The Sun. — London, England, 1854-10-20 00:00:00

ATISTRALIA. than in London and Paris, in the distant districts, where the sheep are healthy, they are killed and boiled down for tallow ;.where the scab rages, they are killed, piled in heaps, and burnt by the hundred, to destroy every trace of them. Tn neither case do they add a pound to the supply of human food. Australia is called a "great grazing and pastoral country," and yet mutton and milk are scarce and dear ; both are growing scarcer, and meat of all kinds, according to colonial authorities, is fast deteriorating in quality. Australia is not a pas toral or grazing country in the true sense of the words ; its surface is devoted to the production of wool and tallow for exportation—the last may be termed a manu facture ; but the supply of wholesome and abundant food for the inhabitants is not the chief object of the so called pastoral interest ; it is secondary to the exports, to obtain one of which the cattle must be totally de stroyed as food. Thus, with 1,00,000 of horned cattle and 8,000,000 of sheep in this province alone, less than 300,000 people pay more dearly for meat than the in habitants of the densely crowded cities of Europe ; and milk, that most pastoral article, can scarcely be obtained pure, even for money. The following is an abstract of the quarter's revenue for New South Wales to the 30th of June : it, and contrasts moat favourably with the sluggish in difference of the authorities in both provinces before his arrival. The lighthouse built on Cape Howe after the dreadful wreck of the Monumental City had been allowed to run short of oil for the lamps and provisions for the The superintendent sent notice of the. state a o t f t a en ffa l i a r n s t b s. oth to Sydney and Melbourne, but nothing was done. Questions were asked in the Council here, but the Government could only hope, and believe, and consider as usual. The shipping interest grew alarmed, and, through the press, urged the Government to send down supplies instantly. Nothing effectual was done, and the light was reported to be burning dim, as if the attendants were eking out the stock of oil by reducing the number of lamps. At the end of six weeks the light was extinguished, and there was no beacon on this dan gerous turning point of the coast for eight nights. On his last voyage down the captain of the Hellespont, a coasting steamer, reported the total disappearance of the light to the previous immovable authorities of Victoria ; but in the interval Sir C. Hotham had arrived ; the instant he heard of it a stock of oil was placed on boardthelleiles pont, with a letter from the Governor's secretary to the cap tain,containing a stronger expression of feeling than is generally foundin an official " hereby directed"—namely, an intimation that "as the articles were sent in the cause of humanity, and especially for protecting the lives of sea men," his Excellency felt confident "every possible exertion would be used to land the stores," and with all despatch they were landed accordingly. The authorities of both provinces, if they can read between the lines, may, perhaps, detect in Sir Charles's letter a censure of their previous indifference to the " cause of humanity and the lives of seamen," foe which they cannot plead ignorance. Slight as the incident may seem at a dis tance, it has produced a most favourable impression here, where quick decision and prompt action are unusual, and an inexplicable difficulty in getting anything done weighs on the community like an evil spell. It is also rumoured that Sir Charles Hotham has already ex pressed his disapproval of the lavish and, in some cases, senseless extravagance of expendit ure in some of the departments. There is some chance of the estimates next year not being a million above the revenue. The prospects of steam communication with England begin to be regarded with anxiety. The success of the American Company that has opened the Pacific route to Panama, with the Golden Age, is yet uncertain, anti from the Atlantic side of the Isthmus no exact arranee ments have been made for the conveyance of mails or passengers. One English Company has abandoned the 1 line ; the one steamer of the Peninsular and Oriental Company every 2 months, and the vessels of the General Screw Company by tl.e Cape of Good Hope, are now the only steamers to Australia that can be depended on. It was expected the war would withdraw some vessels from the Australian trade ; but it is feared, unless the colonies afford some substantial assistance to the companies, that the reduction cf the number may be carried further. One of the heaviest items of the expense of a steamer its the steak of coals for the home voyage and the lab. ur of shipping it. It has been suggested that the New Soe.th Wales coal might be dug by thelebour of prisoners under sentence, brought down from the Hunter River in ships chartered for the purpose, and put on board in the same inexpensive manner. The Government could thus lessen the outlay of the steam companies in Syd ney considerably ; but a joint subsidy in money, to which the three provinces might contribute equally, evonld be simpler. It is regularity of arrival and d o . departure that is required as much as speed ; and eit ll out some recornpenc; it is rot to be expected that any English private company can regulate the sailing of its yes-As to suit the colony alone. At the same time the colonists feel that, in the postal arrangements of the Enghsh Government, they have not received the con sideration they are entitled te. To China, where the Europeans may be counted by scores, there is a fort eigittly mail ; to Australia, with a population almost exclusively British approaching a million, till lately the only contract mail was one every two months ; even now there is only one a month. The Argus calculates the amount of postage to and from the Australian colo nies at 200,0001. a year. For half that sum a steam communication might be established every fornig,ht, and as it seems an accepted principle that postage should not be considered a source of revenue, the present rates might be reduced fully one half. The establishment of a Mint in the colony has excited a long debate in the Council; doubts have arisen whether a colonial gold coinage is now necessary, though it was so when the permission to coin was applied for. But, as the expense has been incurred, and the staff and machi nery provided, the general feeling is that the experiment may as well he tried. The privilege of coining is also no small step in the progress to self-government. The vote of the Council, therefore, confirms the proposal of the Governor's speech, and the Mint will commence work as soon as the arrangements can be made. Pur chasers have frequently been imposed on by direct frauds—coating lead by the electrotype has been prac tised successfully. Shipping agents are well aware of the differences of quality even in genuine samples of gold, and will not give receipts for the value, only for the weight of parcels exported. It ie to be feared that, on examination at home, they have not always been found up to the Bank standard, though the price here has long been above it. This uncertainty, at least, will not attach to the Australian sovereigns, which are to be of the weight and value of the Imperial coin. There seed not, therefore, be any prejudice against them, though legally they will not be money in Eugland. As so much of the raw material of coin is raised here, it cannot be any disadvantage to convert it into the manufactured article on the spot, as in that shape it will be equally valuable everywhere else. It does seem irrational to send gold half round the world to be coined that it may come back again as money. lint those who think the establishment of a Mist will dirni nish the exportation of gold, or even check it, will be dis appointed. The Council has voted the sum of 5,0001. which the Executive proposed to advance as a loan to the Paris Exhibition Committee for the purchase of specimens of the gold of New South Wales, to be sent to Paris among the other products of the colony. After the Exhibition is closed, it is calculated the gold can be sold, and the sum advanced by the Treasury replaced. There was coin. opposition to the plan, as many think the money can be better appropriated in the colony—in repairing the roads for instanee—and that the richness of our soil in this metal is sufficiently known to the world already. But it was urged with much force that an exhibition of the products of New South Wales ' without any classi fied specimens of its gold, would be very incomplete, while, if well arranged, a collection of every variety of form in which gold is found would be the most interest ing of our native productions. The money was there fore voted, the more readily as it is tolerably certain it will be recovered by the sale •f the solid " nuggets," dust, and gold-bearing quartz which are to represent our mineral wealth at Pans. Our other staples—wool and tallow —may not attract much attention ; but the speci mens of the different Australian woods will be well worth the notice of the French cabinetmakers. A far better selecti on w ill b e f orwar d e d t h an t h at sent to London, a n d among the varieties are some admirably adapted for the ornamental work in which the French manufacturers excel. To make the collection of speci mens as complete as possible, Mr. Moore, the director of the Sydney Botanic-garden, was despatched to the most remote northern districts of the province to obtain some of the varieties only to be found in the region ap prea:hing the southern tropic. We have no manufac tures, except those of a few common articles that are made better and in larger quantities its the poorest countries of Europe ; but of natural products Australia will send enough to prove her immense " capability," as yet wholly undeveloped. In everything that requires labour it is only a had of promise, the realisation lying far in the future. If gold could not be dug out of - the earth ready for the market—if it reqUired any process of smelting or working to render it saleable—not a tenth of the quantity exported would be produced. We have abundance of iron, for instance, but not a single mine has been opened, though a few score miles of tramway would be more valuable than a new gold field. There is an enormous coalbed at half the distance by sea from Sydney that Newcastle is from London, yet the retail price of coals this winter has ranged from 71. to 81. 10s. per ton. Specimens of our iron, coal, and copper will,'no doubt, also be sent for exhibition ; but the public in France and England must not thee fore be led to believe that the community tierlees more than the slightest advantage from them. We have scarcely smelted native iron enough to make an axletree, and native coals can onlybe burnt by the weal thy; who, in case of necessity, could feed their kitchen ranges withiumps of silver ore if that were combustible. The tickets of most of the specimens of native produc tions, vegetable and mineral (gold excepted), to gitra an honest account of the state of thinge, should be inscribed " Known to exist, but not to be had?' This is the case even with colonial wine, of which several cues will be sent to frighten the French growers by apprebensioes of competing vineyards of clarets and. Burgundies, The French vignerons need not feel the least alarm. At the present rate of progress in the cultivation of the vine in the colony there will not be a cask of native yin erdi• nacre for sale in Sydney itself for the next half amities; The annual meeting of the New South Wales Vineyard Association has just been held, and its report proved a complete stagnation of enterprise. Even if the growers were as active as they are apathetic, they' would not ef fect much in the Manner they now proceed. They aro few in number, wealthy, and indifferent to the pursuit, except as it furnishes a source of amusement ; there is a mild, quiet rivalry between the dilettanti, who grow vines much as they might grow dahlias or tulips. At the annual meetings they taste each other's samples; pro nounce an opinion more or less flattering of this or that gentleman's squeeze "of 1851"—to call it a vintage would be absurd ; and, after reporting they have done nothing during the past year, separate to do the same through the next. Wine-growing in Australia is not yet an indus try; the result never reaches the market, and foreigners who have read the glowing descriptions of, the " capa bilities" o f th e co l on y, co pied by ene bookmaker from another, ar e as t on i s h e d t o fi n d th a t in what they have been led to suppose is a wine-growing country it is im possible by ordinary means to obtain a single bottle. This i s t o be regretted, since it makes a bad impression Pursuit. One on the native s of those countries who knowledge of this as ,_, otrer branch of cultivation with them ; ex ceptembarkea in the pen! ' bring a practical exibitin,r ta: mateu te the employ of what may be called Frenchman or German has yet One article form er l y i . 3 teat—tobacco —has d l , /r ose n in the co l on y t o some ex revised tariff destroyed that ex appeared fr om commerce . Th e bra nc h o f cu l t i vat i on, nor is it much to be regretted. The supply of meat is running can be taken as an indication. l short, if rising prices triot of Victoria the scab is ravaging°. "the western dis- It bee appeared, also, - in the district of f f locke of sheep. in thiS - previtiae: it does - not eeem.Pooie i9tetois Bay, this disease by any individual effort, Um e .l t:o 'arrest action is alleged to be impracticable. Thus, wcioitinebl.-e, mut ton is at a higher retail price in Sydney ii 1 an 0 'mune 1 SYDNEY, July 13.—The session of the Legislative Council of New South Wales was opened by the Go vernor-General on the 6th of June. In his address his Excellency stated that, for the first time in the history of the colony, the legislative body was called together to contemplate the possible contingency of war. He added that measures had been taken for the defence of the harbour and city of Sydney, quite sufficient to insure both against any predatory attack from armed vessels under a hostile flag, while the instructions given to the French and English naval forces on the Indian and Pacific stations and the vigilance of the commanders were an adequate security against any more serious attack. By the authority of an act of Council a volun teer corps is to be raised for the defence of the country ; but, for the present, no militia or more regular force is to be organised. The finances of the colony were de scribed as very prosperous (there is a large increase of revenue on the quarter just expired, and a surplus on nearly all the branches of expenditure.) From the despauches of the home Government on the subject of immigration, it appears that the self-supporting system, proposed by the act of Council of 1852, cannot be brought into immediate operation ; and, to obviate the inconvenience of an interruption of the supply of labour, his Excellency stated 'hat the Land and Emigration Commissioners would be uthorised to expend the funds now at their disposal in sending out immigrants under the ordinary regulations, which the row act was intended to supersede. It was also announced that an application had been made by the Sydney Railway Company for an additional loan and guarantee of interest on an issue of new shares, which the Executive is prepared to grant under certain conditions. Among the measures of local importance proposed for discussion are an amended building act, a bill regulating common lodging houses, and an act for the promotion of public health. In addition to the usual grants for the purpose of public education in the colony, his Excellency recommended the appropriation of an other grant to establish colleges of residence affiliated to tle University of Sydney. He also stated that the plans and estimates for the buildings and machinery required for the new colonial Mint had been prepared ; till the works are actually commenced the detachment of Sop pere and Miners sent from England to erect them are employed on the batteries in course of construction in the harbour. The act for the management of the gold fields of the province, expires with the close of the present year. It is proposed by a short bill to make the regulations of the present act permanent. The law of marriage in the colony is to be placed on a more mile fectory footing ; it is at present productive of much legal uncertainty, His Excellency stated, in conclusion, that measures would be proposed to the Council intended to increase the trade of the northern districts of the pro vince, which he hid recently visited. The new settle ment at Port Curtis promises to be of great value to the colony, on account of the advantages of its harbour, its genial climate, and fertile soil. Ia theaddress in reply to the-Governor's speech, the Council pledged itself to provide all the funds required to raise a volunteer corps, and to provide for the defence of the celemy generally. On the 27th of June Sir Charles Fitzroy communicated to the Council a copy of the declamation of war with Russia, which he had re c on the 26th. It was accompanied with her Ma announcement of her intention, during the war, to wave certain belligerent rights appertaining to her Majesty by the law of nations. In consequence of this commuideition the Council, on the motion of Mr. C. Cowper, una ihnees'y voted the &Vowing loyal address to the Crown : " We, your Majesty's moat boy .1 and dutiful snb"e the members of the Legislative Council of New South Wales in Council a,esetnbled, having learnt from your Majesty's royal proclamation, dated Bucking,:iam House, 28th of March, 1854, that the mucous efforts of your Majesty, anti your Majesty's ad visers, for ureeerviiig the bleebiege of peace ha , e been unsuccessful, and that, ni concert with your Majesty's ally, the Emperor of the Frenel i , it has been deemed necessary to declare war against the Emperor of Russia, offer your Majesty the expression of unfeigned loyalty to your Majesty's Court and per tem, and of our hearty sympathy with those just princi ples by which your Majesty and your Majesty's Minis ters have been go ided in FO momentous a crisis. Unit ing in that sentiment of cordial approval of the policy of your Majesty's Government which has been mani fested by tae great body of our fellow-subjects through out the British empire, we most earnestly pray that, under the favour of Divine Providence, your Majesty's arms may be crowned with success, and we burUely assure your Majesty that, as far as in us lies, we are prepared to adopt all necessary measures for reaistieg, external aggression, and for upholding and maintaining your Majesty's royal authority in this distant portion of your Majesty's dominions." Several of the subjects alluded to in the speech of the Governor-General at the opening of the session have since been debated—th e new loan to the Sydney g iilway Company an d th e quest i on of irnmi ra tinn, at considerable l eng th ; anot h er discussion has been raised by Mr. Martin on the state of the common roads throughout the province. All these debates threw a strong light on the state of the colony, and none of them a very hopeful one. Now that the feverish excitement of the first period of the gold discovery has passed away, it is possible to consider calmly the actual effeet of that event on the social con dition of- the country. It is evident, even visible, that all has not been gain ; in some things we are not pro gres:ing—in others, positively going. back ; again: t the sudden rise in wealth must be placed the difficulty of employing it with permanent advantage. Many classes in the towns are much worse off than they were before the change, and are thoroughly discontented. On the oldest and best gold fields there is so much disease and want that an appeal has just been made to the public for subscriptions towards the establishment of a benevolent aeyluna. In a short time even the golden sell will have its full quota. of pauperism, and the successful minority of gold-seekers at Bendigo and Ballarat may yet find themselves " daily rated to the relief of the poor." The tendency of things is really in that direction ; the appear ance of a pauperised section of the population on the great centre of colonial wealth is only a question of time. The charity now invoked for several purposes will not be sufficient for all, and the different necessities may soon increase beyond relief by the "voluntary prin ciple." While the gold fields, though still productive, have ceased to return the former average of gain to the population on them, the results of the sus pension of labour (or its withdrawal from other occu pations) are becoming more apparent, and create some uneasiness, In the first place, the roads through out the colony, bad as they were, are now worse than ever. The inland mails cannot run by night, and stick fast and upset in all directions by day. Communication with the interior towns is possible only at enormous cost. The price of conveying a ton of goods from Sydney to Bathurst, about 130 miles, is eight times the freight of the same quantity from London to Sydney. In cost of conveyance London and Liverpool are, in fact, only 16 miles from Sydney by land, though the distance by sea is 16,000. We here see daily the most striking llustrations of the truth that " Seas hot join the regions they divide." Cargoes are poured into--the-sestptertes-with the greatest facility, and then the distribution is suddenly chocked. Hence the enorrnoue rents of stores, cessation of de mamid, and the necessity of forced sales, with the natural consequence —heavy losses to the exporters, who perbepa wonder how trade with Australia can be so unprofitable, scarcely snspecting one of the main causes of its uncer tainty. English merchants might do worse than help to open up the internal communications of this conti nent, for at present the waste of capital in this province alone, from the want of them, is above half a-million a year ; and the calculation does not include the loses by forced sales of goods, compelled by the impossibility of removing them from the port of landing, I doubt if one-fourth of the persons who have rushed into the " Aus tralian trade" as a "good spec" ever gave a passing thought as to what awaited their consignments at the other end of the line, and why they returned aeloss instead of profit—with the country full of gold too I If they can imagine the Great Western Railroad, instead of termi nating in a splendid station, with every means of convey ing and removing goods to roads in every direction, end ing suddenly in swamp, forest, and sand, th roug h w hi ch, by dint of lashing, and swearing, and unloading, and reloading, a team of bullocks and a dray drag their Manchester goods 10 miles per diem, at wt. or 80/. per ton for the journey, they have a notion of one pecnlarity of the Australian market ; and if they suppose they are not affected by this state of things they are grievously mistaken. The channel of trade is all that civilisation, science, and capital can make , it, from the threshold of the Ma nc h ester factory to the edge of the Sydney wharf. There ith reaks suddenly, and beyond all is primitive, rude; a n d barbarous in the means of conveyance. The bale re eees-z- 1 dfrom the railway train is trans ferred to-the Tenn,* d ra e y, country, co, i ti ug , in its to begin its "crawl" up the e t from England for every 20 Tanoialdess.;'lnt.rfroure"ntlirs'boleitootlti)siirin—wghise. There are no pa ssable .s no prospect of debate on the subject, t here i s are 80 enormous that m a y soon supplied. The distance repair and reconstrnet)i- to years would be required the lin es - English model cannot be ts* Railroads on the great, es : proved by the 16 attem pted , n The cost is too asruitor for of The 'company is again way to Paramatta. There is a disposition t o consider f a Gove rnmen t l oan , of traneroads. We do n o t so inuc Zaurably the sy s tem w - the facility - of moving merchandise aid high sp ee d as pace. ,We must find sonaeemedium between l3rciduce at ar'y road's arid'the expensive railway, and , th e present with a little nesst texerlion it would not be i m p oss ibl e. ear= Paramatta line will be invaluable as an exam p l e of What'may be done by skill ; and if it only sevs disgust the colonists thoroughly with the existing system of of crawling, the money it has cost will have been 411 laid out: The company, in consequence of the rise in the price, of labour and materials, is compelled again to apply to. the Government for assistance. The subscribed capital is 100,000/., with a Government loan of 150,000/, At present rates the line when completed will cost 289,0001„ or 139,0001. more than its own capital and loan: together. The company has, therefore, resolved to issue new shares to the amount of 100,0001., and to ask for a second loin from the Government of the same et:noun,: as the first--150,0001.—and Also for a guarantee of per cen. t interest on the new shares as well as on a the old ones. The Executive Council has approved the aptiri9a4r,pad the Legislative Council, after some de ,11, 7- EaTSM OW Governor 's message proposing c.,l,7lrik—ntiderstood, however, that for the VelOtetthe /ine is not to be carried beyond Paramatta. Theltou _gel- had really , no alternative except to grant puisli what had been begun, or all the -4 ' Iv ue g, e l se. ould have been utterly +EXisof Skr Charle.A itotham's first public acts has ex hibited prompt decision in a case that urgently required GENERAL REVENUE. 1853 Second Quarter / 1854 £154,999 ... Increase, being 8/ per cent £14,111 TERRITORIAL REVENUE 1853 Second Quarter 1854 . 246 825 59,982 Increase, being 28 par cent £13,157 TOTAL RECEIPTS Second Quarter { 1835531 E 201,824 299,092 Increase, being 13i per cent £27,268 The Customs' revenue shows a considerable increase :- 1853 £15,658 Second Quarter 1854 98,164 Increase, being 30 per cent £22,506 All the items of this branch of the revenue show an in crease except one ;-- Increase. Per cent. Spirits imported £10,510 24'3 Tobacco imported Wine 3,763 72'6 Sugar 855 11.9 Tea 4,532 621 Coffee, &c 1,267 221'5 Decrease. Ale and beer £239 10'9 The gold revenue again shows a falling off, the decrease on the quarter having been 8,5701. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 20, 1854. 9,268 POLICE INTELLIGENCE. CLERKENWELL.—A working man, named Wil liam Buskin, of Birmingham, applied for advice under the following circumstances : Applicant, like others, was induced to subscribe to the Working Man's Emigration Society, for the purpose of being sei,t out to South Australia. lie subscribed 16/., but in cousequence of the death of two of his chil dren and his being out of work he was unable to con tinue his payments, and he gave a mouth's notice, pur suant to the 16th rule, for the return of his money, but Mr. Super seat him word, after the expiration of the month, that his case was under the consideration of the " directors." Finding his applications for his money were of no avail, he wrote to Sir Juhn Shelley, one of the trustees of the society, soliciting his interference, and received the following answer : " Maresfield-park, 6th Oct., 1854. " Sir,—ln reply to your letter of the 2d inst., I must refer you to the directors of the Working Man's Emigra tion Society, with whom alone rests the lower of return ing you the money which you say is your due. This duty does not rest with me.—Yours faithfully, "JOHN VILLIERS SHELLEY." Mr. Corrie advised the applicant to institute legal proceedings in the county court. A clergyman connected with the Scotch Church, Re gent-street, applied to Mr. Corrie for advice in connec tion with a discovery he had made the previous day of four poor children, who were left for weeks together by their father (a doctor) in a dreadful state of filth and destitu tion, and whom he (the clergyman) had found all in one room of a house in Tunbridge-street, St. Pancras, lying on the floor in a state cf starvation, and much emaciated. Mr. Corrie said the proper way would be to apply to the overseer at the workhouse if applicant would not deem it too much trouble so to do. If the parish au thorities do nothing (continued the magistrate), return here, and I will interfere. Applicant promised to act on this advice, and left the court. WORSHIP-STREET. — John Crowe, a well•dressed middle-aged man, described as a bird-cage manufacturer in New-street, Bethnal-green, was placed at.the bar be fore Mr. Hammill, charged with having knowingly uttered two forged 10/. Bank of England notes. The prisoner had obtained cash for the notes at the shop of ➢ir. Jacob Russell, a pawnbroker in High street, Shoreditch, and when the forgery was discovered, and he was traced and arrested, he said he had received them from two hawkers, with whose address he was unacquainted.—Remanded. LAM BET 11.—James Spicer and Elifabeth. Morton, both well-known thieves, ware finally examined aid commuted for trial on a charge of burglarious entry into the house of Mrs. Brown, a widow lady, No. 6, Ken nington-green, and (as respects the latter prisoner) re ceiving the property taken thence, well knowing it to have been stolen. SOUTHWARK. Yesterday afternoon, Mr. A'Beckett was again occupied in hearing adjourned summonses against Mr. John Burney, and Mr. Lewis Ltaslewood, directors respectively of the Cry stal Palace and Citizen Steam-boat Company, for unlawfully laying, making fast, and mooring in the inshore passage of the river Thames, within the port of London, certain lighters, barges, and craft, so as to pre vent the free transit of other vessels, &c., near London bridge. The summonses were taken out by Mr. Pillow, the extensive lighterman, of Cotton's-wharf, and James Richard Law, a free waterman, plying at the East stairs, on the Surrey side of London-bridge, where the defendants have constructed a floating pier. Mr. Pulling, the barrister, appeared for the complain ants, and Mr. Cattarns, of the firm of Cattarns and Fry, for the defendants. The case, as relied upon by the complainants, has already been reported. On the previous hearing an ad journment was ordered for the production of the original bye-laws from Watermen's-hall. Yesterday Mr. Henry Webton, the beadle of the Watermen's Company, was sworn, and having produced the original bye-laws they were admitted. The bye-law was made to preserve the free navigation of the River Thames, &c., and imposed a penalty of 51. on all offend ers. It also gave the Harbour Master power to remove all obstructions, and sue for expenses, &c. Mr. Cattarns objected to the summons, contending ghat it did not come under the section of the bye-laws, which merely related to the free watermen, their appren tices or widows ; he therefore considered that the charges could not be sustained. Mr. A'Beckett asked whether the City authorities had interfered at all in the matter, as he imagined it would be their duty as conservators of the River Thames fie thought the case too important t• be settled by summons, and penalties of 201., at this court. Mr. Pulling said the Court of Aldermen bad given the defendants no sanction whatever to construct the pier, neither had they power to do so without altering the bye-laws. The defendants were clearly amenable to the law, and must put up with the consequences. Mr. A'Beckett observed that Mr. Cattarns' objection could not stand. Mr. Cattarns, in defence, said that in this particu lar matter there had been no obstruction, as stated. The whole affair had been before the Court of Common Council and the navigation Commit tee) when two plans fOr a pier at the very spot Were laid before them And approved ef, but there was a difAdeity as to the law, in consequence of which it was not carried out. It was well knotee that the pier was a great advantage to the public, as there had been one person previously killed and several in jured hi meshing the road towards the railway terminus and hospitals. The public had frequently complained to the steam -boat companies as to the want of adotii , modation on the east side of the bridge, and deputations had waited on the Lord Mayor OR the subject. His lordship grad his clients permission to put a barge and beat where they had, and they acted accordingly. Mr. A'Beckett said it was net a question or public of private convenience, but a simple 'question of law. Inspector Gri ffi ths, of the Thames police, deposed to the fixing of the lighter, &c., at night time, by the de fendants. When Law came with his boat to the stairs, and wanted to get in, he could not,, owing to the barge. In answer to a question from Mr. Cattaine, The Inspector said that there was no obstruction at present, as two boats could be got in easily. Other evidence having been sddneed 4 Mr. A'Beckett, in giving his uagment, said that as a magistrate hie proeince was to administer the law as he found it ; be had nothing to do with public edneelaiente. He had it not only from the eitidenee of the complainaeli; but of th e d e f en d ants ' witnesses) that there *at o struetion to an axtent of net lees than fifteen feet. They urged the conveniente to the public and, the sinalon.of the Lord Mayor, but peither mitigated the offenee. He regretted very much that a matter of such importance such er t an h e was rot taker.betore the court w hi c h h a d au th or ity enraevaligoantionnecoesf s t a h r e y r t i h v e er 6 ;:nLif i t t e h ui el d e b o e tisi al d t e o r r e e vi d , to give them, a legal right. As the cafe stood, Lief re him the low had been clearly violated., 044160) hi should inflict a penalty of 20E on the defendants. Mr. Pulling asked tee costs. The complainant Law represented a clams of men who sustained great injury by the stairs being /blocked up. ; There w e r e B,oe water men, and each of them della take out a summons against the defendants every day the obstruction lasted. Mr. A r ßeckett considered that he was entitled to costs in such a case, therefore he should make the order 20s. fine, and 50s. costs. The next summons, taken out by Mr. Pillow, the lighterman, against the defendants, fur placing a lighter and landing-place in the inshore passage of the River Thames, on the Surrey side of London-bridge, so as to be an obstruction to hiat in his lawful business, was dis missed, owing to want of Sufficient proof. Mr. A'Beckett,. however, .contended that if the pier was Such aliszt;batructiari.is thatitated.to be, it was the duty of the Hatbour Master to remove it. The bye. laws of the WatciTaeu's Company empowered him to do so. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, TATTERsALL's,--THuRsDAy. • ciounvpgEsMßE STAKES. The Early Bire,s`di:;-whwaid tendency had for the last two or three weeks been so palpable that his entire dis appearance occasioned no surprise. The declaration that he would not run was received in London at 2.45 p.m. on Wednesday, the 18th inst. All bets about him after that time are consequently void. It is suggested by many of his backers, who thought to "pick up the worm" with him, that in future he be called the Decoy Bird. At the commencement, 5 to 1 was taken about Rattle, and 6 taa 1 betted against Orinoco ; but after the latter bad been backed for 751., he advanced to 5 to 1, taken to upwards of 1501., and was then backed against Rattle for 500 even, and so strong was the subsequent demon stration in his favour that at the close he took up his position at 9 to 2, whilst Rattle receded to 7 to 1, taken and offered. Scherz was in considerable force, and was backed for some money at 100 to 8 and 12 to 1. Hervine was also well supported ; at first 20 to 1 was taken to 1001., 500 to 30 was afterwards booked two or three times, and the last investment was a pony at 15 to 1. The odds quoted against Helena, Stonehenge, Barrel, Prime Minister, and the Assayer were taken only to small sums. Offers to lay 1,000 to 5 against Monie I Moses. THE DERBY. 3,000 to 100 was taken about Oulston, and 1,000 to 30 twice about Wild Dayrell. The room was very thinly attended. The prices at the close of business were as follows : CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES. 9 to 2 aget Mr. J. M. Stanley's Orinoco (5 to 1 t) 7 to 1 Mr. Dennett's Rattle (t and offered) 12 to 1 Baron Mollendorf's Scherz (t) 15 to 1 Mr. Aumont's Hervine (t) 100 to G Mr. J. Osborne's Helena (t) 20 to 1 Mr. Duke's Stonehenge (t) 25 to 1 Mr. G. Mather's Prime Minister (t) 25 to 1 Mr. Saxon's Barrel (t and offered) 35 to 1 Mr. R. L. Walker's The Assayer (t) 1000 to 5 Mr. T. Johnson's IVlonie Moses (offered: 500 even between Orinoco and Rattle (t) DERBY. 30 to 1 agst Mr. Howard's Oulston (t) 33 to 1 Mr. F. L. Popham': Wild Dayrell (t) NOTICE.—The Room will be opened on Saturday net RICHMOND RACES.-WEDNESDAY. THE THIRD YEAR OF THE FIRST ASKE PRODUCE STAKES cf I() siva each, 5 ft ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 41b. Two miles. (6 subs.) Mr. West's Fairthorn, by Lanercost, 4 yrs (Stronseh) walked over. A. SWEEPSTAKES of 5 BOV3 each, with 25 added ; colts 84 71b ; fillies, 8.4 411) ; those by untried stallions or mares allowed 31b. Cup Course. (7 subs) Lord Zetiand's Ivan, by Van Tromp (31b) (J. Marlon) walked over. The EASBY STAKES of 15 sore each, 10 ft, with 20 added ; the second to save his stake ; allowances and penalties. Grey Stone in. (8 subs, 2of whom pay 10 sous each.) Lord Zetland's Fandango, by Barnton, 2 yrs Gst 101 b (Ashmall) 1 Mr. Osborne's Lord Alfred, 2 yrs Est 121 b (Bearpark) 2 Mr. Clarkson's Amy, 2 yrs, Est 811) (Freud) 3 Jack Sheppard and D. Judith ran, both of which bolted. Won by three lengths. The RICHMOND HANDICAP STAKES of 10 sovs each ; 5 ft, with 70 added. Tho second to save his stake. Winners extra. Once round and a distance. (22 subs, 5 of whom declared.) Mr. J. Osborne's Merry Bird, by Blrdcatcher, 5 yrs, 6st Blb (Brazier) 1 Captain Harcourt's Eller►nire, 2 yrs, 55t 21b (Bullock) 2 Mr. E. Gill's Maid of the Tees, 3 yrs, sst gib (J. Gill) 3 Lord Eglinton's Bianca, 3 yrs, sst 61b. (Bates) 4 THE CoMsnTrz Srna - Ns of 5 sovs each, with 30 added, for 2-yr-olds, optional selling weights, &c., Grey Stone in (7 subs), were won by Captai❑ Skipworth's Fanny Fern (601.), 7st 41b (Bearpark), beating Mr. Gill's Exmouth (301.), 6st 71b (J. Gill), second, Mr. Rid ley's Queensferry (301.) 6st 4lb (Bates), third, and four ethers. THII SELLING STAKES of 3 sovs each, with 20 added, for 3-yr-olds and upwards, optional selling weights, &c., one mile and a quarter, 4 subs., was won by Mr. Osborne's Chorus, 6 yrs (301.), Bst 81b (Osborne), beating Wensley, Contentment, and The Sheriff. THURSDAY. Tim CUP STAKES. Grapeshot Hopeless THR WRIGHT STAKES Dame Judith Fandango Lord Alfred THE Two AND THREE TEAR•OLD SWEEPSTAKES, Ilenrietta EPSOM AUTUMN MEETING—Nov. 2. TELE EPSOM AUTUMN HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES of 10 Bove each, 5 ft, if declared by nine o'clock the night before running, but only 2 if declared to Messrs. Wea therby oa or before Tuesday next, the .24th inst., with 100 added. Certain winners extra. The second to re ceive back his stake. New Derby Course. Age et lb Rattle Defiance 4 3 7 Little Harry 5 8 5 H ungerford Aline 5 8 0 Little David 4 8 0 Etb elbert The Trapper 3 7 12 Wild Huntsman 3 7 12 Stern Good Morning 4 7 10 Sanchie Haco Balrovrnie Scherz The Early Bird 3 7 5 Joe Miller 5 7 4 Old Knoll Lady Vernon 4 7 4 Jack Leeming.. .. a 7 3 Mincemeat Sleeping Partner 6 7 2 Nancy Whanghae Fare& 3 7 0 Ethelwolf - Candlewick ...... a 6 12 Age st lb Bracken.. 3 6 12 D. 0 3 6 10 St. Clare Baalbee 3 6 10 Calamus 3 6 8 Qui Vire Omoo 3 6 7 Ptolemy 3 6 6 Kidnapper 3 6 5 Benvenuto 3 6 4 Georgey 4 6 4 Allington Naomi Epinician John Bull The Caliph Miss Tennyson 4 6 0 General Breezo 3 5 12 Star of Surrey Gruyere 3 5 12 TheDianaC Cable l A e le d a l 3 5 10 3 5 10 3 5 10 Bridesmaid k . m a 3 5 6 kemmunist ' Valeria NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING, 1855. PROPOSED NEW HANDICAP. MONDAY. A. Faitu HANDICAP of 500 Bova each, h ft. Cesare. witch Course (2 miles 2 fur. 23 yda). Age at lb Age et lb Stockwell ......... 6 8 12 Virago - 4 8 5 Muscovite ......... 6 8 5 Andover taplan .......... 5 t 5 Acceptances to be signified on Tuesday next, the 24th inst. They may be sealed up till after the expiration of the time. If two acceptances, to be a match ;if only one acceptance, to be returned unopened. WORCESTER AUTUNIN MEETING, OCT. 31. The Worcester Autumn Handicap. Forfeits to be de clared on or before Tuesday the 24th instant. Two miles. Age at lb Rataplan 4 9 2 Ethelbert 4 5 0 Deformed 4 7 10 Ticton. Elcot Octavia lanthe Candlewick Mortimer Postulant Whalebone Merry Bird Butterfly (h b) Little Davie Jetty Trate Sleeping Partner 6 6 6 Gaslight 4 6 6 Cleveland Magnet 4 6 4 Age st lb Little Gerard 3 6 4 Mrs. Birch 6 6 0 Jack Learning Pyrois seducer Neville Ceres Omer Pasha 4 5 8 Waterfall Minerva 4 5 8 Kidnapper 3 5 8 The Spinner General Breezo 3 6 8 Incubus 3 5 8 Red nose Claret . 3 5 2 The Gem 4 5 2 Shakspeare 3 4 10 CaYSTAL PALAOII, Oct. 19. —Shilling Day.—Aalegis: sion at the doors, 3,300 ; admilsion by season tickets, : 451 ; teal, 1 , 751 [A.DVNittipmcixT.]--Medicine always igiti.Vates elitenia . fliletwies, suc h at dyspepsia dastipa- • goh, nervous, billotAs, and iteradtilplaiats, emistinitition, sr., but Du Barry's Delicious Itevalenta Arabica Food invariably mires, them- in a ver y shoit time. We extract feW out of 50,000 testinionals if cures, Which had leisisted all medicines. Care _No. 180. —"Twenty-five years' nervousness, constipation, indigestion, and debility, from which I had suffered great misery, and which no resdiern't .by oz reli,eve,. have. been effec ttif cxreILI:Y . DU Barry'S food a thfitt time n 4 'l Pool Tiieittih.' Curt ltro. 4il;Eight years' dkip"ePk r i, nerititisiess,„ c rPliPe, • psno, alicl nausea; have T.; n eiffee tnally "removp,d by Du Barry's delicious food in .a very short RidlingiOn Reetory, Norfolk." Cure No. 51,416.—" Fifty yeaiii ihdenciibible agony from, dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, consti pnlion., flatiletry, I.iiiircis,,Fiickness at the stomach and vo iui Lill± BfirrY's excellent Food. =Maria Jolly Digs, Na'rfolli." Cure i atqrt ---Ptit g n 'ySs.is" cough its and ne rill i i rbeVed Hv Ott B ' ,' ~ i eit& ent Food.—James Potter, Athol-Street, Porta." dre /*IP. 8 1 .—" Twenty, years' IvOr complaint, with clOird l irj of tlid itditacu hai.o. been ponecciy cured by La tarry's Revalentzi Andrew Frazer, Haddington, East Lothian." " Trevagler, Gulval, near Penzance. Feb. 20th, 1851.—Eighteen years' nerv ous debility, violent palpitation of the heart, throb bing of the temple', violent pains in the left side and back , shortnese or breath, coughs, numbness of the extremities, c ramps , Vamps flatulency, retching, and such general weakness, that I was cons t an tly f ear ful of falling when on my legs; all th ese symptoms h ave been removed by Du Barry s excellent Food,—Mary Gilbert."—ln canisters, suitably picked f or all climates, and with full instructions —lib., 2s. 91 ; 21b. 4s. 6d. • 51b., lls. ; 121 b., 225. ; super-refined, 11b., 6s. ; 21b., ; 225. ; IMb., 331. The 101 b. and 121 b carriage free, on post office order. Barry • du. - Barry an" 4 Co., 77, Regent-street, London ; Fortnum, Mason, 4n4-Co;,.purroyors tQ. ,her. M A jlsty, Pic cadilly ; also at GR Cornitill; GO, Gracechurch- sheet 330 and 451, St ran d ; G 3 and 150, Oxford-street ; C)5, Charbreross ; 4, Ohesisvicks ; 49, Ilislivpsgot.4roet. BANK BBTUBZVS. An Account, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth Victoria, cap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank Notes of the several Banks of Issue in England and Wales, in. Circulation during the Week ending Satur day, tha 30th day of Sept., 1854 :- Average PRIVATE BANKS. Amount. Andover Bank, Andover-Heath and Co. Ashford Bank, Ashford-Jemmitt and Pomfret 11,255 Aylsham Bank, Aylsham-G. and T. Copeman 4,880 Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury-Z. D. Hunt 28,604 Baldock Bank and Baldock and Biggleswade Bank, Baldock-Wells, Hogge, and Co 25,817 Barnstaple Bank, Barnstaple-Marshall and Co 10,844 Basingstoke and Odiham Bank, Basingstoke-. Seymour, Lamb, and Co. 1 3edford Bank, Bedford-T. Barnard and Sons 33,711 3ewdley Bank, Bewdley - Nichols, Baker, and Co Bicester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank, Bicester-8.. M. and G. Tubb 13,422 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham - -Attwoods, Spooner, and Co 24,886 Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Bir - mingham-J. L. Moilliet and Sons 10,729 Blandford Bank, Blandford-Oak and Co. 7,193 Boston Bank, Boston-Garfit and Co 71,323 Boston Bank, Boston-H. and T. Gee and Co 14,612 Bridgwater Bank, Bridgwater-J. and J. L Sealey Bristol Bank, Bristol-Miles, Miles, and Co 87,049 Broseley and Bridgnorth and Bridgnorth and Broseley Bank, Broseley-Pritchards, Boy cott, and Co. Buckingham Bank, Buckingham -- Bartlett, Par rott, and Co. Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, and Stowmarket Bank, Bury St. Edmunds- Oakes, Bevan, and Co. Banbury Bank, Banbury - Gillet, Tawney, and Co. Banbury Old Bank, Banbury-Cobb and Son 25,473 Bath City Bank, Bath-G. Moger and Son Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard-Bassett, Grant, and Co 33,088 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham-Taylor and Lloyds Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire -H A. and W. M. Harris and Co. Brecon Old Bank, Brecon-Wilkins and Co 67,198 Brighton Union Bank, Brighton-Hall, West, and Borrer Burlington and Driffield Bank, Burlington- Harding, Smith, and Co Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds- J. Worlledge Cambridge Bank, Cambridge- Mortlock & Co Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam bridge-Messrs. Fosters 45,04 Canterbury Bank, Canterbury-Hammond and Co Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen-David Morris and Sons 24,205 Chertsey Bank, Chertsey-La Costs and Son 3, 777 Colchester Bank, Colchester-Round & Green 16,544 Colchester and Essex Bank, and Witham and Essex Bank, and Hadleigh, Suffolk, Bank, Colchester-Mills, Bawtree, and Co 30,045 Cornish Bank, Truro-Tweedy and Co 50,264 Coventry Bank, Coventry-Little & Woodcock 5,617 City Bank, Exeter-Milford and Co 18,585 Craven Bank, Settle-Alcocks, Birkbecks, and Co Cardiff Bank, Cardiff-Towgood. and Co Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon mouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Chepstow-Bromage, Snead, and Co Derby Bank, Derby-W. and S. Evans & Co Derby Bank, Derby-Samuel Smith and Co ' Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, Derby-Crompton, Newton, and Co Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes-Locke and Co Diss Bank, Diss-Oakes, Fincham, and Co Doncaster Bank and Raiford. Bank, Doncaster -Cooke and Co Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington-Backhouse &Co 84,946 Devonport Bank, Devonport--Hodge and Co 9,010 Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, Dorchester-R. and H. Willia ms 47,585 East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard-Robins, Fos ter' and Co East Riding Bank, Beverley-Bower and Co Essex Bank and Bishop's Stortford Bank Chelmsford-Sparrow, Round, acid Co Exeter Bank, Exeter-Sanders and Co Fakenham Bank, Fakenham-Gurneys, Birk beck, and Co Farringdon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Far ringdon-Barnes, Medley, and Co Farnham Bank, Farnham-Messrs Knight Faversham Bank, Faversham-Hilton and Co. Godalming Bank, Godalming-Mellersh and Keen Guildford Bank, Guildford-Messrs. Haydon.. 4,890 Grantham Bank, Grantham-Hardy and Co 26,013 Hastings Old Bank, Hastings-Smith, kinder, and Co. Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford- Matthews and Co. Hertford and Ware Bank, Hertford-S. Adams and Co. Hull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull, Smith, Brothers, and Co. Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don-Rust and Veaseys Harwich Bank, Harwich-Cox, Cobbold, and Co. Hemel Hempstead Bank, Hemel Hempstead --Smith and Whittingstall Hertfordshire, Hitchin Bank, Hitchin - Sharpies, and Co. Hereford, Ross and Archenfield Bank, and Ross and Archenfield Bank, Hereford- Morgan and C 0.......... Ipswich Bank, Ipswich-Bacon and Co. Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, Hadleigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich- Alexanders and Co. Kentish Bank, Maidstone-Mercer, Randall, and Co. Kington and Radnorshire Bank, Kington- Davies and Co. Knighton Bank, Knighton-Davies and Co Knaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Knaresborough-Terry and Co. Kendal Bank, Kendal-Wakefield, Crewdson, and Co. Kettering Bank, Kettering-J. C. Gotch and S ons Lane End Staffordshire Bank, Lane End-C Harvey and Son Leeds Bank, Leeds-Beckett and Co. Leeds Union Bank, Leeds-W. Williams, Brown and Co. Leicester Bank, Leicester-Pagets and Kirby, Lewes Old Bank, Lewes-Molineux and Co Lichfield. Bank, Lichfield-Palmer and Greene Lincoln Bank, Lincoln-Smith, Ellison, and Co. Llandovery Bank, Lampeter Bank, and Llan dilo Bank, Llandovery-D. Jones and Co Loughborough Bank, Loughborough-Middle ton and Cradock Lymington Bank, Lynaington-St. Barbe and Co. Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis-Gurneys and Co. Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis- Jarvis and Co Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield-Brocklehurst and Co. Manningtree Bank, Manningtree-Nunn and Co. . Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and Ilungerford Bank, and Hungerford Bank, Marlborough-Tan ner and Co Merionethshire Bank, Dolgelly-Williams and 22,391 64,790 31,950 12,495 2,650 11,502 30,833 74,231 6,515 11,655 39,416 27,903 8,758 10,396 73,935 106,105 51,921 43,338 27,742 21,854 8,937 10,615 6,224 27,559 14,620 11,712 18,855 48,610 5,319 22,511 30,012 21,300 18,038 6145 13,959 5,376 52,644 38,230 25,185 28,897 10,561 79,891 23,544 Son Miners' Bank, Truro—Willyams and Co Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial Bank, Abergavenny—Bailey and Co Monmouth Cld Bank, Monmouth Bank, Bre con Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monnionth---Bromage, Snead, and Co Newark Bank, Newark —Godfrey and Riddell Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark Bank, Sleaforcl—Handley, Peacock, and Co................. . ............. NoVhaity Bank, Newbury--Bunny & Slocock Newmarket Bank, Newmarket --~;atop, Ham mond, and Co Norwich Crown Bank and Norfolk and Suffolk tank, Norwich—Harveys and Hudsons... Norwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich—Gur neys and Birkbeck Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not tiiigharn,Hart, Fellows, and Co Nuneaton Bank, N unea t on --Craddock and Co Naval Bank, Plymouth, Plymouth—Harris and Co. XeVf Sarum Bank, Sarum—Everett and Co Ncrttingharal3ank, Nottingham—Samuel Smith and Co. asviestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os westry--Croxon and Co Oxford Old Bartle, Oxford—Robinson, Parsons, arid Co. ..... ..... . .... ............. . Old Bank, Tonisridge, Tonbridge and Ton bridge Wells Old Bank, Tonbridge and Ton bridge Wells and Sevenoaks Bank, Ton bridge—T. H. and S. Beeching Oirkidehire Witney Bank, Witney—J. W Clinch atid Co, Pease's Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and Beverley Bank, Hull—Pe we and Co Pent: nei bank,: Penzance—Batten and Co. Peterborough Bank Mid Oondle Bank, Peter borough—D. Yorke and Co. Pembrokeshire Bank, Haverfordvrest—J. and W. Walters... Reading Bank, Reading—Simonds and Co R ea ding Bank, Reading—Stephens, Blandy, and Co. Richmond Bank, Richmond—Roper and Co. Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds, and Co. Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, Roches ter—Day and Nicholson .14eyston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sens Itrtgbi Bank, Elfin and Sea.— • Bort V alk, 913 , ..-3Z. 0, Pcintfret and ..... 8,953 8,850 32,757 2,680 15,268 2,226 Ross Old Bank, Herefordshire, Ross Mac dougal and A llaway Saffron Waldefl and North Essex Bank, Saffron Walden—Gibsons and Co. Salop Bank, Shrewsbury—Burton, Lloyd, and Co Scarborough Old Bank, Scarborough—Woodall and Co. Shrewsbury Old Bank and Shrewsbury and Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury—Rocke, Eytons, and Co. aittingbourne and Milton Bank, Sittingbourne —Vallance and Co. Southampton Town and County Bank, South ampton—Maddison and Pearce Southwell Bank, Southwell—Wylde and Co Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp ton—Atherley, Fell, and Co. Stone Bank, Stone—W. Moore Stafford Old Bank, Stafford—Stevenson and 3,744 370 10,542 Co Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford—Eaton, Cayley and Co. Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury —Beck, Downward, and Co Taunton Bank, Taunton—H. and R. Badcock 25,760 Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill and Rundle 6,721 Thornbury Bank, Thornbury—Rolph and 'Co. 5,530 Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton Dunsford and Co Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton shire—Thrapston, Yorke and Eland Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring—But cher and Son Towcester Old Bank, Towcester—Percival and Co 8,285 9,685 10,980 11,209 Town and County of Poole Bank and Ring wood and Poole Bank, Poole—G. W. Led gard and Sons Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston—Vivian and Co _10,422 12,032 Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge—Hull, Smith, and Co 14,469 Wallingford Bank, Wells, and Co Warwick and larwickshire Bank, Warwick — K. Greenway and Co Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox, Brothers, and Co 6,719 West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and .Fontefract Bank, Wakefield-- Leatham, Tew, and Co Whitby Old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chap man, and Co Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win chester—Bulpett and Co ' Winchester and Hampshire Bank, Winchester —Wickham and Co Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank, Weymouth—Eliott and Pearce 15,560 Wirksworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank, Wirksworth—Arkwright and Co 35,833 Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech— Gurneys and Co Wiveliscombe Bank, Wiveliscombe—P. and W. Hancock • Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton— Good ricke and Holyoake Worcester Bank, Worcester—Farley, Laven der, and Co Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, Worcester—Berwick, Lechmere, and Co Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster—Farley, Turner, and Co . 9,45 Walsall Old Bank, Walsall—Charles Forster and Sons Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—R and W. F. Fryer Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth—Gurneys, Birbeck, and Co Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great Yarmouth—Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart,, and Co York Bank, York-- Swann, Clough, mid Co Wallingford—Hedges, 6,662 21,922 45,903 13,270 19,048 50,595 13,737 66,390 11,149 40,07 12,320 39,142 JOINT-STOCK BANKS Bank of Westmorland, Kendal Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley Bradford Banking Company, Bradford Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver hampton Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Bradford Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking Company, Chesterfield 10,029 Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work- 8,490 9,390 50,145 9,190 30,021 20,178 48,699 35,356 9,16 19,606 41,050 1,407 17,660 31,340 25,573 44,496 55,914 55,652 9,850 PRIC.E OF WHEAT, &C., IN LONDON AND PARIS. ington Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Corn pony, Cheltenham Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company, Coventry Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry 14,351 County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel tenham Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company, Carlisle Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company, Dudley 41,244 Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby Darlington District Joint Stock Banking Com pany, Darlington East of England Bank, Norwich 28,855 Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 147,652 Halifax Joint Stock Bank, Halifax 18,022 Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 34,168 Hull Banking Company, Hull 23,753 Halifax Commercial Banking Co m p any , Halifax 137 3 , 6 5 8 3 0 Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com pany, Halifax Helston Banking Company, Helston Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company, Knaresborough 27,455 Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 3,079 Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster 55,870 Leeds Banking Company, Leedg 20,910 Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester 65,824 Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company 53,010 Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, Leamington Priors 9,996 Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow , 10,116 Moore and Robinson s Nottinghamshire Bank ing Company, Nottingham Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company, Nottingham 27,059 Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint-Stock Banking Company, Newcastle upon-Tyne -- National Provincial Bank of England, Binning ham, H ea d-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street, L0nd0n....................................... North Wilts Banking Company, Afelksham 41,504 ' Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 72,736 Northamptonshire Banking Compa n y, North ampton... North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool Pares's Leicestershire B:mking Company, Leicester Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth 2,236 Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield 33,641 Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com ,sSßtaarankfoinrdg Company, B r i s t o l S omerset - Stu p c a k n e y y , shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang port 351,61 Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall 48,014 Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Com pany, Stourbridge Sheffield and Hallamshire Banking Company, Sheffield 21,393 Sheffield and Rotherham Joint Stock Banking Company, Sheffield 51,188 Swaledale and Wensleydale Banking Company, Richmond Storey and Thomas' Banking Company, Shaftes- bury Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Banking Company, Wolverhampton 33,780 Wakefield and Barnsley Union Bank, Wake . 11,587 field . Whitehaven Joint-Stock Banking Company, Whitehaven 30,810 Warwick and Leamington Banking Company, Warwick 29,399 _ West of England and South Wales District Bank, Bristol 83,857 Wilts and Dorset Banking Company, Salisbury 73,510 West Riding Union Banking Company, Hud dersfield Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company, Whitchurch 5,190 Worcester City and County Banking Com pany, Worcester 5,709 York Union Banking Con.many, York ......... 70,540 York City and County Ban kin g Company, 96,495 Yorkshire Banking Company, Deed 5............ 117,048 P. DEANS, Registrar of Bank Returns. Inland Revenue, Somerset House, Oct. 7, 1854. Annexes is a comparison of the present prices cf wheat, flour, and bread in London and Paris : " The highest quotation of wheat of the first quality in Paris is 44f. 500. per 1i hectolitre, which white is equal t eat o 68s. 9d. per quarter ; a nd, the highest price of wh o f the first quality in London being 735. per quarter, it fol lows that wheat is rather more than 6 per cent. dearer iu London than in Paris. " The highest quotation of flour of the first quality in Paris is 58 f. 65c. the 100 kilogrammes, which is equal to 595. 4d. per sack of 2801 b. English ; and, the high es t quotation a - flour in the London market being 58 s . per sack, it follows that flour is rather more than 2/ per cent. dearer in Paris than in London. " The price o f bread of the first quality in Paris i s 40 c . per kil o gramme, whic h is e q ual to nearly 7d. per 41b. loaf, English weigh t ; and, the price of bread in London at the full-priced shops being 9d. the 41b, loaf, it follows that bread is about 291 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. The sebond quality of 'bread in Paris is quoted at 32c. per kilogramme, which is equivalent to rather more than 51a. per 4115. loaf." MALT RETURNS.—A return was published yesterday of the quantity of malt made in the United Kingdom during the yt,ir vtiing z,140 sth of July last. Tire ag gregate was 39,511,220 bushels, against 41,900,818 in 1353, when the tne.utity naacisiwp, I:over than for seve ral previctus ran. 26,376 9,075 21,899 40,197 9,714 15,919 28,0 15,484 20,683 46,927 18,849 16,413 50,615 07,66'i 9,120 3,042 20,560 12,718 28,936 9,578 26,575 7,055 9,785 46,221 10,818 9,429 13,066 27,825 26,286 7,123 6,443 8,149 12,591 10,545 14,696 4,146 23,090 14,609 24,588 85,002 2,691 15,075 11,703 COUNTRY MARKETS. DERBY SMITHFIELD.—Ocr. 1 . The supply of fat beasts to-day was about the average, without any alteration in price. Sheep and lambs were plentiful. A large number of fat pigs. Fat calves scarce. The following were the quotations :—Beef, 51d to 6id ; mutton, 60 to 7d ; lamb, 7d to Od ; veal, 7d to Od per lb. ; pigs, 9s 9d to Os 0 d per score ; rough fat, 6s Od to Os per 141 b.; hides, 3td to 41d per lb ; calf-skins, 4d to Od per lb. EDINBURGH GRAIN.—OcT. 18. Wheat on the top 10s Od up, and the average 7s 4d up. Barley on the top 2s up, and the average is 10d up. Oats on the top 2s 4d up, and the average is 3d down. Beans on the top as before, and the average 2s 3d up. Total Supply and Sales. Wheat 1317 qrs sold 1245 qrs Barley 1430 qrs sold 1384 qrs Oats BO5 qrs sold 786 qrs Beans ... 72 qrs sold 71 qrs Top of Wheat ..... ......... ...... ......... 64i lb 84s Od Barley . . 58 lb 38s 01 Oats Beans 6 ,4 lb 54s 0 I AVERAGES PER IMPERIAL QVAILTER. Wheat, 3/. 11. 2 0-12ths Barley, ll. 14 4 0-12ths Oats, ... 11. 10 7 0-12ths Beans, 21. 10 9 o.l2the BOSTON—OcT. 18. At to-day's market there was an unusual degree of ani mation in the wheat trade, and sales were readily effected at an advance on the quotations of the previous Wednes day of 5s to 7s per qr. There was also a brisk demand for all descriptions of Spring corn, at enhanced prices. The supplies continue liberal. Prices :—Wheat, red, 54s Od to 66s Od; white, 67s Od to 703 Od . extra, 72s Od. Barley, 30s Od to 36s Od. Oats, 22s to 295. Beaus, 46s Oct to 51s Od. Peas, 41s Od to 44s per qr. NEWARK-OCT. 18. In consequence of a rainy day, we bad not so good an attendance, but there were liberal supplies of grain of all descriptions. Wheat met a ready sale ati:an advance of 5s to 78 per qr. Spring corn is to 28 dearer. Prices :—Wheat, white, G6s Od to 728 Od; red, 54s Od to 65s lid. Barley, malting, 34s Od to 37s Od ; grindin4, 32s Od to 34s Od. Oats, old, 36s Od to 38s Od ; now, 32s Od to 31s Od. Beans, 52s Od to 54s Od. Peas, 44s Od to 46s Od. Malt, 568 Od to 708 Od. Tares, 56s Od to 70s 01. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, OCT. 1/. STOCK EXCHANGE.—We have to note a sharp fall in prices, and the market closed quiet and without demand. Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, 11 11-16 d.; Chester and Birkenhead, 17.3-e.; Blackburn, sg; Caledonian, 29R ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 70i g ; London and North -Western, 100. g; Manchester, Sheffied, mid Lincoln, 23; ditto, 10/. shares, 11 ; Midland, 683 ; North-Eastern, Berwick Extension, 6A d.; Shrewsbury and Hereford, 2id. ; South Eastern, 181116. MANCHESTER, OCT. 19. STOCK EICEIANGE.—Prices have been rather easier, but no improvement iu demand worth naming, and the market closed fiat. North Staffords, 4h ; Leeds, 704 ; klidlands, 68a ; Dovors, 11a ; East Lancashires, 164 ; ditto, Fifths, (5/. paid), 1-16 pin.; Sheffields, 211; Eastern Counties, lli; Preston and Wyre, 431. BIRMINGHAM, OCT. 19. STOCK EXCTIANGE.—To.day the market was activo and pric:s firm. Shrewsbury and. Birmingham, Great Western Guaranteed, were done at 72j. LEEDS, OCT. 19. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market was decidedly flatter, and prices have further declined. Midlands opened at 69, and afterwards done at 684; Leeds Northern, 141; Lanca shire and Yorkshires, 71. SEABORNE MAILS. (Nl,lgnilles that the mails are sent from the General Post-0110 by the night—and M by the morning—despateb.) Day when male u! From wha! When COUNTRIES. in General Post. Port due in Office, London. ), Dispatched. England. America(byßrit.pack)N Every Friday .... Liverpool ..,'Each Mon America (by United Sts packet) Oct. 14........... Liverpool ... Oct. 28 America (by U. State: packet) Oet. 11 .. •••• • • Southampton Oct. 19 Australia (via South. ampton) Nov. 4 ..... Southampton Deo. 4 Ditto (via Marseilles) N Nov. 9 .. Dover .. Bor. 30 Ditto (via Cape of Goo ..... ~17,Dec. 4 Hope) Uncertain Africa ( West Coast)..l\ 1 1 3 d of the month Alexandria.. N 4,9, 24, & 30 of ro Dover { Alexandria 4th & 20th of mon Southampton Bahamas ... •• II 17th of the month Southampton Nov. 1 Belgium ............N Daily.... Dover Daily Brazil 9th of the month Southampton Nov. 16 BuenOs Ayres 9th of the month Southams tor 'Nov. 16 Cape of Good Hope ..N Various ports Uncertain Cape of Good Hope .. N Cape de Verds 9th of the mouth Southampton Nov. 16 Ceylon (see India) Ceylon .... ..........N Channel Isles ........N Mon ~Wed.,&Fi LI. Southampton ITu.Th.Sat & 17th of month. Southampton Nov. 1 China (see India) Constantinople ......N 3,13,18,23,&28 of m Dover Oct. 29 Constantinople ........ 4th & 20th of mon. Southampton' (font. of Europe M& N Twice dopy Dover ...... I Twicedally Egypt (ace India) Prance ........ M & N Twice daily Dover Gibraltar 4,7,17,20, 27 of m. SouthsMpton Oct. 20 Greece (see India) Greytown ..........31 2nd & 17th of mon. Southampton Hatriburgli ..........N Tuesday & Friday London ....., IL)vannah ..........Al 2nd of the month Southampton 'Nov. 1 Holland IM Daily.. .... ~Dover Dally Honduras 17th of the month. Southampto! Nov. 16 India (virtSouthampt.)Ml4th & 20th of mon. Plymouth .. Oct. 20 India (via Marseilles)M th& 25th of month Dover ...... 'Oct. 31 lonian Isles (see India) 7, 17, &27 of mon Dover.... i Ireland ......M & N Twice daily ILO head .. ,Twicedaily Li5b0n.............. 31 7,9, 17, & 27 of m. Southampton Oct. 2; Madeira 9th of the mouth Southampton Nov. 16 Madeira 23d of month Liverpool ... Nov. 3 Halts (see India) Malta ..............N S, 18, &28 of mon. Dover Oat. 18 Mauritius (see India) Nfauritius 14th of the month Mexico ........ • ..• M 2nd of the month., Southampton 'Nev. I Naples • •N sthlsth2sthofmom Dover ......,Oct. 22 New Granada ......M 2d & 17th of mo n th Southampton*ov. 1 New Zea1and........ •. By private ship Various portdUncertala Papal States sthl sth2sthofmon: Dover Oct. 22 Peninsula ..........M i thl7th27thofroon. Southampton Nov. 26 Peru & 27th of mon. gouthampto, Oct. 16 Port Natal By private ship... Various ports Uncertain. Sicily s thlsth2stholonon, Dover Oct. 22 Tuscany ............N sthlstb2sthofmon. Dover Ott. II Venezuela • .31 2d& 17th ofmonth SouthamptonlNov. 1 Van Diemen's Land (sec Australia) .. West Indies 20& 17th o t month,Sollthampten 'Nov. 1 Southampten l Nov. 1 7,832 6,34 27,272 19,932 2d& 17th o I month', When any of these dates fall o•i a Sunday, the malls will be de spatched on the following day, wltis the exception of the India via Southampton), and the Malta, both of which will bo despatched the preceding day. ABM RICAN EDITORIALS.—Editors in 30110 parts of the United States seem to take things pretty easily. In the Western Friend (Iowa), we read the following notice : "Being called away to see some sick friends, and the junior partner replacing the absent rib, we failed in is suing last week's paper. Our readers will look over this failure, and we will try and do so no more. We are under obligations to S. A. Evans for overseeing our business during our absence." SPICED OYSTERS The Absecom Railroad will open a new business to Philadelphia, and compete with Bal timore for the extensive western trade in preserved or spiced oysters. There are few of our citizens aware, perhaps, of the extensive trade carried on this line in. Baltimore. There are a score or more of firms engaged in packing oysters in an extensive manner, one house alone consuming one million of tin canisters per annum, and several to the amount of 50,000 to 100,000. American paper. How TO CHOOSE A RIFLE.—I strongly recommend a heavy rifle, as the shooting will be more steady with less recoil, particularly if the weight of the metal be judiciously accumulated behind, and immediately surrounding the breech. But then you must consider well, in giving an order, what weight you will be able conveniently to carry during a long day's practice. The new military rifle musket, including bayonet, is 91b. 3oz. The one I use is 91b. Boz. without a bayonet. I have recant. mended nothing that will add to the usual price of a good club rifle ; for inlaid stocks and engraved locks do not make one shoot any better. A great deal o money, however, may be laid out in what are called ex tras and extra finish ; for a " fancy article " requires " fancy price."—The Volunteer Rifleman. BIRTHS. OF A 802 f. On the 19th inst., at 23, Finsbury-square, the wife of Herbert Davies, Esq., M.D. — On the 13th inst.: at Ashford, Middlesex, Mrs. J. 1E Butler. On the 16th inst., at Stanford Parsonage, Eleanor, the wife of the Rey. William Tylden. OP A DAUGHTER. On the 14th inst., at Southsea, the wife of Capt. Caffin, R.N., H.M.S. Penelope. On the 17th inst., the wife of Henry Nowall, Esq., of Hare-hiil, near Rochdale. lif ARRIRD. On the 18th inst., at the Church of St. Mary Magdalene, St. Leonard'e•on-Sea, John Kirkpatrick, Esq., to Marga retta, eldest daughter of Major Caldecot, of Holton-hall, Lincolnshire. On the 18th inst., at St. James's Catholic Church, Simi nish-place, Joseph Percival Radcliffe, Esq., eldest son of Sir Joseph Radcliffe, Bart., of Budding-park, Yorkshire, to Katherine, only surviving child of the late Sir Edward and the Hon. Lady Doughty, of Tichborne-park, Hants, and Upton-house, Dorset. DIED. On the 20th ult., killed in the battle of the Alma, Sir Wrn. Norris Young, Bart.,' Lieut. 23d Royal Welsh Fusi liers, aged 21. The deceased Baronet was married but a few weeks previous to his departure for the East. On the 20th ult., killed in the battle of Alma, whilst carrying the colours, George Thomas Dixon Stockwell, En sign in H.M. 19th Regiment, eldest son of the late Lieut.- Colonel Stockwell, of the East India Company's Service, aged 20. On the 14th inst., at 18, Grove-road, St. J o h n ' s - woo d, Henry Briggs, Esq., late of Cheltenham, aged 67. On the 14th inst., at Paris, Mr. William Forrest, of 54, Strand, aged 58. On the 14th inst., at Colston-Basset, Notts, Capt. Geo. Bohun Martin, R.N., C. 8., Captain-Superintendent of Deptford D.‘ckyard, aged 55. On the 17th inst., at 22, Devonshire-place, Rachel, wife of S. J. Waley, Esq., aged 64. LONDON' : Print©d and Published by M.URDO YOUNG, of Ne. 112, Strand, Pritater, at The Stot Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Bavoy, in the county of Middlesex, 7443's cot, 20. 1464,