The Sun. — London, England, 1863-10-02 00:00:00

'.~.'- CONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The Star and Garter Hotel Company, Richmond, Surrey, announces that no further application for shares will be received after to-morrow, nearly the whole of the capital, £120,000, having been realised. The directors are very sanguine that the company wilt be a decided success from a commercial point of vitw, and from the antecedents of the Star and Garter, with its European reputation, added to its most eligible situation, there can be bat little doubt that the investment is not only a safe one, but will yield a fair rate of dividend. The weekly returns published by the Bank of England authorities to Wednesday last, contains some very important alterations. An increase of nearly £3,000,000 is shown in the other securities, Which is owing to the very large discount business transacted there during the past week. The bul lion and reserve of notes sho ?? a considerable falling, notwithstanding the almost daily influx of gold. This diminution, however, must in a great measure be attributed to the continued absorption of coin throughout the country both for trading and agri cultural purpo3es. Subjoined are the particulars : Active Circulation .. • £21,517,900 Increase .. 763,875 Bullion .. 15,277,885 Decrease 151,953 Rest 3,728,595 Increase .. 1,750 Public Deposits 9,270,486 Increase .. 978,995 Other Deposits.. 13,717,460 Increase .. 857,880 Seven Day and other Bills 794,847 Increase 33,141 Government Securities .. .. 11,141,284 No alteration • 22,513,119 . .. 2,790,594 .. 7,711,440 834,010 Other Securities .. Increase Notes Unemployed .. Decrease . • • • In the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets during the last few days dealings have been of a limited character in most of the principal staples. Tea, sugar, and cocoa, have remained at about previous prices. Coffee, however, has been at rather lower rates. Rice has continued in fair request, at lull quotations, but in the tallow market a down ward movement has been perceptible in values for both present and forward delivery. Two o'CLocK. At Paris this day, according to Mr. Reuter's tele gram, the 3 per Cent. Rentes were at 671. 95c. —Heavy. At the first general meeting to-day of the share holders of the Standard Bank of British South Africa a dividend was declared of 63. 9d. per share, free of income tax, on the 10,000 shares of the first and second issues, being at the rate of £l2 percent, per annum on the capital paid. It was also reso!ved that £lOO of the unappropriated balance, together With £lO,OOO received in premiums on the second issue of shares (in all £10,100) be carried to a re serve fund, and that the balance of £3olos. be car ried forward to profit and loss new account. The Scotia, from New York, has arrived with £79,000. The English Stock Market is dull and depressed, and Consols, which left off yesterday at 937,- 1 for money, and at 931 1 for the account, have receded to 934 -Z, and 93:- 1, respectively. A few sales have produced this retrograde movement. The New Threes and _Reduced are 917 92 ; India 5 per Cents., 1081 I ; do., 4 per Cent. Enlaced Paper, 981; do., 51 per Cent., 117 4 ; and Exchequer Bills par to 3s. prem. With the exception of the Confederate Loan, which has risen 4 per cent., namely, to 24 22 die., upon the intelligence received by the Scotia, Foreign Securities have tended downwards Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 71 / ; do., 1863, 2 dis.; do., Consolides, 541 I ; Mexican, 46i f-,' ; Greek, 378 d ; do., Coupons, 181 ; Spanish Pat sive, 35/ 361; do., Certificates, 141 1 ; Portu guese, 481 491 ; Italian , 721 d ; Venezuelan, 621 ; and the Colombian Loan, a to 11 prem. Business in the Railway Share Market has con tinued inactive, and a slight decline has, in some instances, prevailed. Great Western and North Western have each receded 55.; and Great Eastern 15s ; while Lancashire and Yorkshire has improved 55., and Metropolitan has risen £2 10s. The Foreign and Colonial undertakings remain inactive, but sustain former quotations. Grand Trunk of Canada hava improved t, and Madras 5 per Cents, declined Bank and Miscellaneous Shares remain at steady rates. London and County are quoted 54 ; Orien tal Bank 59i 60/; London and Brazilian, 501 51 ; Hudson Bay Company, 91 ; London Financial, 141 7; and General Credit, 5 I. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. C onso l s A nnu i t i es 93 New 3 per Cent. Annuities New 3i per Cent. Annuities New 2/ per Cent. Annuities 5 per cent. Annuities Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880.. Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885. Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908., 21 India S toc k Ditto 5 pet Cent lOB/ I I Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. 984 Ditto 5 per Cent Ditto 5i per Cent Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863 Ditto ditto April, 1864 Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 Ditto Bonds £l,OOO 20 Ditto under £1,000.. Bank Stock f or A ccount Consols for Account, Oct, 8.. India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent — Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2/ per Cent Ditto 4500 Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto 1859 Brazilian 5 per Ce n t Ditto, 1839 and 1859 . — Ditto 1813 .. Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-53-60 • Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent . Ditto Account ... ................... Cuba,Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) 6 per Cent. .................... DittoChilian 6 per Cent .................... 41 per Cent• ................ Danish 4 per Cent., 1863 .............. Ditto 3 per Cent., 1825. ............. Dutch, 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guilders •, Ditto, Provisonal Land Warrant. ..... Egyptian 7 pei Cent.. — Ditto, Second Issue quador New Consolidated. 1 per Cent — Greek 5 per Cent., 1821-5, ex-Coupons 3 - 71 8 7/ D itto Account Ditto Coupons Ditto Account IST Guatemala 5 per Cent. - Italian 5 per Cent. (Dlaremmana Railway) Mexican 3 per Cent 462 I i Moorish Imp p erial sper Cent N6W Granada D itto 2 p er C ent. 16 f33 D itto D e f erred — Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) — Peruvian 3 per Cent. Ditto Account ~.. Ditto 41 per Cent,, 1862 ''oltuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 -iii tto Account... Ditto 3 per Cent., 1866, '7, '9, '6O, 62 4Bl 9 b Ditto per . -, tus g - tan ... „). .... ~... _ Ditto 4a per Cent., 18-2, £ St 1 per Cent 1850,. -.Jilt, • Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859 Sarli„ Per Cent, 1862 .... SDittot4u 6 per Cent .............. ponteittec'out DiDitto A... Per Cent tto N.ekotint 3 titto A.,„,,w D eferre d '.. •••.......•• Mite. p a ; 4 'llut ............ ,iiv_ ............ — Ditto Accoix`nit: ......... Bp:inish Cert. of t'2 Ditto Axe otiot.. euP not funded Swedish, 4 per cjo";' I a l r ) Ditto Account A 6 cliceorunCtelf.' -- Ditto Account ............. . Ditto, XlOO Bonds Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 .. Ditto Account ............. , Ditto 6 per Cent. 18 63, • £l9 1 6 6 . . g c i -VDitto Guaranteed, 4 per Cen t. ... PEI. 2 dis enezuela 3 per Cent. ................. :' Ditto Account -- Ditto 6 per Cent., 185'2 ........... ~,to Account L oudon. ......... 02a ; 1, 2 Dividends on the above payable in Belgian 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f. ........ —.. Ditch 2/ per Cent., Ex. 12 Grua ........ -.- Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates , 3 per Ce n t.. E x. 251.... 67f, Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs.. Ditto Account. ..................... 721 I Consols, TWO O'CLO CX. Money Ditto Ae eetint ...................... 93} 1 .................... ,9 9 1 i SHARE MARKETS—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOufkS. Share Ra ilways. Paid. ' ' Closing Business i Price. I clone. Bir., Wol., and Str. litythe and Tyne. Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall Do A A gets no divl Do. B till c.p an.has i been paid to B. Dublin 1z Belfast June.' Dun.,Perth,& Ab. June. Edinburgh & Glasgow.' Glasg. and S. Western. Great. Eastern, Ord. stk Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian St GreatNorthol Scotland Great Northern Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. an , l W. of Ireland Great Western Do Str Val gua. stock Lancashu•e w Yorkshire London and Blackwal! Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat, avid Dover I,on. & Nor'h Western Lon. & Scv.th Western Man., Slid., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle Do f shares Metropolitan Midland Do New Do Birming. tiz Derby 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 Do Leeds Do York Do Carlisle North London •Do New North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junotion 'Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock Do Scot. Mid. stock Shrews. and Welchpool !Shropshire Union ;South Devon South Eastern South Wales 'S. York. and River Dun Staines, Wok.,andWok. !Stockton & Darlington Do _ Do New, 1866 Taff Vale Do B Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim., Waterford It Kilkenny , West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.dzit West Midland -Oxford Do Newport Do Hereford 8 8 81 81 85 87 IIU. 1201 39 (0 16 17 09 100 110 112 51 52 49. 50f 261 276 126 127 129 130 1;-4 136 100 a 2 C 6 666 112 i 1121 73 74 112 113 42i 43t 1024 103 1014 1024 40 47 130 132 1281 :29 I+l 11;) 96 98 55 L 6 26 :7 1011 102 58 58i 881 89 117 12) 1 2 p 79 81 1I 1I 124 126 44 46 101 103 60 52 31 324 87 07i 99 lot 361 371 84 9b v P 15u 155 41 51 t 21 31 p 86 DO 159 102 26 28 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Railways Atlantic & St Lawrencf Bom.,Baroda&.Cent Inc Gu. 5 per cent... Do. New .... Do. E. Shares. Buffalo and Lake Elurob Do. Preterance Butlalo,BrantotGodrich, p. at. bds. Aug. 1, 187:2 Do. do. July 1, 187.'1 Do. do. June 1, 18;9 Clcutta.&S.Eastn. (Lill 1 ! Cape Town & Dock Sari) Hastn. Bengal gu. 6 p. Bast Indian. git. 5 p. c. Do. do. G Ext..... Do. do. H do. .. Grand Trunk of Canada Do. Ist Pref. Bonds.. Do. co. deferred...... 1)o. 2d Pret. Do. do. deferred...... Do. 3d Pref. stock ... Do. do. deferred...... Do. 4th Pref. stock... Do. do. deferred.- GLlndiaPenin.gua.sp.c Do. New gua. 5 p. 0. • . Do. January, 1862 .. Gt. South.of India(Lim;, guaranteed 5 per cent.' Gt. W. of Canada Shares Do. New Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt., Do. 5i p. c. do. '77-8.... Indian Branch Limited' Madras guar., 5 p. o. Do. 41 p. o. Extensiop Dc. 1* do Do. Fifth Extension. llelb.Corp. 6 p. o. Bode . 3lelb. & Hobson's Bay. Do. 7 p. c. nortg. Bds Newßrunswick &Candu Class A and B N.ll.l.C'da6 pc Ist pi bds Scinde .......... Do. Delhi 44 ` : Do. do Do. Punjaub Do. Do. ........ , Do. Indus. St. Flo.) 100 100 100 100 100 100 Paid. all 100 Closing Price. 63 (5 107 108 1 1# p 1} 17, p 62 6t 8} Oi 107 108 114 106 109 110 108 109 1 lfp 11 lip 21 22 75 76 61 53 68 70 52 65 I 49 51 I 38 41 29 31 24 26 108 a 1091 11 1L 107 108 10i 10f 10 9/,' 95 97 87 8) i i P 107 1 0 8 1011 1021 18 100 57 58 S 6 82 84 107 108 107 108 i iP - -P 107 108 102 IC4 stock " all 100 (100 'lOO 2 all 100 100 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Cun.brov. 6 p.c.J &Jui) , 1877-84 , Do. 6p. c. Feb & Aug. 100 101. 103 I Do. dp. c. Mar & Sept. 100 101 103 Do. .8 p. c. Jan &July. 100 92 84 93 Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 91 93 .Cape G.llope. 6p c,18711 100 108 110 Do.Ap & Oct. 188€ 100 109 111 Do. 189( 100 110 112 iDo. Jan. & July, 1891.. 103 113 115 Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 100 113 115 , Mauritius 6 per cent .. 100 107 108 Natal Gov. 6 per cent.. 100 110 112 ;N.1.1.G0v. 6 p.c. Ja.&.Jul) 100 102 104 ' Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. 100 N. S.W. G ov. 5 p 18ta 100 1004 1011 Do. sp. c.,lBti to 10( 100 1014 1021 Do. d0.,1888 &upwds 100 102 103 102 i New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 lit 113 ,Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. sterling, 1875. lOO 103 105 105 Queensland Gev. 6p. c. 100 111. 113 S. Aus G6p.c.1r378.& up.. 100 111 113 1121 - ,Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 108 110 'Do. to 6 ma. AnAtOot.. lOO 11l 1111 1 1114 f BRITISH MINES. 2 leambrian Consol. Gold 1 7, id uhtlord Amalgamated.. 35 Devon G. Con.. (Tavist.,l 1 645 655 East Bassett (Illog - anh. 30 77 70 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd. sa. 4d par East Caradon ...... 2.14.6 29 10 2914 East Carn Brea... 3.4.0 71 71 E. WlRussel (Tavistks 8.6.6 3 3. IGam.&St.Aubyn(Gwen.) 13 15 Great South Tolgus.... 178 4 4.4 'G. Wheal Vor (Ileiston, 40 91 101 'Grenville 6.16.r 5 54 llerc-d's-Foot ...... 8.12 37 19 H ingston Downs 4.'8.0 2 24 - Lady Bertha I Margaret (lJny Lelart 94 23 25 llarke Valley.. 4 Ilyndy Iron Oro (Lim , 21 14 # d New Setun l9l 105 115 • North Downs 2l 11 2 S.WII '1 Ba8eet(Illo ;au 1.17.1, 24 34 North Wheal Crotty Par Consols (St. Blazey, 14 4 6 20 Providence (Uny Lelnt.) 10.6.7 s 2 44 South Caradon(St.Cleer) 14 415 425 S. Cam Brea (Illogan) 5.15.61 14 2 zi.Wheal Fran. (Mogan) 18.14 60 65 Stray Park 5 Camar Silv..t Lead Alin 44 1 , fin Croat 9 19/ 204 ' West Basset (Illogan) ll 91 104 W Cr melon (Liskeard) 5 20 22 West Seton Wheal Basset (Illogan) 54 724 771 Wheal Buller (Redruth) 5 25 30 Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) 2.0.6 WhealLudcott 12.10.8 21 3 Wheal MaryAnn(lden )' 8 9 11 Wheal fleton . 581 /205 215 Wheal Trelawney ( Lis.); 7 16 18 I Wheal Union 3.17 2 3 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Western Orig. 4i per cent. pf., 102 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 6 per cent., rd., Ditto, 1.:6, North Staffordshire, 23 booth Eastern (tteading Anns., £1.0.6), 21 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. London, Brighton, &c., 41 per cent., 1858, 1021 Bahia and San Pria%lOelll'actG(llNna.R) A gu l a L . W 7 p A e *Y r e S n Copenhagen, Bra., 2; 3 202 Ottoman (Smyrna to 121 1 Paris and Orleans, 41 San Recit e Paulo (lim.), ute. 7 per and San Francisco (R cent,, gua.. 7 per cent., 19 g, Ditto (all), 224 FOREIGN MINES. Don Pedro, Nord' Del Rey, 11 1 St. John del Rey (lim.), 5n4 United Mexican (tim;, 64 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Agra and United Service (lim.), 117 &Mance Bank of London and Liverpool (Urn.), 424 2 A.ustralasia, 79 Bank of Egypt, 29 81 BanJ' of Queensland (lim), 1541 Br , :ailian and Portuguese, Bin., 94 9 84 Chartered Bank of British Columbia, 121 1 Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 39 84 Continental, lira., 11 101 English, Be lgian, and Netherlands, lira., 34 English and Irish (Jim.), 11 Hindustan, china, and Japan (lim.), 30 Imperial Bank (lim.), 242 4 Imperial Ottoman. 191 London and Brazilian (lim.), 501 1 London, Buenos Ayres, and River Plate, 521 2 London, Birm , and S. Staffordshire, Um., 121 London Chartered Bank of Australia, ,291 London and County, 51i 4 1 London and Middlesex, Um., 91 Loudon and Northern (lim.), 121 12 London and South African, 28:1 Metrop. and Prov. Bank (liin.), 171 National Provincial of England, Ditto, new, 264 Oriental Bank Corporation, 591 601_ Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi Wm.), tik Standard of British South Africa (lima), 281 8 / Ditto, new, ;Al 1 MISCELLANEOUS. Berlin Water Works, lim., 9 1 Bombay Uas, limited, 21 Ceylon Company, 51 Crystal Paloce,.3Bl East India irrigation and Canal, 5 1 Egyptian Commercial and Trading, lim., 11 Gen. Credit and Finance of London, lim.,NC.4 5 Hudson's Bay, 91.6 International financial Society, lim., 101= Italian irrigation (Canal Cavour), . Ditto, 6 per cent. Bonds rd. .870 issued 00, 80 Joint •stock Discount, 64 London Financial Association, lim., 144 I London General Omnibus Company (lim.), 24 National Discount Company, Jim., 1 Oriental Inland Steam, lim., :34 Peninsula and Oriental Steam, 801 Ditto, new, 491 Quebrada Land. Rail, and Mining, 'Rm., 21 b. African Nortga,.e and Investment, Wm, 64 si ook THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTJBER 2, 1863. LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day. BANKRUPTCY COURT. (Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.) RE R. WESTBROOK. This bankrupt was a solicitor, of Marsham-street, and this was a 'meeting for last examination and discharge. The debts are stated at £675, and debts secured £7oo—assets, good debts, £l3B. There was no opposition, but his Honour adjourned the case for an amendment of the accounts. IN RE CLARKE. This bankrupt was an umbrella manufacturer, and this was an adjourned last examination and discharge. Mr. Reed opposed on behalf of the assignees, on the ground that the bankrupt had not filed a special account which had been ordered in May last, and that he had in curred debts to the amount of 17,500 within four months of his bankruptcy, and the only assets were about £350. The bankrupt said he could not make out the accounts without assistance. His Honour said that ho had had quite time enough to do it. Mr. Reed said the creditors objected to any further allow ances to the bankrupt, or to paying for another adjourn ment. _ _ The case was adjourned sine die at bankrupt's expence. IN RE CHURCH. This bankrupt was a leather merchant in Giltspur street, and this was an adjJurned meeting for last examination and discharge. Mr. Bazley appeared for the assignee, and said that there had been no less than four adjournments in consequence of the intricacy of the accounts, but which had at length boen satisfactorily arranged by Messrs. Hart Brothers and Hayles, and it did not appear that any benefit would arise from any further adjournment. The examination was passed, and the discharge was adjourned. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. BURGLARY.—John M'Mahon, Alfred Morris, and Liam Byrne, the three young men charged with burglari ously breaking and entering the premises of Mr. Thomas George Rotherham Swallow, the Blue Posts, Berwick street, Soho, and stealing a quantity of money, &c., M'Ma lion being further charged with stealing clothing, &0., to the amount of £lO from the house of Mr. Samuel Welsh man, licensed victualler, Wardour-street, Soho, in the month of July last, were again brought before Mr. Knox for final examination. The evidence against the prisoners in Mr. Swallow's case was not very strong, the two chief points of it being that one of the prisoners (Morris) was found wearing a hat which belonged to Swallow, which was taken from the bar parlour when the burglary was committed, and there the prisoners were seen together about one o'clock on the morning of the burglary in Little Pulteney-street, not far frem Mr. Swallow's house, by Gordon, 323 A, who said that at the time prisoner was wearing " a deer stalker's" hat. Mr. Edward Lewis. of Great Marlborough-street, ap peared for M'Mahon, Mr. Neall for Byrne, and Mr. Fisher for Morris. _ _ Mr. Knox discharged M'Mahon and Byrne, hearing that there was no further evidence against them in Mr. Swal low's case. Mr. Fisher, having cross-examined Mr. Swallow respect ing the hat, addressed the magistrate on Morris's behalf, stating he would call a witness who would prove that Morris was in bed the night before the burglary at half past 10, and another (Morris's master), who would prove that he had seen Morris wear a hat similar to the one pro duced. Mr. John Davis, tailor, 11, Sherwood-street, Golden square, said Morris had worked for him since May last year to the Ist of September. Prisoner had worn a hat like the one produced till lately, when he wore a sort of cloth hat. He believed the hat produced was the identical one. The prisoner's hat had a black band on it like the one pro. doted, he being in mourning for a child. The prisoner never lost a day while 'working for him, and he had en trusted him with his business. In answer to Mr. Knox, Sergeant Cole said he knew nothing against the prisoner Morris's character. Mr. Knox said he felt no jury would convict the prisoner, and he should discharge him. M‘Mahon was then replaced at the bar in Mr. Welsh man's case. Mr. Welshman said that in July last the prisoner and another came to his house and asked for the bagatelle balls, and went upstairs and played, and then left, and directly after they were gone he went into his bedroom and missed a quantity of property. On seeing the prisoner in custody he at once identified him as one of the two men. _ _ In answer to Mr. Lewis, Mr. Welshman said it was about six o'clock in the evening, that he had last seen the pro perty safe in the morning, and that a great many persons had been upstairs in the course of the day. He was informed by the police that they had taken a man on suspicion of stealing his clothes ; and on going to the station he saw three men in plain clothes, and identified the prisoner. The prisoner when he lett had no bundle. In answer to a solicitor for the prosecution Mr. Welsh man said he had no doubt whatever of the prisoner's identity. Mr. Knox said there was nothing against the prisoner, only the fact that he had played at bagatelle on the day the robbery was committed. He should therefore discharge him. THE GREAT SHIP COMPANY. SPECIAL MEETING-THIS DAY. A special general meeting of shareholders was held this day at the London Tavern, for the purpose of considering and determining the steps to be adopted to relieve the Great Ship Company from the difficulties that at present surround it. IV. Baker, Esq., chairman of the Board of Directors, presided. The CHAIRMAN, in his observations to the meeting, said they were all aware of the difficulties that encompassed the company, from the detailed report which had been extensively circulated amongst them. The directorshad done all in their power to make the ship remunerative, but diffi culties unforeseen, and over which they had no control had arisen, and it had been thought right to call the shareholders together to consider what should be done to relieve the company of its present difficulties. It remained entirely with the meeting to determine what should be done as the directors had exhausted all the means at their disposal. After a few words from Mr. TAYLOR, Mr, lIA.wEs proceeded to condemn the policy that had been pursued by the directors. It ap peared to him to have been a mistake throughout for them to place such a ship on the American station, where she had to compete with other ships built for speed alone. They appeared to forget that it was never intended to submit the vessel to the frequent chances of danger in trading with America. (Hear, hear.) She had been built for bug voyages, such as Australia and India, yet she had never once been further than America. He never expected that she would pay on the station, and he had told them so two years ago, but if they, by her means, brought Australia within forty days of England success would have been certain. The directors seemed en- tirely at a loss as to policy, so he thought the sooner they had a body of men with some more fixed principles the better. (Hear, hear,) He proposed that before anything was decided by the meeting, that a committee of shareholders should be appointed to inquire into the present position of the company, and that an adjournment should take place for 10 days, to allow time for a thorough examination of the company's affairs. He felt certain they had only to place the ship in the position for which she was constructed to ensure a return for the expense and anxieties she had occasioned. He had the utmost confidence in the capabi lities of the vessel, and he felt sure she would triumph over all her enemies. We shall continue the report in a late edition, SCANDALOUS OUTRAGE ON A LADY. (From a Correspondent of the Morning Post.) BIARRITZ, Sept. 28.—A disgraceful scene has taken place at this fashionable watering place, where the Court at present resides. Among the numerous foreign visitors there are a great many Russians and Poles, who naturally look upon one another with great hostility. As the sympathies of the French visitors are all for the Poles, they, too, are not regarded with very friendly feelings by the Russians. Among them was a French lady, who, having just arrived from Lemberg, where she had had opportunities of closely observing the Polish character under great trials, was particularly demonstrative in her expressions of attachment to and admiration for that long-suffering nation. These demonstrations were very unpalatable to a certain Russian lady of high rank, who determined to put a stop to them by inflicting a punishment worthy of her countrymen in Poland on the enthu siastic Frenchwoman. Meeting her in the open street, and in view of the imperial carriage, which was driving past, she struck her in the face with her parasol. The result of this brutal act was that the Empress struck the name of the Russian lady and several other Russians out of her visiting list. The Russians were extremely dissatisfied at this, especially as the Countess Przezdiecka, who, although a Pole, is a subject of Alexander 11., was retained on the list. A fresh revenge was deter mined upon. As the countess was returning from an official soiree, a man accosted her with a letter, requesting her to read it immediately. Thecountess took the letter to her room and broke the seal. Immediately some detonating powder, which was in the seal, burst with a loud explosion, and the countess's head-dress was on fire. Luckily her chambermaid was near, and extinguished the flames, which had already burnt her eyebrows and part of her hair. 'I he letter contained the following words: "Wretched little Polish woman, do you think we do not know that it is by your intrigues and your de gradation that you have succeeded in being admitted to the intimacy of that miserable little French court ? We care very little either for it or you. Do not be too proud of those miserable distinctions which we know how to stop when we like. Let not your barefooted compatriots imagine that they will triumph through you. You are now warned, and they will be also." This affair has caused great and universal indignation, and it is said that it will be brought forward in a court of justice. TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR THE WEEK. Miles Opened. Receipte.-., Railways. ~._.__.......:__-,,...-...,.--. 1863. 1862. 1863. 1862 £ 4 2 Belfast and N. Counties 136 136 2,104 2,375 Belfast and County Down- 49 49 64 t 680 Blyth and Tyne 2B 28 1,628 2,176 Bristol and Exeter 1215 1215 6,893 7,348 Caledonian Cockermouth & Workington B4 8 309 29 t Cork and Bandon 2O 20 351 329 Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6l 61 218 251 Cork and Youghal • • 325 27 470 430 Cornwall 634 634 1,803 1,396 Deeside l7 17 322 336 Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63 1,473 1,512 Dublin and Drogheda 75 63 1,653 1.924 Dublin and Meath - 191 1 3 Dub. &Wicklow and Wextd 614 485 2,531 2,246 Edinburgh and Glasgow 1695 1695 8,657 8.356 Forth & Clyde Junction Furness, &c 5O 6 / 2,952 2,678 Gl a sgow & South - Western Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.,&E.Union Great Northern 351 851 39,36) 39,45 Great North of Scotland 6B 58 1,090 2,086 tit. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 714 165 572 519 9t.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 3541 329 9,037 8,689 Great Western 10564 10325 63,991 65.695 Inverness & Aberdeen June_ 864 864 1,495 1,391 Irish North-Western 145 145 1,596 1,564: Lancashire & Yorkshire 3951 3951 39,168 36.530 Limerick and Ennis. Limerick and Foynes 261. 265 157 227 Llanelly 464 465 613 678 London & North-Western London and Blackw all 54 51 1,917 1,942 London & South - W estern Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 261 211 23,219 24,920 London, Chatham, & Dover 72 725 6,043 6,136 Do. Metropolitan Extension 106 24 1.400 60 Lond., Tilbury, & Southend Man.,Sheflield,& Lincolns h Blanch. S.Jun.&Altrincham (4 94 1,509 1.152 Maryport and Carlisle M e t ro politan _2! 1, 394 1,196 1,663 _ Midl a nd (incL N.-Wes tern) 641 61 45 49,277 46,478 Midland Ot.Westn. of Irind 25 91. 1925 4,518 4,5)1 M on kland Monmoutlish. Rail. & Canal 44 44 2,738 2,626 North British, Edin., Perth and Dundee ... N-Eastern and Stock. & Darl. 1095 10774 57,633 51,41 3 North London North Staffordshire Oswestry and Newton 5O 421,5997 896 1,249 1,13 0 Rhymney ................ . St-Helen's Canal& Itailway • 62 52 2,168 1,981 Scottish Central S co ttish North- E astern . 138 1 . 124 5,570 5,524 Somerset and Dorset 3ot 3 95 730 468 South Devon South-Ea5tern............... 306 308 29,666 29,920 Taff Vale .•• 65 55 5,840 5,540 Ulster Vale of Ciwyd ... 10 10 211 241 Vale of Neath . .... .......... 324 25 4 2,411 2.011 Waterford and * Kilkenny ..... 31 31 407 387 Waterford and Limerick ..... 7 7 , 77 1,569 1,578 West Cornwall ..... . ........ 2K 42t 275 815 872 W.HartlepoolHaibr.&RaiL . • 48 4,925 4,583 W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt.. i 7 566 577 Whitchaven Junction........ ?,, 12 907 736 Whitehaven & Furness Jun.. • •,) 35 815 743 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. 6 2 Antwerp and Rotterdam ..... ~ 52 1,639 1,591 Austrian O 2. 828 30,048 38,382 Belgian Eastern Junction .• • • ..n 265 315 322 Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 100 . 1 321 1,322 947 Buffalo and Lake Huron Detroit and Milwaukie Dutch Rhenish lO Bl 1084 - _ Eaatern of France lO7B 1050 55,194 60,961 East Indian Grand Trunk of Canada Great Indian Peninsula 53 84 4374 4,227 4,400 Great Luxembourg .. .. Great Southeen of India .. • • ,? 79 551 377 Great Western of Canada.. • • 3 ,,,',' .3i5 11, , ,48 9,,.91 Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant. • Iv , ' 435 21,332 20,062 Northern of Canada ... - - Northern of France Norwegian Trunk Ottoman Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 1491 las{ 131,088 143,492 Paris and 0r1ean5.......... . Pernambuco 774 ...... 506 - Royal Danish 69 69 741 741 Sambre and Meuse 6B Ita 1,403 1,310 South Austrian . 143 0 1315 59,000 56,151 Southern of France . • 7 " 7 77 33,228 31,607 Victorian 196 1 51 8,319 5,310 Welland ........ ........ 2 5 25 283 640 West Flanders W. and N.W. of France . His Excellency Count Bernstorff left the Prussian Legation last evening to join the countess and family a Brighton, after attending on their Royal Highnesses the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia on their arrival in England on their way to visit the Queen at Balmoral. The Duke of Devonshire and Lady Louisa Ca vendish, who have returned to Holkar Hall, near Milne thorpe, from Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire, will shortly leav or a visit to the Earl of Carlisle in Dublin, and afterwards go to the family estates in Ireland, ADELPHI THEATRE, FIRST APPEARANCE OF MISS BATEMAN. Mr. Webster commenced his winter season last evening, and had the wand of Prospero fallen into his hands, he could not have created a greatar change in the interior of his theatre than it presented on the admission of the public, compared with its appearance but two or three nights ago. Then it was dark, dusty, and faded ; now it is light, bright, and brilliant. In fact, a more wonderful embellishmen has never been made in ao short a space of time. The great feature of the evening, however, was the debut of Miss Bateman, an American actress of great celebrity, in a play called " Leah," a translation of the German play of " De borah." in which Madame Ristori appeared at Her Majesty's Theatre last season. It will be remembered that, some 10 or 12 years ago, two juvenile comedians, " The Bateman Children," respectively aged six and nine, appeared at the St. James's Theatre, in selections from our best English comedies, and created a very favourable impression by their acting; and the young lady, whose arrival has been heralded in the usual public way, is the eerier of those two children, but now a matured actress' We must candidly confess we have always had a horror of t h e " forcing " principle that must be employed in bringing op a juvenile prodigy to the mark of excellence, because, as a rule, it always ends by crushing out all taste and inclina tion a child may exhibit for any particular study. Few, ver y few, who have undergone the exhausting efforts have b ee n heard of in after time, and as the excellence of their early training has not been shown, it cannot be surmised t h a t they have, when the opportunity presented itself, thro wn up a study which could only have engend ere d di s • l ik e , and completely destroyed all real natural ability. As a rule we think this must be taken to be the case, but as there is no rule without an exception we are pleased to re cord Miss Bateman as one of those rare instances. The play o f "Leah" is intended to illustrate the persecu tion endured by the Jews in different parts o f the world, and in the present instance the pane is laid in Styria, and to prepare the audience in some measure, the following lines appear in the play bill— . gappily the last vestige has disappeared from our own ann als of religious persecution, but that en the Continent, an d especially in some parts of Germany, it subsisted to a very recent period. In a remote village of Styria, whose i n habitants , simple and primitive in their manners, live in Christian peace and harmony with each other, the appear ance of a poor Jewish maiden with her aged relatives is sufficient to rouse the worst passions of human nature, and to convert the peaceful peasant into a ferocious hater of his fellow-creature. The wretched outcasts are denied all commu nion with their Christian brethren—they are deemed incapable of the common feelings of humanity, and bent only on evil and sordid gain, and the village knows no rest until they are secure that the Jewish intruders have been hunted from its boundaries." The plot is rather long, but brie fl y narrated, it is as follows :—A young Jewess named with two o r th ree o f her persecuted race, oLneaittheir way to Bohemia, are compelled through sickness to halt o n their road and make a temporary resting place at the outskirts of a village in Styria. By accident a young farmer,Audolpf, th e son o f th e mag i s t ra t e of the place, d the betrothed lover of Madelena meets the Jewess Leah, h a nd an attachm en t, enamoure d no doubt by the e beauty of the suffering and persecuted maiden, is formed. The a n e e s frequentand un usua l a b sence o f Rudoipf from home d certain inquiri es as t o th e ca use, but some suspect i that it is occasioned by his attachment to Leah. Through the instru mentality of Nathan, an apostate, who, 15 years ago, became a Christian to further his personal and worldly interests, the residence of the young Jewess is discovered, love for R u d o l p f. I n or d e r to escape the ill which sh e an d ot h ers o f h er race had been ex posed, treatmentb u but no not her to shebe leaves her temporary habitation and encounters Madelena, a niece of th e v ill age pr i es t . Thi s y oung lady, feeling kindly sympathy for h er s ufferings, endeavours t o persuade Lorrenz, the magistrate, to allow her to a obtain shelter in the village. Neither the magistrate nor the priest is disposed to be deaf to the young damsel's solici tations; but their charitable impulses are worked upon by Nathan, w ho is known as " B er t o lf , t h e sc hoolmaster," and who professes such a deep-rooted hatred for the entire Jewish race, that the villa gers , f o ll ow i ng hi s di c t a t es , t urn upon Leah w ith a degree of fero c ity w hi c h se t s at nought of being treated oth erw i se th an as an o utcast. ali all her opphf,heoswever, pursues her, and declares to her that, the strong prejudi ces ex i s ti ng b e tween his a she is the sol e o bj ec t o f hi s l ove an d at r e e a notwithstandingad her own' w t ' hat he will sp ee dily ma k e h er hi s w if e . tachment, This declaration is overheard by Nathan, who immediately informsfather of Rudolf, and then follows a brief but painful theter v iew between f a th er an d son, th e resu lt of which is that, as Natha n suggests a Jew will do for money, a sum o f money s h a ll be offeredanything ia to leave th e v ill age , an d th us ena ble Rudolf to rega in his to Lea ll partly lost affection for Madelena. Afterwhileß u dolf consent s t o th e experiment being tried, certain deep l o ve of Leah that she will indignantly a in the refuse the bribe ; but Nathan, w h o i s c h osen to carry th e money to Leah, gives it to another Jewess, named Sarah, who gladly promises to quit the village. Intelligence is at once sent to Rudolf that the Jewess has accepted the money. But in the meantime an old blind Hebrew, who has over heard the interview' detects in the voice of Nathan a villain other crimes b es id es a p os t ac y. Thi s s o who has commi tted enrages Nathan that he kills the old father on the spot. Leah, however, fearful of her lover's absence, seeks him at his end is spurned by all, even by Rudolf, who b t e h l e i r e 's house, vest h e calummes told of her. Five years are now supposed to elapse, when Leah re-appears, vowing hatred and revenge on Rudolf. In the meantime Rudolf has married Madelena, and their first-born has been named "Leah." Instea d o f a curse, the heart-broken wanderer at upon Rudolf, an d di es , b u t no t b e fo re ho re ed blessing the sin g treaebery and apost a cy o f N a th a n. breathes a denounced Having thus outlined the plot, let us now speak of the performance, and first of Med Bateman. She is now a lady of the most grac eful figure, with fi ne ex p ress i ve f ea t ures , te and a bl on d e. H er vo i ce i s goo d, everyglittering, word dazzlings lieu yes' utters is audible (but with it there is the gng, transatlantic twang), and her acti on gran d , i mpos i ng, an d majestic. It is n ot until the third act that any great call is made upon her powers; but then, when the effort was made, the audience were most enthusiastic in their applause. The fourth act was also very finely given, and in the conclu ding scene she g av e many of the lines with exquisite delicacy and pathos. Since the appearance of Miss Cushman we have not had a finer actress from the otherand when she h as over co m e some of her Americanisms, e id of theant Atlanticsrao,which an arti s t e o f h er great ta l ent i s s riew sure to do, she will become an amazing favourite with the igingto_n played the part of Rudolf with great Arthur Stirling. as Nathan, the gave evidence of being a very usef ul addition to the talented earnestness; iir.33 and company of the Adelphi. The play has been put upon the stage in a magnificent manner, and we have to congratulate Mr. Webster upon the successful manner in which he has inaugurated his , winter season. THAMES. A YOUNG AND DISHONEST ADVENTURER.—WiIIiam Moore, a boy of 16, who did not look so old, was brought before Mr. Partridge, charged with stealing a purse con taining 5s 3!d, the moneys of his sister, Elizabeth Moore. The young woman who prosecuted her brother is a dress maker, dwelling at 16, Raven-row, Whitechapel. On Tues day night last, when she went to bed, she deposited her purse containing her money, which she had very hardly earned, in the pocket of her dress, which was lying on the bed, Next morning it was gone, and she missed her brother, who slept in the same house. He was taken into custody yesterday by William Reid, 68 H, who asked him what he had done with his sister's money, to which he re plied that he had stolen it, and been to Greenwich and spent it in donkey riding, and that he would do so again when he liked. The mother and sister of the boy were very reluctant to prosecute him, but he was such an in corrigible thief they had no alternative. Mr. Partridge—Has this boy no father? Mrs. Elizabeth Moore, a widow, said the boy's father was dead, and her son had given her much trouble ever since. When she questioned him about his sister's purse and money on Wednesday he denied having taken it. The boy was an apprentice to a respectable tradesman, and had absconded "over and over again ;" in fact, he had con tinually absented himself, mixed with gipsies and tramps, and travelled the country, He was restless, and would not stop long in one place. He absented himself from his work on Wednesday, and spent the day at Greenwich donkey riding. He had been taken to the Worship-street Police court by his master, and promised to behave better ; but he became much worse, and when he wandered over the country, and came back shoeless and pennyless, he refused to say where he had been. She was made acquainted with one of his journeyings. He went to Liverpool, begged his way there, and begged his way back, and was absent three months. She obtained admission for her son in an asylum for wayward boys in Whitechapel. He behaved very well while he was there, and she thought he was a reformed boy, but when he came out of the asylum he relapsed into dishonest habits, stole some money from her, and absconded again. The boy said he did not care about being locked up. The poor widow, with tears in her eyes, declared that she would submit to any privations to save her boy. Mr. Partridge said it was a hard case for the widow, and for her family. He committed the prisoner under the Criminal Justice Act, and sentenced him to three months' imprisonment and hard labour. He hoped the prisoner would come out of gaol a wiser and a better boy. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton ..Oct. 19. via Marseilles Oct. 13. Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Oct. 5. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Oct. 29. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Oct. 2. via Marseilles Oct. 13. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Oct. 2. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Oct. 2. via Marseilles Oct. 13. India (Bombay), via Southampton Oct. 11. via Marseilles Oct. 5. Portuga 1... 4141 ta, tgypt, and Aden, via Southampton Oct. 2. via Marseilles Oct. 11. Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo .. U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Oct. 8, by U.S. packet.... by Canadian packet. Oct. 2. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneritle Oct. 10. Bahamas, via New York Oct. 22. Mexico The application of machinery to coal-mining has been for some time accomplished in the West Ardley Coliiery. The steam-engine works an 18-inch air pump at a pressure of about 50Ibs. to the square inch. The air is conducted down the shaft in 4-inch iron pipes, and thence about 800 yards to the workin gs in gas - piping, and connected by I-inch india-rubber piping to the machine, which travels on rails. It is propelled a little by a hand wheel after every blow given by its pick, and generally it passes three times over the face of the coal-seam, on each occasion armed with a longer pick; the first cut being about 18 to 20 inches, the second 9 to 11 inches, and the third 6 to 8 inches; the depth aimed at being about a yard. Tho actual quantity of work done in six consecutive days of eight hours each by one man and two boys with the machine was 6181 yards or about 800 tons of coal. A man will average 71 yards per day, so that if the machine were worked by shifts of eight hours, three men and six boys would do the work of 40 men. The machine also effects a saving of good coal from destruction equal to an average of ninepence per ton. A second machine on the direct-action principle is toting constructed. 7i 8 66 51 1124 73 113 121 9Th a 1 Business done 64 108 i 11 21 2} 75f 61 70i 1 692 70 LITERARY ANNOUNCEMENTS, SIR EDWARD BIILWER LYTTON'S " Caxtoniana : a Series of Essays on Life, L iterature, and Manners , " com pleted this month as a series of eloquent and scholarly essays, in Naga, will be published in two volumes by Messrs. Blackwood and Sons, in November. LORD MACAULAY'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND is about to be issued in a People's Edition, in fourteen shilling numbers, by Messrs. Longman and Co. Mn. ANTHONY TROLLOP E'S n ew novel of " Rachel Ray," originally announced to appear in Good Words, will, instead of that, be published next week in two volumes by Messrs. Chapman and Hall. MR. RICHARD DOYLE'S whimsical " Bird's -Eye Views of Society," collected together from the Cornhill Magazine, are about to be re-issued in a separate form, by Messrs. Smith, Elder, and Co. MR. HENRY KINGSLEY Will commence a new story, and Mr. David Masson a series of articles on " Dead Men whom I have known," in the November number of Mac. millan s Magazine. .... - MR. J. 1111.1. BURTON, author of the " Bookhunter," has a volume in the press entitled " The Scot Abroad, and other Miscellanies." MR. TUPPER has selected what he considers the gems of his writings, and will publish the collection immediately in a volume entitled " Cithara." MR, WALTER THORNEURY, who it may be remembered has done the like before by both Turkey and Spain, is now travelling in Russia, collecting materials for a series of magazine articles, afterwards to appear in a couple of volumes as a separate publication. jl \VARD STAUNTON'S " SUAKSPERE" is announced to be about to appear in a new and beautiful form, as an edition in four volumes demi-octavo, printed on tinted paper, and published by the Messrs. Routledge. DIRECTOR HARDINGER has described bofore the Vienna Academy the meteorite of Albareto, which fell in July, 1766, in the Duchy of Modena, on which occasion a brochure was published by Jesuit Father Troili, The New Law Officers of the Crown. Sir Roundell Palmer, Q.C., M.P. for Richmond, Yorkshire, who has been appointed Attorney-Gene ral in the room of Sir William Atherton, is the second son of the late Rev. William Jocelyn Pal mer, 8.D.,0f Mixbury, Oxfordshire, by the youngest daughter of the Rev. William Roundel], of Glad staves, York. He was born in 1812, and was edu cated at Winchester, where he gave high promise of his future honours in scholarship. He obtained a scholarship at Trinity College, Oxford, and in 1831 obtained the Latin verse prize for the p oem, " Numantia ;" in 1832, the Ireland University Schr , larship, and the Newdigate English poem " Staff ;" in 1834, a first-class in " Literis humani oribus ;'' in 1835, a fellowship at Magdalen, and the Latin essay "De jure clientelte apud Rv manes ;" and in 1836, the Eldon law scholar ship. Such a brilliant university career has rarely been known. Mr. Palmer was called to the bar by the Society of Lincoln's-inn, Stine 9, 1837, and speedily obtained a very large Chancery practice. In 1848 he was appointed Queen's Coun sel, and is now one of the leaders of the Chancery bar. In 1852 he was appointed deputy high steward of the University of Oxford, of which he is one of the greatest living ornaments. In 1847 Mr. Palmer obtained a seat in the House of Commons for Plymouth, in the Liberal-Conser vative interest, and retained it till 1852, when his vote against the Papal Aggression Bill, which he joined with Mr. Gladstone, Sir J. Graham, &c., in opposing, caused him to be displaced by a severer Protestant, Mr. IL P. Collier, the new Solicitor- General. Ho regained his seat in 1853, and held it till 1857. In Parliament he took a high position at once by his ability, his unforensic style of speaking, his earnestness, and his evi dent religious principles of action. Latterly Mr. Palmer seemed to arproximato more nearly to the Conservative side of the house than Mr. Glad stone and the Peelites generally. But in 1862, on the appointment of Sir R. Bethell to the Chancel lorship, and the promotion of Sir W. Atherton to the Attorney-Generalship, Lord Palmerston secured the services of Mr. Palmer as Solicitor-General, who was then out of Parliamant. He obtained a seat for Richmond by the friendly resignation of Mr. Henry Rich. Last session he conducted the chief legal business of the Government in the house, and this year ho took the leading part as counsel for the Crown in the Alexandra case. Sir Roundell married in 1848 Lady Laura Walde grave, second daughter of the late Earl Waldegrave, and sister of the Lord Bishop of Carlisle. He is a High Churchman, in favour of church rates, against the ballot, and earned a high reputation by his energetic and eloquent speeches in opposition to marriage with a sister-in-law. His " Book of Praise" is a unique and most valuable repertory of devotional poetry. Mr. Robert Porrett Collier, Q.C., M.P. for Ply mouth, who has been appointed Solicitor-General in the room of Sir Roundell Palmer, is the son of Mr. John Collier, 111. P. for Plymouth from 1832 to 1841, hy Emma, daughter of Mr. Porrett, of North Hill, Devon. He was born in 1817, and graduated at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1841, without taking honours. He was called to the bar by the Inner Temple, January 27,1843, and soon obtained a large practice on. the Western Circuit. He was for a time Recorder of Penzance. In 1554 he was appointed a Q.C., with a patent of precedence ; in 1859, Judge-Advocate of the Fleet and counsel to the Admiralty, in the room of Sir - William Atherton. In 1852 he was returned for Plymouth to the House of Commons, in opposition to his present chief, S'r R. Palmer. He has take❑ an active part in advocating the abolition of church rates and oupporting marriage with a sister-in-law ; he earned the favour of the Whig Ministry by supporting the Conspiracy to Murder Bill (1858) against his Ra dical friends, and generally has rendered himself eligible for high legal preferment. He, of course, supports the ballot. In 1844 he married Isabella, daughter of Mr. W. R. Rose, of Woolwich. MARKETS—This Day. MARK-LANE. Only a moderate supply of English wheat was received fresh up to this morning's market. The demand for all qualities, however, was in a sluggish state, yet prices were unaltered from Monday last. With foreign wheat the market was well supplied. In all descriptions, sales progressed slowly, at late rates. Floating cargoes of grain were in slow request, at previous currencies. The supply of barley was moderately largo. The demand for all descriptions ruled heavy, at Monday's decline in the currency. The malt trade was dull, and prices had a downward tendency. The supply of oats was moderate. All descriptions moved off slowly, at late rates. For beans and peas the trade was in a sluggish state, on former terms. V In the demand for flour no activity was observed, yet prices ruled stationary. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Malt Oats. Flout. English.— 1,240 I 1,780 I 1,120 1 1110 1 1120 Irish - Foreign.... —12,410 1,740 9020 230 eke. 130 brie. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The supply of meat is moderately large, and the trade rules heavy at barely late rates. Per 81b. by the carcase. s dud Inferior beef .. 2 6 2 10 Nliddling do. .. 3 0 3 4 Prime large do. 3 6 3 8 Do. small do. .. 3 10 4 0 Large pork .... 3 8 4 4 Inferior mutton. 3 4 3 8 eclad Middling mutton 3 10 4 2 Prime do 4 4 4 6 Veal 3 8 4 2 Small pork ...• 4 6 4 8 Lamb BOROUGH HOP. Good and fine new English hops move off steadily, and the late advance in prices is well supported. The demand for inferior parcels, including yearling, old, and foreign hops, is by no means active, yet no change has taken place in their value. New Mid and East Kents $5 12s to £7 10s per cwt. Weald of Kents Sussex . sOs to 6Os ~ COLONIAL. TEA.—The market has remained very quiet, and prices are unaltered. Good shipping Congou is quoted llid to 12d per lb. _ _ _ SUGAR.—OnIy a limited amount of business has been entered into. West India descriptions, however, have maintained former prices, while other qualities are rather cheaper. In the refined market there is little change to re cord as regards values. COFFEE.--Business in colonial descriptions has continued dull, and prices generally have shown a downward tendency. RlCE.—There has been a fair demand fur good shipping qualities, which have realised full rates. TALLOW.—The market has continued very dull, and prices have slightly given way. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted 44s 6d ; December, 45s 6d; and siring delivery, 465 to 46s 3d per cwt. Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) Market opens strong. Sales, 8,000 bales or more. SHIPPING—This Day. LONDON, Oct. 2.—Wind this day at noon—South- Easterly; moderato breeze, and fine weather, but rather cloudy. QUEENSTOWN, Oct. I.—Wind W.—Arrived—Boa, from Montreal ; Virginia, steamer, from Liverpool, and left for New York. The Price of Gold. . d The quotation of gold at Paris is about per mile P o ' o ann the short exchange on London is 25.25 per £1 sterling o . f £3 comparing these rates with the English Mint Pl i s c t e go id is 17s. lOid. per ounce for standard gold, it appea r a m, about 3-10 the r.er cent. dearer in London, thane 0 4 : 5 per mar k By advices from Hamburg the price of go ld l et sterling. and the short exchange on London is 13. 6 1 4 . tnerefore, about standard gold at the English Mint prio e in "ij a mburg tbs o n n L o ndon for bills at 6-10ths per cent. dearer in London The course of exchange at New I 0 ; 1 % n d the premium o n 60 days' sight is about 1464 Pr" ce _ t r e l ,"t t h h e e re un is ite li d tt s le t , m i e f s !iny , gold is 334 per cent. At these Tilrom profit on the importation 01 goo FLORlDA.—yesterday..._,,, (Thursday) a letter posted - in the Liverpool THE from Brest, of it t h o l v 2 , B r t e li p ti o d r it tl w g a t s hat the . Florida had left the Underwriters' was then in the mercantile har- Government dry dock' a n sh e was expected to go i n t o th e roadstead i n h our re fitting. about eight or ten days, but would not be ready for sea for three wo k s or a month. The Federal cruiser Kearsage has arr i ve d from Madeira, and Ferrol. There was a scarcity of coal at Brest, SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 O'CLOCK. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. NEWMARKET RACES.—Tms DAY. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAFHO HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES. T,Y.C, Lady Louisa Merry Maid Ten ran. SWEEPSTAKES OF 30 SOVS. Fife de l'Air Woodcraft .. Six ran. SWEEPSTAKES OF 30 SOVS. Midnight Mass 1 Brianctisi 2 Six ran. The .. HANDICAP. A k r n. Eleanor Twenty-one ran. 111AIDEN PLATE. Concordia ..... ........ Anningtou _ , .................... 4 I en. ran. LATEST BETTING. CAMBRIDGESIIIRE. 100 to 3 agst Summerside (taken) Civic Dinner. Horrors of Speech-making at a anoth er in e y While I was thus amiably occupie d i n criticisi ng fellow-guests, the mayor had E ot up to propose othr toast, and listening rather inattentively to the first sentence, or two, I soon became sensible of a drift in his worship's s shi e p r ' ..B remarks that made me glance apprehensively towards geant Wilkins. "Yes," grumbled that gruff personag e , shoving a decanter of port towards me, "it is your turn next ;" and seeing in my face, I suppose, the consternation of a wholly unpractised orator, he kindly added—" It is nothing. A mere acknowledgment will answer the purpose. The less you say, the better they will like it." That being the case, 1 suggested that perhaps they would like it best it I said nothing at all. But the sergeant shook his head. Now, on first receiving the mayor's invitation to dinner, it had occurred to me that I might possibly be brought into my present predicament; but I had dismissed the idea from my mind as too disagreeable to he entertained, and, moreover, as no alien from my dis position and character that Fate surely could not keep such a misfortune in store for me. If nothing else prevented, an earthquake or the crack of doom would certainly interfere before I need rise to speak. Yet here was the mayor getting on inexorably—and, indeed, I heartily wished that he might get on and on for ever, and of his wordy wanderings find no end. If the gentle reader, my kindest friend and closest confidant, deigns to desire it, I can impart to him my own experience as a public speaker quite as indifferently as if it concerned another person. Indeed, it does concern another, or a mere spectral phenomenon, for it was not I, in my pro per and natural self, that sat there at table or subsequently rose to speak. At the moment, then, if the choice had been offered me whether the mayor should let off a speech at my head or a pistol, I should unhesitatingly have taken the latter alternative. I had really nothing to say, not an idea in my head, nor, which was a great deal worse, any flowing words or embroidered sentences in which to dress out that empty Nothing, and give it a cunning aspect of intelligence, such as might last the poor vactity the little time it had to live. But time pressed ; the mayor brought his remarks, affectionately eulogistic of the United States, and highly complimentary to their distinguished representative at the table, to a close, amid a vast deal of cheering; and the band struck up " Hail Columbia," I believe, though it might have been " Old Hundred," or " God Save the Queen" over again, for anything that I should have known or cared. IVbeu the music ceased, there was an intensely disagreeable instant, during which I seemed to rend away and fling off the habit of a lifetime, and rose, still void of ideas, but with preternatural composure, to make a speech. Th e guests rattled on the table, and cried " Hear most voci ferously, as if now, at length, in this foolish and idly gar rulous world, had come the long-expected moment when one gold word was to be spoken ; and in that imminent crisis I caught a glimpse of a little bit of an effusion of in ternational sentiment, which it might, and must, and should do to utter. Well; it was nothing, as the sergeant had said. What surprised me most was the sound of my own voice, which I had never before heard at a declamatory pitch, and which impressed me as belonging to some other person, who, and iot myself, would be responsible for the speech : a prodigious consolation and encouragement under the circumstances I I went on without the slightest embarrassment, and sat down amid great ap plause, wholly undeserved by anything that I had spoken, but well won from Englishmen, methought, by the new development of pluck that alone had enabled me to speak, at all.—Nathaniel 11 - auithorne's " Our Old Home." Royal National Lifeboat Institution. Yesterday a meeting of this institute was held at its house, John-street, Adelphi, Captain Sir Edward Perrott, Bart., vice-president, in the chair, There were also present Ad• Infra' Sir George Sartorius, W. H. Harton, Esq., Colonel Palmer, High Sheriff of Essex, John Griffith, Esq., Admi. ral Bullock, Captain De S. Croix, and Richard Lewi s 3 Esq., secretary of the institution. A payment of £7 10s. 6d. was ordered to be made to de fray the expenses of the Southport lifeboat, belonging to the society, in rescuing the mastees wife and child and twelve of the crew of the barque St. Lawrence, of Liverpool, which, during a gale of wind and heavy surf, had stranded on the Salthouse Sandbank, on the Lancashire coast, on the 20th ult. The captain and three of the crew refused to leave the vessel, and the Lytham lifeboat, which also belongs to the institution, afterwards put off with the view of saving them, but they remained firm in their determination not to quit the ship, and the lifeboat returned to the shore, In the course of the night they left the ship in their own boat, and had a narrow escape of their lives. The institution also voted £8 to pay the expenses of the lifeboat. The Lytham lifeboat went off again, and ultimately succeeded in bring ing the vessel into port, much to the satisfaction of the owner, who witnessed the persevering and gallant exertions of the lifeboat's crew, to whom he made a very handsome present. Both lifeboats behaved admirably on these occa sions. The cost of the Southport lifeboat was the gift to the society of James Knowles, Esq., of Eagley Bank, and that of the Lytham lifeboat, of Thomas Clayton, Esq , of Wake. field. Rewards amounting to £2l were also granted to the crews of the Walmer and Holyhead lifeboats of the institution, for putting of in reply to signals of distress from vessels, but when their services were not ultimately required. A reward of £2 was also granted to two fishermen for putting off and saving the lives of four men, who, whilst re cently making for the shore off Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, were capsized from their boat during blowing weather. A reward was also voted to a boat's crew of four men for putting off and rescuing three out of six persons who had been capsized from their boat off Kiloren, in Carlingfoid Lough. Two ladies and one gentleman had unfortunately perished on the occasion before assistance could reach theta from the shore. A reward was likewise voted to a boat's crew for gai n g off and saving the lives of two sailors belonging to a 11.°r ; wegian vessel lying in the Downs. The men who had ITeu on shore, were returning to their ship in a small boat, her. they were overtaken by a sudden squall, which "Pldiately Some Deal boatmen observing the accident juin' dro fling launched their boat and suceeeded in saving' the men. motof t i lltedm ins ira t i ff l u v ti a o s3 4 4 , ll. Various other rewardo were also voted to the crews of A resolution was shore boats for saving life from different wrecks' deep sympathy with rendered i p t as he se w d id e o s w pr o e f ss a iv e e ingtsn, F. 8.5., hydrographer to t.he Admiralty. The 1 admiral had, during a long series °fra il ' i mp art allpor tant services to the lifeboat osok a cl had Materially assisted, in conjunction with the Duke_cf Northumberland in resuscitating the Nations! Lifeboat Institntion in 1851 ) It was also stated that the institution had lifeb * Arkl oats ready to be sent to Eastbourne, Swansea, °W) and Tei gnmouth, (Devon). the late Milborne It was reported that Williams , d left the. l Esq of Whitechurch, Somerset, Itssociety al " The Rev. R. S. Sutton, rector of ft _ , n egacy of £5O. had sent the society £ 3 8s Gd., as a thank•Y''e e ci ar Hurst Green, congregation for the abundant harvest of offering from his Michael Steel, Esq. of Begbroke Ho the present year. warded to the institution. 1, i use, had likewise for s. ~oerai donation Payments a mountin g to £5OO of £lOO. vari ous lifeboat establishm having been made on vari ents _____ , the proceedings closed. Bank of England Return, Yesterday. An Account> Plrettant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 32, fur the week ending on Wednesday, the 30th day of Sept., 1863 ISSUE DEPARTMENT. iNOteti issued .. £29.229,310 Government Debt' £11,015,1C0 Other Securities .. 3.634,900 IGold Coin& Bullion 11,579,310 I Silver Bullion .... £29,229,340 £29,229,30 BANKING D Proprietors' Capi tal £14,553,000 Rest Public Deposits (in cluding Exche quer, Savings' Banks, Commis - tnissioners of N a lional Debt, and Dividend Ac counts) 9,270,486 Other Deposits 13,717,460 Seven Day and other Bilis 791,817 PARTNENT. Government Secu rities (including DeadWeightAn unity) .E11,141 ,281 °tiler Securities 22.6.3,110 Notes Gold and Silver 603,545 Coin X 42,004,33 412,064,35 i a cARSITALL, Chicf Cashier. Oct. 1, 1563. 1111 1014 13.14. 25 10 st st 50 1 20 10 10 6.4.0 ►9.18.41 12.10 Sh are 100 itk 1 20 '2Oi 10 100 I too 100 stock stock stock 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 stock 521 i 1 0 2 1 1011 2 132 4i 12Sf 563 6 26 89 8 sol 1 109 1071 10 81 1071 I