The Sun. — London, England, 1863-09-24 00:00:00

ZIONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCE. The Money Market continues without the slightest alteration of moment, either as regards the demand or the terms upon which it is met. The best three months' bills are charged 3i 4 per cent., and the Bank of England authorities, who keep their minimum at 4 per cent., are obtaining a fair Share of the current business. A further sum of £40,000 in gold was taken into the Bank yesterday. _ _ - - The last week's railway receipts ascertained up to this day are in round figures as under : 1863. 1862. Greatorth Wester n Western N 103,996 99,265 So uth -Western Brighton Midland ..„ 49,277 46,487 So uth -Eastern 29,636 29,9 )0 Great Eastern Great Northern .. Lancashire and Yorkshire 39,163 36,530 Bristol and Exeter North Eastern North British Edinburgh and Glasgow These returns are in some instances of an unsatis factory character. On the Great Western there is a decrease of £1,703, on the South Western of £B2O, on the Brighton of £1,711, on the South Eastern of £284, and on the Great Northern of £9O; h:le the North Western shows an increase of £4,731, the Midland of £2,790, the Great Eastern of £BO3, the Lancashire and Yorkshire of £2,638, the North Eastern of £3,120, and the North British of £786. A special meeting of the shareholders of the City Club Company was held to day, for the pur pose of passing a resolution empowering the capital to be increased by £O,OOO. Mr. J. T. King occu pied the chair, and stated that the preliminary arrangements had all been completed, that the site had been obtained and a plan of the building decided upon. The club when finished would afford great comfort and convenience to its members, and the only difficulty which the directors anticipated was to admit all the applicants. The directors expected that about £25,000 of the 150,000 now Proposed to be raised would be opened, and the retnaining half left as a guarantee for credit, &c. , ecessary resolutions were carried. Two o'CLocK. At Paris this day, according to Mr. Reuter's tele gram, the 3 per Cent. Routes were at 67f. 80c. The progress of business in the English Stock INlarket to-day has been devoid of any special fea ture of interest, the limited number of transactions recorded having led to scarcely any alteration, Consols being 931 ---: for money, and 93y for the account, vizi, 1-16th per cent. higher than they Were yesterday afternoon ; the tendency appears a little more favourable. The New Threes and Re duced Annuities are 91 92; Exchequer Bills, par to 3s. prem.; India 5 per Cents. 1081 ;- 5 ,-; the D ebentures, 100 k; and the Bonds, 17s. to 20s. Prem. A. further slight downward movement has taken Place in the Foreign Market, and business is not active. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1854, are 94i- 95; do., 1851, 70i ; do., 1862, 714 ; do., Consolides, 54 1 ; Mexican, 461 47 ; Greek, 371 381; do., Coapons, 18 -1 7 ; Spanish Passive, 35; 369 ; do., Certificates, 13; 141 ; Italian, 721 ; Portuguese, 49 4 ; the Confederate Loan, 31 to 29 dis. ; and the Columbian Loan, 1 to 11, prem. The operations in the Railway Share Market have not been very extensive, but, in some instances, prices have slightly improved. Great Western and Midland have advanced 55., ; North Western, 10s.; and South Eastern, 15s. ; while Great Easterns have receded 55., and Great Northern £l. In the Foreign and Colonial Markets there has been no change of importance. Recife and San Francisco are quoted 181 19; Great Luxembourg, 14t ; E a st Indian, 108! 1; and Great Indian Penin • Stile, 1081 1091. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares, in some in stances, are at slightly enhanced quotations. Char tered of India, London, and China realise 70 72; Alliance of London and Liverpool, 401 41 ; Union of Australia, 581 591 General Credit shares ars quoted 4 7 5 ; International Financial, 101 I ; Lon don Financial, 14k ; and National Discount Com- Pany, 911 i. BRITISII FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock - 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 4 ,,,Per Cent. Consols Annuities '` l ew 3 per Cent. Annuities New 31 per Cent. Annuities New 21 per Cent. Annuities . Per Cent. Annuities .. Annuities, 30 yrs, expire 6th Jan., 1880.. Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885. Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908. India Stock Ditto 5 pet Cent Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. Ditto 5 per Cent nitto 5/ per Cent .. — Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863 Ditto ditto April, 1864 Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 1001 Ditto Bonds £l,OOO — Ditto under £1,000 Bank Stock for Account Consols for Account, Oct, S 931 India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent — Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 21 per Cent par 3 pm Ditto £5OO Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent ____ Ditto, 1839 and 1859 Ditto 1843 Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent _ Ditto Account Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) Chiba% 6 per Cent. — Ditto 91 per Cent. Danish 4 per Cent., 1863 Ditto 3 per Cent., 1825. Dutch, 2/ per Cent., Ex. 12 Guilders Equador New Consolidated. 1 per Cent — Ditto, Provisonal Land Warrant — Egyptian 7 per Cent lO9 Ditto, Second Issue - lOll Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons — Ditto Account 3B i 71 Ditto Coupons — Italian D jtt 5 A p i3 e cm r cp opeCuerernni Centtati. Ditto Account lBi 18 .(.............. Railway) Mexican ........ 46 $ • r • * Cent Moorish New Granada . Ditto 2 per Granada,,,, - 11 17 k Ditto Deferred ...... Ditto Land Warraial . . (ii . ec t a ;;; ) ****** L i Peruvian 3 per Cent. Ditto 41 per Cent., 186 . 2 . ************ Ditto Account. ..................... Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 ........ Ditto Account... Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856 , '7, , 9, 'Go, 62 :.- Ditto Account Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £St ...... Ditto 41 per Cent _1850.. Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859 Ditto 5 per Cent. 1862 Sardinian 5 per Cent ....... ... Ditto Account ................ Spanish 3 per Cent . ............. 5 - 5 nitto Account ...................... Ditto New Deferred ................ 49 .Ditto Account Ditto Passive 361 5i Ditto Account Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded Ditto Account Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 — Ditto Account 941 Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 Ditto Account Ditto, £lOO Bonds Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 Ditto Account . Ditto 6 per Cent. 1863, £l9 16s 8d pd — Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent — Venezuela 3 per Cent. Ditto Account .• Ditto 6 per Cent., 1852 Ditto Account 6lf 1 Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f. Dutch 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates French Renter, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f — Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs — flitto Account 724 TWO O'CLOCK Console, Money Ditto Account L iverpool Cotton Market—This Day, (REUTERS TELEGRAMS.) 0 , :...trong. Sates, about 10,000 bales. Imports, 49; pre!iousi7: 52,550. incess ended le on Bal- A and Colo' r and )rs of ;e left on a inceSS on a edling Duke o town suite, Night, ed in errey many'• 0 in 5 wsleY iester" 'rived depart lavied Her ed to it age/ from GroVet 'rived rdeen - I3¢n• tour ;eat ill ily ex naval gether , oth of luest, This solace it, and )fficera eigh to the by M, ;haco, If the 1 often he old ing to Limed, High- . , 1, .0 Weed qui.-- loured of the 1 cer- This lives- A.Y.- - i Nor )dhani which id the netale, era, as Le volY :e, and again r.T AT Iy, at hum, ument That )art of arms' e line elastio L oat° angu • pin at brave.' 3 r-box. bilk" t ,k, the e ine 3penda emag .ange- of an crews three ter be [eking pul- times 'his is 3o 1.1 0 ngs ing in ration. entre. in the ised a of the ion of iet at .rying single )r the viding )habut tele- lorn- yards. :tither west, SHARE MARKETS—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOolt S. Closing Business Share l Railways• Paid.l Price. done. Wol., and Str. Val. Blythe and Tyne. Bost.,Sleat.,andMidAio Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall 8 8i 81 81 85 t 7 120 J2l Do A A gets no diN Do. B tit ipc.pan.has been paid to B. Dublin Lc Belfast Junc. Dun„Pertli,&Ab. Junc. Edinburgh & Glasgow. IGlasg. and S. Western. Great Eastern, Ord. silt Ditto A stock at Ditto East Anglian at at GreatNorthot Scotland st Great Northern at Do A stock It Do II do at Gt. S. an IW. of Ireland at Great Western ...... at Do Str Val gua. stock at Lancashire & Yorkshire at London and Slackwail at Lon., Bright.,. S. Coast at Lon., Chat., and Dover st Lon. & Nor'h Western at Lon. & So*.th Western at Man., Shef., & Lincoln. 5 0 Maryport and Carlisle. 124 shares at Metropolitan at Midland i. 4.0 Do New Do Birming. tt Derby Slid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. shares Diid Kert Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundeel INth. Eastern—Berwiok Do, G.N.E. purchase I Do Leeds 1 , Do York Do Carlisle.. North London Do New North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central I Sco t . E., Aber. stock Do Scot. Mid. stock ,Shrews. and Welchpool IShropshire Union ;South Devon !South Eastern South Wales IS. York. and River Dun Statues, Wok. ,and Wok. `Stockton it Darlington Do Do New, 1.86 G (Taff Vale.. Do B ............... Do e !Ulster Do Do ................. Vale of Leath ..... ! Victoria sta. and Pirn..] Waterford Kilkenny West C0rnwa11........ , W. Hartlepool Har.,tlLl West Midland -Oxford] Do Newpor Do Hereford 39 41 105 107 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Closing Ilan Railways Paid. Paid. Price. * Businesa don. % too tiantic Lnwreic. all 60 62 liom.,ltaroda&.Cent Ind 100 1071 1081 .tk Gu. S per cent........ 20 Do. New t•ri 11 111 13 20 Do. E. 5hare5......... p 01 Buffalo and Lake ituroii all 5u 6g 6% 10 Do. Preference all 8 9 100 Buffalo,ltrant,&Godricl , to , - 6 p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 1870 i.OO Do. do. July 1, 1873 tou - 100 )o. do. June 1 1 8 :4 100 - - st Clcutta.tv S. Eastn. ; 100 1071 1684 st Cape Town t Dock Scrit 100 107 109 stock Eastn. Bengal go. sp. t 100 1091 1101 stock East Indian. gu. 5 c . 100 1 08 1, 9 108 1 20 Do. do. G Ext..... 10 9 lip 20 Do. do. H do. ~ 10 9 I gP stock Grand Trunk of Canada 100 201 21 100 Do. Ist Fret. Bonds.. all 72 74 59 61 100 Do. no. deferred...... all 100 Do. 2d Pret. Bonds.. all 66 .58 100 Do. do deferred...... all 51 63 100 Do. 3d ef. stock ... all 47 19 100 Do. do. deterred...... all 36 38 100 Do. 4th Pref. all 27 29 27% I 100 Do. do. deferred...... all 23 25 stock GtandiaPenin.gua.sp.c 100 1081 1091 1095 20 Do. New gua. 5p.0. • • 12 15 111, 20 Do. January, 1862 .• 8 11 lit stook Gt. South.of India (Lim; 10 10 7 % 10 1 8 03 204 G t. guaranteed w. otc a n a s d p a e s r h o a e rnet, a : 10 1 0 1 2 0 4 Do. New .. . . ..... •• • 18 10 9f 100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. all 95 07 100 Do. 51 p. 6. do. '77-8.. . all 89 41. 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 a stook Madras guar., sp.c. •• 100 107 drB stock Do. 4 stock De, Is do 100 t 8 ICO tp. C. Extensiou 100 1014 102 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 -- - stock 31 elb.Corp.e1 p. c. Bud:. 100 50 Nlelb. & Hobson's Bay. all 57 18 100 Do. 7 p.c. Mortg. Bds. all - - 20 Newlii now= Canda Class A and 8........ all 3 5 N.lll.C'da spc Ist pi. bds 100 82 84 stock Soindc (100 107 108 •• - • • at • • • • . Do. Delhi A.,: • 100 107 108 Do. d 0.... . 1 2 ip 20 Do. Punjaul; u all --P st Do. Do. 100 167 108 Mock Do. Indus.;t. rca ' ‘ lo(• ,102 IC4 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. 6 p.u.J s,J - - 1877-St - Do, bp. c. Feb.. Am_ 100 101 1( 3 - Do. 6p. c.Mar.& Sept. 100 101 103 - Do. tp. c. Jan.&.luly. 100 91 03 914 2 - Do. 5 Inscribed stock, 100 tO I''2 - ICapeG.Hope, 8p c,1877 100 108 tlO - I Do.Ap &Oct. 1880 100 112 114 - Do. 189( 100 113 115 - IDo. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 113 115 - Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p e 100 113 115 - 'Mauritius 6 per cent .. 100 107 108 - 'Natal Gov. 6 per cent.. 100 110 112 IN.B.Gov. p.0.da..4,Ju1) too iOO 02 101 - Do. 6p. u.Ap. & Oct. 100 - - IN. S.W. G ov. 5 p 18,4 100 1004 1011 - I Do. sp. e.,18/1 to Let 100 1011 1024 - Do. d0.,1888 &upwds 100 102 103 1021 - New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 111 113 - Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. , - sterling, 1875 lOO 163 105 - Queensland (Icy. 6p. c 100t;1 ll3 - I•8•Aus G6p.e.1678. 6 z up lOO 111 113 - IVic.GOV. 6 p.c. Ja.&Jul) 100 108 110 - I Do. to 6 p.c. AnAtOof- 100 114 11441 1141 BRITISH tsIINES. 2 Cambrian Consol. hold 1 1 ad IS g - ulittord Amalgamated-I - 33 35 - I Devon G. Cons. (Tavisto 1 555 065 - East Bassett (Illogan).. 30 S 1 63 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd. 53. id par - East Caradon ' ll4, 28 ' 49 58% - East Corn Brea 3.4.0 7} 71 - E. 1-91 Russel (Tavistk ) 8.6.6 3% 3 1 - IGam.&St.Autiyn(Given ) 13 15 - 'Great South Tolgus l7s 4% 43 - IG. Wheal Vor(lielston, 40 9 10 - 'Grenville.. -,Elercd's-Foot 8.12 18 40 - I LiiDgStOtt Downs 4 ., 8.0 2 24 - Lady Bertha - Margaret (tiny Lelact 94 27 29 - 3larke Valley. 4 '3l yndy Iron Ore (Lim ) 24 15 5 d - New Setun l9l 100 110 - • North Downs 24 11 2 S.Wh'i Basset (111o4an 2.17.0 21 35 - North Wheal Crotty - Par Consols (5,t. Blazey, 14 4 b I 20 Providence (Uny Lelnt.) 10.6.7 12 44 - iSouthCaradon(St.Cleer, 11 415 425 - ,8. Carn Brea (Illogan) 5.15.0 14 2 - IS.lyheat Fran. (Mogan, 18.1.9 GO 65 - ;Stray Park 5 s' Tamar Silv..4 Lead Min. 44 - fin Croft, 9 194 204 - I West Basset (Illogan) l4 9 10 - W C. radon (Liskeard) 5 20 22 - West Seton - Wheal Basset (Mogan) 54 75 80 - Wheal Buller (Redruth) 5 25 10 25 - Wheal Kitty( G.Lelnnt), 2.0.6 - WhealLucLott ' 2.10.8 0 1 3 - • Wheal MaryA.nn(4len.) 8 9 11 - Wheal Beton . . 584 210 220 - Wheal Tretawney (Lis.) 7 I 16 18 - ,Wheal Union 3.17 2% 3% 21 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Eastern, E. Counties. Ext. No. 2, 111 Great Eastern, E. C. 6 per cent. pref., 1301 Great N orthern, 44 per cent., red. at 10 per cent. pm., 103 i Ditto, 5 per cent. red. at 5 per cent. pm., 1074 PREFEItENCE SHARES AND STOCKS, Great Eastern, 5 per cent., pf., 105} LINES LEASED A 1 FIXED RENTALS. Great Eastern, Newm., itc., 5 per cent., 109 London, Tilbury, and Southend, 09. FOREIGN !RAILWAYS: Antwerp and Rotterdam, 9} Bahia and San Francisco (lieu.) gua. 7 per cent., 20} Great Luxembourg, 141 Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidin), 12} Recite and San Francisco (limo, gua„ 7 per cent., 181 19 S am bre and Meuse, 5i per cent. pt., 10 San Paulo (11m.), gua. 7 per cent., 9} South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 22} FOREIGN MINES. Alamillos, limited, I CB . r . rihati D r i eh t r t ea i di , c n i,, e:v, 39} 15}"} RANKS. Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool (Um.), tot 1 1 Australasia, b 2 Be . Dl Charteredr Ba nkt t aa n tzkii, o o rtt i iis id Q ae u ß:a. e y rdal e enz n nsi s e ; au il ifir at u ac i dt (; : r is le ) ! , 1 1 I S .m i . i , 5 1: i EnglishLTL.,ooo London London ddd 000 nnn Chartered and nhnad. r l cp r eo i rru s a ze h t di itiy l i Bal i . _an!: of India, Australia. Imperial Ottoman Chinn, 89 1 91:tiiihtlorin(butiraa,:ni'2414:1, _ Cit 118 _ler. of India.::::50011,:nd China, 71 69 70 2 ' Hindustan, k ,hi n ( an ni d .) ja lil a f n Bank of Australia, 28 1 London and South Atri,cnd. Oita.) , 28 1 1 ' 2 1t 8 i i yer Plate, 51 50i London, Buenos Ayres London and Northern aim. ) , y 1 L on don and Westminster, 794 60 Mercantile and Exchange. tin, , 111 Nat i o nal of Liverpool, limited, 1 i 15 Oriental Bank Corporation, 0 1 60 Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi (lima, 61 South Australia, ,0/ ), n s d Bl F 9 r 4 ance (11m), 0i ?I Stan d a rd of British South Africa (linn Ditto, new, 18 MISCELLANEOUS. Union Union Union 000 of : A - I i : Loudon, n u g s t i r a a n l di 0i a a; Anglo-Mexican Mint, 2 1 Australian Agricultural, 201 1 Berlin Water Works. limo Vi 1 1 Gen. Credit d G i a t s a , of London, lim., 5 4; General Steam Navigation, 28 Hudson's Bay, 91 I . nldimeiitnedan, 01 Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour),.h o s _ International Financial Society. lim., 101 a issued 90, HI Joint .stcalc Discount, 71 . 1 i . Ditto, 6 per cent. Bonds rd. 4fii is London Finamnal Association , London General Omnibus Company (li ot.). 21 I lim., 14i National Discount Company, hill., 4 i Peninsula and 0, iental Steam, 8 2 Ditto, new, 49} 3.14 t 5 10 st st 50 20 9.1&4' 7} 8 39 (0 161 17i 08 09 110 112 6(4 6li 40. 60 1 , :401 174 12S 126 127 128 1:4 136 100 tit 66i 1124 113 73, 74i 113 114 42 43 101 101 i 1001 1014 442 454 123 125 127 ;274 1i 1p 96 98 54} Es} 26 27 101 101 i 57 68 88 88i 117 12) 1 2 p 80 82 llt 123 125 44 46 101 103 50 52 31 33 041 J 6 70 72 99 101 9 I 0 361 371 84 9 4 u 71 8 P Isu 155 41 5# 21 31 p 8( 68 159 162 26 28 43 44 125 148 1351 664 I 731 1011 i MI,. 127; i '4 p 551 1011 1 581 8 93 6} "Christopher North," otherwise the Great Professor. Charmingly described in racy prose by an ad miring fellow-countryman of John Wilson's, the author of certain Poems and Songs, one Hugh Mac- donald : " And now I must say I felt rather afraid to ven ture into the presence of the redoubted Kit North, my heart beat rather thickish when I thought of my hardihood ; however, there was no drawing back now, I must go on. * * In going up the stair to the great man's study, his sanctum Sal2C. forum, the palpitating symptoms threatened to re turn on me ; but the moment I was in, and saw his noble intellectual countenance brighten with a smile of welcome, as he shook me warmly by the hand and led me to a seat, saying at the same time that he was very glad I had cllled, I felt myself quite at home. He was in his workshop among his books, which were scattered about in all directions in glo rious confusion, none of your gay glittering binding ranged for show, but mostly scuft,' and bearing the marks of having seen service.' He sat in his easy chair, with a good stont cudgel in his hand. Fillan's bust is very correct; I would have known him by it, although I had never been told who I was speaking to. His long yellow hair, now silvered and thinned by time, hanging carelessly over his neck—his fine manly features, and broad high . . dome-like head, would have pointed him out at once as the mighty Christopher. He is becoming rather fat and corpulent ; and when he threw himself back, during our conversation, in his chair, with the one leg reeving on the other, he brought Shakespere's worthy Sir John, who was not only witty himself, but the cause of wit in others, forcibly to my mind. Indeed, I felt above myself, as if he had not only genius himself,but that for the time he had inspired me with a portion of his glorious spirit. He said that from my letter and poetry he had looked for an older man; that I was still a very young man, &c. Enquired very kindly after my circumstances; was very sorry to bear that I had lost a wife. Said that a great many young men sent him verses, in general the greatest trash—that they either would not or could not think for themselves. Said that he had been pleased with both my letter and verses. Said that he had made up his mind at once, on reading them, to see me ; and again said he was proud I had called. He then read over the birds,' -, II CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT,—This Day. OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Byles.) THE FATAL OMNIBUS ACCIDENT ON HOLBORN-HILL. George Langley, omnibus driver, surrendered to his bail on an indictment charging him with manslaughter. The facts of the case have already appeared in lhe Sun, from which it will be recollected that the deceased was an omnibus conductor, and during the time he was putting on the "skid," or locking the wheels, the pole or horses of another omnibus which was following knocked the poor fellow down, and death resulted from the injuries he sus tained. After two or three witnesses had been examined, The jury inquired of the learned judge whether there was any cause for them to hear further evidence, as they had quite made up their minds. The learned Judge said he did not like stopping cases, but he must confess at that momenta thought was passing in his mind whether there was any case against the defen dant. The Foreman—We have quite made up our minds ; it was a pure accident, but we wish to know whether it is competent for us to add a kind of requisition to our verdict? 'I he learned judge told the jury they were quite at liberty to add anything they pleased. The Foreman—They formally returned a verdict of not guilty, and said the jury trusted the company to which de ceased belonged would make some recompense to the widow for her loss, as the death of her husband was caused solely by his anxiety to serve his employers. NEW COURT. (Before the Recorder.) CHARGE OF STEALING TURPENTINE. John Smith, 24, sawyer, and Joseph Pemberthy, barge men, were indicted for stealing one cask and 50 gallons of turpentine, the property of Sir Charles Prico and others, and Joseph Charles Harrison, oilman, Queenhithe, was in dicted for receiving the same, well knowing them to have been stolen. The case was proceeding when we went to press. THIRD COURT. (Before the Common Sergeant.) Frederick Tell was indicted for stealing a watch and chain, the property of James Horner, from his d welling house. The jury found the prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET, CAUTION TO CARMEN.—For a long time past great complaints have been made of the number of cabmen loiter ing and causing an obstruction in Coventry-street, &c., and seve►al of the offenders have been summoned to this court by the police. At first Mr. Knox fined the defendants 3s. and 2s. costs, but, as the number of defendants summoned rather increased than diminished, Mr. Knox raised the fine to ss. and costs. The increased find failing to check the nuisance, Mr. Knox imposed a fine of 108. and costs, and now the worthy magistrate has expressed his intention, finding that things are going on just the same, to fine all defendants 2Gs. and costs. This will be a great boon to th• honest and well conducted cabmen, who ara prevented getting off the stand on which he has been for hours, sometimes owing to the other cabmen, who go creeping about, picking up all the fares. STATE OF TRADE, STRANGE STORY. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER, 24, 1861 DUNDEE, Sept . . 22.—Flax, tow, and codilla all keep quiet, the demand being entirely consumptive, and the prices of all qualities, excepting some of the higher marks which are scarce, in favour of the buyer. With these exceptions the market was remarkably buoyant to-day, and the inquiry for linens beyond all precedent. The consumption of jute is now very extensive, and still increasing. Stocks in sellers' hands are light, with prices tend ing upwards, and the demand active for all quali ties; but fine is much sought for, and 10s. to 205. per ton higher than last week. Yarns were again a little dearer, and all qualities greatly wanted. To •day a considerable quantity was sold, but net to the extent of purchasers' wants, spinners being quite unable to book so many orders with any hope of executing them this year. The American ad vices received yesterday report a large business in hessians at advanced rates, and linens generally in active demand. Many of the hessians sold there are for corn sacks, the grain being now shipped in bags, as it is difficult to be got insured in bulk. These large sales imply an extensive shipment of grain to the United Kingdom during the winter, and low prices on this side. Large transactions in linens were entered into to-day for delivery through out the remaining months of the year, and Ameri can buyers were pressing operators. Several home trade buyers were also in the market, but it was not possible to place half the orders they had to give out, either for Dundee fabrics or for those made in the district. LEICESTER, 23d.—The hosiery trade has been very active during the past few days, and manufac turers continue well employed with orders on hand. In the country districts business is without much change. Yarns hold up in price, and spinners are fully employed to order. There is no material alte ration the in price of wools ; the market is firm and rates are high. NOTTINGHAM, 23d.—There has been rather more doing in lace goods during the past few days than for some time previously, and more is expected to be done in October. Some few orders for muslin quillings have been completed this week. In other descriptions of plain goods there is not much doing. Black silk laces are rather less in request, but more is expected to be done when the harvest is con cluded. Narrow edgings art selling telerably well. In hosiery there is not much change. Yarns are realising very high prices, and the tendency is still upwards. At the Birmingham Police•court, on Tuesday, Vary Ann Jones, who was charged at the court on Monday with threatening to commit suicide, was again brought up and placed in the dock. On Monday she had made to the court a strange state ment, to the effect that she had been enticed away from her home at Burslem by a young man named Wm. Dean, drugged on the way to Wolverhampton, and afterwards seduced and robbed. This she after wards altered, and her amended statement stood thus :—Dean, who had worked with her at a pot tery at Burslem, had been courting her for some time, and by him she was cnciente. On Saturday morning he advised her to start with kim for Wol verhampton. On the way, and when within a very short distance of the town, he pulled from his pocket a powder, and urged her to take it. She did eo, and afterwards became unconscious. Oa coming to her self she found that Dean had left her, and also that, while in a stupefied state, a small sum of money, which she drew from her employers before leaving Burslem, had been taken from her. Upon this Jidence, involving, as it did, charges o: offences of serious magnitude against Dean, the bench ordered a warrant to issue for his immediate apprehension. The young woman gave his descrip tion and address to the police. In the course of the day an officer, armed with the authority of the law was sent down to the Potteries in search of Dean On arriving there ho found out that the girl had made a statement having not the slightest founda tion in truth, and that she had imposed on the verse by verse, making remarks on each. The lark that sings the stars asleep :' Did I mean to say that the lark sung after the stars begun to shine ? I said no : but that this bird rising in the early morn before the stars began to fade, and continuing to sing while they were one after the other disap pearing, might in a poetic sense be supposed to sing them asleep. Said it was beautiful, but did not strike one at first. ' The merle that wakes their beam :' Ho had often admired the song of the merle while he was wandering in the haft simmer gloamin'. The wagtail by the forest-spring or lonely waterfall:' Said that he had been once taken to sea a painting of a waterfall, by a very clever artist, one Harvey, that he had noticed a bird sitting on a stone at the bottom of it ; he had turned to a friend and said, this must be a wagtail. His friend, who was a naturalist, said, No; it is a waterpyet or ousel; and that this bird was more fre quently found in these situations than the wagtail : I would not agree to this ; said that what I had written was from actual observation. That the ousel was a comparatively rare bird, but that it was always to be seen walking about the margin of the lonely linns ; and that I saw several last time I was in Killoch Glen. Said he knew that sweet little glen, and he was glad I had stuck to my point, as his observations and mine were in accordance with each other. The red-breast wailing sad alone :' He did not think the robin's song a sad one. When he lived last in the country, one came morning and evening, and sung sitting on the top of his pig house, and he always thought it a very lightsome and blithe song; he used to be quite charmed with it, but singing, as it did alone, at the fa' o' the leaf, there was no doubt but it excited melancholy feelings — this was wholly owing to the associations, however. I said it was probably so, but it appeared sad to me, and I wrote as I felt. I said I had been to see poor Ferguson's grave that morning ; and while musing there, a red-breast had burst into song on a poplar tree in the churchyard, and that it had struck toe as a very sad song indeed. He as sented. Familiar as a mother's voice:' He was not quite sure of this—there was familiarity in a mother's voice, but there was a great deal more ; it might pass,however. Matchless mottled breast Thought it would be better without matchless. 'Wells of glee' was a strong phrase, but beautiful, applying both to throstle and merle, and he thought there was strength enough without matchless.' * * * These are the principal remarks he made on the piece—it was well worth the pains of polishing , and all short poems should be attended to in this respect. When he had read it he folded it carefully up, placed it in a small rosewood box lying on the table, saying at the same time, I must take care of this.' He asked what part of Paisley I worked in, and said he was sorry to go to that place now — the old familiar faces were nearly all gone, even the houses, he scarcely knew them now. There were cnly two families that he knew—the Lonses in the Sneddon, and some old ladies named Orr, somewhere in Causeyside. He minded the Looses, they came from England when boys ; and he re membered very well that he envied their roast beef and plum-pudding dinner, when he only got his parritch and milk. When he was last in Paisley he went to see the garden outside the town, where he used to go for gooseberries, and to look for birds' nests when a boy. He had gone into some old haunt of his childhood (a garden), when an old woman came out and looked after him, as much as to say, I'm no very sure about you;' he said he was glad to walk off. He had known very little of Tannehill until very recently. He said he had left Paisley when a boy, before Tannahill's time, and was in England for a lengthened period; and somehow, even when he came on visits to his native place, his friends had never spoken to him of the weaver bard. Talking of Wordsworth, he said that he had met him when a young man in England ; Wordsworth's poetry was then very ' much ridiculed, even his most beautiful productions. I said that Wordsworth was much indebted to him for the high degree of popularity he now enjoyed; that it was, for instance, almost altogether through his writings on Wordsworth's poetry that I knew auything of it. He considered this great poet had been unfairly treated, and he had done what he could to place his writings before the public in their proper light. He did not think that Wordsworth would ever be very popular, it was only the few who could devote a considerable portion of thought to his works, who could perce ive the p e culiar beauties of bis poetry. * So we shook bands, . and I c ame a wa y w i t h a heart rinin' ower grafi. tude, pride, and love to the greatest mind I have ever met, or in all likelihood ever may meet in this world." Richard Wagner is gone to Pesth, where he will conduct a series of concerts. THE ENGLISH AND FRENCH ARMIES in 1863.4 showed by a series of elaborate returns, under the respective military budgets of the two nationa, that the total effective English army is 147,118 ; that of the Freneh, 355,187. The cost per head of the effective and non-effec tive English, numbering 147,118 men, is £94 ls. while that of the French effectice and non effective forces of 400,000 is £43 98. 4.3. per head. ADVERTISEMENT.]—Avoid medicines: they always aggra vate chronic complaints, but Du Barry's Delicious Health Restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, which saves fifty times its cost in other remedies, invariably cures them, restoring perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, functional regularity, and energy to the most disordered or enfeebled. We extract a few out of 60,000 Cures :—Cure No. 58,216 of the Marchioxess de Brehan, Paris, of a iiver complaint, wasting away for seven years, debility, with a nervous palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, the most intolerable nervous agitation, and dreadfully low spirited.—Cure No. 1,771. Lora Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieut. of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. "Fifty years indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Jolly." —Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derange ment, and partial deafness.—Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies.—Cure No. 54,816. The Rev. Jas. T. Campbell, Falenham, Norfolk, "of indigestion and torpi dity of the liver, which had resiste 1 all medical treatment.' In tins, 1 lb., 2s. 9d. ; 21b., 4s. 6d ; 51b., lls. ; 121 b., £2s. ; 241 b 40 5.—Barry Du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, Loudon; also Fortnum and Mason ; and all Grocers and Chemists in e very town of the United Kingdom. THAMES. THREE SLIGHT TAPS ON THE HEAD.—Catherine Dris coll, a bloated and dissipated woman, of violent temper, in appearance 60 years of age, but who only owned to 30, was brought before Mr, Partridge charged with violently assaulting her husband, Cornelius Driscoll, with a poker. The prosecutor, a little Irish tailor, as pale as a spectre, came to the station-house in Poplar last night with the blood streaming from wounds on the head. He presented a frightful appearance, and said his wife had murthered him wid a poker. A constable, named Henry Hayward, 401 K, was despatched with the poor fellow to Bury's court, Well-street, Poplar, where ho found Mrs. Driscoll quarrelling with a neighbour, The constable charged the prisoner with wounding her husband, and she said she had only given him " three slight taps on the head." She was taken into custody. The poor fellow, her husband, said when he came home " his old woman" was drunk and quarrelling, and when he expostulated with her she " bullyragged him and bate him wid a poker, and ho was kict quite. The evidence of other witnesses went to show that the prisoner had committed a violent and unprovoked assault on the complainant, who lost a good deal of blood, and whose head was covered with a surgical plaister. The prisoner, in defence, said her husband threatened to rip her open with a knife, and she took up a poker to de fend herself, and gave her husband some taps with it. Mr. Partridge was satisfied the prisoner was a very vio lent woman indeed, and that she had wantonly and mali ciously beaten her husband and done him very serious in jury. He sentenced her to two months' imprisonment and hard labour. THE CAPTAIN ON A WRONG TACK.—Matilda Purdy, a Lail and strapping wench, aged 25, of No. 2, Sarah-street, Poplar, was brought before Mr. Partridge charged with stealing £8 10s. in gold from the person of Captain Edward Hood, of Time-street, Newcastle, and master of the ship John, lying in the river. It appeared from the statement of the prosecutor, a red faced, weather-beaten north country mariner, that he ar rived here on Sanday last with his ship. Last night he came on shore for a cruise and aoet with the prisoner. He treated her with grog and a supper. He was a "little by the head," and he agreed to stop all night with the prise• ner. They went to No. 2, Sally•street. The prisoner —Sarah-street. my bed I gold in a pi ece o f be l fo la re e I ca w p e t n a t in t — o i s t to w w a e s d Sarah-street, Poplar ; and old newspap er , and put it in my pocket. This morning my eight sovereigns and half sovereign were gone. Mr. Partridge —And was the prisoner gone too? Captain Hood—No, sir; she stuck by me all night and never left me. The prisoner said the prosecutor declared when he missed his gold that ho had put it under the carpet of the room in which they s l ep t a ll ni g ht, and caused the carpet to be taken up, Sh e never saw his gold. A g p ol o d lic w e a c s o d n e s p ta o b si l t e ed sa u i n d d t e h r e the prosecutorearpet, and after a se arc h stated to him th a t his w as made he sa id h e stowe d it awa y in his pocket. The Captain—l am sure it was stowed away in my pocket. Mr. Partridge said the prisoner was intoxicated last night, and he could place no dependence on what he said. He advised the prosecutor, who was the master of a ship, and ought to set a better example, not to pick up with such co mpany as prostitutes in future, and to avoid a place like Sarah-street, Poplar, when he came to this port again. He discharged the prisoner. MARKETS—This Day. MARK-LANE. IMPERIAL WEEXLY AVERAGES. —Wheat, 44s 9d ; barley, 355326ds ;9d. , oats, 20s 9d ; r y e , 32s 7d; beans, 59 8 Od ; and pegs) T H E SIH WEEKS'' .A.VEHAGES. --- Wheat, 45g 2d ; barley, 33s 5d ; oats, 22s 3d ; rye, 33s 4 d ; b eans, 39 s 8 d ; peas, 35s Ild. ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LASTIVEEL—Wheat, 107,763; barley, 21, 657 ; oats, 9,935; rye,1523 ; bea ns, 1,790; pc „ 1,092 quarter s. —_ NETROPOLITAN CATTLE. To-day's market was well supplied with beasts as to number, but their general quality was inferior. Prime stock sold steadily at full prices ; otherwise, the beef trade was heavy, at barely late rates. The show of sheep was only moderate. Downs and half-breds were quite as dear as on Monday, with a good consumptive inquiry. Heavy breeds were dull, but not cheaper. A few very inferior Downs sold at 5s 4d per 81bs. Calves, the supply of which was moderate, moved off slowly at barely stationary prices. Pigs, however, were in fair request, and rather dearer. Milch cows supported previous rates. Per Sib. to sink the offal. s . d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Crse. & inf. beasts 3 4 3 81Primecrs-wool d 0.4 8 5 0 Second quality do. 3 10 4 4 Pme. s, thdown do .5 2 5 4 Prime large oxen 4 6 4 8 Large orse. calves 3 6 4 2 Prime Scots, ado. 4 10 5 0 Prime small do 4 4 4 8 Urse. ez, inf. sheep 3 6 4 0 ILarge h ogs 3 10 4 4 Second quality do. 42 4 6 ISmall porkers 464 10 Lambs, Os Od to Os Od. Suckling calves, 12s to 20a ; and quarter-old store pigs, 21s to 29s each. TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts .... ........ 1,22 0 1 Beasts 420 140 Sheep and lambs Cows ........ Sheep and lambs .. 6,70 0 Calves Calves .. 3lO Pigs rigs 4121 MEAT MARKETS. NENVGATE AND LEADENHALL.—The supply of meat is moderate, and the trade rules steady, as follows : Beef, from 2s 8d to 48 2d, mutton, 3s 63 to 4s 8d ; lamb, Os Od to Os Od; veal, 3s 6 d t o 4s 4 d; and pork, 3s 10d to 48 10d per 81bs, by the carcase. SOUTHALL, Sept. 23.—The Supplies of fat stock were seasonably extensive. and the trade, generally, ruled in active, as follows :—Beet, from 38 6d to 4s iOd ; mutton, 3s 8d to 5s 2d ; veal, 4s Od to 48 6d; lamb, Os Od to Os Od an d pork, 3s 10 d to 4 s 8d per Sibs, to sink the offal. RomFoun, Sept. 23.—Prime beasts and sheep com manded a steady sale, at from r OdesOtherwis the de mand was heavy. Bed, 33 81 to Os mutton, 3s 10d to 58 4d; lamb, Od to —s Od; veal, 4s Od to 4s 6d; raid pork, 4s Od to 4s 8d per 81bi; hackling calves, 128 to 20s ; quarter-old store pigs, 20s to 275; and mulch cows, £l5 to £lB Os each. HAY MARKETS. SmmirrErn.---Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 12s; clover, I Os to £6 Oa; and straw, 8a to £1 15s per load. Supply but moderate —trade firm. CUMBERLAND: Meadow may, £3 Os to £4 153 ; clover, £4 Os to £6 Os ' - an d straw, £1 8s to £1 15s per load. A steady demand. WHITECHAYEL —Meadow hay, £3 Os to R 4 158; clover, £4 Os to a Os; and straw, 11 80 to £1 15s per load. lk Trade stNicly. • credulity of the bench with lies trumped up for the occasion. No such a person as William Dean was known in the locality, but the girl was known to the police as being a notorious impostor, and addicted to vagabondish habits. Playing made these disco. veries the officer quietly returned to Wolver hampton, bringing with him a witness who was well acquainted with the girl's antecedents.—Police sergeant Steel, of Burslem, said that about two years ago the prisoner was found lying in the road, at Trentham, by Mr. Adderley, M.P., of Barlaston hall, to whom she stated that some person had robbed her of a purse containing 4s. 6d., and also committed a rape upon her. Mr. Adderley, in con sequence, toot her in his carriage to Stone Work house. A man was arrested cal the charges, but her statement proved to be untrue, and she was severely reprimanded by the magistrates who heard the case. She admitted that she had made a false charge. She was afterwards taken to the work house at Chell, whence she absconded, taking with her some clothing belonging to the union. On this charge she was sentenced to a month's imprison ment. Shortly after her release from gaol she was found sitting in the road at Trentham, at night, and told a policeman who found her that she could tell who the men were who had been con cerned in the recent pouching affray on the Duke of Sutherland's estate. She named a lodging-house where they could be found, and the house was searched,but this story turned out to be untrue. She was brought before magistrates at Longton, and sentenced, he believed, to a month's imprisonment. The prisoner—Nothing of the kind, sir. Witness —A short time afterwards she was in custody of a police-officer, Blurton, charged with disorderly conduct For this offence she was sentenced, he believed, to two months' imprisonment Soon after her liberation from gaol she was found at Eccles hall, in an apparently dying state. Police-sergeant Robinson took her to his house, and she informed him that two men had taken her into a toll-house near Salop, and committed a rape upon her, and afterwards gave her poison. Two magistrates were fetched from church to take her declaration, as it was thought she would die._ The declaration was signed by her, and ahe stated her belief that she should not recover. Upon inquiries being made as to her character, she admitted her statement to be false, and was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. After her release from gaol she was again found at Longton, but she was then in company with a man, and she was brought before the magistrates, and sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment. Her term expired last Saturday. One of the bench asked if she was a prostitute. Witness—She is a notorious prostitute, and one of the greatest liars in the world. Superintendent rovey had received com munications from almost every town in England where she had practised the same kind of dodges. The prisoner—You have told an untruth; I have only been to Stafford three times; the first for seven, the second for fourteen, and the last for twenty one days. Witness—On applying to the gaol more than half a dozen convictions can be produced of her. Prisoner—As to my going tc Chell Work house, I never did, for my mother took me home. The Mayor (to the prisoner)—He says you came from Stafford on Saturday. Prisoner —It was not on Saturday I came. I was at home on the 19th of September, and my mother knows it too. In answer to the bench, the witness added that there was no such person ss William Dean living at Burslem. The Mayor (to the p r isoner) —Do you , adhere to the statement y ou made to Dean The prisoner said she did, and it was true she was three mon ths advanced in t he family way. 'I 'he Mayor said she would be examined by a surgeon, and re manded far a week, and in the meantime further inquiries would be made respecting ker. He added that this case showed the necessity of there being a public prosecutor. It must be p laced in the hands of an attorney, so that a p ro p er inquiry might be made, and the case presented to the bench next Tuesday in a connected forie, for if the statement of the police-seegeant were correct the prisoner ought not to be at l a rge.—Btrinznyhant Gazette. GAS LAMPS just placed in the Champs Elysees resemble in shape an antique vase. The light springs from an imitation candle, and at the top ie a white porcelain re flector. They give a much wore brilliant light than those on the old system. Les Institutions Politiques, Judiczaires, et Adminis atsres d'Anyleterre. Par Charles de Franque villa, Auditeur au Conseil d'Etat, Avocat ila Cour Imperiale. 1 Tome, pp. 559. Paris : Hachette et Cie. A distinguished Frenchman has,this singularly interesting interesting and exceedin g l y able work, tak en not only a very tolerant but a most generous view is of our English Institutions. M. de Franqueville man of note amongst our Gallic neighbours. This his very position indicates. He is Auditor of the Council of State, betides being a barrister at law in practice and a man of letters with some reputa tion. He has enjoyed the advantage of mixing in English society as well as in French society. When he writes, as in the volume under notice, about our insular institutions, "Political, Judicial, and Ad. ministrative," he writes, no doubt, after the accu mulation of large stores of knowledge in regard to those institutions from books, but he writes also, it would be especially borne in mind, from his own vigilant, sustained, and thoughtful observation. The treatise here presented by him to our consi deration—for in a philosophical sense the work is a genuine treatise in its character, a treatise well considered throughout, ample in its scope, and having the broadest, and, so to speak, the most mass ive principles for its very foundation—the treatise here submitted to our examination by M. de Franqueville has been quite manifestly from beginning to end, a labour of love with the writer of it. Like his illustrious fellow-country man, the Count de Montalembert, in these particu , bars, if in no others, M. de Franqueville, besides being an earnest, a conscientious, and a devoted ultramontanist, is, with the whole fervour of a most generous nature, in his political sympathies, a thoroughgoing Anglo-maniac. A time was when the cultivation of a frivolous and besotted Anglo mania was the passing passion of the hour among a certain class of French politicians. Outwardly it manifested itself, this tendency towards the imita tion of English ways and methods of doing things, by thu adoption of some of the more flagrant absurdi ties then prevalent on this side of the Channel in the way of costume, as well as in the adoption of some of our most conspicuous social and domestic habitudes. These extravagances, occurring (it way be recalled to mind by even the most superficially instructed student of modern history), during the evil days of the first, that is, of the Great French Revolution. While yet inEngland the vulgar notion of a French man was almost identical with the idealised cari cature of that personage painted in Hogarth's picture of Calais Gate, a caricature afterwards exaggerated to the most grotesque extravagance of ridicule in the Frog-eating Spindle-shanks pour trayed in the gaudily-coloured etchings of Gilray and Rowlandson—multitudes of people on the op posite side of the Channel, prominent politicians many of them, were acting, it may be, in a not less mistaken, but certainly also in a far more generous spirit : wearing among other things the buckskins and top-boots, then forming a portion of the ordinary garb of Englishmen; carrying in their right hand a bulbous-headed walking-stick ; having at their heels a tamed, though ferocious -looking specimen of the genus bulldog ; in their hours of conviviality, it may be, some of them exchanging the savoury ra gout for the tough beef-steak, or the nip of absinthe for the equally nauseous flavour of gin-and-bitters. It was not that these earlier and merely superficial Anglo-maniacs hated us less (that is to say, than Englishmen and Frenchmen were then mutually taught, idiotically to hate each other) but that they hated their own rulers, their own institutions, their own Government more. There was a malignity in that Anglo - mania, though the evidences of it wore nothing short of the ridiculous. In noble contrast to the Anglo-mania of past days in France, is an intellectual and philosophical Anglo mania, if such it can justly be called, like that manifested by a rarely gifted man of genius like the Countscle Montalembert, or, again as the work to which we are here desirous of directing the attention of our fellow-countrymen, admirably well evidences, by an enlightened and accomplished ob• server like M. de Franqueville. Subscribing to Buffon's famous axiom, " k 4 style c'est l'honzme," we would here, before adding another syllable in regard to the goodly volume before us, give in the way of illustration at least s one brief extract, as an average exemplar of the way in which M. de Franqueville's work is written. Remarking upon the ex traordinary difference discoverable at a glance between the French and the English administrator our author goes on to remark :—" La quelques rases employes, d'un OCCe3 facile, d'une exquise politesse, d'une inepuisable complaisance pour les citoyens qui, par le plus grand des hasards, oat affaire it une administration publique. Point de cerbere =- gorge dans une cravate blanche, le cou orne de la c haise d'argent traditionelle; un simple gentleman en redingote fait fonction d'huissier ; it parait sur prise, mais non pas mecontent, d'apercevoir un etranger, et it s'empresse de se mettre a sea ordres. 11 est assurement plus facile de voir un minister el'Angleterre qu'un chef de division francais. Les bureaux sont propros et nets. On y voit peu de dossiers, encore moins de cartons. Une petite car beille d'osier contient trois ou quatre feuilles de papier etonnees de se trouver ensemble, et destinees ki etre pliees le soir, puis entourees d'un petit fib rouge [how delicately the red tape is hinted at n, avant de retourner a la poussiere qui les attend. Presque toutes les admi nistrations sent reunies, a Whitehall, dans un meme ba.timent dont la vue seule est plus elcquente que tousles discours. Point de ces etiquettes ma jestueuses, sur lesquelles le mot bureau aime, chez nous, it staler sa touteapaissance ; de petites plaques de cuivre Bien discretes se desputent la 'Artie in ferieure de trois portes etroites, et indiquent lea noms des ministeres, dont elles annoncent Ventres. Le temple de la bureaucratic anglaise est moins grand que l'hotel par ticulier de l'un des ministres a Paris." Time will come, however, M. de Franque ville, when in regard to that last peculiarity of ours, we are all cherishing the hope of being able to say with Moliere's Medecin Ma ire Lug—" IVe have changed all that" compl etel y ! M eaning the restricted character and unimposing ap pearance of our public offices. As our author himself might learn any day, when next he happens to be o ver here in London by strolling down in the direction of Whitehall and remarking the extent of the clearance there made to the west of Downing-street. Excellent though the arrangement of this work of M. de Franque ville's undoubtedly is, in the way of affording its reader a comprehensive and comprehensible survey of our English Institutions—our institutions at once political, judicial, and administrative—it is upon the liberality of the whole tone of it that we would here particularly be understood to pro nounce our opinion —not carelessly, or casual's', or out of mere idle compliment, but withan emphasis of approval to which, according, to our thinking, t h at same l ib era li t y of tone so eminently entitles it. Divided into four books, the volume considers, in the first, The State and the Church; in th e secon d, Justice and Legislation; in the third, the Central Administration ; in the fourth and last, the Local Administration. 'Than which division of his theme, into four quarters, none could by possibility ensure to the treatise more in stantraroetrical completeness. lucidity or more es Subdividing the first book again into four chapters, Al. de Franqueville comments in the first upon our Constitution in its entirety. In the second, he con siders the Executive Power under half a dozen sections-1, the Sovereign; 2, the Royal Family; 3, the Royal House; 4, the Civil List; 5, the Privy Council ; 6, the Cabinet. Chapter three relates in five sections to-1. The Parliament ;2. The Nobility ; 3. The House of Lords ; 4. The House of Commons; 5. The Bills introduced into the Legis lature, and there by " passing" transformed into enactments, Chapter the fourth and last of the first book relates, in its turn, under two heads, first, to Protestantism, and, secondly, to what is natu rally of especial interest to the writer as a Catholic, to the Catholic religion in the United kingdom ; nay to a certain extent even it might be said, in the whole vast area of the British empire. A couple of chapters, he finds sufficient for his second book or division. The earlier of the two re- LITERATURE. n ~ `Y`~~_ lating to Justice, the later to Legislation. Three chapters make up the third Book : the first having regard to the Home Depaatment ; the second to Foreign Affairs, as well as to the Army slid Navy ; the third to our Financial system. Firally three chap ters are the subdivisions of th•ie fourth book--having reference, the first to counties,the second to parishes, the third to municipalities. Having recounted all which, the scheme of file whole treatise may now very readily be comprehended. And it is worth, comprehending when it comes to be examined into—we hardly know which We would say by preference, whether of more worth in France or in England. Through it, the English reader:may learn, with advantage to himself, how magnanimously and appreciatively a truly liberal-minded Frenchman can survey th e whole complicated fabric of our English Institu tions. Through it, moreover, the French reader may learn, with advantage to hinzself, how much real liberty is fostered here in England \ under cur political, judicial, and administrative institutions—as the reigning Emperor, his Majesty Napoleon 111., took occasion to remark hardly twelve months ago, whe n pronouncing a panegyric upon our English institutions i n wor d s that M. de F r anqueville has, in this book of his, unconsciously, i t may be, but most effectively enforced_words that (some of them at least) even M. do Montalem bed himself might have articulated as the cham pion of true Liberty and the admirer of a strictly Constitutional form of government. Charles Mathews' Continued Success at Paris, M. Nestor Roqueplan,the theatrieal critic of the Constitutionnel, has the following remarks in his last feuilleton : " Here we have another feat which has its merit —an Englishman playing a French vaudeville at the Varieties. The French vaudeville is bad, the English actor excellent ; at the first representation a part of the public hissed the piece. The hissers were but clumsy ; the experienced and delicate hissers of the Odeon would not have failed to treat the foreign actor handsomely, and to detach him from the piece to which he puts his name, and which may have been originally good, but spoiled by some subsequent patching. However that may be, the English press testifies a good deal of iii humour at the reception given to Mr. Mathews, a charming and distinguished artist, who takes his place on the same line with our most subtle and. celebrated comic actors. Th e E ng li s h papers are right, for it would be impossible to sa y w i t h w h at re finement of hospitality our artists are received in. London. At this very moment some French de serters are there, murdering the English language at a rate that might well make the three kingdoms tremble ; they, are, nevertheless, listened to and encouraged by a polite public, which seems as if grateful for the effjrts made to please it. If the conduct of our hissers has been taken amiss, on the other hand it has done no harm, and Mathews is drawing crowded houses. The Anglais Timide has resumed upon the bills the rank of which the theatre had thought it right at first to dispossess it. The reparation comes, then, entirely from the public, which of its own free will adds an adjective to the title of the piece, and calls it, ti?nides et applaudi.'" Upon this the Times' Paris correspondent remarks as follows :—I know not what part of the English press was angry at Mr. M a th ews ' s reception, or . imagined there was shown to him on ac count of his being a foreigner, but nobody who was present at his first performance at the Varieties could fairly have said that such was the case. A few persons—" fastidious outsiders," onA of th© Paris papers called them—hissed and shuffled with their feet, but their dissatisfaction was manifestly with the piece, and not with the actor. In its French garb the little farce was too long, and hung fire; it was cut down between the first and second, performances, and has gone well ever since. A Ladlefull of " Punch;' PICKED UP FROM TUE BEACH,—OId Salt (who has got sixpence apiece out 3f the children)—" There, my dears, you've got a kitten for a shillun' as had ought to a bin sevin and sixpence at least; and if you 'll meet me hero to-morrer at the same time, you shall have such a boat for a half-a-crown as you couldn't got at a shop for five bob I" DIPLOMATIC ADVICE TO RUSSIA ABOUT POLAND.--% Bear, forbear I SCIENTIFIC.—A Magnetic Mountain has been discovered in Swedish Lapland. It is creating a great sensation, and, as may be expected, is drawing immensely. FOREIGNERS IN FRANCE.—First Foreigner—" This is what they call ala Russe, isn't it ?" Second Foreigner " Alleroose is it ? Well there! I could a' sworn it warn't beef nor mutton." MOTTO FOR AN IRRITABLE SCHOOLMASTER.-" Nisi ad regulam, prava non corriges."—Sen. Epist. Lib. i. Ep. 11. It is impossible to correct what is wrong without u rulcr. SCRAPS FROM " FUN." MODERN GEOGRAPILY.—ItaIy ; chief town, Paris. NOT GENERALLY KNOW - N.—Before the conference —at which the King of Prussia did not attend—broke up, its members, in allusion to the fact, sang "Oh I Willie, we have missed you I " CON. BY AN INSURANCE OFFICE CLERK —Why is Professor Pepper's life a remarkably good one ?—Because there is no prospect of his giving up the Ghost. A SECOND NATIONAL DEBT.—A debt of gratitude most justly due to those brave fellows who " Man the Lire Boar." A FIT or THE BLUES. —Trying on the police clothing, SIIIPPING—This Day. LONDON, Sept. 24—Wind this day at noon—South- Westerly; moderate breeze, and cloudy weather, with heavy showers. EAHTMOUTII, Sept. 2 2.—Arrived—Prince Alfred, from Rangoon ; Skimmer of the Seas, from Colombo. FALmount, Sept. 23.—Arrived—Helen, from Africa; Beppi S., from Alexandria, TetooN, Sept. 23.—Sailed—Silver Bar, for St. John's, N-13.; Freedon 'Wilson, for Demerara. OFF FALMOUTH, Sept. 23.—Arrived —Southerner, from Rangoon. SHIELDS, Sept. 23.—Wind s.E.—Arrived—Burge meister, from St. Nazatre; Lorens P eter, from Schie dam; Dorothy, fr om Alexandria. CLYDE, Sept. 23.—Wind s.w. — Arrived — Oder, from Maceio; Wm. Connal, steamer, from Bordeaux; Suean, 2 3..—Arrived—Willittm and Edward, from Sulina. KlxaieoAD, Sept. from Oporto. NEwronT, Sept. 23.—Arrived—Carraboll, from Glou cester for Singapore' NY MAGNETIC TELEGRArTI. Sept. 23 Retorm, from Algoa Bay ; Chase, from Arrived, GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning. Calcutta; Brinds Carl, fro m Q ue beo ; Whitehaven. Lass, f ro m Jamaica; Frank, from Boston; Lissie Bliss, from rigoon , Speedwell, f rom J a maica ; Agrippina, f r om Bahia ; Gipsy, from Di eppe ; Poictiers, from Kur raehee ; International, from New York; Times, from Guatemala; Viceroy, from Belize; Isis, from Lemanos ; Eagle, from Jamaica. Arrived, Sept. 24 —Ludovic from Algiers ; Racer, from Porto Rico ; Albion, f rom Berbice ; Wilhelm, from Ha vanna ; liermino, from Oporto ; Guadina, from St. Peters.. burg ; Bathorp, from Leghorn ; Prince Rupert, from Jamaica ; Dart, from Lagos ; Ann, from Caonstadt ; Ann Johanna, from Quebec. Sailed — ASsey, for Bomba. DEAL, Thursday Morning. Passed—Melita from Antwerp, to Ravannah ; Cambria, from London, for ' St. Helen's; Etterias, from London, for Getie. i Anchored—Little Nell, from the east, for the north. NOTTINGHAM, Sept. 22.—There was a fair demand for lace yarns to-day, and a further rise in prices took place. For hosiery yarns the demand was not so brisk, but the extreme rates of Friday week were fully tuaintained. Silks steady- Owing to the recent advance in the price of cotton brown nets have been put up 10 to 15 per cent. by the makers, but this stops business. of the THE ALEXANDRA PARK.—The domes Exhibition building of 1862 are now being removed to Alexandra Park, Wood-green, Hornsey, w here they will be erected as soon as the preparatory works can be corn pleted. TILE GREAT EASTERN.—It is currently reported that this ship is to be sold by auction. As one of the watchmen, named Marchand, em ployed on the Ardennes railway, between Lougivy and Cons-la- G rand vine, was going his rounds three nights since, he discovered an iron bar laid across the rails. Con tinuing his e.xamination, he found that several pieces of wood and stone had also been laid on the rails at intervals for a considerable distance. But for this discovery a serious accident must have happened, as the lino there runs stens an embankment nearly 40 feet in height. -~. -~.~ at per when 000 f; of tha cd to, and 1