The Sun. — London, England, 1863-10-29 00:00:00

ONE Y MARKET AND CONNERCTAT, INTELLIGENCE. 1863. 1862. Great Western ........................ X 61,025 a 0,494 North-Western ..................... . 98,073 92,511 South-Western ...................... 22,026 21,577 MBrighton ............. ............ 19,925 20,456 idland .............................. 42,595 40,518 South-Eastern ........................ 22,356 22,789 Great Northern Lancashire and Y or ............... 33,034 33 , 144 kshire .... .. .... ........ 34,474 32 , 39 0 Bristol and E xeter Great Eastern .............. 6,139 6,128 ...... .. ....... '32173 Manchester, Sheffield,l4,397 . and Lincoln 16 ,7 30,708 83S North British .................. These returns are in most . instances of a ll very satisfactory character. On the Great Western there is an increase of f 531 ;on the North Western of £5,562 ; on the South Western, of £449; on the Midland, of £2,077 ; on the Lancashire and Yo k • shire of £2,084 ; on the Great Eastern of £1,465 ; on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, of £2,441; and on the North British of £1,116. The London and Brighton, however, shows a de crease of £530, the South Eastern of £433, and the Great Northern of £llO. Two O'CLOCK. At the first ordinary meeting to-day of share holders of the London and Colonial Bank, the report stated a branch had been opened at Mon treal, and that it was the intention of the directors to establish offices in Toronto and other parts of Canada ; also to extend operations to the British West Indies, New York, and Chicago. The official returns relating to the trade and navigation of the United Kingdom for the past 9 months, viz., to the 30th Sept., 1863, have just been published, from which it appears that the total de clared value of the exports during that period was £104,294,713 against £93,672,434 in the like period of 1862, showing an increase of £10,622,279. The chief increase has been in cotton manufactures and yarn, beer, and ale, earthenware, haberdashery and millinery, hardware and cutlery, linen manufac tures, silk manufactures, and woollen and worsted Manufactures. The importations of the principal articles were larger as regards raw cotton, provi sions, sheep and lambs' wool, coffee, sugar, tea, timber, tobacco, and wine. The shipping accounts exhibit an increase in the amount of tonnage em ployed in the foreign trade of 472,673 tons for the entries inwards, while in the clearances outwards there is also an increase of 45,842 tons. In the coasting trade for the nine months, 32,282 tons snore were employed than in the corresponding period of 1862 for the entries inwards, and there was an increase of 185,102 tons in the clearances outwards. Consols have sustained a decline of per cent. this morning, and the quotations are now 93 f for trans fer as well as the account. This retrograde move • meat has been due to sales, and to the heaviness of the French Rentes. The decline, however, is not important, and a few purchases will, no doubt, bring back prices to their former level. The New Threes and Reduced ; Annuities are 91 1; and Exchequer Bills, ls. dis. to 2s. prem.; the 5 per Cent. Loan is steady at 1091 1; and the Bonds are higher at 19s. 235. prem. In the Foreign Market there is very little ani mation, and prices are not so buoyant. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1858, are 701 e ; do., 1862, 714 s ; do., Consolides, 53k ; Mexican, 41: I; Greek, 30: ; do., Coupons, 141 15 ; Spanish Passive, 35: ; do., Certificates, 13: f ; Portuguese, 1862, 49: ; do., New Loan, lad prem. ; Russian, 93 1 ; Italian, 72 1 ; Venezuelan, 61: i; and the Confederate Loan, 64 66. In the Railway Share Market the settlement of the account occupies the principal attention of the dealers and speculators, and prices have in some instances exiiibited more firmness. North Eastern (Berwick) have advanced 5e., Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln 155., and North Western and Mid land, £l. The Foreign and Colonial shares continue in active, at about former rates. Bank Shares continue dull, at about former quo tations. India Land Mortgage are quoted 3to 31-- premium ; Angio-Austrian, a prem. ; Imperial Privileged Bank of Austria, par a prem. ; and East London, 2 to 31 prem. In the Mi scellaneous Market, Royal Mail Steam haveimproved to 811; Discount Corporation are quoted 81 to 9.1 prem. ; and Mercantile Credit, 3 to 31 prem. BRITISH FUNDS --ONE O'CLOCK. Punk Stock ..... .................... -- 3 per Cent. R e d uce d Annuities 9li 3 per C ent. C onsols Annuities 93 New 3 per Cent. Annuities lndia stock, 1874 9l Ditto 5 pet Cent. 1870 lO9l Dito 4 per C ent. 18 88 Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. Ditto 5 per Cent Ditto 51 per Cent Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863 Ditto ditto April, 1864 Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 Ditto tioudsll,000 _Ditto uv.ider £l,000 _Ditto Stock for Account e.ronsols for Account, Oct, 8 - L ,'"Glia Stock for Account, 5 per Cent — .I.4kehequor Bills 11000, 21. , , per Cent 2 Ditto £SOO Ditt o Small FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian 5 per Cent Ditto, 1839 and 1859.....- Ditto 4} per Cent., 1852-58-60 Gr ee lt ic t " / Seri!), 1863, paid ~ 5 per Cent.,11824-5, ex-Coupons 3oi i Ditto Account 3O/ /.),.. ~ Ditto c oumnts r‘ ju s.itto AccOunt ' , nou n o , Mexica n Sep tent.(Nlaremmana Railway) per Cent .... I‘is AccountoDoirctli._3 411 6 m __ _ imperial 5 per Cent ." .7.,t-iranada lsi i -1.,t0 2 per Cent 3lt V ', tto D eferred 1,,, Jitto Land Warrants (Hectares) 9a rte Land 3 per Cent., 1853 bit t o A Ditt o n "c'ullt .... . .. ..... xt _bit . t o W ee er Cent., 18 ..... ..... '9, '6O, 62 491 11 i re ...et: ..,_l3,t 'Lt lit'," `jent., 1822, £ bitte r Cent 1 T( 0 ) . - Ditto 5 Sardinian -C. Cent' 1862 Ditto A.„,r 4 r Cen t . Spanish ~ pe n. t.. ruittoicssirretjant Ditto Account - Spanish Cert. o f 6* Ditto Account . 134 P not f t ; n s d t3wedish, 4 per Ce . D. .t . ....... funded Thrkish 6 per Cent. izi. Ditto Account. ... 6.1 • Ditto 6 per Cent. 'gig Ditto Account ...... * Ditte, £lOO Bonds ...............• .... 70g i Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 ............ '731 Ditto ACCOnnt .......................... 71 , i Ditto 6 per Cent. 1863, V)9 is * ) ; .... ~ —. :l 5 1 Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. . '" Pd — dis Ditto Account... - Venezuela 3 per Cent. ................. 9 Z, Ditto Account ...................... -- -1 Ditto 6 per Cent., ISti2 ............... 64 Ditt o Account ................... . 62 - a a Dividends on the above payabl e in 1,, 14 Austrian, 5 per Cent.. Ex. 10 Florins— "" Belgian 41 per Cent., Ea• 25f Dutch 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Gail 63 4} Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 251 It alian, 5 per Cent., 1551, Ex. 25 francs 72/ ijitto Account TWO O'CLOCK, C:Jnsols, Money Ditto Account ,, CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. More firmness is observable in discount circles this morning. The enquiry for accommodation has been increased to a trifling extent by the members of the Stock Exchange, who are borrowing money to provide themselves with the means for settling their accounts in foreign bonds and railway shares. Three months' bale cannot therefore be negotieted under 3f percent. The Shannon, from the West Indies, has brought £350,311. An extrtordinary meeting of shareholders of the Standard Bank of British South Africa was held to- day for the purpose of confirming the resolutio ns passed at a l a t e meeting, authorising the central office at .Port Elizabeth the option of meeting the notes of the other branches, and enabling the colo nial accounts to be made up previous to the annual meeting . in London. The necessary confirmation vas made and the proceedings terminated. The last week's railway receipts ascertained up to this day are in round figures as under : • I SHARE lIIARKETS—This day, ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. ~, Closing Business ra Share' Railways. "" i Price. done. tiost.,Sleaf.,andMid.tlo. Blythe Bristol and Exeter a. ° l' Caledonian an4 n S e t . r. Val. Cork and Bandon Cornwall A Do A gets no dig till 6p e.p an.h ak Do. B been paid to B. I Dublin & Belfast June. bun.,Pertli,& Ab. June. Edinburgh & Glasgow.' Glasg. and S. Western. , Great Eastern, Ord. stk Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian st GreatNorthot Scotland Great Northern Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. and W. of Irelan,' Great Western Do Str Val gua.. stock Lancashire & Yorkshire London and Blackwal Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & Nor' h Western Lon. & Sw.th Western Man., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do 3 shares Nletropolitan Midland Do New Do Binning. & Derby Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. shares Mid Kart Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee I Nth. Eastern—Berwick l Do, G.N.E. purchast i( Do Lecds Do York Do Carlisle I North London Do New North Staffordshire and S. W. Junction 4 Scottish Central Scot N. E. ' . Aber. stock 1 Do Scot. Mid, stock 1 Shrews, and Welchpoo, Shropshire Union South Devon.. 1 South Eastern (South Wales IS. York. and River Dun 1 , Staines,Wok.,andWok. a Stockton & Darlington Do Do New, 1866 Taff Vale.. Do B Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta, and Pim IC Waterford & Kilkenny 1C West Cornwall 1( %V. Hartlepool Har.&R IC West Midland -Oxford it Do Newport It Do Hereford it 8 81 E3} 81 E 3 E 5 119 120 7 74 n to 16 17 1 , 8 100 108 110 50 ol 47 49 7 0 121 w 3.1 1311 132), 134 130 100 102 66 (61 Ili 111] 71 73 110 tl2 15 (6 Io3i 103; 101 112 47i it3i If9l 130, l2Bi •29 . 1 4 I :fd 97 99 65 66 25 17 101 101 574 584 87 88i [l9 121 1 2 78 79 Ili /4 :24 126 44 46 ,00 102 50 52 32. 334 96 96) 98 100 9/ :0 Hi 37/ 8 6 9 6 7 k 7 I 155 IEO 41 oi 21 31 p 86 DO 170 180 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Sha ys Closin g re Hallwa Paid. Price. Business done 100 ttlantio &St Lawrent all 63 65 ,tk Bom.,Barodadt.Cent Ind 100 106 107 107 Gu. 5 per cent.. 20 Do. New . ...... 8 1 1f p 20 Do. E. Shares 204 Buffalo and Lake Huron all 64 51 10 Do. Preference too f Butialo,Brant,tGodricl, 6p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1871 100 -- 100 Do. do. July 1,1871 i 100 100 Do. do. June 1, 1871 100 at Jlcutta..4S.l4lastn.(Lirn; 100 1( 5 107 at Cape Town Dock Seri/ 100 114 106 stock Eastn. Bengal gu. sp. r 100 108 109 stock Must Indian. gu. sp. c. 100 1071 It 84 20 Do. eo. G Ext..... 10 14 14p 20 Do. do. H do. .. 10 14 31p stock Grand Trunk of Canada Ivo 2 t 13 100 Do. Ist Fret. Bonds.. all 76 78 100 Do. no. deferred...... all 62 64 100 Do. za Pref. Bonus— all 7u 72 100 Do. do. deferr ed...... all 54 57 100 Do. 3d Pref. stock ... all 52 54 1 00 Do. do. deferred...... all 41 43 100 Do. 4th Pref. stock... all 31 33 100 Do. do. deferred...... all 26 28 stook GLlnchaPenin.gua.6p.c 100 1084 109. i SO Do. New gua. sp. 0. 12 14 111 131 20 Do. January, 1862 8 14 141 stock Gt. Soutli.of India/Lim; guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 106 107 204 Gt. W. of Canada Sharer all 101 101 20 4 Do. New ............18 1 10 100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. all 96 98 100 Do. 54 p. c. do. '77-8.... all 87 89 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 4 p stock Madras guar., sp.c. .. 100 106 107 stock Do. 4i p. c. Extension 100 101 102 102 stock De. 4e do-- 100 CS 100 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 -- Ito2k Melb.Corn. np. o. Buda. 100 50 Melb. & Hobson's Bay. all 58 69 100 Do. 7p. c. Mortg. Bds. air !O Newßf auswick s Canda Class A. an d B . all 3 5 v.ltl.C'da6 pc let Pi bds 100 82 84 stock Soinde (100 1064 1074 1074 st j Do. Delhi lOO 106 107 / Do. do •• 51 2 4iP 20 Do. Punja u b all et Du. Do. ........ , , 106 107 ock Do. Indus. St. Flo.) ' k 100 102 104 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. p.c.J. ui) 1877-84 100 104 105 1041 Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug. 100 tt2 ¶O4 1032 I Do. 41 p. c.3lar. & Sept. 100 102 104 ! Do. p. c. Jan.&July. 100 95 84 931 - Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 92 94 Cape G.llope, 6 p 0,1873 100 108 110 Do.Ap & Oct. 1880 100 109 111 I Do. 18th 100 109 111 Dc. Jan. & July, 1891 100 113 115 Ceyion, Z;0y.1378, 6p c 100 113 M Mauritius 6 per cent lOO 107 108 1094 Natal Gov. 6 per cont. 100 117 109 NJ:3.6ov. 6 p.c.J a.&Jul) 100 ►Ot 105 I Do. 6p. o.Ap. & Oct. 100 - N. S.W. G ov. 5 p 180, 100 1011 1021 - Du. 5 13. c.,18.1 to 1:71 100 102 103 1021 - Do. d0.,1888 &upwds 100 1021 103 1021 'New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 109 11l , Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. I sterling, 1875 lOO 104 106 1011 Queensland (icy. 6p. c lOO ill 113 ,6. Aus G6p.c.187e.& up lOO 112 114 Vle.Grov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 108 110 Do. io R D.o. in.dzOot.. 1100 1104 Mi l 111 10; 11i BRITISH MINES. 2 ;Cambrian Consol. Gold ( 1 id Ghliord Amalgamated 1 34 39 Devcn G. Con.. ".I.'avist , 1 545 655 East Bassett (Illogran) 3O 70 73 1 jEast Clogau G o ld Ltd . 5 3. 5d parr !East Caradon ...... 2.14.6 261 271 - j East Carn Brea 3.4.0 61 78 E. W'l Russel (Tayistk ) 8.6.6 331 3 4 - IGam.&StAulayn(Gwen ) t.Bl 13 15 —V rent South Tolgus l7s 41 h 11. Wheal Vor (Heston 40 1u 11 Grenville 5.16. t. 54 6 tiered's-Foot 8.12 54 86 tfingston Downs 4. 8.0 It 21 , Lady Bertha Margaret (tiny Lelant uk 18 20 Marke Valley. 4 Myndy Iron Ore (Lima, 2/ 14 New Setun .. 19J 95 105 -- North Downs 24 11 2 WWI Basset(lllo4au, 2.17.0 21 3 }North Wheal Crotty 2.6 9 51 6 I Par Consols (5.t. Blazey, 14 20 Providence (Uny Lelnt.; 10.6.7 345 South Caradon(St.Cleer, 14 415 125 3. Calm Brea (Illogan) 5.15.6 Fran. (Mogan 1..1 -.9) 60 65 ;Stray Park 30.17.6 36 38 6 I famarSily.& Lead Min 42 5 4 fin Cron 9 19 20 West Basset (Illogan) ll 91 10/ W C' radon (Liskeard) 5 20 22 West Setou Wheal Basset (Mogan; 51 721 771 Wheal Buller(Redruth) 5 18 22 Wheal Kitty(li.Lelant; 2.0.6 WhealLuthott :2.10.8 11 24 Wheal MaryAnni,Xen )1 8 111 121 Wheal Seton 584 180 190 Wheal Tretawney (Lis.)l 7 21 23 Wheal Union 1 3.17 21 3 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great 7, 'orthern, 41:per cent., red, at IS per cent. pm., 103 Great Western, 46 per cent. pref., 1014 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. London and Blackwall, 41 per cent. stk., 1011 2 London, Chatham, tc., Metrop. r:xt., B, 6 per cent., 104 Ditto, 6 per cent., C, 861 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Lancaster and Carlis!e, 210 London and Chatham 4. per Cent., 92f Nottingham and Grantham R. & C. 961 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 84 Great Luxembourg, 13* Ottoman (Smyrna to Aiding, 114 San Paulo (lim.), gua. 7 per cent., 94 Ditto, new, 224 FOREIGN MINES. Kapunda (lim.), r li United Mexican tlim;, 6 JOIN T-STOCK BANKS. Agra and United Service (Um.), 122 1 Australasia, Ditto, new, 371 8 Bank of Queensland (lim), ifs Imperial Bank (lim.), 238 Imperial Ottoman, iBl 18 London, Buenos Ayres, and River Plate, 52 London and South American, lint, London and Westminster, 80 Mercantile and Exchange, lina.;l3/ National of Liverpool, limited, 191 Oriental Bank Corporation, 60 Provincial of Ireland, 93 Scinde, Punjaub. and Delhi (1Im. ) , Union of Australia, 60 Union of London, ZBl :DOCKS.: London, G 9 St. Katharine, 68} MISCELLANEOUS. Hudson's Bay, 9 84 Madras Irrigation and Canal, 31 Peninsula and Oiiental Steam, Ditto, new, 51 Rhymney Iron, Ditto, new, 8 Rio de Janeiro City Improvements, 271 South Australian Land, 334 THE " LIFT" AT THE GROSVENOR HOTEL.--At the Grosvenor the traveller steps into a room, throws himself on a IJunging sofa, and lo I he is in a trice on the third fl )or. When wo consider the waste of human muscles that a few gallons of water scientifically applied 3in save, we wonder that these convenient ascending rooms w ere not in p u bli c use l ong ago. One hundred and twenty g t "'me of wa t er i s suff i cient to work the hydraulic appara " b y which t h e room, w i th its complement of seven in. m ates, c an thOUREt be lift e d, say 120 f eet, w hi ch, at fivepence a P 'A gallons, m a k es t h e cost a l i tt l e more than a half- stook stook 204 204 100 100 10 stock stook stock 20 stock .toc* Bt{ St II OCk t 3.14. (9.16.4 12.10 THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING!, ocroBER 29, 1863, LAW INTELLIGECE.—This Day. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.) IN RE rEARsoN.—EXTENSIVE FAILURE OF A MERCHANT. THE AMERICAN WAR. This bankrupt, Zachariah Charles Pearson, of Nicholas lane, Lombard -street, and of Kingston-upon-Hull, traded under the style of Z, C, Pearson & Co. He was a mer chant trading to all parts of the world, and large ship owner. The failure is one of the largest which has been brought into the Court for many years, the debit side of the account showing figures to the extent of £545,000, and the deficit, according to the bankrupt's own showing, amounts to the very large sum of £212,574. The case uas last before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd in July last, when it was adjourned until this day, the assignees in the mean while using strenuous exertions to realize the estate, a large portion of which consisted of vessels and freight, which had been seized by the American (Federal) Govern merit as contraband of war. In the first page of the balance-sheet it is stated that the bankrupt has a claim on the Federal Government of £87,692, on the Confederate Government for £99,000, and on the Italian Government £7,500. The claims of unsecured creditors are £115,330; of cre ditors holding security, £147,461; liabilities, £68,490; liabilities on bills payable, £12,336; creditors to be paid in full, .0.355 ; good and doubtful debts, £6,581; property given up to assignees, £24,355; property in the hands of creditors, £320 615 ; leaving the deficiency, as above stated, of £212,574. The capital was stated to be on the 10th July, 1858, £20,145; drawing account, £!2,414; trade expenses, £15,781; losses, £198,616; profits, £65,861. During a portion of the time Mr. James Coleman was a partner in the firm, and retired in July, 1860, receiving £4,000. The ship losses are on ships and cargoes sold to the Con federate Government, who refused to fulfil their contract, and the capture by the officers of the Federal Government of sundry ships—viz, the Patras, with freight and cargo, £15,378 ; Stettin, ditto, £19,810; Circassian, ditto, £35,000; Empress, £3,003; L)ndona, £14,744; in all £87,962. The steamship Orrell was chartered in 1860 by Garibaldi to take passengers from Genoa to Messina, mid a clause was inserted chat if the passengers took forcible posses sion of the vessel in the harbour of Genoa, the charterer was to pay the owner £5,000. The passengers took possession of the vessel in the harbour of Genoa, and £5,000 became: due 1 - 7 Garibaldi, whose liabilities hays been adopted by the Italian Government, who have ad mitted their liability, and made an offer of compromise, £5,000; sundry expenses in prosecuting claim, £2,500; the losses on steam ships are thus summed up—eight ships lost at sea, £24,276 on six sold, £11,620; and one built in the Thames. £13,192; on six captured by the Federal cruisers, £34,223; on ten mortgaged to creditors, £63,461 ; making in all with a sloop and yacht, £146,827, The losses in 1859 were £33; in 1860, £7,495 ; in 1861, £16,624; is 1862, £122,673 ; in all, £146,827. The case was appointed for 11, but not called up to one o'clock. It is expected it will be adjourned. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH•STREET. A DISTURBANCE AT THE LONDON PAVILION.-Mr. Henry Hornby, of No. 1, Eversfield-terrace, Dalston, and Mr. Raymond Darby, riding-master, Holland-park Riding School, was charged as follows : Sergeant Henry Allen, 20 C, said that at a quarter past eleven last night he was called into the London Pavilion, where the defendants were making a great disturbance, one of them being engaged in fighting with a person. The ee fendants were given into custody by one of the proprietors, (M. Loibl), and they were taken to the Vine•street station, but on promising not to return to the place, M. Leibl did not press the charge, and they were allowed to go. The defendants, forgetting their promise, went back to the London Pavilion and got up a disturbance at the door. He (the sergeant) moved them away, and on getting to Scott's the defendants went in, but, being very drunk, were speedily ejected without being served. The defendants then re turned to the London Pavilion and created a disturbance, and he took them into custody. One of the defendants said that a remark was made about his companion at the London Pavilion, and then he was struck on the nose. They were taken to the station, but the charge was not pressed, and why they went back was to get his hat, which he lost in the melde. Mr. Knox said the fact was the defendants got drunk last night and made fools of themselves. If they had be longed to the class of costermongers he should have fined them 5s each, but as they belonged to a mote decent rank he should fine them lOs each, and would advise them not to make such fools of themselves again. THAMES. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY A POOR NEEDLEWOMAN.—Ann Andrews, a wretched and half-starved looking woman, aged 23 years, and described as a needlewoman, of No. 6, Limehouse-causeway, was brought before Mr. Partridge, charged with attempting to commit suicide by throwing herself into the City Canal at Millwall, Poplar, at one o'clock this morning. John Somers, a police-constable, No. 372 K, stated that the prisoner walked over the bridge at Millwall, went down the side of the lock, and before he could stop her, plunged into the water. The lock was 25 feet in depth, and she must have been drowned if a bargeman had not answered his cries for help, and brought a barge and long staff with a stout iron hook at the end of it, with which he got the woman out of the water, She was quite unconscious, and five minutes elapsed before she exhibited any signs of life. She had been very ill all night. The prisoner said she was very sorry for what she had done. Mr. Partridge remanded the priSoner to the Clerkenwell House of Detention for a week, and said the chaplain would give her good advice while she was there. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE WITII OXALIC AClD.—Mary Ann Duck, a woman of the town, who had been is custody a week, was brought up on remand before Mr. Partridge, charged with attempting to commit suicide by swallowing a pennyworth of oxalic acid, which she purchased at the shop of Mr. George Croucher, a chemist and druggist, No. 220, High-street, Shadwell. Mr. Croucher said he had been in the practice of selling the stuff knowi t as sugar of lead to the prostitutes of Rat cliff-highway and Shadwell. He had sold sugar of lead to the prisoner before. A pennyworth would not destroy the life of an adult. The women made lotions of the poison for outward applications. Mr. Partridge said he had received a letter, of which the following is copy, from the chaplain of the House of Deten tion in relation to this case:— "House of Detention, October 29, 1863. "Dear Sir,---Allow me to suggest that it might be ad visable to recommend the poor girl, Mary Ann Duck, for admission into th e wor kh ou se f u r a time, i n th e event of her discharge. I had thought of a reformatory institution, but she is not at present in a state of health to allow of her ad mittance. She seems to be in a rather better state of mind, and promises to make no further attempt on her own life. —Believe me yours very truly, " GEORGE JEPSON, Chaplain. "To William Partridge, Esq., Thames Police -court." Mr. Partridge hoped the unfortunate woman would make no more attempts on her life, and directed Police-sergeant Dillon, No. 19 K, to convey the prisoner to the workhouse of St. George-in-the-East. lI,S, Feeling and " Quasi-Envoys," TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. New York, Oct. 17, 1863. SIR,—In consequence of the persistent declara tions made by certain persons in England—for in stance, Mr. Forster, M.P., and gentlemen who go over from this country in the capacity of, what are called here, " quasi-envoys" of the Washington Government, at anti-slavery meetings, and so forth —upon, as they allege, the general good feeling towards our nation and people which exists in the Northern States of America, I desire, with you; leave, to offer some remarks to your readers. In ordinary times nothing could be further from coy wishes than to intrude any abstract opinions of mine upon " national feeling," believing that that shows itself more clearly in the long run by acts and deeds than by descriptions. However, whe❑ certain parties and cliques in England--whether through ignorance or prejudice, or from political motives, or for considerations—give dogmatic opinions to my countrymen, which I know, from practical observa tion and experience, to be false, it appears to me, under the circumstances, that, if I were to withhold my humble but now very experienced opinion on the "state of feeling" referred to, the reticence would be a shirking of the duty or moral responsi bility which belongs to every British man—viz., to do whatever within him rests, that his nation shall not be injured through his countrymen being deceived, or allowing themselves to be deceived, upon subjects of national or, perhaps more strictly, it should be said, international importance. Without its being necessary to enter into theo retical disquisitions, for which I have no apti tude, and probably your readers no special wish— it will be admitted that now-a-days the general sentiments or " feeling" of the ruling portion of any great commercial nation, be it a republic or an e mpire, are of considerable practical importance to us. 6Therefore it is important for us to know—as correctly as such things can be known—how the ruling or (as they are called and call themselves in the United States) the "prominent politicians," of ,he Northern States feel towards Great Britain and the British. INly opinions on this subject inter alia were ex • pressed--Lo doubt insufficiently, but earnestly and Vie Sun of 2d April, 1862, that is, now n early eighteen months since, thus:— "No doubt we wish—as the British generally w i s h —well to Americans generally, and we know for the material interests of both countries, especi ally for those of the United States, that peace and am ity is the best policy. We all, therefore, would w i s h that amongst every class, at least amongst those who are known as the prominent,' of all classes in the Northern States, a malignant, perse vering, unexplained antipathy did not exist, but all oa r wishes, so far as I am aware, d o not alter the fact that so it is." The additional experience of nearly a year and a half's travelling, &e., enables me to assert that not only, in substance, the above is a correct view of an unpleasing subject, but that any rational man, who has had reasonable opportunities to see, hear, and read realities during the last three years, in the Northern section of the States, and would arrive at a dif f erent conclusion, must found it on wishes or prejudicial imaginations, and net on palpable, de monstrable facts. It would not be in any way difficult to show how certain persons, described ns " quasi- Mr. Thurlow W ee d, R ev . M r . envoys"—ex. gr. , Cheevers, Rev. H. W. Beecher, and certain of the hierarchy of " different denominations," have spoken of " Great Britain and the British" to their congregation and " people,' here before they went "peace and unity" in th e o ld country— to speak of and how t h e y, on their return, try every means that ',political sermons," " orations," and pamphlets can effect, to stir up additional and bitterness against that "old country." I wish my country men to know realities, and not to be misled by an organised system of decepti on here, and in Eng land.--I am , sir, your obedient servant, A BRITISH TRAVELLER. RE A.. GURNEY. The bankrupt was a licensed victualler in the Lower road, Islington, and this was a meeting for declaring a dividend. Mr. Joseph Hart (Hart Brothers and Hayles) stated the debts amounted to £2,100, and the assets in land amount to £1,050. The assignees therefore propose to pay a dividend of 6d. in the pound, reserving £5OO for contin gencies. It is expected the estate will pay eventually from to le. 6d. in the pound. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—This Day, OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Baron Martin.) TAE FATAL FIGHT NEAR ST. MARTIN'S LANE. William Perkins, aged 20, was indicted on the Coroner's inquisition, of the manslaughter of Thomas Prindevill, a potman at the Hand and Bracket, Whitcombe-street, St. Martin's-lane. He pleaded not guilty. It will be recollected that deceased and the prisoner quarrelled, and left the house to fight it out in the street, accompanied by a number of persons who were in the house at the time. After they had fought three or four rounds, both being the worse for liquor, the deceased' was knocked down twice, and was ultimately taken away by " Young Broome," as not fit to fight. The deceased after wards went to bed, and the following morning was found lying in bed dead. On a post mortem examination, it was found that death had been caused by an effueion of blood on the brain either from the effects of a blow or a fall. Mr. Baron Martin told the jury the only question was whether the blow accelerated or caused death. The jury found the prisoner guilty. The learned Judge, in passing sentence, said prisoners in this country were only punished when they had committed a crime. The prisoner had been found guilty of man slaughter, which was an offence, but no one could doubt that the death was an accident, although both were acting ille gally at the time; he thought it quite sufficient to inflict a nominal sentence of one day's imprisonment. Two young men, named John Nicholson and James God win, were indicted for forging and uttering a cheque for £1.5, with intent to defraud the National Bank. It appeared that a gentleman named Yatham, left his office for a short time, during which a desk was broken open and a blank cheque was torn from his book. On the 30th September, Godwin employed one of the parties at Doctors' Commons, named Hockham, to go to the National Bank and get cash for it, and return to the Commons. The porter went, but on presenting the cheque, it was pronounced a for gery; and in order to detect the person who gave the cheque, a bag of coppers was made up, given to Hockham, and in Great Knight Ryder-street the prisoner Godwin came up to get the money. Packman, a detective, Game up, and on telling him he was - a police-officer, he said a person named Cox had given it to him, and afterwards he said Nicholson was the real person who had arranged for the presentation of the cheque. The evidence was very deficient as regarded Nicholson, who, it was believed, had used Godwin in some measure as a tool, and the Judge directed a verdict of not guilty to be returned against him. Mr. Orridge made a very powerful address for the pri soner, and The learned Judge said the question for the jury was, if the prisoner, when he employed the porter to present the cheque, was aware that it was a forgery. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty. NEW COURT. (Before the Common Serjeant.) George Turner, deseribed as an agent, was indicted for obtaining £3OO upon false pretences from the Rev. John Cox. It appeared that the prisoner inserted an advertise ment, stating that he had a living to sell, and Mr. Cox having answered it a long correspondence took place. Ultimately Mr. Cox went with the prisoner to view the living, which turned out to be that of Hard wake, near Wellingborough. The prisoner said the vendor for whom he acted was a Mr. James Wilson, of Clapham, and upon that Mr. Cox, alter consulting his solicitor, paid £3OO by way of deposit. Evidtnce was then given to show that Mr. Daniel, Q.C., Mr. Cradock, and other persons were trustees of the living of Hardwick, and that no Mr. Wilson had anything to do with it, and also that the prisoner had no authority to sell. The defence set up is that fraud was intended. The case will occupy the court the whole day. THIRD COURT. James Hart, one of the trustees of the Sons of Honour Society, held at the Shepherd and Shepherdess, in Old Gravel-lane, Commercial-road, was indicted under the Fraudulent Trustees Act, on the fiat of the Attorney- General, with having received and appropriated to his own use the sum of £2l Is., with intent to defraud the stewards and members of the society. It appeared that at a general meeting of the members, the prisoner, with a person named Jaggers, was appointed trustees of the Burial Fund, and they received the sum o £2O to invest in the Savings Bank in the name of the So ciety, which they duly did. On March 4, 1862, a death having occurred, the prisoner and his co. trustee were directed to withdraw the money from the bank, and pay it over to the steward, at a meeting to be held on the 19th. The prisoner obtained the money, £2l Os., and at tended the meeting, but when asked for it he aid he had left it with his brother, and when told to fetch it he refused, and, using a coarse expression, said he would not give it up, and had in fact retained it to his own use. _ _ . Evidence having been add uce d, The jury found the prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment. George Anderson and George Brown were indicted for stealing a box containing a quantity of collars, the property of Augustus Laurie, the master of Brown. The jury found both prisoners guilty, and they were sen tenced to 18 months' imprisonment with hard labour. Alexander Johnstone, clerk, pleaded guilty to an indict ment, charging him with stealing 10 certificates for shares in the Standard Bank of Africa, value £2OO, and one Grenada Land Warrant, value £l2, the property of his master. He was sentenced to three years' penal servitude. FEARFUL MURDER TN LIMERICK.—LIMERICK, MONDAY, Oct. 26.—Much alarm has been occa sioned in the locality of Bruff, in this county, by the per petration of a murder, which came to light last night, in the discovery, by the constabulary, of the body of a man named Patrick Quinlan, a , baker by trade, whose remains were found, shockingly mutilated, upon the roadside at Ballina goola, near Grange. The skull was fractured in several parts, and injuries of a severe nature were apparent on the chest, neck, and arms, as if inflicted by some weighty in, strument or bludgeon. Two men, named Thomas Hogan and Thomas Shaughnessy, who were seen in the eampaiii of the deceased early last evening, have been aiTe§444 suspicion, and marks of blood, it is said, have bv4i, t i i iii upon their clothing. For this one of them . (Hogan) ac..l counts by stating that he had a fight with Shaughnessy. An inquest will be held tomorrow by the coroner. The prisoners are in custody.--Fteeinan. Yesterday Deputy-Judge Payne was robbed of his w atch in Fleet -street, The thief got cleta off, WESTMINSTER. A RESPECTABLE MARRIED WOMAN.—Charles Baker, it cab driver, was charges.' with robbery under the following extraordinary circumstances : Annie Homes, who described herself as a married woman, and the wife of a pensioner, said that at 2 o'clock thi;morn. ing she was coming home down South Audley-street, when the prisoner accosted her and asked her if she wanted a cab. ~.. She replied, " No, thank you, I have no money," when he inquired whether she was going towards Chelsea, and on her replying in the affirmative, he said, "Never mind, I'll take you for nothing—jump in," which she did, but they had not gone far before ho asked her to have something to drink, and she agreeing, they turned into Piccadilly from Park-lane, and she had some gin and water. He then drove on towards her home, when she missed her money, and told him so, upon which he said if she did not get out of the cab he'd kick her out, when she alighted and hung on behind the cab till she was exhausted and fell. She then got up and ran after the cab, calling "stop thief," till pri soner was apprehended, when she gave him into custody for robbing her of Bs. 6d. Mr. Arnold--Have you told me all the facts ? Prosecutrix—Yes. Mr. Arnold—l thought you said that you told the cab man you had no money. Prosecatrix—l meant that I had no money to spend on cabs. Mr. Arnold—You say that he brought the gin and water to you in the cab. I don't see how he could have robbed yon. Prosecutrix—He stood close to me inside the cab. Mr. Arnold—You did not say that before. Was the cab a Hansom ? Prosecutrix—Yes; and the flaps were open. Mr. Arnold—You describe yourself as a respectable mar ried woman. Do you live with your husband f Prosecutrix—Yes, your worship. Mr. Arnold—Then, may I ask whether you are in the habit of riding with cabmen and not paying them ? Prosecutrix—No, but I was tired and thought I would like to ride home. Mr. Arnold—What do you say to drinking with the man ? Prosecutrix—Well, he asked me. Mr. Arnold—And are you, being a respectable married woman, in the habit of drinking with cabmen at 2 o'clock in the morning. Prosecutrix—Not generally. I believe never before. Mr. Arnold here intimated that if the man did reb the woman, which he very much doubted, the case ought not to have been brought here, but taken to Marlborough street, The police intimated that the woman said last night that he was inside the cab with her and robbed her in Caeogan place, Chelsea, Mr. Arnold (to prosecutrix)—Did you say that ? Prosecutrix—l cannot remember, I might have said so. Mr. Arnold—Oh. I can't place any reliance upon th 6 :estimony of this woman. The prisoner is discharged. THE PARALLAX OF SHOOTING STARS. A Cor respondent of the _Reader (A. S. Herscho'l) writing to our contemporary, observes :—Father Secchi in August, 1861, aided by a base-line, 40 miles in length, between Rome and Civita-Vecehia, and the electric telegraph, by which observations of the same meteor at tho two stations were insured, gathered some most valuable facts respecting the elevation of the shooting stars of the 9th, 10th, and 11th of August in that year with a minimum of trouble and of liability to error. The following extracts from the Roman newspapers of Aug. 13, 1861, were from the pen of Father Secchi, describing the immediate results of his expe riments :—" Near to the zenith no shooting star had a parallax of less than 20 to 30 degrees, but occasionally a somewhat greater parallax than this, which was ascer tained by the constellations intervening between the two apparent places of the meteors. It was i mpossible even for inexperienced observers to be mistaken in the meteors doubly seen. These observations, therefore, establish the moderate height of shooting stars. For, if we admit a parallax of 35 degrees, near the zenith to be not greater than was actually observed, their height at nearest approach to the earth will be 90 kilometers , or 50 geographical miles (581 miles English), above ;its surface. On the other hand, the least parallax observed, of 20 degrees, implies an elevation of 180 kilometers (117 English miles) at their greatest height above the earth. On the 10th of August last, observations were made at Ilawkhurst, which prove that the electric telegraph is not an indispensable aid in these inquiries. The use of a well regulated timekeeper was found to insure the identification of a meteor, without the possibility of a mistake. A parallax of 35 deg. was commonly observed between Cambridge and llawkhurst, and of 15 deg. between Greenwich, or London and Hawk hurst, at disappearance of the meteors. The following heights of appearance and disappearance observed on this occasion approximate in their average very nearly to the foregoing results obtained by Father Sfcchi. THF. SCHILLER MONUMENT AT FRANKFORT, ()n the 16th inst. the first stone of the monument about to be raised in Frankfort in memory of Schiller was lair]. In presence of a deputation of the senate, a number of valuable documents, several pieces of money, some bot tles of wine, and three balls, containing wheat, barley, and oats, were deposited in the hollow of the stone. Amongst the documents are a copy of the album presented by the town to the sovereigns who attended the banquet given at Photograph the Kaisersaal, as well as Ahotograph of t h e roya l per sonages who took part in the Congress o f 1863.-2 he Weeder. THE SHAM LIFE ASSIrIi..ANCE SOClETY.—Yes terday the three men, Knowlden, Oxford, and Dron, the three officers of tho Perseverance Li: - e Assuran?.,o and Sick Fund Friendly Society, were convicted of conspiring, at the Old Bailey, and the Common Sergeant sentenced them to 18 months' imprisonment . UNJUST ASPERSION ON A. VALIANT S.OLDIE.R,— inquiring Efigii,hinall---"But I thought Grcucral Brogg Was a Yankee r indignant Southerner—" Oh I by no means—only nominally !"---E14"11* THE SOURCES OF THE NILE, (From the Athencrum.) D Urban, Port Natal, South-East Coast of Africa, Aug. 25, 1863. Having taken a great interest in the travels of Captains Burton and Speke to the Victoria Nyanza Lake, and Captains Speke and Grant's late journey through Central Africa to discover the sources of the Nile, I send you a few extracts from Purchas's "Relations of the World," published in 1617. Page 839, I. I n the kingdom° of Goyame the river Niles springeth ; it is there called Gi on and comes from two Lakes which for their gr eatness may seeme to bee Seas, in which report goeth that Mermaydes, Tritons or Menfshes are scene, and some have told me (saith Aluarez) that they have seen it. Peter Conillian, a Portugal], which had Jived a great part of his life in those partes, told me that hee had been in that kingdom by order from Queen Helena," &c. Pages 578 and 879, " There is, indeed, another Lake, which Nilus maketh in his course, but standeth Northward from the first Lake Zembae, and not in East or West parallel!. Neyther does Nilus (as some affirme) hide it se lf under the ground, e a t n r d ou a s d ft e e n r r es, without an y sett l e d c h a nnel', and where no peopl e i n h a bi ted, from Ydesartse agame, but runneth t h rough mon valley w h en ce that fabulous opinion did grow. This Lake is situate in 12 degrees of Southerly Latitude, and is compassed about like a vault with exceeding high mountaines, the greatest whereof are called Casates, upon the East, and the Has of Sal-Nitrum and the [llls of Selver, on another side, and on the other side with divers other mauntains. The River Nilus runneth northwards many hundred Inyles and then entreth into another great Lake, which the inhabi tants doe call a Sea; it is much bigger than the first and contayneth in breadth two hundred and twentie myles, right under the Equinoctiall Lyne. Of this second Lake, theAnzichi give certain and perfect intelligence, for they traffique into those parts. And they report that in this second Lake there is a people that say l et h i n great shipper, and can write, and useth number, weight and measure, which they have not in the parts of Congo; that they build their houses with Lyme and Stone, and for, their fashions and qualities may be compared with the Portugalls. This seemeth to be in Goyame, where the Abassine entitled himselfe King, and in his title (as before you have read) cats it the Fountain of Nilus, which Aivarez also mentioneth that Peter Conillian saw." The first lake referred to must be the Lake Nyassa, about which Dr. Livingstone has written so much; the lake under the Equinoctial Line is the Victoria Nyanza Lake. If you could obtain admission to the archives of the Portuguese Government you would find that the Victoria Nyanza Lake was well known to the Portuguese; but they keep all their disco veries in the dark, to suit their own ends, on account of their jealousy towards other nations, to prevent trading in or near their possessions on this coast; to wit, a cutter I sent last year into one of the rivers northward was seized by them, and all on board were bound, whilst suffering from fever , and were thrown into an open boat for days, on e of whom died whilst thus exposed to rain and weatherivory (this was in an endeavour to open up the trade on near the the coast), and they would not have boon released then if a British man-of-war had spot—the particulars of which affaniertareeennow in the hands of the British Govern ment. - vir. R. DICKENSON. St. John' THE AFRICA STF,A3I6IIIP.—, .1 (AM'S, NE ', Oct. 14.—The Africa still remains opposite the entrance of the harbou r, but will shortly move u p to a I sheltered position. H er mails go to Halifax on T hursday by the Vesuvius. Ca p t. Stone considered himself 15 miles f ur ther south when she struck. d fast that when t he engines slowed to t a k e on the pilot the uecrki. difficult S uai h tt air here, as th ere e t the to r pumps ummaking water so ps to k eep h er p afloat.passen geHrsehraiil j t ti o ri a e s s s w is i t il t b h is no dockyard large enough to receive her, Oct. 15.—The Africa has been beached in a sheltered place at th e h ea d o f the harbour. It is im p o ssible to ascertain the extent of the d am age till divers arrive from Halifax. A portion of the stern and keel forward is entirely the keel from the sternposi; is also gone, and a portion of gone. There are other damages amidships. The passengers have been provided f o r on shore. L'ANGLAIS TimiDE.--Sir Robert Pol."— Punch, 1281 8 134 i 46 1041 4 Field Marshal Lord Clyde's Codicil. " STRANGE TO SAY, ON CLUB PAPER." Quoting from the Observer newspaper of the 27th September (sth page, 4th column)— , ‘Th e co di c i l appended to the will of the late Lord Clyde, exe cuted at Chatham, 'and bearing the signature of ' Clyde, F.M.,' is written, strange to say, on a sheet of paper bearing the Athenaeum Club saark"—Mr. Thackeray, in the new number of the C ornhill Magazine, discourses thus charmingly, grav e l y , humorously, patheticaJly, impressively : The will of Field-Mt rshal Lord Clyde sign e d at Chatham, mind, where his •lordship died—is written, strange to say, on a sheet of paper bearing the Athena-u n , Club mark I The inference is obvious. A man cannot get Athenaeum paper except at the Atheneum. Such paper is not sold at Chatham, where the last codicil to his lordship's will is dated, And so the painful belief is forced upon us, that a Peer, a Field-Marshal, wealthy, respected, illustrious, could pocket paper at his club, and carry it away with him to the country. One fancies the hall porter conscious of the old lord's iniquity, and holding down his head as the marshal passes the door. What is that roll which his lordship carries ? Is it his marshal's baton gloriously won ? No ; it is a roll of foolscap conveyed from the club. What has he on his breast, under his great-coat? Is it his Star of India ? No ; it is a bundle of envelopes, bearing the head of Minerva, some sealing-wax, and a half-score of pens. Let us imagine how in the hall of one or other of these clubs this strange anecdote will be discussed. "Notorious screw," says Sneer. "The poor old fellow's avarice has long been known." " Suppose he wishes to imitate the Duke of Marlborough,'' says Simper. "Habit of looting contracted in India, you know; ain't so easy to get over, you know," says Snigger. " When officers dined with him in India," remarks Solemn, "it was notorious that the spoons were all of a different pattern." "Perhaps it isn't true. Suppose he wrote his paper at the club ?" interposes Jones. "It is dated at Chath am, my good man, " says Brown. "A man if he is in London, says he is in London. A man if he is in Rochester, says he is in Rochester. This man happens to forget that he is using the club paper : and he happens to be found out : many men don't happen to be found out. I've seen literary fellows at clubs writing their rubbishing articles; I have no doubt they take away reams of paper. They crib thoughts : why shouldn't they crib stationery? One of your literary vagabonds who is capable of stabbing a reputation, who is capable of telling any mon strous falsehood to support hie, party, is surely capable of stealing a ream of paper." " Well, well, we have all our weaknesses," sighs Robinson. "Seen that article, Thompson, in the Observer about Lord Clyde and the club paper ? You'll find it up- stairs. In the third column of the fifth gage towards the bottom of the page. I suppose ho was so poor he couldn't afford to buy a quire of paper. Hadn't fourpence in the world. Oh, no!" " And they want to get up a testimonial to this man's memory—a statue or something I" elks Jawkins. " A man who wallows in wealth and takes paper away from his club I I don't say he is not brave. Brutal courage most men have. I don't say he was not a good officer; a man with such experience must have been a good officer, unless he was born fool. But to think of this man loaded with honours—though of a low origin —so lost, to self-respect as actually to take away the Athena3um paper I These, par- venue, sir, betray their origin—betray their origin. I said to my wifo this very morning, • Mrs. Jawkins,' I said, there is talk of a testimonial to this man. I will not give one shilling. I have no idea of raising statues to fellows who take away club paper. No, by George, I have not. Why, they will be raising statues to men who take 3lub spoons next I Not one penny of my money shall they have I' " And now, if you please, we will tell the real story which has furnished this scandal to a newspaper, this tattle to club gossips and loungers. The field-marshal, wishing to make a futher provision for a frienci, informed his lawyer what he desired to do. The lawyer, a member of the Athenaeum Club, there wrote the draft of such a codicil as he would advise, and sent the paper by post to Lord Clyde at Chatham. Lord Clyde, finding the paper perfectly satis- factory, signed it and sent it back : and hence we have the story of " the codicil bearing the signature of Clyde, F.M. and written, strange to say, upon paper bearing the Athe nssum Club mark," Here I have been imagining a dialogue between a half• dozen gossips such as congregate round a club fire •place an afternoon. I wonder how many people besides•—whether any chance reader of this very page, has read and believed this story about the good old lord ? Have the country papers copied the anecdote, and our "own correspondents' made their remarks on it ? If, my good sir, or madam you have read it and credited it, don't you own to a little feeling of shame and sorrow, now that the trumpery little mystery is cleared ? To " the new inhabitant of light,'' passed away and out of reach of our censure, misrepresen tation, scandal, dulness, malice, a silly falsehood matters nothing ? Censure and praise are alike to him—" the music warbling to the deafened ear, the incense wasted on the funeral bier," the pompous eulogy pronounced over the gravestone, or the lie that slander spits on it. Faithfully though this brave old chief did his daty,honest and upright though his life was, glorious his renown—you see ha could write at Chatham cn London pater; you see men can be found to point out how "strange" his behaviour was, MARKETS--This Day, MARK-LANE. IMPERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES. —Wheat, 40s Od ; barley, 33s Ild ; oats, 188 7d ; rye, 28s 9d ; beans, 36s 5d ; and peas, 35s Bd. THE SIX WEEKS' AVERAGES. Wheat, 42s Od ; barley, 34s 9d; oats, 19s 7d; rye, 30s 8d; beans, 37s 7d; peas, 36s 3d. ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK.—Wheat, 101,742; barley, 90,353 ; oats, 12,185; rye, 179; beans, 4,323; peas 1,787 quarters. METROPOLITAN CATTLE. The supply of beasts on offer in to-day's market was only moderate as to number, and the general quality of the stock was inferior. The few prime breeds on offer sold readily, at very full prices. Otherwise, the beef trade was in a slug gish state, on former terms. There was a good consumptive demand for sheep—the show of which was rather limited — at fully previous rates. A few very superior Downs rea lised 5s 8d per slbs. Calves met a dull inquiry, at aboui stationary prices. The supply was by no means extensive In pigs and mulch cows, very little business was transacted at late rates. For Sib. to sink the offal. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Crse. &inf. beasts 3 2 3 61Pri nae crs-wool d 0.4 8 5 2 Second quality do. 3 8 4 2 Pme .S'thdowndo.s 4 5 6 1 Prime large oxen 4 4 4 8 Largo eras. calves 3 6 4 2 Prime Scots, etc. 4 10 5 0 Prime small do 4 4 4 6 Crse. & inf. sheep 38 4 0 Large hogs 343 10 Second qualitydo. 4 2 4 6 Small porkers ... , 4 0 4 4 Suckling calves, 12s to 20s ; and quarter-old store pigs, 20s to 26s each. TOTAL SI7FrLY. FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts .... ........ 9611 Beasts . 364 Cows .............. 130 f Sheep and lambs .... 1,090 Sheep and lambs .. 4,210 i Ct . dves Calves ............ 212 ; Plgs . .. • 400 Pig 5............... I .....1.......0.0r NEAT MARKETS. N E y ( GATS AND LEADENHALL.—The supplies of m ea t are m oderately extensive, and the trade rules steady, as follows :Beef, from 2s 3d to_ 4s 2d ; mutton, 3 s Gd t o 4 s 6d ; lamb, Os Od to Os Od; veal, 3s 8d to 4s 4d; and pork, 3s 6d to 4s 8d per 81bs, by the carcase. S O UTHALL Oct. 28. The supplies of stock w ere moderately ex t e nsive, and the trade ruled steady, at very f u ll quotation s, as follows: Beet, from 38 6 d to 4s 10d ; mutton, 3s 10d to 5s 6d ; veal, 35 8d to 4s 4d ; lamb, Os Od to Os Od; and pork, 33 6d to 48 4d per 81bs, to sink the offal. ROMFOILD, Oct. 28.—Prime stock sold freely, at extreme rates. Otherwise, t 3 he 6 t d rade was in a sluggish tate, as fol lows : —Beof, from s to 5s Od ; mutton, 4s Od to 59 4d • veal, 3s Bdand pork, 3s 6d to 45 4d per 81bs calves, 12s to 208 ,quarter-old store pigs, 20s to suckling 265; and mulch cows, £l4 to £lB each. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 58 Od ; clover, £4BO to trad £5 108 Od ; and s t raw, £1 6s to £1 14s per load. Aw e. CUMBERLAND..—Meadow hay, £3 Os to 8s ; clover, £4 Os to £5 lOs Od ; and straw, £1 8s to £1 16s per load. Trade inactive. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 5s ; clover, LI Os to £5 12s 6d ; and straw, £1 Gs to £1 ]4s per load, Supply moderate. SHIPPING—This Day. LONDON, Oct. 2 9. —Wind this day at noon—South- South-East; moderate breeze, and cloudy weather, with rain. FALMOUT Er, Oct. 28.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Wa terloo, from Odessa. PLYMOUTH, Oct. 28.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Eliza Fox, for St. Michael's. ' for CARDIFF, Oct. 28.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—B el g ique, for Monte Vid eo; Sil osenzi , f or Ci v ita Vecchia; B a g' Bilboa. CLYDE, Oct, 27.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived—Burnside, from Quebec. PORTSMOUTH, Oct. 28.—Wind S. Majesty's ship Ranger, from Ascension.ived_N ew Bruns, BRISTOL, Oct. 28.—Wind wick, from New York. 5.117. —Sailed—Miss SUNDERLAND, Oct. 28, iv Nightingale, for d s.w.—A.rrived—Princess gusta LIMERICK, Oct. 27. _Iv : :: Royal, from St. John's, r'Wrad W.—Arrived— GALWAY, 27 :-, N. 8., with loss of jibboore, and Oct. Kelley, from St. John cutwater stove in d" . The Dundee, screw steamer, of thi s Durmen, °et ' 2 d B.— n the 15th August in Melville Bay, Crew landed at port, was abandoned e rlete e ly crushed by the ice; ere having been c vanish vessel. Limerick by a }~"'~"~. ~~; SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.---This Days NEWMARKET RACES—THIS DAY. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) CAMBRIDGESHIRE, Catch 'em Alive is finally declared the winner. [A second telegram says that the race is still unsettled, another objection having been made to the stewards' deci. sion.] SUBSCRIPTION PLATE. Wingrave Seven ran. SWEEPSTAKES OF 50 SOPS. Beatrice INTolv York APETHORPE STAKES. Crytheia NV.o, lIANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES. LiAlmack .......................................... 1 etun ............................................ '2 Eighteen rar.. The Insurrection in San Domingo. Royal Mail C ompany's SteamshipShan noßn,y the wh ich a Y at Southampton Yesterday, we from Sau Donaingo hiving details of the fierce struggle which, es we mentioned yes terday, was going on in that island between the Spaniards and the Dominicns. The Jamaica Guardian of Oct. 9 Publishes the Spanish following schooner intelligen ce Monte Christo By the arr i val of the Christo h ave lat er intelligence from Santo Domingo. The Domi nicans, after having driven the Spanish soldiers out of Puerto Plata, with terrible slau g h ter, had been attacked by reinforcements from t h e capital, and compelled to retire to Santiago de Cabelleros, a town in the interior, where they had made a stand against the Spaniards. General Santona has not been killed, as was reported., but had marched at the head of 2,000 men into the district of Cibao to operate against the Dominicans at Santiago de Cabelleros. Of the force sent from Cuba on the receipt of tidings of the outbreak, several men had been wounded in the attack on Puerta Plata. The officer in command, a colonel of artillery, had been killed, being the only one of the attacking party who fell in that encounter. Subsequently a battle was fought between Puerto Plata and Santiago de Caballeros, in which the Dominicans were worsted. They were preparing, however, to make a stout defence at the latter place. The latest intelligence from San Domingo an nounces that the Spanish Government are pouting in troops from Porto Rico and Cuba. Quite 11,000 had already landed. The Spanish losses at San tiago exceeded 1,000. The battle of San Louis was a serious encounter, but the Spaniards were victo- rious. By the schooner Rapid, with 54 refugees from Porto Plata, we have dates to the 18th September. The 2,000 Sp an i s h troops that left on the 3d for Santiago, und er t h e command of General Suero, were followed on th e 10th by another force of 1,600' but both divisions h ave b een defeated. The latter, on reaching Perez, a p l ace about 18 miles front Porto Plata, ware attacked by the Dominicans. and obliged to retire with the loss of several killed and many wounded. They returned to Porto Plata at midnight, which caused the greatest uneasiness among the people, as everybody fancied that, the rebels had entered the town. The men under Suero succeeded in entering Santiago, and in uniting with the garrison commanded by Brigadier-General Buceta, who had managed to retain the fort. But Santiago having been burnt by the rebels and there being a dearth of provisions, the Spaniards were compelled to capitulate to a force of 5,000 Dominicans. The terms of the capitula tion were, that the Spaniards should give up tke fort to the Dominicans, on condition of their permitting them to retreat to Porto Plata un molested. The Dominicans, however, did not respect these stipulations, for the Spaniards had uo sooner left the fort and began their march to Porto Plata, followed by a large number of the inhabitants of Santiago, than the Dominicans pursued them, firing upon them with deadly effect. The Spanish losses are over 1,000 in killed and wounded. Many of the inhabitants of Santiago, who had sided with the Spaniards, were also killed during the burning of the town, and many more, including women and chil dren, were slain during the retreat of the troops to Porto Plata. The atrocities committed on both sides were horrible, and are said to have been as bad as those committed during the Sepoy rebellion in India. The town of San Carlos, in the neighbourhood of San Domingo city, is said also to have be en i burnt by the rebels, and it s believed that Porto Plata will share a similar fate. Many of the town's people, and some who have had no share in the rebellion, except as sufferers, have been arrested and imprisoned by the Spaniards; others are denouncing their friends, hoping that they will thereby shield themselves. Bands of soldiers armed with Minie rifles, and pro ficient in rapine and lust, are daily roving through the streets, breaking into houses, and destrovinK their contents. STATE OF TRADE. DUNDEE, Oct. 27.—Tho excitement of the last few weeks was continued to-day, and prices are again higher both for the raw material and for goods. Holders of flax have raised their quotations from £1 to £2 a ton since last week. Fine tows, especially No. 1 Archangel, which was recently bought largely on speculation, is now very ecarce, and sellers ask £6O a ton for it—close upon which sales have been made—being a rise of £6 to £7 within a week. Medium tow and codilla are also in demand, at an advance upon last week's prices. Jute has also been in good re quest, and fine has been sold at a considerable advance on previous rates, but the rise on medium and common does not exceed £1 a ton within the week. The demand for yarns of all kinds, flax, tow, and jute, was remarkably active to-day, and prices are generally about Id. a spindle higher than on Friday. The orders for linens come in much faster than the production, and buyers show great anxiety to place them. Prices are, on the average, q uite 6 per cent, up since Friday, being more than 10 per.een!. within the w ee k. How much further they may yet rise it is imp oss ibl e to say, as the advance hitherto has nto not .e check e d t h e demand, but such prices were unknow the the trade b e f ore, and they will entail a heavy loss when re action comes. LEICESTER, 28th.—There is a good dem and employedemployed classes of hosie r y, an d manu f ac t urers are w e ll with orders on ha n d, I n t h e rura l &Istriats t h er e is a fair business doing, and the o p e rativesare Yarns are ployed. The mark e t i s quite bare m arket is firm , s p inners i s g t e o n c e k r.ally well 0 extremely high in price, and the alizing -n- I s t e rates, with being fully engaged. Wools are re a firm market. very little doing in. 28th.--There i s still . NOTTINGHAM, j for Mechlin quillings has cotton lace goods. The de ma c n .' _o f the cotton trade are fallen off; and indeed all bran sp n a a r 7 eg _ y, 1 and manufacturers hitehirgyehmtihanrekrpeerti price r v at e r th r very dull. Buyers purchase very emend. There is not much edgings, and silk qutllings ara not selling doinglimit t i h n e blackitheir productionla g c u e i s te at i sa t d or -o e i ar a h e e r yf e rl ay d : r. There n o s rldli h er o sh ld ions home little caheadu shippingge trade. Yarns have an upward tendency. L i ve rpool Cotton Market--This Da Market quiet, but stet;dy, s ---- b a les. ales 6,000 or 7,00 The Price of Gold. The quotation of gold at Paris is about 2 per mille pm., and the short exchange on London is 25.25 per L 1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3 17s. load. per ounCe for standard gold, it appear that gold is about 1-10th per cent, dearer in London than in Paris. and By advices from Ha mburg the price of g old is 428 per mark. the short exchange on London is 13.51 per £1 sterling. ~tandard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, about 4-10ths per cent, dearer in Hamburg than in London. old'haey? sight is 169 to 16011 per cent., and the premium of ex c h ange at New York on London for bills at n golf ifs s ii to 541 p ercent. At these rates there is very profit on th e i mportation of gold from the United States. o - The Right Hon. Sir G. Grey has arrived at his seat, Falloden, Northumberland, from Balmoral. TUE DUO DE MORNY has accepted the position of President of the Paris Cricket Club. Yesterday evening the shop of Messrs. Gaze, linendrapers, 33, Beckford-row, Walworth, was totally con sutued by fire. h. of id :Jw