The Sun. — London, England, 1863-02-04 00:00:00

.1.....0 • f-y ear e rate finery 11 the t. per ,ed to t of a im on half- %lance di t of held ; Mr. n. the Id re and 1,903. 3st on ►r the 1111 on 3,600 ; Lt. on 6 per t,600; •mak 1r the inued !reuse .vions canal 153 of I mer- g the coal, tigers ogton )lders ed by i was were 7ith a rs de with from lism- Idin g -0,000. for a nd of Llan and to axten. Lou- :nigh. range 0,000. chase make lines raise con" itney, totion s been quiry busi le de- Sat as hope mow a rket nanu- oases ost all I con- Et. A lat at or for nt by ed 9d oce of .tiling nbay, ming i g on 3hirt- piece. rtion. uyere -day. view with ; but Alers, i such :emit° ►riceB, ity in ;h the [4riceo kurac- reeks pro- 11 for vhich rially ploy v col pro- Where trade past rs are a are e tin anse - 1 this for & nded NONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Outin g to the liquidation of bills due to-day, the 4th of the month, the demand for money has been rather more animated, but the market nevertheless retains a quiet appearance. Accommodation is ob tainable on lower terms in discount circles than at the Bank of England, and it is probable that the return which will appear to-morrow afternoon from that establishment will show a failing off in other securities. The Continental Exchanges, yesterday afternoon, exhibited no material alteration. At the forthcoming meeting of tie Electric and International Telegraph Comp any a dividend of 3k per cent. for the half-year will be proposed. Geld is now of about the same value in London and Paris, but about 6-10tha per cent. dearer here than in Hamburg. The suspension has been announced of Messrs. G. W. Reynolds and Co., steel manufacturers, ofthe Manchester Works, Smetimick and Birmingham. The liabilities are estimated at £30,006, but the assets are presumed to be considerable. The directors of the Mackwall Railway recom mend a dividend at the rate of 4 per cent. against 31 per cent. last year. Notice has been given that the Scrip of the Peru vian Loan of 1862 can be exchanged for Bonds on and after the 10th inst. Two o'CLocx. The third annual general meetingof - the Ocean Marine Insurance Company was held to-day,—Mr. J. W. Cater in the chair. The report stated that, after making provision for the final liquidation of the preliminat y expanses, and after payment of all claims, losses, &c., to Dec. 31, 1862, a balance of £189,287 remained, from which the directors recom mended that a sum of £10,005 be paid to the pro prietors as interest on the paid op capital, at the rate of five per cent. per annum, and that the balance (£179.287) ne carried forward against the current risks, &c. The chairman, in Moving the adoption of the report, stated that the Company had made extraordinary progress since its establishment. The total risks taken during the past year amounted to £22,000,000, which was an increase of £10.000,000 upon last year, and of £13,000,000 upon 1860. In 1860 the premiums had averaged 365. 3d. per cent.; in 1861, 335. 2d. per cent.; and for the past year, 28s. per cent. The report was unanimously adopted, and the number of directors increased from 16 to 18. Inert aced firmness has been apparent to-day in the Market for the English Funds, owing to the more favourable tendency of the specie movement and the prospect of money getting easier if the stock of bullion at the Bank of England should in crease. Consols have risen I per cent., viz., to 921 f for tratsfer, and to 921 for March. The New Three per Cents, and the Reduced are firmer at 921 1 ; Exchequer Bills remain at 4s. dis. to par ; Bank Stock is 236; India do., 228 and 230; and do. 5 per C,nt. Loan, 108 t. In the Foreign department the most conspicuous movement has been the further rise in Greek Bonds, viz., to 22/ ; and the Coupons to 101 I ; Egyptian are buoyant at 991 ; ditto 2d issue, at 984',',—,; Mexi can Stock has improved to 331; Peruvian New Loan to 886; Portuguese ditto 47 ; Russian ditto 95 ; Spanish Passive have advanced to 271 ; ditto Certificates to 10 I ; Turkish 6 per Cents., 1854, to 87 88; ditto 1838, 72 Q ; ditto, 1862, 681 ; and the Consolides, 411,- 1, being rather depressed. In the Railway Share Market the operations were to an average extent, but a farther downward movement took place in prices. London and Black wall have declined 55.; Great Westerns, London, Chatham, and Dover, North Western, South Western, and Metropolitan, 10s.; and Midlands, and Great Northern A Stock, £1 10s. ; Caledonians and Great Easterns, however, improved 55., and South Eisterns 15s. The Foreign and Colonial lines have remained without any material change in values. Soutn Austrian and Lombardo-Venetian realise 234; Great Western of Canada, 13; and East Indian, 10%. Joint Stock Bank and Miscdlaneous Shares generally maintained previous rates Ottoman Bank i mproved to 38 tnd 3 9 ; U n i on o f L on don, t o 321 . 33; 31 ex di v . and South Australian Land , to 301 --- BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Bank Stock .. ........ 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 N p e e , y r 3 C e p n e r t C. Cent. Con 921 3 / 4 o A le n A n n u n it u ie it s ies ** 921 1 9 1 i India Stock.~,, Ditto 5 per Cent . Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. Ditto 5 per Cent los} 5 Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct., 1863 998 D t , onits ~ i. 451 •••• Ditto ut,der £l,000 Consols for Account, Feb. 5 928 Exchequer Bills, £lOOO, 2 3 / 4 per Cent 4 die par Ditto £SOO Ditto Small 4 die par FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES quador New Consolidated Egppti an 7 pet Cent.. Ditto, Second Issue Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coup ins.. 21i 1 21 1 i_ 8 _ 9t 1 10 3 / 4 8 e a i Ditto Coupons Mexican 3 per Cent 1 • , itt. Account 32 31 2 New Granada 2 per Cent — Ditto Land Warrants .. 61 3 / 4 / Ditto ex over-due Coups. & Hectares 131 1 Ditto Deferred, Ex Hectares P•mucian4l per Cent. Ditto 1862 Ditto Account F'ortuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto Account.... Ditto 1862 Russian 6 per Cent., 1822, £ St Ditto 41 per Cent., 1850 Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859 Ditto 5 per Cent. 1862 .. 95 41 5 Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Account 53/ Ditto New Deferred Ditto Account.. 461 1 Ditto Passive Spanish Cert. of Coup not f un d e d Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 — Ditto Account. Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 Ditto Account 7 721 2 1 1 8 Ditto, £lOO Bonds Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 Ditto Account 68/ 8 Venezuela, 3 per Cent ...... Ditto Account 24 8 38 Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 Dividends on the above payable in London. Duth 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil 651 Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 26f. Ditto Account.. Coosols, Money THREE O'CLOCK. 921 8 Ditto Account 9 2 3 /4 8 /32RANOXR'SLiseLt ISETTE.—Mrs. Eliza Fleury, old, Beringer's a. ." p has just died in a Paris attic,or some time previous to her hospital, 71 years have f ve the poor Notone on lOid. a day, the pro d she lived in a d eath, f her handiwork. gnawing re merebered his old the great Chansonnier seems to many admirers of when friend, or tried to alleviate the to which she must have been pretty 0 h unge r u and want her feeble hands failed to earn the miserable pit ec tan ted ' which we should f anc y onl y a Frenchwomanwotl4_,aPc'n be .able to subsist. ofParliapmeene; Parliament, The Judges , to whom the x vi ~, Act. entrusts the powe r of and 24th Vic. , cap x of controlling the examinaticonsofpersons intendedresolvedto r for the e profession of solicitors have unanimously cogniset°aa the g t u h a e ra fi o rs t e t -clays fi g c en at e - r s al o f ei t i the College g e e n o d f P as re t ce hu p exempting their holders from the necessityofp h a e s i s a i , preliminary examination in general knowledge their lordships' auspices, ty the Incorporated Law . So g i n c t i n e d t i y e s PROSPECTS OF THE SESSION.--h. , t :not easy t o eon j ec . ure t h e poss ibl e occasion of a Ministerial defeat, there will be no difficulty in finding an excuse for a change of Government, if the House of Com mons really desires it. The China vote and the conspiracy votes had been previously unforeseen, and in both instances an irritable feeling against the Government rendered a coalition of hostile sections practicable. Lord Pahnerston's more sanguine opponents believe that his hold on Parlia ment and the country is once more shaken, and if their opinion is well founded, the most insignificant proposition may serve for the foundation of a damaging or decisive division. In the last extremity, the Minister would almost certainly resort to a dissolution; and the dislike of mem bers t precipitate a meeting with their constituents will moderate their zeal in opposition. As Lord Derby dis solved four years ago, no plausible objection could be raised to the employment of the same resource by Lord Palmerston. On the whole, the Government has a chance, but by no means a certainty, of surviving the session,—. SagitinfaY 141/1.04 40 42 34 36 95 26 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Closin. --hare /al iwavi. Paid. Price. Business don• 100 Atlantic &St Lawrent , 1.11 65 67 40 j Hom.,Baroda&Cent In, , 1044 11.5; 1041 544 Gu. 5 per cent. 20 Do. New 204 Buffalo and Laxe Huron all 44 54 61 10 Do. Preference ...... all 74 is too I Butralo,Brant,&Godricl• ,„ 77 • I 6 p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 100 1)o. do. July 1, 1871' to; 74 76 100 Do. •10. Jun- 1, 1 10F 73 76 st CleuttadzS. East - 0. T 100 113 1(5 et Cape Town & Dock Se , 100 10,8 , 19 stock Eastn. Bengal gu. sp. 10 1 ; 1(5, 65 stock Kast Indian. gu. sp. c. 100 1054 I. 64 , 1064 20 1)0. do. C 4 Ext... 5 4 l io 20 Do. do. H do. .. 51 IP stock Grand Prunk of Can/01. itr. 21 2 2i 100 Do. 5 per cent. Fret I; 73 5 100 Do. 2d Fret. IS per ct.. all 63 65 100 Do. 6 per ct. Debent , all 32 34 100 Do. 7 per cent. 1862 . all 47 50 100 Do. do. 1867 .. all 32 34 100 Do. do. 1872.. all 32 34 stock GtlndiaPenln.gua.sp.e 10(.. 1044 1054 1054 20 Do. New gua. sp. 0... 12 l' 20 Do. January, 1862 4 stock Gt. South.of India (Lirn guaranteed 5 per cent. pto 103 105 1044 204 Gt. W. of Canada Share, all 121 13 15 204 Do. New 100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt all 99 101 100 Do. 54 p. c. do. '77-8.. all 92 34 10 Indian Branch Limited 14 lip 341 stock Madras guar., sp.c. .. 100 11.2 0;3 103 2 stock Do. 41 p. 0. Extensio; 100 96 98 stock Dc. 4 , do . 100 92 4 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 stock Nlelb.l'oro. •p. c. Bud 10 1 - - 50 Melb. & Hobson's Bay. all 52 63 100 Do. 7p. o. Hong. Bds. al. 20 New Brunswick & Can't A Capital Shar • al 3 20 Do. Class do. B Capital do. . al l 5 3 5 N.Rl.C'da6 p 0 lst bds 100 83 65 atot. Sci n d e Slot D DD 00 0 . .. prp d uo o j. (100 1(5 106 101 w 1 00 t • •• at Do. Delhi 0 1 3 ( 1 25 10 1 i4 C P 3 0 1034 ti 2 ..e/ 1/c. Indus. St. Flo. J 110' 98 100 - OLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. -- • -.li.tioc. p.c..] a &July 1877-84 Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Auc. 100 106 108 ad Do. dp. c. Mar. & gent. 100 106 108 Do. sp. c. Jan.&July. 10 I• 5 96 Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 / , 3 95 ape G. Hope, 5 p (0873 100 .0 ;10 109 Do.Ap &Oct 1880 100 112 114 Do. 1890 10; 112 114 - Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 111 113 Ceylon, N0v.1861, 6p c 100 N. /1.1i0v.6 p.c../ a.&July 101 104 105 6 p. c.Ap. & Oct., 101 - N. S.W. Gov. 5 p c., 1868, 10( 100 101 - Do. sp. c.,1871 to 1870. 100 994 101:4 - Do. d0.,1888 & upwds, 10 0 99 160 994 - New Zealand 6p. cent. 11 , 0 109 II l Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. c ster;lng, 1875 1 10. 1(6 107 Queensland Gov. 6p. a 100 19 11. - a.Aus blop.c.lB7is.&up ' 101 109 111 191 10 Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 107 109 108 ADO. to aO.O. D.& ( 01k. I 100 11.41 1104,_110 RHTTISTI MTNES. Cambrian Consol. Gold I s or,' Amalgamated tevon G. Con.. l'avist - East Bassett ( Mogan 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd., East Caradon ..... East Carn Brea... E. W'l Russel (Tavistk. Gam.JzSt.Aubyn(Gwen.) (3 reat South To)gus I;. Wheal Vor (Helston Grenville ......... Herod's-Foot I ingston Downs - Lady Bertha NT rgaret (Cny Lelant M ark e Valley.. ‘1 vtuiv Tron Oro (Lim New Setun Kurth Downs Wh't BasePt(Illo orth Wheal Crotty l'ar Consols(St. Blazey ' 'rovidence (Uny Lelnt. South Caradon(St.Cleer 3. Carn Brea (Illozan) •'.Wheai Fran. Stray Park Tamar SilvA Lead Min Pin Crort West Basset (Illogan) W Caradon (Liskeard West Seton Wheal Basset (Illogan Wheal Buller ( Itedruth Wheal Kitty (I.7.Lelant WhealLud ott I wheal Mary Ann (Men. Wheal Seton . . heal Trelawney (Lis.) Wheal Union d - 5 22 24 HO 521 50 62 1. 3.0.. I 7.19.0 17r P kD 18 1 ; 494 114 i 2 5t 17 19 64 7 6 64 54 5, 50 52 24 3 1 11. 31 tO (is .- 140 15 p 0 34 al 3 Ai 46 6 I • 4. 7.0 2.0 6 1.3.0 2.4.1' I 4 5.15.6 Iti.l .9 28.9. 1 13 395 1(15 25 21 87 925 39 41 155 )65 _ _ 13 14 47j 5} 5 2.0.6 2.10.8 58} 7 3.13 35 38 285 295 75 80 75 85 7i Si 9 91 15i rh 45 255 17 18 51 5i PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Western, 5 per cent. red. pref , 101 ancashire and Yorkshire 6 per cent. stk., 1364 North Eastern (G.N.E: 4 per cent pref.), 9 ti Stockton and Darlington, C, 6 per cent., 34 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great ' , astern, 5 per cent pref., 107 Kent Coast, t , per cent. pref. B, 2! London, Brighton, Sic, 4 per cent., 1858, 100 London, Chatham, &c., Metrop. B, 6 per cent., 11 North British (Edin., Perth, and Dundee) 4 percent., 82i LINES LEASED A C FIXED RENTALS. Great Eastern, E. U. Harwich, 4 per cent., 87 London and Chatham 4 per Cent., 94i FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San Francisco (limo gua. 7 per cent., 201 1 1 Great Luxembourg, 16 Royal Swedish, 7 per cent., a Sambre and Meuse, 10, f San Paulo slim.), gua. 7 per cent., 9} South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 231 FOREIGN MINES. Port Philip, 11 United Mexican (llm), 5 JOINT-STOCK I'ANKS. Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool (11. m.), 241 Auairalasia, 771 8 71 Bank of Egypt, 251 it London cr E.l. t Ay 6 r toc es k r s d 4 E ; Plate (lim.), 14 oinLondon and N 'rthern (Bra ),:24 London and So uth A fr ican, 24 4 London and weatniinater, National Provincial of Enuland, now, 20& 1 Oriental Bank Corporation, 551 ottoman Bank 3i io 8 9—Ditto, new, 101 9i I °l Soinde, Punjaub, and Delhi ( 11 m.1, 21 Union of London, 34 3 DeocKS . Victoria, 97 MISCRLLAREous . ICrystal Palgoe, 32 I Italian Irrigation Canal, 1 London Gen' ral Omnibus Company (lim.), Qucbrada Land, Rail, and Mining (Lim.), 2 South Australian Land, 30, 1 SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning. Arrived, Feb. 3.—Amisia, from Minititlan; Star, from nunkirk; Tay, from Tarragona; Trinidad, from Berbice:; Bebec, and Frederick William, from Guernsey; Renshaw, from Lagos. A r rived, Feb 4.—Madawaska, from Belize ; Sister, from St.:Michaels. DEAL, Wednesday Morning. Passed—Maldon. for Lombay, Seine and Tamise for Rouen—both from London. Anchored -Craigwar, for Launceston, Flying Fish, f or Barbadoes—both from London. Put back—James Rogers, for Alexandria. SHARE MARKETS—This Day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOuf. S. Railways. Wol., and Str. Val iilythe and Tyne. Bost.,Sleat. t andllid.•.lo Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall b 84 ri 7 85 C 116 116 86 114 64 7 Do A A ;lets no di\ till6pc.pan.has Do. B been paid to B. Dublin & Belfast June. f Pun., Perth, & Ab. June. Edinburgh & Glasgow. Glasg. and S. Western. Great Eastern, Ord. stk 41 43 13 14 861 87} 105 107 47 48 44 45 23 24 126 127 1301 1311 , 136 138 j 104 106 65 fsi 1091 101 74 76 111 112 42 44 971 981 103 104 41i 425 14 14i 128 t2t.i If lb 98 98 52i 53 25i 26 101 100, 57 68 FR 89} 128 130 110 1:2 1 - - 16 16} 11 11 119 121 474 484 104 106 47 19 32} 33 931 94 68 70 102 104 184 6i 7i 394 10 106 1 , 74 8 p 149 151 41 5 21 3t p 554 ;it - 4 24 Si p 86 d p BB , 140 145 29 31 In 94i i Closing Business Paid ' Price. done. 47J 4 n I 43 44 23 1271 6j 13 1 29 301 1 43 1 51 109} 75 11 11 xd 424 981 71 103 i 14 114 131 1271 61 74 I* p Ditto A stook it Ditto East a nzlian t GreatNorthot Scotland Great Northern it Do A stock Do 11 do Do. £5 shares Gt. S. an W. of Ireland Great Western . Do Str Val gua. stock Lancashire & Yorkshire) London and Blaokwal) Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast ion., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & Smith Western Man., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle Do shares Metropoli tan Midland 4.4.0 Do New Do Binning. & Derby Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. 4 shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwic. Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Lecds Do York _ , 0.16.4 ' Do Carlisle. North London Do New North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock Do Sent Mid. stock ,0 Shrews. and Weichpool ;t Shropshire Union it South Devon it South Eastern it South Wales it S. York. and River Dun KL; :•;t aines, Wok..and Wok Stockton & Darlington :5 Do :5 Do New, 1860 it Taff Vale. [0 Do B 12. 1 0 Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford dr Kilkenny West Cornwall %N. Hartlepool Har.drß West Midland Oxiord Do Newport' Do Hereford' ... , THE SUN, LONDON, ~- -: ;DNESDAV FWENING, FEBRUARY 4, 1863. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.---This Day. LITERATURE. OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Wightman.) CHARGE OF FORGERY. Herman Stiller and Marcus Stifler, two foreigners, were indicted with forging an order for the payment of money with intent to defraud the Bank of Poland. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine and Mr. Sleigh appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Metcalf for the prisoners. From the opening statement of the learned counsel, it appeared that in November last, the first prisoner, who had been in London!some time, went to the shop of Messrs. Tuer and Field, engravers and lithographers, in the Minories, and produced two tickets, and asked Mr. Tuer if he could manufacture a ticket like the one he then held in his hand. Mr. Tuer said he could, and he then asked Stifler what they were, when he replied, '• They belonged to the Society of Poland, that Polandwas in a state of insurrection and they were going to have a new king, and that was the reason that the tickets would be required and that they were equal to our promissory notes. The prisoner left the tickets and afterwards called for them, and said he had heard from his father that they would not now be wanted. He brought some other tickets with him, and asked Mr. Taer if he would engrave more like them. He said he would, but suspecting they were money, told him to call the next day, when the prisoner Herman called. He told him he would do them in the manner ordered, one h ndred copies of each colour. The prisoner called several times to see how the work progressed, and impressed upon Mr. Tuer the neces sity of the tickets being done, so that no one could tell them from the originals. On one occasion the prisoners came together and examined the stones for which the impressions of the tickets were, and expressed themselves satisfied. The two prisoners called again after that, and Marcus expressed himself dissatisfied at the ticket not being done, as he said his friend was going to Poland, and he wanted to take them with him. The tickets were promised on a certain day, and when the prisoner called Mr. Tuer gave Marcus 52 tickets, with which he left the shop. A detec tive officer of the City police, named Scott, was waiting close by and saw the prisoner Marcus give the tickets to Herman, who took them under a gas light to examine them, and while they were thus engaged the officer came up and asked them what they had got. They appeared as if they did not understand, but Herman eventually said he had got the papers he held in his hand from the printers. Scot then told them they must come to the station house. He took one of the prisoners, and Brett, another detective, took Here an. Mr. Sliwawski, chief of the cheque department of the supreme direction of the Polish Landholders' Association, said the notes of the corporation circulated in that country under the sanction of the Imperial Government, and the papers put into his hand, which were those found on the prisoner, Herman, when captured by the officers, repre sented bonds for the payment of the half-yearly interest of the Landholders' Association, but they were all forgeries. The jury found the prisoners Sentence deferred. A Daughter of Eve. A Novel. By Hain Friswell, Author of " Sham," " Ghost Stories and Phantom Fancies." 2 Vols. Bentley. This is a most striking work, full of brilliant de- Lcription, exciting incident, and ably drawn cha racters. The style throughout is animated, and the dramatis personee most life-like. The chief point on which the story turns is kept secret in the most artistic manner until the conclusion, and one seldom meets with so well defined a plot, sustained throughout with such care and caution, and at last taking one by surprise. The circumstances are most painful, but that does not detract from the interest, indeed it serves to increase the excitement. as no straightforward conduct could have created so much confusion and caused such fearful suffering. Some of the chief actors in this fitful drama of life are sketched in a finished style, sharp and satirical are the decisive touches put to their portraits and the heartless roue, the cold hard man of the world, the cunning schemer, the wild enthusiast, and the selfish woman of fashion and her train of senseless followers; the unfortunate outcast, who brazens out her shame by affected indifference, and the more mediocre mortals, who pursue their course in an humbler style, all appear before us in their strength and their weakness, in their sin and their subtleties, in their wilful perversion of gifts, and their conceited assumption of graces. Mrs. Vesey Boultbee is a leading personage in these chapters, and is thus introduced :—" Mrs. Vesey Boultbee was in the ton ; not the observed of all observers ; not the very cream of the cream, perhaps, but of very good standing. She was a good woman also, but had a woman's tongue—her only fault, she said. She gained, however, as much as she lost by that instrument, for her sayings and doings brought her into notoriety. Society talked often of what Mrs. Vesey Boultbee said and did. Mrs. Boultbee was known to everybody, from the royal personages downwards. She did not dine at the palace, per haps, but the people in the palace often heard of the bustling, energetic, good-natured, gossiping Mrs. Vesey Boultbee. Happy in herself, particu larly pleased with her position in the world, and thoroughly satisfied with her entourage, Mrs. Boultbee, woman of fashion and bon ton, fulfilled her duties of life, -which seemed to be those of making matches, advertising jewellers and milliners, proclaiming what was the last new method of spreading the table, or serving the soup, curling the hair or wearing the ribbon, and fluttered on through life with the gaiety of a butterfly, which thinks it is doing a good turn to the bees of exis tence. 'But it is certain that some of the bees, so far from thinking themselves benefited, be came grumble-bees, rather than humble bees, and railed against such delightful butter flies as Mrs. Vesey Boultbee." The devices to which this lady had resort are most entertaining to notice. She wished to visit Paris but dreaded the expense, hence she hit upon a plan which suc ceeded in a wonderful manner. She selected a friend who was as eager to ape her ways as she was those of the real grandee, and asked her to share expenses. She contrived that the visitor should take the heaviest share of payment in return for the inestimable advantages she enjoyed of a presenta tion to the French Court and the endless gaieties of a recherche class. Mrs. White, the favoured fair one, in her turn was now a graide dame, and quite extinguished some rival claimants to the honour of being among the elite of the fashionable world. The news of the trip to Paris spread discomfiture among the clique at Surbiton. " Mrs. Waite ' forged ahead' of her two companions. She was at once accepted as the leader of the ton at Surbiton, and the alderman's widow hid her diminished head, whilst the wife of the excellent proprietor of the patent medicine, who had always been of a serious turn, felt that the world was a very vain, wicked, and foolish world, and that it was not worth cul tivating, She therefore abandoned the pursuit of fashion, and, taking a seat in the chapel of a popular Dissenter, told all her friends that she had at last found what she had long been seeking—the way to a higher and a better world." The adventures of little Ishmael also are characteristically described, and the event of his joining the housebreakers gives a true picture of the manner in which idleness leads to mischief and to crime. " Pauline," is another natural delineation. Her career of dis grace had not hardened her heart, though it had roughened her manners, and it is only in accord ance with the spirited style in which she defended her house that she should come forward in the same fearless spirit to protect her prisoner. There was sufficient evidence of good intention in both these pariahs of society to justify the account here given of their prosperity in a foreign land, where they would be removed from pernicious influences, and able to start afresh in the great highway of life after their devious wanderings and crooked paths. Mr. Saul Yennem is a very likely presentation of a disagreeable man, who was invited everywhere and tolerated by everybody because he was rich. " A man cannot well have a very large fortune without being asked to the houses of his friends." He was a selfish, arrogant, and pretentious man, but covered with a cloak that hides a multitude of sins in the shape of a golden disguise, he went merrily on hie way and enjoyed himself, as he made it the object of his life to serve and please himself. Count de la Biche, who plays rather an important part in this story, is a real villain. Ever intent on evil and planning mischief, he might have dragged at the chariot wheels of his triumph injured men and ruined women who had been necessary sacrifices in the cause of his career. His end is indeed a retribution ; he died by the hand of the man he had most deeply injured, and whose succeeding years would be embittered by the fearful knowledge he had gained of the Count's conduct and the deceit practised on him by his wife and her mother. It was the Count's own wish that he and Colonel Escombe should fight, and thus he brought his doom on his uwn head. " The hour of reckoning" to that guilty career was a fearful struggle and an appalling sight. He could hardly have passed a more painful night than that which began so brilliantly at the hall of Mrs. Boultbee, bat which saw no morning in this world. To add to the retribution, his servant David, whom in his iniquitous and profligate career he had also injured, contrived to load the pistols, and loaded the Count's with powder, so that his adversary escaped, while he fell mortally wounded. The fact of Arthur's challenging the man who was his own father is a fearful warning of the denouements to which crime brings its votaries, and even in this world anticipates the judgments of the next. The Count thought himself safe from all exposure or annoyance, and one by one his victims rose up, like Banquo's ghost, to confront him and to anni hilate. All the resources of his craftiness, and the skilled manoeuvres of his cunning deserted him in his hour of need — "A lifetime's ts, in vain essayed, Seemed bursting on the artist's head." When his dying gaze rested on the luxurious cham ber he had so decked and decorated with luxurious refinement to minister to his comfort, he seemed like the sinner, who bade his soul take its rest, as it had much good laid up for many years ; and the warning voice proclaimed, " This night thy soul shall be required of thee." Colonel Escombe is rather a weak man, who seems more ready to run away from a difficulty than to stay and face it in the best manner. This book, which chronicles the sad careers of so many daughters of Eve, presents us with two happy ex ceptions in Florence Escombe, and her g ov erness, Miss Parsons. Florence is a fine disposit i onf andte an attractive maiden; she, too, had to taste oh cup of bitterness that sin had filled house hold, but she rallied from the shofeolar,Ahaieni r s d e never knew the real extent of the calamity.h Par sons is an estimable woman,ewffheoragspassed through with a heroism many scenes of trial ands to any one, however that would have . done exalted they might be. honourShe was the mainstay the unhappy h om e of the Escombes, and by her un tiring kindness and patient watchful ness s h e did her best to make crooked thing s stra i ght, or at least to mitigate the extent of the unavoidable calamity. The description at the commencement of the dismay t h at seizes on Colonel's friend nt his mysterious melancholy, and, NEW COURT. (Before Mr. Baron Channell.) George Ruston, shipowner, and James Bertie were in dicted, the former for unlawfully obtaining by false pre tences from the Universal Marine Insurance Company, the sum of £BOO with intent to defraud, and the latter with conspiracy for the same purpose. THIRD COURT. (Before the Recorder.) BURGLARY. James Welch was found guilty of a burglary in the dwelling .house of John Green, and stealing therefrom a quantity of boots and shoes. The Court sentenced the prisoner to four years' penal servitude. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH STREET. NUMEROUS ROBBERIES BY A WM...KNOWN Ellen Costello, a wretchedly clad woman, and who, from her appearance, has evidently been much addicted to drink described as a hawker, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with stealing three jugs and smashing a pane of glass, of the value of i 5, at the shop of Mr. John Baptiste Romer, china dealer, 302, Oxford-street; with stealing two fowls, of the value of 95., from the shop of Mr. Hill, poulterer, 4, Grosvenor-street ; and with stealing a tea kettle, of the value of 35., from the shop of Mr. John Cutting, iron. , monger, 27, Oxford-street. Mr. Henry Hughes, assistant to Mr. Romer, said that about a quarter to six the previous eN ening the prisoner picked up two glasses from a tray at the shop door, and asked the price. He told her, and as the price did not satisfy her she put them down again, and while doing so he ob served the three jugs, which he knew to be Mr. Romer's property, secreted under her shawl. He took them from her, and teld her to go away, when she became very abusive, and smashed a plate glass of about the value of £5. On her being searched at the staticn two fowls, a tea kettle, aoraaraeat, soma plates, and Parsnip. were found in her possession, the whole of which she said was her pro perty. Mr. Ditchett, assistant to Mr. Cutting, proved that the kettle was the property of Mr. Cutting, and he was able to identify it by the shop mark on it. Mr. George Hill, poulterer, of 4, Grosvenor-street, iden tified the two fowls as the property of his father. Mr. Tyrwitt asked whether the owners of the plates and the meat and parsnips were present. M'Bean, 332 A, said they had not been able to find them. Mr. Tyrwhitt--very much against the wish of the pri soner, who wished the matter settled at once—remanded the prisoner for a week. STREET OUTRAGE.—AIfred Rose, a young man who said he was a hammerman, living at Southwark, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt as follows : From the evidence of Frederick Allen, a tailor, living in Queen-street, Haymarket, it appeared that at one this morning he was passing through Sydhey-alley, Leicester square, when the prisoner and another roan came up to him, and while the other grasped his throat, the prisoner gave him a violent blow in the eye with his fist, and then made a snatch at his steel watch chain which he broke. He (prosecutor) was then dropped on the ground, the men ran off, but he got up and called " murder " and "police," and pursued the prisoner and caused him to be taken into custody. A constable said he saw the prisoner run from Sydney li into Leicester-street, and stopped him, when the pro secutor gave him in charge for the assault, having at the time marks of a severe blow in the eye. Prisoner said the prosecutor had made a mistake, and said there was no reason why ho should have assaulted the prosecutor. Mr. Tyrwhitt said the case assumed a more serious aspect than ho (prisoner) seemed to think, and he should remand him for a week. WESTMINSTER. DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT AT A TAVERN.—John Fitz gerald, an athletic young man, was charged with the fol lowing disgraceful conduct at a tavern : Henry Major, barman to Mr. Pelgrim, proprietor of the Sta , and Garter tavern, Sloane-street, Chelsea, stated that at a little after four o'clock yesterday afternoon the defen dant entered the house and created a disturbance by abus ing and quarrelling with some persons who were there. The heal barman told him to go out, when he refused, and struck him, and upon witness going to his assistance de fendant gave him a blow on the chest. After some diffi culty defendant was got outside, but before the door could be closed upon him defendant seized witness with his teeth and bit his hand, and if it had not been for the prompt and timely assistance of the head barman, witness would have been most seriously injured. Mr. Arnold—Was he served in the house ? Witness—We never serve him, drunkorsober ; orders have been positively given to the barmen not to serve him, in consequence of his general misconduct. Besides what I have stated the defendant tore my jacket as you now see it, and did damage to the amount of 10s. Frederick Badcock, 239 A, proved that the defendant was very violent. Mr. Arnold asked whether anything was known of him. Dennis, the gaol:, said that he had been repeatedly charged with assault on different persons. Defendant, who said he was drunk, offered no defence. Mr. Arnold observed that there was no excuse for his going to this house, creating a disturbance, and commit ting the assault with which he stood charged. His con duct had been altogether very bad, and in default of paying the penalty of 50s. ho must be committed for a month to the House of Correction. Committed accordingly. THE POPE AND THE PRINCE IMPERIAL.—The correspondent of the Paris Presse at Rome says, with rzgard to the confirmation of the Imperial Prince, that the Papal Nuncio has been directed by the Pope to assure the Emperor and Empress of the joy he would have " in himself causing the I1)ly Spirit to descend upon the head of the child destined by Providenc e to wear the finest crown in the world." It is thought, however, that the great ago of the Pope will not permit a visit to Paris. DIABOLICAL OUT B AGE. — Yesterday information was forwarded to the police that the authorities of the Great Northern Railway had offered a reward of £5O for the apprehension of some person or p ersons w h o h a d p l ace d several articles on the line between the Seven Sisters-road and the Holloway-road stations, for the pur pose of upsetting the trains. It appears th a t on one of the u p-trains arriving at King's-cross station, the persons in charge reported that, as they were coming slowly between the two stations referred to they me t w i t h some obstruction o n the line which bent their clearing iron. The telegraphic i wires were at o nce put nt) use, and on a porter proceeding u t , the line, he found on the up-line a iece of wo od and er l iron chairs, and on the down-lin e o f ra il way a fire several rsaufil c i en t to cause obstruction to th e pass i ng tra i ns a nd ale; to throw them off the line. THIRD EDITION. THE SPRING HANDICAPS. SUN OFFICE, SIX O'CLOCK. 'HE GREAT METROPO 'AN. Age at lb Lioness .. .. 4 6 4 Black Deer .. 3 6 4 Glenochty colt .. 3 6 4 Valentine .. 3 6 4 Golden Pledge .. 3 6 3 Bryn Gwyn .. 4 6 3 Adventurer 4 6 2` Donnybrook .. 3 6 2 Fansconsbe .. 6 6 1 Kill or (:ure .. 4 6 0 Citadel .. 4 5 12 His Excellency 3 5 12 Double X 3 5 1 Battery .. 3 510 Colombine.. 3 5 10 Odine 3 5 10 The Royal Stag 3 510 haff .. 3 5 7 Falcon .. .. 3 5 7 Jack o' Hearts 3 5 7 Bro to Springbok.. 3 5 7 Canzonette .. 3 5 7 Event colt.. .. 3 5 7 Voluptas 3 5 7 Conical .. .. 3 5 7 Sister to Sage .. 3 5 7 LadyFauconberg.. 3 5 7 King of Italy 3 5 7 Lusoinia 3 5 7 Lady Superior 3 5 7 ACCEPTANCES FOR T] LIT. Age st lb Asteroid 5 9 5 Zetland .. 4 8 7 Croagh Patrick .. 5 8 0 Rouge Dragon .. 5 0 Hartington .. 4 7 12 Umpire .. 6 7 11 Beachy Head .. 4 7 9 Dusk .. 4 7 9 Joey Jones .. 5 7 7 Brighton .. .. 47 7 Alerts . .. 47 7 Buckenham .. 4 7 5 Flirtation .. 5 7 4 Haddington .. 4 7 1 Somebody's Luggage 4 7 0 Sappho .. .. 46 13 Gorse .. .. 4 6 13 Harlequin .. .. 4 6 13 Polynesia .. 4 6 13 Bonnycastle .. 4 6 Physician (by Chan ticleer) .. a 6 7 Real Jam .. 4 6 7 Barbadoes .. 4 6 7 Canary .. 5 6 7 Charles Fox .. 4 6 7 Magnum Bonum .. 4 6 6 Catch'em Alive .. 4 6 6 Attaman .. 4 6 6 Villette 4 6 6 Bedouin .. .. 4 6 51 ACCEPTANCES FOR THE CITY AND SUBURBAN --- HANDICAP. Age at lb Asteroid .. 5 9 5 Sawcutter .. 5 8 12 Cape Flyaway .. 6 8 9 Brown Duchess .. 6 8 7 Crater .. 6 8 5 Croagh Patrick .. 5 8 5 Feu de Joie .. 4 8 4 Gen ral Hess .. 6 8 3 Umpire 6 8 0 Wingrave .. 4 8 0 Argonaut .. .. 4 7 13 Waterwitch .. 5 7 12 Johnny Armstrong 4 7 11 Welland .. 4 7 10 Exchequer.. .. 4 7 10 Beachey Head .. 4 710 Henham Lass .. 5 7 9 Benjamin .. .. 47 7 Attica .. 7 7 Chere Amie .. 6 7 7 Spencer .. .. 5 7 6 Joey Jones .. 5 7 6 Brighton .. .. 4 7 6 Buckenham .. 4 7 5 Michael Grove .. 4 7 4 Turn of Luck .. 4 7 4 Fig .. 4 7 4 Gardener .. 5 7 4 Overton .. 5 7 4 M. Philippe .. a 7 3 Provocateur .. 4 7 2 Polynesia .. 4 7 2 Rabens .. 4 7 0 Sappho .. .. 4 7 0 Hubert .. 4 7 0 Rescousse .. 4 7 0 Agag 4 7 0 Harlequin .. 4 6 13 Queen of Spain 46 13 Miss Livingstone.. 4 6 11 Cairncastle 3 6 12 Charles Fox .. 4 6 12 Tetei ring .. 4 6 11 Alchymist .. 4 6 10 Catch'em Alive .. 4 6 10 Canary .. 5 6 10 Valentine .. .. 3 6 8 Attaman .. 4 6 7 I nterduca .. 4 6 7 Bar bad oes .. 4 6 7 Glenochty colt .. 3 6 6 Lapidist .. 4 6 5 Bryn Gwyn .. 4 6 4 Barchettina .. 3 6 4 Soapstone .. 4 6 6 Age st lb Rapture .. .. 6 6 3 Portland .. .. 6 6 2 D, nnybrook .. 3 6 2 Amazonian .. 3 6 2 Jacqueline colt .. 4 6 2 Ernest .. .. 3 6 2 Weatherspy .. 3 6 0 Honest Tom .. 3 6 0 Souveraine .. 3 6 0 Miss Armstrong .. 3 6 0 Escape .. .. 3 6 0 Melandra .. .. 3 6 0 Physician (by Chan- ___ ticleer) .. a 5 13 Adventurer .. 4 5 12 His Excellency .. 3 5 12 Comet .. .. 3 5 12 Oberon .. .. 4 512 Erin-go-Bragh .. 3 5 12 The Royal Stag .. 3 5 12 Victor .. 4 5 12 Newchurch .. 3 5 12 Summerside .. 3 5 12 Dualla 3 5 11 Coupon .. .. 3 511 Sea King .. .. 3 5 11 Newfoundland .. 3 5.11 Merry Maid .. 4 5 10 Colombine.. .. 3 5 10 Misfortune .. 4 5 10 Conical .. .. 3 510 Perseverance .. 3 5 10 Sister to Allington 3 5 10 Battery .. 3 5 9 Father O'Leary .. 3 5 9 Stampede .. 3 5 9 Colleen Rhue 3 5 7 Pillion .. 3 5 7 Mrs. Somerville .. 3 5 7 Glance colt .. 3 5 7 Sand ford .. 3 5 7 Jack o'Newbury .. 3 5 7 Jack o'Hearfs .. 3 5 7 Lady of the Isles .. 3 5 7 Middlewatch .. 35 7 Voluptas 3 5 7 Tademas .. 3 5 7 Gelert .. 3 5 7 Sister to Sage .. 3 5 7 King of Italy .. 3 5 7 J nny Wren .. 3 5 7 Luscinia .. 3 5 7 Reserve .. 3 5 7 Tease-me-not .. 3 5 7 Sylvania .. 3 5 7 Birdlime .. 3 5 7 E NEWMARKET lIAN &P. Ae st Magnum Bonum.. g 4 lb 6 7 Barchettina .. a 6 6 Fee.. .• •. 5 6 6 Attaman .. 4 6 5 Lapidist .. 4 6 5 • anace .. 3 6 Ernest .. •. 3 6 3 Amazonian • • 3 6 0 Equinox .. .. 3 5 13 Battery . .. 3 5 10 Monitor .. • • 3 5 9 Fantail .. .• 3 5 8 Sandford .. .. 3 5 7 Jack o'Newbnry .. 3 5 7 Bro. to Springbok.. 3 5 7 Chaff .. 3 5 7 Curacao .. 3 5 7 Falcon .. .. 3 5 7 Colleen Rhue .. 3 6 7 Sylvanie .. 3 5 7 King of Italy ö 7 Warhorse .. 3 5 7 Physalis colt .. 3 5 7 ACCEPTANCES FOR TH DIC.I Age st lb Lawyer (h b) .. 5 813 Fairwater .. 5 8 10 Cape Flyaway .. 6 810 Stampedo 6 8 9 Brown Duchess .. 5 8 7 Paste .. 5 8 5 Carisbrook 5 8 5 roagh Patrick 6 8 0 Bathilde 5 8 0 Black Prince .. a 7 13 Gabrielle d'Estrees 5 7 13 Hartington .. 4 7 12 Man st Arms .. 6 7 12 Rouge Dr tgon .. 5 7 10 Canwell „. 4 7 5 Sappho 4 7 2 Harlequin .. 4 7 0 Rubens .. 4 6 13 Watchman .. 4 6 10 Villette .. 4 6 8 Percy .. .. 6 6 8 Barbadoes 4 6 8 Bedou n .. 4 6 7 Physician .. a 6 7 CHARING-CROSS RAILWAY. HALF YEARLY MEETING THIS DAY. The seventh ordinary general meeting of shareholders in this undertaking was held this day at London-bridge ter minus of the South-Eastern Railway. The report stated that the receipts for the half-year end ing 31st Dec., 1862, had been £423,095 16s. 4d., and the expenditure £375,264 13s. 6d. The principal items of ex penditure had been on account of the purchase of the Charing-cross 'bridge tolls, £65,000, and the Hungerford pier tolls, £5 i3O)0, the purchase of property required for the terminal station at Charing-cross and the city extension to Cannon-street, L 111,804 15s. 3d. ; and works, £106,240125. The directors also stated that the works were so far ad vanced that they anticipated that the line would be ready for traffic between London-bridge and the temporary sta tion at Charing-cross, in the course of the ensuing summer. After a short discussion the report was adopted unani mously. The retiring electors having been re-elected, the pro ceedings terminated. The Lady Explorers of the White Nile. The fact that three adventurous ladies have as cended the White Nile, above Khartum,in a steamer fitted at sonic, cost, is already known. Sir Roderick Murchison now publishes their names, and further particulars. Thu eldest, Madame Tinne, and her sister, the Baroness van Cappellen, are daughters of the re nowned Dutch Admiral, Baron von Cappellen, who was the coadjutor of Lord Exmouth in the memo rable capture of Algiers in 1816. The youngest of these ladies is Miss Alexandrina Tinne, who is a British subject. As the daughters and granddaughter of the chi valrous Dutch Admiral, these ladiee seem to have im bibed the spirit which he displayed in liberating slaves. In the former letter allude'd to, attention was specially called to the touching scene in which Miss Tinne procured the liberation of a negro family, forming part of a cargo of slaves, who had been torn from their native village by the cruel marauders, who, under the guise of being traders of Khartum, pillage and burn villages, and early off the women and children into captivity. The following is an extract which I have been permitted to take from the last letter of Madame Tinne, which was finished on her return to Khar tum, and is a description of the environs of Gondo- koro : " I have not told you that, except for the illness of Alexine, we liked Gondokoro very much. There was a beautiful terrace belonging to a house the Tyrolese missionaries had built, and deserted on account of illness. Such fine citron and tamarind trees! We went an excursion of four hours before Alexine was ill, to what they call the mountain Ballaria, over a rich plain with fine trees, nume rous flocks of cows, sheep, and goat!, and many vil lages, with negroes dancing and singing day and night, as long as their corn lasts. The y have a feast by turns in every village , They are a fine, warlike race, but rather quarrelsome . We also went a trip with the steamer to see if it was tru e that the river was not navi ga bl e hi g her up than Goadokoro. W e went about fi ve h ours ' s t ea m, but then it got too shallow, and as wecould proceed no further, we came home. " All to finding the source o f the Nile, people here lau g h at it. 0 nce past the river Sobat, there are a hundred streamlets 11 dokero th ere ain "wing into the Nile. At Gon ia every day for six or eight months —not constant there does not seem a rain, but such showers I that to mountains, there want of any other source. As are them at a distance, but Soonathe.ng striking—nothing further up, as we saw ti like a great European chain . nothing r i se a b rupt l y f ro m a sandy or watering plain.,, In the course of some further detail Sir Roderick intimates that there Land remarks, doubts as to the a ccurac y of th e report of e the e death of Mr. and Mro. Petheriok by drowning. the strange modes which they adopt to discover the cause of the calamity, are very ludicrous. At last, after the fashion of candid friends, they increased the evil they had sought to remedy, and after hav ing begun the search with the laudable desire to be of service as friends, they performed the part of enemies in their, unwise sayings and doings. The Doctor looked so mysterious and tapped his forehead, that the excitable and en thusiastic Mr. Allington Pye took the idea "that his friend Colonel Escowbe was settling down into melancholy madness." He spread abroad this agreeable intelligence, and the result was that half the town was talking of Colonel Escombe's men tal calamity. Those who desire to peruse a most stirring and ,spirited narrative cannot do better than possess themselves of this work, which will infallibly prove of interest and excitement to all who peruse it. Its sketches are so animated, its style so brilliant, and its numerous characters so well defined and so vividly illustrated, that the re sult is a novel of unusual attractions and supe rior excellence. It is most probable that " A Daughter of Eve" will attain a great success, and that the reading community in general will give a unanimous vote in its favour, in consideration of its many claims to notice in design and execution, in vivacity of style and vigour of execution. African Hunting from Natal to the Zambesi. By W. C. Baldwin, F.R.G.S., with illustrations by Wolf and Z wecker. Bentley. The fascinations of a hunter's life are, to some minds, irresistible. Not content with following the old customs of their forefathers in fox-hunting or deer-stalking within the boundaries of their native kingdom, they must needs betake themselves to the rougher and more dangerous tasks of tiger shooting in the jungles of India, elephant hunting in Ceylon, or pursuing the various races that range the wastes of Southern Africa, scarcely more wild and savage than the human beings around them. The exploits of Mr. Goraon Cumming were the first to draw attention to this new hunting ground, and subsequently M. Du Chaillu, by exploring districts untrodden by Europeans and by securing specimens of a species only previously known to geologists, attracted much notice. Mr. Baldwin, however, has been equally adventurous and can claim the dis tinction of being the first European who reached the Zambesi from the Eastern coast. Mr. Baldwin is one of those who find pleasures in the fatiguing and dangerous exploits of the chase, accompanied, as they often are, by hard fare, insufficient water, sleeping on the damp earth, and journeying amidst hostile tribes, which the easy and regular life of cities can never afford. It is true his eight years' experience seems to have made him somewhat weary, and to have satisfied es-en his ardour for the chase. He left England for the avowed purpose of enjoying a hunter's life, but his first adventures after arriving in Natal were suffi cient to discourage a less eager spirit. He joined a party being formed by Mr. White, a famous elephant hunter, for an expedition into the Zulu country, and great was the rejoicing of the young adventurer when he was allowed to join it. " Such was my keeness for the sport, that I verily jumped at the proposal to sleep under one of the wagons, both of which were crammed full up to the very tent, and one topped up with a boat keel uppermost. But I would, then, rather have slept in six inches of water than not have gone at all.'' Notwithstand ing the hardships he had to encounter, he was at the outset delighted with the expedition. "It was the very thing of all others I had been longing for, and in those days I worked like a horse, and the older hands wert very glad to be saved the trouble." It was the pursuit of pleasure under difficulties, however, for the rain was very frequent, especially at night. The waggons would only shelter three of the party, so the other six had to manage as best they could, and the result was often sleeping in a pool of water. " The grass, which grew to a tremendous height, was so saturated that one might just as well walk through R. river, so there was no use in putting on dry clothes in the morning." Tao result of such exposure in the unhealthy season in that marshy country might have been abticipated. Fever and ague struck down the adventurous party one by one, pursuing them with a surer and more deadly aim than that with which they hunted the denizens of the forest. The author himself, looking back on the undertaking with his present hardly earned knowledge and experience, styles it " seeking out death ;" and adds, " If older heads had only been placed upon the shoulders of the enterprising and the young, I might not have had to tell how out of nine hunters who went out fall of vigour and hope, in all the ardour of enterprise, Gibson and myself alone returnt d, enervated and prostrate after months of insensibility in Kaffir kraals. I would gladly forget and must pass by some of the details of that trip." It seems strange that "Elephant 'White," as he was styled, being an old and experienced hunter, should have entered upon such a rash ex ploit. The survivors of the party we re near l y a twelvemonth before they recovered their health, and having had enough of hunting for a time at least, Mr. Baldwin settled down on a large farm on the high lands of the Inanda, trading in cattle with the Kaffirs. After two years of this solitary, life he found its monotony unendurable and° started on another Zulu trip, continuing his wanderings with more or less interruption for five or six years. Of the last three years of this period he says, " I have led but a vagrant sort of life, doing little gm? for my self or anybody else, except supplying the ungrate ful half-starved Masaras and Maccalacas with abundance of flesh. I have scarcely ever been still, and must have journeyed over some twelve or fifteen thousand miles at least, and that at much less than foot pace, having been through the Transvaal Republic, Free State, and part of the Old Colony, twice down to Natal, and twice round Lake Ngami, and now over the Zambesi into Ma kololo and Batoka lands; and it is now, I think, nearly time to come to a halt." In the course of these wanderings his adventures, accidents, and escapes were, as might be conjectured, very nume rous. Sometimes his provisions failed, though this was the rarest of his misfortunes, owing to the plenti ful supply of game and his skill with his gun; the scarcity of water was a greater and more frequent trouble. Sometimes he lest his way in the wild and trackless country; sometimes he fell among un friendly natives ; once all his attendants deserted him in the middle of a solitary waste, and, to add to their kindness, relieved him of the care of his horses at the same time. Very often accidents deprived him of his best horses and dogs, or tigers carried off his oxen, and lions breaking into his encampment helped themselves with more liberality than consideration. Add to these the perils of hunting such animals on land, of bathing in company with crocodiles and hippopo tami, and the dangers threatening man and beast from the scourges of the country—ague, fever, and the fatal lung-sickness among cattle—and we shall have some idea of the pleasures of a hunter's life in Southern Africa. We have an account of taonaa escape in hunting elephants, sud den jerk of the horse's headwhothene curb-gchain came r. h i is er adv u e g rsa i r s y sp w u a r s s undone, and the hit turned.nround in his mouth. The elephant who was chargTihog d d h• leaning over as far as then not twent s yards ides, o a ff n - d, into his horse's possible, passed close by the infuriated animal. The horse rushed on through the tangled bush, with the huge enem y close in the rear. As soon as he could arrest the frantic speed of his horse, Mr. Baldwin j um ped off, and succeeded in despatching the elephant, after giving him ten shots and sustaining three more savage eharges. Elephant hunting is, of course, a very profitable sport from the value of the ivory, but it entails both risk a n d l a b our. It is, says our author, the very hardest life a man can choose. " Two blank days, riding five hours at a foot's pace to a vley where the Masaras tell you they have drunk, sleep ing in the bush with nothing to eat ; a drink of muddy water in the morning out of a dirty tortoise shell, which serves for breakfast, dinner, and sup per; all day in the saddle, under a broiling sun, following after three half-starved Masaras in tattered skins, and never seeing life the whole day—two days like this, followed by two successful ones i 8 about what you may expect." On another occasion Mr. Baldwin had a narrow escape from an elephant whom he lost sight of after wounding, and passed by unwittingly. "He was lying in wait, and made a terrific charge, trumpeting furiously. The horse was round like a top, and away I went with both rowels deep in his flanks, as I threw myself on his neck. It was a very near shave, his trunk was over the horse's hind-quarters, I went through bush that, in cool blood, I should have pronounced im penetrable." Fortunately the wounds inflicted by the briers were the only injuries received. Another hairbreadth 'srape' is recorded in the following account of SHOOTING A LION. " 1 dismounted at about GO or 70 yards and shot him ; I could only see his outline, and that very indistinctly, and he drept so instantaneously, that 1 (bought I had shot him dead. I stood up in my stirrups to catch a sight of him. His eyes glared so savagely, and he lay crouched in so natural a position, that I saw in a moment I had missed him ; I was then about 80 yards from him, and was weigh ing the chances of getting a shot at him from behind au immense ant-heap about 15 yards nearer. I had just put my horse in motion with that intention when he came on with a tremendous roar. My horse is a fast one, and has run down the gemsbok, one of the fleetest ante lopes, but the way the lion ran him in was terrific. In an instant I was at my best pace, leaning forward, look ing back over my left shoulder, over a hard flat ground. On came the lion, two strides to my one. I never saw any thing like it, and never want to do so again; to turn in the saddle, and shoot, darted across my mind, when he was within three strides of me, but, on second thoughts, I gave a violent jerk on the near rein, and a savage dig at the same time with the off heel, just in the nick of time, as the old mannikin bounded by me, grazing my right shoul der with his, and all but unhorsing me, but I managed to right myself by clinging to the near stirrup leather. H e immediately slackened his speed ; as soon as I could pull up, which was not all at once, as Ferns had his mettle up, I jumped off, and made a very pretty and praiseworthy shot, considering the fierce ordeal khad just passed, though I say it who ought not. Of the Kaffirs, on the whole, Mr. Bald win speaks in favourable terms. They are excellent servants for the time being, though their attachment can never be reckoned on. On one occasion, when disabled by fever and left behind by his party, he was most carefully nursed by his Kaffir attendant, but near the termination of his wanderings he was much pained by the sudden desertion of two tried ser vants who had been with him for several years, and in whom he placed great trust. The life led by the wandering tribes is most wretched ; hundreds often perish of starvation in bad seasons. The author once encountered an old Kaffir woman leading two little boys of four or five. They were living on roots, berries, land tortoises, or anything they could find, without clothing or dwelling of any sort. They refused to come to the wagon, though starvation was their almost inevitable fate. During one period. of scarcity one of the missionaries used to give each of the baptised Kaffirs a small loaf every Monday ; with this they contrived to keep alive with the aid. of roots, berries, till the following week. The Zulu nation seem to be peculiarly savage. At one time, when Mr. Baldwin passed through their country it was nearly depopulated by an interne.. cine war, Panda, the chief, having himself killed seven of his brothers. The Kaffir church, conducted by a Norwegian missionary, was a curious spectacle. Near the close of hie travels Mr. Baldwin reached Zambesi Falls, of which he gives a very interest ing description. He was fortunate enough to meet Dr. Livingstone, and had the honour, he tells us, of cutting his initials on a tree in the island above the Falls, just below Dr. Livingstone's, as being the second European who had reached the Falls, and the first from the east coast. Dr. Livingstone told him that it was the only place from the west coast to the east where he had had the vanity to cut his nitials. The discovery of the Falls was made in 1855, and from tnat time to the present no Euro peans but Dr. Livingstone's party and Mr. Bald win have penetrated so far. The river he describes as a mile wide, and the roar of the Falls is heard at ten miles' distance. The writer counted sixteen before a stone of 201bs. weight reached the surface of the water. One of Dr, Livingstone's party asserted that these Falls exceeded Niagara in sublimity. Mr. Baldwin thinks Dr. Livingstone underrated their magnitude, as he himself saw them every day for a week, from every accessible point, and thinks himself well qualified to compute the distances from his long practice in doing so. It will be seen that the work possesses all the fascination belong ing to a narrative of exploration and adventure; and its attractions are considerably enhanced by the very numerous and effective illustrations. The " gentlemen of England who live at home at ease," will probably prefer hunting lions and elephants in Mr. Baldwin's company through the medium of his animated pages, to sharing in the perils and pleasures o: a similar dangerous and daring ex pedition. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. CARMARTHEN STEEPLECHASES—TUESDAY. The Open Steeplechase Handicap of 10 sovs each, with 100 added. About 4 miles. Mr. W. H. R. Powell's Ace of Hearts, by Greatheart— sister to Bryan O' Linn, aged, 12st Mr. J. R. James's Wings, aged, list (Mr. J. R, James) 2 Mr. 0. Smith's Gingerbread, aged, lOst 101 b (Richards) 3 The Rug, Comet, and Cumberland also ran. Betting-7 to 4 agst Ace of Hearts-2 to 1 agst The Rug —4 to 1 agst Wings. Won by three lengths, a bad third. The Golden Grove Stakes of 5 sous each, with 50 added. About four miles. Stember, 4 yrs, list 71b (Mr. Richards) 1 Capeston, 5 yrs, 12st llb Cock Robin, aged, 12st 121 b Shanbally, Mountain Lass, and Mainstay also ran. Betting-7 to 4 agst Cock Robin-2 to 1 apt Mountain Lass-4 to 1 agst any other. Won by three lengths ; half a length between the second and third. BETTING AT MANCHESTER—YESTERDAY. LIVERPOOL STEEPLE CHASE. 100 to 7 agst Master Bagot (offered) 2220 t t oo 1 a a g g et t t i o g r h t h t e o r f n o L th i gehrt (Daystake ( n 20 to 1 agst Medora (taken) L Len) 25 to 1 agst Anatis (taken) 33 to 1 agst Lincoln (taken) LINCOLN HANDICAP. 12 to 1 agst Libellous (taken) 100 to 7 agst Douche (taken) 100 to 6 agst Lopcatcher (taken) CHESTER CUP. 16 to 1 agst Stradella (offered) 25 to 1 agst Black Deer (taken) 40 to 1 agst Haddington (taken) 40 to 1 agst Caller Ou (taken) 40 to 1 agst Zetland (taken) 40 to 1 agst Ben Webster (taken) 50 to 1 agst Count Cavour (taken) THE DERBY. 300 to 10 agst Carnival (taken) WATERLOO (COURSING) .C 7. 100 to 6 agst Mr. Worrall's nom ination (taken) 25 to 1 agst Mr. Gregson's nominationon (taken) 200 to 7 agst Mr. Bake's nomination (taken) , 200 to 7 agst Lord Binning B nomination (taken) MARKETS: -This Day. MARK-LANE. A very moderate supply of English wheat was received fresh up to this morning's market. Dry samples met with a steady sale at full prices, but damp qualities were much neglected. The show of t amples of foreign wheat on the stands was moderately extensive. For all descriptions the demand ruled inactive, yet the quotations were supported. Floating cargoes of grain were in fair average request, and the currency ruled firm. Malting barley changed hands at extreme rates, and the value of other kinds was fully maintained. The malt trade was dull, and prices had a downward tendency. Good and fine oats ruled firm at extreme rates ; oCherwiso the oat trade was dull, notwithstanding that the 81;pplY on offer was very small. Beans and peas were in slow request, yet no chaz;go took place in prices compared with Monday. The flour trade ruled far from active, on former t 4 :rms. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Malt. i Oats. Fi, mr. English__ 360 i 190 I 610 Irish .. _ -- 1 - 10 i "" Foreign 4,090 1,230 300 211) sacks 11,5 Cit ) brlB BOROUGH HOP. Good and fair hops move off steadily at full prices, other wise the trade rules inactive on former terms. WHITECLIAPEL. The supply of meat on offer is large, and the tra4 o rule° heavy, as follows : Beef, from 2s 6d to 3s 10d ; mutton, 23 10d to 4(r ; v eal ' 3s 6d to 4s 4+l ; and pork, 3s 4(1 to 4s 4d per Blbs , 7 carom. ; oodis aliTl Dlere ports ,adyt a ° is gOOCI s 00 ineS o 0;0:1 1 for vtlid Share t 3.14