The Sun. — London, England, 1863-08-26 00:00:00

MONEY MABKE'T AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The general discount market appears somewhat firmer this morning, with a slight increase in the demand. Yesterday there was an easier tendency, and in the course of the afternoon a few bills were negotiated at 31 per cent., but to-day the rates have reverted to their former point, and 31 per cent, is again quoted as the general charge. A further sum of £2,900 in gold was taken into the Bank yesterday. The Delta, which carries the Bombay mails, will take out £203,110 in specie. The John Duncan has arrived from Otago with £189.332 in gold. The usual dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum was declared at the half-yearly meeting of the General Steam Navigation Company yester day. Two O'CLOCK. At the ordinary meeting to-day of the Southamp ton Deck Company—Col. G. Barlow in the chair— the report, which was adopted, stated that the accounts showed a uet revenue after payment of the interest on the debenture debt, of the dividends on the preference stocks, and of all working ex penses, &c., for the six months ending the 30th Stine last, amounting to £6,844. A dividend was declared for the half-year of £2 per cent., payable Oa the 2d September next, being at the rate of four per cent. A remarkable degree of dullness is apparent in business at the Stock Exchange, the members being almost exclusively engaged in settling the account in foreign securities and railway shares. Scarcely any new speculative operations are reported, and the official lists consequently present an unusually blank appearance. The few bargains entered into have not influenced prices very materially, and Consols are 931- for transfer, and 931 for the 9th proximo. The situation of monetary affairs, with quietude in discount circles, and a flow of gold into the Bank, is in favour of prices, although it has no effect in promoting transactions. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are again 937 y ; the New 21 per Cent. Annuities are 77 ; and Exchequer Bills ls. dis. to 2s. prem. The India 5 per Cents. Loan is 104; and the 51 per Cent. Enfaced Paper, 1161. There is very little business in progress in the Foreign Market, but prices are generally firm. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1858, 72 : 11; do., 1862, 69 I; do., Consolides, 511 d ; Greek, 34 4 ; do., Coupons, 161 a ; Spanish Passive, 334 341; do., Internal, 27i t; Mexican, 381 ; Portuguese, 49; Russian, 92 1-; and the Confederate Loan has risen 1 per cent., viz., to 23 21 dis. Business in the Railway Share Market has been confined chiefly to transactions in connection with the settlement. Prices, however, have in several instances shown a slight advance. Caledonian, Lan cashire and Yorkshire, and South Eastern, have each improved ss. ; and North Eastern (Ber wick), 10s.; while Midland have receded 55., and Loudon and Blackwall, 10s. In the Foreign and Colonial undertakings the variations in prices have been unimportant. Turin and Savona have improved about 55.; Great Wes tern of Canada have declined ss. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares generally con tinue in moderate favour, at about previous rates. London and Westminster aro dealt in at 77t- 78 ; and London and County, at 491. BRITISH. FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 931 1 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 934 i New 3 per Cent. Annuities New 24 per Cent. Annuities 5 per Cent. Annuities Annuities; 30 yrs, expire bth Jan., 1380 — Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 — India Stock Ditto 5 pet Cent Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. Ditto 5 per Cent Ditto 51 per Cent 4 Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863 Ditto ditto April, 1864 Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 D it t,. Bonds £l,OOO — I !Ditto under £l,OOO Bank Stock for Account Consols for Account, Sept, 9 Lloia Stock for Account, 5 per Cent — • March, I J une , 24 per Cent. 24 per Cent. Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO .. 2pm Ditto £5OO .. 2pm Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. Ditto 1859 Brazilian .5 per Cent Ditto, 1839 and 1859 Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent Ditto Account _— Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) „Ili Tian 6 per Cent. — Ditto 45 per Cent. .. 87 Danish 4 per Cent., 1863 Ditto 3 per Cent., 1825 Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Egyptian 7 per Cent — Ditto, Second Issue Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons 345 4 5 Ditto Account — Ditto Coupons Ditto Account Italian .5 per Cent.(Maremnaana Railway) Mexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account. — Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada Ditto 2 per Cent. Ditto Deterred Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) — PJiuvian 3 per Cent. Ditto 45 per Cent., 1862 Ditto Account — Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto Account.... Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7,'9, 'GO, 62 49 Ditto Account — Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St — Ditto 4 per Cent 1850 . 89 Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859 Ditto 5 per Cent, 1862 • 921 5 Sardinian 5 per Cent Ditto Account — Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Account Ditto New Deferred Ditto Account — Ditto Passive Ditto Account — Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded Ditto Account Turkish iurkish 6 per Cent. 1851 — Ditto Account .. Ditto 6 per Cent. 1856 Ditto Account Ditto £lOO Bonds Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 1 /itto Account — Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent V enezuela 3 per Cent. Ditto Account Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 Ditto Account — Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian 45 per Cent.,. , Ex. 25f. .. — -unto), 25 per Cent., Ex. 12 Gull Ditto .1 French it Per Cent. Certificates Italian _ewes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f — nitt z ,o. P er Cent., 1861, Ex. 25:francs — Account . ......... TWO O'CLOCK. 93k Congols, Money Ditto:Account .. 93t1.......... T he Price of Gold. The quotation of go-q-a-i--i7tout 1 per mule pm., and On the short exchange On London is 25.30 per £1 sterling. comparing these rates with the English Mint price of ..C3 17s. 100. per ounce for with gold, it appears that gold is about 4-10ths per cent dearer in London than in Paris. By advices from Hamurg the price of gold is 125 per mark and the short exchar4.,,e on London is 1 1.6 i per Ll sterling. Standard gold at the English Alir.t Price is, therefore, about 7-10ths per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at sight Is about 139 to 1394 per cent, and the premium 60 days' on gold about 26i per cent. At these prices there is little if on the Importation of gold from time United any profit States. NELSON LEE AM THE Dr.AMATIC COLLEG E. Mr. J. W. Anson, secretary to the Dram a ,i, col _ lege, has forwarded the following letter to Mr. Neleon Lee Dear Sir,--I have been directed by the council to convey opinion in relatio n to the benefits o f their . e to y ou an express benefits the College has obtained from your services, and I think I cannot better discharge the duty than by for. of their minutes, viz. : 'wardi ng the following copy ld e f eren ce having been made to the great benefit which ' r s y s iee ho s w of an:l ir. W isr o e tu ls b on we L ll e ' es 'lieeti derived from Richardson lan e's and to the important se ral Da:m.. ' —e ' r ' to their construction, his valuable ideas and gene ance-rtas well '-•of the that the thanks g e nient, before as on the days of per wasl4lallitl2°ltslY resolved the interests of council be voted to him for his devotion to the College thus evinced," SHARE MARKETS—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOh S. raid : Cloping Busines6 Share Railways. Price. done. Wol., and Str. Val. Blythe and Tyne. liost.,Sleat.,andillid.k.:o , 1 Bristol and Exeter !Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall A A :lets no (liv Do " filll3pe.p an.hasj Do. B been paid to 8., Dublin & Belfast June., Duu.,Perth,&Ab. June., Edinburgh & Glasgow., Glasg. and S. Western.' Great Eastern, Ord. stk Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian at GreatNorthof Scotland' Great Northern.-- .• Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. and W. of Ireland Great Western ..... Do Str Val gua,. stool: Lancashiie tir, Yorkshire Loudon and Blackwal . Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover! Lon. & Noreh Western Lon. & Scr.th Western! 'Man., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do I shares Metropolitan Midland Do New Do Birming. ct Derby Hid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. shares s Mid Kert Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do, G.N.E. purchas& Do Leeds ' Do York 1)o Carlisle North London Do New North Staffordshire .. N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central ! Scot Aber. stock Do Scot, 'Mid. stock.. Shrews. and Wcichpooi Shropshire Union - - South Devon South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines,Wok.,andWok Stockton & Darlington Do Do New, 186 G Taff Yale.. Do B Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of Sean Victoria eta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny' West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.&R , West Midland -Oxford Do Newport Do Hereford BRITISH. P 1 Railways Atlantic & St Lawrence Born.,Baroda&.Cent Ind Go. 5 per cent... Do. New Do. E. Shares . Buffalo and Lake Huron Do. Preference Buffalo,Brant,&Godricli p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 18% Do. do. July 1, 1873 Do. do. June 1, lb: Cleutta.ArS.Eastn. Cape Town ,t Dock Seri Laiitn. Bengal gu. 5 p. Last Indian. gu. 5 P. C. Do. do. 6 Do. do. 11 do. . • Grand Trunk of Canada Do. Ist Pref. Bonds.. Do. ao. deferred...... Do. 2d Pref. Bonds.. Do. do. defer ed.... • • Do. 3d ef. stock . Do. do. deferred. • Do, 4th I'ref. stock... Do. do. deferred...... Gt.ludtarentn.gua. s p.c. Do. New gua. 5 p. e,... Do. January, 1862 Gt. South.of India (Lim) guaranteed 5 per cent. Gt. W. of Canada Sharer Do. New Do. 6 p.c. '73 with' t opt, Do. 5. p. c. do. '77-8.... Indian Branch Madras guar., 5 p. c, Do. It p. c. Extension De. 4A . d 0........ Do. Fifth Extension. Mclb.Corp. A P. 0 . Brick. Melb. & Hobson's Bay. Do. 7 p. c. Mortg. Bds. Newßr unswick Can& Class A and 8........ N.Rl.C'daB pa Ist pt bds Scinde ......... Do. Delhi,. ...... 1 11 Do. do ..... . Do. Punjaub to" Do. Do. .. .• tp, Do. Indus. St. Flo.) 8 8b 1 81 86 F 8 120 121 7 7i 90 41 16 17 04 45 111 1 1 3 tit 6 2 40 61 24 261 125} 12(14 12N 12 , it VS 190 100 IC2 COI ai 114 114 i 73 74 113 115 /2 44 104 103 103 1 04 43i 44 111 12 1201 L3Ol 14 1D 99 101 54-1 E 5 25 26 1021 1034 58 5 . 9 E 9 S'Ji 120 125 p 80 82 111 12 122 124 46 47 100 102 50 62 80 32 96} 961 70 72 101 103 9 10 37 38 9 10 155 160 5i 611 3 4p 89 91 158 162 27 2t 46 47 39 41 101 106 SSIONS. Closing Price. 62 G 4 107} lON 1 1A p Ikl p 51 61 71 8} 1074 1084 104 106, 109 110 108 19 11 lap la lap 194 204 72 14 1 54 67 63 66 46 49 45 47 36 38 25 27 22 24 108 109 1 141 , 1 1i; 107 I[B ]0 10t 10 00 95 OS 90 4 1 P 107 1011 MO fs IGO 57 59 3 6 83 85 107 i 104 1074 10841 107 i 1081 103 105 COLONIAL GOVE.R: p.c.J sz.J tit) 1877-St Do. 6 p. c.eb. & Aug Do. d p. c.Mar. & Sept . Do. E p. c. Jan.&July. Do. 5 Inscribed stock Cape G.Elope, 6 P t 3 , 187 ' Do.Ap & Oct. 188() Do. 189( IDo. Jan. & July, 1891 'Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6 p Mauritius 6 per cent Natal Goy. 6 per cent 1.N.8.G0y. 6 p.c.d a.&July Do. 6p.c Ap & Oct. S. W. Gov. 5p rt., 18 .1 Do. 5 p. c.,18,t to 1.;7( Do. d0.,1888 &upwds New Zealand 6 p cent. 'Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. sterling, 1875 Queensland Gm 6p. C 6. Aus G6p.c.187.3.a. up I Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.dr.Jul) I Do. to R D . o . And,ont... MEN IC3 105 tt2 104 105 107 941 95} 12 04 108 tiO 112 114 113 115 112 115 ,113 106 107 110 112 1051 1061 1001 104 1014 102,' 102 103 110 112 _I 100 100 100 100 100 105} 106 y L:1 113 110 112 [OS 110 1134 114 1031 1131 BRITISH MINES. 2 Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 I '',. 41 uhilord Amalgamated.. 37 n Devon G. Cone. (Tavist. ) 1 560 5E,0 East Bassett (11logan).. 30 78 80 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd. 53. Id par East Caradon I 14 t 281 295 29 . East earn Brea j :3.4.0 8 84 E. W"lltuesel (Tavistk ; 8 6.6 3 4 4 Ga m.dzSt.Attnyn(Gwen ;1 7 10 Great South Tolgus 1 17b 35 31 G. Wheal Vor (lielston 40 64 75 Grenville 0.16. f 64 62 -- Hem-Ws-Foot .......N.1:2 ,38 40 -- ingston D0wn5...... 4.8.0 15 2 Lady Berth a ... . .. . 2.8.0 Margaret (Div Lelant 11, 32 St Marke Valley.. .. 1.3.0 54 65 4 Myndy Iro n Oro ( * Lim ; 21 15 New Setun .. 192 100 110 North Downs 2 2 25 lia,seet(lllo4an 2.17.3, 24 35 Sort,' Wheal Crotty 2.4.9 15 34 Par Consols (;.:t. Blazey 15 4 20 Vrovidence(Uny Lelut.) 10.6.7 11 43 South Caradon(St.Cleer; 14 1415 425 S. Cora Brea (Illogan) 5.15.61 14 24 `'.Wheal Fran. (Illop, - ,sn) 18.1-.9 60 :0 Stray Park 5 famarSilv.& Lead lain 44 5 5 fin Croit 9 2i 22 West Basset (Il1o2an) ll 101 Sll W C' radon (Llskeard) 5 21 23 West Seton Wheal Basset (Mogan . ) 55 60 C 5 Wheal Bulleratedruth; 5 35 45 Wheal Kitty (15.Lelant) 2.0.6 WhealLuthott Wheal Mary Ann (Lien ) 8 12 14 !Wheal Seton . . 585 215 125 IW heal Trelawney (Lts.)l 15 17 Wheal Union ' 3.17 24 35 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. London, Tilbury, and Southend, 97i Wilts and Somerset, 93i FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San Francisco (lira.) gua. 7 per cent., 20f: N Rail of Buenos Ayres, „ma. 7 per cent.,:lok Sambre and Meuse, 10: San Paulo (line.), gua. 7 per cent., Ditto (ail), 22t Turin and Savona, 21 FOREIGN MINES. Port Philip, 11 St. John del Rey (Urn.), 5R Yudanainutana of S. Austrtlla JOIN T-STOCK FIANKS. Australasia, 761 Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 3O English, Scorch, and Australian Chartered, 221 Imperial Bank (Um.), 221 London and Brazilian (lim.), 43 London and County - , 49 81- PI London and South African, 261 London and Westminster, 775 S Standard of British South Africa (limy), 19 18i Ditto, new, 13k Union of Australia, 5l 4 Union of London, 351 DOCKS. IRISH. Victoria, 100/ MISCELLANEOUS. Crystal Palace, :391 Gencial Steam Navigation, 29J International Financial Society, lim., 81 Oriental Inland Steam, lim., Quebrada Laud, Rail, and Alining, lira., 34 RACING FIXTU: RES FOR 1863. AUG Egham 25 I Stockton 25 SEPTE Devon end Exeter Derby Summer Weymouth Kings Lynn .. 3 Warwick .. 8 Leicester . 10 Doncaster 15 .UST. I Oxford Lichfield 3l :MBER. Word sl ey gl Brecon ... 21 Richmond 22 Monmouth 24 Manchester Autumn 25 Newmarket lat Oct. 29 Edinburgh, Club 30 'ORE R. Lincoln Autumn 20 Kelso 21 Gloucester 22 Newmarket, Houghton 26 EMBER. 0 cri Coventry Bedford 6 Caledonian Hunt Newmarket S. ..... • 12 Nov) Worceoter 3 Shrewsbury Autumn....l6 SErTEUPER. Carragb. ...... Carlow .... . •.. •. •. •. •. •. •. . 9 J en kinstown Park 23 Listowel .............. 21 Currnl.sh ~,, OCTOBER. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUSI 26, 'gm LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. Mr. Commissioner Fane was the Commissioner of the day, but there were no examination meetings on the list. (Before Mr. Registrar Bingham.) IN RE COOPER.--SINGULAR CASE OP SECOND BANK • RUPTCY. This bankrupt was a grocer at Woolwich, and this was a meeting for choice of assignees. The bankrupt passed his last examination and obtained his order of discharge, but it now appears that he had improperly disposed of some pro perty, and a dispute arising between the parties and the bankrupt, the latter again petitioned the court, so that the property may be brought into court. Mr. Drew, Basinghall-street, the solicitor, said that he had no doubt the property could be recovered, but a question may arise as to which class of creditors will b 3 entitled to the benefit. MARKETS--This Day. POLICE INTELLIGENCE--This Day. MARK-LANE. The supply of new English wheat received fresh up to this morning's market was very moderate. However, both red and white qualities met a heavy sale, at fully Monday's decline in the quotations of is per quarter. With foreign wheat the market was well supplied. The trade for all descriptions was very dull, and Monday's cur rency was with difficulty supported. Floating cargoes of grain sold heavily, at about Mon day's currency. The supply of old barley was very moderate, and the show of new produce was small. The demand generally was in a sluggish state, and prices had a drooping tendency. Fine malt was tolerably firm in price, but inferior parcels were a dull inquiry. A limited business was transacted in oats at Monday's fall in prices. With foreign qualities the market was well supplied. Beans and peas met a slow sale, at about previous rates. Both English and foreign flour was in slow request at [ate quotatioLe. The supply of barrels was large. ARRIVALS TILTS WEEK. Wheat Barley. Malt. Oats. Flout. English 610 — I 740 i 370 " 120 Irish — _ ) _ Voreign 17,150 2,020 1 , 23,980 1 13,710 brla BOROUGH HOP. We have to report a quiet trade for all kinds of hops, but without leading to any change in the currency. The accounts from the plantations are in favour of an average crop, WHITECHAPEL. ' The supply of meat is moderate, and for prime qualities the trade is firm. Beef, from 2s Gd to 4s Od ; mutton, 3s Od to 4s 4d ; lamb, 5s Od to 5s 6d; veal, 3s Gd to 4s 4d; and pork, 3s 4d to 4s 4d per Ms. by the carcase. SHIPPING—This Day. LONDON, Aug. 26.—Wind this day at noon—South- Easterly ; moderate breeze, and cloudy weather, w ith showers. TRoox, Aug. 26.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Borneo, from Miramichi. SHIELDS, Aug. 25. —Wind S.S.E.—Arrived—Emily Wylde, from Huelva. BRIDGEWATER, Aug. 24.—Wind S.W.--Arrived— Louisa, from Richibucto. HATLEPOOL, Aug. 21.--Wind variable.—Arrived— Julius, from Richibucto. Hull., Aug. 25.—Wind W. — Arrived—Palmatta, from Miramichi; President Von Blumenthal, and Victoria, from Quebec. ABERDEEN, Aug. 24.—Wind SM.—Sailed—Clarinda, for Quebec. FALMOUTH, Aug. 25.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Thomas Rowell, from Quebec. OEP PORTSMOUTH) Aug. 25,—Wind S.W.—Arrived— Mrgaret Cairns, from London for New York, GRIMSBY, Aug. 25.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Norden, from Quebec. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning. Arrived, August 25—Caroline, from Jamaica; John Duncan, from Otago ; Castor, from Bioheborg ; Skein, from Quebec ; Earl of Carlisle, from Smyrna. Arrived, August 26 Gjemle ' from Pugwa s h ; G oet h e, from New York; Isabella , from Dantsic ; Constancia, from Odense. Sailed, Aug. 26—Woodbine,for Rockhampton; Bombay, for Auckland ; Ard berg. for Sydney ; Hotspur, for Sydney ; Esce!sior, for Cape of Good Hope; Laura, for Dem erara . DEAL, Wednesday Morning. Passed, August 25—Ayrshire, from Quebec, for London. Passed, August 26—Avoca, screw steamer, for the Medi terranean. Anchored—Guillelmon, from London, for Montreal. THE SPANISH ELECTIONS. MADRID, Aug. 21. The following is the circular issued by the Minis. ,er of the Interior relative to the elections : "I have submitted to the Queen our Sovereign the questions addressed to our Ministry by the governors of various provinces relative to the appli cations from electors of different political opinions to be authorised to assemble and consult each other on the occasion of the coming election of deputies to the Cortes. Her Majesty, desiring that the authorities should have a general rule for their guidance in this matte:, has been pleased, in con cert with the Council of Ministers, to decree as follows : " 1. The governors of provinces will grant the permission to electors of deputies whose names are borne on the legally approved lists to assemble and deliberate on the course they may wish to pursue in the coming elections. "2. In granting the authorisation for those assemblies the governors will require from the applicants a statement showing the place, the day, and the hour where they may wish to assemble, this statement being sent in before the projected meeting, and at a proper time. The governors wilt warn the applicants that they shall abstain hem con stituting such assembly until after the following conditions shall have been fulfilled to the entire satisfaction of the official who may be delegated to perform this duty. 4 4 3. Those persons only will be admitted to the place of assembly who can furnish instant and satisfactory proof that they are electors. If they are electors of the district or districts of the locality in which the meeting is being held, this must be s p eciall y mentione d , and confirmed by the production o f the respective electoral lists. Should an elector not belongingto the district wi s h t o b e present at h shall identify himself an d f urn i sh proof positive na me is actually borne on th e e l ectora l t emeeting,that h at es lists of the district. " 4. The public authority or a representative of the same will necessarily preside over the assembly until it has been regularly established, and is at liberty to continue to do so should suc h a proceeding be con sidered ex p e dient. "5. During the sittings of such assemblies, and until they shall have terminated, an agent of the authoriti es w ill be stationed at the entrance to prevent such persons from entering who are not entitled to do so. " 6. Th e assembly will be dissolved if questions foreigm to the elections are discussed or introduced, and in the event of any infringement of the law or disturbance of public peace. "May Gad save your lordship and grant you long life. (Signed) " VAMONDE. "To the Governor of the Province of . •. . " Madrid, 20th August, 1863." SERIOUS INJURY CAUSED BY A FLY. --Mr. M. P. Crofton, of the City water-works, met with a seri ous and ala rm i ng i n j ury on S atur d ay un der very nov e l cir cumstances, While reading at his table on Saturday even ingback of he f e lt somet hi ng li ke the bite o f a m idge on the of his hand, and on looking at it saw a small greyish fly not be unlike a mid ge on t h e spot i n which he f e lt the bite. intruder was instantly killed, and though the irritation of the bite continued to be felt, very little notice was tak en of it till n ex t morning, when the part bore sit the appearance of active inflammation, accompanied with deep discolora tion and much pain and throbbing. Surgeon W.Narn ara was consulted, and on examining the part a series of little versicles were visible, and the subcutaneous tissue was found to be congest e d an d nearly purple. Active remedies were applied, local p ou lti c i ng and other surgical treatment were resorted to, but y es t erday the symptoms had so increased that it was found necessary on consultation to make several incisions into the hand and to cauterise the arm, making a ccinplete circle of cauterised surface round the limb. For some hours considerable anxiety was felt as to the ultimate result, and the medical attendants found it necessary to pay several visits in the course of the day. On inquiry last night we learned with much satisfaction that the alarming symptoms had considerably abated, and that the apprehen sions felt as to the possible results had passed away under the active treatment resorted to. It has been suggested that probably the little insect had been regaling himself on some putrid flesh before he came to quaff some of Mr. Crof ton's claret, and that in making the incision to procure the requisite access to the ruddy liquid, he inecculated, and in fact poisoned the current. A remarkable feature in the case is that Mr. Crofton is a gentleman of robust habit, but of great strength of constitution—active, red-blooded, and abstemious—just the man whose blood ought to resist poison, if not of a most virulent character.—Freeman's Journal. CONVICTION UNDER THE NEW POACHING ACT.— At the Rotherham Court-house, on Monday, a young man named William Beighton, of Kilnhurst, was charged with having unlawful possession of game. The information was laid by a policeman, who saw defendant, accompanied by a dog, passing through Swinton. Knowing his character, he searched him, and found in his possession a dead rabbit. In answer to the Bench, the defendant said he bought the rabbit of a man whom he met on the road. He was fined 40e, and costs, or in default 14 days' imprisonment. BOW-STREET. FORGING A BILL Or EXCHANGE.—WiIIiAM Pottage was placed at the bar, on remand, charged with forging and uttering a bill of exchange for £67, with intent to defraud Mr. Welfare, of the firm of Foreman and Welfare, Oakley-street, Lambeth. The bill purported to be accepted by Mr. William Bew, of 62, Aldermanbury, merchant, end to be endorsed by Mr. E. Weston, of the Music Hall, Holborn. and by Mr. Weston, of Newington-causeway, gas chandelier manufac turers. Mr. Lswis Welfare said he resided at 72, Oakley , street, and discounted the bill of exchange produced for the pri soner in the early part of July. He could not state the exact amount advanced, but he thought it would be about £64 3s. Bd. Mr. IHenry—•What conversation had you about the bill, Witness—When the Lill was brought to me with merely the name of Mr. Bew, I said that, although I considered that:gentleraan a highly respectable person, I thought the names of two others might be placed to the bill, and I men tioned the names of Mr. Weston, of Holborn, and Mr. Weston, of Newington. The prisoner took the.bill away, and the next day he returned with it, bearing the signa tures of those two gentlemen. Cross-examined:At the time the bill was being dis counted, I held a bill supposed to have been drawn by Mr. Weston, the gasfitter, and accepted by Mr. Weston, of Holborn. It was brought to me for discount by the pri• soner, and I discounted it for them, with his endorsement. A day or two prior to the £5O bill becoming due, the pri soner called upon me and said it was not convenient for Mr. Weston, the acceptor, to meet the bill, and it would be an obligation to hold it over. I demurred, and the prisoner then replied, " Well, if you don't like to do that, I've a bill for £67 which you can discount. At that the prisoner took up the £5O. The reason I wished the names of the Westons to be placed on the £67 bill was because I told the prisoner I was giving up a bill for £5O with the names of the two Westons, whom I knew to be good. And he said he knew both of them. Mr. John Henry Weston, of Newington-causeway, gas fitter, said his signature to the bill was a forgery. The pri soner was formerly in partnership with him, and was well acquainted with the appearance of his signature. He be lieved the endorsement on the bill to be in prisoner's hand writing. Mr. Edward Weston, of the Music-hall, Holborn, also examined the bill, and said his signature to it was a forgery. He was totally unacquainted with the prisoner. He was not at all related to Mr. Weston, of Newington, He had lately done work for Wm at Highgate to the amount of L 2,500, and that would perhaps account for the presumption of relationship. Inspector Tanner, of the detective police, said that was the whole of the evidence he had to offer in the present case, but he had a second charge of forgery against him, but the prosecutor in that charge (Major Stranson) was confined to his bed by illnees. Mr. Henry said in that case he would remand the pri soner, as the next Old Bas.ley sessions would not coma on for two or three weeks. Mr, Lewis said the prisoner would reserve his defence. MARLBOROUGH .STREET. PARISH PROSECUTION OF A NOTORIOUS BROTHEL KEEPER.—Elizabeth Middleton, a middle-aged woman, was charged before Mr. Tytwhitt with keeping a brothel at 20, St. Martin's-street. Sergeant George Appleton having proved that the pri soner was the person named in the warrant upon which he apprehended her, The clerk to Mr. Dangerfield, vestry clerk of St. Mar tin's, by which parish the prosecution was instituted, asked that heavy bail might be required, as the house kept by the prisoner was a very bad one, and she had set the authorities at defiance and taken no notice of their warnings. Mr. Tyrwhitt, committed her to the sessions, and fixed the bail at two sureties in £4O each., Prisoner said she would shut up the house, and pay all the expenses, if she was allowed to go. Mr. Tyrwhitt said she would go to the sessions. A WIFE BEATER PROPERLY PUNISHED.—Edwin Toy, of 7, Brown- street, St. George's, cabinetmaker, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with assaulting his wife, Penelope Sarah Toy. The wife said that on the previous night her husband (the prisoner) locked the room door, put the key in his pocket —as he always did when he ill-used her—and then aimed a violent blow at her head, but she put up her hand to save her head, and upon it received the blow. She then went and sat down by her children's bedside, when her husband gave her another blow on the head, which rendered her insensible for a time, and on her recovering, she insisted on his letting her out of the room, and he did so, she being smothered with blood from a wound on her head. Tyrwhitt asked the wife whether her husband kept her, and she said that her mother chiefly did, W. Hellican, 171 C, said the complainant came up to him with blood pouring from a wound on the head, and told him that her husband had assaulted her. He then went towards the house and met the prisoner, and took him into custody. The prisoner said his wife made accusations of such a nature against him that he could not keep his hands off her. Mr. Tyrwhitt committed the prisoner for six months, with hard labour, and said that he would have to find bail when ho came out of prison, WESTMINSTER. A SUICIDAL MONOMANIA.—Mary Lockey, Et good-look jug young woman, was charged before Mr. Arnold with threatening► to commit suicide, under the following singular circumstances : Cree, Principal Warder of the Female House of Correc tion, Tothill-fields, stated that, on the 25th of July, the prisoner was brought into the prison for damaging a plate glass at a public house. At the termination of her impri sonment she was sent to her friends at Birmingham. She, however, stayed no time there, as she caqo back as soon as the officer. On another day, when put in the cell, she broke 16 panes of glass and other things. In answer to the Magistrate, the warder stated that, while in prison, they were compelled to put her under re straint, lest she should commit suicide. She has declared that she would kill herself, as everybody was against her. Mr. Arnold observed that he thought the best way was to communicate with 'the parish authorities. Is the sur geon of the prison present ? Dr. Levies, medical officer of the prison, said that he had seen the prisoner, and he believed her to be a badly disposed girl. Sh e talks rationally, b ut w it ness i s o f op i n i on that she Is of a su i cidal disposition, and, if not watched, will do some mischief to herself. Mr. Arnold remarked that he thought the best way to deal with the case was to remand her. She was then remanded, and Mr. Arnold directed that she should be closely watched. THAMES. SLOPWORKERS AND PAw.NBuoKEr.s.--Sarah Jones, a poor, half-starved-looking woman, 31 years of age, and lately dwelling at No. 2, Upper Well-alley, Wapping, was brought before Mr. Woolrych, charged with illegally pawn ing 11 cotton shirts, the materials of which had been given to her to make up by another woman, a seamstress, named Maria Dowden, of No. 55, King.- street, Stepney. The case was clearly made ou t , th e d e livery of the mate rials to the prisoner proved, an d th e 11 s hirts, which were in an unfinished state, were p ro d uce d by a pawnbroker's street assistant, who had received them of the prisoner. The prisoner, in her defence, said her husband had de serted her for four months, and, wanting food, she pawned the shirts at four different tim es . _ _ Mr. Woolrych said the prisoner had only increased her miseries by her acts of dishonesty, and now she would find it difficult to ebtain any work again. He strongly con demned the pawnbroker who received the shirts in pledge, and he must have known they did not belong to the pri soner when he did so. He had frequently been called upon to censure this system of taking in slop-work and un finished work from poor needlewomen. It encouraged felonies. The pawnbrokers who took in unfinished work were no better than receivers of stolen property, and ought to be treated as such. It was illegal to accept in pawn unfinished materials in the course of manufacture. He fined the prisoner 178.:91, the value of: the shirts, and ss. in addition, and in default one month's imprisonment. He ordered the pawnbroker's assistant to restore the shirts to Mrs. Dowden. AN UNFEELING MOTHER AND UNFEELING POLICE.— A dissipated woman named Mary Kelly, was brought before Mr. Woolrych, charged with being drunk, riotous, and dis orderly last night at a late hour in High-street, White chapel. John Chattey, No. 284 H, said the prisoner acted in a most violent and disorderly manner, swore and raved and threw her infant on the ground, and said she would have no more to do with it. : n, e whoimra.Woolrybcand said herself bas the prisoner by the horrible was av er il r eu le tif v e i e e l e ofing drunkenness below the lust of a beast of the field. It WAS a calamity for the poor child to have such a mother as the prisoner. lie fined her Bs., and in default to be imprisoned for five days. Soon afterwards Roche, the gaoler of the court, said the prisoner was in great pain. Her breasts were full of milk, and she had not suckled her child all night. She wanted relief, and there was no doubt the child. whicle she had abandoned when she was drunk, and not restored to her when she became sober, required that su stenance which the custody another mo men t, an d y was able directed t o o en ° r Roche d. to set the w oman at l ib erty h a i properc l l the manner. prisoner (3111 j er fe could not ta ke u p o n himself the grave re motheriir. w instantly.a 1 o o was confined, and she ha stened from the court with all possible speed in search of her child. s h peoßn Roche hoped b h el opened eowf holding d t attend o t f o t h h e e r in f l l a n i n t i wn The unpublished works of the Duke de le. Roche. foucault are about to be given to the world. They were dis covered amongst some records of the family by AI : de Bar thelemy, well known as an antiquary, SAY IT! THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN LONG-." IN POPULOUS CITY PENT !" To men who may be bricked up for nine or ten months of the year in the streets and closes of a great oity—say, with Goldsmith in Garden Court or with Johnson in Staple Inn—the story of life which has been spent in the green woods, on the open moors, and by the sea-shore in search of rare or beautiful birds, has on the nerves the freshening effect of a drive into the country or a plunge into the sea. We enjoy such a tale like a rouse of wine. Indeed, this life in the woods or by the sea-shore seems the point at which reality shakes hands with romance. Is not Alexander Wilson as strange a figure as lt)binson Crusoe ? Are not Audubon's wanderings on the prairies and savannahs as delicious as any adventure of the Pathfinder ? Are not the writings of Yarrell, Macgillivray, White, and Waterton among the choicest bits of our mental entertainment, as entrancing to the young as the best romance of Scott, the keenest humour of Dickens? In the very name of as orni thologist there is a charm. He is a lonely man, who loves Nature and has an animal delight in a'r and colour. With a gun slung on his back, with a wallet on his thigh, and an inkhorn in his belt, he sallies forth into the copse, he jumps into his boat, and for weeks and weeks he may be lost to the sight of man. When he comes back into the world, it is with rare spoil of knowledge, won from Nature in her most secret haunts. No roof domes in his workroom, which is wide as the land and open as the sky. His feet are among the young ferns—his nostril?, filled with the scent of trees and flowers—his eyes are soothed by the green earth and the blue vault—his ears lulled with the sighing of leaves or roused by the whirr of wings. Beauty "lies about him at every step. In almost everything that man does there is some near limit of scenery. The judge is confined to his court. The secretary must attend to his office. The journalist is chained to his desk. The physician sees little beyond his patient and his brougham. The preacher has but his pulpit and his Sunday audience. Even in the more stirring occupations of war and trade, there is a❑ order, a discipline, a sequence, which in the course of time palls upon the sense. A sailor tires of the sea. A soldier longs to lay down his sword. A mer chant prays for the hour when his ships shall have come home and he may take his rest in peace. But we have heard it said, that a man who has once become a freeholder of the woods—like Macgillivray or Gould—who has watched all day for a grebe by the lonely English tarn, or bagged his bird of paradise on the coast of New Guinea, will never tire of his sport so long as he cin hold a gun. The canoe, the fowling-piece, the forest glade, the hill-top, are to such a man health and life. He pines in cities. In society he is dreaming of the loch and the heather ; at his club-room he is musing of the log-hut in the backwoods or the cagnp-fire by the Yarra-Yarra. He is the lion who has lapped up blood, the Howaojee who has tasted of the Nile, the poet who has eaten of the insane root. His life is not es that of other men ; he is set apart ; his career is not a profession, but an adven• ture.—Athenceuni. The Fine Arts' Plasterer The eighteenth century was far advanced before our house-building had fallen to that most ignomi nious style of domestic architecture seen in Harley street and Weymouth-street, in which every species of ornamentation was ruthlessiy , suppressed ; in which the windows and doors became mere holes cut out of a dead wall, and the roof retired from view behind the long monotony of the parapet. From this wretchedness John Nash and stucco delivered us. Whatever the faults, either of the architect or of his material, let this be recollected to their credit. In the year 1812, the idea of creating the Regent's Park out ot Marylebone fields saved that fine piece of open country from being covered with houses in continuation of the streets in the neighbourhood :of /the New-road; and Nash was employed to build the terraces bor dering on the park. It was the commencement of a new era in London architecture—the era ot stucco —the age of plaster columns and compo cornices. Regent-street, the Quadrant, the Circuses, 1 1 4 ater loo-place, Pall-mall East, and Carlton-house•terrace sprang from the same ingenious brain. George IV. is understood to have patronised the new style. There was something in the showy, untruthful character of Nash's grand effects very similar to the unreality and pretence of " the first gentle man in Europe." Nash put a false surface of stucco ou the face of London as George put a false head of hair upon his baldness. But Nash's decoration, however low in point of art, was acceptable as a stage of transition from worse to better. It was a step forward out of the blank negation of Harley-street. It was art of some sort, as distinguished from mere construction. Meretricious as it often was—a thing of sham and " make-believe"—it yet marked an advance beyond the soulless utilitarianism of the reign of George 111. It conceded the principle of beauty. And poor as were the details of such building, the effect in mass was sometimes extremely good. Nash understood the art of grouping his churches and houses, with a view to the general appearance ; and the semi circular sweep of the Quadrant, as it was originally built with the colcnnade over the pavement, was certainly the finest thing we had in London. But, after all, Nash was a plasterer, and his productions seemed generally to partake of the meanness of the material in which he worked.—Saturday Review. A. FOOLHARDY ADVENTURE.—Two adventurons gentlemen residing in Plymouth recently engaged the White Horse, a waterman's boat of large size for that class of craft, and expressed their determination of making a trip to Jersey and back in her. Having laid in a stock of provisions they in company with Richard Roberts, the owner of the boat, sailed from Milbay on Sunday, the 9,,h inst., at 6 a.m. They reached the Start about 11 o'clock the same morning, and arrived at Guernsey in the afternoon of the following day, when they were becalmed. The arrival at that place was welcomed by a large number of persons, who expressed their astonishment at their perilous under taking On Tuesday morning, at 8 o'clock, the little party set sail for Jersey, which place they reached early in the afternoon, They remained on the island until the following Friday morning, when the White Horse again got under weigh for the homeward voyage. The boat had been at sea several hours when very rough weather set in, and she was driven from her course. The gallant trio, however, made Salcombe in 24 hours after leaving Jersey. They, finding their voyage somewhat wearisome, landed in Sal combe Harbour, and proceeded via Kingsbridge to Ply mouth by train. In consequence of contrary winds the Waterman was obliged to remain at Salcombe for two days. On Tuesday morning last there was still a strong breeze blowing from the north-west; but being tired of waiting, Roberts resolved to set out for Plymouth that day. He accordingly did so; but the roughness of the weather soon after carried away the sprit of his boat. No other damage was occasioned, however, and he arrived safely in Ply mouth Sound in the afternoon. Roberts states that when about five miles from Salcombe, a fish six feet in length, known as a long-nose, was washed into his boat—a visitor more free than welcome, seeing that his mode of entrance was highly alarming to the solitary seaman.— Western Morning News. A YEAR'S RAILWAY WORK.—In the year 1862, the enormous num ber of 180,429,071 passengers travelled on the railways of the United Kingdom, besides 56,656 season-ticket holders, who of course travelled very many t i mes ; and besides, also, 262,334 horses, 386,864 dogs, 3,094,183 cattle, 7,800,918 sheep, and 1.989,892 pigs. The passengers were more than in 1861 by about 7,000,000. They paid £12,295,273 for their fares. The first-class pas sengers paid £3,332,380; the second-class, £1,018,221; the third-class, £4,639,250. 12.80 in every hun dred weight first-class, 28.75 second-class, 53.45 third-class. The proportion of third-class passengers 18 rather increasing, and of second-class rather diminish ing. Thirty-five passengers were killed (9 of them owing to their own misconduct or want of caution), and 536 were injured. This is less than half the number who lost their lives in 1861 by railway accidents. The passenger trains travelled 57,541,831 miles, and the goods trains nearly as many more. The passenger traffic supplied 47 . 76 Per cent. of the total receipts of the companies, and the goods trafficall , the larger half, 52.24 per cent. The receip ts frosr the traffic amounted to £29,128,558, being nearly £3,000,0 00 more than the interest of the National Debt, and an in crease of £563,000 over the receipts of 1861; but the length of line open increased from 10,865 miles at the end of 1861, to 11,551 miles at the end of 1862. The working expenditure amounted to 49 per cent., and l e f t the net receipts L 14,820 ,69 4, n earl y £130,000 more than in 1861. In the year 1862 the com p anies paid £220 > 970 f or law and par li amen t ar y expenses, £ 158,169 as compensation for personal injuries, £63,510 for damage and loss of goods, £375,067 for Government duty, and £596,410 for rates and taxes. It took £2,708,633 to maintain the way and w or k s , and £1,242,714 to main tain the carria g es and waggons, £3,966,005 to provide locomotive power, and - £3,987,637 to conduct the traffic. The total sum raised by shares and loans reached £385,218,438 at the close of the year 1802. 1141 I ;3 113 43 2 103 4 104 3 12 111 )201 65 47 i 5/ NI 7} lingi n est. don: T SECURITIES. HERRING FISHING. DUNBAR, August 24.—This morning about 100 boats came in. On Saturday and to-day fewer boats came in than on any other day of the week. The fishing on both days was very gcod—all the boats having quantities rising to 20 trans per boat, and all of good quality, there being no spents. The fishing is close off the harbour both to the east and west. From the position of the shoal now on the coast, there is every likelihood of the fish ing yet reaching an average. Yesterday, a boat entered the harbour with a large shot, which was sold and &livered to ono of the Irish vessels now in the harbour. Prices are steady at from 18,:. to 20s. per cran. ANSTRUTIIER, Aug. 22.—The week ending to day, which is usually cons id ered the best fishing week in the season, has tu rne d cut very unsuccess fully here, only about 3,000 trans having been landed. Up to this date, we have not been so short•fished for a number of years pack; and as compared with this date last year, there is a fall ing off of more than 7,000 erans. Everything promised well for this week, the weather and tides being very favourable, but the catch each day wa s very partial, and not general among all the boats. Prices have ranged during the week from 15s. to 245. per cran ; the medium price being 17s. The quality has also been a good deal mixed with spent fish, which is not reckoned a good siga at this period of the fishing. WICK, SATURDAY, AUG. 22. We have still a poor account to give of the her ring fishing in this district. The week has added about 24 crans to the previous average, but there was only 23 crane for the first four weeks, making now at the eid of the fifth week of the fishing 47 crane. A full fishing is not now looked for, but with moderate weather it is yet quite possible to get up to the average of the past five years—viz., 81 crane. Even that would entail not a little hardship and loss to many fishermen, but may prove more acceptable to curers than a larger catch. 1 here are now only two weeks of the season to run, unless crews are induced to prolong the time a week. The past few seasons have proved that a greater body of fish was on these shores after the sth September than during the previous seven weeks; and should the time of the fishing be extended, there is no reason that we can see why four or five thousand men, many of them deeply in debt, should run home just when the fishing is only in a manner beginning. We know that the hired hands are the great bug bear ; but curers, by calling a meeting of their body, and passing resolutions not to pay off hands before the 12th, the matter could be carried out with profit more particularly to the fishermen them selves, including the hired hands, as these must be allowed a week's pay extra. This week, as gene rally throughout the previous part of the sea son, the fish got were mostly in large hauls, of 20 to 70 crane, while more than half the fleet were generally clean. Both at a great offing and near to land has this been the case, and it is likely to continue during the season. A few boats have caught upwards of 200 crates, while many are under 10 crans, and several have not 5. The fishing at Orkney, so heavy last week, has this week taken off, and curers have got time to put their fish in order, many having had to rouse in bulk for want of barrels. Lybster and Helms dale are nearly keeping pace. Neither are up to an average fishing, but both are ahead of Wick. At Fraserburg and Peterhead the fishing has this week been interrupted by stormy weather, and the average at these stations is about the same as that given in our paper of Taursday —viz., Fraserburgh, 56 crane, and Peterhead, 39 The stations in the Banff district have also been equally unsuccessful from a like cause. Further up 'the Firth, however, at Loseiemouth, Burg head, and Hopeman, this week's fishing has added about 20 crans to their former average, which is now 80, 73, and 100 crans respectively. We have accounts this morning that at Lybster there is a good fishing, but at Dunbeath and Helmsdale very little. Markets.—Sales are still languid, not withstanding the scanty fishing. It is evi dent that Continental markets are not in a satis factory state. Prices here and on the other side of the Firth continue at 245. for fall-crown brands, and 20s. for spents, without any indication of an advance. A few barrels are being branded daily, and shipments are being made, mostly to Stettin, the Eibe, and a few to Ireland. Those yet caught have been mostly sold ty early contracts, and few consignments by curers are made. In Dant zic there is still a large catch of last year's catch unsold. The sales of Lewis fish are turning out unsatisfactory, aid scarcely a single curor at Stornoway this season will escape a loss, though some few small parcels of fine quality brought a high figure, It is a poor business that pays neither em ployer nor employed. Few fishermen have made anything of it this year from their scanty catch. The herring trade seems to be in such a state that it would be better if the fish, like the grouse, were 1 to have a jubilee year, and fishing operations were to cease and determine for 12 months, till all the old stock was eaten off.—John o'Groat Journal Herring Circular. A " SENSATION" NEWSPAPER.—The Debate of Sunday says:—" It appears that the telegraph has determined to send us regularly with all the gravity in the world summaries of articles published by an e ccentric New York paper called the Herald. We consider it our dut y , therefore, to warn our readers that the Bet ald is what is called on the other side of the Atlantic a ' sensation jour nal,' an expression that may be rendered into French by the following periphrasis—a journal which acquires a great reputation by the fertile imag ination and the fanc y it displays in publishing vows, wh ich facts do not alwa ys con firm, under some pompons heading, such as `Latest Intel ligence,' Important Occurrence.' This kind of Journal is doubtless not peculiar to America, but it flourishes and is developed in an exceptional manner in the land of Barnum. Moreover the Herald is neither an official nor even an officieux journal. Its assertions are not only unworthy of credit, but they do not deserve the slightest attention of any kind whatever." CONVICTION FOR HAYMAKING ON SUNDAY,—At the Atherton petty sessions, on Monday, Peter Cleworth, farmer, of Leigh, and thirteen others were con victed of making hay on the Sunday. The case had been adjourned for a month, to enable the magistrates to con sider the state of the law on the subject. The Chairman of the Bench ;Mr. Silvester), told Cleworih that the magi strates had considered the case, and had decided that the defendants were guilty of a desecration of the Lord's-day and a p ena l ty of s s. and costs would be inflicted. —Mr. Cleworth : I d on ' t i nten d to paY• I am advised that your decision is not legal.—Mr. Silvester: You are very foolish, for a distress warrant will be granted against your goods, and y ou h ave no appeal' — Charles Bennett, a collier, who had assisted the defendant, was also fi ne d s s. and costs, " aiding and abetting: Re and several others were told that if they would pay the costa (6s. 61) against l paying anyt hi ng for no conviction would be recorde d against t hem. They, h n o v w is ev g e p r, r . o r d e u fus ce e f d r , om pr in o t j e a s r 7 It i s understood that distress warra nt s wai be iss ued against thos e defendants who are an d the others will be c on fi ned i n the stocks . TO FRAUDULENT B ANKRUPTS.—At the hou c s A eh u o T l l d o er N s, South Lancashire Assizes, yesterday, Samuel Nash, an d flour dealer , Liverpool in a f r o o r h h l a a y s i t n g a baker Who became a bankrupt at I was indicted before Mr. Jus tice Blackburn, concealed a par don of his estate, with intent to diminish the amount avail able for division amongst his crditors. The baukrnpt's debts at the time of his failure amounted to £613, and ex ceeded by L'522 the value of the assets disclosed upon the face of the balance-sheet. He submitted a considerable deficiency, and when the errors iu his accounts were cor rected that deficiency was increased to -.C350. It was proved that in the month of February the bankrupt was the owner, or reputed owner, of 150 shares in a building society that ho had drawn out a sum of £195, which was due upon those shares, and that the money thus received by him had never been accounted for to the assignees as part of his state. The prisoner was found guilty, but as the statute did not allow a sentence of hard labour, he was ordered to be imprisoned merely for 20 months. The MS. of Mr. Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon is now copied out and ready for the press. Another edition of Admiral Smyth's book, " The Cycle of Celestial Objects," is in preparation. The rules and regulations laid down by the War Department for the prevention of accidents by the bursting of cast iron ordnance, have been attended with such satisfactory results, that since their issue from the War-offiec on the Ist of April, 1861, not a single case has been reported et the Ordnance este blishmenT, Chatham. LONDON GAZE T Tff i—Yesterday. BOARD OF TRADE, WHIT EHALL, AUGUST 25 The Right Honourable the L .ds of the Committee op Privy Council for Trade have re' iced, from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, at ranslation of a Spani s h Royal Decree, forwarded by her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires at Madrid, opening the port of San Vicente de la Barquera, in the province of S antander, for the direct importation from abroad, of miry eral and vegetable coal, wood, fire brick, and bleude or sul phur of zinc. BANKRILE 'TS. The following are the only ban LI rupts of commercial kn. portance in the Gazette : Thomas Huggan engineer, Dr4blin Fred h. Taylor, bill broker, Grc :nwich Abraham t)eal, baker, Deptfor James P. Martin, clerk, Peekld aria Hants g y r e o o c m e r a , n N , l o v r e is h James Naylor, shoemaker, Callis its Nehemiah GcorgeiC-e r S r l i :a ° r u p ' , John Pepper, provision dealer, Wakefield Charles Bailey, fruiterer, Leicester Wm. Wilkinscn, printer, Salford Abraham Gledhill, cutler, Sheffield Wm, Hunter, draper, Preston John Orton, butcher, Chelmsford Hen, y Clark, doctor of medicine, Strand Wakefield, grocer, Gloucester Edward Falvey, coal merchant., Paddington Elijah Maidment, baker, Camberwell Joseph C. Rossiter, dealer and chapmen, Moorgate-street James Hill Cheatle, brushmakee. Birmingham James Woodgates, coffeemill maker, Birmingham Thomas Blackmore, shoemaker, Aller, Suznersetshire ,Croli p eß ra N n i ta ß e lj tu P re T :Glasgow James M‘Gibbon, grocer, Glasgow James m,La3,B, J C .: Win. M`Leari, auctioneer, Dundee of the Exchang,e.—Yesterday. --- Amsterdam Ditto Rotterdam — 11 19 1 Antwerp .. _ ii ifi 95 52 i 25 60' Brussels — 25 52i 25 60 Hamburgh — 13 Si 13 SI Paris Ditto Marseilles 1 14. _ . ~. Frankfort on Maine — ..119i._ Vienna Trieste l'etersburgh .. 11 4o ii as 11 40 11 4S 35i Z'Mk Lerlin Madrid Cadiz '-25 65 49k 70 25 Leghorn Milan — 25 65 23 70 Genoa .— 25 65 25 7o Naples ..-- 25 65 '25 70 Palermo .. 25 63 25 70 Messina Lisbon — 521 524 Oporto — `.2./ 52k Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per oz £3 17 9 Mexican Dollars Silver in Bars (Standard) South American Doublons A Russian journal, the Djen, has the can dour to avow that the feeling in favour of Poland is stronger in the Western provinces than the united efforts of the Russian Admi nistration and army. In order to put an end to this invincible resistance, the same journal proposes a radical measure—which is happily no longer among the 'usages of our times— to expel from that part of the country indiscrimi nately everything that is Polish. DYING STRAINS.—Chopin, feeling the approach of death, wished to bid a last farewell to the instru ment which had given utterance to his poetic inspirations, and had been the means of his great success. A piano Was brought to his bedside. With icy hands and clouded vision, he attempted to draw a few sounds from the instrument. A sweet and touching melody, deeply expressive of regret, was whispered forth; but the musician was unable to complete his pathetic improvisation. He fell back on his bed of suffering and expired a few hours afterwards. Lablache, the incompar able artist, the worthy man parexcellencewhois still regretted by the musical world, attempted to sing upon his deathbed : in order, as he said, to die as he had always lived, devoted to his art. " Go," he said to one of his children, "go to the piano and accompany me." The son, struggling to conceal his emotion, obeyed his father's last request. Lablache than sang the first verse of the English romance --" Home, Sweet Home." At the second verse, the singer's throat contracted, and not a note could issue from it. "Ah 1" said Lablache, "I can sing no longer. lam a lost man I° Ho died that very night. —Dickens's " the Year Round." YANKEE POLITENESS.—As the Revenue cutter Victoria, Commander Smith, was taking a cruise round the Shetland Islands last week, a vessel was observed about two miles ()tithe land, barque rigged. The Victoria stood for the vessel and hailed her, but got no response. As it was very evident that those in charge had very little respect for her Majesty's "bunting," Commander Smith ordered out a boat, and at once pulkd alongside, when the following colloquy took place :—Commander Smith : " Why don't you show your fig?" Stranger: " I guess I ain't got any." Commander Smith : " Where have you come from ?" Stranger : " What's that to you ?" Commander Smith : " Will you give us a rope and put your ladder down ?" Stranger : I shant; you may get up if you can. I don't want any d-d Britishers in my ship. Ha, ha, ha I" Looking over the quarter at Commander Smith (who weighs at least 16 stone), the captain of the strange vessel sung out, "I guess that'll fix your flint." Brother Jonathan was mistaken, however, in the muscular powers of "Old Cock Saith," as Prince Alfred styled him ; for before the Yankee could say Jack Robinson, Commander Smith stood alongside of him, and though he fumbled about the butt-end of his six-Ehooter," he felt it was no go ; the cool bearing of the "Britisher" soon silenced the bluster of the Yankee, who had to produce his papers for inspec tion, together with his victualling note, after which the , Victoria left the barque to pursue her course.—John o'Groat Jour,iil. HORRIBLE DISCOVERY AT VICKSBURG. A 'Vicksburg correspondent writes :—" A horrible discovery has just been made on the rebel line of foram. thins. Quite a number of men have been engaged in re pairing - the rebel fort that was blown up on the night of th e 3d iLst, In the course of their operations they have exhumed. 60 or 80 dead bodies found buried in the ruins of the fort. It seems that while our miners were at work making an entry' into the side of the hill that was crowned by the rebel fort, a strong working party of rebels were set to work sinking a counter-mine in the fort. This party, consisting, it is said, of more than a hundred men, were in the mine when ours exploded, and those of them who were not killed out right were buried alive. Some of the exhumed bodies are terribly lacerated and mangled, while others have not a mark or bruise upom them. Two heads, one that of a negro, have been dug up. They were completely severed from the bodies, the latter not having yet been found. T he . bodies are found in almost every conceivable pos i t i on—some standing body erect, weeh eoetdhedroswseitwtianrgd,oarsly:fn t , and had in be onn ecaughtinstance i n the that theposiptiiot be nb low,yth.,e crum bli n g earth while falling headl ong into A MELANCHOLY DETAIL OF THE AMERICAN WAR.—The following advertisement, dated from the Chief appears sled in p t r h o e - a hs ztellig e Q n u e c a r r tc o n f n t :s e te l ZO in fil e c t e . ,: "" in9t ill be received at this office u n til T uesday, August o ts posTf'asihB will 18, 1863, at 12 o'clock M., for furnishing to the United States 2,500 head-boards or tabl e t s for graves of the follow ing description, viz —All to b e o f good b lack walnut, clear o f knots and splits, four (4) feet in length, ten (10) inches wide, and one and three-eighths (11) of an inch tbick, with five-eighths (3) of an inch thick, at least twenty (20) inches in length, each of said head-boards or tablets to be well oiled and lettered with the name, rank, regiment, and company, with the time of decease of such com missioned officers or soldier as the Assistant-Quartermaster of his agent may direct, and in all respects to correspond with a sample to be seen at this office." Among the condi tions specified is the following :—" Proposal from disloyal parties will not be considered, and an oath of allegiance to the United States Government must accompany, each pro-. posit ion." CREW PICKED UP AT SEA.—The ship Lotus, now at Greenock, fell in with the waterlogged barque Cambria, of Bremen, bound from Quebec to Greenock, on the 12th of August, in lat. 45, long. 41. Three days previously she had struck an iceberg and got her bows completely smashed in, but her cargo of deals kept her afloat. The crew, 12 in number, were taken on board the Lotus by Captain Fry, who treated them with the greatest kind ness until they were landed here. The wreck was set on fire, as it was lying in the track of vessels crossing the Atlantic. REMARKABLE PRint.—On Friday morning the fishermen of Cadgwith, near the Lizard, secured and brought to Falmouth a large whale, commonly known as a 6 ‘ filmier," which they captured near the first-mentioned place, floating dead. It measured 74 feet in length and 36 feet in girth, and was landed on the gridiron of the Fal mouth Docks on. the day of the opening of the Cornwall Railway, to the great amusement of the folks from the in terior of the country. WHALE HUNT IN ORKNEY.—GREAT CAPTURE. —At Holm, on Monday evening, all the boats had a grand whale hunt, when they drove ashore the whole flock of 79 or SO, and killed them in a bay at the east end of Holm. They were sold by roup on Wednesday, and fetched fair prices, bringing upwards of £2OO to the cap turere. Some 20 boats, with 80 men, were engaged in the capture, and all made a good night's work of it. The chase lasted five hours before they got the whales stranded. EFFECT OF THE LIGHTN GAT DEPTFORD.—Last evening, about half-past 6, the Catholic Church in High street, Deptford, was struck by lightning and the ernes carried away, much brickwork in the interior damaged, and several windows broken. 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