The Sun. — London, England, 1863-09-30 00:00:00

310NIY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. In the general discount market the rate is fully equal to the minimum charged by the B an k of England authorities, and no business has been ne gotiated under 4 per cent. The great activity dis played in all quarters for money has been oc casioned by circumstances which, though of a temporary character, were looked forward to for some time past, and have therefore influenced the Market for a considerable period. Their effect, however, being now direct, the consequence has been to absorb much of the capital at the disposal of th e Joint Stock and private establishments, 'Which, in their turn, having to borrow money, are unable to discount even first class bills under the official minimum. At the Bank of England the enquiries for accommodation continue numerous, and the Gazette return to appear to-morrow night will no doubt reveal an excessive augmentation of this description of business. Ihe revenue collections 'Which are now in active progress, and the with drawal of the loans by the Indian Council, are largely contributing to the present scarcity of Money, and as these will be completed about the end a the week, a trifling relief may then be ex perienced. About £40,000 in gold was taken into the Bank yesterday. '!'here was no alteration in the foreign exchanges Yesterday afternoon. With reference to the Columbian Loan, we are informed that Earl Russell has sanctioned the appointment of her Majesty's Charge d'Affairs at Bogata, if agreeable to ail parties, to act as agent for a time for the receipt and transmission of the revenues to be held at the disposal of the bond holders. The project of the Southsea Pier Hotel Company has proved a success. Already upwards of £lO,OOO of the proposed capital has been subscribed for, and every day brings fresh applications for allotment. The scheme is a very good one, and from the commanding position of the hotel a con stant succession of visitors will be certain. Applications for shares in the London Tavern Company are not be received after the 2d inst. The subscription list of the Prince of - Wales lintel Company is to be closed on the 3d proximo for London, and on the 6th for the provincial towns. Two o'CLocK. At Paris this day, according to Mr. Reuter's tele g r am, the 3 per Cent. Rentes were at 67f. 85c. *--Heavy. The English Stock Market exhibits no change f rom the quotations of last evening. Everything, in fact, is now combining to keep English securi ties inactive, speculation being again rife in the foreign department, and the settlement of the fort nightly account to-day preventing any great atten tion being devoted to other business. Consols con tinue at 931 y fur money, and at 931 for the ac count. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities ar e 9 1i 92; Exchequer Bills, ls. die. to 2 s. prem. ; India 5 per Cents., 1081 a ; and the Bonds, 16s. to ` 64 - prem. In the Foreign market there is very little actual business, and prices are tolerably firm. Turkish 6 Per Cents., 1854, are 95 1; do., 1858, 701 1 ; do., 1862 , 70a 711 ; do., Consolides, 541 1; Mexican, 47 :1 ; Spanish Passive, 361 ; do., Internal, 32 4 ; do., Certificates, 14, 1 ,- ; Greek, 371 381 ; do., Coupons, 18 Venezuelan, 64 ; Portuguese, 49 1 ; the Confederate Loan is 28 to 26 dis. ; and the Columbian do., 1 to 1-.3- prem. Business in the Railway Share Market has not been very active, but a firmer tone has prevailed. Caledonian have advanced £l, Great Northern 4:1 ss. and North Stafford, 10a. Brighton have declined ss. ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, lo s , ; Great Western, South Eastern, and one or tw o others remain at previous rates. The Foreign and Colonial lines remain inactive at about previous prices. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares continue in fair demand, and fully sustain former quotations. C hina and Japan realise 29a I. London and South African, 29-1 ; Union of London, 40 ; General CrQdit and Finance realise 51 1; Egyptian Trad ing Co., 41 1, and International Financial ditto, 11. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. hank Stock — " Per Cent. Reduced Annuities New Per Cent. Consols Annuities ''' ‘ ,.e'irt 3 per Cent. Annuities New 3} per Cent. Annuities ' ' 'T ew 21 per Cent. Annuities , ' Per Cent. Annuities kunuities, 30 yrs, expire ith Jan., 1880 — Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1905 — India Stock — Ditto 5 pet Cent loBa a Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent — Ditto 5 per Cent Ditto 51 per Cent Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct., 1863 Ditto ditto April, 1864 Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 Ditto Bonds £l,OOO l6 20 16 pm Ditto under £1,000.. Bank Stock for Account C onsols for Account, Oct, 8 — ludia Stock for Account, 5 per Cent — E xchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 22 per Cent 1 dis 2 pm Ditto XSOO Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent Ditto, 1839 and 1859.....- , Ditto 41 per Cent., 18 52-58-60 4 .'llenos Ayres 6 per Cent — Ditto Account — Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cen t. ) -- ' l lba, 6 per Cent. t,tutian 6 per Cent. , Ditto 41 per Cent. - 4- ' atti s h 4 per Cent., 1863 Ditto 3 per Cent., 1825. D utch, 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guilders p Ditto, l'rovi so nal Land Warrant.. — - -,,vptian 7 pet Cent.. „., Ditto, Second Issue - Greek New Consolidated. 1 per Cent — ktreek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons — Ditto Account 3B Ditto Coupons — Ditto Account lBl f luatemala 5 per Cent. itaiian b per Cent.(Marenamana Railway) Itexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account 47a i i iloorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada — Ditto 2 per Cent. Ditto Deferred - Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) — Peruvian 3 per Cent. Ditto 41 per Cent., 1862 ....... Ditto Account — Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto Account.... ..- Ditto 3 per Cent., 1866, '7, '9, '6O, 62 — Ditto Account 49} Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St Ditto 41 per Cent 1850 Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859 Ditto 5 per Cent, 1862 Sardinian 5 per Cent.......... Ditto Account SPanish 3 per Cent ........ Ditto Account Ditto New Deferred Ditto Account — Ditto Passive Ditto Account 36/ } Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded Ditto Account Swedish, 4 per Cent .I:tirkish 6 per Cent. 1854 J >itto Account Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 Ditto Account Ditto, £lOO Bonds Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 Ditto Account 7ok Ditto 6 per Cent. 1863, .£l9 163 8d pd. Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent Venezuela 3 per Cent. Ditto Account Ditto 6 per Cent., 1832 iiit to Account 6ll i .. . _ Dividends on the above payable in London. 130g,ian. 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f but:b. 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Gail Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates renea Itentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f — Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs — _Ditto Account TWO O'CLOCK. Ingo's, Money .. Accouut 931: 1 1 -verpool Cotton Market—This Day. ( R EUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) Very hi m . Sales, about 8,000 bales. Import, 2,614; Ire‘r.ously, 22,450. From f cenB44 paper it appears that there are 84,000 foregmere retg t i en t in England, SHARE MARKETS—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOols S. Share Railways. p a id . Closing BusinesE 1 Price. clone. Bir.. Wol., and Str. Val Blythe and Tyne. Bost.,Sleat.,andMid.k.lo Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall ( A gets no dix Do A till (lp c.p an.ha Do. B I been paid to B. Dublin & Belfast Junc.j Dun.,Perth,&Ab. Junc. 'Edinburgh & Glasgow.; 131asg. and S. Western.; IGreatEastern, Ord. stk Ditto A stock Ditto East A nglian St GreatNorthot Scotland Great Northern Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. ant W. of Irelan,j Great Western ! Do Str Val gun. stools Lancastrae & Yorkshire London and Blackwall Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast 'Lon., Chat., and Dover ILon. & North Western Lon. & Soy.th Western Man., Shet., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do t shares.. Metropolitan Midland 6.4.0 j Do New B ti 81 81 85 87 1191 1201 39 40 161 17i 99 101 110 112 51 62 49i 60? 261 176 12ti 127 129 130 124 136 100 It 2 t 7 674 113 1131 73 7 , 1 113 114 12i 43, 1024 103 1014 1. 24 16 67 126 128 128} ;29 14 ltd co 98 Do Birming. t Derby Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland, Do. shares Mid Kert Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, Az Dundee, Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do, G.N.E. purchase' Do Leeds Do York Do Carlisle North_London 554 1.64 26 t 7 101} 102 —d 58 584 88 89 Do New North Staffordshire N. and S. IV. Junction Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stool Do Scot. Mid. stock Shrews. and Welchpool Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern South Wales 117 12) 1 2 p 79 81 11} llt 124 126 44 48 101 103 50 52 31 32i 97i 1371 S. York. and River Dun Staines, Wok.,and Wok Stockton At Darlington Do Do New, 1860 Taff Vale.. DoB Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har. &R West Midland -Oxford Do Newport Do Hereford 0 lot 101 364 374 84 91 v 7 i 7 i 15u 155 41 5f 21 31 p BRUISH. POSE 86 PO 159 162 26 28 iSlUisi 6. Closing Shan. Railways Pald. Price. Business done 100 atlantic &St Lawreni all 62 64 64 3 Bom.,Baroda&.Centlno 100 107 108 Gu. 5 per cent. 20 Do. New . . 20 Do. E. Shares. 201 Buffalo and Laxe Huron all 84 61 10 Do. Preierunoe all 8 9 BulTalo,Brant,&Godrich 100 10 p. cf. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 100 Do. do. July 1, 187: 100 100 Do. do. Julie 1, 1874 100 et ,71cutta.&S.Eastn.(1,,, ; 100 107 108 at (ape Town Dock Seri) 100 107 109 stock Eastn. Bengal gu. sp. ( 100 109 110 stock East Indian. gu. sp. c. too 108 109 20 Do. do. G Ext lO 11 lap 20 Do. do. II do. stock Grand Trunk of Canada luu 2 0 1 2 1 100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds all 74 76 75 1 100 Do. cio. deferred— all 60 62 100 Do. 2(1 Pref. Bonds all 67 69 09 100 Do. do. deferred all 51 b 3 100 Do. 3d P, ef. stock 100 Do. do. deferred all 37 19 100 Do. 4th I'ref. stork all 27 29 29 100 Do. do. deferred.-- all 23 25 stook Gt.lndiaFenin.gua.sp.o 100 108 109 1071 2 0 Do. New gua. sp. o l2 11 11; 20 Do. January, 1862.. 8 11 11; stook Gt. South.of India(Lim, guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 107 108 201 Gt. W. of Canada Share. all 10 1 10 1 10 1 20 Do. New 100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt all 95 97 100 Do. 51 p. c. do. '77-8.. 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 p stock Madras guar., sp. o. stook Do. 41 p. o. Extension 100 1011 102, stock De. 4* do lOO 88 ICO 20 Do. Fifth Extension 2 -- stock Melb.Corp. dp. o. Bnd. 100 50 51elb. & Hobson's Bay. all 57 58 571 100 Do. 7 p.c. Ntortg. Bds. all $0 Newßruuswiclia Candy, Class Aanel B all I 5 N.ll.l.C'da spc Ist pf bds 100 82 84 stock &hide ........ •• 1 (100 107 108 st Do. Delhi Do. do 4. :5 100 2 107 1 1 , 1 3 i 8 ) $0 Do. Punjaub 5 all ——p st Do. Do. . , ! L et , 100 107 108 stock Do. Indus. At. Flo.) k . lo‘ , 102 104 COLONIAL U 0 VERN WENT SEC U ItITIE6. chn.Goy. 5 p.c.J a&J ul) 1877-88 100 102 104 1)o. 6"p. o. Feb. k Aug. 100 101 103 Do. dp. c.3lar. & Sept. 100 101 103 Do. op. c. Jan.&,luly. 100 91 03 921 2 Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 VO v 2 Cape G.Hope, 6 p c,187: 100 108 110 Do.Ap & Oct. 1880 100 112 114 Do. 189( 100 111 115 !Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 113 115 Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 100 113 110 6 per cent .. 100 107 108 Natal Guy. 8 per cant.. 100 tlO 112 N.B.Gov. p.c. J a.&J ul) 100 101 1(3 1021 Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. 100 N. S. W. Gov. 5 p 18.. 100 1001 1011 Du. sp. c.,18e.t to Iflt 100 1011 1 02 i Do. d0.,1888 &upwds 100 102 103 1021 New Zealand 8 p cent 100 111 113 Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. sterling, 1875. lOO 103 105 'Queensland Gcv. 6p. c. 100 1:1 113 IS. Aus G6p.c.1873.& up.. 100 111 113 I Vic. Gov. 6p.c. Ja.&J u l y 100 108 110 Do. to So.°. An.&Oot.. 100 114 1141 1141 BRITISH MINES. 2 Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 I 1 , id ultford Amalgamated 32 34 Devon G. Com, (Tavist , 1 555 665 551 East Bassett (Illogan) 30 79 61 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd , 52. id par East Caradon ..... 281 291 East Cam Brea. E. trl Russel (Tavistk ) 8.6.6 3 31 Gam.dzSt.Aubyn(Gwen ) 28t 13 15 Great South Tolgus l7s 4 41 G. Wheal Vor (11elston: 40 9 10 'Grenville Elemd's-Foot .... 8.12 58 40 ilingston Downs 4. 8.0 2 21 Lady Bertha Ilargaret (tiny Lelant, 96 26 28 Nlarke Valley.. 4 Nlyndy Iron Oro (Lim ; 21 11 New Setun l9l 105 115 - • North Downs 2l 1/ 2 N.Wh'i Ilaseet(lllogau 2.17.1 2f 31 North Wheal Crotty Par Consols (Bt. Blazey, 1 k 4 20 Providenee(Uny Lelnt.) 10.6.7 13 45 South Caradon(St.Cleer, 14 415 425 —3. Cam Brea (Illogan) 5.15.6 11 2 hI.W heal Fran. (Mogan, 15.1 , .9 GO 65 iStray Park 5 ramar Silv.& Lead Min 4l 4 'fin Crott 9 19 20 West Basset (Illogan) ll 91 10/ W C' radon (Liskeard) 5 20 22 West Seton Wheal Basset (Illogan) 51 75 8u Wheal Buller (Itedruth) 5 25 30 Wheal Kitty (U.Lele.nt) 2.0.6 WhealLuthott W heal Mary Ann CLlen ) 8 9 11 Wheal Seton 5Bl [205 215 Wheal Treiawney (Lis ) 7 I 16 18 Wheal Union 3.17 2 3 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Western, 4 per cent. irred , t 2 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern, 5 per cent., pf., 10G FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Namur and Liege, gua. 6 per cent. pf., 20i N. Rail of Buenos Ayres, gua. 7 per cent., 101 FOREIGN MINES. East del Rey (lirn.), United Mexican (lim;, 7 61 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. k tkgr ihg a n a c n e d ß U a n n i k ted Se o rv n ice (11m.). Ditto, i.nw, Bank of Egypt, 27 of 20 do l n and L l i l ltp l o 6 o 4 l (Urn.), 41} Bank of Queensland (lira), 15 Bank of Wales, liw., S Brazilian and Portuguese, lim., 5 Chartered od ter d e a d t ßan ß k an ot t, B 11w.,r itish io y i olumbia, 12 Consolidated English and Irish (him), 101 ii En iu g d il u s fa h t , Sancoaliin, khans, and lia n A d u j s a t p ra an( n Chartered, r 2 t f ert. 25 I mperial Bank Mtn.), 24i 5 and 28! for money London and Brazilian (lira.), 50} London, Buenos Ayres, and River Plate, 51} Lonoon and Colonial (lim.), • London and Comity, 514 London and Northern (liM.), "I I London and South African, 20} Mercantile and Exchange. lira., llf Oriental Bank Corporation, 60i 5 91 o n i t g a l a I r b r e i d i a a n n a d n d. d D s l 2 e , t r h a i ti ( ce lim (i L s P uo r ni o ni v od i no nf oi l f a. England 10! Union of London, 40 MISCELLANEOUS. Egyptian Commercial and Trading, lint., 41 Gen. Credit and Financ e of London, lint., 51 1 Hudson Bay, 9a International Financial Society, lim., 11 Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour), 41 Ditto, 6 per cent. Bonds rd. 1870 issued 90, 891 London District Telegraph (lim.), 17, S. African Mortga; e and Investment, United Kingdom Telegraph Co., li m . , 2 M, Mendelssohn, brother of the celebrated has just handed over to the Mayor of composer,e ip E ic,asum of 1,500 thalers, arising from the sa l e c i hi s brothel's letters. The interest of this sum is to be given yearly, on the 3d February, the anniversary of the great musician's birth, to two widows of artists of the Leipeic orchestra, designated by that magistrate. THE ALDERMANIC GowN.—Besides the formal announcement of Mr. Andrew Lusk as a candidate for th e aldermanic gown of Aldgate Ward, vacant by the death of Mr. John liumphrey, the names of Mr. Sheriff Nissen and Mr. Charles Capper have been mentioned as probablo didates for that honour. HIPPoLYTE FLANDRIN, recently engaged on the decoration of the Church of Saint Germain-des-Pres, has been compelled to resign his work for the present, and travel to Italy for rest and genial climate, he having suffered severely from the effect of the damp arches under which he has been wrking. 13.14, L 9.16.4 1230 - THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER THE SCANDINAVIAN ALLIANCE. COPENHAGEN, Sept. 25. The following Note has been addressed by Baron Manderstrom, Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs, to Baron N. Adelsvard, Swedish Ambassador in Paris : The important political affairs which, during the last few weeks, have agitated the European Cabinets, and engaged their whole attention, have caused facts which would not have failed to excite general attention at a less animated time to pass by almost unobserved. Among these is one to which we thinkit our duty to direct the serious consideration of the Government of his Majesty the Emperor of the French. It concerns, as may be easily understood, the new phase upon which the Danish question has entered through the resolutions taken by the German Federal Diet. In consequ , nce of these resolutions Denmark will soon receive a demand—if, indeed, it has not already been made—to withdraw within six weeks time the patent of March 30, 1863, under threat of a Federal execution in Holstein. We do not yet know the resolution which Den mark will take, but it appears to us that it cannot be doubted. Things have arrived at a point at which foreign intervention in the internal affairs of Denmark becomes really unendur able. The roost extreme measures would be preferable to an unjustifiable submission, in which the Danish people will not acquiesce. We may, therefore, suppose that the Danish Government will reply that by the patent of March 30, 1863, Denmark had conceded to Holstein all the rights which the Federal Diet has demanded for that duchy. Denmark there fore fulfilled all her duties as a Federal member, since by this patent the mutual relations of the different parts of the monarchy are established in such a manner that the legis lation and taxation in other parts of the kingdom become independent of that which will be adopted in Holstein and Lauenberg. The Danish Government will ever be ready to carry into execution the resolution passed in Frankfort relative to the internal administration of these duchies. Every cause as well as every pretext for a Federal execution being, how ever, removed by this declaration, as also by the patent of the 30th March, the Danish Government can only regard such proceeding as having an object entirely apal t from the competency of the German Diet, and must therefore con sider it a hostile attack, which it is her duty to oppose by all the means at her disposal. In ease this should be the reply of the Danish Govern ment, which, as I have already said, appears most probable, it will not be denied that it is based upon facts. The demand of the Federal Diet for a common constitu tion for the whole monarchy is untenable, because it is the German Liet itself, and the Holstein Estates, which have rendered such an arrangement impossible. As regards the Duchy of Schleswig, it is a fact that the Danish Govern ment, after Schleswig's administrative separation from Holstein, decided to extend the liberties of this province, and that it never took any steps to incorporate it with the kingdom. In any case, this is a question with reference to which the Federal Diet is entirely incompetent, as regards the claims which, in common with Austria and Prussia it considers itself entitled to make relative to the negotiations of 1851 and 1852. In the meanwhile, the Diet's ill-concealed desire to mix itself up in this question causes the danger of the situation, which we can only regard as highly critical, and approach ing a crisis which would unavoidably endanger the peace of the North, and very likely the whole of Europe. The Government of the King has long avoided a return to this question, but, believing itself to be unable any longer to remain silent, it considers it to be its duty to submit the state of affairs for examination to the Cabinets of Paris and London, It appears to us that it can scarcely be the wish of those Cabinets, particularly in the present state of the negotia tions relative to Poland, that a war should break out in the North during the present year. Such an event, however, might happen within a few weeks, should Denmark not meet with such support from those Cabinets as would protect her against the aggressive measures of Germany. We will not take upon ourselves to propose the means by which such a contingency might be averted. We believe, however, that we have a right to express our opinion upon this question. 'We have this right, first, on account of the sincere feelings of friendship which bind us to the two Go vernments to whom we address ourselves ; and, secondly, because of the serious consequences which might result from a contest from which the force of circumstances could alone prevent us from holding aloof, since our dearest inte rests would not allow us calmly to see our neighbours op pressed under pretexts which, at a late period, might en danger our own independence. I request you to read this despatch to M. Drouyn de Lhuys, and should he desire a copy of it I authorise you to leave one with him. (Signed) MANDERSTROM. A Good Word for Cricketting. Parallel with the quickened intellPP‘ life in our public schools has run the cons- . latic cul ture of the physical power les, and above all of cricket. 'We h tgogy, as well as " muscular Christi: nodel schoolmaster of the present dE. take a deep interest in the games of it is well if he it a good " bat" as we In this direction, also, the Arne , as taken a decided lead. Dr. Arnold himt .iised the great importance of a game whit! Les more perfectly than any other the mama correspondence and simultaneous action of eye and hand; which calls upon the player for the exercise, in rapid s• cession, of the most varied physical and moral qt ties—of courage and prudence, of skill in avoiding and hardiness in enduring pain—of ever ready, watchful patience in activity, and the power of passing in a moment to the intensest and most rapid action—of hopeful energy in the midst of discou ragement, and moderation in the prospect of victory. It is no slight honour and no small blessing to us as a nation that such a game should be traditional in our schools. It is not on the surface an attrac tive game. Beginners get little from it that can well be called amusement. It is an earnest, serious game, which suits neither the powers nor the taste of the weakling or the trifler—a game of which none but English boys can ever feel the charms. It is no injustice, we think, to say that the majority even of English boys require to be "kept up" to their cricket by a certain amount cf compulsion on "the part of their seniors, and that many a now de voted cricketer has been forced through the rudi ments of the game by a pressure almost as strong as that under which he learned his Latin syntax. It would be sad indeed if the general esteem in which this incomparable game is held should be forfeited, or even lessened, by the extravagance of those who indulge in it to excess. There is a dan ger of this. Instead of the noblest of pastimes, many a boy is seduced, by the rapid and brilliant reputl.- tion to be gained by eminence in the cricket-field, into making it his sole pursuit. And the conse quence is that not boys only, but men, once capable of better things, may be seen wandering from match to match throughout the country, whose whole dis course is of "legs" and "byes," of "smacking,'' " leather -hunting," and " collaring of balls"—who are only in their proper place at "Lords" or the Kennington Oval. The fashionable world of Lon don have much to answer for under this head. We need only pass from a "speech-day" at Eton and Harrow to the annual cricket match between these two schools at Lord's—and compare the apathetic, listless commendations bestowed on the prizemen at with ft,. vnnt,,,,lß ennlanee and de• lightful shouts of " well hit," or " well bowled" with which rank and beauty greet the foremost players at the latter—to understand the force with which the ambitious youth is dragged from the path of knowledge and led to spend the whole force of mind and body on a game. Professional players may b• necessary as well as dancing-masters, and these must make cricket the main business of their lives; but when this is done by those who have, or might have, the advan tages of school and college education, they are only so much superior to dancing masters as cricket is better than dancing. OUR FARMERS AND SMALL BIRDS.—The farmers' case is infinitely worse than the gardeners', because they had so much more extensive an interest in the life of the birds which have been destroyed. The best course for the farmers now seems to be, first to look across to the Anti podes, and see what sums English colonists are paying there tor pairs and dczens of those very birds which are got rid of hero by bribing people to kill them. The appearance of cater pillars there has raised a cry for birds, to be carefully and extensively conveyed over sea, and liberally paid for. While 1 write an Australian newspaper arrives, bringing an ac count of eager purchases of small birds imported from England. A couple of blackbirds sold for £3 Bs. ; and a single sparrow—the survivor of a lot of 100—actually fetched 1 Is. If the members of our sparrow clubs stare and laugh at the news, it does not follow that they have the best of the argument. The colonial farmers have, in fact, a keener faculty for recognising their best friends than those they have left behind.—Once a Week (published to•day). THE GREAT EASTERN.—A meeting of the share holders in the Manchester district was held yesterday, when it was resolved to recommend that the leading share holders form among themselves a new company for the purchase of the ship, and that all the existing proprietors who may desire to join the new company be invited to b so. LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day. SHEILIFFS' COURT. (Befcre Mr. Gibbons,) THE ALGERIAN COTTON COMPANY.-EXTRAORDINARY CASE.--WHITE AND ANOTHER V. INIELHADE. This was an action to recover £5 ls. 4d. for two dozen of wine and bottles supplied to the defendant, who was described as of 46, Princes-square, Bayswater. Mr. Beard, for the plaintiffs, stated that his clients were wine merchants of Mark-lane, and they sought to recover the present claim for wine supplied. Mr. Green, counsel for defendant—The wino was not supplied to my client but to the Algerian Cotton Company. Mr. Beard—l am willing to admit that in the order forwarded to my clients, the words "Algerian Cotton Com pany" aro on the top, but the order is signed by defendant in his individual capacity and not as agent for any com pany. His Honour—ls this a limited liability ccmpany ? Mr. Green—lt is. Al r. Beard called Mr. Shepherd, one of the clerks employed by plaintiffs, who stated that the wine was sent in to the defendant's order to the offices of the Algerian Cotton Company, 77, Greshatn-street. Mr. Green here produced tie invoice made out to the company. Witness—That was a mistake of the clerks. Hie Honour (to Mr. Green)—are you prepared to show that this is a limited liability company, duly incorporated ? Mr. Green—Unfortunately, I am not. Mr. Beard—l am instructed that the company is not yet formed. His Honour—lf the defendant had been in a position to show that this company was duly incorporated there would have been very strong evidence in his favour, but I am in clined to believe that defendant is the Algerian Cotton Company. A man mpy trade under any name, but he is liable for the debts contracted. It was very unwise of de fendant to let the case come into court. Plaintiff will have a verdict with cost. THE SCIENTIFIC BALLOON ASCENT. The mammoth balloon remained safely moored in the ground attached to the Stafford-road Works of the Wolverhampton Company all Monday night, watched by Mr. Coxwe,l and his assistants. The night was peacefully calm, and the morning broke without a breeze having risen. At five o'clock yesterday morning operations were resumed pre paratory to an ascent at seven if possible. To supply the deficiency occasioned by the leakage during the night and day about 12,000 feet of gas was turned in, and by seven o'clock Lord Wrot tesley arrived on the ground from Wrottesley Hall. Mr. Glaisher bad passed the night at the residence of Mr. Proud, the engineer to the gas company, wno lives on the spot; and so soon as his lordship arrived the instruments were attached to the customary board and affixed to the car. Io addition to the instruments which have been taken up at previous ascents, Mr. Glaisher had provided himself with a Herschel's actinometer, to test the force of the sun's rays; and a spectroscope to ob serve the lines of the spectrum. This last was the same instrument that was taken by Piozzi Smyth to the Peak of Teneriffe. By a quarter to eight o'clock everything being ready for the departure, the cable was slipped, and under the guidance of Mr. Cogswell the balloon rose steadily and gracefully from the ground. The adieus cheerfully waved and uttered from the car by Mr. Glaisher and his aeronaut were warmly responded to by Lord Wrottesley and the few other spec tatcrs who had reassembled at that early hour. The rise was not rapid, nor was the course fleet. The machine moved off in a north-easterly direc tion, and after remaining in sight about half an hour was seen rising fast, and moving in a some what southerly direction. A great deal of ballast was taken up, that the balloon might be kept for some time from rising too high, so that the cordage, which during the night had become saturated with moisture of the weight, perhaps of 3 cwt., might be dried in the sun before the machine attained an altitude at which, by freezing, the lines and cord age would become like so much rod iron. When the incumbrance of this moisture had been removed by the sun, and some of the ballast had been thrown out, it was hoped that a height of five miles might be attained, for the engineer of the gas works had supplied as light gas as was furnished when seven miles was reached. The direction taken was sup posed to be towards The Wash. Mr. Glaisher hopes to go up with Mr. Coxwell in the same balloon at a public ascent, which is fixed to come off in the city of York to-day (Wednesday), and we hear that he contemplates going up pro bably from the Crystal Palace grounds during No vember and December next. WoLVERIIAMPToN, Tuesday Evening. A very rough descent. At half-past 10, six miles from Sleaford ; height, three and a half miles; tern 7ature, zero. Balloon torn. STATE OF TRADE, MANCRESTEit, Sept. 29.—A considerable amount of business has been done in yarns, chiefly in 40 , s mule suitable for India. There has also been some little business done in 20's and 30's water-twist at extreme prices, and the market closes with an upward tendency for all kinds of yarn, stocks being pretty much exhausted, and most descriptions being very scares, The home trade have bought some little yarn, but the market has not been active in this department. Sellers require the full prices of last week for these as well as for other descrip tions of yarn. In cloths the business done to-day has been only moderate, owing to the high prices manufacturers continue to ask. There has been some demand for long-cloths and T. cloths, and large orders could have been placed if manufacturers had been disposed to accept rather easier terms, but for the present there seems to be little prospect of that, owing to the high rates still ruling for cotton and yarn. The accounts from India are flat, but there are buyers in the market for that quarter who are disposed to operate if prices were more favourable. We have heard of some orders given out for cloths for the home trade where manufacturers, by using a mixture of flax or other material with cotton, have been able to meet the views of merchants as to price. Both the cloth and yarn markets close very firm. Messrs. John Slagg and Co. report of the cloth market :—" There has been a fair inquiry to-day, especially for some kinds of longeloths ; but the high rates still so firmly demanded by manufacturers prevent buyers operating to any extent. We repeat our quotations of last week, but the business done has been of very small amount." LEEDS, Sept. 29.—T0-day's has been an unusually quiet market. Very little business was done in anything except witneys, pilots, and beavers, of which a few small parcels were sold. Merchants are contracting their operations as winter draws near, Wand manuracturers reruse to win', utl specu lation, owing to the dearness both of wool and cotton. Makers of union cloths of various dyes have little difficulty in clearing off stocks, especially of lower qualities. Some orders for spring goods have been given recently, but it has not transpired that anything more has been done in that line to day. The white cloths and hair-lists offered to-day were not all disposed of, but in one or two instances good parcels were purchased. ROCHDALE, Sept. 28.—T0-day's market has scarcely been an average one, many of those who are accustomed to buy largely being absent, pro bably because it was a foregone conclusion that the stock of goods on offer would be small, owing to the lute wetness of the weather which has impeded operations in the tenter fields. In the warehouses, however, we find the flannel trade keeping up to the good standard of the last few months, and it is not surprising after such a sustained de mand that stocks begin to present a slender aspect. If the weather hold up, and stirring operations commence for the winter simultaneously, it will not be long before they will be sufficiently recruited. Yorkshire goods, having attained to a maximum price almost beyond precedent, are becoming less saleable. There is a fair demand for low goods and scourers, but they are scarcely to be met with. The price of wool is rising still higher, much to the dis satisfaction of the manufacturers, who find a diffi culty in doing a profitable business with the raw material at such high rates. NEW FRENCO ACADEMICYAN.—Paris is looking forward now eagerly to the discourse of M. Dufaure on being admitted to the Academy. He has been charged with the eulogy cf Duke Pasquier, 30, 1863. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. GUILDHALL. ROBBERY BY A WAREHOUSEMAN'S PORTER.—Charles Allen, porter to Messrs. Sinclair, wholesale shut and collar makers, was placed at the bar charged with robbing his employers. Mrs. Cotton, of the Lower-road, Islington, said she was informed by a costermonger that the prisoner could get her some shirts cheap. She saw him at a beershop close to her shop, and asked him to bring her half a dozen at the price mentioned. He brought her the articles, for which she paid him 95., and in a few days after she asked him if he could bring another half dozen of striped shirts and some fancy regattas. He said he would, but that he had some very nice white ones with him. She looked at them and finally bought three, for which she paid 9s. A gentleman from the firm in Wood•street said the selling price to the trade was 2s. 4d. each for the striped shirts, and the white ones, Gs. 6d. Witness said she paid ls. 9d. each for the regatta shirts. Alderman Hale told the witness she must have known she was doing wrong in purchasing articles from a person like the prisoner without making the slightest inquiry. It was, in fact, aiding a thief in the disposal of stolen property. _ _ Another witness produced a box of shirt collars which the prisoner had left at her home, which the prosecutor identified as his property. Mr. W. B. Newland said he was a partner in the firm of Sinclair and Co„ Wood-street, Cheapside. The prisoner was in their employ as porter, and had been so ever since he was takes from a ragged school some years ago. The property produced belonged to the firm. It had never been cold. The prisoner said he had purchased shirts of the firm on his own account, and therefore there was no certainty that he had not paid for the articles now in court. Alderman Hale—ls the prisoner allowed to purchase articles out of the warehouse ? Mr. Newland—To a very limited extent, and only for his personal use. He has occasionally bought a damaged shirt or two and received an invoice in the usual way, but nothing more. Alderman Hale—l consider it the high road to ruin for warehousemen to allow their servants to purchase articles of them on their own account. Mr. Newland—l believe there ie nothing unusual in such a case. It would, he thought, be extremely hard for an employer to refuse to servo one of his servants with a shirt or two at the wholesale price when they required it. Of course it was bad if allowed to any extent, but there was a limit to every thing. Alderman Hale—Except to robbery, there is no limit to that, I know personally a very large house in Watling street that was entirely ruined through the practice of still ing to their servants. The constable, who took the prisoner into custody asked for a remand, to afford time to trace some other property. Prisoner--I plead guilty to the charge. Alderman Hale—You can do so if you please, but I shall remand you for a week. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. ASSAULT ON A PAWNBROKER'S MANAGER.—John Lee, of 12, Castle •street, St. Martin's, described as a jeweller, was charged before Mr. Knox, with assaulting Mr. W. Frederick Parker, manager of the business of Mr. Bartrain, pawnbroker, 223, Piccadilly. Mr. Parker deposed that the prisoner entered the shop, and producing a diamond ring, asked for an advance of £3 upon it. He refused to advance the money, and the pri soner, who was drunk, became very violent, gesticulated a good deal, and then left the shop. On looking through the window to see whether the prisoner had gone away, he found the prisoner was squaring up to the window with his fists. Fearing the prisoner would break the windows, he (Mr. Parker) went to the shop door when the prisoner struck him a severe blow. He then sent for the police. The prisoner said he had pledged articles several times at Mr. Bartram's. Holden, 297 A, said on being fetched to Mr. Bartratn'6 by the shop boy, he found the prisoner with his fist up as if about to strike Mr. Parker. The prisoner said that if he had not already struck Mr. Parker ho would do so, and as ho was drunk and violent he took him into custody. In answer to. Mr. Knox, Mr. Parker said he knew the prisoner as a man who pledged things and sold the tickets. The prisoner was in the habit of indulging. in violent lan guage, and if the money he wanted was not advanced him he abused him. Mr. Knox imposed a fine of 205., or 14 days. _ _ Mr. Parker said there was a number of fellows who came to the shop, and ha had no doubt other shops in the trades, and when money was not advanced then they made use of very violent language. Mr. Knox said Mr. Parker could give them into custody. WESTMINSTER. ROBBERY AT THE ROYAL MILITARY STORES BY A SOLDIER.—John Carpenter, one of the Scots Fusiliers, was charged with a robbery of the stoles, to which he had access. Sergeant Purchess, 10 B, said—l am on duty at the military stores on Thames Bank. Prisoner was employed there as a porter,• and received a shilling per day in ad dition to his usual pay. Yesterday he was leaving the premises at 1 o'clock, when, as he passed out of the gate, I observed something bulky in We coat under his arm. There was a great crowd at the moment of two or three hundred men leaving, and I could not get at the prisoner, but I sent a constable after him to bring him back, and as he came into the lodge I asked him what he had in his coat pocket, when he replied, "Only a few white serge cuttings." He then asked me to look over it, and said that, if I did not, it would be the ruin of him for life. I told him I could not do so, and the authorities ordered him to be charged and brought here. Chief Clerk—What did you find in the coat pocket ? Witness—White serge cuttings ? Chief Clerk—How many ? Witness—They weighed three pounds ten ounces, and, contracted for with other cuttings, fetch the Government Sid. per pound. Mr. Arnold (to a sergeant of the regiment)—What is the m an's character ? Sergeant—Very good. Dennis, the gaoler—Ho is wearing four good conduct stripes, your worship. Military sergeant—And a good conduct medal upon his breast. Mr. Arnold—This is a most deplorable case. Prisoner—l hope your worship will treat me as leniently as you can, for the sake of my wife and four children. I took the things when overcome by temptation. I picked them up ; they were on the ground. I did not know they were of very particular value. Mr. Arnold (after inquiries)—You must have known the Government sold them, and that they were regularly fetched by the contractor. This is a most deplorable and, painful case. Seeing the high character you have hitherto borne, I will not treat it as a felony ; although I strain the law, I shall only deal with you for unlawful possession, and commit you to hard labour in the House of Correction for 14 days. THAMES. TARS IN TRIBULATION,—TWO mariners, named Wm. Conway and Edward Ashe, were brought before Mr. Part ridge charged with assaulting Henry Rose, a sugar baker, Francis Robbins, 119 H, and Benjamin Stebbings, 111 11. It appeared in evidence that the constable Robbins saw the prisoner Conway lying on the pavement close to the door of a house in Leman-street, Whitechapel. The con stable gave him a shaking, aroused him, and told him to go on. The sailor was very much annoyed at his slumbers being disturbed, and struck the policeman. Robbins seized him and told him he must go to the station house. The sailor said he would not go there. They struggled and went down together. Stebbings, another police constable, went to the assistance of Robbins, and Ashe, who it appeared was unknown to the other prisoner, came up, and a serious fight took place. Robbins was struck and knocked down, and Conway seized him by the hair of his head and held him down while Ashe kicked him. An up and down fight took place, and the roughs of White cnapei ilzo police officers. Fortunately the parties were near the H division station-house in Leman-street, and a reinforcement having arrived the sailors were overpowered and soon placed in durance vile. Mr. Partridge asked the prisoners what they had to say in defence, and Conway spoke for both and said, "Drunk, your honour." Mr. Partridge could not allow police constables to be ill used with impunity. Ho fined the prisoners £5 each, and in default two months' imprisonment. MARKETS--This Day. MARK-LANE. Although our market to-day was scantily supplied with English wheat, the demand for all kinds was in a very in active state, at prices barely equal to last week. The con dition of the samples was good. We had a large supply of foreign wheat on the stands. Selected qualities were held at full quotations, but the de mand for them was by no means active. Inferior kinds wero very dull, at late rates. Floating cargoes of grain commanded very little attention. There was a fair avt.rage quantity of barley on offer, and the trade ruled heavy, at Monday's decline in value. The malt trade was in a si,liggish state, on former terms. Oats were a slow inquiry, ,but we have no change to notice in prices. Beans and peas were heavy, at late xlates. The flour trade was inactive, on former terms. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat Barley. Malt- Oats. Flout. English.— 450 I 1,02 0 1 740 1 1070 570 I r i s h — 500 6,110 1,02 0 5,050 230 sks. 130 brie. NEW GATE AND LEADENHALL. These markets are fairly supplied with meat, and the demand is steady, as follows :—Beef, from 2s 8d to 4s 2d ; mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 8d; veal, 3s 4d to 4s ; and pork . , 38 811 to 5s per Sibs by tho carcase. 7i 8 127 i 66} I 113 ]33} 103 2/ lo2i 2 4% 127 i 61 97 1 I i RUSSIA AND GREECE. The Invaltde Russe of the 24th September pub lishes the following respecting the sojourn of the King of Greece at St. Petersburg :—" While the attention of the statesmen of Europe is more or less occupied with the most serious political questions, which change their aspect at each moment with wonderful celerity, it is not useless at times to dwell upon facts which, independently of their political gravity, bear the stamp of friendly relations between nations united from time immemorial by fraternal bonds. United to Greece by the indissoluble link of religion, protecting the Greeks for centuries, Russia, more than any other State, takes the in terests of the Greeks to heart. The motive of the sympathy of our Government for Greece does not emanate from any selffill consideration. Russia is so great that she does not want either new territorial acquisitions or the development of her moral influence over the populations of the East. The secular policy of Russia i❑ the Eastern Question has sufficiently demonstrated to the races of the south-east of Europe the disinterested love which animates our Government. This is why the arrival in our capital of his Majesty George King of the Greeks, has been hailed by the Go vernment, as well as by the people, with the most cordial sympathy, as the young King is looked upon as the guarantee of the welfare and pro sperity of the Hellenes. On the 21st September, at two p.m., his Majesty arrived at Tsarka-S6lo per special train by the Warsaw-Petersburg rail way. The Emperor received the King at the Tsarskoe- Selo station, whence their Majesties proceeded to the great Palace of that residence, where apart ments had been prepared for King George I. and his suite. On the following morning, 22d Sep tember, the King paid a visit to Pavlovsky, whence he returned to attend a review of the garrison of Tsarskoe-Selo at two in the afternoon. The weather was magnificent, and contributed greatly to the splendour of the review. After which the public assembled in the garden in front of the Palace, to get a closer view of the young Sovereign of the Greeks. The Impression made by the King upon the people was most favourable. The youthful, intelligent, open-hearted, healthy countenance of the young Sovereign was the general theme of admiration, but the popular sympathy declared itself much more plainly when the King took an excusion on the lake. It became evident that the King was welcomed among us not only with the honours due to an august guest, but especially as the Sovereign and representative of the Greek people, to whom we are united by sincere fraternity and by community of religion. On the 23d. September the King came to St. Petersburg, and alighted at the Winter Palace. The subjects of his Majesty and the lonians domi ciled at St. Petersburg having testified their desire to express to their Sovereign their fidelity and the sentiments ofjoy which animated them at the idea of the realisation of the national hopes so long enter tained by the Greeks, elected a deputation to inter pret their sentiments to their Sovereign. The choice of the lonians at first fell upon Count T. A. Capo d'lstria, attached to the Imperial Minis try of Foreign Affairs, and whose name is inti mately connected with the heroic epoch of young Greece ; but, in consequence of the situation he holds, the Count Capo d'lstria necessarily declined it. The honour of representing the lonians there fore fell upon M. G. A. Sivinis. King George I. received the Deputy of the lonians at 10.30 a.m. M. Sivinis addressed his Majesty as follows: " The Greek-lonians residing at St. Petersburg have con ferred upon me the honour of waiting upon your Majesty to express the sentiments of unbounded and profound devo tion which animate our fellow• citizens. " The acceptance of the Greek crown by your Majesty, and consequent thereupon the fulfilment of the heartfelt desires of the lonians to be united to free Greece, have made the hearts of my fellow-citizens overflow with so much love and devotion for your august person that we all, Sire, await your arrival in the midst of your new subjects as that of the Messiah. Accept at the same time, Sire, our sincre con gratulations on the occasion of your happy arrival in this capital, and our cordial good wishes for the proximate voyage of your Majesty." The King thanked M. Sivinis for the expression of the sentiments of the lonian Greeks, and said to him, as he was leaving : "I hope to realise within the shortest possible time the hopes of your lonian fellow-citizens." The other Greeks residing at St. Petersburg had also elected a deputation. The higher class of Greek society was represented by Prince A. Mou rouzi, whose name is a reminiscence of the memo rable war of Greek independence. MM. Rodoco nachi, Scaramanga, and Karali represented the Greek merchants residing at St. Petersburg. They were received on the 23d, and met with a most gracious welcome. AGE OF THE PEOPLE, England (including Wales) was found to have in it, when the census was taken in April, 1861, 593,721 babies and sucklings under one year old ; 2,107,061 infants of one year but under five years old ; 2,344,066 children of 5 to 10 ; 1,059,889 boys and 1,045,287 girls, 10 to 15 ; 957,930 youths and 974,712 maidens, 15 to 20 (though to speak by the card,we should distinguish 29,719 as thus early wed) ; 1,594,497 young men and 1,804,160 young women, 20 to 30; 2,947,534 men and 3,149,320 women of middle age, 30 to 60; 641,282 old men and 733,515 old women, 60 to 80; and 47,260 very aged men, and 65,990 very aged women, above 80. The ydung population under 20 amounted in number to 9,082,666 ; the population 20 years old and upwards were 10,983,558. In the 10 years 1851 —lB6l the young population under 20 increased by 971,654, and the population 20 years old and upwards by 1,166,961. The rate of increase, though very nearly the same in both classes, was slightly higher among the young than among the older population ; not only the absolute number of births, but the ratio of births to population, is in creasing. The population of England divides into two equal parts in respect to age at a little over 22; and it is nearly 29 times the annual number of births. These statements do not include our sol diers, sailors, and merchant seamen abroad, so that the number of men in the middle period of life is to a certain extent unduly depressed. The very aged have not in the last ten years increased in near the same proportion as the general population. In ISSI there were in England 107,041 persons who had passed the limit of "14 years; " in 1861 the number had only increased to 113,250. In 1851 215 persons were returned as being above 100 years old, but only 201 persons in 1861—one in every 100,000. Of this last number 146 were women, and but 55 men nearly three women to one man. Only 26 had never been married. About a third were found living in large towns -21 in London, 11 in Liverpool, five in Manchester, one in Birmingham, four in Bristol, one in Leeds. As in 1851, so in 1861, these very aged persons were not found so often in the midland districts of the kingdom as in the north and the east, and most of all in the west. At the last census Norfolk had among its 435,000 people 11 above 100 years old Oloucestershire,with 485,000 people, had eight cen tenarians ; and Somerset, with its 445,000, had nine. Wales, with its 1,112,000, had no less than 21, the same number as Lancashire with its 2,400,009 people, and more than London with its 2,800,000 inhabi tants. So far as the occupations of these long-lived persons are given, the returns show a majority en gaged in pursuits that caused them to be much in the open air. Three had been farmers, 13 out-dour farm servants, five labourers, three hawkers, three seamen, three soldiers; there was a fish erman, a quarrier, a waterworks man, a miller. But there was also a scrivener, four shoemakers, a baker, a grocer, a carpenter, a marine store dealer, three per sons occupied in cotton manufacture, two in woollen, one in silk, one in lace. Of the women the returns commonly state only whether the person is wife or widow, but we are told that there were six who had been domestic servants, two nurses, three char women, two washerwomen, and a gipsy. One cen tenarian was a member of the Household. Fourteen are described as land or house proprietors, or inde pendent; 19 were passing their last years in the workhouse. Six were blind. EARL DE GREY AND .RIPON having been elected High Steward of Hull, in the place of the late Marquis of Norru nby, will visit that town on the 14th of October, ~ ~-~..~ SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. NEWMARKET RACES.--THIS DAY. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAFH,) £5O PLATE. Novice 13%0. FIFTEENTH TRIENNIAL. Tornado Tureos Six ran. LATEST BETTING. CESAREWITCH. 100 to 8 agst Lioness (taken) 25 to 1 agst Limosina (taken) CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 40 to 1 agst Baldwin (taken) 40 to 1 agst Anfield (taken) 40 to 1 agst Exchequer (taken) AMERICA. GREENCASTLE, SEPT. 29. The Montreal Ocean Company's steamer Nova Scotian arrived here at 12.15 a.m. to-day. She brings 1,100 doll. in specie. LONDON GAZETTE—Yesterday. FOREIGN-OFFICE, SEPT. 29. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Carlos Ortega Morejon as Consul at Newcastle for her Majesty the Queen of Spain. The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. Ed ward Frederik Munster as Consul at Belfast for his Ma. jesty the King of Denmark. DOWNING-STREET, SEPT. 26. The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Right Rev. Walter John Trower, D.D., to the Bishopric of Gibraltar, in the room of the Right Rev. George Tomlinson, D.D., recently deceased. SEPT. 28. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Isidore Peter Lynch Dyett, Esq., to be President and Senior Member of the Council of the Island of Nevis. Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint William Thompson and John Capper, Esqs., to be Members of the Legislative Council of the Island of Ceylon; Joseph Thos. Commissiong, Charles Heddle, and Robert Bradshaw, Esqs,, to be Members of the Legislative Council of the Colony of Sierra Leone; and Win. A. Horne, Esq., to be a Member of the Council of the'lsl&nd of Grenada. BANKRUPTS. The following are the only bankrupts of commercial artance in the Gazette : William Byrom, joiner, Blackburn Henry Baker, surveyor, Hulme William Henry Hall, worsted yarn dealer, Hulme Henry Roberts, publican, Portsea Thos. Gabbott, warper, Chorley John Jones, cowkeeper, kW, well Edward Boulding, chemist, King's Lynn John Cox, gunmaker, Southampton J. W. Wilson, b a k er, Barking, Essex Thomas M, Taylor, shoemaker, .Moorgate-street James Richardson, printer, Camden Town Aaron Parsons, farmer, Prestwood William Humphris, ironmonger, High Holborn Wolff Simon, cap maker, Basinghall-street, City Edward Bradbury, funeral furnisher, Hulme, Lancaster Emanuel Hodgkiss, coal dealer, Little Hulton, Lancaster Henry t a a r i r l i osro,n,surgeon, Birmingham 'Thomas Thirsk, Yorkshi re Josiah Wilson, cattle dealer, Leeds Biß i n ar 6 r ll H John Grayson, knife manufacturer, Sheffield Thomas C. Robertson, tailor, Welbourn, Lincolnshire Enoch Cook, beerseller, Lincoln Joseph Burrows, grocer, Chesterfield James Harris, watchmaker, Great Grimsby Edward Gratton draper, Bagillt, Flintshire SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. George Sommerville, jeweller, Edinburgh Thomas Scott, general dealer, Bridgeud, island of ilialay lourse o the Exchange—Yesterday. Amsterdam Ditto 11 19i 11 19t Rotterdam Antwerp .. 25 621 2.5 67± 2,5 62± 2.5 67± Brussels Hamburgh — 13 81 13 8 .. Short. 25 22* 25 30 P ari s itto D Marseilles Frankfort on Maine — 1191 119 / 11 35 11 40 11 35 11 40 36i 361 Vienna Trieste Petersburgh Berlin - Madrid Cadiz Leghorn Milan Genoa Naples Palermo Messina - 25 (12i 25 67i - 25 62f 25 67 - 25 62f 25 67i - 26 62f 25 70 - 25 65 25 70 - 25 65 25 70 - 52/ 62i Lisbon Oporto — 52 454 Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per oz £3 17 9 Mllexican Dollars Silver in Bars (Standard) South American Doublons SHIPPING—This Day. Lo:Nnox, Sept. 30.—Wind this day at noon—South. Easterly; moderate breeze, and fine weather, but rather cloudy. PORTSMOUTH, Sept. 29.—Wind S R—Sailed—Cid, screw steamer, for Bilboa. NEWPORT, Sept. 29.—Wind W.—Arrived—Volunteer, from Garrucha. HOLYHEAD, Sept. 29.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Fame, from Quebec for Carnarvon; Gleneon, from Liverpool for Quebec. CLYDE, Sept. 28.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—St. George s screw steamer, from Montreal. KINGSTOWN, Sept. 28.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Egilto, from Sulina. LOUGH FOYLE, Sept. 29.—Arrived—Nova Scotian, screw steamer, from Quebec, and proceeded for Liver. pool. BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH. GHAVEsEND, Wednesday Morning. Arrived, Sept. 30—Hertha, from Porto Plata; Rica, from Rernosand ; Two Sarahe, from Havre; Confidence, from St. Übes ; Dr. Chisciotti, from Girgenti ; Elide, from New York ; Catharine Pemberton, from Fray Buetos ; Har mony, from Labrador. DEAL, Wednesday Morning. Anchored —Light of the Age, from London for Queens land. Passed—Dundee, from London for Jamaica ; Elisabeth, from Porto Plata for London; Mohawk, from Quebec for London; Arica, Peruvian man-of-war, from the River for me West. Sailed—Nearfy all the outward bound. The Price of Gold. The quotation of gold at Paris is about per mine p m, and the short exchange on London is 25.25 per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £ 3 17s. 10Id. per ounce for standard gold, it appear that gold is about 3-10ths per cent, dear er i n L on d on th a n in Faris. By advices from Hamburg th e p r i ce o f g old is 4 25 p er mar k and the short exchange on L on d on i s 13.6 i Per £ 1 sterlin g. :A.andard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, about 6-10ths per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is about 1461 per cent., and the premium on. gold is 336 per cent. At these rates there is little, if any, profit on the importation of gold from the United States, " MY GOOD FOR NOTHING BROTHER," a novel published in the spring, under the pseudonym of Wycliffe Lane, with a success which was due to the real ments, the originality, and the excellent promise of the work, remains the first and last work of its gifted author, Mrs. Edmund Jenings, of llawkhurst, Kent. The hand. is cold which wrote it, says the Atianceton, and we have one pure-minded, clear - he aded, and high -principled author the less, just too when w riters of such quality are least to be spared. One circumstance respecting Wycliffe Lane's book deserves to be recorded. A leading publishing-houso returned the author's manuscript, unaccepted ; but a fter the first edition , p ut forth b y another house , h ad been favourably received by the public, the houso which had de clined the first, published. the second edition. F REN CH IDEAS OF ENGLISH Mall LIFE !—lll " Aurora Floyd," Which everybody j ust now is runn ing after in Paris—Mr. Mellish (otherwise repre sented as a perfect g ent l eman ) go bbles his dinner like a, clown in a pantomime. The whole fun of one scene is that, not one word of wh at ho utters , though the " action" is of great interest, is intelligible, owing to his hurr y, and hie mouth bein g of perfectly full all th e time. T his is received. with roa'ci of laughter, and is held to be a correct delinea tion English manners! Mrs. Powell, the ex-governess, (like another Tamaroo vide " Martin Chuzzlowit") always wears a bonnet, even nt dinner and in the drawing room ; and the hop feast in Kent takes place in the midst of mountain scenery, where the peasantry are dressed in Highland costume, and dance Scotch reels I DIE JETTY AT MARGATE.—A project is stated to be on foot for increasing the length of the jetty from 1,250 to 1,550 or 1,600 feet, by removing the present head. and continuing the iron work about 3JO feet further sea wards; and it is understood that the directo•s of the Pier and Harbour Company have availed themselves of the presence in Margate of an eminent engineer, whose opinion. has been taken upon the subject. rho projected movement would necessitate a very largo outlay, and iu order to repay the expenditure a suggestion has been thrown eut that a penny toll should be levied upon the jetty, but such a Pro posal would doubtless give rise to much dissatisfaction.-- South Easton &azette. The Correspondent of Hamburg recently an nounced that a Sonderbund had been formed at Frankfort by a secret convention signed by the Emperor of .Austria and the Kings of Bavaria, Wurtemburg, Saxony, and Hanover, and the Duke of Nassau, giving at the same the wording of tho supposed compact. The Dresden Journal now denies the truth of the statement so made, 1 tvo ho in the, ng 3 hat arY . ; ~