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

ONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. The return published by the Bank of England authorities for the week to Wednesday last contains several rather important alterations, including a further augmentation in the bullion and ether secu rities. The reserve of notes has also been increased Subjoined are the particulars:—, Active Circulation Decrease .. Bullion •• • • •• Increase Rest . .. £20,773,545 • . 152,7.55 .. 15,461,566 .. 116,078 .. 3,719,952 .• 8,618 ▪ 7,371,510 .. 374,108 .. 13,484,939 575,455 .. 713,560 • • 6,951 ▪ 11,091,284 alteration. Other Se cur i t i es No 19 413 656 Increase .. ' 682:397 Notes Unemployed .. 8,560,915 Increase . .. 302,185 Arrangements have been made by the committee of the Stock Exchange to close that establishment to-morrow (Saturday), for the purpose of enabling the repairs which the house is undergoing to be completed. •• II Increase .. .. .. Public Deposits • . lncrease .. • . Other Deposits.. ..• . • . Increase .. . • Seven Day an d other Bills • • .. Decrease .. .. Gover nment Securities • • . -- Duringg the past week the operations in the Forei gn and Colonial Produce markets have been moderately active. Tea, at public sale, has sold at rattler irregular prices. Sugar, coffee, rice, fruit, and spices have been in fair request, without any material variation in values. The tallow market has shown symptoms of improvement, P.Y.C., on the spot, being quoted 425., and for last 3 months' delivery 435. per cwt. Two O'CLOCK. In the English Stock Market Consols have re covered to 93:1 for money, and to 931 for the account, after a little depression experienced in the early part of the day. The transactions are still i nsufficient to create activity. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities remain at 92 g ; and Exchequer Bills are again par. to 35. prem.; India Stock is 226, the 5 per Cents. Enfaced Paper, 1071 ; and the Debentures, 10(11 ; Bank Stock for account is marked 240. In the foreign market there is a good business, and some variation has occurred in prices. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1858, are 701 1; do., 1862, 71/ 4 ; do., Consolides, have improved to 541 1; Mexican have been as high as 451 46, but are uow 45 1, bein g still higher than on the previous afternoon. Spanish Passive are steady at 36-a a ; the Internal hav e risen to 32a g ; the Certificates to 141 15; Greek are steady at 381. M ; the Coupons, at 18 ; the Confederate Loan at 26 to 24 discount ; Portu guese at 461 ; and Italian at 74. Business in the Railway Share Market has been rather quiet, and prices have not varied to any im portant extent. Great Western and Brighton have receded about 108., and North British LI, while South Western have improved 55., and Metropolitan £l. The Foreign and Colonial lines coniinne without any change of importance, Great Luxembourg being quoted 141 2; Recife and San Francisco, in t ; Calcutta and South Eastern, 1071 ; Great Indian Peninsula, 109 I ; Madras 5 per rents., 108. Bank and Miscellaneous shares generally are a shade firmer. Chartered of India, Australian, and China realise 364 s ; London and Brazilian, 51-} 4 ; Union of Australia, 56 t; and Union of London, 4• General Credit Company shares are marked 4b 8 ; Hudson's Bay Co., to 91 j ; International Financial, 141; and London Financial, 14k 11. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. liank Stock — Per Cent. Reduced Annuities ~,,Per Cent. Consols Annuities 93a / N eer 3 per Cent. Annuities 92 sNevi 31 per Cent. Annuities 4 v? 2f per Cent. Annuities... — A Per Cent. Annuities ' 4, nutties, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 — Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — 1 DittoS to (Red Sea Telegraph), Au g . 1908 — 226 lts ck Ditto 5 pei Cent loBi i Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. Ditto 5 per Cent liitto 51 per Cent D itto Debentures, ,=' per Ct., Oct., 1863 Ditto ditto April, 1864 D itto Bo Ditto dAto Aug. 1864 or 66 100 k nds X1.,000 D itto under 41,000 .. Ba nk Stock fc,r Account lensols for :account, Oct. 8 931 P. lcti a Stoc',t for Account, 5 per Cent — u —l.,,ehittequrzo Bills, £l.OOO, 21 per Cent Lat. 3 pm £5OO b ittc. Small • An, r FOREIGN per FUDS—ONE O'CLOCK. • ian Bonds, _... 5 C N ent _ Ditto 1859 13 Ditto 1839 and 1859 — Ditto' 1813 911 1 E' Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 -r, e4 c's Ayres 6 per Cent e,.-iiitto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) 38 -,.,` 11- jan 6 Per Cent. .. 87 1, - uitto 0 Cent. 'lll.ador Ne w Consolidated. 1 per Cent.. 161 Di tto, Pro v i sona l L an d W arra nt 9 ''RYptian 7 per Cent 101/ Dito, Second Issue - t reek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons — . o A.ccoinit , , , Ditto t° AJun eCcruPrint 181 s — t Le a ban b pe? Cent.(M aremmana Railway) 81 4k xican 3 per Cent . ... D itto Account 1 5 i A 65 1 tloori s h Imp erial 5 per Cent ....... 45 . New Granr.da ........ 161 17 Ditto 2 per Cent. Ditto referred 10 , Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) .rerovmn 3 per Cent. Ditto Account Ditto 41 per C en t., 1862 . . .... — Dif,to Account Por'„ u g u e s e 3 per Cent., 1853 T Jitto Account.... -- Ditto 3 per Cent., 1866, '7, '9, '6O, 62 — A , Ditto Account 49i I'Lassian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St 941 Ditto 41 per Cent 1850 — ilitto 3 per Cent., 1859 .. Ditto 5 per Cent. 1862 'Sardinian 5 per Cent — D itto Ac:.3ount — ' Panish 3 per Cent D itto Account Ditto New Deferred — Ditto Account Ditto Passive Di tto Account S panish Cert. of Coup not funded bittc Account l4l i i a . tirkish 6 per Cent. 1854 Dit to Account. 95! to 6 pe r C ent. 1858 — DDitto Account .. . Diitto, £lOO Bond; • Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 ▪ tto Account ............... ~ Ditto 6 per Cent. 1863, £l9 1.6 s 8d pd — ..Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per venezuela 3 per Cent. Cent.......... Ditto Account . Ditto 6 per C en t ., 1862 ............... Ditto Account.. . .......... :: 6 Dividends on the above cay'abl; Belgian 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f. Dutch 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil -- Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates French Rentes, 3 per Cent.. Ex. 25f — Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 franca — Ditto Account ~,,~ TWO O'CLOCK, Ditto Atsola, Mon ccou nt ey 931 t 93a i A. H ITHERTO UNKNOWN OPERA BY DONIZ ETTI Was 'l..kunid the other day, according to Naples papers, i n a ,° rgotten cabinet of a musical publisher of that city. tot is said to be entitled " Maria Stuarda," and to have been puovieilictLedrfaosr__S:.n Carlo, but to have been prohibited from the uu , Maestro de Giosa intends to bring it wortb y - 01 8 i ` h a g 0 as soon as he has found aprinta donna DEC ItE - 4 7::'''t of the queen. —44 185 1 ‘ 3l ' OU R AGRICULTURAL POPULATION. 1,576,080 years , uudet 2 ° e litit ilber of persons in England and Wales, upwards, occupied in agriculture was This h s how ' s a l 1861 the same c l ass h a d f a llen to 1,531,272. v pet cent, "4 achaal decrease of 44,790 persons, or nearly he ten years, CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. There has been an exceedingly good demand for Money to-day in the open market, where 4 per cent. is the ordinary charge paid for the best class of bills. Transactions, however, in a few instances have been recorded at 37 per cent. The large inquiry for accommodation lately experienced has doubtless bee❑ stimulated through the activity displayed during the past two months in nearly all the manufacturing districts. A further sum of £90,000 in gold was taken into the Bank of England yesterday, but 43,000 sovereigns were withdrawn for exportation to the Mauritius. The Pera arrived from the Mediterranean with £19,140. BRITISH poss B Ess: 94i o clol,B N o4,42Bf,3p S 4 .1100784 4 Closing , >lllll%. Railways Paid. Price. nosiness don. 100 atlantic &St Lawrenc, all CO (2 4 3 , I nom.,Barodadc.Cent Int t u n 168 1084 1081. tGu. 5 per Dent........ 20 Do. New. . . 20 Do. E. Shares. Ai6 Buffalo and Lahe Ilona) al( 56' & 10 Do. Preference „.. . all 71 84 100 3uflalo,Brant,&Godric.l 10, , 1 6 p. at. bds. Aug. 1, 187'4 iOu Do. do. July 1, 187, 100 —- 100 uo. do. June 1, 18; , J 300 "- st tjlelltta.,C.S.EaStll.( Lin 100 107 i 108 4 107 1 st Caperlown & Dock Scril 100 107 10 stock Mastn. Bengal gu. SP. t I t g o o l 12 p;) ic9 stock least Indian. gu. 5 p. c. 20 Do. do. G Ext..... 10 11 Ilp 20 Do. do. BE do. .. 10 11 3ip stock Grand Trunk of Canada' 100, 20 21 100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds.. an 71 13 721 100 Do. no. deterred. ... .. all 58 60 100 Do. 2d Pref. Bonus.. all 65 67 100 Do. do deferred...... all 50 62 100 Do. 3d P. ef. stock ... all 47 49 47 .100 Do. do. deferred. - all 36 38 1 00 Do. 4th Pref. stoic... all 28 28 100 Do. do. deferred...... all 23 25 stock Gt.J.ndiaPenin.gua.sp.c 100 109 110 jog i 20 Do. New gua. sp. 0... 12 1 111 134 20 Do. January, 1802 • • 8 1 i Stock Gt. South.of India(Lini, g uaranteed 5 per cent. 100 1074 1084 204 Gt. W. of Canada Share, all 101 104) 10i 204 Do. New 100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with' t opt. all 95 97 100 Do. 54 p. c. do. '77-8.. . all 1:17( 9 0:7 0 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 ii p stock Madras guar-, 8 p• 0. •• . 1 0 00 0 : stock Do. ft p. c. Extension 100 102 103 stock Dc. 4# d 0........ 100 08 100 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 -- -- 4tock Melb.Corp. , i p. a Bud, too _ 50 Meth. & Hobson's Bay. all 58 60 too Do. 7 scrs la : IdA . ua c .. rn : cac of ß: t :cp. pt bds all — a l l O l O E 32 84 5 i 074 108 i 1081 20 :sT N . e ci l t v i ia ß . stock Scinde ......... .. 1 ~ 5 Do. Delhi 2 : 0 : t D0 D 00 0 .. . rD d uo o ui. it.u.b.. :: :: t jori (101 107 _ ~ 'A t . 2 g ; — l 3 stock Do. Indus. St. Flo.) X 101 ,103 105 , 102 ----------- COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Utli.litiV. tip.c.J a & Jut) , 1877-S4 Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Au). 100 itl. 13 Do. 6p. a Mar. & Sept 100 101 1(,3 ! Do. Sp. c. Jan.&July. 100 91 13 Do. 6 Inscribed stock 100 91 03 'Cape G.Hope, Op .3,187: 100 108 110 1 Do.Ap &Oct. 1881, 100 112 114 , Do. 189; 100 tl3 115 IDo. Jan. & July, 1891.. 101 113 115 Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p ( lot, (13 115 'Mau , itius 6 per cent .. 100 107 108 ;Natal Guy. 6 per cant.. 100 110 112 -- IN.B.Gov. 6 p.a../ a.&J ul) lOU iO3 105 Do. 6p. o.Ap. & Oct. 100 N. S.W. G ov. 5 p •.,18 , a 100 1004 1014 Do. sp. e.,18‘ Ito .1.1.(i 100 1014 1021 Do. d0.,1888 &upwds 100 102 IC3 New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 111 113 Soya Scotia Gov. 6p. c. ' sterling, 1875. lO9 IC3 105 Queensland Gcv. 6p. c. 100 1.1 113 o.Aus (16p.e.1878.& up.. 100 111 113 112} Via Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&Jul) 100 108 110 'Da to sp.a AnAzOot. 100 111 1144 r 1144 4 BRITISH MINES. 2 ICambrian Consol. Gold 1 1 id Ulitlord Amalgamated 33 55 Devon G. Cone. (Tavist , 1 560 680 East Bassett (Illoganl 30 SO 62 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd 53. id par East Caradon 1.19.t4 28 29 28 East Cam Brea... ~ 3 .4. 0 71 85 E. WlRussel (Tavistli.; . 8.6.6 35 4 Gam.AzSt.AuDyn(Gwen.) tBl 14 15 145 15 Great South Tolgus l7s 44 5 G. Wheal VoraielBton, 40 84 9 Grenville Elerc.4dis- Foot 8.12 A 8 40 El ingston Downs 4. 8.0 2 25 Lady Bertha 11 argaret Lelaat 94 29 al Alarke Valley.. 4 Ityndy Iron Ore (Lim ) 2 i 15 New Setup l9l 100 110 North Downs 2i 15 2 N.W11.1 liaseet(lllo..fan 2.17.1 25 35 .north Wheal Crotty 2.4.9 4 4 5 I Par Consols(St. Blazey, 14 4 5 20 jerovidence(Uny Lelni.: 10.0.7 12 44 I SOuth Caradon(St.Cleer, I f 1410 920 13. earn Brea (Illogan) 5.15.6 144 2 Fran. allogan, 18.1•-.9 60 65 iStray Park .. ~. 28.9. 37 39 rn 5 raar .. /in Croit ........... so 194 205 20 West Basset (Illogan) l4 910 WC. radon (Liskeard 5 20 2 2 West Seton Wheal Basset (Mogan, 55 75 80 Wheal Buller (Itedruth; 5 35 45 _ Wheal Kitty ( 113 - 1 -tebnll) 2.0.6 _ WhealLud ott ....... 2.10.8 3 35 . %V heal . 51 aryAnn (lien.) 8 11 )3 _ Wheal Seton ...... ... . 585 215 225 Wheal Trelawney (Lis ) 7 16 18 Wheal Union 3.17 22 35 cnlar. iept. 15. oyal High- , Princess and Prin. 3hill, LadY ries Grey, Mr. Buff► ?id minutes the Castle d princess for break er Helena, ieut.-Gen. istle, and ale with a additional le precari ) meet the r Majesty it Was in flce Con- i at 12.4 5 oined her .thole. :eived is 'ollowing visit to r Castle , ig under ,e tidings in Blair hour at Lrrive- - e I outside t a score ne, Were to which ur ; and, for the .nd pairs a boat cond an 'chess of Etrdine. arrived. f Athole rquis of ch, and atlemen As the E tended ed, 80d, tears. ern had 1 saloon 1 which ipanied 'rincess -Prince Lined in ato the led the on the a from ossible, as ral- ) silent ) bows• felons, Grey rriage to th triages of the 1f ap ig her looked rincess igusta mond i g the Mrs. irman She with )asure ficent D and grace hand curt ed to rhich, kjesty sistEd Duke two r was her aised, for a heers toy al SHARE MARKETS--This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOu&S. -hare/ Railways. Closing Business i " 4 " Price. done. 8ir.,y01., and Str. Val. 8 8i Blythe and Tyne. Bost.,Sleaf.,andMid.Co Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall Fs } F 5 87 8 324 121 j 7i 8 Do A A gets no div Do. B ti 11 fp c.p an. has been paid to 11. Dublin & Belfast June. Dun., Perth,& Ab. Junc. I Edinburgh & Glasgow.' Glasg. and S. Western.i Great Eastern, Ord. stk! Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian st GreatNorthot Scotland Great Northern Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. an i W. of IrelanG Great Western 39 SO la 17 95 97 111 113 51 62 50 61 25} '-'4); 1241 1204 127:3 1:4 ;30 100 1( 2 661 67 Do Str Val gua. stock Lancaslwe c Y-orkshire Loudon and tilackw.a.l 13 1131 73, 745 112 113 12 13 101 1014 101 l loqi 14 14, Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & Nor'h Western Lon. & Sty.th Western Man., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do 5hare5........ Metropolitan Midland Do New 121 123 12 25/ 14 14- , 45 97 Do Binning. & Derby Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line North British Edln., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Lecds Do York Do Carlisle North London Do New 551 661 254 261 Loot ioi, 57 58 871 B,Bi 117 12) 1 2 81 82 141.4 125 127 14 16 100 102 ll,North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock Do Scot. Mid, stock Shrews, and Welchpooi Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun tallies, Wok.,an d Wok Stockton & Darlington Do Do New, Taff Vale. Do B Do C Ulster 60 52 30 32 941 041 70 72 99 101 9 .0 311 374 84 94 L 7i 8 f . 150 166 41 5i 21 Sip Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford .4c Kilkenny West Cornwall V. Hartlepool Har.&R West Midland Oxford Do Newport Do Hereford 86 88 IE9 162 26 28 14 15 39 4t 105 107 PREFERENCE SNARES. Grea t Northern, 5 per cent., red. at 5 per cent. Pm.,107i 7 Great Western, 44 per cent. pref., 1011 London, Chatham, and Dover per cent. pref., leoi West 51id1and, Oxford, Ist guaranteed stock, 134 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern, 5 per cent., pf., 1051 i t London and S.-Western 44 per cent., 1074 North British (Edin., Perth, and Dundee) 4 per cent., E3l FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam , 91 t Bahia and San Francisco (film) gus. 7 p er cent. , 21 Belgian Eastern Junction, Great Luxembourg, Da Q k lit Ottoman (Smyrna to AidnA San Paulo San Francisco (lim.) , 7 per cent., 119 'an Paulo gua. 7 per cent., 92 Ditto, new, 22a South ustrian and Lombardo Venet ian, 221 2- Turin and Savona, 3 Scottish Australian, U AA L I If t 1 si t at e rn d acl o :l .Bi e aa,o k 0 FiImOa.,EIIGN MINES. : c otsc a lt : :: JEo 2o :: n ! duo T ns -l r s an ' a T id O la C idn K RANKS. Chartered Bank. of India, Hindustan, L.hina, J pan C E i n t g y, lis l h l4 . i f : : Australia, and China, 35$ 6¢ Imperial Bank Wm.), 22 Imperial Ottoman, 191 i London and Brazilian r London Chartered Bank of ' 4 Lonaon and Colonial Australia, 2gi iiin.), (57iTChe.:rar,P:tg°11ed, (Urn.),23 4: 39. London and County, 49 i New South Wales, ~2i 2 Scinde, l'unjaub, and Delhi (Ifni.), 7 Standard of British South Africa (Lim,), _. Ditto, new, 16/ I 51 Unionnion o off v;n Australia, gian a Union n s dF f Ince (lira.), 81 Union of London, 391 3 DOCKS. East and West India, 144 London, 64t MISCELLANEOUS. Berlin Water Works, lim., 9 Crystal Palace, 381 C Um., 4} Grea I I sto a a h c m, d ; a pere c ! n Te l = Join? lt alian 1r io•ation (C an al Cavour), Intern ational Financial Society, lira., Pi r 1 a t t t o o c , r tier s c c o e u n n t t . B7oincil 2 Londo n Pinan3ial A ssoc i a ti on , i s rd. :870 iss s t:e: 90, 891 Lond on General O mn ib us Compan y k ``. "." 2: Oriental Inland Steam, lim., 34 2t Peninsula. and 0) iental Steam, 81 HEALTH OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN.-- The following Was the answer to inquiries on Wednesday —"His Grace passed a tolerable night, and there was no very great decrease of strength to-dt.y." 13.14, 25 10 st st 50 20 i 9.15.4 12.10 961 51} i i 1251 127/ 61 i 1121 13 1131 12f 102 1f 100/ 1f 1231 2i 3; 127} 55 41 101/ 93 i POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MR. LINCOLN'S BUTTERFLY ADDRESS LITERATURE. Broken on the Wheel of Manhattan's Criticism. William S., of England, never wrote grander than A. L. in what follows. Job was grand, when he showed himself in his most majestic parts, but he never was so sublime as our President, A. L.:— "The signs look better. The Father of ,Waters again goes unvexed to the sea. Thanks to the great North-West fur it. Nor yet wholly to them 300 miles up they met New England, Empire, Keystone, and Jersey, hewing their way right and left. The Sunny South, too, in more colours than one, also lent a hand. On the spot their part of the history was jotted down in black and white." Hide your head, Idyll Tennyson. " The signs look better." When, how, and where ? Gold is going up and greenbacks are coming down. Charleston cannot be taken. Soldiers cannot be had : 40,000 are required to keep New York quiet. " Tne Father of Waters goes unvezed to the sea." He might have added " for which give glorious thanks tome." It would have been potent but false. He means thet " the Mississippi river runs into the Gulf of Mexico, and steamboats come as far as New Orleans without being fired into by the rebels. He might have added, that Jeff Davis has given positive orders that not a steamboat shall be molested upon the Mississippi for six months, and it is religi ously obeyed. Tell me, that unless such orders had been given that every boat would not have been fired at fifty times upon every passage up or down ! Pdh ! Jeff needs supplies, and he will wait until 500 boats are running, loaded with mil- lions of dollars of cargo, and then he will change his orders, and nab every boat, and secure millions of property. " Thanks to the great North•West"— meaning Ohio, Illinois,.lndiana, Wisconsin, lowa, Michigan, Minnesota. " They met New England" (the short for the six New England States, viz., Vermont, Connecticut, Maine, Massacbusetts,Rhode Island, New Hampshire.) " Empire" (New York), " K:istone" (Pennsylvania), " and Jersey" (New Jersey), hewing their way" —one of his old similes of his rail-splitting days. " The Sunny South— more colours than one" (meaning the white and black troops raised in South Carolina, Louisana, Tennessee, and so forth), " jotted down in black and white on the spot" (a sportive way of saying that the whites and niggers were killed promis- cuously. " The job was a great national one, and let none be banned who bore a honourable part in it. And while those who have cleared the great river may well be proud, even that is not all." Job is good. Though a job is generally a contract one. " Let none be banned" means, " give the negroes as mush credit for it as to the white folks." " It is hard to say that anything has been more bravely and better done than at Antietam, Murfreesborough, Get tysburg, and on many fields of less note." 2 I nevor gave credit to 111‘Clellan for doing anything. How Uncle Abe got Antietam shoved iu his poetry passes my comprehension. I always thought An times a defeat, although it was claimed by both sides as a great victory, only we got Whipped the worst. The following is juicy:— " Nor must Uncle Sam's web-fest be forgotten. At all the waters' margins they have been present, not only on the deep sea, the broad bay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow muddy bayou, and wherever the ground was a little damp, they have been and made their tracks." " Uncle Sam's web-feet." This is dark. To fully comprehend it you must know that our greatest shipbuilders in the city are named Webb. They built the frigates for the Russian Government, and they have built some of the best gun boats that went up the Mississippi. If the President spoke ornithologically about Web feet, he stuck fast ; for on the deep sea our Web feet have made a ter rible fiasco. It is estimated that over 200 of our best war steamers have first and last been chased by or have sought to chase the rebel steamers Alabama and Floi ida without success, " Wherever the ground was a little damp they have been and made their tracks" is decidedly running the thing into the ground. There is no explaining that poetically or prosily, except by sup- posing the writer had wetted his subject by more lager beer or " bonbon" than is his usual custom, It would seem so by what follows : " Thanks to all. For the great Republic—for the prin. ciples by which it lives and keeps alive—for man's vast future—thanks to all." " thanks to all," reminds one of a drunken man's last efforts as he is taken cut from the public dinner table. The closing up, and " Ltt us be quite sober" is significant .-- " Still, let us not be over sanguine of a a speedy final triumph. Let us be quite sober. Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, is His own good time, will give us the rightful result." Earl Russell thinks that he is some pumpkins in letter writing, but he sinks into insignificance alongside of our chief cook. MR. CHARLES MATHEWS IN PARIS. Elder. Tim SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 18, 1863. A Guide to the Western Alps. By John Ball, M.R.1.A., F.L.5.,• &c., late President of the Alpine Club. One vol., pp. 377. Longman. " Il n'y a plus de Pyrenees," exclaimed Louis XIV. when a member of his own family was placed on the throne of Spain. " The Pyrenees are no more." In a kindred spirit it may be said that the enterprise and determination of modern travellers, more particularly among the number the late Albert Smith, have abolished, not the Alps, but the difficul ties and obstacles wLich to a certain extent rendered them heretofore inaccessible. The Autumn tour among the Alps has become now-a-days almost as much a matter-of-course as a gallop in Rotten Row during the season. Even Montlßlanc has lost his terrors. The daring motto of the Alpine traveller is " Ex celsior." No difficulties daunt him—" If it is pos sible, it is done; if it is impossible, we will do it !" So general and so earnest has become the passion for " mountaineering" among our adventurous coun trymen that a number of gentlemen have enrolled themselves as members of the Alpine Club. Their avowed object is "to explore those districts of the Alps which are little known, to scale the higher summits, and to discover passes that should connect valleys that are separated by lofty ranges." The late President of the Alpine Club, Mr. Ball, one eminently well qualified for the task, has just brought out a guide book for the Western Alps which will henceforth rank as the Alpine Guide for that locality. About the size of Bradshaw, but with this difference that where Brad shaw too often tends to bewilder, Mr. Ball serves to enlighten, this little volume is pro fusely illustrated with most excellent and elaborate maps, drawn expressly for the work, with the various routes laid down, and the various stations marked out. These maps should have been backed with linen, for they are designed for frequent use and consultation, and we doubt not will be turned over again and again during many an Alpine ram_ ble. The volume is divided into two parts. The Alpine Guide (the second part) contains full and elaborate descriptions of a variety of different routes, all numbered or marled with different letters of the alphabet, corresponding with the routes drawn out in the maps. From these descriptions the traveller learns all necessary particulars not only con cerning the various places to be visited, but respecting the manner of travelling and the time likely to be required in the transit from one spot to another. Every item of necessary in formation as regards the route, the scenery, the guides, or the resting-places will be here found duly chronicled with praiseworthy fidelity. The first part of the book consists of some very interest ing introductory descriptions, from which we ex tract the following remarks on THE DANGERS OF ALPINE TRAVELLING. " The dangers of Alpine expeditions may be divided into two classes—the real and the imaginary. Where a ridge or slope of rock or ice is such that it could be traversed without difficulty if it lay but a few feet above the level of a garden, the substitution on either side of a precipice some thousands of feet in depth, or of a glacier crevasse, makes no real difference in the work to be done, though it may have a formidable effect on the traveller's imagina tion. Those who cannot remove this source of danger by accustoming themselves to look unmoved down verti cal precipices, and, in cases of real difficulty, to fix their attention exclusively en the ledge or jutting crag to which they must cling with foot or hand, should avoid expeditions whore a moment's nervousness may endanger their own lives or those of others. " The real dangers of the high Alps may, under ordinary circumstances, be reduced to three. First, the yielding of the snow bridges that cover glacier crevasses ; second, the risk of slipping upon steep slopes of hard ice ; third, the fall of ice or rocks from above. " From the first and most frequent source of danger ab solute security is obtained by a precaution generally known, but often neglected. In the higher region of the glaciers, crevasses, even of considerable width, are often completely bridged over by a covering of snow or neve, so that no in dication of their existence is seen on the surface of the glacier. The bridges, especially when formed of fresh snow, often yield under the weight of a man's footsteps; in such a case an active man whose attention is on the alert may sometimes extricate himself at once, but it more commonly happens that he falls into the chasm beneath, in which case his chance of life is faint indeed. But if several travellers are tied together with a stout rope, as it is in the highest degree improbable that a majority of them should fall at the same moment into the same crevasse, no appreciable danger from this cause need be incurred. Even two travellers tied together may with a proper attention avoid this risk, but greater seem ity is obtained when there are three or more in number. It is mainly because he cannot be protected from this danger that a man who goes alone over the higher regions of the great glaciers incurs a risk that must be called unjustifiable. " As it is hard to persuade a landsman that a weil••found yacht has more danger to fear in a fog, with a smooth sea around, than when a stiff breeze is blowing, so few moun taineers are willing to admit that there is more real chance of accident in traversing some wide expanse of neve, un broken by a single ruffle, than in crossing a broken glacier with wide crevasses opening on every side. A very mode rate amount of practice enables a man to make sure of his footing and to avid seen dangers, but unseen perils call forth no caution, and though the rope offers complete se curity, few travellers yet understand that it should form a part of their regular equipment. At the risk of being thought overcautious, the writer will not cease to urge upon his fellow-travellers in the Alps the enactment, as a fixed rule in mountaineering, that on reaching the limit of the neve the members of a party should all be roped together. He is perfectly aware that there are many places where the risk is very slight ; a practised mountaineer might cross the Theodule Pass 500 times without accident, but the 501st time he might be lost in a crevasse, as has happened twice on or near the pass since the writer first knew it. With a sufficient inducement, and if it were impossible to find a companion, he would not hesitate to cross that or some other high pass alone, but if he were in company he would insist on the use of the rope. " It would seem scarcely necessary to add that the rope should be sound and strong, if it did not often happen that untrustworthy articles are taken by guides ; and it is not lees important to note that it should be fastened round the body of each member of the party, guides included, leav • ing both hands free to use the alpenstock in case of a slip. A neglect of this obvious rule led, in 1860, to the loss of three English travellers, and one of their guides, in the descent from the Col du Geant to Courmayeur." A very interesting account of the geology of the Alps has been translated by Mr. Ball for the benefit of his readers from an article by M. Desor, the celebrated Swiss geologist. In short, Mr. Ball has omitted nothing likely to enhance the value and attractiveness of his Guide. He modestly tells us that he has himself no claim to " a brilliant share in the adventurous performances of his friends and fellow-members of the Alpine Club." His qualifications for the task he has undertaken are, however, by no means insignificant. He can vary justly boast of prolonged and extensive acquaintance with the regions which he has under taken to describe, having crossed the main chain of the Alps no less than forty-eight times by thirty two different passes, besides traversing nearly one hundred of the lateral passes. The advice given in this volume consequently comes from one duly qualified by personal experience to instruct the novice and to advise the less experienced traveller. Messrs. Longmans have conferred a benefit upon all lovers of Alpine scenes, whose name now is legion, by placing within their reach this very excellent and admirable Guide-book. A Mining Journey Across the Great Andes. By Major F. 'guano Ricard. Pp. 314. Smith and Major Ricard having been appointed by the Argentine Republic Inspector-General of Mines, has given us an interesting record of his wan derings— " Where Andes, giant of the western star, Looks from his throne of clouds o'er half the world." Much information may be acquired from a perusal of this little volume, which is written by one well qualified for the task. In dencribing the Republic ot La Plata, Major Ricard strongly recommends it as a fit place for immigration : "The very name of the Republic is in itself indicative of its mineral wealth. La Plata, or the silver country, the name given by the early Spaniards on its discovery, no doubt emanated from the fact of their having found large quantities of silver there. Its extent is enormous, reaching as it does, from the river Plate in the 34° of south lat. to Cape Horn in the 55°, and stretching across almost the entire continent to the Great Andes, which form a semi impenetrable barrier on the Chilian frontier ; then away to the north it joins Bolivia in about the 22°, and on the east the territory of Brazil ; presenting on the whole such a diversity ot climate as is not equalled by any other country in the world. It is larger than all Europe ; yet epidemic or sickness is almost unknown : but alas I there is that great want of population ; which in such an extensive terri tory is severely felt. Thousands of square miles of the richest and most productive soil remains in its primitive st , and comparatively valueless, thcugh watered by some MARLBOROUGH-STREET. ANNOYING A TRADESMAN.—Martha Ann Rose, a shabbily-dressed woman, and John Berry, a rough-looking fellow, were charged before Mr. Knox with disorderly con duct, and annoying Mr. W. Rose, naval and military tailor, of 2, Norris-street, Haymarket, the husband of the first named defendant. Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, ap peared for the complainant, and from the learned gentle man's statement, borne out by his client, it appeared that the complainant was married to bis wife when he was an apprentice boy. After being married about two years the complainant found that his wife consorted with other men. He then left her, and had been separated from her about 30 years, but about six years ago she was taken into custody for annoying her husband, and bound over at the Clerken well Po:ice-court to keep the peace towards him. Yester day, accorupahied by the man Berry, she went to the corn a's o h r o o n w s d e. r s o N n v n o d re t s h h e e d w oo o r u o ld f t n e e a a r t hi l; s l ‘ o ‘ 0 out,"and n g a o n t t persons. The man also swore that he would have " the - house down" if Mr. Rose did not let his wife have some money. The wife said she wanted to ask the magistrate whether her husband could not be compelled to keep her ? Mr. Knox said that if a husband deserted his wife the proper way was to make herself chargeable to the parish / and then an investigation would take place ; but if the hus band was able to show that his wife had been living in adultery, the parish would have no hold, and the wife no claim on her husband, and that was what he (Mr. Knox) believed would turn out to be the case. As the wife had been quiet for six years, he would take her own recognisance; but if she annoyed her husband again, she would be put under heavy bail. He should fine the man 20s. The wife said her husband had been living with a female, and had been guilty of adultery. Mr. Lewis said that, in fairness to Mr. Rose, he wished to state that there was no truth in the wife's statement. THAMES. AN UNNATURAL Flo:MT.—Mary Donnelly, alias Cathe rine Bryan, with many other aliases, the terror of publicans and policemen, who has been in custody a great many times, was brought before Mr. Partridge, charged with being drunk, disorderly, and breaking two panes of glass in the window of the Crown and Seven Stars public-house in Rosemary. lane, Whiteohapel. Rosemary -lane was renamed Royal Mint-street from its contiguity to the Mint a few years ago, but the character of its inhabitants has not improved, dissipation and ruffianism reign triumphant there. The prisoner is the leader of a desperate gang of disorderly women who are almost con tinually drunk and fighting, and creating all manner of disturbances. The prisoner went into the Crown and Seven Stars public-house last night and demanded liquor. Mr. John Mann refused to serve her with anything. She abused him, and made a great disturbance. A man inter fered, and she fought with him. He gave her a good thrashing. Such were the words uttered by the landlord. Iu revenge for this prisoner made an attempt to break the window. The landlord interfered, and the prisoner struck him several times. He got her away and turned her out of the house. She then picked up two stones and hurled them at his windows, Two panes of glass were broken. Mr. Partridge said it was highly reprehensible for the landlord of a public-house to suffer any fighting in his house, but it was still more disgraceful to allow such an unnatural thing as a man and a woman to fight. The complainant said he could not prevent it. The pri soner was the greatest nuisance that ever existed. Mr. Partridge—You should refuse to serve her with any thing except water, The complainant—l do, sir, She has not spent a six pence in my house for 12 months. She comes into my house and creates a disturbance, fights with every one, throws pots at me, and keeps the neighbourhood in a state of tumult. The prisoner, whose face was contused, and one eye blackened, presented a repulsive appearance, and Fielding's celebrated description of Blear-eyed Moll in his novel of "Amelia," would answer well for the description of the pri soner. She complained of being knocked about, and said the publican beat her, and was always " paying her out." Mr. Mann declared he never touched the woman, and that she was a perfect curse to him. Mr. Partridge had no doubt the prisoner was a very dis orderly, violent, and drunken woman, but he could not too strongly deprecate the fight between her and a man in a public-house. He fined her Is., and ss. the value of the glass broken. The prisoner doubled her fist, scowled at the com plainant, and exclaimed, " I'll knock the publican's b—y eye out when I come out of prison." Mr. Partridge--You shall be locked up for five minutes, and if you do not withdraw that threat and express sorrow for saying so, I will make you find bail. The prisoner was again arraigned in five minutes. She said she was very sorry, and did not intend to hurt the publican. Mr. Partridge—You had better not. MARKETS--This Day. MARK-LANE. The supply of English wheat received fresh up to Mark lane to-day was very moderate. The demand, however. ruled inactive at Monday's decline of is. per qr. The show of foreign wheat on the stands was large. For all descrip tions the trade was in a sluggish state, yet no quotable change took place in the rates current at the commence ment of the week. Floating cargoes of grain were in slow request at late rates. The supply of barlq was very mode rate. Malting qualities realised fully previous quotations. Grinding and distillery sorts were steady. A fair average business was transacted in malt at late rates. The supply of oats on sale was very large. The trade for all qualities ruled heavy, and prices were barely supported. Beane and peas were in steady request, and prices ruled firm. No change took place either in the value of English or foreign flour; but the amount of business transacted was very moderate. ARRIVALS THIS 'WEEK. W hea t. IsarleY. Malt Oats. Flout. English.— 850 1 420 I 1,690 I 1 810 Irish — I 700 • N'oreign 1 0 ,38 0 4,840 I 56,580 20 sks. 22u brls. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The supply of meat on sale is moderate; on the whole, the demand rules steady at full quotations. Per Sib. by the carcase. sd s d Inferior beef .. 2 8 3 0 Middling do. .. 3 2 3 6 Frime large do. 3 8 3 10 Do. small do. .. 4 0 4 2 Large pork .... 3 6 4 0 Inferior mutton. 3 4 3 8 odsd Middlingmutton 3 10 4 2 Prime do . 4 4 4 6 Veal Small pork ~ Lamb BOROUGH HOP. New English hops are in steady request, and fine samples command rather more money. For yearling and old hops the demand is by no means active, yet prices are sup ported. New Mid and East Kents • . 90s to 120 s per cwt. Weald of Kents Sussex . Bss to 1108 COLONIAL. TEA.—The public sales have proceeded with rather less animation, and prices have gone rather irregularly. bUGAlt.—There has been a moderate inquiry for West India, which has c on ti n u e d at fully pr ev i ous prices. Other descriptions were inactive. In the refined market there has been more animation, and good titlers have been dealt in at 44s 6d to 45s per cwt. COFFEE.—Ftz colonial descriptions there has been a fair inquiry, and full rates have been realised at public sale for both plantation and native Ceylon. RICE —A moderate amount of business has been entered into, bur prices have not varied to any important extent. A.LLOW.—There has been a more active demand, and prices have slightly improved. P. Y.C. on the spot is quoted 425, and last three months 43s per cwt. Full benefit of reduced duty obtained by pur °basins', Horniman's pure Tea; very choice at 3s. 4cl. and 4s. " High Standard "at 4s. 4d. (formerly 45. Bd.), is the strongest and most delicious imported. Agents in every town supply it in packets. A DUEL BETWEEN LADIES.—On Monday several ladies, while on a visit to a friend's house, a short distance from Gray's Ferry, were amusing themselves by Singing and dancing, when one of them, a resident of Bal timore, sang a verse of " The Bonny Blue Hag;'' one of the other ladies jestingly said, " You're a rebel," at which another commenced the " Southern Ilarseillaise;" when it was finished, the lady who had been called a rebel said, " I wish we had pistols, I'd fight a duel with you for call ing me a rebel." At this a daughter of the gentleman at whose house they were, said, " We have pistols in the house, but they are not loaded." They were brought, and in order to give it the form of a duel, distances were mea sured in the room, the ladies took their places, word was given —one, two, three, when the lady who had called the other " rebel," said, " I will sit in this chair, as I wish to die easy." Word was aga i n given, and the Baltimore lady, who had a self-cocking pistol, pulled the trigger, and bang went the pistol —a piercing scream was heard, and in an instant the room was filled with the members of the family, when it was discovered that two of the ladies had swooned : the Baltimore lady was ntanding motionless, and the one who wished to " die easy," sitting pale with terror in her chair; one ball had passed through her dress on the left side, grazing the skin, while in the leaf of a table on which she rested her arm were eight distinct shot holes, and one bullet imbedded in the wood. The pistol had been loaded by a boy en the 4th of July, but the charge bad not been fired. The ladies were soon restored to consciousness, and commenced to r ealise the danger of meddling with firearms--a warning, it, is needless to say, they will not disregard for the future: —Arco York Tribune: of Coninzerce. AN ARAB BEATEN BY AN • ENGLISH RACE itoRsE!—A. race has taken place a t Cairo, between a fine Arab, from the stud of Ali Pach• 1, and the English horse Companion, the property of He Jena Paella, the distance being four miles. The English I ,2nrra won in a canter by more than half-a• TO THE EDITOR OP THE SUN. Sru,--I have only just seen your paper of Saturday, con ' taining a notice of my first appearance at the Theatre des VariettSs. Allow me, in the first place, to thank you heartily for all the kind and flattering things you say, and say so pleasantly, of me, and next to correct the impres sion you are evidently under that I was not only treated with injustice on the first night by the Parisian public, but that there was actually an organised opposition to my performance. Now, let me beg of you at once to dis•- miss this idea from. your mind. There was neither cabal nor organised opposition of any kind, and the fault, such as it was, was entirely my own, and not that of the audience. I believe they came with every intention to be pleased, as it met with a most cordial recep tion, and two-thirds of the piece went with shouts of laugh ter and every sign of good humour ; but the latter portion was not to their taste—it dragged, and I soon discovered that they were getting bored. But it was not any one " natured fellow in the pit." The necessity for explanation at the end of every piece, according to our English ideas of dramatic propriety—the seeing everybody married and set tled, and all the obscure points of the plot mathe matically cleared up before dropping the curtain— is . not only not required by the French public, but is deemed tiresome ; they like to drop the cur tain when the fun is over, and guess the rest ; and certain signs, which had nothing to do with me, but with the piece only, showed me that they had had enough, and were getting out of patience at the long winding-up. I repeat, the fault was mine, and not theirs; and had one of their own favourite actors played the part I believe he would have been treated in the same way. " 111-will "I am sure there was none; for when, in the midst of their discontent, I said suddenly to the old man of the piece, " Come, come, for goodness sake make haste- and marry the young people ; can't you see that the public is getting impatient ?" the apropos speech was received with the greatest good humour, and was followed by a tremendous salvo of applause. On the vacond night, after wholesale cutting, which the manager had advised previous to the first performance, but to which I objected, having played the piece " Cool as a Cucumber" so often successfully in London--an obstinacy for which I paid the penalty—it went off from beginning to end with what actors call "one roar," and I am play ing it nightly to "overflowing and enthusiastic audiences." There is a procession every morning to the box office, and, in short, I may venture to say that I am---poetically speak ing the—" talk of Paris." I hope you will make the amende honorable to the Pari sian public by publishing these facts. I have every rea son to be delighted with the perfect success of my expe riment. I have received nothing but compliments and kindnesses from actors, authors, managers, public, every body ; and the criticisms in the newspapers are all so flat tering and cordial that I cannot resist sending you them as vouchers for the truth of my statement. lam receiving an excellent salary, and as my engagement at the Haymarket prevents my remaining here beyond the end of the month, I am invited to return after Christmas, when a comedy will be written by a French author expressly for me.— Again thanking you for your exceedingly kind notice, I am, sir, yours, &c., C. J. MATHEWS. Paris, Sept. IG. OUR FUSTIAN CUTTERS.—The vicious custom of o play-days" at the beginning of the week, exposes these children to be shockingly overworked at the end — being sometimes unrelieved for thirty hours at a time. Four., teen hours, including meals, is a fearful daily task for young girls and boys ; and in this business the work occasions deformity and lameness, whether the hours are in excess or not. It is probably the greatest event in the lives of the seventeen thousand young workers in these trades, that the discovery has been made in their ti me o f t h e f i tness o f combining education of the mind with the labour of the hands, and of the completeness of each when the two are combined. As much learning can be gained in three hours as in six, and as much pay may be, or soon will be, earned on the whole by those who go to school as when they never left their work. "Half 'time and education is a grand thing I " as the workman said ; and any of us who can in any way aid in getting Parliament to extend the benefits of the Factory Act to these hard-worked children, will surely try their utmost, after seeing what their case is, and what it might be. An effort in any degree proportionate to the value of the object is sure of success.— !, 7? ce ct TPek. of the finest rivers in the world. But the day, I trust, is not far di s t an t when the tide of emigration, so long mis directed to the United States, must turn in this direction ; where a warm sympathy for foreigners already exists, and a hearty welcome awaits them I" The picture is certainly tempting enough, and we commend it to the attention of intending emi grants. A Cotortry Visit, and its Consequences. By Charlotte Hardcastle. Three vols. Newby. This is a very pleasant, gracefully written story. It does not pretend to any very high merits as a work of art. Its chief attraction, indeed, is in its want of pretension. It is a simple story, simply told, and, as such, is very refreshing after the spasmodic attempts at" sensation" in which (in a rash emuls.- lation of their betters) so many of our inferior novelists now indulge. The heroine of this story is a very charming and loveable girl, who is weary with the hollow fashionable carcer to which she is destined by her worldly and vulgar mamma, and from which she escapes by the happy accident of this well-timed " country visit." The ridiculous manner in which the disappointed would-be "fashionable" lady accommodates herself to her altered circumstances is most amusingly described. Some other tales by the authoress of a " Country Visit" are contained in the volumes, some of which possess considerable interest. Guide to the Unprotected in matters relating to Property and income. By a Banker's Daughter. Pp. 119. Macmillan. This is a most useful and excellent little volume for those inexperienced in matters of business. The authoress, the daughter of a banker, being from her position necessarily familiar with various mat ters of form, has been, she tells us, frequently consulted by ladies, who, having property to dis pose of and to manage, have been totally ignorant how to proceed in such arrangements. For the benefit of these and such like " Unprotected Females" she has considerately prepared this little volume of useful information and practical advice. Among other things to be found here are full directions for all tanking transactions, writing cheques, &c., for the disposal of stock, &c. The laws respecting house property are defined. Tech nical terms of various kinds are fully explained, and the path of the novice made smooth before her. A Lady's Visit to Manilla and Japan. By Anna D'A. Pp. 296. Hurst and Blackett. The account of a lady's experiences of these un familiar climes may naturally be regarded with interest. The fair authoress nas narrated her ad ventures and given her descriptions cf the strange scenes among which she found herself, in a very attractive manner. The book is adorned with a very characteristic coloured sketch of Nagasaki. Three TVecls in Majorca. By William Dodd, A.M. Pp. 169. Chapman and Hall. This is one of those modest little books which have small pretension in their title or appearance, but which, on a closer examination, commend themselves to the reader's attention. We have bee❑ much interested in Mr. Dodd's description of Majorca, tnd the other islands of the Mediterranean Sea. His manner is lively and pleasant, and his remarks on the various localities which he describes often display great good sense and good feeling. Behind the reit ; and other Poems. By the Hon. Roden Noel. One vol., pp. 161. Macmillan. As is generally the case in such collections, the smaller poems in this volume are greatly superior to the more ambi!ious and elaborate introduction, the very subject of which is alarming in its im mensity. It is dedicated "to Ecila" (evidently Alice),end the author tells us that it has cost him— " Long anxious care, at times thought agonised ;" and we fear that many of his readers will endure similar sufferings before the whole drift of the poem is clear to their comprehension. Among the smaller pieces one of the happiest is upon an old man revisiting the scenes of his youth. The senti ments which animate Mr. Roden are fu 1 of charity and reverence. His heart is evidently in " the right place," but it is a pity that his imagination should bewilder itself with the subtleties of meta physics. Hand book to the Calculator and Letter Box. By J. S. Laurie. 12m0., pp. 16. Longman. Upwards of three-and-twenty years ago, while visiting one of the three recently established National Schools in Ireland, we remember witness ing for the first time the employment of the Abacus or Ball-Frame, as a means of inducting (with the utmost ease) a number of very young children into the elementary mysteries of Arithmetic. The Little Handbook here supplied to the calculator (and Letter Box) by the Editor of the Graduated Series of Reading Books, already noticed in The Sun in terms of well merited commendation, will tend directly to impress the mind of every English Teacher with a conviction of the many advantages comprised within that very admirable system of tuition—the impart ing of knowledge by the actual sight and touch of visible and tangible objects. A cedar box, with a sliding lid—the lid partitioned into exactly a dozen divisions—the box containing five-and-twenty cound counters, as well as eight-and-seventy pieces of wood : behold the very simple ap paratus for the calculator ! The twelve divi sions on the lid being available for imparting a knowledge of notation and of fractions. The five-and-twenty counters, for teaching counting and notation. The seventy-eight pieces of wood, for giving accurate information in the matter of frac- , tions. Supplied w ith this very simple and very compact apparatus, the child and the teacher have, in the form of that little cedar box and its contents, calculator and the letter box in one. The duplication) in this way, is here very readily effected by the seventy-eight pieces of wood already mentioned be ing marked on one side with fractions, from a whole to one-twelfth, and so on—and upon the other side marked, as distinctly, for reading. The very lid of the box having f as t e ned down upon th e b ac k o f i t a printed sheet, containing the alphabet in clear, bold type; that type representing both letterpress and handwriting. This wonderful little magic box may certainly be defined as somewhat better t h an poor fabled Pandora's—seeing that no ills whatever come from this one, and that yet good hopes and prospects are neverthelessstored up there, too, perpetually_ goo d hopes and prospects that the child-student, out of these little counters and pautitions within it, may win his way in good time u p, up to geometry an d ma . through ar ith met i c u p, thematics. The little box here referred to, and its contents may be scanned any day by those who list at the South Kensington Museum ; or it may be seen, as a footnote tells us at page 3, at the great publishing house at the Row whence issues this ingenious Handbook, as a sort of pocket-key to that same small literary and arithmetical Cabinet, at once Letter-box and Calculator. A SAGACIOUS GAMEKEEPER'S DUG,—Yesterday, at the 'Wakefield Court-house, Joseph Bullock and James Armitage were charged with night poaching on land at Rothwell, in the occupation of Mr. Richard Sykes, and belonging to Mr. Calverley. It seemed that at halt-past one o'clock in the morning Isaac Jellings, a watcher in the em ploy of Mr. Calverley, and other assistants, were out. In a field occupied by Mr. Sykes they saw four men, who had nets spread, and, with the assistance of a dog, were ranging after game. They went to them, and a struggle commenced. One man, named James Ellis, was apprehended, and left in the custody of James Booth, while the fight was continued to secure the rest. The result of the struggle, however, was that the men escaped, and Jellings placed a dog he had with him upon the track of the two prisoners, and he fol lowed after, He came up to his dog while it was standing on the brink of a pond, and said to it, " Where is he F" The dog immediately sprang into the water, but he could not think that any one was there, and took no steps. The dog came out of the pond, and he repeated the question, where. upon it ran along a hedge side until it came to a place where Bulleck was concealed, who was apprehended and secured. Jellings and his dog then returned to the side of the pond, anC. Jellings repeated the question, " Where is he," The dog again jumped into the water, and this time he followed it, and in going through the water he trod upon Armitage, who was up to the neck in the pond, his head being con cealed under a tree root. He seized him and pulled him out of the water, and he also was secured. Bullock, a known poacher, was sent to prison for two months, and Armitage was committed for six months to prison, each of them to hind surety to keep the peace for 12 months after his release from gaol. SECOND tfiis7.)T; SUN OFFICE, HALF -PAST O'C LOCK. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. ---This Day, DONCASTER RACES—Tms DAY. (AY ELECTRIC TELEGRATII,) Maecaroni (Challoner) Queen Bertha (Covey) 2 Blue Mant1e............ The following also ran •—Golden Pledge (F. F:•ench), Drummer Boy (Perry), Rapid Rhone (Doyle). Won by a length and a half; a very bad third. DONCASTER STAKES. Lord Clifden ........ Borealis .... 1 Five ran. DON STAKES. Toni Fool .......................................... 1 Jarnicoton ...................................... ALATCH. Brown Bess ..................... . 1 Belochee ...................................... ............. 2 TOWN PLATE. Hubert Newmarket .... Twenty ran. DONCASTER CUP. Macaroni .......................................... Queen Bertha .. 2 Eix ran. It will be seen from the above that my anticipti., tions of Monday have turned out exactly as Istatee, namely, that Lord Clifden would win the St. Leger and Maccaroni the Cup, adding more laurels to those already won by A F: .ESIIMAN. THE PRUSSIAN PRESS. (RETJTER'S TELEGRAMS.) BERLIN, Sept. 18. The cas e, o f the editors of the 7 Berlin papers was brought on to-day. The accusation was for having excited contempt and hatred against the orders of the authorities by publishing a declaration hostile to the press ordinances. The editors were defended by Herrs Gneist, Holthoff, and Ulfers, and were al! acquitted. Curious Action for Damages at Sunderland. On Wednesday, at the Sunderland County Court a case was heard in which Robert Taylor claimed £5O as compensation for injuries ha had received at the hands of a companion named John Atkinson. The men are both sawyers, working at Southwick, and residing in the adjoining village of Hylton. On the morning of Monday, the 29th of June last, they left their work about ten o'clock, and went into the public-house kept by Edward Brown. They had a good deal of beer, and sat conversing about feats of strength until Atkinson said he would bet a quart there was not a man in the house who could lift him. 'Taylor said he thought he could, but did not accept the bet, and while they were at the door be tween twelve and one, Atkinson said, "C an you lift me now 9. 7 ' and upon that Taylor undertook to carry him into the house. In his evidence the plaintiff said—" I put my back against him, in a stooping Position, to lift him by the thighs, but he said, That's not the way, I'll show you.' He th en shoved his arms through under mine, and fetched them on the back side of my head. Then he pressed my head down into my breast, and I felt something give way in my neck.' I fell down at his feet, and said, You have done me.' He said, ' Can you carry me now ?' I said, 'No, you've done me.' He said, Come, get up, it's only the drink, and you'll soon be better.' But I could not stir, and George Young carried me into the honse. Dr. Horan has since attended me. I am now very weak in the small of my back, and have very little use of my hands, being unable to lift anything. We were both under the influence of liquor."—Margaret Barwick, plain tiff's sister, deposed to conversing with the defen dant about the affair. He offered to show her how it was done, but she declined,thinking that for one of the family to be lame was quite enough. She asked him why he replied " That's my catch." He afterwards said he had been done in a similar way himself once before by a man at the Three Horse Shoes Inn, and he was not clever for eight or nine weeks after.—Dr. Horan deposed that the spinal marrow was injured, and said he found plaintiff co mpletely paralysed, and without power to move or assist himself in bed. There was great tender derness about the region of the neck, and in his opinion it would be a long time before Taylor re covered the use of his limbs. He might recover somewhat, but would never be the man he was be fore the occurrence. He did not think he would be able to work as a sawyer again. There was no sub stential defence to the action, and his Honour found for the plaintiff, with £25 damages and costs. He remarked that though the men had agreed to a trial of strength in lifting, defendant had used unfair means. He would have given judgment in the whole sum of £5O, but the defendant, being only a working man, and having a fdraily to maintain, would not be able to pay more than £2s.—.Netc castle Chronicle. A Melancholy Narrative. The schooner Robert Drape, Captain Montgomerie, which has arrived in the West India docks, took eight pas sengers on beard at Algiers, for a passage to England. They were a Mr. Hobbs, a native of Bath, a chairmaker, his wife, and a family of six—the eldest eighteen years of age. They left their native place some months previously, for a town in Algiers ; but, failing in their expectations, they wished to return to England, and applied to the British Consul, who introduced them to Captain Mont gomerie. The captain states that, from a feeling of com passion for them, he undertook to give the whole family a passage to England fur £l4 ; but ho represents that he. expended £l7 in purchasing additional stores at Algiers There were two spare bunks in the cabin, divided from that part used by the captain and mate, for the accommo dation of the wife and daughters, and two spare bunks on. the forecastle were allotted to the father and sons. The schooner put to sea on Aug, 5, and owing to the warm weather it is stated that the family wished to be berthed in the long boat, which stood on deck. Their desire seemed to have been complied with. They made up their bed at the bottom of the boat, and a kind of awning was erected in order to afford some shelter. A dsy or so after the voyage commenced the family suffered much from sea sickness, and the weather setting in bad added greatly to their suffering. A heavy gale of several days' duration was experienced off Cape Ste St. Vincent. The condition of the family became worse,. they were gradually getting more exhausted front violent and continued sea sickness, and several of them were seized with ague. The captain states that he had fresh provisions up to and when the vessel was off Cape St. Vincent ; but neither the parents nor the children could be induced to take any solid food ; they preferred tea, He also states that they were often asked to leave the boat and to go to the bunks in the cabin and forecastle, but they refused. At eight p.m. on the 25th of August, George Hobbs, the eldest son, 18 years of age, died in the boat from exhaustion consequent on sea sickness, and on the following day the body was buried. Two days afterwards, on the evening of the 27th another of the children, Emily, aged five years, expired in the boat ; and at midnight of the same day the third child, Richard Hobbs, nine years of age, breathed his last, and in the morning the two bodies were committed to the deep. The father and mother and remaining three children still kept in the boat, and the captain states that all his remonstrances failed in inducing them to leave it. He prepared what nourishment he could for them, but he had much difficulty in getting them to take anything. They still preferred tea. Rough weather was met with in coming up Channel, and on the night of the 3d instant, when the vessel was between Dungeness and Dover, Elizabeth Hobbs, the eldest daughter, aged six teen, was released from her sufferings. On the schooner arriving in the Downs, the Violet lugger, of Deal, was hailed, and the captain of the schooner desired the parents, the two surviving children, and the corpse of the young girl to be taken on shore. Tho lugger's crew state that hey found the survivors in a most dreadful state of exhaus tion' and it is very doubtful whether they could haee lived if they had gone on with the vessel to London. The lugger took the poor creatures ashore at Deal, as also the body of the girl. The survivors received that medical aid anti atten tion which their lamentable state required, and are grate dually recovering. SHIPPING —This Day. BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPII, GRAVESEND, Fl iday Morning. Arrived, Sept. 17—Ornen, from Aalborg; lquth rind, from Gottnburg, it for is the upon t the sbad, few 7etto In a l, at .otel and. , cted harm will field. ter— ;tre all, The out- ay le A