The Sun. — London, England, 1863-08-10 00:00:00

. MONEY MARK IT AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. There is no particular movement today in the general aspect of the discount market, the enquiries, which are moderately active, being supplied on the terms current towards the close of last week. About £131,000 in gold was taken into the Bank on Saturday. The amount of specie brought by the Persia is £33,116. The accounts from the manufacturing districts respecting the state of trade during the past week are again of a very encouraging character. An active demand prevailed at Manchester for cloths and yarns, and buyers for woollen goods and hosi ery had purchased freely at Leeds, Halifax, and Huddersfield. Turoughout the hardware districts the rates for all descriptions of manufactured goods were well maintained, particularly at Birmingham and Sheffield, where a large number of orders on Eastern account had been received. Two o'CLocrc. At Paris, this day, according to Mr. Renter's telegram, the Three per Cent. Rentes were 67f. 40c. 67f. 35c. Firm. Although there has been very little speculation in the English Fonds to-day an advance of 4 per cent. has taken place. The operations were pro. ceeded with on a limited scale, but purchases have preponderated and buoyancy has ensued, Consols being 921 93 for money, and 931 4 for the account. The New Threes are marked 93 1, and the Re duced Annuities 93 k. India Stock is 1081 and Bank Stock has been dealt in at 240. Exchequer Bills remain at about former quotations, but the tendency is unfavourable. A general improvement has taken place in the market for Foreign Securities, in which a mode rate amount of business has been negotiated. At one time quotations were even more buoyant than at the present moment, but now there is an advance of 9 per cent. in Mexican, which are 37Z d ; Greek are better at 324 ; and the Coupons 141 15i, showing a rise of 8 ; Turkish Consolides have improved viz., to 481 20 Spa nish Passive and the Certificates are up 9 1 the former being 321 1, and the latter 121 The Confederate Loan, which is still subjected to considerable fluctuation, is now 2 per cent. lower, the reduced prices being 27 25 dis. Egyptian have improved to 103 k I, and Italian 5 per cents, to 71k The Russian Loan of 1862 is marked 921, the Sardinian 90, and Spanish 3 per Cents. are firm at 54. Transactions have taken place in Turkish 1854 Issue at 92 q; in the 1858 at 702 71 ; and in the 1862 at 671 k. Buenos Ayres Bonds are 93, and 6 per Cent. Ctiilien 86k. The share list of the Oriental Hotels Company closes on the 15th inst. Business in the Railway Share Market has been dull, and prices have shown little change of import ance. Great Eastern have receded about 55., while Great Northern have improved ss. In the Foreign and Colonial undertakings there is no change. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares generally sus tain former rates. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 240 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 93 21 New 3 per Cent. Annuities New 21 per Cent. Annuities.... Annuities, 30 yrs, expire Seth Jan., 1880 — Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l5 1-16 Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 2l/1 India Stock — Ditto 5 pei Cent Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. Ditto 5 per Cent nitto 5} per Cent Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863 Ditto ditto April, 1864 Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 Bank Stock for Account • • • • Consols for Account, Sept, 9 I adia Stock for Account, 5 per Cent..., March, June, I 21 per Cent. 2l per Cent. 2 dis I Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO .. Ditto £500.. Ditto Small .. FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian 5 per Cent Ditto, 1839 and 1859 Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent Ditto Accounv.... 93 Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) Chi Han 6 per Cent. Ditto 3 per Cent. Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Egyptian 7 pet Cent lo3k 4 Ditto, Second Issue Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons — Ditto Account ................. Ditto Coupons ..... Ditto Account, ................ ... .... 15 Italian 5 per Cent.(Maremmana Railway) Mexican 3 per C en t . ...... —'.. Ditto Account ...................... 371 I New Granada ........................ Ditto 2 per Cent. .................. 311 ........ . Peruvian 41 per Cent. ....... Portuguese 3 per C en t ., 1853 . Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ 5t........ Ditto 41 per Cent 1850 ............. . Ditto 3 per Cent.. 18;59 .............. Ditto 5 per Cent. 1862 .............. 92/ Sardinian 5 per Cent Ditto Account...... Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto A ceount .......... Ditto New Deferred .. Ditto Account ...................... itto Passive ............ -- Ditto Account..,.,.. .......... ......... ..... 32i Spanish Cert. o f Coup not funded • ...... Ditto Account — Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 92 Ditto Account.. 92! Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 Ditto Account Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 Ditto Account 67f Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. Venezuela 3 per Cent. Ditto Account .. 231 Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 .............. Ditto Account 57 61 Dividends on the above payable in Lonnon. Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs — Ditto Account TWO O'CLOCK. C°ll s° l gr limey 924 3 D itto Account 934 dverpool Cotton Market —This Day. NET:rule LEG s TERAM.) port, 2,97 9 Fair demand ; strong. S ales, 7,000 bales; im ; Previously 16 ,385. American, -1, above Friday. SILIppINGJT — his Da: _ ,_-_ (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAEIL) Arrived— SOUTHAMPTON, M on d ay Morning, Belle Francaiee, from Gtrgeiati; La Pe Clemente, fr om Ch erbourg. Sailed—Georg e , for Llanelli-,nile, and (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPIL) GRAVESEND, Monday Morning. Arrived, Aug. 2—Foyle, from Gothenburg ; Republik, and Regent, from Quebec; Expert, from Antwerp ;Arrow , from Stettin ; Proven, from Nyldobing ; Lionne, frosa Gravelines ; Alacrity, from Windau ; Bywater, from Crnnstadt • Egbertus, from Oporto; Black Prince, from Sierra Leone ; Helena, from Copenhagen ; Venus, from Serra ; Earl of Derby, from Smyrna ; Elizabeth, from Cronstadt. Arrived, A.ug. from Savani - ln--Catharina, from Emden ; Alciope, Randers. 11 4 . liotspur, from Colombo • Maria, from Passed—Belvidere n on, for Bord Anchored. barlb,of::,,orra, DRaL, Monda M " g Albion, from " Lorl' i , °l c ee ; Agenoria, screw steamer, from L o d ° orth, for West ; OTFIELD, .+................. zanx. DEATH OF MR. ISERIAR ----B ---- , fir liurfarenyilalonrfor 3'1,0137:n1.n . ing the last four nlonthe Ai r M.P.—Dar- Ludlow, had been in a preeari:. Botfield, M.P. for Grosvenor late little or no hopes \vele given of tto of health, and of day, at noon, he expired at his residiB rec°verY• Yeater square. The late Mr. Beriah Botfield de ill eldest son of a literary and the late Mr. Ralph Botfield, of Norco was the shire, and was born in 1807, Aithoughall, Northam ton studious mind ho entered on the stormy °f Salv e for path of politics, and in 1837 be first uncertain appearance in the House of Comm ons a : ta thade hi s Colonel Salweiti, Ludlow, in conjunction uith Colonel returned on the Conservative interest. general Y, At being ensuing general election in 1811 he was returned with Mr. James Ackers, his former colleagu e , being at the bottom of the poll. In 1847, at the election which succeeded the exhaustion of Sir R. p ears parliament, Mr. Botfield was defeated, and remained out of the House of Commons till a vacancy presented itself by th e tetirement of Colonel the Hon. Percy E. Herbert. si nce that period he had the honour to represent the borough of Ludlow in the Lower House, in which assembly a vacancy ' lrise s by his death. The late Mr. Botfield had from h's sctlolastic and antiquarian attainments acquired 4 repute- UM net only in his native ceulltry but growl, BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Clostn, -than Railways Paxl. Price. Business done 100 ktiantic dt St Lawrenc( all 61 (3 - ~tk4 (lom.,Baroda&Cent Inc 107 lt,B 1071 Gu. 5 per cent........ 20 D o , NewB 1 1+ p 20 Do. E. 5hare5......... 75 1 1 l 6 P ' O l Buffalo and Laxe Huron al. 51 51 10 Bi D ill o a . lo P , r ß e r f a e n ra t n ,a ce Go . d . r . i . c . l; all 75 8i 100 l O, p. et. bd July 1,, s. Aug. 1 1872 100 Do. do. 1873 100 100 00. ao. June 1, 18;4 100 st Jlcutta.&S.Eastn.(Li , , ) 100 1061 107. st Cape Town & Dock Seri' 100 1175 1085 stock Eastn. Bengal go. sp. c 100 1089 1094 1091 stock East Indian. gu. sp. c. 10 41 107 1,8 108 20 Do. do. G Ext..... 10 11 lip 20 Do. do. H do. .. 10 11 15c. stock Grand Trunk of Canada lut, 191 zO9 10 0 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds.. all 70 12 100 Do. do. deferred...... all 82 55 100 Do. 2d Pret. BMWs.. all 64 66 100 Do. do deferred...... all 50 62 100 Do. 3d P ef. stock all 43 46 43 21 1 00 Do. do. deferred...... all 34 37 33 100 Do. 4th Pref. stock... all 23 25 100 Do. do. deferred...... all 21 23 stock Gtlncharemn.gua.sp.o. 100 108 109 1381 985 20 Do. New gua. sp. c... 12 1 141 20 Do. January, 1862 .. 8 1 14; stook Gt. South.of India(Lim) guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 107 1C 8 20 4 Gt. W. of Canada Sharer all 10'i 114 201 Do. New 100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt all 97 100 100 Do. 54 p. o. do. '77-8.... all 90 42 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 1 p stock Madras. guar., sp.c. .. 100 107 11.8 1071 4 stock Do. 45 p. c. Extension 100 101 102 stock Dc. 4s .... 100 117 99 991 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 stock iielb.Corp. fi p. o. Bncis. 100 50 Melb. & Hobson's Bay. all 54 56 100 Do. 7p. c. hlortg. Bds. all 20 Newßrunswick &Can& Class A. and B all 3 5 N.lll.C'da6pcistptbds 100 84 86 stock Soinde ......... 4g ( 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 5 6 7 1 1 1/, 0 7 8 25 at f Do. D doelhi... ( Do. c ks 4 4 h a u ll u. 7 its 2sot Do. PDtthio. — P stock Do. Indus. St. Flo.) k lOU 103 105 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. ov. 6 p.c.J Juli I 1877-34 I Do. 6p. c. Feb. &Au L 4. 100 a 2 01 Do. dp. c.31ar..1z Sept. 100 106 108 1061 8 Do. t. p. c. Jan.&July. 100 95} 96} Do. S Inscribed stock 100 04 96 Cape G.Hope, 6p c,187:‘; 100 108 110 Do.Ap Oct.& 1880 100 112 114 Do. 189( 100 113 115 Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 111 113 ;Ceylon, Nov.ls7B, 6p c 100 113 111 i 'Mauritius 6 per cent .. 100 100 107 Natal Gov. 6 per cent.. 100 110 112 Lsl.l.l.Goy. p.o.d adz Jul) 100 105 it 6 Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. 100 - N. S.W.Gov.6p 18 ,,, 100 100 101 Do. sp. c.,18t.i to Ifdt 100 101 102 - Do. d0.,7883 &upwds 100 101 i 1021 102 - New Zealand B p cent. 100 110 112 Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. I sterling, 1875 lOO 105 106 Queensland Gcv. 6p. c lOO I 0 112 IS. AUB G6p.c.1678.& up lOO 110 112 - Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&Jul) 100 107 1 00 Do. io p.c. An..1030t.. 100 112} 113 1111 SHARE MARKETS—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCM S. Share Railways., Paid. Price. 1 _..... Closing i i 13.14. Bir.. `Vol„ and Str. Val. all 8 86 Bu d s o l u n e. es a x 5 Blythe and Tyne. , e 3 10 Bost.,Sleat.,andMid.Co. all At ~c ~,, et Bristol and Exeter at Caledonian lOO 1106 1204 119 4 50 Cork and 20 Cornwall Bandon all 64 7 61 ' 10 Do a all tillfi c In ha. — 10 Do. B A gets no dit , P•P . • . all been paid to B. 4 ° 41 50 Dublin & Belfast June. alll 15 10 25 Dun,,Perth,&Ab. June. al. 91 1 . 90 941 st Edinburgh & Glasgow. 300 111 113 St Giasg. and S. Western. 100 504 6/ i 504 6 4 st Great Eastern Ord. stk WO , to 476 et Ditto A stock' 100 25 26 24 st Ditto East Anglian st at GreatNorthof Scotland • 1 00 - " 1231 100 123 i- st Great Northern.. 100 122 123 st Do A stock 1: -, 5 :40 st Do B do 100 it 2 100 a 3 ~ .. 1 5 st Gt. S. ant W. of Ireland 100 . __ esi et Great Western .. st Do Str Val gua. stock 10 0 .„, ~3 3 st Lancashire & Yorkshire 160 i.; L 1 ,4 st London and Blackwall 100 _?24 st Lou., Bright. ,& S. Coast 100 114 4 ( 115 3 1 at Lon., Chat., and Dover 10 0 I 101/ 10 9 1 1 0 2 1 1 st Lon. & North Western 100 et Lon. & So'.th Western 100 at Man., Shef., & Li nco l n . 100 4 3 4 44 4 106, 10h 1 105/ 4 6 50 Maryport and Carlisle. all 10 Metropolitan 124 Do * shares... ..... all 114 111 at Midland 6.4.0 Do New 100 125 :286 1281 p st Do Binning. & Derby 100 07 99 50 Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland all 25 Do. 4 shares 25 Mid Kent 10 Do Cray Line at North British et Edit, Perth, & Dundee 100 25 26 251 6 st Nth. Eastern—Berwick 100 1011 1024 101/ 25 Do, G.N.E. purchase 16.13.4 .1 st Do Leeds lOO 671 584 574 st Do York st Do Carlisle lOO st North London 10 Do New 1 2.1.6.4 North Staffordshire 10 N. and S. W. Junction all 114 121 st Scottish Central at Scot N. E., Aber. stock 100 461 471 st Do Scot. Mid. stock lOO 99 101 10 Shrews, and Welchpooi all . at Shropshire Union st South Devon. .. ..” lOO 30 22 st South Eastern ,A South Wales st S. York. and River Dun 100 100 102 20 Staines,Wok.,andWok all 7t 8 25 Stockton & Darlington all 38 39 25 Do l7 91 101 e 25 Do New, 1860. 8 76 84 p st Taff Vale.. 10 Do B - 8 54 5;1 10 Do C 3 3 36 p 50 Ulster 25 Do - p 12.10 Do 5 et Vale of Neath st Victoria sta. and Pim lOO 156 160 at Waterford & Kilkenny 100 et West Cornwall lOO 27 29 st Vt .II artlepool Har.&R lOO 3t West Midland Oxford 100 451 161 414 ~ t Do Newport 100 39 41 .t Do Hereford 100 104 106 1051 BRITISH MINES. 2 iCambrian Consol. Gold 1 4 3d —" n Amalgamated 30 Devon G. Con, (Tavist , 1 650 370 East Bassett(lllogan) 30 79 81 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd 51. fd tar East Caradon 2.14.t 283 293 East Carn Brea I 3./..‘ 8 81 %VI Russel (Tavistk )i 8 6.6 3 3.4 Gai n.&St.Auuyn(Gwen ) 8, 7 10 Great South Tolgus l7s 31 31 Wheal Vor (lielston, 40 61 7 3 —'' IGrenville ti:Ars-Foot . .... 8.12 /s 8 10 ti er gston Downs 4. 8.0 14 2 Lady Bertha .... ... 2.8 6 3 3 Margaret (tiny Lelant uk st Marke Valley.. . .. . 1.3.0 6 63 4 Myndy Iron Ore (Lim.; 23 11 1 6 New Setun North Downs .. N.WIOI Baseet(lllo.tan; 2.17. t 3 34 North Wheal Crotty Par Consols (St. Blazey) 13 4 520 i'rovidenee (Uny Lelnt ) 10.6.7 10 42 South Caradon(StCleer) 14 415 425 3. Cam Brea (Illogan) 5.15.6, 13 24 Fran. (Mogan) 18.1 .9 724 73 Stray Park 5 Vaxnar Silv.a Lead Min 43 ff fin Crott 9 213 223 West Basset (Illogan) l4 11 12 W C mien (Liskeard) 5 22 24 West Seton Wheal Basset (Illogan) 51 623 673 Wheal Buller(Redruth) 5 45 50 Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) 2.0.6 WhealLudcott Wheal MaryAnniAen ) 8 11 13 - !Wheal Seton . 683 220 130 - , Wheal Treiawney (Lis.) 7 15 17 IWheal Union 3.17 3 31 PREFERENCE SHARES. Lancashire and Yorkshire 6 per cent. stock, Ditto, 4i per cent, Bim.burn purchase, 1011 LINES LEASED Al' FIXED RENTALS. London and Chatham 45 per Cent., 92f 3} 21 London, Tilbury, and Southend, sB4 9 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San Francisco (lien.) gua. 7 per cent., 201 Great Luxembourg, 131 N Rail of Buenos Ayres, gua. 7 per cent, Ditto (2/), 2/ Sambre and Meuse, 5 per cent. pt, 9/ San Paulo (lim), gua. 7 per cent., 9 Ditto (ad), 22 31 2/ 12 Turin and Savona, 2. z FOREIGN MINES. United Mexican (lim.;, 6 ; Yudananautana of S. Australia (lim.), JOIN T-STOCK I - IANKS. Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool (lint), 34; Bank of Egypt, 27 f City, 1091 10 9 English, Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 22 Imperial Ottoman, 18 London and Westminster, 781 Metrop. and Prov. Bank (Urn.), 15} National Provincial of England, Ditto, new, 36 Oriental Bank Corporation, 58 Sande, Punjaub, and Delhi (Rm.', 4i DOCKS. St. Katharine, 61a I ANEOUS. L ISCL Berlin Water Works, lim., E 81 1 Crystal Palace, 391 B glish and Australian Copper, 11 Hudson s Bay, 2a g g International leinancial Society, Rm., 81 Joint-stock Discount, 6,1 aladras Irrigation and Canal, 31 National Discount Company, Um, 91 Rio de .Janeiro City Improvements, Rm., 27 Scottish Australian Investment, lim ,, 142 3 Sir James P. Wilde, one of the Barons of the Exchequer, will succeed Sir Cresswell Cresaweli as Chief Judge in Ordinary of the Court of Probate and Divorce. James Coxe, M.D., Edinburgh, will receive the honou r of knighthood. Mr. Goldsworthy Gurney, who has spent a long and useful life in scientific researches, the in ventor of a common roa d steam catriage, the Bade light, and many other important objects, and al so the successfe ul venti lator of th e t wo h ouses of Parliament, also to r is cetve th e h onour of knighthood; A LILE RAL LANDLORD.—We understand that the Earl of Z:Aland, in consideratio n o f the several saccees.ivo bad seasons which his tenantry have had, has authorised a deducti on o f 10 vr cent. from the rent the 1862 cm dto f or P on hi s l auds of Rene and Castlecarry, THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 10, 1863, MARKETS—This Day. MARK-LANE. The wheat trade in the country markets, held on Satur day, was very quiet, and, in some instances, old wheats changed hands at lower prices. All descriptions of spring corn met a slow sale, but without leading to any material change in the rates current on the previous week. Flour sold heavily, at about recent quotations. Advices from New York state that there was less doing in wheat and flour for export, but the quantity on passage to Great Britain is moderately large. On the Continent, the trade is dull. Up to our market, last week, the arrivals of English grain were very moderate. The imports from abroad were 45,273 quarters of wheat ; 8,062 barley; 30,321 oats ; 1,515 beans ; 4,559 peas ; 3,443 tares ; 7,27:5 rapeseed ; 6,28;) maize; 420 sundry seeds ; and 67,993 barrels of flour. About three thousand quarters of new English wheat were on sale at Mark-lane, to-day. A fair proper time was received in excellent condition : but the state of several parcels showed that the produce had not remained sufficiently Ling in the fields. The demand ruled far from active both for red and white qualities ; Talavera realised 56a ; and the business done in other kinds was chiefly at 46s to 51s per quarter. There was very little old wheat on offer, yet the trade was very slow, at barely last Monday's currency. The show of American wheats on offer was large, and the market was well supplied with produce from other coun tries. All descriptions met a dull inquiry, and in some instances prices declined is per quarter. Floating cargoes of grain sold heavily, and previous quo tations were barely supported, The supply of barley was very moderate. All qualities, however, were in slow request, yet no change took place in prices, comparel with Monday last. In malt a limited business was transacted on former terms. There was a moderately extensive supply of oats on offer. The trade for all qualities ruled inactive, and in some in stances prices slightly declined Beans commanded very little attention, notwithstanding that the supply on offer was but moderate. In the cur rency no charge took place. Peas were unaltered in value, but the inquiry for them was far from active. The supply on offer was very mode rate. With barrel flour the market was extensively supplied, and the demand ruled heavy, on rather easier terms. Other descriptions of flour moved off slowly, at about stationary prices. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wheat—Essex and Kent, red, 1802 Ditto, 01d.4 4Bs 548 Ditto, white, 1862 438 52s Ditto, old , 503 57s Norfolk and Lincoln, red, old --s s Ditto, 1862 Talavera, Rye— 34s 35s Barley—Grinding 2ss 26s Malting oos 00s Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk 6os 68s Brown Kingstown and Ware sos 60s 68 568 8 Chevalier 668 CBs Oats —Yorkshire and Lincolnsh., Feeding l9s 231 Potato Youghal and Cork, black it 22s Cork, white Scotch, Feeding 2OB his Beans—Tick Pigeons, 18s 43s Peas—Grey .... 33s 35s Maple 3Ss 40s White 36s 381 Boilers 36s 38s Flour—Town-made Suffolk 3os 32s Stockton and Norfolk 29s 31a amount of business doing is t at about previous quotations. Turntp,White,p.bus.lls to 14s Swede s — s Mustard, Brown White, Tares, New 7s 6d. aGa Old per quarter - s — s Csnary, per quarter 46s rl2 s Rye grass, new -s Clover, Red Eng., ct White —s — s Foreign Red — s _ s White —s -s Trefoil, new —s -s trifling. Cakes move off slowly, Carraway 26s 278 Coriander l6s 18s Henapseed, per qr 42s 44s Linseed,Eng.sowing 72s 74s Crushing Baltic —s —s Odessa —s —s Linseed Cake, p ton —s —s English £9los£lo —s Foreign .i.9los£lo lOs Rape Cakes,p tonX6 Os £6 lOs Rapeseed, new,pr cir 60s Ois TALLOW. The tallow trade is steady to-day, and prices rule sta tionary. St. Petersburg Y.C. is quoted at 43s 3d per cwt. on the spot. Town tallow is quoted at 41s 6d net cash, and rough fat is selling at 2s 2d per Slb. Particulars 1859. 1863. 1 1810. 1861. / 1862. 1 Stock this (lay._ 21,525 31.681 52.192 c 55,653 41.180 Price of Y.C. .. i :,sso:i to:s2s 02 to 4402 tolBso2 t0,13s 3d to t —s Cd 028 3d 46s 6d 1188 9rl —s cd Delivery lastweek 1,799 1,893 3,405 i 1,467 1,032 Ditto from June 1 11,153 17,931 1,827 14,64 i/ 8,669 Arrivals last week' 1 963 2,266 1,481 2,791 1,927 Ditto trout June 1 20,597 27068 12,258 1',u20 12,305 Price of Town .... 55s 9d 55s Od 49s 3d 50s Od . r 44s 3d • duplicate relating to the prosecutor's gold watch and chain was found upon the prisoner. Two respectable witnesses, neighbours of the parties, de posed to seeing the prisoner remove the gold watch and chain from Mr. Rayner's neck the 6th of July. The prosecutor was recalled, and said he valued his watch and chain at £l6. The prisoner snatched his watch and chain from his neck so very suddenly and rapidly that he could not stop him. John Good, assistant to Mr. Francis Cotter, of No. 10, Shoreditoh, produced Mr. Rayner's gold watch and chain, which the prisoner had pawned for £3 10s. Mr. Good said he had conscientious objections to the taking of an oath, and claimed to make his solemn affirmation in the terms of the Act of Parliament passed in the session of 1862. He was questioned by Mr. Woolrych, and said be was not a Quaker, but a member of the Free English Church at Hackney. He attended the services of that church. Scrip ture said—Swear not at all. He believed the usual oath ordinarily administered to witnesses in our courts of justice was taking God's name in vain. Mr. Woolrych permitted the witness to mate his solemn affirmation, in the terms of the act of Parliament. James Barton, a constable of the K divisian, said His pri soner had not been in Limehouse, or any part of the dis trict since the robbery. He understood the prisoner had been to Swansea, in North Wales. The prisoner, in defence, said he saw Mr. Rayner play ing at skittles on the 6th of July, and he was so intoxicated that he fell down. Mr. Rayner then came in front of the bar, and he took his watch and chain away, with the inten tion of delivering both to Mrs. Rayner, but instead of doing so, raised £3 10s. upon them. Mr. Woolrych—l shall remand the prisoner until to morrow (Tuesday). On the application of the City policeman, Saunders, the duplicate of another gold watch, and the duplicate of two silk handkerchiefs, taken from the prisoner, were restored to him. METROPOLITAN CATTLE. There was a full average supply of foreign stock on offer in to-day's market; but its general quality was inferior. Sales progressed slowly, and prices had a drooping ten dency. _ _ _ The arrivals of beasts fresh up from our own grazing districts were seasonably good, and the quality of most breeds was prime. The attendant: of buyers was only mo derate, hence the beef trade was in a sluggish state, at a decline in tho quotations, compared with last week, of 2d per Blbs, and at which a clearance was not effected. The top figure was 4s 8d per 81bs. The show of Irish and Scotch beasts was limited. We were again well supplied with sheep, and most breeds came to hand in good saleable condition. All breeds moved off slowly; nevertheless, the prices current on this day se'ennight were supported. The beat Downs realised 5s per 81bs. _ _ Lambs wore in fair average supply and sluggish request, at late rates—viz. from 5s to 6s per 81bs. The show of calves was moderate, and the veal trade was heavy, at late rates. Top price, 4s 6d per 81bs. In pigs next to nothing was doing, at previous currencies. From Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Northampton shire, we received 2,600 shorthorns; from other parts of England, 803 various breeds; from Scotland, 40 Scots and crosses; and from Ireland 170 oxen and heifers. Per 81b. to sink the offal. s. d. s. d. Crse. &inf. beasts 3 2 3 6 Secondquality do. 3 8 4 '2 Prime large oxen 4 4 4 6 Prime Scots, &c. 4 6 4 8 Crse. & inf. sheep 3 6 4 0 Second quality do. 4 2 4 6 s. d. s. d. Primecrs-wool d 0.4 8 4 10 Prne.S'thdowndo.4 10 5 0 Largo crse. calves 3 4 4 0 Prime small do 4 2 4 6 Large hogs 3 6 4 0 Small porkers..., 4 2 4 6 Lambs, 5s Od to Gs Od. Suckling calves, 12s to 20s; and quarter-old store pigs, 19s to 26s each. TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN STIFFLY. Beasts .. ..... ~... s,3BolBeasts Cows — • Sheep and lambs .... 7,260 Sheep and lambs Calves 3OB !Pigs 6O Pigs 640 t The total imparts of foreign stock into London, last week, amounted to 16,775 head. In the corresponding week in 1862, we received 10,802—in 1861, 9,6',7—in 1860, 15,057 —in 1859, 10,662—in 1858, 9,518—in 1857, 8,922 head. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LASI WEER. From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. Rotterdam .... 404 .. 1997 834 27 Harlingen. .... 365 .. 1757 .. 65 .. 170 ..1105 Hamburg .... 139 .. 2689 .. 238 Boulogne. Dunkirk.. 11Z Calais 666 • • .. - .. 14 .. - Vigo.. lO6 .. -- .. -- .. -- :: Amsterdam -- .. 825 .. -- .. -- .. Antwerp. - .. - .. -- .. 38 .. —_ Ostend ...... 3O .. .. 14 .. Bremen 99 .. --- •• 15 .. --- ~ Dordt 4lB .. 667 .. 697 .. 11 .. Tonning. , 1132 .. 1571 .. 374 .. Total .... 2663 .. 9,521 ..1136 ..1081 ..1374 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1862 1137 .. 7,420 .. 846 .. 713 .. 686 18 6 1 .. 1297 .. 6,860 .. 535 .. 449 .. 616 1860 l7Bl .. 10,633 .. 665 .. 723 1255 1859 2524 .. 5,035 .. 494 .. 743 .. 772 1858 A. statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in the great metropolitan cattle market, on Monday, Aug, 11, 1862, and this day, Monday, Aug. 10, 1863. .... • • For 81b. to sink tho offal. Aug. 11, Aug. 10, 1862. 1863. Coarse and inferior beasts.... 3 2to 3 4 3 2to 3 6 Second quality do Prime large oxen 4 0 4 4 4 4 4 6 Prime Scots &c 4 6 4 8 4 6 4 8 Coarse and inferior sheep Second quality do. Prime coarse-woolled do 4 8 5 0 4 8 410 Prime Southdown do. .. 5 2 5 4 410 5 0 Lambs Large coarse calves Prime small do. Large hogs Neat small porkers 4 4 4 S 4 2 4 6 Beasts Sheep and lambs Calves Pigs 4BO 350 St rpLiEs ON SALE, Aug l2, 1861.—Beasts, 4,660 — sheep and lambs, 29,280—calves, 286—pigs, 526. Al7O. 13, 1860.—Beasts, 4,420 —sheep and lambs, 24,250 —calves, 257—pigs, 300. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The supply of meat is moderate, and the trade rules heavy, at reduced quotations. Per Slb. by the carcase. sdsd s d sd Inferior beef .. 2 10 3 2 Middling mutton 3 10 4 0 I‘liddling do. 34 3 6 Prime do .. 42 4 4 Frime la rge d o. 3 8 3 10 Veal Do. small d 0... 310 4 0 Small pork ~ 4 0 4 4 Large pork 3 4 3 8 Lamb • . 4 4 5 4 Inferior mutton. 3 2 3 6 BOROUGH HOP. We have to report a fair average demand for most kinds of hope, and previous quotations aro steadily supported. The accounts from the plantations in the neighbourhood of Canterbury and. Worcester axe favourable. Tbo import, last week was large, viz., 1,019 bales from N ew York; 41 from Boulogne ; 38 Hamburg ; and 500 packets from Gnernsey. `................• BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. Fair average supplies of home-grown potatoes are on sale at these markete, but there is scarcely any foreign produce on offer. There were no imports from the Continent last week. Generally speaking, the demand rules inactive, at the recent decline in the currenoy. Kent and Essex Regents 70e to 110 s p er t on . Do. Slums 6os to 80s .. WOOL. At the public sales of colonial wool now in progress, the biddings for home use continue active; but the amount of business doing for export is by no means extensive, and is mostly confined to Continental buyers. In some instances prices show symptoms of weakness, but they have not materially changed since we last wrote. In the private contract market English wool moves off slowly, yet the quotations are supported. The imports from the colonies last week was 8,813 bales from Now Zealand ; 237 Ilobart Town; 410 Launceston; and 1,959 bales from .Alzoa Bay. SEEPS. The demand for new Englieh rapeseed continues heavy, and prices la-ny9 a downward tradency, In otly.r Eeeds the LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.) IN RE SAMUEL GUNN AND THOMAS GUNN", These bankrupts had carried on business as engineers, &c., at Aldermanbury and Featherstone-buildings, and this was a meeting for last examination and discharge. From the accounts it appears the bankrupts owe £4,310 to credi tors unsecured, £1,699 to creditors holding security, and liabilities £2,280, and debtor on accommodation bills £720. Assets—good debts, £175; doubtful, £1,150; property given up, £564. The case was adjourned for a deficiency account. IN RE A. MAIN WAKING. This bankrupt, late a captain in the army, and now a prisoner in the custody of the Sheriff, came up for his last examination. The accounts by Messrs. Hart Brothers and Hayles, shows—Debtor to creditor, unsecured, £13,124; to do. holding security, .L 6,800 ; liabilities, £1,026. Assets— doubtful debts, £25 ; property given up, £350 ; do. in the hands of creditor, £3oo—deficiency, £17,786. The case was adjourned by consent till the 7th Oct. SHERIFFS' COURT. (Before Mr. Kerr.) LOVE GIFTS NOT RECOVERABLE, - SINGULAR CASE- RAPHAEL V. PHILLIPS. This was an action to recover 205., the value of a certain clock, alleged to be detained by Miss Julia Phillips. Plaintiff said that the defendant (Miss Phillips) came to his place and saw a clock. She said, " Oh, my father is a clockmaker, and I will take this and show it to him. Per haps he will buy it." Plaintiff, however, had never seen the clock again to this day. Miss Phillips, a very pretty Jewess, said—Plaintiff was courting me, and he made me a great many presents. We had a quarrel, and he wants the things back. His Honour—Then you do not feel disposed to return them ? Miss Phillips—Certainly not. Plaintiff—l have a witness here who will prove that I asked for the things hick. His Honour—But she says they were presents, Was that so ? Plaintiff—l am entitled to have my presents back, His Honour—Did any letters pass ? (At this the defendant smiled, and said " No.") Plaintiff's witnesses generally deposed to having heard plainziff demand the clock: Miss Phillips—He bought the clock on Sunday morn ing and gave it to me as a present. His Honour—Youshou:d not give clocks to young ladies, Mr. Raphael. You must be nonsuited, Nonsuited. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. GUILDHALL. A young man named Atkinson was charged with obtain ing, by means of a forged order, a quantity of silk handker chiefs, the property of Messrs. Ellis and Hubbard. From the evidence it appeared that the prisoner had previously been in the employ of Messrs. Lee, and in that capacity he had become acquainted with the mode of busi ness of the house, and also the warehouses with which the firm dealt. One day last week the prisoner presented an order requesting that three pieces of silk handker chiefs might be supplied. N o s uspicion was enter tained, and the goods were supplied, a n d th e pr i soner left. In a few days after Messrs. Ellis received a printed circular, informing them that a young man was obtain ing goods in the name of the firm of Messrs. Lee, by means of forged orders. While the circular was being read in the office the prisoner was seen to pas s into t he warehouse, and a police-constable was sent for, and the pri soner g i ven i nto custody. After that the prisoner did not deny the charge of falsely obtaining the goods. A gentleman from the firm of Dawson , Son, and Com pany, said the prisoner came to their house a short time ago and requested that a quantity of clothing might be supplied him, as the agent of Messrs. Lee, of Teignmouth. As the order produced was informal, and further that he could not give a reference to any person in the city, he was not supplied with the goods. _ A. number of other witnesses gave evidence to prove that various other houses had been victimised Alderman Allen remanded the prisoner till Wednesday next. BOW-STREET. Ann Winn and Johanna Collins were placed at the bar charged with creating a disturbance in the streets and also with assaulting the police. Police Censtable, 81 F. said about half-pa=t one yester day morning he was on duty in King-street, Drury Lane, when he saw the prisoner Winn creating a disturbance. He desired her to be quiet and go home, when she became very violent, and he then took her into custody. Collins at tempted to prevent him taking Winu to the station-house, and through her she succeeded in running into one of the houses in the street. He followed, and not finding her in the passage he proceeded up stairs and searched the first floor. Not discovering her there he went into the rooms on the second, and there found her and took her into custody. Collins was also taken to the station house and charged with attempting to rescue a prisoner. An elderly woman, a resident in the third floor of the house from which Winn was taken, said she was Very much alarmed when the policeman entered her room with his lantern in his hand, about half .past one in the morning. Mr. nem y--- What did h e want i n your rooms after he had taken the pris oner i nto custody on the second floor ? Witness—l don't know, your worship. Mr. Henry (to the constable) —Had you any doubt, when you took Winn into custody, about her being the person that assaulted you ? Constable—No, your worship. Mr. Henry—Then why did you go into the upper rooms —what reason had you to do so ? Constable—After I had been in the second floor I went up to the third, thinking there might be some one e l s e . Mr. Henry—That i mp l ies that y o u had a doubt about Winn being the pe rson . Had you any doubt? Constable—No, your worship. Mr. Henrp—Then explain the reason that led you to enter the rooms on the third floor. Constable—l went to see who was there. Mr. Henry—What for ? Do you think you have a right to enter people's rooms at half -past one in the morning, which of itself is calculated to create a great deal of alarm, without strong reason. You say you had no doubt about Winn being the person, whom you were in search of, end yet, having discovered her in the second floor, you proceed upstairs to the rooms above. If you were certain the pri soner was that person, I cannot see what you wanted to go there for. I can only think that you had some doubt about the woman being the person, although you say to the con trary. Constable—l had no doubt about it, your worship. Mr. Henry—Well, I have considerable doubt about it, and I order Winn to be discharged, Is anything known about Collins ? Inspector West said she was a very disorderly person, and much given to drink. Mr. Henry--I shall not dispose of the charge as affects her until some further inquiry is made about her. The prisoner Collins was then put back to enable the in formation required by the magistrate to be obtained. THAMES. on, a butcher R OBBI NG A NEIGHBot 3 IL—James Bartin and a tripe-dresser, w as brou ght before Mr. Woolrych, ke valued at £l6, charged with stealing a gold watch and chain O A n t a the ao e e d P t ? t o r ; e the property of John Ha) ncr, coffee-house This was a very remarkable case.of the robbery the prisoner was carrying with his fat business at No. 93, Limehouse-causeway, living respected by and on good terms with his neir,hbourlay ando has long carried ' o n the 6th of. July last the prosecutor, wh o the business of a coffee -shop keeeper in Hope-terrace, n Three Colt-street, Limehouse, the prisoner and others, were in the Two Brewers publiehouse in Fore-street, Lime. house. All the parties were on the best of terms and con versing and drinking with each, other. The prosecutor became inebriated, and the prisoner seemed very anxious about him and offered to remove his gold chain and watch from his neck and take care of them. The prosecutor would not allow the prisoner to take care of his watch and chain, and said, " I can take care of my own property." The prisoner, however, persevered and took the watch nu d chain from the prosecutor, who thought he had been robbed, and said " Where is my watch ?'"The prisoner said, " Here' it is—l'll take it home to your wife," and was allowed to keep possession of the watch and :lain. The prisoner, however, immediately absconded with his neighbour's watch and chain, forsook his family, and was never heard of since until yesterday, when he was me t by a City police-constable, nam ed Sandue, No. as, in BidloPEgate, and too:i him into curt: ay, A. pwaroku'o MARLBOROUGII-STREET. THE ROBBERY or A DASSEUSE'S JEWELLERY.—Mark Thomas Marshall, a lad, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with being concerned with another lad now in custody in stealing jewellery to the value of nearly £lO9, the property of Madlle. Marianina do Francesco, an Italian danseuse at the Alhambra, Leicester-square. Mr. Edward Lewis, Great Marlborough-street, appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Albert interpreted the evidence. Mr. Lewis said that on Saturday a boy named Jones was charged with being concerned in the robbery, and in conse quence of what he said, namely, that Marshall had been admitted into the house, 16, Leicester-street, by him under threats, and that he had committed the robbery, Marshall was apprehended. Madlle, de Francesco having deposed to leaving her lodgings about half-past 7 in the evening and returning at midnight, when she found the bottom panel of the room door—which she had locked—broken in, and all the drawers open and her jewellery and that of her sister gone, Sergeant Joy, 96, proved apprehending Marshall at two this morning, when he admitted that he was at 16, Lei cester-street on the night of the robbery, but said that it was committed by Jones, who, however, gave him some of the jewellery. In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, Joy said Marshall was an " old friend' of his. Mr. Lewis said that was all the evidence he should pro duce that day. Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded the prisoner till the day to which Jones is remanded. MR. NOBLE'S BUST OF THE LATE DUKE OF SUTHERLAND.—The directors of the South Stafford shire Potteries Waterworks Company have had placed in their engine -house, at Wallgrange, near Leek, a fine bust of the late Duke of Sutherland, by Noble. The bust is about five feet in length, and stands on a pedestal cf the same height. The latter bears the inscription :—" To re cord the name of James Granville, Duke and Earl of Sutherland, ,K.G., a truly Christian nobleman, whose great and unobtrusive benevolence led him uniformly to promote every judicious design for tho health, comfort, and well-being of his fellow-men, the proprietors of these works ---couemer.ced in the year 1843, and carried out under his patronage—have erected this memorial. Dec., 1862." [Having, some little time since, had the gratification our selves of inspecting this bust in the artist's studio, we can speak of its merits as a work of art with the utmost confi dence.—ED. SUN.] LISTZ AND THE POPE.—In regard to the recent rumour as to a visit paid to the great pianist and com poser Listz by his Holiness, the header remarks—Great excitement prevails in Rome on account of an extempore visit paid by the Pope to Dr. Listz, the composer. The latter, it seems, left town in the middle of last month, and went to reside at the now deserted Dominican Convent near the church of the Madonna del Rosario on the Monte Mario, from which there is a magnificent view of Rome below. He there lived hermit-like, entirely devoted to his art. Some prelates informed the Pope of his residence and mode of life; and on Sunday, the 18th of July, he went, only accompanied by Mgr. de Merode, a Cameraria segreto, and some Guardi nobili, to the Madonna del Rosario, where he first said his prayers, and then suddenly app. , ared before the modern anachorite. Franz Listz played h m two sacred compositions, one on the harmonium, the other on the piano. When he had finished, his Holiness expressed his thanks in the most amiable manner, and concluded with the words, "It is a noble gift which has been be stowed upon you, to reproduce the songs of higher spheres —the finest harmonies, it is true, we shall only hear on high. VICTIMS OF JUVENILE GENTILITY.—" Uncon scious of their doom, the Little Victims Play"—be fore being dressed I—A Saturday Reviewer remarks—Per haps all the world does not know exactly what happens when children whose mammas are par'icular are taken out in town for a regulation promenade. One of the victims is seized, and curled, and dressed out for the sacrifice, and then put on a chair to wait, without the movement of a limb and in solemn silence, until the whole party is ready. Then a second is dressed, and stuck up in the same way, till the process is ended by the exhaustion of the nursery. At last, under the pressure of continual assurances that they are all wicked children, they are got in a decorous and helpless way out of the house, and put into the desired file in the street, and then marched on with proper dignity, until at last the nurse meets another nurse and another set of victims, when the two servants abandon the care of in fancy for gossip about their lovers, and a fitful ease per vades the little party. GROWTH OF OUR POSTAL SYSTEM.—The dis tance over which mails are conveyed within the United Kingdom, was last year nearly 160,000 miles a day, being upwards of 7,000 miles more than at the end of 1861. Besides this there is the foreign and colonial packet service, which employs 96 steamships exclusive of tenders, and dis tributes our letters all over the world, from the neighbour ing port of Calais, to Auckland in New Zealand, about 15,000 statute miles from Southampton. The voyages per formed by these vessels during the year were equal, in the aggregate, to more than: three millions of miles I During the last year there were delievered in the United Kingdom 605 millions of letters, 73 millions of newspapers, and 14 millions of book packets. Valentines show no sign of fall ing off, last year 430,000 of these amatory effusions passing through the London office ; an increase of more than 20,000 upon the previous year; while the present year shows a yet further and still larger increase. There is be sides this a great increase of travelling past-offices now running on most of the railways, by which mails are con veyed to and from London ; as well as an adoption of the ingenious mail-bag-exchanging apparatus at more than 100 stations. The number of public receptacles for letters is now 14,776, as compared with 14,354 last year. The sum paid in exchange for postage stamps amounted last year, in London alone, to nearly £60,000. Daring the last year the number of money-order offices in Great Britain and Ireland was increased to 2,879. They issued during the twelve month 7 587,045 orders for sums amounting in the whole to £15,761,259. Finally, we may add that we now ex change money-orders with Canada, Victoria, Westarn Australia, South Australia, Queensland, New Zealand, the Cape of Good Hope, Gibraltar, and Malta; and it is anti cipated that we shall soon do so with New South Wales and several other colonies. THE CONDEMNED MURDERERS TN MAIDSTONE GAOL. The execution of Alfred Eldridge, convicted of the murder of Richard Steed, and Alfred Holden, who pleaded guilty to the murder of his infant son, has been appointed to take place on Thursday, the 20th inst. Since his conviction the prisoner Eldridge has confessed his guilt. His account is that on the night of the murder Steed and himself were walking home from the Prince Albert public house. The deceased said Eldridge owed him some money, which he denied. Stead then pushed him off the path, and behaved roughly towards him. Eldridge then said, "If you do it again I'll knock your head off;" but Steed pushed him cif a third time, and ho then struck him in the face, knocking him down ; and in his fury and revenge for old grudges gave him several kicks in the face, being at the time so much under the influence of drink that he had no control of his passions. Eldridgo was visited by his brother on the day succeeding his trial, but his wife is not in a con dition to visit him. With regard to the other condemned prisoner, it is understood that a memorial has been pse thde en ' s father seated to the Home Secretary, praying for the comonathuetraptiroin of the sentence on the plea of insanity. Like . soner, he attributes the crime t o drink. 'l°l died in a state of delirium tremens, "d th b penitent, and listen with attentio n to the exhor a 1 p t i r o i rt t s s are of ted suicide while in a similar state. B o o i ;t uhnocle commit eu t the chaplain, Rev. C. Shirley Woolmer. MYSTERIOUS Loss OF A REGIST ER ED LETTER ward 01 , G:—On athyothreeepostmastee rcontaining bankers' General i c o h ff e r r e e z d i s a t e r r e re din its transit to St. Dlartin's-le- Grand one night last week in a mysterious manner. It is customary to place the registered letter -'sag within the large bag, an d during the journey up it is removed and placed on a shelf in the mail van while the other letters aro being sorted. This was done as usual, and the small bag was then re placed. Such is the account given by the men employed, but on arriving at the General Post-a:lca the registered ba a was not to be 0,10, and !Whin has yet heard el it, - LITERATURE. Three Lives in One. 3 vols. Hurst and Blackett, IThis story is so very unequal in parts, that we might almost incline to doubt its being all the work of one hand; that it is so, we ultimately be lieve, but that hand is one as yet unpractised in the mysteries of the craft. For a first work, however, as we are inclined to regard it, it evinces, with all its faults, no little power, and no small amount of the imaginative faculty. We shall expect better things hereafter at the hands of the author of " Three Lives in One. The first volume relates the struggles of the orphan family of an improvident doctor. The scenes and characters are not simply domestic but commonplace, and trivial. We will confess, now that we havefinished the book, that our perusal of it nearly came to an end in the course of that same first volume ! As an evidence of the height to which absurdity of description can go, imagine the following—The orphan family aforesaid let part of their house, and among their lodgers arrive a young lady and gentleman of title. The morning after their arrival, Katherine Montague waits upon Lady Geraldine Harcourt to inquire her orders for dinner. Lady Geraldine, in her morning -dress, is described as being so remarkably charming that, we-are told, " Katherine could alfizost hare worshipped her ! " 1 As the, story advances, however, the tone improves. The hero is one Ralph, whose three very diffdrent lives as Ralph Palmer, Ralph Clarendel, and Ralph Acres constitute the subject of the history —Three Lives in One. This life, or lives, of Ralph is, from first to last, a series of great improbabilities. Until sixteen he grows up as the eldest son and heir of Lord Clarendel, the son of the Earl of St. Mark. Ralph, as the heir, is an object of interest to every one. It is then discovered that he is not Lord Clarendel's lawful son, that Lady Clarendel is not his mother, but one Mrs. Palmer, xhom he has regarded as his nurse. Full of indignation and eager for revenge, Ralph, instead of seeking for a fortune in accordance with the education he has received, resolves, with a foolish de fiant pride, to give up the aristocracy and join his mother's class. He goes to the village of Acres, where he was born, takes the name of Palmer, and becomes a fia)d labourer! A little later on we find him a domestic servant—a youth who until sixteen had received the education of a gentleman 1 At length he finds a more suitable career—as a soldier—where he rises from the ranks, and is adopted by Colonel Clarendel, and begins his second life. We will not follow his eventful fortunes step by step. Solace it to say, that in his fitful career he learns, by painful experience, the folly of him who would set class against class. A Chartist, a demagogue burning for revenge on the aristocracy, Ralph Palmer is for a while the idol of that class to whom he devotes himself heart and soul. Very bitter and heart-sickening is the disappointment that ensues, when having made " idols " of the people he "finds them clay." In his third career Ralph Acres, if a sadder, is a wiser and a better man. Improbable and even ridiculous as his story is in parte, it contains a very truthful lesson, and reads a warning to the young and enthusiastic. It abounds with life and adventure, and, as we have already said, with all its faults, it leads us to expect future excellence from its author. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. The following are lists of candidates who passed ;ho respective examinations indicated : FIRST B.Sc. EXAMINATION. ENTIRE. First Division.—Edward Atkins, private study—Wm. D. Killick, London Hospital—Andrew l\PDowall, High bury Training College—John Robertson, Private study— Edward Robinson, Owen's College, Manchester—William Stockton, Chester College. Second Division—Fred. K. Clarke (MA. Camb.), Clare College, Cambridge—Alfred Cooper, Cheltenham College L.? • — . William P. Irving, Now College—Henry W. Kearns, Kennington College—Arthur M‘Thugall, 0 wen's Colleg( Manchester—Thomas A. Pooley, private study—Richard B. Prosser, private study—William Shawcross, private study—John C. F. L. Sprengell (Ph. D.), Gottingen— Charks J. Woodward, Midland Institute. EXCLUDING M &THEMATIC 3. First Division—Alexander M. Thomson (B .A.) private study. Second Division—William C. Coupland (8.A.), School of Mines and University College, BACHELOR OF MEDICINE.—PRELIMINARY! SCIENTIFIC EXAMINATION, E N TIRE. First Division.—Arthur B. Adams, London Hospital— John A. Ball, Guy's Hospital—James C. Brown, Univer sity of Aberdeen—Francis J. Buckell, University College —Stephen W. Bushell, Guy's Hospital—William T. T. Dyer, King's College—Benjamin C. Gowing, Guy's Hospi tal—Rowland Heathcote, Royal Manchester—Samuel J. Hulme, Royal Manchester—Charles Kelly, King's College —Arthur M'Dougall, Owen's College—Augustus C. May bury, St. Thomas's Hospital—Thomas A. Pooley, private study—George A. Rogers, London Hospital—Charles J. H, Smith, University College —George 0. Spencer, University College—John D. Thomas, University College—John M. Whitwell, University College. Second Division. —Charles T. Aveling, St. Thomas's Hospital—Howard Barrett, St. George's Hospital— Francis Bateman, S t. Bartholomew's Hospital—Henry H. Birtweil, St. Thomas's Hospital—Paris Bradshawe, King's College—Thomas A. Buck, Private study—Richard Carter, Charing Cross Hospital—Thomas Cols, St. Bartholomew's Hospital—Regina ld Eager, Guy's Hospital—Charles F. Lethbridge, University College—George S. Madeley,Royal Manchester —Thomas C. Murphy, University College— George V. Poore, University College—Richard C. San ders, private study—James Sawyer, Queen's College, Bir minghara—John A. Smith, Middlesex He , pital—Rubert S. Smith, King's College—Alexander M'lvor Tindall, St. Bartholomew's Hospital—John B. Welch, King's College, CHEMISTRY AND BOTANY ONLY. First Division. —Other W. Berry, Charing Cross Hos. pitsi—James S. Cluff (B.A. Dublin) University College— Thomas M. Edwards, Andersonian Institution—Augustin B. Fry, Guy's Hospital—Ralph Gooding (8.A.) King's College—Boydell Graves, University College--John Grimes, King's College—Henry G. Howse, Guy's Hos pital—John P. Hughes, University College—John W. Nelson, Queen's College, Birmingham—George H. Orton, St. Bartholomew's Hospital—David C. L. Owen, Syden ham College, Birmingham—John Stuckey, University C o llege—Henry Summerhayes (B A.), St. Thoma s ' s Hos pital—William W. Wagstaff° (8.A.), S; Thomas's Hospital. Second Division—Joseph Lees, St. Thomas's Hospital— Fenwick Metclfe, King's College—William A Provis, King's College—Samuel II Smith, King's College. FIRST M.B. EXAMINATION. ENTIRE. First Division.—Bryan H. Allen, University College — Peter M. Deas, University and Surgeons' Hall, Edinburgh —olliver T. Duke, Guy's Hospital—Thomas 11. Green, University College—Philip B. Mason, University College —Revett C. Fowles, King's College—Frederick W. Richards, St. Bartholomew's Hospital—George IL Sa?lre' Guy's Hospital—Charles Smith, Guy's Hosp ital—V P m V. Snow, University College—and Francis T. TaYi Guy's Hospital. Second Division.—Joseph Birt, Sydel2ll7 College, Thomas Charles A. mingham—Thomas Bond, King's Edwards, Andersonian Instituticlriii°l32ll:;°w G. V, Lush, St. Greaves, St. Thomas's Hospital_ \ d Mackey, Queen's Col- Bartholomew's Hospital— Escigwaurrray, St. George's Hos lege, Birmingham—Tho raa iversity College—Charles E pital—Richard D. Powell, 11 —Henry Trimen, Ki ng ' s Squarey, University College _ _ College. C LIIDING P HYSIOLOGY. EX Division —Henry Chas. Hilliard, Guy's Hospital— First Guy's Hospital. Ebenezer F. Turner, Second Division —Thomas R. Glynn, St. Bartholomew's s Hospital—Charlelis os pit Read,al Hospital--Walter A.. Harvey, St. Bartholome w ', —Arthur T. Norton, bt. Mary' University College. PHYSIOLOGY ONLY. First Division.—Paleman Best, U Westminster Hospital —John J. Phillips, ton, (11 A.), London Hos nivlrsity College— IV Arthur W. Edis, Guy's Hospital—Walter Lnis\t,e pital—Frederick T. Roberts, (B'Se.), University College=- William J. Smith, University College—John K. Spender, King's College. Second Division—James Beddard, Guy's hospital—John Cooke, 'University College—Athenodore De Negri, 'Uni versity College—Henry S. Gale, King's College—Whilst* V. Jakins, University College—henry T. Lanchester, St Bartholomew's :,lio , pital—John Langton, St. Barilmlo mew's Hospital--. Richard M. Miller, University College— Frederick Simms, Ring's College. LAIN JOHN--WITH VARIATIONS !—Hansorn, lan, lamvvqs, Ans, Trio, Jack, lola, Enskies, Sbnwn, .Vanjucha, Vanjuscha, and one or two dozen other varieties, all mean the same universal John. From Riau' Lanthorn to John a Nokes, Johannis Blume (a daisy), John's Wort, and Ganabeere (a gooseberry), John is also common in country life. The commonest of all Christian names, it has furnished by far the most prolific: of surnames, for of course " Jones" is John, and so is Johns, Jackson, John son, Jenkins, Jansen, celebrated as Jansenius, and founder of the Jansenists.-4 AScraritGX 43.1,:65 1701,10.$ 40, , ,, - ,:c ex " Orfilion ;.I'.' Vacancies, &c., in the Civil Service. (From the Civil Eervice Gazette) Foreign Office—Lord Brabazon has been appointed clerk. Home Office—Lord Belhaven has been appointed Lord Lieutenant of Lanarkshire, in the room of the Duke of Ha. milton, deceased. _ War Office—Captain, E. F. Du Cane, R.E., has been appointed Inspector of Military Prisons, in the room of Sir Joshua Jebb, deceased ; Messrs. John Begot, Scriven, Geo. Coode Austin, and Edward Bowers Reeve, have been ap pointed clerks in the Accountant-General's office. Colonial Office—Mr. Thos. Graham has been appointed to be treasurer for the colony of British Honduras. India Office--Mr. Fr ,derick William Groves has been app• fitted a temporary clerk. Post-office—Vacancies—The postmastership of Coventry is vacant. Income, £216 per annum, and residence pro. %ided by the Crown. An inspectorship of mails in Ireland is vacant. Salary, £3OO per annum, with hotel allowances of 15s. per diem, and travelling expenses paid. Promotions —Messrs. J. Holmes and J. C. White have been promoted from 2d to Ist class of clerks in charge; Messrs. Freeling, Whither, Maclean, Hill, and Duke, have bean promoted from 3d to 2d class, Secretary's-office, London ; Mr. R. 0. Anderson, Inspector of Mails in Ireland, has been promoted to bo Controller of the Sorting-cffice, Dublin; Mr. IV. Molten, supplementary class, Dublin Post-office, has been promoted to the 2d class, Secretary's-office, Dublin ; Mr. Bowsher, principal clerk, Liverpool, has been promoted to be controller; Mr. Hunter, Ist class clerk at Liver :\Plo:lls,onh,assupbpelecninepnrtoamryoteedlastso, L be ive p r r p i o n o c l i , pa h l as cl b er e l e z n ; p M ro r .. . moted to bo 2d class clerk; Mr. Coghlan. Postmaster, of Wexford, has been promoted to be Postmaster of Galway - Mrs. Braine, as s i s t an t, B anbury Post-office, has been ' pro moted to be postmi s t ress; M r. N. W. Aspdin, Ist &perk, Derby, has been promoted to be postmaster of Wakefield ; Mr. E. Williams, cleric, Southampton, has been promoted to be postmaster of Great Yarmouth; Mr. Braine, clerk, Bury St. Edmunds, has been promoted to be postmaster of King's Lynn ; Mr. Bernard Nathaniel Thorns has been ap pointed a temporary clerk, London. Convict Service.—Mr. Gabriel Robinson Moran has been appointed a 3d class clerk. Convict Prisons Department.--Captain E. F. Du Cane has been appointed a director of convict prisons. Civil Service Commission.—Mr. Edward Alfred Collier has been appointed a clerk. Customs. —Appointments: Mr. John Austen has been appointed an out-door officer, London ; Mr. John Pethe rick has been appointed an out-door officer, London ; Mr. James Henry has been appoined an out-door officer, Mont rose. Promotions : Mr. Thos. G. Scott has been promoted from sth to 4th class of clerks, London Docks; Mr. James 0. Blair has been promoted from Gth to sth class of clerks, London Docks; Mr. Thos, Lavington has been promoted from sth to 4th class of gaugers, London ; Mr. M. Collins has been promoted from Gth to sth class of gaugers, London. Inland Revenue.— Stamps and Tax Branch : Mr. Benjamin Clarke has been promoted from the 4th to the 3d class, Receiver-General's department. Excise Branch : Mr. George Thomas Reed, officer, Charlbury-ride, Ox. ford collection, has been appointed to Farringdon ride, Oxford collection. Mr. John Steele, dropped Ist class assistant, Donne division, Stirling collection, has been appointed Ist class assistant, Charlburyride, Oxford collection. Mr. William Johnstone, 2d class assistant, Stirling collection, has been appointed 2d class assistant Perth collection; Mr. Evan Isaac has been appointed 2d class assistant, Bristol collection ; Mr. Charles Sanderson, Ist class assistant, Alloa, sth division, Stirling collection, has been appointed Ist class assistant, Aberavon, ride, Wales, East collection; Mr. Patrick Ryan, Ist class assist ant, Falkirk, 3d division, Linlithgow collection, has been appointed Ist class assistant, Falkirk, Ist division, Linlith gow collection ; Mr. John Venters, dropped Ist class assistant, Argyle collection, has been appointed Ist class assistant, Glasgow, 7th division, Glasgow collection; Mr. Walter Galbraith has been appointed 2d class assistant, Ayr collection. The Acclimatisation Society of Great Britain. The monthly meeting of the council was held at two o'clock on 'Wednesday, the sth inst., at the offices of the society, 3, Duke-street, Adelphi—E. 'Wilson, Esq., V.P., in the chair. Present, Messrs. Wilson, Waterhouse, Hawkins, J. J. Stone, J. Bush, F. Buckland, and J. Lowe. The following candidates for admission into the society were proposed and elected :—as life members, Lord Brown low, Sir Harry Stacey, Bart., M.P., NV. Morrison, Esq., M.P., F. H K. G. Calthorpe, Esq., M.P., and E. 11. Moscrop, Esq. As annual subscribers, his Grace the Arch bishop of Dublin, D. F. Fortescue, Esq., G. A. Sala, Esq., H. Early, Eeq., B. Sharp, Esq., Capt. Grant, J. Pilking ton, Esq., M.P., and E. A. Moriarty, Esq. Mr. Lowe reported the arrival of eggs of the Bombay Cynthia, and also a box of live worms of the same species. The former were procured through the kindess of M. Name, a member of the council of the French Societe cl'Acclima tation. ; and the latter had been sent by M. Guerin-lnne ville, director of the sericultural branch of the imperial farm at Vincennes. The eggs were all hatched out, and the worms were all under the care of Mr. Bash, the honoraty treasurer. It was ordered that specimens should be sent to members requiring the same. A letter was read from Mr. Stone, a member of the coun cil, detailing a scheme which he had in view for obtaining birds of game from India, through the aid of Government. Mr. Stone handed in a list of the birds which it was desir able to obtain, and explained the manner in which the birds could be collected, and how the breeding of these birds might be made a profitable source of income to the society. The following resolution was agreed to : That Messrs. Buckland, Bush, and Stone be elected a committee, to obtain importations of Indian pheasants and birds of game for the society, and to endeavour to get the assistance of the Secretary of State and Governor-General of India for that purpose, and that they be empowered to pledge the society's funds to a moderate extent for payment of the expenses. A letter was read from Mr. Coles, of Bath (a brother of Mr. Coles, of Lidgetown, Southern Africa), stating that he could send elands at moderate price. It was resolved. unanimously : That Mr. Bush be authorised to write to Mr. Coles, in reply to his letter, to obtain two female elands and one male for the society, at the coat named in his letter ; and that arrangements tie made for shipping and transmitting them, provided the cost be not more than £4O per animal. A premium of £lO each to be offered for each, living animal safely delivered. It wa3 reported by the members who had visited the Alexandra Park, at Muswell-hill, that, although the site was a very beautiful one, and apparently favourable to the health of birds and animals, the arrangements at the park were not yet sufficiently settled to warrant the Council in recom mending the society to accept the liberal offer of the direc tors, inasmuch as a greater immediate outlay would be required than the society would be justified in subtracting from its funds. The secretaries were ordered to write a letter of thanks to the directors of the Alexan Ire P ar k Company, and an expression of regret that the society is as yet unable to avail itself of their liberal offer. Mr. Hawkins proposed that some arrangement should be made with Mr. Bush for the temporary occupation of part of his premises. At present the society had no place which it could properly call its own, and where persons desirous of seeing what the society is doing might g o an d j u d ge f or themse l ves , without trespassing upon the privacy of Mr. Bush. Eventually it was agreed— That Mr. Hawkins, Mr. Stone, and Mr. Buckland be appointed a committee to arrange with Mr. Bush the terms between himself and the society for the accommodation and maintenance of animals, birds, &c,, belonging to the society." Mr. Backland presented a parcel of seeds of the Elephant Grass, which had been sent to him. These were ordered to be distributed. 'With reference to the' Gold Schley," or spotted tench, presented to the society by Mr. Berney, it was resolved that they should be entrusted to Mr. Higiord Burr, Alder maston Court, near Reading, with a view to brecding. " THE TWELFTH."—From all quarters we hear that the prospects for the 12th were never more cheering to the sportsman. Grouse are numerous and strong and swift, and improving rapidly in condition; blackcock, pheasants, and hares are abundant; partridges are also well advanced. The deer prospects are partica larly good, and fawns are very numerous. BONHOMMIE OF THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON —Another letter from Vichy relates the following anecdote of the Emperor :—" At the end of the week as his Majesty was taking ono of his usual walks, a group of pea. cants, who were crowding round to gat a good view, were ordered to stand back by an officer of the imperial suite. In reply to this injunction, an old peasant said : Ohl sir, you see him every day, whenever you please ; but we come half a day's journey every other year to admire him. Bo just, sir, and lot us see him at our case.' The Emperor, who was conversing with Prince Murat at the time, heard every word of the old man's request, and, turning to him, took his hand, and said : ' Why do you not come every year. my friend ?" Oh I Monsieur I'Empereur, every one takes his turn ; last year my wife and son came; this year it is my daughter and myself I'" SCOTCH LUNATICS.—Six years ago the report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the state of Lunacy in Scotland, startled the whole country by the rovelationa contained in its able and elaborate report. A, a matter of course that report waa assadel, especially Scotland, but the experience of the Gene: al Board of Lunacy has since amply confirmed the full truth of its state ments. We are glad to see that the Governrnent,by recom mending Dr. James Cos a to her Majesty for the honour of knighthood, have now recognhe 1 the et' vic of the Royal Commission. Dr. Coxo was associated s in the Scottish Com mission with the late Sheriff Monteith cud two of tho English Lun ac y Commissioners, i l lr. Camph oil and Mr. Gabke p, but the other avocations of These gentlemen pre vented their giving their full time and attention to its duties, and in Scotland Dr. Cuxi was locked up..n es t hi:fly roponsiblo for its etatozwats, .... les• [age red Re- the cess )ne. cese pith the our, rigs sere Lard the [ in ud- ieW rtli the till ide we ,e -e- lice ad irs ad he ,r -la ao 1 , 46