The Sun. — London, England, 1863-08-06 00:00:00

MONEY MARK ET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Continued firmness prevails in the discount market, where 31 per cent. is the general charge for first class three months' bills, with exceptional trans actions at 31 per cent. The demand has been greatly stimulated by the settlement of the account in consols. A further sum of £13,000 in gold was taken into the Bank yesterday. To-morrow (the 7th) has been appointed by the committee of the Stock Exchange for a special set tlement i❑ the shares of the South Kensington Hotel Company, but transactions in them are not to be recorded in the official lists. The directors of the Bank of Egypt have issued their report and statement of accounts to be pre sented at the forthcoming half-yearly meeting. Tne net profits for the biz months just concluded amount to £13,895, and the usual dividend, viz., at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum, is proposed. Favourable mention is made of the name of 11r. Philip Anstruther, the late deputy chairman of the Board, whose death is lamented, and whose services particularly his recent mission to Egypt to investi gate the affairs of the bank, are highly eulogised. The last week's railway receipts ascertained up to this day are in round figures as under :- 1863. 1862. Great Eastern Great Western 67,297 70,939 Lancashire and Yorkshire 38,090 38,963 Great Northern .. South-Western N orth-Western 108,561 107,064 Midland North Eastern Brighton .. 29,569 30,550 South-Eastern .. 30,197 32,133 Scottish North-Eastern Great Western of Canada 8,515 8,285 These returns continue in several instances to be of an unsatisfactory character compared with those of the same period of last year. On the Great Western there is a decrease of £3,642, on the Lancashire and Yorkshire of £873, on the South Western of £1,624, on the Brighton of £9Bl, on the South Eastern of £1,936, while the Great Eastern shows an increase of £279, the Great Northern of £l3, the North Western of £1,497, the Midland of £827, the North Eastern of £2,613, and the Great Western of Canada of £230. The biddings for £400,000 in bills on India took place to-day at the Bank of England, the propor tions allotted being —to Calcutta, £220,000; to Botisibay, £160,000; and to Madras, £20,000. The declared minimum price was, as on the last occa sion, ls. 110. per rupee on Calcutta, and ls. 111 d. on Bombay and Madras, and the applications within the limits amounted to £1,980,000. Tenders on Calcutta at ls. 114 d. will receive about 11 per cent. ; on Bombay, at ls. Hid., above 32 per cent., and all above these prices in full. On Madras all will receive in full. Two O'CLOCK. At Paris, this day, according to Mr. Renter's telegram, the Three per Cent. Rentes were 67f. 850. to 67f. 92c. Rather firm. The English Stock Market is not quite so firm as at the close of yesterday after noon, a decline of 1 per cent. having been produced by sales in connec tion with the settiernent. Consols are 92& 93 for money, and 931 1 for the September account. The New Threes and Reduced are 931 ; India 5 per Cent., 1081 1 ; Exchequer Bills, ls. die. to 2a. prem. ; Long Annuities, 151; Bank Stock is marked 2371. There is not quite so much buoyancy in the Foreign Market to-day, and business is quiet. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 671 ; do. Conso lides, 481 e ; Mexican, 361 37 ; Spanish Passive, 311 321; do. Certificates, 1218 ; Greek, 321 e ; do. Coupons, 151 4 ; Italian, 71 1; Russian, 921 The Confederate Loan has farther risen to 23 21 die., showing a recovery of about 11 per cent. from the lowest price obtained yesterday. Business in the Railway Share Market has been rather dull, but a firmer tone has prevailed. Great Eastern, Great Northern A Stock, Laucash're and Yorkshire, and North Western each advanced 108., 'while Great Western were improved ss. In the Foreign and Colonial undertakings there a little change to record in prices. Bank and Miscellaneous Snares continue inac ive, without material alteration to report in value. Imperial Ottoman Bank realise 18 181 ; London and Westminster, 78 ; Union of Ireland, 131 14. Crystal Palace Stock, 40; Egyptian Trading Com pany, 21 31 ; International Financial Company 81 9 ; and Hudson's Bay Company, 9. BRITISH FUNDS --ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 237 k 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 93i 13 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 93e 3 2/ 3 New 3 per Cent. Annuities New 3f per Cent. Annuities New 2f per Cent. Annuities.. Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan,, 1880 — Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885, 151 Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908. 21 3-16 India Stock Ditto 5 pei Cent Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. Ditto 5 per C en t Ditto 51 per Cent Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct., 1863 —4 Ditto ditto April, 1864 Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 1001 Ditto Bonds $l,OOO Ditto under £l,000 Bank Stock for Account .. Consols for Account, Sept. 9 India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent — March. June. Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 21 & f per Cent 1 dis 2pm Ditto £SOO Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS-ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian 5 per Cent Ditto, 1839 and 1859 Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent — Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) Chilian 6 per Cent Ditto 3 per Cent. .. Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent.. Egyptian 7 pet Cent .. — Ditto, Second Issue Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupms — Ditto Account 331 2 Ditto Coupons Ditto Account l5/ I Italian 6 per Cent. (Maremmana Railway) 791 Mexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account 37i 61 Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada Ditto 2 per Cent. Ditto Deferred Peruvian 4/ per Cent. Ditto 43 per Cent., 1862 — _ Ditto Account.... Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto Account — Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62 — Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St 931 Ditto 41 per Cent 1850.. • Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859 Ditto 5 per Cent. 1862 Sardinian 5 per Cent Spanish 3 per Cen t Ditto A ccount . ... — Ditto New Deferred • . Ditto Account Ditto Passive °Pbtnititaoh A Cert. of Coup not funded Turkish l ei: r unt Cent. 1854 Ditt o Ditto 6 pr iu d t ..... Ditto Dl)iitt° A6A cePcceoerri7-netet1tt..:1.188.56.82. ........... --nt V enezuela 3 per e Ditto Account Pu . t. : Ditto D itt o A 6 Divideie c e o r u n C n d e t s u . tin: ........................................................ - ▪ Dutch 2/ per Cent., Ex. 12 Ditto 4 per Cent. Certi.ll.Gel...sii ....... ....... London. Italian, 5 per Cent., sal 2 Consols, Money .......... TWO O'CLOCK. ... Ditto Sept. Account. .... ..... .. .., ...; . . __ 4 Liverpool Cotton liii " : ___ Day. (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) The market quiet, S.aabout 4,000 bales I port, 1,135 bales ; previously, 49,724 b%;,, bales, n 1 On Monday a horrifying scene occurred in the High-street, Lewes. An imm e nse black & va4d land d og ma de a ferocious attack upon Mr. Geo. Scr °l3 ae . surgeon, as he was walking thro u g h the wrest. Mr. S B cras ' a e was very seriously bit about the arm, and it required the aid of several men before the animal could be beaten off and killed. The occurrence was witnessed by several people, many of them working men, but so horror-struck were they at the sight that it was some time before assistance was rendered Mr. Scrase, who acted throughout with the greatest presence of mind. Mr. Scrasa, although suffering consider ably from wounds, is doing as well as could be expected.- 13 rig hien Guardian. BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Closing Shan A. Bo t m lan ., t ß ic ar aailways Paid. Price. Business dons & o d S a t a L . c a e w u r t e i n n c c i i all 62 64 11 1 2: 0 100 107 108 108 Gu. 5 per cent.. 20 Do. New 20 Do. E. Shares.. 205 Builalo and Lake Huron all 54 61 10 Do. Preference 100 Buffalo,BrantartGodricli 10 ,, 6 p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 100 Do. do. July 1, 1872 100 100 Do. do. June 1, 1i,:4 100 at Cleutta.&S.Eastn.( ; 100 1065 107 , 1 at Cape Town & Dock Sufi 100 It 75 1085 stock Eastn. Bengal gu. sp. r 100 1085 1095 stock East Indian. gu. sp. c. 100 107 1 , 18 108 20 Do. do. G Ext lO 14 14p 20 Do. do. H do. stock Grand Trunk of Canada lee 195 105 100 Do. Ist Frei. Bonds all 70 72 70 100 Do. ao. deferred all 52 55 100 Do. 2d Fret. Bonus all 64 66 100 Do. do drier , ed all 50 62 100 Do. 3d P ef. stock 100 Do. do. deferred all 34 37 100 Do. 4th Pref. sio k all 23 26 100 Do. do. deferred— all 21 23 stock Gt.lndiarenin.gua.sp.c 100 108 109 1081 20 Do. New gua. sp. •. 12 1 1 41 20 Do. January, 1862 stock Gt. South.of India(Lim; guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 1065 1074 204 Gt. W. of Canada SLiarri all l 0 115 20 4 Do. New .. .. ... . it 9 91 . 100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. all 97 100 100 Do. 55 p. o. do. '77-8.. all 90 42 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 4 1 p stock Madras guar., sp. c. stock Do. 44 p. c. Extensim, 100 101 102 stock De. 4. do lOO 17 99 20 Do. Fifth Extension 2 stock Nlcib.Con, ap. o. /Ina , 50 Melb. & Hobson's Bay. all 54 56 100 Do. 7p. c. 51ortg. 13ds. al. 20 New Br unswick at Cana. Class Aan i B . all 3 5 N. itl.C'da 6pe Ist pi bus 100 84 86 stock Boinde .......... (100 .07 108 st Do. Delhi. «: 100 1(64 107 ( Do. do a 2 4 4p 211 20 Do. Punjaub all at Do. Du. 0 , tu ,„, , 100 1065 107 ock Do. Indus. St. Flo.) 00r, 1025 1035 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT sEOUItITIE:, -0-trar. p.c.Ja. &Jai , - 1877-84 Do. 6p. e. Feb. & Aug 100 106 1( 8 - Do. 6p. c. Mar. & Sept 100 106 108 - , Do. tp. C. Jan.& July. 100 954 964 Do. IS Inscribed stock 100 94 96 cape G. Hope, 6 p 0,187: 10u 108 110 , Do.Ap & Oat. 1880 100 112 114 Do. 1891 100 113 115 ;Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 111 113 Ceylon. Nov.le7B, 6p s 10u 113 115 Mauritius 6 per cent .. [OO 106 107 i Natal Gov. 6 per cant.. 130 110 112 N.13.U0v. 6 p.c.J a.&Jul) 100 1055 1065 Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. 100 N. S. \V. Gov. 5 p 1.,18, 100 100 101 Do. sp. c.,18,1 to 1., t 100 101 102 Do. d0.,1888 &now& 100 101 102 1014 1 - New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 110 112 ,Nove. Scotia Gov. 6p. c. , sterling, 1875. ICO 1055 1065 1061 Queensland Gcv. 6p. c. 100 1,0 112 Aus 06p.c.167 , i1.& up.. 100 110 112 - ,Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.laul) 100 107 109 Do. to 6 p.a. A.o.&Ock. 100 112 1124 1124 1 SHARE MARKETS—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOulO. Closing Business Paid.l P r ic e. I done. 8 Si Si St 85 67 120} 120,1 40 41 15 16 94 95 111 113 52 63 50 52 25 26 122 V 4 121 123 135 140 100 85} 651 1134 1131 764 774 113 115 42 43 101 1014 105) 1004 44 15 111 111 126 28j 14 it. 97 99 544 15i 26 28 104 102, 596 64 891 9O 118 120 1} 1 p 82 83 111 121- :22 124 46i 17i 99 101 50 52 30 22 92 71 ;3 100 102 7i 8 18 39 94 14 t.o 4 8 4 PI 155 160 51 51t 3 3i pI 79 81 158 160 27 29 45i 46} 39 41 104 106 R ailwayß. Bir„ Vol., and Str. Blythe and Tyne. liost.,Sleat.,and Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cori: and Banclon Corn wal Do. B Do A A eti9 no (1\ ti l' 6p c.p an.ha, 111 been paid to B. Dublin & Belfast June. Dun.,Perth.&Ab. Junc. Edinburgh & Glasgow. Glasg. and S. Western., !GreatEastern, Ord. stk Ditto A stock__ Scotland eatNo DittoE r a t s h t ot ,Great Northern nOian et Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. an i W. of Ireland Great Western ...... Do Str Val gua. stock Lancashire Yorkshire Loudon and Biackwal; Lon., Bright.,& S. Coati:. Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & Sv.th Western Man., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do shares.. Metropolitan Midland Do New Do Binning. AG Derby Mid. (it W. of Ireland Do. shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee l Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Lecds I Do York Do Carliale North London Do New 'North Staffordshire ii and S. VV. Junction IScottish Central Scot IN. E., Aber. stack li Do Scot. Mid. stock Shrews, and Welchpool Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern South Wales ,S. York. and River Dun Wok.,andWok. i Stockton & Darlington Do Do New, 186 G Taff Vale.. Do B Do C 'Ulster Do I__Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford t Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool HarAit. (West Midland Oxford I Do Newport Do Hereford lIRTTISH MINES. 2 ICambrian Consol. Gold 1 4 2 3 9 d lulitlord Amalgamated 27 Devon G. Cone. (Tavist ) East Bassett (Illoganl 30 7 7 3 80 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd 53. 3d par East Car a d o n ...... •!.14.1 , 303 313 East Carn Brea 3.4.0 8 83 E. Russel (Tavistk.), , 8.6 6 4 45 Gam.4St.Auhyn((3wen.), 7 10 Great South Tolgus 1 178 4 43 G. Wheal Vor (lielston 40 64 71 Grenville lierA's-Foot 8.1? 41 43 11 ingston Downs 4. 8.0 14 2 Lady Bertha Margaret (tiny Lelant us, 34 S 6 INlarke Valley.. 4 Ilyndy Iron Ore (Lim ; 2). dI New Setun lOl 100 110 North Downs 23 2 23 S.W h'i Basset (Illovin 2.17.0 35 34 North Wheal Crotty 2.4.9 34 45 I.'ar Consols (St. Blazey, 13 4 6 20 rrovidence(Uny Lelut.) 10.6.7 a 0 42 South Caradon(St.Cleer, 15 415 425 8. Cara Brea (Illogan) 5.15.6 14 25 .•!:.VSY heal Fran. (Ihog,an 18.1 -.9 723 73 Stray Park 5 famarSiiv.dz Lead Min. 45 a 1 fin Croft 3 214 223 IWest Basset (Illogan) l3 11 12 W C radon (Liskeard, 5 22 24 (West Seton IWheal Basset (Mogan 55 623 673 Vateal Buller (Itedrutli) 5 45 50 Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) 2416 -- WhealLtad ott X 2.10.8 24 3 Wheal Mary Ann ',Men ) 8 11 13 Wheal Seton j 583 215 225 Wheal Treiawney (Lis ); 7 15 17 Wheal Union 3.17. 35 4 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Eastern, E. Anglian A stock, 5 per cent., Mid. Consolidated, 8 pe, cent. stock, Dirto. Bristol and Birm., 6 pt r cent., 136 South Eastern (treading Anna., £1.0.6), 24 LINES LEASED Al' FIXED RENTALS. London and Chatham 4I per Cent., 936 North Western, 17i FOREIGN RAILWAY S. • - Dutch Rhenish, Ditto (all), 211 FOREIGN MINES. Mont. Aureoa Ilraz. Gold Min. Co. (lim.), 21 Santa Barbara Gold Mine (Urn.), f Yudanaugutana 01 S. Austr'Ua (lm.), JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Bank of Egypt, 28 Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 291 Colonial, 381 4 Imperiai Bank (lim.), 20* I imperial Ottoman, 186 18 London and Brazilian (lim.), 43 London and Comity, 48 London and Westminster, 78 Union of Australia, 521 Union of Ireland (lim.), 13! 14 AIISCEL L ANEOUS. Bombay Gas, limited, 2i Crystal Palace, 40 Egyptian Commercial and Trading, lim., 31 21 Hudson s Bay, 3 International Financial Society, lira., 9 Si Oriental Inland Steam, lira., 4} SHAW V. BAUM.—Mr. William Taylor, in a letter to the Morning Post on behalf of Lord Stamford, says :—" I notice in your paper of to-day an article on the above case, in which it would appear that Lord Stamford had ejected the plaintiff from the farm which he and his family had held for 200 years. Allow me to state that such is not the fact, for the plaintiff has not occupied a farm under Lord Stamford for the last six years, anti the reason for his leaving at that time had consequently nothing what ever to do with the present case." REMOVAL OF THE BLACKFRIARS STEAMBOAT PIER.—The Thames Conservancy Committee have issued a printed notice that with the close of the present Week, consequent on the commencement of the works for the new Blackfriars-bridge, the steamboat pier, Which has existed for so many years on the eastern side of Blackfriars bridge, will be removed. For the future, therefore, the steamboats w hi c h h ave b een i n the habit of ca lli ng at this pier will use the Paul's Wharf Pier. The public will be much inc onvenienced by the removal of this pier, but it is unders tood that on t h e comp l e ti on of the new brid ge t h e City authoritie s i ntend erecting a very h an dsom e an d com modious pier by its side, for the accommodation of the public. THE SON, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 6, 1863. LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day, COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.) SINGULAR CASE IN BANKRUPTCY. —IN RE MARTIN. This bankrupt was a provision dealer, at Greenwich, and came up to pass his last examination, and for discharge. Mr. Dreg, of Basinghall-street, appeared to support. There was a former commission against the bankrupt in 1845, when he was adjourned sine die, without protection, and he was without his certificate up to the time of the pre sent bankruptcy, when the learned Commissioner refused to proceed until the bankrupt had passed his examination, and obtained his certificate under the bankruptcy of 1845. Mr. Drew subsequently obtained leave for the bankrupt ‘o apply to pass, which he subsequently did, and obtained a certificate from Mr. Commissioner Goulburn, which was produced, and his Honour now allowed the bankrupt to pass unaer the present bankruptcy, and granted the order of discharge. (Before Mr. Commissioner Fane.) 123 k 2i RE THE ASP H ALTUM COMPANY (LIMITED)-A NOVEL CASE. In this matter two petitions had been presented, one for the voluntary and one for the compulsory winding-up the affairs of this company. The petition in support of the voluntary winding-up was presented by Mr. G. Wilson, of Montpelier-road, Brighton, the holder of 10,000 shares of £1 each, The company was formed in January, 1857, with a proposed capital of £lOO,OOO, and on the 10th day of May last year a resolution was come to for the voluntary winding-up of the company, and liquidators were appointed, and have continued to act ; but a petition was now pre sented by Mr. Shrimpton to bring the matter into court under the compulsory clauses. Mr. Linklater appeared for the petitioner, Mr. Wilson ; Mr. Laurence, for the liquidators; and Mr. Roxburgh, for Mr. Shrimpton, 101 66 I 1131 1 1021 104 5f 111 S I'4Bl 8 99 p Mr Roxburgh opened the case, objecting to the con- tinuance of the proceedings under the voluntary winding up, and proposed to examine Mr. Wilson (of the firm of Wil son, Gculd, and Co., oil and tallow brokers) and one of the liquidators. Mr. Wilson was accordingly examined at some length, and said that he was brother to the petitioner, and brother in-law to Mr. Marshall, a co-liquidator of the estate. He was a shareholder to the extent of 10,000 shares, 1,500 were his own and all paid up, the remainder he held in trust for his firm for a debt. Mr. Roxburgh asked what debts. Mr. Lawrence said he should advise Mr. Wilson not to answer the question• It could not be allowed, and a wit ness who was called as a shareholder was not bound to answer questions as to the private transactions of a firm with which he was connected. Mr. Roxburgh said that the witness was not called as a shareholder but as a liquidator, and his (Mr. Roxburgh's) object was to show that the affairs should no longer remain in their hands. Mr. Wilson said he should decline to roply, for tho reason that the transaction had nothing to do with the Company. Mr. Roxburgh asked for his Honour's decision, 1051 His Honour—l can't commit him. The question was therefore unanswered and the exami nation was continued a short time, when a very confused discussion took place, Mr. Linklater stating that creditors to the amount of £26,000 were in favour of the voluntary winding up. His Honour adjourned the ease . Mr. Roxburgh applied fo r Mr. Shri mpton's petition to be heard, so that an appeal might be made if necessary, but his Honour said ho should adjourn that Mr. Linklater might have an opportunity of proceeding. 109 8 MARKETS--This Day. MARK-LANE. IMPERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES. —Wheat, 45s Ild ; barley, 31s Od ; oats, 23s Od; rye, 37s Ild ; beans, 39s lld , and peas, 36s 3d. THE SIR WEEKS' AVERAGES. -- Wheat, 46s sd; barley, 30s 5d ; oats, 23s Id ; rye, 34s sd; beans, 39s 9d ; peas, 375 ld. ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK.—Wheat, 67,933; barley, 971; oats, 3,432; rye, 21; beans, 1,272; peas, 270 quarters. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. CHARGE OF ROBBING THE CLERGY OF TRINITY, MARYLEBoNE.—Thos. Edmonds, and Catherine Edmonds, lately in the service of the curates of Trinity, Marylebone, at the residence-house, 10, Portland-road, were charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt, on suspicion of stealing three £5 Bank of England notes, the property of the Rev. Henry Bolland, curate of Trinity Church, Marylebone, and others. Mr. Maude prosecuted, and Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, appeared for the defence. The Rev. Henry Bolland, said—The prisoners have been in the service of the clergy of Trinity, Marylebone, at the residence-house, 10, Portland-road, but owing to circum stances which transpired they were summarily dismissed on Monday last. At 10 o'clock that morning I had a packet in the library drawer in my sitting room, which contained some bank notes. About four o'clock in the afternoon, in consequence of what one of my friends living in the house informed me, I went to my drawer and found the packet had been handled, and a bank note which had been cut in two left, but three otters taken away and I believe also a sovereign. The male prisoner had been in the room in the course of the morning, and I had been out for a time. When I discovered my loss the prisoner had left the house. Mr. Lewis having cross-examined the witness, The Rev. Alfred Brown, curate of All Souls, and also residing at 6, Portland-road, said—For some weeks past I have kept a pocket book with notes in my drawer, hut for the last 10 days only one note. On Saturday last I put into the drawer a Russian leather purse with gold in it— £2 I can swear to. I also put with the purse two envelopes, one containing a £5 note and a sovereign, and the other tour half-sovereigns. At half-past 4 o'clock on Monday 1 went to the drawer, and the first thing I took up was the purse, which was then empty. I then looked at the pocket book which I had placed under the purse, and found one £5 note, but the envelopes had not been touched. By Mr. Lewis—The only other person in the house was a young woman who assisted the prisoners. The prisoners were then charged with receiving money from the different gentlemen to settle their accounts and keeping the money, and handing the gentlemen forged re ceipts for the same. Mr. Maude asked that the cass might be dealt summarily with, as some of the clergymen wished to leave town, Mr. Tyrwhitt said it was evident the prisoners had been carrying on a flagrant system of misappropriation. He would remand the prisoners, and would take one bail in £lO for the woman's appearance. bTRA NCIR REVERSE OF FoßTUNE.—Edward Blackstone, a tell stout man, of respectable appearance, was charged with stealing a volume of Tennyson's Poems from the shop of Mr. Basil Montagu Pickering, bookseller, Piccadilly. Mr. Sayer, from the office of Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, appeared for the prisoner. It appears that Mr. Pickering called upon Mr, Nathaniel Huett, bookseller, of Prince's street, Coventry-street, a few days ago, and while in Mr. Huett's shop, observed the volume lying on the counter. Believing it to be the same he had bound for a customer, and left on his counter for show, he on his return home searched and missed the book. He then went back to Mr. tluett, who told him that he had bought the book of the prisoner for 65., and with Mr. Huett's assistance and that of Sergeant Foinett, 14 C, the prisoner was apprehended. Mr. Sayer said he was instructed that the prisoner was not at times in his right mind. He had once held a high position in the City, having been on the Stock Exchange and possessed of thousands, but he had suffered a sad reverse of fortune, and this preyed upon his mind. Mr. Huett said he believed the prisoner perfectly well knew what he was aboat, and booksellers were peculiarly liable to robberies of the kind. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and Was committed for two months' with hard labour, A SYSTEMATIC THlEF.—Charles Perfitt, who described himself as a book hawker, was charged with stealing a large sponge of the value of 12s. from the shop of Messrs. Newton and Cook, sponge and brush merchants, 62, Princes-street, St. James's, two brass steam taps, from the shop of Mr. Addis, wholesale ironmonger, onger, Leicester-street, possession of a jar of p L i e e i k c l e e s e t , e r a - n s d q u a anreedmarnodf jam,wit h b b e e e g v d n to have been stolen in the neighbourhood. A person in the employ of Mr. Smith, gunmaker, next door to Messrs. Newton and Cooks, observed the prisoner while passing Mr. Smith's window, endeavouring to secrete the sponge under his coat. Thinking all was not right, he gave information to Mr. Mason, the manager at Messrs. Newton & Cook's, and that gentleman went after the prisoner and brought him back, with the sponge in his pos session ; and, on James Bill ett, 329 H, being called in, he found in the prisoner's possession the brass taps, which were identified as Mr. Addis's property, and of the value of 135., and. the other articles. The prisoner, who is well known to the police, was com mitted for trial. WESTMINSTER. of 11, Brunswick-street TA TE RNKEEPERS, AND SINGULAR NOTION OF A CUS TOMER —Mr. Benjamin Sims , Clerkenwell, coachbuilder, was charged with wilfully break ing a drinking glass, value 6d., at the house of Mr, Foster, the Crown Tavern, Tufton-street, Westminster. John Elbey, a plumber, said he was in the house this morning at about 7 o'clock, when he heard a glass of porter called for by the defendant, who then said he would test it. Immediately after which he heard a smash, and found the glass broken. He heard defendant admit that he had broken it. Ho was not sober at the time. A policeman proved that ho was called to take defendant and locked him up. Mr. Am Id—Did he give his name and address ? Policeman—Yes ; correctly, I believe. Mr. Arnold—Then why lock him up. You ought not t o have done that. Mr, Foster—He is a perfect stranger to me. Mr. Arnold—He gave his name and address, and as there is nothing to show that this was not an accident, he had no right to be locked up. Inspector Humphreys, of the B Division —He admitted to me that he had been guilty of wilful damage under pecu liar circumstances. Mr. Arnold--That is a different matter. What did he say ? Inspector Humphreys—On the charge being made, he said he considered he had a right to break the glass, and although recommended to pay the a mount of damage, he positively refused, maintaining that he had done no wrong. Mr. Arnold—What right could be possibly have in breaking this man's glass ? Inspector Humphreys—Because it did not hold an im perial half pint. Defendant—lt did flat hold even three parts of a half pint. Some friends of mine had had some ale in similar glasses. I pointed out to the policeman that it did not hold near the measure. I was excited, and through th at I dro pp ed the glass. I thou g ht it would abolish the offence if I at once admitted it. Inspector Humphreys —I told him that shortness of measure, even if it were so, would not justify his breaking up the glass, but he insisted it would. Mr. Arnold (to defendant)—You are fined ls. and the value of the glass, or you must suffer three days' imprison ment. Defendant, who said he would not pay, was locked up. THAMES. SANGUINAIIIt Anativ.--Catherine Sullivan, an Irish- ' woman, about 30 years of ago, was brought before Mr. Leigh, charged with assaulting and wtunding Ellen Desmond, a young woman, in Blue Anchor -yard, Rose mary-lane, on the night of Tuesday, the 28th The husband and son of the prisoner are in custody, and have been remanded by Mr. Partridge until Wednesday next. The woman Ellen Desmond was savagely beaten by the Sullivan family, and struck on the head with a stone several times. She was grievously wounded, and carried to the London Hospital, where she has ever since remained. A certificate of the dangerous condition of the woman Desmond was handed to the magistrate. Francis Kelly, 130 H, said he met with the prisoner last night, and charged her With being concerned in the outrage on Mrs. Desmond. She ran away from him, and he pursued her and took her into custody. Evidence was given that the Sullivan family beat Mrs. Desmond in a savage manner, and while the son held her by the hair of the head, Mrs. Sullivan beat the woman over the head with a large stone, which Kelly produced. Mr. Leigh remanded the prisoner. DEAD DRUNK ON JAMAICA Rum.—An Irish labourer, who gave the name of John Howard, but who called him self Michael Donovan, last night was brought before Mr. Leigh, charged with being drunk and incapable. Payne, a constable in the service of the East and West India Dock Company, said the prisoner was engaged in de livering a cargo of rum from a West Indian ship yesterday. Some of the casks were leaky, and the prisoner and other labourers drank immoderately of new Jamaica rum, of great strength, and fell dead drunk at halt-past eleven o'clock in the morning. The prisoner was taken to the station-house in a state of complete insensibility, and was attended by a medical man. The prisoner dislodged a quantity of rum from his stomach, and was nearly dead. Mr. Leigh—Where has the prisoner been all night? Payne —ln the station-house. Mr. Leigh—He must not be employed again in the dock. Payne—No sir, he will not. The prisoner—The chum, yer honour, took an effect upon me ; shure, the smell of it kilt me quite, Mr. Leigh said the prisoner had suffered for his folly, and dismissed him. FRIGHTFUL DEATH BY FALLING DOWN A COAL PIT.—On Monday last Mr. Coroner Swann held an inquest at New Eastwood, Notts, on the body of a youth named Nillard Taylor, who Was employed it , one of Messrs. Barber and Walker's coal pits. On Friday evening he was riding down an incline with two companions. The works had been stopped for the n jght, and it was supposed that the pit s h a ft was protected loy an iron fence. It j a ppeared however, that the banksman haL; neg l ec ted his duty , as the t t ai d arr i ve d a t th e en d of the gangwa y the wanggtohne thrown d sin which the deceased was riding Wii 7, v % the Selves h _ a tt°in of ft. His two companions managed to b.th e la? , jumping out, but the deceased fell to the bo.Thejory pit and was picked up in a shocking condition, • returned a verdict of accidental death. ' METROPOLITAN CATTLE. To-day's market was fairly supplied with beasts as to number, but their general quality was inferior. The few prime breeds on offer sold slowly, at about previous rates, the top quotation being 4s 101 b per 81b. Inferior stock was very dull, at barely stationary prices. The show of sheep was moderate. Downs and half-breds were in fair request, at full currencies, viz., 4s 8d to 5s per 81b.; but inferior sheep ruled heavy, at prices barely equal to Monday. Lambs were in moderate supply and sluggish request, at late quotations: There was a large supply of calves in the market, and the veal trade was very dull. The most infe rior calves sold as low as 3s per 81b. Pigs and milch cows moved off heavily, at late rates. Per 81b. to sink the offal. s. d. s. d. Crse. &inf. beasts 3 4 3 8 Second quality do. 3 10 4 4 , Prime large oxen 4 6 4 8 Prime Scots, &c. 4 8 4 10' Crse. & inf. sheep 3 6 4 0 Second qualityclo. 4 2 4 6 s. d. s. d. Primecrs-wool d 0.4 8 4 10 Pme.S'thdowndo.4 10 5 0 Large orse. calves 3 4 4 0 Prime small do 4 2 4 6 Large hogs 3 6 4 0 Small porkers ... 4 2 4 6 Lambs, 5s Od to 6s Od. Suckling calves, 12s to 20s ; and quarter-old store pigs. LBs to 20s each. TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts .... Cows l4O Sheep and lambs .... 2,200 Sheep and lambs .. 10,800 IC?.lves Calves Pigs 350 MEAT MARKETS. NEWHATE AND LEADENHALL. —These markets are fairly supplied with meat, and trade s heavy. Beef, from 3s Od to 4s 2d , mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 4d ; lamb, 4s 8d to 58 2d; veal, 3s 8d to 4s 4d ; and pork, 3s 4d to 4s 4d per 81bs, by the carcase. SOUTHALL, Aug. s.—The supply of stock was season ably extensive, and the trade ruled heavy, on easier terms. Beet, from 3s 2d to 4s 8d ; mutton, 3s 6d to 58 Od ; lamb, 4s 10d to 5s 10d ; veal, 4s Od to 4s 4d ; and pork, 3s Sd to 4s 6d per 81bs, to sink the offal. ROMFORD, Aug. s.—Beasts and sheep were dull and drooping. Other stock sold heavily. Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 8d ; mutton, 3s 8d to 5s Od ; lamb, 5s 4d to 6s Od , veal, 3s 10d to 4s 4d ; pork, 3s 10d to 4s 4d per 81b8 ; suckling calves, 12s to 19s ; quarter-old store pigs, 18s to 265; and milch cows, £l4 to £lB each. HAY MARK2,TS. SMITHFIELD. Old Meadow hay, £3 10s to £4 lOs ' • new do., £3 to £4; old clover, £ 4 lOs to £ 6 Os; new do., £4 Os to £5 Os; and straw , £ 1 8 s to £l. 16s per load. Trade steady. CUMBERLAND._OId Mea‘low hay, £3 10s to £4 12s • new do., £ 3 to £ 4 Os; old dovet , £4 lOs to £6 Os ; new do.: £4 Os to £5 Os; and straw, £1 10s to £1 16s per load. A fair demand. WHITECHAPEL —Old Meadow hay, £3 10s to £4 10s, ne do , £3 Os to £4 Os ; old cloer, £4 108 to £6 Os ; new do g , £4 Os to £5 Os ; and straw, v £1 8s to 16s per load. Supply very moderate The Institution of Mechanical Engineers, --- Engineers Th e p provincial esession of h Liverpool; Mr. W. Clay presiding. An elaborate paper was read by Mr. John Vernon, of Liverpool, " On the con struction of iron ships." The points of advantage in don Tuesday, the Ins ti a t t u s ti 011 ofe or Mgeni s h of iron vessels over those of wood were superiority av favour of strength, greater durability, less cost, together with greater t.GeeaHaellal, fr carrying capability, greater facility of construction , and more certain supply of material. The Gieat Britain w asa g d example of the strength and power of resistance possessed ra good by iron vessels; for, al, hough she lay stranded in Dund ru Bay for nearly 12 months, and subjected to a severe strain, she was ultimately drawn off in safety, and found capable of efficient repair. Mr. Vernon next drew attention to the importance of iron in the construclon of the screw colliers whioh had recently come into use, and which were fur nished with a chamber throughout the entire bottom of the hull for the carrying of water ballast, which could be pumped in and out, and whioh was a most economical sub stitute for ordinary ballast. He then described the uses of iron for flat-bottomed boats intended for river navigation, and particularly the system called " Bourne's Indian river iotin," employed on the Ganges and Indus ; where by Convex bows and concave sterns an articulated train was formed by barges. It was not, however, found I to answer so well as expected, in consequence of the currents of the rivers preventing a due control of the steering appa ratus. The question had arisen what advantage was ob tained by the use of steel instead of iron in the construction of ships. Steel would hear a strain of 40 tons per inch, and the best iron only 20 tons. In practice, however, it was not considered advisable to reduce the proportion of steel lower than two thirds the weight of the iron. There was no ob jection h a mechanical point of view to steel when it came up to the professed standard, but in a commercial point of view steel was found to be much more costly. The use of steel was not of course accompanied by any increased in ternal capacity. Mr. Vernon states that the objection to iron ships, on the ground of fouling at the bottom, and the derangement of the compasses by the local metallic attrac tion, might be gradually overcome by improved inventions for coating, and by improved knowledge of appliances to correct the deviation. Some discussion followed, after which a vote of thanks was awarded to Mr. Vernon. The papers which followed were, " On the effects of surface con densers on steam boilers," by Mr. James Jack, of Liver pool ; and " On the mechanical ventilation and warming of St. George's Hall," by Wm. Mackeneie, of Liverpool After the discussions, the members occupied themselves with the inspection of some of the principal engineering establishments of the town. GENERAL M'CLELLAN.—An admirable life-size model of this distinguished General, late commander-in chief of the Federal army, in military costume, has, within the last few days, been added to Madame Tussaud's Ex hibition, in Baker-street, and we doubt not but that most of the Americans now residing in this country will avail themselves of the opportunity thus afforded to pay a visit to the historical gallery on such an interesting occa. sion, where likewise is to be seen a model of President Lincoln. LONDON AND COUNTY BANK. HALF-YEARLY MEETING-THIS DAY. The ordinary half-yearly meeting of the proprietors was held to-day at the London Tavern. The report stated that the net profits, after deducting all charges, amounted to £63,838 19s. 9d., which, added to £1,483 2s. 3d. brought forward, made a total of £65,322 2s. A dividend of 6 per cent. for the half-year, free of income tax, was proposed and agreed to unanimously. CITY OF LONDON BREWING COMPANY. HALF-YEARLY MEETING —THIS DAY. The ordinary half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of this company was held to-day at the London Tavern; A. Young, Esq., presiding. The CHAtRNtAN said the business f. r transaction was very short and satisfactory. Hitherto the directors had paid both classes of shareholders a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent, but on this occasion that amount wculd be in creased. Although no formal report would be presented on that occasion, he bad to inform the meeting that the half-yearly accounts had been audited, and the directors felt perfectly justified in increasing their dividend on the present occasion to 3} per cent. for the half year to both classes of shareholders, which was at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum. The proposition was agreed to unanimously, and a vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the proceedings. A CASE OF CONSCIENCE. The following letter has been addressed to the editor of the Times : " Sir s —Her Highness the Maharanee, Jindkore, of Lahore, mother of his Highness the Maharajah Daleep Singh, died on the Ist current at Abingdon house, Kensington, in the Hindoo faith, and we understand it is proposed to bury Inn " The practice is contrary to the religion of the Sikhs, and, as his Highness the Maharajah denies our right to dispose of the body according to our customs, we are constrained, as a matter of con science, to appeal to the country for protection, and beg you will kindly allow us a place in your spirited journal to enter a public protest against the intended desecration, " Agreeably to our rules, the body ought to be burnt and the ashes given to the Ganges. The thing is simple enough in itself, and, as it in fringes no moral or physical law, we certainly can not believe the wisdom and intelligence of the land would oppose our acting as our religion directs. "Besides, the belief of all religionists is that no funeral is hallowed unless a priest, or, iu his ab sence, a layman of the religion of the deceased officiates at his obsequies. Now, it is not competent to a Christian minister to afford the rights of burial to her Highness, and we, on our part, cannot render any assistance if the remains are to be buried. It is hard, then, her Highness should be deprived of the offices the meanest claim and receive through out the civilised globe, and that we should be re fused the consolation of discharging the !alit sad duty for our mistress that is the right of all, and that is not in the power of his Highness the Maha rajah, or any other Christian, to pay. " Her Highness was particularly careful about everything relating to caste; indeed, so much so, that up to her demise she refused to eat when his Highness the Maharajah happened to be on the same carpet with herself, and, so that she might not be compromised, had a separate establishment of Indians, who attended to her table and every thing connected with it. In asking to dispose of her Highness's remains according to our religion, then, we feel we are ful filling her Highness's wishes, and are satisfied, had she known her dissolution was at hand, she would have left definite instructions for the disposal of her body after the forms of the Sikh religion. " Reiterating our protest in the name of the friends and relations of her Highness the Maha ranee, of the Sikhs in general, both here and abroad, and in the interests of civil and religious liberty, " We have the honour to be, sir, " Your very obedient servants, " UTCHEEL SINGH, Jageerdar, "KISHEN SINGH, Khutry. " 16, Craven-terrace, Lancaster-gate, Bayswater, Aug. 4." SCIENCE AND ART DEPARTMENT. The report of the Science and Art Department for the past year states that 2,543 persons have been under instruction in science .classes taught by certificated masters, and, besides, about 870 stu dents at Glasgow and Manchester, taught by un certificated masters, have been examined by the de partment. At the examination, held at 55 local centres, 1,239 persons were examined, 1,943 papers were worked, and 1,480 passed. The students of seven Irish schools, numbering only 374, were successful in obtaining 149 prizes and 12 medals out of a total of 689 prizes and 35 medals. There are now 127 certificated science teach ers, all educated without any expenditure of public money by the department, except five or six who were trained before the minute was passed. A minute has been issued assimilating the aid granted to navigation classes to that afforded to general science classes, with due regard to the pecu liar nature of navigation schools, and encouraging a sounder system of instruction. As respects art, the department consider that the time has arrived when the local schools have become sufficiently ad vanced in their studies to enable them to train students for masterships up to a certain grade of competency, and a minute has, therefore, been passed by which no further payments in London will be made to assist students to take the first cer tificate for a mastership. On the other hand, it is proposed to revert to the system of scholarships in the central school, which had been somewhat pre maturely established in the schools of design. These scholarships will be open to competition to the ad vanced students of all local schoole,and the holders of them will have the opportunity of making prac tical use of the collections of the Art Museum. In 1862 8,896 children of poor schools in London were taught through the agency of the central school. The total number of schools of art now open in the United Kingdom ie 9U. In the central schools 15,908 persons received instruction in the year, in the public schools 71,423. 4,672 payments were made to schools of art in respect of results of exami nations. Payments on results have for the last ten years formed part of the system by which art mas ters have been remunerated, and the working of the system has been such as to justify its complete adoption; minutes have accordingly been prepared extending the application of this principle to all the instruction given in or through the means of art schools. These minutes will also tend to restrict the aid of the State to those classes that are unable to provide such education for themselves. In the last year 87,389 persons were taught drawing through the a gency of the department, the fees paid by them amounting to £18,017. Of this sum £5,038 was paid b y even i ng students, who are almost wholly arti sans paying not more than 6d. a week for three lessons. Several foreign Governments, from a sense of the great influence of the science and art depart ment on the industrial progress of this country; have made application for deiailed informationthoe the working of the department ---a rt in found enlightened views of the Prince Cone.) have been ap ing the South Kensington Museum by other preciated, not only in this kingdom, but proof that nations. —At ---•---:---- FATAL GUN ACCIDENT NEAR NOTTINGEIA3I.--. the Shirehall, Nottingham!, on Wednesday, the 6th inst,, a young man about 20 years of age, named Bennett Carnell, was brought before Lord Belper and the sitting magistrates, charged with shooting a child named Eliza o b t e h t e h r Oldham, three years old. It appeared from the evidence that on the previous evening at half-Past Six o'clock the prisoner was shooting birds with an air gun f e r rf o er m domh t hehrei brains es w e go i n un - n. dow of his mother's house at Beeston (four miles from Nottingham), and the deceased was playing with children behind a hedge about 20 yards from h to im : struck timed the shooting deceased for some time , e head , and hen bespattered es bullet pa tt ott H ingham all around. An alarm was made, and the aen p d oli t c h e e w n com municated with, the prisoner being shortly a afterwards the result $:) ap prehendedThepoorcbhyildSelrignegaenrtedDoalbiyewannid minutes s y er e e xpired. The case was remanded until Saturday, w h en the coroner's inquest will be known, Royal Institute of British Architects. Last evening the members of this institute, of which her Majesty is the patron, entertained Mr. Tite, M.P., at dinner at the Trafalgar, at Green wich, on the occasion of his retiring from the office of preside n t, w hi c h he had held for two years. Professor Donaldson, the eminent arctiteet, acted as chairman, and the company was made up of all the more distinguished members of the profession in the metropolis and other parts of the kingdom, including Mr. Gilbert Scott, Mr. Charles Barry, Mr. Penrose, Mr. Pennethorne, Mr. F. P. Cockerel!, Mr. ' P. Hard w i c k, R.A ., M r. S. Smirke, R.A , . Mr. Owen Jone s , M r . C race, M r. Asbpitel, Mr. J. Fergusson, Mr. B. F err y ; an d many other archi tects and persons of not e . All t h e " aryles " in deed, may be said to have been rep resen t e d o the occasion. Tha Lord Mayor was likewise present, as were also Mr. Hawkshaw, president of the Insti tute of Civil Engineers; Mr. Thwaites, chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works ; and Mr. Bentinck, M.P. Judging from the cordial tone of the meeting, and of the speeches made on the occasion, the architects of the metropolis ap pear to regard Mr. Tite not only as an orna ment of their profession, but as having given them as a body a social status, and opportunities for advancing the study of their art unknown to them until within the last 15 or 20 years, and combined individual skill an knowledge into one common stock for the public advantage, through the medium of the Institute, which he was mainly instrumental in establishing. Though they may differ on many subjects connected with their pro fession, they would seem to be at one in these re • spects, from the highest to the humblest. In the course of the evening Professor Donaldson, now the president of the institute, proposed the health of his predecessor, Mr. 'rite, in very complimentary terms, dwelling on his merits and works as an architect during a career of upwards of 40 years. principally in the city of London, in which he was born and educated, on the liberal assistance he had afforded from time to time from his own private means in advancing the general interests of the profession, and on his fine archaeological taste. The toast was drunk wish great cordiality by the whole company, and Mr. Tite spoke briefly in reply to the compli ment, recounting some of the more interesting inci dents of his professional experience, but, like the speech of the chairman, interesting only or mostly to the members of his own profession. The com pany separated about 11 o'clock. JESUITS AND JESUITRY. What was it Carlyle once wrote of some reptile antagonist ? " Squelch it, by heavens, squelch it !' Precisely in this summary fashion has the pitiless Saturday Review acted by Mr. M'Ghee's transla tion of M. Cretineau-Joly's History of the Jesuits. Saith the critic, coming down upon the Exeter Hallite with a pancake-making weight of ridicule in every sentence : Whether piqued at being turned into a waste-paper basket, or desirous to furbish up his old pamphlets afr3sh, Mr. M‘Ghee has thought proper to add to the injury he has done M. Cretineau-Jolt' by his queer translation, by swamping him, fore and aft, with 23 pages of preface and 136 of notes, besides peppering the text all along with amenities such as the following :—" The notes (to the Irish Bible) teem with intolerance and treason ;" "the silent stealthy movements of that body are like the noiseless tread of the tiger as he steals to spring on his prey "here it is demonstrated that the whole Repeal movement in Ireland was the work of the General of the Jesuits,and that O'Con nell, the bishops, and the priests were their tools" (the un fortunate sentence that " demonstrates" this being the rather harmless assertion that the separati)n of the Jesuits in Ireland from those in England " promised to produce fruitful results") ; " whenever they volunteer the profes sion of any apparent good, is merely a cloak to cover the evil exactly opposite ;" " there are certain historians who ought proverbially to have good memories," and the like ad nauseam. What imaginable enemy he hopes to con quer, or what friend to warn, by the ,lire: literarum, Mr. M•Ghee must he the best judge. Our own feeling is simply that, if the Jesuits did all the good that is reported of them in the text, and if nothing more reliable can be said against them than is stated in this writer's notes, the work is so well calculated to serve their cause—if only there were any chance of its being read—that we could imagine the book written by one of the order. Into his " notes and commentaries" we simply decline to enter. They remind us of nothing so much as a school playground after a sth of November, with its spent squibs, disembodied crackers, blackened cases of extinct Roman candles, and an unpleasant smell of burnt powder all around. In 136 pages we at least expected s'me contradiction of M. Cretineau-Joly's facts, or some correction of his inferences. Nothing of the sort is to be found. Long quotations from Nicolini, a Mr. Grinfield, Mr. Steinmetz, and weary twaddle of his own composition, fill up the dreary pages; and the chief effort of his logic is expended in showing that far the whisky-shops within convenient distance of the Roman Catholic chapels, and for the temporary success of Father Matthew's crusade against whisky drinking, the Jesuits are alike responsible. And here we take leave of Mr. M‘Ghee in his own open ing words We cannot present this translation to the public without anticipating, with not unnatural sympathy, the sentiments of indignation which must pervade the breas t of every honest Englishman when he shall have arrived at its conclusion." A more entirely trashy book it has never been our lot to review; but we must qualify the statement by adding that we never had the misfortune to read any other of this gentleman' s productions. " Not to Put too Fine a Point Upon It" The following is Mr. Punch's humorous report o the Speech from the Throne at this last prorogation of Parliament :- 1 6, trust" that Russia will carry out the stipulations of the Treaty of Vienna as to Poland. [But not a word about m aking her do it, Lord Ellenborough.] Federals and Confederates are still unfortunately at war, to the detriment of neutrals, but I have seen no reason to depart from neutrality. [No, Mr. Bright; no, Mr. Roebuck ; no, Mr. Elected of the Millions.] I am taking steps to unite the lonian Islands to Greece, whose nice new King will shortly take steps thitherward I am in communication with the parties to the treaty of 1815, and shall ask the lonians what they have to say. [Nothing about your views, your Majesty Abdul Aziz.] I have demanded reparation from Japan, and I hope not to be obliged to use force. [Daimios at a distance will please to accept this intimation.] Brazil is angry with me because I did not comply with demands I did not deem it possible to accede to. [What do you mean by possible, Lord John? Is not this writing like a possum, who is decidedly up a Brazilian gum-tree ?] But I should be glad to see relations re-established. [Jai' must write to Moreira and say so.] Thanks to the Commons for supplies, far Fortifieatio!! money [ha I Pam, ha Cobden] and for the provision an w d r young Mr. and Mrs. Wales. [Long may th e y enjoy in Marlborough House.] ots. Things are rather better in the manufaci.turndly gooseieed to I recognise private generosity, and have C—. harves t is d n t t ri the relief measures. [And, happily ,a g l "" uz coming.] but a mixture of Sir Cannibal Tattoo is bumptious, -g anders bein too th him down. treated conc iliation and cuffing will, it is hi 0,11 [Mr. Punch insists on these Naellvost as handsome as hi m . properly. Some of them are self.] passed for improving small benefices. A bill has been pass pres erved its calm. Perhaps the his face Pres° . . [We looked to see whether Lord `Westbury would smile as he read this, but _ et Simony in a Simple-Simon way Member who talked a bout was not in the Rous e. een revised. [Yes, your Majesty, The Statutes ha ve A Mii industrious gentlemen who have done and the Jeanie- a nd paid for invaluable work.] it. have been very Volunteers have been placed upon a well-defined The volunteers wrote this slip-slop ? [Who footin• his E ng l is h to drill.] 7 A Act for carrying into effect the American anti-slave tra d e treaty h a s passed, and I hope th a t th e honourable co operation of the Government of the " United" States [this weans the North] will materially assist me in putting an end to the Perpetration of that Most Disgraceful Crime. [Words worthy the Queen of Freemen, your Majesty.] Our General Prosperity is unimpaired, our financial re sources have been fully maintained, and our general com merce with the world at large has not been materially impaired. [The information is more gratifying than the tautology.] India, recovering from disasters, enters upon a course whiih holds out good promise for growing prosperity. [A course holds out a promise. On the end of a fork, or how ? Wood, Wood, Charley Wood I] On returning to your several counties you will have im portant parts to perform. [We see that amateur theatricals are announced as in preparation at several aristocratic houses.] _ _ The keeper of the Queen's conscience added the usual devotional valediction, and mentioned the 14th of October as the day on which his audience would again hear that they were not wanted. The Duke and Duchess of Richmond and Lady Caroline Lennox have come to town for the marriage of Lord Alexander Gordon Lennox and Miss Townley, second daughter of Colonel and Lady Caroline Townley. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day, BRIGHTON CLUB RACES—Tats DAY. ET ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. 1100 PLATE. Lady Derby.... 1 Blanche of Lancaster ... Keane Six ran.. BRIGHTON CLUB PLATE. Alcibiade General Hess Tonio ARRlVED.—Rigolbocne, Zeloo, Independence, Durham, Outpost, and Beaver. LATEST BETTING. ST. LEGER. 9 to 2 agst Ranger (offered) 100 to 15 agst Queen Bertha (offered) Bto 1 agNt Avenger (taken) 10 to 1 agst Lord Clitden (taken) 22 to 1 agst Borealis (taken) 40 to 1 agst Clarior (taken) 50 to 1 agst Melrose (taken) 1000 to 15 agst Bonny Belle (taken) 1000 to 15 agst Judex (taken) 1000 to 15 agst Blondin (taken) 1000 to 10 agst Scamander (taken) SHIPPING—This Day. BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH. GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning. Arrived, August 6 . —Avondale, from Jamaica; Zeno, from Miramishi ; Schryd, from Guernsey ; Princess Royal, from Girgenti : Hawen Dale, from Leghorn; Princess Guide, Palmerston, Rattram, and Fird ar , f rom Q uebec ; Prometheus, from Sines; Witch of the Wave, from Deme rara; Cambrian, from Jamaica; Eniksen, from Cardenas ; Victoria, from New York; Lochiel, from Madras; Jane and Esther and Annie Morice, from G uernsey ; H elene, from St. Petersburg ; Heinle, from Luli a ; S ea, from Caen ; Onkel, from St. Petersburg - - - DEAL, Thursday Mornin Passed.— Just, schooner, from Africa ; fronf Vincent; Peterborough, from China; V , ctoria, bark, from Mexico; Mangerton, and London, bark, from Quebec; Shah Jehann, from New York—all for London; Supply, from West, for River. Anchored.— Sarah King, for Brest ; Jessie Annandale for Salcombe--both for London. An Irish Breach of Promise Case. At the Antrim assizes, on Saturday and Monday, Baron Fitzgerald and a special jury were engaged in hearing a breach of promise case.. The plaintiff, Miss Jane Marian Shallow, was a milliner at New castle, in the county Down. The defendant, Mr. James Savage, a widower, was much older than the plaintiff. He was a coal and timber merchant, res iding at Newry. He became acquainted with her in the year 1860, and an attachment springing up between them, he professed himself to be a de voted lover. At last their marriage was fixed for the 17th of June, 1861. In consequence of this the plaintiff was induced to sell off the greater portion of her business, as defendant assured her he was worth £7,000 or £B,OOO, and, therefore, there would be no need for her to continue it. When the 17th of June arrived the defendant backed out from fulfilling the engagement then, on the ground of ill-health, though it didn't appear to be very serious. September was next named for the interesting ceremony, but once more he de• clined, and, as a matter of course, the plaintiff lost her appetite, and indulged in nothing but crying and fretting—indeed, her mother stated that for four months she hardly came down from her bed room. When asked why he had bought her the " wedding dress," he denied he had done so, He was a sporting man, and as one of his dogs had won a wager, he presented the plaintiff with a new dress on the occasion. One of the strongest proofs that he really was courting the plaintiff was the fact that, daring a comparatively short time, he sent her 200 letters. Most of them were of a very prosaic and insipid character. However, in one or two he described hie tender love for her "as being like a lava flood that burns in the breast of E:na's flames." This burning sensation must have soon gone off, as he forsook the plaintiff and married an other lady. The jury awarded the plaintiff 100 guineas, though she had estimated the outrage on her feelings at £3,000. SERIOUS ACCIDENTS AT A CRICKET MATCH.— Yesterday Captain Stewart, of the 2d Life Guards, met with a serious accident while engaged in a match at cricket in the barrack-field at Woolwich, between the Household Brigade and the Royal Artillery, Captain Stewart, in attempting to catch a short ball from the wicket, fractured the middle finger of his left hand, which was also severely lacerated. He was taken to the Royal Artillery Infirmary, where the wounded hand was care fully attended to, and, being informed that amputation would be necessary, he was removed to Landon at his own request. Captain Taswell, B, A., was also severely wounded in the same match. The ball struck him with terrible force between the eyes, arid for a moment it was feared that the blow was fatal. The ,sufferer will, it is stated, bear traces of the wound through life. GRANITE CYST FOR THE LATE PRINCE CONSORT AND THE QUEEN. —A stone has been successfully cut from the Cairngall Granite Quarry at Peterhead, which is to form a tomb for Prince Albert—on a smaller scale, but on the same principle as the tomb of Napoleon at Paris — being placed on the floor of the vault, and not underground. The stone is ten feet long by about seven broad, and three and a half deep; and it is to be cut into a sort of sarco phagus, to rest in a pedestal. Two cysts are to be cut in the stone for the insertion of coffins and lids lett to be cemented down, The body of the late Prince is to occupy one cyst ; and we believe it is the express wish of her Ma jesty that her own remains shall be deposited in the other. The obtaining of this stone has been a work of extreme difficulty—one or two fine blocks having been already re jected for flaws. The stone weighs above 18 tons, and will at once be conveyed to Mr. Macdonald's establishment in Aberdeen, to be dressed and polished.—Peterhead Sentinel. Several of the French journals state that Ro m n auguration of the statue of Napoleon as a ren Emperor on the column of the Place Vendome lataatue ton postponed to the 15th Oc tober next, and that the e remains of t h e Emperor were at the spot where t he mortal be removed will b® pla ced on the Ron d Point of Courbevoie, landed on the banks of the Seine. COTTON CULTIVATION IN BRITISH BURNIAIL,-- The government of India has publi . shed . a brief report we should think, to be of value for any of an experiment in cotton cultivation in British B urmah in 1862-63. The experiment was on a very small scale cer dptairsionxtrltiyi? or to the capabilities of the tAjtborPt:thrP°rnealsple,;ofitable cultivation of the plant for com test fairly Four acres of ground were cleared of grass in May, 1862, near a village on the banks of the Boben stream. Three and a half acres were sown e seed. The unfortunately eeed w mixed), asail emleeprchiaanl tParP°B6B. half an acre with with see d of the New Orleans and Egyptian varieti es (whichgea Island produce of last year's and cultivation; the sowings took place partly in June and partly in July. The Sea Island cotton failed entirely, and in no instances, says the rep or t, h as it succeeded in Burmah. The pods of the other sorts ri pened the rains had cea se d , but in October, before great care was taken to pick the cotton imm e di ate l y t h e from damp, A n European s pod s burst, so as to keep it superintendent was sent to the spot to superintend the picking, which continued up to the end of Novemb er . The first crop from the three and a half acres yielded 6751 b. o f cotton w ith seed ; a small second March, crop was pi c k e d up in law 1863, when 1501 b. more were collected, making a total for the year of 8251 b. After g i nn i n g, only 2041 b. of cleaned cotton were obtained, which was a proportion of about 21b. uncleaned to lib. cleaned. It appears the seed sown in June did not produce as much as that sown in July, which is accounted for partly by its ripening too early when the rains were still heavy, partly because the ground was not so well pre pared, and partly because the July or second sowing was I superintended by an overseer who knew something of the cotton plant and its treatment, from a residence in the Southern States of America. Incessant rain, it is said, prevented his superintending the first sow ing. The result c f the experiment is stated to be that cotton will grow, but the experiment is very incomplete, " as failures arise from accident, such as bad seed and want of proper superintendence, if the localities chosen for the seat of the experiment are distant and difficult of a ccess." It is proposed, however, next year to try expe riments to test whether it can be grown for profit, and " whether later sowing , so as to ens ure the heavy rains being ended before the picking begins, will not give more fruitful results." The experiment, such as was obtained, being the utter failure of the Sea Island s beeneed. The report closes by stating tha t " some seed has given to an overseer who works in the forest, e nd who is anxious to try an experiment of his own on a larger scale, to see whether the plant will thrive w ith a minimum amount of labour spent upon it, and thus be made remu nerative." We should have tat ught the Government, if it matter it s elf, would have done it on a larger scale, an d taken a g reat deal more pains to en sure the success of what it did undertake. Jud g i ng from the proceedings of Government in the present case from its own reptoort of a very meagre experiment, d] have had a fair trial, for the it seems brief report on the subject admits ; ignorant and im perfect superintendence, and that the various varieties o f seed use d were hopelessly mixed together, so that i m possible to say it w whether one kind of seed wouldas do better th a n another, The experim ent clearl y failed from the want of precautions must essential to secure anyohance of success, and without which failure might have been looked on as certain.—Bombay Gazette. gen ood om- ax. ocal the )en- my rms .ond wn- r in in ye- 1 80 tter 2ple ince by the at ived ;ors, UM- ) as by the old. her 'rota EIVE3 rain roIII teas Mr. Dck, Pen- )OD, estS will )on. 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