The Sun. — London, England, 1854-10-30 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE'. CITY, TWO o'CLOCK _ . The sales of cotton at Liverpool on Saturday were estimated at 7,000 bales, including 1,500 American taken for export and on speculation. The market closed steadily without change in prices. The sales comprised 6,000 American, 250 Pernam and Maranham at Md. to 7/d., 100 Egyp tian at 51d. to 6/d., 700 Surat at 3d. to 34d., and 80 0 Sea Island at Is. 2d. to ls. 7d. per lb. Rail way Shares were firmer. Wheat and barley are 2s. lower. The Corn Markets abroad were, at the latest date, generally on the decline, especially in Bel gium, and the decree of the French Government Prohibiting the distillation of grain has an impor tant influence already. In Belgium and Holland the distilleries will be set more actively to work than ever, and barley is expected to rise consider ably in those countries, as the exports of spirits to France, now the duties are lowered, will be on a most extensive scale. In mercantile circles here such interference is deprecated as being inconsis tent with our free-trade policy ; and, however ne cessary or judicious in France, it seems to be the view that nothing should be done here. The poorer classes have a better chance of obtaining cheap food in France, and this goes far in securing political tranquillity. Two or three ships have arrived from Australia, and they bring gold, but the amount is not yet known. The dates are not so recent as those already to hand. From the Continent the mercantile advices are of no permanent interest. The commerce of Bel gium during the first nine months of this year, Compared with 1853, shows a slight decrease in the Customs duties. The imports of wheat give the total at 15,708,850 kilogrammes over the quantity to the same date in 1853. The arrangement made by the Government at Vienna with the French Association of Capitalists for forming railways in the Austrian empire seems to be very judicious, and such as can be carried out. The concession is for 90 years, and the lauds ceded in the neighbourhood are given in perpetuity. A sum of 200 million francs is to be paid within 3 Years for the concession and privileges. A mini- Ilium interest of 5 per cent. is guaranteed upon the capital. The English Funds have been buoyant, and there is an advance of another to I per cent. The promising news from the Crimea, with the decline this morning in the price of grain and the abund ance of money, all have a favourable influence. Consols have been 94i to for transfer, and 941 to 95 for account. The New 3 per Cents. have been marked 931 to and the 3 per Cants. 93 to b. Bank Stock has risen to 2111 and 213. Exchequer Bills have been Gs. to 93., and East India Bonds 10s. premium. There is scarcely any speculation in progress. Foreign Stocks are not at present very much influenced by the advance iu Consols, and the business has been of a general character, and ex tended, in small amounts over different securities. Mexican Bonds have been quoted 23k, and Chilian 104. Brazilian new have been marked 98g. Buenos Ayres Stock is worth 59. Russian Four-and-a-Half Per Cents. have been done at 85k, and Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents. at 61. Spanish New De ferred Bonds have been marked 18k to The Turkish Scrip is still flat, at 2 to 2$ premium. The following are the nominal prices of foreign Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 51 to 6 ; Mexi can, 22i to 23 ; Peruvian, 71 to 73 ; ditto, 3 per Cents., 51 to 53 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 40 to 42 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 95 to 97 ; ditto, 4i per Cents., 84 to 86 ; Spanish New Deferred, 18 to 18k ; ditto, 3 per Cents., 37i to 38f ; ditto, Certificates, 5i to 5 i 3 , ; ditto, Passive, 4i to 48. The railway "calls" for November are as fol lows : Date due. Call. * Arica and Tacna *Belgian Eastern Junction Cork and Bandon, Preference Si .. Dutch Rhenish * Eastern of France, Bonds, 1854, Ito 10...4 4 125,000 Great North of Scotland, 0:d Hampstead Junction Ox., Wor., & Wol. (Chip. Nor. Br.) 15...2 10 2,400 Ditto 6 per cent. Red. Pref 15...1 5 50,000 Peebles 7...0 10 7.000 Thames Haven Whitehaven Junc., new 101. Pref 1...3 0 1,000 £831,637 *The proportion called by foreign com panies is 691,233/., but the holdings of English proprietors are not known Tutal called in 1854 £12,903,702 The railway meetings announced are the fol lowing Company. Date. Place. Carmarthen and Cardigan Nov. 6, Carmarthen. Demerara - Oct. 31, London Tavern. European and N. American Great Indian Peninsula Oct. 31, 3, New Broad-st. & Gt. Lon. & War. (Ir.) NOT. 13,17,Gracechurch-st. London, Tilb., and Southend Nov. 10, London Tavern. North-Eastern Nov. 3, York. In most of the railway shares there have been 100 one or two bargains, but in connection with the E " making up" prior to the settlement of the ac- 25 count. An improvement is perceptible in the 25 quotations, and generally of 4 to 1 per cent. The 100 South Western, Lancashire and Yorkshire, South Eastern, and East Lancashire have most advanced. 12 Caledonian and Great Northern have also been 5 brisk. The French lines are quiet, but firm. 5 20. In the colonial and foreign mines there have been a few bargains, and at fuller rates for Cobre 100 copper and Nouveau Monde. 100 The Joint Stock Bank shares have been rather 100 'nigher. Crystal Palace are firm. The Land corn- I ® miles' have been well maintained. 20 BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK ( From the Official List.) _ _ " ' Eu.iness done. Bank Stock ..... .. 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities.... ......... 3 per Cent Consols Annuities New 3 per Cent. Annuities Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 India Bonds, l 000 ...... ..•........ ....... Consols for Account 14th Nov Exchequer Bills, 2id. 1:1000 2500 Brasil 9 6 Exchequer Bonds 1858, 32 per Cent. lOO 99 Ditto 1859, „ PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK, Now Bra.zilianßonds, 1829 £ 39, 5 per Cent. 98i Buenos Ayres Bonds, (i per Cent. Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent. Mexican 3 per Cent. Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. £ St Ditto 4§ per Cent. Spanish Roads, 3 per Cent — Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent lB Ditto for the Account lB4 Turkish Scrip G per cent Ditto for the Account 24 1 p t , ividends on the above payable in London. Dutch Exchange, 24 per Cent. 12 Guil HALF-PAST TWO. Consols Ditto November A cooon t CHURCH OP ENGLAND SCRIPTURE READERS' ASSOCIA TION.—Yesterday morning the Rev. R. Short, M.A. , solicited the liberality of a most numerous congreg a ti on , at St. Bride's Church, Fieet-street, on behalf of this society: The rev. gentleman took for his text Ephesians, c. ii., v. 19, and in the course of his sermon said th a t the funds of the society would not allow them to send sufficient labourers to carry the light of the gospel to those who were either unable, er unwilling, t o read the Scriptures themselves. The rev. gentleman's appeal was met by - a liberal subscription at the close of the service. The Rev. W. M. Mungeam, 8.A., preached in the even ing .on behalf of the same association, as did also the Rev. C: J. Goodhart, at Park Chapel. Sermons were also delivered at St. John's, and St. Pancras, James's Chapel, in aid of the same society. GREAT INDIAN PENINSULA RAILWAY COMPANY.—The tenth half-yearly report of the directors of this company to be submitted to the general body of shareholders on the 31st inst., states that since the last half-yearly meet ing the second section of the railway has been opened from Tannah to Callian, a distance of 12 miles, making 35 miles in operation between Bombay and Callian. Surveys have been finished in a complete and satisfactory manner for a distance of 600 miles from Bombay upon the north-eastern extension, being 450 miles beyond the point where former surveys were suspended. The direc tors have obtained the sanction of the East India Corn- Pony to raise capital by the issue of debenture bonds, and the Indian (government will join with the railway ,Company in a joint subscription thereto, for the guaran• hoth prinriTtl and initPrl-st. The rryPil'/ 0 aoc nurt receipts troth th e opening of the line ou April 18, I_, 3, to June 30, 1854, to have been 14,2521. 3s. Bd.; the expenses in the same p er i o d h ave b ee n 7,129/. 193. . v".a 1 9aTuag a Oakum, not profit, of 7,1224 4 11 . 211, SHARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) BRITISH RAILWAYS. RAtiwkra. !Closing Prices 1 Saturday. 100 Aberdeen. Sc Anabg. Nottng. Bost and Eastn. Janet.. all Belfast & Ballymena all Binning. Wolverh. Stour Va11ey........ 296 . Birkcnhd. Lancsh. & Clieshire Juuet all Do. Chesh. & £5O and £25 Cons. 19 So., £20... 30 Myth &Tyne origina• £25 (ised. at £45) 100 Bristol and Exeter 100 Caledonian ........... 21s. Carmarthen and Car digan all Chester & Holyhead all Cork and Bandon_ all Cork, Black, &Pas, 16 Cornwall 1. Cried' Junction 15 Dullindifielfast , Lune all Dundee Perth &Aber deep Junction all Do. New ..... 100 East Anglian all Eastern Counties 100 Eastern Union, A Stock ... 100 I)a., B. Stock 8? Do., New A 100 East Lancashire 100 Edinburgh& Glasgoa Edinb. and Peebles 100 Min. Pith &Dundec 1 Forth & Clyde June. 100 Glasgow &S. Western 100 Great Northern 100 Do., A. Stock 100 Do., B. Stock 100 Gt. Sth. &West.(lre ) 100 Great Western 100 Do. Stour Val. Rail Gua. Stk all Irish South-Eastern all Lancaster & Carlisle 14( Do., Thirds.. 4 Do. New Thirds 100 Laneash.andYorksh 19e Do., Fifths Ili Da., Wst. Riding Un all LivCrsby.&Boutlipt all London & Bla.ckwal 100 Lond. Bright & S.Cst. 100 Loud. and N. Westu. 12 Do. Fifths 1 Do.lo/.Sh.,M&B ( 26 Do. Eighths 100 London andS. Westn ' 42? Do., £5O 34 Do., XIO all Lndndrry& Col eraine all Lndudrry.& Ennisk. 100 Nlanch.Shef.ST, Linclu Do., Man. & Lin. Un 100 Hidland 100 Do. Birmug. &Derby all %did. G. West. (Ire.), 22? Do. Half Shares all Newcastle & 5 : 1 Newrukt.BuryExten,, 19 Nwpt.Al-erg. &llrfd ' 5 Newry & Enniskillen all Newry Warreupoint and Rostrevor 100 Norfolk Nortlin.Counties Un 100 - North British alli North Devon, No. 1 all Do., No. 2 all Do., 6 A Deferred all Do., B Guarantees' 100 N. Eastern—Berwick 20 Do. do. Extension 13 Dodo. G.N.E. Purch, all Do. Leeds ......... 100 Do. York all North London 8? Do. New £lO I/ lF N.&S.Wstrn.,Hamp stead, and City Ju., 17i North Staffordshire.. all - North Western all N. &S. Westru.,Juni Nuneaton, Hinckley and Leicester 00 Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton 4 Portsmouth • , seottiali Central Scottisliblidiand,„, all •ihrcwaby. & Herold 4,1 ,4nropshire Union Do. A, B, C,& D,full: paid up at per cen all South Devon ;00 South Eastern all South Wales 15 Yrksh. & Riv. Dui 5 Do 8 itaines, Wok &Wok all tockton & Darlimz. 16, Stockton & Hartlep'. 1.00 Intl Vale 9 Do. £lO shares. 100 Do. Prof., No. 1 21 Thames Haven Doel, and Railway all Vale of Neath all Waterfd. & Kilkenny all Waterford&Limerie 18 West Cornwall. . 3 West End of London and Crystal Palace all West London Ills. Wimblodn & Croydon all Antwerp&Rotterdam 3 Bolgiau Eastn. Junc. 8 Beziors to Graissessac 2s. Bombay, Baroda., and Central India,geripl Central of Italy all Demerara 14 Dijon and Besancon 9 Dutch Rsenish all Eastern of France 10 Do. New all East Indian 2 Do. Extension all Do. 4i p. c. Bds., pay., '57, convertible all Do. do. do., '59, do 10 Gd. Junct. of France 12 Gd. Tk of Canada.A. is. all Do. do all Do. St. Lawrence & Atlantic do. all Do. Cert. of Deben., con. into Stk. till '63 all Do. Comp. 6p. c., do. 10 Gt. Central of France all Gt. Indian Peninsula 1 Do. New 5 per cent. all Gt.Westernof Canada Shares . all Do. Bds., payable's7 with option till '55. all Do. do., '62, p. '56.. all Do. do., '76, p. '60.. all Do. do., '73, witheu option all Hamilton & Toronto all Do. 6 per cent. 11 Lake Const. & Basle all Lucca & Pistoj asp. c. prof 12 Great Luxembourg Constituted Shares all Do. Obligations 10 Lyons and Geneva 12 Lyons & Mediterran 16i Madras 2 Do. New 31i Maria Antonia all Do. do. New 2 Melbourne Dk. &Ry all' Namur & Liege (with interest) all Do. (ex interest) all :Northern of Fiance all Do .20/. Sh s.late Char• icroi and ErquelineS gum 3 p. c. k . red. at 221. dur. 88 yrs. l front 1 Jan. 1854.... all Do. 201. 3 p. c Bdr. (fmy.B.&Ams.Shs.) all NorwegianTrunkPref 14 Paris and Lyons all Ditto Bonds all Paris and Orleans.... all Paris and R0uen...... 10 ParisCaen &Cherbrg, all Ronan and Havre 20 Royal Danish 3 Royal Swedish all Sambre and Meuse all bo. 5i p. cent. Pref 10 Southern of France. 14 St. Andrew's and Quebec (A) all West Flanders all Do 5 : 1 ; per c. 10 Western of France_ 16 \Vest. of Switzerland all Wiesbaden 20 Zealand JOINT-STO, all Australasia all British Colonial Bank and Loan Company all British N. American 5 Chartd. Bank of Asia 2 Chrtd. Bak. of India, Australia, & China 25 Colonial 20 Commercial of Lond 16 English Scottish and Australian all 'Lord. Chart. Bk. of Australia 20 London and Ciiunty 10 London Joint Stock 20 Loud. & Westminster 35 National Provincial of England • 10 Do. New 221 National of Ireland all New South Wales all Oriental Bank of Corporation 25 Provincial of Ireland all Do. New Royal ikustraln.lllsg X. U!:1!.1 U;11: Ct. 821 70 , 10. 1 Australia 41 Union of Australia Do. New 10 Milo 9f L0nd0n..,,. FOREIGN. 10 5 20 20 Bruins" dont 1 50 this day. 41 I 25 25 100 . 591 lO I st 20i - 21} 4 - 41 " 11 116 17 - 1 8 6 - 59 - i9i 14 - 15 10 - 12 4 - 2 0 61 - 7i - 22 - 24 30 - 35 67 - 69 L 4 - 56 21 - 23 89} - 9041 76 - 77 124 - 126 90 - 92 70 714, 69 - 71 73 82 8 100 8 10 71i —71 i 5t 56 7i 88 103 105 I.ooi 101 id— p - P - 81 82 10 • 9 a 9 S 23 - 23 68i 6S 40 - 42 $.l - (11 gi --- 4 .1 2i - 2 5i - 4 48 - 50 3$ 3i 33i 10 6.i —7? i 75i 761 61 bid aid 14 141 13 -- 54 53 55 1 —lu h * a 4$ - 4i l 6i - 7 id-iP 32 - 34 94 - 96 60 - 62 7 i - 8 i 45 - 47 13 - 14 61k- 2 32 - i - i - (1 35 : 37 3 - 3i 18 19 - 23- 6 - 7 6 . 6/ 4 3 ci d— i p 1 .• P 3 —2i d 33i 33 - 33/4P' - •,•P - 7i - 6i 8 -- 6d 9 7d 1 lip i iP A iP IEI 19 .. .... ... .. - ... .. -.- ... - par P 2 4J) dis 4i 41 2i 1 lip ... - ... id-ip • - ••. ,• 74 - 3 i6i 124 -- 13 - 10 22 - 22, 49 38 40 • pm 22} —22 i par 1p 2 lid Et ... - pm .i - 7P ... -- i:6 - li ' BANKS. 73 -- SO i d par 1 id io = 32 ... - 41 --- 42 3 -2i (1 1 221 -23 i 43 - 45 68 - 70 7i - 86 " s • St. 10 St. 25 20 20 50 20 20 20 20 20 100 50 50 100 100 20 50 20 25 THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVE NINO ; OCTOBER 30, 1854. LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Leming i Company. (Closing Prices Saturday. Business this day. Paid. RAT:LW...TB. all 3cdford and Tiletchley to° Buckghamsh. 100 Clydesdale Jc. 100 E. Lincoln gr. 6 per cent. all Glas. Barr. i gzo Neils. Direct all [)o. New all Glstr.&Dn.Fr all Hrtlpl. Dk. & Railway all Hull & Selby all 10. Shares. all Do. Shares. all Lon. & Grecuw all Do. Preference all Lila , Til., it S. 100 Lowestoft gr. 1 per cent. WO Do. 6 per ct. all Manch. Bxtn and Matlock all Middlesbro' & Redear all Midld.Bradfd all : , Torthern and Eastern sp. c all Do. 6 per et. all Do. Fixeds p all Prest. & Wyre all Do. i bares. 100 Itoystn.SLllit. 11ST Shef.Roth ar)( London & N. West. 'L. &N. W. Caledon... t Nrthu. :Caldonian, Goole g. 5 p. c. S. Sta,florcisb. all Wear Vail eygr f4t. Westni Yk. New. & Berw. Y. &Nlitcl Do Do S. Eastern' Do Pet. kilo 'Norfolk.. L.& N. W & Midld. Stckton & Darlingt. E. Count, D 0... Do L. & • &Ln&r , 's Do fltNortbll Laucash& Yorksh. Nl.MClean Stockt. Darlingt D 0... 6 per cent.. all I Do. 100 I Wilts&,Somrst (7,tWestn PA Aberdeen IWO IDo. N 0.2, 7 p...? 30 Blyth and 'Fyne 10 per c. pref. (issd. at 501) 100 Bris. & Ex. 4p. c. St. 5 Do. 4 p. c. Shares 100 Caledonian £lO all Chester & Holyhead Guar. 5} per coat all Do. do. Pref, No. 2 all Do. do. Pref. No. Z all Cork dzßandons ip.c all Dundee Perth &Aber doen Junction all EastAnglian (£3 lOs per cent all Do. (X 5) 7 per cent 2 Do. (X 7 17s) 7p. c all Eastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No. 1 all Do. No. 2 all Do. New 6 p. c. St. all Eastern Union, Scrip Guar. 6 per cent... all Do. 51., 10 per cent. all Do. 101. Debentr.Sh all Do. do. 4 per cent...l 100 East Lancash. 6p. ets. all East and West York- shire June. Fifths all Minh Prth. &Dundee 4 per cent. 100 Glasgow &S.Western Guar. 5 per cent.... 100 Great Northn. sp. c. 0O Do. sp. c. Redeem., _ at 10 p. c. prem. 100 no. 4,-1 p. c . 8 Gt.N. of Scot. Ist Prof all Gt. Sonthn.&Westna. (Ireland) Eighths)... 7 Do. 4 per c. Pref. St 6 Gt. Westn. (Berko & Hants Ex. & p. c)... 100 Do. cox. red. 4i p.c. 100 Do. con, red. 4p. c. 100 Do. irred. 4 p.c. all Do. Birm. Pief. 611.. . all Do. Chester BF. c.P.S. all Do. di. 6 p. c. d 0..., 1 1 43 Do. Birra. Gua. Stk. all Di. Ches. Gua. Stk. all Do. do. di......... ... all Do. a.. do ... ' . ....... 6 Lan. & York. F. £2U 100 Do. 6 p. c. Stock ... 100 ILondon and Brighton, _ Guaranteed 5 p. 0..; 100 Do. Pref., sp. c. St. 1100 Do. New Guar.6 p. c. 100 Lon. &N. W., Coy. La Nuneaton S 5 I LondonSt S, Wester all ICon. Thirds Lond ondeny& Coler Shares sll Lowly. & Ennis. SL. all \lan., Shef., & Lin. Shares, No. 1. ... all Do. New, £lO .... 4i Do. £6 all Irarypt.&Carl.4p all Do. 4i per cent 10 Do 100 111 d, Consol.6 p.c.St 100 Do. Crinsol. Bristol & Birna. 6 per cent 11'i' Do. Pref. 4i per cent 10 Norfolk Debenture . 100 Do. Pref. 4p. c. Stock 100 Do. 5 p.c. Eat 100 Do. 5i per ct.pref 1.00 Do. Way. Val. sp. c. 100 Norti Britishi n . 100 NT. E. Beres,fp.c. P. 5 Do. do. do 13 Do. Leeds 5 p.c. Ncl 9 I D*. do. Quarters '4B LO ks;, r, all North Staffordshire 100 Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverh. X 15,6 p.c. all Scot. Cent. , New Pref 10 Do. 5 per cent all 1 South Devon. 1i Do. fixed,44 per cent all S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. 100 Do. 4} per cent all S.YorTrsh.4p.c.Guar all S Wales Gua. 4p. o 16 Do. do. 4i p. c . all Stockton and Dar lington, 4 per cent 5 Do. do. do. all Stockton and Hartle- 1 pool, guar. 6 p. c. till Ist July, 1856, 4 Waterfd.&Kilk.6p.c. St. 20 20 20 25 iii 7 IQO 99 - 101 136 - 13$ 162 - 104 51 - 52 25 -25 i 13 - 136 23 - 24 11i -11 i 2i - 21 6 = 6 5$ - 60 136 := lii 2 - i 1 30 - 31 93 - 95 PREFERENCE SHARES. iii = iii hi) p 13 -13 i 22 - 24 • •• """ ""'"' I - 116 - 118 108 - 10 99 - 101 6 -- 64 98 -- 100 90 -- 92 93 -- 95 10 -- 11 16 -- 171 10 -- 10 71 -- 73 181 -- 191 9t 14 -li - 133 - -1 4 t0 ••• ".. .. 2i- =P Ji - 12 111 - iii - iP 138 - 140 - £7 - 90 104 - 103 92 94 - 3i - 31 1 id ••• ..' ••• 112 - 114 12 14 id par 23 -23 i 99 - 101 17 - 19 ••• • 1 •• 2 d MINES. all Agora Fria .... ... - . .. all Angle Austrin. Gold all A.nglo Californian ... 6 Australian all Australian Cordillera all Australian Freehold all Ave Maria all Baden (Gd. Duchy of) all Blrenasvon Iron and Coal 13.5 British I 24i Brazili f.. p. (issued at £5 pm all Do. Comes & 15 Do. St. John Del Rey Carson's Creek Clarendon Coat. Mix Co. of Jamaica • all Cobre Copper 1 Colonial Gold all Copper Min. of Eng all Do. Pref. 7i p. cent. 16 Copia.po all English and Austin. Copper Smeltg Fortuna all General.. all Gt. NuggetVeiußeg. all Great Polgooth all Liberty all Linares all Jilariquita ....... .. 9 Nlexican&S.A.mericn all New Granada all New Linares Mining and Smelting Co all Nouveau Monde all Pontgiband Silver D Lead MM. & Smelt 1 Port Philip all Quartz Rock all Rhymney Iron all o. New lii Santiago do Cuba all uth Australian 7 Tin Croft . all United Mexican all Waller all %Vest Mariposa 12s. Worthing Mining 431 Australia all Yuba DIISCEL - all Aubin Coal and Iron 17?, Australian A gricult. 6 Australsn.Pcific.Mail all A.ustraln. Royal Mail N Berlin Water Works 40 Brit. American Land 1 Brit. & Coln. Smeltg. and Reduction Co.. 321 Canada .00 Canada Gov. 6 p. et Jan. and Ju'y all Crystal Palace all Crystal Pal. of France 5 Eastern Steam 20 ElecticTelegraph(A) all Electric Teleg. of Ir. 14 Gen. Steam NaTigat. all General Screw Steam 10 Irish Beetroot Sugar' 10 Magdalena St. Navig. all Mediterao. Elec. Tel a ll Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel 5 Netherlands Land , 1 N. S. W. Coal es Inter. Steam Navigat. Co, all N. B. Australasian._ 123 Nrth. o fEurop e Steam all Peel Br. Ld. & Minrl. all Peninsular& Oriental 45 Do. Do. all Portland Iron Co 60 Royal Mail Steam ,•!1 :Austral. Inv all South Austral.LtaM all :übmar. Telegraph.. all Do. Registered.,...... yam Demeeo Lazy 1 - 1k I =it i . -: i" I" 7 - i 7i 1 - i i 26 - $ 16 - 2 28 - 30 48 - 48 i - i 62 - 65 2 - 4p 12 = 14 11 - 1i ir i - t -A I - 7 I - i 4 - i 15 - 1$ -- 22 - 24 6 - 5 - 5i —1 s Dus 6 L - ii ii -= .ia ii - iiii 110 - 111 2i - ii f6i = ifii • •i l ..... ••i ••• ....... ..• i 1 4 :: ii 2 - 2i 2 35 1 1 12a = 13 COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, OCT. 28. ' There was no addition to the Royal dine .s r party yes t e rday. Efer Majesty's private band attended a fter dinner in the Castle, and played the following select ion : S'infonia, "Eroica," Allegro con brio Beethoven. I finale (3d Act), " Freischutz" Weber. Mae Queen visited her Royal Highness ' the Duchess of Kent at Fregrnore-house this morning. Lr'is Royal Highness Prince Al ert went out shooting. "'Lis Serene Highne3s Prince Nicholas o ' Nassau and the Earl of Aberdeen arrived this afternoc in on a visit to here Majesty. OCT. 29. 'J ho; dinner party yesterday included his Serene High nesfs 'Prince Nicholas of Nassau, the Earl c f Aberdeen, and :Lady Emily Seymour. Tram Queen's private hand was in attei acl2,nce in the Cas Lie, and performed the following pieces& : frerture, "Le Rol Etieene" ;election, "Zweikampt" liirs (le Ballet, "L'Eufant Prodiguo" Beethoven. . .._ Spohr. .._ Auber. ri Hie Queen and Prince drove out in an open carriage yes terdAy afternoon ; Lord A. Paget attended on horse bac k. I b,e Princess Royal and Princess Alice took a carriage (Irk a, also the younger members of the Rc gal family. T 'ne Queen and Prince, with the four elder Royal chil then, the Prince Nicholas of Nassau, the ladies and ger tlernen of the Court, and the domestic household, at ten cted Divine service this morning in the private chapel of t .Imt Castle. - 17 h to Hon. and very Rev. the Dean of Windsor officiated. 1 .11 e Earl of Aberdeen was also at the service. Flt sr Majesty having expressed a wish to blear the band of tb e Imperial Regiment of Guides, now in London, it arr is , ed at Windsor to-day at 1 o'clock by a special train of the South-western Railway, and pla3Nd before the Qu .coen and Prince and the whole of the Royal Family on . the East-terrace. HPr Majesty afterwards walked for some time attended by the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting. J3:tron Verdier, Capitaine d'Etat Major, and Baron Vi ail, of the Regiment of Guides, who have arrived with th s band, will have the honour of dining with her Ma jet ry to-day. A messenger with despatches from Constantinople ar‘ ri red at the Foreign-office oa Saturday night. Lord John Russell arrived at his residence in Rich zn tad-park on Saturday from Bristol. TEE MINISTRY. The Earl of .A.berdees, who has remained in town di tring the week, is now on a short visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. The Lord President of the Council and Lady John Russell, with their youthful family, were expected at Ptimbroke Lodge, Richmond-park, on Saturday evening, front visiting the Dean of Bristol at Clifton during the sojourn of the noble lord in the neighbourhood of Brilstol. The Marquis of Lansdowne is staying at Bowood-park, Wilts, surrounded by a select circle. The Duke of Newcastle, with the exception of a two days' visit to the Queen at Windsor Castle last week, continues in town. His grace and department remove to the new War-office, in Whitehall-gardens, the first we ek in January. Vhe Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, Bart., M.P., and La( ply Mary Wood, have left town for three weeks. Tiscounl and Viscountess Palmerston continue at Broadlands, near Romsey, Hants, and remain in com parative retirement. The noble viscount and viscoantess intend coming to town towards the close of the week. 'Che Earl of Clarendon left the Foreign-office on Saturday evening for the Grove-park, near Watford. Lord Wodehouse has resumed his duties at the Foreign office. The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Gladstone are staying with Sir Stephen Glyrate and family at Hawarden Castle, Flintshire. The Earl and Countess Granville have left town for Staffordshire. The Lord Chancellor is in town. The noble and learned lord gives his breakfast to the judges on the 2d proximo. The Right Hon. Sir James Graham,'Bart., is in town. Sir G. Grey is still at his seat, Falloden, near Aln wick., and is not expected in town for the present. The Duke of Argyll has joined the Duchess and family at Inverary Castle, Argyleshire, from town. The noble duke and duchess have been placed in mourn ing by the lamented death of the duchess's brother, Lord Frederick Levesoa , GI-o we r, at Balaklava, of cholera. The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert left town on Satur day for Wilton-house, near Salisbury. WOOLLEN TRADE. ( From the Leeds Mercury of Saturday.) LEEDS, Oct. 27.—There has been considerable varia- tion in the state of the woollen markets this week. On Saturday, in both the cloth-halls, there was a good at tendance of merchants, considerable activity, and in witneys, beavers, pilots, and other goods adapted for the winter trade, there was a good business done ; but on Tuesday both the coloured and the white cloth market was very dull and flat, and the quantity of cloth that was cleated out of the halls was within a very limited compass. Prices remain without alteration. There have not been many buyers in the town during this week, and the trade has been rather quieter in the ware houses, but. still a fair seasonable business is doing. HUDDERSFIELD, Oct. 24.—The market to-day was the worst of a rather long series, which it is feared will yet be progressional. Wool being on the advance tends to darken the prospect, and for the present produces an extra dullness. The mills and factories, however, are, as yet, generally employed, and for the most part work ing the usual time. ROCHDALE, Oct. 23.—We have had a steady demand for flannels , a t prices much the same as th o se that have been given for these last few weeks. In wool the prices are firm, and the demand moder a t e . Ileum, Oct. 21.—The ra are no s i gns o f improve ment in the piece trade hero, an d i n th e yarn department business continues very unsati s f ac t ory, t h oug h of mode rate amount. In the long woo l market th e trade has been very still this week, an d as regar d s "midland counties" descriptions p r i ces are rat h er a dverse to sellers. The bright hair e d Li nco l n an d Yorkshire kinds are less affected either in demand or price than the former. Short wools show less active business at rather worse prices. MUNICIPAL HOSPITALITIES. —.On Friday night, James Baldwin Esq., the Mayor •f Birminzhaio, entertained at dinner two hundred of his fellow•townamen, at the Royal Hotel. RENY CHURCH IT HALIFAX. —The skew church at Heptorstall, in the parish of Halifax, was consecrated on Thursday by the Bishop of Ripon. SITTINGS OP THE INSOLVENT DIETORS COURT. — The sittings of the court will be resumed on Wednesday. The Chief Commissioner (Law) is too unwell to attend court. FIRE NEAR ST. J AMRs ' ll THEATEM—On S a t ur day morning, at a fe w m i nutes before three o'clock, a fire of a destructive ch arac t er, and attended with a great l oss of property, b ro k e out in the premises of Mr. Thomas Seymour, a carp en t er, carrying on bysioess at N o . 3, King's-place, Ki ng - s t reet, St. James's. WOOLWICH, OCT. 27 . —Q uartermaster Moore , o f the Royal Artillery, 3d battalion , died at his residence in Beresford-terrac e , Woolwich, 'on the 26th inst. He had risen from the ranks by his scientific abilities to be quarter-master. - THE SATURDAY HALF - HOLIDAY.—The solicitors' clerks of Plymouth are endeavouring to obtain a weekly half holiday on Saturday afternoon. ILLEGAL MARRI AGE. —Considerable excitement has been occasioned in the town of Braintree, in Essex, by its having transpired that the newly-appointed vicar of that place, the Rev. Mr. Brown, has recently solem nised a marriage between two poor people belonging to the parish out of the canonical hours prescribed by ant of Parliament. JESUS COLLEGE.—The Rev. E. Owen, M.A., fellow of this coll ege , and curate of St. Mary the Virgin, Ox ford, left that city on Thursday last for the East, where his gratuitous services will be rendered as chaplain to the British forces. Tun CROLICEA. AT OXFORD.—The cholera, we are happy to say, seems to have taken its final leave of Oxford. During cast week there has been but one new case and one death. The medical staff will be disbanded forth with. The expenses of this disease to the citizens of Oxford will, it is thought, be upwards of 2,0001. FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT. — On Saturday, between the hours of eleven and twelve, while a man named George Wright, carpenter, was en gaged in fitting a circular piece of timber to one of the windows of the Victoria Tower, his foot slipped, and he was precipitated from a height of eighty-four feet, falling upon a large iron beam. THE BLOCKADE.—The letters from Odessa mention that several ships were loading linseed in the Black Sea, thus indicating the continued absence of an effective blockade. In the London market the disbelief in any complete exclusion of Russian produce from that region is such, that two cargoes now loading at Kertch, on the Sea of Azoff, have just been sold for arrival. PRONE ELECTION.—A correspondent writes that a petition is about to be presented, on the part of Mr. Donald Nicholl, against the return of Viscount Dun garvon for the borough of Frome, on the ground of cer tain acts of bribery and intimidation alleged to have been committed. DEATH OF MR. 11. STUART, M.P. FOR BEDFORD.— We have the melancholy task of announoing the death of Mr. Stuart, one of the members for the borough of Bedford, which took place very suddenly on Wednesday night. We are informed that on that evening he at tended the Freemasons' Lodge at Bedford, which was named after him, and left at his usual time for his resi dence. When he was in the act of alighting from his carriage he was seized with a convulsive tit, and died in 10 minutes after he was carried into the house. He had for some time past been subject to fits of that nature, and had been under medical treatment. Mr. H. Stuart, who was born in 1804, was grandson of the third Earl of Bute, being the second son of the late Archbishop Stuart, of Armagh, and Sophia, granddaughter of the celebrated William Penn. He was first returned for the borough of Bedford in the Conservative interest in 1837, but was unseated on petition, and Mr. Samuel Crawley took the seat until 1841, when, after a close contest, Mr. Stuart was again returned. At the subsequent ge neral election he was returned, with Sir Harry Verney, his old colleague, Captain Polhill being rejected; and at the last general election he was again returned, with Mr. Samuel Whitbread, Mr. Chisholm Anstey being the winoopsful candidate,--Bedford Timor. MISS NIGHTINGALE. The following letter, addressed by Mr. Sydney Her bert to Miss Nightingale, has been published : (Copy.) " Dear Miss Nightingale,—You will have seen in the papers that there is a great deficiency of nurses at the hos pitals at Scutari. The other alleged deficiencies—namely, of medical men, lint, sheets, &c., must, if they have really ever existed, have been remedied ere this, as the number of the medical officers with the army amounted to one to every 95 men in the whole force—being nearly double what we ever had before ; and 30 more surgeons went out there three weeks ago, and must by this time, therefore, be at Constantinople. A further supply went on Monday, and a fresh batch sail next week. As to medical stores, they have been sent out not only in profusion, but by the ton weight, 15,000 pair of sheets; medicines, wine, arrow root, in the same proportion ; aid the only way for ac counting for the deficiency at Scutari, if it exists, is that the mass of the stores went to Varna, and had not been sent back when the army left for the Crimea ; but four days would have remedied that. In the meanwhile stores aro arriving. But the deficiency of female nurses is un doubted, none but male nurses having ever been admitted to military hospitals. It would be impossible to carry about a large staff of the female nurses with an araty in the field. But at Scutari, having now a fixed hospital, no military reason exists against their introduction; and I am confident they might be introduced with great benefit, for hospital orderlies must be very rough hands, and most of them, on such an occasion as this, very inex perienced ones. I receive numbers of offers from ladies to go out, but they are ladies who have no conception of .what an hospital is, uor of the nature of its duties, and they would when the time came either recoil from the work, or ho entirely useless, and consequently, what is worse, en tirely in the way ; nor would those ladies probably even understand the neaessity, especially in a military hospital, of strict obedience to rule, &c. " Lady Maria Forester (Lord Roden's daughter) has made some proposal to Dr. Smith, the head of the army medical department, either to go with, or to send out, trained nurses. I apprehend she means from Fitzroy- square, John-street, or some such establishment. The Rev. Mr. Hume, once chaplain to the General Hospital at Birmingham (and better known as the author of the scheme for transferring the City churches to the suburbs), has offered to go out himself as chaplain, with two daugh ters and twelve nurses. He was in the army seven years, and has been used to hospitals, and I like the tone of his letter very much. I think from both of these offers prac tical effects may be drawn. " But the difficulty of finding nurses who are at all versed in their business is probably best known to Mr. Hume, and Lady Maria Forester probably has not tested the willingness of the trained nurses to go, and is incapable of directing or ruling them. There is but one person in England that I know of that would be capable of organis ing and superintending such a scheme, and I have been several times on the point of asking you, hypothetically, if, supposing the attempt were made, you would under take to direct it. The selection of the rank and file nurses will be very difficult ; no one knows that better than your self. The difficulty of finding women equal to a task na b o e great; kmoifpnogserttnaashanti tnielmdhmat whole setwlthhny ports ahoats sentimental t: e wbhew f yneoarotrtuesuhkltx l luohi daynssmoieegyarroioswi and after all full of horror, and requiring besides knowledge and good will, great knowledge and great courage, will them great; and not the least will be the difficulty of tssyhtet ladies, eesbny w h uo i stw t ui odetut hstubl business e tnrhedeeaeidqrsyupr medical ewuoesotdot esuleo. to tiodit a i g n bßt yyo d o. military authorities out there. That it is which makes it o one with administrative capacity and experience. A num berthe hospital at Scutari, would probably after a few days tbgeuerremsutispi question yaithchdeloinlintroducing system among out and supervise the whole thing? You would, of course, have plenary authority over all the nurses ; and I think I could secure you the fullest assistance and co operation from the medical staff; and you would also have an unlimited power of drawing on the Government for whatever you think requisite for the success of your mis sion. On this part of the subject the details are too many for a letter, and I reserve it for cur meeting ; for, what ever decision you take I know you will give me every assistance and advice. Ido not say one word to press you. You are the only person who can judge for your self which of conflicting or incompatible duties is the first or the highest; but I think I must not conceal from you that upon your decision will depend the ultimate success or failure of the plan. Your own personal qualities, your knowledge, and your power of administration, and, among greater things, your rank and position in society, give you advantages in such a work which no other person possesses. If this succeeds, an enormous amount of good will be done now, and to persons deserving everything at our hands ; and which will multiply the good to all time. I hardly like to be sanguine as to your answer. If it were yes, I am certain Mrs. Bracebridge would ge with you, and give you all the comforts you would require, and which her so ciety and sympathy alone could give you. I have written very long, for the subject is very near my heart. Liz is writing to Mrs. Bracebridge to tell her what I am. doing. Igo to town to-morrow morning. Shall I come to you between three and five ? Will you let me hare a lino at the War Office to let me know ? There is one point which I have hardly a right to touch upon, but I trust you will pardon me. If you were inclined to undertake the great work, would Mr. and Mrs. Nigtingale consent? This work would be so national, and the request made to you proceeding from the Government, which represents the nation, comes at such a moment that I do not despair of their consent. Deriving your authority from the Govern ment, your position would ensure the respect and con sideration of every one, especially in a service where official rank carries so much weight. This would secure you any attention and comfort on your way out there, together with a complete submission to your orders. I know these things are a matter of indifference to you except as far as they may further the great object you would have in view; but they are of importance in themselves, and of every importance to those who have a right to take an interest in your personal position and comfort. I know you will come to a right and wise decision. God grant it may be one in accordance with my hopes..—Believe me, dear Miss Nightingale, ever yours, " Oct. 15. "SIDNEY HERBERT." WHO IS MRS. NIGHTINGALE. (Front the Examiner.) Many ask this question, and it has not yet been ade quately answered. We reply, then, Dire. Nightingale is Miss Nightingale, or rather Miss Florence Nightingale, the youngest daughter and presumptive co-heiress of her father, William Shore Nightingale of Embley-park, Hampshire, and the Lea Hurst, Derbyshire. She moreover, a young lady of singular endowments, both natural and acquired. In a knowledge of the ancient languages and of the higher branches of mathematics, in general art, science, and literature, her attainments are ex traordinary. There is scarcely a modern language which she does not understand, and she speaks French, German, and Italian as fluently as her native English. She has visited and studied the various nations of Europe, and has ascended the Nile to its remotest cataract. Young (about the age of our Queen), graceful, feminine, rich, and popular, she holds a singularly gentle and per suasive influence over all vritla whom she comes in con tact. Her friends and acquaintances are of all classes and persuasions, but her happiest place is at home, in the centre of a very large baud of accomplished relatives, and in simplest obedience to her admiring parents. Why, then, should a being so highly blessed with all that should render life bright, innocent, and to a con siderable extent useful, forego such palpable and heart felt attractions ? Why quit all this to becerae—a nurse ? From her infancy she has had a yearning affection for her kind—a sympathy with the weak, the oppressed, the destitute, the suffering, and the desolate. The schools and the poor around Lea Hurst and Embley first saw andifelt her as a visitor, teacher, consoler, ex pounder. Then she frequented and studied the schools, hospitals, and reformatory institutions of London, Edinburgh, and the continent. Three years ago, when all Europe had a holiday oa and after the Great Exhibition, when the highlands of Scotland, the lakes of Switterlaad, and all the bright spots of the continent were filled with parties of pleasure, Miss Nightingale was within the walls of one of the German houses or hospitals for the care and reformation of the lost and in firm. For three long months she was in daily and nightly attendance, accumulating experience in all the duties and labours of female ministration. She then re turned to be once more the delight of her own happy home. But the strong tendency of her mind to look beyond its own circle for the relief of those who nomi nally having all, practically have but too frequently none to help them prevailed ; and therefore, when the hospital established in London for sick governesses was about to fail for want of proper management, she stepped forward and consented to be placed at its head. Derbyshire and Hampshire were exchanged for the narrow, dreary estab• lishment in Harley-street, to which she devoted all her time and fortune. While her friends missed her at as semblies, lectures, concerts, exhibitions, and all the en tertainments for taste and intellect with which London in its season abounds, she, whose powers could have best appreciated these, was sitting beside the bed and soothing the last complaints of sonic poor dying, home less, querulous governess. The homelessness might not improbably, indeed, result from that very queru lousness ; but this is too frequently fomented, if not created, by the hard, unreflecting folly which regards fellow-creatures intrusted with forming the minds and dispositions of its children as ingenious, disagreeable machines, needing, like the steam-engine, sustenance and covering, but, like it, quite beyond or beneath all sympathy, passions, or affections. Miss Nightingale thought otherwise, and found pleasure in tending those poor destitute governesses in their infirmities, their sor rows, their deaths, or their recoveries. She was sel dom seen out of the walls of the institution, and the few friends whom she admitted found her in the midst of nurses, letters, prescriptions, accounts, and interrup tions. Her health sank under the heavy pressure, but a little Hampshire fresh air restored her, and the failing institution was saved. Meanwhile a cry of distress and for additional comforts beyond those of mere hospital treatment came homefrom the East from our wounded brethrea in arms. There instaatly arose an enthusiastic desire to answer it. But inexperienced zeal could perform little, and a bevy of ill-organised nurses might do more harm than good. There was a fear lest a noble impulse should fail for the want of a head, a hand, and a heart to direct it. It was then that a field was opened for the wider exercise of Miss Nightingale's sympathies, experience, and powers of command and control. But at what cost ? At the risk of her own life—at the pang of separation from all her friends and family, and at the certainty of encoun tering hardship, dangers, toils, and the constantly re newing scene of human suffering amid all the worst horrors of war. There are few who would not recoil from such realities, but Miss Nightingale shrank not, and at once accepted the request that was made her to form and control the entire nursing establishment for our sick and wounded soldiers and sailors in the Levant. While we write, this deliberate, sensitive, and highly endowed young lady is already at her post, rendering the holiest of woman's charities to the sick, the dying, and the convalescent. There is a heroism in dashing up the heights of Alma in defiance of death and all mortal oppos it io n, and let all praise and ho nour be, as th orecaey are, bestowed upon it ; but there is a quiet fsting heroism arid largeness of heart in this lady's resolute accumulation of the powers of consolation, and her de voted Application of them, which rank as high, And are at least as pure. A sage few will no doubt condemn, sneer at, or pity an enthusiasm which to them seems eccentric or at best misplaced ; but to the true heart of the country it will speak home, and be there felt, that there is not one of England's proudest and purest daugh ters who at. this moment stands on se high a pinnacle as Florence Nightingale. FATE OF THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. York Factory, Nov. 7,18.36. My dear King,—Here I am once again in the solitudes of the " Far West," cheerfully taking up the pen to write to you according to promise. London life is over ! Where now are the snug parties—where the theatres—your reflec tion—and the rest ? All gone—sunk into endless night. Such are the strange vicissitudes of this fitful world. When I parted with you at London Bridge I little anti cipated the heavy forfeit I was about to pay for a winter in London. But to my tale. The voyage down to Strom ness was as gentle and propitious as Cleopatra herself could have wished ; but from that place to this a more tedious, perilous, and disagreeable one was never known. Heavy gales of contrary winds opposed our passage across the Atlantic; and at the month of Hudson Strait we encoun tered interminable fields of massive ice, among which we w‘ro involved and knocked about for upwards of two months, with slender hopes of over being able to extricate ourselves. The passengers and crew (95) had already been put upon half rations, when, happily, the Equinoxes con.- ing on, we succeeded in forcing a passage through, and ultimately reached this place about the latter end of Sep tember. All the vessels received more or less darn age in the "strait," and yet their misadventures did not cease. The Rupert was barely able, with great difficulty, to land her passengers, when she broke from her anchors, ran out to sea, and has net since been heard of Another, the Esquimaux, was ordered to " Churchill" to winter, and had Mr. Lewis on board, on his way to take charge of that " Fort." She had not, however, proceeded far, when she encountered a violent storm, which drove her upon the coast near Cape Tatnam. She, too, ulti mately drifted out to sea, and was lost to sight. Such has been the unhappy conclusion 'of a voyage so auspiciously begun. The place of my destination is Cumberland Home, an appointment with which I have every reason to be pleased. My family have already preceded me hither, and to join them I'll have to travel the whole distance on snow shoes, which I may add to the other evils resulting from my journey to London. Great changes have happened here since you left. That incomprehensible disease, of which you heard so much While here, bids fair to make the place untenable. It returned last spring with redoubled violence. All your friends in the interior are just as yon left them. New, my dear Sing, I long to learn how "affairs in general " have prospered with you,—whether you still fondly cherish your Arctic journey—whether subscriptions are fast filling up—and whether everything is cut and dry for a start. There are many here who would rejoice to see you among them again and again ; but I fear all will not do unless the Hudson Bay Company sanction the un dertaking. There is a report, indeed, that they themselves intend to prosecute it next year. Peter Taylor is at Lac la Pluie, and fully expected you. Both he, as well as your other companions in adventure, are high in your praise, while Captain— is the theme of their aversion and con tempt. As no ships return from the wintry this season, this letter will reach you via New York ; and, I fear, will cost a heavy postage, without affording any adequate return. Bnt I have fulfilled your wish. Have you heard anything of Heron, or Stuart, and what is doing in the political world ? Write me all this, and in return you shall have from me all yon may want, from a scull down to a peri winkle ! I have hardly room to say that I always am, my dear King, yours most truly, To Dr. King, M.D. CHAS. Ross. Great SlaTe Lake, July 2, 1836. My dear King,—Both your letters of last September came duly to hand, and I was extremely happy to learn of your welfare. May you long enjoy that _blessing is my sincere wish. Your determination to accomplish the discovery of the North West Passage inspires me with the hope of seeing you the current season, and if your plans admit of your coming this length to pass the ensuing winter, it will be to me most agreeable. Even if the upper establishment* should be your residence, some very calamitous event 'must inter vene to prevent me from going to see you. It may, perhaps, be in favour of your enterprise, the late intimacy that has taken place between the Chipe wyan and Esquimaux tribes, in the course of the last sum mer, on the Valew-ee-dezza.t Amongst the latter there were many inhabitants of the Thlevr-ee-cho ;I: but the ma jority were those that frequent Churchill annually, to prove which they produced the articles they obtained frerz the Hudson Bay Company's stores in the way of trade, and readily exchanged the same with their guests, by way of cementing their friendship. There can be no doubt of a successful issue to your undertaking, of which I feel so confident that I hail with pleasure tha moment that will bring you once more among us, as I am equally certain that every attention will he directed to promote your views and be assured none shall wore willingly contribute thereto them your humble servant. I have not succeeded in obtaining the skeleton of a moose, but I have bright hopes of getting it as well as a skeleton of the musk ox by the next spring ; and if you do not make your appearance, I shall endeavour to for ward them, to England to your addiess. I am much obliged to you for your kind wishes to my self and family, they are, thank God, in the enjoyment of health, and unite their wishes to mine for your welfare and prosperity.—Believe me, my dear King, your sincere friend, (Signed) ALRX. R. ki`Luou. To Dr. King, M.D. Norway House, 12th August, 1836. Dear Sir,—l was very happy to receive your letter last spring, when I arrived at Norway House, always expecting to see you here again. I was here for about a month and a-half, looking earnestly for your arrival. I was at last obliged to join with the expedition again,JJ and I am now going to Red River, where I shall remain until the first ice, and then travel to Athabaska to join with the rest. bil`Kay and Sinclair have joined it. Of the birds and in sects you requested me to preserve for you, I have got as many as I could. _ _ Dear Sir, I should have been very happy to havo seen you here, and joined with yen with all my heart, but since it cannot be, I therefore must leave you, with my best wishes for your temporal and eternal welfare.—l remain your sincere friend and humble servant, (Signed) I PETER TAYLOR. To Dr. King, M.D. Athabasca Fort, 28th May, 1837. Dear Sir,—l was very sorry to hear that you could not got into the country last spring, for I was atNorway House waiting till you showld be there ; and when I saw you were not coming, I was obliged to enter into the service of the expedition. But I was most sorry when I received your last letter that you sent by the last ship—though I hope I shall have the pleasure of seeing you in the north if you do come.—Your over true friend, (Signed) PETER TAYLOR. To Dr. King, M.D. * Athabasca Lake. t Fish River. Great Fish River. II Mr. T. Simpson's Journey to the Polar Sea. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, Oct. 30.—Wind this day at Noon, S.W. ; fine, clear weather, with a strong breeze. PORTSMOUTH, Oct. 29.—Wind, S.S.W. Arrived— Louisa, from Hamburgh, for Sydney, N.S.W. ; Concordia, Altona, for Guernsey; Alexandria, Dantzic, for Poole; Commerce, Christiana, for do. ; Weimer Castle, London, for the Black Sea ; Harvest Home, London, for Sydney, N.S.W., leaky ; Egypt, do. do., leaky ; Resolution, Youghal ; Coronet, Quebec ; Warrior, London, for Ja maica ; H.M.S. Lizard, Sheerness. Sailed—Eurydice, for the East Indies. PLYMOUTH, Oct. 29.—Wind, S. W. Arrived —Reward, from Quebec ; Sea Nymph, Antigua ; William, London, for Melbourne ; Telegraph, Southampton, for Australia ; Truo Briton (store-ship), London, for Malta. DovEn, Oot. 29.—Wind, Arrived—Nelson Packet, front Hamburgh. COWES, Oct. 29.—Wind, S. Arrived—Jane Picteryn Koerr, from Akyab ; Dolphin, Callao ; Thetis, Gothen burg, for Oran ; Y. E. D., Newcastle, for Constantinople;; J. A. Hazard, Cuba; Maria Eugenia, do., for Trioste. (BY SUBMARINE AND EIROPEAN TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND ' Monday, 10.45 a.m. Wind, S. ; tide first h our ' s ebb; fine. Arrived, Oct. 29—Diaapore, from Madras; Swan, Stock holm ; Ypres, Dunkirk; Havering and Wonder, Antwerp; Melpomene. Rotterdam; Camallas, Demerara; Walter Hood, Sydney ; Leeuwarden, Harlingen. Arrived, Oct. 30—Hanover, steamer, from Rotterdam; Stad Dordrecht, steamer, Dordt ; Ravensbourn, steamer, Antwerp ; Fyenoord, steamer, Rotterdam ; Caledonia, steamer, Hamburg ; Era, St. Kitt's ; Newcastle, Ostend ; Eagle, Rouen ; Leenne, Gravelines. Sailed—New Great Britain, for Port Phillip; Advance, Havre ; Lady C. Barham, Jamaica ; Commodore, B Ja maica ; Perseverance, Leer ; Lucy Shar p , Algoa ay , Louthe, Rio Janeiro. DEAL, Monday, 9.55 A.M. Wind southerly, light, very fine. London, for Packet., Blyth, for St. Valery; N t yacht, for Belize; Ashburton, Anchored—Eliza, from Shield , o f r or h G s i t ie a r r n , Leipsic Akyab; William Bryan, London, Antwerp, for Cardiff. a to y w , f ; or sh L a o r n p d , o y n a . Sailed—Haddington , Passed—Alico Maude,fofrroßmomAblagyo,aißn for Poole. Report of the ship Polonaise, 105 da y s from W hampoa. Passed the barque Malard, from Calcutta, for L on d on, 68 days out, lat. 19.30 S., lon g . 2.19 W. ; passed barque G r anville, from London , for C a lcutta, lat. 6.41 N., l ong. , 03. 54 W. ; passed barque Velcro, lat. 8.47 N . l ong. 24.13 passe d l3.2o N. , lon g . f' . Ir.; passed banine Niagara, from Glasgow, f or C a li fornia la ro t. m l L 3. i 2 ver N p . ool, long. 25.50 W. , 12t. passed brigs Favourite, from N ewport, for Rio, and Af"- mooro, from Swansea, for Coquimbo, both in lat. 11.51 N., long. 26.22 W. ; passed. Eliza and Fl e it es from Calo for Cork, and Richard Barkley, from Valparaiso for Liver pool, brig Ellen 1 I:Gregor from Valparaiso for Bordeaux —all in lat. 27.36 N., l ong. 33.34 W. ; passed barque Goethe, of Bremen, from Baltimore, lat. 47.41 N., long. 53.51 W. ; passed. barque Grange, Marta from Jamaica, off the DR. VAE'S REPORTS ON THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. TO THE BDITOR OF THAI TIMES. Sir,—ALlthough the opinions which I hold on the sub ject of Dr. I?ae's report go something beyond what you yourself have expressed, I trust that you will allow this letter to appear irr your paper, if it is only for the pur pose of eliciting the sentiments of others on a matter in which I am peculiarly interested—having had a brother on board Her Majesty'& skip Terror. It appears to me that V.”. Rae has been deeply repre hensible either in not verifyiog the report which he re ceived from the Esquimaux, or, if that was absolutely out of the question, in publishing the details of that report, resting as they d o on g rounds most weak and unsatisfactory. He had far betto r have kept silence altogether than have given us a story which, w hil e i t pains the feelings of many, must be very insufficient for all. To say nothing of the difficulties which, in your article of Thursday, you have touched upon, there are others which seem to me so patent that I can only wonder they did not occur to Dr. Rae himself. 1. Where the Eiquiniaux can live—where Dr. Rae's party could find abundant means—what should have prevented Sir John Franklin and his party from subsist- ing too ? 2. When they were forced—as, no doubt, they have been—to abandon their ship., can any one believe that they would have encumbered themselves with forks and. spoons and silver plates, instead of reserving every inch of available space firstoreg and articles absolutely neces sary for subsistence ? 3. Supposing that they died by starvation, is it likely that a large body of men would have died all together I Would they not have yielded one by one, each struggling on as far as he could, in the hope of either finding some store of provisions or meeting some party sent out for their rescue ? I, sir, for one, have long given up all expectation of seeing my brother again -in this world. But there are many who still cling to the hope of regaining their rela tions. My own belief is, that the ships have been aban doned and plundered by Esquimaux. I would only per suade myself that I am not compelled to believe the painful details which Dr. Rae has most unwarrantably published. But others believe that the crews may yet be subsisting somewhere, and until Dr. Rae's report be verified they will not part with their belief for anything which he has said. I enclose my card, and am, Sir, your obedient servant, ]. J. H. Oct. 26. SIB JOHN FRANKLIN'S FATE. There is no longer any doubt of the melancholy death of Sir John Franklin and his companions. To the roll call of perished heroes, to the lists now daily swelling with noble names, of brave men battling against fearful odds, and dying in the performance of their duty, are to be added the names of the Arctic voyagers. The sad assurance might have reached us at a moment less dis tracted by other anxieties and sorrows, but it comes not unfitly while the publi c sympat h y is keenly awakened to the claims of all who imperil life for high and unselfish aims. Almost simultaneously with the fate of so many who left us six months since to perish in the tents at Varna, on the heights of the Alma, or before the walls of Sebastopol, we learn the fate of the devoted band who departed ten years ago to face a far more terrible foe, and, after more than three years of unspeakable suffering, have left behind them but the memory of that unflinching enterprise and endurance, that resolute perseverance, that moral and physical courage, that har dihood unappalled and discipline undisturbed by the most frightful dangers which we take to be peculiar to English seamen. The dreadful certainty of Sir John Franklin's fate has reached us at the time when we were busied listening to the details of the last expedition sent to explore the mystery of it. The court-martials on Sir Edward Belcher and his officers place before us vividly not alone the dangers and uncertainties of Arctic enterprise, but the sad inutility of even its most hopeful results. Twelve months of the year spent motionless in the ice, excepting perhaps an interval of three week's open water, and even when freedom returns, the intricate and still ice-locked straits and inlets only possible to be got through step by step, year icy year ! No doubt grave mistakes were committed in the recent expedition, and it comes back ungraced by any marks of unusual determination or daring, at any rate in its chief. But we cannot say we are surprised to find Arctic discoverers themselves, who have spent their best years and energies in the zeal of such research, turn from it at last in even such despair and weariness as would seem to have inspired the doubtful resolution of the last commander. Of the charge against Sir Edward Belcher, and his de fence, we now shall say nothing. The public opinion upon his conduct will be reserved till the fate of Capt. Collinson is known, and we prefer ourselves to wait for that light to read the proceedings by. Should Collinson have also fallen upon the memorials of Franklin, as now appears not improbable, and retraced his steps in safety, there will be nothing left that need be urged with any particular warmth against Sir Ednlard Belcher. Bit should the fate of the last navigator remain much longer in suspense, should actual reverses have befallen him, should it appear that the help withheld might really with effect have been given, then certainly opinion will side with Captain Kellett, and a just indignation will be felt that his reluctance to quit those frozen shores till the third summer had passed was not acquiesced in by his superior officer. Of the correctness of the testimony, oral and circum stantial, which Dr. Rae has brought home, we limit our belief to the proofs of identity and death. The evidence is quite imperfect as to the manner of the death, or as to the shocking incidents assumed to have preceded it ; but for the rest, the pieces of silver plate, the crests and initials, the watches, telescopes, and guns, tell sufficiently the terrible story. It is also borne out by the Esqui maux accounts, which neither is there any reason to doubt, of the exhausted state of the little band. At once marvellous and mortifying is it, that in a vicinity so attainable, so known, so likely to be visited as the position of the magnetic pole, the lost wanderers could neither have been met with, or directed towards reach ing supplies. But unfortunately every effort at discovery or help, up to the period when all such ceased to be use ful, was directed to the sea and its shores, although the abandonment of the ships aid betaking of the crews to land passage was a circumstance so naturally to be looked for. The Admiralty people were too romantic in their conjectures. Ships and men, it was thought, must have disappeared up one of those mysterious and perilous avenues that strike northwards towards the pole ; and that the starving band should have been prosaically sought for on the bank of the Great Fish River was in the contemplation of none. Of none in authority. But let us do justice to Dr. King, who, with a humane perseverance worthy of bet ter success, has vainly urged upon successive Govern ments, ever since 1847, that the expeditions in search of our lost countrymen should take that exact course which we now see too late would have led upon their track. In 1847 he wrote to Lord Grey to point out the Great Fish River as the high and ice•free road to the land where the missing expedition was likely to be found. In the same year ho implored to have his services joined to those of Sir James Ross and Sir John Richardson, using these remarkable words : " It is a service in which I can act independently of Sir James Clarke Ross, and independently of Sir John Richard son ; and Sir James Clarke Ross and Sir John Richardson, it is already arranged, are to act independently of each other. Sir James Clarke - Ross's knowledge of Barrow Strait—Sir John Richardson's knowledge of the Mackenzie and the Coppermine Rivers—and my knowledge of the Great Fish River and its estuary, will be so many guaran tees that the work to be done will be done well ; and this state of independence will insure a large amount of effort, even though it were merely in a spirit of emulation." Two years later (some six or eight months before the date of the now ascertained calamity) he renewed his applications. He wrote letters to Lady Franklin to tell her she was ill advised, and, with all the vehemence of personal entreaty, besieged successive Secretaries to the Fish p l E a ri t iv v e :t 2 e t w e o l h a P t e e - x : Admiralty ; but Mr. Ward, Mr. Hamilton, and all the rest, returned him answers as cold and unsympathising as their chiefs, and the opportunity was lost which never was to return. Hear the Cassandra of this ill-fated business ! We quote one of his last appeals : " All that has been done by way of search since Febru ary, 1848, tends to draw closer and closer to tie west land of North Somerset as the position of Sir John Franklin, and to the Great Fish River as the high road to t rea i c s h it. s Such eciue n a • would w allow happiest moment of my life if their lordships tl plan y o of as t the e proposed utmost to m o t p h o e r i t r a l n o c r e d . s h i i y t s in 17 d 8 be c t o h n ()- tempt to save human life a second time on the shores of me to go by my old route, the Great the Polar Sea. making a final our countrymen have been Admiralty attempts to find Kennedy and poor B 110 It is deplorable to think that in ever a y wto i u n thl e d ta e n n eo c l e tos t e h o o t by fauthe least successful. but .. e t till expe dition, t were io 13 , near and upon not undertakenth etrack, effort, and, c we e 49 discussed iv e urged otnhsei considering the r b . t th i na necessity h th i s eoef hat journal inlecne 8 war rant the risk of another expedition, we held that it should have been planned on such a scale as completely to scour the track, both by land and sea, in which the clearest judgments might see the probabilities of succes s. More t h an two years had then passed b eyond the e time to which the ships were victualled, and we believed last glm of rational h ope. It • it to b e our been s ea o. is now proved to have On the details of what our lamented suffered we forb ear t o dwell. countryme n h ave perils Sir Joh n Franklin It was into no unknown ventured. earlier, and a ga i n a f ter an Nearly 30 y e ars interval e of six or seven years, his indomitabl e sp i rit had be n tried in the same disas trous scenes. The language a n d endurance contains no records of en terprisesurpassing those of his two jour neys to the s h ores o f the Polar have but Sea, and to them we but to turn to • obtain no dim or imperfect image of the ter ror of his final journey, or of what we may hope to have been the merciful assuagements vouchsafed to it. "A t this period we avoided as much as possible conversing upon the hopelessness of our situation, and generally endeavoured to lead the conversation towards our future prospects in life. With the decay of our strength, in fact, our minds decayed, and we were no longer able to bear the contemplation of the horrors that surrounded us. Each of us excused himself from so doing by a de sire of not shocking the feelings of the others. We were ,h sensible of one another's weakners of intellect, though blind blind to our own. 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