The Sun. — London, England, 1863-10-02 00:00:00

ONE Y MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK, The Star and Garter Hotel Company, Richmond, Surrey, announces that no further application for shares will be received after to-morrow, nearly the whole of the capital, £120,000, having been realised. The directors are very sanguine that the company wilt be a decided success from a commercial point of view, and from the antecedents of the Star and Garter, with its European reputation, added to its most eligible situation, there can be but little doubt that the investment is not only a safe one, but will yield a fair rate of dividend. The weekly returns published by the Bank of England authorities to Wednesday last, contains some very important alterations. An increase of nearly £3,000,000 is shown in the other securities, which is owing to the very large discount business transacted there during the past week. The bul lion and reserve of notes sho iv a considerable falling, notwithstanding the almost daily influx of gold. This diminution, however, must in a great measure be attributed to the continued absorption of coin throughout the country both for trading and agri cultural purposes. Subjoined are the particulars Active Circulation .. £21,517,900 Increase .. • • .. .• 763•875 Bullion .. 16,277,885 Decrease .. • • •• • • 14953 Rest • • .. .. 3,728,595 Increase . •• • • 1,750 Public Deposits ' .. 9,270,486 Increase .. .. 978,995 Other Deposits.. .. • . 13,717,460 Increase .. . • • .. 857,880 Seven Day and other Bills .. 794,847 Increase .. 33,141 Government Securities .. .. 11,141,284 Other Securities .. .No alteration 22,513,119 Increase .. 2,790,594 Notes Unemployed .. 7,711,440 Decrease .. • . .. 834,010 In the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets during the last few days dealings have been of a limited character in most of the principal staples. Tea, sugar, and cocoa, have remained at about previous prices. Coffee, however, has been at rather lower rates. Rice has continued in fair request, at lull quotations, but in the tallow market a down ward movement has been perceptible in values for both present and forward delivery. • Two O'CLOCK. At Paris this day, according to Mr. Renter's tele. gram, the 3 per Cent. Rentes were at 67f. 95e —Heavy. At the first general meeting to-day of the share holders of the Standard Bank of British South Africa a dividend was declared of 6s. 9d. per share, free of income tax, on the 10,000 shares of the first and second issues, being at the rate of £l2 per cent, per annum on the capital paid. It was also resolved that £lOO of the unappropriated balance, together with £lO,OOO received in premiums on the second issue of shares (in all £10,100) be carried to a re serve fund, and that the balance of £3O 10s. be car ried forward to profit and loss new account. The Scotia, from New York, has arrived with £79,000, The English Stock Market is dull and depressed, and Consols, which left off yesterday at 93Z 4 for money, and at 934 fi for the account, have receded to 931 !, and 938 1, respectively. A few sales have produced this retrograde movement. The New Threes and Reduced are 911 92 ; India 5 per Cents., 1083 a ; do., 4 per Cent. Enfaced Paper, 984 ; do., 53- per Cent., 117 ; , 1 ,.; and Exchequer Bills par to 3s. prem. With the exception of the Confederate Loan, Which has risen 4 per cent., namely, to 24 22 die., upon the intelligence received by the Scotia, Foreign Securities have tended downwards Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 71 *; do., 1863, 2 die.; do., Consolides, 541 2 ; Mexican, 461 1 ; Greek, 37a a ; do., Coupons, 18-4 - - 1 ; Spanish Pat-. sive, 351 36a ; do., Certificates, 141 2 ; Portu guese, 481 498 ; Italian, 721 ; Venezuelan, 62 4 ; and the Colombian Loan, I,- to 1i prem. Business in the Railway Share Market has con tinued inactive, and a slight decline has, in some instances, prevailed. Great Western and North Western have each receded 55.; and Great Eastern 15s ; while Lancashire and Yorkshire has improved 55., and Metropolitan has risen £2 10a. The Foreign and Colonial undertakings remain inactive, but sustain former quotations. Grand Trunk of Canada have improved and Madras 5 per Cents, declined I. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares remain at steady rates. London and County are quoted 54 i ; Orien tal Bank 691 ; London and Brazilian, 501 51; Hudson Bay Company, 9 a ; London Financial, 148.1 ; and General Credit, 5 I. BRITISH FUNDS —ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock • — 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities New 3 per Cent. Annuities New 3/ per Cent. Annuities New 21 per Cent. Annuities . — 5 per Cent. A nnu i t i es Annuities, 30 yrs, expire .sth J an., 1880.. Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885. Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908. 21 _ 1 India Stock Ditto 5 pet C en t lOBl 4 Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per C ent 9Bl Ditto 5 per Ce n t _- .Ditto 5i per Cent Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct., 1863 Ditto ditto April, 1864 Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 Ditto Bonds £l,OOO Ditto under £1,0 00..... 2 O. .... 21 Bank Stock f or Account ... Consols for Acco unt, Oct, 8 , per 5 Cent. Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 21 per Cent Ditto £SOO Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS —ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent — Ditto 1859 .._ Brazilian 5 per Cent Ditto, 1839 and 1859 Ditto 1843 Ditto 4/ per Cent., 1852-58-60 Buenos Avres 6 per Cent Ditto Account...... Ditto 6 1 per C ent. (Deferred . 3 p er Cent.) chilia Cuba, n 6 per Cent. ............ p Cent .. . Ditto 44 Per Cent. Danish 4 per Cent., 1863 -- Dutch, 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guilders Ditto, Provisonal Land Warrant. -- Ditto, 7 per Cent Equador New Consolidated. 1 per Cent., Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons 3 - 71 8 71 Ditto Account Ditto Coupons 181 / Ditto Account ' - Quatemala 5 per Cent. Italian 6 per Cent.(Mareinniana Railway) Mexican 3 per Cent .... MDitto Account 464 i 1. oorish Imperial 5 pe r C ent w Gran a d a .. l6l D itto 2 p Ditto Deferred ~.., D itto Land Warrants (Hectares) — reruvian 3 per Cent. Ditto Account , Ditto 4/ per Cent., 1862 4 - ortliguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto ACCOULII.... .-- Ditto 3 per Ceiat 1R66 '7 '9 '6O 62 4Bl 9/ jilt Ditto Acc unt "-' ' ' ' s . 0 ................... wan 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St I) itto 41 per Cent 1850 . -- Dl,itto 3 per Cent 1R5,9 Litt 6 .. ( .............. $ t tr(ii _ per Cent, 1862 .............. 93i Sbitzcitan. 5 per Cent .................. pflt,i,„ /.%.,,coount ...................... -- DittoDit t :" Per Cent — %,,,,,,,unt ................. __. I ) itto .1;41?'.f Deferred .. ................. '--- Ditto 1;?°Yllt .................... SDitto panish Acrd' o f .. ......... . ............ 361 6 I 51 Ditto Aceou n Ti ` - 'oula not funded ...... Swedish, 4 Per e•jr;t................... 14} i I'l l r n i' t i t B o l A 6 c P ee er ili , eer it• . . 1 1iti4 .. ....... : : :::::: :: Ditto 6 per Cerit; ig.L-g ............... Ditto Account .............. .... Ditto, £lOO Bond s .................. .__ Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862. ............... 73+ Ditto Account .......... ........... Mt Ditto 6 per Cent, 1863, 4 6 -, 7 , ....... 711 1 c etit i . os Bcl pd. 2 dis Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per -Venezuela 3 per Cent. .............. Ditto Account ........................ -- Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 ................. Ditto Account ........................ vid e ' Condon. Dinds on the above paya... ble . in, Belgian 44 per Cent., Ex. 25f. .. ....... D atutt 2) p er Cent., Ex. 12 Guil ..... -_. Ditto 4 p er Cent. Certificates .... ....... French--- Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f..... 67f, Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex, 25 francs.. Ditto Account 721 I TWO O'C LOCK. C3n,ola, Money ....... Ditto A.ceOUtlt.• ..... .r . loto trlrttg; 9 n i Share 100 stk Railways stock stock Atlantic Az. St Lawrenet Bom.,Baroda&.Cent Ind Gu. 5 per cent... Do. New ....... Do. E. Shares... stock stook Buffalo and Lake Huron Do. Preference ...... Buflalo,Brant,&Godricli p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 Do. do. July 1, 187, Do. ao. Juue I, IS7 'I Clcutta.&S. Eastn. (Liu Cape Town Dock Seri] Flastn. Bengal gu. 5 p. Last Indian. gu. 5 p. c. Do. do. G Ext..... Do. do. H do. .. Grand Trunk of Carada Do. Ist Pr.f. Bonds.. Do. co. deferred...... Do. 2d Pret. Bonds.. stook 20 20 100 Do. do. deferred...... Do. 3d I', ef. stock ... Do. do. deferred...... Do. 4th Pref. stock... Do. do. deferred...... stook stock stock 20 stock G t.lndiaPenin.g, ua.sp.c. Do. New gua. 5 p. 0... Do. January, 1862 .. Gt. South.of India (Lim; guaranteed 5 per cent. Gt. W. of Canada Share Do. New ...... Do. 6 p.c. '73 Ncith't op' Do. 5i p. c. do. '77-8.. .. Indian Branch Limited Madras. guar., 5 p. c. .. Do. 41 p. 0. Extensio- stock et 20' Nt took Dc. 4* d 0...... Do. Fifth Extension. Melb.Corp. 6 p. 0. Bndr, Melb. & Hobson's Bay. Do. 7 p. c. Blortg. Bds. Ncwßrunswick Cand, Class A and B ---- N.ltl.e'das Po Ist pt tide Soinde ........ —1 Do. Delhi 8 ••-• 'Do. do .. i's 5 I Do. Punjaub .... r tj. ,e- - Do. Do. Do. Indus.St Flo.) Paid, all 100 too 100 100 100 1O) Closing Price. 63 (5 -- 107 168 1 14p li 11 p 61 6t tii 9} 107 108 1(4 106 109 110 108 109 1 1 11P 1 1 1 1P 21 22 75 76 61 63 68 70 52 55 19 5( 38 41 29 31 24 26 108} 1091 111 1} 11; 107 108 10i 10/ 10 9I„ 05 97 87 8) all 100 (100 ' 100 2 all i 100 100 0 i P 107 iOB 101} 1021 48 100 57 58 3 5 82 a 107 108 107 108 IP -P 107 108 102 IC4 sol 1 109 1071 19 107 I COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. p.c..). .tJ ui) 1877-St 100 103 105 1043 Do. 6 P.C. Feb. & • Auu. 100 101 103 ! Do. dp. c.Mar.& Sept. 100 101 103 Do. Sp. c. Jan.&July. 100 92 94 93 Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 91 93 Cape G.llope, 6 p c,1873 100 108 110 Do.Ap & Oct. 138 tr 100 109 111 Do. 189 0 100 1 1 0 112 iDo. Jan. & July, 1891 100 113 115 Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 100 113 115 Mauritius 6 per cent lOO 107 108 Natal Gov. 6 per cent 100 110 112 ti..ll.Gov. 6 p.c..) a.&Jul) 100 LO2 104 I Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. 100 N. S. W. Gov. 5 p 18tit 100 1005 1013 - Du. sp. c.,lBri to 171 100 1014 1021 I Do. d0.,1888 &upwds 100 102 103 102 k - New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 11l 113 ;Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. sterling, 1875. lOO 103 105 105 Queensland Gcv. 6p. c. 100 1:1 113 S.Aus G6p.c.1878.& up 100 11l 113 1123 - 'Vic.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.dtJuly 100 108 110 Do. to 6 D.o. An.&Ook. 100 1115 lll4 111} BRITISH MINES. 2 'Cambrian Consol. Gold s 1 scl ichilord Amalgamated 33 35 Devon G. Cone. (Taoist , 1 545 655 East Bassett (Mogan) 30 77 19 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd 52. id par East Caradon 2.14.r 29 10 29,1 East Cam Brea... 3.4.0 74 74 E. W'lltussel(Tavistk.,l 8.6.6 3 34 Gam.&St.Aubyn(Gwen.)l 'AI 13 15 —Great South Tolgus l7s 4 4t IG. Wheal Vor (Heston 40 93 103 Grenville 6.16. r 5 54 ilerc.d's-Foot . 8.12 47 f 9 tlingaton Downs 4.'8.0 2 25 ;Lady Bertha Margaret (lJny Lelant 95 23 25 I Barke Valley.. 4 Nlyndy Iron Oro (Lim.) 23 14 f New Setun l9l 105 115 -- North Downs 23 14 2 S.Wh '1 Basset (111o 4 an 1.17.0 24 35 North Wheal Crotty Par Console (St. Blazey, 15 4 6 20 Providence(Uny Lelnt.) 10.6.7 *2 44 South Caradon(St.Cleer) 11 415 425 S. Cam Brea (Illogan) 5.15.6 14 2 :i.Wheal Fran. (Illogan; 15.1,9 60 65 Stray Park 5 ramar Lead Min , 44 5 4 fin Crott 9 193 203 West Basset (Illogan) l3 94 104 4V Caradon (Liskeard) 5 20 22 West Seton %Vheal Basset (Illogan) 55 72 4 77 5 Wheal Buller (Itedruth ) 5 25 30 Wheal Kitty(Li.Lelant), 2.0.6 WhealLud , ott - Wheal .MaryAnni s :den )' 8 9 11 'Wheal Seton . 583 205 215 - ; Wheal Tretawney (Lis.) 7 16 18 / Wheal Union 3.17 2 3 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Western Orig. 4i per cent pf., 102 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 6 per cent., rd., —. Ditto, £6, 41 North Staffordshire, 23 south Eastern (heading Anne., £1.0.6), 21 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. London, Brighton, &c., 4i per cent., 1858, 102} FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San Francisco C openhagen. Urn., 2; 3 (Urn.) gua. 7 per cent., 201 Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidin) 121 t Paris and Orleans, 41 Recite and San Francisco (Urn.), gua. 7 per cent., 19 San Pa u l o (lhm), gua. 7 per cent., Ditto (ail), 224 FOREIGN 31Iv, ES. Don Pedro, Norih Del Rey, 11 1 St. John del Key (Rm.), 54 United Mexican (lien;, JOIN T-STOCK BANKS. Agra and United Service (lim.), 117 Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool (Um.), 42} Australasia, 79 Bank of Egypt, 29 81 Bank of Queensland (Jim), 151:1 a Brazilian and Portuguese, lim., 9/ 9 • Chartered Bank of British Columbia, 122 a Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 39 Si Continental, Ern., 11 104 English, Raglan, and Netherlands, lim., English and Irish (lim.), 11 Hindustan, china, and Japan (lim.), 30 Imperial Bank (lim.), 242 4 Imperial Ottoman, 198 4 Loudon and Brazilian (iim.), 501 1 London, Buenos Ayres, and River Plate, 521 2 London, Birm , and S. Staffordshire, lira., 12i London Chartered Bank of Australia, ;491 .. 9 London and County, 5i 4 London and Middlesex, lim., 91 London and Northern (lim.), 12k 12 London and South African, .28:4 Metrop. and Prov. Bank (lim.), 172 National Provincial of England. Ditto, new, 261 2 Oriental Bank Corporation, 591 60} Scinde, Punjaub. and Delhi (lim.l, ti Standard of British South Africa (limi), 262 Ditto, new, :'ll 1 MISCELLANEOUS. Berlin Water Works, lira., 92 Bombay Gas, limited, 2, 7 , Ceylon Company, Crystal lalace,:3Bl East India Irrigation and Canal, 5 Egyptian Commercial and Trading, lira., 40 Gen. Credit and Finance of London, Rm., t 5 Hudson's Bay, International Financial Society, lim., log„ Italian lrri,gation (Canal Cavour), Ditto, 6 per cent. Bonds rd. AB7O issued 90, 89 Joint •stock Discount, 6a. London Finan:ial Association, lim., 10 A, London General Omnibus Company (him.), National Discount Company, lim., Oriental Inland Steam, Him., 31 Peninsula and Oriental Steam, 89i Ditto, new, 49:1 Quebrada Land, Rail, and Mining, Um., 21 S. AiriCall Alertg,age and Investment, Jim., GI. SHARE MARKETS---This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Railways. Share! 1 P aid. Closing I Business I 13.14. i 8ir., WO.; and Str. Val. all 8 £5 25 Blythe and Tyne. 10 Bost.,Sleat.,andMid.L:o all 85 81 at Bristol and Exeter et Caledonian lOO 1195 1205 50 Cork and Bandon all 20 Cornwall gets no div all 75 8 I t A I 11 6p c.p an.has 10 Do.Do A B all 10 all ai to B 5 0 Dublin & been Belf p ast d Junc 1 all 39 tO 25 Dun.,Perth,&Ab. June all 16 17 at Edinburgh & Glasgow , 100 99 100 at IWasg. and S. Westeru 1 100 110 112 st IC 4 reatEastern, Ord. stk j 100 M 62 525 5 et Ditto A stock at Ditto East A. nglian at 100 265 274 et GreatNorthot Scotland, 100 e l . ,Great Northern lOO 126 127 st Do A stock 1 100 129 130 st Do Bdo , 100 1214 136 st iGt. S. an.: W. of Ireland 100 100 112 st 'Great 'Western et Do Str Val gua. stock 100 et Lancashire & Yorkshire 160 1125 112/ 112: st London and Blackwall 100 73 74 73 at Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast 100 1125 1135 113 121 st Lon., Chat., and Dover 100 124 i 3, at Lon. & Noel' Western 100 1025 103 1021 at Lon. & Ser.th Western 100 1015 1(25 1011 2 st Man., Slid., & Lincoln. 100 46 47 46 50 Maryport and Carlisle. all 125 Do * shares all et Metropolitan all 130 132 132 44 at Midland 6.4.0 Do New at Do Birming. & Derby 100 96 98 50 511 d. Gt. W. of Ireland all 25 Do. 4 shares 25 Mid Kent 10 Do Cray Line at North British et Edin., Perth, & Dundee 100 26 17 2s . et Nth. Eastern—Berwick 100 1015 102 25 Do, G.N.E. purchase 16.13.4 —ll a at Do Leeds lOO 58 585 at Do York at Do Carlisle.. ..... at North London 10 Do New 5 1 2 p i 9.15.4 North Staffordshire 10 'N. and S. W. .Junction all 115 111 115 at Scottish Central at Scot Isl. E., Aber. stock 100 44 46 445 at Do Scot. Mid, stock lOO 101 103 10 Shrews. and Welchpool all et 'Shropshire Union at ;South Devon ..... « lOO 315 325 at , South Eastern at South Wales et IS. York. and River Dun 100 99 101 20 Staines, Wok.,andWok all Of sO5 25 Stockton & Darlington all 364 375 25 Do l7 84 91 0 25 Do New, 1866 8 7 4 7 5 p at Taff Vale. 10 Do B 8 If 65 c. 10 Do C 3 25 35 p 50 Ulster 25 Do 12.10 Do 55 et Vale of Neath et Victoria sta. and Pim lOO 159 162 at Waterford & Kilkenny 100 at West Cornwall lOO 26 28 at W. Hartlepool El ar. &R lOO at West Midland -Oxford 100 st Do Newport 100 —-- st Do Hereford 100 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Buidness dont THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 2, 1863. LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day. BANKRUPTCY COURT. (Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.) RE R. WESTBROOK. This bankrupt was a solicitcr, of Marsham-street, and this was a meeting for last examination and discharge. The debts are stated at £675, and debts secured £7oo—assets, good debts, £l3B. There was no opposition, but his Honour adjourned the case for an amendment of the accounts. IN RE CLARKE. This bankrupt was an umbrella manufacturer, and this was an adjourned last examination and discharge. Mr. Reed opposed on behalf of the assignees, on the ground that the bankrupt had not filed a special account which had been ordered in May last, and that he had in curred debts to the amount of 17,500 within four months of his bankruptcy, and the only assets were about £350. The bankrupt said ho could not make out the accounts without assistance. His Honour said that he had had quite time enough to do it. Mr. Reed said the creditors objected to any further allow• antes to the banktupt, or to paying for another adjourn. went. The case was adjourned sine die at bankrupt's expence, IN RE CHURCH. This bankrupt was a loather merchant in Giltspur street, and this was an adjourned meeting for last examination and discharge. Mr. Bazley appeared for the assignee, and said that there had been no less than four adjournments in consequence of the intricacy of the accounts, but which had at length been satisfactorily arranged by Messrs. Hart Brothers and Hayles, and it did not appear that any benefit would arise from any further adjournment. The examination was passed, and the discharge was adjourned. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. BURGLARY.—John M'Mahon, Alfred Morris, and Wil liam Byrne, the three young men charged with burglari ously breaking and entering the premises of Mr. Thomas George Rotherham Swallow, the Blue Posts, Berwick street, Soho, and stealing a quantity of money, &c., M'Ma hon being further charged with stealing clothing, &c., to the amount of £lO from the house of Mr. Samuel Welsh man, licensed victualler, Wardour-street, Soho, in the month of July last, were again brought before Mr. Knox for final examination. The evidence against the prisoners in Mr. Swallow's case was not very strong, the two chief points of it being that one of the prisoners (Morris) was found wearing a hat which belonged to Swallow, which was taken from the bar parlour when the burglary was committed, and there the prisoners were seen together about one o'clock on the morning of the burglary in Little Pulteney-street, not far frem Mr. Swallow's house, by Gordon, 323 A, who said that at the time prisoner was weari❑g " a deer stalker's" hat. Mr. Edward Lewis. of Great Marlborough-street, ap peared for M'Mahon, Mr. Neall for Byrne, and Mr. Fisher for Morris. Mr, Knox discharged M'Mahon and Byrne, hearing that there was no further evidence against them in Mr. Swal low's case. Mr. Fisher, having cross-examined Mr. Swallow respect ing the hat, addressed the magistrate on Morris's behalf, stating he would call it witness who would prove that Morris was in bed the night before the burglary at half past 10, and another (Morris's master), who would prove that he had seen Morris wear a hat similar to the one pro duced. Mr. John Davis, tailor, 11, Sherwood-street, Golden square, said Morris had worked for him since May last year to the Ist of September. Prisoner had worn a hat like the one produced till lately, when he wore a sort of cloth hat. He believed the hat produced was the identical one. The prisoner's hat had a black band on it like the one pro duced, he being in mourning for a child. The prisoner never lost a day while working for him, and he had en trusted him with his business. In answer to Mr. Knox, Sergeant Cole said he knew nothing against the prisoner Morris's character. Mr. Knox said he felt no jury would convict the prisoner, aid he should discharge him. M'Mahon was then replaced at the bar in Mr. Welsh man's case. Mr. 'Welshman said that in July last the prisoner and another came to his house and asked for the bagatelle balls, and went upstairs and played, and then left, and directly after they were gone he went into his bedroom and missed a quantity of property. On seeing the prisoner in custody he at once identified him as one of the two men. In answer to Mr. Lewis, Mr. Welshman said it was about six o'clock in the evening, that he had last seen the pro perty safe in the morning, and that a great many persona had been upstairs in the course of the day. He was informed by the police that they had taken a man on suspicion of stealing his clothes ; and on going to the station ho saw three men in plain clothes, and identified the prisoner. The prisoner when he lett had no bundle. In answer to a solicitor for the prosecution Mr. Welsh man said he had no doubt whatever of the prisoner's identity. Mr. Knox said there was nothing against the prisoner, only the fact that he had played at bagatelle on the day the robbery was committed. He should therefore discharge him. THAMES. A YOUNG AND DISHONEST ADVENTURER.—WiIIiam Moore, a boy of 16, who did not look so old, was brought before Mr. Partridge, charged with stealing a purse con taining 58 3d, the moneys of his sister, Elizabeth Moore. The young woman who prosecuted her brother is a dress maker, dwelling at 16, Raven-row, Whitechapel. On Tues day night last, when she went to bed, she deposited her purse containing her money, which she had very hardly earned, in the pocket of her dress, which was lying on the bed, Next morning it was gone, and she missed her brother, who slept in the same house. He was taken into custody yesterday by William Reid, 68 H, who asked him what he had done with his sister's money, to which he re plied that he had stolen it, and been to Greenwich and spent it in donkey riding, and that he would do so again when he liked. The mother and sister of the boy were very reluctant to prosecute him, but he was such an in corrigible thief they had no alternative. Mr. Partridge—Has this boy no father ? Mrs. Elizabeth Moore, a widow, said the toy's father was dead, and her son had given her much trouble ever since. When she questioned him about his sister's purse and money on Wednesday he denied having taken it. The boy was an apprentice to a respectable tradesman, and had absconded " over and over again ;" in fact, he had con tinually absented himself, mixed with gipsies and tramps, and travelled the country, He was restless, and would not stop long in one place. He absented himself from his work on Wednesday, and spent the day at Greenwich donkey riding. He had been taken to the Worship-street Police court by his master, and promised to behave better ; but he became much worse, and when he wandered over the country, and came back shoeless and pennylesa, he refused to say where he had been. She was made acquainted with one of his journeyings. He went to Liverpool, begged his way there, and begged his way back, and was absent three months. She obtained admission for her son in an asylum for wayward boys in Whitechapel. He behaved very well while he was there, and she thought he was a reformed boy, but when he came out of the asylum he relapsed into dishonest habits, stole some money from her, and absconded again. The boy said ho did not care about being locked up. The poor widow, with tears in her eyes, declared that she would submit to any privations to save her boy. Mr. Partridge said it was a hard case for the widow, and for her family. He committed the prisoner under the Criminal Justice Act, and sentenced him to three months' imprisonment and hard labour. He hoped the prisoner would come out of gaol a wiser and a better boy. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. Oct. 19. via Marseilles Oct. 13. Jrazil and Cape Verds, by British packet Oct. 5. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Oct. 29. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Oct. '2. via Marseilles Oct. 13. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Oct. 2. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Oct. 2. via Marseilles Oct. 13. India (Bombay), via Southampton Oct. 11. via Marseilles Oct. 5. Portugal.... .... !Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Oct. 2. via Marseilles Oct. 11. Newfoundland .. Oct. 2. Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Oct. 8. by U.S. packet.... —. b Canadian packet .Oct. 2. W.C. of Afri ca , M adeira, and Ty eneritle Oct. 10. Bahainas, via New York OEI. 22. Mexico Oct. _ Th e application of machinery to coal-mining has the works square a n l- inch. nc h a The ir- been for COMO time ac comp li s h ed in the West air pump rdleystCaolplireersys.ureTehfeattoeuatms-crbsg.int: air is conducted down the shaft in 4-inch i ron p i pes, an d berpiping to th e machine, a little by a thence about 800 yards to the workings in g as -pi p i ng, an d whichconnected travels by 10-ninch rails. i I n d ia t • • rub is propelled hand wheel after every blow given by its pick, and generally it passes three times over the face of the coal-seam, on each occasion armed with a longer pick; the first cut being about 18 to 20 inches, the second 9 to 11 inches, and the third 6 to 8 inches; the depth aimed at being about a yard. The actual quantity of work done in six consecutive days of eight hours each by one man and two boys with the machine was 6181 yards or about 800 tons of coal. A man will average 71 yards per day, so that if the machine were worked by shifts of eight hours, three men and six boys would do the work of 40 men. The machine also effects a saving of good coal from destruction equal to an average of ninepence per ton. A second machine on the. direct-action principle is being constructed, THE GREAT SHIP COMPANY. SPECIAL MEETING-THIS DAY. A special general meeting of shareholders was held this day at the London Tavern, for the purpose of considering and determining the steps to be adopted to relieve the Great Ship Company from the difficulties that at present surround it. W. Baker, Esq,, chairman of the Board of Directors, presided. The CHAIRMAN, in his observations to the meeting, said they were 'all aware of the difficulties that encompassed the company, from the detailed report which had been extensively circulated amongst them. The directorshad done all in their power to make the ship remunerative, but diffi culties unforeseen, and over which they had no control had arisen, and it had been thoughtright to call the shareholders together to consider what should bo done to relieve the company of its present difficulties. It remained entirely with the meeting to determine what should be done as the directors had exhausted all the means at their disposal. After a few words from Mr. TAYLOR, Mr, HAWES proceeded to condemn the policy that had been pursued by the directors. It ap peared to him to have been a mistake throughout for them to place such a ship on the American station, where she had to compete with other ships built for speed alone. They appeared to forget that it was never intended to submit the vessel to the frequent chances of danger in trading with America. (Hear, hear.) She had been built for long voyages, such as Australia and India, yet she had never once been further than America. He never expected that she would pay on the station, and he had told them so two years ago, but if they, by her means, brought Australia within. forty days of England success would have been certain. The directors seemed en tirely at a loss as to policy, so he thought the sooner they had a body of men with some more fixed principles the better. (Hear, hear.) He proposed that before anything was decided by the meeting, that a committee of shareholders should be appointed to inquire into the present position of the company, and that an adjournment should take place for 10 days, to allow time for a thorough examination of the company's affairs. He felt certain they had only to place the ship in the position for which she was constructed to ensure a return for the expense and anxieties she had occasioned. He had the utmost confidence in the capabi lities of the vessel, and he felt sure she would triumph over all her enemies. We shall continue the report in a late edition. SCANDALOUS OUTRAGE ON A LADY. (From a Correspondent of the Morning Post.) BIARRITZ, Sept. 28.—A disgraceful scene has taken place at this fashionable watering place, where the Court at present resides. Among the numerous foreign visitors there are a great many Russians and Poles, who naturally look upon one another with great hostility. As the sympathies of the French visitors are all for the Poles, they, too, are not regarded with very friendly feelings by the Russians. Among them was a French lady, who, having just arrived from Lemberg, where she had had opportunities of closely observing the Polish character under great trials, was particularly demonstrative in her expressions 'of attachment to and admiration for that long-suffering nation. These demonstrations were very unpalatable to a certain Ruisian lady of high rank, who determined to put a stop to them by inflicting a punishment worthy of her countrymen in Poland on the enthu siastic Frenchwoman. Meeting her in the open street, and in view of the imperial carriage, which was driving past, she struck her in the face with her parasol. The result of this brutal act was that the Empress struck the name of the Russian lady and several other Russians out of her visiting list. The Russians were extremely dissatisfied at this, especially as the Countess Przezdiecka, who, although a Pole, is a subject of Alexander 11., was retained on the list. A fresh revenge was deter mined upon. As the countess was returning from an official soiree, a man accosted her with a letter, requesting her to read it immediately. Thecountesa took the letttr to her room and broke the seal. Immediately some detonating powder, which was in the seal, burst with a loud explosion, and the countess's head-dress was on fire. Luckily her chambermaid was near, and extinguished theflames, which had already burnt her eyebrows and part of her hair. Ihe letter contained the following words: "Wretched little Polish woman, do you think we do not know that it is by your intrigues and your de gradation that you have succeeded in being admitted to the intimacy of that miserable little French court ? We care very little either for it or you. Do not be too proud of those miserable distinctions which we know how to stop when we like. Let not your barefooted compatriots imagine that they will triumph through you. You are now warned, and they will be also." This affair has caused great and universal indignation, and it is said that it will be brought forward in a court of justice. TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR THE WEEK. Miles Opened. Receipts.-, Railways. 1863. 1862. 1863. 1862 X 4 2 Belfast and N. Counties 136 136 2,104 2,375 Belfast and County Down 49 49 641 680 Blyth and Tyne 2B 28 1,628 2,176 Bristol and Exeter 1214 1214 6,893 7,348 Caledonian Cockermouth & Workington B ,l 84 309 293 Cork and Bandon 2O 20 351 329 Cork, Blackrock, &Passage 64 64 218 251 Cork and Youghal • • 324 27 470 430 Cornwall 531 531 1,803 1,396 Deeside l7 17 322 335 Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63 1,473 1,512 Dublin and Drogheda 75 63 1,653 1,924 Dublin and Meath - 191 1 3 Dub. &Wicklow and Wextd 514 481 2,531 2,246 Edi n burgh and Caasgow 1694 169 4 8,657 8.356 Forth & Clyde Junction Furness, &c 5O 50 2,952 2,678 Glasgow & South-Western Gt.Eastern,Nrfk.,&E.Union Great Northern 351 851 39,361 39.45 Great North of Scotland 5B 68 1,690 2,086 lit. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7ll 661 572 519 fit.Soutlin. & Westn.(lrind.) 3511 829 9.037 8,689 Great Western 10561 10324 63,991 65.695 Inverness & Aberdeen June 864 86/ 1,495 1,391 Irish North-Western 145 145 1,596 1,564: Lancashire & Yorkshire 8954 3951 39,168 36.530 Limerick and Ennis 24/ 24f 163 245 Limerick and Foynes 264 261 157 227 Llanelly 461 461 613 678 London & North-Western London and Blackwall 5l 6 1,917 1,942 London & South - Western Lond. Brighton, &S. Co a st 261 241 23,219 24,920 London, Chatham, & Dover 72 724 6,043 6,136 Do. Metropolitan Extension 104 2f 1.400 60 Lond., Tilbury, & Southend slan.,Sheffield, & Lincolnsh Mauch. S.Jun.& Altrincham 9l q 1,509 1,452 Maryport and Carlisle Metropolitan 3l - 1,663 Midland (incl. N.-Western) 641 6144 49,277 46,478 Midland Gt.Westn. of 'rind 2594 1921 4,518 4,5 )r Monkland 44 711 2,738 1,703 28 1 :8 3 2 90 Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 7441i North British, Edin., Perth and Dundee .... N-Eastern and Stock. & Darl 1095 North London 9 254 North Staffordshire Oswestry and Newton 6O lihymney ---- 194 St. Helen's Canal & Railway 52 Scottish Central Scottish North-Eastern ..... Somerset and Dorset 391 751 South Devon South-Eastern.. Taff Vale 55 Ulster Vale or Clwyd. Vale of Neath 321 Waterford and Kilkenny 3l Waterford and Limerick 77 274 West Cornwall W. Hartlepool 11 arbr.&RaiL W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt Whitchaven Junction l2 Whitchaven & Furness Jun 35 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 Austrian B2B Belgian Eastern Junction.. •• 2 Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 1 8 1 Buffalo and Lake Huron Detroit and Milwaukie lB9 Dutch Rhenish lOBl Eastern of France lO7B East Indian Grand Trunk of Canada lO 9O Great Indian Peninsula 5 34 Great Luxembourg 134 Great Southern of India .. • • „F.! Great Western of Canada... • ° 5 Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 403 Northern of Canada ........ •• 9 ' Northern of France 697 Norwegian Trunk Ottoman Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 1491 Paris and Orleans l347 4Pernambuco Royal Danish 69 Sambre and Meuse 6B South Austrian Southern of France . 777 Victorian 196 Welland - 25 West Flanders 75 W. and N.W. of France , 4101 13,944 13,158 1077 t 57,533 54,413 9 3,221 3,15 9 252 8,556 8.444 42 1,249 1,13 0 191 997 896 62 2,168 1,981 91 5,233 4,972 1321 5,570 5,524 39/ 730 468 75/ 4.113 4,04 0 306 29,666 29,920 55 5,840 5,640 51 1,907 2.281 10 211 241 251 2,411 2,011 31 407 387 77 1,569 1.578 271 815 872 48 4,925 4.583 7 566 577 12 907 736 3.5 815 743 52 1,639 1,591 828 30,048 31%382 204 315 322 132 k 1,322 947 9611 2,333 1,062 185 4,116 4,264 1081 1060 58,194 60,961 039 15,996 10,551 1090 14,732 11,193 4371 4,227 4,400 134 4,923 4,655 79 '551 '377 315 11,.58 9, ,, 91 435 21,332 20,C62 94 - - 691 - - 44 1,116 1,3:38 10 024 486 1354 133,088 143,492 12 04 69,634 66,026 506 - 69 741 741 6R 1,403 1,340 1315 59,000 56,151 777 33,228 31,607 1 51 8,319 5,310 25 283 640 75 1,126 1,121 75 8 65,596 50,021 His Excellency Count Bernsterff left the Prussian Legation last evening to join the Countess and family a Brighton, after attending on their Royal Highnesses the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia on their arrival in England on their way to visit the Queen at Balmoral. The Duke of Devonshire and Lady Louisa Ca vendish, who have returned to Holkar Hall, near Milne thorpE,,, from Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire, will shortly leav or a visit to the Earl of Carlisle in Dublin, and afterwe rds go to the family estates in Ireland, ADELPHI THEATRE. FIRST APPEARANCE OF MISS BATEMAN. Mr. Webster commenced his winter season last evening, and had the wand of Prospero fallen into his hands, he could not have created a greater change in the interior of his theatre than it presented on the admission of the public, compared with its appearance but two or three nights ago. Then it was dark, dusty, and faded; now it is light, bright, and brilliant. In fast, a more wonderful embellishmen has never been made in so short a space of time. The great feature of the evening, however, was the debut of Miss Bateman, an American actress of great celebrity, in a play called " Leah," a translation of the German play of " De borah," in which Madame Ristori appeared at Her Majesty's Theatre last season. It will be remembered that, some 10 or 12 years ago, two juvenile comedians, " The Bateman Children," respectively aged six and nine, appeared at the St. James's Theatre, in selections from our best English comedies, and created a very favourable impression by their acting; and the young lady, whose arrival has been heralded in the usual public way, is the senior of those two children, but now a matured actress' We must candidly confess we have always had a horror of the forcing " principle that must be employed in bringing up a juvenile prodigy to the mark of excellence, because, as a rule, it always ends by crushing out all taste and inclina tion a child may exhibit for any particular study. Few, very few, who have undergone the exhausting efforts have been heard of in after time, and as the excellence of their early training has not been shown, it cannot be surmised that they have, when the opportunity presented itself, thrown up a study which could only have engendered dis • like, and completely destroyed all real natural ability. As a rule we think this must be taken to be the case, but as there is no rule without an exception we are pleased to re cord Miss Bateman as one of those rare instances. The play of " Leah " is intended to illustrate the persecu• tion endured by the Jews in different parts of the world, and in the present instance the scene is laid in Styria, and to prepare the audience in some measure, the following lines appear in the play bill— " Happily the last vestige has disappeared from our own a nnals of religions persecution, but that en the Continent, s od especially in some parts of Germany, it subsisted to a ve ry recent period. In a remote village of Styria, whose inhabitants, simple and primitive in their manners, live in Christian peace and harmony with each other, the appear ance of a poor Jewish maiden with her aged relatives is su facient to rouse the worst passions of human nature, and to c onvert the peaceful peasant into a ferocious hater of his f e llow-creature. The wretched outcasts are denied all com munion with their Christian brethren—they are deemed inca pable of the common feelings of humanity, and bent only on evil and sordid gain, and the village knows no rest un til they are secure that the Jewish intruders have been bun ted from its boundaries." The plot is rather long, but briefly narrated, it is as follows :—A young Jewess named Lea h, with two or three of her persecuted race, on their way to Bohemia, are compelled through sickness to h a lt on their road and make a temporary resting place at the o utskirts of a village in Styria. By accident a young f ar mer, Rudolpf, the son of the magistrate of the place, an d the be trothed lover of Aladelena meets the Jewess Lea h, and an attachment, enamoured no doubt by the beau ty of the suffering and persecuted maiden, is formed. The frequent and unusual absence of Rudoipf from home induces certain inquiries as to the cause, but some suspect that it is occasioned by his attachment to Leah, Through the instru m entality of Nath a n, an apostate, who, 15 years ago, became a Christian to further his personal and worldly interests , the residence of the young Jewess is discovered, but not her love for Rudolpf. In order to escape the ill treatment to which she and others of her race had been she leave s h er temporary habitation and encounters hixepdoesedl s, iea a niece o f th e v il lage pr i est. Thi s young l a d y, f ee li n g a kindly e sympathy for her sufferings, endeavours to persuade Lorrenz, the magistrate, to allow her to obtain s helter in the vill age . N e ith er th e mag i s t ra t e nor the pries is disposed to be d ea f t o th e y oung d a m se l' s solici tations; but their ch ar it a bl e impulses are worke d upon b y Nathan, who is know n as " B ertolf, the sc h oo l mas t er, " and who p rofesses su ch a deep-rooted hatred for the entire Jewish race, that th e v ill agers, following his dictates, turn upon Lo h with a degree of ferocity which sets at nought all of being tre a t e d ot h erwise than as an outcast. Rudolpf, however, pursues h er , an d d e ; f ares t o h er th a t, her hopes notwithstanding the strong prejudices existing between his race own, she is th e so l e o bj ec t o f hi s l ove an d at tachment, and that he w ill spee dil y ma k e h er hi s w if e. Thi s d ec laration is overheard by Nathan, who immediately of Rudolf, an d th en f o ll ows a b r i e f b u t painful informs and her o f a ther interview between f a th er an d son , th e resu l t that, as N a th an suggests a Jew w i ll d o a nything for money, a sum of money shall i be offered to of which t h a Leah to leave the village, and thus enable Rudolf to regain his partly lost affection for Madelena. After eer Rudolf cons ents t o t h e experiment being tried, n deep love of L ea h th at s h e w i ll ind i gnantly f bribe; but Nath an , w h o i s c h osen to carry the re utas certain a th whileine the monoe gladly money sent to t 0 gives it t o another Jewess, named Sarah, h promises to quit th e v i llage. Intelligence is at once Leahy that th e J ewess has accepted the money. w But in the meantime an old blind Hebrew, who has over heard detects in th e vo i ce o f N a th an a v ill a i n who has the committed ntery N ' v other cri mes b es i des apostacy. This so enrages Nathan that he kil ls the old father on the spot. i Leah, however, fearful of her lover's absence, seeks him at his hous e, and is spurned by all, even by Rudolf, who' ees t he calumnie s t o ld of her. Five years are w father's heiiev now supposed to elapse, when Leah re-appears, vowing hatred and revenge On Rudolf. In the meantime Rudolf has married Maddens, and their first-born has been named “Leah." Instead of a curse, the heart-broken wanderer breathes a blessing upon Rudolf, and dies, but not before he denounced and a p os t acy o f N at h an . Having thus h plot, let u s now s p ea k o f th e per f orma nce, and first of Miss Bat eman . Sh e i s now a l a d y te outlined treachery the of the most graceful figure, with fine expressive features, glittering,and a blo n d e . H er vo i ce i s goo d , every word dazzling shez lin geyes,ottersis audible (but with it there is the transa tl an tic twang), a n d z her action grand, imposing, and majestic, It is not until the third act that any great call is m ade upon her powers; but th en , w h en th e e ff or t was made, the audience were most enthusiastic in their applause. Th e fourth ac t was also very finely given, scene she gav e man y o f th e li nes and pathos. Si nce t h e appearance e wa f nitd m ili i en e x e sithU c ei u S s :C h e : d g el u itti ed w ainc e ig have not had a finer actress from the other side of the Atlantic, and when she has overcome some of her Americanisms, which an artiste of her great talent is sure to do, she will become an amazing favourite with the public. Mr. Killington played the part of Rudolf with great earnestness;denc Arthur Stirling, as Nathan, gave vi useful addition to the talented company of the Adelp hi • e The play has been p ut u p on the stage in a magnificent manner, and we have to con g r atulate Mr. Webster upon e of e h acid tg lk verylr the successful manner in which he has inaugurated his winter season. LITERARY ANNOUNCEMENTS, SIR EDWARD RULWER LYTTON'S " Caxtoniana : a Series of Essays on Life, Literature, and manners,,, com pleted this month as a series of eloquent and scholarly essays, in 21! a9e, will b e published in two volumes by Messrs. Blackwood and Sons. in November. LORD MACAULAY'S HlsTonv OF ENGLAND is about to be issued in a People's Edition, in fourteen shilling numbers, by Messrs. Longman and Co. MR. ANTHONY TROLLOPE'S new novel of " Rachel Ray," originally announced to appear in Good Wordsovill, instead of that, be published next week in two volumes by Messrs. Chapman and Hall. MR. RICHARD DOYLE'S whimsical " Bird's -Eye Views of Society," collected together from the Cornhill Magazine, are about to be re-issued in a separate form, by Messrs. Smith, Elder, and Co. MIL HENRY KINGSLEY will commence a new story, and Mr. David Masson a series of articles on " Dead Men whom I have known," in the November number of Alas. milieus 's Magazine. MR. J. HILL BURTON, author of the " Bookhunter," has a volume in the press entitled " The Scot Abroad, and other Miscellanies." MR. TUPPER has selected what he considers the gems of his writings, and will publish the collection immediately in a volume entitled " Cithara." MR. W ALTER THORNBURY, who it may be remembered has done the like before by both Turkey and Spain, is now travelling in Russia, collecting materials for a series of magazine articles, afterwards to appear in a couple of volumes as a separate publication. HOWARD STAUNTON'S " SHAKSPERE” is announced to be about to appear in a new and beautiful form, as an edition in four volumes demi-octavo, printed on tinted paper, akd published by the Messrs. Routledge. DIRECTOR HARDINGER has described before the Vienna Academy the meteorite of Albareto, which fell in July, 1766, in the Duchy of Modena, on which occasion a brochure was published by Jesuit Father Troili. 1081 1 1 21i- 2} 761 i 6i 70k 1 091 70 The New Law Officers of the Crown. Sir Roundell Palmer, Q.C., M.P. for Richmond, Yorksiiire, who has been appointed Attorney-Gene ral in ,the room of Sir William Atherton, is the second se,n of the late Rev. li r aliam Jocelyn Pal mer, 8.D., of Mixbury, Oxfordshire, by the youngest daughter of the Rev. William Roundell, of Gled stanes, York. He was born in 1812, and was edu cated at Winchester, where he gave high promise of his future honours in scholarship. H e o b tained a scholarship at Trinity College, Oxford, an d i n 1831 obtained the Latin verse prize for the p oem. " Nurnantia.;" in 1832, the Ireland University Scholarship, end the Newdigate English poem " Stain ;" in 1834, a first-class in " Liter's humani oribus ;" in 1833, a fellowship at Magdalen, and the Latin essay "De jure clientelve apud Ru manes ;" and in 1836, the Eldon law scholar ship. Such a brilliant university career has rarely been known. Mr. Palmer was called to the bar by the Society of Lincoln's-inn, June 9, 1837, and speedily obtained a very large Chancery practice. In 1848 he was appointed Queen's Coun sel, and is now one of the leaders of the Chancery bar. In 1832 he was appointed deputy high steward of the University of Oxford, of which he is one of the greatest living ornaments. In 1847 Mr. Palmer obtained a seat in the House of Commons for Plymouth, in the Liberal-Conser vative interest, and retained it till 1852, when his vote against the Papal Aggression Bill, which he joined with Mr. Gladstone, Sir J. Graham, &c., in opposing, caused him to be displaced by a severer Protestant, Mr. R. P. Collier, the new Solicitor- General. He regained his seat in 1853, and held it till 1857. In Parliament he took a high position at once by his ability, his unforensic style of speaking, his earnestness, and his evi dent religious principles of action. Latterly Mr. Palmer seemed to approximate more nearly to the Conservative side of the house than Mr. Glad stone and the Peelites generally. But in 1862, on the appointment of Sir R. Bethell to the Chancel lorship, and the promotion of Sir W. Atherton to the Attorney-Generalship, Lord Palmerston secured the services of Mr. Palmer as Solicitor-General, who was then out of Parliamant. He obtained a seat For Richmond by the friendly resignation of Mr. Henry Rich. Last session he conducted the chief legal business of the Government in the house, and this year he took the leading part as counsel for the Crown in the Alexandra case. Sir Roundell married in 1848 Lady Laura Walde grave, second daughter of the late Earl Waldegrave, and sister of the Lord Bishop of Carlisle. He is a High Churchman, in favour of church rates, against the ballot, and earned a high reputation by his energetic and eloquent speeches in opposition to marriage with a sister-in-law. His " Book of Praise" is a unique and most valuable repertory of devotional poetry. Mr. Robert Porrett Collier, Q.C., M.P. for Ply mouth, who has been appointed Solicitor-General in the room of Sir Roundell Palmer, is the son of Mr. John Collier, M.P. for Plymouth from 1832 to 1841, by Emma, daughter of Me. Porrett, of North Hill, Devon. Ho was born in 1817, and graduated at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1841, without taking honours. He was called to the bar by the Inner Temple, January 27,1843, and soon obtained a large practice on the Western Circuit. He was for a time Recorder of Penzance. In 1854 be was appointed a Q.C., with a patent of precedence ; in 1859, Judge-Advocate of the Fleet and counsel to the Admiralty, in th© room of Sir William Atherton. In 1852 he was returned for Plymouth to the House of Commons, in opposition to his present chief, Sir R. Palmer. He has taken an active part in advocating the abolition of church rates and supporting marriage with a sister-in-law ; he earned the favour of the Whig Ministry by supporting the Conspiracy to Murder Bill (1858) against his Ra dical friends, and generally has rendered himself eligible for high legal preferment. He, of course, supports the ballot. In 1844 he married Isabella, daughter of Mr. W. R. Rose, of Woolwich. MARKETS—This Day. MARK-LANE. Only a moderate supply of English wheat was received fresh up to this morning's market. The demand for all qualities, however, was in a sluggish state, yet prices were unaltered from Monday last. With foreign wheat the market was well supplied. In all descriptions, sales progressed slowly, at late rates. Floating cargoes of grain were in slow request, at previous currencies. _ _ _ The supply of barley was moderately large. The demand for all descriptions ruled heavy, at Monday's decline in the currency. The malt trade was dull, and prices had a downward tendency. The supply of oats was moderate. All descriptions moved off slowly, at late rates. For beans and peas the trade was in a sluggish state, on former terms. In the demand for flour no activity vas observed, yet prices ruled stationary. ARRIVALS THIS VICEIC. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flout. English.— 1,240 1,780 1 1,120 lllO I 1120 Irish — 1350 -- Foreign.— 12,110 1,740 9020 230 alcs. 130 brls. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The supply of meat is moderately large, and the trade rules heavy at barely late rates. Per 81b. by the carcase. sdad sded Inferior beef .. 2 6 2 10 Middlingmutton 3 10 4 2 Middling do. .. 3 0 3 4 Prime do 4 4 4 6 Prime large do. 3 6 3 8 Vaal 3 8 4 2 Do. small do. .. 3 10 4 0 Small pork •• .• 4 6 4 8 Large pork .... 3 8 4 4 Lamb Inferior mutton. 3 4 3 8 BOROUGH HOP• Good and fine new English hops move off steadily, and the late advance in prices is well supported. The demand for inferior parcels, including yearling, old, and foreign hops, is by no means active, yet no change has taken place in their value. New Mid and East Kents £s 12s to £7 10s per cwt. Weald of Kents Sussex . sOs to 6Os ~ COLONIAL. TEA..—Tho market has remained very quiet, and prices are unaltered. Good shipping Congou is quoted 111c1 to 12d per lb. ST:GAR.—OnIy a limited amount of business has been entered into. West India descriptions, however, have maintained former prices, while other qualities are rather cheaper. In the refined market there is little change to re cord as regards values. COFFEE.—Business in colonial descriptions has continued dull, and prices generally have shown a downward tendency. RlCE.—There has been a fair demand fur good shipping qualities, which have realised full rates. TALLOW. — The market has continued very dull, and prices have slightly given way. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted 44s 6d ; December, 45s 6d; and spring delivery, 46s to 46s 3d per cwt. Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) Market opens strong. Sales, 8,000 bales or more. SHIPPING—This Day. LONDON, Oct. 2.—Wind this day at noon—South- Easterly; moderate breeze, and fine weather, but rather cloudy. QUEENSTOWN, Oct. I.—Wind W.—Arrived—Boa, from Montreal ; Virginia, steamer, from Liverpool, and left for New York. The Price of Gold. The quotation of gold at Paris is about per raffle pm., a ° : the short exchange on London is 25.25 per £1 sterling. f £3 comparing these rates with the English Mint price 1d la 17s. 104 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appear 0 ' 1 2; about 3-10 the per cent. dealer in London than i n ra " ver . inark By advices from Hamburg the price of gold 18 4/51 -geeing. and the short exchange on London is 13.61 fererelore, about tandard gold at the English Mint price 191,abmburg 6-10ths per cent. dearer in London than fil Lon don for bills at The course of exchange at New York I d t he premium on 60 days' sight is about 146 i per cen t - t i we is little, if any gold is :i3i per cent. At these rate_9 the United States. profit on the importation of gold fro' Liverpool THE FLORlDA.—YesterdaY (Thursday) a l etter that the Florida h from Brest, of the 28th ult., WM posted i -n the mercantile har- Underwriters' Room, reporting Government dry dock, and was thengoininthtoe ad left the the roadstead in three weeks or a month. The Federal ready for sea for arrived from Madeira and Ferrol cruiser Kearsage has coal at J3rot, , There was a scarcity of SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day, NEWMARKET RACES.—TIIIS DAY. (ET ELECTRIC TELEGRATH,) lIANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES. T,Y.C. Lady Louisa Merry Maid Ten ran. SWEEPSTAKES OF 30 SOVS. Fille de I'Air . 1 Woodcraft '.4 Six ran. SWEEPSTAKES OF 30 SOVS. Midnight Mass .Briandisi .... .. Six ran. OCTOBER HANDICAP. The Monk flan-at-Arnis Twenty-teur ran. RACING FIXTURES FOR 1863. SEPTEMBER. OCTOBER. Coventry .............. 6 Lincoln Autumn 20 Bedford ............... 6 Kelso Caledonian Hunt ...... 7 Gloucester Newmarket 8. 0.. .. .... 12 Newmarket, Houghton 2 26 - - NOVEMBER. Worcester ............. 3 I Shrewsbury Autumn.... 16 IRISH. SEFTEMI3En. Listowel .21 1 I Je nkinstown Park 23 .. 21 Limerick 0 CTonzit. Curragh ..... 20 Horrors of Speech-making at a Ci v i c Dinner. While I was thus amiably occupied in criticising my fellow-guests, the mayor had got up to propose another toast, and listening rather inattentively to the first sentence or two, I soon became sensible of a drift in his Worship ' s remarks that made me glance apprehensively toward s Ser geant Wilkins. "Yes," grumbled that gruff petson age, shoving a decanter of port towards me, "it is your turn next ;" and seeing in my face, I suppose, the consternation of a wholly unpractised orator, he kindly added—" It is nothing. A mere acknowledgment will answer the purpose. The less you say, the better they will like it." That being the case, I suggested that perhaps they would like it best it I said nothing at all. But the sergeant shook his head. Now, on first receiving the mayor's invitation to dinner, it had occurred to me that I might possibly be brought into my present predicament; but I had dismissed the idea from my mind as too disagreeable to he entertained, and, moreover, as no alien from my dis position and character that Fate surely could not keep such a misfortune in store for me. If nothing else prevented, an earthquake or the crack of doom would certainly interfere before I need rise to speak. Yet here was the mayor getting on inexorably—and, indeed, I heartily wished that he might get on and on for ever, and of his wordy wanderings find no end. If the gentle reader, my kindest friend and closest confidant, deigns to desire it, I can impart to him my own experience as a public speaker quite as indifferently as if it concerned another person. Indeed, it does concern another, or a mere spectral phenomenon, for it was not I, in my pro per and natural self, that sat there at table or subsequently rose to speak. At the moment. then, if the choice had been offered me whether the mayor should let off a speech at my head or a pistol, I should unhesitatingly have taken the latter alternative. I had really nothing to say, not an idea in my head, nor, which was a great deal worse, any flowing words or embroidered sentences in which to dress out that empty Nothing, and give it a cunning aspect of intelligence, such as might last the poor vactity the little time it had to live. But time pressed; the mayor brought his remarks, affectionately eulogistic of the United States, and highly complimentary to their distinguished representative at the table, to a close, amid a vast deal of cheering; and the band struck up "Hail Columbia," I believe, though it might have been "Old Hundred," or "God Save the Queen" over again, for anything that I should have known or cared. When the music ceased, there was an intensely disagreeable instant, during which I seemed to rend away and fling off the habit of a lifetime, and lose, still void of ideas, but with preternatural composure, to make a speech. 'rho guests rattled on the table, and cried " Hear I' most voci ferously, as if now, at length, in this foolish and idly gar rulous world, had come the long-expected moment when one gold word was to be spoken ; and in that imminent crisis I caught a glimpse of a little bit of an effusion of in ternational sentiment, which it might, and must, and should do to utter. Well; it was nothing, as the sergeant had said. What surprised me most was the sound of my own voice, which I had never before heard at a declamatory pitch, and which impressed me as belonging to some other person, who, and lot myself, would be responsible for the speech : a prodigious consolation and encouragement under the circumstances I I went on without the slightest embarrassment, and sat down amid great ap plause, wholly undeserved by anything that I had spoken, but well won from Englishmen, methought, by the new development of pluck that alone had enabled we to speak at all.—. Nathaniel Hawthorne's " Our Old Home." Royal National Lifeboat Institution. Yesterday a meeting of this institute was held at its house, John-street, Adelphi, Captain Sir Edward Perrott, Bart., vice-president, in the chair, There were also present Ad miral Sir George Sartorius, W. H. Harton, Esq., Colonel Palmer, High Sheriff of Essex, John Griffith, Esq., Admi ral Bullock, Captain De St. Croix, and Richard Lewis, Esq., secretary of the institution. A payment of £7 108. 6d. was ordered to be made to de. fray the expenses of the Southport lifeboat, belonging to the society, in rescuing the master's wife and child and twelve of the crew of the barque St. Lawrence, of Liverpool, which, during a gale of wind and heavy surf, had stranded on the Salthouse Sandbank, on the Lancashire coast, on the 20th ult. The captain and three of the crew refused to leave the vessel, and the Lytham lifeboat, which also belongs to the institution, afterwards put eff with the view of saving them, but they remained firm in their determination not to quit the ship, and the lifeboat returned to the shore. In the course of the night they left the ship in their own boat, and had a narrow escape of their lives. The institution also voted £8 to pay the expenses of the lifeboat. The Lytham lifeboat went off again, and ultimately succeeded in bring ing the vessel into port, much to the satisfaction of the owner, who witnessed the persevering and gallant exertions of the lifeboat's crew, to whom he made a very handsome present. Both lifeboats behaved admirably on these occa sions. The cost of the Southport lifeboat was the gift to the society of James Knowles, Esq., of Bagley Bank, and that of the Lytham lifeboat, of Thomas Clayton, Esq , of Wake field. Rewards amounting to £2l were also granted to the crews of the Walmer and Holyhead lifeboats of the institution, for putting of in reply to signals of distress from vessels, but when their services were not ultimately required. A reward of £2 was also granted to two fishermen for putting off and saving the lives of four men, who, whilst re cently making for the shore off Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, were capsized from their boat during blowing weather. A reward was also voted to a boat's crew of four men for putting off and rescuing three out of six persons who had been capsized from their boat off Kiloven, in Carlingfozd Lough. Two ladies and ono gentleman had unfortunately perished on the occasion before assistance could reach them from the shore. A reward was likewise voted to a boat's crew for going off and saving the lives of two sailors belonging to a Nor wegian vessel lying in the Downs. The men who had beenon shore, wer e re t urn i ng t o th e i r s hi p i n a sma ll boat , e , t n w en. they were ov e rt a k en by a su dd en squa ll, w hi c h capeizZ itely Some Deal boatmen ob serv i ng t h e acc id en t intal ec : ro i ng launched their boat and succeeded in saving th° dr° men. crews of Various other rewardo were also voted to th° shore boats for saving life from different roe w the ks in . stitution'a ° l e A dmiral Wash.. A resolution was passed expressive had materially deep sympathy with the widow of the I B L it y. The gallant ingten, F.R.S., hydrographer to the Mal: Ord rendered irup0r ........ meboats ready admiral had, during a long series of r tant services to the lifeboat eau of Northumberland, assisted, in conjunction with Dukethe boat inotitution i n , wad Teignmoutb. in resuscitating the National Id? ,,_, ,1 ~, , 1851. It was also stated that the to be sent to Eastbourne, Swansea (Devon). the late milborne It was reported that d left the so • Williams,, sq., of ins - u :A uu rrlow, ~ clety a legacy of £5O. Whitechurch, Somerset, 0 re ctor of }ty po The Rev. R. S. Sutton, 6 c 1 ., as a thank , near Hurst Green, had sent the society X ndent harvest ank offering from his for the sba vest a the present year. congregation s q. of Begbreke H M ichael Stee ,,,, lP titution ah p House, had likewise for warded to the ; minting t o 1,.. eral donation of £lOO. raP ients gin ooo having been made on vari t e stab lish m ents, the Proceedings closed. Ra lik of E ;la- - ingland Return,—Yesterday. ! An Account) Pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, c p. 32, for the of Sept., 1863 :-- 'week ending on Wednesday, the 30th day ISSUE DEPARTMENT. :Notes issued "....X29.229,310 £29,229,340 1 BANKING D oprlctors' Capi tal £14.553,000 I Rest Public Deposits (in chiding Exche quer, Savings' Banks, Commis missioners of Na tional Debt, and Dividend Ac- counts) 9,270,486 Other Deposits 13,717,460 Seven Day and other Bills 794,847 Oct. 1,1863. Government Debt .£11,015,1C0 Other Securities 3.034,90 U Gold Coin & Bullion 14,579,340 Silver £29,229,340 EPARTNENT. Government Secu rities (including Dead W eight A nnuity) £11,141,234 Other Securities 22.6.3,119 Notes . Gold and Silver 698,545 Coin X 42,064,388 AL MA raIIALL, ief I C 4 L , O b 6 l 'll3.