The Sun. — London, England, 1863-10-31 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET( SHARE AND COMIERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. A very active demand prevails in the Money Market for accommodation, and 31 4 per cent. are the lowest charges for short-dated bills. A further sum of £65,000 in bar gold was with drawn from the Bank yesterday for exportation. In the foreign exchasges yesterday afternoon a general downward movement took place. Since Monday last the imports of specie have amounted to £723,500, and the exports to £706,000. The Bank of Holland has raised its .k rateof Frank. fort B count from 3to 31 per cent., and the an fort from 32 to 4 per cent. The National Steam Navigation Company is a new undertaking of great importance. It is proposed to place on the New York station a fleet of screw steamers from Liverpool and London, of large size and capacity, which, from the regularity of their passages, will doubtless command a full share of the steam trade, as well as that of sailing vesse l s . As time shall mature the progress of the company's operations, steamers are to ply to ports in South America, and, when the war is over, to the American cotton ports. Provisional arrangements have been made whereby three new steamers have been secured, and contracts have been entered into for the building of others of about 3,500 tons each. The operations of the com pany are to commence by fortnightly services each way, to be increased to weekly as soon as all the vessels are ready. The ports of departure are to be—Liverpool for the weekly line, and London to the extent the metropolitan trade may require. Reference is made in the prospectus to the success of kindred institutions, such as the Cunard and Inman Company, the Pacific Steam Navigation Company, &c. The capital required is £2,e00,000, which is divided into 20,000 shares of £lOO each. The board of direction is respectably and influentially constituted, and the project is recommended by about sixty Lyndon firms, includ ing Messrs. Rothschild, Peabody, Rodocanachi, &c. The shares are now 41 to 51 prem. Two O'CLOCK. English St oc k s continue dull and without altera tion. There is an absence of speculation in this department, and the bona fide operations are also very small. Consols remain at 93 s for money and account. The New Threes and Reduced are 913 1-; Exchequer Bills are ls. dis. to 2s. prem.; India 6 per Cent., 1091 ; d o., 4 per Cent., 100 i ; do. 4 per Cent. Enfaced Paper, 981; do. 5 per Cent., 1061, 107 ; and do. 51 per Cent., 115 1. In the Foreign Market there is not much ani mation, and prices tend downwards. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 713 1; do., Consolides, 53 hlexican, 403 3 ; Greek, 30 4 ; do., Coupons, 143 3; Portuguese, 493 50 ; do., New Loan, 13 23 prem. ; Spanish Passive, 353 3 ; and do., Certificates, 1313. Business in the Railway Share Market has been moderately active, but in most instances prices have shown less firmness. Great Eastern, Great Northern, and North Western have declined London and Brighton, Metropolitan, and Mid land, 1 ; and Caledonian and South Eastern, 1. The Foreign and Colonial lines show little chang e of importance. Bank Shares have also in same instances been rather flatter. Chartered of India, London, and China have declined to 72 1; Union of Australia to 601. In the Miscellaneous Market London Financial shares have improved to 16k, and Royal Mail Steam have declined to 763. The latest current quota tions for several of the principal new undertakings are as subjoined :—lndia Lind Mortgage Bank, 23 31 prem.; East London 3 to 31 prem ; Mercan tile Credit, 31 31 prem.; S wedisn Bank, 41 5 prem.; National Shipping Company, 51 6 prem.; and,. Discount Company, 9i 10 prem. BRITISH FUNDS —CLOSING PRICES. 3 per Cent. R e d uce d A nnu i t i es 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities New 3 per Cent. Annuities India Stock, 1874 Ditto 5 pei Cent. 1870 Ditto 4 per Cent. 1888 lOO2 i Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. t B i 8 f Ditto 5 per C eN t lO6 7 Ditto 51 per Cent Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct., 1863 1151— Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 100 f 2 Co nsols for Account, Oct. 8.. 93 E xchequer Bill s , £lOOO, 22 per Cent.... 1 di 3 e 2 pm 1 D itto £SOO Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Brazilia n 5 per C ent Ditto Scrip, 1863, £l5 paid E gyptian 7 pet Cent lOl2 Gree to A k 6 pccounter Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons 301 1 30 Di Ditto Coupons 1 Ditto Account l4l Mexica n 3 per Cent D itto Account New Granada Peruvian 3 per Cent. Ditto 41 per Cent., 1862 - Ditto Account Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62 — D itto Account Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, X • St Ditto 5 per Cent. 186'2 93 SardinianDittoAmsopuenrtC.!l.t .............. 8---9. Spanish 3 per Cent 4 Ditto Ac3ount ****** Ditto Passive ********************** 55 Ditto Account *************** ** ****** --- 1 2 Spanish Cert. of Coup notfu.nded ******* 36- - - Ditto Account.,,,.************** 1 - 31 Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 Ditto, £lOO Bonds Ditto 6 per • Cent. 1862 VDitto Account enezuela 3 p er Cant. Ditto Account Ditto 6 per C en t., 1862 Ditto Account Dividends on the above payable in London. TWO O'CLOCK. Ditto t Consols Money ...................... 93 it Account .............. 'his day, ORDINARY SHARES AND STOu.h S. Share; Railways. Paid.' Closing I Busines. ! Price. I done. Bir.. Wol., and Str. Val Blythe and Tyne. Bost.,Sleat.,andMidx;o Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cora and Bandon Cornwall Do A A " . ets no diN I - Do. B filltipc.pan.has been paid to B. Dublin .1: Belfast June. Dun.,Perth,&Ab. Junc. Edinburgh & Glasgow. Giasg. and S. Western.. Great Eastern, Ord. stk Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian st GreatNorthof Scotland Great Northern Do A stock Do Id do Gt. S. an .1 W. of Irelan Great Western Do Str Val gua. stock Lancashire & Yorkshire London and 131ackwal , Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western 'Lon. & So•.th Western Man., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do 3 shares Metropolitan Midland Do New Do Birming. & Derby Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. 4 shares Mid Kert Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do, G.N.E. purchase n Do Leeds Do York Do Carlisle.. North London Do New • North Staffordshire 13.14, 8 84 i 8 i F 3 r 5 120 121 7 7i 39 40 16 17 98 100 108 Ilu 50 61 47 48 7 9 N. and S. W. Junction, Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock Do Scot Mid. stock Shrews. and Welchpoo; ;Shropshire Union . South Devon South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines, Wok.,and Wok Stockton k Darlington Do Do New, 1866 Taff Vale. . Do B Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of heath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.,tlt West Midland -Oxford Do Newport Do Hereford 83 1191 129 130 133 134 1M 136 100 ic2 66 £6l 'llli 112 71 73 110 112 46 (7 105 105/ 101 102 49 50 50; 2 129} 111 f 71, 112 11i 161 104 i 51 41 501 1 50! 130 131 129.4 :30 11 1/ 98 1.40 54 E 5 25 17 1011 102: 130} 30 129 f I i 43 4 103 f THE LATE GALE, FLEETWOOD, Friday Night. The lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution on this station has performed most important service to a ship- Wrecked crew on the Barnard Sand Bank some distance &cm this place. Last night it was blowing a violent gale front NV. by N., when signals of distress were observed to be e xhibited from a vessel between Fleetwood and the Foot to W yre Lighthouse. The lif e bo a t i mme di a t e ly p u t o ff in t O W of the steam-tug Wyre, which towed the boat as near the Sands as she could with safety, and then cast her off, When the lifeboat was soon hidden from sight. The boat I,....whaeriad,sptrhoceeieded through the broken water on the Bank to gnal lights, and soon came in sight of the schooner ziort eern 'gat of Preston, which was beating over the ,_ sa r n r d i with several sails set, the sea breaking over her with r,go?ffetcafloonrcges.i:,ef, ter repeated trials and courageous exertions they at length succeeded in getting the of all h crew on b oard the lifeboat, amidst the hearty cheers woaonddst.hatTh lifeboat w as th en so f ar to l eewar d o f w aY it wh was thought i mpract i ca bl e t o ma k e head for e ue t eeth of th e gale, tide, and sea, and she there ere tl b n ef° re the gal e f or Sunderland, near Lancaster, of this varixTl,ia.n.ded in safety about midnight. The cost tional Lifebett:bylfeboat was recently presented to the Na t, institution by Miss Wasay. During a tersifi DROGHEDA Friday Night. _ the lifeboat o f the re of wi n d this morning from the W, at this plac e wan Z on al Lifeb oa t I nstitution stationed Gipsy, of and for this me ans of rescuing the crew of the came ashore ou th e N o r T , With coals, from Preston, which beur, where she n ew re all at the entrance to the her ceedingly well on th e ece 4 o h n B : The lifeboat behaved ex.. 1101.vattan, Friday Night. Captain Priest, R t ePorts th lifebovaatlbuealbolnegsienrg vices rendered to a foreig4 vessel be follo winght;:3;rtkeetationed at this port. to the National Lifeboat 17iai He states—" It was blowing day, veering from south to Went. a . v?' gale here yester were three vessels in the bay „ e horedtwu P.m" there Positions, with signals of distress fl ying , ate dangerous out and took in tow a foreign brig, h ut owingtuto tug Went lenee of the \kind and heavy sea the tug w as Parted fr omile vie" and the vessel was left in imminent danger on a leeshhereer, The lifeboat was thereupon immediately launched, and proceeded to the vessel's assistance. Upon reaching u nd er brig two of the lifeboat's crew wore put on board, u n d er Whose guidance she fortunately succeeded in weathering Carmel Point, and eventually bore up safely for Beautuaris. The lifeboat behaved admirable on the occasion. There NV " 00 much sea on that the boat, mast, and sails were fre quently lost sight of between the waves, as watched from h igh tower on shore. 58 e 9 88 69 119 121 1 2 79 80 Hi 1 it 124 126 44 16 100 102 9.18.4 60 62 32 33i 961 07i t 2.10 98 100 9g 104 364 34 8 4 94 c. 7 1 165 160 4g 6g 2g 3g p 90 89/ 86 90 170 180 524 3it 96j 4 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Ulosiu 'hart 100 ,illantic tk St Lawrenct all 63 45 61 liom.,Barodalz.Cent Inn 1 Gu. 5 per cent... lO6l 1074 107 20 Do. New 20 Do. E. Shares.. .06 Buffalo and Lake Hum, al a 64 64 1 0 Do. Preterunce all 84 94 00 1 llnlialo,l3rant,&Godricl, ii) p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 137' LOu Do. do. July 1, IS7:- we 100 Jo. do. Jua 1, is s 100 at n..llcutta.itS.l4:astu. I, 100 115 107 at Cape Town Dock Sera, 100 114 106 stock Eastn. Bengal gu. sp. 100 108 109 stock bast Indian. gu. sp. c. to o 108 109 1081 20 Do. do. (9 Ext..... 10 14 14p 20 Do. do. H do. .. 10 If 1 s stock Grand Trunk of Canada le. 24 221 100 Do. Ist Prel. Bonds.. all 76 /8 761 7 100 Do. no. deferred...... all 62 64 100 Do. 2d Pref. Bonus.. all 70 72 71/ 100 Du. do. defer ed...... all 54 57 100 Do. 3d P ef. stock ... all 52 54 100 Do. do. deterred...... all 41 43 93 100 Do, 4th I'ref. sin all 31 33 100 Do. do. deferred...... all 25 27 261 stock Utandial'enui.gua.sp.c LOU 1081 109,; 1094 20 Do. New gua. sp. n... 12 14 11, 20 Do. January, 1862 .. 8 14 l 4 stock Gt. South.ol lndfa(Lim, .4uaranteed 5 per cent. 1.00 106 107 201 Ist. W. of Canada Shares all 101 101 204 'Do. New . • lB lei 04 100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. all 90 98 964 100 Do. 54 p. o. do. '77-8 . all 87 89 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 f ip dock Madras guar., 5p.C. .. 100 1061 1u74 1064 [took Do. 44 p. o. Extensicna 100 101 102 104 'took De. 4* d 0........ 100 48 100 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 -- tuck 31elb.Corp. 6p. c. Buds 100 50 llelb. & Hobson's Bay. all 58 69 100 Do. 7p. c. 51ortg. Bds. all 20 Newlit uu!swick Canda Class A and B all 8 5 po Ist pt bds 100 82 84 1 104 a Soinde .......... (100 106 i 1071 107 st {Do. Delhi d w P 100 106 107 Do. do . cs 2 4 }p 20 Do. Punjaub ‘Ts all ——p at Do. Do. , luu 106 107 rick Do.lndus.St.Flo.f ,lOO 102 IC4 , stock 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 4took stock 204 204 lOU too 10 stock stock stock 20 Mock ,toc. 8t COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. t, p.c.J citd Wy - 1877-84 Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug. 100 Ic2 101 Do. dp. c.Mar. & Sept. 100 102 104 Do.: p. c. Jan. &July. 100 93 04 Do. 6 Inscribed stock 100 92 94 'Cape G.Hope, 6p 100 108 110 Do.Ap &Oct. 1886 100 109 111 I Do. 1818. 100 109 111 I Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 1.00 113 115 113 Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c Luu 113 Mauritius 6 per cent .. 100 197 108 108 Natal Guy. 8 per cant.. 100 1 1 .7 lop N.B.Gov. p.c.Ja.&J illy 100 LO4 1( 6 Juo. dp. o.Ap. & Oct. 100 N. S.W. Gov. 5 p a.,18 100 1014 1024 Du. sp. c.,18/1 to 1,1 100 102 103 Do. d0.,1888 & upwdk 100 102. 103 New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 109 111 ;Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. I sterling, 1875 IOU 104 106 'Queensland Gcv. 6p. c lOO L:1 113 16. Aus Gr6p.c.187e.& up IOU 112 114 112 - i Gov. 6 p.o. Ja.JuJuly 100 108 110 - Do. to k p.c. An.&Ook. 100 1101 111 ii 111,4 I - BRITISH MINES. 2 'Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 4 #d :Milord Amalgamated 3 7 4 38 4 Deven G. Cons. (Tavist , 1 5i5 055 East Bassett (11logan) 30 68 72 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd. 53. id par East Caradon ...... 264 274 East Cam Brea 3.4.0 61 71 E. VrlP.ussel (Tavistk , 8.6.6 31 31 IGam.&St.Aubyn(Gwen ) 13 15 Great South Tolgus 17s 4/ 6 'G. Wheal Voraleleton 40 lu 11 Grenville 11 end's-Foot ti.lt 24 36 f iingston Downs 4. 8.0 11 24 Lady Bertha Margaret (tiny Lelact ap 1? 21 Marke Valley.. 4 Myndy Iron Oro (Lim 2/ 15 New Setun l9l 95 105 -- North Downs 2/ 11 2 Basset (111o.fau 1.17. 21 3 North Wheal Crofty Par Consols(st. Blazey is 20 erovidenee(Uny Lelnt.; 10.0.; 14 16 - SouthCaradon(StCleer 14 415 125 3. Carn Brea (Illogan) 5.15.6 Fran. (Mogan i. 5 60 65 Stray Park 30.17.6 36 38 S famar Si)v.dz Lead Mill t 6 fin Crolt 1 19 10 19 West Basset (Illogan) ll 114 10/ W C radon (Liskeard, 5 19 21 West &ton Wheal Basset (Illogan, 5/ 75 89 Wheal Buller(ltedruth) 5 18 22 Whcal Kitty(U.Lelant) 2.0.6 Wheal Led, ott Wheal IVlaryAnn;lden ) 8 111 124 —(Wheal 3eton . . 584 lis 185 - heal Treiawney (Lis.) 7 20 22 - IWheal Union 3.17 21 3 2i 3 PREFERENCE SHARES. Stockton and Darlington, B 6 per cent., 33,1 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. London, Chatham, &c., Metrop. Ext., B, 6 per cent., Ditto, 6 per cent., C, 87 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 9 Bahia and San San Paulo 1 1m.), gua 1 7 p e r t cen m.) n. t., —gu 7 per cent., 19 1 81 ist Dittd (a.l), 222 Turin and Savona, Ditto (all). 16a Western and North-Western of France, 201 FOILEIGN MINES. Yudanamutana of S. Austrttia (lim.), 2; JOIN T-STOCK IsANKS. Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool (Ura.), 48 Australasia, Ditto, new, 394 84 British and American Exchange (Um.), 16 I Chartered 'ter. of India, London, and China, 72 Colonial, 40 Continental, Um., 94 English and Irish (liin.), 14 Imperial Bank (lim.), 234 Imperial Ottoman, 184 18k London Chartered Bank of Australia, 30 London and South African, '4B London and Westminster, 80 Oriental Bank Corporation, 58 Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi (Inn.l, ef Union of Australia, 594 60} London, 69} 9 i St. Katharine, 691 DOCKS. MISCELLANEOUS. Gen. Crnlit and Finance of London, Hudson s Bay. 9 81 International Financial Society, lim., 101 Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour), Ditto, 6 per cent. Bonds, redem. 1870, issued 90, 89 Joint •stock Discount, 61' • London Financial Association, lim., 151 161 16 National Dicount Company, lirn., 9/ Peninsula and Oriental Steam, 85 Ditto, new, 62 16 Royal Mail Steam. 16,1 Trust and Loan Company of Upper Canada, 5i Commander G. W. Watson, R.N., and the officers of her Mojesty's sloop Peterel, now stationed in the West Indies, have forwarded to the National Lifeboat Institution a kind contribution of £3. MONEY ORDERS.—In future when delay of PaYntent of a money order for ten days is desired, the re mitter must, at the time of issue, affix a penny receipt sta mp on the order, and write his name across it. The tohrdeer r ouit then be ha n ded to th e issuing officer, so that necessary instructions may be gi ven t o th e p a yi ng . By conlok ary.and of th e P os t mas t e r -G enera l , R OWLAND H ILL, Secret THE SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, ocroBER 31, 1853. well known to him. They were a pest to the publicans and shopkeepers in Rateliff-highway, High-street, Shadwell, and Broad-street, Rateliff. They were cJalwhippers, and worked one day and were idle six more. They had been in the practice of going into public-houses demanding beer of the customers, and, if they did not give it them, they used their fists. Mr. Partridge said the prisoners were lazy and savage ruffians, and had been guilty of several violent assaults. Ha sentenced them to be imprisoned for six weeks for tbe as sault on Mr. Mills and six weeks for the assault on the pot man, with hard labour in both cases, the second sentence to commence on the expiration of the first. If they were ever brought before him again for a similar outrage, he would commit them for trial. European Impressions of the Japanese Ambassadors. Every one remembers, says our Paris contem porary La Patric, the Japanese Ambassadors who last year visited France and England. We have not forgotten their inquisitive curiosity. Truly these impassionate personages should not hava forgotten a single incident of the entirely new spectacle which presented itself to their eyes. It was everywhere remarked with what avidity they listened to and took notes of the explanations of their interpreter. On their return hoine they hastened to arrange these notes, which have just been printed at Jeddo. A Frenchman who has lived there for some time, on seeing this book, immediately translated and sent us the introduction, which we give word for word, persuaded that it will be interesting to our readers : HISTORY OF THE TRAVELS OP THE JAPANESE COMMIS SIONERS IN EUROPE. Published at Jeddo, March 28, 1863. By Fou-yah. I NTRODUCTION. The races of the West all closely resemble each other. They all clothe themselves in the same manner, eat with the same ceremonies, &c. They differ little in the dark ness of their complexion and colour of their ;lair. Their arms are the same: — The French appear to value them more than their neighbours, and we were told that they are more skilled in their use. In truth, the movements of the French soldiers do appear more lively and active than those of the so:diers of the other nations. Their sabres are much inferior to ours, but they do not appeal to attach much importance, to them, and prefer firearms. We never saw sword or spear exercise ; to make up for this they attach a sort of sabre to the end of their guns, and use it where we use the spear. The rit, s or ceremonies appear very light, although it would be very wrong to say there are none ; but the most striking thing about them is )hat these ceremonies are almost the same for personages of rani( as for ordinary men. They lift their hat and make a slight movement of the head, such is the salutation for every one. It would appear that there is but little respect for, or distinction of class. Thus, in our aadience with the Emperor of France and other Sovereigns, their Majesties were not separated from us by any veil. The consort of the Sovereign was even there, neither veiled nor concealed, seated on a seat as high as that of her husband. Notwithstanding this, the nobles were extremely polite in France; even too much so some times, especially at dinner, where, in order to please them, it was necessary to eat and drink more than was agreeable. As to the other men, they are less polite. The greater number stared at and touched ua, and passed remarks on us in our hearing ; nor did they conceal that they thought us very ugly. Of the women, some are very handsome--for example, the Empress. They are, however, in general leas so than in America. Their noses are sometimes higher than those of the men—they walk like men, taking long steps; look men in the face, and laugh a great deal, sometimes very loud. In order to make themselves look taller, they make their bonnets stick above their heads. Even tha modest women dance a great deal. They hook on to the arms of the men ; and there are dap; when every man has a woman hanging on to his arm. Are they their own wives ? We think so. In general the women enjoy great liberty. What we say of die women of France applies to those of all Europe. The latter, ,with the exception of the Dutch, are inferior to the French. We will not speak of their costume ; it is impossible to understand it. In the evenings it is not always decent. The men are stiff and a little proud or rough. However the respectable as well as the lower classes carry no arms. A respectable man seldom carries about him any marks of his rank. It would seem that all classes —even the upper ones—frequent cafes. Even the superior officers go to the theatre, for which they have a great passion. We have regretted more than once not having understood what was said there. Almost every one was armed with opera.. glasses, which wore often ditected at us—doubtless through absence of mind. The shopkeepers are haughty, and saluted us only in a very middling degree. They did not like us to derange the ...tisko in thou shop duutnless zeekoned un our buying a great deal from them. We were able to see that the mechanicians and useful tradesmen were more respected than the mere shopkeepers. The articles of diet are almost the same as with us ; how ever, they eat but little rice and fish, but, on the other hand, much meat and pastry. We were extremely dis gusted at Paris and elsewhere to see beef and mutton still bloody exposed in the most public rhops. To eat beef is often medicinally useful, buc why present it to the eyes of all the world. Is it not sinful thus to despise so useful an animal ? It was truly shocking to several of our party. However, the cookery of the French is good, and their wine excellent. The wine is the best thing they have, and does not yield in anything to our " saki" (a drink made from fermented rice). The dress of the men appears at first ridiculous and cur tailed, however, it must be convenient and economical. In Paris as in London, every one walks very fast, as with us when there is a fire. Their houses are so high that they must fall on the first earthquake —they appear, neverthe less, to be proof against fire. We will speak of the marvel lous things we saw in the order in which we saw them. THE TURKISH BATII AS A CURE FOR HYDRO PHOBIA.—Dr, Buisson has addressed the following communication to the Abellle Atedicale. We give it ver batim :—" A single vapour bath is sufficient to prevent hydrophobia by eliminating the virus, nevertheless, for the sake of greaier security, I caused seven to be taken in as many days, at a temperature of from 42 to 48 deg. Reaumur (127 to 140 Fahrenheit). Care should be taken to press the wound well while in the bath, in order to pro mote tho expulsion. Immediately after the bite has been inflicted, wash the wound with a piece of linen dipped in liquid ammonia, and leave it on, in a moist state, for at least an hour, to neutralize the virus. My treatment does not prevent cauterization —a very uncertain process, since all those labouring uoder the disease whom I have treated had been cauterized. If the disorder has declared itself, I only prescribe a single bath, and leave the patient in it till the cure is effected, taking care to raise the temperature gradually. Hydrophobia may last three days; experience has proved to me that the cure is certain on the first day of the outbreak; on the second it is uncertain, and on the third impossible, from the difficulty and danger there would be in conveying the patient to the bath, and keeping him in. Who would wait for the third day, knowing my treatment? Nor should one wait for the outbreak; it ought always to be prevented. Hydrophobia never breaks out before the seventh day, so that there is time to per form a long journey to obtain what is called a Russian vapour bath."—Galignani's lifessenger.—[The original in troducer of the Turkish Bath once said,--" I should not mind my own child beinz bitten by a mad dog, so certain am I that the Bath would cure him." At the first public meeting held at Cork on the subject of the Bath, in August, 1856, Mr. Urquhart spoke as follows :—" Some time since I asked a medical man to find me a case of hydrophobia, as I was convinced that disorder must yield to the Bath. He told me that my idea had been antici pated, only one case of cure being known. It was the use of a French physician, who, having been bitten by a mad dog, and suffering from the first symptoms of the disorder, knowing that medicine was of no avail, and thinking only how he could die most easily, had himself carried into a vapour bath, there to remain till death. He remained until life. He was carried out cured," THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL'S QUARTER LY RE TURN.—This return, comprising the births and deaths in the quarter ended Sept. 30, and the marriages in the quarter ending June 30, shows some important changes. " After a season of depression which extended over two years, the marriage-rate rallied in the quarter of the cur rent year, and rose decidedly above the average in the sub• sequent quarter. The improvement indicates increased con fidence in the minds of the people in respect to their ability to earn a sufficient and comfortable subsistence. The births were more numerous than they had ever been in the summer quarter before ; and the proportion they bore to the popula tion in which they occurred was higher than usual. But while the aspect of the returns is favourable as regerds marriages and births, a tale of deaths, which is heavier than thatefany summerquarter since the year of epidemic cholera,lBs4,shows that the public h alth was far from being in a satisfactory state. The death rate was considerably higher than it had been in any of the corresponding quarters that have inter vened since 1854. Epidemic diseases spread with destruc tive force amongst the young; and apparently the season was less salubrious than it usually is to older persons. The number of persons married in the June quarter was 88.116 ; they were married at an annual rate of 1•72 to a hundred persons in the population. The average rate for the same quarter is 1,69 per cent. In the two corresponding quarters cf 1361-2 the rates were 1.68 and 1 . 61, A certain number of the prospective alliances of those two years, deterred in expectation of better times, would doubtless attain their consummation in the present year." Captain Summers, the commander of the Lady of the Lake was brought up yesterday again before the magistrates at Southampton on a charge of man slaughter, through running down a boat in Southampton Water, by which a fisherman was drowned. The magis trates, after hearing further evidence, adjourned the case to Wenesday next. LITERATURE. Miss Kavanagh's New Novel. Queen Mab. By .Talialavanagh, author of "Na thalie." Three Vols. Hurst and Blackett. Miss Kavanagh chiefly excels in the portrayal of strong emotions. Her stories do not lack incident, on the contrary, they abound with vicissitudes, but however interesting the adventures related in her narratives, that interest is subordinate. It is not the outward actions, it is rather the minor feelings of the hero or heroine that here chiefly enlist our sympathy and enthrall our attention. Mab— " Quee n Mab"—th e very charming heroine of this tale is, like "Nathalie," endowed with very ardent sensibilities. With her, as with the former heroine, love is not an illusion of fancy or a temperate affec tion, but the master passion of a life. As Shak- spere's Joliet, the ideal incarnation of that senti ment, when excusing her own ingenuousness, ex claims— " But, trust me, gentlemen, I'll prove more true Than those who.have more cunning to seem strange." So does Mab attest her heart's fidelity by a life's, apparently hopeless, devotion. If Nathalie chained us by her coquetry, while she moved our sympathy by her emotions, Queen Mab has higher charms. Hers is a far superior character, and we are inclined to regard her history as the most successful of Miss Kavanagh's literary achievements—always perhaps excepting " Madelaine," that short, simple, touch ing, " tale of Auvergne" which, now some years back, revealed to us the true story of the marvellous ptience and memorable triumph of the peasant maiden of Auvergne who, penniless herself, begged for alms from village to village, and town to town, until alone she procured funds sufficient to erect a hospital in her native dwelling-place. We cannot forget the simple pathos with which Miss Kava • n agh charmed us in that narrative. Since Made laine, we have liked none of her heroines so well as tbat charming, fresh, original, and most loveable creation. The story is divided into four parts ; the .vvo later " 111,.b's Faith" and " the cost of the vic- tory" occupy the end o f t h e secon d vo l ume, an d the whole of the third, and reveal the stormy history of poor MA's loving heart in the furnace of great tribulation, but tender and truthful through good and evil. The two earlier divisions are entitled Mr. Ford" and " Mr. Ford's son." The opening chapters, although full of interest, are most impro bable. In deference, perhaps unconsciously, to the sensational predilections of the day, Miss Kavanagh has enveloped Mab's history in a cloud of mys tery. The " secret" (so all-essential now a.days) is very adroitly guarded, and we are pro perly mystified until t h e r i ght moment. Mr. Ford, whose weak, wayward, impressionable cha racter exerts a powerful influence over Mab's des tiny, is well described, and his errors and his good ness alternately enlist our sympathy and excite our contempt. Mr. Ford's family residence is a gloomy mansion in Queen -square. The house and its in habitants are going to rack and ruin. Mr. Ford, living in the neglected parlour, habitually endea vours to solace himself for the decay of his business by an extra glass of grog. His three boys would be growing u p in unm anageable idleness were it not for the discipline maintained over them by Robert, the eldest brother--" Mr. Ford's son," the hero of the second portion of the narrative. While the rest of the house is in this pitiable condition, under the superintendenc e of the devoted but slat ternly Susan, absolute calm and abiding order reign undisturbed in the lonely drawing-rooms, where Mrs. Ford, the victim of some nervous indisposi tion, has been a prisoner for seven years. Devoted to his wife, who, unhappily, has learned to despise his weakness all kraess d o fc o h m a e r s a t e ic character, Mr. F or d, a b et t e d b y Susan, troubles from the know ledge of the useless but arbitrary mistress of the mans ion. Hero io a specimen of this marvellous state of things : OUR MARY ANNE. Mr. Ford closed the door on his visitor; then going to the head of the kitchen stairs, he asked, in a subdued tone, "Susan, are the boys ready to go and see their mother?" "The boys ha' been and adone all sorts of mischief, sir," shortly answered Susan, appearing on the stairs, and speaking in the same key ; " whil s t I opened the door to the g one ate th e t art, and the other the psitgraenon,e gentlem an, thatwas for missus's dinner. They're worse than cats, them boys--:they are I" Mr. Ford had a pimple on his forehead, which he always scratched in cases of difficulty. He now recurred to it with a look more perplexed than indignant. . 4 "I am afraid the poor fellow s ars often hungry, " sighed ; you. must get somethi ng else, Susan. " "I told m issus the cat had d one i t. God forgive me all the stories F sto o r r i d es Ido tell in this house. And she said ' never mind.' " " Well, that is all right ; is it not ?" it Why, no, sir, it ain't. The cat made me bring in Mary A n n, and what do you think missus is up to now ? Why, she wants Mary Ann upstairs." Now Mary Ann was a fiction, the myth of the household, and this was a most inconvenient wish, as Mr. Ford's lengthened face expressed. "I put it off, saying Mary Ann was ill in bed," pursued Susan; "but that is not all, missus wishes for fruit. Now, sir, Covent-garden is not far off: but I put it to you, sir, can I get cherries at this tirno of the year ?" " Perhaps hot- house grapes would do," suggested Mr. d Ford, looking deeply p er p lexed . ` P will, doubtfully sa id S usan ; " and per haps` h r e h y ap will s they not; w but " that ain't a ll . Missus wants an t e organ." 44 A harmonium, you mean ; well—perhaps I can get one on hire." _ . ----- But when Mr. Ford looked round his wretched home, when he remembered his debts and his downhill name, he wondered who would be so foolhardy as to trust him with an instrument. " Perhaps an accordion would do," said Susan, looking sagacious; "organs are only fit for church es ." But Mr. Ford shook his head. His wife had been an ac complished musician, and none but a first-rate instrument would answer her. 4. G o d help me I" he exclaimed, distractedly ; " it will be all out if she does not get that harmonium, and it will break her Susan, it will bre a k h er heart, not for herself,but efaorrtlhe boys and me." Tears stood in his eyes. and Susan looked sorely troubled, but the accordion had exhausted her short stores of com fort. " Well," said Mr. Ford, with a deep sigh, " I must put her off for a while ; and say lam promised one. Tell the boys to dress, and come to me, Susan, and then I'll see." "I am afraid Captain George's loud knock disturbed you," slid Mr, Ford ; but it was Susan who opened- ,, "And why did Susan open ?" interrupted Mrs. Ferd : "Susan is to wait upon me. I must insist on Mary Ann attending to the door." Mr. Ford scratched his pimple, but hit on a bright in vention. " Mary Ann was in the dumps," he said, gravely ; I gave her warning this morning—that girl is getting unmanage able," And so she was ; and Mr. Ford, whom the practice of seven years had not yet made perfect in the art of invention, had resolved to get rid of this troublesome person altogether. Mrs. Ford shut her eyes again, and sighed ; another man would have had a fo•tman by this ; but no—thanks to his folly and imprudence, Mr. Ford would live and die with two female servants. "Mr. Ford," she said, gravely, ig do as you please about Mary Ann ; keep or dismiss her—what is it to me ? but do not take Susan from me. She has enough to do in attend ing to me." . "Certainly, my love, by all means." "As to that Mary Ann, I am glad she is going. I am tired of hearing about her misdeeds." "And she shall go," emphatically replied Mr. Ford. " Take a first-rate servant instead," pursued his wife; " give her twenty, thirty pounds a year if need be--a little money more or less is not much matter." "6 course no if you pl ease. t. " e m s e il a e n ec h e ar o m f o t n h iu es m e , e t t h I ‘‘ cannot And ' t a M I k r , anFodrdy,egt rooms is too much for me." "Certainly, my love. I really do believe you are getting better," cried Mr. For d, ardentl y , As may be expected, Mrs. Ford is getting better, when the unexpected and unwelcome arrival of M a b arouse s alike her mental indignation and her physi cal strength. dab's arrival, and its bewildering particulars, affecting as they do the "secret" of the story, we shall not touch upon here. We can not but think that the plot, although admirably contrived, is too much lengthened out in detail. The interest should have been more concentrated, but we forget that as we advance. We can only feel sympathy for the heart-trials of the poor forlorn lovelorn , neroine & . 3 We havo already said, Miss i Kavanagh's tales are chiefly attractive as revela tions of intense feeling, and "Q ueen M ob '' is one of the best of that class that she has yet P' POLICE IN' BOW-STREET. This Day MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Mr. Knox, on being asked for a remand by Inspector Draper, remanded the prisoner till Thursday next. Sarah Wallace, the wife of the prisoner, was charged with assaulting a constable who assisted Webb; but Mr. Knox, making some allowance for the woman, her husband having been taken into custody, and the assault not being a serious one, fined her 55. STEALING ROAD DRIFT IN HYDE. PARK.—Two men, named Linwood and Buckingham, were charged with steal. ing a curt-load of road drift from Hyde-park, the property of the Commissioners of Woods and Works. The case was proved by Browning, a park constable, who saw the prisoners fill the cart and then take and shoot the road drift outside a smith's shop in Single-lane, Lesson grove. He then asked the prisoners whether they had permission to take it, and on their stating they had not, he took them into custody. Mr. Knox remanded the prisoners that it may be seen whether the Commissioners of Woods and Works wish to prosecute. WESTMINSTER. DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT OF A BROTHER.--Thomas Gilbert Redman, an extremely respectable looking lad of 18, was charged with stealing a meerschaum pipe, value £3, and a number of other articles. Famine Davis, the wife of Thomas, a stationer, 17, Lower Eaton-street, Pimlico, said that the prisoner having been out of employment some time, she and her husband had been very kind to him, and he was frequently there helping in the shop. Yesterday afternoon he came there as usual accompanied by another lad (her brother), and stayed there two hours and a half, when they left together. While he was there she saw him at a glass case, and thinking he was only dusting it, paid no attention, but after he was gone she went tolhe case and missed two pearl-handled pen holders moulted with silver, and some pencils, which were safe a short time before he came. In the morning he came again, and denied all knowledge of the robbery, but her brother informed her that he had also taken a pipe, a num ber of books, and various other articles, and they then gave prisoner into custody. James Bryan, the prosecutrix's brother, was then called, and said he lived in Lichfield-street, Soho, and was ap prenticed to the sea. Prisoner, who had been in the navy, but discharged, lived with him. Yesterday he accom panied him to his sister's, and while there, prisoner took down the pipe and concealed it under the sofa. He thought nothing mere of it till he got out in the street, when pri soner asked him to go to a coffee shop with him. They accordingly went into one in St. Martin's-lane, where pri soner showed him the pipe he had taken, six books, a church service, the penholders spoken of, and some pencils which he said he had taken from Davis's. Witness asked him what he meant to do with them, when he said, " Pawn them ;" and the things were pawned in Hanover -court. Mr. Selfe--Did you go with him to pawn them ? Witness—l did. Mr. Selfe—Who had the tickets ? Witness--They were torn up. Mr. Selfe—How old are you ? Witness—Sixteen, sir. Mr. Selfe—Did you net stop him pawning them? Did you not know that you were making yourself as bad as if you had stolen them ? Witness —He said he wanted money. Mr. Selfe—Then you consented to them being pawned ? Witness—l did. Mr. Selfo—You had half the money of course ? Witness—l had 6s. of it. Mr. Selfe—What did you do with the money ? Witn-se—l spent it. Mr. Selfe--Went to the theatre, I suppose, or some worse place. You're a bad fellow to rob your sister like this. Prisoner---I assure your worship he was the instigator of this robbery. He it was who first hinted at it, and planned it on board a steamboat. I would not accede to hie request at first, but he said he must have money, as he wanted to go to sea, and I than consented to do it, and we were to share the money. Ido assure your worship L would never have robbed Mrs. Davis but for him, and Mrs. Davis will tell you that I never robbed her until I became his compa nion, while he has been turned out of doors by his step father for robbing his own mother. His very indentures had been cancelled. Prosecutrix—That is not true, for he is going to sail in six weeks. Mr. Sede—lt is to be hoped his indentures will be can celled. Police-constable 295 B proved apprehending the prisoner, who told him of Bryan's complictty in the robbery. He was then sent by the Inspector, with prosecutrix's husband, to find the other, but they failed to discover any trace of him. This morning, when he hurried up, the sister refused to charge him, as she said he would give evidence against the prisoner. Mr. Selfe—Would the sister's husband have charged him ? Policeman—Oh, yes ; we walked about till three o'clock this morning trying to find him. Mr. Selfe—Well, if I had known what ho was going to say, I should have had him beforo me in the dock instead of in the witness box, for he is certainly as bad, if not worse, than the prisoner. I shall not let him go without good bail. It is certainly hard for a sister to charge her brother, but he ought to be in custody. I shall not let him go without good bail, as I don't know exactly what to do about this. Lock them both up, jailor, in separate cells. They were locked up. THAMES. A BRACE OF RuFFIANs.--Daniel Shea, aged 28, and Joseph Early, 19, two pow erful fellows, were brought before Mr. Partridge, charged with being drunk, disorderly and violently assaulting Mr. William Henry Mills, a licensed victualler, in High-street, Shad well, Robert Wass, his potmart, and James Hayward, a seaman of the brig Ryhop. Mr. Mills said the prisoners came into his house last night at 10 o'clock. They were preceded by a confederate, who asked for a pot of beer. The prisoners knew he had. forbidden them to come to the house on any pretence, and that he would not serve them. Directly they entered the house they abused, swore at, and insulted every person in the house, and without any provocation beat an old man who could not defeud himself. Early struck another man, and cut his cheek. Another man received a- blow on the eye, which was blackened. He went into the tap room in the middle of the disturbance and ordered the prisoner to leave the house. Shea immediately seized him by the throat, while Early beat his potman. He sent out for the police, and others called out murder. He never saw two such ruffians in his life, They fought desperately. Wass, the potman, confirmed his master's statement. When he requested the prisoners not to make a disturbance, they threatened to murder him, and Early knocked him down. He got up, and Shea hit him on the eye. Mr. Mills was recalled, and said his reason for not serving the prisoners, and forbidding them the house was, they had often made a disturbance there. One night Shea hit a man, as he was sitting down, in a cowardly manner. The sailor, Hayward, whose name was on the charge-sheet, was seriously injured, and could not leave his ship. Roche, the jailor of tho court, said the prisoners were too Denis Mehan was placed before Mr. Corrie, on remand. charged with violently assaulting John Whiting, a police. constable in the F division. The constable stated a few evenings ago the prisoner and a man named Wiley were quarrelling in Drury-lane. He went up to them, and desired them to go away, when Wiley struck him a violent blow. He (witness) then collared Wiley, when a struggle commeaced, and both fell to the ground. While they were down the prisoner Mehan came up and kicked him on the head, and as he (witness) saw he was about to repeat the kick, he put up his hand to protect his head, and in =sequence he re ceived a blow on the back of the hand. He still kept his hold of Wiley, and called for assistance, during which time Mehan kept on kicking him in various portions of the body, and Wiley endeavoured to escape. Fortunately, anather constable came to his assistance, and both prisoners were secured and taken to the station-house. On the first examination Wiley was fined 40s. fur the part he had taken in the transaction, but as the constable's hand was much injured the prisoner (Mahon) was remanded, in order that the nature of the injury might be ascertained. The constable is still in capacitated from duty, and this morning he appeared before Mr. Corrie, and informed him that the divisional surgeon was of opinion that it would be a long thee before he would be fit for duty. Mr. Corrie said it was a most cowardly assault, and he should commit the prisoner to the sessions. Mehan, on hearing this, said he never struck the police man at all, but some one else might have done so, because he had taken his (Mehaws) wife into custody for doing nothing. Mr. Corrie said he should send the case for trial, and for that purpose it would be necessary for the surgeon to attend and state the nature of the injury. He would, therefore, remand the prisoner till Tuesday, but he had made up his mind what he would do on that occasion—v.z., fully com mit the prisoner for trial. ROBBERY BY A MESSENGER.—ASSAULT.—Robert Wal- lace, messenger to Miss Taylor, the keeper of a periodical office at 18, Davies-street, Berkeley-square, was charged before Mr. Knox with stealing £ll3 in money, a post-office order for L 2, and ss. worth of postage stamps. Miss Taylor said that she left her office yesterday morn . _ _ ing at half-past eleven o'clock—the prisoner being there— and on her return at half-past one she found all the doors locked, and was therefore obliged to send for a locksmith to force the locks. The money in the drawers, a post-office order, and some postage stamps were taken away, and the prisoner did not return. Binstead Webb, a plain-clothes officer of the E division, said that yesterday afternoon he went to 32, James-street, Oxford-street, and saw the prisoner and his wife both in toxicated. Prisoner said that all the money he had was 60, but on being searched 3s 6d more was foun4 upon him. On attempting to take the prisoner into custody he became very violent, and he (Webb) was obliged to get the assist ance of three constables before he could get the prisoner out of the house. 'wen us, Mr. Harrison Ainsworth's New Novel. John Law : the Projector. By William Harrison Ainsworth. Prologue, Chaps. Bentley's Miscellany for November. Pleasant news for the lovers of romance! To wit that in what was originally Boz's Monthly bantling, what is still, though Buz has long ceased to have anything to do with it, one of the liveliest of our popular periodicals, Bentley's Miscellany, there is begun an entirely new and original story—a story of comparatively modern times, founded upon his torical data, and carrying us back to the begining of the last century, a new romantic narrative of mingled fact and fiction, by the author of " Jack Shepherd." 0117 only regret is that this new story is not to be illustrated, like so many of its former , predecessors. A h a ppi er not i on i n the selection of his hero, even Mr. Ainsworth has never yet had. And in the choice of his themes—as we ourselves in these columns have more than once had occasion to remark—the Romancist of Rook wood is always peculiarly fortunate. Instance this —" The Admirable Crichton!" Instance this, again, "Dick Turpin," the famous Highwaymen ! Instance, " Jack Sheppard," the notorious house breaker, afterwards renowned (may we say, a trifle more creditably ?) in our criminal annals as the wonderful Prison -Breaker ! Instance, " Old St. Paul's," that tale of the Great Fire and the Great Plague of L on d on ! B es id es all which, who is there among Mr. Ainsworth's readers who bears not still in vivid recollection, the atmosphere of romance with which his pictu resque imagination has enveloped so many other of our grand old public buildings—yet sur viving amongst us —as is not the case in regard to the one already mentioned, namely, that swept down amidst the crashing ruins of the Great Fire, Old St. Paul's Cathedral. Palaces, for example, dating far back in our annals, such as the " Tower of Lon don," " Windsor Castle," " St. James's," and so forth—tales so exquisitely embellished by the mar vellous etching needle of rare George Cruikshank! Here, again, is as capital a subject in its way as any Mr. Ainsworth has hitherto hit upon—the wonderful life and adventures of the most extraor dinary financial schemer upon record, John Law, "the Projector," as our novelist calls him—the most audacious blower of bubbles that ever breathed the breath of life. The story, in its mere name, promises delightfully. And the five chapters of the Prologue already encourage this happy augury of success Here is our romancist's vivid portraiture of his hand. some herc— JOHN LAW, THE LAIRD OP LAURISTON. John Law was just then 34, but he looked almost 10 years younger. His personal advantages were remarkable—figure tall and commanding, slight, but admirably proportioned; features classical and regular in outline ; eyes large, azure in colour, and somewhat prominent ; complexion delicate as a woman's. Yet, with all this apparent effeminacy, a very manly spirit dwelt in his breast. John Law was remarkably active, excelled at tennis, rode boldly and well, was an ardent sportsman, expert in the use of pistol and small. sword, and his courage had already been proved in more than one encounter. Though no shallow fop, who thought only of decorating his handsome person, John Law did not disdain the aid of dress, but, as we have seen, set himself off to the best ad vantage, just as he sought to improve his great natural endowments by study and art. In his n - anner there was perhaps a little--very little haughtiness, but it was totally devoid of insolence and assumption, and the pride he mani fested seemed almost inseparable from the consciousness he could not fail to possess of great mental powers and personal advantages. When he was resolved to please, his manner was so fascinating that he was quite irresistible. Whether that smooth and serene brow could ever be darkened by frowns, that soft and suave expression be obli terated by angry passions, those eyes of summer blue and almost dove-like tenderness emit terrible and scathing glances—whether any such changes as these could be wrought, will be seen as we proceed with our history. The scene in St. James's-street with the Irish sedan chairmen—the scene in White's Coffee House where Law plays at Basset among the " S wells " of those days (then called " Beaux") and breaks the bank— the scene in the Ring at Hyde Park, where the two heroines are introduced, to wit, Belinda and Lady Kate—all these lead amusingly up to the incident of the present instalment (with the climax of which, it closes)—the Duel in Hyde Park between old Beau Wilson and young Charlie Carrington. We look forward with lively interest to the continuance of Law's adventures. The Prince Consort Memorial Fund. Yesterday afternoon a meeting of the General Committee appointed at the public meeting held in January, 1862, to superintend the subscription then set on foot towards raising a national memorial of his late Royal Highness the Prince Consort vas convened at the Mansion house with a view to the final disposal of the fund, so far as they were con cerned, in accordance with the commands of her Majesty, communicated by Sir C. Phipps. The Lord Mayor acted as chairman, and there were alio present Sir C. W. Dilke, Mr. Tite, M.P., Mr. Gregson, M.P., Alderman Wilson, Mr, Bodkin, Assistant-Judge, Mr. Henry Spicer, Mr. Godwin, Mr. Charles Hill, Mr. Winckworth, Mr. R. N. Fowler. Mr. H. Ghinn, Deouty Obbard, Mr. S. P. Low, Mr. Hartridge, Mr. A. Croll, Mr. Goodman, the Rev. Michael Gibbs, Vicar of Christ Church, Newgate-street, and Mr. Samuel Brown. The LORD MAYOR having briefly stated the object of the meeting, Mr. Goodman, the Clerk of the Peace, at his request, read the subjoinea communi cation, which had been address ed to Mr. Cubbit, M.P., the President of the Fund, shortly before his death : "Balmoral, Oct. 2, 1863. "Dear Sir, —I havo received the commands of her Ma jesty the Queen to inform you that her Majesty has ap pointed an Executive Committee, through whom it is her Majesty's intention to communicate her own personal directions for the carrying out and execution of the national memorial to her beloved husband, the Prince Consort, and the Queen has also named trustees (Viscount Torrington, Sir Alexander Spearman, with yourself and myself) into whose hands it is her Majesty's desire that all sums collected either by public subscription or vote of Parliament, should be paid, and who will hold the funds, subject to the orders of her Majesty, conveyed through the Executive Committee. "I am therefo re directed to r equest that you will move th e trustees of the Mansion - house Subscription for the W: e tional Memorial, to cause the sums at present standing or i nves ted in their names, to be transferred at the Bank England to the account of t he trustees appointed by her Majesty, to whose account the sum voted by Parliament has already been placed by the Government. "Believe me, dear sir, sincerely yours, com"rn . ittee was n e xt B. PHIPPS." A re port from the worki ng C They stated that they h a d read by Mr. Goodman. held meetings from time to time, and had taken such steps as they deemed necessary , for accompl i shing the duty assigned themi,he3s_ . lc ontributions received 54 by them amounted t o odd, and a ft er pay ment of the expense s incurred ° in adverti s i ng , print ing, &c., and other dis bursements on behalf of the trustees, they h a d invested £34,233 15s in the pur chase of 5 per cent. East India st oc k, an d £17 , 000 Consols, in 3 per cent. in addition t o th e accru i ng interest upon those funds, amounting to £3,009 4s Id, which had bceilialso inv es t e d i n C onso l s, ma ki ng a total of £54,242 , 1 s ld, ex c l us i ve o f a b a l ance o f 236 9 s 9 d ;11 the hands of Mes srs . S m ith, Payne, and C o . the bankers to the credit of th e f un d. Tile Ueneral Committee _ at its meetin g on the 26th of February, 1862 , , authorised the treasurer and trus tees " from time to time to advance an d p a y out sum or sums of money as m ight of th e f und such be required by the committee of advice nomi nated by her Majesty the Queen." In pursuance of that authority 600 guineas had b e en paid to the architects selected to submit designs for the memorial, and £43 4s. to defray other expenses, making altogether £673 4s. The committee had observed with much satisfaction not only the deep and sincere sympathy expressed by contributors in their correspondence, but also the large number of smell contributions, furnishinr:, a , g proof of the general thought, a convincin sorrow felt by all classes of the community, and of the propriety of the measures adopted at the M an. sion-housc, for raising a national memorial to cow _ rnemorate the virtues of the late illustrious Pline e - . Chet' could not, they said, close their r eport with ,ut referri n g to the death of thei r respected presi whom the fi rs t meeting at the dent, 3 1 r. Cubitt, b y 31ansion-house l'i'M coavehed, which resulted in the work ; but, as to any artistic control, that was at an end so far as they were concerned. The conversation then dropped, with the under. standing that they would continue to exist as acorn. mittee in the event of occasion arising for inviting additional subscriptions. On the motion of Mr. TrTE, seconded by Alder man WILSON, a resolution was unanimously passed, expressive of the regret of the meeting at the death of Mr. Cubitt, their late president, and of their high estimation of his great public spirit and exemplary life. At the instance of Mr. GODWIN and Mr. CHARLES HILL a vote of thanks was accorded to the Lord Mayor for taking the chair, and the meeting separated. SECON-PEDITIOY. SUN OFFICE, RALF-PAST 4 O'CLOCK, SPOR rING INTELLIGENCE. —This Da: NEWMARKET RACKS—Turs DAY. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRIPH.) £5O HANDICAP PLATE. Cadiz Cheerful ........... 2 Five ran. SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS. Birthday filly Topsy Country Maid 0 2 Four ran. £5O HANDICAP PLATE. Iphigenia .. 1 Corsica Eighteen ran. SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS. Turnus filly Tadmor colt Four ran. HOUGHTON HANDICAP. Alchymist Peignoir Eighteen ran. Mr, Sergeant Shee and the Vacant Judgeship (From the Law Times of To-day.) The Lord Chancellor is neither a bigot nor a fa. natic, but a man of large and liberal mind, having nothing in common with Exeter-hall. Hence the surprise so generally felt at the rejection of the un doubted title of Mr. Serjeant Shee to the vacant judgeship. We have reason to believe that :the Lord Chancellor did not in this act upon his own impulse, but was overruled by other influences. It is true that the Puisne Judgeships are the exclu sive patronage of the Great Seal, and, as a rule, the Chancellors permit of no interference with this the most prized of their patronage. Nor is it probable that, on the present occasion, any direct pressure was put upon Lord Westbury; indeed, even a show of it would suffice to insure the rejection of the can didate so presented. Bat there are indirect ways of conveying desires, that are not offensive in form, and yet effective in substance. A surmise of the manner I'n this case will probably not be far from the t rut h . n the balanced state of parties the Government is notoriously dependent for its existence upon a corn bination of sectional groups, the defection of any one of which would at once place the Ministry in a minority. Not the least important, alike by its ac tivity, its zeal, and its numbers, is the party of whom Lord Shaftesbury is the leader, and that potent in fluence has been given to Lord Palmerston throru,r;h the medium of his relative. But for the support thus proffered ample remuneration is dema:.ded and exacted. Lord Shaftesbury claims the eccle siastical patronage, and possesses it. The fear of this party may be seen in the wavering speech and hesitating acts of Lord John Russell in his treatment of the American question. This was the party that dictated the rejection of the para mount claims of Mr. Serjeant Shee to the judge ship, and the ostracism of the Roman Catholic lawyers by a Government whose profession is Liberalism, and whose principle used to be reli gious liberty. Traced to its source, the cause of the revival of Roman Catholic disabilities is mani fest ; but that which occasions so much surprise that the Lord Chancellor, usually so firm in his resolves and so persistent in the maintenance of thet which he believes to be the truth and the right, sho u ld h ave permitted the fears of h i s col leagues to sway his own nobler mind, and that ho . should h ave done their bidding contrary t° his own larger and more liberal principles. The Times h as b een s il ent upon this m ost grave a lthough matter, but the Daily l e l e graph, Govern ent indg habitual and very zealous supporter of the meat, has bravely exercised an independ ent Roman Ca-- ment, and denounced the ostracismis to us r o g test against the tholic lawyers in an article which in this, that, if we were the ildrstiotonpe. The complaiut wrong, we do not now stand d n b r t he public. of the Prcfession is TB—Yesterday. ratifying LONDON GAZE OFFICE,I:e:N-sultheerjands. Mr. T. W. :hurenremloa jrehstiy4 __-- d toapprove approveat.ooT.i for 001 8 brf o . f The Queen has been Pleas 6 eral Don Carlos Majesty the King of the Ploos van Amstel FOil a E s 9 OCT. 29. OCT. 3 t 0 6,,,,:ibra1t: e u a i s eadt to appoint Edward Bawdier, The ihs li pa a s E bni c l e : ee e . e nc n o np pleasedsl DOWNING-STREET t G hT a e r hQ c e ini ucie it ea r re ti e l o i nf Esq., to bo Assistont Surveyor-G eneral f or the 'eland of Mauritius. and Civil Engi neer \VAR-OFFICE, OCT.fi 30. COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT 1-1 m issaryrGeneral Edward Turnbull, -- -..fieptyssitan C o orn- Deputy-Assistant Coraruis, from half-pay, be deceased. eary-General, vice Wrentraore, AWIIIIALTY, OCT. 29. Royal Marine Light Infantry Second Lieut. Mi c h ae l Al:en blapyltou 13 ree to be First Li eu t enant , v i ce P atrick, deceased. The following BANKRUPTS A the only b an k rup t s o f commerc i a l im portance in the Gazette : Charles Newton, farmer, Ramsey Robert Clabon Harris, druggist, Aldershot Henr y Defries, gastitter, 11a:di/ley-road "WILL A. Layland, currier, Bermondsey Geo. S e lb y, butcher, Pittield-street, lloxton New-town Edward Kingsnorth, farmer, Ore Sussex Thomas .1 - Inghes, draper, Larches Oreton, Salop Antln,ny Eccles ' coal proprietor, Wigan John W. Oldland, tailor, Leicester William J. Griffiths, shoemaker, Dudley Francis Marsh, tailor, Chelsea William Wood, general merchant, Cornhill \Vm. Witham, grocer, Lower Marsh Jjoohhnn I;vid . Cnarrra,stsi, druggist, Hullmberraerchant, Basiol,hall-street Benjamin Clowem, butcher, Ilanley Paddington Richard Pickering, livery stable -keeper, Thomas G. Law, tailor, Liouthwark . appointment of the General Committee, and the ' adoption of the measures referred to in their report; and they took that opportunity of markiitg the high sense they entertained of his uniform courtesy in presiding over their meetings, and the wa.rm inte rest he took in the progress of the fund. On the motion of Mr. GKEGSON, M.P., s econded by Mr. BODKIN, the Assistant Judge, it was un animously resolved that her Majesty the Queen having intimated her pleasure that the amount now invested in the funds be transferred to the trustees appointed by her Majesty, and to whom the money voted by Parliament had already been paid, the trustees of the fund be authorised to transfer the sum so invested, in accordance with the Queen's commands. A conversation then took place in whieth the Lord Mayor, Mr. Godwin, Mr. Hartridge, end other gentlemen took p art, as to wheth er i t was do-sirable or otherwise to continue the Mansion House Committee. Mr. Tim , M.P., as k ed what the use could be of . their remaining incorporated after passing a reso lution to part with the money. The form of the memo rial d h e a d d o b v e e e r n d t e h c e i d cpdaur Parliamentary grant, and the trustees nominated by the Q ueen desired t o h ave the rest of the money, in orde r to go on wi t h th e l work. What was the use, theref ore, of their keep ing themselves together ? '!'he desi g n of either :Ar in Gil bert Scott for the proposed memorial had beenap proved, and they had no means of control , point of taste or of execution. Unless, indeed, i t was to collect fresh subscriptions, their continuance as a committee would be simply an impertinence. He believed, if they wanted to do so, they th i ghs raise more money. The time might come when the sum now subscribed would be found all too little, having regard to the splendour and extent of the it igh oon. cess ing )ark 0. with our, L. R• out and arty her her I by ent- ter- im lige .s at cess !ecil with heir dley stle, ady riet hn- n a ned , on ins• Ind the a of ele- a of Sir aia ed, lel. eW All ral tin or, all of eir Ig ily iza of by