The Sun. — London, England, 1863-08-15 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET. AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE o'CLocK. In the general discount market there is no alte ration of importance, the demand being well main tained, at 3i 4 per cent. for even the best three months' bills. There was a general upward movement in the Foreign Exchanges yesterday afternoon. A further sum of £21,000 in gold was taken into the Bank -<!.sterday. Since Monday last the imports of specie amounted to £470,000, and the exports to £338,000. Up to the 23d July Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co.'s agent in Venezuela had received for the bond holders' proportion of the customs' revenue for two weeks, 38,151 dots. 21c. from La Guayra. Only a small amount of the sum due from Puerto Cabello had been received at the departure of the last mail. Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co. have received £1,508 14s. 10d. from the' Custom-house at Santa Marta, on account of the New Granada dividends. The mail from Guayaquil has brought a remit tance of 4 '333 12s. Bd. on account of the dividends on the Ecaador Bonda. The following remarks upon the accumulation of produce in the United Kingdom is from the circular of Messrs. J. Travers and Sons :—" The accumula tion of produce in the various warehouses through out the country since the commencement of the present year has been much larger than any one would suppose, looking at the satisfactory ex tent of consumption of nearly all the principal articles. Unfortunately, there are no data by which to arrive at exact information on the point except the statements which are furnished with the returns of the imported goods held in bond as being liable to duty. There can be little doubt, however, that the figures in those instances may be taken as affording a, general indication applicable to the great mass of our trade. From these, it ap pears that in the first half of 1863 there has been an increase of 156,8351 b. in our stock of cocoa, of 4,133,6381 b. in coffee, of 500,272 gallons of rum, of 356,929 gallons of brandy, of 990,118 erns. of sugar, of 26,975 cwts of refined sugar, of 37,812 cwts, of molasses, of 9,827,3151 b. of tea, and of 679,334 gallons of wine. To bacco, pepper, and fruits are the only articles of which our stocks have experienced any redaction since the Ist of January. So long as the American war lasts, this state of circumstances must be ex pected to continue, and prices are hardly likely to rally even though at home we are taking into use a fair increase of nearly all those articles the consump tion of which denotes a state of prosperity. On the return of peace, a rise must occur, since the deficien cies to be made up in America will cause orders to be sent to all parts." Two o'CLocK. There has been no new feature in the English Stock Market, and business has been conducted on a very limited scale. There appears to be an almost entire absence of speculation, and the opera tions for transfer are also small. Consols are 93 for money, and 93} a for the account. The New Threes and Reduced are 934 ; Exchequer Bills, ls. dis. to 2s. prem.; India 5 per Cents,, 1089 f;- ; and do. Bonds, 19s. prem.; India Stock is 224; and Bank do., 238 i. Foreign Stocks have been quiet, and although at one time rather lower, close with tolerable firm ness. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 68 I ; Ditto Consolides, 486 491; Mexican, 38-1 ; Greek, 331 4 ; Ditto Coupons, 15 16; Spanish Passive, 34 341; Ditto Certificates, 121 6 ; and the Con federate Loan, 25 to 23 dis. A moderate amount of business has been trans acted in the Railway Share Market to-day, and in one or two instances prices have slightly advanced. Great Eastern and Great Western each improved 10s.; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 65.; and South- Eastern, 15s. The Foreign and Colonial lines remain inactive, at about previous quotations. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares continue very !dull. London and Westminster declined to 771. Crystal Palace Stock is steady, at 401 3 ; Hudson Bay Company Shares have improved to 3 ; 1 ,,- ; and international Financial ditto to Bi. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Bank Stock 2381 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 92 3k Now 3 per Cent. A nnu iti es New 21 per Cent. Annuities.... 5 per Cent. Annuities Annuities, 30 yrs, expire 6th J an., 1880 — Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 — India Stock .................. '124 Ditto 5 pei Cent.................... 108* Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent...... Ditto 5 per Cent............ Ditto 51 per Cent Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863 Ditto ditto April, 1864 Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 Ditto Bonds £l,OOO Ditto under £l,000 Bank Stock for Account consols for Account, Sept, 9 India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent — March, 2er Cent. I 2! per Cent. June 4 p Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO .. 2 p Ditto £5OO m Ditto Small .......... 1 dis FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Brazilian 5 per Cent ...... 102* Ditto, 1839 and 1859 ...... Ditto 4* per Cent., 1852-58-60 ...... 934 Buenos Ayre s 6 per C ent Di'cto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) Chili an 6 per Cent. Ditto 44 per Cent. .. Ego ador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent.. Egmitian 7 per Cent lO4l 5 'Ditto, Second Issue ............... G reek 5 per Cent., 1824-5 , ex-Coupons — Ditto Account 335 I Ditto Coupons Ditto Account Italian 5 per Cent.(Maremmana Railway) Mexican 3 per Cent Account 'Moori Ditto sh Imp er i a l 5 per Cent New Granada Portuguese 3 p er C ent., 1853 . Ditto Account Di'cto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62.. Ditto Account RuF . ;aian 5 per C en t., 1 822, £ St Drat° 4/ per Cent 1850 .. • Ditto 3 per Ce n t., 185 9 ••.. 581 'Ditto 5 per C en t. 186 2 Ardinian 5 p er C ent Ditto Account Npanish 3 per Cent Ditto Account Ditto New Deferred Ditto Account Ditto Passive Ditto Account .. 331 Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded Ditto Account l2a Turkish 6 per Cent. 18541 Ditto Account.. Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 Ditto Account 7lt Ditto, £lOO Bonds Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 Ditto Account .. Ditto GuaraLteed, 4 per Cent 'Venezuela 3 per Cent. Ditto Account .. 24 Ditt o 6 per ant., 1852 Ditto Account " s7f Dividends on the above payable in London. hutch 2/ per Cen l, per t,, Ex. 12 Guil Cent , Ex. 25 francs — Ditto Account .. ..... .• - TWO O'CLOCK. Consols, Money .... Ditto Account ...... " 9311 SHIPPING —This Day. _____ -----...._ and very fine. LoNnoN, Aug. 15.—Wind at Xoon, s.; light airs , S.—A rr i ved—Dan, from FALMOUTH. Aug. 14.—Wi nd Havanna. for Q PILL. Aug. 13.—Sailed —W m . G raham and Wm. Yeo,uebec. CARDIFF, .Ar,g. 14.—Wind, E.—Sailed —Queen for Bilboa. Ary:A—Balder, from S. Th omas ' s ; Cumber land, screw steamer,, from Havanna ; Cieorgina, from St. John's: SIVANVI,A, Aug. 11.—Wind, S.—..krrived—Marie Elisa, from M auritius. Aug.. GLO (MESTER, Au 14—Arrived—Carls, f rom New . York; Cohla, from Montreal, Meteor, from Miramichi. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning. Arrived, August 14.—Amant, from Serted. DEAL, Saturday Morning. Passed—Royal Stuart, from Madras, for London ; Dor .B.;Vair Weymouth, from the north, for the west; C a d mus , frominl°utht 'from the north, for the west; Rival Ship, for Malazig°nn' for Amsterdam ; Rubicon, from London, Sailer ; Dee, from Woolwich, for the westward. Haraburg,S' Gnarling, for Antwerp; Lady L9u:ea, for SHARE MARKETS---This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Share; Railway E. 13.14. 1 Bir., Wol., and Str. Blythe and Tyne. Bost.,Sleaf.,andMid. l / 4 ;o Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall A gets no diN go o . fi i, _ till fp e.p an.hat., been paid to B. Dublin & Belfast Junc. Dun..Perth,&Ab. Junc. Edinburgh & Glasr,ow.l Glasg. and S. NV esterz,. l Great Eastern, Ord. sal Ditto A steel- Ditto East Anglian st GreatNorthof Scotland Great Northern.. Do A stock Doßdo IGt. S. ant W. of Irelano 'Great Western Do Str Val gna. stock Lancashire & Yorkshire Loudon and Blackwall Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & So•.th Western Man., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do # shares Metropolitan Midland Do New 8.4.0 Do Binning. ..t Derby acid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. 4 shares Slid Kent Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Lecds Do York Do Carlisle.. North London 19.16.4 Do New North Starordshire N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot N. E. Aber. stock Do Scot. Mid. stock Shrews, and Welchpool Shropshire Union South Deyon South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines, Wok.,and Wok Stockton dz Darlington Do Do New, 180 G Taff Vale.. ..... Do B Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of heath Viotoria sta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.&R i West Midland -Oxford ' , Do Newport Do Hereford 12.10 Paid. '" done. Cpl2,scien.g Business 8 Si - - 81 81 86 1-8 118 119 sj 7 90 91 151 104 Of C 5 111 113 404 tO¢ 17 41 294 f5l 123 125 ' 1221 123} PS 140 100 It 2 651 66k 113,1 113 J, 76. 774 113. 115 42i 431 1011 1021 105) lOtit 43 41 111 111 129 ;29i 1 4 1 1P 97 99 54 15 25 20 1011 1011 67i 53 87 83 118 120 lf 11 r E 2 83 114 1i 122 124 46} in 100 102 50 52 30 32 921 tI3 70 72 101 103 7t 8 88 39 94 104 o 7 4 8 4 P 153 160 51 6f 3 34 p 84 86 168 160 7 62 50r. ; ; 2 GS/ 1132 754 111 27 29 102 12 1012 UT -:- 124 i 871 i 92} 31 45i 481 50 41 101 106 BRITISH P 3 hart 100 stk I 20 Railways zoi lo 100 I too 100 stock stock stock 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 stook stock 2O .29 stock stock stock 20 stock 50 100 stock Ntlantio & St Lawrenet Bom.,Baroda&.Cent Ind Gu. 5 per oent... Do. New ....... Do. E. Shares... Buffalo and Laaelluron Do. Preference Buffalo,Brant,&Godria 5 p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 Do. do. July 1, 1873 Do. do. June 1, 18;1 Cleutta.&S.Eastn. (Lir ) Cape Town £ Dock Sail Eaetn. Bengal gu. b p. c Last Indian. pl. 5 p. c. Do, do. G Ext.. . Do. do. H do. .. Grand Trunk of Canada Do. Ist Fret. Bonds.. Do. ao. deferred...... Do. 2d Frei. Bonus.. Do. do. deferred...... Do. 3d P. ef. stock ... Do. do. deferred...... Do. 4th Pref. sLo Do. do. deferred...... GLlndiaPenin.gua.sp.o Do. New gua.kp,o... Do. January, 1862 .. Gt. South.of India (Lim) guaranteed 5 per cent. Gt. W. of Canada Shares Do. New . • • Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. Do. 5i p. o. do. '77-8. . Indian Branch Limited Madras guar., 5 p. a. .. Do. 4f p. c. Extension Dc. 4A do ......... Do. Fifth Extension. Melb.Corp. 6 p. o. Buds. Melb. & Hobson's Bay. Do. 7 p. o. 11ortg. Bds. Newßr anew= x Canda Class A and B. IN.RlC'daB pc lst 1 bds I .soinde .......... Do. d . De o lhi ..... • • 1:14•-• Do. Punjaub t I c 7 s Do. Do. E. 6 Do. Indus. St. Flo.) '1 COLONIAL GOVERD k,:ai.brov. 6 p.c.J a ..isJ ui) 1877-81 ...... Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Aug Do. d p. o.Mar. & Sept. Do. i 5 p. c. Jan.&July. Do. 5 Inscribed stock Cape G.Hope, 8p Do.Ap ttz Oct. 1886 Do. 189 t, Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 'Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6 p c 'Mauritius 6 per cent .. 'Natal Gov. 6 per cent.. N.B.Gov. 0 p.o.a a.&Jul) Do. 6 p. o.Ap. & Oct. N. S.W. G ov. 5 p Do. 5 p. to I.‘f Do. d0.,1888 &upwds New Zealand 8 p cent. Nara Scotia Gov. 6 p. c sterling, 1875 Queensland Gev. a p. c S. Aus (16p.c.1878.& up Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&Jul) Do. to 6 p.o. ISIONS. Closing Price. M O 62 107 108 1 14 p p 5% of a 8% 107 108 1(3 105 109 110 108 1( if ip, lf 1 / 1 , 1 19 40 69 11 52 55 63 65 45 48 42 44 33 30 23 28 20 23 108 109 1 Up) 1 1i; I 107 1(8 101 11 10 9/r; 95 98 90 92 1077 i lO l B 101} 1021 S 8 ICO 55 57 3 5 83 85 1074 1081 1 107¢ 10 84 iP - - IG7i ICBi P 103 105 T SECUItITIEB. 103 105 K 2 104 105 107 95 N 94 96 108 110 112 114 113 115 112 115 113 115 106 107 110 112 ' 1.05 k 1(64 1004 101; 1014 102, 1014 1021 110 112 105 106 1:0 112 110 112 107 109 113 113 j 1034 i 103 BRITISH MINES. 2 Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 4 5d Uhilord Amalgamated 30 12 Devon G.Cone.(Tavist , 1 550 670 575 East Bassett (Illogan) 30 79 81 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd 52. Id par East Caradon ...........1.14.0 28 30 East Cant Brea... ... . . 3.4.0 74 8 E. WlRussel(Tavistk.) 8.8.6 34 31 Gam.&St.Aubyn(Gwen.) 7 10 jGreat South Tolg - us 175 31 31 Wheal Vor (Relston 40 61 71 Grenville 6.16. t 6/ 61 Elercd's-root 8.12 58 40 H ingston Downs 4.' 8.0 14 2 Lady Bertha Margaret (Uny Lelant y 32 St Marke Valley.. 4 Myndy Iron Ore (Li m ) 2 4 1/ New Setun l9l 160 110 North Downs 24 2 25 N.Wh'l Baseetalloon 2.17. t 21 31 North Wheal Crotty Par Consols (St. Blazey) 15 4 5 20 Providence(Uny Lelnt.) 10.6.7 10 42 ,SouthCaradon(St.Cleer; 11 415 425 Carn Brea (Illogan) 5.15.6 11 21 Fran. (Illogan) 18.15.9 725 774 IStray Park 5 famar Silv.,t Lead Kin. 44 a 4 fin Crort 9 215 22i West Basset (Illogan) l4 114 125 W C' radon (Llskeard) 5 22 24 West Seton Wheal Basset (Illogan) 55 60 65 Wheal Buller (Redruth) 5 45 50 Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) 2.0.6 - WhealLuthott Wheal IklaryAnni s Llen ) 8 11 13 Wheal Seton 585 220 130 Wheal Treiawney (Lis.) 7 /5 17 Wheal Union 3.17 2l 31 31 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Western, 5 per cent. red. prf., 104 North Eastern, Cons. pref., 4 per cent., 911 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCILS London, Brighton, &c., 4 per cent., 1858, 102 LINES LEASED Al' FIXED RENTALS. Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 4 Northern and Eastern, 5 per cent., 56 Nottingham and Grantham R. & C., 96 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 8} Recite and San Francisce (Urn.), gua. 7 per cent., 17 San Paulo (lim.), MILL 7 per cent., Ditto (a 1), 22} South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 211 1 Turin and Savona, 2j West Flanders, 71 FOREIGN MMES. Kapunda (Urn.), i St. John del Rey (11m.), 561 7 Yudanarautana of S. Australia (lim.), 31 i 3 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Agra and 'United Service (lira.), 115 (um), 36 ktliance Bank of London and Liverpoo l Bank of New Zealand, 10 Chartered Bank of British Columbia, 102 City, 108 Consolidated Bank, lira., 10 9/ 10& Imperial Bank (lien.), 214 Imperial Ottoman, 18} London and Couuty, 47 London and South African, 26 London and Westminster, 7711 National Provincial of England, Ditto, new, 26 Union of Australia, 521 Union of London, 3.4 6 51 East and West I n di a, 142 DOCKS. MISCELLANEOUS. Atlantic Royal Mail Steam, 2! Berlin Water Works, lira ., 8; 9 Crystal Palace, 40} 40 Et ash and Australian Copper, I Hudson's Bay, 3 International rinancial Society, lint., 8 National Discount Company, Stn., vi Oriental Inland Steam, lira., 3rd Quebrada Land, Rail, arm Mining, inn., 3 THE BRAZIL MAILS, - (Per the Navarre.) RIO JANEIRO, July 24. Exchange on London, 261; on Paris, 353 to 355. Coffee, good first, 7,200 to 7,300 reis. The Navarre h as on b oard 1,942 bags of coffee. The Royal Mail Steam Packet C ompany's ship Oneida alriyed at Pernambuco upon the Ist August. Paid. all Business done 61 1071 f 1081 111 108 f i THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 15, 1863, POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT IN THE STREETS. —Henry Williamson, a clerk, who gave the address 25, Retnming ton-street, City-road, was charged beforo Mr. Knox with disgraceful conduct to several females, and also with as saulting Mr. James Kean, a tailor, residing at 53, Maddox street, Regent-street. _ . Mr. Lean said that he was turning the corner of Little Argyle-street, about 10 o'clock the previous night, when he saw the prisoner go up to a respectable female, and seiza her in a most improper manner, turning her quite round. He followed the prisoner, and before he got to the end of Argyle street ho saw him assault in a similar manner six more females, one of them an elderly woman. He then seized the prisoner, and said, "You scamp, you shall not ,go unpunished," and had a severe struggle with him, in the course of which his sleeve was torn, and he was struck twice and thrown down by the pri soner; but being determined that he should not escape, he retained his hold, end at last he was secured and taken to the station. The female did not go to the station, being too frightened at prismer's conduct, and glad to get away. Police-constable Kettlewell, 38 C, said that hearing cries of "Police" he went to Argyle-street, and the last witness gave the prisoner in charge for indecently assaulting females and assulting him (Mr. Kean). The prisoner denied t►he charge, but when at the station told the inspector that he had only raised the female's clothes about two inches. Prisoner said that all he had got to say was that he was drunk at the time, and was now very sorry, Mr. Knox said that if the females had been present he should have sent the prisoner for trial for his abominable conduct. As it was he should treat the case as one of drunk and disorderly conduct, and inflict upon him the highest penalty ho could, namely, 40s. or a month. WESTMINSTER. DARING ':IATTEMPTED ROBBERY IN A DWELLING HOUSE,—COURAGEOUS CONDUCT OF A FEMALE —A man of respectable appearance, named Henry Cameron, was charged before Mr. Selfe with entering the house 132, Worcester-street, Pimlico, for the purpose of committing a felony. Georgiana Southwood, dressmaker, said that abcut half past eight o'clock the previous night she was going out on business when she saw two men on the steps lead ing to the street door in conversation with each other. She was absent about five minutes. On her return she saw one of the men standing at the porch of the door, and said to him " What do you do there ?" She had no sooner said so than she next heard the wide window-blind cracking. In minute after she saw tbe prisoner look out of the window, and leap from there to the steps of the street door. Mr. Selfe—Upon seeing that what did you do ? Witness—l rushed up to him and seized hold of him by his collar. I said to him What business had you in my parlour ?" He struggled, and said "Let me go." R e tried to get away, and in the struggle we both fell. I called for help, and kept my hold of the prisoner till some one came to my assistance, Mr. Selfe—Did the prisoner do you any injury? Witness—He caught hold of my fingers and forced them back—he nearly broke them. Mr. Selfe—How did he get in ? Witness—He must have got in at the window, which was left open. - - - - - - The Prisoner said he had been drinking, Prosecutrix—You were not drunk or I shouli have smelt you when I had you down. Eva Lynn, a little girl about 12 years of age, proved having heard the prosecutrix call out "help," and who told her to go for a policeman. She went for one and met a cab man. She told him to go the assistance of the prosecutris, and then went for a policeman. B 144, having stated that he found 801740 lucifer matches on the prisoner, Mr. Selfe said that he should remand him, and directed the police to make inquiries about him, The prisoner was remanded. THAMES. MURDEROUS ASSAULT.—Annie Johnsen, a tall, mas culine woman, very smartly dressed, was brought before Mr. Leigh charged with committing a violent assault on Ann Moore, the wife of a sailor. The complainant had received very serious injuries ; her nose was broken and strapped up with surgical plaisters, and there were other contusions on her head and face. The case was a simple one, and deposed to by many wit nesses. The prisoner had an old grudge against the com plainant, who was passing along Phillip-street, St, George in-the-East, yesterday evening, when the prisoner, who was standing at her door, went into her kitchen, and brought out a poker, with which she attacked the complainant, and while using the worst possible oaths and imprecations struck her several times over the head and body. The last blow fell on the complainant's nose, and was dealt with such great severity, that the poker was broken in two, the complainant fell grievously wounded, and she was in sensible for some time afterwards. The broken poker, in two pieces, was produced, and it appeared the complainant lost a good deal of blood. Mr. Joseph, Smith, solicitor, in defence, said the com plainant was the aggresses, and called a witness, Catherine Dayment, who admitted a poker was used. Mr. Leigh said a savage assault had been committed by the prisoner. He fined him £3, and, in default of pay ment,l2l days' imprisonment. EUGENE DEL ACROIX. This celebrated artist, says the fforning Post, had been ill for about two months with chest disease, and for a long time his life had been despaired of. Ho died in his 66th year, having been born at Cbarenton St. 11 1aurice, near Paris, April 26, 1798, or, in the then current slang, 7 Floreal, An. VI. Charles Delacroix Constant, father of the future artist, was elected deputy for the department of the Marne in 1792; voted for the death of Louis XVI. ; was one of the most violent of the Thermidorians ; became Minister of Foreign Affairs under the Directory, and was succeeded by Talleyrand in 1797 ; was for a time Ambassador to Ilol land, and died, in 1805, Prefect of B3rdeaux. lie was 58 when Eugene was born, his elder son being already a soldier and his daughter of ma rziageable age. _ _ _ It is somewhat startling to find that an infant of three years old had been all but drowned, all hut burnt, 411 but poisoned, and all but hanged—himself being the execu tioner ; but it is true enough of Eugene Delacroix. When in arms his nurse fell with him into the sea, and was only saved by the courage of some sailors, who probably were the cause of the calamity, the bonne being more attentive to them than to her charge. Then the child's cradle caught fire, and he received serious injuries. Thirdly, he was nearly killed by some verdigris incautiously left in his way ; and lastly, he nearly finished his carrer by hanging himself, to see what the sensations were, without taking care to have a chair near his feet when turned off. This fourth escape is the only incident of which there is a shadow of doubt, but anyhow he had as many "squeaks for his life" as Horace of old. His career at the College Louis le Grand was a brilliant one : here, by the way, he made friends with the since Dr. Louis Veron. His drawing •master, finding that his per formances were far superior to those of his fellow •pupils, advised him to put himself under a great master—David, for instance. The old organist of Bordeaux Cathedral, a friend of Mozart's, gave lessons to his sister, and tormented his mother's life out to have him brought up to the musical profession. his aliter visum. At 18 the youth entered the studio of Baron Guerin, the professor at the school of the fine arts, who numbered Ary Scheffer and Gelricault among his aeres. The selection of Guerin was unlucky, and master and pupil soon found out the difference of their ideas on art. Eugene was even now a sharp observer, and possessed a powerful imagination; he could not follow in the steps of his master's classicism. The baron could make nothing of him : "But," said he, " let him stay here; he has got money, it is better that he should make daubs than debts" (2nieux rant qu'il fasse des croates quc des dates.) Still he gave Eugene no encouragement whatever. In 1822 the youthful artist sent to the Exhibition the now famous "Dante and Virgil in Hell." He begged Guerin to go and see it at his studio, in the Rue de la Planche, at the bottom of the Faubourg St. Germain, and, after much ungracious grumbling, the baron went. The old classicist was petrified. Here was a revolution. " What is it all about ?" "It is Dante visiting Virgil in Hell, my dear master—there are the souls of the damned —." "Not done sufficiently brown," sneered Guerin. "The thing is absurd," said the muter, "exaggerated—absurd. Playing a Michael Angelo, are you ? Your servant, sir." The picture was not rejected, however; it commenced undoubtedly a revolution in art, and it subjected its author to violent abuse, as well as to enthusiastic applause. Meeting Guerin one day, when in the height of his young triumph, Delacroix was received with anything but congratulation. " Puffed out, elated, I suppose ? After all, this triumph oaly proves —." "That you would have rejected the picture, my dear master, had you been a judge: you are always so kind to me." "Pooh! pooh ! I never had any kindness for heretics. A day will come when your picture will be burnt on the Place de la Greve." " They have occasionally burnt good things there, my dear master " Here, the chronicler says, the conver sation was broken off, for the baron was apparently in a state of incipient apoplexy. It was scandalously put about by Delacroix's enemies that Gericault had had a large share in Dante and Virgil, the redeeming points being those from the hand of the author of the " Shipwreck of the Medusa," the blemishes Delacroix's own. This was of course a false hood. Among all the criticisms to which Eugene was sub jected there was one honest and generous one by M. Thiers in the Constitutionnel. He nobly proclaimed the excellence of the work, predicted the future fame of the artist, praised the colouring and the style, which "combined the boldness of Michael Angelo with the fertility of Rubens." BaronGros also stood by him, and invited him to atudyunder him, an offer which was declined, perhaps happily, for the author of " Sappho at the Promontory of Leucas" could hardly help seeing a future rival in Eugene Delacroix. Thiers said that in Delacroix, Destouehes, Drollet, Cogniet, and Du bufe, he saw the rise of a new generation of artists who would do France honour. M. Thiers had a penchant for revolutions in art as well as politics. The " Massacre at Scio " (1824) produced a great sensa tion ; it was the most dramatic picture to which the cen tury had given birth. The contrast between the splendour of the sun and the fierce hatred of man, the groups of half naked Greeks, the quivering flesh, the corpses scattered about, the infants pressing the bosoms of their dying mothers, were terrible in their reality. Hastceforth there was deadly war declared against Delacroix. His opponents did what they could to exclude him from the exhibitions, but in vain, though one remarkable picture, "The Educa tion of the Virgin," was rejected. Many well-wishers, among them M. Sosthenes de la Rochefouald, urged him to altar his course, or he could have no Government en gagements. Luckily he had three or four hundred a year of his own, and he answered one and all with the Scrip tural " Etiam si manes, ego non." In 1826 he produced "The Death of Marino Faliero," " Greece—the Ruins of Missolonghi" (for the benefit of the Greek revolutionists), and other pictures. In 1827 appeared " Tasso in the Mad house," and "Cardinal Richelieu Officiating in the Chapel of the Palais Royal, surrounded by guards "—a splen did picture, burnt, unfortunately, during the Revolution of February, 1848 ; in 1829, "the Combat between the Giaour and the Pasha" (for the museum at Nantes), " The Giaour after the Combat," and several small pictures for the Gallery Colbert; in 1830, "Liberty Guiding the People on the Barricades" (at the Louvre) ; in 1831, "The Mur der of the Bishop of Liege" (from" Quentin Durward"), "The Wild Boar of the Ardennes," and " Boissy d'Anglas at the Sitting of the Prairie!, An. III." The Revolution of 1830 terminated the artist's proscrip tion. M. Thiers procured for him the engagement to de corate the Salon du Roi, in the Palace Bourbon. His re presentations of Justice, War, Agriculture, and Industry adorn the ceiling, and his bold qualities had full play in this work. He also painted the five cupolas of the library, with four tableaux in each, and the two hemicycles at the extremities. Next Delacroix was employed to paint the cupola of the Luxembourg Library in the Champs Elysies, and he selected his subject from the fourth chapter of Dante's "Inferno," decorating the hemicycle above the window with the picture of "Alexander Locking up Homer's Works in a Golden Casket," and " Justinian Writing his Code." He decorated also the ceiling and pentices of one of the waiting-rooms in the Hotel de Ville, with the history of the Theban Hercules and many mytho logical personages. At the Louvre ho painted the ceiling of the Apollo Gallery with " Apollo Conquering the Python." Before this, however, M. Thiers had procured the ap pointment of M. Delacroix as attaché to the embassy sent in 1832 by Louis Philippe to the Sultan of Morocco— Abd-er Rhaman. This was nearly the only foreign journey he ever took, for he never visited Italy for fear of losing his originality I He carefully studied African manners and costumes, and the fruits of his trip are to be seen in his " Moorish Scenes," his " Algerian Women"* (now at the Luxembourg), his "Interior of a Court in Morocco," his " Arab Mountebanks," &c. The following pictures, with others, appeared between 1833 a'bd 1838, " Charles V. Playing the Organ in the Monastery of St. Just," the "Death of Charles the Rash after the Battle of Nancy," the " Convent of the Domini cans at Madrid," the " Prisoner of Chinon," " Christ at Calvary," the Battle of Taillebourg" (in the Versailles Museum), " Christ in the Garden of Olivet" (for St. Paul's Church, Paris), "Justinian" (for the hall of the Council of State), the "Apparition of Mephistopheles to Faust," "A Wounded Herdsman of the Campagna Slaking his Thirst on the Brink of a Marsh," "A young Turk Caress ing his Horse," "The blind Milton Dictating ' Paradise Lost' to his Daughters," and " Sardanapalus Dying in the midst of his Wives," a gorgeous picture of Oriental luxury and voluptuousness which Delacroix called his " Waterloo," as it gave him a prominent place among artists, and beat down prejudices at once. It would be impossible to give an enumeration of all the pictures of this prolific artist ; they would occupy half a column of this paper. One or two remarkable efforts of his genius may be mentioned. In 1838 his " Medea" (now in the Lille Museum) produced a great sensation. Medea is represented as having poisoned Creusa, and flying with her children. She bears a poinard in her hand, and looks round to see if Jason is pursuing her, in which case she will kill the children. Her body is full of light, but her terrible eyes quite in the shade. The next year a half length of Cleopatra preparing for death was jutted from Delacroix's studio. Cleopatra has received a basket of figs from her slave, and is thinking, her chin on her hand, when she espies an aspic among the figs, and there is no doubt what her thoughts turn on then— `` fortis et esperas Tractare serpentes, ut strum Corpora combiberet vencnum Deliberate, morte ferocior." Next we have hamlet contemplating h the sombre the attitude of the figures in harmeny wi . The Ship subject in spite of some negligence of de gr" • 81awful to contem wreck" (1841) is a noble picture. It. ha if. a aked men a plate the calm sea, the deep silence, the r and death, draw prey to despair, to the horrors of hung f being eaten. This wett ing lots for the frightful chance,odini e the sktull of Yorick, episode in the second derful picture represents the dma , ~ The canto of "Don Juan.' on " the seventh there " the third day there came a calm , was no wind." each other; all was gone, sun rose red and fiery •,. on " They glared upon Water, and win e, and Th e longings of th e cannibal i their arise, Although they sp oke not, nwolfish eye s ." food, and might see you od, IWe can on l y mention by name such well-known pictures ma y be said of this fine picture that th e artist has, a ------ p * par lt d beauty of the character, t o t h ree or tour m a y by design, sacrificed correctness o f d esign, and the nobleness an bold and brilliant touches more or 452 hartaoxkiaecl o The pica= is a marvel for oolourbg, NARKETS 7 This Day. COVENT GARDEN. The supply of fruit and vegetables is seasonably large. Generally speaking, the trade is slow, as follows : FRUIT. s. d. s. d. Pine apples 5 0 to 7 0 Colonial do., each 1 0 to 3 0 Grapes,per lb 2 6 to 5 0 Foreign do 1 6 to 2 6 Melons 0 0 to 0 0 Nectarines, per dz 6 0 to 10 0 Apples, per hi -sv. 1 3 to 2 6 Pears, per do Oranges, per 100 0 0 to 0 0 Lemons, per 100 0 0 to 0 0 Gooseberries hf sve3 6 to 4 6 Strawberries pr pt 0 8 to 1 0 B. d. s d Raspberries,pr pt 0 4to 0 6 Cherries, per lb. 0 3to 0 6 Foreign ditto, pun° oto 0 0 Filberts, per lb 0 Bto 1 0 Walnuts, per 100 0 oto 0 0 Cobnuts, per lb 0 oto 0 0 Almonds, per bus 0 oto 0 0 Figs, per doz. 6 oto 8 0 Peaches.... 10 0 to 20 0 Currants, per li.sv 1 6to 6 0 Plums, per do. 4 oto 5 0 Greengages, pr do. 6 oto 7 0 VEGETABLES. Greens, dz bunch 1 9to 2 0 1 Shallots, per lb 0 6to 0 8 Cabbages, pr doz. 0 9to 1 0 ; Horseradish, pdo 1 oto 2 0 Bld ditto 0 oso 0 01 Parsley, per ditto 0 3to 0 4 Savoy do., pr dz. 0 oto 0 0 j Celery, per ditto 0 oto 0 0 Cauliflowers, pdz 0 9to 2 0 Beet, per doz. .. 1 6to 2 Brocoli, per bus. 0 oto 0 0 Parsnips, per do. 0 oto 0 0 Potatoes, per ton 70 oto 110 01 Small salad. p. pn, 0 oto 0 0 New ditto, pr lb ..0 2to 0 *1 Mushrooms.p ptl. 1 oto 1 3 Turnips, dz bunch 2 oto 3 01 Artichokes, each 0 oto 0 0 Carrots,pr do 4 6to 5 61 Cos lett, score .. 0 10 to 1 2 Cucumbers 0 4to 1 0 i Mint and savory..o 3to 0 4 Garlic, per lb Sorrel, per sieve 0 oto 0 0 i Radishes, dz hnds 0 oto 0 0 Green peas, 11.-sy. 1 6to 2 0' Tomatoes, doz... 0 oto 0 0 Brus. sprouts,h.s. 0 oto 0 0 Chillies, per ditto 0 oto 0 0 Onions, doz. bn 1 6to 2 0 Capsicums, per do 0 oto 0 New Do., dz bun 0 oto 0 0 ; Rhubarb, per bun 0 3to 0 4 Spinach 0 6to 0 81 Asparagus, pr do. 2 oto 4 6 Turnip radishes 0 OWO 0 ) Seakale, per bun. 0 oto 0 0 POULTRY. Turkey poults, 5s to 7s; geese, 4s Od to 7s Od each ; goslings, 4s Od to 6s Od; ducks, 2s Od to 3s 9d; ducklings, 2s 6d to 3s 9d ; rabbits, is Od to 2s Od each ; wild do., 9d to is Od ; pigeons, Os 4d to Os 8d each; Surrey fowls, 8s Od to 14s Od ; chickens, 5s Od to 8s Od ; barn-door fowls, 3s Od to 6s Od ; capons, Os Od; hares, Os Od to Os Oct ; ptarmigan, Os Od to Os each ; pheasants, Os Od to Os Od ; Odespartrid,Os Od to Os Od ; woodcocks, Os to Os Od ; snipes, Os to Os teal, Os Od to Os Od ; wild ducks, Os Od to Os Od ; widgeons, Os Od to Os Od ; plovers, Os Od to Os Od each ; guinea fowls, Os Od to Os Od ; roasting pigs, Os Od to Os 0 d each; Ostend fresh butter, 9d to Os Ild English, lid to is Id per lb ; E ng li s h eggs , 7s 6d to 88 Oct ; French do., 6s Od to Is Od per 100 ; leverets, 2s Od to 4s Od each. BILLINGSGATE. ----- Salmon, Os 9d to Is Od ; trout, Od to Os ; eels, 5d to 8d ; prawns, Os ; skate, 4d to 6d ; sturgeon, and halibut, Od per lb. ; turbots, 4s Od to 15s ; cod, 3s Od to 4a Od ; brills, 2s Od to 5s Od ; doreys, 5s Od to 6s Od ; mullets, Os 6d to is 6d ; lobsters, 6d to 2s 6d; crabs, 6d to 2s 6d ; plaice and gurnets, 3d to is 6d each ; soles, 3d to 2s 6d per pair ; common oysters, 12s to 25s ; natives, 60s to —s per bushel ; whitings, 4s Od to 6s; haddocks, 4s to 12s ; smelts, Os Od to Os Od; flounders, Os Od per dozen; mackerel, 40s per 100 ; fresh herrings, 8s per 100 ; bloaters, Os to Os per 100 ; carp and tench, Os Od to Os per brace. WHITECHAPEL. Beef, 38 2d to 4s 4d ; mutton, 3s 8d to 4s 8d; lamb, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; veal, 4s 8d to 5s 8d; and pork, 3s 8d to 4s 4d per 81bs by the carcase. NEWPORT. Beef, from 3s 4d to 4$ 4d ; mutton, 3s 8d to 4s 8 , 1; lamb, 30 8d to 48 6d; veal, 5s Od to 6s Od; and pork, 3s 10d to 4s 4d per Sibs. Ly the carcase. BREAD. Te prices of wh ea t en b rea d i n th e me t ro p o li s are from 7/d t h o 8d , of household do., 6/d to 7d per 41b loaf. HIDES AND SKINS. Market hides, 561 b Ib 4 , 21d to d ; 801 b 3d ; 641 b to 721 b, 3d to 31d ; 721 b to 801 b, t ad to to 881 b, 3id to 41d ; 881 b to 961 b, 4d to 42d; 961 b to 1041 b, 4d to 5d ; 1041 b to 1121 b, Od to Od . Horse hides, 9s 6d to lls Od; calf skins, light, 3s Od to 48 Od ; full, 7s Od to Os Od ; woolled skins, Os Od to Os Od ; half-breds, Os Od to Os Od ; D owns , 3 s Od t o 3s 4d; iambs, 2 s 9d to 4a 9d; shearlings, 3s Od to 3s 4d. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD. Old Meadow hay, £3 10s to £4 10s; new do., £3 to £4; old clover, £4 108 to £6 Os; new do., £4 Os to £5 Os; and straw, £1 8s to £1 16s per load. A fair demand. CUMBERLAND.. -01C1 Meadow hay, £3 108 to £4 108 ; row do., £3 3s to £4 ; old clover, £4los to £5lBB ; new do.; £4 Os de toteady L 5 Os; and st raw , £ 1 8s to £1 16s per load. Tra s. WHITECHAPEL —Old Meadow hay, £3 lOs to £4 10s, new do, £3 Os to £4 Os; old clover, £4 lOs to £6 Os; new do., £4 Os to £5 Os; and straw, £1 8s to £1 16s per load. Supply moderate. COAL .b rrloes of Coal per on a ARKET. the (Acne of the market. s. d. Bates'sWest Hartley 15 6 Byams's 13ebaido West Hartley ......... 17 3 Carway and Duffryn Malting 12 0 Walker Primrose 12 9 Tardield Moor 12 6 Eden Main 16 3 West Hartley 17 3 Walls End. 8 . d. Haswell ......... .....18 0 Hetton ............. 18 Tanstall . ........... 15 9 Riddell ..............15 9 Framwellgate.. ...... 16 3 Hartlepool ......... 17 3 South Hartlepool.... • • 16 6 East Hartlepool ...... 17 6 Trimdon Hartlepool...l7 3 Kelloe Rassers Hetton ...... 16 9 Walls End. Brrddyll's Hett0n.....16 9 Ecuth. Hettozi ...18 0' ships at market, 8; Bold, 58, TRANSPORTATION TO AUSTRALIA. The Australian colonists now resident in England are all in a ferment as to the consequences of the publication of the report of the Royal Commission, recommending the transportation of all male convicts to Western Australia. The following petition has been prepared for presentation to her Majesty by a committee recently appointed, and is receiving the signatures of all the leading people connected with Australia and New Zealand : "Most Gracious Sovereign,—We, your Majesty's most loyal and faithful subjects, Australian colonists at present resident in England, and others interested in the Australa • sian dependencies, desire humbly to approach your Majesty with the expressism of that elevated loyalty to your M&josty's person and to the throne of these realms which S 3 especially characterises the communities in question. " We humbly submit to your Majesty that, in consequence of the apparer t failure of the laws respecting secondary punishment, and the frightful outbreak of crimes of violence during the last winter, your Majesty was graciously pleased to appoint a Royal Commission to inquire into and report upon the whole subject of secmdary punishments. "That the report of the Commissioners has recently been laid before Parliament, with a very elaborate series of re commendations as to the treatment of a subject confusedly surrounded with the greatest difficulties. " That with the main body of the report your petitioners have no wish to inteifere, but that a principal feature of the scheme suggested consists of a proposal, in the exact words of the Commissioners, that, with the exception of those who are physically or otherwise unfit for it, all male convicts sentenced to penal servitude for any term of years should be ultimately sent to Western Australia,' and your petitioners perceive in that suggestion, if adopted, all the elements of most serious evil, both.to the colonies and to the mother country. " That the proposition to pour out upon any separate community the vast volume of crime of a large empire is in itself one of a very astounding character, and can only be listened to upon the plainest evidence of its absolute neces sity, and of the course it recommends being rendered a benefit, and not a curse, to those exposed to the inevitable evils of such reception. " That the history of the Australian colonies shops that the introduction of felons confers no such benefit, in any degree commensurate with the innumerable and deadly in juries inflicted thereby upon the character and moral well being of a community; and that it is the almost unanimous opinion of all colonists, except these pecuniarily interested in the large imperial expenditure thence arising, that no more fatal evil could befal the country subjected to such influences, and that it is almost impossible to imagine a more grievous or intolerable wrong- " That, embittered by recollections of the past, the pro posal to introduce these criminals will undoubtedly be met by the most resolute opposition by every one of the larger and more important colonies ; and that the consequent con dice between the imperial and colonial authorities will pro voka an amount of ill-feeling which even the abrogation of the proposed scheme will not allay. " That your Majesty having been graciously pleased to grant to all the colonies of the Australian group, excepting Western Australia, local government and representative in stitutions, no other ground of disagreement but this suggests itself as likely to disturb the friendly relations between the colonies and the mother country, or to endanger that affec tionate connexion which it is the dearest wish of almost every colonist to pres3rve, and render still more close and cordial. " That these representative institutions, embracing re sponsible Ministries, based upon a very extended franchise, have assisted in the formation of an independent and self reliant spirit among the colonists themselves ; and we feel assured that no Colonial Ministry can retain office that does not adopt a very resolute, or perhaps defiant, tone upon a subject on which all men in the colonies think and feel so strongly. " That in former years, and when the colonies were much less populous than at present, laws were passed to prevent the introduction of such men, and assented to by Colonial Governors, although such legislation was known to be in derogation of your Majesty's prerogative, thereby leading to collision between the Imperial and Colonial authorities in a manner greatly to be regretted. " That the argument that the more distant colonies are not interested in a scheme limiting transportation to West ern Australia is entirely fallacious, in. view of the distinct knowledge we possess that runaways, conditional pardon men, and expirees do constantly resort to the adjacent colo nies, and shock and harass theta with the most atrocious crimes. That the number of these convicts who have served their sentences, and annually become free, will be nearly equal to those arriving in Western Australia, while the comparative paucity of natural resources that characterises that settlement on the one hand, and the attraction of the goldfields and high price of labour in the adjacent colonies on the other, will cause a tide of emigration of expiree con victs to the free settlements directly in proportion to the number of prisoners transported. That it has been publicly acknowledged in Parliament, by the Under 'Secretary for the Colonies, that expirees are free to go where they please. That the colonists, impressed by past experience, never will believe that there is any other intention than that of allow ing convicts to overrun the other colonies, and treating Western Australia as a mere depot. " That it is an obvious misuse of some of the finest coun tries in the world, possessing the most salubrious and agree able climates, to which hundreds of thousands of your Ma jesty's most deserving subjects would joyfully resort if they had the means, to dedicate them to the reception of the greatest criminals. That such misuse tends to deter the immigration of the virtuous, and thereby closes the door to a very laudable and honourable career; and, practically, so gives the advantage to the felon as compared with the man unstained by crime, as to suggest the very dangerous idea that the labourer improves his condition. by betaking him self to criminal courses. " That the almost entirely unanimous feeling of the colo nists on this subject is exhibited authoritatively in a petition recently addressed to your Majesty from a conference ap pointed by the Governments of the several colonies of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, and Tasmania, the strong tone adopted in which will, we believe, but fe e bl y represent the feelings which will be inevitably provoked by the reception of the report itself. " That the deluging a limited population with the felons of a large State, the exposing unoffending colonists to out rages found intolerable in England, the burdening colonial establishments with great additional cost in gaols, courts of law, and police, the deterioration of national character con sequent upon such an importation, the implied assumption of inferiority in being constituted a receptacle for crime, and the discouragement of virtuous immigration calculated to be so adva n t ageous to all concerned, wou ld constitut e , on the whole, s o gross a wrong and inflict so dee p a wound upon the legiti mate self-love of a ris i ng people, and would form so marked a contrast with the benignant and equal rule for which your Majesty is justly famed, that we can scarcely believe that this d angerous proposition w ill be adopt e d. " That your petitioners therefore humbly pray that your Majesty will be graciously pleased to withhold your sanc tion from a policy calculated be yond all expression to injure it to disturb an important and rapidly growing the present happy h omes of more than a million of you r Majesty's attached subjects; to lead to the adoption of a c ommon ; hostile tone where hith erto the most loya l s pi r it h as pre vailed; and to embitter all relations with your Majesty's Australian subjects in the future. " And your petitionep as in duty bound will ever pray." Railway from Moscow to Sebastopol, Subjoined is the ukase which has just been signed by the Emperor of Russia for the construction of a railway from Moscow to Sebastopol. The line is to be 953 miles in length. The nominal capital will be £22,500,000, and the period allowed for the com pletion of the work is six Years from the date of its commencement. Sebastop o l i s to b e ma d e a free port, and the general terms of the concession are tin dentood to be such as to indicate that the Govern ment have resolved to secure the accomplishment of the project with a view to an early realisation of the commercial advantages it would confer upon the country. It is to be assumed, however, that it is not likely to be introduced until the existing political difficulties between Russia and the other Powers on the Polish question shall have been so far adjusted as to put an end to all idea of the possi bility of war : r KASE TO THE IMPERIAL SENATE. In our unceasing solicitude for the prosperity of our Fatherland, we have sought those means for the develop ment of the railway system which should best answer to the wants A the empire. With this view the concession of a railway from Moscow to Sebastopol proposed by Messrs. Dent, Palmer, and Co., Messrs. Fruhling and GoscheL, Messrs. Anthony Gibbs and Son, and Messrs. John Hubbard and Co., merchants and bankers, of London, through their representative, William Hope, has been examined by the Committee of Ministers, and sanctioned by us. By the construction of a line of railway from Moscow to Sebastopol, the Nicholas Railroad, already uniting our two capitals, will be prolonged to the best port in the Black Sea, and thus will be established, throughout the whole extent of country between the Balttc and Black Sea, an uninter rupted and rapid cornmtmication, and a sure and constant outlet for the articles of local production. In annexing to these presents the said concession we order that it shall be put in execution. The Imperial Sen ate will take the steps necessaty to this effect. ALEXANDER, Tzarskoe Selo, J Lily 25 (Aug. 6), 1863. DUTY ON "RACE HORSES." —From a parlia mentary paper, yesterday issued, it appears that in the year ending the :31st Marsh last the duty on race horses amounted to £6,1 22, being a decreage of £535 on the pre "ME' Year. as " Trajan's Justiae" (1840), " The taking 'of Constan tinople by the Latins" (1841; " Rebecca taken off by the Slaves of Brian de Bois Gilbert in the Sack of the Castle of Torquilstone," " The Farewell of Romeo and Juliet," and " Margaret at Church" (all in 1846); " Christ at the Tomb," " The Duel of Valentin and Faust," " The Death of Sarah," and the " Lion Devouring the She-goat" (1848), " Othello and Desdemona" (1840), " The Rescur rection of Lazarus," " Lady Macbeth," " The Good Sama ritan," " The Pilgrims of Emmaus," and " The Burial of St. Stephen," 1850-3. Eugene Delacroix will not probably retain with posterity the somewhat exaggerated reputation which he has lat. terly held in France. lie has been considered equal to Rubens as a colourist. But his inaccurate drawing, his harsh and unga i nly effects, his crude, though dreided, light and shade, his rongh and rapid execution, are not likely to r:in the favour of posterity. He may be said, in short, to have mixed the colour of Rubens with the im post° of Constable, without the vuluptucusnes© of the one and the freshness of the other. He chose all kinds of sub jects; he roamed at will from mythology to Christianity, from sea-pictures to flower s , f rom h istory to nature. 41:: Inres, yet happily spared over his SJth year, may be called an idealist, Delacroix may be called, on the other hand, a I colourist. In spite of Delacroix's want of correctness there is in his pictures a singular warmth, a brillit.nt light, and an almost cramatic power : he has been honoured with the title of the " Victor Hugo of painters." It now remains to be added that Delacroix received the second medal in 1824, the first in 1848, and the grand medal of honour in 1855; that he was nominated in 1831 Chevalier of the Legion of Honour; that in 1846 he was made officer, and in 1855 commander thereof. In January, 1857, he was elected a member of the Institute in the room of Paul Delaroche. Sir John. Trelawny, MP., at Tavistock. Sir John Trelawny, MX , for Tavistock, addressed his constituents at the Bedford Hotel on Thursday evening, Mr. ream in the chair. The hon. baronet, after a few prefatory remarks, proceeded to refer to the question of reform, and said he thought that it uas useless, especially in the present disturbed state of public opinion, to expect from Parliament any extension of the suffrage to the elite of the working classes. He thought it was unwise to continue the exclusion from the franchise, as it might have the effect of driving many of the best of our arlizens, who desired to exercise their rights as citizens, to a place where the could obtain that privilege, and thus diminish the chances of the future prosperity of this country. The line he would draw for the admission of this class would be the household suffrage. After alluding to the ballot, which there was no immediate prospect of being carried, and reminding electors that the question would be in their hands at the next election, the hon. baronet re ferred to the question of finance, and said there was some reason for congratulation upon this subject, for there had been a diminution of the expenditure and an increase in the revenue of the country. It was gratifying also to find that, instead of being called upon, as was expected, to make up a considerable deficit in the Indian finances, the revenue of that country had balanced itself, and there was a prospect of a slight surplus. The prospects of our Indian Empire were rapidly improving, and the introduction of railways and the system of irrigation would be productive of most beneficial results. The withdrawal of troops from the lonian Islands would likewise be a means of further diminishing the ex penditure. He blamed Government on both sides for fre quently allowing grants of small sums to be passed without due inquiry. Persons would get up in the House and say money was wanted for this or that matter, and if the de mand proceeded from the Conservative side, the Govern ment, if they saw there was a strong opposition, languidly yielded the point. The sums asked for might be necessary, but what he objected was, that these demands did not come before the House in a plain, straightforward way, on the recommendation of the executive, and after careful inquiry as to the necessity of the sums asked for. (Applause.) He objected, as a rule, to mere arithmetical reductions, and adopted the principle of ascertaining before he voted whe- , ther sums applied for were or were not requisite for the effi citncy of the service, and would not vote for 75 instead of 80 simply on the ground that it was a reduction. He had voted against the purchase of the Exhibition building be cause he believed it would have led, as in the case of the Houses of Parliament, to an enormous outlay in addition to the sum first asked for, the sum in that case having risen from £700,000 to £3,C00,000. The Galway contract contract he had voted against, believing it to be a corrupt proposal intended to curry favour with the Irish represen tatives; and he had opposed the Dover contract because it was a job of much the same character. Sir John next ex plained at some length the reasons why he had voted against Mr. Somes bill for closing publichouses on the Sabbath. He thought it was carrying the principle of interference with the liberty of a subject too far. No one more fully appre ciated, both on sanitary as well as moral grounds, the vast importance of adhering to temperance, but it was possible to ride the hobby too far. If the bill were adopted he be lieved that it would give rise to the strongest dissatisfaction throughout the country, and would occasion a repetition of those disturbances which resulted from the stoppage of the Sunday postage—an obnoxious measure that had to be re pealed soon atter it passed ; and he believed that if the Sun day Closing Bill had been passed not even a fifth-rate Mini ster would be able, or would consent, to hold the office of Home Secretary. Another ground of objection to the mea sure was that it proposed to exclude London from its ope ration, and for the same reason Liverpool and other large towns should also be excluded. It would be difficult also to work it, as no two magistrates would agree as to who was or who was not a traveller. The committee who, in 1855, recommended certain restrictions in respect to the sale of beer recommended, pari passe, the opening of museums and places of amusement for the working classes on the Sabbath. it was fairly argued that if the men were deprived of one source of recreation another legitimate one should ho pro vided for them. That was opposed by a great many per sons, but if they took one proposition they ought to take the other. Sir John next referred to the subject of county rates, and thought some alteration should be adopted as to the mode in which these rates should be levied and expended. He thought that those who paid the rates should have some control over the expenditure of them; and he was also of opinion that large woodlands and certain dues from mines, which were sources of great wealth, ought not to be exempted from taxation, This would not involve any great organic change that would be likely to frighten Conservatives, and he counted upon the support of some of these at the next election. Atter some remarks on the competitive se stern of nomination for Government appointments, which ought to be entirely open to any one properly qualified, and not the made a matter of secrecy and favour , as i hon. gentleman spoke of several other meaeurtenseis now,tht session.at would be brought before Parliament during !h x Referring to the Church - rate Abolition Bill,Sir John said he should leave the condu ct of that question in future to younger and more energetic men, but would be happy to render any assistance. He enlarged upon the Irish Church question, which he regarded as a dangerous one, and de manding a speedy solution. He reviewed at some length the aspect of the Polish question, but said we must be care ful, while manifesting our sympathy for that oppressed race, that we did not get drawn into any serious complica tions that might arise. The hon. gentleman also explained his vote in opposition to the Burial Bill, which had sur prised many persons who did not understand why he voted against a bill which gave to Dissenters the right of burial in churchyards, He opposed the bill on the ground that it was unnecessary ; for it would simply have confirmed a right that already existed, Dissenters having the power to bury children in the churchyard if they had been baptised. But the bill placed Dissenters in an undignified position by requiring them to go cap in hand as it were to the minister and state which form of prayers and service they wished to be used ; and it would also place the clergyman in a posi tion of antagonism with persons in cases where he might have conscientiou s o bj ec ti ons to the form of eervice) pr o posed to be used. After some further remarks, a vote of confidence in Sir J. e ly on the Trelawny was proposed and carried unan lni°u S Straker. motion of Mr. W. P. Mitchell, seconded by alr. Statistics of Wesleyan Iffethodista, Mond ----4- c — at Sheffield, on At the Wesleyan Conferen :rind the numerical statisticsay the Rev. John W. Gro ves churchrep members i increase or de crease and the n the various districts, together with of the full and accreditectlhe numbers on trial. •-•-e Th following, we beli eve, is a correct statement : / l imbers. Increase. Decrease. On trial. •• London district 2_ 1 : 8 4 7 8 •••• 334 . BBB Bedford ii o 5,911 . --- • . 165 .. 656 Kent .. 7,096 * ,7,- •. 10 .. 289 Norwich . Oxford .. ~.. 6 5, 4 , 7 it :: : ..... 6 .... 1 - 89 .... 4 28 38 9 Portsrnout. •• • • ,f,ro .. e e 32 .. 253 Ch a nnel Islands 3 ,46 . e , 65 Devonport 7;788 64 .. .. 669 Cornwall .. .. 2,936 Exeter Bristol Bath Swansea South Wales 4,655 --• • 245 .. 348 North Wales Birmingha m 17,695 .. 757 .. —.. 965 Macclesfield .... 10,764 .. .. 133 .. 527 Liverpool,,,,.. 14,001 .. 743 .. .. 908 Manchester .. 25,624 .. 605 .. -- .. 2,116 Halifax • • 16,108 .. 70 .. .. 875 Leeds 15,915 .. .. 91 .. 970 Sheffield .. 9.401 .. 42 .. .. 417 Nottingham .... 13,915 .. 105 .. .. 972 Lincoln Hull York - Whitby 9,065 .. 141 .. .. 604 Newcastle Carlisle Isle of Man Edinburgh Total Last year 4,448 At the last Sinaild conference, 11 years ago, the tots; number of members was 281,263; the increase since 1553 has therefore been 48,441, SECOND EDITION, SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 o'CLocx. POLAND. The Pres'au Gazette states, on the authority of a ettcr from Kalisch, that the levy of troops ordered by the Polish National Government is assuming arge proportions in the district of Cracow. The commission which superintends the recruiting sits at Warta, about eight leagues from Kalisch. All MVO between the e2cs of 18 End 40 are taken, ai2d, in a few weeks net lass than 100,000 will be under arms. Kalisch will supply 1,800 men. TIMID EDITION SUN OFFICE, SIX O'CLOCK. SPAIN, The Spanish journa!s discuss at different points of view the nomination of the Archduke Maximilian. The le egeneracion thinks that negotiations are about to be opened between Spain, France, and Austria, for the consolidation of the new empire. According to the Correspondencia, on the contrary, the Spanish Government has already decided on the coarse of its policy, and has taken its measures not to be surprised by the events which may arise. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, Aug. 14.—A f a i r amount of busi ness has been done in yarns t o -d ay. The demandM has been chiefly for India and Chin a an d the edi.- terrancan. The home trade have n o t b ought much. A much larger business could have be en d one had winners been disposed to accept Tuesday's prices, but most of them have been asking an adva nce, having sold heavily befoul. The improvement pre, viously reported in the cloth_ market continues. W o stated in our report of Tuesday that the market was active, and that a large business was done in clothe last week for India. Since Tuesday the market has been quite as active, and we continue to have a large business in all goods suitable for India, in cluding shirtings, j acconets, and longcloths. There is also more demand for printing cloths. The home trade, which has been languishing so long, seems to have revived considerably, and from houses in that branch we hear much more encouraging ac , counts of business. Some of them report a better demand for goods than they experienced for a long time past. The improvement has hardly made it self felt in the general wholesale market yet, owing to the timidity of merchants, whose fears have led them to anticipate a sudden fall of prices, and have induced them as a con sequence to allow their stocks to run usually low before replenishing. There is a report of more doing for the home trade to-day, however, especially in printers and domestics. There is also more doing in fancy goods, and manufacturers now hold some rather heavy orders. Prices are tending upwards, and in some cases check business In cloths; but the market closes with a healthy feeling. CARDIFF, Aug. 14.—During the last few days a most extraordinary demand for coal has been ex perienced at this port, and considerable delay has already been occasioned to many ships in conse quence. Some of them have remained 15 days without a berth. Iron also continues in good de mand, and throughout the year a very steady in crease is manifest. Freights are now settled, and we quote :—Alexandria, 235.; Aden, 355. ; Bom bay, 265. ; Cape of Good Hope, 295. ; Constanti nople, 225. ; Hong Kong, 425. ; New York, 12s. to 15s. The coasting trade still continues dull, and freights are extremely low. NOTTINGHAM, Aug. 14.—There was a small attendance at this Exchange-hall to-day, and the business done in lace yarns was limited at fully late prices. For hosiery yarns the inquiry was by no means brisk, but recent currencies were well supported. In silks there is no material alteration, Brown nets a dull sale at unaltered rates. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL.—The friends of University College Hospital will have the satis faction of learning that the needs of the institution are not lost sight of during the vacation. We allude to the muni ficent donation of X5OO received yesterday from an unknown, lady. AFRICAN CIVILISATION.---The Cape Argus an. nounces that " the Kaffrarians are getting up a Derby." MR. BUCKLE'S FELLOW-TRAVELLER. The writer of the article on the late Mr. Buckle, in the current number of Fraser, is Mr. Stuart Glennie (of Aberdeen), who was Mr. Buckle's fellow-traveller in the East. LYNCH LAW IN ST. JAMES'S PARK.—On Thurs• day night a Frenchman, who had long been watched, was detected acting in a most disgraceful manner towards some little girls in the inclosuro of St. James's Park. A mob «as soon collected, who administered sum, mary punishment, by beating him with sticks, tearing the coat from his back, and threatening to throw him into the water. He was rescued by some soldiers, who placed him in a cab, and thus enabled him to escape from further vengeance. DIABOLICAL ATTEMPT TO UPSET A RAILWAY TRAIN.—On Tuesday ni g h t l ast a di a b olical attempt was made to upset a passenger train on th e N ort h K ent Railway, between the Woolwich Dockyard and Royal Arsenal Stations. It appears that the passenger train leaving London-bridle Station at 10 p.m. proceeded as usual until its arrival at a spot about midway between the two Woolwich stations and the rear of the houses in Powis-street. A severe shock was hero felt, and the con cussion was so great that in several cases crockery ware, Sc., was thrown off shelves in the houses ad jacent. Much alarm prevailed, and it was at first thought that the engine had left the line, b u t, fortunately, it continued its progress in safety. On su b se. quest examination a large piece of timber, which had evi dently formed the post of a gate, was found to have been placed across the metals, but, fortunately, it was completely severed by the wheels of the locomotive, otherwis e a f ear f u l accident might have resulted. Inspector Linnell, of the R police division has taken prompt measures to obtain a clue to the offender. DUBLIN BAY AND THE CHANNEL FLEET.—An Irishoul cor respondent send s us the following :—lt d be only fair that the fleet which was anchor e d seve ral days the roadstead o f the Forth, giving such enjoy ment to the Scotch metropolis and Leith, should visit Dub lin Bay and Kingston, the artificial harbour being able to hold all except the Warrior and Black Prince, which could safely anchor in the Bay. Surely the Irish and the Irish metropolis are d eserving of the same cour t esy f rom th e Admiralty. The fleet should visit Derry, Belfast, Dubli and Cork. n, CORONERS' REVELATIONS. — During the last year 20,591 inquests were held in England-14,198 on males and 6 , 93 on females. There were 221 verdicts of murder ; 207 of manslaughter; 1,281 of suicide; 2,429 of found dead ; 157 of death from want, cold, and exposure. 6,002 inquests were held on children under seven years of age, and of these 1,107 were on illegitimate children; 3,239 inquests were held on children not more than a year old, of whom 859 were illegitimate. Verdicts of wilful murder were returned in 124 inquests, more than half of which related to children. BOAT RACE FOR £loo.—The pair-oar race be. tween Henry Clasper and Geo. Strong and Matthew and s James Taylor, came off on Tuesday, on the Tyne, and was won by the Taylors by four lengths. The stakes were £5O aside, the course from the High Level Bridge to the Melt. dows House, a distance of one and three-quarter miles. THE DEAD ALIVE.—The .Figaro-Programme re lates that M. Clair-Benie, who formerly played the part of the Monstre at the Ambigu, and who hag been of late residing at Asnieres, fell ill last week, and to all ap. pearance died, a fact which was legally attested with all the due form. The day of the interment arrived, and when the persons who placed the corpse in the coffin were about to perform that duty, they were astonished to hear a deep sigh proceed from the body, followed by the words—" Ah t mon Dieu!" M. Clair-Benie.had awakened from a lethargy, and is now getting better. DANGER OF CHILDREN PLAYING WITH LIJCIFETt MATCHES.—On Wednesday firemen on duty at the Crystal Palace were called to extinguish a fire raging in the grou n d s of Mr. D. Child, a carman, situate in the Red-road, Gipsy Hill, Upper Norwood. the engines were drawn out o f th e Palace and taken to the sp ot, when it was found that some children whilst playing with lucifer matches had set fire to a stack of hay. The firemen, however, managed to confine the fire to only one stack. Mr. Child was not insured, DUTY ON t.illßlTs. — According to a return yes^ terday issued, there was a great decrease in the duties on spirits. In the year ending March last the a mount was £0,309N7, while iu the weeding rear it wa s ,f9,618,`491, showing a decrease of £.115,584. ugh rect eck. left Lis of vino tend obin left Sir )ey, stock SSE' all 100 (100 ' 100 2 all lou k,loc 'MEN 100 100 100 100 100 "