The Sun. — London, England, 1863-09-18 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. There has been an exceedingly good demand for money to-day in the open market, where 4 per cent, is the ordinary charge paid for the best class of bills. Transactiocs, however, in a few instances have been recorded at 3,1 per cent. The large inquiry for accommodation lately experienced has doubtless been stimulated through the activity displayed during the past two months in nearly all the manufacturing districts. A further sum of 4 '90,000 in gold was taken into the Bank of England yesterday, but 45,000 sovereigns were withdrawn for exportation to the _Mauritius. The Pera arrived from the Mediterranean with £19,140. The return published by the Bank of England authorities for the week to Wednesday last contains several rather important alterations, including a further augmentation in the bullion and ether secu rities. The reserve of notes has also been increased. Subjoined are the particulars:— Active Circulation .. Decrease .. Bullion .. • . Increase .. .. £20,773,545 • • 152,755 .. 15,461,566 • 116,078 .. 3,719,952 I. • 8,618 .. 7,371,510 .. 374,108 .. 13,484,939 • . 575,455 • 713,560 •• 6,951 _ • • 11,091,284 aleration. Other Securities No 19,t413,656 Increase .. • 682,397 Notes 'Unemployed .. 8,560,915 Increase .. 302,185 Arrangements have been made by the committee of the Stock Exchange to close that establishment to-morrow (Saturday), for the purpose of enabling the repairs which the house is undergoing to be completed. •• •11 Rest • • Increase Public Deposits Increase .. Other Deposits.. .. Increase .. Seven Day and other Bills .. Decrease .. Government Securities • • •• •• During the p as t w eek the operations in the Foreign and Colonial Produce markets have been moderately active. Tea, at public sale, has sold at rather irregular prices. Sugar, coffee, rice, fruit, and spices have been in fair request, without any material variation in values. The tallow market has shown symptoms of improvement, P.Y.C., on the spot, being quoted 425., and for last 3 months' delivery 435. per cwt. Two o'CLocK, In the English Stock Market Consols have re covered to 93-1 g for money, and to 93a t for the account, after a little depression experienced in the early part of the day. The transactions are still insufficient to create activity. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities remain at 92 I, ; and Exchequer Bills are again par. to 3s. prem. ; India Stock is 226, the 5 per Cents. Enfaced Paper, 1071 ; and the Debentures, 1001 ; Bank Stock for account is Marked 240. In the foreign market there is a good business, and some variation has occurred in prices. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1858, are 701,- ; do., 1862, 711 ; do., Cunsolides, have improved to 541 I; Mexican have been as high as 451 46, but are now 451 8 1 being still higher than on the previous afternoon. Spanish Passive are steady at 36a g ; the Internal have risen to 32 ; the Certificates to 14i 15 ; Greek are steady at 381 w ; the Coupons, at 18 4 ; the Confederate Loan at 26 to 24 discount ; Portu guese at 46k; and Italian at 731-. _ _ - 1 Business in the Railway Share Market has been rather quiet, and prices have not varied to any im portant extent. Great Western and Brighton have receded about 10s., and North British Ll, while South Western have improved 55., and Metropolitan The Foreign and Colonial lines continue without any change of Importance, Great Luxembourg being quoted 144 1 ; Recife and San Francisco, 19/ ft ; Calcutta and South Eastern, 107/ ; Great Indian Peninsula, 109 ; Madras 5 per Cents., 108. Bank and Miscellaneous shares generally are a shade firmer, Chartered of India, Australian, and China realii,e 364 1 ; London and Brazilian, 51i 4 ; Union of Australia, 56 I; and Union of London, 39 9 a• General Credit Company shares are marked 4 7; f}; Hudson's Bay Co., to 9/ s ; International Financial, 101 ; and London Financial, 14k 1. Bank st I O 3I , ITISH. FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. per C ent. R educe d Annu i t i es 93A i New Cent. Consols Annuities 92 3 per Cent. Annuities 9 — New 31 per Cent. Annuities ~.-. New 21 per Cent. Annuities _ &Per Cent. Annuities A antuties, Ditt o f or 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885. 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 .... b itto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 — In dia Stock Ditto 5 pet Cent lOBl Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. T O7l Ditto 5 per Cent Oitto 51 per Cent Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct. :ll: ? r f i t , . • 1 1 8 8 6 6 4 3 _— Ditto ditto Ditto bonds £l,uuo _ Ditto under £l,OOO .. di ) to Aug. 1864 or 66 LOO/ 240 Bank Stock for Account Co nsols for A ccount, O ct, 8 .. India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent — , . Chequer Bills, 1,000, 21 per Cent par u pm _ Ditt o £5OO Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bond s , 5 per Cent ___ _ Ditto 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent Ditto, 1839 and 1859 Ditto 1843 . — Ditto 4% per Cent., 1 852-58-60 Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent.... Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) 38 Chilian 6 per Cent EqDitto 41 per Cent. .............. . • 87 uador New Consolidated. 1 per Cent l 6a Ditto, Provisonal Land Warrant 9 Egyptian 7 per Cent — Ditto, Second Issue - .. 101 i Greek 5 par Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons.. 371 I 81 Ditto Account Ditto Coupons Ditto Account lBl Italian 5 per Cent.(Maremmana Railway) 81 Mexic,an 3 per Cent .... 45/ 5 f 1 654 Ditto Account .............. Moorish Imperial 5 • per Cent bitto 2 per Cent. Ditto Deferred ......... Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) Peruvian 3 per Cent. ........ Ditto Account...... ...... Ditto Ac Ditto 41 per Cent., 1862 — cormt .................... Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1863 Ditto Account..., .... ... Ditto 3 per Cent., 1866, '7, '9, '6O, 62 Ditto Account Itrssian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ 5t..... ... 94491 Ditto 4/ per Cent 1850 . Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859 -- - Ditto 5 per Cent. 1862 Sardinian 5 per Cent Ditto Account B Panish 3 per Cent Ditto Accotrat Ditto , i DDitto Dittot t o New Deferred e7Deferred .. 481 Passive i s Di tto A.f.mou n t P.Dauititaoh 'ik•il.ceerto.unoft Coup not funded L'nrkip,h r, 6 per Cent. 1854 "ditto Account.. 6 per Cent. 1858 .D itto Account bitto 701 41 , 4100 Bond .... — s .... bitto 6 per Cent. 1862 Ditto Account .... Ditto 6 .... . per • Cent. 1863, £l9 16s Bcl pd. Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. 'Venezuel a 3 per Cent. ... ..... Di tto Account ....... ............... . . .. Ditto 6 p er C ent., 1862 . Ditto Account .. 0............... t Dividends n t he above payable in London. Belgian 41 per C ent., Ex. 25f. . 1 Dutch 2 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil .. --- Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs Ditto Account .................. 73 i onsolp, Money TWO O'C LOCK. 931 1 Ditto Account 93 a t A HITHERTO UNKNOWN OPERA By DoNizETT, Vas found the other day, according to Napl es papers, 14 4 4 100 6. forgotten cabinet of a musical publisher o f th a t c i ty : I t is said t o b e en titl e d " M ar i a Stuarda," and to have been "reposed for San Carlo, but to have been prohibited from Political reasons. Maestro de Giosa intends to bring it upon the sta ge as soon as h e h a s found a pri m a donn a Wor my of the part of the queen. -..lartEAsE OF OUR AGRICULTURAL POPULATION. under 8 2 5 0 t he number of persons in England and Wales, ! trs and upwards, occupied in agriculture was aho v ;: 4 18 61 the same class had fallen to 1,531,272. Per cent 'l 'letual decrease of 44,7 90 persons, or nearly ill t ile ten years, raid. Closing eßusinessden Share) Railways. jestY listed Duke two waa her iised, for a beers Etoysl al for ;ss th© d upon at the rlsbad a feW Cetto l on 6 .17., fit AO., St Hotel I an d spode a tenhao .y aat e nter . ;gee tre c: Hall, 1. The 7 fir coin- I to iomaß .is lord• 1 g thili ensuit4s jkliso of Lad/ lio 11 011. left Pol rth. ecretarl neura l t, a tter a Prince s [lag mee t ' assemble Mondal is of the 's Edith Shakspe , iptiou, at incl. The acter, but is added ill ensure t is pro- works Of SHARE MARKETS—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOub.S. Wol., and Str. Val. Blythe and Tyne. Bost.,Sleat.,andMid.Co Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall Do A IA gets no div Do• B till tip c.i? an. has been paid to B. Dublin & Belfast Junc. Dun.J'erth,&Ab. Juno. Edinburgh & Glasgow. Glasg. and S. Western. Great Eastern, Ord. stk Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian s t GreatNorthof Scotland Great Northern Do A stock Do B do 'Gt. S. awl W. of Ireland Great Western ........ Do Str Val qua. stock Lancashire & Yorkshire London and Blackwab Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., mad Dover Lon. & Nor' h Western Lon. & Sw.th Western Han., Shet., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do # shires .• Metropolitan Midland Do New Do Birming. & Derby Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. shares Mid Kent ,•• Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds BO York Do Carlisle North London Do New North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stoci Do Scot. Mid. stock Shrews. and Welchpoo, Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun ntaines, Wok., an d Wok . Stockton & Darlington Do __ Do New, 18&. Taff Vale.. Do B Do C . . Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria eta. and Pim Waterford ,Sz Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.d&R. West Midland -Oxford Do Newport Do Hereford BRITISH POSSE Railways tlantic & St Lawrence Bom.,Baroda&.Cent Inc Gu. 5 per cent — Do. New . Do. E. Shares... Buffalo and Laae Huron Do. Preference Buff alo, Brant&Godricl, 6 p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 187;. Do. do. July 1, 187', t/o. do. Juue 1, 16;4 Clcutta.& S. E astu. ( L Cape Town Dock Scril Eastn. Bengal gu. 5 p. East Indian. gu. 5 p. c. Do. do. G Ext Do. do. H do. Grand Trunk of Canadb Do. Ist Fret'. Bonds.. Do. ao. deferred...... Do. 2d Pref. Bonds.. Do. do. deferred__ Do. 3d P ef. stock ... Do. do. deferred...... Do. 4th Pref. sto -k... Do. do. deferred GLlndiaremn.gua.sp.c Do. New gua. 5 p. c Do. January, 1862 Gt. South.of India (Lim, , guaranteed 5 per oent. Gt. W. of Canada Sharer Do. New ....... Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. Do. 5} p. c. do. 77-8 ' Indian Branch Limited Madras guar., 5 p. c. Do. It p. 0. Extension Dc.4y do Do. Fifth Extension Melb.Corp, n p. c. Binh , Melb. & Hobson's Bay. Do. 7p. c. lortg. Bds Newßr uuswick s Candu Class A sna B N. Itl.C'da6 pc Ist pf bdb &dude .......... Do. Delhi Do. d 0...... .•• • r Do. Punjaub ...• . Do. Do. •• •• •• Do. Indus. St. Flo.) 10' 8 7i aii all LO, iO6 100 100 100 100 100 all 100 cuit, ' 100 2 all lt3u k.lo‘, Pala all 8 8i - _ S 8f P 5 87 1201 i2lt 39 10 30 J 7 95 97 111 113 51 az 50 51 2511 tbi 124 i 1254, 1266 12711 lA 136 I 100 1(2 I 66167 113 1131 73, 744 112 113 42 43 101 1011 1011 1021 44 141 121 123 1261 14 it, 97 55; 664 254 264 2001 1011 57 58 871 88; 117 12) 1 2 I 81 82 11} )1 125 127 44 46 100 102 60 62 30 32 941 .141 70 72 99 101 9 , 0 86 374 Si Si 7i 8 f 16u 165 4t 6i 2f 3i p SB 88 U 9 ifi2 28 28 44 45 89 41 105 107 ,SIONS. C twine Price. CO (2 108 1081 1 lA p lf p 4 6/ 7/ B,t 1074 108i1 107 10 109 110 108 1,9 1 11p1 20 2l 71 13 58 60 65 67 50 54 47 49 36 38 26 28 23 25 109 no 1 1 ikr 1 14, 1074 lON 10i )04 101 10, 95 97 90 Y 2 P 1071 itiB, 102 103 48 100 58 00 3 % 82 84 I 1074 108 i 1074 108} iP - 1074 108) 103 105 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. - hn.Grov. 6p.c.Ja .ILJuI:, 1877-81 „.„,, . lOO 1(2 104 103 I Do. 6 p.c. Feb. & Aug. 100 Itl 1(3 Do. 4:1 p. c. Mar. & Sept 100 tut 1 , 3 , Do. Ep. c. Jan.&July. 100 91 P 3 Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 01 13 iCapeG.Hope, 6 p (3,187:- 100 108 .10 I Do.Ap &Oct. 188( 100 112 114 Do. 189: 100 113 115 - IDo. Jan. & July, 1891. tOJ 113 'l5 Ceylon, N0v.1r , 78, 6p t LOU 113 M 'Dlaur thus 6 per cent .. 100 107 108 !Natal Guy. 0 per cent.. 130 110 112 N.1:1.1..i0v. 6 p.c...1a.&Ju1;, lOU iO3 Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oc,. 100 - N. S. W. G ov. 5 p 18, 100 1004 1014 Do. sp. c.,18‘.1 to1:::1 100 1014 102 Do. d0.,1888 &upwth 100 102 103 New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 lit 113 ;Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. I sterling, 1875. lOO IC3 105 Queensland Gcv. 6p. c. 100 :1 113 - *Aus Gr0p.c.1678.& up.. 100 111 113 1124 I Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&Jul). 100 108 110 to 6 me. An.&Oot.. 100 lll 1144 1 1141 BRITISH MINES. 2 Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 / 3d uhllord Amalgamated 33 35 Devon G. Cono.‘"raviet , 1 560 580 East Bassett (Illogan) 30 80 82 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd 53. 3d Par East Caradon ...... 28 29 28 East Carn Brea... 3.4.0 7/ 8 3 --I E. WRuasel (Tavistk ) 8 . 6.6 3 4 GamASt.Aubyn(Gwen ) 14 15 14 15 Great South Tolgus 17s 44 5 G. Wheal Vor (11elston, 40 81 9 Grenville ... 6.16.r 53 6 Eler<Fs-Foot ...... 8.12 38 10 tlingston Downs... 4.'8.0 2 23 Lady Bertha ... . ..... 2.8.6 1 Margaret (lJny Lelant . 94 29 31 Marke Valley.. ....... . 4.3.0 63 61 4 Myndy Iron Ore (Lim.) 21 13 g New &tun 193 100 110 --North Downs .. .. . .... 23 11 2 Basset(lllo4an 2.17.0 23 33 North Wheal Crotty 2.4.9 1 3 _ Far Consols Mt. Blazer 13 4 5 20 Vrovidence(UnyLeint.) 10.6.7 52 44 South Caradon(St.Cleer, 13 I 410 420 8. Carn Brea (Illogan) 5.15.61 13 2 ?.Wheal Fran. (Illog,an) 1 .13.1•.9 60 65 Stray Park 5 28.9. 37 39 ramarSilv..t Lead Alin. 43 Pin Cron9 193 203 20 West Basset allogan) l4 950 WG. radon (Liskeard) 5 20 22 West Seton Wheal Basset (Illogan) 53 75 80 ~ heal K Bu it l t l y e? u•L ed e r l u an t 2 % .6 35 _45 WhealWwilleesialigadry, o A tt nn aen.) 2.1304 215 .15 3 11 22 3 i53 3 Wheal 3eton _ .) wh ea l Tretawney (Lis . 16 18 3 . 1 7 21 33 W heal Union PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Northern, 5 per cent., red. at 5 per cent great Western, 4 6 ner ce nt. p ref., 104 Pm., 107 a 7 Loudon, Chatham, and Dover , ner cent. prer. snot West Midland, Oxford , I s t g uaranteed stock. im • • - PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS, Great Eastern, 5 per cent., pt., 1051 Lonion and S.-Western 44 per cent., 1074 North British (Edin., Perth, and Dundee) 4 per cent., in FOREIGN RAILWAYS. ABanhtwiaearpncianSdanßio,rttaeurediamsco,(l9l) guc 7 per cent., 21 Belgian Eastern Junction, li Great Luxembourg, 141 o i , 1 Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidin), II; 1 19 per cent. 19 Recite and San Francisco (lim.) , g ua. 7 San Paulo (lim.), gua. 7 per cent., 91 Ditto, new, 221 S outh Austrian and Lombardo Ven etian, 221 1 T 'w'in and Savona, 3 i unite, , _ e ustraPan Scottish Chartered Bank of " "I xican (litn;, 7i 1 ,FIIO2,EIIGN HINES. &Mance Ea kof London and Liverpool (Um.), 401 391 Australasian 06 71NT-STOCK BANKS. City, 114 i d e e r i r o i n a a ll and ) a t n t Ottoman, Brazilianm l , )i9 liar . 51i 1 i 2 .l 4 ndia, Australia. and China, 34. 6 i li En in g d ii u s s h t , a s n cok,, a; and Japan (lim.), 25; ,tricl Australian Chartered, 231 i Imperial Chartered Lia,nulLof ) Australia, 28 1 London and Colonial London and County, 1 9 7 ), 4 New South Wales, 524 2' SCinde, Punjaub, and Delhi (lint.l 7 Stan dard of British South Africa Grro I ) Ditto, new, 16 1 1 „ .... Union of Australia, 55a .1. o f f i t i n o g n l d a o n n d , a3vnil i France aim) , 81 Unionunion of DOORS. East and West India, 144 London, ell 5 MISCELLANEOUS. Berlin Water Works, Um., 9 Crystal l'alace, 38} Gen. Cr( dit and Finance er of London, lim., 44 Great Ship, him 174 p cent. pf., Hudson s Bay, el „ Intern a tional Financial s ociety, UM., loa Italian irrigation (Canal Cavour), Ditto, 6 per cent. Bonds rd. 1870 issued 90, sgt t iscount, 71 „ , ondo •s nFinancial Association, Jim., 134 4 41,140 n General Omnibus Company (lita.), .„„_ental Inland Steam, lim., 2 t "-ninsula and Oriental Steam, 81 HEALTH O F TH E A RC HBISHOP OF DUBLIN. The foll cvvin .. was the answer to inquiries on Wedne sday . —" His Graceec passed a tolerable night, and there was up ve r y great decrease of strength to•day." 962 sli 65} } 112} 13 113} 12i 102 i 1; 100/ 1} 123! 21 3f 127 i Business don. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY' EVENING, SEPTEMBER 18, 1863; POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. ANNOYING A TRADE6MAN.—Martha Ann Rose, a shabbily -dressed woman, and John Berry, a rough-looking fellow, were charged before Mr. Knox with disorderly con duct, and annoying Mr. W. Rose, naval and military tailor, of 2, Norris-street, Haymarket, the husband of the first named defendant. Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, ap peared for the complainant, and from the learned gentle man's statement, borne out by his client, it appeared that the complainant was married to bis wife when he was an apprentice boy. After being married about two years the complainant found that his wife consorted with other men. He then left her, and had been separated from her about 30 years, but about six years ago she was taken into custody for annoying her husband, and bound over at the Clerken well Police-court to keep the peace towards him. Yester day, accompasied by the man Berry, she went to the com plainant's house. swore she would tear his "- liver out," and got a crowd round the door of nearly 100 persons. The man also swore that he would have " the - house down" it Mr. Rose did not let his wife have some money. The wife said she wanted to ask the magistrate whether her husband could nut be compelled to keep her ? Mr. Knox said that if a husband deserted his wife the proper way was to make herself char eioew g en.l e dhh a 7a b ata l dn e hdbe t o et(ehi‘ t n h ie r e l .iwv p iiii a nf r neg i o s nx h i no) , a nd then an investigation would take place ; but if the hus bcabbb lduee a aelu n tii neml d tivq: w eruody a i ne,st she thfahoeabrer annoyed wouldsenpi husband, su t yry o r ebes daha s rn on h shwud o , et w ,ohrutae that ohlnwdubdoshe u lbtahatvd h hanet i ted s anwka w coagea i shsah f own ens would e h oc e uo w dn i ib f s e ea n h pe a ue d t; under heavy bail. He should fine the man 20s. The wife said her husband had been living with a female, and had been guilty of adultery. Mr. Lewis said that, in fairness to Mr. Rose, he wished to state that there was no truth in the wife's statement. MR. LINCOLN'S BUTTERFLY ADDRESS Broken on the Wheel of Manhattan's Criticism. William S., of England, never wrote grander than A. L. in what follows. Job was grand, when he showed himself in his most majestic parts, but he never was so sublime as our President, A. L.: — "The signs look better. The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea. Thanks to the great North-West for it. Nor yet wholly to them : 300 miles up they met New England, Empire, Keystone, and Jersey, hewing their way right and left. The Sunny South, too, in more colours than one, also lent a hand. On the spot their part of the history was jotted down in black and white:, Hide your head, Idyll Tennyson. "The signs look better." When, how, and where ? Gold is going up and greenbacks are coming down. Charleston cannot be taken. Soldiers cannot be had : 40,000 are rt quired to keep New York quiet. " Tne Father of Waters goes unvexed to the sea." He might have added " for which give glorious thanks to me." It would have been potent but false. He means thet " the Mississippi river runs into the Gulf of Mexico, and steamboats come as far as New Orleans without being fired into by the rebels. He might have added, that Jeff Davis has given positive orders that not a steamboat shall be molested upon the Mississippi for six months, and it is religi ously obeyed. Tell me, that unless such orders had been given that every boat would not have been fired at fifty times upon every passage up or down ! Pah ! Jeff needs supplies, and he will wait until 500 boats are running, loaded with mil lions of dollars of cargo, and then he will change his orders, and nab every boat, and secure millions of property. " Thanks to the great North-West"— meaning Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, lowa, Michigan, Minnesota. " They met New England" (the short for the six New England States, viz., Vermont, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts,Rhode Island, New Hampshire.) "Empire" (New York), " KEystone" (Pennsylvania), "and Jersey" (New Jersey), hewing their way"—one of his old similes of his rail-splitting days. " The Sunny South— more colours than one" (meaning the white and black troops raised in South Carolina, Lonisana, Tennessee, and so forth), " jotted down in black and white on the spot" (a sportive way of saying that the whites and niggers were killed promis cuously. " The job was a great national one, and let none be banned who bore a honourable part in it. And while those who have cleared the great river may well be proud, even that is not all." Job is good. Though a job is generally a contract one. " Let none be banned" means, " give the negroes as much credit for it as to the white folks." " It is hard to say that anything has been more bravely and better done than at Antietam, Murfreesborough, Get tysburg, and on many fields of less note." I nevor gave credit to M'Clellan for doing anything. How Uncle Abe got Antietam shoved in his poetry passes my comprehension. I always thought An times a defeat, although it was claimed by both sides as a great victory, only we got whipped the worst. The following is juicy : " Nor must Uncle Sam's web-feet be forgotten. At all the waters' margins they have been present, not only on the deep sea, the broad bay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow muddy bayou, and wherever the ground was a little damp, they have been and made their tracks." " Uncle Sam's web-feet." This is dark. To fully comprehend it you must know that our greatest shipbuilders in the city are named Webb. They built the frigates for the Russian Government, and they have built some of the best gun boats that went up the Mississippi. If the President spoke ornithologically about Web feet, he stuck fast ; for on the deep sea our Web feet have made a ter rible fiasco. It is estimated that over 200 of our best war steamers have first and last been chased by or have sought to chase the rebel steamers Alabama and Florida without success, " Wherever the ground was a little damp they have been and made their tracks" is decidedly running the thing into the ground. There is no explaining that poetically or prosily, except by sup posing the writer had wetted his subject by more lager beer or " bonbon" than is his usual custom. It would seem so by what follows: '• Thanks to all. For the great Republic—for the prin ciples by which it lives and keeps alive—for man's vast future—thanks to all." " lhanks to all," reminds one of a drunken man's last efforts as he is taken cut from the public dinner table. The closing up, and "lAA us be quite sober" is significant . " Still, let us not be over sanguine of a a speedy final triumph. Let us be quite sober. Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, is His own good time, will give us the rightful result." Earl Russell thinks that he is some 'pumpkins in letter writing, but he sinks into insignificance alongside of our chief cook. MR. CHARLES MATHEWS IN PARIS. LITERATURE. A Guide to the Western Alps. By John Ball, M.R.1.A., F.L.S., &c., late President of the Alpine Club. One vol., pp. 377. Longman. " Il n'y a plus de Pyrinies," exclaimed Louis XIV. when a member of his own family was placed on the throne of Spain. " The Pyrenees are no more." In a kindred spirit it may be said that the enterprise and determination of modem' travellers, mare particularly among the number the late Albert Smith, have abolished, not the Alps, but the difficul ties and obstacles which to a certain extent rendered them heretofore inaccessible. The autumn tour among the Alps has become now-a-days almost as much a matter-of-course as a gallop in Rotten Raw during the season. Even Mont.lßlanc has lost his terrors. The daring motto of the Alpine traveller is " Ex celsior." No difficulties daunt him—" If it is pos sible, it is done; if it is impossible, we will do it !" So general and so earnest has become the passion for "mountaineering" among our adventurous coun trymen that a number of gentlemen have enrolled themselves as members of the Alpine Club. Their avowed object is "to explore those districts of the Alps which are little known, to scale the higher -summits, and to discover passes that should connect valleys that are separated by lofty ranges." The late President of the Alpine Club, Mr. Ball, one eminently well qualified for the task, has just brought out a guide book for the Western Alps which will henceforth rank as the Alpine Guide for that locality. About the size of Bradshaw, but with this difference that where Brad shaw too often tends to bewilder, Mr. Ball serves to enlighten, this little volume is pro fusely illustrated with most excellent and elaborate maps, drawn expressly for the work, with the various routes laid down, and the various stations marked out. These maps should have been backed with linen, for they are designed for frequent use and consultation, and we doubt not will be turned over again and again during many an Alpine ram. ble. The volume is divided into two parts. The Alpine Guide (the second part) contains full and elaborate descriptions of a variety of different routes, all numbered or mused with different letters of the alphabet, corresponding with the routes drawn out in the maps. From these descriptions the traveller learns all necessary particulars not only con cerning the various places to be visited, but respecting the manner of travelling and the time likely to be required in the transit from one spot to another. Every item of necessary in formation as regards the route, the scenery, the guides, or the resting-places will be here found duly chronicled with praiseworthy fidelity. The first part of the book consists of some very interest ing introductory descriptions, from which we ex tract the following remarks on THE DANGERS OF ALPINE TRAVELLING. " The dangers of Alpine expeditions may be divided into two classes—the real and the imaginary. 'Where a ridge or slope of rock or ice is such that it could be traversed without difficulty if it lay but a few feet above the level of a garden, the substitution on either side of a precipice some thousands of feet in depth, or of a glacier crevasse, makes no real difference in the work to be done, though it may have a formidable effect on the traveller's imagina tion. Those who cannot remove this source of danger by accustoming themselves to look unmoved down verti cal precipices, and, in cases of real difficulty, to fix their attention exclusively en the ledge or jutting crag to which they must cling with foot or hand, should avoid expeditions where a moment's nervousness may endanger their own lives or those of others. " The real dangers of the high Alps may, under ordinary circumstances, be reduced to three. First, the yielding of the snow bridges that cover glacier crevasses; second, the risk of slipping upon steep slopes of hard ice; third, the fall of ice or rocks from above. " From the first and most frequent source of danger ab solute security is obtained by a precaution generally known, but often neglected. In the higher region of the glaciers, crevasses, even of considerable width, are often completely bridged over by a covering of snow or n6ve, so that no in dication of their existence is seen on the surface of the glacier. The bridges, especially when formed of fresh snow, often yield under the weight of a man's footsteps; in such a case an active man whose attention is on the alert may sometimes extricate himself at once, but it more commonly happens that he falls into the chasm beneath, in which case his chance of life is faint indeed. But if several travellers are tied together with a stout rope, as it is in the highest degree improbable that a majority of them should fall at the same momept into the same crevasse, no appreciable danger from this cause need be incurred. Even two travellers tied together may with a proper attention avoid this risk, but greater seem ity is obtained when there are three or more in number. It is mainly because he cannot be protected from this danger that a man who goes alone over the higher regions of the great glaciers incurs a risk that must be called unjustifiable. " As it is hard to persuade a landsman that a well-found yacht has more danger to fear in a fog, with a smooth sea around, than when a stiff breeze is blowing, so few moun taineers are willing to admit that there is more real chance of accident in traversing some wide expanse of nev e, un broken by a single ruffle, than in crossing a broken glacier with wide crevasses opening on every side. A very mode rate amount of practice enables a man to make sure of his footing and to avoid seen dangers, but unseen perils call forth no caution, and though the rope offers complete se curity, few travellers yet understand that it should form a part of their regular equipment. At the risk of being thought overcautious, the writer will not cease to urge upon his fellow-travellers in the Alps the enactment, as a fixed rule in mountaineering, that on reaching the limit of the neve the members of a party should all be roped together. He is perfectly aware that tbere are many places where the risk is very slight ; a practised mountaineer might cross the Theodule Pass 500 times without accident, but the 501st time he might be lost in a crevasse, as has happened twice on or near the pass since the writer first knew it. With a sufficient inducement, and if it were impossible to find a companion, he would not hesitate to cross that or some other high pass alone, but if he were in company he would insist on the use of the rope. " It would seem scarcely necessary to add that the rope should be sound and strong, if it did not often happen that untrustworthy articles are taken by guides ; and it is not less important to note that it should be fastened round the body of each member of the party, guides included. leav • ing both hands free to use the alpenstock in case of a slip. A neglect of this obvious rule led, in 1860, to the loss of three English travellers, and one of their guides, in the desoent from the Col du Giant to Courmayeur." A very interesting account of the geology of the Alps has been translated by Mr. Ball for the benefit of his readers from an article by M. Desor, the celebrated Swiss geologist. In short, Mr. Ball has omitted nothing likely to enhance the value and attractiveness of his Guide. He modestly tells us that he has himself no claim to " a brilliant share in the adventurous performances of his friends and fellow-members of the Alpine Club." His qualifications for the task he has undertaken are, however, by no means insignificant. He can vary justly boast of prolonged and extensive acquaintance with the regions which he bas under taken to describe, having crossed the main chain of the Alps no less than forty-eight times by thirty two dtfferent passes, besides traversing nearly one hundred of the lateral passes. The advice given in this volume consequently comes from one duly qualified by personal experience to instruct the novice and to advise the less experienced traveller Messrs. Longmans have conferred a benefit upon all lovers of Alpine scenes, whose name now is legion, by placing within thei► reach this very excellent and admirable Guide-book. A Mining Journey Across the Great Andes. By Major F. Iguana Ricard. Pp. 314. Smith and Elder. Major Ricard having been appointed by the Argentine Republic Inspector-General of Mines, has given us an interesting record of his wan derings— " Where Andes, giant of the western star, Looks from his throne of clouds o'er half the world." Much information may be acquired from a perusal of this little volume, which is written by one well qualified for the task. In de6cribing the Republic of La Plata, Major Ricard strongly recommends it as a fit place for immigration : "The very , name of the Republic is in itself indicative of its mineral wealth. La Plata, or the silver country, the name given by the early Spaniards on its discovery, no doubt emanated from the fact of their having found large quantities of silver there. Its extent is enormous, reaching as it does, from the river Plate in the 34° of south lat. to Cape Horn in the 55°, and stretching across almost the entire continent to the Great Andes, which form a semi impenetrable barrier on the Chilian frontier ; then away to the north it joins Bolivia in about the 22°, and on the east the territory of Brazil ; presenting on the whole such a diversity of climate as is not equalled by any other country in the world. It is larger than all Europe ; yet epidemic or sickness is almost unknown : but alas! there is that great want of population ; which in such an extensive terri tory is severely felt. Thousands of square miles of the richest and most productive soil remains in its primitive at , and comparatively valueless, though watered by some of the finest rivers in the world. But the day, I trust, is not far distant when the tide of emigration, so long mis directed to the United States, must turn in this direction ; where a warm sympathy for foreigners already exists, and a hearty welcome awaits them !" The picture is certainly tempting enough, and we commend it to the attention of intending emi grants. A Country Visit, and its Consequences. By Charlotte Hardcastle. Three vols. Newby. This is a very pleasant, gracefully written story. It does not pretend to any very high merits as a work of art. Its chief attraction, indeed, is in its want of pretension. ,It is a simple story, simply told, and, as such, is very refreshing after the spasmodic attempts at" sensation" in which (in a rash emnla lation of their betters) so many of our inferior novelists now indulge. The heroine of this story is a very charming and loveable girl, who is weary with the hollow fashionable career to which she is destined by her worldly and vulgar mamma, and from which she escapes by the happy accident of this well-timed " country visit." The ridiculous manner in which the disappointed would-be "fashionable" lady accommodates herself to her altered circumstances is most amusingly described. Some other tales by the authoress of a " Country Visit" are contained in the volumes, some of which possess considerable interest. Guide to the Unprotected in matters relating to Property and Income. By a Banker's Daughter. Pp. 119. Macmillan. This is a most useful and excellent little volume for those inexperienced in matters of business. The authoress, the daughter of a banker, being from her position necessarily familiar with various mat ters of form, has been, she tells us, frequently , consulted by ladies, who, having property to dis pose of and to manage, have been totally ignorant how to proceed in such arrangements. For the benefit of these and such like " Unprotected Females" she has considerately prepared this little volume of useful information and practical advice. Among other things to be found here are full directions for all tanking transactions, writing chcques, &c., for the disposal of stock, &c. The laws respecting house property are defined. Tech nical terms of various kinds are fully explained, and the path of the novice made smooth before her. A Lady's Visit to Manilla and Japan. By Anna D'A. Pp. 296. Hurst and Blackett. The account of a lady's experiences of these un familiar climes may naturally be regarded with interest. The fair authoress nas narrated her ad ventures and given her descriptions cf the strange scenes among which she found herself, in a very attractive manner. The book is adorned with a very characteristic coloured sketch of Nagasaki. Three Weeks in Majorca. By William Dodd, A.M. Pp. 169. Chapman and Hall. This is one of those modest little books which have small pretension in their title or appearance, but which, on a closer examination, commend themselves to the reader's attention. We have been much interested in Mr. Dodd's description of Majorca, end the other islands of the Mediterranean Sea. His manner is lively and pleasant, and his remarks on the various localities which he describes often display great good sense and good feeling. Behind the Veil ; and other Poems. By the Hon. Roden Noel. One vol., pp. 161. Macmillan. As is generally the case in such collections, the smaller poems in this volume are greatly superior to the more ambitious and elaborate introduction, the very subject of which is alarming in its im mensity. It is dedicated "to Ecila" (evidently Alice), end the author tells us that it has cost him— " Long anxious care, at times thought agonised ;" and we fear that many of his readers will endure similar sufferings before the whole drift of the poem is clear to their comprehension. Among the smaller pieces one of the happiest is upon an old man revisiting the scenes of his youth. The senti ments which animate 11r. Roden are fu.l of charity and reverence. His heart is evidently in " the right piece," but it is a pity that his imagination should bewilder itself with the subtleties of meta physics. Hand book to the Calculator and Letter Box. By J. S. Laurie. 12m0., pp. 16. Longman. Upwards of three-and-twenty years ago, while visiting one of the three recently established National Schools in Ireland, we remember witness ing for the first time the employment of the Abacus or Ball-Frame, as a means of inducting (with the utmost ease) a number of very young children into the elementary mysteries of Arithmetic. The Little Handbook here supplied to the calculator (and Letter Box) by the Editor of the Graduated Series of Reading Books, already noticed in The Sun in terms of well merited commendation, will tend directly to impress the mind of every English Teacher with a conviction of the many advantages comprised within that very admirable system of tuition—the impart ing of knowledge by the actual sight and touch of visible and tangible objects. A cedar box, with a sliding lid—the lid partitioned into exactly a dozen divisions—the box containing five-and-twenty round counters, as well as eight-and-seventy pieces of wood : behold the very simple ap paratus for the calculator The twelve divi sions on the lid being available for imparting a knowledge of notation and of fractions. The five-and-twenty counters, for teaching counting and notation. The seventy-eight pieces of wood, for giving accurate information in the matter of frac tions. Supplied Niith this very simple and very compact apparatus, the child and the teacher have, in the form of that little cedar box and its contents, calculator and the letter box in one. The duplication, in this way, is here very readily effected by the seventy-eight pieces of wood already mentioned be ing marked on one side with fractions, from a whole to one-twelfth, and so on—and upon the other side marked, as distinctly, for reading. The very lid of the box having fastened down upon the back of it a printed sheet, containing the alphabet in clear, bold type ; that type representing both letterpress and handwriting. This wonderful little magic box may certainly be defined as somewhat better than poor fabled Pandora's —seeing that no ills whatever come from this one, and that yet good hopes and prospects are nevertheless stored up there, tuo, perpetually—good hopes and prospects that the child-student, out of these little counters and partitions within it, may win his way in good time through arithmetic up, up, up to geometry and maw thematics. The little box here referred to, and its contents may be scanned any day by those who list at the South Kensington Museum; or it may be seen, as a footnote tells us at page 3, at the great publishing house at the Row whence issues this ingenious Handbook, as a sort of pocket-key to that same small literary and arithmetical Cabinet, at once Letter-box and Calculator. A SAGACIOUS GAMEKEEPER'S DOG,—Yesterday, at the Wakefield Court-house, Joseph Bullock and James Armitage were charted with night poaching on land at Rothwell, in the occupation of Mr. Richard Sykes, and belonging to Mr. Calverley. It seemed that at half-past one o'clock in the morning Isaac Jellings, a watcher in the em ploy of Mr. Calverley, and other assistants, were out. In a field occupied by Mr. Sykes they saw four men, who had nets spread, and, with the assistance of a dog, were ranging after game. They went to them, and a struggle commenced. One man, named James Ellis, was apprehended, and left in the custody of James Booth, while the fight was continued to secure the rest. The result of the struggle, however, was that the men escaped, and Jellings placed a dog he had with him upon the track of the two prisoners, and he fol lowed after. He came up to his dog while it was standing on the brink of a pond, and said to it, " Where is he 2" The dog immediately sprang into the water, but he could not think that any one was there, and took no steps. The dog came out of the pond, and he repeated the question, where upon it ran along a hedge side until it came to a place where Bullock was concealed, who was apprehended and secured. I Jellings and his dog then returned to the side of the pond, anc Jellings repeated the question, " Where is her' The dog again jumped into the water, and this time he followed it, and in going through the water he trod upon Armitage, who was up to the neck in the pond, his head being con cealed under a tree root. He seized him and pulled him out of the water, and he also was secured. Bullock, a known poacher, was sent to prison for two months, and Armitage was committed for six months to prison, each of them to find surety to keep the peace for 12 months after his rcleaee from gaol. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.--This Days DONCASTER RACES—TIais DAY. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. DON STAKES. Tom Fool ... . 1 Jarnicoton . 0 . THAMES. AN UNNATURAL FIGHT.—Mary Donnelly, alias Cathe rine Biyan, with many other aliases, the terror of publicans and policemen, who has been in custody a great many times, was brought before Mr. Partridge, charged with being drunk, disorderly, and breaking two panes of glass in the window of the Crown and Seven Stars public-house in Rosemary. lane, Whitechapel. Rosemary-lane was re-named Royal Mint-street from its contiguity to the Mint a few years ago, but the character of its inhabitants has not improved, dissipation and ruffianism reign triumphant there. The prisoner is the leader of a desperate gang of disorderly women who are almost con tinually drunk and fighting, and creating all manner of disturbances. The prisoner went into the Crown and Seven Stars public-house last night and demanded liquor. Mr. John Mann refused to serve her with anything. She abused him, and made a great disturbance. A man inter fered, and she fought with him. He gave her a good thrashing. Such were the words uttered by the landlord. In revenge for this prisoner made an attempt to break the window. The landlord interfered, and the prisoner struck him several times. He got her away and turned her out of the house. She then picked up two stones and hurled them at his windows. Two panes of glass were broken. Mr. Partridge said it was highly reprehensible for the landlord of a public-house to suffer any fighting in his house, but it was still more disgraceful to allow such an unnatural thing as a man and a woman to fight. The complainant said he could not prevent it. The pri soner was the greatest nuisance that ever existed. Mr. Partridge—You should refuse to serve her with any thing except water. The complainant—l do, sir. She has not spent a six pence in my house for 12 months. She comes into my house and creates a disturbance, fights with every one, throws pots at me, and keeps the neighbourhood in a state of tumult. The prisoner, whose face was contused, and one eye blackened, presented a repulsive appearance, and Fielding's celebrated description of Blear-eyed Moll in his novel of "Amelia," would answer well for the description of the pri soner. She complained of being knocked about, and said the publican beat her, and was always "paying her out." Mr. Mann declared he never touched the woman, and that she was a perfect curse to him. Mr. Partridge had no doubt the prisoner was a very dis orderly, violent. and drunken woman, but he could not too strongly deprecate the fight between her and a man in a public-house. He fined her ls., and ss. the value of the glass broken. The prisoner doubled her fist, scowled at the com plainant, and exclaimed, " I'll knock the publican's b—y eye out when I come out of prison." Mr. Partridge—You shall be locked up for five minutes, and if you do not withdraw that threat and express sorrow for saying so, I will make you find bail. The prisoner was again arraigned in five minutes. She said she was very sorry, and did not intend to hurt the publican. Mr. Partridge—You had better not. MARKETS—This Day. MARK -LANE. The supply of English wheat received fresh up to Mark lane to-day was very moderato. The demand, however, ruled inactive at Monday's decline of ls. per qr. Theshow of foreign wheat on the stands was large. For all descrip tions the trade was in a sluggish state, yet no quotable change took place in the rates current at the commence ment of the week. Floating cargoes of grain were in slow request at late rates. The supply of barley was very mode rate. Malting qualities realised fully previous quotations. Grinding and distillery sorts were steady. A fair average business was transacted in malt at late rates. The supply of oats on sale was very large. The trade for all qualities ruled heavy, and prices were barely supported. Beans and peas were in steady request, and prices ruled firm. No change took place either' in the value of English or foreign flour; but the amount of business transacted was very moderate. ARRIVALS THIS *mit. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flout. English.— 850 I 420 ._.. 1,690 1 56,560 • 810 Irish 20 sks. • -- N'oreign...-10,380 4,810 220 brls. NEW GATE AND LE ADENHALL. The supply of meat on sale is moderate; on tho whole, the demand rules steady at full quotations. Per 81b, by the carcase. stied Inferior beef .. 2 8 3 0 Middling do. .. 3 2 3 6 Frime largo do. 3 8 3 10 Do. small d 0... 4 0 4 2 Large pork .... 3 6 4 0 Inferior mutton. 3 4 3 8 odsd Middlingmutton 3 10 4 2 Prime do . 4 4 4 6 Veal Small pork .. 4 2 4 6 Lamb BOROUGH HOP. New English hops are in steady request, and fine samples command rather more money. For yearling and old hops the demand is by no means active, yet prices are sup ported. New Mid and East Kents 9os to 120 s per cwt. Weald of Kents 2S Sussex . B5B to 110 s $) COLONIAL. TEA.—The public sales have proceeded with rather less animation, and prices have gone rather irregularly. SUGAR. —There has been a moderate inquiry for West India, which has continued at fully previous prices. Other descriptions were inactive. In the refined market there has been more animation, and good titlers have been dealt in at 44s 6d to 45s per cwt. COFFEE.—For colonial descriptions there has been a fair inquiry, and full rates have been realised at public sale for both plantation and native Ceylon. RICE.—A moderate amount of business has been entered into, but pi-lees have Lot varies to nu, i—rpvtant extent_ 1 ALLOW.—There has been a more active demand, and prices have slightly improved. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted 425, and last three mouths 43s per cwt. Full benefit of reduced duty obtained by pur chasing Horniman's pure Tea; very choice at 3s. 4d. and 4s. "High Standard" at 4s. 4d. (formerly 46. 81), is the strongest and most delicious imported. Agents in every town supply it in packets. A DUEL BETWEEN LADIES.—On Mondry several ladies, While on a visit to a friend's house, a short distanc e from Gray's Ferry, were amusing themselves by singing and d anc i ng, when one of them, a res ident of Bal timore, the othe r l a di es jestingly said "You're a rebel," at which sa ng a verse of " Th e B onn y Blue I lag ;" one of snot her commenced the " Southern Marseillaise ;" when it was finished, the lady who had been called a rebel said, I wish we had pistols, I'd fight a duel with you for call ing me a rebel." At this a daughter of the gentleman at whose house they were, said, We have pistols in the house, but they are not loaded." They were brought, and orderis to give it th e form of a duel, distances were mea sured in the room, the ladies took their places, word was given —one, two, three, when the lady who had called the other " rebel," said, " I will sit in this chair, as I wish to die easy." Word was again given, and the Baltimore lady, who had a self-cocking pistol, pulled the trigger, and bang went the pistol —a piercing scream was heard, and in an instant the room was filled with the members of the family, when it was discovered that two of the ladies had swooned : the Baltimore lady was standing motionless and. the one who wished to " die easy," sitting pale with terror in her chair ; one ball had passed through her dress on the left side, grazing the skin, while in the leaf of a table on which she rested her arm were eight distinct shot holes, and one bullet imbedded in the wood. The pistol had been loaded by a boy en the 4th of July, but the charge had not been fired. The ladies were soon restored to consciousness, and commenced to realise the danger o f meddling with firearms---a warning, it is needless to. say, they will not disregard for the future.—.ll , eta York Tr i bune of Commerce. AN ARAB BEATEN BY AN ENGLISH RACE- HoRsE!—A race has taken place at Cairo, between a fine Arab, from the stud of Ali Pacha, and the English horse C ompanion, the property of Halm Pacha, the distance being four miles. The English hone won in a canter by more than hall-a TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Six,•—l have only just seen your paper of Saturday, con taining a notice of my first appearance at the Theatre des Varretes. Allow me, in the first place, to thank you heartily for all the kind and flattering things you say, and say so pleasantly, of me, and next to correct the impres • sion you are evidently under that I was not only treated with injustice on the first night by the Parisian public, but that there was actually an organised opposition to my performance. Now, let me beg of you at once to dis miss this idea from your mind. There was neither cabal nor organised opposition of any kind, and the fault, such as it was, was entirely my own, and not that of the audience. I believe they came with every intention to be pleased, as it met with a most cordial recep tion, and two-thirds of the piece went with shouts of laugh ter and every sign of good humour ; but the latter portion was not to their taste—it dragged, and I soon discovered that they were getting bored. But it was not any one " ill natured fellow in the pit." The necessity for explanation at the end of every piece, according to our English ideas of dramatic propriety—the seeing everybody married and set tled, and all the obscure points of the plot mathe matically cleared up before dropping the curtain — is not only not required by the French public, but is deemed tiresome ; they like to drop the cur tain when the fan is over, and guess the rest ; and certain signs, which had nothing to do with me, but with the piece only, showed me that they had had enough, and were getting out of patience at the long winding-up. I repeat, the fault was mine, and not theirs; and had one of their own favourite actors played the part I believe he would have been treated in the same way. " 111-will "I am sure there was none; for when, in the midst of their discontent, I said suddenly to the old man of the piece, " Come, come, for goodness sake make haste and marry the young people ; can't you see that the public is getting impatient ?" the apropos speech was received with the greatest good humour, and was followed by a tremendous salvo of applause on the u.cond n;€ll.+7 ‘ . .. 1-, nlosale cutting, which the manager had advised previous to the first performance, but to which I objected, having played the piece "Cool as a Cucumber" so often successfully in London—an obstinacy for which I paid the penalty—it went off from beginning to end with what actors call " one roar," and I am play ing it nightly to " overflowing and enthusiastic audiences." There is a procession every morning to the box office, and, in short, I may venture to say that I am—poetically speak ing the—" talk of Paris." _ _ I hope you will make the amende honorable to the Pari sian public by publishing these facts. I have every rea son to be delighted with the perfect success of my expe riment. I have received nothing but compliments and kindnesses from actors, authors, managers, public, every body ; and the criticisms in the newspapers are all so flat tering and cordial that I cannot resist sending you them as vouchers for the truth of my statement. lam receiving an excellent salary, and as my engagement at the Haymarket prevents my remaining here beyond the end of the month, I am invited to return after Christmas, when a comedy will be written by a French author expressly for me. — Again thanking you for your exceedingly kind notice, I am, sir, yours, &c., C. J. MATHEWS. Paris, Sept. 16. OUR. FUSTIAN CUTTERS.--The vicious custom of if play-days " at the beginning of the week, exposes these children to be shockingly overworked at the end — b e ing sometimes unrelieved for thirty hours at a time. Four. teen hours, including meals, is a fearful daily task for young girls and boys ; and in this business the work occasions deformity and lameness, whether the hours are in excess or not. It is probably the greatest event in the lives of the seventeen thousand young workers in these trades, that the discovery has been made in their tim e o f th e fit ness o f combining education of the mind with the labour of the hands, and of the completeness of each when the two are combined. As much learning can be gained in three hours as in six, and as much pay may be, or soon w ill b e, earne d on the whole by those who go to school as when they never left their work. " Half .time and education is a grand thing!" as the workman said; and any of us who can i n any Way aid in getting Parliament to extend the benefits of the Factory Act to these hard-worked children, will surely try their utmost, after seeing what their case is, and what it might be. An effort in any degree proportionate to the value of the object is sure of swum—cm 0 Week. i~ MATCH. Brown Bess Belochee TOWN PLATE. Hubert - .... 1 Newmarket Mail of Mist Twenty :an. DONCASTER, CUP. Macaroni .. Queen Bcrtha Eix ran. It will be eeen from the above that my anticipa tions of Monday have turned out exactly as Istated, namely, that Lord Clifden would win the St'. Leger and Maccaroni the Cup, adding more laurels to those already won by A FRESHMAN. Curious Action for Damages at Sunderland. On Wednesday, at the Sunderland County Court a case was heard in which Robert Taylor c l a i me d £5O as compensation for injuries ho had received at the hands of a companion named John Atkinson. The men are both sawyers, working at Southwick, and residing in the adjoining village of Hylton. On the morning of Monday, the 29th of June last, they left their work about ten o'clock, and went into the public-house kept by Edward Brown. They had a good deal of beer, and sat conversing about feats of strength until Atkinson said he would bet a quart there was not a man in the house who could lift him. Taylor said he thought he could, but did not accept the bet, and while they were at the door be tween twelve and one, Atkinson said, " Can you lift we now ?" and upon that Taylor undertook to carry him into the house. In his evidence the plaintiff said—" I put my back against him, in a stooping position, to lift him by the thighs, but he said, That's not the way, I'll show you.' He then shoved his arms through under mine, and fetched them on the back side of my head. Then be pressed my head down into my breast, and I felt something give way in my neck.' I fell down at his feet, and said, ' You have done me.' He said, Can you carry me now ?' I said, 'No, you've done me.' Ho said, Come, get up, it's only the drink, and you'll soon be better.' But I could not stir, and George Young carried me into the house. Dr. Horan has since attended me. I am now very weak in the small of my back, and have very little use of my bands, being unable to lift anything. We were both under the influence of liquor."—Margaret Barwick, plain. tiff's sister, deposed to conversing with the defen. dant about the affair. He offered to show her how it was done, but she declined,thinking that for one of the family to be lame was quite enough. She asked him why he replied " That's my catch." He afterwards said he had been done in a similar way himself once before by a man at the Three Horse Shoes Inn, and he was not clever for eight or nine weeks after.—D r . Horan deposed that the spinal marrow was injured, and said he found plaintiff completely paralysed, and without power to move or assist himself in bed. There was great tender derness about the region of the neck, and in his opinion it would be along time b e f ore T aylor re covered the use of his limbs. He might recover somewhat, but would never be the man he was be fore the occurrence. He did not think he would be able to work as a sawyer again. There was no sub-. stential defence to the action, and his Honour found for the plaintiff, with £25 damages and costs. H e remarked that though the men had agreed to a trial of strength in lifting, defendant had used unfair means. He would have given judgment in th e whole sum of £5O, but the defendant, being only working man, and having a family to maintain, would not be able to pay more than £25,—/Vetc•N castle Chronicle. A Melancholy Narrative, The schooner Robert Drape, Captain Monfgomerie, which has arrived in the West India docks, took eight pas sengers on beard at Algiers, for a passage to England. They were a Mr. Hobbs, a native of Bath, a chairmaker, his wife, and a family of six—the oldest eighteen years of age. They left their native place some months previously, for a town in Algiers ; but, failing in their expectations, they wished to return to England, and applied to the British Consul, who introduced them to Captain Mont gomerie. The captain states that, from a feeling of com passion for them, he undertook to give the whole family a passage to England for £l4 ; but he represents that he expended £l7 in purchasing additional stores at Algiers There were two ,•pare bunks in the cabin, divided from that part used by the captain and mate, for the accommo dation of the wife and daughters, and two spare bunks on the forecastle were allotted to the father and sons. The schooner put to seaon Aug. 5, endowing to the warm weather it is stated that the family wished to be berthed in the long.. boat, which stood on deck. Their desire seemed to have been complied with. They made up their bed at the bottom of the boat, and a kind of awning was erected in order to afford some shelter. A day or so after the voyage commenced the family suffered much from sea sickness, and the weather setting in bad added greatly to their suffering. A heavy gale of several days duration was experienced off Cape St. St. Vincent. The condition of the family became worse; they were gradually getting more exhausted from violent and continued sea sickness, and several of them were seized with ague. The captain states that he had fresh provisions up to and when the vessel was off Cape St. Vincent; but neither the parents nor the children could b e induced to take any solid food ; they preferred tea. He also states that they were often asked to leave the boat and to go to the bunks in the cabin and forecastle, but they refused, At eight p.m. on the 25th of August, George Hobbs, the eldest son, 18 years of age, died in the boat from exhaustion consequent on sea sickness, and on the following day the body was buried. Two days afterwards, on the evening of the 27th another of the children, Emily, aged five years, expired in the boat ; and at midnight of the same day the third child, Richard Hobbs, nine years of age, breathed hi s last, and in the morning the two bodies were committed to the deep. The father and mother and remaining three children still kept in the boat, and the captain states that all his remonstrances failed in inducing them to l ea ve it. Ila prepared what nourishment he could for them, but he had much difficulty in getting them to take anything. They still preferred tea. Rough weather was met with in coming up Channel, and on the night of the 3d instant, when the vessel was between Dungeness and Dover, Elizabeth Hobbs, the eldest daughter, aged six teen, was released from her sufferings. On the schooner arriving in the Downs, the Violet lugger, of Deal, was hailed, and the captain of the schooner desired the parents, the two surviving children, and the corpse of the young girl to be taken on shore. The lugger's crow state that they found the survivors in a most dreadful state of exhaus tion, and it is very doubtful whether they could have lived if they had gone on with the vessel to London. The lugger took the poor creatures ashore at Deal, as also the body of the girl. The survivors received that medical aid and atten. tion which their lamentable state required, and are Ma dually recovering. Bank of England Return,• --Yesterday. An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 16th day cf Sept., 1863: ISSUE DEPARTMENT. , otes issued ......X29.331,1601 Government Debt £11,015,1C0 Other Securities .. 3,63400 Gold Coin & Bullion 14,684,160 Silver Bullion .... £29,334,160 £29,331,1 53 BAIMING D. oprietor a' Capi tal £14.553,000 Rest Public Deposits (in cluding Exche quer, Savings' Banks, Commis missioners of Na tional Debt, and Dividend Ac counts) 7,371,510 Other Deposits 13,464,939 Seven Day and other Bills 713,560 ;PARTMENT• Government Seed- ritiea (including DeadWeightAn nuity) ........ £11,0(.11,2a4 Other Securities.. 19.413,856 Notes . ............ 8,560,91 s Gold and Silver 777,1 ca Coin ............ X 39,312,961 : X 39,842,962 .RSHALL, Chief Cashier. Sept. 17, 1163. SHIPPING—This Day. LONDON, Sept. N.—Wind this day at noon—West; fine. ;`,IAGNETIC TELEGAAPIJ. GRAVESEND. Friday l‘Tmlaing. Arrived, Sept 17—Omen, from Aalborg; Idutlf Latta' rina, from Gottenburg. Arrived, Sept. IS—Wopke, from Gottenbur,g; Christina Sophia, from Lokken ; Prince Albert, from Jamaica, Sailed—Triton, steamer, for Boulogne. DEAL. Friday Mnrninv, Passed—Enfield, from London, for Jangebar, Sailed—Amaz.on, screw bteauter, for Lisbon, In — nit we. nal ey ge th 3urt ml to Hob-, 13.14, 26 10 et at 50 20 '.+'.16,4 1 2.1 0 'hart tOO Atk 20 100 1 stock stock stock 100 100 100 100 WO 100 100 100 dock stook stock stock stock 20 stock stock st so ,tock 7i 8 55 44 1014 951 1 108) lon 109 I 13/ 108} 1071 102