The Sun. — London, England, 1863-08-04 00:00:00

r rod' eaSO y the t wsel' ed to vitzer- bans, encar- Tote', Mrs• lanort 1 Mr. it seat leratul tg the ted 3 laid I.o‘ rV on y 01 , expo' Pala to re. Li, and s core 9 piC t Mr. tat 3t 3. iD. the e with 'rince Prince ie ter' Ling'S" r-Gen. ) chief )Id, in several ?rince, by the L RAH of the le fair 11 the know- ug biS des, it great tatore• top at voy to ,ended e, left alifax erday age in ❑ce of on a lipoV 'ales. ce has !ess of h her ion of ier to L n eSS'6 over - aot to is left rty of I Chief ;aven - w days Nor• ;nsing kshire. of the n Ire- mteso Rich - s rod' 3 id once 3TraCe ly seat luring count I' ONE Y MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. In some quarters the inquiries for money have slightly fallen off, but the general demand is still moderately active, and the quotations are well maintained. About £BO,OOO in gold was taken into the Bank yesterday. During the last few days there has bean very little activity in the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets. The operations in tea have been in some measure suspended until the public sales, which commence to-day. Sugar and coffee have generally remained at about previous rates, while rice has been neglected, and quotations tend downwards. In saltpetre the dealings have been of quite a retail character, and tallow has, been lower owing to a pressure of speculative sales. . _ A new undertaking—the Neustadt Charcoal Iron Works Comp an y—i s n ow before the public, with a capital of £230,000, in shares of £2O each, The object is to purchase and work certain iron works at Neustadt, on the Hanover and Bremen Railway. The deposit of iron ore is said to be of exceeding good quality, and to produce first-class plates, steel, &c. The estate covers about fifty acres of freehold and one hundred and thirty acres of copy hold land. It is fitted up with all the necessary ap pendages for manufacturing iron ore into the several descriptions of plates, &c., and can be pur chased at about one-half the original cost. Two English mining engineers have visited the district and report very favourably of the property and the prospeetive benefits that may be expected from prac tical and judicious management. The half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of the Imperial Bank took place to-day—Mr. A. Lusk in the chair. The report stated that the gross profits realised during the past six months amounted to £10,056, and that, after deducting the necessary current expenses, rebate of interest upon bills not yet due, preliminary expenses, &c., a net profit of £4,012 was left. This sum was equal to a divi dend of 5 per cent. per annum upon the capital of the company, but the directors believed that the permanent interests of the bank would be best pro moted by postponing any division of the profits, and therefore recommended that the amount in question be carried forward to credit of new profit and loss account. The chairman moved the adop tion of the reports, and pointed out from the opera tions of the bank that the business was of a pro gressive and increasing character. Two O'CLOCK. - - --- At Paris, this day, according to Mr. Reuter's telegram, the Three per Cent. Rentes were 67f. 10c. Rather flat. Notwithstanding that an apparent dullness has been exhibited this morning in the Market for the English Funds, prices 'have been well sup ported, owing to improved prices received from Paris. Consols are now 921 8 for money, and 93 for the September account. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 924 93 ; Exchequer Bills, 2s. prem.; the 5 per Cent. India Loan is quoted 1084. 4 ; and the Debentures are 1001. There have been very few changes in the Foreign Market, but the tendency of values is still in an adverse direction. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 67 1; do. Consolides, 474 8 ; Mexican, 351 36 ; Greek, 314 a ; do. Coupons, 141 154 ; Spanish Pas sive, 314 4 ; do. Certificates, 11 128 ; Portuguese, 474 48 ; Italian 704 4 ; and the Confederate Loan, 23 to 21 die. . Business in the Railway Share Market continued inactive, and a further decline has taken place in prices. Caledonian, Great Western, Lancashire and Yorkshire, North Western, Midland, and North Eastern (Berwick) have each receded about 55,, and Great Eastern 10s.; while London and Brighton have improved 15s. In the Foreign and Colonial undertakings there has been little change of importance. Dutch Rhenish realise 17 : 1-1, Great Western of Canada 11, East India 108±, and Great India Peninsula 1081 t. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares generally are a shade flatter —London and Westminster being dealt in at 774, London and Brazilian at 43, Union of Australia at §2. General Credit and Finance shares realise 21 S , International Financial 81 1, and Crystal Palace Stock 401. BRITISH FUNDS —ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 2371 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9 21 New 3 pe r C ent. Annuities New 21 per Cent. Annuities Annuities, 30 yrs, expire Bth Jan., 1880 — Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885. Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908. India Stock ............... _ . Ditto 5 pei Cent................. ... 1081 1 1 Ditto Enfaced P aper, 4 per Cent.. Ditto 5 per C en t Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct., 1863 Ditto ditto April, 1864 Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 1001 Bank Stock for Account •••• Consols for Account, Aug, 6 A India St oc k for Account, 5 per Cent 92/ Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 21 & 1 per Cent 2 p m Ditto £5OO 2 pm Ditto Small 2 pm FOREIGN FUNDS —ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian 5 per Cent Ditto, 1839 and 1859 .... Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent — Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) Chilian 6 per Cent. — Ditto 3 per Cent. — Egyptian 7 per Cent — Ditto, Second Issue Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons — Ditto Account 3ll 2 Ditto Coupons — Ditto Account Italian 5 per Cent.(Maremmana Railway) Mexican 3 per Cent PDitto Account 351 eruvian 41 per Cent. .......... • . . • Ditto 41 per Cent., 1862 — Ditto Account.. . Ditto Account Ditto 3 per Cent., 1866, '7, '9, '6O, 62.. 47/ 8 Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St. ....... Ditto 5 per Cent. 1862921 Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Account ......... Ditto New Deferred Ditto Account Ditto Passive Ditto Account 3ll 1 Spanish Cert. of C oup not funded Ditto Account l2 Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 Ditto Account.. 921 2 Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 Ditto Account Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 Ditto Account Venezuela 3 per Cent. Ditto Account Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 Ditto Account 56 Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2 1 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil Ita Ditto 4 per Cent Certificates Dittol l 6 per Celli., 1861, Ex. 25 francs — Ac count .............. C° D us i ° tt l o g * A A l: cou n_ t eY . . n ............ L. __......,„,............ - dverpool Cotton Market—This Da: (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) Quiet, I port, 4,024 dull, balesno chang e . Sales about 4,000 bales. I, vp7cBtuuLDOTH—EBOYS HALL.— deplorably Me A . IE D R i R C Y ke B ne Y : by HALL deplorably corroborated as he has of Dotheboys Hall, criminal courts, so shook public e n by the reports of the boarding-schools, and gave such an impetus in private up of proprietary schools in all provinciri l et t us to the setting Athenceum, in reviewing Mr. John s , Tio ""le, says the Holiday Rambles," that the dealers in brnoaer Walks and and learning are far from being 8° Pr°aPert lodging, old. The good are suffering for the bad, Mr- Joh a n as of us glimpses of a Merryboys Hall. It lies i n ais gives black cherries. Study there may be relieved by th an e d de °l lights and sports of fruit-gathering , bi rd - nesting, in sect: catching, and shell, moss, and fern collecting; and th e master is no stern pedagogue, but a jolly old boy, f ond of boating, shooting, fishing, dredging, and practical j o k es and ridiculous mishaps; for is he not here delineated in the illustrations of his book in various picturesque attitudes,— Prawni n at Clovelly, waiting for sunshine on Loch Lossit, puzzling the midges of Loch Bally Grant, and, on his very title-page, sprawling in a trench full of snow, having dropped his hat and spectacles, and fallen into the trench in Ilia over-eagerness to reach a shot snow -bunting ? BRITISH MINES. 2 uCiaininobrrel Amalgamated anConsol.Goli 27 ...0 2 4 2 d Devon G. Con.. (Tavist, 1 550 57 East Bassett (Illoganl 30 774 80 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd sa. 4d p ar East earadon ..... 2.14, 304 31i East Cam 8rea.....• • • 3 . 4 . 0 8 13 E. WI Hassel (Tavistk., 8.6.6 4 41 GamAStAubyn(Gwen.) :8, 7 10 Great South Tolgus 17s 4 41 G. Wheal Vor (Hele.ton' 40 61 74 Grenville 6.16. t 6 61 Herod's-Foot 8.12 41 43 Hingston Downs 4. 8.0 11 2 Lady Bertha liargaret (tJny Lelant Ith 34 36 Matte Valley. 4 Nlyndv Iron Ore (Lim ; 2i 14 New Setun l9l 100 110 North Downy 2 24 N.Wh'i 13a , seet(111o4an t. 1 724 .(, 34 33 North Wheal Crotty .. 2.4.9 34 44 Par Consols (st. Blazey, 14 4 6 20 Providence (Uny Lelnt.) 10.0.1 10 42 - 'South Caradon(St.Cleer, 14 1415 425 S. Carn Brea (Illogan).. 5.25.61 14 21 —k. Wheal Fran. (Illogan, 18.1 , .9 724 ?4 Stray Park 5 famar Silv.& Lead Min 44 fin Croit y 214 221 221 West Basset (Illogan) l4 11 12 W C: radon (Liskeard; 5 22 24 West Seton Wheal Basset (Illogan) 54 624 674 Wheal Buller (Hedrutli) 5 45 50 Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) 2.0.6 WhealLud ott Wheal MaryAnni s lden ) 8 11 13 Wheal Seton 584 215 225 wheal Treiawney (Lis ) 7 15 17 Wheal Union 3.17 34 4 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Eastern, E. C. 6 per cent. pref., 132 Great Western, 4 per cent. irred 914 South Eastern (Reading Anne., £1.0.6), 24 West Midland gua. bit per cent, 1863, 56 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. London, Chatham, &c., Metrop. Ext., B, 6 per cent., Ditto, 6 per cent., C,' 87 LINES LEASED Al` FIXED RENTALS. Nottingham and Grantham R. & C.. 97} FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Dutch Rhenish, 17* t Paris and Orleans, 40 Turin and Savona, 21 FOREIGN MINES. Yudanamutana of S. Austr9.lla (Rm.), 3i JOIN T-STOCK BANKS. Agra and United Service (lira.), 112 Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool (11. m.), 341 Australasia, 74 Imperial Ottoman, 171 1 London and Brazilian 43 London and County, 471 London Joint Stock, 344 London and Westminster, 771 National Provincial of England, Ditto, new, 26 Union of Australia, 62 Union of London, 34 MISCELLANEOUS. Crystal Palace, 401 Egyptian Comm. rcial and Trading, lim., 3 E glish and Australian Copper, Gen. Cri dit and I , inance of London, lim., 21 International Financial Society, 11m., Si 1 Joint stock Discount, 6 London Financial Association, lim., lid 1 Madras Irrigation and Canal, 31. National Discount Company, lim., 9/1 A curious incident is mentioned by the Austrian journals. The Vienna Gazette had announced in large print that it was authorized to declare that up to time the French Ambassador had not communicated to the Aus trian Minister the draft of the identical note intended for the Russian Cabinet. The Press of Vienna, the following day, declared that it gave a categorical contradiction to that statement. There exists, it says, at Vienna, in the hands of Count de Rechberg, not only the French project but the Austrian and English one. The Vienna Gazette did not renew its affirmation. EXTRAORDINARY WAGER.—An Austrian cavalry officer, whose name is not given in the papers, has laid an extraordinary bet with two of his comrades. In the course of September he engages t o ride to Paris, starting from Presburg, and p er f orm the entire di s tance of 1,000 miles making about 50 miles a day ; he is to tend, feed, and groom his nag 1c 1418 elf. Free to choose his route, he will be ac companied by hi s opponents, who are a l so a t lib er t y to go by none or rail as they like. Stakes, 5,000 to 10.— Fenno Lear. SHARE MARKETS—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOJ&S. Share i Railways. p aid. l Closing Busin ess I Price. I done. Vol., and Str. Val. Blythe and Tyne. Bost.,Sleat t andMid.Co Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall Do A A gets no div Do. B till6pe.pan.bas been paid to B. Dublin & Belfast June. Dun., Perth, &A b. June.; Edinburgh & Glasgow.; Glasg. and S. Western.; Great Eastern, -Ord. stk all all all 100 100 8 8i 81 82 85 87 1201 1211 M Ditto~A stook Ditto East Anglian et GreatNorthot Scotland Great Northern.. . • Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. an , i W. of Ireland Great Western ...... Do Str Val g - ua. stock Lancashire & Yorkshire London and Blaokwall Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., aad Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & Str.th Western Man., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do # 5hare5........ , Metropolitan Midland Do New Do Birming. & Derby Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. 4 shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds Do York Do Carlisle.. • • North London Do New North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction i Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock Do Scot. Mid. stook Shrews, and Welohpooi Shropshire Union South Deyon South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines, Wok. ,and Wok Stockton & Darlington Do Do New, 1866 Taff Vale. Do B Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.&R West Midland •Oxford Do Newport Do Hereford 64 7 40 41 35 10 95 96 111 113 53 64 50 52 25 26 126 V 7 125 127 135 140 100 IG2 66 66i 1134 114 76i 774 113 115 43 44 1014 102 105) 1054 44 45 111 Ha 128 .281 1 1 IIP 97 99 54} En 26 28 1011 1021 59,E 604 891 90i 118 120 11 11 82 83 111 121 122 124 461 471 1 99 101 60 62 BO 12 92 J2i 70 72 100 102 7f 8 38 39 9 104 74 N 153 156 5} 3 3i p 79 81 156 160 27 29 45i 46i 39 41 104 106 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Closing Shan 100 A.tlantio &St Lawrenut all 62 64 itkJ Bom.,Baroda&.Cent Int ( Gu. 5 per cent. 20 Do. New 20 Do. E. Shares.. ... 75 115 p 205 Buffalo and Lake nitro') alt 54 65 10 Do. Preference .... all 75 85 uflalo,Brant,&Godrici MO B p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 10e 100 Do. do. July 1, 187 100 100 Do. do. Juue 1, 16;9 100 at CleUtta,t S. Eadtn. (1.11 , 100 1065 107 i at Cape Town & Dock Seri) 100 1( 75 1085 stock Eastn. Bengal gu. sp. 100 1085 1095 stock East Indian. gu. sp. c. 100 107 108 108 20 Do. do. U Ext..... 10 15 15p 20 Do. do. H do. .. 10 15 15p stock Grand Trunk of Cana& tut 195 205 100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds.. all 70 72 100 Do. co. deferred...... all 52 55 100 Do. 2d Pref. Bonds., all 64 66 100 Do. do deferred....., all 50 62 100 Do. 3d P ef. stock ... all 43 46 100 Do. do. deferred...... all 34 37 100 Do. 4th Pref. stock... all 23 26 100 Do. do. deferred...... all 21 23 stook Gt.lndiaPenin.gua.sp.c 100 ICB 109 1085 8 20 Do. New gua. sp. c... 12 1 lip 20 Do. January, 1862.. 8 1 15p stock Gt. South.of India(Lim; guaranteed 5 per cent. too 1064 1074 205 Gt. W. of Canada Sharet, all 10 114 11 205 Do. New . ... . . 18 91 95 100 Do. 6 p.o. '73 with't opt . . all 97 100 100 Do. 54 p. a. do. '77-8.. . all 90 02 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 5 1 p stock Madras guar., 5p.0. .. 100 1065 1075 1065 stock Do. 45 p. a. ExtensioL 100 101 102 1014 2 stock Dc.4a d 0........ 100 t 7 99 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 stock Melb.Corp. 11 p. o. Bidds. 100 50 llelb. & Hobson's Bay. all 54 56 100 Do. 7 p.c. fdortg. Bds. alt 20 Newßrunswick et Cand, Class A and B all 3 5 N.ll.l.C'da6 pc Ist pt bds 100 84 86 stock Soinde 1 (100 107 108 108 74 at Do. Delhi. lOO 1065 107 ( Do. do • • rv2 20 Do. Punjaub c; all ——p et Do. Do. ......... , _. , 100 065 107 1075 4took Do. Indus. St. Flo.) 00i , 1025 1035 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SEC p.c.J a JZ.I 1.11) 1877-S1 Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Am 4 100 106 ,08 Do. ci p. & Sept. 100 106 108 Do. tp. c. Jan.&July. 100 955 964 I Do. 6 Inscribed stock 100 94 96 Cape G. Hope, 6 p c,187 100 108 110 Do.Ap &Oct. 1880 100 112 114 Do. 1891 100 113 115 Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 111 113 ,Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p t 100 113 115 ,Mauritius 6 per cent .. 100 106 107 .Natal Guv. 6 per cent.. 100 110 112 -- 1N.13.G0v. p.o.Ja.&July 100 1055 1065 I Do. 6p. o.Ap. & Oct. 100 - N. S. W. G ov. 5 p 18, 100 100 101 Do. sp. c.,18/1 to t 100 101 102 - Do. d0.,1888 & upwds 100 101 102 102 - New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 110 112 Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. sterling, 1875 lOO 1055 1065 Aus G6p.c.1678.& up l OO 110 112 Queensland Gcv. 6p. c lOO 1 . 0 112 Vio.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 107 109 'Do. io 6 0.0. lin..tOot. 100 112 1125 1121 4 1 13.14, 3.4.0 (9.10.4 12.10 52} I 254 i 1231 3 121 2} 66 5I 113} 1131 141 NI i i 111 128 541 1011 / 79i 80 THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 4, 1863. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. Enlargement of the Sailors' Home. (THIS DAY.) The ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the build ing for the enlargement of the Sailors' Home, situate in Dock-street, was performed by Viscount Palmerston, K,G. this day. His lordship was received at the entrance of the court yard next to Seaman's Church by Admiral Sir W. Bowles, the President, Vice-Presidents, and a great number of the supporters of the institution, and conducted to the ground. The proceedings took place under a very elegant marquee gaily decorated with the flags of all nations, 60 feet in height and 40 feet in length, under which sat a brilliant assemblage of ladies. The entrance of the tent was taste fully decorated with a profusion of beautiful flowering plants. An address was then presented by Sir J. BOWLES, which set out at length the advantages offered by the Sailors Home, and also the great benefits that had occurred through their establishment to the mercantile marine. The present "Home" owed its origin to three naval officers, and was establish , d in 1835, and since that time no less than £1,110,980 had been received from seamen, and directed into legitimate channels. The arrangement of the pi esent building having been determined on, the plans of Mr. Bracebridge had been adopted, the cost of which will amount to £10,626, of which sum £B,OOO had been obtained, leaving £2,000 to be met by further subscriptions. Since the opening of the Home, the address stated that no less than 139,180 had been inmates. Lord PALMERSTON replied as follows :—Sir William Bowles, ladies and gentlemen, I can assure you that I feel great pleasure, and I may say pride, in having been per mitted to take a part in this most interesting ceremony. We are by our insular position necessarily a seafaring nation. I may say our national independence is connected with the skill, the enterprise, and daring courage of our seamen. (Loud cheers.) It is needless to point out that by the great ex'ension which the principles of free trade have received of late years, our commercial intercourse with other nations, carried on on everyoeean, have incredibly increased , and that we are now dependent upon our commerce for the maintenance of our national industry, for the subsistence of a great part of our population, and for the markets to which the produce of our manufactures are destined to go. If then nothing but commercial interests we re concerned it would be needless to point out how greatly the strength and prosperity of the country depend upon our seafaring population. But there are still higher considerations than those to point out their value, and how much they deserve encouragement from their fellow-countrymen. It is true that something near 30,000,000 of men could not be conquered by any invasion that might reach these shores, but short of that we might, if we lost the command of the seas—we might be blockaded by the cutting off of our foreign supplies, and by the pre vention of our export trade be reduced to very distressing extremities, and, therefore, in that point of veiw we ought fully and highly to appreciate the value of our sailor fellow men. (Loud cheers.) Well, it is the result of their life to be separated in a great measure from intercourse with their fellow-men on land that they are peculiarly a simple minded and guileless set of men; but simple-minded and guileless men are too often, when they come in contact with them, the victims of men of different character. A sailor, when he comes to port, cannot go probably to the seat of his family ; he cannot go to his friends and relations. He must remain in the port where he has landed, and in that port he is exposed to every temptation, and to the loss both of his money and his health, Well, these institutions tend to provide him with a home. It is said, indeed, that " his home is on the deep , " but we provide him with a home on terra firma, and it is needless to point out how much his physical and moral interests are promoted by a reception such as he meets with in these institutions. (Loud cheers.) They are indeed a part of those great social improvements which have been made in recent times, and I may say that among them, few are more de serving of public encouragement, and few are more con ducive to the real interests of the country. (Cheers.) 1 therefore am glad, and I return thanks to those who have given me the invitation I am glad to be present and contribute to the foundation of an institution which will be attended with such national advantage. His lordship then, with the usual honours, laid. the foun dation stone, which bore the following inscription : " This chief stone of the new building in extension of the Sailor's Home was laid on the fourth day of August, in the year of Our Lord, 1863, and in the twenty-eighth year of the reign of her most gracious Majesty Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, by the Right Hon. Lord Vis count Palmerston, The singing of the National Anthem concluded the pro ceedings, SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S—YESTER DAY. BRIGHTON STAKES• • sto 2 agst Blackdown (taken) ST. LEGER. 4to 1 agst The Ranger (offered) 6to 1 agat Queen Bertha (taken) Bto 1 agst Lord Clifden (take 9to 100 to 12 agst Avenger (taken) THE DERBY, 1864. 100 to 6 agst Paris (taken) 25 to 1 agst Hollyfox (taken and offered) 33 to 1 agst Idler (taken) 50 to 1 agst Harkforward (taken) Very little betting—time occupied with settling. YORK AUGUST MEETING. Weights for the Great Ebor Handicap of 100 sous, added to a Sweepstakes of 25 soya each; 10 ft, and only 5 if de clared. Two miles. 73 subs. Yrs st lb Yrs st lb Asteroid 5 , 9 8 Scamander ......3 6 3 0 Carbineer Caller Ou Fairwater 5 9 0 Barchettina ...... 3 6 0 Millionaire Zetland Joey Jones • a 1...... 3 6 0 Carisbrook 4 8 0 Clarior .......... 3 6 0 *Buckenham Investment Bellman 3 5 12 5 7 10 *Marmion Cowley Costa Oldminster 5 7 9 Double ........ .. 3 5 10 Turn-of-Luck Bedouin.. 4 „ 7 8 Trust .......... 3 5 10 Canary Myrtle Brighton Welcome Captain Crow Lacydes 4 7 0 Brian Boru ...... 3 5 7 Makeshift ... Watchman Earl of Surrey Citadel Monk 6 6 13 Cape Flyaway .. 6 paid Magnum Bonum 4 613 RiAcatcher Anfield My Mary Evenband 5 6 10 Pilot 4 paid Piccador *Catch'em Alive Revolt ... ....... 4 6 7 Gardener . 5 paid 1 Bonny Breast Knot 4 6 5 Doefoot Lord Strathmore and Mr. Hawksley are subscribers, but did not name. • These horses having been entered without the know ledge of their owners will be struck out at the time pre scribed, unless specially ordered to remain in. Weights published, August 1, at noon; forfeits to be de clared August 8, at 6 p.m. RACING FIXTURES FOR 1863. AUGUST, Brighten Plymouth 25 20 Lewes Wolverhampton 13 Reading Oxford Wenlock SEPTEMBER. Devon and Exeter Derby Summer Weymouth Kings Lynn 3 Warwick .. S Leicester lO Doncaster l5 Wordaley gl Brecon ... . 21 Richmond 22 Monmouth ..24 Manchester Autumn ....'25 Newmarket Ist Oct. ....29 Edinburgh, &e. C1ub....30 0 CT, Coventry Bedford Caledonian Hunt Newmarket S. . 12 Novi Worcester.. Lincoln Autumn 20 Kelso 21 Gloucester 22 Newmarket, Houghton 26 (BEE. Shrewsbury Autumn.... 16 IRISH. AUGUST. Ileath,... 6 Londonderry ~. 14 Wicklow .. 11 THE BOMBAY MAIL. By the arrival of the Overland Mail we have received our journals and correspondence from Bombay to July 9, and Calcutta to June 27. The report of the arrest of Nana Sahib is con firmed. The limes of India gives the following details of the arrest : " The news of the capture of the Nana at Aj mere, near the military cantonment of Nusseerabad, is well founded. It appears he has been skulking in the Raj pootana States during the last four months, while we have been supposing him to be hidden in the wilds of Ncpaul. We believe the first intima tion of his presence in this part of India arose from some information supplied to Capt. Nuttall, at Sholrpoor, when it seems the Bombay police were put on the track. However this may be, one of these police was present at the capture. There can be little doubt that the man was very recently in the neighbourhood of Poona and Sholapoor, and, as far as our information extends, no doubt exists as to his being the real Nana of Bithoor. We are not so certain of the rumour that Tantia Topee has been captured with him. Such, however, is reported to be the case ; the man who formerly suffered death as Tantia Topee not being, it is alleged, that leader at all, It is certain that a considerable gang have been cap tured at Ajmere. The Nana, we are told, will he sent to Bombay under a strong guard of Europeanst and conveyed from this city for trial to Calcutta or Cawnpore, The detachment will be under the command of an officer of rank, and be composed of picked officers and men. " Since writing the above, we have heard that a jemadar of the Bth Regiment of Native Infantry, in company with two Bombay policemen, traced a companion of the Nana from the Deccan to Bika neer; that the Nana was there found residing as a guest of the Bikaneer Rajah; that he was allowed to depart thence to Ajmere and there denounced, his trackers having joined him on the road, and introduced themselves as agents from one of the ❑eighbouring durbars. It is said the prisoner has no want of funds, havirg several lacs of rupees at his command, an incidental corroboration of his identity." _ . The following is the official report of the capture : From Major A. G. Davidson, Deputy Commissioner of Ajmere, to the Chief Secretary to Government, Bombay, dated Aj mere, June, 1863. " Sir,—l have the honour to inform you that, on the 22d instant, a native officer of the Bth Bombay N. 1., by name Dwarka Tewarie, brought me your letter, No. 113, of 27th April, 1863, to the address of tne Political Agent, Jyepoor, and gave me such information regarding the object with which it had been written, that I thought myself justified in opening it, and having satisfied myself that he was acting under Mr. Forjett's orders and with your sanction, I rendered all the assistance in rep power, and had the satisfaction of capturing the persons indicated by the informers, Dwarka Tewarie and Gyapershud ; and from their statements, which have been confirmed by Mr. For jett's detectives, who accompanied them, as also from com parison with the descriptive roll furnished by Government, and a statement made by a sergeant-major of the Royal Artillery, stationed at Nusseerabbad, who was formerly in the 14th Dragoons, and constantly saw the Nana at Meerut, I have not the slightest doubt whatever that the prisoner now in the Ajmere magazine, under an European guard of her Majesty's 28th Regiment, is the Nana Dhoondoo Punt, One of his companions is stated by the informers to be Naroo Punt Bhalla Bhut, also entered in the descriptive roll. The third person is a blind Brahmin, made use of by the Nana to conceal his real, and to confirm him in his as sumed, character. " There are two striking marks on the person of the prisoner supposed to be the Nana, one of which is not en tered in his descriptive roll; this is a grooved scar under the hole pierced in his right ear, and the other is a scar of (as the civil surgeon certifies) either a lancet cut or a cut of a very fine sharp-pointed bistoury, about an inch and a half in length, and slightly oblique : and, indeed, the prisoner corresponds in nearly every particular with the description given in the roll, except that his hair is white, he has lost two front teeth, and his cheeks are not so full as they were six years ago.—l have, &c., "A. G, DAVIDSON, Commissioner." The intelligence of the fall of Herat had been received in Bombay by a telegram from Lahore. The Government at Lahore was informed that Post Mahommed had taken the city by storm, "assisted by treachery within, and stratagem without." A correspondent of the limes of India says:— " Previous to the attack on the 26th of May it had been given out that Dost Mahommed was at the point of death. He had assembled his sons, nominated his successor, and given his parting advice to all, which demonstration appears to have thrown the Heratees off their guard, and enabled him to surprise and capture the citadel by a sudden assault aided no doubt by treachery within the wills. This event ought to facilitate the solution by treaty of all remaining diffipulties. But the course which Persia may pursue is, perhaps, uncertain, and much may depend on that." TERRIBLE RAILWAY ACCIDENT. LYNN, Monday Night. To-night, at a quarter to nine o'clock, an accident of a frightful character occurred to an excursion train from Hunstanton to Lynn. A bullock having strayed on the line, the engine of the train dashed against the animal, the sudden shock throwing six of the carriages off the metals. Two or three of the carriages were completely smashed, and the occupants buried in the debris. Assistance was promptly procured, when it was found that five of the passengers were killed, their bodies being dreadfully mutilated, and about twelve others much injured. Up to twelve o'clock to night only two of the bodies had been identified. The accident occurred at Gaywood, about three miles from Lynn. THE "FEMALE BLONDIN" DISASTER. The following correspondence is published in the Birmingham Daily Post : Whitehall, July 29, 1863. Gentlemen,—l am directed by Secretary Sir Geo. Grey to inform you that a memorial, very numerously signed, has been addressed to him on the subject of the death of the unfortunate woman, who was killed in consequence of the breaking of the rope on which she was performing at a fete recently given in Aston Park. And I am to express Siz Sir George Grey's hope that after this melancholy occur rence you will not allow a repetition of such dangerous per formance in the Park.—l am, gentlemen, your obedient servant, IL WADDINGTON. The Directors of Aston Park, Birmingham. Birmingham, August 1, 1863. Sir,—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt 6f your letter of the 29th ultimo, informing the directors of the Aston Hall and Park Company that Sir George Grey has received a memorial very numerously signed, addressed to him, on the subject of the death of the unfortunate woman who was killed in consequence of the breaking of the rope on which she was performing at a fete recently given in Aston Park, and you express Sir George Grey's hope that, after this melancholy occurrence, the managers will not allow a repetition of such dangerous performances in the park. I am requested by the managers to say that they concur in the sentiments contained in the memorial referred to. The managers have endeavoured, as far as possible, to provide healthful recreation and instruction for the people. On the melancholy occasion referred to the managers had let the park for a charitable purpose, and omitted to reserve to themselves any right to control the performance. (Signed) WILLIAM LUCY, Chairman t 3 the Company. IL Waddington, Esq., Whitehall, London. AMUSING ENCOUNTER WITH A Fox.—A young girl, about fifteen years of age, named Janet Cruik shank, at present herd to Mr. Gibb, farmer, Aitnock, Edin killie, was out one day last week in the hill , looking after some sheep, and followed by a little black dog. It a ppears the ground was infested with foxes, and the dog having raised one of the number, gave chase, and got between rey nerd and his den. The latter finding himself thus refused admittance to his own house, sought shelter behind a large stone and based the dog by constantly running He appeared, however, not to be much alarmed, although round it. so hotly pursued, and Janet fearing lest this enemy to her flock might escape, contrived to get to a small height whence she threw a stone s o well directed and with such force that the fox was knock ed down. Reynard, h owever, was not l on g in getting up again, b u t by this t ime he was made aware that be had met with foemen worthy of his steel, and advancing from behind his covert showed Janet a ease of teeth anything but inviting , upon seeing w o h afd ic s h etlo,ne s n h es el dy claimed in her own broad Scotch, " Faigs, my lad, ye need • -ich at me ; I'll gie ye lanchan, may be." She fulfilled o.pen i n!t a ha t t re t m he en w d i o ly us o b ld at i t o e x ry h , whneaitrAh;sounlehisdecualidly ate... • - , nced, crook in to succumb. Janet now aci.- hand, and, w ith a blow or two laid reynard prostral:'• Exulting at her vie. tory, Janet proudly threw the fox over her shoulder and commenced her march home, but finding her burden too heavy, she was reluctantly obliged to leave the carcase in the hill, but carri ed the brush in trium p h to het delighted master, who rewarded the intrepid girl foe having (I's I .—ltiVertleBB 0014;10‘Prealr“ l BO 111!) genu ine Highland pludt Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. The Duke of Somerset, as First Lord, Vice-Ai miral the Hon. Sir Frederick Grey, K.C.8., Rear- Admiral C. Eden, C. 8., Capt. the Hon. J. R. Drum mond, C. 8., Mr. Stansfeld, M.P., Junior Lords, and Rear-Admiral Lord Clarence Paget, C. 8., Secre tary, accompanied by Rear-Admiral Robinson (Controller of the Navy), and other officials connected with the Admiralty, leave town to-day on their annual tour of inspection. The Lords Commissioners go to Portsmouth to-day, and next week go to the Channel Islands, before paying the customary annual visit to Devonport. Preparations have been making for some time for their reception, and everything that is likely to meet the official eye has undergone a thorough cleansing. It is many years since Portsmouth dockyard presented so smart and clean an aspect for the inspection of their lord ships. The Racoon, 22-gun screw corvette, Capt. Count Gleichen, arrived at Spithead on Sunday afternoon from the coast of Scotland, last from Port Douglas. Soon after arrival his Royal Highness Prince Alfred disembarked from the corvette, and, accom panied by Capt. his Serene Highness Prince Leinin gen, who had arrived from Osborne, proceeded to join her Majesty and the Royal Family at Osborne. It is understood that his Royal Highness will not rejoin the Racoon until May, 1864, as he will in the first instance accompany her Majesty to the Conti nent, and afterwards proceed to Holyrood Palace to undergo his appointed six months' course of study. The ship yesterday discharged her powder and shell into Ordnance lighters at Spithead, being ordered into Portsmouth harbour to dock and repair damages caused by striking the ground recently when under steam in Loch Ness. Three small ponies brought in the Racoon from Scotland were yesterday transferred by the Pigmy, steam tender, to the Royal stables at Osborne. Captain H. Broadhead, commanding the Steam Reserve at Portsmouth, and Mr. George Murdock, inspector of machinery afloat at the same port, have forwarded to the Admiralty for inspection the models, drawings, and specifications of a breech loading gun and gun-carriage, the joint invention of the two officers, intended to supply the want of a heavy smoothbore gun. The gun is bored through out from muzzLe to breech, the circumference at the latter end being slightly increased. The breech is closed by a screw plug, which closes the breech effectually by a quarter turn after the plug has been slid into its position. The carriage on which the gun is mounted appears, however, to be of the most immediate importance. The difficulty expe rienced in working and training the 95 cwt. 68- pounders on the main decks of our iron ships during a cruise was found to be most serious, and it was acknowledged that some other mode of working and training such guns than by the bungling, slow, handspike method must be adopted to render the ship's maindeck guns efficient. To meet this diffi culty the present carriage has been constructed. Two-cranked shafts are fixed underneath the car riage with the apex in front on a cup-bearing rest ing on the deck, the rear ends of the cranks carry ing metal trucks on wheels. By a side lever and rope-fall the gun and carriage can either be thrown on the cup-bearing and rear trucks, and thus become a pivot broadside gun, or it can become an ordinary , broadside gua, by lifting with the lever the cup bearing and rear trucks. As a pivot broadside gun, two men on each side of a 10-ton gun with a simple rope-fall in their hands can train it with the utmost rapidity and nicety, and without a hand spike baingat all brought into play. The screw steam frigate Aurora, 39, having had her bottom cleaned, and having three additional strakea of copper, was removed yesterday from No. 1 dock at Devonport, and placed in the basin, where she will be fitted for the First Division of the Steam Reserve. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. SUNDAY TRADING . CAUJON TO LICENSED VIC TUALLERS.—Mr. John R. Marshall, of the Greyhound, Brick-street, Piccadilly, attended before Mr. Tyrwhitt to answer the complaint of Inspector Walker, of the C Divi sion, for keeping his house open for the sale of spirits and beer during the prohibited hours on Sundays. William Barker, a police constable of the C Division, proved watching the defendant's house on Sunday morning, and from 11 till 20 minutes past seeing nine persons go in and remain a short time. On going into the house he saw six persons at the bar, and three pints of beer and two of ale drawn and paid for. He had a pint of ale himself, and paid 4d: for it. In answer to a question from the defendant, Barker said he did not observe the defendant there at the time. Butcher, 137 C, proved seeing eight or nine men go into the house, and remain a short time and then leave. He knew the house to be much frequented by skittle sharpers, and persons had complained of them. Mr. Tyrwhitt a: ked whether the defendant had ever been convicted ? Inspector Walker said he had not. Mr. Tyrwhitt fined the defendant 48s. and costs, and said the next time it would be £5, as it was clear that the Sun day trading had been carried on in a wholesale manner. PARISH PROSECUTION OF I NOTORIOUS BROTHEL.. KEEPER.—Thomas Donohue, a middle aged man, was brought before Mr. Tyrwhitt by Sergeant Appleton, 26 C, having been apprehended on a bench warrant for keeping two brothels at 7, Lower James-street, and 14, Golden•. square. Mr. Allen, solicitor, of Carlisle-street, Soho, prosecuted on behalf of the parish authorities of St. James's. The wife of the prisoner was convicted at Clerkenwell Sessions a short time since for a similar offence, the prisoner managing to keep out of the way since March last. Prisoner was committed for trial. WESTMINSTER. VERY DISTRESSING CASE —Martha Finn, a girl four teen years of age, without shoes, stockings, bonnet, or shawl, and apparently with only one short, battered gar ment on her person, was placed at the bar charged with felony. Mary Finn, an aged and respectable looking woman, the prisoner's mother, said that she charged her with robbing her. She gave the prisoner a shilling to bring some coals, and she had never seen her since. Mr. Arnold asked how long that was ago. The mother replied the 19th of last month, since which she had absconded, and she had never seen her again until she met her by chance yesterday. There was also a second charge against her for stealing two shirt studs. She had been helping her (the mother) to wash before she left home, and then took the studs, which were afterwards seen in her possession. Mr. Arnold inquired what tho prosecutrix's circum stances were. She replied that she had been deserted 14 years ago by her husband, and left to support herself and bring up her child, whioh she had done by honest industry as a laun dress. Her daughter of late had stolen other articles, arid then absconded with the shilling spoken of. Her history of how she had passed her time was a very di s t ress i ng one. She had slept for a length of time in the open air, and had now been in the horrible and wretched condition she now presented for some time past, and it would be a mercy to send her to some reformatory. Mr. Arnold said it was doubtless a very distressing case, but he had made up his mind that whenever a young person was sent to a reformatory on the prosecution of parents that they should in every case pay the whole expense of its maintenance. The mother said she should be very glad to do any thing in her power, and entreated the magistrate's permission to put some clothing on her child, Mr. Arnold remanded the prisoner till Thursday for her mother to determine what is to be done with her. THAMES. STABBING.—Richard Burke, a little Irishman, who pre sented himself without either shirt or coat, was brought before Mr. Partridge charged with stabbing Michael Dennaway. _ _ The prisoner keeps a lodging-house in Mill-yard, White chapel, and was intoxicated and in a "fighting humour" last night. The man Dennaway, who was described as a very peaceable man, came home at half-past 11 o'clock, and was immediately challenged by the prisoner. Dennaway said he preferred his bed to a fight, and the prisoner abused Dennaway left the house and was followed by the prisoner, who struck him violently and knocked him against the parlour window of a house. Two panes of glass were broken, The police were called, and the prisoner, in the presence of a con stable, stabbed Dennaway on the forehead with a knife. The poor man fell grievously wounded, and he lost a great quantity of blood. The prisoner was immediately arrested by a police constable, from whom he made his escape. He was pursued and overtaken, He attempted a resistance and was secured. A certificate from Mr. J. G. King, house surgeon of the London Hospital, was put in, stating that the wounded man could not attend, and was in the London Hospital with a punctured forehead. Mr. Partridge remanded the prisoner until Tuesday next. MARKETS—This Day. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD. - Old Meadow hay, £3 lOs to £4 10s; new do., £3 to £4; old clover, £4 lOs to £6 Os; new do £4 Os to £5 Os; and straw, £1 8s to £1 16s per load. Trade slow. CUMBERLAND.•—OId Meadow hay, £3 10s to 108 ; new do., £3 to £4 Os ; old elover ,L 4 108 to £6 Os ; new do.; £4 Os to £5 Os; and straw, £1 8s to £1 16s per load. A good supply. WHITECHAPEL —Old Meadow hay, £3 108 to £4 10s, new do , £3 Os to £4 Os; old clover, £4 lOs to £6 Os; new do , £4 Os to £5 Os; and straw, £1 8s to £1 16s per load. A slow demand. COLONIAL, TEA.—There has been very little animation, the dealers having deferred their operations until the public sales, which commence to-day. SUGAR.—The enquiries have not been very active, good and fine grocery descriptions of both c9lonial and f reign, however, have sustained previous rates. In the refined market there is no material change to report. COFFEE.—The enquiries for both Plantation and Native Ceylon have been to an average extent, and full prices are general for superior qualities. RlCE.—Business has been dull, and prices have, in some instances, slightly given way. SALTPETRE.—There has been a very limited enquiry , and quotations generally have shown a downward ten dency. TALLOW.—Business has been inactive, and a pressure of speculative sales has created a downward movement in prices. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted 435. to 435. 3d., and last three months' delivery 455. 3d. to 455. 6d. per cwt. PONTEFRACT ELECTION. Yesterday at 11 a.m. the nomination took place in front of the Town-hall, when four or five hundred persons were were assembled in expectation of hearing addresses from both the candidates, who for several days had been before the constituency. As the people were gathering together it became rumoured that the Liberal candidate, Sir E. W. Head, had retired, and this statement was soon con firmed by Sir Edmund issuing an address, in which ha said --" It was my firm persuasion in coming among you as a stranger that you were determined to return to Parliament in the place of Mr. Monckton Mills a supporter of the Go vernment which had advised his elevation to the peerage. Such was my conviction, because I believed that the majo rity of the electors wero members of the Liberal party. But for the assiduous and continued efforts of my opponents during a considerable period,and especially since last spring, this party might no doubt have spoken with an undivided alt therefore o p f 0 0 r l poll. et voice and with its full strength. Now, however, after a canvass of four days in the borough, I am convinced that their voice is uncertain and their strength divided. I have found many Liberals who profess that they have engaged a and nd ethaintundivided, to vote for the other party, or that they intend to remain neutral, and I have no wish under such circumstances to ex pose the cause which I advocate to a risk of decisive defeat t hthaSte retireors representation po longrn g . e n a l : a was i o b n e believed ready ev b e u d t t 6t h iot e uma L et Liberals c r a a au l sr s l to am b be firm filr opponentsdom supportenxoyt express s i n my aid sincerest i n oc l fe r s t ef h hrs o ent u nlgg l d or tao b htd e ist cujaudusets contest,iet. : d h takingaienndi ngentlemens 0 doings such c o h f al my course: beg u r s toe com mittees at Pontefract and linottingly, as well as to all those liberal electors of the borough who have offered me their After the usual proclamation, the Mayor (Mr. Roger Hurstjh Waterhouse.a d t akewhni thewhich w acshair, carried W. Foskitt seconded, nomination returned renounce partisans h D ieth av o i u d t L op o p n o g s s i t t a io ff n m . ov T e h d e , and Mr. hip ,a and d studyo f Major t h e capacityM a Major then c h n e briefly should stating, in his official interest of his constituent s with out eco gnition of either Whig, Tory, or Radical. The proceedings closed with three cheers each for the Maj or an d "'the lad s ' ladies,'' after which the assembly dispersed in p er f ect good order. ' POISONED GRAlN.—yesterday an aet passed in the late sesrion was printed to prohibit the sale and use of poisoned grain or seed. For offering or exposing for sale any grain, seed, or meal steeped or dipped in poison, or with which any preparation has been mixed so as to render the same poisonous, and calculated to destroy life, a penalty not exceeding £lO may be levied, and a like penalty for sow. ing, &c., any poisoned grain, seed or meal. Solution and infusion are to be allowed to be used in agriculture. A moiety 'of the fine is to go to the informer (not being a con stable), and the witnesses are to be indemnified for aiding in the commission of the offence. H err i ng 's magnetic b rus h es, &c., of Marie Antoinette's hair, during her imprisonment, became c c o om mp pl l e e t t e e l l y y co re l s o t ur or l e e d ss b . y Such changes of colour m ay now be which Dr. Hassall reports "I regard them as th e most p 9 rfect brushes hitherto made, as respects their me c h an i cal construction and their magnetical action." They a re the remedy, for .grey hair, neuralgia, rheumatism, &c. N.B.— Counterfeits are being made. Offices, 32, Basinghall-street, London. SEPTEMBER. Curragh I Carlow • 9 Jenkinatown Park 23 Lis towel 2l Curragh 20 The course of exchange at New York on London in still in a very fluc`uating state, the latest quotation of the exchange being about 144 per cent., and the premium on gold is about 31i per cent. Soule gold has been received by the last packets. oBER. THE ARMY. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge will inspect the 2d Life Guards this morning at Worm wood Scrubs. The examination of candidates for direct commis sions commenced yesterday, at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, by Major-General F. W. Hamilton, C. 8., Vice-President, Col. Addison, Major-Gen. Sir F. Abbot, and other members of the Council of Mili tary Military Education. There are about 140 can didates on this occasion. The troopship Windsor Castle, Capt. Pryce, from London for Bombay, reached the Scilly Islands, but in consequence of the sickness of two of the crew, put back to Plymouth on Sunday. She will probably leave again to-morrow. Her troops and passengers are in good health. One of the men is suffering from smallpox, the other from erysipelas, both were landed immediately, and are now doing well. The deaths of the following officers have been officially reported at the War-office since the Ist of July :—Generals Sir S. L. Caldwell, G.C.8., Royal Engineers, and Sir T. E. Napier, K. C. 8., Colonel of the 71st Highlanders. Major-General T. Kelly. Colonels E. W. Crofton, C. 8., and M. 0. Nixon, Royal Artillery; and J. K. huncey. Lieutenant- Colonel J. Oschterlory, Royal Engineers. Major W. R. Goute. Captains E. R Blagrove, Royal Engineers; J. F. C. Bole, 38th Regiment ; R. M. Huzen, 60th Rifles; I. E. Furneaux, 103 d Royal Bombay Fusiliers; C. Haseltoot, 3d Buffs ; S. Mor ris, 28th Regiment; and J. Carson, 73d Regiment. Lieutenants C. R. Foulger, Royal Artillery ; S. E. Henning, 9th Regiment ; J. H. Tragett, 57th Regi ment (murdered by the natives at Taranaki, New Zealand) ; J. E. Brymer, 83d Regiment; F. W. Ramsbottom, Rifle Brigade; A. Cumming, 26th Cameronians ; and J. .A. Gillmore, 27th Ennis killens. Ensigns W. S. S. Troup, 92d High landers ; E. T. Rogers, 107th Bengal Infantry ; and T. H. Brien, Gold Coast Artillery. Pay master W. E. Adams, 31st Regiment. Quarter master D. Deacon, 11th Regiment; Deputy Inspectors-General of Hospitals W. Barry, M.D., and T. C. Gaulter, M.D. Surgeon W. G. Sparrow, 60th Rifles ; Assistant-Surgeons R. T. G. Caton, 3d Dragoon Guards, W. A. Hope, M.B. (muderd by the natives at Taranaki, New Zealand); and C. J. Kinahan. Murder of a Traveller in Switzerlan d. July 31. BERNE, A murder took place here weeklasttthe rarities in our which for tunately is to be reckoned amonegu The peaceful Swiss valleys. minds with in ocea,arrence of such an outrage, however, has filled m dignation and horror. river , Hermann Qu e n s ell , A• traveller from Hildesheim, left Zinal, councillor of the tribunal t on the morning of the in the Valley of Annivicart: bY the guide, Baptiste 23d. He was accom pan ied a os d s the Col de Torrent to Petra, and intended tochr passed the Col, about Evolena. After th ey yattention of the traveller to a noon, Petra drew t thrown up in the form of a breast.heap of stones , by the wayside, which had not occupi e d t h at work position a few days before. Some steps furth er on guide la y a powder -horn and some bullets, The expressed I .p ap p r ehension, but the tr ave ll er treated - hi e - fears with de rision. A t this moment a shot was fired from behind the stone-heap. The bullet struck the councillor in the arm and grazed Petre's breast, another bullet immediately after shattering the latter's arm. The traveller ran down the mountain to Evolena as fast as his wound would permit, fol lowed, says the guide, by two or three more shots. One of the robbers then came up to the guide and took from him the traveller's knapsack, behaving, however, with some humanity to himself and doing him no further injury. The body of the unfortunate councillor was found the next morning pierced by three bullets and robbed of all valuables. A general hunt after the robbers took place, re • salting in the capture of four out of the six who, according to the guide, were concerned in the attack. The prisoners are natives of this canton. Five of the robbers belong to the same family, one of them having already served years in a convict chain gang, and subsequently taken to the moun tains as a poacher. Tne arrest of the other two malefactors is expected shortly. CRYSTAL PALACE.—One Shilling Day, Monday, Aug. 3 0 —Admissions on payment, 6,734 ; ditto by s eason tickets, 858 ; total visitors, 7,592, RAILWAY REFRESHMENTS. There are a good many things in England that disgrac, the nation, and make us, or ought to make us, ashamed of ourselves. There is the Haymarket at night, and there are the people who playfully spend their leisure hours in heaving a succession of half bricks at their wives. Bat, in one way, there is nothing so disgraceful to England as the arrange ments at railway stations for what are termed refreshments. The peculiarity of this national blot is that it is very definite, very patent, very annoying, and easily remediable. No human wisdom or efforts have as yet succeeded in cutting to the root of the evil that fills the Haymarket. Acts of Parliament have been passed, and passel in vain, against that cruelty to children which does not awaken the resist ance of parents. Very brutal men, very drunk, with half a brick near them, cannot resist the presence of a mark so convenient, so patient, and often so aggravating, as a wife. But it is absurd to suppose that there is in any deep cause or any profound social disease at the bottom of the contri vances of these wretched places. The English mind, though slow to effect its purposes, could surely, if it tried, get rid of the monstrous mismanagement which presides over all the details of the system. Squabs of pork pie, offered without the slightest reference to the season, old jam three-cornered puffs, fossil sandwitches, sausages concealed in heavy pastry, sugary brittle cakes, and packets of sugar plums, hatchaacinpunpnpkyootopffbl.e Asthe only things th a t i nvent i ve E ng li s h men might coffee ace. t l o ins the aslol tdh, ows oe beverage,wretched shouldti c f h at any e d bo refreshment glad stationto o i h nre rooms ormo fs ttt England aatt we have visited, we have found a curious brown dilution of chicory, or imitation of chicory,sold as coffee, for it is not even good chicory. I t i s a liquid onlyso b l e d o a n t e s o ta f t t i h on e s m a o n s d t bad hotels, and to m a k e and sell it must mournful and degrading of occupations. Perhaps it is too much to think of tea. For even the bett n e o r class of Eng lish hotels a really decent cup of tea is unknown. We are not sure that the people who, keep refreshment rooms know what tea and coffee are. They probably think at their countrymen are born somehow to d r i n k t h e imitation c hicory with which alone they are familiar. N ow , i n a n na tion so rich as England, and where we persuade ourselv es that comfort is so well understood, it is disgraceful that a traveller cannot get anything to eat and drink better than a squab of pork. pie and a cup of imitation chicory. This mis management is disgraceful, because it is mean, and ignorant, and barbarous, and because it wickedly causes much unne cessary discomfort. It is disgraceful, exactly as the old style of Irish cottage was disgraceful. It degrades and annoys everyone that has to do with it, and makes people satisfied to give and satisfied to receive a mere cheat and imposition. Advices just received from Bucharest give a rather alarming account of the internal affairs of the United Principalities. Prince Couza, harassed by the parties which are struggling around him, in clines to nothing less than proclaiming himself Dictator. This state of things is all the more disquieting to the Porte, that it cannot, under present circumstances, hope for any effective inter vention of the Powers at Bucharest. The Powers for the present regard the affairs of the Danubian Principalities as of only secondary importance. The Bavarian Chamber of Deputies, at its last sitting, unanimously adopted, notwithstanding the opposition of the Minister of Finance, a proposition made by MM. de Lerchenfeld and Barth in favour of henceforth voting the budgets for a shorter period than six years, as at present practised. THE CHANNEL FLEET.—The Channel fleet, under the command of Admiral Dacres, which arrived in the Frith of Forth on Wednesday, has attracted immense numbers of visitors from Edinburgh and Leith. In addi tion to employing all the available steamers in the Forth, vessels have been attracted from the Tyne and from the east of Scotland to engage in this profitable traffic. On Friday, the Lord Provost, magistrates, and Council of Edinburgh, and the Provost, magistrates, and C3uncil of Leith, with the Foreign Consuls at the port, visited the flagship Edgar and the iron-clad Black Prince. The Chief Magistrates and Corporations of both towns have invited the Admiral and officers to dinner before they leave, and there is to be a grand ball at Leith on Monday night. An attempt was made by the Free Church Presbytery to get the vessels closed against visitors on Sunday, but it has not been successful. Hundreds of seamen are daily ashore in Edinburgh and Leith, indulging in all sorts of frolics, but keeping admirably within the bounds of good order. One of them climbed to the pinnacle of the Scott Monument, on Friday, on which he stood erect and cheered. His daring and unprecedented feat was witnessed with perfect horror by the people below. THE LIBRARIES OF CONSTANTINOPLE.—It is per- ,aps net generally known tbatthecapital of Turkey possesses a large number of public libraries, a general cata logue of which is now being made. According to an esti mate which is considered reliable, the total number of ma nuscripts thus catalogued will exceed a million. Unfortu nately, however, many of these MSS, have been so damaged by lying in heaps in damp cellars or worm-eaten chests as to be partially, and in some cases entirely, illegible. It is also to be regretted that, until now, none of the treasures of the early period of Byzantine literature, which it was hoped would be brought to light, have been found. It has, on the contrary, been proved that all the worke of those times, which are known to have existed, have been ruthlessly destroyed. The remaining works are consequently chiefly in Arabic, or in other Semitic languages; but they form, on the other hand, the richest collection of oriental literature in existence. Ahmet Vafik Effendi, Subhi Bey, and other Turkish men of letters, have proposed that this inestimable mass of literary treasures be collected in one building, so as to render it accessible to students engaged in historical re searches, and there is every reason to believe that this pro posal will be adopted, notwithstanding the opposition it has hitherto met with. The first step towards the formation of an Imperial library has already been taken by placing 40,000 volumes of good works, in various European lan guages, and which belonged to II Hami Pasha, in the Dar al-Fanoon, the building of the university. Orders have been gives to increase this collection consu considlt era ably so as ch to cre ate a tolerably c om p lete library forto whi the public will be freely admitted. Adding to such a collec tion the MSS. already mentioned, Constantinople would be superior to any capital in a literary point of view, espe cially if by some lucky chance the plays of Menander, or the lost books of Livy, or the remaining tragedies of Xschylus, were suddenly brought to light from amidst the parchments now being so carefully exam mined. A HUGE MACHINE. —A new stea dredger, No. 5, built by Messrs. Wingate a c hine of the ki pl i n t hs Co., of Glasgow, an d supposed to be the largest ma world, has been started by the River Tyne Improvement Commissioners in Shields Harbour. It is calculated that this s t u p e ndous machine, when at f u ll work, will lift 10,000 tons of material per day. The machine, as now employed, works admirably,' and is lifting an immense quantity of dredge per day. The engine is of 50 horse power, nominal, and is cap able of being worked up to three times that power. There are two ladders, each containing 35 buckets, and weighing upwar ds of 100 tons. Each bucket weighs one ton and a quarter, arid the ladders are calculated to operate in 30 feet of water, and, when working at speed, will each fill a hopper barge in from 60 to 55 minutes. TWISLETON FIENNES.—The late Lord Saye and Sele was a very eccentric man , and the greatest were worthy of the days o Every country, every sea, wase P f ic V u s i r e t , e e a 1 1. 1 i o c fhuedshiosradniladel ransackedi o i ga i b s a d i nners lu e. tofind some new d e li ca cy for our British Sybarite. I remember, at one of his break fasts, an omelette being served which was composed en tirelyooft o n , golden andddrink wou pheasants'would egs I g awful H thado behold. very These n absynthe and caracoa in cs o q uantities it which were perf ec tly stimulants produced no effect upon his br a i n ; b u t his health gradually gave way under the exce sses o f a ll ki n ds in which he man,indulged.buta fellow. I He was a kind, lib era l , an d good natured very oddshall never the astonishment of a servantlhad recommended t o forgethim On entering his service, i John m a d e h Fiennes was going out to dinner,s appearance as if he had any or d ers. He received and asked his new master " Place two bottl es of sherry the following answer : the day after to -morrow" by my bed-side, and call me Captain Gronow's Recollections. SERIOUS FIRE • AND NARROW ESCAPE.—Be- tween 4 and 5 o'clock this morning a fire broke out in the wo r k s h ops o f M r. Joseph Stokes, wholesa l e manufac turer of ice chests and baths, North-mews, John-street, T ottenham-court -road, resulting in serious destruction of property. It appears that a person living opposite Mr. Stokes's workshops observing flames issuing from them, gave an alarm, and messengers being sent to the different engine stations, in a short time the engines from Wells street, King-street, Crown-street, and Baker-street, under the direction of Mr. Staples, the foreman of the district, and engineers Girard and Wilkinson, were on the spot, two workshops, by this time, being on fire. While the fire was raging, one of the firemen from Wells-street bad a narrow .escape, having by some means fallen from the workshop window. The firemen, aided by a good supply of water succeeded in extinguishing the fire, when it was found that two of the workshops and their contents, consisting of ice chests, &c., in the course of manufacture, benches, p t r o e t s ai s e l ; and the whole of the tools of several workmen , but destroyed. Mr. Stokes is insured in the Sun Fire e -o re ffiee , the workmen are unfortunately not insured, build them is consequently very serious. In an ad.) o tlirough the ing there was a large quantity of timber w hich, _ g fire. rinitnhge loss t o exertions of the firemen, was prevented from in A CHILD DROWNED IN the coroner for Yesterday Mr. J. Humph reys, Lord Morpeth Tavern, A WASHING TIM.— Middlesex, held an inquest at the Lord death of Isabella Mar garet Old Ford-road, Bow, relative Diaper, aged hswtho died from drowning, The deceased was left by m other playing at the back of her momentary absence fell into a tub of uently found the deceased im- The m other au seq water. downwards, and when she pulled her out life house, and during l h 8 e ti n r init rcersed head prom ptly sent for, and used Dr. Marshall .11arlljs system was a pparently extinct. Mr. Brereton, the surgeon, of Old rdrp ' m was to restore life, but his efforts were in vain. After some remarks from t he coroner , t he j ur y r e turned a ° verdict of "Accidental death." It is Glen- more con - bones found reo o f and N.- - ' most ithout Bill, lacing e qual rand, Ming ltro- w hole lions• en gth rdon • onll sur le i be" a g of July joint rancs area ring labia Lt for Lan d, ►naer o peT ig . tiO and ~.