The Sun. — London, England, 1864-09-06 00:00:00

Pr - MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Moderate supplies of gold continue to pass into the vaults of the Bank of England, and this cir cumstance is exerting a beneficial influence in monetary circles as well as the Stock Exchange, where affairs are much less gloomy than they were a few days ago. The quantity of gold purchased by the authorities yesterday was £66,000, and other similar operations are likely to take place during the next few days. There is scarcely any altera tion to report in the actual condition of the discount market. It is tolerably well provided with floating capital, but as no decided opinion can be formed as to the future, the j o in ta s t oc k an d p r ivate establish ments still restrict their transactions, and are mani festing an unusual d egree o f cautionin all the busi ness they negoeiate. Long dated bills are by no means in favour, and at the present moment one of the most popular channels for the temporary em. ployment of surplus money is the Stock Exchange, where loans from day to day are f ree l y o ff ered at 5 per cent. upon the security of the English Funds. It is satisfactory to be able to state that the rumours circulated at the Stock Exchange within the last few days relative to commercial embarras ments have proved unfounded. Although failures may be occasionally announced, there can be no doubt that the trade of the country is very healthy, ar.d as credit has been exceedingly well maintained no difficulty is experienced by respectable houses in obtaining all the accommodation requisite to discharge their accruing engagements. 0 wing to the position of the exchanges and other considerations, the flow of gold to the continent is not expeced to be immediately resumed on an ex tensive scale, and this is rather in favour of mone tary prospects. Large quantities of gold are coining forward from Russia, which, with the receipts from Australia, America, &c., will ensure a very large importation of the precious metals. The City of Baltimore has arrived from America with £12,600. •••=l' MINI .••••. Two o'CLCK. An advance of 1 p er cent. has taken place o in the value of the Fonds, although at one time it appeared as if a further decline was inevitable. The improve. =tint has occurred through few purchases engen dered by a more hopeful feeling with regard to future monetary prospects. Consols are now 87& for money, and 88i 1- for the account. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 851 d ; March Exchequer Bills, ss. die. ; and India 5 per Cents., 1031. In the Foreign Market rather more firmness has been apparent, and business is not active. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 70 ; do. Consolides, 601 ; Mexican, 28k; do. New 25 ; Greek, 241 i; Spanish Passive, 311 ; do. Certificates, 13f 3 ; Portuguese, 471; and the Confederate Loan, 791 801. In the Railway Share Market there has been rather a firmer tone. Caledonian have improved 55.; and Lancashire and Yorkshire, and Great Western, each 105. ; while North Western have declined £l. The Foreign and Colonial lines remain inactive at about former values. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares, in one or two instances, slightly improved. Alliance realise 53; Bank of Australasia, 74; European Bank, 594' ; Metropolitan and Provincial, 24U ; Oriental Bank, 591 ; London Financial, 23Z ; Hudson Bay Company, 14 ; Cred:t Foncier and Mobilier of England Shares are quoted 3 3; prem. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. GoVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 per Cent. Console Do Ac count, Aug. 8 B7g 3 per Cent. Reduced New 3 per Cent. B si 11 t New 2} per Cent. Jan. 1891.... Do 5 per Cent., Jan. 1873 a Annuities, 30 yrs, expire .sth Jan., 1880.. Do for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885... Do (Red Bea Telegraph), Aug. 1908... Exchequer Bill s ; Z l,OOO, 3 & 3 . March. June. 1 per Cent Do £5OO .... . ........... Do £lOO and £2OO .. 5 die Bank England Stk, 51 per Ct. Do Account INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. India Stock, 10} per Cent., April 1871.... -- Do Account Do 5 per Cent. July, 1870 Do 4 per Cent., Oct, 1888 Do Certificates Do Account Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) — Do 4f per. Cent. Do Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent........._.. IDo 5 per Cent,, Jan. 1872 Do 41 per Cent., May, 1879 Do 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 Do Bonds £l,OOO Do under £1,000...... FOREIGN FUNDS —ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent Brazilian 5 per Cent........... Do 4i per Cent., 1852-58-60 Do Buenos A 1863 yres 6 per Cent .. Do Account.... - Chilian 6 per Cent. Do 41 per Cent ... Colombian 6 per Cent Cuba, 6 per Cent. Do 5 per Cent, 1864 Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 Do 4 par Cent, 1863 Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent....._ Do, Provisonal Land Warrant... - Egyptian 7 per:C ent 9Ba Do, Second Issue - Greek 5 per Cent., 1821-5, ex-Coupons.. Do Account Do Coup ons Do Account Guatemala 5 per Cent. Do 1839 and 1859 Italian 5 per Cent.(Marenuana Railway) 72 4 Mexican 3 per Cent Do Account Do 1864 Do French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c.. Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French — die Ditto Scrip, £23 paid Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada . . Do 2 per Cent..... Do Deferred Do Laud Warrants (Hectares) Do Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1864 — Do do Aug., 1866 — Peruvian 41 per C ent Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) Do 41 per Cent., 1862 Do Account.... 79i 7 Tortuguese 3 per Cent., 1843 ...... — Do Account Do 3 per Cent., 1866, '7, '9, '60, 62;3 47 Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, St 1 7 Do 41 per Cent., 1850 Do 1860 Do 3 per Cent 1859 Do 4 per Cent, 1862 Augio-Dutch D o Scrip, £4O paid Sardinianper Cent .... ... spa D n o i sAh c3copuen.rt Do Account Lent ........ Do Now Do Do Pass Account ....... ... ....... Do Account .............. : .. 371 Spanish Cert. o f Coup not tu.n.ded .... . —.7 Do Account .................. . .... Swedish, 4 per C ent. ............. 131 . - Do Scrip, £6O p a id .. `per Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 .............. Do Account . Do 6 per Cent. 1358 691 9 ~..nt Do .£: 4 00 Bonds Do 6 per C ent. 3862 Do Account _ Do £lOO B on d s . . 70 65 Do 1863 YDo Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. Do 1863 Scrip, £4O paid 'ulezuela 3 per Cent. bo.Do Account '3)06 per Cent., 1862 Account A Do ti per Cent., 1861 Dividends on the .nb.ove payable in ion.don, ustria n, 5 Per Cent., X. 10 Florins. .D 0 nt. Belgian 4i P e r . e . e . nt .. ,IZIZ: . 1... ii. mod) !?... Per e9e.t. .I.;x. 12 Guil 11 0 4 per Cent. C'ertificates . . Italian, 5 per Cent., 1.861,Er.2r; ! , 0 A cei quit T , rei&l. Rilnte3, 3 Pr& Cent. f ' ,, ruvitm. DAL! r Purvis, 41 1 ,‘,„; et : i1x•4..3, ,n,..f . , i' C,2nt., Ex. 25f / Iciint ~ . , .. TWO O'CLOCK. Consols Money ...................... j,t Do Acoouni ........................ 884 STRIKE OF LABOVRERS.—The labourers employed on the largo block of buildings intended for medal lodging houties now being erected in Fart ingdon-road. have struck work fur an advance of Is. per week. The contractor* hay © e been hitherto paying :C1 per week to their SHARE fdARKETS—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Railways. I Paid. Wol.,_and Str. Val. Iliythe and Tyne. Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall (A acts no di v D° A till 6p c.p an.has Do. B bean paid to B. Dublin & Belfast J one. Don.,Perth,&Ab. June. Edinburgh & Glasgow. Glasg. and S. Western.l Great Eastern, Ord. stki Ditto A stock ..—.' Ditto EastAnglian at: GreatNorthof Scotland I Great Northern.... • • • • I Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. and W. of Irelsn Great Western ,Original Do Str Val elm. 6toLti: Do. South Wales Do. Vs at .1.1.1 d. —oxford! DO V Newport', Do Hereford Lancashire (Rs Yorkshire ;London and Biaokwall 'Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. Sr So'.th Western Man., Shef., & Lincoln. laryport and Carlisle. Dot shares... Metropolitan Midland Do Birraing. t Derby, Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland' DO. Ishaiel --- Ind Kent ... North British Edin., Perth, dc Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds Do York Do Carlisle Do. Stook. & Darling Do do 1855-53 Do do 18t1C-61 North London Do New •••••• Do New, 184. North Staffordshire .. N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot. N. E. ' Aber. stook Do Scot. Mid. stock Shrews. and Welohpool Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines,Wok.,andWok Taff Vale Do B Io C ........ Val D e of Neath Waterford la Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Haraccß Closing Business 't Price. I done. 83 65 121 125 6 7 32 34 16 17 89 01 110 112 4.5 i 461 7 7i l'S 140 141 127 130 90 92 68i 64 1151 1152 65 67 104 (03 40 42 112 1121 95 e 6 65 C 6 Ion& 7071 1201 134 10J 102 54 65 25 26 1051 106 i 64 65 93 04 36 37 9 10 f, 76 86P 123 126 6 74i 75} 11 111 125 130 57 59 33 37 83 831 101 103 7 8 leo 105 5 6 c. 2 3 p 101 103 31 36 100 1100 100 ioo BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Closing Shir t . Rallwaye ! Paid. Price. Business done 10 0 I:tin:the &St Lawrence I all 58 60 Sk S dom.,Barodadr.Cent 1 'I 100 101 102 Gu. 5 per cent. . 20 Do. E. 5hare5........ 74 1 dis p 9/ 204 buffalo and LaxeliuroL all 0 5 1 10 Do. Preferance .• 74 81 10 0 iiiiirsle,Brant o lzG3dricl p. at. bds. Aug. 1, 1871 1100 75 SO 100 Do. do. July 1, 187; 100 75 80 100 Do. do. June 1, 187- 100 75 80 st Jlcutta.&S.Eagn. (Lin, f 100 97 99 st k_lapeTown & Dock Seri, 100 94 96 100 . Demerara 7 p.c. per. pf all stook r:astn. Bengal go. bp. luv 102 104 102 Stook East Indian, go. sp. c 100 101 902 1014 1 20 Do. do. Li- Ext..... all 191 20i 20 Do. do. H do. .. all 191 201 20 ;1 stock , :•and Trunk of Canaili, Ivo 19 2) 1 0 Do.Egnip. Mort. Bonds 1 charge 6 per cent all 91 93 100 Do. lot rret. Bonds.. ad 71 73 100 Do. do. deferred...... all eo 63 100 Do. 2d Pref. Bonds.. all 65 67 100 Do. do. deferred...... all 55 57 10 0 Do. 3d Pref. stock ... all 48 54 100 Do. do. deferred.... .. all 43 15 100 Do. 4th Pref. stock: all 27 29 100 Do. do. deferred...... all 26 28 'took Gt.bidtarenin.gua.bp.o 100 102 103 (04 20 Do. New vua. 6p. 0... 12 par 4p Stook It. South.o.lnd!a (Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 99 101 stock Do. 4/ per cent..... 100 stock Do 20i Gt. W. of Canada Sharer all 91 10 . 10 1 Do. New . . . 100 Do. 6 p.o. '73 with't opt all 89 91 100 Do. 51 p. o. do. '77-8 all 82 81 10 Endian Branch Limited 2 4 d iv stock liadras. guar~ sp. 0. stock Do. 11 p. 0. Extension 100 93 95 934 stock D 0.14 do lOO 89 91 20 Do. Fifth Extenson 2 stook Ilelb.Corp. 6p. o. Bnds. 100 50 hdlg. & Ilobson's Bay. all 58 CO 100 Do. 7 p.c. 11.1ortg. Bds. all *0 New Brunswick& Candi . Class A and B all 3 5 N.Rl.C'da6 po let pf bch 100 80 81 stock Soinde (100 994 1001 stock Do. Delhi le l 4.: 100 194 1004 20 Do. ' E 2 Id par at Do. Punjaub all 931 1004 991 Do. Do. ?. stook Do. Indus.St.Flo.) 1100 95 97 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. 'British Columbia, 5 per cent., Dec. 3i, 1872.... 100 Do. do. 1883.... 100 oi; 1877-31 . ........ 100 96 99 • 96 51 61 Do. 6p. c. Feb k Am : 100 96 99 Do. 6p. c.Mar.& Sept 100 98 102 Do. bp. c. Jan.&July. 100 84 86 831 1 Do. 5 Inseribed stool 100 84 86 %ape G.Hope, 6 p 100 104 106 Do.Ap & Oot. 1880 100 107 109 Do. 189( 100 100 111 Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 107 10.1 C eylon, N0v.1878, 6n , 100 110 112 Mauritius 6 p.cent.lB73 100 103 105 Do. 18781 'OO 103 106 o. 1 1C 101 103 NatalD Gov. 6 per cant.. BB2 100 lO4 107 N - .13.G0v. p.a. J a.dsJul) 100 97 100 97 Do. 6p. c„A.p. & Oct. 100 N. S.W. Gov. 5 p (3086. 100 97 99 Do. sp. 04 8 / 1 to 187 t 100 96 98 97 Do. d0.,1885 & upwch 100 96 98 964 New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. c. sterling, 1875. . . ..... 100 99 102 C,Zueensland Gcv. 6p. a. 100 (CO 103 1004 3 . Aus G5p.c.1578.& up.. 100 106 108 Vlo.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 1 0 0 Do. to 6 p.o. AnBtOot.. 100 ;09 110 109 81 BRITISH MINES. 2 iCai.ibrian Consol. G o ld 1 !ulliford Amalgamated..l 30 32 Devon G. Com., rTavist.)l 1 580 590 East Basn (IL (VW— 30 07 69 -- East Clogau Gold Ltd. —.— East Caradun 2.14.6 27 28 East Carn 8rea....... . 3.4.0 71 71 E. WlRussal (Tavistk.) 8.13.0 5 51 Gam.JzSt.Aubvn(Gwen , 581 5 7 iGreat South 17s 2 21 Wheal Vor (lielston 40 27 28 (Grenville... 6.16.1 74 8 lier:Ws-root ...... 8.12 38 40 Itlingston Dovrns ..... 4.18.0 34 41 ILady Bertha Nlargaret (Uny Lelant 9i 7 9 Ilarie Valley.. 4 Myndy Iron Ore (Lim ) :4 14 I d New Seton • North Downs 3 14 11 Basset (Mogan; 3.1.0 2 21 , North I% neal Cr o tty 'Par Consols (St. Blaze), !Providence (tiny Lelnt.), 10.0.7 40 42 ;South Caradon(St.Cleer, 11 100 520 Brea (llogan) — Is:Wheal Fran. l „KM() 421 474 iStray Park 130.17.6 28 30 I Lunar Silv.,2 Lead 3lin. !fin Cron v 18 19 Wet BaEset (Iliogan) l4 8 9 • WCr radon (Listeard) 9 91 101 West &ton ... ~ , 171 215 220 Wheal Basset (Mogan)! 54 92 95 Wheal Buller(►tedruth); 10 18 20 Wheal Kitty (11.Lelant); 2.0.6 WhealLudcott 1 3.5.8 11 2 Wheal Mary Ann Pen ) 8 14 18 j Wheal 3eton 5Bl 210 215 j Wheal Trelawney (Lis.) ; "; 19 21 j Wheal Uni on 4 II 14 2 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Eastern, E. Counties, Ext. No. 1,105 i Great Western Orig. 14 per cent ff., 97 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Lancaster and Carlisle, 207 8 London and Chatham, 44 per Cent, 89 Ditto, Com. Fund stock, 5 per cent., 97 .;I"; FOREIGN RAILWAYS.. Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidin), 12 FOREIGN MINES, Cape Copper, lim., 101 BANKS. Alliance (lim,), 51 24 1 4 3 Ditto, new, 48 174 Australasia, 74 Bank of Egypt, 27 Consolidated Bank, lim., 101 English, Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 20 English and Swedish, 15 European Bank, lim., 13 12; 131 Hindustan, China, and Japan (lim.), Ditto, new, 19 Imperial Bank (lhm). 33 4 it DittO, new, 23 Imperial Bank of china, India,:and Japan, Um., 5 42 5 Imperial Ottoman, 162 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 24 London and County, 721 4 London Joint Stock, 431 4f London and South African, 221 London and 11 estminster, 07 Merchant Bank, lim-, 26 Metropolitan and Provincial Bank. lim., 24Z National Pro vincial of England. 146 Ditto, dtto, 384 Untop. of Loudon, 51 2 1 Oriental Bati Corporation, 58 gi MISCELLANgOLTS. Amttrarcial Union, Insurance, 8 Continental Union Gas, lim. ()mitt Ponder, 131 credit Mobilier, 14 131 I,:uptian Cont, and d ing , lira., 4 Fore-street Warehouse lint 6i Hudson's Bay, 165 Imperial Mercantile Credit Asso., lim., 71 Indian Carrying, lim. 1/ Int ernational Financial Society, lim., SI Inte - rnational Land Credit, line., 51 irdian Irrigation (Canal Cavourl, Joint DittStock Discount, o, 5 per cent. Bondlims,., redem. 1870, lea ne d 00, 81 London Financial Association, lim., 23i 21 3) Ditto, new, 171 National Discount Company, lim., Nova Scotia Gold and Land, lim., Ditto (.1:1 , , Royal Mail Steam, 054 Telegrach Construe. and Maintenance, lim,, THE AUREST OF illummt —On the arrival of Muller in Engl an d the officers in charge will at once pro ceed with him to London, where his examination will take place at the Bow-street Police-court, from which offico the warrant was issued for his apprehension. It is expecloet that the examination will last two or three days, 1151 1 65 112 12i 954 4i 651 5 1061 7 131} 30; 1052 i THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1864 POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUG H-STREET. TIIE NEW MEDICAL ACT.-Mr Wm. Talley, solicitor, of Beacon's-fields, Bucks, in correspondence with the General Council of Medical Education and Registration, applied to Mr Tyrwhitt under the New Medical Act for a summons against a person, pretending to be a surgeon, and placing on his door a plate with the word " Surgeon" upon it. • Mr Tyrwhitt read the 40th clause of the act, as follows :-- "Any person who shall wilfully and falsely pretend to be, or take or use the name or title of a physician, doctor of medicine, licentiate iu medicine, surgeon, general practi tioner, or apothecary, or any name, title, addition, or de scription implying that he is registered under the Act, or that he is recognised by law as a physician, doctor of medicine, licentiate in medicine, surgeon, general practi tioner, or apothecary, shall, upon summary conviction for any such offence pay a sum not exceeding £20," and granted the summons. ' Mr Talley said that in applying for the summons he wished to state that there was no feeling of animosity to wards the person, but that it was for the protection of the public. WESTMINSTER. OMNIBUS CONDUCTORS' TRICKERY.—A very respectable looking woman applied to the magistrate for redress under the following circumstances : Applicant said that on Sunday night last she got into an omnibus at the Cambridge-road to be conveyed to St. George's Hospital. On passing Knightsbridge barracks she gave the conductor a shilling to take her fare, and when she got out said, " I gave you a shilling, if you remember, and I have not had my change," He replied, " Y es, all right, ma'am," and then the omnibus drove off, the con ductor pointing to his badge after he had gone some die stance, Complainant had succeeded in getting the number of the omnibus, and on going to the Bank on the following morning saw the omnibus time-keeper, who gave her the conductor's badge number. Mr Dayman inquired whether it was a Kew-bridge or a Hammersmith omnibus. Applicant said it was a Hammersmith omnibus only. Mr Dayman—What is the fare ? Applicant—Sixpence. Mr Dayman—ls there any difference of fare on a Sunday or after any particular time of night ? Applicant—There is a difference after 8 o'clock, but there is no fare whatever amounting to a shilling, which has been taken of me. Mr Dayman—What is the increased fare—it must be put upon the table of fares in the omnibus ? Applicant—lt is stated there, " Ninepence to London after S o'clock"—that is, either from Hammersmith or the Cambridge-road, the entire distance. Mr Dayman—You may take a summons for the over oharge. THAMES. ATTEI4IPT TO MURDER.—liarriett Penn, a surly-looking woman, was charged before Mr Partridge with attempting to murder George Allen, a sailor, at his lodings, Cornwall street. It appeared from the evidence that on the previous even ing about 9 o'clock complainant returned home, when he found the prisoner lying drunk on the bed. He told her to get up and get him his tea, and observed that he supposed she intended to serve him as she did a week ago. As she objected to do as he wished, he remarked that he would pack up his goods and go away in the morning. He was in the act of tying up his things and stooping down for that purpose, when the prisoner, who was behind him, gave him a violent blow on the head with a chopper, which caused the blood to flow profusely. Mr Partridge—Did she say anything when she struck you ? - Complainant said she called him a b—, and was about to strike him again, when a policeman came in. Mr Partridge—Have you felt any serious effects from the blow ? Complainant—Yes, sir. I have not been able to work since. I went to the station-house, where the wound was dressed by Mr. Ross, the divisional surgeon, who said it was a very bad wound. K 245 stated that he heard the disturbance, and that when he got in the room he found the complainant covered with blood, and the prisoner was wiping the blood from the chopper. (The constable produced the instrument, which had blood on it.) The prisoner was remanded. MARKETS—This Day. MARK-LANE. The arrivals of English wheat, fresh up to our markets today, were very moderate. The trade, however, was quiet for all qualities, yet no change took place in prices, compared with Monday. With foreign wheat, the market was well supplied. In most descriptions, a limited ,business was transacted, at previous quotations. Floating cargoes of grain moved off slowly, at late rates. There was a moderate supply of barley on the stands. Generally speaking the trade was dull, and prices had a drooping tendency. The malt trade was quiet, at late rates. The supply of oats on sale was large. There was less activity in the demand for most descriptions; nevertheless, prices ruled firm. Beans and peas were in limited supply, and both articles commanded extreme rates. Flom . was in moderate request, at Monday's quototions. ARRIVALS THIS WEER. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. English .. 320 60 530 110 290 Irish .. — 1,000 Foreign 3,110 1,670 10,990 380 brls. BOROUGH HOP. The supply of new hops on sale is tolerably large, and the trade rules heavy, at drooping prices, WHITECHAPEL. The supply of meat on sale is moderate, and the demand rules inactive, as follows : SBeef, from 2s 10d to: 4s 4d; mutton, 3s 8d to 4s 8d; veal, 3s 6d to 4s 4d; and pork, 3s to 48 6d per 81bs by the carcase. WESTMINSTER-BRIDGE IMPROVEMENTS. —Yes terday, by order of the Chief Commissioner of Public Works, the removal of the whole of the houses required to com plete the approaches to Westminster-bridge was commenced in Parliament-street, New Palace-yard, and Bridge-street. A STIPENDIARY MAGISTRATEPOR BIRKENHEAD. —At the monthly meeting of the Birkenhead Commis sioners yesterday it was agreed to appoint a committee to take into consideration the question of providing a stipen diary magistrate for Birkenhead. The commissioners gene rally are in favour of the appointment of a paid magistrate, and the committee's chief business therefore will be to fix the salary, &c. THE BIRKENHEAD STREET RAlLWAY.—Birken head, which resembles many American cities in having the advantage of an extensive street railway system, is to be subjected to law for this reason. Mr. Gough, hotel pro prietor, and Mr. Evans, omnibus proprietor (whose traffic the street railway interferes with), have intimated that un less the line of rails in Bridge-street are at once taken up, they will take such steps to enforce their removal as the solicitors acting for them may advise. PREMATURE SMOKING.—Like many other pro found thinkers, Mr Punch is fond of smoking, and he naturally entertains a sympathy for smokers, To have his sympathy, however, smokers must smoke sensibly, and not commit excesses. Mr _Punch likes moderate drinking, but he hates to see men drunk; and he regards immoderate smokers as only a shade less to be despised by him than drunkards. Smoking prematurely is, to Air Lunch's think ing, the worst form of excess, and the one which moves in him most hatted and disgust. Smoking prematurely is a selfish, snobbish practice, and it is matter for re gret that there are not more means to stop it, Clearly it is nonsense to pretend,that boys can really have a need or liking for tobacco, or be a whit the better or the happier for using it. Boys who prematurely smoke do so not because they like it, but because they think it manly to be seen able to smoke. Such smokers are, in fact, mean, silly little snobs, and all right-minded people justly hold them in cone tempt. Nature does her best to act as their tobacco stopper ; but by practice they acquire the power to smoke without being made sick by it, and this done they delude them selves by fancying that tobacco has become a vital need to them, and when they smoke they try to think they really relish it. This, however, is . sheer nonsense, for the true taste for tobacco comes alone with age, like the appetite for turtle, and it is not to be acquired by those who prematurely seek it. Moreover, bo3 s who take to smoking have not the sense to put due bounds on their indulgence, and they are apt to smoke at times when it does them the most it jury, and is to others the worst nuisance. linable to control tiler:Och r es; th e y smoke in business hours and in going to their businet7...,l and when going out to di nner th e y t a k e a f ur ti ve p i pe , an d eve l 7 come into a drawi ng - room w i t h coats t h at st i n k of sta l e to b acoi . Now, tobacco is a good thing, and good things ought not to be wasted. Smoking prematurely is a worse than waste, fir it annoys people about him and only harms the Ranker. One cannot well doubt this, if one but sees the pimply cheeks and tallowy complexions of the young short-pipe sucking fools who meet us everywhere. Every whiff they take up helps to blow their brains out, and put out of tune their organs of digestion. Few men can smoke early,in the day w thout hurting them, and any boy who does so must assuredly be weakened both in body and in mind by it. A boy (which word applies to all youths under 20) who goes to business daily with a pipe between his teeth has put an enemy into his mouth, that will steal away his brains, and it is well that hie employer should be warned against the robbery. Smoking prematurely is a habit as injurious as taking early morning drams, or drinking port wine before dinner; and as the evil has increased to really serious diniensione, 11Ir _Punch may be excused for making serious retaarko, Nod not making e joke of it,—.Funch, LITERATURE. Robson. A Sketch. By George Augustus Sala. Rotten, Piccadilly. A charmingly readable little violet-coloured six• penny brochure, is this timely tribute to one, alas, now dead and gone—Robson, of the Olympic ! It ought, however, to have had its authorship more accurately defined upon its title-page. The" Sketch" of Robson as here given to us, is—in spite of what the title-page asserts—not by Mr. Sala. Three gen tlemen are, by that random assertion, coolly rolled into one, like (as Mrs. Malaprop would say) Cer berus. One of the three, if you will, is the famous New York correspondent of the D aily Telegraph , that capital, comical, vivacious, sparkling, delightful ready-writer of reports, novels, newspaper articles, anything you please—whom it was the fashion once upon a time to sneer at as Dickens-and- water I G. A. Sala, to wit, of " Twice Round the Clock," of the " Seven Sons of Mammon," of " Gaslight and Day- light," of the Temple Bar Magazine, of the staff of _Household Words, and All the Year Bound, author of " Quite, Alone," photographer of " The Streets of the World," Reporter, Romancist, Essayist, Correspondent 1 Yes, here, too, as a Sketcher of poo r R o b son , as a celebrant of his genius, as a delineato r o f hi s peculiarities—Mr Sala is—how shall we p u t it? Well, be is not the least bit in the world like his last heroine in being " Quite Alone !" lie is, here, on the contrary, as we have said, but as One Out of Three. And—as it happens—in spite of all his brilliant powers, as a Sketcher of London People, and especially of London Celebrities —Mr Sala is here simply as— the last and the least of the three. His colaborateurs in the production of this most acceptable, because wonderfully well-timed memo rial of Robson, being—the anonymous biographer of Robson (immediately after the latter's recent de mise) in the columns of our very able and thoroughly and most consistently liberal contem porary the Daily News, and—in this, not only making up the third, but fairly leading them off-- the publisher himself, Mr. Hotten, of Piccadilly. In point of feet, therefore,whatever there is in this little memorial sketch of Robson, that is perfectly fresh and original, is Mr. Hotten's. The rest of it, being simply so much reprint—here from the Daily News—there from the American journal for which Mr. Sala pencilled his limning of Robson while Robson himself was yet living. What we are especially thankful for, therefore, in the matter of this livraison, is precisely this fresh fragmentary morsel of information in regard to Thomas Brown bill, otherwise Frederick Robson, penned by Mr. Hotten, of Piccadilly, and penned by him in the manner following. Quoth Mr. Hotten (after a graphic sketch of the locality referred to)—in a little out-of-the-way back-slum hard by the Strand, in a strange cluster of holes and corners, yclept Bedford bury, there in the year 1836, and while he was yet no more than fifteen years of age— One Thomas Robson Brownbill, a little boy from Mar gate, was apprenticed to Mr Smellie, the copperplate en graver and well-known printer of Mr George Cruikshank's humorous plates. _ _ _ Master Brownbill's friends had found him crazy after the stage as other urchins sometimes are after a Oa life. Various professions, less romantic but conceived to be more respect able, were mentioned to him, but, with the exception of the graver's art, he would not listen to any one of them. This ho thought he might like, so his mother resolved to try him. The lad soon became an immense favourite with his master and the workmen, and they familiarly nicknamed him "Bill," "little Bill," a sort of jocose shortening of his sur name, Brownbill—for he was not known as Robson until some years later, when he adopted a christian name as his theatrical title, adding Frederick, which he cons:dered de.. cidedly stylish and quite out of the common ; a custom. not very unusual I believe, with other ladies and gentlemen of his profession. I met one of the workmen the day after his 'death, and told him of his old comrade's departure. " What, little Bill gone t" he said. " Al! he was a merry lad, but he had better by half 'a stuck to the bench." " Little Bill" soon began to exhibit his theatrical tastes to the workmen, and his powers of mimicry kept the estab lishment from morn until night in a continual state of good humour. If a knife grinder or other travelling oddity en• tered the court, Bill buttoned up his coat, cocked his hat, and bawled in imitation until the tears ran down the men's faces with laughter. The apprentice always dressed showily, and usually had his hair artificially curled in ringlets. His hat was an extra size with a twisted brim, and as he wore this somewhat jauntily set upon a rather large-sized head, the vulgar boys of the court used to called him the " little big head." Alas for the uncertainties of parental authority! Although the days were occupied over the graver, the nights were almost as regularly spent on the two or three amateur stages which were then to be met with in this neighbourhood, and the costume we have just mentioned, and the ringlets, were simply the effects of the mind's bent and the evening's re creation. The youth, however, never shirked work for play ; and his master used to say that there was not a man or boy in his shop who was so regular in the morning's at tendance as 2ittle Brownbill. At this time he lived with his mother—his fa:,her had been dead wary years—in Henry street,Vauxhall, se that he had some distance to walk daily. He was bound for a mateur t now skilful engraver and a. even years, but only sto pp ed fourwith his master. An unfore.leen circumstance happening , the h e atrical found himself at 19 out of his time, and his Cwn matter. Whether it was a promise made to his mother, in* that he feared to rely en ye do not know, but tirely on the stage for a livelihooxi, ,ruing his liberty he certain it is that immediately upon ob l2l in . the dramatic did not go and enlist, without more ado, ld a In his , pprent oorps of one of the London theatres. ship days, he used to say he would do so directly an oppor tunity offered itself; but this was probably one pt those little threats with which sanguine young people aro act to thoughtlessly alarm their fidgetty elders. His master gm:a up business in the old court, and removed to Scotland, and the amateur theatrical, finding h i ms elf free, very wisely conceived that a little business might be formed out of the old customers that Mr Smellie had abandoned. Mr Robson Brownbill now took a shop in Brydges-street, Covent-gar den, and here he carried on business Oa master engraver for 12 months. During the whole of this time he continued to take part in amateur performances, and a favourite song, both with himself and his audiences, was " Lord Lovel"— generally sung in character. Finally, one i sorning,hi s neigh bour in I3ry dges-street observed, by Pie ce of paper attached to the shutters of Mrßrownbill's shop,that business had been relinquished. The engraver had token home his tools to keep as curiosities, and had accepted the offer of a country m anager. From that time to the present he has been b efore a public—one at first small and provincial, but latterly large and metropolitan—as Frederick Robson. I have just said that ho kept his tools when he gave up his business. He used to say to an old friend that he never looked at or handled them without pleasant reminiscences of those early apprentice days passed in the quaint little Bedfordbury-equare days unalloyed by t h e cares of managerial life or mental dejection. Of this strange, eccentric, Tragic-Comic actor— this pre-eminent Grotesque--Robson , of the Olympic—there Appears, upon the cover of this sixpenny brochure, the vera efilies in the shape of a little woodcut presenting him to our view as The Wandering Minstrel! In respect to the won drous representation of whi b ch (Hi ---apidated (not to J say squalid) charac ter by Ro son, we remember our se lves hearing Douglas Jerrold remark one day, with a pretended shudd er ._." I c ou ld f ancy hi s playing it—on his Benetl h I g -t4 . —With real ver nzin!" An anecdote entire it y at M r. Hotten's service —in the event a his reprinting this admirable sketch of Robson. • PanSie. By Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hotten. In appearance—issued as " Pansie" is simulta• ne;ously with the foregoing—it companion publica tion. But—when it comes to be looked into—ah, how different! The name le ss odour of death, it is true, is upon each—what Edgar Poe, in his most wonderful poem (" To Annie,") defines as the " roses mary odour,"or " odour of pansies "—the death, in e R o bson," of the theme of the little book—the death, in "Pansie," of the author of it ! Yes, here in "Pansie" —not one of the " beautiful Puritan Pansies " in Poe'a death-song just referred to, but in this charming little sketch of the child Pansie—we have the last little fragrant cillorescent morsel of Haw thorne ! A spray of Hawthorne, as it were, put freshly into leaf and flower and perfume just *he goodly tree itself Was cut down so slide before -rernaturely. It was t he beginning of a denly and 1.. .. n world - flUnnlifi American Poet new story by ti._ •Tawthorne—a new story by Romancist, Nathaniel le.- e ivor Romance:, Of him to be entitled "The Do, Scarlet Letter" that new story the nove list of the . -hapter, a was destined only to write the opening e. der chapter hero presented to the English reader tth the name of the child heroine of it—Pansie! How gracefully and graciously it is written, this last outpouring from the fancy of Hawthorne, let the subjoined fragment attest ; " Pamie, darling," said Dr Dulliver cheerily, patting her brown hair with his tremulous fingers, "thou has putsome of thine own friskiness into poor old grandfather, this fine mornia}; 1 Dot huuw, child, that he came near brealiing his neck down stairs at the sound of thy voice? Whdt wouldst thou have done then, little Pansie ?" " Kiss poor grandpapa and make him well I" answered the child, remembering the doctor's own mode of cure in similar mishaps to herself. "It shall do poor grandpapa good I" she added, putting up her mouth to apply the remedy. " Ah, little one, thou past greater faith in thy medicines than ever I had in my drugs," replied the patriarch with a giggle, surprised and delighted at his own readiness of re sponse. " But the kiss is good for my feeble old heart, Pansie, though it might do little to mend a broken neck; so give grandpapa another dose, and let us to breakfast." In thin merry humour they sat down to the table, great grandpapa and Pansie side by side, and the kitten, as soon appeared, making a third in the party. First, she showed her mottled head out of Pansie's lap, delicately sipping milk from the child's basin without rebuke ; then she took post on the old gentleman's shoulder, purring like a spin ning -wheel, trying her claws in the wadding of his dress ing-gown, and still more impressively reminding him of her presence by putting out a paw to intercept a warmed over morsel of yesterday's chicken on its way to the doctor's mouth. After skilfully achieving this feat, she scrambled down upon the breakfast-table and began to wash her face and hands. Evidently these companions were all three on intimate terms, as was natural enough, since a great many childish impulses were softly creeping back on the simple minded old man ; insomuch that, if no worldly necessities nor painful infirmity had disturbed him, his remnant of life might have been as cheaply and cheerily enjoyed as the early playtime of the kitten and the child, Old Dr Dolli• ver and his great-granddaughter (a ponderous title, which seemed quite to overwhelm the tiny figure of Pansie) had met one another at the two extremities of the life-circle ; her sunrise served him fkr a sunset, illuminating his locks of silver and hers of golden brown with a homogeneous shimmer of twinkling light. Little Nansie was the one earthly creature that inherited a drop of the Dolliver blood. The Doctor's only child, poor Bessie's offspring, had died the better part of a hundred years before, and his grandchildren, a numerous and dimly remembered brood, had ♦anished along his weary track in their youth, maturity, or incipient age, till, hardly knowing how it had all happened, ho found himself tottering onward with an infant's small fingers in his nerveless grasp. Apply those closing words—not, as here hinted, to old Dr Do liver, but to Nathaniel Hawthorne him self—and see how marvellously, pathetically, mys teriously they express the sudden straying away and evanishing of the dreamer of this dream of Pansie, away into the land of dreams—" hardly knowing how it all had happened, he found himself tottering onward with an infant's small fingers in his nerve less grasp." And so—passing from our ken with the child'Pansie's hand in his—adieu to Nathaniel Hawthorne! The Last Hours of Prince Albert. There has reached us from abroad a most inter esting extract from a letter which was written by a member of th© Queen's household shortly after the death of Prince Albert. The extremely confidential position which the writer held at the time not only gives the assurance of perfect reliability, but invests the following lines with a very special interest. After describing the :grief and fears of the whole household for the Queen, the writer speaks of the personal less sustained in the death of Prince Albert: " How I shall miss his conversation about the chile dren. He used often to come into the schoolroom to speak aboat the education of the children, and he never left me without my feeling that he had strengthened my hands and raised the standard I was aiming at. Nothing mean or frivolous could exist in the atmosphere that surrounded him; the conversation could not be trifling if he was in the room. I dread the return of spring for my dear lady. It was his favourite time of the year—the opening leaves, the early flowers, and fresh green were such a delight to him; and he so loved to:point out their beauties to his children that it will be ter rible to see them without him. The children kept his table supplied with primroses, which he espe cially loved. The last Sunday he passed on earth was a very blessed one for the Princess Alice to look back upon. He was very ill and very weak, and she spent the afternoon alone with him, while the others were in church. He begged to have his sofa drawn to the window, that he might see the sky and the clouds sailing past. He then asked her to play to him, and she went through several of his favorite hymns and chorals. After she had played some time she looked round and saw him lying back, his hands folded as if in prayer, and his eyes shut. He lay so long without moving that she thought he had fallen asleep. Presently he looked up and smiled. She said, ' Were you asleep, dear papa l'"Oh no,' he answered, only I have such sweet thoughts. During his illness his hands were often folded in prayer ; and when he did not speak, his serene face showed that the happy thoughts were with him to the end. The Princess Alice's fortitude has amazed us all. She saw from the first that both her father and mother's firmness depended on her firmness, and she set her self to the duty. He loved to speak openly of his condition, and had many wishes to express. He loved to hear hymns and prayers. He could not speak to the Queen of himself, for she could not bear to listen, and shut her eyes to the danger. His daughter saw that she must act differently, and she never let her voice falter or shed a single tear inThis presence. She sat by him, listened to all he said, repeated hymns, and then, when she could bear it no longer, would walk calnely to the door, and then rush away to her room, re turning soon with the same calm and pale face withoot anTappearance of the agitation she had gone through. I have had several interviews with the poor Qleeen since. The firs! , time she said, Xou can feel foe me, for you have gone through this trial.' Another time she said hove strange it seemed, when she loo;ted back, to see how much for the last six months the Prince's mind bad dwelt upon death and the future state ; their conversation had so often turned upon ti:ese subjects and they had read together a book called " Heaven our Home," which had interested him very much. He once said to her, We don't know in what state we shall meet again ; but that we shall recog nize each other and be together in eternity I am perfectly curtain.' It seemed as if it had been in tended to prepare her mind and comfort her, though of course it did not strike her then. She said she was a wonder to herself, and she was sure it was in answer to the prayers of her people that she was so sustained. She feared it would not last, and that times of agony were before her. She said, "There's not the bitterness in this trial that I felt when I lost my mother—l was so rebellious then ; but now 1 can see the mercy and love that are mixed in my trhal. Her whole thought now is to walk worthy of him, and her greatest comfort to think that his spirit ie always near her, and knows all that she i s doing. —Northern Whig. ACCIDENT ON THE MIDLAND RAILWAY.—On Monday afternoon a young man named Frederick Williams, a cooper, 26 years of age, was in the act of cross ing the Midland Railway, near one of the engine sheds, for the purpose of reaching the Horfield Gardens, when an engine suddenly emerged from the shed. The alarm was given by the driver; too late, however, for the man to escape, and he was knocked down, the wheels of the engine going over his legs and severing them from his body. 1 10 was immediately conveyed to the infirmary, and is now going on favourably.— Western Daily Press. FATAL DIIEL.—A Geneva letter in the Temps says :—" The Socialist agitator M. Lassalle has just los., his life in a duel with a Moldo-Wallachian. He was only 40 years of age. The adversaries fought with pistols at 15 paces, and were to fire while the signal, one, two, three, was being pronounced. Lassalle was an excellent marksman, but the Moldo-Wallachian fired at the word one,' and his ball traversed the intestines of the other. The Countess de Hatzfold, who happened to bo at Geneva at the time, imme diately sent for several experienced surgeons, and, amongst ethers, for M. Chelius, jun., of Heidelberg; but on their arrival the sufferer was already on the point of death. The duel did not originate in political motives." THE STORM AT LIVERPOOL AND IN THE CHAN. Ns:L.—During the whole of Sunday night, Monday, and up to an early hour yesterday, a very severe stoma of wind and rain swept over Liverpool, and from accounts which are constantly coming to hand, it must have extended far away down the Irish Channel. Several Welsh and Irish coasters have been very roughly handled, and one or two large forcign•going vessels have been compelled to put back to the Mersey for shelter. Yertenately, up to the despatch of our parcel yesterday evening, no serious disaster had been reported at Liverpool, The splendid new screw steamer City of Dublin, belonging to Messrs Inman's Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Steam ship Company, which left Liverpool on Saturday for New has been obliged to return to the Mersey in a 1 , - I condition. The City of Dublin encountered the cripple *he gale on Sunday, and the tremendous seas full force pitch very much, so that at times her caused the ship '^ly out of the water. On one of the screw would be complets. v resisting power, the main oc casions, in the abe.enee I.lf !t: s a rate MI to kncck all driVing wheel went round at ettt'u, the cogs out of the rheel, Fatal Occurrence.—This Day, This morning an accident, attended with fatal r es Ults, took place in High-street, Bloomsbury. A. man,, very respectably attired, was observed by some persons stun ding on the kerb, apparently waiting for an omnit .Just, however, as one of the-Company's vehicles plying^ bets veen Westminster and Camden-town was within a yai 7d of the spot on which he was standing, the man suddenly Sell into the road, and before the driver could pull up his hail les both wheels passed over his body. On being raised 11% 7m the ground he was found to be dead. The body was 4 given over to the parochial authorities of St. Giles's, ant I the driver of the omnibus was taken into custody. On his being placed at the bar, before Mr. Yang Loin, at the Bow-street Police-court, he gave his name, as Joseph Prescott, but that not the slightest blaane could attach to him was clearly prov e d by the evi dence of two of the passengers on the omnibus, who saw the man stagger and fall, but whether from a fit or the in fluence of drink of course they could not say. The driver, they were of opinion, did all that was in his power to pre vent the accident, but the unfortunate man fell so near and directly in front of the wheels that the unfortunate circum stance was beyond control. Mr Vaughan said he should adjourn the case for a week, in order that a coroner's inquest and post mortem examina tion might be made of the body. There was nothing on the person of the deceased which could lead to his identity. The driver was released on his own recognisances. THE MINOR GERMAN STATES. (From the Times' Correspondent.) LEIPSIC, Sept. 3. If you are desirous to study the symptoms of political movement in Germany, mind you do not come to look for them in the German cities—not, at least, in these dead months of August and Sep. tember. The very landlord of your hotel is out of town, and the representative of your Gracious Queen is not only off to the Hartz mountains him self, but he has actually shut up shop, and left no• body but a " small servant," a little, slovenly wench, to watch the dust as it gathers on the shelves of his desolate consular office. There was a meet ing of all the German agriculturists the other day in Hanover; a convention of all the German jurists yesterday at Brunswick. The papers throughout the land are full of their long-winded deliberations; yet there was scarcely a soul astir about the streets of either city, and we were not aware of any even temporary ignition of the waters of the Leine or the Ocker, as they flowed peaceably and somewhat murkily past their walls. It must, one would think, go rather hard with a traveller, who should find neither owls at Athens nor earthen pots at Samos, nor coals at Newcastle. But what would you say of a poor wight who had been baffled in his endeavours to fall in with a bookseller in Leipsio ? Yet such was the case with me. All the gentlemen in that line of business are to rendezvous here for the great Michaelmas Fair, and, in the meanwhile, they leave their comptoirs to take care of themselves. Of the clerks that are left behind one was blind, another a stutterer, a third hopelessly stupid—so I went no farther with my inquiries. Of course, when everybody is out of town, the town still swarms with nobodies. At Hanover, which looked like Palmyr a the opera season opened on the 28th ult. ; here, in Leipsic, on the Ist instant. The houses in both places were crammed, though 'the spectacle was something worse than thirdsrate. Some of the amateurs who called out " Hernan Cortes !" nine times at the Court Theatre the other day were certainly human beings, but they are not the people you want—not the political men. For these there is, at this bathing season, a general holyday. Were even all the politicians at their homes instead of at their Kursaals, one might doubt whether there can at any time be such a thing as political life in Germany. Even newspapers, though possibly as numerous in this country as any where else in the world, seem not to be for the Ger mans the daily bread they are for other civilised people. Printed and published they are, no doubt, and, it may be surmised, read and inwardly di gested, but they are not as übiquitous as in France or Italy, where newsmen are to be heard bawling underneath every window ; nor as in the United States of America, where a news shop is esta blished at every third door of every street, or at the door of every bar-room of every hotel ; nor, finally, as in England, where every railway station is infested with news-dealers, both peripa tetic and stationary. Even in Hamburg, the busiest and most advanced centre of German com mercial life, the Nacrichten or the Borsenhalle can only be had on subscription, or, at the utmost, by way of favour, on application to the respective offices. I suppose the Germans take in such for home consumption ; the reading-rooms of the best hotels profess to keep the papers for the benefit of their customers, and a stray copy, now one, now of another, of these periodical publics• tions is to be found strewn here and there about the table, but as a general rule, only the stale copy, beer-stained, redolent of tobacco, torn to tatters, and hanging, not without difficulty, on the steel or wicker frame, which makes the rending or even the holding of it, a most troublesome task. Oat of doors, it is neither the street porter nor the dienstmann nor the drowsky driver that is ever to be seen, as in other countries, with a newspaper in his hand. You hardly ever fall in with a fellow• traveller in a railway carriage, be it of the first, second, or third class, that happens to be so em ployed. Were it ever the case, twenty to one your reading vis-a , vis would, like yourself, be a stranger in the land. Whatever the cause may be, although every German can read, although writing and print ing men are to be found in this country in greater numbers than anywhere else in Europe, reading seems to be a solemn ceremony, only to be per formed within closed walls, in the sanctuary of home, Hop Intelligence. MAIDSTONE.—Picking is now general. The hops in most grounds come down short of expectations. Red rust and white mould are on the increase, and the hops are fast changing colour. Still there will be some very first-rate samples in this neighbour hood. W EST MALLING.—Where picking has comm ence d the hops come down fast. The wind and rain have turned some of them red, but there is not much mould. Few are yet quit© ripe, but it is feared they will not keep. Picking will be general at the beginning of the week. ROCHESTER.—Picking has now commenced in this district, and during the present week will be. come general, From present appearances the crop appears to be overrated, as the hope come to scale lighter than was anticipated. The quality, on the whole, is good, but in some gardens the late frosty nights have proved very injurious. CANTERBURY,—During the past week mould has made its appearance amongst the hops, although as yet it has not made much havoc. In one or two grounds picking has commenced, but the hops do net come down quite so well as was anticipated, the quantity being short underneath. The average will be about 8 cwt. to the acre. SussEx.—Many of the plantations have improved under the influence of the recent rains, and espe. cially during the past week. There is some draw• back in the shape of mould, which has increased in a few localities, but not yet to such an extent as to very seriously reduce the crop. WORCESTER.—Most of the planters began pick ing last week, and it will become general this week. Four pockets of very inferior quality were sold on Saturday week at 12s per cwt. 1101' PLANTING IN THE VALE OF EVESHAM.— Considerable interest has been felt by the introduc tion of hop culture in the much famed Vale of Evesham. The ground was first planted three years ago, and in this year fully polled, and pro mises a yield on the average of eight to nine cwt per acre, while the bedded outsets planted this spring will yield about two cwt per acre ; t h ey B re all re markably free from disease,ond promise to p roduce 8 ssmplc of excellent quality.— South Eastern Gazette, M. DE PERSIGNY'S SPEE cm—The Independence _Beige says :—" The approbation given to M. de Persigny's speech by the Conditationne/ has produced a most unplea sant impression in nuts. The attitude of the semi.ofticial journal in this matter is the less comprehensible, inasmuch as M. de Persigny, according to the information sent us, far from having been the echo 111116 speech of distinguished views, was within an ace, on the contrary, of being requested to display more circemspectioa had rafAeration," SPORTIIia INTELLIGENCE,—This Da WARWICK RACES —This DAY. (By ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) WELTER CUP. Moulsoy .................................... Principal ............ 2 Overstone .... RACING FIXTURES FOR 1864. SEPTEMBER. Weymouth 1 Baden-Baden Warwick September 6 Bridg-water 8 Leicester 8 Doncaster OCT Bedford Edinburgh and Lothians Club 5 Nuwnittrket Second Oct l9 Brecon .............. 19 Richmond ........... 20 Royal Caledoman. Runt 1 Monmouth ........... 22 Manchester Antonin, 23 Newmarketnrst October 27 ixEit Lincoln .... 18 Kelso .... Gloucester Newmarket bug on 24 Noy Worcester Autumn .... 1 I Shrowsbury Aut umn .. 14 1 Leamington &War. Hunt 22 IRISH. SEP TEMRZII. Carragh ...................... 6, 7, 8 OCTOIER. Curragh .............. 18, 19, 20 HEALTH OF LONDON. (From the Registrar-General's Report.) The deaths registered in London in the week that ended last Saturday were 1,441, showi n slight increase on the number in the previous wee g k, a which was 1 ; 413. If the deaths from epidemi c cholera in the 35th week of 1854 are excluded, it will be found that the average number of deaths in the weeks corresponding with last week was 1,113, which corrected for increase of population will be come 1,227. Hence it appears that the deaths last week were 214 in excess of the estimated number. The deaths from zymotic diseases were 613. Under, this head are inc:uded seven deaths from smallpox, 58 from measler, 62 from scarlatina, 18 from diphtheria, 23 from whoopingcough, 87 front typhus,. 180 from diarrhoea, and nine from cholera. Of the 180 deaths caused by diarrhoea, 159 were of children under five years of age, and the nine victims of cholera were cruder two years of age. Of the 1,441 persons who died during the week, 800 wero under 20 years of age, 210 were 20 and under 40, 180 were 40 and under 60, 207 were 60 and under 80, and 41 were 80 years of age and up. wards. The deaths of five nonagenarians are re.‘ corded; the oldest was a man who had attained the age of 93 years. One hundred and fifty-ono persons died fro•n l phthisis, the total number of persons dying from, other diseases of the respiratory organs, bronchitis, pneumonia, asthma, &c., being 149. Last week the births of 970 boys and 897 girlsi, in. all 1,867 children, were registered in London. I n the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1854-63 the average number (corrected) was 1,872. . _ _ At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.775 in. The barometrical reading was 30.13 iu. at the begin. ning of the week, and decreased to 2952 in. on Saturday. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 60.3 deg., which is 1.3 deg. above the average of the same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr Glaisher). The highest day temperature was 81.0 deg. on Tuesday. The lowest night tempera. tare was 47.4 deg. on Thursday. The entire range of temperature in the week was therefore 33.6 deg. The mean temperature of the water of the Thames was 61.3 deg. The difference between the mean dew-point temperature and air temperature was 9.1 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 73, complete saturation being represented by 100. Rain fell during the week to the amount of 0.33 in. The general direction of the wind was southwest. The births registered in Dublin during the week ending the 3d of September were 174, and the deaths were 120, in a population of 254,808 (in 1861), spread over an area of 3,808 statute acres. The numbers are kindly furnished by the Registrar General of Ireland. The deaths in Vienna, as returned by Dr. Glatter, were 280 in the week ending the 27th August,when the mean temperature was 61'2 deg., that at Gri:en4 wich having been 52.2 deg. LONDON GAZETTE--Last Evening, FOREIGN OFFIOE, SEPT. 3. Earl Russell, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has received from the Prussian Charge d'Affaires at this Court a notification, that persons entering Prussia are still required to be provided with passports. SEPTEMBER 6. The following despatches have been received at the Foreign Office, from Sir Frederick Bruce, her Majesty's Minister in China, and from Mr Caine, her Majesty's Con sul at Swatow Pekin, June 7, 1864: My Lord,—l have the honour to enclose " Returns for Shanghae of impart and export trade under foreign flags" for the year 1863, published by Cninese Customhouse. On the last page there is a table giving the yearly amount of foreign commerce, beginning with 1851. The import trade has increased from taels 41,000,000 (about £13,000,000) in 1860 (the last year before the open in,' of the Yangtze and the northern ports), to taels 817000,000 (about £27,000,000) in 1863. This increase is due, in a great measure, to the largo and increasing trade, from the ports opened on the Yangtze, in Chinese produce of ail descriptions. Owing to the vio lence of the winds and the rapidity of the currents in cer. tain places, the ;application of steam to navigation was re quired before the Yangtze could be made available as a highway for transport. The decks of the steamers are now crowded with Chinese passensors, and their holds are filled with produce destined, not for foreign export, but for Chinese consumpti m. The practical advantages of foreign inventions are thus brought home to masses of the popula tion in the very centre of China, and they can now avail themselves of the natural outlet for the productions of those rich internal provinces, instead of being driven to the slow and circuitous method of artificial water communication, and exposed to the exactions of officials of the different provinces they had to puss through. The large amount under the head of re-exports embraces the trade in imports and exports which have been brought o d t tr S e r h e a n n t g h p o a r e t a s s o afncehnitnrzotto, a j n a d r a a n r a t h n e a n c t e o dti the t (i r i b N‘ u . e t e s d t e r t world. The exports ff Shanghae itself have suffered from the s d o i l m zu i n re u t o i o fi n nt ht o oe f tl t ha h eb e os s ui i ir l k k i c g r p op, districts, op u due lati oa t nn o .d the t h advancethe flight of or the forciblein surgents The entries of foreign -owned tonnage employed in carry ing this trade have iureaeed, within the same period, from 203,563 to 906,890. I have, &c., FREDERICK W. A. RItUCE, The Right Hon. Earl Russell, FOREIGN-OFFICE, SEPT. 3. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr August Burmester as Consul at Cocanada for the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, ADMIRALTY, SEPT. 2. _ _ _ Royal Marine Light Infantry—Captain and Brevet-Major Robert Seppings Harrison to be Lieut.-Colonel, vice Searle, retired—First Lieutenant Anthony Malone to be Captain, vice Harrison, promoted—Second Lieutenant James Lindsay Newell, to be First Lieutenant, vice Malone, promoted. SEPT. 3. The following promotion has this day taken place:—Mr Charles Kevern Nutt to be Deputy inspector• General of Hospitals and Fleets on the Retired Li.ti BANKRUPTS, The following are the only bankrupts of commercial im, portance in the Gazette Charles Cross, watchmaker, Exeter John Best, butcher, Darlington Whitehall Worthen, cooper, Coppenhall Frances Dukes, joiner, Sheffield John Turner, case maker, Sheffield Banauel Levick, genera: dealer, Sheffield James Day, builder, Reigate Bernard Isaacson, naturalist, New-cross George Briggs, builder, Lambeth Joseph Joanny, greengrocer, Soho John Swales, screw bolt manufacturer, Manchester Theophilus Moss, confectioner and baker, Manchester John Tnompson, butcher, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Wiliam Nicholson, porter and beer retailer, Everton, near Liverpool SCO'l CII BANKRUPTS. J. and M. Wilson, coach builders, Glasgow Charles Innes, innkeeper, Aberlour, Banffshire William Spence, draper, Kirkwall Course of Exchange,—Yesterday, Amsterdam ..... , Short. 11 181 11 191 Ditto ...... Rotterdam — 12 '2 12 2/ Antwerp ...... -- 2 77 Brussels .— 25 70. 25 771 ilarnburgh Paris ... ... Short. 25 2.5 25 35 Ditto Marseilles — 25 70 25 75 Frankfort uu _Maine - 1204 121 Vienna Trieste Pet ersburgh Berlin Madrid Cadiz Leghorn ...... . . — 25 75 25 80 Milan .... Genoa — 25 80 25 85 Naples Palermo.. — 25 80 25 85 Messina — 95 80 25 85 Lisbon Oporto -511 t 1 , 4, Foreign Gold in Data (Standard)......per oz., -13 17 9 Silm in bao (z.ititusiani).. V it VI Share 13.14. 124$ 128 4 110 i 64 I g3i 3 83 3