The Sun. — London, England, 1853-11-14 00:00:00

to Bu nly on an od, ter. [ by ) in b in new arm for posts ntal ,tor, a,ris, itua' )9 2 2 )8 --- i 9 60 ;3 93 13 -- )3 36 10 50 JO -- 24 )0 )0 30 31 )0 -- 23 -; 54 64 55 64 30 6° ieS ti [llOlll i lef t ii the Pik'lol.o&h -...4 to re' lett er ° Abe t d '357 o f riot- , • t 0 SPORTING NOTES. SUGGESTIONS ABOUT SHREWSBURY. Mr. Frail is working wonders at Shrewsbury. He has established an Autumn Race Meeting there that Vies in popularity with the most successful Spring gathering. The programme of the sport is varied and attractive, and to the principal handicaps there is ap pended a long list of nominations from which large fields are likely to be selected. The Shrewsbury Handicap numbers 62 nominations. Speculation on it has, how ever, been limited in its range, but somewhat significant in its tendency. Little Harry is the only animal that has been spirited supported, and the short price to which he has been advanced in the betting, seemingly indicates that he is intended. The investments on the other horses have been unimportant and, indeed, " bar three or four,' almost any odds are obtainable. This circumstance is scarcely calculated to excite expectations of a large number of starters. I shall not attempt to select the winner, but, "following the money," I shall place some confidence in Little Harry, and merely express an opinion that the Undermentioned horses are " well in ": Goldfinder, Black Doctor, The Hatchet, and Angelo." For the Column Handicap the favourably weighted division comprises lanthe, Master Slender, Little Fawn, Alonzo, Candlewick, Calot, Kiteflyer, Le Juif, May Day, Catherine Parr, Corybantes, and Nerva. lam now puzzled to select a winner, but of the above men tioned "lot" I shall give the preference to Alonzo, siteflyer, Le Juif, and Corybantes. Should The Jealous One, Vestige, and Lady Pon sonby go to the post for the Copeland Handicap, they Will, perhaps, be the foremost competitors in the race. Entertaining a well-founded suspicion of the " squaring system" on which steeplechases are now invariably con ducted, I shall not express an opinion on the " cross country contests." Subjoined is a copy of Admiral Rous's letter in reply to Mr. Dorling's statement respecting the " Screw Roping Case" at the recent meeting at Epsom : " Sir,—ln reply to your letter of the sth I beg to inform you that the committee are of opinion that the Steward of Epsom has no power to declare bets void on any race. The Hurdle Stakes must be paid to the Winner. The committee further beg to express their opinion that it would be much better to prohibit steeple and hurdle races at Epsom for the future, inasmuch as they have been in general heretofore made instrumental to proceedings of the most dishonest and disreputable Character, and the committee recommend that Green, Who rode the Screw, should be warned off Epsom Race Course. —Yours, &c., " H. I. Rous. " To Mr. Dorhng, Epsom." That the opinion contained in the above letter is in strict accordance with the laws and practices of horse racing is indisputable. Indeed, had the power of the stewards been confined to declare bets void, a precedent Would have been afforded that would be inevitably attended with great abuses. The recommendation to discontinue steeplechases at Epsom will, I trust, be acted upon, for ever since their establishment in that locality they have been connected with the most per nicious practices that ever brought discredit on the Turf and its patrons. Nov. 14. A FRESH MAN. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN. A. special meeting of this company is to be held to morrow, to consider and deciee upon the proceedings to be adopted by the company with reference ty the pro posed extension of the railway from Dorchester to Exeter, and for raising the necessary capital. The directors, in accorlance with resolutions passed at a meeting of the company in May last, gave a pledge to the committee of the House of Commons that if they rejected the Devon and Dorset Railway Bill for a broad guage line from Exeter to Maiden Newton, promoted by the Great Western and Bristol and Exeter Compahies in the last session, they would undertake to apply for a bill in the ensuing session to make a double line of narrow gunge railway from Dorchester to Exeter. Mr. Snell, at the head of the committee of shareholders, contended that the directors had obtained authority to make the pledge under false representations, and that so far from the Southampton and Dorchester line yielding a profit of 31 per cent. on the outlay, excluding working stock, but includtng the interest on the cost of it, it does not ex ceed 34 per cent. per annum. In this view Mr. Snell is supported by Mr. Mortimer, a director, who esti mated that the working expenses of the Dorchester line amount to 40,0001. a-year, and that the company lose about 16,0001. a year by the line on the assumption that the company borrowed the money at 4 per cent. to make the line and. provide the working stock. Captain Moorsom, after an investigation of Mr. Mor timer's figures and items in the accounts, stated that the latter gentleman's estimate of expenditure had been greatly exaggerated, and the result of Captain Moorsom's inquiries confirmed the statement of the di rectors made to the meeting in May last, as to the profit yielded on the working of the Dorchester line. It ap peared also that two other shareholders—Mr. Herapath and Mr. A. Beattie—had examined the accounts with respect to the receipts and expenditure on working the traffic of the Dorchester line, and they found that it yielded a profit in 1852 of 28,5601. on a capital of 752,0001., or at the rate of 3 8 per cent. It was as- Burned by the directors that, the proposed extension from Dorchester to Exeter would pass through a better dis trict than the Dorchester line, that it would yield 31 per cent. on the estimated outlay of 700,000/. per 52 miles. They propose to construct it as a single line from Dor chester to Axminster, and as a double line from Axmin ster to Exeter. It was urged by Mr. Chaplin, the former chairman of the company, that if the coast line be made, they must also make the " central line" from Salisbury to Axminster, the double line from the latter place to Exeter being common to both extensions. Considering the enormous sums that have been charged to the com pany for making the existing branch line, it is not sur prising that some of the shareholders should feel anxious as to the expenditure of further capital ; the reduced estimates of the coast line being 700,000/., and of the Central line 1,100,0001., together 1,800,0001., or at least 2,000,0001. with working stock. It was shown by a calculation that appeared in The Sun some months Past that the South-Western Company had expended on their main line from Nine-elms, Vauxhall, to Gosport and Southampton, up to June 1846, about 28,0001. per mile on ninety-three miles of railway, the traffic on which yielded a dividend at the rate of 94 per cent. ; and that, in July, 1852, when 151 Miles of additional lines were in operation at a cost to the company of 39,0001. per mile, the gene ral dividend on the whole of the capital then expended Was reduced 'to 3i per cent. It has never been ex plained how it was that the branch lines had cost on the ave r a g e 11,0001. per mile more than the main line. Rad the branch lines been constructed at 13,000/. per mile which would be nearer their value exclusive of the extension to Waterloo-road, which cost about 1,000,000/. sterling for two and a quarter miles, the shareholders would have been in the receipt of respectable dividends. A rigid inquiry into the cause of the extravagant outlay On the branch lines of this company, being above the average cost of railways in England, would lead, pro bably, to a means of constructing any future extensions On a scale in accordance with the traffic of the district, and of course at a very moderate cost. It might be Mentioned that the same persons under whose guidance a great portion of the outlay had been incurred on the branch lines, had offered to construct the central line (90 miles in length) (from Salisbury to Exeter, for 1,000,0001., or at the rate of 12,0001. per mile, a sum, no doubt, quite sufficient for the purpose, particularly as the landowners were favourable to the scheme and had promised to give the land required for the railway at agricultural prices ; but, considering the smallness of the local traffic, and that its constructions would cause competition with the Great Western Com pany for the Exeter traffic, the South-Western share holders had twice rejected the offer to construct the line which offer was strenuously and ably supported by Mr. Locke, M.P. But unfortunately this for bearance on the part of the South Western shareholders had the effect of encouraging the Great Western Company to project and promote the Devon and Dorset Railway scheme, which has led to the revival by the directors of the South-Western of the Coast and Cen tral schemes. The expenditure of about 6,000,0001. of the company's money on 151 miles of branch railway already completed should make the South-Western shareholders very careful how they sanctioned the ex penditure of money on further extensions, and they are not to run away with the notion that because it is now proposed to construct the Coast and Central lines toge ther, about 120 miles in length, for th e sum of 1,800,000/. that they will be co ns truct e d f or th a t sum , or th a t goo d l i n es sufficient to accommodate the traffic of the dis trict cannot be constructed for less, if proper means be adopted in the selection of the lines, and in letting the contracts in convenient portions by public competition. The central line 1846, under the title of the Salisbury and Exeter Railway, was estimated to cost 2,225,000/. ; and Parliament sanctioned the bill for its construction, 'plde powers for which, fortunately for the shar e h o ld ers , b been allowed to expire. Had the Salisbury and Exeter line been constructed at the time authorised 1 „t _votilcl in all probability have cost the full sum of z,2250001 and probably a great deal more, as it would haveve under the unprofessional to have constructed the .„ I . ll v . _ the engineer's estimate. The reduction of i i i i ne i s d , en p d a s rt d i n not i so much arise from making branch long ones, as from expending unwar rantable sun u m a Of Y money upon them. A district with Ilseraeai lltraffic can b e we ll accommo d ate d w i t h a c h eap railwaybankt so plann e d as t o requ i re very littl e ern inen or cuttings, avoiding expensive bridges and of 'lnon ut_ e which look v e ry b eaut if u l b ut cost a great d ea l y, Very fine works and gradients being of much less importance than a small outlay of money, it is e:icieonstethat such branch lines would not answer the to r , of engineers, lawyers, contractors, or specula , althou h judiciously carried out, they would al aswer th e I:l3reukteseoPfintt e t cl l? Would t b h e us purposes g i l of the shareholders and the public. c?st of construction within the require secureditr on n t to th b e e outlay, aecom maonddatetdh the p f a a r ir en return would the new derive all the advantages of the traffic from 4 w :lLO:strict without injury to the dividend on the N SHAR MARKETS--(THIS DAY). BRITISH RAILWAYS. RAILWAYS. Closing Prices Saturday. Basiness done this day. 100 Bti Aberdeen Ambg. Nottug. Bost. & Eastn. Belfast & Ballymena Birmng. Wolverh & Stour Valley .. Birkenhd. Lanesli & Cheshire Juuct...... Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O & £25 Cans.... Do., £20... Bluth & Tyne original £25 (iss. at £45).... Bristol & Exeter...... Caledonian. Chester & Holyhead Cork and Bandon—. Cork, Black. & Pass Cornwall Dublin&BelfastJunc Dundee Perth &Aber deen Junction Do. New ....... ....... East Anglian (£25 L & E. & L. & D.) vo., ( xlB E. & II.) 'Eastern Counties... EasternUnion,A.stk. Do., d0..............1 Do.NewA(lateThirds) l 100 East Lancashire ...... 1 100 Edinburgh & Glasgow' 3. Ediub. and Peebles... 100 Edinb. Prth. &Dundee 1 Forth and ClydeJunc. 1 160 Glasgow & S.Westeru ,100 Great Northern Stk.. ,100 Do., A. Stock 'lOO Do., B. Stock 'lOO Gt. Sth. &West. (Ire. ) 100 Great Western.. ...... 1 11 Irieh South-Easters. all Lancaster &Carlisle.. 115 Do., Thirds 1100 Lamas n. &Yorkshire IDo., Fifths Do., Wst. Riding Un Leeds Northern Liv.Crsby.&Southpt. London & Blackwall Lond. Tilb. & Sthend. Lond. Bright. & S.Cst. London &N. Western Do. Fifths Do. ,16/.5h.,M&8...0 Do. Eighths London & S. Western 421D0., £5O. ..... Lndudrry.&Coleraine 'Lncludrry. & Enuisk. Aauelt.Shef.&Lineln. Do., Man. & Lin. Un. '.Midland I Do. Binning. & Derby 'Midland Cl.West.(lr.) Do. Shares Newcastle & Carlisle ,Newmarket Do. Bury Extensions Newpt.Aberg &Htfd Newry & Enniskillen Newry Warrenpoint & Rostrevor Norfolk.. Northn. Counties Un North British North Devon, No.l Do., No. 2....... Dc., 2 A Deferred Do., :1 B Guaranteed North London N. & S. Wstn. , Hamp stead, and City Jn North Staffordshire North Western......., N. & S. Westrn. June Nuneaton, Hinckley, and Leicester Oxford Worcester di Wolverhampton Portsmouth Scottish Central Scottish Midland Shrewsbury dr Birmg Do., L. dr N. Westn Guaranteed Stock Shrewsby. ds Herefd Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W. Min.) Do. Halves, do. Do. Oswestu Shropshire Union Do. A, B,C, &D, fully paid up at per cent. South Devon South Eastern South Wales S. Yorksh. RivQrDuu Do.. Staines,Wok.,&Wok. Stockton & Darling Stockton & Hartlepl. Taff Vale Do £lO shades Do. Pref., No. Thames Haven Dock and !aailway Vale o 7 Neath Waterfd. & Kilkenny Waterforcl&Limerick West Cornwall.. West End of London and Crystal Palace.. West London Wmbledon &Croydon York Newctl. & Berw. Do. Extensions Do. G.N.E. Purchase York & N. Midland 20 -- 20 4 - 41 9 - 10 12 10 d' 17 19 5; 4Ad - 98 54 16 - 17 13 - 15 45 -46 7 - 4 - 8i - - 124 - 13 43 - 45 31 - 33 64 - 66 59 -- 61 22 - ii 812 822 57 - 59 127 - 129 102 - 104 81 -- 82 87 -- 901 11? -- 12! 2 .1) 64t -- 644 74 -- 7 d 44 -- 4id 12i -- 134 7k 88 —' p 96 -- 97 1021 -- 103 d p P 73 75 13 11 d 12 11 d 20 - 21 ... - - 0 60i -- 61} 34 -- 36 54 56 d par 4i —41 d, 50 - 52 4 - 3 41' 28 - 29 8 - 10 li - 2 7 - 7i 49 ... 52 5i sg(t 74 8 par 2 p 38 - 40 87 - 89 54 - 55 60 - 62 55 60 21 lidis 15 17 7i 8k 11 13 31 -- 3fid 15 - 17 60 - 61 34 - 35 .. - ... 3 . - 4 27 - 30 - ~. 2 3 151 -15 i .6 -- -6 64 65 si 8d 4 -34 d 47 48 FOREIGN. A:atvirp & Rotterdam Belgian East. Junct Beziers to Graissessac Central of Italy Charleroi & Erquelin Demerara Dijon and Besagon Dutch Rhenish East Indian Do. Extension Gt. Indian Peninsula Gd. Junct. of France Gd. Trunk. of Canada Stirs. and Bonds— Gt. Central of France, Gt. Westn. of Canada! Shares Do. bonds(' i55.)1857 Do. bonds (2 i55.)1873 Hamilton & Toronto Do. 6 per cent Lake Const. & Basle Lucca and Pistoja, 5 per cent. pref. Cuexembourg Do. (Railway) Do Do. (Canal) I Do. 6 p. cent. pref. Lyons & Mediterran, Madras Maria Antonia Do. New Melbourne Dk. & Ry 'Namur & Liege (with interest Do. (ex interest) Northern of France Do. 201. 3 p. c. Bds [fmy.B. &Ams.Shs.] NorwegianTrnk. Pref Paris and Lyons Do. bonds Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg Paris Caen& Cherbrw Quebec & Richmond Rouen and Havre Royal Danish Royal Swedish. (Sambre and Meuse Do. 5 . 4 per cent. pref S.E. of France Southern of France St. Andrews &Quebec Upper India Scrip West Flanders 2 - Do. 51 per c. Pref Western of France West. of Switzerland Wiesbaden Zealand 4 4 1d p 74 8 li I ... • 32 3. LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Leasing Closing Prices Business Shr. Paid RAILWAYS. Compans. Saturday. this day. 50 all Bedford and Ln.&N.W. Bletchley St. 100 Buckghamsh L. drN.W. 100 102 50 all Clydesdale Je, Caledon... 50 52 St. 100 E. Lincoln. gr. 6p. cent .. . . Gt.Northn 140 145 25 all Glas. Barr. & Caldonian. Neils. Direct. 2g all Do. New Do. 25 all Glstr.&Dn.Fr Glt.Westn. 30 32 100 all Hrtlpl. Dk. & Yk. New. Railway & Berw.. 50 all Hull & Selby Y.&N.Md. 108 110 25 all Do. 1 Shares Do 54 55 54 121 all Do. Shares. Do 26k 271 12i all Lon.&Greenw S.Eastern l3i 141 20 all Do. Preference Do 241 251 St. 100 Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent... Norfolk St. 100 Do. 6 per et... Do — 51 all Manch.Bxton. Ln.&N.W. and Matlock & Midid. 2 3 50 all Middlesbro' & Stckton Redcar Darlingt. 100 all Midld.Bradfd Midland... 99 101 50 all Northern and Easternsp.c. E. Count.. 61 63 50 all Do. 6 per ct ,Do — .•• 50 all Do. Fixed sp. cDo 25 all Prest. &Wyre L. &N . W &Ln& Yk 121 12 Do. 1 Shares. Do ••• St. 100 Roystu.&Hit. Gt.Northn 140 145 St. 100 Do.Shepth.St. Do l4O 145 25 ISi Shof. Roth. & Laucash.d Goole g.5.p.c Yorksh d 12 94 S. Staffordsh.. MrMClean . 2 lid 7i 50 all WearValleygr Stockt. & 6 per cent Darling . 25 all Do Do 3O 31 31 301 St. 100 Wilts4Somrst Gt.Weetn 9B 100 ?.1 - 3 - 13 14 i ---: 2i 3i P i 21 3 1 a 2 --- 100 100 all all all 8 1100 12 1 2 100 31' all all 100 4 100 100 47 173 all 1100 5 171 7A all 172 all 10 1 2.2 100 100 100 100 26i 13 20 20 2.2 1 all 100 8 1100 St. 10 St. 25 20 20 50 20 11 100 THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 14, 1853, PREFERENCE SHARES. MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.) lambs, is 61 to 2s 20; mixed and broken, is ld to is 4d ; pieces and locks, 9d to is 2d. Port Philip— Clothing, is 5d to is 100 ; scoured, is 6d to is 10d ; handwashed, is 4d to is 91d ; lambs', is 5d to is ; superior, 2s 20 ; mixed, 9d to is 20 ; slips, is Od to Is 4d; grease, 8d to is ld. Adelaide —Clothing, is 4d to is 6d ; h an d was h e d , i s 3d t o is 6d ; lambs', is 4d to is 8d ; s ki n , 10,1 to is Od ; grease, 8d to lid. Van Diemen's Land—Clean sheep's, is 4d to is 7d ; lambs', is 5d to is 8,0; mixed, is 2d to is 4d. Cape—Clean sheeps', is Od to is 4d ; mixed, 80 to is per lb. Several parcels of East India have sold at from lid to 100 per lb. Privately no business is doing. Last week's imports were 2,480 bales. Aberdeen Do., No. 2, 7 p. c Blyth & Tyne 10 per ct. pref. (iss. atX5O) Bristol & Exeter 4 pr cent., stock.... CORN EXCHANGE. Most of the country markets held on Saturday were dull for wheat, the prices of which had a downward tendency. Barley and malt—owing to the increased supplies on offer— were heavy, and lower to purchase. Both beans and peas, as well as flour, moved off slowly. The latest advices from New York, state that only a moderate business was doing in grain and flour on English account. The continental markets have been very firm. At Odessa, immense quantities of wheat have changed hands. Up to our market last week, the arrivals of Eng lish grain were very moderate. The imports were -43,047 quarters of wheat, 4,462 of barley, 23,237 oats, 722 beans, 6,226 peas, 51 tares, 12 rapeseed, 37 mustard seed, and 696 sundry seeds. Fresh up to our market to-day the arrivals of English wheat coastwise were on a very moderate scale. By land carriage from the midland districts there was a slight in crease in the receipts. The show of samples of both red and white was by no means extensive. Notwithstanding that the attendance of buyers was rather limited, the de mand for all kinds of wheat of home produce ruled steady, and last Monday's prices were well supported. Nearly the whole of the supply changed hands. For forward de livery very little business was transacted. The show of foreign wheat was rather extensive. Good red Baltic parcels were in fair request, at last week's cur rency. All other kinds met a slow sale, but we have no change to notice in the quotations. In floating cargoes a few transactions took place, at ex treme currencies. Do. Do., shares Caledonian £lO 98 - 100 ,Chester & Holyhead Guar. N per cent... Cork&Bandon 5i p. c. Dundee Perth&Aber deen Junction....... EastA nglian (£3los) 6 per cent Do. (£5) 7 per cent Do. (£7l7s) 7 p. et Eastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No.l Do., No. 2 Do., New 6 p. c. St Eastern Union, Scrip Guar. 6 per cent Do. £lO Debeu. Sh ' EastLancash. 6 p.cts. East & West Yorksh Junction Fifths 6 - 6.1 34-- 41 5 - 56 AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA. -- lip I#p 13? -- 14 • 19 -- 20. LI VERPOOL, Nov. 13. By the steamer Asia, we have advices from New York to the 2d instant. She has brought 66 pas sengers, and 986,000 dols. in specie on freight. The Asia passed the following vessels :—On the 3d, at 9 a.m., the steamer Africa, from Liverpool, for New York ; on the 4th, a ship showing a Ham burg flag with a black flag under it ; on the 7th at 9 a.m. a steamer, supposed to be the Germania, from Bremen, for New York, in latitude 48, longitude 54; on the 11th, in latitude 50, longitude 15, the Toronto, from Quebec, for Liverpool ; and on the 12th, the Henry Clay, from Liverpool, for New York, about 20 miles east of Cape Clear. The United States' mail steamer, Hermann, from Bremen and Southampton, arrived at New York on the 29th ult. The United States' steamer Arctic arrived at New York, from Liverpool, on the 30th ult. The packet ships Forest King and Garrick had arrived at New York from Liverpool, theformerwith 38, and the latter with 25 from cholera. Edinb. Prth. &Dundee 4 per cent. Glasgow & &Western guar. 5 per cent.... 3 - 3i Great Northr 5 p.c. Do. 5 p. c.,Redeem., at 10 p. c. prom Do. 4 percent. Scrip Gt.N. of Scot. ,lst Pref Gt. Southn. &Westn. (Ireland) Eighths Do. 4 per et. pref. St Gt. Westu. (Berks & Hants Ex. 5 p. c.) , Do. con. & red. 4 p.cl Do. do. 4 per cent Do. irredeem. 4 p. c Lan. & York. F. £2O, Do., 6 p. c., Stock Leeds Nn. 6 p. c. No. 1 Do. Quarters,lB4B London and. Brighton Guaranteed 5 p. c Do. Pref., 5 p. c. St Do. Convertible, 5 p c., 1852 . Do. New Guar. 6 p.c. Lond. & N. W., Cov. & Nun., 5 per cent. London & S. Western, Con. Thirds 119 108 - 110 1 i - We had a dull market for barley—the show of which was good—at a decline in prices of is per quarter. The demand for malt was heavy, and to effect sales, rather lower prices were accepted. We were well supplied with oats, in which a full average business was doing, at last week's currency. Beans were in brisk request, at a rise of 2s per quarter. Peas moved off steadily, on former terms. The flour trade was far from active. In prices no change took place. 8 - 84 6i 7 99 101 95 100 95 100 id par 140 142 CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wheat—Essex It Kent, Red .... new 62s to 72s Ditto.. old 62s 73a Ditto, White new 62s 78s Ditto•• •• .... old 65s 82s Norfolk and Lin coln, Red, old 59s 68s Ditto new •• •• • • 59s 66s Rye—01d............ Qos 00s New •• •• •• •• •• •. 343 38s Barley—Grinding ..• •• 32s 34s Halting ......... 41s 43s Chevalier.• •. • •• 433 48s Valt—Suffolk and N0r f01k............ 56s 62s Brown .•. •......... 503 57s KingstonandWare 613 65s Malt—Chevalier •• .. 6iis to 73 'Oats Yorkshire and A very destructive fire occurred at New York on the 30th ult., destroying upwards of $400,000 worth of property ; seven lives were also lost. The fire first broke out at 120, Fulton-street, destroy ing that house and several adjoining buildings. The printing-offices of the .National Democrat and Military Argus were destroyed, and, at one time, the /Vetv York Herald office was on fire. Lincolnsla., Feed 23s 26< Potato ...... 27s 29s Yonghal and Cork Black. .• 22s 24s Cork, White..... 23s 26s Scotch, Feed. •• .. 24s 27s Beans—Tick .• • ...... 418 60s Pigeons ...... 44s 56s Peas—Grey ...• •••• •• 42s 45a 45s 48s .-- A large meeting of merchants was held at New York on the 31st ult., to express their sentiments relative to the removal of Judge Bronson from the Administration. 55 , 58s 2 - 3pl Boilers ......... 62s 66s Flour—Town-made... 70s 75s Suffolk .......... 53s 55s Stockta & Norfolk 54s 64 Londonderry& Color. a Shares .............. Londy. & Ennis. a Sh Manch.,Shef., & Lin., Shares, No. 1.. Do. New, £10.........i Do., £6 . Marypt.&Carl. 4 p. c. Do. 42 per cent. There is no news of importance from Washing ton. 12i —13 i e P :LD. The imports of foreign stock into London last week were good, viz., 7,880 head. During the corresponding period of 1852, we received 4,612 ' • in 1851, 7,797; in 1850, 5,815 ; in 1849, 5,486 ; in 1848, 2,517; and in 1847, 4,529 head. The receipts of new cotton at New Orleans, up to the 28th ult„ compared with those to the same date of last year, are reported to fall short by 180,000 bales. United States' stocks to the amount of $573,850 had been redeemed at the Treasury Department, Washington, for the week ending 29th October. The funds in hand at the Treasury Department at the same time, subject to draught, were put down at $25,958,756. The Halifax Chronicle, of the 28th ult., states " that information from the Gut of Canso had reached that city, stating that a fleet of about 100 sail of United States' fishing vessels were encroach ing upon the fishery at Fox Island, in pursuit of an immense shoal of mackerel, and were committing flagrant depredations upon the property and per sons of the fishermen belonging to that place and neighbourhood." In consequence of this report Sir George Seymour immediately ordered the Bonita, Lieut. Bridges, to get ready for a cruise in that direction for the protection of British in terests, and she had accordingly sailed. Havannah accounts of the 22d ult. state that the Captain-General had issued the following decree : "In view of the calumnious assertions contained in a periodical called the Daily News, published in London on the 31st of August, against superior authorities, &c., of the Island of Cuba, under pretext of the reprobated slave trade, and in view also of the disposition of the journal, the injurious language of which does grievous Do . VLid.Consol. 6 p. c. St. Jo. Consol. Bristol & Birm. 6 per cent Do. Pref. 4,i per cent Norfolk Debent. Sh Norfolk Extension Do. Pref. M per et Do. Way. Val. 5 p c North British North Staffordshire Oxford Worcester & Wolyerh. £15,6p. c Do 140 142 id ••• ...... 2i . - ii 103 - 105 A- .P :cot. Cen., New Pref. "hrews& Birm. N. G. Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W.Min),B p. c. Do. 5 per cent South Devon Do. New 9i - 3.0 161 —171 p 10 -- 10 13 -- 15 par — A p S. Eastern (Reading Ann.,) of £1 Os.6d. S.Yorksh.4p. c. Guar. Waterfd. &Kilk. 6p. c. York Newcastle and Berwick, 4 p.c.Pref Do York& N. Midland H & S. Purch 23/ - 24, 19 - 20 95 - 98 41 -4; id injury i towards objects the dearest to and most venerated by Spaniards, the Captain-General has ordered the pro hibition of the entry into the island of such foreign jour nal, and of every other in which untrue articles are in serted." The rumour relative to a convention between England and Spain for the eventual abolition of slavery and the adoption of the apprenticeship system in Cuba was still the chief topic of conver sation at Havannah. Advices from Vera Cruz to the 21st. ult. an nounced that the battle between the Yucatan revo lutionists and the Mexican troops lasted eight days, and that large numbers of the former had fled to the mountains. Letters published in the New York Herald from Honduras state that the Inter-oceanic Railroad sur veying party had discovered a new route, which would enable persons going from New York to reach California seven days earlier than by the way of Panama. The route is represented at straight and nearly level, and passes through rich silver and other mines. The New York stock-market was firmer, with large sales—Six per Cents. of 1867 brought 123. New York State Fives of 1855 were at 104 ; and Tennessee State Fives, at 91. The sales of railroad bonds were also large. There was very little alteration in the money market. Loans on call on first-class securi ties could be obtained at 7 per cent. discount ; on first-class paper ruled at 12 to 15 per cent. ; and on railroad notes, at four and six mouths', from 15 to 24 per cent, per annum. Foreign exchange was dull. Bills on London, 109/ to 1094 ; Paris, 5 121 to 5 llf ; Amsterdam, 414 to 41i; Hamburg, 36i to 361. But little business was doing in the New York cotton market, and no change in prices. Flour in good demand at au advance of 12i- cents. per barrel. Wheat had also advanced about 9 cents per bushel. Indian corn was lower. Provisions were without material change. Better inquiry existed for iron, and Scotch pig realised from 35 to 36 dols. per ton, at six months. Freights to London.—Tobacco, 60s. per hogs head ; flour, 4s. 6d. to 4s. 9d. per barrel ; turpen tine, 55. per 2801 b. ; measurement goods, 30s. to 355. per ton ; grain, 15d. to 16d. per bushel. NEW ORLEANS, Nov. I.—The cotton market was unsettled yesterday by the Arctic's news, and the sales barely reached 1,000 bales. This morn ing the market is active, and already 4,000 bales have been sold. Middling is at 9c. to 9ic. Super fine flour is selling at 6 dols. 90c. to 7 dols. Corn dull at 65c. to 70c. Mess pork, 16 dols. Rice dull at 51c. for new crop. CHARLESTON, Nov. 1. Cotton sales to-day, 850 bales, at prices ranging from Bc. to 100. to 10.1 c. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. Arrived at New York.--The Hermann steamer, from Southampton ; the Arctic steamer, from Liverpool ; the Genoa, from Newcastle ; the Waitron, from Glasgow ; the Australia, Constantine, Albert Gallatin, Garrick, Lady Franklin, and Forest King, from Liverpool ; the Elspeth, from Bremen ; the Helicon, from Shields ; the Gertrude, from Glasgow ; the South Carolina, from Antwerp. At Boston.—The Emma, from London. At Bath.—The Clinton, Charleston, Emma Watts, and Franchise, from Liverpool. At Mobile.—The Kitty Cordes, from Liverpool. At Montreal.—The Imogene, Sappho, Keepsake, and Ottenspool, from Liverpool. At New Orleans.—The H. H. Boody, and J. P. Whitney, from Liverpool, and Montreal, from Bremen. At Philadelphia.—The steamer City of Manchester, and Mary Pleasance, from Liverpool. At Portland.—The Lucinda, from Shields. At Quebec.—The Ireland from Cardiff; Ottowa from London. The ship Lapland, from St. John, New Brunswick, for Liverpool, got ashore at Trescott, Oct. 24. She was got off on the 31st, with mast gone, and 10 feet water in her hold. The ship Arcole, which sailed from Baltimore on the 12th Oct., put back on the 25th, with damage and three feet water in her hold. The ship Jenny Wren, at San Francisco from Liverpool, ran short of water, and the passengers and crew had to drink ale, which Hogg r alsland,cargo aadly f o o n r the aL no dn 3 d l so s hnt ult.with at sh neara otherwisegene formed a portion of the cargo. She was off Cape Horn e for 35 days in heavy gales, and sprung mainmast, and carried away a whole suit of sails. The bark Harwood, from Newport, bound to Norfolk, and remained ; her cargo consisted of railroad iron. for Quebec and Montreal, ran ashore on the Beaumont rgo shoals Oct. 24, and remained ; her rudder was knocked strained and full of water ; crew saved. oAn Virginia, d the te bri g pgst tashore started, Ann, THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE NEVER DID RUN SMOOTH. —DESPERATE ATTEMPT OF A YOUNG MAN TO SHOOT HIS LOVER.—On Thursday Henry Dobbs, a waiter be longing to Newcastle, a well-dressed respectable look ing young man, was brought up in custody, before the Tynemouth borough magistrates, charged with shooting, with intent to kill, Margaret Musgrove Beaumont, a domestic servant belon g i ng t o th e Commercial Hotel. It seems that Dobbs had an engagement to marry Beaumont, and at her invitation had come down to see her on Sunday. They, however, had had some words, and she had left him in a tiff in the evening, and was shortly after noticed walking with another young man. Dobbs had come to the house afterwards and found her with the stranger. A scene had ensued , and Beaumont _ had caught the letter out of Dobbs' hand s that she aoe. had e written to him, and had burnt it before his d ext morning left Shields very much exasperated, n had purchased pistol, h p a u d re n li n as m e a d d a nwntn proved shy with ~,i a fi dse d hn shot et ly wai with h the Newcastle, object of destroying his faithless lover. visit with disdain, and he him. She had received h Shields powder, e her, pulled out a load? P at the time, however, and its had deliberately placedd hiismitisie,lfanadbofiurtedfiivteatyhare'drs. frsoimle happened to be stooping and set fire to her pap. , from doing further deadly charge but gizedshteli:,absaielnkt pntahretrowfisheeirninnercekd,. and on preven ted immediate lyY taken into custody a quantity of was committed der and shot was found on him. He pmoiws Dobbs eii ie f v , v :s t, _ 0 n for trial. MINES. Agua Fria Anglo Austrin. Gold Anglo Californian Australasian Australian Australian Cordillera Australian Freehold Ave Maria Baden (Gd.D achy of) Blxnarvon Iron and Coal British Austrin. Gold ,British Iron Brazilianlmp. (issued at £5 pm Do. Cocaes & Cuiada Do. St. John Del Rey Carsons's Creok Cobre Copper Colonial Gold Copiapo Copper Min. of Eng Do. Pref. 71 p. cent English and Austin Copper Smeltg. Co. General I Gt. NuggetVeinSerp. Do. Registered Great Polgooth Lake Bathurst Liberty Linares. Loud. &Californ. Gold Quartz Crush. C 0... Mariquita Mexicau&S.Amerier !New Granada.. rNew Linares Mining and Smelting Co , ,Nouveau Monde Pontgiband Lead MM. & Smelt Port Philip Quartz Rock Rhymney iron Do. New Santiago de Cuba South Australian Tin Croft United Mexican. Waller West Granada West Mariposa...,,,, , Worthing Mining o. Australia Yuba. P d— ... par d par I 1 1 - 2i -- 3i I 1 ----- Id 7 - 9 5i —6; 2 24 37 39 id par 43 45 - ip 11 —12 i 60 70 6 HBpxd 21— 3 d 1 14 - 16 par - 4p 2i i i 10 ... td __ id p] cl -- 2 9 4 - 4 - 3 - - - i - i - IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEER. From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs Rotterdam 451 1,479 ... 313 ... 95 Ostend — 162 Hamburgh — ... 879 Bromvershaven ... 257 .. Amsterdam Harlingen 498 1,261 Tonning 231 ... 100 New iep 96 1,063 Antwerp... .. .--- ... - so - ... - 24 ... - 56 ... 85 _.... ... - 27 ... - T0ta1.... 1,396 .. 5,823 ... -- ... 441 ~ 246 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as under : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1852 873 3,242 406 91 1851 1,865 5,155 518 258 1850 1,271 4,238 1849 1,090 4,243 1848 590 ... 1,798 205 ... 196 109 ... 44 129 ... - The following are the imports of foreign stock into the United Kingdom during the first nine months of the present and last year : _ _ Beasts Cows... Calves Sheep Lambs Pigs 1852. 1853. 27,932 17,540 20,581 144,722 135,634 11,825 7;890 The arrivals of stock from Ireland last week for this market were 7 beasts and 135 pigs. To-day's market was very extensively supplied with each kind of foreign stock, the quality of which was inferior, if we except the sheep from Rotterdam. With home-fed beasts, we were tolerably well, but not to say heavily, supplied, and there was a decided improvement in their general weight and condition. The attendance of both town and country buyers being good, the beef trade ruled firm, at Friday's prices, being an advance in those of Mon day last of 2cl per Blbs. The primest Scots realized 4s. 6d. per 8113 s. From Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Northampton shire we received 2,400 short horns; from other parts of England, 400 of various breeds ; and, from Scotland, 42 horned and polled Scots. The supply of sheep was tolerably good. Prime breeds were in request, and the turn higher, the primest Downs having sold at ss. 2d., and the best half-breds, 5d per 81bs., but the sale for other breeds was by no means active. In their quotations no change took place. Calves—the numbers of which were moderate—sold slowly, but we have no alteration to notice in value. The top figure for veal was 4s. Bd. per Blbs. We had a fair inquiry for pigs, at full currencies. Per Bibs to sir s. d. s. d.' Inferior Beasts.... 2 Bto 3 0 1 Second quality.... 3 4 3 8 Prime large oxen 310 4 2 Prime Scots, &c. 4 4 4 6 Inferior Sheep ...3 0 3 4 Second quality ...3 6 4 2 Prime crse.-wlled.4 4 4 8 ink the offals. s. d. s. d. Prime Southdown 410 5 2 Large crse. calves 3 6 4 2 Prime small d 0... 4 4 4 8 Large hogs 3 4 4 0 Small porkers 4 2 410 Suckling calves ..21 0 27 0 Quarter old pigs 20 0 26 0 TOTAL SUPPLY. Beasts Sheep .•••••••• •• .. —....26,880 Calves .......... •....... 340 FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts ~,,....• ..... . . 2,272 Sheep ...... ........ 6,120 • .. 293 statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in Smithfield Cattle Market, on Monday, Nov. 15, 1852, and this day, Monday, Nov. 14, 1853. Per Blbs, to sink the offals. Nov. 15, 1852.1N0v.14,1853 s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d Coarse and inferior beasts ... 2 2to 2 4,2 Bto 3 0 Second quality ditto 2 6 3 0 3 4 3 S Prime large oxen ... 3 2 2 8 , 3 10 4 2 Prime Scots, &c 310 4 0;4 4 4 6 Coarse and inferior sheep 3 0 3 4 3 0 3 4 Second quality ditto 3 6 3 8 3 6 4 2 Prime coarse woolled ditto 310 4 2 4 4 4 8 Prime Southdown ditto 4 4 4 64 10 5 2 Large coarse calves 2 8 3 6 3 6 4 2 Prime small ditto 3 8 4 0 4 4 4 8 Large hogs 210 3 6 3 4 4 0 Neat small porkers 3 8 310 4 2 410 Beasts... 4,641 5,618 Sheep 23,221 26,880 Calves... 213 340 Pigs ... 354 345 SUPPLIES ON SALE, Nov. 17, 1851.—Beasts, 4,805 ; sheep, 24,060 ; calves, 300 ; pigs, 480. Nov. 18, 1850.—Boasts, 4,098; sheep, 25,730; calves, 191; pigs, 391. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Since our last, the arrivals of country-killed meat have fallen off. To-day the supplies on offer slaughtered in the metropolis were but moderate. Generally speaking the demand ruled steady, as follows : Per Blbs by the carcase. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Beef, inferior 2 4 2 8 1 Mutton, Inferior 2 8 3 2 Do., middling 2lO 3 4 Do., middling 3 4 4 0 Do., prime large .3 6 3 8 Do. , prime 4 2 4 8 Do., do. small ....3 10 4 0 1 Veal 3 4 4 6 Pork, large 34 4 0 Pork, small 424 10 BOROUGH HOP. We continue to have a steady sale for fine hops, the prices of which are well supported. Low and inferior kinds move off slowly, at barely late rates. Last week's imports are 340 bales from Antwerp, 338 do. from Ham burgh, 175 ditto from Ostend, and 20 from Rotterdam. New Mid and East Kent pockets, 151. Os to 201. Os ; new Weald of Kent ditto, 11/. lls to 131. 13s ; and new Sussex ditto, 101. 10s. to 121. per cwt. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. Coastwise and by railway, the receipts of potatoes con tinue good, and in fair average condition. Last week's imports were 137 bags from Hambro', 550 tons from Rot terdam, 12 bags from Antwerp , 462 do. from Donn, 8 do. from Harlingin, 348 sacks from Dublin, and 553 bags from Belfast. A steady business is doing, as follows :—Shaws, 115 s to 135 s ; Regents, 155 s to 180 s ; foreign, 130 s to 155 s per ton. SEEDS. Linseed moves off steadily at full prices. Linseed and rape-cakes are firm, and quite as dear as last week. East India rape is quoted at 54s to 555. Calcutta teel-seed, 33s 6d. Madras, 54s 6d. Bombay, 55s 6d. Poppy, Ms to 52s per quarter. furnip.White, per bush. 18s to 2I s Swede .. • • •• • 20s 23s Mustard, Brown .... .. 1 Os 13s White, new • ..... 14s 16s Tares,Winter, new.... 7s 64 8s Od Spring Os Od Od Canary, per quarter • . 65i 70s Rye grass.. •... • • 28s 34s Clover, Red Eng . (cwt.) 44s 64s White • • • • .... • 48s 65s Foreign Red.... • . 44s 62s White.... 5 1 s 65s Trefoil, new........ • . 19s 24s Carraway ............ 42s 485 Coriander 10s 155 Hempseed, per quarter 33s 388 Linseed, Eng.Aowing • • 581 ( - 2s Crushing ........ sis 576 Baltic 493 54s Odessa .......... 504 55s Linseed Cake, pr. ton — English . 91 106 10 103 Foreign, per ton 910 s 11/ 103 Rape Cakes, pr ton 610 s 61106 Rapeseed, New, pr Ist 30/0 , 1 3110 s TAL: ,LOW. Our market is very dull, and prices are dooping. P.Y.C. on the spot, 55s Gd 55s 9d., all the year 555, and for the spring 56s 3d per cwt. Town tallow is Ms per cwt. net cash ; rough fat, 3s Od per 81bs. The shipments from St. Petersburgh are upwards of 100,000 casks, against 82,000 in 1852. 1849. 1850. 1 1851. ; 1852. Stock this day ......! 41,011 51,332 68,140 1 43,013 rice of Y. C. , 37s Od ,37s 9d to 373 3d tc 45s 3d •• t to 37s 3 d 38s Od 37s- 9d 'to 00s Od Delivery last week ••' 2,212 1,961 3,131 3,750 Ditto from June 1....1 41,437 43,277 44,720 42,774 Arrivals last week.. 518 6,703 1,394 14,067 Dittofrom June 1.. .. 57,615 68,965 76,327 47,159 Price of Town ...... 39s 6d 418 Od 39s 6d 31,819 55s 6d to 55a 9d 2,033 :50,264 4,721 58,768 563 6d WOOL. 45s Od The colonial wool sales have been tolerably firm during the past week, and prices have ruled steady. The fol lowing quotations have been realised. Australian—Clean sheep's, is 4d to is 9d ; clothing, is 6d to 2s Od ; hog getts, la 8d to 28 Od ; handwaahed, la 4d to la Od ; THE BISHOP OF LLANDAFF VERSUS TRE WELSH PEOPLE. TO THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD J. RUSSELL. Mr LORD,—Dr. 011ivant being chiefly indebted to your lordship for his present high position in the Welsh Church, I would respectfull7 direct your attention to the details of a public meeting lately held under his auspices, and but too plainly declarative of that uncon ciliating and adverse spirit towards the Welsh people, of which his previous conduct had afforded many indica tions. The Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian, of Oct. 8, con tains an authorised report of the annual meeting of the Cardiff Auxiliary Branch of the Pastoral Aid Society, held on Monday, Oct. 3, 1853 —the Right Rev. the Bishop of Llandaff, in the chair. After having stated the general objects of the society, and shown that the enormous increase of population in certain parts of his diocese requires a proportionate increase in the number of religious instructors, his lordship proceeded to argue against the alleviating suggestion that the defective action of the Established Church is in any degree supplied by Dissenting teachers. Alluding, as an instance in point, to the district of Hir waun, his lordship commended the Vicar of Aberdar for having recently taken measures to provide a separate church for about 3,000 persons inhabiting that portion of his parish, and manifested great astonishment and indignation at the protest which had been entered by a writer in the " Diwygiwr" of Sept. 1853, against the Vicar of Aberdar's collecting circular, which describes Hirwaun to be lying " in a condition of barbarism and pagan ignorance ;" and leaves utterly unnoticed the re gular chapel services, Sunday schools, and week-day prayer-m ee ti ngs, which constantly afford religious in- struction to about 2,300 persons in that district. Attempting to nullify this statement, and to prove that the dissenting ministers alike of the diocese of Llandaff, and of the whole principality, do not furnish their respective congregation s with the necessary means of grace and salvation, the Bishop then produced from dif ferent Welsh publication s of various dates, " certain selec tions," shadowing forth to his lordship's own view "the condition of this countryas it is described by the Dissenters themselves :" the extracts being translated from the original Welsh. The Bishop's first quotation was made from the " Drysorfa" of Sept., 1852, wherein the Rev. D. Jenkins deplores that " the outward and circum stantial matters of religion seem to be in a flourishing state, but the inward and spiritual matters are with ered," &c. His second quotation was from the " Seren G-omer" of March, 1852. It complains in the words of a Bap tist minister, that "there was no one who could boast a great increase in numbers, and in consequence there were many who sorely lamented their want of success," &a. Were the clergy of the Established Church equally alive to their position, its superior privileges and en hanced responsibilities, surely similar complaints would well befit them. The Bishop quoted, 3dly, from the " Diwygiwr," of July, 1853, a passage in which the Rev. S. Griffiths says :—" In spite of all the places of worship, schools, ministers, preachers, deacons, Sunday-school teachers, all the hundreds of crowded congregations and thousands of communicants (q. communicants ?) or religious pro fessors, yet many are to be seen turning to Popery, yea to different kinds of Popery," &c. Here is a decisive testimony, inadvertently produced by the Bishop himself, and establishing the very facts which he denies. Ist. That the necessary means of grace and salvation abound among the Welsh Dissenters. 2d. That those means are attended upon by mul titudes of people. As regards the alleged converts to " different kinds of Popery" among the Welsh, few, indeed, will their numbers appear when compared with the hosts of Eng lish Tractarians within the very pale of the Established Church, and with the hosts of apostates who are daily forsaking it for Rome. His lordship's 4th quotation appears to have been made merely as the occasion of a satirical allusion to religious liberty, that conscientious "liberty of prophe sying" or preaching, for which the loyal Bishop, Jeremy Taylor, so eloquently pleaded of old. The fifth quotation, which is from the " Diwygiwr," of December, 1851, bears upon the recent perversion of " hundreds, on thousands" to Mormonism, &c. ' Scrutinising malevolence alone could ever have at tached importance to a charge so futile and so indeter minate. With weak and wearisome reiteration the Bishop re minded his hearers that these were the statements of Dissenters, and that he would not answer for their truth, adding—. "I do not say whether they are or not, but I simply ask, if they are true, is it not a call on you, on every one ?" &c. The Bishop next quoted from the " Diwygiwr," of 1952, p. 121, a passage tending to show that there exist "in our works," where people of different races and various creeds are assembled, some persons who deny the existence of Satan. His lordship infers from this that the whole or chief part of the population of those districts are in a state of unbelief, and appeals to his shocked and amazed auditory for assistance upon that deceptive plea! From a review in a Baptist magazine, the Bishop then carefully cited exactly one line and a half, relating to "the sceptical theology, or neology, as it is called, of Germany," in order most distinctly to prove that "it is probable that a little of this simoom has reached the Welsh pulpit." "It is quite certain," adds his lordship, "that it has not reached the pulpit of the Established Church. There is not a person living who can breathe such a charge against the ministers of the Church of England. We must therefore take it for granted that he means the Dissenting pulpits." This assertion is at once so daring, so false, and so sophistical, that compassion mingles with surprise while I endeavour to realise the depths and intricacies of that mental and moral perversity which could suffice to hide such fallacies from Dr. 011ivant himself. Does Dr. 011ivant never read the Record newspaper ? Has he never happened to see blazoned there the names and words of many sceptical ministers of the Church of England ? Can the Bishop of Llandaff be ignorant, that not merely an ecclesiastical pulpit, but even the episcopal throne of a neighbouring diocese has been pub licly denounced as a seat of "this moral and spiritual pestilence ?" " Is not Mr. Griffiths, of Aberdar, to build a church for his people," exclaims the Bishop of Llandaff, " when we are told that the simoom has reached the Welsh pul pit. Ido not say it has reached it, but this writer says so, and his confession is enough," &c. Thus did the Bishop of Llandaff pursue his peculiar dialectic course, in apparent forgetfulness that the fatal breath of this simoom has been perceived by many orthodox churchmen to wither the theological works of his cotemporary, the Bishop of St. David's. Having cited a passage from the Metltodist Magazine, and another from the Traethodydd, of 1852, p. 352, ex pressive of apprehension lest the elements of infidelity should "after long working and breaking out create de struction in the camps of Zion," the Bishop said— " But I have testimony to produce that many who were hearers of the Word are actually becoming Pa gans. His lordship followed up this startling announcement by quoting from the "Drysorfa," of May, 1853, part of the speech of a zealous minister, where, after declaring that " every one has much to do, and he will do much if he has but a heart to work," the orator applies the strong epithet pagans to those persons who neglect at tendance upon public worship ; adding— " They should be gone after, and every means used to induce them to hear the Word of God, and to reverence the ordinances of God." Such passages as these the Bishop miscalls— " The acknowledgments of Dissenters themselves, as to the real condition of the country, and the result of the means of instruction which actually exist." " For my part," said his lordship, "I should be con tent to place my justification for any effort I have made for church , extension on those statements alone, if neces sary.' It is to be observed that the Bishop ceremoniously compliments several of the Welsh ministers, whose pas ' toral exhortations he had distorted into libels, and extols their personal piety, while reckoning the congregations which share their zealous and vigilant care among the most abandoned and wretched dregs of society. Concluding the Welsh people to be sunk in specula tive infidelity and pratical paganism, the bishop adduced a passage from the in emoir of a pious minister (" Di wygi wr, " 1851, p. 273) showing that Thomas Howells had greatly abhorred and deplored the sin of drunkenness. His lordship afterwards brought forward a rule of the Anglesea Society, framed by another zealous minister, as a protest against vice and immorality. His lordship closed his series of extracts by repeating from a nameless magazine some of the grossest calumnies contained in the Commissioners' Reports. The statistics of the late J. Fletcher, Esq., giving " View of the Moral and Educational Conditi on of Eng land and Wales," afford the following results :-- are "Wales.—ln this district there is little Welsh,rri owing an Sunday-school instruction in the Bible , in to the obstacle of language. " In Wales there are fewer il le g itimate children than in other parts of the kingdom , t he pro portion being infi nitely less than in the northern a nd midland manufac turing mining counties. The a mount of pauperism in Wales is also considerably less than in most parts of England, being 5.5, wheredaseiansteLronndaognricitulitsulra2l-sc,oaunncl. in the south, midland, an ties 39 . 5." , Th e criminal returns for Wales,itorgeelnoewouass cciolamrpacatreerci, with the average of th.etpriocptsulaotfihonom. Everywhere, in districts the more instructed appeared to have a much less amount of depravity than the less instructed ; but there were considerable deviations from this rule—the ignorant Celtic regions of Cornwall and Wales standing in as favourable a light as the most instructed counties of the north. The most ignorant region of th e whole kingd was shown to be the eastern and midl and en o m ou i tales im mediately contiguous to the metropolitan more uninstructed than W a l es, with all itsd ; iffi ) c e u in it g ies fa o r f poverty, language, and remoteness • and infinitely more criminal, especially in seriou s offences against he per son, and malicious offences against property."—Vide Athenwunt, 1549. N o. 1 ,118. Such is the impartial and drily official testimony ren dered by statistical documents to the character of the Welsh people, and to the beneficial effects of S d school in s t ruct i on in the Welsh Bible. un ay- To W ales, and to a Welsh Dissenter, Great Britain , and the world stand indebted for the British and Foreign Bible Society. The annual reports of its proceedings show, that the contributions received by that institution pm 64 1 k 10a 1023 i 12k i Zip 24d 4ip A P 1 p Zip .d 91 6 21 - 1' l id - 7i - 8 33A - 34 15 7 ; -- 40 - 37 - 19 id 8i - 8i 16 p 4 - p 1d 20 251 6 100 100 100 6 100 12!, 126' 25 12i all all 100 Itoo 100 100 100 100 all 100 16 8 :3 8 10 25 10 1.0.6 all 13.5 24i 1 10 1 1 all all all all 12s. JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 40 all Australasia 75 77 40 all British Colonial Bank and Loan Company 50 all British N. American 20 2 Chrtd. Bnk.of India, Austral., and China id -- 25 5 Chrtd. I3nk. of Asia. 16 ldis 100 25 Colonial 100 20 Commercial of Loud — 20 10 English Scottish and Australian Chrtd ll —11 d 20 15 London Chrtd. of Australia — 50 20 London and County ... 50 10 Loudon Joint Stock ... 100 20 Lond.andWestminst — 100 35 National Provincial of England 20 10 Do. New — 50 226 National of Ireland — 20 all New South Wales 25 all Oriental Bank Cor poration 100 25 Provincial of Ireland ... 10 all Do. New — 5 1 Royal Australn. Bkg. and Gold Imp. Co id— par 25 25 South Australia — 25 all Union of Australia 72 74 2A Do. New — 86 50 10 - Union of London 40 all Union of Madrid MISCELLANEOUS. 5 5 Aubin Coal and Iron 25 174 Australian Agricult. 39 41 20 14 - Australsn.Pcific.Mail 10 8 Australn. Royal Mail ... 10 26 Berlin Water Works.. 50 386 Brit. American Land 60 65 5 31 Brit. & Coln. Smeltg. and Reduction C 0... ..„ 100 326 Canada Company,,,,, 5 5 Crystal Palace — l p 6 5 16 Do. New — 4 2 Crystal Pal, of Fiance 20 3 Eastern 5team......,, 25 20 ElectricTelegraph(A) 17 1 . 9 25 15 Do. (B) l2 14 1 1 Electric Tel. of Irel, ••• ••• 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat. 20 18 General Screw Steam • ••• 20 76 Irish Beetroot Sugar 20 6 Magdalena St. Navig. • _ 1 all Nat. Pt. Steam Fuel ••• 10 4 Netherlands Land..., 16 sd 2 IN.S. W. Coal & Inter- Stem. Nay. Co l all N. B. Australasian * tp • 1 6 Do. New. 20 10 Nrth.of Europe Steam 5 all Peel Rr. Ld, & Minrl. iP 5 1 50 all Peninsular & Oriental 71 50 25 Do. do, 40 2 all Portland Iron Co : 100 60 Royal Mail Steam._ I I all Scot. Austral, Invest. 16 lip 26 25 25 South Austral. Land 34 36 I all Submarine Telegraph ... —•-- 100 286 Van Diemen's Land 146 156 ORRIBLE MURDER.—The hitherto quiet neighbour- I of Dunster was on Wednesday thrown into great _____tement by the perpetration of a horrible murder, committed on a girl about 12 years old, named Cole. She resided with her mother (who is a widow) and brother, a lad about 17. On Tuesday the mother and brother went out to work, and left the girl at home in care of a lonely cottage, situated in the parish of Cut combe, near Dunster, Somerset. There are two dwell ings under the same roof ; the other being occupied by an old woman more than 80 years of age, who, on Tues day morning, about 10 o'clock, saw a young man named Baily in the house with the girl. He soon after left the house, and did not again return. On the return of the mother and brother they made a search for the girl, and at last found her in an old barn close by, with her throat cut and quite dead, The man Baily is in custody. hoot excil mu - from the principality are of greater amount in propor tion to the population than those of any other part of the United Kingdom. The same reports prove also, that larger numbers of bibles in proportion to the population *,! are annually purchased by the Welsh than by any other people under the sun. Hence it appears, according to the judicious Hooker, "The Word which saveth our souls is near us. we need for knowl-dge but to read and live. The man which readeth the Word of God ; the Word itself doth pronounce blessed, if he also observe the same."—Eccl. Politie, book 5, sec. 22. In 1847 Commissioner Lingen thus described the Welsh inhabitants of his district : " When not in chapel the people are generally at their own homes, for they are not to be met with any where on Sunday excepting on their way to and from chapel."—Reports 1., 225. The select "lamentations" culled by the Bishop, bear witness that the Dissenting Ministers who made them are earnestly living and diligently working to counterac all the ill which they perceive and deplore. Hence it clearly appears that the majority of the Welsh people, driven as they originally were from the pale of their National Church by English prelates, branded as they now are by one of the unsympathising occupants of their native sees with unmerited infamy, are not "without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law ;" but that the " covenant of life and peace" is still among them. Locke has warned us, that "he that has but ever so little examined the citations of writers, cannot doubt how little credit the quotations deserve where the origi nals are wanting." The cause of the Pastoral Aid Society might safely have been allowed to rest upon the• numerical disproportion of the diocesan clergy, even in combination with their volunteer auxiliaries, the Dis senting ministers, to the "strange multitudes" of people congregated together from all parts of Great Britain and Ireland in the mineral districts of Llandaff. "What are they among so many ?" would have been an un answerable argument for conscientious effort, an effectual incentive to Christian diligence. Dr. 011ivant, however, preferred a groundwork of shifting sand for his fabrics to a basis of solid rock.. The microscopic exaggeration exhibited by the Bishop of Llandaff upon the comparatively insignificant objects selected and pinned down for this cruel experiment can only he attributed to a malicious intention. Disliking the Welsh people to whom he owes alike his former cle rical livings and the present revenues of his see, and wanting due Christian charity towards Dissent, he has become so unfortunately blinded by prejudice as to lose. the power of perceiving that he was, in calumniating a, whole nation, doing flagrant evil under a pretext tha good might follow. When the bishop's speech had at last concluded, the report of the society was read, and several gentlemen addressed the meeting. The Rev. W. Leigh Morgan, of St. Mary's, Cardiff, after having expatiated upon the active labours of a lay assistant in that crowded parish, ventured to say : " Inasmuch as his lordship has taken up the field of Wales in his address to you, and has told you from various authorities from the Dissenting body what the state of the country is, I will state to you from another authority the state of Cardiff." The Rev. W. L. Morgan proceeded to read a set of prepared extracts from his English Lay Assistant's Weekly Reports, describing 8 cases of extreme wretched ness and depravity. The tendency of these cases thus brought forward was to lower the character of the W e l s h people, yet the Teacher, being entirely unac quainted with the language of the country, the persons: alluded to must, of course, have spoken the English language, and were probably some poor outcasts o C England, Scotland, or Ireland. This very remarkable meeting of the Pastoral Aid Society received a very suitable and emphatic supple ment, in a letter published in the Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian of Oct. 15, 1853. It eulogises the Bishop's " most noteworthy speech." It describes the Dissenting writers as confessing con victs." It distinctly declares of the Welsh people, "that practically their present religion is nothing ;" and it concludes with the following words :—" The Bishop of Llandaff reads Dissenting publications, and, as we have recently seen, he turns them to a good and a moral purpose. If we had no other argument for a Welsh speaking and a Welsh reading bishop, his lordship's usefulness in this alone would be quite sufficient." This libellous epistle merely indicates the mischievous effects which are closely following upon the bishop's public avowal of the enmity which he has long cherished against the Welsh Dissenters, who constitute the ma jority of the Welsh people. Little hope can there be of his lordship's ever recalling sectarians to the fold of the Church while thus he wields the episcopal staff as a rod of scorpions. Inveterate prejudice converts his episcopal activity into national injury, and renders his slight acquaintance with the Welsh language an additional means of pro• yoking the resentment of the people. Three years have now elapsed since I had the honour of calling your lordship's attention to Dr. 011ivant's erroneous view of the real state and condition of his diocese. Once more submitting to your lordship's con sideration the necessity of henceforth providing Welsh bishops for Wales.—l remain your most obedient humble servant, GOLEUFER. November 11, 1853. MONEY AID FOR TURKEY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Will you allow me to make a suggestion as to the war, "a l'outrance," as you call it, between Russia and Turkey. For this war Russia has, no doubt, been long preparing, and is now well prepared. Turkey, oa the other hand, had made no previous preparation, and though her exertions have been great, will find difficulty, for want of money, to maintain her army in the field. France, it is expected, will assist her with troops ; but we, with our garrisoned colonies and limited army, have no troops to spare. We, therefore, must find money equal, at least, to the cost of the army sent by France. It appears by your paper that Turkey is now in a sad financial embarrassment, paper money being issued to an alarming extent, because they have no other means of payment, and Namik Pasha's mission to negotiate a loan is spoken of as all but hopeless. Now, as the possession of Constantinople insures the possession also of Palestine and of Egypt, the high road to India, it is well worth an effort on our part to rotaia Constantinople for our ally rather than let it be taken by our most bitter opponent ; and as the Turks are already so much straitened for money, why not at once moot the question of our assisting them with money, instead of troops ? It would prevent the Turkish paper money being depreciated in value like the French assig• nats, and give their forces a hopefulness of being assisted and continued, the want of which must be severely felt. Again, to compare public with private affairs. Sup• pose our Government were to guarantee the Turkish loan (say for eight or ten millions), taking as security for their guarantee a mortgage of Palestine and Egypt—the loan would be effected at a reduced rate of interest, and the mortgage (or indeed the bare claim that it would give us) would always be worth the money. J. B. Blackpool, Nov. 11, 1853. DEFACED COIN. As there appears to be some misunderstanding, and not a little inconvenience, in relation to the object and effect of an act passed in the last session of Parliament against defacing coin, the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury have passed the following minute, with a view of explaining the intent and operation of the act : "My Lords have under their consideration two applications on the subject of receiving and passing defaced coin : " Write to the applicants respectively, and state that it was not the intention of the Government, in passing the act of the 16 and 17 Victoria, cap. 102, entitled ' An Act to prevent the defacing of the current coin of the realm,' to interpose any difficulty in regard to suck coin as may have become defaced by ordinary wear and use, or in relation to persons who, in the ordinary course of coins which are defaced. , me diate object of the Government in obtain ing , the ac t was to put a stop to a practice of stamping business, he i pay m the names of persons, firms, &c., upon coins, by way of advertisements or otherwise, and the intention of the Government was to reach by penalties the persons w ho, in this or in any other wilful or malicious w ay ,iso injured the coin. A nd in order th at the law sho u ld prove vexatious to those who in the ordinary &ammo them, o r o f f orc i ng tion of bus of the o s paid such coins, an d wh o were wholly innocentffence of defaci ng them into circulation with the intention ayments, the law of promoting not for the purpose for passing ana provides that no one the object of such offenders, Attorney-General. defaced coin except with. tca o h n en ly cbo o en f ps o er r no d st i e n oc a fu r tt y ehde p " Whilst, therefore, the Government are determined to put an end to such a b uses as are herein referred to, and to use the act with vigour to that end, it is neither their wish nor intention to embar r as s or i n t er f ere w ith and the ordinary current transactions of business. (Signed) " JAMES WILSON." THE BLERVIE ESTATE, NEAR FORRES.—This well. known estate ha o sb l een fro purchased by Mr. J. D. Grant, of Eden, for 4 9 ,00 the trustees of the late Earl of Fife.—J ourna l of Auct ions . THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY IN LIVERPOOL. — m• James Wilson, Esq., the member for Westbury and the Secretary to the Treasury, has been in this neighbour i hood during the p as t f ew d a y s on a v i s it t o W. Brown, 1 Esq., M.P., at his seat, Richmond-hill. On Monday, Mr. Wilson received two deputaions—one from the Custom-house lockers, and the other from the Chamber of Commerce. The deputation from the Chamber of Commerce waited on the hon. gentleman on matters re• , lating to the Customs department of the port. The de. putation from the body of Custom-lockers waited on Mr. Wilson, at the office of Messrs. Brown, Shipley, and Co. for the purpose of urging up on him the ano malous and invidious position they at present occupied, as cord. pared with the lockers of London. The principal ground of complaint appeared to t : r e vi t e h w e ,diin the courseof different mode in whi whieb oil the Liverpool lockers are paid to those of th e metre . 1 1 polls. During deputation Dting along in urged, with much clearness and force, the justice and propriety of their claims, the honourable 1 gentleman evinced much interest in the matter, and ne• sured the deputation that their claims should have this best consideration immediately on hip return to Londose t ~•: 962 54 i 82 li 7i 8 20i 614 i 29 8 64i 4 ° •'u VI