The Sun. — London, England, 1854-10-24 00:00:00

IciONEY AND OM MEB OIAL INT i - LL GENUE. CITY, TWO o'CLOCK. The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at 7,000 bales, including 1,000 American taken for export and on speculation. The market closed heavily, with prices of all kinds unchanged. The sales comprised 5,750 American, 180 Pernam and Maranham at 6id. to 60., 300 Bahia at 61,1 d. to 60., 100 Egyptian at 61d. to Bd., 700 Surat at 3d. to 40., al:lrd 80 Sea Island at ls. 2d. to 2s. per lb. Railway Shares were flat, at lower prices. The arrivals of ships in the Thames during the last two days have comprised 71 vessels from foreign parts, arid 5 from Ireland, besides 3 colliers. The following particulars of the Russia trade, are furnished by Messrs. Smith and Charles : "The only public announcement of interest with re spect to the suppression of the overland trade, which has been made since our last circular was written, occurs in the leading article of an evening newspaper of the 20th : —` The measure which our own Government has bad under consideration to check the objectionable trade which Prussia has permitted Russia to carry on through a pretended neutrality has been a substantial proof to the Government of Prussia that she could no lougertrifle with us.' " The heavy expenditure to which the country is St. now subjected by the unavoidable expenses of the 25 war, and the possibility of the Chancellor of the Exchequer having to raise fresh means ere long, '" 10 causes those who look to the future, before enter- St. ing upon new financial arrangements, to discuss 10 with interest the means that may be pursued. The St. experiment of a bonded debt falling due at stated periods has now been fairly tested, and, to St. the extent of six millions sterling, may be St. pronounced successful, but whether a further issue St. of four or five millions early next year would be St. absorbed is the controversial point. Seeing ~ the continuous drain upon the Government re- hl sources which even a successful war must occa- 167 Rion, further borrowing in one shape or other prior 16 to the commencement of the Baltic operations St. would .appear indispensable, for we dismiss alto- 1 9 6 gether the idea of fresh taxation, especially with the 1 2 - t ) prospect offood maintaining its enhanced price until 114.. the grain trade is released from the artificial fetters st: imposed by the belligerent powers. Next as to the St. power of the money market to take more Exchequer 20 Bonds, we should incline to augur favourably, the 11 non-creation of Government Stock by means of , loans having thrown into other channels the great 50 corporations as well as private capitalists having 40 surplus cash periodically to, invest. The prejudice 25 in favour of national securities will cause them, 2 s s t. in whatever shape they may be issued, to „ 3/ obtain a preference comparatively to the shares st. of public companies, and now Exchequer Bonds st. are understood, the way is, in a manner, 50 paved for them. There is another part of the war and money question, however, which 6 may be regarded as of the greatest importance, 2r viz., the Currency. Just now, and although money to is temporarily easier, the discount of best paper 2,0 being obtainable at 41 1 per cent., the bullion in the Bank of England is much lower than it should be to meet all the requirements of the 1844 Act, con sidering the large amount of gold imported, and the fact that "the precious metal leaves this country almost as fast as it arrives, has a significance that cannot be disregarded. The following extract from the Bankers' Circular gives a view of the subject that seems to be just and well timed. The wi iter observes as a sequel to some considerations connected with the policy of the Bank during the last war : "It is therefore of vital importance to inquire into the system of finance by which the present war has to be conducted. Mr. Gladstone, like Mr. Pitt, has been compelled to rely chiefly upon the Bank of England, and he has intimated his intention of making the present generation pay for the war. There would be no objec tion to this principle if Mr. Gladstone had to deal with a monetary system such as existed in Mr. Pitt's time ; but the whole system has been thoroughly changed. Mr. Gladstone has to deal with a fixed money circulation, bequeathed by the late Sir Robert Peel, to the extent of 31,000,0001. sterling ; and which can only deviate from that amount to the ex tent of the surplus of gold held by the Bank over 14,000,0001. By a reference to this source of money circulation for the convenience of the public during the past two years we shall be able to form an opinion of the future prospects of our ability to meet the exigen cies of war out of the annual revenue. In the week ending, the 10th July, 1852, the surplus amount of coin and bullion in the issue department of the Bank above 14,000,0001. of notes issued upon the debt due to the Bank was 21,878,7651., making the total power to issue notes 35,878,765/. • " On the 31st of December last the surplus amount of bullion and coin in the issue department of the Bank had fallen to 15,180,0301., reducing the total power of issue to 29,180,080/. "The returns of the Bank to October the 7th, 1854, show the surplus of bullion and coin held in the issue department to be 12,350,0301., giving to the Bank the power of issuing notes to the extent of 20,3.50,030/. Thus we find that the power of the Bank to is , ue notes at these three periods, and the actual circulatiom, stand as follows : Power of Issue. Actual Ciroulation Ah MARKETS. (T Et 1 S _D AY.) BRITISH RAILWAYS, [losing Price. yesterday. 21 - 41 - 41 81 - El 11:q 17 - 18 6 - k ' 95 - 97 591 - 59; Business done 50 this day. Pall 4 RAILWAYS. 12i 50 1.3,1 1100 kberdeen.. .... 8 1 Ambg. Nottng. Boat and Eastu. Junct... all Belfast & Ballymena. all Binning. Wolverh Stour Valley Birkenlid. Lanesh & Cheshire Junct all Do. Ohesh. & £5O sod £25 Cons. 19 Do., £20.-- ...... 30 Blyth &Tyne origins. , £25 (issd. at £45 , 100 Bristol and Exeter 100 klaledonian ........ 21s. Calmat - then and Car titan ... all Chester & Holyhead all Cork and Bandon all Cork , Black, 4SI Page 16 Cornwall 1; Crietf Junction 45 I mliliii&BelfastJunc all Dundee Perth&Aber (leen Junction all Do. New 100 East Anglian all Eastern Counties 100 Eastern Union, A Stock ... 100 Ds., B. Stock Do., New A . 100 East Lancashire 100 Edinburgh & Glasgow 9 Edinb. and Peebles 100 Edin.Prth &Dundee 1 Forth & Clyde June. 100 Glasgow &S. Western 100 Great Northern 1100 Do., A. Stock 1.00 Do., B. Stock ....... 1.00 Gt. Sth. &Weist.(lre ) 100 Great Western 100 Do. Stour Val. Rail Gua. Stk all Irish South-Eastern all Lancaster & Carlisle 14 Do., Thirds 4 Do. New Thirds 100 Lancash.andYorksh 191 Do., Fifths 111 D 3. Wst. Riding Un all Liv.Crsby.&Southpt all London & Blackwal 100 bond. Bright & S.Cst. 100 bond. and N. Westn 12 Do. Fifths 1 Do.lo/.5h.,M&8...i 21 Do. Eighths 100 ,London andS. Weste. 42: Do., 250 34 . Do., £4O all Liidndrry&Colerainc all Lmludrry.& 100 11ancli.Sheflz Linchi Do.,Man. & Lin. Un 100 Midland 100 )o. Birmn g. & Derby all Nlidld. G. West. (Ire.) 22' Do. Half Shares 311 Newcastle & 5:1 Newmkt.Bury Eaten. 19: Nwpt.Aberg. & Hrfd 8 Vewry & Enniskillen all Newry Warrenpoint and Rostrevur 100 Korfolk 3 Korthn.Counties Un. 100 Korth British aID Korth Devon, No. 1 all Do., No. 2 all ! bo., h A Deferred all Do., B Guarantee , ' L t 1t N. Eastern—Berwick 20 Do. do. Extension 13 )o. do. G.N.E. Punk all Do. LeAs 100 Do. York all Korth London 8: Do. New £lO N'.&S.Wstru.,HamP• stead, and City Ju li< Corti, Staffordshire all Korth Western all V. &S. Westin. June Yuneaton, Hinckley and Leicester 100 , lxford, Worcester,Az Wolverhampton 4 eortsmouth loi , 'wettish Central ; O Scottish Midland all •threwsby. & Hetefd all 4firopshire Union )o. A, B, D,full paid up at per all ,outh Devon 1.00 ;oath Eastern all 4 , aith Wales 15 Yrksh. & Riv. Dui 5 7)0 8 , taines, Wok &Wol all tockton & Dania, , 16 4tockton & Hartlep'. 100 Caff Vale.. 9 - )o. £lO shares. 100 )o. Pref., No. 1 21 [lames Haven Doel and Railway all Vale of Neath all Waterfl. & Kilkenni all Waterford&Limerici 18 West Cornwall. 3 .Vest End of London and Crystal Palace.. al; West London Ills.,Wimbledn &Croydon 20 20 10 10 St. 10 St. 25 20 20 50 20 FOR all Xntwerp&Rotterdam 3 Belgian Eastu. June S I3eziors to Graissossac 2s, Bombay, Baroda , and Central India,Serip Central of Italy all Demerara 14 Dijon and Besancon 9 Dutch Rhenish all Eastern of France 10 Do. New all East Indian 2 Do- Extension all D 0.46 p. c. Bds., pay. '57, convertible all Do. do. do., '59, de 10 Gd. Juliet. of France 126 Gel. Tk of CanaclaA is. all Do. do all Do. St. Lawrence & Atlantic do. all Do. Cert. of Deben., con. into Stk. till '63 all Do. Comp. 6p. 0., do. 10 Gt. Central of France all Gt. Indian Peninsula 1 Do. New 5 per cent. all G't.Westeruof Canada Shares . all Do. Bds., payable's7, with option till '55 all Do. do., '62, p. '56 all Do. do., '76, p. '6O all Do. do., '73, withoul option all Hamilton & Toronto all Do. 6 per crnt. 11 Lake Const. & Basle All Lucca & Pistoj a 5 p.c. prof 12 Great Luxembourg Constituted Shares all Do. Obligations 0 Lyons ai Geneva , 12 Lyons do Mediterran 16 2. Niadras 2 Do. New 34 daria Antonia all Do. do. New 2 Melbourne Dk. & Ry. all Namur & Liege (witl interest) all Do. (ex interest) all Northern of France all D 0.201. Sbs.late Char leroi and Erqu , dines gun.. 3$ p. e. & red. at 1211. dur. 88 yrs. from IJan. 1854.... all Do. 201. 3 p. c Bap. (fmy.B. & Ama. Sha all NorwegianTrunkPrel 14 Paris and Lyons all Ditto Bonds all Paris and Orleans all Paris and Rouen 10 ParisCaen & Chcrbrg all Rouen and Havro 20 Royal Danish 3 Royal Swedish all Sambre and Meuse all Do. 51 p. cent. Prel 10 Southern of France. 14 St. Andrew's and Quebec (A) all West Flanders all Do 64 per c. Prof 10 Western of Francs West. of Switzerland all Wiesbaden 20 Zealand JOINT-STO all Australasia all British Colonial Bank and Loan Company all British N. American 5 Chartd. Bank of Asia 2 0111.0. Bnk. of India, Australia, & China 25 Colonial 20 Coinniercial of Lond 16 tz,liglish Scottish and - - Australian all Lond. Chart. Bk. 01 Australia . 20 London and County 10 London Joint Stock 20 Loud. & Westminster 35 National Provincial of England 10 Do. New 22' National of Ireland all Now South Wales all Oriental Bank of Corporation 25 Provincial of Irelan, all Do. Nuw 1 Royal Australu.l3kg & (Jold Imp Co -ionth A u strati& Union of .Anstralia Do. New Uniou of Loudon, aL A ll 10 £ £ 10 July 10th, 1852 35,878,765 23,379,975 5 December 31st, 1853 29,180,080 20,077,860 20 October 7th, 1854 26,350,330 19,959,015 2,1 9,528,735. 3,420,740 ' or, or, 20 27 per cent, 15 per(mut. 20 "If attention be directed to the Revenue Returns 20 which were published last week, it will be seen that the 20 increase is of a most insignificant character ; vind even 20 that increase is not derived from those sources which can 20 be relied upon. The decrease of 509,407/. in Lhe Cus- 100 toms during the 6 months ended October 10, is a very serious item to place against 77,897 1 . increase. A nd it 100 is very doubtful whether the Property Tax, from which 20 this increase is principally derived, can be extended, 25 without materially diminishing other branches of the 25 revenue.. Mr. Gladstone's surplus is a very scanty sum to place against the cost of a war conducted on the 1 00 scale on which it has been commenced. And u:nless the Government take measures to support the commerce and Ico trade of Ole country upon more extended views, we must 20 be prepareo for a further decrease in the ordinar y sources 5 5 of revenue.'" 20, The funds are heavier this morning, and the business doing is small , exce p t in New 31 per 100 Cents., which have been rather pressed for sale, and have ra uged from 93 i to f . Consols have Vol been 94a to /1 for transfer, and 94i for account. too Money is easy, .and Exchequer Bills are up to ss. 201 and Bs. premiuni. Bank Stock is worth 212. Rather more activity is observable in the 1 99; Foreign Stock M tricot, though unattended by any important variation in prices. Mexican stock is heavy at 23. Spanish Deferred at 18i, but the 20 Passive Bonds are supported at 4i. Po:rtuguese Bonds are marked 4::3k. Equador Bonds 3i to 31. 4 Grenada Active 16, and the Deferred Si. Venezuela ro Bonds are 22, and tvae Deferred 9. Turkish Scrip 20 is rather higher, boil ig 2i There has been a bar- 20 gain iu Belgian 41 por Cents. at 92h. Dutch 21 .33 per Cents. are firme rat6lto 61 but the 4 per 10 Cents. weaker at 90; to 91. 2C 20 The following are the nominal prices of foreign stocks :—Grenada Dei7erred Bonds, 51 to 6 ; 20 can, 23 to 231 ; Peruvian, 71 to 73 ; ditto, le 3 per Cents., 51 to 5::,1 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 2( 40 to 42 ; Russian 5 ic.er Cents., 95 to 97 ; ditto, 4i per. Cents., 84 to 8(3 ; Spanish New Deferred, 18 w 18i ; ditto. 3 13 , 3 r Cents., 37i to 38 ; ditto, Certificates, 5 to 51 ; ditto, Passive, 4i to 5/. The Railway Share Market has shown symptoms li of weakness to-day, which has induced. rather more business. The principal dealings aro in North- 4 , Western, Midland, North British, and Nort h- Eastern. The foreign limes are dull, but nomi laally steady. 2 There have been a few dealings in Mining, Bank- ‘ 2 , irrg, and miscellaneous undertakings, but mostly at provious quotations. 2 Ddcreaa BEITI.SEL FUNDS THIS. DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (Prom the Ouicial List.) Bank St Eck itu iness done. 3 per Co; it. Reduced Annuiti es 3 per 'Ow tt Console Annuiti es 93 • New 3 p er Cent. A nnuities Long . /L 11- 18" a unities, Expire sth Jan ., " 4 5 . 16 a Ditto. 30 Years , E xpire s th 4 a India c ‘nds, .ClOO O Ditto , under £lOOO ll p Consols i or Account 14th Nov 944 Ezell s l uer Bills, 2 i 1 . a 1!"; ,1 JO ......................... V............................... .......... 8 5 Suall ......................................... 5 8 Exchec :At. Bonds 1858, 3. per Cent. D 1859, ~ PRi CE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Equa ilor Bonds ................... Groin a Bonds, 11 per Cent O Grena 1, Bonds, Deferre d McKie: 3 per Cent. . Ditto for the Account Portugm ese Bonds, 4 per Cent... ............. -- Ditto , 5 per Ct., Con. IS4I ............... 431 81,2,,,5ti Bowls, 3 per Cent ..................... Ditb ) New Deferred, 3 per Cent........... 18i Ditt Passive (Converted) .................. 2 Ah Scrip 6 per cent ....................... Ven t , ;la Bonds, '3l per Coat. ...... ... 22 Dit to Deferred, 1 per Cent .................. uvidends or the above payable in 1,011,1.ett. Belgia n I Bonds 41 per Cent. ex. 25 fr ...... 021 *lxchange, 2s per Cent. 12 Gull „ 61$ 1 ! t per Cent. Certificates.... ...... 1 17A P A TW O. 94 on, ~o ls November Avronnt 941 20 20 6 a - 15 iu 12 4 . - - 2 0 6i - iii iii 66 - 68 55 - 57 22 - 24 89a 9N 77 79 124 126 90 92 70i 71 69 - 71 78 - 62 8 - 100 8 - 10 76/ - 714 5/ - Si 8 84 103 105 1.001 101 id — id iP I 81i —82 i 19 811 8 7 o . • ..." • • • 23 - 24 684 69 40 - 42 ~ "-- ... id i d 9 8 ti l 2i 21 5i - q 48 - 50 3i 3i 33, ... 346 g 10 - 64 - 74 76 61 -- - 31 , 14 - 14 53 -- 54 53 - 55 - 1p Ad tii 7 id—iP 32 - 34 94 - 96 60 - 62 7i - Si - 48 ji - 14 62 -1 . 2 - 33 ••. • i •• i d 35 - 37 3 - 3A 17i 18A 4f - 23- ` , 5 6 - 7 ••• 6 - 7 IGN. i - 11 Z -46 d— i P - P 3 -2i ,i 33i -33 i 3 - NT)! - Id - 76 - 7d - 7d ip ip - iP 18 -19 i par 2 1.(1 par t, id P '2 - ... •• die 41 - 6 2i - Si 1 - lip . a- i P ••• - ~ -- • ~ .... • .. - 74 - 8 35# - 35 12i -- 13 9 -- 10 21 -- 21ip 4ti 50 38 40 pm 221 par 1p 2 lid 81 ••• .... ... - pm .•• - 34 - 41 d' 6i 7p ... -" 16 - li BANKS. Paid.) Rau wars. LINES LEA D . AT iriXRD RENTALS. Leasing Company. Olosing Prices yesterday. .•• ••• d par 30 = ii 3 —2} d 22 —22 i ••• 41i - 43 43 - 67 - 69 74 - 95t 59i it 22/ 125I 25 St. is 7O 2i 2i 6, 6, 104 i I 100 i 5 7i 68 f I at, St, 10 1 St. St. 331 10 6, 76 i 14 14/ 1 53A I St. St. St. 8 10 10 26' 131 2 16 St. St. xd 50 32t 10 12 12 12 St. St. dl. I 20 --I l 12 25 10 25 10 St. 20 20 20 25 ELB SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 24, 1864. all Nedford and London Sz N. West: Bletcliloy ...1 00 Buckgitamsh. .00 Clyclesclale Je. A/ E. Lincoln gr. 6 per cent. all Glas. Barr. & Cit.Nrtltn. rlaldonian. Neils. Direct all Do. New Cilstr.&Dn.Fr' all !JOAO. Dk. &; Railway all [lull & Selby all Do. Shares. ll Shares. ail Lon.&Greenw all .Do.Preferonce all Lou.,Til., &S. 100 Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. WO Do. 6 per et. all Manch. Bxtn. Do. Gt. Westn VI. New. I Borw. y.szNMd Do r. .astern' o Pats & Co. ! Norfolk.. and Matlock all Aiddlosbro' N. W. & Midl& Stekton & Darlingt. Redear .. all Mitlld.Bradfd all Northern ane Eastern sp. c all Do. 6 per et. all Do. Fixeds all Prest. & Wyre Vi. Count. D 0... Do ' L. & N.W &Ln&Yk Do Gt Northn Lancash & Yorksh. M.MClean itockt. & Darliugt GtWestn. all Do. Shares. 1 IGO Roystu.&Hit. 180 Shef.Roth , Gooleg.sp.c.' 31. S. Staffordsh. all WearValleygr 6 per cent... all i Do 100 Wilts&Sontrat 1.1100 Aberdeen .00 Do. No. 2,7 p. o 30 Blyth and Tyne 10 per c. pref. (issd.at 501) LOO Brie. & Ex. 4p. c. St. 5 Do. 4p. c. Shares 100 Caledonian £lO all Chester & Holyhead Guar. 5A per cent all De. de. Pref. N.. 2 all Do. de. Pref. No. 2 1 all Cork &Bandons Lp.c all Dundee Perth &Aber doen Junction all EastAnglian (£3los 6 per cent all Do. (£5) 7 per cent 2 Do. (£7 l7s) 7p. c all EasteraCounties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No. 1 all Do. No. 2 all Do. New 6 r. c. St. all Eastern Union, Scrip Guar. 6 per cent... all Do. 51., 10 per cent. all Do. 101. Debentr.Sh all Do. do. 4 per cent... 100 East Laucash. 6 p.cts. all East and West York shire June. Fifths all Edinb Prth. &Dundee 4 per cent. 100 Glasgow &S.Wester • Guar. 5 per cent 100 Great Northn. sp. c 100 Do. sp. c. Redeem., at 10 p. c. prem 100 Do. 4i p. c R 4 Ut.N. of Scot. Ist Pret all Gt. Southn.diWestm. (Ireland) Eighths) 7 Do. 4 per c. Pref. St 6 Gt. Westu. (Berke k Hants Ex. 5 p. c) 100 Do. con. red. 4i p.c. 100 Do. con. red. 4p. c. 100 Do. irred. 4 p.c. all De. Birm. Pref $h all De. Chester Bp. c.P.S. all De. de. 6 p. e. de 110 Do. Birra. Gua. Stk. all De. Chea. Gua. Stk. all Do. do. de ••• all Do. de. de 6 Lan. &York. F. £2k 100 Do. 6p. c. Stock ~. 'lOO ILoudon and Bright° , Guaranteed 5 p. e 100 Do. Pref., sp. c. St 100 Do. New Guar.6 p. c. 100 Lon.&N. W., Coy. 4 'uneaten i p. ct. 5 London &S. Wester Con. Thirds all Londonderry& Color Shares all Londy. & Enniel.. Sh all Wan., Shef., & Shares, No. 1. all ')o. New, £lO 46 Do. £6 all Warypt. & Carl. 4 p all Do. 4i per cent 106 Do 100 Aid. Consol.6 p.c.St. 100 Do. Cousol. Bristol S; Birm. 6 per cent.... I.li Do. Pref. 41per cell; 10 \Torfolk Debenture . 100 Do. Prof. 4p. c. Stool 100 Do. 5 p.c. Ext 00 Do. 5 per ct. pref._ 00 Do. Way. Val. 5 p. c 00 Nortk British 100 N . . E. Berw, 4 p.c. P 5 Do. do. do 13 Do. Leeds 6 p.c. Ne 1 9 De. do. Quarters ' , IS 10 OtYork tt P . r. all North Staffordshire.. 1.00 Oxford, Worcester, Sz Wolyerh. £15,6 p.c. all scot. Cent. ,New Prot 10 Do. 5 per cent all south Devon De. fixed, 44 per cent all 4. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. 100 Do. 4i per cent all i.Yorksh.4p.c.Guar all S Wales Gut. 4p. c 16 Do. do. 4 p. C.... all itockton and Dar lington, 4 per cent 5 Do. do. do. all itockton and Hartle-J guar. 6 p. c.l till Ist July, 185 f; 4 Waterfd.&Kilk.6p.c. 95 .•• -- 100 99 - 101 136 - 138 102 = 104 61 62 26 —2sk 13 134 23 24xd 111 111 2a 21 iii --= 94 5$ - 60 ii. := iii 2 - lea 30 - 31 93 - 95 PREFERENCE SHARES. ii = ii i --i lip t - 1 13 -13 i 22 - 24 ...xd 115 117 .o 7 109 99 101 ~ --. ... ~ .-- ... 6-64 98 - 100 90 - 92 93 - 95 10 - 11 164 - 174 10 10i 71 - 73 181 -19 i 9.1 - gi 14 -1) 133 d 140 ~. "... ... 1.• ..- ••‘ i•• 1.1, ••• ••• 2} - p ii- i• 111 i - IP .37 139 1 id S 7 - SO 04 - 105 92 - 94 31 - 3i i ------ ia 112 - 114 12 id 23 - 2 3 4 99 - 101 17 -19 i - MINES. all Agua Fria . all Anglo Austrin. Gold" all A.liglo Californian 6 Australian all Australian Cordillera all Australian Freehold all Ave Maria all Baden (Gd.Dachy of), all Bleenarvon Iron and Coal 13.5 British Iron _4i Brazilianlmp.(issued at £5 pm all Do. Cocacs & Cuiada I 15 Do. St. John Del Rey t Carsons's Creek g Clarend , o Cons. Mia Co. of Jamaica • all Cobre Copper 1 Colonial Gold all Copper 'Min. of Eng. all Do. Pref. 7i p. cent. 16 Copiapo all English and Austin. Copper Smeltg ( le 1 Fortuna all General.. all Gt.NuggetVciußeg • all Great Polgooth all Liberty all Linares all ilariquita 9 nexiesai&S.Americn. all New Granada all New' Linares Mining and Smelting C 0.... all Nouveau Monde all Pontgiband Silva] Lead Min. & Smelt 1 Port Philip all Quartz Rock all allyniney Iron all Do. New 11i 'Santiago do Cuba all ."outh Australian N l'in Croft .. ... i i all United Mexican all Waller all West Mariposa . 1.25. Worthing Mining o Australia L all Yuba MISCELL all Aubin Coal and Iran 17. Australian Agricult. 6 Australsn.Peifie.blaii all Australis. Royal Man N Berlin Water Works 40 Brit. American Land 1 Brit. & Coln. Smeltg. and Reduction Co.. 326 Canada LOO Canada Get. 6 1,. et. Jan. and July all Crystal Palace all Crystal Pal.of France 5 Eastern Steam 20 ElectricTelegraph(A) all Electric Teleg. of Ir. 14 Gen. Steam Navigat. all General Screw Steam; 10 Irish Beetroot Sugto 10 Magdalena St. Navig. all Nlediteran. Elec. Tel, all at. Pat. Steam Fue 5 Netherlands Land.... 1 N. S. W. Coal &Inter, Steam Navigat. Co all N. B. Australasian 126 Nrth.ofEuropeStemo all Peel Br. Ld. & all Peninsular & Oriental 45 Do. Do. all Portland Iron Co 60 `toy al Mail Steam all scot. Austral. Invest. all South Austral.Lant a ll t3ubtaar. Telegtaph. all Do. Registered Van Diesueb's Lan( • - *: - i - 8i -3/ - 2 - 30 - 46 - 55 - 4 p - 14 - 11 - 4P i - i ... - ... bi... 9i i - 6 6 - a a - 1 15 - 16 LE L - 6 - - 8 51 - 5 i 1; - 3 I - 17-1 ... ..... ~ ... - 4. 'BOTTS Z = ii ..• -- ••• 65 - 70 • - ••• y 8 - 103 -109 i --3i 110 i 2i i~ _ is *i ----- ii ••• ---. •• 1 - i• i i . --- 4i ••• - 2 - 2. 2 - 35 - 31 11- 1 - 1 6 -, 13 liminess this day. NE WMARKET RACES (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIO TELEGRAPH.) SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOPS. Nicotine Orson Ten ran. £5O PLATE. High Priest Ilex Thirteen ran. HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES. Pumicestone Grima1kin.......................................... SWEEPSTAKES. Vaultress Robert CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES. SCH ERZ RATTLE . 2 SPEED THE PLOUGH ................... Nineteen ran. LATEST BETTING. CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 3to 1 agst Rattle. sto 1 agst Orinoco. 12 to 1 agst Little Harry. 12 to 1 agst Nancy. 12 to 1 agst Scherz. 12 to 1 agst Quince. 20 to 1 agst Vindes. 25 to 1 agst Little David. 25 to 1 agst Prime Minister. 25 to 1 agst Speed the Plough. 83 to 1 agst Octavio. 50 to 1 agst Helena. 50 to 1 agst Hervine. 50 to 1 agst Gamelad. 12 to 1 agat Osloorne's Lot. Scratched—Champagne. DERBY. 12 to 1 agat Grfeculus Esuriene. 12 to 1 aget Lord of the Isles. C.RIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. (Before the Recorier.) John Judge, 33, porter, and a respectably-dressed man named Taylor, were indicted, Judge for stealing a num ber of pieces of carpeting, the property of Messrs. Sim cox, George, and Price, the masters of Judge, and Tay lor for receiving the same, knowing them to have been stolen. Mr. Robinson and Mr. Sleigh prosecuted, and Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Ballantine defended Taylor. It appeared that the prosecutors are carpet dealers in Newgate-street, and, from some information which had been given, two City detectives, named Packmans and Mark Bull, watched Judge from the prosecutors' pre mises, and saw that he was ♦ery bulky about the body. After following him for some time, they saw Judge go into the shop of Taylor, who keeps a marine store in Wilton-street, Cripplegate. The officers, after walking outside the shop for a short time, went in and asked Judge what he was doing there. Judge, who was at that time in the act of fastening up his trousers, said he came to bny a door knob. They then said that they were officers, and had come to take Judge into custody for having stolen some carpeting from his employers. Judge denied having brought any. They then questioned Taylor, who said he had not bought any carpeting, or had any in his shop. They then wont round behind a heap of rags, where ho had been standing, and there found a piece, which was subsequently recognised by prosecutors as being similar to some which they had missed front their stock. A number of witnesses were called, who gave Taylor a very good character. The Jury, after some deliberation, said they could not agreo without retiring. His lordship then directed that they should be locked up ; and they had net returned into court when we went to press. MIRLBO.ROUGII-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) ASSAULT ON ♦ BARONET. Joseph. May, a carman, was placed at the bar before Mr. Bingham, charged with assaulting Sir Belford Wil son, K.C.8., 130, Park-street, Grosvenor-square, under the following circumstances : Sir Belford Wilson stated that about half-past four yesterday afternoon he was driving with his wife and child down Park-lane, when the prisoner, who was driv ing a timber waggon with three horses, passed him. In passing complainant, the defendant's centre hors. made a snap and tried to bite his (complainant's) horse. Witness flourished his whip, with a view of diverting the horse from his purpose, and had no sooner passed than he felt a blow of a whip over his shoulders, which also struck his wife and child. Witness immediately stopped and taxed the defendant with the offence, when he (defendant) became exceedingly insolent and abusive. Complainant then directed his groom to fetch a constable, upon whose arrival defendant was given in charge. William Good, groom in the service of Sir Belford Wilson, proved seeing the defendant with his heavy cart-whip strike Sir Belford over the shoulder intention- ally. Defendant, in answer to the charge, expressed his sorrow, and humbly apologised to Sir Belford for his conduct. Sir Belford Wilson said, had defendant apologised on the instant he should not have given him in charge. Mr. Bingham fined defendant 205., or ten days. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(TEILS RAY.) moderato breeze, and fine, ____..,_____ LONDON, Oct. 24.—Wind this day at Noon, S.W. ; clear weathe r. Fiord, PORTSMOUTH, Oct. 23.—Wind, N.W. Ayrived— from Quebec ; William, d o .; Maize, d o . ; Martha, Con stantinople; Baroline, Yo u ghal ; Actre ss, do. Sailed — Morayshire, for the Bl ac k g ea ; H.M.S. S wallow, de. PLIMOUTH, Oct. 23.—Wind, W.N.W .A.rrived—Ce.s- Whin Maid, from Labrador; Adolph, Buenos Ayres; Fersian, Belize. FALMOUTH, Oct. 23.—Wind, fresh. Arrived—Juliana, from Rio Janeiro ; Adriatic, London, for Cardiff and New Orleans ; Duke of C ornvra ll ( s ), from ' Dublin, and left for London ; Manathan, Bristol, for Philadelphia, master and one man washed overb oar d, with loss of jibboem, Sm. Ids, Mauritius. Sailed—Queen of the Chase, for Terceira; Amphitrite, Ostend. CowEs, Oct. 23.—Wind, W. Arrived — Margare t, from Callao. BRISTOL, Oct. 23.—Wi n d, 1 - V. Arrived —Majestic, from Tobag o ; L one st ar, N ew Orleans; ; J enn y Li n d, British America, Newfoun,lland. S e ymour, SHEERNESS, Oct. 23.—Wind, W.N.Tr• Arrived-110 ' velius, from Dant z i c . do. Qtebec ; Sw an , do. ; Lady W. Arrived — Hyg oa, from DovEn, Oct. 23.—Wi n d, Krageroe, for St. Valery. SOUTHAMPTON, Oat. 23.—Wind, W. Arrived —Ta g us (s), from Gibraltar, itc. (PEI ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LivEarooL, Tuesday, 10.15 a.m. Wind W. moderate, and frosty. Arrived —Star of the East, from Honduran• Helios, New Orle ans ; S usan , Singapore ; Pat ten, Rich mond ; Jonge Luaus, Beyrout. Off the Port—Arabian (s), from Alaxandria ; Sea Gull, and Propontis. Sailed—Admiral (a), for Havre ; Ranger (s), Rotterdam; Culloden, Bombay. (Er ISTIBMAItIIa AND BIROPIAN TELIGRATII.) GEITESIND, Tuesday, 9.52 a.m. - Wind—W.S.W. ; tide last hour's ebb; fine. Arrived, Oct. 23.—Levant, from Hamburg ; Rover, Guernsey, Arrived, Oct. 24.—Fyneoord, from Rotterdam ; Light ning, Guernsey ; Lady Blaney, Callao ; Helena, Komgs berg ; Medora, Memel. DILL, Tuesday, 9.40 s.m. Wind—W.N.W., fine. Passed off Dungeness.—Eva, from Sydney ; William Grewott, St. Lawrenee ; Prince Arthur, Hudson Bay ; Lavinia, Moulmein ; Queen, Calcutta ; Angia, Buenos Ayres ; William Forthinghsm, Calcutta—all for London. Anchored . —Cord elia, for Cardiff; Vulcan, S t.Domingo; Spirit, St. Michael's ; True Briton, No. 114 transport, Plymouth—all from London. FUNERAL Or ADMIRAL SIR THOMAS BTAM MARTIN. —PORTSMOUTH, Oct. 23.—The remains of the late Sir Thomas Byam Martin, G.C.8., Admiral of the Fleet, and Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom, will be re moved from the official residence of his son, Rear-Ad miral W. F. Martin, in this dockyard, at 11 o'clock to morrow night, and conveyed to London by the mail train, that leaves here at 1.45 a.m. on Wednesday. On arriving in London they will then be conveyed to thi residence of the deceased admiral, No. 23, Wimpele street, where they will remain till the day of the funeral. This is expected to be on Thursday or Friday next, and the Cemetery at Kensal-green the place of interment. The body has been placed in twe coffins, an inner one of stout lead, and an outer one of English oak. There are no ornaments, and the following- inscription is engraved on a brass plate on the lid of the outer coffin : " Sir Thomas Byam Martin, G.C.8., Admiral of the Fleet, and Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom. Died Octo ber 21, 1854, aged 89." MR. MAURICE HARTMANN, the German poet whom the Austrian agents seized at Bucharest, is now in prison at Vienna. This fact, which was lately contro verted by the organs of tie Austrian Government, is re affirmed by the Vienna correspondents of the Gotha and Weser ackzeitc4 on their pereonal knowledge. 12 a] 109,1 101 100 98b 9/ 14 1 pal 45 6 THE FATE OF -F.R.ANKLIN. ANOTHER SHIP AND HER CREW IN DANGER. Collinson and his crew ate yet among the ice. Are they to be abandoned—to bs left, as Franklin and his 1 companions were, the victils of searches tardily insti -2 teted, carried on with implicit deference to official super ciliousness, and amid discreditable jealousies and squab bling on the part of those employed ? In discussing this question the recent intelligence supplied by Dr. Rae has, 1 therefore, a practical interest. It ought to be critically 2 examined, and also with a view- to detect the errors which have frustrated the searches after Franklin's ex pedition. This scrutiny ought to be conducted with caution, modesty, and passion, but also with the most fearless frankness. With regard, then, to the probability of the story. Let us leave out of view at first the corroborative testimony of the articles procured from the Esqui maux. Without them the story rests entirely upon the evidence of Esquimaux, and, moreover, of Esquimaux who knew it only from the report of others. The re ports daily received from the seat of war show how easily even civ;lieed and educated men can distort the truth, and work up incomplete oral communications into adventurous romances. Mach more must this be the case among men of a limited range of ideas and an im perfectly developed language. The• accounts received from the Esquimaux may be a combination of reports of shipwrecked men met on the ice, with reminiscences of the sufferings of Dr. Richardson's party on their overland return. But the articles bearing the name and crest of Franklin and the initials of several of his companions prove that some of them must have been met with by Esquimaux, the range of whose migrations is known. That they were met to the west of Boothia Felix, between the northern extremity of that penin sula and the mainland of America, seems certain. The details of their horrible fate may be received with more or less of scepticism, but there ap pear no reasonable grounds of doubt that it has a sub stantial basis of truth. It follows from this conclusion that Franklin and his companions had been compelled to abandon their ships, and that they perished in an at tempt to reach the Hudson's Bay settlements. The next question that suggests itself is, when and where were they obliged to abandon their ships? In what year did they tread their weary pilgrimage across the ice ? From what point did they start on that journey to the tomb? According to Dr. Rae, the Esquimaux state that the party of _white men who perished was met in the spring four years ago, that is in 1850. None of the Esquimaux met by Dr. Rae had themselves seen the white men ; theirs is mere hearsay testimony. Besides, without characters to record their dates, their statements about time are little to be relied upon. The four years could only be received as an approximation to the truth. But here an extraneous record comes to our assistance. It was in 1850 that the traces of Franklin's party ware first discovered at Cape Riley. No traces of them have been discovered further to the north or fur• Cher west. The story of the Esquimaux is, that the white men intimated they had lost their ship in the ice. From these facts we feel inclined to infer that Franklin's expedition never got far up Wellington Strait ; that they had, near its mouth, er in attempting to proceed west ward, been embedded in the ice ; that they had clungto their ships till their provisions began to fail, and then commenced their dreary journey to the southward, for they were in want of provisions when met by the Esqui maux. The date of these events cannot be later than 1850, when the solitary traces of the party were found at Cape Riley and Beechoy Island. They may have happened ae late as 1849, for to that time, according to letters from Franklin, he thought his provisions might be stretched out. With these few mementoes it may now be allowed to associate a report which created sonic sen sation at the time, but was soon forgotten. We allude to the reports of two ships having been seen in 1851 on a field of ice, by the captain of a vessel sailing from Ire land to the St. Lawrence. The reports of the Esquimaux, the traces found at the entry of Wellington Strait, the report of two ships seen on an ice-field nearly in the latitude of Newfoundland — these are scanty data whereon to build a history of the fate of Franklin's expedition. And yet they seem to point irresistibly to the conclusion that so late as 1849 or 1850 Franklin, with the remains of his crew, abandoned their vessels somewhere to the south-west of the entry of Wellington Straits, struggled across the ice to the shore of America near the mouth of the Great Fish River, and there perished through hunger. They appear to have been struggling onward after the search for them had begun. They would seem to have Leen at no great distance from some of those in search of them. To what are we to attribute the entire failure of the searching expeditions ? We are dispo'sed to attri bute it mainly to three causes. In the first place, the expedition seat out in 1848, under Sir James Ross, was not peremptorily instructed to look first at the point traces of the musing ships and crews where most likely to be found. Sir John Franklin bad explicitly declared to more than one individual, be fore he left England, that he intended to proceed up Wellington Straits. It was at the mouth of Wellington Straits that the only traces of him found by Europeans were met with. Had the expedition of 1848 proceeded first to Wellington Straits, Franklin and his companions might have been fallen in with. In the second place, after it bad been shown to be probable that Wellington Straits were the most likely locality to find traces of Franklin, all the vessels fitted out by various parties crowded thither—confinei their researches exclusively to them. Instead of trying to spread themselves over the seas south, west, and north of the inlet, they all rushed into it. Lastly, the proposals of Dr. King, Dr. M'Cormick, and Dr. Rae to explore the shores and seas to the south of the line of research pursued by the naval expeditions were systematically pooh-poohed. The circumstance that Franklin and his crews, having lost their ships, might be struggling over the ice to the south was wilfully and sys tematically ignored. Yet the statements which Dr. Rae has collected from the Esquimaux anti the articles he has picked up among them make it certain thatan overland boat expedition descending the first river, had it been sent out in time, would in all probability have saved at least a remnant of the crews. To what have these errors been owing ? In the first place, to the tardiness of the permanent Admiralty offi cials in instituting the search. In We second place, to their obstinate and exclusive preference of large and costly naval expeditions, which placed the distribution of patronage in their hands, and their discouragement of less pretentious expeditions, which would not thus have gratified their jobbing propensities or vanity. In the third place., to that pedantry which would Rot even listen with courtesy to any •but profes sional advice--meaning by professional not even nauti cal opinion in the widest acceptation of the term, but the opinion of mere fighting nauticals. What is now known shows that, in the controversies of the last seven years the landsmen have been nearer the mark than the sailors—the sailors of the merchant service than the officers of the Royal Navy. But the favourit ism of the Admiralty—its permanent officials—entrusted the research almost exclusively to the officers of the Royal Navy, listened only to their proposals, reserved for them all honour and emoluments. Thus have the permanent officials of the Admiralty prevented Franklin from being saved. His blood, and the blood of his brave companions, is on their heads ! Is the fate of Colliuson and his crew to be left in the hands of such men ? Are they to be abandoned without one effort more ? Or is the task of seekin g for them to be entrusted to the cancers of the loss of Franklin ? Daily News. MARKET .NEWS-(THIS DAY.) HAY MARKETS. Shirr/from—Meadow hay, 21 lOs to 41 10s ; clover ditto, 414 s to 61 Cs; and straw, 11 6s to 11 12s per load. Supply moderate ana trade rather dull. UUMBiRLAND.—AIoadow hay, 21 12s to 41 12s ; clover ditto, 41 03 to 5/ 15s; and straw, 118 s to 11 14s per load. Both hay and straw moved off slowly, at •ur quotations. WHITECFIAPEL.—Meadow hay, 2/ 10s to 4t lOs; clover ditto, 4/ Os to 6! Os ; and straw, 11 6s to 1/ 12s per load. Trade steady. COLONIAL. SUGAR.—The market is quiet, with limited sales by auction. Refined is without change. Brown Paraiba, a cargo landed was sold at about 2 , s per cwt. The quantity of British plantation landed last week at the Eastand West India Docks was 1,004 hhds 136 tierces 151 brls, there were taken for home consumption 1,518 hhds 206 tierces GO2 brls. The stock in the same places is 20,784 hhds, 2,931 tierces, 5,395 brls. COFFEE.—The market has been quiet but firm at 46s 3d to 46s 6d for good ord Native Ceylon. RICE. —.A. large business transacted in cleaned Patna. For the home trade fully '2,000 bags sold at 18s Gd to 21s. A. good enquiry made to-day, but the advanced rates asked have checked sales ; about 5,000 bags on the sot sold, Bengal ord to good lis 9,1 to 15s 6(1 and ord Co p ring& at 12s 6d. Rini.—The quantity landed last week at tho East and West India Docks was 1,438 puns 152 hhds, there were taken for home consumption 239 puns 32 hhds, and ex ported 89 puns 299 hhds. The stock in the same places is 13,292 puns 2,242 hhds. SALTPETRE is dull at auction 545 bags Bengal sold at 22s to 23s 6 d f or low 15 i to B.f per cent. refraction. CorroN.—The market is quiet. TEA.—The market is quiet at 100 to 10ad for common sound congou. HMI/P.—More is doing, and at firm rates. Patersburgh clean of good quality 621. 103 to 63/. per ton. TALLOW.— On Saturday our market was steady, at 67s 6d to 67s 9d for new, 67s for old, and 67s to 67s 3d for forward deliveries. We had advices from St. Petersburg to the 14th inst. 300 casks bought at 105 to 106 rs. Die patched overland from the co mmencement of the seaso n , 63421, a gainst 86,2 49 shipped from St. Petersburg. To da'y the market has been very inactive. It cannot be quoted higher or lower than on Saturday for for ward deliveries ; and not a transaction has taken place, and it would be difficult to say whether there is more disposition to sell than t 3 buy, or rice versa. On the spot wo ale 67s Oct to Od, according to quality, for new, and 67s to 67s 3d for old Y.C. The Smithfield mar ket report gives the number about equal to last year, with a rise of 2d per stone on beef, as comp are d w ith l as t week, while it describes the quality as " very inferior." Cocoa nut oil, Ceylon, 50s ; Cochin, 51s to 51s 6d • Lin seed oil, 375, on the spot ; Palm oil, 45s 6d to 47. SPHLTIM—The market is firm, and the sales to-day are 200 on the spot at 241. 101, aid 50 tons for arrival at 241. 15e per ton. Inc:T.—Scotch Pig is dull at 808 3d * to 60s Gd for mixed Nos. OlLS.—Linseed is rather dull, and there are sellers on the spot at 37s Gd. Rape is not so native, brown 47s 6d, and pale 50s Gd to 51s. Cocoa Nut is steady at 518 for Cochin, and 49s Gd to 54s for Ceylon. Palm has sold to a good extent at firm rates ; good and fine 47s to 49s per cwt. Tlll HOP LOTTERY.—One gentleman in Hereford shire will realise 8,0001. by the sale of this year's growth of hope, while numbers of other hop growers there have not a hop to 'NlL—Maidstone Journal. TO THE Sin,—You will greatly oblige by inserting Sir E. Rnl wer Lytton'a letter in your next paper.—Yours truly, Oct. 24, 1854. GEORGE ROUTLEDGE. 2, Farringdon-street, Oct. 23, 1854. G. Routledge end Co. have great satisfaction in laying before the public the following letter from Sir Edward Bulw•er Lytton, which, it will be seen, entirely contra dicts the assertion put forward by Messrs. S. Low and Co., that the agreement existing between their house and that eminent author has been rescinded :-- " Knebworth, Oct; 21,1851. "Dear Sir,—l was as much surprised as yourself by the , paragraph in the Publishers' Circular. Certainly, there has never been, on either side, a suggestion to rescind our engagement, nor the least hesitation on your part, as to the fulfilment of the contract you have hitherto carried out with equal liberality and honour. You say truly that the circulation of the popular edition of my works is equal to the expectations formed when we discussed the sub ject. And it affords me sincere pleasure to learn that you see no cause to apprehend that the ultimate results will leave you a loser by your spirited reliance on the increase of the reading public, and the steady and progressive de mand for cheap literature which is so distinguishing an attribute of our age. " Yours truly, " E. BULWER LYTTON. " G. Routledge, Esq., 2, Farringdon-stret, City." SUNKEN SHIPS AT SEBASTOPOL. TO TUB EDITOR OP THE BUN. Sir,—l noticed in your journal of Friday last that Mr. Lane, the " diver," was about to proceed under orders from the Admiralty to assist in raising the sunken ships at Sabastopol. No doubt a very judicious measure. I have had some talk with Mr. Abbinett, who is now here and who has also had considerable experience in work ing under water. He is well known as having destroyed the Boyne at Spithead, raised the Pincher, man-of-war, sunk at the Sheers, and the Syrian, with a full cargo, at Gravesend. He has no doubt as to the practicability of raising the ships, after lightening them of their guns and shot, by the aid of the line-of-battle -ships and their chain cables. As no time should be lost, and there is no doubt the Russians will make work for both these gen tlemen, your insertion of this will probably attract the attention of those who have the matter iu hand. Yours obliged, A CONSTANT READER. Cowes, Oct. 22. The letters from Rouen state that the market for manufactures was steady, with a moderate amount of business. THE EMMY AND KANGAROO. —The Australasian Pacifist Mail Steam Company have sold their two remaining steam ships, the Emeu and Kangaroo, and it is there fore expected the affairs of the undertaking will be speedily wound up. PORT OF LONDON. The departures from the port of London for the Australian colonies during the past week have comprised two vessels only —one, for Sydney, of 341 tons, the other, for Portland Bay, of 836 tons. The rates of freight continue to exhibit great depression. MONEY MARKET.—The supply of money yesterday out of doors was abundant, and there was great ease in the discount market. Confidence was also increased by farther considerable arrivals of gold from Australia and New York, together with announcements of larger sums on the way. The speculative and remarkable movement in the grain market, however, which has sent up prices to the highest point attained before the harvest, coun teracted these advantageous influences. BANK PAM:MEL—The stoppage was announced yes terday of the small country bank of Messrs. Lemon and Ce., of Brentwood. It was established in 1834, and consisted of two partners, whose chief business was that of general shopkeepers, their banking transactions being altogether insignificant. GOLD ARRIVALS.—The Lightning has arrived from Melbourne with 40,000 ounces of gold, and the Speedy from Sydney with 12,576 ounces, being a total value of 210,304/. The accounts by the Lightning, which are nearly tbree weeks later, state- that the Frances Henry had sailed for London with 33,876 ounces of gold and 4,400 sovereigns, the John Banks, for London, with 3,0C0 ounces, and the Mermaid, for Liverpool, with 20,000 ounces. PRODUCE MARKETS.—The weekly reviews from the Amsterdam and Rotterdam produce markets alluie to increased activity. The quotations of coffee continued to be maintained, although the demand was principally for home consumption. The operations in tea having augmented, there was greater firmness in the rates. Rice, in consequence of an active inquiry, showed a further tendency to advance. In sugar, raw and refined, the transactions had been on an average scale, with well suppor t e d quotations. There was greater firmness in indigo, and, although arrivals were reported, the general stook was considered limited. MEXICAN SPECIE —Sales of Mexican dollars were made yesterday, after an interval of about three weeks, during which no transactions occurred. The quantity now disposed of were brought by the early October West India packet, and other vessels, and the price obtained is 60d. per ounce. This is a very considerable reduction since the end of September, being 2id. per ounce, or about 4 per cent. ; but it is not larger than was antici pated after the arrival of the last overland mail, bringing the low quotation of the exchange at Canton, find in the present instance only a small proportion of the amount taken is to supply the orders from China. Since March last the prices have fluctuated between ss. Ol c d. and ss. 3d. per ounce. Tat HARVEST AND WEATHER IN THE NORTH OF SCOTLAND.—The grain harvest in this county is now all but c'mpleted, the greater part of the crop being col lected and housed in the best possible condition. In the case of one of two late districts there is still a trifling balance ungathered, but, from all we can learn, should the weather prove favourable till Saturday night, there will belittle or nothing left to do. Potato lifting is now in active prosecution, and we are glad to say that on the whole, the ravages of disease on this important crop are by no means so extensive as had been apprehended. ORIENTAL VISITORS.—Among the passengers by the Indus, which arrived at Southampton on Saturday, with the India and China mail, were Shokine Abdouslah Nabber Khan and Seidah Gelat Khan, with eleven native servants. The two above-named individuals are distinguished personages belonging to the staff of Rajah Narinda Sing, a rich and powerful Prince in the Bengal district, who will arrive here in great splendour, and his officers and servants, who have arrived in the Indus, are mere avant couriers, who have come over to engage a palace for him, and to make other preliminary arrange ments. STONE SMOT (Vol. x., p. 223).—Some of the guns of the Mary Rose, sunk A.D. 1545, were loaded with stone shot. The marble balls used in the cannon of the Dar danelles are well known ; but the latest instance of the employment of this material for military projectiles with which I am acquainted was at Rome, in the year 1835. There I saw great numbers of cannon-balls made of stone lying on the walls of the Castle of St. Angelo. They were, I believe, principally of coarse marble ; and I was informed that the galley slaves were employed in their manufacture.—Frons " Notes and Queries." AN In/smart AT BAY.—Dennis Corbett, of the 55th Regiment, was sent by his master to a garden in front of the lines, but occupied by a French outpost. While gathering vegetables the French gave the alarm of " Cossacks," and fled. Dennis Corbett, who had a broomstick in his hand, was making off likewise, but finding a Cossack was gaining ground on him, turned and faced his pursuer. He parried two lance thrusts with his stick, rushed in and tore the lance from the Cossack, who then fired his carbine without effect, and made off, while Dennis returned to the camp with his trophy. " THE PRISONER AT THE BAR."—A. striking instance of the anousalons character of the English language oc curred at the north riding sessions this week. A man being charged with stealing a quantity of sheep netting, a witness was called to prove that he met him with some sheep netting in a cart in the neighbourhood of the rob bery on a particular morning, material to the inquiry. He was asked, " Did you meet the prisoner at the bar? but not having heard the phrase probably before, and knowing that there was a toll-bar in the neighbourhood in question, he replied, " No, sir, I did not meet the prisoner at the bar," and proceeded, amidst roars of laughter, to describe the where he did meet him.—Torke shire Gazette. THE LATE HEAVY GALES.—During the late severe storms in the Channel the gale off the coast of Fish guard was most terrific. The waves ran mountains high, and a schooner, from appearance of about 80 to 00 tons burthen, was seen by hundreds to go down, and no assistance could be rendered. All hands perished. Part of a stern subsequently came on shore, and on it, broken, the letters " ystwith ;" so, no doubt, the vessel belonged to Aberystwith. A sloop, though carrying away her mainboom, came on shore on Goodwick Sands. The crew were taken off quite exhausted. bhe proved to be the Queen of Trumps, of Aberystwith, laden with iron ore. The vessel will, in all probability, I become a total wreck. A few miles to the west of the same place, in the night, a smack, the Robust, of Aberystwitb, with a cargo of slates, came on shore and became a total wreck. The crew, three in number, were with difficulty got on terra firma. THE END OF THE LONG VACATION.—The long vaca tion, properly so called, according to the present practice of the courts of common law, expires this day (Tuesday), the 24th of October. All legal proceedings which had been stayed since the 10th of August will recommence ou and after this day. Declarations may be filed and delivered, and pleas, demurrers, and other pleadings may be dated and delivered, and issue joined thereon ; in fact, all suits and actions, which had lain dormant for the two months, may now be rev ived, if not to t he satisfaction of the client, certainly to the satisfactionA of the attorney, with its attend ant increase of costs. few days only will set all the engines of the e Cha N nc h e v ri m a h n e d r Ecclesiastical courts in mo tion, the 2d of next, and eager solicitors and anxious clients next of kin and expectants, are eagerly looking forth for the day which, in the one case produces credit and profit, and in the other uncertain quietude and disappointed expec. tations. The various common law offices will be opened during the ordinary vacation hours, from 11 to 3, instead of 2 o'clock. The judges of the several Courts of Queen's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer, w''' alsce be alternately at their respective chambers for t_. despatch of business, and it may be properly added that needy all the important legal reforms and Acts of Par liament commence this day, the most important of which is t!le Common Law Procedure Act. The machinery for giving full operation to the intention of the Legislature in this act will require the framing of rules and orders by the judges for the guidance of the profession, which cannot be well done before they meet in the ensuing Term, and therefore but little practical effect can be given to its various enactments until that is done. The County and various local courts will be bound by the same rules and regulations, so as not to create any conflicting decisions with the inferior courts. 'HE SUN. it B. Turkey ; ifs Ilistory (00 Progress. From the Journals and Correspondence of Sir James Por ter. Continued to the present time by his grandson, Sir George Larpent. 2 vols. Hurst and Blackett. This work commences with a memoir of Sir James Porter, who was British Ambassador at the Porte from 1747 t o 1762, w h ere h e made himself thoroughly acquainted with the national character, customs, and prejudices. He was subsequently appointed Minister at Brussels. The papers which he left, containing his observations on Turkey as it was a century ago, have been incorporated in the first volume of this work ; and though some por tions are manifestly inappropriate to the present condition of Turkish affairs, it has been justly thought best to present them entire, that the reader might be able to form a comparison with the exist ing state of Turkey ai described in the second vo lume. The remarkable changes which have re cently taken place arc thus clearly shown, and the enlightenment of the people and the gradual pro gress of reform made evident. A brief account of Turkish sufficient to acquaint the reader withh i s t t o h r e y main facts ; but the principal por tion of the work is occupied in endeavouring to give a just idea of the cou ntr y itself, and the pecu liarities and characteristics of its inhabitants. Of the first volume it is sufficient to say that it serves chiefly as a landmark to show how far the nation has advanced from that time, though the descrip tions it gives of the natural features of the country are of course equally applicable to the present day. It is the second volume that contains the intorma tion now most eagerly sought for, namely, a full account of the legislature, the progress of educa tion, the financial system, the military and naval establishments, and the social condition of the Turks. It also presents us with a sketch of the career of the most eminent men of the present day. The account of Reschid Pasha is very interesting. Amidst the general disorder on the death of Sultan Mahmud, when the empire was left with " the Sultan dead, the army annihilated in the course of a few hours at Nisib, and the fleet carried into a hostile port by their awn Capudan Pacha," Iteschid Paella, who had been absent on a diplo matic visit to Paris, returned to Constantinople : " As a thorough statesman, he clearly perceived that the first condition for the future existence of Turkey was the restoration of that unity which had rendered the empire so strong during the earlier period of its career. In his opittion the only possibility of regenera tion lay in the amelioration of the principles of Go vernment, and their assimilation to an European and constitutional model. To carry this into effect, the first step was to reconcile the Christian subjects of the Porte, by making such concessions as would insure them against the arbitrary proceedings of the Osmanli, and by giving them a guarantee that these concessions would be maintained. "To Reschid Pacha the Ottoman empire is indebted for the organic law of equality, tolerance, and personal freedom and security, for the abolition of mercantile monopolies, for the establishment of sanitary regulations, for the submission of the provinces, for the concentration of political power, for the advantageous stipulations of 1840 with the great Cabinets of Europe, and for the com mercial treaties which have been concluded with most of the foreign States." In his political career he has met with many vicissitudes ; but since 1847 he has been continually in office, first as Grand Vizir, and subsequently as Minister of Foreign Affairs. The former office, however, does not appear to be a very enviable dignity, for though his power is very great, so also is his responsibility. He is the supreme chief of the administration ; nothing is presented for the sanc tion of the Sultan except through him ; he presides over the Privy Council ; appoints to a majority of the offices, and commands the army ; but his posi tion is full of danger. "Ho is accountable both to the Sovereign and the people for the acts of injustice which he commits, for the unfortunate result of his administration, for the extortions which he does not repress ; he is accountable, above all, for the unex pected dearness of provisions, for too frequent fires, and fur the defeats of the armies. All the misfor tunes of the Sultan are attributed to him. The sword continually suspended over his head strikes him whether he displease the people or disoblige the Sultan." A full account is given of the Turkish army and navy, the military administration and. establishments. The natural resources of the coun try are described as offering the greatest advantages to the enterprising capitalist. The mining ad vantages appear to be great, though the natives want energy or capital to avail themselves of them. The favourable contrast afforded by the present state of the empire to the descrip tion given of it by Sir James Porter cannot fail to strike the least observing. The apathy, self conceit, and prejudice then general appear meet discouraging ; but if we turn to the narrative of the present time, we find a wonderful enlighten ment and awakenin g . The author of the second volume, Sir George Larpent, is hopeful as to the future of the Turks. He says : " A mere comparison of the condition of Turkey in 1339 and in 1854, will show how much has been already done. We do not pretend to deny that much is still left for quieter times ; but we may accept the present ame ' lioration as a very valuable instalment of the great work. If the Allied Powers only recognise the duties which have devolved upon them through their interference is the present war, we may fully anticipate that Turkey will eventually become a great and prosperous country. The raw material is ready to hand, and by skilful manipulation can be rendered most valuable ; bat it will be a work of time. Many will turn back with disgust from the task : but whenever our Government once per eeives the importance of Turkey—not merely as a Euro pean necessity, for the purpose of maintaining the balance of power—but as a country, which presents the finest field for religious and commercial enterprise, we feel assured that the labour bestowed will be abundantly repaid.• Those writers who have represented the Turks as utterly effete, and as only encamped in Europe, natur ally ignore any hope of regeneration ; but such is not the case. " Turkey was not a corpse, but a body paralysed : it revived as soon as the enlightenment of the present gene ration recalled it to life, and the rare and interesting spectacle is presented of a country having totally altered its political condition in the short space of sixteen years, through the spirited and patriotic) exertions of a few in divieuals, while that salutary change promises to be per manent, because the system will be continued by the pupils and imitators of those few eminent Statesmen, each of whom is surrounded by a chosen band of disci ples brought up in their principles." And, again, after giving an account of the pub lic schools, he observes " By raising public education to the rank of a State institution ; by creating it, where it is not yet i n existence ; by correcting all it possesses that is of a dangerous and exclusive character, and, more than all, by summoning females to particip ate iu the benefits of an intellectual life, Turkey would be drawn from the isolation and individualism by which her strength is exhausted, and the way would be paved for her social regeneration, which is the crowning work of her political transformation. Education would effect the ruin of the old Mussulman fanaticism, which has lost its strength, but by substituting for it patriotism, hitherto unknown to the Mussulinan peoples, accus tomed as they are to form a collection of individuals rather than a people, a sect rather than a nation. In exchange for the faith which it destroys, it would give them a country. It would do more: by the establish ment of universities, where students of different faith and creed, collected from - the most distant points of the empire, would live in the unity of discipline and instruc tion, it would cause a hearty amity between generations till new isolated by their enmity or their pride, and would thus prepare the reign of that great national unity, for which the Turkish administration, policy, and , Legislature are striving." We must not omit to mentibn a curious and valuable paper which is appended to the first volume. It consists of a journal, kept by Sir James Porter, of the negotiations between Austria and I: h r e u s rest i e a s in t o the h time I F ,urt cli a ori s c s k irconnecte th j e am G e r s ea p t o a rt n e d r d with f Maria Theresa. It is in n o way employed in these diplom a ti c transactions, and as his narrative, whi c h h as be e n hitherto unpublished, is possessed of great tework o was personally in terest and value, the editor did not consider him self justified in omitting such au important docu ment. The appendix to the seco d n- volume relates the progress of the war, and contains a very useful assistant to the historical student—a comparative chronology of the Turkish Empire. Among all the numerous works \V ieh have appeared on Tur key, its history, its inhabitants, its environs, its past and its future, sinc e the discussion of " The Turkish Question," few possess the value of the present volumes. Most of those works have been superficial in their character, seeking rather to entertain than to instruct. The volumes before us are not of this description. To those who desire an amusing book of travels they offer no attrac tions. It is to those who desire to analyse the constitution of the empire, to read the history of the future in the annals of the past, to gain a tho rough acquaintance with all the peculiarities of the social system, both as they were and as they are, that it is calculated to afford every assistance in acquiring a complete and authentic knowledge of Turkish history and progress. THE LATE LIEUT. SINGER.—This artillery officer, who lost his life in collision betw een a French and an English steamer in the Sea of Marmora, was a son of the Bishop of Meath. This young officer had highly di stinggiehei himself in the Kaffir war, alid bad served in s everal actions. He returned to Ireland at the beginning of the present year, and was immediately offered by Sir H . . D. Ross, as a mark of approbation, an appointment in the Horse Artillery. On the declaration of war he volun. teeredlur service in the East, and in consequenc ranted , e of and his previous high character h is applicaion 7as g a preference g i ven him above his seniors in years and Lieut. Singer was but 26 years of age. standing. LIT 20 50 20 25 91 70i i 13} i la I .9 181 40 5 St. 25 15 20 20 20 ei ••• 1 ...... - ii - t