The Sun. — London, England, 1863-11-04 00:00:00

ONE Y MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE o'CLoctc. Pending the arrival of later intelligence from the various m oney markets abroad, and the further ten dency of the specie movement at home, some slight reserve is manifested iu discount circles in conse quence of the recent changes in the terms for ac commodation, the result of the weekly meeting of the Bank Directors to-morrow afternoon will no doubt be awaited with considerable interest. It is thought that no further movement is likely to be made, but While affairs are so unsettled it is natural that some uncertainty should prevail. The inquiries to-day are reported active, but they are readily supported at ö per cent. About £48,000 in bar gold and £33,000 sove reigns were withdrawn from the Bank yesterday. The Poonah, which leaves to day with the Cal cutta and China mails, will carry £167,239. In the foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon there was a general slight upward movement. The 31,gCialeca from the Brazils has brought £25,573 in specie. The prospectus has appeared of the Merchants' Banking Company of London, which has a fixed nominal capital of £2,000,000, and proposes to raise for its first issue one-half of that sum by 10,000 shares of £lOO each. The directors are gentlemen of large business connections, and their object is to transact operations pertaining, as the title of the company indicates, of merchant bankers. Possessing ample and local know ledge of the several markets of Europe, the managers intond to commence business at as early a day as the preliminary arrange ments will permit. Advances are to be made on the staple manufactures of this country under docu mentary bills, as consigned to the company's agents abroad for periois necessary to realise the sale of such goods. Costly establishments abroad are tobe avoided,as the agencies of mercantite houses already established and interested in the company's opera tions will undertake these duties. The Metropolitan and Provincial Bank (Limited) was on Monday admitted to the privileges of the clearing-house. The various drafts which must otherwise have been collected at the counters of the several banks were thus more conveniently arranged. Mr. C. H. Robarts has joined the board of the London, Birmingham, and South Staffordshire Bank. Notice has been given that the share list of the National Steam Navigation Company will be closed on Saturday next, the 7th inst. Two O'CLOCK. The Stock Exchange Markets opened this morn ing with an exceedingly depressed appearance, and it soon became evident that the decline in prices had not yet ceased. Sales were effected of all de scriptions of stocks and shares, and the classes recently selected as the favourite medium of spe- culation were those which suffered most. A large number of speculative accounts for the rise has now been closed, and operations for a fall are now the order of the day. As much eagerness is now shown to sell securities as was evinced a short time ago to complete purchases, the effect is seen in an extreme degree of gloom and heaviness. Consols are 922 f, for money and to-morrow, and 921 93 for the Dec. ac count. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities have dropped to 938 4 ; Bank Stock is marked 234, 236 ; and Exchequer Bills are very flat at 4s. die. to par. Several transactions have taken place in India Stock; the 5 per Cents. have been 108 f 109 k; the 4 per Cents., 1004 ; Enfaced 5 per Cents., 106 4 ; and do. 61 per Cents, 115. There is very little business in the Foreign Mar ket, and a further decline has taken place in prices. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1854, are 921 3 1- ; do., 1862, 704 714,; do. Consolides, have receded to 478 488 ; Mexican, to 391 391 ; Greek, to 21 1 ; do. Coupons, to 124 131 ; Spanish Passive, to 331, 341 ; do. Cer tificates, to 12! 13 ; Portuguese, to 49 ti ; the New Scrip, to 1 d prem. ; and the Brazilian Lost is I die. Increased heaviness has prevailed in the Railway Share Market owing to a preponderance of specu lative sales. Great Eastern, North Western, and South Western have declined 103., and Caledonian, Manchester, Sherneid, and Lincoln, and South Eastern, 155., and Great Northern A Stock, £l. In the Foreign and Colonial undertakings there is very little change. Bank shares generally exhibit a slight downward movement as regards values. Alliance of London and Liverpool have receded to 441; Imperial Ottoman to 171; Union of Australia realise 60. In the Miscellaneous Market Egyptian Trad ing Company shares have declined to 31; General Credit to 6 ; International Financial, 91 ; India Land Mortgage Bank Shares are 21 I prem.; Anglo-Austrian, par to I prem.; Imperial Privileged Bank of Austria, die. to par; East London Bank, 2i 3 prem. ; National Shipping Company, 3:1 41 prom.; and Australian Credit, 1,1 2 prem. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 236 4 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities New 3 per Cent. Annuities India Stock, 1874 — Ditto 5 pet Cent. 1870 Ditto 4 per Cent. 1838 ... 1001 Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. Ditto 5 per Cent ll6 1 Ditto 51 per Cent Consols for Account, Oct. 8 921 Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 21 per Cent 4 dis par Ditto £SOO Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS —ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian 5 per Cent Ditto, 1839 and 1859 lOO Ditto Scrip, 1863, £l5 paid Egyptian 7 per Cent — • Ditto, Second Issue Greek 6 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons — Ditto Account D itto Coupo ns — Mexic an 3 toAeeper Cent ent Ditto Account Peruvian 3 per eetli . 4O 39/ 1 91 s 1 9 Ditto 4} per Cent 186 Y Ditto Account., ~ Portuguese 3 per Cent .. . 18 . g3 ... .86 Ditto 3 per Cent., 1866, '7, '9, 'GO, 62 Ditto Account ............. . -91 .. Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Passive Ditto Account Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded Ditto Account l2l Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 — Ditto Account 921 Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 Ditto Account 7ll 701 Venezuela 3 per Cent. Ditto Account Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 Ditto Account Dutch Dividends on the above payable in London. 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil 641 Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates Italian, I) itto Account Ditto 5 per Cent. 1863, £2l 4s 6d paid II pm TWO O'CLOCK. ditto'e°llgols Money Ditto Account December 921 93 L Il verpool Cotton Market—This Day. prol7b it i et °Pens uiet at yesterday'e decline. Bales, a -,Y, 1 ,000 o 5,000 bales. -FATAL O CCURRENCE.—An inquiry into the cause of the death of Daniel Ryder, aged 50 years, a badge port er at Her Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket, was held yester,l ay morning in the board-room of Charing-cross I~ospital before Mr. Bedford, coroner. It appeared from the evidence that on Thursday night the deceased had been sent for a cab, and when near the theatre on his return he fell forward against the wheel of a cab that was passing, and he was thrown backwards with great force, his head striking against the kerb. Ile was instantly removed to Charing-cross Hospital, and died next day of congestion of the brain, produced by the fall. A. verdict of accidental death was returned. ROYAL INSTITUTION OF GREAT BRITAIN. At the general monthly meeti ng on Monday, Nov. 2, Rev. ~ J. Barlow, M.A., F.R.S., vice-president in the chair, Capt. Douglas Galton, R.A., F.R.S., Leonard J uques, Esq William Noble, Esq., the Hon. Josceline W. Percy, Allan Roskell, Esq., and Win. Sterry, Esq., were elected mem bers of the Royal Institution. G. H. Shutt, Esq., was ad mitted a member of the Royal Institution. The presents received since the last meeting were laid on the table, and the thanks of the members returned for the same. :com ;barn ncesE; and Djold, , left ding n for ncess ac- erton ncess ;land erick and inday ;s of a and erary )g by ,u the r took mond fiCCDt rty to ~d to ottieb, iney's ccora- antess iptain , e loft ;allant and a prin- Franca a, bi g ir, a ad olk. ft the :otel. y 113 they ffinter. to wn INlow* '0 rg 03 - ja dieS hshire• toso g bas vas , or Y aS to it was oiled ? ,dvio d t h the I letter 3. am, lou r Of .601 01 ' to the should ?orarY, e in the V sere ce 0 16 ,orner orta v - onie lj. . _ 'ran ee i a periti Bar on 11 ;Jagl is r 0131 , Y , tin sioo arteoY9 !1)00 1 ' ful ler 10 v., 11 a became Ld ova. SHARE MARKETS.--This day, ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOLS. I Closing Business Share' Railways. raid.; Price. done. .1 Bir.. Wol., and Str. Val Blythe and Tyne. Bost.,Sleat.,andMid.Uo Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall Do A A gets no dig Do. B ti ll 6p c.p an.has been paid to B. Dublin it Belfast June. Dun.,PerthotAb. Juno. Edinburgh & Glasgow.' Glasg. and S. Western., Great Eastern, Ord. stk Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian st GreatNorthof Scotland Great Northern Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. and W. of Ireland Great Western ...... Do Str Val gua. stock Lancashim & Yorkshire London and 13lackwall Lon., Bright,t S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & So'.th Western Man., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do t shares Metropolitan Midland Do New Do Birminz. & Derby Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. t shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwich Do, G.N.E. purchast Do Leeds Do York B 84 isi 81 82 84 120 221 7 .7i n 10 16 17 V/ 99 108 110 50 51 47 48 7 9 128 123 133 134 134 136 100 102 66 461 411 112 71 73 110 112 46 17 104 10411 101 102 49 50 130 131 129:1 :30 11 li, 98 lt.o 54 65 25 17 101 f 1021 Do Carlisle.. North London Do New 'North Staffordshire N. and S. %V. Junction Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock Do Scot. Mid, stock Shrews. and welchpoo; Shropshire Union South Dev0n......... South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines, Wok.,andWok Stockton & Darlington Do Do New, UM Taff Vale. Do B Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall. W. Hartlepool Har.&R, West Midland -Oxiord Do Newport Do Hereford 58 59 88 69 119 121 1 2 I, 79 SO 11i It/ 124 126 44 46 100 102 +5O 62 324 334 961 07i 98 100 91 10/ 36a 37} 8 96 c, 71 7 p 155 160 4t 6a ; 21 8} p 86 90 170 180 13.14, 4.4.0 , 9.18.4 12.10 5# 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. 8 1 11 0 a 0 re Itiaiiiii:all7tarawrence all 63 t --- 61 Closing lionl.,Baroda&•Cent Ind 107 61 itk .,22,000 I I Ella.e:SahLarae,:e..liuron alll 161716174:i •. • . 8 1 14 p Bufialo,Brant&Godria 10 Do. Preference .... . all 84 91 100 /100 I p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 100 Do. do. July 1, 1873 100 100 Do. do. June 1, IKI 100 et Olcutta...eS.Eastn.(Lin,) 100 105 107 st Cape Town &Dock Sari' 100 104 106 stock Eastn. Bengal gu. sp. c 100 108 109 108 stock East Indian. gu. sp. c. 100 108 109 1081 20 Do. do. U Ext lO 11 14p 20 Do. do. II do. stock Grand Trunk of Canada 100 21 224 100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds.. all 76 18 100 Do. ao. deferred all 62 64 100 Do. 2d Pref. Bonus.. all 70 71 701 100 Do. do. deferred...... all 54 57 BuffaloDD 5 per cent 100 Do. 3d Fief. stock ... all 51 54 511 100 Do. do. deferred.... .. all 41 43 100 Do. 4th Pref. stoc... all 31 33 100 Do. do. deferred...... all 25 27 stook GtlndlaPenin.gua.sp.c. 100 1081 1091 iOO i 9 20 Do. New gua. sp. 0... 12 14 111 20 Do. January, 1862 .. 8 li 111 stook Gt. South.of India (Lim) guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 106 107 20i Gt. W. ot Canada Shares all 101 1 0 1 20 Do. New 10 0 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt all 96 98 961 100 Do. 54 p. 0. do. '77- 8.... all 87 80 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 1 fp stock Madras. guar., 5p.0. .. 100 1061 1071 stock Do. 41 p. o. Extension 100 101 102 stock Dc. 4* do —.. 100 98 100 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 -- stock Melb.Corp. sp. a. kinds. 100 50 Melb. St Hobson's Bay. all 58 60 100 Do. 7p. a along. Bds. all 20 Newßruasvnok x Canda Class A and B all 3 5 ' N.lll.C'da6 pc lat It bds 100 82 84 stock .soinde ......... (100 1061 1071 8t 1 Do. Delhi 4.: lOO 106 107 Do. do • , T> 2 4 iP 20 Do. Punjaub .... os ci all ——p st Do. Do. ......., a. , len 106 107 106 took Do. Indus . Flo.) ,100 102 104 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. t,eui.uov. p.c.J ' 1877-84 . lOO 104 105 1045 Do. ap. c. Feb. & Aug. 100 11.2 104 Do. 6p. 0. Mar. ,t& Sept. 100 102 104 Do. 0. p. c. Jan.&July. 100 93 94 Do. 6 Inscribed stook 100 92 94 ,CapeG.Hope, 6p c,1873 100 108 110 - ! Do.Ap & Oct 1880 100 109 111 Do. 1890 100 109 111 1105 10 Do. Jan. Sc July, 1891 100 1.13 115 ,Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 100 113 116 ,Mauritius 6 per cent lOO 197 108 INatal Gov. 6 per cent 100 1f,7 109 ,N.B.Gov. 6 p.o.Jadk.Jul) 100 tO4 ILO Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct 100 N. S.W. G ov. 5 p a., 1861 100 1015 1025 - Dv. sp. c.,lBii to It'2l 100 102 103 1025 ! Do. d 0.4888 &upwds 100 1021 163 ' I New Zealand 6 p cent 100 109 111 !Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. I sterling, 1875. lOO 104 106 'Queensland Gcv. 6p. o. 100 1 1 113 e.Aus G6p.0.1878.& up 100 112 114 ,Vlo.Gov. 6pa Ja.&July 100 108 110 'Do. to Roat An.Aocm. 100 1105 1115 1 1105 11 10} BRITISH MINES. 2 'Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 1 id uliflord Amalgamated • 37 5 38 4 Devon G. Cons. Tavist , 1 545 655 East Bassett (Mogan) 30 65 70 1 East Clogau G o ld Ltd 53. 5d par East Caradon `.14.6 261 275 265 East Carn Brea. 141 WI Russel (Tavistk )1 8.6.6 445 45 Gam.&StAubyn(Gwen ) tB5 13 15 Great South Tolgus l7s 45 65 G. Wheal Vor (Heston . 40 lu 11 Grenville . herd's-Foot 8.12 33 35 I Hingston Downs..., 4.:8.0 15 25 - Lady Bertha - Margaret (Clay Lelant . 20 22 131arke Valley.. 4 Alyndy Iron Oro (Lim.) 21G 15 1 d New Setun . 161 95 105 —• North Downs l5 2 N. WWI Basset (1110,-,ran 3 1.0 21 3 North Wheal Crotty j Par Consols(st. Bla.zey) 20 It'rovidence(UnyLelnt.) 10.6.7 44 46 South Caradon(St Cleer, 15 415 125 S. Carn Brea (Illogan) , — •?,.Wheai Fran. (Illogan)118.1e.9 60 65 Stray Park 30.17.6 86 38 IS ramar Silv.& Lead Min 45 fin Crott 9 19 20 ! West Basset (Illogan) l5 95 105 W CI radon (Liskeard, 5 19 21 West Setort Wheal Basset (Mogan; 55 77* 821 Wheal Buller(Redruth) 5 225 275 Wheal Kitty (U.Lelnnt) 2.0.6 WhealLudcott Wheal MaryAnnt,Llen ) 8 115 125 Wheal 3eton , 585 175 185 Wheal Treiawney (Lis.)! 7 20 22 Wheal Union ' 3.17 I 24 3 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. London, Chatham, &c., Mctrop. Ext., B, ii per cent., 108 LINES LEASED Ai' FIXED RENTALS. Buckinghamshire, 961 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. B ahia and San Francisco (mu.) gua. 7 per cent., 114 Recite and San Francisco (Um.), gua. 7 per cent., 171 Sambre and Meuse, 91 I San Paulo (lira.), gua, 7 per cent., 91 Ditto (all), 221 Turin and Savona, Ditto (all), 15y FOREIGN BONES. Scottish Australian, Um., I United Mexican (lita;, 61 JOINT-STOCK RANKS . Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool Ditto, new, 25 1 41 (Um), 45i 4i Australasia, 7u Ditto, new, 491 Bank of London.ls3l Consolidated Bans, lira., 10 I Continental, lira., 9) Imperial Ottoman, t7f London Chartered Bank of Australia, 301 London and County. 54 1 London and South-Western (Urn.), 91 London and Westminster, 80 Mercantile and Exchange, 1im.,7141 National of Liverpool, limited, 21 2 20! Oriental Bank Corporation, 57L8 Provincial of Ireland, 93 Union of Australia, CO''' Union of England and-France (Urn.), fig Union of London, 3t+ MISCELLANEOUS. Egyptian Commercial and Trading, lira., 31 Gen. Credit and N'inance of Loncon, lira., 61 ;Judson's Bay. 13a 1 International Financial Society, lira., 91 Italian Irrigation (Canal (layout . ), Ditto, fi per cent. Bonds, redem. 1870, issued 90, 88.1 Joint •stoek Discouut, Ditto, new, 2i London Finamlial Association, lim., 15S j Madras Irrigation and Canal, 3i Natal Land and Colonization Company, Bra., 5} National Dicount Company, lim., South e. Wean Mortgage and Investment, 7 LIVERPOOL, Nov, 3.—With reference to a para graph in the Colombo Observer of the steamer from Bombay having been chased by the Alabama in September, the last mail steamer from the Cape of Good Hope reported the Alabama's arrival at Simon's Bay on September 16, and that she was to leave on the 23d. MRS. WILKINS (widow of the late Sergeant Wilkins), recently of the Haymarket, has left this country for America. LISZT has received a decoration from Pope Pio NoII°• lie will now be obliged, like General Blucher— who, it is said, had his breast entirely covered with orders and decorations, to have some pinned to his back, 50 401 128 13t 1351 65 t 111 k 7.1 1031 I 102 1 491 1291 1285 63: I 892 9 79 8 95i 411 THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 4, 1863, LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. NEW QUEEN'S COUNSEL , Mr. J. Locke, of the Parliamentary bar, Mr. W. H. Cooke, Mr. John Gray, and Mr. J. J. Powell, all of the Oxford Circuit, appeared in court, and were called within the bar, and took their seats on being appointed Queen's Counsel, COURT OF EXCHEQUER. THE ALEXANDRA. The Attorney-General, this morning, said he had con sidered this question as it stood, and he was of opinion that the Court had the power, under the provisions of 22 and 23 of Victoria. They could be so interpreted as to give effect in cases such as the present. The learned gentleman then re ferred to the 26th section, which gave the Court certain power to apply the provisions and the rules of the Common Law Procedure Act under certain circumstances. The Court thought they had the right, but they would consider the matter, and if they should be of opinion that the Common Law Procedure Act gave the power they would to-morrow morning announce their decision. In the event of it being favourable to the learned gentleman, it would be perhaps the best course if the bill of exceptions were aban doned, and a new trial moved for, which would raise all the points. COURT OF PROBATE. (Before Sir J. Wilde, Judge Ordinary.) HAWLEY AND OTHERS V. STOKES. This was a suit instituted by the plaintiffs, as executors of the will of Joseph Stokes, deceased, to prove the will of the testator in solemn form. Probate was opposed by the evi - dence on the ground that it was not duly executed, that it was not the will of the testator, and that it had been obtained under undue influence and fraud. The plea al leging fraud was withdrawn by the defendant's counsel. The testator, it appeared, at the time of his death, which took place on the 31st of January, 1863, was only 31 years of age, and had been mulled to the respondent not quite two years, and resided at Sheffield, and had been in the employ of Messrs. Pawley and Stokes, butchers at Sheffield, but owing to his intemperate habits he was compelled to leave their service. Atter that the testator and respondent lived very unhappily, and on the 30th day of January the testator, who had been suffering from delirium tremens, was attacked with pneumonia and bronchitis. He was attended by Dr. Kemp and Dr. Elam of Sheffield, who, from the dangerous state of the testator, advised his friends to inform him that if he had any disposition of his property to make there was no time to be lost. He was perfectly sensible, although in a dying state. Mr. Pawley, one of the execu tors, and Mr, Stokes, his brother,visited him at his request. Mr. Stokes took his instructions for the will, had it drawn and executed. by which he gave all his property to his twin sister, Mary Stokes, an idiot, for her life, and after her death to be divided between his three married sisters, Sarah, Priscilla, and Elizabeth, making no provision for his wife. After the will was read and explained in the presence of his mother, he having previously stated to his brother that, as he thought there was no chance of recovery, he was desirous of making his will, and leaving all he had to his sister and his mother, and nothing to his wife, as she had treated him un kindly, his brother advised him not to mention his mother in the will, and it was accordingly drawn out, leaving all the property to his sister Mary, and naming Mr. George Elehaw, the husband of one of his sisters, and Mr. Pawley as his executors. The will was executed in the presence of Mr. Huby, a solicitor's clerk. The witnesses in support of the will deposed that at the time the instrument was executed the testator was in a perfectly sensible condition, although in a dying state. He died the morning after the will was signed. At the conclusion of the examination of the witnesses in support of the will, the learned judge asked the counsel for the respondent if they thought they could resist such evi dence. A consultation then took place, when Dr. Deane said he did not think he could straggle against it, and as the peti tioners did not ask for costs, he would at once withdraw from the cause. Probate of the will was then granted, the learned judge remarking that had costs been asked for he should certainly have given them, as there was no pretence for the plea put on the record. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Commissioner Holroyd,) PRIVILEGES 07 M.P.•S. Mr. Chidley appeared in the case of a judgment sum mons issued against a defendant, who is stated to be a member of Parliament. The plaintiff's solicitor contended that Mr. Chidley could not be heard unless the defendant himself appeared in pur suance of the summons. Mr, Chidley said he was there to show that the summons ought not to have been issued at all, as the defendant being a member of Parliament could not be taken in execution, and that no capias could be legally issued against him. His Honour held that Mr. Chidley was entitled to be heard on the point. Mr. Chidley quoted the case of Cassaday v. Stewart, in which a capias had been issued, and Mr. Justice Wight man set aside the capias as having been improperly issued. He (Mr. Chidley) had argued in several cases to that effect. His Honour said that the plaintiff could not take out a capias or execution, and therefore was not entitled to call upon the defendant to appear here—the summons would therefore be dismissed with costs. IN RE MEIKLAM. This bankrupt was described as of Bryanston. square and Walliam-villas, Brompton, and this was a meeting for last examination and dischat ge. The case had been pending for a long time in consequence of legal proceedings in Scotland. The bankrupt, who claims to be entitled to a large sum of money under his father's will, had given bonds to the ex tent of £18,486, for which, he alleged, he had not received consideration. Mr. Chidley, complained of the delay, but said a further adjournment was necessary to settle the proceedings in Chancery and in Scotland. A. further adjournment for six months was taken. (Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.) RE SIR'A. J. D. TITCHBORN. This bankrupt was described as of Arlesford Park, and this was a meeting fcr last examination and discharge. The meeting, however, was adjourned for a month, that an ar rangement might be completed for payment of the creditors in full. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day, MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A " THIEVES' KITCHEN" IN SEVEN-DlALS.—Nicholas Magmasson, the keeper of a coffeehouse in Little White Lion•street, Seven-dials, the resort of young thieves, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with receiving a watch, well knowing it to be stolen. _ _ Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, de fended the prisoner, who is a foreigner. William Gordon, 323 A, a plain clothes officer attached to the C Division, said—At 9 o'clock last night I went to the prisoner's coffeehouse in Little White Lion-street, Seven-dials, known as a "thieves' kitchen." I saw the prisoner lying on a sofa in the parlour. I asked him for the watch he had purchased of a man named Jack George, a clog-dancer. The prisoner said he knew nothing of the watch. Ackrill, 48 F, then came in and I saw the prisoner hide a waistcoat under the sofa. I then said, " Come, I'll have no nonsense—l'll have the watch b 'fore I leave." The prisoner then got np and said, "_My waiter has got the watch," at the same time asking me to go upstairs and see. I did not go up, but the prisoner went up with Ackrill, and then came down saying the waiter could not find it. I then told the prisoner that I would look for it, and on looking under the sofa I found the waistcoat, and in it a watch and chain. On asking the prisoner where he got the watc h , h e sa i d he b oug h t it of Jack Geo rge f our months ago, and he gave him fifteen shillings for it, but that the chain was his own property. The watch I know to be the property of a young man named James Judge, who last night identified it, but was unable to be present this morning. Mr. Lewis, as the prisoner must necessarily be remanded for the attendance of the prosecutor, I will reserve my right of cross-examination till the next occasion. Will your worship take bail for the prisoner 2 Mr. Tyrwhitt declined to do so, and remanded the pri soner. THAMES. MURDEROUS AND COWARDLY ASSAULT.--Datliel Sul livan and John King were brought before Mr. Wxdrycho charged with violently assaulting Patrick Driscoll. Mr. Joseph Smith defended the prisoners. The prosecutor, who was in a very weakly condition, and has received numerous contusions and bruises, is a lighter man, and dwelling at No. 15, London-street, Ratcliff. He wont into the Marquis of Granby public-house, in Ratcliff, on Sunday afternoon last. The Irisoners, two powerful men, were there and the worse for liquor. He had no words with them. He called for a pot of ale for himself and a friend. Sullivan was seated on a table with his hand leaning on a pot. Driscoll chilly asked Sullivan to shift the pot and allow him to sit down. Sullivan ex claimed never mind the b- pot, and abused Driscoll, who said, I will soon see whether you will shift the pot or not, and altered the position of the table, to enable him and his friend to sit down. Sullivan immediately struck him a heavy blow on the forehead, just over the left eye, with a quart pot, inflicting a deep and dangerous wound. King then caught hold of him by the hair and struck him on the head with a poker. He was soon covered with blood, and called out murder. The prisoners and four other men at tacked hi m an d b eat him most cruelly, and pots, pokers, and other d angerous weapons were used indis criminately on hi s person. He rolled under a table, and his sav age assa i lants escaped two at a time from the room. Only two of them have been since captured. In answer to questions by Mr. Woolrych the prosecutor said he was struck three times on the head with a quart pot. Thomas M'Nally, iron moulder, confirmed the statement of Driscoll. After the prosecutor was down on the floor King took up another quart pot, and battered him with it. Sullivan fell on the prosecutor, while his hands were on his breast, and pummelled him most unmercifully. Other evidence was given of the savage character of the outrage. Mr. Joseph Smith said Driscoll was the aggressor. He called a witness named Joseph Hickey, who said he saw Driscoll and Sullivan fighting, and they exchanged blows. He swore that neither of the prisoners hit Driscoll with a quart pot, He believed in the struggle Driscoll fell on the fender. Another witness, named Cornelius Sheen, was called, who knew nothing of the transaction. Driscoll was recalled, and said Hickey kicked him, and bolted the door to prevent him pursuing his cowardly assailants. Mr. Woolrych said he would not take upon himself a case of this serious nature. The prosecutor had been se verely wounded, and it was a wonder he was alive. He committed the prisoners for trial for unlawfully wounding the prosecutor. The Hudson Correspondence. On September the 10th, that is, about three week after the whole affair had been discussed in the English papers—Earl Russell addressed Sir James Hudson, informing hire, amidst many com pliments, that he had, "at Sir James's own desire," sent him his letter of recall, Sir James's letter to that effect, it will be perceived, not being published at all. On October 4th the removed Minister in forms the Foreign Secretary that he had taken leave of the King, that his Majesty had asked him why he was going, and that he had explained how "he felt himself hound by an engagement with Earl Reesell to do so." In other words, Sir James told his lordship with diplomatic discretion but unmis takeable distinctness, that the story about the recall being " at his. own desire" had only an apparent foundation. His correspondent did noc like this, so six days after his lordship writes to Mr. Elliot, ordering him to explain to the King that there was no engagement. " I made no engagement with Sir James Hudson, and never expected that he would resign till it should suit his own convenience to do so. When, therefore, in the spring of this year he intimated to me his intention to resign his post, I concluded that, after more than thirty years of pub lic service, he wished to retire from an anxious and laborious post. I never supposed that Sir James Hudson was bound to me by any engagement, nor till very recently did I imagine that he conceived himself to be so bound. Upon the face of this para graph, either Earl Russell or Sir James Hudson would seem either to have invented, or to have mis understood the real reason for the resigna ' Lion or recall, and the balance of evidence i s , on the whole, with Sir James. For, if no engagement bound him to resign, why did he do it when he did not wish, and that he did not wish is now admitted by Earl Russell himself ? But by a little reading between the lines, it is pos sible to reconcile the official statements without examining who either blundered or fibbed. An engagement pre-supposes two persons, an d only one did anything in the matter. Earl Russell allows that in March, 1862, he did try to kick Sir James upstairs, by offering an embassy to a man who he knew well enough would not take it. This offer was the last of more than one offer directly or indirectly conveyed, and Sir James in just a nnoyance wrote, as Lord Russell says, st a ti ng that he wished to remain in Turin until, at all events, his pension was due. This was not an e en gagement," for the Foreign Office did not reply, and could not have held Sir James to it if he had chosen to hold on ; but it was a promise, only to be broken at the request of him to whom it was made, and as such we do not doubt it was regarded. Otherwise it is just a little odd that Mr. Elliot should have been so pleasantly ready to drop into the vacant post; and that Lord Russell valuing Sir James so highly should have made him no request to stay; and that Si r J ames, a clear- b ra i ne d man of the world, should have such a bitter sense of the eagerness with which his honourable adherence to the t a cit undetstandin g was at once se i ze d upon f or recall. Ministers every month ask men to recon sider their resignations, and as for the excuse of "long service'' and " ar d uous to il , " the F ore i gn Off ic e knows quite well whether its men are healthy or not. The service knows more about its own members than any caste in the kingdom, more even than the bar, and we will be bound that Earl Russell could have discovered among his own staff wan who knew the minutest tittle tattle about the at Turi n . T he truth is, the post di p l o matic family was wanted, and as the Foreign Office could not turn Sir James out, they made him put himself out, as Indian thieves do, by tickling him till he rolled out of bed. If the Foreign Secretary thinks the retirement was voluntary, his course is s u ffi c i ent l y c l ear. L et him offer the Minister his Post, with the grade that tho post deserves, that of full Ambassador. When that has been done, and the offer rejected, the public will b eliev e that Earl Russell is in the right. Till then, it will, in spite of " all the papers," co ntinue to think th at had Turin been a deadly climate there would have been no vacancy. —Spectator. CENTRAL RELIEF FUND. -.., The weekly meeting of the Central Executive Committee was held in the Town-hall, Manchester, on Monday, Sir J. Kay Shuttleworth in the chair. There were also present Lord Egerton of Tatton, Lord E. Howard, M.P., Colonel Wilson Patten, M.P., Messrs. A, H, Heywood, R. Glad stone, Hugh Mason, W. Roberts, G. Ashworth, S. J. Stern, M. Ross, G. L. Ashworth, W. Rathbone, jun., H. E. Farnall, J. J. Worrall, J, Platt, R. M'Clure, J. Fenton, J. W. Maclure, honorary secretary, and the Mayor of Man • chester. The HON. SEQUETARY reported that £1,146 3s lid had been received during the past week, and that the balance in the bank was £264,466 6s ld. One parcel of clothing, two bags of coffee, and one bag of sugar had been received. One bale of clothing had been sent off. He further stated that since the receipts for last week had been made up the sum of £245 4s 8d had been received from Edinburgh, and £278 9s 9J from the county of Stafford. In explanation of the comparative largeness of the receipts this week, he read a letter from Messrs. A. Kinnaird, L. Haighe (treasurers), and J. Fahsy (hon. secretary) of the Water Colour Pain ters' Lancashire Relief Fund, London, enclosing a cheque on Ransom and Co., bankers, for a balance of £904 16s 9d from the fund raised by the distribution of a collection of 323 pictures, in addition to £5OO previously remitted. The collection was valued at 4,500 guineas, and the committee regretted that the subscription had thus barely exceeded half that amount. Mr. Commissioner FARNALL read the following report : " I beg to inform you that on the 24th ult. there was a decrease in the number of persons receiving parochial re lief in 27 unions in the cotton manufacturing districts, a s compared with the number so relieved in the previous week, of 1,255. This decrease of 1,255 is explained as follows : There is a decrease at Ashton-under-Lyne of 312,at Black. burn of 18, at Chorley of 7, at the Fylde of 49, at Garstang of 11, at Glossop of 196, at Haslingden of 339, at Leigh of 18, at Manchester of 300, at Preston of 77, at Prestwich of 39, at Salford of 23, at Stockport of 126, at Todmorden of 80, and at Wigan of 3; making a total decrease of 1 598. But there is an increase at Barton-upon-Irwell of 8, at Bolton of 35, at Burnley of 21, at Bury of 26, at Chorlton of 44, at Clitheroe of 40, at Lancaster of 7, at Macclesfield of 63, at Rochdale of 44, at Saddleworth of 37, and at War rington of 13 ; making a total increase of 343, so that there is a net decrease of 1,255, and since the 6th of December last, a total decrease of 142,474 has taken place. There were, on the 14th ult., 129,509 persons receiving parochial relief in the 27 unions adverted to ; in the corresponding week of 1861, 47,014 persons were so relieved. There is, therefore, an increase of 82,495 persons in the receipt of parochial relief, or 175'5 per cent. In the corresponding week of 1862, 210,686 persons received parochial relief. The total weekly cost of out-door relief, on the 24th ult., was £8,041 Os 6d ; in the corresponding week in 1861, it was £2,379 14s sd. There is, therefore, an increase of £5,661 6s Id, or 238,0 per cent. In the corresponding week of 1862 it was £13,392 12s 3d. The average percent age of pauperism on the population of these unions, on the 24th ult,, was 6'5 ; in the corresponding week of 1861 it was 2.4 ; and . in the corresponding week of 1862 it was 10 . 8 The amount of money in the hands of the treasurers of the above unions, on the 24th ult., was £74,136 3s 3d." The HoN. SECRETA RY read the following resolution, :— ten " d ß er e e s d ol t v o ed th — e That the cordial thanks o Town Co un f c i t l h o i s f B C l o a n c n k n b i u l r h n e and liberal contributions towards the relief of the di s t ress which has so long prevailed, and, although in a less deg ree , Manchester Central Relief Committee for their ver y k ind p a ssed by the Council." be recorded in the Mi nu tes of the A grant of £2l was made to Moseley, and £ 2 Ss to New still prevails in Blackbur n . and that a co p y of the resoluti on Mills on account of t 1 superinte dence of labour. SHIPPING—This Day. LONDON, Nov. 4.—Wind this day at noon—South- Westerly; moderate breeze, and cloudy ; weather much milder. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 2.—Wind N.W., strong—Arrived.— Antwerper, from Buenos Ayres for Antwerp, with master injured. FALMOUTH, Nov. 3.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Sea Bird, From Pernambuco. iLFRACOMBE, Oct. 2.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Mary, from Liverpool for the West Coast of Africa, with bul warks carried away. KINGROAD, Nov. 3.—Wind N. W,—Arrived—Amelia, from New York; Elizabeth, from Miramichi ; Aid, from Liverpool for Havannah. OFF HunsT CASTLE, Nov. 4.—Arrived—Madagascar from Brazils. HOLYHEAD, Nov. 3.—Wind s.W.—Arrived—Chanti deer, from St. John's, N.B. DARTMOUTH, Nov. 3.—The Three Brothers foundered yesterday ; crew saved. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning. Arrived, Nov. 4— lntegrity, from Huelva. Sailed, Nov. 4—Wye, for Mogador. DEAL, Wednesday Morning. Passed—Lasse Beck Sibonier, from the west for London. Anchored—Wanderer, from London for Jamaica, M. VICTOR HUGO has two new dramas ready, "The Twine" and " Torquemada." DEATH OF THE CITY ARCHITECT.—Mr. James Bunstone Bunning, the architect to the Corporation of the City of London, died on Monday, at his residence, in Gloucester-terrace, Regent's-park, after a lingering ill ness. He had held the office of city architect for 20 years, during which he erected several important public build ings, at a cost of about £750,000 in all, and connected, as he recently stated in a letter to the Court of Common Council, " with the education, trading, and social interests of this great city, and he trusted that they would worthily transmit his name as their officer to posterity." He referred, among others, to the Freemen's Orphan School, Bil lingsgate Market, the Coal Exchange, the New Cattle Market, the City Prison at Holloway, and the Lunatic Asylum—all works of magnitude and public utility. Mr, Bunning had also rendered great services to the corporation in matters concerning their landed property. He recently tendered the resignation of his office to the Court of Common Council, assigning as a reason failing health during the last two years, and he modestly asked the Court, in just and kind consideration of his services to them, to grant him such a pension as they might deem right. On the motion of Alderman Dakin they passed an unanimous resolution expressing their sense of the faithful and efficient man ner in which he had discharged the duties of his office, and they appended a request that he would continue to hold the appointment until arrangements would be made for the due execution of the department. Mr. Bunning was up wards of 60 years of age. He was a modest, courteous gentleman, and held in high esteem by everyone who had the pleasure of his acquaintance. The manner in which he designed and carried out the embellishments of the City of London in honour of the entry of the Princess Alexandra was the theme of general admiration at the time, and is still fresh in the public rbcollection, especially the decoration of Temple Bar and London-bridge, and the triumphal arch at the entrance to the city, He designed and personally superintended the erection of the enormous galleries which encircled three sides of St. Paul's Cathedral on that memo rable occasion, and this he did in so effective a manner that not a single accident occurred, so far as his department was concerned, to endanger life or limb among the thousands of people who congregated there to witness the pageant. ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. —The first meet ing of the season of the Royal Geographical Society will be held at Burlington-house on Monday, Nov. 9, at 81 p.m., when the following papers will be read-1. On the Snowy Mountains of Eastern Equatorial Africa, with map, by Baron Charles Von der Decken. 2. Last letter of the late Mr. Richard Thornton to Sir Roderi c k M urchison, from Shupanga on the Gambesi.. 3 . . The Nig er Expedi tion, latest intelligence of Dr. Bruin°. 4. L etters of the late Dr, Vogel from the Interior of Africa, THE PUBLIC WORKS ACT.—A deputation from Manchester, consisting of the Mayor, Sir Elkanah Armitage, Alderman Bennett, and the Town Clerk, have recently had an interview with the Poor Law Board with reference to a proposition for loans under the Public \Yorks (Manufacturing Districts) Act, the object being to apply for a loan of £230,000 for the employment, of unemployed cotton operatives under that Act. Ot this sum it is pro posed to employed £130,000 in making additional water works for the city ; £25,00 is to be expended in buying land for and in preparing a public cemetery ; and the re mainder of the money is to be employed in paving streets in the townships of Ardwick, Cheethum, and Choriton, in the city of Manchester. COTTON FROM ALGERlA.—Accounts from Algeria state that the plain of El-Outl has been planted with cotton through the exertions of M. Dolfus, the great Alsatian manufacturer. The result is remarkable. The first experiment was made on 40 acres, and with much success, with Georgian long silk cotton seed. Irrigation is likewise being introduced into the three provinces of Algeria. It is said that a joint stock company is to be formed at Algeria with a large capital, which proposes to irrigate the Metidjah. Another plan is under consideration for extracting salt from the Sebkha, in the province of Oran. STATE OF TRADE, MANCHESTER, Nov. 3.—The rise in the Bank rate of interest to 5 per cent, has had a decided effect in checking operations in the L t i h v e er y p a o r o n l co tton-market, and has strongly affected and cloth markets. In yarns we have bad a decidedly quieter market. There are a good many orders in hand for shipping, but the holders of them seem disposed to hold them back till they see how far prices will recede. Some few spinners, who did not sell last week (when they might have doce so) are disposed to take 2d. per lb. less to•day than they would have taken last Friday. The mar k e t, however, upon the whole, is tolerably firm. In cep (home trade) yarns prices are id. per lb. lower, in some cases rather more. According to reports received here fro m Liverpool, cotton is nominally id. per lb. lower, in some instances more, and in the cloth-market this has stopped business more decidedly than in yarns. Up to Saturday last we had a fair demand, though a good deal of it was for speculation, at rather full rates. To-day prices have given way, and are considerably lower. In some insta nces sellers have b een willing to t a k e 6d. per piece lower than on Friday. The quota tions of sellers are nominall y unchanged, many of our man ufacturers being still engaged Prices are low er onl y in case s where manufac turers have been producing with the view of meeting the ordinary demand, and where holders have stocks which they had taken on speculation. LEEDS, 3d.—There has been but a moderate attendance of buyers in the cloth halls this morning, and the markets were upon the whole of a quiet character. The purchases were mostly of winter goods, and they included what may be termed odd pieces of several kinds, as well as small parcels of witneys, meltons, and tweeds. The market is not rat all overstock ed with curre nt - going fabrics, and indeed to-day only a small bulk of now goods was brought into the halls. It is satisfactory to know that the manufacturers in this district are in good engaged on orders for m any of them going future delivery. Prices, both of goods and the ma terials used in their production, keep very firm. The flax trade keeps brisk in every department, and prices keep creeping up. The raw material is now very high, both home grown and foreign flax having lately advanced. The scarcity and high price of cotton have tended greatly to advance the prices of both woollen and linen fabrics, also those of linen threads. NOTTINGHAM, Nov. 3.—There Was a moderate attendance of merchants and manufacturers at this Exchange-hall to-day, but the demand for lace yarns was slow, and only a limited share of business was done, at fully late prices. The demand for hosiery yarns was also inactive, prices undergoing no ma terial alteration. In silks no change of importance took place. The brown net trade was again very flat, at recent quotations. ROCHDALE, Nov. 2.—The flannel trade keeps l very animated. The manufacturers are all employed, and they have no difficulty :11 fin well employed, purchasers for their goods. Hence their stthoecrkeswaraes a good sale for the heavier kind s of at present within small compass. To day flannels, and more would have been sold had there been more in the market. There is a little lull in the demand for ari.: market. great l a i s o u u_ r g e h , t Tne demand for (t)bnetfiti the d q v u e a n i t i qualities, c c o o l n d sex a e t n h t e , d they are bough Yorkshire goods keeps Nveli up, as fast as they are brought to manufacturers r waroeor ttheeupgreicrebsuoyf that arti c l e areers at the top most quotations o very firm, with more of an upward than downward tendency. .0........•••••••••••=em5.....meruaZ0/ The Price of Gold. The quotation of gold at Paris is about i per mille pm., and the short exchange on London is 25.22 per sterling. On c omparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3 178. lq d • per ounce for standard gold , i t appear that gold is near ly 1-10th per cent. dearer iu London than in Paris. By advises from Hamburg the price 01 gold is 428 per mark a nd the short exchange on London is 13.51 per £1 sterling. standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, about 4-10ths per cent. dearer in Hambur than in London. The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at 62 days' sight is 163 i to MI per cent., and the premium on gold is 401 per cent. At these rates there is very little profit on the importation of gold from the United States. GREAT SHIP COMPANY. The adjourned general meeting of the proprietors in this company was held yesterday at the London Tavern—Mr. Gooch in the chair. Mr. Goom explained that the reason he occupied the chair was because Mr. Barber had sold out his shares in the Great Ship Company, not liking the blame that had been thrown on him and the board, after all their exertions. The speaker detailed the difficulties which the board had had to contend • gainst, reviewed the position of the company-, and concluded by calling on Mr. Hawes to read the report of the committee appointed at the former meeting. Mr. IlAwes condemned the policy of having put the Great Eastern on the New York line, and charged the directors with mismanagement. He had attended meetings of shareholders at Manches ter and Liverpool, and they had agreed that they should find money to send the ship ethat again. It would be his duty to propose a resolution reducing the qualification of the directors. At present the qualification of a director was 1,000 shares, of which there were not above 30 shareholders holding that number in the company. He would propose to reduce it to 500 shares, which would even then leave them a limited choice, there being only 350 such holdings out of 3,400 shareholders. The current debts were £35,000 ; there was interest coming due and they would have to provide their outfit for an; Australian or Indi an voyage , an d a l so f or repa i rs . The whole money they would have to provide would be—Xl2,ooo for repairs; debts he had put down at £47,000; interest, £5,000 ; and outfits, £8,000; makin g £6 0,000. Nov the passage money and freight would be received before the vessel left, and would meet much of their required capital. The creditors had agreed to take half their debts down, and the other half in six months. Ho then went into a long calculation, and said the receipts for one voyage outward and homeward would yield £127,000, while the expenses would come to only £BO,OOO, so that the one voyage out and home would pay their debts and leave them a margin for the shareholders. He then rear' the report, which showed the following to be the present financial condition of the company : 1. A share capital of _ £303 000 2, A preference share capital of lOO,OOO 3, A mortgage debt redeemable in 1865 105,350 4. Creditors on current account, about 35,000 5. Repairs required before she can take an Indian or Australian voyage 6. Outfit for the voyage The report, which was of great length, proposed to provide the £60,000 necessary for sending the ship on her next voyageby an immediate subscription to any amount by each shareholder; or by shareholders or others signing guarantee deeds to enable the di• rectors to raise £3s,ooo—it being confidently calcu lated that £30,000 would be received before the de parture of the vessel in payment of passage-money, freight, &c. In either case the money advanced to be repaid with a bonus of 10 per cent, as soon as possible. The report concluded as follows :—" If these esti mates, most carefully made, be correct, there will be a surplus of receipts on the first sea voyage be yond expenditure, of about £40,000, which will be much increased on the second ; and the shareholders will, we think, be content if, instead of losing from £4,000 to £6,000 on each short American voyage, or £161,000 in 31 years, they find by one long voyage their debts paid, and the ship free and popular, instead of being a by-word for loss and disaster. Mr. HAwEs then moved the reduction of the direc tors' qualification from 1,000 to 500 shares. Captain FORD seconded the motion. The SOLICITOR reminded the company that a special resolution could not be acted upon until an other meeting, held in a month afterwards, had confirmed it. Hereupon a long and somewhat animated discus sion took place, numbers of suggestions being made to get over the legal difficulty, but all being pro nounced ineffective by the solicitor. Amongst other propositions was one, that the present board should fill up the vacancies in the board of directors ac• aording to the recommendation of the shareholders. The CHAIRMAN said there were only two direc tors left on the board, and it wanted three to form a quorum. The SOLICITOR said, if a board were not ap pointed before next month, the ship might be sold for the want of some responsible persons to instruct the solicitor. There was also a winding-up peti tion to be resisted, and the action against them in the Arches Court in the case of the Jane, which he believed would ba gained by them if properly defended. After a negativing amendment had been moved and lost, the motion respecting the reduction of the qualification of directors was put and carried. Mr. Hawes's motion that Mr. Prowse be elected a shareholder was pronounced illegal by the solici tor, and another long discussion took place. Mr. SCOTT RUSSELL at length proposed that one qualified shareholder should be elected, to complete the quorum, and then that four others be elected as directors until it could be ascertained whether the election were legal or not. if the opinion of the Attorney-General were in favour of the legality of the election, they would then be directors ; but if he said the election were illegal, they would call an other meeting to elect them. Ultimately Mr. Shoebridge was elected a director. The CIIAIRMAN then proposed, to meet the wishes of the meeting, that Mr. Prowse, Mr. Hawes, and Colonel Brownrigge be elected a com mittee, and that the latter three gentlemen should pass all resolu tions and send them to the three directors, who would sign and act upon them, and would do nothing without their consent. This having been agreed to, po wer was voted to the directors to raise the £60,000. The report of the committee was adopted and ordered to be printed, and the meeting terminated with the usual vote of thanks. THE GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY. Late on INlonday- night an alarming collision occurred on this company's line between the goods depot station at Brick-lane and the passenger sta tion at Shoreditch. From the report made by the night superintendent on duty, it appears that the engine attached to the 10.40 p.m. down goods train had moved out of the up siding lane from the goods stat i o n a short distance up the main line, when it suddenly canoeinto fearful collision with the last u p passenger train from Loughton, due at the Shore ditch station at 10.45. The engine of the Loughton train was thrown right off the rails, with the: w t : break van and two carriages, severely damaged and broken, passen gers in the train, but the ' y were all severely of which There weri:tr,euvia shaken and terrified, and more or less contused. Th re e of them in a third-class carriage were the mos t severely injured, but la and they were able to proceed ° bones w ere b ro k en, to their residences in cabs. The engine - driver of ff the goods train, s e e in g a collision inevitable, shut thes steam, m i u , m reversed pedoff, but the the engine, and then, with () the stoker, engine -driver of the passenger train was picked up insensible and bleeding from tie shock, . Vand and taken to Dr for erbilt's, just by. The up line was blocked up some hours, and the incoming traffic had to tbheewborked on the down line. The fragments of removed by oken engine and carriages were stored. Y _ estertl daylight and the regular traffic re an investigationthe a . ) afternoon the directors madet oecurr into e the circumst,nces h e o th e Withwhether CU signals and points w , er to ascertainflyright, and on examining the man in e ch i a )e r i :ea the bignais at Brick-lane he admitted that, gwithout being aware of any other engine on the up line, he gave the right" signal to the driver of the Loughton train to come on, thus causing the collision, there being no contrary signal shown to the driver of the goods engine. The m an has been suspended, and it is understood to be t he intention of the company to p r o se cute him. F ar ther inquiry is a d j ourned until such time as the engine-driver and guard are suffi ciently recovered to give evidence, and until th e G over nment I ns r cetor shall have made his inqui r y this day. On ingliry at the London Hospital last ot her was informed that Wright, the n i g ht the rep guar d, who is suffering from severe lacer a t e d sc i o n woun ds end contus ions, is in immediate danger, r ger, sad that the engine-driver is going on well. WINDSOR ELECTIO 7—This Day, (BY ELECTRIC TELEI 3RAPEL) POLLING—Two 0 'CLOCK. Vyse (C0n5ervative)..........25 Hayter (Liberal) Majority ...... -49 SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 o'CLocK. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.---This Day. T ORCESTER RACES—Tms D.I. (By ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) VISITORS' PLATE. Golden D rop Allow .... Eight ran. SHORT'S HANDICAP. Farmer's Daughter 1 Newsmonger .............................. Seven ran. FLYING STAKES. . Leontes .. Liston ................ . .... Fo urteen ran. HANDICAP 11 URDLE RACE. ......................... 1 Pot Pourri .. .......................... Marble Hill Nine ran. MARKETS: -This Day, IsIARK-LANE. A very moderate supply of home-grown wheat was on sale at Mark-lane to-day. The trade was by no Ine n active, either for red or white qu a li ties. Sal es , how ever could only be effected at the full prices of Monday, a n d at that day's rates a fair clearance was made. The show of samples of foreign wheat on the stands Was large. Most descriptions were in fairaverage request, and previous quotations were steadily supported. Floating cargoes of grain changed hands steadily, at late rates. The supply of barley was moderately large. Fine malt ing parcels ruled firm, at quite previous currencies. infe rior descriptions, including grinding and distilling produce, sold heavily, at fully the late decline in their value. Fine old malt was firm in price, otherwise the malt trade was dull. With oats, the market was well supplied. Generally speaking, the demand was in a sluggish state, at about stationary prices. Beans met a slow sale on former terms. White peas were dull, but other kinds ruled tolerably firm. Tho top price of town made flour was 40s. per 280 lbs. Country marks and American qualities hold firm. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat, Barley. Malt. Oats. Flow. English...... 610 2BO i 5.10 21u0 1 -- 1ri5h.......... 800 420 Foreign...... 6,110 5,880 400 , 50 sks, 10,440 bras. BOROUGH HOP. The market continues to be well supplied with English and foreign hops. Good and fine parcels move off slowly, at late rates ; otherwise the trade is dull, at drooping prices. WHITECHAPEL. The supply of meat is moderate, and the trade is firm. Beef, from 2s 6d to is Od ; mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 6d ; veal, 3s 8d to 4s 4d, and pork, 3s 6d to 4s 4d per Blbs by the carcase. THE PITMEN'S STRIKE. (From the .2Veteeastle Journal,) Monday was such a day of wind and rain as is seldom encountered even in the month of November, and in consequence of the inclemency of the wea ther very little was doing at Willington and in the colliery villages on strike. It was known that the offer made by the masters to the men was to be ex hibited upon the various pit heaps in the morning, but this fact appeared to excite no interest amongst the colliers, the terms of the offer having been pre viously pretty generally known amongst them. The evictions still remained suspended for the time, and though the police were on the spot they were not even required to turn out into the rain. In the afternoon, however, Mr. Gott, the viewer at Sunny brow Colliery, expressed his wish to receive a depu tation from the men employed at that pit. Mr. Gott read over to the men the terms offered by Messrs. Straker and Love, and a conversation then ensued between them respecting those terms. The men were firm in refusing to accept them, and they were given to understand that no further concessions would be made to them. The reason of their un willingness to accept the proffered terms was that they did not believe the tubs would hold the standard weight fixed by the owners. To deter mine this question they proposed that six tubs should be filled on the pit heap and weighed, and an average struck and taken as the standard weight. To this Mr. Gott, on behalf of Messrs. Straker and Love, refused to assent, and the deputation then left without any satisfactory arrangement being made. The general feeling amongst the miners is the same as that evinced by the deputation to Mr. one and all express their determina tGiOntt. Inotthoey accept the offer of the masters, or to resume work, until they have obtained all that they originally demanded, and as yet we have been unable to discover that they are at all willing to separate their own cause from that of the " sur i_ deed" men. It had been generally hoped that a settlement of the dispute would have followed the offer of Mr. Love ; such, however, does not appear likely to be the case at present, for the miners are unwilling to follow the example of the masters by making any concession whatever. It is quite evi dent that an unusual state of excitement exists amongst the miners employed in the neighbourhood, and, in many instances, they are resorting to the re prehensible plan of working short time, in order to embarrass their masters and carry their own ends. At the pits of the West Hartlepool Railway and Dock Comp an y, a t B yer ' s Green and Paige Bank, the same method of obtaining an advance of wages has of late been resorted to ; and it has, we are in formed, so far been so successful that on Saturday the wages of the men were advanced ld. per ton. Should the strik e extend any further, we nee d scarcely say th a t i t Will prove a very serious matter for the general public, as well as masters and men, for this is a season of the year at which we can ill afford to be without coals, whilst the enormous re quirements of our railway companies must still bo supplied, unless the traffic and the business of the Country is to be brought to a standstill. Already we believe the North-Eastern Railway Company has so far been embarrassed by the strike a Meuissras• Straker and Love's, and the short-timef sYsptortion other collieries on which they depend - -o t r h a ey - `` , ere of of their supply of fuel, that last their defi compelled to burn coke to wake uP cient supply of coal. ast LONDON GAZETTE -44 :vening , ----r ----- At the Council Chamber Whitehall, the 3d day o f November, 1836, present, the Lord. President, Earl d ajesty Grey and Ripon, and Mr. Milner Gib,!,p.n._ Her H 111 o having been pleased to aPPoint the Right Honourable Robert Montgomery, Lord 13elhaven andii milton, Ka.. to be Lord Lieutenant of the county of Lanark, his lord ship this day took and .subscribed tho oath appointed t o be wes Penang ; and taken thereupon instead opfletahseedoattolisaopfpraollveegioafnc;r.sujpre.. limey, and abjuration. FOREIGN -OFFICE, OCT. 31. Forbes T he Queenwhite Il a re Obneesunl at Aberdeen for his M- A. ' Australia; a t a h t Y e A a N l s b oe a U tlit n a : p y n ep s al King of Hanover. "J e stY the rove the und I n ' t i : ou d fl d The Queen has also been pleased to app e at -1. r,"" of Mr. f ll j e l i r r e i . ' h r f a Y . x i A jl . l : n i ll e Fe , s y jpo, the e n a csaCn pingo ;landsteri/ INDIA OFFICE, N .1 her Majesty has been pleased to °v. :-. Hoped promotions amongst the Indian Forces, and of the Ben cers of her ermen gal Stair Corps Majesty's G :__ ourse of the Exchange —Yesterday. --- Amsterdam Ditto Rotterdam .. 11 181 11 19i Autwerp 25 50 25 60 8ru55e15......,., ~ 25 50 25 60 liamburg,h ..... Paris ..... 13 St 13 8 1 .............. Short. 25 20 25 25 Ditto ........... Months, 25 52i 25 60 Marseilles .......... 25 55 25 60 Frankfort. n •M 1191 1 NA 11 57 Vienna ............ 11 52 11 67 Trieste 52 .......... :56 Peteriburgh Berlin qadi l d .•. Cadiz • Leghorn Milan Genoa Naples . Palermo Messina Lisbon i Oporto 454 4Si 4S- 49 25 65 25 7 0 25 65 25 70 25 65 25 70 25 65 25 70 70 25 0 25 7 0 `26 6° 621 521 - t 53 52l a ncess ay as