The Sun. — London, England, 1864-10-03 00:00:00

iONE! MARKET AND coursuclAL INTELLIGENCE, CITY, TWELTE'",o'CLOCK. The 11 °neY Market to-day presents a very active 'PPearance. Merchants and others engaged tr ade are now b us il y engage d i n r " i ding for their bills, which arrive at maturity °quarrel!? (the 4th of the month); but I°tWithstanding that there continues to be gaad suppl y of capital afloat, discoun. ere are very caut i ous on entering into new : Isine ss. The commerc i al fa i lures that are d a il y ecurric g necessarily require them to be very Prudent and reserve, in all transactions, lest they themselves m i ght 'oe involved in difficulties, the e of which in the present state of affairs could flot be so easily overcome. Nest Tasmani an l e f t yesterday (S un d ay ) f or th e Indies with £2,000 in gold and £5430 in silver. The f ailure of Messrs. Walker, Cotesworth, and I,P I nYI East I n di a merc h an t s , Li ve rpool, has :en added to th e li st of commerc i a l em b arrass . . e . e A llt s• The li a bi l i ties are reckoned at a b out ' 11 °4 ,000 or £GOO,OOO. It appears that the firm toaciollhiPPed a la rge quant i ty o f M anc h es t er goo d s and that a considerable amount has .Set to b e realised. Annexed is the circular issued to the creditors Liverpool, Oct. 1, 1864. Gentlerathe en,—We deeply regret that, in consequence ej vith healY fall in produce, and the failure of several firms 1" 111301 We are largely connected, we have been cora teed to Suspend payment. We have placed our books in Coe "We of Messrs. Coleman, Tuiquand, Youngs, and k ; ' a nd We tr us t for your kind forbearance until a state tie ti t of our affairs can be submitted to you.—We are, gen °lel; Your most obedient servants, WALKER, COTESWORTH, AND CO. T he firm of Messrs. Julina Mendel and Co., engaged tith e West India trade, h as a l so f a iled, with liabili. ties es timated at £40,000. Their circular is as folluws 7, Sambrook-court, Basinghall.street, 8.C., Oentle rnen _ London, Sept. 30, 1861. to h We regret to have to inform you that, owing „ coy losses occasioned by the recent failures and the on -arrival of remittance s from our West India correspon q_enta, w e are under the necessity of suspending payment. Our books have been placed in the hands of Messrs. Honey ti urephrys, of 14 , I ronmonger -lane, w h o w ill s h or tly t re pare and l ay b efore you a statement of our affairs, to whom ave the kind ness to furnish a statement of your claim. Re nYourtingYour forbearance in the meantime, we are, &o , JDLIDS MENDEL AND CO. TWO O'CLOCK. an p i nl y a small amount of business has been trans. today ; eu daY in the ma r k e t f o r the English Funds, , 1 0 , t . l hi ch, how ever, are firmer in tone, owing to dimi- to e B hed une as i ness with regard to commercial credit. itc,), n sols for t ransfer are 88a- ; , and for the acccunt 8 4 te Bgl 4 4. The New Tnrees and Reduced Annuities ito 2 are Ba, . 13 0 ti v t I ; India 5 per Cents., 103 6 Z ; and the 1 e-e, 255. to 16s. dist [a the Foreign Stock Market there have been t o f ew hit • Me , alterations , and prices generally remain firm. to ceded have advanced kto 271; Greek have re- to `' e ccke d kto 231 ; Spanish Passive, /to 311 • ; but the !c 0 heartincates remain at 13 6 14. Turkish Consolides .L. L, ve gone down 1 to 501 4- ; and the Confederate as 8 i better, being 65 67. St. . 4. 11 the R l i, _ 'way Share Market there has been a at , I_lr amount of business transacted, and prices have IA: 11 .. Most instances strongly degenerated. Great i2ster and North E astern Berw i c k h ave eac h 1, loroved 10s.; G rea t W estern, 55.; South Eastern, it sti *, and Lancashire and Yorkshire and Midland, each £l . St T he Foreign a n d C o l onial lines rema i n w i t h ou t ,t Material alteration. , B ank and Mi scellaneous shares have generally ren at s li ghtly enhanced prices. Union of Lou. . (111 _ have risen to 491 50; Imperial Ottoman, to 16-1 t to Ilraperial, to 32 33 ; Metropolitan and Provincial, st 9 20; National Discount to 12.1 i ; and Joint stock D iscount to 41 5. lIKITIBR FUNDS —ONE O'CLOCK. d ~ GOVERN MENT FUNDS. per Cent. Consols • 88 88 i } Do Acc ount, Oct. 11 / a 3 per Cent. R e d uced I L I"' 3 Per Cent... Do 5 ........ e W 2 i Per C ent. Jan. 1891... 86 i per Cent, Jan. 1873 Annuities, 30 yrs, expire th Jan., 1880 — Do for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Do (R e d Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 — mac . . la June, Exchequer Bills, Ll,OOO, 4 & 3i per Cent. Do I.:500 Do £lOO and £2OO Do4llli Enland Stk, 51 per Ct. — Account.. INDI&N GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. India Stock, 10 1) }per Cent., A pr il 1874 2ll 0 Account .. .... 1) e 6 per Cent. July, 1870 Do 4 p er C ent ~ Oct. 1888 Do Certificates Do Account Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) — Do 4i pet Cent ....... D „e Enlac e d P aper, 4 per Cent — 2 o 5 per Cent., an. 172 1 ) 6 i per Cent. J , May, B 1879 — Do 4 per . C 0 ent Aug.• • 1866 . , Do . bonds isl,oo 25 16 D° under .£l,OOO .. FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Oast FOREIGN Bonds, b per Cent .. Br azilian 5 per Cent Do 4} per Cent., 1852-58-60 De 1863 Bl allerlos Ayres 6 perj Cent Po Account... .. ... p l. uo 4100 Bonds ,oilian 6 per Cent. ' O9/ v 0 , 0 41 per Cent t- I -° _orobis.n 6 per Cent -1 ; 14 , 6 per Cent. 1 )0 6 per Cent, 1864 Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 g r , l)° 6 per Cent, 1864 --ivadorNew Consolidated, 1 per Cent — 14 Do, provisonal Land Warrant.. 961 -4gYptan 7 per Cent.. (i lk), Second I ssue ... . D o ""e 5 per Cent 1824-5, ex-Coupons — ek A cco unt .. Do Coupons _bo Account ttuatenaala 5 per Cent. Do 1839 and 1859 Italia n 5 per Cent.(Alaremmana Railway, 72/ bdexican 3 per Cent . ... D o Account ... 27/ i ... , Do 1864 ....• ".„ 0 French Sc r ip, E x. 25f 20c -uo 6 per C ent . A ng l o-French — die Ditto Scrip, L 23 paid .. — 41.)2orish Imperial 5 per Cent New Gr anada I)d2 eferred per Cent. D D. „0 Land Warrants (Hectares) 'Jo Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1861 — r Ts elivian Do 4 i per do Cent Aug., 1866 — uo 3 per Cent. ((Jribarren) .. Do 41 per Cent , 1862 ....... Portugues e 3 pe; Cent 1853 Do Account -, • • —Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7 l '9, '60,.62,'3 461 11 0 Account 461 I Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St Do Do 41 per Cent., 1850 .. D 1860 Do 3 per Cent 1859 •••• 'Jo 5 per Cent, 1862 B7/ 8 7/ Do Anglo-Dutch .. Do Scrip, X 55 paid pm tar.lini a n 5 per Cent 83 / r . Do Account "'Tartish 3 per Cent Do Account —. Do New Deferred Do Account Do Passive ma b. Account bynish Cert. of Coup not funded Do Account Swedish, 4 per Cent. l3i Do Scrip, £6O paid —. Pm Turkish t) per Cent. 1854 .— Do Account Do Account 69 Do 6 per Cent. 1862 Do Account .. 70.1 D o £lOO B on d s .. 7oi Do 1863 Do Guaranteed, 4 per Cent..... Do 1863 Scrip, £4O paid ........ Venezuela 3 per .... Cvnt. ................ —. .Do Account Do 6 per Cent., 1862 .......... —Do Account....... 551E1 Do 6 per Cent., 1 861 ............. .. 411 Dividends on the ab ove payable in Landon Austrian, 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins. I3algian 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f. ........ Damn 21 per Cent.,Ex. 12 Guil — Do 4 per Cent. ertificates French Relates, 2 per Cent.. Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs — Do 4ccount Peruvian Dollar Bonds, 4i per Ct. Ex. 4s. Piedmontese, 6 per Cent., Ex. 25f — TWO O'CLOCK Consols Money Do 4e oourt ~ ~ ,„ ~,, 'lett 11 1111 881 SHARE MARKETS —This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOLS. Paid. ` Closing Business Share' Railways. Price. done. 1.14. Bir., `Vol., and Str. Val. all st Blythe and Tyne. at Bristol and Exeter at Caledonian ...... 103 50 Cork and Bandon al 20 Cornwall all 10 Do A A gets no div all tillopc.pan.has all 10 Do. B Leen paid to B. 60 Dublin & Belfast June.! all 25 Dun.,Perth,&Ab. Juno. all at Edinburgh & Glasgow. 100 at Glasg. and S. Western.' 100 at Great Eastern, Ord. stk' 100 t Ditto A stock t Ditto East Anglian st 100 it GreatNorthot Scotland 100 Great Northern... Do A stook r 100 100 1211 I st Do B ..... _ st Gt. S. and W. of fret nn , l 100 st Great Westerr ,Orlginal 100 et Do Str Val Pita. sto,K 100 st Do. South Wales CO st Do. West Mid. -Oxtord 10u 4t Do Newport 100 et Do Hereford 10f, at Laneashite & Yorkshire st London and Blaokwall it Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast it Lon., Chat., and Dover it Lon. & North Western it Lon. & Ser.th Western it Man., Shef., 10 Maryport and Carlisle.! L 2 t Do Z shares... • 33 Metropolitan at Midland at Do Binning. & Derby, 0 Xid. Gt. W. of Ireland 5 Do. 4 shares 6 Mid Kest t North British t Edin., Perth, k Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwlek Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds Do York ,t I Do Car1i51e......... ,6 Do. Stook. <tz Darling 6 Do do 1855-58 :5 Do do 14 C. 61 it North London [ 0 Do New .. . 10 Do New, ISM. at North Staffordshire .. 10 N. and S. W. 3 unction., at Scottish Central at Scot N. E., Aber. stood at Do Soot. Mid. stook.. 10 Shrews, and Welottpool at Shropshire Union .... at South Devon .. at South Eastern • • 20 Staines,Wok.,andWok.' at. Taff Vale.. ............... 10 Do C__ it V;,lJoi Neath It Waterford & Kilkenny it West Cornwall ;t W. Hartlepool Har.4lt 44 i 135 i 61 128 k 681 8 100 1131 14 64.1 33 110} 11 931 6ta 106 51 6 i 129 k i 9 51 106 51 82 E 4 120 121 6 7 31 33 16 17 86 88 105 107 44 45 5 7 I'sl 1201 133 k 1341 127 130 90 92 0(1 061 45 47 35 40 93 101 11 1 1111 61 65 102 (03 33 40 1181 1081 91 113 611 621 104 i 'os4i IL6) 1 26 i 96 98 51 63 24 C 5 1044 1054 63i 60 91 P3i 35 38 9 10 7 8 r., 120 125 1 1i p 75 76 10i 11 132 136 54 66 84 16 81 81i 8 9 160 165 34 44 p 97 99 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Closing Prioe._ Railways Paid. 10 Ulantic & St Lawrenct tom.,Baroda dt.Cent In( Gu. 5 per cent.. O Do. E. Shares... sufialo and Lase thaw, O Do. Preference • O ,lufralo,Brant,&Godricl p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 187 O Do. do. July 1, 187. )o. do. June 1, 187 t ;lcutta.&S.Eastn. (Lin 'apeTown w Dock Sex' 0 Demerara 7 p.c. per. pf , ck tastn. Bengal gu. ap. utt a;ast Indian, ell. 5 p. c O Do. do. J Eat rck , lrand Trunk of cana , t , 0 Do. Equip. Mort. Bonds 1 charge a per cent )0 Do. Ist rrei. Bonds )0 Do. do. deferred )0 Do. 2d Pref. Bonds O Do. do. deferred O Do. 3d Pi ef. stock ... i 0 Do. do. deferred i 0 Do. 4th Pref. stook. 9 Do. do. deferred...... 9, LlndtaPentu.gua.sp. , O Do4Gu , . 5 per cent •. 10 Do. New gua. 5 p. 0 Kok It. South.of India (Lira guaranteed 5 per cent ,ck Do. 41 per cent..... wk Do O t. W. of Canada Share. too Do. New • • 9 Do. 6 p.o. '73 with't opt. 10 Do. 5i p. c. do. '77-8.... O Indian Branch Limited wk lladras guar., sp. o. wk Do. 41 p. 0. Extensiot wk De. 44 to Do. Fifth Extension. )ck 11elb.Corp. 6p. 0. Brats i 0 %lelb. & Hobson's Bay. 10 Newßrunswick &Cand, Class A. and B. N.ll.l.C'dao po Ist pf bdt ock Soinde ........ ock Do. Delhi 10 Do. do st Do. Punjaub p e do. indus.St.llo) 100 (100 1100 2 11 0 'l/4100 56 58 Di 00, idig pr 5% 7i 86 95 10) 92 94 100 101 100 101 19 19i 90 93 71 73 CO 32 CO 65 55 57 53 56 96 (8 28 30 27 29 IGO 10 pr id r 99 100 9} 10 11 10} 89 01 82 8 d ) r 99 100 92 04 88 00 8 60 Business don took 100 93i 1001 1} 1001 1 10q I E 6 80 83 99 ICO 98 100 id par 98 100 95 97 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. -- British Columbia. 6 per cent., Dec. 31, 1872.... 100 Do. do. 1883.... 100 ;an.(iov.6 p.c.Ja,Jut; 1877-81 ...—......... LlO 92 9 4 92 5 Do. n P.C. Feb. & Aug.IOU 92 91 90 Do. 6p. c. Mar. & Sept 100 9.1 94 Do. sp. o. Jan.&July. 10, 81 83 80 Do. 5 Inscribed stool 100 00 80 83 1 1 0 0 4 7 1 1 0 1 ;ape G60.1.1A o Do. P p & e Oct. '6p 1 1 8 8 a 7 100 189' 100 icB 110 )o. Jan. & July. 1891.. 100 107 10) Ceylon, N0v.1564, 6p , 100 102 105 vo. 1878, do 100 119 112 ilauritius 6 p.cent.lB73 00 101 104 1878 100 103 106 Do. Do. 882 IJO .03 10 5 natal Gov. 6 per cont.. too too 105 sl.B.Gov 6 p.o.Ja.&Jul) 100 94 97 4. S.W. G ov. 6 p 3.,18„' 100 97 99 Du. sp. c.,1 8 / 1 to 102, 100 95 97 Do. d0.,1888 &upwd, too 94 06 yew Zealand 6 p cent 100 9) 102 \lova Scotia Gov. 6 p. c. sterling, 1875. lOO 97 100 Queensland Gcv. 6p. e. 100 10) 102 101 Aus Cov. 0 p.e.1E68- 100 Da. 178 &uovard 3... 10u 105 107 vi,Gov. 6 p,o. Ja.&Jul) 100 Do. 10 8 p.c. An 1,00 t.. 100 108 109 1055 5 BRITISH MINES. 2 Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 Chiverton ,Linord Amalgamated.. 30 32 ). , von G. Con.. (T avist. 1 580 600 Drakewar s avast Bassett (Illogan) 3O C 4 6) Fast Caradon ...... 1.14. , 26 7 4 275 afAt Cara Brea.. East Grenville 2.7.0. 75 it —. East Lovell W 'Mussel (Tavistk 413. 45 6 lam.&St.Aubyn(Gwen 60 7 9 4 Ga eat Laxey, all 15 15 great South. Tolgus I7A 2 25 I. Wheal Vor(lielston 40 31 3: ;renville I erc•ci's-Foot 4.13 38 4u ing - ston Downs . 4.18.1 445 Margaret (Clay Lelant 5 7 9 larke Valley.. 4 I vrniv Iron Ore (Lim. 25 15 1 6 NangileB.. . l9 26 4ew Setun 215 75 85 —• north Downs 3 1 14 North Roskear.. . 295 20 22 't 14asset(111o,p,i, 3.1...6 15 25 , orth Wheal Crotty . 2.80 34 4 Prosper United.... ... 35 31 'toy/deuce( Uny Lelnt. 10 6.7 37 39 ,outhCaradon(St.Cleei 15 ~20 540 Wheal Fran. allogau 18.18.1 425 475 itray Park Lin Croft .0 18 19 Nest Basset (Illogan) 15 8 9 V C' radon a.iskearo g 10 II West Chiverton Nest Sewn Nheal Basset (Illogan 54 92 95 •Theal Buller(itedruth 10 17 19 WhealLudeott Wheal Mar yAnn ;:den 8 14 16 Wheal Seton . 685 205 215 heal Treiawney (Lis. 7 19 21 Wheal Union 4 1 15 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Western (Berke and Hants Ext.) 5 per cent., el Ditto 4i per cent.. pf. st. red.. 96 4 South Eastern (Reading, Anne., £1.0.0), Ditto, Fixed 41 per cent., 984 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTAL. Chester and Holyhead, Ditto, 5 per cent.. 111 Nottngham and Grantham R. Sr. C, 90j Shrewsbury and Hereford, 1311 FOREIGN RAILWAYS.; Dutch Rhenish, 18i Ditto (all), 224 Great Luxembourg, 91 Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidin), 101 San )l'auio gua. 7 per cent., 14 Ditto (all), 181 DOCKS. London and St. Katharine, 674 8 BANKS. Agra and M tsterman's (lira.), 128 Affiance ;Lim.). 92 1 31 2 Ditto, new, 41 Anglo Austrian, Brazilian and Portuguese, Um.. 12} British and Californian, lim., City, 1 0 Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and Chino., 341 Consolidated Bank, lim., English, Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 20 Hindustan, China, and Japan (lim.), 28 Ditto, new, 156 16 Imperial Bank (Urn.). 321 3 2 Imperial Ottoman, 163 1 Land Mortgage Bank of India, lira., 4 Loudon Bank of Scotland, lim., 8 1 London Think of Mexico and S. America, Jim., 5 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 231 3 London and County, 65 6 London Joint Stock, 42 2 London and South African, 221 London and South-Western, 206 London and 11 estminster, 136 Merchant Bank, Bin., 23 Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, Um., 20 19 New Zealand Bank Corporation, lim. 16 Scinde, Punjaub, and Delh i, Um., 10 i South Eastern, Um., 6 Standard of British South Africa (limi), Ditto (£25), 27 Union of Australia, 51 I Union of London, 49 MISCELLANEOUS. Anglo-Mexican Mint, 181 Berlin Water Works, lim.. z Company of African Merchants, 1im.,1 Discount Corporation, la 1 6 Egyptian Corn. and Trading, UM, 2 h Financial Corporation, I Fore -street Warehouse, lim._, 6} Gen. Credit a n d Fi nance of London, 11M., 6} 6 Hudson's Bay, 15k a Imperi..l Mercantile Credit A sso., lim., 6} International Financial tiociety, Him, 61 t Italian Ditto, 6 per cent. B on d s, Irrigation (Canal Cavour, Joint Stock Discount, li m ., 4} a London F inancial Association, inn, 2 0 1 it redein. 1870, Issued 90 , 84 100 all 19 12 ICO THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 3, 1864. MARKETS—This Day. MARK-LANE. The wheat trade in the country markets held on Satur day was very slow. The tendency of prices was, in some instances in favour of buyers, but the variations from the previous week were not important. Good and fine malting barley was in improved request, at full quotations ; but in other articles very little was doing. On the continent. the corn trade generally is slow, and the amount of business doing in produce at New York for export to Great Brita'n is very moderate. But moderate supplies of English grain were received up to our market last week. The imports from abroad amounted to 28,842 quarters of wheat, 13,765 qrs barley, 122,218 qrs oats, 850 qrs rye, 700 qrs beans, 1,003 qrs peas, 210 qrs tares, 3,161 qrs linseed, 1,183 qrs rapeseed, 5,840 qrs maize, 640 qrs sundry seeds, and 500 sacks of flour. Fr,sh up to our market to-day the arrivals of home grown wheat was very moderate. Included in the supply were a few parcels loft over from last week; but although the number of samples on the stands was tolerably large the quantity of produce represented was by no means ex tensive. Ia prices, compared with Monday last, no altera tion took place. The market was well supplied with most descriptions o foreign wheat. The slight tendency to improvement in the market for home-grown produce led holders to demand full prices for all qualities; but the trade during the whole of business hours having presented a quiet appearance, The business transacted was at last Friday's currency. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wheat—Essex and Kent, red, 1863, per qr 36s to 40s Ditto, 1861 Ditto, white, 1863 405 443 Ditto, 1864 Norfolk and Lincoln, red, 1864 Ditto, 1803 Talavera, 18642 . 44s 50s Rye— Barley—Grinding 228 253 Malting, new 3OB 354 Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk 6os 66s Brown Kingstown and Ware 6os 665 Chevalier •Yorkshire and Lincolnsh., Feeding 195 22s Potato Youghal and Cork, black lBB 225 Cork, white Scotch, Feeding 2os 23s Beans—Tick Pigeons, Peas—Grey • 338 36s Maple White Boilers 36s 40s Flour—Town-made, per 2801 b Suffolk 2Bs 308 Stockton and Norfolk ... 26s 288 American, per barrel 193 25s Oats METROPOLITAN CATTLE. There was a large supply of foreign stock on sale in our market to-day, but its general quality was inferior, Sales, therefore, progressed slowly at barely stationary prices. Tho arrivals of beasts fresh up from our own grk zing districts were only moderate, and nearly all breeds came to hand in middling condition. Prime Scots, crosses, Here fords, Devons, and short horns moved off steadily at full quotations, but inferior beasts met a dull inquiry at last week's currency. The best Scots and crosses realised 56 4d per Blbs. From Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Northampton- shire we received 2,600 short horns, &o. ; from other parts of England 900 various breeds, from Scotland 43 Scots and crosses, and from Ireland 550 oxen and heifers. We were tolerably well, but not to say heavily, supplied with sheep, the quality of which was by no means prime. For Downs and half-breds, as well as for the best Lincolns, Leicesters, &0., there was a good demand at fully previous rates ; otherwise the mutton trade was in a sluggish state at about stationary prices, the top figure was 5s Sd per 81bs. Calves—the supply of which was moderate—were in fair request on former terms, viz., from 4s to 53 per 81bs. We have to report an improved inquiry for pigs at quite last week's currency ; the highest price was 4s 10d per 81bs, Per Sibs. to sink the offal. s. d. B. d Primeers-wool d 0.5 2 5 4 Proc. S' thdown d 0.5 6 5 8 Largo orse. calves 4 0 4 8 Prime small do 4 10 5 0 Large hogs 3 6 4 4 Small porkers 4 6 4 10 Is Od to Os Od. s. d. s. d. Crse. &inf. beasts 3 4 3 8 Second quality do. 3 10 4 6 Prime large oxen 4 8 5 0 Prime Scots, &c. 5 2 5 4 Crse. & inf. sheep 4 0 4 6 Second quality do. 4 8 5 0 Lambs....( Suckling calves, 166 to 21s 206 to 26s each. TOTAL SUPPLY. Beasts ... Cows Sheep Calves ......... 406 Pigs 690 The total imports of foreign stocx into London, last week amounted to 17,345 head. In the corresponding week in 863,we received 17,820 —in 1862,12,898—in 1861, 12,734 ,n 1860, 8,743 —in 1859, 7,697—in 1858, 7,680. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEEK. Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 194 .. ; and quarter-old store pigs FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts Sheep Calves .4 396 Pigs From Amsterdam.... .• Antwerp — .. Bremen .. 399 .. 80u10gne...0.. .. es es 41 .. - 30 • . --- -- 6 .. .. 175 - 1 .. 1. 2 Calais • • Dordt.. 83 .. 630 •• •• Dunkirk. .. Hamburg Harlingen Medemblik Oporto .. Ostend Rotterdam Toning lBl3 .. 1455 .. 209 .. Total .... 3834 .. 10,661 .. 277 ..1168 ..1506 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambe. Calves. Pigs. 1863 2889 .. 10,388 .. 16 i 9 .. 644 .. 1380 1862 1071 .. 9,748 .. 185 .. 488 .. 506 1861 8127 .. 10,324 .. 183 .. 281 .. 1119 A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in the Great Metropolitan Cattle Market on Monday, Oct, 5, 1863, and this day, Monday, Oct. 3, 1864. Per 81b, to sink tho offal. Oct. 5, Oct. 3, 1863. 1864. Coarse and inferior beasts.... 3 2to 3 6 3 4to 3 8 Second quality do Prime large oxen .. 4 4 4 8 4 8 5 0 Prime Scots, &c 4lO 5 0 5 2 5 4 Coarse and inferior sheep Second quality do. Prime coarse-woolled do 4 8 410 5 2 5 4 Prime Southdown do. 0000 0 0 0 Lambs Large coarse calves .. 3 4 4 0 4 0 4 8 Prime small do Large hogs Neat small porkers Beasts .. Sheep and lambs Calves Pigs 390 690 SUPPLIES ON SALE, Oct 6, 1862.—Beasts, 6,050 — sheep, 25,150—calves, 167—pigs, 450. OcT. 7, 1861.—Beasts, 5,790 —sheep, 22,170—calves, 154—pigs, 630. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. These markets are but moderately supplied with town and country killed meat. For all good and prime qualities the trade continues to rule firm, at fully late rates; but inferior meat is in slow request, at about stationary prices. Per 81b. by tho carcase. east] !clod Inferior beef .. 3 0 3 4 Middling mutton 4 2 4 4 Middling do. .. 363 10 Prime do .. 46 4 8 Prime largo do. 4 0 4 2 Veal Do. small do. .. 4 4 4 6 Small pork 4 6 5 0 Large pork .... 3 6 4 4 Lamb Inferior mutton. 3 8 4 0 BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. These markets continue to be moderately supplied with home grown potatoes. For most qualities there is a steady demand, and prices on the whole are tolerably firm. Very few foreign potatoes arc on sale. Last week's imports were 87 sacks from Dunkirk, 29 bags Rotterdam, and 9 bags from St Brieux. Kent and Essex Regents....Bos to 110 s per ton. Rocks ....50s to 75s I) ....50s to 60s ~ Foreign 2 I BOROUGH HOP. The supply of new hops, of English growth, on sale is tolerably large. For good and fine samples there is a steady demand, and last week's currency is well supported. For inferior produce the demand is by no means active, but in those instances in which factors feel disposed to accept less money sales are somewhat readily effected, and the business doing is seasonably large. In foreign hops very l i tt l e i s d o ing. The imports into London last week amounted to 281 bales from Antwerp, 45 Ostend, 25 Rotterdam, 3 Dunkirk, 22 Hamburg, and 100 bales from New York. per cwt. New Mid and East Kent New Weald of Kent 9os to 130 s New Sussex New Geldings Old . 208 to 81s Bavarian.... —a to —8 SEEDS. The demand for taros was moderate on former terms Mustard seed met a slow sale, and the quotations had a drooping tendency. For linseed and rapeseed there was a fair demand at previous rates. The transactions in other seeds were on a limited scale at last Monday's currencies. The inquiry for cakes ruled heavy, and the quotations de• dined 55 per ton. Turnip, White,p.bus.26s to 22s Swede —s -13 Mustard, Brown —s —s White, Tares, Spring.... • New winter, bush Os 9sCd Canary, per quarter —s - Rye grass, new —s —s Clover, tied Eng., ot. ---s s White --s Foreign Red —s —s White —s —s Trefoil new —s Carraway 22s 20e Coriander l2e 16s ilempseed, per qr sls 58s Linseed,Eng.sowing 76s 78e Crushing sBs 63s Baltic — s —B Odessa Linseed Cake, p ton —s — s English £lo Os£ll los Foreign lOB £ll Os Rape Cakes,p ton.£llos £slos Rapeseed, new,pr qr 64s 08s Thero is no improvemen wool trade. In the manul that rather more favourab themselves ; but the mark( t to notice in the state of the racturing districts, it is stated Le symptoms have presented A hero for all descriptions of OL. home-grown wool has, since our last report, been in a most inactive state. The amount of business transacted has con sequently been much restricted, and at prices showing a reduction, compared with the late highest point, of, in most instances, 3d per lb. For colonial wool, by private contract, the trade has ruled heavy, and the quotations have had a drooping tendency. The arrivals from the Cape and Aus tralian colonies, since the close of the public sales, have been large, amounting to 63,906 bales' Current prices of English wool per lb. s d Fleeces - •South Down hoggete 2 0 Half-bred do Kent fleeces .. 2 1 South Down ewes and wethers 2 0 Leicester do. -Clothing Combing s d 2 1 2 5 2 3 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 31 Sorts TALLOW. The talow trade is very quiet to-day at about previous quotations. New P.Y.C. is quoted at 42s per cwt. on the spot. Town tallow is selling at 41s 61 net cash. Rough fat commands 2s 2d per 8 lbs. Particulars. 1850.1 1861 1862. f 1863. 1864. --- -- Stock this day.... 44 . 350 I 37,150 39,815 , 43,758 47. 636 l 5451.1 to 5183 d to 17s6d t0'45801 t0i428 0 1 to Price of Y.C. . • - 6 ( d —8 08 478 9d —8 Od —8 08 D e li v ery lastweek 2.611 4,158 1,261 2,172 1,695 Ditto from June 1 35,986 5,170 26,165 20,667 22,3-5 Arrivals last week 2,289 3,937 2,7e3 3,175 8,376 Price of Town •• . 545 6 34 1 8 52s 98 503 Od ,4s 6d 44s 3d Ditto from June 1 5 • 1 ,559 27,663 26,678 25,000 POLICE INTELLIGENCE,--This day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. ATTEMPT TO ROB MESSRS HUNT AND ROSKELL.— Thomas Johnson, a young man wearing a moustache, and who refused his address, but described himself as a mason, was charged befare Mr Tyrwhitt with being found on the roof of the premises of II ears Hunt and It oskelljewellers, 156, New Bond.stret, for the purpose of committing a felony. Mr Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, ap peared for the prisoner. William Mitchell, porter in the service of Messrs Hunt and Roskell, said—On Saturday evening, between 7 and 8 o'clock, I was informed that a man was on the roof of the premises. I got assistance and proceeded to the roof, and after searching about for some time saw a dark object, which I at first thought was a dog, but afterwards found was the prisoner, on his hands and knees, looking through the sky light on the leads of a showroom. As soon as the prisoner saw me he rose up, and I then seized him by the collar and took him down, and gave him into custody for trying to rob the house. The prisoner said he intended no harm, and that he was going farther on. By Mr Lewis—lt was on the roof of one of the show rooms. The prisoner did not deny ho had been to see a female on an adjoining house. Mr Tyrwhitt—Are the premises apart from the house ? Witness—They are, but there is access from one place to the other. Another person in Messrs Hunt and Roskell's employ gave similar evidence. Mr Tyrwhitt, addressing the last witness, said—lt is pretty well known that you have valuable property in the place, and why do you not have the top railed round so as to prevent persons getting on the roof. You have means enough to do so. Inspector Silverton, C division—l received the prisoner , in custody on Saturday evening, and on being told that he had been found on the roof, I examined the place and found he had entered from Barlow-mews, at least 100 yards dis tant—a girl, who was not then present, but would attend, having seen him climbing up by means of a water pipe in the mews. The prisoner had left his hat on the parapet of the wail where he just got up, and then proceeded some hundreds of yards over roofs to get at the skylight, and I traced marks from one place to the other. I also found an adjoining window open. On asking the prisoner his name he said it was Thomas Johnson, but he refused his address I wish for a remand, as I shall be able to give more evidence on a future occasion. Mr Lewis—l do not know whether your worship con siders there ought to be another examination. Mr Tyrwhitt—Considering the place where the prisoner was found, at a large jeweller's, I think some inquiries should be made. I will therefore remand the prisoner till Wednesday. Mr Lewis—Will you take bail, sir. Mr Tyrwhitt—l will not take bail at present. TIIA.MES. A Row WITH THE DOCTOR.—William Payne, a tall and powerful man, was brought before Mr Paget, oharged with assaulting Mr Grant, a respectable medical gentle• man, of Millwall, Poplar, and William West, 153 K, a police-constable. On Saturday; night the complainant, after a fatiguing day and visits to a great many patients, had lain down on a sofa to seek a little repose, when he heard a loud knock at his door. Ou opening it he saw the prisoner, who re quested him to visit a patient who had fallen down air area, broken his neck, and was on the point of death. Mr Grant observing that the prisoner was in liquor, said he could not leave home until a fee of ss. was paid. The prisoner said that the money would be paid directly the surgeon reached the house where the patient was. Mr Grant refused to leave home without his fee at such a late hour, and the prisoner became very noisy and violent, and attacked Mr Grant. Hs struck him and seized him by the throat, and, according to Mrs Grant's account, her husband was nearly strangled. The whole household, including Mr Grant's sister, brother, and wife, who were all injured, were barely sufficient to secure the prisoner, who was ulti mately given into the custody of West; 153 K, who observed blood on the neok of the surgeon. The constable walked the prisoner about thirty yards towards the station-house, when he b ecam e very violent. struck the constable on the face, arid laid on the ground. In this position the prisoner remained fur half-an-hour until other police constables arrived, and car ried him to the stationhouse. In answer to Mr Paget, the constable said no serious accident took place. He saw the man said to be injured. He was not injured. Mr Paget said no one had any right to knock at a gen tleman's door, because he happened to be a surgeon, and demand him to visit a patient elsewhere. Medical men generally did leave home and visit patients when called upon to do so, but there was no legal compulsion. He could not blame Mr Grant for refusing to leave home without his fee on the invitation of a drunken man. lie fined the prisoner 20s, which he paid. THE OFFICE OF SHERlFF .—Whatever mi g ht be the condition of things i f it were i m possible to find me n willing to accept the office of Sheriff, it is very certain that soc'ety is under deep obligations to those who accept the office, for it is an integral part of the free constitution, under the shadow of which we enjoy our liberties and con solidate our wealth and power. The Sheriffs begin their official career by assisting at the election of a Lord Mayor for the year ensuing, so that the representatives of loyal as it were, the Queen's 1 acrnodwaroyanala au th th e or s i t t a y bring, tutes of the realm to bear witness to the invalidity of the aspirations of independent citizenship. But it is not merely as the shire reeve, the representatives of royal power and prerogative, the intermediaries between the king and the people, that we know the sheriffs best in these days, any more than we first think of them as public executioners, because charged occasionally with the responsible duty of disposing of a human life. It is as almoners, and as themselves fountains of almonry, that in these piping times of peace and prosperity and content we best know of the existence and movements of the sheriffs. Our love of organization is such, that, when we have exhausted our powers of invention in the organization of charities,we at last make a desperate clutch at som e venerable legal office, and load it with respon s ibiliti es t ou ching bread,coals , and blankets, the care of orphans, idiots, juvenile offenders , and other active and passive claimants for charity, for w hom there are splendid organisations nev ertheless. The c haritable part of the Sheriff's duties is o f c omparatively rece nt origin ; it was not always the rule to stick a live compel She a lerwiffhiona high-backed pe w an d preach at him,congregation to st are hi m out o f and coun t ena nce, in order th at the Samaritan Society should be lancet for theispruocyesns numerous trans fusionerousenabled to continue its useful career. The best part of the feature is that, like the more ancient and more formal por tion of a Sheriff's duties, it fits the office very well—the association of law and benevolence works very well in this case, and the Sheriff blee_dsatsy patiently press as a connubial supposed that Napoleon owed partner submitting to the TH THE GREAT tGheßE"AoTtheNr sAirdeo.'ll EON.—It h 1, detractors is miraculous unexampled galaxy of skilful lieutenants. Join shows that such was not the case—that, almost always victorious where he himself com manded, Napoleon, if ho profited much by the gallantry of generals fighting under his immediate superintendence, with a few exceptions suffered almost equally from the un nculousuccess to an fitness of these same officers for independent common I. Jomini, speaking by the mouth of Napoleon, thus sums up his opinion of some of the principal French commanders,— " With the exception of gassona, Soult, and perhaps Da voust, there was none to whom I could entrust the com mand of a separate army. (The Viceroy, St. Cyr, Suchet, and Oudinot were promoted only at a later period.)"— Captain W. Knollys in The Bodo . . CONFEDERATE RIFLES.— ri es—g r A correspondent with General Sherman' w s army Whitworth rifle in use by the rebel s kirmishers and shar p shooters is a t weapon great ly to be feared, as persons nearly a mile and a ' halt from the rebel skirmish line have been wounded when they thought themselves safe from anything except solid shot and shell. One soldier was standing upon a log crossing a creek, about one mile and a quarter from the neartst rebel line of rifle-pits, and a comrade was talking with him, when one of these fatal messengers came crashing through b .th thighs, and with this mortal wound he sank into the water. An officer speaking of it says, ' They break the bone of a man's limb like a solid shot from a cannon.' Rebel deserters say that each division of the rebel front is furnished with about 50 of these rifles, which aro used in their skirmish line," • SPORTING INTELLIGENCE —This Day CITY BETTING,—Tnn DAY. CESAREWITCH STAKES. 7to 1 agst Gratitude (taken) Bto 1 agst Thalestris (taken) 10 to 1 agst Calista colt (taken) 10 to 1 agst Mail Train (taken) 25 to 1 agst Beatrix (taken) 25 to 1 agst Alabama (off red) 25 to 1 agst Suspicion (offered) 25 to 1 agst Tattoo (offered) 30 to 1 agst Fanfreluche (offered) 30 to 1 agst Lady Frances filly (offered) 40 to 1 agst Myrtle (taken) 50 to 1 agst Bever (taken) 50 to 1 agst Gibraltar (taken) 66 to 1 agst Welcome (taken) 100 to 1 apt Carisbrook (taken) CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 25 to 1 agst Muezzin 23 to 1 agst Accident 50 to 1 agst Brick (cffered) LOO to 1 agst Not bern The Awful Calamity at Belvedere. FURTHER PARTICULARS. Early o❑ Saturday morning two gunpowder magazines, situated on the southern bank of the 'Thames between Woolwich and Erith, exploded with terrific violence, killing eight or nine persons, if not more, wounding others, and carrying conster nation and alarm among the inhabitants of the whole neighbourhood for miles round. Although the scene of the catastrophe is distant about 15 miles from Charing-cross, the explosion was heard and felt more or less throughout the whole me: tropolis, and even at places 40 and 50 miles from the spot. There is nothing in modern times to compare with the calamity in the feeling of wide spread terror which it produced, or in the in,„ tense interest which it has since excited, unless it be the memorable explosion at Gateshead.upon- Tyne, some eight or ten years ago. At first the prevailing idea was that the inhabitants of the metropolis and its suburbs had experienced the shock of an earthquake, but that notion was speedily dispelled, and by noon on Saturday the exact nature of the catastrophe and its locality were pretty generally known through out London. Later in the day the evening papers appeared, containing accounts of the matter, and were told in incredible numbers ; but thousands of people, impatient to know the real truth, had rushed down to the scene itself by railway in the afternoon, to learn it for themselves on the spot. By the evening, therefore, it was the theme of every tongue, and probably for years past no intelligence of any domestio event has occasioned a more start ling sensation. The explosion occurred in a gunpowder depot be longing to Messrs. John Hall and Sons, and almost simultaneously in a magez;ne of smaller size used by Messrs. Daye and Barker, both of them located in the Plumstead-marshes on the margin of the Thames, two miles west of Etith, and about an equal distance from the village of Belvedere, on the North Kent Railway. Here, on about 20 acres of ground, separated for obvious reasons from the rest of the neighbouring inhabitants, but in the imme diate vicinity of the scene of their daily labour, lived a few workingmen with their families in three cottages engaged in. a perilous calling. One was George Rayner, who acted es store keeper in the depot of Messrs. Hall, and who was a married man with a family, and another named Walter Silver, also married, acted in a similar capacity under Messrs. Daye and Barker. Each of these had a cottage to him. self about 100 or 200 yards from the magazines, and the rest, who were men employed in the larger depot, occupied a cottage in common. The Messrs. Hall have been engaged in the business of fabricating gunpowder for more than 50 years, and have exe cuted large contracts ft otn time to time, both for our and many foreign Governments. They have a large factory in the neighbourhood of Faversham, in Kent, occupying about 200 acres of ground, part of the works at which were erected in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. There the work of manufacturing and packing gunpowder is conducted by a body of trained artisans, with all the safeguards and pre cautions suggested by experience, and within the last few years the proprietors have purchased a large tract of adjacent land in order the more com pletely to seclude their operations from the habita tions of men. Their magazine at Belvedere was a substantial building, about 50 feet square, and con sisting of two floors. It was erected five or six years ago, at a cost of about £3,000, and around it were 18 acres of land, with the view to isolate the build ing. For miles at that part of the river there is an embankment, which protects the low lying marshes from inundation. Both their depot and that of Messrs. Daye and Barker stood close behind the embankment, and each had a wooden jetty pro jecting into the river, to facilitate the loading and unloading of gunpowder. The quantity of gunpowder stored in Messrs. Hall's magazine at the time of the explosion and in two of their barges which lay cif the jetty is variously estimated at between less than 2,000 and 1,000 barrels, each barrel containing 1001 b. They themselves state that there were about 750 barrels in the depot and perhaps 200 more in the barge. The quantity in the magazines of Messrs. Daye and Baker has not been ascertained. It should bo understood that these were places used entirely for the storage of gunpowder and in no sense for its manufacture, and that none but experienced men were employed at them. Rayner had been the storekeeper there of Messrs. Hall for 12 years, and accustomed to the manipulation of gunpowder from his boyhood. He was an intelligent and most efficient man, and they had complete confidence in him. Between their mills at Faversham and the magazine at Belvedere, a distance of about 30 miles, the gun powder is conveyed in sailing barges, each of them navigated usually by a couple of men, and two of these, as has been stated, were moored alongside the jetty on Saturday morning discharging cargo. The gunpowder, carefully packed in barrels, is borne on trucks with copper wheels along wooden rails, in order to preclude the possibility cf a spark from friction, and the operation is conducted with other precautions, such as the wearing of list slippers by the men engaged in it. By common consent, the explosion occurred at between 18 and 20 minutes before 7 o'clock in the morning, and it is presumed that Messrs. Hall's men were then unloading one a of the barges. A clock in the house of Mr. Henry Hall, at South Dacenth, bout three miles from Dartford and seven from the powder magazines, was stopped by the explosion itself at precisely 18 minutes to 7. There were three distinct explosions immediately following each other, and the belief of persons oenversant with the trade is that the first too k place on board one of the barges; that the terrific concussion produced by it tore asunder the larger magazine, and some of the burning fragments alighting in it caused an explosion infinitely more appalling, and which was instantaneously followed by the explosion of the smaller depot. At Erith and Belvedere, where the shock was most felt, the feeling produced by it is described as awful beyond description. At Woolwich, about four miles off, the first impression was that the powder works in the Arsenal had exploded, and the wives and families of the artisans at work there rushed to the spot in a state of consternation. They were not allowed to enter the place, and they stood terrorstricken in the squ are in front. Shortly afterthe explosion showers o f letters, invoices , an d other papers, which had been borne on the wind a distance of four miles, fell within the precincts of the Arsenal, and clearly indicated the scene of the catastrophe, but it was long before the people outside could be persuaded that their re latives were safe. Immediately after the calamity an immense pillar of smoke rose from the spot high into the air, thick, black, and palpable, with a huge a nd about a quarter of an hour spreading top , i elapsed before it died away. So soon as t was sup posed to be safe to do so people from Erith and Bel vedere proceeded to the spot and ventured to explore the ruins in search of any one that might be living, Of the magazines themselves not a single stone re. m ained upon another, the very foundations being torn up, and the site of that of Messrs Hall was marked by huge fieeures and chaomo in tho earth, immense lumps of which had been scooped out and hurled about the adjacent field. The barges, with the jetty, had been split into fragments and blown into the air, and an enormous rent had been made in the embankment itself, exposing miles of country to the perils of inundation. Of the cottage of the foreman Rayner nothing was left standing but a bit of brick wall and a doorway. The lifeless bodies of the unfortunate man himself and of his son, a boy, were found close by, and his wife and a child were dug out of the ruins alive, but hurt in various ways. A child, niece of Silver, the foreman at the other depot, was:killed, while he himself escaped with some slight injuries. His wife, fortunately had gone on a visit to some friends at Maidstone a few days ago, and had not se turned. The cottage in which they lived is simply a ruin, and the whole immediate neighbourhood is covered with the debris of the fallen buildings. Those of the sufferers, nine in number, who were still living were conveyed with as much care and speed as possible to Guy's Hospital. Oae of them died shortly after admission, the lives of two others were despaired of, and it is apprehended that the men in charge of the barges have perished, for they were missing up to yesterday. The yawning gap in the embankment, about 100 yards in width, next demanded attention, and most fortunately Mr. Lewis G. Moore, an engineer connected with the Thames Embankment, and who resides at Erith, at once perceived and appreciated the emergency. Luckily, it was dead low water at the time of the explosion, but still only about four hours were available for the rough repair of the damage against the approaching tido. A message was sent by Sir Moore to Mr Houghton, one of the contractors under the Metropolitan Bard of Works, at Crossness Point, about a couple of miles off, and within 20 minutes after wards he had arrived upon the scene with 400 navvies, with all their to.ds and barrows. A communication was also forwarded to the garrison at Woolwich, and by half-past 9 o'clock detachments of Sappers and Miners and Artillery, to the number of about 1,500, under the command of G,n. Warde and Colonel Hawkins, reached the spot with all the necessary implements, and set about the repair of the breach with great good will, and after the true method of military engineering. They were followed speedily by the sth Fusileers, who kept the ground from intrusion, and later in the day by the Marines, both from the garrison at Woolwich. Before the troops arrived, the navvies, acting under Mr Houghton and Mr Moore, wheeled large masses of clay in front of the breach, while others puddled it into a solid bottom, by which means the subsequent military operations were facilitated. On their arrival the Sappers and Miners made horizontal arches at the back of the breach with bags of clay one upon another, and layers of earth in • tervening, these arches presenting a formidable front to the advancing tide, while the rest of the gap was being filled up and puddled by the navvies. Time was precious and there was a scarcity of barrows ; but the troops, adapting them selves to the emergency, formed themselves into lines from places where clay was available, and passed it along in lumps, from hand to hand, to the point of operations with great ease and rapidity. About half-past 1 o'clock, when near high water, the work became extremely exciting. The whole force contended with the advancing tide inch by inch, knowing that, if it once made a breach, the repair of the mischief would be vastly more difficult than the work in which they were then engaged, By 3 o'clock the embank ment was restored in this rough and ready, but most effi cient, manner, and the crisis had passe'. - It withstood the succeeding tide, and was exposed to a severer trial in that of yesterday, which, with a stiff north-easterly breeze, beat heavily against it for a couple of hours. At one time, apprehensions as to its safety existed, and a party of Sappers and Miners, who had been telegraphed for, arrived from Woolwich to assist in the emergency. In ease of failure, Mr Moore had taken the precaution to send for about a dozen barges, with a view to have them loaded with clay and then scuttled in front of the breach as a kind of breakwater ; but fortunately occasion did not arise for the expedient being carried into effect. Ho speaks in enthusiastic terms of the hearty co-operation of General Vi arde and Colonel Haw kins on the occasion, and of the practical energy shown by the troops. In the course of the afternoon of Saturday Captain Harris, Commissioner of Metropolitan Police, went down to the spot with a detachment of the A Division of police, and yesterday again a still stronger force were on duty there aiding the local constabularly. The damage done at Erith in particular in the way of broken glass and the injury to property in other respects is lamentably great, and a public meeting of the inhabitants has been convened for this afternoon to decide upcn some course of action in the emergency. There is scarcely a house in the place the windows of which have not been shattered less or more, and the inhabitants are experi encing much inconvenience. The windows of the old parish church have been blown in among the rest, as have also those in particular of a whole row of houses, 20 or 30 in number, situated on the brow of a hill leading to Bexley and belonging to Mr. Everett. The explosion was heard and felt at Uxbridge, about 30 miles off, and at Windsor, Te,ddington, and many other distant places. Mr. William Hall, the principal partner . of the firm whose property has been destroyed, felt the concussion at the residence of Sir Norton Knatchbull, at which he was staying, in the neigh bourhood of Ashford, and about 50 miles distant from the spot. For some minutes after the explosion the earth heaved and trembled with the effects of it in and about Erith and Belvedere, and the people were appalled and terror. stricken At Woolwich the usual drills and barrack duties were on Saturday dispensed with as far as practicable, for the pur pose of rendering all possible aid to the sufferers from the ex plosion. The effects in the garrison and town were destructive. The windows in the official departments, at private resi dences, and shops were shattered ; frames and sashes were dashed in, and several persons were severely injured, In many houses ceilings and portions of the walla were:shaken down, and people rushed from their houses in dismay. The whole of the medical staff of the garrison and town hastened to the scene to render their assistance. Dr Dora ville, of the flagship Fisgard, who was:the first to reach the place, was pulled down the river to the immediate locality in the ship's cutter. In the shock many persons were thrown violently from their beds to the floor and their beds shook like ships at sea. In the Arsenal and dockyard serious fears were entertained that the large workshops wuld fall in, so great and violent was the : concussion felt by the two shocks immediately fol lowing each other. In connection with the showers of paper a remarkable circumstance occurred. A l a d named Eaves was standing near the Royal gun facto ries, in which he is employed, and picked up one of the torn pieces of paper which fell around him, Ho found it to be part of the page of a ledger, in which his uncle, a foreman in the employment of Mr Hall, had that morning entered a memorandum, He had attached his signature at t h e foot, together with the date of the entry—namely, October 1, 1864. The shock of the explosion was distinctly felt in every part of Chatham and Rochester, which are dis tant about 25 miles from the scene of the disaster. In Chatham dockyard the windows of nearly every part of the building were shaken and doors were forced open. The cloud of smoke which followed the explosion was distinctly visible from Fort Pitt and the Chatham Lines, and until tiio telegrams conveying intelligence of the occurence arrived a gene al opinion was entertained that the Government powder ma gazines at Purfleet bad exploded. T he shock of the s felt most severely in the more elevated portions ghLourhood. tit t h e workshops of Mr. Stone, a large nav y contractor, which are A explosionsof Deptford, the Ut er the arches of the railway there, the gaslights, to the lattter of about 160, were blown out simultaneously by the explos:on. Sergeant Cox, of the pol ice division sta;ioned at Erith, gives the following narrative of the circumstiences :—He was getting up when he heard the explosion. He yan out and found all the back windows were broken, the sashes as well as the glasses. He looked in the direction whence the sound proceeded, and imagining from the smoke that one of the magazines had exploded, he went back, and, having quieted the fears of his wife, proceeded to the scene et the disaster, procuring assistance by the way. Mr Churton and Mr Tipple, two medical gentlemen of the vicinity, were on the spot almost as soon as the police, and, with Mr Matthewson and other surgeons, did all that was possible for the sufferers. On arriving at the spot, having literally picked his way through the heaps of rubbish and masses of stones and brick t i at had boon strewn about by the explosion, Sergeant Cox foun~ the body of Mr Geo. Rayner in his own garden. Ho was mach cut about the face, as it by splinters, and the back part of ale head over the left ear was cut open, the brain protruding. He was quite dead. Sergeant Cox next saw Rebecca Wright, who was removed as soon as possible, under the care of the medi cal men. A son of Rayner, named Oliver, was next dis covered. His head was smashed in a fearful manner, and death must have been quite instantaneous. Elizabeth Wright, aged . 13 years, a daughter of the poor woman previously mentioned, was next found, and she was carefully removed to Guy's Hospital, but died a few minutes after her admission. She had sustained a compound fracture of the skull, a fracture of the left thigh, and was severely burnt on the chest and upper extremity of the body, The bodies of Rayner and his son were removed to the Belvedere Hotel, and placed in a shed to await the coroner's inquest, and shortly after the bcdy of a man, ap parently ab ut 60 years of age, was found in the mud of the river, and conveyed to the same place. Yesterday thousands upon thousands of people of visited the scene of the catastrop he, travelling mostly by the North Kent Reilway, and it required the aid of a strong body of police at the Erith and Belvedere Stations to maintain order and prevent acciient. • of the Belve grounds dere and Erith Station were c rowded with thousands of Long after dark the platfo rm and people waiting to be conveyed homeward:a rapidly to Lon- At 11 o'clock the trains we re coming that a large don-bridge, the passenger s by which reportedthe line. number of persons were s till waiting down --- The Russia___ n screw steam fr igateie Oleg of from O guns arrived at Malta on the 2 Sptember the Piraeus. The usual salutes were exchanged between her, the forte, and the English flagship. ;on. (From the Athenaum.) The literary season puts out its promises at an early date. Our holidays are hardly over ere the more enterprising firms are in the field NI ith our autumnal and winter read ing. The promise is rich and good, Messrs Longman have the following nearly ready :--The New Testament, illus trated with engravings on wood from the old masters— Explorations in South-West Africa! being an account of a Journey in the years 1861 end 1862 from Walviach Bay, on the Western Coast, to Lake Ngami and the Victoria Falls, by Thomas Baines— Tuscan Sculptors, their Lives, Works, and Times, with illustrations from original drawings and photographs, by Charles C. Perkins—The Life of Robert Stephenson, late President of the Institution of Civil En gineers; by J. C. Jeaffreson and William Pole—Mem , irs, Miscellanies, and Letters of the late Lucy Atkin; includ ing those addressed to Rev. Dr. Charming, from 18_6 to 1812, edited by P. H. Le Brereton—Tbe Conversion of the Roman Empire : Eight Sermons preached at Heyle's Lecture in the year 1861, by the Ilia-, Charles Merivale —A Course of Lectures on the History of _Music from the beginning of the 17th to the midolle of the 18th Century, delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in the Spring of 1864, by John Hullah—Last Winter in Rome and other Italian Cities, by C. R. Weld —The Works of the late Sir B. Brodie, edited by Charles Hawkins—Outline Sketches of the High Alps of Dauphine, by the Rev. T. G. Bonney—Essays on Religion and Lite rature, by various Writers, edited by li. E. Manning—The Hidden Wisdom of Christ, and the Key of Knowledge; or, History of the Apocrypha, by Ernest De Bunsen. Messrs Macmillan and Co. are preparing for publication: —Spiritual Philosophy, founded on the Teaching of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, by Joseph lienly Green; edited, with a Biographical Introduction, by John Simon—History of England for Boys, by the Rev. Charles Kingsley—Lessons in Elementary Physiology, by T. IL Huxley—Elementary Lessons in Political Economy, by Henry Fawcett—A His tory of the Mathematical Theory of Probability, from Pas cal to Laplace, by I. Todhunter—Leonore, and other Poems by Georgians Lady Chatterton—Ballads of Brittany, by t om Taylor—The Poetical Works of Jelin Clare, the Northamptonshire Peasant, including _many Pieces hitherto - Unpublished, with Memoir and Autobiography—The Song Book, Words and Tunes, from the best Poets and Musicians, selccied and arranged by John Hullah—A. Book of Golden Deeds, by the author of The Heir of Redclyffe—The Church of the First Days, by C, J. Vaughan, D.D.—The Gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven : a Series of Lectures on the Gospel accerding to St. Luke, by the Rev. F. D. Maurice—The Progress of Doctrine in the New Testament, by the Rev. T. D. Ber nard-1 he Church of England and Common Sense ; or, a Working Faith for Thoughtful Men, by Harry Jones-- Brief Notes on the Greek of the New Testament, for Eng lish Readers, by the Rev, Francis Trench. Messrs Chapman and Hall are devoting their energies in a large measure to the production of novels : The Brookes of Bridlemere, by Whyte Melville—Which is tha Winner ? by Chas. Clarke —Quite Alone, by Geo. Augustus Sala— and Lindisfarne Chase, by T. A. Trollope, are among their announcements. In the more solid departments of literature they are preparing A Life of Carl Maria Von Weber, by Herr Von Weber—The Life and Times of - Voltaire, by F. Espinasse—History of the Cultivation of Tobacco and Cot ton, by Col, Robert L. De Coin—The Chasseur d'Afrique, and other Tales, by H. M. Walmaley—The Muscles and their Story, by J. W. F. Blundell, U.D.—and Through. Macedonia to the Albenian Lakes, by Mary Adelaide Walker. From Messrs. Sampson, Low, and Co.'s press, we shall have: Pictures of English Life, after original studies by B. Barnes and E. M. Whimperis, engraved by J. D. Cooper, with descriptive poetry by F. G.Watts—A. history of Lace, from the Earliest Period, by Mrs F. Palliser—The Great Schools of England, by HeWard Siauntcu, Esq.—Bees and Beehives, by the Times Beemaster—" Normandy : its Gothic Architecture and History; as illustratd by Twenty• five Photographs from Buildings in Rouen, Caen, Mantes, Bayern, and Falelse ; a Sketch, by F. G. Stephens—" The White Wife, with other stories, Supernatural and Legen dary," by Cuthbert Bede—The Gipsies of the Danes Dyke. by January Searlc—Brigandage in Italy, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, by a Resident—A History of the Discovery and Exe•loration cf Australia, from the Earli est Period to the Present Day, by the Rev. Julian E. Teni son Woods—and Canada West in 1861: a Handbook for S3ttlers, by H. T. N. Chesshyre. Messrs Smith, Elder, and Co, produce : Tho Lake Country, by E. Lynn Linton, with one hundred illustra tions on wood—The Cornb;ll Gallery, containing one hundred engravings from drawings on wood (from designs for the illustration cf the Cornhill Alagazine)—The Life and Letters of the late Rev. Fred. W. Robertson—Grimm's Life of Michael Angelo, translated by F. E. Bennett— Letters on England, by Louis Blanc—Celebrities of London and Paris, being a third series of Reminiscences and Anec dotes of the Court, the Camp, and the Clubs, by Captain Gronow—Our Tropical Possessions in Malayan India, by John Cameron, Esq.—The Law of Life, shown in a Philo sophical, Religious, and Social Study of the Lora's Prayer, translated from the French of M. D'Espinassous, by Harriet E, Wilkinson—The Englishwoman in India—On Capital Punishment, based on Professor Mittermaier's Die Todes trafe, edited by John Macrae Moir. The new novels of this firm will include :—Darkest before Dawn, by the author of The Cruellest Wrong of All—Grayscourt, edited by Lady Chatterton—Once and Again, by the author of Who Breaks —Pays—By the Sea, by Ihe author of Heater liirtae Belial—Noel ; or, It Was to Be, by Robert Baker—Three Phases of Love—Dunmara, by Rath Murray--and The Heiress of Blackburn Foet. Messrs. Routledge and Co. have in the press :—Home Thoughts and Home Scenes : Original Poems, by Jean Inglelow, Mrs, Tom Taylor, Miss Humphreys, the lion. Mrs. Norton, Dora Greenvill, Amelia B. Edwards, and tho author of John Halifax, with 35 elaborate pictures drawn by A. B. Houghton, and engraved by the Brothers Da'ziel (uniform with Birket Foster's English Landscapes)— What Men have said about Women, selected from the Poets by Henry Southgate, with illustrations by Watson—Golden Light, being Scripture Histories from the Old and New Testament, for the Young—with 80 pictures engraved by the Brothers Dalziel—A new edition of Lane's Arabian Nights, with many hundred illustrations by William Har vey, in 3 vols. A new volume of Poems, by Eliza Cook-- Every Boy's Annual for 1865, with numerous illustrations —and a volume of Fairy Stories, by George Cruikshank. Messrs. Bell and Daldy announce--The Gnostics and their Remains, Ancient and Med'xval, by C. W. King— The Customs and Traditions of Palestine, by E. Pierotr a volume of Poems, by Samuel Ferguson, Esq.—a series of Fac-similes from the Original Studies by Raffaelle and Michael Angelo, now in the University Galleries at Ox ford, etched by Joseph Fisher—and a volume on the Book of Common Prayer, by the Rev. M. F. Sadler, entitled, Church Doctrine, Bible Truth. Messrs Deighton, Bell, and Co. have nearly ready for publication a translation of the Gorgias of Plato, with an Introductory Essay containing a Summary of the Argumeee, by E. M. Cope—an edition of Lucretius, Notes, Critical and Explanatory, and an English Version, by H. A. J. Munro—a prose translation of the Plays of .Eschylus, by F. A. Paley—an edition of Kent's Commentary on Inter national Law, with Notes of Cases brought down to the Present Time, edited by Dr Abdy—An Essay en the Authenticity of the Book of Daniel, by J. M. Fuller. From Mr Hardwicke we shall have :—The Astronomical Observer : a Handbook to the Observatory and the Common Telescope, by W. A. Darby—Synopsis Filicum : a Synopsis of all known Ferns, including Schizoaccm Oemendacroe, Maerattiactaa and Ophrogloesex, by Sir W. J. Hooker—a complete work On British and Foreign Ferns, by J. Smith, late of Kew Gardens—the third volume of Sowerby's Botany, edited by Mr Syme and Mrs Lankester —an Illus trated Catalogue of the Fossil Sponges, by 3. S. Mackie— the completion of Prof. Buckman's work on Science end Practice in Farm Cultivation—The Plagues of Domestic Animals, by Prof. Gamgee—and Rust, Smut, Mildew, and Mould, an Easy Introduction to the Study of Microscopic yeugi, by M. C. Cooke. SHIPPING-THIS DAY, LONDON, Oct. 3.—Wind this day at noon—North- Easterly ; strong breeze and fine weather. FALMOUTH, Oct. 2.—Wind N,E.—Arrived.—Claudine, from Manilla. BRISTOL, Oct. 2.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Minerva, from Havannah. CARDIFF, Oct. 2.—Sailed—Dodo, for Rio Janeiro—John Baley, for New York. OFF FALMOUTH, Oct. 2.—Arrived—Hormingo, from Halifax. PLYMOUTH, Oct. I.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Viniefra , from London for Sydney. (BY MA.CINETIC TELEORAPHO GRAVESEND, Monday Morning Arrived, Oct. 2—Alabama and Guide, from Dram—Ll Maria, from Brussels. Arrived, Oct, 3—Minerva, from Windau—Bean, from Malmo. DEAL, Monday Morning. assed, Oct. 2—Glocester, front London for Singapore. COPENHAGEN, Sept. 30.—The Berlingske Tideade announces in its official columns that the betrothal of the Princess ll:.gmar and the Grand Ni c holas took place the day before yesterday. Their Imperial and Royal llighnesses yesterday received the congratulations of the RGyal Family at the Palace of Bernstoiff: Oar corresponde nt at Athens, says the Presse, informs us that the articie of the Constitution rela tive to the nomination of members of the Cabinet has been modified. Far the future the King may choose as Ministers persons who do not belong to the Assembly. THE MUIIDER ON CHADWELL-lIEATII.--Frauels \Vain, who stands charged by the Coroner's ingultiition with the murder of Amelia Blunt, was re-examined b:..fore the Ilford magistrates, and fully committed for trial.