The Sun. — London, England, 1863-10-09 00:00:00

FIONEy MARKET SHARE MARKETS---This day, AND ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOKS. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, share r i 1 Closing ; Business R a ilways. pap ! '''' Price. I done. A— -1 CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. 13.14. 1 61 r.. Wol., and Str. Val. all 8 81 A firmer tone is a 25 Blythe and Tyne. - - pparent in discount circles to- 10 Rost.,Sleat.,andAlid.Co all 61 81 day on account of the advance made by the council so l&ri l s e t d o e l n a i n an d Exeter 1 7 0 4 i ll 119 of the Bank of France in their minimum quotation ao Cork awl Bandon all 7 - 4 8 - 20 Cornwall from 4to 5 per cent. This important measure has A gets no dil, 1 all l l 10 Do A naturally induced greatercaution among capitalists to Do. B t i e l e l n 6P p c a tiq o lu t `:' i all =-- here, who are less disposed to employ their resources a l Ea b il l . i. , lieltast June:: all 39 1 0 ip t l ' i e r r g t i l i i ~ . , S , .t t 11)a. Glasgow. ; 100 0 I N i 7 ),1 at the current quotations until the tendency of 1 affairs can be more clearly defined. The demand, at Glasg. and S. western.' 100 110 112 however, was not increased, and instances are still at Great Eastern, Ord. stk ; 100 511 524 514 at Ditto A stock ; 100 401 501 Si st Ditto East Anglian all 100 5 7 61 recorded of superior bills being negotiated at 3: at GreatNorthot Scotland 100 - - per cent. at Great Northern lOO 1f.6 127 The return from the Bank of England, compiled at Eo o .t 3 :3 1 t 0 ock 100 121 136 to Wednesday last, 100 951 60 654 1 is again of an unsatisfactory et Gt. S. ant W. of Irelanu 100 100 102 st Great Western,. character. The reserve of notes and bullion have st Do Str Val o• a. stock 100 - - 112 i,4 IT 111 101 been diminished to a large extent, while the active a s t t 1, 0 :1 n it C d n o S n h l a t n e At ': i ff e k i : w h i n r i e , r o g circulation has been increased. Annexed is an st Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast 100 112 113 st Lon., Chat., and Dover 100 , 44 (6 44i analysis:— at Lon. & Nor' h Western 100 ' 1021 103 1021 i 2 Active Circulation .. .. .. £21,768,375 at Lon. & Sw.th Western 100 ' 101 It 2 1011 S t Sian., Shef., & Lincoln. 100 451 16 1 Increase .. • • • • .. 250,475 50 Maryport and Carlisle. all - - Bullion .. • • • • • • .. 14,856,037 124 Do j shares.. . all - - Decrease .. • . .. .. 421,84 S st Metropolitan all 13 0 131 129 4 4 Restln crea .. .. .6 .. .. .. 3,736,695 at Midland 5.4.0 1 4 1 1,- , P se .. .. .. 8,100 3.4.0 D o N ew Public Deposits • • • . .. 9,510,057 Increase .. .. st Do Birming. & Derby 100 97 55 50 Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland all - - 239,571 25 D o. 1 shares - - Other Deposits., .. .. . . 12,89,3642 25 Mid Ker t ... all - - Decrease .. .. .. 823,818 1 0 Do Cray Line - - Seven Day and oth er Bill s . 777, 0 3 2 at Nor t h Br itish at Edin., Perth, & Dundee 100 26 18 Decrease .. . .. 17,815 Berwick 100 1011 102 1011 11 4 Gover nment Securitiesat Nth. Eastern .: :: a 25 Do, G.N.E. purchase 16.13.4 - - d Decrease .. • • . 11,141,22757 at Do Leeds lOO 571 581 Other Sectuities • • • . .. 22,591,537 at Do York Increase .. .. .. .. 78,418 at Do Carlisle.. - - 100 117 12) at North London Notes Unemployed .. .. .. 7,051,715 5 12 p 10 IDo New Decrease .. .. .. 659,725 ‘9.lo.4'.North Staffordshire notion Ol 1 V 1 112 614 The monthly return of the Bank of France, pub- filot N. r a d s S. O h W e n . t r j al lished this morning, is of an unfavourable character, at Scot N. K, Aber. stock 100 44 4r o , and shows, by the straightened position of the esta• o nv b s co a t2 l l4 e . i s o t i ozk oo ) 100 all 100_ I_o blishment, the necessity which urged the Council at) t ssih, D rro' pell i re Union 324 50 334 52 at South Devon loo yesterday to raise their rate of discount. A decrease at m outh Eastern is exhibited in the cash in hand amounting to s at i fgo . l , l ri t o h r k. a a n l £ 1 ,733,333, the Treasury balances have been dimi- Vlgn e i.,an RiverciwDouku: 100 9- 4 lElO° l Darlington ail 864 371 Dished by £146,666, and the advances on loans 20 Do l7 84 9 4 £124,000. An increase has taken place in the cur- 25t Do Taff V a1 e......._ New, 1860 8 71 71 p Vale .. rent accounts of £75,000, in the bank notes £560,000, 10 Do B 8 4/ 51 I. 21 31 and in the bills discounted of £2,320,000. 5 10 Do C 3 0 Ulster - p 20 - - p Concurrently with the advance in the French rate 1:. 5 10 1 13 0 - - of discount, the quotation at Frankfort has been at Vale of Neath 160 170 raised from 3to 31 per cent. It is not improbable et Victor ia Waterford Ba i a illire iM n4 igg that greater firmness will now be experienced in at 1 1 Z es g a C a° d r e n pl a l l 1 11 ar. &R./ E O O 26 28 some of the other continental money markets. et West Midland -Oxford, 100 - et Do Newport; 100 -- • - The bullion operations at the Bank yesterday at -DO Hereford! 100 - comprised the influx of £22,000 in bar gold, and the *withdrawal of 100,000 sovereigns for transraission ' ' BRITISH POSSESSIONS. to the Brazils by th e O ne id a, w hi c h l eaves to-day - with a total of £128 , 218 . Closing 'than / Railways Paid. Price. f Ruttiness dont The directors of the Bank of Otago have re- 100 xtiantic &St Lawrenet all 63 (5 solved to reduce the nominal amount of the shares atk I 87 , i ~ I s 3a p r e o r d e a e & n . t C ent I n d 100 1061 1474 1071 of that bank from £lOO to 4 '20. 20 Do. New 20 Do. . Shares 6 1 1; The Metropolitan and P rov i nc i a l B an k h ave re- 204 Butialo E And Larte Huron all 64 p solved to open a br anc h in :Macclesfield. Do. Preference , 00 1 Buffalo,Brant,&Godriel, 1, - - The large supply of M ex i can d o ll ars b y the 100 6 u p. et. d b e ds. /:f. ju tlf' y . 1, spa 100 - - Tasmanian have been so ld at s s. 3d . per oz., show- too t) o o . . do.. June 1, 18;4 100 - - st Clcutta.,lrS.Eastn.(Lit, ; 100 1( 61 1(74 ing a slight declin e i n va l ue. st Cape Town & Dock Seri( 100 1) 4 106 105 The Hansa, from New York, has brought stock Ewan. Bengal gu. sp. c 100 1083 1091 108 1 74 £50,000. 148 109 20 Do. do. G Ext lO 11 114 stock East Indian, gu. 5 p. C too The new Brazilian loan has been most favourably stock Grand . A• o u . nk of C d atarla l Ol OO 1 22 2: 11' 22 received, but the circumstance was generally con- 100 D0.,0 Ist l a 'r e e l . e f. . rr ßonds templated, owing to the influential and substantial 100 Do. 2d Pref. Bonds all 69 71 support which had been accorded to the proposition igg Do. 2.1 i e e ff . r s r t e o d e . k: .: : : all 5 1 2 before the issuing of the prospectus containing the 100 Do. doildjrieefrred.i.c::: aall g 1 : 1 terms of the proposed loan. Th e p r i ce o f i ssue is 100 Do. o. I d t o.deferred all 26 28 considered to have been fixed upon the fair prin- stock o Gt b l o nt e r w en u ixi a .ga.l.o 1 1 0 2 0 108 11T 1 1 1081 ciple of giving the subscriber an adequate niargin 20 Do.. JanLy, 18 P 6 . 2 stock Gt. South.of India (Lim; for profit in relation to the prices current for exist- guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 1064 1074 ing stocks. That the loan will be successfully rat Gt o W ;,, r Crada Shares a 1 1 1! ;? 14 lOl i floated is certain, the applications being already 100 Do. Bp ' 7'73 with't opt. all 93 98 100 5l p . ..c. all 68 bath large and of an influential character. 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 A 1 90 P stock Madras guar., sp.c. .. 100 1061 1074 1 061 stock Do. 41 p. cf. Extension 100 101 102 102 Two O'CLOCK. B toc 2 ok E C O: Fifth Extension.lo'il 18 100 -- During the later hours of business yesterday a st' A 'k N 1 11 3; C flVol efo ' n ° "s " Ra d y s . i a o l o l 58 - 1 - 9 kind of panic prevailed at the Stock Exchange, the 100 Do. 7 p.c. illortg. Bds. all - - advance in the rates of discount at Paris, and Frank- 80 N or a ß s p s ur a n cal cal Candu all 3 5 fort being added to the adverse circumstances pre- stock N.lll.C'das pe l let pi bds 100 1 82 84 0 061 1071 107 viously affecting the markets. Sales were forced, st f,.. cLeeliii •..• •• • • 1 . 4.: (10% 10)4 1074 especially in the foreign department where consi- lo E.°: IP: ..üb.. tr: ~,,,Cl all 4 4 P 24 .. ~_ l, at Do. Do. ........ , t,s. , 100 1064 1074 106 derable excitement still prevails, and Consols closed sock Do. Indus. St. Flo.) 000 102 104 heavily at another decline of 4- per cent. No fur- ther change h as occurre d to-day, but the quotations COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES, continue heavy at 921 93 for transfer, and at 931 1 - lto.lioo, a p.c.Ja stJui) for the November account. The New Threes have - 1877-131 ...- ..... receded to 91 , 4 a , and the I:educed Annuities to I IL " : ( 6 ' i r,.. c e ll ' a b r:l Aug ept 100 2 1040 101 911 a ; Exchequer Bills are firm at par. to 3s. prem.; -_ 1), .0.. .'a P Inscribed c.i alisjtuoelYi; 1000 :2 3 g g : India Stocia is marked 221 ; the 5 per Cents. are - Cape G.llope, 6 p 0,1873 100 108 110 Do.Ap &Oct. 1880 100 109 111 108 . : i ; ditto 4 per Cents., 1001, and do., Enfaced -- Do. 1894 100 110 112 5 per Cents. 108. - Do. Jan. & July, 1891 lOO 113 115 - Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 100 113 115 There has been and is still a very perturbed mar- - Ceylon 6 per cent ket for Foreign securities. Greek have been 321 1 ; :: Mi l 3=2 ) .= 100 ire IN they are now 33; 341, or 1;:- lower than yesterday ~ ---- at. l 4 ° .iv l ef i c; ve .A 5l)) . -.4' Oct.) 1 1g0 0 1 - 01 T afternoon. The Coupons have been 141 15, and - E t ' o • s d P• V 8 8 , 3 '1 t t ° o% ,; l gl2 li); 1030 have rallied to 15.1 l—a drop of 4 per cent. Con- Z New * Zeaj ' and 6 p Cent. 100 110 110 siderable fluctuation has also taken place in Alexi- -- IN o sTe a ri e n o g t i a l t 7 7 0 5 v . 6 p. c 100 104 106 can : business has been recorded at 41 ,3-, and the -- !Queensland Gev. 6p. a 100 1:1 113 S. Aus G 6 c 1676.4 z up lOO 112 114 latest prices are 42 I, or , 7, per cent. worse than yes • - jVicAlov. 6 P p . .C.Ja.&July 100 108 110 terday. Turkish C onso lid es h ave advanced to 524 - Do. to 60. a AnAsOat. . lOO 1101 mit _ 5 3. Spanish Passive, afte r t ouc hi ng 331 34, have BRITISH NUNES. rallied to 34 :I; the Internal have dropped 4, viz., 2 ;Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 i 4Ad ___ l to 281; and the Certificates are 131 1, and they -: I. l e i v e c o n r a ci A t T o a n l cs g a , r n a ald t ... , - 1 1 5 11 5 cs ' s . : 37 have been down to 13 1. The Confederate Loan - 1 !P a s s l J r za "tt( B l 7,l7, l ti: r s . gi 7 p 9 ar d has advanced to 25 to 23 dis., and is now nominal - East Cldo u n .... ... at these quotations. - East Cam Brea... . - ,E. W'l Russel (Tavistk ; 8.6.6 3 3 4 Business in the Railway Share Market has been - !grea.t:otUAtlufi?lorl( r G u i s ven.) 58; 13 4 rather dull, and a further decline has taken place - IG. Wheal Vor (Itels;o . n 4O 9 4 101 - Grenville 6.16.1 5 54 in prices. Lancashire and Yorkshire, North W estern - 1 Elerc•d's-Foot 8.12 S 6 38 4. 8.0 2 25 and Metropolitan have each declined IA ; South -.... Li a ir d lgsl i o e n r d l ii ai ow n 8 2.8.6 i f Eastern, - Mar y garet (Uny Lel= t si, 23 25 . lss. ; Caledonian, 10s. ; and Great Eastern, l Great IMarke Valley.. Western, Midland, and North Eastern Bar. - 4 , Myndy Iron Ore (Lim ) 25 11 2 4 wick ss. - New Setun l9l 100 110 • North 1 The Foreign an d C o l onial lines have remained L. N.Wh 'I B Downs 2 lasset (1110 4an 2.17 1 2 .t 21 31 - North Wheal Crotty without material change. Great 'Western of - Par Consols(st. Blaney; 11 4 ii 1 Canada are quoted 101 1 ; Grand Trunk of Canada, - 1 20 Providenoe(UnyLelnt.) 10.6.7 ,3 45 South Caradon(St.Cleer, 11 415 425 22 ; and East India, 1071. - 8. Carn Brea (Illogan) 5.15.6 14 2 Bank Shares are also at slightly reduced ' - ealiTheai Iran. (Illogan It;.. 8 1. 0 -..9 2r B prices, - iStray Park London and ' Westminster being dealt in at 79 5 ramar Silv.& Lead Min. 41 1 4 London Chartered of Australia at 291 Indian ' .-- fin Cron - West Bas 9 191 201 Basest (Illogan) ll 91 101 Land- WCf radon (Liskeard) 5 21 23 Mortgage Bank are quoted 3' .' n I 1" '4 prom t - West Soton An g l o - Austri I Wheal Basset (Mogan') 54 721 771 Banko an, 1 1,-,- prom; Royal Privileged - - I Wheal Buller(Redruth) 5 25 30 of Austr' Austria par to 1 prem. ; and Ea s t L on d on - i Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) 2.0.6 -- 7 1 l i . to 2 prem. - i WhealLuchott ,:2.10.8 21 24 - IWheal nn!A aen ) 8 85 94 In the Miscellaneous Market the operations con- - Ityheal 3eton . . 581 195 205 . "linue restricted, - ; Wheal Trelawney (Lis.) 7 171 155 nd quotations in mo • , et instances, - :Wheal Union 3.17 2 3 are a shade flatter. London Financial are marked /31 ; International Financial, PREFERENCE SHARES. Credit, 4! 1. 9- 10; G enera l Great Western, 4 per cent. irred , 92 BRITISH FUNDS —ONE O'CLOCK. Rank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent, Consols Annuities 92 3 New 3 per Cent. Annuities India Stock Ditto 5 pet Cent Ditto 4 per Cent lOOl Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent.... • • Ditto 5 per Cent Consols for Account, Oct. 8.. India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent — Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 21 per Cent 3 pm par Ditto £SOO Ditto Small 3 pm par FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent — Ditto 1859 Brazili an 5 per Cent ........ 1002 99i Ditto 4 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent Ditto 1 per Cent. (D e f erre d 3 per Cent.) Egyptian 7 per Cent lOl Ditto. Second Greeklssue ii. 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons — ttto Account ..,Di.tto :c u eo P tul ffi l . 0 -lexica /I 3ne C ent PeDruittuAlrinte.e.u.t. .......... Ditto Ae c t e u t Ditto 41 pernt ..... ********************* =- Ditto Account •lent. Portuguese 3 p e e e r n e t . .4 l l:: ******* _ B7 t t. i 81.822, 4 St nussian 5 per eeti Ditto 5 per Sardinian 5 per Cent . b 2 93 1, Ditto ACCOUIIt Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Ac count..~ ,F• Ditto New Deferred 541 5 . . Ditto Passive ......... . ... Ditto Account Spanish Cert. of Coup not fund Ditto Account ........ .. ...... Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854.... f ......... .. ..... 13 13 / Ditto Acc0unt................... 9-5-1 Ditto 6 per Ceut. 1858 .............. ..... i Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 .............. 69 Ditto Account ...................... 7o:t 69! 70i Dividends on the above payable in London. Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs.. -_ Ditto Account 72/ TWO O'cLoc x. 'Consols, Money Ditto Account .. PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Western, 4 per cent. irred , 92 South Eastern (Reading Anne., £1.0.6), 24 PREFErtENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. London, Brighton, leo., li per cent., 1858, 1031 South Eastern 5 per cent., 1041 4 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Recife and San Francisco gua. 7 per cent., 18 I ban Paulo (lim.), gua. 7 per cent., Ditto (all), 22i Turin and Savona, Ditto (all), 16e FO2EIGN MINES. Alamillos, limited, 1 Fortuna (lim.), _4 Linares, 7 Port - Philip, 11 United Mexican (lims,, 1 31 Yudanamutana of S. Australia (lim.), 21 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool (Um); 401 Ditto, new, 20 191 Bank of ()tap, him., 11 Brazilian and Portuguese, Hm., 81 Chartered Bank of British Columbia, 11; Chartered Bank of India, Australia, ana China, asi 9 City, 110 Consolidated Bank, lim., 101 English, Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 231 Hindustan, china, and Japan (inn.), 271 Imperial Ottoman, 181 1 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 29/ London and County, 52 London Joint Stock, 30 London and Northern (lim.), 111 1 London and South African, 271 London and Westminster, 79 Metrop. and Prov. Bank (lim.), 18 National hank, 16 Provincial of Ireland. 921 Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi (lira.), 61 Union of Australia, 571 8 DOCKS. St Katharine, 641 MISCELLANEOUS. Anglo-Mexican Mint, 22 Crystal Palace, 391 Ditto, pref., 117/ Electric Telegraph, 106 Gen. Crulit and Finance of London, lim., 411 Hudson's Bay, 81 0 International Financial Society, lira., 10 91 Joint •stock Discount, 60 London District Telegraph (lim.), lg London Financial Association, lira., 13 i London General Omnibus Company (lira.), 21 Oriental Inland Steam, lira., 3t FLORAL BAROMETERS.—Chickweed especially is weather-telling. If the flower is fully open no rain need be feared, for some hours, at least; if however, the little flower is partially closed, the weather is generally rainy; if it becomes quite shut up, then a waterproof and an umbrella are necessary out-door appendages. Tha various sorts of trefoil will usually close their leaves at the approach of bad weather. Tulips, and several other flowers , with yellow colouring in them, shut up before rain. The wild sorrell will completely double its leaves up before a storm. Innumerable plants and flowers might be cited that the weather invariably affects, and that will never mix• lead the observer. THE SUN, LM :DON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 9, 1863. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS—This Day The opposed applications for licenses for music and dancing were taken to-day. There was a very full attend ance of magistrates. THE STRAND MUSIC HALL. Mr. Morris Roberts Syers applied for a license for music and dancing for a building No. 345, Strand, called the Strand Music Hall. Mr. Sleigh appeared for the Strand Music Hall Company, and Mr. Poland opposed. The learned counsel having entered at some length into the objects for which the building is intended, called The Architect, who gave a full description of the pro perties of the New Music Hall, and stated that the cemple tion of the building had been prevented by circumstb.nces over which there was no control. lie felt certain that everything would be so far perfected that the 11.411 would be in a state to be opened to the public in January next, if not sooner. _ _ _ Mr. Poland hoped the licence would be refused. The hall was surrounded by places of amusement of all descrip tions rendered to the Strand Music hall unnecessary. The Chairman thought it unadvisable to grant a license to a building which was at present in a very unfinished state, that no proper idea could be formed of its arrange ments. The application was then put to a show of hands, when there were seven held up in favour of the license, and eleven against it. The license was accordingly refused. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. SYSTEMATIC ROBBERY AT CROSSE AND BLACKWELL'S. —Henry Frost, a carpenter, employed at Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell's sauce and pickle warehouse, Soho-square, in doing some repairs, was charged before ➢lr. Knox with the following robbery:— It appears that the prisoner was seen by one of the men to remove a bottle of jelly from a case and take it towards the bench where he was at work. Information was then given to Ackrill, 48 F, a large quantity of property having been missed, and on Ackrill going to the place where the prisoner was at work and taxing him with the robbery, he said " It's all right. I'm sorry for it, but it's over now." Ackrill then took the prisoner to the station, and afterwards went to his lodgings in Lambeth, where ho found a large quantity of property, showing that the prisoner had robbed the firm to some extent, and there is little doubt that the prisoner had been doing so nearly every day he was em ployed on their premises, All the property produced by Ackrill having been iden lied by Mr. Thomas Francis Blackwell, one of the firm, Mr. Knox committed the prisoner for trial, but he will be again brought before the magistrate. THE EARTHQUAKE. Communications giving the results of personal experiences of the earthquake on Tuesday last still come to hand from the provinces. We subjoin a few of them KENT.-Mr. Charles Dickens, writing from Gad's-hill-place, Higham-by-Rochester, Kent, thus communicates his experience of the shock:—" I was awakened by a violent swaying of my bedstead from side to side, accompanied by a singular heaving motion. It was exactly as if some great beast had been crouching asleep under the bedstead and were now shaking itself and trying to rise. The time by my watch was 20 minutes past 3, and I suppose the shock to have lasted nearly a minute, The bedstead, a large iron one, standing nearly north end south, appeared to me to be the only piece of furniture in the room that was heavily shaken. Neither the doors nor the windows rattled, though they rattle enough in windy weather, this house standing alone, on high ground, in the neighbour hood of two great rivers. There was no noise. The air was very still, and much warmer than it had been in the earlier part of the night. Although the previous afternoon had been wet, the glass had not fallen. I had mentioned my surprise at its standing near the letter Fair,' and having a tendency to rise. It is recorded in the second volume of the Philosophical Transactions' that the glass stood high at Oxford when an earthquake was felt there iu September, 1683." SOUTHAMPTON.-our own correspondent ►rites that Captain Goodridge, the commander of the mail packet Southampton, left Havre for this port at midnight on Monday, and when about 30 miles from Havre he experienced, as he was standing on the bridge of the steamer, a peculiar shock. He thought at first that something was the matter with the engine, and went below to inquire. He then looked at his watch, and found that it was about 20 minutes past three. At West End, a few miles to the north-east of this town, the earthquake was felt. In one gentleman's house the crockery rattled to such an extent that some of the inmates got up to see what was the matter. At Warsash, near Fareham, in Hants, the shock was so obviously felt, that some of the inhabitants, as soon as they got up the next morning, declared that an earthquake had taken place during the night. Mr. Stroud, the toil-keeper of the Southampton Pier, states that he was standing in the toll-house on Tuesday last, and once during the day he felt the house rock in such a peculiar manner that he remarked to a gentleman standing by that the motion was like that of an earthquake. This is important, as it shows that beside the grand shock on Tuesday morning, the earth sensibly trembled at a different hour. It is surmised that the earthquake is coincident with an eruption of some volcano. It would be a matter of great importance if the time of the shock at a few places could be accurately ascertained, so as to know the direction and speed of the earthquake. The most likely persons to give information on this point would be the engine-drivers who were travel ling between 3 and 4 a.m. ou Tuesday. Earth quake shocks also cause clocks and watches to stop; and if in any instance such has been the case, this would give the necessary information. The Effect of an earthquake at sea is oftentimes most curious_ The shock is as if the ship struck suddenly on a rock. This can be only effected by the earthquake wave as it proceeds onward driving the sea violently against a ship and suddenly stopping it. During yesterday the wind here shifted to all points of the compass. - MANCHESTER.—A correspondent at Manchester says the shock during Monday night was distinctly felt by a number of people in that neighbourhood, but apparently not so sensibly as in scme other parts of the country. A similar shock is spoken to by several people as having been felt at about ten minutes to eleven o'clock on the previous Friday night. One gentleman describes the tremor of the earth as something like that he has felt at a railway station when a heavy train has been passing, and he says the shock was accompanied by a great noise and the shaking of the doors and windows. BEESTON.—Mr. J. Lowe, writing from the Ob servatory at Beeston, says A. smart shock was felt here at 3.30. Many persons awoke from the shaking of their beds and windows. At the time the sky was cloudless, the wind west, baro meter stationary, and the temperature 31 deg. The motion of earthquake pendulum at this observation was from W.N.W. to E.S.E., and the displacement of chalk by the 30-feet rod was half an inch, the index needle moving the chalk so as to leave an oval, or rather a lengthened oval hole. There must have been at least two shocks, as numerous letters describe the time as both 2.35 a.m. and 3.30 a.m.; that the latter was the time of a severe lateral shock is certain, as the zero pencils on my atmospheric recorder marked the paper in a remarkable manner at that hour. Information as to the extent of the shock is desirable, as in all probability the earth quake of this morning was of a severe nature." HEREFORD.—The Rev. H. C. Key writes from Stretton Rectory, Hereford—" At 3.23 a.m., Green wich mean time, or very nearly so, a smart shock of an earthquake was felt in this neighbourhood. Its duration, as far as I could judge, was about eight seconds; some persons Bay more. The effect was that of a very heavy and long train rushing furiously through a station, but the jar or shock experienced was greater than any I ever felt pro duced by a train. The bed on which I lay was violently shaken, and the iron bars of the shut ters of the room (the shutters being closed but not barred) rattled loudly against the shutters, and I found that it required a considerable amount of shaking with the hand to effect this. The sound at first increased rapidly with a gradual crescendo for two or three seconds, until the crash was felt (which lasted for about one second and a half, and consisted of two concussions), and then subsided as gradually for some seconds more, until it died away in the distance. It appeared to me to equal the loudest peal of thunder I ever heard, but it was fuller and deeper and grander than thunder. In about three minutes afterwards a second faint rumble was heard. The night was beautifully still and clear, and not a sound was heard from any animal either before or after. The direction of the wave of concussion appeared to be from a little W. of S. to E. of N.*'From Clifford, i n Here fordshire, a correspondent states that at about half past two his family were aroused from their slum bers by the smart shock of an earthquake, preceded by loud rumbling noises, which continued for seve ral minutes. The house rocked steadily to and fro, and then settled itself with a viol en t t rem bli ng . The hoarse, volcanic -like groanings echoed back from the mountains e n the opposite side of th e valley like the peals of de p ar ting thunder, and then all was still. TAVISTOCK.—Mr. W. F. Ocllier, of Woodtown, The sho c k o f an eart h qua k e Tavistock, writes :—" was felt here by me at 3 . 2 5 a.m. It commence d with a cracking noise, and the h ouse appeare d to tremble. Then, after an in terval of two or three seconds, the trembling recommenced, and continued fur about fifteen seconds, The house w as violentlyFradu a ll y i ncreas i ng i n severity until it ceased . shaken, so much so as to awaken a n d a l arm a ll th e inmates. It was accompanied by a l ou d rum bli ng noise underground. The weather was excee di ng l y still and calm at the t i me, the atm osp h ere c l ear , an d no rain was falling. This house is on th e b or d ers of Dartmoor, and the shock Whi c h I now d escr ib e is the third distinct shock of an earthquake which the last five yearß. This I have felt here within shock, however, was far more natenso than any pre vious one, and was sufficient create considerable to alarm. My brother, who lives two milee from here, felt the stock precisely at the same time, and describes it exactly as flo- -_,-- - ANOTHER NEW METAL —l-3isCoVERED —being a fresh victory gained by spectrum-analysis.—Allti . Reich and Ritter of Freibarg havo by its means discovered a new metal, which they have named Indium, as it is dis tinguished by a very brilliant blue ray. GOETHE'S ROOM—THE LONG LOST SKETCH OF 1T DISCOVERED. —.-Among the papers left by the Countess Auguste Stolberg, the long-missed sketch of Goethe's room atFrankfort, drawn by the poet himself, has been found. Its pr3sent possessor, States Councillor II ege witsch at Kiel, has placed it in the hands of the Franlciort " Hochstift," and the room will be restored, together with the enure Ooettto b on e, 14COOrdillg to this precMofe plane Cotton Supply Association. At the weekly meeting of the Executive Com mittee on Tuesday, a sample of a bale of cotton just sent from Fiji was submitted for examination, and valued at 29d. per lb. The people had been discouraged in the cultivation from not finding; a market for their small quantities ; but now that they can obtain slates, books, knives, scissors, calico, &c., from the merchants in exchange for their cotton, the natives in different parts of the group, under the guidance of the white inhabitants, are entering more largely into the growth of cot ton. A sample from New Granada, South America, grown from New Orleans seed sent out by the As sociation, was examined, and valued at 22d. per lb. ; a sample of cotton from the West Indies, grown from Egyptian seed, was valued at 29d. per lb.; and a sample of Bellary cotton at 16d. per lb. A letter was received from Mr. Consul Grierson, Latakia, N. Syria, forwarding a sample of cotton gathered from the growing plants, and stating that the extent of land under cultivation is four times greater than formerly, but the staple is not improved. A letter was read from Mr. Consul Hutchinson, Rosario, reporting that the Egyptian seed forwarded to him by the Association has been distributed amongst thirty-three cultivators in various parts of the Argentine republic. The sowing season is the month of September. A letter w as received from the honorary agents of the Association in Calcutta, enclosing reports from parties to whom seed has been distributed. One of them states that all the seed sown with scarcely an exception germinate freely. Letters were re ceived reporting that the Bombay, Baroda, and Central India railway is at present open from Ahmedabad, in the north, to Bulsar, a distance of 185:1,-, miles, passing through Broach, Baroda, and Surat. The remaining 125 miles to Bombay were nearly ready for opening when the monsoon came on in June, and it is expected the opening throughout will not be delayed beyond the end of the year. The Great Indian Peninsular line i s open, with the exception of the gap of nine miles at the Thull Ghaut, from Bombay to Mulkapore, in Berar, in a north-east direction 2951 miles, and fro m Bombay to Sholapore in the south-east 276 k miles. Mulkapore is within the limits of the great B e rar cotton field, and cotton can be readily con veyed to that and other points on the railway (Barbee, on the S.E. line) for transport to Bombay. It is expected that the gap in the railway system at the Thull Ghaut will be closed by the com pletion of the line over the Ghaut in the course of next spring, and about the same time a fur ther portion of the railway will be opened towards oornrawuttee.—An extract from a despatch re ceived from her Majesty's Consul-General at Alex andria states that the Viceroy was much pleased with his visit up to Sicot. Both sides of the river, cow at its highest point, were covered with cotton grounds, not of large dimensions, but in parcels of an acre and half an acre, indicating that every pea sant was occupyi ng h i mself with growing the plant'—Consular despatches forwarded by the office w ere received from the Acting Consal F i f ei r r . T gn ail, Coquimbo, July 23, reporting that no cot ton i s grown withi n h i s consular district ; and from Mr. Consul Moore, Jerusalem, Aug. 26, stating that the area planted with cotton th i s year i s fully four times as groat as the area planted in 1862. The probable produce of the ensuing crop will be about 4,250,0001 b. The indigenous seed has been used; no E g yptian seed has b een rece i ved, nor has any im provement in the culti vat i on and management of the plant been introduced. The quality will, therefore, be ofi t h e usual inf er i or kind, and the greater part is o d v e e l shipped to the nearest ports of France and Italy. Model plantations, conducted by E ng li s h men , w i t h native l a bour, seem necessary to extend the culti vation,t and these c an on l y be expected when there shallbe greater security than at present exists in Palestine, as well as a better definition of the tenure of land by Europeans i n T urkey. Mr. C onsul- General Cumberbatch, C onstantinople, Sept. 8, s t a ted t hat no cotton i s grown in the neighbourhood of Consta ntino p le. He enclosed a report from Mr. Vice-Consul Blunt, Adrianople, July 3, who repre sents r area planted w ith cotton i n the provinces of es, h Adrianople, Phillip opo li , and Salim° to be 3,625 a 1,975 acres m ore th an i n 1862 . There wo uld have b een a still greater increase but for the a pp re hension that the' autho voro distributin g see d w i th the intention ct rities of uaseizing a part of th e produce. A very small ity of native seed h as b een planted ; Egyptian has been ch iefl y used, and about 4,0001 b of Ameri can obta i n ed from Dram e , i n Macedonia. It is feared that , on account of the late sowing and the very u nusual drought, the resu l ts will not be so suc cessful c were anticipated. T he report enclosed from Rodost o re p resent s the production of this year to be doubl e that of las t year, about 20,000 okes, or 56,820 1 b. The acco unt from Enos anticipates a y fu u l n as considerable increase, and a more general use of exotic seed. The Acting Consul (Mr. Bidwell), Panama, wr ites that in th e i nterior of that state acr es are no w p l anted with cotton, and that the cultivation Prevails, m ore or l ess , over t h e country gene rally. So me S ea Island seed has been remarkably about 7 0 productive ; cotton having been col lected three t imes, at inte rvals of three months. The pleat, w hi c h in the United S tates is an annual, ap pears p a naala to be a perenn i al, since that which was 0 so wn thirteen months ago is still in a flourishing con dition. Thi s may be partially i n planted so me upland seed, was ex plaineden- sown by the absence o f f rost. The American a C b o i n e s d u i l n three months to send a sample of cotton to big government, which w as f avourably reported on, andafur further quantity of seed has been sent for gratuitous distribution. The authorities of the United States evince the utmost desire to promote cotton on th e I sthmus ; natives, as ere, are anxi ous to obtain seed, and i that about 3,000 acres w ill b e p l ace d ntwthneedl is well estimated t t fora o het ofdn cotton g on the Pacific side of the Isthmus by ' e the want of labour, the end of ne xt y ear. The cultivation is quite in its infancy; the gr eat difficulty l and it is not probable that there will be any exports o f importance at present.—.A letter, recognising the exertions of the As,sociatton, was read from the Spin ners Society, Preston.—This thecon cOlpudereadtive business of the meeting. Opening of a New Catholic Church at Bath. A new Catholic p lace of wo rship was consecrated on Tuesday, an d opened on - Wednesd a y w i t h cons id era bl e ritualistic pomp and ceremony in the city of B a th, There was a large gatheri n g of ecclesia stical dignitaries, and the service ,sn wasay a r imposing he as great C a th o li c religious cereino n a new church i s a spacious an d hand someusll as e.T one, and adds to the architectural beauty of Bath. The architect is Mr. .A.nsora, of Clifton. Immediately fol lowing the service at the church was a luncheon at the Assembly Rooms. Amongst those who partook of it were the Right Hon. Lord Clifford, who presided ; Lady Clifford, 1)r. Clifford (Bishop), Dr. Morris, Dr. Ullathorne, Dr. Manning, Dr. Vaughan, Mr. R. Berkeley ( Worcestershire) , Mr. and Mrs. Shuttletvorth, Miss Bateman, Mr. Charles Clifford, Mrs. Charles Stapleton, Mr. E. and Mrs. Weld, Mrs. Worsley, together with a large number of monks and priests, and members of the Catholic church. The health of his Holiness the Pope having been drunk, the chairman proposed that of her Majesty and the rest of the royal family, remarking that it was during the the present reign that the fires of persecution whic h existed in the days of her Majesty's predecessors ha d been finally trampled out and Catholic emancipation had become notn merely a legal technicality, but an actu al reality. I re sponding for the "Catholic Hierarchy of England," Bishop Ullathorne said he recognised th e hierarchy as a great institution. It was the restoration of nor mal government of the church. When the hierarchy was established, ten or twelve years ago, questions arose, how was it to exist ? How was this great multiplic.ttion of bishops to find e mployment ? How were they to sustain au advance of that magnitude in this country P Why, the facts of the last ten years had given a response which had satis fied all minds. Already they found that the 13 prelates had almost more work in hand than they could manage, and they found on every side churches rising, clergy multiply ing, seminaries increasing, and the whole country was being covered with the action of the hierarchy. The announce ment of the establishment of that hierarchy was received with a groan by a a great portion of this country, and now they found the very press engaged at that moment in exalt ing the head of that hierarchy as a man who was an orna ment to the country. Let them congratulate their brethren that they had come completely to their senses; let them also congratulate them that they had begun to discover that Catholics were " an important body in this country," and let them congratulate themselves that the Catholic vote was of importance in the politics of the country. A number of other toasts followed. In the evening there were vespers in the church, and a sermon preached by Dr. Manning to an attentive congregation.— /Voter": J)aiiy Press. The Scandalous Outrage on a Lady. (From the Morning Post.) BIARRITZ, Oct. 6. You will recollect the affair of the Countess Przezdiecka, whose hair and eyebrows were burnt by the explosion of some detonating Powder, which had been concealed in the seal of a letter sent to her by an unknown enemy. It has now transpired that the writer of this letter was a R ussian lady, the wife of a colonel of the Imperial Guard, residin g at St. Petersburg. The matter has been brought before the local magistracy, and will probably b e settled at the next criminal sessions at Bayonne. The Cracow journals announce the arrest, i n Podolia, of Princess Johanna Czartoryski and her mother. It has been remarked here that this news has produced a most painful impression on the Emperor and Empress, who had formerly received the princesses at the Tuileries. HER MAJESTY'S IRON STEAMSHIP VALIANT, of 34 guns and 4,063 tone, will be launched from Messrs. Westwood and Baillie's yard, at Milwall, on Saturday, the 17th inst. The Duke of St. Albans, Viscount Newport, the Earl of Durham, Lord Rendlesham, Captain Douglas Lang, and Lord George Manners were recently elected members of the Jockey Club. THE NEWCASTLE MURDER: The detective police at Newcastle-on-Tyne seem at last to have discovered the person who is supposed to have mortally stabbed the Irishman, Martin Luskey, in Scotswood-road, in that town, on Saturday night. He also turns out to be an Irishman (aot a pitman, as was thought), and his name is reported to be Terence Quin. His companion, named M'Gurk, the person who was carrying a bandbox, which was knocked out of his hands by Luskey, just before he (Luskey) was stabbed, has made a statement which impli cates Quin as the person who did it. Quin appears to have fled to Ireland. A LARGE SHIP WRECKED OFF MARGATE.— GRAVESEND, Thursday. The Leda, steamer, Captain Castles, from Dublin, which arrived in the river this morning, reports seeing a large ship wrecked off the Brake Sands. She appeared to be an American, with her decks and round stern washed out of her. Several Deal boatmen were making for the wreck when the Leda passed. No signs of any living person could be seen belonging to her. It blew a heavy gale ltist night and this morning from the eastward, accompanied by heavy rain and thunder. ALEXANDER SELKIRK, the original of De Foe's noble, creation of " Robinson Crusoe."—A Scotch warehouseman of the name of Hutchinson, in Warwick street, Regent-street, has recently come into possession of the two Selkirk relics, the cup and the chest. The former, which is made of a cocoa-nut, rudely carved, was put upon a stalk and mounted with silver by Sir Walter Scott, and so almost loses its identity and interest ; but the latter is a curiously-dovetailed piece of ingenious workmanship by the " monarch of all he surveyed." These relics, up to the present time, have been in the possession of Selkirk's de scendantsin Largo, Fifeshire, where he was born. THE VOLUNTEERS AS JURYMEN.—A novel point was raised before the Kent county magistrates at Bromley on Monday as to whether a person holding a com mission as an officer in a Volunteer Rifle Corps was exempt from serving as a juryman at the county sessions and assizes. It appears that the name of a lieutenant of one of the local corps had been omitted from the jury list, and the overseer, on being questioned, said that exception had been claimed, and the omission made by him, on account of the gentleman referred to holding a commission, as stated. On referring to the list it was ascertained that the name of the commanding officer of the same company was inserted, and Colonel Lenuard, one of the bench of magistrate, having remarked that he, although colonel of a Militia regiment, would not be exempt, the name of the lieutenant was ordered to be placed on the list. TRIAL OF NEW LIFEBOATS. —Yesterday some har bour trials were made in the Regent's Canal Dock, Limehouse, with two new lifeboats belonging to the Na tional Lifeboat Institution. There were present—Mr. T. Chapman, F.R.S., Sir E. Porrott, Capt. De St. Croix, Mr. R. Lewis, Mr. W. H. Harton, Capt. D. Robertson, R.N., and several othbr gentlemen. Both boats underwent the usual trials, of self-righting and self-ejecting the water, of the craft of the National Lifeboat Institution. One of the boats, which is 33 feet long and rows ten oars, double banked, is intended for Teignmouth, Devon, to replace an old and inferior boat there, She is an experimental boat, being built of iron, and being the first lifeboat on the self righting principle which has been made of that material. She was built by Mr. Hapworth, the iron shipbuilder at Millwail, under the immediate superintendence of Mr. J. Prowse, of her Majesty's Dockyard, Woolwich, purveyor to the institution. Her cost was raised at the British set tlements at Hong-Kong and Shanghai in 1862 by Mr. W. H. Harton, a member of the general committee of the Lifeboat Institution, in conjunction with Messrs. Gilman and Co., of Hong-Kong, for the express purpose of present ing a lifeboat to th© society, to be stationed on the English coast. In compliment to the subscribers who thus remem bered an important work in their own country when far away from it, she has been named the China. A new and commodious boathouse has been built for her at 'reign mouth, and she has been supplied with a new transporting carriage. The other boat which was tried yesterday is 30 feet long, and rows 10 oars double banked, and is to go to Swansea, She was built by the Messrs. Forrestt, of Lime house, lifeboat builder to the National Institution. The Great Western Railway and the other connecting railway companies have, as usual, readily given a free conveyance to each of the boats to their destinations on the coast. A YANKEE BOOBY—(worse than Dogberry)— fairly " written down An Ass"—by Consul Nathaniel Hawthorne, in his new book of " Our Old Home."—One day a queer, stupid, good-natured, fat-faced individual came into my private room, dressed in a sky blue cut-away coat and mixed trousers, both garments worn and shabby, and rather too small for his overgrown bulk. After a little preli minary talk he turned out to be a country shopkeeper (from Connecticut I think), who had left a flourishing business, and come over to England purposely and solely to have an interview with the Queen. Some years before he h ad named his two children, one for her Majesty and the othere little for Prince Albert, and had transmitted photographs of h people, as well as of his wife and himself , to the ' il t ustrious godmother. The Queen had gratefully ackn:t secretary. : ;edged the favour, in a letter under the hand of her iv Now the shopkeeper, like a great many t was one of te other Americans, had long cherished a fantastic notion tho rightful heirs of a rich English e state; an d on the strength of her Majesty's letter, and the hopesi little country storeof a royal patronage which it inspired, he had sh ut up his and come over to claim his i n dependence. On the voyage a German fellow-passenger h ad relieved him of his money on pretence of getting it favo urablyexchanged, and had disap peared immediately on th e ship's arrival, so that the poor fellow was compelled to pawn all his clothes except the re markably shabby ones in which I behold him, and in which (as he himself hinted, with a melancholy yet good-natured smile) he did not look altogether fit to see the Queen. I agreed with him that the bobtailed coat and mixed trousers consti tuted a very odd looking court dress, and suggested that it was doubtless his present purpose to get back to Connecticut as fast as possible. But no; the resolve to see the Queen was as strong in him as ever,and it was marvellous the pertinacity with which he clung to it amid raggedness and etarvation,and the earnestness of his supplication that I would supply him with funds for a suitable appearance at Windsor Castle. I never had so satisfactory a perception of a complete booby before in my life; and it caused mo to feel kindly towards him, and yet impatient and exasperated on behalf of com mon sense, which could not possibly tolerate that such an unimaginable donkey should exist. I laid his absurdity before him in the very plainest terms, but without either exciting his anger or shaking his resolution. Oh, my dear man ,' quoth he, with good-natured, placid, simple, and tearful stubborness, •if you could but enter into my feel ings and see the matter from beginning to end as I see it !' To confess the truth, I have since fel; I was hard-hearted to the poor simpleton, and that there was more weight in his remonstrance than I chose to be sensible of, at the time ; for, like many man who have been in the habit of making playthings or tools of their imagination and sensibility, I was too rigidly tenacious of what was reasonable in the affairs of real life. And even absurdity has its rights, when, as in this case, it has absorbed a human being's entire na ture and purposes. I ought to have transmitted him to Mr. Buchanan, in London, who, being a good-natured old gentleman, and anxious, just then, to gratify the universal Yankee nation, might, fur the joke's sake, have got him admittance to the Queen, who had fairly laid herself open to his visit, and has received hundreds of our country men on infinitely slighter grounds. But I was inexor able, being turned to flint by the insufferable proximity of a fool, and refused to interfere with his business in any Way except to procure him a passage home. I can see his face of mild, ridiculous despair, at this moment, and aP" preciate, better than I could then, how awfully cruel he must have felt my obduracy to be. For years and Ye ars ' the idea of an interview with Queen Victoria had haunted his poor foolish mind ; and now, whenb.eangingY stood on English ground, and the palace-doer w .. niless and ajar for him, he was expected to turn back, a pe r i ' on.boarte d bamboozled simpleton, merely because lock had his demand Consul refused to lend him 30s. 0° icket the rail for ultimately sunk) to buy a second- London Ile visited the Consulealattes: Ilowed him in the eateveral times after wards, subsisting on a pittance:she], too enneeticut, assail hope of gradually starving hi ) " every portunity, lo o ki ng ing me with the old petition at thoroughly good-tempe re d , shabbier at every visit, but.. stillthrough h ofhis h t i e s a rs(b,wnao t without mildly stubborn, and smiln.ig ptbution a perception of the Bealtog ther. ATE DEFEAT. AN small Finally ho disapPea rei c l a ud . , has decided on AN OTHER Crirl— pof r m a p s u se ls n o b ry ain ah ' u H rch tm rates.te rural parish At a meeting mo n2 r- b e e ° r 10. the motion for a hurch rate was having no held on i S ly ePte icted. W. Johnson of Denahanger suunar- .chrtiercehman, Was the prins;ip E ai scl o . House, s Pponent,—Honts Independent, RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. GREAT EA STERN. Yesterday this company's ati lamer Blenheim arrived at Harwiall, with a eonsignment of 746 head of cattle and a general cargo, at 9 a.m., after encountering a heavy gale, having left Rotterdam at 5 30 a.n i. on the previous evening, making her second experimental voyage in and out between. Rotterdam and Harwich, and in connection with the Great Eastern and Dutch Rhenish railways, during the week. At Harwich, under the new regulations, the cattle were landed, placed in sheds built for the purpose, arid examined by the veterinary surgeon of the Board of Trade. After resting they were conveyed in special trains from Harwich to Strat ford in two hours, and from thence by the North London Junction line direct to the New Metropolitan Market in the Caledonian-road, thus avoiding the necessity that pre viously existed of driving them from the docks through the street s to market. Two new steamers are being built for this route in addition to the Blenheim, and three other steamers are to be constructed for the passenger service. CHARING-CROSS. Yesterday 'workmen commenced the demolition of a large number of houses and shops in the Borough-market, and portions of the B orough -market Distillery, lately belonging to Messrs. Vickers, and great progress is being made with the clearance of all the properties required for the exten. sion of the line into Cannon-street. BRISTOL AND NORTH SOMERSET. The first sod of this line was turned at Glutton on Wed - and yesterday th e first rail of the line at the n esday by Mrs. Milward, wif e of the Rev. Prebendary Bristol Miiwar end a; was laid by Mrs. L. V. Hare, Mayoress of that city. There were great rejoicing s at both places. The line from Radstock to Bristo l, including a branch to Camerton, will be 22 miles in length. Messrs . Bathe 11 and Walton aro the contractors. The cost of the undertaking is estimated at £270,000, and it appears that arrangements have been made for completing the line within two years. WESTMINSTER. A " MOTHER."--Margaret Sullivan, a miserable-looking woman, was charged with unlawfully knocking and ring ing at the house of Mr. Cairns, 18, Chester-terrace, Pimlico. The first witness against the defendant was her own daughter, an exceedingly clean, wholesome-looking girl, who said that she was servant to Mr. Cairns, and had given her mother into custody last night for knocking and ring ing there during her master's absence. Mr. Arnold—You have given your own mother into custody for coming to you at your situation. How is that ? Witness—She comes to the house often, abuses me, and tears my clothes off my back. Defendant—Remember, Ellen, I am your own mother. Don't say anything against your poor mother. Mr. Arnold (to the daughter)—You say she abuses you and tears the things off your back ? Daughter—She dues. She lays wait for me in the street, and I am afraid to go out. Mr. Arnold—What is your age ? Daughter—l am 17. Mr. Arnold—How long have you been in your present place. Daughter—Three months. I have got my own living at service ever since I was 12 years old, and I wish to do so in peace, but my mother will not let mo. She wants me to come home, but she has no home for me. Mr. Cairns, the gentleman employing the girl, said she was a well-conducted, industrious servant. He had told the defendant she might visit her daughter at proper times, but she constantly came drunk and created a disturbance. As the girl was deserving he was anxious to see her pro tected. Thomas Boucher, 263 A—The prisoner was drunk last night when I took her into custody. Defendant—l was hungry, and went to ask my daughter to give me a sixpence. Mr. Arnold—l am glad to find your daughter does not follow your wretched and miserable example. Enter into recognisances of 40s. to keep the peace for six months. It you go there again I will severely punish you. THAMES. COCK AND NEPTUNE-COURT.--A great many sailors have been lately plundered and ill used in a vile place called Cock and Neptune-court, Wellclose-square, and near a public house of the same name. The nefarious doings in this iniquitous place have been the subject of our complaint for some time, and the East London Association for the pr o secution of crime have interfered, and intend to prosecute the keepers of some of the dens in the court. A woman named Margaret Macarthy was brought before Mr. Par tridge charged with robbing a sailor named William Clary, at No. 10, Cock and Neptune-court. The sailor, a lad belonging t o the ship Lucerne, in the St. Ka therine Dock, went into the Cock and Neptune with a shipmate to obtain a pint of beer, and he was . invited by the prisoner to go home with her. He refused to do so, and told her he had got no money. On leaving the public house the prisoner dragged the lad into the house No. 10, Cock and Neptune-court, where he was immediately stripped of his blue Geurnsey frock and his boots, and turned out of the house. He had walked about all night without any boots on, and could not return to the ship. Adam Carr, 40 H, said many sailors were plundered every night in Cock and Neptune-court, and the outrages there were so frequent that the inhabitants of the district intended to adopt measures to get rid of the nuisance. Four sailors were robbed in the court last night. Sailors had been thrown from the windows of the dens in the court after they were stripped. Every house was filled with thieves, bullies, and desperate prostitutes. Mr. Partridge remanded the prisoner, and directed the police-constable Carr to ascertain what had become of the lad's frock and boots. MARKETS—This Day MARK-LANE. The supply of English wheat on sale here to• day was but moderate. Both red and white qualities, however, sold heavily, and the quotations were barely supported. The supply of foreign wheat on the stands was large. The de mand for all descriptions was in a sluggish state, and prices had a downward tendency. Floating cargoes of grain moved off slowly, at about pre vious rates. With barley the market was fairly supplied, and all de scriptions met a dull inquiry, at fully the late decline in prices. The malt trade was dull at drooping prices. The supply of oats was very large, and the trade;for all qualities ruled heavy on rather easier terms. Beans and peas were in fair average request at late quo. tations. The flour trade was dull, and barrels were rather cheaper. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oat s . F loes . English...." 1,410 I 2,170 I 850 i 220 I 1,620 Irish... — 400 • roreign 27,020 8,970 60,680 201 aks, 15,30 u brls. NEW GATE AND LEADENHALL. The supply of meat on sale is moderately large. Good and fine qualities move off steadily at full quotations; otherwise, the trade is dull. Per Slb, by the carcase. stied Inferior beef .. 2 8 3 0 Middling d 0... 3 2 3 6 Prime large do. 3 8 3 10 Do. small do. .. 4 0 4 2 Large pork .... 3 8 4 2 Inferior mutton, 3 4 3 8 BOROUGH HOP. Our market is well supplied with new English hops. Good and fine samples move off freely at extreme rates; but inferior are on slow request at full prices. New Mid and East Kents 12s to L 7 10s per owt. Weald of Kents Sussex . 6Os to 6Os „ oded Middling mutton 3 10 4 2 Prime do .. 4 4 4 6 Veal Small pork ~ .. 4 4 4 6 Lamb COLONIAL. TEA. —The public sales have proceeded with rather more animation, and previous prices have been generally sus tained. B u O AR.—A large amount of business has been done in West India descriytions, and advanced prices have been obtained for good grocery qualities. In the refined market also a further rise may be quoted, owing to the small quan tity of goods on offer. COFFEE.—Business has continued rather dull, and prices have shown a slight decline, particularly for inferior qua lities of colonial. RicE.—Only limited transactions have been reported, at about previous quotations. TILLOW. — The dealings have been moderately active for for both present and forward delivery, and quotations exhibit more firmness, P.Y.C. on the spot being marked 445, and last three months' delivery 44s 9d per cwt. A BRONZE THEASANT as a match to the Golden and Silver Pheasants. —The French sportsmen think of introducing the bronze pheasant of Japan,and hope that it will cross with the present pheasant of Europe, and introduce a hardier breed of birds, which will increase in quantity and become hardy denizens of woods and forests, even during the severest winters. TESTIMONIAL TO MR. BLANCHARD JERROLD.— A committee has been formed for the purpose of raising funds in order to present a testimonial to this gentleman, in acknowledgment of the ability and success with whi c h he has taken his father's place as one of the foremost sham_ pions of the rights and interpreter of the wants and aspira tions ef lab9ur. GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. The traffic receipts on this company' s line for the w ee k ending Sept. 19 amounted, for local pass en g ers, to £6,621 ; for foreign passengers, to £1,619 ; for emigrants, to £385 ; for mails, &c., to £575 ; for local freight and live stock, t o £7,273; for timber and lumber, to £839; for firewood, to £301; and for foreign freight and live stock, to £1,809 total, £19,454; against £15,130 for the corresponding week of last year, showing an increase of £1,324, of which L 2,203 was for local passengers, £928 for foreign passengers, and £1,144 for local freight and live stock. The total traffic receipts from the Ist of July to the above date amounted to £184,747, and for the same period of 1862 to £151,464, showing an increase of £33,283, or nearly 22 per cent. ELECTION OF AN ALDERMAN. Yesterday afternoon a very numerously-attended meet ing of the inhabitants of the Ward of Aldgate wap held in the Ward School Committee-room,in Mitre-street,Minories, for the election of an Alderman of the Ward, in the stead of the late Mr. Alderman Humphery. The LORD MAYOR presided, and in opening the proceed ings bore testimony to the faithful and zealous services per formed by the late Alderman Humphery during the many years he had represented the ward, and also during the 20 ears he had held a seat in the House of Commons. _ _ Mr. J. G. JONES then nominated Andrew Lusk, Esq., for the vacant office, a gentleman whom he said was worthy to be a successor to the late Alderman, and worthy of their confidence and esteem. He had long resided in the ward, had passed through the various parochial offices, and had for many years been an active member of the Court of Com mon Council. He had also been elected to the important office of Sheriff of London and Middlesex, and was in every respect worthy of their confidence. He therefore proposed, him as their future Alderman, believing that if elected ho would perform the duties of the office zealously, faithfully, and efficiently. The Rev. Mr. DICKINSON seconded the nomination, and spoke highly of Mr. Lusk's labours in the cause of educa. tion. There was no other candidate, and the Lord Mayor de clared Mr. Lusk unanimously elected Alderman of the Ward, Mr. LINK having returned thanks, A vote of condolence with the widow and family of the late Alderman liumphery was then agreed to, and the pro.. cesdings terminated with a cordial vote of thanks to thQ Lord Mayor for presiding. A Ladlefull of " Punch," THE BEST FRUIT FOR PRESERVING LOVE.—Kate was talking glowingly about "love-apples." " That's strange exclaimed Charlie, her accepted lover. " Why should love' be associated with ' apples ?' On the contrary, I thought that love always went in pairs." Kate smiled approvingly. THE LAND OF LlBERTY.—lnstead of Habeas Corpus in the United States, which has been suspended, it is now, in the case of the prisoner who has been arbitrarily arrested, Abe who has corpus. SOMETHING FOR THE ANTIQUARIES.—Mrs. Fondlechick was much amused the other day by reading in a paper that a medal had been found at Oswestry, bearing the legend "Augustus Imp." "Bless me," she said, " that's what I say to my troublesome little Gussy twenty times a day. Well it shows that Greek mothers had their troubles, like us." Her husband, who collects Queen Anne farthings, rushed out of the room. _ BANK-NOTES AND QITERIES.—What is the meaning of "a Cool Thousand?"—Allusion is made in this phrase to the thousands that are kept cool in the Bank cellars. SHIPPING—This Day, LONDON, Oct. 9.—Wind this day at noon—North., Easterly; moderato breeze, and cloudy weather, with rain. PLYMOUTH, Oct. B,—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Cato, from Dalhousie for Newcastle; Woodbine, from London for Moulmein. QUEENSTOWN, Oct. 7.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Edward Hawkins, screw steamer, from Matamorab, verge, steamer, fur Quebec. KINGROAD, Oct. B.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Elizabeth Hamilton, from New York. PORTSMOUTH, Oct. S.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Rubel:ls, for New York. CARDIFF, Oct. S.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Derwent, from Montreal; Mary, from Garrucha. Sailed—Martha l for St. Thomas. FALMOUTH, Oct. S.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Clipper O'Grundy, from Jersey. Bank of England Return,•--Yesterday. An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 7th day of Oct., 1863: ISSUE DEPARTMENT. otcs issued ......X28,820,090, Government Debt 411,015,10 Other Securities .. 3.634,900 Gold Coin & Bullion 14,170,090 Silver Bullion £28,823,090 £28,82D,090. BANKING D t'i oprietors' Capi tai £14,553.000 Rest Public Deposits (in cluding Exche quer, Savings' Banks, Commis nii s sioners of Na tional Debt, and Dividend Ac- DEPARTMENT. Government Seen rities (including Dead Weigh tAn unity) £11,141 ,2 2? Other. Securities 22.591, 637 Notes - 7,0.51,715 Gold and Silver 88.5,P1 7 Coin • counts) 9,510.057 Other Deposits— 1203,6{2 Seven Day and other Bills x414.:15 ,RSHALL, Chief COLien. £41,470,426 M. : Oct. 8, 1863. a ael r 3so d:n complain Cattle, p i nari sn. ::: ) 3 d a i di i. d u : a e 6::::: i:nnoe g f d 0 r 0u r bee f t h a n —Weaurneor°l:l3ag°; s ea m e o b r e t a a s li t t s y . t A h lat WHY MEAT IS DEAR. cidentally of a fatal diseas© but few will be prepared for the has been going on for years, i n o e s : d W o u a s s 4 Gaingee tells us that in the 0 3 i h o f di se 44°1- horned cattle, worth £3,8 05,)d. ' i itS6o, t l h e t he e: sa i r t l s tl n n o h t t eb o a r a d t e e l 1 1 that during the six years 2,255,000, valued at £25,931,0 think wo we need mortality into consideration; t h e world for corn and cattle, has at having to pay L e ,it P u e of : f n a Y er i o u of the tariff, we used to do. The r J ilt no, and which , Which gave Sir R. Peel such undy Was to have made as far as the consumers England the owl. -e failed to fulfil ,„ unfortuately "' to t h e latter item, o promises of free traders in respect ivasmuch as we importedok taown ha t t o w ou e r di-d to n ek ot are concerned, disease hitherto bargain for--a ertou _. which has actually broeuers , , swept off four • ' - beasts as been • have imported into times as many these islands.—Once Di Irak. LO UDEN CLAItRE'S AP OSTROPHE TO SHAK srERE's AuToLycu s !___.,4 'Tho u prince of quicksilver rogues—thou typ e of all . A.utolyeus I the nivable-fingered ram! Master that of rogue ' rogues ! that ,areh-rogue ! that knave of knaves! that inexhaustible wag of a pedlar !that scampering rip of a wayfaring huckster! With what a light hand he disposes of momentous considerations. How sliimminol Y he relates that ' having in.. flown over many knavish professions' ,ho settled down in rogue.' He has a positive and un m iti ga t e d con t em pt f o r right and justice, as being, _ indeed, b u t poor an d ve ry s hallow a ff a i rs - - an d dull, Laughing he shouts, ' What a fool Honesty is I and Trust , his sworn brother, a very simple gentleman.' He plumes himself upon his high-bred rascality in a strain of devout thankfulness, as he contemplates the simpleton-innoce nce of the two shepherds :--' How blest are we that aro not simple men I yet Nature might have made me as theseare therefore I'll not disdain l' I am glad thou west not hanged, my Autolycus !" THE ROYAL MARINE CORPS be in g about 1,000 short of 18,000 men, the number voted last year, in conse quence of dismissals and variou s casualties, recruiting parties have been sent out to Lincoln 812 d other tlietrielf, ----~~' ..r°l