The Sun. — London, England, 1863-09-19 00:00:00

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In the discount market to-day there is a good demand for money, and 4 per cent. is the general charg e for even the best short-dated securities, al though a few exceptional transactions have been reported at a fraction under that rate. In the Foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon, th e Only alterations of importance were a decline in the rates on Paris, Amsterdam, and Hamburg. A further sum of £22,000, in gold was taken into the Bank yesterday, but 60,000 sovereigns were 'Withdrawn for transmission to the Mauritius. Since Monday last the imports of specie have amounted to £757,600, and 'the exports to only £302,130. _ _ . _ The bar silver ex La Plata has been sold at 68 lid. per ounce, stand ard, showin g a rise of -6-d. on the price realised for the previous supply. BRITISH FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES. YESTERDAY. Bank Stock — 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 93 f New 3 p er Cent. Annuities New 3t per Cent. Annuities New 2i per Cent. A nnuities .. . — 5 per Cent. Annuities Annuities, 30 yrs, expire ,ith J an., 1880 — Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 — India Stock 226 Ditto 5 pei Cent lOBl i Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. Ditto 5 per Cent Ditto 5f per Cent Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct., 1863 Ditto ditto April, 1864 Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 100 f Ditto Bonds 0,000 — Ditto under £1,000.. Bank Stock for Account Consols for Account, Oct. 8.. India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent — Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 21 per Cent par 3 pm Ditto £5OO Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. Ditto 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent Ditto, 1839 and 1859.....- — Ditto 1843 Ditto 4k per Cent., 1852-58-60 Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent — Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) 38 Cbthan 6 per Cent. — . T. , Ditto 4f per Cent. -e qador New Consolidated. 1 per Cent l6l Ditto Provisonal Land Warrant 9 gYptian 7 pet Cent.. Ditto, Second Issue - lolk Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons — Ditto Account . 37i ! 8 1 Ditto Coupons — Ditto Account .. 181 Italian 5 per Cent.(Maremmana Railway) 81 Mexican 3 per Cent .. • - Ditto Account , li ocrish Imperial 5 per Cent law Granada let 17 Ditto 2 pe Ditto Deferred '.3 Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) 74 P eruvian 3 per Cent. Ditto Account Ditto 4f per Cent., 1862 .. Ditto Account • • Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto Account.... — Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62 — Ditto Account 49f Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St 94f Ditto 4k per Cent 1850 . Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859 Ditto 5 per Cent. 1862 Sardinian 6 per Cent Ditto Account .. Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Account Ditto New Deferred Ditto Account 4Bl Ditto Passive Ditto Account 37 61 7/ 7 Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded .. — Ditto Account Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 — Ditto Account.. Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 Ditto Account 7Ol 1 Ditto, £lOO Bonds Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 Ditto Account Ditto 6 per Cent. 1863, £l9 16s 8d pd — Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent — Venezuela 3 per Cent. Ditto Account .. Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 Ditto Account 6O Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian 4i per Cent., Ex. 25f. .. — Dutch 2f per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil — _Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates E rench Ren.tes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f — Italian, 5 per Cent ., 1861 , Ex. 25 francs — Ditto Account THREE O'CLOCK. Consols, Money Ditt o Account BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Closing Shan Railways Paid. Price. Business done 100 Itlantic & LawrenCe all 60 (2 Bom.,Baroda&.Centlnc. 100 108 1084 1084 Gu. 5 per oent. 20 Do. New 20 Do. E. Shares 204 Buffalo and Laxelluron all 5 1 5 i 10 Do. Preference Bulf . all 7 84 lB ao,rant&Godric . l, 100 lo t, 6 p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 100 Do. do. July 1, 1874 100 100 Do. do. June 1, 18;1 100 at Olcutta.&S.Ea.stn. (Lit, ; 100 1074 1081 1074 st Cape Town t Dock Scrii 100 107 10 stock 10astn. Bengal gu. sp. ( 100 109 110 stook East Indian. gu. sp. c. too 108 1 , 9 109 20 Do. do. G Ext lO 11 lip 20 Do. do. 11 do. stock Grand Trunk of Canada tuu 20 21 100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds all 71 73 724 100 Do. co. deferred all 58 60 100 Do. 2d Pref. Bonds all 65 67 100 Do. do. deferred all 50 5! 100 Do. 3d P , ef. stock 100 Do. do. deferred all 36 38 100 Do. 4th Pref. stoat all 26 28 100 Do. do. deferred all 23 25 stock Gtlndtarenin.gua.sp.c 100 1(9 no 109 20 Do. New gua. sp. 12 1 141 131 20 Do. January, 1862 .. 8 1 14; stook Gt. South.of India(Lim; guaranteed b per cent. 100 1074 1084 204 Gt. W. of Canada Shares all 101 104 104 201 Do. New 100 Do. 6 p.o. '73 with't opt, all 95 97 100 Do. 51 g. c. do. '77-8.... all 90 12 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 p stook bladrks guar., 5p.0. .. 100 107 4 0.8, 108 stock Do. 44 p. o. Extension 100 102 103 stook De. 44 d 0........ 100 18 100 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 -- stock nelb.Corp. 6p. o. Bnds 100 -- 50 Melb. & Hobson's Bay. all 58 60 100 Do. 7p. c. 51ortg. Bds. all 20 Newßrunswick ec Cands Class A and B .. all 3 5 N.11.1.C'da. , 5 pc lst pt bds 100 82 84 stock Scinde (100 1074 108 4 1084 tit(Do. Do. Delhi f i 100 1074 1084 do • 2 20 Do. Punjaub . 4c; all ——p at Do. Do. ....... ? k g , 160 1074 1(8) 1071 1 stock Do. Indus. St. Flo.) k 100 103 105 102 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. t an.liov . 6p.c.Ja&J ul; 1877-81 . ........ 100 1(2 104 103 1 Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug 100 Itl. I( 3 Do. dp. c. Mar. & Sept, 100 tel 113 I Do. 5. p.O. Jan.&July. 100 91 P 3 i Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 91 83 Cape G.Hope, 6 p 0,1873 100 108 110 Do.Ap & Oct. 1880 100 112 114 Do. 1891 100 113 115 - ,Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 113 115 Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 100 113 116 'Mauritius 6 per cent .. 100 107 108 INatal Gov. 6 per cent. 110 110 112 N.B.Gov. pal.) a.&Jul) 100 103 105 I Do. dp. c.Ap. & Oct. 100 N. S. "19. Gov. 5 p 1,18,a 100 1004 1014 - ' Do. sp. c.,18,1 to IGr f 100 1014 1021 - Do. d0.,1888 &upwde 100 102 103 - , New Zealand 6 p cent 100 111 113 Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. sterling, 1875 lOO IC3 105 'Queensland Gcv. 6p. c lOO 1;1 113 --I • '6 Aus Grip.c.lB7B.& up lOO 111 113 1121 Via Gov 1 . P.c.j .B; j oot.. 10 11 ul3 100 0 1084 1 ll Ol4 Do. io 6o.Ap 1 1 _1141 1 BRITISH MINES. Cambrian Con sol. Gold iulitlord Amalgamated Devon G. Con.. (Tavist , East Bassett (ILlogan) East Cam Brea... E E a a s st t C C a l° r g ad a o u n .Gold Vir'l Russel (Tavistk ) Gam.&St.Aubyn(G wen ) Great South rro G. Wheal VOT(lielston, Grenville Elerc-d's-Foot ilingston Downs Lady Bertha Margaret (tiny Want Marke Valley.. Myndy Iron Oro (Lim.' New Setun North Downs N. Wh'l Basset (Illo.fan North Wheal Crotty Par Consols (St. Blazey Providence (Uny Lelnt.) South Caradon(St.Cleer, S. Carn Brea (Illogan) Wheal Fran. (Illogan, Stray Park , earner Silv.& Lead Miu fin Crort West Basset (Illogan) W 6 , radon (Liskeard, West Seton Wheal Basset (Illogan) Wheal Buller (Redruth) Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant, WhealLuchott Wheal Mary Ann ;:Bien )1 Wheal ;Teton . . Wheal Treiawney (Lis )'' Wheal Union 3.4.0 8.6.6 17s 40 6.16. 8.12 4.8.0' 2.8.6 4.3.0 191 21 2.17.1 2.4.9 11 10.6.7 11 5.15.6 118.1,-.9‘ 28.9. t id 33 55 2.0.8 2.10.8 8 58i 3.17 HI 15 3 3i 11 13 215 225 16 18 2/ 31 THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVE_NING, SEPTEMBER, 19, 1863, POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. Tremendous Explosion of Three Gunpowder Mills. This morning, shortly after two o'clock, one of those calamities which generally carry such devastation and de• struction with them took place at the works of Messrs. Harvey and Curtis, near Hounslow. The sound produced by the explosion was similar to that of a battery of the heaviest artillery, and in a few moments numbers of the inhabitants were hurrying in the direction of the mills, On reaching the spot on which the works stood a scene of great destruction presented itself, as three of the workshops, known as the Incorporation Mills, had been blown to pieces. Upon the names of the workpeople being called over it was found that only one person had been injured by the explosion, and not, it is to be hoped, in any serious manner. One of the three mills that exploded was that situate on the part of the property known as the Lower Head, and was of large dimensions ; and it is exceedingly fortunate that work had for some time been stopped in the other two - , owing to long drought having caused a cessation of the water supply. The whole range of the buildings hqs been greatly damaged by the explosion, but not to the ex tent that might have been imagined, when the extensive nature of the business carried on by the Messrs. Harvey and Curtis is taken into consideration. The explosion was heard for miles round Hounslow, and, it is needless to say, caused the greatest apprehension. AN IRISH "POTtEN" DISTILLERY. A correspondent of the Fri man's Journal, who has just returned from a tour of considerable extent through the west of Ireland, gives a favourable account of the condi tion of the inhabitants. He says that even since last year there is a great change for the better, and the Signs of improvement are everywhere visible. He attributes this to the abundance of the potato crop. which has led to th e re-appearance of the pig, on which animal the Irish peasant mainly depends for the means to p ay hi s rent. At the doors of cabins, where a year ago there was not the sign of a pig, he saw two or three. The other crops were good, but late. It is to be regretted. however, that the people are not content with the legiti mate profits of honest and lawful industry. Illicit distillation, notwithstanding the tisk involved in it, is carried on to a great extent, and proves highly remunera tive, as the manufacturer can realise a handsome profit by selling his whisky at 100 to 14s a gallon, and will always be sure of good customers as long as the present high duty shall be exacted. The principal cereal products of the dis trict are oats and bere, which are bought up in the country markets by private distillers, and carried great distances into the mountains on the backs of ponies, to be manufac tured into whisky. The following description of a "poteen" distillery may be interesting, as showing the energy and determination which the peasant r y dis play in the prosecution of this lawless tl *4E° The writer was conducted to the scene by a friend who was in the confidence of the operators :—" It lay in a nar row valley between two of the mountains that form the im mense chain that runs from the centre of Galway to West port. Between these mountains rues a rapid stream, ending in a small lake with no visible outlet, and surrounded by granite boulders which completely stopped all exit fr om th e defile in that direction; in fact, there was only one wa y to get either in or out. About four miles down th e valley, approached by a wretched road, over which no beast of burden could travel except the Western ponies, is h wretched village of some three or four houses, in one of which the still was at full work, and in another the men were grinding malt in the ancient mode between querns. In this house were several barrels filled with fermenting worts. On the side of the mountain was an excavation, the entrance to which seemed to be from behind a large boulder rock, overhung by brushwood, and probably intended as a store for the manu'actured goods. Night and day there are sentinels on the mountains that overlook the one narrow road that leads to this extraordinary place ; and, if the police were seen coming, a signal could be given, and in 20 minutes three men could consign eve:•ything connected with the distillery to the lake, whicb, they say, is bottom less, and on the arrival of the police not a trace of the work would remain. The whisky is carried away by night by the members of the family, who have customers for it in diffe rent towns and villages. The price is fr om 10 8. to 14 s. per gallon. The people engaged in this illicit traffic certainly make money There were pigs and poultry about their doors and flitches of bacon hanging up inside ; and one of them had a shop where tea, sugar, bread and tobacco were sold. On our arrival at the place a man came out and asked in Irish who I was and what brought us there ? On a proper explana tion we were on the best of terms. We got an excellent breakfast of good strong tea, rashers, eggs, and bread, and of course plenty of the native' as cream for our tea." STATE OF TRADE, MARKETS—This Day. COVENT GARDEN. FRUIT. MANCHEBTEIt, Sept. 18.—From Tuesday to this morning the yarn market was rather quieter, but to-day there bas been a slight improvement, and yarns made from American cotton (which are scarce) have sold at the extremest prices yet given. These yarns made from American cotton, now ' quoted at about 2s. 2d. per lb., have realised 2s. 6d. per lb., while at this time last year, when Ameri can cotton was at 2s. 6d. per lb., 16's to 24's water twist (now at 2s. 6d.) was offering at 28. per lb. The cloth market is without much change since Tuesday, and there is no new feature in the market, except that while manufacturers are rather firm at, their quotations they are practically rather easier to deal with. Probably the quieter state of the cotto❑ market for the past two days has somewhat con duced to this result. Both holders and manufac turers have shown rather more disposition to meet the views of buyers than they were three days to a fortnight ago, but the latter (especially the larger buyers) seem to be resolutely holding back es a rule. There has been a fair inquiry for longcloths and T-cloths (particularly the latter), and there has been some business, but the prices generally re quired has prevented business. NOTTINGHAM, 18th.—There was about the usual attendance at this Exchange-hall to-day, and a moderate share of business was done in lace yarns at prices equalling those of Tuesday. In hosiery yarns there was no material change. Silks about the same. The brown net trade was quiet. The supply of fruit at our market to-day was moderate, while that of vegetables was large. The trade ruled firm at the annexed rates : a. d. s. d. e. d. a d Pine apples 6 oto 8 0 Raspberries,prpt 0 4tc 0 6 Colonial do., each 1 oto 3 0 Cherries, per lb. 0 3to 0 0 Grapes,per lb 2 6to 5 0, Foreign ditto, puno oto 0 0 leoreig,n do 1 6to 2 6 I Filberts, per lb .. 0 Bto 1 0 Melons Nectarines, per dz 2 oto 5 0 Cobnuts, per lb .. 0 oto u 0 Apples, per hf-sv. 1 3to 3 6 Almonds, per bus 0 oto 0 0 Pears, per do Oranges, per 100 8 oto 12 Oireaches.. Lemons, per 100.. 4 oto 8 0 Currants, per h.sv 4 6to 6 0 Gooseberries hi sve3 6t04 6 i Plums, per du. Strawberries pr pt 0 oto 0 0 IGreengages,pr do 6 oto 7 0 DEATH OF P. COCKERELL, RA We regret to announce the death of Mr. Charles Robert Cockerell, Royal Academician, and Emeritus Professor of Architecture in the Royal Academy. He died on Thurs day last, in the 76th year of his age. In his early life Mr. Coc kerell spent many years of careful study a mon g the exis ting remains of classic architecture in Asia Minor, Sicily, Rome, Pompeii, and elsewhere. In 1811-12, the tarns of the Temples of Jupiter, in Xgena, and of Apollo at Basses near Phrvgaleia, in Arcadia, were excavated by il r. Cockerell, in company with Baron Haller and others. An account of those excavations he published in 1860. The collection of remains from the former edifice is in the Museum at Munich, that of the latter in the British lquseum. Subsequently, " restorations" of far-famed build ings of antiquity, as they may once have existed, of the Capitol and Forma of Rome, of the Parthenon, kc., often employed Mr. Cockereli's talents as an architectural draughtsman. In 1829 he was elected an associate of the Royal Academy, and in 1836 he obtained the honour of a Royal Academician. In 1840 he succeeded Wilkins, as Professor of Architecture, a post he continued to fill with great success ; his l ec t ures supporting that reputation for learning and ability which he has always enjoyed. In 1841 he was elected one of the eight associis chanjers of the Academy of the Institute of France, and in 1843, one of the ten " members of merit" of the Academy of St. Luke's, at Rome. In 1845 he was created an honorary D.C.L. of the University of Oxford, and in 1848 he was the first to receive the gold medal of the Institute of British Architecture. He was also a member of the academies of Munich, Berlin, and Berne. Mr. Cockerell was always firm in his adherence to classic archi tecture as the style to be imitated in the 19th century in this country, and was long an opponent of that general revival of Gothic art, which has of late obtained more and more the ascendancy. He has, however, more than once dr.:signed in Gothic, having vigorously applied himself to the study of mediaeval architecture, and was an active mem ber of the Archasological Institute. To its " transactions' , he contributed many valuable essays in illustration of English antiquities—" The Iconography of Wells Cathe dral," "The Architectural Life of William of Wykeham," " The Sculpture of Lincoln Cathedral," and others. The principal works executed by Mr. Cockerell are —the Philo sophical Institute at Bristol, the Gothic College at Lam peter, the Gothic speech-room and chapel at Harrow, the Taylor and Randolph Buildings at Oxford, the new Public Library at Oxford, the Sun Fire Office, the Royal Ex - thange, and Hanover district Chapel in Regent-street. H e is also responsible for most of tho various additions and Provements made during the last quarter of a century to the Bank of England, to which he was standing architect. To Mr. Cockerell also is due the merit of the recent restora tion of St. Paul's Cathedral. REFINED BUT CARELESS CRUELTY !— There are infinite varieties, ev e n in the amenities7of society, which do not attain their full perfection and piquancy un less flavoured with a delicate elemental tinge of cruelty: — cruelty iced down to that exquisite form of courage which is essential to social ease—and a certain devil-may.cansh xi eats tempered by tact, experience, and good sense, which is comp ara bl e on l y t o t h e careless ease and grace with which accomplished cricketers perform the manifeld evo• lutions of fielding. With what abandoned grace Smith flings that ball which may break dear Jones's knuckles or his nose I Smith does not wish to break his best friend's *nose, or knock his manly eye out, but that which steels him against the infinitesimal chance of doing the one or the other is an infinitesimal icicle of cruelty, which makes him just sufficiently careless to grace his litheness and adorn his agility, and no more. Su it is in society, and its myriad combinations of chances. Without a certain amount of the courage of cruelty, toned down to indifference, it would be impossible to say anything for fear of potentially wounding S omebody. Each man, as he treads, unconsciously treads upon a thousand invisible feelings, which die beneath his heedless tramp. But we all move on, for all that, under the irresistible pressure of a necessity which produces the courage of a cruelty both useful and delightful in the end. % ROTTING IN FRANCE.—Garotting seems to have fou n d it s way into the French provinces. P hre e evenin gs s i nce, a t Laloubere, n ear Tarbes Mantes iprYerZes), He the wife of a cattle-dealer, named Dulac, was fro m bher husband's supper, some person seized her it 8° "tilt Put a handkerchief round her neck, and d rew low th en ra ti lat she fainted—in fact, garotted her. The fel he mad e off' H ie d the house and found 10f., with whi c h lion of the thiefile w oman was unable to give any descrip. PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Northern, 5 per cent., red. at 5 per cent. pm., 1071 7 Great Western, 44 per cent. pref., 104 London, Chatham, and Dover 5 per cent. pref., 104,100 West Midland, Oxford, Ist guaranteed stocit, 134 PREFEttENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern, 5 per cent., pf., 1051 London and S.-Western 41 per cent, 1071 North British (Edin., Perth, and Dundee) 4 per cent., E3l FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 91 Bahia and San Francisco (lira.) gua. 7 per cent., 21 201 Belgian Eastern Junction, 14 Great Luxembourg, 141 4 Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidin), 11/ Recite and San Francisco (lint.), g,na. 7 per cent., 194 19 San Paulo (Urn.), gua. 7 per cent., 91 Ditto, new, 221 South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 221 Turin and Savona, 3 BANKS. Alliance Bank of London JOINT -STOCK (Um.), 404 394 404 A.ustralasia, 81/ 24 Bank of Queensland (lim), 1 4 4 I Bank of New Zealand, 11* Brazilian and Portuguese, UM. 54 Chartered Bank of B r iti s h Col umbia, 111 Chartered Bank of India, Australia. and China, 351 84 City, 1144 English and Iri s h Consolidated Bank, lint., 101 4 1 of A English, Scotch, an d Australian Chartered, 231 (lint.), 10 10 Hindustan, chin a , and Japan aim), 25/ 61 Imperial Bank (lin t .), 22 Imperial Ottoman, 191 474 a ndßra zilian (lint ). 5 u l s itrallita, 4284 LondoChartered London and Colonial (lint), 81 n n n L on don and County, 49 ' L on don Joint Stock, 364 6 ' • Mercantile and Exchange. lint., 111 M e t r oP. and Pray. Bank (limo, 174 4 National of Liverpool , limited, is New South Wailes, 52 2 Scinde, Punjaub,.and Delhi Wm% 7 '• Africa S tan dard of British So 211 2 Ditto, new , 101 luth 6 17 Union of Australia, 551 fi Union of England and France (11m.),z81 Union of Ireland (lira.), 191 Union of _London, 3t4 4 ; DOCKS. East and West India, 144 L0nd0n,:654 5 MISCELLANEOUS. Berlin Water Works, lint., 9 Crystal Palace, 38l Electric Telegraph, 105 Gen. Cr( dit and r inane of London, lint., 41 a 1 Great Ship, lirn., 171 per cent. pf., 1 fludson a Ba, 94 International N'inau / cial Society, lim., 10' x Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour), 1 C Ditto, eper cent. Bonds rd. 1870 issued 90, 890 Joint •stock Discount, 74 f 4 14 1 1" 1 London Financial linlial Association, London General Omnibus Company 24 Oriental Inland Steam, lint., 34 24 34 Peninsula and 0 . ientai Steam, 81 Scottish Australian Investment, lint,, 137 91 SHARE MARKETS. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS• Share Railways. Paid. Price. Business. Closing fir., Wol., and Str. Val. IBlythe and Tyne. Bost.,Sleat.,and Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall Do A A gets no div B till6pc.pan.has been paid to B. Dublin & Belfast June. ; Dun.,Perth,& Ab. June. ! 'Edinburgh & Glasgow. Glasg. and S. Westerr , Great Eastern, Ord. stk Ditto A stock Ditto EastAnglian st GreatNorthot Scotland I Great Northern Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. and W. of Ireland; Great Western Do Str Val gua. stock Lancashlte & Yorkshire London and Blackwall Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast [ Lon., Chat., and Dover !Lon. & Nor' h Western Lon. & So*.th Western IMan., Shef., & Lincoln. 'Maryport and Carlisle. Dot shares.. [Metropolitan .. !Midland Do New . Do Binning. & Derby! Mid. (it. W. of Ireland Do. 4 shares Mid Kent ... Do Cray Line North British lEdin., Perth, & Dundee ;Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do, G.N.E. purchase Do 10f;k8 st Do Carlisle st North London 10 Do New t 9.15.4 North Staffordshire 10 N. and S. W. Junotion st Scottish Central t Scot N. E., Aber. stock st Do Scot. Mid. stock ) 10 'Shrews. and Welohpooi l st Shropshire Union et South Devon ... st South Eastern et South Wales et S. York. and River Dun 20 Staines,Wok.,andWok 25 Stockton & Darlington 25 Do 25 Do New, 1866 • st Taff Vale 10 Do B 10 Do C 50 'Ulster 25 Do 12.10 Do et ,Vale of Neath st ,Victoria sta. and Pim st 'Waterford & Kilkenny st !West Cornwall st IW. Hartlepool H ar. &R st West Midland -Oxford st Do Newport st I Do Hereford 8 81 81 81 85 87 120 121 39 40 10 17 96j 974 111 113 51 52 50 51 255 Lbi 1244 V. 25 1264 1274 IF4 130 100 lit 66) G 7 113 114 731 74b 112 113 42 43 101 104 101 k 102 f 44 441 122 124- 127 27 It) 46 98 541 t5l 251 261 101 1011 57 58 87} 88} 117 123 1 2 p' 80 82 11} lif 123 125 44 16 101 103 60 52 31 941 4 3 70 72 99 101 9 10 361 371 81 91 71 8 p 150 156 41 51 I. 21 31 p 8688 169 162 26 28 44 45 39 41 105 107 961 51 1I 1 23 12•.5 1271 631 1 112) 13 113% 121 734 _ __ 101.; 14,01 1231 21 31 1271 96k , - - 25 I. WESTMINSTER. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY AT CREMORNE.—DESPERATE RESISTANCE OF THE OFFENDER. — John Baily, a powerful young man, was placed at the bar charged with an exten sive robbery at Cremorne-gardens. John Mayhew, 319 D, said that at a quarter to four this morning he was on duty at Cremorne-gardens, and was passing by a glove shop or stand there, where gloves and jewellery are sold, when he observed that the hinges of the door were unfastened from the post, they were unscrewed and the screws gone. The door had been placed a little on one side, and on witness pulling it, it opened and he saw the prisoner in the shop. He inquired what ho was doing there, when the prisoner replied he had been there to lie down, but the door was not well secured. Witness told him he was aware they did not allow hint to lie down there, and inquired what he had got in his pocket. Pr isoner observed, "It's all light," to which the witness replied, "It is not all right, and you must go with me to the station." Pri soner then struck him a blow on„the face, and, with a knife in his hand, closed upon witness, when they had a severe and perilous struggle. Mr. Arnold—How long did it last? Witness—Above twenty minutes, during which we were frequently up and down, and he was repeatedly jobbing at me with the knife. I fortunately warded off many of the blows, but he wounded me slightly in two or three places, but I still kept my hold of his handkerchief, but he made repeated cuts at it, and the handkerchief coming in two, he jumped up free and got away, but he was stopped by another constable, Mr. Arnold—What was found upon the prisoner ? Witness—The brooches, bracelets, pins, and other articles of jewellery I now produce ; they were found in his pocket. Mr. Arnold—ls he known ? Witness—He has been employed for six seasons in Cre morna Gardens ; he is one of the gasmen, and was there attending to his duty last night, but had no business what ever in the gardens at the time I found him; he had his shoes off when I found him. Prisoner said he had been drinking freely, and did no know what he was about, The police did not assent to this at all. The prisoner was remanded till Wednesday. THAMES. A SHOTLIFTER.—EIizabeth Jones was brought before Mr. Partridge, charged by another Elizabeth Jones with stealing a large roll of calico, measuring 58 yards. The witness, Elizabeth Jones, saw the prisoner in the shop of her employers, Longworthy and Co., No. 1, Can non-street-road, St. George-in-the-East, and suspecting her watched ber closely. The prisoner looked about the shop, went outside, looked at the things exposed for sale in the window, and then entered the shop again, and as she went out took with her a roll of calico standing within the shop close to the door. The prisoner walked away very quickly, and was immediately pursued by the witness, her name sake, who stopped her, took the property from her, and gave her into the custody of a police-constable. The prisoner described herself as a professional singer, declared she had no hosne,and had been in the country seeking a living and that her "relations and friends turned their back with a frown" because her child, 14 months' old, was illegiti mate. In answer to questions by Mr. Partridge, the pri soner said she had friends in London well off, but they would do nothing for her, and she was unable to support her baby. Mr. Partridge said the prisoner• was a strong hearty young woman, and might obtain a living for herself and infant if she was so disposed. He sentenced her to 21day& imprisonment and hard labour for the unlawful possession of the calico, and directed inspector Hughes of the K divi sion to make inquiries about the prisoner. If there was any merit in her, and if she was not a professional thief, he would assist her with a contribution from the poor-box, or put her in the way of obtaining an honest living when she came out of prison. A MABINE BURGLARY.—DARING ROBBERY.—John Davidson, a youth describing himself as an ordinary sailor, was brought up before Mr. Partridge, charged with a marine burglary. Adolphus Clark, a West India Dock constable, saw the prisoner coming towards the gateway of the dock fronting the Commercial-road, Poplar, yesterday afternoon. The officer noticed that the prisoner appeared very bulky, and stopped him as he reached the gate and took him into his box. As he was stripping the prisoner a man of colour named John Finch, cook of the ship Duke of Wellington, hastily advanced towards the box and said he had been robbed. The first thing taken from the prisoner was a black silk neckerchief. " That is mine," exclaimed Finch. The officer then stripped the prisoner of a new black cloth coat, a blue dungaree slop, a fancy cloth waistcoat, two pairs of dungaree overalls, a flannel shirt, a pair of flannel drawers, a blue Guernsey shirt, and a pair of braces. '1 he cook said they are all mine, and he now identified the whole of the property. He said he discovered his chest in the forecastle broken open, and everything in it removed. The lashings of the chest were cut, and the lock forced. The lashings of a bag containing clothes were also cut and sent adrift. He saw the prisoner alongside the ship yes terday t'Friday), but he never saw him on board. The prisoner, who had no appearance of a "salt" about him, said he was hard up. He came from shields a week ago. He was discharged from his last ship six weeks ago. He was an ordinary seaman. He could not get another ship. Mr. Partridge—Yes. You are sentenced to one month's imprisonment and hard labour, for the unlawful possession of the property taken from you. EAST RETFORD HOP MARKET..—HOP pulling is now in active operation in this district, and the late variable weather has not had so much effect upon the plant and upon the yield as at one time was expected. There have been larger growths per acre, but never a better quality. The weight per acre differs considerably, some of the grounds which are but indifferently managed making but Bcwt. per acre, but the general average will be lOcwt. to 12cwt. The grounds at Bellmoor are superior to what they have been for many years past, and at the forthcoming fair Walesby will be well represented by the new crop. At 011erton the plantations are in excellent condition. At Rufford there is a fine crop upon the ground, and the greater part is of first-class quality. In this district the yield is expected to give satisfaction, and to be quite equal to what has been obtained previously. Some samples of the new hops have come to hand here, and good prices are paid for them. The EMINENT RUSSIAN COMEDIAN, SCUTEPRINE, the fat her of the Russian stage at Moscow, where he had performed for 40 years, has just died at Yalta, in the Crimea. Schtepkine was born a serf, and made his first appearance in the company of his lord and master, Ton linov. Notwithstanding his obscure birth, he was always regarded with much distinction even in the most aristo cratic circles of Moscow, in which he was always welcome. His influence on the Russian stage was immense, and all the pupils instructed by him were always distinguished by great ease in their acting, and by an intelligent appreciation of their parts. THE ORIGIN OF HAND - SHAKING.—The Romans had a goddess whose name was Fides, or Fidelity— a goddess of "faith and honesty," to whom Numa was the first to pay divine honours. Her only dress was a white Toil, expressive of frankness, candour, and modesty ; and her symbol was two right hands joined, or sometimes two figures holding each other by the right hand; whence, in all agreements among the Greeks and Romans, it was usual for the parties to take each other by the hand, as a token of their intention to adhere to the compact; and this cus tom is in more general use, even among ourselves at the present day, than would at first thought be realised. A NARROW ESCAPE.—As a cavalry regiment were exercising on the Champ-de-Mars a lady in attempting to cross the grounds, contrary to orders, was suddenly surprised by a charge of several squadrons at full gallop. An opening in the first line was made for her to pass, but losing her presence of mind, she rushed in the way of the horses of the second line. She was thrown down, and the whole of the horses leaped over her, b ut without touching her, and the charge having psssed, she was pi c k e d up and found to have sustained no serious injury. THE HARVEST 1N THE WEST MIDLAND COI.INTIES. —The ingatbering of the corn crops in the counties of Glocester, Worcester, and Hereford is now fairly com pleted. Here and there a field of beans or late barley re mains ungarnered, but they are small in quantity. Th e great bulk of the wheat crop was secured a month ago, up to which time the weather has been remarkably dry. The rain which has fallen, however, since that period, offered a considerable impediment to the completion of the harvest, so that it ie not until the present week that it has been finished. The corn crop is even better than it had been calculated, and will more than compensate for the low price. The barley is generally of a finer quality than has been gathered for many years, and as hops are also plentiful and of good quality some superior beer is expected to be brewed this autumn. The late-sown barley, some of which has only been mowed this week, will be inferior for malting, but fit for grinding pur poses. Vetches are good in quality and yield well. Beans turn out better than anticipated. This is the last of the cereal crops to be got in, and farmers are now busy securing them. The hop harvest in Worcestershire and Hereford shire has been a very busy time, At first the weather was showery, but for the last few days it bas been very suitable for the work. The great hop fair for the district will be held at Worcester to-morrow (Saturday). The root crops have been greatly benefited by the rains, and in consequence of the early corn harvest a good many stubble turnips have been planted, which will afford late keep. The pastures are also looking very green. Potatoes turn out a prolific crop, with no disease to speak of. A Billy paragraph is going the rounds to the effect that a modification is about to be introduced into the French game laws, prohibiting the killing of hen birds, By this means," says the paragraph, "it is hoped to re stock the woods with game, of which some species are tend ing to disappear in France." A sportsman can distinguish a cock from a hen pheasant, but how he is to distinguish between the sexes of other game is a secret which the writer does not reveal.--Galt,gnrr;tt'. The Price of Gold. The quotation of gold at Paris is about 1 per mille pm., and the short exchange on London is 25.274 per .£1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of V 178. 100. per ounce for standard gold, it appear that gold is about 3-10 the per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 425 per mark and the short exchange on London is 13.61 per £1 sterling. otandard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, about 7-10ths per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is about 135 to 1351 per cent., and the premium on gold about 224 per cent. At these prices there is a small profit on the importation of gold from the United States. RACING FIXTU SEPTE [RES FOR 1863. IMBEL Brecon .. 21 Richmond 22 Monmouth 24 OCTi Manchester Autumn ....25 Newmarket Ist Oct. ....29 Edinburgh, &c. Club.... 30 ,137513. Coventry Bedford 6 Caledonian Hunt . . 7 Newmarket S. Q.. 12 Lincoln Autumn 20 Kelso 21 Gloucester 22 Newmarket , Houghton 26 NOTE: :MBER. Worcester 3 I Shrewsbury Autumn....l6 IRISH. SEPTEMBER. Listowel 2l I Jenkintown Park 23 Limerick 2l OCTOIIHR. Curragh .. 20 THE " MACHINE LADIES" AND THE FORTUNE TELLER.--At the Sunderland Police-court, on Thurs day, a little Irishman, named John Butler, was brought up for telling fortunes to the "machine ladies" employed at the gutta percha boot and shoe manufactory of Mr. J. V. Scarborough, in that town, and for swindling them out of a sovereign. Mr. Scarborough's daughter, Mary Jane, said that about one o'clock on Wednesday, the prisoner came into the shop, and offered to tell fortunes. He said that he was deaf and dumb--(laughter)—that is, he wrote on his slate that he was, and said that if they put a sovereign into a teacup he would tell them "two won derful things." Witness accordingly put a sovereign into a cup, and the prisoner put in a crooked pin. He then went to the window and gazed up at the sky, but soon afterwards took out the sovereign and went to the door to look at the sun, for it was not dark enough to "rule the planets." He did not return, however, till about six o'clock at night, and then pointing to Mrs. Scarborough's plaid shawl, said he must have that. They would not give him the shawl, but demanded the sovereign, upon which prisoner wrote on the slate that he had not a penny. Mrs. Scarborough then eent for the police, and had him given into custody. The Chair man—Now, Butler, we know you're not dumb ; what have you to say to this ? Prisoner— Well, sir, Mrs. Scarborough wrote to Durham for me, and said she would give all the world if I would come back to the town to see them. She sent for me several times, and said there were seventeen or eighteen machine ladies wanted to see me and have their fortunes told. As to the sovereign, I never got it nor a half penny of their money.—Miss Scarborough denied that her mother had written for the prisoner. —A. " machine lady," who had been present at the time, gave corroborative evi dence, and said the prisoner took the sovereign out of the cup when he went up to the table to look at the sun.—Police con stable Nattrass said he took the prisoner into custody, and while he was preparing to write the charge upon the slate, the prisoner said, " It's all right, sir, I'm in custody now." When eharged with stealing the sovereign, he said, " It's all right, sir."—lnspector Kent proved that Butler had been committed from Stockton for three months, and from Sunderland fur one month, for fortune telling.—The pri soner begged for mercy, and alleged that Mrs. Scarborough did not desire his arrest. He knew he had done wrong, but did not intend to tell fortunes any more after he had got out of gaol, only Mrs. Scarborough wrote for him as soon he got out. He was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. Netvcaale Chronicle. Tne Social Science Congress will hold its Seventh Annual Meeting at Edinburgh, on the 7th of Oc tober. The President, Lord Brougham, will open the meeting with an address. The six following days will be devoted to the different departments in rotation, the pro ceedings to begin with an address from the president of each section. M. F. de Lesseps (says the Patric) is expected shortly to arrive in France from Alexandria. On his return it is probable that Nubar Pacha will be able to acquit himself of the mission to the Suez Company with which he has been charged by the Viceroy of Egypt. MADAME TUSSAUD'S HISTORICAL GALLERY. — We are glad to be able to state that this magnificent and unrivalled exhibition continues to be patronised beyond the most sanguine expectations of its liberal and indefati gable proprietors. No expense whatever is spared in con stantly adding to its present collection of rare and costly relics, every object that may be deemed worthy of a place in the establishment. Lifq-size models of the English Mo narchs, attired in appropriate costume, from William the Conqueror to that of her present Majesty, continue to be one of the most attractive features in the exhibition, VEGETABLES. Greens, dz bunch 2 oto 2 6 Shallots, per lb .. 0 6to 0 8 Cabbages, pr doz 0 9to 1 6 Horseradish, pdn 0 9to 2 0 11.1c1 ditto 1 oto 2 61 Parsley, per ditto 0 3to 0 4 Savoy do., pr dz 0 oto 0 0 I Celery, per ditto 0 Bto 1 9 Cauliflowers, pdz 1 oto 2 0 I Beet, per doz. .. 1 6to 2 u Brocoli, ,per bus. 0 oto 0 0 Parsnips, per do. 0 oto 0 Potatoes, per ton 70 oto 110 0 i Small salad, p. pn, 0 oto 0 0 New ditto, pr lb ..0 2to 0 Mushrooms,p ptl. 10to 1 6 Turnips, dz bunch 1 6to 2 6 Artichokes, each 0 oto 0 0 Carrots,pr do 4 6to 5 6 J Cos lett, score .. 0 10 to 1 3 Cucumbers 0 3to 1 61 Mint and savory..o 3to 0 4 Garlic, per lb Sorrel, per sieve 0 oto 0 0 I Radishes, dz hnds 0 oto 0 0 Green peas, n.-sv. 1 3to 2 0; Tomatoes, doz... 0 oto 0 0 Brus.sprouts,h.s. 0 oto 0 o , } Chillies, per ditto 0 oto 0 0 Onions, doz. bn 1 oto 2 0 Capsicums, per do 0 oto 0 9 New Do., dz bun 0 oto 0 0 Rhubarb, per bun 0 3to 0 4 Spinach 0 6to 0 81 Asparagus, pr do. 2 oto 4 6 Turnip radishes 0 OSo 0 01 Seakale, per bun. 0 oto 0 0 HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £3 08 to £4 108; clover, £4 Os to £6 Os; and straw, £1 8s to £1 16s per load. 'trade firm. CUMBERLAND..—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 10s ; clover, £4 Os to £6 Os; and straw, £1 8s to £1 16s per load, A steady trade. WHITECILAYEL —Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 10s ; clover, £4 Os to £6 Os; and straw, £1 8s to £1 16s per load, A fair demand—supply but moderate. POULTRY. Turkey poults, 5s to Gs Od; geese, 55 Od to 8 s each ; goslings, 4s Od to 5s Od ; ducks, 2s Od to 3s 6d ; ducklings, 3s Od to 3s 6d ; rabbits, is Od to 2s Od each ; wild do., 10d to is 2d ; pigeons, Os 6d to Os 8d each; Surrey fowls, 8s Od to 12s Od ; chickens, 6s Od to lOs Od ; barn-door fowls, 3s Od to 6s Od ; capons, Os Od ; hares, 4s Od to Os Od ; ptarmigan, Os Od to Os each; pbeasanLs, Os Od to Os Od ; partridges, is 6d to 2s Od ; woodcocks, Os to Os Od ; snipes, Os to Os Od; teal, Os Od to Os Od ; wild ducks, Os Od to Os Od ; widgeons, Os Od to Os Od ; plovers, Os Od to Os Od each ; guinea fowls, 6s Od to 7s Od ; roasting pigs, Os Od to Os Od each; Ostend fresh butter, lid to is Od ; English, is to is 2d per lb ; English eggs, 8s Od to 98 Od ; French do., 6s Od to 78 Od per 100; leverets, 2s Od to 3s Gd ; grouse, 3s Od to 4s Od each. BILLINGSGATE. Salmon, Os 8d to is Od ; trout, Od to Os; eels, 6d to 10d ; prawns, Os ; skate, 4d to 6d ; sturgeon, and halibut, 6d per lb. ; turbots, 8s Od to 18s ; cod, 4s Od to 6s Od ; brills, 2s Od to 5s Od ; doreys, 5s Od to 6s Od ; mullets, Os 6d to is 6d ; lobsters, is to 4s Od; crabs, 6d to 3s Od ; plaice and pullets, Od to Os Od each ; soles, 3d to 2s Od per pair ; common oysters, lOs to 15s ; natives, 60s to 63s per bushel ; whitings, 4s Od to 68 ; haddocks, 4s to 12s ; smelts, Os Od to Os Od ; flounders, Os Od per dozen ; mackerel, 40s per 100 ; fresh herrings, 8s to 00s per 100 ; bloaters, Os to Os per 100 ; carp and tench, Os Od to Os per brace. NEWPORT. Beef, from 2a Sd to 4s Od; mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 4d; veal, 3s 6d to 4s 4d ; pork, 38 4d to 4a 4d ; and lamb, Os 00d to Os Od per Sibs by the carcase. WHITECHAPEL. Bed, from 2s 8d to 1s;;;;;: 3a Gd to 4s 4d ; veal, 38 6d to 4s 4d , and pork, 3s 4d to 4s 4d per 81bs by the carcase. BREAD. The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from 7jd to 3d, of household do., 5d to 7d per 41b loaf. HIDES AND SKINS. Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, 2d to 3d ; 641 b to 721 b, 3d to 3d ; 721 b to 801 b, 3d to 4d ; 801 b to 881 b, 30 to 40 ; 881 b to 961 b, 4d to 4,0 ; 961 b to 1041 b, 4d to 50 ; 1041 b to 1121 b, Od to Od. Horse hides, 108 Od to 12s Od ; calf skins, light, 2s 6d to 4s Od ; full, 7s Od to Os Od ; polled sheep, 5s 6d to 7s Od; half••breds, 4s 4d to 55 4d; Downs, 3s 8d to 4s 6d; lambs, 3s Od to Gs Od; sheailings, Os Od to Os Od. NEW AUSTRALIAN BISHOFRIC.—A new bishopric is forthwith to be founded in Australia, to be called " the Bishopric of Grafton and Arundale," and to be created ont of the present diocese of Newcastle. The appointment is in the gift of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, on the recommendation of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Among the produce sent to Constantina for the approaching agricultural exhibition there, is a quantity of short-stapled Louisiana cotton, gathered near Algiers from the sth to the 10th ult. It is of very fine quality, and was produced by three-year-old plants, which had already yielded two crops in August and December last year. The Nation announces the arrival in Paris of a person, whom it does not name, charged to contract a loan of 100 millions, to meet the effects of the famine which is now desolating Hungary. This loan will, it is said, be contracted by the Hungarian communes under the guaran tee of Austria. The Progres, of Lyons, states that M. Bornier, a Federal Colonel, and Chef d'Escadron Smet, the Commissioners appointed by Switzerland and France to fix the time of delimitation between the two countries are now at Rousses. Stakes have been driven into the ground, and a contract has been entered into for supplying the proper quantity of stone posts. These posts will be square, and bear on one side the Federal Cross, and on the other the Imperial Eagle. ATTEMPT TO MURDER A HAN GMAN.—A few days ago (says the Malta Times of the 10th) an attempt was made to murder the public hangman, by hurling on him, from the top of a house on the Giuseppe-road, a heavy stone, as he was lying asleep'outside the door, as is the custom with the lower orders during the hot season. The stone struck him on his side, breaking two of his ribs, and otherwise doing him serious injury, but no fatal result is anticipated. The marriage of Mdlle. Graffenried de Villars, daughter of Baron de Graffenried, with Count Caraman de Chimay, son of Prince de Chimay, was cele- Lrated two days since at the chateau of Carlepoint (Oise), the baron's residence. The Bishop of Beauvais officiated on the occasion. In the evening a ball was given in the park to all the inhabitants of the environs, and the scene was enlivened by the band of the Ist Regiment of Grena diers of the Guard in garrison at Compiegne. The French brig Jeune Lennie has just arrived at Valery, having on board six seamen, the crew of the English collier brig Hebe, of Newcastle, which foundered at sea on the night of the 7th. _ _ " Pocket-pieking was so rife at Wines during the late fetes," says the Presse, " that in one field no leas than 15 empty portmonnaies were found." The nobility of the Government of Kowno (says the Nord) has j ust forwarded to the Emperor Alexander an address of devotedness and fidelity, bearing more than 600 signatures. A horrible murder was committed at Malta on the Bth by a military groom on the person of a married woman. He afterwards attempted to cut hie throat, but not having succeeded he threw himself off one of the bas tions, near Calcara gate, and died in a few hours. GUY LIYINGSTONE'S STYLE, everyone knows, and how a mighty rider and woman-fasoinator comports himself, it will be easy to conjecture its easy superiority o f diction in his account of his recent American Pilgrimage, "By my f a ith" i s a b erg favourite exclamation; and " scoth to sa y" h as a mellow antiquarian effect, which almost makes us look, but in vain, for " gramrnercy " in his pages. Three months' rain is very finely turned—" the three months' reign of Jupitor Pluvius." Tasting is deli cately called "savouring." That the author is not much past thirty-fiv e i s ex pressed classically by saying that he has "hardly entered on his eighth lustre." The ankles of young ladies are described with fine Johnsonian effect as " pedal perfections," and the pilgrim complains that they were too often draped oven from his admiring eyes. Not that the young ladies of Baltimore—or any place— fought shy of him, —they . worshiped him as much as he would permit, He tells us how he clasped the " waist "of one young lady for the waltz ;of the irridescent eyes, the sweet indolent morbidezza" of the Baltimore type of beauty; and in language even more rich and full of ma jestic connoissseuvship than usual, he Fives us his one glimpse of a lady of " supreme perfection," - -- THE SIEGE OF CHARLESTON. (From the Index.) Notwithstanding Greek fire, Parrott guns, and iron clads, this stronghold o f t h e South has not yet fallen. There was a great shout of triumph in New York over the news that Fort Sumter was a heap of ruins, and the Federal organs in this county jump e d elusion that, th e fi re of Fortie Sumter e subdued, it at once to the con prer was al over with Charleston. h of the siege hall dispelled this illusion, a n d proved tghatsste key to the de fences of the Palmetto c it y i s not in the c asema ted fortress which, two years a go , seemed to bid defi an to the navies of the world. In f act, the dest ructionocef Fort Sumter would almost seem to be the "be all and the end all" of Federal triumph. With this, the main obstacle to the approach of Charlesto n harbour re moved, it was th - aight that the iron-clads would easily effect a passage. The surprise was great in the Federa 1 camp when day after day was allowed to pass by with the vaunted iron squadron floating. idly within the bar, or steaming up just within range of the land batte4es to der • liver a casual shell and make all haste out of reach of the Confederate guns. By-and-bye it was rumoured that the Federal batteries erected on Morris Island ware also played out. The great gun which had poured its flaring missiles into the defenceless city had burst; the Parrott guns which had shattered the walls of Fort Sumter were used up ; most of the ammunition was gone; the six days' bombardment had exhausted the Federal stores, and General Gilmore found himself at the end of the artillery duel brought to a dead lock, with the enemy repairing damages with impunity under his eyes and within reach of his guns. On the 21st August Sumter was in ruins ; on the 23d it had ceased to exist as a fortification according to General Gilmore's re port, though the Confederate flag waved over it ; and a day later the Federal batteries declined to waste their amiaiuni • tion upon it. Another day, and we learn that heavy firing was going on between the Federal batteries and Forts Sum ter and Wagner : and finally, it is officially reported that on the Ist inst. a general engagement took place between the iron-clads and forts Wagner, Sumter, and Moultrie, and that the attack on Fort Sumter was to be renewed. Either the Federal accounts of the damage done to Fort Sumter have been scandalous exaggerations,or Beauregard, emboldened by the enemy's inactivity, has refortfied the ruins. At any rate it is certain that after a bombardment of a fortnight the garrison of Fort Sumter not only held out, but was taking a very active part in the defence. The probability is that that skilful engineer, Beauregard, has constructed new fortifications on the ruins of the old case mates with the aid of sand-bags and cotton bales, and that on the Ist instant Sumter was really stronger than it had been at the commencement of the attack. A valu able addition to its defences had, we believe, arr;ved at Charleston in the latter part of the month of August, via Wilmington, in the shape of some of the heaviest guns, with their ammunition, that have yet reached the South; and it is possible that in the late encounter be• tween the forts and the iron-clads the latter were first introduced to their fire. Certainly the iron-clads had the worst of it. The utmost the Yankees can claim is " much damage to the forts." As they eventually retired, and as the attack was to be renewed there cannot be much doubt that they met with a decided repulse. But it speaks volumes for the success of the defence, and it augurs well for the permanent safety of Charleston, that the Federals could only report damage to the forts, We strongly sus pect that General Gilmore foresaw a failure on the night of the 21st, when he threw his incendiary sh e ll s i nto the sleep ing town, and that he hoped to intimidate the townspeople into a surrender, although he could not drive the brave garrison from their guns. He did not know the strength of Southern patriotism, or he would never have given an order which, so far from terrifying the people of Charleston, has only nerved them with a still sterner re solve never to surrender their beautiful city to the cruel invader. The Greek fire and the big guns have apparently failed, but there remains the spade. General Gilmore has fallen back upon his earlier programme, and is sapping his way to the parapet of Fort Wagner. At the latest date the approaches were so near that the men were throwing shells and grenades from the trenches and the fort, and the assault could not long be delayed. One account states that a night attack was made on the 26th and repulsed, and the report is exceed ingly probable. En revanche, the Federals claim to have stormed some rifle-pits in the night from whence a very annoying fire was kept up on their working parties, and captured 70 prisoners. We are, however, entirely at the mercy of the North for news. If any disaster has hap pened to the Federal army it will not be published. There has been a suspicious absence of intelligence from Con federate sources in the columns of the New York press for the last week or two. We shall not be surprised to hear that another assault has been made and repulsed, and that the Confederate flag still floats proudly and defiantly over the earthquake of Fort Wagner. The panic at New York has not yet been satisfactorily explained, but there are plenty of indications that things were not going on favourably, and that, practically, little or no progress had been made towards the reduction of Charleston since the day the Federals sur prised the seaward batteries and gained a footing on Morris Island. Altogether the siege of Charleston reflects as much lustre on the soldiers of the Confederacy as any epi sode of the war, The press in this country has been startled by the enormous array of force brought to bear against them. It has dwelt with something like alarm on the unparalleled calibre of the Federal artillery, on the destructive effect and terrible accuracy of the Parrot guns, and the solid in vulnerability of the turreted iron-clads. It has contrasted the shells that swept through and through Fort Sumter with the deadliest missiles of the Old World, and confessed to a doubt as to the superiority of European artillery. The North, too, has had the run of every market in Europe. Whatever we had of newest and deadliest invention it could freely purchase and import. All our resources have been placed at its disposal; and it is fighting the Confede rates with every appliance that the ingenuity and skill of man can furnish. The South has 110 such advantages. Isolated and unaided, she has to fade the conflict. A purely agricultural country, sho has to struggle with a nation of vast mechanical and engineering aptitude and rescources. Out of her own scanty means she has to provide the de fences which time after time beat off the Federal flotillas. With the industry, devotion, gallantry, and indomitable energy of her sons she has to make up for the superiorit y which the Federal Government enjoys, with its numerou s fleets and the vast means a one-sided neutrality places at its disposal. Charleston may yet fall, but at least the chivalry of South Carolina has not belied its reputation. Nowhere has Southern heroism been more nobly illustrated than amidst those battered casemates of Fort Sumter, where day after day the war-flag of the Confederacy was re-h o i ste d almost as soon as the Federal shot had cut it down, to show to friend and foe that the brave garrison held out, and that, despite the enormous disproportion of odds, B-auregard's order of " No surrender" would be obeyed literally to the last, SHIPPING—This Day. LONDON, Sept. 19—Wind, W.; fine. PETERHEAD, Sept. 19—Southerly gale—The Briton, schooner, from Archangel, is stranded here; if moderate m ay be got off. OFF Hor.THEAD, Sept 19—Arrived—Havelock, from Bombay. BRISTOL, Sept. 18 —Arrived—Francia ililY ar g' from New York. CARDIFF, Sept. 18—Sailed—William Smith, for Hong Kong; Kate Dy er , C a ll ao; S t. J ames , for Rio Jaznero ; 6peculant, for St. Thomas's. NEWPORT, Sept. IS—Arrived—File unique, from Bor deaux, for Buenos Ayres. BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH. AvEsErtb, Saturday Morning. Arrived, Sept. 19—Moselle, from Antwerp; Mary Ellen, from Vivien; Wilberforce, from Cronstadt. Sailed, Sept.l9—Holland, steamer, for Ostend; Hanover, steamer, for Calais. C a pt a i n j en kings, of the Mary Ellen, from Vivien, re ports having picked up the crew of the Ruby, of Exeter, which ship was wrecked near the island of Guernsey, on the 16th inst. -- --- DEAL, Saturday Morning. Passed— jov ellanos, screw steamer, from London, for Cona; Donegal, of Exeter, from the West, for the North, TOE POLISH DESERTER'S TALE.—It was a tale not merely of privation and toil, and barbarous warfare on a rugged frontier, but of studied insults, unjust punishments, and a deliberate purpose to break the spirit and crush the heart of every one of these unfortunate exiles. He had fought and marched, had endured the hardest de tails of a hard life, with an unflinching and uncomplaining courage that was due to his Polish pride, but he had been at last compelled to become " dushtek," or servant, to a Rus sian major. "He was a cruel coward, the most hated of all our tyrants," eaid the young man, feebly; he taunted me, he spoke to me as if I were his dog ; he mocked my country and my creed; be made my tasks, and the bread I ate, as bitter and as odious as a petty despot could. One day he struck me across the face with his cane. Next moment he lay at my feet, calling for help and I fled." How he had formed the bold resolve to regain his home in West Poland, penniless and on foot; how he had journeyed, hiding in the woods by day, and travelling by night; how the peasants had sometimes given him food and shelter, and at other times had turned out to hunt him down in hopes of reward ; all this he told in simple and modest words. Also, how he had changed clothes with a Malorossian serf, who bad given him an old caftan and cap in exchange for his uniform coat; and ho .v, soon afterwards, the tidings of his escape having preceded him, he had been pursued by a troop of Cossacks, and had received his wound from one of their musket-balls, while in the act of scrambling up the steep bank of a river which he had swam, and which had baffled the horsemen. Finally, how, famished, cramped in every joint and sinew, he had dragged himself with bleeding and crippled feet to the door of his father's house, at which he had not dared to knock, and was watching the windows when his mother saw him. A gallant lad he was, slender and graceful of figure, rather active than strong, and with a handsome face enough, when once it began to lose the gaunt famine-stricken look which it wore at first,--,Dtelcens's"4llThe Year Bound." SECOND EDITION SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 o'CI,OcK SPAIN. MADRID, Sept. 18.—The reply of the Emperor of Morocco is expected to-morrow. The Epoca. stetes that the Cabinets of *A:adrid and Washington, have decided on submitting the decision of the affair of the maritime zone of Cuba to the arbitration of the King of the Belgians. M. Barrot has arrived here. I I' TIIIRD EDITION SUN OFFICE, SIX O'CLOCK. SPOR PING INT ELLIGENCE.---This Day. CITY BETr ING—Tilis DAY. CESAIIEWITCH. There was no material alteration in prices to , day. The following quotations are merely nominal 20 to 1 agst Anfield (taken) 20 to 1 aget Drummer Boy (taken) 25 to 1 agst Lioness (taken) 33 to 1 agst Barchettina (taken) 33 to 1 agst Myrtle (taken) CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 14 to 1 agst Birdhill (taken) 20 to 1 agst Borealis (taken) 30 to 1 agst Turcos (taken) 33 to 1 agst Polynesia (taken) 40 to 1 agst Comet (taken) THE DERBY. 15 to 1 agst Coast Guard (taken) Curious Action for Damages at Sunderland. On Wednesday, at the Sunderland County Court a case was heard in which Robert Taylor claimed £5O as compensation for injuries h 3 had received at the hands of a companion named John Atkinson. The men are both sawyers, working at Southwick, and residing in the adjoining village of Hylton. On the morning of Monday, the 29th of June last, they left their work about ten o'clock, and went into the public-house kept by Edward Brown. They had a good deal of beer, and sat conversing about feats of strength until Atkinson said he would bet a quart there was not a man in the house who could lift him. Taylor said he thought he could, but did not accept the bet, and while they were at the door be tween twelve and one, Atkinson said, "Can you lift toe now ?" and upon that Taylor undertook to carry him into the house. In his evidence the plaintiff said—" I put my back against him, in a stooping position, to lift him by the thighs, but he said, 'That's not the way, I'll show you.' H e t h en shoved his arms through under mine, and fetched them on the back side of my head. Then he pressed my head down into my breast, and I felt something give way in my neck.' I fell down at his feet, and said, You have done me.' He said, Can you carry me now ?' I said, 'No, you've done me.' He said Come, get up, it's only the drink, and you'll soon be better.' But I could not stir, and George Young carried me into the house. Dr. Horan has since attended me. I am now very weak in the small o f my back, and have very little use of my hands, being unable to lift anything. We were both under the influence of liquor."—Margaret Barwick, plain tiff's sister, deposed to conversing with the defen-. dant about the affair. He offered to show her how it was done, but she declined, thinking that for one of the family to be lame was quite enough. She asked him why he replied "That's my catch." H e afterwards said he bad been done in a similar way himself once before by a man at the Three Horse Shoes Inn, and he was not clever for eight or nine weeks after.—Dr. Horan deposed that the spinal marrow was injured, and said he found plaintiff completely paralysed, and without power to move or assist himself in bed. There was great tender derness about the region of the neck, and in his opinion it would be a long time before Taylor re covered the use of his limbs. He might recover somewhat, but would never be the man he was be fore the occurrence. He did not think he would be able to work as a sawyer again. There was no sub , stantial defence to the action, and his Honour found for the plaintiff, with .£25 damages and costs. He remarked that though the men had agreed to a trial of strength in lifting, defendant had used unfair means. He would have given judgment in the whole sum of £5O, but the defendant, being only a working man, and having a family to maintain, would not be able to pay more than £2s.—Neta cast7e Chronicle. A Melancholy Narrative. The schooner Robert Drape, Captain Montgomerie, which has arrived in the West India docks, took eight pas sengers on beard at Algiers, for a passage to England. They were a Mr. Hobbs, a native of Bath, a chairmaker, his wife, and a family of six—the eldest eighteen years of age. They left their native place some months previously, for a town in Algiers ; but, failing in their expectations, they wished to return to England, and applied to the British Consul, who introduced them to Captain Mont gomerie. The captain states that, from a feeling of com passion for them, he undertook to give the whole family a passage to England fcr £l4 ; but he represents that he expended £l7 iu purchasing additional stores at Algiers. There were two spare bunks in the cabin, divided from that part used by th e captain and mate, for the accommo dation of the wife and daughters, and two spare banks on the forecastle were allotted to the father and sons. Thu, schooner put to action Aug. 5, and owing to the warm weather it is stated that the family wished to be berthed in the long boat, which stood on deck. Their desire seemed to have been complied with. They made up their bed at the bottom of the boat, and a kind of awning was erected in order to afford some shelter. A day or so after the voyage commenced the family suffered much from sea sickness, 'and the weather setting in bad added greatly to their suffering. A heavy gale of several days' duration was experienced off Cape St. St. Vincent. The condition of the family became worse; they were gradually getting more exhausted from violent and continued sea sickness, and several, of them were seized with ague. The captain states that ho bad fresh provisions up to and when the vessel was off Cape St. Vincent; but neither the parents nor the children could be induced to take any solid food ; they preferred tea, He also states that they were often Balked to leave the boat and to go to the bunks in the cabin and forecastle, but they refused. At eight p.m. on the 25th of August, George Hobbs, the eldest son, 18 years of age, died in the boat from exhaustion consequent on sea sickness, and on the following day the body was buried. Two days afterwards, on the evening of the 27th another of the children, Emily, aged five years, expired in the boat ; and at midnight of the same day the third child, Richard Hobbs, nine years of age, breathed his last, and in the morning the two bodies were committed to the deep. The father and mother and remaining three children still kept in the boat, and the captain states that all his remonstrances failed in inducing them to leave it. He prepared what nourishment he could for them, but he had much difficulty in getting them to take anything. They still preferred tea. Rough weather was met with in coming up Channel, and on the night of the 3d instant, when the vessel was between Dungeness and Dover, Elizabeth Hobbs, the eldest daughter, aged six teen, was released from her sufferings. On the schooner arriving in the Dawns, the Violet lugger, of Deal, was hailed, and the captain of the schooner desired the parents, the two surviving children, and the corpse of the young girl to be taken on shore. The lugger's crew state that hey found the survivors in a most dreadful state of exhaus tion, and it is very doubtful whether they could have lived tf they had gone on with the vessel to London. The lugger took the poor creatures ashore at Deal, as also the body of the girl. The survivors received that medical aid and atten tion which their lamentable state required, and are gra dually recovering. OUR FUSTIAN CUTTERS.—The vicious custom of " play-days" at the beginning of the week, exposes these children to be shockingly overworked at the end—, being sometimes unrelieved for thirty hours at a time. Four., teen hours, including meals, is a fearful daily task for you ng girls and boys ; and in this business the work occasions deformity and lameness, whether the hours are in excess or not. It is probably the greatest event in the lives of tho seventeen thousami young workers in these trades, that the discovery has been made in their time of the fitness of combining education of the mind with the labour of the hands, and of the completeness of each when the two are combined. As much learning can be gained in tone hours as in six, and as much pay may be, or soon will be, earned on the whole by those who go to school as when they never left their work. " Half 'time and education is a grand thing! " as the workman said ; and any of us who can in any way aid in getting Parliament to extend the benefits of the Factory Act to these hard-worked children, will surely try their utmost, after seeing what their case is, and what it might be. An effort in any degree proportionate to the value of the object is sure of success.—C- nee a Week. Mour pre re of irace g or .Tho his ilcial etins Cing part a g e nigh n the Yes half- I are l o yal loyal Id to anan 'chess toria our in. IMO se the ford, rues- e in i . W. select vn , at )f 1310 pea at ;0 SC /10110 nond d end ig the rham , _ . Ord is it the wring 3 left 7i 8 55 44 1014 1 31f 9.)} 4 ,~