The Sun. — London, England, 1864-09-19 00:00:00

HONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The discount m ar k e t thi s morn i ng s h ows no par . titular feature. The capital in the hands of the various monetary establishments continues sufficient for current requirements, and as an average inquiry for accommodation is experienced, the brokers are charging 8i per cent, for the negotiation of the best bills. The stoppage was announced on Saturday of the Lleds Banking Company, their London agents, Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Co., having returned their bills. The failure was announced of Messrs. Dawson, Graham, and Pugh, colonial produce agents, with liabilities said to amount to £25,000. About 20,000 sovereigns were taken out of the Bank on Saturday for transmission to the Mauritius. The share certificates of the St. Naz%ire Company (Limited) are now ready to be exchanged for the letters of allotment and bankers' receipts. Notice is given that the bonds representing the Four and a Half per Cent. Swedish Government Loan for £2,223,000 have been received, and will be ready for issue on and after Thursday next, the 22d inst. A meeting of the creditors of Messrs. Palmer and Co., of Cullum -street, who recently suspended, has been convened for Tuesday. The accounts from the manufacturing districts for the past week represent that business has been very dull. At Manchester, both cloths and yarns have been neglected, and prices have given way to a considerable extent. At Leeds, Bradford, and Huddersfield there has been little animation, with out, however, any material change as regards prices. The hosiery and lace trades of Leicester and Nottingham have remained steady, while at Birmingham, Sheffield, and Wolverhampton there has been little change of importance. Two o'CLocK. At the Paris Bourse this day, according to Reuters telegram, the 3 per Cent. Renter were quoted 65f. 90c. In demand—firm. The English Stock Market today has been slightly affected by the small amount of business negotiated, and a decline of / per cent. in the Funds 3h n took place coon after the opening. Consols for s , money are 88 }, and for the account 881 I. The New Threes and the Reduced Annuities are 861 0 ; March Exchequer Bills, 12s. die.; India 5 per Cents., 103} 1041 ; and the Bonds, 20s. die. In the Foreign market there is not much anima tion, but prices are firmer. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 701 ; ditto Consolides, 501 ; Mexican, 27 i; ditto New, 251 ; Greek, 238 24}; Spanish et Passive, 321 ; ditto Certificates,l4-1- e ; Portuguese, 4 6i 471 ; and the Confederate Loan, 791 80/. et Business in the Railway Share Market has been rather dull, but in some instances prices have Slightly improved. Caledonian and North Western 1 1 1 have each adv a n ce d 10 s . ; an d G rea t E as t ern and II Midland each ss. ; while South Eastern have de , clined 10e. The Foreign and Colonial lines exhibit very little ' 1 animation, and generally remain at previous quota- el tions. s Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are very dull, and without any material alteration to note in prices. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 per Cent. Consols Do Account, Oct. 11 3 per Cent. Reduced New 3 per Cent. B6l a New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1891 Do 5 per Cent., Jan. 1873 — Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 — Do for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 — Mach. June. Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 & 31 per Cent. 12 Do £5OO Do £lOO and £2OO Bank England &lc, 5} per Ct. Do Account.. INDI&N GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. India Stock, 101 per Cont., April 1874 — Do Account .. — Do 5 per Cent. July, 1870 Do 4 per Cent., Oct, 1888 — Do Certificates Do Account — Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) — Do 4i pet Cent . Do Eufaced Paper, 4 per Cent — Do 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 Do 51 per Cent., May, 1879 — Do 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 Du Bonds ELM Do under £1,000.. FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds 5 per Cent .. per Brazilian 5 Bonds, Do Do 41 p er C en t., 1852-58-60 _ 1863 Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent _ Do Account.... - Chilian 6 per Cent. Do 4i per C en t C olombian 6 per Cent -- Cuba, 6 per Cent. Do 6 per Cent. 1864 Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 -- Do 4 p er Cent,lB63 zquador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Do, Provisonal Land Warrant .— Egyptian 7 per Cent — Do, Second Issue 4:aek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons.. Do Account Do Coupons — Do Account — Guatemala 5 per Cent. .. Do 1839 and 1859 It 5 per Cent.(Maremmana Railway) Mexican 3 per Cent Do Account 251 I 1 2 0 French Scrip, Ex. ... 20c.. — Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French 7 die Ditto Scrip, £23 paid Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent Nevi Granada Do 2 per Cent. Do Deferred Do Land Warrants (Hectares) — Do Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1861 — Do do Aug., 1866 — Peruvian 41 per Cent Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) — Do q per Cent., 1862 Do Account .. .. Purtu,guese 3 per Cent., 1853 Do Account • • -- Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3.. 471 Do Account Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St Do 41 per Cent., 1850 .. Do 1860 Do 3 per Cent 1859 Do 5 per Cent, 1862 Do Anglo-Dutch .... Do Scrip, £55 paid Sar,linian 5 per Cent Uo Account — Spanish 3 per Cent 1)o Account — Do New Deferred Do Account Do Passive — Do Account Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded — Do Account l4l 14 Swedish, 4 per Cent — Do Scrip, £6O paid .. Pm Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 — Do AcCount ~• Do 6 per Cent. 1858 —Do Account Do £lOO Bonds Do 6 per Cent. 1862 Do Account .. 7 0 Do £lOO Bonds — Do 1863 — Do Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. Do 1863 Scrip, £4O paid Venezuela 3 per Cent. .Do Account .. Do 6 per Cent., 1862 - Do Account Do 6 per Cent., 1861 Dividends on the above payable in London Austrian, 5 per Cont., Ex. 10 Florins. Do Account .. .. eigisn. 4} per Cent., Ex. 25f — utch 4 21 per Cent. Ex. 12 Gull — Do per Cent. Certificates alian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs — Do Account ' rench Routes, 2 per Cent eruvian Dollar Bonds, 41 per Ct.Ex, 4s — ielmentese, 5 per Cent., Ex. 25f Console Money . THREE O' CLOCK, 88 Do Account .. Liverpool Cotton Market —This Day, Market steabi(r, an I demand for export to New York. Sales, probably, 6,000 or 7,000 bales. 'METROPOLITAN FREE HOSPITAL, DEVONSHIRE SQUARE, CITY.---The aggregate number of patients relieved during the week ending Sept. 17 was—Medical, 960; sur gical, 68 1—Wtal, 1,651; of which 621 were new eases. SHARE MARKETS—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCkS. Share! Railways. paid . Closing Business Price. done. Wol., and Str. Val. ;t Blythe and Tyne. ;t Bristol and Exeter ;t Caledontart 10 Cork and Bandon 10 Cornwall 10 Do A A gets no div 10 Do. B till 6p c.p an.has /been paid to B. 10 Dublin & Belfast Juno. 15 Dun.,Perth,&Ab. Juno. st Edinburgh & Glasgow. st Glasg. and S. Western. 3t Great Eastern, Ord. stk st Ditto A stock 83 *5 1234 1241 124} i 6 7 31 33 16 17 89 91 106 108 45 46 It Ditto East Anglian at, GreatNorthot Scotland it Great Northern... it Do A stock it Do 13 do it Gt. S. and W. of Ireland' it Great Westerr,Original it Do Str Val gua. stook, it Do. South Wales ' st Do. West Mid. -Oxford Do Newport it Do 'Hereford' it Lancashire & Yorkshire' et Loudon and Blackwalli it Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast et Lon., Chat., and Dover et Lon. & North Western et Lon. & See4th Western st Man., Shef., & Linooln. l 60 Maryport and Carlisle 124 Do shares st Metropolitan it Midland it Do Binning. & Derby 50 Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland 25 Do. 8 shares 26 Mid Kent ... st North British it Edin., Perth, & Dundee et Nth. Eastern—Berwickl 25 6i 7i 1 9 8 129 138 139 127 L 3) 90 02 071 681. 46j 471 38 40 100 103 114 1141 61 66 102 103 39 41 1101 111} 93 1)5 6 62j 1041 ;05 129 1291 98 100 53 64 25 26 1044 105 Do, G.N.E. purchase it Do Leeds it Do York it Do Carlisle 6 Do. Stook. ft Darling 25 - 631 644 9 4 934 Do do 1855-58 Do do 18,6.81 it North London 0 Do New ... 151 36i 9 10 74 81r 123 126 1 10 Do New, 1801 at North Staffordshire 10 N. and S. W. Junction at Scottish Central 74 75 101 11 130 135 Scot. N. E., Aber. stook; it I Do Soot. Mid. stock..l o Shrews. and Welohpool at 'Shropshire Union .... South 67 69 35 $7 81i 811 it South Eastern it South Wales ... it S. York. and River Dun 10 Staines,Wok.,andWok. it Taff Vale.. ,0 Do B ,0 Do C it Vale of Neath st Waterford A: Kilkenny it West Cornwall it W. Hartlepool HarAz R 101 103 8 9 160 :65 b 6 t 3 4 t 98 IGO 34 36 451 1 I 139 i 127 6q I BitITISH POSSESSIONS. Paid. all toe ' Closing Price. 59 61. 99i ICOi dis 4i 61 7a 8 75 80 75 80 75 80 95 100 93 95 ICO 102 99 1001 191 20i 19f 201 19 20 91 94 71 73 61 43 C 6 68 55 57 53 56 45 48 29 31 26 28 ICOI 101; par it' 99 ICO 92 101 102 101 89 01 82 81 d fu 99} 100, 93 95 89 01 8 tO 5 81 81 99 [OO 98 100 id par 98 100 94 96 Railways %.tlantio tic St Lawreno tom., Baroda&.Cent In( Gu. 5 per cent.......• Do. E. 5hare5......... luilalo and Laxe klurof Do. Preference .....• ntralo,Brantottiodricl Ip. ot. bdo. Aug. 1, 187 00. do. July 1, 187 00 )o. do. Jude 1; 13; st lcutta. &S.E 3. tn ( st lapeToNra & Dock Seri 00 Demerara 7 p.o. per. pi eck Miatn. Bengal gu. ap. ook liast Indian. gu. 5 p. c 20 Do. do. (I Ext.... 20 Do. do. H do. .. k ;rand Trunk of Canad , 0 Do. Equip. Mort. Bonds 1 charge 6 per cent l 0 Do. Ist l'rel. Bonds.. )0 Do. do. deferred...—. 10 Do. 2d Fret. Bonds.. )0 Do. do. deferred...... )0 Do. 3d Pref. stock ... )0 Do. do. deferred...... )0 Do. 4th Pref. stock... Do. do. deferred...... Ik Gt.lndiaPenin.gua.sp.c Do. New gua. 6 p. 0.. Ik it. South.of India (Lino guaranteed 5 per cent ock Do. 4/ per cent .ock Do au; it. W. of Canada Share 20iDo. New .. ...... 00 Do. 6 p.o. '73 with't op! )o. 54 p. o. do. '77-8.. O .ndian Branch Limited ,ok Iladras guar., sp. o. ek Do. 41 p. o. Extension )olt Do. 1* d 0•• •• • O Do. Fifth Extension )ck 11e1b.Corp. 6p. o. Bnd, O %Leib. & llobson's Bay 10 Do. 7p. o. nortg. Bds . 10 lewßrunswiok Cand, Class A an d B titl.C'da 5 po Ist pi bdt tocl Seinde .ock Do. Delhi I tO Do. do st Jo. runjaub tO 00. Do. ........ , ook Indus. St. Flo.) 7i all all WO all 100 (100 1 100 1 - lOU Business done Vll 1002 9 i i COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. British Columbia, 6 pei cent., Dec. 31, 1872.... 100 Do. do. 1883.... 100 tlp.uov.6 p.c.Ja &J u, 187741 * 100 94 96 95 41 Do. ap. c. Feb. &Am 100 94 96 Do. ep. c. Mar. & Sept 100 94 96 Do. tp. o. Jan.&July 10C 82 84 8? Do. 5 )nsoribed stool 100 82 84 ape G.Hope, 6 p 0,187. 100 104 106 Do.Ap &Oct. 188 1 100 1.07 109 Do. 189. 100 .09 111 )o. Jan. & July, 1891. 103 107 10) 'eylon, N0v.1878, 6 p 100 1(9 112 ilauritius 6 p.cent.lB73 100 101 104 Do. 1878 00 103 105 Do. 3882 104 .04 103 natal Gov. 6 per cont.. 190 104 107 ~ B.Gov.6l).c.Ja.&Jul 100 96 99 Do. 6p. e.Ap. & Oct. 100 4. S.W. ov. 5 p 3.,15e 100 97 99 .... Du. sp. c.,1871 to 1871 100 96 98 Do. d0.,1888 &upwde 160 951 961 96 'dew Zealand 6 p cent. 100 ova Scotia Gov. 6 p. c. sterling, 1875. lOO 99 102 ..lueensland Gcv. 6p. c. 100 99 102 104 1 Aus G6p.0.1878.3z up.. 100 106 108 rici.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 - Do. to 6 p.c. An.81.00t.. 100 tOBl 109 5 IC9 BRITISH MINES. 2 'ambrian Consol. Gold 1 1 1 Chiverton 3 7 71 ititiord Amalgamated 30 32 levon G. Cone. (Taoist 1 580 590 Drakewal's 2.1.0. 11 11 4.ast Bassett (M ogan). 30 65 70 67 , :ast Clogau Gold Ltd • d Mast Caradon ..... 114.1 264 271 •last Cam Brea.. East Grenville 2.7.0. 71 8 71 East Lovell IN '1 Russel efavistk. 8.13. 41 5 aam.&St.Aubyn(Gwen 60 5 7 4 Great Laxey, all 15 15 I real Soutu 17$ 2 21 ;. Wheal Vor (lielston 40 29 10 33 1 Irenville.. lercors-Foot ...... 8.13 38 40 I ingston Downs 4.18.t 4 41 Lady Bertha 'dargaret (Uny Lelant SI 6 8 larke Valley.. 4 Tyndv Iron Ore (Lim. 21. 14 9 e Nangiles.. • .. • lB 27 9 New Setun 2ll 75 85 'orth Downs 3 11 If North Roskear. 291 21 21 v‘ n i Paeset(litoz,au 3.1 , .6 14 21 north Wheal Crotty 2.80 39 41 Prosper United... . 7.1.4. 31 4 •rovidenoe(Uny elut. 10.0, 37 39 South Caradon(St.Cleei It 100 520 —o. Wheal Fran. (Mogan 18.18.1 421 470 stray Park tin Cron 9 18 19 Nest Basset (Mogan).* 11 8 9 • .V Cr radon (Liskeard 9 13 11 West Seton Wheal Basset (Illogan 51 92 95 Wheal Buller (Redruth; 10 17 19 WhealLudeott Wheal Mary Ann (Lien 8 14 16 \Vheal 3eton 5Bl 205 215 Wheal Trelawney (Lis., 7 19 21 Wheal Union 4 it 19 FEEFEREN , CE BILAILES. North Eastern, Stockton and Darlington, A 5 per cent., Ditto, II and C 6 per cent., 316 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Northern, 5 per cent., irrd., 1061 6 FOREIGN RAILWAYS.; Dutch Rhenish, 18} Recite and San Francisco (lim.), gua. 7 per oent.,'llo San Paulo (lim.), gua. 7 per cent., Ditto (all), 161 South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 21 FOREIGN BUNESt Cape Copper, lim., 1O BANKS. &Mance (Urn.), 52 50 1 Ditto, new, 451 , Anglo Austrian, 71 Bank of British Columbia, 17 Bank of Otago, lira., 3j Brazilian and Portuguese, lira., 121 Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 34 Consolidated Bank, Urn., 101 European Bank, Urn., 121 Ditto (£10), 111 Imperial Ottoman, 17 London Bank of Alexia) and S. America, lira., 6 London and 11 estminster, 97 61 Mercantile and Exchange. lira., 13 Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, lira., 22,1 &hide, Punjaub, and Delhi, lira., 12 South Eastern, lira., 71 MISCELLANEOUS. British Indian Tea, 'Lim., 101 I City of London Real Property, lira., 2 Discount Corporation, 1711 Ebbw Vale, 41 Electric Telegraph, IC4 Fore-street Warehouse, Um., 6 Gen. Credit and Finance of London, Urn., 6} Imperial Mercantile Credit A sso., lira., 7 t International Financial Society, lira., 8/ London Financial Association, lira., 22 Madras Irrigation and Canal,;-- Ditto (all), 9 National Discount Company, lint, 13 National Financial, lira., Ocean Barine (Insurance), 22} Ottoman Financial Association, 11M., 9/ Rio de Janeiro City Improvements, lira.. 25 The quotation of gold at Paris is about 21 per mine pm., and the short exchange on London is 25.30 per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3 17s. 101 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appeals that gold is nearly 3-10ths per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advic; s from Hamburg the price of gold is 425 per mark and the short exchange on London is 13.51 per £1 sterling. Standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, about 1-loth per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg. The course of exchange at New York on London tor:bills at 60 days' sight is quoted 278 ta 280 per cent., and the pre mium on golf 157 to 1581 percent. Gold kill continAlte to be imported in very moderate quantities. 1111 i 63i 10 1294 93 76 82i 1i MARKETS—This Day, MARK-LANE. The leading eountry markets held on Saturday were fairly supplied with wheat, which moved off slowly, at drooping prices. The barley trade was in a very inactive state, on easier terms. Oats were likewise cheaper, but other kinds of produce were steady in price. On the Continent, as well as in America, wheat has been drooping, with a heavy export demand. In other articles a fair average business has been transacted, at mostly full prices. The arrivals of home-grown produce up to our market last week were moderate. From abroad we received 42,458 quarters of wheat, 6,441 barley, 32,022 oats, 3,021 rye, 1,339 peas, 268 tares, 6,144 linseed, 10,900 rapeseed, 2,550 maize, 550 sacks, and 60,795 barrels of Car. Including the samples left over horn last week, the supply of wheat en sale here to-day, from Essex and Kent, was moderately good, and the quality of the produce was very fine. Owing chiefly to the largo influx of foreign grain and flour, the demand for all kinds of wheat of home produce was in a very inactive state, and in some instances the quo tations gave way is per quarter. At that decline a clearance was with difficulty effected. We were somewhat heavily supplied with foreign wheat, fresh as well as ex granary. The trade was heavy ; never theless, selected qualities were held at full quotations. All other kinds were lower to purchase. In floating cargoes of grain the transactions were on a limited scale at barely late rates. The show of barley was tolerably good. The inquiry for all descriptions was heavy, and the quotations gave way Is to 2s per quarter. Malt was in fair average supply and moderate request, at late rates. We were well supplied ivith foreign oats. The oat trade was heavy, at a decline ia the currencies of 6d per quarter. Beans commanded very full prices, with a fair demand. The few peas on offer moved off steadily, at extreme rates. Wo have to report a dull sale for both English and :oreigu flour, at slightly reduced quotations. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wheat—Essex and Kent, red, 1863, per qr 383 to 43s Ditto, 186 k Ditto, white, 1863 42s 468 Ditto, 1864 Norfolk and Lincoln, red, 1864 Ditto, 1883 Talavera, 1864 Bye— — s —8 Barley—Grinding 23s 268 Malting, new, 3os 368 Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk 6OB 668 Brown Kingstown and Ware 6os 668 Chevalier „ 665 68s Oats —Yorkshire and Linoolnsh., Feeding 2OB 238 Potato Youghal and Cork, black l9s 23s Cork, white 2OB 245 Scotch, Feeding 2lB 24s Beans—Tick Pigeons, Peas—Grey • 33s 36s Maple ...._. white Boilers 36s Flour—Town-made, per 2801 b Suffolk 2Bs Stockton and Norfolk.. American, per barrel l9s 408 40s 408 308 288 258 METROPOLITAN CATTLE. The supply of foreign beasts and sheep on offer here to day was seasonably large as to number, bat the quality of the stock was very middling. On the whole the trade was steady, at full quotations, From our own grazing districts the receipts of beasts fresh up were good. The general condition of the supply, however, was by no means prime. Prime Scots, Herefords, Devons, Ice., moved off steadily, at very full prices, to a slight advance, Inferior stock was dull, but not cheaper. The best Scots and crosses realised fully 53 2d per 81bs. The arrivals from Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Northamptonshire amounted to about 2,500 short horns and crosses ; from other parts of England, 860 various breeds ; from Scotland, 57 Scots and crosses ; and, from Ireland, 212 oxen and heifers. --- For the time of year the show of sheep was limited, and the quality of most breeds was inferior. There was a steady inquiry for prime sheep, and in some instances the cur rencies had an upward tendency. Otherwise the trade was inactive; nevertheless, prices were well supported. A few very superior Downs and half-breds realised 53 Bd, but the more general top figure was 58 6d per Me. Calves, the supply of which was only moderate, moved off steadily at extreme quotations—viz., from 4s to 63 per Sibs. There was a fair sale for pigs, at prices quite equal to Monday last. Per Blbs. to sink the offal. s. d. B. d. a. d. s. d. Cress. &inf. beasts 3 4 3 8 Primecrs-wool d 0.6 0 5 2 Secondquality do. 3 10 4 4 Pme.S'thdowndo.s 4 5 6 Prime large oxen 4 6 4 10 Largo orse. calve► 4 0 4 8 Prime Scots, ttc. 5 0 5 2 Prime small d 0.., 4 10 5 0 erse. & inf. sheep 4 0 4 4 Large hogs 3 6 4 0 Second quality do. 4 84 10 Small porkers 42 4 8 Lambs, ...Os Od to Os Od. Suckling calves, 16s to 22s ; and quarter-old store pigs Ws to 263 each. TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts .. . 6,6901 Beasts Cows — Sheep .. 24,230 I Calves Sheep Calves Pigs. 630 The total imports of foreign stock into London, last week, amounted to 14,303 head. In the corresponding week in 1863,we received 15,217—in 1862,11,620—in 1861, 12,148 —in 1860, 11,522—in 1859, 9,893—in 1858, 6,503. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEEK. From Antwerp • . Bremen .. 203 .. Boulogne .. .• .• 15 Calais Dordt. 33 .. 86 • • • • .. Dunkirk•• .. • • 10 • . • . .. • • Gibraltar B2 .. .. .. .. Hamburg 4 .. 43 .• .. 275 Harlingen Medemblik 70 .. 1478 3 Nieu Diep Ostend 2 .. .. 8 60 Rotterdam Tonning 1615 .. 1919 .. 231 .. Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. • • • . 38 • 9 76 Total .... 3164 .. 9,085 .. 231 .. 622 ..1201 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1863 3041 ~ 10,043 .. 428 .. 685 .. 1020 1862 2316 .. 7,963 .. 332 .. 655 .. 399 1861 l6lO .. 9,099 .. 1°,7 .. 455 .. 797 1860 1859 2255 .. 6,655 .. 390 .. 255 .. 338 A. statement and comparison of the supplies and priCes of fat stock exhibited and sold in the Great Metropolitan Cattle Market on Monday, Sept. 21, 1863, and this day, Monday, Sept. 19, 1864, Per 81b. to sink tho offal. Sept. 21, 1863. Coarse and inferior beasts.... 3 4to 3 8 Second quality do. 3lO 4 4 Primo large oxen .. 4 6 4 8 Prime Soots, &c... 4lO 6 0 Coarse and inferior sheep .... 3 6 4 0 Second quality do. .. 4 2 4 6 Prime coarse-woolled do 4 8 410 Prime Southdown do. .. 5 0 5 2 Lambs Large coarse calves Prime small do. Large hogs Neat small porkors .... Beasts Sheep and lambs Calves Pigs 450 SUPPLIES ox SALE, Sept. 22, 1862.-41 sheep, 25,270—calves, 342—pigs, 480. SEPT. 23, 1861.—Beasts, 6,47 o—sheep, 2 1 294—pigs, 660. ;,310—calves; NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Per Sib. by the carcase. sd s d Inferior beef .. 2 10 3 2 Nliddling do. 3 4 3 8 Prime large do. 3 10 4 0 Do. small d 0... 4 2 4 4 Large pork .... 3 6 4 2 Inferior mutton. 3 8 4 0 BOROU LI HOP. per cwt. New Mid and East Kent pooket ll2s to 180 s New Weald of Kent 9os to 130 s Now Sussex Yearlings Old New Bavarians loos to 140 s Sept. 19, 1864. 3 4to 3 8 310 4 4 4 6 410 50 6 2 40 4 4 4 8 410 5o 5 2 54 5 6 0o 0 0 40 4 8 410 5 0 36 4 0 42 4 8 6,690 24,230 405 630 feasts, 5,960 These markets are but moderately supplied with town and country killed meat. Good and prime beef and mutton move iff steadily at very full prices, and for other qualities the trade is firm. Veal and pork are steady in price. tided Middling mutton 4 2 4 6 Primo do . 4 6 4 8 Veal Small pork Lamb .• .. 0 0 0 0 Our market is fully supplied with English hope. In most desoriptiois a fair business is doing and prices rule firm. For yearling and old hope, the trade is by no means active, yet no material change has taken place in the quo tations compared with last week. Last week's imports amounted to 100 bales from New York, and 19 bales from Ostend. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. The supply of potatoes on sale is reasonably large as re gards home-grown produce, and there is a fair show of foreign produce on offer. In most descriptions, a fair busi ness is doing at about previous rates. Last week's imports amounted to 145 tons from Havre, 7 Calais, 7 Dieppe, 21 Dunkirk, 69 Le Vivia, 12 Boulogne, 70 Rouen, 3 Rotter dam, and 43 tons from Jersey. Kent and Essex Ilegents....Bos to 120 s per ton. Shaws ....70s to 1008 ~ • ... COs to 70s ii Foreign II Particulars. 1830. 1861 1862. 1863. 1864. Stock this day.— . 44.984 38,890 36.714 42.615 41,3:9 Price of Y.C. 5286 a 10 50691 to 48s0d to 43591 to 41s 9d to —s Od —s Od —s Od —s Od Delivery lastweek 2.230 3,4i9 1,052 2 , 022 1,3 8 Ditto from June 1 30 ,669 42,149 23,29 0 16,708 18,985 Arrivals last week 2,522 3,315 2,912 2 , 587 513 Ditto from June 1 48,559 23,778 21,692 21,579 15,2.3 Price of Town .... 55s Od sos 9d 50s Od 41s 3d 44e 3d Great Fire in the Ci ;y—This Day. This morning a very destructive fire broke out in the premises of Messrs rapping, carpet warehousemen, nearly opposite the Goldsmith's Hall, Gresham-street. The fire engines were speedily in attendance, and the firemen did their utmost, but the flames were now issuing from 40 windows, and soon caught the Haberdashers' Hall, in which there are many valuable and ancient portraits. The fire then spread to some warehouses in Wood-street. Two of the men belonging to Mr Hodge's brigade were injured. As the fire is now far from being extinguished, it is impos sible to give any estimate of the damage done. WOOL. Owing to the continued dearness of money the amount of business doing in English wool is extremely limited, buyers since our last report, having almost having almost entirely restricted their operations to the supply of immediate wants. Compared with the high prices lately current, the quota tions exhibit a fill of about Id;por lb. In colonial wool, by private contract, a limited business is doing, and prices rule somewhat easier. Last week's imports amounted to 655 bales from Port Philip, 1,497 Sydney, 1,300 Adelaide, 529 Port Natal, 202 St Petersburg, and 268 bales from Lisbon. Current prices of English wool per lb. sd s d Fleeces —South Down hoggets ........ 2 0 2 1 Half-bred do . ....... 2 4 2 5 Kent fleeces. ...... 2 1 2 3 South Down ewes sad wethers 2 0 2 2 Leicester do. Sorts—Clothing .. . ... 1 8 23i ....... Combing SEEDS. Tares are a dull inquiry at the late decline in prices. For mustard seed the trade is steady. Other seeds were inactive. Cakes are a slow sale on easier terms. rurntp,White,p.bus.as to 228 Swede —s — s Mustard, Brown lO3 138 White, Tares, Spring —s New winter, bush Os Ostd Chuary, per quarter —s - s Rye grass, new —s —s Clover, Red Eng., et. • s s White Foreign Red.._ — s White. —s —s Trefoil new.. —s —s - --- -- - Carraway 228 20s Coriander l2B 16s lierupseed, per qr sls Ms Liuseed,Eng.sowiug 76e 78s Crushing Baltic —s —S OdeSO --8 —s Linseed Cake, p ton —s —s English ......£lO Os.£ll 10s Foreign...... .i 9 10s £ll Os nape Cakes& tou.£ lOs £5 10s 1 Rapeseed, new,pr qr 64s Ms TALLOW. There is only a moderate business doing in our market. PYC on the spot is quoted at 4a 9d per cwt. Rough fat 2s 2d per 81b. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.—This Day. The September Sessions of the Central Criminal Court was commenced this morning at the Sessions House, Old Bailey, before the Recorder, the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, and other civic functionaries. The calendar con sists of a list of 108 prisoners for trial ; the charges, with the exception of two cases of murder and two of man slaughter, are of the ordinary character. The RECORDER, in delivering his charge said, although the calendar was numerically heavy, the cases were unim portant. There were two cases of murder, in one of which a man named Henry Wilkinson was charged with the murder of his wife. It appeared that the prisoner had lived with his wife for some years, and treated her kindly except when under the influence of drink, which, unfortunately was rather often. On the night of the occur rence the prisoner came home late at night, and appeared very angry at not finding his wife in his own room. From some cause not properly explained it appeared that the wife was sleeping with another woman lodging in the house. The prisoner went to the room, dragged his wife out of bed, and struck her a severe blow from which she fell. Then he kicked her, and no doubt caused her death. The prisoner, finding he had injured his wife, was at once brought to himself, and appeared to have exerted himself to render every assistance in obtaining medical advice, and the question for the jury to consider was, whether there was sufficient prima facie evidence to sustain the charge of murder, and whether the prisoner at the time of inflicting the injury had contemplated the death of hi s wife. There was nothing in the evidence to show that the prisoner contemplated the death. The jury, however, would have the witnesses before them, and it would be their duty to say whether the charge ought to be reduced to man slaughter, The Grand Jury then returned, and in a short time afterwards the trial commenced. Nothing of the slightest importance transpired during the morning. POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—This day. MARLBOROUGH STREET. A Foorisn FREAK.—Charles Bishop, a young roan, living in York street, Westminster, was charged before Mr T.yrwhitt as follows : Sergeant Franklin, 20 E, said that about 12 o'clock the previous night he was on duty in Great Portland-street, when he saw the prisoner, who was attired as a female, and wearing a capacious crinoline, standing talking to a young man and a female, A Life Guardsman passed by, and the prisoner said " Good night—shall I come home with you ?" and then lett his coaipauions and walked some distance with the soldier, and then returned to his com panions. Suspecting the prisoner was a man, although dressed as a female, he (the sergeant) was making his way towards him when the prisoner and his companions started off, and on his pursuing them the prisoner's crinoline fell down and dragged along the ground, and he then took the prisoner, who out a sorry figure, into custody. The prisoner said he did not think there was any harm in what he had done. The sergeant (amid some laughter) produced a gay looking bonnet, cloak, dress, and crinoline. Mr Tyrwhitt—lf prisoner would behave in such an indis creet manner as he was proved to have done he must not be surprised at being looked up. Ile would discharge the prisoner, but he (nr Tyrwhitt) considered the prisoner had acted like a fool. WESTMINSTER. CRUEL ROBBERY E T A SrszLit.—Mary Wharton, a girl smartly dressed with a hat and feather, was charged with robbing her sister, who had afforded her a home, of every article of wearing app are l s h e pas sessed. Louisa Stetiens, a rough hardworking countr y woman, said that her husband was a b r i c kmaker, and they li v ed near M aidstone, Kent. P r i soner cam e to her three w eeks before week, last Friday , when she robbed her and absconded. They went out together into the fields that morning to work, but prisoner was soon missed, and, instead of continuing at her labour, returned to her sister's cottage and stripped it. When she returned home, she found she had left her no clothing but what she stood upright in, and had gone off P them o know s ecut r i how m— I shewrote had t o by the 12 o'clock train to L on don. , a nd they sent to me t o Mr Selfe—How was she found ? t ell me where she was. When I got t he i nformation I c ame to town yesterday morning and f ound her at my b r other's. She denied the robbery, bu t I directly saw a h an kerchief belonging to m y husband which she had carried treated otheri: e s i s ters about her, lettin g off, and also a cloak that she had stolen of mine, and there are other things that we have the tickets of. Mr Scudamoro, pawnbroker, Great ChapeLstreet, pro duced a gown pledged with him by the prisoner. .A. policeman said he had two tickets relating to other property, but had not had time to see about them or trace the other property. Ur Selfo said he should remand the prisoner, to afford an opportunity of completing the case. .•......5...... THAMES. A ROITGII A N SWERToA KIND INQ UIRY. —Jeremiah D u scall, a young a nd active fellow, was b roug h t b efore Mr P a get, charged wi th assaulting Mr George Fox, a grocer, of No 4 0 , Three-colt -street, Limehouse. The complainant stated that on Saturday night, at half past 12 o'clock, he was seated close to his window upstairs after the business of the day, and was witness to a deplor able accident in the street. A. man was run d own an d run over by a horse a nd cart. He went d own sta i rs to the door and saw the prisoner standing there, and asked hi m if the poor man was kille d. The prisoner said, " What is that to you- -what have y ou to do with it I" a n d a t t h e same t i me struck :nblowonthe Month with his fist. The prisoner ran a overtaken by a He was in great pain the whole of Sundpolice-constable. ay and fomented him easyheavy d was his mouth. Bagwell, a policethat con s t a b le, No. 328 K, stated inquiries abo u t t h e accident and saw the blow given. W h William as making Th e prisoner was about to strike another blow and he prevented him. The prisoner then ran away, and he had some difflculty in overtaking him. The pri soner had recently come out of p r i son, after being incarce rated for three months for assaulting a woman. Mr Paget said he recollected the case very well. The prisoner struck a female, whose situation was a very pre cariousTha p risoner one. was a savage fellow, and seemed to strike any ono on any pretence, He was hardly doing right ir not inflicting a sentence of, two months' im• ent prisonw . lie sentenced the prisoner to one month's imprisonment and hard labour, THE BANTDS MURDER. —CONFESSION OF THE MURDERER.—The perpetrator of this murder has confessed his guilt. It will be remembered that a man named Daniel Cronin was examined, and swore that he knew nothing of the murder, and was not in the neighbour hood on the day it was committed. The police, however, not believing his statement, made further inquiries, and have found that Cronin passed the place about the time the crime was perpetrated. Yesterday he was re-arrested on a charge of perjury, which fact becoming known to the murdered man's son, who had been in custody since the discovery of the crime, it took such an effect upon him that ho imme diately confessed to having murdered his father. It proves to have been a most cold - blooded transaction, he having followed his victim over two miles, watching a favourable opportunity to take his life. ThJ only reason he assigns for committing the murd.er ie that his father was A bad man.---,Skibbercia Sir R. Murchison on Recent Explorations. At the British Association, on Friday, there was a large company in Section E to hear Sir R. Murchison's opening address. This was a very interesting review of the labours of explorers. He said :—" To begin with one of the great glories of this century, let us call to mind how little was known of the Arctic regions when Parry made his first ex plorations, and hew, after being followed by many a gallant voyager, the culminating Arctic honour devolved upon a sir gle English woman, who, devoting her fortunes to the search after her noble-minded husband, engaged the ser vices of that successful navigator M'Clintock, and deter mined the cheering fact that, in perishing, Franklin was the first to make the long sought north-west passage. The delineation of all the arctic discoveries upon the map of the world, ex ;th the memorable exception of the American voyages of Kane, as sent forth by Grinnell, of New York, is indeed exclusively due to Bri i-h energy, and is a trophy well worthy of the country which accom plished so much in its earlier career of enterprise in the little' vessels of a Make, a Frobisher, and a Hud son. Having referred to the geographical discoveries in Australia and South America, Sir Roderick proceeded to refer to British India, observing :—" In preceding years the interest of the public had been attrrcted to the surveyors of the Himalaya Mountains, and their extreme height having been estimated to be upwards of 30,000 feet, we thus learnt that the northern frontier of British rule in India exceed, d in altitude the loftiest peak of the Andes by about the whole height of the highest mountain in Britain. It had been sup posed that some depression in the ocean would be found to balance in depth the extremest heights of land, and this an ticipation has been exceeded; fur soundings in the South Atlantic, between America and Africa, have shown depths of more than 43,000 feet. If these measurements be reliable —for there is some reason to doubt them—the depth beneath the surface of the sea at certain points far exceeds the heights of the loftiest mountains above D. Another, and still more startling result of modern research is the fact that in dredg ing the bottom of the North A tlautic Sea, living star fish were brought up from a depth of a mile and a half, and were alive, even preserving their colour, when examined on the spot by Dr Wallich," The speaker then remerked —" If we turn for a moment from the advances in geo graphical research made by our own countrymen, we must admit that of all foreign countries Russia has of late years been most eminent in this respect, The Geographical Society of St Petersburg wields not only the power and influence of the Imperial Government of Russia, but receives also large grants of public money, which have enabled it to carry on simultaneous researches in the steppes near the Caspian and in the Caucasus, and also to describe the grand natural features of Central Asia, the boundaries of the Chinese Em pire, and the whole river system of the mighty Amcor with numerous affluents. In this way serious geographical errors have been corrected, and new features laid down, by posi tive observation on maps ; while the natural history of the animals and plants, as well as of the human inhabitants of large regions, of which little was previously known, has been fully developed. These data are accompanied by ethno logical and statistical descriptions of the inhabitants of East ern Siberia, of the island of Sakhalin, of Mongolia, and the new territory of the Russians on the right bank of the Ussuri River, with its coast line extending southwards almost to Japan. Of the latter region we had until very recently, the most imperfect knowledge only." After referring to what has been done in opening up China to the Western World, Sir Roderick spoke of the researches of modern explorers in Africa. He said :—" True it is that large tracts north of the equator have been described by Germans and French, as well as by English expeditions, particularly that in which Barth was so distinguished. With the exception, however, of Abyssinia and the snowy mountain Kilmandjaro, ex plored by Von Der Decken and the late Richard Thot nton, few of these tracts have been laid down on detailed maps. In the central equatorial region, but for the example set by the three gallant officers of our Indian armies, Beaton, Speke, and Grant, and encouraged and supported, I rejoice to say, by the Royal Geographical Society, those countries would have remained as unkown as they have been through out all history, from the days of Ptolemy to our own. But if thus the chief water-basin of the White Nile has been boldly outlined,how much does there remain to be done to test the value of the anticipations of Dr. Beke ; still more, to com plete a general sketch even of the geography of equatorial Africa. Is it not essential that the Victoria Nyanza of Speke, a body of water as large as Scotland, which has only been touched at a few points on its sou. here, western, and northern shores, should have all its shores and effluents examined ? And do not the Mountains of the Moon of the same explorer invite a survey? Have we not yet to find out the source of the great Zaire or Congo, and trace that river to its mouth? And who has yet reached the sources of the mighty Niger ? Again, when we cast an eye down the map southwards, are we not still in ignorance of the drainage and form of a prodigious extent of country between the Tanganyike Lake of Burton and Speke, and the Zambesi and Sair6 of Livingston? Are we not at this moment most anxious to determine, by positive observation, whe ther there exists a great series of lakes and rivers proceed - ing, as . Co has suggested, from Tanganyika on the north, to Lake Nyassa on the south ? And has not Living • stou's very lest effort been directed to this point ? If C. n iral Africa is ever to adva , coin civilisation, and its inha bitants are to be brought into commercial relations with Europe, one of the boat chances of our accomplishing it will, in my opinion, consist in rendering the great White Nilo a highway of Intercourse and traffic. And if the present ruler of Egypt shall bring about this most de sirable end by putting a stop to the lawless slave trees carried on beyond his frontiers under the guise of dealing in ivory, and by establishing marts of commerce on the banks of the great river, Africa will owe more to him than to any rulers since the days of the Roman emperors, who, though they tried, never succeeded in opening out the regions around the head waters of the Nile. In touching upon this subject, I have to congratulate you on the news, which has arrived, that that chivalrous explorer, Mr Samuel Baker, is successfully examining the central equatorial regions, from which, I trust, he will bring us the solution of some of the problems already adverted to, and will determine the real source of the waters which supply the Luta N'zige of Speke and Grant. I have also to announce that Baron von der Decken has proceeded on his bold adventure to explore the interior of Africa from the east coast, by ascending the Juba or one of the adjacent rivers, with two river steamers constructed at his own cost. In making these allusions to African discovery, most heartily do I congratulate geogra • phers on the safe return of my excellent and disinterested friend Livingston. Already after his first two great traverses from east to west and from west to east, across South Africa, this undaunted missionary had won for himself im perishable renown. And now, after a second expatriation which has lasted upwards of six years (his previous jour neys occupying 16 years), during which he has been labour• ing conjointly to improve the condition of the natives and to extend geographical knowledge, he comes hume with a firm resolution to adhere to his noble calling for the benefit of the natives, and to return to that country in which every black man must bless his name I The return also of Capt. Burton ensures for us some fresh and pregnant communi cations respecting Western Africa ; and when we know that Francis Galton, though much occupied with the duties of general secretary, will always take part in our discussions and that Earth is likely to be present, it is probable that we shall have a concourse of travellers capable of illustrating the geography and ethnoli gy of Africa, such as was never assembled at any former meeting." Continuing his review, Sir Roderick said—" It is but yesterday that an advene turous gentleman of Chili, Senhor Don Guillermo Cox described a new route across the Andes, which, by al most bringing together the waters flowing into the At lantic and the Pacific, is likely to open our c mmerco be tween very fertile regions on the west and Buenos Ayres on the Atlantic. Aware of our almost entire ignorance of the interior of Patagonia, the same bold traveller purposes to make a journey throughout this enormous region down to the Straits of Magellan. In mentioning these straits lam bound to remind you how in former years that eminent nau tical surveyor, Admiral Fitzroy, when aceompenied by the great naturalist Charles Darwin,thtew a flood of light upon the configuration and st ructure of the coasts of South Ame rica and the Falkland Islands. Now, although in this short and popular address, I cannot do justice to all the advances which have been made in meteorology, lit gratifies MO to direct your attention to the recent important labours in that science of the same gallant officer. For, by Well-digested comparison between the state of the barometer and the rec tion and force of the wi nds, Admiral Fitzroy has proved to the nation what useful interpreters in his hands are these vse f u l phenomena. By his fo recast of approaching storms and the prompt use of the electric telegraph, he has saved many a ship and the lives of numbers of our seamen. If we range from the south to the north of America, nume rous, indeed, are the tracts which call for examination; and even at this meeting I hope to see new features pointed out to us in that northern prolongation of the Rocky Mountains which separates the sources of the Sas katchewan on the east from those of the Thomson and Fraser Rivers of British Columbia on the west, Thi s knowledge, acquired under great privations, by young Vis count Milton end his friend Dr Cheadle, comes to us here in addition to what had been gathered together by Palliser, Hector, and Blakiston, as published in a Parliamentary blue book, and has fortunately arrived in time to improve a highly valuable map of British North America, which, de rived from original documents, is now about to be issued to the public. Let me next remind you th et we are yet en tirely in the dark as to the tr. geography of the interior of Arabia. It is, indeed, only within the last few months that ; travelling in the guise of a physician, the spirited and eloquent Palgrave has been the first intelligent person to traverse that country to the Persian Gulf. Can anyone who recently heard this traveller narrate his adventures before the Geographical Society ever forget the deep im pression he made upon the crowded au d ience when he told us his wondrous Arabian Night's tale In a word, l we mus t confess that mo dern geographers are infinitely ess acquainted with Arabia than the ancients and their great geograp h er Ptolemy. Again, in Asia—though Russia has very recent l y , as I have said, done much in the north, and the English in the far south-east of that quarter of the globe--the very last communication to the Royal Geographical Society, proceeding from the zealous Hungarian M. Vararbery, who travelled disguised as a Dervish, or holy Mahometan beggar, has brought vividly to our minds a consciousness of the little we know of the vast countries once ruled over by Genghis Khan and Timur. In truth, the passage to the ancient capital Samarkand across those regions has of late years become infinitely more difficult than in the days of Marco Polo. Then (1390), and even in 1405, when an embassy from Henry 111. of Spain to the great Emir Timur reached Samarkand, the wide-spread influence of Genghis Khan still subsisted. From that distant day there is no record of any European having visited Samarkand until the year 1841, when the Khan of Bokhara requested the Emperor Nicholas to send scientific men from Ru-sia to search for gold. This impe rial expedition, which visited Samarkand as well as Bokhara, was purely scientific, and consisted of two officers of the School of Mines, Buteneff end Bagoslowski ; a very able young naturalist, Lehmann, since dead ; an interpreter ; and that eminent geographer, Khanikoff, who, at the meet ing of this association held at Oxford in 1850, gave us such an interesting account of other parts of Central Asia. Oa the whole, are so however,as M. Vambery will tell us , those re gions sa vage warring Turcomaus and occupied other Tartars, that the solitary traveller is more decidedly shut out from them than he is from Arabia, China, Africa, and other countries in which so many great problems also remain to be solved. No region certainly calls more for the examination of geographers than Asia, the cradle of ihe human race ; and albeit the Rus ians,iudependently of their researches in Bukhara and Samarkand, have made notable explorations from Siberia into Mongolia, and southward to the borders of China and Japan, Sir Henry Rawlinson will, 1 hope, explain to you what extensive regions there are which require to be explored and defined between Nineveh and Babylon, the countries of his memorable exploits, and the British empire of the East. There, even at this day, no one has followed the grand river Burhampooter from Hin dostan into China, though the project has often been agitated and is, I trust, now in a fair way of being accomplished by British energy. Again, are there not other vast tracts in the New World, which no scientific traveller or explorer has yet visited. Cannot our secretaries. to whom I have alluded, point to many a district—nay, to whole regions —which call for examination ? Ask Mr Clements Markham how much there rrmning for the anngrophar in an .In,,cr Zh u of the west? Then let Mr Bates speak to you of the enor mous countries watered by the effluents of the mighty Amazons, which still call for fresh researches. Without further dwelling, as I might, upon numberless new fields for exploration, I hope that I have now satisfied you that the apprehension of geographers having already done so much that they will soon have little or no work to perform, is quite imaginary; for you may rely upon it that the most ardent and adventurous men, whether geographers, ethno logists, or naturalists, will find stout employment fur many a long year." PUGILISM. COBUEN (TILE AMERICAN) AND JEM MACE.--The day on which these men will meet in battle array within the 24 feet arena is rapidly drawing on. As at present arrangtd, they are to fight in Ireland on the 4th October. Of Coburn, little is known more than by report, as ho has never before fought oat of the American prize ring; but his Yankee friends form the highest estimate of his milling attributes, and say that on the day he enters the ring he will take those who see him for the first time complstbly by sur prise. For some time past he has been in active training, and the reports received from Nat Langham, who looks alter the interest of the American, are of'the most satisfactory character. Mace is, as is well known, one of the cleverest boxers of the present time. Win or lose, this, we are in formed, is to be the wind-up of Mace's pugilistic career. Of the battle money, £4OO a-side has now been deposited with the stakeholder, and the final deposit of £lOO a-side has to be made good on Tuesday evening next, at Harry Brunton's The referee has to be named by the backers of the men, but these with the other preliminaries will, there can be no doubt, be settled at a subsequent meeting at the stake hold& e. COLLEGE OF PRECEPTORS.—At a meeting of the Council of this Corporation, on the 17th inst., the Rev. B. H, Kennedy, D.D., of Shrewsbury, was re-elected President of the Council for the current year, and the Rev. Dr Collie, of Bromsgrove Grammar School, Dr W. B. Hodgson, and Mr Joseph Payne were elected Vice-Presi dents. Dr E. T. Wilson, of Brixton-hill, was elected treasurer. The Rev. Dr Wrigley, of Clapham, was elected a member of the Council. The diploma of licentiate was granted to Mr T. Alkin, 8.A., Cambridge,[and to Mr W. Pinches, St. Martin's-lane. The following ladies and gentlemen were elected members of the college :—Mr T. V. Alkin. 8.A., Hobart Town, Tasmania ; Miss A. Ashford, Denbigh-street, South Belgravia ; Miss G. E. Ashford, Denbigh-street, South Belgravia ; Mr A. B. Brockwell, Manor-house School, Birdlington Quay ; Mr James Hall, jun.. El vet Academy, Durham; Mr James Haysman, St. Paul's School, Bow-common ; Mr W. H. Hosier, Douro house, St. John's-wood ; Mr Robert Hurst, Grammar School, Cavendish; Mr T. Stevens, Rutland-house, Peck ham ; and Mr E. Walburn, Wimbledon School. THE ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN RAIL WAY.—We have received a telegram from Mr M'Henry the contractor of the railway, stating that the journey through from New York to St Louis had been successfully made. A j•,urney of 1,200 miles without change of carriage is an event without precedent in the railway world, and it has naturally caused great excitement even in America. The pressure of traffic on the At , antio and Great Western is already enormous, and shippers at St Louis are most anxious to enter into engagements tor the transit of pro duce to New York upon the line.—Railway Feiss. THREE PERSONS DROWNED WHILE BATHING. — On Thursday morning a melancholy scene was presented in Bude, Cornwall, in consequence of the deaths of Mr John Prout, grocer, Sifton, Devon, Mr Robert Prout, his son, and Mr Loundes, of Totnes, who were drowned while bathing. Mr Prout has been blind for some years. Those three persons had entered the water and were carried out of their depth by a ground swell. A gentleman named Frost made a very heroic attempt, in which he nearly lost his life, to succour the drowning men, but did not succeed in reaching them. The bodies drifted about a quarter of a mile down the shore beforo they could be recovered. Mr German, surgeon, of Derby, who is staying at the Falcon Hotel, Bude, was very promptly in attendance, and rendered every assistance medical aid could suggest, but without any beneficial results, life being too nearly extinct when the bodies were brought on shore. FELTON'S DAGGER. —At the recent meeting of the Arcl w'ogical Institute at Warwick, a dagger, said to be that with which Felton stabbed the Duke of Buckingham, was exhibited by the Earl of Denbigh. At Southwick -park, Hants, another dagger, purporting to be Felton'e, is preserved in the family of Mr. Thistlethwayte. The Duke of Buckingham, it is said, visited Southwick, thew, as now, an important mansion in that p art of the kin e g n d , om. during his stay at Portsmouth; and this relic has been there since the time of the murder. Hence the great probability of the genuineness of the assassin's knife.— Netes and Queries. FATAL ACCIDENT AT A THEATRE.—A melaneholy accident occurred a few days back at the theatre of Magde burg, in Prussia, during the performance of i; Robert and Bertram." The scene of a part of the first act pasges in a tower raised at a considerable height above the stage, e,:td while the play was in progress the tower suddenly fell to the ground with two actors who were in it at the moment. Those men were both killed on the spot, an actress had her arm separated from her body, and:a number of other persons received injuries from the fall of the beams and planks of which the tower was constructed. LORD STANLEY'S VIEWS ON IRELAND. Lord Stanley is ono of the last men to wish what he thinks economic laws reversed, and to lament the gravitation of labour towards the stores of capital that stand most in need of it. His difficulty was probably the greater because the nature of his intollcct inclines him to regard these economical tendencies even too much in the light of irreversible physical laws, whereas no doubt the truth is that they are very much under the control of national character, so that the Dutch or English race would probably long ago have turned Ireland into a rich manufacturing country, and even now, the Irish, if they could once be trained to habits of greater self-restraint and forethought, might in a very large degree alter the character of the economical laws applicable to the distribution of c tpital in that country. Bat Lord Stanley is one of the stricter economists whose habit is rather to deceive themselves by speaking of economi cal tendencies as " laws ;" and he is besides habitually too cautious to hold out any hope so distant as one which for its fulfilment would involve a steady improvement in the civilisation of the lower class of the people. Nevertheless with all these difficulties in his way Lord Stanley was not driven to express his satisfaction at the stream of emigration, or even to ignore the subject. He held out a hope. a very dim and distant one we fear it is, that on economical grounds it may soon be more profitable for Irishmen, as they are, to stay in Ireland than to emigrate to the United States. If, he said, the war in America ceases, and nearly a million soldiers are so released for purposes of labour in America, the ratn of wages in America will fall, and the inducerne , t to Irishmen to emi grate be materially lessened, and as at the same time the rate of wages will probably rise slowly in Ire land, Lord Stanley hopes (dimly) in soma approach to equality. We fear it is but a shadow of hope. Wages in America can scarcely sink to the Irish lev el for centuries to come. If Ireland is not to have s population much further reduced, it can on ly be by the growth of manufacturing ` owns elation of fast to absorb the still large surplS ta nleyus s do s w pe y ec c h ha is . the country districts. But Lord only the more characteristic f?r Irish h ope, ofr a a u c d t i e e r nc e Nvdoor allo of t h hop e l e e m w eh;ct of h e repulsion opened t to thathis I n d c i p t o s l of t i of England and must exist between thetihwepnauolbsitvfelrfifga. f .O th e . public opinion even of up the same attitude of hope — the disposition anlristho eaduaelpiteincime ar tuumphed as to help him to take f otfhaeureiarissohninwanut,cluinhae m o u u s n t a h f a o v r e t t o w as not the emed very srthleeaonsudjgilehr even to himself.—Spectutor. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE ---This Day. CITY BETTING—Tats DAT. CESAREITITCH STAKES. 15 to 1 agst Gratitude (taken and offered) 100 to 6 agst Suspicion (taken and offered) 20 to 1 agst Fanfreluche (taken) 20 to 1 age; Tattoo (offered) 25 to 1 agst Mail Train (taken) 25 to 1 agst Calista colt (offered) 25 to 1 agst Alabama (offered) 25 to 1 agst Retainer (taken and offered) 25 to 1 agst Myrtle (offered) 30 to 1 agst Giant (taken) 40 to 1 apt Vermouth (taken) 5J to 1 agst Baldwin (offered) BETTING AT MANCHESTER-SATURDAY. Tho settling on the Sr. Leger drew a good muster to the rooms to-day, Lilt there was not much business done on future events; the only race speculated upon being the Cesarewitch Stakes, for which Fanfreluche, Mail Train, and Tattoo were most iu request. 20 to 1 was offered on the field for the Cambridgeshire Stakes, but no transaction took placo. Closing prices : CESARE-WITCH STAKES. 100 to 6 agst Gratitude (cfLred) 20 to 1 agst Fanfreluche Ctaken) 20 to 1 agst Calista colt (taken) 25 to 1 agst Mall Train (taken freely) ICO to 3 agst Tattoo (taken) 40 to 1 agst Scamander (taken) 50 to 1 agst Baldwin (taken and offered) 50 to 1 agst Welcome (offered, take 66) 100 to 1 agst Ladylda (taken) 100 to 1 agst Joco (taken and offered) SWITZERLAND. BERNE, SEPT. 17. A public) petition has been addressed to the National Assembly, demanding a revisio❑ of the Federal Constitution, the provisions of which are opposed to the conclusion of a treaty of commerce with France, in order that such treaty may be con cluded in a constitutional manner. The revision to be obtained by an appeal to the people of Switzerland. The Government of Berne has given its sanction, with certain reservations, to the statutes of the Credit Mobilier Europeen. THE BOMBAY MAIL. By the arrival of the Bombay mail we have re ceived files of papers from Bombay to the 23.1 of August, and from Calcutta to the 15th of August. We take the following summary of news from the Bombay Gazette of the 23d of August : '` It is reported that the Secretary of State has been making inquiries regarding the differences be. tween the indigo planters and the ryots in Bengal. lie desires to know whether they have returned to their usual work or not, and also what the produce of indigo is in the districts and whether it has reached its former average or nit. There seems to be a probability that the late fron. tier we r will not be quite so expensive an item in, the Budget as was expected,it having been rumoured that the property of the rebel Mahomed Shaffee, which has been confiscated, amounts to ten lacs of rupees. There is, however, some difficulty in the way of realising the money, as the bulk of it is said to have been left in Bombay by Mahomed Shaffee on returning from his pilgrimage to Mecca. " Sir Hugh Rose has requested permission to be allowed to form his camp at Cawnpore and to inspect the military stations east of the Ganges, but it is nevertheless believed that his excellency is anxious to leave for Europe in March. " A brigade of Horse Artillery and eight regi ments of the line are expected to go home this season, four of the latter in course of relief, and four in consequence of the threatening aspect of affairs in Europe and the drain upon the revenue in India. " Greet differences of opinion still prevail in the Bhootan Durbar on the subject of the answer to be given to the Governor-General's letter, the Dhurm and Deb Raj advising submission and an apology for their treatment of the Mission. The Toungso Penlow is still fur war, and opposes the peace party. He says that the British want to obtain land for the cultivation of tea, coffee, and cotton ; Bhootan cannot be taken, it having been prophesied by the Shasters that it must rex main independent for ever! The apology will be written, however, notwithstanding all this. We have since heard that the Dhurm and Deb lt,j have dispatched a messenger to the Lieut.-Governor of Bengal, with presents, to pave the was for sub• mission, bat that he was stopped at Paro by the Penlow, and all the presents taken from him, when he was allowed to proceed, minus the presents. " From Affghanistan we learn that a reconciliation has taken place between the Ameer and his brother the Sirdar Uzful Khan, who sued for pardon. He was so much alarmed that he was afraid to ap proach the presence of the Ameer, and it was not until the latter sent a kinsman to him with a Koran that he could be induced to do so. Valu. ableKhillats were exchanged between them, and the Amecr took over the troops of the penitent Sirdar, and after ordering their arrears of pay to be cleared off, sent them on to Cabal. It appears that Uzful Khan was glad to come to any terms with the Ameer, as through his oppression the people of Balk and his own army were so much against him that large numbers of his troops were deserting daily and going over to the Ameer. We have since heard that there is a rumour prevalent that the Ameer has made prisoners of Uz fat Khan and his brothers, and sent them to Cabui. SHIPPING-THIS DAY. LONDON, Sept. 19.—Wind this day at noon —South- Westerly; moderate brceze and fine weather, but a little cloudy. - VALMOUTII, Sept. 17.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Loyal, from Sierra Leone—Jane Cargill, from Rio Janeiro—Na thalie, from Guadaloupe. RORTSMOUTII, Sept. 17.—Arrived—Her Majesty's ships Warrior and Royal Sovereign, from the westward—her Majesty's ship Himalaya, from Quebec. SWANSEA, Sept. 17.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Rerodian, for Valparaiso. _ _ PLYMOUTH, Sept. 17,—Wind W.—Sailed—Lady Milne, for Bermuda. DAUTMOUTII, Sept. IS.—Wind Sarah Brineley, from Bahia. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Monday Morning. Arrived, Sept. 18 —Belgian man-of-war Don Perle (steamer), from Ostend—Fama, from kludickswald—Na poleon and Furet, from Gravelines—Constantine, from Taganrog—Lord Hartington, from Mazagan—Ocean Queen from Alexandria—Caroline, from Jamaica—Bianca. from St. Petersburg; Robin Gray, from Trinidad de Cuba— Hanna, from Alexandria—Christine, from Grenada— Herbert, from Rica. Arrived, Sept. 19—Laughing Water, from Mauritius—. Ocean and Julia, from Guernsey—Ocean, from Honduras —Elizabeth, from Bathurst. Sailed—Triton, steamer, for Boulogne. DEAL, Monday Morning. Passed, Sept. 18—City of Bristol, from Alciab. Passed, Sept. 19—V. M. C. T. Commercial Code, from West—Rambler, from Palermo—all for London. Sailed--Midlothian' for Demerara—Red Rover, for Port Philip—Sacramento, American man-of-war, with several others, for the West. The Cologne Gazette of the 13th says—" The States of Southern Germany appear to be resign. ing themselves to the reconstitution of the Zollve. rein. A letter from Stutgerdt states that the Minister of Finance urgently demands that the new 7ollverein shall be adhered to before the Ist of October, and the King of Wurtemberg is said to have stated in private conversations that the non acceptance of the French Treaty of Commerce was iropostiblc. In Bavaria M de Schrenk, it is true, is said to have declared t hat he would never affix his signature to that document, but his refusal may be got over. There is at present no Minister of Com• merce in that country, although the Budget provides for the formation of such a ministry, and grants the funds of the Minister's salary. One will there• fore be appointed who may sign the treaty without that fact preventing M de &hunk from remain ing President of the Council." [A DTERTISVMENT]. Holloway's Pills. —Premonitory Symptoms.--Wbi.tt pain and danger would be spared to m ankind if the first departures from healthy action were noticed and suitably redressed. The ,igeative or circula tory organs are usually foremost in indicating coming sick ness, and should be rectified without loss of time by Hollo way's purifying pills, which surpass every known means for rapidly reslo l i n n. ease and order to the system. Young and old, rich an d 'poor, strong and feeble, may alike use \ them with safety and advantage. They strengthen impaired constitutions in a wonderful manner. These pills aie for tunately found everywhere, and their very moderate price places them within the reach of all classes, who must con sider health more picciow than silver or gold. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 19, 1864.