The Sun. — London, England, 1864-10-31 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET' 511Ai/E AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. There is no difficulty in getting first-class three months' bills discounted at 8i per cent., and a pro portionate concession is:made in favour of securities having a shorter period to run. These facilities have naturally led to a marked diminution in the inquiries for accommodation at the discount-office of the Bank, 9 per cent. being still in force there as the minimum rate. The general market con tinues tolerably active. There were no bullion operations of importance at the Bank on Saturday. In the manufacturing districts during the past week there has been a more cheerful tone. Prices of both cloths and yarns have slightly advanced at Manchester, while a steady business has been rep• ported in the woollen trade of Leeds, Bradford, and Huddersfield. The hosiery trade at Leicester has continued active," while in Birmingham, Sheffield, and Wolverhampton there has been little change of importance. The following official notifications have been posted in the Stock Exchange : VENEZUELAN DEBT LOAN, 1862. Messrs Baring Brothers and Co.'s agents in Venezuela, under date Bth Oct., advise that they have collected for 65 per cent of the import duties for one week only fr9m the Custom house of Puerta Cabello, 1,910.49 (191; and from that of La Guayra, 10,694.79 dole; tog9ther 12,505.28 dols. Messrs Baring Brothers also regret to state that their agents on applying at the Custom-house for the 65 per cent import duties for the following week were informed that a revolution having broken out in Guayana, the Government have resolved to suspend the 55 per cent. for a short period to enable them to raise sufficient means to speedily oheck the outbreak. The amount retained at the La Guayra Custom house is stated to be about 30,000 dole. VENEZUELA. LOAN, 1864. The General Credit Finance and Company of London (Limited) are in receipt of advice by this mail from their agents in La Guayra, dated the Bth instant, of the following duties connected on account of this loan, viz, : From Pucrta Cabello Amount previously advised 83,957.83 „ Total amount collected 91,024.65 ~ DEBT OF FQUIDOR. The mail from Guayaquil has brought a remittance of £396 9s 7d on acccunt of the dividends on the Debt of Equador. ---C Two o,CLocit. There has been an advance of 4 per cent. in the Consol market, the latest prices being 89/ for transfer, and 891 a for the account. Bakiness has been very dull, but purchases have preponderated, and hence the improvement. More confidence is expressed with regard to monetary prospects, and there are no fresh failures to create uneasiness. The New I hrees and Reduced are 87 1 ,- I; India 6 per Cents,, 1051 t. The Foreign Market presents a rather steady appearance, and there is very little business. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 71/ 72; do. Conso lides, 60k t ; Mexican, 261 27 ; do. New, 25/ ; Greek, 22 4 ; Spanish Pessive, 311 I ; do. Certifi cates, 14 1 ; Portuguese, 46} ; Russian, 81 88 ; and the Confederate Loan, 60 62. In the Railway Share Market the dealings have been to an average extent. Lancashire and York shire have improved £1 lOs ; Great Northern A Stock, £2 ; Caledonian, North Western, and South Eastern, each £1; and Metropolitan, 10s. The Foreign and Colonial lines remain withou any material alteration. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares aro dull, and in most instances show little or no change in values. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 per Cent. Consols Do Account, Nov 12 3 per Cent. Reduced B7l i New 3 per Cent B7i 1 New 2i per Cent. Jan. 1894.... — Do 6 per Cent., Jan. 1873 — Annuities, 30 yrs, expire Bth Jan., 1880 — Do for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 — March. June. Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 4 &31 per Cent 4 3 die Do £5OO Do £lOO and £2OO Bank England S tx, 5,1 per Ct. . _ Do Ace - ount — INDI tiN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. India Stock, 10} per Cent., April 1874 — Do Account Do 5 per Cent. July, 1570 Do 4 per Cent., Oct, 1888 — D o Certificates Do Account Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) — Do 4i pet Cent....... — Do Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent — Do 5 per Cent., Jan, 1872 — Do .5i per Cent., May, 1879 — Do 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 Do Bonds £l,000 Do under £1,000...... _ FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. Brazilian 5 per Cent ........ Do 41 per Cont., 1852-58 -60 • D o ,1863 Buenos Ayres 6 per. Cent . Do Account...... ' — Chilian 6 per Cent. Do 41 per Cent Colombian 6 per Cent — Cuba, 6 per Cent. - Do 5 per Cent, 1864 Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 - Do i per Cent, 1864 Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Do, Provisonal.Land Warrant.. — Egyptian 7 per Cent 931 6 Do, Second Issue Do £lOO Bonds _ ._ Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons.. Do Account Do Coupons Do Account Guatemala 5 per Cent. — Do 1839 and 1859 Italian 5 per Cent.(Maremmana Railway) 70} Mexican 3 per Cent, Do Account 27 h 7 Do 1864.. Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French — dis Ditto Scrip, £33 paid.... — dis Do French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c.. — die x d Moorish imperial 5 per Cent New Granada Do 2 per Cent. — Do Deferred Do Land Warrants (Hectares) — Do _Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1861 — Do do Aug" 1866 .-.^ Peruvian 41 per Cent — Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) — Do 4} per Cent., 1862 Do Account Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Do Account Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '60, , 62,'3 46i Do Account 46/ Russian 5 per Cent 1822, £ St., — Do 41 per Cent., 1850 .. Do 1860 Do 3 per Cent 1859.. Do 4 per Cent, 1862 B7l 8 Do Anglo-Dutch Do Scrip, £55 paid ...... pm Stir iinian 5 per Cent Do Account .... Spanish 3 per Cent Do Account 47 Do New Deferred Do Account Do Passive Do Account 3 la i i Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded — D o Account Swedish, 4 per Cent — Do Scrip, £6O paid — pm Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 B9 Do Account — Do 6 per Cent. 1858 D o Account 691 Do £lOO Bonds o 6 per Cent. 1862 D D o Account .. 71i 8 Do £lOO Bonds... 72 Do 1863 — Do Guaranteed, 4 per Cent..... - Do 1863 Scrip, £4O paid Venezuela 3 per Cont. -. Do Account Do 6 per Cent., 1862 55 3 Do Account _ . Do 6 per Cent., 1861 Dividends on the above payable in London Austrian, 6 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins. Belgian 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f 99 Dutch 21 per Cent. Ex. 12 Gull Do 4 per Cent. Certificates French Routes, 2 por Cent 5 per Cent., 1861, 8x.25 francs.. • Do :account Peruvian Dollar Bonds, 41 per Ct. Ex. 4s. Piedmontose, 5 per Cont., Ex. 25f TWO 0 O'CLOCK. Consols, Money B9R i Do Account.... ............... GARIBALDI'S YACLIT.—A Liverpool gentleman, in correspondence with General Garibaldi, has received in formation from Caprora that the general has declined to re ejve the yacht which was subscribed for in Liverpool as a t,stimouial, and which has already sailed for GaribaLi's idand home, char stock stook 20 stock 10 took stook stock stock stook stook stock stook otovk stocl stook .This day, ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCSS. : Closing Bnsinel Mare, Railways. raid Price. done. (3.14. st st st 50 20 . Sir.. Vol., and S tr. Val Blythe and Tyne. Bristol end Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall Do A ( A gets no di Do' B till I3p c.p an.has ( been paid to B. Dublin & Belfast Junc. Dun.,Perth,&Ab. Juno. 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 Irelan.l GreatWesterr,Originali 83 85 127 i 128; 51 6! 31 33 16 17 02 01 107 109 454 464 61 7i Do Str Val v.na. Do. South Wales .... I Do. West Mid. -Oxford Do Newport Do Hereford Lancashire & Yorkshire London and tilackwall Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. Sr So%th Western Man., Shet., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do; shares.. Metropolitan Midland _ _ Do Birming. clz Derby Gt. W. of Ireland Do. d shares Mid Kept ... North British 'Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds Do York Do Carlisle.. Do. Stook. tt Do do 1855-58 Do do 183,,.61 North London Do Now Do New, 18E4. North Staffordshire .. N. and S. W. Junction. Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock) Do Scot Mid. stook Shrews. and Welchpow Shropshire Union South Devon 'South Eastern Staines, Wok., an dWok Taff Vale.. Do C Vale of Neath Waterford Ss Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har. &R 131 134 149 150 129 131 8) 01 751 7 i 54 55 30 42 91 101 114} 119 ; 66 67 103 105 37 39 1151 116 95 07 65 66 112} /13 133 123; ;03 105 152 i 63i 241 iblt OS 1(9 ea I en 86i 97& 18 37 9 8 108 , 78 81 r 118 123 1 18 p 76 77i 10 lit 131 138 C 6 68 E 6 18 83} 64 8 9 155 160 34 44 p 98 100 32 34 85 1271 83 45f i 1 6 148 9 76i 6 7 6 65 i 41 40 1151 161 103 Li 17 10 17 97 1121 } 13 134 i 5 105 41 1091 9 10 67t 84 8 641 5 11 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Ei ailw aye .tlantio & St Lawreno tom., Baroda.t.Cent In Gu. 5 per ocnt Do. P. Shares... sullalo and Laxellurox, Do. Preference ...... luffalo,BrantotUodricl sp. et. bds. Aug. 1, 157 Do. do. July 1, 187 )o. do. June 1,1 S;• .;lcutta..t S. E as tn. (I. i n 'apeTown AD Dock Son • Demerara 7 p.o. per. pf e;astn. Bengal gu. 6 p. tt:ast Indian. en. 5 p. c Do. do. J Ext.... ;rand Trunk of canto, Do. Equip. Mort. Bonds 1 charge 6 per cent Do. Ist fret. Bonds.. Do. do. deferred"—, Do. 2d Pret. Bonds.. Do. do. deferred...... Do. 3d Piet stock ... Do. do. deferred..... Do. 4th Pref. stook.. Do. do. deferred...... 3t.lndlaPonin.gua.sp.( _ Do. Gni. 5 per ce11 . .. Do. New gua. 5 p. 0... it. South.of India (Lire guaranteed 5 per oent. Do. 41 per cent....• Do. ... - .. ...... . , It. W. of Canada Share, Do. New .. Po. 6 p.o. '73 with't opt. Jo. 54 p. o. do. '77-8.... Indian Branch Limited Iladras guar., 5 p. o. Do. 4f p. o. Extensioi • Dc. 44 do .. • Do. Fifth Extension. delb.Corp. 6 p. o. Bnd, Ifelb. as Hobson's Bay. lewßr unswiok Cand, Class A and 8.. I.ltl.C'da o po Ist 1 bd' Do. )o. do '" to' t Do. Punjaub ...• Jo. Indus. St. Flo 4) daUN IAL U 0 V ERIN British Columbia, 5 per, cent., Dec. 3t, 1872.... Do. do. 1883.... Rti.t, 0y.5 p.e.Ja. . J ui. 1877-81 . Do. a p. o. Feb.& Att.,. D 0.6 p.o.Mar.& Sept Do. 5 p. o. Jan.&July. Do. 5 Inscribed stow, .ape 0.1.10pe, 6p 0,187 Do.Ap Oct. 188(.. Do. 189 , )0. Jan. & Tnly. 1891. .7eylon, N0v.1F63, 6 p Do. 1878, do. Afturitius 6 p.cent.lB73 Do. 1878 Do. 1882 fatal Gov. 6 per cent.. 4.11.G0v. 6 p.0..J a.&Jul; q. S.W. Gov. 5 p 0., 18 , . • Du. 5 p. c.,1811 to IJlt Do. d0.,1888 & upwch, 4cw Zealand 6 p cent ova Scotia Gov. 6 p. c sterling, 1875. tueensland G cv. 6 p. c. Aus Gov. 6 p.e.1E68- 1:7,3 &ukward 4... Vic.GOV. 6 p,o. Ja.&Jul3 Do. to 6 p.o. An.&Oot.. all 100 (100 ioo O ioo 100 100 100 100 100 100 Fwd. Closing Price. 51 56 101 i tc2i idis ip 4:1 6 7 8 95 100 8) 91 102 103 102 113 19 20 MEN 83 92 67 70 59 61 63 65 55 57 51 53 96 50 28 3 0 26 i 8 102 103 pr ip pr ip gg 100 9 94 114 11 , VO 92 77 81 d 100 i 101 V 3 95 88 90 101 I log i 3 101 a 100 f 1 96 96 04 96 93 96 80 85 78 81 104 105 104 106 1(5 107 107 10) 102 105 119 112 102 105 104 107 ,05 108 101 IC4 93 96 97 99 95 97 94 96 100 104 LUTIES. 97i 97 83 3 9g al 1011 :8 60 S 6 sn e 3 100 l 100 101 id ip 10i 101 0 97, I SEC U Business done 55 102 11 2 96 93 10) 102 iO6 ICB of lON BRITISH MINES. 'ambrian Consol. Gold cliiverton milord Amalgamated ')even G. Cone. (Taoist Drakewal's...... • o.ast Bassett (Illogan) East Caradon ..... ast Carn East Grenville East Lovell ...... ....• W Hassel (Tavistk. /am..tSt.Aubyn(G wen Great Laxey, I reat South' 'Coigns... I. Wheal Vor (lielston ,Irenvl Ile lemd's-Foot ...... lingston Downs Margaret (tiny Lelani larke Valley.. •Ivndv Iron Ore (Lim. 4evi Setun Thrth Downki North Roskear.. . W tiasset(illogat , forth Wheal Crafty Prosper United........ •revidenee(Uny Lelni. iouthCaradon(liteleel .;.Wheal Fran. (Illogah Amy Park Cin Crort Test Basset (Illogan).. .V radon (Listearel West Chiver:on Sewn ...... Wheal Basset (Illogan Buller(Redrutla, WhealLudeott Wheal Mary Ann (Men Wheal Beton .• Wheal Trelawney (Lis. Wheal Union 6i 9 31 180 600 2.1.0. I 52} t7 3 / 4 22) 23. 6} 7 7i 7/ 10j 116 4i 41 6 8 15& 16} 14 2 35 36 51 61 27 39 L 14.0 3.4.6 2.7.0. 2.13.6. 13.. t 78 ". 0.13 4 41 7 9 4 4i 1} 6 21 :6 co 70 17 19 13 2 2 2 33 311 36 3i 520 540 43 36 18 20 ;5 16 8 9 5 6 55 60 000 210 90 93 12 14 1 14 15 17 200 205 19 21 I.:s U 2:} 3 29} 3.1(.6 ?.8 0 7.1.' to 6.7 18.1 SA 10.17.1 PREFERENCE SHAMES. Great Eastern, E. C., Norfolk 5 per cent Ext., Great orthern, 4} per cent., red. at 10 per cent Ditto, 5 per cent., redeemable at 5 per cent. Great Western Orig..o per cent pf., 97 Ot.Western, Wt. 511dland, Oxford 2d guaranteed stock, 115 I'REFEItENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern 5 per cent. pf., Ditto, new .) per cent pf., 9} Great Northern, 5 per cent., irred., 108 London, Brighton, &c., 0 per cent., 1858, 98 London, Chatham, am, Metrop. Ext., B B:per cent., 031 '46, 101 . pm., - ,10640 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. East Lincoln, gua. 6 per cent., 132; Northern and Eastern s'per cent., 53 FORE) (IN RAILWAYS. Dutch Rhenish, 191 20 Great Luxembourg, 11'10f 11; San Paulo gua. 7 per cent., Ditto (all), 181 South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 20f BANJO. Alliance aim.), 841 A 4iIN 41 Ditto, new, issued at 20 . pin., 181 19 Anglo Austrian, f Australasia, 69: British and Californian, lim., Chartered Bank of India, Aulitralia, and China, 321 2 City, 110 1 111 Consolidated Bank, lira., 10 1 English, Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 191 20 European Bank, lim., 91 11 Imperial Bank (lim.), 3t Imperial Ottoman, 151 Land Mortgage Bank of India, um., 41 London Bank of Mexico and S. America. 11w., 41 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 23i London and County, 71 4 London Joint Stock, Ditto, new, 11 London and 11 estminster, 941 / Mercantile and Exchange, lim., 9 National Provincial:of England, Ditto, new, 42 Ditto, ditto, 38} New South Wales, 42 11 Oriental Balm Corporation, 331 South Australia, 33 MISCELLANEOUS. City of London Real Property, lirn., 8 11 City Offices, I im., 11, 2 Ebbw Vale, 4 1a Egyptian Corn, and Trading, Ilm., Financial Corporation, Gen. Credit and Finance of London, lim., Hudson's Bay, 16 16 Imperha Mercantile Credit A sso. Urn., (1 International Financial -ociety, Joint Stock Discount, lira., 21 I London Financial Association, Um., 22 London General Omnibus Company, 27, National Discount Company, lirn., 13r 11 Peninsula and Oriental Steam, b 3 Rhyniney iron, 271 Royal Mail Steam, 86. E 5 Thames and Mersey Marine (Insurance), Universal Mariu; Insurance, lint., ui. ti 51 MARKETS---This Day. MARK-LANE. Very little change took place in the value of wheat inthe country markets held on Saturday. In some quarters the trade ruled steady, but the total amount of business trans acted was very moderate. Most descriptions of spring cern mot a slow sale at late rates. The flour trade was quiet on former terms. Advices from New York report rather more firmness in the trade for wheat and fl mr, but the demand for export continues small. On the Continent the corn trade gene- rally is quiet. The arrivals of English grain up to our market last week were very moderate. The imports from abroad amount to 15,132 qrs of wheat, 493 barley, 35,221 oats, 1,355 beans, 1,992 peas, 45 tares, 20,799 linseed, 6,640 rapeseed, 8,832 maizo, 404 sundry seeds, 200 sacks and 615 barrels of flour. Fresh up to our market, to-day, the arrivals of home ' grown wheat, coastwise and by land carriage, were very moderate. Although the show of samples on the stands was limited, the trade for red and white samples both from Essex and Kent ruled tar from active. At the close of business, however, the bulk of the supply had been dis posed of, and last Monday's currency was steadily sup ported. There is no change, consequently, to notice in prices, compared with last week. The condition of the pro duce was good. There was a full average supply of foreign wheat on the stands. Millers showed no disposition to operate beyond immediate wants, and the total amount of business trans acted was very moderate. Good and fine American wheats were firm in price, and other descriptions supported pre vious quotations. Floating cargoes of grain were in but moderate request, yet pricas on the whole, ruled tolerably firm. With most descriptions of barley the market was moderately supplied. Fine malting qualities were firm in price; otherwise, the trade was quiet, at late rates. Malt changed hands slowly, and prices were somewhat easier. There was a fair supply of oats on offer, and the trade, on the whole, ruled steady at full quotations. Beans were in but moderate supply. The trade, how. ever, was very quiet at about stationery prices. Peas met a slow sale on former toxins. The show of samples on the stands was small: The demand far flour ruled inactive at late rates, CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEAEURE, %Vhetst—Essex and Kent, red, 1863, per qr 36s to 408 Ditto, 1861 Ditto, white, 1863 4os 44s Ditto, 1804 Norfolk and Lincoln, red, 1864 Ditto, 1883 Talavera, 1804 _ 44s 50s Rye— Barley—Grinding 22s 25s Malting, new 3os 35s Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk 6os 63s Brown Kingstown and Ware 6os 63s Chevalier Oats —Yorkshire and Lino°lnsh., Feeding l9s 22s Potato Youghal and Cork, black lBs 22s Cork, white los 23s Scotch, Feeding 2os 23s Beans—Tick Pigeons, Yeas—Grey. .. 33s 86s Maple White .. 36s 40s Boilers ... . 36s 405 Flour—Town-made, per 2801 b Suffolk 2Bs 30s Stockton and Norfolk 26s 28s American, por barrel ... 193 253 METROPOLITAN CATTLE. The supply of foreign stock here to-day was less eaten sive than on Monday last, and the demand for it ruled steady at full quotations. From our own grazing districts the receipts fresh up this morning were only moderate ; but the supply from Ireland was seasonably good. The arrivals from Scotland were again limited. For nearly all breeds there was a good demand, at an advance in the quotations compared with Monday last of 2d per 81be. The best Scots and crosses realised 5a 4d to 58 61 per 81bs. The general quality of the stock was but moderate. The arrivals from Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Northamptonshire, comprised 2,000 short-horns, &c. ; from other parts of England, 600 various breeds; from Scotland, 70 Scots and crosses; and from Ireland, 600 oxen and heifers. With most breeds of sheep we were but modeiately sup plied, and the quality of the stock was inferior, Prime Downs, half-breeds, &0., sold fully at an improvement in value of 2d per 81bs, Otherwise the mutton trade was steady, at full prices. The top figures were 65 Gd to 53 8d per 81bs. Calves, the supply of which was limited, sold at Thurs day's decline in price, The highest quality was 4s 10d per Blbe, Thero was a fair average business doing in pigs, at ful prices —viz., from 3s 6d to 4s 10d per Blbs. Per Bibs. to sink the offal. s. d. s. d. a. cl. s d Crse. &inf. beasts 3 4 4 0 Primeers-wool d 0.5 0 5 4 Secondquality do. 4 '2 4 8 Prne.S'aidowndo.s 6 5 b Prime large oxen 4 10 5 2 Largo cm. calves 3 10 4 4 Prime Scots, &o. 6 4 5 6 Prime small do 4 6 4 10 Crse. & inf. sheep 3 8 4 1 Large hogs 3 6 4 0 Second qualitydo. 4 6 4 10 Small porkers..., 4 2 4 10 Lambs....os Od to Os Od. Suckling calves, 163 to 204 ; and quarter-old store pigs, 20s to 211 s each. TOTAL SUPPLY'. FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts -• ~,,,, Cows — 1 Sheep Sheep Calves ... ... 329 Pigs Pigs. 390 The total imports of foreign stocg into London, last week, amounted to 15,032 head. In the corresponding week in 1863,we received 13,625—in 1862,10,42 —in 1861, 11,423 —in ]B6O, 8,599—in 1859, 7,120—in 1858, 473. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEEK. Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. .. ..--. .. 28 •• From Antwerp — Bremen ... 662 .. 80u10gne..... Calais Dordt. 6l .. Dunkirk... Gibraltar — .. .. Hamburg •.• • 97 • • 737 • • • . A A. Harlingen Medemblik 143 .. 1795 11 .. Oporto 6l .. .. .. .. Ostend — .. .. .. 2 .• Rotterdam Touniug 2398 .. 1606 .. 123 .. Vigo . - - .. 66 .. - •. - - - 4 .. - .. - .. 165 - .. - .. -- .. 41 622 .. -- .. --- .. -- - .. - .. .. 111 Total ....4,725 .. 8,510 .. 123 .. 894 .. 78J The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1863. 3675 .. 8,235 .. 494 .. 1221 18 6 2 .. 1834 .. 9,524 .. 10 .. 437 .. 460 1861 1136 .. 8,563 .. .. 253 .. 466 1860 A. statement and comparison of the supplies and prima of fat stock exhibited and sold in the Groat Metropolitan Cattle Market on Monday, Nov. 2, 1863, and this day, Monday, Oct. 31, 1864, Per 81b. to sink tho offal. Nov. 2, 1863. Coarse and Inferior beasts.... 3 4to 3 8 Second quality do. 3lO 4 4 Prime large oxen .. 4 6 410 Prime Scots, &c 4lO 6 0 Coarse and inferior sheep 3lO 4 2 Second quality do. Prime coarse-woolled do 4lO 6 4 Primo Southdown do. Lambs Large coarse calves Prime small do. Large hogs Neat small porkers 4 2 4 4 Beasts .. _ _ Oct. 31, 1864. 3 4to 4 0 42 4 8 410 6 2 54 6 6 38 4 4 4 6 410 50 5 4 56 6 8 00 0 0 310 4 4 4 6 410 36 4 0 4 2 410 5, 940 Sheep and lambs .... 19,160 Calves Pies 440 SUPPLIES ON SALE, Nov. 2, 1862.—8( sheep, 24,530—calves, 282—pigs, 430. Nov. 1, 1861.—Beasts, s,46o—sheep, 21 219—pigs, 380. 20,960 329 390 its, 6,420 I,7oo—calves NEIVGATE AND LEADENHALL. These markets are moderately, but far from extensively, supplied with town and country killed meat, The trade for descriptions is by no means active, yet very litale change has taken place in prices, compared with Monday last. • Per 81b. by the carcase. sd ad Inferior beef .. 2 10 3 2 Middling do. .. 3 4 3 8 Prime large do. 3 10 4 0 Do. small d 0... 4 2 4 4 Large pork .... 3 6 4 0 Inferior mutton. 3 8 4 0 BOROUGH HOP. dad Middling mutton 4 2 4 4 Prime do ~ 4 6 4 8 Veal. Small pork .. 4 2 410 Lamb Our market is seasonably well supplied with English hops. The amount of business doing is of full average extent, and fine samples command high prices. Medium qualities move off freely, and the quotations have an up ward tendency. For inferior produce the trade is quiet on former terms. The import into London last week-30 bales from Ostend, 144 Rotterdam, 182 Hamburg, 158 Antwerp, 19 Dunkirk, 10 Boulogne, and 60 New York. per cwt. New Mid and East Bent New Gold,ngs New Weald of Kent I;ew Sussex BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. The supplies of home-grown potatoes on sale at these markets aro tolerable large. With foreign produce, how ever, they aro very moderately supplied. In most descrip tions a fair business is doing., and prices rule firm. The imports into London last week amounted to 42 bags from Rotterdam, 90 Boulogne, 7 Calais, ZO Dordt, 50 Hamburg, and 25 barrels from Montreal. Yorkshire Regents Flukes Kent and Essex Regents Rocks Scotch Regents Foreign WOOL. There has been a alight tendency to improvement iu filo English wool trade. Business, however, has not materially decreased ; but a few descriptions, ohieilyskin, have changed hands somewhat more freely at full quotations. In prices, compared with last week, no quotable change has taken place. In colonial wool, by private contract, very little is doing, yet prices rule stationary. The arrivals of colonial wool since the close of last sales have amounted to 71,530 bales, consisting of 17,860 bales from New South Wales and Queensland, 11,860 Victoria, 1,852 Tasmania, 4,984 South Australia, 198 West Australia, 9,152 New Zealand, and 25,133 bales from the Cape of Good Hope. Current prices of English wool per lb. s d Fleeces —South Down hoggets 1 11 Halt-bred do Kent fleeces 'south Down ewes and wethers 1 11 Llicestor do, Sorts—Clothing Combing . 1 8 s d 2 0 2 2 2 0 2 0 2 2 2 SEEDS. Very few transactions have taken place in agricultural seeds. For prices, however, no change of importance has taken place. Linseed and rapeseed met a slow sale, and the value of East India has slightly declined. There was an improved demand for cakes, and the prices of prime qua ties have advanced 5s per ton. I' turnip, White,p.bus.2Cs to 22s Swede —s — s Mustard, Brown —B •—s White, Tares, Spring.... s New winter, bush 8s gs Chnary, per quarter —s - s [-lye grass Clover, Red Eng., ct. •-s —s White Foreign Red —B — s White —s —s Trefoil new. —B —s Carraway 349 353 Coriander ...... ate 258 llerripseed, per qr 563 eos Linseed,Eng.sowing 643 68s Crushing Baltic —s —s Odessa —B —s Linseed Cake, p ton —s —s English .£loos £ll Os Foreign £9 lOs .£lO 15s Rape Cakes,p ton.Ct 10s £5 lOs Rapeseed, new,pr qr ?Os 76s TALI The tallow trade is firm to. ward tendency. The quotati, 40e 6d; town tallow is sellin, fat, 2s 2d per 81bs. 0 SP. ~day, and prices have an up ion for P.Y.C., on the slot, is ig at 41s 91 net cash ; rough Mr. Leatham, M.P,. on Female Education. Oa Thursday night Mr E. A. Leathern, M.P., presided at the annual soiree o 1 the Huddersfield Female Educational Institute, which was held in the Gymnasium Hall, Huddersfield. There was a large attendance. The SECRETARY (Mr David Johnston) read an extract from the report submitted to the buoiheas meeting in May last. The number of annual sub scribers is 104, who subscribe the sum of £92 16a There are 78 pupils paying 3d per week, contribut`• rig £3l is Bd, and 49 pupils paying ld each, con tributing £7 14s 11d. The average weekly attend. once at the classes is 245. The ages of the pupils are as follow :-51 under 15 years of age, 55 above 15 and under 20 years, and 21 above 20 years. -amongst the pupils there are eight married women. Mr. LEATHAM, who was received with loud ap. plause, said he thought it was pretty generaly admitted that those who took part in proceedings of this description, if they happeneal to have any thing in their heads of which they wished to make a present to the public, were perfectly at liberty to !ook upon these occasions as the most fitting oppor tunities for so doing. Indeed, so general had the practice become that public speakers seemed to vie with one another in the courage with which they trespassed upon every conceivable topic which might happen to be uppermost in their own or in the public mind, provided only that these topics had nothing whatever to do with the object of the meeting. Nor was this curious phenomenon confined to educational meetings. He had noticed in the reports of agricultural dinners that instead of soaring into high flights of eloquence in praise of the glories of fat stock end on the best manure for turnips, the speakers launched away into criticisms upon the foreign policy of the country, into tirades against the Yankees; and now and then they had denunciations of some unfortunate clergyman who happened to have formed the opinion that a tippet had become an article of clerical attire, or some pre late al ho had quarrelled with Moses and could not be induced to believe in Noah's ark. (Laughter and applause.) Precisely in the same way the celebra tions of the votaries of social science appeared to be made the occasion for transferring to the public the annual sweepings of noble brains. Indeed, Sterne never uttered a greater truth than when he said that when a man had one resolved upon a subject, then for a text, Mesopotamia, Cappadocia, Asia, Pontes, Phrygia, or Pamphylia, was as good a text as any in the Bible. (Laughter and applause.) He was afraid he should be considered as a rash invader if he attempted to keep pretty close to the question and to say a few words apropos of the occasion. This much he would say, that if they would kindly look over the offence this time, he would promise in future to be as illogical, as discursive, and as irre levant as the most fastidious person now present could desire. (Laughter.) If they would permit him, then, he would make a few observations with refe rence to female education. And in the first place he thought it was a matter of great congratulation that they possessed in Huddersfield a recognised and successful female Mechanics' Institute. (Ap plause.) He was quite sure that the establishment and successful working of such an institute must tread with very considerable emphasis upon the corns of prejudice. There were some people whose moral and intellectual feet were so tender that they screamed out if anybody came within a yard of them with these institutes. There must have been a whole chorus of screamers when that institute was set up not that the screamers were not very sensible people but then they were told that if the very sensible pee. plc of another day had had their own way, we should still have been champing acorns, and, doubtless when our forefathers renounced their time-honoured acorn diet, and turned out of their ancestral huts in favour of the pigs, the very sensible people of that time regarded that gigantic innovation with very grave disapproval. Now, what was it that the very sensible people of Huddersfield had to say against this institute and in favour of female ignorance ? [hey said that such an institute was oat of place; that it was an anomaly and an impertinence; that the young people who attended ft had much bet ter atay away ; that they were much better with out the instruction they got there; that it only turned their heads; that it only in capacitated them for their work ; and that it only took away their attention from those domestic affairs on which they ought to be engaged. That was a very old argument ; it was as old as the hills. It was as old, at all events, as Sidney Smith, who had this very neat way of putting it— not by any means that he was expressing his own opinion —that if a woman were once permitted to taste of the fruits of the tree of knowledge, the rest of the family would soon be anxious to be fed with the same ethereal and unsatisfactory diet. That was the assertion with modi fications, that had been applied to the education of almost every class of women in the country, and the consequence had been that there had arisen a great controversy on female education, and that as it was the nature of ex tremes to breed extremes, a set of philosophers had cropped up to maintain that boys and girls ought to be educated precisely alike, After expressing his entire dissent from this doctrine, Mr Leatham combated the statement made by many objectors that the possession of a good education would induce the females of the lower ranks to assume airs unsuited to their rank in life. He contended that when the system of female education had become general among the operative classes no young woman would take airs to herself because she could read a paragraph fluently in the newspaper, or do accounts, or write a neat hand, any more than she would take ails to herself now because, like a royal prince, she had all her fingers on one hand, or that Providence had been pleased to grant her a nice, comely, cheerful, healthy countenance. (Applause) Another absurd oljection was, that a well informed woman made a bad wife to a working man and a bad mother to his children; that the time of such persons would ba taken up by pursuits which are foreign to domestic matters ; that they would neglect John's potatoes for a poem, and John's babies for a romance. Who ever heard of a woman neglecting her own child for a romance ? and what romanee was ever written which, in her opinion, would compare with the poetry which sparkles in the eyes of her own little boy ? The opponents to female education seemed altogether to forget the share which the wife had in making the man. (Hear, hear) Ht aid not hesitate to Bay, although it might be derogatory to hie own sex, that nine out of every ten men who married poung were very much what their wives had made thorn. (Hear, hear, and applause.) The influence which a woman, patient, orderly, virtuous, religious, and intelligent might have over her husband for good was in calculable. (Hear, hear.) Some men were made of hard, unyielding, unpromsing materials ; but a good woman would go chipping away like a patient sculptor ; it might take years and years, it might take half a lifetime, but in the end she would work the ludo block into shape, and there was many a noble and manly fellow now living who could tell that but for woman'and God's blessing upon her work there would not have been much manliness or nobility left in him. (Applause.) He had said nothing o the influence of the mother upon the future of her off spring, because no one would deny that their earliest im pressions were those that were the most durable, and it was to the mother that they must mainly look for this. He maintained that it was a high and noble calling that of the working-women of England. (Applause.) They had en trusted to them much of the happiness of the present generation of working men, They would mould much of the character of the next, and upon the character of the working population the character of the whole nation must more and more depend ; the part which the people would take and the place which the country would fill in history. This was a consideration which had been too much lost sight of in the past. It had been assumed that the happi ness and prosperity of the nation was vested in the hands of a few, but all experience from day to day was teaching that it was not in the Court or in the palaces of the great, but in the cottage, that we must seek for the birthright of prosperity. Beneath those lowly rafters lies the cradle of dominion, and from that humble threshold pruoeLds the majesty of States. (Cheers.) If there was a particle of truth in this doctrine, they should recognise at once the necessity of those efforts and the importance of these institutions. (Applause.) There never was an epoch when these considerations wore forced upon them with greater power. This was no jog-trot age, when the river of history rolled smoothly on—it was broken at every turn into a thousand cataracts; they lived amidst people of gigantic passions and in the presence of stupendous events. Hitherto our path amongst nations had been one of prosperity and security; but standing as we did in the midst of so many and so great catastrophes, whore was the man Ns ho would have the courage to say that it might not become overcast, perplexed, and strewn with peril ? But whatever might be the future which awaited;t . his country, they, at all events, may take courage, certain that their efforts, under the blessing of Providence, must conduce to the welfare of their fellow• countrymen ; that they would assuage the calamities of war itself, and would crown with a still brighter lusture the victories of peace. (Cheers.) A vote of thanks to Mr Leatham for presiding terminated the proceedings, FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Saturday, about 5 p.m, the train from Dublin to Galway ran off the line near Ballinasloe, when a carriage was overturned and two men were killed—Mr Glenville, a builder, and T. Henry, a a servant of the company. Particulars. 18 5 0 . 1861 1862. 1863. 1864. Stock this clay—. 58.6 t 7 38.72 43.606 03.88 ) 50.789 Price of Y.C. 61s9a to 51s 91 to 47601 to 41501 to 4056 d to 61s 3d —s Od —sOd —sOd 00s Od Delivery lastweek 2.344 3,315 1,6.6 1,565 2,82 ) Ditto from June 1 43,'59 65,024 3,2.61 28,161 31,895 Arrivals last week 8,829 7,416 707 8,062 4,868 Ditto from June 1 74,982 47,001 38,255 54, , 94 37,653 Price of Town .... 63s 3d 55s .d ‘ 475 thi 455 9d 41s 3d Mr. GraLit Duff at Elgin. Oa Thursday Mr Grant Daff, M.P., gave his annual address at Elgin. There was a very large attendance. On the motion of Mr ALLAN, corn merchant, Bailie Urquhart was called to the chair. Upon the Dano•German question Mr GRANT DUFF repeated his well known views, sympathetic with the great Liberal party of Germany. This led him to express the belief that the principle we had seen applied—that of nationalities—would lead to still greater changes in the map of Europe. Por tugal would in all likelihood bo in some way united with Spain, and Prussia would incorporate the smaller German Powers. He did not altogether admire the doctrines of nationality, holding it of more consequence that people should be well go verned than the question by whom they should be governed. Still, the working of the principle must be considered inevitable, nor did he think they should:regret it, considering what it had done in Italy and was likely to do for Germany and Scan dinivia. It was an advantage that the flank of Germany should be protected against France. Al luding casually to the Garibaldi demonstration, he said there was more in it than appeared :—" Ido not think the extraordinary enthusiasm which was exhibited is at all sufficiently explained by referring either to the noble character of the person who was the object of it, or to the exceptional exploits which he had performed. These of course had their share; but there was more in it than that. I think it ought to remind even Conservative statesmen of the same truths which 1848 proclaimed so loudly, namely, that under the surface of European, nay, even of English, politics there are vague aspirations and desires working which it is well not entirely to ignore. The crowds in the streets of London that day made me think of those striking words of Mr Carlyle in his Latter-day pamphlet— " Democracy sure enough is here ; one knows not how long it will keep hidden underground even in Russia; and here in England, though we object to it resolutely in the form of street barricades and in aurrectionary pikes, and decidedly will not open doors to it on those terms, the tramp of its million feet is on all streets and thoroughfares, the sound of its bewildered thousandfold voice is in all its writ- ings and speakings, in all thinking and modes and activities of men ; the soul that does not now with hope or terror discern it is not the one we ad dress on this occasion." There are politicians, and Lib2ral politicians too, who seem to forget that there ever was a year 1848, or, if they don't quite forget it, they think that many of its most characteristic events were mere accidents, and symptoms of mighty forces working below our feet. That is not my view. That is not the impression which I brought bac k some months ago, even from the country in Europe which Is generally supposed to be that in which the popular element is least active. The hon. gentle man then expressed himself in favour of a non intervention policy, pointing out that if we had succeeded after an arduous war with Russia, we would have injared ourselves by strengthening the reactionary and barbarous party in Russia. Nor were they so strong in Europe as formerly, owing to the spread of railways enabling European Powers more easily to move their troope. We were more a Cosmopolitan Power, and he referred to what a native Indian had said to him, that another out break like the mutiny of 1857 might not be so far off, the Hindoo and Mahomedan communities being willing to ssizs our first European difficulty to shake off our power. But, he said, "There arc two English influences at this moment which are doing more to conquer for us that mighty empire than could all Armstrong's guns and all Whitworth's guns, aye, and against which all Blakeley's guns cannot protect her. The one is the spectacle of what free trade has done for us, and the other is the book by Dr. Gneist, of Berlin, upon our institutions.' The hon. gentleman proceeded to note with satis. faction Lord Stanley's remarks on the Eastern ques- tion, and to take a favourable view of the Franco- Italian treaty. He did not think eithor Austria or Spain was likely to interfere with the Pope; Spain especially, owing to the prevalent utter want of faith whioh had been eaten nut by the Inquisi tion, was likely to prove a poor support. I❑ con clusion, although, without more energetic popular opinion, necessary in this country to carry any great measure, reform and many other questions might be 'ar off, yet there were several minor reforms which he thought mlght be reached, and which he had often urged—namely, improvement of the diplo matic service, reorganisation of public schools, emancipation of the universities, reform of chari• tale foundations, and reform of the law, with a view to its eventual codification. MANSION-HOUSE.—On Tuesday next the chair man (Mr T. Burrowes) and members Of the General Pur poses Committee and the aldermen and deputies of the several wards will be entertained by the Lord Mayor at a banquet in the Egyptian-hall, and on Friday a eonversa %ion* will bo given by the Lord Mayor in the same place. A large number of invitations have been issued.— City Press. THE SCOTCH STREAMS.—A constant drizzling rain which prevailed all Thursday and Friday has again swollen the Tweed and Teviot, so as to put angling for a day or two entirely out of the question. On Friday afternoon the rivers were rapidly increasing in volume. In Perthshire the weather since Wednesday week has been very disagreeable. Rain has fallen heavily almost daily a►nd has in a great measure suspended out-door labour. All the rivers and streams, which have been remarkably low during the whole summer, have been in a high state of flood for a week past. Tho salmon spawning tributaries of the Tay have not presented such a stock of fish at this season for a long Belies of years. In consequence of the flooded state of the rivers, salmon have got easily to the spawning grounds in the upper waters, where they may now be seen literally swarming. The abundance of salmon may be inferred from the fact that in the course of two hours two gentlemen saw upwards of 200 fish leap one of the dam-dykes on the Barn a few days ago. The rivers are well protected by largo b,:dieo of watchers ; and at any rate it is impossible for poachers to do much mischief at present, owing to the swollen state of the streams,—Scetsnian. LIFEBOAT DEMONSTRATION AT BOSTON. A grand demonstration took place at Boston, on the 24th inst., on the occasion of the naming t.,f the Herbert Ingram life. boat. The mayor of the town, Mr M. Staniland, M,P., Mr J. H. Thomas, J.P., and the volunteers, with their band, took an active part in the proceedings. The cost of the lifeboat was subscribed by the friends of the late Mr Herbert Ingram, M.P. for Boeton—his widow and children contributing liberally to the fund. POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—This day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. ASSAULT ON A WIPE.--George Williams, an elderly man of reapectablo appearance, described as a jeweller, was charged before Mr Tyrwhitt with assaulting his wife, Elizabeth Williams, at 42, King-street. The complainant said—l have been married to the de. Pendant since 1825. Last night about 12 I was in bed when my husband caught up a bux and struck me on the head a severe blow, cutting it and ctzusing it to bleed—the on'y cause for it being that a little boy I have the stare of knocked down a board on which there were some of his tools—the child having done so while playing. I should bo you orry to hurt my husband, as he is an aged man, but I had gii -n him no provoc a ti o n , an d h e wou ld not g i ve me time to ma ,;-1 an explanation. He also hi uised my arms. Mr Tya wbitt—Was your husband sober ? Wife—l don't think ho WAS quire sober. Difendant—/ am very sorry. I was provoked a great deal. My jeweller's b7x was knocked down and all my tools scattered about. I took up the lid of a box belonging to my wife to smash it, and she rose up and received a plow on the head—but it was an accident. Mr Tyr what—lles he ever asFaulted you before 2 Wife—lie has ; bat I don't want to hurt him. _ _ Mr Tyrwhitt—The best thing I can do is to make the defendant find bail. It will be the best thing for both of you. Tho defendant was then ordered to find bail to keep the peace towards his wife fe r three months. DETERMINED STREET ROBBERY.—Thomas M'Carthy, a rough looking lad, was charged with stealing a suit of clothes from a boy named George Turner, in the employ of Mr Henry Biffen, tailor, of Harvey's-court, Strand. It appears that the boy Turner was waiting at the corner of 'Tottenham-court-road yesterday morning about 11 o'clock for an omnibus to Camden-town, when the prisoner ran up to him and seized a parcel containing a suit of clothes, which Turner was about to take to a customer, and made off with it. The prisoner was followed by two gentle men and caught, having thrown the parcel away while waning. A constable said the prisoner was sentenced to 12 months' hard labcur at the Middlesex Sessions for picking pockets in 1863. The prisoner was committed for trial. Thomas Smith, a lad, was charged by Sergeant Coathupo, of the Detective Department, Scotland-yard, with attempt ing to pick the pockets of several females in Goodge-street, Tottenham-court-road, on Saturday night. lie was remanded. WESTMINSTER. PLACING RAILWAY PASSENGERS IN IMMINENT DANGER.—Charles Murray, a young man about 17 years of age, was brought before the magistrate, charged with placing the lives of railway passengers to the Victoria Station in imminent danger by throwing, with many others not in custody, stones at the railway carriages. Cornelius Fray, inspector of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, said—l was on duty on Wednesday last, between 12 and 1, at the Victoria Station, when a gentleman who had arrived by the train complained that stones had been thrown at the carriage in which ho had just travelled., I immediately went down the line, and on proceeding a short distance saw the prisoner and others throwing stones at a train coming into Victoria Station from London-bridge. Mr Selfe—Where were the stones thrown from? Witness—From a &id alongside the line. Mr Selfe—Was it a passenger train ? Witness—lt was, and there were many persons in it. Mr Selfe—Had you a good opportunity of seeing the prisoner ? Witness—l watched him and the others for about an hour, and stones were repeatedly thrown at railway car riages. The station-master and myself afterwards watched them for an hour. We could not get near enough to the accused and the others, for some time, to endeavour to capture them, and when we were approaching they ran away. Mr Selfe—How many were there ? Witness—Thirteen or fourteen others, but less than him. John Parish, 146 B, officer on duty at the Victoria Station, proved apprehending the defendant last night on a warrant from Effingham-street, Pimlico. Inspector Fray said there had been much. trouble in ap. prehending him, he had been away to Kentish Town and traced to Effingham-street. Defendant's mother declared that she wax sure he was perfectly innocent, and there was a man there could prove it. The man was called, but his evidence went for nothing, Mr Selfa —How often did defendant throw ? Inspector Fray—l counted four times. __ _ _ Defendant was remanded. It was arranged that bail should be taken for his ap p earauee. MARYLEB ONE. SHOCKING BRUTALITY TO A HORSE.—A man named John Bowin, in the employ of a salesman of Spitalfields, named Potter Oyler, was charged at the instance of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, with cruelly heating a horse at the Great Western Railway Station, Paddington. It appeared from the evidence of several witnesses that attenti.n was called to a waggon drawn by two horses. The waggon was heavily laden with turnips—the load being so great that the horses were unable to mov the vehicle, when the defendant commenced beating one of the horses with the small end of a large whip in a most brutal manner. The animals still being unable to move the waggon, the prisoner took the butt-end of the whip, which was ferruled, and continued beating the same animal between the ears and about the nose—in fact, all over the head. The effect of this brutality was to fell the animal to the ground. Blood was flowing from the nose and ears. Whilst the horse was down the prisoner still continued his cruelty Tho horse trembled and twitched greatly; and when pri soner was remonsti ated with he made use of most disgusting language, and threatened to serve the witnesses the same, Mr Yardley said the case had been fully proved. The prisoner had been guilty of shocking cruelty. He would pass such a sentence upon him as would, he hoped, be a lesson to him for the rest of his life. He must be impri soned for 14 days, with hard 1 ibour. Prisoner —Won't you put a fine on ? Mr Yardley—No. lie was then removed. THAMES, UNMANLY AND SAVAGE ASSAULT ON A FEMALE.— John Lewis, a man about 30 years of age, a hawker, was brought before Mr Partridge, chargod with assaulting Ann Spicer, a girl about 17 years old. The complainant stated that she was living with her parents at No. 4, Clayhall.place, Red Ford, Bow. On Saturday night she was in the Bow road with another girl, and the prisoner came towards them and gave each of them a printed tract. They thanked him and passed on. He demanded a penny for his tracts from each of them. Her companion returned her tract to him, and she was about to do the same when he aware at her, and said he would have a penny. She was frightened, ran away from him, and threw the tract on the ground. He soon overtook her and gave her a "punch" with his fist on the eye and knocked her down. He then kicked her three times on the side and hurt her very much indeed. She screamed, and called out " Murder," and he said if she made the least noise he would pull her heart out. She did continue to make a noise, and her companion fetched a police-constable, and gave the prisoner into custody. Charlotte Bannister, a girl of 13, confirmed her friend's statement. James Prescott, police sergeant, No. 1 K, stated that on Saturday evening he was called by the last witness and saw the girl Spicer crying, surrounded by 20 or 30 respectable persons, who were indignant with,the prisoner, and said he had shamefully ill-used the complainant. Several persons in the crowd said the prisoner had pushed tracts in their laces, and because they would not buy them loaded them with abuse. They were four blackguards all acting in a similar disgraceful manner on Saturday evening. The prisoner made a lame defence, and said he had a " drop taken" on Saturday night. Mr Partridge said the prisoner was a most unmanly scoundrel, and sentenced hinejor an " aggravated assault'• to three months' imprisonment and hard labour. SHAM ANTIQUITIES AT THE EMBANKMENT.— Mr Chubb writes :—A. friend has just called in to show me three bronze keys of Roman manufacture which he purchased from a navvy who had dug them out at the Thames Embankment. On examination I found them to be recent castings, with the moulding sand in the inter stices. I understand that a number of these and similar antiquities are on sale by the industrious navvies at the embankment.—. Builder. MURDEROUS OUTRAGE UPON A SIIERIFF'S OFFICER. -A sheriff's officer entered the house of a Mrs. Robinson and her son, living at Edge-lane, Liverpool, yesterday moining„ in order to servo a writ of execution, The son rushed down stairs, and with a cavalry sword cut open the officer's head and wounded him in the legs, while the mother attacked him with a poker and dealt him some dreadful blows on the head. The officer's hat only saved his life. The Robinsons have been committed for trial. NOVEL SALE BY AUCTION.—On Tuesday, at the sale of the premises at the corner of Newcastle-street, Strand, known as Sams' Hotel, and which is to be cleared away to make room fur the site of the Strand Hotel, the auctioneer put up to auction the hoarding which is to be erected round the premises, and which is to be used as an advertisement board by the purchaser. There were several competitors for the property, which, after an active com petition was knocked down for £2O. THE HALSTEAD MIJRDER.—Emma Howard, alias Padney, who was tried at the last Essex assizes for the murder of her child at Halstead by drowning it in the river at that town, but who was acquitted on the ground of insanity, has been removed from Springfield gaol, near Chelmsford, by ardor of the Secretary of State, to Broad Moor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Berkshire, At this estab. lishment the unhappy prisoner will be detained during her Majesty's pleasure. ISE CONIC, EDITION. SUN OFFICE, HALF -PAST 4 o'CLoc.k. SPAIN. MADTUD, Oct. 29—The journals publish ft letter from Marshal Espartero, by which he refuses the Presidentship of the Progressistas. The Corres. pendencia announces that Admiral Pareja is about to proceed to the Pac . fic, not to replace Admiral Pinzon, but with diplomatic powers to take the place of M. Mazzaredo. THIRD EDITION SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK. TAT TERSA LL' S. --This Evening-, LIVERPOOL CUP. 10 10 1 cn the field (offered) TILE DI3RRY. 6 to - 1 aget Liddington (taken freely) 100 to 6 agst Chattanooga (tak-n) Very little betting, members being occupied settling. ARRIVALS AT WORCESTER. Cheerful Thy, Switch, Spatchcock, Knave of Tru mpp, Canute, birdlime, Cairncastle, Bonnie Lass, Vaudervelde, Wean Witch, May Day, The Berkeley Hunt Secret, Littlecote, Il Re Gakntuomo, Warrior, Grosvenor colt, Forester, Edinburgh, Whinstone, Robert Macaire, Pretty Girl filly, Le Mexicain, Medora, Lady Evelyn fitly, West End, and Sweetness. Mr John Bright on the American Corfiict, The following is the text of the letter addressed by Mr John Bright to Mr Horace Greeley : Rochdale, Oct. 1, 1864. Dear Sir,—F or more th an three years the people of this country have watched with a constant interest the progress of the great conflict in which your people have been en gaged ; and, as you know, some have rejoiced over the tem porary successes of the enemies of your Go%ernrnent, and. some have deeply lamented over them. At this moment we turn our eyes rather to the political than to the military struggle; and there is, with us, the same difference of opinion and of sympathy as roger:Ls your coming Presidential election that has been manifested in connection with your contest in the field. All those of my countrymen who have wished well to the rebellion, who Lave hoped tor the break up of our Union, who have preferred to see a Southern Slave Empire rather than a restored and free Republic, so far as I can observe are now in favour of the election of General M'Clellan. All those who have deplored the calamities which the leaders of secession have brought upon your country, who believe that slavery weakens your power and tarnishes your good name throughout the world, and who regard the restoration of your Union as a thing to bo desired and prayed for by all good men, so far as I can judge, are heartily longing for the re-election of Mr Lincoln. Every friend of your Union probably in Europe, every speaker and writer who has sought to do justice to your cause since the war began, is now hoping with an intense anxiety that Mr Lincoln may be placed at the head of your Executive for another term. It is not because they think Mr Lincoln to be wiser or better than all other men on your continent, but they think they have observed in his caroer a grand simplicity of pur pose and a patriotism which knows no change and which does not falter. To some of his countrymen there may ap_ pear to have been some errors in his course. It would be strange indeed if, in the midst of difficulties so stupendous and:so unexpected, any Administration or any ruler should wholly avoid mistakes. To us; looking on from this dis tance, and unmoved by the passions from which many of your people can hardly be expected to be free —regarding his Presidential path with the calm judgment which be longs rather to history than to the present time, as our out side position enables us in some degree to regard it —we see in it an honest endeavour faithfully to do the work of his great office, and, in the doing of it, a brightness of per sonal honour on which no adversary has been yet able to fix a stain. I believe that the effect of Mr Lincoln's re-election in, England and in Europe, and indeed throughout the world, will be this—it will convince all men that the integrity of your great country will be preserved, and it will show that Republican institutions, with an instructed and patriotic people, can boar a nation safely and steadily through the most desperate perils. I am one of your friends in England who have never lost faith in your cause. I have spoken to my countrymen on its behalf; and now in writing this letter to you I believe I speak the sentiments and the heart's wish of every man in England who hopes for the freedom and greatness of your country, Forgive me for this intrusion upon you; but I cannot hold back from telling you what ie passing in my mind, and I wish, if possible, to send you a word of encouragement,— Believe me always, with great respect, yours very truly, JoIIN Horace Greeley, Es q ., N ew York, U.S. BIGHT.IGHT. Lord Mayor Lawrence. The present Lord Mayor has fulfilled all the claims that custom had to make upon him, and in less than 12 days hence will have handed over all the symbols of office to his successor. It has not been a brilliant mayoralty, for the simple reason that it has been a quiet time in things extra civic; there has been no famine, no flood, no great rejoicm ings, no national or international celebrations —and some or all of such events are needful to give full scope to the official capabilities and personals aspirations of a Lord Mayor. But every duty of the office has been well per formed, and the citizens could never bestow their thanks more consistently than upon the gentleman who is fast ap proaching his official demise at the Mansion House. The usual banquets have taken place, and one, the dinner to the dignitaries of the Church, having been postponed fiom its usual data on account of eftliction in the family of the Lord Mayor, took place a few days since, and successful beyond expectation—satisfactory evidence of the personal esteem in which the Lord Mayor is held. But amongst the round of banquets there occurred one by means of which the present Mayoralty acquires distinction. On Friday last the Masters and Wardens of the Livery Companies dined to gether at the Mansion House, and fur the first time for many a long year there was established between the munici pality and the guilds something like a bond of fi iendly union. It has been a matter for regret that, between the Cori.ora- Lion and the Companies there was "a great gulf fixed ," the Lord Mayor has made an honourable attempt to bridge the gulf across, and has, we believe, succeeded so far that it only needs further efforts of the same kind to establish tho relationships that once existed between the twin powers of commercial and civil rule. That this undertaking was prompted by a proper recognition of the value and import ance of the guilds was made evident in the Lord Mayor's address on proposing the toast of the evening. Perhaps oven many of the Liverymen who heard him learnt something new of the utility of the companies, and the necessity for preserv ing them intact and in closer communion with the sources of civic authority than hes been the wont for a long time past. Let us hope that this was but the first of a series of demonstrations in favour of homogeneity in all the details of civic government, and that the guilds and the Corporation will hereafter understand each other more perfectly than they have done. We began this for the purpose of express ing, on behalf of our fellow citizens, a sense of thankfulness for the services rendered by the Lord Mayor during his term of office, and we have gone a long way round. Nevertheless, it is meet that there should be something said at such a time, and we are happy in the privilege of being able to testify that the Lord Mayor about to retire from office has given abundant satisfaction in the disposal of the trust re posed in him.—City Tress. SHIPPING-THIS DAY, LONDON, Oct. 31.—Wind this day at noon —North- Easterly; moderato breeze and fine weather, but rather cloudy. PLYMOUTH, Oct. 30.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Heroine, from Patras for London. FALtdounit, Oct. 30.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Favorita from Rio Janeiro—Tre Hermancs, from Guayaquil. Sailed —Helen Denny, Kenilworth, and Hansa, for the West Indies. SWANSEA, OCt. 30.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Annie B oly berg, from Hong Kong. RAMSGATE, Oct. 30, E -Wind N.E.—Arrived—Laeta, from Havannah. CARDIFF, Oat. 30.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Albert the Good, from Rio Janeiro. KINSALE, Oct. 29.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Pericles, from Cuba for Queenstown. (BY MAGNETIC TEEEnnirn,) GRAVESEND, Monday Morning. Arrived, Oct. 30—Elizabeth, from Petersburg —Mary Prin . , from Dantzic—Berman, from London—Crapaud, from Guernsey—Wilhelmina, from Hernosand—Elizabeth Ann, from D3rdt—Roe Itiddern, from Sundswall— Souvenir, from Bruges - -Belt, froze► Uothernburg—Sean. dinavian, from Sarimborg. Arrived, Oct. 31—Dorothy Jordan, from Memel. DEAL, Monday Molning. Passed, OA. 30—Glcnnarck, for Canterbury.—G e h I Nor, for Bermuda—both from Loudon. Passed, Oct. 31—Fiery Cross, from London, for Hong ----- DEATH or TIIE MARQUIS OF BRISTOL —The Marquis of Bristol, after lingering hopelessly some days, expired at five o'clock on Sunday morning at Ickworth Hall. Ills lordship was in his 61th year. By the elevation of Earl Jermyn, the late marquis's eldest soy, to the House of Lords, a vacancy will arise in the representation of Wort Suffolk, koag. 1051 i THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 31, 1864.