an estimable association. There are families in England amid whom the profession of the old creed has descended through generations, and by these it is reverently kept, like a household jewel, precious for its asso cif:Akins and setting, rather than for any intrinsic fascination in the heir-loom. Mr. Weld's house has in this wa y inherited its tenets, and honourably maintained them. But, to one who never himself asked whether an honest man was of this creed or that, Protestant or Catholic, we owe the same rational liberality. On Joseph Weld's ancestral estate the religious screw was never turned down, nor did any man ever link the name of " W eld of Lulwortb" with anything so mean and absurd as religious persecution. The best recompense we can make to his memory is gladly to forget that he did not worship with the majority of his country men, or go towards the Heaven that is near all by quite the same road as they. The proper way to extend and propagate his example is to imi tate it by ignoring, as we do here, in ranking hi m w ith our " fine old E3glish gentlemen," the slight difference in the religious sanctions of his manly life. His breviary in one hand shall never make us overlook the brave old yachtsman as he stood with his tiller in the other, guiding one of his white-winged beauties to the winnin-buoy. We have touched here upon the pursuit which has made his name known wherever the Veasure navy of England carries its bright and saucy bunting. He was a thorough yachtsman, and the fleet vessels that he launched and sailed from time to time are known by sight and fame in all the ports of the coast. The Alarm must hoist her flag half-mast, for the old eyes that brightened when they saw her stately hull careening to the leeward wash, her spreading sails as white as a swan's pinion, and as deftly set, "are glazed in death." If it was but a pastime which made his name known, it was a play for men, in whose blood runs salt. The dancing Lulworth, and the unconquered Alarm, if they were playthings, were playthings for a man with manly heart and tastes; and the liberal and tolerant lord of Lulworth Castle blended these, And a hundred other virtues, with the faith of the founder of Stoneyhurst. A CATHOLIC CHURCH of large dimensions, beautifully decorated inside, and built upon the plan of one of the:Roman basilicas, has very recently been erected upon Highgate Hill. The cost of the whole structure has been considerable, and notwithstanding large dona tions from various members of that community, there is still left a heavy debt to pay. The clergymen have, in order to liquidate this debt, improvised a distribution of prizes on a large scale, calling upon the whole world to send them something. Accordingly many valuables have been sent from all quarters. One drossing ca se, with gold requisites (value £100), was the gift of a lady, who, in send ing it, simply remarked that she hail no further use for it. Several gold and silver watches bade also been contributed. Roman princesses and nobles have sent costly cameos and mosaics. Pope Pius IX. has sent an exquisite cameo of the Saviour set in gold. The collection, in fact, is said already to exceed in value £l,OOO. And w that it is nearly c m _ pleted, it is to be distributed again on the Art Union plan of tickets at a small cost.—Camden Journal. M ISS BATEMAN'S LEAF-L. —AS she enters, d r i ven by howling and in furiated peasants, webecome aware that a genuine artist has appeared. We believe that the actress, the silent maiden, surrounded by the throng, There a is penetrated wit h the dee p est feelin g ; y o u cannot strip off the e t character rutb,a alight and n v r l e e a a c v t e i 0 the lb w e o n man Untouched. she first speaks. has given her a somewhat hard voice B ; nor i Nature i r s e , tu is her accent e ntirely pleasing to an English ear. ac ting with which the scene continues riv ut ts it!' the speechless again ; she shudders at the priestly benedicti on tors. As the curtain f a ll s we feel ho r ror from the crucifi x and, tht s h r h mk back s in which saves her from her persecu actress who m intensely inten eh* in ail her play, and av we e lute e that the ear ha s se a na n n t not hem satisfied equally with the eye.— London Review, The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lord Lyttelton. The coming of age of the •lion. C. I. Lyttelton, the eldest son of Lord Lyttelton, is b e i ng celebrated at Hagley with considerable spirit and good feeling by all classes there. Amongst the guest at Hagley hall is the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, who was present at a dinner given to the cottagers on Wednesday, At the conclusion of the repast, Lord LYTTELTON announced the order of the pro ceedings. His son was to be presented with an address, and his health drunk. After his son had acknowledged this, somebody else's health was to be proposed. Whose it was, it was of course im possible for him to conjecture. (Laughter.) He was sorry to say that the toast was going to be pro posed by a gentleman of no experience in public speaking, and of no reputation in that country or any other. (Laughter.) After the presentation of the address, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said—l rise for the purpose of communicating to you the secret to which Lord Lyttleton has alluded—(laughter)— and as I think it is better on this occasion, since time is scarce, to dispense with all preliminaries, I had better tell you at once that my proposal is that you should drink his health. (Cheers.) I think that the manner in which you will drink it will be worthy of him, and equal to the manner in which you have just drunk the health of his son, If indeed, this had been a toast which had required the exercise of persuasive powers, I feel that it would have been one I ought not to have undertaken, be cause I cannot profess to appear before you as a wholly disinterested witness, or look with eyes entirely impartial on any question which affects the honour and happiness of Lord Lyttleton and his family. Perhaps, gentlemen, there is another reason why I ought to have scrupled to obey the in structions which have put it down upon me to dis charge this duty. I cannot help recollecting, what indeed you would remember if I did not remind you, that the very fact of my appearance here to day, together with the other friends and relatives of Lord Lyttelton, must recall to your minds one who was the immediate link, and the earliest link, though I hope now far from the only link between Lord Lyttleton and myself. lam certain that, amidst the festive sounds of joy, and amidst the happy anticipations of the future and recollections of the past, there is not one among the inhabitants of Hagley whose mind has not also been possessed in the midst of these festivities with the recollection of the gracious presence and of the boundless good works of that person whom you would have desired, had it been permitted to you to govern her destiny, to see amongst you to-day, that she might have en- joyed with you the realisation of her hopes. Bu likewise I believe you feel—l am sure we all feel — that the Wisdom which has ordered it otherwise has ordered it better far for her, and has called her, not to the loss of any joy she could have felt here, but has called her to the additional and the en- during reward of her Christian life. Gentlemen, it has pleased the Almighty to lay upon Lord Lyttel ton the heaviest burden that can be laid upon man; but it has pleased Him also to grant him extraor- dinary satisfactions and compensations. Ido not believe that in the length and breadth of this land there is a person to be foand who more entirely fulfils in his own individual character all that can be desired from an English nobleman, an English landlord, and an English gentleman. (Cheers.) 1 do not believe there is one who enjoys in a greater degree the affections of friends and rela tives. I do not thing there is one the hopes of whose family spring up around him in greater abundance, or with greater brightness. And as regards that most conclusive of all testimonies to a man, the opinions and feelings of his neighbours, the assemblage we see here to-day, the testimonials of joy with which the whole village is full, and the feelings that you have exhibited, every one of you, upon every occasion when you have been called upon to manifest your sense of what he is, render it wholly unnecessary, nay, impertinent, for me to dilate upon them. We have assembled here upon an occason pre-eminently English, for it is in this happy country beyond all others that men value the traditions of their forefathers, and hope and earnestly strive to make those traditions fruitful as examples fur the future. You have among you Lord Lyttelton, presenting in himself the virtues and distinctions of his ancestry, and I may ven ture to say, without disparagement to them, adding to those virtues, and raising those distill°. dons to a higher post. (Cheers.) It is well upon occasions like this that you should appeal to the noble susceptibilities of a youthful mind and character, by setting before the young what their fathers have done in their times, and what ,hey are now doing. You present thus to their mind ,he highest mark, not of a mere temporal and worldly ambition, but the highest mark of moral, civil, social, and Christian excellence, for no mark can be too high to offer in order that our endeavours may be ever striving upwards to what, after all, we canna 'ally attain. On this great English occasion—and _ - - one, I believe, more fall with every essential fea ture of such rejoicings has never been celebrated even in England—l call upon you to add one more to thealmost in numerable marks you have given to Lord Lyttelton of—l will not say your regard and respect, for these are but cold terms to describe the feelings of your hearts—one more testimony and proof of your devoted affection, by drinking upon this occasion to his health, his prosperity, and his happiness. (Cheers.) The toast was drunk with much enthusiasm, and was briefly acknowledged by his lordship, ------- MARKETS —This Day, 3IARIi-LANE To-day's market was but moderately supplied with Eng lish wheat. The demand, however, both for red and white qualities ruled inactive, yet Monday's quotations were fairly supported. With foreign wheat the market was extensively supplied. A fair business was transacted in most instances at pre vious rates. Floating cargoes of grain moved off slowly at late cur rencies. The supply of barley was moderate, and the trade was in a sluggish state at previous quotations. We have to report a slow trade for all kinds of malt at ate rates. The market was extensively supplied with oats, in which sales progressed slowly at the late decline in prices. Beans and peas were dull, yet no change took place on their values compared with Monday. Flour moved off slowly at late rates. UNLAWFUL WOUNDING. John Morton, a seaman, pleaded guilty to a charge of unlawfully wounding his superior officer with a knife. Oa account of the provocation he was only sentenced to six months' imprisonment. NEW COURT. (Before Commissioner Kerr.) At the sitting of the court this morning Mr. M'lntyre referred to the case of Alexander Johnston, who yesterday pleaded guilty to stealing some shares in the South African Bank, and applied that the shares, which were now in the hands of the police, might be given up to Mr. Thompson, the master of the prisoner, and from whoso office the shares were stolen. Mr. Best, on the part of Mr. Chapman, the broker who sold the shares, said it was from that gentleman's solicitor the police had obtained the share for the purposes of the prosecution; Mr. Lelame, to whom the prisoner had taken the shares, could not sell them, not being a broker, and that gentleman had been £hoo out of pocket, and had brought an action of trover to recover that sum, and he held that the shares should be returned to Mr. Chapman. After some discussion the shares were ordered to be delivered up to Mr. Thompson, the gentleman from whom the same had been stolen. EMBEZZLEMENT. George Taylor, 18, pleaued guilty to a charge of em bezzling £3O 155., the monies of Morris Wollsky, a mer chant in the City, to whom he had been clerk. Mr. Bulgy, on the part of the prosecution, recommended him to mercy. He was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment. FORGERY. George Baskerville described as a flint grinder, of Hanley, Staffordshire, who pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with forging and uttering the acceptance of a gentle man named Hughes to a bill of exchange for £276 155., with intent to defraud the London, Birmingham, and South Staffordshire Bank. It will be recollected that the prisoner, in partnership with another person, carried on a wholesale manutacturing business in Staffordshire, and became mixed up with a per son named Smith, who was some time ago convicted of forgery. After that Baskerville found great difficulty in carrying on business, and ultimately it was discovered that he was in the habit of depositing furged acceptances, upon which he raised various sums of money, and then took up the bill before or on the day it came to maturity. A number of persons gave the prisoner an excellent cha racter, The Common Sergeant sentenced him to 5 years' peaal servitude. POLICE INTELLIGENCE —This Days MARLBOROUGH-STREET. WIFE BEATING—MURDEROUS ASSAULT ON A WIFE.— Michael Harrigan, of 9, Angel-court, King-street, St. James's, was charged before Mr. Knox with assaulting his wife in a violent manner. On the prisoner being placed in the dock, William Duff, 138 C, informed the magistrate that the prosecutor was not present. Mr. Knox—Let the constable be sworn. Duff (on being sworn) said—About a quarter to 8 last evening, hearing cries of murder, went to 9, Angel-court, and on going up to the third floor I found the prisoner standing over his wife beating her with the leg of a chair. Mr. Knox—Go and fetch the wife. On the wife being brought to tho court, her head being bandaged, she stepped into the witness-box and said— Let me entreat you to discharge my husband, sir. I will not press the charge, I had the leg of the chair [the woman called it a stick—it was produced, and had blood and hair on i.). Mr. Knox—Now don't tell me such lies as that. Wife—Oh, don't send him to prison. He wont do it any more, I'll answer for it. Mr. Knox—Go down, you are no use to us. The con stable hears cries of " Murder I" finds you on the ground and your husband standing over you beating you with a stick on the head, there being your hair and blood on the stick, and yet you tell me a parcel of lies, and say he wont do it again. You may consider it a fortunate thing that he is not here for murder. I shall remand him for a week on the constable's evidence, and I will turn the case over in my mind, as there is enough to send him to prison for six months. James Harwood, a gilder, was committed for a month for assaulting his wife, Elizabeth, who said he had left her entirely destitute, and that she had found him in bed with another female. CAUTION TO CAB PROPRIETORS.—Thos. Foster, of 2, Woburn -mews West, Russell-square, cab proprietor, attended before Mr Knox, to answer a complaint of unlaw fully causing and procuring the driver of cab ;,042, to cruelly illtreat and torture a horse. Mr. W. Love, chief officer of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, attended to watch the case, the driver of the horse, Maurice Whitty, having been charged by the Society's officers, on Saturday last, with cruelly illusing the horse, and fined 20s. Sell, one of the officers of the Royal Society for the Pre vention of Cruelty to Animals, saw the horse attached to a cab in Coventry-street, about one on the morning of the 21st, and on examining the horse he found it to be one of those poor, old, worn-out horses only used in night cabs. Both its hocks were cut and bleeding, and every step it took seemed to cause it intense pain. Mr. Henry, veterinary surgeon, corroborated the officer. Mr. Kno having been informed that the horse had been destroyed fined the defendant 20s. with costs. THAMES. STABBING.—George Hill, a seaman, lately discharged from an American ship, was brought up on remand before Mr. Partridge, charged with feloniously cutting and wounding Walter James Jennings, iron moulder, of No. 23, Brook-street, Ratcliff. It appeared from the evidence that the prosecutor was in John's-place, Stepney, talking to a man on Monday morn ing last. The prisoner was there and frequently interfered with him, and then attempted to pull a woman's. shawl off her back. He remonstrated with the prisoner, words en sued, and the prisoner struck Jennings a violent blow on the eye with his fist. Jennings retaliated, and they fought a round. The prisoner was getting the worst of the fight, and took a knife from his pocketiwith which he made several blows at his head and body. Singularly enough, only one blow took effect, and that was on the prosecutor's left hand, which was severely cut. Jennings lost a good deal of blood. His brace button prevented one stab taking effect, and in making a blow at his breast the knife got entangled with his clothes, which were torn. On the people calling out " Police," the prisoner fled. Dillon, a police-sergeant, No. 19 K, met him running at the top of his speed, and stopped him. He asked him why he was running, to which he replied that the people in John's-place were going to ill-use him. Dillon soon afterwards met the prosecutor in Sidney-street, Commercial road, very faint from loss of blood, and his hand bleeding copiously. There was a track of blood on the footpath from John's-place to Sidney -street. Dillon found a knife on the prisoner. There were no stains of blood upon it, and it is supposed the wound was inflicted with another knife. Mr. James Horton, surgeon, of High-street. Stepney, said the prosecutor was brought to his surgery with a severe incised wound on the back of his left hand. It was an inch and a half long. The man would not recover the use of his hand for some time. The coat, waistccdst, and shirt of the wounded man were cut. It had been done with a knife or some other sharp instrument. A b race button was split. answerln to a question by the mag : tstrate, Mr. Horton said —" In my opinion the brace buttor i stopped the blow taking effect. It was delivered with greii.t force. Mr. Partridge—The case is no' w completed. I shall not deal with such a case as this myself. The prisoner is com mitted fur trial. * WESTMINSTER. CHARGE OF LOITERING.— Cornelius Quick, a y oung man, who gave his place of abode in Clerkenw e ll, was ch a rged before Mr. Sella with being in L upus - street, Pimlico, under suspicious circumstances. Polir,e-constable 231 A said that last ni g ht a b out 10 o'clock he was in plain clothes in Lupus-street, when the prisoner was pointed out to him as having been wandering about the street for a considerable time. Witness watched him, and saw him go up the steps of some doors. 111 afterwards went into other streets and did the same. When he was in Charlwood-street witness went up to him and told him he was a constable, and if l@ did net, give a satisfactory _ - The Steam Rams in the Mersey, The gunboat Heron, which arrived on Wednes day, remained up to last evening close to the en trance to the Great Float with her fires banked, and a " slip" cable on. Both rams are now under a guard of marines, and as the Goshawk is moored in the Float it is impossible for either of the rams to escape without observation. IV e understand, how ever, that Messrs. Laird have no intention of smug gling the vessels out of port, but that they are await ing the result of the protest which has been entered against the seizure by the Government officers. The bare facts, so far es they can be reliably gathered at this early hour, are, that on Tuesday morning Mr. Morgan, of the Customs, acting under the authority of the Treasury, and not of the Foreign-office, as stated, took possession of both rams in a strictly formal manner, announcing the fact in writing to Messrs. Laird, accompanied with the intimation, also in writing, that, if necessary, force would be employed. The men employed were con sequently at once discharged, and the ships passed out of the Messrs. Laird's hands. In this posture matters remained until mid-day Thursday, when an armed force, under the orders of Captain Inglefield, superseded the Customs offi cers in charge on board both ships, the officers and marines entering Messrs. Laird's yard fully armed, the officers with side arms and the marines with muskets. The Messrs. Laird have protested against these proceedings, as at once unlawful and uncalled for in the present unfinished condition of the ships. The universal feeling here is one of profound indig nation. Installation of Earl De Grey and Ripon as High Sheriff of Hull. Yesterday the ceremony of the installation of Earl de Grey and Ripon took place at the Town- Kingston-upon• Hull. For some time past the most active preparations have been made for the re ception and entertainment of his lordship, and every thing was done both by the corporation and the public to give ickie to the proceedings. Earl de Grey arrived at Hull on Wednesday evening at 5.23 by the train from Studley Royal. He was re• ceived on the platform of the Paragon -street rail way station by the mayor, Mr. W. H. Moss, the sheriff, and several members of the corporation. He was the guest of Mr. H. Blundell, Brunswick house, Beverley -road. Messrs. Samuelson and Co., the extensive iron shipbuilders, having determined to launch from their yards four new iron vessels, the preparations for the launch were completed shortly after seven o'clock in the morning ; and soon after that hour Earl de Grey, Mr. James Clay, M.P., and Mr, Joseph Somes, M.P., together with the mayor and several members of the corporation, as well as the leading merchants of the town, entered the yard. Soon afterwards a signal gun was fired from her Majesty's ship Cornwallis, and the ships Countess of Ripon and the Lightning, two fine East India men were released from their bondage to find a home on the waters. The steamer Earl de Grey and Ripon, which has been been built for a London firm, and a small steamer for the French Government, were to be knocked off the slips. The vessels were all succesfully launched without any accident what ever. After the launches, his lordship and about 250 invited guests sat down to breakfast in Messrs. Samuelson's moulding loft. About eleven o'clock his lordship proceeded to the Humber Lodge of Free masons, where, after an address of congratulation had been presented to him, he was made an hono rary brother of the lodge. This interesting cere mony over, the members of the lodge accompanied his lordship to the Trinity-house, at the entrance Ito which he was met by the elder and younger brethren. There were present the borough mem bers and Lord Hotham, one of the members for the East Riding. Earl de Grey having been made an honorary brother, he was entertained at luncheon. About two o'clock his lordship proceeded to the Town Hall, Lowgate, for the purpose cf being installed i❑ the office of high steward. Here were assembled the members of the corporation, the members of the consular body, as well as the various orders, guilds, and societies of the town. On the platform were the aldermen of the borough ; Mr. Samuel Warren, Q C., D.C.L., the borough re corder, and Messrs. Clay and Somes, borough mem bers. The mayor occupied the chair. The preliminar:es having been arranged, his lordship formally accepted the office. The Town clerk then administered the oaths of the office, which were attested by the mayor and recorder. His LORDSHIP then briefly addressed the audience. He said he felt grateful for the high office bestowed upon him, grateful because he had thus an oppor tunity of renewing his connection with that ancient and honourable borough ; and as he had now be come an officer of the town, he should feel called upon at all times to promote the interests of the town, and guard them as he would guard his own. A list of the high stewards from the establishment of the office, and dated as far back as 1583, was then handed to his lordship, The ceremony of instal lation over, a procession was formed for the purpose of proceeding to the People's Park, where a magni ficent marble statue of her Majesty, executed by Mr. Thomas Earle, London, was inaugurated. In the evening a grand banquet was given to his lordship in the Assembly room. The chair was oceu pied by the mayor, and he was supported on his right by the Earl de Grey and Ripon and Mr. Samuel Warren, QC,' and on his left by Lord Hotham, M.P., and Mr. James Clay, M.P. The usual loyal and patriotic toasts having been dis posed of, The CHAIRMAN gave the toast of the evening, " The Right Hon. the Earl de Grey and Ripon." His Lordship, on rising, was received with the most deafening applause. After thanking the mayor and corporation for the high honour which bad been done him by conferring upon him so high an office as that of the high stewardship of so important a borough, in speaking of th e volunteer movement, his lordship remarked that that body would always be a valuable auxiliary to the standing army. We lived in times when no reasonable man who looked abroad and contemp;ated the scenes which were being witnessed in the East and the West, and in various parts of the world, could doubt, be thought, that it was the duty of this country to be prepared to meet any contingency,having a due regard to the economy of public money, which it is the duty of any Government to look to. Nevertheless, it was their duty to take care that they took no step which would tend to diminish the efficiency of our military forces, or i n any wa y weakened our national de fences. His noble friend (Lord Botham) had ex pressed a hope that it would be long before the services of our army and navy were required ; he most sin cerely joined the noble Lord in that hope, and by the appearances in various parts of the world, he could see no ground for fearing that the peace which now existed would be broken. (Applause.) That peace would be best maintained if a great Power like England, which had no aggressive objects, took care to maintain her position in the world, and make her voice heard in the countries of Europe and by the great pow ers of the earth, and also to manifest a desire not to interfere in their affairs. It was our duty towards foreign countries to do to others as we would th ey s h oul d do to us, an d a pply the principles and m ax i ms t h at we would have applied to ourselves by remember ing that when we are neutral we might again be come belligerents. (Applause.) It was in that spirit that the Government of which he had the honour to be a member had undertaken to act. (Applause.) After a few remarks on the duties of the office in which he had that day b een installed, his Lordship resumed his seat amidst tremendous bursts of applause. The me e ti ng was subsequently addressed by Lord Hoth am , M r . James Clay, and Mr. J. Someo. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat Barley. Malt. Oats. FlOlll. .... 1,040 1,320 3210 ar. --.0 ' 1060 Enfflish.. Ir a.. ........ _— 18u0 _ r0mga ......18,710_ 8,070 28,780 1850 sks. 1090 brls. ---__. NEWGATE AND LEADENTIALL. The supply of meat on sale is moderate ; generally speak ing, the trade is firm, and prime qualities have in some in stances advanced in price since we last wrote. Per Sib. by the carcase. a d a d tided Inferior beef .. 2 8 3 0I Middlingmutton 3 10 4 4 Middling do. .. 3 2 3 Frirne large do. 3 8 3 10 V P rime edo .. 46 4 8 al Do. small do. .. 40 4 2 Sm a ll p or k 42 4 6 Large pork .... 3 6 310 Lamb ..... 00 0 0 Inferior mutton. 3 4 3 8 BOROUGH HOP. The supply of English and foreign hops on sale is tole rably large. For good and fine qualities there is a moderate demand, and prices rule firm; otherwise, the trade is dull, and the quotations have a downward tendency. New Mid and East Kents 12s to £8 Os per cwt. Weald of Kents Sussex . sOs to 6Os ,t Yearlings 3 Os to sOs f, COLONIAL. 'I EA.—The dealings have been moderate, an d prices are generally well sustained. SUGAR.—The operations in West India have been to an average extent, and good and fine descriptions maintain previous rates. In the refined market, osviiag to the limited quantity of goods on offer, a slight advance has taken place, common lumps being quoted 484 per cwt. COFFER,—OnIy moderate dealings have been recorded i n colonial descriptions ; fully late rates, howeve for ß g l o c o E d ._ anli fitinremqeuraltiotig. has prev ailed, and i 8 insom quotede in- RICE.—.EA stances enhanced prices have been obtained. TALLOW.—There has been more activity, and prices shoal l on the spot an upward movement. 44s to 45s 6cl per cwt. and Zdarch delivery s, ----L. Th e course of exchange at New York on London f or b ills at 169 to 16n perand the p is re v tai er littley u o l g ht is cent. At these ;ates there 60 days' gold i s sii to 51P er the IWPOrtatiolloi gold from the : that Unit ed States. profit 0 SECOND E:DITION. ,T.- . _ SUN OFFICE, HAXF-PAST 4 o'CiocK. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.---This Day NEWMARKET RAGES—THIS DAY. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) £lOO HANDICAP PLATE. Touch-and-go 1 Reserve Ten ran. ATJDLEY END STAKES. Clarlssimus beat Garse. MATCH —Bridle c beat Llangollen. • M ATCH , —Annington beat Wee Aggie. HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES. Principal .. Fiancee 1 Ten ran. 2 SWEEPSTAKES OF 500 SOVS. Echo beat Battaglia. FREE HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES. Merry Heart ........... 5WEEP5TAK........................ w.ot ES OF 10 SOVS. Prince Lee 800 .................................... Knave of Trumps ........ 1 .......................... 2 Three ran. FIRST CLASS STAKES. Sheridan Prince Arthur .................................... Washington .................. Fifteen ran. SECOND CLASS NURSERY STAK ES. Union Jack ........ Wandering Minstrel ..................... Nine ran. TAD EDITION SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK. LONDON GAZETTE--This Evening. ~_ _~ FOREIGN-OFFICE, OCT. 28. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. T. W. Ploos van Amstel as Consul-General at Melbourne for his Majesty the King of the Netherlands. OCT. 30. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Carlos Garcimartin as Vice-Consul at Gibraltar for her 'Majesty the Queen of Spain. DOWNING-STREET, OCT. 29. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Edward Rowdier, Esq., to be Assistant Surveyor-General and Civil Engineer for the Island of Mauritius. WAR-OFFICE, OCT. 30. COMMISSARIAT DEP ARTMENT — Deputy-Assistant COM.. missaryrGeners.l Edward Turnbull, trotn half-pay, to be Deputy-Assistant Commissary-General, vice Wrentmcre, deceased. ADMIRALTY, OCT. 29. Royal Marine Light Intantry—Second Lieut. Michael Allen btapylton Bree to be First Lieutenant, vice Patrick, deceased. ANICRUP TS contain That portion of t ß he Gazette ing the bankrupts had not arrived wh en we went to press. Course of the Exchange. —This Day. Amsterdam Ditto Rotterdam — 11 19 11 19i Antwerp .. 25 50 25 65 Brussels — 25 60 25 65 Hamburgh — 13 8 13 81 Paris .. Short. 25 20 25 25 Ditto Marseilles Vienna Frankfort on Maine -119 k 11 50 li 55 Trieste Petersburgh — 361 361 Berlin — Madrid OOO • 481 Cadia Leghorn — 25 65 2 . 5 70 Milan — 25 65 25 70 Genoa .-- 25 65 25 70 Pa le 25 65 25 Naple . rmo .. s 25 65 25 70 70 Messina — 25_65 25 'fa Lisbon 3porto Foreign Gold in Bars (Staftdard), per oz S 3 17 9 Mexican Dollars Silver in Bars (Standard) South American Doublons SHIPPING—This Day, LONDON, Oct. 30.—Wind this day at noon—South, South-East; strong breeze, and cloudy weather, wit! rain. CLYDE, Oct. 29.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—John Fergu l son, from Quebec. SUNDERLAND, Oct. 29.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Alarsa i for Valparaiso. (113: MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Friday Morning. Arrived, Oct. 30—Linea, from Bahia. Sailed, Oct. 30.—Chanticleer, steamer, for Stettin; Raby Castle, for Calcutta; Wilhelm, for Cuba. DEAL, Friday Morning. Anchored—Astrea (steamer), from London, for St. Michael's • Sazah of Weymouth, from Liverpool, for Rot., terdam • Louisa, from the north, for west. Passed—Fanny (schooner), from the west, for north American Congress, from New York, for London. MONEY OuDEns.—ln future when delay of payment of a money order for ten days is desired, the re mitter must, at the time of issue, affix a penny receipt stamp on the order, and write his name across it. The order must then be handed to the issuing officer, so that the necessary instructions may be given to the payin g ._ By command of the Postmaster-General, ROWLANI) HILL, Secretary. ' MR. LAYARD's DISENTOMBMENT OF NINEVEH. —Can it be denied that Mr. Layard has made us better acquainted with the public and private life of the Assyrians, than all the historians who have written about them ? How many eyes have gazed upon the sand mounds that covered ancient Nineveh, in ignorance that beneath them history itself lay buried I If the historians who wrote in their hazy way about the nations of anti quity, in the last century, had been told that Assyria lived beneath these misshapen mounds, or rather slept like the enchanted princess in the fairy tale, and that one day she would coma forth and speak—tell us her tale, graven on enduring marble, and would show us through her royal hails, and take us to the steps of the throne of Sennacherib himself—would they not have smiled incredulously ? What Rollin of the pen could tell us a hundredth part of what Layard has written for us with the spade ? The stranger tired with his desultory wanderings in the British Museum at last loiters into the long low gallery in which the spoils of Assyria are ranged. If he happen to be of an imagina tive turn, he finds fools enough around him to fire his flagging spirits. These sculptured skbs discover to him _ e a picture history of one of the great eastern empires. an id, may see the very throne upon which Sardanapalus sat, thatc, the sceptre he used, and—we say it in eider to showw en we need not despair of having presented to no° the minutest details of the past—we find the studs , very h _ ba ro bly buttons, and pins, that that mighty mona l r h c alla i: Need wore; for they were discovered in these roya an ds of secrets we despair that the earth will yield up thousan ds silently in equally carious with those she has s r o , le i " ? the sand beside the swiftly flowing Tigris gu arded the those human-headed winged bulls, d fo ni r vo : love passe d , of the chr - portals through which monarchs storian has whose deeds and suffer T in h g e s o t t h; :. :: jo d yi ili ng aided in the Great Book.—Ones a hack. orte B l"n A WONDERFUL DOG.—A ° day I Was privileged the customary Scotsman says :—" to behold a phenomenon. d li t u 0 A diiy along the Kinross line. Juaction, I was at length b h e a i l n f- g h c o o u n r v o e f y w ed ai s t l i o n w g l a y t aL ll , :rn.A' a t : g barking in a reproach. black shepherd's dog', and It was a ful manner at the train. alongside. I then lost sight of it for a few it cantered gently _, astonishment, on looking out My attention was attracted by minutes, but what was i". 7 dog, cantering at the same easy pace ' to see these . 1, It arrived at the next station again, line of ral • along the other . 1 af ter running from one statio n th e whole wa along wi th 11- considerably fresher than the engine. . I r king to the I f" t hi s must be a most wonderful dog, or (pardon the pace of the the horrible suspicion) rNaeowfo'raie'ibl'urweteatrythsi:agnnot be prodigious, and the dog knew the o F io lf w e n r e — ss o f the line too well to put his master to the expense of a ticket when, ha could so easily run the distance on foot." COLLISION ON THE PEEBLES RAILWAY.— EDINBURGH, Thursday, 5.30 Evening.—A collision h as occurred on the Peebles Railway. Three ballast waggon got detached from the train on the Leadburn and Linton branch, now making ; they rolled on to the main line, and met the 4.20 train from Edinburgh. A terrible shock took place. One buy of seven, son of Mr. Tennant, of th e Glen, Was killed, and seven or eight passengers were injured ; two or more seriously. Great damage was done to the plant. '1 he line, which is single, is blocked. The en gine -Wien and stoker were injured. STRIKE OF COLLIERS IN THE NORTH,—Of the unfortunate "strike" at the Auckland Collieries there is yet, no ' , rasped, of a termination. In one case, at least, the door to co m p rom i se seems t o b e e ff ectua ll y closed, 370 f fami lies, whose h e ads declined to r e su m e wor k on the terms f Nlcssrs. Strakere and Love, having yesterday been ejected f rom th e i r dwelli ngs a t S uun b r ow village presented. tru ly sad f o rcibly o pr esented. i and suggestive was the scene which the v the egonduct of the Under this harsh and trying treatment, y_vetveast:e men was most exemplary and praisew art . n Chronicle. rt .ness ands ]ded Sey- ,ady rriet onel her )en- Ind- Vol or d, cess lace ;ave 4012- nee, wer the ! l air )de" )ria will 3esS phi less less y at the Oror :ted a is )nel the an 3ial vat ,ry, for I